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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 81.
SEWARD,
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1933.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
PRESIDENT IMS DEEPLY
MBVta LISTENING TO
SURI® OF UK
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 7, — j
The three survivors of the Akron [
disaster called on President Roos-;
evelt yesterday. They arrived byj
* special train and were met at the
station by Assistant Secretary of!
the Navy, and in a Navy depart- j
ment automobile they were swept
to the door of the White House,
where they were met by the Pres- ;
ident’s Naval aide.
Clerks, stenographers, doormen, j
all stopped their work to see thei
three survivors of the greatest J
airship disaster in history.
“I am thankful you are here,”
said President Roosevelt, when the
men were brought to his office.
Be seated ,and tell me all about
it.” The President then listened to
the account of the accident, as
told separately by each of the
three survivors.
Lieut. Commdr. Wiley, in telling'
his account of the accident, prais- j
ed the work of the German cap-j
tain of the SS Phoebus in the res- |
cue of the survivors and the search1
for those lost.
v The President was deeply im- j
pressed by the story of the Ger
man captain’s work, and said he
would write the Captain personal
ly.
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LID BLEW OFF LUST NITE
EXACTLY ONE MINUTE
PAST MIDNIGHT HOUR
NEW YORK, April 7, —With the
greater part of the United States
permitting the sale of beer and
light wines, New YoTkers were
thinking wistfully of the revelry
that came one minute after mid
night* while they waited until
6 o’clock in the morning for their
schnaaps. Some had started the
evening with bootleg and finish
ing off early in the morning with
the real stuff.
“Milk will have to do until morn
ing,” said the Brewers’ Association,
but “Oh, yeah?” said Bacchanales.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania
blew the big lid off sharp at one
minute after midnight, but New
York, Connecticut and Rhode Is
land had to wait.
n FIRST CONTINGENT
OF UNEMPLOYED HAVE
GONE BACK TO WORK
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 7.—
Mobilization of the first 230,000 re
cruits for the conservation of for
rests was started yesterday. In a
bustling ahmosphere reminiscent
of wartime, four departments last
night pushed plans to carry out
President Roosevelt’s attack on un
employment.
At the White House orders were
issued for the War Department to
be ready for the first movement of
men to work, but it was learned
at the Labor Department that the
initial recruits will not enter the
reconstruction campaign until Sat
Allotment of the first contingent
urday. .
of 25,000 men from 17 cities in the
Eastern cities of the nation was
completed today. Others will be
selected in additional cities before
the end of the week, with the Pres
ident planning to have 250,000 men
at work before July 1.
LAKEHURST, N. J., April 7,—
The crash of the Akron could have
been avoided by the appliance of
proper navigation, in the opinion
of Capt. Anton Bein, generally
acknowledged as the man who
taught the U. S. Navy how to fly
dirigibles.
v “The Akron”, said the German
dirigible expert, “caught in a hori
zontal maelstrom of air which
could and should have been avoid
ed”. He said the Akron should
rtfver have been flown in the
vicinity of a meteorological ristur
banae of that nature.
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MAY COME BACK
NEW YORK. April 7.—Samuel
Insull may come back to the Unit
ed States. A ^roup 0f bankers and
diplomats are endeavoring, it was
learned on good authority, are try
ing to make it more to Insull’s in
terest to return and be tried than
remain in self-exile.
NEW YORK, April 7.—President
Nicholas Murray Butler of Colum-;
bia University, long an advocate of |
repeal of the prohibition laws, said
today that thg return of beer and'
light wines should not occasion the |
furore and uproar that is swirling
throughout the country.
“Beer should be regarded with
no more than the appearance of
another kind of soda water” said
President Butler. “What makes
the difference is temperance in the
use of it. For a long time beer
has been associated in too many
minds with the saloon. It has no
necessary connection with it at all.”
President Butler observed that
temperance in the use of liquor
was exactly on an equality with
temperance in eating, language
and other daily adjunts to civiliza
tion.
"Nothing is more beautiful,” he
said, “in my mind than the picture
of a German beer garden, where
parents and children can sit in
repose and sip their beer, while lis
tening to good music.”
REPORTS COMMITTEE
JUNEAU, April 7,—In an official
report, the joint legislative com
mittee which recently inspected
the Pioneer Home at Sitka, declar
ed the “Home is dilapidated and
inadequate and this committee
advise that no money be spent on
it other than for absolute necessi
ties and that no additions be built
on or in conjuncton with the pres
ent home. This committee recom
mands that the Legislature at this
session authorize the building of
a new home as quickly as possible’'.
The committee said the hospital
was equipped meagerly and fit
only for emergency treatment of
patients and recommended dental
treatment and eye attention.
