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VOLUME XX, NUMBER 245.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
!■ FAILURE BRAKES
ALLOWS CAR TO
PLUNGE SOUND
FOUR die IN TACOMA WHEN A
STREET CAR GOES THRU
OPEN DRAWBRIDGE
TACOMA. Dec. 31 (/P)—Plunging
through warning gates into an open
draw on the municipal bridge, a
street car fell more than 100 feet
into the bay last night, with eight
passengers aboard. Four died later
in the hospital, and another is seri
ously hurt. The three others will re
cover. The motorman jumped before
the car went thru the draw. A heavy
fog was responsible for the accident.
Divers today are seeking more bod
ies at the bottom of the city water
way, four having already been recov
ered. A survivor said there were at
lest twelve passengers in the car.
Cldye Staley, the operator of the car
said there were but eight passengers
on board at the time of the accident,
lie saved himself by shouting a warn
ing to the passengers and leaping.
The accident was blamed to failure
of the air brakes to work.
BREAKING FLOES
CAUSE DAMAGE
ON OHIO RIVER
TOWBOAT DEMOLISHED AND A
NUMBER OF SMALL CRAFT
CRUSHED BY ICE
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 31 (/P)—
Following the breaking of two ice
floes in the upper Ohio river yester
day, fishermen are preparing to pro
tect their craft when the ice goes out.
At Utica, Indiana, the ice demol
ished a towboat and carried away a
river packet. At Madison, Indiana,
numerous small craft were crushed by
the ice. The gorge broke with a deaf
ening roar and filled the river from
bank to bank.
A report was received last night
from Utica that a floe had jammed
above Louisville, which is expected
to hold until the Madison flue adds
to the pressure.
Inhabitants on the low grounds
are preparing to flee to the hills in
case the jam backs the water up.
Numerous Xmas Parcels
4 Returned To Seward
Postoffice; Remailed
Postmaster Charles Sheldon an
nounced that about thirty pieces of
second class mail were dropped
recently in the steamer mail sack on
the dock. The consequence was, ow
ing to steamer mail clerks not being
permitted to accept parcel post or
second class mail they were brought
back to Seward and regularly passed
j through the local postoffice. So at
lest thirty packages will have arrived
too late for Xmas.
Mail clerks are prohibited from ac
cepting parcel post or second class
mail, owing to the liability that not
enough postage has been placed on
the parcels.
JARDINE CALLED
* IN CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 31 (£>)—
Secretary Jardine of the Department
of Agriculture has called a confer
ence for January 12 to discuss the
agricultural surplus question.
About fifty million moving picture
fans pay admission every week.
Shots and Whistles To
Usher In the New Year
Crashing echoes from gun shots,
whistles shrieking, and jingling bells
will usher in the New Year in Sew
ard tonight at midnight. Today actu
ally will be the longest day of the
year for few citizens will be in bed
before midnight. A majority of them
will be attending the Firemen’s
masque ball, house parties or visiting
along the main street. Everyone is
looking forward to the arrival of the
New Year. Resolutions by the score
will be made and broken within five
minutes. Everyone will be happy
just the same and a hundred years
from tonight no one will ever know
the difference.
FLOODS CENTRAL
EUROPE CAUSE
MUCH DAMAGE
RIVERS HUNGARY TWENTY
EIGHT FEET ABOVE NOR
MAL—36 DROWN
VIENNA, Dec. 31 (;P)—A dispatch
from Oedenburg, in western Hungary,
said the Kleinraab dam on the Raab
river, broke, and is menacing thirty
villages. It is reported 36 miners
wrere drowned when the salt mines
of Marozujvary Were flooded.
Rivers Above Danger Level
PARIS, Dec. 31 (JP)—Floods in cen
tral Europe continue to spread, nota
bly in eastern Hungary, where the
river Theiss is 28 feet above its nor
mal level at Tokay. Artillery fire is
being used to break the ice jams. The
ice has damaged the bridges and
thousands of persons have been driv
en from their homes.
KODIAK MAN IS
ALLEGED HAVE
USED AN ALIAS
—
OBTAINED APPOINTMENT AS U.
S. COMMISSIONER AT KODIAK
BY MISREPRESENTATION
SEATTLE, Dec. 31 (#>)—Charged
with forging the name of Dr. E. M.
McKibben, a former Seattle, physician,
whose name he is said to have used
in obtaining the appointment as Uni
ted States Commissioner for Kodiak,
E. M. Webb is held under §3000 bail
at Valdez. Sheriff Matt Starwich was
informed by a cablegram from the
Third division court headquarters
that Webb is charged with having
drawn §1000 in McKibben’s name.
