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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 300.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
- JOHNSON IS MADE
RED CROSS ROLL
CALL CHAIRMAN
SELECTED BY SEWARD CHAPTER
TO CONDUCT NINTH AN
NUAL ROLL CALL
MEETING BE HELD MONDAY NITE
Red Cross Membership Drive Prepa
rations Under Way—Ladies of
City Will Assist in Work
^ E. C. Johnson has been appointed
Roll Call Chairman of Seward Chap
ter of the American Red Cross, ac
cording to announcement made last
evening by Elwyn Swetmann, presi
dent of the local Chapter, and E. F.
Jessen has been named assistant to
Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson will have
charge of the arrangements for the
Ninth Annual Roll Call.
At a meeting which is called for
Monday night at the fire hall, Mr.
Johnson states plans for the coming
campaign will be formulated. A con
ference of the Executive Board of the
Chapter, together with numerous rep
resentatives of local ladies’ clubs, will
attend the meeting. As in previous
>4 v years this year’s drive will be com
pleted in either one or two days.
The officers of the Seward Chapter
is composed of Elwyn Swetmann,
president; Ralph Reed, vice chair
man; Dr. A. R. Roberts, secretary;
A. H. L. Meyer, treasurer.
Executive Committee—Mrs. Charles
Krefting. Mrs Jesgie Ellsworth, L. V.
Ray, Leon Urbach, C. C. Hinde.
Unalaska—Mrs. A. C. Goss, Louis
Strauss, Rev. John Orloff.
False Pass—Mrs. Molly Gardner.
Belkofsky—Rev. D. Hotovitzkv.
Unga—Judge F. C. Driffield, Ed
Pierson, Mrs. H. Lauritzen.
Perryville—Henry Bise, Chief Sim
eon Takak.
Kanatak—Charles Madsen, Phil B.
y Reed.
Kodiak—Z. T. Halferty, Mrs. Harry
White.
Sand Point—Arthur H. Melliek.
Member at Large—Capt. O. A. Jo
hansen.
* Seldovia—Mrs. Ralph Anderson. G.
Chambers.
Latouche—Alfred Klerck, Miss Mary
E. Ritchie.
Dillingham—W. N. Reed.
Afognak—E. P. Petellin.
Port Moller—Robert West.
The Investigation Committee is
composed of Mrs. Ralph Reed. Miss
Sylvia Sexton, P. C. McMullen.
BUSINESS MEETING WOMAN’S
CLUB HELD LAST AFTERNOON
A business meeting of the Woman’s
Club was held at the home of Mrs.
Eddie Kurtz in the Arcade apart
ments. The Club donated their usu
al S10 to the Ninth annual roll call of
the American Red Cross and the
members volunteered to assist in the
drive. The club is sponsoring Na
tional Book Week and will present
each schoolroom with a suitable book
to be chosen by the teacher.
It was also decided to give a card
party on Friday, November 27 at Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
Tea was served to the members at
the conclusion of the meeting.
PROTECT “LAST OF GRIZZLIES”
VISALIA, Calif., Nov. 5. (£>)—'The
bear known in this region as “the
last of the Grizzlies,” roaming the
T ' Tulare county mountains, is not to
be made the target for cattlemen if
the efforts of the American Acade
my of Science are successful. Mem
bers of the organization have offer
ed to pay for any depredations which
the bear may inflict on livestock, be
* lieving that it is the only grizzly left
in the California mountains.
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Jascha Heifetz, noted violinist,
sails from New York for a concert
tour of the Continent.
FRAUD IS ALLEGED
CANADA FRUIT FIRMS
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FRUIT FIRMS OF CANADIAN PRO
VINCES ACCUSED ON MANY
COUNTS, ALLEGED
VANCOUVER. B. C., Nov. 6 (£>)—
Wholesale fraud, price manipulation
and restraint of trade was charged in
863 items in sixteen counts against
42 fruit firms and 11 individuals in
British Columbia.
Theft, fraud, falsification of books
for purposes of deceit, market jug
gling, and price manipulation, re
straint of trade, interference with
sound business competition, syndicat
ing, and general conniving to cheat
the grower and the consumer, with
serious injury to the fruit growing in
dustry in Canada were specific allega
tions in the complaint.
