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M’CORD ACCEPTS
INVITATION ACT
LOCAL DELEGATE
Local Chamber Not In Fa
vor Mixing with Politics
—Telegram Filed
ADD AMENDMENT
TO ITS BY-LAWS
Chamber Purchases Copies
Recent Rotogravure Sec
tion Seattle Weekly
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An amendment to the by-laws of
the Seward Chamber of Commerce
will be drawn up, prior to the next
regular meeting, at which time it
will be presented for the members
approval, covering the matter of
members of the organization sign
ing petitions, independent of the
chamber's endorsement. It was
stated any Chamber of Commerce
is nationally considered the clear
ing house for all matters, relative
to its town or community problems.
Motion to this effect was regularly
made and seconded and yesterday s
meeting at luncfieon held at the
Seward Grill.
With respect to the telegram re
ceived from Valdez, relative to the
recent attack on Judge Elmer E.
Ritchie, by John W. Frame, in
which the suggestion was made
that the citizens of Seward join in
with Valdez citizens in denouncing,
as malicious falsehoods, the charges
against Judge Ritchie, further request
ing a wire be addressed to the Attor
ney General, at Washington, D. C„
asking Judge Ritchie’s reappointment
at the expiration of his present term,
motion was made and regularly pass
ed that inasmuch as the local cham
ber, in the past, has always refrained
from entering into political matters,
the telegram be filed without action
being taken.
A telegram was received from Jack
McCord, Seward citizens, who was
recent selected to represent the local
chamber at the Seattle meeting of
the Pacific Coast Chamber meetings,
United States Chambers of Com
merces, and who is now in San Fran
cisco, accepting the position as dele
gate.
Mr. McCord’s wire follows:
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 19: Am
highly honored by your request to rep
resent my home town in the Fnited
States Chamber of Commerce meeting
at Seattle next month and will ac
cept your Invitation hoping that I may
be of use to you and Alaska in gen
eral. Am now at the Palace Hotel.
My permanent address, while in the
States, is 728 Pacific Mutual Building,
Los Angeles.
(Signed) JACK McCORD.
Credentials will be telegraphed Mr.
McCord this evening by J. P. Hannon,
local secretary, and in the meantime,
a committee of two, Joe Badger and
C. E. Orlander, were appointed by P.
C. McMullen, vice president of the
chamber, to assist Mr. Hannon in
compiling local problems and the
needs of this community and adjoin
ing districts, which will be sent to
Seattle and presented at the conven
tion by Me. Cord.
From the Alaska Weekly, published
in Seattle, a sample copy of the re
cent special rotogravure section was
received. The section is replete with
many splendid photographs of Alaska,
a number from this reg.o... It was
stated in the copies . i the sec
tion would be tiio local
chamber at a nominal sum. Motion
was made and seconued time 200 cop
ies be purchased.
Several letter were read from peo
ple residing in various portions of the
States requesting local information.
Other matters coming before the
chamber meeting will be found in oth
er columns of this issue of the Gate
way.
WOMAN LAWYER TO FACE
MORSE.
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Ellamarye Failor, newly appointed
Assistant to U. S. Attorney Buckner,
who very soon is to take the stand
of the Government against Charles
W. Morse, 61-year-old shipbuilder, and
his associates. It will be she who will
cross-examine Morse, his sons and as
sociates on the frauds growing out of
the sale of stocks of the U. S. Steam
ship Company. And Miss Failor, a
Texan, and 27 years old, is the kind
of a woman “that gets her man” in
the parlance of the court. The main j
gist of the case and its groundwork i
has been built up by Miss Failor.
MITCHELL THRU
WITH TESTIMONY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25 (£>)—
Col. Mitchell yesterday completed his
testimony before the court of inquiry
after being on the stand a total of
ten hours. Colonel Mitchell reiter-;
iated his statements made to the As
| sociated Press while in Texas, and
declared that if he could remedy con
ditions in the aviation service he was
! content to take any punishment metec
out to him.
SPECIAL EDITION SHAPING
UP FINELY—32 PAGES PRINTED
The Industrial edition being issued j
I by the Gateway is shaping up finely,
| thirty-two pages or four sections be
ing off the press, with two more sec
tions and the cover to print yet. Sev
eral articles and the copy for a few
advertisements are still out, but our
solicitor will gather these up Friday.
A shipment of cuts is expected to
arrive on the next boat, completing
the illustrations.
