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Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-27
J. 5. BUNKER COAL
 TAxED" IN CANADA
MUST HEREAFTER PAY DUTY OF FIFTY CENTS TON WHEN
 LOADED IN THE EASAT

NEW YORK, Jan. 27, P)-Bunker coal of American origin must hereaf- ter pay duty of 50 cents ton when taken on at Montreal and ports east.
 The new ruling went into effect January l. The privileged position of bunker coal on the Pacific continues unchanged.
 The new regulation gives Canadian mines protection on bunker coal in eastern Canadian ports, the duty-free privilege remaining force west of Montreal. Bituminous coal is regu- larly dutiable at 50 cents per ton, but duty free entry of bunker coal has heretofore been permitted at Cana dian ports.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-27
MORE 0N RATL|FF

(Continued from Page One) the law firm of Hoyt and Stephens, they announced Thursday
 Young Ratliff, who has been in the city a little more than a week, Thursday revealed story as amaz- ing as any fiction written about the famous Klondike country. In their investigation of the details, the at torneys announced that everything possible to check in so short time, has been found to tally with the boys. story"
 Fled From School
 Ratliff is 23 years old With his fraction of Chickasaw Indian blood urging him to adventure, he ran away from school when he was F years old, going to Alaska.
 There, in the space of six years, he found what he sought; was elected president of a $3O,0O0,0OO ruby silver mine in which he became majority stockholder; was made financial agent; came back to the middle-west for financial backing, and was stab- bed, waylaid and threatened with sentence to the penitentiary until he signed some papers"
 Experiences of lifetime have been crowded into that six years for Rat liff-a period in which he saw for tunes won and lost in the mining game-a period in which his own small capital was turned into a po- tential fortune, only to wind up in bitter fight for millions.
 Boyhood Wish Realized T wanted to go to Alaska ever since I was a bay" the youngster stated gravely. My first job up there was as a time keeper on the railroad, but it included dumping work, and counting ties, and that sort of thing.
 T met a mighty fine old gentleman, Harry Wertz. But I met lots of folks and didn't realize what a friend Wer- tz was until he began acting like father to me- I knew he had some mine property, but I didn't pay much attention to that. In 1923 I came home to Purcell, bought filling sta tion, and lived there for nearly two years"
 It was in this interval that Ratliff's father was killed when a maniac ran amuck on the streets of Purcell
 My stepmother and were left, and went back to Alaska he said.
 He arrived in Seward, gateway to Alaska" late in 1925, leased the Over land hotel, and began to make a stake" One day man by the name of w. B. Deaner, an oldtimer, came to the hotel, and began negotiating with Wertz for his mining property at Chulitna, Ratliff said.
 "Mr. Wertz was scared of corpora tions, and Deaner represented some Eastern firm. Wertz wouldn't sell and because everybody knows every (Continued on Page Three.)
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-27

J. B. Gottstein, Anchorage whole sale grocer, was among the arrivals Cordova
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-27

Picture Framing. Schallerer's Alas ka Shop.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
RACIAL HARMONY
MEETINGS PLANNED
Three-Day Session to Open at
Mount Pleasant Church Next
Friday Night.

A three.day meeting to promote
inter-racial harmony will be held here
under the auspices of the National
Inter Racial Committee of the Bahais
Of the United States and Canada, April
8 to 10.
The meetings will be held Friday
and Saturday evenings in the Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church. at
S:15 o'clock, and in the Playhouse,
1914 n streets, Sunday afternoon at
$50 o'clock Horace Holley, poet and
author, of New York City, who will
deliver an address at one of the ses-
sion, will speak at the opening meet
ing, while Rev. Moses r. Lowell. pas
tor Of the Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church. will preside.
Besides Mr.. Holley, speakers at the
three meetings are to include DR..
Samuel c. Mitchell Of Ricnnlo.h Lnl-
versity, who has been active in the
Evening star., 1927-04-03
GERMANS BAR DRIVING.
Owners Dislike to Operate Their
Own Machines.

