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stroyed block of guncotton had borne On an
Identifying mark. But how were they trans
ferred to the steel?
Prof. Munroe answered the question by try
ing some more blocks Of guncotton. Between
a slab Of the explosive and steel plate he put
coin. When the guncotton was detonated the
coin was volatized and disappeared with the
other gases of the explosion but its image was
found engraved in the steel as sharply as
though cut by a die.
THEN he put piece of lace in place Of the
coin. and the effect Of the explosion was
to etch the delicate tracery of lacework into
the steel.
Thus was discovered and demonstrated the
"Munroe effect"-a process of nature which
science has labeled with his name.
A job assigned to Munroe soon after his ar
rival at Newport was to make detonators in
fallibly explosive. Too often the spar torpedoes
then in use failed to fire, and it was found
that the fault lay with the detonators, or So
called firing caps.
Early one morning Prof. Munroe appeared ~
Continued on Eigh 'senth Page
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DEAN OFDYNAMITE
Lur Of Sm~ Podr 50 Years Age, Is the Explosives Of the Bureau
My-Dr IN Tad
NhrgyurIu, Which Most efIis Years Haze Been DvoeA

MERICA'S last ounce of World
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in the harness of useful work
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grandma, because I like It, And know
I'm going to be happy"
Perhaps that's the secret. There Is Q
conservation in science, a dedication, q
this one thing = I = do attitude which
makes apostleship as natural to the
laboratory as it is to the monastery.
Munroe never departed from his first
love. Chemistry has been the passion
of his life, his hobby as well as his
profeSsion-and there has never been
any trouble about making a living in
the 81 years that have passed since
Harvard handed him his degree Summa
cum laude.
Immediately upon graduation he was
appointed assistant to Wolcott Gibbs,
the eminent Harvard chemist, and suc-
ceeded Gibbs in the conduct of a chem
istry course. It was while he was en-.
gagged in this teaching that publica-
ton appeared in French reporting
Sobrero's discovery of nitroglycerin.
At that time black powder was the only
explosive in general use. A Boston gun
powder manufacturer, wishing to learn
Of this mysteriously powerful nitro
glycerin, engaged young Munroe to
translate the paper into English.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22
PLANE TAKING IN
 B|G GAME HUNTERS

The first plane equipped for big game hunting party to leave Seward took off today for Upper Russian Lake where 20 days will be spent by B. E. Horne and son, with Guide Mel Homer, after moose, sheep and bear
 Pilot Matt A. Nieminen, accom- panied by Manager Karl K. Katz, |of the Alaskan Airways, flew over from Anchorage to take the party in.
 MT. and Mrs. Horne and have just completed a tour of the h. terior and are quite delighted with Alaska. Mrs. Horne departed on the SS Yukon last evening, for Seattle, enroute to California where she will await her family The folks are from Andover, Mass
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22
FINE FORESTRY TRAIL
 BE COMPLETED BY FALL

Mel Horner, manager of the Overland Hotel and we'll known licensed Alaska guide, last week made a preliminary trip over the new forestry trail opposite Porcu- pine Island and pronounces it to be one of the finest in the coun- try.
 The trail begins opposite the island in Kenai Lake and Cooper Landing, coming out about two miles below Upper Russiah Lake along Russian River, connecting with Bishops Trail, making a complete loop.
 Jake Blanc is the foreman in charge, Horner said, and he and his crew are making remarkably fine progress; the grade is an easy one and goes through a good pass.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22

The barge Lawrence, which has been undergoing preparations for launching for several weeks past, has just about reached that point where it will plunge into Resur- rection Bay after a prolonged stay ashore. Things may be doing down that way today.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22
WOMAN TRADER LEAVES

Mrs. J. c. Lowe and sister Miss Griffin of Dillingham;, who flew to Seward from the Bristol Bay region a few days ago in four hours, left on the SS Yukon for the States. Mrs Lowe, probably Alaska's most prominent of women traders, will remain Outside for several months. Miss Griffin will reenter the University of Wash ington.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22

Mrs. Frank Lows of St. Michael,
 widow of the late deputy U. S. marshal at Dillingham;, arrived on the SS Yukon from the south and,
 who while here, was a guest of MT. and Mrs. Sol Uric, departed
 on today's train for the Interior.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22

