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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 34.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
REPORT UNCONFIRMED; TOO
MUCH DUPLICATION ^JS
FOUND
WASHINGTON, Feb.. 17. (JP)~;
The sale of the Alaska cable to j
a private communication enter- j
prise has been recommended to
President Hoover bjr an Inter- j
department commission which j
has been studying elimination of j;
duplication of communication
systems.
The government recommends- j
lions contemplate closing 12 ra
dio stations belonging to both j
the Army and Navy. The com
mission said if their recommen- ;
dations are adopted it would |
save millions annually.
Colonel Griffin, in charge of j
the cable at Seattle said, steps j
have already been taken to
eliminate duplication and said
the Army has taken over com
munications at Sitka; the Navy
station there has been closed.
The Army is completing a sta
tion at Kodiak where the Navy
station will be closed.
Whether p r i v ate companies
have attempted to purchase the
Alaska cable, is thus far unver
ified.
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SOUGHT: 1H YEAR
OLD GIRL VANISHES
BODY OF HIS WIFE FOUND
BURIED IN BACK YARD
OF HOME
LOS ANGELES, Feb.. 17. ( V
Everett Frank Lindsay, wanted
in Seattle in connection with
the slaying of his wife last
spring. Ls being sought here for
questioning as to the disappear
ance on February 11 of Virginia [
Brooks, 10 years old, of San
Dic^o.
The girl was seen at Long
Beach, Santa Ana and in other i
communities with a man of the j
general appearance of Lindsay j
and has caused search for him j
since he disappeared from Seattle !
before officers uncovered his!
wife’s body in the back yard of j
their home.
He has not been seen or heard
of since although officers traced
numerous false clues.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17. (TP)— ;
On March 13th, the light cruiser
Chicago, now nearing completion
at Mare Island, will be delivered j
to the Navy Department. She is
the eighth and the last of j
similar vessels laid down under
the 1924 program. The Chicago,
a cruiser of 10,000 tons displace
ment, develops more than 100,000
horsepower and will have an av
erage speed of 32.7 knots.
APARTMENT KING AL
NEW YORK, Feb. 17. (/P) — j
Apartments with free heat and
water at $12.50 per month a room
rental are planned by Alfred E.
Emith, former Governor of New
York. He announced financing for
| building such tenements on New
York’s East Side was about com
pleted.
SUB, FIS m TASK
FI
MADRID, Feb., 17, t/P)—Short
ly after Sanchez Guerra an
nounced failure to form a new
government, King Alfonso called
* Melquiades Alvarez, another con
stitutional revisionist to the pal
: ace.
Alvarez is the leader of the re
I form party and for many years
| in the past defended the King
as a democratic monarch. But
'after the De Rivera dictatorship,
I he blamed the King for its acts.
: Recently he has been a strong
; supporter of the constitutional
| movement to determine the fu
' ture Spanish government.
i DOVE IF PEACE IS
: FtUnERING OVER INDIA
NEW DELHI. India, Feb., 17,
(JP)—Mahatma G a nhi emerged
| from a four-hour conference with
1 Viceroy Irwin yesterday after
day afternoon and said; I’m sat
isfied and even optomistis.”
He said that he would talk
; again with the Viceroy tomor
row on plans for India.
The Viceroy premised to re
lease political prisoners if Gand
hi would stop his "disobedience
campaign.”
FORTUNE TO DEPOSITORS
HAMMOND, Ind. Feb. 17. (/P)—
Feter Meyn, wealthy president of
the First Trust and Savings Bank,
which closed last week, turned
over his entire fortune to save
depositors and stockholders from
loss, it was announced after a
meeting of the bank officers. Meyn
whose hidings are valued at
$15,000,000, admitted that he val
ued the confidence of his neigh
bors and former associates above
his riches. He is regarded as one
of Indiana’s richest men.
HOCKEY GAMES
VANCOUVER, B. C. Feb., 17,
(/p)_Vancouver defeated the Seat
tle ice hockey team 2-0 thereby
regaining first place in the coast
league.
AFTER “KING OF SWAT”
CLEARWATER, Fla. Feb. 16. (/P)
—Babe Ruth, the king of the swat
in baseball, was made defendant in
a real estate suit for $50,000, filed
in circuit court here by attorneys
for William J. McPherson of St.
Petersburg. The attorneys said the
i suit was brought on the defendant
on default of payment of a mort
gage Ion St. Petersburg property
owned by Ruth.
LISTEN TO THIS
ONE! MEXICANS
IN ALASKA. SLAVES
THOUSANDS OF MEXICANS IN
ALASKA LIVE UNDER IN
HUMAN CONDITIONS
MEXICO, CITY, Feb., 17, UP)—
The newspaper Universal Graf
ico published a protest against
the alleged “virtual slavery” in
which 5,000 Mexicans are held in
Alaska.
The paper printed reports
from California, Mexicans charg
ing that Mexican laborers were
contracted for work in the
! mines and forests of Alaska and
that they are obliged to live un
der inhumane conditions.
The paper also said that con
| tractors find an easy means of
| labor supply from the Mexicans
| stranded in California and entice
| them to Alaska with promises
! which are unfulfilled.
WORLD S TRIBUTE
i NEW YORK, Feb. 17. (7P) — i
Tribute of the wide world was,
vStacked at the feet of George
Eastman, Rochester philantropist.
