MEMBER associated press
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 107.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SUMMARY ALASKA
WINE BEER BILL
AND REGULATIONS
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ALL PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN
THE LAW SHALL BE LIBERAL
LY CONSTRUED TO GIVE DE
SIRED FORCE AND EFFECT TO
THE ACT.
24 SECTIONS IN ACT
TERRITORIAL TREASURER IS
AUTHORIZED MAKE ADDI
TIONAL RULES
Below is a summary or require
ments of Chapter 71 approved May
2. 1933, regulating the sale of beer
and wine, as received today from
Gov. John W. Troy, at Juneau:
An act to regulate the sale of j
beer and wine: to provide for the
payment of a license fee by those
engaging in the manufacture,
bottling and sale of beer and wine;
to provide for the issuance and re
vocation of licenses, and to pro
vide penalties for the violations of
its provisions; and for other pur
poses, and declaring an emergen
cy.
Section 1: It is unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to
manufacture, bottle or sell either
beer or wine in Alaska without
license. Licenses issued only to
citizens of United States who have
resided one year in Territory and |
persons of good moral character. ;
Section 2: Beer and wine licens
es $50; license permits holder to
sell beer and wine on a common |
carrier in Alaska or hotel or lodg
ing house with not less than 15
rooms or boarding houses, rest
aurants or cafeterias with accom
odations for not less than 15 pat
trons and in roadhouses.
Such beer and wine shall be
consumed in rooms of bona fide
guests and partons or with meals
furnished to them in good faith.
Section 3: Beverage dispensary
license on $175 per annum permits
holder to sell draft beer and beer
in uncapped bottles but not wine
for immediate consumption while
seated in dispensary.
Section 4: Retail license $25 per
annum permits sale of beer and
wine contained in original pack- ,
ages but must not be consumed on
premises where sold.
Section 5: Uiuo licenses sau
annum allows clubs, fraternal and
patriotic organizations having
Territorial or national charter and
incorporated two years, to serve
beer and wine to members and
guests in their club rooms.
Section 6: Wholesale license
$100 per annum permits sale of
beer and wine in original pack
ages to retail stores or other lic
ensed places.
Section 7: Bottling works lic
ense $100 per annum permits op
eration of bottling works, sale of
beer and wine in quantities not
less than five gallons in kegs and
four gallons in bottles
Section 8: Brewery license $100
per' annum permits manufacture
of beer but no sale can be made
in less quantities than five gallons
in kegs and four gallons in bottles.
Section 9: No one in any way
connected with brewery or winery
can own interest in beverage dis
pensary license nor can he finance
directly or indirectly any license
holder in procuring quarters or
supplying equipment and furnish
ings.
•Section 10: Moneys collected
for license penalties or delinquen
cy fees shall be paid to Territorial
treasurer.
Fifty per cent of licenses col
lected in any incorporaetd town
will be refunded monthly to town
by treasurer unless city levies tax
on beverages when no refund will
be made but collections credited
to general fund of Territory.
Section 11: Term beer is defin
ed to mean lager beer, ale, porter
and similar malt liquor of alcohol
ic content lawful under Federal
laws.
Section 12: Licenses are for
period of one year beginning the
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UieSSJlEUTl
: ENROUTE TO SEWARQ
EXCELLENT LISTING
SEATTLE. May 8.—The SS. Aleu
tian sailed Saturday morning with
the following Seward passengers:
A. B. Berg. Harold W. Snail, Mary
Wahl, Miss and Mrs. C. G. Hender
i son, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Henderson,
Mr- and Mrs. H. O. Robert, Fred
Hollander. J. M. Pow’ell. Mrs. W. L.
St. Clair, Mrs. H. Hume.
W. L. St. Clair, J. *B. White, Rus
sell Annabelle. Gunn Buckingham,
H- F. Morton. J. M. Elmer, Mrs.
Frances Reed, Anton Polet, Mr. and
Mrs. C. A. Boreham, Mr. and Mrs.
