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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 172
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Presidential Party at Juneau This Morning
HENRY FORD IS SUED BY PROMINENT
JEWISH EDITOR FOB LIBELOUS STATE
MENTS MADE 111 HIS MAGAZINE
EPITHETS USED IN DEARBORN INDEPENDENT,
FORD’S WEEKLY, CAUSES PROMINENT EDI
TOR TO START LIBEL SUIT
NEW YORK, July 10— Herman Bernstein, editor of.
the Jewish Tribune, announced today that he had ietain-j
ed Samuel Untermeyer to institute a libel suit a^amstj
Henry Ford, the basis of the action being an article in lhe
Dearborn Independent, Ford’s magazine, charging Bern
stein with being “a spy,” and of being the head of a myth
ical combination of international Jewish bankers.
ELKS OPEN CONVENTION AT ATLANTA
ATLANTA, July 10.—The fifty-ninth grand. lodge
convention and reunion of Benevolent and Piotecti\e Ol
der of Elks opened this afternoon.
FRANCE RATIFIES WASHINGTON TREATY
P4RIS July 10—Without reservations the French
Chamber of Deputies ratified the treaty signed at Wash
ington, November, 1921, by Britain, France, Japan and
the United States.
FORMER ASSOCIATE JUSTICE DEAD
CLEVELAND, 0., July 10.—Former Associate Justice
* Day, of the United States Supreme Court, died today at
Mackinac Island, Michigan.
ROLAND R. POTHER IS RELEASED
PROVIDENCE, R. I., July 10.—Roland R. Pothier,
imprisoned for the past nine months in connection with
the murder of Major Cronkhite, at Camp Lewis, was re
leased today on a mandate from the Federal Court Ox Ap
peals.
PARTY WILL
24 MHRS
WILL SAIL FOR SEWARD TOMOR
ROW MORNING ARRIVING BE
TWEEN 3 AND 8 FRIDAY
JUNEAU, July 10—President War
* ren G. Harding and party arrived
here this morning accompanied by
Governor and Mrs. Scott C. Bone, w ho
met him at Ketchikan. The party
will spend 24 hours at Juneau, sailing
for Seward direct, tomorrow. The
transport called in at Taku glacier on
its way to this port, where the Pres
ident witnessed the spectacle of huge
bergs crashing into the water.
President and Mrs. Harding will be
guests of Governor and Mrs. Scott C.
Bone this afternoon.
A HOT GAME
DEATH VALLEY, Calif., —Seventy
fans watched a ball game here last
week when the thermometer was 107
in the shade, a cool day for Junction.
The Death Valley Swatters beat the
Ludlow Braves 17 to 5.
There is but one tree in town and
that shelters the thermometer.
CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE
PRODUCES $25,000 000
4 SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 10
Fifty million contributions, totalling
$25,000,000 have been made to the na
tional, state and local tuberculosis
associations of this country in the
last fifteen years through the annual
Christmas seal sales.
Seward has a large number of fine
automobiles. Buicks, Studebakers,
Chevrolets, Stars and Fords come in
the order named.
WANTED—Five or six room house
unfurnished; phone or call at Gate
| way office.
A
ANTONIO LAPPAI HEALTHY
AND HAPPY AT 125 YEARS
LONDON, July 10—The latest en
trant for international old age hon
ors is a Hungarian woman by the
name of Antonio Lappai, whose age is
authenticated at 125 years. She is in
excellent health and very active.
In answer to inquiries as to her
health Antonio says she wore glasses
until she was 95, but since then she
has been able to see clearly without
artifitial aid. She has been a widow
for fifty years and lives by nursing in
her community.
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DEFIES JUDGE AND SOCIAL WORK
ERS BY HAVING CHILD
DENVER, July 10.—A defiance she
hurled at authorities and social work
ers when in November, 1921, they re
commended she bring no more child
ren into the world, was made good
Friday when Mrs. Gertrude Cossidenti
wife of an interpreter of this citys
gave birth to a baby boy.
At the time, 19 months ago that a
national discussion wras precipitated
over the recommendation of Judge R.
R. Graham in the juvenile court that
an operation be performed on the
mother who already had a large flock
of children, Mrs. Cossidenti declared.