Gust Haller, watchmaker who opened business here three months ago, closed Friday and to- day moved back to Anchorage. MT. Haller says two watches and three rings, left by customers, may be obtained at the Seward Leather Works.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22

Aviators are cutting an airline high over Seward these days; Fri day, another plane, about mil lion feet up, was glimpsed about 3:45 p. m., heading toward the Panhandle country.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22
BAKE SALE SATURDAY

A bake sale will be held Satur- day, under the auspices of h c ladies of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Seward Trading Co.,, store. *
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22

Mrs. Wm. R. Shellhorn and daughter Wilma, expect to leave this evening for the Russian River country where Mr. Shellhorn and son Donald are on big game hunt. d
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22

Dr. Borland, Bureau of Indian Affairs physician and surgeon at the Dillingham; hospital, was a southbound passenger on the SS Yukon.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22

John Carroll Chase, president. off the New England Historic Gen. ealogical Society, of Boston, Mass, passed through Seward Friday en- route to the States following 2 trip through the Territory.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22

Edna Nelson, daughter of Mir and Mrs. John Nelson, planneG to leave today for brief outing. in Moose Pass.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22

Pietor Figurelli, of Anchorage, passed away recently, according to the Anchorage Times.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-22

Old papers at The Gateway.
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FINE BALCHEN $500
ON MERCY FLIGHT
Boston Officials Levy Penalty
for Landing After New
foundIand Trip.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April ia fine of $500
has been charged against Bernt Balchen,
transatlantic aviator, for violation OF
customs regulations at this port. Will
fred w. Lufkin, collector of customs,
said today.
The fine resulted from an unauthor-
lied landing at the East Boston Airport
by Balchen on his return several weeks
ago from a flight to Newfoundland in
search of survivors of the explosion OF
the sealing ship Viking.
Lufkin said Boston was not port OF
entry for airp.anes and landings could
not be made here without permission
from the Treasury Department at Wash
ington.
Balchen has been notified of the Gus
toms Department action, Lutkin SAID,
and has been instructed concerning the
procedure necessary to obtain remit
lance of the $780, In most past in
stances of this kind, Lufkin said, the
fines have been RENTED.
On the fl ght to Newfoundland Bal
chen was accompanied by F. Merton
Cooper, explorer and movie producer.
Cooper, a friend of Varick FrisSell, who
persisted in the Viking explosion, or
ganized the flight at the request of Fris-
sells father, DR.. Lewis FrisSeu Of New
Work.
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FALL RIVER, HARD HIT BY DEBT,
MAKES RECORD CUT IN BUDGET
Branch Libraries and Fairgrounds Closed
12O Teachers Let Out and City
Salaries Cut % Per Cent.

a field day proposing what to cut out
next from the school system.
They have Weeded out the city pay
roll and have chopped a fiat 20 PER
cent off the salaries of every one of the
remaining 1900 public employees, from
city manager to policeman. The only
exceptions were those whose wages came
to less than SIG week and teachers on
one-year contract, with regard to
whom nothing can be done until June.
Retrenchment Has Just Begun.
The dramatic era has only just be-
gun in Fall River. It has set in for
10 years, until the city can get out Of
receivership. Next year the ak must
cut deeper. for an additional 100000
must be slashed out of the budget to
pay of a slice of the debt that had been
mounting year by year in Fall River
until fatal day last Winter, when the
city defaulted on its notes and found
its credit gone at the banks.
Then all the municipal reform that
Fall River had been resisting for years
caught up with her over night. To get
the money to pay of her defaults she
had to accept the legislatures terms.
| The terms were a finance board APP
pointed by the Governor to control the
finances of Fall River until the last
! Continued on Page 4. Column -
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JUICE SALES UNDER
FEDERAL SCRUTINY
Woodcock Tells Crusaders
Prosecution viii Follow
Proof of "Intent."

