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VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 102.
SEWARD. ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1924.
PRICE, TEN CENTS
Action On Jap Exclusion Act
Is Deferred Until July First
COOLIDGE ASKS TIME IN WHICH
TO NEGOTIATE WITH JAP
ANESE OVER NEW BILL
WASHINGTON, April 29— Cool
idge today imposed his will upon
the leaders in congress and pre
vailed upon them to extend until
July 1, next, the time at which the
Japanese exclusion clause of the
immigration bill would take effect.
The avowed purpose of the exten
sion is to allow Hughes time in
which to negotiate an agreement
on the subject with the Japanese
government.
Hold Open Air Meetings
TOKIO, April 29—Further develop
ments in the agitation and high feel- i
ing of the Japanese people over Am-1
erica’s exclusion act were manifested!
in an open air meeting which voiced
protestations of the mass in general
and also a conference was held be
tween Foreign Minister Matsui and
Marquis Saionji, one of the eldest
statesmen of Japan. At the open air
meeting resolutions were passed urg
ing the rise of the Japanese people,
who are resolved to sacrifice every
thing if necessary to protect their
National prestige.
President May Veto Bill
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29
President Coolidge will veto the im
migration bill containing the Japanese
exclusion clause, it was intimated to
day.
Coolidge Trying to Solve Problem
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29
President Coolidge is attempting to
work out some arrangement in re
spect to the Japanese exclusion law
which will satisfy those favorable to
restriction and also avoid an affront
to the Japanese nation.
Mexico Does Not Want Japs
CULICIAN, April 29—A delegation
of Japanese from California in a con
ference with officials of the State of
Sinaloa said they were hopeful of mi
grating to that part of Mexico but
the spokesman for Mexico informed
thc-m that Sinaloa desired to discour
age the “settlement on lands of Asi
atics or any other race which might
embarrass the relations of the Mexi
can government with her northern
neighbor.
Japan Seeking Oil in Persia
LONDON, April 29—The Daily Tel
egraph diplomatic correspondent said
the Japanese are seeking oil supplies
in Persia. He declared that Jap em
isaries have1 been in Persia since the
seventies, seeking oil.
Society Appeals to President
TOKIO, April 29—The American
Japanese society appealed to Coolidge
* to postpone the exclusion act of the
immigration bill.
TWELVE MEN LOST
WHEN TUG BURNS
CLEVELAND ,April 29—Reports of
the burning of a fishing tug and the
loss of a crew of 12 men, ten miles
southeast of the head of Lake Erie,
were received by the Inter-city Radio
Company.
LIEUT. POWERS SETS
NEW SPEED RECORD
SAN ANTONIO, Apr 29—Lieut. O.
A. Powers of Kelly field attained a
speed of 174.7 miles per hour over a
forty-five mile course which establish
es a world record for the type MB-.’A
aii-planes.
HIGH POWERED CHARGE
FLORENCE ,Ariz., April 29—Frank
Hutchison confessed to killing his wife
by dynamiting her in bed, at their
home in Superior, April 14th.
* SENTENCED FOR FORGING
BUTTE, April 29—H. J. Binny,
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses, was convicted by a
jury who fixed his sentence from 3 to
^ 6 years.
X Fifteen men were sent from the
Belmont Hotel today to help on the
railroad.
PROMOTER IS
HELD BY POLICE
BELLINGHAM, April 29—Chas.
H. Unverzagt, alleged promoter of
a million and a half dollar gold pro
ject in Cottonwood, British Colum
bia, was arrested here by the feder
al marshal, and held on two indict
ments, with a total of 32 counts re
turned by the Federal Jury in Buf
falo on March second; charging use
of thei mails to defraud, entered a
plea of not guilty. He was held for
lack of a twenty-five thousand dol
lar bond.