“I will have another child *£ I wish
it. You have no right to dictate that
children cannot be born to the poor.”
NOTICE TO SEWARD WOMEN
At a meeting of the Civic Commit
tee held last evening it was decided
that the women of Seward present
Mrs. Harding with a gift. It is the
aim of the committee in charge to ask
every woman for a small donation.
Owing to shortness of time it may be
impossible to reach every one. In case
the committee has not called kindly
leave donations at the Seward Drug
Company before Wednesday evening.
Wanted—Three room furnished cot
tage; apply at Gateway.
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COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO, NEW YORK
IT WAS WORTH FIGHTING FOR
Roger Wetherel, youthful Englishman, who recently won the amateur j
golf title of England against a field of some of the finest English and U
S. golfers, is seen receiving the trophy from the hands of Mr. Usher, ca:
tain of the Royal Cinque Ports Club at Deal, where the match took place
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long drawn out negotiations between
ENGLAND AND FRANCE OVER RUHR LEAVE
STRAINED RELATIONS
LONDON, July 10.—Premier Stanley Baudwin an
nounced last night before the House of Commons that he
would lay before Parliament Thursday all the facts in the
lone drawn out fruitless negotiations which Lord Curzon
and he* have ronducted with Premier Poincare for settle
ment of the porblems arising out of the occupation of the
Ruhr and Rhineland, and the reparations question. His
remarks indicated that a grave situation had arisen be
tween France and Britain over the Ruhr occupation.
HARDING WILL MAKE NO PROMISES
WRANGELL, Alaska, July 10.—Addressing briefly a
delegation who waited on him to explain the needs of the
community, President Harding said he was only on a trip
of observation and would make no promises.
FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERING RLSP.AND
CHICAGO, July 10.—Mrs. Saville Ditti Crudeile,
was found guilty of murdering Frank Ditti, her husband,
and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
BANK FINANCING FIGHT CLOSES DOORS
GREAT FALLS, Mont., July 10.—The Stanton Trust
! and Savings Bank, whose president, George H. Stanton,
I largely financed the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, closed its
doors today, owing its depositors $600,000.
It is stated the bank and fight promoters lost heavily,
owing to the attendance at the fight being far below ex
pectations.
ONCE REMOTE DISTRICT NOW
HAS NETWORK ROADS
OLYMPIA, July 10— Nine years ago
it was nearly impossible to reach the
Olympic peninsula unless one went by
boat and then traveled a long ways
afoot. There are now three routes—
auto road, steamer service and a rail
road. Moreover the 0]frmpic penin
sula is honeycombed with auto stage
lines serving territory opened up the
past few years.
FLEET EXPECTED IN PORT
Admiral Chase and his survey fleet
of six vessels is expected to reach
port some time tomorrow afternoon,
to meet the President.
PRETTY FRENCH GIRL
ACCUSED KILLING
HUSBAND
EGYPTIAN NOBLEMAN IS FOUND
DEAD IN APARTMENTS OF
LONDON HOTEL
LONDON, July 10.—Princess Ma
rie Marguerite Fahmy, a pretty young
French girl was arrested here today
and is confined in the Bow Street
jail charged with the murder of her
husband, an Egyptian nobleman, last
night at the Hotel Savoy.
Saturday Gateway, $3 per year.
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SECOND VICTIM OF ENDURANCE BALLOONING
CONTEST FOUND TODAY IN WATERS
OF LAKE NEAR ONTARIO
WINDSOR, Ont., July 10— A body believed to be that
of Lieiut. T. B. Hull, the second missing American bal
loonist who departed with Lieutenant Roth in the ill-fated
balloon, A-6688, was found today in the lake off Point Pe
lee. The body of Lieut. Roth was found lashed to the
basket of the balloon, floating in Lake Erie, near Port
Stanley, Ont., yesterday.
ON TRIAL FOR KILLING MOTHER IN-LAW
NEWARK, N. J., July 10.—Mrs. Mary F. Creighton
was placed on trial this afternoon for the murder of Mrs.
Anna Creighton, her mother-in-law.
