Seward, tine Alaska City of Opportunity
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 586.
SEWARD, ALASKA MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1930,
PRICE TEN CENTS
BUNCO GAMES GOING GOOD
AMONG ORGANIZATIONS
IN THE STATES
WASHINGTON, Dec., 29, (/P)—
Commissioner Moore of the gen
eral land office said applications
for oil prospecting permits in
Alaska are being investigated to
guard against high pressure sales
men who are accused of duping
investors.
The practice is to form an or
ganization of 50 to 60 persons
for the purpose of prospecting
for oil then apply for a permit
to develop the land; all develop
ments and expenses borne by
members.
Announcement was made in a
letter from Senator Jones follow
ing protest by Earl Frederick of
Seattle who otld the Senator the
land office had withdrawn Alas
ka lands from entry.
Commissioner Moore said the
-. rid office had not withdrawn
such land but that the office was
proceeding slowly on all applica
tions to guard against formations
of associations. He said a longer
time is necessary, to examine ap
plication s thorough!y.
Salesmen have also been ril
ing prospecting rights for $2 an
acre whereas- ' the governmenits
highest license permit prut -is
LONDON, Dec. 29. (TP)—America
* soon will see fiery Ellen Wilkenson,
me of the labor party’s most en
ergetic members of parliament.
She is going to the United States
c a a lecture tour and will return in
time for the opening of Parlia
ment February 5.
It is not her first visit to New
York. She has been to America two
times before—but it is the first
Time she has gone on a lecture tour.
She will have a real hustle, as
she is to visit Toronto, Montreal,
^ Boston, Ohio, New York and also
Philadelphia.
During one week-end she has
Tiine lectures. They have even in
vited her to preach in a church
in Ohio.
This will not be her debut in
the pulpit, however, as she is to
ppeak in her brother’s church in
Burnley one Sunday before she is
to leave
WHAT A COAT
LONDON, Dec. 29. f/P)—A man’s
Tur coat so costly that its owner
was afraid to wear it on the
streets is now offered for sale in
The window of a fashionable tail- i
ro’s shop in Seville Row, London’s
masculine shopping center. Appal
led at the magnificence of the coat,
worth $15,000, with the collar of
rare sea otter priced at $5,000 alone,
.) a rich Englishman declined to
Take a chance with it on the street.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY PREPAflES
FOH MORE TOURISTS
SEATTLE, Dec., 29, (^—Oper
ation of three ships on the
Southeastern Alaska run next j
summer instead of two, was an-1
nounced by the Alaska Steam- j
ship Company in anticipation of
a heavy tourist movement.
The liner Alaska will be add
ed to the Alameda and the
Northwestern.
Each will make seven voyages
between Seattle and Skagway,
including Sitka. These voyages
will be nine days and the sched
ule begins June 18.
JOFFRE SINKING
PARIS, Dec., 29, UP)—Marshall
Joffre is losing his battle with
death and has fallen into a state
of e'xtreem weakness. Physicians
issued a bulletin at 3 o'clock des
cribing his condition as most
grave.
GREAT SCANDAL FRANCE
PARIS, Dec.. 29. UP)—A. On
trie, whose financial enterprise
collapse caused a great scandal .
France, was officially charged -wit
fraud and violation of the law gc
dun DON, Dec.. ./;y,
\ ic i i irivi, wit n -1c i" yw n
trifont eel underclothing
an annual Christmas
the Royal Palace.
FOUR DEAD IN FIRE
NEW YORK, Dec.. 29. (/P)-Caus
ed by a defective flue, four per
sons, two of whom were totally
blind, died in an apartment. The
dead are Ernest Morris, 62 years of
age, blind piano tuner, his wife,
Effie, Ernest Dale, nephew, and
George Dailey.
MARRIAGE PROPOSALS
PRAGUE. Dec. 29. UP)—Six thou
sand women proposed marriage to
the Czechoslovakian official execu
tioner after he published inter
views describing how he executed
two murderers. He lost his job
METEOR THOT FALLEN
LEWISTON. Idaho, Dec. 29. UP)—
A mysterious light flashing earth
ward across the northern Idaho
skies that ended in a terrific crash
was being investigated- It is be
lieved that a meteor fell, although
no fragments have been found. It
was seen by hundreds in Boville,
Orofino, Troy, Elk River, Moscow,
and other towns and in Spokane
200 miles away.
QUEER PASENGER
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 29. UP)—
A1 De Garmo, veteran air mail pi
lot, reported here that while fly
ing over the Nevada Desert on his
trip between here and San Fran
cisco that his plane suddenly |
rocked and he found his passeng
er doing stunts on the wing of his
plane. De Garmo landed his craft
immediately, finding an emergenev I
field.
TWELVE PER CENT OF FURS
WERE PRODUCED ON
FARMS
OTTAWA, Dec., 29, (/P)—Wheat
replaced furs as Canada’s most
valuable commodity. The year |
ending June 30, 1929 saw $24,
181 in raw furs exported from
Canada as compared with $93,000
exports in 1850.
The government’s figures re-!
vealed 5,150,000 pelts were mar
keted in Canada during the last I
12 months for which figures of
lowering export were available.
Twelve per cent of the last
year’s fur were produced on fur
farms.
A F RIAL PARTT^PtfttCEli BACK
TO MONTREAL XCOI’NT
SNW STORM
ROYERAL. Quebec, Dec.. 20. (/Pi
—Though They . dO'R'iaC'fl'ed $l|§|3jp|:
at first, two Mon rd Indians
wore satisfied vbth f'AO for di
vulging. the location of the bod
ies'-of W. He Cannon end; Leonce
Lizettee, :filets lost'1 t:4 ' months
ago while carrying supplies to
prospectors.