They also recommended that the
trustees be authorized to care for
an overflow not to exceed 30 as
proposed in the Devane measure
which was favorably reported by
the House committee today.
Although admitting no funds
are available for prospectors aid
this biennum and that abuses un
der the present law are so numer
ous that it would have to be radi
cally changed before any Legisla
ture should appropriate for it,
the House today killed the Senate
Judiciary committee bill to repeal
that law voting 16-1 against the
repealer.
They also passed the Senate bill
amending sections 673 and 674 to
provide for recovery from railroads
for killing domestic animals if the
road is not legally fenced and de
fining such fences.
The Senate amendment to the
jury law reduced the names in a
jury box from four-fifths to three
fifths of persons voting and names
of other qualified persons not vot
ing but ’ known to the clerk of
court and commissioner.
The Senate passed the Bragaw
memorial asking for a fisheries
survey in Bering Sea, Norton and
Kotzebue Sound and Arctic Ocean
waters.
The Senate passed the Swanberg
bill permitting. posting instead of
publishing in newspapers but
amended it to apply to towns of
1500 or less population bill.
GOOD OLD NUGGET
NOME, April 7,—With the Ber
ing Sea frozen over. Nomites are
unable to get legal beer from Seat
tle before June 15 and it is too ex
pensive to fly from Fairbanks, says
the Nugget. “We naturally have
to depend on our famous home
brew "until the ice goes out and
allows a steamer to reach Nome.
It is expected the steamer will be
loaded ^capacity because the Al
askan frontier people like their
beer, or what have you, on the
hip”.
TONIGHT'S SHOW WILL
BE FEW HOURS LUTE
STARTING BUT 'OKEHi'
Because of the train wreck to
night’s presentation of “Let Anne
Do It” will be late in starting but.
after a local conference and
phone communication with Anch
orage, it was decided to go ahead.
The entertainment will begin im
mediately following the train’s ar
rival.
While late, yet there is quite a
novelty attached to it and, after
all, one can safely say “after wait
ing all week to see Anne do it,
she won’t dissapoint us.”
The Anchorage entertainers
and citizens who had planned to
accompany them, about 40, -were
unanimous in wishing to come
regardless, feeling a few7 hours de- j
lay would not detract from the
general enthusiasm.
From the train the KFQD Ser
enades will go direct to the
Liberty, also other entertainers,
and do part of their stuff while the
big cast of “Let Anne Do It” dine
and makeup. When the curtain
goes up, the orchestra will go over
to Cameron’s and “scoff.”
A full house is assured, judging
from the ticket sale, and it is hop
ed everyone will come, regardless
of the delay, as they originally
had planned. There is certainly go
ing to be a lot of “extras pulled”
because of the novelty of the sit
uation.
Anne certainly did it!
MOVED FORWARD
CHINCHOW, Manchuria. April 7,
—Japanese troops moved forward
into Chinese territory inside the
Great Wall, in localized fighting.
There were no indications of a
sustained drive. The Japanese
apparently were maintaining their
policy of pushing back any Chinese
troops that, gathered near Jehol
Province border.
SEM-BOID TRAIN
IECKED. min
At about 1130 a. m. today the
Seward-bound passenger train
from the Interior was wrecked
near Matanuska., No one was in
jured, according to the local re
port. Derailment was attributed
to spreading* rails, it was said.
The engine and tender and two ,
box cars went off the track and
the baggage car and one coach
turned over on their sides.
Passengers wrere to be trans- :
fei’red to another train which isj
due to arrive in Seward at about!
9:30 p. m.
SHOTKE Mil) HE
EXUIT1 OF MU I
WED), SITS ADMIRAL;
NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 7, —
Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske,
retired, was quoted in a Yale news
interview as saying “no explana-i
tion is available for the Akron dis
aster unless it is sabotage.”
“I feel sure,” he was quoted as
saying, “that this tragedy came
not as a flaw in any principles of
dirigible construction, but through
some outside interference. I hope
that more light will be shed on
the case which came up during
the construction, and I have an
idea that a; thorough investigation
cannot fail to show meddling of
a more vicious nature.”
He added that “as horrible a
disaster as this is it cannot be
an indictment against airships in
general. I think Admiral Moffett
would admit that even now.” Rear
Admiral Flake, . pow retired^ is
credited with instituting many
features of battleship design since
1900.
Happy Brew Year!
PUBLIC INVESTIGATION
AKRON TRAGEDY BEGAN
TODAY WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, April 7,—A com. I
mittee of Congress jumped ahead
of the Navy to sift the Akron
tragedy in a public investigation
which will start today with the
three survivors as witnesses.
