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The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
Council Doings

Messrs. Tynes and Hatland met with the council last Mon day evening and were ordered to give Petersburg school building a coat of paint outside and to refiniSh the interior. The roof is also to be given a coating of asphalt.
 The resignation of H. F. Err win as assessor was accepted and c. Clausen was requested to proceed with the work in his place.
 Councilman A. B. Holt was : chosen to promote a Fourth of July celebration.
 It appered that the gravel which is to be dredged from Petersburg bar this summer is of such a nature that it can be used for road surfacing ma terial, Mayor Dinner reported that he had. been conducting /, negotiations with the dredging contractor, Puget Sound Bridge &Dredging Co.,, who have offer ed to pump the entire 10000 Jards of material behind a bu!khead to be constructed near he Union dock at a cost to the city of $350o. A sample of the material was examined and the contractors have been notified that the town will accept their offer. The bulkhead scheme has been approved by the army engineers. Thus an enormous quantity of road material may be provided at a cost of but a few cents per yard.
 Street commissioner Nilser was instructed to lay plankine on that portion of street re- gently vacated by the moving o1 the Star Bakery.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
EPISCOPAL BISHOPS
 IN ALASKA

Bishop Thomas Jenkins of the Episcopal church with head qourters at Reno, Navada is now in Ketchikan and will con- duct services for the dedication of St. Johns church which has recently been rebuilt under the direction of the local pastor, Rev. Mark T. Carpenter.
 Sometime this month Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe will arrive in Southeast Alaska on one of his annual pilgrimages to the territory. Bishop Rowe has been making trips to Alaska for the last thirty years and is known far and wide as the "mushine bishop" He has covered more miles, by walking, with dog teams and other modes of trans portation in the territory than any other missionary.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
ALASKA TRADE VOLUME
 IN APRIL AT LOW EBB

Alaska's outgoing trade for April aggregated 01,317,526, more than one-third of which was gold and silver, according to the monthly statement of com merce made public by J. c. Nc bride, Collecto, of Customs. It was one of the smallest totals fer that month on record.
 All commodities were at a low ebb. Copper, usually a leading unit at this time o1 year dropped to fourth place with gold, canned salmon and halibut leading 1t.
 Gold shipments had B value of $463,511; canned salmon s121,1 ,122; fresh halibut $197.137, and copper Sls5.762.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
Fights Reno Diuorces

A legal assault on the Reno lightning divorce mill, challeng- ing the right of citizen of Illinois to bring suit for a New ada dcree has been begun in
 he Superior Court of Chicago. The attack invokes the doct- rine of states rights in quest Ing the validity of Nevada de- crees in Illinois declaring the new laws of Nevada to be drawn for the citizens of other states unable to obtain divorces III their own states. The bill declares each state jealousy protects the rights of it's own citizens and asks that Nevada decrees be not recognized as af- fecting property in other states. The decision will be ot vital importance as it will in- volve the validity of all Nevada decrees heretofore issued. Itis expected that the decision will ne followed throughout the country in either upholding ol invalidating Nevada decrees The action is petition for ar 1 injunction to restrain Schuyler c. Schwartz, an heir to wealth from instituting a divorce ac-
 tion at Reno. The schwartze! were married in Indiana in 1929 two weeks after Schwartz wa.
 divorced by his first wife wht
 charged that Schwartz hse Thirteen automobiles and a diff
 ferent sweetheart for each o
 them
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
Would Give Peacock
 Spit Ground Away

At the much-talked-of auction of the lease on the famous Pea cock Spit fishing site on the Columbia River last Monday in Olympia not a bid was put in.
 The site has been fiShed by the Bakers Bay Fish Co.,, a sub Sidiary of the Columbia River Packers association of Astoria, for the past five years. The company has been paying $36,- 900 a year annual rental, three fourths of which has gone to the Port of Llwaco commission.
 This year the company noti- fled the state land board that owing to the fact that the site has washed away to such an ex- tent that it can no longer be oc- cupied at high tide that it de- sired to give up it's lease.
 The lease was then thrown open to bids with a $15,000 a year minimum rental recom- ,nended by the Port of Ilwacc commission.
 No bids were received, state ments being made by interested parties to the effect that the grounds were submerged toC much of the time.
 After some consideration 2 decision was reached to reoper bids June l, and offer a two year bid at $7500 a year.
 Chinook Observer.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
.ScoW Bay Mill
 Gets Tie Contract

