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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 75.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 3. 1030.
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SHIFTING CONTROL
PARKS, WINN AND FLORY WIU
SEE IF MORE AUTHORITY
CAN BE PLACED ALASKA
WASHINGTON, April 3. (&)—
Secretary Wilbur announced that
President Hoover has designated
three commissioners for Alaska
\$ members of a committee to rec
ommend steps improving govern
mental administration.
The committee will study to see
whether it will be possible to place
more authority and control of the
Territory in Alaska, rather than
in Washington and increasing the
opportunity for economic develop
ment of the Territory.
The first meeting of the com
mittee will be held at Juneau
This month
The commissioners are: Gover
nor Parks, representing the De
partment of the Interior; Dennis
Winn, representing the Depart
ment of Commerce, in charge of
fishing problems in Alaska; and
Charles H. Flory, representing the
Department of Agriculture, and
supervisor of farms, stock and
forestry' problems.
Each will retain his post as
representative of his department
and to its duties as commissioner.
One of the first problems to be
r mken up Is that of sanitary and
medical work in the Territory;
another consideration is the ad
visability of the reorganization of
the education system.
Wilbur said while the ex-officio
commissioners have no authority
for final action their recommen
dations to the President will make
it possible for him to bring about
any needed coordination
B
ARRIVED LATOUCHE
Special to The Gateway—
LATOUCHE, April 3, (.P)—Capt.
Heinie Berger arrived here on
his motorship, the Discoverer,
md is expected to arrive in Sew
ard at 6 p. m. today.
KANSAS STANDS ALONE
KANSAS CITY, Kas., April 2. (/P)
*■ —Kansas is the only state voting
iry in the Literary Digest nation
wide poll on prohibition, accord
ing to the third week tabulation
:»ver a million votes, which will
appear in the next issue of the
Literary Digest. More than 40
per cent of the total votes was
for repeal of the 18th amend
ment.
BRIDE-TO-BE SUICIDES
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 3.
JP)—Miss Viola Hoffert, 22, shot
and killed herself on her wedding
day here. The young woman was
to have gone to the altar with
Elbert Barm( 26. No one could
advance any’motive for the ap
parent suicide.
RESTRICT FLYING
MARE ISLAND, Calif., April 2.
jp)—It was reported unofficially
that aviators have been warned to
refrain from flying over the south
fend of the Navy yard where the
ammunition depot is located. This
means that the planes of the Val
lejo Lines will have to keep away
from this section.
ADVANCE GUARD ARRIVES
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 2
(/P)—The advance guard of 13S
planes began to arrive at Mathei
Field for the three week’s air de
fence maneuvers to start thii
week. »
THEN DIDN’T GET IT
WASHINGTON, April 3. C/P)—
W. B. Bell, president of the Amer
r ican Cynamid Company, testified
before the Senate lobby commit
tee, that his company spent $168,
000 in efforts to lease Muscl<
Shoals from the government.
iilL EVANS SAILS
FOH NORTH WITH I OS
SEATTLE, April 3., (£•)—The S.
S. Admiral Evans, of the P. S. S.
Co., sailed at 10 a. m. yesterday,
carrying 79 first class passengers
and 26 steerage. Twenty are book
ed for Seward and rcdl points, as
follows: Mrs. Georgia Chapman,
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Roll, 8. Lund
bland, Oliver Jones, E H Carl
son. R. L. Webb, Mrs. C. E. Hol
ben, Mrs. F. Chapman, and 11
steerage.
JULIAN NESS IS
KEEPING GIT! OF
LOS ANSELES, U
LOS ANGELES, April 3. (A*)—
Los Angeles financial and busi
ness districts take their second
shock at the hands of the new
county grand jury when that body
! of citizens reconvene to vote new
! indictments in its revived inves
tigation of what is popularly
known as the Julian mess.
Only the initial phase of the
investigation was reached last Fri
day when two indictments, charg
ing 34 well known men of the
town with conspiracy to commit
usury', were returned.
True bills, it is forecast, will
charge conspiracy to violate the
state corporation security, for con
j spiracy to commit perjury and
: grand theft.
