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SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1923
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PRICE TEN CENTS
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Women’s Jury Bill May Yet Be Passed By The Legislature
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“ON THE DAY FRENCH FLAG IS
ATTACKED FRANCE WILL NO
LONGER BE TOLERANT.”
PARIS, Apr. 24.—A warlike warn
ing was given Turkey by a semi-offi
cial newspaper, Le Temps, w'hich says
that the Turks have mobilized sev
eral battalions of infantry and artil
lery near the borders of French Syria.
“On the day the French flag is at
tacked or placed in danger of attack
those wrho have known France as a
tolerant and conciliatory nation will,
no longer recognize our country,” it
• declares.
■HOOT DISCUSSES COURT
PLAN WITH HARDING
WASHINGTON, Apr. 23.—President |
Harding and Elihu Root today dis
cussed the world court plan and its
objections today. Root is one of the
framers of the world plan.
ORE SHIPMENT ON WATSON .
Consigned to the American Smelt-j
ing and Refining Company at Selby, I
California, the Admiral Watson will on ;
its southbound trip this week take 43 j
* tons of high grade ore to be treated
at that plant. The ore is being ship- j
ped by Hawley W. Sterling, who is
’this year operating the Quigley prop
erty on the Eureka-Glacier dome in
the Kantishna country. This mine was
at one time worked by Thomas P.
Aitken who realized good returns on
his investment. The shipment to the
railroad was made over the new Kobi
trail.
FISHING BOATS IN
The fishing fleet operating on the
banks west of Seward reported in
yesterday and last night with a fair
catch of fish. Those docking at the
San Juan pplant were the Republic,
Seattle, Sitka, and Constitution. The
latter left this morning for the banks.
•Fleet skippers report unsually rough
weather on the banks the past few
days.
AUXILIARY MEETING
American Legion Auxiliary will
meet ait Mrs. Sexton’s Tuesday even- j
ing, April 24, at 8:00 o’clock. Impor-■
* tant business.
ANNE GOODSKEY, Sec.
A hot water plant was recently s
received by the Arcade Apartments I
which will be installed for the pur
pose of supplying the building with
hot water during the summer months.
The heating plant, outside of minor
supply of heat, will probably be dis
continued during the hot season.
The steamer Northwestern was re
► ported out of Cordova this morning
at 8 o’clock. The arrival of the ves
sel in Seward will depend to a great
•extent upon the number of calls it
has to make between Seward and the'
Copper City.
A donkey engine with several hun- j
dred feet of cable will be shipped to |
Kanatak on the next Starr to be used
in facilitating the lighterage problem. 1
* Mr. and Mrs. Fred Van Raes, of j
Fairbanks, will be among those leav- '
ing for the states on the Northwest
. ern. Mr. Van Raes has for the past j
three years being acting as linotype
operator for the Fairbanks News
Miner and is going to Corvallis to ac
cept a position on the paper there.
Ed Buretto, bandmaster, is expect
ed to an-ive in Seward tomorrow
* night.
LEGAL ADVISER OF PROHIBITION
DIRECTOR REGISTERS A
STRONG PROTEST
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 24.—Echoes
of the Wm. J. Gloria resignation are
still shaking official San Francisco to
the foundations. Gloria who resigned
as legal adviser to Samuel F. Rutter,
federal prohibition director for Cali
fornia, as a protest against alleged
“roughhouse” methods of prohibition
agents, and for Rutter’s failure to
punish agents guilty of offenses, said
today that “While I believe in the en
forcement of the liquor laws I quit
the prohibition office because I am
not in accord with the strong-arm
methods countenanced by the present
administration.”
<-I do not believe in methods of en
forcement of the prohibition laws
which violate the sanctity of woman
hood and the rights of citizenship.”
The phrase “violating the sanctity
of womanhood,” is said to refer to
alleged violence by prohibition agents
in arresting women charged with vio
lating the Volstead Act, and whom
the agents assert put up a stronger
battle for liberty than the men.
