VOLUME XXIV. NUMBER 77
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONAY APRIL 3, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
NIGHT
TENTITI DRAFT OF
ALASKA BEER. WIRE
Bill IS INTRODUCED
JUNEAU, April 3, —The long
looked for beer and wine bill was
introduced in the House by Rep.
Hellerich of Nome and a similar
measure will reach the Senate to
morrow when Senator Lomen will
introduce the same measure so
that both branches of the Terri
torial Legislature can work on it
simultaneously.
The measure is admittedly im
perfect and Hellerich announced
it was intended merely as a work
ing basis on which the finished
law will rest.
As the bill reads now, it will be
unlawful for anyone to manufac
ture, bottle or sell beer or wine
in Alaska without first having ob
tained a license which is provided
for as follows:
Hotels, boarding houses, res
taurants, buffets, cafeterias and
other public eating places “which
have been in continuous operation
for at least one year previous to
April 7, 1933.” The license will be
$50.
2— Beverage dispensaries “where
draft beer, or beer in uncapped
bottles, may be served to patrons
who must consume beer as they
sit at tables, and provides for this
specific purpose a “fee of $50.”
3— All retail stores may sell beer
and wine in original packages but
cannot be consumed on the pre
mises; the license fee will be $25.
4— Wholesalers dealing with re
tail stores or other licensed places
but not to consumers directly, a
fee of $50.
5— Breweries license $200.
6— Bottling works where beer
and wine is bottled for sale, a fee
of $100.
The measure imposes an excise
tax on all beer and wine produced
manufactured, brewed, fermented,
bottled or imported for sale or
gift at the rate of $2.50 for each
barrel of 31 gallons; one cent per
pint bottle and two cents per quart.
The proceeds from excises will be
paid direct into the Territorial
treasury; the proceeds from licens
es in incorporated towns will be
divided, 25 per cent to the Terri
tory and 75 per cent to the town
in which it is collected.
Applications must be maae in
duplicate to the Territorial treas
ury either through United States
Commissioners or direct.
NEW YORK, April 3, —The use
of checks rather than actual mon
ey for the conduct of personal and
corporate affairs, is fast returning
to normal proportions, an anlysis
of banking statistics revealed.
In the days preceding the bank
holiday demands for cash reach
ed unprecedented proportions.
Money in circulation March 8,
which was the first weekly report
following declaration of the holi
day, reached the peak, or $7,538,
000,000, By far the most stupendous
figure in the nation’s fiscal his
tory.
March 29 the figure was down
to $6,353,000,000.
NEW YORK, April 3, —Fr. Ber
nard R. Hubbard, “Glacier Priest,’
announced he would make another
expedition to Alaska next month
leading Seattle May 16.
His major purpose this year will
be to stiidy the crater of Mount
Veniaminoff heretofore unexplor
ed; also, to excavate a site in the
Aleutians for prehistoric data.
Roderick Chisholm, professor at
Santa Clara University; George
Peterson, Alaska guide; and Edgar
Levin, Stanford University student,
will accompany the noted explorer.
THE REASON WHY
BRUSSELS, April 3, —Reports
of treatment inflicted on his mar
ried daughter in Germany caused
Professor Albert Einstein, world
famous physicist, to resolve to give
up his German nationality, it was
learned. Einstein and his wife are
taking quarters in a quiet villa at
Coq Sur Mer, near Ostend.
FAVORITE WON
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AGUA CALIENTE, April 3, —
Gallant Sir won the $25,000 handi- !
; cap covering the mile and one- |
; quarter in two minutes, two and |
four-fifths seconds, a new track
: record. * j
Waylander was second, Lemon
Hills, third and Lovers All, fourth.
1 Gallant Sir’s win brought his
, total winnings to $74,220.
COUNSEL FOR SEIMI[
IONISES OFFICIILS HOLD
SELVES IN OEIDESS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3,—
Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the
Senate stock market investigation
committee, said he had advised
officers of the J. P. Morgan & Co.,
to “hold themselves in readiness”
! for summons in connection with
| the committee’s inquiry into all
private bank and investment
houses.
Authority for the committee to
extend its stock market investiga
I tion to include these institutions
j was contained in a resolution ap
I proved Saturday by the full bank
ing committee.
■ Chairman Fletcher, its author,1
i will seek Senate approval early |
; this week. The committee intends i
; to inquire into all phases of pri-!
I vate bank ooerations, but Pecora
i said it would probablv take sever- j
j al weeks to map out a line of in- I
i quiry into the Morgan case, the
first to be tackled.
HUE RULINGS OEFN
! MULCHED OV TOE
CHIEF EKECUTIVE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3,—
President Roosevelt issued an exe- |
cutive order Saturday slashing
$400,000,000 in yeterans compensa
tions, effective in July, describing it
as necessary to maintain the cred
it of the government.
