Hemard Dale Gatewscy
VOLUME XIX NUMBER 27
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31,1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
CITY OF EELS
; SELECTED POINT
TO START FLIGHT
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Original Plans Called for Seattle as
Place to Start World Flight,
But Are Changed
SEWARD IS ON ITINERARY
This City Picked as Landing Place
for Naval Planes on Account of j
Standard Oil Tanks
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Los An
geles has been selected by the Army
Air Service as a starting point for
the attempted flight around the world,
instead of Seattle, as originally
planned. Four planes will be used
in the flight and landings will be
made in Alaska at Wrangell, Katalla,
Seward, Kodiak, Unalaska, Attu and
thence to Japan.
4 Large quantities of highly refined
gasoline will be placed at all these
points, as well as engine and plane
parts to guard against break-downs.
fettles and Water Flasks Thrown
and Fist Fight Result Between
Rival Factions
TOKIO, Jan. 31.—The Diet was
dissolved today following scenes of
the greatest disorder in which water
flasks were thrown and fists used in
the disturbances resulting from the
attempts of the opposition to inter
pellate the government regarding the
wrecking of a train at Nagoya, which
carried the opposition leader to the
capital.
REED TO ACCEPT AS
COOLIDGE MANAGER
TACOMA, Jan. 31—Mark E. Reed,
of Shelton, speaker of the lower house
of the Washington legislature and
long prominent in politics, announced
over the long distance telephone to
the Tacoma News-Tribune Saturday
that he had decided to accept the ap
pointment as manager of the Coolidge
campaign in the State of W ashington.
Mr. Reed announced that he had
s^nt a telegram today to William M.
Butler, national manager ot the Cool
idge campaign, in Chicago stating his
acceptance. He said that he would
start work at once towrard getting a
Coolidge delegation from this state to
the Cleveland convention next June.
HLCHE
- IS STIHTiO PROBE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—An in
quiry of its own into the Sinclair
and Dohenef oil leases was begun to
day by the House naval committee.
MOURNING FOR LEN1NE
MOSCOW, Jan. 31—Yesterday was
observed as a day of mourning thru
out Russia in memory of the late
premier. Special services were held
in tie churches.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Demo
cratic leaders of the House announce
that they will attempt to have a spe
cial committee appointed to investi
gate the affairs of the Shipping
Board.
WARSHIPS BEEN RECALLED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—Warships
recently on duty at Vera Cruz have
been ordered to return and remain
there,
il
TWO LETTERS WRITTEN
BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN
SOLD FOR $1,250 EACH
PHILADELPHIA Jan. 31.—1 wo let
ters written by Abraham Lincoln to
his secretary of navy, Gideon Welles,
brought $1,250 each here yesterday at
a public auction of Civil war docu
ments.
In one of the letters, relating to the
gunboat Monitor, Lincoln said that he
was : .decidedly of the opinion that
she should not go sky larking up to
Norfolk,” for he wrote , Lieutenant
Worden had told him the Monitor
could be easily boarded and captured.
In the other letter, dated August 23,
1864, President Lincoln said that he
would be defeated for re-election by
McClellan.
A letter in which he asked for a
“war steamer ’ to cruise the Potomac
and protect ne approach•-* to Wash
ington broil*,* i
FDR WAR VETERANS
WASHINGTON, Tun. 31.— Presi
dent Coolidge today '“'iterated his op
position to the st-Mier bonus when a
delegation representing the Ex-Serv
ice Men’s Anti-Bonus League called
upon him.
SMALL^Ca SPREAD ANL
THOUSANDS REPORTED
DYING JAPANESE CITIES
VICTORIA, B. C„ Jan. 30.—Wore
i that smallpox was epidemic in Hong
' kong and Kowloon was brought bj
the Yokohama Maru, which arrived it
this port yesterday from the far east
Passengers and members of th<
crew of the Yokohama said that peo
pie was perishing in the streets o
Hongkong and Kowloon and tha
1 the hospitals were scarcely able t<
care for those critically ill. It wa
stated that hundreds were dea<
w:'ea the ship left the west side o
the Pacific. Mortality was declare!
high among babies. »
In a campaign carried on by pro
hibitions, 230.C7S person:- have b* * n
vaccinated acocrding to reports ob
tained on the Yokohama, including
170.313 in Hongkong and 50,718 in
Kowloon. Since December 1, all immi-j
grants from Canton have been vaccin
ated, such operations running about
1,000 a day.
It was stated that vacciuations in
Hongkong were avei aging 3,000 daily
and those in Kowloon l,2u0.
