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VOLUME XXI. NUMBER 9.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COOLIDGE CHANGES
STAND TO CHECK
FARMER REVOLT
ADMINISTRAT ACCEPTS SURPLUS
PRODUCTS BILL SPONSORED
BY GRAIN BLOC
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12. (£>)—
President Coolidge and administration
leaders surrendered to the demands
of western farmers for crop surplus
control legislation, and accepted the
Surplus Products Bill, introduced in
the House Monday by Representative
Dickinson of Iowa, leader of the farm
hloc.
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine,
speaking for the administration an
nounced his approval in principle of
the bill, altho the administration had
carefully ignored this measure until
the farmer revolt developed in mid
west.
The Dickinson bill is the outgrowth
of recent farm conferences at Des
Moines to which President Coolidge
sent a telegram praising farm relief
legislation, but opposing anything in
the nature of government price fixing
or control of farm products. This was
believed to include all such measures
as Dickinson bill.
Dissatisfaction was expressed at the
stand of the administration, and rum
blings against the Republican tariff
were noted, and transmitted to Wash
ington. Fear that revolt would grow
to an extent-dangerous to life of the
Republican party in the grain belt is
said to have led the President to
change his stand on the measure
just accepted.
MAY ABANDON OPPOSITION
BERLIN, Jan. 12 (/P)—The Russian
branch of the German socialist party
came out in favor of a big coalition of
'the Reichstag, which may result in
the abandonment of Socialist opposi
tion to von Hindenberg’s cabinet.
TO AID AGED AND POOR
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (£>)—W. B.
Ward has given one million dollars to
aid the aged and poor and blind.
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12 (/P)—
Women will call upon President
Coolidge after a mass meeting today
and urge equal rights for women.
WINTER MILDEST
KNOWN 10 YEARS
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 12 (jP)—While
admitting that the present winter is
the mildest that Alaska has experi
enced, oldtimers recall similar condi
tions during two winters within two
decades, wrhen conditions almost the
same gave rise to the speculation that
the Japanese current had shifted, it
later being found untrue.
EARL BEATTY TO RETIRE.
LONDON, Jan. 12 (^—Authorita
tive reports indicate that Earl Beatty
will soon retire as the first sea lord
of the British navy and will be suc
ceeded by Sir Roger Keyes who con
ceived the Zeebrugge raid during the
world war.
HELEN KELLER INTERVIEWS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12 (£>)—
Helen Keller, the famous blind and
deaf mute put her arms around Presi
dent Coolidge and her finger on his
lips and held conversation with him.
She said he was not a cold president
but a very dear one.
HIGHWAYMEN GET JEW'ELS
NEW YORK, July 12 (#»)—Highway
men clubbed two jewelers at Forty
eighth street and Fifth avenue as they
returned from nearby vaults and seiz
ed a bag of uncut diamonds valued at
§100,000.
BROOKHART LOSES SEAT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12 (£»)—
Members of the Senate Committee
are reported unanimous for unseating
Senator Brookhart of Iowa and giving
his seat to Daniel Steck, a democrat.
The committee holds that the returns
show that Steck won by 7000 votes.
RAILROADS PAY HEAVILY
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (^—Ameri
can railroads paid out one million
dollars in 1925 for damage and short
age claims.
DAN KENNEDY
IN SEATTLE, ON
TOURIST TRIP
SEATTLE, Jan. 12. (Jp)—Dan Ken
nedy, Alaskan guide and prospector,
is here en route to California and thg
east to urge tourist travel to Mt. Mc
Kinley National Park.
He said thirty miles of road were
under construction into the park from
the railroad, to Igloo Creek, construe- i
tion work being carried on under the
supervision of the Alaska Road Com
mission.
Kennedy built the only lodge in the
park, the one at Savage River, with ac
commodations for forty people.
WILL CARRY TAX REDUCTION
FIGHT TO FLOOR OF SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12. (ff)—
Democratic members of the Senate
finance committee, defeated in the
House have promised to carry the fight
for a five million dollar tax reduction
to the floor of the Senate.
Leaders of both parties will make
every effort to pass the bill before
March 15th, when the first income tax
installments are due.
VERNON CLUB BE
TRANSFERRED TO ’FRISCO
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12. (,/P)—Own
ers and directors of the Pacific Coast
league, reached a gentleman’s agree
ment over the transfer of the Vernon
Club to San Francisco.
DEMPSEY OFFERED TWO
MILLION DOLLARS TO FIGHT
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (JP)—A group |
of Los Angeles business men announc-j
ed that they will underwrite a fight
between Dempsey and WTills for the
heavyweight championship for two
million dollars if the match is held j
in Los Angeles.
OFFERED $250,000 FOR HORSE
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (JP)—W. R.