Twelve regulations governing
veterans relief were promulgated
by the Chief Executive under
authority of the economy bili re
cently enacted by Congress.
The major slashes are; elimina
! tion of disability compensation
where the disability was not ac
itually incurred in war service,
$300,000,000. Elimination of Span-1
ish American war pensions for|
I non-service disability $95,000,000.
; Revision of rating tables of im
pairment $40,000,000. Elimination
on term insurance claims $15,000,
000. Limitation of retroactive pay
ment to date of filing claim $25,
000,000. Reduction of Civil war
benefits $28,700,000. Overlapping
in the various classes will reduce
jthe grand total to roughly $400,
000,000. _
RUM WAR
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3, —
Outbreak of a rum war following
1 the murder of a prohibition offi
cer believed to have been tipped
off by rival liquor gangs, was fear
'ed by police here,
j James Curran, alias Diero, mean
while was charged with the
murder of William S. Grubb, whom
he crushed to death against a tel
ephone pole last Friday as the
'agent rode the running board of
;the rum runner’s automobile at
Hyde and Beach streets.
APPEALED
PARIS, April 3, —An anti-Ger
man boycott was declared effect
j ive at 10 a. m. but was limited to
I sympathizers to abstain from
patronizing Germans.
: The boycott was organized by a
committee of the International
league against anti-semitism. The
committee appealed for a boycott
against German goods while the
Chancellor Hitler program contin
ues in Germany.
UNDER THE STANDS
CHICAGO, April 3, —Chicago
baseball fans will drink draught
beer under the grandstands at
the Cub’s and White Sox parks,
but there won’t be any bottles to
throw at the umpires. William L.
Veeck, president of the Cubs, and
Harry Grabiner, vice president of
the White Sox, said only draught
I beer will be available.
ATTITUDE OF NATIVES
MAY THWA3T PLANS
FLY OVER HAT. EVEREST
PURNEA, India, April 3, —
Heightened antipathy among na
tive authorities in Nepal threat
ened to frustrate a daring plan
of British aviators to fly over Mt.
Everest, world’s tallest mountain.
The Nepalese authorities, friends
at the outset some weeks ago, are
reported angered by a mysterious
plane flying across their state.
Permission to make the attempt
to conquer Mt. Everest from the
air traveling from the base at
Kharmundu airdrome, near the
Himalayan range, had been given
by the Nepalese when the British
expedition first reached India for
the flight.
However the authorities made it
plain they would have to be kept
informed of all movements of
members of the expedition and
that no photographs were to be
taken except in the vicinity of
Mt. Everest itself.
VARSITY AND FROSH
REAT: LOWER RECORD
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WILMINGTON, Calif., April 3. —
Competing on the harbor chan
nel course here, a University of
California at Loz Onglaize varsity
crew and a freshman eight-oared
boat, rowed to a dead heat in a
2,000 meter trial in six minutes
and 36 seconds.
The time was one minute and
six seconds better than that made
by the University of California
crew in winning the Olympic
championship at this distance last
summer.
In the eight Olympic races, how
ever, Italy, whose crew gave the
Californians a great battle, rowed
the distance in six minutes and 30
seconds in one heat. The Olympic
races were held at the Marine sta
dium at Long Beach.
HUME Elies JEW
BERLIN, April 3, —Germany’s
national boycott against the Jews
can be considered as ended with
Saturday’s demonstration, it was
indicated in all quarters Sunday.
Aroused by warnings from Vice
Chancellor von Papen and For
eign Minister von Neurath con
cerning Germany’s grave situation
in the eyes of foreign nations,
warnings that were strongly back
ed up by friendly representations
from Washington and London,
President von Hindenburg inter
vened and ordered the boycott
ended.
FOU BREWS NO
CHIRM TO PIUTES
LONDON, April 3, (£*)— Britain
prefers her own beer to the far
eign product, according to figures
revealed in Parliament.
In the year ending September
30. 1932, about 18,945,000 barrels
of beer were brewed in Great Bri
tain and Northern Ireland, while
1,213,413 barrels were imported for
ail of 1932. .
Proof of gallon spirits distilled
in Britain in the 12 months to
taled 33,062,000.
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TRIAL DATE SET
NEW YORK, April 3, —Federal
Judge John Knox fixed April 17
for the trial of Charles E. Mitchell,
former head of the National City
Bank on the indictment charging
him with evading payment of in
come tax.
ATTITUDE SILENCE
NEW YORK, April 3, —The
American-Jewish Congress which
last week staged a meeting in
protest against anti-semitism in
Germany, adopted an attitude of
silence over the situation and no
action was taken in deference to
the wishes of the State depart
ment.
