VOIiUMK XIX. NUMBER 150
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1924
PRICE TEX CENTS
NEW YORK, June 26.—The con
vention today perfected its organi
zation and gave a rousing reception
to permanent chairman Thomas J.
Walsh of Montana, heard his speech,
and began naming presidential can
didates.
Voting on a nominee will not be
gin. however, until the convention
f* has received and voted on its plat
form. which is taking shape in the
sub-committee.
Underwood Is Nominated
Alabama presented the name ot
Oscar W. Underwood; the Arkansas
delegation placed Senator Joseph T.
Robinson in nomination, and former
Senator Phelan of California named
William G. McAdoo “as the natural
Rader of progressive thought and
achievement.” The American people
will be on trial before the world in
the coming presidential campaign,
the speaker declared.
Walsh asserted the issue in the
coming campaign will be whether the
people will want to continue in pow
er the present administration with
the scandals recently disclosed in
the Senate investigations.
Demonstration Against Klara
A demonstration against the record
and performances of the Ku Klux
Klan was made by the members,
the convention jumping to its feet
and loudly applauding when the
speaker nominating 1 nderwood de
clared he was against unAmericanism
in every form and the Klan in par
* ticular. Johnson demanded that the
platform denounce the Klan.
Samuel Gompers presented a labor
legislative program stressing mem
bership in the League of Nations and
adherence to the world court.
Demonstration for McAdoo
Having given a rousing demonstra
tion for McAdoo when his name was
mentioned, the convention toda>
plunged into another demonstration
for Governor Alfred Smith. The dem
onstration was aided and pushed
along by a complete organization oi
demonstrators hundreds of whom
marched into the hall trom the out
side bearing banners and noise-mak
ing devices.
Smith Placed in Nomination
Franklin K. Roosevelt, who placed
Smith in nomination, said lie is the
most dangerous adversary the Re
publican party ever had to iear and
his name spells victory.
Other Nominations Made
Fred Vannuys of Indianapolis, plac
ed in nomination the name of Sena
tor Ralston, former governor of In
•y diana, and Senator Bayard named
Wm. Saulsbury as Delaware’s candi
date.
The platform is not expected to be
ready until tomorrow morning.
FOREST ROAD FUNDS FOR
A
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 25—
The Alaska allotment of the Forest
Highway fund, for the fiscal year 1925
is three hundred sixty thousand, five
hundred and eight dollars; and for the
forest development fund, twenty five
thousand six hundred and twenty-six
dollars.
DAN SUTHERLAND.
WATER APPLICATION FILED
OLYMPIA, June 25—Application
for permission to appropriate 100 sec
ong feet of water from the west fork
of the Dungeness river in Clallam
county for the purpose of irrigation,
has been received by Marvin Chase,
supervisor of hydraulics from the Mac
Leary estate of Portland, Oregon. It
is estimated that it will require $200,
000 to develop the project.
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* WASHINGTON, June 27.—Frank L.
Kellogg was named by President
Coolidge to attend the interallied
conferences at London, July 16, for
putting the Dawes reparations plan
WOBBLIES IN PRISON
ARE AGAIN ON STRIKE
SAN QUENTIN, June 25—Again
the strike of the wobblies is on in the
penitentiary. Twelve hours after the
first strike ended twenty-one wobblies
who had returned to work with sixty
others, again struck and refused to
work. They have again been placed in
confinement and fed on bread and
water.
DEFEAT VOLSTEAD ICT
SPOKANE, June 25—Stringent
prohibition enforcement in Spokane
has brought about a situation where
vendors of illicit liquor and rum run
ners are resorting to mechanical de
vices of elaborate and complicated de
sign to aid them in evading arrest,
according to city and federal officials.
Recent investigations conducted by
the officials have uncovered numer
ous and widely varying schemes, they
say, all of which function with the
same purpose, that of providing quick
and satisfactory elimination of “evi
dence.”
