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VOLUME XX, NUMBER 322.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
>' ALASKA SAILING
VESSEL CHANGES
HANDS, SEATTLE
SCHOONER SOPHIE CHRISTENSON
IS BOT BY J. E. SHIELDS
SOUTH SEA TRADE
SEATTLE, Dec. 1.—For service to
, the South Sea Islands, J. E. Shields
of Seattle recently purchased the
four-master sailing schooner Sophie
Christenson from the Westward
Packing company. The vessel has
♦ been lying in Lake Washington since
her arrival here last August from Al
aska, where she was used in the sal
mon fishing trade. The schooner
has been moored at Houghton and
yesterday was towed to the plant of
the Todd Dry Docks, Inc., where she
will be drydocked this week for
cleaning and painting, preparatory to
a voyage with lumber from the North
Pacific Coast to the South Sea Isles.
The purchase of the vessel was
made through the Wilbur E. Dow
Company, Inc., Seattle customs house
brokers.
The Sophie Christenson was built
in Port Blakely in 1901 and is one
of the finest vessels of her rig and
^ type on the Pacific Coast.
S. S. NEWPORT
NEWS SOLD BY
CAPTAIN BLAIN
FORMER NAVAL TRANSPORT, LY
ING IDLE IN SEATTLE IS PUR
CHASED TO SERVE AS A CAN
NERY VESSEL.
SEATTLE, Dec. 1. (/P)—Closing an
important deal in ship tonnage, Cap
tain John F. Blaine, wartime district
manager in Seattle for the Shipping
Board Emergency Fleet Corporation,
yesterday sold the former naval trans
port Newport News, a vessel of 10,
000 tons displacement, to the Alas
ka Packers’ Association of San Fran
cisco. The Newport News, which is
now lying at the bunkers of the Pa
cific Coast Coal company in Seat
tle, will be towed to San Francisco,
where she will be reconditioned and i
will undergo alterations from San :
Francisco to the plants of the Alas- j
ka Packers’ Association in Alaska.
Captain Blain purchased the New
port News from the Navy Depart
t ment w'hile the vessel was lying idle j
at the Naval Station, Puget Sound. !
She formerly was the German steam-!
ship Odenwald and was interned dur
ing the Warld war on the East Coast
The vessel served as a naval trans
port during and after the war and
arrived at the Naval Station, Puget
Sound, from the East Coast about a
year ago with a cargo of coal.
The Newport News was built in
Flensburg, Germany, by the Flens
burg Shipbuilding Company in 1904.
She is 356.9 feet long, 45.5 feet beam
and 23.6 feet in depth. She is able
to maintain a speed of thirteen knots.
JAPANESE VESSEL
DISABLED AT SEA:
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CORDOVA, Dec. 1 (/P)—The steam- <
ship West Orowa, bound from Japan 1
, to Portland, is in latitude 51:42, longi- 1
tude 170:30 with a lost rudder, rud- !
der post, shoe and part of her stern. I
Messages were received at Duth Har- i
bor and St. Paul radio stations that i
the vessel had rigged a jury rudder 1
and was proceeding toward Japan, 1
steering badly. ]
Women’s hats are less fragile than
they seem. Think of the masculine i
language they survive. <
PIUS XI WILL ASSIST IN
CELEBRATION ANNIVERSARY
ROME, Dec. 1 (/p)—The Tribuna said
that Pius XI will visit and assist next
year to inaugurate a monastery cele
bration of the seventieth centenary
of the death of St. Francis.
WOMAN JUMPS OVERBOARD
SAN PEDRO, Cal., Dec. 1 (/P)—Mrs.
Hannal Singer, 55 years old, jumped
overboard two days out of Balboa, it
was learned here today when the liner
Ecuador docked here. She was trav
eling from Buenos Aires to San Fran
cisco to make her home with a son.
HARTLEY VETOES
RECLAMATION ACT
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OLYMPIA, Dec. 1 (/P)—Governor
Hartley vetoed the Banker reclama
tion bill, saying, “the measure com
mits the state to land settlement and
a program without reasonable restric
tions or adequate safeguards; a policy
which the state cannot follow without
disaster to itself and harmful effect,
disaster and harmful in effect to the
whole plan of Federal reclamation.”
The House voted to make the bill a
special order of business at 2 o’clock
Tuesday. Opponents and proponents
of the bill are both claiming a suffi
cient number of votes to sustain or
override the veto.
Former Seward Residents
Living At Sioux Falls
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Miller, former resi
dents of Seward, who left here about
a year ago for the States, are now
residing at Sioux Falls, S. D., where
Mr. Miller is working is working
steadily at his trade of carpentering.
Prior to their departure from Seward
both enjoyed a moose hunt on the
Kenai peninsula and procured a splen
did specimen.
In a letter received locally Mrs. Mil
ler said they were visited recently by
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cerney, former j
residents of Cordova, and who are also
well known in Seward. The Cerney’s
had been living in Oakland, since their
departure from the Copper river town
but it was Mr. Cerney’s intention to
return North next spring, while Mrs.
