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SEWARD. ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1933. PRICE TEN CENTS
REVISED BEER BILL
PASSED Blf HOUSE
SEN! TO SENATE;
JUNEAU, April 11, —With one
dissenting vote recorded, the House
today passed Hellerich's revised
beer bill and sent it to the Senate j
where passage is expected not lat
er than Wednesday.
Patterson of Valdez voted no.
Led by Green of Hyder the House
broadened the scope of beer par
lors by amending that section to
permit such establishments to
serve patrons seated at counters
as well as at tables. Green argued
that drug stores and other places j
of business now operating were |
equipped with soft drink fountains,
that would be wiped out of exist- i
ance if table provision was insisted;
upon.
Green further attacked the pro- \
visions for Federal judges to ap
c. prove and grant licenses and clerks
x uf court to collect fees and made
an effort to have these duties per
formed by the auditor and treas
urer but his motion to that end
polled only seven votes.
The House also passed the Tay
lor bill defining legal rights of il
legitimate children and DeVane’s
bill, as added, to care for the Pion
eers Home surplus.
The Senate unanimously passed
^ Taylor’s bill boosting all non-iesi-j
dent fishermen licenses to $25 in
eluding trap watchmen and limit- •
ing license, to fish to Americans,
and those aliens who have declar- j
ed their intention to become cit-i- ,
zens.
The House also passed the judi-!
ciary committee measure providing;
for “grubstake” contracts which, j
to be effective, must have two wit-;
nesses, and another measure re-,
pealing the local Indian citizen-;
, ship law' statute; fixing the fee:
, for filing of affidavit of annual,
assessment work, and a third law!
regarding failure to record such
affidavit; all were passed in the
1915 Congressional enactment and
succeeded in first and last but the
two were declared unconstitutional
by courts. _
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SHOWS IU1K ESTEEM
FOR HU MOTHER
PORTLAND. April 11,—Yosuke
Matsuoka, J apanese diplomat,
stepped out of his role of States
man* to unveil a marker over the
grave of Mrs. Isabelle Dunbar
Beveridge, American mother.
Mrs. Beveridge took an interest
the man who was to be Japan’s
in the man who was to be Japan’s
representative at the League of
Nations when he was a 13-year-old
school boy in Portland.
Matsuoka lived at her home for
several years, played and fought
with her nephew, Lambert Dunbar.
When he was graduated from the
University of law school in 1900 he
returned to Japan. Mrs. Beveridge
died in 1906.
SETTLEMENT EFFECTED
Bf.B PILOM FEES
SACRAMENTO, Calif.. April 10.—
Settlement has been effected of a
long-time controversy over bar pi
lotage fees in the port of San
Francisco.
Agreement has been reached
with the representatives of the Bar
Pilots Association and the Senate
committee of commerce and navi
gation, by which the schedule will
be reduced about 40 per cent.
The rates of the new setup, being
worked out, will be as follows: Two
dollars a draft foot, one and one
eighth cents a ton, net registered
tonnage._
“TEAR MY VEINS”
STATE PENITENTIARY, FLOR
ENCE, Ariz.. April 11,—“I’ve still
got my teeth. Before I let them
hang me I’ll tear the veins of my
wrist open and bleed to death”
That was the threat of Winnie
Ruth Judd, condemned to die on
the gallows April 21. The night
before Mrs. Judd attempted suicide
by swallowing a two-bladed razor
but was prevented from doing so
by the quick action of her matron
and.a guard._
CHINA PLAYING UNCLE SAM
EUGENE, Ore., April 10.—Soyet
jzed China is playing the United
States against Japan in hopes of
stirring up a war between the two
fiat powers, Yosuke Matsuoka,
falanese statesman, told 3,000 per
sofTat the University of Oregon,
his alma mater.
99 TO 1 WET
LANSING, Mich., April 11, —
The first State in the Union to
ratify repeal of the 18th amend- (
ment. Michigan in its legislature;
yesterday voted 99-1 to uphold the
action of Congress. Actual tears
stood in the eyes of the one rep
resentative who cast his vote in
favor of prohibition.