BERLIN. April CP).-The violent
dislike of Germans for driving their
own automobiles is one of many baf-
fling problems American motor manu-.
facturers are attempting to overcome
by advertising.
Thousands of prospects decline to
buy cars because operating expenses
with a chauffeur would be too high,
especially the 10 per cent rake-off
which chauffeurs manage to pocket
on the purchase of gasoline and sup
plies. The German Automobile Asso-
citation admits it's failure TO cope with
this widespread form of graft.
Even in medium-priced cars German
buyers want the chauffeur separated
from the occupants, so that CONVEX
sation will not be overheard.
Evening star., 1927-04-03

Blaming the fewer clothes worn by
women and the increased use of auto
mobiles for touring purposes for
sharp decrease in its business, the
Union Transfer Co. which has a bag
gage hauling concession at the Union
Station, petitioned the Public Utilities
Commission yesterday for authority to
increase it's rates
Back in 1919 when women who
travelled required one or more trunks
In which to pack their excess clothing
and automobiles were not SO numer-
Gus, the company said it handled 1885,
107 pieces of baggage. but its business
declined steadily ever since and last
year reached a low mark of 168,0 900
pieces. This decrease" said the peti-
ton. lis due to the increased use of
the automobile for touring PURPOSES
and the lack of the use of trunks by
women"
The company pointed out that it's
return last year was AS per cent on
its valuation of $155, 5,269.54, and that
the commission always has permitted
a return of II per cent in view of the
hazardous character of the business
The new schedule of rates proposed by
Evening star., 1927-04-03
Army Changes Announced.

The following Army changes were
announced by the War Department
yesterday affecting officers in Wash
ington and nearby points: Lieut.. Col.
Joseph G. Mauborgne. Signal Corps,
to the Panama Canal Zone: Maj.
Thomas D. Finley, 18th Infantry,
from Fort Washington, Md, to the
Military Academy at West Point N.
Y; Maj Carl A. Waldman, Ordnance
Department, to Harvard University
Cambridge. Mass; Maj Eugene NJ.
Landrum. Adjutant Generals Depart
ment. to San Francisco. and Maj.
Elroy S. j. Irvine, Corps Of Engineers.
of the Office of the Chief of Engi-
neers, to San Francisco.
Evening star., 1927-04-03

BY the Associated Press.
The Army's 75-millimeter mountain
gun equipment will be gwen its first
service test when the battery at Fort
Mcintosh, Tex, is taken to San An.
tonic by the 4th Field Artillery for
participation in the End Division
maneuvers there.
The artillery will hike the $50 miles
to San Antonio from Laredo. test the
guns on the Camp Stanley firing
range after the maneuvers next
month and then return overland to
Laredo.
Throughout the march and the fir
ing test the new equipment will be
under inspection by officers of the
Ordnance Corps and the Pack artil-
lery board to determine its superior
ity over the Vickers mountain gun.
which it is intended to replace. The
new gun has a range exceeding 5000
yards. can reach an elevation of As
degrees and has a traverse range of
five degrees. Weighing 1870 pounds,
Evening star., 1927-04-03
TRADE BODY OUTING.

The Washington Board Of Trade
will hold its annual shad bake outing
on May q at Sherwood Forest, George
Miller, chairman of the outing COM
mittee. announced last night.
Adequate transportation is to be
provided from Washington to the re-
sort for all not making the trip in
their own cars.
Preliminary plans call for an elabo-
rate entertainment program besides
the shad dinner. the hour of which is
to be announced later.
There will be program of athletic
games, for which prizes will be
awarded. boating, swimming fishing.
trapshooting. billiards and motion pic
lures.
Gov. Ritchie of Maryland will be
invited as one of the guests of honor.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
HERRI0T ENTHUSIASTIC
COLLECTOR or BOOKS
French Minister of Education
Makes Rich Haul in Purchase
of Rare Volume.