While Fruit Industries. Ltd, financed
in part by Federal loans, is selling here
and throughout the Nation its grape
concentrate, which under certain condi-
tons becomes wine, Director of Prohibi-
ton Amos w. w. Woodcock was on
public record today as believing that
the sale of a product on the expecta-
ton that it will develop IL to 20 per
cent of alcohol is not in keeping with
the spirit of the eighteenth amendment
He pledged prosecution where unlawful
intent" could be proven.
These declarations were made in a
letter to Rufus S. Lusk OF this city
executive secretary of the Crusaders
who made public correspondence be-
tween that organization and Col. Wood
cock.
Col. Woodcock admitted, however, the
difficulties confronting the Government
in attempts to enforce provisions of law
concerning homemade wine. He made
it clear that the law allows a person to
make homemade fruit juice and cider,
providing they are mountaineering.
Proof Is Difficult.
Asked if the sale of grape concentrate
and kegs by Fruit Industries was "un-
lawful" Col. Woodcock replied that II
they we're advertised and sold with IAN
intent that they be used in the manu-
facture Of a beverage which is intoxi-
eating in fact, then such advertisement
and sale are unlawful"
Il am sure" continued Col Wood
cock, chat you will appreciate the prac-
tical dif6culty of the proof of such I'M
lawful intent" He said the Govern
ment was prosecuting somewhat similar
enterprises" in Los Angeles and Kan
sas City, Mo.
Such prosecutions will be made" de-
clared Woodcock whenever the evil
dence of such unlawful intent is avail
able to convince petit jury beyond a
reasonable doubt"
But there was no qualification to
Director Woodcocks fiat reply to the
question as to whether he believed the
sale of product which was expected
to turn into alcohol was in keeping
with the spirit of the dry amendment.
Il do not" was his three-word reply.
Inconsistent Provisions"
Col. Woodcock said he had no inten-
ton of recommending to Congress any
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Several Natives Also Lose
Lives as Large Force
Makes Raid on Commissary
Early Sunday Morning.
AMERICANS AMMUNITION
EXHAUSTED IN FIGHT
Admiral Pratt, Asking Full Details,
Says He Has No News Concern
ing Report Is Were Slain-U. S.
Victims Include Captain, Lieu
tenant and Sergeant.

BY the Associated Press.
PANAMA CITY, April 13.-Ad-
vices received by officials of the
Standard Fruit Steamship Co. al
CriStobal today said three United
States Marines were killed in an
attack by large force of bandits
on the commissary at Logtown
Nicaragua, miles from Puerto
CabezaS.
The three Marines listed as
killed in the reports to the steam
ship company were Capt. Harlan
Pefley, Lieut.. Darrah and Sergt
Taylor.
Several native employees of the COM
misSary were also killed. the report said
Ammunition Gives Out.
The steamship company has consider
able holdings at Logtown and Puerto
Cabezas.
The report of the steamship company
said that the engagement took place
early Sunday morning between Ma
tional Guard patrol, led by the three
Marine officers, and a force Of bandits,
IN which the three officers and the en-
tire National Guard force were wiped
out. It was desperate hand-to-hand
battle, the report said, in which the
Marines and National Guardsmen were
overpowered only after their ammuni-
ton was exhausted
The Navy cruiser Asheville is on her
way from Cristobal up the East Coast
with q company Ct Marines and armed
fa G
ported proceeding from Guantanamo
with 500 sailors
Appeals for aid were sent to AEana91la
and planes set out to bomb the bandits
hiding places.
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BAKER, WIFE SLAYER, TIRED
OF HIDING, SURRENDERS
Walks Into Headquarters and Is Told to
See Lieutenant After Finally Identity
ing Self; Anxious to See Children.

