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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 91.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTO
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SOU OF CAPE
NO BODIES RECOVERED YET;
GRAPPLING IRONS FROM
TUG LOCATE DIRIGIBLE
WASHINGTON. D. C., April 19—
♦ Bits of wreckage of the dirigible
Akron which crlashed on April 4,
were found off the Jersey coast
Tuesday.
Naval officers were preparing to
end a two-weeks search for the
dirigible when Captain Leary, com
manding the searching craft, sent
a message saying: "Believe Akron
found.”
Sixty-seven of the airship’s
crew have not been accounted for.
Captain Leary asked for a light
house tender to bring a buoy to
mark the spot where the wreckage
of the dirigible is believed to lie.
approximately 27 miles south of
Barnegate Light.
MAIN BODY
Grappling irons from the tug
Sagamore encountered “an object
large enough to be .the main body
of the sunken dirigible Akron”,
the tug Captain reported- A mes
sage from the tug to the USS Port
land, which is the flagship of the
searching fleet now in Atlantic
waters, reported that while drag
ging the floor of the ocean off
Barnegate Light it encountered
the supposed wreckage.
Even before dusk they had ample
evidence to back up their belief;
pieces of fabric, a mass of wire, a
long section of duralumin, and
most of the control car
( II HUTS
TO DOLUIR U1
1THDM SENSTE
WASHINGTON, D. C , April 19,—
The Senate currency inflation
bloc abruptly retreated and with
drew two amendments to the farm
bill designed to cheapen the dollar.
Their action came as a surprise
after the vigorous battle they had
waged in the Senate Monday when
they mustered 33 votes in favor
of the 16 to one coinage of silver,
and* were defeated by 10 votes.
Reports have circulated that
President Roosevelt was preparing
to offer his own bill for expansion
0 of the currency. The White House
said these reports were premature
and the President merely is study
ing the situation.
Senators Byrnes and Thomas,
members of the inflation forces,
were summoned to the White House
to discuss the silver question. An
nouncement of the invitation was
made after withdrawal of Thomas’
• reduction of gold content of the
dollar, or coinage of $100,000,000
worth of silver, left the city. Dem
ocratic Leader Robinson, in behalf
of Long, withdrew the amendment.
_A_
liTtST MHEBKB
LONDON, April 19, —A sudden
plunge of the American dollar on
British and European exchanges
was suspected by trained econo
mic observers as being the latest
maneuvers in the protracted dip
lomatic and financial duel between
, the United States and Great Brit
ain.
The duel is based cn three fac
tors it was emphasized, namely,
war debt§* gold standard and
world trads,
The dollar closed at 3.47 1-2 to
the pound sterling after opening
at 3.44 1-2; in Paris it closed at
25.25 after opening at 25.28 francs
to the dollar.
1933 EXCEED 1332
fa If the value of the shipments of
^^merchandise and gold and silver
, iMrom Alaska can be considered a
' /Register for the Territory’s busi
;/-fness, business is beginning to look
, f ^According to the report of Col
» J lector of Customs J. C. McBride,
March, 1933, exoorts for the month
^ourited to $836^64, and exceed
“ch exports for 1932 by $114,815.
>ld valued at $379,492, and
ed salmon worth $224,424,;
the list of Alaska exports for;
MAY CEASE OPERATIONS
BELLINGHAM, Wn,, April 19,
The fish tax bill, now before the
Alaska Territorial Senate, is a blow
| to the salmon industry, Archie
Shiels, president of the American
Pacific Fisheries said, and packers
will be forced to cease operations
in Alaska if the measure becomes
a law, he said.
RETUHN OF NORMAL
TIMES IS NOT FAI!
AWAY, SAYS SCHWAB
NEW YORK, April 19,—Charles
M. Schwab, chairman of the Board
of the Bethlehem Steel Corpora
tion. told the Pennsylvania Society
at its annual luncheon that he
looked “for the return of normal
times not too far away”.
Schwab, in his annual address,
as president of the society, said
he was eager to second the state
ment made by Myron C. Taylor,
chairman of the United States
Steel Corporation, who predicted
an upturn.