BY the Associated Press
PARIS, April 2.--Edouard Herriot.
minister of education. iS also an Ell
thusiastic book collector.
Recently NJ. Herriot made a rich
haul.
Glancing through q London book
sellers catalogue, he came across the
name of a book. lie Petit Livre
d'Amour." by Maurice de Sceve.
sixteenth century French neo- -PlatoniC
poet. the existence OF which was hit!:
erto unknown TO collectors. The price
was stiff. but the erudite minister with
trembling hands wrote out a telegram
and rushed servant off to file IL.
A few days later he received the
precious volume with Joy.
Maurice de Sceve, who died i'm 1864
was something of a Pico de la Miriam
dola, archeologist. architect, painter.
musician and poet. and NJ. Herriot's
acquisition appears to be the only
existing copy of a forgotten work. all
the more precious in that 1t throws
fresh light on the life of the author.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
DUKE is NOT WORRIED
BY ROYAL OSTRACISM
Nobleman Makes Own Living After
Being ousted for Marrying
Actress.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. April 2.-Ostracism by
members of his family because he
violated aristocratic convention by
marrying a pretty 20-year-old actress
means little to Duke Joachim Ernst
Won Anhalt. 90. who earns his own
living producing plays in his own
theater at Ballenstedt
The townspeople are solidly behind
him. Outside of few intimate friends
they were the only ones who partici-
pated in the wedding celebration.
They lined the streets cheering as the
Duke and his bride, formerly Ottilie
Elizabeth Strickrodt, started on a mo-
tor honeymoon trip to the French
Riviera. His mother refused to be-
stow the parental blessing on him.
Joachim fell In love with his bride
soon after he signed her to play in
one of his productions. The fact that
her hair is bobbed had much to do
with the animosity of his mother and
relatives
Evening star., 1927-04-03
NOu!

Lansburgh's is the
Faster store. New
things to wear. New
things for your home,
Toy rabbits and Eas-
ter candy.
But while Lans-
burgh's becomes the
Easter store. it re-
mains the practical
store, too.
Prices are moderate.
Evening star., 1927-04-03

erracial Commission; Mountfort
Mills, member of the New York bar.
now residing i'm Paris; Rabbi Abram
Simon of this city and chairman of
the Synagogue Council of America
and Rev Albert r. Vail Of Chicago.
Music for the three meetings viii
be furnished by the organist and
choir OF the Mount Pleasant Congre-
gational Church. he Glea Club of
Howard University and others.
Evening star., 1927-04-03

Materials:
Flat Crepe
Crepe
Elisabeth
Georgette
Crepe de Chine
Ge0rgette
OUer Print
R0Hidnette
Crepe Roma
Novel Crepe
Printed Crepe
Evening star., 1927-04-03
Decrease in Women Clothes and Gain
In Autos Cut Baggage Firm Income

the company call for an increase of
from so to IS cents for the first and
inner zone, from 90 cents to 81 for
the second zone, and 81 to $1.25 for
the third zone. No change in the
rates for handbags is requested.
The commission will consider the
petition at a public hearing April Is.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
Jewelry

moderately priced, to
accent the Easter cos
tune!
A novelty rhinestone
bracelet is set with rhine
stones and sapphires.
Very good looking S.
Pearl pendants hung
on sterling silver chains.
They are shown in blue,
rose, jade and violet 81
A 48-inch strand of in
destructible Omar pearls
may serve as necklace or
bracelet .....,....I .I.69
Street FIoor-stb Street
Evening star., 1927-04-03
Army's New Mountain Field Artillery
Will Be Given First Test In Long Hike

the gun can be carried in six loads
by pack animals or can be drawn by
one horse on it's own wheels.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
Camoufage.

From the Ohio State Journal
The same kind Of people who think
a subsidy is merely little subvention
and that Imperialism is benevolent as
similation think lobbyist is a legis-
lative superintendent.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
ASSESSOR DEFENDS
VALUATION FIGURES
Richards Answers Charges
That inflated Prices Had
Influenced Estimates.

