« Hewnrd Daily Gateumy
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VOLUME XX.
NUMBER 304.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
UNUSUAL WARM
' WEATHER RESULT
OF ERUPTIONS
PHENOMENAL W E AT H ERV RESULT
OF ERUPTION OF MOUNT
SHUSHALDIN
ANCHORAGE, Nov. 12, Phenomenal
high temperatures and summerlike
weather followed the eruption of Mt.
Shushaldin. during the first ten days
of November, the average minimum
temperature being thirty degrees. Cook
Inlet was affected by the phenomenon
all rivers remaining open and the land
scape verdant, due to lack of frosty
Reports from down the Inlet and
from other places north report many
peaks are still smoking. Many pros
pectors awaiting the freezing of the
rivers to make their way out, are held
prisoners in remots sections, some of
them running short of grub. Moun
tains, usually snowclad at this time of
the year, are still bare.
FEDERAL JUDGES IN ALASKA
MUST PAY INCOME TAXES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11. (/P)
—The solicitor of the internal revenue
-department ruled that federal judges
in Alaska must pay income taxes on
their salaries. He made no reference
to federal judges of other territories
.but it is assumed he will apply the
opinion based on a ruling of the su
preme court that territorial federal
courts are legislative rather than con
stitutional tribunals
TO ORGANIZE KLAN
VICTORIA, Nov. 12. (/P)—Captain
W. B. Laycock, one of the leaders of
the Kanakian Klan, arrived here Mon
day from his headquarters at Van
couver, and has announced he will or
ganize a branch here.
BROWN, HAWKINS
SEWARD STORE
FILMED BY FOX
PUBLICITY PAR EXCELLENT FOR
BIG LOCAL STORE THRU
OUT THE STATES.
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Millions of citizens of the Unit
ed States will shortly see what a
real Alaskan mercantile establish
ment looks like and, it is taken for
granted, they will be considerably
surprised to note that modern stores,
surpassing many like establishments
in the States, exist in the reputed
land of ice and snow.
This morning Merl La Voy, special
Fox Film company’s moving picture
man, completed exterior scenes of
the Brown & Hawkins Corporation
store, the largest store of its kind
in Southwestern Alaska. Yesterday,
Mr. La Voy shot a few hundred feet
of the various interior departments
of the big store. The film will be
sent to the New York office by Mr.
La Voy -where in turn prints will be
made and distributed thruout the
hundreds of agencies in America.
The exterior scenes taken this
morning depicted a regular street
scene, pedestrians striding by, oth
rs gazing into the neatly trimmed
show window displays; with one of
the fleet of delivery autos taking
on a load of early morning merch
andise, other cars drove up or pass
ed by, including, fortunately, one of
the caterpillars and trucks of the
Bureau of Public Roads department.
Mr. LaVoy said, with respect to a
commercial picture, it was one of
the most active he had ever shot.
Everything broke just right.
Mr. Hawkins said he anticipated
procuring one of the prints and
hoped to exhibit It here in the near
future.
H. C. CUTLER CHARGED WITH
EMBEZZLING FUNDS OF
ARCTIC TRADING COMPANY
SEATTLE, Nov. 12. (/P)—Charged
with embezzling sixty-four hundred
dollars from the funds of the Arctic
Fishing and Trading Company, H. C.
Cutler, secretary-treasurer of the firm
was arrested after John W. Young,
president of the company returned
from a four year’s arctic whaling ex
pedition and found the company on
the verge of bankruptcy. He found out
that Cutler had transferred the money
from the company to his own account.
Cutler posted twenty-five hundred
dollars bail.
RECOMMENDS CESSATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11 (JP)
—Coolidge recommended the cessa
tion of governmental and industrial
business here for a few moments at
eleven o’clock Wednesday.
WM. SULZER TALKS
ON DEVELOPING
ALASKA
FORMER GOVERNOR NEW YORK
SAYS TAKE DOWN HURDLES
AGAINST DEVELOPMENT
SEATTLE, Nov. 12. (/P)—Former
governor William Sulzer of New York
in addressing a mining club here, said
“The people of Seattle owe Alaska a
debt that can never be paid, and
should have a very friendly feeling to
ward Alaska, because Alaska in the
future can do more for Seattle than
ever before.”
Characterizing Alaska as the Goose
that lays the golden egg, the Gover
nor said:
“Take down the hurdles against de
velopment in the great Northland, and
repeal restrictions that retard it. Open
up Alaska for the benefit of this sec
tion and the entire country.”
