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VANDERLIP REBUKED
The climax of hydra-headed rumor,
■which impartially involves the names
ui men living and dead, was reached
when Prank A. Vanderlip. prominent
New York banker, dragged the name
o' former President Harding into the
oil controversy this week; and the an
ti-climax came when Vanderlip, plac
ed on the witness stand and under
oath, admitted that he had no evi
dence whatever to support his insinu
ations.
The excuse made by Mr. Vanderlip
tor giving currency to gossip so hurt
ful and so inexcusable was too spec
ious. He posed as a friend of the
kite president who wanted to clear
up gossip involving his name in con
nection with the sale of the Marion
Star, and this was his means of do
ing it. Yet it is difficult to reconcile
fuch a motive with his words as ut
tered in an address early this week
that led to all the sensation that he
created. He said that the “certain
Marion newspaper” was sold for $550,
OuO. Today he admitted hedid not
know what the sale price was. He
said it was well known that the news
paper w'as not worth half so much.
Now he admits he dies not know what
it was worth. His whole address was
a mass of the worst sort of insinua
tions, apparently unqualified, and
just sinister enough in their implica
tion to lead the reader to believe
that the speaker actually had facts
which he did not want to disclose.
Whatever he may have thought his
purpose was in broadcasting rumor
that was without basis in fact—rum
or, innuendo, gossip and all the other
emanations of Mirs. Grundy’s tongue—
his whole Ossining speech was so de
serving of rebuke that the senate com
mittee should be thanked for calling
upon him immediately to give testi
mony regarding his implied charges.
In finding; that he had not one scin
tilla of proof Cor his insinuations and
in forcing him to say so on the wit
ness stand it has undone some of the
harm that has been done.
It is not the first time the name of
a president has been dragged in the
filth of scandal. We all remember
how during the latter part oi the cam
paign of 1920 unconscionable detrac
tors disseminated artful lies about
Warren G. Harding—and the public
gave him the largest majority in the
history of the presidency and learn
ed to love him as few presidents have
been loved. It will be recalled also
how vile gossip attached itself to the
name of Woodrow \\ ilson during his
administration. Mere gossip usually
does not get into print. Apart from
the considerations of legal restraints,
newspapers of the responsible kind
search for the truth and the truth
only, and even the scandal mongers
and guttersnips rarely go so far as to
spread injurious gossip. Yet it has a
way of being broadcast over the land,
and there are whisperers who delight
in giving it circulation. Thus few
persons have not heard something of
the tissue of falsehoods circulated
about the names of both Harding and
Wilson by wagging tongues that
sought to injure.
The oil scandal has ruined many
reputations and will ruin others. The
mere association of a name with the
word oil, in the present state of the
! public mind, places a man on the de
fensive. It is all the worse to drag
’he names of the dead—the names
of men unsullied and of presidents
now gone. The incident may have
the one good effect of silencing
I mouths that go off without knowing
they are loaded.
SUTHERLAND OPPOSED
The First division has sent its rep
resentative to Washington to present
to congress the advantages of a divi
sion of the Territory. It is reported
that Delegate Sutherland is opposed
to the proposition, and that Valentine
Wickersham and Rustgard, are back
ing him. It is unfortunate if tlhis is
the case. The Delegate should com
ply with the wishes of the people ot
the First division and work with
them for what they want, while the
unholy trinity should keep its hands
off. There is no doubt but that div
ision would be better for the Terri
LIBERTY
THEATRE
TONIGHT
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“19 and Phyllis”
This is RAY at his best—
A story of Youthful Love.
A Fable—“FEARLESS FIDO”
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and a PATHE NEWS
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Singed Moth; Rich Man’s
Ex-wife, Saved From
Grave in Potter’s Field
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NEW YORK ,Feb. 27—June Brown
was the Queen of Greenwich Village.
That was six years ago. Then she rul
ed New York’s gay Bohemia. Scores
were subjects at her court—the land
of gayety and beauty and the night.
When June Brown was buried out
at lvensico Cemetery near White
Plains, a victim of her own hand, only
one of all who knew her was there to
pay final tribute to “The Queen.”
“1 tried to beat the city—1 failed,”
June Brown said just before she died;
in the charity ward at Bellevue.
And there is no story more tragic
perhaps, than the girl who tried to
beat the city.
June Brown came from the West—
a little farm at Edwardsville, 111. The
siren song of fame called her, New
York offered what she sought—fame.
She was charming. She was unspoil
ed. New York took her to its heart.
