VOLUME XIX. NUMBERAffi*— i —_ SEWARD- ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1924
PRICE, TEN CENTS
GLOBE GIRDLERS CROSS PACIFIC SAFELY
PRESIDENT STUDYING
OVER JAPANESE BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17
Chairman Johnson of the immigration
committee brought up at the House
conference report on the Japanese ex
clusion of July first that Coolidge is
considering one of three courses re
garding his action on the bill. One
to sign the bill without comment; sec
ond to sign it with a statement ex
pressing his disapproval on exclusion
•such a manner that might offend the
Japs and thirdly, return the bill with
a message indicating disapproval of
the bill with the inclusion of the ex
clusion provision but approved if it
was eliminated.
KILAUEA VOLCANO
THROWS ASH MANY
FEET INTO THE AIR
HILO, Honolulu, May 17—A great
^loud is hanging over Kilauea volcano
which is ppuring a flood of rain thru
red ash eruptions from the pit as a
result of twro cascades, two hundred
feet high from the crater . A blood
red torrent poured down the bluff into
Halemaumau crater, the first time
such and exhibition was ever recorded.
The red ash cloud ejected from the
crate-* pit covers an area of twenty
five miles.
HOUSE PASSES BONUS
. BILL OVER VETO OF
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
WASHINGTON. May 17. —Party
lines vanished today as the House
passed the bonus bill over President
Coolidg’s veto. Supporters of the
bill piled up a comfortable margin
over the two-tliirds majority neces
sary. The defeat of the bill is now
up to the Senate where a closer vote
is expected.
COOLIDGE WINS OREGON
OVER HIRAM JOHNSON
PORTLAND, Or., May 17—Calvin
Coolidge cariied Oregon over Hiram
Johnson at yesterday’s primaries by
tour to one. McNary was renomi
nated foi the Senate.
PAT HARRISON SELECTED
TO OPEN CONVENTION
—
NEW YORK, May 17.—Senator Pat
Harrison of Mississippi has been se
lected as temporary chairman and
the leading speaker of the Democratic
National convention
Stay in Alaska Says
Well-Known Interiorite
IV- F. Thompson, who returned on
the Alaska from Eastern points, is
well satisfied with the results of his
publicity campaign. He helped illus
trate many thousand folders for the
Great Northern, the views being of
Seward and locality, and placed fine
window displays in several places.
Mr. Thompson also gave a number of
lectures on x\laska, which excited
much interest.
Mr. Thompson found times hard
Outside, with money worth about half
in purchasing power what it is in
Alaska. Wages are low considering
the value of a dollar and rents are
sky-high. Women are working in ev
ery trade and profession and in many
points visited he encountered radical
cuts in wages.
“My advice to xUaskans,” concluded
Mr. Thompson, “is to remain in Alas
ka, if they would live easily and with
out care.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS NOT TRUST
CINCINNATI, May 17—That the
Associated Press was not a trust bat
a trustee, recognized its responsibili
ties in telling the truth respecting
worll ha penings was declared by M.
Stone, former General manager of the
Association and now councellor in a
talk to members of the National As
sociation at their annual convention
here
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
, SOCIETY FINDS RACE OF
BLONDE CHINESE IN ASI A
WASHINGTON D. C., May 17—The
National Geographic Society’s expedi
tion into the unmapped Kansu region
of Asia have found a blond Chinese
race with curly hair and discovered
women who dc not talk unless spoken
to and make no reference to their age.
Divorce, scandal, and lectures on pub
lic morals were an unknown quantity
among the natives.
yukonIaTlstoday
ON MAIDEN VOYAGE
SEATTLE ,Ma yl7—The new pala
tial liner of the Alaska Steamship
Company’s fleet, left Seattle this morn
ing with 251 passengers aboard in
cluding the following for Seward:
J. Watson, A. F. Davis, A. Higgins,
R. H. Graham, Robert Wood, W. Law
ley, Marie Wood, Mrs. F. H. McHill,
Mrs. Ida Stewart, S. Carmen, Geo.
Preston, B. Olison, Oscar Landner, G.
A. Aarons, L. H. Rath, H. A. Over
holder, L. E. Fechby, P. O. Martin, C.
Lapferre, Ivan Enderson, Joseph Kos
ioski, and wife; Miss D. Danford, R.
Harie, E. C. Demar, Bettie Long, H.
Cardnem. J. L. Lamer, D. Dick, Miss
M. Hogg, Mrs. A. G. Carlson, J. Mul
chay, and wife, Mrs. P. Brown, Wil
liam Darby, G. S. Dyer, R. W. Jarvis,
Goo. Preston, N. Sikinich, W. H. Buen
eth, T. H. Burman, J. L. Axe and wife,
Mrs. J. L. Nealon, F. L. Larson and
wife, I.. A. Smith, William Gillis, W.