WOMAN SENTENCED TO BE ELECTROCUTED
NEW YORK, July 10.—Mrs. Anna Buzzi was sen
tenced to be executed for the murder of Frederick Schnei
der with whom she lived eight years as his wife.
AGED SPINSTER EVICTED; ONCE WEALTHY
NEW YORK, July 10.—Miss Sarah Lodwick, an aged
spinster wTas evicted today from her Madison avenue
apartments for non-payment of rent. The woman, once
wealthy, vTas a recent luncheon guest of J. P. Morgan.
TWO PRESIDENTS TO MEET AT BOUNDARY
WASHINGTON, July 10.—President Harding and
President Obregon of Mexico will meet in the near future
on the American and Mexician border and pledge them
selves to work for the lasting friendship between the tw^o
nations, ^
CHICAGO PHYSICIAN DELIVERS
BRAIN STORM AT NEW YORK
NEW YORp. July 10—In a speecn
| at the American Osteopathic conven
tion Dr. Grant Mitchell of Chicago
said that America is rearing a race of
starch drunkards, that prohibition is
creating a new vicious national ps\ -
c ho logy, and that the whites domi
1 nate because they took up an abode
by the sea whence they obtained food
i rich in iodine.
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DOC HORNADAY ERUPTING
I NEW YORK, Jul lo.—Extinction of
the quail and prairie chicken with a
decade was predicted here today by
Dr. W. T. Hornaday, director of the
New York zoo.
JURORS HE WELL FED:
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BELLINGHAM, Wn., July 10—A
j bill submitted to the county clerk
! this morning from a local restaurant
' for feeding twelve jurymen and a bai
liff last night indicates that Whatcom
i county jurors are well fed. The ju
! rors sat in the $50,000 damage suit
of Julius Corbin vs. The Diehl and
Ford Motor companies.
Last night a bill for dining twelve
jurors and the bailiff totaled $13.50,
or a little more than $1. The follow
ing bill of fare indicating the dishes
served, follows:
One bowl of chowder, seven bowls
of soup, four legs of pork, two chop
ped pork steaks, one beef tenderloin,
one T-bone steak, two fried chickens^
one Belgian hare, two orders of fried
salmon, four combination salads, one
order of cucumbers, one order of peas
and thirteen dishes of dessert.
GIRL HEROINE GIVES LIFE
VANCOUVER, Wash., July 10.—
Miss Ruth Padden, 25, of this city,
was drowned in the Lewis river near
Heleson, 30 miles from here, while at
tempting to save her sister-in-law,
who screamed for help. Miss Padden
was swept over the 20 foot falls onto
the rocks below and life was extinct
when she was recovered 20 minutes
later.
ESCAPE TO HILLS WITH NINETY
CAPTIVES TAKEN FROM A
TRAIN NEAR CANTON
HONGKONG, July 10—Twenty of
the bandits who held ui> a train near
Canton last Saturday were killed in
a battle with Chinese troops. The
main body of bandits, however, es
caped to the hills with ninety well-to
do Chinese who were taken prisoners
when the train was raided.
HOOVER DEFEATED BY HOLLAND
HENLY, Eng., July 10.—Walter M.
Hoover of Duluth was defeated by D.
Holland of England in a preliminary
heat of a diamond sculling event. He
was beaten by 8 minutes and 24 sec
onds. Hoover struck a boom and
split an oar, which lost him ten
lengths at the start.
ACCIDENTAL KILLING
ABERDEEN, July 10.—Manslaugh
ter charges will be filed against Pete
Howard 52, a carpenter, who yester
day shot and killed E. W. Clayton, 41,
railroad bridge worker, during a vis
it to another man’s home. Howard
declares the shooting was accidental,
his revolver being discharged when he
was showing it to Clayton.
MICHIGAN CITY: When Mrs. Wal
ter Lockerbie returned to her home
after a short absence and could not
find her electric iron, search dis
closed it in the cellar. She had fail
ed to turn off the electricity and the
iron had burned a hole through the
ironing board, fell to the floor, burn
ed a hole through the floor and fell
into the cellar.
The Brooklyn Eagle party will be in
Cordova in time to catch the Alame
da south. They are at McKinley Park
today.