SELF SUPPORTING
WITHIN II YEAR
SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—The Alaska
Railway will become self supporting
a year hence and from that time on
no appropriations will be required
from Congress for operation, mainte
nance or improvements, General Man
ager Lee H. Landis declared upon his
arrival from Seward this afternoon.
WASHINGTON ONCE WAS
ROAMED BY CAMELS
SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—Animals pecu
liar to Asia at this day once had their
home where Washington state lies, ac
cording to a statement of Marcus A.
Hanna, instructor of geology at the
rriversity of Washington, published
today.
The statement followed the news
that an exploration party of the uni
versity had found a bone seeming to
have come from a leg of a camel and
! to be 500,000 years old. The bone
was obtained near Wenatchee, in Ea
stern Washington.
“Nothing unusual in that,” Mr. Han
na said. “The camel was an Amer
ican beast and inhabited this contin
ent for thousands, perhaps millions
of years before he emigrated to Asia
by way of the Bering strait.”
T'revor Kincaid professor of biolo
gy of the university, bore out Mr.
Hanna. “Similar bones have been
found In the John Day beds in Ore
gon, but I believe the bone found at
Wenatchee is that of a procamelus, an
early camel form found extensively on
this continent," he declared.
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LOSE F
FIGURES ON FAILURES COMPILED
BY AGRICULTURAL DEP’T.
WASHINGTON. Jan. Si.—More than
I 8 1-2 per cent of the farmers who own
j ed land in 1920, and more than 7 per
cent of the tenant farmers in fifteen
corn and wheat producing states have
lost their property with or without
process, due to purchase during the
boom period, unwise investments or
other causes.
This estimate, based by the depart
ment of agriculture on replies to a
special inquiry to 2,400 farmers in the
upper Mississippi valley, indicated, it
; was announced today, that out of a
total of 2,289 000 owner and tenant
farmers in the sections considered,
more than 108,000 lost their farms or
I other property through foreclosure or
! bankruptcy, more than 122,000 lost
! theirs without legal proceedings, and
nearly 737,000 retained their property
! only because of the leniency of credit
i ors.
The losses, the department tound,
| were relatively more numerous in
! Montana, North Dakota, Colorado and
South Dakota than in the East Nortl
Central states.
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FLORIDA WOULD ENTICE
BURBANK FROM CALIFORNIA
SANTA ROSA, Cal., Jan. 31.—If tin
Lakeland Chamber of Commerce, o;
i Lakeland, Fla., has its way, Caliiornic
: will lose Luther Burbank, plant wid
zard.
Lakeland has formally offered Bur
bank 200 acres of Pope County Fla.
choicest land, a fine home and al
buildings necessary to carry on his
plant experimentation work if he wil
I transfer his activities to the southeri
state.
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j ATHENS, Jan. 31.—Premier Ven
izelos resigned the premiership o
Greece today upon the advice of hi,
1 physicians. The premier has beei
. suffering lately from severe attack;
y with his heart.
WOMEN VITAL FACTOR
IN WORLD PROGRESS
—
CINCINNATI, Jan. 31.—The hand
that rocks the cradle has a vital part
in world progress and maintenance of
civilization, George Warfield Clark of
Forest Dodge, la., said today in an
address Before the life extension con
ference and the annual meeting of the
American Academy of App’ied Den'al
Science.
“World progress depends upon the
service of women,” he declared,.
“China, with a religion built around
the philosophy ot Confucius, a wom
an-hater, has never advanced, and ne
ver will until women are permitted
to use the knowledge gained in the
school of experience and hard knocks.
The same condition is found in India
In America it is better and solely on
account of the exalted status of the
female of the species.”
Press, church schools, homes and
“movies” would be the chief agen
cies in distributing information inci
dent to a health renaissance, the ne
cessary factors of which are natural
playgrounds, sacrificing of profession
al traditions, cutting down of speciali
zation, elimination of the use of the
w'ord “cure” and increase in birth
education and pre-natal training, he
said.
SEATTLE, Jan. 30.—Dr. J. Allen
Smith, a nationally known political
economist writer, and member of the
University of Washington faculty for
27 years, died today.
YOUNG ESKIMO LAD IS
ENJOYING SIGHTS SEATTLE
Timothy Twitchell, the young Eski
mo reindeer owner, who passed thru
Seward early in the month on the way
Outside, is having a big time with
movies, auto and street car rides, ac
cording to Associated Press reports.
ANCIENTS NOT PARTICULAR AT
KING TUT’S TOMB
I LUXOR, Egypt, Jam 30.—The news
paper correspondents today paid the
usual fortnightly visit allowed them
to the tomb of Tutenkhamun and
spent a half hour examining the re
markable joinery of the Pharaoh’s gi
gantic sepulchre as far as Howard
Carter’s work of dismantling the
I structure has revealed the various
| caskets.
