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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
By BATES RANEY

LONDON, Dec. 1.-Sir Basil Zara- hoff, known to Europe as the man with a thousand secrets is con- ing to London for medical treat ment He has been seriously i'll for many months.
 Reputed to be the richest man in Europe, man who has swayed governments, but who shuns any form of publicity, Sir Basil zaharoff is 80 years old. A few years ago his sudden appearance in one of the capitals of Europe meant that some important thing was afoot.
 He is said to be worth $100'OOO,- GOO. He has owned Monte Carlo, but does not gamble. He married, after waiting for her forty years, a Spanish duchess, who died after only two years of welded life.
 Not the least of his mysteries Is his title as Knight of the Grand Gross of the Bath. There are only 2l such titles in existence and his was awarded at the recommenda- ton of Prime Minister Lloyd George flor services rendered. but what those N"services" were has never been explained.
 He recently burned his diaries, ir which he had kept the happenings of each day and his comments. A French newspaper had offered $5,- 900 for one single page.
 Sir Basil recently had to be re- moved hurriedly from his sick bed to a neighboring hotel when fire broke out at night in his apart ment. One floor of the place was destroyed but no damage was done to the library, which is reputed to contain more facts concerning the secret history of modern Europe than any other existing record.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
FOUR KILLED
 IN R. R. CRASH
Merchandise Express Tele- scopes Into Freight
 Train on Siding

STOCKTON, Cal. Dec. -Four Western Pacific trainmen were kill ed late Saturday night in rear end crash of two freight trains at Sunol in Alameda County.
 A fast freight bound to Oakland pulled on a siding to let passen- ger train go by when the merchan- disc express, bound to Sacramento, rounded a blind curve and telescop- ed the freight.
 R. M Middleton. engineer; w. Richenbacher, fireman, and Lloyd Goslin, head brakeman, were crush ed in the engine of the second train, which crumpled like a toy R. c. Jones, flagman, in the ca boose of the freight which was tele- scoped into three other cars, was the fourth victim.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
LEADERS FAVOR
 NATIONAL VOTE
 ON PROHIBITION
Tentative Plan for Refer endum on Prohibition
 Under Discussion

WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. l. Leaders of the nations Prohibition forces, it became known today, are discussing the desirability of lend ing support to the movement for a national referendum on the Pro- hibition issue. The tentative plan on which a decision has not been made would have the Prohibition forces stand behind some constitu- tional amendment formulated by the vets calling for repeal or modification of the Eighteenth Amendment.
 This support, if given, would eX : tend until Congress looked over the proposal. It would be contin- gent upon definite assurance that separate constitutional conventions, composed of delegates elected by each State, would pass upon the matter and that the decision Of these groups would be accepted as final for the time at least by the opponents of Prohibition.
 Dry Leaders Split
 Dry leaders are far from har- mony on the tentative plan. F. Scott Mcbride, General Superin- tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, termed it Betrayal of Prohibition by Dry Leaders
 Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Sec retary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Pub lie Morals, said: T am ready to set down with the vets any time to formulate the question to be placed before the American peo- lple."
 Conferences on the subject will continue here and in New York The plan was first broached by group of drys here in the na- tional capital, including Patrick J 1 Callahan, Louisville, Ky, Prohibi- tionist, Secretary of the Associa- ! llOIl Ol SdOllOliSo 10FOi ii6 iCiiASA ton and representative for the New Jersey branch of that organi- zation, and Dr. Arthur J. Baritone North Carolina, head of the Tenn perance Committee of the South fern Baptist Convention.
 Would Gain Nothing Dr. McBride's position in oppos- ing the plan was that nothing could possibly be gained because it could not bind the vets to let up on their attacks on Prohibition.
 Some repealists, also, were luke warm to the proposition. They felt | it would be disastrous to move too soon, preferring to consolidate their (position and wait for further gains in public sentiment favorable to ltheir cause.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
 GUNMAN KILLS
 Z POLICEMEN
Shoots 1t Out with Prowler Car Officers After
 Picked Up

