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VOLUME 19. NUMBER 266.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1924.
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AMUNDSEN’S VESSE
MAY ABANDON TRIP
ACROSS NORTH POLE
CHRISTIANIA, Nov. 12.—Explorer
Sverdrup today told the Berlinske Ti
dende that the latest messages heTiad
received from the Amundsen explo
ration ship Maude was that the trip
was proving unfavorable owing to ice
conditions, and he expressed the fear
that the plan to drift across the North
Pole in the Arctic floe ice would have
to be given up.
Dr. Nansen is said to interpret the
message from the Maud to mean that
the vessel has abandoned the drift
and is now trying to get back into
Bering sea.
CANADA SHOWS FARMERS
HOW TO BE CONVENIENT
OTTAWA, Ont., Nov. 12.—Bring
ing city conveniences to the farm
home by means of a motor truck
traveling through newly settled dis
tricts, fitted up with all the ap
pointments of the modern house is
the latest method of land colonizing
adopted by the Ontario Department
of Agriculture.
The truck is equipped with a com
plete water pressure system for a
house. It includes bathroom, drink
> ing water supply, shower bath, kit
* then sink, water pressure tank, el
ectric water pump, hot water range
heater and septic tank. Practical
demonstrations of how to apply the
system to the farm are given along
the roadside.
ADMINISTRATION WILL
NOT CHARGE TAXATION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—The ad
ministration has no present intention
of pressing for tax legislation at the
coming short session of Congress,
Secretary Mellon indicated, aftei a
^ conference with the President.
MRS. HARDING IMPROVED
MARION, 0., Nov. 12.—Mrs. Hard
ing passed a restful night and hei
condition is somewhat improved, ac
cording to a bulletin issued b\ Dr.
Sawyei today.
DOG WEARS RED LIGHT TO
AVOID GETTING RUN OVER
CEDAR GROVE, Nov. 7.—A visit
ing autoist, passing through here the
other night, rubbed his eyes as he saw
a dancing red light in the street in
* front of his car, made some remarks
about post-war liquor, and stopped to
investigate.
Closer inspection revealed a small
dog surmounted by a red electric light
with a dry cell battery fastened about
his mid section.
A local woman explained that her
pet would not stay off the streets at
night, so she rigged up a signal light
REGISTERED FOXES
FROM P. E. ISLANDS
The steamer Admiral Rogers
which arrvied in Juneau recently
brought about three pairs of reg
istered silver black foxes for the
Marshall-Dawes fur farm near Men
denhall Glacier from Prince Edward
Island, the animals traveling across
the continent to Seattle and* north
by steamer. All six of the animals
""arrived in good condition. They
were taken to the farm and turned
loose in the corrals.
The following from the Anchorage
Alaskan indicates that Alaska foxes
are being shipped to Prince Edward
Island in much greater number than
from the latter place to Alaska. The
Alaskan says:
The largest fox purchase said to
have ever been consumated in this
section of the Territory, took place
4. in the Cook Inlet district, a few
days ago when Mr. Morrison, of Mil
ligan and Morrison, big fox men of
Prince Edward Island, on the east
coast of Canada, bought from the
Williamson fox ranch at Kasilof, and
other ranches in that section, 240
foxes. It is stated that the sum paid
for the fox was $500 per pair.
It is understood that Mr. Morrison
p-ndeavored to purchase more but
was unable to do so at that time.
He was in this district last season
and bought then, a large number of
fox from the ranch of Waller and
Windson. The Williamson ranch alone
supplies him with 189 foxes of the
total amount, in the deal last week.
GREATEST WORK ON
ENGLISH WILL SOON
COME FROM PRESS
LONDON, Nov. 12.—The new
English Dictionary, which has been
in the course of compilation since
1857, probably will be published
about the first of the new year, and
it is claimed that it will be the
largest and most authoritative ex
position of the English language ever
j produced.
I The dictionary is being compiled
I by the Oxford University press, and
j most of the work has been done un
| der the supervision of Oxford Uni
| versity professors. All the sections
| of the dictionary have been com
| pleted, but the editors have been
finding it necessary to make several
additions and revisions, so change
able is the English of today.
