VOLUME XIX NUMBER 185
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1924
PRICE TEX CENTS
WADE GETS PLANE,
WILL RESUME FLIGHT
FROM NOVA SCOTIA
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 7.—
Arrangements were completed today
by the Army Air Service to send an
airplane from Langley field ,Virginia
to Pictou, Nova Scotia, to be used
bj* Lieutenant Wade from that place
over the remaining route of the
world flight and in company with
the two other planes.
REYKJAVIG, Iceland, Aug. 7.—
Lieutenants Smith and Nelson, of
t’'# United States Army world avia
tors expect to remain here or several
days. The flyers said that they could
start today on the Greenland flight,
except or the situation at Angagha
lik, where the worst ice conditions in
years prevail.
NAME MAN TO BOSS
LA FOLLETTE RACE
IN THE COAST STATES
CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—Antonio P.
Entenza, of San Francisco was nam
ed campaign director for the Lai ol
lette-Wheeler ticket in the Califor
nia-Navada region. Entenza is past
commander of the Spanish war vet
erans, and Hiram Johnson, lieuten
ant.
LA FOLLETTE BOOSTERS TO
MEET ON AUGUST THE 11th
SEATTLE, Aug. 7—Signed by
George I. Maston, as chairman of
the Conference for Progressive Po
litical Action, and William A. Gil
more, president of the Seattle La
Follette club, a call has been issued
for a conference to be held in Seattle
on Monday, August 11, at 10 o’clock
in the Railway Exchange building.
ALLIES AND GERMANS
v REACH AGREEMENT
LONDON, Aug. 7.—The Allies and
Germans have reached a complete
agreement on the manner in which
defaults are to be declared under the
Dawes plan.
ALASKA GETS $5,000 FROM
HUNTERS: MANY COMING
SEATTLE, Aug. 7.—The Seattle
Chamber of Commerce has received
a report from the United States Bio
logical Survey stating that of 55
trips of hunters to Alaska the low
est reported expenditures of $400
and the highest $7,100.
Forty-four persons making 52
trips spent $107,000 making the cost
of each game animal killed $328.
Alaska received $5,000 in license fees
the rest going to guides and for
other items. c
The Chamber of Commerce offic
ials state that the number of weal
thy hunters going to Alaska is rap
idl increasing.
SEATTLE CAPITALIST
DEAD ADVANCED AGE
SEATTLE, Aug. 7.—A. M. Brooks,
aged 82 pioneer and capitalist for
mer postmaster and Commander of
the Gp A. R- of this district died here
last night.
VANCOUVER ISLAND FIRE
THOUGHT UNUfeR CONTROL
VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 7.—Forest
fires which yesterday threatened Port
Alberni, west of here on Vancouver
island, were under control today.
Five hundred men fought to keep
the flames out of the town. After
the wind abated, removing any im
mediate danger, the fire fighters re
mained on watch all night.
NOVEL ADVERTISING
SEATTLE, Wn., Aug. 7.—Vincent
Schwartz ,well known Alaskan sour
dough, Saturday panned gold sand,
sent by A. L. Lathrop, in a window
at the Seaboard bank advertising the
“Cheechakos” which opened here on
Saturday night, last.
The Alaska picture is “going over
this city.
HUGHES SAILS FOR NEW YORK
BKUMERHAVEN, Germjuiy, Aug.
7.—Secretary of State Hughes sailed
for New York on the liner President
Hardly yest«*rday.
big” and showing
Appoints Committee to
Investigate Liquor Trade
LONDON, Aug. 7.—The British
government has decided to appoint
a royal commission to enquire into
the drink traffic and also to despatch
a commissioner to the United States
I to report on the effect of prohibi
| tion.
! SUGAR INTERESTS OF
BRITAIN AND U, S.
IN PLOT TO CONTROL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 7.—
A plot by a huge combination of Am
| erica named British capitalists, which
| owns seventy-six per cent, of the Cu
ban sugar plantations, to kill off the
Hawaiian cane and American beet
sugar interests, thru a reduction of
tariff duties and then take absolute
control of the sugar market of this
country is charged in a secret mi
nority report of the tariff committee
and which is now in the hands of the
President. The report is signed by
Chairman Thomas 0. Marvin and
Commissioner William Burgess.
They refused the suggestion of the
majority report, or even to assent to
the statement of facts upon which it
was based.
WILL RESUME INQUIRY
OF INTERNAL REVENUE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 7.—
Over the protest of the chairman,
Senator Watson, republican, Indiana,
a majority of the senate committee
named to investigate the internal
revenue bureau, decided today to re
sume its inquiry during the summer
recess.
