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Seward daily gateway., 1930-04-19
BEAUTIFUL STORY IS
 TOLD, PRESENTATION
 OF EASTER PAGEANT

The Easter pageant of the Res urrection, The Dawning," pre- sented by the Jesse Lee Home school at the Liberty Theater be- fore packed house last evening, proved great success in every sense of the word.
 From the moment the curtain arose upon scene of gate in the city walls under guard, until l! the closing tableau, the attention of the audience was held by the presentation of the beautiful theme ' the singing and costuming Against a background of flower !! and vine-laden walls, the Bible characters ernpersonators acte with perfect harmony and ease in costumes which besides being col orful, were very authentic and ap- preciated. The choral singing was a i feature of the program which evinced much skill on the part of the cast and expert guidance by the instructors, and which CIT tainly provided the spectators with undivided interest during the entire performance. All three scenes of the pagent were shown against a background representing the places so closely connected with the crucifixion.
 Community singing before anc between acts was in keeping with the spirit of the occasion, and 8 vocal solo by Mir. J. B. Kuhlel was exceedingly appropriate. Ac- companying on the piano during all vocal selections was Mrs. FL bert Kunz.
 1 The pageant was brought to 3 close when the members of the cast filed of the stage and pass ed up the aisles as their final chorus was being given. Mrs. Hat ten, whose introductory speech Ibpened the program, then gave a comprehensive sketch of it's pur- pose, after which donations were Egiven by the audience for the fur therance of this purpose.
 Much time and careful prepara- ton was evident in The Dawn ing" The attendance thoroughly enjoyed 1t and great deal of credit should be given to those who supervised and to one and all participating.
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SPECIAL EDITION $
 DEVOTED ID ALASKA:
 PAN AMERICAN PAPER

Iii the official publication Of the Pacific Travel Club, the Pan Pacific Progress, published at Los Angeles, the entire edition is giv- ing over to Alaska beginning with the cover, a fine picture of Mt. Mckinley, by Merle La voy.
 Ernest Walker Sawyer, Depart ment of the Interior official who has been attached to the Alaska Railroad, Is the man responsible for the special edition which Is profuse with articles, written by Alaskans. former residents of the Territory, and others, as well as liberally Sprinkled with excellent photographs.
 A portion of the contents is as follows:
 Map of Alaska showing the pro- route of the International highway and Airway; Alaska-a record of progress and enterprise, by Gov. Parks; Alaska-a land of contin- ual surprises, by Scott c. Bone, former governor of the Territory; The Alaska Railroad, by Col Q. F. Ohlson, general manager; The future for Alaska, by Err nest Walker Sawyer, special rep resentative of the General Mana ger of the A. By: Alaska coal
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WOMEN, CHILDREN
 TRAPPED BY FIRE:

COTESCT, Rumania. April 19, (P Between 100 and 15O men, wom- en and children were trapped by a fire in an ancient church, dur ing Good Friday vigil, and perish ed, last night while priests vainly strove to save them.
 !, Helpless against the frenzied rush of the congregation to flee, the flames roared within the wooden structure which was more than 100 years old.
 Priests remained at their posts and blessed the victims as they died, Only four of the congrega- ton escaped as the doors opened inward.
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hMT0RG TRADINe Co.
 OPENS SEATTLE OFFICE

Permanent offices have been opened by the Amtorg Trading Go, purchasing agency for the Soviet government, in the Smith Tower Seattle. Orders have al- ready been placed for the equip ment for fleet of 10 salmon vessels designed by H. c. Hanson Seattle naval architect.
 Auxiliary equipment will De made by Allan Cunningham and Coolidge Propeller Co, has been awarded the contract for the pro- pellers and shafting. Each vessel will be equipped with a 100 h. p Fairbanks-M Morse engine. The equipment will be shipped to Si- beria where the fleet will be built
 It is also understood the bids will be asked for the construction of 10 steel patrol boats. If built in this country they would be sent to Siberia under their own power German yards are also being con sidered for this work.
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$. 5. ALASKA l)N
 NAY NORTH WITH LARGE LISTING
BALDERSTONS, ALEX Mc DnN- AID, MANY OTHERS RE-
 TURNING HOME

