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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 22.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
REP1IS ASKED
BISHOP CANNON GIVEN PER
MISSION TO MAKE STATE
MENT IN PROTEST
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 27, (JP)
—Alaska’s Delegate to C o n g r e ss,
James Wickersham, as£ed the Ter
ritorial committee to repeal the
Act which established prohibition
in Alaska.
After his testimony Bishop Can
non received permission to make
a statement in opposition.
Chairman Williams said the
statement will likely be received
next Tuesday.
Delegate Wickersham. said that
the 1917 bone dry law was sup
planted two years later by the 18th
amendment. He said that the Vol
stead Act, in many instances, held
portions of the bone dry law
which conflict with the amend
ment.
He insisted the controversy was
not ever the legal validity of the
Alaskan Act. As an illustration of
the conllict he said the bone dry
law permits warrantless raids of
Alaskan homes whereas courts!
held that was not permissable un- ,
der federal laws.
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PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 27, (*P)—
William Wrigley, Jr., 70, owner of
the Chicago “Cubs” and interna
tionally known financier, died of j
acute indigestion at his winter <
home here
Mr. Wrigley was stricken Janu
ary 18 after a heart attack and had
remained in bed ever since.
Death was expected. Mrs- Wrig
ley was at the bedside with two
children. Phillip and Mrs. James
Offield.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan- 26, —Re-,
presentatives of 400,000 union coal j
miners assembled here and held |
somewhat of a pessimistic attitude j
toward an attempt which they are ,
to make in order to take their in- j
dustry out of its present depressed
condition.
The problem which they will
have to solve is how to combat the
decrease of coal usuage which fell
off 87 per cent last year and how
to relieve the unemployment of
the 200,000 coal miners who were
affected by the decrease.
In a solution of the first problem
is the answer to the second.
IS WELL AGAIN
NEW YORK, Jan. 26, —Winston
Churchill, noted Englishman who
was recently injured when knock- j
ed down by a motor car, has fully
recovered and resumes his lecture
tour in the United States.
MERGER APPROVED
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Jan. 26, —
The merger of a cotton belt rail
way with the Southern Pacific
was approved by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
FIRES DESTROYS BOAT
WRANGELL, Jan. 27, (£>)—Fire of
unknown origin Saturday night de
stroyed the Hazel B, No. 2, largest
boat of the Barrington Transporta
tion flee, operating in the Stikine
River. The vessel cost $50,000.
BUYING NEW RIVER BOAT
SEATTLE, Jan. 2 7, —Replace
ment of the Stikine river passen
ger boat Hazel B, destroyed by fire
at Wrangell, will be made by the
construction here of a new craft,
announced Captain Barrington,
head of the company. A. W. H.
Smith, geenral agent for the com
pany, leaves for Wrangell today.
THANKS ALASKANS
ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 27, —Frank
lin Roosevelt, governor of New
York and Democratic favorite for
the presidential nomination, re
vealed a telegram to Alaska Dem
ocrats addressed to Luther Hess
and Thomas Devane of Fairbanks.
The telegram read: “Am grateful
to you for your telegram and to
Democrats of Alaska. Please give
my friends my regards. Thanks.”
NEW UK TALKS
OF NOTION-WIDE DOOM
IN GOLD MINING
NEW YORK, Jan. 27, —Gold min
ing, the depression proof industry,
is booming according to an article
in the New York Times. The arti
cle in part follows:
“The economic depression, which
has curtailed the earnings of near
ly every important indutry, has
brought prosperity to the gold
mines on a scale not witnessed
since 1915 and ltl6, according to
mining experts. Costs of reduction
at the mines have been reduced
owing to lower labor charges and
other economies, while, as usual
the price obtained for the gold pro
duced by the mines has not varied.
These circumstances have led to
a revival in the gold mining fields,
?nd the output for 1931 was larger
than at any time during the last
15 years.
“Mining authorities have esti
mated that the world’s output of
gold in 1931 amounted to about
21,000,000 ounces, valued at approx
imately $400,000,000 compared with
20,150,000 ounces in 1930.”
IlIEUTIOIt PEOPLE
HPHi DEFENSE
SHANGHAI, Jan. 27, —Fearing
an imminent occupation of Shang
hai by the Japanese foreign mili
tary, officials have begun plans
for the defense of the internation
al settlements.
With regard to the situation be
tween the Chinese and the Japan
ese at Shanghai it is stated by Chi
nese spokesmen that China may
suppress anti-Japanese demon
strations but that she can do lit
tle in putting down the boycott on
Japan.
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DAR-ES-SALAAM, Tanganyika,
Jan. 27, (#*)—An African native
here is now pointed out as the man
who coughed in his grave.
Pronounced dead, his relatives
had assembled and the drama had
reached the moment of burial
when the chief actor coughed
loudly.