According to a telegram re- z, ived this week the Northwest Mill Co. at Scow Bay is to be awarded a contract to saw 35,- 900 railroad ties for the Alaska Railroad. This company bid on the entire requirement. of 8O,- 900 ties but t appears that parts of the order were award ed to other mills. This was the second call for bids on the part o fthe railroad, all bids in the first instance being cancelled and additional requirements in serted in the terms of the bids.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
Debt Bondage
 h Philippines

Debt bondage, system which Cften makes it's victim a life time serf, and described as a condition analogous to slavery, exists today in the Philippine Islands, according to a compre- hensive report on slavery issu- cd by the Geneva Research In- Committee.
 Most people in the western world consider the subject of slavery as a question of past history" says the report. Few people realize that slave own ing, slave trading, peonage and forced labor is still a condition which affects millions of hu- man beings. In Africa and in Asia there is indisputable evid- ence that some of the most ap- palling and horrible types of slavery exist which the cruelty of man can devise. And in cer- tain states of Central and South America and in the Philippines peonage, or debt bondage, touches the lives of thousands Of people"
 Natives bound to a master as payment of a debt are exploit cd and subjected to intolerable conditions barely distinguish able from slavery. The peons are virtual slaves, as is attest ed by the inquiry of the League cf Nations temporary slavery commission: Tt often happens that the creditor so arranges that his debtors get more and more into debt, with the result that what was in the beginning only an apparently equitable contract is transformed finally into slavery for life"
 Certain South American coun- tries do not want an inquiry into the system of peonage. c. zumeta, of Venezuela, during the recent meeting of the com mission in London, virtually challenged the leagues author ity to extend the slavery probe to include peonage.
 It is estimated there are be- tween 100000 and 5000, 900 actual slaves in the world to- day. including 100000 in Abyssinia alone.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
Centralized Rule
 To Curb Dope

Proposals to enlarge the pow CTS of the present central opium board, to make it the spearhead of the international anti-drug crusade are before the League of Nations Narcotic Conference which convened at Geneva, Switzerland, May 27.
 Tthe central board was creat- cd by the Geneva opium con- vention of 1925, which the Unit ed States, charging the league with protecting dope interests, refused to sign. The board has eight members, one of whom is an American serving in a pri- vate capacity.
 When the 1925 conference fell under the control of the European drug cartel, the board was stripped of authority which would have made it a powerful weapon against illicit traffic. It's duties are chiefly to collect statistics.
 Now, however, comes tn e scheme to give the board au- thority to compell countries to revise their estimated annual needs of drugs to prevent pill ing up of huge stocks for the illicit trade.
 With such power the board would be able to regulate ord CTS and to force factories to pro- dt ce no greater quantity o1 dope than is needed for medi- cine and science in any one year. Manufacturers could not fill an order for drugs without Ire boards approval.
 The scheme is regarded as the first step toward ultimate gov ernment monopoly of drug manufacture.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
New England Fish Co.
 Workers On Strike

