VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 74.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1929.
PRICE TEN
CENTS
APPROPRIATION OF $17,000 FOR
KODIAK SCHOOL PASSED
BY THE HOUSE
JUNEAU, March 30, (Special to
the Gateway)—A measure revising
and modifying laws relating to
/ the Territorial school system and
reorganizing it, was introduced by
Dunn and Dimond, providing for a
new school board of education by
appointment of the commissioner
of edueaion and assistants for a
period of four years and requiring
confirmation by the senate.
The new board would be com
posed of the Governor, as ex-offi
cio chairman; and six other cit
izens to be appointed by him. Two
members of the first board to
held office for two years; two for
four years and two for six years,
and thereafter all terms for six
years.
Four classes of schools would be
embraced; city, rural, unorganized
and night schools, the first two
receiving funds on the basis of 85
and 75 per cent as provided in the
recently enacted senate bill which
is still pending in the house.
Compulsory educe-tion law is
strengthened and Indian schools
brought within the provisions.
# Tuition fee for incorporated
* towns for pupils attending from
outside the corporate limits would
be fixed at $3 per month. Literary
qualifications of federal laws in
relation to Territorial elections,
are extended to all school elect
ions.
The first big appropriation mea
sure of the session was introduced
in the house yesterday when the
education committee brought in a
bill carrying a total of $137,735 for
the Alaska Agricultural College
and School of Mines. The house
passed the $17,000 appropriation
for the Kodiak school and $7,500
for flood protection for Hyder. A
minor measure was passed and
three mnior ones by the senate.
CONDEMNED MAN WENT TO
SCAFFOLD CALMLY; OUT
WARDLY UNMOVED
WALLA WALLA, Mar. 30. (A5)—
Luther Baker was hanged at the
penitentiary for the murder of
Sheriff Lester Wood, In Vancouver,
May, 1927.
The condemned man went to his
death calmly, outwardly unmoved
during the proceedings, as well as
during his last night in the death
cell. On the scaffold he thanked
prison officials for their kind treat
ment since he was brought to the
penitentiary. Thanks were his last
words. His brother Ellis, serving
a life term for the same murder,
visited the condemned man yester
day afternoon.
SPECIAL RIGHTS?
VIENNA, Mar. 30. (A3)—A nation
! al movietone company will be
! founded here with Austrian capital.
| Austrian artists will be favored
and the company will have special
rights in the republic.
mm is sot
CONGRESSMAN SURE TO GIVE
HIMSELF UP, IN OPINION
OF NEIGHBORS
CHICAGO, March 30, (A*)—Un
ess Congressman Michaelson sur
renders to federal authorities, it is
said that United States Commiss
ioner Walker will send deputy mar
shals to search for him.
A warrant was issued for his ar
rest yesterday, almost six months
ifter his indictment by the Flor
ida grand jury on charges of pos
session, transportation and impor
tation of liquor. Bond was set at
*>2,000.
Efforts to find Michaelson, since
me news reached here, have fail
jd. Federal officials and neighbors
>aid he was sure to give himself up.
Je left home yesterday.
Michaelson served as representa
tive from the seventh Illinois dis
trict since 1920 and had been
mown as a dry but he had not re
ceived the support of the anti-sa
.oon league for four years because
of a wet speech made at that time.
LAST DAY TO REGISTER
Tonight is the last opportunity for
the citizens of Seward to register
for the city election next Tuesday.
For the benefit of the voting pub
lic the city clerk's office will be
kept open from 7 to 10 p. m., to
night, which will afford everyone
a chance to register. Monday will
be too late; today is the last day.
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LOS ANGELES, March 30, (JP)—
Police filed a murder charge against
John Crawford, 18, after he had
confessed to killing his father,
John, sr., 45, a former policeman,
at their home last night.
Because Donald Crawford, a
brother, was expected to appear as
a witness in the Councilman Carl
I. Jacobson alleged frameup case,
the police were not at first direct
ed to investigate the slaying, and
other members of the family, be
lieving Crawford was shot by a
person interested in the trial, told
officers of their opinions.
