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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 87.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932.
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HONOLULU, April 14.—John C
Kelley, for the prosecution, almost
completed his case Wednesday
against Mrs. Grace Fortescue and
her three Naval co-defendants.
Mrs. Fortescue, prominent Ameri
can society woman, and the three
Naval men are on trial for second
degree murder for the “honor slay
ing” of a youthful Hawaiian.
The prosecution, in evidence sub
mitted so far, has reconstructed
the crime from the time the Ha
k waiian’s body was found to the
darqkened room in the Fortescue
home where he was supposed to
have been killed. All the evidence
introduced so far has been circum
stantial.
Eleven witnesses remained to be
called today and they include three
neighbors who are to testify as to
what they saw on the date of the
murder at the Fortescue home.
DOR-ELECT DORE
USES ROSTER BUTTLE
OLYMPIA, Wash., April 14—Ma
yor-elect John F. Dore, of Seattle,
lost the fight to immediately as
sume office when the State Su
preme Court ruled that Harlin was
chosen to fill Edward’s unexpired
term until June 6.
Dore contended Harlin was se
lected by the council only until
election. The court ruled this view
could net be taken under the city
statutes.
SOLDIERS RAN HOME
BERLIN, April 14.—As a result
of the framing of a decree which
calls for the dissolution of Adolph
Hitler’s Nazis or brown-shirted
Fascist army, there were many
public demonstrations and riots
throughout this city Wednesday.
Trouble was reported from other
important centers also. In Berlin
a group of parading soldiers of
Hitler’s were forced to take off
their uniforms by police and they
were compelled to run home in
their underwear.
The decree, as framed by the
Minister of Defense, does not be
come law until it receives the sig
nature of President Paul von Hin
denburg.
RMNTK ILLICIT
UlL IS REVEALED
SEATTLE, April 14. — Testimony
of a prohibition agent in this city
reveals that illicit alcohol is being
smuggled from the United States
into British Columbia where it is
sold at a cut rate.
British Columbia liquor prices are
regulated by the government and
by bringing this illicit alcohol in,
bootleggers can compete with li
censed Canadian dealers in prices.
The prohibition agent revealed
that not all of this liquor that is
being smuggled into Canada is be
ing sold there. He said that some
of it was smuggled back into the
United States and sold at bonded
stuff—direct from Canada.
SEEK REFERENDUM
RENO, Nev., April 14.—A Nevada
business body has begun a move
seeking a referendum on Nevada’s
licenesd gambling law which went
into effect in that State about a
year ago- The referendum seeking
group has the support of Univer
sities, it is said.
TURKEY CRAVES PEACE
GENEVA, April 14. (A5) — It is
learned Turkey is ready to join the
League. An invitation will prob
ably be sent this year.
THE STOCK MARKET
SEATTLE, April 14.—Yesterday’s
quotations: Alaska Juneau 137/s;
Chrysler 8%; Freeport 14Vb] Gen
eral Motors 11 y8: Kennecott 5^;
Kroger 11%; Radio 5%; Tri-Con
tinental 2; U. S. Steel 33%; Cities
Service 5; Big Missouri 6.
JAPANESE SOLDIERS
KILLED IN IKK
TOKYO, April 14. — Fourteen
Japanese soldiers weVe killed and
| 50 injured in the wreck of a troop
j train dynamited late Tuesday on j
! the Chinese Eastern Railroad east
| of Harbin, an official announce
; ment said today
The Nippon Dempo Agency said
communists of a certain country
were being sought in connection
with the wreck of the troop train.
CAUGHT IN 01 IMP
—
HOTIN, RUMANIA April 13. (/P>
—Cashier Jolontowcky of the city
police ran away with $2,700 of the
department’s funds a few years ago.
It seems like a lot of money to
him , and the girl he took along,
so they went to Morocco, which
sounded romantic. It was while the
money lasted.
Stranded, he wrote home suggest
ing the authorities have him ex
tradited. “It’s terrible here,” he
added.
“He” picked his own punishment,’
said city officials. Let him serve his
time.’