“We have reached the bottom
of the worst depression we have
ever experienced in this country,”
he said. “We have builded a firm
er foundation for recovery. Some
times I think we have gone thru
this time without knowing just
what it was. But we will now
have a time of great happiness’.
VIRTUIL DICTITOH.
POWERS GIVEN UNGER
PERKINS LM DILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,—
America’s woman Secretary of
Labor, Frances Perkins, would be
given virtual dictatorial powers
pver production, wages and hours
of work in the nation’s industry
and natural resources, under a bill
she has framed for consideration
today by the House labor commit
Representing as it does Presi
dent Roosevelt’s ideas, it consti
tutes an unprecedented social and
economic venture that surprised
ardent advocates of the “new deal”
as its provisions became known.
Miss Perkins is given power to
control production as Secretary of
Labor and there is no limit to her
authority other than the orders
must be in public welfare; the
means is left ta her.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,—
President Roosevelt has assured in
flationists in Congress he soon will
recommend a method of controlled
currency expansion.
The White House declared the
President was considering the in
flation question, but had not yet
agreed on a definite plan.
Speaker Rainey today said, “We
are going to have some form of
inflation. The President is study
ing it. What form it will take I
don’t know.”
A MERE JAUNT
HONOLULU. April 19,—T h i r t y j
Naval seaplanes were to soar from
Pearl Harbor, near here, at aawn
today for a non-stop flight to Fri
gate Shoals, a tiny United States
possession 500 miles westward. |
Surface craft departed previously;
to form protective links along the
course, as part of preparations
against mishap
BROOKLYN, April 19,—An eye
operation to save the life of two
year-old Helen Vasco, was ordered;
by the Apollate Division of the
Supreme Court, upholding a decis-!
ion of Judge George W. Smyth of'
the Children’s court in Westches-i
ter County.
The parents of Helen had oppos
ed the operation to remove a tumor
that threatened to injure the brain,
declaring they would rather “God
take her” than permit her to live j
with only one eye.
FOUR KILLED CRASH
VALMEYER 111., April 19,—Four
persons were killed when an air
plane crashed in a wheat field five
miles south of here and burst into |
flames. Occupants of the plane
were burned beyond recognition,;
William Schaefer, farmer, said the!
pilot apparently attempted to
make a forced landing because of,
engine trouble.
BUSINESS MEN OF
FOUR lliSKN TOWNS
FORSEE BETTER THE
: SEATTLE, April 19,—J. J. Con
! nors of Juneau. Territorial Demo
! cratio National committeeman, te
! turning from Washington, said
; said President Roosevelt’s new deal
i includes more than a sympathetic
j attitude toward Alaska’s develop
j ment with the resulting gain to
! the entire North Pacific coast.
Mr. Connors will be Alaska’s next
! collector of Customs,
i He said that with lower com
i modity prices, gold has a greater
buying vplue; Alaska prospectors,
who have been inactive for years,
are planning intensive prospecting
campaigns.
i “We also expect better business
conditions generally will create
higher values for fish, furs and
other Alaskan commodities. Busi
nessmen cf Juneau, Fairbanks,
Valdez and Nome forsee better
, trade conditions and are expecting
to share equally in the Nation-wide
Democratic administration’s new
deal
“He said he made recommenda
| tion for Alaska districts and ex
1 peced that the President would
! announce the following nomina
tions of William Holzheimer for
j District Attorney and William T.
j Mahoney for Marshal in the Nome
i district. O D. Cochran, Judge;
1 Hugh O’Neil, attorney; Thomas
' Gaffney, marshal,
i For Valdez, Harry Morton,
Judge; William Whittlesey, district
attorney; C. J. Todd, marshal. For
Fairbanks, J. Harry Pratt for
judge; Ralph Rivers, district attor
ney and Joseph MacDonald, mar
i shal.
PRINCE PASSES
PARIS, April 19,—Prince Zachar
iah Mdvani, former Aide de Camp
to the Czar and father of Prince
Serge Mdvani,. died at a clinic of
uremia and heart disease. He was
65.