He recovered, expressed a belief
that he had been under a speU and
started for the village witch doc
tor, who coughed once and fled.
last plea for freedom
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.
(/P)_Albert Fall’s last plea for free
dom may be answered within a
week. The Federal Parole Board
has finished collecting data on the
case of the former Secretary of the
Interior.
10 APPOINTMENTS
FOR SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 26, (/P)
—President Hoover may have to
make two appointments to fill the
vacancies caused by the resigna
tion of justices of the Supreme
Court.
The President must appoint one
to fill the vacancy created by the
resignation of Justice Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, a fe wdays ago, and
another bench vacancy looming in
Utah as Justice George Sullivan
has ntimated that he intends to
resign his position because of ill
health.
MU'S OWN, cum
GUTHRIE, WSFE1E0
Capt. Ralph R. Guthrie, of the
U. S. Signal Corps, at the Presidio,
San Francisco, leaves California
January 27th on the transport Re
public for Shreveport, La.
To quote a portion of the Cap
tain’s recent letter: “I am sorry
I am getting so far away from Alas
kan friends and contacts.” His al
askan friends also regret his de
parture for parts farther removed
from the Territory, but they will
no doubt more than glad to learn
that Captain Guthrie is to take
charge of communication construc
tions in a new air field at Chreve
port, La.
Barksdale Field is his destination;
it is the biggest field in the world—
22,000 acres, and will be Wing head
quarters, the work to occupy about
two years. Captain Guthrie takes
with him the very best wishes of
all his Alaskan friends.
A FORCEFUL DELEGATE
Delegate J. S. Hof man of Sew- ]
ard, who returned Tuesday from ;
the Fairbanks Democratic Terri tor,
ial Convention, is reported to have
conducted himself in a leading role
presenting numerous practical sug
gestions, and was complimented by
his colleagues for his sincere work.
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j VAN GILDER—Tom Hall, Seat
tle; Julien A. Hurley, Fairbanks;
Vella Truitt Moehring, Anchorage;
E. H. Clifford, Juneau; Victor Gill,
| Anchorage; H. V- Ashby, Valdez;
[Harry L. Blunt, Anchorage; J. A.
' Ramsay, Anchorage; J. A. Coon,
Sylvan, Wash.: B. C. Elmes, Anch
orage.
SEWARD—Mi', and Mrs. Mich
ael Flynn, Lawing; A- B. Haynes,
Anchorage; Gus Raymond, Nellie
Martin, Mary Allen, Mary Chief
Joe, Freda Dell, Fr. F. M. Menager, |
J. J. 0‘Connors, Juneau: Em mo
Cote, Minnie Thompson, Mrs. S.
P. Rideaux, Peter Bagoy. A. J. Di
mond, Valdez.
OVERLAND—Edwin J o h a nson,
Ol.-i Svedin. O. J Todd, Valdez;
W. L. Bachuer, A. MacDonald, J.
E. Controy, Wm. Sargent, Seattle;
Louis Larsen, Dillingham.
J. A. Ramsay, general land of
fice chief of Alaska with headquar
ters at Anchorage, arrived Tues
day from the Inlet metropolis.
C. J. Todd, prominent resident of
Valdez and Democrat delegate to
the Fairbanks Territorial Conven
tion of the party, returned Tues
day and left today on the SS North
western.
PROMINENT JUNEAUITE
After attendance at the Terri
torial Democratic Convention at
Fairbanks, J. J. O'Connor, Demo
cratic National Committeeman, was
among those returning yesterday.
Mr. O'Connor is one of the influen
tial men of Juneau, has innumera
ble friends about the Territory and
enjoyed his trip to the Interior very
much.
Fr. F. M. Menager, in charge of
missions down the Yukon river, ar
rived Tuesday from Seattle and to
day left for Nenaa.
In today’s hotel list the names
registered at the Van Gilder hotel
were incomplete. Two names more
should have appeared, that of A.
N. Severin of Chicago, and the well
known and former townsman, Dr.
J. H. Romig.
The Bureau of Fisheries craft
Penquin arrived in port during the
night from the South to take on
oil and supplies. The vessel pro
ceeds to Seldovia.
Harve Asbby, of Valdez, was one
of the arrivals Tuesday on the SS
Northwestern enroute t o Willow
Creek where he will be employed
by W. E. Dunkle at the Lucky Shot
Mine. Mr. Ashby is a graduate of
the University of Nevada.
DORBXNDT IS THE MIN,
SITS PILOT CRUM
SEATTLE, Jan. 27, (/P)—Pilot
Graham said, “He’s just the type
who would,” when he was inform
ed that Pilot Prank Dorbandt of
Anchorage was preparing to com
pete with him in seeking the MS
Baychlmo, lost in the Arctic with
a cargo of fur aboard.
