VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 146
SEWAllI). ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
CLAIMS THAT “BUTTERFLY” OF
FICERS RECEIVE CHOICE
COSTS BE EXAMINED
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 21—
Coolidge will order an investigation of
the charges made yesterday by naval
eommittees, that “a select butterfly
{ ring of Washington Line Officers have
dominated the navy” and that favorit
ism has been practiced in the placing
of officers in command of certain posts
and also in the promotion of officers.
LONDON EXPLORERS REACH
4 HIGHEST ALTITUDE EVER
ATTAINED
LONDON, June 21—In the final as
sault which failed to make the top of
Mount Everest, George Leigh Mallery,
and A .C. Ervine ,two members of the
late expedition perished.
The British expedition, recently sent
out by the English government, how
ever, attained the greatest height of
any previous expedition.
« AL SMITH WILL NOT
DEMAND MOIST PLANK
NEW YORK, June 21—Franklin D.
Roosevelt, chairman of the committee
seeking the presidential nomyMtion of
Governor Smith, announced today that
the New York state delegation to the
national democratic convention would
not ask for a plank in the -party plat
form calling for a modification of the
Volstead act. He said that if individual
delegates raised the issue it would re
ceive no encouragement from the del
egation as a whole.
NEW LONDON, Con., June 21—
The Yale crew defeated Harvard on
the Thames this afternoon, by three
lengths. Time for four miles was 22
minutes.
IN com. cm
ANACORTES, June 21—Last night
the city council passed an order for
bidding all lawn and garden sprink
ling and car washing by use of a hose
due to prospective water shortage
and directed the superintendent of thf
system to enforce the order. No rail
Jtas fallen here since April 29, and the
lakes from which the city water is
taken are much below the average.
WIFE SENATOR DIES TODAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 21
Mrs. Curtis, wife of the senator from
Kansas, died yesterday afternoon.
JEWISH ORDER WILL
AID PROHIBITION LAW
CHICAGO, June 21—The Independ
ent Order of B’Nai B’Rith has launch
ed a war against the abuse of the sac
ramental wine (privileges under the
Volstead Act, President Adolph Kraus
announced today. Since enactment ol
the prohibition law it has been learn
ed that the allowance of ten gallons
per year for each person of a religious
faith was far in excess of actual re
quirements, Mr. Kraus asserted.
HER REVOKES RILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 21—
Coolidge's recent order specially re
vokes the fisheries reserves in the Al
aska Peninsula and Southwestern Al
aska. These reserves were created bj
Having in February, 1922.
INVENTS APPARATUS TO PUT
INTO WAR
Nels# Aason, known as the “Edison
of Norway,” who was recently in the
United States to demonstrate to the
War Department his latest idea, the
automatic soldier. He claims that with
his new automaton, it will not be nec
essary to send our boys to fight in
the future, but just leave it to the
automatons. He claims that the sol
diers can be controlled ten miles away.
He has also with him plans for a
depth bomb, which can destroy a super
dreadnaught.
WEALTHY TURFMAN
SUED FOR FAILURE
TO KEEP CONTRACT
I YOUTH DEMANDS MONEY FROM
OLD AGE—WEALTHY MAN
SUED FOR PAYMENT
WHITE PLAINS, June 20—Jeffer
; son Livingston, sixty years old, million
aire owner of a large Kentucky breed
ing stable of race horses, has been
sued by Miss Muriel Buell, aged 28,
for failure of the agreement to pay
her $1,750 monthly for the remainder
of her life. Miss Buell charged that
the agreement was made to withhold
a thseatened breach of promise suit.
The turfman paid the stated sum for
| eight months and then quit. Livingston
I said this morning that he had broken
with the young lady because of her
extravagance saying that he had given
her $8,000 in one month.
Schooner Battles Ice
In Trip to Alaska
CAPTAIN OF SMALL SCHOONER
FORCED TO USE DYNAMITE
TO RELEASE SHIP
NOME, June 18—The American
schooner Naunk in command of Cap
tain C .T. Pederson, arrived here today
from San Francisco, on his way to the
Arctic.