DUST! TOMES ME
PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 10.—
City and county attorneys were
I probing into dusty tomes to dis
' cover ordinances and statutes pro
hibiting the sale of beer and wine
on Sundays, at the behest of cler
i by and temperance societies. No
one has found the law so far, al
though several possibilities have
been unearthed.
The likeliest one is a blue law of
1794 which prohibits sale of any
commodity except medicine, but
since it could not. be used in these
joyriding boys, the lawyers turn to
one of J.855, which prohibits the
site of liquor between midnight
Saturday and midnight Sunday.
An attempt is being made to pass
, a law''in the state Legislature, but
with the straight zero record for
passage of major bills this term.
1 it is not thought likely any legis
lation will be passed. Governor
Pinchot has attempted to call off
1 the clergy by calling attention to
| the fact that no measure has yet
j been passed to relieve suffering of
i the unemployed._
JEWISH HELM IS
BEK WIPED OUT III
GERMANY BE HITLER
BERLIN. April 10.—Chancellor
Adolph Hitler has placed the price
of Germany’s rebirth at 330 persons
slain, 30,000 persons wounded and
100,000 driven from commercial
life. He declared outright to an
audience of cabinet members, di
plomats and newspapermen that
i these were the figures on the long
| incipient revolution which led to
! his rise in power.
“The German press hitherto
marched behind, but today it
marches abreast of the times. No
government can destroy a press
which prints the truth,” he said.
! “ A virtual Nazi dictatorship will
be established in the federation of
I Germany’s industries, with election
; of Nazi-controlled executive board.
Nazis have, in the meantime, act
! ed to wipe out all traces of Jewish
religion in Christian teachings
! and a government of “culture tab”
was seen as a futher move toward
Nationalisation of the Protestant
! church.
What course the Hitler govern
ment will take in regard to the
Catholic church may be disclosed
after a talk between the Pope and
Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen,
in Rome. Reorganization of the
i Federation of Industries was aim
! ed at adaptation of indrustrial
policies to the views of the gov
ernment, meanwhile Nazi control
of vital industries. The old ex
! ecutive board resigned.
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VIGOROUSLY OPPOSED
MONONGAHELA, Pa., Aprl 10.—
A move to dispense with the Cali
| fornia State Teachers’ College at
I California, Pa., roused vigorous
' opposition of teachers and citizens
I of Monongahela county, where the
i college is located.
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NEW YORK, April 10.—More
cheer swept over the agricultural
and mining belts of the nation as
commodity markets kept up their
tremendous display of strength.
Millions were added to the value
of crops and stock on hand, and
potential millions were exchanged
, in. furious sessions on various com
modity markets of the country.
Basic mean prices of the three
I future deliveries in wheat, corn
and oats, plus preliminary esti
, mates of whatu the rate of trading
L might have been, approximately
$34,428,260 was represented in
| trades^ on those three commodities
| ch the* Chicago Board of Trade.
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l' PARIS WHEAT DROPS
i PARIS, April 10.—Wheat prices
in France touched the lowest level
, in years, being quoted at 92 francs
.a quintalor, slightly under $1.00 a
, bushel. This represented a drop
of 20 cehts in the last month.
NO PURI OF AKRON
LAKEHURST. N. J.. April 11,-r
A court of inouiry convened here;
yesterday to investigate the de- j
struction of the djrigible Akron.
On a platform at one end of the j
long narow room sat three men- j
bers of the court. Rear Admiral j
Henry V. Butler, president of the J
court, Capt. Harry E. Shoemaker,!
once commandant of the Lake-;
hurst Station, and Commander'
Kraus, of Philadelphia.
A 10-foot model of the Akron j
supplied the remainder of the air}
tragedy. Wreckage of the Akron j
was added to the court room scene,
together with the words of the
three survivors, Lieut. Commdr.
Herbert V. Wiley, Richard Deal,
and Moody Erwin, enlisted men
They probably were among the
first witnesses to be followed by
experts and technicians in iighter
than-air navigation. No part of
the station was open to the gener- |
al public. Many relatives of the
men who went down with the Ak- I
ron in its plunge into the Atlantic j
attended the hearing. Details were:
not made public.