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NATIONAL
Philadelphia-New York, weather
bad
Boston at Brooklyn, weather bad.
Chicago 3, Cincinnati 2.
Pittsburgh 8, St. Louis 9.
AMERICAN
Washington 7, Boston 6.
Cleveland 6, Detroit 5.
St. Louis 3, Chicago 7.
PACIFIC COAST
Sacramento 18, Portland 4.
Los Angeles 3, Hollywood 8
San Francisco-Missions, rain.
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11-INNING GAME
DETROIT, April 14. — Cleveland
and Detroit played a torrid 11-in
i ning game in frigid weather here
Wednesday with Cleveland winning
6 to 5. The game was played be
fore a crowd of only 12,000 fans and
it was one of the smallest Ameri
! can League opening day crowds
here for 15 years. Two singles, and
a sacrifice fly in the 11 th inning
produced the winning run for
Cleveland.
FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.—
A Federal budget deficit of $2,017,
858,745.29 on April II was reported
by the Treasury. It was the first
time in history that any nation’s
peacetime deficit has exceeded $2,
000,000,000.
SET FIRE TO PLANT
PORTERSVILLE, Calif., April 14
—The charred body of Charles
Perkins, watchman in a Porters
ville packing plant, was found in
the ruins caused by the burning
down of that building. It is be
lieved that Perkins set fire to the
plant and then committed suicide
FUNERAL SERVICES
SEATTLE, April 14.—Both Dem
ocrats and Republicans attendee
the impressive funeral services helc
for A. Scott Bullitt, Democratic
leader on the Pacific Coast and a
friend organizer for Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt. The ser
vices were held Wednesday.
BULGARIA FOILS HOARDERS
SOFIA April 13. (JP) —Hoarder;
of Bulgarian currency must let gc
or lose money, the government hav
ing ordered withdrawal of all 5, 10
20, 50 and 100-leva notes. After this
year these notes will cease to be
legal tender.
DRAGGING A MILLSTONE
No better simile could be drawn of the relations of
Governor Parks to Alaska than that of one dragging a
millstone in an effort to progress.
There is a well-established principle of law that a
man’s reputation cannot be proved by a specific act.
Therefore, it is necessary to set up a bill of indictment
embodying sufficient facts to constitute a cause of action.
So let us review a few of the acts of the Governor and
analyze their purport as relating to the advancement of
the Territory purely in a material sense, glossing over his
reactionary acts as they relate to purely political ques
tions.
Each annual message, since he assumed the duties of
Governor, has teemed with a ringing note of pessimism,
reactionary impedimenta and without a gleam of anything
smattering of even embryonic statesmanship.
Wherever called upon to act as spokesman on im
portant matters, such as is expected of a Governor, he
has procrastinated or impeded. Take the case of the loss
of Colonel Carl Ben Eielson. He crushed any effort to
have U. S. Army planes come to Alaska and assist in the I
search for the man who taught the U. S. Army Air Ser-,
vice navigation of the Arctic, and sacrificed his life in
pioneering new and more dangerous commercial fields.
Take any effort on the part of the elected represen
; tatives of Alaska to clarify political problems and work
out a cooperative program with the Federal government
and we find him out-heroding Herod in his reactionary
obstinacy.
Differing from every Governor who has occupied the
! position for the past decade, he has sought to impede and
thwart populating Alaska.
Here is the last sample of his “crusher” methods in
this line.
In issuing a warning to laborers seeking jobs in Al
aska he was not content to issue a blanket warning
against all settlers but used these words:
“While our mining industry is on the upgrade
and gold production this year probably will be larger than
] last, which was the largest in a decade, it affords no field
for employment to transients. Alaska mines are abun
dantly supplied with labor from local communities.
“Alaskan communities and the Territorial govern
ment during the past winter have managed to provide
necessary employment relief by taking heroic measures.
They have stretched their financial resources in this work,
and cannot go further than they are now going. . . . If
they (unemployed) have no funds above transportation
necessities, they can exist more comfortably and better
where they are now than they can in Alaska where living
costs are necessarily higher than in the States proper.”