ASSIST ANDREWS
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 6 (/P;—
James Jones of Ohio, assistant prohi
bition commissioner since 1921, was
appointed director of prohibition to
day as chief aide to Assistant Secre
tary Andrews and to have actual
charge of the administration person
nel.
KILLER OF NELSON
WANTED FRESNO
TACOMA, Nov. 6 (/P)— Charles E.
Walsh, in jail here for the alleged
murder of Victor Nelson, a rooming
house proprietor, was identified yes
terday by finger prints as Tom Evans,
wanted in Fresno for the murder of
a taxicab driver of that city. Walsh
will be charged with first degree mur
der tomorrow.
bootleggerIoses
SUIT FOR DAMAGE
MADISON, Wis., Nov. 6 (/P)—Mrs.
Carl Amble was awarded $6,000 dam
ages in the lower court today against
Joe Gelosi, a bootlegger, who sold her
husband a bottle of liquor. Carl was
killed when the car in which he was
riding went into a ditch and his com
panions sw'ore that the liquor was ob
tained from Gelosi.
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GRAIN ELEVATORS
GREAT NORTHERN
SEATTLE, BURN
SECOND CONFLAGRATION OF THE
PAST WEEKS OCCURS IN
SOUND METROPOLIS
DAMAGE MAY REACH MILLION
Two of Largest Commercial Piers in
the World Threatened by the
Flames—Fire Boats Used
SEATTLE, Nov. G (/P)—Fire of un
determined origin destroyed the grain
elevators of the Great Northern Rail
way at Smith’s Cove last night, and
for a time two of the largest commer
cial piers in the world, valued at a
million dollars, threatened to go up
in smoke. The loss is estimated at
from §325,000 to close to a million
dollars. Thousands of spectators lin
ed the hills tops and watched the
flames shoot skyward.
The losses listed this morning are:
The Northwest Magnesite Company,
two thousand tons of screened ore,
valued at §80,000, machinery and all
equipment, valued, at §50,000.
The screenings department of the
Seattle Flour Mills, with 1500 tons of
grain, §30,000; machinery and other
equipment, §15,000.
Great Northern elevators, S150.000.
Virtually all of the fire equipment of
the city was on hand, a general alarm
being turned in, but only two of the
fire boats, the Duwamish and Sno
qualmie were able to combat the
flames successfully because of th(e
location of the piers.
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UNITED STATES
BEHIND OTHERS
AVIATION NEEDS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 6
Despite the fact that the United
States has the most favorable field
for the development of commercial
aviation, it is being far outstripped by
other nations, a special committee on
engineering informed the Department
of Commerce today. It was urged the
committee enact civil aviation laws
to apply the same as laws governing
water navigation.
DRY LEADERS ARE
AGAINST SLACK
WORK OFFICIALS
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (/P)—'Twenty
leaders of the dry forces of the United
States at a meeting yesterday ex
pressed great disapproval of the at
titude shown prohibition by President
Coolidge, Secretary Mellon, Governor
Smith and Mayor Elect Walker, Re
publican leaders of the country.
Oliver W. Stewart, president of the
Flying Squadron, with headquarters
at Indianapolis, who presided at the
meeting, admonished the speakers to
“speak from their hearts.’*'
Dr. E. D. Dinwiddie, superintendent
of the National Temperance Bureau,
at Washington, said that President
Coolidge could have complete enforce
ment of prohibition by simply de
manding law enforcement,
Clarence True Wilson, general sec
retary of the Board of Temperance of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, said,
“We must recognize from the start
that party leaders are at the head
of prohibition enforcement in this
country, and a scheme is now on foot
to open hundreds of breweries and
manufacture real beer."
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Roald Amundsen, noted polar ex
plorer, who is in the United States
for a lecture tour. Next May he will
attempt to fly from the European to
the American side of the North Pole,
ing an Italian airship.
LIMIT RAISED ON
INCOME TAXES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 6 (£>)—
The House Ways and Means Commit
tee raised the limit on which a 25 per
reduction in the tax for earned in
comes will be made by taxpayers on
incomes from 810,000 to $20,000.
The committee rejected the propo
sal to repeal the capital stock tax and
modify the corporation levy of 12.5
per cent.
