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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XX.
NUMBER 75.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST
SLOT MACHINES IN
.CITY OF SEATTLE TO
BE PERMANENT IS
VERDICT OF ATTY.
SHAKING DICE AGAINST HOUSE
IS GAMBLING, BUT BETWEEN
EACH OTHER SAME AS DRAW
ING STRAWS. SAYS CAPTAIN E.
D. COLVIN.
NEW SLOT MACHINES 0. K.
Attorney States Gum Machines Are
Strictly Legitimate as You Know
What Yoy Are Getting
SEATTLE, March 30—Captain Ed
win D. Colvin, prosecuting attorney
of Seattle, announced that the cam
^ paign which he opened last week in
the city against slot machines and
other gambling machines, would be
permanent.
Discussing the shaking of dice at
cigar counters, yesterday, he said:
“Shaking dice against the house is
gambling in the first sense of the
^ word; but, when two men shake to
decide which shall pay for the cigars
that isn't gambling any more than the
drawing of straws to see who carries
in the wood."
Brown, in a statement Saturday to
the Associated Press, declared the
slot machines which he permitted to
be installed in the city in large num
bers, were on the square. He said, “I
opposed the old machines, but these
new machines are all right. There is
no gambling when you put a nickel in
one of these machines as you know
* what you are getting—gum. or a roll
of mints—as for chips, they are a
bonus. I would have nothing to say
against the elimination of gambling,
but gambling is going on in our best
clubs.”
SCANDINAVIAN
BANK AGAIN PAYS
TACOMA, March 30.—Deputy State
bank examiner Haskell, handling the
Scandinavian American bank, announc
ed Saturday that the seventh and final
dividend will be paid in June, and will
be $242,000, or six per cent making a
total of 66 per cent paid back to de
I positors.
ANNOUNCE REPULSE OF
* AIRCRAFT ATTACK IN •
TRIAL TESTS IN PACIFIC
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 30.—
The navy announced the repulse by
antiaircraft fire of two theoretical at
tacks on the battleship Tennessee in
the Pacific on Friday. One hit was
registered in each sleeve of the target
towed by the aircraft.
MILLIONS CHINESE
REPORTED TO BE
STARVING DEATH
• '!**’*’
CHICAGO, March 30.—Over ten mil
4. Hion Chinese are reported to be starv
ing in eight provinces, according tc
w'ord received from Bishop L. J. Tier
* ney, of the Methodist Episcopal cliurcl:
at Shanghai. This condition is due tc
4 the winter floods and quakes whicl
have been unusually severe in the
north and w’est.
Louis Lee and wife will be stationec
&t Mile Seven this summer. Mr. Le<
lias been stationed at Mile 40.
Engineer With Amundsen
Ready for Polar Flight
OLSO, Mar. 30.—Lincoln Ellsworth,
American engineer who will accom
pany Raold Amundsen, the Arctic ex
plorer, on his aerial expedition to the
North Pole arrived here today. He
predicted the entire trip will be ac
complished in seven hours exclusive
of the stop at the pole, which will be
24 hours if conditions permit.
Ellsworth and Amundsen will leave
tomorrow for Tromsoe, where arrange
ments will be completed for the take
off in June. The transport Farm left
here last night.
MINERS DROWN AS
MINES FLOODED
NEWCASTLE, Eng.. Mar. 30— Ris
ing floods in the Montague colliery at
Scots wood, near here, drowned eight
miners, who lifted themselves as high
as possible on projecting pinnacles
in the drift, when the rush of water
began. Two hundred men in the pit
escaped, reporting the water reached
their necks before they could get to
the cages.
THIEVES GET JEWELS WORTH
SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND
NEW YORK, Mar. 30.—Four ban
dits raided the off ices of Sobel & Ka
leko, 45 Maiden Lane today, and es
caped with unset diamonds valued at
$75,000.
BODIES EXHUMED FOR EXAMS
REVEAL HEART DISEASE CAUSE
CHICAGO, 111., Mar. 30.—(AP).—
The bodies of Mrs. McClintock and
Dr. Oscar Olson which wrere exhum
ed here to determine whether they
were poisoned, indicated chronic heart
disease. The report was submitted by
Dr. James Simmonds, of the Northwes
tern University, a representative of
William Shepherd, at the post mor
tem.
| BOOTLEG KING IN CUSTODY
SEATTLE, Mar. 30.—Frank Gatt- a \
soft drink proprietor whom Federal i
officers call the new “bootleg king" j
of Seattle, who was indicted last week !
surrendered to the authorities'^ today. I
CONVICTION HAGEN
BEEN REVERSED
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 30.—The
conviction of Edward Hagen, former
Seattle policeman who was found
guilty of having liquor in his posses
sion, was reversed today by the Cir
cuit Court of Appeals, which said that
“although liquor was found in Hagen’s
home none was found in his apart
ments, and his arrest and conviction
was an unwarranted invasion of Ha
gen’s rights.”
