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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 63. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1930,
PRICE TEN CENTS
ME OIL CASE
LOS ANGELES EXAMINEE OB
TAINED EVIDENCE FROM
FORMER CLERK, OIL CO.
LOS ANGELES. Mar. 20. (tf*)—
Climaxing an entire day and night
of ecntinuoua investigation and
questioning of witnesses, District
Attorney Fitts arrested two Jurors
who two years ago acquitted Jacob
Bergman, 8. C. Lewis and egiht
other defendants, accused of con
spiracy to wreck the Julien Pet
roleum Company by huge stock
issues
The men, John B. Groves and
Frank GrideT, were booked on the
charge of bribery. The arrests
predicated an affidavit obtained
oy the Los Angeles Examiner from
Carl Vlaneilia, former private de
tective employed by Bergman,
that Louis Krause, alleged go-be
tween for the former stock trans
fer and clerk of the Julien firm,
furnished liquor and spent money
nightly during fhe Julien conspir
acy case.
The jurors and two other jur
ors were brought into Fitts office
where they underwent a grilling
and three more were ordered to
appear for questioning.
BIGGEST AFLOAT
NEW YORK. Mar. 20. (/P)—An
official announcement was made
by the Cunard line that it is in
communication with certain ship
builders regarding the building ol
a new steamer for its Atlantic ex
press service. It is reported the
contemplated ship will be the big
gest vessel afloat.
WARSAW. M r. 20 UP) --Several
Jewirh students wire injured when
snli-S n jtic rtudrnt?, n iter a
street ch-monstration, met in the
anatomical instii ute So the Uni
versity raid expelled all the Jew
ish students from their midst. The
anti-Semites also put up a sign
*> in front of the institute building
Entrance of Jews Forbidden.”
KODMK RUiGRER FILLS
WHILE CARRYING LOO
AND BREAKS HIS HECK
Special to the Gateway—
KODIAK, March 9.0, —Chris
Leite, a homesteader living in the
suburbs of Kodiak, while carry
ing a log on his shoulder from
the beach to his house, slipped
and fell the log falling on him
and breaking his neck and arm.
He leaves a wife and several
children.
57 EXECUTED
TEHERAN, Persia, Mar. 20. (/P)—
A report from Kabul. Afghanistan,
S9id that 57 adherents of the us
urper Racha Sakao, who was oust
ed and put to death by Nadir
Shah recently had been executed
by the Shah’s orders.
THOUSANDS DIE OF HUNGER
HONGKONG, Mar. 20. (ff)— Hun
dreds of thousands are dead of
hunger and cold and 2,000,000 men
and women and children face
starvation before June in the pro
vince of Shansi, China, Father
James Kelly here was advised by
missionaries. Aid will be asked
from the United States.
EARL BALFOUR DIES
WOKING, England, Mar. 20- (/P)
—Earl Balfour, veteran British
statesman, died in a room at the
home of his brother, Gerald Bal
four. He was 82 years old and
J had been ill a long time from
I laryncitis.
kuTcolleciiis
ABOUT $10,010,000
UNSEFI HIST IBS'S
WASHINGTON, March 20 (/P)—
Further treasury reports on March
15 collection of income taxes in- ;
dicatcd the budget estimates ofj
the first quarter’s receipts will i
be nearly met up to the close of i
business March 17.
Tlie receipts totaled $99,666,000,
about $10,000,000 behind the total
of last year for the same time,
i If the proportion to apply, also
the remaining collections from the
quarterly, the total will be about
$50,000,000 behind the $601,000,000
collected last year.
THOUSANDS HOMELESS
MANILA, Mar. 20. (IP) — Flames
roared over the Singalong district
of this city, destroying the flimsy
! homes of 5,000 Filipinos and Chi
nese laborers. One person is
known to have perished and scores
were injured. Several children
were missing hours after the fire
had died to embers.
NEW YORK, Mur. 20. (/^—An
other world’s air speed record was
brought back to the United States
when Captain Boris Sergievsky
sent- his loaded Sikorsky seaplane
roaring over a hundred kilometer
course up Long Island Sound at
143.3 rndcs per horn. The old
world mark for seaplanes, carry
ing a full load of 44.93.24 pounds,
vs held by Richard Wagner of
Germany with a speed of 130.1
miles an hour.