ADMIRAL WATSON SAILS
FROM SEATTLE WITH
CONSIGNMENT FREIGHT
WILL PROCEED TO ANCHORAGE
IF FREIGHT DISCHARGING
CONDITIONS PERMIT
SEATLE, Wash., Nov. 12.—The Ad
miral Watson of the Pacific Steam
ship company sailed from Seattle
this morning with 34 passengers and
a capacity load of freight for this
port and Anchorage.
Providing conditions permit for a
clear passage to Anchorage she will
take in the Cook Inlet port.
For Kodiak—Alice Vanschelle, Lot
tie and Marie Hanschelle, Margaret J
Zahn, Herman Vanschele, C. Walk
er and Miss Grace Treat.
VANCOUVER ATTORNEY
VIOLATES LIQUOR LAW
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12.—F. R.
Anderson, a prominent attorney of
Vancouver, B. C., was arrested here
today charged with conspiracy to vio
late the Volstead Act in connection
with the recent seizure of the Brit
ish steamer Quadra, which was towed
into San Francisco with liquor aboard
valued at $500,000.
Pacific Coast Now
Ready to Play Polo
—
I SAN DIEGO, Nov. 12.—The atten
I tion cf polo enthusiasts soon will be
focused on the Pacific Coast. Major
Colin G. Ross, secretary of the Cor
onado Country Club announces that
the polo season at Coronado Beach,
California, w<U open January 1. The
annual midwinter tournament under
the auspices of the American Polo
Association will be held March 1 to
! 26. Several cups will be competed
for.
The three turf polo fields at tlfc
I Coronado Country Club have been re
| tuilt and regrassed last season and
will be in fine condition.
ARMISTICE DAY DANCE
The Armistice Day dance last night
given by the Seward Post of the
American Legion was fairly well at
| tended. Good music, a fine floor and
coffee and— helped to make the dance
an enjoyable affair.
The Auxiliary supplied the dough
nuts for the refreshments. Mr. Joe
Bums kindly donated the A. B. hall
to the Legion for the affair.
ITALIAN CHAMBER
OF DEPUTIES OPENS
ROME, Nov. 19.—The Italian cham- I
her of deputies reopened today with
the participation of 450 deputies.
Tacoma Buys Corn
Cheaper In So. Am.
TACOMA, Nov. 12.—A shipment of
3,COO tons of corn from Argentina,
received here recently, reveiled that
corn from South America could be
laid down here cheaper than com
from Iowa. The British tramp Ash
worth brought the com around the
Horn and the rate charged with $6.75
a ton for the 8,000 mile sea voyage.
Tho duty paid was $5.40 a ton mak
ing the total cost in addition to the
price paid in Argentina $12.15 a ton.
The late on corn in Iowa is 71 cents
per cwt., or $14.20 a ton.
The South American com was de
livered to two milling companies here.
The price paid was not disclosed.
ALASKA PICTURED AS
LAND OF PROMISE FOR
BIG NUMBER FARMERS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Alaska
is pictured in glowing colors as a
land of opportunity in a special re
port to the Interior Department by
Alaskan railroad officials, who declare
conditions there most favorable for
colonization by fifty thousand farmers
and their families. With that num
ber of industrious farmers, they said
that Alaska in a few years would
prove a large factor in supplying the
United States and foreign markets
with farm, dairy and meat products.
The report added that one of Alas
ka's essential needs is a comprehen
sive system of wagon roads.
CENTRALIA VICTIMS
HONORED BY STATUE
CENTRALIA, Wn., Nov. 12.—A
statue of an American Doughboy was
unveiled in Main street park today in
honor of the four world war veterans
who were shot down here Armistice
Day, 1919, by the Wobblies. The four
men who were assassinated were Dale
Hubbard, Warren 0. Grimm, Arthur
McElfress and Ben Casagranda.
