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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 92.
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1930.
BRICE TEN CENTS
TERRIBLE BLAZE
FIRE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEh
OF INCENDIARY ORIGAN,
ACCORDING OFFICIALS
COLUMBUS, April 22. (£>)
The lives of more than 317 Ohio
penitentiary convicts were snuffed
out by flame and smoke while
they were locked in cells, and the
official casualty list showed more
than 130 other prisoners in the
hospital; a score of these are in
a. critical condition.
The penitentiary housed 4,300
convicts, 2,500 more than was or
iginally intended.
The fire is believed to have been
of incendiray origin.
The guards failed to quickly re
alize the seriousness of the fire
and directed their first efforts
against a possible outbreak rath
er than to rescue work. This ie
indicated by testimony in the of
ficial investigation.
Governor Cooper appointed At
torney General Bettman to take
charge of the inquiry.
Governor Cooper issued state
ments to the press asking the pub
lic for calm consideration of the
catastrophe. Also, the prisoner?
appreciation of the morale disci
pline which controlled the situa
tion without violence.
The bureau of federal prisons
has instructed Albert MacDonald
■warden of the United States re
formatory at Chillicothefi to go tc
Columbus and see if the federal
prisn department can be of an>
assistance.
TO RAISE 53 ALLOWANCE
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April 21. (ZF
—When Mrs. James O'Reilly, 66
asked her 69-year-old husband foi
money he replied:
“You say I don’t support you
You have $3 a week. That is $156
a year and that’s too much rnone}
for any worn m to have.”
Mrs. O’Rei’iy retaliated by start
ing action for separate support and
won her suit, the court ordering
the elderly husband to boost her
allowance to $5 a week.
FAVORABLE REPORT
VANCOUVER, B. C., April 23. (ZP)
—The dominion government will
investigate the Yukon section of
the proposed Alaska Highway
Premier Tolmie said upon his re
turn from a trip to Eastern Can
ada.
PAYNE NOMINATED
WASHINGTON. April 23, (ZP)—
The nomination of Frederick
Payne of Massachusetts to be As
sistant Secretary of War, was sent
to the Senate by President Hoov
er.
ELECTED PRESIDENT
BASEL, Switzerland, April 23, (ZP)
—Gates W. McGarrah of New
York, widely known financier, has
been elected president of the bank
for International settlement.
Reverend Kuring, Lutheran min
ister who last evening held local
services, left today for his home
at Anchorage.
BARRED FROM ENTRY
; |
t WASHINGTON, April 23, (/P)—\
| All foreign competitive goods
' made by forced or indentured la- ,
I bor, will be barred from entry in
to the United States under a com
; promise reached by the conferees
on the tariff bill.
1 leflEFMENT BE SENT
IT ONCE TO SEMITE
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WASHINGTON, April 23, (/P)— j
President Hoover announced that;
the London agreement would be j
sent to the Senate for ratification ;
j immediately upon its arrival at ,
Washington. He assumed that the ;
American delegates would bring
back the official copy of the trea- j
ty. The transmission to the Sen- j
, ate will probably take place within
■ the week.
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FAMOUS POET PASSES
j LONDON, April 22, (/Pi—Robert j
Bridges, poet laraurete of England,
died here yesterday.
TUNNEL COLLAPSED
NAMPA, Idaho. April 22, (/P>— Joe
C. Marcuson of Nampa was killed j
and Riley Oberacre of Nampa and
Allfred Sisson of Nampa were seri- '
ously injured when the Oxfeon tun
nel, 50 miles from Huntington on
the homestead brankh of the Ore- j
fon Short Line Railroad collapsed, j
said information received here.
WINS TWO pi T OF THREE
PORTLAND, April 21, (/P)— Gus •
Sonnernberg, generally known as
the world’s heavyweight wrestling
champion, won two out of three
falls to defeat Charles Hansen, ,
Seattle, in the principal bout of
the wrestling show here.
PREMIERS DAUGHTER
ROME, April 22. (/Pi—Announce
ment was made that Edda Musso
lina, daughter of the Premier and
her fiance, Galeazzo Ciano, will be
married Thursday at the church of
St. Joseph in Via Nometana.
