VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 308
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19,1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
SYSTEMATIC LEV!
IF TRIBUTE MADE
BE SEME POLICE
GRAND JURY UNCOVERS PUTRID
MESS OF BLACKMAIL AND
LAWLESSNESS
MUCH CRAFT EXPOSED
Seattle Spirit Under Searchlight of
Public Investigation—Testimony
Damaging to Officials
SEATTLE Dec. 19.—The grand jury
investigating Seattle’s vice conditions
continues its sensational exposures of
police methods in grafting from the
business houses and underword. A
mass of damaging testimony is un
earthing evidence of a systematic
levying of tribute from merchants
large and small, apartment houses,
taxicab companies, and the sale of
special parking permits.
ESCAPED CONVICT
Burglar too Conscientious to Allow
Blame to Rest on Prison Guard
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19.—“I un
derstand an investigation is under
way to determine how I was able to
saw the bars in the parish prison. I
do not wish this blamed on any guilt
less deputy. Hence my letter.”
This was the beginning or a letter
received by local police from W. S
Lewis who about ten days ago escap
ed from prison just after he had been
sentenced to serve three years in the
state penitentiary.
‘‘The saws used in cutting my bars
were never inside the parish prison. I
took a long piece of twine with me to
the prison and let one end of this
down into the alley and a friend tied
the saws on. The rest was easy.
‘‘Please do not judge me too harshly
for my rash act. I played square and
told everyone I would get away if I
could. I made known also that my es ,
cape would not be attended with any
violence.
“My conscience will not permit mej
to let the guilt of my escape rest on:
any of the prison guards who were'
good to me. I hope you exonerate
them from all blame.”
The letter which was signed “L,”
was mailed three days after Lewis’s
escape from prison.
IRISH ffili
W SUES SMALL
DUBLIN, Dec. 19— It is highly im
probable that any of the officers or
men of the Irish Army will become
wealthy on their pay. The new rates
for the Irish army recently approved
gives a major-general $8.05 per day;
a colonel gets $5.75 a day; a major,
$4.60;- a commandant, $4.15; a cap
lain $2.75; a lieutenant, first or sec
ond $1.85; a sergeant major is paid
$1.75; a quartermaster sergeant $1.25;
a prive 75 cents per day. A recruit j
until he becomes a trained soldier is |
allowed 50 cents a day, from which
his rations come.
MIMIMI TON SHIS
WITH 40 PISSED
SEATTLE, Dec. 19.—The steamship
Admiral Watson sailed this morning
with forty passengers, including Mary
€. Delaney, Dr. C. H. Turpin, Mrs. P.
Johnson and Henry Howard for Sew
ard.
NOTICE TO MfcBONS
Regular communication Of Seward
Lodge No. 219, F. *>A- M. Election of
officers.
FATHER OF YOUNG PRINCES CON
CEDES DOLLARS BETTER
THAN BLUE BLOOD
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 19.—Danish'
royal princes Viggo and Erick are
soon to take American brides and.
Prince Waldemar, their father, is now;
en route to arrange these marriages, j
according to the government official
newspaper, Roebenhausen.
One of the chief requisites of the
brides must be plenty of money.
TUMORS IN SPINAL MARROW ARE
LOCATED BY IODEX SOLUTION
AND OPERATION CURES
PARIS, Dec. 19.—Thanks to a re_
cent French discovery, two paralytics
have been cured of a disease which
w'as hitherto believed to be incurable
Paralysis, it appears, is caused by tu
mors compressing the spinal marrow.1
In these hidden regions the doctors
had little means of finding out just
what the trouble was. They tried
the method of Dr. Sicard, which cno.
ists of injecting iodized oil into the!
bony canal formed by the assembled
vertebrae, where the spinal marrow
is supported as by a cushion of rubber;
filled with water.
The operation, while delicate, is not1
1 difficult and every intelligent doctor1
can make use of it. By means of this1
process radiographs obtain very clear
negatives showing the silhouette of
the emplacements of the tiny parti
cles of iodide contained in the oil.
With the two patients in question
I the negatives showed juot where die
tumors were and an operation was
! performed, the paiients oeiug com
1 pletely cured.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19.—Despite
the popularly conceived idea that mo
tion picture actresses and actors are
the highest paid workers of today, A.
M. Brentinger, auditor of the Norma
Talmadge company, came out with a
mass of figures refuting the claim and
proves that in consideration of their
productions film actors are poorly
paid.
Brentinger claims that while the
late Caruso often received $3,000 for
a night, and Sarah Bernhardt $5000
for many of her performances there
are lew film actors that average $5
a performance.
REBELS IpIeBILS
IN UNITY OF TIPICO
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 19.—Rebel forces
have forced the retirement of Federal
troops from the Tampico oil fields.