“If anybody can find the Bay
chimo, Dorbandt is the man. Sev
eral Alaskans have asked to go
with me but I prefer to try it alone
so I’ll have more room to carry
furs and supplies,” Graham said.
STUDENT’S MAGIC PAYS
RIPON, Wis., Jan. 27, (/P)—John
Kaestner, sophomore at Ripon Col
lege, earns his way through school
as a magician. He has pulled
enough rabbits out of hats to ena
ble him to stay in college.
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TO MEET HEAVYWEIGHT
NEW YORK. Jan. 27. (/P)—iSteve
Hamas, former Penn State football
star, will meet Armand Emanuel,
California heavyweight, in a 10
round bout at the Alympic Auditor
ium in I.os Angeles, February 15,
according to Hamas’ manager.
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MANY KILLED
HARBIN, Manchuria, Jan. 27, —
Unconfirmed reports here said that
many casualties have resulted in
the recent fighting between Chi
nese irregulars and Japanese troops.
Some figures estimate the dead
for Tuesday totals 1,000.
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1-LEGGED MEN GET JOBS
ARMARILLO, Tex., Jan. 27, (/Pj—
Three men employed to operate
the elevators in the new court
house have only three legs among
them. Three one-legged men were
given the jobs.
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PLENTY WOMEN IN INDIA
BOMBAY, Jan. 27, (.P)—There
re just 10.356,952 mere women
than men in India, according to
new statistics which make the to
tal population 352,S86X.73. Hindus
number 238,330,912; Moslems 77,
843,928; Sikhs 4,308,442 and Christ
ians 5,961,794.
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INDIA REBELLING
SRINIGAR, India, Jail. 27, —
Rebellion, pillage and burning has
broken out again in the state of
Kashmir at Moslem leaders from
Punjab started another attempt
to drive the Hindu, Mahara Sir
Hari Singh off the throne and es
tablish a Moslem ruler in his pal
ace. Fourteen villages were pillag
ed.
HOME IN A WEEK
Bert Wennerstrom and small son,
of Anchorage, who came over to
visit Mrs. Wennerstrom and newly
arrived son at the Seward General
Hospital, left today for home. Mrs.
Wennerstrom and babe, who are
getting along nicely, expect to leave
for Anchorage a week from today.
SUMfllEK EAxlA>lvAi ION S
Bernard Hubbard, M. J., profes
sor of geology at the University of
Santa Clara and known throughout
the country as the “Glacier Priest,”
is thought to be at Juneau enruote
to Seward on the next steamer, the
SS Admiral Evans. Kenneth Chis
holm, University of San Francisco
student, left Seattle Tuesday on the
Evans on his way to Seward. Fath
er Hubbard and Chisholm propose
to continue their exploration work
on the Alaska Peninsula and will
first fly into the gigantic crater
of Aniakchak.
Sir Hubert Wilkins recently del
ivered an Arctic talk at the State
College, in Washington.
LIKES ALASKA BETTER
“Queen of the Arctic,” Elizabeth
Bernhard of Teller, is making her
first trip to Seattle and doesn’t like
it very much, according to a story
appearing in a Seattle paper. She
prefers Alaska. For an 18 year-old
girl she shows a lot of good sense.
RETURNS HOME
SEATTLE, Jan. 27. (^P) —Nancy
Miller, daughter of an Alaska sour
dough, returned home for the first
time since she became one of the
three wives of a multimollionaire
Hindu prince. She journeyed by
automobile from Vancouver, B. C.,
and went to bed immediately upon
arrival here.
NEWSPAPER ASKS
NATION TO ABANDON
THE GOLD STANDARD
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27, —The
Philadelphia Record, in a front
page editorial, urged the United
States to abandon the gold stan
dard.
“Congress should take the United
States off the present gold stan
dard immediately,” the editorial
| says.
! “This nation will be forced off
j eventually, when it will do us lit
: tie good. If Congress acts now, it
1 will save much human suffering
and speed the return of the world
j as well as this country, to normal
cy.
“We need inflation to cure our
! own depression. But as important
! we must forget gold to relieve the
; despair of the rest of the world
1 which is in debt to us. The smartest
| thing Uncle Sam can do now is to
let his debtors get the best of him.
I Sometimes, it’s smart to be dumb.”
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LEflbUE WANTS MORE
DETAILS OF TROUBLE
GENEVA, Jan. 27, —The League
j of Nations, which was convened
on Monday, met Tuesday in a se
j cret session to see what they could
I do about the Shanghai trouble and
the'Manchurian war. At the meet
: ing it was pointed out that the
! league was powerless to do any
| thing unless further information
on the trouble at the Chinese city
was forthcoming.