This sudden decision was made
by a House Naval committee after
a secret session with Lieutenant
Commander Herbert V. Wiley,
survivor. Plans were afoot to have
the Akron investigation taken over
by members not connected with
Navy interests.
Wiley gave fresh information to
the Navy in an official report on
his and his two fellow survivors’
observations. Outstanding were
these statements.
A terrific wind gust struck the
ship. The control rgne of the low
er vertical rudder gave way. The
upper rudder control th_en gave
way. Girders buckled and gear
tor£. loose amidships.
Wiley, in the water after the
crash, said he saw the big hulk,
cracked in three places, lying in
the water. In the report there
was not the slightest suggestion
that any thing was amiss before
the ship ran into the storm.
QARRIMAN INDICTED
NEW YORK, April 7,—Joseph W.
Harriman, former chairman ol the
Harriman. National Bank & Iruso
Co., was indicted by the Pederai
Grand Jury charged with making
false entries on the books of the
institution. The bank is in the
hands of a Federal conservator.
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WORK FOR MILLIONS
WASHINGTON, April 7, —The
Senate passed the Black five-day
week, six-hour-day bill. Senator
Black “Dem. Ala”, sponsor of the
bill, estimated a maximum of 6,
000,000 additional employees would
be required by industry under the
terms of the bill. A similar bill is
pending in the House.
“AT A BOY”
ANCHORAGE, April 7—This vi
cinity is without legal beer but
observed in a general jubilee
the emancipation of the Nation.
Wholesalers and retailers are in
clined to do nothing until legisla
ture and council enact regulations
governing sales.
ANGRY ROAR RRITISH
MOSCOW, April 7,—The angry
roar of the British lion reverberat
ed yi Moscow as the Soviet prepar
ed to inject new discord into a
dangerously strained world situa
tion by calling six British subjects
before a revolutionary tribunal
Monday to answer charges of
sabotage.
The British government, having
met an indignant refusal when it
demanded immediate release of its
Nationals without trial, threatened
a complete embargo against Soviet
goods. Faced with the loss of its
custojjier, the Soviet clung to its
intention of bringing the men to
trial.
UNIFIED BANKING
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 7—
President Roosevelt is endeavoring
to make the banking laws unified
throughout the country. Persua
sion,. it is asserted, will be used
rather than force, in lining up va
rious banking institutions through
out the country. “The laws,” said
the President, “will be framed so
as to make it attracitve for the
banks to operate under the new re
gime than outside of it.’
TERSE REPORT
WASHINGTON, April 7,—Lieut,
omdr. Herbert V. Wiley, second in
ammand of the dirigible Akron
hen it dived into the sea off tne
ew Jersey coast, carrying 73 men
> their deaths, made the following
fficial report of the dteasterto
is superior officers today. The
rss. Akron was destroyed when
ie crashed on the sea about 20
dies southeast of Barnegat lnlet
ight about 12:30, April 4, 1933.
INDEFINITE LEAVE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 7.—
Navy Department officials an
nounced that the survivors of the
Akron will be allowed indefinite
leave if they desire it at this time.
‘ Nothing is too good for these men
who stayed by their posts of duty
until thelast,” said Secretary of
the Navy Claude A. Swanson.
HUNDREDS FLOCKING
TB GRAND BEER OASIS
AT SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, —
San Francisco and Oakland be
came the grand oasis of Pacific
Coast America with hundreds of
potential beer drinkers smacking
their lips as hundreds of workmen
loaded cars and trucks with beer
to be ready to ship it at the “oeer” I
hour last night.
A fleet of planes, trains and
heavy trucks roared out of the
cities at the stroke of midnight,:
speeding on their mission to slake
the thirst from Seattle to San
Diego and east to the Nevada
UtaJj. border.
Two planes loaded with kegs took
off from San Francisco airport
for Los Angeles and San Diego,
while other ships flew beer from
Oakland for the interior.
IMPROVED NOW
NAPLES, Italy, April 7, —Mrs.
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton,
who was reported to be suffering
from a carbunkle at the base of
the skull, is said to be greatly im
proved.
THOUSANDS OF MEN
TO HOOK OVERNIGHT:
ST. PAUL, April 7,—German so
cieties toasted' the President and
wished the Nation happy days.
A number of beer experts tasted
the new brew and pronounced it
pretty good and not bad at all.
Mrs. Ella Boole, national head of
the W. C. T. U., declared beer vio
lated the 18th amendment and
“When the wet system passes peo
ple will awaken to the fact that
liquor traffic cannot be controlled
because of its inherent nature”.
