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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 124. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
NATIONAL DEBT BE !
INCREASED TO HALF
BILLION JUNE 30
WHITE HOUSE ISSUES STATE
MENT ATTRIBUTING CAUSE j
OF DEBT INCREASE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 3J
■TP)—The administration expects
the national debt will be increased
by $500,000,000 and the Treasury
deficit to total $950,000,000 at the j
close of the fiscal year June 30. |
This financial condition is at- j
cributed. according to the White
House statement, to business de-1
pression and decline of Treasury I
receipts from taxes and customs,
caused it was said, by the econ- ,
cmic situation and unusual ex
penditures for constructions, agri
cultural relief and veterans serv
ices amounting to more than half
a billion in excess of those of the
last fiscal year.
These placed an unusual drain
upon the Treasury. Secretary
Hyde informed President Hoover
that the Agriculture Department
would save $11,000,000 this year:
and $20,000,000 next year from
unused relief funds.
SEWARD, PACIFIC HOP
■4
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 4.
Colonel C. A. Lindbergh leaves
•vithin a month, flying to the Far
East, making the trip by air across
*he North Pacific. Mrs. Lindbergh
•vill accompany him.
The exact date of their depart
ure is undetermined.
The State Department is asking
:he Japanese and Chinese govern
ments' permission to land on the
water.
The trip does not call for long
..ops. His Lockheed monoplane
vill be equipped with pontoons
,.nd fueling arrangements at nec
essary points will be made.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., June 4.
-P)—The submarine Nautilus, re
^ onditioned and equipped with
:.n odd looking trolley, designed to
_st against Arctic ice, is off for
Cape Cod for final tests before
'tarting its under-ice conquest of
x :he North Pole.
Captain Wilkins and a group of
scientists aboard will nose into the
Atlantic in a day or two bound
:or England thence to the north.
DAMAGE SUIT DISMISSED
NEW YORK, June 3. (A*)—The
Johannes Adler’s $5,000 damage
suit against Frieda Hempel, for
mer Metropolitan Opera singer,
was dismissed without a hearing
of defense testimony. The former
Berlin voice teacher claimed the
singer had induced him to come
to Amrica on unfilled promise to
iind him pupils.
HALIBUT QUOTATIONS
PRINCE RUPERT, June 4. (JP) —
Halibut totaling 71,000 pounds on
the American market brought 7
an dsevn-tenths to 4 cents and on
the Canadian exchange 6 and one
tenth cent to 3 cents. In Seattle
fiv vssls with a catch of 33,500 lbs.,
received 11 and a quarter cents to j
six cents.
CONVICTED MURDER
NEW YORK, June 4. (£>)—Ru- !
dolph Duringer, 25, a truck driver, j
was convicted of murder in the |
first degree in the killing of Vir
ginia Brannen, dance hall hostess.j
PHILANTHROPIST DIES
OYSTER BAY, N. Y., June 4.
(TP)—Mortimer Schiff, 54, banker
and philanthropist, died of a heart
attack. He was a member of the
Kuhn-Loeb Company, the New
York Stock Exchange and presi-'
dent of the Boy Scouts of America.;
SIGNS AS COACH
PULLMAN, Wash., June 4. (A5)—
Lyle Maskell, brilliant end on the |
Washington State college 1931 Pa
cific Coast conference champion-;
ship football team, has signed a
contract to coach athletics at a
high school in Sedro-Woolley, j
Wash., next year.
EXPLORER TO COACH
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4. (/P)—!
When Kenneth “Red” Chisholm
finishes his summer work with
Father Bernard Hubbard in ex- i
ploring Aniakchak volcano in Al
aska he’ll come back here as back
field coach of the San Francisco
university football squad.
SCIENTISTS HONORED
BRUSSELS, June 3. (JP)— King
Albert conferred the coveted honor
of Commander of the Order of
Leopold upon Professor Auguste
Piccard and the rank of Knight
in the same order upon his as
sistant, Dr. Kipfer, for the feat
of sailing 12,000 feet higher into
the air than man had ever
reached.