The opinion a m o n g delegates
was that the league “may have al
ready gone too far’’ in its discus
sion of the Chinese-Japanese af
fair.
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\ BUT BROKERAGE HOUSES
i WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.
(/P)—The Johnson investigation of
foreign bond sales has disclosed
that the banks of this country were
converted into ordinary brokerage
houses, Senator George Democrat of
Georgia, told the Senate,
j The vast post-war speculation in
I both foreign and domestic securi
| ties W'as the real cause of bank
failures, he said. Only one bank has
failed in Canada since 1923 com
pared with 7,805 in this country,
he added.
EXTREMIST MOVEMENT
MADRID, Jan. 27. (/P)—Minister
of Interior Quiroga said the Ex
tremist’s movement to establish a
Proletarian dictatorship in Spain
was promoted by Leon Trotzky,
former Soviet leader now in exile.
SOUTHBOUND LISTING ON
THE SS NORTHWESTERN
Passengers who departed today
on the SS Northwestern for Seat
tle and way-ports were:
Seattle—Mrs. M. V. Cooper, Peter
Bagoy, Minnie Thompson, Emma
Cole, Fred C. Miller, Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Campbell, Mrs- H. Gilmore,
J. E. Campbell, Miss Jessie Camp
bell, A. N. Severin, P. A. Cook, Mrs.
J. P. Rideaux, W. L- Bachna.
Latouche—Chris Storvick.
Cordova—J. L. Reed, Dr. J. H. Ro
ming, Tom Shaugnessy, H. E.
Smith.
Valdez—C. J. Todd, A. J. Dimond.
Juneau—J. A. Ramsay, J. J.
O’Connor.
JAPAN PLANNING
TO OEIWORCE HER
SHANGHAI STRENGTH
U. S. CONSUL GENERAL SAYS
INVADERS MUST STAY OUT
AMERICAN SETTLEMENT
SHANGHAI, Jan. 27. </P)—The
Japanese - Chinese situation here
has assumed a serious aspect as
Japanese troops landed in Bhang •
hai and warships anchored off the
city ready to back the Japanese
force, with Tokyo’s demands for a
cessation of the Chinese boycott
against Japanese goods.
Government leaders in Nanking
have conferred on a course of ac
tion. It was feared that actual
| warfare between the two nations
was imminent.
It was widely rumored here, with
out confirmation, that the Japan -
| ese intended to occupy the Chinese
; barracks, airdrome and arsenal at
| Shanghai and also the fort which
| guards the city.
American and other consular au
thorities are now watching the sit
uation closely. Edwin Cunningham,
U. S. Consul-General, announced
after a conference with other con
suls and authorit ;S of the foreign
settlement, that the Japanese must
stay out of the settlement. Moves
by forces of both nations created
much suspense.
Chinese troops are standing by
in Chinese territory, although an
armed clash did not appear to be
imminent.
Advices from Tokyo reported
that 22 additional warships were
loading in readiness to proceed to
Shanghai and that more troops
would be sent to reinforce a land
ing party of Marines if necessary.
I Japanese action was threatened “if
Chinese authorities failed to com
I ply with demands for reparations
| and apologies for disturbances.”
SEVILLE. Spain, Jan. 26, —The
extremist strike in Spain was con
fined for the most part to Seville
and Malaga only. A bomb w a s
placed on the railroad track at
Malaga but resulted in only minor
damages. There were a few shots
fired between the strikers and the
government forces.
At Seville business was paralyz
ed and here a few rifle shots were
exchanged but there were no cas
ualties reported.
The strong hand o f Premier
Azana in handling the strike is
said to be responsible for the quiet
ness of the Spanish situation.
HALF BILLION APPROVED
WASHINGTON, D. C.f Jan. 26, —
The Senate, on Monday, approved
the $500,000,000 reconstruction bill
NO COMPROMISE
NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 26, (#)
—Viceroy Lord Willingdon said that
the British government can make
no compromises in its decision to
put down Mahatma Gandhi’s In
dian Nationalist civil disobedience
movement. The statement was con
tained in his inaugural address be
fore the Indian Legislature.
ONE GREAT COUNTRY
SRINGIGAR, India, Jan. 27, (<P)
—The Moslems are anxious to es
tablish rule over this predominat
ly Moslem state forming a solid
block. The states include Egypt.
Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan and
Punjab. Twelve thousand Moslems
are reported marching on Rajouri
for a concentrated attack.
MAY HAVE VISITORS
POONA. India, Jan. 26, —Gandhi
will have a reward for proving a
model prisoner during the three
weeks he has been in jail. Hereto
for, no one outside of the prison
has been permitted to see him
but it is now announced that once
each week, for 20 minutes, he may
be visited by relatives or non-pol
.itical associates.