VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 61
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
CHAMBER LUNCHEON
HELD (ESIERU) WAS
MOST INTERESTING
The regular weekly luncheon of the
Seward Chamber of Commerce was
held yesterday noon at the Seward
Grill, President Hinde presiding. The
Chamber had as its guest, Mr. Harry
G. Steel, editor of the Cordova Daily
Times, who favored the members with
an entertaining talk.
After luncheon the meeting was
r.ailed to order and a short business
session enjoyed.
Communications were received from
many persons and companies desiring
information on this section of the Ter
ritory were read and action taken.
A communication from Mr. F. H.
Knickerbocker of the Alaska Steam
ship Company was read, in which he
stated that the Chamber’s action in
endorsing Section 27 of the Jones
Shipping Bill was appreciated, as all
* Alaskans should lend their support to
\merican shipping.
A communication was received from
Mr. W. E. Moultray, resident manager
of the Standard Oil Company, which
demonstrated Mr. Moultray’s interest
in the community and showed that he
was a great booster for Seward. Mr.
Moultray at the present time is in
Cordova on a business trip.
Communications from Qovernor S.
C. Bone and George C. Hazelet were
received, thanking the people of Sew-;
ard for their liberal donations toward j
the Harding Memorial Fund
* The Chamber bavins: gathered data
and statistics relative to the reopen
ing1 of the local radio station, and the
vital need of such communication tc
bridge any gaps in the Government
railway lines and the cable, and aftei
forwarding this information to the
Secretary of the Navy and the Chief
Signal Corps officer of the Army, and
carrying on considerable correspon
dence with Delegate Sutherland rela
tive to these facts without any mate
rial satisfaction from the Navy De
partment, who will not operate the
t .station themselves and have so far re
fused to turn or release the station to
the Army who will operate it as part
of their system. The Chamber called
upon the business men of this com
munity to solicit the support of any
and all influential persons in the Uni
ted States to use their power in giv
ing this matter the publicity needed
to bring before congress and the Sec_
retaries the waste of government
monies in allowing this magnificent
station to remain idle, and to see that
fir is station was offered to the War
Department as the main link in their
Alaskan communication system. The
Secretary of the Chamber read the
wires so sent, and every interested
business man and citizen of the com
munity was asked to send telegrams
to the Navy Department and official
heads as soon as possible.
Under unfinished business the com
mittee appointed to investigate the
bill to establish an Alaskan Game
♦Commission, as presented to Congress
by Delegate Sutherland. The Com
mittee reported its approval of the
bill and the Chamber endorsed it and
instructed the Secretary to inform the
Delegate of its action.
The Secretary reported with refer
ence to negotiations being carried on
by the Chamber with the Booth Fish
eries, relating to a freezer plant at
Seward, that a business man in the
community had offered the Booth peo
ple a site covering a quarter of a mile
of beach, with timber for piling, etc.,
available on the ground, for one dol
lar consideration, provided the plant
was built here, and the Booth Fisher
ies Company was so informed. The
Chamber is making every effort to
induce payrolls to locate here, and
has received much encouragement
from companies desiring to invest in
this section.
Under new business Secretary J. P.
♦Hannon stated that communications
from the Pathfinder Publishing Com
pany had been turned over to him for
presentation to the Chamber. These
communications related to the tourist
editions of the Pathfinder Magazine,
V overing the months from April to
September inclusive and the informa
tion that the Alaska Railway had
purchased 2000 copies for eastern cir
culation, that in each number of the
magazine a directory of the merchants
in each community and a register of
hotels in each city was contemplated
l^-et a very reasonable rate for the five
months. The Chamber was asked to
1 solicit this advertising through its
| Secretary and the percentage paid to
the agent would be paid to the sec
retary of the Chamber. The sugges
1 tion was approved and the Secretary
instructed to solicit such advertising,
retaining for the Chamber its per
centage.
The Secretary stated that a sugges
| tion had been presented for consider
ation by the Chamber that would mean
a great saving to individuals and the
| government, namely authorizing the
Circuit Court of Appeals of the United
I States to sit at Seward, Alaska, and
the amendment of the Iawr to allow
two regular terms of District Court
to be held at Seward each year. Data
and facts were submitted showing in
I the first ease that any resident of
Alaska who really has a justifiable
controversy for adjudication is actu
ally penalized in being forced to send
j counsel from Alaska to San Francisco,
| with cost of printing, recording, dock
et fees, etc., and the employment of
San Francisco counsel. In the second
case it is known that considerable loss
has been suffered by residents of this
locality on account of the fact that no
regular term of court is held in Sew
ard. If the litigants in this section
had definite information that an equity
term of court would be held at Sew
ard in May or June and a jury term
in October their business could be
planned accordingly and many mat
ters submitted that wrould be other,
w'ise held over.