SNOW AND COLD
WEATHER PREVAIL
IN WESTERN STATES
FRUIT CROP BADLY DAMAGED
BY UNEXPECTED FALL IN
TEMPERATURE
DENVER, April 29—Five to eight
inches of snow fell last Saturday in
the Rocky Mountain region from Sher
idan Wyoming to Southeastern New
Mexico the weather bureau reported.
Third of Fruit Crop Lost
ELLENSBURG April 29—One third
of the Kittitas valley fruit crop was
destroyed by low temperatures last
night and Saturday night, the dis
trict horiculture inspector stated.
Heavy Damage to Apple Crop
PENTICTON, B. C., April 29—It is
estimated that seventy-five per cent
of the soft fruit crop in addition to
heavy damage to apple blossoms suf
fered heavy damage from frost in the
southern Okanogan district during the
recent cold spell.
VOTE ON MAY QUEEN
WILL CLOSE TOMORROW
AT ONE O’CLOCK P. M.
The contest for May Queen will
positively close tomorrow at 1 p. m.,
so parties desiring to vote for their
choice should not hesitate to cast
the ballots not later than tonight.
The two girls with the highest
number of votes next to the winner
i will be the maids for the May Queen
, and there will also be two little pages
to carry the crown and the prizes.
Lee Ray and Vincent Lorang have
been chosen pages and the maids of
honor will be announced later.
Before leaving yesterday the An
chorage delegation announced that in
case Joe Badger received the high
j est number of votes a special train
with the band would come over and
; force Mr. Badger to accept the crown
' as king.
Judging from the weather the May
Queen will wear a parka, snow shoes
! or rubber boots, but we’ll all be
there at the crowning in the hall.
Miss Cecil Leslie jumped up to
600 today, with Beatrice Baughman
second with 142, and Melba Johnsrud
1 third place with 130. The vote stands
as follows:
1 Cecil Leslie .-. 600
Beatrice Baughman . 142
Joe Badger .-.- 141
Melba Johnsrud ...- 130
! Thelma Tallasen .-. 94
Patsy Raj' ...-. 89
Sigrid Rosness . 1
Other contestants no change.
Remember, voting stops at 1 p. m.
tomorrow.
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MANY HALIBUT BOATS
IN PORT WITH FISH
Up to the present time twenty hal
j ibut boats have delivered cargoes in
I port, besides a number running in to
| escape storms. Deputy Collector
| Abrams reports the following boats
’ in port today, including the follow
ing: Kodiak, Gladstone, Volunteer,
j Bonanza, Tordeuskjold, Lituya, Tom
^and Al.
PINCHOT SAYS ENLISTED
AID OF PRESS AFTER HE
FAILED STOP APPOINTMENT
ATLANTIC CITY, April 29—Gover
nor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, speaking
to the American Society of Newspaper
Editors said he had enlisted the press
of the country in a struggle of con
servation after he hal failed to halt
the appointment of Secretary Fall. He
said what Fall wanted was not only
the Navy’s oil but “billions of dollars
worth of other natural resources held
by the Government for the benefit of
the people.
TWO MORE HERDS
REPORTED TO HAVE
HOOF MOUTH DISEASE
I SUSPICIOUS SYMPTOMS REPORT
ED IN SOUTHERN CALIFOR
NIA—TO INVESTIGATE
SACRAMENTO, April 29—Two big
herds in Merced and one in Los An
geles county were reported infected
with foot and mouth disease, involv
ing nearly one thousand cattle and 200
hogs. Since the outbreak 6,338 cattle
and 2,541 hogs and 53 goats have been
slaughtered in Los Angeles county
j with 7,000 hogs awaiting slaughter.
Suspicious symptoms were repotted
by government veterinarians in Ix>w
er California who were sent there to
investigate.
Four New Cases Discovered
: MERCED, April 29—Four new
1 cases of the foot and mouth disease
involving 250 cattle and 40 hogs were
discovered.
Vets Sent to California
WASHINGTON, I). C., April 29—
The Bureau of Animal Husbandly dis
patched fifty additional veterinarians
: to California to fight the epidemic
among live stock there.
