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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 93.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FISH BEILERS BUI
era 29 sms
IT SIX mil) TEN CENTS
SEATTLE, April 28. (^P)~Ind€*
pendent fish dealers yesterday af
ternoon, after a conference with
fishing vessel owners, purchased
the catches of 25 schooners which
had gone begging because of in
ability of the recently organized
cooperative finance apd buying
independents refused to buy the
fish Saturday, saying the coop
erative organization had put them
out of business.
The fish sold today amounted
to 420,000 pounds of halibut and
cod; the prices ranged from 6 to
10 cents per pound.
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MOT INDUSTDT IS
STILL UPSET, KLTCHIKIN
SEATTLE, April 28. (JP)—Chaotic
conditions in the halibut industry
are unrelieved at Ketchikan where
more than a dozen big schooners
and many smaller ones are held
with nearly 500,000 pounds of fresh
fish aboard.
The boats are pending further
word from the United Packing
Fisheries, independent buyers,
have not been given a chance to
bid on big trips this season.
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WASHINGTON, D. C. April 28. j
v.-P)—The Wickersham commission j
found some of the government bu- j
reaus as basis t for criminality sta- j
tistics.
Things to help make the ‘‘most ■
favorable showing possible when
■they ask Congress for money,” was
the assertion included in the com
mission’s third report to Hoover
since it began work two years ago.
The present methods of com
piling statistics on criminality
were condemned as inadequate and
often nonexistent, sometimes in
volving “serious abuse.” The com
mission suggested such statistics
be committeed to one justice de
partment bureau and later to the
census bureau.
CONFESSED SLAYER OF
0FFICEBJ1EN lift
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., April 28, (*P)
—Fred Burke was sentenced to
life imprisonment in the Michi
gan branch of Marquette prison
for the slaying of Patrolman Chas.
Skelly, in December 1929, when
he plead guilty.
There is no death penalty in
Michigan; the offense .tfas sec
ond degree murder.
Judge Charles White said the
evidence showed Burke was in
toxicated the night he shot the
patrolman and was not in full
possession of his faculties.
MODIFICATION MO SILT
HOOT WINES, DEER, IS
NOW IINSSIBILITY
PHILADELPHIA, April 28. (#)—
Modification of the prohibition
law to permit manufacture and
sale of light wines and beer, is
seen as a possibility at the next
session of Congress by Labor’s
national committee which -is for
modification of the Volstead Act.
The committee’s report is based
on a Congressional survey and as
erts only 17 “die hards” prohibi
tionists will be in the Senate and
43 in the House and “victory is
in sight if those who enlisted in
this cause will make their wishes
known to the Senators and Con
gressmen of their states.”
CHMIGES IN CHURCH -
COOES DOE PROPOSED
or oFFiciiL ciors
NEW YORK, April 28. UP)—
Code changes are proposed in re
ports published by official groups
within the Protestant, Episcopal
and Presbyterian churches of the
United States and Episcopalians
have recommened that adoption
be revised.
Bishop Cannon advocated crea
tion of Ecclesiastical courts to
pass on problems of marriage and
to permit ministers to remarry
communicants and divorced per
sons in certain circumstances and
to eliminate all mention on grounds
for divorce and remarrage and de
fine the nine causes of annul
ment.
Presbyterians, deploring the in
creasing divorce rate, gave ap
proval to birth control and sug
gested establishment of courses
for instruction in marriage.
THE “ICE” QUIETS •
Cil OF STUDENTS
ON THE 10 PITH
ROME, April 27. (£>) — Premier
Mussolini, appearing before a
great crowd of students demon
strating before the Vendia Palace,
quieted their protests against the
Anti-Fascist demonstrations at
Brussels with the pledge of Fascist
alertness against their enemies.
Holding his hand aloft he shout
ed to the crowd which intended
going to the Belgian embassy,!
“Italy of students alw’ays does de-1
fend the revolutionary regime of
Fascism against the stupid Anti
Fascists.” Most of the crowd dis
persed; a number, with flags,
marched to the Belgian embassy
but were stopped by soldiers and
police who broke up the half
hearted demonstration.
SELL TO INDEPENDENTS
PRINCE RUPERT, April 28.(/P)—
Three hundred and eighty thous
and pounds of halibut from Amer
ican vessels at 10.4 to 6c and Ca
nadian halibut at 8.5 to 5c, were
bought by independent buyers.
IT THE NITIONIL
(By W. A. S.) -J
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.
—an opportunity to impart a little
information on Alaska was afford
ed Mrs. -Wickersham recently.
While attending a bridge party at
the Arlington Hotel, given to aid
the enlargement of a hospital at
Ketchikan, Alaska, one of the
players inquired whether the Con
gressman from Alaska was an
Eskimo. This resulted in consid
erable ccntroversey and when it
was learned that Mrs. Wickersham
was a resident of the north the
question was referred to her. She
admitted that the Delegate was
her husband, and not an Eskimo,
and then gave quite an interest
ing talk about the native people
of the north and of their habits
and professions.
MM
During the past month the man
ager of the Harrington Hotel has
been making inquriies as to the
whereabouts of Thomas Marquam,
of Fairbanks, who has been in
Washington most of the time dur
ing the past two or three years.
He has been a guest at this hotel
on and off, and during the winter
had a room elsewhere. He was
a patient at a hospital in Jan
uary and then went to the Har
rington. After a couple of weeks
he checked out, saying that he
was going to New York and asking
that his mail be held. The hotel
has heard nothing from him since
and much mail and telegrams ac
cumulated, so that the manage
ment has been making anxious
inquiries about him, fearing that
he has me with some misfortune.
