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The Alaskan., 1930-06-06
From The Progressive

A certain news item inyoul paper of May 3, quotes a letter from the Chief of the Agricul- tural Department to Senatol Deneen, questioning the right oi the Eskimo natives of Igloo Alaska to complain of treatment as was published by Dan Suther- land, Delegate for Alaska.
 I wish to ask:
 Have representatives of the Agricultural Department ever been on the lands involved in the claims, or visited the herds of the natives making the com plaint?
 Do they know what lands were occupied by the Iglo natives as range before the Lomen cOrpOr- ation occupied ground on the Seward Peninsula?
 Are they acquainted with the reported counts and apportion- nents of the Lomen corporation specifically relating to the rein deer of the Igloo natives?
 Do they know that it is gen. orally understood that the Lo- ulen corporation has r. ade ap- r'ication under the leasing Act of Congress for certain lands east of the American River and North of Igloo Creek which has been considred to have been the range of the Igloo natives. The natives are presumed to have preference on the lands occupied by them, (Grazing Land Act, App. Mar. 4, 1927).
 Ii. the Lomen corporation has applied for that land, it is an az gressive salient forced into the native lands, pursuant to a poli- cy which has been followed for fifteen years to acquire native lands and reindeer and the na- tives have the right to protest.
 The report of counting and opportioning of reindeer in the Lomen- Teller herd, which lies directly west of the Igloo range, and from which the salient is being extended, shows in 1926 reindeer as follows: .. Adult Reindeer LOmen
 Corp. mark .. j.. .. ..2,SOS Adult Reindeer Native
 CO-Owner mark !. .. :. 1904 Adult reindeer Native
 ESCFay H,Uo4 Adult reindeer Native
 Unmarked =. .. :. ;. .. 911
 Total adults .. :. .. .. 7O5I
 FawnS :. :. :. :. 2912
 Total :. !. ]. !. :. 9963 The estray deer above men
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06
The Eskimo Side Of Question Shows
 Lnwnranted Increase Difference

toned are nearly all deer of the Igloo Eskimos who made the pe- titiOn which was published by Dan Sutherland, Delegate for Alaska. Their land is the land asked for under lease by the Lo- men Reindeer Corporation north of Igloo CSeek and east of the American River, on the Seward Peninsula.
 The increase of lawns of the herd for that year was appor- tioned as follows, according to the report of the Lomen Corp, filed in the office of the Bureau of Education at Nome, Alaska. The apportionment was made on the females:
 Lomen Corp. 1883. 1916. .99.l Native 'Co-own' 1855. .816. .77.3 Native EstrayS. from Igloo, & others 1472. 180. 12.2
 446O 2912
 Ave. 65.2 Unmarked deer, called
 
 "yearlings" taken for herd bill by Corp 911 Fawns appOrtioned 2912 Males in herd 1919
 99O2 UnaccOunted for 61
 Total 9963 If the rate of increase of 122 per cent is unfair on their fe- male deer while the holding cor poration takes 99.1 per cent, then the Igloo natives DO have a right to protest.
 The records seem to show that for 15 years there has been a steady policy of absorption of the native deer in at least three herds of native reindeer by the LOmen Corporation.
 The first move was to pur- chase in 1915 and 1916, rein deer held in trust for the natives .of Golovin and Teller by mis- sionS who were to distribute the females among the natives for herding the reindeer. (See report Iof Governor of Alaska for 1917, ID. p, also see Circular letter, w. T. Harris, Commissioner of Edu- cation, May II, 1896 in Reindeer Report 1896 pp. 119-122, Govt Ptg. Offs. Washington, D. O., also see Rules and Regulations Rein deer Service, Int. Dept. pp. 1O- I11)
 The application for the DOT tion of the Igloo Range above mentioned is one of the later ones.
 Further investigation of the matter is invited
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06

Ralph Hall returned from Jul neau after a brief visit there.
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06
DISBARRED, BUT NOMINATED