He advocated the creation of a Seat
tle mining exchange and said Seattle
was likely to grow faster during the
next fifteen years than the last thirty.
WIDOW COMMDR.
LANSDOWNE ON
STAND AT WASH.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 12. (ff)
—Mrs. Zachary Lansdowne, widow of
the Shenandoah’s commander, sub
stantiating Mitchell’s charges, said im
proper attempts were being made to
influence her testimony before the
board of inquiry into the wreck of the
dirigible.
She testified Captain Paul Foley,
of the board, sent her a letter which
insulted the memory of her dead hus
band. She said Mrs. George Steele,
wife of the commander of the Lake
hurst air station and the dirigible Los
Angeles, gave her Foley’s letter which
she destroyed.
She further testified the letter said
she had confidence in the board of
inquiry and was willing to leave the
! investigation to the board.
Mrs. Lansdowne also denied telling
Captain Gherardi, aide to Secretary
Wilbur, the things she told the news
papers about the wreck, were lies.
GOES ROUND THE WORLD
IN THIRTY-FIVE FOOT BOAT
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10. (^-^Com
pleting a circumnavigation of the
globe, Harry Pidgeon, sailing his
35-foot craft of his own construction,
dropped his mudhook in home wa
ters today. He sailed out of Los
Angeles November 18, 1921. Unaaided
by crew or consort the lone naviga
tor crossed the Atlantic, Indian and
Pacific Oceans.
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT COMES BACK
AT GOVERNOR HARTLEY, WHEN THE
LATTER SEEKS RETRENCHMENT IN
WASHINGTON SCHOOLS OF LEARNING
SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 12. (/P)—President Suzallo
of the University of Washington declared that Governor1
Hartley’s message recommending reorganizing the en-i
tire school system, under a non-salaried Governor, ap-‘
pointed by a board of educational administration, to abol
ish regents at the University and State College, and the
trustees of Normal Schools and submit it to the voters of
the State of Washington for constitutional amendment,
and also abolishing the office of superintendent of pub
lic instruction, is unworkable and ruinous.
He said:“I doubt whether Governor Hartley’s plan
to appoint a board of educational administration is con
stitutional. So much time and labor will be required and
it would be impossible to induce citizens of requisite quali
fications to serve.”
President Suzallo added that Hartley’s suggestion to
abolish the levy on mileage for higher institutions would
be a return to the biennial scramble of fourteen years ago,
and argued against Governor Hartley’s suggestions to
compel the University to repay appropriations henceforth
out of rental from the ten-acre tract in Seattle when the
Metropolitan lease expires, or run the University with
the proceeds of the bonds and pay off the bonds when the
lease expired- This would deprive the University of the1
trust fund which the Government created in giving land
to the University, he declared. He concluded in saying
that withholding appropriations from the higher insti
tutions of learning this year would leave them without
the sorely needed building.
GREECE WANTS
SECURITY PACT
COMPULSORY
GENEVA, Nov. 12 (/P)—Creece in
formed the League ’of Nations she
would welcome the Balkan Security
Pact as a compulsory arbitration pact,
alone the same line of the pact drawn
for the Western frontier of Europe,
which was negotiated recently at the
conference at Locarno.
JERSEY CITY, Nov. 12. (/P)—Mrs.
Mary Crieco was convicted of violation
of the vice and immorality act, her
sentence being suspended, because
she erected a clothes pole in her back
yard on Sunday. Many sermons were
issued Sunday for the revival of the
ancient blue laws in an effort to stop
Sunday movies.
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REPORT DURANT CLEANED
UP ON AUTO TRUCKS
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12. (^—Af
ter playing the New York stock mar
ket through a Los Angeles broker
age office, R. C. “Cliff” Durant, pro
minent automobile dealer and racing
drvier, formerly of Oakland, was
richer today by $2,000,000, it was re
ported.
CHICAGO, Nov. 12. (£>)—Judge Jo
seph B. David of the municipal court
today stated from the bench that if
the prohibition laws were enforced
75 per cent of Chicago’s 3,000,000
persons would be in jail; that the
legislators responsible for the con
dition are hypocrites and later stat
ed hereafter he would publicly advo
cate repeal of the "Volstead act.
“Let us either have prohibition
or frankly admit that it is a serious
mistake and cannot and will not be
enforced,” said the judg.e
David upbraided two policemen
who searched Walter Jusewiez’s
home above his store after they had
purchased liquor from him.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 12. (JP)
—The American-Italian debt commis
| sion reached an agreement yesterday.