One of the most intricate devices
uncovered by the officers consisted of
a copper container placed over the
sewer in the basement of a building
where a “soft drink parlor” was lo
cated. A regulation water pipe led
into the container and inside the pipe
was a copper pipe for conveying the
liquor small enough to allow free
passage of water between the two.
When a tap in the store was turned
j on without pressing one of two but
| tons, the liquor would run into the
! sewer. By pressing one button and
| turning the faucet, liquor ran from
| the tap. When the other button was
| used, in connection with the faucet,
ordinary water was obta.neo.
Police officials claim they have evi
dence to show that a number of car
penters and tinsmiths in and near the
' city, haev flourished to the extent of
becoming wealthy by manufacturing
j and installing these automatic cvi
I dence destroyers.
CHARGES AGAINST THREE
TACOMA IDEA DISMISSED
MOUNT VERNON, June 25—The
charges against Russell R. Evans, D.
W. Nadeau, and Warren Rodley, Ta
; comans, who were charged with hav
| ing held up the Citizen’s state bank
of Anacortes, were dismissed, Prose
! cutor Gilbert holding that the evidence
j submitted was insufficient to convict
I the men.
MODERN MAN TOO SOFT,
SAYS WOMAN DOCTOR
LONDON, June 25—Modern man,
' whether he be English or American,
i is becoming too soft, asserts Dr. Jane
; Walker, England’s most noted physi
cian. She recently caused acute dis
tress to “Berties” and “Algernons,”
who must have their cup of tea before
they can confidently face the world
! each morning, by saying such tea
was silly and self-indulgent.
“The English men are not as bad as
the Americans, yet,” Dr. Jane remark
ed, “but they are getting there.”
“Take the Englishman’s cold tub,
once historic and universal in this
country. It is rapidly going out of
fashion.
“Another sign of growing softness
is spats. It is all right for an old man
of sixty to wear spats, but not for
anyone younger.
“No words fit young men who go
and have their hands manicured. It
is bad enough to wear thick gloevs.”
FIREMAN ARRESTED
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25—Prim
itano Roderiguez, fireman on the Chas
R. McCormick, was arrested yester
day, charged with killing William R.
Stephens, an oiler on the same vessel,
by splitting his head open with an
axe as he sat at the breakfast table
on the boat at the dock here. Rodri
guez was said by witnesses to have
resented a remark by Stephens, who
leaves a family at Port Townsend,
Washington.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 25
Judge Dometrio F. Sotomanyor, at
Tiajuana, Mexico, shot and killed him
self yesterday demonstrating at the
trial in a shooting case how the de
fendant could" use the pistol.
NOW AT CHITTAGONG, SMALL
CITY ON SOUTHERN COAST
OF INDIA
CALCUTTA, June 25—The Ameri
can round-the-world flyers hopped off
from Rangoon this morning, ariving
at Chittagong, Bengal, this afternoon.
Chittagong, is a small coastal city
of India, about one hundred and fifty
miles south east of Calcutta, where
the American flyers have their sup
plies and fuel stored.
Lieutenant Smith has completely
recovered from his recent illness, and
it is expected that good time will be
made from here on.
Flyers at Calcutta
CALCUTTA, June 25—The Ameri
can flyers arrived at Calcutta today,
after a short stop at Chittagong.
They will remain here several days
when they will exchange their pon
toons attached at Seattle, with lighter
land gear.
Save for the trip across the Eng
lish channel, the flight from here to
Hull will be over land.
i SEATTLE POLICE CHIEF
DISMISSED BY MAYOR
SEATTLE, June 27.—Caliming that
he had fallen down in the enforce
ment of the law. Mayor Landes,
acting during the absence of Mayor
Brown at the Cleveland convention,
summarily dismissed Chief of Police
Severyns and placed the department
in the hands of Inspector Joe Mason.
—
DAWES WILL MAKE NO
SPEECHES UNTIL AFTER
NOTIFICATION NOMINATION
CHICAGO, June 25—Dawes an
nounced that he would make no talks
until after the formal notification of
his nomination.
