VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 123.
SEWARD, ALASKA,,FRIDAY, MAY 23,1924.
PRICE, TEN CENTS
DEVELOPMENT OF OUT DOOR LIFE IS
ESSENTIAL TO UPBUILDING OF THE NATION
WASHINGTON, May 23—The development of out-of-door life
means the creation of common denominators of the people, President
Coolidge said today in an address, opening the National conference of
Outdoor Recreation. “In case of a people which represents many
nations, cultures and races, as does our own, the President said,
“their interests and ideals in recreation is bound to wield a telling
influence for the solidarity of the entire population”
“The Health of a nation is its strength,” said Mr. Coolidge, “and
unless we devote more time to out-of-doors and less to making money
we are boilnd to become a decadent nation. The Government is doing
I its part in the construction of parks and highways as playgrounds
% for the Nation. It is up to the people to make use of them.”
The President slated that the practice of spending one’s vaca
tion on a motor trip was one of the growing habits of the Nation,
and was bound to broaden and cultivate the spirit of friendliness
and neighborliness between {States.
Some live thousand persons listened to the President’s address.
LA FOLLETTE CERTAIN
TO BE NOMINATED
AS AN INDEPENDENT
ST. PAUL. May 23.—Unless he for
bids it. Senator Robert M. La Follette
will be nominated for the presidency
on an independent ticket, that will
be named at the national convention
oi progressives at St. Paul, June 17.
It is highly probable that the sec
ond place on the ticket will be given
to either Senator Wheeler ot Mon
tana, or Senator Shipstead from Min
nesota, according to the present ten
tative program.
VALUE OF APRIL
EXPORTS $1,543,276
Exports of Alaskan products ioi the
month of April just closed aggregate
in value $1,543,276, according to fig
ures compiled by Collector John C.
McBride. It is the largest total for
that month since 1920, when it was
$1,801,867.
The total was $258,591 less than the
exports of last year owing to a ikp,
viease in copper shipments.
MARTIN LAMENTS
FAILURE OF FLIGHT
KETCHIKAN, May 23—“The great
opportunity of my life lies wrecked
in Alaska/’ Major F. L. Martin, the
world flyer, observed passing through
here on his way to Bellingham.
FRENCH ADMINISTRATOR #
MURDERED BY NATIVES
IN AUSTRALIAN GROUP
* PAPETTE, Tahiti, May 23—A trad
ing schooner arriving here yesterday
brought word that two natives had
murdered the French administrator on
the island of Rurutu. Rurutu is in the
Australian group.
PRESIDENT’S COLD DOES
NOT YIELD TO CHLORINE
WASHINGTON, May 23.-Despite
two chlorine gas treatments President
Coolidge’s bronchial cold hangs on.
TACOMA FIREMAN DIES AT
WHEEL OF FIRE ENGINE
TACOMA, May 23—George Crane
died at the wheel of a chemical fire
apparatus this afternoon while going
to iight a fire in a $300,000 manufac
turing plant. The truck ran half a
block after Crane fell from the wheel
and it was wrecked when it ran into
some pipe in the street. Crane was
dead when examined. The fire was
put out with $3,000 loss, but hundreds
of automobiles between Seattle and
Tacoma were held up while all avail
able apparatus in the city battled the
flames.
AMERICAN KILLED"
BY CHINESE BANDITS
PEKING, May 23.—An Americai
named Dinsmore an agent for the
China Importers’ Lumber Company,
was murdered today by Chinese ban
dits near Shah Sien.
* --
DUBLIN, Ireland, May 23.—John
Burke, able Shakesperean actor, play
ed his last role on this planet a few
weeks ago, but he did not know it.
^n accordance with his will he was
^ dissected and a study made of his,
brain cells.
NON PARTISAN LEAGUE
LEADER KILLED BY CAR
i ONE DEAD AND TWO SERIOUSLY
INJURED AS RESULT OF
AUTO ACCIDENT
STEELE, May 23—State Senator
B. F. Baker, of Glenburn, was killed;
Roy Frazier, county clerk of Crosby
and Chairman of the independent re
publican state committee, and A. G.
Sorlie, of Grand Forks, non-partisan
league candidate for governor, were
1 injured seriously in an automobile ac
cident near here late today.