MAY BE DETERMINED
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, (VP;—
Submission of the $30,000,000 bond
issue for the construction of the
proposed Golden Gate bridge join
ing San Francisco and the Marin
shore at the August 26 primary
election, may be determined upon
after all by the directors of the j
joint bridge and highway district.
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FORMER OFFICIALS
LOS ANGELES, April 22, (/P)—
Investigations following the wake j
of the Julian petroleum stock i
over-issue swindle, reached out to
San Francisco. The district attor
ney’s office disclosed that a spec- 1
ial deputy arrived htere by air
plane to question two former offi
cials of the corporation.
KILLED BY BATTALION
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 22, j
(£>)—Two American marine officers
were killed and a sergeant was -
wounded seriously by a disgruntled 1
Nicaraguan sergeant who was re- 1
cently demoted for drunkeness at :
Jicaro but he was finally shot down I
and killed by members of the bat- j:
talion.
NATIVE BLEW OWN HEAD OFF;
NO PARTICULARS WERE
RECEIVED
JUNEAU, April 23, (/P)_Deputy
United States Marshal E. H. Sher
man, located at Haines, was shot
and killed yesterday afternoon by
an Indian who then blew off his
own head.
Meagre advices received by
Marshal Albert White from the
United States Commissioner, Me
Lean, said no particulars have, as
yet, been received by him.
Sherman was a veteran police
officer at Haines but for years
previous was stationed at other
sections in Southeastern Alaska.
BUILDING INCLUDED
ESTIMATES THIS TEH
TWO HUNDRED NEW FEDERAL
BUILDINGS IN THE OFFING
FOR FISCAL YEAR
WASHINGTON, April 23, <^P)—
Congress is requested by President
Hoover to make available $28,693,
545 to permit Secretary Mellon to
initiate in the next fiscal year
work on more than 200 new feder
al building projects.
Among the additional amounts
is the sum of $450,000 which is
asked for a postoffice, courthouse
and jail at Fairbanks.
BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 7; New York 6.
Boston 3; Washington 4, 12 in
nings.
Detroit 4: St. Louis 5. 13 innings.
Chicago 4: Cleveland 3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York at Boston rained.
St. Louis 8; Chicago 3.
Brooklyn 5; Philadelphia 6.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Sacramento 8; Los Angeles 2.
Hollywood G; Seattle 7.
Missions 5; Portland 3.
Oakland 13; San Francisco 7.
GIVE EM THE WORKS
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, (AJ>—
3uch punishment as the federal
:ourt can legally inflict lor lire of
fense is to be visited upon those
San Franciscans who continue
their delinquency in failing to re
turn to the census bureau in the
:ity hall, blanks left with them by
the enumerators. This punishment
includes imprisonment.
THE WHY AND THE HOW
Should folks wonder “how come”
riany of the local youths have been
seen wearing new clue sweaters
vith white stripes, it might be said
;hat the sweaters were awarded to
ihe members of he high school bas
ketball team. The school colors of
*oyal blue and white make a
nifty" combination.
FORTUNATE TOIV N S
WASHINGTON, April 22, (&)—
The omnibus, rivers and harbors
bill introduced included $272,000
for Ketchikan and $17,000 for Port
Alexander.
ALASKANS REQUESTED j
! TQ LISTEN IN TDN1SHT
j The Seward American Legion j
Post received today the following j
telegram from the executive com- ;
mitteemen of the Juneau Post:
Jack Talbot, 1st department
Alaska vice commander, will
broadcast a talk to Legionaires of j
Alaska regarding the coming con- j
vention at Anchorage and other t
matters, over KJR tonight (Wed- j
nesday) at 8:55 p. m. Seattle time, j
IDENTICAL BILLS
j WASHINGTON, April 23, UP)— j
The proposed federal aid in the
establishment of privately owned
airship lines to carry American
commerce to all corners of the
world, is provided in identical bills
offered in the session of congress.
