VOLCME 19 NUMBER 210
SEWARD,
ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEMPTEMBER 6, 1924 .
PRICE TEN CENTS
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AMERICAN FLYERS
ON AMERICAN SOIL;
LAND OFF PORTLAND
AIRPORT. Boston. Sept. 6.—The I
American fivers, Lieutenants Smith |
and Nelson, were forced to land at j
Orr’s Island, off Portland, Maine, at
f> o’clock this afternoon because of j
a heavy foe;. According to a tele
phone message from Lieut. Allard, of j
t^ air service, now in Portland, the j
flyers would remain at the island for
the night arriving in Boston, weather
permitting today.
Hop Off From Pictou
PICTOU, N. S., Sept. 6.—The two
planes of the American world flyers
hopped off from Pictou for Boston a
10:15 yesterday morning.
Boston Ready for Heroes
BOSTON. Sept. 6.—The city is on
the qui vive to receive the American
world flyers, who will arrive here
this afternoon. Gen. Patrick, chief of
air service, will meet them with
a squadron of 11 planes, escorting
them to the landing buoys. At this
place the planes will#have their pon
toons replaced with wheels, with
which they w'ill complete the flight
to Seattle.
GERMANY MUST BE
IN LEAGUE OF NATIONS
DECLARES MACDONALD
GENEVA ,Sept. 6.—In an address
before the Fifth Assembly of the
league of nations today, the British
Prime Minister, Macdonald, declared
that “Germany can not remain out
side the league.’’ He also said, that
“the time had come to arrange for a
new disarament conference, with all
powers, including Germany, present.”
PROTECTIVE CORDON
FORMED IN SHANGHAI
WASHINGOTN, D. C., Sept. 6.—
A t/rotective cordon, composed of
Shanghai volunteer corps, and Amer
ican, British, Japanese and French
sailors will be thrown about the for
eign settlement in Shanghai to pre
v .ft the entry of armed forces there.
Coveted City Bombarded
SHANGHAAI, Sept. 5.—After 20
hours of fighting within 15 miles
of the coveted city of Shanghai, forc
es of General Lu Yung Hsiang, rul
er of the territory repulsed the ene
mies of General Chi Spies Yuan, and
gained about two miles, according to
a Shanghai dispatch. The lines were
crowded with foreigners, who later
returned to tis city and huddled in
desolate spots to get away from the
firing lines.
LA FOLLETTE IS SCORED
BY IMPERIAL WIZARD OF
KLAN AS “ARCH ENEMY”
HUNTINGTON, West. Va., Sept.
6.—Dr. H. W. Evans, imperial wiz
ard o fthe Ku Klux Klan in a state
ment here the other day said that
the strength of the Invisible Empire
would be thrown against the presi
dential candidacy of Senator LaFol
lette, of Wisconsin, while a neutral
stand would be taken in the contest
between President Coolidge and John
W. Davis, the democratic candidate^,
“LaFollette is the arch enemy of
the Action,” the statement said. “No
man who endangered the success of
his nation in time of war is fit to
h fid any office, much less t ooccupy
the position thru which the coun
try ust stand or fall.
“Both Coolidge and Davis are na
tionals and American ,aides of the
Klan in the attempt to ‘Americanize
America,’ and for this reason the
Klan will take no part in the politi
cal struggle as far s they are con
cerned.”
STARR LEAVES ABOUT 15th
The steamship Starr will sail west
for Unalaska and way points about
S°pt. 15, connecting with the North
western.
CEDAR IN PORT
The U. S. lighthouse tender, Capt.
J. W. Leadbetter is in port waiting
the arrival of the Yukon. The Cedar
will load coal before leaving for the
south.
REDONDO IN PORT
The steamship Redondo is in port
and ^rill leave for the westward fol
lowing the arrival of the Yukon.
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DAD UNMOVED AT BAKE'S
1st TOOTH 1J YEARS AGO,
WIFE NOW ASKS DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES, Sept, f>.—1Thii
cen years ago little A-*red Lee
Per nington had his first tooth.
The boy’c father, < l arles D.
Pennington, didn’t enthuse.
The boy’s mother, Nellie Lee
Pennington, nursed resentment
in her heart for thirteen years.
Wav she is suing her husband
for divorce, alleging no greater
cruelty could be imagined than
the aloof attitude of Pennington
when Alfred Lee cut his first lit
tle tooth.
