Hemer ZEIle GREng
VOLUME 19, NUMBER 244.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
DRIFTING FISHING BOAT
PICKED UP BY SCANDIA;
BE TOWED TO SEWARD
The halibut schooner Tom and Al,
which has been adrift since last Fri
day, was picked up Tuesday by the
fishing boat Scandia, and towed to
harbor, the captain being taken to
Seldovia where he wirelessed the
news of his rescue to Anchorage. By
some oversight the local collector of
customs was not notified of the sal
vage and the cutters continued its
~search until last evening when Dep
uty Abrams wirelessed the cutters
that the lost boat had been found. Its
crew of 11 men were well and in lit
tle danger as storm .^ails had been
set and the boat was riding easily
hove to.
The Tom and Al is said to have
had a load of fish aboard at the time
her motor broke down but in all pro
bability this has been lost. The ves
sel will be towed to Seward for re
pairs to her engine.
TWO EUROPEAN MONEY
‘ MASTERS ARE CRIPPLED
LONDON. Oct. 17—An amazing
feature of the London Conference
has been that the two great financial
experts—Philip Snowden and M. Sey
doux—are both cripples.
Philip Snowden suffers from the
effects of a severe cycle accident
nearly forty years ago which seri
ously injured his spine and kept him
on his back for two years. Today
he walks painfully with two sticks,
but to stand for more than a min
ute or so causes him agony—years
of which are written no his face.
M. Seydoux is bent and crippled
with rheumatism. He has to have
assistance in walking and is almost
carried to his auto.
Yet these two men are master fi
nancial minds of Kurope. What the
body has suffered the brain has ap
parently gained.
* AMERICAN WARSHIPS
ORDERED TO CANTON
TO GUARD PROPERTY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct 17.—
The American warships Sacramento
and Pampanga have been ordered to
proceed under full head of steam to
Canton as a result of severe fighting
there between Chinese Fascisti and
the Chinese Red army, composed of
laborers affiliated with the Soviet
movement.
The dispatch stated that American
lives and property were endangered.
FORBIDDING OF TIPS FAILS
TO CURB RUSSIAN WAITERS
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MOSCOW, Oct. 17.—Finding it im-1
possible to do away with the insti
tution of waiting-on-table altogether,
Soviet Russia instead has tried to
do away with “tipping,” and has
discarded the waiters’ apron, laund
^ ered shirt and white collar. Most
waiters in Russian restaurants now
wear a natty blouse of navy blue
with army style collar and no tie.
Although voters in Russia re
ceive a most slender salary, it is a
punishable offense for them to accept
gratuities or any kind. “Don’t de
grade your fellowmen by offerin him
a tip; a tip is a bribe.” This is the
surprising warning American visitors
tc Russia, who in other European
countries have been literally plagued
by tip-takers, find on the walls of
Russian restaurants.
/ in spite of this injunction, how
ever, waiters are forced out of
sheer economic need not only to
acept gratuities, but to seek them,
It would be impossible for them to
exist on the small salaries they re
ceive.
DIRIGIBLE ZR-3 WILL
BE NAMED LOS ANGELES
* WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 17.—
The United States desires that the
ZR-3 be christened the Los Angeles,
President Coolidge declared this after
noon. He said the purchase of the
dirigible should serve as a symbol of
peace and friendship between this na
tion and Germany. Secretary of the
' Navy Wilbur this afternoon gave a
, luncheon in honor of Dr. Hugo Eke
aer, commander of the airship, and
other officers of the craft, at which
many complimentary remarks were
made over the recent flight of the air
craft from Germany to the United
States.
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BIG BRITISH PLANES
WILL CARRY TROOPS
LONDON, Oct. 17— All-steel air
planes .equipped with ,1,000 horse
j power engines and capable of speed
1 ing 100 miles an hour, with fifty
fully armed soldiers, are being built
for the British army, according to
reports which have leaked out of the
! Air Ministry. The first of the new
troop carrying planes is expected to
be ready for practical tests early
| next year.
The new planes are expected to
eliminate th ediscomfort and liard
' ship of forced marches and of dif
ficult movement over enemy infested
or arid country. Tip-up seats are to
be arranged in the fuselage of the
new planes, and soldiers will travel
in greater comfort than if they were
making the journey by train. When
not used for carrying troops, the
seats can be turned up and the craft
used for transporting supplies.