A1 Smith, old foe of prohibition,
found himself the center of felici
tation with brewers having sent
him the first cases.
Brewers in Chicago estimated
an extra $5,000,000 has gone into
circulation there overnight.
Newspapers said 40,000 men have
got jobs overnight in Illinois as a
result of legalizing beer.
From the first few hours of sale,
the Minnesota government garner
ed $100,000 in revenue.
The price varied in New York
from $2 for a case of 24 quart bot
tles to a glass for 5 c. and 10 c. In
many instances it was 15 c. a glass
and sometimes 35 c a bottle.
EM IN GHENT
FEVER REEL CONCERN
LONDON, April 7.—The House
of Commons was busy passing a
bill which would empower the
Prime Minister to establish a boy
cott of Russian goods, in retalia
tion for the t reatmenj reported
given to the three British sub
jects accused of sabotage. Word
from Moscow said that the three
Britishers would be tried by a spe
cial court.
In Russia, little notice has been
taken of the sensational trial of
the Englishmen. In England, how
ever, the whole country and espe
cially the Parliament, is in a great
fever of concern.
RECREATION
WASHINGTON, April 7,—Presi
dent Roosevelt went to the theatre
last night and laughed heartily
over Rachel Crothers comedy
“When “Ladies Meet”.
It was the first time in five years
htat a President has attended a
regular theatrical performance.
The audience game Mr. Roosevelt
a rousing ovation as he entered his
box with Mrs. Roosevelt and a
White House party.
norumn h. his is
FIRST STSTESH RE
REGEIVEG 8T HITLER
PARIS, April 7, —Norman H.
Davis, special representative of
President Roosevelt, will go to
Berlin today to be the first foreign
statesman aside from permanent
ly-assigned envoys, to be received
by the Hitler government.
Although Davis did not go to
Berlin during his three-months’
tour of Europe last fall, he was
credited with- obtaining the pro
mise of other powers for arms
equality for Germany.
This agreement brought Germa
ny back into the Disarmament
conference, from which she had
previously withdrawn. Disarma
ment and plans for the economic
conference to be held in London,
are expected to be the principal
matters for discussion between
Davis and the German govern
ment leaders.
French ministers here, it was
said, have sought to touch upon
the war debt problems in conver
sations with Davis, but he side
tracked the subject.
B, SHAW WAS BOTH
RIGHT AND WRONG:
TABLES TURNED
CHICAGO, April 7.—George Ber
nard Shaw is on his way to New
York City, quipping and joking his
way as he goes. But there is a
joke, according to Frederick Wil
liam Wile, of Washington, D. C.
Wile was told of an incident, hap
pening when Shaw was coming
down the coast of South China. A
wire was sent to his boat from
Shanghai, inviting him to attend
the meeting of the Rotary Club
thfere.
“I know of nothing,” said Shaw
in reply, “more asinine than a
meeting of a Rotary Club. It re
minds me of a meeting of many
monkeys, all chattering to each
other.”
The Rotarians of Shanghai were
not to be downed by this. They
replied: “Yes, George Bernard
Shaw is right. Rotarians are. like
monkeys. In fact, that is why we
invited him. There is always room
for one more.”
C0I5T GUXRD VESSELS
CONTINUE SEMEN FOR
BODIES, GRNY'S HNRBOR
HOQUIAM, Wash., April 7, —
The wreckage of numerous small
fishing boats at the entrance to
Gray’s Harbor, scattered along
the beach, marked the path of the _
sudden spring squall which took
the lives of at least 11 fishermen
and probably more on the treach
erous Gray’s Harbor bar.
Struck with savage fury as they
were putting to sea_. the little craft
of the salmon trolling fleet were
buffeted and tossed about. Seven
were seen to capsize, hurling their
crews into the water.
About 50 of the fleet, made up
of 100 boats in all, made their way
across successfully, while the oth
ers turned back to Westport, their
base port.
CONTINUE SEARCH
HOQUIAM, Wn., April 7,—Coast
Guard Patrol boats last night were
heaving swells off Grays Harbor
entrance in search for more bodies
of luckless fishermen, believed to
have been drowned when a sudden
squall took a toll of nearly 19 fish
ermen and scores of small craft
here.
LATER DISPATCH
The total dead in the Grays Har
bor fishing.fleet disaster is 12
boats lost and 20 men drowned.
REJECTED BIG OFFER
LOS ANGELES, April 7, —Pete
Reilly, manager of Fred Miller,
world’s featherweight champion,
reported he had rejected an offer
of $25,000 from A1 Jolsoa for Mil
ler’s contract. “I wouldn’t sell Mil
ler for $100,000,” Reilly said.
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