VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 143.
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SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HUSKS DELEGftTE
URGES EULL LOCAL
ALASKA LIKE “TOPSY,” JUST
GREW UP, DECLARES DEL
EGATE WICKERSHAM
SEATTLE, June 20, (/P)—'The cry
ing need of Alaska, Delegate James
Wickersham of Alaska, said here in
a newspaper interview, is indepen
ent local control of her natural re
sources. Given that, he said, and
Alaska would develop.
Delegate Wickersham said that
Alaska has “more government per
capita and less liberty, more harm
ful congressional limitations, than
any other American territory.”
It is almost wholly neglected by
its national guardians and like
“Topsy,” in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,”
“just growed.”
“Nobody seems to care a damn
what may become of it but in spite
of all handicaps, is proportionately
the richest possession we own.”
Delegate Wickersham said the
reindeer herds have become so
numerous that they are now eat
ing up the ranges; lack of mar
kets and capital make it impossi
ble to ship the deer out of the Ter
ritory; lack of patronage will make
it impossible to keep them there
much longer, all of which is con
sidered just one more problem fac
ing Alaska.
He added that Alaskans are bet
ter equipped than outsiders to
solve this problem. It is just anoth
er instance for the need of local
government.
The Alaska Delegate does not be
lieve Alaska has been treated un
fairly in the recent congressional
legislation, considering the gener
al slashing of all appropriations.
He was unprepared to say what
the economic condition cf the Ter
ritory is now as he has been ab
sent for a year, but he is confi
dent of its basic prosperity, because
of its natural resources, will solve
the financial crisis as did the West
and especially so if given state
hood.. The buying and selling pow
er will be increased immeasura
bly and prosperity will enter like
it did with the pioneering of the
West. He said that- Alaska wras pur
chasing approximately $30,000,000
in commodities a year from Seat
tle. alone
The Delegate arrived Sunday
from Washington enroute to the
Territory.
ROOSEVELT SELECTS
ALBANY, N. Y„ June 20. (>P)—
John E. Mack of Poughkeepsie who
placed Governor Franklin D. Roos
velt in nomination for his first
public office, that of State senator
22 years ago, was chosen by the
New York Governor to nominate
him for the presidency at the Chi
cago Democratic convention.
This announcement set at rest
speculation as to who would nomi
nate Roosevelt. Among those men
tioned was Senator Robert F. Wag
ner, New York advocate for relief
legislation by Congress.
CHINESE REVENUES I
MUM THREATENED
TOKYO, June 20, (JP>—The ques
tion of confiscation of Chinese
customs revenues in Manchuria by
Henry Puyis government, was called
to the attention of the Japanese
ambassador a t Washington b y
Secretary of State Stimson who
has the matter under considera
tion.
It was learned from official
quarters that the British ambas
sador visited the foreign office and
discussed the situation. It is un
derstood the powers fear the mat
ter threatens the integrity of Chi
nese maritime customs by which
a large portion of China’s foreign
indebtedness is secured.
DENOUNCES DE VALERA
LONDON, . June 20, —Appearing
in parliament for the first time
since his illness, David Lloyd
George denounced President D e
Valera of the Irish Republic Free
State, as a tyrant and declared1
that his demands for the indepen- j
dence of the Free state must nev-1
er be granted.
MAJOR GEARS OF TAX
BILE THROWN MESH
FOR LONG OPERATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20,
! (.P)—Today, the major gear of the
new tax bill was thrown into gear
to operate continuously through to
June 30, 1934; the government
hopes to realize $654,000,000 through
the new manufacturers excise levy
stamp taxes and miscellaneous
others.
These taxes amount to more
than half of the additional tax of
$1,118,500,000 which the govern
ment decided must be raised to bal
ance the budget.
The new taxes effect virtually,
i every human activity where pur
! chase of commodities is involved.
BROTHER VANISHED
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 20,—
The disappearance of Clifford R.
Mitchell, 23, brother of Geneva
1 Mitchell, former New York stage
actress, was investigated in con
nection with the activities of ex
tortionists.
BOM Will NOT
SOPPONT PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, June 20. ■(£>)—
! Senator Borah, a powerful support
ter of President Hoover in the
last campaign, announced in the
Senate he would not support the
President for reelection.
On the platform at the Chicago
convention after a speech denoun
cing platform adopted by conven
tion Borah was asked point blank
by Senator Lewis of Illinois if he
would support the reelection of
Hoover: “I will not,” Borah replied.