Dr. Houcke Takes Charge
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29
Secretary Wallace of the Interior de
partment sent orders to Dr. W. G.
Houcke to take charge of the federal
forces fighting the foot and mouth di
sease in California ami take supreme
command of the state forces.
Permit Tourists to Pass Border
SAN BERNARDINO, April 29—Ar
izona permitted 150 tourists to cross
the Colorado river at Topock late yes
terday.
NEW GOVERNOR OF
INDIANA TAKES SEAT
GOVERNOR OF INDIANA NOW IN
PRISON AWAITING TRIAL—
APPEAR FOR SENTENCE
INDIANAPOLIS, April 29—Emmet
F. Branch of Martinsville, Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana will become gov
ernor within forty-eight hours and
Governor McCray who was convicted
yesterday of using the mails to de
fraud will resign, it was made known
today.
Governor in Prison
INDIANAPOLIS, April 29—Gover
I nor McCray passed last night in the
! Marion County jail and will remain
I until tomorrow when he is to appear
j before Federal Judge Anderson for
I sentence.
_
SAYS RAILWAYS ARE
IN HANDS OF BRIGANDS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29
Benjamin S. Marsh, director of the
Farmer’s National Council, charged
before the Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee yesterday afternoon
that the supreme court had been bot
if they favor the Taft-Pierce Butler
adjustment for the Railroads and that
the Railways are in the hands of a
gang of brigands.
SEARCH BEING MADE
FOR MISSING CAPTAIN
LOS ANGELES, April 29—A state
wide search was instituted for Capt.
H. D. Lester, who was recently reliev
ed of command of the California Ha
waill sugar fleet. He had been brood
ing over the disaster of the City of
Honolulu ,which he commanded when
it burned. Foul play is feared.
EARTHQUAKE SHAKES
MANY PROVINCES IN
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
NUMBER OF VILLAGES DAMAG
ED—LUMBER YARD DE
STROYED
MANILA, April 29—The villages oi
Caraga, Manay, Baganga, and Davao
were considerably damaged in yester
day's earthquake shocks.
The steamer Samar is ashore from
a tiual wave but not seriously dam
aged. Dutup and Augsan provinces al
so received severe shakings and sev
eral Catholic churches ami dwellings
were damag'd.
Communications with the Eastern
coast of Surigao were interferred
with and the yards of the Insular lum
ber company in Fablica and Occiden
tal were destroyed with a $400,000 dol
lar loss.
Earthquakes in Hawaii
HILO, April 29—Earthquakes of
considerable severity and length are
continuing in the Puna district. The
tracks of the Hawaii Consolidated
Railway to Kapoho were tossed like
waves and service was suspended.
Shocks Still Continue
HILO, April 29—The earth quake
shocks which began two days ago, in
the Puna district, near the famous Ki
leau volcano are continuing, with the
Japanese and Filippino residents flee
ing in every possible kind of convey
ance.
! CHAIRMAN JOHNSON
SAYS IMPOSSIBLE
GIVE JAPS QUOTA
i
PLACING JAPS UNDER QUOTA
BASIS WOULD MEAN THEY
HAVE RIGHT OF OTHERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29—
Chairman Johnson of the House Immi
gration committee said in a statement
to the House that to place the Japan
ese under the Quota basis which is ap
plied to other Nationalities’ “would
mean the formal abandonment of this
Nation’s established policy to exclude
all foreigners who are ineligible to
citizenship and would open the doors
i which demands naturalization on their
part. It would give the Japanese
the same privilege as any desirable
European race and the same rights
which are denied other Yrellow and
Brown races.”
NEGRO ATHLETE WINS
NATIONAL COLLEGE TITLE
PHILADELPHIA Apr 29—.Charles
West, the Washington and Jefferson
University Negro athlete captured the
National all-round college title for the
second year, winning the Pentathlon,
which is the feature of Pennsylvania
University’s relay carnival.
