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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 40. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ANOTHER OFFICIAL
TAKES WALLOP IT
THE HE. ITALY
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EXPLAINS LATER DID NOT IN- j
TEND CAST ASPERA
TION
WASHINGTON, Feb., 23, (IP)—
The Iatlian embassy requested
the Italian consulate in New
York to send it, for study, a full
report of the remarks made Sat
urday by Assitant Attorney Gen
eral John O'Brian.
O'Brian was quoted as indirect
ly criticizing Mussolini by saying
“Thank God we don’t live in a
country such as Italy whe.te the
dictartorship of one man can
horizontal or slice wages.”
Asked to explain later OJ3rian
said: “Perhaps I made a poor!
choice of words iq expressing my j
ideas. It was not my intention
or purpose to cast aspesations
upon Italy or it’s rulers, but was
contrasting that when the de
pression came to Itlay, Mussoli- j
ni issued a manifesto ordering
a 10 per cent cut in government
salaries. I understand that later
this was extended to private em
ployment. The thought I had was
that the Federal governmentj
here had taken no such action ”. :
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CIO SS flOSS'S CREW
FAIL TO MATERIIZE
SEATTLE, Feb., 24, (/P)— W. E.
Springstun ate alone at the
Transportation Club after plans
for the reunion of passengers and
crew of the old S3 Dora failed to
materialize.
It had been planned to cele
brate the 25th anniversary of
the arrival of the Dora at Port
Angeles after drifting on the Pa
cific for 63 days crippled by a
storm.
He said he had heard frQjn all
the passengers but they couldn’t
be here.
Moses, a fur buyer, is at Tana
kee Hot Springs; Bobbie Gould is
at Unga; J. E. Thwaite, the Dora’s
mail clerk, is at Ketchikan; B. H.
Barbee, second officer on the |
Dora, is a pilot on the Admiral j
Farragut.
AMERICAN WOMAN j
COLFER BEITS BRITAIN1
PALM BEACH, Florida, Feb. 24. |
UP)—Helen Hicks scored an in
ternational golf victory by defeat-'
ing Diana Fishwick, British cham- j
pion six up and five to play in j
the semi-finals of the Florida
Women’s Championship. Miss
Hicks will play Virginia Van Wie
in the finals. Miss Van Wie down
ed Miss Peggy Wattles by five i
and six. j
SUFFERED RELAPSE
SYDNEY, N. S. W., Feb., 23, (/P)- i
Madame Nellie Melba, famous!]
Prima Donna, suffered a relapse j
and is reported in a grave condi- <
tion.
U ZINK IE MAN DIES
KODIAK, Feb., 24, Special to
The Gateway—Fred Squartsoff of
Uzinkie, who fell from a cliff near
Uganik, died here this morning
as the result of a broken rib
coupled with tuberculosis and an
attack of influenza.
SOVIET
recent *nmr
CROCK AT OlOSKO
WASHINGTON, Feb., 24. </P)—
Chairman Johnson of the House
immigration committee said he
believed the charges from Mexico
City that 5,000 Mexicans were
held in virtual slavery in Alaska,
was inspired by the Soviet gov
ernment.
They saw it as part of a
countermove against the nations
seeking to bar forced labor and
products.
Mr. Johnson cited the recent
Mexico City dispatch telling of
alleged slavery and said the “im
migration committee inquired in
to the report and ascertained the
estimated number of Mexicans
in Alaska was 40.”
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES
ASKED TO STUDY CASE
NEW YORK, Feb., 23, UP)—The
echo of a clash between formerj
Judge Ben Lindsey and Bishop
William T. Manning, cropped up
when Rev. Elliot White sent a let- j
ter to the Bishop asking him to j
study Mr. White’s case and see
whether there are grounds for a
trial because of his views on com
panionate marriage.
SECRETLY MARRIED
NEW YORK, Feb., 23. (/P)_C.
Farrell, idol of film fans, and Vir
gir ;a Valti, also noted film star,:
were married secretly last week by i
a Protestant minister. They were |
reported to have sailed for a j
European honeymoon on the SS j
Augustus.
