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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 80
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1925
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HARTFORD, Conn.. April 4— Ger
ald Chapman, the spectacular mail
bandit, jailbreaker, and criminal ex
traordinary. was convicted of the mur
der of Policeman James Skellev, at
New Britain, Conn., October 12. and
was sentenced to be hanged June 25.
The jury was out a little over 11
hours.
Chapman received the verdict un
flinchingly, with his frail body erect
and high, and his eyes straight ahead.
ENGLISH DIVORCE CASE ENDED
LONDON. April 4.—Justice Sir Hen
ry McCardie delivering his reserved
judgement, voided the verdict of the
jury awarding Muriel Denniston five
thousand pounds and allowed her sev
enty-two pounds which the colonel
borrowed from her. He held that the
colonel was not bound to support her
after divorce.
♦ DAIRYMEN DRUM UP TRADE
BERLIN, April 4.—Berlin drinks
more than one-half the quantity it
consumed before the war. The rea
son evidently is that the use of milk
substitutes still prevail. A muni
cipal exhibition is planned to bring
milk back to its former popularity.
The Stotko twins celebrated their
birthday today, a number of young
sters participating in the event.
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LEGISLATURE
SCORES STONE
FOR STATEMENT
BRANDS PERSONS GIVING HIM IN
FORMATION AS MALICIOUS LI
ARS AND MISCHIEF MAKERS.
(Special to The Gateway)
JUNEAU, April 4.—Decrying the ;
^ willingness of “high officials of the j
government” to believe “slanderous j
statements about Alaska, a memorial
was introduced by Senator Dimond in j
the Senate, and Representative Joe
Murray in the House taking issue with
former Attorney General Harlan F.
p Stone, that Alaska is a lawless fron
tier.
^ The memorial was based on an As
sociated Press dispatch from Washing
ton, carried in Alaskan newspapers,
February 4 and 5, which quoted Stone j
as saying that Alaskans had no re
spect for law enforcement. It de
manded that the name of the person
giving Stone the information on which
he based his information, be made
public, so that he> may be branded
from one end of Alaska to the other
| “for the liar he is.”
Hearing on the bill to repeal the Al
aska Bone Dry Law has been post
poned to next Thursday, owing to the
absence of legislators on an inspection
trip to the Pioneers Home at Sitka.
Representative Moody of the Fourth
division introduced a memorial urging
the Department of Interior to cancel
its contract for care of Alaska insane
at Morningside, denouncing the con
' tract system now in vogue as inhu
man and inconsistent with American
principles. It asked an investigation
r by experts of the practicability for
the establishment of a government in
K stitution in Alaska, and if found inad
visable, to make arrangements for the
care of Alaska’s insane at the State in
stitutions of the Pacific coast states.
Nylen introduced a resolution ask
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OSBORNE WOOD IN TAMPA
TAMPA, April 4.—Osborne Wood
has taken a position in a realty firm
here.
CHAPMAN CASE TO JURY
HARTFORD, Conn., April 4.—The
Chapman ease went to the jury late
yesterday afternoon.
WIDOW DEMADNS
INVESTIGATION
DEATH HUSBAND
SEATTLE, April 4.—His widow to
day demanded an official investigation
into the death Wednesday of her hus
band, Harold V. Mooring, a Federal
prohibition agent. An autopsy dis
closed a bullet wound, and his death
was attributed to lobar pneumonia in
the left lung.
The bullet is of the same calibre
as the pistol of William W. Whitney,
assistant state prohibition agent, who
was with Mooring when he was shot
September 23, in a fight with Elmer
Todd and Gypsy Smith, Cosmopolis
bootleggers.
The widow said her husband before
he died had asked that an investiga
tion be held, but did not accuse Whit
ney of doing the shooting.
Jail Break Prevented
Sheriff Matt Starwich
SEATTLE, April 4.—Sheriff Matt
Starwich of King county reported to
day that he had found several hack
saws in bananas taken to the county
jail for L. S. Brockway, a taxis thief,
which were intended to free three
prisoners awaiting extradition for the
Nanaimo bank robbery, one of whom
is a cellmate of Brockway.
Starwich said that the girl smug
gling in the saws was an agent of a
group of Chicago robbers to whom
T. H. Johnson, a cellmate of Brock
wav remained ttrue. They came to
Seattle as soon as they learned of his
arrest, and took quarters near the
jail, settling down to effect his re
lease.
