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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 72.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 192.
PRIC^.TEN CENTS
SMOOT TELLS FRANCE
CANNOT EXPECT DEBT
TERMS EQUAL TO ITALY
The Debate on the Ratifica
tion Proceeds with Fas
cism Looming As Issue
FRANCE IslUT OF LICK
Determined Opposition Was
Apparent During Debate
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 30. (jP)
—Senator Smoot, speaking for the Ad
ministration. opened the battle for the
ratification of the Italian debt agree
ment in the Senate by declaring that
France is following a false trail if she
believes she will get a settlement on
the same terms as Italy. He said there
was a comparison between- the, two
cases, but declared that the payments
under the agreement must come from 1
that of the Italian workingmen, who
get one-quarter the amount of meat, j
one-sixth the sugar, one-third the po- j
tatoes and one-fifth the coffee the av
erage American gets.
As the debate began with a deter
mined opposition apparent, fascism
anu the policy of Premier Mussolini
loomed large as an issue. The poli
cies of the Italian Government, even
those relating to the recent happen- j
ings in Tyrol are none of the Senates I
business and have no bearing on the ;
settlement, he declared. Johnson, of I
California, who led the opposition, j
said that if Smoot’s picture of Italy j
was true the U. S. should float an-!
other Liberty Loan and give Italy the :
proceeds, but that he doubted that the
information was correct.
Indoor baseball practice tonight at
the S. A. C. gym will be entired into
by the women with a marked increase
in their already intense interest, ow
ing to the fact that the graceful fem
inine athletes, aspiring for places on
the two ppointed teams, have been
holding extra sessions of batting prac
tices during the past week, during
which short periods their batting abil
ities developed to a surprising and 1
most satisfactory degree of improve-1
:ment.
Another reason for the spurt in their
enthusiasm, is that the women have
come to the front, and, of their own
volition, expressed their willingness to
admit the public to their champion
ship game which is scheduled for
Tuesday night April 6. The funds
accruing from the affair to be turned
over to the treasury of the Athletic
club. The plan only awaits the ap
proval of the coaches and the sanc
tion of the club.
Tonight’s lineups, formed so as to
evenly vidide the batting strength,
include in one group: Jacobsen, Be
vier, Sheldon, Lein, Rede, Rucker,
Larrson, Shellhorn, Malloy and Man
they; while their adversaries are:
Lorang, Painter, Hannon,. Jones, Val
ade, Banbury, and Jessen.
Results will be published in tomor
row’s issue of the Gateway.
RADIO PUTS THE KIBOSH
HILARIOUS CABARET CROWD
CHICAGO, March 23. (£*)—Robert E.
Crowe, State’s attorney, listening in
at a radio early in the morning heard
the following announcement from a
cabaret: “The State’s attorney is jvith
us and enjoying night life.”
An hour later he arrived with de
tectives and arrested the manager and
four others for disorderly conduct.
Have you seen the Weekly Gateway.
Riding of Jockeys Last Year
j Was Held By Heads As
Unsatisfactory.
NEW YORK, Mar. 30. (^—Investi
gation of race track conditions thru
out the United States loomed as the
stewards of Jockey Clubs denied li
censes to Clarence Kummer and Ma*rk
Fator, two of the leading jockeys of
America.
Kummer won undying fame as “Man
O’ War’s” jockey.
No official explanation was assign
ed but it is known that the riding of
several jockeys last season was un
satisfactory.
Racing circles were excited at the
action which follows closely on the
ruling off the Turf of a group of jock
eys by the Kentuckey Jockey Club.
CORDOVA, Mar. 30. (£>).—'Tom Ma
thews, aged 62, an abject of charity for
the past ten years, died yesterday, af
ter being severely burned last week,
when he fainted over a hot stove in
the little cabin in which he lived
alone. He refused to admit visitors.
He left $1000 and no relatives are
known.
A groceryman found Mathews, with
his left hand almost charred. Math
ews objected to medical attention. He
spent his early life in Pennsylvania
and worked for a California lumber
firm.
He came to Cordova in 1916, and
ever since very seldom showed him
self actively about the streets. He sel
dom left his cabin, the roof of which
leaked so bad as to dampen the bed
ing on his cot. The floor even sag
ged from the dampness.
Mathews spent most of his time
sawing wood and worked far into the
night, though crippled, he dragged
and peddled loads of wood about the
street.
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA MINE
MAKES PROFIT OF
$380,000
Regarding the recent dispatch from
San Francisco, relative to the annual
report of the Alaska Juneau Gold Min
ing Company in which it announced
a net loss, before depletion, of $2,030,
067.16, the Juneau Empire states:
“The foregoing does not indicate a
loss in local operations. The profits
over local operating costa* last year
were approximately $130,000, in ad-‘
dition to capital expenditures for im- <
provements and expansion amounting
to more than $250,000. That would
mean an actual operating profit ex
ceeding $380,000 compared with a sim- i
ilar showing of $218,000 in 1924.
The deficit means, therefore, that
the company expended $10, 835.96 for
improvements and expansion more
than the total earnings after interest
and outside overhead were paid.
MASONS ATTENTION!