ESTABUSHMENT AMERICAN
BANK IN GERMANY
NEW YORK, April 29—The estab
lishment of an American Banking syn
dicate with unrestricted credit facili
ties for the German Gold Bank and
organized by Dr. Schaht for reopen
ing trade between America and Ger
many was announced. The initial ad
vance was five million dollars.
WESTERN ORANGES GROW
WELL IN PHILADELPHIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 28.—The
farthest north for commercial produc
tion of oranges in the United States,
is at Orland, Glenn county, Califor
nit, 200 miles north of San Francisco
and at virtually the same latitude as
Philadelphia.
In this district, just south of the
fortieth parallel the first of Califor
nia’s orange crop is harvested. In
the Oraville orange district 20 miles
south of Orland, the oranges are
picked in November, at jus’ the be
ginning of the real winter in the
latitude beginning east of the Sierra
Nevada mountains and ending at
Philadelphia.
POLA NEGRI TO BE CITIZEN
LOS ANGELES, April 29—Pola
Negri, film star, aged 27, has applied
for American citizenship.
JUNEAU LEADS
INSCHUOLMEET
JUNEAU, April 26—Friday, Ju
neau High School led the group of
schools in the inter-Alaskan meet
here with 22 points, Ketchikan sec
ond with 17, Douglas third with 12,
and Petersburg fourth with 3. Hal
dane of the Ketchikan elementary
school won the fifty yard dash, in
six and one quarter seconds. Ju
neau won the shot put. Underhill
won the high school jump with five
feet three inches. Other field ac
tivities were postponed on account
of cold weather. Juneau won the
elementary spelling and rapid cal
culation matches. Juneau girls’ high
i school basketball five defeated Ket
chikan 25 to 10 displaying super
ior tea mwork. The Douglas cham
pions outplayed Ketchikan, winning
28 to 12, We Willie Allan starring
for Ketchikan and Garns long dis
tance shots featuring the game. |
The board of control unanimously j
voted to take the next meet to Ket
chikan and added Orchestra to the j
list of events.
EVIDENCE THUS FAR
OBTAINED IS BUT
A DROP IN BUCKET
IF DAUGHERTY ANXIOUS TO RE
VEAL TRUTH EXPLAIN THE
CASH IN BROTHER’S BANK
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29—
The Daugherty investigating commit
tee issued a statement yesterday de
claring that the evidence thus far ad
duced is “but a drop in the bucket.”
The achievements of the Depai’t
ment of Justice, which Daugherty
boasts, cannot be fully revealed until
; the Ohio gang known at Columbus as
“us boys” and numbering almost a
j dozen high officials in the department,
is ousted.
The committee concluded that if
Daugherty is anxious to welcome the
truth he could allow a full investiga
tion of the huge cash deposits in his
brother’s bank in Washington.
J, B. FLECKENSTEIN
DEPUTY AT NAKNEK
I
.T. B. Fleckenstein, of Wasilla, one
j of the popular old timers of the di
vision, who has been acting as jail
guard at the Valdez jail the past
winter has been named deputy mar
shal at Naknek by Marshal H. P.
I Sullivan. The position is a new one
! recently created by order of the De
; partment of Justice.
Mr. Fleckenstein was formerly a
! special deputy at Ivenai. He is a
| popular and fearless officer and his
| appointment will meet with the ap
j proval of the residents of the Nak
[ nek section.
Marshal Sullivan has selected his
list of deputies from the old timers
of the division, which has also met
with the approval of his many friends
here.
Mr. Fleckenstein will leave on the
next trip of the Starr for Naknek.
BIG VOTE WILL BE
POLLED IN ANCHORAGE
(Special to Gateway
ANCHORAGE, Apr. 29.—Despite
rainy weather the Anchorage vote is
turning out in large numbers. Local
interest is keep and centers around
the Republican National committee
men, legislative ticket, and some in
terest around the vote for governor.