Belgian Socialists Enter
Upon Whirlwind Campaign
BRUSSELS, April 4.—The Social
ists are the most active and present
a more united front, than either the
Conservatives or the Liberals in the
intensive political campaign now un
der way in preparation for the Bel
gian elections April 5,
Of the great political parties divid
ing the entire representation of the
last chamber, the socialists were the
first to get their electioneering go
ing full blast, and there are many
political observers who believe that
unless the Conservatives under Pre
mier Theunis and the liberals head
ed by M. Hymans, get together on a
common platform, the left group has
a splendid opportunity of coming
back with a clear majority.
The Socialists are especially strong
in the Ghent cotton mill district,
where the party now owns some ten
mills, both spinning and weaving,
have their own commission purchas
ing houses for raw material and their
own private bank. The so-called
bourgeois and capitalist parties ora
tors have been making many caustic I
comments to the effect that the So
cialist party is the greatest capitalist
in Ghent.
The Activists, who came into prom
inence during the German occupation
through their dealings with German
Governor Generals Von Bissing and
Von Falkenhausen, are conducting a
very bitter campaign, calling for the
complete separation of Flanders from
Wallon.
HIJACKERS TAKE
RUM RUNNER
WITH LIQUOR
T ..
HALIFAX. April 4.—With her deck
house gone, and bullet holes in the
floor of the cabin, thei Schootier Faus
tina arrived yesterday. She left here
several weeks ago with a cargo of
liquor.
The crew said hijackers from a
small boat boarded the Faustina off
the New York rum row, drove the
crew below decks and sailed the Faus
tina fifty miles south where they
transferred the cargo to a waiting ves
sel.
The pirates made the Faustina’s
crew remove the deckhouse to facili
tate operations.
FEMINISTS OF ITALY
BATTLING FOR VOTES
REMINDED OF tiORGIAS
HOME, April 4.—Angered by the
suspicion that they have been the
victims of a political game and in
dignant at the idea that the govern
ment has openly broken its promise
to grant women suffrage in munici
pal elections, Italian proponents of
equal political rights for men and
women have begun a new and vig
orous campaign to win public opin
ion to their side of the case and to
make the government change its
stand.
The decision of committees of the
Senate and Chambers of Deputies, re
jecting woman’s suffrage as a step
too inopportune to be taken at this
time, was a particularly bitter one
for the suffragist because it camp
but a short time after their hopes
had been raised as they had been
never before, by the declaration of
Premier Mussolini before a congress
here of women from all parts of the
globe that Italy intended to gran:
the vote to its women.
Government leaders explain their
change of front as a necessary re
sult of the present political situation
but the women refuse to believe this
especially since one government
spokesman was quoted as saying:
Italy has suffered too much in the
past from women rulers, it is not
easy to forget the Borgias.”
The National Association of Italian
Women has issued a manifesto dec
laring that 48 nations have granted
the vote to women and that Italy
runs the risk of being the last to
take the step, thereby creating false
ideas abroad about social and poli
tical conditions south of the Alps.
Senators and deputies are being be
sieged by women visitors and their
mail boxes flooded with letters. The
newspapers are receiving scores of
letters, many of them enumerating
important Italian women to answer
the assertion that Italy has suffered
by the misdeeds of its women.
Criminal Complains That
Judge Talked Too Much
SEATTLE, April 4.—Elmer Mann
hart was sentenced for life today for
the murder of Mrs. Morley, in a taxi
cab, on Capitol Hill. Mannhart with
drew his motion for a new trial and
as he left the courtroom complained
that the judge made “too flowery a
speech” in sentencing him.
WEEKS PASSED RESTFUL NIGHT.
WASHINGTON, D. 0., April 4.—
Secretary Weeks passed a restful
night and his physicians did not call
upon him until late this afternoon.
Thomas Oakes, well known athlete
and diesel engineer on the Yukon
steamer Dr. Martin, is a passenger
.for Seward on the Northwestern.
GOVERNMENT WILL APPEAL
FROM QUASHING INDICTMENTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 4.—
The government will appeal from the
decision quashing the indictments in
the Sinclair oil case. Attorneys for
Albert B. Fall and Harry Sinclair, who
were indicted for conspiracy to de
fraud the government in oil land leas
es said that Fall and Doheny cannot
be indicted again, because of the three
years’ limitation, but that the charge
against Sinclair and three others for
conspiracy could be renewed if the
indictments were quashed.
PREDICTS RECORD
YEAR FOR COPPER
NEW YORK, April 4.—John Ryan
predicted this to be a record year for
the consumption of copper at home
and abroad. He cited the large ship
ments of copper to fabricators in the
first quarter and told of the finished
brass and copper goods put out by fab
ricators. He said reports of agents
indicated that European buying was
on the decline.