George W. Josephs, Republican nominee for governor of the State of Oregon was disbarred from practicing before the courts of Oregon. Joseph was given an opportunity for reinstatement on condition that he retract statements made about the Ore gon justices of the supreme court.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-18

at 4:3O p. m., an army of 60 men will advance in a long line across the filtered White House lawn. Long hours of work will be necessary to rid "the presidents yard" of all traces of egg rolling. Every bit of paper, shells. sandwiches and ban ana peel must be picked up.
 Just being child is ample pass port to the White House grounds on Easter Monday. No adult can get in. unless accompanied by 8 young ster.
 The crowd will begin to assemble long before o'clock when the gates are opened. Policemen will be stationed all about the grounds. Vendors of colored balloons, paper rabbits, pop corn and peanuts will line the curbing outside the grounds.
 Most of the children will come supplied with hard-boiled colored cggs and lunch baskets. The adults will visit together enjoy the feeling of being in the White House yard, listen to the Marine band aand wait for the moment, along in the after noon, when the president and Mrs. Hoover appear on the south portico to bow and smile.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-18
Yl JACQUELINE
 ON HER OWN

"Oh--I'm so awfully sorry" re- piled Jacqueline, in her new man. ner, which she managed very well.
 'Oh-that's quite all right, Miss Grey. Just thought I would draw your attention to it in case you had overlooked it. l always make a point in these cases of ringing up for instructions.
 He paused eXpectantly. You see, Miss Grey" he went on, i've have just received your check made out to the management of the Majestic hotel for 60 pounds"
 "B-but I thought that was paid,' faltered Jacqueline. T gave them that days ago.
 "They have only just paid it in. Your balance is only 20 pounds odd. So if you will send along another 40 pounds. with a little extra for bal ance, everything will be quite in or der. Sorry to have troubled you, Miss Grey"
 To think that she could have spent all that money in so short a time. The 500 pounds had not last cd nearly so long as she had expect ed.
 Now it seemed there was nothing or to some similar establishment. | At all costs her hotel bill must be | paid-her future could wait. She spent al the rest of that day and the next interviewing unpleas- ant people who dealt in second hand wardrobes It was a heartbreaking business. There was q vast and sig nificant difference between buying things and selling them again; and the difference between the prices was appalling.
 By the end of the second day she had disposed of practically every thing she had bought, with the ea- ception of the clothes she stood in and one small suitcase. They were sold at ruinous prices. but in the end she was able to send the 40 pounds to the bank, and enough to cover the further bill due from the hotel with matter of 10 pounds or so over.
 She had already given notice to vacate her rooms that night, and it did not take her long to do her packing.
 The suitcase was ready in her bed room. She had only to put on her hat and coat, then she would walk out of the Majestic and out of this life of ease and elegance which she realized with all it's drawbacks had 1 been on the whole very much to her | taste.
 She was in herdainty little sitting
New Britain herald., 1930-04-18

room, looking sadly round it for the last time.
 "Ah, we'll" she said sorrowfully, tits no use being an idiot. my dear. You knew this had to come, so why get all sobby about it? You've had your 500 pounds. and you've made it go, as you always said you would. You never thought it would go so quickly as it has; but times are expensive since the war. and it's gone anyway so it's no use moaning about it. Pull yourself together. Jacqueline, my dear, and don't be a sissy"
 There was a gentle knock at the door.
 Come in,' said Jacqueline, with out looking round.
 She was expecting the red-headed boy in buttons with her receipted bill. She heard the door open and somebody come into the room.
 Bring it to me, please" she said
 There was no reply, and she turn cd round in her chair.
 Teddy Montrose. with his hat in his hand, his coat over his arm and his white expanse of shirt shining, was standing in the room.
 Jacqueline stood up, white as chalk.
 Copyright, 1880. Richard Starr)
 Good resolutions are forgotten for an ecstatic moment in tomorrow's 5 instalments.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-18
WILL HAVE GARDEN
 0F LOST CHILDREN
White House Takes Precautions
 at Easter Egg Roll