MERCED, Calif., Mar. 20. (£>)—
Making their second raid in two
weeks, Federal officials from San
; Francisco headed Special agent
Norman Laine confiscated an al
cohol manufacturing plant includ
j ing a large still and several thou
sand gallons of mash and alcohol,
the whole seizure valued at about
$75,000. The still was found in
I a large barn here.
HAD A TAKING WAY
i LOS ANGELES, Mar. 20. (/P)—
Convicted of a $50,000 theft
charge, Mrs. May Otis Blackburn,
! pastor of the Vierdcult of the
“Great Eleven” was sentenced to
serve from one to 10 years in
San Quentin prison.
CRIME INCREASE SHOWN
CHICAGO, Mar. 20. (JP)—The city
council has approved a report to
be presented to President Hoover’s
law enforcement commission, tend
ing to show a general increase in
crime in Chicago and in Illinois
since the advent of prohibition.
j “Mink Raising in Alaska” is the
title of an Interesting book which
has just been published for the
enlightenment of those engaged in
j mink farming in the territory and
; for the guidance also of those
who are contemplating embarking
! in that interesting lucrative in
dustry. The book was written by
j Gerit (Heinie) Snider, success
: ful mink raiser of the Wasilla dis
trict.
PERSONAL FRIENDS
COLOIL EIEIS1
ESCORTING BODY
PUBLIC SERVICE WILL BE
HELD IN SEATTLE ON
SATURDAY
SEATTLE, Mar. 20. (/P) -Eight
North Dakota National Guardsmen
and legionaires, all personal friends
of Col. Carl Ben Eielson, arrived
to meet and escort their com
rade’s body home for burial.
“We will confer with the com
mittee here which is making plans
to meet the 8. S. Alaska to give
the bodies of Colonel Eielson and
Earl Borland all military honors.”
Bldg. General Fraser, Adjutant
General of North Dakota, said the
bodies will be borne on Army cais
sons to the Butterworth mortuary
where a public funeral service will
be held Saturday.
SAN AGELO, Texas, Mar. 20. (/P)
—Gordon Bristow, whose father,
J. B. Bristow', an oil operator,
was held for 3,000 pesos ransom
by the Mexican bandits, left by
an automobile for Big Springs
where he planned to beard an
airplane for El Faso to negotiate
for his parent’s release.
What's the matter with a dog
j derby over the proposed Interna
! tional Highway from Fairbanks
: to Seattle?
BOMBAY, Mar. 20. (/P)—Violence
marked India’s pad fistic revolu
tion aainst a'ritvh dominion when
i the police fried to prevent rail
j road workers from lying pros
trate in “passive resistance.” The
riot occurred in a railroad main
tenance shop at Bycuila, near
here, ar.d resulted in the injury ol
two policemen and 49 workers.
ITS OUTNUMBER THE
DRYS TWO TO ONE
ACGOROiNG TO POLL
NEW YORK, Mar. 20. (/P)—Ac
cording to the Literary Digest’s
prohibition poll, on which the first
tabulations have been released,
the wets in the United States out- i
number the drys by about two1
and three-quarters 10 one. J
The figures accounting for 291,
5ii3 votes in the 20,000,000-nation
wide straw vote ballot, cover eight
states in the Middle West. The
vote still continues and complete
returns will be made public in
about one month.
BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 20. (&)—
The quarrel of the Argentine Rail
road workers with their employers
took a violent turn, several per
sons being slightly wounded. When
a train stopped at Vallaluro, a
suburb of Buenos Aires, a group
of workers compelled the passen
gers to abandon the coaches,
| which were sprinkled with inflam
jmable liquids and burned. A
| similar clash occurred at both
LIniers and Ciudadela stations on
| the outskirts of the city.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 20. (&)—
At a farewell luncheon on board
the Dollar liner President Grant,
Rear-Admiral C. J. Pepoles was
the guest of honor. He sails on
the Pennsylvania with Mrs. Peo
ples and their two daughters for
Brooklyn, where he will be in
charge fo Navy supplies for the
: Atlantic coast.
Fred J. Spach, junior engineer,
j Alaska Road Commission, arrived
■ in Seward yesterday afternoon
| and continued on to Kodiak on the
| S. S. Admiral Evans.
THE HIGHEST HONOR
MADRID, Mar. 20. (^)—The
“Benevolent Dictator” as Rivera
was often called, will be burled
in a modest grave in the family
plot at Sanisidro Cemetery with
the highest funeral honors King
Alfonso and the government can
give.
