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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 55
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
TAFT FUNERAL
TODAY; LIES IN j
STATE CAPITOL
MILITARY ESCORT ARLINGTON
CEMETERY; FIRST PRESl
DENT BURIED THERE
WASHINGTON. March 11, (/P)—
The body of William Howard Taft
will remain in his Wyoming Ave.,
nome until this morning when it i
was to go to the Capitol rotunda j
and lie in state for three hours be- j
fore the funeral from All Souls
Unitarian Church at 2 p. m.
President Hoover and the entire
Supreme Court and other officials
will attend. Congress will adjourn
and 20 delegates from the House
and Senate will be in the cortege.
A military escort to Arlington
Cemetery, where he will be the first
president to have been buried
there, at his expressed wishes. A
plot was selected yesterday by Mrs.
Taft and three children.
Flags are half-mast thruout the
country today. Dolly Gann and
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were among
the visitors yesterday. The Hoo
vers and Mrs. Roosevelt telegraphed
from Oyster Bay.
Taft’s pew was empty but the
Unitarian church was packed to
day. Taft laid the corner stone
six years ago. Ulysses G. G Pierce,
pastor said: “‘It an inspiration to
tnow that we had in our midst a
nan who exemplified, to the full
est extent, the difference between
• he counterfeit and real religion".
OPEN CONFLICT
BETWEEN HAITI
OFFICIALS, U. S.
BORNO IS STILL PRESIDENT
SO WILL DO AS PLEASES
HE ASSERTS
CAPE HAITTEN, Haiti, M>r., 11,
,/P)—Open conflict lias developed
between the Hoovei investi gat
ing commi:'?ion and Louuis Bor
ne). President.
The ccnvnv ohm telephoned to
Pori au Prince that Porno must
veep hi.- pro nise given Sunday
a permit the selection of a pro
visional government which will
act until the constitutional gov
ernment will be placed in power.
President Borno answered that
he was still the head of the gov
ernment and he will do as he
pleased.
The commission issued an ul
timatum to Borno in which he
was informed he must take all
consequences, politically and per
sonally. if he refused to adhere
to the agreement.
The ultimatum virtually with
drew all protection from him. He
is in danger of losing his life so
intense is the public feeling.
ANCHORAGE TALKIES
The Empress Theater rrpnage
ment at Anchorage advices the
Gateway that the “talkies” will
t>e given a premier showing at
\nchomge Saturday night. March
15, ooening with “aTie Coconuts”
Erring the four Marx brothers.
If there are any Seward people
planning to go over for the open
ing they should either notify the
Gateway or A. J. Hewitt, at An
chorage so that seats may be re
served for them.
BAKE SALE SATURDAY
To defray the expense incurred
-hru the purchasing of material
with which they made their own
basketball suits, the members of
the S. A. C. Women’s team who re
cently conquered the Anchorage
City Women, will give a bake sale
next Saturday. The place where
the goodies may be obtained will be
announced in a day or two.
RARE WINE CONFISCATED
SACRAMENTO, March 11, (A*)—
Nearly 200,000 gallons of rare wine,
valued at approximately $1,000,000
were confiscated by federal agents
in a raid on the Silva Bros., bonded j
winery 12 milse east of Sacramento. |
DR. COOK IS !
RELEASED FROM
PENITENTIARY \
WAS PRISON INTERNE, AIDING
FELLOW PRISONERS; WILL
STUDY NEW SCIENCE
LEAVENWORTH, March 11, (/Pi
Dr. Frederick A. Cook, 65, physician
and explorer, was released from the
federal penitentiary where he had
srved five years of a 14 years and
nine months sentence for using the
mails to defraud in connection with
oil promoting plans.
He will go to Chicago to study
for a cure for narcotic degeneration
and creation of a new science
“cellular therapy”.
He was a prison interne, aiding
the suffering; of his fellow prison
ers.
He still claims the discovery of
the North pole. “Peary’s narrative
and mine must stand as the finish
ed records as both reports are ac
cessible”. He felt he was too old to
again undertake Arctic explora
tions.
TRIAL POSTPONED
WASHINGTON, March 11, (IP)—
The bribery trial of Doheny was
postponed until Wednesday, on
account of the death of Taft. The
oil man was in court when Jus
tice Hitz, of the District of Col
umbia. announced the recess.