THREE KILLED IN
PLANE WRECK
HONOLULU, T. H., Nov. 6 (£>)—
Three persons were killed when a
naval plane nosedived from an eleva
tion of 2,000 feet in to the cane trees
near Pearl Harbor hospital. The
dead are all members of the Naval
flying squadron.
CHEWING TOBACCO AND
CLIMATE HELPS SQUAW
ATTAIN AGE OF 106
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EUREKA, Calif., Nov. 5. (/P)—Plug
chewing tobacco and California’s cli
mate were given as the explanation
of healthy old age by “Aunt Fanny,”
a Hoopa Indiana, 106 years old. Aunt
Fanny has chewed tobacco for a cen
tury and found it an aid to digestion.
Aunt Fanny recently became a
convert to Christianity. Despite her
years, she walks several miles every
day.
SWEDEN EMPLOYES
MORE WOMEN
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STOCKHOLM, Nov. 5. (#>)—The
number of women working for the
state has almost doubled since 1923.
The Swedish government’s civil ser
vice list showed 17,177 women em
ployes last year, forming one-sixth
of the government officials.
D’ANNUNZIO GIVES MANUSCRIPT
GARDONE RIVIERA, Nov. 5. (fi>)
—Gabriele D’Annunzio has given the
original manuscript of his book “Al
cione” to the Ambrosian Library in
testimony of his appreciation of its
important work as a fount of Italian
culture.
Plans are being made for an air
mail service between France and Ar
gentina.
ANACONDA GETS
CONTROL ZINC
MINES SILESIA
VON GEISCH HEIRS SELLS HOLD
INGS OF ZINC AND COAL TO
W. A. HARRIMAN CO.
AFFECTS MARKETS OF WORLD
Largest Known Deposits of Useful
Mineral Lie on Borders of
Germany and Poland
NEW YORK. Nov. 6 (/P)—Chairman
Ryan of the Anaconda Copper Mining
Company announced today that W. A.
Harriman & Company of Anaconda,
and his company had jointly acquired
the zinc and coal interests of the Von
Giesche heirs in upper Silesia, on the
German-Polish border, which gives
the Anaconda companies undisputed
control of the zinc mining industries
of the world.
The Von Giesche deposits of zinc
are said to be the largest known in
the world.
TELEPHONE WAR
STARTS SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Nov. 6 (^—Following
the arrest of two officials of the Pa
cific Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, the company threatened to cease
the installation of telephones in new
buildings.
The arrests following the culmina
tion of a long fight by the city against
a proposed increase in telephone
rates. The officials were arrested for
excavating in the streets without tak
ing out the necessary permits.
PARK TO SHOW PRE-HISTORIC
NEIGHBORHOOD OF HOLLYWOOD
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5. (£>)—1The
saber-toothed tiger and the imperial
tusked elephant once roamed thru
a jungle just south of what now is
Hollywood. A glimpse of southern
California as it was then will be af
forded when the prehistoric park
planned by the Los Angeles Museum
of History, Science and Art becomes
a realty.
Years ago scientists found in some
asphalt beds on the Rancho La Brea,
fossil bones of animals of the pleis
tocene period. Exploration indicated
that probably hundreds of thousands
of years ago these jungle inhabitants
had blundered into the stick asphant.
L'nable to extricate themselves they
had died. Other victims followed
them.
The bones of these animals were
pressed into the clutching pits until
the passage of many centuries built
up a veritable storehouse of fossil
skeletons. Here the scientists have
found the bones of many prehistoric
jungle animals, skeletons of which
may be seen at the museum.
Twenty-seven acres in which the
pits were found were donated for a
public park. The park plans call for
thep lanting of trees and shrubbery
as nearly as possible like those which
existed at the time of the saber
toother tiger and his contemporaries.
Reproduction of the animals in stone
will be mounted and placed in the
reconstructed jungle.
TO POPULARIZE BIBLE SALES
PARIS, Nov. 5. (jP)—To make the
Bible a “best-seller” in France as it
is in English-speaking countries, M.
Francois Bernourd, a publisher, is go
ing to issue an edition in 30 vol
umes, with Hebrew and Greek texts
opposite the French, with woodcuts
scattered liberally thruout. Mr. Ber
nourd also is a poet whose work ha3
fund its way into many French an
thologies.