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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 268.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ISLAND OF JAVA
SHAKEN BY QUAKE,
HUNDREDS DEAD
RIVER NEAR KAMPONG TRANS
FORMED INTO SEA OF MUD
FULL OF CORPSES
BATAVIA, Nov. 14.—The island of
Java was badly shaken by an earth
fi^Uike in which 300 were killed and
many towns destroyed. The river
near Kampong has been transformed
into a mud channel in which the bod
ies of men and animals are putrefy
ing. Forty-five houses in the Lek
son district have disappeared and the
whole of Dessah Badjingan has been
engulfed in the Pring river. Many
hundreds of persons are missing.
In all probability the list of dead
will never be known as the outlying
dstrict are wild and inaccessible. The
earthquake threw the inhabitants into
a state of terror never equalled, thous
ands putting to sea in proas and be
ing engulfed by an enormous tidal
wave.
CANADIAN GOLD OUTPUT
REACHES MILLION OUNCES
OTTAWA, Ont., Nov. 14.—Gold
production in Canada passed the 1,
000,000-ounce mark for the second
Time since 1900 last year, according
to a report released by the Domini
on Bureau of Statistics. Th eoutput
totaled 1,243,341 ounces, valued at
$35,702,139.
Ontario’s accounted for 90 per cent
of the Dominion’s gold production.
Its output amounted to 981,704 oun
ces, with a value of $20,293,622.
British Columbia was next, with a
production of 200,240 ounces, worth
$4,137,261. The Yukon, which for
merly produced the bulk of Cana
dian gold, was third, with an out
put of 60,144 ounces, valued at $1,
243,287, followed by Quebec, with
+ a prdouction of 667 ounces, and worth
313,788.
LABOR PREMIER RESIGNS
RESULT DEFEAT PARTY
MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 14.
—The labor premier of Victoria prov
ince, G. M. Prendergast, resigned to
day a;: a result of the defeat of his
party, and a “no vote of confidence”
in his administration being passed.
HUB OF LEARNING
IS CENTER OF VICE
BOSTON, Nov. 14.—Students and
teaching circles here were inexpres
sibly shocked today by the publication
of the report by an intercollegiate in
vestigating committee charging drink
ing, gambling ,and moral laxity was
prevalent among young men and wo
men students in Boston. The report
was made by the intercollegiate com
#irntiee in connection with student liv
ing conditions.
A receiver was appointed for the
Hot Springs property at Bell Island,
conducted by H.J.Raymond and Anna
Herring. The property nas 20 cabins
two stores and a number of bath
houses. Raymond wTho brought the
suit claims that his partner has di
verted the funds from the business
to her private use and will neither
buy or sell. James McCloskey was
appointed receiver.
SHENANDOAH TO MAKE
FLIGHT TO HONOLULU
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14.—
The dirigible Shenandoah whicjj re
cently made a flight from New York
to the Pacific coast and return will
make a flight early in the year from
California to Honolulu in connection
with the maneuvers of the Pacific
^ fleet.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roycroft of
Moose Pass visited in Anchorage this
week.
BOMB SENT THRU MAILS
WRECKS POST OFFICE
P GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 14.—
An explosion which partially wreck
ed the postoffice and injured twelve
persons was caused ljy a bomb being
sent thru the mails according to pos
tal authorities who are investigting
the affair.
PRUDEN LONDON LOVERS
DEFER THEIR MARRIAGE
TILL LEASE IS SIGNED
LONDON, Nov. 14.—The average
marrying age in London has risen
from the pre-war figure of 12 for
bridegrooms and 20 for brides, to
between 32 and 28 for bridegrooms
and 27 to 27 for brides. A registrar
explained this as being largely due
to the dearth of suitable small hous
es or flats. He says couples will
wait a suitable opportunity of obtain
ing some place to live before marry
ing.
I have had cases of people taking
out a license,” this registrar told
an interviewer, “and not marrying
at the time arranged on account of
the accommodation they hoped to
get being taking by someone able
to pay a higher rate. These couples,
by paying two shillings every three
months, have kept their license valid
so that they can marry at once if
they wish.
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
CRITICISED FAILURE
STOP LIQUOR RUNNING
MONTREAL Nov. 14.—Criticism of
the Canadian government for its fail
ure to stop the exportation of liquor
to the United States, was expressed
today by Wayne B. Wheeler, general
cou..*-el for the anti-saloon league of
Victc . 'a, in an address nere. Wheel
< c said the government, for the sake
of a lev. dollar*-, made by the saic of
liquor, was forfeiting th<> good-will of
the people of the United States.