PRINCE OF WALES
MAY NOT PAY VISIT
TO PACIFIC COAST
SOISSET, Sept. 6—It is not likely
the Prince of Wales will visit Canada
or the Pacific Coast during his stay
in the Western Hemisphere, accord
ing to Captain Lascelles, his secre
tary. The Prince will go to his
ranch at High River, Alberta, with
out alighting from the train, but wdll
visit the eastern Canadian rockies.
RUM RUNNER CAPTURED
BY SEATTLE CRUISER
SEATTLE, Sept. 6— Pounced upon
by a cruiser of the local dry navy,
the speed boat Columbia, with a load
of liquor aboard was captured in
Hood’s Canal this afternoon. Joseph
Johnson, one of the rum runners,
was seriously wounded while resist
ing arrest. *
Former Premier Herriott
Addresses World Court
GENEVA, Sept. 6.—Premier Her
riot of France, addressing the fifth
assembly of the League of Nations
today, began by saying that he brot
one word to the assembly, and that
word was peace. He added that he
hoped that the United States would
not refuse to continue its useful col
laboration in disarmament, especially
now that arbitration had come in as
a feature.
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ROCKEFELLER WINS HIS
I' FIGHT AGAINST INDIGESTION
j DAYTONA, Fla., Sept. 5.—John D.
I Rockefeller has won his fight against
indigestion, and now is able to eat
anything, altho using discretion as to
the amount eaten.
Despite his millions Rockefeller for
years has lived on milk and dry
toast, and now comes word that he
has won his battle, the longest in
his career.
YUKON DUE TOMORROW
The steamer Yukon is due to ar
rive in port sometime tomorrow af
ternoon.
BELGIANS EVACUATE
BRUSSELS, Sept. 5— Belgian mil
itary evacuation of the Ruhr began
late last night.
COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD « UMDERWOOO, H.
AGENT FOR REPARATION
PAYMENTS
Owen D. Young, of New York, re
cently appointed “Agent for Repar
ation Payments” by the Reparations
Commission.
PLANE BEATS PIGEON
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77 MINU TES NEW YORK-WASHINGTON
RACE
BRITISH BAKERS QUICK
RAISE PRICE OF BREAD
LONDON, Sept. 6.—Close on
the heels of the upward rise in
wheat prices in the United States
English bakers have increased the
price of bread two cents a loaf.
On the basis of Board of Trade
statistics this means an increase
of $900,000 per week in England’s
bread bill.
England uses 300,000 hundred
weight of imported wheat daily,
ana nearly half of this comes
fr< m the LTnited States and Cana
da.
LOCAL NEWS
W. E. Moultrav, Standard Oil man
ager, will return on the Yukon to
night from Latouche.
The Bridge club met yesterday at
the hoe of Mrs. George Sexton.
_
H. H. Mitchell who arrived in Sew
arrl this week from Snug Harbor,
lower Kenai, will leave orv the Re
dondo for Kodiak.
W. O. Bremner. who formerly ran
a well known Cordova drug store,
aviived in Seward yesterday and oas
taken a position with Brown t': Haw
kins. Mr. Bremner has\ been living
at Snug Harbor, lower Kenai, the
I past few years.
Lewis Melian, the popular purser
I on the steamship Starr, and Jack
i Prosser, the well known baggageman,
returned yesterday from the Buvr
Hayden mine where they secured the
limit on ptarmigan. They report an
abundance of the birds.
Miss Marion Flowers, who has been
confined to the Anchorage hospital
with paralysis of the lower limbs is
slowly improving.
Mrs. Grace Corson has purchased
one of the Romig cottages on Adams
street, through Dougherty’s real es
tate agency, and is now making ex
tensive improvements to her prop
erty.
Leon Urbach will return from An
age tonight.
Mrs. Gust Peterson, who has been
receiving treatments at the Abrams
institute in Seattle is rapidly im
proving, according to word received
here.
Andrew Horton has moved into the
house lately vacated by Sergt. Har
per, who has taken the Blue bunga
low recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs.
Don H. Tyer.
Mrs. Herman Neilson, whose hus
band was killed by a railroad crane
several weeks ago, has moved to An
chorage to live.
There will not be any new business
to keep unless you cultivate new
trade.
If any article is worth selling it is
worth advertising.
WASHINGTON SENATOR DEAD
WALLA WALLA, Sept. 6.—State
Senator David H. Cox is dead in this
city.
FAIR SAFE ROBBED
SPOKANE, Sept. 6.—The safe of
the Spokane Interstate Fair was rob
bed of nineteen thousand dollars.