The widow first told the police
her son had killed the father af
ter which the boy sobbed out his
confession; but he was, at that
time, unaware that his mother
had informed the authorities.
He told officers they would
find the revolver, he used in the
shooting, wrapped in a bathing
suit partly concealed in a hole in
s. tree.
In his confession he said:
“Faurer came Lome drunk often
and abused mother and the boys.
Last night he did it again and he
was beating mother and throwing
dishes at her. I saw her hand
bleeding and argued with him to
stop. He then started to abuse me
and broke the bread board over
my head. I backed into the sitting
room and he followed X then pick
ed up the revolver, thinking to
scare him. He continued to abuse
and punch me; then everything
went black and I started to fire.”
COAST BASEBALL
Missions 1, Oakland 6.
Portland 6, San Francisco 3.
Hollywood 15, Sacramento 4.
Seattle 7, Los Angeles 10.
FORMER ALASKAN MISSIONARY
FOUNDED HAINES AND
JUNEAU MISSIONS
uELLINGHAM, March 30, (IP)—
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Dr. Eugene Wiilard, pioneer Pres
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ino so.» vieutiiLA Sard ills fath
0,. went, norm in 1331 and lounded
vae names mission on Lyn Canal.
Frederick was born there, the first
white child.
m'. vvniLnd uimo esunOiioiied the
ri'tooytcinii limnuu ac Juneau,
nactr ue was processor of bacter
iology ac Nortnwesiern University
which position he held until his
death.
Mrs. Willard won the Alaska,
’ukon, Pacific Exposition prize for
he best Alaskan novel “Kidashon’s
Ion.”
I1 ARTS, March 29, (.'Pi.France s
tremendous economic expansion
since th.e war has more than den
oted her business activity. While
her percentage of increase in zS
industries is only half that of the
United States, it slightly exceeds
improvement in German industry
and puts her in the lead in Europe. 1
'Look Who Has The Right-Of-Way
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CONSIDERS FLAM NO MORE DAN
GEROUS, EVEN LESS, THAN
AIRPLANE FLIGHT
NEW YORK, March 30, (A5)—
o.r Captain George Wilkins an
nounced he is considering a voy
-ge across the North Pole in a
submarine either this or next
year.
Commander Sloan Danehower,
uecnnical expert of the Lake Sub
.Udime Company, who plans to
navigate tne craft, said tne sub
.nersioie which will be used is be
mg utted out at the company’s
-vorks at Bridgeport.
Wilkins said the idea of a sub
marine trip across the Arctic Sea
nas been in the minds of designers
and explorers since 1899 when
Simon Lake, advanced it.
Stefansson and Peary both con
sidered it.
“On the face of it it seems risky
as a mathematical hazzard. I con
sider it no more risky, even less
so, than an airplane flight over
the Polar Seas,” Wilkins said.
The trip will be undertaken dur
ing the month of July anc! will
last only two or three weeks. The
submarine will be equipped with
a special diving lock through which
a diver might be sent out to blast
the ship free from retaining ice.
it will also have a bar sloping up
from the bow to the conning tow
er to ease it under unseen ice
bergs.
The undersea craft will carry a
large quantity of chemicals with
which to melt ice. Wilkins said
there was dire need for such a
trip in order to get information
it to the depth of the ocean and
.0 determine if it is of conical de
gression or a basin. Data concern
ng currents would also be ob
,ained.
STORK AT BARROW
POINT BARROW, March 30, (JP)
;—Doctor or no doctor health con
!ditions here remain excellent. The
| stork has been visiting many homes
successfully despite entire lack of
medical aid.
Two families with 19 children
have been increased to 20 each
during the month the settlement
was left without a physician when
Dr. Newhall, medical missionary,
died. He had lived in Alaska for 30
years and died March 16.
LARGE POPULATION
HAVANA, Cuba, Mar. 30. (A1)—
The census bureau finds that Cu
ba’s population is 3,593,933. Hava
na, city and province combined,
give residence to 949,611 persons.