D. R. Gustafson. Frank Hoffman.
Mrs. L. Harlan, J. C. Morgan,
Mrs. Sidney Morgan, Henrv Ek
strom, M- Oliver, Thomas Dace,
Lines Nelson, Jacob Jensen, E. M.
Hansen, E. E. Crosson, J. S. Dillon,
M. W. Anderson, C. J. Whitney, E.
H. Carlson, O. F. Ohlson.
Carl J. Erikson. Mr. and Mrs. O.
B. Blowman, Mrs. J. Osterhouse,
| Mrs. J. R. Lawden, Mr. and Mrs.
I J. J. Thiessen G. A. Vedin, and 40
steerage.
1BY STRIKERS'
STRENGTHENED LINES
LEHIGH VALLEY AREA
ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 8.—With
state officials planning an investi
I gation of conditions in the sweat
| shops of the Lehigh Valley, the
14,baby strikers” strengthened their
lines today and continued their
! fight with increased enthusiasm.
New impetus was given the strike
when Mrs. Gicord Pinchot, wire
of the Governor, joined the chil
dren on the picket line in Allen
town and Northampton.
District Attorney Diffenderfer of
Lehigh county said he had assign
ed County Detective Herbert Bach
man to investigate testimony of
! girl workers that foremen and su
, perintendents made advances to
I them.
TWO-YEftR PUN TO
! REVIVE AMERICA'S
INDUSTRIAL MACHINE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8,—
Fresident Roosevelt will devote
himself this week to formulation
I of a comprehensive two-year plan
| to put the American industrial
machine in order so that it may
i play its part in economic recovery.
Today he will receive from Sen
ator Wagner, Democrat from New
York, the draft of a bill providing
a form of national industrial con
trol designed to stabilize produc
tion, eliminate wasteful and cut
throat competition, increase jobs
by reducing hours of work and
raise present low wage scales. It
I carries a two-year emergency limit.
OLDTIMER DIED
PEIPING, May 8—Li Ching,
of Kaiwhen, Province of Szechwan,
who claimed to be one of the
world’s oldest men, said he was
born in 1736, which would make
him 197 years old tomorrow, died.
A Chinese dispatch from Chung
king stating Li’s death, said he at
tributed his longevity to peace of
mind and that it was his belief
everyone could live at least a cen
tury by attaining inward calm.
NOTICE
A meeting of the Order of East
ern Star will be held tonight at 8
o’clock at the Masonic Hall.
HEW PI IN ENVISAGES
ABSOLUTION PRINCIPAL
IHTEHEST FRENCH OEBT
PARIS, May 8, —A new Ameri- j
can plan for a final lump sum'
payment to end the French war
debt to the United States. hasj
been cabled to Finance Minister;
Georges Bonnet by Emmanuel,
Monick. French financial attache
in America, it was learned Sunday.
The plan envisages abolition of
the principal and interest pay
ments under the Mellon-Berenger
debt settlement signed in 1926.
It would substitute one final
payment consisting of 30 per cent
in cash and the rest in marketa- j
ble bonds. It was rumored that the
Unitde States plan indicated a'
sum of 45 million francs, or about
$2,132,000,000 would be acceptable..
This is less than half the prin
cipal due under the Mellon-Ber
enger agreement. The United
States was said to have suggested
that 25 p'er cent of the total be
paid in gold bars, five per cent in(
silver,and the remainder .in certi
ficates. the latter would be depos
ited by France to the United
States account in the Bank of the
International settlements at Basle,
Switzerland, and America could
market them gradually.
WMF
INTO THE PACIFIC
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3—Re-!
ports that an airplane had plunged i
into the ocean oft' Point St. George,;
nar the Oregon-California line,!
| sent the Coast Buard cutter Caho- j
i kia steaming toward the scene.
J. W. Moshier of Crescent City,
reported he had seen a plane ap
parently stop in midair, then fall
into the sea as he drove along the
coast highway about 8 p. m. The
Cahokio left from Eureka, aceord
i ing to Coast Buard headpuarters
here, but had 60 miles to go before
reaching the vicinity of Point St.
