“Federal Officials Cannot Lawfully be Appointed to any Territorial Office/"
—Attorney General of Alaska John Rustgard.
MEMBER
ASSOCIATED
PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 7.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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COAST
FACE
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ADMIRAL BULLARD SAYS TOTAL
SUM OF BRIBES BUT
TRIFLE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jail. 9. (A»)
—Court martial charges were filed
Friday against 24 enlisted men of
the Coast Guard service. No com
missioned officers were involved.
The charges were brought about
through an investigation into the
wholesale bribing of the Coast
Guarders by liquor runners in the .
New York area.
Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, com- j
mandant of the Coast Guard, said j
t hat the investigation showed that :
i few men at the Fire Island. Blue
Point, Heliport and Georgia sta-,
lions accepted bribes of from $80 :
to $200 from, the smugglers to per- |
mit them to land liquor from a!
stranded rum runner.
' The admiral’s announcement was ;
nade following a' statement made ■
oy U. S. Attorney Amelie. in Brook- i
iyn. that the conspiracy concerned :
a large number of men in the New ,
York area and that the bribes in
volved sums which totaled up to j
about $1,000,000. Billard said that
:he total amount of the bribes was
rifling.
GUARDSMEN CONFESS
18 BEING BRIBED 81
118808 RUNNEHS
■NEW YORK. Jan. 9. (^—Whole
ale bribery of Coast, Guardsmen'
ay liquor runners in the New York
r , r a reaches a total estimated at
'1.000,000, it was revealed by Fed
ral District Attorney Howard Am
he, who is in charge of an investi
.ation which is being made.
Twenty Coast Guardsmen had
>een arrested, he said, and some
nad confessed to accepting the
tribes and were being held for
omplicity in the liquor deals.
An investigation has been under
vay for several wTeeks. Commis
honed officers are also said to have
>een involved.
Guardsmen, who talked, indicat
ed that entire companies had been
oribed to permit cargoes to be
.anded on the coast. Coast Guard
officials expressed surprise at the
?indings of the investigators.
POLE IP IIS SLEEVE
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 8. {/Pj—Capt.
Sir Hubert Wilkins outlined plans
lor a plane trip to one of the poles
lere before he left for Seattle by'
Mane.
Sir Wilkins said: “I'm going to1
Seattle to consult engineers about'
'.he construction of a special plane
0 use on the expedition I have in
nind. If I can get what I wrant
* 9* may have an announcement to
nake.”
Later he edded that the interior
1 the Antarctic continent is vir
tually untouched and an attempt
o disclose its secrets would be
worth while.
PUTS DERBY IN RING
JUNEAU, Jan. 9. (^—Anthony
Dimond, Valdez attorney, announc
ed here that he would enter the
race to secure the Democratic nom
ination for Delegate to Congress.
RULING IKES IT
DELINQUENTS TO PAT
CHICAGO, Jan. 8. (JP) — County
Judge E. Jarecke handed down a
ruling that Cook County 1928 and
1929 real estate assessments were
fraudulent and illegal.
Although technically, the decision
holds good only for objectors in this
case, the ruling actually affects
$451,709,000 taxes and leaves Chi
cago and Cook County virtually
penniless and threatened with re
ceivership.
The court's decision directly af
fects a suit brought by Mrs. Lil
lian Cisar but involves indirectly
$140,000,000 taxes unpaid on the ac
i count for 1928 and 1929 assess
, ments, $286,000,000 for 1930 and
| $25,000,000 in tax forfeits.
The ruling makes it unnecessary
i for those who have failed to pay
I taxes to pay them now and leaves
Chicago with the prospect of no
! income for many months to come.
The city and Cook County will
! appeal the decision.
TERRIBLE DEATHS
MOSCOW: -San., 9, (/?)—At least
50 persons were killed and scores
injured in a train wreck 14 kilo
meters northwest of here. The
number of dead was increased by
the freight train which plowed
through the injured lying along the
parallel track.
MILT COMPLETED
NEW YORK, Jan. 8. bP>—Gold
• man Sachs Trading Corporation
and the Atlas Utilities Corporation
i have been virtually merged thru
! a deal in which Atlas lias become
itiie largest individual stock holder
j in the trading corporation.
