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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 52.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DEMONSTRATORS
ARE ROUTED BY
WASH. POLICE
TEAR AND GAS BOMBS USED TO
DISPERSE DEMONSTRATORS
SIX LEADERS ARRESTED
WASHINGTON. March 7, (VP)— j
Police used tear and gas bombs to
disperse a gathering on “Unem- 1
ployment Day".
The demonstrators appeared in
front of the White House and sev
eral were injured in the struggle
with the police when Bert Law
rence, leader of the demonstrators,
climbed to the top of the iron fence
seperating White House grounds
grounds from Pennsylvania Ave.,
and attempting to speak.
The police contrued this as a
violation of Hoover’s instructions
which said there would be no inter
ference as long as the demonstra
tion confined itself to the streets.
Two policemen forced Lawrence
to the sidewalk when a youth,
wearing a flaming red sweater,
grabbed one of the policemen from
behind; a general malee then start
ed. The youth in red fell with a
policeman and another policeman
released a charge of tear gas bombs
and the demonstrators fled in all
directions but the close packed
crowd of spectators prevented a
complete dispersal.
Six leaders were arrested. The
placards carried by the demonstra
tors were torn from their hands
and trampled by the mob.
Thru the demonstration Presi
dent Hoover remained at work a
nundred yards away.
Original Letters Of
Wm. H. Seivard
Donated Chamber
The Seward Chamber of Com
merce are the recipients of three
letters written in the original hand
of William H Seward, secretary of
.’rte durin : Abraham Lincoln's ad
on n ration. nd the mm who
co” rived a -d brought about the
purchase of -V. ska. afte r whom the
W' n of Sewai cl. Alaska is named.
The letters. addres d to William
J Young, New York ar^ dated Au
ourn, N. Y. 1853 and 1855 and
Washington, D. C., 1861. and were
*ent to the Seward Chamber of
Commerce by Frederick W. Carter
of Troy, N. Y., nephew of William
J. Young.
Mr. Carter sent along with the
leetters a fine engraving of the
Lincoln Cabinet, showing President
Lincoln, Secretary of State Seward
and the other Cabinet members.
The Chamber at once had the en
graving and the group of letters
framed for presentation and decid
ed to retain them until such^i time
as they can be made a part of the
Seward Memorial.
In the meantime the articles will
oe loaned to the William H. Seward
school here for exhibition.
Resistance Of Taft
Surprises Physicians
WASHINGTON, March 7. f/P)—
With death so imminent
as to be only a matter of hours,
William Howard Taft continued to
balance on the edge of life. His
condition was pronounced practi
cally unchanged by his physicians
after an earlier bulletin which de
scribed him as being slightly weak
er as compared to the previous day.
The recovery of the patient is
considered out of the question and
his determined resistence to serious
complications of the disease has
been a surprise to the doctors.
PROTESTS ATROCITIES
WASHINGTON, March 7, (/P)— I
Representative Hamilton Fish urg
ed Congress to protest against the
alleged atrocities in Russia, declar
ing that current religious persecu
tions in Russia have had no equal
since the 30-year war.
INDIAN WOMAN
ARTISTS MODEL
JAILED, KILLING
MAINTAINS SHE DID NOT KILL
WIFE OF ARTIST CURATOR
BUFFALO MUSEUM
BUFFALO, N. Y-, March 7, (/P)
Arrested in the brutal slaying
of Mrs. Henri Marchand, wife of
the famous artist curator of the
Buffalo Museum of Science, an
Indian woman, alleged to have
been infatuated with the artist,
is blamed for the killing.
Police detectives said Lillian
J merscn, 35. a full-blooded In
dian whom Marchand used as a
model, admitted she was present
in the Marchand home yesterday
when the wife was beaten and
choked to death but maintained
she didn’t kill her.
The police did not make public
the name of tHe woman she ac
cused who also is under arrest.
Mrs. Marchand was found by
her 12 year-old son.
Improvement Of
Sitka Harbor Is
Being Considered
WASHINGTON. March 7, (JP)—
Tiie improvement of Sitka Harbor
by the provision of a channel
on the easterly sie of Harbor
Rock. 150 feet wide and 22 feet
deep at mean low tide, at an es
timated cost of $67,500. is being
considered by the House rivers
and harbors committee in formu
lating the omnibus bill
The committee members quest
ioned army engineers on the pro
ject which would include the re
move 1 of Indian Rock.