ANTI-ALIEN PATROL BE
ENLARGED ON BORDER
BLAINE, June 24—As a result of
the enactment by congress of a new
i immigration law, which materially re
stricts immigration from foreign coun
tries and tightens the exclusion regu
lations against Japan, a force of 18
guards and three inspectors has been
j authorized by the immigration depart
ment for service on the American
Canadian border in Whatcom county.
The border will be guarded day and
night .Six guards, working three shifts
daily, will be stationed at Blaine, with
an inspector in charge. Similar forces
will be stationed at Sumas and Lyn
den, the two other border stations. It
is not known here when the additional
force will be available.
It is reported that similar increases
have been authorized at other points
on the Canadian and Mexican borders.
150 CARS OF CANADIAN
SHINGLES TO GO EAST
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 25—The
longest train in railroad history to
leave the Pacific Coast for eastern
states will steam out of Everett, over
the Great Northern tracks next Sat
urday for Buffalo and other eastern
markets.
The train will consist of 150 cars of
British Columbia shingles.
Owing to weakness of the Fraser
river bridge the big Mikado type lo
comotive cannot cross and it has been
necessary to assemble the train in
Everett. There will be two locomo
tives on the head of the train and
one in the center.
LUMBER MILL BURNS
SPOKANE, June 25—The plant of
the Hauser Lake Lumber company on
Hauser lake, east of here in Idaho,
was destroyed by fire early today. It
had a daily capacity of 35,000 feet of
lumber. The fire started in the engine
room and the night crew prevented it
from spreading to the yards.
AUXILIARY MEETING
The Seward Auxiliary will hold a
special meeting at the fire hall at 8:00
o'clock this evening. All members
are requested to be present.
ESKIMO FINDS
TIDE TEST CASK
ONE OF A NUMBER THAT WERE
SET ADRIFT IN ARCTIC IN
YEAR 1900
(The Alaska Weekly)
The recovery of the seventh of the
thirty-four drift casks which were set
afloat nearly twenty-five years ago in
the Arctic Ocean, north of Alaska,
was announced in a letter to the New
York Times by Henry G. Bryant, the
President of the Geographic Society
of Philadelphia.
The thirty-four casks were launch
ed in the Arctic from 1899 to 1901 by
the Philadelphia Society acting on the
initiative of Rear Admiral George M.
Melville and Henry M. Bryant. The
purpose was to test the Arctic cur
rents.
It was the belief of theose who plan
ned the experiment that a srong cur
rent flowed westerly from Bering
Strait across the polar area, entering
the North Atlantic between Green
land and Spitzenberg. Two of the
casks floated from a point near the
Alaskan coast and entered the Atlan
tic Ocean ,where they were recovered.
News of the recovery of the seventh
cask came in a letter from Inspector
S. T. Wood of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, dated Herschel, Yu
kon Territory, March 8, 1924.
“I beg,” wrote Inspector Wood, “to
enclose a note found in a cask picked
up by Eskimo Papsok, on December
10, 1923, at Huskey Inlet, near the
Eskimo Lakes, south of Capt Bathurst
The drift cask had leaked and frozen,
hence the condition of the note. From
information in the not it would ap
pear that the drift cask was thrown
overboard near Cape Lambton, Banks
Land, in September, 1900, by Captain
11. H. Bodfish, of the steam whaler
“Belvidere of the Pacific Steam Whal
ing Company of San Francisco.”
“I have been unable,” wrote Presi
dent Bryant of the Philadelphia So
ciety, “to find on available maps the
‘Husky Inlet’ referred to in this note
as the locality where the message
was found; but its apparent proxim
ity to one of the Eskimo lakes, west
of the Mackenzie River delta, would
indicate that this cask was sidetrack
I ed and failed to enter the main cur
I rent which sweeps in a northwesterly
I direction along the Siberian coast,
I north of Franz Joseph Land, and evi
| dently reached the east coast of Green
I land. Captain Raold Amundsen indi
i cated his faith in the existence of this
; current by ordering his vessel, the
i Maud, thrust into the ice north of Al
aska, and when last heal'd from she
was drifting northward, thus support
ing the trustworthiness of this theory.