D. Surface. John Rr *ntz, Frank Gard
ner Mrs. J. W. Sergem, Ben Marino,
Geo. Hainsinger, L. A. Welts, W. S.
Taylor, Chas. Beck, R. Matson, J. W.
Claiuueth.
Department of Justice
Will Continue to Push
Case Against Wheeler
WASHINGTON, May 16.—The de
partment of justice will continue pro
ceedings against Wheeler under in
dictment in Montana despite the sen
ate exoneration of Senator Wheeler.
Madison Square Garden
Be Razed to the Ground
NEW YORK May 17.—Madison
Square Garden will be torn clown and
a 28-story structure will take its
place.
Bandit Makes Off With
Twenty Thousand Cash
GAINESVILLE, May 17—A bandit
entered the office of the American
Express Company at High Springs and
escaped with the payroll of the Atlan
tic Coast Line. The shipment was es
timated at twenty thousand dollars.
The bandit escaped in an automobile.
NO INDICTMENT RETURNED
AGAINST KENNETH ROSS
May 17—The report of the Cumber
land county grand jury today did not
contain an indictment of Kenneth Ross
MacLean, former Bowdoin student and
his wife Nettie May, both of Tacoma,
who were arrested for manslaughter
after the death of their baby daughter.
ENGLISHMAN TAKEN INTO
CUSTODY BY AUTHORITIES
NEW YORK, May 17—Henry White
an Englishman, with a dozen Aliases,
suspected of several of the city’s sen
sational unsolved crimes, including the
murder of Dorothy King Keegan, was
taken into custody. According to an
alleged confession he drugged Mrs.
Howard Johnson, wife of the play
wright and robbed her o fnine thous
and dollars worth of jewels in the
Hotel Astor last Monday night.
WIFE OF KAISER VISITING
RELATIVES IN GRIEZ
GRIEZ, May 17—Princess Hermine,
wife of the kaiser arrived here yester
day to visit relatives. She said her
husband had made no plans t6 visit
in Germany, although he is longing to
return to the fatherland. He thinks
there is not yet a chance to do so and
the Princess thinks it wise to remain
away for some time yet.
FRANK E. YOUNGS
DIES SUDDENLY LAST
NIGHT AT ANCHORAGE
Deputy Marshal Frank E. Youngs
a former Seward resident and heavy
property holder here, died suddenly
last night while eating dinner in
the Frisco Cafe at Anchorage. Mr.
Youngs for several years has been
deputy marshal at Talkeetna, and
was in charge of the Anchorage of
fice during the absence of Deputy H.
I. §taser. He was a man of strong
personality and universally respected
j and admired by all his acquaintances.
Mr. Youngs was born in Rochester,
New York, about 73 years ago, and
I up to the time of his appointment,
i had resided in Seward for many
i years.
His obituary will be given in a
! later issue.
International Good Will
Only Assurance of Peace
NEW YORK, May 17—Cultivating
j international good will is the only
good assurance of peace, Secretary of
| State Hughes declared in an addres;
accepting a gold medal awarded him
by the National Institute for Society
sciences. “All depends on making and
cultivating friendships and this dis
tinctively American policy will be fur
i thered by a demonstration of our
sense and justice and respect we sho->
tc the feelings of others.’’
Plot to Kill Forbes
Discovered by Police
PHILADELPHIA, May 17.—Caesar
Tata is held by the police in eonnec
tion with a plot to kill Forbes, for
mer head of the veterans’ bureau.
Georges Carpetier Training
For Fight With Gibbons
CHICAGO, May 17—Confident and
in supei’b condition ,Georges Carpen
tier ,the French Light Heavyweight
boxer began training in Michigan City
for his match on May thirtieth with
Tommy Gibbons.
COMMITTEE FAVORS HOWELL
BLAKELEY RAILROAD BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17—
A subcommittee favorably reported to
the Senate interstate commerce com
mittee the Howell Blakeley bill to sup
plant the Railroad Labor Board with
a system of tribunals containing rep
resentatives of the roads and employ
ees ' ;th an amendment winch would
authorize the President of the U. S.
to throw the roads into a receivership
if a strike or lockout threatened trans
portation.
MRS. GOULD LOST RIGHT
OBTAIN HUSBAND’S PROPERTY
PARIS, May 17—Edith Kelly Gould
lost her suit in the French courts to
obtain half of the property owned by
Francis Gould, her husband, in France
the court ruling that she had not right
to share the property because she mar
ried an American.
