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Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-27
|LL|TERACY AND
 SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
 IN THE TERRITORY

The Director of the Census to- day announced the results of the tabulation of the 1880 census re- turns for the Territory of Ala 3isa relative to illiteracy ard school attendance. For the Territory as Ia whole. the number Of peIs.lis 10 years of age and over re- turned as unable to read and write on October 1, 1929, was 9,416 as compared with 10,874 in 1920. The percentage of illiteracy was 20.1 as compared with PAS 10 years ago. The white and Indian classes of population show lower percentages of illiteracy in 1930 than in 1920, while the percent age of illiteracy in the other races shows a slight increase.
 The number of persons from 5 to 20 years of age attending school in 1880 was 9,133 as compared with 6.455 in 1920. Persons at- tending school represented SAP per cent of the total population within the ages specified in 1880, as compared with 46.7 per cent in 1920. Of the total number of children 5 years of age in 193O, l9.8 per cent were attending school; of the children years of age 48.3 per cent; of those 2 to 13 years of age, 700 per cent; of those IA and Is years, TIP per cent; of those 16 and IT years, 53.2 per cent; and of those IS to persons 2l years of age and over 20, 19.0 per cent. In addition 255 were reported as attending school, as compared with 160 in 1920.
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LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAI

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 1nderstgned has been duly appointed School Tax Collector for City of Seward in con. forrdty with Chapter 20. Alaska Sessio, Laws, 1919.
 All male persons between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years. except soldiers, sailors in the U. s. Navy or Revenue Cut. ter Service. volunteer firemen. paupers and insane persons. are subject to tax in sun, of Five (S5.0o) Dollars
 Should you be living in Alaska on or prior to the first Monday in April. 1881. said tax shall be due and payable on said first date and shall be delinquent after May lst. 1881. Should you arrive in Alaska later than first date above mentioned. tax will be de. iinquent thirty ts0) days after your ar- rival. or within ten (lo) days after notice is given you
 All persons. firms or corporations, em. ploying labor shali furnish list of employees to collector and are authorized by law to deduct amount of tax from wages of enn. paoyees
 Fines and imprisonment are provided for by the Act above quoted for those who fat: or neglect to pay tax or furnish list Of em. ployees.
 Dated Seward. Alaska. Apri, g. 1881. Jennie Paulson School Tax Collector for City of Seward
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TELEGRAMS COINCIDENCE

KETCHIKAN, Aprll 27, RJ- Dozens of telegrams expressing sympathy have been received by the Chronicle and widow, over the death of Editor Edward Geo Morrisey, from all parts of the States and Alaska Funeral ser vices will be held at the Catho- lie church Monday morning. The body will be taken South by the widow for burial at Seattle.
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UNALASKA NEWS

It is reported the Navy Depart ment has approved the construc- tion of Dutch Harbor this season of a new apartment building, con- sisting of a chiefs quarters and six apartments, at a cost of $40,- 900. It is said other improve provements are contemplated to the extent of an additional $l5,- 900.
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 Miss Susie Peterson, sister-in- law of the popular storekeeper of the Alaska Salmon Company, John BereSkin. arrived in UnalaSka this week to make her home with MT. and Mrs. Bereskin. Miss Peter son is a graduate of the Jesse Lee Mission school at Seward.
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 MT. Clyde Schroeder arrived this week on the SS Fl Cedro on his way to Attu, where he conducts a general merchandise store and owns several blue fox islands
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 UnalaSka has been favored this past week with visit from Harry Jacobsen, the popular merchant of Kashega. Mir. Jacobsen intends to engage in red salmon fishing this coming season, and is making preparations for a large pack.
 Mrs. Laska, mother of Louis Laska, popular agent of the AL aska Commercial Company, gave a very enjoyable dinner party re- gently in honor of Mir. R. F. But tons birthday. Mir. Button is a house guest of the Company house and is construction engineer for the new Unalaska dock. Unal- aska's elite were invited and a most delightful evening is report ed by all
 <<$$
 Last Saturday evening Mrs. Jack Martin, wife of the agent of the Alaska Salmon Company, gave Bridge party at her home. At late hour, special lunch was served for the guests at Pats res taurant, Unalaska's popular cafe. Among those present were Mes danes Farley, Laska, Martin, Pat terson and McVickers, and F. F. Button, L. L. Laska R. B. Farley, Jack Martin, George McVickers and Capt. Riggs, all of whom re- port as having a pleasant evening and acclaiming Mrs Martin as a very charming hostess.
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"The Patsy" Little Theater Club play recently presented in Sew- ard twice, was simultaneously be- ing played in Priest River, Idaho, according to. a paper received by Joe Ramon, proprietor of the popular "JOe,S Place"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-27
GREAT MINES IN
 BELGIUM, OTHER RAD|UM