INVESTIGATE “DELAY”
WASHINGTON, D. C.f April 3*—
The Senate judiciary committee
approved the Costigan resolution
calling for an investigation in the
delay in prosecution of Joseph W.
Harriman. New York banker. The
committee also approved the bill
to prohibit loans by Americans to
ana nation in default of obligations
to the United States.
ItS’ K HOPEI
INC 'US' fEMFIIL
EFFECT BN
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3,—
Beer will go on sale Friday in
many parts of the country with
“drys” hopeful and “wets” fear
ful of the effect this Volstead act
modification may have on the
movement to repeal the 18th
amendment.
Declaring continued * warfare
against what he called the “new
deal” beer, Dr. F. Scott McBride,
anti-saloon league superintendent,
in a statement last night said the
effect of beer legalization will be
to turn public sentiment against
it and outlaw the beverage.
Private dry organization leaders
claim beer will be the means of
saving the 18th amendment. It is
no secret here tha* some out
standing wet leaders look ddbious
ly upon the beer experiment. They
are~afrad that it will mitigate
against the repeal drive by one or
both of two Dcwssible effects, eith
er that beer jyill satisfy and thus
assuage the clamor for repeal, or
that excesses may accompany its
return which will excite public
opinion against the change.
“If the courts no not invalidate
beer legislation,” McBride said,
“public sentiment which orginally
outlawed beer will again pronounce
sentence against it.”
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‘GALLANT Sill FfiVORED
TO WIN GIG HANDICAP
AT AGUA GALILNTE
AGU CALIENTE, Hex., April 3,—
Unparalleled favorite odds on Gal
lant Sir to win the $25,000 Agua
Caliente handicap stood firm as a
colorful crowd poured into this
border resort to witness the clos
ing of the winter racing season.
The big four-year old was quot
ed in many quarters at one to five
to win, with no place and show
money accepted, said by horsemen
to be of the most prohibitive prices
ever quoted on a horse.
Less than 10 horses were to start
in the classic which, in former
years, has paid more than $100,
000 purses.
Among the scratches is almost
certain to be Pillow Fight, the New
Zealand horse that had been
counted on to uphold the tradi
tion set last year by the mighty
Phar Lap, Australia’s greatest
horse.
RECOGNIZED THE LAW
WILLOWS, Calif., April 3, —
Baseball bats and shouts of the
ball players could not move a billy
goat from the diamond during a
game between Elk Creek and Pas
kenta. But when the constable ar
rived, the goat walked peacefully
away.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3, —
Two straight over the Chicago
White Sox was the record of the
Seals Saturday. The local club
trounced the major leaguers, 5-2,
the day before at the Seal sta
dium.
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WIDE OPEN
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 3, —
Joe McCarthy still has 12 days in
which to decide just who will play
shortstop for his New York Yan
kees, but he admits he is stumped
right now.
Bill Herber, former Duke Univer
sity star, apparently had the job
clinched a week ago, but McCar
thy has been using Frank Crosetti
in recent exhibition games and in
timates its still a wide-open bat
' tie between the two.
COFFEE CHAMP
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 3,—
Ernest Rogge, 32^ a barber, might1
have beat the world’s coffee drink
ing record of 91 cups in seven
hours if his wife hadn’t halted
the affair.
She took him home after the
60th cup, complained “it’s more j
than I can do already to make
enough coffee for him. If he won;
the championship I’d need a help
er.”
PROF. EINSTEIN'S Ml
ACCOUNT, SECURITIES
BERLIN, April 3, —A special de
tective squad from the office of
Capt. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, j
minister without a portfolio in!
the Hitler cabinet, seized Professor I
Albert Enstein’s 5,000 marks ( about j
$1,200) bank account in a Berlin;
bank and also 25,000 marks in se- ,
; curities.
A raid by Nasiz in Germany of
the home of Einstein was reported
some days ago. No mention was
made of the married daughter.
The home of Professor Einstein
at Caputh, Germany, was searched
for arms and ammunition by Nasiz
and police March 20. The Jewish
Scientist has been attacked as an
internationalist in speeches by
' Nasiz leaders.
1 Jews were prevented from enter
ing the Berlin public library, ac
; cording to the Deutche Allgemeine
Zeitung. Privileges of the reading
room and withdrawal of books by
Jews were also annulled, the paper
said.
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POSSIBILITY
i SALFORD, Eng., April 3, — Auth
orities are investigating the sen
! sational possibility that Albert
' Voss, English dentist and a pass
enger aboard the ill-fated City of
1 Liverpool, may have set the plane
afire while mentally deranged.
The coroner said Voss several
times had attempted suicide and
apparently fell from the plane two
miles from where it caught fire and
crashed near Essenn. Belgium,
killing 15 last Tuesday.