George.
BETHLEHEM STEEL
SETTLED BIB SUIT
NEW YORK, May 8.—A $600,000
stockholders suit against the Beth- j
lehem Steel Corp., filed in July of
1930, has been settled out of court
for $40,000, it was disclosed before
Supreme Court Justice Louis A.
Valente.
Settlement of the suit was dis
closed when William Rosenblatt,
former Wall Street operator, start
ed action against the law firm of
House, Holthusen & McCloskey, for
$150,000, he alleged was due him
from the settlement with the steel j
j firm.
WELCOME OFFER
j TOKIO, May 8,—Japanese lead
| ers welcomed Russia’s offer to sell
j the rights of the Chinese-Eastern
Railway as evidence of the Soviet’s
willingness to abandon all inter
ests in Manchuria and avoid con
flict with Japan.
ROCK SLIDE
A slide of rock and dirt came j
across the Sew'ard Fisheries road;
Sunday as men wrere installing a;
telegraph line to the cannery.
Work today consisted of “bull-doz
ing” the rocks from the road. It is
said that George Guest came very
near meeting death as the slide
came down where he was standing
a few seconds before.
Sunday a group of local citizens
chartered Capt. John Malutin’s
gas boat Marian for a picnic down
the bay.
Capt. Alfred Rosness of the May
flower, has finished painting and
overhauling his boat and says that
in the near future he wall launch
it
Delinquent taxes have caused
more than 2,000,000 acres of land
to be transferred to the state from
land owners in Michigan.
BEGINS FAST TODAY
POONA, India:, May 8,—Gandhi
calmly prepared to start a 21-day
fast today atj noon in protest
against the abject condition of the
“Untouchables’* in India under the
caste system among the Hindus.
He hopes to g$nn equality, socially
and otherwise, for these 60,000,000
persons regraded for centuries as
untouchable.
OAKLET GUILTY OF
MURDFRING THREE
YEAR OLO TEXAS CHILD
LINDEN, Texas, May 3. —A jury]
of 12 farmers found Paul Oakley,
20. guilty of murder in connection
with the death of three-year-old
Bernice Clayton during a “faith
healing.” The jury declared after
a night of deliberation, that Oak
ley was sane and guilty, and should
be confined to the penitenitary for
50 years.
The state, accusing Oakley of
choking the child to death, in
closing arguments insisted the
“faith healer” be given a death
sentence and be electrocuted.
The defense pictured Oakley as
an unfortunate, ignorant and men
tall depraved individual who ac
cidentally killed the child while
exercising what he believed his
God-given powers to cure by “lay
ing on of hands.”
In instructing the jury, Judge
Hicks Harvey said: “If Oakley be
lieved the laying on of hands could
cure by divine power and interven
tion and accidentally killed the
child, you will acquit him.”
THE STOCK MARKET
Rails, up .26; Utilities, up .58;
Bonds, up .88.
May wheat closed 73 7-8 at Chi
cago against 72 1-2. Guilders were
up 86 to .48.00 and Swiss francs up i
32 to .2296.
Youngstown district steel opera
tions will probably start this week
at 35 percent of capacity against
32 percent start of last week.
J. J. Newberry April sales were:
2.9 percent over last year compar
ed with a 16.5 percent decrease in
March from 1932.
Stock quotations—Al. Chem. 93
1-2, Al. Juneau 15, Am. Can. 82 3-8,
Am. Smelt. 29 1-8, Am. Fone. 102
1-2, Am. Tob. 82 1-8, Auburn 47
Baldwin 7 1-2, B. and O. 15, Beth.
Steel 25 3-4, Cal. Pack. 18 1-4, Can.