GUARD, Portugal, Apr. 27, R This district, famed for it's rich radium mines, has sustained de- velopments owing to Belgium hav- ing smashed the price of the rare product from roughly $100 a mill ligram to $40.
 In these mines, also exist, rich deposits of uranium. Samples sent to Madame Curie, the famous scientist, were found on analysis to be of very rich radio activity.
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PORT 0F MISSING MIN

Ellison, c. M. or Curley. Any one knowing of this veterans whereabouts please advise his daughter, Miss Estelle Ellison, 500 Leanitt Street, Chicago, Ill.
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LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FDR THE TEk. RITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
 DIVISION

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TEk. KITORY OF ALASKA. THIRD
 DIVISION A II. TEDDY. as stockhoder Of the Seward Lumber Corporation. Plaintiff.
 
 SEWARD LUMBER CORPORATION. a corporation, Defendant
 and
 ELWYN SWETMANN. Receiver.
 Ne. S-293
 NOTICE TO PRESENT CLAIMS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that the undersigned is duly appointed, acting and qualified receiver of the Seward Lumber Corporation. corporation. and that in ac- cordance with tHe order os appointment of such receiver. pubic notice is hereby given to the creditors Of and to all other persons in terested. to present and file their claims. if any they have. with the receiver and to submit proof thereon on CT before the ath day of May. 1881. at the office of L. Y. Ray. at- torney at law. Seward. Alaska. which office the receiver designates as the place for the transacting of all business connected with and incident to. said receivership proceedines Dated at Seward. Alaska. March 2a. f93l. Elwyn SwetmAnN.
 Receiver, Seward Lamber Corporation. Date First Publication Msr 25. 1881.
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Regular weekly meeting and luncheon Tuesday at noon in the
 Seward Grill, of the Seward
 Chamber of Commerce.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-27

Mrs. and Mrs. George James of the Alaska Shop are spending a week or 10 days at their lodge on Kenai Lake.
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THE NAJEST1C' LAST WORD IN MODERN REFRIGERATION. AT BROWN & HAWKINS.
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Wonderful assortment of rec ords, 5 for $1.00. Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-27

Watch for the new Easte. display window at the Alaska Shop
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
CARD PARTY TONIGHT

A benefit card party will be
given by the ladies auxiliary of
the international Association of
Machinists tonight at Northeast
Masonic Temple, Eighth and F
Streets Northeast.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
JUDGELETTS To
TAKE OATH
Times Staff Photo

F. Dickinson Let's, whose ap-
pointment to the office of AS
sociate Justice of the District Su-
preem Court was announced at
the White House yesterday, will
take the oath of office tomorrow
morning at a meeting of the
general term.
Mr.. Let's, who is a former Rep
reSentative from Iowa, was ap-
pointed to succeed Justice Wen
dell Phillips Stafford, who re-
signed Monday, after completing
~ years on the bench.
The swearing in ceremony will
take place in one of the court
rooms, the oath being admins
tered by Chief Justice Alfred A.
Wheat. An informal reception of
members of the bar. friends Of
the new jurist and court attaches
will take place after the cere-
mony.
The jurist made a call on his
predecessor, Justice Stafford, this
morning and spent nearly an hour
in chambers with him. Later he
called on Chief Justice Wheat and
made known his readiness to as
sumo the duties of his office.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
BOY To WALK
CHANNEL