$5,000,000 FUR CONTRACT
LONDON, Feb., 23, (£>)—Eiting
ton Schild Co., American dealers
in furs, announced completion of
contracts with the Soviet Govern
ment for the purchase of $5,000,000
worth of pelts. The deal was ar
ranged with the knowledge of the
Washington government, it is said.
BARRED FROM TEAM
LONDON, Feb., 23, </P)_Henry
Cotton, British golf professional,
was barred from competition with
the Ryder Cup Team because of
his announced decision of making
a tour of the United States separ
ate from the team in contradiction
af rules.
$2,000,000 IN FABRICS
LONDON, Feb., 23, (TP)-The Lan
cashire s Cotton Industry launched
i most ambitious plan to advertise
tself and sell its products all over
he world with the opening of the
first National Cotton Textile Ex
ilbition in the presence of Queen
tfary and throngs of buyers from
ill over the world. Two million
iollars in cotton fabrics were dis
played.
MILLIONS GRAFT
FOR PROTECTION
N.!. SPEAKEASIES
—
HIGH RANKING POLICE OFFIC
IALS MAKE HUGE BANK
DEPOSITS
NEW YORK, Feb. 24, (ZP» —
Local protection for speakeasies
in New York city cost somewhere
between $20,000,000 and $30,000,
000 annually and Samuel Seabury,
referee of investigation into the
magistrates courts has launched
a campaign to find out where1
this graft money ultimtely is de
posited.
Seabury sent out 600 subpoenas
to banking and business houses
calling for all records pertaining
to the accounts of 51 police of
ficils of high ranking, and revela
tions are expected to plunge the
police department into the big
gest scandal in years.
Meanwhile federal officers in
terested themselves in income tax
returns of police men who have
already admitted making bank
deposits ranging from $60,000 to j
$237,000 which they cannot ex- j
plain.
KEEPING HIS PROMISE
WENATCHEE, WTash„ Feb., 24,!
(/P)—Ole Eielson, of Hatton, N. j
D.. father of the late Col. Carl B. j
Eielson, said today he would;
leave soon to visit Alaska to keep j
his promise, made when his son’s [
body was found, that he would j
return to the North. He has been j
here for several days visiting his •
daughter, Adeline, a school teach- ;
er.
JUNEAU, Feb., 23, </P)— Lee)
Pulver, who recently was bequeath- j
ed the estate of the late Emery j
Valentine, another pioneer of i
Alaska, dropped dead while des- i
cending stairs to the furnace
room of the Valentine Block.
He was about 50 years of age.
His only known relative is a
niece believed to be residing in
New York State.
KIKE m ALMOST EOT
DOST 'LEAD POISONING'
VIENNA, Feb. 23. (JP) —King
Zog, of Albania, was fired upon
as he was leaving an opera house.
The King escaped injury but his
adjutant major Topolai was kill
ed when, it is reported, he leap
ed in front of the king.
Two other officials were wound
ed. The king helped the police
seize the two assassins and said
that they belonged to his op
posing party in Albania,
Zog came here to consult a
specialist due to an ailment from
over smoking.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24. (/P) —
Frank A. Vanderlip, former presi
dent of National City Bank has
made between $3,000,000 and $5,
000,000 on shares of Auburn Auto- i
mobile stock. I
HUGE BUDGET DEFICIT
LONDON, Feb. 24. (J?) — Sir
Philip Snowden, Chancellor of Ex- j
chequer, brought the seriousness
of the country’s financial predica- I
ment to the attention of the La- !
bor party when at a, meeting of
parliamentary members he in
dicted that the next budget’s de
ficits w'ould run between 200 and
250 million dollars.
ITALY AND FRANCE
HUSH CONSTRUCTION
NAVAL SUPERIORITY
PARIS, Feb. 24. (/P) —After be
ing officially warned that “Italy
is rushing construction,” French
Chamber, of Deputies voted on
the 1931 naval budget providing
for the laying down during the
year of a total of 42,000 tons of
warship construction.
