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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 93.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1925. PRICE TEN CENTS.
LITERACY BILL
PASSED WITH
' ITS AMENDMENT
ONLY FOUR VOTES IN SENATE
MUSTERED WHEN FINAL
TEST COMES
(Special to The Gateway)
Supporters of an unadultered liter
acy test for voters lost Saturday in
the Senate when the Grier bill was
taken up in its second reading An
A amendment was offered striking out
the clause exempting persons voting
in the last election from its provis
ions, but this was lost when only
four votes could be mustered. Sena
tor Dimond presented the amendment
declaring the exemptoin clause offer
ed an opportunity for an attack on its
legality, as it was a measure of dis
crimination. Senators Aldrich, Dunn,
* Brown and Hunt voted against strik
ing the amendmeht from the bill, and
the measure will probably come up
for final passage Monday.
The House passed Dimond’s new
jury bill after inserting an emergency
clase. Other measures passed by the
House included Paul’s bill exempting
fishing boats from execution where
the value did not exceed over $2,000;
compilation of the laws of Alaska, car
rying $25,000 appropriation; keeping
# skins and records of reindeer slaugh
tered; oral notices of appeals in both
civil and criminal cases from Justice
courts.
SON ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
HEAD ARRESTED FOR BOOZE
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20
Col. Winfield Jones, son of Reverend
Charles F. Jones, president of the
Georgia anti-saloon league, was ar
rested here following the arrest of
his brother, N. T. Jones, assistant
prohibition director of Georgia, in the
state. They are alleged to be own
ers of the Baltimore Drug Company,
charged with diverting alcohol to bev
erage.
STORM WRECKS
' MANY BUILDINGS
(By Associated Press)
WHEELING, W. Va., April 20.—A
storm today swept eastern Ohio, West
^Virginia, and wrecked many business
buildings and residences at Wheeling,
¥ »Wellsburg, West Virginia; Martin’s
Ferry in Ohio, and Woodsfield and a
-dozen other small Ohio communities.
Ten were injured, two seriously. Un
confirmed reports from Ohio indicate
that many were injured in Wheeling’s
streets which were littered with debris
and roofs blown from buildings.
j Parachute tails Upen
Aviator Dies from Fall
(By Associated Press)
TULSA, Okla., April 20.—D. D.
Kohle was killed when his parachute
failed to remain open when he jump
ed from an airplane here yesterday.
The parachute, Avhich was a new in
vention, opened and checked his fall
for a time, then closed allowing him
* to plunge 700 feet to earth.
RUSSIA RESUMING FORMER
• OLD RELIGIOUS ASPECT
(By Associated Press)
MOSCOW, April 20.—Russia is re
suming her old religious aspect, the
churches being thronged and Easter
candles burned before the many icons
at home. A large portion of the peo
ple scrupulously observed the cere
^ monies prescribed by the church yes
| terday, which was Easter Sunday in
Russia.
,
“Flying Flivver”
Makes Her First
Trip Successfully
CHICAGO, April 20.—“Maid
Dearborn,” first of a fleet of “fly
ing flivvers,” that is expected to
line the skies of the middle west
within a few months, landed at
Maywood field. It made the
flight from the airport of the fac
tory of the Ford Motor Company
at Dearborn, Michigan, in two
hours and fifty-five minutes. No
passengers were carried.
The “Maid” ship is herald of a
venture into commercial aviation
by the Fords. Similar planes
will soon be maintained on a
daily schedule of flights from De
troit to Chicago, St. Paul, and
Iron Mountain, Michigan.
$350,000,000 MOVED BY
LIFE INSURANCE CO.
(By Associated Press) •
NEW YORK, April 20.—While ban
dist were robbing their victims of
small change in different parts of the
city, 350 million In marketable secur
ities were transferred through the
streets from down town to mid-town
vaults of the Equiptable Life Insu%
ance society. Thirty-five armored
vans were used in the transfer and
only a handful of persons knew what
was taking place. A heavily-armed
guard accompanied the vans.
Oil Operator Tells of
Wheeler Conference
(By Associated Press)
GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 20.—
The ghost of the Senate investigation
of Senator Wheeler stalked into court
today when H. C. Glosser, former sec
retary to Gordon Campbell, Montana
oil operator, for whom Wheeler ille
gally appeared before the Department
of the Interior as one of the govern
ment’s star witnesses, testifying to a
conference in his apartment between
Wheeler and Campbell.
GEN WOOD PROTESTS SALE
SHIPS TO ADMIRAL LINE
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20
General Leonard Wood has protested
against the transfer of the shipping
board vessels to the Dollar Line on
the ground that it may lead to a
shipping monopoly in the Pacific.
Nude Body of Boy
Hanging to Derrick
(By Associated Press)
FULLERTON, Okla., April 20.—The
nude body of Terry Courtney, aged
14, was found hanging to the cross
bar of an oil derrick near here today.
The boy had been missing since yes
terday morning. It is believed to be
a case of suicide, but the authorities
are investigating.
SNOW FALLS IN CONCORD
(By Associated Press)
CORNCORD. N. H„ April 20.—Five
inches of snow fell in this section last
night.
FIGHTING IN SPANISH CITIES
(By Associated Press)
LISBON, Spain, April 20.—Hand to
hand fighting in various places occur
red today, grenades being thrown and
many killed and wounded. Loyal sol
diers rallied to the aid of the presi
dent and by hard fighting won the up
per hand.
