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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 102.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
TOMES CHIMED
MODE Will LIVES
IN MIT DIE SUMS
SHREVEPORT. La.. May 2, —
Spasmotic tornadoes that lashed
the lower Mississippi Valley for
the last two days have left behind
at least 39 dead and mo'-e than
1.000 injured and a litter of wreck
age in cities and rural commu
nities of Lousiana. Arkansas and
Mississippi
Following on the heels of the
blast that snuffed out eight lives
over the week-end, the May Day
storms danced a crazy pattern
over Louisiana and Arkansas and
added 81 to the lost of dead and
damaged five towns including the
important parish seat of Minden.
Missouri farm houses were lev
eled, barns blown over, trees
whipped down. torrential rains
blew horozontal sheets and many
roads were impassable.
The funnel-shaped cloud struck
Minden roaring like a freight
train; buildings shook and quiv
ered. loose objects were whirled
through the streets with the speed
of bullets; houses were unroofed
and leveled.
The negro section of the town
was flattened; fire broke out, pow
er communication lines ripped up,
parts of the residential section
were wrecked and automobiles
were blown through store win
dows. Sam Life, a merchant, re
ported winds lifted him off his
feet and high into the air where
he obtained a bird’s-eye view of
the town, then set him down with
out injury.
National guardsmen have arriv
ed in the city to prevent looting.
Mill FISHERMEN
ON STRIKE-. LOW PRICE
ASTORIA, Ore., May 2, —A strike
has been called by Columbia river
fishermen’s protective union bas
ed on refusal of packers offer of
8c per pound for river salmon. Gill
netters are off the lower river and
not a single fishermen’s boat is
now on the river from the mouth
to 25 miles above the city.
Several boats are reported op
erating off Puget Island and at
Cathlamet with the usual quota
of fishermen.
EXULTANT DISPLAY OF
MIIITK STBTII
CHICAGO, May 2, —May Day,
festival of political extremists,
was celebrated yesterday with
bombs in this city, an exultant
display of military strength in
Moscow, a Fascist holiday in Ber
lin, ann extensive police precau
tions in large cities throughout
the world.
Five almost simultaneous bomb
blasts just outside of the Chicago
Loop did heavy property damage
early in the morning, and aroused
sleeping citizens in a 20-mile area.
No one was killed.
IN DISGRACE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2, —
The White House police dog,
“Major,” is in deep disgrace and
hereafter will be muzzled and
kept away from others, Mrs. F. D.
Roosevelt said.
Major attempted to bite Prime
Minister Bennett of Canada, who
has been conferring with Presi-j
dent Roosvelt and attending the
recent economic conversations. !
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REMOVE BAR
WASHINGTON, D- C., May 2, —'
A $500,000 appropriation for re
moval of the bar which extends
12 miles seaward from the Golden!
Gate of San Francisco, heads the|
list of Pacific Coast authorizations j
of the $98,000,000 government j
waterways bill prepared for intro-1
duction in the House by Chair
man Mansfield, of the rivers and)
harbors committee.
ALASKA PROPOSALS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2, —
The $99,000,000 omnibus river and
harbors bill was introduced in the
House today and includes the fol
lowing Alaska items:
Wrangell Harbor $56,000; Wran
gell Narrows $142,000; Dry Pass
$79,000; Stikine River $5,600; Ko- j
diak Harbor $77,000; Petersburg!
$94,000: Egegik River $5,000.
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SIX IK SHIES
WILL BE LISTED WIG
THOSE EM REPUL
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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 1,—!
Six more states will be listed be
fore the end of May among those
officially favoring repeal of the
18th amendment, anti-prohibi
tionists forces predict.
Prompt and over-whelming rati
fication of repeal by Michigan and
Wisconsin has heartened the WetSj
to press the fight in other states
to wipe prohibition off the stat-j
ute books.
With two states already recorded j
for ratification of the prohibition
repeal amendment, Jouett Shouse,
president of the Association
against the prohibition amend
ment, said: “We will have action
during this month in six addition
al states and the we are confident
the important initial processes of
repeal will have been undertaken
in almost one-fourth of the nec
essary 36 states.”
BRIM PRODUCES
FKSTEST SUBMARINE
LONDON, May 1, —Britain has
again eclipsed her rivals for naval
supremacy by producing what is
said to be the fastest submarine'
afloat. J
The official particulars just is
sued for the new submarine
Thames show her capable of 22
and one-half knots and a dive of
approximately 400 feet without
danger.
