VOLUME 20. NUMBER 75
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
LORD CURZON, THE RULING ARISTOCRAT
. OF GRE AT BRITAIN PASSES AWAY; WAS
LEADER IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS IN 1916
LONDON, March 20.—Marquis Curzon, load-presi
dent of the British council died here today. The Marquis
Curzon (George Nathaniel Curzon) from the cradle to the
tomb, exemplified to perfection in very detail the type of
superior personality known as the ruling aristocrat. He
was bred for public life and followed the career of politics
and government with such success that he held almost
every great office under the crown except the highest of
all—the post of prime minister.
Ironically enough, it was the honors,
he accumulated, while working his
way toward the premiership which,
more than anything else, militated
against his ambition for the post and
when it seemed almost surely his,
kept it from him. Had he been bwn
30 years earlier he undoubtedly would
have become prime minister. When
he came to the threshold of that of
fice, it was in 1923. the day of noble
lords occupying No. 10 Downing St.
0 had set. Prime ministers no longer
were nominated from the aristocracy,
but from the Commons.
Like may other young men who
came to be statesmen of the British
Empire and peers of the realm, Lord
Curzon was trained at Eton and Balli
ol College, Oxford. At the latter he
* was president of the Union, the all
embracing students’ organization
many of whose leaders in after life
became prominent.
Upon quitting the cloisters of Ox
ford with high honors, young Curzon
polished off his university education
with travel. Having become familiar
with Paris, Rome. Vienna and the
Rhine during his vacations at Oxford,
he passed these places by for more
extensive tours and went into Central
Asia, to Persia, Siam, Korea, Indo
china and the Pamirs. He had the
♦ leisure and the purse and the purpose
of a gentleman and traveled with thor
oughness, reading volumes beforehand
and then recording his own discover
ies and impressions for future books.
Returning home in 1885 he entered
politics as one of the private secre
taries of ‘Marquis Salisbury, then the
prime minister. He stood for parlia
ment immediately in South Derby
shire, but was defeated. Then turn
ing to the constituency of the South
port division of Lancashire he was
elected and continued to represent
that division until 1898. when he was
made a baron. In his sixth year in
the House of Commons Curzon re
ceived a post in the government, be
ing made under-secretary of the state
for India. At that time he was only
32 years old. His political achieve
ments brought him promotion to un
der-secretary of state for foreign af
% fairs and a few months after he was
made baron in 1898 he was sent to In
dia as viceroy and governor-general, a
post he retained until 1905. Lord Cur
zon made a notable record in India,
his regime having been highly satis
factory to both the ruling race and the
native.
In the years that followed many
honors were conferred upon him. Ox
( ford made him lord chancellor in
1907 and the next year Glasgow made
him lord rector. The honorary de
gree of doctor of lawrs wras conferred
by Cambridge, Manchester, Glasgow
and Durham. In 1911 the king rais
ed him to a viscount and the Royal
Geographical Society elected him pres
ident, wiiich office he filled for three
years.
Lord Curzon was named one of the
*• imperial w*ar cabinet members in
the Lloyd-George coalition govern
ment and w^as made leader of the
f House of Lords in 1916. He contin
ued in that position throughout the
- war and the reconstruction period.
He became secretary of state for
foreign affairs in 19119 and continued
in that office in the Bonar Law gov
ernment after the Lloyd-George rule
had been smashed by the Tories.
Meanwhile he had risen tvro more
( , steps in the peerage—to an earldom
and then to a marquisate. There re
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mained only a dukedom to be ob
tained and Lord Curzon generally
was credited with a burning ambi
tion to achieve this highest of ti
tles for those outside of royal blood.
It was at that time that his ac
cumulation of honors operated
against Lord Curzon in his ambition
to become the British prime minis
ter. When Bonar Law retired in
1923 because of ill health there was
besides Lord Curzon only one other
man regarded as likely for the post
—Stanley Baldwin. In Curzon’s fa
vor there was his long and notable
record in politics and the government
service, while Baldwin virtually was
a novice in politics, but had proved
a strong chancellor of the exchequer
who had settled the American debt
question with honor and satisfac
tion. Weighing in opposition to Cur
| zon was the new twentieth century
| tradition against appointing as pre
mier a peer who could not meet at
tacks on the government in the
House of Commons. Hence, Mr
Baldwin, being a commoner, receiv
ed the place.
Lord Curzon consented to remain
in the foreign office in the Baldwin
government. He went to Lausanne
to lead the Allies in making their
peace treaty with the Turks, who
| had re-entered Europe and avenged
| against the Greeks the expulsion of
' the crescent from Europe in the
i World War. The treaty let the
1 urks back into Europe and return
| Pd to them a large part of what they
j had lost in the war. For this Lord
Curzon was severely criticised and
in the grumbling that preceded the
fall of the Tories and the rise of
the Labor government in winter of
1923-24 much of the dissatisfaction
was directed against him.