LOSES LIFE ON BANKS
With the arrival of the fishing
schooner Republic last night it was
reported that John Ness, one of the
members of the crew, had lost his life
during the high gale which raged last
Sunday.
According to information Ness and
a cousin, who was his dory-mate,
were endeavoring to haul in a mon
ster halibut and with the attending
high waves, the dory became swamp
ed, throwing both men into the chilly
waters.
The accident was observed from
the schooner but before aid could be
given the men, Ness sank. His cousin
gained the dory and was in an ex
hausted condition when taken aboard
ship. Ness was unable to swim. Ad
vices concerning his death have been
sent outside to relatives.
ARE SENT TO DEPEW
NEW YORK, Apr. 24.—Birthday
greetings from President Harding and
King George of England found their
way to Chauncey M. Depew’s office
today, as he celebrated his eighty
ninth birthday anniversary with a
good, hard day’s work. Mr. Depew
declared he expected to reach the
century mark.
CUSTOMS OFFICE!! GETS
SEVEN TEWS IN PEN
SEATTLE, Apr. 24.—Wesley L. Sis
co, former customs officer sentenced
to seven years on McNeil island for
smuggling in narcotics, started serv
ing his sentence today.
CABLE AGAIN WORKING
For the first time for many weeks
the cable between Valdez and Cordo
va is again in working order. The ca
bleship Delwood repaired it the past
week.
SEATTLE, Apr. 24.—Price of fresh
halibut at noon Apr. 23, 15% cents.
Decker’s Denouncement In
Lower House Caused Uproar
(By Special Correspondent)
JUNEAU, Alaska, Apr. 24.—Echoes
of the mix-up in the Board of Educa
tion over the election of Commission
er of Education L. D. Henderson,
were heard in the Senate this morn
ing when Senator Dunn introduced a
bill providing for a referendum on the
question of whether the Commission
er of Education’s office should be
made elective and filled by a popular
vote of the people, or continued under
the present system. The referendum
will be submitted at the next general
election.
The Dimond jury bill passed the
Senate and provides changes in the
methods of drawing all juries in dis
rict and commissioners’ courts. It
eliminates the open venires selected
by marshals of the different divisions
! in Alaska.
The Senate passed the Dunn reso
lution directing the Attorney General
j to continue the transportation inves
! tigation and also the bill empowering
Indian villages to incorporate with all
the powers of a second class town.
The prospects of the passage of the
Woman’s Jury Bill wrere brightened
by apparent indications that the Con
ference committee will be able to
agree on the sex exemption clause in
the bill. The House instructed its
committee to ask for an amendment
allowing exemption if desired on ac
count of sex, provided the claim for
exemption was made not less than
twenty days before the time set for
jurors to appear in court.
Callahan, who has been a member
of the Conference committee since he
was first appointed, withdrew when
the House so instructed declaring he
was elected as an independent and
would not be bound by instructions
from either democrats or republicans.
The House was this morning con
siderably upset when Representative
Decker from the Second division, de
nounced as “unfair, unjust and un
kind’’ remarks made by Representa
tives Daly and Price in a minority
Judiciary Committee report on Deck
iGEOClfuiSBE
CONSTRUCTED BY
FRENCHMEN
PARIS, Apr. 24.—Fifteen deck ocean
liners, weighing 100,000 tons, and ca
pable of transporting twenty thou
sand persons are being seriously con
sinered by two Frenchmen, Brothers
le Parmentier, navy engineers.
MURDERER OE RABBI
CONFESSES TO POLICE
PHOENIX, Apr. 24.—C. C. Richard
son, 19, under arrest here, has con
fessed to the police that he killed
Rabbi Alfred G. Lafee, at San Fran
cisco, three weeks ago.
