MEMBER ASSOCIATED PMES9
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1933
PRICE TEN CENTS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 115.
During the eleventh session of; |
the Alaska Legislature, just con
cluded, two bills of great sugnifi
cance and vital interest to all Al
askons were among those passed.
These are the so-called Educational
Acts. Under the first of these
acts provision is made for ap
pointment of a Territorial Board of
Education and the powers and au- (
thority of this board are further {
defined under the second act. £
The Board of Education now j £
consists of five members, appoint- j r
ed by the Governor, one from each
judicial division and one at laige. ,j
The term of office- is six years, ex- 1 £
' Cept that of the first members ap- s
pointed under this act, Mr. Walsh j
and Mr. Zeigler, are appointed for
two years. Mrs. Nordale and Mr. c
P. C. McMullen for four years and j
Mr. Faulkner for six years. (
The first meeting of the board; \
has been called for June 13, 1933. v
at Juneau. Regular meetings will ^
be held annually at the capital at ^
a time fixed by the board. Special j
meetings may be called upon re- [j
quest of a majority of the board),
members, or by the Governor. ^
These special meetings may be
held at places other than the cap
ital. Regular meetings shall last!
not to exceed 10 days, and special
meetings not to exceed five days.;
A member will receive actual;
traveling expenses and subsistence (
while attending a meeting of the i
board, and $10 per day for each «
day actually and necessarily ab- i
sent from his place of residence. j
The principal powers and au- \
thority vested in the Board of Ed- j
ucation by the acts may be sum- j
marized as follows: !
The Beard of Education is charg- i
ed with the administration of the j
public school system in this Ter- ;
ritory, and in order reorganize the ;
• entire system on a more economic- i
al basis the Board is given full <
power and authority to:
1. Manage, control and pre-j -
scribe rules for the conduct of all j
public schools for the education of -1
white children and children of
mixed blood who lead a civilized;
life in this Territory.
2. Appoint a Commissioner of
Education who shall be the exec- (
utive officer and secretary of the
board. eH may be discharged by
the board for cause defined under
the act. Upon his recommenda
tion the board shall appoint such
assistant executives and specialists
as in its judgment are necessary
for the efficient conduct of the
work of the office of Commissioner
of Education.
3. Establish, discontinue or i
combine schools.
4. Establish, increase .decrease i
or abolish school districts and
provide for the election or ap
pointment of rural school, boards
and prescribe hteir powers and
duties.
5. Require school boards to
make such reports as are deemed
necessary. j
6- Provide the necessary school i
houses or school rooms and main
tain and equip the same.
7. Provide for sale or other dis
position of abandoned or obselete
school property.
8. Prescribe the qualifications
and classification of all teachers.
9. Appoint, discharge and pre
scribe the duties of teachers and
other persons employed in the ru
ral schools and fix their compensa
tion.
10. Classify teachers and offic
ers and items of expense in incor
porated cities and fix the maxi
mum salaries and maximum items1
of expense that will be allowed in
calculating refunds.
11. Constitute the final court of
appeals in all educational contro
. versies.
I, Study the educational conditions
and needs of the public schools of
the Territory, and do and perform
every other thing necessary to se
cure the efficient and economical
administration of the same.
MUST STAND TRIAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17. —
The District Court of Appeals held
Jhat Bishop Jam|s Cannon, Jr.,
must stand trial on charges of
violation of the corrupt practices
act activities during the 1928 presi
dental campaign.
CONSOLIDATION OF
10 ■ FOISOKS IS
PUUINFD FOR EGONOOIIY
SAN FRANCISCO. May 17. —
Consolidation of two federal army
prisons at Alcatraz Island, and the
abandonment of Fort Jay. N. J.,
appeared probable as an economy
move.
Federal authorities at first pro
posed to abandon Alcatraz, but
announcement of this move led to
a vigorous protest by Senator
Johnson of California.
At the same time he notified
officials in San Francisco, and
Mayor Rossi, the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce, and other
local officials and organizations
which jumped into the fight to
prevent the abandonment of the
West Coast institutions.
STANFORD, IK ED OF
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, —
For the second time in a week
Stanford University announced a
lowering of its qualifications for
admission as a means of building
up diminishing enrollments.