Sometime within the next year,
George Terry, 2O-year-old soda dis
penser of 5000 M st. N. W., hopes
to startle the world by walking
across the English Channel on
gondola shoes which he is max
ing himself.
Terry came to Washington
about eight months ago from Al
toona, Pa, his home, and since
then has been spending all his
spare time on his shoes, the staff.
which is used for balancing, and
other parts of the queer rig.
So far the shoes haven't acted
as they should when tried out on
the broad surface of the Potomac
River, but Terry says he plans to
add a few automobile inner tubes
and then expects them to function
in a manner conductive to safety
and success. The shoes now look
like pontoons of a sea plane, with
a frame work of balsa wood sup
porting huge bladder that when
inflated looks like a football, only
much larger.
Each shoe has an aluminium
sandal in which the foot is in.
serted. Straps are adjusted and
then, according to Terry, one steps
out on the water. The staff which
is long stick with a piepan and
an inflated rubber cylinder on the
bottom, is graSped in the right
hand and is showed to right or
left as a support against the cur
rent or the waves.
Discussing his plans today,
Terry said:
FI am very ambitious. / want
to do something no one ever did
before, SO I'm going to walk
across the English Channel. If
the shoes I'm working on won't
function, then I'll buy set now
being marketed by a well-knOwn
manufacturer"
Terry believes that he can &C
complish the hazardous under
taking and already has visions of
being greeted and welcomed in
New York city as hero.
So sure he is of success that
already he has begun work on the
story of his life and on the scena-
rio which he hopes to have filmed
to defray his expenses,
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
SWARTZ NAMED
ROVER AIDE

Milford F. Swartz, 24year-old
chief clerk in the office of United
States Attorney Leo A. Rover, to-
day was appointed an assistant
United States Attorney, succeed
ing to the vacancy created re-
Gently by the resignation of Neil
BurkinShaW.
Two other changes were an
nounced by Mr.. Rover today.
John c. Conliff. jr., who has been
Mr.. Rover's secretary since last
August, was appointed chief clerk
to succeed Mr.. Swartz and Allen
J. Krouse, who has been a mem
ber of the clerical staff, was
elevated to the position of secre-
tary to the United States Attor-
ney.
Mr.. Swartz was born in Wash
ington, graduated at Staunton
Military Academy and George
town Law School. He was
admitted to the bar in December,
1929, but appointed to a clerical
position by Justice Peyton
OOIUOL1, W14C1I OlSUElCG dUGOE11Sy III
September, 1927. He became Mr..
Rover's secretary in January,
1929. He is unmarried, lives
with his sister and brother at
1917 Randolph st. N. w.
Mr.. Conliff is Is years of age
and graduated from the Wash
ington College of Law in 1928,
and was admitted to the bar in
October that year. He has been
a member Of the clerical staff
of the District Attorneys office
since May, 1928.
Mr.. Krouse is 26 years old,
and came to Washington from
Lockhaven, Pa. He was admitted
to the bar in 1929, after gradual
ing from Georgetown University.
He entered Mr.. Rover'S office in
May, 1928, and was recently
elected secretary of the West
Virginia Avenue Citizens Associa.
ton. He is married and has
one child.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
COL. j. 8. GRANT
JOINS ESSAY
JUDGES
Becomes Member of Board
Which Will Decide Winner
of Times Cleanup Contest

Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant Sd,
director of public buildings and
public parks, today became the
tenth member of the board of
presiding judges which will select
the grand prize winner from the
$4,000 essays to be submitted by
the public school children Of
Washington in the essay contest
sponsored by The Washington
Times.
Colonel Grant also Endorsed the
contest which is being staged in
connection with the 1881 cleanup
campaign and which has for its
subject, "Beautifying washington
for 1882"
vitality Interested
The Army officer, who is a
grandson of the President and
famous civil war general of the
same name, is vitality interested
in the subject of educating Wash
ingtonians and other residents of
the United States along lines of
cleanliness. One of the func
tions of his job as director of
parks and public buildings is to
see that these reservations and
edifices are kept as spotless as
humans can keep them. So,
naturally when he was asked to
cooperate in the contest by serv-
ing as a member of the presiding
board of judges, he consented
readily.
With the addition of Colonel
Continued on Page IS, Col. p
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Trinity Girls Hold
Mnu Festival TOddH