“It is some years since any reports
! have been received by the society and
i the recovery of this message after a
period of twenty-three years indicates
that reports may still be expected re
lating to this experiment for obtain
ing data without endangering human
life.”
The casks were long, spindle-shaped
containers of oak, They were launch
ed by the commander of the United
States revenue cutter Bear and vari
ous captains of the whaling fleet.
“Four of the casks,” wrote Mr.
Bryant, “were subject to local current
and failed to make the long drift, but
went ashore on the Alaska or Siberian
coasts. Two made remarkable jour
neys of over two thousand miles and
tended to prove the contention of the
promoters of the experiment that a
strong, definite current flowed in a
northwesterly direction from north of
Bering Strait across the polar area
and eventually debouched into the
North Atlantic between Greenland
and Spitzenberg.
“Cask No. 26 ,launched off Ca;pe
Bathurst ,British North America, by
Captain R. J. Cuminsky of the steam
whaler Norwhal, on July 1900, was
recovered by fishermen on Soro Island
near Hammerfest, Norway, on Nov.
3, 1908. Cask Number 6, made an even
more interesting journey. Placed on
the floe ice west-northwest of Point
Barrow, Alaska, in latitude 71 degrees
53 minutes north, longitude 164 de
grees west, by Captain D. J. Tilton,
was recovered one mile east of Cape
Rauda Nupr, on the northern coast of
Iceland on June 7, 1905.
Mrs. Emelie Weybrecht left on the
Admiral Evans for a trip to the west
ward.
NEW METHOD ELIMINATING
ALL PAINS OF CHILD BIRTH
CHICAGO, June 25—A new method
to be used in maternity cases elimi
nating the pain of child birth without
danger to the mother or child is rec
ommended to the American Medical
Association by Dr. H. T. Cooke, of
Los Angeles. He defined it as “region
al nerve blocking,” and declared it
was superior to anesthesia as the pa
tient remains conscious .
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M’CLAREN HAS COMPLETED RE
PAIRS AND ON HIS WAY
TO RANGOON
AKYAB, June 25—Maclaren, Brit
ish world flyer hopped off today for
Rangoon, his machine again in ex
cellent shape.
He has been at Akyab since the
sixteenth of May, making repairs.
MURDERED JAPS WERE
MEMBERS GAMBLING RING
LOS ANGELES, June 25—Police
officials today declared that Kache
me Igarishi and Toma Y'oshioka, the
two Japanese whose bullet riddled
bodies were found last Friday near
San Pedro, were murdered in a boot
legging gambling war which was rag
ing in China town for the past month.
| The dead men were prominent in the
underworlds of Los Angeles and San
: Francisco.
MPT ilEiS"
I
SAILS FOR ARCTIC
SEATTLE, June 25—The motorship
Maiti, Captain C. Klingenberg, sailed
this morning for two years in the Arc
tic on a trading cruise. He will at
tempt to establish a base near the
north magnetic pole.
RESCUE CIRCLE FORMED
TO AID UNHAPPY SPIRITS
LONDON, June 25—A “rescue cir
cle” for suffering spirits undergoing
punishment in the next world has been
j started by Sir Conan Doyle and Lady
! Doyle.
The “circle”, Sir Arthur declared,
I interviews these stricken spirits. Each
I spirit comes in turn and receives in
| structions as to what to do to be
j happier in the hereafter.
“There is no 'torture in the next
| world,” Sir Arthur continued. “There
j is no hell, but a dark life, a sad life
full of remorse,'full of bitterness for
those who have not risen above the
material in their earthly life.”
Such spirits, he declared, were still
I earthbound and it is to make their lot
happier and more bearable that the
“rescue circles” have been formed.
GLAND EXTRACTS UNABLE
TO GROW BRAIN CELLS
LONDON, June 25—Modern medi
cinal preparations of gland extracts
cannot produce growth of brain cells
which had never existed or had been
destroyed by injury or disease, accord
| ing to Dr. Bernard Hollander, British
brain specialist and alienist.