who shot his wife a couple of weeks
ago."
Told to "See the Lieutenant"
The policeman suggested Baker see
Lieut.. Charles Weber. The latter looked
up from his desk few moments later
in response to a repetition of Bakers
original announcement.
so you're Baker, eh?" Weber said,
cycling the stranger quizzically. ''Well,
I'm mighty glad to see you"
Baker, who appeared neat despite
his frayed clothing, explained the
fact he was tired of hiding" had
prompted him to give himself up.
He had planned to surrender shortly
after the shooting, he said. but his
courage deserted him and he decided
to seek refuge in Virginia
Lacked the Courage.
few days ago. Baker continued. he
met lifelong friend, when he asked
for advice. The man advised him to
give himself up, he said, but he could
not muster sufficient courage to do SO.
1t was not until today, he went on,
that he definitely decided to follow his
friends counsel. He accompanied his
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Tired Of lodging policemen and
anxious to see his four children again,
Albert c. Baker, who fed April after
fatally shooting his wife, Mrs. May
Baker. in his basement apartment in
the 300 block of o street, walked into
police headquarters and surrendered
today.
Accompanied by his brother with
whom he said he has been staying in
Caroline County, Va, Baker entered
the police building as inspector VIII
liam S. Shelby, chief of detectives, was
going to lunch.
''Who?" Policeman Asks.
Recognizing Baker from photographs
on file at headquarters, Shelby followed
the two men to an Office on the second
floor. There Baker, obviously nervous
approached a sixth precinct policeman.
who was visiting headquarters on bust
ness. and announced:
I'm Baker"
Who?"' the policeman asked.
Baker" was the reply. THE man
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ILLINOIS REPEAL
MEASURE VETOED
Governor Terms Vets Drive
on Prohibition Laws Multi
fiCationism.
By the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 13.-Gov
Louis L. Emmerson today vetoed the bill
for the repeal Of the Illinois search and
seizure laws.
The measure. which would have
placed Illinois sixth in the column OF
States repeating their prohibition en-
forcement acts, had been enacted by the
State Senate by only two-vote margin
26 to "a. For more than two decades
the State Senate has been traditionally
dry, while the House has thrice passed
rereai bills
In his veto message the Governor said
the efforts Of Illinois 'wets" to strike
all prohibition laws from the statute
books was nulIi6ca tionism.
Last November the voters of Illinois
by Q large majority expressed their ap-
prevail of repeal In referendum vote
which was adopted as the chief argu-
ment Of the prohibition group In
the Legislature this year.
10th Sides Given Hearing.
During the protracted hearings dele
cations from wet and dry organization:
were given audience, and finally, with
the measure before him. Gov. Emmer-
son granted hearings to both sides be-
fore preparing his veto message.
Yesterday the Crusaders, anti-prohi-
bition organization, presented fina
plea for the Governors approval of the
bill and advocated it as the beginning
of movement to bring law and order
back to the country" Gov. EmmerSor
ctoA ID xx,t,o he ~ =
not tend rather to "repudiate the
eighteenth amendment than aid in it:
enforcement" and asserted that the pro.
hibition issue had never come before
him officially before and he would de-
eide it without regard to party politics
The vote for it in the House had been
81 to Sc. Several of those who voted
for repeal in the Senate, where the turn
of two votes would have changed the
vote, frankly admitted they voted for II
only because of the referendum.
Net for Notification.
II am not for notification" the Gov
ernors message in part said This act
not only removes all laws on this sub
ject. but tends to strike at the funda-
mental unity of National Government
Repeal of the Illinois prohibition act
would leave Illinois. for the first time
in its history. without any State law
for the control or regulation of intoxi-
eating beverages. This State has always
recognized the need for regulation OF
control Of traffic in intoxicating liquor.
The Supreme Court of this State has
said that the Illinois prohibition act
was revision of the whole subject
under the amendment to the FEEDER al
Constitution end was intended as a sub
stitute for and to repeal all existing laU
on that subject. The statutes of thu
State provide: No act or part Of an ACT
repealed by the General Assembly shall
be deemed to, be revived by the repeal
of the repeating act"
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WOUNDED PREMIER
OF JAPAN RESIGNS
Hamaguchi's Post to Go to
Wakatsuki, Former Encum-
bent and Treaty Friend.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, April 13.-Disabled as the
result Of shot fired last November IA
by young assassin, Yuko Hamaguchi
resigned today as premier of Japan and
presented the designations of his entire
cabinet.
The appointment of Reijiro Wakat-
suki, former premier, as successor to
Hamaguchi was regarded as foregone
conclusion, and it was expected Wakat-
suki would retain most of the Hama
guchi cabinet.
The Hamaguchi administration, which
lasted less than two years, weathered
many storms growing out of its accept
ance of the London naval treaty, and
the attempt upon the premier's life was
attributed to dissatisfaction among pa
triotic extremists with Japan's position
regarding the arms limitation agree
ment.
AssaiIant Not Tried.
Hamaguchi was shot by Tomeo Sa-
goya, %, a member of the Love OF
Country Association" investigations
disclosed that no responsible political
group" had anything to do with the
shooting, and Sagoya was regarded as
misguided patriot. He has not yet
been tried.
For weeks Hamaguchi lay in a hos
pital convalescing, while Barren Kijuro
Shidehara, the foreign minister, acted
as head of the administration, which
was the subject of several Conservative
attacks in the Diet.
Recently Hamaguchi tried to resume
active direction of the government, but
was forced to re-enter the hospital
Two operations were performed upon
him last week.
Convinced his illness would preclude
his participation in politics for some
time, Hamaguchi decided to resign.
Bitter Treaty Fight.
AS leader of the MinSeito (LiberaD
party, Hamaguchi became premier July
3. 1929. Negotiations leading up to
Japan's ratification of the London treaty
brought severe attacks from the adj
ministration's opponents. Climaxing
these, Admiral Kanjo Kato resigned
as chief of staff of the navy.
Hamaguchis victory in bringing
about ratification of the treaty ever
the objections of influential group in
the navy was regarded as significant,
as previously in naval policies the GUS
tom of the government had been to
accede to the wishes OF this solidarity
AS Japan's chief delegate to the
London Conference, WakatSuki backed
the international agreement.
Hamaguchi and Wakatsuki are of the
same political faith-that is, OF the
Minseito. or Liberal, party, as opposed
to the Seiyukai, or Conservative party
Wakatsuki was premier from June,
1926, to April, 1927, and won additional
notice with his leadership of the Naval
Conference negotiations. His appoint
ment as premier would be considered as
a victory for those who favored the
treaty. Ills hobby is archery.
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TIUEY LONGS BAND WAGON GOES
IN DITCH WHILE AIDING FRIEND
Intensive Campaign Made to Win Congress Seat for
Lawyer Who Fought Impeachment Charges.