It is feared that foreign nations will
have to interfere to protect the fields
CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—Maurice Lux,
a 13-year old boy from Shelbyville, to
day won the title 6f "Corn King of the
International Grain and Hay Show”
here when his 10 ears of white Dent
corn won over several hundred other
junior entrants.
Besides winning a part of the $12 -
000 prize money given by the Chicago
Board of Trade, the young farmer
also annexed the junior corn cup won
last year by Glenn Thares also of In
diana.
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HERSHEY GIVES FIFTY MILLIONS IN TRUST FOR ORPHANS FUND
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Milton S. Hershey, multimillionaire chocolate manufacturer founder of
the town of Hershey, near Harrisburg, Pa., has placed his entire wealth,
estimated at sixty millions in trust for the Hershey Industrial School which
he founded in 1909. This is now the 1 rgest school of its kind in America,
next to Girard college. The school is open first to orphans born in Dau
phin. Lebanon, and Lancaster counties, second to those born anywhere in
the United States; and third to those born anywhere in Pennsylvania.
SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE
JUGGLES WHEELBARROW
SPOKANE, Dec. 19.—Besides being
vested with the powers of adjudica.
tion Superior Court Judge R. M. Web
ster of this city can juggle a wheel
barrow as good as any Mick on the
job. His honor toiled all day recently
during the construction of another
community built home for beneficial'-;
ies of the widow’s pension fund.
Alter workmen had appeared Sun
day morning the day which had been;
designated by union labor as most ap
propriate for the work, Judge Web-;
ster appeared with a wheelbarrow1
and was assigned the job of wheeling
rock and dirt, which he did the en_
tire day.
The house was completed the same]
day the furniture being donated by
the stores of the city.
QIC DEGIltS CHEAPER,
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, ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O., Dec. 19.—
| The price of funerals in Ine Unit*.' j
l States will not be boosttd despite the
fact that materials were sent to Ja
pan in large quantities, and in many
instances were advanced
Prices of silks advanced five per
cert after the quake. The ravages of
boll weevil in southern cotton fields
have caused the price of. cotton to
advance. A number of the big cas-J
kct companies, however, have an
nourced that there will be no increase
in the prices charged undertakers for
caskets.
The average funeral with the best
of materials and complete service, in
cludin gautos, etc., will cost from $100
to $300, it is said.
HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 19.—Hart
ford hunters heard reports recently
that a wildcat had been seen near the
city. They were convinced when a
local hunter bagged the cat devouring
a pheasant.
A taxidermist found the animal to
be the common or alley cat. Suc
cumbing to the call of the wild the
animal had grown until it weighed 22
pounds.
B MID QIIEEN FIFE
GREECE TO MHIIII
ATHENS, Dec. 19.—The king and
queen of Greece tonight left for Ru
mania, pending the efforts of the rev
olutionists to change Greece in to' a
republic.
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'RILENE. Kan., Dec. 19—Save or
step out! Boiled down to final stages
of brevity, this is the creed of the
United Power and Telephone Company
of Abilene by which all its employes'
from office boy to superintendent must
abide.
Clayson L. Brown, president of the,
company, is responsible for the thrift
plan. He compels his workers to,
save at least It) per cent of their I
earnings, in safely chartered invest-1
ments that bring an equitable cash,
return.
The measure was adopted, not be-:
cause the firm cared particularly how
the employes disposed of their salaries
but in the interest of better efficiency
as it was found that the man who
saved was the better employe.
COCKTHIL"
IE NO ’’KICK'
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19.— The
“Pinchot Cocktail,” named after the
extra dry governor of Pennsylvania,
has made its appearance in saloons
that have remained open in defiance
of the governor’s orders.
The latest development in the Bat
tle of the Bars has been so named,
because according to the bartenders,
it has no “kick’* to it.
WELLESLEY, Mass., Dec. 19.—
Wellesley College has a human infor
mation bureau. She is Miss Amy Nye,
and has never been known to answer
“I don’t know,” to a question.
More than 500 questions daily are
asked Miss Nye. And she answers
them and smiles.
Miss Nye knows everything. Her
mind is a veritable card index.
DIXON ASKED TO DADE
MONTANA MAN ASKED TO RUN
FOR PRESIDENCY
HELENA, Mont. Dec. 19—Governor
Dixon is being boomed for the vice
presidency nomination.
TODAY'S FISH MARKET
JUNEAU, Dec. 19.—Fresh halibut
13 and 9 cents.
Harding Memorial Fund
CHINESE ASSEMBLYMEN DEMON
STRATE THE PEN IS MORE
MIGHTY THAN SWORD
PEKING, Dec. 19.—Speaker Wu
Ching Lien, of the house of partial
ment was seriously injured today
when he w’as hit on the head by an
ink pot thrown during hand to hand
fighting which broke up the session
being held by the assembly.
CRO.MAGNON REMAINS UNEARTH
ED NEAR VALLEY OF SAONE,
ON COAST OF FRANCE
PARIS, Dec. 19.—Fifteen thousand
years ago, according to scientists, the
horse was the favorite food of the vil
lagers of Soluture, in southern France.