MACOMB, IL, Dec l.-Picked up on a minor lettering charge, an unidentified gunman shot it out with a prowler car load of police men last night killing Edward Whittlesey and Ernest Bowman, and seriously wounding Al Links.
 The man got into the car peace fully enough but when he reached police headquarters, he whipped out a sleeve pistol and began shoos- ing.
 The gunman hurled driver Links from the car after taking a shot at him and started to drive off with Bowman lying on a back seat.
 After travelling about block Bowman revived long enough to draw his gun and empty the shots into the gunman's back before fal- ing to the floor of the car dead.
 Whittlesey was shot dead and his body tumbled from the car at the station.
 Little is known of the dead gun man except he is supposed to have come here recently from Peoria where it is reported he was a regu- lar frequenter of gambling resorts. His name is believed to be Oliver Harding. Police believe that because of his savage resistance on minor charge he must have been wanted badly somewhere.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
RADIO STATIONS
 BEING WATCHED BY GOVERNMENT
Syste m of Monitoring Is lnaugurated with
 Splendid Results

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. l. The efforts of the Federal govern ment to provide better reception of broadcast programs and other radio transmissions are revealed in the annual report of w. D. Ter rell, Chief of the Commerce De- partment's Radio Division.
 One of the chief causes for poor reception, the report points out, Is the tendency of radio transmitting stations to deviate from their as signed wave length or frequency. In order that a close check may be kept on all stations and that those deviating may be immediately ad- vised, widespread system of mon- itoring has been inaugurated by the Radio Division. This monitor ing service consists of a primary station located at Grand Island, Nebraska, and nine secondary sta- tions in various parts of the scoun- try. Tn addition to these stations the division maintains fleet of six test cars for supplementary work. The site of the primary sta- tion was chosen as near the geo. graphic center of the country as possible, 1t is pointed out. The loca- tion is practically free from all man-made electrical disturbances.
 Apparatus Complete
 The apparatus installed in var (Continued on Page Seven)
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TRAPPED, THEN SHOT DOW N IN
 GETTING AWAY
Leader of Robber Gang Is Killed Escaping from
 Oakland Home

OAKLAND, Gal, Dec. 1.-Frank Smith, with long string of aliases said to be the leader of the gang robbing the Southern Pacific train of $56 ,000 on November 9, was trap ped by officers in his Oakland home and shot to death when he tried to escape.
 Smith is said to have been asso- ciated with robberies from Vancou- yer, B. C., to Fresno since 1928, the loot which is said to have totalled more than $250,0 ,000.
 Others of the gang escaped from the house which was manned with heavy guns at all points Of Van- tage.
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Storm Clouds Hover Over Old Congress - Warm
 ing Against Stampede
COMMUNISTS ATTEMPT TO DISPLAY PLACARDS
Extra Precautions Taken by Police-American
 Legion on Guard

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1.- Extra precautions were taken today by the Capital police against re- ported. demonstrations planned by Communists at the opening of Con- gress at noon. Reinforcements were held in readiness and the American Legion also planned to be on the scene with a counter demonstra- ton.
 Several hundred persons who called themselves Communists, gath- cred in front of the Capitol carry ing placards which were quickly torn down by the police who did not interfere until the placards were displayed
 The placards said: Release all Political Prisoners" and Down with Finger Prints and Registra- tiony
 There was some fighting but no one was hurt
 Fireworks Promised
 Enough political ammunition al- ready has been gathered to assure three months of concentrated fire works in the short session of the old Congress.
 There is an armistice, however, on unemployment and drought re- lief appropriations which get first call on the administrations legisla- tive program.
 Then the Hoover forces begin a drive to enact appropriation mea- ures necessary to carry on the Gov- ernment next year Upon their en- actment hinges the necessity of an extra session of the new Congress in the spring.
 Despite the understanding of Re- publican and Democratic floor lead- CTS that these bills shall be given
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WOMAN, MISSIONARY IN CHINA, AND HER BRITISH NURSE,
 KIDNAPPED BY RIVER BANDITS