Capped by a pageant, "Snow
White" to be given by 70 girls,
Trinity College will hold a May
fete on the campus today.
The program will open with
mass at Notre Dame Chapel at
1880 a. m. Basketball, track
events and baseball will be played
this morning. In addition to the
pageant, a horse show will take
place this afternoon.
The pageant is scheduled at
4:30 p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
WATER HEARING
HALTS AGAIN

Confronted by a mass Of techni-
cal details and intricate matters,
the hearing on the application Of
the Alexandria Water Company
for a 40 per cent increase in rates
has been continued until June II
by the Virginia State Corporation
Commission at Richmond.
The hearing has been going on
for several weeks, and the mass of
data piling up, together with the
illness of w. H. Dickie, one of
counsel for the city, led to the con-
tinuance.
Much of the data now before the
commission is of such technical ma
ture that attorneys for both sides
are unfamiliar with it, and the
postponement will enable them to
become more familiar with the
matter when the hearing is re-
sumed.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
BLOOD-S7A|NED
CAR MYSTERY
IS SOLVED
Jailed Young Man Says Spots
Were Made by 3 Victims
of Highway Auto Mishap

The mystery of the blood
stained automobile found aban-
doned Monday was cleared up
today with the arrest of Bradley
Milford diff, %, a pipe filter of
207 E st. N. e.
Oliff was arrested by Detectives
Frank Alligood and James Collins,
and was taken to police head
quarters for investigation. The
youth implicated three other men
in connection with the theft of
the automobile. Their arrest is
expected momentarily.
Helped Crash Victims
Oliff told police that the blood
ON the automobile was the result
of bringing three injured persons
to Emergency Hospital late Sun
day night. He said that he got
in the automobile with a friend
and drove to Clinton, Md, near
which place they came upon an
automobile accident.
Four persons had been injured
but only three could be put in
the small roadster. Oliff said:
81 was standing in the 800
block Tenth st. s. E., Sunday
night when a friend of mine
drove alongside in q Chrysler
roadster. Two other men were
with him and he said he would
pick me up when the other two
men left him.
"He came back soon after
that and we drove out to the
Maryland. As we came to
Reds Corner, notice an auto
mobile accident. My friend
didn't want to stop because he
said we were in o stolen auto
mobile. I said we had better
stop and take the injured
people to a hospital.
Put Two In Rumble Seat
eve put two men in the
rumble seat and held a
woman on my lap. We then
drove to Emergency Hospital
and left them. One of the
injured men walked out of the
hospital right after we got
there. After that we drove
away and left the automobile"
The fourth injured person was
taken to Casualty Hospital by a
passing motorist, while two others
had been removed from Emerg-
ency Hospital to Gallinger Hos
pital. They are Joseph j. Smith,
1923 D st. S. E.: Henry Chaplin,
%, 1858 H st. N. E., and Eliza
beth Tyndal, SO, of 1920 Eleventh
st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
HEARST SCHOOL
IS ENLARGED

Commemorating her years of
work in behalf of kindergartens
in this city, a Phoebe ApperSon
Hearst memorial kindergarten
will be included in the model
school at Thirty-seventh and Til
den Streets Northwest, named in
honor of the mother of William
Randolph Hearst.
This announcement was made
last night at a meeting Of the
North Cleveland Park Citizens
Association, one of the organlza-
tions instrumental in proposing
that the new school should be
named for Mrs. Hearst.
Mr.. Hearst has expressed his
desire to attend the dedication
ceremonies, which will be opened
the first of the year.
It was reported at the meeting
that additional land has been
given by the Bureau of Standards
for the Strengthening of Van Ness
Street, work on which is to be
begun Immediately. A resolution
also was adopted to request light
ing for the alleys in North Cleve-
land Park section.
At a meeting of the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association, the
following officers were reelected:
Albert Westrater, president; Sen
eca B. Balm, Margaret Worrell,
and Marie Maddox, vice presl-
dents; William C. Straus, treas
urer; Albert E. Stephan, record
ing secretary; w. I. Swanton, cor
responding secretary, and j. Cl1n-
ton Hiatt, and H. V. Speelman,,
delegates to the Federation OF
Citizens Associations.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Anne Joy Chambers
Wins Chemist Prize

