MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XX. NUMBER 100.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1925.
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FORMER KAISER OVERJOYED
AT VICTORY OF HINDENBURG
OVER COMMUNIST CANDIDATE
Fyld Marshal Von Hindenburg Had Interesting Career;
Reported Dead Several Times He Came Thru
The World War Unscathed.
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W AS KNOWN AS “THE OLD MAN OF THE LAKES”
Had Several Disagreements With Emperor Wilhelm—Re
fused to take Orders From the Crown Prince—
Wrote Memoirs in 1919
DOORN, April 28.—Two automobiles filled with of
ficers arrived at six yesterday morning at Williams Cha
teau, over which the flag of the Hohenzollerns now flies,
and brought the news of Hindenburg’s election to the for
mer Kaiser, producing great animation. The Emperor
<was overjoyed at the election of hia former Field Marshal
and sent a message to the German people by one of the
automobiles.
Following is the history of the life
of Paul von Hindenburg:
The soldier whom former Emperor
^ William called the Wotan of modern
times and w'hose sw'ord, he predicted,
would regain for Germany “the res
pect of the wrorld”, Field Marshal Paul
Beneckendorff, and von Hindenburg,
was born in Prussia, October 2, of the
1847.
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Standing more than six feet in
height, his giant body radiating great
strength—small blue, piercing eyes
gleaming from a large head—the idol
of the German people fell at the end
of the world war, a broken man.
Reported at different times critical
ly ill, killed by an assassin, mortally
wounded in battle and dead by his
own hand, von Hindenburg came thru
the war unscathed. For weeks at a
time his fate was a mystery to the
outside world and then his name
w'ould reappear in the dispatches. In
an Allied air attack on Ghent, Belgium
on June 10, 1917, he w'as said to have
been wrounded by a fragment of shell.
Just before the collapse of Germany
in the fall of 1918, the Field Marshal
was reported to have been attacked by
a Bavarian prince who tried to shoot
him. —
Von Hindenburg had several dis
agreements writh Emperor William,
once because he refused to take orders
from the Crowrn Prince and at another
time when he opposed the Emperor’s
wish that Riga and Dvinsk be captur
ed. He threatened to resign and the
royalty had to yield.
^ . Notwithstanding their strained rela
tions when the former Emperor fled
to Holland, von Hindenburg defended
liis course, saying: “The Emperor
could have betaken himself to the
fighting troops in order to meet death
at their head in a last attack upon
the enemy, but the armistice was so
keenly desired by the people would
thereby have been postponed and the
lives of many soldiers uselessly sacri
| ficed. The Emperor finally, in an
agreement with his advisers and after
a severe mental struggle, decided to
leave the country, solely in the hope
that he could thereby best serve the
Fatherland.”
“Try me,” was von Hindenburg’s re
quest to the Allies when, upon the
signing of the treaty of peace, it was
announced the former Emperor would
be arraigned as the arch-criminal of
the war. He wrote President Ebert,
bead of the German republic:
“The signing of the Peace Treaty
^kes me occasion for declaring that
l was responsible for the decisions
|tid acts of Main Headquarters since
August 29, 1916, and also that all proc
lamations and orders of his Majesty,
the Emperor and King, concerning the
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waging of warfare, were issued upon
my advice and upon my responsibl
ity. x I beg you, therefore, to inform
the German people and the Allied
governments of this declaration.”
Subsequently von Hindenburg was
mentioned among the 800 “war crimi
nals” demanded for trial by the Al
lies. There was a blanket indict
ment by both France and Belgium
against the Field Marshal in which
he, with General Erich Ludendorff,
was charged with responsibility fo
“the cruel administration” and the de
struction of villages in Belgium and
the deportations from that country
and from France. He was not brot
to trial. Eugene Scliiffer, German
Minister of Justice, in charge of the
prosecutions, decided that the acts
complained of were done “under mili
tary necessity and therefore, cannot
merit punishment.”
Von Hindenburg was a veteran of
i three wars and, like his great con
j querer. Foch, had been an instructor
in a military college, the once famous
Kriegschule in Berlin. He had fought
in the Austro-Prussian and Franco
Prussian wars. Retired for disability
in 1907, the military clique of Ger
many was sure he never could come
back. Already an old man, a hero to
every German schoolboy, reverses to
the German arms gave voice to the
public clamor for his leadership. So
it was then be became chief of the
general staff on August 30, 1916, sue-!
ceeding General Erich von Falken
hayn, who was dismissed and General
Helmuth von Moltke, who was retired
for “ill health” shortly after the war
started.