President Lyman Wilbur said
that henceforth applicants with
fewer than the required 15 units
will be admitted provided they
fulfill two special reauirements;
first, they must be among the
highest group in the aptitude
test given every applicant. Sec
ond, they must be certified from
preparatory schools as students
! with a superior personality rating.
rail "OLD” KIM
OFF Oil i mi
NEW YORK, May 17. —Walking
the earth like a regular man, the
“lawd” came up 42 street yester-/
day afternoon, happy in the know- j
ledge that he is to have a couple •
of months rest from heavenly fish |
frys and passing miracles.
The “lawd” is Richard B. Har
rison, that benign old man who,
at Easton, Pa., finished his 1300
performance in “The Green Pas
tures.”
MADE CLEAN SWEEP
LONDON, May 17, —England
made a clean sweep of her Davis
Cup tennis series with F. Perry and
H. W- Austin winning the final'
two matches.
COLONIZES FRONTIER
OSIYEK, Jugoslavia, May 17. —I
Ten thousand Serbs, veterans of i
the Balkan and world wars, have j
been settled in the Hungarian bor- j
der zone near here to “nationalize”
the frontier.
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DISCOVERS ANCIENT ART
BERLIN, May 17. — Copies of
Pompeiian murals, made by Rhein
hold Vetter of Leipzig, are being
shown in the New Museum here.
Vetter and his wife, who is a chem
ist, worked four years to discover
j the secret of technique employ
! ed by the painters of antiquity.
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Mayor I. Goldstein of Juneau
received a letter from Cairo, Egypt,
inquiring as to the whereabouts
of Dimitris Stamatakis or Mevrik
akis, a Greek who is known to
have resided in Alaska some years
ago. Any information given to
Mayor Goldstein will be appreciat
ed by relatives. __
LOS INGELES UNO !
SH FBUCISG8 HEIS
no 8Y TREMORS
LOS ANGELES, May 17. —The
strong earthquake which rocked
Los Angeles at 1 p. m. yesterday,
was also felt at Huntington Park,
Southgate and at Long Beach,
which were damaged in the quake
of March 10.
A short preliminary jolt was cli
maxed by a heavier shock, which
was sufficient to cause persons to
run to the streets.
No damage was listed in the ini
tial reports.
At San Francisco, a series of
shocks more like jovial jitters
than honest-to-goodness trem
blors, proved just one thing, that
San Francisco folks aren’t in bed
when they should be.
The shocks awakened some but
those w'ho jittered up and down
Market Street a minute after the
hardest quake, couldn’t have been
in bed. Even firemen couldn’t dress
that speedily.
A few windows were broken in
towns near the city.
EAGER TO GET ON JOB
LOS ANGELES, May 17, —Eager
to assume his duties as Governor
General of the Philippine Islands,
Frank Murphy, the red-haired
bachelor whose brilliant career as
Mayor of Detroit is counted an
outstanding achievement, arrived
here, enroute to Manila.
TROOPS HO
TROUBLESOME MS
HAVANA, Cuba, May 17, —The
general staff dispatchde hand
picked troops to the troubled
eastern provinces as a series of
attacks upon rural guard detach
j ments led to the belief that the
j long expected organized revolution
J might be under way.
The troops were instructed to
deal with the rebels with the ut
most firmness.
KILLING THWARTED
CAIR, Egypt, May 17, —A sup
posed attempt upon the lift of
Premier Ismail Pasha was thwart
ed by English policemen.
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WYOMING IS NO. 4.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, —
Wyoming became the fourth state
to go on recrod voting for repeal
of the 18th amendment
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ECONOMY MOVE
NEW YORK, May 17. — The
Brooklyn National League baseball
club reduced its forces to the 23
player limit.
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TWO FOUND GUILTY
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17,—
A district supreme court jury yes^
terday found Gaston B. Means
and Norman Whitaker guilty in
the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
* * * *
CONTINUE TO LEAVE
PEIPING, May 17 —Chinese
held back the invading Japanese
troops in a desperate fight for
Peiping. Americans coptinued their
evacuation of threatened tows.
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OLDTIMERS QUIT
SALT LAKE CITY, May 17. —The
“old timers” baseball team, a squad
of former major and minor league
stars, disbanded here after an ex
hibition tour of the west which
failed to produce enough revenue
to pay expenses of the trip.
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THUMB IS BETTER
ATLANTIC CITY, May 17, —
Max Baer’s left thumb, injured
last week, was pronounced all
right by a doctor today after which
the California beauty proceeded
to knock his sparring partners’
stiff in six rounds. He looked bet
ter than at any time since he be
gan training.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 4, Chicago 1.