RADIOPHONE CHURCH
IS INCORPORATED
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 24.—The
radio Church of America, which will
conduct its services Sunday by radio
phone, the first of its kind in the
country, has filed articles of incorpo
ration with the Secretary of State.
RAW SUGAR ROCKETING
NEW YORK, Apr. 23.—Cuban raw
sugar today sold at an average of 8.28
cents per pound delivered, the high
est price since 1920.
er's bill proposing the repeal of the
Syndicalist Act of 1919. Decker mov
ed that the House expunge the objec
tionable statements from the record.
Decker and Murray reported the bill
for passage, Price and Daly, non-con
curring, said the reason for their non
concurrence was “because they were
unalterably opposed to a change or
overthrow of the government by force
or violence or the destruction of prop
enty or advocacy of such means.”
They added further, ‘‘The people of
Alaska do not care to proclaim to the
world the advocacy of such damnable
doctrines.”
Representative Decker said the
statements implied that he favored
such doctrines, and said further since
he introduced the bill it had been ru
mored on the streets that he was an
anarchist and an I. W. W., and was
j connected with the Centralia disor
ders on Armistice Day, 1919, all of
which he denied emphatically.
He said the members of the com
mittee making the adverse repont had
no right to bring in such statements
unless they first ascertained the views
| of the author. Both Daly and Price
| denied they had intended to imply
undue motives to Representative
j Decker, Daly adding that he was only
following the custom of former legis
latures. He said he was not concern
ed with the views of the author of
the measure, but with the measure it
self.
Representative Price declared he
was str-yagly against the bill and
wanted to state his position in the re
port sufficiently strong to impress the
members with the necessity of think
ing before introducing bills in the
House which might be taken as evi
dences of disloyalty.
By a vote of thirteen to three, the
members voted to expunge the obnox
ious statements from the records;
Daly, Ralston and Price voting against
the motion.
The local American Legion Post
Saturday passed a resolution con
demning the Decker Bill.
RIVERS ID HARBORS
APPROPRIATIONS
AVAILABLE
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24.—Allot
ments from $56,000,000 rivers and
harbors apppropriation, carried in the
last army suppply will be made im
mediately in case those projects be
ing carried out under continuing con
tracts need the money.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24.—Secretary
Hughes announced today that in or
der to hasten the reaching of an
understanding with Mexico, two com
missioners will leaVe Washington to
confer with two Mexican commission
ers at Mexico City in the very near
future.
MOSCOW, Apr. 24.—Denmark and
Russia have agreed to a convention
looking to the de facto recognition of
Russia by Denmark.
Lieut. Hutt, quartermast depart
ment at Anchorage, arrived Saturday
from Anchorage and is checking up on
the local post.
ITINERARY HPORI
GRANT GIVEN OUT
BV DEPARTMENT
CONGRESSIONAL PARTY LEAVES
NEW YORK FRIDAY, REACH
ING SEWARD JUNE 10
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24.—The itin
erary of the transport Grant which
will convey Secretary Weeks and con
gressional party to Pacific coast ports
and Alaska, as announced this after
noon by the War department, pro
vides for the departure from New
York, April 27; arrival at San Fran
cisco May 24, where the party will
split May 27, arriving in Seattle May
30.
From Seattle the party . will sail
for Fort Seward, arriving there June
5; at Seward June 10; returning to
Seattle June 17, and San Francisco
June 22.
Forty senators and members of the
House are listed to accompany the
Secretary on the last part of the trip
including Senator Jones of New Mex
ico; Phipps, Warren, Oddie, McKin
ley, Cameron, Robinson, Howell, and
Ladd; Representatives Anthony ot
I Kansas; Madden of Illinois; Aberna
| thy ot North Carolina; Johnson of
| Washington and Almon of Alabama.