Soviet Government Will
Reduce Taxation Soon
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MOSCOW, Russia, April 4.—The
1 Rosta agency announced today that
! the government had instructed the
Finance Commissariat to prepare a
! bill to reduce taxation on private cap
ital. The government will take steps
to strengthen the nation’s commercial
firms and promote activities. The
budget provides ten million rubles for
this purpose.
PROHIBITIONISTS
SEE TRIUMPH IN
COURT VERDICT
SAN FRANCISCO. April 4—Feder
al prohibition officers declared the
verdict of the Federal court last night
in convicting ten and acquitting 34
of the rum runner Quadra crew es
tablished a precedent in fixing the
guilt of intentional offenders against
the laws of the United States regard
ing the landing of liquor on its
shores. Within ten minutes the jury
retruned a verdict of guilty in connec
tion with the Quadra, which was seiz
ed October 12, off Golden Gate with
a cargo of liquor valued at a quarter
| of a mlilion dollars.
The court sentenced Vincento Quar
taro, San Francisco agent, Charles H.
Belanger, of Vancouver, B. C., direc
tor of the Consolidated Importers’ to
two years each in Leavenworth peni
tentiary, and fines of §10,000 each;
Capt. Ford, master of the Quadra, to
two years in Leavenworth, and a fine
of §1,000; the first mate of the Quadra
to 13 months in Leavenworth; the
second mate to 10 months in jail in
San Francisco; the chief engineer was
fined $500; and four operators engag
ed in operating the lightering launch
were given eight months in San Fran
cisco jail.
The vessel was confiscated by the
government and will be sold.
DOROTHY ELLINGSON IS
SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4.—Dr. F.
Clark, superintendent of the State in
sane asylum at Stockton, testified to
day that Dorothy Ellingson, on trial
for the murder of her mother, was
“like a piece of defective wood or
steel which may run all right for a
time, but will go to pieces under a
strain.” He said the girl was suf
fering from dementia praecox.
UNITED STATES
ARMADA NEARS
GOLDEN GATE
THIRTY MILE OF THE FINEST
FIGHTING SHIPS ON EARTH
IN ONE SQUADRON
Aboard the United States Seattle ah
Sea, April 4.—The gigantic United
States fleet, aceupying a semi-circular
area of over thirty miles in diameter
is approaching the Golden Gate in
cruising formation,, one of the raighti
est fighting machines ever produced
by a world power.
The flags of two admirals, one vice
admiral and seven rear admirals at
flying at the main trucks of the most
colossal concentrations of American
seapower ever seen in Pacific waters.
Ute Medicine Man Is
Sentenced for Murder
CORTEZ, Colorado, April 4. -4JMor
mon Joe,” an aged Ute medicine man,
pleaded guilty of second degree mur
der, and was sentenced to 25-25 years
in the state penitentiary for beating
a Mexican fellow prisoner to death
in their cell. The Mexican upbraided
the? old Indian for burying a baby
alive, the charge on which Joe was
jailed.
Sixty-three of Seventy
Men Found in Mine
ESSEN, Germany. April 4.—At noon
today 63 of the 70 men who were in
the cage that fell at the Krupps mine
nearby, were accounted for. Two men
were killed and three seriously injur
ed, with 43 slightly hurt. Fifteen
were unharmed when the four storied
cage plunged to the bottom of the
shaft when a gear broke.
GASTON B MEANS
INDICTED FORGERY
WASHINGTON, I). C., April 4.—
Gaston B. Means today was indicted,
for forgery in connection with the
Daugherty investigation before the
senate. He immediately pleaded not
guilty and was released on $1000 bail.
NORTHWESTERN SAILS
WITH 250 PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, April 4.—The North
western sailed at nine this morning
with 250 passengers aboard, the fol
lowing passengers for Seward
Mrs. W. D. Brown, Fred Cullen and
wife, George E. Patton, Frank E
Rolfe, J. E. Cunningham, C. E. Berg
man, Wm. Mates, Dell Morrow, R. J.
Mellor, Arthur C. Downey, Roy Lee,
T. B. Oaks, C. H. Carlson, Milton
Boyer, Jack Donald, Capt. Hoelscher,
W. Bruce, S. Berlinack, and two
steerage.
Fred Stimson Forced to
Flee to Escape Arrest
SEATTLE, April 4.—Fred F. Stim
son, son of the late Fred S. Stimson,
a wealthy lumberman and dairyman,
has fled the state after three charges,
on of drunkenness, two for reckless
driving and three for driving while
drunk wrere filed against him.
A suit for $5,000 damages was filed
by Juanita White, calling herself a
dancer and a model, on account of
Stimson’s car hitting her car and
forcing it hit a tree and mount the
sidewalk Tuesday.