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Judge Thatcher
Nominated For
Solicitor General
WASHINGTON, March 11. (/P)—
The nomination of Judae Thonvs
Onv Thatcher of New York to be
STicitor General, was reported on
patrorablv to the Smote by tire
uidieiry committee without op
position.
Responding to a written re
plies, from the committee Judge
! That her informed the Senate he
had sold his stock in four power
: companies, on the basis that his
interests threatened opposition to
I his appointment.
| It was decided at the Anchor
age convention of the Grand Igloo
Pioneers of Alaska, to hold the 1931
convention at Juneau.
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j Axel Samuelson, King Cove fox
rancher, left for his island last
night, a passenger on the S. S.
Starr.
The local cold storage plant, the
San Juan Pishing & Packing Co.
i is nowr open and is receiving
1 halibut every day.
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SALUTES FOR TAFT
' The salutes, from the guns of
I the United States Coast Guard
Cutter Chelan, Captain Demp
jwolf, fired at half-hour intervals
today, were in honor of William
j Howard Taft, former President
of the United States who was
buried today in Arlington Ceme
! tery.
With a strong wind behind it
the S. 6. Starr steamed down the
bay last evening, following the
arrival from the Interior of the
i regular passenger train, on its
regular monthly mail run to the
I Westward.
The brother of D. E. Valade, a
recent arrival from Oregon, has
; obtained a job on the S. S. Starr
! and went Westward on the ship.
| He will be night watchman
Flames In Depths
Mine Takes Toll I
Two Oat Of 89
STEUBENVLLE, Ohio, March 11,
Cheated of all but two of its
victims among 89 men trapped
in the smoke-filled tunnels,
flames lapped stubbornly away
In the depths of the Wolf run
mine of the Warner collieries.
Sparks from the electric pole
trolley from the train started
the conflagration and for a few
hours threatened a major mine
disaster.
Heroic rescue squads, picking
their way through tongues of
flame springing from timbers and
coal, brought every man but two
safely to the surface.
Rear Admiral Bvrd
Arrives New Zealand
DUNEDIN. N. Z„ March 11, (A3)—
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and
members of the Antarctic expedi
tion arrived yesterday afternoon in
the barque City of New York after
more than a year in the ice barrier
of Ross Sea.
Virtually the entire population
of 85,000 acclaimed the first man
to fly to both the North and South
poles and the only man to accom
plish the latter.
The barque and the steamer
Eleanor Bolling were met in the
larbor by launches carrying offi
cials; bands played and escorted
the tugs, launches, steamers and
ferryboats.
ERLANGER IS DEAD
NEW YORK, Mar. 10, (JP)~A.
L. Erlanger, theatrical minagnr,
70. died at his home here. He
hod been seriously ill for two
weeks. He organized the first
theatre syndicate and controlled
many principal theatres.
Mine Cage Droos
Down Shaft; 29 Die
JOHANISBURG, S. Africa, March
11. (IP)—One European and 28 na
tives were killed and two Euro
peans and six natives injured in a
disaster in an underground shaft
of the Crown mine. The eagh con
taining 28 natives and miners,
broke away and crashed to the
bottom of the shaft a distance.of
about 1,600 feet. All were killed
outright.
Capt. Hemie Berger, owrner of
the M. S. Discoverer, announces
he departs for the Westward be
tween the 15th and the 20th
weather permitting.
Tonight “Fun on the Podunk
Limited” will be presented at the
j Liberty Theater. The cast is made
up of local talent and is being
presented under the auspices of
the Seward Athletic Club.
j The Cutter Chelan arrived in
I port today towing the disabled
halibuter Liberty which rece~;ly
struck a reef south of Kodiak
Island, the account of which ap
peared yesterday in these columns.
ARMSTRONG APPEALS
Karl Armstrong of Kodiak has
filed an appeal with the Circuit
Court of Appeals asking that the
judgement rendered at the last
June term of court, in Seward be
set aside and a new trial grant
ed. The Armstrong appeal is
based solely upon alleged errors
in instructions of the court to "the
ui-v. The case is set for hearing
March 25 in San Francisco and
Attorney A. J. Dimond, of Valdez,
I is leaving on the S. S. North
; western to argue the case before
1 the Circuit Court of Appeals,
j' The government will be represent
ed by F. J. Hatfield, U. S. at
! tomey of San Francisco.