Because of his objection to the
hearing, Senator Watson resigned
the chairmanship as soon as the de
cision was reached, and Senator Cou
zens, republican, Michigan, was se
lected in his stead.
It was Senator Couzens who, by
joining with the two democratic
members, Senators King, of Utah,
and Jones ,of New Mexico, threw the
; balance of power in the committee in
j favor of a resumption of the hear
ings.
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ARMY TO ABANDON
BIG CANTONMENTS
BOSTON, Aug. 7.—Commenting
! on the proposed plan to mobilize
troops in the future near their homes
I General Brewster this morning said
! “Never again will men be hoarded in
, huge cantonments at enormous ex
i penses far from home. In the future
j troops will be gathered near their
| homes and federally trained there,
| replacing neighbors when incapaci
tated.”
LAKE OF LIQUID
FIRE IS SPREADING
HILO, T. H., Aug. 7.—The lava dis
play at Kilauea volcano, which start
ed last Saturday, continues with in
creased volume in spectacular style,
the lake of liquid fire appearing to
bespreading. Monday an avalanche
croshed down from the pit wall with
a roar, the resulting tremendous dust
cloud shooting several thousand feet
high.
Thomas A. Jaggar, jr., director of
thevolcano observatory station, de
clared that the reappearance of the
lava was a reassuring sign, as ex
perts had feared the activities of last
May, in which the whole shape of
the volcano pit was changed, might
have left the lava vents clogged,
i Such clogging, he said, eventually
would have resulted in further up
| heavals.
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85 TO 100 GIRLS IN KANSAS
CITY WEAR IT BOBBED
KANSAS CITY, Xug. 7.—No mat
ter what the style dictators say bob
bed hair has engulfed Kansas City
in an overwhelming marcel wave.
tfhe snip of the barber’s shears
and the whir of clippers have played
such a merry tune that 85 per cent,
of Kansas City women now have
bobbed heads.
This was the estimate made of the
sheared locks of the city by W. C.
Endyer, President of the National
Hair Dressers’ Association.
The beauty shops open their doors
at seven in the morning to accom
modate shop and office girls who
prefer to go to work with a perfect
coiffeure.
THE MIGHTY HUDSON BRIDGED ONLY 40 MILES ABOVE THC
CITY OF NEW YORK
LOEB ADMITS HE
MURDERED FRANKS
CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—Dr. Bernard
Glueck, of New York testified at the
hearing this morning that Loeb had,
thruout the doctor’s mental examina
tion of Leopold, admitted that he
struck the blow which killed young
Franks.
STATE ELKS WILL GET
FIRST OFFICIAL FLAG OF
STATE AT SESSION HERE
OLYMPIA, Aug. 7.—What is be
lieved to be the first official Wash
ington state flag, in accordance with
the law of 1923, is on display in
Olympia, the handiwork of Willis
P>loom ,of the secretary of state’s of
fice.
It is of standard size, 4 by 6 feet,
made of green silk with green fringe
and bearing in its center and on both
sides a large reproduction of the seal
of the State of Washington, of which
a portrait of George Washington is
the chief feature, painted in black
and white. Mr. Bloom made a
formal presentation of the flag to
the State Association of Elks at its
meeting in Bellingham, July 28, with
the condition that Olympic lodge No.
186 remain official custodian of it.
“Common Scold” Draws
a Term in the Workhouse
TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 7.—Mrs.
Mary Sarnowski was recently ad
judged guilty of being a “common
scold” and was placed on probation
in the hope that she might get over
it.
But Mary was in court again Fri
day charged with violating her parole
and it was charged that she insisted
on annoying all the neighbors.
So Mary was given a year in the
workhouse.
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TRAP WATCHMAN SHOT;
BOAT CREW ARRESTED
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JUNEAU, Aug. 6.—A trap watch
! man at Lime Point, at the entrance
of Hatta Inlet on the West Coast of
Prince of Wales Island, was shot by
alleged “fish pirates,’ ’according to
advices received by U. S. Attorney
A. G. Shoup and other federal offi
j cials. Ca.pt. Alvin B. Carr and the
; crew of the gasboat Dolphin have
been arrested and are now held in
jail at Craig suspected of having
done the shooting, according to a
telegram received from U. S. Mar
shal George D. Beaumont.
No details of the shooting were
received. It was not stated in any
of the cables whether or not the
shot was fatal nor was the identity
of the watchman given. At first a
request was made for the Unalga
to be sent to the scene of the shoot
ing, but later advices revealed that
the boat said to be involved had
been apprehended. The arrests were
made by Capt. Charles Barrette, de
puty marshal at Craig.