POLICE OFFICER AND
PROHIBITION MAN SHOT
LOS ANGELES ,Nov. 14.—After
forcing them to lift their hands and
walk away from him, an unidentified
man shot Police Officer Clyde Mills
and Special Officer M B.. Swan in the
back. Mills will probably die.
MACDONALD COMES OUT
FOR SOCIALIST PARTY
—
LONDON, Nov. 14.—“Our work is
to win the people for Socialism,”
' says an appeal signed by Ramsay Mac
j Donald, former premier, and publish
ed by the Socialist Labor party.
PETERSON ARRESTED
Clarence Peterson was arrested at
Anchorage this week charged with
burglary, armed with a dangerous
weapon.
FAMOUS OUTLAW GANG IS
BELIEVED WIPED OUT NOW
MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 14.—John Ash
ley, famous leader of the Ashley gang
of outlaws, Hanford Mobley, his lieut
anant and two unidentified members
of the gang, were killed early this
morning by Sheriff Merritt and six
deputies. The death of the four is
believed to have wiped out the gang
which has terrorized South Florida
for years.
COOPER’S LANDING IS
MECCA FOR HUNTERS
Mrs. Frank Towle and baby gitl ar
rived in town yesterday from Coop
er’s Landing on Kenai river, and re
ports the progressive little settle
ment in a flourishing condition. Mr.
and Mrs. Towle are building a two
story nine-room house, which will
be a commodious structure, with mo
dern conveniences. She reports many
hunters in the vicinity, including Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Flickenger and Mil
j ton Noll, the Dwyer boys, Mr. Novak,
| and several others. Mr. and Mrs.
| Flickenger are quartered in the Tom
Towles cabin. A number of Anchor
age hunters have also bagged their
moose around Kenai.
Mrs. Towle announces that a new
postoffice has been established in
Harry Brown’s place, which will be
called Ridiford. Mrs. Brown will be
postmistress.
The weather was eight above when
Mrs. Towle left for Seward, and much
nice weather has been experienced
this fall. She will return next Thurs
day.
MEXICO HAS SHOOTING
AFFRAY IN CONGRESS
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 14.—In a
shooting affray in the chamber of
deputies last night two members of
the Mexican congress were wounded.
HEAD OF CATHOLIC CHURCH
Portrait photo of His Holiness, Pius XI, as he appeared when pre
siding at the elevation of Archbishops Hayes, of New York, and Mun
delein, of Chicago, to the College of Cardinals.
BEAUTIFUL YOUNG MODEL
ARRESTED FOR STEALING
GARMENTS OF HOSTESS
HELD BY CANADIAN AUTHORI
TIES PENDING RETURN TO
SEATTLE ON CHARGE
SEATTLE, Nov. 14.—Madeline Son
nia, a beautiful young model who re
cently posejl for an art class at the
University, was arrested by the po
lice and is being held pending her
return to Seattle where she is want
ed on a grand larceny charge for
having purloined costly dresses and
wearing apparel from Mrs. J. C. John
son, as whose home she was a guest.
SPEEDING AUTOMOBILE
RUNS OVER DEAD MAN
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14.—While
a policeman was telephoning to the
coroner for a car to remove the body
of an unidentified man, an auto
mobile dashed around the corner,
ran over the dead man, and sped
on. At the morgue it was found
the man died of heart failure.
GREEN HAIR IS POPULAR
IN COPPER MINE CENTER
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 14.—
Green hair is quite the rage in Bing
ham where everybody works in a
copper mine. There are even green
beards and green mustaches.
The only way to escape the em
erald tinge is to leave the mine,
chemists say, so the style bids fair
to last.
BORAH AGAINST THE
LEAUGE OF NATIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14.—
Senator Borah, who as next chairman
of the Senate foreign relations com
mittee will be a dominant figure in
moulding the future foreign policy of
the United States, today declared he
would oppose the present plan to put
this country into the world court and
league of nations.
STARR BE HERE TUESDAY
The steamship Starr which sailed
Wednesday from Seattle, is expected
to reach port here Tuesday and will
leave on her westward trip as soon as
possible thereafter.
OLD TIMER DEAD
Gustav E. Beraud, an oldtimer of
the Fairbanks district, died recently in
Chula Vista, California. Mr. Beraud
was formerly an assayer for the ‘First
National Bank of Fairbanks. He re
moved to California about five years
ago, locating at Chula Vista, a small
I town near San Diego. Deceased left
a wife and two children.
