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VOLUME XVII
NUMBER 298
'-'AVARS >. ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7,1923
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AMERICA WILL BE BACK IN EU
ROPE THROUGH TRAP DOOR
SAYS ALBERT LASKER
SAN FRNCISCO, Dec. 7—The peace
of the nation depends upon the elec-j
tion ot Hiram Johnson to the presi
dency, Albert Lasker, campaign mana
ger and former chairman of tiie U.
S. shipping board declared.
“We will be back in Europe med-1
dling with European affairs, unless
Johnson is elected,’’ declared Lasker..
“We will not return through the front
door but by the back door, side door,
or trap door," he asserted.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Dwight P.
Morrow, a partner of J. P. Morgan,
was a Whitehouse guest of President
Coolidge on several occasions during
he preparation of the President’s
message to congress. Morrow and
Coolidge were classmates in Amherst
college.
WASHINGTON DEMOCRATS ARE
EXPECT SUPPORT M’ADOO
* SEATTLE, Dec. 7.—Mayor Edwrin J.
Brown of Seattle, who will be a can
didate for the domieratic gubernato
rial nomination wants Henry Ford
given the preference nomination for
president. Brown thinks Ford stands
the best chance of any presidential
possibility in carrying this state.
Democratic leaders in Seattle are
solidly behind William G. McAdoo for
the democratic nominee, and unless
there is an upset at the state conven
tion next spring the delegates to the
national convention will be McAdoo
instructed.
} The Washington delegation will be
instructed to battle the national con
vention rule requiring a two-thirds
vote of all delegates to nominate. It
was this rule which aided in the de
feat of McAdoo at San Francisco.
-“ackers Deny Government Full Ao
cess to Their Books
CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—A court fight to
determine the authority of govern
ment auditors to have full access to
books of the packing companies was
indicated today when L. F. Swift,
president of Swift & Co., said that his
concern would fight the attempt of the
secretary of agriculture to make an
investigation of company affairs.
“I still believe the constitution gives
privacy to the affairs of citizens, and
we will find out if this is so,” said Mr.
Swift. “There is nothing in the law
which will permit an official to walk
into your office, sit down at your desk
and tell you how to run your business.
WEST TO LEAD DRIVE
More Drastic Anti-Asiatic Legislation
toi be Sought
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7.—
More drastic provisions for the exclu
sion from the United States of aliens
ineligible to citizenship will be urged!
upon congress at its present session
by senators and congressmen from
Western states.
Senator Sliortridge, republican, of
California, and Representative A1
Johnson of Washington, chairman of
the House immigration committee, an
nounced today that a conference of
western congressmen would soon be
called to form a bloc to get hebind
the legislation.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE
The annual report of Governor S. C.
Rone was made public today by Sec-j
retary Work, and will be published in;
tomorrow’s Gateway. It is full of re
commendations for the upbuilding of
the Territory.
Lay in your winter’s supply of coal
now; while the weather is good.
UNOERWOOn 4 UNDERWOOO, N,_Y. -
FIRST LEGION MEMORIAL TO DEAD COMMANDER AMERICAN LEGION DEDICATED
Photo showing dedication oi Galbraith Memorial in Eden Park, Cincinnati, .November lb, unveiled oy Michael
Aarousohn (at left saluting) blinded Argoune veteran. This is the firs, m morial erected by the Legion, and is
a tribute to the fiallant commander of the Legion who was killed in an auto accident after passing through (he
war unscatched. Seven foreign countries participated in the exercises, which were verey impressive.
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HtLPEO SAILS !«0
NAPA, Calif., Dec. 7.—Dorothy An
derson this afternoon confessed she
had assisted Edward Sailstad, a for
mer Eau Claire, Wisconsin, business
man in an insurance hoax death plot,
whereby the body of a man was ex
humed, placed in Sailsfad’s summer
cottage, and the place destroyed by
fire to leave the impression that Sail
stad was dead.
The couple were arrested here yes
terday, following a nation-wide search
by insurance detectives.
VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 7.—Major R.
