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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 52.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
OVERWHELMING CROWD IS
POURING INTO CITY FOR
INAUGURATION
WASHINGTON, March 2, (/P)—
Hoover sat in seclusion in his S
Street home free from the noise
and tumult from the thousands
pouring into Washington for the
inauguration on Monday.
A few blocks away, amid the '
echoes of hte farewells of the
crowd. President Coolidge is spend- I
ing one of his last nights in the j
surroundings which have grown
familiar during the last seven
years. I
Dawes occasionally rapped for
order in the Senate and Curtis,
who succeeds him faced him from
the floor.
Hoover has finished the task of
preparing himself for his admin
istration and selected the Cabinet,
although one is still unknown to
tire world and prepared his ad
dress.
Coolidge said farewell to his
Cabinet and special arrangements
have been completed for the over
whelming crowd pouring into the
city. The weather chief is worried.
SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR
AS CHIEF PROCUREMENT
DIVISION
WASHINGTON, March 2, (IP)—
Robert P. Lamont, Chicago engin
eer, has been chosen as Secretary
of Commerce completing the Hoo
ver Cabinet.
Lamont was born in Detroit on
December 1, 1867 and his home is
at Lake Forest, Illinois.
He is an officer in several bus
iness concerns and served in the
World War as chief of the pro
curement division of the Ordnance
department.
SOLDIER MEMORIAL TO
DIMM OLD AUER
MARY HILL. Wash., Mar.. 1, (/P*
—Stonehenge, Built 4.ono years age
Britons as a place of worship, i,
b -mg duplicated bv Klickitat coun
tv ciliven as a memorial to their
sv’dicr dead.
The memorial, to be dedicated
*r v 30. wa° riven to the county b
Sam Hill, millionaire railroad man
■ nd pbilnnthrdpist. The centra
•j'ece in the memorial, as in Stone
henge is a sacrifieal altar. This
Mr. Hill believes, is symbolic o'
American soldiers who sacrifice.1
-heir lives on the altar of patriot
ism.
TAKES FINAL VOWS
ROME, March. 1, t/P)—The firs.,
r, Fi -rr l-'roTif'^P nxrar f.n \)f) Ol’d^ ilied
ir. the Roman Catholic priesthood
r^s l iken his final vows. He ».
Father Francesco Salcerio Satiman,
taking his Italian name from Si.
Francis Xavier.
SECRETARY AGRICULTURE
WASHINGTON, March 2, (JP)—
j Hoover admitted that Arthur Syde,
j former governor of Missouri, will
be Secretary of Agriculture, after
the Kansas City Star announced
the appointment.
hoims msd
BY FIVE STATES FOR
FIVE SOUTHWESTERN STATES
ENDORSE FORMER ALAS
KAN FOR POST
I
I
JUNEAU, March 2, (/P)—The Am
arilo Texas Daily News says an
! active fight is being made for the
appointment of W. H. Holmes, re
cent Texas gubernatorial nom
inee and former Alaskan, for Gov
ernor of Alaska.
Republican organizations in five
southwestern States have endorsed
Holmes.
R. B. Creager, Texas National
Committeeman, is in Washington
and will officially present the en
dorsements within a week.
BOOKS DWINDLE
PAr?TS, March 1 f/P'—Frai
; reads morn than before the v ,
, out ine- sv.'inly at book: d'V tv
,: he ;o*3l nvTiber of wo.ks. Ir.o't
iag everything from Aztecs to /.
•logy is barely 13 GOO annually com
! i; , reel with 15.000 before trie '•
"ONGRESS MAY HELP FIGHT RODENTS
AND PREDATORY ANIMALS
7!
r—tt
' Hnu Djueui Kitien (lower left) dug
from their dens by a paid hunter, are the progeny of pre
datory animals that harass the livestock producer. At 1
■he right is a hunter of predatory animals and two wolves :
j he has killed. The porcupines <upoer left) are eating the ,
I bark of a pinchberry tree in Michigan. I:
WOULD EXEMPT PRIVATE BUILD
INGS FOR RELIGIOUS PUR
POSES
WASHINGTON, March 2, (/P)—
A compromise was reached by the
Senat and House conferees on the
Interior Department bill which
has been in deadlock for six weeks
thus clearing the way for final
passage.
The two houses had been at
odds over the provision voted by
the House empowering the Secre
tary of the Interior to condemn
property in National Parks.
The compromise would exempt
private dwellings and buildings for
religious purposes from the terms
of the condemnation provisions.
V/'PTnMrTON March 2. (/Pi
rb-M .r.v,^r; n->rrc; ha VC e'CCH CS“
neer-div made to w°ve in Wa li'n,;
j 4. of f i ■ o iv’ ?U^n?‘n tlo.V) or
ITerb-' T Hof've1’. -r
The Qun.^terni • ?t zr O ? ■/ ■ ■' ’ h<i: •
■' ‘-rw. "jd with tV ? -arravh pv^.n
fnctuiing depot in Ph ' id. • to
on fi-ic.-r j ,■•• rv d m r.s:on
inroiro frem the hi; "orris-m fiat.'..,
oo by 33 feet to the .'-"hall storm
IPigs P by 9 feet.