Washington, April IS Pl-A rose garden of lost children will bloom at the annual egg rolling on the White House lawn Easter Monday.
 Girl Scouts will preside over the garden where children who have be- come separated from their guard ians will be kept and comforted.
 Each year many small children get lost ill the crowd which swarms through the White House gates dur ing the day. It is necessary to have a place to keep them.
 So the rose garden, which adjoins the south side of the White House, will be used as a lost aand found bureau. The Girl Scouts will circu- late in the crowd, locating the lost parents or guardians.
 Mrs. Coolidge always took a par ticular interest in the lost children and often came down upon the grounds to mingle with them.
 When the last child has departed
New Britain herald., 1930-04-18
by RICHARD STARR

smashed up, and you asked me to ring you up to see how you were getting Oh"
 Look here" MT. Dexter broke in brusquely, you may think this is funny, but I don't. You are vast ing my time, and I am busy. Please get off the line.'
 Jacqueline was about to give MT. Dexter a piece of her mind when she heard a clank.
 Well, of all the base ingratitude," she said, as she left the instrument. He looked such a nice old gentle man, too"
 She dismissed MT. Dexter from her mind as an ungrateful and de- ceitful old man.
 So she turned once again to the business of seeing a gay time. It was becoming more than ever a business now. She tried to interest herself in theaters and dances, and had per- fectly miserable time for nearly d week.
 During that time she saw no more of MT. Carew or of Mrs. Porter Mason or of Teddy Montrose.
 The more she tried to put Teddy out of her mind, the more she found herself thinking and dreaming of him, and picturing all the wonderful things that might have been if only she had been really rich. She dreamed, too. and the dreams were the most wonderful of all. She was always rich in the dreams, and she always made the same little speech.
 What does it matter if you are | poor, Teddy?' she would say. Never mind about your silly old father. | What does money matter? And. any way. I have enough for two. If you don't feel that you can share my money, the same as I would share yours if you had heaps, I'll give it away. I've been poor before"
 And Teddy would smile at her in | her dreams. Nowhere in the world was there another smile like Teddy
 And he always made the same lit tie speech. "The world is full of a number of things" After that he would take her in his arms and hold her very tight. And that was perhaps the best part of the dream.
 But stern reality was a different matter. Exactly how stern it was she realized when she received a tele- phone call in her sitting-room at the Majestic, and found herself speaking with the manager of the bank.
 Sorry to worry you, Miss Grey, the manager said urbanely. But you account is overdraUn."
New Britain herald., 1930-04-18
Chapter % BILLS AND CHECKS

By this time, Jacqueline was very far from being a rich woman.
 She had arrived at the stage when she was afraid to look at her bank book knowing that the end Of her solvency was getting shockingly near.
 The name on the card the nice old gentleman had given her was Paul Dexter, with an address in the city. Four days later when she thought he would be fully recovered from his injuries she rang up Mr. Dexter.
 'Is that MT. Dexter?" asked Jac- eueline.
 Dexter speaking" was the sharp rejoinder. "Who is lt?''
 How are you this morning." ask ed Jacqueline nicely.
 I'm all right, thanks. Who's speaking?'
 I'm afraid you won't know my name" replied Jacqueline, "as you have never heard it. But I am the girl you met the other night out in the country
 'Eh-what's that?" came the sharp voice from the other end Of the wire. Say that again.
 The girl you met the other night in the country when you had your motor accident"
 T don't know what you are talking about. I did not meet a girl in the country the other night, be- cause I have not been out of Lon- don for at least a month. I have never had a motor accident in my life. You've got the wrong number"
 Jacqueline began to feel slightly annoyed. After all he had asked her to call.
 If your name is Paul Dexter you are the man l want" she said, pa- tiently. "You gave me your card four nights ago when your car was
New Britain herald., 1930-04-18

Synopsis: An exciting nocturnal adventure takes Jacqueline's thoughts from Teddy and other things. In q. vain effort to win Jac- queline for the fortune he mistak- enly believes she has inherited, Arthur Carew stalls his car in the country and forcibly makes love to her. Jacqueline tricks him and es- capes Lost in the fog she sees a motor accident and rescues an old gentleman from beneath his auto mobile. She goes for aid and when the old man is made comfortable in the country doctors home, catches the mail train back to Lon don after promising to see the grate- ful old gentleman again.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-18
ENGLISH PEN SWINDLE