RUTH JUDD GRIIIITED
II SECOND REPRIEVE
I
PHOENIX, Ariz., April 19,—'Win
! nie Ruth Judd, condemned to
1 hang Friday for the murder of
' Agnes Ann Leroi, a fellow nurse,
j today was granted a week’s re
; prieve by the Arizona Board of
; Pardons and Paroles.
This was the second reprieve
: granted her. She originally was
scheduled to hang on April 14. but
the Board postponed the execution
until April 21 because the 14th was
Good Friday.
AHORNEY flTJUOO
TRIAL GOT EXCITED
FLORENCE, Ariz., April 19,— J
Winnie Ruth Judd’s sanity hear-j
ing recessed yesterday in an up
roar, after County Attorney Will
C. Truman had announced in open
court that Mrs. Judd’s counsel had
requested a lockup order for the
jury.
E. W. McFarland of Mrs. Judd’s
counsel leaped to his feet. “That;
is the most gross error I ever saw
committed in a court of lawt” hej
declared.
“It is an error,” Judge Green i
said, “but it is done now’’. He in- j
structed the jury to disregard the;
matter. _ !
MOTHER TESTIFIES
FLORENCE, Ariz., April 19,—An
insanity taint was revealed by the
aged mother of Winne Ruth Judd,
who went on record at her daugh
ter's sanity hearing as the basis |
for expert testimony that the slay-1
er is deranged mentally.
Doctor Harry Pinkert, alienist,
declared her behavior aided him
in being convinced of the con
demned woman’s insanity.
FEAR, NOT INSANITY
FLORENCE, Ariz., April 19,—Af
ter .observing Ruth Judd for four
days at the sanity hearing, Doctor
Paul Bowers, phsysciatist, declar
ed he will testify she is sane. He
said she is suffering from a state
of great fear and is thoroughly
frightened.
GUARDED
PHILADELPHIA, Aprl 19,—A po-j
lice guard was thrown around Mit
ten Hall at Temple University
where Frances Perkins, secretary
of labor, was speaking before club
women. The action was taken af
ter letters threatening violence to
Miss Perkins had been turned over
to Assistant Superintendent? of Po
lice Joseph Lestrange.
REP. J. S. MI
RAILROAD MANAGER REFUSED
TO FIX PRICE WILLING PAY
FOR CROSS TIES
JUNEAU, April 19,—The House
under suspension of rules, today
passed a memorial introduced by
Rep. J. S. Hofman of Seward and
was later wired to Washington to
Secretary Ickes, of the Department
of Interior, charging that Col. Otto
F. Ohlson. general manager of the
Alaska Railroad, refused to fix a
price he was willing to pay for
native hemlock ties and declined
to acknowledge telegrams on that
subject sent by Gov. Geo. A. Parks.
Failure to name a price is alleg
ed to have destroyed the credit of
100 men engaged in tie-making on
the railroad. Secretary Ickes was
requested to instruct Colonel Ohl
son to fix a maximum price for
native ties.
COST OF LIVING
Senator Campbell of Anchorage
introduced a Senate memorial
urging President Roosevelt have a
survev made to determine the cost
of living in Alaska and to suspend
wage reductions in the Territory
until that has been done.
Gov. John Troy, arriving from
Washington, said President Roose
velt is sympathetic with Alaska’s
desire for home rule and would be
receptive to a legislation program
to that end. He said Delegate A.
J. Dimond is making a fine im
pression in Congress and elsewhere
in the Capitol and is working hard
to represent Alaska competently.
Governor Troy, after a confer
ence with Mr. Parks and members
of the legislature, announced he
would take office at 10 a. m. to
day before a joint session of the
Legislature. He said no immedi
ate change was contemplated in
the personnel of the office.
Senator DeVane, who* brought
his notorial seal here from Ruby,
will administer the oath 'to Mr.
Troy.
TROY TAKES OATH
JUNEAU, April 19,—Before a
packed gallery in the House, John
Troy became Governor of Alaska.
The oath of office was administer
ed by Senator DeVane. Former
Gov. Geo. A. Parks, was the first
to congratulate Governor Troy and
wishing him success. A general
reception for the new Governor
followed after which Governor
Troy was taken to the executive
offices to begin his duties.