JUDGE GIVES FREAK
INTERPRETATION, LAW
BALTIMORE, Md., No^ 12.—The
Volstead law and its many construc
tions were given a new interpretation
here today when United States Dis
trict Judge Morris Soper ruled that
the law’s half of one per cent clause
did not apply to beverages made in
the home for home consumption. He
also decided that the burden of proof
is upon the government when it de
clares that home made beverages are
intoxicating.
LIPSTICK INDIGESTION
NEW FLAPPER AILMENT
LEIPSIC, Germany, Nov. 6.—Lip
stick indigestion has developed here
among young women, who use rouge
too freely, according to physicians.
Many of the cosmetics, particularly
the cheaper kinds, contain harmful
ingredients, assert the doctors, which
cause complications when they come
in contact with food.
TONG WAR SPREADS FROM
NEW YORK TO BROOKLYN
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—Wing Wing,
a Chinese laundryman, may die as
the result of two bullet wounds he
received the other day in what the
police believe is an expansion of the
tong war to Brooklyn.
After the shooting, orders went
out from Brooklyn police headquar
ters doubling the patrol over Chinese
restaurants, laundries and other
places where it was feared the feud
might flare up anew.
Several deaths have occurred al
ready in Manhattan as a result of
a mysterious outbreak among rival
tongs which have been quiet for sev
eral years.
ELKS SERVE CIDAR;
TEN PERSONS DEAD
LYNCHBURG, Va., Nov. 12.—Jas.
K. Collins of the New York City lodge
of Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, died today, bringing the to
tal number of victims poisoned by
cider served at the Elks’ National
Home at Bedford, Monday, up to ten.
An investigation shows that wood al
cohol was poured in the cider to give
it a kick, under the impression that
it was grain alcohol.
UNITED STATES IS
GREATEST EMPIRE
LONDON, Nov. 12.—Describing the
United States as one of the great em
pires of the world, former ambassador
to America, Geddes, told an audience
at Westminster Hall how profoundly
American thought was influencing
the United Kingdom and to an even
greater extent the British dominions.
Talking about Christmas presents,
have you seen the fine stock of Alaska
jewelry on display at Orlander’s ? It
is a larger and more complete stock
to select from than found in many
stores in Seattle, and a present of
jewelry is always acceptable.
NEW YORK HOTELS
BAR SOLICITORS OF
AMER. RED CROSS
NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—On the
ground that the solicitation of funds
from guests in the hotels was “incom
patible with the best ideas of hospi
tality and entertainment, the members
of the Hotel Association here yester
day refused to allow the American
Red Cross to use their lobbies to so
licit funds in the annual roll call.
The incident caused considerable
. criticism from patriotic orders.
COOLIDGEAGAINST
AN INAUGURAL BALL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Presi
dent Coolidge is not in favor of hold
ing an inaugural ball at the White
House the day of his inauguration,
but will attend if the ball is held.
RUMANIAN GOVERNMENT
ENTERS INTO AN ODD
CONTRACT WITH FOUNDRY
BUCHAREST, Nov. 12.—A con
tract containing unique provisions
recently was entered into between
the Rumanian government and the
Reschitza Iron Works. The latter
undertakes to clear 250 miles of
government owned railroad track
age from scrap iron and discarded
rolling material, the accumulation of
war and after-war years.
The company agrees to furnish
the government with one pound of
iron in the form of locomotives,
boxcar chassi sand rails for every
25 pounds of scrap iron collected.
VETERAN PARADE IN
SEATTLE YESTERDAY
—
SEATTLE, Nov. 12.—In a night j
parade down Second avenue, beneath j
the red glare of war time flares, the
veterans of three wars and their civi- j
lian comrades marched in a mighty :
demonstration in honor of the Allied
victory which “Seattle has not for
gotten.”
AMERICAN BUILDING
1924 FIVE BILLIONS
—
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.— The
American building bill for 1924 will
' be about $5,000,000,000, and the con
| struction of homes will account for j
about 40 per cent of that total, accord-.
; ing to figures made public by the ;
■Federal Reserve Board and the De
partment of Commerce.
COMMISSION TO STUDY
BRITISH INCOME TAX
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—A. W.