PLEAD NOT GUILTY
j SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, (/P.»— ;
Geo. N. Keyston, broker, and four!
others, charged with embezzlement j
and abetting the embezzlement of |
$500,000 from the bank of Italy, I
pleaded not guilty before Federal j
Judge Louderback. The trial was
set for April 28th or later.
TRIP THRU AFRICA
CAIRO, Egypt, April 23. (IP)—The
Prince of Wales arrived here from
Sudan after an African trip ex
tending from Cape Town thru
British East Africa to this city. He
wil 1 leave shortly for England The
cinema records of this trip runs
into several thousand feet of film. ■
VIOLATING CULT LAWS
BOMBAY, India, April 23, (£>>— ■
The government bore down fierce- j
ly upon the leaders of the civil dis- !
obedience campaign in India. Gov
ernment magistrates all over the .
country spent a day in sentencing *
followers of Mahatma Gandhi,
charged with violating the Cult
laws.
AVERT GREAT LOSS
BIGGS, April 23. UP)— Prompt
work by the Biggs Fire Department
was credited with averting the dis
'truction of the Biggs business sec
tion as a fire of undetermined ori
gin swept a bakery and shoe shop
jwith a loss placed at $8,000.
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CANCELLS ENGAGEMENTS
| LONDON. April 23, UP)—'The fol
lowing official statement was is
sued from the Duke of York’s res
idence here. Her Highness, the
Duchess of York, has cancelled her
forthcoming engagements and she
is not undertaking any further
functions during the summer.
OPENS CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON. April 23, (/P)—
Urging editors of the nation to op
pose aggressively any law designed '
to give court power to censor
newspapers, M. Harrison, president
of the American Society of News
paper Editors, opened its formal
meeting urging support of the Chi
cago Tribunes campaign against
the Minnesota gag law.
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POWERS AFFIX
SIGNATURES
WAVY TREATY
U. S. WILL SCRAP THREE SHIPS,
ENGLAND FIVE AND JAP
AN ONE
LONDON, April 22, (A*)—Repre
sentatives of the five dominant
naval powers affixed their signa
tures to the epoch making treaty
limiting the reducing of navies
of three of them and restricting
the navies of the other two.
Stimson was the first to sign;
by the terms the United States
should achieve parity with En
gland. The date of the expiration
of the treaty is December 31, 1936.
Japan will occupy at that time
a ratio of naval power some where
between the five-five-three capi
tal ship ratio and 10-10-7 auxiliary
ship ratio which was sought at
this conference by its delegation.
The United States scraps the
Florida, the Utah and either the
Alabama or the Wyoming. En
gland will scrap five ships and
Japan one.
Italy did not sign that section
limiting arms but did sign fixing
the captital ships holiday and
prescribing rules for submarine
warfare.
PREMIER NOT INJURED
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PARIS. April 23, ifPi— Premie:}
Tardieu escaped injury in an auto
mobile accident. While chiving
from the Chamber of Deputies to
his home, his car collided with a
taxi cab. Both of the cars were
smashed but the Premier was not
injured.
BIG LIQUOR RING
ALLEGED SMASHED i
NAPA. April 23. (/P>—Smashing
what they declared was headquar
ters of a state-wide liquor ring,
federal oiohibitirm cU:e>"\> arrest
ed 10 men, seized at* elaborate elec
trise still capable of producing 6C0
gallons daily and confiscated 55,
000 gallons of alcohol mash and
2,000 gallons of alcohol ai the
Granderlin ranch eight i-nlec north
west of Napa.
The raid was staged by six fed
eral agents. The belief that most
of the liquor filtered into the East
Bay district came from this still
was expressed by the raiders.
COMFORTABLE WORKSHOP
WASHINGTON, April 23, (ZP)—
President Hoover’s workshop was
located in the comfortable west
wing of the White House for the
first time since the disasterous fire
on Christmas eve. For three mon
ths he has been using a t?mporarg
office in the State Department
building.
E. W. Sweek. local agent for the
Alaska Railroad who last week was
taken seriously ill, and was sent tc
the government hospital at Anch
orage, was reproted today as being
in readiness to undergo an opera
tion.