“Federal Officials Cannot Lawfully be Appointed to any Territorial Office.”
__—Attorney General of Alaska John Rustgard.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 5.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7,1932. PRICE TEN CENTS
ALASKA DELEGATE URGING
AMERICAN PRINCIPLE OF
SELF-GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, Jan., 7, (IP)—
Protests against “the remote con
trol of” Alaskan game, birds and
fisheries was made by Delegate
Wickersham.
The author of the bill would
give the Alaska legislature power
over such matters because fish and
fur are such important industries
of the Territory.
Wickersham pronounced h i s bill
the most important of all that he
Ls sponsoring: “My bill will simply
give the assembly power to legis
« late over Alaskan fish, game ani
mals and birds,” he said.
“Congress has control of the
matter now but Congress doesn’t
know its people out there; the
people in Alaska know their own
conditions and are directly con
cerned and can do it better than
far away Congress which is busy
with a thousand ether matters.”
Mr. Wickersham said the bill is
in keeping with the fundamental
American principle of local self
government.
MAY GO INTO CHINA
TOKYO, Jan. 7. (IP)—The west
ern world is casting impatient eyes
on the Manchurian war situation
and even mre so now that it is be
ing rumored that Japan intends
to cross the Manchurian boundaries
and go into China proper with her
* forces. It is unknown whether
Japan will cross the Manchurian
border under the guise of bandit
chasing.
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 1. (JP) — Dale
“Red” Jackson, daredevil flier and
co-holder of the world’s endurance
flying record, plunged to his death
at the municipal airport here in
view of hundreds of persons who
* watched him stunt in a small plane
at a 3,000-foot altitude.
Jackson had just completed an
inside loop when the horrified
spectators below, inspecting prepa
rations for the All-American Air
Races, saw first one, then another
wing fall. Jackson apparently had
no time to use his parachute.
In company with Forrest OTJrine,
he established an endurance rec
ord of 647 hours, 28 minutes and
30 seconds at St. Louis in August,
1930.
QUAKE AT SEATTLE
#, SEATTLE, Jan. 7 (A>) -Western
Washington’s second quake in the
past week caused a deal of excite
ment among Seattle's downtown
shoppers Wednesday, rattled dishes
and swayed the light fixtures. The
earth shocks were felt in Everett
and adjoining communities. The
quake lasted for about 30 seconds.
The second disturbance was sim
ilar in intensity to the one on De
cember 31.
E. ARMSTRONG DIES
MT. VERNON, Wash., Jan. 7. (/P)
—Taken suddenly ill while bound
for Bellingham Tuesday, Edgar
Armstrong, Seattle apartment
house owner* and former sawmill
operator and theatre owner of
Douglas, Alaska, died while being
rushed by ambulance from the
stage depot here to the hospital.
He died of a heart attack.
ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED
DEMAND RELIEF THRU
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7. (JP)
—An army of jobless men from
Pennsylvania massed at the capital
to demand that Congress appro
priate $5,000,COO for public works
to relieve unemployment.
Between 10,000 and 15,000 throng-1
1 ed the capital's plaza streets as Rev.
I James Cox. Pittsburgh priest who j
led them across the Alleghany;
mountains, prepared petitions to ’
hand to Senator Davis and Repre
sentative Kelley, both of Western
Pennsylvania.
An extra force of police guarded i
the capital doors; steaming coffee
and short rations were provided at
daybreak by the District of Colum.
bia unemployed committee, Salva
tion Army and church agencies.
GROWING RESTLESS
—
MADRID. Spain, Jan. 7. </P)— i
! Fears are expressed by the gov-1
eminent here owing to the growing
unrest of the peasants in southern
Spain. Wednesday the peasants
attacked civil guards, whom the
government must back up, and as
| a result of the clash, 12 persons
; were killed and many injured,
j The clash Wednesday is said to
| have resulted from an earlier dis
| turbance on New Year’s day where
in four peasant youths were killed
and the desire of the peasants for
revenge for this incident.