Instructor Shot
While Attending
Party, Home Student
PITTSBURGH. March 11, (/F\~
Newell Gibson, 24, instructor of
chemistry at Carnegie Ii iV' vte of
Technology, died from a bullet
wound received Satui iay while at
tending a party at the home of
Walter Krebs, a student of the U.
S. Bureau of Mines.
Deteetives said Krebs and fc. H.
Bane, a law student at the Univer
sity of Pittsburgh, will be rearrest
ed as a result of Gibson’s death.
They were first released under $250
bail each when Gibson said on Sat
urday that the shooting was acci
dental.
Byrd Speaks Over
Radio To America
NEW YORK, March 11, (IP)—
From more than 10,000 miles
away Rear Admiral Byrd greeted
America by radio as the nation
listened
He spoke from Dunedin, New
Zea'and the first stop of his
homeward journey.
The Explorer's ‘Hello, America’
was la response to his welcome
back to civilization by Adolph
Ochs, publisher of the New York
Times The replies were barely
distinguishable in the barrage of
static and other forms of inter
ference. Short wave channels and
broadcast links, the most elab
orate ever attempted, made the
feat possible.
Final Resting
Place Of Taft
Is Isolated Knoll
WASHINGTON, March 11, (/?)—
Major General S'aden, command
general of the 3rd corps area,
Baltimore, has been selected to
command the military procession
acting as formal escort at Wm.
H. Taft’s funeral.
Bright sunshine, and a hint of
spring, flooded the isolated knoll
in Arlington Cemetery which is
to be Mr.' Taft’s final resting
place. The only other grave there
is that of Robert Todd Lincoln,
son of Abraham Lincoln; it is in
a r mote section of the cemetery
and one which Mrs. Taft selected.
It is a few feet from the road
and back of it is thickly wooded
CniCAGO PAY DAY
CHICAGO, Mar. 10, (/P)--With
its rescue fund standing near $56,
000,000 Cook county began paying
off its employes with prospects of
city workers receiving salaries to
day.
WINS GOLF TITLE
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. Mar. 10,
(/P)—Miss Virginia Van Wie won
the South Atlantic Woman’s golf
championship defeating Mrs. Stew
art Hanley four up and three to
play.
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SIR HOWARD RETIRES
LONDON, Mar. 10, (/P)-Sir Esmes
jHoward, former British Ambassa
dor to the United States, arrived
home and announced he had def
initely retired from the ranks of
diplomats.
A RUM PLOT
j DETROIT, Mar., 10, (JP)-A gi
igantic rum running conspiracy, in
ivoiving transportation of liquor
^rom Canada by airplane, was be
lieved crushed following the arrest
'of five men said to be ring leaders
i of the scheme.
i Dick Brooks, assistant agent,
Alaska Railroad, took passage on
the S. S. Northwestern, enroute
to his former home in Ohio. He
has a two-months furlough.
WOUNDED BY BULLETS
LORAIN, O., March 11, (IP)—A
grim battle between a steel armor
ed rum boat and a coast guard
cutter on Lake Erie ended with the
capture of the runner and its crew
of two men. The coast guard cut
ter was rammed in the battle and
one of the crew of the runner was
wounded twice in the body by the
bullets poured into the rum boat.
JUDGE SANFORD
BURIED TODAY
AT KNOXVILLE
WASHINGTON, March 11, (/P)—
The body of Supreme Court Justice
Edward Terry Sanford, accompan
ied by his widow and Chief Justice
Hughes and associated Justices Mc
Reynolds, Butler and Stone, left
for Knokville, Ten., for burial to
day.
Judge Sanford died suddenly five
hours before Taft. He left his home
to join his colleagues in celebrating
the 89th birthday of Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes and went to the
dentist where he collapsed in a
chair and died of uremic poison
ing. He was removed to his home
unconscious.
Hughes and the other justices
will return in time for the Taft
rites.
NOMINATION CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON, March 10. (/P)—
The nomination of John D. Wil
lys to be ambassador to Poland,
was confirmed by the Senate.
WAITING FOR ORDER
LEAVENWORTH, March 10, </P)~
Warden White said he was wait
ing for formal orders from Wash
ington for the release on parole
of Dr. Cook.