Air Ministry plans call for the
construction of flying troop trains
capable of carrying 200 or 300 sol
diers, with equipment, in the not
distant future.
LA FOLLETTE CHARGES
FARMERS HELD DOWN
BY MONO INTERESTS
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 17.—
Promising a full measure of relief
for American farmers, whom he said
had been stricken down deliberately
by a conspiracy on the part of the
monied interests, controlling the Re
publican and Democratic parties, La
Follette today opened his campaign
in the Northwest wheat belt.
ONE MILLION ARE FACING
UNEMPLOYMENT, ENGLAND
LONDON, Oct. 16.—Great Britain’s
army of more than a million jobless
people is facing the fifth winter |
of unemployment. The permanent
solution of this post-war problem is;
as far away as ever in the opinion
of economists.
Inasmuch as three different gov
ernment—Coalition, Consrevative and
Labor—have dealt with the ques
tion, which still awaits solution, it
would appear to the detached ob
server that the problem is one of
after war economics rather than par
tisan politics.
For five years the unemployment
questoin has been a sort of urchin’s
joy to whatever political party hap
pened to be in opposition. In fact
it seems to be a problem that is
more readily grasped by an oppo
sition than by whichever govern
ment happens to be responsible for
the conduct of affairs.
HEAVY STORM HITS
ADMIRAL LINE BOAT
PASSENGERS SCARED
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17.—With
part of her bridge carried away and
an injured officer aboard, the liner TI.
F. Alexander arrived here this after
noon from Seattle, eight hour§ behind
time, with 300 excited and badly
frightened passengers. The gale was
one of the most severe in years, offi
cers cf the vessel report, and the ship
was buffeted badly, despite her size
and powerful engines.
MAJOR MARTIN LEAVES
FOR LANGLEY FIELD
BELLINGHAM, Oct. 17.—Accom
panied by his wife and son, Major F. j
L. Martin, commander of the United
States army world girdling air squad
ron in the early stages of its flight,
left here last week for Chanute field,
111., en route to Langley Field, Va.
The family will spend a few days in
Chanute on a visit.
Major Martin has been in Belling
ham and vicinity on a furlough since
early in June. He arrived here from
the Alaska peninsula. From Belling
ham he went directly to Washington,
to report to chief of the air service,
General Patrick. Soon thereafter he
was granted an extended furlough, the
first furlough he had had in four or
five years.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Hemple of
Valdez, pioneers of the Prince Will
iam Sound camp, left on one of the
recent boats for the States and will
make their home there. Mr. Hemple
was formerly one of the largest mer
chants in Valdez.
CALIFORNIA CLAIMS •
ALASKAN VIEWS AS
NATIVE SON PRODUCT
SEATTLE, Oct. 17.—Carl E. Cros
en, addressing the Gyro Club in the
interest of Alaska, at the Alaska
Week celebration held here, charged
that a pamphlet sent out by Los An
geles, and intended to boost the pro
ductiveness of the southern Califor
nia soil depicted an attractive po
tato field with its proud owner sur
veying the growing plants, when in
fact the scene had been taken in one
of the fertile, productive valleys of
Alaska.
SON OF GOVERNOR SMITH
WAS SECRETLY MARRIED
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NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Following
the discovery that he had been secret
ly married Tuesday by a justice of
the peace, Alfred E. Smith, son of the
governor of New YTork, was remarried
today to Miss Bertha Gott, daughter
of a railroad engineer. A Catholic
priest performed the second marriage
SECRETARY WALLACE HAS
LOST ALL OF HIS GALL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 17.—
Secretary' of Agriculture Wallace has
had his appendix and gall bladder re
moved, and is said to be resting eas
ily after the operation.
LIEUT. BURNED FATALLY
WHEN PLANE HITS TANK
LENDALE, Oct. 17.—Lieut. Com
mander Dichman of the aircraft
squadron of the local battle-fleet was
burned to death here last evening
when his plane struck a small oil sta
tion on the edge of the flying field.
. The house was smashed to the ground
j and the oil enveloped the plane be
fore the aviator, who was unconscious,
; could be rescued.
