MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 51. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Big “Shot” Tomorrow--4:30 P. M.
DIPHTHERIA HI
PI. BURROW SAID
BE UNDER CONTROL
ONE-FOURTH OF THOSE EX
POSED IMMUNIZED; SER
UM GAVE OUT
POINT BARROW, Mar., 9, (ff)
—Although there were three new i
:;ases of diptheria developed Fri- ,
day night, five more families
were quarantined. Dr. Henry j
Griest, superintendent of the
Mission hospital, expressed con
fidence the scourge will be brot
under control.
The season’s worst blizzard add
ed to the difficulties and is ex
pected to hamper the flights of j
relief planes bearing antitoxin
The non-contageous cases in I
the small hospital were moved
into the kitchen and dining room
and also the nurses quarters
while the regular hospital rooms
were given over to diphtheria
cases.
Dr. Griest said most of the
danger will be over as soon as
the antitoxin arrives. More than
200 persons, mostly natives, have
been exposed, and only one-fourth
were immunized before the sup
ply of antitoxin was exhausted.
TIBI REACHED
CHICAGO. Mar. 9. (/P)—Heart- ;
ened by the conviction of the key j
man, Alphonse Capone, the
agencies charged with the en
forcement of the law in Chicago
pushed forward with renewed
vigor in their fight on gangs.
In the conviction of Capone,
czar of all Chicago gangs, who
was found guilty of contempt of
court by Federal Judge H Wilker
son and sentenced to six months
in jail, prosecutors believed that
the turning point had been reach
ed in their battle against gang
land
The “Big Fellow” had never be
fore been convicted in his home
courts ;
CHICAGO, Mar. 9- (^-‘‘Scar
face’ A1 Capone, already under
sentence of six months for con
tempt of federal court, was faced
with the probability of indictment
on another and much more ser
ious government charge.
That Capone would be brought
to trial on a charge of income-tax
evasion was considered almost
certain around the federal build
ing after it became known that
two former employes of his had
been questioned by the grand jury.
PROFUSE IX PRAISES
LONDON, Mar. 9. (IP) — Lon
don was profuse in its praises of
Charlie Chaplin after the prem
iere of “City Lights.” Dense crowds
lined the vicinity of the Domin
ion theater, waiting in the rain
to catch a glimpse of the come
dian.
PT BARROW WITS
I
POINT BARROW, Mar., 9, (A*)—
Pilot Joe Crosson of the Alaska
Airways, in a small, open plane,
arrived after a five hour and 20
minute flight from Fairbanks,
over one of the most dangerous
routes in the world.
Not a human inhabits any
point between the tw'o. Enroute
he stopped at Wiseman
Antitoxin was rushed to Point
Barrow hospital where Doctor
Greist administered 220,000 units.
Croszon will remain a few days
then fly to Kotzebue, Wainwright
and then back to Fairbanks.
Either Alger Graham or S. E.
Robins will fly the next plane to
Point Barrow.
ItV°ORT ALIEN CRIMINALS
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 9- (ZP) —
Deporting of criminal aliens, and
protecting of the loyal American
citizen by choosing him rather
than an alien for any job that
is open, were measures urged by
Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobert of
Cincinatti, Ohio, president general
of the Nation Society. Daughters
of the American Revolution, who
arrived for a week's visit.
RECEIVED BRUISES
HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 9. (ZP) — Cat
apaulted from the highest peak in
Hollywood in an attempted glider
flight to the United Airport, five
and one-half miles distant, Maur
ice W. Collins, 24, crashed and es
caped with a few bruises.
NORTHERN JHN IS
STRUCK RT QUAKE
TOKYO, Mar. 9. (IP)—A severe
earthquake struck central northern
Japan today. Apparently, the heavi
est shocks were felt on Hokkaidc
Island, but is was also felt in Tok
yo and Amori.
Shop windows were broken, chim
neys toppled over; telegraph and
telephone lines were broken bj
the shocks.
COLORADO SNOWSTORM
DENVER, Colo. Mar. 9. (IP)—
A driving snow storm threatened
train schedules and highway traf
fic in Colorado. Air mail was
hampered. Heavy downfall reach
ed a depth of 10 inches.
SARATOGA OFFERS $400,000
NEW YORK, Mar., 9, (/P)
Thirty-eight stakes with an ag
gregate value of just under $400,
000 will be offered to horse own
ers for the meet at Saratogj
Springs next August.
BIG SHOT AT ROCK
QUARRY WILL BE
FIREDJjJUESDIY
PEOPLE WARNED TO STAY
AT LEAST THREE BLOCKS
AWAY, BLAST
For a day, at least, Seward will
have something common w it n
| Chicago, the home of the “big
I shot,” for tomorrow afternoon at
4:30 six tons of dynamite will be
touched off at the breakwater
rock quarry.
Engineer Fred Spach advised i
The Gateway today everything j
is in readiness and that, provid- |
ing the public could have been \
I fully warned yesterday, the blast j
| could have been let off today. He j
also gives general warning again
to the public asking one and all
to exercise every precaution
especially to those 1 i v in g in
the vicinity to leave all win
dows and doors open, then vacate
the premises: for-every .one to re
main at least three blocks dis-:
tant.
| No real danger is anticipated,1
' however, should there be fissures
i in the rock, there is a possibility
j debris may be hurled- Extra;
| guards will patrol the area and
certain buildings will have their
wihdows boarded up and other
percautions taken to insure safe- !
| ty to all concerned.
At 4:GO p. m., one-half hour be
j fore shoving down the lever, the
j fire siren will sound-off as warn
| ing to all. A minute or two before
;4:3G. just for luck, the siren will ,
i be blown again, then the big i
; Shot.