Claybrook Cottingham, president of
Louisiana College, Baptist institution.
The race Is to fill the seat of the late
James B. Aswell and the election is to-
morrow.
AS in all Long campaigns. the pace
has been fast and fiery with the excite
ment terminating Friday night in a
fight at Montgomery between Preston
Leblanc. brother Of candidate for the
governorship. and Edward BoudreaHy
and Overton supporters. Leblanc and
Boudreaux first were held without bail,
charged with lying in wait with deadly
weapons, but later were released en-
$3.50 bonds. They said the only weap-
ons they had were deadly political
weapons" the reference being TO circu-
lars distributed criticizing the Long
administration.
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PATROL is AmBusHED.
Marine oficer Killed, Corporal Shot by
Insurgents

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April Is GP)-
The truce which has prevailed between
United States Marines and insurgents
since the earthquake of fortnight ago
was ended Saturday night with ambush
OF Marine patrol and death Of its
officer.
Capt Harlan Pelfey, U. S. NJ. c. was
killed as he stepped into house at
Logtown, railhead OF the Fragments
Bluff Lumber Co., near Puerto Cabezas,
and a corporal named Morales was
wounded.
Word of the ambush was carried to
Puerto Cabezas and Lieut.. Darrah took
small patrol toward Logtown, where
reports later said that he had been sur
rounded and two of his patrol captured.
Another patrol went to his assistance
end two bombing planes took OF from
the Managua field. The U. S. S. Ashe-
vile was ordered down from Panama to
Puerto CabezaS.
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BINGHAM FORECAST
STIRS MANILA PRESS
Possibility of Independence Vote
in Next Congress Favor
ably Discussed.
by Cable to The Star.

BY Cable to The Star.
MANILA, p. l., April Ex-senator
Hiram Bingham's belief that the next
Congress will pass an independence bill
oraws comment from the Filipino press.
which, expressing responsible Filipino
opinion, concurs in Senator Bingham's
view because of the increased Demo-
cratic vote, anti-Filipino labor agIta-
ton and the objections Of the Repub-
hcan insurgents to Philippine goods
free entry in the American market.
the commentators DO not count the
prolonged Filipino independence agita-
ton as decisively influencing Congress
Yielding to selfish clamor is no way
TO give a people freedom" says the
Herald. doubling Senator Bingham's
prophecy. 1t adds: IF independence
Is imminent, we hope everything will
be arranged to insure the greatest fair
ness to Filipinos and Americans both.
Americans as well as Filipinos who have
staked everything on the development
OF the Philippines want a chance TO
readtust their interests
The newspaper says that the Fill
pines expect su2h an opportunity before
or associated with tll1 independence
grant. 1t scores Sen7tor Bingham's
fear that freedom win seriously affect
the welfare Of the masses" and al
leges that widespread propaganda is
being carried on UNDERWRITING the
people with fear so as to make them
satisfied with their existing status.
Copyright, 1917
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