Brooklyn 6, St. Louis 5.
Pittsburgh 8, Phillies 4.
Boston 6, Cincinnati 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 11, Cleveland 10;;
12 innings.
St- Louis 3, Boston 2, 11 innings.
Other games postponed, rain.
PACIFIC COAST
San Francisco 3, Hollywood 2.
Missions 8, Los Angeles 6.
Seattle 11, Oakland 5.
Sacs 7, Portland 2.
proposed "non
RESERVE" PRQGRRM
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17,—
Strong possibility that the Navy’s
“rotating reserve” program may be
abandonment developed as Secre
tary of Navy Swanson ordered an
investigation of how much will be
actually saved and what effect of
the slash will be on Naval efficien
cy.
1 The order followed the report
that the “rotating reserve” pro
gram would save less than $5,000,
000,. possibly only $3,000,000 and
that fleet efficiency would be cut
by more than 50 per cent.
THE BOYS WILL FIGHT
NEW YORK, May 17, —The 15
round titular battle between Sea
man Tom Watson, holder of the
British featherweight crown, and
“Kid” Chocolate, recognized in
New York State as the 126 pound
champion, was declared on again
following a physician’s favorable
report on the “Cuban’s” health.
THIEF MODE MISTAKE
Will INSULT. ROBBERY
CHICAGO, May 17, —When a
holdup man poked a gun before
James Maniatos and demanded
receipts from his restaurant cash
drawer, Mr. Maniatos took it is
a matter of fact event.
But as the robber left he called
Mr. Maniatos a “big cheese;” that
ired him.
He leaped on the robber, over
powered him, took away his re
volver, beat the perkness out of
him, then turned him over to the
police.
TSK! TSK! TSK!
PHILADELPHIA, May 17. —Th€
Philadelphia Athletics have an
other trouble, “Lefty” Grove’;
toothache.
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EQUALED THE RECORD
KALAMAZOO, Mich., May 17. -
Metcalfe equaled the world’s re
cord of nine and four-tenths sec
onds for the 100 yards
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SOUTH OF JAPAN
TOKYO, May 17, —The Navy of
fice formally announced that thi
1933 grand maneuvers will be hel<
in “seas south of Japan” begin
ning early in June.
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BIRDS ARE MAD
PORTLAND, May 17. —Bobbie, :
halfbreed bobcat is staying indoor
these days. Every time he ven
tures outside a cock robin attack
and routs him to cover. Bobbi
started hostilities by charging
flock of robins recently.
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CHAMPIONSHIP FLAVOR
NEW YORK, May 17, —With th
eastern rowing season nearin
an end, shorn of its Pougkeepsi
climax, a real championship is ac
cumulating for the regatta s
Long Beach, Calif., in July wit
the sprint champions of the Eaj
nad West battling down the 2,0(
meter Olympic course for nation:
honors. _
“FER GOODNES SAKE!”
DALLAS, Tex., May 17. —F. B.
Forest is a sound sleeper. He went
to sleep in his sedan parked on a
downtown street. When he awoke j
the car and his watch were gone. |
He found himself lying in the gut- |
RESIST MCE OF
JVME5E mmCK
PEIPING, China, May 17, —Chi
nese defenders of Peiping stub
bornly resisted the Japanese ad
vance 50 miles north of the city,
folding their lines under a terri
fic aerial bombardment and artil
lery attack.
The Chinese officially denied re
ports that the Japanese had oc
cupied Miyunhsien, the gateway
£o the city 40 miles northward.
On the contrary, they insisted
reinforcements were streaming
north. ,
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17,—
President Roosevelt, following his
action of cabling rulers of 54 na
tions calling on them to pledge
they would send no armed froces
across their frontiers, with a pow
erful message to Congress ex
plaining his actions.
He advised the nations to accept
the MacDonald disarmament plan
as the first step in a return to
prosperity.
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OH FIST IN FI SHIFT
POONA, Inda, May 17, —Mahat- i
ma M K Gandhi smiled wanly at c
his physicians today as h£ entered
the 10th day of his fast of puri- s
fication. ' *
Drs. Ansari, Gilber, Patel and «
Deshmukh subjected him to a 1
thorough physical examination. *
They reported he weighed 91 1
pounds and that while slight 1
nausea persisted, there was no 1
trace of jaundice and blood pres
sure was steady.
