Hewmd Dale Gateumy
VOLUME 19
NUMBER 301
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
^PRESIDENT SENDS
GREETINGS TO
1 DISABLED VETS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—Among
first Christmas greetings to go
out from official Washington today
were those sent by President Cool
idge to the men whose disabilities tell
eloquently of their sacrifices while
among the armed forces of the na
tion.
The President sent his message
through the Disabled American Vet
erans and it was broadcasted to the
Army and Navy by Secretary "Weeks
and Wilber.
Former Seattle “Dick”
Alleged Accomplice In
Canada Bank Hold-up
SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 26.—Two of
the eight witnesses and victims of the
robbery of the Nanaimo Branch of
the Royal Bank of Canada, who are
inf Seattle today, positively identified
Ross C. Watson, former city detective
as one of the bandits in the bank.
SEATTLE, Dec. 26.—Ross C. Wat
son, former city detective, today was
exonerated by Chas. Tenant, captain
of detectives, of participating in the
robbery of the Nanaimo Branch of
the Royal Bank of Canada. Tennant
said that Watson had proved a good
alibi.
Political Rowdies Get
Nothing for Rioting At
* Big Fashionable Hotel
TOKIO, Japan, Dec. 26.—Two lead
ers of a gang of political rowdies,
who were arrested after they stop
ped an American Colony dance at
the Hotel Imperial, on June 7, as a
protest against the passage of the
Japanese exclusion clause in the Am
erican immigration law, were dis
charged by the criminal court today
because of lack of evidence.
NEW SCHEDULE OF WAGES
FOR NAVY YARD EMPLOYES
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—The new
schedule of wages for employes of
the Puget Sound Navy Yard during
the year 1925 was made public today.
Increases were granted for 61 classes
of labor, and decreases affected four
classes. In 208 classes no change
was made from the 1924 schedule.
^banian Insurgents
Invade Capital Today
BELGRADE, Dec. 24.— Belgrade
newspapers today print advices stat
ing that a column of Albanian insur
gents entered Tirana capital last eye
ing. They also state that Scutari has
fallen. The occupation of Tirana, ac
cording to advices, followed the bat
tle at Chaffamour, in which troops of
Premier Fannoli were beaten by the
rebels under command of ex-premier,
Ahoiind Bey Souga.
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COOLIDGE ASKS LEGISLATION
FOR REWARD FOR THE LATE
ROUND THE WORLD FLIERS
"WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 24.—
President Coolidge has asked the
general staff of the Army to rec
ommend suitable reward and recog
nition for the Army’s round the world
airmen.
Eterett Light Company
Messengers Are Robbed
EVERETT, Wn., Dec. 24.—Two ban
dits secured $1100 in cash and escap
ed in an automobile this afternoon
when they held up the messengers of
the Puget Sound Light and Power
Company.
CHINESE GOVERNMENT WILL
RESPECT EXISTING TREATIES
PEKING, Dec. 26—The Chinese
government today declared its inten
tion respecting all existing treaties
while expressing a hope that the exe:
cutions of the resolutions agreed to
at the Washington conference will
not be long delayed.
ADVOCATE LEAGUE OF
NATIONS ARRIVES HERE
NEW YORK, Dec. 26—Ford Rob
ert Cecil, leading proponent of the
League of Nations in the British em
pire arrived here last night.
CALIFORNIA “u” WINS
OVER MISSOURI “U”
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26—After be
ing outplayed the first half, when in
a scoreless tie, the University of
Southern California eleven came back
in the second half, in their Christmas
Day game with the Missouri univer
sity in the coliseum and won a 20 to
7 victory. A tremendous crowd at
tended the game.
POSTHUMOUS AWARDS
SPANISH WAR HEROES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The dead
heroes of the Spanish American war
were honored in an announcement by
the War department today of a list
of posthumous awards for gallantry
in action. Major James Watson, who
was with the famous negro Tenth in
fantry, June and July 18 and 19, 1898,
was awarded two silver stars, which
went to his sister, Mrs. M. W. Bris
coe.
ALASKA S.S. COMPANY
PLANS WINTER CARGOES
SEATTLE, Dec. 26.—In accord
ance with the plans of the Alaska
Steamship company to put its ves
sels in other trades in the winter
when traffic in Alaska falls off, the
freighter Tanana, which has been
laid up, will go on berth for New
York. The ship will load a cargo
of 2,500,000 feet of lumber at Ta
coma and' Everett.