TY COBB WILL FIGHT
WITH NEGRO ATTENDANT
PHILADELPHIA, May 17—Before
the game with Detroit today Ty Cobb
said he had a fight with a negro at
tendant whom he declared had insult
ed him.
BRITISH FLYER AT CALCUTTA
SHANGHAI, May 17—McLaren the
British flyer encircling the globe ar
rived at Calcutta today.
HARRY F. SINCLAIR WILL
WORK ITALIAN OIL FIELDS
ROME, May 17—Harry F. Sinclair
has been granted a concession to work
Italy’s oil fields ,the official commin
que announced today.
BARON TOURNALLES DEAD
PARIS, May 17—Baron Des Tourn
alles de Constanti, one of the propon
ents of International disarmament is
dead here.
MILLIONAIRE BOOTLEGGER
SAYS PAID JESSE SMITH
OVER $250,000 PROTECTION
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17—
George Remus, millionaire bootlegger
and inmate of Atlanta Pen testified
before the Senate Daugherty commit
tee that he paid Jesse Smith two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars for
protection and declared that James
Linton whom he described as a “spec
ial assistant to the Attorney General”
helped defend him and was paid nine
thousand dollars. Remus said he paid
Smith cne to two dollars a case for
permits to withdraw whiskey from a
string of distilleries which he purchas
ed bof re prohibition became effective.
NORMAN DAWN AND
COMPANY IN SEWARD
Norman Dawn, well known pro
ducer of “The Lure of the Yukon.”
arrived on the steamship Alaska, with
a staff of competent artists and will
leave for the Interior on one of the
next trains. Mr. Dawn is startinig a
new Alaskan photoplay, “The Alaskan
Wonderland,” designed to be *one of
the best of Mr. Dawn’s excellent pro
ductions. With Mr. and Mrs. Dawn
are Arthur Jasmine, noted as the
actor who took the part of the Eski
i mo half-wit in the Lure of the Yukon,
Jack McDonald, a character actor, and
George W. Madden, and Miss M.
Smith, both well known in the mo
vie world. Last but not least con
spicuous of the troupe, is Ilak, the
trained wolf dog. which evoked so
much enthusiasm in the previous pic
ture. George Fisher and Bessie
Love will arrive on one of the next
boats to star in the cast.
After visiting Fairbanks Mr. Dawn
and company will return to Seward
to take a member of scenes^ and will
then leave for the Valley of Ten
Thousand smokes to complete the pic- j
ture in that vast, wonderland.
Mr. Dawn sold The Lure of the j
Yukon for a handsome sum, and is !
well pleased with the prospects of |
the proposed photo plav.
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FIVE THOUSAND JAPS
WILL SAIL FOR U. S.
BEFORE BARS DROP
TOKIO, May 17—A canvas of steam
ship offices shows that at least five
thousand Japanese will sail for the
United States before July first at
which time the Japanese exclusion act |
becomes effective.
NATIONAL DEFENSE PLANS
BE WORKED OUT SOON
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17—
: National defense plans as worked out
by the War Department during the
I last four years, will be subjected on
j December 12th to a defense test, thru
[ sixth annual anniversary o fthe Bat
National Demonstration day on the
tie of Saint Mehiel, also Pershing’s
birthday, who reaches the normal re
tiring age of 60 or* that day.
EIGHT BROADWAY WHITE
LIGHT CABARETS CLOSED|
NEW YORK, Eight Broadway white
light district cabarets were closed for
one year under padlock according to
; provisions of the prohibition law. They
| were the Palais, Royal, Plantation,
Moulin Rouge, Montmarte, Balmoral
Club, Barn Club, Four Hundred Club
and the Club Royal.
HOPPE GIVING EXHIBITION
IN SAN FRANCISCO TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17—Champ
Willie Hoppe, premier billiard shark
of the world is now playing exhibition
matches with Jake Shaeffer at Wright
billiard emporium here. He was dem
onstrating to the movie camera some
of his difficult shots. Shaeffer now
leads Hoppe.
ENGLAND ELIMINATES
BELGIUM FROM MEET
TORQUOYA, England, May 17—
England eliminated Belgium from the
1924 Davis cup competition, winning
three out of five matches which made
up the first round of the contest. Brit
ain will now play Spain in the second
round.
Paramshiru Island, Kuriles, Saturday, May
17.—Blazing a trail through skies never before
invaded by airplanes, three United States Army
airmen reached this ice-fringed remote bay, bor
dering the arctic at 11:35 o’clock this morning,
thereby gaining for their country and themselves
the distinction of being the first airmen to have
crossed the Pacific ocean by planes.