In other words, a breadline and a bunk in a flop house
j is preferable to a cabin and assurance of fuel, food and
| comfort.
Here he combines a misleading and incorrect state
ment as to mining opportunities with another one when
he claims that one may live better, cheaper and more
comfortable in the populous centres of the States than in
Alaska!
Time was when the pioneer could take care of himself
i anywhere, becau,se he had liberty and could exist on the
land until agencies of employment came with develop
ment. Had this not been the case, the Governor's own
city of Denver would have been a hamlet like the many
! in Alaska made so by the restriction imposed by those who
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Will CONTEST HOLDS
BOLZANO, Italy, April 14. (£*)—j
| Half a million dollars willed to the ,
| Chinese government “for use in.
fighting the Europeans” is tied up j
! by court proceedings in Germany.|
The money was left by Henry!
' Basse, eccentric German who died j
here at 81 in apparent poverty. j
Relatives contested the will on
the ground that there are two
Chinese governments and that
neither could accept such a dona
tion.
WAR CLOUDS LOOM
SALTA, Argentina, April 14.—A
newspaper here charged that Bo
livia is “massing troops” on the
Paraguayan border and 100 air
planes are concentrating nearby.
| Paraguay and Bolivia have long |
j been disputing the Grand Chaco
i; border regions. The boundary nev
i er has been satisfactorily marked.
Bolivia has long sought an outlet
, to the sea.
Mining supplies 54 per cent of
all the freight of the railroads.
OSLO TO GET LINER FLATS
OSLO April 13. (#) — A local
syndicate is dickering for the 20,000
-ton liner Carmania, scheduled to
be dismantled, with the idea of
mooring her to a quay and renting
cabins to small families and bach
elors. There would be room for 2,000
people.
111111 PREFERS HOME
GHOSTS TO 0. $. HOOTS
SYDNEY, Apr. 14. (/P)— Kingsford
Smith, air commodore of Australia
and one of the world’s greatest
airmen, is trying to earn an honest
crust by taking people for flights
over the city, at $3.00 a trip.
He uses the monoplane South
ern Cross in which he flew from
San Francisco to Sydney.
Smith says he can get a good job
in the United States any time he
chooses to go there.
“I was offered $100,000 for two
years’ service, but as it entailed
being naturalized I refused,” he
explained.
George James, of the Alaska
Shop, returned Wednesday from his
wilderness lodge on Lake Kenai.
MILLION DOLLAR HOME
ROSEBURG, Ore., April 14.—A
million dollar contract has beenj
let for the construction of a home J
for veterans. One hundred and 50
men will be employed in the con
struction work which will require
nine months.
MORE OF LINDBERGH'S
MONEY IS TURNING UP
NEW YORK, April 14. (vP)—The
persons who hoaxed Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh are already spending the
$50,000 given them.
A $20 bill, turned over to them
by Dr. Condon in the Bronx cem
etery, was received by a clothing
merchant from an East River sav
ings bank where it was cashed
April 4 or 5.
Condon was on another myster
ious trip yesterday.
COAL AREA RIOT
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, April 14.
(A5)—One man was killed and sev
eral hundred rioted and stoned
miners. The National Guard is en
route. Some were dispersed by gas
as they attempted to stop miners
from going to work. One was
thrown in a creek.
APPOINTMENT MIKES!
DIFFERENCE, RUSTGHRD
JUNEAU, April 14. (A5)—Although
recently nominated by President
Hoover as judge of the Second Di
vision, Attorney General Rustgard
announced it would make no dif
ference in his campaign for nom
ination for reelection.
He said emphatically he will not
withdraw at this time and regards
it extremely unlikely that a con
firmation would be made before
April 26, the date of the Territorial
primary election.
MS EUNICE SAFE
SEATTLE, April 14. (A5)—A radio
message from Dutch Harbor Wed
nesday said the motorship Eunice,
reported 30 days overdue on its
usual four-day voyage from Un- j
alaska to Atka, is safe at Atka. The |
message did not say when the ves- j
sel arrived.