NO POISONS FOUND IN OLSON
(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO, April 20.—Except for a
small amount of mercury which the
coroner’s chemist said he believed
was due to medication, no poisons
were found in the organ's of Dr. Oscar
Olson, reported Coroner Wolff.
KING BORIS READY TO FLEE
COUNTRY AS REVOLUTION GAINS
GROUND; TROOPS CALLED OUT
Parliament has been Summoned to Deal With Revolutionary Actions*
Police Relentlessly Investigating Bomb Outrages. Soviet Lead
er Responsiblef is Claim Made Today by Constantinople
BRITISH LIQUOR
SHIP CAPTURED
OFF FIRE ISLAND
NEW YORK, April 20.—The
British schooner Madiline Adams,
which had on board wines and
liquors valued at $250,000i was
captured by the Coast Buard cut
ter Seminole, twenty miles off
Fire Island after a 150 mile
chase.
The ship and liquor were seiz
ed by the government and her
crew of eight were einrgei! with
conspiracy to violate the Volstead
law. ,,
The capture was the result of
an attempt by the smugglers last
captured by the Coast Guard cut*
cials to run a load cf liquor into
New York on their patrol boat,
for which they offered a reward
of $8 a case.
Judge Superior Court
Killed by Bicyclist
(By Associated Press)
SPOKANE. .April 20.—George W.
Belt, judge of the Superior court of
this county was instantly killed Sat
urday night when he was knocked to
the pavement by a bicycle rode by
James Kiernan, a postoffice messen
ger, who blinded by a heavy rainfall,
failed to see the judge and his wife,
who were crossing the street.
STANFORDS BEATS CALIFORNIA
(By Associated Press)
STANFORD STADIUM, April 20 —
Stanford defeated California 66 1-2 to
64 1-2 in a track field meet here Sat
urday.
Milton’s Record is
Broken by Hartz
(By Associated Press)
CULVER CITY, Gala., April 20.—
Harry Hartz broke Tommy Milton’s
world’s record in a fifty mile heat to
day, time 22 minutes, 11 seconds. Mil
ton’s record was 26 minutes, 12 sec
onds.
Peter de Paolo broke the 25 mile
record in ll minutes six seconds a few
minutes after Leon Duray had already
broken the record in the first heat.
CONFESSES TO EXPLOSION
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, April 20.—A Sofia dispatch
to Le Matin says that Peter Zatgorski,
a beadle of Sveti Krai Cathedral, was
arrested and confessed to complicity
in the recent bomb explosion, naming
as principals, Kosta Yankoff, chief,
and Ninkoff, sub-chief of the Sofia
communist executive central commit
tee. Ninkoff placed a bomb under the
roof the morning of the blast and
a student lighted the fuse, said the
prisoner^
VICTIMS OF BOMB EXPLOSIONS BURIED YESTER
DAY IN COMMON GRAVE—ALL THEATRES
AND SPORTS ARE HALTED
0 (By Associated Press)
ATHENS, April 20.—As the communist up
rising that followed the cathedral bomb outrage,
in which 160 were killed, gains ground, King Bor
is preparing to flee the country, according to dis
patches from the Bulgarian capital.
Sharp clashes between the Bulgarian troops
and the insurgents, who seek to overthrow Pre
mier Zankoff’s government, have occurred in sev
eral sections. At Varna a small uprising occur
red when the authorities tried to prevent the un
loading of arms and ammunition from Odessa. In
surgents are reported to have seized Tirmova.
The interallied military commission has con
ditionally approved the Bulgarian demand for an
army increase of four thousand men to cope with
the “Bolshevik danger” at present in the country.
All Bulgaria is under martial law. Shops and all
cates have been orderd closed at six p. m. and the
doors of all homes must be locked at seven p. m.
Several communists already have been tried and
executed, travelers report. Many workers have
been arrested on suspicion, it was stated today.
Victims of the bomb explosions were buried in a
common grave yesterday, while all sports and ac
tivities ceased.
SOVIET LEADER RESPONSIBLE FOR OUTRAGE
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 20.—M. Zinorrev is said
to have ordered the cathedral bomb outrage. The revo
lutionary campaign in Bulgaria is being directed, it is said
from Communist headquarters of the Sovet embassy here.
The communists regard Bulgaria as the key to the
Balkans. If Bulgaria is won, the first effect would be
the destruction of Roumania, and the second would be the
establishment of a Soviet republic in Macedonia.
BANDITS ATTEMPT
ROB MESSENGER
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, April 20.—Tlie second
daylight robbery of a Frederick Nel
son messenger was frustrated Satur
day by Detective Tennant, when the
bandits attempted to hold-up the mes
senger. Tennant and store officials
effected the arrest of Lee H. Waite
and Charles E. Pearl, whom Tennant
said had made a proposition to an em
ploye of the department store to give
him a share of the loot in e:: ’ge
for information. Three others o_side
the store escaped. The messengers
were robbed last summer of $3,000
in a daring holdup.
Join the Chamber of Commerce,
Parliament to Meet
SOFIA, April 20.—Parliament has
been summoned to meet on the 21st.
tomorrow, to deal with the bombing
situation.
Police are pursuing a relentless in
vestigation of suspicious quarters, of
ten clashing with citiaen authorities
who assert they have secured docu
mentary proof of the guilt of several
suspects having participated in the
outrages last week.
Sunday was proclaimed a day of
mourning, theatres being ordered clos
ed and all sporting events cancelled.
NO INTEREST IN ELECTIONS
BERLIN, April 20.—With decisive
balloting for president but a week off
the fight between Marx and Hindeberg
has left the people apathetic.
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