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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 166
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
,GREB DEFENDS
TITLE DEFEATING !
MICKY WALKER
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POLO GROUNDS, New York City,
July 3 (/P)—Sixty thousand spectators
were present yesterday when the first
preliminary started in the benefit giv
en for the Italian Hospital fund.
In the second event Dave Shade
won a technical knockout over Jimmy
Slattery of Buffalo. In the third
round Slattery came up bleeding at
the mouth, when he went down for
the count of six. then a count of nine.
He then lowered to his knees and
staggered to his feet and reeled about
the ring until a towel was tossed into
the ring as Shade was starting after
him again.
Greb Bests Mickey Walker
Harry Greb of Pittsburgh, middle
weight champion, successfully defend
ed his title in a furious 15-round
match, which was the main attraction
of the Italian Hospital Fund benefit,
when he gained the judges’ decision
over Mickey Walker, the welterweight
king, in one of the fiercest and most
thrilling fights since Demsey kayoed
Firpo two years ago. Greb was the
aggressor the major part of the time,
but found an ambitious slugger in
Walker who, though badly battered,
fought gamely. There were no knock
downs.
Wills Knocks Out Weinert
Harry Wills, negro heavyweight, of
•New York, kayoed Charlie Weinert
of Newark, N. J.. in the second-round
of a scheduled 15-round bout. The
end came in 95 seconds.
Greb and Walker Delayed
The brevity of the preliminaries
caught Walker1 and Graeb unprepared.
The bout was delayed 10 minutes.
Greb weighed 159 pounds and Walker
152.
In the first round Walker's right
caught Greb at the bell. They fought
furiously trading rights and lefts
recklessly. Greb rocked Walker with
a stiff right uppercut. Walker coun
tered with two rights and Greb went
back against the ropes. The men
were sparring for an opening at the
bell.
AMERICANS BEAT
BRITISH CHAMPS
AT WIMBLEDON
WIMBLEDON, England. July 3 (Jp)—
John Hennessey of Indianapolis and
Ray Casey of San Francisco, entered
^the semi-finals doubles, all-English
championship, defeating R. L. Craw
ford and F. M. B. Fisher of Great Bri
tain, 6-4 and 4-6, and 6-0 and 6-1.
Suzanne Lenglen, five times winner
of the Wimbledon women’s singles,
and Joan Fry, an English girl 19
years old, met in the finals, the girl
defeating the former French cham
pion and Madame Billout yesterday,
6-2 and 4-6, and 6-3 and Lenorson
Kathleen McKane, an old rival, 6-0
and 6-0.
Ray Casey of San Francisco and
John Hennessey of Indianapolis, en
tered the finals doubles all-England
championship by defeating Cochet
and Brugnon of France, 7-5 and 5-7 and
9-7 and 6-4. They will meet Jean Bo
rotra and Rene LaCoste, who defeat
ed the Italy-Hungarian pair, Barons
Morpurg and Kehrling, 11-9 and 7-9,
and 7-9 and 6-1.
Suzanne Lenglen took her sixth
Wimbledon women’s title, defeating
Joan Frye, the English girl champion,
6-2 and 6-0.
Mamie Martizka, 2-years-old New
York girl, ran off and maade her way
to a hospital where her mother lay
sick, a distance of two miles through
the city, although she had only been
over the route once before.
TOKIO PLANS TO SELL
GOOD MEALS AT COST
TOKIO, July 3. (/P)—'The Social
Affairs Bureau of the Tokio munici
pality is planning the construction
of sixteen public eating houses in
different parts of the city. Each
building will cost about 50,000 yen.
These dining halls, when completed,
will be under the direct control of
the bureau.
The meals served will be extreme
ly simple, but well-cooked, and will
be offered at cost price. The bureau
has been operating a number of
these dining rooms successfully, the
patrons being mostly office clerks
and workmen.
LOPP ENGAGED
BY HUDSON BAY
CO. INSPECT DEER
SEATTLE. July 3 (£>)—'W. T. Lopp,
recently chief of the Alaska division
of the United States Bureau of Edu
cation, in which service he spent 35
years, has been engaged by the Hud
son’s Bay Company to reorganize the
reindeer industry in Baffin Land. It
is announced that%he will spend a year
in the service, inspecting a herd of
700 reindeer sent to Baffin Land four
years ago at the suggestion of Stef
ransson. He 'will also investigate the
possibilities of the establishment of
the industry on a commercial basis.
Since leaving the bureau he publish
ed a book, “White Sox.” a story of
Eskimo life.
HARRY G. WATSON
SECRETARY GOV
JUNEAU, July 3 (/P)—Harry G.
Watson. Fairbanks member of the last
legislature, was appointed private
secretary to Governor George Parks,
succeeding L. L. Harding, resigned.
Watson resigned from the legislature
when Secretary Works ruled that he
could not serve as an Alaska railroad
official and as a legislator. Harding
was secretary for three governors,
Riggs. Bone and Parks.