FIRST RIDE IN TWO YEARS
LONDON, June 3. (/P)—King
George went for a horseback ride
in Hyde Park. It was the first
time he had been astride a horse
since his serious illness two years
ago. He was accompanied only
by his equirry, Colonel Erskine.
400 MILES AN HOUR FOR PLANES
GRUGL TRYOL, Austria, June
3. (/P>—Frof. Auguste Piccard and
Dr. Charles Kipfer, who reached a
height of 10 miles above the earth
in a hermjtrically sealed cabin
attached to a balloon, predicted a
speed of 400 miles an hour in
hermetrically sealed planes flying
at that height above the earth.
PARIS-LONDON AIR FREIGHT
CROYDON, June 4, (/P)—Nightly
freight express air service between
here and Paris has been inaugurat
ed, the volume of additional traffic
justifying the experiment which
will be continued indefinitely.
A number of boats were in port
' today and included the S. S. Starr,
' Rolph I, B. F. M., Foremost, Arrow,
| Leviathan, Sunde, Sunset, Redwing,
[Marian, Roy, Bill and Helldiver.
THREE SECRET INDICTMENTS
RETURNED WEDNESDAY,
SAYS DISPATCH
VALDEZ, June 4, (Special to
I The Gateway)—The grand jury
| was discharged yesterday, Wednes
day, after bringing in 21 indict
ments, as follows:
Jimmie Michaelson and Cecil
Barnes for assault with a dan
gerous weapon; William Jackson,
Thomas Soames, Harold Libby,
Frank Cunningham and wife;
Ernest Michaelson, Alice Johnson,
Gordon Selmyhr and A. B. Haynes
for violations of the liquor law;
William Hill for larceny; George
1 Toleas, F. W. Jenkins and Ray
, mon Jenkins, game law violations;
Wixtrom and Donohue, Clarence
Marsh and Gordon Wilson, bur
glary; Charles Dennison, rape;
Ernes Michaelson, bribery,
i Three secret indictments were
! brought in at 2 p. m. Wednesday
which may be in connection with
the seizure of beaver skins on
! the SS Starr at Seattle.
Not true bills returned were: !
Anastacia Cortez, Fred Ander- j
son, William Jackson^. R. J.!
Johns, C. C. Arnold, Tim Maxim, |
Clarence Marsh, Gordon Wilson, j
Simeon Gerishemoff. The latter:
had been bound over from Unga
on murder charges; Jimmie Mich- t
aelson of simple assault.
Wixtrom and Donohue are on
trial today. .
ADMINISTRATION HAS INFLICT
ED GREAT PUNISHMENT;
DEPRESSION
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3. (JP) ;
—Acceptance by the Democratic
party of the Smoot-Hawley tariff,
I act as a definite issue in the 1932
campaign appeared likely as ad
ministration officials continued >
silent on the new Canadian tariff:
increases.
Chairman Shousc predicted his
I party would accept the tariff as
an issue charging the administra- t
tion with responsibility for “pro
longing the present business de
pression through the Smoot-Haw
ley act. The administration could
not have inflicted greater punish
ment on American business had
it deliberately sought to alienate
it’s best customer.”
He referred to Canada.
i
; SHRIMP MEAL GOOD FOR HENS
; BATON ROUGE, La., June 4. j
(JP)—F e e d i n g experimets using j
shrimp meal as a supplement in I
poultry feed, conducted by the
Louisiana State University exper- j
iment station, have shown that i
the meal lowers cost of rations,
increases egg production, increases
feed consumption and decreases
mortality.
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES
“PROTECTOR” NORTHBOUND
KETCHIKAN, June 4. (/P) — En
dorsing the idea of Stewart Ed
ward White, the Ketchikan Cham
ber of Commerce today prepared
work for a national park in South
eastern Alaska. Author White ad
! dressed the Chamber before con
tinuing northward on his yacht
| cruise. i
DO-X DOWN AGAIN
PORTO PRAIA, Cape Verde Is
land, June 4. <iP)—The great Ger
man seaplane DO-X took off from
the harbor after a series of unsuc
cessful attempts to leave the wa
ter and resumed it’s long delayed
flight to Braizl. It made a forced
descent 60 miles out in the ocean
and a tug was dispatched to it’s
assistance.