It is expected that the actual
merger will take place shortly, giv
ing combined resources of $160,000,
000. It would then be the largest
investment trust in the world.
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WOMAN IS MISSING
NEW YORK, Jan. 8. (/P) — Mrs.
i James Remsen Schultz, society wo
I man living at Sands Point,. Long
^Island, was reported missing from
i the coast steamship Providence, on
| which she had sailed for Fall River,
I Mass. Police are searching for her.
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ROOSEVELT EXPECTED TO
IT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9. (/P)
1 —The resignation of Dwight Davis,
1 governor general of the Philippines,
; is imminent.
! Davis has made tentative plans
j to sail to Paris next week as Mrs.
! Davis is in ill health and he is
making a special trip to See her.
Davis and Secretary Patrick M.
Harley "have an engagement with
President Hoover at which time Da
vis is expected to hand in his resig
nation. It is expected Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., will succeed him.
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i CABINET AND PREMIER INUKAI
WILL REMAIN IN OFFICE
AFTER ALL
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TOKYO, Jan. 9. (/P)—A confer
ence to revise the Nine-Power j
Treaty which was cited by Secre
tary of State Stimson in a recent
I note to Japan on the Manchurian
situation may be sought oy Japan
for the purpose of obtaining a clear
definition of the term “adminis
trative integrity” as used in the
treaty.
A spokesman for the government;
j said that at the time of signing the !
j Kellogg Peace Pact that Japanj
| should have made a reservation 1
j with regard to Manchuria but that j
{they failed to do so.
The Japanese cabinet and Prem- I
; ier Inukai, who tendered their res
ignations to the Emperor because;
he was nearly a victim of a bomb,
have decided to remain in office.
The handing in of their resigna- j
tions was merely formal and neces
sary gesture as the Ministry is re
sponsible for the safety of the Em
peror. The bomb, which appar
ently was intended for the Em-1
peror. Jell under the carriage ahead
of the one in which the Emperor J
was riding and exploded with a;
puff of white smoke.
Examination of the bomb dis
closed that it was composed of a
number of metallic slugs. Only i
one person, a guardsman on horse
back, wras injured. A 32-year-old
Korean laborer, who said his name
was Rihoso, was arrested for the
: bombing attempt.
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PLEAD FOR LEAGUE ACTION
! NANKING, Jan. 9. (,?> — The
Chinese government will ask the
League of Nations to apply her
economic pressure upon Japan, an
aggressor nation, as specified in the
League of Nation’s covenant. It was
| also announced here that China in
i tends to convene the signatories of
; the Kellogg Peace Pact and the
| Nine-Power Treaty soon.
WOMAN CHHD WITH
l MAIL FRAUD HANGED
SELF IN COINTK JAIL
SEATTLE, Jan. 8. (JF) — Mrs. j
Thelma Cullen, 37 years of age, on
trial in the Federal court here on
mail fraud charges in connection
'with stock investments, hanged her
self in the county jail Thursday
night.
Her body was found in the dor
mitory. She had climbed atop a
radiator and then stepped off with
a crude hangman’s noose, made
from strip sheeting, around her
neck. The noose was attached to
a pipe in the ceiling.
She WTote a suicide note before
she carried her act through and
said, “Nobody loves me any more
because I’m broke and in trouble
and nothing matters. Hqw truly I
am a victim of your depression and
its circumstances; but God know7s
me and loves me. For nearly six
months I have heard no music but
I know I shall because I’m free.”
ACCOUNTANT DIES
JUNEAU, Jan. 9. (/P) — William
Deyo, 70 years old, accountant, who
came to Alaska in the Klondike
gold rush, died here after he suf
fered a stroke of apoplexy. He had j
been ill for four years.
DEM.1D STATE ENACT 11
KEEP SC!
CHICAGO. Jan. 8. (/P) — Nearly
14,000 school teachers, unpaid since j
April and who now face salary cuts, j
gathered at the Chicago Stadium
and demanded that the State Leg
islature enact laws to keep school
open during the city’s present fi
nancial emergency.
