MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1929.
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 101
PRICE TEN CENTS
TOMORROW, 1928
COMPTROLLER BILL CONFER
EES UNABLE TO SETTLE
DIFFERENCES
JUNEAU, May 1, (Special to
the Gateway)—The senate passed
the Benjamin measure appropri
ating $5,000 to be used by the Gov
ernor in cooperating with the Ter
ritorial chamber of commerce for
publicity purposes.
The senate also passed the pre
datory animal control bill carry
ing $30,000; also the cooperative
mining investigations bill but it
cut the appropriation from $30,000
to $20,000. The house refused to
concur the amendment and the
measure was sent to conference.
Foster’s Kodiak school bill, car
rying $17,000, was passed by the
senate.
Dimond’s fight to get measures
out the committees, has been par
tially successful during the last
two days but all measures, relat
ing to the Alaska College, except
one by Hess for a frame, buliding
for housing natural history speci
mens, were blocked in the senate.
Hess sought $10,000 for a mu
seum building but the senate
cut it to $2,000.
An agreement was reached on
the meesvve providing for the use
of road funds to build airplane
landing fields, hydroplane moor
ings and provides that 30 percent
be permitted in the 2nd and 4th
divisions, 50 percent in the 3rd
and that any or all of road funds
lor the 1st division may be so ex
pended in the discretion of the
Territorial Road Commission.
The house killed the Steel can
nery sanitation measure as mean
ingless legislation.
The senate measure authoriz
ing courts to commit delinquent
children to the board of chil
dren's guardians, was defeated and
was described as a duplicate of
existing statutes.
The house passed the teachers
pension bill and also the bill ex
tending financial aid to public
Lbraies not to exceed $150 in any
year.
Other minor bills were passed
tv both houses. The school re
funds and comptroller bill confer
ees were unable to agree or set
tle their differences but the con
ferences are being continued.
BODIES AIRMEN FOUND
| SYDNEY, New South Wales,
May 1, (A3)—The tragic aftermath
of the search for the plane “South
ern Cross” was closed with the
report from the land searchers*
that the body of Robert Hitchcock:
was found this morning, and a
wing of the airplane “Kooka Bur
ra,” as well as the body of Lieut
Keith Anderson, which was near
by.
MM TRUE BILLS
BROT IN CHICA60
PROMINENT FOLK
I
INKLING OF VAST OPERATIONS
i OF SYNDICATE IS SEEN
BY THE POLICE
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CHICAGO, May 1, (A5)—Six po
lice captains and several promi
nent politicians, 28 in all, are all
named in true bills returned by
the Cook County grand jury and
further sensational disclosures
are hinted concerning a syndicate
which is said to have netted $25,
000 daily from operation of slot
machines.
The crusade grew out of the in
vestigation of the death of Mrs.
Selma Burnham, wealthy widow.
She was the head of the vending
machine company and the com
pany’s records were searched for
possible clues as to her death; in
stead, they found inkling of the
vast operations of the company
and a possible solution to the
bombing of the homes of two of
those named in the bills. The
names of those brot in by the
grand jury will be made shortly.
HOPE TO SECURE OLD
IPS OF TERRITORY
SEATTLE, May 1, (/P)—Eward
Allen, who is known for his valua
ble collection of old' maps, has
gone to Alaska, now to the Aleu
tian Islands and later to Siberia,
to get additional exhibits to his
collection. For years Allen collect
ed data dealing on Alaska and on
this trip expects to pick up old
Russian maps and add others, al
so, to old manuscripts of the coun
ryt. Mr. Allen expects to return
in July.
LONE PiEIFIS ISLE
MANILA, May 1, (/P)—Charles
Olsen, captain of the illfated
ter-island steamer Viking, tv'-'
burned following an exp’osion last
Sunday was washed ashore o^
Tanguingui Island, in the Visa
yan Sea.
He had been in the water
for 24 hours. The young Filipino
cabin boy was found with him, as
was also the second machinist. No
word has been received as to the
fate of the crew whom are be
lieved to have been lost. The 12
members of the crew whom are
believed to have been lost. Twelve
rescued by the Swedish steamer
Dnlhi are eunected to recover al
though badly burned.
CHICAGO FLIERS
ARRIVE: FOLLOWED
TRAIL OF 1
FOG BANKS CAUSED AVIATORS
CHANGE COURSE; MADE
TWO LANDINGS
ALTIN, British Columbia, May
1, (A*)—Parker Cramer and W. S.
Gamble, on their return flight
from Nome to New York, arrived
last evening from Whitehorse, Yu
kon Territory and left in the
morning expecting to reach Prince
George or Jasper by night and
New York on May 3rd or the 4th.
From Altin to Haelton Cramer
followed the old trail of ’98 using
'the Government Telegraph Line as
a landmark.
On the flight from Fairbanks
Whitehorse they encountered fog
banks compelling them to change
their course and necessitating
landings at Taylor and at Durys
post on Teslin Lake where they
refuelled for the flight to White
horse.
SEITTLE FOLK TO
GO REMOTE ISLE
Ml, WESTWARD
PLAN TO TEACH NATIVES TO
PLAY THE HARP WHEN NOT
BUSY TRAP LINE
SEATTLE May 1, {JP)— Mrs. T.