GOING TO EUROPE
Ingwald Jacobson, member of
the S- L. & P. Co., staff will soon
realize a long cherished ambition,
a trip to the old country. Mr. Ja
cobsen plans to leave within a
couple of months for Los Angeles
to join his wife then together
go to New York and across to
Europe. Upon their return they
will both come North.
FIFTY STORIES
NEW YORK, Mar. 10, (AVThe
R. C. A. Victor Corp., will build a
50-story structure at Lexington
Avenue and 51st Street. The build
ing will tower 650 ft feet above the
ground.
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NEW FRENCH CABINET
j PARIS, Mar. 10, (/P)-Anre Tar
jdieu called upon President Dou
imergue and informed him the new
I Cabinet will be ready this week. It
j is not likely that the Cabinet will
tseek approbation of the Chamber
!of Deputies until later.
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BOATS IN PORT
Boats in port today include the
Van See, Neptune, Pioneer, Liber
ty, Red Wing, Bavaria, Chase,
Discoverer and the Coast Guard
Cutter Chelan. Two of the fishing
schooners came into port pretty
well iced down.
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PRISONER ESCAPES
MARIN COUNTY, March 11, (/P)
—Jack F. McConaha, 27, serving a
seven year sentence for burgalry,
escaped Rom San Qaenlin from a
road camp. As the prisoners were
going to camp from a road working
job, he stopped into a car and rode
off. No trace of him can be found.
OFFICER SHOT DEATH
DETROIT, March 10. (/P)—Pat
1 rolman Dayton Winegar was shot
I to death in a gun battle with
| two robbers who were fleeing with
. $6,000 obtained in a haberdashery
i holdup. The robbers escaped.
HUNDRED DIE
IN MOVIE SHOW
AT KOREA BASE
FILM BURST INTO FLAME; 1M
INJURED; PROGRAM WAS
IN WAREHOUSE
SEOUL, Korea, March 11, {&)—
One hundred and four persons^
were killed and more than 180i
injured when fire broke out in a;
Chicai Naval base movie show, in
southern Korea.
Most of the victims were Japan
ese naval men, their wives and.
children.
The show was being given in a?
warehouse at the naval base in
observance of the 25th anniver
sary of the capture, by Japanese
of Mukden, during the Russo
Japanese war. which anniversary
was celebrated throughout the
Empire.
The film, which ignited and.
caused the fire, was a patriotic
reproduction of scenes from the
Russo-Japanese conflict. About
600 persons were in the building
when the blaze broke out at 3'
o'clock in the afternoon and ragr*
ed for two hours
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U. Of S. California
Win Coast Ca%e
Title From Wash.
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LOS ANGELES, March 11, (/P)— «
Coupling methodical and consis
tent scoring attacks and with a.
stubborn defense, the University of
Southern California basketball
te^m won the Pacific Coast con
renece championship defeating1
the University of Washington
by the score of 37 to 29.
W°shington showed a reversal
of fo'm from Saturday night af
ter losing by a wide margin Fri
day’s game, to take the second,
fray of the three-game series.
FOR A BALL PLAYER
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Mar. II,
The Bambino, the ‘King of Swat,’
ordinarily known as “Babe” Ruth,
signed a new contract with the
New York Yankees who took a_
two years lease for his services
at the staggering sum of 382,000
annually.
rce Gorge Floods
South Dakota Land
VERMILLION. S. D.. March II,
(/p)—An ice gorge in the Missouri
river south of here flooded the low
lands of South Dakota for a dis
tance of seven nines a’ong the
stream. The damage was unesti
mated.
A rescue party set out from here
to bring in several farmers who axe
reported to be iced in on a hill by
the waters’ edge.
REFUESD REQUEST
MADRID, March 11, </P>—1The
Duke of Alva, Spanish Foreign
Minister, refused a request of*
former Soviet War Minister Trot
sky, asking permission to come to
Spain to regain his health. The
former commissioner is now living
in Turkey.
WAS SO DARNED FUNNY”
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., March
11, (/P)—“A horse is more dangerous
than an airplane”, Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh jocularly remarked here
as he discussed the nose dive he
took from the back of a polo pony.
“There was nothing to it,” he
laughed, “outside of the fact that
it was so darned funny.”
SENATE IN RECESS
WASHINGTON, March 11,
A two day recess has been taken
by the Senate in honor of Wm.
Howard Taft.
“PODUNK LIMITED”
TONIGHT