Pac. 13 3-4, Case 61 1-4, Chrysler
18 3-8, Con. Gas 52, Dupont 57 1-2,
Eastman 63 1-2, Gen. Elec 20 1-2,
Gen.. Foods 32 1-4, Gen. Mot. 22
5-8, Goodrich 12 3-4, Goodyear 31
5-8, Int. Tel. 12 5-8, Kroger 22 3-8,
Loews 17 1-8, Mont. Ward 22 7-8,
Nat. Distill. 30 7-8, Dairy Prod. 18
1-4, Pac. Gas 25, Penn. RR. 24,
Pullman 34, Radio 7 3-4, Radio
Keith 2 5-8, Simmons 10 1-2, So
Pac. 22 3-8, Std. Cal. 30, Un. Car
bide 34 3-8, Un. Oil Cal. 13 12, Un.
Pac. 82 1-2, Steel 48 3-8, West. Un
ion 37 7-8, Westinghouse 36 7-8.
Wcolworth 37 1-8, Wor. Pumn 20
3-8.
San Francisco Quotations—Cat
erpillar 15 3-4, Hon. Oil 10 1-2,
Haw. Comm. Sugar 40 3-8, Trans
America 5 3-8. Total shares 5.000,
0C0, English sterling 3.98 1-4.
II WEATHER
I
I
Seward 54, Divide 36, Moose Pass
28, Hunter 40, Grandview 44, Tun
nel 30. Portage 38. Bird 40, Anch
orage 45, Curry 40, Broad Pass 36,
Healy 28, Nenana 34, Fairbanks 40.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Mrs. Olga Unga arrived from Ko
diak on the cutter Talapoosa and
entered the Seward General Hos
pital for a minor operation.
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Mrs. Emma Anvig is in the hos
pital for a few days to be under
Dr. Haverstock’s care.
The Seward Fisheries Cannery
is having a few alterations made
.this summer; one of these is that,
instead of flat cans being used as
before, tall cans will be used this
season.
NEWS FLUSHES
DERBY WINNER
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 8, —
A crowd of 50,000 fans Saturday,
saw “Broker’s Tip” capture the
59th running of the Kentucky
Derby. “Head Play” was second
and “Charley O” third.
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WON BY A SECOND
ANAPOLIS, May 8—The Navy’s
Varsity crew defeated Cornell by
one-fourth of a length on the Sev
ern river. The Navy’s time of
seven minutes; and 10 seconds was
one second faster than Cornell’s.
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LATEST TORNADO TOLL
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 8. —
Tornadoes in Central Alabama
and South Carolina last Friday
left a toll of at least 35 dead and
275 injured, reports indicated.
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FRIGATE AT ASTORIA
ASTORIA, Ore., May 8. —The
Frigate Constitution arrived Sat
urday in the Columbia river and
docked at the Port of Astoria ter
minals for a stay of several days.
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PROFESSOR APPOINTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8.—
President Roosevelt appointed
Prof. Manley D. Hudson of Harvard
University as the American mem
ber of the permanent court of ar
bitration at The Hague. He will
succeed the late Robert E. Olds,
former Secretary of State.
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PEACE REIGNS
DES MOINES, May 8, —Compar
ative peace prevailed over Iowa
after one of the most hectic weeks
in its history as a farm belt state.
Leaders of the National farmers'
holiday association went forward
quietly with plans for their Nat
ional strike called for May 13.
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OCEAN “AIRPORT”
HAMBURG, Germany, May 8.—
The first “ocean airport” the SS.
Westfalen, sailed for its poit in
the South Atlantic, midway be
tween British Gambia and Per
nambuco, Brazil. She will be used
as a refueling station for a new
European South American Air Ser
vice that will be inaugurated.
GREAT FIRE LOSS
OAKLAND, Calif-, May 8. —The
key system pier, one of the great
est passenger ferry terminals in
the world, was destroyed by fire
but no lives were lost. The dam
age included destruction of the
million dollar ferry, Peralta. The
total loss was estimated at $3,000.
000.
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PROVIDES FOR FAMILY
HAVANA, Cuba, May 8, —Ann
Harding, film star, said she would
provide for 10 years for the support
of the family of Magin Alvarez,
Cuban sailor who was lost when
a sailboat carrying Miss Harding
and two friends capsized last Wed
nesday. Miss Harding- said she had
been notified to appear today at
an investigation into the sailor’s
death.