Special communication Seward
Lodge No. 219, Tuesday, March 30, at
7 p. m. Work in Third Degree.
1-t. HOBEN.
PACIFIC COAST STATES
Survey Shows Rum Rows
and Moonshine in ’Frisco
Los and Other Cities
DISCUSS ENFORCEMENT
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Verdict: “If the East Is Wet
the West Is Wet Too”
NEW YORK, Mar. 30. (JP)—A survey
of prohibition enforcement in States
along the Pacific Coast and in the
Western half of the United States re
veals that these localities are just
about as wet as the wettest Eastern
centers, including New York City.
A discussion of the question as to
whether the Volstead Act is being en
forced generally has resulted in charg
es of lawlessness against New York
City and the East, so the New York
“Times” conducted an inquiry to de
termine conditions in the West and
it’s symposium shows that violation
of the liquor law is not more flagrant
here than elsewhere in the Nation.
San Francisco has it’s rum row off
the Golden Gate bearing hard liquors
from Havana and the Orient. Los An
geles is getting moonshine from the
foothills and plenty of domestic con-*
traband. Seattle conditions and even
Vancouver are the same and the ver
dict is "If the East is wet, the West
is wet too.”
PHOTOGRAPH OF SEWARD TAKES
UP THE ENTIRE
FRONT PAGE '
In suede, an attractive folder has
been recently issued by the Alaska
Steamship Company, which is alto
gether a new color scheme for fold
ers of this description. In vivid con
trast to the highly colored and orna
mental designs more frequently
glimpsed in the public racks, it is
unique from that point alone.
However,, that which will appeal to
local citizens is'the clear photograph
of Seward on the cover, and tho the
photographer’s name cannot be seen,
it is strongly suspicioned to be the
work of art of Schallerer’s Alaska
Shop. The outstanding feat
ures of Seward town is clearly visible
and it looks mighty good.
On the back cover is a map of Al
aska showing the route of the big
steamship line. Time tables are work-'
ed out in a simple manner for anyone
to decode without much effort and in
formation of general worth fittingly
interspersed through the twenty-page
pamphlet. Copies of the book may be
had at the Seward office.
Of Interest to Men
LEIPSrc, GOr., Mar. 30. (^—Ge
orge Kuefer, 24, is spending the
first four months of his married life
in jail because he sniped off four
yards of the altar cloth of the Re
gensburg Evangelical church and
had a wedding suit made of it.
It’s faster than the Twentieth and
it's funny enough to make a man with
a toothache laugh in the dentist’s
face. The situations are a scream, the
acting is more so and the titles are
gems of wit. Five reels of fun—an
evening of pure joy at the Liberty—
DON’T MISS IT!—adv.
Good program at the Liberty.
HARVARD DENIES NEW
PHOTO RULE DIMED
On the Contrary, 25 Per
Cent Entering College
Jewish Parentage
BOSTON, March 30. (JP)—Harvard
University announced new entrance
regulations which will reduce next
freshman enrollment and compel pros
pective students to furnish photo
graphs with applications.
Gossip was common about campus
that the new code will exclude 150
members of Jewish race in the next
three years.
Apprised of rumors and reminded
that a rumpus was raised by crimion
editorial, declaring commuting stu
dents and racial groups were a draw
back, the authorities denied the char
ges and said the rule was aimed at no
race or creed. Members of recent
entering classes are said to have been
25 per cent jews.
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BEAR GREEK PROPERTY
111 AIRPLANE ROUTE
CREW OF FIVE MEN WILL TRAV
EL MODERN WAY TO SUM
MER’S WORK
OVER TRAIL, 6C0 MILES
New York Company Employs Modern
Methods in big
Operations
Alaska is indeed progressing!
Comes now a crew of five men for a
mining company far down in the in
terior country, who, with their boss,
R. T. Hirsh, will fly to the camp from
Fairbanks instead of ^following the
past custom of reaching their work
by dogteams. The men arrived in
Seward Saturday from the States on
the S.S. Northwestern^, and departed
yesterday morging for the Interior.
Mr. Hirsh, mining engineer, came out
to the coast to meet the party and al
so to attend to other business details.
Mr. Hirsh, with Capt. L. B. Wall
bridge, a visitor in Seward last June,
are in charge of operations for the
New York Alaska Gold Dredging Com
pany, on Bear creek, a tributary of
the Kuskokwim river. The men have
been investigating the field for the
past four years and the last year the
company sent in to them a large
dredge which was moved over onto
the property the past winter. The
dredge was shipped in on the steamer
Santa Anna last June. In reaching
the coast Mr. Hirsh came out over
the 600 mile snow trail in just fifteen
days. The trail was perfect he said,
but he doubts very much if it is
that way now, for' a period of balmy
has prevailed over the region during
the past two weeks.
Among the party arriving in town
from the south was W. A. Peterson,
a Union Construction Company engin
eer who will be employed as dredge
master this season. On an average
about ten men have been employed
on the ground for the past two years.
In moving the dredge over from the
Kuskokwim, Mr. Hirsh stated a 60
h. p. ten ton Best Tractor, a snow
special, was employed satisfactorily.
