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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 80.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 13,1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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Hit TO CRY OF
SUPPORTERS IN FRANCE AND
ENGLAND RALLYING TO
THE IDEA
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PARIS, April 13. (/Pi—Word from!
Berlin announced that experts of j
Germany and Austria plan to pro- j
ceed to settle technical details of j
their tariff union shortly and un- ,
less the Chancellories of Germany j
and Austria are unexpectedly con
fronted by diplomatic restraint it
is proposed that the customs
agreement shall be converted into
a formal treaty at the earliest pos
sible date.
With these developments in sight
the suggestion has arisen among
the European powers that the
Austro-German pact must be fore
stalled by a comprehensive Euro
pean agreement. In many quar
ters it appears that such a plan
if taken up and pushed without
delay would have great chances
of success.
Influential supporters in England
and France are understood to be
rallying to the idea.
Meanwhile, all four Austrian
parties have declared in favor of
the proposed customs union with
Germany, thus ending fears that
the proposal might encounter pow
erful opposition at home.
Foreign Minister Schober made a
concilitory speech, however, declar
ing that Austria would welcome
the creation of similar economic
agreements in Europe. Referring
to reasons for bringing the treaty
to a culmination. Minister Schober
said, it was in reply to “dispairing
cry of hungry millions that Dr.
Curtius and I thought it the best
way out of need.”
MAYOR CEBU SMS
CLEAN UP CITY HALL
; POLITICAL HANGERS-ON
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CHICAGO, April 13, {£>)--Anton
Cermak became Mayor of Chicago
Thursday and within a short time
had presided over his first coun
cil meeting and made his first
Inaugural address.
He said, “I am going to give
Chicago the best administration
they ever had.” Hours before he
made this promise to Chicago,
* Mayor Cermak’s political broom
' had been sweeping out the city
hall with the result that 2,200
appointees of the former mayor,
I William Hale Thompson, had been
dropped from the payrolls. About
88 more are going making 3,000
(in all.
The orders were given also by
J Mayor Cermak that none should
i be paid until it was shown that
. he had worked for his pay in the
3 municipal office and was not
< merely a political hanger on.
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SUPREME COURT CONVENES
WASHINGTON, April 13. (/P) —
The Supreme Court convenes to
day with a momentous calendar.
Among the big items is the rul
ing on the validity of the Boulder
Canyon Project Act.
NEW PUN WOULD
DIFFEOEN1TE [MINED
UNEARNED INCOMES
WASHINGTON, April 13. (/P) —
A plan which it is estimated to |
save men who earn their money
upwards to $20,000,000 a year in
taxes is now before a congress
ional committee for consideration
after an investigation for the
joint committee of internal rev
enue and taxation.
L. H. Parker, reported, that it
was his belief that the increased
exemptions of the earned income
should be given to federal tax
payers and in his recommendation
said that the “present relief ap
pears entirely inadequate to pro
vide for a differential in the tax
between the earned income and
the unearned income, which ap
pears proper.
NEW SPEED RECORD
DETROIT. April 13, (JP)—Ruth
Nichols. of Rye, New York, set
a new' speed record for women
over the three kilometer course
w'ith a speed of 210.685 miles per
hour. The previous mark was 181.
157 by Amelia Earhart Putman.
CINCINNATI, April 13. (JP) —
The sealed casket containing the
body of Nicholas Longworth is at
the family home services where
interment was to be made at two
o'clock Saturday afternoon. The
body arrived on a special train
from Aiken and was met by a
crowd with bared heads.
Mrs. Longworth and Kermit
Roosevelt went to the Longworth
home; Archibald Roosevelt re
mained at the station to accomp
any the effects from the train.
The president and vice president
were to arrive in Cincinnati about
noon Saturday.
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PORTUGESE REBELS MIKE
IN MURE OFFER
LISBON, . April 13, (/P)— The
Portugese government rejected an
other offer of armistice made by
the Funchal rebels on the island
of Maderia and. announced it will
accept nothing but an uncondi
tional surrender.
All troops in Lisbon, except the
guards, posted at public
buildings were confined to their
barracks following a report that
trouble was brewing in the city
Trappers estimated at 15,000 have
been engaged this season in the
I swamps of Louisiana.
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THE LEGISLATURE
JUNEAU, April 13, (Special to
The Gateway)—Donnelly introduc
ed a bill Saturday seeking to in
itiate a new system of taxing fish
taken in traps, putting into oper
ation a graduated scale ranging
from $2 to $8 per 1,000 depending
on the quality taken by any trap.
The measure proposes to reduce
the present license tax from $200
to $100 to which would be added
the following graduations:
$2 per 1,000 for all over 25 and
under 1,000; $4 per 1,000 to 150,000;
$6 for 150,000 to 200,000, and $8
above 200,000 fish taken in a sin
gle trap.
After the Senate voted 6 to 1 to
indefinitely postpone the Hess j
general sales tax measure, Dimond ;
gave notice that he would move j
on Monday for a reconsideration i
of the vote. It is understood the
Senate plans to lay the bill on the
table until after the final deci- j
sion has been reached on oppro- j
priations and revenues.
The Senate finance committee
is considering the Hess gasoline
tax bill and it is unofficially said
they will probably report it out
shortly with an amendment which
will strike out everything except
gas used by automobiles.
Donnelly introduced a measure
| asking for $10,000 for stream im
provement of the Iditarod river
where a change in the current
lhas left the town of Iditarod iso
lated on a slough.
Boyle introduced a measure to
protect non-owners and legal hol
j ders o f non-patented mining
claims in doing annual assess
ment work by giving them a lien
for labor so performed.