I BRITISHERS I Til
IT MOSCOW IN WEEK
MOSCOW, USSR., April 3, —
All six of the British representa
tives of Metropolitan Vickers Ltd., i
including the two originally re-1
I leased from custody, will have to!
stand trial on charges of sabotage, j
it was announced officially Sun-i
day.
The two men released shortly;
after their arrest, Allan Monk-!
i house, head of the Metropolitan!
j Vickers organization in Moscow, j
and Chas. Nordwall, construction
al engineer, must, under the lat
est decision of Soviet authorities,
j face trial which is scheduled to
i begin in a week or 10 days.
TWO KILLED
i PHOENIX, Ariz., April 3, —Mrs. j
i Jessie Chapman, aviatrix of Los i
Angeles and Chicago, was killed
' and her companion, Mrs. Gladys
Wood of Detroit, was injured ser
iously in an automobile accident
35 miles west of this city.
Their machine collided with a
heavy freight truck. Mrs. Chap
I man and Mrs. Wood, Phoenix visit
ors, were on their way to Agua
Caiiente, Mexico, when the acci
dent occurred. Mrs. Chapman was
a contestant in the last national
air derby.
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BURIED LIVING WOMAN
! STOCKTON, Calif., April 3, —
Eight Fipipinos were arrested yes
terday barged with the “voodoo”
burial of a living woman. The
body of the woman was exhumed
yesterday.
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FLEW UP 25,000 FEET
PURNEAH, Inda, April 3, —The
British expedition which attempted
its first flight across Mount Ever
est, as a test, reported it had
reached the elevation of 35,000
feet, 6,000 feet higher than former
test flights. The party has thus
far been unable to locate the party
which is attempting the ascent on
foot.
REBELLIOUS SENATE
MEMBERS IN FUEL
RETRENf FROM STAND
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3,—
Members of the Senate agricul
ture committee who thought the
time had come to rebel against
President- Roosevelt’s farm relief
bill, were in full flight last night.
They will pause today long enuff
to apply the rubber stamp of their
approval to the administration’s
measure and historians will record
another victory for the White
House.
Then the bill, which already has.
passed the House, will go to the
Senate floor for debate and pass
age.
It was only one short week ago
that several Senators on the com
mittee were emitting fiery denun
ciations of the bill drafted by Mr.
Roosevelt and Secretary of Agri
culture Wallace. Let tiie House
bend it’s servile knee in submission
to the White House, they said, but
don’t expect the Senate to do like
wise.
Chairman Smith, of the Senate
agricultural committee, as loy^al
a Democrat as one could find on
the Stonewall Jackson side of the
Mason-Dixie line, chewed tobacco
vigorously and grunted disapproval
of the Roosevelt bill. He proposed
to fix things up by killing the ad
ministration bill and substituting
one of his own.
Copies were rushed out of the
government printing office with
neat lines drawn through the
Roosevelt bill and with the Smith
bill printed in Italic type.
10 MAKE "WHOOPEE”
FACING CHICAGOANS
CHICAGO, April 3. —The city of
Chicago is divided against itself
in a good-natured argument
whether or not to “make whoopee”
when beer returns next Thursday
at midnight.
The controversy started the day
Congress legalized beer of the 3.2
per Qent variety. It has been grow
ing daily.
Some Chicagoans favor welcom
ing beer back at one minute after
midnight April 7 with a celebra
tion greater than that for the
signing of the armistice.
Others favor pretending it nev
er was “gone” and thus avoid giv
ing drys a talking point for fut
ure arguments. It is a new kind of
controversy and has brought about
a new alignment of forces.
RENTED HOTEL ROOM
LEAPED TO DEATH
CHICAGO, April 3, —David N.
Kaplan, an unemployed former
soldier, pawned his scarf pin yes
terday for money enough to rent
an 18th floor room at the Y. M.
C. A. hotel. Then he jumped out
the window of his room and was
killed.
Before jumping Kaplan wrote a
note to his wife, Bertha, in which
he said his failure to provide her
with “the necessities of life” had
been torturing him.
Besides his widow Kaplan leaves
twin sons, Edward and Marshall,
21 months old.
MICHIGAN K ID
THE POLLS TOME
DETROIT, April 3, —Michigan
voters, an estimated 900,000 of
them, will mark their ballots to
day with the knowledge that thev
are the first in the nation to rt
der a verdict on retention of t ^
18th amendment.
The electorate will decide if
their respective legislative dis
tricts shall be represented at the
April 10 convention by delegates
pledged to support or oppose the
repeal amendflignt.
RETURN FROM ABROAD
HOLLYWOOD, April 3, —Mary
Pickford and Gloria Swanson came
back to Hollywood Sunday from
vacations abroad.
“LET ANNE DO IT” FRIDAY NIGHT 830:
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