Protesting a wage which is claimed to be the lowest paid
 Tn Ketchikan for similar work
 q group of twenty workers in
 the fish house and cold storage
 plant of the New England Fish
 Company at Ketchikan went on
 ctrike June l. The men are asking a resumption of a form IT wage scale Of $5 per day with 75 cents per hour over time. The wages were reduc- ed to $4.5O per day and 56 cents per hour overtime.
 H. c. Nunan, manager of the Ketchikan branch, stated that Part of our crew has quit work but we have a mucous left to build up a new crew. The men were satisfied with the day rate. Their only cause for dis satisfaction was the rate to be paid for overtime Our com- rany has a system of paying only straight time overtime and of course We could be no ex- ception. We feel that under the present economic conditions t'.e men should consider them selves fortunate that they had G4ueId 9Ig 9IeuL 'qor Hpee4s gI Of men to take their places. The places vacated by the strikers will be filled immedi- atcly and we expect to have al full crew at work again in al day or two"
 According to strikers, only one of the workers remained. J. M. Nelson, one of the strik- ing workmen, interviewed byI the Ketehika1o Tribune, ex-i plained that other buyers in Ketchikan were and are paying 75 cents per hour straight time Tor the same kind of work After a meeting the men asked to have the former scale put rack in effect, which the com pany refused to do. Another meeting was held and the men agreed to go on at $4.50 for eight hours with 75 cents for overtime This was also refus- ed. MT. Nunan stated that he was sorry to see us go but that he could get plenty of men up rom Seattle to work for the wages offered"
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
RESPONDENT LUMBERMAN
 MURDERS FAMILY

R. c. Voght of Camrose, B. C.. took his family for an automo- bile ride. Stopping the car about If miles from Edmonton he shot his daughters Mary, aged tight, Norma, aged six, his wife anc then drowned himself in a nearby lake from which the body was later recovered. His son Jack, aged four, who was also in the ca4. was unharmed. Investigators said that Voght, who was the manager of lum- Der yard had become Respondent over business affairs.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
45 FEARD DEAD ON
 RUSS SUBMARINE

The Russian submarine No. g, carrying 3 crew of forty five, sank last week during the mar neuvers with the Baltic fleet in the Finnish Gulf 1t was offici- ally announced.
 The cause of the tragedy had not been determined and it wasdeclared doubtful if any of those in the submarine can be saved.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
OFFICIAL
 CONVICTED

Willis M Brewer, a former national vice commander of the American Legion was convicted at Pontiac, Michigan of embez- zling $2,5O0 from the Legion or rhans' billet at Otter Lake, Michigan. Testimony showed that Brewer obtained that sum from Oakland County as an ap- rropriation and converted it to his own use.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
BREECHEs FOR WOMEN

An order has been signed by Premier Benitc MusSolini creat- ing an order of women FacistS units and prescribing tn e brooches uniform. Brooches, black wollen stickings or leg gins, black shirt and Alpine felt hat" is Il Duce's idea of what the we'll dressed woman will wear in Italy.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05
TO IMPROVE SEYMOUR
 NARROWS

The removal of Ripple in Sey- mour Narrows has been recom- mended in a commission report to the Canadian Parliament. The cost of removing the rock is estimated at $25O,OOO. After holding a hearing on the spot the commission decided that the rock should be eliminated.
The Alaskan., 1931-06-05

The Petersburg Commercial Club through action of the ex- ecutive committee has joined the Territorial Chamber of Com rcerce for the year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
LESLIE, HOOVER
TALK POOR AID
Governor Goes to Rapidan
With President.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept 19.-Un-
employment relief, tariff commits
sion vacancies, and relations with
the Press will receive the attention
of President Hoover over the week.
end
Guests who will take up phases OF
these three problems with him have
been invited to accompany him on
his regular weekend journey to
Camp Rapidan his combined
private workshop and play ground.
Governor Harry G. Leslie of IN
diana and Senator Frederic c. Wal
colt Rep., Comm, will discuss with
Mr.. Hoover the unemployment sit
uation. Leslie was one of the first
Governors to reply favorably to the
administrators proposal that
economic distress be cared for
locally.
The question of tariff commission
vacancies was to be brought up by
Chairman Henry P. Fletcher, who
was scheduled to retire for private
life Sept. Is.
The press relations situation at
the White House is understood to
have been behind the calling of
George Akerson, former press adj
visor to the President, and now a
motion picture executive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
How the Market
Opened