The three men were on the way
from Bismarck to Carrington to fill
a speaking engagement tonight at a
preliminary campaign meeting of the
non partisan league.
Frazier and Sorlie are in a local ho
tel where they were rushed after the
accident. Steele had no hospital.
Frazier is conscious only part of
the time, according to Dr. F. B. Lodge
attending physician. His he&d is bad
ly lacerated. Sorlie’s most serious in
jury is believed to be a broken collar
bone.
' - An--examination pf Baker showed
that death was caused by a blow on
the head. Two men driving by, found
the car turned over with the bodies ly
ing beside it in the road. It appeared
that the car had rolled over'several
times.
Baker was the league candidate for
governor two years ago and was rec
ognized as one of the leading figures
in the non partisan organization at the
time.
BOAT DUE TOMORROW
The Alaska Steamship Company’s
new liner Yukon will arrive in port
tomorrow morning some time. She
left Cordova this afternoon at 2:00
o’clock.
HALIBUT PRICES
KETCHIKAN, May 22.—Fresh hali
but 11 and fi cents.
JUNEAU—Fresh halibut SV2 and 5
cents; salmon 15, 10 and 5.
JAPANESE START A BOYCOTT
TOKYO, May 23—A boycott has
been started in this city against all
California products.
FROM MESSENGER BOY TO
FRESIDENT
^PORVAIvHT UNDERWOOD A UNDERWOOD, N. Y.l
Patrick E. Crowley, recently elected
president of the New York Central
Railroad by unanimous vote of the di
rectors.
TEDDY III. IS A REGULAR FOLLOWER OF ROOSEVELT FAMILY
Theodore Roosevelt 3d (right) is a chip of the old block of the Roose
| velt family, as is shown by his menacing attitude while boding with Hec
[ tor Elizalde, son of the Minister of Ecuador to Washington, D. C.
KIDNAPED BOY FOUND
MURDERED IN SWAMP
HED FOR RANSOM
CHICAGO, May 23.—The body of
Robert, the 14-year-old son o1' Jacob
Franks, a millionaire, was found in a
swamp on the south side today by
a searching party. The boy’s captors
feared their plans to obtain $10,000
for his safe return were about to mis
carry and he was killed.
Detectives are searching for the
murderers, who are believed to be
either Italians or Polacks.
The parents 04 the boy ar offering
a reward of $10,000 for the apprehen
sion and conviction of the kidnapers.
NORWAY ERRAND BOYS IN
STRIKE FOR HOLIDAY PAY j
CHRISTANIA May 23—The world’s j
first strike of errand boys is threat-;
ened in this city.
The boys have already formed them
selves into a union. Printed circulars
have been issued by their “committee”
and freely distributed throughout the j
city airing their grievances and urg- j
ing non-strikers to abstain from any j
work that might be of a strike-break
ing character.
Holidays with full pay are demand- j
ed, and among other features of this j
Gilbertian situation is a proposed par- j
ade of the errand boys, accompanied
by a boy’s band through the princi
ple streets of the city.
DEPARTMENT DENIES
CHARGES OF BRITAIN
WASHINGTON, May 23.—A formal
denial of the emphatic charges of
Great Britain that large quantities ol
poison gas were being manufactured
by the United States was made today
by the War Department, which stated
that while experts were experiment
ing along these lines no poison gns
is being manufacturd.
BROKERS ARE TO GIVE
BUSINESS TO EMPLOYEES
NEW YORK, May 23—Harry Irbey
and Vosse, members of the New York
cotton exchange and associate mem
bers of the Liverpool cotton exchange
will turn over their entire spot busi
ness to the employes and executives of
that department on July 1, they an
nounced. They will also assure them
financial backing for the first year.
The value of the department, is es
timated, is several hundreds of thous
ands of dollars.
OLD MOTHER EARTH
SHIMMYING INSIDE,
SCIENTISTS DECLARE
GLASGOW, May 23—Old Mother
Earth has a permanent wave. She’s
had it all along but it has been no
ticed only recently by mere mortal
man. According to Ludovic MacMil
lan Mann, there’s a large wave with a
slow motion with the body of the earth
which moves around the planet once
every 8,800 years, causing a slight mo
tion of the position of the axis, giving
rise to changes in climate.