MISSING criminal'
IS ALMOST CAPTURED
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ATHENS, Ga., Apr. 24.—With his
feet propped against a brass rail be
side the boiler in the basement of the
hospital from which he was thought
to have escaped on Wednesday night
of last week, Gerald Chapman, leader
in the million dollar mail robbery in
New York 31 months ago was nearly
captured today by Harry Bishop, a
guard from the Atlanta prison.
Bishop, in giving attention to Miss
Scott, a nurse, who accompanied him
when the discovery was made, and
thereupon fainted, told Chapman to
return to his room. A few minutes
later, when he had revived the nurse
Chapman had vanished and could not
be found.
Chapman escaped from his room on
Wednesday night in a suit of clothes
belonging to his guard. He was re
covering from gunshot wounds receiv
ed when captured near here last week
after a sensational escape trom the
Atlanta prison.
PROTESTING TflEim
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WASHINGTON, Apr. 24.—Austra
lia, South Africa, and other states in
the British empire are protesting to
the latter against beinj bound by the
recent fisheries treaty entered into
between Canada and the L nited
States.
NEW YORK, Apr. 24.—President
Harding, accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. Edward B. McLean arrived this
morning on a special train, the party
stopping ait the Waldorf Astoria.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif, Apr. 23.
A heavy earthquake shock at 1:30 this
morning broke dishes in the suburbs
at Redlands.
LAUSANNE, Apr. 23.—The Near
East conference dramatically ended
in February, reconvened today.
IN SEATTLE
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SEATTLE CRIMINALS STAGE DAR
ING STREET ROBBERIES
AND MANY HOLDUPS
SEATTLE, Apr. 24.—A large num
ber ot' robberies and holdups netted
burglars around $10,000 up to the
present time this week. One bandit
was shot and several others chased by
police, but no captures were made.
The wave of crime in this city is
increasing, according to the various
departments.
FOUR FLIERS KILLED
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DAYTON, O., Apr. 23.—Four fliers
were killed ^and two others probably
fatally .injured -this UOternoon when
a Martin air service bomber which
was leaving the McCook Field for
Rentoul, Illinois, fell into the great
Miami river here.
PLEASANT SOCIAL SESSION
At the conclusion of the Eastern
Star meeting last evening the mem
bers participated in a social event ar
ranged by Mrs. O. A. Johansen, Mrs.
Richard McNally and Mrs. P. C. Mc
Mullen. A delectable luncheon serv
ed as the opening number with card
playing concluded the pleasures. Fa
vors were awarded Mrs. O. A. Braa
fladt and Mrs. C. E. Orlander for high
scores. Mrs. W. E. Root received the
consolation.
FIRE MEETING TONIGHT
This evening at the citv hall will be
held a special meeting of the Seward
fire department, convening at the call
ot Chief Walker. All members are re
quested to be present.
LEGION MEETING TONIGHT
'this evening Seward Post, Ameii
can Legin, will hold a regular meet
ing at their headquarters. All mem
bers are urged to be present.
Alvah tames, postal chief for this
section left for the interior yesterday
to supervise the work in the absence
of Chief E. G. Wetzler, who is at pres
ent in Seattle conferring with his su
perior officers in regard to certain
improvements in the interior mail
service this year.
The fishing schooner Constitution
left for the banks this morning.
A still alarm brought the fire de
partment to the premises of the Alas
ka Cafe last evening. On arrival it
was found that the supposed fire was
caused by sparks from the chimney,
Proprietor Finn at that time cleaning
out his range. No damage resulted.
Fire Chief Walker will in a day or
so commence investigation of all flues
and stove pipes in town condemning
those which in any way do not corns
up to the test.
Pat Malloy of the city express ser
vice today tried out his auto truck
preparatory to the summer season.
With this placed in commission Sew
ard will have three auto express ser
vices.
The railroad crane is loading piling
for interior points, at the head of the
bay.
The work train came in last night
and left this morning for the interior
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| WEATHER FORECAST
| Cloudy tonight and colder;
| Susitna and Tanana Valleys
| fair Wednesday.
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