The Naunk is bound on a whaling
trip and trading expedition. Captain
Pederson stated that during his twen
ty-five years’ navigation in the north
he has never seen the ice so heavy
nor so far south at this time of the
year. He stated that he was forced to
use dynamite on several occasions to
release the ship.
He reported that Eskimos at St.
Lawrence are still counting on pro
ceeds of a prosperous fox and whale
catch.
CANNERY VESSELS SAIL
FOR PRIBILOF ISLANDS
BELLINGHAM, June 21—The P. A.
F. steamers Redwood and Norwood
departed for the no rh Saturday, Sup:.
H. J. Christofe«s, superintendent of
the seal fisheries cs the Prib:1 >f Is
lands, and a dozen men, taking pas
sage aboard the ve.’sol, which w: • al
so take supplies.
DRIVE TO PLACE EX-SERVICE
MAN AS VICE-PRESIDENT
NEW YORK, June 21—Ex-service
men, delegates to the Democratic Nat
ional Convention, started a drive to
place an ex-soldier on the ticket as
vice-presidential nominee.
COUNCIL PASSES NEW AUTOMOBILE
ORDINANCE; DRIVER’S FEE IS $2.50
MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT SET AT TWENTY MILES PER
HOUR—DRIVER MUST BE OVER SIXTEEN YEARS
OF AGE—ORDINANCE BE STRICTLY ENFORCED
The City Council, at its meeting
Monday night, passed the new auto
mobile ordinance for the Town of
Seward, with penalties for violations
of the same. While some of the Sec
tions are a little strong for a town
the size of Seward, the major portion
of the ordinance contains some very
good laws regarding auto driving on
the streets of Seward. Ordinance No.
84 reads as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. 84.
An Ordinance^ Relating to the Use of
the Public Highways and Regula
tion of Vehicle Traffic in the Town
of Seward, Providing Penalties for
the Violation Thereof, and Repeal
ing all Ordinances and PartL of Or
dinances in Conflict Therewith, and
for Other Purposes.
Be it Ordained by the Common Coun
cil of the Town of Seward:
Section 1. This Ordinance shall
constitute the traffic code of the
Town of Seward and may be cited as
such. It comprises all general regu
lations relating to travel and traffic
and parking and standing upon the
public highways and all other places
of said Town open to the public for
the use of vehicles, and the rights,
duties and restraints of persons as the
same pertain thereto.
Section 2. This Ordinance is here
by declared to be an exercise of the
police power of the Town o; Seward
for the public safety and its provis
ions shall be liberally construed for
the accomplishment of that purpose.
Section 3. OPERATOR’S LI
CENSE. It shall be unlawful for any
.person to operate or drive a motor ve
hicle upon the public streets of the
Town of Seward unless licensed by the
City Clerk as hereinafter provided.
Before operating a motor vehicle upon
the public streets, application for a li
cense to operate such vehicle shall be
made in person to the City Clerk upon
a blank to be prepared and furnished
on request by said City Clerk. The
fee for the issuance of the license
shall accompany the application. To
each person shall be assigned some
distinguished number and the City
Clerk shall issue to the licensee a cer
tificate in such form as the City Clerk
shall determine .Every -person licensed
to operate motor vehicles as afore
said, shall indorse his or her usual sig
nature in the space on the license cer
tificate provided for the purpose .im
mediately upon the receipt of said cer
tificate and the license shall not be
valid until the certificate is so indors
ed. The license certificate issued to
each person, under the provision of
this section, shall be carried by the
licensee at all times when operating or
driving a motor vehicle upon the pub
lic streets, anti shall be produced for
inspection upon request of any peace
officer. Duplicate license certificates
shall be issued by the City Clerk to
operators upon application therefor, in
case of loss of the original license upon
payment of a fee of twenty-five cents.