Miss Anne Joy Chambers, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r.
Chambers, 1895 Stevenson Pl.
N. W., and a student at Immacu-
lata Seminary, today was advised
that she had won the first prize
in the chemistry essay contest
sponsored in the school by the
American Chemical Society.
The award is $40, and in addi-
tion Miss Chambers essay will be
placed in competition in the ma
tional chemistry essay contest also
being sponsored by the society.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
u. S. May Start War
On Pine Bark Beetle

Aroused by appeals from cham
bers of commerce, members of
Congress and others in California,
the Federal Bureau of Entomology
has begun an investigation of the
damages done by the pine bark
beetle in that State, it was learned
yesterday
The investigation is being made
to ascertain whether funds should
be asked of Congress for an in
tensive drive to save the national
forests from this blight.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Chaplain to Dedicate
Linht for Var Dead

A perpetual light to honor the
memory of war dead will be
established at ceremonies con-
Quoted by the Rev. Francis j.
Hurney, chaplain of Vincent Cos
tello Post of the American Le-
gion, at the Church of the I'M
maculate Conception, May IT, at
5 p. m.
An American flag will b. pre-
sented to the church by tn. post
at this service. The services will
be broadcast from Station VOL.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Building Inspection
Is Held Inadequate

Ross H. Johnson, secretary OF
the Builders and Manufacturers
Exchange of Washington, yester-
day declared there is inadequate
inspection Of public building
projects in the District.
He said this is caused in part
by the failure of Congress to pro-
vide sufficient funds to hire
enough competent inspectors.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
MASONs TO BALTIMORE

Col. Fred Cook, grand master
of Masons of the District of Co
lumbia, and all the members of
Samuel Gompers Lodge, as we'll
as large number of other Masons
will go to Baltimore tonight to
visit st. Johns Lodge of that
city. The party will leave on a
special B. & o train from Union
Station at 6:45 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
UTILITY TRUST
PROBE LAUDED

Decision of the Federal Trade
Commission to open an inquiry
into the financial relationship
between the North American
Company, one Of the dominant
public utility holding syndicates
of the nation, the Washington
Railway and Electric Co., and
the Potomac Electric Power
Company was hailed with deep
qualification by Senator Robert
b. Howell (R), of Nebraska
today.
Senator Howell, who has been
o leading senatorial opponent
Of the progressive "trustifica-
ton" of the local utilities, and
particularly of the absorption
of the Washington Gas Light
Company by the Seaboard In
vestment Trust, believes the
Federal Trade Commission in
veStigation, which is slated to
open next Tuesday, will go far
towards clearing the atmos-
phere" in the local utility situa-
ton.
Against "Saddllng Plan
The Nebraska Senator said to-
day:
"f this inquiry is properly
conducted, and I have every
reason to believe it will, be, it
will be the biggest thing that
has happened in the local
utility field for many years.
"T am an avOWed and un-
yielding opponent of the Wall
Street plan of saddling indi-
vidual, local utilities with the
extra load involved in the
issue Of new stock and bonds
by holding companies which
gObble them up.
"All of these extra charges
are imposed upon the public.
The only possible motive of
absentee ownership and con-
sOlidated ownership is to
squeeze more money out of the
individual companies, either by
cheapening their service or by
raising charges under the fair
return formula which they
have developed"
Willing to Appear
Senator Howell has not been
asked to appear before the Fed
eral Trade Commission in it's in
uuiry, but is willing to appear if
needed.
Investigators of the commission
have been busy for weeks, how
ever, in assembling material re.
lating to the financial ramifica-
EionS Of the North American COM
pany. and particularly it's opera.
tions in the local utility field.
The exact part which the Public
Utilities Commission will take
in the probe has not been dis
closed.
Presumably all of the data re.
iating to the disputed ownership
of the Pepco and the Washington
Railway and Electric Company in
the possession of the P. U. c. will
BE called for by the Federal Trade
Commission in connection with
the hearings.
4 Prosecutor Unnamed
The hearings will be conducted
either by a member of the COM
mission or one of its examiners.
Decision on the procedure of
the hearings and the member of
the commission staff who will be
assigned the role of prosecutor"
will be made in the next few days,
it was said yesterday.