R. N. Milne and her daughter Peg
gy, eight years old, will soon be
'going to Atka Island with a harp
and a piano, to join the husband
and father on a fox farm which
he is operating for the Kanaka
Ranching company.
These will be the first musical
instruments on the island and
the second white woman. Mother
and daughter will study composi
tion and also plan to teach the
natives how to play the harp and
piano, when time permits; when
they are not caring for the fox
farm.
Mrs. Milne will devote much of
her time to writing feature stor
ies and fiction, of the natives.
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SEwaRD GOLFERS IN ACTION
FRUSTRATED REVOLT
LONDON, May 1, (A5)—A mes
sage to the Exchange Telegraph
from Perpignan, in southwestern
France, reported a revolutionary
plot had been discovered among
Barcelona troops and that they
are now confined to barracks.
Numerous arrests have been made
but Censorship has thus far pre
vented further details getting
thru.
THRUOUT EUROPE
EXTRAORDINARY IVIEASURES
TAKEN TO QUELL REPORT
ED BUDDING REVOLT
BERLIN, May 1, (A5)—Numerous
clashes between the police and
communists have been reported
and about 200 arrests have been
made during the May Day cel
ebration and communists meet
irigs in the different halls.
The former marched in long
processions through the main
thorofares and mounted police
were called upon to disperse the
huge crowds which resisted with
stones and bottles and in some
cases shots were fired.
Some of the demonstrators are
reported to have been wounded.
Police, in most of the capitals,
took extraordinary precautions
that nothing serious should hap
pen.
In Paris, London, Rome and in
South American capitals, parades
and outdoor meetngs, as well as
a few indoors, were held but with
no marked disorder.
FORMER ALDERMAN BOUGHT
ONE OF THE MACHINE
GUNS
CHICAGO, May 1, (^—Wit
nesses of the St. Valentine’s Day
massacre inquest told of selling
of enough machine guns to equip
several army squads.
A representative of a firearms
firm said Frank R. Thompson,
fugitive machine gun salesman,
alleged to have supplied the St.
Valentine massacre guns, has
been taken into custody for quiz
zing.
The evidence brot. out that the j
guns were sold one at a time to
the Hawthorne Kennels Club race
track then owned by “Scar-face”
A1 Capone and to a company for
merly owned by Alderman Titus
Haifa now in prison on liquor
conspiracy. ,
LAND IN DARKNESS
EDMONTON, Alberta, May 1, (A5) j
Gliding down in pitch darkness I
and onto a strange field, the Chi- ;
cago aviators, Cramer and Gamble,
landed at 10 o’clock last nite from
Prince George where they arrived
yesterday afternoon from Atlin. j
They left at six „ in the morning j
for Regina enroute to Chicago and j
New York. i
SCIENTIFIC UNO
AMERICAN BOY
AUGUST IS DATE SET FOR AN
NOUNCEMENT WINNERS
GREAT AWARD
NEW YORK, May 1, <A>)
Thomas A. Edison is seeking an
American school boy whose scien
tific mind may qualify him to
carry on the work of the great in
ventor.
Such a boy will be selected by
means of a Edison questionairre
and will be awarded four years
tuition in a technical school.
The selection is to be made
from high school preparatory
schools. Announcement of the of
fer was made by Charles Edison,
son of the inventor, and Pres
ident of the Edison industries, at
Orange, New Jersey.
Each state’s school commission
er, and in the District of Colum
bia, is to designate one male stu
dent who is the best representa
tive of American manhood and
possessing the highest ability* in
science subjects in school for the
years 1928 and 1929.
Each winner will receive a free
trip to the Edison laboratories to
answer the questionairre person
ally prepared by Mr. Edison, early v
in August. The names of the win
ners will be in Mr. Edison’s hands
by July 1.
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR OR. NEW
ST POINT BURROW
EDWARDSON DEECHEY, TRADER
AT POINT OF DEATH FROM
STROKE
POINT BARROW, May 1, i/P)—
Natives from hundreds of miles
east and south filled the church
yesterday at the funeral of Dr,
A. W. Newhall.
The body was buried in the lit
tle native graveyard overlooking
the village.
At the Doctor’s request his wid
ow is bravely trying trying to fill
the husband’s place and is car
ing for several bad cases of tub
ercolosis. *
Aid is sought for Edwardson Dee
chey, Point Barrow trader, who is
being rushed here from the trail.
He is said to be in a dying condi
tion due to a paralytic stroke.
CANNERY BOAT LOST
PRINCE RUPERT, May 1, (JP)—
The cannery tender Klemtu, own
ed by R. G. Johnson, is reported
to have sunk within five hours
of sailing from Prince Rupert. De
tails are lacking. The steamer
Salvage and the Princess have
left for the scene.
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT
LONDON, May 1, (A3)— Setting
a long distance record, squadron
leader, A. G. Jones Williams and
flight Lieut. N. H. Jenkins,of the
British Royal Air Force, who left
England on Wednesday in an non
stop flight to Calcutta landed at
Karachi India.