No person shall use a fictitious
name in applying for such operator’s
license, nor shall any operator licens
ed as herein provided permit any oth
er person to possess or use his or her
license certificate; nor shall any per
son while operating or driving a mo
tor vehicle use or possess any license
certificate belonging to another per
son. No license shall be transferred
from one person to another person. No
license shall be issued to any person
under sixteen years of age.
Section 4. The fee for an cpera
tor’s license as above provided, shall
be $2.50. All operator’s licenses under
this Ordinance shall expire June 30th
of each year and shall be renewed an
nually in the same manner and upon
the payment of the same fee as pro
vided for original registrations, such
renewals to take effect on the first
day of July of each year. All licenses
shall be dated upon the date of the ap
plication therefor
PROVIDED, That operators of
motor vehicles owned by the town of
Seward, the Territory of Alaska, and
the United States, shall not be requii'
ed to pay the license fees herein pro
vided, however, they shall make ap
plication for a license and shall at all
times be subject to all the other pro
visions of this Ordinance. Such licenses
shall be valid only while such opera
tor or operators are operating or driv
ing said motor vehicles exclusively on
official business.
Section 5. REVOCATION OF LI
CENSES, Immediately upon the re
ceipt by the City Clerk of information
concersing the Conviction of any per
son for the violation of Section 34 of
this Ordinance, or concerning the 3rd
conviction within one year of any per
son for the violation of Section 25 of
this Ordinance, the City Clerk shall
forthwith revoke the operator’s li
cense issued to such person and shall
issue no operator’s license to any such
person within sixty days thereafter.
It shall be unlawful for any person
whose license has been revoked as
herein provided to operate a motor ve
hicle upon the public streets of Sew
ard during the term for which said li
cense is suspended or revoked.
Section 6. Drivers of vehicles must
at ail times comply with any direction
given by any police officer as to stop
ping, starting, approaching or depart
ing from any place in any street in the
Town of Seward. It shall be unlaw
ful for any person driving, using or
having control of any vehicle, to fail
refuse or neglect to obey the order of
any police officer in regard to the reg
ulation, direction or diversion or to
moving or stopping any such vehicle
in or upon any street in the Town of
Seward.
Section 7. No person shall drive a
motor vehicle without a brake or
brakes sufficient and capable of bring
ing such vehicle, together with any
trailer that may be attached thereto,
to a complete stop within fifty feet
when the same is traveling at the
rate of twenty miles an hour.
Section 8. No person shall drive 01
operate a motor vehicle without hav
ing attached thereto an adequate sig
nal device, provided that such signal
device shall not be in tone or soum
similar to the fire siren used by the
city fire department.
Section 9. Every motor vehicle
shall exhibit during the hours or dark
ness at least two lamps, one on eacl
side, showing white lights in advance
of said vehicle, and shall have attach
ed to the rear not less than one lamj
showing a red light; Provided, tha
motorcycles or only two wheels am
bicycles shall be required to carry only
one light in the front thereof; provid
ed further, that it shall be unlawfu
to display any light showing red t<
the front of any motor vehicle. Pro
vided, further, that headlights on ve
hide, when approaching other vehicle:
shall be dimmed sufficiently to allov
drivers clear vision and permit saf<
passing.
Section 10. Every vehicle carrying
a load which projects over the rea
end three feet or more, shall display
a red flag by day and a red light by
night on the extreme end of such pro
jecting load.
Section 11. No person shall ope rat
a motor vehicle without having attach
ed thereto, an exhaust muffler, in gooi
working order, adequate to prevent ex
cessive or unusual noise, annoyinj
smoke and the escape of gas, steam o
oil, and such muffler shall not be cu
out or be disconnected.
Section 12. A vehicle meeting an
other shall pass to the right of sucl
other vehicle.
Section 13. A vehicle, except whei
passing a vehicle ahead, shall keep a
near the right hand curb as practicabl
so as to leave the center of the stree
free and open for overtaking traffic.
Section 14. A vehicle overtakinj
another vehicle going in the same di
rection shall pass to the left of thi
vehicle so overtaken.