He met McKibben at the McNeil
Island penitentiary where both were
serving as prison physicians.
WASHINGTON^
S0L0NS ADJOURN
OLYMPIA, Dec. 31 (ff>)—A majority
of the members of the House decided
that a caucus is unfeasible and will
adjourn until January 6 or 7, which
,is the sixty day limit, because of the
large number of important bills now
awaiting action. ,
Three women of Piqua, O., control
manufacturing concerns with 2,000
-employes and a valuation of §12,
000,000.
Miss Inga L. Larusdottir edits the
only women’s paper in Iceland, called
The Nineteeth of June, because it
was first issued on that date in 1915.
By a new system one man can
make 4,000 bricks in a day.
LIST OF PRIZES
FIREMEN’S BALL
IS COMPILED
NEARLY FIFTY AWARDS BE PRE
SENTED TO MASKERS AT
BIG DANCE TONIGHT
MANY USEFUL GIFTS ON LIST
Nine Door Prizes; Everything from a
Shampoo to Dinner Spreads
for Four People
Forty-four awards will be presented
to the prize winners at the Firemen’s
Annual Masquerade Ball which takes
place this evening, New Year’s Eve—
in the S. A. C. building.. The list cov
ers a wide range of useful articles,
and are on a par with awards made
in previous years. The committee in
charge of the prizes announce that
they will be. presented only for cos
tumes designed for this occasion and
that all those competing for awards
must be on the floor at 10 o’clock.
The list of prizes follows:
Best designed Ladies’ Costume—
! First prize §10, second electric heater.
| Best designed Men’s Costume—First
prize §10, second prize pair of Flor
! sheim shoes.
Most Comical Lady—First prize a
i percolator, second, $5 box of groceries.
Most Comical Man—First prize, lea
ther dressing case, second, box cigars.
Best Male Impersonator—First prize
| large box candy, second, ham.
! Best Female Impersonator—First
| prize, electric soldering iron, second,
| box cigars.
Lest Sustained Lady Character—
'First prize, basket candy, second sil
ver cake plate.
| Best Sustained Male Character—
j First prize Ford accelerator, second
prize box apples.
Most Original Lady Costume—First
prize large bottle perfume, second a
totem pole candle stick.
Most Original Man’s Costume—First
prize box cigars, second box cigars.
Best Dressed Girl, 7 to 15 years old
—First prize §2.50 cash, second prize
cane.
Most Comical Girl—First prize cake,
second 8 lb. can mincemeat.
Most Comical Boy—First prize slab
bacon; second week’s free ticket to
the Liberty Theatre.
Bathing Beauty Lady—First prize,
dinner at Seward Grill for four per
sons.
Best Group Characters two or More
jr—First prize five sacks coal.
Best Historic Man’s Costume—First
prize box cigars, second box cigars.
Best Historic Lady’s Costume—
First prize, marcel shampoo and re
wave, second dinner for three at the
Commerce Cafe.
Door Prizes
Suit Cleaned and Pressed, Jordon.
§5 Meal Ticket, Marathon Cafe.
Suit Cleahed and Pressed, Chas.
Henning.
i Three bottles Aeromate.
i Inner tube and mirror.
1 $3.50 repairs on shoes.
Carton cigarettes.
One quart whipping cream, Seward
Dairy.
One month’s water rent.
_
PETER LARSEN
SUES JACK M’CORD
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31 (JP)—
Captain Peter Larsen, a veteran Alas
ka mariner is suing John W. McCord,
who recently achieved considerable
publicity over his offer to adopt a 14
year-old Idaho girl, for one-fourth of
the profits McCord realized on Alas
kan oil claims. Larsen alleges he ad
vanced McCord $250 as a grub stake
in 1920.
In Germany a church wedding does
not constitute a full legal marriage.
Sewardites At Hollywood
Eat Xmas Dinned Together
Past and present Seward residents,
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Reed, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Reed, Mrs. Hugh Dougherty
and Mrs. Urbach, spent an enjoyable
day Christmas at Hollywood, Califor
nia, according to a letter received by
Leon Urbach from his mother, whose
home is located in the beautiful city
of the south. The letter stated Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Reed called on Mrs. Ur
bach, prior to Christmas, bringing
with them Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Reed.
Arrangements were made and they
ate Christmas dinner together.
LOMEN BROTHERS
PROVIDE FURS
POLAR FLIGHT
FORD EXPEDITION BE PROVIDED
WITH PARKAS, MUKLUKS
BAGS AND MITTENS
NOME, Dec. 31 (JP)—Lomen Bros, of
this city has been given the contract
to supply the fur clothing for the eight
men comprising the Ford polar expe
dition. They will make fur parkas,
sleeping bags, mukluks and mitts for
the men out of reindeer skins. The
brothers left Wednesday over the mail
route for Nenana en route to the
States.
