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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 97. SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1929. PRICE TEN CENTS
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SENATOR OIMflND
BALKED EFFORT
OBTAIN ACTION
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COMPTROLLER BILL SESSIONS
MADE NO PROGRESS; CON
FERENCES CONTINUE
JUNEAU, April 26, (Special to
the Gateway) —Senator Dimond j
yesterday brought ont into the
open the tactics of the senate
majority in holding up measures
in the committees, when he mov
ed that 11 of the house bills be
reported back to the floor of the
house before tomorrow. •>
The measures named by him
were the Kodiak schoolhouse, $17,
O00; the sum of $10,000 for improve j
ment of the Yukon-Kuskokwim j
portage; the Seward peninsula
ship subsidy carrying $17,000; the ;
Alaska College appropriation of
$135,000; accepting the Hatch and
Smith-L^ver acts for the college j
as provided by the congressional
act of last February; renumerat
ing the Fairbanks hospital for the
care of indigent patients; a bill
carrying $500 to advertise the pro
jected international highway; $10,
000 for combatting reindeer para
site which work would be done
by the Alaska College; two gener- ;
al trap tax refund bills carrying !
a total of $5,000; and Zeigler’s
boxing commission bill.
The majority voted him down
on every motion but the last nam
ed measure Which was ordered re
ported tomorrow.
Senator Dimond declared tnat
while the majority were within
their legal rights to hold such a
bill in the committee for the pur
pose of killing them in that man
ner, he owed it to his constituents
to make every effort to get action
.on them and intimated he would
continue the fight from day to
day.
The initial conference on the
comptroller bill today failed to
bring any results and the com
mittees, with the same personnel,
will begin free conferences to
morrow.
The senate passed the teachers
pension bill and measure giving
financial assistance, not in excess
of $1,500, annually to hospitals op- j
erating without thought o*f pro
fit apd maintaining between 10
and 25 beds.
The senate killed the rotative
ballot provision in the house elec
tion code measure and struck
from it the clause giving residents
of any division the right to vote
in any precinct therein.
It continued the measure over,
however, for its second reading,
on Friday.
CIO GAME “HEARTS” I
NEW YORK, April 26, (A5)—Dun
can McLeod, Canadian business
man, told police how he had near
ly lost $40,000 to six professional
card sharps playing “Hearts,”
aboard a trans-Atlantic liner dur- j
ing the crossing from Europe.
McLeod said he lost $40,000, but
his card playing friends compro
mised on $10,000. He p a i d by
check and immediately cancelled
payment.
INDUSTRY INCREASES
SEATTLE, April 26, '(A3)—The !
Alaska reindeer industry increased
more than 1,000 per cent over re
cent years, Ralph Lomen, head of
the Lomen Reindeer Corporation, ;
told the Young Men’s Republican (
Club.
DISCOUNT RAISE INDICATES
FAILURE EXPERTS TO
REACH AN AGREEMENT
BERLIN, April 26, (/P)— The
Reichsbank raised the discount
rate from 6.5 to 7.5 per cent. This
action was delayed as long as pos
sible in order not to hamper in
dustry and was believed to have
been taken by the directors at the
request of Dawes. The plan to
transfer the committee to Paris is
being considered to relieve the sit
uation. *
Heavy gold and currency exports
continued with heavy domestic de
mands which is depleting the gold
reserve. Paris dispatches charged
Dr. Schacht, head of the German
delegation at the reparations
meeting and director of the bank,
with deliberately trying to torpedo
the Dawes plan contending it to
be impossible for Germany to meet
the payments in the transfer
clause plan which provides that
Germany may even be released
from payment of part or all an
nuities until the situation is re
medied or if credit is threatened.
The action of the Reichsbank js
regarded as a sign of failure bn
the part of the experts to reach
a reparation agreement.
PARTY FAVORED
LONDON, April 26, (/P)-The
Conservative party was favored in
stock exchange quotations of bet
ting on general election to be held
May 30.
GREATEST RISE I
OF MISSISSIPPI S
WATERS UiERIAlAYi
LEVEES CAPABLE OF STANDING
ONLY SIX INCHES MORE
RISE, SAID
QUINCY, 111., April 26, (/P)—Hurl
ing its tremendous bulk south
ward the biggest rise since 1851 of
the mighty Mississippi river is
waging a new assault and may,
break every levee 75 miles below
Keokuk, Iowa, and leave 5,000
homeless and cause damage to
reach $5,000,000.
Acting upon the reports which
state the rising waters may reach j
a heigth of 22 feet at Quincy, the
Sheriff has ordered authorities
have all families in the region
ready to move at a moment’s no
tice.