Gregg, special assistant to Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon will make a
study of the British tax system in the
hope that he may obtain ideas which
will give the treasury new possibili
ties in laying out a program of taxa
tion in the future.
REINDEER AND CARIBOU
LIVE IN DOMESTIC BLISS
The experiment, which has been
carried on now for over a month,
in crossing a female reindeer and a
male caribou, is progressing nicely
at the Alaska College, near Fair
banks, according to one of the mem
bers of the faculty.
The experiment is being carried
forward in an effort to produce a
heavier animal, a special pen on the
college campus, is the house of the
animals ,and it is said they have yet
to have their first domestic trouble.
—News-Miner.
Hidden Glacier Is
Found In Olympics
TACOMA, Nov. 12.—A new glacier
has been discovered in the Olympic
mountains by forest rangers. It was
found on Muncaster mountain. Four
'oresters climbed the mountain 7,000
feet high and learned that the peak
was split in two parts with a large
glacier between them. The ice field
is a mile wide.
The Olympic peninsula between Pu
get Sound and the Pacific ocean is
one of the wildest regions In the Uni
ted States, parts of it having never
been explored.
WAR BRIDES UNITE
IN CHICAGO TO KEEP
FRENCH TRADITIONS
CHICAGO, Nov. 12.—What is be
lieved to be the first association of
its kind in America has been form
ed by a group of Chicago French
women who were married to Ameri
can soldiers during and after the
war. It has been tiamed the Sororite
Franco-American society and held
its first meeting in the clubroom
of the Alliance Francasie.
The object, according to the found
ers, is to bind together the French
women who came to the United
States as “war brides” and to pre
serve the language and tradition of
their native country. They hope to
expand it into a national organiza
tion.
The president is Mrs. Freeland
Page Townsley of Berwyn, whose
husband served as a major in the
war. Before her marriage she wras
Mile. Victoria de Gorce, of Argou
leme and Baquiere de Lencheon, Py
rennes.
BOSTON MAN LOSES
SUIT FOR $10,000 AS
SOBERNESS REWARD
i
BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 12.—A ver- j
diet for the defendant was ordered
by Judge MacLeod is superior court
in a suit brought by M. Crowley of
Boston, to recover from the estate
of Mrs. Emma J. Sinclair $10,000 and
interest claimed to be due on a
premise made by the late Frank
Jones, Portsmouth, N. H„ brewer, j
The plaintiff contended that Jones
promised to pay him this sum if he
remained sober ten years.
Crowley, who formerly resided in
Po:ismoutli, N. H„ alleged that Mrs.
Sindian, a daughter of Jones. :e
pealed the promise on condition that
he did not press her mother for the j
money. He said he refrained trom
bringing suit against Mrs. Jones l e
cause of this arrangement.
The alleged promises w'ere made
in 1893.
KETCHIKAN INSISTS THAT
MOVIE CO. BE ARRESTED
FOR FAKING OF PICTURES
—
KETCHIKAN, —The Ketchikan
Commercial Club, at a formal meet
ing held last week, adopted resolu
tions addressel to Postmaster General
New asking him to bring criminal pro
ceeding? against the Famous Players
Lasky Corporation on the charge of
using the mails to defraud. The basis
of the accusation is the recent mov
ing picture put out by the company
entitled “The Alaskan.” The picture
is a dramatization of the novel of the
same name by James Oliver Curwood.
The producers have teen advertising
this picture as having been actually
made in Alaska. The words report
ed to be used in tbe advertising are
that the picture “was actually made
amidst proud Alaskan snow-capped
mountain tops.”
The Commercial Club charges that
Thomas Meighan, who acted the title
roie in the picture, and the other play
ers, never came within 600 miles of
Alaska. It is said that this false ad
vertising being spread through the
mails violates the statutory injunction
against using the postal service for
purposes of fraud. It is a fraud on
<he movie public anil an imposition
of A/aska and the people who reside
in the Territory. Peal Alaskans are
exceedingly annoyed that several of
the motion picture companies have
teen guilty of similar breech of good
faith with their patrons. Many of
these so-called, “made in the North”
pictures are actually taken in South
ern California.