J. Burde personally forced Cornelius
Vanderbilt, jr„ to haul down the
American flag from his home on
Sprout Lake, Vancouver Island, he
told the Canadian legislature, in advo
cating a greater cultivation of Cana
dian national sentiment in British
Columbia schools.
FRANK KELLY JOINS FIRM
OF J. B. GOTTSTEIN, GROCER
Frank M. Kelly, who has been con
nected with the government railroad
for several years, has associated him
self with the firm of J. B. Gottstein,
wholesale grocer at Anchorage.
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 7.—“Get the
government out of the shipping busi
ness as well as all other business,*’
was the recommendation of A. F.
Haines, vice president of the Admi
ral line, in an address here recently.
Haines included this in a number of
suggestions for improvement of the
shipping situation on the Pacific. He
also emphasized that more attention
should be paid to imports. Vessels
leaving Pacific ports heavily laden1
are compelled to return in ballast or
only partly filled he said.
“It is necessary to buy as well as
sell,” he said.
EXAMINE YOUR MONEY ORDERS
Postmaster Edward M. Morgan ot
the New York office reminds the pub
lic that all printed money orders bear
a marginal safety check on the left
edge indicating the maximum amount
for which they are issued, and that
the absence of this check makes the
order invalid. Presentation of an or
der from which the check has been
torn is likely to result in loss to the
holder. Any person presenting such
orders should be referred to the local
Postmaster.
FORMER WIFE OF STEAMSHIP
OFFICIAL WANTS ERRING
HUSBAND JUGGED
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7.—George T.
Williams, iormer Seattle and Nome
operator, now president 01 the \\ il
aaius Steamship Company, of New
York, and his divorced wile, Airs.
Amanda Lester oi Tacoma, were ar
rested here this aiteruoou in uieir
fashionable compartment, on com
plaint ot Mrs. Isabel Williams, pres
ent wile ol the delendant, who declar
ed that \\ illiams was a lugitive lrom
a suit tiled against him in Tacoma for
$IOO.UUO, by A. Al. Lester, the iormer
husband oi Mrs. Williams.
Mrs. Williams and baby daughter,
Gladys, came to Seattle lrom New
York City in June, 1922, and intended
resting here until joined by her bus-'
band, George T. The latter however,
had no sooner gotten rid ot the com
plainant than he effected a reconcilia
tion with his former wife, then mar
ried to Lester, and left with her tor
tile coast.
Lester later started suit against
Williams for heavy damages for tak
ing his present wife away from him. I
Mrs. Isabelle Williams for formerly
the wife of Lester, who divorced her,
marrying Mrs. Williams No. 1. It is
a complicated matrimonial tangle for
the courts to thresh out.
Ed Vogl, living at Mile 5% reports
that some one entered his home re-'
cently and carried off the following
articles, to-wit: 100 pounds spuds, 1
case coal oil, 45 pounds of coffee, 1
case milk, 1 case peas, 1 case corn, 401
pounds rolled oats, 30 pounds pow
dered sugar, 25 pounds dried apples,
25 pounds dried prunes, 1 case pump
kin, 1 case clams, 1 sack sugar, 50
cans of berries, 40 pounds of lard and
50 pounds bacon, the same being and
constituting his winter’s supply of
food. The case of milk was recov
ered from a cache where the camp
robber had placed it but the other ar
ticles were nil; otherwise vamosed.
Mr. Vogl states that the party was
seen coming from the cabin with part
of the goods and that a warrant will
be sworn out for his arrest unless
same are returned within seven days!
from today. He declares that while
he hates to take action in the matter
the loss is too great to suffer in si
lence, therefore the goods had better
be returned instanter.
COLD WEATHER AT DAWSON
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A temperature of 65 below zero is
reported at Dawson today. Therefore
Seward will have a sharp spell of
weather for a day or two yet.
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ENGLISH HEPORT
LONDON, Dec. 7.—A net conserva
tive io^s 01 4o seats is shown m the
election returns up to 12:45 o’clock
this afternoon. Figures show gains of
the Conservatives 4, Liberals 35, La
bor, 34; losses, Conservatives 50;
Liberals 13; Labor, 9; Independent, 1.