Certain glandular preparations,
however, states Dr. Hollander, have
been found efficacious in increasing
the activity of a sluggish brain and
nerve cells and of benefit in cases in
which the lethargy was due to ex
hausting and other enfeebled causes.
BODY OF WEALTHY
NEW YORKER FOUND
FOUGHKEEPSIE, June 23—The
body of Clarence D. Sheldon, wealthy
New YTork publisher, was found near
his summer home yesterday. The con
dition of the body indicated that he
had been dead several days. Sheldon
disappeared ten days ago.
LOGGING CAMP DESTROYED
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 25—A
forest fire destroyed a logging camp
and seven miles of railroad of the
Hague Logging company of Port Co
quitlam, twenty miles east, in the
night. Loss was put at $100,000.
Many fled for their lives as the
wind drove the flames thru the dry
timber. The Port Coquitlam district
was reported menaced by fires today.
E
WANTED A CHANCE TO SEE A
LITTLE OF WORLD—NO
QUARREL AT HOME
MOUNT VERNON, June 26—A lit
tle gray-haired woman, about seventy
five years of age, with a determined
air, walked in upon Ensign McAbee of
the local Salvation Army corps, one
da ylast week, with the evident de
termination of paying a long visit.
She was very non-committal anil
explained that she was on her way to
the Skagit poor farm which she pre
ferred to any other institution she
had heard about, and that she was
real anxious to get settled there.
When questioned regarding her
name she said it was Mrs. Smith, and
that she '•ame frjm up north. Altho
nicely dressed she had only about a
dollar in money.
When the Salvation lassies grew
discouraged with obtaining any furth
er information, they called in Rev. A.
W. Wilson, commissioner of carities.
| The visitor stubbornly maintained
| * .lence when efforts were made to
have her cell who her relatives were
and where she had been staying. “On
a farm near Burlington,” was her on
| ly answer, but she refused to give the
I names cf the people she had visited.
| COURT PARTY MAY LEAVE
FOR TRIP ON EVANS
A number of court officials includ
| ing Clerk of Court W. N. Cuddy and
: wife, Deputy Marshal S. 0. Casler,
j and wife, Deputy Clerk Selma Scott
1 and Court Stenographer Delia Chase,
; may leave tonight on the steamship
Admiral Evans for a trip around Ko
; diak Island and westward cannery
points.
THREE BOYS SRRESTEC
IN ATTEMPT BLUI
CHICAGO, June 25—Three boys
who attempted to extort $S00,000
from Jacob Franks, father of Robert
Franks, the school boy who was kid
j napped and slain by Leopold and
Loeb, were arrested when they called
j for the money.
MICE, OWL AND GROUSE
ENACT “TAR BABY” ROLE
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 25—Re
mindful of the fable of the tar baby
was the spectacle of forty wood mice,
eight young grouse and an owl, im
I movable on the only roadbed of the
| Malahat drive outside of Victoria, B.
1 C. capital on Vancouver island.
During the hot sunshine the victims
became imbedded in the newly-laid oil
surface. The grouse, crossing the road
in the wake of the parent bird, sank
into the soft mass and became fast.
The parent bird .using its wings, won
its way clear of the sticky substance.
As darkness crept in the wood mice
hopped out along the road, only to
fall in the same sticky mass.
The owl, seeing the mice and with
visions of a gorgeous banquet, alight
ed on the i-oad, only to become a
prisoner like the rest. Road repairers
freed the owl, which staggered to
ward the nearby woods with difficulty.
FIFTT OIL COMPANIES
UNDER EYE OF GOVT
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 25
Fifty of the principal oil companies
o fthe United States, were attacked
by the government today in the fed
eral court at Chicago, by Attorney
General Stone .asking an injunction
to refrain them from further viola
tions of the Sherman anti-trust act.
SIX KILLED BY TRAIN
TOLEDO, June 25—Six persons
were killed yesterday afternoon when
a fast Baltimore and Ohio passenger
train struck a loaded automobile on a
road crossing.