CORBETT LOOKS GOOD
LOS ANGELES, May 17, —Young
Corbett, welterweight champion,
will look like a featherweight be
side Jimmy McLarnin, when he
defends his title at Wrigley Field
two weeks hence. That was the
opinion of the crowd of fans who
saw the lad achieve his frlst work
out in the city yesterday.
LIBRARIES FOR PUZZLERS
NEW YORK, May 17. —The U.
S. has at least 2,000 jigsaw puz
zle lending libraries with stocks of
50 to 1,000 puzzles, a recent survey
shows. Three-hundred piece puz
zles are most popular, although
there are numerous requests for
puzzles of up to 1,500 pieces.
CZAR’S WATCH
DELHI, India, May 17. — A
watch which, it is claimed, be
aproximately $7,800. It contains
longed to the late Czar of Russia,
has been offered for sale here for
portraits of seven generations of
British rulers and seven genera
tions of czars.
I ESTABLISH FREE PORT
WARSAW, May 17. —A free zone
will be established in the port of
.Gdynia July 1, the Polish Govern
ment announced. Good sized
docks will be alloted to the new
division.
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George Markish, George Page
and George Wallentine, of Latouche
were Valdez visitors for 'several
days last week. Mr. Markish came
; here to take out his final natural
I ization papers and Messrs. Page
l and Wallentine accompanied him
as witnesses.
FUMBLE COMMENT
REPORTED IN EDBOPE,
■ BOOSEIIEIT MESSAGE
EERLIN, May 17, —Germany
hailed President Roosevelt’s peace
call, which yesterday electrified
the civilized world when he made
a moving appeal for universal
peace thru disarmament in a per
sonal message to 54 nations, as a
diplomatic move in a new foreign
policy pointed toward an event
ually threatening European cat
astrophe
Prime- Minister MacDonald ac
cepted President Roosevelt’s mes
sage as meaning a departure from
the traditional American policy of
refraining from foreign entangle
ments, and indicates British sup
port for proposals.
Official comment was lacking at
Moscow with authorities reluctant
to view Roosevelt’s direct message
as a step toward American recog
nition of USSR,; that the state
ment and direct communication
was not a technical move in this
direction.
Unofficial review is favorable to
support of President Roosevelt’s
plan as the Italian government
studied the note.
WHOLESALE SHIFT OF
BILL PLAYERS OF THE
BROOKLYN 10CER5'
BROOKLYN, N. Y„ May 17. —
A. wholesale shift of ball players
was announced by the Brooklyn
Dodgers.
Max Rasenfield, outfielder, was
released outright to the Jersey
City club. Bud Clancy, infielder,
and Ed Pipgras, pitcher, who had
been optioned to Jersey City have
now been sold outright to that
club.
_ Second baseman, Fresco Thomp
sons option to Jersey City h«c been
transferred to Buffalo, and infield
er, Ed Marshall, property of the
Buffalo club has been optioned to
Jersey City. Charles Perkins, left
handed pitcher, has been brought
from Jersey City but will remain
there on option.
DEFENDING HIM
LEIDS WOMEN'S COIF
GLEN EAGLES, Scotland, May
17, —Miss Enid Wilson, defending
champion, reached the fourth
round of the British women’s golf
tournament with a 7 to 5 victory
over Miss Beryl Brown.
Earlier, Miss Wilson eliminated
Mrs. H. K. Percy, 4 and 3, in a
second round match.
Accompanying the champion in
the fourth round were Miss Diana
Fishwick, former title-holder, and
Miss Doris Park, medalist.
SUTTLE SIP SIS
FOR IRCTIC HASH.
FOIL LORD SUPPLIES
In the romantic four-masted
schooner built at Port Blakely 40
years ago and sailed by his father
in the same route, Capt. John
Backlund, Seattle mariner, left the
Puget Sound port yesterday on
his sixth trading cruise to Arctic
> Alaska.
In her holds are trading supplies
and two portable houses for Pt.
Barrow; foundation blocks of ce
ment weighing nine tons for a new
wireless station at Point Barrow.
The schooner is expected to com
plete her 3,800-mile voyage under
sail by August 5. The trading sup
plies! will be used in bartering with
the Eskimos for furs, ivory and
skins.
Illustrated Lecture Tomorrow 2 p.m. Liberty Hall/