HOUSE OF COMMONS
HAS RUSSIAN PACT
LONDON, Aug. 7.—Under foreign
Secretary Ponsonby announced in
the House of Commons that an Ang
lo-Russian agreement had been
reached and that the treaty is be
ing placed in the hands of the
House of Commons for ratification.
BATTLING SENEGALESE
BLESSED WITH PAIR OF
WIVES, SAYS DESPATCH
PARIS, Aug. 7—Battling Siki,
who was maried in New York yes
terday to Lillian Werner, an octo,
roon, returned from a tour of Hol
land in 1921, bringing a Dutch girl
with him whom he introduced as his
wife. The prize fighter and the
woman lived together until Siki left
for the United States. She bore
him a child which is now more than
2 years old.
Mrs .Siki, as she is universally
known, is living now in Vanvas, a
i suburb of Pai*is, in a cottage rented
by Siki eighteen months ago. She
is working in a shop just outside
of Paris to support herself and her
child. Remittances to her from the
Senegalese are said to have ceased
some time ago.
Mrs .Siki could not be reached
tonight, but close friends of the pug
ilist say that he certainly was mar
ried to the Dutch girl.
U. S. PROFESSOR
EXPELLED BY TURKS
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug .7.—Dr.
Edgar J. Fisher .professor of history
in the Robert College here, has been
expelled from Turkey. He is a na
tive of New Jersey.
ONLY THREE SURVIVORS OF
“LAST MAN’S CLUB” ARE
ABLE TO ATTEND REUNION
STILLWATER, Minn-, Aug. 7.—
With only three of the four surviv
ing members able to attend, the an
nual banquet of the famous Last
Man’s Club was held here recently.
The Last Man’s Club was formed
here in 1886 by thirty-four surviving
members of B company, Minnesota
volunteers ,who fought in the Civil
war. A bottle of wine was purchased
at the first meeting and it was agreed
that the last member should drink
a toast to his departed comrades.
This year’s meeting was held in the
First National bank building. The
thirty chairs draped in black were
grouped about the banquet table in
memory of members who had died.
HANOVER, Germany, Aug. 7.—
Fritz Haarmann, known as the “vam
pire” murderer ,has been charged re
cently with seventeen murders in an
indictment. The police believe they
will be able to prove his guilt to at
least eight other cases. Numerous
disappearances reported in various
parts of the country are being traced
to his house.
ascendant of Tolstoi
Married to Seattle Gir!
SEATTLE, Wn., Aug. 7.—Eleanor
McCormick, daughter of the late Se
attle millionaire, R. G. McCormick,
and the former wife of Phillips Dic
kerson of this city, was maried in
Paris today to Count Cyril Tolstoi,
a descendant of Tolstoi, oldtime Rus
sian author. The groom is Russian
ambassador to Jugo-Slavia.
LA FOLLETTE ® RACE
GIVES MAJORITY TO
PRESIDENT C00L1DGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 7.—
Coolidge is profiting by in the in
roads the candidacy of LaFollette is
making in the ranfcs of the demo
crats throughout the middle west, ac
cording to word brought to him last
night by former Representative Good
of Iowa.
“3 TO 2” SHINGLES ARE
FAVORED AT SALT LAKE
SEATTLE, Aug. 7.—Following
similar action by the Puget Sound
Shingle Manufacturers' association,
the lumber dealers of Salt Lake City
have adopted a resolution accept
ing the standard “5 to 2” shingle
.recommended by Secretary of Com
merce Herbert Hoover, according to
word received here yesterday. Here
tofore most shingles have been of
the “6 to 2” inches size, according
to Seattle shingle manufacturers,
but under the new standard size sug
gested the shingles can be packed
only five thicknesses in every two
inches.
The new size, shingle men point
out, will mean a longer period of
use. Shingles with roofs that would
last twenty years under the old
standard size shingles, will now last
some thirty years longer.
Under the department of Com
merce standardization plans there
will be four classes of shingles called
A, B, C, and D, and the new “5 to 2”
shingle may be obtained in any one
of the four classifications.
OIL EXPERTS PASS
THROUGH ON' WATSON
A party of oil experts composed
of Dan Nolan, chief geologist for the
General Petroleum Corporation, ac
companied by Mrs. Nolan; Mr. Mc
Cain, head of production for the
same company, and Mr. Taylor, as
sistant head of production of__ the
Standard Oil company, passed thru
Seward on the Admiral Watson, en
route to Kodiak ,from which point
they will take the Standard Oil boat,
Pilgrim, for Kanatak, to be on hand
when oil is struck.in that field. They
will inspect oil claims around the
Hubbel Dome, and make a general
reconnaissance of the oil district.
