VOLUME 19. NUMBER 302
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
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VISCOUNT CECIL
AWARDED PEACE
PRIZE $25,000
NEW YORK, Dec. 29—Before a dis
tinguished gathering which included
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the
former president. Viscount Cecil was
presented tonight with the $25,000
peace award and medal given under
the Woodrow Wilson foundation, for
meritorious service in the cause of
international co-operation and peace.
Lord Cecil, in accepting, stressed
the accomplishments of the League
since its inception under the leader
ship of Woodrow Wilson, whom he
characterized as ‘‘the greatest Amer
ican and citizen of the world,” adding,
“There is not a title to fame greater
than this.”
Hazeltine Raids Offices
of City and County
, SEATTLE, Dec. 27.—Pacific North
west Prohibition Director F. A. Ha
zeltine Wednesday raided the county
and city buildings and found nine
bottles of whiskey in the paint room.
Employes told him the bottles were
used as turpentine.
Hazeltine also searched the jani
tor’s room. Justice Dalton refused
a search warrant to search the tele
phone operators’ room. The super
intendent of the building declared
the search was a political raid and
he has complained to Washington.
BANK CLEARANCES
* REACH BIG SUM
SEATTLE, Dec. 29.—Bank clear
ances for 1924 totaled two billion,
twenty million, five hundred thousand
dollars, and the city’s w'ater-borne
commerce aggregated seven and a
half million tons valued at six hun
dred thousand dollars.
Seattle Man Suicides
By Taking Gas Route
RATTLE, Dec. 29.—Eric Mannu
son took his life by the gas route this
morning. Two months ago his wife
committed suicide in the same man
ner
TEMBLOR SHAKES
.TOKIO DISTRICT
TOKIO, Dec. 29.—An earthquake
shock which lasted two minutes, was
felt at Kusjiro in northeastern Japan
this morning. The earthquake’s aver
age intensity was felt in Tokio last
night, the shocks lasting for a dura
tion of twenty seconds and causing
great alarm.
HOW CHINESE CITY
t WIDENS ITS STREET
SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 29.—Sev
eral months of propaganda work by
he Chinese Red Cross, Young Men’s
dub and some missionary organiza
ions to have the city of Fow
how, in Szechuen province, widen
he ancient streets proved woefully
nsuccessful recently and the work
rs were on the verge-of abandoning
leir efforts. One night fire broke
it Jn a temple, and within a few
mw'several of the principal streets
ere in ruins. Renewed vigor on
e part of the ‘ City Beautifier”
orkers has since resulted in the
nstruction of new buildings a
w feet farther back, so that the
-eets, once impossible to navigate
thout fighting your way through
foot, can now be negotiated in
rikis£a.
BOAT OWNED BY SEATTLE
GIRL TAKES WILD RIDE
/
SEATTLE, Dec. 29.—With fourteen
girls aboard, the Camaraderie, a for
mer U. S. Shipping Board vessel, was
torn from her moorings by a gale and
driven across the lake, crushing three
house boats and damaging one of nine
newly built rum chasers.
The hulk was recently sold to the
Seattle Campfire girls* and remodeled
into a home.
Occupants of the boat houses were
notified in time to escape injury.
Harbor patrol boats and all avail
able tugs were trying to pull the ves
sel back to its moorings today.
RAIL EMPLOYES
GET INCREASE
IN RATE WAGES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 29
Secretary of Interior Work today an
nounced that the increase of pay for
employes of the Alaska Railroad had
been granted as follows: Enginemen
and hostlers, $30 per month; baggage
men $36; hostler helpers $1.63 a day.
Mileage hourly or monthly on a 26
day basis as applied at present. Dis
patchers $10, operatrors $5. Thirty
days leave accumulative.
This ends a long drawn out contro
versy, lasting from the date Colonel
Frederick Mears cut the wages of the
men until the present time.
Columbus a Spaniard,
Says Woman Writer
LONDON, Dec. 29.—History books
will have to be revised to make
Christopher Columbus a Spaniard
instead of an Italian, if assertions
made by Mrs. Charles Mansfield
in a book shortly to be published
(“Columbus, a Spaniard”) gain cred
ence.
Mrs. Mansfield bases her state
ments upon the results of a year’s
investigation which she carried out
in northwestern Spain, accompanied
by her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel
W. R. Mansfield.
Italian documents, claiming that
Columbus was born in Genoa, are
forgeries, the writer declares, even
going so far as to say that an Italian
royal decree, confirming Columbus
Italian origin, is spurious.
Run Down by Autoist
, While Admiring Shoes
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 29.—Too
closely inspecting his newly shined
shoes nearly cost the life of Christ
opher Shane, who was struck by
an automobile and seriously injured.