NAMES HIS CHOICE
MANCHESTER, Mass., June 4. j
(JP)—Colonel House, political ad- j
viser of President Wilson, declared
preference for F'ranklin D. Roose- j
velt as the Democratic party’s
next presidential candidate, de
scribing him as the “most able
and available candidate.”
TRY GRAYLINGS AGAIN
YOSEMITE, Cal., June 4. UP)—!
Grayling, a cold water game fish, j
native of Alaskan, Michigan and,
Montana waters, are being planted I
in this region in the second at
tempt to rear them for coast
sportsmen. The first, made two
years ago. failed on account of
the dryness of the year.
REFORM BILL
LONDON, June 4. (/P) — The el-j
ection reform bill which seeks to
revolutionize the British election1
system by adopting a method of al
ternative voting, passed on its third
reading in the House of Commons, j
870,000,000 GOLD IMPORT
NEW YORK, June 3. (/P)—The
largest gold imports in four years
reached the port of New York
during May. They aggregated
nearly $70,000,000.
POTATOES IN PACKAGES
NEW YORK, June 4. (/P)—News
paper advertising was used to
introduce to Gotham a big potato .
from Idaho which is appearing in j
cartons, 15 pounds to the sealed ;
package.
KAISER DISCHARGED
MADRID, June 4. </P)—Eleven '
years after his abdication as Em
peror of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm
has been discharged from the
Spanish army. He held the title
of honorary colonel.
HELENE BIG ATTRACTION
SEATTLE, June 4. (JP)—Ten I
thousand persons watched Helene
Madison, Seattle’s great girl swim
mer, perform on her rcent tour of
the United States and Canada.
The largest crowds were at Vir
ginia, Minn., and Hamilton, Ont.
NEW STATION IN CHINA
NANKING, June 4. (JP)—The min
istry of communications of the
Chinese government has ordered
the construction of a radio sta
tion at Shasi, Yangtse river port
between Hankow and Ichang.
CIPT.« WHO
IHMJ OEEH
TERRITORY. DIES
BROUGHT FIRST HERD ACROSS
BERING SEA IN
1895
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4. (/P)
—Captain Conrad Siem, 65, large
ly responsible for bringing Russian
reindeer to destitute Alaskans
more than 30 $ears ago, died Sat
urday.
His ashes were passed out at
sea yesterday as friends scattered
them over tha Potomac River at
his request made on the death
bed.
Captain Siem came from Cx
many and went to Barrow where
he saw the meat supply vanish
with the wholesale slaughter of
seals, walruses and sea otters by
fur hunters.
He suggested that the reindeer
of Siberia be introduced and Con
gress commissioned him to bring
138 head across Bering Sea. This
was accomplished in 1895, marking
the arrival of the first herd.
He had lived here for several
years.
NIGHT CLUB BEAMS
SLIP OUT SACK DOOH
HAVRE, France, June 4. (JP) —
Three members of “Texas” Guinan’s
gang of beauties slipped out of a
hotel where they w'ere being detain
ed and the night club queen and
immigration officials were thrown
into the biggest flurry since the
day the New York entertainers
were stopped on their way to Paris.
A Texas cotton merchant is said
to have aided in the escape of the
girls who were due to leave France
today for the United States.
Whether they were found or not,
the decision of the immigration of
ficers was to stand and Miss Guin
an must start back with what ever
members of her gang are left in
Havre when her ship sails.
JERUSALEM, June 4. ,/P,— For
mer King Hussein of Hedja died
[ at Amman, Transjordia, after a
long illness.
Three sons were at the bedside.
Another King, Feisal of Irak, was
unable to come from Bogdad.
King Hussein was appointed.
Sherif of Hedja in 1908 and be
came King a few years later. Fail
ure from th Arab federation led
to his abdication in October 1924.
PERSHING WAS GUEST
PARIS, June 4. (JP) —General J.
Pershing was the guest of presi
dent-elect Doumer and Mm. Dou
mr, at the Little Luxumbourg Pa
lace. Ambassador Edge, Minister of
War Maginot,Henry Behrenger, for
mer French ambassador to the U.
S., General Weygand and General
Gouraud also were present.