RAIN PREDICTED
WASHINGTON, March 2, (IP)—
The weather bureau predicted rain
for Monday during Hoover's in
auguration.
HTOlTER TARIFF NEEDED PRO
TECT PRODUCERS WHO BUY
SUPPLIES
WASHINGTON March 1, (tp)_
Continuation or upward readjust
ment * of present duties on 26 min
eiaL was requested by M. W.
"riegh. chief of the Mineral Tariffs
.'ivisions of the American Mining
Congress at the tariff revision
nearing before the House Ways ana
Means Committee. Mr. Krlegh pre
’cntco a chart of tariff information
pertaining to these industries, giv
ng sources of imports, labor costs
at h mp and abroad, relative trade
balance between the United States
nod foreign countries, exchange
’•ates nature and extent of ore de
posits foreign and domestic, prices,
dome tic production, States in
which produced, employees and de
pendents upon each industry, ap
proximate investment in each in
dustry, present conditions, estimat
ed percentage of foreign and do
mestic products that will be con
sumed under a correct tariff, a: u
!ne toi iff needed by each industry.
Hr referred pratienlarly to lead,
/inc, molybdenum and quicksilve.
on which continuation of present
tariffs i" deemed imperative.
Throe domestic industries are not
at this time asking for any read
iu tment, altho conditions, particu
arly hi the cases of lead and zinc,
may develop whereby an urgetn
need could be shown for highoi
tariffs”, he said. Colorado is now
a king a higher tariff on lead.
In the cases of antimony, arsenic,
oarytes, kaolin, gypsum., mica, rood
tungsten, Mr. Krlegh said the pro
-hicers have presented facts which
Uistifv readjustments and increas
es As to manganese, and certain
other minerals, Mr. Kriegh said th
producers and mine operators
would make their own recommen
dations
“The position of the America
Mining Congress with respect to
these industries which it represents
ri that when any American minin
ndustry buys its plant, equipment
supplie- and labor in a protected
market, it should be permitted t
sell us minerals, which are its pre
ducts m a protected mark u ' ue
.- id. ‘ The American Mining c ::
gress on bfl’pU of the c inci 'tries
isks 1 nat they be gi anted such pro
i-'ctior as will enable them to one
ate and employ Amercan workmen
at a-1 Americvan scale of wages
based rn an American standard o
!ivI—g ’
VIENNA. Mar., l. (TP)— Laughing ;
?as is being revived and is replac
ing chloroform and either as the
-■.peslhetie for motor operations in
many Vienna hospitals.
Tile surgeons in the famous Ran
dolph hospital, one of the largest
n Vi. :oia. have operated on several
hundred eases lately, mostly seriouo
bdominal operations, using a new
“orm of laughing gas as the anes- ■
ihetic. Results were gratifying in
ill instances.
NOTHING IN LAW ENABLING
AUTHORITIES TO DEPORT
ALIEN OFFENDERS
j WASHINGTON, March 1, (^Pj—
President Coolidge signed the Jones
! bill increasing penalties for viola
| tion of the prohibition amend
ment to a maximum five years
| imprisonment and $10,000 fine,
i The measure was the subject of
j a stormy debate in both the House
i and the Senate where it met stern
| opposition of the wets.
At the White House it was ex
i plained that President Coolidge
! felt there were many under a mis
; apprehension regarding the pur
opse of the bill. Its sponsors ex
I plained to Coolidge that while
many persistant violators violated
the law were foreigners there was
nothing in the statute enabling
, immigration authorities to deport
them.
By increasing the maximum
penalty and making violations a
felony. immigration authorities
have the power to deport alien
violators.
! MC CAIN EE GIVEN CERTIFI
CATE MEMBER HOUSE FOR
MC CUTCHEON
JUNEAU, March 2. </P)—With
only 14 Senators and legislators
of the 24 present there has been
little planning regarding speaker
of the House and president of
j the Senate,
| The ninth Territorial I.egisla
; ure opens in session Monday and
! the remaining members are ex
| pected tomorrow.
J. N, McCain of Anchorage has
| been gived a certificate as a mem
ber of the House from the Third
: Division instead of H. H. McCut
j cheon. The former won by seven
! votes; one precinct was missing
j until last week.
RfcVO. March fi. <7Pi—Operators
lot lion ? made stills are being
I’llnmed by Reno radio dealers for
much of the interference that i
musing radio owners to compiar
|of “annealing sets ”
A trouble shooter” en.pit . • :
the d-rlers to determine the soir ee
of interference reported that
!"rockers” used by makers of coir
j whiskey to age their nroduct wet
causing considerable trouble be
icause of poor electrical connections
to the motors that operate the
“rockers”.
POISON GAS
CHaRLEROI, Belgium, March 1,
(/P)—Farmers are asking the Gov
ernment to use noison gas against
a plague of mice invading fields,
cellars, barns and houses. The mice
have done great damage to crops.