William p. Richards, District tax
assessor, today prepared a statement
in defense of recent charges that his
office had been unduly Influenced by
inflated prices in making current real
estate assessments.
The statement shows that the new
90.4 per cent Of the total real estate
90.4 per cent of the total real etate
sales recorded during the last five
years. 1t was based on a study of
assessments and sales within the sec
ton bounded by Rock Creek, Florida
avenue, Fifth and b streets from 1921
through 1926.
During this period, the sales amount
ed to $14S, ,543,6 ,62S, and the assessments
on the same property totaled $132,-
777,45S. or SO per cent. Comparing
the present assessments to the sales
prices from 1921 to 1923, which was
considered the beginning of the tiuctu.
alton period in real estate values, the
assessor discovered that the assess
ments amounted to $7O,331,125, al
though the sales totaled 500, 1852, 1873, or
107 per cent. In the latter part of the
fiuctuation period from 1929 to 1926,
however, the assessments were $685..
446,333 in comparison with sales
amounting to So ,249. or S25 per
cent.
I'VE have been criticized by some
people who think that speculations in
real estate have caused us to go too
fast reaching assessments" said Mr..
Richards, but the figures based on
my study Of the last five years, I be.
lieve, will not bear out this conten-
ton,
Evening star., 1927-10-25
BROWN HEADS CITIZENS.
President of Northwest Bright.
wood Association-Other Officers.

Charles III. Brown was elected presi-
dent of the Northwest Brightwood
Civic Association last night at the
meeting in the Military Road School.
He succeeds ]. B. Shamwell.
Other officers elected were Fred
erick Coles, vice president; William
Grant, secretary, reelected; Mrs. j.
w. White, financial secretary; ]. w.
White, treasurer, and Frank Grin.
mage, chaplain.
A report was read condemning con-
ditions at the colored school in
Rupertsville, near the Soldiers Home,
as unsanitary by J. w. White, chair;
man of the committee previously ap:
pointed to investigate the matter. 1t
was voted to refer the matter to DIR.
Hayden Johnson, member of the board
of education, and G. e. Wilkinson,
assistant superintendent Of schools.
The association voted opposition to
the proposed $10,000.000 bond issue
for the purchase of public park sites.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
RUTH SNYDER FILES
NEW TRIAL APPEAL
Lawyers for Gray and Wom-
an Attack Joint Conviction
of Couple.

ALBANY, n. Y, October 25.--
Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray
have made their first bid for saliva
ton from the electric chair. Counsel
for the two appeared before the Court
OF Appeals yesterday to argue that
they should have new and separate
trials for the murder of Albert Sny-
der the woman's husband, in Queens
Village last Spring.
Resting their case on the single
legal point that Mrs. Snydsr'S con-
stitutional rights We're invaded when
she was denied separate trial uron
first being brought to justice, her
counsel declared that the trial was
surrounded with incidents peculiar
to such Spectacular affairs" as prize
fights or circuses.
Fail to Attack Law.
They found no fault with the con-
stitutionality of the Barnes law.
under which the two were ordered to
stand joint trial, but declared that
the presiding justice at the trial de-
MED constitutional rights when he
failed to exercise his discretion in
permitting such trials.
LOunSel Tor Gray nelu ms pictuIS
up for the court to see as helpless
tool of Mrs. Snyder. who had been
prevented from freely selecting a
jury of his peers" and for whom it
was found impossible to obtain
jury wholly free from bias and pref
udice." Counsel also denied that a
motive for the crime had been es-
tahIished.
To this statement, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney c. w. FroZelle of
Queens County replied that "insur-
ance was the dominant motive for
the killing of Albert Snyder" He told
the court that while Snyder believed
he was getting a policy for $1,000,
Mrs. Snyder had arranged to have
a $4,000 policy written.
Trial Held Proper.
AS to the contention that Gray
and Mrs. Snyder should have had
separate trials, he held that they
Jointly confessed and were jointly in
dicted and they properly stood trial
Jointly"
Decision on the appeals is expected
in six or seven weeks. Mr.. Frozelle
was granted week to prepare
brief. after petitioning for time on
the ground that he had failed to re-
ceive briefs from the defendants in
time to prepare his own. Defense
counsel were given until November
10 answer the brief Of the prose-
cution.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
MADE HONOR GUEST.
Schumann-Heink's Oldest "Fan"
to Hear Diva Here.