GERMfWWOHLD Will
GEN. LUIEMFF
OBSERVES Hill
BERLIN, April 11, —Chancellor
Hitler ordered proscription thru
out the state of Mecklenburgh of
General Eric von Ludendorff’s
“tannenbergh bund” while his for
mer comrade in revolution was,
celebrating his 69th birthday.
The General and "Hitler were,
fellow leaders of the Munich beer i
cellar putsch of 1923. When Hitler
and von Ludendorff split after j
failure of the putsch, the General’s
unswerving followers formed the
“tannenburgh bund.”
Members are pledged to oppose
the Catholic church, free Masonry,
Jews and what they term “super
state powers.” They were opposed
in the political ballot and wielded
little influence.
The General, one of Germany’s
World War heroes, observed his
birthday quietly. He is almost
forgotten in the excitement of
the third Reich’s foundation.
NEW TIL DENIED
PHOENIX, Ariz., April 11,—The
plea of Winnie Ruth Judd, con
demned murderess, to have her
death penalty set aside and to be
granted a new trial was denied by
Superior Judge Howard Speakman.
The jurist, who was trial judge
when she was convicted of the
murder of Agnes Ann Leroi, her
former room-mate, denied Mrs.
Judd’s motion “without prejudice”.
He ruled that the affirmation of
the death penalty by the State
Supreme Court took the case out
of his hands. A plea that Judge
Speakman “be , considerate” was
made in a letter written by her
father, the Rev. H. J. McKinnell.
“Will you, in thought, lay off the
judicial ermine and put on a lath
er’s coat”, the aged free Methodist
preacher pleaded. “In other words,
take my place and imagine Ruth
Judd as your own child.”
CONFIDENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 11—
The full army of 250,000 men en
listed for President Roosevelt’s re
forestation campaign wiil be in
the field by May 15, Robert Fech
ner, director of emergency conser
vation work said.
Already the Federal government
has raide_d the bread lines by of
fering $1 a day and board and
room to men caught in the whirl
pool of the depression and forced
out of their normal jobs.
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ARGENTINE WON
BUENOS AIRES, April 11,—Ar
gentina won the South American
Zone championship of Davis Cup
’ tennis competition, defeating Chile
3 to 0.
WOULD BAN WELCHERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aril 10.—
1 A Federal ban on loans to govern
ments in default to America or its
citizens was recommended in the
Senate by the judiciary committee
while the administration’s string
ent securities bill was forced ahead
1 n congressional committees.
GOLD TREK
VANCOUVER, April 11,—Off to
the picturesque land where old
timers predict the biggest ‘ gold”
season since 1898, the Steamer
Princess Norah steamed with pros
pectors, mining engineers, rail
way workers, and a few early tour
ists.
Charles E. McLeod, director of j
the Yukon Consolidated Goldfield, I
and McLeod White, engineer of j
tne Consolidated Mining & Smelt- j
ing Company, headed the trek of J
mining experts.
GRAND EXPOSE IS DUE
i
IN ELECTION FRAUDS KT j
HI SHORTLY!
PITTSBURG, Pa., April 10. —A
grand expose of election frauds
may be the result of investigations
by special agents of the Depart
ment of Justice who have been
working on alleged mis-conduct of
many of the City’s high political
figures, in the last national gen
eral election. One hundred odd are
listed among those due for expo
sure. The case will go before the
U. S. grand jury soon.
Districts 30 and 32 are the chief
ones said to be shot through with
fraud, including the suburbs of
Oakland, Soho, Greenfield and
Hazelton. Pittsburg police are
also under fire as a side issue of
the investigation. Franklin T. Mc
Quade, long a prominent detective
on the local police force, is men
tioned as likely for promotion to
Police Superintendent in the clean
up. _ m _
MM Mil HI
era out of ii
SUICIDE PICT, CIOL
LOS ANGELES, April 11,—Belief
that J. R. Bodin’s sudden decision
to back out of a suicide pact led
to his murder by his supposed
I sweetheart was expressed by offi
cers of the Steamship Yale, from
which Bodin and Barbara Muller,
24, disappeared at sea.
