“Center of
Everything”
VOLUME XXIII.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NUMBER 73. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS
DEMOUTION BY
COMMUNISTS MADE
M ARCHBISHOP
•GREEK COMMUNISTS PARTY IN
SAN FRANCISCO BROKEN UP;
KNIFE FLASHED
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 27. (&)—
Communists staged a demonstration
Sunday over the presence of the Most
Rer. Metropolitas Vasevlios, arch
bishop of the Independent Orthodox
Hellenic Church of the United States
and Canada.
Members of the Greek Communis
tic party in San Francisco broke up
a morning meeting in Holy Trinity
Church and one threatened the arch
bishop with a knife Sunday night. The
same group was attacked by Anti
Communists and three Commifnists
were arrested.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN
ACTIVE EXCEPTING WILLIS
AND REED
WASHINGTON, March 28. (ff)—In
contrast with the many past Presiden.
rtal years the 1928 campaign for Nat
ional Convention delegates, from the
standpoint of candidates, has the ear
:narks of a stay-at-home affair.
Of the Presidential possibilities only
two, Reed and Willis, have taken the
stump. Watson is awaiting an oppor
tunity to get back home to look after
his political fenses; Hoover announc
ed he will make no pre-convention
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speeches; Smith is attending to busi
ness in Albany; Walsh and Curtis are
looking after their Senatorial duties
here and Ixvwden is on his Illinois
farra.
trices or or son's
EXPEDITION TOOT FOUND
CARTERS, Georgia, Mar. 27. (JP)—
Traces of Hernando de Soto’s expedi
tion through North Georgia were be
lieved to have been discovered near
here wiien a hilt guard and part of
a blade of an iron sword were un
earthed in an Indian mound by Dr.
Warren K. Moorehead, head of the
Department of Archaeology of Phil
lips Academy, Andover, Massachu
setts. The sword was found near the
skeleton of a warrior.
WINGFIELD IN SHASTA
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27. (A3)—
It is reported that George Wingfield
is to commence operations in She
Shasta Copper district.
NE8E8NA IS SOLD
SEATTLE, March 28. (^—Negotia
tions under way- with the Alaska
Steamship Company for the purchase
of the freighter Nebesna, by the Mc
Cormick Co., have been concluded.
The McCormick Co., announced the
ship will be delivered to the new* own
ers at Portland on April 5.
THEY IS GIVEN
ONE SHORT WEEK
MAKE DECISION
CHAMPION HAS ONE WEEK IN
WHICH TO ACCEPT ONE OR
THREE CHALLENGES
NEW YORK, March 28, {JP)~Gene
Tuuney, heavyweight champion of the
universe, will be placed on the inel
igible list in the New York State
Athletic Commission unless he accepts
by next Tuesday one jor all three top
challenges on file here, Sharkey,
Keeney and Risko, in order of rating.
Tunney will not be permitted to
j fight Dempsey before these three. The
Commission said a, third such bout
| would be merely a money maker with
no chance of the title passing.
Tunney will be" required -to fight
twice this year for the rule requires
titleholders to defend their crown
every six months.
THE AMERICANS KILLED
WHEN PLANE FALLS FROM
HEIGHT I IB FEE
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MEXICO CITY, March 28. (£>)—
| Three Americans were killed when a
.plane they were flying from Nogales,
Ariz., to Mexico City, crashed into the
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Streets of Toluca only 45 miles from
their objective.
The victims were Sterling Rohlfs,
pilot; William King and Wallace
Springer. It is understood the flight
was taken in the interest of air mail
development. The plane was about
1,000 feet in the air when a strong
jwind caught it and the machine nose
dived.
ADHERENTS SOCIALISTS
DEFENSE STAGE A RIOT
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VIENNA, Austria, Mar. 27. {&)—
Seven hundred adherents of the So
cialist Defense League and the bour
geoisie home defense force fought for
three hours at Feldkirchen, Carinthia,
Friday night. Gendarmes were pow
erless to stop the riot, which ended
only when regular troops intervened.
. Ten men were wounded by bullets
and several were stabbed. The cause
of the trouble is not clear.
EAGLES MID THE
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MONTHLY ^ bBLICATION "BIRD
LORE” H/ LFNGTHY ARTI.
CLE
Numerous A.askans had the plea
sure last summer of meeting Dr. T.
Gilbert Pearson, president of The Au
dubon Societies New York City. Dr.
Pearson is • tv>e must *r*
ornithologist n. ^7 * ^ rates, if
not the world. He i®' ^ - *%r and
z
president of the Internationa Com
mittee for Bird Protection; a member
of Cosmo, Camp Fire, and Explorers
Clubs, and an author of international
repute on bird-life. He was one of
the most outstanding of the many
prominent visitors to the Territory
last year and that he devoted practi
cally all of his time to his choosen
work is seen by the accompanying
article which appeared in the Febru
ary number eft Bird-Lore, the official
publication of the society devoted to
the study ana protection of birds.
Dr. Gilbert’s article is of some
length but covers the subject in a
way nevef before described. The
Gateway takes keen pleasure in pre
senting the article in its entirety to
is readers,
j The article:
On August 4, 1JT27, the writer was
hospitably received by Karl Thiel, Sec
retary of Alaska. From the files in
his office in Juneau, he prepared foi
me a statement showing that up tc
date the Territory of Alaska had paid
bounties on 40,753 eagles.