MANCHESTER, N. H., Jan. 7. (JP)
—William N Rogers, wet Democrat,
was elected Tuesday to the Con
gressional seat made vacant by the
death of Representative Fletcher
Hale, Republican of the first dis
trict.
Rogers defeated former Governor
John H. Bartlett, Republican, for
the seat with 27,453 votes to 24,505
for Bartlett. Rogers is the first
Democrat to have been elected to
Congress in 10 years from New
Hampshire. Rogers won before in
1922.
As a result of the election, the
House now has 220 Democrats, 214
Republicans and one Farmer-La
bor ite.
IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7. (JP)
—Among the resolutions introduced
into the House Wednesday was one
calling for the impeachment of
Secretary of Treasury Andrew W.
Mellon because of his commercial
interests while Treasurer of the
United States.
KODIAK 11 HEME
NEEDED MOF1TION
IMPROVEMENT HARBOR
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7. (/P)
—The proposal of a $77,000 Im
provement for the Kodiak harbor
was reported on favorably to Con
gress Wednesday by the War De
partment subject to the erection of
a halibut cold storage plant at Ko
diak.
Major General Lytle Brown,
Chief of Army Engineers, made it
clear in his report that the proposed
improvement was to facilitate the
handling of halibut direct to Seat
tle; also that no work would be
done unless the Secretary was as
sured that cold storage plant plans
of local interest would be carried
through.
F
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niomb
PRISON CELL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7. (/P)
—The birdman at Leavenworth
penitentiary can keep ht$ canaries
despite the general prohibition of
private “businesses.” The prison’s
threatened act of taking away the
vocation of Robert Stroud, twice
murderer, was stayed when offi
cials fitted a rule to the case per
mitting him to continue his prac
tice as a hobby which is the most
unique of all the Federal prison’s
population.
Over 23 years ago Stroud, a youth
of 20, left his home in Seattle for
Alaska. In a Juneau bar he quar
relled and in a fight he struck a
fatal blow which constituted man
slaughter.
He was sent to Leavenworth to
serve seven years; later he gave
the signal for a riot attempt by
fatally stabbing a guard in the
mess hall. He was convicted again
for murder.
Stroud was saved from going to
the gallows by Woodrow Wilson,
who was then President of the
itary confinement ever since.
One day a pair of sparrows drift
ed into his cell and Stroud tamed
them. From this incident he got
the idea of raising canaries. His
mother, who comes to visit him
from Kansas City, takes the ca
nary birds away and sells them.
Together they have built up an
occupation so well known that bird
fanciers all over the United States
consult them.
The Stock Market
SEATTLE, Jan. 7. </P) — Yester
day’s quotations on the stock mar
ket:
Alaska Juneau .13%
American Can .59
Borden .38%
Canada Dry .11
General Motors .29%
International Nickle Can . 8%
International Tel. & Tel. 8%
Kennecott Copper .11%
Radio . 5%
Reynolds Tobacco (b) .34%
Richfield Oil . %
Standard Oil of Calif.24%
Standard Oil of N. J. ....27%
Standard Oil of N. Y. 9%
Union Oil of Calif.13%
CJ. S. Steel .39%
Cities Service . 5%
Durant Motors . %
; WELL KNOWN BY ALASKANS
| SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7. (£>)
William Thornley, 75, customs brok
er, died here. He was an expert on
maritime law and was interested
in the prolonged litigation over the
seizure of sealing schooners in Al
j askan waters. He was credited
; largely as being responsible for the
, recent verdicts favoring heirs tc
;boat owners.
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I
j OF HONOLULU PLEDGE
i GOVERNMENT HEFOl
| HONOLULU, Jan. 7. (£>) _ Whil<
! investigations of government re
, forms are impending in the citj
several hundred men and womer
! and civic organization members
; pledged themselves to work “force
| fully and relentlessly” for govern
[mental reforms.