Section 15. A motor vehicle over
taking any other vehicle, before pass
ing, shall give a signal by one shor
blast of the sounding device. Tff
person in charge of the vehicle beinj
so overtaken and passed shall giv
way to the right as far as practicabl
to allow such vehicle to pass wit!
safety.
Section 16. No vehicle shall pass :
vehicle headed in the same directioi
just before reaching the crest of i
hill, or on a curve, or at any othe
point where the view ahead is in an;
wise obstructed ,or while the vehicl
ahead is crossing or waiting to cros:
: or is turning or about to turn into ai
intersecting sti’eet.
Section 17. Vehicles crossing fron
one side of the street to another shal
do so by turning to the left until head
ed in the same direction as the traf
fic on that side of the street toward:
which the crossing is made, is headed
Section 18. A vehicle turning int<
another street to the left shall tun
around the center of the intersectioi
of the two streets.
Section 19. A vehicle turning int<
another street to the rip#it shall tun
the corner not nearer the right curl
than five feet.
Section 20. Before turning, wheth
er from a standstill or while in motioi
stopping or decreasing speed, driver:
shall give timely warning of their in
tentions to those following them, by
outstretched arm or in some othe
unmistakable manner.
Section 21. Signals shall be givei
in the following manner:
When turning to the left, by out
stretched arm extending horizontally
to the left.
When turning to the right, by out
stretched arm extending to the lef
and up.
When stopping or suddenly decreas
ing speed, by outstretched arm extend
ing to the left and down.
Before backing, warning shall bi
given by a short blast followed by :
long blast of the signal device an<
while backing unceasing vigilanc<
must be exercised so as not to injure
those behind.
Section 22. A driver already upoi
a street shall have the right of way
over a driver entering at a point othe:
than a street intersection; provide*
that the foregoing shall not apply t<
the apparatus of the fire department
Section 23. Every driver, on the ap
proach of apparatus of the fire de
partment shall immediately proceed t<
the right cufb asd come to a full stop
standing parallel to the curb.
(Continued en Page Five)
WINS BIGGEST PRIZE EVER OF
FERED FOR A BOOK
UNDERWOOD 4 UNDERWOOD, N. Y
J. Anker Larsen, noted Danish au
thor, whose novel, “The Philosopher’s
! Stone,” has won the biggest money
j prize ever offered for a book—$14,000,
i and is being published in seven coun
tries ,including the United States.
WILL ATTEMPT TO
CROSS CONTINENT
DURING DAY TIME
—
LIEUT. MAUGHAN’S THIRD SHOT
AT FLIGHT WILL BE BE
TWEEN SUNS
’ MINEOLA, June 20—Lieutenant
, Maughan will make his third attempt
-1 to fly across the continent between
daylight and dusk on the first favor
5 able day after today.
1 The attempt will be made in an air- j
- plane more solidly built than the one
’ he made the trial inlastJuly.Maugh
an will make four stops to refuel and
stated that he expects to make the
- trans continental aerial trip in seven
1 j teen hours.
t
California Pioneer Takes
Life by Suffocation
s SOAKS BEDDING WITH KERO
SENE AND THEN APPLIES
11 MATCH
’
' RENO, June 20—After soaking her
j i bedclothing with kerosene and bind-1
I ing herself to the bed with wire, Mrs. |
1 L. Mouffitt, 74-year-old widow, and
| a pioneer of California, applied a
r match to the soaked bedding and died
r of suffocation although neighbors
• rescued her from her burning home be
’ fore she was badly burned.
i PERSHING IN LONDON TODAY
1 LONDON, June 21—General Persh
ing will arrive in London today at the
5 head of the Battle Monuments Com
• mission, which will inspect the ceme
’ teries of American soldier dead in
( France.
I FOUR YEAR OLD SOY K
; MOUSTACHE UNO BEARS
MOSCOW, JUNE 21—Russia has
discovered the world’s wonder child—a
1 boy aged four yeai's and ten months,
who has the strength of a full-grown
r man but the mental facilities of a
child. He has a deep bass voice asd a
' fully-grown moustache and beard.