His reply sent a thrill thru the
Senate for he had previously an
nounced he was not bound by the
; platform and served notice that the
prohibition issue should be caried
I to the people.
! KIDNAPPING fit IDE
FEOtfil OFFENSE BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 20,—
Two days of flogging followed by
i hanging, was urged in the House
for Gaston B. Means, ex-convict
detective, by Representative Blank
ton, Texas Democrat, when offer
ing his bill making kidnaping a
! federal offense.
The bill should be amended to
I cover such cases as that of Gas
\ ton Means for his crime was one
l of the most despicable and hein
’ ous ever committed, and they
ought to put a whipping post out
side this capitol, tie him to it and
whip him 48 hours and then hang
him, Blankton said.
MUST SETTLE QUESTION
TOfilDCfflSTiOPHE
LAUSANNE, June 2 0, —Prime
Minister Rahmsay MacDonald of
Great Britain, chairman of the
Lausanne reparations conference
to end reparations, pleaded that
the nations speedily settle the re
parations question in order to
“avoid a world catastrophe.”
“We have met in the shadow of
the most ominous crisis that ever
afflicted the world in a time of
peace,” MacDonald said.
“The whole world looks to us as
it has never looked at an interna
tional conference before to find
an agreement which will help end
existing distress.”
BEADS DESTROY CACHE
OF HUBBARD PM
(Special to The Gateway)
PILOT POINT, Alaska, June 20,—
In order to save valuable time and
labor carrying heavy supplies into
Aniakchak volcano, Fr. Bernard
Hubbard, geologist of Santa Clara
University, cached gasoline and
food supplies along the route; but
on returning to one cache they
found that man’s natural enemy,
the huge Alaska brown bear, had
pounded the gasoline cans togeth
er and bit through the tin, causing
serious inconvenience to the party,
and handicapped their efforts in
gaining the crater for scientific
study.
Last year, it will be recalled, a
brown bear routed the defenseless
party from the crater.
SYRACUSE FRESHMAN WIN
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 20, (JP)—
Syracuse Freshman were victorious
in the two-mile dash opening the
regatta; Navy was second, three
lengths behind, and Cornell was
third; California, Pennsylvania
and Columbia overlapping in battle
for the remaining place.
MODIFICATION MON
WOULD TAKE SOME TIME
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CHICAGO, June 20, —Some time
would be required for modification
of the 18th amendment as propos
ed by the Republican party plat
form even if a Congress favorable
to that change were elected, it was
said here today.
If the anti-prohibition sentiment
is as widespread as claimed by the
wets who are agitating for repeal,
they need not expect such a change
in one day, a few weeks, or even
for months, it was made clear.
EASTERNERS FAVORED
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 20, (/P)—
Cornell and Syracuse are favored
against the challengers, California
and Washington in the crew races
today. The race is scheduled at
1:15 Pacific Standard time.
VETERANS GETTING “WISE”
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20,
(JP)—Stripped of their immediate
objective by the defeat of the bon
us bill, leaders of the veterans army
concentrated on organizing ex-ser
vice men for election day making
tentative overtures to Democrats.
• • CURRENT BREVITIES • •
TOMORROW NIGHT!
NEW YORK, June 20, (/P)—Max j
Schmeling, heavyweight champion,
and Jack Sharkey, meet Tuesday;
night in a 15 round boxing match j
which renews a fistic fued of two
years standing. Schmeling, who \
won the title in 1930 on a foul, is j
a slight favorite; the betting is 6-5.;
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OUT OF GAME
WIMBLEDON, Eng., June 20, —
Miss Elizabeth Ryan, formerly of
California, now of London, with-1
drew from the Wimbledon ten
nis championship singles. She
will be paired with Miss Helen
Jacobs of California in the doubles, j
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BUYS A NAVY
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 20, —
The purchase of two cruisers, eight!
gunboats, seven submarines and 6
sumarine “mother ships” was
authorized by Provincial President
Geulio Vargo in a decree published i
today.
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BILL BECOMES EFFECTIVE
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20,
—A few days hence, most of the
new taxes voted by Congress in the
$1,118,500,000 revenue bill will be
come effective, the measure, sign
ed by president Hoover on June
sixth providing that most of the j
new excise taxes and special levies1
be applied fifteen days later, or on!
June 21st. The excise taxes on
manufactured goods will be paid
by the manufacturers on goods i
they release to the trade on and
after June 21st.