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For the past 10 years the Pub
lic Health Service has been giving
medical advice by radio to ves
sels at sea. The Surgeon General
recently announced that through
the cooperation of the U. S. Coast
Guard, medical advice will be given
from the Marine Hospital at Port
Townsend, Wash., through the lo
cal Coast Guard base radio station
located in that vicinity. The es
tablishment of this additional sta
tion will provide facilities, the
need of which has been recognized
for some time, especially for ves
sels plying in Alaskan waters and
the north Pacific.
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fort is about to be put forth by
the Interior Department to arouse
the interest of the mining and in
vestment forces of the United
States to the great industrial re
sources and opportunities in Al
aska. At the same time plans
have been completed for the ex
penditure of the $250,000 appro
priated by Congress “for contin
uation of mineral and other re
sources of Alaska,” along the Al
aska Railroad. In addition to the
amount named, which has been
placed in the hands of Secretary
Wilbur for the purpose of inves
tigation, the Geological Survey
will expend their usual amount of
$65,000, divided over various sec
tions of the Territory.
Wide publicity is being given to
the purposes as outlined by the
(PImm turn to Ptgi Two)
IMMENSE SWIM
IN MTNMI MONUMENT
MiSKI SHOWN SENS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27.
_(£>)—Secretary Wilbur, of the De
partment of the Interior, an
nounced the creation of a sanc
tuary for Alaskan brown bear
which will probably save them
from extinction.
Hoover signed a proclamation
more than doubling the area of
the Katmai National monument
by bringing its confines to the
coast line along Shelikof Straits.
The monument now totals 2,
697,550 acres, as large as many
National Parks
Nationwide agitation for their j
salvation was inspired by Stewart j
Edward White, writer, which led;
to the creation of the sanctuary. )
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PESSIMISM IS FELT
IN OFFICIAL CIRCLES !
FOREIGN OFFICE NOTE
PARIS, April 28. (JP)—The Foreign :
office ministry of marine studies
of the British foreign office note j
containing the answer to French
proposals seeking solution of the
Franco-Italian and British naval
difficulties.
The contents of the British com
munication is guarded in secret;
there is undisguised pessimism in
some quarters feeling the note
would mark a breakdown for the j
present, at least, in negotiations |
which looked to completion of the
tri-parttime accord.
The French note, to which the ■
British answer wras sent last week,
offered to go ahead with the naval
accord leaving the question of
1934-1936 superannuated tonnage
until 1935.
EUSTEfl IS WET
SECOND TIME IN TWO
MIS: STILE ALIVE:
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CATSKILL, N. Y., April 28. (/P)—'
Jack “Legs” Diamond, gangster, |
was seriously wounded by un
known assailants when buckshot
was shot into his back, shoulders
and arm as he stepped from the
Mountain Road House, west of
here, three days after he had been
released on a $25,000 bail pending
trial on charges of assault.
Diamond did not give informa
tion as to the shooting. He was
snatched into the shelter of the
road house by a companion who
said the gunfire was * from 20
paces; nine shots were fired buti
only one shell load hit the gang- I
ster. j
MAY BE “CANNED”
NEW YORK, April 28. OP)—
Newspapers predicted the imme
diate dismissal by Governor Roose
velt, on inefficency charges filed
against Mayor Walker. The gov
ernor is described as feeling the
charges are not specific and that
the mayor answered all the points
at issue.
WASHINGTON READY
TO FETE (INC OF
SUM FOUR HITS
WASHINGTON, April 28. (IP)—
Officialdom is ready with a color
ful and rigdly correct welcome for
King Prejadhikop of Siam.
Four days will be filled with
his reception including a state
dinner at the White House, with
Secretary Stimson, Admiral Pratt,
chief of naval operations, General
McArthur of the Army and other
officers and state department of
ficials.
The official call on President
Hoover will be Wednesday.
KING Of SHIM GOES
TO UPM TOW
NEW YORK, April 28. (/P)—King
Prejadhipok of Siam, who intends
to voluntarily give the right of
suffrage to his people, will visit
President Hoover.
The King and his suit will reach
Washington this evening. The
King is a half brother to Prince
Chandaburi who died in Paris from
a throat affliction yesterday.
The King ordered suspension of
mourning for his visit to Wash
ington.
DELAY SWEPT H
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF
SAN FRANCISCO. April 28. </P) —
With one sweeping gesture, War
Department has removed the last
possibility of delay in actual con
struction of the San Francisco
Oakland bridge.
The Department has formally
approved the application of the
Toll Bridge Authority for permis
sion to construct the $75,000,009
span on the Rincon Hill Goat Is
land site. And it has assured en
gineers of the project that de
tailed plans will receive the de
partment’s immediate OK as soon
as they are forwarded to Wash
ington.
PRICE OF STIFF OF LIFE
CUT IN SHI FRMIGISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, April 28. (#)—
The price of bread- was cut in
three large chain store groups
here. A fourth group is contem
plating cutting too.
The Public Food Stores, operat
ing 151 groceries, installed prices
of 5 and 7% cents, respectively, for
the 16-ounce and 24-ounce loaves.
This bread formerly sold at 7
and 10 cents.
The cut was met at once in
MacMarr’s 165 Piggly Wiggly stores
and the 50 stores of the Safeway
Group.
Vessels in port today included
the SS Otsego, the B. F. M..
schooner Alaska, the Roy and Bill.