The grand jury rendered a repon
calling for investigations designee
j to improve conditions influencec
| by the desire of greater security foi
| families; also, the realization oj
monetary loss from tourists if th(
i city gained a reputation as unsafe
! Both moves are part of a cleanup
campaign invited by the govern
ment and civic bodies owing to th<
I outgrowth of an attack upon ar
j American school teacher, the sec
ond attack up>on a white womar
within a few weeks.
TWO JAP SOLDIERS
RE COIRT-MARTIALEI
MUKDEN, Jan. 7. (/P)—'The twc
i Japanese soldiers involved in the
I brutal attack of United States Vice
| Consul Culver Chamberlain face
the probability of being courtmar
tialed according to latest develop
ments in the case and owing to the
reparation demand of the United
States.
The civilian interpreter, also a
| party to the attack, lias been dis
! missed from service to the Japan
ese foreign office. The “Mukden
incident” is not yet closed to the
State Department of the United
States.
FIVE BOMBS FOUND
or crnconi train
(By Associated Press)
Five bombs were found on a
train bound for Calcutta. They
were discovered before any damage
was done. The only evidence re
ported was the departure from
Gandhi of his principal of a non
violence campaign.
| Nationalists appeared to have
| taken cover although trade is para
lyzed as a result of a boycott
[against British goods. Authorities
r felt confident they could deal with
| any emergency.
CAPTURE GATEWAY CITY
TIENTSIN, Jan. 7. (IP)—Japanese
troops captured the city of Shan
Haikwan, reports said. The city is
I the real gateway from China to
Manchuria.
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REFUSE SALARY CUT BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7. (&)
—The House expenditures commit
tee tabled all bills referred to it to
cut government salaries.
! jiilius mo.
i philhuopist. is
| CULLED BY DEATH
| THE BESETTING SIN OF AMERICA
IS EXTRAVAGANCE, HE
STATED
I
CHICAGO, Jan. 7. (/P)—Julius
Rosenwald. 69, philanthropist, who
built a fortune in retail merchan
dising and gave more than $25,
000,000 in benefits to humanity, died
here Wednesday from Kidney and
? heart diseases.
Julius Rosenwald devoted many
millions of the dollars which he
amassed in business, to hammering
1 at racial and creedal prejudices and
to encouraging thrift.
‘‘The besetting sin of America is
extravagance,” he said over and
over again.
His earning power started in 1873
when he pumped a church organ
’ | at Springfield, HI., for five cents an
I hour. It culminated in 1910 when
I j he became head of the Chicago
1 mail order house of Sears. Roebuck
* i & Company.
j He built up this business until its
II annual turnover exceeded $300,000,~
• [ 000 and its branches could be found
in almost every sizable town from
coast to coast.
In the interim he had been a
newsboy in Springfield, a clothing
store clerk in New York, a shop
keeper on Fifth Avenue and a
manufacturer of men’s clothing.
His philanthropies grew with his
income. They centered largely in
efforts to aid negroes in the United
> States and oppressed Jews in for -
eign lands. But his giving had no
set bounds and gold flowed gen
erously from his purse to whites as
well as blacks and to Gentiles as
well as Jews.
DEBITS ICED TO
BRING PROHIBITION TO
FRONT IN CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, Jan., 7, </P)—
The Democratic party found thrust
upon it the clear determination of
Chairman Rascob to keep the pro
hibition issue to the fore in this
year presidential election under the
warning of its virtual destruction
alternative.
The Chairman laid down the
pressing demand that the party
declare at the summer convention
for submitting the entire question
to the people for a new decision.
Rascob contended the stand for
resubmission to the people will al
low the contending elements of
the wet and dry parties to find a
common ground. States would be
allowed to exempt themselves from
the dry act by voting for state
liquor control.
LAWYER PASSES
GLENDALE, Calif., Jan. 7. (/P>—
Attorney W. Joseph Ford, 54 years
of age, well known criminal law
yer, died Wednesday due to a heart
attack. Among Ford’s most recent
cases was that of David H. Clarke,
of Los Angeles, who was charged
with the murder of Herbert Spen
cer of which Clarke was acquitted.
Ford was admitted to the bar in
1899.