Four Hundred
Drowned, Flood
Southern France
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{ TOULOUSE, France, Mrach 7, (JP)
i—The latest official estimates of
| the flood disaster in Southern
France placed deaths at Moissac
and the surrounding countryside
at 400; about 1,500 houses were de
stroyed or are on the point of
crumbling in Moissac. At least 12
igave their lives to save others.
! When dawn came it revealed only
desolution and the tired rescue
workers were faced with an almost
impossible task. All road, rail and
communications are out and the
! movement of small boats is dan
igerous because of the flood cur
rents.
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Reds Raising Cain
In San Francisco
| RAN I RAN CISCO. March 7, f*P)- -
Rioting and violence attributed to |
“Peds” broke out in two bay coun
ties following the coil of commun- i
Jst leaders lor a nat/.orai “imern- I
ployment Qemonstra 5 ,r* I-' Oak
land eight persons were injured
when police attempted to arrest a
soap box agitator.
Seven thousand dollars damage !
was caused to a state bridge project !
in Marin county in an arson plot j
attributed to communists.
COMMUNISTS IN
NEW YORK TRY
ATTACK WHALEN
REFUSED TO LET COMMUNISTS
PARADE: CROWD 50.000; SEV
ERAL INJURED
NEW YORK, March 7, </P)—Defy
ing police orders to confine their
demonstration to Union Square,
Communists attempted to parade j
and march to the City Hall pre- 1
cipitating a riot in which several j
police and citizens were injured.
A crowd, estimated at 50,000, were :
grouped in the square and in near- j
by streets when a delegation called i
on Police Commissioner Whalen in
his temporary headquarters, de- !
manding they be allowed to par
ade. The Commissioner refused
and the delegation returned and
the parade started.
Mounted police and national
guardsmen charged them when the
Communists tried to charge Whal
en’s office but the police protected
him from an attack.
HOOVER ASKED
RECALL DELEGATES
TO NAVY PARLEY
WASHINGTON, March 7. [IP)
Senator Kenneth McKellar, demo
crat from Tennessee, launched a
one man attack to bring the Lon
don Naval Armament Conference
to an immediate termination.
Taking the attitude that the
work of the Conference was certain
to be futile as far as reduction of
big fleet is concerned, Senator Mc
Kellar urged President Hoover to
recall American delegates. His de
mand drew little response from
other Senators who appeared little
interested in the Conference.
Advices from London appeared
to be in support of Mr. McKellar's
conte n cion. Despite optimistic
statements by Prime Minister Mac
Donald and Secretary of St at *
Stimson, the Conference seems to
be unable to move without the
presence of the French delegations.
It is unlikely that the French wih
be able to attend for another week.
CAL M. BROSWS
HEADS PIONEERS
AS PRESIDENT
Special to The Gateway
ANCHORAGE, March 7, —Upset
ting the plans of two Anchorage
delegates to elect Dr. Chase of Cor
dova, president of the Grand Igloo,
Pioneers of Alaska, Cal M. Brosius
of Seward, was chosen unanimous- .
iy.
Discovering Chase’s backers were ,
greasing the skids for a pamphlet
exposing the attitude against trap
pers interpreting the purpose of
the Game Commission caused the
pedulum to swing to Brosius.
The Grand Igloo Convention ad
journed Thursday.
NECKLACE OF
NAPOLEON IS
REPORTED GONE\
NEW YORK, March 7, (/PI-An I
entrancing tale concerning former :
nobility of Austria has come to j
light here with the announcement!
that authorities have begun an in- j
vestigation into the reported dis
appearance in New York of the
rare, lovely necklace supposed to
have been the gift of Napoleon
Bonaparte to his Empress Marie
Louise of Austria on the birth of
their son Laiglon.
The mecklacp. which was valued
at more than S200.000. is reported
to have been entrusted by the
former Archduchess Marie Theresa
to a colonel in the British secret
service who was to have sold it. The
Archduchess has not heard from
him in two months, according to
here representatives in the United
States.
Authorities have subpoenaed the
former aichduke to find what he
knows of the necklace.
FIVE REPORTED SLAIN
LONDON, March 7. (/P)—Dis
patches received from China to the
Catholic authorities here announc
ed that Salesian Bishop and an
other priest and three nuns have
been kidnapped and murdered by
Chinese bandits within the last
!>w days.
$45,000 FOR SCARRED LEG
NEW YORK, March 7, (/P)—Miss
Winifred Conahan, cousin of Mary
Pickford, film actress, was awarded
545,000 damages in a suit against
;he Louis Sherry Inc. Miss Conahan
charged that the calf of her leg
«ras permanently scarred when a
window fell into the street from
;he Sherry Shop.