SEATTLE CHAMBER WANTS
UNITED STATES TO HOLD
ON TO WRANGELL ISLAND
RUSSIA CLAIMS ISLAND ACCOUNT
OF PROXIMITY; UNITED
STATES BY DISCOVERY
SEATTLE, Nov. 14—The claims of
Russia to Wrangell Island should be
opposed by the United States, which
has the best claim to the northern
territory, declared E. J. Mathes, chair
man of the 'Alaska committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, in an address
at the committee’s dinner at the
Rainier Club last night.
Mathes said Russia’s claim to the
island is based on contiguity, while
the United States has a claim by
right of discovery and occupation.
NEW POSTOFFICE AT CHENA
A new postoffice has been made
at Chena Hot Springs, with Otto
Mayer, postmaster. Regular mail
service will be maintained.
BARTLEY HOWARD ELECTED
A wire received from Valdez states
that Bartley How'ard is now leading
Dr. W. W. Council by 58 votes, with
a number of small precincts to be
heard from to the Westward. It is
not believed that the Democratic sen
atorial candidate can overtake Mr.
Howard’s lead and that the latter is
elected.
MRS. HARDING IMPROVED
IN TODAY’S BULLETIN
MARION, O., Nov. 14. —Mrs. Hard
ing’s condition was improved early to
day over what if was last night when
she suffered a heart attack, Dr. Saw
yer said in his bulletin today.
SEATTLE SUFFERS
OUTBREAK BANDITRY
SEATTLE, Nov. 14.—Five men and
a woman were held up and robbed
last night by bandits. One man was
slugged by the outlaws and badly
beaten.
OLDTIMER FROM KENAI
IS VISITING SEWARD
Bob. Seifort, one of the oldtimers
of the Kenai lake district arrived in
town yesterday, from Cooper’s Land
ing. Mr. Seifort has a fine place on
lower lake and his latchstring is al
ways out to his friends, who are le
gion. He will remain fh town until
next week.
Corporal Dumarce and Corp. Robin
son returned to town this week with
some fine moose meat secured near
lower Kenai.
OLD DOBBIN LEADS DRY
SLEUTHS TO RUM HAUNT
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 14.—
Old Dobbin has been deputized as a
prohibition agent.
When dry officials spied a wary
eyed individual driving a horse at- !
tached to a spring wagon down a
narrow, wooded lane, they had a
hunch.
After removing several thirty
gallon jugs of moonshine, they gave
old Dobbin “his head.” He went
straight home, of course, and there
another arrest was made and two
stills confiscated.
“Now I know what ‘horse sense’
is,” said one dry agent.
MANUSCRIPT BY STEVENSON
BOUGHT FOR TEN THOUSAND
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—The origi
nal manuscript of “Kidnapped,” by
Robert Louis Stevenson, was bought
for $10,000 at an auction sale here
last night.
AMERICAN AGRICULTURE
MUST BE KEPT UP TO
LEVEL HUMAN COMFORT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14.—
Maintenance of America’s superjpr
level of human comfort and well be
ing will require that our agricultural
lands be made the most efficient in
the world, President Coolidge told a
meeting of the Association of Land
Grant Colleges. The President em
phasized the point that the fortunes
of all of us will in the end go up I
or down with that of the farmers, and
warned his hearers against permit- i
ting our farming population to fall to
the level of mere peasantry.
U. S. USES BILLION QUARTS
OF CANNED MILK IN YEAR
CHICAGO, Nov. 14.—Consumption
| of a case of evaporteed milk by prac
tically every family in the United
States—nearly ten quarts of milk for
each man, woman and child—was the
consumption record of this industry
last year, according to figures given
out by the statisticians of the Evapor
ated Milk Association.
“Twenty million cases, or 1,000,000,
000 quarts of milk, seem a tremendous
total,” said the head of the associa
tion’s home economics department,
“yet considered against the annual
consumption of milk in this country,
it shows that selling milk from which
the water has been evaporated is an
industry still in its infancy.”
NEW OBJECT COMING FROM
HEAVENS; IS MOVING FAST
LONDON, Nov. 14.—A dispatch
'from Copenhagen to the Greenwich
Observatory said that Baade, German!
astronomer, has discovered an object
the tenth mganitude of planetary as
pect, moving rapidly with the orbit
close to the earth.