This means a net loss thus far to
Conservatives of 46.
Shire Liberals show a net gain of
22, and the Labor party of 25.
The standing ot the parties at l:3u
o’clock this afternoon was: Conserv
atives, 166; Labor, 104; Liberals, 75;
Independents, 7; Nationalists, 1.
Stanley Baldwin, Llloyd George,
Lady Astor, and McDonald, leading in
ternational figures, were re-eiecieu io
parliament.
IRENE CASTLE WAiviTS TO
MOVE LARGE LIQUOR SJPPLY
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Irene Castle,
recently wed, wants to move her stock
oi liquor valued at thousands ol dol
lars from her former home iu Ithaca,
to her new home. She made applica
tion for the transfer yesterday to Pro
hibition Director Canfield but refused
to give the quantity on hand.
Officials said the regulations did not
allow them to disclose confidential in
formation relating to such applications
but they were curious to ascertain
how the dancer came legally with such
an amount of liquor so long after the
passage of the Volstead Act.
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1 MESS OF SUITE
OLYMPIA, Dec. 7.—Violation of
traffic laws to make speed records on
State highways will no longer be per
mitted, if an act drawn by L. D. Mc
Ardle, director of the department of
efficiency is passed by the legislatude.l
Any person attempting to break re-(
cords by violating state laws, will be
arrested and given a heavy fine.
A news article recently told of a
record being established from Berke
ley to Seattle by two college boys re
turning from a football game. These
youth averaged a speed of 35 miles
per hour through cities and towns and
such speed was dangerous to pedes
trians and vehicles McArdle asserted.
CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—The most luxu
rious private car in merica, if not in.
the world, is being built in the Pull
man car shops for Henry Ford, accord
ing to today Chicago Tribune. Tiled
baths, sumptuous bedrooms, a drawing
room equipped with electrically oper
ated phonographs, as well as broad
casting and receiving radio sets, and
an electric kitchen are some of the
features. A richly appointed office,
and accommodations for secretaries
and servants are included in the
specifications. .
1DICUL
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ELEPHANT STANDS PAT WITH
THREE FEET AND TESTS
VOTERS WITH FOURTH
SEATTLE, Dec. 7.—Hearst news
papers throughout the country carry a
Hearst signed ediiorial on the Cool
idge message, which, he says, is much
the message that we would have ex
pected the late President Harding to
*i'ue. The editorial says tile mes
sage in the whole is extremely con
servative, although at has a lew semi
progressive recommendations.
It might be said that the Republican
elephant stands pat with three feet
on the republican platform and tim
idly tests the timbers 01 the Progres
sive bridge with the fourth foot.
MILITARY IN MEXICAN STATES
REPUDIATED GOVERNMENT
VERA CRL'Z, Dec. 7.—The military
in the States of San Luis Potosi, Vera
Cruz, Chihuahua, Michoacan and Ta
maulipas, have repudiated the Federal
government, ousted ali Federal officers
and submitted their own men.
Vera Cruz Port Seized
IviEXICU CITY, Mexico, Dec. 7.—
Vera Cruz, the principal port of the
state oi Vera Cruz, was seized today
by Gen. Guadalupe Sanchez, acting in
the name of de la Huerta, former Na
tional treasurer and presidential can
didate. The Mexican navy is in Vera
t ruz harbor and is also reported to
have gone over to de la Huerta.
POTENTATE DYKEMAN IS
GUEST SEATTLE SHRINERS
SEATTLE, Dec. 7.—Potentate Dyke
man of the Mystic Shrine arrived to
day to be a guest of honor at the
Fall ceremonial of the Nile Temple.
MRS. HARDING KGEIVES
PHI SIS I YEAR
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—A con
gressional pension of $5000 a year lor
Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, wife or
the late president, wras introduced in
the Senate this afternoon by Senator
Willis of Ohio.
SEVEN BILLIONS OUTSTANDING
IN DEBTS DUE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Secretary
Mellon in a letter to Senator Borah
says that seven billions are still out
standing of money loaned by the U. S.
during the war and that only Great
Britain has agfeed to pay.
