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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 76. SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929.
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JUNEAU, April 2, (Special to
the Gateway.)—The house election
committee yesterday favorably re
ported Winns modification and re
vision of the Territorial election
Jaws but, with four amendments.
One provides for the printing of
names rotatively on one official
ballot; another permits anyone re
siding in a division for 60 days to
vote at any precinct in the division
if they have resided in the Ter- j
ritory one year. The third provides
for the swearing in of all votes;
of those claiming exemption from j
the literacy test law by reason of j
having voted in the general elect- ;
ion in 1924 by requiring such vot
ers, if challenged, to make an affi
davit of the place of voting and
the name under which he voted.
The fourth prohibits anyone hold- j
Ing a Terrtitorial or federal office
from being a candidate for other
offices unless he first resigns his
position.
Fisher introduced a bill for a
publicity and an industrial com
missioner at a salary of $3,000 an
a total fj&gsp
pnation of $12,000.
The education committee intro
duced two measures accepting the
recent congressional acts gi anting
additional land to \he Alaska Col
lege and extending the provisions
of the Hatch-Adams laws to Alas
ka.
The house passed a measure
making Armistice day a holiday.
A bill appropriating $30,000 for
predatory animal control; one
authorizing the payment of tuition
to municipalities for non-resident
pupils, and the Seward peninsula
ship subsidy carrying $70,200.
In a 35-minute speech in the
senate Dimond successfully de
i ended the poor convict bill which
was passed by a vote of five to
three. Steel. Hess and Dunn voted
no. A resolution directing the at
torney general to modify the laws
of Alaska, was tabled by the senate
IKE NUMBEB OF
FEDEM FINES
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES WILL
BOARD S. S. ALEUTIAN FOR
SEWARD, AND INSIDE
WASHINGTON, April 2, O'?)—
The government has arranged to
send a large number of employes
on a 32-day cruise to Alaska this
summer at a total cost of $520 each.
The department of the interior
announced plans for transporting
ail government clerks who wish to
make the trip has been completed
with railroads and steamship lines.
The party will leave Washing
ton August 25 on a special train
to Seattle where they will board J
the steamer Aleutian for Seward, j
Numerous stop-overs will be made, i
IMPORTANT NOTICE
All water wheels and water
motors must be discontinued from
the line of the Seward Water Sup
ply except the wheel at the Sew
ard Gateway. This is a safety
measure and you must observe it.
H. V. HOSEN
BECOME EFFECTIVE
AUTOMATICALLY POSTPONED
FOR 60 DAYS ACCOUNT OF
APPLICATION
DAI,LAS, Tex., April 2, (A5)—Mr.
Somerville, head of the employes
of the Texas & Pacific Railway,
asked President Hoover to appoint
a special board of meditation to
consider and report on the dispute
between the railroad and its em
ployes which resulted In a strike
order which was to become effec
tive Saturday.
The application however, will
automatically postpone the strike
at least 60 days the railway offi
cials said. The action followed a
conference between the railway
officials and the employes at
which efforts to settle the dispute
failed, Somerville said.
MAY MERGE INTERESTS
T PPANf".SCO ->OEll ?. m —
The Examiner said that no further
progress in the pending deal be
tween the Radio Keith Orphan
interests and the Alexander Pan
tages theatre group has been re
ported. It was indicated that in
stead of a purchase of the Pan
tages interests by the larger clair.
the deal would be more in the na
ture of a merger.
jVEWEST OF FRENCH CRUISERS
WILL CONVEY BODY TO THE
UNITED STATES
I PARIS, April 2, (JP)—Frenchmen
i passing the bier of Ambassador
.Herrick signed the register .at the
| ate of 10 a minute. A thousand
jndded their names to those other
! housands who came yesterday to
ipay their last respects to the
|American envoy.
! The file comprised the most
humble and the most distinguish
ed and aristocratic; cardinals and
ambassadors was among them.
Also the former president, council
representatives and French royal
ty but the mass of visitors were
ust plain French people.
The body will be taken aboard
'he Tourville, the newest and fasl
,st cruiser cf the French navy, at
Iji'est. The time of burial will be
!•. etermined by the family.
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| NEW YORK, April 2. OP)—After
If r all day search, more than a
r,J’ one dirigible
and several coast guard boats re
timed to their bases tonight re
porting that they had obtained no
sight of the plane in which T.
