Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 153
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1930.
PRICE TEN
CENTS
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WILLIAM O’NEILL, RESIGNED;
FLAYED DRY LAWS AS FAIL
* ING EXPERIMENT
WASHINGTON. July 5, (^—Pro
hibition again flared into headlines
as the Department of Justice took
over the administration of the law.
Following the charges of former
Prohibition Administrator Maurice
Campbell, that he was forced to re
sign by the demands of Republi
cans for more beer permits, Con
gressman Celler, in Congress,
charged Administrator Campbell
“was let out” because he raided
places frequented by wealthy citi
zens.
Mr. Celler accused the Republi
can politicians of aiding prohibi
tion violations and instructed a re
solution calling for an inquiry into
the New York dry administration
curing the last three years.
Meanwhile, William O’Neill, pro
h.oition administrator in the north
western Ohio district, resigned and
flayed the dry laws as a failing ex
periment. Andrew McCampbell,
new administrator in New York,
rdered seven raids, in which 13 ar
rests were made and $45,000 in liq
ior was seized.
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THIRTY-EIGHT PASSENGERS ON
LINER ENROUTE TO PORT
OF SEWARD
SEATTLE. July 5. (IT)—The S. S.
Aleutian, of the A. S. S. Co., sailed
a- 9 a. m. today and carried 199
passengers of which 38 were for
Seward as follows:
Mrs. V. Sealwig, Mrs. J. Paulson,
Air. and Mrs. R. T. Kybon, Mr. and
Mrs. Alexander and son. Miss A.
Pettihan, Miss S. Glus, H. Larson,
Nil's. W. T. Smith, R. L. Bamberling,
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nevile, Mrs. H.
Neal, Mrs. O. McDonald.
M. Legargren, L. M. Douglas, Mrs.
W. Barnwell, Miss V. Broadman,
Miss Gibbons, Mrs. L. H. Broadman,
Mr. and Mrs. L. W, Johnson, Sam
Dugan, Mrs. H, Anderson, Mr. and
Mrs. Goodfellow, Mrs. A. Sherman,
Mr. and Mrs. H. Lygune, Mrs. J.
Bigelow, Miss E. Clark, Miss Buse- |
well, Miss Wright, Miss Chamber
lain, Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Brady.
CONGRESS MINS
BUI CULLED MONOAf
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WASHINGTON, July 5, (/P)_!
congress adjourned after passing
the Veterans bill and the Pres-1,
Kient immediately signed it, with
the second deficiency bill’ carry- \
mg $250,000 for his law enforce- jj
ment committee. j,
Hoover win call the Senate ,
sack into session Monday to fur- j(
:iier consider the naval treaty.
CUTS DOWN RECORD j]
LONG BEACH, July 5, (JP)_ j
-nelene Madison, Seattle girl, made ]
t new record of five minutes, 39.14 £
seconds in the women’s 440-yard - j
f *ree style A. A. U. meet.
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MAY ISSUE BONDS
WASHINGTON, July 5, (/P)—
| President Hoover signed the bill
I granting the city of Ketchikan
i authority to issue, up to one mil
! lion dollars, bonds with which to
I acquire public utilities properties
furnishing the town with power
jand waetr.
PROSPECTOR STABTEB
THREE FIRES FOREST:
SENTENCED SI DSYS
JUNEAU, July 5. (/Pi- Nick
Thomas, prospector, was sentenc
ed to 90 days in jail for setting
three fires in the forest on Kat
azehene River, Haines district, to
attract the attention of some one
on Lynn Canal who would pick
him up following a disagreement
with two mining partners who
; forced him to leave camp.
; Headed down-river the fires got
| beyond control in the heavy
j wooded section and burned 30
J acres befre it was controlled by
, rangers sent from here.
CGME SOWN TOESRTH
IFTES n ISIS 11
CHICAGO, July 5, (/P)—'The Hun
ter brothers ended their refueling
endurance flight at 5:21 yesterday
afternoon after 23 days, one hour
and 41 minutes of sustained flying.
Faulty oiling in the system caus
ed the unexpected finish. The old
record was exceeded by 133 hours
and 15 minutes.