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DISTRESS SIGNAL
LONDON, June 20, —The ‘Brit-j
! ish ship Ferndale sent out a dis
tress signal from a point 50 miles
. northeast of Algiers, Lloyds was in
I formed in a dispatch from Malta.
! The position given wras near Del
j ly’s Rocks, 36 north, 3.55 east.
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MYSTERIOUS AILMENT
SAN FRANCISCO, June 20, —
Stricken with a mysterious ail
ment at an asserted gay party,
Major A. Stockton, 40, and Army
officer, died in agony at the French
hospital causing the coroner’s of
fice to investigate the possibility
that poison liquor was responsible
Major Stockton’s wife, Mrs. Jane
Stockton, was also in a critical
condition.
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REACH THE FINALS
LONDON, June 20, —Mrs. L. A.
Harper and Miss Sarah Palfrew of
Brookline, Mass-, reached the fin
als of the women’s doubles play in
the Queen’s Club tournament by
defeating Miss Elizabeth Ryan of
London and Miss Helen Jacobs
of California, 6-3, 6-4.
SPAIN EXALTS 1898 HEROES
MADRID, June 20, (A1)—Spanish
heroes of the 1898 campaigns a
gainst United States troops in Cuba
and the Philippines will be en
shrined soon in a memorial mau
soleum being erected here under
joint financing by the city and
federal governments.
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WANTS TO MOVE HOME
BERLIN, June 20, UP)—Dispatch
es from Berlin revealed that for
mer Kaiser Wilhelm, wants to
come back to Germany next aut
umn to live at Coburg.
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A GRUESOME MURDER
NEW YORK, June 20, —A grue
some murder mystery confronted
police- With a lawnmower strap
ped to his chest, the slashed and
bullet riddled body of a man was
found off Bagylon Beach. Tatoo
marks on the man’s arms inclined
police to believe he was a seaman,
perhaps a rum runner and victim
of a gang vendetta.
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INSISTS ON FLYING
NEW YORK, June 20, — Viola
Gentry, plucky young aviatrix, de
spite several injuries recently suf
fered, insists on flying. She is the
owner of a new Department of
Commerce pilot’s license recently
received. Because her last accident
left her with the use of only one
hand, she had to take a special
test at Roosevelt Field.
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BROUGHT ALONG RELIC
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20. —
Investigations disclosed that a
“bomb” found near a billet of the
“bonus army” was an old Mills hand
grenade from which the powder
and cap had been removed. Po
lice said they thought it was a war
relic brought along out of senti
ment by one of the twelve thou
sand veterans who have come to
Washington to demand the bonus
payment.
EIFFEL TOWER NETS PROFIT
PARIS, June 20, (/P)—?The Eiffel
tower earned net profits of $114,
724 in 1931 from gross receipts of
$275,801 of which $12,000 came from
an illuminated advertisement of a
widely known automobile.
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“CAT O’ NINE TAILS”
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Bri
tish West Indies, June 20. —
Whipping with a “Cat O’Nine
Tails” is being employed here by
magistrates in an effort to stamp
out obeahism or the practice of
witchcraft. Complete cessation
of voodooism in the country dis
trict of Toco was reported after
the local magistrate had sentenc
ed an obeah practitioner to six
lashes of the “Cat O’ Nine Tails.”
NOMINEE APPROVED
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20,
(JP)—The Senate judiciary commit
tee approved the nomination of
Lester Gore as Federal judge for
Division two of Alaska; also, a fav
orable report on the Pittman bill
authorizing the United States to
buy up domestic silver production.
The latter was voted on by the
Senate banking committee.
SGHMELINB FAVORITE
IN BETTING CIRCLES
TO WIN TITLE BOUT
NEW YORK, June 20, — Max
Schmeling is a ten to nine favor
ite to retain his title against Jack
Sharkey Tuesday night in the light
est betting preceding any heavy
weight championship bout in 40
years. Jack Doyle, Broadway bet
ting commissioner, announced the
official odds, quoting three to two
against a knockout in the 15-rounds
and three to one against Sharkey
knocking out Schmeling.
“We expect the ten to nine odds
carry the men into the ring, said
the veteran commissioner. “Qf
course, heavy money on their man
might change the odds. But I think
the professional gamblers will come
in with their bets fairly evenly
balanced about 48 hours before
the bout ”
Doyle deplored the lack of ac
tivity among the betting men, pre
ceding what is called “one of the
greatest natural gambling bouts
ever staged.’’