Mr. Carter was perched on the el
aborate scaffolding which has been
; erected about the canopy, planning
the next steps. He drew the atten
tion of the correspondents to the
many evidences of hasty or careless
work on the part of the joiners or
; caretakers who thirty centuries ago
| by the light of smoky lamps assem
bled the four shrines about the
great crystalline sarcophasus contain
i ing Tutenkhamun’s mummy.
On the golden entablature ol the
| second shrine, the lintel above the
, doors and below the curvature of the
cornice, are marks left by the coppei
chisels or levers ot the ancient car
penters as they eased the lintel into
place, and at the corner are bruises
in the golden gesso-plaster on wood
made by the hammer of some con
sciousless workman who headless,
battered the side of the shrine into po
• sit ion.
Here and there are scratches while
in the ancient gilding are clearly vis
ible the foreman’s indication marks in
hieroglyphics, exactly the same as a
modern foreman scrawls in pencil di
J rections for the guidance ot the work
. men on the component parts of a
I frame house. Elsewhere on dilleitni
, sections of the shrines are marks in
black to show their positions in ic
1 at ion to one anot.ier.
One of the symbols is the mark
meaning ‘good or beaut! uh and it
is curious to sec how the workman
who wielded the paint brush has add
’ ed on one panel on his own account
' the symbol for “god;’ perhaps for luck
or perhaps by way ot a joke, the
meaning of which escapes after these
3.000 years.
. Between the various shrines stil
. lies the litter of chips left by the
joiners, who, as they watched the sei
vants of the royal necropolis shovel
ing the stones down the shaft of the
dead monarch’s tomb, can scarcelj
have imagined that the evidences o
their irreverent carelessness wrouk
ever come to light.
SEATTLE, Jan. 30.—Major Muir
head, who was shot yesterday by the
irate husband of the woman he was
dining with in a local cafe, is said to
be recovering, and is now out of dan
ger.
Mrs. Muirhead announced today
hat she would sue for a divorce as
soon as the Major recovers, naming
Mrs. Derby as co-respondent.
Derby has been charged with as
sault with intent to kill.
ROCKS HER BABIES;
THEN SEEKS DEATH
ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 31— Rocking
her two little girl babies to sleep and
safely tucking them away for the
night with a kiss, Mrs. J. L. Hamilton
a 20-year-old mother, of this city, one
night recently attempted suicide by
drinking a quantity of iodine.
When she took the poison in a
room adjoining the one where her two
little girls were sleepjng she fell to
the floor with a scream. Neighbors ar
rived, and she was rushed to a local
hospital, where physicians fought a
winning battle with the poison, and
Mrs. Hamilton soon was joyfully re
united with her two babies.
“I was so lonely and blue and des
pondent, ’she said. ‘My husband is
out of town so much and I just felt
I couldn’t stand it, but when I thought
I was going to die—that it was too
late—and that I would never see my
two babies again I degretted what t
had done, and I prayed to get well.
I am so glad, and never again will I
do a thing like that!” she cried as
she caressed her two laughing babies.
| Join the Chamber of Commerce.
ENOUGH LUMBER FOR
FIFTY COTTAGES IN
MAMMOTH REDWOOD
GRANTS PASS, Ore. Jan. 31.— A
mammoth redwood, measuring twen
ty-three feet across the butt and sev
enty feet in circumference, was cut
this week in the Redwood forest near
Crescent City, Cal., on the Redwood
highway, according to word brought
here today. The tree, which was 300
feet tall, was the largest ever cut by
the sawmill operating in that vicinity.
It will furnish 250,000 (• ei of lumber
enough to keep the mill running for
three days and it will furnish a cargo
for two steamers of the size now oper
ating in the Criscent City harbor. It
is pointed out that fifty cottages, each
containing 5,000 feet of lumber could
be erected from the lumber cut from
this single tree.
Two men labored seven days to
bring the giant to earth. They were
forced to make a double undercut ,
the vertical measurement of which
was ten feet.
This is one of the “big” trees of the
Del Norte county forests. Some still
| standing are greater than the one
! here mentioned.
•EATT1.E. Ju t. 31.—A million dol
lars will be paid to the depositors of
the defunct Scandinavian Americar
Dank of Seattle. March. I t Liquidate!
Langley announced today. This wil
make sixty per cent pain back to de
positors with o'her dividends to omt
laur.
