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VOLUME XXVIII NUMBER 89.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1932
PRICE TEN CENTS
THREE VETERANS OF
Porter Berryhill, newly appoint
ed chief engineer of the Alaska
Railroad, joins the system with a
long and splendid record behind
him, particularly with the North
ern Pacific on which road he served
for more than 20 years as a mem
ber of the engineering staff. Mr.
Berryhill. as was announced yes
terday, succeeds the late C. H
Holmes.
Simultaneously .with announce
ment of his new assistant, General
Manager Otto F. Ohlson stated
George W. Colwell, veteran member
of his staff, roadmaster of the
southern division for many years,
has been elevated to the position of
General Roadmaster of the entire
system with headquarters at An
chorage. Mr. Colwell will move at
once from Tunnel to Anchorage.
In the past, there has been three
districts on the system; these have
been restricted to two: District No.
1 embraces the Seward-Curry sec
tion, and District No. 2 extends
from Curry to Fairbanks.
B. C. Johnson has been named
roadmaster of District No. 1, with
headquarters at Anchorage, not
Tunnel.
Neil McDevitt is named road
master of District No. 2, with head
quarters at Healy.
Owing to the protests from In
terior communities against the in
creasing number of new arrivals
looking for work, many of whom
have, and are “beating” their way
via freight and passenger trains,
and also on account of the in
creased petty larceny along the
rail belt, Walter G. Culver, former
special agent for the railroad, is
back on the job.
TWO NAVY PLANES
WILL FLY TO SEWARD
SEATTLE. April 16- (/P)—Secrets
of the freak winds in the Kodiak
Island region will be studied by the
Naval party, headed by Lieutenant
Robert H. Harrell, aboard the USS
Gannet which leaves here next
week with two Navy planes which
will fly from there to Seward.
At Seward the planes will be
loaded on the Gannet and taken to
Chignik Bay where observatants
will be centered. Part of the equip
ment will test currents with spe
cially made kites in addition to the
planes. The winds have been trou
blesome to small craft.
CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE
NEW YORK, April 16. —Jimmy
Johnson, director of Madison
Square Garden, announced that
the world’s heavyweight champion,
Max Schmeling and “Sailor” Jack
Sharkey will begin training May 11
for their battle June 16. The
champ is now on a tour and Shar
key is marking time.
MORE JOBS FOR THE NEEDY
LOS ANGELES, April 16. — The
president of the Los Angeles Cham
ber of Commerce announced Fri
day plans for immediate construc
tion of a $150,000 ginger ale plant.
Several hundred jobs will be open- ,
ed up for a period of at least three
months.
G. O. P. CONVENTION
CHICAGO, April 16. (/P) — The
Republican Convention arrange
ments committee meets here today.
Senator L. J. Dickinson of Iowa has
been agreed upon for the keynote
speaker. Representative Bertrand
H. Snell of New York is conceded
the choice for permanent chair
man.
MAKES SUGGESTION
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 16.—
Representative Cochrane of Mis
souri made a suggestion to the
House Friday that 2.75 per cent
beer be legalized and taxes accru
ing therefrom be used to pay the
soldeirs’ bonus.
BETTER STANDARD LIVING
j MOSCOW, April 16-—The stand
j ra d of living of the Russian people
' will be raised from 200 to 300 per
cent by 1937 if the second five-year
plan is fully carried out. In the
discussions and resolutions of the
new plan, this is the one fact which
more than any other fixes the at
tention of the average Russian.
STOCK EXCHANGE TAX
DECURES WHITNEY
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 16.—
A further tax on stock exchange
transactions would be ruinous to
American business and would do
much to create a general panic.
This is what Richard Whitney,
president of the New York Stock
Exchange, has to say in regard to
the proposed tax measure which
would be levied on stock market
business deals. Whitney said that
such a tax would so reduce stock
business that the market would
undoubtedly have to close and
I would greatly affect the banks of
! the country.
j He further said that a Canadian
exchange was being thought of to
compete with the New York ex
change owing to more favorable
! conditions in that country.
Whitney is appearing before the
Senate Banking Committee in a
i probe of the New York Stock Ex
! change.
JUNEAU omn
PROTESTS ROAD CHANGE
JUNEAU, April 16. (£>) — The
Chamber of Commerce disapproved
the transfer of activities of the Al
aska Road Commission to the In
terior Department and prepared a
protest to be wired to Washington.
The organization declared such
a transfer would not result in econ
omy and would cause partial or
total abandonment of the road sys
tem.
The Territorial Chamber of
Commerce will also take the same
action, believing the War Depart
ment is best fitted to continue op
eration..
