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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 84 SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
FORTY MEASURES.
BUIS. RESOLUTIONS
PRESENTED ONE DAY
ALASKA LESLISLATORS SET A
PACE FOR FUTURE SOLOXS
OF TERRITORY
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JUNEAU, April 17, (Special to
The Gateway)—Twenty-three bills
and five memorials in the House,
11 bills and one resolution in the
Senate, flooded the legislature on
its 45th day in session constituting
a record for a single day.
Many of them are vitally im
portant affecting every industry.
Among them were two, 8-hour
bills, one covering placer mining
industries and the other general,
excepting dairy and agriculture.
Another prohibits payment of
a lower wage on public works
than the prevailing wage for the
same class of labor on private
projects.
Two new measures, designed
to replace Gragaw’s radio subsi
dy which was defeated in the
House, were included in the
House batch. One provides for a
subsidy for a broadcaster north
of the gulf and the other south
of the gulf, each getting $5,000
for the biennium. The bills were
modeled after the original subsidy.
Ziegler introduced a measure
for a 12 cent excise tax on all
food products manufactured in
Alaska and packed in fibreboard
containers.
Foster introduced a shipping
subsidy for Kodiak of $6,200.
Johnston introduced another for
an appropriation of $5,000 to pay
transportation of veterans given
hospitalization by the federal
government.
Nerland introduce a bill to ap
point a three-man tax commis
sion empowered to employ an
expert for a survey and report to
the next legislature.
Hellerich’s bill would appro
priate $5,000 for a cooperative
mining investigaton.
Johnston’ bill is for regulating
motor vehicle traffic on high
ways.
Boyle's bill would require em
ployers importing contract lab
ro into the Territory, be respon
sibe for them and prevent them
from becoming public charges.
Senator Dimond’s .bill would
create a bureau of budget with
broad powers.
Sundquist’s bill was directed to
ward obtaining more aid for
prospectors.
Another one of Dimond’s creat
ing the office of superintendent
of public works to be filled by
the highway engineer.
Shattuck’s bill was for a com
mission to draft plans for the
Pioneer’s Home construction.
Another of his was for a com
mission to arrange for Alaska
participation in the Chicago
World’s Fair in 1933, and a third,
for a commission to investigate
the needs of indigent and delin
quent children, and to recom
mend a new system.
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WILL GET TOGETHER
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17. (JP)—
Adjustment of the rival claims of
San Francisco and Los Angeles,
both of which are seeking the 1932
National Democratic Convention,
will be sought when the members
of the Democratic State Executive
Committee meets at the office of
Justus Jardinerre.
■Ell SHOULD DE
TURNED OUT OF WHITE
HOUSE. SITS SUOUSE
LOS ANGELES, April 17. (/P)—
Speaking in President Hoover’s
adopted state, Chairman Shouse
of the Democratic National Exe
cutive Committee, urged California
to aid in turning the present occu
pant out of the White House in
1932.
Addressing a Jefferson Day din
ner under the auspices of the Dem
ocratic State Committee of Cali
fornia and the Los Angeles county
Democratic committee, Shouse pre
! dieted his party would win the
presidency next year but said that
j they would need unremtiting la
bor
OIL LNDUSTRY 001 IN
BITTED CONTBO'M
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SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 17.
(JP)—California’s two billion dol
lar oil industry will be the center
of further bitter controversy in
the legislature as the result of
moves in the Senate for a sweep
ing investigation of the industry
and counter charges by Senator
Sharkey that the proposed inquiry
was an attempt by certain inde
pendents to forestall the contem
plated adoption of a conservation
: measure aimed at stabilizing con
1 diticns in the oil industry.
Ill PROBABLY BEGIN
HURLING THEM NEXT
! TOKIO, April 17. (/P)—Pumpkin
ipies are all the rage in Japan; it
is eaten with chop sticks.
A returned student from San
Francisco introduced the delicacy
when he opened a hole in the wall
restaurant. Other cafes stole the
idea and now the pumpkin market
is booming.
Japanese have eaten pumpkin
boiled or stewed, as pies, however,
the vegetable is given liberal dash
es of cinamon which appeals to
native palates.
PRPOHI SERVES NOTICE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17.
UP) — Prohibition Director Wood
cock served notice that the mak
ers of grape concentrates ferment
able into wine will be prosecuted
whenever it can be proved their
products are sold with intent that
it become intoxicating.
Besides these enumerated all
measures were more or lses minor
ones.
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MINISTER SHOULD
CONSIDER SELF LUCKY,
SITS LEIRNED COURT
OLYMPIA, April 17. (/P> — The
shattering of H. U. Clark’s pur
posed romance with Mrs. Minnie
“Ma” Kennedy, mother of Aimee
Semple McPherson, Los Angeles
Evangelist, was an omen of hap
piness rather than despair, the
state Supreme Court said.
The court affirmed a King
county judgment dismissing Clark’s
breach of promise suit.
Clark, a parson and co-worker
of Mrs. Kennedy in Evangelical ac
tivities in Seattle prior to the time
he instituted his suit, should have
been glad to have escaped mar
riage under the circumstances,
ithe court said.
INFERNO OF FUME
UNO FUMES THE
TOIL OF II IIS
CHICAGO. April 17. (TP;—An un
derground inferno of flame and
fumes snuffed out 11 lives but
calm judgment TtfTd valiant effort
won freedom from a deep blazing
tomb for 18 men.
With stunning swiftness the
flames licked at the sawdust tin
der and dry timbers lining the new
concrete tube of a sanitary dis
trict sewerage tunnel under 26th
street, one of the principal East
West thoroughfares on the South
west side.
Workmen and firemen were stif
fled by poison gas in the subter
ranean trap.