NEW ZEALAND STANDS
PAT ON EXCLUSION
OF JAPANESE RACE
WELLINGTON, N. Z., Oct. 17.—
Commenting today on Japan’s request
to bring the immigration question be
fore the League of Nations, Premier
Massey in Assembly said: “We sim
ply say the Japanese cannot come
here unless we give them permission
League of Nations or no League of
I Nations. That is the law of our
; country and we will stand by it.”
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BODY OF W. 0. W. AUDITOR
FOUND FLOATING IN CREEK
OMAHA, Oct. 17.—Eleven months
; after he was last seen alive and one
! month after his mother died of a brok
! en heart, said to have been caused by
her son’s disapeparance, the body of
' Frank Peklo, 38, for fifteen years an
! auditor of the Woodman of the World
j insurance association, was found float
■ ing in a creek here today. It was bad
ly decomposed and identification was
made by dental work and^ a few pieces
! of clothing that still clung to the body.
Pekio disappeared October 30,1923,
1 when he left for his store. The place,
however was robbed that morning of
$2,700 in cash and merchandise.
Police expressed the belief tonight
that Peklo met his death at the hands
of the robber or robbers when he sur
prised them in the act of robbing the
store. An inquest will be held tomor
j row.
ENGLISH ELECTION IS
CAUSE OF RIOTING;
CANDIDATES HACKLED
_
LONDON, Oct. 17.—Bitterness over
the approaching election is increasing
daily and manifesting itself in demon
strations at campaign meetings. Sir
Robert Gower, Torry candidate at
Hackney was forced to call-off a meet
ing and was escorted from the hall
under heavy guard. Several torry
meetings at Battersea have been brok
en up by the opposition.
SHENANDOAHONWAY
TO THE SPIRIT CITY
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17.—The
dirigible Shenandoah passed over Pt.
Arguella at six o’clock last evening,
bucking a heavy wind. Heavy gales
are reported by vessels arriving here
from sea.
CLOSED SEASON SATISFIES
HALIBUT FISHERMEN
Persons who have been in close i
touch with the big fleet of American
halibut vessels now selling at Prince
Rupert state that all the boat, own
ers and captains are well satisfied
with the closed season established
from November 16 to February 15,
inclusive, and are making their nr
rangemnets accordingly, preparing to
tie up and do their overhauling dur
ing the closed time. In order to be
safe, most vessel owner? have de
clared their intention not to send
out the boats alter November 1. so
that very little il' any halibut should
oe landed after the c.os.ng lime. In
preparation tor me m-w liming -“a
son, the /esses will . git. •> l< ave
for the banks about tie first of
February, so i- i n- r- .>1 «• :.*r ac
tive op vt: , ; ? * ‘ ‘ ! e *" •>
The fle.it ;s sail :> b* having a
very prosperos season, and a3 all
the outfitting is done at Ketchikan
there is considerable activity at that
point, although no great quantity
of halibut is landed there.
SENATOR UNDERWOOD
BURNED IN EFFIGY
BY ALABAMA KLANS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 17.—
Senator Oscar W. Underwood, of the
Birmingham senatorial district, was
burned in effigy last night at an as
semblage of the local Ku Klux Klan.
Senator Underwood has been outspok
en in his denunciation of the Klan and
his speech Saturday aroused the ire
of the klansmen.
RAILROAD WILL SOON ISSUE
SPECIAL CLERICAL TICKETS
Following a proposal submitted to
the Secretary of the Interior by Noel
W. Smith, special assistant to Secre
tary of the Interior, Clerical tickets
for clergymen and officials of clere
mosynary institutions will be issued
by the Alaska railroad. These tick
ets will grant half rates to those com
ing within the classification as
on the railroads of the states. Each
accredited recipient of the rates will I
be supplied with credentials by the j
rialroad as soon as the plans are
worked out.
LOTTERIES OPERATED,
SEATTLE MAN CHARGES
SEATTLE, Oct. 17.—C. L. Maxfield, j
secretary of the University of Wash-1
ington Young Men’s Business associa- j
tion, testified yesterday before a city j
council efficiency department investi- |
gating police affairs in Seattle, that he !
and several University students pur- j
chased lottery tickets prior to June
25. Maxfield said that when Mrs.
Henry Landis was mayor, the places
selling lottery tickets were closed.