A law providing for a bounty of this
nature was enacted by the Territory
of Alaska in 1917. The reward al
first was 50 cents for each eagle
whose feet were delivered to the pro
per official at Juneau. The Legisla
ture of 1923 raised the bounty to $1
per bird. Appropriations for this pur
pose have been made by the Legisla
ture as follows; 1917, $7,500; 1919, $5,.
000; 1921, $2,500; 1923, $8,000; 1925
$30,000; 1927, $12,500.
Of the sum appropriated in 1925
$10,000 was to meet the deficit in
curred in paying bounties the year
before.
The fact that Alaska provides a
bounty on eagles first became gener
ally known to the people of the United
States when in this department of the
issue of Bird-Lore for January-Febru
ary, 1919, attention was called to the
matter and the bounty law was pub
lished in full. Since that date there
have appeared in Bird-Lore and the
press of the country, from time to
time, articles on the subject, and a
feeling of sorrow and resentment has
been voiced by many people that Alas
ka should seek to have killed the bird
which is the emblem of our nation.
One hears statements that, under
the systematic killing of eagles, the
bird has been driven to the verge oi
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CANNERY BURNS DOWN
KETCHIKAN, March 28. (/P)—The
mess house and garage of the Ward
Cove Packing Co., six miles north of
Ketchikan, was destroyed by fire
which is believed to [have started
from a defective flue. The loss is es
timated at $6,000.
iVETERI ENGINEER
! RESPONSIBLE IF
BLAME ATTACHED
ASSUMES FULL RESPONSIBILITY
FOR BUILDING OF ST. FRANCIS
DAM
LOS ANGELES, March 28. <£>)—
William Mulholland, veteran chief en.
j
gineer of the Los Angeles Bureau of
Water Works, looked the world in the
face and took on his own broad should
i
ers full responsibility for building of
Ithe St. Francis danf.
He was recalled to the witness stand
in the inquest over victims of the
dam collapse. The 72 year old engin
jeei^saful “I Tiun’t neglect this jrho Any
way whether its good or bad. Its my
responsibility so don’t pass the blame
from me. If there is any blame its
on me.”
I
E. G. LEWIS IS FOUND
GUILTY ON 14 COUNTS
DEFRAUD VIA ill
j
j LOS ANGELES, Mar. 27. (£>)—
Found guilty in the Federal court here
on all 14 counts as charged of using
the mails to defraud, E. G. Lewis, pro.
moter _pf Atascadero, California and
long ago of University City, near St
Louis, Missouri, apparently had reach
ed a pause in a long career as pro
motor and {organiaefr of companies
and projects which several years age
failed, involving $10,000,000.
DUBLIN, March 28. (JP)—Refusing
the risk to start until weather condi
tions are more favorable the crew of
the German plane scanned weather
charts carefully in preparation of their
projected Atlantic flight. Baron Hue
nefeld, leader of the expedition, said
they will not fly before dawn, tomor
row.
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TRAINS CANCELLED
Owing to “soft” weather and rains
j along the southern division,'of the
'Alaska Railroad, tonight’s train from
the Interior has been cancelled as has
'also been the train scheduled to de
I part in the morning for the North. V
OFFICIAL, ESCAPE
BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN NEAR
POINT AMBASSADOR’S AUTO
TRAVELING
MEXICO CITY, Mar. 27. (TP)—I).
W. Morrow, United States ambassador
to Mexico, received felicitations today
on the fact that he missed a serious
i
situation yesterday by a fairly close
margin when the automobile in which
he was traveling from Pueblo, passed
■ the scene of the wholesale highway
I robbery less than three hours after
jthe occurence.
I About 50 bandits held up more than
100 passengers and stripped them of
money and valuables. It was believed
that possibly the bandits planned to
intercept Mr. Morrow, rob him, and
thus embarass President Calles’ ad
ministration.
IMS GOING ROUND
IT WASHINGTON, 0. C„
REGARDING LINDBERGH
WASHINGTON, Mar. 28. (/P)—The
State Department has something up
its sleeve in connection with Colonel
Lindbergh’s future plans. Became of
the Department’s reticence a lot of
speculation is going the rounds includ
ing the report Colonel Lindbergh will
be sent on a good will trip around the
world. Another rumor is he is con
cerning in mapping out a definite pro
gram of airplane service in South and
Central Amerca.
HOP-DFF POSTPONED
| ON ACCOUNT WENTHER
j
DUBLIN, Ireland, March 28, (£>)—
It appearing that the weather would
be unfavorable yesterday for the
Bremen Junkers plane to take-off
across the Atlantic for New York, it
was decided on to hopp-off at 5 o’clock
this morning as the time tentatively
fix€*l. The Germans are silently and
impatiently waiting on the wind and
weather -while the Irishmen are like
wise, are aroused over the hazardous
venture.
TRY TO REGAIN TROPHY
AUGUSTA, Georgia, Mar. 27. (£>)—
America’s Davis Cup training squad
completed practice today and pre
pared to depart immediately for Mexi
co City to meet the Mexican team in
the first round of the tilt for the Dav
is Cup. Big Bill Tilden is bending
every effort to regain the trophey, now
wheid by France.