The field marshal’s chief claim to
fame rested in his success in turning
back the Russian armies when after
overrunning Poland and laying waste
a great part of Galicia and East Prus
sia and threatening to invade the
heart of Germany, he met and utter
ly defeated them at Tanneburg, among
the morasses of the Mazurian lakes,
taking in one battle over 40,000 pris
oners.
Thereafter von Hindenburg was
known to every German as “The Old
Man of the Lakes,” and believed to
have almost superhuman power. Cit
ies and streets were named in his
honor and a great wooden statute was
unveiled in Berlin'into which his wor
shippers hammered nails as if to
made their modern Odin ever more
i vincible. This statue after the de
i at of the Central Powers and the
revolution in Germany, was ordered
removed by the Ebert government. It
fell into the hands of lumber wreck
ing concern in whose yard it lay for
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FISH COMMISSION
GETS 51 THOUSAND
(Special to the Gateway)
JUNEAU, Alaska, April 27.—Carry
ing $61,000 more than first introduced
the House this afternoon passed the
general appropriations measure by a
vote of 12 to 4, Elliott, Grant, Nylen
and Paul voting against its passage.
The largest increase was for the Ter
ritorial fish commission, which was
raised to $51,000. The measure will
go to the Senate tomorrow morning.
The Senate Finance Committee in
troduced a bill this morning directing
the Treasurer to prepare and submit
in the future a budget to the legis
lature containing a statement of rev
enues of the territory ’ for the bien
nium, and the sources of sevenue, ap
propriations for the biennium, the
amounts expended and unexpended in
each item, and the cash balance in
the Territorial treasury, the probable
revenues for the next biennium un
der the existing laws, and the prob
able necessary expenditures. The bill
was rushed and passed the Senate this
afternoon by unanimous vote, with
only Ayer and Howard voting against
it.
The Senate killed the $20,000 ses
quicentennial exposition appropriation
of $20,000, indefinitely postponing the
bill by a vote of six to two.
Moody’s bill providing funds for an
airplane landing in the Fourth division
was passed by the Senate.
Fish Hatcheries Safe
Representative Joe Murray of this
division headed a successful effort to
overturn the committee recommenda
tions for the Territorial fish commis
sion, and put through an amendment
which provides *$20,000 each for the
Ketchikan and Cordova hatcheries and
$10,000 for the Seward hatchery/ with
$5,000 for stream clearing near Val
dez, and the construction of(a weir
at Ishamy lake, $3500 for the destruc
tion of hair seals on the Copper Riv
er flats; $6,000 for the superinten
dent’s salary; $2500 for general ex
penses, and later another amendment
giving the commission $11,500 for in
vestigations and $1000 for opening
and equipping the office to preserve
records and documents.
ARGENTINE FLYER
COMING SEWARD
The Gateway today received a tele
gram from La Nacion, 3S3 Madison
Square, New York, stating that Major
Zanni, Argentine around the world
flyer, who has wintered in Tokio, ex
pected to leave there May 16 for Alas
ka, and asking Seward to extend him
every facility in its command to aid
his flight. The United States gov
ernment has placed its coast guard
cutters at the major’s service, and
it is expected he will remain in Sew
ard several days.
REBELS RAID FRENCH MOROCCO
LEAVING CASUALTY OF FORTY
PARIS, Apr. 28.—The Government
has announced that a captain and
fourteen men of the French Mor
occo unit were killed and eleven
wounded in a fight with four hund
red rebels early in April. The reb
els, however, retreated after attack
ing the party and leaving forty dead
among them.
Young Lad Thought
Rifle Was Unloaded;
Shot Proves Fatal
BELLINGHAM, Wn., Apr. 28.—Bil
ly Orr, aged seven was shot and
killed by his playmate, Johnny Day,
aged eight while playing with a rifle
thought not to be loaded.
PACIFIC AMERICAN FISHERIES
HEARING SET FOR NOV 2ND
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 28.—
The Supreme Court has set the hear
ing qC the appeal of fhe Paeiflc-Am
erican Fisheries, attacking the Al
aska salmon tax, for November 2.
HAIDA AT DUTCH HARBOR
(DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, Apr. 28.
—The Coast Guard cutter Haida ar
rived here after giving medical and
dental aid to the Indians scattered
about the peninsula and islands.
PACIFIC COAST CHAMBERS
URGE SURVEY ALASKA COAST
SEATTLE, Wn., Apr. 28.—The
chambers of commerce of Seattle,
Portland, San Francsico and Los An
geles are cooperating to urge more
thorough charting of western Alas
ka waters, and to obtain an increas
ed appropriation to extend the coast
and geodetic surveys to tnat region.
ALASKA OIL CO.