MEMORIAL TABLET BE
PLACED BAND STANC
CORDOVA. Alaska. Jan. 31.—Tin
John W. Jones Post of the Americai
T.eaicn has decided to have a regula
Cabaret show on the night of Febru
ary 11. Refreshments will be serve<
! during the evening. Music is to b<
furnished by the Athletic club s jaz
orchestra.
The Post wishes to take this oppoi
(unity of reminding the people oi Coi
dova that they endorse the comin;
picture “I accuse” which is a patriot!
picture.
It was agreed at the meeting that
the Post head a movement to place a
memorial tablet on the band stand,
commemorating our late lamented Pre
sident’s visit to Cordova. Two con
tribution boxes will be placed in P'o
minent places in the near future for
voluntary contributions.
Commander Mellison wishes all the
members to report at the headquar
ters at 1 P- m. Sunday, January 2<th.
Wear fatigue clothes.
NEW YORK, Jan. SI—The World’s
Washington dispatches says that Her
bert Hoover will be made Secretary
of the Interior follov ing the removal
of Secretary Work, and that his re
moval wall be followed by the resig
nation of both Denby and Daugherty.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.— Smug
gling aliens into the United States
has reached the proportions of an .1
licit industry second only to bootleg
ging, Secretary Davis declared.
The Women’s Bridge Club will
meet tomorrow afternoon at the usu
al hour with Mrs. 0. A. Johansen.
James E. Fullerton, an old timet
of the Kuskokwim district arrived
here last night on his way out to the
plane. He was accompanied by Geo.
Hamilton, also of Flat. Both men are
registered at Hie Van -Gilder.
DEW AND FALL
CONDEMNED 8!
yes IN SENATE
Resolution Designed to Whitewash
Late Secretary and Present
Secretary Navy Defeated
APPROPRIATION IS HELD UP
Senate Refuses to Accept Statement
of Fall’s Phyisician and Com
mitte Will Investigate
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—By a vote
of 46 to 38 the Senate this afternoon
defeated Senator Lenroot's amend
ment to the W aish resolution which
would have stricken out of the
resolution the words that charged
Albert Li. Fall and Secretary Dt-nby
acting illegally in the Sinclair and
Doheny leases.
Senator Norris charged that the
! late President Harding had acted in
i open defiance of the law in transfer
J ring the oil reserves from the Navy
to me interior department; and that
the leases to Sinclair and Doheny
were made in utter disregard of the
law. The Senate also declined to ac
j cept the statement of Fall’s physician
as to his physical condition, anti Sen
ators bmoot and Walsh were appoint
ed to select three competent physi
cians to examine halls condition and
report to the committee.
The house Natal committee has
developed testimony that Denby per
sonally made construction contracts
; with Doheny and Sinclair, whereby
1 the oil companies built storage tanks
| and harbor improvements tor the
i Navy in exchange for the royalty in
I oil.
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Senator Stanley Roasts Fall
WASHINGTON^ Jan. 31.—Senator
Stanley in a speech today declared
that when Ananias in Hell reads the
, statement of Fall that the Sinclair
and iJoheny leases were necessary to
! ; save the fields from destruction, he
>; would turn green with envy.
Appropriation Withdrawn
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.—The ap
. propriation of $100,000 voted by the
; Senate yesterday to be used by the
3 President in prosecuting the oil
grafters, unless the president will
1 submit his appointments to the Sen
ate for confirmation.
Says Hall Betrayed Harding
DETROIT, Jan. 31—Senator Wiilis
of Ohio, arriving here today, branded
Albert B. Fall with having betrayed
President Harding, his closest friend,
by the acceptance of a $100,000 loan,
then signing over the Teapot Dome
and Elk Hill oil leases.
Want Denby to Resign
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Senators
Lodge, Lenroot, Curtis and Hale call
ed on President Coolidge today, urg
ing him to request Secretary Denby’s
resignation. The quartette later ap
pealed to the Secretary at his resi
dence to resign.
Harding Collects Evidence
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—It was
shown at the cabinet conference on
Tuesday that President Coolidge had
began collecting evidence toward the
prosecution of the Teapot Dome oil
swindlers.
WtH Annuli Oil Leases
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.- -The res
olution introduced by Senator Wa'sh,
directing tre president to proceed
with suits annulling tne Doheny and
Sinclair oil leases was adopted today
by the Senate.
.Resignations Not Submitted
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Senator
Walsh of Montana, on invitation from
President Coolidge, called at the
White House today for a conference.
He stated that it was untrue that At
torney General Daugherty and Sec
retary of the Navy Denby had sub
mitted their resignations and that
the President had refused to accept
them.
Victor Durand, sourdough violinist,
who has been living in Anchorage for
some months past, will leave Satur
day for Prince Rupert, where he has
secured an engagement with a B. C.
orchestra.