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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 34
SEWARD,
ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1926.
PRIC17', TEN CENTS
INJUNCTION PROCEEDING HELD AGAINST
PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM TAKING MOVIES
NENANA, Alaska, Feb. 11. (AP)—The Wilkins gasoline sup
plies arrived, but mystery surrounded when the members fail
ed to unload the supplies but was dispelled when an airplane from
Fairbanks brought a court order temporarily restraining news photo
graphers from taking pictures.
The order in reference was directed at Merle Lavoy and Richard
Suratt, restraining them to take pictures of the expedition from Ne
nana to Point Barrow. It was set forth that this expedition is a pri
vate enterprise and is not financed by the Government or the pub
lic, and that it hoped to pay its own expenses on the sale of pictures.
The advance party is set for Thursday.
SEATTLE, Wn., Feb. 11. (AP)—Captain Wilkins, head of the
expedition to the North Pole said: “We are not setting out to discov
er nor pay any attention to the North Pole.” It is contemplaeed that
three flights will take place, two in search of unexplored continents,
and one to Spitzberben. This is in connection with metalolgical sta
tins and the project is designed to forecast weather by seasons instead
of days.
SEATTLE, Wn., Feb. 11. (AP)—Captain Wilkins and Major
Lanphier arrived last night and will sail for Seward Saturday.
SIBERIAN GOV T
CARE FOR ALEUTS
VLADIVOSTOK, Feb. 11. (/P)—1The
Siberian Revolutionary Committee
yesterday arranged for the transfer of I
Aleuts of the Komandorski Islands to
Siberia. There will be supplies and
hunting equipment, clothing and food
for one year advanced by the govern
ment.
It was discovered that the race, j
which is a branch of Eskimos, was
threatened with extinction owing to
the severe conditions prevailing at the
present time among them.
GOVERNMENT NOT
RESPONSIBLE FOR
WEATHERCHANGE
SECRETARY FOR MERCHANT MA
RINE SAYS WILL NOT BE RE
SPONSIBLE FOR LOSSES
PARIS, Feb. 10. (IP)—The axiom
coined by Mr. Dooley when the pres
ent chief justice of the United States
was president “If it rains just blame
Taft,” find little favor with members
of Premier Briand’s cabinet. In an
open debate in the Chamber of Dep
uties, Charles Danielou, under-secre
tary for the Merchant Marine, an
nounced flaitly that the government
would not assume responsibility for
sthe weather.
This declaration of principle was
provoked by the communist deputy,
Andre Marty. This deputy demanded
that the government take drastic
measures to prevent recurrence of
some recent losses of life boats along
the Brittany coast.
“These disasters can not be im
puted to the government,” M. Dan
ielou replied. “The sea and weath
er alone are responsible. At any
rate we are doing our best to en
courage life saving organizations.”
VANDERVEER
ADMITS LIQUOR
WASHANDLED
SEATTLE, Feb. 30. (£>)—Vander
veer in an opening statement did not
deny Olmsted and the defendants
handled liquor but promised to prove
there was no conspiracy to violate
prohibition. He admitted Olmsted
Avas engaged in the “legitimate” im
portation of liquor from Scotland to
Canada, and transportation to Mexi
co.
VALENTINE DAY SUNDAY
The children and even the grown-ups
are having much fun selecting Valen
tines for Valentine Day is but a few
days in the offing. Much hilarity is
being created with the comics Avhich
friends are sending to one another.
The local stores have a splendid sel
ection of beautiful ones, however, for
which there is a good demand. Have
you got your’s yet?
Good DroErram at the Liberty.
A ROYAL CLERK
k«y»T0Ni^!iyre_6^>(i*tste(tK
Prince Oscar of Prussia, the fourth
son of the Kaiser Welhelm, former
monarch of Germany, is now engaged
in an office at Potsdam as a clerk.
He is leading a very democratic life
with his family. He is shown at his
desk in his new office.
TERRIFIC STORMS
PALL N.E. STATES
NEW YORK, Feb. 11. (/P)—A bitter
cold snap, followed by a terrific bliz
zard which took the toll of sixteen
lives, held this section snowbound for
twenty-four hours. The storm heaped
drifts ten to twelve feet high in many
sections of the New England States.