KU KLUX KLAN WILL
TRY TO CARRY MAINE
IN COMING ELECTION
AUGUSTA, Maine, Sept. 6.—A bold
attempt to capture the county and
state offices in Maine in the coming
election will be made by the Ku Klux
Klans. The campaign is watched with
, eager interest by the country.
SELDOVIA HAS BOOM
IN HERRING INDUSTRY
SELDOVIA, Sept. 4.—Seldovia has
a small sized boom on in the herring
! industry, many new plants being
erected here, and others under con
struction. The Everett Fisheries Co.
have leased the so-called Tom Stef
fanson scow and will put up herring
! in the Malcolm cannery.
Commissioner Ralph V. Anderson,
j who is also wharfinger at Seldovia,
I is driving piling for a new saltery.
; Malcolm .adjoining the Anderson
property, is driving 125 feet of pil
ing and capping for a new saltery.
Mclver and McNab have leased the
Xorthwestern cannery for a term of
years and are driving a new dock.
A saltery will be established.
Anton Johansen, pioneer Seldovia
! merchant, who recently sold out .his
pool hall and other possessions to
Mr. Wagner, has started the foun
| dation for a large cold storage, ice
plant and butcher shop. It is hard
to keep Mr. Johansen out of busi
ness in Seldovia.
Colwell & Chambers have complet
ed the large extension to their store
and are moving stock in.
Bob Orr, who recently sold his res
taurant to Mr. Wagner, will start a
new business here in the near future,
j Mr. Orr is a first class restaurant
man and is badly missed.
J. J. Jensen has leased the old Rus
sian Mission ground for five years,
and will sublet it for various com
i mercial enterprises.
Seldovia has about as many labor
ers as can be taken care of. A large
tent colony now' stretches out on the
| beach, and while many are not work
j ing all are living easy so far. Work
j men, however, should keep away
I from Seldovia until more men are
needed.
The Rev. R. V. R. Dunlap has the
new mission building nearly complet
ed and it adds greatly to the looks
of the town.
John Olsen and Capt. Ericksen
! have built a new house on the slough.
■ Thomas Lund has also built a new
| home.
Shorty Beach has built a large boat
i house on the slough.
The new postoffice building at the
| head of the wTiarf is completed, the
Milo Hurlbut, the new postmaster
will have fine quarters.
Capt. Sid. Anderson is driving pil
j ‘n£ for a new coal dock, and will
J keep a large quantity on hand.
KILLS HIMSELF RATHER
THAN TO SPEND SAVINS
LOS ANGELES, Sept 6.—L. D.
Baker, of this city, believed in put
ting away for a rainy day. When
he was forty-three years old so ob
sessed was Baker with the saving
habit that the thought of disturb
ing his nestegg led him to commit
suicide, according to police.
Baker had a home, an autoobile,
good health and a bank account. He
had been out of work for a month,
and brooding over the thought that
hawould have to spend sme of his
savings prompted him to kill him
self, investigators said.
Join the Chaber of Commmerce.
LONDON, SLOW TO TAKE
UP ROB HAIR, DROPS IT
LONDON. Sept. 5.—The bobbed
^nd shingled style of hairdressing
vhich took an incredibly long pe
riod as compared with other fash
onable centers, to percolate into
London society, is going out of
fashion with a run in this country.
Long hair is now all the rage
here again, and this season’s de
butantes are taking so-called rest
cures until their hair grows again
and gets beyond the “straggly”
and all-ends” stage.
ARGENTINE FIGHTER
WILL BE DEPORTED
AFTER FIGHT WILLS
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—A warrant
for the deportation of Luis Firpo, the
heavyweight champion of South
America was authorized tonight by
Secretary of Labor Davis, Immigra
tion Commissioner Curran of Ellis
Island, stating that he had been au
thorized to apply for a warrant, but
refused further comment.
As two full business days are re
quired for completion of the techni
calities in signing and serving the
summary warrant, a race will now
ensue between the time Curran
requires to serve the warrant and
Thursday night, the date Firpo is
slated to fight Wills,
Firpo is being deported because of
his violating the Mann act.
BIG GAME HUNTRESS IN
FAVOR OF BOBBED HAIR
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.—Bob
bed hair and big game are appar
ently as far apart as the poles; but
in the belief of Mrs. W ,J. Mordent
of Chicago, success in hunting the
latter, if one is a woman, follows
well on the work of the barber’s scis
sors .
“If you want a successful hunting
trip get your hair bobbed first,” Mrs.
Morden advised feminity in general,
as she displayed her shorn tresses.