The Lima Lake district is caus
ing the greatest worry as the 1
levees are capable of standing on
ly six-inches more rise. With a
foot and one-half increase ex
pected, 400 persons across the riv
er, in the Gregory district, are
ready to move. The Red Cross is
making preparations to act in
any emergencies.
BY AIRWAYS PUNE
KETCHIKAN, April 26, (JP)—
On its second trip of the month
to Alaska, the Washington Air
way’s plane landed from Seattle
! early today. It had previously
been forced down by fog on the I
north end of- Vancouver Island
but despite this delay the pilot, •
Ancel Eckmann, made the flight
in nine and one-half hours.
PAUPER HAD $2,000
WRANGELL, April 26, (JP)—
Ueorge Edson, 67, a resident of
Wrangell for 32 years, died sud
denly yesterday. The sum of $2,
300 was found in his quarters al
though he was supposed to have
been a pauper. He was a charter
member of the Redman’s Lodge.
STATUE “FIGHTING
BOB" [TOILETTES
UNVEILED CAPITOL
MANY FRIENDS ASSOCIATED
WITH SENATOR’S STORMY
CAREER, PRESENT
WASHINGTON, April 26, (JP)—
The statue of “Fighting Bob” La
Follette, the gift of his native
state of Wisconsin, was unveiled
in Staturary Hall.
Grouped about the statue, dur
ing the ceremony, were many
friends associated with him dur
ing his stormy career.
The statue was presented by j
Senator Blaine and unveiled by
Robert LaFollette Sucher, grand- j
son, and Marion Morion, Montana j
Wheeler, daughter of Senator
Wheeler of Montana, LaFollette’s !
running mate wheti he ran for
president in 1924.
WHY BRING THIS UP?
THEWflR IS HR
PARIS, April 26, (JP)—1The Hav
as News Agency, says Raymond
Recouly, journalist, will shortly
publish a series of interviews with
the late Marshall Foch in which
he says the Allied general pre
vented an effort on the part of
Premier Clemenceau to r e p la c e
General John J. Pershing as Com
mander-In-Chief of the American j
Expeditionary Forces.
SPEED WORK ON SEADROME FOR ATLANTIC
Construction of the first of a chain of “floa tin| airports” to span the Atlantic ocean issched
uled to start in July. A striking right scene of the seadrome from the air is pictured by the
artist (above), while the model (below) shows the details of its construction. The seadrome
was conceived and designed by Edward R. Arm strong (inset).
CLAIMS 71 LIVES
rWO DISTINCT TWISTERS HIT
COCHRAN, GEORGIA, KILL
. ING AT LEAST FIVE
ATLANTA, Georgia, April 26, (JP)
—The total known dead in the
,ornado stricken sections of Geor
gia and South Carolina reached
71 and several hundred persons
vere injured* when the twisters
lipped down over widely scatter
ed communities demolishing farm
buildings and houses leaving scores
homeless.
The first, of what witnesses
said were two distinct twisters,
struck Cockran, Georgia about
dusk killing five; it $ien jumped
to Dexter, Georgia where the wind
demolished buildings and killed
four, before rising to dip again
at Rentz, Georgia where one was
killed. It then swirled to the At
lantic seaboard, North Carolina
striking near Spartanburg where
30 were killed.
Once again it struck, this time
at Pelzer where it left two dead
and an unidentified number of
injured. The second tornado ap
peared last night at Metter, Geor
gia where it was reported 25 were
killed. The number injured is un
known.
SOLID BLOCK OF
BUILDI1S. S. F.
THREATENED, FIRE
LOSS IS ESTIMATED AT $200,000
MAN RESCUES HIS PET
CANARIES
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26, (A>)—
Four buildings were destroyed and
an entire block of frame struc
tures were threatened by fire; a
dozen families made homeless and
women and children were car
ried from the burning buildings,
when high tension wires snapped
and rafters crashed.
Firemen worked frantically to *
halt the flames, four being injur
ed by the falling glass, timber and
plaster.
Among the rescues were five,
half-suffocated canary birds, by
their owner who returned to his
home, at the height' of the blaze
and disregarding all warnings,
eluded the fire guards and dash
ed into the building returning
with the birds.
The loss is estimated at $200,000.
WEST’S UGLINESS
REPULSES INDIAN
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26, (/P>—
Sir Rabsndranath Tagore, Indian
poet, sailed today for India. His
Final words were to the American
public were expressions of the
wish that his people:
“Would rise above indemnities
and insults to impart some beauty
to the utter ugliness of the in
dustrialization of the West.”
Tagore had trouble with im
migration officials in the United
States.