E. W. Pielow, former police ser
gent, and Charles Givens, both con
victed with Hagen, did not appeal and
their sentences stand.
“THE RAILROAD DOCTOR” DEAD
NEW \ ORK, March 30—Newman
Erb, aged 75, known as the “Railroad
Doctor” in railroad circles, died af
ter an operation. He built the first
bridge across the Mississippi river
and was connected with several rail
roads and industrial concerns.
GRANTED NEW TRIAL
1 ATLANTA, Ga., March 30.—The su
. preme court granted Mrs. Clyde By
s field a new trial in her hundred
thousand dollars’ suit against Clyde
T. Candler, son of the Cocoa-Cola
• manufacturer. Suit is based on an
! alleged attack by Clyde upon her on
a steamship.
NEW JURY LAW
INTRODUCED BY
SENATOR D1MOND
(Special to The Gateway)
JUNEAU, Mar. 30.—Senator A. J.
Dimond, of the Third division, author
of the 1923 jury law, introduced a
measure today repealing the act and
providing for a new jury system, the
main feature of which provides for
a literate jury list by making ability
to read and write, and understand the
English language grounds for chal
lenges for cause, adding, “ability to
so read, write and speak the English
language shall be at least the equiva
lent of the ability of an ordinary child
who has completed the sixth grade
in the public; school of the Territory.”
The new bill provides further for
names of qualified electors, or one
the placing of either one-half of the
thousand names from the divisional
electorates in the jury box for Dis
trict Courts and one-half the names of
precinct electorates or three hundred
names for Commissioners’ courts.
A third provision is the waiver of
peremptory challenges to jurors in
the box does not lose the right to use
that challenge as to new jurors later
drawn in a distinctly new venire.
Representative Paul in a second ef
fort to throw open the Territorial
pension rolls to Indians, Saturday in
troduced a bill making mothers’ pen
sions available to every mother com
ing within the requirements of the
present law, regardless of race or
creed. The first movement of this
nature was made by him several days
ago, with the introduction of a bill
extending old age allowances to In
dians.
The House passed the Sherman bill
for $10,000, supplementing old age al
lowances and the Sunquist measure,
extending for a sixty-day period the
right to file miners’ liens.
The Hardy bill repealing the Alaska
Bone Dry law was postponed until
Tuesday.
FORBES STRICKEN
WITH PARALYSIS
BOSTON, Mar. 30.—Colonel Char
les R. Forbes, former director of the
United States Veterans’ Bureau was
suddenly stricken with paralysis Fri
day night at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Harry Judkins here, and is now
in a serious condition in a local hos
pital.
BIRTH CONTROL BE GIVEN
PLACE CONVENTION PROGRAM
NEW YORK, Mar. 30.—A resolu
tion urging birth control be given a
place in programs of American medi
cal associaiton, and country and state
societies was passed at a meeting to
day which was attended by a thou
sand physicians.
LEAGUE FAVORS BIRTH CONTROL
NEW YORK, March 30.—An es
tablishment of a league of nations
favoring birth control for the defense
against the present high birth rate
was advocated as the means of pro
moting harmony by Dr. Shase, at the
birth control conference, which is
being held here.
MARRIAGE OF ARBUCKLE
HAS BEEN POSTPONED
LOS ANGELES, March 30 —The
marriage of Roscoe Arbuckle r
ris Deane, moving picture acux-ss,
which was set for yesterday, has been
postponed on advice of his counsel
until next month, when the divorce
of the first wrife of the film com
edian becomes effective.
Harding Memorial Is
Dedicated at Seattle
SEATTLE, Mar. 30—The Harding
memorial spot in Woodland Park,
where the late President Harding
gave the oath of allegiance to thirty
thousand Washington boys, July 29,
1923, following his return from Alas
ka, was dedicated today. The monu
ment has a panel on which is sculp
tured a reproduction of the scene of
the oath giving. Funds for the erec
tion of the monument came from the
boys taking par|, the local lodge of
Elks sponsoring the movement.
ELLINGSON JURY
BEEN EXCUSED
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 30.—Judge
I Louderbeck, after asking the attor
neys for the defense in the Ellingson
trial, “Do you base your motion on
only what the court has seen since
the trial started,” excused the Elling
son jury and witnesses for 24 hours
[ today, while the considered a motion
I for a change of venue.
