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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 68
SEWARD, AIjASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FINANCIAL DISTRESS BELIEVED
TO HAVE BEEN CAUSE OF
DOUBLE SUICIDE
VIENNA, March 25.—A four
months’ search for Dr. Ernest
Watzle, Cleveland chemist and in
ventor, who disappeared last No
vember, ended with the identifi
cation of his body by his father
in a hotel. Beside Watzle’s body
7. as that of a woman believed to
be Mrs. Mary McGranahan of
Cleveland.
Bodies both bore gunshot
wounds and wrere found in a room
of the Hotel Sacker. The woman
was known here as Josef a Kropej,
but she is reported to be a mane
uin named McGranahan, whose
mother was a resident of Cleve
land.
The father did not know his
on was back in Austria- Finan
cial distress is believed to have
a used the suicides.
G
TACOMA, Mar. 25. (/P)—Prepar
ations arc being made for a coro
ner's inquest which will place the
clame for the death of Frank Far
mer. 39, widely known Northwest
heavyweight boxing veteran, who
died suddenly during the fifth
round of a main boxing bout at the
Athletic Club last night.
“Spark Plug” Joe Boyd of Aber
deen is being held pending the out
ome of the inquiry.
Farmer, a veteran of 300 battles,
v-as counted out by the referee aft
r he slumped to the floor.
Deputy Coroner Lodge said death
-.vas caused by a blow in the
stomach bringing on “heart block.”
Spectators said all the blows ap
peared to be fair.
LITTLE THEITEB GU
IS FORMED LULL!
A meeting was held last night
n the Seward Athletic Club hall,
'.he purpose of which was to or
ganize a Little Theater Club U"
Seward. The meeting was well
attended and many presented
:heir views.
Mrs. John C. Green was elected
as temporary chairman, with a
permanent group of officers to be
elected in the near future. The
:ommittee of five consists of D.
C. Brownell as chairman, Dow I.
Galloway, Miss Dorothy Hill, Mrs.
Charles Lechner and Mrs. C. E.
Anderson. This committee is to
Iraw up a constitution and by
aws for the organization.
From the interest shown at this
:irst meeting great things may be
-xpected from the club, and Sew
ard may look forward to some fine
entertainment in the not too far
listant future
REGISTRATION MOUNTING
Registration for the municipal
election on April 1 has reached
140. reports A D. Balderston, city
official.
WARNING
A warning to motorists is issued
oy the Alaska Railroad local office
to keep clear of the holes recent
ly dug opposite the depot. These
holes have been filled in as best
as possible at this time but should
a car be driven over the excava
tion wheels will probably sink up
:o the hub caps.
Mike Cooney and Corliss return
ed to Nenana last Thursday from
the Kantishna district, where they
have been engaged in freighting.
RELIEVED OF POST
WASHINGTON, March 26. (ff)—
Lieut. Colonel Robert Richardson,
Jr., is to be relieved of his post as
commandant at West Point. He
held the office for one year and
so far as is known his command
has been without incident. His
successor has not be named.
INSTilElOPES
PENETRATE FOE
NOW KNOW HOW PARTICLES OF
j fog PUT TOGETHER; SEEK
KNOWLEDGE BREAKUP
CAMBRIDGE, Mar. 25. (/P)—An
nouncement of a new kind of at
tack on fog by the Massachusetts
|Institute of Technology’s new me
teorolgical observatory, was made.
! it has been learned how fog par
ticles are put together and it is
hoped tills knowledge may show
'how to take them apart in a more
effective manner than now.
The attack is new, in a wide
field, over which it proposes to
penetrate farther than ever before
into most minute details of fog
’structure and its antics trying to
develop an accurate method in
measuring humidity.
j NEW YORK, Mar. 26. (/P)— By a i
split vote, of the judges and referee, |
I Johnny Risco of Cleveland, the
!“baker boy,” won a 10-round ver
Idict over Victorio Campolo in a
vicious slugging battle.
A crowd of 11,000 took decided
exception to the verdict booing the
; decision lustily. To the ringsiders
it appeared that Campolo had more
;than a shade the better of the bat
tering. There were no knock
downs.
The consensus of experts' opin
ions gave Campolo five and Risc.o
three rounds with two rounds even.
Campolo weighed in at 225! i and
Risco 166 pounds.