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WERE USED 1
WALL STREET. Si
WASHINGTON, March 20. (/P)—
Testimony that the account of
$14,000 maintained by Claudius
Huston with the New York brok
erage firm of Blythe and Bonner
was used as margin stock pur
chases, was given before the Sen
ate lobby committee by Charles
Krickl, member of the brokerage
firm.
He said the account was kept
in the name of W. E. Moore who
Huston identified as his personal
representative.
Huston testified he collected two
checks, $22,000 and $14,000 from
the Union Carbide Company and
from the Tennessee River Im
provement Association; the checks
were deposited for him with Blythe
and Bonner.
Mr. Espiche, an arrival .yester
day from Anchorage, departed for
Kodiak on the Admiral Evans
CHICAGO, aMr. 20. (iP)—Charles
Sanstrom makes his living wash
ing windows in Loop skyscrapers
and thinks nothing of working
10, 20, or 30 stories above the busy
streets. His wife persuaded him to
wash the windows of their flat
on the second floor. He had just
started when lie lost his balance
and fell to the sidewalk.
The Cordova American Legion
post announces that beginning
with Monday, it will hold a night
school in its club rooms in the
Hospital building for the benefit
of thGse desiring to become citi
! zens of the United States.
U. S. TO CELEBRATE BI-CENTENARY
OF WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY IN 1932
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Nation-iwde observance of the 20 Oth anniversary of Washington’s
birth is planned in 1932. His birthpla ce at Wakefield, Va., (below) is to be
be restored. Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, saw Washington as a Roman
(left). President Hoover is shown on a visit to the first President’s mem
orial in Newark, N. J., (upper right.)
BRITISH BOUT
IS SEIZED 1
AMERICAN WATERS
FREIGHTER FORCED OVER IN
TERNATIONAL LINE, THEN
BOARDED BY MARSHAL
SEATTLE, Mar. 20. (A*)—The
steamer Chief Capilano, one of
j the largest British freighters in
i the Pacific ocean, was boarded
| and seized by Deputy United
| States Marshal McDonald in the
■ Strait of Juan-Del-Fuca on an
| order growing out of the loss of
I the freighter Chief Maquilla which
| foundered off the Aleutian Island*
| December 1, 1928.
The vessel was halted by a.
Coast Guard Cutter which forced
j her across the International boun
dary into American waters as she
steamed down the strait from
Vancouver, B. C., laden with
Canadian wheat.
The Chief Maquilla was owned
by the Canadian-American Ship
ping Company which also owns
the Capilano. Dant and Ruussell,
Portland shippers, have been at
I tempting to collect $20,000 for the
I loss of the cargo on the Maquilla
i and the libel order for seizure re~
! suited.
I RUSSIA READY TO HELP ANY
TIME, STATES COMMAN
DER SLIPENOV
; .JUNEAU, March, 20, t7P)—The
S. S. Alaska, bearing the remains
of Colonel Eielson and. Earl Bor
land, has been delayed by storms
I in the Gulf of Alaska but arrived
here at 11 o'clock this morning.
Governor Parks met Ole Eiei
son, and the Canadian fliers. Reid,
Macauley and Hughes, while the
Russian delegation here took Riip
enov and Fahreg in charge and
gave them a luncheon at noon.
| Parks expressed his appreciation
! personally to the Soviet fliers for
| their personal aid and aid, also,
| from their government in the
search for the Americans.
In return Slipenov said that his
government was always ready at
anytime in the future to do the
same thing.
Mrs. Borland was the guest of
relatives.
When the steamer sailed in the
afternoon the American Legion
proceeded to the dock in a body
and paid silent tribute; then,
taps were blown.
SHIP IN DISTRESS
NEW YORK, Mar. 20. (/P)—1The
Mackay radio station picked tip
an SOS call in Greek from the
freighter Eugenie which listed its
position as 200 miles northeast of
Bermuda. The Eugenie said its
engines stopped and that it was
unable to steer.
The Alaska Road Commission is
about ready to resume work on the
Park road. Foreman Ben Cleary
has made an inspection trip and
operations will begin shortly. Sup
plies will be freighted out and
some rock work is to be done on
the East Fork.
Col. E. R. Stivers, deputy col
lector of customs at Hyder since
1621 and one of the district’s best
known citizens, announced that he
has accepted the position of dep
uty collector of customs at Nome,
made vacant by the transfer of R.
W. J. Reed to Wrangell.
“On Vacation” Tonight and Friday
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