The boat will be set itp at once and
operations should begin at an early
date.
Speaking of the district, Mr. Hirsh
said he had seen no pick and shovel
men in the district, but he understood
that many years ago the Russians at
tempted to work the ground, but gave
it up as a bad job. The ground is
all thawed out, and without any mach
inery it is practically impossible to
handle any dirt, owing to the seepage.
Weekly Gateway—3 per year,
CAPTAIN RICHARD BYRD SAYS GOOD-BYE TO
PRESIDENT COOLIDDE PREPARATORY TO RIS
Will Assemble Huge Fokker Plane At Kings Bay Where
They Will Hop Off On First Aerial Lay
PARKS, ESKIMOS AND RADIO PLAY LEADING ROLES
J. ’ _
Prominent Sponsors of Expedition Will Meet Intrepid
Explorer To Bid Him Bon Voyage
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 30. (AP).—Captain Rich
ard Byrd said good-bye to President Coolidge, prepara
tory to departing Monday from the Brooklyn Navy Yard
on the first lap of his Polar airplane journey. Byrd sails
with J. D. Rockefeller, jr., Edsel Ford, G. Trubee David
son and other sponsors, including Vincent Astor, and will
bring back these on a yacht after the Chantier clears New
York harbors and heads her bow northward, with forty
four picked men.
The “Ice Skipper’’ said that Tromso, Norway would
be the only port of call on the way to Kings Bay, Spitz
bergen, where the air route starts. They expect to reach
Tromso April 25, and Kings Bay,* May 1. It is estimated it
will take two weeks to assemble the Fokker exploration
plane for the first 400-mile jump to the northern tip of
Peary Land, where an advance base will be established.
Then a jump-off, directly to the Pole, will be made, approx
imated at a distance of another 400 miles.
The Shipping Board steamer, Chantier, is ready to
sail. Parachutes, Eskimos and radio will play the im
portant parts in this expedition. Because of the rough
ness of the snow and ice, and when it is considered ne
cessary to make a landing, a man will be dropped in a
parachute from the plane. If he cannot find a suitable
base for the plane, another man will be dropped, carry
ing a can of “pemmican,” a dried beef product of Indian
origin, which will be the only food taken on these air trips
by the Eskimos. At Camp Morris Jessup, the Peary Land
base will be advised by radio of the men’s descent and they
will set out with dog teams and return them to the base.
GRANDPA’S BUNIONS
FURNISH HILARITY
Grandpa’s feet carried him many
weary miles behind the play and were
responsible for the fact that he was al
ways the most popular virginia-reeler
in the days of the barn dance epi
demic.
Of course Grandpa’s feet were sur
rounded by big roomy, rustic shoes and
his bunions had a large playground.
They revolted, however, whenever
Grandpop dressed up fit to kill in his
city-visiting duds. Fashionable shoes
strangledthis feet until his well-devel
oped hunions protested vigorously.
Jack Duffy, popular juvenile “old
man” of the screen, very humorously
portrays the role of “Grandpa” in the
new A1 Christie feature-length farce
comedy “Reckless Romance” which is
now being shown at the Liberty thea
ter.
“Grandpa” comes to the city with a
definite mission to accomplish but his
ailing feet distract his mind from his
work and he can think of nothing but
a speedy return to the old homestead
where his bunions can flourish in com
fort.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30.—
The long^fought battle of Mrs. Isa
belle Barnette of California, the first
white child born in Fairbanks, for an
accounting with the old Wells Fargo
Nevada National Bank of San Fran
cisco, came to an end today when the
Supreme Court decided against the
plaintiff. The case involved an am
ount of money taken over by Fred
erick Noyes, receiver for the Wash
ington-Alaska Bank, a Nevada corp
oration owned by Mrs. Barnette’s hus
band, and on deposit there at the time
of its failure. Mrs. Barnette has been
seeking to have the money refunded.
Ill AGE OF 80
Feud Started Over a Girl
■ More Than a Half
Century Ago.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif,, Mar. 30. (JP)
—A feud over a girl, started over a
half hundred years ago, reflamed
again yesterday in a little mountain
shack near here, when William Yates,
now over 80, tried to avenge a grudge
which started with John Neill and
himself, both young men with ro
mance blazing in their hearts, argued
over a girl now long since dead. The
old revolver which Yates had mis
fired and a young mountaineer in the
cabin with the two men disarmed
him. Now he faces a future in prison
for assault with intent to kill.
THE ADMIRAL EVANS
GETS OUT OF SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Mar. 30. (JP)—The Ad
miral Evans sailed at ten o’clock this
morning with one feunderd on board.
Those who were lucky in having their
names sent thru by the Associated
Press were Clyde A. Wann and one
steerage.
(It is an absolute certainty that
more than one person recieved pas
sage on the Admiral Evans for Se
ward but according to our correspon
dent he failed to get all who really
did leave, which generally amount to
about fifty at the very least.—Ed.)
A riotiously funny story of a pair
of lovesick newlyweds, a pair of love
sick lovers, a rich grandpa with bun
ions, a w^ll-meaning uncle and an
irate father can be seen tonight at the
Liberty theater.—Adv.