SEATTLE, April l9, (P-The s. s. Alaska, of the A. s. s. Co.,, left Seattle this morning at g o'clock for Alaska with 298 passengers on board of which 86 are for Sew ard, as follows:
 Andy Fostrum, A. Landai, D. P. Kent, V. A. Stewart, Mrs. E. E. Wright, Mrs. " Anderson, George Adams, Alex J. Mcdonald, MT. and Mrs. H. T. Miller, Florence Ander- son, Mrs. A. Anderson, w. A. Ky Tor, Jeff Stoddard, Geo. A. Green .P Fromberg, Harry Solomon, l. Essen, James Anderson. c. V. Hud- kovich, John Vicara, Miss Daisy Killaran, Cal M, Brosius, MT. and MT. H. S. Balderston.
 MT and Mrs. c. R. Martin Mrs Doolittle, H. c. Bennett, N. Bin lv Ed Kelly, l. M. Fisher. D. F. Kent, M. Graham, B Sundquist, J M. Nicholson, MT. and Mrs. B. A Gaskill, Mrs 0. A. Livingston. G. w. Raeney. Mir and Mrs ". J. McKinzie, Mir. and Mrs. Hague, J. c. Hepfinger, Oscar Olson, Sam Larson, John Diedbold.
 Mrs. ". R. Macpherson and three children, A. H. Austress, M iD. Snodgrass, Gus Larsen, Ben Larsen. R. Bjorle, Ed Sundberg. Eric Larson, J. E. Blanc, Ted Mey- CT, A. s. .Caulver, Carl Colson Mu- seek. P. Hoffman, Henry Reeder, Victor Anderson.
 , George E. Potter, R. Gallant, Mrs. J. R. Sanp. Violet Culver. Sven Anderson, LemuS Nelson, Miss zu- lu Swanson, N. Boughy, Gus En- berg, c. R. Gustly, E. J. Caton, Mrs. E. c Lamp. J. c. Murphy, 0. B. Anderson, H c. Johnson. J. s. Adams, John Ryder, Ed Mur- phy, Lester W. Clark, and P steer age
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and oil resources, by John T.. Steele, AlaSka-the hunters par adise, by George F. Kilroy; The International Highway, by Donald Macdonald: Some little known facts about Alaska, by H. U. M Higgins; Highway construction in
 Alaska, by Major Malcolm Elliott;
 New wild animal life for Alaska, by I. s. Horne; Significance of Alaskan totems; The Madonna of Kazan, by Esther Birdsall Darling; On a trip to the happy hunting
 grounds, by Ben A. Grier; Alas
 ka and Siberia, by Donald A. Gootch; Stalking Alaska's big
 Brownies" by O. O. Allen; Agri-
 culture in Alaska. by Geo. F,
 Clements; Aviation in Alaska;
 Hunting and fishing among the glaciers. by E. Douglas Jones, M D.: The working mans Alaska, by Alden Robertson; Wrangell, gateway to the stickine river country
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PQsT0FfICE HAS N] INTENTION CHANGING
 ALASKAN SERVICE

JUNEAU, April 19, {P)-AcknoW- ledging the local chamber of con- merce protest against revoking the new contracts, Assistant Post master General Glover wired:
 The department has no inten- cion of changing the mail service In Alaska unless forced to do so. We are trying to provide a justi- liable service for which to pay the raised rates and believe the in- erase in steamship companies rates are warranted owing to the in creased tonnage.
 Delegate Sutherland brought the matter up and suggests either freight or express methods for carrying mail The department is unable 10 understand his atti- tude."
Seward daily gateway., 1930-04-19
INDIAN A!7IONAL|STS
 ATTACK POLICE AND
 kILl. SIX AT ARNORY

CALCUTTA, April 19, tP-A group Of 100 Indian nationalists attacked the police armory at Chittangong and killed six of the defenders including the sergeant major of the detachment posted on the eastern frontier.
 Rifles were ordered to Chittan- gong to handle the situation and strong guards have been estab- hshed over all gun shops in Call cutta. Armored cars, carrying po- lice, took up stratgetic positions at headquarters of all places. The Indian national congress was raid ed and IT arrested.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-04-19
.LECHNER, JOHNSON AND
 THODlY ARE AWARDED
 CONTRACTS, COUNCIL

I The Seward City Council assem- bled in special session last evening opened bids and prepared to let contracts for the reconstruction work that will make hospital building out of the former school building which has been unoccu- pied for year.
 The specifications, which in the main were divided under plumbing, carpentering, stuccoeing and plas- tering. brought proposals from six local carpenters H. H. Leonard II bid $3952 and Charles Lechner S1200 on the plumbing and heating re- Quirements; Laggerquist and Pet erson s9l2 and Henry Thoday $5O0.6O on the carpentry work and materials; Walter Druett $1750 and Gerhart Johnson $500 for stuccoe- ing the outside and clustering and furnishing celotey for the new work inside the building.
 The bids of Charles Lechner, Henry Thoday and Gerhart John- son were accepted. They totaled $320O.6O which amount represents the initial sum that the city will pay out in the present movement | to establish 3 hospital in Seward, which has grown out of the recon mendation of the committee of cit izens formed several weeks ago to Investigate the matter.
 Impetus was given the project Q week ago when General Manager Otto F. Ohlson of the Alaska Rail read and Dr. Hayerstock of Anch- orage met the committee in Seward and offered their invaluable coop eration to SeWardites who have long wanted a hospital. MT. Ohlson, pleased with the prospects of seeing a hospital in Seward where a large humber of employees of the rail- road reside, stated his willingness to assist in supplying the hospital with it's equipment needs
 Dr. Haverstock personally in- Ispected the building and expressed his entire satisfaction with it's fit mess for a hospital. Much work is being done by Elywn Swetmann of the committe who completed the alteration plans and consulted local contractors regarding every Iphase of the remodeling.
 The new work in the building does not call for the removal of a single one of the present partitions. Three of the former class rooms will be partitioned into wards for patients, while the fourth room, in the southwest corner of the build ing, will be divided into the operat- ing, X-ray and sterilizing rooms. The kitchen and dining room will be downstairs.
 The plumbing and heating con- Itract includes the changing into a vapor system of heat circulation, lthe relocating of radiators, layator- lies and toilets and the installation lof three bathtubS. There will also be special hospital sink. The new partitions will be faced with plas- tered celotex, this material having great sound proof qualities.
 With one of Gerhart Johnson's famous stucco jobs on the outside of the building, the Seward Hospi- ltal should present as fine appear ance as any in the Territory.
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Mrs. Clara Mcconnell who has been visiting her daughter at La Itouche for the last few months, re-
 turned home on the Admiral Wat
 son. Mrs. Mcconnell had delight
 ful visit, looks good and feels fine.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-04-19
BREUER SOUTHBOUND

L. w. Breuer, Commissioner of Education, Territory of Alaska, returned to Seward last evening from a business trip to Interior schools He is enroute to his Ju- neau offices. Mr. Breuer is a can- didate for reelection at the pri- mary, the 29th of this month.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-04-19
NATIONAL LEAGUE
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
MORE SETTLERS COMING

There will be at least 20 or 25 more new settlers for along the Alaska Railroad belt, provid- ing they carry out their original intentions. A number of others are due to arrive this month from the states for the purpose of looking over the Tanana and Matanuska Valleys. Others are to follow later as soon as they wind LID their affairs.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-04-19
BASEBALL B
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Cleveland T; Detroit !. New York at Boston rained. st. Louis at Chicago postponed on account of cold weather. Wa shington at Philadelphia postponed on account of wet grounds.
 NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia at New York rained. Boston at Brooklyn rained. Pittsburgh 5; Cincinnati }. Chicago l; St. Louis II.
 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Los Angeles 2; Hollywood l. Seattle 4, Oakland 8, II innings. San Francisco 5: Missions I. Portland 5; Sacramento ?, IA in ning5.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-04-19
HIRED MAN. ID KILL
 WOMAN; GETS LIFE

ANTHONY. Kans., April ls, R
 Ben Turner. elderly salt plant superintendent, accused of hiring Jim Strutton, his young employe, for $155 to kill Mrs. Turner, was convicted of first degree murder.
 This means life imprisonment The testimony at the trial showed that Turner had asked woman and two other men, during the past few years, to kill Mrs. Turner.
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EVIDENCE FOUND

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, April l9, (P)-Sherif Stoutnire announced that a blood-stained automobile, belonging to Sheriff Horn, of Sem mole county Georgia, had been found in swamp yesterday and was planted Horn planned, it was said, to abscond with between $l2,0O0 and $15,OO0 of funds in his office.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-04-19

Mir. and Mrs. Austin Homer, who recently passed through Seward from Seldoyia, are now located in Fairbanks where Mir. Homer has a position as dredge master
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The s. s. Admiral Watson, of the P. s. s. Co, is due to return from the Westward and depart for the south tomorrow afternoon, according to the local office
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Mrs. John Strelie, former resi- dent of Fairbank, dieds in Seattle lat month. The husband, well known Alaskan, and three chill dren, survive her.
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Mrs. Carl Berge. wife of the proprietor of the Northern Hotel, at Fairanks, passed away recently in the Interior city.
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Turnbow's Fox Farm on the Richardson Highway, where white fox. mink and marten are being raised, is reported to be doing quite well.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-04-19