ARMY AVIATORS WILL
JUMP FROM TOKIO
TO KUSHIMOTO NEXT
_ I
TOKIO, May 23.—The American
army aviators who arrived here today
on their trip around the world have
changed their .plans, which would
have kept them here a week and will
fly on to Kushimoto Tuesday or Wed
nesday. The change was made in
the interest of speed as the flight is
already many days behind the sched
ule, Lieut. Smith believes that with
the prevailing good weather he can
gain back a week to ten days be
tween here and England.
Today the aviators are resting and
tomorrow will be given an audience
with Prince Hirohito.
STRICKEN JAPAN PLANS
TO III ILL) HUGE STADIUM
TOKIO, May 23—The wave of sta
dium building, which has swept uni
versity centers of the United States
since the war, has reached Japan. A
stadium with a capacity of 50,000
which can be expanded to 80,000 is to
be built this spring ami summer about
half way between Kobe and Osaka, on
the line of the Hanshin Electric Rail
way, which is constructing the park.
G.O.P. HALL WILL BE SHIP
SHAPE FOR CONVENTION
CLEVELAND, May 23—When the j
republican pilots who aspire to steer i
the ship of state gather in the munici- j
pal auditorium here in June for the!
national convention, if they find the
hall as ship-shape as its management
expects, it will be largely due to the
work of the United States navy.
Lincoln J. Dickey, manager of the
hall, after taking charge, experienced
difficulty at first in obtaining efficient
results from the charwomen. After
the women who directed them had fail
ed in organizing their efforts to Mr.
Dickey’s satisfaction, he turned to one
of the workmen in his employ, James
Pokorny. Pokorny had served in the
navy. It occurred to Mr. Dickey and
his assistants that a former seaman
doubtedless knew something about the
swabbing of decks and holystoning
forecastles, and would not be afraid of
water. He was placed in command of
a Cleaning crew.
Soon after the assumption of his
new duties, Pokorny was observed in
the act of clapping his hands while the
charwomen moved in time to his claps.
He had established navy morale.
Seaman Pokorny is still in command
of the cleaners and means to see that
the delegates find the auditorium
“sea-going.”
FATHER WOULD SPRING
TRAP ON SON’S MURDERER
PHOENIX. Ariz., May 23.—Ted R.
Grosch of this city was killed by W.
B. Ward, a negro, and H. Grosh, the
aged father of the murdered man,
has asked the governor for permis
sion to spring the trap when the ne
gro is hanged. The head of the prison
declares that he will be allowed to
do so.
OLE HANSEN, FORMER MAYOR OF SEATTLE,
ACQUITTED CHARGE OF HORSE STEALING
PASADENA, Calif., May 23.—Ole Hansen, war time mayor of
Seattle, who gained notoriety by suppressing the activities of Indus
trial Workers of the World, was acquitted of the charge of horse
stealing here yesterday. Hansen proved that the horse which he
was accused of stealing was taken from the farm of Clarence Eaton,
and was his own. Hansen made a stirring address in the court
room on the rights of an American citizen, declaring his arrest was
the result of spitework on the part of Baton, who knew that the ani
mal was owned by Hansen.
The former mayor is conducting a small farm near this city,
and says he is through with political life.
EUROPE MORE TRANQUIL
THAN FOR PAST DECADE
PARIS, May 23—All ;s quiet along
the Thames, the Seine, and other of
the various European Potomacs.
Europe has not been tranquil at any
moment in the last ten years.
Even May day which originally pro
du» e? some excitement, passed off with
out it)( ident.
In Rome the soviet embassy, which
was surounded by m(»jnted guards dis
played the Red flag, but a socialist
deputy who displayed it in the parlia
ment house was quietl> arrested.
Berlin reds organized into a Saen
gerbund tried to chant the Internation
ale and were dispersed by '.he police.
London revoiutionaiies gathered in
Hyde Park and >:en aried Prime Min
ister MacDonalds housing policy.
Paris taxi drivers took a day off.
In Madrid H-vdution was prohibited
by order of the dictator.