The Indians capitulated when
the rescue party refused to pay
more. The bodies are lying in
the wreck ge of the plane near
Hoisvert River.
An aerial party took off Sun
day from Montreal but a snow
storm forced them back.
GLACIER SKELETON
IS RARE PIKE WHALE
JUNEAU, Dec., 29. UP)—'The
Forestry service authorized re
vealing a message from the
Smithonian Institute at Wash
ington which pronounced the 42
foot skeleton found near Glacier
Island as a “rare example of a
pike whale.”
At the institute’s request the
skeleton will be shipped to the
United States Museum at Wash
ington.
CAPITOL FIRE
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Dec
29. UP)—Fire of unknow origin
in the state capitol caused some
damage in the office of the gaso
line tax collector and the attorney
general. The building was once
the capitol of the Confederacy in
rhe sixties.
UNEARTH NECKLACE
HAVANA, Dec. 29. UP) — Secret
police unearthed a $50,000 pearl
necklace in a pawnshop here. It
was stolen last year from Mrs.
Catherine Davis Daws of Long Is
land.
WISE VESSEL
EASING AT SEA
WEST 9F FLATTEST
_
SEATTLE, Dec., 29, (£>)—'The I
Coast Guard radio picked up a |
message from the Japanese ves- [
sel Yojin Maru that it had cut j
it’s rudder chain and that it was'
using the hand steering gear.
The seas are rough but no im
mediate aid was asked.
The ship’s position is between;
700 and 800 miles west of Cape j
Flattery. The freighter sailed
from Vancouver, B. C., December
23 for Osaka. There is a crew of j
40 on board.
BELATED METEOR
MOUNT WILSON OBSERVA
TORY, Calif. Dec. 29. (/P)—Astron- \
omers declared that the pheno-:
menon seen in Idaho was a belated |
meteor of the gigantic swarm of |
November meteors.
NO CHANCE ESCAPE
WHITING, Indiana, Dec. 29. (7P)
—Seven men were burned to death t
in a boarding house fire which1
\ i
1 Yt.pprci trie men m bed and
gave them no chance to escape.
POE’S CONCEPTS REVEALED
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29- (tP)— ■
Ecitrr - -i!ten bv Edgar Allen Poe
ay Albert' Einstein, Germ
CHICAGO HERO
CHICAGO, Dec. 29. bPi—Judge
John Lyle, foe of gangsters, an
nounced himself candidate for
mayor in Chicago. He has promis
ed to rid the city of gangs and to
smash alleged alliance between
gangsters and politicians.
APPEAL PROHIBIT SPREAD
MEICO CITY, Dec. 29. (£>)—An
appeal to Mexican Catholics to
combat the spread of Protestant
ism in Mexico was made by Arch
bishop Pascial Y Diaz in a nation
wide Christmas sermon.
PUBLICATION URGED
NEW YORK, Dec. 29. (/P) —The
! quarterly publication by invest
ment trust of their securities port
folios to give stockholders oppor
tunity to check on management
was urged by assistant Attorney
| General Watson Washburn in a
report to State Attorney General
Hamilton Ward.
JUMPS TO DEATH
NEW YORK, Dec. 29. (/Pi—Julian
Winter. 42 year old actor, commit
ted suicide by jumping from the
eight floor of a building on the eve
of the opening of a new play in
which he had a role- He had been
acting queerly recently, his friends
said.
SENTENCE POLITICIANS
MONTE CARLO, Monaco, Dec.
29. (fP)—Seven republicans, accused
of being ringleaders in the violent
protest staged at the recption for
Prince Louis, last week were sen
tenced to from one to eight months
in prison.
HR HELD OP
BT B. S. COURT
WENT INTO COURT HURLING
CHARGES OF FRAUD IN
OFFICIAL RANKS
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Dec., 29,
(£>)—The proposed billion dollar
merger of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation and Y o u n gstown
Sheet Tube Company, was denied
by Judge Davdi E. Jenkins who
granted the minority stockhol
ders an injunction restraining
such a combination.
Judge Jenkins handed down
his decision six months from the
inception of one of the bitterest
legal battles in corporate history.
The struggle for millions was
carried out first with proxies;
then law suits were marshaled
by Cyrus S. Eaton. Cleveland
financier, who went into court
with charges of fraud after a
spectacular battle for proxies.
Judge Jenkins said the Sheet
Tube Corporation did’nt give
adequate information to their
stockholders on the merger whan
they mot last April and approved
’t, IT'* said .r-untor.O' *:rt4T£T!£d
a misleading report to stockhol
ders:!
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. f/P) • -
An estimate that 50.000 prohibition
prisoners are now in the federal
and state jails and the contention
that the federal court congestion
is due solely to national prohibi
tion was made by the Association
Against the Prohibition Amend
ment.
In a statistical attack upon the
dry law the Association issued a
pamphlet asserting it would cost a
hundred million dollars a year to
enforce prohibition adequately, as
suming that jury trials could be ab
olished in such cases. Otherwise it
contended the cost would rise to
three hundred and fifty million,
with an additional twenty million
for the coast guard and the cus
toms service
All persons who have studied the
problem, the association said, agree
that the enormous profits from the
illicit liquor trade are now used to
finance the underworld and to
strengthen the grip of criminal
gangs in communities tiiroughout
the country.
NO FUNDS OR AUTHORITY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (/P) —
Proposed recall of bids for trans
Atlantic air mail service “so they
might be reworded,, was attacked
by Representative Jos. Byron
of the House Appropriations Com
Committee, who declared that the
real reason for the government’s
withdrawing of the offer was that
Postmaster General Brown did not
have the authority to establish
the line nor the funds to pay fa
it.