.... ... —
LIGHT Hi POWER
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3. (/P)
—The Great Western Power ancl
the San Joaquin Light and Power
will merge with the Pacific Gas
| utilities systems.
! The merging, which has been
rumored as under way for sev
i eral months, was confirmed by
: officials. The properties merged
involve $850,000,000 assets
FALLS TO DEATH
j SAN FRANCISCO, April 3. (JP)
I —Going too near the edge of a
.cliff at Lands End near the wreck
| of the steamer Coos Bay, Jake
Sekins, 10, of 220 Seventh Avenue,
fell 300 feet to his death when
a section of loose earth gave way
beneath his feet.
EARTHQUAKES WRECKED
ROME, Italy, April 3. UP)—The
; Messina correspondent of La Trl
I buna reported that almost all the
; houses of Filicudi Island, off Si
cily, were made uninhabitable by
a series of earthquakes which
shook the Aeolian Islands last
week. Many persons were re
ported to have been slightly in
jured.
GETTING BETTER
WASHINGTON, April 3. (JP)—
The condition of James Kerney,
member of President Hoover’s
Haitian commission, who was ta
ken ill here last week, was re
ported to be very much better.
NAME TO LIVE FOREVER
] WASHINGTON, April 3. (JP)—
| Dr. Hugo Eckner’s name was in
scribed on a roll of modern im
mortals in geography and ex
ploration when the National Geo
graphic Society presented its spe
cial gold medal for his globe en
circling trip in the Graf Zep
i pelin.
RENO CURE
RENO, Nevada, April 3. (JP)—
. After more than 17 years the
Reno cure was invoked in the
i shattered romances of Mrs. Gladys
. James Klein of San Francisco and
. Commander Jacob Henry Klein,
s distinguished aeronautical member
of the Navy.
WAS ^xlNGTON, April 3. <#)
A charge that Democratic leaders
had concealed fact in discussion
publicly the first year of Presi
dent Hoover’s administration was
made by Representative Tilson, of
Connecticut, the Republican lead
er, in a statement issued through
the Republican national commit
tee.
Tilson said that in the welter
of discussion in which some of
our Democratic friends have been
indulging, there has been such a
continuous concealment of the
facts as to make it appear that
there has been a studied effort at
misrepresentation.
NICE, France, April 3. (/P)—
' Ambassador Walter E. Edge, ar
! riving here in pursuant of his in
! dustrial inspection tour of south
; ern France, had a shock when he
I discovered a large restaurant was
advertising the fact that the
American ambassador would dine
there and sell tickets for 80
francs to those desirous of dining
in the company of an ambassa
dor.
Edge, who is on a tour of
commercial study, felt this was
carrying commerce a little too
far and announced he would re
! fuse to be put on exhibition at
; any price.
TMH LE!PS II
CORDOVA, April 3. </P)—W
Kammerman, of Tacoma, leaped
to his death from the Northwest
Fisheries cannery boat Perry L.
Smithers when the vessel was
crossing the Gulf of Alaska. A
! jury returned a verdict of suicide.
Kammerman was making his
! fourth annual trip to engage in
j Alaskan fisheries. He was a mem
; ber of the Moose lodge.
BOTTLE MESSAGE
j VENTURA, Calif., April 2. (£>)—
| Sheriff’s deputies left for Santa
i Cruz Island^ 40 miles off the Cal
| tfornia coast, to investigate a mes
sage found in a bottle on the
I beach here which read: “March
119—Help. Lcwt. Stranded Santa
; Cruz snow ”
HI ORGANIZED
DILLON, Mont., April 3. VP)—
A small group of mining men met
in the district court room and or
ganized the “Beaverhead Countj
Mining Association,” by adopting
the constitution and a set of by
laws. The following officers were
elected: George French of Argen
ta, president; Pearl I. Smith, vice
president; Roy B. Herndon, secre
tary and treasurer.
The object of this small group h
to advance interest In mining. Onl)
15 men formed the group institut
ing the movement but consider
able enthusiasm has been showr
iand the membership has been in
creasing.
|
; Agreements on the timber tract*
| and waterpower to be developec
: and utilized by the Cameron
Chandler syndicate in its pulp anc
paper project in Southeastern Al
aska have been successfully clos
ed and the era of constructioi
lies In the near future.
ms pun in
■ HAMILTON, Bermuda, April 3.