Trouble began about noon when
the oil gauge broke but the aviators
stayed up in the hope of fixing it.
When it gave way completely, the
fliers lost no time in landing.
LOSES TO COBSETT
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5, (/?)—
‘•Young” Corbett of Fresno gave
‘Young” Jack Thompson, world’s
welterweight champion, a 10-round
beating in a non-title fight.
The ninth round was the climax
when Thompson tumbled to the
canvas for a nine count; he was
floored by a vicious left to the body
and was badly hurt but weathered
the session.
Lll HONDA MURDER
MYSTERY IS SOLVED
BY CONFESSION, SAID;
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5, (/P)_
The La Honda well murder mystery
hias been solved.
Breaking down after many hours!
Df questioning under sheriffs and!
District Attorney Franklin, the ac
cused Swart finally confessed to the !
nurder of the widow whose body j
vas found at the bottom of a 30
!oot well on his ranch in the Alpine I
Istrict near La Honda.
He finally made a complete
itatement of the killing and the
District Attorney left with a signed
Affidavit in which Swart named
Ernest L. Hall, another ranch hand j
is his accomplice. The District ;
attorney said that there is much c
uore to the case to be cleared up.
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jTHOUGHT GERMANY HAS MADE
SIMILAR TESTS; RESULTS
HAVE BEEN WITHHELD
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., July 5,(/P)
—Radio phone messages made a
! circuit of the world in one-eighth
! of a second.
| For approximately 30 minutes
.messages sent out by the exper
imental station of the General Elec
tric Co., were sent around the earth
by automatic relay. The signals
I after traveling approximately 25,
000 miles, were rebroadcasted by
! station W G Y.
During this wonderful test which
| is believed to be the first of its kind,
radio engineers made a film record
•which measured accurately the time
jit took for the signals to circle the
globe
Altho not made known widely, it
1 is thought that Germany has made
similar tests, the results of which
:have been withheld.
MRS. MOODY. CHAMPION
WIMBLEDON, Eng., July 5, (3>)—
:Mrs. Helen Wills Moody won the
British women’s singles champion
; ship for the fourth consecutive year
defeating Elizabeth Ryan 6-2, 6-2.
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LONDON, July 5, (/Pi—Sir John
Simon, author of the Simon Report
on India, may become the new
viceroy of India. The present vice
roy, Lord Irwin, is expected home in
August, to preside at the Round
Table Conference in October. After
that he will retire.
Sir John Simon, whose annual
income from his law practice is
considerable, spurned several im
portant government posts and even
a peerage. He disliked the title r
“Sir” but he had to follow the cus
tom when appointed attorney gen
eral in the Asquith administration.
IKE ME IS SOLD
er MISSIS, 31M
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5, (>P)—
Craving another chance in the
majors and hustling hard, Ike
Boone earned his reward when he
was called and told that he had
been sold to Brooklyn in the Nat- |
ional League for immediate deliv- j
ery. The purchase price was not'
disclosed but Killefer, the Mission’s!
president and manager, but it is
understood to be up in the thous- j
ands and also calls for two ball i
players, one of them to be delivered
ivithin the next few days.
SEATTLE BANKER HERE
W. E. Lucas, former local ban- j
ker but now a vice president of j
the Seattle National Bank of j
Commerce, accompanied by Mrs. |
Lucas, daughter Cecelia Jane and j
son W. E. Jr., surprised their
dost of local friends Friday when
he family arrived for a good vis- (
■t. The family left Seward for;t
Seattle many years ago and are 'i
lelighted to return at this time t
30 renew old friendships. \
SEVEN ARE KILLED
i CASTLEFORD, Eng., July 5, (/P)—
j Exploding chemicals killed seven
persons instantly and wrecked the
! plant of the Hickson & Parsons
Chemical Works. More than a
! score were taken to hospitals and
'some of these are not expected to
I survive.
PIE* EDS HIUE
\ MOSCOW, July 5, (£>)—'The Pra
ivada published a long article urg
ing the new leaders of the Com
jmunists party in America to pre
jpare the masses for new and more
■vigorous battles against “American
j capitalists, imperialists and ex
ploiters.”
i The newspaper quoted Stalin’s
{declaration as follows: “The Com
munist party in America is one of
those few in the world whereupon
history imposes problems of deci
sive importance”.