A-PtfJV q flier'll Cl inn nf tlin 1 nnfi t +n
Alaskans by having an annual session
of the Appellate court held in Seward
, a motion was made by Mr. Urbach,
| seconded by Mr. Root that the Secre
tary record the fact that the sugges
tion was endorsed by the Chamber
; and that the Secretary take such ac
j tion as might be necessary to secure
the co-operation of all Alaskan com
jmereial and civic organizations In
j supporting such a move, and the del
egate from Alaska asked to present
such a bill. The motion carried.
| Mr. H. G. Steel, editor of the Cor
dova Times, discussed the various fea
tures of tourist travel in Alaska. He
made many helpful suggestions and
! outlined the work being done by the
Cordova Chamber of Cemmerce, stat
jing that the town was getting out two
! circulars for those persons interested
| in that section, one a profusely illus
trated 40-page circular, and another
| smaller circular. The funds covering
the cost of such literature were rais-,
led entirely within the town of Cor-j
dova by popular subscription. He i
stated that from his observaions, and j
(evidences that had been presented,
Cordova and Seward were destined to
; be the great cities of Alaska, and as
Isueh should set an example in the en
; tertainment of our visitors, sending
them home with a pleasant feeling for
Alaska and Alaskans, and a knowledge
that they had viewed everything to be
seen in the various districts.
Mr. Steele spoke of the proposed
“Tourist” issues of the “Pathfinder
Magazine” and stated that the Cham
ber of Cordova handled the manner in
the same way we contemplate, name
ly the Chamber soliciting the advertis
ing, and had very good success, as
the write-ups of the various commun
ities that will be given in these issues
were bein ghandled free, and the mag
azine would be very well illustrated,
printed on fine book paper, contain
ing about 60 pages and having a good
circulation.
The members present discussed the
lack of interest on the part of certain
property owners and business men of
of the community in the work the
Chamber was accomplishing. It was
pointed out that they were benefit,
ing directly as a result of such work,
and should at least take out a card in
the organization, thereby enabling the
Chamber to take care of any matters
requiring financial expenditures for
the good of the entire community. At
the present time the entire burden
resting upon but a few of the public
spirited citizens.
A committee consisting of Leon Ur
bach and Wm. E. Root, was appointed
to compile a list of those persons in
the community not at present mem
bers of the body, that might, if ap
proached join with us in making Sew
ard the largest and most progressive
city in Alaska.
TABASCA REVOLUTION ON
FRONTERIA, Tabasca, Mar. 11.—
Revolutionary headquarters reports
their troops have invaded the coal dis
trict of Coahuila and assert that the
Federals have not yet occupied the
town of Salina, and Puerto, as claim
ed by the Obregon government.
CO»VHIOHT KlY»TONt VttW C0.t NtW Y«*>
MARY AND DOUG ARRIVE IN NEW YORK
Mary Pickford and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, well known movie
stars, snapped as they arrived in New York City recently with bag and
baggage for a short stay pending a trip to Europe.
E
RT. REV. P. T.
Large Chicago Station Will Hold Con
versation Tomorrow at Noon
With McMillan Party
CHICAGO, Mar. 12.—The Rt. Rev.
Peter T. Rowe, Bishop of Alaska, who
is now in Chicago, will hold a radio
conversation with Capt. Donald B.
McMillan, the Arctic explorer, now
frozen in the ice within 11 degrees of
the North Pole, on the little schooner
Bowdoin, at 12:30 central standard
time, Thursday, March 13.
Bishop Rowe will speak from the
Zenith Edgewater Beach Hotel radio
phone station WJAZ and MacMillan
will reply in code. All amateurs are
invited to listen in at this time, and
in case WJAZ is heard notify the Ho
tel management.
Underwood Wins in
Alabama Primaries
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Mar. 12.—
Senator Oscar W. Underwood won the
Alabama primary election, insuring a
Underwood delegation to the National
Democratic convention.
MRS. WILSON STOPS
SALE WILSON PAPERS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12.— Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson today stopped the
sale of her late husband's documents
and has decided to avail herself of
her legal rights to check the publica
tion of selections from her late hus
band’s letters and manuscripts until
she can determine in what manner
the papers can be given to the public
as a whole and in authorized ways.