The edition, according to present
plans will consist of 52 pages of 5,000
copies. It will be one of the best yet
issued and will eliminate the neces
sity of special advertising for this
set (ion for the year 1926.
ADMIRAL WATSON SAILS
NORTH WITH TWENTY-FIVE
oGATTLE, Nov. 25 (;£>)—The steam
sh;:> Admiral Watson sailed at 10:00
o k with 25 passengers for north
. a torts. Passengers listed for Sew
u .1 are C. Kitz, F. A. Bailey, G. Dono
van, E. Mellott, L. Miller, C. Ward,
Camp, one steerage.
200 PERISH IN
HEAVY FLOODS
ATHENS, GREECE
TORRENTIAL RAINS CAUSE WA
TERS TO SWEEP STREETS—
CURIOS UNCOVERED
LONDON, Nov. 25 (/P)—More than j
one hundred persons perished in i
floods which swept Athens, Greece, I
yesterday, following an hour and 20 ;
minutes torrential rain. Houses col- j
lapsed, burying their inmates in the ;
ruins, many of whom were swept !
away.
The waters from Mt. Lykahottos un-;
covered 38 tombs in one street, dis
closing five mummies and a quantity
of gold ornaments and vases.
ALASKA SCHOOLS
IN FINE SHAPE
SAYS HENDERSON
COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
COMPLETES INSPECTION
MANY INSTITUTIONS.
Completing his inspection of Terri
torial schools in western, interior
and northern Alaska, L. D. Hender
son, Commissioner of Education has
returned to Juneau-.' He said to a
representative of the Juneau Empire
that he found conditions in all the
schools he visited very satisfactory
and the year’s work progressing in
fine shape.
Mr. Henderson visited schools in
all the incorporated towns in the
western districts and on the Alaska
Railroad. He visited smaller schools
along the Tanana and Yukon rivers,
and St. Michael and Nome schools.
He got into telephone communica
tion with remote schools north of
Nome.
With the exception of Nenana, he
said, all of the larger schools showed
an increased enrollment over that
of last year. In some of them ad
ditional courses have been added.
One new school was established just
outside of the corporate limits of
Seward to accommodate the pupils of
the Jesse Lee Home for orphans.
Seventy-six pupils are enrolled there
and three teachers are handling the
work.
The first unit of a new school
building at Cordova has been corn
planted and schools moved into
it, Mr. Henderson said. This unit
contains seven additional class
rooms, a teacher's rest room, office
for the superintendent, fuel and fur
nace rooms. Additional units will
be added as required.
Manual training is being offered at
Cordova this year for the first time.
A similar course will be given at
the Seward school as soon as sup
plies and equipment have been re
ceived from the States.
At Fairbanks, owing to a substan
tial increase in enrollment, a crowd
ed condition was found to exist. In
two of the classrooms there were
more than 40 students. The high
school enrollment there was much
larger than for several years and
Fairbanksans are studying ways and
means of enlarging their school plant.
Enrollment in the Alaska Agricul
tural College and School of Mines,
is the largest in its history, Mr. Hen
derson said. New buildings, includ
ing a new wing for the main build
ing, a new dormitory, and an ade
quate power plant are rapidly near
ing completion. The dormitory was
expected to be entirely completed
by the middle of this month and
work on all the new structures was
being pushed as rapidly as possible.
JACK M’CORD WIRES PAPER
CONGRATULATIONS ON ITS
FIFTY-FOUR PAGE EDITION
The Gateway this morning received
a long night letter from Jack McCord,
hustler extraordinary and representa
tive of Seward in the United States
Chamber of Commerce at Seattle. Mr.
McCord says he will do his bit by
taking a page in the special issue, and
his copy is on the way.
One of the most ardent boosters for
Alaska, Mr. McCord has done more
to interest capital in the Third divi
sion than any one man we know.
Mr. McCord’s present address is
The Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
ANOTHER BUREAU
OF MINES NAMED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25 (JP)—
Secretary Hoover of the Department
Department, created a branch bureau
of mines yesterday, to be headed by
C. P. White, who directed the coal
division for several months for the
Department.
Correct Information On
Seward Sought In L. A.