PAL IS ARK LSI ED F OR
OARFmNG JOKE TOO FAR
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Nov. 14— A
t joke is a joke, but it can be car
ried too far, is the allegation of
Milton J. Smith, of Hokendauqua,
who caused the arrest of his' friend,
Harold Gillespie of this city, on
charges of stealing his watch and
chain and some money. Gillespie
is in jail and to the accusations
brought by Smith. Mrs. Gillespie has
added desertion and non-support.
Gillispie says Smith, who was j
his “pal,” dared him to prove that
the watch could be taken from his
pocket without his knowledge, but'
that it is now apparent to him that
his friend t cannot take a joke.
Chas. Nelson of Seward visited in
Anchorage this week.
NEW FINE LARGE GREEN
HOUSE BUILT FOR SEWARD
Henry Leirer, the popular dairymanj
is completing a large all-glass green
house, one of the most commodious
structures this side of Fairbanks. It
will be planted to tomatoes, celery,
cukes, lettuce, radishes, etc., and
residents of Seward will be able to
have the finest and freshest of vege
tables the year around. Mr. Leivor,
v. ho recently came to Seward pur
chasing Sieve Auelman’s interes: in
the Sown id daily is a hustli’.1*.’ :«• >
gressive business man *nd has mud*
a success t' Ins business here. I!is
dally pass'd the highest in^pyina
test, and t ir . • rd of Jersey cattle
arc t : :ig it<o finest in Alasl'a
THINKS NEXT WAR
MAY RE OVER RUHR
STEEL PROPERTIES
CAPITALISTS b’AY FIGHT TO GET
CORNER ON INDUSTRY, SAYS
LABOR M. p.
LONDON, Nov. 14.—Will the Ruhr
Furnish the spark for the next war?
This suggestion is thrown out by
J. T. Walton Newbold, Labor M. P.
who has recently disavowal member
ship in the Communist Party on the
plea that there is no present hopes
for a revolution.
Newbold takes the view' that steel
rather than oil is the most contro
versial commodity in the world to
day and declares that the Ruhr is
the center of the world’s steel indus
try.
l naer me treaty or V ersailles
the Germans handed over iron and
steel works, ships and plants that
were war-worn or largely out of
date,” Newbold declared.
“The Allies insisted that the Ger
man Government should compensate
the German capitalists up to the
market price of these properties.
‘The German capitalists lent out
of war profits the money to com
pensate themselves and then pro
ceeded to spend the compensation in
the ie-equipment of their works in
the Ruhr.
“Now the British, French and
American coal, iron and steel mas
ters are in a blue funk. Who is to
secure control of these most up-to
date establishments, that splendid
coking coal, that limitless French
01 e, those workers wretchedly paid
and producing so much surplus val
ue?
“Coking coal is limited in supply.
It is the great basic material of
chemical industry, it is indispens
able for steel manufacture. Steel
is the basic material for machinery
and transport, as these are the prime
factors of capitalist production—and
destruction.
“Tlie Ruhr may, therefore, even yet
prove the vortex down which modern
civilization will disappear into the
abyss.”
Newbold points out that there is
tou much steel now, and he regards
tills as a danger. His intimation is
that—with an over-production of
steel and file control of the most de
sirable steel district in the balance—
capitalists, may bring on a catastro
phe in their efforts to secure a cor
ner on the world’s steel.
JURY ACQUITS MAN OF
ACT, MADE OWN WINE
VIOLATION VOLSTEAD
BALTIMORE, Nov. 14.—Represen
tative John Philip Hill of Baltimore
was acquitted by a jury' today in a
United States court of violating the
Volstead Act, by the manufacturing
of wine and cidar in his own home
for his own comsumption. The case
w-as brought by the congressman to
test the constitutionality of the Vol
stead law wherein it prevented a man
making liquor from his own products
for his own use.
JAPANESE AGITATOR IS
SENTENCED TO DEATH
TOKIO, Nov. 14.—Daisaka Namba,
the young Japanese radical who at
tempted ' recently to assassinate
Prince Regent Hirohito, was sentenc
ed to death. “Long live the Soviet
Long live Japan,” Namba shouted
as the sentence was passed.
BIG DEMAND FOR XMAS CARDS
Despite the many agents soliciting
Christmas Cards in Seward, the de
mand for Gateway Cards was unusu
ally large this year, several thous
and being sold. One large shipment
came in on the last boat and ano
ther one is expected Saturday.
U. S. DESTROYER HIT
BY RUNAWAY TORPEDO
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14.—
The destroyer Paul Hamilton was
forced to return to San Diego today
as a result of damages received dur
ing torpedo practice. A torpedo fired
during practice ran away from its
course si l iking the destroyer and
springing several of her plates.