DISPUTE BETWEEN POPE
AND ITALY BEEN SETTLED
LONDON, Mar. 12.—The Daily Ex
press gives great prominence today to
the statement that the dispute be
tween the Pope and the Italian govern
ment is about to be settled.
NO TRAIN IN TODAY
Agent Sw'eek states that owing to
storms near Tunnel there would be no
train in until some time tomorrow.
And manana never comes.
ASPARAGUS IS EARLY
WALLA WALLA, Mar. 11.—Walla
Walla asparagus will be on the mar
ket this summer several weeks earlier
than last year it was declared today
by Local growers. Rhubarb is on the
market here a month in advance of
the usual time.
Join tne Chamber of Commerce.
IN
The Seward Chamber of Commerce
is very active in attempting- to secure
the transfer of the local radio station
from the Navy Department to the
War Department, in which case it will
be used by the Signal Corps as a cen
tral means of communication with the
Interior stations. Up to the present
time the Navy department have refus
ed to open the station, owing to lack
of funds, and will not permit the
Signal Corps to use it, badly hamper
ing Sewardites in communication with
westward towns. This dog-in-the_
manger attitude of the Navy is a seri
ous handicap to Seward, as it costs
business men five cents a word addi
tional to the regular message, when
sent via Cordova station.
Messages were sent to Brigadier
General Wilds P. Richardson, the War
Department, to the Chief Signal Offi
cer, U. S. A., and prominent congress
men and senators.
There appears to be a mistaken idea
on the part of the Navy as to the
range and adaptability of the local
station, which they claim has a range
of but 200 miles, when the fact is that
Mr. Hannon, who had charge of the
station for years, declaims that it has
a range sufficient to communicate with
any station in Alaska, and that he has
worked with stations from 600 to
1000 miles distant.
The station is an up to date one,
having 200-foot steel towers, fine
living quarters for the men, auxiliary
oil engines, a machine shop, and the
ground for some distance around has
a mattress of copper wire for coun
terpoise. The station is now going
back through lack of use, and will be
a total loss within a few years unless
placed in service.
WASHINGTON WETTEST
CITY IN UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12.—Prohibi
tion Commissioner Haynes was called
upon charges made today by Admiral
Plunkett, of the Brooklyn navy yard,
that Washington was the wettest city
in the United States.
Delegates Instructed
to Vote for Coolidge
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12.—Fifteen
delegates to the Cleveland convention
were instructed to vote for Coolidge.
They were elected yesterday from
New Hampshire and Kansas.
The local lodge of Rebekahs will
give a Hard Times dance in I. O. O.
F. Hall Saturday night, March 15, to
which the public is invited. Admis
sion $1.00; ladies free.
i COOLIDGE NOT APOLOGIZE
FOR MEMBERS OF CABINET
WASHINGTON, Mar 12—President
jCoolidge indicated today that he will
make no apologies in his race for the
presidential nomination, for members
of his cabinet. At the same time the
Senate leaders indicated to him that
his request for an immediate reduction
of 25 per cent of the income taxes
would be disregarded.
Sea. Lenroot Resigns
Public Lands Committee
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12.—Senator
Lenroot, pleading poor health, resign
ed the chairmanship of the Senate
public lands committee, which is con
ducting the probe in the oil lease scan
day and was automatically succeeded
by Edwin F. Ladd, of North Dakota.
BROWN RE-ELECTED
MAYOR OF SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Mar. 12.—Edwin Brown
wras re-elected mayor of Seattle, de
feating Lundin by 4,.300 votes. John
E. Carroll, Wm. Hitchman Moore,
Ralph D. Nichols and W. T. Campbell
were elected councilmen.
The official count gives Browm a
majority of 4842 out of a total of
75,676. The surprise in the election
came in the defeat of Lou Cohen, the
Pioneer Hebrew merchant for council
by Ralph D. Nichols, a down and out
state politician, in a sensational come
back.
CHILEAN PRESIDENT VICTOR
SANTIAGO, Chile, Mar. 11.—The
liberal alliance supporting President
Alessinder was victorious in the par
liamentary election in which the en_
tire cabinet and two thirds of the sen
ate were elected.
KING GEORGE HAS INFLUENZA
LONDON, Mar. 11.1—King George
is confined to Buckingham Palace suf
fering from cold and on advice of his
physicians has canceled all engage
ments for the present week.