The revolt of the teachers is the *
most spectacular development in
the debacle that has plunged Chi
cago into bankruptcy, as the city
owes them 820,000,000 in back sal
ary.
Nine night schools were closed
Monday because no money for heat,
lights or teachers was available.
Twelve thousand* students were ef
fected. Schools in three Chicago
suburbs have already closed for an
indefinite period.
KILLS FAMILY
CAPE GIRANDEAU, Mo., Jan. 8.
I (JP)—Oliver Davenport, 50 years of
! age, killed five of his children by
striking them on the head with a
: hammer and then seriously wound
ed his wife and another child. He
i then shot himself to death-. The
father apparently went insane
Only a 12-year-old boy escaped the
brutal attacks of the parent.
TOOK 'EM FOII!
MS TO DECIDE
NEW YORK, Jan. 8. (/P>—Investi
! gation was begun here by Federal
! authorities into the charges made
by Representative W. Wood that
the Democratic report on cam
paign funds in 1928 contained ir
regularities.
J. W. Gerard, treasurer of the
I Democratic committee, replied to
i Mr. Wood: “We are probably as
familiar with what the law requires
! as Mr. Wood can. be.”
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APPOINTED BY HOOVER
SEATTLE, Jan. 9. (/P)—Kenneth
Macintosh was appointed Friday
by President Herbert Hoover to
serve as a judge of the United
States Circuit of Appeals for the
Ninth District. Macintosh was a
member of the Wickersham law
commission.
RAILROADS WON'T HAV[
IP MCI CM CUTES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8. (/P)
—Western railroads won a $20,000,
000 victory in the United States
Supreme Court Monday. The court
set aside widespread grain rate re
ductions ordered by the Interstate
Commerce Commission in 1928 as
a readujstment in favor of agri
culture.
In writing the unaimous opinion
upon the case, Chief Justice Hughes
took judicial notice of the depres
sion.
POLICE HAVE IDE
ARRESTS, MURDER
HAWAIIAN YOUTH
WAS ONE OF FIVE ALLEGED TO
HAVE ATTACKED WOMAN
LAST SEPTEMBER
HONOLULU, Jan. 9. (#) — Mrs.
Grace Bell Fcrtescue, wife of Gran -
ville Fortescue, noted American
soldier and author and a niece of
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor,
and her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas
H. Massie, of the United States
Navy, were arrested here Friday
charged with the slaying of Joseph
Kahahawai.
Kahahawai is the young Hawai
ian who, with four others, was ac
cused of attacking Mrs. Massie last
September. The jury trying the
case disagreed as to the five’s guilt.
E. J. Lord, English naval man,
was also named in the murder
complaint.
Police forced their automobile
into a roadbank after a 10-mile
chase during which time sev
eral shots were fired.
The Hawaiian youth had been
lured into the car. Police said that
the body w'as found in the car with
a bullet through the heart.
THE INDICTMENTS
SIN KISMS
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 8,
Three indictments were returned
by the Federal grand jury against
four persons, one of them an Ala
meda physician, in connection with
compensation frauds under inves
tigation by the government.
Those indicted were Dr. J. R
Basco, Alameda; Elmer J. Johnson,
James B. Kuykendall and Marshal
Neil Crozier. Dr. Basco and John
son are charged jointly in one in
dictment.
It is charged that Basco made a
false affidavit that he had attend
ed Johnson in 1925 for tuberculosis,
when he had not attended him at
any time prior to 1927 and that
Johnson used the affidavit in 1928
in an application for compensation
from the U. S. Veterans Bureau.
SESSION
BE ABOLISHED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9, (/P)
— The dogged determination of
Senator Norris may be rewarded by
victory at last. For the seventh
time he put through a Senate res
olution to abolish the “lame duck"
session of Congress.
This has six times been proposed
iand defeated in the House; Demo
cratic leaders in the House are for
it.
If Norris wins, the people will
have another constitutional amend
ment vote on the proposal to alter
the present provisions so that Con
gress will meet each year on Jan
uary 2; succeeding November elec
tions and the President and Vice
President would take office Jan
uary 15.