According to witnesses, Shane was
bending down admiring his freshly
polished shoes when struck by an
automobile driven by Nathan Levine.
Shane was taken to the Pennsyl
vania Hospital, where it is said he
has a fractured skull and internal
injuries.
Anniversary of Birth
of Wilson Celebrated
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—The an
niversary of the birth of Woodrow
Wilson was celebrated here last night,
Huston Thompson presiding.
HIJACKER CAUGHT
IN NEW YORK CITY
SEATTLE, Dec. 29.—Owen B. Ba
ker was arrested last night in New
York city, and will be extradited to
Seattle to stand trial as one of the
three men who boarded the rum
schooner Beryl G. off Sidney Island,
September 15, murdering Capt. W. G.
Gillis and son William, jr., aged 17.
The bodies of the two men were
wrapped with anchor chain and sunk.
REWARDS GIVEN
WORLD FLYERS
BY SEC. WEEKS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—Secretary
Weeks today approved the plans for
rewarding the Army world flyers. The
plan as proposed, would advance
Lieutenant Smith 1000 files on the
promotion list, and Lieutenants Nel
son, Wade, Leslie and Arnold 500 files
each. Staff Sergeant Agden and Civi
lian Mechanic Harding, who hold re
serve corps commissions as second
lieutenants, would be appointed offi
cers in the regular army in their re
serve corps grades.
All members of the flight squadron
would receive distinguished service
medals, and would be permitted to ac
cept decorations offered by foreign
i governments.
American “Twang” Is
Synthetically Produced
LONDON, Dec. 29.—The nasal
“twang” of a native of the United
States was recently synthetically
produced, through the medium of
an ordinary rubber tube, by Sir Rich
ard Paget, noled English inventor.
Illustrating a lecture on the
human voice, he produced a number
of rubber tubes of various shapes
and sizes which, when placed on a
sounding reed, produced human vow
el sounds under the influence of a
current of air.
He compressed the neck of one
tube with his finger and thumb,
and immediately sounds issued from
it bearing the true American
“twang.”
HUGE CONSPIRACY
BY LIQUOR RING
SEATTLE, Dec. 29.—A special as
sistant to the Federal Attorney Gen
eral will be chief prosecutor in a
coastwise liquor conspiracy, center
ing around the arrest last month of
Roy Olmstead.
FIRE IN ASYLUM AT
TOKIO KILLS 108
TOKIO, Dec. 29.—Fire in a private
| sanitarium for the insane here last
I night resulted in a serious loss of
j life. Out of 343 inmates 108 are dead,
j Thirteen bodies have been recovered
so far.
Northwestern Out
On Saturday Night
The steamship Northwestern sailed
Saturday night for Seattle and way
ports with 3,000 barrels of herring
and the following passengers:
For Latouche—Astrid Ulleland, P.
Coulker, Lillian Felts, Spero Gost, G.
L. Johnson, Mike Torril, W. Balabo
roff, 3 steerage.
Cordova—D. Fitzpatrick, G. R.
Skinner, A. Shirinomar, Mrs. T. Par
ish and baby.
Wrangell—J. C. Reggie.
Ketchikan—Ole Skaar.
Seattle—G. Clark, D. C. Petsie, L.
K. Platt, Mrs. H. Johnson, J. D. Sul
livan, R. E. Mclvor, John Colberg, C.
O. Pearson, H. Donnelly, J. G. Mur
dock, Harry Edwards, Mrs. Thomas
Aitken, Nellie Beattie, Joe Kern, W.
F. Duffy, J. W. Murphy, L. J. Russell,
B. Campness, H. Voling, Nels Nelson,
J. S. Jensen, J. C. Jacobson, C. John
son, Mr. and Mrs. McNab, Miss Nika
Ardall, Mrs. Warner, K. Armstrong,
Wm. Ranier, Mrs. H. Johnson, Mr. L.
H. Platt, Jane H. McAllen, Eric Ne
gis, Mrs. Robt. Stasles, Arthur But
ler, Mrs. M. H. Willis, John Markert,
Fred Obermiller, John F. Quinn, J. L.
McAllen, Mrs. J. L. McAllen, Wm.
Morrison, Robt. Chantis, Robt, Effen.
FIND SPECIAL DELIVERY
MAIL HIDDEN IN BARN
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., Dec. 29.
—Fourteen year old Harold Nead,
of this city, faces prosecution for
the alleged violation of postal regu
lations and forgery, following his
I arrest.
Ntad employed at the local post
office as a special delivery mes
senger, was said to have admitted
he forged names to delivery blank-?
and opened three letters intrusted
to him for delivery. He is said to
have concealed scores of letters he
'ailed to deliver in a barn and under
a sidewalk. The police were I'-d !o
[ the hiding places by the boy. who
in held pending instructions fi"; a
the United States district atto rey.
