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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 61.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BYRD RELATES
POLE EXPERIENCE
TO CHILDREN j
DUNEDIN, March 18. VP)—
Byrd addressed approximately 400,
00 school children telling them of
his experiences during the year
of exploration in the Antarctic in
perhaps the most exclusive broad
cast ever attempted
New Zealand’s two islands were
linked up by cable across Cook
Strait; the address was made in
the townhall before 7,000 chil
dren, and sent by land lines to
Christ Church, Wellington and
Aukland.
The suggestions that members
of the Byrd expedition, and some
of their dogs used in the Antarc
tic, be domiciled in the country,:
met with quick objection from i
sheep owners of Mount Cook;
County who declared the dogs
were too fierce for the safety oi
stock and urged that the dogs
be either destroyed or sent to
America.
VARIOUS VIEWS
COAST BASES
SUBJECT QUIZ
OFFICIALS WILL BE ASKED j
TO APPEAR BEFORE HOUSE
COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18. (A3)—
As soon as they return from the
London naval conference Secre
tary Adams and Rear Admiral
Moffett, chief of the naval bu-'
reau of aeronautics, will be ask
ed to appear before the House,
naval committee to explain the]
divergent in views of naval au-j
thoritles on a West Coast naval
and airship base
Chairman Britten said these of
ficials probably will be asked to
accompany a committee to the
Pacific coast early in June to go
over the recommended sites for
•an airship bn at Camp Kearney,
near S in Dieeo and Sunnyvale,
anar San Francisco b"‘
weral other proposed sites
pi'! be ■ rv.ed bv a sp^rnl
aa’val airship board which has
im-nested the Puget Sound naval
yard.
'Rassia V/iping
Oat All Religion
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18. (/Pi
Rev. Edmund Walsh, vice presi
dent of Georgetown university. who
recently returned fnm Russia,
told a meeting of 3.000 persons of
all denominations that the full
might of the Soviet government is
mobilized to wine religion from
the country and that 6000 mem
bers of tfie Russian clergy have
suffered death.
ERRORS. NOT OF WILL
NEW VORK. Mar. 18. (/P)—Judge
A’bert Vitale, testifying in rebut-.
tnl of the charges that he was|
guilty of misconduct as a mag’s-1
trate. declared his mistakes were
errors of judgment and not of
will.
GUARDING HOME
I,DDT. Calif.. Mar. 18 (/PI—W;th
a staff of nrivate defectives stand
ing gnard over the heme of ,T. M.
Krieger, wealthy auto salesman,
dav and nte^t to nervent the
threatened children from death. I
police were comnaring the letter
with those turned over to them!
recently by a young Lodi girl.
ANOTHER REASON
WASHINGTON, March 18, (/P)—
The condition of foreign stocks
caused the present distressed con
dition in the American wheat
market, Alexander Legg. chairman (
of the Federal Farm Board, de
clared in predicting the board ul
timately will control 100 million
bushels of wheat.
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES
WETS BECOME FANATICS?
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18. UP)—A
statement that the wets have be
come the fanatics was made be
fore the House judiciary commit
tee by Carlton M. Sherwood, ex
ecutive secretary of the citizen’s
committee of 1,000 of New York
City.
TO PLAY IN MAY
LONDON. Mar. 18. (/P)—Roger
Wethered has been chosen cap- j
tain of the British Walker Cup |
team which will play America at |
Sanwich May 15 and 16.
TO HOLD MEETING
PARIS, Mar. 18. (/P)—The Eu-1
ropean steel cartel will hold an j
import meeting Thursday when it |
will decide how long the new j
trust agreement is to continue.
COLD-BLOODED MURDER
NEW YORK, Mar. 18. (/P)—Three
men in a heavy green coupe de
liberately ran down and killed a
policeman who sought to stop
them as they drove through the
city streets at a reckless pace.:
They escaped.
GOES BANKRUPT
NEW YORK, Mar. 18. (/P)—Man
ette Guilford Rosin, young opera
singer, filed a voluntary petition
in bankruptcy, listing $25,000 lia
bilities and no assets.
ROYALTY CHEERED
LONDON. March 18. (/P)—The
King and Queen were cheered as
they paid their first visit to a
London hospital since the King
fell ill in November, 1928. The
King chatted with the children
patients.
COMEDIAN REACHES END
LONDON, Mar. 18- UP)—Harry
Weldon, famous music hall com
edian, died following a long ill
ness. He was 48 years of age.
WOMAN DICTATOR SHIP
PARIS. Mar. 18. (/P)—Overthrow
of the dictatorship of man and in
stigation of a new social system
in which woman will be supreme,
is predicted by Luelen Romier,
French editor in a new book.
LIMITED SUBSIDY
LONDON, Mar. 18 (/P)—The gov
ernmrnt agreed to grant a limited
subsidv to sugar interests in Brit
ish West Indies. British Guiana
and Island of Mauritius.
COLLECTIONS FALL
WASHINGTON, Mar., 18, (IP)—
Income collections up to and in
cluding March 15 were $67,000,000
as compared to $72,000,000 for the
corresponding period a year ago.