MEXICO CITY, April 16.—Devel
opment of Mexico’s lagging petrol
eum industry is to be encouraged
by the Department of Industry.
The program includes amending
the present oil law so as to grant
exploitation concessions to the
same concerns which have secured
exploitation permits whenever
those companies discovered oil and
the rushing through of all pending
applications for exploitation per
mits and supporting all measures
to reduce both internal and export
taxation on pertoleum.
LEAVE FOR EAST
SACRAMENTO, April 16. — Gov.
James J- Rolph will leave here next!
Friday enroute to Richmond, Va., I
where he will attend a conference j
of Governors from the various!
States. An acting Governor for |
California has been named.
NO DYNAMITE USED
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 16.— !
Four high explosives experts, in- j
vestigating the cause of the explo
sion which wrecked the $6,000,000
new State building and caused the
death of eight persons and the in- J
jury of scores of others, said that
they found no traces that dyna
mite or other high explosives had j
been used to destroy the building, i
TRIAL DELAYED
HONOLULU. April 16.—Illness of j
Clarence Darrow, chief counsel of!
the defense in the murder trial of j
Mrs- Grace Fortescue and three j
Naval co-defendants, has caused i
another delay in the trial. Judge
Davis, presiding, announced that
the trial would be resumed again
Monday. !
MURDERERS OF AGED
FARMER PAY SUPREME
PENALTY FOR CRIME
WALLA WALLA, April 16. (&)—
Harold Carpenter, 30, and Walter
I Dubuc, 19, were hanged here short
ly after midnight this morning for
the murder of Peter Jacobsen, 86
year-old farmer, near Olympia last
July.
This was the first double hang
ing in the history of Washington.
Mrs. Ethel Willis, 26, cousin of
Dubuc, and the mother of two
children, was also convicted of first
degree murder for the killing of
Jacobsen but she was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Petitions containing the signa
tures of more than 6,000 persons
asking for commutation to life im
prisonment of Dubuc’s sentence
were presented to Governor Roland
H. Hartley. The Governor did not
heed the petitions.
Robbery was the motive for the
killing of Jacobsen. The perpetra
tors of the murder got only three
dollars.
I THREE GANGSTERS SHOT
AND KILLED IN ILLINOIS
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., April 16.
(/P)—Three gangsters were shot to
death in the Madison suburb here
as they were enroute from Chicago
to St. Louis.
One of the gangsters was Tommy
Hayes, the leader of the “Cuckoo
Gang” whose war with the “Russo”
gang accounted for 20 deaths. The
other two gangsters were Willie
Wilbert and Harry “Pretty Boy”
Lechler.
Hayes’ body was found beside an
expensive automobile some dis
tance from the other two who were
found on the road. Hayes had ap
parently attempted to escape.
STEM lUSKI LEFT
SEATTLE FOR NORTH
WITH n PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, April 16, (&)—The SS
Alaska, of the Alaska Steamship Co.
sailed at 9 o‘clock this morning for
Alaska with 268 passengers listed of
which the following are booked for
Seward:t
L. L. Fillmore, James Hagan, T.
G. Koven, Allen Carpe, J. S- Dillon,
Mrs. C. V. King and two daughters,
Mr. and Mrs. D. McClefferty, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Olson, H. W- Abby, J.
F. Mohr, Bill Strandberg.
D. A. Rinne, Dan Ohman, Peter
Boline, D. D. Marlin, John Cook, D.
Clark, Earl Monohan, H. I. Miller,
Mrs. H. I. Miller, A. L. Russelman,
L. Best, Allen McDaniels, A. T. Me
Pherson, Mrs. Nora D. Moore.
Carl Omun, T. Anderson, Miss D.
Furrell, George Hedemark, A. Gul
atte, Tony Lindstrom, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Ohman, F. M. Wassing, H. C.
Bassett, E. Anderson, K. B. Edward,
L. Sanot, I. M. Fisher, Dr. F. Gilles
pie, Mrs. Gillespie and daughter, E.
P. Beckworth, and 41 steerage.
extension service
The Extension Service of the Al
aska Agricultural College and
School of Mines will conduct a
summer camp at the College from .
June 13 to June 33 for homemak
ers who desire an inexpensive sum
mer vacation. Women attending
may reside at the dormitory and
obtain their meals and room there
at the rate of $20 for 10 days.
Those who wish to live in Fair- e
banks may make their own ar- 1
rangements for board and room <
and provide their owm transporta- t
tion to the College. The purpose ]
of the camp is recreational as well i
as educational, hence attendance ;
at classes and lectures is entirely i
optional and each one may adjust i
her daily schedule to her own par- i
ticular interests. ^
A total of 12,600 passengers used
the Columbus , O., municipal air
port in 1931.