Cerney would probably make her home
temporarily with her folks at Sioux j
Falls.
NOTICE OF MEETING
Business meeting of the Seward 1
Athletic Club will be held at 8 o’clock j
tomorrow, Wednesday, night. All i
members are requested to be present, j
HOWARD ASSUMES
DUTIES AS AGENT
AT PORTJUNEAU
FORMER ANCHORAGE AGENT OF '
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO., J
HAS BEEN PROMOTED <
Brice Howard, newly appointed Ju- <
leau agent for the Pacific Steamship
Company, is now in charge of the
)ffice, having arrived from Seattle the
)ast wreek. He succeeds C. C. Nichols. '<■
Mr. Howard is well known in Seward *
laving made numerous trips here in (
:onnection with the Anchorage office, '
vhere he was in charge for the past <
wo years. Mr. Howard passed thru I
Seward two months ago en route to i
he Seattle officd following the clos- c
ng down of the Inlet office. It was 1
innounced a few weeks ago that Mr. ‘
loward was slated for a position at
Miami, Fla., to which state his com
>any are now operating a line from f
sTew York. j
Mr. Howard has been in Alaska at t
ntervals since 1913, going first to An- s
ihorage in the early days of the city. I
REID CLASHES IN
MITCHELL CASE
WITH GRAVES
GRAVES INTERRUPTS PROCEED
INGS BY INTERJECTION IT
WAS “ALL BOSH"
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1 (£>)—
After a clash by Senator Reid with
Major General William Graves, a mem
ber of the Mitchell court, the court
martial suspended trial and consulted
behind closed doors, after which Reid
challenged the right of Graves to sit
in the court. Graves made the remark
that it was “all bosh,” as Reid was
cross-examining Capt. H. E. Yarnell, of
the Navy. Graves asserted that he
had not interrupted the proceedings of
the court Friday, when Brigadier Gen
eral Edward L. King, a member of the
court whispered, “Damn rot!” con
ing the defense.
The testimony has been reported
to the War Department, despite King’s
apology.
Previous to Graves’ remark Major
Gullion, assistant judge advocate, ob
jected to Reid’s “insulting treatment
of witnesses,” declaring Reid was un
necessarily investigating the private
lives of such witnesses.
The point referred to was where
Reid asked Yarnell, “Are you a good
example of a non-flying officer who
commands a flying unit?”
Yarnell declared himself incompe
tent to answer such a question.
MOOSE HOLDS UP
PASSENGER TRAIN
ANCHORAGE, Nov. 30 (JP)—A
northbound passenger train was held
up at Mile 60, when a bull moose re
fused to heed the whistle and attack
ed the engine. The animal’s mate was
bumped from the track by the train
as it stopped.
GERMANY WILL GO DRY
EASTVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 1 (JP)—De
spite the fondness of the German peo
ple for their beer, Dr. Ernest Harring
ton, general secretary of the world’s
peace league against alcoholism, it is
believed that Germany will be the j
next great naf ion to go dry. Econom-1
ic conditions demand the change, he j
said.
HARD BOILED SOLDIER IS
NOW THING OF THE PAST
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1 (/p)—
rhat the modern soldier goes to
church is indicated by the report of
Z!ol. W. Sexton, chief of chaplains to
Secretary Davis. The had boiled type
)f soldier has passed and in his place
s springing up the soldier who goes
o church and writes home regularly.
BABE RUTH’S AUTO WRECKED
BLACKSTONE, Mass., Dec. 1 (/P)—
rhe auto of Babe Ruth was wrecked
md four persons injured, including the
:hauffeur. High speed was the cause.
Babe Ruth was in New York at the
ime.
JUDGE RALSTON TALKS
NEW YORK, Dec. 1. (^)—In an
iddress at Calvery Baptist church, :
rudge John Ralston who presided
•ver the Scopes evolution trial in :
Tennessee urged that the teaching of
ivolutio nin the public schools be
irohibited in order t o“prevent cor
uption of society and the downfall
civilization.” He denounced New
Workers -who call Tennesseans <
Yokes.” j
MONTCLAIR, N. J., Dec. 1 (JP)—A J s
ery cross has been burned in the 1
ard of Wm. E. Jackson, negro con- s
ractor and former Columbia football <
tar, who is engaged to marry Miss i
lelen Burns, white. <
BUSINESS MAN SHOOTS SELF [
AND HIS THREE PARTNERS
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1 (/P)—John j
L. Hitchcock, well to do property own- j
er here, arose in the midst of a busi-:
nes^, conference in a down town office
yesterday, shot his three conferees
inflicting severe wounds, and then
shot himself in the head. He is be
lieved to be dying.
FRENCH ARE REINFFORCED
BEIRUT, Syria, Dec. 1 (£>)—French
reinforcements converging on the
town of Rashelya, west of Damascus,
have routed the Druse tribesmen who
were besieging the French garrison of
250 men thereby rescuing the defend
ers from what at the time seemed an-1
nihilation.