From the Los Angeles office of
“Pacific Ports,” a marine publica
tion, the local chamber of commerce
received in the last mail the infor
mation that the 1926 Pacific Ports
Manual is now in process of compil
ation and that accurate statistics,
relative to the port of Seward is
wanted. Secretary Hannon, in read
ing the information, already in their
hands, brought out the fact that
much incorrect data has been pub
lished regarding Seward and the
immediate vicinity. Mr. Hannon was
instructed to send them a revision
of facts and corrections.
Alaska Special Section
Be Published In Railway
and Marine News Paper
An Alaska special section is being
inaugurated by the Railway and Ma
rine News, a publication issued at
Seattle, it is announced in a recent
letter received by the local Chamber
of Commerce. The letter stated Al
aska needs commercial representa
tions and in the coming get-together
relationship will add incalcuable
benefits to Alaskaa’s commercial pos
sibilities. The Railway and Marine
News and Pacific Commerce is pub
lished weekly and monthly, respec
tively.
Otter Fur Garters Make
Bebut At London Hall
London, Nov. 24. (JP)—Fur garters
costing $75 a pair will make their
debut here at the charity ball tonite.
The garters which it is said will
be the most expensive in the world
designed for general retail sale are
made from the fur of the sea otter.
They will make their initial ap
pearance on mannequins at the Fur
Ball held in aid of the fund for re
building Middlesex hospital. After
that the manufacturers hope to place
them on general sale in the exclusive
West End shops.
Rodeo Riders Unpaid
Bank Account Seized
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24. (JP)—Half
a hundred cowboys and cowgirls
who performed at the recent Ascot
Park rodeo here, gathered in the of
fices of the state labor commission
yesterday in an attempt to round up
$3600 in unpaid wages.
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Hats made of thin strips of cork
are made in Italy.
EDW. F. MEDLEY
DEFENDS ALASKA
GOVT. RAILWAY
SAYS HIGHWAYS WOULD COST
MORE TO MAINTAIN THAN
DEFICIT OF RAILROAD
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25 (#>)—
Edward F. Medley, a Cordova attor
ney, who is visiting in San Francisco,
in a published statement here today
said that the coal mines being devel
oped along its right-of-way would1
eventually supply enough tonnage to
make the Alaska Railway pay.
“I do not agree with Congressman
Free that the railroad should be dis
mantled and a wagon road substituted.
I believe the maintenance of a highway
would cost more than the present
deficit of the railroad. The high cost
of transportation has been the great
obstacle in the development of Alaska.
Low freight rates on the railroad is
a stimulus for capital to invest in
Alaska and an increase in freight
rates might make a difference be
tween profit and loss in the enter
prises in the Fairbanks district. The
heavy machinery used in this district
could not be shipped in any other way
than by railroad, as the cost would
be prohibitive by highway transporta
tion. We have too much politics in
the government of Alaska and too
many government bureaus, fifty-seven
kinds of each overlapping the. other.
This disadvantage, however, is being
gradually removed.”
LOCAL GIRL RECEIVES FINE
CONTRACT ON LAST BOAT
Miss Laddie Kyle, who is in Sew
ard gathering data for a novel she
is publishing, received a substantial
check and a good contract from an
Eastern magazine for pen drawings
illustrating scenes around Seward.
As a magazine illustrator and special
writer Miss Kyle has few superiors,
her work being of a high order, and
eagerly sought by some of the East
ern magazines.
Shortly after Thanksgiving Miss
Kyle wrill leave for Anchorage where
she will spend a month looking over
local color, and making pen sketches
of scenery in that vicinity. Her new
book wrill be entitled “The Gibber Girl”
and wrill deal with herring fishing and
the adventures of a young girl in the
herring plants of Alaska. Many of
the sketches have been completed,and
the book is well under wray.
BANKER BILL
PASSES SENATE
OLYMPIA, Nov. 25 (JP)—Smothering
all opposition, friends of the Banker
reclamation bill passed the measure
through the Senate yesterday by a vote
of 30 to 9, with three absent and not
voting. The bill will now go to Gov.
Hartley for his signature or veto. The
bill takes the reclamation projects out
of the hands of the governor and pro
vides for co-operation of the Federal
government in reclamation projects.
Gov. Renews Move To
Invalidate Dye Patents
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24. (/P)
—The government renewed in the
supreme court today it efforts to
invalidate the sale of seized German
dye and chemical patents to the
Chamical Foundation, but disavowed
at the same time any intention of
reflecting on former President Wil
son, former Attorney General Palmer,
or former Under-Secretary of State
Polk.