: He was born at Vladivostok, as a
. normal baby of normal parents, but
• after his first year began to mature
at an astounding rate.
? The “subject” who stands about 3
[ feet high, toddles like a child, but has
; fully developed muscles.
■ Similar cases are said by no means
to be rare. It is on record that a broth
, er of a Greek King was so abnormal
• in his development that he was doing
1 a man’s work, had married and was
• the father of a family when he died
I at the age of seven.
A boy born is 1741 at a village near
’ Cambridge, England developed so rap
’ idly that he was acting as a farm lab
- orer at the age of five years and was
as muscular as the average man.
FAVORS STRAIGHT - FORWARD
MEMBERSHIP IN LEAGUE
OF NATIONS
BALTIMORE, June 21—A copy
righted dispatch from the New York
Sun says “Woodrow Wilson’s last po
litical will and testament, a document
of party principle and policy, is to be
laid, by a group of his followers be
fore the resolutions committee when
the time comes to write the democrat
ic platform.”
The memorandum makes this posi
tion of foreign relationship: “Straight
out and straight forward membership
of the United States in the League of
Nations ,and an abandonment of a far
cial policy of unofficial observations.”
He also favors ths adherence of this
nation to a permanent interstate court
of justice, under the auspices of the
league and with no nullifying reserva
tions.
STEAMER ALASKA
SAILS NORTH TODAY
NINETY EXCURSIONISTS WILL
MAKE TRIP THROUGH
NORTHLAND
SEATTLE, June 21—The Alaska
sailed this morning with 320 passen
gers aboard, including ninety excur
sionists making the trip north. Sew
ard passengers on the Alaska Steam
ship Company’s floating palace are:
L. Carpenter, A .0. Brown, and
wife, Mrs. M. Gray, Jennie Ander
son, Mrs. Geo. Dornberg, Thelma
and Lambert Dornberg, E. Myrtle
Harmon, Emma Wooley, Mrs. C.
R. Franz, June Shelby, Hubert
Oliver, F. W. Oatack, Miss Broil,
Miss C. Trundle, N. R. Ladis, R.
S. Cappas, W. T. Lopp, V. H.
Boges, E. H. Waugh, J. P. An
derson, E. S. Payne, wife, Ellen
Carlson, Edith Peterson, Mrs. B.
Morrissey, Mrs. N. R. Brook, S.
Thayer, C. W. Bolte, A. Seller, T.
J. Flickenstein, Mrs. R. A. McClain,
Miss L. Boyer, W. J, Rees and wife,
V. Shalsbeth, Dr. M. S. Sethers and
wife, Sister Anna Huseth, John
M. Jackson and wife, Mrs. J. Good
rich, Mrs. Bart McBride, Myrtle
Barry, A. Fanning, and wife, G.
Sillman and wife, C. Zumbaum, and
wife, Gladys West, Gladys Parker,
Grace and Bessie Sillman. G .W.
Svan, Walter Fortman, Miss L. V’.
Bailey, Miss H. Casey, Karl Kohl
and wife, Sadie Sanden, Mrs. F.
B. Stephens, Ruth Dahl, Charles
Callahan, and wife, Mrs. R. M. Hol
len, Miss D. Holly, Mrs. E. Holly,
D. F. Langley and wife, B. Barth
olf, L. J. Seeley, A. E. Horning,
Miss Bayer, C. F .Peterson, P.
Herold, Robert Sethers.
TWEHTT-KIHE DEAD
IN MISSISSIPPI STORM
CHICAGO, June 21—Twenty-nine
persons are dead and property dam
age to the extent of three millions, are
the result of a heat and storm wave
which swept the Mississippi and Ohio
valleys yesterday.
PHOTOGRAPH TRANSMITTED
BY RADIO PRINTED IN PAPER
PARIS, June 21—The first photo
graph ever transmitted by radio, that
of General Ferrie, director of the Eif
fel tower wireless station, was printed
today in Le Matin.
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 21—The
general election in this province give
the Liberals seventeen seats and the
Conservatists thirteen seats.