The bones of tens of thousands of the
animals killed and eaten by the nomad
i iribes form an important strata of the
! country. Recent discoveries made by
i French excavators brought to light
several skeletons of the Aurignatian
age—a woman and two men, in pale
olithic sepulchres, the bodies placed
with the feet toward the east, the
heads toward the west, the faces to
ward the rising sun
The men were young, from 25 to 30
years of age, tall and well built, with
large broad heads, not very long with
rectangular eye orbits and long, nar
row noses.
These men belonged to the quarte
nary race of Cro-Magnon, the horse
hunters of the Valley of the Saone
and affirm the ethnic relationship tO(
the troglodytes of the Vizere and the
Mediterranean coast.
PLAN LONG FLIGHT
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 19.—Lieutenant
Ben Wyatt, and Lieutenant John D.
Price with Machinists R. J. Caster and
R. E. Burgsten are in flight from the
Naval air station here to Washington
w’here they will complete preparations
for a flight around the world in com
petition with military flyers who will
leave on a similar trip.
WEST VIRGINIA GAS TAX
YIELDS A MILLION A YEAR
CHARLESTON, Dec. 19—West Vir
ginia’s new state tax of two cents on
each gallon of gasoline sold to retail,
ers will yield approximately one mil
lion dollars a year.
POOR MOONSHINE 100
nOOH ROE MIXED
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SIOUX CITY, la., Dec. 19.—It does
not pay to mix moonshine with honey
moon, Mr. and Mrs. Ove Cates decided
18 hours after they had faced the
preacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Cates became man
and wife 12 hours before an automo
bile accident between Sioux City and
Sioux Falls. Six hours later they were
sentenced to serve 60 days in jail and
each pay $100 fine.
Police say they admitted operating
a still and were on a moonshine ped.
dling trip. They narrowly escaped
death in the accident which was re
sponsible for their being jailed.
“There was more kick- in the moon
shine than there was ih getting mar
ried,” said Mrs. Cateay the 30-year-old
bride.
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
UNABLE TO AGREE ON AP.
POINTMENTS
DEADLOCK CONTINUES
Adjournment Will Be Made Until
After the Holidays, When Eal
loting Will Bs Resumed
WASHINGTON, I>ec. 19.—Senate
leaders expressed a belief tonight
that the deadlock over the election of
a chairman of the interstate com
merce commission will continue over
the holidays. Niue ballots this after
noon left the situation much the same
as a week ago. The insurgents are
still able to prevent the election of
Cummins, their votes today being
j thrown to Couzens, the Michigan dark
| horse.
The Senate today passed a resolu
i tion taking a recess from tomorrow to
! January 3.
Republicans are Jockeying
I WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. —House
Democratic leaders are charging that
i Republican leaders are manipulating
1 the ways and means committee in
such a wav as to prevent action on
the bonus bill. First, it is alleged they
are jockeying to give ample* time to
organize powerful propaganda now be
ing carried on to change enough votes
to defeat the measure by stirring up
opposition back home; secondly they
charge that it is the intention of the
republicans to hold up the bill while
pressure is being exercised to line up
a sufficient number of senators to sus
tain Coolidge’s veto of the bonus bill.
Notified of Treaties
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The Sen
ate today was notified of arbitration
treaties between the United States,
Britain and Japan.
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NOT GHINGE- POUCH
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 —The revo
lutionary movement in Mexico has not
operated to change the policy of the
American government toward Mexico
and President Coolidge is still hopeiul
of negotiating a recognition agreement
to be ratified by the Senate.
CHICAGO Dec. 19.—A kangaroo at
birth weighs about eight or nine
grains, is a trifle more than an inch
long and not much thicker than a lead
pencil, according to George F. Morse,
of the Chicago Zoo.
How the baby kangaroo was born
was a mystery until recently to zoolo_
gists, said Mr. Morse, because being
a pouch animal the actual birth was
difficult to detect.
“We watched a kangaroo closely
one day and finally were rewarded by
the appearance of a tiny thing not
more than an inch long, on the tail of
the mother kangaroo. It was a baby.
We secured it and found it weighed
nine grains. It was an inch and one
sixteenth long and no larger than a
lead pencil. It was a perfecetly form
ed kangaroo, with the exception of the
hind legs. These developed later as
the animal grew. The front legs
were perfectly formed and it used
them to climb into its mother’s pouch
| where it remained for seven months.’’
INVITFSIHEBE COUNCIL
TO MEET IN SOME
PARIS, Dec. 19.—Premier Mussolini
has invited the league of nations coun
cil to meet in Rome in March.
SEATTLE, Dec. 19.—A cache of ten
thousand dollars worth of liquor brot
in to the city by former police lieu
tenant Roy Olmstead for the Christ
mas trade was seized this morning by
Chief of Police Severyns.