“I did before I left Chicago, and I’ve
never regretted it. When one breaks
away from civilization and enters
the wilds for months at a time such
things as a lack of bothersome hair
are more important than they would
seem.’
Mrs. Morden accompanied her
husband on a' trip around the world,
during which they hunted for sev
eral months both in Africa and
India and hundreds of trophies are
now en route to Chicago as evidence
of thei rskill.
“And furthermore,” said Mrs. Mor
den in parting, “bobbed hair is just
as sensible in civilization—in a big
city, for instance. It saves a great
deal of time and is more healthful.”
DELLWOOD WITH ALASKA
CABLE DUE SEATTLE 22nd
SEATTLE, Sept. 6.—The cableshp
Dell wood with the balance of the ca
ble for the new Alaska line is ex
pected here on the 22nd of Septem
ber.
HEADS WOMEN’S COMMITTEE
PROGRESSIVE TICKET
Miss Gordon Norrie, of New York,
chairman of the Women’s Commit'
for Progressive Political Action,
cently organized to campaign for
Follette and Wheeler.
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OPPOSING GOVERNORS
WANT CONTROL OF
SHANGHAI PROVINCE
SHANGHAI, Sept. 6.—Fierce bat
tling is going on in three sectors, be
tween the armies of the rival Chinese
governors, who are contesting for
possession of Shanghai. The fighting
continued unabated this oming, but
added fury was given by the move
ment of airplanes into the war zone
and the concentration of Chinese bat
tleships ready for action along the
Yangtse river.
Major engagements center between
Kiantingsien and Liuho, thirty miles
northwest from the coveted city of
Shanghai .
SHANHAI, Sept. 6.—General Chi
Hsieh’s forces are bent on storming
Shanghai. They drove forward late
last night to Woosung forts, ten
miles from the city.
SEATTLE JUDGE DENIES
CITY APPLICATION OF
APPEAL IN LIGHT CASE
SEATTLE, Sept. 6.—Federal Judge
Jeremiah Neterer in a decision hand
ed down today, denied an applica
tion to the city to remove to the su
perior court its suit for lower rates
against the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph cpmpany.
MUCH TRAVEL TO AND
FROM NUKA BAY CAMP
Capt. Chas. Emswiler reports con
siderable activity in the Nuka Bay
district this peason, many persons in
terested in the camp going and com
ing.
| Probably no richer camp for the
| amount of work done exists in Al
| aska, and with the many prospectors
! in the hills many other likely pros
! pects will be picked up.
Charles Balhiser will arrive from
Anchorage on one of the first trains
; and leave on the May for the Alas
! ka Hills property.
Burman and Carlson, who are op
! erating near the Alaska Hills will
| leave for Seward soon. These men
have put in considerable work in the
Nuka Bay district this summer.
| Bob Hatcher came from Nuka bay
j on the May Thursday. He is locat
; ed near the head of the bay and has
I some fine rock, the gold being thick
j ly speckled thru the rock, in j;pots
the size of a pin head.
Thos. Babcock and Frank Lang are
j making their way in from the bay
j in a power dory. They are project
ing along the coast. They have spent
some time on Two-Arm bay,t in the
Nuka bay district.
The gas boat May will leave Sun
day for the bay, carrying passen
gers and freight.
Commissioner Studded
In Seward on Way To
Attend Valdez Coud
The bureau of fisheries boat ,Kit
tiwake, having on board Fish Com
missioner Wm. Studdert, Commis
sioner Ralph V. Anderson, Jack Tan
sy, J. J. Lensen, and I. Knutsen, the
latter a prisoner charged with ille
gal fishing, arrived in port Thursday
night on the way to Valdez, where
Mr. Studdert will prosecute some 40
cases for illegal fishing.
On Tuesday, he captured four boats
engaged in illegal fishing and has
tied the six vessels up at Seldovia,
where they will probably be sold.
The boats’ crew’s are accused of fish
ing with purse seines and placing the
fish in pound nets where many died.
As a waste of food fish is contrary
to the statutes made and provided,
arrests followed. At one time forty
four prisoners wTere confined in the
Seldovia jail, all being taken to Val
dez to stand trial.
According to the new law fishing
must cease Saturday morning at 6
o’clock and not be resumed until 6
o’clock Monday morning . Many men
are not familiar with the lawr, and
are caught. The commissioner is de
obey the law, hence the many ar
rests.
DANCE TONIGHT
The regular Saturday night dance
will be held in A. B. hall tonight A
fine orchestra will be in attendance,
and with four boats in port there
should be a good crowd present.