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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 83.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SUBJECTS DON’T UNDERSTAND
THEY ARE DUPES OF COM
MUNISTS, SAYS QUEEN
PARIS, April 16. (JP) — Spain’s
King and Queen found asylum in
France.
The weeping Queen and five
children arrived and retired to a
hotel on the verge of virtual pros
tration.
King Alfonso arrived at Mar
seilles nervous and irritable.
Queen Victoria said: “The King
has not abdicated and has not
even passed over his powers; he
has merely left the country."
A similar declaration "was made
at Marseilles by the King’s spokes
man, Duke Miranda: “His Majes
ty has retained all his rights and
has merely abandoned his pow-er
to avoid trouble and even civil
war. The King awaits forthcom
ing elections and will abide by
their decision."
The King is to join the Queen
here and make ther residence.
“It is horrible, too horrible;
they'd have killed us if the King
had persisted. They vroula have
cut our throats. The Spanish peo
ple don’t understand that they
Irave been duped by communists
who are the real agitators for a i
revolution." the Queen said.
ran VIEWS HIE
REQUESTED FROM DEMOS i
US TO 1902 PLITFOSMj
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WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16.
■JP)—John J. Raskob, chairman of
the Democratic national commit
tee, has requested the members
of the committee to send him their |
personal recommendations for thf!
1932 platform, especially on pro-* |
hibition and the economic pro-j
gram which he outlined at the;
meeting here inarch 5.
His request was based upon a!
desire to permit the Democratic j
national convention to reach con- j
elusions “mast effective for thej
welfare of the party and the i
people.”
His request did not meet with
the entire approval of Democratic
senators and others who favor
making economic questions the
chief planks in the party’s plat
form and to oppose a wet declar
ation in 1932.
They declared against “home
rule” prohibition plan and other
suggestions urged by Raskob in his
letter asking for expressions of
opinion on these principles.
SAW MOTHER KILLED
NEW YORK, April 16. (JP)—While
her two young children looked on,
Mrs. Julia Burdett, well-to-do
Newark widow, was shot and killed
by Jack Bush, a disappointed suti
or. Bush committed suicide
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REDREDGING
SEATTLE, April 16. (/^ — Con
tractors have been notified that
sealed bids will be opened here
May 7 for redredging of the Pet
ersburg bar and Wrangell Nar
rows.
FRIENDS WERE ROBBED
IT CIPT. WOLD'S HOME
SEATTLE, April 16. (/P)—Captain
Peter Wold, who was skipper of
the schooner Attu when he saved
the tug Roosevelt in the Gulf of
Alaska in December, 1928, while
entertaining Mr. and Mrs. George
Hogg of Kodiak, heard a noise in
the bedroom.
Upon going in he found it ran
sacked, the purses of two women
had been searched, a pistol taken
from a dresser. Little money was
taken.
BIGGEST HETEEt OF
ALL FILLEOJIITH LEM)
NEW YORK, April 16. (^—Giu
seppe Masseria, “Joe, the boss,” an
associate of A1 Capone, and who
police said was the ‘‘biggest rack
eteer of them all.” died from his
foe’s bullets while he sat in a res
taurant at Coney Island last night
thumbing a deck of cards.
Police feared a gang war. Five
bullets were sent into his back,
head and shoulders from a car
parked at the curb.
SOVIETS BOOM FOOD
MOSCOW, April 16. (/P) — Tire
government announces it will in
vest $300,000,000 in food industries
this year, paying special attention
to sugar, flour, vegetable oils and
fisheries. A 60 per cent increase
in food supplies is envisaged.
CHILDREN KILLED DU
N. Y. RACKETEERS' DOMI
NEW YORK, April 16. (/P)—Two
children were killed and two other
persons were injured when bomb
throwing racketeers half wrecked
a five story tenement in this city.
Police, said that petty rack
eteers took this way to revenge
themselves on Sebastian Geruso,
a grocer on the ground floor.
He was said to have refused to
pay tribute to the extortionists.
MARINERS ATTENTION
The Seward office of the U. S.
Customs reports the Kalgin Island
Light is said to be extinguished
but that it will be relighted as
soon as practicable. Mr. Chilberg
is attempting today to get in touch
with boatmen on the Inlet in an
endeavor to have them relight
same.
A. C. Ritchie, superintendent of
dredging on the Seward break
water project, arrived on the Ad
miral Evans last night and will
immedately take charge of that
branch of the work. He is an old
timer of the Yukon River area.
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SENATOR Dili
SEEKS AID MINI
INDUS! ALASKA
FOUR GATEWAY PLATFORMS
INTRODUCED YESTERDAY
IN LEGISLATURE
| JUJNEAU, April 16. (Special to
jTlie Gateway)—Repeal of the so
called Wickersham placer raining
act and all Territorial supporting
status relative ot locating of claims
and annuity of labor thereon, is
proposed in two measures intro
duced in the Senate by Senator
Dimond.
If enacted it would restore Al
aska on a parity with all mining
states by placing it under the gen
eral mining laws of the United
States.
The repeal bill of the Wicker
sham act contains the proviso that
it is not effective unless and until
approved by Congress but repeal
1 of Territorial acts are effective
when and if passed.
Benjamin introduced a measure
for a cooperative predatory anfinal j
control appropriating $5,000 for
the biennium conditioned on Fed- i
eral authority allotting $5,000 an-:
r.ually for the same work.