Jackson, Keenan and Hoelscher and
his wife, who are mushing from Nome
to Nenana en route to Seattle, -were
repor^f’ .'to hs^e arrived at Ruby yes
terday.
FORMER ALASKA
MISSIONER DEAD
NELSON, B. C., Dec. 31 (/P)—Jos.
Althoff, for 34 years a priest in the
Mary Immaculate parish here, and
for the past six years vicar general
of Kootenai, died last night while in
consultation with a physician over his
enfeebled health. He was 72 years of
age and well known on the Pacific
coast.
Revv. Fr. Althoff was a missionary
among the Alaskan Indians for many
years.
MT. M’KINLEY HAS BEEN
IN ERUPTION BEFORE
Councilman John Helm, talking of
the reported eruption of IVJt. McKinley
said this morning that in 1906 the
mountain belched forth smoke on the
north side for a considerable period.
He was in the vicinity at the time and
believes the report of the present
eruption to be true.
A dispatch from Nenana reports
ashes falling in the streets of the
town.
Trainmen arriving in Seward last
evening from the Interior are author
ity for the statement that the reputed
eruption of Mt. McKinley was but a
publicity stunt and that he alleged
smoke pouring from he side of the
mountain is nothing but a heavy fog.
Euch is the power of the press that
today throughout the entire United
States editors are eagerly awaiting
news from the reported eruption.
Nearly 1,800 women are employed
tby English railways as switchmen,
watchman, porters, painters, yard
masters and station agents.
Mrs. H. A. Bishop formerly Gloria
Gould, granddaughter of Jay Gould,
will manage a New York moving pic
ture theater.
The picture of Anna Fuhring, a
noted actress, appeared on German
pfenning postage stamps from 1900
to 1921.
KARSTENS SAYS
ERUPTION IS NOT
IN EVIDENCE
ALLEGED DISTURBANCE INVESTI
GATED AND FOUND UNTRUE
SAYS RESIDENT
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 31 (/P)—Henry
Karstens, superintendent of Mt. Mc
Kinley National Park said today. “I
have made an investigation and find
no evidence of a disturbance of any
description. There is no smoke or
steam arising from the mountain that
we have been able to find. There is
no possibility of an eruption for the
mountain is of solid rock and ice.
Black clouds are a common occurrence
in the vicinity of the mountain and
are of no special significance. The
weather is calm and cold with no in
dication of impending storms locally.”
Others familiar with the mountain
said the phenomena was probably due
to vapor caused by the sun's rays on
the snow.
LIBERTY BELL TO
RING OUT OLD
YEAR TONIGHT
LAST TIME IT WAS SOUNDED WAS
FOR FUNERAL OF CHIEF
JUS'HCF '^RSHALL
PHILADELT Dec. 31 (JP)—'The
Liberty Bell ng at midnight to
usher in the .n of the International
Exposition celebrating the one hun
dred and fiftieth anniversary of the
adoption of the Declaration of Inde
pendence. The bell cracked when it
was rung at the funeral of Chief Jus
tice John Marshall, July 8, 1835.
A radio engineers’ test indicated a
resonance of 85 per cent of the full
volume attainable.
Men and women in Colonial cos
tumes will sign the declaration in the
chamber under the bell, re-enacting
the signing of the famous Declaration,
of Independence.
FIREMEN’S ANNUAL
DANCE ON TONIGHT;
EVERYTHING READY
Bales of hay figured largely in the
S. A. C. hall last evening where the
big dance of the year, the Firemen’s
Annual masque ball takes place to
night. Oatmeal also came in useful
for in charge of Gus Manthey a swarm
of men waltzed the bales around the
floor for three hours thoroly cleaning
the floor preparatory to administer
ing pounds of talcum power and slip
pery wax. By six o’clock this evening
the dance floor will be glistening like
a newly washed babe. Gus says the
floor will be so highly polished that
it will reflect like a mirror. This,
coming from Gus, should be good
news to the throng of dancers.
The music is ready to pipe off at
9 o’clock; the decorations are a4 up
and finishing touches completed; the
punch is being made this afternoon
by a man famed throughout the North
land for concocting soft liquid re
freshments. There will be dozens of
startling and original costumes ap
pear in the grand march; ample seats
have been arranaged for the weary
and wallflowers. What more could
one ask for? They’re off.
The British Admiralty reports suc
cess in steering a target ship by
radio, during practice off Malta.
Aluminum has been used as a sub
stitute for wall , paper.
Many pearl divers are killed by
sharks off the coast of Ceylon.