SKIER ENFORCEMENT
I SEATTLE, April 17, (VP)—Wiley
. Wright, aeronautical inspector,
| Department of Commerce, is sail
ing Saturday on his annual in
spection of Alaska planes.
He intends to stay a week in
Juneau to confer with Governor
Park as to policy to be adopted.
This will undoubtedly mean
stricter enforcement of depart
ment air regulations. He * returns
at the end of June or around the
forepart of July.
Mr. Wright will stop at Valdez,
McCarthy, Anchorage, Fairbanks,
Seward and Nome.
GIVEN A TREAT
I DENVER, April 17. (£>)—The 15
[Pleasant Hall school children who
survived a snow-bound bus in
southern Colorado nearly three
weeks ago came to Denver to see
the sights of a big city.
WILL BE RECEIVED
| WASHINGTON, D. C., April* 17.
|(iP)—Helen Keller will be received
I by the President and Mrs. Hoo
] ver on April 22. With her will be
delegates to the World Conference
on Work for the Blind which has
opened in New York.
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HONORS JAPAN PRINCE
WEST POINT, N. Y., April 17.
(/P) — All honors of the United
States military were tendered to
a youthful visitor wearing the uni
form of the Imperial Japanese
Navy, Prince Takamatsu. A navy
destroyer, the Evans, carried the
Prince and Princess up the Hudson
to West Point.
BERLIN NICHT LIFE
ON IRE WANE UNT
HARD TIMES GERMRMY
BERLIN. April 17. (/P)—Night life
in Berlin, the gayest in Europe,
is rapidly decreasing, two of Ber
lin’s most popular and elegant
night clubs, the Palais de Danse
and the Pavilion Mrakotte, have
closed their doors.
During the last several, years
one proprietor after another tried
his luck at running the Pais de
Danse and the Pavilion Maskotte,
one the rendezvous of Berlin so
ciety, but bad times which have
! become worse from year to year
| have forced all of them into bank
| ruptcy.
INVOLVES PSNTffi
! LOS ANGELES, April 17. (JF>—
| Lydia .Nitton, 17, who claimed she
1 entered a bureau for the sale of
' young women to earn her living,
j calmly told of a party here last
! October with Alexander Pantages.
j The wealthy showman and four
others were given a preliminary
hearing on charges of immorality,
j Speaking quietly and without
j emotion Miss Nitton pointed out
the theatre man who sat in the
! court room with his wife, as her
associate in a party at a fashion
! able hotel.
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CELEBRATED IT FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17. (ff)
—The gateway of Latin America,
San Francisco, gave itself whole
heartedly to the first celebration
of Pan-American day.
| Hundreds crowded into the ro
tunda of the city hall for the ex
ercises, there was a flag raising
ceremony in which scores of high
school students took part and the
celebration closed with a banquet
to consular representatives at the
Palace hotel.
A NARROW SQUEAK
LONDON, April 16. (/P)—Sir Mal
colm Campbell, holder of the land
speed record, had a narrow escape
from death while tearing around
the Brooklands auto race course.
A track rod, which holds the front
wheels of his car in place, sudden
ly slipped and broke while the
machine was hurdling around a
bend. Sir Malcolm kept the car
on the track and finally brought
it safely to a halt.
ALASKA INTERESTS
AT THE NATIONAL
CAPITAL. WASH.
DELEGATE WICKERSHAM SENDS
NEWSY ITEMS PERTINENT
TO TERRITORY
(By W. A. S.)
Washington, D. C. March 30,
(Special to The Gateway)—The
General Land Office has sent no
tice to Register Green, of the
Anchorage Land Office, that per
mits to prospect for oil and gas
had been extended as to tune, r»
the following applicants: Oscar D.
Knuteson, until March 8, 1932; K.
C. Schuyler, until March 8, 1932;
Frederick Bausman, until March
19, 1932; Chester Naramore. un
til March 18, 1932; Grace C.
Harriman, until March 8, 1932.
SEWARD MEMORIAL
In one of • the office rooms in.
the Treasury building at Wash
ington are two enlarged photo
graphs taken from a drawing of
a William Henry Seward Memor
ial, which it is proposed to erect
at Seward, Alaska.
Eills to direct the Secretary of
the Treasury to erect a suitable
monument and historical mus
eum at Seward, in commemoration
of the farsighted and patriotic
leadership of Mr. Seward in ac
quiring from Russia, by peaceful
negotiation and purchase, the Ter -
ritory of Alaska, were introduced
; in the Senate and House early
| last December, and provided for
! the appropriation of $400,000 to
1 carry out the purpose of the act.
It was not expected that the
bill would pass in either House,
but the reaction was more than
i satisfactory and d e 1 e g ations
j from New York, Pennsylvania and
I other important states became
greatly interested in the project
and promised to lend their sup -
port to the passage of a bill be -
fore the next Congress. It will be
introduced in the House in De
cember by Delegate Wickersharri
and in the other branch of Con -
gress by Senator Copeland.
MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE
The drawing referred to was
made by Henry Hornbostel and
Eric Fisher Wood, associated arch
itects of Pittsburg. It shows a
beautiful and commanding
structure with a height of 300
feet and 186 feet across the face,
to be constructed of concrete
with Alaska stone ornamentation.
Extending on either side are two
museums, each 56 by 16 feet, in
side measurement. C o nnecting
these rooms and under the Mem -
orial proper are an additional 15
rooms or flutes 15 feet in diam
eter. The ribs between the flutes
are five feet wide and 20 feet
from center to center.
In the circle on the outside of
the Memorial is a Greek amphi -
theater, which, with the rostrum,
will seat 1,600 persons. On the
face of the monument is a tablet
50 feet wide and 70 feet high,
bearing an inscription to Seward
and a relief map of Alaska.
PARK SERVICE
(Pleas* tarn to Pare Three)
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