The nearest rivals of the Thames
are submarines of the French and
Japanese navies which claim
speeds of 20 knots.
FOUR UNDER PAR
CALIFORNIA GOLF CLUB, San
Francisco, May 1, —Shooting 30
holes, four under par, Charles
Seaver of Stanford and Los An
geles, retained his Northern Cal
ifornia amateur golf championship
title at the California Club Sun
day.
He defeated James A. “Babe”
Ritchie of Stockton by the big
margin of 7 and 3 in spite of the
fact that Ritchie was but five
strokes over par for the 30-hole
match.
LAST HURDLE
BERLIN, May 2, —Chancellor
Hitler’s brown-shirts took by sur
prise and stormed the last hurdle
to Nazi domination of the labor
movement by occupying the head
quarters of free trade unions
throughout the country.
Socialist leaders and unions
which have 5,500,000 members
were seized and arrested; in the
future these will be of a nation
al character rather than interna
tional, the Nazis said.
PRESCRIBE LIQUOR
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 1,—
Physicians throughout the country
are now able to prescribe liquor
for their patients without severe
limitations.The bill, recently pass
ed by Congress, taking Federal re
strictions off the number of liquor
prescriptions, became effective last
Monday.
NEED NEW RELIGION
CHICAGO, May 1, —Declaring
“the religious forms and ideas of
our fathers inadequate, 34 editors,
educators and ministers issued a
statement urging the estalishment
of a religion “shaped for the needs
of this age.” They offered human- i
ism as such a religion and gave]
their explanation of it in 15 points.1
MW DENOUNCES
FISHERIES SYSTEM IN
FUSE PUSS DISTRICT
By John 3. Pegues
JUNEAU. May 2, —The Hou.se
passed the measure by Lingo mak
ing the auditor tax assestment
officer of the Territory giving him
authority to require all firms, corp
orations, etc., doing business or lia
ble for taxation under various
schedules reported in operation on
which to base assessments.
The House passed the Hellerich
measure repealing all Territorial
laws against transportation, im
portation, manufacture and sale
of beer and intoxicating liquor to
become effective upon repeal of
the 18th amendment.
The House passed the Senate
bill authorizing the Governor to
lease school lands and, several
minor code amendments. It also
passed Lingo’s bill appropriating
$1,000 to advertize the proposed
International Highway; amended
the Hellerich bill creating an inde
pendent department of mines by
making the Dean of the School of
Mines of the Alaska College, Er
nest Patty, commissioner of mines
with a limited salary and reducing
the estimated operating costs of
the proposed department to $15,000
for the Biennium.
Senator Robert Bragaw intro
duced a memorial denouncing the
system of regulating the fisheries
in the False Pass area. Alaska Pen
insula, condemning the operation
of traps there and urging imme
diate remedial action.
Hess introduced a measure auth
orizing the auditor to contract on
a two-year basis all public print
ing which was passed under sus
pended rules.
They passed another measure
broadening the power of the board
of education which gives it abso
lute authority over rural schools.
Governor Troy expects to wrire
the text of the beer bill today to
all Territorial newspapers.
TELLliHittREis
DISCOVERED IT NUKJI
BIV. ME PROPERTY
According to assay returns re
ceived by Charles Goyne, who yes
terday left for Nuka Bay to es
tablish a base camp and prospect
in the vicinity of James Lagoon
for the next few months, and tak
en from picked samples of his
former holdings which he recently
sold to Ogle & Pattreson, pure
tefluride ore exists at Nuka Bay.
The assay return gave a total of
$3,179.70 per ton, of which $3,163.20
was gold, 16.50 silver and 0.72 tell
urium.
This is the character of ore that
made Cripple Creek and Goldfield
famous, and is sought for by all
prospectors because of its immense
richness.
In- metallic combination the ore
consists of 28.5 gold, 15.7 silver and
55.8 tellurium.
The ore occurs in degrees from
steel gray, silver white to brass
yellow, and has a gray streak, is
sec tile and is often indistinquish
able to the untrained eye. When
roasted in a temperature of about
450 degrees the gold appears free.
It is also soluble in hot suphuric
and nitric acid.
The discovery of telluride ore
in Nuka Bay points to great pos
sibilities for the camp.
The assay was made by Faulk
lenburg & Co., Seattle along with
analysis pronoucing the sample a
pure telluride.
GOT A JOB
OMAHA, Nebr., May 1, —Walter
W. Waters, commander of the bon
us expeditionary army, now Ls em
ployed as attendant at a filling
station here.