COURT DOES NOT WORRY
PRETTY LILLIAN GISH
CHICAGO, March 30—Lillian Gish,
screen actress, drew pencil sketches
j as Federal Judge Mack proceeded
| with the trial of Charles H. Dnells’
j suit to compel the star to play only
i in pictures produced by his company.
1 On Friday the defendant had munch
ed carrots during the hearing.
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Another Big Mill For
Longview, Washington
LONGVIEW, Wash., Mar. 30.—The
Weyerhauser Timber Company will
j commence soon the construction of a
large timber manufacturing plant here,
| it was announced today by George S.
i Long, manager for the company.
UNDERGROUND RADIO TESTS
CARRIED OUT SUCCESSFULLY
—
HYATTSVILLE, Md„ Mar. 30.—
After tests carried on for months, Dr.
I
James Harris Rogers announced to
! day that he had succeeded last night
! in broadcasting as far as the Pacific
| Coast with an undergraund transmit
1 ting set.
HALIBUT BOAT
IS HIGH AND DRY
NEAR MARY ISLE
j SEATTLE, March 30 —The steam
j ship Princess Mary, arrived here to*
j day and reported an unknown halibut
schooner high and dry on Cutter rocks
near Mary Island. The coast guard
cutters Cygan and Smith left for the
rescue at noon.
SUIT FILED TO COMPEL
PAYMENT OF INCOMES
—
TRENTON, March 30.—Charging
that she received no income from
the two trust funds bequeathed to
them by George J. Gould, Mrs. Guine
vere Sinclair Gould, second wife of
George J. Gould with three children,
filed suits to compel payments.
STRIBLING WINS BOUT WITH
LOUGHRAN OF PHILIDELPHIA
SAN FRANCISCO, March 30.—In a
fast ten round fight here Saturday nite
Young Striding gave Tommy Lous1,
ran of PI; ddelphia a sever** *
GIANT NAVAL FLIER
CARRIES CREW OF 5
MEN MAKING SPEED
OF 128 MILES ON 1ST
OFFICIAL FLIGHT
NEW AIRPLANE WEIGHS OVER
NINE TONS AND HAS REMARK
ABLE SPEED DESPITE HER SIZE
AND WEIGHT—THIRTY MILES
FASTER THAN DESIGNED FOR.
TRIP TO HONOLULU SOON
PN. 9 be Shipped to Pacific Coast in
Near Future to Make Non-Stop
Flight to Honolulu
PHILADELPHIA, March 30—Hurl
ins her nine tons of highly compact,
machinery into the air, fifteen seconds
alter starting along the surface of the
Delaware river, the Giant Naval Fly
ing* Boat PN-9, flew at the rate of 128
miles an hour, which is thirty miles
faster than her designed speed.
The flight lasted for fifty minutes
and she landed in the water at a speed
of 52 miles and hour. The craft is
fifty feet long and carries a crew of
five men.
Months have been spent in testing
this craft, which will now be disman
tled and shipped to San Francisco for
a non-stop flight to Honolulu, which
will be announced shortly.
LEGISLATION TO
PROTECT FUR
ANIMALS IN U.S,
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30.—
The enactment of new legislation to
govern the trapping of furbearing ani
mals with a view to preventing their
extermination is advocated by the Bi
ological Survey, asserting the fur in
dustry is “seriously menaced” by the
lack of uniform law. The most valu
able of fur bearing animals in the
States are Muskrat. Skunk. Racoon
and Opossum.
BREAKS WORLD’S RECORD
TEN THOUSAND METERS
NEW YORK. March 29.—Ugo Frig
j erio broke the world's indoor ten
i thousand meter record while Willie
j Plant quit on the 38th lap. His time
was fourtv-four minutes, thirty eight
seconds or a minute and twelve and
four-fifths seconds better than his for
mer record in February. 1917, when
his time was forty-eight and two-fifths
seconds better than his outdoor record
but the outdoor mark stands.
REPRESENTATIVE ROGERS DEAD
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30.—
Representative John Jacob Rogers,
republican of Lowell, Massachusetts,
forty-four years of age. died today af
ter a long illness.
MOVIE ORGANIST
SHOT IN THEATRE
CLEVELAND, March 30.—-Miss Lil>
lian Tyler, thirty-two, organist in a
movie theatre and Homer Walters
were found dead with several bullet
wounds in their bodies, in the rear
seats of the theatre, by an usher who
was seating patrons. The audience
heard the five shots and believed they
were from the orchestra. 1T' " shot
Miss Tyler and then "
TRAP"’