PEIPING, China, Dec. 1.-An Anglo American rescue party will leave here as soon as possible to get in touch with an American woman missionary, Mrs. H. G. Hayward, of Seattle, Washington, and her British nurse, Miss E. Gomersell, Kidnapped by bandits.
 The party includes Lieut.. c. J. Kanaga, of the United States Field Artillery, language student at tached to the Embassy; Capt. Sta bles, of the British Army, and the Rev. G. Finlay Andre of the Gina Island Mission
 Friends of Mrs. Hayward are particularly concerned since she was urgently in need of an opera tion. The two women left LanchoW in Kansu at the end of October and were travelling down the Yel- low River on goatskin raft when they were seized.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
CANADIAN PLIERS
 REACH VANCOUVER

VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. l. The Canadian fliers who abandoned the search for Pilot Renahan and his companions, arrived here last Saturday from Prince Rupert after stopping over night enroute at Comox on Vancouver Island.
 No word has been received here from Everett Wasson and Joe Walsh who have gone to the Lizard River district to search for Pilot E. J. A. Burke and his two companions, Emil Kading and Bob Marten, whose plane has been found frozen in near the headwaters of the Liard River. The three men have been missing since October Il. WaSson did not expect to report until early this week as he and Walsh were to make a thorough search for the missing men in Indian camps
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
LABORER'S CHAMPION

Mary or Mother" Jones, as she was known to union labor men and women all over the country, was for more than 60 years one of the most forceful and militant person. alities with which capital and labor had to deal
 Wherever strikes and labor trou- bles were fiercest, there was Moth CT" Jones in her little black bon net and with her biting eloquent tongue. She had the power to make men follow her, even some times against the dictates of high er-ups in the labor world.
 She started out in the 70's cham pioning the cause of the laborer, to secure for him better working and living conditions Nothing stop ped her or turned her back, wheth- CT it was militia or governors. Her activities were most spectacular in the mines of Colorado, the coal fields of West Virginia and the cotton mills of the South. Mother Jones saw plenty of hardship and trouble in her early years and the conflicts of American working men appealed to her sym pathies and her love of daring. She was born in Cork, Ireland, May 1, 1830. Her father, Richard Harris, an Irish agitator, came to Am erica and obtained job with a railroad construction crew in Tor
 onto His family soon joined him.
 Mary's first experience in the working world, which started soon
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
GOVERNOR GIVES PARTICULARS OF SEAL INDUSTRY
Skins Ia k en on Pribilof Islands Last Year
 Total 40,068

The sealing industry on the Pribilof Islands is a Government monopoly, carried on under the provisions of the North Pacific Sealing Convention for the preser- vation and protection of the fur seals of the north Pacific Ocean," declares Gov. George A. Parks in his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior
 Sealing and foxing operations, as well sa work in connection with the upkeep of buildings and the extension of improved roads, are performed by the natives under the direction of a staff of white en- ployees.
 Tn return for their services the natives are provided with all the necessities of life. including medical and educational facilities. They also receive cash payments at the rate of 75 cents for each sealskin and S5 for each fox skin taken. Such payments, together with bonuses to foremen and cook, amounted to 3066 for sealskins taken in the calendar year 1929 and fox skins taken in the season of 1928-29 In addition to the resident naives, 32 temporary native workmen from the Aleutian Islands and the mainland were employed to assist with seal ing activities and construction work on St. Paul Island during the sum- mer of 1929
 Largest Since 1889
 There were 33,216 fur-seal skins taken on St. Paul Island and 6,852 ea St. George Island in 1929, a to- tai of 40,068. This was the largest take since the Government assum- ed management of the herd in 1910 and also larger than any annual take since 1889. the final year of the first 20-year lease of the seal- ing privilege to a commercial com
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
Ketchikan Company
 Asks for Dam Permit

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 1.- The Citizens Light, Power and Water Company of Ketchikan has applied to the Federal Power Com mission for a permit to construct a dam at the outlet of Lake Perse- verance to add to the power supply of the Municipal System.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
T,Uins in Accidents Within Space Of
 T,uo Hours; One Killed

NEW YORK CITY, Dec. L. An automobile and horse brought death and injury to the Baldwin twins within the space of two hours today.
 Afford Baldwin was thrown from his mount near East Northport and his skull was fractured. Clifford Baldwin was run down by a truck and killed. Afford will probably live. He has not been told of his twin brothers death.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
Davis Delays Taking
 His Seat in Senate

WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. 1.- Former Secretary of Labor John J. Davis said he would not seek his seat in the Senate today in view of the request of Chairman Nye of the Campaign Investigating Com mittee that he should await fur- ther investigation of campaign ex- penditures in Pennsylvania.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
Inspector of Calcutta
 Police Is Shot, Killed

CALCUTTA, Dec 1.-Inspector Mukherji, of the Calcutta Police Force, was shot to death today by two youths as he was alighting from a mail train at Chanpur Sta- tion in East Bengal.
 The Inspector General of the Bengal Police, who was on the train at the time, fired on the assailantS but they escaped.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
Av|ATRIX GIVEN
 UP AS PER|SHED

MIAMI, Florida, Dec. 1.-Avia- ton officials are agreed in the opinion that Mrs. J. M. Keith Miller, plucky Australian aviatrix, perished at sea in an attempted flight. under adverse conditions, from Havana to Miami. She left Havana last Friday morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
Einstein Cites
 'Half an Hour to Daughter at Wedding

BERLIN, Dec. L. Professor Albert Einstein who sets rela- tive values of things, allotted just one half an hour to his daughter Margot who was mar ried last Saturday afternoon. He gave the bride to Dr. Dimitri MarianOff, young Russian writ CT on scientific and artistic subjects.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
Fifteen Are Killed
 In Mine Explosion

LUTIE, Oklahoma, Dec. 1.-Fa- talities in yesterdays explosion of Number 5 Mine of the Hailey-Ola Coal Company here is placed at 15 dead and two men injured serious ly. Thirteen miners were killed outright.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
HELD UNDER GUARD

PEIPING, China, Dec. l.-Tele- grams from Saratai, Suiyan Prov ince, said Mrs. Hayward and her nurse are being held under guard in an area where there is some fighting.
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ON TRIAL FOR
 SHOOTING DOWN NEWSP APERMAN
Frankie Foster Faces Jury for Killing of AL
 fred Lingle

CHICAGO, H., Dec. Frankie Foster went on trial for the shoot ing of Alfred Jake" Lingle, Tribune reporter, in a crowded pedestrian tunnel last June, one of the most startling slayings in the history of gangland.
 The trial opened last Saturday on the last day which the State could press the charges legally, although it is indicated Foster was an access sorry through ownership of the re- volver used.
 The State will attempt to prove Foster was the murderer and will demand the death penalty.
 Lingle was shot from behind as he walked under Michigan Boule- yard to take train to the race track. The killer threw down his pistol and escaped The weapon was traced to Foster as member of the Moran gang. Foster was arrested in California.
 The trial was adjourned late Sat- urday afternoon until today with cut acceptance of the jury.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
HAS RECORD

MACOMB, Illinois. Dec. 1-The body was today identified as that of Edwin Veril, aged 28 years, of Canton. Illinois. Veril had record as an auto thief and petty burglar.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01
NEW RESIDENT FOR CITY

To Mrs. E. Johnson of this city a son was born yesterday morning at St. Ann's Hospital. The new ar rival weighed eight and one-fourth pounds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-01

R. E. Lawrence, service represen- tative for a Hollywood motion pie ture company, is in Juneau. He is at the GaStineau.
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Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-01

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MORE 0N GUIDES
fr'nrfirued frtrr Farv Oras