I Dili SUSHI PILOT
DEFIES]! ELEMENTS
POINT BARROW, Mar. 9. (JP) —
j Pilot Joe Crosson flew into the teeth
• of a 25-mile wind to Yvainwright
to determine the quantity of avia
tion gas available there for the two
planes which are to fly to Point
Barrow with a motion picture out
fit.
After bringing the balance of
anti toxin here Crosson is continu
ing to Kotzebue, where one more
case of diphtheria has been re
ported.
WHITER TENTURES
SPREAD OVER EUROPE
LONDON, Mar. 9. (/P) — Winter
rode roughshod over Europe with
temperatures at a low mark and
; the high wind drove heavy snow
before it.
: Eastern Scotland is knee deep in
snow; northern France, Germany,
Belguim, Scandinavia, Austria, and
. Poland were all affected by the ex
. treme cold. Snowdrifts blocked the
. highways and delayed trains near
. Paris.
11 Swollen rivers threatened the
countryside with floods.
NO CLUE FOUND
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 9. (/P) —
Four days alter Edna Mae Coop
er, coholder of the wmen’s
refueling endurance flight record,
disappeared from her mother’s
home in the Hollywood hills, no
clue to her whereabouts has been
found
HIT DIE IN QUAKE
EASTERN JUGOSLAVIA.
900 HOUSES WRECKED
BELEGRADE, Jugoslavia, Mar. D
(JP)—Between 80 and 150 are dead
in eastern Jugoslavia, adjacent to
Bulgaria, from earthquakes which
occurred Saturday and yesterday.
Five hundred were injured in
quakes which extended from east- j
ern Jugoslavia, across Bulgaria toj
the shores of tahe Black Sea.
More than 900 houses were wreck- .
ed at Pitava where 19 were killed, i
Every building was wrecked.
Suoply and relief work is slow as
the railroads suffered mu rh dam
age to roadbeds and rolling stock.
BOLD RACKETEERS
NEW YORK, Mar. 9. (>P) —
Five men ancl two women are
under indictment charged with
participating in what U. S. At
torney George S. Medalie described
as “the boldest racketeering event
that has ever been pulled off at j
the expense of persons' with re- j
ligious and moral ideals." They j
are charged with defrauding 400
priests and 6,000 Catholic laymen j
of $2,000,000 in the last two years, j
NEW TACTICS
CLIFTON, N. Y. Mar. 9. (/P)—!
Gas masks as a means of protec- i
tion against the latest weapon of
rum runners, poison gas. may be
demanded by Coast Guards. The
guards at Base 2 met under the
direction of Commander Cecil M
Barrett to consider the advisa
bility of asking the government
equip them to fight the danger.
FISHERIES DFFICISL
DIFS IT WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Mar., 9, (A*)—
Henry D. Puller, 51 years old, who
was assistant chief of the Alaska
Division of the Bureau of Fisheries
died of heart attack.
He had been with the bureau
since 1903. A widow and a daughter
survive him.
The burial will be held Tuesday
at Gladstone, New Jersey.
“PRO” GOLFING PAYS
JACKSONVILLE, Florida, Mar. 9.
{IP)—George Von Elm, who quit
the ranks of the Simon Pures
to be a “Business Man” golfer,
seems to be a high money winner
of the season. He has collected
$7,957 50 in six tournaments.
ALL EASTERN CREWS
PHILADELPHIA, Mar., 9, W)—
The University of Pennsylvania
this year will engage in rowing
every eastern school that engages
in the sport.
dr HOLLYWOOD
PARTY CAME TO
AN ABRUPT m
FILM PLAYERS, IN SCANTY AT
TIRE FLEE THROUGH
DOORS AND WINDOWS
HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 9. </P) —
A squad of six policemen put
an abrupt end to a gay party at
the home of William Henry Boyd,
45, stage and screen actor.
Boyd was charged with posses
sion of gambling equipment, li
quor, and obscene motion pictures.
He later was released in bonds
totaling $750.
Neighbors protested that the
party was getting too noisy and
Lieut. J. W. Johnson led his squad
to the scene of the gayety- Of
ficer J. T. Shields rapped at the
door and was floored by Boyd as
he opened it.
He said may film players, both
men and women, some in even
ing dress and others in scanty at
tire, fled through doors and win
dows.
BLIZZARD III MILE
WEST HUES TOIL OF
10: MOISTURE WEEDED
CHICAGO. Mar. 9. (/P)—Sixteen
were dead from a blizzard which
struck the middle west. Farmers
throughout the area are rejoicing
at the moisture which came by way
of the blizzard and the unemploy
ed had employment
Thirty-five thousand people
in Chicago were given work in
clearing streets, and highways,
of the snow. Thirteen of the deaths
occured in Chicago.
Whipped by high winds the snow
piled into 20-foot drifts in some
places.
Thousands of motorists in Wis
consin, Illinois. Missouri, Indiana,
and Iowa were stalled while work
men opened the main highway.
BANKER 40 TEARS
BURLINGTON, Wis, Mar., 9, m
—Miss Edna Meinhardt recently
completed 40 years of service as.
cashier in a Burlington bank.
AUDUBON PRESIDENT
SINGS PEAN OF KE
NEW YORK, Mar., 9, (A*)—
Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson, president
of the National association of
Audubon s ocieites, telegraphed
Governor Parks approving the
governor’s recommendation to the
Alaska legislature to remove the
bounties on eagles.
Dr. Pearson said he was in
formed bounties had been paid
on more than 40,000 dead eagles,
and that at least 20,000 others
were killed.