The House passed the measure
directing the attorney general to
prepare an income tax system for
the next legislature.
The Senate passed the McCut
cheon land grant memorial for
world war veterans.
NOTED COMPOSER DIES
SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, (/P)—
Thomas Vincent Cater, Jr., noted
composer, died at his home in
Cormel-by-the-sea.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
SATURDAY’S GAMES
Missions 2, Oakland 3.
Hollywood 5, Sacramento 2.
Seattle 8, Los Angeles 14.
Portland 17, San Francisco 0.
SUNDAY GAMES
Hollywood 3, 2; Sacramento 4, 7
Missions 7, 2; Oakland 2, 3
Seattle 5, 4; Los Angeles 1, 2
Portland 1, 2; San Francisco 4, 8
WASH. VARSITY WON
OAKLAND, April 13, (^—Uni
versity of Washington won the
Varsity crew race from California
on the Estuary here by three
quarters of a length.
HIT BY CUPID’S DART
LAS VEGAS, Nev., April 13, (/P)
—Rex Lease, film player, and
Eleanor Hunt, actress, were mar
ried here by District Judge Wil
liam Orr.
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BERG RETAINS TITLE
DETROIT, April 13. (&) — Jack
Kid Berg of England retained the
junior welterweight title by win
ning a 10-round decision over
Billy Wallace of Cleveland. Berg
weighed in at 138 and Wallace at
137.
REV. E. L O'DONREL
RIMES STIR LIRE1R
TR SUCCEED ROCKNE
SOUTH BEND, Ind. April 13. UP)
—Heartley “Hunk” Anderson, star
lineman under Rockne and his
chief assistant was appointed head
coach of the Notre Dame foot-1
ball squad by Rev. Father Charles
L. O’Donnel, president of the uni
versity.
Jack Chevigny, a former back
field ace, and also a Rockne as
sistant was named as Anderson’s
chief aid. Three hundred and 20
men reported for Spring football
practice.
RETURNS TO HANGAR
FRIEDRICHSHAVEN, April 13,
UP)—The Graf Zeppelin landed at
dawn after a 97 hour journey to
Egypt and Palestine.
SPAIN ELECTIONS
MADRID, April 13, (A3)—Repub
licans in at least two-thirds of
the big cities in Spain, rolled up
sweeping majorities in the first
municipal electons h the coun
try. The Monarchists fared better
in the smaller towns.
BRHTEST IN HISTORY
WASHINGTON, April 13. (/P) —
The greatest highway construction
program in the nation’s history
is moving forward to provide jobs
for the idle.
More than 100,000 men are soon
expected to be plying shovels and
picks on a new networks of roads
linking cities, towns and villages
in every state.
The first - quarter of the year
showed a total for the regular fed
eral aid and emergency funds of
$121,604,401 provided, for roadwork.
FEILT MIO Pies SHE
SEE HOE TOGETHER
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DUBLIN, April 13, (/P)—Police
sergeant Smith of Durham,' Ire
land. recently found a family and
pigs sharing the same house to
gether.
The four children, aged from
four months to seven years, sleot
in one corner and the pigs in an •
other. The father of the tots, Ro
bert Miller, said he slept on the
floor while his wife and children
occupied one bed. The parents were
arrested and the house demolished
Miss Jenny Stevenson Baird of
barrhead, Scotland, and Jas. Sey
of Douglas, were married recently
according to the Empire.
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FOUR METHODS IN
DISPOSING GREAT
WHEAT SURPLUS
TURN IT OVER TO REGULAR
DEALERS MARKET WITH
NEXT CROP
CHICAGO, April 13. (A5)—While
newly elected directors of the Fed
eral Farmboards grain stabiliza
tion corporation considered behind
closed doors a way of disposing of
200 million bushels of wheat by
June 30, James Murray, president
of the Chicago Board of Trade
told the Chicago Association of
Commerce four ways in which the
exchange offered to restore normal
grain trading.
He urged the United States to
cease trying to merchandise grain
and to turn over the existing sur
plus over to the regular dealers
to market along with the coming
crop.
Government funds should be de
voted to cooperative marketing, he
said, but should not be used at
lower rates of interest in merchan
I dising agricultural commodities in
competition with established trade,
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EXPECT DIVORCE BOOM
i RENO, Nev., April 13, (^—Ne
vada is expecting a divorce boom
| beginning May 1 when the new
law permitting a final decree of
divorce in six weeks residence goes
into effect.
JOBLESS INSURANCE
NEW YORK, April 13, (/P)—Job
less insurance to protect both
workers and employers was fore
casted here by Thomas A. Buck
ner, president of the New York
Life Insurance Company.
DEIIT
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 13,
(/P)—Mrs. Margaret Frances Beery,
74, mother of the famous film
players, Wallace and Noah Beery,
died at her home here from pneu
monia.
Death came as Wallace raced
westward in his airplane in a fu
tile attempt to reach her bedside.
He learned of his mother’s crit
ical condition when he landed at
Indianapolis on a leisurely flight
to Hollywood after a trip to New
York.
STILL ALIVE AND KICKING
NEW YORK, April 13, (#)—Zaro
Agha, the Turk, who claims to be
157 years of age, left for his home
in Stamboul. He said he was glad
to leave American styles, hotels
and especially American shoes.
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U. S. TENTH IN ILLITERACY
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.
(/P) — Although illiteracy in 16
states has decreased 12 per cent
in 10 years, the United States
stands 10th in illiteracy declared
Secretary of the Interior Ray Ly
man Wilbur in a radio speech.
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