SERGT. SELBY LEAVING
Sergt. Harry B. Selby, Jr. of the lo
cal Signal Corps, U. S. A., will leave
on the steamship Northwestern Sun
day afternoon for Valdez, where he
will secure his discharge. He will
probably sign on for another hitch if
inducements are sufficient, and leave
on the Northwestern for Seattle for
duty. ’ Later in the fall he will leave
on a three months’ furlough for Fort
Myers, Florida, and other southern
cities, after which he will return to
Seattle, later asking for transfer to
Seward. This is the third term of en
listment for H. B.
JAPAN PROMOTES RADIO
TOKIO, July 3. (>P)—The Japan
ese authorities have agreed upon an
inauguration committee of 40 to pro
ceed with the organization of the pro
posed Radio Corporation of Japan
which is to establish permanent ra
dio communication with the United
States on an extensive scale. The
committee will be composed of sev
eral representatives of the finance
and communications department. The
people’s side will be represented by
Viscount Shibusawa, Baron Togo
and 20 other promoters.
COAL MINED AT DAWSON
E. Schinck who returned to Dawson
during the spring from a trip to St.
Paul, where he attended a meeting of
the directors of the Five Fingers Coal
Company, reports that plans were
made for the future operation of the
property. Practically all of the coal
;sed in Dawson comes from the Five
Finger mine.
SEWARD READY
TO ACT AS HOST
FOR 4TH VISITORS
FINAL PREPARATIONS ARE COM
PLETED FOR 4TH OF JULY
CELEBRATION—GUN SAL.UTE
AT SIX A. M. BY SPANISH-AM
ERICAN WAR VETERAN.
The Eagle will scream in Seward
tomorrow!
Everything is in readiness for one
of the biggest and best celebrations
presented in a number of years.
Seward citizens are prepared to act
as host to the many out-of-town vis
itors who have been arriving in the
town during the last few days, and
to those coming in on tonight’s train
and the steamer Northwestern. The
program of events and entertain
ment numbers are all completed and
are published complete in this is
sue of the Gateway in the big dou
ble-page spread 4th of July advertise
ment.
Programs will be distributed about
the streets this evening and in the
morning. The public is advised to
procure one of the programs and
kept it with them thruout the entire
day in order to keep accurate time
of the schedule of events and enter
tainments. The parade line of march
and the childrens program are in
cluded on the list.
It was be noted that there have
been several revisions made in the
program and others inserted. The
majority of the events will take place
by the Bank of Seward corner, with
the exception of the baseball game,
the bathing beauty contest and the
swimming races,. which will be held
at the ball park and the lake ad
joining. It is anticipated a number
of additional field sports, such as the
tug-of-war, races, and another base
ball game will take place Sunday af
ternoon at 2 o'clock at the ball park.
There will be a special dance at
Odd Fellows tonight; and tomorrow
night, a Jitney dance will be held at
each of the halls. The main street
will be decorated this evening by the
members of the Fire department.
Bunting and streamers of red, white
and blue will be draped on all the
cluster and single street lights, and
streamers and flags will .be swung
across the entire street.
JACK DEMPSEY
IS WILLING TO
DEFEND TITLE
LONDON, July 3 (JP)—Jack Demp
sey wrote an article today to be pub
lished in the Weekly Dispatch saying:
“I am unemployed because there are
so few public fighters who will give
a good public show for the money if
we meet. Nobody is more anxious to
enter the ring than I am.”
The champion said there was little
prospect of him getting a bout before
meeting Gene Tunney next July.
PREMIER CASE GOES OVER.
Judge E. E. Ritchie, who heard the
case of Wesley Adams and Bizarri vs.
Colonello, Colobufalo, S. L. Auath, of
the Premier Mining Co., and Bruno
Agostino, intervenor, in the matter of
a receivership has continued the case
until August 3. The two cases in
volving the subject of priorit yof liens,
John Sheridan vs. Valdez Creek Min
ing Company, Wm. A. Wilson, inter
venor, and John Dark vs. McKinley
Gold Placers company will also be
tried in August.
Harry Peterson, aged 4, waded into
Lake Michigan and pulled out his 3
year-old cousin who was drowning, at
Michigan City, Ind.
CHALK TALK WILL BE
HELD AT DREAMLAND HALL
A last minute change has been
made in the celebration program in
respect to the chalk talk scheduled to
be held during the afternoon in front
of the bank building. This entertain
ment will be held in the evening pre
ceding the dance at the Dreamland.
ZOO KIND TO BABOONS
LONDON, July 3. (JP)—Ninety sa
cred baboons from Abyssinia have
just reached the London Zoo and,
until acclimatized, will be put into a
cage supplied with radiant heat and
light. .Sheltered ledges outside the
cage will be electrically warmed by
rays of artificial sunshine.