Coe received and declined an offer of
$250,000 for his three year old rac
ing colt Pompey, the champion two
year old of the 1925 racing season,
and the greatest money winner of the
year.
RUM RUNNERS RESCUE TWO
FLYERS WHO FALL IN SEA
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (JP)—A strange
tale of the sea was related by Charles
Warren and George Hand, two com
mercial aviators whose plane crashed j
into the se thirty miles out on New
Year’s Day. Since that time they said,
until rescued by a coast guard cut
ter, they had been forced to remain
aboard the rum runner because other
boats seemed to be afraid to approach
and take them off.
MAY STAR IRENE BORDONI
PARIS, Jan. 12 (JP)—A radio receiv- i
ed from Ellin Mackay, bride of Irving ’
Berlin, the composer, announced the j
completion of a play by Ellin in which j
Irene Bordoni may star Irene, who is
the wife of E. Ray Goetz. The Berlins
are on the high seas on their honey
moon.
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SKIRTS WILL BE SHORTER AND
SHORTER UNTIL BECOME
GRADUALLY EXTINCT.
BERLIN, Jan. 12. (/P)—Regina
i Friedlander, Berlin’s foremost mod
liste,’ announced today that skirts as
garb for women are doomed and that
they will be shorter and shorter un
til they are gradually extinct and this
within the very near future.
CONGRESS NOTES
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12. (#>)—
Ways and Means committee reported
to the house favorably on Foreign
Debt agreements with the U. S., but
| Democrats plan to fight the Italian
agreement on the floor when debate
Ripens on the subject,
j Repeal of publicity provision of in
come tax law seems certain as a re
sult of failure of Democrats of the
| Senate Finance Committee to make
publicity a partisan issue. Total tax
cut may go over 400,000,000 dollars,
' if democrats have their way. Sena
J tor Neely berates the senate old
: guard for denying to seat Nye, sena
| tor designate from North Dakota on
! technical grounds.
BELLEVILLE, 111., Jan. 12. (/P)—
A Lee Stevens, civilian instructor
and adviser of areonautics at Scott
field, resigned yesterday, the result of
his statement published last fall, en
dorsing the views of Colonel Mitchell.
He also made additional charges as to
the inefficiency of the air service at
the local field.
SHOP CONDITIONS
OF ALASKA RY.
ARE NORMAL
AVERAGE FORCE OF 247 MEN EM
PLOYED STEADILY PAST
CALENDAR YEAR
Records of past years of the me
chanical force employed in the shops
of the Alaska Railroad at Anchorage
bring out the fact that never before
in the history of the railroad has
shoop conditions been as normal as
they have for the last year. The
employing and discharging of em
ployes in years gone by has been
likened to a barometer, some days
high and on others low.
Officials of the railroad are proud
of the record of the past calendar
year, especially during which time the
shop conditions been as normal as
steadily around the 247 mark. Proud
that they have been able to maintain
a force of men steadily during that
period with few changes in the per
sonnel it was pointed out yesterday
to the Gateway representative that a
constant change of personnel is bad,
not only for the concern but for the
men themselves.
The 147 men mentioned covers the
mechanical shops at Anchorage as well
as the material yards and warehouses.
COAL STRIKE NOT SETTLED
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (/P)—Another
day failed to bring a settlement of the
coal strike. The miners rejected C.
E. Hughes as sole arbitrator. The op
erators rejected the revised Markle
plan and refused to throw the session
open to reporters.
SPLIT IN CHURCH OF ENGLAND i
LONDON, Jan. 12 (/P)—A serious
split is threatened in the Church of
England by a conflict at Birmingham
where Anglo-Catholics of high church
church have decided against Bishop
Barnes. Bishop is contemplating re-1
moving fourteen elders who have re
volted against his rule.
MAY MANUFACTURE CIDER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12 (£>)—!
General Andrews ruled that home
owners may manufacture cider and
wines of more than half of one per
cent alcohol, so long as it dbes not be- j
,come actual intoxicants in fact.
FLOODS IN HAITI
AND MEXICO ARE
STILL RAVAGING
_
TUCSON, Jan. 12 Floods in'
the State of Nayarit, Hati, Mexico, |
are not over, dispatches here indicated !
that the Santiago river is rising rap-!
idly and steadily and is expected to
overflow any time. The dead in the'
recent floods are placed at 400, with
10,000 homeless. The damage approx
mates five million pesos.
FOURTEEN LIVES LOST IN
STORM WHICH HITS COAST
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (/P)—A snow-1
storm which swept along the Atlantic ;
Coast from Georgia And Alabama to !
southern Michigan and Maine took
toll of 14 lives in vehicle collisions
throughout the country.