Dr. Alcorn, who recently re
turned to Seward from the States,
plans to leave ths evening on the
A.dmiral Watson for Seldovia.
TRIBUTE IS PI TO
EIELSONIISEBITE
WASHINGTON, March 26, (/P)—
A brief tribute to Col. Carl Ben
Eielson was paid in the Senate
by Senator Nye describing Eiel
son as having a “splendid life
and a splendid character.”
Nye placed in the Congressional
Record the history of the Ex
plorer’s life which was published
in a North Dakota newspaper.
He also read a letter received
from Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins j
who described Eielson as one of |
the great pioneers in Arctic j
flying.
Senator Nye urged the Senate
to adopt as soon as possible the
resolution naming a peak in Me j
Kinley National Park after E
son.
THREE-CUSIUON CHAMP
j FRENCH LICK, Ind., March 26.,
(fp)—Joseph Hall of San Francisco, i
Pacific coast title holder, clinched j
the national amateur three-cush- j
ion billiard championship here by j
defeating Frank Fleming of
Champaign, Illinois, 550 to 70, in
70 innings. It was Hal’s sixth
consecutive victory.
Anna Penuak, local girl, will be
among those departing this eve
ning on the Admiral Watson for
Afognak, where she will spend a
brief visit.
CHICAGO HI i
CLUB SCENE OF
S FRACAS
“T E X A S” GUINAN M A KING
FAREWELL TALK WHEN
SHOTS BEGAN FLY
CHICAGO, Mar. 25. </P)—Leon1
Sweitzer was shot and seriously j
wounded early Sunday in the of
fice of the Green Mill night club
while “Texas” Guinan, night club
hostess, delivered a valedictory at'
her farewell party on the floor be
low.
Sweitzer told the police the shots
had been fired by Harry A. Voiler,
proprietor of the Green Mill, Ar
thur Reed, his floor manager, and
an unidentified assailant following
an argument over the club lease.
The victim’s chest, left leg and
left arm were punctured with bul
lets. Voiler and Reed appeared
voluntarily at the police station
and denied they had participated
in the shooting. Both are held on
open charges.
Miss Guinan also went to the
station to protest her innocence in
connection with the affair; she
was not held.
CUBS SET, WHITE SOX UPSET
CHICAGO, March 26. (JP)—While
the Cubs are pretty well set with
their 1929 lineup, the White Sox
are shaking up everything ex
cept the squad of bat boys.
SEATTLE. Mar. 26. (/P)—Edward
John McCormick died Sunday
night at Holtvllle. Calif., word here
said. He was 73 years old.
Born in Ireland he found a for
tune in the Klondike; he went in
over the Dyea trail and opened up
a restaurant and hotel in Dawson
City. Later, he built the Portland
Block there and came out with a
stake.
He settled in Imperial Valley in
California and will be buried there.
Me is survived by four children all
in the states.
WINS $15,000, GOLF
MIAMI, March 26. (£>)_.“Wild
Bill” Meibom of Pensacola, Flori
da, won the $15,000 La Gorge golf j
tournament here with a 72-hole
score of 285, beating Horton j
Smith, who scored a 288.
SIX CHUTES FILE
■HE ELECTION
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r
One candidate for mayor, three !
for the council and two for the'
school board, is the sum total of
the filings up to 5 o’clock last
night for the municipal election
on April l. However, until the
legality of the question is ascer
tained, City Clerk A. D. Balder
ston stated this morning he would
continue to accept filings, as it j
appears to be some doubt as to I
whether or not Sundays are in
cluded or counted as a day from
a legal standpoint.
M. 8. Banbury filed yesterday
for the school board and Leonard
Hopkins as a member of the coun- j
cil for the one-year term.
As the candidates stood this
morning the lineup is as follow* •
Mayor P. c. McMullen for re
election; Charles C. Cooper and
Dr. A. R. Roberts, aspirants to the
council for two-year terms; Leon
ard Hopkins, for the one year, and
William Abbott and M. S. Ban
bury for the school board.
WATSON DUE 6:30 TONIGHT
According to the latest reports
from the local office of the Pacific
Steamship Co., the Admiral Wat
son is due to arrive in port at 6:30
tonight.