PRESIDENT WILL NOT
PAY VISIT TO PACIFIC
COAST AS PLANNED
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16
President Herbert Hoover will con
duct his campaign for reelection
this year from Washington, D. C.,
headquarters. He had originally
planned a visit to the Pacific Coast
and California and was to take in
the Olympic Games in Los Angeles
in July.
All this, however, seems to be off
now as the Chief Executive has
made known that he does not in
tend to make the trip. It is pointed’
out that should he visit the Pacific
Coast, he would be called upon to
make a number of speeches in the
various cities and that this would
leave him open to a number of
embarassing questions on the part
of his political opponents.
Hoover has not visited California,
his home State, since he took over
his Presidential duties.
ESCAPED CONVICTS WERE
CAPTURED NEAR AUBURN
SEATTLE, April 16. (/P)—Chester
Duckwitz, Seattle high school ath
lete, Wallace Posey and Charles
Cotter, who escaped from the Mon
roe reformatory last Sunday, were
captured at an automobile camp
Thursday night near Auburn.
Cotter was dressed as a woman,
when the three drove up in the
automobile which they had stolen
the day they escaped. The trio
was surrounded by a posse and
there was no possible way for them
to escape.
They will now be prosecuted for
their kidnapping of the auto driver.
BASEBALL RESULTS
NATIONAL
Philadelphia 7, New York 6.
Chicago 8, Cincinnati 2.
Brooklyn 8, Boston 2.
Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 4.
AMERICAN
St. Louis 3, Chicago 4.
Detroit 3, Cleveland 2.
Washington 2, Boston 0.
Philadelphia 9, New York 8.
PACIFIC COAST
Oakland 7, Seattle 6.
Los Angeles 7, Hollywood 0.
Portland 10, Sacramento 2.
MORE MINE KILLINGS
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, April 16.
—Trouble among striking miners
has resulted in further casualties
here, two men having been shot
Friday, one fatally. Another miner
was killed earlier in the week. The
National Guard is patrolling the
area.
DIED OF HEART TROUBLE
SARATOGA, Fla., April 16.—De
tective William J. Burns, head and
founder of the detective agency
bearing his name, who died the
other day, passed away due to a
heart attack. He was 72 years of
age.
U. S. DETROYER IS REFUGE
AMOY, China, April 16. (JP)—The
U. S. destroyer Smith-Thompson |
arrived to protect Americans from'
:he advancing Red Army. Mission
aries took refuge on Kulangsu Is
and. Chinese military authorities
announced 2,000 Chinese commun
>tis have been slain.
FRIENDLY CALIFORNIA
Alaska is receiving much favor
ble publicity in San Francisco thru
he Golden Gate’s Chamber of
Commerce excursion to the Terri
ory. leaving San Francisco July 28.
n every mail The Gateway is the
ecipient of marked copies of daily
md trade papers, in which the key
lote message seems to be “Califor
lians will participate in the mis- j
ion of personally delivering a mes- j
age of good will to our neighbors j
n Alaska.” I
Mining is second among the fun
lamental industries of the nation.
DARROW IS BETTER
HONOLULU, April 16. (A1)—Attor
ney Clarence Darrow is much bet
ter after an attack of indigestion
causing postponement of the “hon
or slaying” trial yesterday. Lieu
tenant Massie returns to the stand
today.
UNQmllMS
BEEN SHOWN AMERICAN
BUSINESS PAST WEEK
WASHINGTON, D. G, April 16.—
President Hoover, in a statement
issued Friday, said undue pessim
ism had been shown by American
business during the past week. He
insisted that there were at least a
dozen favorable factors working to
create a more optimistic feeling
and to hasten the return of pros
perity.
Hoover added that a five-day
week appeared eminent in both the
Federal government as well as in
several of the major industries.
This, because the present govern
ment retrenchment ^program is so
much larger than any other similar
economy measure undertaken by
any government and the resultant
cut in Federal appropriations, will
result in many thousands of em
ployees being left jobless.
The only solution to this feature
is the five-day week basis, under
which this extra burden of jobless
could be absorbed in the various
branches of the departments.
H ZEILMO TROUBLES
CONTINUE WITH ITS
AUKLAND, N. Z., April 16.—
Flames were rising from two
churches which have been set afire
by mobsters who continued their
rioting and looting of stores here.
The streets are practically littered
with discarded loot and the plate
glass windows of many stores have
been broken.