About 1793, during George Wash ington'S second admin -tration and while the Spanish padres were completing their chain of missions in Alta, Calif., this little settlement was moved to Pavlovsk, or St. Paul harbor. the present site of Kodiak.
 At this time the American repre- sentatives of the Shalikoff- -GolikOff Co, was Alexander Baranoff, who for 30 years was an outstanding fig ure in Russian American history. When in 1796 the Shelikoff-Goli- koff Co.,, was absorbed by the great fur monopoly known as the Russian American Co.,, which dominated trade in Russian America until the occupation of the United States and of which several members of the royal family as well as the Rus sian government were heavy stock holders, Baranoff succeeded to the management of the new organiza- tion. He was later known as the Russian governor and Kodiak be- came the Russian capitol Thus it remained until after the founda- tion of Sitka which remained the capitol under United States rule until the removal to Juneau.
 One reflects upon these days of old as he wanders thru the green vaults of the old mill road where more than 100 years ago the early Russian settlers carried their grain to the old mill alt Loon Lake, four miles north of Kodiak, listening perhaps to the peal of the bells in the Russian church, the very same bells that ring out their messages to the inhabitants today.
 And reflecting this, one comes to a startling thought as though he had put his hand into surprising void where he had expected solid substance. He comes to the sud- den realization that over wonder to
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the west scarcely more than five miles away where the mountain be- gin to roll themselves into towering pillows is ''terre incognito", ,a land as completely unknown as when the bold Glotoff sighted those ma jestic peaks nearly 167 years ago. Over there is the interior of Kodiak, probably one of the greatest unex- plored expanses of Alaska remain ing to De prospected and mapped.
 THE GRIM KODIAK MENACE
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GAMES TONIGHT

The Seward Midgets defeated the Jesse Lee NIidgets 10 to in a game played last night. The Seward high school team also defeated the Jesse Lee Home high school in a fast game, 36 to IA. The high school team will play the Bremen tonight and the Seward high second string will take on the Jesse Lee grade school team
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''SNlW- -SHQE'' WIRELESS

w Here is an interesting game which at present has taken the North country by storm When things become dull at house par ties the guests may choose some article of furniture, radio, auto, or even wearing apparel, then each player take turn at guess ing how many installments the owner has paid This is said to be a thrilling indoor sport.
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Down in the harbor the fishing vessels come and go, up in the hills the giant Kodiak bear lumbers along the trail or crushes thru the brush in quest of fish and berries, a veritable behemoth, the largest carniyorous animal on earth, He has been known so big that he would weigh a ton and his pelt would almost cover the floor of a 12 by IA room. As a writer in the National Geographic Magazine der scribed the foot prints of the bruin over on the peninsula, they were about 16 inches long and a foot wide, as as big as the magazine spread out"
 Here we have two reasons why the Interior of Kodiak is practically unknown even though it had some of the earliest white settlements in America.
 The inhabitants have always been of the sea. They cared naught of the interior they travelled by the sea and lived from the sea, and be- sides they feared the bear becauFe the Kodiak bear is a fearsome thing. Hunters have penetrated a few miles from their boats in the bays and inlets but back-packing IS an arduous thing, stockmen have ranged their herds of cattle and flocks of sheep short distance from the home ranch on the beach es but the deprivations of the bear have driven them quickly back; prospectors have braved the foot- hills of the mountains but foray on their cache would drive them back with the fear of the great bear i in their hearts.
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Among others of those who journeycd to Anchorage with the Seward girls high school team and who are staying over for a couple of more days visit, were June Geyer, Maude Larson and Doris Sullivan.
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Mrs Wm. Shellhorn, wife of the local power official, who ac- companied the Seward girls cage team to Anchorage, remained over to visit friends and may rel turn home, with daughter Wilma, on the next train.
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Seventy new postal boxes were recently installed at the An chorage postoffice, a good barom- eter by which to guage the growth of a city.
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The Margus Cafe, at Anchorage, has temporarily closed, it is said, until the return Of Gus Knapp sometime in April #
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Feb, \, 1858: Ericsson received first patent for screw propeller
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r FAME IF SARGDII
 TujW SPREADING
 OVER HI: WORLD
PEOPLE or THIS COUNTRY
 SENDING FAMOUS MEDICINE TO RELATIVES AND FRIENDS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRE- LAND, FRANCE, CANAL ZONE, NORWAY, SWEDEN, CUBA AND MANY OTHER DISTANT LANDS

If you had found a medicine that was of such benefit to you that you would go to the trouble of sending it tO relatives and friends in distant countries, you would have to be convinced in your own mind that it possessed real merit. wouldn't you?
 That's just what thousands of people throughout the United States have been doing with Sar- gon.
 From all over America and wherever Sargon has been in troduced, thousands Mi letters have been received from grate- ful users telling ot the gratifying results that have been accom- pllshed by this celebrated med 1cIn6.
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 meats our motto. Fry -Bruhn's
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