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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 81. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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BILL INTRODUCED
FOR REPEAL OF
Ull DRY Li
USE OF ALCOHOL IN CASES OF
EXTREME NEED NOW IS
ILLEGAL
JUNEAU, April 14. (Special to
the Gateway)—A bill to repeal the
Alaska Bone Dry law' was intro
dji|:ed Monday in the Kv>use by
Representatives Helirich and Allyn
jointly accompanied by a memor
ial admitting that doubt exists as
to the authority of the legislature
to act on the subject and asking
Congress to validate the measure.
The new measure declares that
it is neither for nor against pro
hibition but a repeal is demanded
in the interests of humanity and
says that it is now legally impos
sible to obtain alcohol for medic
inal purposes even in cases of ex
treme need and it is equally ille
gal to obtain alcohol for use by
druggists in compounding essen
tial medicines and that such al
cohol can be imported into Alas
ka only by violating the Bone
Dry Law.
MAN'S AND SEA EEl
BOSTON. April 14. (A3)—The evo
lutionists’ idea that there is an in
escapable resemblance b e tween
fish and man. had new confirma
tion at Boston University.
Composing 100 of the rarest
known members of the fish tribe,
sea eel eggs, these embroyo fish
are called Bdellostoma and are
possessed of the lowest order of
brains among existing verebrates.
J. Leroy Conel, professor of ana
tomy, said their brains have five
parts and are found to be as ful
ly developed as the human brain
and that these parts have the
same functions as man’s.
ALASKA FIRM'S STOCK
SELLING PERMIT IS
SUSPENDED IN WASH.
OLYMPIA, Wash. April 14. (Jf)—
C. H. Bowen, Washington state su
pervisor of securities suspended the
stock selling permit for Washing
► ton of the Alaska Livestock Com.
pany, the Lomen Brothers con
cern.
The reason given for the sus
pension was for alleged failure of
the company to substantiate claims
made in stock selling to prospects.
Arlow Hagen is the champion
pole-vaulter of the Seward school.
This was conceded yesterday when
he leaped eight feet without even
quivering the rod.
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HALIBUT SALE
PRINCE RUPERT, April 14. (IP)
\ —Thirty thousands pounds of hal- j
' ibut, all Canadian, was sold at* the
United Pacific Fisheries at nine
and six cents
TOKYO, April 14, (/P)—Premier
Yuko Hamaguchi presented his
resignation and that of his entire
cabinet to Emperor Hirohito.
General Issel Ugaki carried the
i resignations to the Emperor ex
| plaining that the Premier is con
jvinced that his illness would pre
clude his active participation in
! politics for some time.
Hamaguchi has been incapaci
i tated since last November when
he was shot by a radical in a To
kyo railroad station. His resigna
i tion has been anticipated for
•some time.
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MRS. A. KASHEHOFF
: DIED ATFER LONG ILLNESS
*
JUNEAU. April 14. (/?) — Mrs.
"Arthur Kashevaroff, aged 57, wife
of Curator A. B. Kashevaroff, of
| the Alaska Museum here and al
’ so in charge of the Russian Greek
I Church, died yesterday morning
: following a long illness.
Mrs. Kashevaroff born in Sit
ka and married Kashevaroff in
! 1893 and worked with him as a
. missionary.
Mr. and Mrs. Kashevaroff came
to Juneau in 1913. She leaves the
widower and two daughters here,
j and son Cyril in San Francisco
• and two daughters at Carmel. Cal
; ifornia.
1410 NEW LAWS ARE
PASSED Bl POLITICIANS
I NEW YORK, April 14. (/P) —Am
; erican legislators passed 14,000 hew
■ laws this year adding to the es_
; timated total of two to ten mil
lion laws enacted since the United
' States was formed.
The national congress account
ed for 1,524 and legislators in 43
states passed more than 12,000 out
48,403 introduced this year.
The number of laws may yet
rise as some sessions are still in
progress.
“PAN AMERICA DAY*
MEXICO CITY, April 14. </P) —
Republics which make up two of
America’s celebrated ‘‘Pan Amer
ica Day” set aside by the govern
ments in collaboration with the
Pan American Union are to cele
brate the American international
cooperation and interchange.
The B. F. & M. Capt. H. West,
will leave port today for the hal
jibut banks.
SENATE BILL WILL
PIONEERS’ PENSION APPRO
PRIATION CALLS FOR $315,000
INSTEAD PREVIOUS $172,000
[ JUNEAU, April 14- (Special to
iThe Gateway)—If the Territory
! advances its Pioneer’s pensions
j monthly to men to $30 and wo
|men to $45, a total of $315,00 will
| be needed for the next biennium,
j according to a resolution intro
! duced in the House by Johnson of
! Fairbanks, which asks the House
to direct the Ways and Means com
mittee to include the item and
that sum in the general appropria
tions measure when it is introduc
ed and “to provide means to meet
such an extra financial burden.”
In the taxation measure the pen
sion appropriation for the last bi
I ennium was $170,000.
! Foster introduced a memorial
[ criticising the Forest Service for
I its restrictions against the expor
1 tation of round logs from Alaska
! and for the alleged unfair scaling
! regulations. ^ v
i Seven measures w*5re introduced
in the house, all mostly minor. One
! was for $10,000 for a shipping sub
sidy in the Seward peninsula and
| another authorizing the treasur
: er to require a bond to secure tax
payments fro moperating com
panies whose realty holdings are
i inadequate to cover the probable
' taxes.