I OLD ALASKA MINER
CROSSES DIVIDE
SEATTLE, Wn, Dec. 26.—George
G. Mahla, 59 years of age, who was a
miner and prospector in Nome and
the Klondike nearly thirty years ago,
■ died here last night. The oldtimer
! had been ill for the last three years
j and came for medical treatment three
months ago.
Alaska Gastineau
Mine Sold, Juneau
JUNEAU, Dec. 26.—The property
of the Alaska Gastineau Gold Mining
Company, including 66 lode mining
claims, was sold for $200,000 Wednes
day to the Alaska Gold Mines com
pany by the master in chancery un
der foreclosure proceedings.
Commander Drain Sends
Message Legionnaires
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 25—“Whether
the most colossal war in the history
of the world shall be a benefit or a
detriment to the world depends for
the most part upon how we who were
left in the world normal and little
affected shall use our opportunities.”
declared Commander Drain of the
American Legion in a Christmas mes
sage to the Legion members, deliv
ered to a local broadcasting radio
station.
VALUED JEWELS STOLEN
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 26.—Jewelry,
valued at $100,000, belonging to Mrs.
Harry Hart, the wife of one of the
officials of Hart, Schaffner and Marx
company, secured by two bandits,
who held up two employes and two
guests of the Parkway hotel.
LIVES OF FIFTY-SIX CHILDREN SNUFFED
OUT WHEN CHRISTMAS TREE HOBART,
OKLAHOMA, IGNITES FROM CANDLES
Tiny Candle on Tree Ignites Ball of Cotton, and Holocaust
Is Started—Wild Stampede to Reach Doorway—
Whole Town Plunged in Mourning
HOBART, Oklahoma, Dec. 26.—Fire stalking in the
tracks of Santa Claus’ turned a whole country-side into
mourning, and a country school house into an inferno at
Barb’s Switch, seven miles from here, Christmas Eve,
; and snuffed out the lives of fifty- six persons, mostly
small children who had gathered for the celebration.
The Christmas tree wras decorated with candles and
balls of cotton, and during the swaying of the branches
the cotton ignited. In the mad rush for the doorway
which became blocked with the bodies of the dead and
dying, and numbers of children became separated from
their parents and were trampled under foot.
The hospital here is filled with injured, many of whom
are believed to be fatally burned.
XMAS PACKAGE
TURNS OUT TO BE
DEADLY BOMB
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26.—Secret
service men and postal inspectors as
well as the police of California cities!
are engaged today in a nation-wide
search for the cowardly assassin who
sent a bomb disguised as a Christmas
present that exploded yesterday in
the home of J M. Torchia, a promi
nent attorney, inflicting injuries from
which he cannot recover. Emily, the
18-year-old daughter of Torchia, who
w&s standing beside her father when
the explosion occurred, miraculously
escaped death, but was seriously in
jured.
SENATOR UNDERWOOD IN
BED WITH LA GRIPPE
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 26.— ;
Senator Underwood is in bed in this
city with la grippe.
CHICAGO SUFFERS COLD
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 26.—Two per-;
sons were frozen to death in this'
city on Christmas Day.
COMMITS SUICIDE
SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 26.—Broken !
in health, Frederick Besselman, a j
well known Seattle business man
shot himself to death last night.
Seattle Man Runs Down
Crippled Newsy with Car
SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 26.—Alberton
E. Scott, local manager of the Kerr
Gifford and company, was arrested
for running down and dangerously
injuring with his auto, Fletcher A.
Green, a crippled newsboy. The po
lice allege Green was drunk.
ANDERSON PAROLLED
IS ARRESTED AGAIN
OSSINING, N. Y., Dec. 26.—Wm. H.
Anderson, former superintendent of
the anti-saloon league, was paroled
from Sing Sing prison today and wras
immediately taken into custody on
two warrants charging grand larceny
and extortion.
AD MAN SLIPS UP AGAIN
Overlooked in the Christmas rush,
the greetings from the Carsten Pack
ing Company’s advertisement was in
advertantly omitted from our last is
sue. Mr. Kurtz wishes to thank one
and all for valued patronage.