Purser David J. Phelan and oth
er officials told of seeing Bodin
and the girl in an argument,
shortly before the ship reached
Los Angeles harbor. The girl, they
said, acted in a strange manner,
giving rise to the belief that she
was “doped”. She may have struck
Bodin over the head when he re
fused to go thru with the double
suicide and then, after hurling
his body overboard, plunged into
the sea herself, they theorized.
SKIIS SET MX
MOTION: SCIENTIST DEAD
BANFF, April 11, —R. A. E. C.
Paley, an international research
fellow in Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, was killed near
here when he was pitched from a
mountain peak by an avalanche
his skiis set in motion.
The body of the 25 year-old!
mathematics expert was recovered
after hours of digging in the
crumbled rock and snow. Paley
had climbed on skiis to a ledge of
Fossil mountain near the top of
the 9,600 peak.
TEN TO LIFE
LOS ANGELES, April 11,—Earl
H. VanDorn, confessed kidnapper
of Mrs. Mary B. Skeele, 65-year-old
wife of the University of Southern
California Dean of Music, was sen
tenced to spend from 10 years to
life in Folsom penitentiary by Su
perior Judge William Tell Aggeler.
VanDorn’s previous criminal re
cord made the maximum penalty
mandatory.
TWO MAXIES BATTLE
AT NEW TGRK IN JUNE
NEW YORK, April 10, — Jack
Dempsey scored over Madison
Square Garden when the New York
State Athletic Commission granted
his request to schedule the Max
Schmeling-Max Baer fight at Yan
kee Stadium Qn June 8 instead of
June 1.
The date previously had been
given the Garden. The Garden
asked permission to stage a heavy
: weight title bout between Jack
! Sharkey and Primo Camera in
■ June, but action on the request
1 was deferred until next week’s
meeting.
KETCHIKAN BEER
KETCHIKAN, April 11. —This
city ordered only 10 cases of legal
beer which reached Ketchikan
from Seattle Monday and was
gone almost as soon as it was un
loaded. Although sales are held
up, Mayor Davies elect quaffed
the first glass in front of a camera.
It sold for 25 cents a pint bottle.
BOISE, Idaho, April 11,—Pros
pectors, both oldtimers and ama
teurs, which the depression sent
into the hills, have turned in
$362,050 in gold in the past nine
months and it is expected the
amount will reach a half-million
by the end of the fiscal year, July
1.
Last year the yield from Idaho
creeks amounted to $247,000 for
the entire 12 months.
The cleanup, while mostly small
per man, yet 58 percent came from!
prospectors turning in less than:
$100 at a time; only nine percent:
cashed in over $1,000. Oldtimers
washed out most of the gold but
the amateurs succeeded in glean
ing considerable.
IIHEOIS
LOVE THIEF. HU
SUMMONS IH SUIT
NEW YORK, April 10.—Fay Webb
Vallee, estranged wife of Rudy
Vallee, has been named a lofe
I thief in a $100,000 suit for aliena
I tion of affections.
The action was brought by Mrs.
Kathleen Leon, who accused Fay
of stealing the love of her husband,
Garfield (“Garfy”) Leon, an ada
gio dancer. ££y was handed a
summons as she boarded a train
for California with her father,
Police Chief Clarence E. Webb of
Santa Monica, at Harmon, N. Y..j
where she had gone supposedly to1
evade service.
It was the discovery of the al
leged attachment between Fay and
Leon which precipitated the sep
aration of Rudy and his wife,
which figured in the headlines a
few days ago, it was reported.
CEHilisisSOH
IS JEM TO DOIT
CHICAGO, April 11, —Twenty
six days of trying to fill the late
Anton J. Cermak’s place as Mayor
of debt-burdened Chicago, is much
more than a plenty, the man who
first undertook the job indicated
by urging the city council to hurry
up and vote him out of office.
The man who was elected to fill
Cermak’s shoes temporarily is F.
Corr, a slender, partly bald Demo
cratic alderman who made no bid
for the honor but took it when
his party leaders told him to.
THREATENED
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YOSEMITE, April 11,—The Yose
mite creek dam was threatened by
flood waters, loosened when a gi
gantic 310-foot ice cone, forming
the upper strata of Yosemite Falls,
fell with a thunderous roar.
Authorities were prepared to dy
namite the ice barrier if necessary.