“One Chinese told us the place
would open after July 4, after the re
turn of Mayor Brown, and it did,”
testified Mr. Maxfield.
DELEGATION OF ALIENS
PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 17 —
To a lax-ge delegation of foreign bora
citizens who called at the White
House to pledge him their support in
the present campaign, President Cal
vin Coolidge this afternoon said those
who cast their lot with this country
can be true to the country of their
origin only by first being true and
loyal to the country of their adop
tion. He added that the United States
needed desirable foi-eign-bora citizens
to leaven the Americanism of its citi
zens.
CHILD UNDER SIXTEEN
CAN COMMIT BUT ONE
CRIME UNDER N. Y. LAW
ALBANY, N.Y. Oct. 17.—The new
children’s court law, passed at the
last session of the legislature, has
brought about this condition:
Children under 16 in this state can
commit only one crime, mux-der.
The law, which became effective
September 22, was the result of a
recommendation by a commission that
had been appointed to study child
law in New York state. The law
separates the children’s court from
special sessions, abolishes the old
ourt entirely and in its stead sets
up a new court having civil juris
diction.
TWO NAVAL FLIERS DIE
WHEN PLANES CRASH
ABOVE CORONADO FIELD
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 17.—Two naval
flyers were killed late this afternoon
when a combat plane and a “jenny’'
plane crashed high over Coronado
field. Chief Rigger Robt. Kerr was
pilot in the combat plane, carrying
Ensign Merritt and Jordan Flanders
as passengers, both of whom were
killed when their plane crashed to the
ground following the mid air collision.
Gunner Wm. Cole, flying in the jen
ny nlane saved his life by the use of
his parachute, jumping clear of the
falling plane, and escaping unharmed.
OAKLAND LABOR TEMPLE
DESTROYED BY BOMB
OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 17.—Fire
believed to have started from a bomb
exploded by an incendiary destroyed
the Oakland Labor Temple yesterday
with a loss of $100,000.
WORLD FLYERS ARRIVE
AT EUGENE SOUTHBOUND
SEATTLE, Oct. 17.—Lieutenants
Smith, Nelson and Wade, world fly
ers, arrived at Eugene, Oregon, last
night on their way to San Diego.
Stops will be made at San Francis
co and Los Angeles.
VALDEZ PIONEER LOW
A telegram received at Valdez re
cently states that Adam Swan, pion
eer merchant and father of the town,
was not expected to live, and his
son-in-law, Frank Millard, left for
Portland.
MANY CARIBOU SEEN
Between 2000 and 3000 caribou
crossed the railroad track at Windy
last week and are now feeding in
the hills between Windy and Yanert
on the Alaska railroad.
T. V. O’CONNOR SAYS
RUSSIA PROGRESSIVES
BACK OF LA FOLLETTE
BUFFALO, N. Y„ Oct. 17.—Thomas
V. O’Connor, chairman of the Shipping
Board and at one time head of the
Longshoremen’s Union, asked an au
dience here today if any one in ab
solute authority would deny that a
large amount of money had been sent
from Russia through Mexica to help
strengthen the cause of La Follette
and Wheeler, who it is claimed have
promised recognition of the Soviet
government in case of election.
GIRL WITH FEET CHAINED
TOGETHER PLEADS HELP
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct .17.—Miss
Madeline Stanton, 19, Astoria, R .1.
walked into the -police station here
today her feet chained together. She
said the shackles had been put on by
a housekeeper at the George Republic
at Freeville, and that she had been in
solitary confinement for two weks.
J. B. Kirkland, superintendent of
the George Jr., Republic today said
Miss Stanton had begged for admit
tance to the Republic to work her
way. She did well until last Wed
nesday when she became “unmanage
able and abusive,” he said, and “con
sequently she was taken to the girls’
jail and shackled.”
AMERICA FIRST, SOLD
Frank Smith of Juneau has pur
chased the America 1, one of the fin
est gas boats ever in the waters of
Prince William Sound. The vessel
was brought north for use by the
Culross Mining Co., and later was
leased to the Granite company.