London, April IS (P-A new foun- tain pen swindle was exposed here. Pens costing about $o but worth 30 cents were mailed to persons whose obituaries had just been printed in the newspapers. In most cases the executors of the estate thought the deceased ordered the pen and paid without comment.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-22

of daring holdups, all directed by d young girl, poured into police head quarters. Because they usually wore evening clothes, Peggy and her follow CTS became known-and feared-as the dress-suit gang.
 Meanwhile, Peggy Mahon was en- toying more luxury than she ever had dreamed of back in her Belfast home. She had beautiful clothes, luxurious apartment in one of the cityS most elegant hotels and was enjoying cab aret parties almost every night. It was a glittering whirl, in which men vied for her affection.
 The high light of her career came one night after Peggy, scanning the society column of a newspaper, dis covered that the wealthy Van Ant werps had left for their Summer home. Telephoning their town house, Peggy ascertained that only a servant girl was staying behind.
 That same night a cab pulled up be- fore the Van Antwerp mansion. Those who piled out of it might well have been taken for some of the Van Ant werp's friends. They walked calmly to the front door and rang the bell As the servant girl opened the door she was frightened to find herself con- fronted by several young men, dressed in immaculate evening clothes, led by a beautifully gowned girl who held in her hand a black automatic.
 She was told by the girl that if she made an outcry she would be killed instantly. A thorough search was made of the entire house. There was no need for hurry. Meanwhile Peggy tried to tighten the servant into telling where the family funds and jewels were kept. But the girl was too terrified to speak There was one thing Peggy did make the servant girl do, however. Holding her automatic against the ser
New Britain herald., 1930-11-22

arate But one by one they were cap- tured until only Peggy and Joe OCon- nor remained at large.
 Their capture was so simple it seemed like a joke. They were sitting in speakeasy when two plain clothes men came in and seized Joe. Peggy laughed. She started to reach for her purse. One of the officers pressed a gun against her and snatched the purse away. It contained black au- tonlatic.
 The rest of the story is soon told The members of the gang were tried in court together Of them all, only Joe O'Connor remained loyal to Peggy, in sisting she had nothing to do with their crimes. A jury found her com- panions guilty but disagreed in Peg gy's case.
 There was another trial. It ended dramatically when the driver who had been slugged just before his taxi was seized for the Slotsky candy store holdup pointed his finger at Peggy and shouted: That's the girl.'
 So she was found guilty. All her distorted visions of wealth and adven- ture collapsed. Peggy's bravado faded, the cynical smile left her features, she wept. No wonder. She knows now that the words the cops print on posters as a warning to crooks: You Cant Win n"-are true.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-22

wants back, Peggy forced her to go into the kitchen and prepare large meal for the entire gang.
 So simple and thrilling were all these robberies that Peggy, as she later told a jury, committed them just for fun. But her careleSsness was eventually to bring her downfall
 One night she and Harry Fountaine, a member of the gang, cruised about in a taxicab looking for likely victim, Nothing had been planned-they mere ly wanted a prospect. Seeing a gas station in lonely part of the city they parked nearby. Fountaine sauntered to the station while Peggy waited fo- him in the cab.
 The stick-up was easy. Fountaine simply trained his gun upon the at tendant and ordered him to open the cash-register. After gathering up all the cash he could find. Fountaine backed out of the station, keeping the attendant covered with his gun. A passerby saw the gunman backing out. Picking up a piece of iron pipe, the passerby ran up behind Fountaine and knocked him unconscious with blow Fountaine was turned over to the police, but Peggy got away.
 With one of their gang in custody, the other members went into hiding. Police learned they had selected a small, obscure hotel. The gang was tipped off to this and decided to sep
New Britain herald., 1930-11-22

SHE WAS RULER OF THE MOB Although They Were Called the Dress Suit Gang" the Followers of Peggy Mahon didn't Look Very Dressy in the Police Lineup. The Gunmen, from Left to Right, Are Garner GrabilI Marvin Sapovich, Louis Gardella, Joe O'Connor, and James Cantefield. The Men Standing in the Background and the One at the Extreme Right, Are
 Detectives.
 placed behind prison hars. But she needed his advice and changed the whole course of her life. At first theIr holdups were minor ones, but they netted SlO0 one night, even more some other nights.
 Slowly and persistently they carried out a series of robberies that began to clutter the pages of police blotters, Thus they were able to build the foun- dation for one of the most formidable and daring organizations of gunmen and thugs in the city.
 Then came big robbery, As de scribed during Peggy's trial, the gang, hailed taxi and drove to a lonely spot. To the drivers aStonishment, the woman in the party aimed little black automatic at him and in a crisp, stern voice. ordered him out of the car. He was searched by one of the gang and then knocked unconscious The gangsters. led by Peggy, leaped into the cab and drove to the Slotshy candy store
 Slotsky, the proprietor, was in at the time, and was startled when .he men. all well dressed, came in behind pretty woman, who jabbed q re- volver into his ribs and ordered him to the back of the store. Within a few minutes the gang gathered up all the available cash and escaped.
 From every part of the city reports
New Britain herald., 1930-11-22