WOMAN GROWING BEARDS;
ASSUMING DUTIES OF MAN
BERLIN, Aug. 7.—The women of
the future may have longer beards
than the bearded women of the cir
cus today, is the opinion of Dr. Ad
olph Heilbron, if they continue the
invasion of man’s domain of activi
ties.
“As the woman exercises more
and more the functions formerly
belonging to man,” Heinbron drites
in the Berlin Morgenpost, “she also
begins to assume a masculine growth
of hair.”
“Heilbron cites Buckman, Brandt,
Friedenthal and other anthropolo
gists as authority for his statement
that there has been a decided in
creased in the number of bearded wo
men and express the belief that fa
milies wherein generations of women
bob their hair will develop bearded
women as a parallel phenomenon.
Oemenceau Wants His
Assailant Turned Loose
PARIS, Aug. 7.—Clemenceau is
about to request the release from jail
of Emil Cottin, who attempted to
assassinate the “tiger” during the
peace conference.
Joe. E. Burns, who has been in
Anchorage the past day or so, return
ed on last night's train acompanied
by Mrs .Burns ,who recently under
went an operation in the Anchorage
hospital.
TIGERT ARRIVES SEATTLE
TO CONFER WAGNER
BUREAU ACTIVITIES
SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 7.—Dr.
John J. Tigert, United States Com
missioner of Education with head
quarters in Washington, D. C., ar
rived in Seattle yesterday in con
nection with the government educa
tional activities among the natives in
Alaska. He will prolong his stay in
this city to about four days and will
be in conference with J. H. Wagner,
the head of the Alaska division of
the Bureau of Education who has his
offices in Seattle at the present time.
The reindeer industry in Alaska
among the natives has grown to such
immense proportions that it has be
come a difficult problem to handle
by the bureau of education, said Ti
gert in an interview in this city with
newspaper correspondents. Herds of
late, have increased so rapidly that
in some parts of the Seward penin
sula rhey are so numerous as to be
of little value. Our problem now,
said Tigert, is to find a ready mar
ket for the surplus stock that is not
required for the native's use.
A party of teaheers are sailing on
the steamship Victoria for the fol
lowing destinations: MBr. and Mrs.
Edward Reese, Diomede; Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Schmidt, Igloo; Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Nichols ,Selawick; Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar L. King, Wales; Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Ilson, Elim; Mrs. G.
O. Brady, Kotzebue; Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Troutman, Gamble, St. Law
rence island. Mr. and Mrs Reese were
married last night. Mrs. Reese was
Maude Kelsey of this city.
TROTZKY MAKES
FIERCE ATTACK ON
THE UNITED STATES
MOSCOW, Ang. 7.—In the fiercest
j attack he has yet mad against “Am
erican imperialism,” as typified in
the Hughes-Coolidge-Dawes interven
tion in European affairs, Leon Trot
* sky in a speech here this afternoon
j bid Russia to be ready for the great
I est catastrophe in human history.
He contends that America is med
dling in European affairs and that
1 it means the ultimate reduction of
■ European countries to a state of vas
! sal age, similar to That of the Bal
kans.
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I FLYERS BE HELD
UNTIL GOOD WEATHER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 7.—
No matter how long, the Air Service
department of the United States Ar
my will hold the Army flyers at Rey
kjavik, iceland, until weather and
ice conditions assure reasonably safe
landing on fhe Eastern coast of
Greenland, was announced
MISSOURI REPUBLICANS
NOMINATE CANDIDATES
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 7.—Dr. Arthur
W .Nelson.of Bunceton, Sam A. Bak
er of Jefferson City were nominated
by the democrats and Republicans,
respectively, for the governorship.
J. M. Davis, incumbent, was renomi
nated by the Democrats for the Kan
sas governorship, while Lieutenant
Governor Ben. S. Pauley won the Re
state
USES ANCHOR PULL TOOTH;
HE BLEEDS TO DEATH
CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 7.—Sam
Allen, waiter on the steamer Cincin
nati, a river boat, had a toothache
last night. He fastened one end of
a string to the tooth and the other
to an anchor and cast the latter in
to the river and with it went the
tooth and part of Sam’s jaw. He
thought that everything would be all
right, retired, and this morning his
body was found in his bunk. Allen
had bled to death during the night.
At the Kodiak Experimental sta
tion they are developing a strictly
Alaskan dairy cow herd from the
Galloway strain crossed with the
Holstein-Fresian. Thus endurance
and milk production are both guar
anteed . These cows are a distinct
breed and very well adapted to the
Alaskan climate. At the present time
seven of these cows are being milk
ed at Kodiak .
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