THE NAVY CONFAB
LONDON, March 18. (#*)—The
heads of the American, British
and French naval delegations have
turned their assistance toward
technicalities of France and British
tonnage figures while they them
selves will continue informal dis
cussions of the larger political as
pects of European discussion later.
SOVIET RESPONSIBLE
BERLIN, Mar. 18. (IP)—Foreign
Minister Curtius is reported to
have informed the Russian gov
ernment that the Soviet will here
after be held responsible for the
spreading of political propaganda
and other machinations carried
on in the Reichstag by the Reds.
REPORT ON TUNNEL
LONDON, Mar. 18 (A5)—A special
report on a project for a tunnel
under the English Channel is ex
pected shortly, J. H. Thomas, lord
of privy seal, told the House of
Commons. The press says the
report will be favorable.
HONORABLE DEATH
CARACAS, Venezuela, Mar. 18.
(/P)—Doctor Pedro La Riva Vale,
Venzuelan diplomat, was killed in
a duel of honor with Doctor An
dres Caballero whom he wounded
seriously.
BULL FIGHTER
WAS CARELESS,
IS NEAR DEATH
MADRID, Mar. 18. (/P) — Tossed
about by a black bull with wide,
sharp horns, Sydney Franklin,!
Brooklyn bull fighter, is in the
hospital injured seriously although
probably not fatally.
Off guard for a second as he!
whirled his maddening red cape in
front of the enraged beast’s eyes,!
he turned his back on the animal
which impinged him and bandied
him about like a plaything for
several minutes.
Physicians predicted he would
live but it would take 40 days to
recover and that he will never
fight again.
Franklin is the son of a Brook
lyn policeman and received his
early training at bull fighting at
Mexico City.
American Girl Wins
Her Fourth Match
NICE, France, March 18. (/P)— j
Helen Jacob’s, America’s second
ranking woman tennis player, won
her fourth round match in the
Nice championship tournament
without difficulty. The hard hit
ting Californian subdued Mile. Mar
Joliet of France 6-1, 6-1.
Bill Tilden and Wilbur Coen, jr.,
also fared well in men’s doubles,
defeating the English combination
of Williams and Owen at 6-0, 6-3
in a third round.
Veteran Salesman,
Jas. C. Black, Dies
KETCHIKAN, March 18. (£>)—
James C- Black of Portland, for
more than a quarter of a century
Alaska and Oriental representa
tive for Blumauer Brank Drug
Company of Portland, died Sun
day of a heart attack which oc
curred Saturday night He was
well known in the Pacific North
west, Hawaiian Islands and the
Orient.
SUIT IS SETTLED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18. (/P)—
Having; reached a settlement out
of court Skinner and Eddy Cor
poration of Seattle withdrew from
the Supreme Court the celebrated
$10,000,000 suit growing out of
cancelled contracts of construc
tion of war-time merchant ships
for the government.
SAILORS NURSE
INJURIES, RIOT
AT MANILA
MANILA, Mar. 18. (/P)—Five
American sailors are nursing in
juries as the result of a riot by
a crowd of Filipino civilians at
Kittelle Field following a baseball
game. The timely intervention of
B. K. West, American police cap
tain, who heard the racket, and
ran armed from his home, sub
dued the rioters until the police
and naval shore patrols arrived.
West is credited with saving
five from being beaten to death
or severely injured. Three Filipi
nos were arrested. The police des
cribed the event as of “no im
portance."
No news was given to newspa
pers as to the responsibility for
the riot but it is believed it is
possibly a retaliation of the anti
Filipino riots in California.
UNCOVERS MOTIVE
I.ODI, Calif., Mar. 18. (/P)—Hopes
of winning a girl who declared
she would marry only a rich man
were declared by Chief of Police
Frank Christenson to be motives
behind two letters received by J.
G. Krieger, wealthy automobile
dealer, threatening to kidnap his
children unless $20,000 was paid
over.
Number People Out
Of Work Serious
WASHINGTON, March 18, (IP)—;
Pending the unemployment sur- j
vey to be taken next month by!
the census bureau, the Senate[
committee started an inquiry in
to ‘he situation.
Senator Wagner of New York,
was the first witness to testify.
He said he regarded the number
of persons out of work had reach-1
ed “serious” proportions.
I
Explanation Wanted
As To Recent Action
WASHINGTON, March 18. (/P)—'
Senator Britten announced he j
proposed to call upon high naval
officials for an explanation on the
recent order assigning Lieutenant
A1 Williams, the Navay’s speed
flier, to sea duty.
After the order was issued Wil
liams resigned, saying he desired
to continue to work on develop
ment of fast seaplanes.
COMMITS SUICIDE
NEW YORK, Mar. 18. (^—Ar
thur Selieg, stockbroker, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself.
It is understood he recently suf
fered a heavy financial loss.
LIBERAL GUNS
LONDON, Mar. 18. (JP)—David
Lloyd George opened the Liberal
guns on the government’s hand
ling of the unemployment problem
in accordance with an announce
ment made from labor headquar
ters last Saturday that the period
of truce on the unemployment
problem was definitely at an end.
