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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 65.
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY. March 20, 1929.
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JUNEAU, March 20, (Special to
the Gateway)—Kodiak bears in
the senate and wolves in the house
■comprised yesterday’s natural his
tory lesson for the legislature.
Reciting that the former are
large and ferocious brutes and are
playing havoc with livestock on
Kodiak Island, Senator Dimond'
introduced a memorial requesting ;
the secretary of agriculture to per
mit unrestricted warfare there on
t he animals.
In its consideration of the defi- j
ciency measure, carrying $12,500
for wolf bounties, the house’s at
tention was directed by Frank Fos
ter to the fact that the past bien
nium of expenditures on that item j
now aggregated $72,000.
WOLVES AT DOOR
“We had better consider this;
system closely or the wolves will
set us,” Foster declared. Dimond
.hen introduced a measure pro
viding for the discharge of poor
convicts” confined in jail solely
:or nonpayment of fine and costs;
and another denouncing as crim
.nal and providing punishment and
•osts for- the arrest and detention,
or attachment of a dead body of
,ny human being.
The judiciary committee author
ed the attorney general to em
ploy special assistants where he
could effect a saving fo rthe Ter
ritory; and another authorizing
he Governor to show cause on
..nnual labor on unpatented claims
coming into, the possession of the
Territory.
INDIANS. CITIZENS
One, repealing all Territorial
statutes and authorizing the crea
tion of Indian village governments
.is Indians are now classed as cit
izens. They can incorporate under
:he general statute.
Two bills, to make more worka
ble the laws relative to medical
examining and dental boards.
These bills appeared in the sen
ate.
Dimond and Dunn are seeking
by resolution to have the attor
ney general compile and codify
the sessions laws and compiled
laws of Alaska without additional
cost to the Territory and have
ready for the next legislature.
PENSION INCREASE
In the house Rothenburk intro
duced a bill increasing pensions tor
men to $35 on the condition of the
Alaskan’s arrival in Alaska, or prior
to December 31, 1906.
Winn introduced a bill author
izing municipalities to construct
airplane landing facilities in pub
lic parks and playgrounds inside
or within five miles of corporate
limits.
Woofter introduced a measure
requiring Territorial and munici
pal employees to be citizens of the
United States.*
A bill authorizing the road com
mission to expend road funds in
clearing snow from roads was in
troduced by Fisher.
TIIE BASEBALLERS
LAREDO, Tex.. March 19, (A5)—
The ■ fiw York Giants defeatca
Aan Antonio 8-3 in a baseball
came In other games the Yankee
Regulars defeated the Rookies 6-5.
Mil,TON SILLS ILL
NEW YORK. March 20, (&,—
Milton Sills, movie actor, is seri
ously ill in a sanitarium near here
| following a recent breakdown,
; friends report.
YEAR TWO WEEKS
NOTED NORTHERN VESSEL HAS
BEEN UNDERGOING OVER
HAULING, SEATTLE
SEATTLE, March 20, (A3)—For
the first voyage of the year the
schooner Boxer will start loading
on April 10 and will sail about April
17 for southeastern Alaska.
The cargo will include a govern
ment school house, and a teacher
and nurses home, for Angoon,
near Juneau. The buildings will
provide quarters for the nurses
clinic.
The Boxer will carrv a knocked
jdown school house to King Island,
on its first voyage into the Bering
sea. King Island is off Nome and
will be the first institution of learn
ing to be built on the island which
is largely of rock formation.
On the April voyage the Boxer
will go to Metlakatla, Saxman.
Wrangell, Petersburg, Killisnoo, Ju
neau, Douglas and Hoonah. The
vessel is owned by the U. S. bureau
of education and is being over
hauled here.
I NOME, March 20, (JP)—Pilot Noe
Wien hopped off for Point Barrow
on Sunday but was forced back or
account of stormy weather. Dr
A. W. Newhall, who had been sicl
at Barrow and who had intendec
to fly with Wien to Fairbanks
| died Sunday. When the weathe:
clears Wien will leave for Siberia
'on his second trip to Asia afte:
furs.
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! ICE BARRIERS FORMED AROUND
TOWNS BY RIVER. ISOLAT
ING THEM
BRATISLAVA, Czechoslovakia,
I March 20, (/■P)—Thousands of fam
' ilies along the right banks of the
Danube river lost their homes,
cattle and other belongings in the
worst flood since 187,.
The great river is choked with
millions of tons of thawing ice
and is rising steadily and threat
ening further disaster.
Church bells tolled along the
1,800 miles of river warning the
! dwellers to flee for their lives.
| Augmented by thousands of
1 mountain streams, lakes and other
tributaries ,the swollen waters of
(the Danube are rushing past
i towns and villages throwing an
: ice barrier around Bratislavia and
! other towns completely isolating
them.
!
|TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO SEL!
PUBLIC PROHIBITION EN
FORCEMENT IDEA 6
i -
WASHINGTON, March 19, UP)—
^ 'The federal government is plan
ring to enter the field of advertis
ing in an effort to sell the idea o
I'aw enforcement to the Americai
people.