• UP)—The American monoplane
1; Pilot, which left New York yes
• j terday for the Bermuda’s, reach
| i ed Hamilton safely before 10 a.
• i m., after having spent a night
j at sea a scant 60 miles from his
1 goal and ships.
| For the first time in the his
tory of ocean flying a~plane des
i raided at sea and spent a night
j there and was then able to con
1 j tlnue its voyage under its own
! power.
The monoplane was forced to
descend because of darkness. It
' was in the air eight hours; it was
equipped with pontoons.
NATIONAL BANK CALL
WASHINGTON, April 3. (JP)—
The Comptroller of Currency is
sued a call on condition of all
National banks at the close of
business March 27.
WETS NEXT
I WASHINGTON, April 3. (£>)—
Prohibition hearings by the Dry
* forces were concluded by Chair
II man Graham, of the Judiciary
:, committee, after one witness had
j taken the stand and several dry
leaders wire permit ted to place
their statements into the record
’ without being subject to cross ex
* i amination.
Graham, announced the Wets
' | would be given an opportunity to
! offer rebuttal testimony two weeks
| from today.
GILL AM AT CORDOVA
CORDOVA, April 3. UP)—Gillam,
1 making his first flight from Val
1 dez to McCarthy, landed there at
j3:05 yesterday afternoon, with the
| plane for the New Independent
j Copper River Valley Airplane Co.
i
JUNEAU. April 3. UP)—'Thomas
j B. Judson was re-elected mayor
I for the fourth time; there was no
j opposition. Wallis George, Henry
; Messerschmidt and Homer Nord
: ling were elected councilmen.
| Because of cold and rain the
total vote was cut from 638 to
almost 300 less than the regis
! tration of 902.
I_
HUNDRED DROWN
! TOKYO, April 3. </P>—More than
j 100 persons are believed to have
drowned when the ferryboat Wa
katomaru, carrying 300 Japanese
from Wakamatsu to Tobata, cap
; sized. The boat was overcrowd
; ed and a high sea was running.
ICICLES ENDANGER LIVES
CHICAGO. April 3. UP>—Falling
icicles that melted from the cor
nices of nigh buildings ehdanger
ed pedestrians here as the 19
inches of snow was melted in a
thaw. Some of the icicles weighed
as much as 60 pounds.
PREMIER ONLY FEW DAYS
LONDON, April 3. {&)—Viscount
Hereford, who became father of
1 the House of Lords recently with
the death of the Sari of Coven
try, died at the age of 87. His
time as Premier Viscount was for
only a few days.
NEAR DEATH OVER *1.20
MODESTO, Calif., April 2. iff)—
;' A son had words with his father
[lover $1.20 at Waterford near here.
. I Today Jacob Swishelm, 17, with
11 four knife wounds in his body, is
. expected to die. G. W. Swishelm
■ admits he stabbed his son and is
i in the county jail here facing a
j charge of attempted murder.
OH. CHASE ELECTED
(Special to the Gateway
CORDOVA, April 3. <£>)_With
only one third of its citizens vot
ing the unopposed the socalled
Coalition ticket headed by Mayor
W. H. Chase took office in the
quietest election ever held in Cor
dova. The ticket was as follows:
For Mayor Dr. Chase, for Coun
cilmen, Wm. B. Phinn, Harold
Chadwick, andd Henry Wolking;
for clerk, V. J. Swanberg; for
Treasurer, 8. N. Laurie; for school
board, Chester T. Davis.
M'S REPLY GIN
net IITH 01)
LONDON, April 3. (JP)~Reljiro
Wakatsuki delivered his govern
ment’s reply regarding the tri
partite Naval agreement to StJhi
son and MacDonald. The Amer
icans, British and Japanese dele
gations meet tomorrow and dis
cuss the reply further.
The American spokesman said
that every indication pointed that
negotiations will result in a solu
tion of the three-nation problem
At the request of the Japanese
details of today’s meeting was
withheld by the Americans.