The others were minor relief bills.
In the Senate Dimond introduc
, ed a bill for the consolidation and
! revision of the general election
I laws containing a rotative ballot
provision and broadening the pow'
! ers of the Territorial canvassing
i board to inquire into the election
| results at hearings.
It was announced by Dimond
| that the Senate will probably act
1 on the Winn jury bill Tuesday, and
on the Community Property law
! late Wednesday.
TUNNEL MEN TRIPPED
Bl LETHAL EDS FUMES:
I TEN FIREMEN DIEO
CHICAGO, April 14. (/P)—Eleven
firemen and six workmen emerged
alive from the blazing sanitary dis
trict tunnel which became the
tomb for their fellow firemen and
workers.
The survivors.crawled unaided
to the surface through a shaft
which became the avenue to death
for 10 firemen. The tunnel workers
were trapped by lethal gas and
an accompanying unbearable heat.
The lives that were saved were
brought about by 12 hours of im
prisonment in the safety air
chambers of the sewage disposal
tunnel
The heat melted the divers’ rub
ber suits and the fumes ehoked
and blinded the rescue squads.
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FIVE NEW CASES
POINT BARROW, April 15, {&)—
Five new diphtheria cases are re_
ported here. On account of the
epidemic only carefully selected
crews wil be allowed to partici
pate in the native whaling activ
ities this season.
UNCLE OF PRESIDENT,
MIUI l J. MILES,
DIES IN 0KLAHOMI
PAWHUSKA, Okla., April 14. (/P)
—Major Laban J. Miles, 87, uncle
of President Hoover, with whom
the latter went to live after the
death of his own father when
Hoover was 14, died at his home
here.
Major Miles was one of Oklaho
ma’s most colorful figures and
! served for many years as agent
at the Osage Indian Reservation.
| President Hoover lived with the
| Major after his father’s death
I until his mother was able again
i to take care of the family.
President Hoover expressed re
grets at his uncle’s passing.
•CARRIE' OF ALLEGED
HARDING LETTERS FOUND
CLEVELAND, April, 14. (/P) —
The Cleveland News says that Mrs.
Carrie Phillips, wife of J. E. Phil
! lips, a prominent Marion, Ohio,
merchant, admitted she is the
“Carrie" mentioned supposedly in
Harding’s letters.
She laughed when she said that
'■ surveilance of the government
agents was the outgrowth of the
;spy hysteria which became so ab
surb. She thought that Harding’s
anxiety was with the best of in
tention. She did not know Jim
to whom the letters were address
ed.
S101 RESUMES FIGHT
IGH1ST U. S. MINES
MEXICO CITY. April 14. (iP) —
| As his contribution to the U. S.
jwide celebration of the Pan Am
| erica Day General Sandino, the Ni
caraguan insurgent leader, is said
by a foreign representative to have
ordered a resumption of hostilities
against United States marines on
all fronts.
THE STOCK MKT
SEATTLE, April 14. </P) —Juneau
13%, Am. Can. 123"%, BanCorpora
tion 22 and 22%, Cities 18%, Cons.
Gas 102%, Zellerback 4%, Durant
2.%, Motors 44%, Goldman 8%,
In. Tel. 35%, Kennecott 25%, Le
High 6, Radio 20%, Richfield 2%,
Stand, N. J., 43%, Carbide 63%,
Union, Cal., 21%, Steel 138%.
The halibut schooner Schorn,
Capt. T. Wick, left port for the
banks after taking on ice.
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LETTERS WRITTEN
HAVE REFERENCE TO WOMAN
INFORMER BY THE NAME
OF CARRIE
NEW YORK, April 14, (/P)—Two
autographed letters ascribed to
President Harding and written at
the time he was a Senator, men
tioning a woman “under the eye
of government agents” as a Ger
man informer, have been placed
on exhibition here.
They are part of the collection
of historical documents assembled
by Doctor Rosenbach, noted col
lector. ^
It is unknown as to whom they
were written as the envelopes
could not be found and were Cbn- %
cerned mostly with expressions of
anxiety over a woman called ‘‘Car
rie.”
! The letters were signed merely
i “W. G. H.” They are considered
valuable, not because of their con
' tents but because Harding wrote
few letters in longhand. They
| were addressed “Dear Jim.”
THEM! LETTERS
RECEIVED SI WEALTHY
CHICAGO, April 14, (<?)—'The
author of the letters sent to weal
thy Chicagoans threatening vio
lence unless each paid $50,000,
is sought.
Although some of the “intended
victims” are convinced they were
written by a nameless crank, pros
pective “victims” asked that the
checks be mailed.
East Chicago was warned of
machine gun attacks, acid torture
' and kidnapping.
S1EHT MINE OPERATION
THOUGHT RESPONSIBLE
FOR DEW ACTIVITIES
! There will be an unusual am
j ount of mining activity in the
! Willow Creek district during the
| coming summer, according t o
the Anchorage Times.
| The Willow Creek Mines, which
j has been operating steadily all
i winter at the Lucky Shot, on the
Craigie Creek, will probably ex
pand its activities during the sum
mer, and it is believed that the
energetic manner in which that
company has set about its work
I is largely responsible for new
| activities which will be initiated
in other sections of the camp as
soon as snow conditions will per
mit.
In addition to continuing the
work at the Lucky Shot, it is un
derstood a crew will be put to
work on the War Baby, which ad
joins the Lucky Shot.
-“The Patsy” Tonight at ©