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CORDOVA KNIGHT OF PYTHIAS
ENGAGE NEW QUARTERS
Cordova Lodge No. 3, Knights of
Pythias, has moved into new quarters
in the old Northland Club hall. The
hall has been completely renovated
and rearranged. The first meeting of
the lodge in its new home was held
February 3.
EYESIGHT RESTORED BY
LOOKING AT ECLIPSE
—
LODI, N. J., Feb. 9.—As a result of
looking at the eclipse of the sun last
month, Louis Pretola, aged 54 years,
has regained his sight after four un
successful operations to see without
glasses, due to cataract.
CHICAGO, 111., Feb. 10.—Wheat
plunged nearly six cents, a little
over an hour after the market open
ed, reaching a dollar and eighty-five
and three-eighths.
THEATRICAL MEN FEAR RADIO
Some theatrical managers are dis
turbed by the fear that radio may
wean people away from the living
drama and opera, but it is more likely
that it will create a greater interest
in these arts and beget a desire to
see and hear the great artists in per
son. The phonograph and radio have
given a certain superficial familiarity
with music to many who otherwise
would have lived and died without any
knowledge of the masters, but these
substitutes will never take the place
of flesh and blood singers and actors.
MR. AND MRS. LEON URBACH
ENTERTAIN AT BRIDGE
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Urbach enter
tained the Seward Chapter of East
ern Star at their home last evening,
after the regular meeting was held.
The high score at bridge went to Mrs.
O. A. Johansen and the consolation
prize to Mr. W. E. Root.
SELDOVIA NEWS
SELDOVIA. Feb. 5—Both the coal
and water situation here is acute, the
weather being responsible for both.
It has been so cold that it not only
halts the beach mining, but has fro
zen practically all of the Seldovia wells
| as well as the small fresh water
streams practically solid.
The coal situation has been reliev
ed to some extent, however, by the
sale of a small surplus which one of
the salteries had on hand after clos
ing down for the season.
Dr. and Mrs. Burgin are the parents
of a baby boy, which arrived at their
home several days ago.
Fishing activities are at a standstill
the last of the crews leaving on the
[Alameda. The Knight’s Island Pack
j ing company’s crew were outgoing
! passengers on the Alameda,
j The Seldovia slough is frozen over j
and many small craft were caught in !
the ice and will not be extricated until '
warm weather sets in.
The O’Neills were outgoing passen
gers on the Alameda, en route to the
States.
Anton Johansen is busily engaged in
erecting a new five-room house receiv
j ed on the Watson.
Weather conditions in Seldovia have
been very unusual this winter, the
temperature remaining at a low point
1 unrecalled by the oldest inhabitant.
More snow has failed this year than
than for many years past.
STUDENTS ONCE AIDED
TROTZKY IN ESCAPING
HANGING, SAYS COUSIN
(By Associated Press)
WENATCHEE, Wash., Feb. 10.—
How an experience in the early life
of Leon Trotzky which resulted in
saving him from execution by the
Russian Czarist government made
him a convert to communism was
related recently by his cousin, Mrs.
Rose Kornbilt of Manson, Wash. The
mothers of Trotzky and Mrs. Korn
bilt were sisters.
When quite young Trotzky, whose
real name is Leon Brunshtoen, was
sent by his wealthy parents, David
and Anna Brunshtoen, from their
home in southern Russia to Europe
an schools, Mrs. Kornbilt said. Ho
sympathized with fellow students less
fortunately situated than himself, and
divided his means with them.
Later Trotzky was pailed by the
Czarist government on a charge of
being a Socialist, and was condemned
to die. It was then that the friend
ly acts toward his fellow students
! bore their fruit. They started to dig
a tunnel into his ceil and effected
his escape on the night before he
was to have been hanged, his cou
sin related.
Dressed in feminine garments, he
fled to Paris, and kept himself in se
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elusion until the vigilance of the
Russian secret police was relaxed.
Then he came to America, where he
assumed the name of Trotzky to help
in avoiding detection.
“So it is only natural that Leon
would believe in communism,” Mrs.
Kornbilt said. “He gave to the poor
and in return the poor gave him what
could not be bought with money—his
freedom.”
His parents did not know for years
after his escape that he had not been
hanged. After his return to Russia
and his rise to the head of the Red
Army he rejoined his mother. With
the revolution she had lost her
wealth. She now resides in Lenin
grad.
Mrs. Kornbilt, with her husband,
Aaron Kornbilt, resides on ten acres
of highly productive orchard land on
the shores of Lake Chelan, not far
from this city. She left Russia in
1907 for fear of persecution of the
Jews and came to America in 1918.
In Seattle, where she landed, she met
and married her husband, who also
had fled the Jewish persecution in
Russia.
Astonishing Assertions.
Mrs. Kornbilt in today dispatch:
“Trotzky got from the proletariats
what couldn’t be bought for money—
‘freedom’.”
Irish and French Teams
Play Rough Rugby Match
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Feb. 10.—“La Marseillaise”
played as the National Anthem of
the Irish Free State, came as a sur
prise to the 30,000 spectators who at
tended the France-Ireland rugby
match at the Colombes Olympic Sta
jdium January 1. Few knew that be
[hind the rendition of the martial
: strains of Rouget de Lisle’s master
piece there lurked the settlement of
a diplomatic problem which has puz
zled the French Rugby Federation
| since the creation of the Irish Free
State.
In order not to wound any suscep
tibility, the Union Jack and the flag
of the Irish Free State were flown
on each side of the French tricolor,
j “What anthem shall we play when
you march upon the field?” the pres
ident of the French Rugby Federa
tion asked Captain Crawford of the
Irish team. Both Ulster and the
South of Ireland were represented
on the Irish team. The latter ob
jected to “God Save the King,” while
the former were spared the necessity
of protesting against the national
anthem of the Irish Free State by the
announcement of the leader of the
military band on duty at the sta
dium, that his men could not play
it.
“Just play the Marseillaise and we
will go on the field at the same time
as the French team,” Crawford finally
said. »
Both teams walked in arm in arm.
A few moments later they were us
ing the straight arm blow and dig
ging their fists into one another at
every scrimmage in what proved to
be one of the roughest matches ever
played in the International Rugby
Union.
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NEW STRIKE OF RUBIES
RANGOON, Burmah: The discov
ery of a new ruby mine yielding won
derful pigeons’ blood gems had opened
a stampede in the Mogok district.
Many foreigners are joining the
rush.
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