Hundreds of residents of Rochester
and many prominent Americans
gathered here to praise Eastman
and the 32nd annual dinner of
the Society of Genesee.
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1 UYLOB'S SHOULBEB:
! BASS IN BATTLE
j PHILADELPHIA, Feb., 17, (/F>—
Benny Bass. junior lightweight
| champion, knocked out Bud Tay
lor of Terre Haute, Ind., in the
j second round of a scheduled 10
I round bout.
A left to the pit of the stom
ach was the blow which felled
the challenger. The Philadel
i phian’s title was not at stake,
j Taylor protested he was foul
; ed. The referee said' the sock
was fair. Benny said he would
agree to fight five more rounds.
Bass had the edge on the two
rounds.
DISORDER CLOUDS E
GATHERING IN SPAIN
MADRID, Feb., 17, (IP)—A mil
itary movement apparently in
tended to establish a military
dictorship, began late today.
Two artillery units, near here,
mounted long range guns and
trained them upon the capitol.
Civil guards are being mobil
ized throughout the city.
Yesterday afternoon machine
guns had been placed at stra
tegic points and troops are held
in readiness for action.
bout postponed
NEW YORK, Feb. 16. (IP)— Be
| cause of illness, Fidel La Barba,
California featherweight, will be
unable to go through with his
scheduled bout with Kid Francis of
Italy here February 20. A substi
tute has not been named.
PULP WOOD BARRED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. (/P) —
Lumber and pulp wood from four
j localities of Russia were barred
! from the United States by the
Treasury Department unless the |
shippers can prove they were not
produced by convict labor.
T
QUELLS FBEE-FOR
■ mi FIGHT. WATER
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Feb. 17
(fP)—The fire department was call
ed out to quell a free-for-all fight
in the de Gollado theater, where
the election of a beauty queen
was taking place.
Partisians of the several can
didates came to blows over the
qualifications of their favorites
; and the theater was in an up
j roar when the firemen arrived,
i Several high pressure streams of
j water played through the doors
land windows of the place quench
■ ed the ardor of the fighters and
I the election was carried to a
j peaceful conclusion.
WASHINGTON, Feb., 17, UP)—
Carl Lomen of Nome is on hand
to defend his Alaska reindeer
! company, as the reindeer com
mittee prepared to continue the
i hearings.
i The Alaska delegate blamed
| the Lomens for most of the rein
deer troubles in Alaska.
The delegate, Lomen, and
Biological Survey and Depart
ment of Interior representatives
will hear reindeers owners tes
1 tify.
ILL TALK 581
MORE THEN RETIRE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. </P)—
Rumors were current in Washing
ton that Major General Smedly D.
Butler of the marine corps would
ask to be retired next year were
current in Washington. It was re
ported that the Quantico base
commander would ask for a leave
of absence in October to make a
nation-wide lecture tour, and
probably the following January he
would ask for retirement.
WING DAMS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. (/P) —
Ten thousand dollars from the un
employment relief appropriation to
be used for snagging operations and
construction of wing dams in Sa
cramento river, below Sacramento,
was allotted by the War Depart
ment.
DEFINITE SOLUTION
SAO PAULO, Brazil, Feb. 16. (/P)
—Labor differences which have de
veloped in Sao Paulo now seem on
the road to a definite solution. A
commission has been appointed by
General Miguel Costa, State Secre
tary of Public Safety, to solve the
unemployment problem which has
assumed serious aspects because of
the gravity of the unemployment
situation
NATIONS JOIN BIO
PROGRAM OBSERVE
POLAR PHENOMENA
STATION WILL BE ESTABLISHED
NEAR FAIRBANKS BY THE
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, Feb., 17, (/P»—
The House foreign affairs ■ com
mittee approved the resolution
appropriating $30,000 to enable
the United States to . participate
in the international program for
observing Polar phenomena, the
i electrical aural and metroroiogi
cal conditions.
Such a program is expected to
be of assistance in the develop -
. ment of communications and
' transportation.
j A similar program was carried
| out in 1882 with 14 expeditions
including two from the United
States to Point Barrow,
j Twenty-six nations have al
ready arranged to send expedi
tions to 21 Arctic stations.
! The Norwegians will go to
'Little America, Byrd’s latest ex
ploration. The United States pro
poses in occupy a station near
FarSvrks. The reports will be
* Suvuxdld ill 1932.
VETS BILL GOES
TO SEiTE; HAS
SUFFICIENT VOTES TO OVER
RIDE THE PRESIDENTIAL
VETO
WASHINGTON. Feb.. 17. <T>)—
The bill to redeem veterans ad
justed service compensation cer
tificates for half of their face
value, goes to the Senate and
' carries more than enough votes
to over-ride the Presidential ve
to.
The House passed it by 363
votes to 39 despite Hoover’s oppo
sition and warning from Secre
jtary Mellon that the treasury'
■would have difficulty in finan
cing.
The bill provides an increase
from 22 and one-half per cent
to 50 per cent the loan value of
the certificates.
All of the opposing votes were
from old-line Republicans rally
ing behind the majority leader,
Tilson and Chairman Hawley of
the Ways and means committee.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17. (/P)—
While crowds passed and police
were within easy call three rob
bers, enforcing their demands with
guns, tied up the manager, two
clerks and a customer in the Gal
lenkamj shoe store in San Fran
cisco and escaped with $130 and
a watch. It was accounted one
of the most daring daylight hold
ups on busy Market Street in
many months.