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Heavy
selling continued on the Stock Ex-
change at the opening today.
Steel common made a new low
since 1921 at n, off Z point.
Blocks of 1000 TO 10000 shares
came out, representing punched or
ders. Losses ranged from fractions
to more than points with dozens
of issues making new lows for many
years.
General Motors opened 10000
shares at 29%, off Il and a new low
for the present shares. American
Telephone dropped to a new low
since 1926 at 145, off IL points on
a block of 5000 shares.
New lows for several years also
were made by American Can S2i4
of y; Atchison 1884,. off IL;
Western Union 95. off s.; Consoli-
dated Gas 1914, off S; Erie II, off
S; Gold Dust 2OA, of 81; Repub-
lie Steel 8Ss, of s, and Allied
Chemical 80, of 2l5.
The decline followed another
sharp break at London.
A bright spot in the local market
was National Cash Register which
rose rs, to 22Ss. Buying was in
fluenced by the company's action in
resuming dividends on the stock at
the rate Of $3.50 annually. The
issue was on a So annual basis until
last March when the rs cent quar-
terly payment was omitted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
TWO ESCAPE IN RAID
Still, Mash Confiscated in
Speedway Residence.

TWO men are held and another
is hunted in connection with seizure
by police of a pint of whisky and
an oriental rug in an automobile
Friday night.
Two other men are sought by
deputy sheriffs who confscated a
hfty-gallon still in Speedway Fri
day night.
When police saw Herman Chandjie
park an auto in front of the apart
ment of MarcelluS Bencoster, 80, at
305 North Illinois street, Apt. ID,
they searched it, finding liquor and
the rug, they report.
They waited tor Chandjie to come
out, but when Fred Chappell, 81
West Twentieth street, attempted to
drive it away they arrested him.
Chappell and Bencoster are held on
vagrancy charges Chandiie disap-
peared from the apartment.
Two men ran across a field and
escaped when deputies raided a
house in Speedway. Besides the
still. the officers report they took
ITS gallons of mash and a quart OF
whisky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
Widow Suffers Breakdown
as Bay Crime Motive
Is Sought.
BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE
United Press staff Correspondent

HUNTINGTON, L. l., Sept 49,
Every supposed clew to the pirates"
who killed Benjamin Ceilings, a
seafaring civil engineer, and threw
his body into Long Island sound,
has led authorities into blind alleys,
they admitted today.
With collapse of the latest prom
Use of IAN immediate solution" to
the murder mystery aboard Ceilings
motorboat, the Penguin, a promise
that led Alexander Blue, district at
torney of Suffolf county, hastily to
adjourn an inquest Friday, the
prosecutor announced he would take
"a weeks leave of absence" and
leave the case in the hands nf his
assistants.
Meanwhile in Stanford, Conn,
where Mrs. Lillian Ceilings, the %
year-old widow of the victim, was
suffering a nervous breakdown that
prevented her attending the in
quest, her attorneys issued further
statements defending the truth of
her story and, in effect, Gliding the
police for paying more attention to
hunting discrepancies in her strange
tale than in running down the
murdererS.
1t was intimated, however, that
the leave of absence" might carry
him over Long Island sound in a
new scouting expedition for addi-
tional facts in one of the strangest
cries Of recent years.
Homer S Cummings, attorney for
the Ceilings family, scoffed at the
suggestion that Mrs Ceilings had a
guilty kniwledge of her husbands
murder If person who had an
Interest" in her sought to commit
such crime, he pointed out, he
would scarcely have gone aboard the
penguin when both Mrs Ceilings
and her daughter Barbara were
aboard
THAT is unbelievable, he said,
adding that this fact gave addition
al weight to his own theory that a
paranoiac was the killer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
Hourly Temperatures
HAY! HAY! HORSES DINE
IN BILTMORE BALLROOM

What it cost, which was plenty,
and who paid for it, were secrets
today. Mr.. Widener was said to
have been surprised, and therefore
could not have read Fridays news
papers, which gave details of the
affair in advance.
The guests sat at large tables in
setting that transplanted Belmont
Park, the track in which Widener
is vastly interested, directly to the
ballroom.
Among the guests we're Al Jolson,
John F. Curry, acting mayor Jo-
seph v. Mckee, Gene Tunney, Gro
yer Whalen, Earl Carroll (who is
interested in horse flesh as well as
in the vanities). and Walter Chrys-
Ter.
Around the hall were stalls, high
ly decorated with the Widener rae
ing colors. The horses menu con-
sisted largely of oats, hay, corn,
and, in the case of one voracious
steed. a dash of ice cream. The
repast for the human diners was
more sumptuous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
ROGERS TO RUSSIA
1 Don't Know How They'll
Take Me- Says VIII.
BIZ Tnited Press