Attending the farewell concert of
Nine. Sch'mann-Heink in Washington
Auditorium next Monday evening as
her honor guest will be Mrs. Clara
Freund, 800 Ninth street, the city's
oldest fan of the famous contralto,
T. Arthur Smith, concert manager,
announced today. Mrs F'reund, who
will be accompanied by her husband,
attended Nine. Schumann-Heink' s
American debut November 8. 1898, as
Ortrud in a Metropolitan Opera Co.
performance of "Lohengrin" at the
Chicago Auditorium.
The second oldest Schumann-Heink
Capital fan, Mr.. Smith said. is Mrs.
Charlotte E. Colt. Department of JUS
tice employe, who heard the noted
singer at a concert in the 74tr Regi-
ment Armory in Buffalo in 1901, the
recital being part of the musical fes-
tlvities at the Pan-American Expo
sition. This concert, he added. was
given September 5, the day before
President Mckinley was assassinated.
and the President attended, as did
vice President Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
THREE SUFFER INJURIES
IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Six-Year-Old Child and Two Men
Hurt in Auto Mishaps
Yesterday.

Six-year-old Mary Proctor, colored.
2412 Nichols avenue southeast, walked
against the rear end Of a truck driven
by Buifford Newton. I'LL Columbia
road, on the Nichols avenue near her
home yesterday afternoon and was
injured. The child was taken to
Freedmen's Hospital in a passing
automobile and treated for internal
injuries. Her condition was reported
undetermined.
Morris Dannheisser, 81 years old,
2O1O Klingle road, was injured by an
automobile driven by Joseph Taylor,
2131 FL street, while crossing at Six.
teenth street and Park road last night
about 10 o'clock. He was taken home
by the police and treated by his fam
lily physician.
Charles Carter, coiored, IS years old,
1887 Delaware avenue southwest, was
knocked down on M between Ninth
and Tenth streets yesterday afternoon
and seriously injured, George W.
Southern. 1906 Tenth street, being the
driver of the automobile. The injured
man was given surgical aid at Freed
mems Hospital.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
JOSEPH |. PORTER, 81, DIES
OF PARALYSIS ATTACK
Former Official Of Railway Mail
Service Succumbs to Complica-
tions, Following Stroke.

Joseph I. Porter. 67 years old, man.
ager of the mail route department of
the National Surety Co. for the past
eight years and formerly assistant su.
perintendent of Railway Mail Service,
United States Post Office Department
where he was employed for about 80
years, died at his residence in the
Avalon apartments yesterday. Death
was due to complications following a
stroke of paralysis, October II.
Mr.. Porter was born in Woodstock.
Va. but had spent the greater part
of his life in this city. He was a mem.
Der of the Masons and Odd Fellows.
Funeral services will be conducted at
the residence of his son, Irwin S. Por-
ter, 2712 Thirty.siXth street, tomor.
row afternoon at o'clock. Interment
will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Porter is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Lilly Stevens Porter; a daugh-
ter, Mrs. =. r. Hooton, and three sons,
Irwin S., Durham W. and Robert d.
Porter.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
CAR GOES OVER SNAKE
HILL, DRIVER HURT
Machine Demolished When It
Crashes Down Bank in Rock
Creek Park.