With the fall of the Conservative
government Lord Curzon was oblig
ed to relinquish his post as foreign
| secretary. Some persons thot that
,in the prime minister’s parting page
of honors the name of Curzon would
head the list, with a dukedom at
! last. But there was no dukedom
: in the list.
! Lord Curzon was born at Kelles
j son, January 11, 1859, the eldest
; son of the Rev. Alfred Nathaniel
Holden Curzon, the fourth Baron
Scardale. He married twice, taking
an American as his wife on both
| occasions. In 1895 he married Miss
j Mary Victoria Leiter, daughter of L.
IZ. Leiter of Washington. She died
| in 1906, the year after they return
ed from India, leaving three daugh
i ters. His second wife, whom he
married in 1917, was Mrs. Grace
Elvina Duggan, a daughter of J.
Monroe Hinds, who had been Unit
ed States Minister to Brazil, and the
widow of Alfred Duggan of Buenos
Aires.
The travels of Lord Curzon and
the books they engendered were rec
ognized with a gold medal by the
Royal Geographical Society. Among
his published volumes were: “Rus
sia in Central Asia,” 1889; “Per
sia and the Persian Question,” 1892;
“Problems of the Far East,” 1894;
“Lord Curzon in India,” 1906; “Prin
ciples and Methods of University
Reform,” 1909; “Modern Parliamen
tary Eloquence,” 1913; “War Poems
and Other Translations,” 1915; “Sub
jects of the Day,” 1915; “Tales of
Travel,” 1923
Our idea of a sinecure is to be the
undertaker at Herrin, III.
Bodies of Two Miners
Found in Mine Forty-One
FAIRMONT, W. Va„ Mar. 20.—The
bodies of Walter Thompson and Leon
ard Sanders were found in Mine 41
today, badly burned. These are the
first hoodies taken out since the ex
plosion Tuesday.
RESCUE WORK IN
TORNADO BELT
GOES ON SLOWLY
MURPHYBORO, 111., March 20 —
Southern Illinois counties hit by the
tornado yesterday presents a funereal
aspect. With the relaving of the first
frenzied efforts to rescue the living
and relieve the suffering, a count of
the dead is being made today, and the
damage wrought now appears g reater
than at first reported. Organii 1 re
lief work is progressing slow but
efficiently under direction of t Na
tional Guard. Governor Len Small and
staff arrived here last night and are
directing the work of the rescue par
ties. Several trains of Red Cross
hospital workers were hurried to the
scene and improvised hospitals are
filled with injured and dying victims.
At West Frankfort 125 bodies have
been collected, with 80 unidentified.
DeSoto, perhaps, sustained the most
tragic loss, one-third of her dead be
ing children under three years of age.
The list of dead in this town has
climbed to 125, with the injured esti
mated at over 400. Debris litters the
banks of the Big Muddy river and the
streets of the wdiecked city are throng
ed with homeless persons hunting for
relatives and friends. Plans are be
ing made for a wholesale burial of
victims tomorrow.
The storm swept in upon the de
fenseless towns without warning from
the direction of the Ohio river. The
district has many coal mines and the
larger part of the population of DeSoto
and Murphyboro are miners. So sud
den was the storm that the schools
were hit before the teachers could
get the pupils out of the building. >
which was smashed flat to the ground
pinning 250 children beneath the
wreckage.
Masons Relieving Distress.
BENTON, 111., Mar. 20—R. C. Daven
port, grand master of Illonois Masons,
headed a committee which visited the
devastated area, gathering material
for a campaign for relief funds. He
announced the Masons of Illinois
would raise $100,000 for relief.
Cab Blown from Engine
PRINCETON, Ind., Mar. 20.—E. F.
Shine, a Southern Railroad switch
yard engineer rode his engine through
the tornado, escaped with but a few
scratches. The cab was blown from
over his head but he remained by his
post by clinging to the reverse lever.
Griffin, Ind., Wiped Out
GRIFFIN, Ind., Mar. 20.—A com
plete check of the deaths when the
tornado struck and obliterated Grif
fiin is impossible because Postmaster
Daw was crushed in the wreckage of
his office, and the residents of the
town were destroyed with him.
Check of Dead Being Made
MURPHYBORO, 111., Mar. 20—Storm
reports at noon showed 815 dead in
this district, with about 3,000 hurt, ac
cording to an Associated Press tabu
lation. Seven hundred and seventy
seven of the dead have already been
identified.
In Kentucky and Missouri the
stricken areas are virtually cleaned
up, and b irials are progressing. The
devastau areas are turning to plans
for burial, and relief workers reported
better progress in succoring the in
jured and destitute. Contributions
of money, food and clothing are flow
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Japanese Will Exploit
Interests at Saghalien
MOSCOW, Russia, Mar. 20—The
foreign trade commissary announces
that Japanese interests will exploit
the coal and oil on Saghalien Island
when the Japanese evacuation of the
northern portion is completed.
AMUNDSEN WILL
ATTEMPT TO FLY
TO NORTH POLE
NEW YORK, Mar. 20.—Lincoln Els
worth, who will attempt to fly over
the North Pole with Amundsen, sailed
yesterday to join the explorer in Nor
way. The two explorers will hop off
from Norway in July or August, and
will fly directly to the pole. Elsworth
was in the French and American air
service during the world war. He said
the Norwegian government had ap
propriated 310,000 for the expedition.