She married. Wealth came. There
was a home at fashionable Forest
Hills—another at exclusive Central,
Islip. The town house was on River
side Drive. A baby followed.
Had Everything
June Brown should have been hap
py. , - *
She had—
But she didn’t have fame. That
was what June Brown craved. She
craved life, too. Frequenters of the
gay cabarets and cafes of The Village
began to know her. Soon Jule Brown
ruled as queen in its frivolities. Then
one night, her husband, Dudley Brown,
wealthy drug manufacturer, aided de
tory than the present unsatisfactory
long range method of doing ousiness
with the Territorial capital. Division
would mean that the north end, or
Alaska proper, would grow taster, as
would the south end, for the reason
that neither have any interests in
common and one is always interfering
with the other.
Being officeboy at a salary of $25
per week, while thepossessor of a 2U
million dollar fortune should prove
no hardship to William H. Vander
bilt. He probably will have enough
left out of his wages to buy a pack
age of cigarettes'and attend the ball
game.
FEDERAL REGULATION
OF MOVIES DISCUSSED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—Govern- j
ment regulation of motion pictures
and similar topics were the principal
consideration of the program of the
National Motion Picture conference
which was begun here by representa
tives of a number of religious and oth
er organizations.
The educational aspects of motion
pictures were discussed at the open- j
ing sessior by John Tigert, com
missioner of edu.’H.ion. and ihcy!
were also eousllercd in ionn-c'.iou
with religion, foreign missions and
international t<s at.-, n by a number
of speakers, including ‘. -0 ice v. Dr.
Pobert Fi.ch of fa» .«c~j<v. China,
president « CD’Uiin •'.'"••e; the
Rev. Dr. William Shea to Chase, pres
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that on
Tuesday, April 1, 1924, the annual
election of City Officers and of mem
bers of the School Board, for the Town
of Seward, Alaska, will be held in the
Town of Seward; that the polls for
said election will be situated in the
Town Hall of said town; that the polls
for said annual election will be open
from 8 o’clock on the morning of
Tuesday. April 1, 1924, until 7 o’clock
on the evening of Tuesday, April 1,
1924.
The following are the officers to be
elected at the annual election on Tues
day, April 1, 1924:
MAYOR.
THREE MEMBERS OF THE
SEWARD COMMON COUNCIL.
TREASURER,
i CLERK.
CITY ATTORNEY.
TWO MEMBERS OF THE SEW
ARD SCHOOL BOARD, a Treas
urer and a Clerk.
The following question is submitted
; to the qualified electors of said Town
of Seward, to be voted on at said elec
tion:
“Shall Ordinance No. 79,” an Or
dinance granting to S. M. Graff, his
heirs and assigns, the right to es
tablish and maintain a telephone
system in the Town of Seward, Ter
ritory of Alaska, but not an exclu
sive right, subject to the conditions
therein stated,” which said ordi
nance was adopted by the Common
Council of the said To\tn of Sew
ard at a Special meeting thereof,
duly called and held February 25,
1 1924, at said Town of Seward, Alas
ka, be ratified.”
Dated at Seward, Alaska, February
26, 1924.
(Seal) WM. H. WHITTLESEY,
Municipal Clerk.
First publication Feb. 29, 1924.
k Last publication March 31, 1924. 30t
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;ectives in battering down the door of
1 room. A divorce suit followed.
In the courtroom corridor June j
Brown’s daughter took her father by j
Tie hand. “Please love mother!” she j
pleaded. The difference were made up.
But the old haunts called. The next
Lime the husband sued for divorce he
got it.
The baby died. June Brown didn’t
know it at the time. A year later she
learned—heard the story as she sat
with her subjects in a “Village” cab
aret. They took her to an asylum
then—a raving maniac. Time cured
her ills.
Time, the great healer, cured her
hurts.
For a year she lived quietly and
Jonc—struggling. Christmas Eve old
friends invited her to a prty.
“No,” she answered, “I am going to
spend Christmas with my baby.” That
night she took poison. At the hospital
none knew her. When she died her
body was sent to the Morgue. There
it rested the usual two w</eks. The
story drifted to the cabarets of “The .
Village.”
“They’re going to bury Jane in the
Potter’s Field—poor kid!” her subjects
said. Then the one mourner, hiding his
identity under an assumed name and
giving a false address visited the
Morgue. He paid for a “good funeral”,
and when they buried June Brown he
stood beside her grave.