Representatives of Alaska’s great
est gold mining companies, the;
Alaska-Juneau, Kennecott, Ham- j
mon Consolidated Gold Fields and j
the Fairbanks Exploration Co., j
filed protests against Nerland’s;
proposed amendments to the work- j
men’s compensation act which they ;
asserted would only penalize com- j
panies constituting more than 90 i
per cent of the whole industry and j
would punish less than 10 per cent
who are violating the spirit or;
abusing the law at present. They j
suggested the legislature make it j
criminal to discriminate between i
married and single employees and j
citizens and aliens which would
punish only the guilty and would
not affect legitimately conducted
mining operations.
Hellerich introduced a memorial
to Congress asking appropriations
for an additional two engineers
for the Geological Survey in Al
aska.
Nerland introduced one protest
ing against the sale of the Signal
Corps communications system.
Johnson is asking for extension
of the Smith-Hughes act extend
ing Federal aid to schools for vo
cational training.
The Brosius resolution directed
the highway engineer to prepare
plans, estimates and specifications
for the $250,000 Pioneers’ home to
be erected in 1933.
The Senate finance committee
introduced a measure asking for
a $5,000 appropriation for aid to
the All-Alaska Chamber of Com
merce, not more than 10 per cent
of which is to be expended on
wages and salaries.
Elwyn Swetmann, local business
man who had his tonsils removed
at the Seward General Hospital,
returned home Wednesday.
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WHY NOT?
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16.
(IP)—Renewed insistence for an ex
tra session of Congress to deal
with unemployment and agricul
tural distress came from Senators
Walsh of Montana and Nye of
North Dakota. Administration
leaders maintained their opposi
tion.
CDUST GUARD HESSES
SAIL FOR ALASKA WATERS
OAKLAND, April 16. (IP) — Two
Coast Guard cutters, the Shoshone,!
the new 250-footer, and the Mc
Lean sailed today to begin the an
nual summer’s patrol in Alaskan
waters.
They will be joined later by the
Northland, Tallapoosa, Chelan and
the Itasca. The fleet will be un
der the command of Captain L.
C. Corvell.
fill OLD PORTRAIT !$
FOUND IN GARRET
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RACINE, Wis., April 16. (,/P)—
Sale of a portrait by Gilbert
Stuart, of George and Martha
Washington, hidden for years in
the garret of an old home in
Springfield, 111., has made possible
a trip to Europe for Frank Cald
well, former instructor at Racine
College.
Caldwell’s friends said he pur
chased the portrait for a small
sum and sold it in New York, for
$30,000.
FOX SKINS AT AUCTION
LONDON, April 16. (/P) — More
than 50,000 silver fox skins, valued
at around $25,000,000, have been
sola at the winter fur auctions
in England.
NATIONAL
New York 7, Philadelphia 10.
Brooklyn 3, Boston 9.
Pittsburgh 5, Chicago 6.
St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 0.
COAST
Portland 19, Oakland 6.
San Francisco 2, Missions 4.
Seattle 8, Sacramento 9.
Los Angeles 15, Hollywood 6.
AMERICAN
Boston 7, New York 8.
Chicago 7, Cleveland 6; ten in
nings.
Detroit 4, St. Louis 6.6
Philadelphia 1, Washington 7.
MAY REPEAT SHOW
Should there be sufficient de
mand for another presentation of
“The Patsy” by the Little Thea
ter Club of Seward, the popular
three-act comedy will be repeated,
said Manager Sweek today. The
organization would like to pre
sent it again for at least one rea
son, that of making up the defi
cit of approximately $30, Owing
to the extra expense of making
scenery ,etc., production costs
were larger than usual otherwise
expenses would have been cleared
which was all that was desired.
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HEIHfY HAND OF
NEW AUTHORITIES
. TO CURB THREATS
RED FLAG WAVES THROUGH
OUT SPAIN; POLICE AND
MOBS CLASH; DEATHS
MADRID, April 16. (/P)—The Gov
ernment is attacking the tremen
dous problem of changing Spain’s
autocracy and dictatorship to a
republic and used a heavy hand
to curb threats of communist dis
turbance and separatism.
Martial law was declared at Se
ville after rioting by a communist
mob which provoked the fire of a
garrison sentinel.
' Two persons were killed and 19
wounded resulting from a clash
and four police were wounded at
Barcelona which also is in the
hands of the military after rioting.
Some casualties and other scat
tered disorders with communists
occurred in some sections where
the communists used the, red flag
as a symbol.
The Government decided to sep
arate the various movements at
Barcelona and Catalan which will
be suppressed.
NEW YORK, April 16. (^—For
eign gangsters and racketeers are
evacuating New York City in ter
ror as the result of a secret two
months round-up by government
agents, which have netted 1,126
aliens classified as undesirables or
as having entered the United
States illegally.
Approximately 10 per cent of
those deported were women. The
drive is still under way and is be
ing extended throughout the
country.
Meanwhile the Federal Grand
Jury did its bit in the campaign
by indicting Mann Kessler, known
as the “king of the bootleggers,”
for failure to file an income tax
return.
The jury also returned bills
against two Federal narcotic
agents and one former narcotic
agent for bribery.
SOCIAL SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16.
(/P)—Mrs. Herbert Hoover has se
lected Mrs. Frederick Butler to be
her social secretary.
'TOR TO SEE”
E. A. Martin, a railroad track
man who has officiated as fore
man of gangs and as road master
on both the Great Northern and
Milwaukee Railroads, Is visiting
Alaska. He will stop over in An
chorage where he will confer with
officials of the Alaska Railroad.
He declined to relate the object
of his visit
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