At me time mejgnan was preparing
to enact the lecture, the advertising
agents of the producers managed to
have the outside papers filled with
news about him, saying that he was on
his way to Seattle, where he would
embark for Alaska to make the film. |
Such stories tvere even published in
the Seattle papers which are not usu
ally taken in on matters pertaining to
the Territory. Meighan did get as
far north as Seattle, but that was as
far on his way to Alaska as he ever
got. He did go to Vancouver, B. C.,
and from there to Banff in the same
province. Meighan found luxurious
quarters in the Canadian Pacific Ho
tel at Banff, and these proved so much
to his liking, far removed as they are;
from the hardships of Alaskan trails,!
that he made his Alaskan picture in.
that neighborhood.
SEWARD CITIZENS
RESPOND LIBERALLY
RED CROSS APPEAL
Once more the people of Seward
have shown their approval of the
American Red Cross. Practically ev
ery adult approached gave one dol
lar. When the books are closed this
will amount to about $500. It will be
some time before the branches can
make their reports to the Chapter,
but members of the Executive Com
mittee in Latouche and to the west
ward were hopeful of a good return.
The Roll Call Committee is very
grateful to all who assisted in secur
ing members, to the boys and girls
who played in the basketball games,
and to Mr. Bums for his co-opera
tion.
NEW ASSISTANT TO
SECRETARY OF NAVY
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Theo
dore Douglas Robinson was appointed
assistant secretary of the navy' this
afternoon.
FORMER ALASKAN GOES
TO TWISP ACT AS EDITOR
L. R. Gillette, formerly con
nected with the Record-Miner, on**
of the early newspapers of Juneau,
and who resided in Pairbanks man)
years, has become editor and mana
ger of the Twisp, Wash. Methow Val
ley News. He recently moved his
family to the South.
Mr. Gillette was appointed As
sistant LT. S. Attorney at Fairbanks
shortly after the change in the na
tional administration in 1921. He
resigned from that office when his
chief, Guy B. Erwin was replaced by
Julian Htuley several months ago.
COOLIDGE PAYS HONOR
TO UNKNOWN SOLDIER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Presi
dent Coolidge motored to the Arling
ton National cemetery yesterday and
placed a wreath on the tomb .of the
unknown soldier, America's symbol of
her heroic dead.
KETCHIKAN MAN DROWNED
Ira S, Linville. for 12 years a resi
dent of Ketchikan, was drowned last
week, while out on a fish buying trip
for a local company. Linvil e is be
lieved to have slipped and fallen into
the water from the skiff, as when
found he was floating alongside the
boat with his rubber boot fastened
to one of the oarlocks. He had no
known relatives.
Fox Breeders Will
Meet In Flour City
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 12.— Live
silver black foxes valued at $1,500,000
representing the pick of these ani
mals at ranches in all sections of the
United States will be shown at the
exposition tc be held in conjunction
with the convention here of the
American Fox Breeders’ Association,
November 17 to 22.
Special arrangements for the hand
ling and housing of the animals will
be made. Their sly cunning and also
their value makes the task of caring
for these valuable foxes a delicate
one.
Three men prominent in the fox fur
industry have been selected as judges
for the show7. They are Albert Fra
zier, American representative in New
\ork of a London fur concern; J. A.
Bossack of New York City, and Dr.
William A. Young, Booneville, N. Y.,
a prominent fox breeder.
One-Third of Filipino
Children Go to School.
MANILA, P. I., Nov. 12.—The to
tal expenditures for the public schools
of the Philippine Islands during 1923
amounted to $7,220,000 or $221,000
less than for the year 1922, according
to figures made public by the bureau
of feducation.
A total enrollment of 1,261,697
school children was recorded in the
public schools for 1923 out of a popu
lation of 3,077,467 children. The per
centage of attendance throughout the
year was 85. A total of 25,780
teachers was employed of whom 329
were Americans. In the schools only
English is taught.