Believing that law enforcemen:
, 'can he stimulated thru the wide
| spread use of posters, Commis
i ''oner Doran of the prohibitior
|bureau announced a plan to dis
seminate illustration" picturini
the evils of liquor traffic and thi
benefits from prohibition. Tin
campaign will be financed thru
nhe $50,000 made available to thi
bureau for educational purposes.
H. N. CARMEN PASSES
NOME. March 20. (/P)—H. N.
Carmen, a resident of Nome since
the gold rush days in 1900, and a
real estate owner, died this morn
ing following a short illness.
ITIOUPPEIL
BELIEF HOMELESS
ALABAMA FLOODS
WATER IS FALLING SLOWLY;
2,G>0 REFUGEES CAMPED
NEAR GENEVA
MONTGOMERY Ala., March 2C,
IT1)—Relief for 15.000 persons made
homeless by floods in Alabama
|was poshed forward at rapid rate.
[Governor Bibb Graves and Red
Cross officials conferred on a pro
posal to make a $iation-wide ap
jneal for lunds to aid refugees. Ad
j .-ices to national guard headquar
ters ".aid all citizens of Elba and
Geneva were being fed and most
of the 2,000 persons camped near
TCba had been removed to Troy,
Wa er is eight feet deep in Elba
and nearly all buildings have been
damaged the officials declared,
'.Voter is falling slowly.
DIE IN TRAIN WRECK
MONTREAL, March 20. (IP)—
Conductor Barstead, Brakeman
Ferguson and a news boy, were
killed in a collision between trains
between Toronto and Winnipeg
near Dorcourt, Ontario. Three men;
bers of the crews trains were bad
ly injured and the baggageman is
reported to be missing.
MOSCOW, March 19. VP)—Aftci
-our weeks of science the officia
Soviet Organi Pravda issued a bill
, ietin ;n the February grain collec
, -ions were below expectations anc
• that ‘measures of general socia
i character” are being carried on tc
:')nake the peasants give up grair
Lit, prices fixed by the state.
LORD’S AMERICANA SHOWS TIDE OF PROGRESS
Curious objects that were as up todate in their time as a 1929 eight
cylinder limousine is today have been assembled at Henry Ford’s Dear
born estate. Upper left: A tin peddler’s wagon, once common on the coun
tryside. Upper right: A prairie schoon er, the vehicle that spread the fron
* tiers. Lower left: A group of early da y stoves—the smallest was made in
1839. Lower right: Ford’s first gasoline tractor. The inset is of Mr. Ford.
REBE1S RETREAT
NEARER TO BORDER
STRATEGIC
GOVERNMENT CHARGES THE
REBELS WITH LOOTING
BANKS MILLIONS
MEXICO CITY, March 20, (/P)—
The main body of the rebel army
is one step nearer to the American
border having retired from Esca
lon to 35 miles northward to Jim
i enez. The government interpreted
this movement, by General Esco
bar, as another sign the rebel
forces are disintegrating, declaring
, the revolt as good as over.
Insurgent headquarters, how
, ever, asserted Escobar’s retirement
was purely strategical and intimat
ed he wishes to draw the lederals
t further and further away from
their base and finally meet them
| in a decisive battle.
In the northern country General
Calles continued his methodical
preparations to crush the rebels.
He arrived at Torreon personally
and is preparing an army of 30.
00 for a further northern advance.
The rebel forces are described as
numbering 25,000 and are eontin
uning to concentrate at Jiminez.
The government charged the re
bels with looting banks of mil
lions of pesos with the intention
of fleeing to the United States with
the loot. In such an event extradi
tion will be asked as ordinary
criminals.
COH
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SERIOUSLY ILL
divorced disband at BEn
SIDF DISTRAUGHT: FRIENDS
FEAR FOR HIM
PARTS, March 20, (/P)—Con
stance Bennett, actress, is in the
.merlcan hospital near Neuilly in
■a critical condition, following an
onerat :cn for acute appendicitis.,
j At her bedside was Philip Plant
I the young American millionaire
who the divorced recently, the
'best of friends.
Ann rican surgeons have been
engaged bur it is said her life is in
danger. Plant arrived in Paris
iust ns the divorce decree was
granted and was distraught. His
friends fear for his safety if Miss
Penneft fails to recover.
AREA LUSHED BY STORMS
DENVER, March 20, (JP)—.Lashed
bv wind and storm the Rocky
mountain region was slowly re
covering from a blizzard-like con
ditions which left a large area
Luried under the heaviest snow of
the v inter.
Tn Wyoming a blinding sno.v
storm paralyzed systems of trans
portation, hampered air mail, and
marooned small towns and villages
behind the blockade of snow.
TCTRESS IS WORSE
SA VRANCISCO, March 20, OP)—
Elsie Janis, the actress who has
been suffering from influenza, was
reported gravely ill from an infec
tion.