Caught while attempting to flee, Eugene Henry, native, has been brought from Wood River to Nenana to face charge of robbing a cafe at Nenana of $406.
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J. J. Chisholm, Anchorage busi- ness man, was among the well known arrivals in the city last evening.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-04-19

Bob Richey, aged resident of Nenana was found dead recently in his cabin. He had been i'll for several months.
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The Standard Oil tanker Chas. Watson, in port yesterday from Richmond, Calf, sailed south this morning.
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The city council will meet 1T regular session Monday night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08
INQUIRY BEGINS IN MURDER CASE
 OF JAKE JINGLE
Federation, with Congrega- ton of Five Hundred
 Thousand, Takes Action PRIVATE PROBE; FIRST WITNESS IS SUMMONED
investigation Is Apart from that Taken by Chi
 ,cago Grand Jury

CHICAGO, H., July S.-A secret inquiry into the slay- ing by gangsters of Alfred Jake" Lingle, veteran re- porter of the Chicago Tri- bune, was begun today by the Chicago Church Fedora tiOn.
 The Federation's inquiry is entirely apart from the Offic- ial investigation begun by the Grand Jury.
 The Inquisitorial Commit tee of the Chicago Church F e d e ration, representing a congregation t0taling 500,000, has summoned as the first witness, Alderman A bert, who demanded and failed to get a City Council invesiiga- tion of Lingle's reported al- lance with police officers and gangsters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08
JAP PANESE ARE
 CRAB FISHING IN. BERINC SEA
Steamer and Trawler Are Seen by Coast Guard
 Gutter Chelan

VALDEZ. Alaska, July B.-The Coast Guard cutter Chelan brings the story that on June 30 she dis covered the Japanese st.e am CT Taisoyu Maru, home port Fuchu anchored 30 miles off shore in Nelson Lagoon, Boring Sea. The cutter sent boat to the shio but the Japanese captain refused permission to board. From the cutter it appeared that the steamer was engaged in taking king crabs.
 Some 10 miles distant, the cutter passed the Myogi Maru, steam trawler, towing beam trailer and about 20 smaller boats, all appar- ently engaged in fishing.
 This is the first time the Jap snese have gone into Boring Sea for crab hunting
 It is feared by cannery operators in Bristol Bay that this may be the fore-runner of extensive opera tions in taking red salmon on their way to the spawning grounds a. the head of Bristol Bay.
 On July 4, the Chelan passed the Taisoyu Maru and it was found she had moved her position 10 miles. She was still engaged in taking crabs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08
AMERICAN ATRMAH TO
 RIO EQUALS EUROPEAN

pants, $500 liters of gasoline and 500 pounds of mail. Outside in the open sea the water was too rough for takeoff.
 The proposed dirigible line from Seville to Pernambuco, may make faster time than the present air mail operated by the American NYRBA line along the east coast of South America to New York, but experts here are inclined to doubt it. They point out that the recent Graf Zeppelin flight was under good weather conditions but that a shir of that size could not be used eco nomically as a mail and fast freight carrier.
 Furthermore, the Graf came tc Brazil while it was winter south oi the Equator, and even then was short of water, so what, they ask would happen on flights when the sun is south of the line?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08
NANUK IS FREE FROM ICE PACK
Motorship Frozen in Last Year, Moves Out
 Stavropol Freed

MOTORSHIP NANUK, Off the Coast of Siberia, July 8.-The ic1 pack moved yesterday in the bay here and is breaking up. The Nanuk has been freed and is now anchored. The Soviet ste m r Stayropol has also escaped from the pack where it was frozen in last September.
 During the night the ice moved directly off North Cape and opened slightly. The Stavropol worked it's way around and anchored alongside the Nanuk at 5,30 o'clock this morning. Crews of both ships re- joice that all are free.
 The Nanuk will proceed eastward and home to Seattle as soon as conditions warrant The Stavropol will proceed to Vladivostok.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08
Dry Weekly Is
 "Benumbed'' and WU Take Rest

MADISON, Wis, July 8.-Tempo- rary, and perhaps permanent sus- pension of Political Action, weekly publication issued here in the in- terests of a national prohibition party, has been announced.
 Action of the state committee of the Prohibition Party in Pennsyl- vania. which accepted withdrawal of it's regular nominee and indorsed Clifford Pinchot, Republican nomi- nee for governor, "benumbs us, ,' Alfred B. Taynton, editor, stated in the current issue
 We are going to give Political Action a months vacation SO we can think it over, and if we cannot find enough prohibitionists in the country who ring true at all time in any situation to support it we will graciously retire from the field lof prohibition journalism" he said
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08
VERDICT GIVEN
 FILM COMEDIAN
Harry Langdon Wins Judg- ment in Alleged Alien
 ation Suit

LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 8. : Judgment in favor of Harry Lang don, film comedian, has been re- turned in the Superior Court here and placed responsibility for the loss of his former wife's affections on Thomas J. O'Brien, former bus band of the present Mrs. Lang don
 O'Brien sought to collect Sl1,591 heart balm from Langdon, on notes which he alleged were given in settlement of threatened aliena- ton of affections action Langdon, who said O'Brien had no grounds for an alienation suit, sought re- covery of $15,000 he gave the man with the notes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08
TWO-YEAR FIGHT ROUTS DETROIT'S
 KIDNAPPING GANG

DETROIT, Mich, July 8.-The end of series of kidnapings and extortions that have drawn thou sands of dollars from terrorized De- troiters over a two-year period, is seen by Detroit police.
 When Jimmy" Walters, debo- nair cabaret owner, was slain in April-gangland's reprisal for the double-cross- police were furnished with the clew that has resulted in the breaking up of a gang of IT extortionists.
 Seven are in prison, four are un- der arrest, and five are sought as the aftermath of the police investi- gation. Walters, one-time leader of the gang, was killed in front of his home by two gunmen.
 David Cass, 21-year-old victim of the kidnap ring, was killed by abductors when police stumbled onto clew to his Kidnapping.
 Walters, police discovered, was finger man" for the gang-the man who marked David Cass and a dozen other victims for Kidnapping.
 He, with two others of the gang led the remaining members to be- lieve that part of the ransom mon- ey was used to pay off officials and detectives. Instead, Walters and his two companions pocketed the money.
 . All this was brought out in an investigation of the police depart ment, before which Walters was summoned. Shortly after testi- mony regarding the pay-off money was brought out, Walters was killed punishment, police said, for his double crossing remaining members of the gang.
 Working from evidence gained at Walters death, police went forward until seven men were arrested. Fol lowing every clew offered by the men, police said they learned the leaders of the gang.
 5 The seven, now serving prison sentences, are Joseph Lamar, Henry Andrews, Frank Hohfer, Edward Wiles.f Andrew Germano, Roy Cor nelius and Jimmy Kane.
 Police, questioning the sentenced men, uncovered clews that led to the arrest of four others, all de- clared to be members of the extor- tion circle. From the four arrested police learned of five others who are at large.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08
NAVAL TREATY DEBATE STARTS;
 DEFENSE GIVEN
Senator son, War Time Chairman Senate Naval Committee,
 Makes Address

WASHINGTON, July 8. ThJ Naval Treaty was championed to day at the outset of the Senat; debate by Senator Claude A. Swan son, Democrat of Virginia, War Time Chairman of the Senate Nav al Committee, in a 12,000word address.
 Senator Swanson made detailed analysis of the agreement and call- ed for ratification in "the best in terests of the United States
 Senator Sawnson said the treaty gives America a well-balanced fleet and for the first time establishes naval supremacy in this country on the Western Hemisphere.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08
GOVERNOR YOUNG. GIVES DECISION IN MOONEY CASE
Conclusions of State Su- preme Court Accepted
 No Pardon Granted
CASE OF BILLINGS
 AND MOONEY SIMILAR
Chief Executive Says Both Men Are Guilty or
 Both Innocent

LOS ANGELES, Cal, July S.-GOv. c. c. Young has de. nied a pardon to Tom Moon ey until some further light is shed upon his case which 1 do not possess. 1 m u S manifestly accept the conclu- si0ns of the Supreme Court as Advisory Pardon Board"
 The Governor said he con- sidered the case of Warren C. Billings parallel with that of the case of Mooney, both men are Ocent or both are guilty.
 Mooney and Billings were found guilty of bombing of a Preparedness Parade in San Francisco in 1916.
 The State Supreme Court recently denied a pardon for Billings and Gov. Young fol- lowed the same course as re- gards Mooney.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08

recalled, however, that the league assembly in 1921 adopted a report that contained this passage:
 Agreements between members of the league, tending to define or complete the engagemnts contained in the Covenant for the mainten- ance of peace, or the promotion of international cooperation, may be regarded as of a nature likely to contribute to the progress of the league in the path of practical real ization."
 The Secretary General in con- menting automatically on this pas sage said discretely that he re- garded 1t as worth very close at tention"