SEVER BURN TO
DEATH; SIX IDE
NEW YORK, Mar. 25. (/P)—Seven
persons, six of them members of
one family, were burned to death
as they slept. The eighth young
son of the family escaped with se
vere burns when fire enveloped
their home.
The dead are Mr. and Mrs. John
Flish, four children, and a board
er, Charles Worzan, 43.
The entire family was asleep on
the second floor of the wooden
house and were trapped by the fire
which broke out in the basement
and spread rapidly. Stanley Flish,
14, jumped from a window.
LONDON, Mar. 26. (.^—Adjourn
ment of the Naval conference for
six months as a means of escaping
the present impasse is definitely
considered.
The suggestion is attributed to
Grand! of Italy and made by Mac
Donald who believe the suspension
will give France and Italy a further
opportunity in composing their dif
ficulties without prolonging the
present virtual suspension of the
conference.
Such an adjournment would con
template reassembling October l.
CHILDREN PERISH
TRYON, Okla., March 28. (/P)—
Three children perished in a fire
which destroyed the Pleasant Val
ley district school, near here.
Eighty other children escaped.
NEW YORK, Mar. 28. (A*)—A new
speed Queen of the seas was en
throned when the North German
Lloyd liner Europa. on its maiden
voyage, wrested the crown by 18
minutes from her sister ship, the
Bremen.
The 51,000-ton racing greyhound i
passed Ambrose Lightship crossing !
the tape at 5:54 a. m., making the
3,100 miles crossing from Cher
bourg in four days, 17 hours and
six minutes. It was stormy most
of the way.
North Carolina produced 8,207,000
pounds of copper last year.
RAGE HORSE WINS
AGUA CALIENTE, March 26. (JP) ;
—Victorian, sporting the silks of;
the warm stables of Lexington,!
won the Agua Caliente handicap
with its all-age world’s largest
money stake netting $98,400. The
victor finished the mile and one
quarter two lengths ahead of the
second horse in two minutes three
and one-fifth seconds, a new track
record.
The British cruiser Dauntless, is
scheduled for a cruise of Southern
Alaska waters this summer.
TODAY'S WEATHER
Place Tern. Condition
Seward—38.Raining; south wind
Divide—32.Light snow; calm; 1
Hunter—38.Cloudy; calm
Grandview—30.Light rain; calm
Tunnel—38 ...Rain; souhwtest wind
Moraine—36.Rain; southeast wipd
Girdwood—37.Light rain; calm
Anchorage—31.Cloudy; calm
Wasilia—38.Cloudy; calm
Talkeetna—32.Snow; calm; 2
Curry—32.Snow; calm; 1
Broad Pass—24.Snow; calm; 2
Healy—20.Part cloudy; calm
Nenana—30.Cloudy; calm
Fairbanks—35.Cloudy; calm
SPRING HALTED
ST. PAUL, Minn., March 26. (/P)
—Sub-zero temperatures and
snow halted the spring advance
in the northwest, with reports
telling of precipitate drop in
temperature throughout his sec
tion.
MINERAL CHEEK
VALDEZ DISTRICT
NO ASSAY NECESSARY; RUNS
FROM $50,000 AND UP; FOR
TUNE IN SIGHT
CORDOVA. March 26. (^ — Re
ports from Valdez say a rich strike
has been made on Mineral Creek
by T. J. DeVenney and W. A. Dolan, j
A 16-inch ledge of solid quartzi
was uncovered 300 feet below the j
surface and carries free gold val- j
ues from $50,000 a ton up, being so j
rich that “no assay is necessary ;
to demonstrte that a fortune is in j
sight.”
The assays on all the ore taken '
out during tunneling averaged $20
a ton after the free gold had been
set aside.
ALASKA MOUNTAIN IS
SAID TOJE ERUPTING
CORDOVA, Mar. 26. W.)—Mount
Blackburn is erupting again, re- ,
ports Chitina residents. The erup-!
lion, though spectacular, is not
menacing; huge columns of black
smoke issue.
Driven from interior hills by
cold, snow and hunger, more than
50 deer are being cared for on the
outskirts of the city. Food is
bought through popular subscrip
tion. ;
FILIPINO IS KILLED j
BY SEATTLE POLICE: j
TERRORIZED PEOPLE!
SEATTLE, March 25. (/P;—
Breaking through a barricaded I
room of a hotel, police shot and
killed Mariano Maraposa, 40, a
Filipino who had terrorized the
occupants of the hotel, when the
latter sought to quiet him and
drove other Filipinos from their
rooms.
Patrolman H. H. Redick fired
the fatal shot when the man
lunged at him with the knife. His
roommate said he became de
mented because of lack of money.
M ARMSTRONG
APPEALS, HIGIEII COURT
SAN FRANCISCO, March. 26,
(/P)—The appeal of Karl Arm
strong from his conviction in
the District Court of Alaska, |
Third Judicial District, of the:
charge of murder, was submitt-!
ed to the United States Court j
of appeals for a decision follow
ing an oral appeal.
Armstrong was sentenced at
Seward and given 15 years for
killing Eric Dahlberg at Kodiak
on September 13, 1928.
His appeal was argued bv
Attorney Anthony J. Dimond of
Valdez who based his case on
an alleged error in instructions
by Judge E. Coke Hill to the
jury.
WATSON DUE THIS EVENING
The S. 8. Admiral Watson of
the P. S. S. Co. left Cordova at
6:15 this morning for the Port of
Seward and is expected to arrive
this evening between 7 and 8
o’clock.
ME IS FIRED.
UPS SOUNDED.
TRIBUTE. EIELSON
IHOUSANDS STAND IN SILENT
TRIBUTE; INTERMENT TO
MORROW AFTERNOON
HATTON, N. D., March 26. (/P)—.
The body of Col. Carl Ben Kielson
returned to his hom| state and
was accorded a tribute of an in
ternational hero.
Crowds assembled at Minot and
Devil’s Lake to pay silent tribute
as the funeral car halted briefly
at each point. It is expected to
reach here at 5:30 p. m.
Five thousand people stood sil
ent at Minot as wreaths were plac
ed by the American Legion and
D. A. R. on the casket; at Devil’s
Lake there w’as a half-hour stop.
A Colonel’s salute wras fired by
the howitzer company of the North
Dakota National Guards and taps
wrere sounded as the train left the
station.
The body will lie in state, at
tended by a guard of honor, until
interment tomorrow afternoon.
SETTLEMENTS SHE
ENCOURAGED 8! W
FORESTRY SERVICE
Only one-sixth of the total ter
ritory of the United States is now
under timber, stated Ranger W. M.
Sherman, a recent visitor in the
city, and of this one-sixth is in
government control. The popula
tion of the United States is com
puted as being one-twelfth that of
the world yet America uses one
half of the} total world crop of
timber, annually. In other words,
Sherman said, “we are using tim
ber four times as fast as it is be
ing grown.”
The Forest Service encourages
settlements everywhere but in Al
aska, even more so. The trade
and manufacturing site act, as ap
plied to the National Forest, called
locally, homesites, permits anyone
to settle thereon and receive title
to their home by continuous occu
pancy for a period of three years.
Under this act the acreage is not
to exceed five acres.
The department encourages spe
cial use of the land for farms of
any description, residences, sum
mer camps, recreational purposes,
and so on.
tative of the Federal Power Com
mission and here also encourages
power projects within the National
Forest. None of these ever go to
patent but continue to remain the
property of the people under the
supervision of the Federal Power
Commission. There are several
wonderful power sites in this im
mediate district, Ranger Sherman
continued, one of which is located
at Lost Lake, another at Ptarmigan
Lake, Grant Lake and so many
others that they are too numerous
to mention.
If any project within the forest
justifies the construction of a road
Dr trail the Forest Service always
endeavors to accommodate them
as promptly as possible. A few rec
reative trails have been built for
;he use of hikers, the majority of
;he work todate having been done
primarily for egress and ingress to
forest fire zones.
YUKON NURSE WEDS
VANCOUVER, B. C., Mar., 26,
(/P)—Irene Brown, formerly of the
Yukon country and a graduate
nurse, recently superintendent of
the hospital at Shelton, Wash.,
was married last night to N. H.
Lougheed, minister of Public
Works, British Columbia. They
lefa for Eastern Canada and the
United States on a honeymoon
trip.
FISHER IMPRESSES MCGRAW
NEW YORK, Mar. 26. (JP)—The
Giants expect to keep George
Fisher, 28-year-old outfielder, pur
chased from Buffalo.