The mob first began demonstra
tions Thursday but renewed their
activities Friday with a result that
blue-jackets had to again be rush
ed into the city. Territorial police
also are now in the city and ap
parently have the situation under
control.
Forty of the mob leaders have
been arrested while at least 300
persons are in hospitals receiving
treatment for their injuries.
RADIUM ORE DISCOVERY
OTTAWA, Ont-, April 16.—Owing
to the recent discovery of vast
quantities of radium ore in some
section of Canada, governmental
operation measures are now being
considered. Radium is a necessary
element in the curing of certain
diseases and it is felt that should
private interests get hold of this
find, they would exploit it to the
utmost.
EARTHQUAKE IN CUBA
SANTIAGO, Cuba, April 16 —
This city was again visited by an
earthquake Friday afternoon and
the inhabitants, expecting the
quake would be as disastrous as
previous quakes, rushed out into
the streets to avoid being inside
their homes in the event that they
should collapse. However, the
shocks were not severe and no
damage has been reported so far.
MESSENGER ROBBED
DALLAS, Texas, April 16.—John
S. Gollas, bank messenger, was
robbed of $38,000 he was carrying
Friday during broad daylight. The
bandit, thought to be a Dallas man
because of his familiarity with Dal
las streets and distances, is being j
hunted by police and private de- I
tectives.
U. S. LEADS IN TRADE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16.—
Figures disclosed here Friday by
the Commerce Department reveal
that the United States lead all the
rest of the world in foreign trade
for last year. Germany was second
and Great Britain third. Ger
many’s lead over Britain was a sur
prise to many.
i LINDV IS IRKING ON
SWINDLE PROOf FUN
: TO PIT OFF KIDNAPPERS
j ___
NORFOLK, Va., April 16. </P)—
Today marks the 46th day since
the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped.
Admiral Burrage revealed John H
Curtis, back from a secret mission,
made at least one contact with the
supposed kidnappers.
Colonel Swartzkopf, of the New
Jersey State Police, announced
Major Charles H. Schoeffel, dep
uty superintendent of the New Jer
sey police, had been ordered to re
turn to the United States. Schoef
fel went to Europe, it was said, to
interview the mother of Betty Gow,
the Lindbergh’s nurse, in connec
tion with the case. He was also to
investigate certain other phases of
the kidnapping case which have
not been disclosed. Nothing was
made known as to the success of
Schoeffel’s trip.
The insistence of John Curtis,
Norfolk intermediary, and the con
tinued working, on the case by Dr.
John H. Condon, retired univer
sity principle, indicates that they
are both dealing with the same
gang.
Meanwhile, the case is beginning
to take on another slant, according
to word from Washington, D. C.
The Treasury Department has re
vealed that the same men who
built up an airtight case 'on which
A1 Capone was sentenced for tax
evasion was to be placed on the
Lindbergh case with a view to
building up a case against the re
cipients of the ransom money
should they fail to file income tax
returns.
At Hopewell, Colonel Lindbergh
and his aides have begun working
on a swindle proof metnod of pro
cedure whereby they can pay kid
nappers the ransom money and re
turn the child safely should the
kidnappers make additional over
tures for ransom.
| FRENCH, UNITED STATE!
1 DIFFERENCES ARE SAID
DIKE BEEN ELIMINATED
|
PARIS, France, April 16.—Defin
ite progress to eliminate the dif
ferences between the United States
and France over proposed disar
mament plans was reported to
have resulted at the meeting and
luncheon between Premier Andrew
Tardieu and Secretary of State
Henry L. Stimson, it was an
nounced by a spokesman of the
American delegation.
The atmosphere was cleared of
hostile feelings when it was de
cided that the American plan, call
ing for the discarding of aggres
sive weapons of warfare such as
tanks, gas and mobile guns and
the French plan calling for an in
ternational police force, should be
combined as much as possible to
secure a general plan. Friendly
discussions on this phase are now
in order.
The two statesmen, in session,
not only discussed disarmament,
but they also talked on other sub
jects such as the world economic
troubles, the Sino-Japanese dispute
and the gold standard
Of particularly note was the dis
cussion between the two statesmen
on the gold standard because it
was pointed out that there were
200 barrels of bold aboard the same
vessel which brought Stimson from
America to French shores. The
gold is to be deposited in French
banks.
DIRECTORS ARRESTED
STOCKHOLM, April 16. —Three
directors of the Kreuger Toll Com
pany were arrested here Friday on
charges of falsifying books of that
company. Their arrest grew out of
an investigation following the re
cent suicide at Paris of Ivar Kreu
ger, Swedish match king and a
leader in international finance.
The books are alleged to have been
grossly exaggerated