FOR POOR RELIEF
ST. PAUL, April 19,—The Senate
passed the bill authorizing $1,500,
000 poor relief for the next two
years and sent it to the House.
This is the measure the Governor
referred to when he threatened
to declare martial law and confis
cate wealth unless the needy was
provided for. _
FXSHIONRBLE EISTEB .
PH ON FIFTH
(VENUE HEW FORK
NEW YORK, April 19,—Various
shaped hats, many of which defied
description, rode on thousands of
heads up and down Fifth Avenue
last Sunday in New York’s annual
Easter paradfi.
The eccentricity of Springtime
headgear seemed to dominate the
situation as the heads who live in
palatial homes marched with, and
exchanged stares with ladies who
live in hall bedrooms.
The tendency seems to be to
wear the hat in a forward position,
yet. at the same time leaving much
of the hair showing.
Other general impressions gath
ered by a casual wanderer on Fifth
Avenue, are, that about three
fourths of all costumes are blue,
that puffed shoulders are due to
sweep the nation, and that there
is a tendency to wear coats re
sembling dresses. _
VIOLENCE MINE AREA
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O., April 19,—
A house was bombed, two miners
were beaten and three others were
arrested as violence broke out in
the Eastern Ohio mine area.
Deputy sheriffs and National guard
observers patrolled the town.
INTERRUPTS SEARCH
COLOM BECHER, Algeria, April
19,—A violent sand storm over the
Sahara Desert interrupted search
for Captain William H. Lancaster,
British flyer. Captain Lancaster
has been missing six days on a
projected flight from London to
Cape Town.
UFE SENTENCE
SEATTLE, April 19,—Marcelino
Julian, Filipino, who on Thanks
giving Day killed six, was sentenc
ed to life. Motion for a new trial
was denied.
ifl
PEIPING China April 19 —The
lives of 200 American high school
pupils and teachers were endan
gered Tuesday when Japanese
bombing planes bombed Tungchow,
! just outside of Peiping,
j Bombs landed near the board
' ing school, reports to the author
i ities declared. Pupils are sent to
the Tungchow boarding school
from all over China.by American
parents stationed in the Orient
for preparatory training for col
leges in the United States.
No casualties were reported.;
Nevertheless the bombing aroused
foreigners to a new pitch of in- >
dignation as the Japanese advance
moved southward below the Great1
I Wall.
United States Minister Nelson
Johnson said he was considering
further protective measures in
event the air raids continued.
THREE REASONS GIVEN
FOR THINNING RANKS
OP AMATEUR ATHLETES
BUFFALO, N. Y., Aprl 19, —The
movies, marriage and professional
activities, have thinned out the
ranks of America’s outstanding
amateur women swmmers but the
National A. A. U., championships,
now under way, are expected to
develop at least two worthy suc
cessors.
Such stars as Helene Madison,
free style queen; Georgia Coleman,
high board fancy diver, and Elean
or Holm, back-stroke champion,
are missing but in their place will
be Florida’s one girl swimming
team, Miss Katherine Rawls, and
nine-year old Mary Hoerger.
Miss Rawles hopes to win three
if not four of the tites. Mary
is only going to try for the 10-foot
swing board diving.
BEST IN WORLD
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19 —
Commander Ralph D. Weyerbacher!
Navy Department airship expert,!
testified before a Naval court of
inquiry that the dirigible Akron
was better built and constructed
of finer materials than any simi
lar airship in the world.
EMBARGO ON RUSSIAN
GOODS BY ENGLAND
LONDON, April 19,—Great Brit-!
ain will place an embargo on Rus
sian goods today in official retalia
tion for the prison sentences or
dered yesterday for William Henry
Thornton and William Lionel Mac
Donald, found guilty of espoinage,
bribing and sabotage by a Soviet
court.
The embargo will be issued by
proclamation at an extraordinary
meeting of the Privy Council, hur
riedly summoned to meet at Wind
sor Castle this morning, where the
sanction of King George to the em
bargo will be given.