“Poor kid! She tried to beat the
city—it got her!” was the Village’s
parting to its queen.
ident of the New York Civic league;
Fennell P. Turner of New York, secre
tary of the conference of foreign mis
sions; the Rev. Dr. J. Foster Wilcok
of Philadelphia and the Rev. Dr. H.
L. Bowlby of New York, secretary of
the Lord’s Day alliance.
Iceland has factories for the prep
aration of herring flour which is high
ly prized as a strength food.
Revenues from the Panama Canal
now run over two million dollars a
month. Any yet many Congressmen
were against its construction.
The total Mohammedan population
of the world is about 227,000,000.
The Central Railway of Peru is the
highest in the world. It ascends the
Andes to a height of 15,885 feet.
Blue squirrel coats are becoming
very modish.
C. E. ORLANDER
Jeweler
and
Watch Repairer
Andy's Express
Meets all Boats and
Trains
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
TAILORING
C. Henning
SEWARD ALASKA
Anchorage, Alaska
BATHS
SEATTLE, WASH.
211 Union Street
, Top Floor, Apartment L
Phone Main 2576
IUB, SHOWER' AMD J. B. CASCADE
INTERNAL
ELLEN GORDON, Propr.
Formerly of anchorage, Seward anc
Kanatak
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Leaves
Seattle
Feb. 12th
March 11th
Arrives
Seward
Feb. 19th
March 18 th
South fm
Seward
Feb. 24th
March 22nd
Making all regular Southeastern and South
western ports including Seldovia and Kodiak.
CALIFORNIA SERVICE
Sailings from Seattle every Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday for San Francisco, Los Angeles,
and San Diego.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone, Main 21 Residence, Madison 40 I
STEAMSHIP STARR
Steamer Starr will sail for Unalaska and way ports
about March 15th.
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON (3»r.
SEWARD, ALASKA
FINEST BILLIARD & POOL HALL IN ALASKA
Exclusive Distributors of Budweiser, Bevo, and Monopole Cigars.
BENSON &
WHITTEMORE
Proprietors
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
Wall Paper
Painting Paperhanging
TINTING
F. B. MOORE
GORE BLDG. ADAMS 145
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
Pool Soft Drinks Cigars
FURNISHED ROOMS
Phone Mam 55
CHOP SUEY
Noodles
Harry Yago
Phone Madison 16
Second Avenue
RAY & DAVID
Attorney* at Law
SEWARD & ANCHORAGE
Seward Office:
Harriman Bank Building
DR. J. A. BAUGHMAN
Physician and Surgeon
Chronic Diseases a Specialty
Phone Madison 90, Seward, Alaska.
AARON E. RUCKER
Attorney at Law
Office in Arcade Building
'PHONE ADAMS 121
SEWARD, ALASKA
HUGH DOUGHERTY
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE
Furnished Houses for Rent
Residence Phone, Madison 58
Office Phone, Madison 136
Seward Chapter No. la
ORDER EASTERN
STAR
Meets 2nd and 4th Mon
days at 8 p. m. Visiting
Members Welcome.
VIOLA T. SWETMANN, W. M.
CLARA PERRY, Secretary.
Seward Rebekah
Lodge No. 5-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets 1st and Srd
Monday’s of Each
Month, 8 p. m. Visit
-- ,n8 members welcome
MRS. A. H. THODAY N. G.
come.
Seward Lodge No. 219.
F. A A. M.
Stated communications
1st and 3rd Wednes
days of each month,
visiting Brethern wel
H. V. HOBEN, W. M
W. O. Perry, Secretary.
I. 0% O. F.
Resurrection Lodge
„ No. A.7.
Meets Thursdays at 8 p. nv Visiting
Brothers welcome. Frank Lagerquist,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, See
IGLOO NO. NINE.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday ai'
Odd Fellow's w%n.
F. B. MOORE, Pres.
C. A. M’DOUGALL, Sec’y.
SEWARD 9»uS7, NO. FIVE
AMERICAN LEGION
Meets Second and Fourth Tuesdays
ELWYN SWETMANN, Com.
J. P. HANNON, AdjutanL
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
SEE
MORFORD
WM. D. COPFERNOLL
LAWYER
Seward, Alaska
D. H. WILLIAMS
UNDERTAKER
LICENSED EMBALMER
AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR
When In need of my services call
Brown & Hawkins
FRED J. SPACH
. GENERAL SURVEYING AND
MAPPING
Certified Member A. A. E.
Licensed C. E. State of Idaho
Phone 113-R
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA