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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 56
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
GOVERNMENT AGAIN IN CON
TROL OF MANY CITIES; RE
BELS RETREATING
MEXICO CITY. March, 7, (A5)—A
-’omplete breakdown of the revolu
tionary movement in Vera Cruz
and other parts of southern Mexi
co is reported while the rebels in
ihe north continued their drive
toward Juarez where a handful of
Federal troops are awaiting them.
General Agirre. commander of
;he rebels at Vera Cruz was be
lieved to have taken flight to sea
after the severe fighting of yester
day wnich ended when the consular
corps secured a armistice to avoid
further bloodshed.
The important strategic hailway
center of Monterey was lost to the
the city after a severe defeat by
rebels. General Escobar evacuating
10.000 Federals. Escobar was later
driven out of Saltillo and today is
retreating to Torreon along the
western border of Coahuila.
Th° cities which the Government
has recovered are Monterey. Cordo
va, Saltillo. Orizada and Jalapa
while Vera Cruz had virtually been
recaptured but was still needing
some consolidation of position.
An official Governnmet state
ment predicted a spedy crushing of
*„he revolt and said the rebel forces
are in complete route everywhere
and were the victims of “Incon
ceivable panic”.
SELEiSN QUEEN SEEKS
BRUSSELS, March 6, UP)—Queen
Elizabeth is 'ending a hand to he p
solve the how sine: nrohlem that has
persisted ever since the great war
The r;neen is sponsoring a move
ment aimed to provide more homes.
A Belgian feminist. Miss Louis
Vinderplaes, declares that in the
lour largest cities of the country
ti.999 families of six members or
more each have homes of three
rooms.
1 SEEKS NO BAN
AGAINST GIGJRETTS
EVANSTON, LU., March 6, ffl—
The Women’s Christian Temper
ance Union in a statement strikin'?
back r*t Rupert Hughes, the writer
who criticized its attitude toward
ciearetts, declared it is not seeking
an pnti-cigarett constitutional
amendment.
“The latest attempt to belittle
prohibition via the cigarette conies
from Rupert Hugh-:- who evidently
has been led astray by the untruth
ful reports of the W. C. T. U.’s views
of narcotics and cigaretts”, the
statement read.
buying mm
NEW YORK, March 6, (£>)—Wall
Street, which looks for a “secondary
recession” after a maior break in
the stock market and has looked
in vain since the break of early
December is beginning to believe i
liiat baying of securities by inves- ■
tors vho nurchn.se outright for
cash and by investment trusts may
postpone indefinitely the second j
general decline.
! LANDSLIDE SWEEPS
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| LISBON. March 7. (/P)—A dis
patch from Funchal Maderia Is
ilands said over 100 had been killed
| 'ird many injured in a big landslide
in th^ valley of St. Vincent. Nine
| louses, in which the 100 were
crowded, fell with the landslide in
i'-,o the flooded river and carried to
sea. Torrential rains caused the
slide.
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0ERBY4TH TIE
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|rWO HUNDRED MILE NON-STOP
! MUSH IS COVERED IN LESS
THAN 37 HOURS
TKF PAS. March 7, (A3)—Emil St.
Goddard is recovering from his
battle thru a blizzard to whi The
Pas dog derbv. St. Goddard stum
Ibled across the finish line at 11:09
ilast night completing the 200-mtie
nou-ston mush to Flin Flow and re
turn in 36 hours and 59 minutes.
Ear1 Bvrdges was second, three
minutes behind St. Goddard, and
Gabril Campbell was third. His
brother Hector was fourth.
St. Goddard has won The Pas
derby each year since 1925 but this
was his first victory over the 200
mile course. He used six huskies
,.nd when finished he carried one
on the sled.
69? STOCKS REACH 290
NEW YORK, March 7, UP)—More
stocks are now selling above $200
level htan at any time in the his
;r>ry of' the New *ork Stock Ex
change. Alfcgenter 608 issues have
reached this level in the past hail
century.
DUNN PRESENTS INCREASE IN
PIONEERS PENSION RILL;
FROM S25 TO S3 5
JUNEAU. March 7. —(Special to
the Gateway) Four measures were
introduced in the Senate but none
■n the House to date. Dunn intro
duced two Bills, one for election of
the Treasurer by popular vote and
the other raising the pioneer pen
sion rate from $25 to $35 on such
pensioners as came to Alaska prior
to January 1, 1905.