JAPAN IN MESSAGE OF
GOOD WILL TO WORLD
SAYS HOPES FOR PEACE
TOKYO, Dec. 25.—In a New Year’s
message to the Japanese people, For
eign Minister Kijuro Shidehara in
part said: “We are at peace with
the world, and until threatened by
anyone there is not the slightest
prospect of disharmony with any na
tion. On the contrary, there are
many evidences of cordial relation
ship existing with our sister nations,
and especially with the United
States.’’
Spirit of Christinas
Manifest In Capital
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The spir
it of Christmas lies over the capital
today as it does over the humblest
homes in the land. No observance of
the day was simpler or quieter than
that in the White House. The day
when family ties are most closely
drawn brought freshly to the mind of
President Coolidge and his "wife the
loss of their younger son, Calvin, and
because of this they sought to make
their celebration the simplest kind.
Juneau Murderer Is
Given Life Sentence
JUNEAU, Dec. 26.—M. Suzuki, a
Japanese, was sentenced here today
to life imprisonment at McNiel’s isl
and for the murder of Margaret An
dreanof?, a young white girl, at Pe
tersburg. The Japanese was infatu
ated with the girl, who was a cannery
worker and when she repulsed his
favors shot and killed her.
Twenty-three Dead
In Virginia Floods
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 26.—Twenty
three are dead and fourteen in hospi
tals at Saltville, Virginia, as a result
of the breaking of a muck dam across
the Eiolston river.
Nationally Known Airman
and Companion Feared
Lost on Coastwise Run
1 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 26.—
Seach is being made today for
Aviator Oakley D. Kelly and Lieut
H. Collier, who left Vancouver Bar
racks, in Washington, for San Fran
cisco at one o’clock yesterday after
noon.
GOVERNMENT
ASKED RETURN
WRANGELL MEN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Requests
that the government provide transpor
tation for the one white man and 12
Eskimos, all American citizens, taken
from Wrangell Island to Vladivostok
in October by a Soviet ship, have
been n^et with the explanation that
the government has no funds which
can be expended legally for this pur
pose.
The request reached the State de
partment through Delegate Dan A.
Sutherland, and Carl Lomen, a mem
ber of the business concern which
sent the party to work on the island,
on the gasboat Donaldson, at the time
Ada Blackjack was rescued. The
party is composed of a man named
White, and two Eskimo families, who
were to trap and collect ivory on the
island.
The government feels that the par
ty should be cared for by the com
mercial company which employed
them to promote a private enterprise.
Booze Cargo Caught
Worth Five Millions
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Coast guard
cutters last night captured 19 prison
ers, a British schooner and three mo
torboats, with a liquor cargo valued
at $5,000,000. The British schooner
Petara with seven prisoners and six
thousand cases of champagne was
also captured.
Burbank Has New Corn;
Will Grow Cold Climes
SANTA ROSA, Dec. 26.—An an
nouncement was made Christmas
Eve that Luther Burbank had devel
oped and is ready to give to the
world as a Christmas present a new
table corn, which is sweeter and
hardier, and more productive.
It was also stated that this corn
will grow father north than any va
riety heretofore known.
Worshippers Pass Thru
Door Opened by Pope
ROME, Italy, Dec. 26.—Streams of
“the Faithful’’ are still pouring to
day through the Holy doors in St.
Peters, which were opened by Pope
Pius on Christmas Eve, in inaugur
ating the year with jubilee.
Each one passing thru kissed the
side posts from which the door had
been removed.
SEATTLE, Dec. 26—H. C. Bowers,
veteran hotel man, and manager of
the Oxford, dropped dead yesterday
afternoon.
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 24.—
Dr. Phillip Rantgen Havant, noted
scientist is dead at his home here.
DIES OF INJURIES
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 24.—As a
result of injuries received in an air
plane crash on December 15, Com
mander Fred Perkins, fleet gunnery
officer, died last night.
DIRIGIBLE TO VISIT NEW YORK
LAKEHURST, Dec. 24.—The diri
gible Los Angeles will pay New York
City a visit tonight.
Doctor Refused the Right
Practice In State of Wash.
OLYMPIA, Wn, Dec. 26.—The Su
preme Court refused to reinstate
Drannie K. Russel, of Seattle, as a
medical practitioner. The decision
was handed down recently, reversing
the decision of the King County Su
perior court. Dr. Russel’s license
was revoked by the state medical
board, after he had been convicted
here of performing an illegal opera
tion.