as "taxidancer" in a Detroit dance hall.
 This job was tiresome, but it brought her bread and butter. She was forced to dance with all kinds of men-tal ones, short ones, fat ones-as long as they had a ticket. "Ten cents q dance, that's what they pay me, gosh how they weigh me- The words of the popular song fitted Peggy's job and she was weary of it. Every night she had to smile up into faces she didn't know. didn't like.
 Then came a break-or was it? It seemed like good fortune at the time. She met one night a debonair. we'll groomed young man, who asked for dance. He returned every night after that. He had a pleasant smile, kind voice. A strong friendship grew up between the two. Joe O'Connor was the young mans name, and to Peggy he was different than the other men she had known.
 One day he proposed marriage, But Peggy was disillusioned about marital life. Her past two experiences had been enough for her. But she and O'Connor agreed to continue their friendship on the old basis.
 Then O'Connor began making little suggestions about how to pick up easy money. At first Peggy was alarmed. But he told her there were safe ways to carry out little jobs that would, Tn time, make them rich. "Jobs?" ques- tioned Peggy. Yes, stick-ups. Joe's philosophy was one that slowly grpped Peggy Mahon. Why should she go on trying to be merely good? Her own past had been one that showed life was a matter of take-not give. It had taken everything from her and given her nothing. so she thought
 Peggy Mahon must have thought often of those early conversations with O'Connor, especially when she was
New Britain herald., 1930-11-22

A PRETTY, auburn-haired girl H stood beside her husband on
 the deck of an immigrant steamer. Before her loomed up the fantastic, beckoning skyline of New York.
 This was the land of opportunity. oet gllttering hopes that Peggy Mahon had dreamed about in her impover- lShed home back in Belfast, Ireland
 But If the innocent, open-eyed col Teen could have looked into the future she would have been mortified. For during the subsequent nine years she was plunged into a maelstrom of events and experiences that swept her from poverty to ill-gotten wealth and eventually to prison.
 At first she learned the loneliness and terror of a big, strange city, Then came many jobs. She was ten cents-a-dance" taxi dancer. Her first romapce gave way to divorce Final ly she became the leader of daring gang of well-dressed and well-armcd holdup men who looked up to her as their queen"
 The climax of this strange story was reached only recently when Peggy was sentenced in Detroit to two and half years in prison for armed rob- bery. It abruptly ended a career that rivals the most imaginative plots of the current crime writers. Indeed, it fits the patterns of an underworld movie in every amazing detail. Let the writer of such stories, short of material, glance at the turbulent life of Peggy Mahon and he will find it ready-made for him. embelished by the fact that it is from the life,
 Take Peggy and her husband, Jim, on that day nine years ago when they arrived in the United States. They had left behind in Ireland life of hope less dreams. Now they faced the real ization of these dreams-n the new land. Having heard that big wages were paid to workers in Detrot's auto mobile factories, Jim got job there. But Peggy was lonely, terrified by the turbulent city around her. She said later that Jim drank heavily and stayed away from home.
 Finally he lost his job. Peggy Mahon decided to go out and work for her self. She was tired of staying at home alone, of worrying about how to make ends meet. She got one job after an other. None of them lasted long. Peggy was too frail, too inexperienced, to endure the work
 To make matters even more discour- aging her romance collapsed. She and her husband separated and then were divorced. The tiresome hunt for jobs, continued and finally she got one in a restaurant There the son of the own CT saw her and began paying close at tention to her He took her out to dances and parties constantly and then proposed marriage.
 Peggy accepted. It would be re lief. she thought, from the drudgery she hated. She felt sure that she had found happiness and contentment at last. But even this dream vanished, for after time, according to her story, her husband began paying attention to other women and spent most of his nights at wild parties away from home. At last Peggy divorced him.
 Thus the immigrant girl found her self just where she had started. She had experienced two marriages and divorces, she was drifting from one job to another and the future seemed hopeless. As she took stock of her life and reviewed events she became a trifle cynical. Then she found job