BAYCHIMO WILL LOAD LUMBER
VICTORIA, Nov. 12. (JP)—The gaso
line schooner Baychimo is due this
week from Vancouver where repairs
have been completed to damage in
her hull, made by ice jams in the arc
tic She will load lumber for the
United Kingdom. A larger and more
staunch vessel will replace the Bay
chimo.
INNER COFFIN OF KINK TUT’S
SARCOPHAGUS REMOVED
CAIRO, Nov. 12. (JP)—The inner cof
fin of Tutankhamen’s sarcophagus con-'
taining the mummy, was removed
from the tomb to Seti nearby for exam
ination. The mummy adhered to the
saracophagus as a result of liquids
poured over it, in ceremonies whereby ;
the Pharaoh was dedicated as a God. i
ITALY WILL PAY
TWO BILLIONS
!
—
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 12. (/P)
—The Italian-American debt commis
^ sion reached an agreement last even
j ing, it was announced, after the Am
jericans conferred with Coolidge.
It is understood that Italy has agree
to pay a total of two billion, forty-two
million dollars. The payments will
be‘five million dollars annually for a
period of five years, increasing an
nually thereafter.
Count Yolpi, head of the Italian
Commission, said America had been
liberal beyond all forecasts.
BRITISH SUBMARINE SINKS
WITH SIXTY ON BOARD
LONDON, Nov. 12. (#>)—The Brit
ish submarine M-l was never
seen after she dived today near the
start of a trial at Point Devonshire.
It is believed she carried a full list
ing of sixty men.
DR. HAROLD E. BLAZER
WINS OUT MURDER CHARGE
LITTLETON, Colo., Nov. 12
The jury disagreed on the charge of
Dr. Harold E. Blazer, murdered his
14-year old daughter Hazel. The case
svas dismissed.
CONG. FREE ASKS
THAT RAILROAD
BE ABANDONED
SAYS TRUCK OVER RIGHT-OF
WAY COULD SUPPLY THE
ENTIRE DISTRICT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 12. (£>)
—Congressman Free has recommend
ed to Coolidge the abandonment of the
Alaska Railroad and the construction
of a highway over the right-of-way.
He said trucks using the highway
could supply transportation needs to
the Interior, and declared the cost of
the highway would be relatively low.
Free also told the president the new
fisheries laws were working well but
the government was following an un
wise policy of road, reforestation and
gold production. He urged a new
method of valuing timber which he
said would cause the cutting of over
ripe timber and bring about a sensible
reforestation policy. Congressman
Free suggested one agency handling
alleged construction, abolishing dual
control between the war department
and the Bureau of Public Roads bu
reau. He recommended a stimulation
of gold dredging by giving dredging
concerns land bases for dredges.
THIRTEEN DEAD
IN WRECK PENN.
RAILROAD TRAIN
PLAINSBORO, New Jersey, Nov. 12.
(JP)—Thirteen persons were killed and
scores injured when a Pennsylvania
Railroad express train running from
St Louis to New York, collided two
and a half miles from here during a
heavy fog, with a train enroute from
Washington to New York.
Eleven bodies were recovered up to
noon today.
The Washington train had slowed
down when the other train, twenty
minutes late, ploughed through two
rear pullmans. The injured, pinned
under the wreckage, were rescued by
the aid of acetylene torches. A nun
from a Trenton hospital went through
the tangled wreckage to help the in
jured men.
JEER TELEGRAM REFUSING
MITCHELL PERMISSION TO
ATTEND ARMISTICE BALL
NEW YORK, Nov. 12. (/P)—1Three
hundred war aviators at an Armistice
Day dinner last night, hissed and boo
ed at the reading of a telegram from
Adjutant General Davis, refusing per
mission for Mitchell to attend.
36 SUBPOENAED
IN MITCHELL CASE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 12. (£>)
—The Court subpoenaed thirty-six wit
nesses residing outside of Washington
for Mitchell, after Mitchel threatened
to bring them at his own expense.
FORMER PRESIDENT OF C. & M.
DIES A!-‘TER LONG ILLNESS
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 12. (£>)—Albert
J. Earling, former president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
road, died here today after a linger
ing illness. He started railroading
as a telegrapher.
WATER SHUT OFF
Water will be shut off this evening
at one o’clock on Fourth avenue and
Washington street, for a period of 4
hours, while necessary repairs are be
ing made.
The only people whom the truth
fails to hurt are those who are dead.