FUNERAL PLANE
ARRIVES NOME
CONTINUE RUBY
CIRCLED CITY SEVERAL TIMES
THEN HEADED FOR RUBY
WHERE REFUEL
NOME, March 7, (/P)—The aer
ial funeral plane arrived at nine
o'clock in the morning from Tel- \
ler. Both the Fairchild and Jun- i
kers circled the city and landing
^ie’d several times but owing to1
the landing field being full of
windrows caused by a recent bliz
zard the planes did not land.
However, services were con
ducted as the planes circled af
ter which they continued to Ru- ;
by where they were to refuel and
leave for Fairbanks.
Gillan and Reid and mechanic
Hughes took off in a Stearman
plane and will accompany the
planes to Fairbanks.
First Hole Fails
Show Pay, Ruby;
More Being Dug
RUBY, March 7, (/Pi—Complet
ing the first hole sunk in an ef
fort to determine the width of
the pay on the streak of the re
cent rich gold strike on Beaver
Creek, it didn’t show any pay
dirt, operators reported.
The hole was sunk G3 feet to
wards the creek from the point
of discovery. Other prosepct holes
will be sunk closer to the dis
covery point.
Fifteen are prospecting with
boilers used for generating steam
to thaw the frozen ground so as
to permit digging. They are be
ing hauled to Beaver Creek from
here by tractors.
MOTHER CERTAIN BYRD WILL SAIL SAFELY HOME
Admiral Byrd’s mother (light) is sure he will come heme safely from
the antarctic where ice holds his ship. The explorer is shown listening to
a radio (lower right) which has kept them in touch, and (upper left) wav
ing a happy salute.
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HOSPITALS NEEDED
From Bethel to Dutch Harbor,
a distance of about 1,000 milesl
we find game wardens to pre
serve the fur bearers, the wild
fowls and even the brown bears;
dozens of agents of the bureau
of fisheries to see that the sal
mon are preserved; an abundance
of school teachers to teach the
young natives how to "shoot’*
something besides red fox and
hair seals; then there are a lot
of tax collectors, prohibition
agents and government officials
galore.
But in all that vast area there
is but one hospital!
Every winter the sick or injured
must travel hunderds of miles
in order to reach the Dillingham
hospital. People can’t and won't
live in a region where there are
no doctors, nurses or hospitals.
The white population of that
region has decreased 30 percent
in 20 years and the native pop
ulation has decreased fully 60
percent. Let there be as much
solicitation about the people of
the country as there is of the
liquor law, the fur and fish laws
and that region of great resources
will gain a population to which it
is entitled.
TARIFF ON FUR
The fight in the Senate over
the tariff schedule has been go
ing on for some nine months,
and still continues.
Generally speaking, the situa
tion seems to be that every Sen
ator wants a decrease in the du
ties in all schedules except
where it applies to his own par
ticular state, when he wants an
increase.
Not so, when it comes to Alas
ka. Millions and millions of dol
lars worth of furs are imported
into the United States every year
and sold in competition with the
products of the fur farmer and
sourdough trapper of Alaska and
yet none of these imports pay
any duties, specific or ad valor
um, except silver gray fox which
have an ad valorum duty of 25
percent.
Why is it. the products of
every state are protected by high
duties and the products of Alas
ka are not? Simply because we
have had a flock of delegates for
meny years past that have played
oolitics instead of looking after
the welfare and interests of their
constituents.
Martin Lanning, the wrecker
who is demolishing local build
ings making way for a new bus
iness structure, says; “Send the
unemployed in the states up here
and I’ll put ‘em to work.
Grand Jury Asks
Dismissal Sheriff
OAKLAND, March 7, (A3)—'The
removal from office of Sheriff Bur
ton F. Becker of Alameda county on
charges of misconduct in office was
demandeed in open court by the
county jury as it returned indict
ments against three Beckers, form
er deputies and three other persons
after an investigation into gamb
ling and bootlegging graft.
BRITISH PROTEST
MIAMI. March .7, <;P)—Jack
Sharkey. American heavyweight,
asserted his right to heavyweight
championship as result of his fight
with Phil Scott while the British
papers strongly resent the decision
against Scott. The Miami fight
Commission upheld the action of
the referee.
N. Y. TEMPERATURE
NEW YORK, March 7, (A3)—Mini
mum temperature 24, maximum
).
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