A bitter fight is being waged be
tween Conroy and Council, Demo
cratic candidates for the Senate. The
popularity of the two men will prob
ably detract from the Republican to
tal here. It is freely predicted that
Arthur Frame will get a big major
ity over John Frame, and Bartley
Howard will carry Anchorage in the
three-cornered Senatorial race with
Chamberlin second, Chase third.
Greer, Oldfin and Waller, local Re
publican candidates for the lower
House are going strong with Greer
leading.
Ray C. Larson returned to Anchor
age yesterday on the Evans.
GEORGE THINKS
PEACE CONFERENCE
AID SETTLEMENT
FAVORS CALLING ANOTHER CON
FERENCE TO FURTHER LES
SEN WORLD ARMAMENT
LONDON, April 29—Lloyd Georgs
in a statement said President Cool
idge’s proposals for another world
conference would do much toward the
firm establishment of a settlement of
German reparations.
He favors steps toward calling an
other conference to further lessen the
world armaments as proposed by Cool
idge in his speech to the Associated
Press in New York, declaring that def
inite movements should be made to re
lieve the world of the burden of mili
tary armaments and diminish the
probability of military operations. The
Washington conference did much to re
store harmony and good will among
nations and no reason exists why an
other conference could not do much
good.
Praises Work of Dawes
He hailed the work of Dawes and
his committee as unsurpassed in im
portance by anything since the armis
tice and declared that every reason
shows that the report on reparations
should be adopted by the Governments
concerned. He hoped it would commend
itself to the Governments as the only
plan whereby the parties concerned
could arrive at a solution of the rep
arations tangle and that such an out
come would provide for the largest
restoration on the part of Germany
and the largest possible payments to
the countries entitled to reparations.
He pointed out that the Dawes plan
contemplates the immediate loan to
Germany of sufficient capital to enable
her to commence reconstruction at
once and expressed the hope that pri
vate capital in America and the con
tinent would be willing to participate
in such loans.
Accept Dawes Plan of Settlement
PARIS, April 29—Italy, England,
Belgium and France today notified the
Intel*-Allied reparations commission
they would accept the Dawes plan as
a basis of settlement of the repara
tions problem.
France Seeks Settlement
PARIS, April 29—Poincare in a
speech said France seeks to accom
plish a general settlement in the per
arations question. France has not yet
exchanged solid guarantees with Pom
erene and claims that the Germans
are not sincere in their promises.
Dawes Leaves for Europe
NEW YORK, April 29—Charles G.
Dawes, Geo. D. Y'oung, and Henry
Robinson, authors of the reparations
commission plan for the re-establish
ment of Europe, sailed today on the
Leviathian.
FORBES PLEADS NOT
GUILTY TO CHARGE
BALTIMORE, April 29—Charles R.
Forbes, ex-director of the Veteran’s
Bureau appeared voluntarily before
the United States court to plead not
guilty to the indictment charging con
spiracy to defraud the U. S. Govern
ment. He furnished ten thousand dol
lars bail but no time was fixed for
his trial.
CABLE FLASHES
SAN SALVADOR, April 29—Sail
ors of the U. S. Navy have replaced
Marines in Honduras.
BEND OREGON, April 29—A shot
gun, revolver and hammer were used
in the murders of the three trappers
near lake Lava last January, was an
nounced by Coroner Nisewonger, who
returned today from the scene of the
murders.
SEATTLE, April 29—Charles Pad
dock and Vic Hurley who is his man
ager said Paddock would contend for
honors for the hundred yard dash in
the University of Washington relay
carnival, May third.
SEATTLE, April 29—The schooner
Fanny Dutard, owned by the Mathie
son company of Anacortes was tow
ed to sea enroute to the halibut banks
in the Bering Sea. She is the last
schooner here of the season to sail.
Four others departed earlier in the
week.