In negotiating the hazardous hop off of 878
miles from Attu Island, Lieuts. Smith, Wade and
Nelson fought through chill Arctic winds and
snowstorms that whipped their faces with cut
ting icy grains. Two planes landed in Kashiwa
bara Bay and the third descended to the water
off the nearby harbor of Shimshu.
Today’s trip was one of the most spectacu
lar and hazardous ever undertaken by a group
of airmen.
CAP! BARTLETT LEFT
YESTERDAY ON BEAR
FOR ARCTIC REGIONS
SEATTLE, May 17—Captain R. A.
Bartlett left yesterday on the Revenue
Cutter Bear on his mission for the
Geographic Society and the navy. He
said the Shenandoah will beat all oth
ers to the Pole because the United
States controls all the Helium Gas;
and declared the English would be wil
ing to do it first with their R 31 but
the Shenandoah would leave before
any foreign ship could get ready.
POSTOFFICE CLERK
ROBS. GOVT. MAILS
SEATTLE, May 17.—Walter E. Pe- j
tersen, clerk of the postoffice in this
city, was arrested today for robbing
the mails< which he claims he did in
order to get out of the clutches of
the loan sharks.
IMMIGRATION BILL
GOES TO PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, May 17.—The im
migration bill providing for Japanese
exclusion was handed to President
Coolidge today for his signature or
veto.
GOVERNOR BONE AND
WIFE ON WAY SOUTH
Governor Scott C. Bone and wife
arrived in Seward on the Admiral
Watson en route to their home in
Juneau. Governor Bone attended a
railway meeting in Seward and went
over the railway in Manager Landis
car to Anchorage, taking _ the Admi
ral Watson back by way of Kodiak.
They will leave on the Admiral Wat
son tonight.
HENRY FORD BE REFEREE
OF INDIANA AUTO RACES
INDIANAPOLIS, May 17—Henry
•Ford is to be referee of the Indiana
Auto races. Ford, who drove race cars
wdien the speed attained was around
25 miles an hour, and somewhat above
that, wil lhave complete charge of the
races after the start is made, if he car
ries out the duties of Referee.
TILDEN EXTENDED INVITATION
TO PLAY IN CALIFORNIA MEET
SACRAMENTO, May 17—Wm. Til
den was extended an invitation to par
ticipate in the Central California lawn
tennis championships, May 30, 31 and
June 1, at Sacramento.
ATTU, May 17.—The Army World
encircling flyers hopped off today
from Attu Island for Cape Kronatski,
Kamschatka, and expect to reach that
position a few hours later from
Cape Kronatski. The aviators will
fly down the peninsula to Paramu
sharu, the northernmost island of the
Japanese Kurile group.
CORDOVA, May 17—A wireless op
erator at St. Paul said the Haida in
formed him the three army globe en
circling planes had not left Attu yes
terday morning, but the men were
working on the machines .Lieutenant
Smith who is on the Haida out in the
Harbor said the weather has been very
severe forcing the Haida to sea in a
sixty mile gale with rain and snow.
The planes held to their moorings very
nicely. The flight personnel is quarter
ed in a shack ashore. The Catherine
D. left Port Moller at five A. M. on
Wednesday with Major Martin aboard
for Bellingham. Captain Knight
suggested to Martin that he catch a
faster ship at Ketchikan but he replied
“he would let well enough alone and
stay with the ship with which he
started.” Knight said he agreed with
him heartily though he thought he
was superstitious. The Catherine D.
will stop at Akutan, King Cove and
Squaw 1 arbor.
Mabel Normand May
Not Have To Testify
In Horace Greer Case
LOS ANGELES, May 17--Mabel
Normand may never have to testify
on the charge against-Horace Greer
former chauffeur who shot Courtland
S. Dines, the Denver oil man New
Year’s night.
As a result of a legal conference
Dines may be permitted to leave the
court’s jurisdiction on his own recog
nition. A conference resulted in the
postponment of the case until May 19
or June 16 with an agreement to use
Mabel’s testimony for preliminary
hearings if the actress is not present
when the trial starts.
Shipping Board Hulls
Sold to Brownsfield
SEATTLE, May 17—It was an
nounced that twenty nine former ship
ping board hulls in Lake Union were
sold to Capt. J. C. Brownsfield of Se
attle and associates by the Equitable
transportation of Frisco. They may be
converted into floating canneries for
salmon in Alaska.
RODGERS BILL PASSED
WASHINGTON, May 17—The Rod
gers bill to reorganize the consular
service was passed by the Senate last
night and sent to the President.