Mr. Waters said it was the first
job he had had since disbanding
the B. E. F. He plans to bring his
children here from Idaho and with
Mrs. Waters establish their home
here. He has written a book on
his B. E. F. experiences.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 1, Cleveland 8. This was
the only game played.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburg 10, Phillies 0. No other i
games played.
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"REPAID’ WITHDRAWN i
FROM DERBY RAGE AI
CHURCHiLLDQWNS
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 1, —The
“Big Four” of Eastern contenders
for the $50,000 Kentucky derby
stake has been cut to the* “Big
Three” with the announcement by
James F. Johnson, owner of the
Quincy stable, that he would not
sent Repaid to Churchill oDwns.
Repaid, one of the future book
favorites, raced poorly in two starts
at Havre de Grace. His withdrawal
leaves W. R. Coes’ Ladysman,
Adolp Pon’s Stively. and Fa. Grif
fith’s Sarada, to bear the princi
pal hopes of the east in the histor
ic race May 6.
POONA, India, May 2, —Doctor
Margaret Spiezle, German Jewess
exile since the Hitler reign be
lieves she can prevent Mahatma
Gandhi from beginning his “pro
jected fast,” and thus save his
life.
She was ordered away from the!
prison by Gandhi, her adopted 1
leader, but remained there despite
his arguments that she planned to j
join him in the fast until he de
cides to save her life.
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COMMUNIST PARTY
MOSCOW, USSR., May 2, —A
new and drastic order was issued
for the great “purging” of the
Communist party which is design
ed to eliminate all “careless hyp
ocrits” and almost a million mem
bers and candidates for member
ship may be affected by the clean
ing process.
The orders indicated they we<re
issued by the party’s central con
trol committee for the “purging”
which is to begin June 1 and last
thru until November.
(GIST BLISTERING IOT
BRISBANE, Australia, May 2, (JP)
—Most of the dogs in the cnttle
country of North Australia are
wearing chamois leather shoes.
The blistering heat of this sum
mer has been so” unbearable that
the^dogs have been unable to run
over the baked earth and herding
cattle has been difficult without
the aid of these trained canines
Somebody thought of shoes and
now almost all the dogs have their
feet encased.
HAPPY CELEBRATION
PHILADELPHIA, May 2, —The
Phillies celebrated their 15th an
niversary as a member of the Na
tional League by bowing to Pitts
burg 10-0. Four Phillies pitchers
were blasted for 17 hits by the
Pirates.
CAT ADOPTED PUP
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., May 2, —
“Fiesty,” a white Persian cat, has
adopted an orphan brindle bull
pup. The pup and Fiesty’s kittens
nurse together contently
BAN BODY ATTACK
MELBOURNE, Australia, May 2,
—As an aftermath of the stormy
test matches with England, the
Australian cricket board of con
trol officially banned the “body at
tack” used in the test series.
GOES WET
PROVIDENCE, May 2, —Rhode
Island which never ratified 18th
amendment became the third
state' on record for repeal and in
its election named 31 delegates to
the state convention, all pledged
for repeal.
Wisconsin and Michigan pre- '
viously voted in favor of repeal, i
Rhode Island voted 1,502,404 to
287,112 in favor of repeal.
CLOCKS SET AHEAD
SEATTLE, May 2, —The city j
council adopted a daylight saving
ordinance and all clocks will be
set forward one hour starting next
Monday.
CHOKED AND BEATEN i
TO DEATH BOOT OF
LITTLE GIRL FOUND
KANSAS CITY, May 1, —Choked
and beaten to death, the body of
six year-old Nadine Love Vogel,
missing 10 days, was found on a j
wooded, flower-covered knoll, nine'
miles southwest of here.
A tightly drawn noose made
of the type of rope used for
clotheslines was still about the
child’s neck and she had been
brutally assaulted and beaten about
the back of the head.
She had been dead apparently
ever since the afternoon a play
mate said she left her skipping
rope to leave with a man in a
strange automobile.
JACK SHARKEY NOT
WILLING TAKE CHANCE
BOSTON, May 1, —Posiit.ve as-1
surance that Jack Sharkey, heavy j
weight champion, would not give;
Max Schmeling a crack at his j
title this year and would never box!
under Jack Dempsey’s promoting
were given by Manager John Buck
ley.
Buckley said Sharkey’s only bout
this year would be his title defense
against Primo Camera for the New
York Madison Square Garden in
June. After that, Buckley said
Sharkey planned to make a Europ
ean trip with his family.