TEXAS SOLONS TO
MEET IN JANUARY
AMARILLO, Texas, Dec. 1 (JP)—
The lower House of the Texas legis
lature will be called in special session
January 4, Speaker Satterwhite said.
A fund of §300,000 to pay the expenses
of the session has already been
raised.
EDITOR DENVER
PAPERS DEAD
—
DENVER, Dec. 1 (JP)—Captain Jas.
T. Smith, mining editor of the Rocky
Mountain News and the Denver Times
died today at the age of 79 years,
after a brief illness.
WILD CAT RUN DOWN BY AUTO
KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 1 (/P)—A i
very large specimen of wild cat was
run down by a motorist here last;
night when it was blinded by the head
lights.
MEDICAL PROFESSOR ROBBED
CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (JP)—Elton Moul- j
ton, famous Northwestern university
medical professor was robbed of his '
valuables at Evanston by two bandits '
who held guns against his body and
threatened him with detail after mak
ing him drive two miles out of the
city.
NO DIVORCE FOR CRUGERS
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1 (JP)—Mrs.
Frederick Cruger of New York, who
was frequently the dancing partner
of the Prince of Wales during his
month’s visit in New York, denied that t
she is in Mexico seeking a divorce, j 1
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HEAVY
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KILLS LABORERS :
TAMPA, FLORIDA;
TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 1 (/P)—A heavy (
gale which hit this city last night,
killed five negro laborers who were
asleep in a bunkhouse with fifty oth
ers. Four men are missing, and sev- I
entteen were injured. The wind reach- g
ed a velocity of 48 miles an hour. t
At 1:15 this mornihg fire destroyed r
Lhe fertilizer plant at this place, with t
£200,000 loss. I
The storm centered southeast of o
aere. t
30DY OF BEAUTY PARLOR g
WOMAN FOUND IN THICKET c
OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 1 (jP)—The body
)f Mrs. Hans C. Jensen, 43 years of
ige, a beauty parlor proprietor, was
bund in a thicket in the southern
section of the city, early today. Near
he body was a broken! hammer and a
samll, sharp knife. The woman had
svidently been hit in the head with
i< hammer and an effort made later to
:ut off her head with the knife.
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STEAM SCHOONER
ASHORE ON BAR
GRAYS HARBOR
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 1 (#>)—An.
unidentified 3-masted steam schooner
is reported ashore on the south side
of the north jetty at Grays Harbor.
Five men came ashore from the ship
in a small boat. The coast guard is
preparing to rescue the rest of the
crew with beach apparatus. A boat
from the Westport coast guard sta
tion approached the schooner, but was
unable to reach her side on account
of the vessel’s position.
The life savers were forced to wade
in water neck deep to their own boat
after deciding to use the breeches
buoy. The men aboard are believed
to be in no danger.
LAFOLLETTE MEMBER BE
THROWN OFF COMMITTEES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30 —
Republican plans to throw LaFollette
members off the committees and re
assign committee members. Senate
leaders are pondering on what com
mittee assignments to place Robert
LaFollette.
WILLIAM A. DIXON, RELATIVE
OF FRICK, COMMITS SUICIDE
BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 1 (£>)—W.
A. Dixon, a brother-in-law of the late
Henry Frick, multimillionaire steel
magnate and husband of Lilly Cris
field, both well known in Washington,
was found shot to death today in a
barn, after appearing in the tragic
role of a charity play which preyed on
bis mind.
MITCHELL COURT MARTIAL
DENIES MOTION OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1 (Jp)—
President Crowley of the Fleet Corpo
’ation recommended that the shipping
joard reject the bid of R. Stanley Dol
ar for the charter and purchase of
he Oriental Line.
LOCARNO TREATY
ASSURES PEACE
OF OLD WORLD
LONDON, Dec. 1 (/P)—The Locarno
reaty, binding the leading powers of
Europe to maintain the territorial
rontiers established under the Ver
ailles treaty, even to the extent of
rar, was signed today.
Premier Briand said: “The peace of
he world could not have been effect
ed without some great demonstration
>f international good will as this cere
nony is the most important event in
he history of the modern world.”
/OOLIDGE WRITES MESSAGE
BE DELIVERED TO CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1 (£>)—
’resident Coolidge last night was en
rossed in writing into his message
0 Congress a series of constructive
ecommendations to develop further
tie material resources of the nation,
le is interested in the consolidation
f railroads into a dozen great sys
ems, the development of waterways
icluding the St. Lawrence river, and
reat lakes to the gulf project to fa
ilitate inland shipping to the gulf
orts and the erection of the Boulder
tanyon dam for flood control and in
reased water supply for the great
outhwest. Also the government’s as
istance of cooperative marketing and
isposition of Muscle Shoals to pri
ate interests which may operate it
rith guarantees that they will pro
ide nitrates enough for farmers in
eace times and for the government
1 time of war.