BIZ United Press
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Sept. 49,
vii Rogers, unofficial ambassador
at large, plans to visit England, and
possibly Russia, again within few
months, he said today.
Don't know how they'll take me
in Russia" the comedian said. 81
wasn't very good to EN- the last
time. But things have changed
there and I'm interested to see how
they're gettin' on. Lady Nancy
Aston, I guess, can fix it for me to
get in
Will is to be accompanied by Mrs.
Rogers and their daughter, Mary.
Young Bill Rogers will be attending
Stanford university, and Jimmy, the
youngest of the family, will be in
military school in New Mexico.
TITS best for the kids to be away
at school even when we're home, .
Will remarked with a grin. 1--WE
can't learn 'em anything at home,
especially manners"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
HOOVER PULLS
|. CURTAIN OVER
BEER RAINBOW
No Chance for Comeback
of Legal Brew Is Word
From White House.
RIDDLE JOB ARGUMENT
Brewing Industry, at Peak,
Employed Only $4,000,
Census Shows.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-Beer
lovers might as well go back down
into the cellar and work over their
crooks, for the latest hopes of
those who have been predicting
that somehow President Hoover
would restore the foaming bever-
age to legal status apparently have
been dashed again.
A White House official, asked
what the chances for legalizing beer
were, replied:
You know and I know they are
pretty thin"
The White House has made public
census statistics which answer as
sertions of beer advocates that
restoration of brewing would give
employment to a million or more
men and stimulate industry.
These figures show that at the
peak of the brewing industry in
1914, just before prohibition began
to gain ground, a total of $4,000
men were employed.
This fell to $4,000 in 1919 Just
before federal prohibition became
effective. Pay rolls were $4,000, 900
in 1914 and $68,O0O,OOO in 1919.
To show that the entire business
was not wiped out by prohibition,
the White House obtained census
figures of the near beer industry in
1929, which showed 6,400 men en-
gagged, with a total pay roll of $12,-
100000.
AS reported by the United Press
ten days ago, President Hoover be-
lieves arguments for restoration of
beer are illogical, and that it has
no chance of coming back.
But he has been reluctant to make
any public statement, though the
tide of propaganda has continued
to rise in the form of provocative
statements by beer advocates,
rumors from every quarter, inside
tips of every degree, and direct
inquiries, all to the general effect
that Mr.. Hoover would or should
do something.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
LINDYS HOP FROM JAPAN
ACROSS SEA TO CHINA

arms indicating a landing signal
and it was assumed that Lindbergh
had come down on the famous
Lotus lake, two miles from the river
and outside the city walls.
A landing place had been pre-
pared on the river front and a huge
crowd had gathered to welcome the
colonel and his wife.
A four-day program of entertain
ment was arranged.
Lindbergh explained that he
landed on Lotus lake because the
current of the swollen Yangtze did
not appear safe for anchorage. II
am sorry we disappointed the
crowd" he said.
Most of the crowd ran three and
half miles across the city toward
Lotus lake and tied up traffic for
an hour.
Mrs. Lindbergh appeared fresh
and chic in a white helmet, blue
blouse and tan breaches. The colo
mel was sunburned and smiling.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
ByUnited Press

BIZ United Press
NANKING, China, Sept. 10
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh arrived here at 2:S5 p. m. to-
day, completing a 75O-mile flight
from Fukuoka, Japan, across the
Eastern sea.
The Lindberghs few from Toxic
to Marking with only two stops.
AS their plane was sighted
residents of the flooded city began
to cheer. Refugees from the high
waters of the Yangtze river, who
are living on walls of the city,
waved a greeting.
Lindbergh decided to attempt a
landing on the flooded Yangtze.
after escort planes had indicated a
landing place. and few out of sight
of the welcoming crowd, circling
above them several times.
The escort planes accompanied
Lindbergh and returned within a
few minutes. The pilots waved their