FIVE HOSPITALS
BECONSTRUCTED
FOR VETERANS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—The con
■ struction- of five hospitals for world
war veterans, the completion of one,
and the purchase of another, will be
undertaken soon by the Veterans’
Bureau, with funds made available by
j Congress.
McCoy Jury Is Told To
Continue Deliberations
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29.—The jury
i sitting in the trial of Kid McCoy was
| instructed today to continue their de
liberations instead of being discharg
ed when it failed to reach a verdict
I at the opening of court here today.
CONGRESS RECONVENES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Congress
reconvened here today.
Will Place Stamp Mill
On Property In Spring
J. L. McAllen, superintendent of
the War Baby, Gold Bullion and
Lucky Shot properties, who left on
the Northwestern with his family, for
the States, advised the Gateway that
he would bring back a stamp mill for
his properties this coming spring. He
stated that a hydro-electric plant will
be installed, and a large crew of men
'employed. Mr. and Mrs. McAllen and
daughter are going to Portland, Ore
gon, and then by car to California.
They expect to be gone several
months or more.'
INNOCENT MAN IS
GIVEN FREEDOM
HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Dec. 29
Seven hours before he was hanged at
Villa Platte, La Euzebe Vidriene, a
Mexican confessed that he had killed
five men and gave their names. As a
result Frank J. Smith is about to
be free from the Texas State prison
where he is serving a 15-year sentence
for the murder of one of the men the
Mexican confessed to killing.
Chicago Home Brewers
Cost City Much Money
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 29.—Home
brew enthusiasts, with their grape
wine concocting, are costing the city
of Chicago thousand of dollars, ac
cording to the Commissioner of Pub
lic Works.
“For the past three months,” he
said, “we have beep receiving com
plaints of sewer interruption, and in
nine cases out of ten we have found
mash or grape skins thrown into the
sewer was the cause of the trouble.
“If you must make that home brew
or grape wine at home, please keep
the mash and the grape skins out of
the city sewers,” the commissioner
has requested Congressman Hills, of
Chicago, in a special plea.
FRIGIDITY LESSENS
ABOUT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—A gradual re
laxation from the frigidity which tum
bled temperatures to low records for
the past 25 years over much of the
Middle West, was forecast for today
and tomorrow. The present cold spell
caused more deaths than at any time
for a quarter of a century. Coal deal
ers ran out of stocks and the poorer
quarter of the city suffered greatly.
Several thousand persons were given
permission to sleep in public build
ings and churches.
WOOD CHOPPERS BUSY
The Alaska Transfer has thirteen
men in the woods engaged in cutting
j stovewood jor the coming summer’s
use. The sledding is fine1 in the woods
and several teams are engaged in
hauling.
AGED FLIVVER BEARS REBUKE
TO FLAPPERS AND GETS GRIN
DEFIANCE, Ohio, Dec. 29.—‘ Don’t
laugh, girls. You’d look like h—1, if
you had no paint on.”
' This is the wording on a large
placard fastened across the rear of
an antique flivver which rattled thru
the business district recently. Its ap
pearance prompted many a laugh on
the part of shoppers.
Henry Savage Landor
Arctic Explorer, Dead
LONDON, Dec. 29.—The death of
Henry Savage Landor, noted Arctic
| explorer, has been reported tiom
Florence, Italy.
GRANDDAUGHTER
OF GRANT SUICIDE
i SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29— Mrs.
Fanny G. Purdy, a granddaughter of
General U. S. Grant, former president
of the United States, and daughter of
U. S. Grant, a prominent resident .of
San Diego, committed suicide today
in the court of the St. Francis hos
pital, where she had called to visit a
sick friend.
Past Grand Exalted
Ruler of Elks, Dead
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 29.—Robert W.
Brown, past grand exalted ruler of
the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks died today of cerebral hem
orrhage.
BUSINESS CONDITIONS SAID
TO BE GOOD IN SEWARD
Seward merchants state that their
Christmas trade was much better than
in previous years, and that business
this week is also above the average.
Considerable belated Christmas buy
ing is going on, and several large out
fits have been sold for tie camps.
Hating All Luxury
Lusitania’s Captain
Travels In Steerage
LONDON, Eng., Dec. 29.—Captain
William T. Turner, captain of the
Lusitania when she was torpedoed
by a German submarine during the
World War, traveled steerage when
he emigrated to Australia recently.
By traveling steerage he put his
principles into practice, for he dis
likes luxury in any shape or form.
During the period in which he com
mandered various Cunard luxury lin
ers, he became known as the “invisi
ble captain” because he kept away
from gaity aboard ship and always
spent the whole of his voyage super
intending the navigation of his ves
sel.
Since his retirement in 1919 he has
been living at Plymouth.