LACK OF CONFIDENCE
WARSAW, Mar. 18. (/P)—The So
cialists made a sudden move
against the Polish government
adopting a resolution of lack of j
confidence against the minister
of labor. The Nationalists voted
a lack of confidence in the min
ister of education soon after and
if Parliament approves the re
solutions, the government will re
sign.
RELEASED ON BAIL
NEW YORK, Mar. 18. OP)—After
nearly a week in jail because of;
their part in leading Communist!
demonstrations, four Communists j
were released on bail but William
Foster, principal offender, was
held without bond.
NO CHANCE OF ENTANGLEMENT
LONDON. March 18. (vP)—*That
there is not a vestige of a pos
sibility of the United States be- ‘
coming entangled in any sort of
a European political alliance as a
result of the London conference
has been made clear.
VIOLATE LIQUOR LAWS
SACRAMENTO, Mar. 18. (fip)—In- :
dictments charging one Sacramen- |
tan and 12 Californians with vio
lating the National Prohibition j
Act were presented by the Federal
Grand Jury at the opening ses
sion of the March term of the U
S. District Court.
BICYCLE RACE FINISHED
NEW YORK. Mir. 18. (/T)—Gaie- ,
tano Belloni and Gerar Debaets
won the international six-day bi
cycle race. Tony Beckman and
Norman Hill finished second and
Freddie Spencer and Franz Deul
berg third.
RELIEVE SLUM DISTRESS
LONDON, Mar. 18. (/P)—Fifty
thousand dollars was bequeathed
to the Salvation Army by Robert
Neale for use hi relieving distress
in English slums. Neale’s Eng
lish estate is valued at $675,000.
RELIEF TO BULGING ATLANTA PRISON
AWAITING OUTCOM E OF HOOVER’S PLAN
RECREATION
f FIELD
4, duck mill.
TUBERCULOSIS COLONY
^ POWER PLANT
DINING HALL
-t CELL HOUSE
MAIN ENTRANCE
An air view of the crowded Feder al prison at Atlanta is shown below,
with pdincipal buildings indicated. Above is a close-up of entrance and
cellhouse.
HERB APPROVES
OF NEW GOVT.
PLAN, HAITI
PORT AU PRINCE, Mar. 13. (/p>
—President Hoover has approved
a plan submitted to him by an
investigating committee here for
restoration of representative gov
ernment in Haiti at the earliest
moment possible in order to pre
vent the threatened uprising.
The plans have been agreed to
by President Borno of Haiti. The
office of high commissioner, oc
cupied by an American, and
against which the natives pro
tested bitterly, will probably bo
abolished.
It is understood a civilian min
ister will be sent to Haiti to ne
gotiate as soon as practicable a
new treaty between the United
States and the permanent Haiti
government to be established.
Three Men Die
In Train Wreck
EVANSVILLE, Ind., Mar. 18, (A*
—Three men were killed and at
least one other man seriously in
jured when a freight train of the
Louisville-Nashville Railroad, was
wrecked by a boiler explosion and
threy it from the rails, setting
fire to the cars.
Several tank cars containing
gasoline, one near the engine,
blew up scattering wreckage for
some distance.
SEARCH FOR AUTO
VISALIA, Calif., Mar. 13. (/P)—
Officers of Tulare county were
searching in public garages for an
automobile with the windshield
broken and feneder dented, be
lieving they knew the make of
the hit and run tar which killed
Eugenic Dominges of Tipton on
the highway Sunday night, brok
en glass of the windshield giving
the only due.
OUT OF ORDER
WASHINGTON, March 13,
Arr'-st of liquor buyers, with
punishment corresponding to that
given to boofeggers, was demand
ed by Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of
Boston, Mass., claiming to repre
sent over 12 000.000 women, before
the House judiciary committee.
National Basketball
Series Under Way
KANSAS CITY, Mar. 18. (#)—
Only one Western team remained
in the national A. A. U. Basket
ball tournament, and it faced a
difficult task in a quarter final
round contest with the Kansas
City Athletic Club. The Olympic
Club of San Francisco, the sur
vivor, advanced by eliminating
the Rocky Mountain entry, the
University of Wyoming, 40 to 30
in a game which it dominated
most of the way, but faced stub
born resistance from the fighting
collegians.
SLUGGED TO DEATH
CHICAGO, Mar. 18, (/P)—'The
badly battered body of Mrs. Ida
M. Doyle, 59, political worker, was
found in a narrow passageway,
behind a Southside building Sun
day. Indicationss were that she
had been slugged to death. The
police, after preliminary investi
gation, advanced robbery as the
motive for the slaying.
UPHOLDS ACT
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 18. {IP)—
Superior Judge William Hazlett
upheld the constitutionality of the
State natural gas conservation act
and ordered immediate procedure
of the injunction suit brought by
Attorney General U. S. Webb
to Fe Springs oil field to enforce
against the operators in the 8an
it.