DIDN’T WORK
CLEVELAND, O., May 2, —The
latest in bootlegging equipment,
police here say, is a smoke screen
device for rum-running automo
biles.
A bootlegger captured had on
his car an apparatus which re-j
leased a liquid into the exhaust]
pipe causing a cloud of thick black J
smoke to trail out behind. The de- j
vice, however, didn’t work and the I
man was captured.
FORGOT BILL
DETROIT, Mich., May 1. —A
suit to collect $500 was filed in
common plea court here against
Mayor Frank Murphy, appointee
to the Governor Generalship of the
Philippine Islands.
The suit charges that Mr. Mur
phy failed to pay the balance on
a bill due for an operation for ap
pendicitis performed January 6,
1930 .
PITCHER RELEASED
NEW YORK, May 1, — Jack |
Quinn, veteran spitball pitcher i
who started his major league car
eer with the Yankees in 1909, re
ceived his unconditional release
from the Brooklyn Dodgers. The
47-year old hurler was signed by
the Dodgers two years ago after
beling released by the Athletics.
In the role of relief pitcher, he ap
peared in 39 games in 1931 and 42
last year.
NOT SO SMART
BEVERLY, Calif., May 1, —Speed
with which persons think is no in
dex to their intelligence, two Uni
versity of California phychologists
announced after a series of men
tal tests. Popular theories that a
fast thinker is a superficial one,
and that a person of slow mental
processes is of slow intelligence,
were found untrue.
P. C, MC MULLEN IS
SELECTED IS MEMBER
H3y John E. Pcgues >
JUNEAU, May 2. —Governor J.
Tl’oy submitted to the Legislature
the first batch of appointments,
seven in all including the entire
membership of the newly created
board of education, and two mem
bers of regents for the Alaska Col
lege.
Those named for the education
board were: Member-at-large H.
L. Faulkner, prominent Juneau at
torney; former Representative A.
H. Ziegler, of Ketchikan, for the
1st division; Michael J. Walsh,
pioneer of Nome. 2nd division;
P- C. McMullen, long-time mayor
of Seward, 3rd division; Mrs. L.
Nordale, former member of the
faculty of the Alaska College, 4th
division.
Alaska College regents reap
pointed Arthur A. Shonbeck, lead
ing Anchorage business man. and
Mrs. James Wickersham, wife of
the former Delegate who was the
author of the bill creating the
college.
All are subject to confirmation
at a joint session of the Legisla
ture.
BEST EXAMPLE BE
BEP0ST0R1 WORK
NEW YORK, May 2, —Francis
A. Jasmon, 28 year-old newspaper
man who covered the Lindbergh
baby kidnapping case, was award
ed the 1932 Pulitzer prize of $1,000
for the “best example of reporters
work,”
Other awards included a $500
gold w’atch for the most distin
guished and meritorious public
service which went to the New
York World Telegram for articles
on veterans relief.
OlULlsTor
NEW YORK, May 1, —Frank
“Lefty” O’Doul, champion national
league batter last year, was in
danger of being replaced again by
Max Rosenfeld as Brooklyn’s left
fielder. In his last 23 appearances
at bat the slugger has failed to
hit safely.
“I’m getting too much oodv in
to my swats and not enough arm,”
O’Doul said, “but I think I'll soon
pull out of this slump. If I don’t
get going pretty soon, they will be
pulling that old one about Rosen
feld batting for O’Doul and Flana
gan leaving the park.”
PAID TRIBUTE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2, —
Mrs. William A. Moffett, whose
husband was killed in the dirigible
Akron disaster, paid tribute to the
late Admiral’s faith in air naviga
tion by beginning an airplane trip
to San Diego.
Ensign William A- Moffett, wear
ing a mourning band on his suit
of civilian gray, accompanied his
mother. He recently arrived from
Seward, Alaska, where he left his
ship, flying from Seattle East.
BLOND GIANT
HOT SPRINGS. Va., May 2. —
Lester Stoblen, blond giant from
the Pacific Coast, defeated Marcel
Rainville, of Canada, to enter the
finals of the singles in the annual
spring tournament.
The scores were six and two, six
and three, eight and ten, six and
three. He meets Frank Shields for
the title in the next match.
AIRPLANES DROP BOMBS
PEIPING, China, May 2, —Jap
anese airplanes bombed the main
line of the Chinese-Eastern Rail
way near Posgranichnaya on the
Eastern Manchul^uo-Soviet bor
der, the Chinese official press said.
The Japanese planes dropped sev
eral bombs, inflicting heavy dam
age.