The frozen mass was forced down
the narrow stream by the tremen
dous force of water and into the
Merced River.
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PLEAD GUILD TO
LOS ANGELES, April 11—In a
dramatic last minute move. Leslie
B. Henry, Pasadena clubman and
broker, plead guilty to five counts
of grand theft in ipggling the ac
counts of Mrs. Charlotte Shelby,
mother of Mary Miles Minter,
former screen actress.
Henry, who assertedly misman
aged Mrs. Shelby’s $500,000 bond
account which he handled for his
firm, declared he had despaired of
an acquittal in the face of a “sui
cide note” he wrote last November.
THE RUSSIAN VIEWPOINT |
. MOSCOW, April 10.—One of the
chief motives behind Great Bri-j
tain’s exceptionally strong protests i
against the arrest of six of her;
citizens in Russia is the desire to>
prevent American recognition of
the Soviet government, a Soviet
spokesman charged.
PirSICIINS BUTTLE
SAVE LIFE OF MOTHER
CHICAGO, April 11,—Physicians
at Frances Willard Hospital here
were battling for the *10th suc
cessive day to save the life of Mrs.
Caroline LaPlante, 37-year-old
mother of two children, who has
literally “forgotten how to
breathe”.
Revived once already from an
apparent death coma, Mrs. La
Plante has presented doctors with
one of the most baffling cases ever
recorded in medical history. Her
illness is diagnosed as polio encep
halitis, or paralysis of the respira
tory muscles, which is complicated
by inflamation of the brain.
It is this inflamed condition of
the brain, the physicians declare,
which has caused her to cease to
breathe automatically, as does
every other human being, and as
a result she has to be “command
ed” to inhale oxygen.
Mrs. LaPlante lies stricken in
an “iron lung”, or drinker respira
tor, and her doctors state that if
she ever leaves the apparatus alive
she must be taught to breathe all
over again. _
STRETCHER
NEW YORK, April 11, —Joseph
W. Harriman, resigned chairman
of the closed Harriman National
; Bank & Trust Co., was carried
j from his home on a stretcher and
taken in "a private ambulance to
the Federal court to plead to an
indictment charging him with 14
false entries in the books of the
Bank.
He was accompanied by his wife
and a physician. He is suffering
from heart trouble._
cm ExrecTS heciih
Eli IS MECCA TOLL
THOSE SEEKING FUN
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, —
San Francisco’s pre-prohibition
fame as a mecca for northern Cal
ifornia visitors in search of enter
tainment was expected to be re
vived and with thousands of out
of-town visitors coming here to
quaff the beer denied at home be
cause of the extraordinary de
mand and limited supply.
It was estimated enough beer
had been dispensed by San Fran
cisco breweries, 4,000.000 gallons,
to provide a .full supply for each
of the States, 5,677,251 residents.
But still the demand exceeded the
supply
Before prohibition, Northern
California came to drink and avail
themselves of San Francisco’s un
excelled food. Coming cf aridity,
with establishing of bootleg joints
at every cross road, lessened the
attraction here. But now, with
breweries unable to fill the volume
of out-of-town orders, the old or
der is expected to return.
PRESIAT SEICHES
HIS 01 S»
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.—
President Roosevelt having cut his
own salary 15 per cent, has written
out and will turn over to the Treas
ury a personal check of $1,843, re
presenting 15 per cent of his first
month’s salary.
The Constitution forbids compul
sory reduction of a President's sal
ary after his election, but Mr.
Roosevelt is voluntarily taking the
same cut which he decreed for oth
er government officials. The re
duction brings the President’s sal
ary of $75,000 annually down to
$63,750.
PERSECUTION OF JEWS
I MONSTROUS T16
HAVANA, Cuba. April 10, —G.
Bernard Shaw believes Adolf Hit
ler’s anti-Jewish campaign will
lead to the end of his dictatorship
in Germany, he said in an inter
view here’
“I never have met Hitler and I
know nothing of his plans, and ap
i parently nobody else does, not ex
| eluding the German people. But if
! it consisst of persecution of the
Jews, its a monstrous thing and
Hitler will fall in the end. Then
the Jews wiii persecute him.”