VALENTINO AND WIFE ARE
FRIENDS BUT WANT DIVORCE
PARIS, Jan. 12 (/P)— Rudolph Val-:
entino and his wife, Winifred Hudnot, j
who is in Paris seeking a divorce, met
here as friends and dined and danced
together, although the divorce action
will not be halted.
HENRY FORD PAYS 16
PER CENT DIVIDEND TO HANDS
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (£>)— Henry
Ford paid a 16 per cent dividend to
the employes of his Detroit, Toledo
& Ironton Railway for the use of
§500,000 of their money in 1925 fol
lowing an extra prosperous year on
the road.
ERUPTIONS OF VESUVIUS
RENDER MANY HOMELESS
ROME, Jan. 12 (JP)—Renewed erup
tions of Mt. Vesuvius have rendered
hundreds of peasants homeless and in
jured a score in the Amiata region.
The American Red Cross and Siena
Mercy Society have sent aid to the
homeless.
HOHENZOLLERNS ACCUSED
OF UNDUE EXTRAVAGANCE I
BERLIN, Jan. 12 (/P)—A former but
let of the Hohenzollerns in a sworn
affidavit to the Reichstag foreign af
fairs committee detailed the orgies
and high living of the former German
rulers as a part of the move to pre
vent payment to the Reichstag of the
vast fortunes of deposed royalty. The
Hohenzollern servants drink cham
pagne and their dogs are fed on sir
loin steaks it is said.
MILDER TEMPERATURES
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (£>)—Milder
temperatures prevailed today when
thousands of laborers were placed at
shoveling off the streets.
DURANT RUSHED NORTH
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (&)—W. C.
Durant, the motor wizard, who was
seriously injured yesterday in a train
collision on the Florida East Coast
railroad is being rushed here in a
special train.
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WILKINS PARTY
READY TO SAIL
FOR FAR NORTH
SEATTLE CHAMBER WILL GIVE
‘BANQUET TO INTREPID
EXPLORERS
SEATTLE, Jan. 12 (JP)—Malcolm
Smith, Earl Rossman, a photographer,
and Aviators Mason and Scott and
an unnamed man arrived here Wed
nesday to begin work outfitting the
Wilkins expedition.
The planes, mechanics and some
supplies arrived at the Sand Point
field.
Smith will use Fordson snow mo
tors to haul the sledges with gasoline
and supplies from Nenana over the
Endicott range to Point Barrow.
COUNTERFEIT PLOT
FORCES ARCHDUKE
OUT AS PRETENDER
—
BUDAPEST, Jan. 12. (JP)—An inter
national counterfeiting plot trail ap
! proaching near Archduke Albert him
j self and forced him out as a preten
jder to the throne by reason of his
; resignation as president of the Hun
igarian Fascisti. One report is that
I the plot was backed by a desire for
I monarchist renaissance, and that they
i had made a deal with the former kai
ser and former crown prince of Ba
varia.
Latest arrested in the net is General
Haits, professor of Cartography at the
Military Academy. Prince Ludwig
Windisch Graetz, who has confessed
he was the ringleader of the plot, told
police his first aim was for revenge
of the treaty of Trianon and also to
recoup his own fortunes lost in gam
bling and crops.
The plot, which embraced coun
terfeiting of 30,000,000,000 in francs
notes has aroused all Europe. Conse
quences of scandal are expected to in
clude the overthrow of Horthy and
Albertist movements; break up of the
Fascisti group, and a huge shift to
ward the left.
LEAGUE SEVEN YEARS OLD
GENEVA, Jan. 12 (£>)—'The League
of Nations is seven years old and is
now regarded as definitely and perma
nently established.
FRENCH DEBT NOT SETTLED
PARIS, Jan. 12 (£>)—'The French
| feeling is that Ambassador Berenger,
who is now on his way to Washington
should go slow in reopening negotia
tions for the settlement of the French
debt.
DICTATORSHIP TEMPORARY
ATHENS, Jan. 12 (/P)—Premier
Pangalos asserted his temporary dic
tatorship is like a poultice applied
to a sore tie for a slight time to ef
fect a cure.
SPORTING NOTES
NEW YORK, Jan. 12. (JP)—A group
of Los Angeles business men announc
ed they will underwrite the fight be
tween Dempsey and Wills for the
heavyweight championship of the
world for $2,000,000, if the match is
held in the Lo's Angeles Coliseum.
W. R. Coe received and declined
the offer of $250,000 for his three
year-old racing colt, Pompey, cham
pion two-year-old of the 1925 racing
season and the greatest money win
ner of the year.
Lieutenant Lawrence Jones was se
lected head coach of West Point
Military Academy to succeed Captain
McEwan, who resigned to go with the
University of Oregon.