National League
New York 3, Phillies 2.
Chicago 3, Pittsburgh 1.
All other games rained out.
American League
New York 2, Philadelphia 1,
Boston 6, Washington 4.
Chicago 12, Detroit 0.
St. Louis 1, Cleveland 0.
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 3, Porland 4.
Missions 16, Seattle 2.
Sacramento 17, Los Angeles 7.
Oakland 9, San Francisco 5.
GOLD PURCHASE
LONDON, April 19,—The largest
single day’s purchase of gold, to
taling 4,000,000 pounds sterling, in
bar gold, since the suspension of
the gold standard, was made by
the Bank of England.
The operation was understood to
be designed to check the rise of
the pound by the purchase of gold
standard currencies, such as; the
dollar and franc, and the impend
ing repurchase of gold
SOU TRIBUNAL
SENSATIONAL INTERNATIONAL
i TRIAL ENDED: PRISONERS
hurried away court
MOSCOW, April 19. —Five Brit
ish subjects were convicted of
sabotage, espionage and bribery by
a Soviet revolutionary tribunal;
two were given mild sentences
and three were ordered expelled
from the country. A sixth was ac
quitted.
The maximum penalty for con
viction on the charges was death
before a firing squad.
William Thornton, second in
charge of the Metropolitan-Vick
ers electric company operations in
the Soviet Union, was sentenced to
three years imprisonment- William
MacDonald, technical expert, was
given two years in prison; Allan
Monkhouse, chief of the organiza
tion in Russia, John Cushny and
Charles Nordwall, engineers, were
ordered deported from the country.
RUSSIANS SENTENCED
A. W. Gregory construction en
gineer who played only a small
part in the- trial, was acquitted^
and released. Ten of the 11 Rus
sians on trial on similar charges
were sentenced to prison on vary
ing sentences from one and a half
years to 10.
Ivan Zivert was acquitted and
released. The woman defendant,
Anna Kutuzova, was sentenced to
one and one-half years. There are
no death penalties.
Analyzing activities of the Brit
ons, the verdict declared that
Thornton was the chief organizer
and inspiration for the espionage
and other crimes. It was declared
that Monkhouse was aware of
Thornton’s activities and that he
participated in the bribery but
had not actually participated in
the sabotage crimes.
Reading of the verdict ended at
1.20 a. m. and the convicted Brit
ons and Russians were hurried off
to Liubianka prison in motor cars.
The three men expelled w’ill not be
permitted to return to Russia for
five years. They were ordered to
leave Russia within three days.
FORMER SCI OF
LOS ANGELES, April 19,—Accus
ed of grand theft, forgery and
being a fugitive from justice, Dan
ridge H. Bibb, member of a once
prominent San Francisco family,
was in jail here following his se
cret arrest in Tucson, Ariz.
Bibb was apprehended on com
plaint of J. W. Hopkins, jeweler,
that Bibb had tendered him a
worthless check on an Alaskan
bank in payment for a $5,800 dia
mond ring.
Seai’ch af Bibb’s person revealed
$63,000 worth of bonds and certifi
cates, all said to have been stolen
in a (New York robbery 18 months
ago.
Bibb claimed he won the securi
ties in a gambling game, but re
fused to say where. He added he
believed the Alaskan check was
good. The accused man had pur
chased a ticket for Mexico City
when placed under arrest.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,—
A rampant bloc forced House
Democratic chieftains to abandon
their bold attempt to amend the
Chamber’s rules to give virtually
absolute power to the leadership.
The decision was announced by
Majority Leader Byrns, who said
the proposed changes in the rules
“ would not be pressed at .the pres
ent time.” He described the action
as a sort of stragetic move made
in the interests of complete party
harmony.
. COMMUTED
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 19,—
Gov. Henry Horner commuted to
life imprisonment the death sen
tence of Russell. McWilliams, boy
slayer, who was to have been elec
trocuted at Joliet shortly after
midnight Thursday.
It was the third time young Mc
Williams who shot and killed Wil
iam S. Sayles, motorman, in a
streetcar holdup in Rockford, when
the slayer was 16, had been saved*
from death.