INCREASED UNO SALES
REPORTED FOUR SMS
SPOKANE, April 14. — The Spo
kane Federal Land Bank, which
serves the four states of Montana,
Washington, Idaho and Oregon, re
ported land sales of over $25,000,
000 for the month of January.
This figure surpasses the figures
for many previous months and is
an indication that the jobless who
are thronging the cities are be
ginning to trek back to the farms.
Labor experts are heartened by
j this movement as every one who
goes back to the farm means just
one less in the unemployment of
a city.
CHEAP LAND AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY, Apr. 14, (^—Austra
lian land is so cheap that allot
ments can be bought on a deposite
of $10 with installments of 25 cents
a month. S o many unemployed
have taken to truck gardening that
| vegetable markets are glutted.
RAILROADS REDUCE GUSTS
ST. LOUIS, April 14. (£>)—In order
to effect operating economies, the
St. Louis-San Francisco and Mis
souri-Kansas-Texas railroads have
i established combination passenger
j service between Texas points.
! The plan of polling equipment
was previously tried successfuly by
the two roads with fast trains be
tween St. Louis and Texas points.
Under this arrangement trains
are run over Frisco lines from St.
Louis to Vinitia, Okla., and thence
on Katy tracks.
SENATOR DIM WILL
BROADCAST MESSAGE
TONIGHT OVER KFOD
Senator A. J. Dimond, prominent
attorney of this division, mayor of
Valdez and Democratic candidate
in the Territorial primary election
this month for Delegate to Con
gress will reach Anchorage via the
air today from Cordova and tonight
will broadcast over KFQD at An
chorage.
Radio reception last evening
from everywhere was rather poor
but it is believed the above is lit
erally correct with the exception of
the time of the broadcast which
was not heard but it is thought
Senator Dimond will talk after the
P. I. A. news period, 10 to 10:30
p. m.
Senator Dimond will arrive in
Seward on Friday evening from
Anchorage, it was announced, pre
sumably to make steamer connec
tions with the southbound steamer.
MACHINE DESIGNED TO
RECOVER COLD, SAND
JUNEAU, April 14. (£>)—'With a
large quantity of gold bearing sand
taken from the beach at Dry Bay,
the motorship Governor Hartley is
enroute south to Anacortes to test
the efficiency of a machine de
signed to recover minute particles
of gold as they occur in certain
gravel.
If the machine meets expecta
tions it will be employed in exten
sive placer mining operations on
Alaska beaches and elsewhere.
“RETALIATION DAY”
IN GERMANY APRIL 24
BERLIN, April 14. (JP)—The gov
ernment ordered suspension of the
Nazis storm troops as they are a
threat to peaceful government and
scores of Hitler headquarters were
closed while hundreds were arrest
ed in uniforms and other materials
were seized.
Hitler announced April 24 will be
“retaliation day” on which day Diet
elections in Prussia and other
States fall and the Nazis will at
tempt to obtain majorities in Par
liaments.
MISSIONARIES EVACUATE
AMOY, China, April 14. (#*) —
British missionaries are evacuating
here in large bodies. Chinese com
munist troops who were approach
ing are retreating before provin
cial troops. British officials asked
for a warship for protection.
SHOOING DUCKS OFF
IS JOB OF THIS SENTRY
SEATTLE, April 14. (JP) — Duck
hunting usually ranked as a pleas
ure, became a duty on the naval
reserve flying field here.
A newly graded portion of the
field was seeded at a cost of $4,000
and when the young grass sprouted
on came mud hens and wild ducks.
Finally, to prevent real damage
being done by the unwelcome
guests, a sentry post was estab
lished to say “keep off the grass”
in an emphatic manner.
WARSAW GANG SCATTERED
WARSAW, April 13. (JP) —A gang
which has been terrorizing and
blackmailing tradesmen of Karce
lak Square, a big second-hand mar
ket here, was broken up when a
labor newspaper brought about 35
arrests including a member of the
city council.
DANES DECRY GERMAN TAX
COPENHAGEN April 13. (JP) —
Because Germany doubled the duty
on Danish butter, the Union of
Danish Agriculturists, with 150,000
members, asked the government to
denounce Denmanrk’s commercial
treaty with Germany.
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