SEWARD BASKETBALL FIVE
INVADES TOWN ANCHORAGE
To give the Anchorage basketball
team an opportunity to regain lost
laurels the Seward five departed for
the Inlet this morning where they will
stage a three-game series in the Anch
orage high school gymnasium. The
team will return to town Saturday. L.
Tinkler, telegraph operator and mem
ber of the local squad promised faith
fully to wire The Gateway the game
in detail.
Comprising the localites who are
invading the Inlet metropolis are the
following: Tinkler and Chya, guards;
Johnson, center; McEwan, Irv. Dyer,
forwards, Leslie, sub.
HEAALY RIVER COAL COMPANY
DELIVER MUCH COAL INTERIOR
During the recent visit in Seward
of A. Lathrop, head of the Lathrop in
terests, and A. E. Hewitt, general
manager, The Gateway was informed
that the Healy River Coal Mine at
Suntrana, of which Capt. Lathrop is
president, was engaged in delivering
2500 tons of coal to the big Whitworth
dredge on Fish creek, Fairbanks dis
trict. From the rail head to Fish
creek the coal is being hauled over
land with the aid of caterpillars and
traillers.
Supt. Starr of the Seward fish hatch
ery, following an overnight business
trip into town, returned to the plant
this morning.
JUDICIARY COM.
FAVORS JOBS
TO INCUMBENTS
J WASHINGTON, D. C.r Feb. 11.
* (AP)—The Senate Judiciary Com
I mittee ordered favorable reports
( on the nominations of G. J. Lo
■ men, judge for the Second Divi
l sion, and four other court offi
I cials in Alaska.
J It is presumed that the latter
J four offiicals mentioned are
l those upon whom criticism has
i been heaped upon lately by the
J Frame faction—Ed.
SENATE JUDICIARY COM M ITTTEE
RECOMMENDS INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. 11. (/P)
—The Senate Judiicary Committee rec
ommended another investigation into
the Aluminum Company of America.
RAILROAD VESSEL TO
MAKE SPECIAL TRIP
BETHEL NEXT SPRING
Railroad headquarters announce that
iq the spring, following the opening
of the Interior river steamboat travel,
the General Jacobs, owned and oper
ated by the Alaska Railroad, will make
a special trip up the Koyukuk to Beth
el with a cargo of approximately 100
tons of mining equipment. At this
time but the one trip is scheduled, it
is reported.
JANITOR TAKES •
CARE LAW CASES
FOR HIS TENANTS
PARIS APARTMENT HOUSE HAS
OWN LAWYER, WHO IS AL
WAYS BUSY
PARIS, Feb. 11. (/P)—Posted near a
door leading into the janitor’s little
cubby hole under the stairs of a big
apartment house in the rue Monge, is
the following sign:
“The janitor is also a lawyer and a
member in good standing of the Paris
! bar. He attends to the interests of
the tenants before the civil tribunal
and the court of appeals.”
It is said the janitor’s room is sel
dom empty. The only cases which
the janitor-lawyer refuses to accept
are those which concern disputes be
tween tenants and the proprietor of
the apartment house. These latter
pay him a salary as a janitor and al
lows him free rent.
TODAY’S WEATHER
Temperature, 30 above.
Clear weather.
A bag of fox skins were received inI
Seward last evening for shipment to
the States, from Charles Mackwitz, of
Cleary.
BAD NEWS FOR
NIGHT HAWKS IS
GIVEN BY ARTIST
PORTRAIT ARTIST SAYS MUST
HAVE TWELVE HOURS
SLEEP TO WORK
LONDON, Feb. 11. (jP)—There is
bad news in the latest statement
by Sir William Orpen, one of the
world’s most famous portrait artists,
for the boys and girls of Greenwich
Village, Mont Martre and similar
places who give up most of their
nights to “learning life” and accu
mulating atmosphere for artistic
careers.
iSir William asserted that he can
not do satisfactory work on less than
twelve hours of sleep out of twenty
four, and night sleep at that. He
goes to bed at ten o’clock and sleeps
through until ten the next morning.