TO DRILL WELLS
KATALLA FIELD
(By Associated Press)
CORDOVA, April 28.—The Alaska
Consolidated Oil Company has decid
ed to do extensive work in the Katal
la field this summer and will drill
two test or deep wells.
R. A. Terry, New York geologist is
here to superintend the work, a crew
of forty men going to work at once
building camps and trails. Lumber and
supplies for the Company leave Seat
tle on May 16th.
The Chilkat Oil Company which has
the only producing wells in Alaska,
will sink two more wells this season.
Four drillers for this company are
due on Thursday’s boat from Seattle.
FORMER MEMBER NORTHWEST
MOUNTED POLICE PASSES ON
VICTORIA, April 28.—George L.
Service, a member of the Royal North
west Mounted Police from 1876 to
1900, and who served in the suppres
sion of the Indian rebellion led by
Louis Riel in the Prairie provinces of
Canada in 1885, died at his home yes
terday at the age of 66 years. He
was also with the Klondike detach
ment on the Yukon in 1898.
WILL START TRIP
TO POLE IN MAY
OSLO, April 28.—Two planes are be
ing assembled at Spitzenbergen for
trial flights Saturday. The start for
the pole will be made in May, the first
step being to Walter Wellman’s bay,
Danes Island, or the ice further north.
The Norwegian weather bureau an
nounced that fog, rather than cold,
will be the chief difficulty encounter
ed by the fliers. Skiis have been fit
ted to the planes for lighting on land
and ice, as well as water.
Dempsey To Take A
Trip Before Battle
NEW YORK, Apr. 28.—Abandoning
the hope of arranging a heavyweight
championship match until after the
Tunney-Gibbons and Wills-Weinert
matches in June, Jack Dempsey has
announced that he would sail for Eu
rope with his wife.
NEW YORK, Apr. 28.—Jack Demp
sey appeared in person before the
New York State Athletic Commis
sion and was asked if he was ready
to meet the challenger, Harry Wills,
in which Dempsey replied that the
Commission must ask Kearns, his
manager.
BRITAIN RETURNS
GOLD STANDARD
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, England, April 27.—Win
ston Churchill, chancellor of the ex
chequer, in his maiden budget speech,
placed the British empire on a gold
basis; announced the reimposition of
the McKenna duties on imported lux
uries; and promised to introduce a
measure providing for internal treas
ury notes, besides Bank of England
notes, which may be convertible into
gold coin, but only at the option of
the Bank of England.
He explained that the reestablish
ment of the gold standard did not ne
cessarily mean a return to gold coin
age and appealed to the people to con
tinue to use the notes. He reported
that interest in the British debt had
been reduced over 70,000,000 pounds
the last five years, and estimated to
tal expenditures at 795,400,000 pounds
sterling, of which 9,400,000 was in ex
cess of last year’s expenditures, Ho
called this “very disappointing.”
Pound Sterling Advances.
NEW YORK, April 27.—Within 15
minutes after the news that Britain
had returned to the gold standard was
received here, the demand for the
pound sterling advanced one cent to
$4.83, the highest within a decade and
within four cents of par.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 28.—
Officialdom declared today that the
restoration of the gold standard in
Great Britain is next to the Dawes
plan as an European reconstruction
! move.
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WOULD PLACE
ESKIMOS ON
RESERVATIONS
(By Associated Press)
i OTTAWA, April 28.—Knut Ras
mussen, Danish explorer who this last
! summer ended a trip throughout North.
| America and the Arctic Coast, urged
| the establishment of reservations thru
out the Canadian Arctic for Eskimos,
to alleviate the rigorous conditions
under which they live, and stated it
was his belief the government was
! ready to undertake the project.
Merchant Marine Head
Says Fleet Will Never
Prosper Gov’t Hands
(By Associated Press)
HOUSTON, Texas, Apr. 28.—Presi
dent Palmer of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation in an address last even
ing said, “the Merchant Marine can’t
amount to anything under Govern
ment control.. We are reducing the
loss of overhead year by year, but
it is impossible for me to take youi
money and handle it as successfully
with as little loss as my own.”
TROTZKY BE RETURNED TO
POWER SOON IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW, Russia, April 27.—The
return of Trotzky to power is forecast
ed, as 500 delegates from all parts of
Russia gathered here for the 14th
congress of the communist party,
which opened yesterday in the Krem
lin. Trotzky delayed his appearance
at the assembly on the plea that he
was finishing a book.
ADA BLACKJACK IN SPOKANE
SPOKANE, April 28.—Investigation
of a woman with two sons, one eight
years and one eight months old, call
ing herself Mrs. Elsie Edwin, proved
the woman was Ada Blackjack, who
had assumed the name to avoid pub
licity. She is here seeking employ
ment.