CHAIRMAN HAZELET
THANKS SEWARDITES
Mayor L. V. Ray received a letter
this week from George C. Hazelet,
chairman for the Harding Memorial
Fund, thanking the people of Seward
for the contribution of $153.08 to the
fund. Mr. Hazelet states that he feels
the Executive Committee made a mis
take in not giving Alaska definite sum
to raise. For in that case we would
have done better. However, he be
lieves the total will exceed $2500 for i
the Territory which will be equal to
ten cents for each white person, and
if the remainder of the United States
do as well over eleven million dollars
will be raised.
Gov. Scott C. Bone also wrote an in- |
teresting letter thanking Mr. Ray for
the amount raised, which has been
turned into to him.
NEW REMEDY IS FOUND
FOR SLEEPING SICKNESS
BERLIN, Mar. 11—A new remedy
for sleeping sickness has been discov
ered by Prof. Kleine, of Berlin. Kleine
who conducted a campaign against the
disease in German East Africa before
the war has returned to Berlin after
a two years’ expedition through the
South African Union, Rhodesia, and
the Congo where he tested the new
remedy.
In a speech delivered before the
Berlin Medical Society, Prof. Kleine
said even the most critical stage of
the disease was cured in numerous
cases. Researches will be made to
see whether the remedy may be ap
plied to cattle.
Prof. Kleine will soon deliver a
lecture on his invention before the
London Medical Faculty.
FOUR AIRMEN KILLED
LONDON, Mar. 11.—Four airmen
were killed and three others in injur
ed in two crashes at different air
dromes in England. All were army
officers.
Fresh halibut 14 and g cents.
SECRET MEETINGS IT
FILE AND OIL MEN
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12.— Tele
grams seized by the committee from
Three Rivers, New Mexico, disclose
that secret meetings of oil officials
were held on the Fall ranch, in 1921,
three months before Harry Sinclair
visited the ranch in a private car and
completed the lease to the Teapot
Dome oil fields. The telegrams were
from Fall, McLean, Sinclair, Doheny
and Zevely, and others.
Attorneys Leave for West
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12.—Attor
neys Pomerene and Roberts, special
representatives of the Government
left today for the West to initiate in
junction and recovery proceedings first
at Cheyenne, Wyo., aaginst Sinclair
and the Mammoth Oil companies, and
later at Los Angeles, against Doheny,
and the Pan-American Petroleum Cor
poration, holders of the lease on the
No. 1 reserve. The government will
charge conspiracy between the former
secretary and Sinclair and Doheny to
defraud the government, and will as
sail the legally of the transferring of
the reserves from the Navy to Fall’s
! jurisdiction, on the ground that it was
conceived and executed for a fraudu
lent purpose.
McLean Says He Told Truth
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12.—In his
testimony before the oil committee
this afternoon, McLean declared that
he had told the truth when he testi
fied at Palm Beach that he had loaned
Albert B. Fall one hundred thousand
dollars in checks which afterward
were returned uncashed. He said he
had first stated the loan was made in
cash because Mr. Fall has requested
him to so represent.
He announced that he was appoint
ed a secret service agent in order that
he might get through police lines at
any time through the war. He also
admitted that Daugherty wired him
not to worry; that he knew what to
depend upon.
Did Not Handle Oil Stock
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12.—McLean
denied before the Senate committee
today that he had handled any oil
stock or that he was in any way con
nected with the naval leases under in
vestigation.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12.—The sen
ate committee investigating the offi
cial conduct of Attorney General
Daugherty ordered all telegraph com
panies today to produce all telegrams
received and sent by Jesse Smith, the
friend of the attorney general, who
committed suicide in Daugherty’s
aspartment.
LA FOLLETTE WITHDRAWS
LANSING, Mich., Mar. 11.—Sena
tor Robert M. LaFollette of Wiscon
sin in a telegram to the Seci-etary of
State here requests the withdrawal of
his name from the presidential pref
erential ballot.
HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE
NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT
Come and hear the debate. What de
bate? Why, the iV)bate given by the
Seward High at the school, 7:30 P. M.
Friday, March 14.
The two teams of three speakers
each, will debate the question: “Re
solved that the Federal Government
should grant now the adjusted com
pensation measure advocated by the
American Legion.” This question
was selected because it is of national
importance, being discussed all over
the country; in Congress ,in Cham
bers of Commerce, by President and
Cabinet, in other words, by all import
ant or unimportant! Come, and hear
what we have to say.
A short, spicy program will be given
in conjunction with the debate and
the orchestra will be on hand to liven
things up. This won’t be an all-night
affair ,as you can get home before
morning, so don’t worry about the
rolling pin, gentlemen. Come and
hear us cuss and discuss . It’s free.