Raymond Finucane and three
companions had disappeared while
n a flight from Norfolk, Va., to
«ew York City, last week.
BAD FIRE AT ATJJN
i ATLTN, B. C., April 2, (/Pj—Fire ;
I this morning destroyed the gev
jernment liquor store, the Mason h
’lodge the Hirkland hotel, Sands'
!General store and two small stores, j
| wned by Titinger and Totten. It,
; '.'as caused by a chimney fire from
creosote. The loss, which is large,
; s unestimated.
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EVERY WINDOW, BUSINESS SEC
i XION, BROKEN; POPULACE
HURRIED FROM ZONE
1 NACO, April 2, (/P)—Ferry Baker,
35, of Alliance, Ohio, was wounded
in the head by flying fragments
of two rebel bombs which fell on
the United States side of the inter
lational line during an air raid
on federal fortifications across
the border from Naco Noroa.
Baker was immediately placed
under treatment by a physician..
Four missies were hurled one of
which shattered every window in
the business section of Nado and
sending the terror stricken pop
ulance in a hurried scramble from
the danger zone.
ACCORDING TO HOYLE
i WASHINGTON, April 2, (/P)—An
t'ficial statement i'sued by the U.
,3. coast guard says that the pur
uit and sinking of the British
schooner “I’m Alane”, an alleged
rum runner, was in accordance ;
with an international agreement.
jThe crew of the rum ship was
.landed at New Orleans under a
'close guard.
RACERS OF 1903 COUNTED SPLIT SPLIT SECONDS, TOO
Twenty-five years haxe brought amazing- changes in racing automo
biles. Above is shown the lineup of an early clay speed trial at Daytona Beach
“The Pirate” (center), owned by R. E. Olds, was one of those that scooted
over the sands in 1903. Below is Maj. H. 0. Segrave’s “Golden Arrow,”
which set the new speed record two or three weeks ago, of 231.36216 miles
per hour.
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FACIJ SIDE CLAIM THAT HUN
DREDS OF THE ENEMY
HAVE BEEN KILLED
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j MEXICO CITY. April 2, (#>)—
Held in check by stubborn resist
ance after a heavy day of fighlng
; f ))■ possession of Jimenez, power
ful federal forces poised for an
other onslaught against the insur
gent stronghold.
Contradicting the federal re
ports of a partial victory in yester -
lay’s battle the rebels claimed a
sweeping victory during which the
i insurgent forces drove southward
jfor a distance of 20 miles.
Along the west coast the rebels
'are reported to be in full retreat
iter a disastrous battle in which
hey are said to have lost 100 dead
"nd 50 wounded as well as numer
ous prisoners.
For the first time since the out
break of the revolt, five weeks ago,
the t evolution appeared to be en
itering a decisive phase, the battle
for Jimenez being the most exten
sive.
For 14 hours Monday a battle
raged and late in the afternoon
the federate ceased firing to draw
hteir lines for resumption of the
atack today.
1 At that time they claimed to be
in posses ion of a part of Jimenez
hvfttf the rest on a three-mile
; front, appreciably nearer the irn
jportant railroad point. No defin
ite statement of casualties is avail
ble but. each side state hundreds
of the enemy had been killed.
GRITISII GOVERNMENT IS UN
WILLING TO PROTECT NO
TORIOUS PIRATE
LONDON, April 2, (A5)—Great
Britain is unwilling that her flag
should be wrapped around a no
: %ious pirate and law breaker as
protection against the just ven
•gence of any nation whose laws
jhave been outraged, a high mem
;ber of the British government said.
| It is the character of this man
| Randall, the captain of the rum
I runner “I’m Alone” who freely ad
jmits that he is running rum which
lhas caused the government to
jmove so cautiously and with the
| utmost restrait in what, on the
iface of it, is a highly provocative
I incident.
I Until all the facts in the case
iare fully developed, it appears that
iRandell is guilty of moral if not
technical misuse of the British
I flag and has been guilty of that
misuse for several years.
OFF FOR EUROPE
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, (A5)—
Miss Helen Wills, womens tennis
champion, and Edith Cross, third
in the national rating, will leave
San Francisco about April I2th for
the European season, which has
been sanctioned by the United
States Lawn Tennis Association.
Their schedule includes matches in
Holland, France, England and
[Germany.