YUKON WILL NOT GO
WESTWARD FROM HERE
The steamship Yukon will not go
west of Seward this trip, but will
connect with the Redondo at Seward,
according to information given the
Gateway this morning by the local
agents. The Gateway yesterday ran
a story taken from the Daily Alaskan
given out by Agent McDonald, stat
ing that the Yukon would go west
to Uganik, connecting with the Re
dondo there. This is a mistake. The
Yukon will be in at 10 o’clock tonight
while no news has been heard of,
the Redondo, which is expected in any
time with a large number of passen
gers.
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF SUN
AGAIN OCCURS JANUARY 24
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17—While no
total eclipses of the sun are listed
for this year, one of the best op
portunities for observing a total
shutout of Old Sol’s face will be af
foidod the eastern part of the coun
try early in the coming year, offi
cials at the United States Naval Ob
servatory hue say.
On Jan. 2i, 1925, the sun will b^
; in total eclipse. This will start at
suniise just beyond Lake Superior.
| Its f ath will bt on into New Yoik
| State and lower New England. Ha-.: -
era New Yoik and Southern New
Eegian 1 will be the best positions
j lor obsen sit ions. Vessels *n the At
j lantic Ocean i.oith of Scotland whl
: be able to see it at sunset. In 'he
I middle ci the Atlantic it wh' be
| visible at noon .
J Another total eclipse will ta:ce
place .Tan. 14, 192t>. This wiJ stmt
i t Africa, C’os.nng the Indian Ocean
and the Island ct Sumatra in the
Dutch East Indies, and the low* '
islatids, of a* I billppines.
PENNSYLVANIA HAD
PROMISED TO RAISE
BIG CAMPAIGN FUND
.
CHICAGO, Oct. 17.—Pennsylvania
Republicans who had assumed the bur
den of electing Coolidge and Dawes
came under the searchlight of the sen
atorial committee, investigating cam
•paign contributions and expenditures.
Under severe grilling by Senator
Caraway, democrat, of Arkansas, Hod
ges, treasurer, revealed that Joseph
i R. Grundy of Bristol, Pennsylvania,
was delegated to raise $3,000,000, half
of Pennsylvania’s quota, in the pres
| ent Republican national campaign.
STRANGE KIND OF WORM
CAN LIVE ONLY IN ICE
j TACOMA, Oct. 17.—A species of
I worm that lives only in ice and can
; not withstand even the heat of a hu
| man hand, has been found and photo
i graphed by a scientific expedition that
recently went into the Olympic moun
tains.
The ice on Dodwell-Rixon pass in
; the Olympics was found literally alive
with these worms. They are black,
thin and about half an inch long.
When the sun is out they crawl into
the interior of the ice where the tem
perature is lower. Scientists with the
party said that so far as they knew
these worms never have been found in
| the United States before.
While the worms were photograph
! ed it was impossible to get any of
them out of the mountains alive. When
the ice surrounding them begins to
melt they die immediately. What they
live on is still a mystery.
SUPERIOR JUDGE MUST
EXPLAIN WHY HIS MIND
WAS CHANGED TWICE
SEATTLE Oct. 17.—Superior Judge
Talman has been ordered to appear
before the State Supreme Court and
explain why he paroled two men whx>
were charged with crime, and a few
days later revoked their parole and
sentenced them to the state prison.
STUDENTS PROTEST
AGAINST TREATMENT
RECEIVED IN RUSSIA
SEATTLE, Oct. 17.—A resolution
of protest against bolshevist treat
ment of students in Russia, passed by
an organization of fugitive students
in Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, has been
received here by the Associated Stu
dents of the University of Washing
ton. No explanation of the protest
was included in the letter, addressed
to the “Union of Students.”
“In Russia most of the^ highschools
have been closed and in the remaining
ones the number of students is nearly
twice reduced,” thfe resolution said in
part. “Thousands of students are piti
lessly banished into far-off places,
imprisoned in concentration camps
like enemies, jeered at and tortured in
prisons because they wanted to study.
The resolution charged that only
sons of laborers were admitted to the
schools; that their standard was stead
ily lowered, and that many students
( were expelled and forced into exile be
cause they were pursuing knowledge
[ instead of free rations given to prole
tariat students by communists.