Then he has a light lunch and wroks
while his mind is clear and his body
rested. In the late afternoons he is
found walking in Hyde Park.
BELGIAN PRELATE CRITICALLY
Cardinal Mercier, of Belgimum, who
passed away about a month ago. This
picture was taken just before his re
cent illness and demise.
I A NIK f AMMITTfE
JjAIwo wirimi i iju
APPROVE BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11. (Jp)
—The House Public Lands committee
approved the Sutherland bill, authoriz
ing the departure from rectangular
homestead survey system in Alaska.
This bill, it is said, would overcome
the difficulties of irregularity and ter
rain divergence of meridian lines.
SENATE APPROVES REPEAL
OF INHERITANCE TAX
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11. (#>)—
The Senate approved the repeal of
the inheritance tax.
ROYAL FAMILY
WILL NOT LIVE
AT MARLBOROUGH
SETTINGS OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA
TOO SOMBRE FOR RISING
GENERATION
LONDON, Feb. 11. (JP)—None of
the royal family seems to want to
live at Marlborough House, the city
home of ithe late Queeh Alexandra.
There was an effort to set it aside
for the Duke and Duchess of York,
and then it was suggested to the
prince of Wales that it would be a
fitting place for the heir to the throne
to live. But the old place is “too
red plushy” for the younger genera
tion of Windsors. And they have
been rather frank in saying' so. It
was done over in Victorian Days
to conform with the taste of Queen
VictotJc. and is a good deal of a mu
seum.
Those were the days of collectors.
Gifts of every sort were herded to
gether in houses with the result (that
Marlborough House ihas much of the
look of a curiosity shop with a som
bre background of dark wood and
heavy draperies.
ERIC NELSON TO FAIRBANKS
WHERE BE LUUMBEBR AGENT
Eric Nelson, contractor, departed
for Fairbanks this morning where he
will act as lumber agent for Oscar An
derson. Mr. Anderson arrived in Se
ward last night from his Anchoraee
headquarters, en route to Knights Is
land with a force of four men where
they will install new boilers in the
mill, it is understood Mr. Anderson
will assume personal charge of tie
making, golging and mill work and
will remain on the ground until the
work is well under way.
It is learned several gool lumber
contracts have already been secured
by the company, and, according to
Mr. Nelson, there are numerous pros
pects for other orders, especially in
the Interior country. He expects to re
main in Faibanks permanently.
H. S. Balderston, vice-president of
the Seward Bank, departed for Anch
orage this morning on a brief business
trip.
SKEPTICAL OVER
NOMINATION OF
PORTLAND JURIST
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11. (jp)
—McNary and Stanfield told Presi
dent Coolidge today that they believed
it impossible to obtain a Senate con
firmation of the nomination of Wal-1
lace McCavant, Portland Circuit judge, j
PIANIST HAILED
AS INTERPRETER
OF FRANS LISZT
BERLIN, Feb. 11. (#>)—Alexander
Borowsoky, New York pianiate, is
hailed by German concert-goers this
season as the outstanding interpreter
of Franz Liszt among contemporary
piani&ts.
Borowsoky appeared in Berlin as
a soloist in philharmonic concerts
directed by Wilhelm Furtwaengler.
He has held concents in Leipsic, Dres
den and Cologne.
PUSSY CAT MAY
ROAM ALLEYS IS
VERDICT COURT
OWNER NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR
MEALS ENJOYED DURING
WANDERINGS
LONDON, Feb. 11. (/P)—The right
of a cat to roam has been upheld by
such an august body as the court of
appeals, which has ruled that the
owner is not responsible for keeping
his feline pet at home and cannot be
made to pay for pigeons and chickens
that fall prey to Tom in his wander
ings.
Lord Justice Scrutton, when the
case came before him pointed out
that English civilization and law had
“got along quite comfortably since the
Norman Conquest without deciding the
status of the cat,” but proceeded forth
with to consider the question at issue,
which he said was “has a cat full right
to roam?”
