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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 132.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
M. S. North Star
Arrives in Port on
Maiden Voyage
NEW MOTORSHIP REPLACES THE VETERAN MS
BOXER IN ALASKA SERVICE—VESSEL IS
FINEST IN NORTHERN WATERS FILL
ING LONG FELT NEED—PROMI
NENT OFFICIALS ON BOARD
The flagship of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in .Alas
ka, the Motorship North Star, Capt. S. T. L. Whitlam,
arrived in port today from Seattle on its maiden voyage
to Westward and Bering Sea ports. The splendid new
$400,000 vessel will take on about 600 tons of Evan Jones
sacked coal for distribution to the department’s outflung
stations on Bristol Bay, Kuskokwim river and Nelson Is
land in the Bering Sea. One hundred and seventy tons
of supplies are being discharged here for Bureau stations
throughout this area and the railroad belt.
PASSAGE OF REVENUE
tl MEINS RETURN
PROSPERITY. DUNES
WASHINGTON, June 7. (JP) —
Charles G. Dawes Monday resigned
as head of the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation. He recently re
signed as United States Ambass
ador to Great Britain to head the
Reconstruction Corporation and his
resignation is believed to have re
sulted from a conference of offi
cials of that corporation with Pres
ident Hoover the other day.
In resigning Dawes stated that
since the feederal revenue bill is
now law the national budget will
be balanced and the turning point
toward this nation’s prosperity has
been reached and it will not be
necessary to continue these ether
prosperity stimulants.
He intends to return to his bank
in Chicago.
No successor has yet been ap
pointed to succeed Dawes as head
of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
MG WO NOW WILLING
TO RUN WET FUTFOMI
SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 6.—
William Gibbs McAdoo, whose de
termined prohibition stand has
more than once plunged the Dem
ocratic party into interne cine
strife, is willing to be a candidate
for the United States Senate on a
wet platform, Dr. Malaby declared
here.
As chairman of the Garner dele
gation to the national convention
McAdoo is slated to be a member
of the national platform commit
tee and may be called upon to
draft a wet plank for the party.
FEAR HAUSNER LOST
LONDON, June 7. —Airdromes
from London to Warsaw and air
officials of several European na
tions, who waited in vain for word
of Stanilaus Hausner on his pro
jected New York to Warsaw flight
today feared ithat he had been
lost in the Atlantia ocean. The only
possibility that the flier was safe
was that he might have landed
on some part of the continent
wrhere he would be out of commun- i
ication and would thus be unable!
to announce his presence.
MOVEMENT FAILS
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina, June
7. —According to information re
ceived here the new’ socialist gov
ernment of Chile is already at an i
end following the resignation of j
the leading socialistic officers. It
is declared that so much pressure |
was brought to bear against the
new government that the resig- j
nation was forced . Among other'
things neighboring g o v e r nments
state that they would refuse to re
cognize the new socialistic gov
ernment which was set up in Chile.
1 Government officials and ship
ping experts are included among
the passengers, as well as nurses
and teachers. They comprise Dr.
Paul Gordon, chief of the Alaska
division, Bureau of Indian Affairs;
Andrew Berg, builder of the North
Star and head of the Berg Ship
Building Company, of Seattle; M.
C. Searle, factory representative of
McIntosh and Seymour Diesel en
gines; J. R. {Ummel, purchasing
agent for the Department of the
Unterior; Dr. Carter .who is en
route to the YuKon; Lester Troast,
I government architect; Mrs.
Schrammack, teacher for Togiak,
and son; Miss Keaton, nurse, who
is en route to the Yukon.
The North Star, built in the Berg
Shipyards, is the largest wooden
ship sent down the ways in Seattle
since the World War. She is 225
feet long. 42 feet beam. The vessel
has accommodations for 38 pass
engers a crew of 20 and quarters
for 20 Alaska natives.
The vessel is sheated with 17,000
feet of Australian iron bark. It is
in the form of a belt 16 feet wide,
on the outside of the hull, extend
ind from the load water line to the
bilge keel and from bow to stern.
Upwards of a million feet of Doug
las fir was used in the construc
tion. The cabins are finished in
teak. The vessel is driven by a 1500
horsepewer McIntosh & Seymour
full Diesel engine and two 110
Diesel engines will operate gener
; ating sets for electric auxiliaries.
The vessel has a speed of 11 knots.