3teel introduced a Bill to refund
i"o municipalities a straight 85 per
|.,<uit of the cost of maintenance of
I jublic schools. At the present not
| more than $30,000 can be refunded
|to any town and Steel, in his Bill,
i seeks the removal of this inhibition
j A Bill was Introduced by Frame
i ,o give title to 10 acres of land in
Vlatanuska valley to George Gates.
The Territory holds title to the
land thru escheated estate proceed
ings.
LONDON, March 6, (/P)—That the
first born child is not subject to
more inheritable diseases than ti'“
Isubsea rent; children, was tound in
a. survey by Madge Thurlow Mac.it
iin, of the University of Western
Ontario.
Her figures are at variance with
the idea that, inherited evils am
hkely :o hit the first, born hardest.
Some among previous studies by
medics! men have indicated that
•.he first born is a sort of inheri
tance goat.
WASHINGTON March 7, UP,—
I’re ident Hoover called an extra
session of Congress for Ap'il 15 fo
agricultural relief "rH hrrvh
changes of the tariff. The pro
clamation says these matters can
not in justice “To our farmers, our
labor and manufacturers, be post
poned.”
WASHINGTON. March 7. MP) -
One of the most remarkable export
increases i« credited to Alaska in
he distribution of exports during
the second quarter of 1928.
Alaskan exports were $350,338
' ompared to $76 593 for the same
period the previous year.
Total American exports were val
ved at $1,150,000 000. New York,
Texas. Michigan and California led.
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WASHINGTON, March 7, (,'P)—
The Secretary of War announced
the allotment of $11,587,000 for
river and harbor improvements
maintenance for the year begin
ning July 1. Inc!uded in the allot
ment is the Nome harbor, 319,500
and Wrangell Narrows 347,000.
CHANGING SKIPPERS'
EFFORT BY DELEGATE FACTION
TO O*'ST LESTER D. HEN
DERSON, C. OF E.
I JUNEAU. March 7, —JSpecial to
|the Gateway) The administrative
budget covering estimates of ex
'penditures of the Territory for the
next biennium was made public
jshowing an aggregate ol $2,507,4149
and estimated revenues dirring the
j-ame period a total of $2.064.007
and a cash balance in the treasury,
as of March 1, this year, of $918,291.
Tim major items in the budget
are:
Pioneers’ Home $106,000; pen
sions $193,800; dependent children
$60,000; relief and destitution $15,
000; relief to the needy and indig
ent $25,000: rescue of lost persons
310,000: bounties on wolves, eagles
and hair seal $77,500; roads $260,
000; shelter cabins $20,000; Terri
torial schools'$945,000; Alaska Ag
ricultural College & School of Mines
3232,000: and the same institution
.will receive $170,000 from the Fed
eral Government for the same per
iod.
NO CONTROL ESTIMATES
In hi? message the Governor
emphasized that ali of the esti
mates in the budget were merely
;passed on to the Legislature as they
I were received from the several de
partments and that under the pres
ident law there was no administra
tive control over the estimates.
| Ma.ov of the requests for money
were for actual needs but no exami
nation had been made or is it pos
sible to determine which are neces
sary for the public good and which
■ould 're eliminated.
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He pleaded for a new budget Leg
islation and designation of a spec
ific board with power to review all
: estimates for legislative appro
jpriations and authority to balance
expenditures with revenues.
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A well founded report has been
circulated that an effort will be
made to oust Lester D. Henderson
from office as Commissioner of
Education. It is reported that Steel.
Anderson and Frame have a candi
date from California. If this is
frue their votes will be sufficient to
elect.
WILL HAVE OVER 500
FOX PELTS FOR SALE
AT mm AUCTION
Writing from Egagik. Jack Bailey,
I fur buyer and partner to Hans
Severson, Iliamna trading post on
Iliamna lake, reports he has been
out cn the trails buying, down the
Alaska Peninsula, as far as Nusha
gak and that fox are scarce this
year and hard to buy. But he has
done well, considering everything
he says.
The winter has been a bad one
for traveling. The fox catch, he
added is about 75 percent lower
• han last year.
With regard to the fur sale at
Tliamna Bay. on April 10, which
Severson and Bailey are holdinfa,
he said they should have over 500
to sell and that will be a whole lot
for any one, any place, this season.
Mr. Bailey, in closing, sends his
regards to his many friends in Sew
ard. J