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HAIR TURNED WHITE
MONTREAL, May 8,—Charles
Schwartz, 24, was hanged at Brod
eaux jail for the murder of John
Jarvis, a night watchman. His
hair, which was jet black several
months ago, turned white in the
death cell.
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WARNING SERVED
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8.—
A warning has been served on
President Roosevelt that the ad
ministration should poll Senate
opinion on war debts before invit
ing defeat on any proposal for au
thority to alter debt agreements.
No Senator would admit author
ship of the warning letter to Mr.
Roosevelt, but it was known that
such a message had been dis
patched.
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PLANES BUSY
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8 — ,
Thousands of tons of gold min-!
ing machinery are being carried!
over rough mountains and jungles
by airplanes as men seek to expe
dite the production of gold, ac
cording to the Department of Com
merce. A 4,000-ton American
dredge recently was carried in
pu-ts by plane into the interior to
New Ginea, three mountain ranges
had to be crossed.
HARWICH. Mass.. May 8.—With
the arrest of two men and the re
covery of the SSO.fno ransom, po
lice believed they had solved the
kidnapping cf 10-year-old Peggy
McMath.
One cf the suspects, Kenneth
Buck, was 'said to have confessed
his part in the crime. The money
ft'as recovered at his home after
he and his brother Cyril, had been
.aken to jail at Barnstable, 12 miles
from here.
Before his removal from Harwich
Cyril denied that his part in the
case was any more than that of an
intermediary. He said he was giv
en a “cut ’ of $10,000, but prompt
ly turned it over to Neil McMath,
Peggy's father.
Kenneth Buck net only implicat
ed his brother but said there were
others in the case, two profession
als, who had taken S50.000 of the
money. Police doubted this, and
after sending the brothers to
jail, they went to Kenneth’s home
and recovered the entire $60,000.
“This virtually closes the cases,”
said Joseph Ferrari, state detective,
‘except to find the other conspira
tors if there are two others.” Peg
gy was safely returned to her pa
rents.
CHINESE Hill
SPECTUi USSIUIT
JMESE LECH
PIEPING, May 8.—A well organ
ized offensive within the week by
the Japanese army against Pieping
2nd Kalgan to the northewest. and
Tiensin to the southwest was fore
cast by official sources, including
Japanese, American and Chinese.
The Chinese are prepared to re
sist. They have completed the de-^
fense possible and are waiting for
the attack. Members of the Jap
anese legation and Nipponese mili
tary leaders here admitted spectac
ular, large-scale operations south
of the Great Wall were contem
plated.
“Its start is a matter of days,
perhaps hours,’’ one Japanese said.
“Nothing can stop it.”
JUDGE CLEGG GRITS
‘THE NORTHERN' 10
BEER, WINE LICENSES
Upon the application of Attorney
L. V. Ray, on Saturday, Hon. Cecil
H. Clegg, Judge of the Federal
Court for the Third Division of
Alaska, directed the issuance of
two licenses to John C. White of
Seward, for the premises known
locally as The Northern.
One license is a retail license for
the sale of beer and wine, not to
be consumed on the premises. The
other license, termed a beverage
dispensary license, permits the
serving of patrons and customers
with beverages in uncapped bot
tles, if such patrons are seated at
tables. No serving at the bar will
be tolerated.
Mr. Ray states the reputation
and standing of Mr. White in this
community for fair and above
board dealing and orderly and
decent place of recreation main
tained by Mr. White is a direct
cause of the prompt consideration
given his application.
MAKE^ DEMAND
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8, —
The Continental Congress for eco
nomic reconstruction, composed
chiefly of farmers and laborers,
adopted a resolution demanding
the resignation of Josephus Dan
iels as Ambassador to Mexico.
The action was taken because of
Daniel’s connection with the Vera
Cruz incident at the time he was
Secretary of the Navy in the Wil
son administration.