On the main deck under the
budge is the dining saloon,'galley,
the crew’s mess, storeroom and
medical clinic. On the bridge deck
there is an observation room. On
the boat deck is the pilot house
and the wireless room. On the
tween deck aft is a cold storage
room with a capacity of 2.000 rein
deer carcasses, which will be the
principle homeward cargo of the
vessel on her Alaskan cruises.
There are tanks for 1.800 bar
rels of fuel oil and 450 barrels of
fresh water under the ‘tween decks.
Miss Elizabeth Pullen, 21-year
old native daughter of Alaska,
christened the North Star w i th
water dipped from the Arctic Ocean
off Point Barrow.
The name North Star w*as se
lected from a large number sub
mitted by Alaskans and forwarded
to the Secretary of the Interior
at Washington by Purchasing
Agent Ummel of Seattle. The name
Polaris was submitted by Dick Ev
ans, native of the Cook inlet dist
rict, who is now a member of the
teaching staff at the Eklutna in
dustrial school, in charge of the
manual training department. Miss
Ernestine Jessen of Seward, daugh
ter of the editor of the Gateway,
submitted the name of Alak-shak.
The North Star is posted to
leave Seattle on its second voyage
August 1 for Point Barrow in the
Arctic.' On her way north she will
make a number of calls in South
eastern Alaska and come to Sew
ard, where she will load 800 tons
of Evan Jones coal for Kodiak Is
land and Belkofski. The vessel will
then go to Dutch Harbor, to St.
Lawrence Island, St. Michael, Nome
FAVOR NOMINATION CLEGG
WASHINGTON June 7. (A5)—The
Senate judicinary committee Mon
day agreed on a favorable report
on the nomination of Cecil Clegg to
become district judge of the Third
Judicial division of Alaska. Clegg
is at present district judge of the
fourth division but it is planned to
shift Clegg to thee third and
have Judge E. Coke Hill, at present
district judge of the third, succeed
Clegg in the fourth.
SIGNS RESOLUTION
WASHINGTON, June 7. (JP) —
President Herbert Hoover Monday
signed the House joint resolution
relieving mine claimants from per
forming the required annual ass
esment work during the year end
ing June 30, 1932.
COMING OF THE NORTH STAR
• With this, the maiden voyage of the North ;
j Star, of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, comes the |
■ culmination of a dream long cherished by Captain J
! S. T. L. Whitlam, dean of Arctic navigators, and [
\ one who has written many stirring sagas of the sea i
j upon the scrolls of maritime history. I
« With the old Boxer, obsolete when it came un- S
I der his command, Captain Whitlam has battled his •
| way through treacherous seas and great ice fields •
| of the Arctic and sub-Arc tic, serving Uncle Sam’s ■
« wards scattered over the North Pacific and Bering j
• Sea from Seattle to Attu Island, outermost western |
j of the Aleutian group and to Point Barrow, thrust ■
| far out into the Arctic Ocean. These voyages merit J
• association with those of Drake and Raleigh to the |
j Spanish Main, differing only in extremes of climate. J
l As he stood in the wheel house -listening to the |
■ groaning of the old Boxer’s timbers and the wheeze i
! of the pumps freeing her,bilge, Captain Whitlam !
s dreamed of the day when the appearance of his S
S ship in an Alaskan harbor would be the signal of !
j compliment rather than disparagement by his *
j compeers of the water lanes. In the North Star, ■
j spick and span, and somewhat commensurate with |
; the title of the greatest battleship in the United |
j States navy, in that it serves and succors rather J
; than destroys humanity, Captain Whitlam will \
; berth his ship amidst those ready to pay tribute to a !
| splendid vessel and seaman. *
NEW REVENUE BILL
NOW Li; THOUSANDS
OF NEW TAX PAYERS
WASHINGTON, June 7. {IP) —
The Senate Monday accepted the
compromise $1,119,000,000, tax bill.
The acceptance completes congres
sional action on the measure and
the tax bill was sent to Hoover for
his signiture. President Hoover af
fixed his signiture to the measure
soon after it reached his hand.
The revenue bill is now law and
represents Congress’s attempt to
balance the budget. The law adds
thousands of taxpayers to the for
mer list and provides a number
of new special taxes. Income tax
rates have been boosted to one of
t]ae highest levels ever recorded.