ATTORNEYS FOR
JOHN T. SCOPES
ASK INJUNCTION
CHICAGO, July 3 (/P)—Clarence
Darrow announced that the charges
that John T. Scopes, a Tennessee pro
fessor had violated the Tennessee
anti-evolution law would be taken to
the Federal courts forthwith in an
effort to prevent the trial proceed
ing. Mr. Darrow, John R. Neal, Dud
ley Malone Field and Bainbridge Col
by decided yesterday at a New York
conference to ask a Federal injunc
tion on the ground that the law is un
constitutional.
Danger to Personai Rights
CHICAGO, July 3 (/P)—Clarence
Darrow. attorney for John T. Scopes,
said today in regard to his decision
to ask the Federal courts for an in
junction preventing the trial of Mr.
Scopes for violation of the Tennesse
State law against the teaching of evo
lution: “This is an increasingly se
rious matter as similar laws are in ef
fect in Oklahoma and South Carolina,
and I am informed that such measures
are pending in twenty other states,
including California, Kansas, Texas,
North Carolina, Kentucky and Florida,
which have strongly organized ele
ments to support the movement.
“A Federal decision would have far
more weight with other states than
a Tennesse state ruling, and will also
be much quicker. The case will never
be determined satisfactorily, even if
fought through the Tennesse Supreme
Court.”
ITALIANS TRAVEL THIRD CLASS
ROME, July 3. (JP)—One hundred
million passengers rode on the Italian
; State railways during last year, ac
cording to statistics recently issued.
[They paid an aggregate fare of 1,
400,000,000 lire. Eighty-six per cent
ot' the passengers traveled third
class, 12 per cent second class and
only two per cent first class.
MEDICAL CARE FOR PILGRIMS
ROME, July 3. (/P)—Arrangements
have been made to have a physician
on duty during the summer at the
terminal railway station to treat ar
riving Holy Year pilgrims in need
of emergency medical attention. The
, doctor will be at the station from
early morning until after midnight.
MODERNISTS HOLD
BALANCE POWER
IN CONVENTION
SEATTLE, July 3 (£>)—'The Mod
ernists won two victories in the North
ern Baptist convention. After voting
to' Seat the Park Avenue delegates,
they defeated the Hinson resolution
which was a mild recommendation the
Mission Board “take such action as
to best conserve the denominational
interests and best advance the king
dom of Christ.”
SANTA BARBARA
AGAIN ROCKED
HEAVY QUAKE
SANTA BARBARA, July 3 (/P)—
This city and other points in this re
gion experienced another sharp
earthquake at 8:38 this morning. Peo
ple rushed into the streets, and girls
in office buildings became hysterical.
Many buildings damaged Monday
were further disintegrated.
The most serious damage is report
ed to the mansion of C. S. G. Billings,
a race horse owner, on the hill east
of the city, where plaster and the
brick coping fell.
Banks Will Lend Money
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3 (£>)—'The
California Development Association
announced today that California's fin
ancial institutions had agreed to lend
ten million dollars, which engineers
pronounced necessary to rebuild San
ta Barbara on modern principles.
Ten Millions Needed.
LOS ANGELES, July 3 (.^—Repre
sentatives of Santa Barbara yesterday
revised the estimates of money re
quired and asked for ten million dol
lars to rebuild the business section,
and three millions to remabilitate de
stroyed charitable institutions.
Four More Quakes Today
SANTA BARBARA, July 3 (£>)—
Southern California today experienced
four more earthquakes of more or less
severely. The shocks centered here
at 10:21, 10:41, 10:46 a. m. and the
last at 3 p. m. The quakes caused no
damage to persons or property.
NEGROES ELATED
OVER VICTORY
OF HARRY WILLS
NEW YORK. July 3 (/P)—Elated
over the knockout of Weinert by
Harry Wills, two groups of negroes
early this morning beat up a half doz
en whites. As three men and a young
woman were standing talking before
a house in the down-town district,
several negroes approached, who were
discussing the ease with which Wills
one. One of them exclaimed, “There
is a white man about Weinert’s size,”
and struck John Gaffney, knocking
him unconscious through a store front,
and seizing his friend, Michael Earl,
he hurled him after him.
Groups of negroes patroled the city
streets picking quarrels with whites.
LAPPS HAVE TOO MANY DEER
LEU,LA, Sweden, July 3. (JP)— A
census taken this spring in Sweden’s
northermost department disclosed
that the nomadic Lapps possess
183,625 reindeer. The animals have
increased 57 per cent since 1921.
when the last census showed 116,'
979. The present reindeer popula
tion is greater than is consistent
with the amount of pasturage avail
able.
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COAST—
Portland 6, Sacramento 3.
Los Angeles 4, Vernon 1.
Seattle 6, Salt Lake 0.
’Frisco 12, Oakland 1.
AMERICAN—
Boston 4, 4, Washington 6, 11.
New York 3, Phila. 6.
Cleveland 11, Detroit 3.
St. Louis 18, Chicago 5.
NATIONAL— -
Chicago 11, 5, St. Louis 6, 6.
Pittsburgh 2, Cincinnati 1.
Brooklyn 20, Boston 7.
Phila.-New York—rain.
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