He decided in the affirmative and
denied the claim of George Arthur
Buckle of Leeds, that W. Holmes pay
him the value of eight homing pigeons
and two bantams. Buckle owned the
pigeons and bantams; Holmes owns
the cat that roamed and ate the pig
eons and bantams.
Buckle lost his suit for damages in
two lower courts and appealed with
the support of the National Homing
Union.
W. A. Shutt of Duluth suddenly
went insane and burned $5,000 in
currency, which he had drawn to
pay a mortgage.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb. 11. (Jp)-—
Mexican officials resumed their in
vestigation of the vsiit of Thomas H.
Peteet, wife and two daughters to Tia
Juana last week, culminating in the
suicide of all four Saturday. It was
said that the tragedy was attributed to
the disgrace of their abduction and
the outraging reports of their daugh
ters by Mexicans.
Seven already have been arrested,
including and Chief of Police and a
policeman of Tia Juana.
GERMAN ACTORS
HATE TO COME
TO UNITED ST ATES
STARS OF SCRENE ARE SATIS
FIED TO REMAIN AT HOME
IN OLD SURROUNDINGS
I BERLIN, Feb. 11. (JP)—Although
i Hollywood, California, is considered.
,the mecca for movie aspirants from
all over the world, it transpires that
it holds little attraction for stars of
established reputation in Germany.
Emil Jannings, among Germany’s
most popular picture actors, recently
signed a contract to make several pic
tures in Hollywood, but only after a.
long persuasion. Although he is six
feet tall and weighs about 190 pounds
lie is said to be very temperamental.
He was afraid he could not do his best
amid strange surroundings, and the
first large offers did not shake him.
“I can’t eat gold plated beef steaks,”
he said, “and more than two limous
ines are not necessary for my happi
ness.’’
His contract to go to America is a
reciprocal agreement, by which the
German company for which he works
will receive temporarily the services
of four American stars.
Elizabeth Bergner, the leading lady
in Reinhardt’s German theatre in
Berlin, has refused three offers to go
to Hollywood, although she has starred,
in several German films.
India ink does not come from India,
and never did. It ought to be called
Chinese ink.
Tartar is not a material but a pat
era. A water rat is not a rat at all,
but a “vole.”
By official order all pies served
on Pennsylvania Railroad trains must
be at leasit one inch thick.
Melizo McCoy, half-witted Georgia
boy, ate nearly all the leaves of the
family Bible and .suffered acute in
digestion.
OLMSTED AND FINCH BUILT ONE OF
FOUR LARGEST RADIO STATIONS
1 AMERICA; TRIED COMMERCIALIZE
SEATTLE, Wn., Feb. 11. (AP)—Prosecutor Finch, first de
fense witness admitted that Roy Olmsted handled liquor, but not il
legally. He said that Olmsted was connected with the Western
Freighters and Radio Company and was interested in experimental
work. Albert M. Hubbard dismissed defendant said the inventions
carried on by the Western Freighters was the operation of the rum
ship Prince Albert. Finch declared he had an understanding that
the Prince x\lbert transported liquor from Vancouver, B. C. to Ense
nada, Mexico, but “when I read in the newspapers that it got in trou
ble near San Francisco and that some parties were arrested, I advised
Olmsted to get out and he did.
Daniel Huhn and Philip aKrasky, who pleaded guilty were releas
ed when they changed their pleas, making a total dismissed of nineteen.
They were not among the remaining thirty-three defendants.
Finch testified that Olmsted and he built one of the four largest
proadcasting stations in America. In the year 1924 they proceeded to
incorporate with the American Radio and Telephone Company in an
effort to commercialize. On cross examination, Finch said he knew the
fifty -ff\ e defendants before they were indicted having become ac
quainted with most of them thru acting as their attorney n rads.
When asked why he filed Roy Olmsted’s income tax return in
Tacoma, Finch replied that “he did not want to disclose it here, be
cause there was a $14,000 judgment against Olmstead as a result of
an automobile accident. I told Collector of Internal Revenue Burn
Poe that Olmsted’s liquor dealings did not refer to local business.”