The measure, as passed, will pro
vide for an increase in postal
rates and these rates are sheduled
to become effective on the 30th
day after the final passage of the
bill.
DEMANDS OF Oil
MADE PUBLIC, LONDON
LONDON, June 7.—The demands ^
of Mahatma M. K Gandhi of the
Indian franchise committee was
published. The report recom
mended the foundation for a re
sponsible system of government
in the vast sub-continent of In
dia. The report proposed huge
increases in the number of quali
fied voters in the provinces, and
made special provisions to guaran
tee representation for women.
and Point Barrow. She is mot ex
pected back in Seattle until Dec
ember 10. The North Star will
bring to the Outside 2,000 reindeer
carcasses loaded at Point Barrow,
Kivilina, Point Hope, Kotzebue and
St. Lawrence Island.
A shipment of ivory also will be
loaded at St. Lawrence Island. The
cargo will be owned by the Alaska
natives and will be sold for them
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The freight money will be deduct
ed from the revenue and the net
profits send to the cooperative
stores of the Alaska natives which
advance ’money for butchering the
reindeer.
WASHINGTON, June 7. — With
the huge tax bill out of the way
Congress will now shift its atten
tion to measures to provide for
the relief of the economic strick
en residents of these United States. I
There are two principle p 1 ans i
which are to given consideration.
One is the Speaker Garner plan
which provides for a giant public
building program and the other is
the plan sponsored by Hoover and
the Hoover supporters. This latter
plan is opposed to Garner’s plan
which is now pending in the House,
and provides for the strengthening
of the various institutions already
formed to help bring about a re
versal of present conditions.
Among, other things, the Hooveer
plan will provide for the exten
sion of the reconstruction finance
corporation’s scope of a c t i vities
through increasing its capitaliza
tion by almost three times the pre
sent figure. The Hoover plan also
provides for the extension of fed- ;
eral aid to the agriculture indus
try.
GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
WILL HONOR AVIATRIX
WASHINGTON, June 7. — Amelia
Earhart Putnam will receive fur
ther awards for her achievement
of being the first woman to fly
a plane across the Atlantic, when
she returns back to the United
States. The National Geographic
Society has announced that Mrs.
Putnam will be awarded their gold
achievement medal when she re
turns. Persons who have been
awarded this medal include such
famous persons as Col. Charles
A- Lindbergh and Admiral Richard
E. Byrd. I
TEMPERATURE EXTREMES
SEATTLE, June 7.— Some of the
extremes in temperatures record
ed for Monday were Seattle 54-46,
Portland 64-48, San Francisco 70
64, Detroit 82-48, New York 86-70,
Ne\Y Orleans 94-74, Los Angeles 68
68, Ju71ve.au 44-42, Keetchikan 62
BRIG, GEN, STEESE
BRANDS SEWARD REPORT
‘WITHOUT FOUNDATION'
FAIRBANKS, June 7. (IP) —Re
turning here Monday from a brief
fishing trip Brig. General James
Gordon Steese branded as “with
out any foundation” Seward re
ports that he is going to succeed
George Parks as Governor.
Steese emphasized that he is
only in Alaska on a pleasure trip
and also to receive an honorary de
gree at the Alaska College.
The Fairbanks newspaper re
ported that Steese said that the
fact that Gov. Park’s term has a
year and a half to run and the
president who will appoint the
next governor has not even been
elected yet, is of sufficient merit
to show how much merit the re
port has.
Gov. Parks, who arrived in Fair
banks by way of Dawson Monday,
was non-committal when queried
about the report. He said that it
was the first he had heard of it.
Gov. Parks accompanied Lt. Col.
Dawson Olmstead, officer in charge
of the Washington-Alaska Military
Cable and Telegraph System. They
were the first to travel over the
Steese highway this season. The
highway runs from Fairbanks to
Circle City.
CUTEST RICE OF
TAXES [VEST IMPOSED:
SAME AS WARTIME
WASHINGTON, June 7. UP> —
The new revenue bill, now a law
for the bolstering of the govern
ment’s credit, with the greatest
range of taxes ever imposed by
this country except during war
time, was signed by President Hoo
ker almost immediately after it
had passed out of the Senate’s
hands.
The majority of the newr tax
rates, excises, tariffs and stamp
taxes will go into effect on June
21,
The Treasury Department has be
gun immediate preparations for
the collection of the new high in
come rates which are applicable to
earnings for the current calendar
year and will be payable with next
year’s returns.