John f. Walker, % years old, 21t0
New York avenue. was severely cut
about the head and body when an
automobile which he was driving
turned over last night while descend
ing Snake Hill in Rock Creek Park.
According to report made to park
police headquarters by Policemen j.
w. Sheedy and s. G. Kitchen, the
automobile left the road and turned
over three times on the embankment,
finally lodging between two trees. 1t
was demolished.
Walker was extricated from the
wreckage and was taken to his home
by N. j. Cairns, 1904 Eighth street,
who came along shortly after the ac-
cident. Walker told the police, they
said, that he was forced from the road
by another car.
A man was killed at the same point
several months ago when an auto
mobile which he was driving also
left the road and went down the en-
bankment..
Evening star., 1927-10-25
SAN FRANCISCO AGAIN
AS CONVENTION CITY
Hilles Revives Talk Of Holding
G. 0. P. Session There After
Visit to Capital.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 25.-Charles
D. Hilles, vice chairman of the Repub-
lican national committee, said yester'
day that San Francisco again had be-
come the likely choice for the 1928
Republican national convention.
Tentative selection of that city was
made before President Coolidge an
nounced he did not choose toarun for
denomination, on the theory that 1t
would be good place for convention
to renominate the President, Mr.. Hilles
said on his return from Washington.
Following the Presidents announce
ment, it's chances waned, he said; be.
cause Secretary Of Commerce Hoover,
a resident of the State, was expected
to be leading aspirant for the nomi-
nation.
Other cities seeking the convention
are Detroit, Kansas City, Chicago,
Minneapolis and Cleveland.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
S7O0 DIAMOND STOLEN
FROM R. @. COLLINS HOME
Pocketbook Containing Ring and
Other Articles Taken-Other
Robberies Reported.

Finding the front door open at the
residence of Raymond o. Collins, "a
Bates street. an intruder yesterday
afternoon entered and stole the con-
tents of the pocketbook of his wife.
Mrs. Edna Collins. consisting of a
cluster diamond ring valued at $500.
auto operators permit. SO in cash and
several keys.
Arthur Rosenthal. 347 Fifth avenue.
New York City, asked police TO make
an effort to recover a sample case Of
goods stolen from his automobile at
Seventh and f streets Yesterday. The
case contained sweaters and other
knitted goods valued at 5000.
Theft of two rings, one valued at
500 and the other at so, was re-
ported to the police by Estelle Dean,
II u street. She said the theft was
committed in her home the past few
days.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
FLEHARTY TO SPEAK.

Ralph B. Fleherty, peoples counsel
before the Public Utilities Commission,
will address members OF the Alumni
Association of the District of Colum.
bia College, Y. NJ. C. A., at their sec.
ond monthly luncheon Thursday at
noon, at the University Club, Fifteenth
and II streets.
The Y. M. G. A. alumni organized
only recently. The members are grad.
uates of the Schools of Law, Account.
ancy and Liberal Arts of the college.
which has its headquarters at 1876 G
street
Evening star., 1927-10-25
GIRL, 6, GIVES HER LIFE
TO SAVE BABY BROTHER
Kansas Child Holds Infant From
Sca1ding Water While She
Receives Fatal Burns.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
GODDARD. Kans., October 25.-
Irene Ayres. years DID, today was
credited with giving her life to save
her infant brother.
While her mother was laundering
some clothes, Irene cared for her lit.
tie brother. She was carrying the baby
in her arms when she stumbled and
fell backward into washboiler filled
with scalding water.
Irene held the baby out of the water
so that he was burned only slightly
when rescued by his mother, but the
girl was burned so severely that she
died last night.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
Bridge Co. Loses Tax Appeal,

The international Bridge Co. was
turned down in the Supreme Court
yesterday on its appeal to set aside
the decision of the New York State
Courts holding that the State Tax
Commission had the right to tax it's
franchise for bridges across the Nj
agara River and Black Rock Harbor
at Buffalo. The decision of the lower
court was affirmed on authorities cited
without a written opinion.