In outlining plans, budget re
porter Eduard Bussat took a few
shots at the Washington naval
conference action in placing Italy
on parity with France in battle
ship quotas, characterizing al
lottment as unjust. He also de
clared Great Britain has no right
to insist on naval superiority to
the United States at the London
Conference.
RUM BOAT SINKS
NEW YORK, Feb., 24. —'Thei
rum boat La Esqeranee with $40,
000 worth of liquor aboard my
steriously sank in waters offj
Gravesend Bay after the Coast
Guard captured her
NOT “ PINEAPPLE CITY”
SOUTH BEND, Indiana, Feb. 24.
t.n'f—“New York, not Chicago is the
center of the American nation’s
crime.” Major Smedly D. Butler,
of Mussolini apology fame told
the Knife and Fork club, in an
address here.
FINISH MATCH
EAST LAKE COUNTRY CLUB,;
Atlanta, Georgia, Feb. 24. (A>) —j
Bobby Jones and Johnny Golden,
Connecticut professional, finished
their exhibition match here with
Gene Sarazen and Horton Smith,
Nesw York professionals, a 11
square after 18 holes.
FLOOR TO FLOOR
NEW YORK, Feb. 24. (JP) —
Two bandits who held up a jewelry
store on the upper floor of a
Fifth Avenue skyscraper were cap
tured when 100 policemen sur- (
rounded the building and made a
floor to floor search.
TOWN BE RAZED
QUEBEC, Feb. 24. (A*) — The
town of Asbestos, with a popu
lation of more than 5,000 is toj
be razed because engineers have
found that the best leads of a
great asbestos mine run under its
main land.
APPPOINTED CHAIRMAN
WASHINGTON, Feb., 24, (JP)—
Halcombe Ward of New York City
svas appointed chairman of the
1931 Davis Cup and International
Play Committee by President Car
uthers of the United States
,awn Tennis Association.
CHURCH BEGINS
ATTEMPT DICTATE
DEMO POLITICS
WARNS WHAT HAPPENED TO
SMITH IN SOUTH WILL
OCCUR AGAIN
WASHINGTON, Feb., 24, (/P)—
Proposals to create a single all
embracing dry organization to
fight through the 1932 president
ial election campaign, were re
ported to have drawn vigorous
objections by the prohibition
board of strategists’ meeting at
their closed meeting.
They agreed upon the necessi
ty of cooperating to eliminate
over-lapping of efforts of sever
al organizations.
The Methodist board of tem
perance warned the Democratic
party to “stop slapping the Dem
ocratic drys in the face and keep
moral issues out of the 1932 cam
paign.”
They said that in 1923 the
same men who today are saying
the Democratic party must be
wet were hooting at the idea that
A1 Smith would lose the South
ern States because of his attack
on prohibition. What happened
then is almost to certain to hap
pen next year if the leaders once
again plays with the buzz-saw.”'
WASHINGTON, Feb,, 24, (TP)—
For the second time during a 10
year controversy, Congress sent
to the White House, the bill pro
viding for the operation of the
government’s $150,000,000 power
and nitrate plants of Muscle
Shoals.
The Senate passed the bill 55
to 28 authorizing the government
manufacture and distribution of
electric power.
It is predicted that President
Hoover will disapprove the bill
as Coolidge pocket vetoed a sim
ilar bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb., 23, (£»)—
Immediate construction of the
Sunnyvale navy airship **ise will
follow if Congress accepts the
views of the naval subcommittee
of the House appropriations com
mitte.
In accordance with the views
of President Hoover, an appro
priation of $2,500,000 will be made
for the immediate construction
of the base.
“ JOURNEYMAN KILLER ”
NEW YORK, Feb. 24. (/P) —
Frank Mario, Chicago gunman
once identified as the man who
killed a henchman of A1 Capone
but who was never caught by the
Chicago police, was found shot
to death on the lower eastside.
Mario was known as a “journey
man killer'’ who slew Tom Lom
bardo in Chicago.