The tariffs on lumber and cop
per were included in the tax bill
when it was passed.
SEND REINFORCEMENTS
TOKYO, June 7. —The Japanese
army looks forward to a spring
and summer of fighting in Man
churia. The number of troops in
that country is still being increas
ed and there will probably b e
about 75,000 Japanese soldiers in
the land inside of two months. At
tempts are being made to keep
the movement of troops a secret
but it seems to be a foregone con
clusion among the authorities that
reinforcements are necessary and
present indications are that they
will be sent.
SOME MORE DENIALS
WASHINGTON. June 8- (/P) —
Interior Department officials said
the administration of Gov. G. A.
Parks is entirely satisfactory and
the published stories that he is
to be supplanted, are without foun
dation. Interior officials gave
Brig. Gen. Steese letters of intro
duction; they believe their pre
sentation gave rise to misrepresen
tation as to the purpose of his visit.
HOHENZOLLERNS 1MAY RETURN
LONDON, June 7. —Return of
the Hohenzollern royal family to
power in Germany before the last
of the year was predicted Monday
in an article in the Daily Mail. The
article was written in Berlin by
Viscount Rothermere, publisher of
the London newspaper which car
ried the article.
Orval Porter, chief mechanic of
the Alaskan Airways, has tendered
in his resignation effective June 15.
DBILlllll IS FAILURE,
AVERS RDCKFELLER, I:
ADVOCATES REPEAL
NEW YORK, June 7. UP) — John
D. Rock efeller, Jr., a life-long
staunch advocate of temperance,
Monday night branded the Eight
eenth Amendment as a failure and
urged that the law be repealed.
Rockefeller, Jr., expressed it as
his earnest hope that a repeal
plank providing for ratification by
state conventions be incorporated
in both the Republican and Demo
cratic platforms and “thus taking
the question out of politics.”
Rockefeller said that “When the
amendment was passed it was earn
estly hoped that with the host of
advocates of temperance that it
would be generally supported by
public opinion. Thus the day will
be hastened when the value of the
society of men with men’s bodies
| free from the undermining effects
of alcohol would be generally real
ized. That this has not been the
result I have slowly and reluct
antly come to believe.”
His statement was directed in
the form of a letter to Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of the
Columbia University, who Sunday
announced he would urge that the
delegates at the Republican con
vention adopt a resolution to have
Congress submit the question of
repeal to non-partisan conventions
in the various states.
Rockefeller (endorsed this plan
and the millionaire oil man reiter
ated that his life-long stand as
an advocate of temperance and
adding that the hopes and benefits
of prohibition had not been real
ized but instead “drinking has gen
erally increased, the speakeasy has
replaced the saloon, not unit for
unit, but probably two-fold if not
three-fold.”
Rockefeller said that he and his
father had given $350,000 to the
Anti-Saloon League since 1900
STRONG APPEAL BE
IDF. WASHINGTON
i
<By Associated Press)
Reinforcements marched, hook
ed rides, motored and used other
methods of transportation to take
them to Washington to lend their
presence to an appeal for the pay
ment of the rest of the bonus
The ex-servicemen will make
their strongest appeal today in a
parade in which all those who are
present will probable participate.
A touch of “red” was expeceted
, and will offer a prospect for fur
i ther fireworks during the time of
; the parade. The police announced
a Communist plot “to combat the
police with violence had been dis
covered,” and the police are taking
; the precautions they think may
: be necessary.
Still other pilgrimages are start
ing out from a 11 parts of the
! country and are converging upon
| the nation’s capital.
EIGHT ARE KILLED
CLEVELAND, June 7. -UP) —
Eight persons are known to have
been killed and a fireman said he
believed that two others had per
ished in an explosion which de
stroyed a d ow n town apartment
building. Thirty other occupants of
the apartment building were either
burned or injured and about 200
persons were saved by dramatic
escapes.
RECORD VOTE CAST
SEATTLE, June 7. —Returns
from the Iowa State primary el
ection held Monday are still cloud
ed with uncertainty as to the fin
al outcome. Senator Brookhart, a
candidate for reelection is not as
sured of vict ory yet as he has
five strong rivals. A reecord vote
was cast. The North Carolina el
ection returns are still far from
complete. The latter election was
held last Saturday.