The elections in Germany and :n
France have petered ut in interest. A
few weeks ago, one was tempted to
believe that fate of the world depend
ed on them, but as the campaigns have
proceeded and issues have become in
extricably tangled and common man
in both countries has just shrugged
his shoulders and concluded it does
not make much difference which way
things go.
AGED COUPLE AT MENA
SLAIN FOR HOARDED CASH
MENA, Ark., May 23—A double
murder was revealed this morning
when Sheriff Looney returned from
the community imrrfediately east of
here and reported finding Mr. and Mrs
Smith Wilcox dead at their home.
They had been strangled to death, ac
cording to the officer, and robbery is
believed to have been the motive. A
sum of money said to be between one
thousand and fiften hundred dollars,
which the aged couple was said to
have kept in the house is missing.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox were pioneer
settlers of Polk county. Just when
the murder was committed is not
known, but it was not discovered un
til last night when a neighbor visted
the Wilcox home and upon finding
the couple dead notified the sheriff.
UNITED STATES SIGNS RUM
TREATY WITH GERMANY
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 23—
A rum treaty similar to the one now
in effect between the United States
and Great Britain was signed here to
day between representatives of the U.
S. and Germany.
' SUCCEEDS DAUGHERTY
C«PVm«MTUNO«RWOOO*JiNDERWOOOri».^
Harlan Fiske Stone, prominent N. j
Y. lawyer, who has been appointed U. j
S. Attorney General.
MELL URGES VETO
PROPOSED TAX BILL;
WILL PASS OVER VETO
\\ ASHINGTON, May 23.—Secretary
Mellon went to the Whit3 House :hi.s
aCorncon and urged President Cord
idge to veto the tax hill wlien it
i t aches him next week. Republican
members oi' the House and Senate
dec.are that the bill will be passed
over the presidential veto.
WOMAN GIVEN DECREE;
BUT MUST PAY ALIMONY
CHICAGO, May 23.—Mrs. Emma
Tillotson, 48, was given a decree of
divorce from her 78 year old husband
but was ordered to pay him $15 per
week alimony.
METHODIST WOMEN
WILL BE ORDAINED
SPRINGFIELD, May 23—Women
may in the future be ordained for the
Methodist Episcopal church to serve
as local pastors, according to a decis
ion reached by the general conference
here. Almost unanimously, however,
the conference refused to permit them
.to act as itinerary ministers.
FRENCH FLYER WILL
RESUME TRIP MONDAY
SHANGHAI, May 23.—Lieut. D’Oisy
will resume his flight to Tokio Mon
day, according to present plans.
He will use a Chinese plane offered
him by the government.
MILLER LEADS STRAYER BY
TWENTY-THREE VOTES
PORTLAND, May 23—Returns over
Sunday have cut the lead of Milton A.
Miller, Portland candidate, to twenty
three votes over W. H. Straver of
Baker for the democratic nomination
for United States senator.
OLD FASHIONED
WHIPPINGS UNPOPLAR
ST. PAUL May 23.—Modern parent
hood has no place for the once popu
lar “spare the rod and spoil the
child” member of the Mothers' Con
gress and Parent-Teacher Association
were told by Miss Alma Binzel of
New York. Whipping is not tolerated
in any school in the modern system.
UNION BOOTLEGGERS ARE
SAID TO BE A MYTH
WASHINGTON, May 22.—Wayne
B. Wheeler, general counsel of the
Anti-Saloon League, toll the House
Judicial Committee that the petition
of “The Bootleggers Union of Ameri
ca” protesting against the proposed
sale of 2.75 per cent beer was a fake
and a was a sample of the lengths
to which the opposition will go io
make people believe prohibition is a
failure.
NATION’S SUBMARINES
BELOW EFFICIENCY
WASHINGTON, May 23.—For
mally replying to the question of a
representative of Great Britain Sec
retary Wilbur reported the nation's
submarines far below efficiency.
ALL MEN ARE EQUAL—NOT
PITTSBURGH, May 23.—Because
ae was an alien Herman Gunter was
orced to kill his nine dogs last week.
Aliens are not allowed to own dogs
in this state, and despite his entreat
ies that his pets might be spared, on
jomplaint of an envious neighbor they
were killed.