In 40 years of handling the fight
bets, he claimed there never had
been such a scarcity of money.
CHICAGO, June 20, —The ad
vance guard of Democratic politi
cians, arriving for their national
convention which opens June 27,
immediately clashed in a debate
over whether they should demand
prohibition repeal or duplicate the
Republicans on the so-called “Hoo
ver straddle’’ plank.
Jouett Shouse, chairman of the
Democratic national executive com
mittee. first of the committee of
ficials on the scene, has already
received 50 prohibition platform
suggestions. They range, he said,
from the moderate referendum to
repeal.
BONUS ARMY MAY
LINGER AT CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, D. C-, June 20,
—Uncertainty hovers over the cap
ital as Congress waited to see if
the overwhelming defeat of tjhe
soldiers’ bonus bill in the Senate
would turn the tide of the Veter
an’s invasion of Washington.
Leaders of the bonus army of oc
cupation strove to hold in line the
30.000 odd men encamped about
the city, while city authorities re
newed their efforts to start the
disappointed veterans homeward.
Meanwhile, from all sections of
the country, came reports of thou
sands of other veterans doggedly
moving onward to Washington.
PUS III VET BE
GIVEN ‘HONOR' SUB
SAN FRANCISCO, June 20, —
Pardons may yet be granted the
“honor slayers” of Joe Kahahawai,
Governor Judd indicated.
He is still constidering the par
don applications of Thomas Mas
sie, Mrs. Grace Fortescue and the
two sailors.
He declared the moral conditions
were presented in a wrong light
and attempts now being made in
Congress to change the form of
government in the islands, were
classified as carpet-bagging poli
tics.
DEMOCRATS URGED
MEET PROHIBITION
IN SQUARE MANNER
CHICAGO, June 20, —The de
mand came from the forces of
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of
New York and candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion, that the Democratic party
meet the prohibition issue square
ly with “no pussy-footing” which
marked the Republican convention
action.
This was the ultimatum of Jas.
A. Farley, strapping six-foot man
ager of the New York Governor's
campaign, who arrived here full
of fight and optimism.
Just how far Roosevelt would go
towards re-submission on repeal of
the 18th amendment has been a
question. Chiefly because most of
his strength is centered largely in
the west and south, hitherto re
garded as the bulwark of the dry
forces, Farley declined to discuss
Roosevelt’s position in detail today
but indicated that the New York
Governor, who is on record for a
change, would stand for a more
direct committment than that of
the Republicans in their plank.
FAMOUS iUTTERlAR
f
[ OAKLAND, June 20, —Again on
| the high road to adventure the
i former Alaska Bureau of Education
cutter Bear, which plied Alaskan
1 waters as far north as Point Bar
i rowr, heaved anchor to start on
what is expected to be another
polar expedition to Richard E.
Byrd’s Antarctic land.
The Bear was sold by the city
; of Oakland to the explorer after
the historic ship had rested for a
long time in retirement on the
Oakland ways.
The Bear was replaced in the
Alaska service by the Bureau of
Indian Affairs new ship, the M. S.
North Star.
MCE SHEETS WILL
SHOW GERMANY’S PLIGHT
LAUSANNE, June 20. (/Pi—Re
ports said that European states
men are preparing a final repara
tions settlement without the Amer
i ican guarantee of cancellation or
revision of war debts due the U. S.
The 'method under discussion is
to cancel Germany’s uncondition
al and conditional annuities un
der the You|hg plan and to bona
German railways for an undeter
mined amount; then without di
rect appeal to the United States,
to publish the balance sheets to
show that Germany is unable to
i pay her debts, in the hope that
: American opinion will draw fav
orable conclusions therefrom.
■IIPION'S MANAGER
j TOUW ABOUT REFEREE
NEW YORK, June 2 0, —The
last blast of ballyhoo for the Max
Schmeling-Jack Sharkey fight,
came from the hills of Kingston
I when Joe Jacobs, manager of the
champion, declared he would not
allow his man to enter the ring
unless the Boxing Commission
! names an acceptable referee.
Max Schmeling is in perfect
I condition, Jacobs said, and “we
| feel he is destined to win the
fight and are not going to jeopar
dize his chances by allowing him
to enter the ring with some ref
eree who would steal it.”
RUBBER GOING UP
AKRON, O., June 20, —Four ad
ditional companies have joined the
Goodyear Rubber Company in in
creasing tire prices 15 per cent, be
coming effective June 21, the date
the excise taxes take effect.