H« ABOUT NOTHING
III H DISPATCH
JUNEAU, April 3. (<P)—Alaskans
will watch with interest the tak
ing of the census in the states
which began today. The major
ity of Alaskans, counted last fall,
answered to other questions and
stragglers in outlying districts in
the Territory are .still being enum
erated.
A census of radio set3 in Alaska
show's a great majority of city
residents as having them, also
fur farmers and prospectors, out
in the lonely regions w'here they
are using storage batteries.
1.1 POWERS. FORMER
ALASKAN, DIES SEATTLE
SEATTLE, April 3. <#)—Walter
Walton Powers, 62, who came to
Seattle as a railroader in 1889
and went to Alaska during the
gold rush and spent seven years
there, then returned here to or
ganize the Luna Park amuse
ment center, and later became a
real estate man, died last night.
His widow nad a sister, Mrs.
Jim McLaughlin, survive him.
Powers was one of the survivors
of the S. S. Islander wreck.
NOW TO CATCH’EM
WASHINGTON, April 2. (£V~
Prohibition Commissioner Doran
announced that bootleggers who
sold a concoction of cresote and
crude carbolic acid flavored with
ginger ale were responsible for
the several hundred cases of par
alysis in the south and southwest
Sections of the country.
ON DUTY AGAIN
WASHINGTON, April 3. (JP)~
Admiral C. P. Hughes, of the Na
val operations committee, has re
covered from a mild stroke of
paralysis and ha3 officially re
turned to duty.
YAZOO EDITOR KILLED
YAZOO CITY, Miss., April 3. (/P)
—Prank Birdsall, editor of the
Yazoo Sentinel and a member of
the State tax commission, died
of bullet wounds inflicted yester
day by Major Stricklin who com
mitted suicide after the shooting
MBIT LIQUOR EMIT
OTTAWA, April 3.(A>) — Oppost
i tion to the government bill to
prohibit the export of liquor into
the United States was voiced in
the Senate when the measure
came up for the second reading.
A proposal by 8enator Willough
by that a special committee be
selected to secure information as
to tlie probable effect of the bill
j to Canada's national economic
| life and international relations,
| met opposition.
Senator Dandurand, government
leader, refused to accept the
amendment of Willoughby and
said he did not think Canada
{should be too generous, declaring
I that the Volstead Act was not
! being well enforced as a straw
| vote now being taken in the Uni
i ted States showed opposition to it.
TO SOUTH AMERICA
j_
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3. (/P)
; —Beginning Thursday morning
j San Francisco, so inclined, may
j take down the receiver and be
I within talking distance of South
| America, the latest continent to
be linked in regular telephone
communication with the Pacific
coast.
Announcement to this effect
| was made yesterday by Lyle M.
Brown, division manager of the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Company, who said the service
will be a\ailable to any of the
1,900,000 subscribers on the coast
after 9 o’clock1 when the new
J channel will be opened to the
| public.
i
Mi CEPiSUS WILL
List rat
WASHINGTON, April 3. </P)—
Aji army of 120,000 census enum
erators entered energetically into
the gigantic task of counting the
American population.
Each worker carried a big port
folio containing a dozen copies
of a long questionnaire to be put
to everyone in the country- It is
expected that the count will show
a gain of 17,000,000 from 10 years
I ago, making the population 122,
000,000.
KNIFE STUCK CORPSE
MAN GIVES 1000 YELL
MEXICO CITY, April 3. VP)—
The apparently lifeless body of
Fidel Zamudio was assigned to the
Jaurez Clinic for dissection. It
was bathed and shaved and
stretched out on a table.
A knife was jabbed into the
chest and a lusty yell came from
the corpse. The wound was sew
ed up and science is endeavoring
to save Zamudio’s life. His ap
parent death was caused by cata
lepsy.
ATTACKS CONTENTION
Attacking the contention of At
torney General John Rustgard
that the federal courts, including
the supreme court of the United
States, have upheld the right of
the Territorial Legislature to im
pose taxes such as the nonresi
dent Trollers’ license tax, H. L.
Faulkner of Juneau has filed a
brief in the federal district court
declaring that the right of the
legislature to discriminate against
nonresidents by taxation had
never been fixed, and contending
that it had no such power.