FORMER SENATOR
CULBERSON OF
TEXAS IS DEAD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 20.—
Former Senator Charles Allen
Culberson of Texas died here last
night, after an illness lasting
over several years. Influenza at
tacked him Sunday and he never
recovered from the disease.
Senator Charles Allen Culberson
of Texas, one of the strongest poli
tical leaders of the Lone Star state*
was for many years a prominent fig
ure on the Democratic side of the
Senate chamber, which he entered in
1899 after having served his state in
public capacity for nearly 20 years,
including a term as Attorney Gen
eral and two terms as governor. His
fourth term in the Senate completed
his political career for while he tried
for nomination again in 1922, he fail
ed to survive the primaries, trailing
two other candidates, one of whom
was former Governor James E. Fer
guson.
Although he never lost his firm
grip on Senate affairs, he was incapi
citated for active participation thru
a stroke suffered in 1909, when he
was a minority leader. The condi
tion, due to a nervous disorder, was
partially relieved in 1913 and as a
member of anti-trust legislation of
that period, but his health again
broke down and his nervous trouble
developed into palsey, following
which he gradually transferred his
activities from the Capitol to his pri
vate suite in the Senate office build
ing. He was somewhat sensitive
regarding his physical condition, his
associates said, and hesitated to ap
pear, frequently in public.
He continued, however, to partici
pate generally in committee work,
in which he always had been ac
tive, ahtl played a prominent part in
framing the Espionage - Act of 1917
as well as numerous other war meas
ures. He also served as chairman
of the Appropriations Committee dur
ing the Democratic regime from 1913
to 1919.
Senator Culberson was bora in
Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Ala
bama, Oct. 10, 1855, the son of David
B and Eugenia (Kimbal) Culberson.
When three years of age he was tak
en to Texas -where his father became
a prominent figure in public life,
serving as an adjutant-general in the
Confederate army, a member of the
State legislature and a Representa
tive in Congress from the 44th to
the 49th. session.
Senator Culberson was sent to the
Virginia Military Institute when he
had completed his studies in the
grade schools, and upon his gradua
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PAUL TRIES TO
HAVE PENSION
BILL ALTERED
(Special to The Gateway)
JUNEAU, Alaska, Mar. 20.—Smash
ing of the bars, erected by former leg
islatures against Indians receiving al
lotments from the Territorial old age
allowance fund was attempted today
when House Bill No. 23 was introduced
by Wm. Paul, leader of the Indian or
ganization in Southeastern Alaska
The present law contains a section
saying that Indians are not considered
“residents” as used in the terms of
the act. Repeal of this section is de
manded in the Paul Bill, which also
provides for reducing the maximum,
allotments from 525 and 545 respec
tively for men and women to $20 and
$30 each.
Paul also introduced a bill prohib
iting payment of Territorial funds to
members of the Territorial legislature
during their terms of office, and also
introduced the probate code prepared
by Attorney General John Rustgard
for introduction two years ago.
Representative Nylen of the Second
division introduced a bill to define and
punish embezzlement.
The deficiency appropriation meas
ure carrying twd thousand for schools
was introduced by the Ways and
Means committee.
Representative Jensen, Nome, chair
man of the Education Committee, in
troduced a resolution inviting Chas.
E. Bunnell, president of the Agricul
tural College and School of Mines, to
appear before the legislature in con
nection with estimates or the Alaska
College.
The Senate continues to mark time.
ROMEO HOYT
IS NOT GUILTY
JUNEAU, Alaska, Mar. 20.—Romeo
Hoyt was acquitted today of robbing
the postoffice at Fairbanks, the jury
being out four hours.
Earthquake Destroys
Town in West China
SHANGHAI, China, Mar. 20.—The
China Inland Mission has received a
telegram that an earthquake yester
day destroyed Talifa, a town in west
ern Yuan province, a disastrous fire
following the temblor. Help is ur
gently needed to save the survivors
from starvation says the telegram.
GREAT LAKES HIT
BY HEAVY GALE
_
BUFFALO, N. Y., Mar. 20.—Eight
cargo lake boats were torn loose from
their moorings, and were saved from
beaching by tugs, the coast guard
school in the town of Wheatfield was
unroofed, and two uncompleted build
ings in Buffalo were flattened by a
heavy gale which struck here yester
day afternoon.
DECLINE IN WHEAT PRICES
NO SIGN OF HARD TIMES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 20.—
Price declines in wheat is regarded
by Secretary Hoover as no indica
tion of a lack of prosperity. Mr. Hoo
ver says that conditions are the re
verse. in fact.
If the party who took the Gateway
sign last night will send in his name
we will mail him a perpetual calendar.
He evidently confused the date with
All Hallowe’en.
BOAT DUE IN MORNING
Agent Flickinger reports the North
western due in Seward at two o’clock
in the morning.
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