SILVER GRAYS FOR WASILLA
Four pairs of live, dark silver foxes
raised on the Shafer farm at Sfcldovia
were shipped recently to E. E. Hart
man who has a fox ranch at Wasilla.!
The foxes brought $600 per pair and
'were especially fine ones. The ship
ment is the second to go forward to
Wasilla, Duke E. Stubbs purchasing
several pairs in October.
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—W. E. Stokes
the wealthy hotel man, and his wife,!
Helen Elwood Stokes, formerly ot
Denver, today ended their legal bat-1
tie of several years standing, during
which a fortune has been spent in at-,
torney fees, when Supreme Court
Justice Wasservogel dismissed the
suit instituted by Mrs. Stokes against
her husband for alleged defamation of
character.
Mr. Stokes alleged that Mrs. Stokes
was infatuated with an Indian guide,
met on a hunting trip to Ontario, and
that she had a child by him.
In the agreement today both parties
agreed to allow all litigation to be
stopped, a divorce having been re
cently granted the couple, and a fund
of $800,000 started for Mrs. Stokes.
YESTERDAY’S STORM WORST EX
PERIENCED IN YEARS ON
PUGET SOUND
FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash., Dec. 7.—
The crew of ten on the Tacoma freight
er T. W. Lake perished when the ves
sel foundered in Rosario strait. Four
bodies were recovered. The siorm was
one of the worst in many years.
The dead:
CAPT. E. E. MASON.
I. O. UDDENBERK, 1st officer.
J. L. LARSON, chief engineer.
E. E. FIELDS, purser.
LARS Dl'FRAINE, asst, engineer.
Fit e of crew.
W ASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Ail radio
transmitting stations in the United
States are called upon by Secretary
Hoover to remain silent from 8*30 to
8:45 Easter mime, next Monday
night to clear the air for sending the
President's address on behalf of the
Harding Memorial Association.
TOKIO, Dec. 7.—Lengthy comment
on the recent decision of the United
States supreme court sustaining the
alien land laws of California and
Washington is contained in some of
the leading Japanese newspapers.
Regret is expressed at wTiat the
Chugai Sogyo terms "evidences ot ra
cial discrimination which is inconsis
tent with the attitude of justice and
humanity expressed by the American
government and people."
"The Hoclii in a similar vein states,
"It the agitators final object is not
to drive out all Japanese lrorn Ameri
ca, the anti-alien land laws shouui be
modified. ’>
The Kokumiu advises the govern
ment to redouble its efforts to settle
the immigration question because, the
newspaper asserts, "Japanese friend
ship for the United States can never
be firmly cemented until the spirit of
discrimination has been eliminated.”
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Snake Refuses to Eat Anything But
Food Killed by Itself
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7.—A giant
python at the Philadelphia zoo has
gone eight months without food be
cause it will take nothing but animals
killed by itself. Keepers have refrain
ed from feeding the serpent for fear
the Society for the Prevention of Cru
elty to Animals might object. This
fear has been dispelled by officers of
the society and a live pig was today
given the thirty foot serpent.
The keeper appeared before Frank
B. Rutherford, manager of the S. P. C.
A, and showed him where a valuable
exhibit would be lost if the society
persisted in its attitude.
The keeper declared the pig would
suffer a human death. “When the an
imal is put into the reptile’s cage
there is a sudden sprinfi a flash of
coils and the pig’s life is extinct as
swiftly as if hit in the head with an
axe,” he said.
It was explained that the snake hit
a several hundred pound blow with
his head, stunning an animal before
encircling it in its coils.
EGG COMBINE SEES PROFIT
OF NINE MILLION IN SIGHT
CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—An egg boycott
by householders is urged by Joseph
Rushkewicz, secretary of the city’s
high cost committee, who charges that
Chicago dealers are attempting to cor
ner the egg market, and create an ar
tificial shortage that will bost prices
to $1 a dozen. Eggs are selling at 80
cents now. ,