PILL TILPEfi WISIS
-TEHNIS TITLE EU
FBGM VINE OPPONENT
WIMBLEDON, Eng., July 5, <7P>—
“Bill” Tilden won the British tennis
singles championship for the fiist
time since 1921 defeating his young
countryman. Wilmer Allison, in
three straight sets.
The King and Queen were pie
isent. Altho Tilden is 37, 12 years
|older than Allison, spectators said
the veteran played the best tennis
in his career.
President Hoover proclaimed an ex
tra session of the Senate beginning
Monday to consider the Naval
treaty. He left shortly afterwords
for his Rapidan River camp in Vir
ginia.
He also signed the Rivers and
Harbors bill authorizing the con
struction of 170 projects at a cost
of $145,000,000.
MAKING TOUR HIGHWAY
EUREKA, July 5, (/P)—Humboldt
county was visited by Mr. and Mrs.
Cornelus Vanderbilt, Jr., of New
York, who are making an automo
bile tour of the Redwood Highway.1
bill iiliiizE
HIGHWAY COMMISSION
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WASHINGTON, July 5, (£>)—;
The Alaska delegate introduced
a resolution to authorize Presi-,
dent Hoover to appoint a world }
highway commission to cooper
ate with other nations to devel- j
op interest in world highways j
connecting North, South and Cen- l;
tral Americas through Canada ;
to Alaska with Asia, Europe and !
Africa.
CONVENTION CITY <
COLUMBIA. July 5, (£>)—The 1931 11
invention of the National Educa- ;
ion Association will be held at Los
Angeles the last week in June and <
he first week in July, delegates de- U
ided. t
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HOUSE EXPECTED TO UPHOLD
j PRESIDENT AND REJECT
SENATE AMENDMENT
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j WASHINGTON, July 5, (^—Ig
noring President Hoover’s recent
veto of the Spanish-American War
Pension bill .the Senate, by a vote
of 55 to 11, passed the bill carrying
expenditures of $58,000,000 during
the first year for World War Veter
ans Relief. The measure carried
rates identical with those in the
bill vetoed by President Hoover.
Coaltion of Insurgents and Dem
ocrats clung together in the voting
and defeated the administration
forces at every turn. The vote in
favor of inserting Spanish War
Veterans rates into the bill was
carried by 37 to 26. Under these
amendments the veterans will re
ceive $60 per month instead of $40
The Senate also adopted the
amendment whereby veterans dis
abled thru wilful misconduct will
also be recompensed.
The House is expected to uphold
President Hoover and reject the
Senate amendments to the bill
with the probability that the meas
ure will be accepted in its original
form at the conference of both
Houses.
CALLED FOR STATE WIDE CON
VENTION AT MONTGOMERY
SEPTEMBER I
BRIMINGHAM, July 5, (TP)—Sen
ator Heflin’s independent cam
paign for reelection took definite
form his allignment with the
candidates for governor and Lieut
enant Governor, who like him, are
barred from running in the Demo
primary because of their opposition
to Smith in 1928.
In a state-wide Independence
Day mass meeting Heflin, Hugh
Loke for Governor and Dempsey
Powell for Lieutenant Governor, re
solutions urged Helfin supporters
not to participate in the Demo pri
mary on August 12.
They called^for a state-wide con
vention at Montgomery September
1 to nominate a complete ndepend
ent ticket.
CONSTRUCTION THIS
YENflJXCEEDS 1828
WASHINGTON, July 5, (£>)—
President Hoover said htat public
works construction during the first
six months of this year, totalled
£1,700,000,000, exceeding by over
£200,000,000 the boom year of 1929.
He added that the country is in
i very prosperous condition and
shat the unemployment situation
will be fully adjusted before the
summer is over. He is very anxious
so get work started on a big scale
m the Boulder Dam project in the
rery near future.
George Dowling who has been in
Seward a few months, employed at
he Seward Trading Co., left for
he south on the S. S. Yukon.