Hemard BUle GUUYUMY
VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 291
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEW YORK, Nov. 30—“Make no
mistake. The next war in Europe,
is coming on apace, and if there are
any of you who wish to stop it, now
is the time. Six months from now
may be too late,” was the warning is
sued tonight by Oswald Garrison Vii
lard, editor of The Nation, at a dinner
given in his honor by the Committee
of One Hundred, headed by Amos E.
Finchot. Villard has just returned
from a trip to Europe, and believes
that another war is inevitable.
SEIM MB Mi'
SELF IFTE1 FLAYING SOLO
SEATTLE, Nov. 30.—Finishing a
clarinet solo at an afternoon musicale
at the home of Dr. F. B. Whiting, Dr.
Albert F. Matt ice, oculist shot himself
in the head before the assembled
guests and died a few moments later.
Mattice was unmarried and leaves a
brother in this city, Dr. Clyde Mat
tice, a dentist.
WATSON SAILS SOUTH NEXT
WEDNESDAY: MEETS TRAIN
The steamship Admiral Watson will
return from the westward next Wed
nesday, sailing south from Seward
after the arrival of the train Wednes
day night.
YAKIMA MURDERER ACQUITTED
YAKIMA, Nov. 30.—Jesse Pearce,
on trial for murder for shooting to
death J. Hillyer Zillah, town marshal,
was today acquitted by a jury.
SEATTLE, Nov. 30.—The innocent
victim oi a quarrel between her par
^nts, two-year-old Jacob Benazra died
in agon\ today at the city hospital,
from scalds received in a quarrel be
tween her parents. Mrs. Masalfo
Benezra hurled a bucket of boiling
water at Isaac, her husband, after a
mildly discussion lasting several min
utes. Isaac dodged and the contents
ol the bucket landed on the partially
dressed cnild, scalding it fatally.
The chila’s parents are Turkish
Jews.
W. E. Moult ray, local representa
tive of the Standard Oil company, re
turned Wednesday from a business
nip to Anchorage.
CITIZENS. TURN OUT
All citizens are requested to attend
the chamber of commerce meeting to-1
night at 8 o'clock at the Federal'
building. A reception will be held
after the meeting to allow our people
to meet Col. Landis and Gov. Bone,
All are invited.
CREW OF SHIPWRECKED
BOATS LIVE ON PORKIES
H. H. Malcolm, canneryman of Sei
dovia, who with Uapt. Bert Dvig was
aboard the seine boat Agram, and
Capt. T. A. Anderson and Pete Bel
mont of the gas boat Onyx, who were
stranded in Bear Cove, lived an entire
month on clams and porcupines. The
men were greatly weakened when
rescued but are again in good health. |
I. Kiiken, who has had charge of
Sims & Carlson’s work on the Kenai
road, left yesterday for Juneau, from
where he will go to his home in Spo
kane. Mr. Kriken homes to return
next spring.
G. W. Ahern, G. Currie, and Frank
Bergin of McGrath, were registered at
the Overland over Sunday.
J. M. Carlson of Anchorage was a
guest of the Hotel Seward today.
THE WEATHER
Yesterday’s weather was recorded
at the Sexton Hotel as clear and calm,
24 above zero.
COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO.. NEW YORK
TO INAUGURATE MOThER-IN
LAW DAY
Mrs. Clara A. Griswold, leader of
the Mothers-in-Law Day Association,
which has come into being to assert
the dignity and rights of a much ma
ligr.ed and useful class of women.
Mrs. Grisw-old, who is a native of Bos
ton. is now in New York leading a re
volt which promises to reach from
one end of the country to the other.
State Legislatures will be asked to set
aside a day for this observation.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Pardoned
by President Coolidge and treed from
a life sentence at Leavenworth, Lo
thar Witzke, the only German spy
convicted in the United States during
the world war, was deported to Ger
many today by orders of President
Coolidge.
Witzke was found guilty of being a
spy during the world war, and his
sentence to death was later commuted
by President Wilson to life imprison
ment.
SEATTLE HAS GOOD HOi_iDAY
SEATTLE, Nov. 30—in a holiday
mood Seattle yesterday celebrated the
Holiday season with a widespread cel
ebration of Thanksgiving Day.
VICTORIA DUE TOMORROW
The steamship Victoria Is due in
port some time tomorrow afternoon.
The boat will await the arrival of the
train, sailing about 9 or 10 o'clock.
ROME, ov. 29.—"Tnero ;s nothing
to trouble Italy’s conscience should we
not pay America’s war debt,” said Sig
nor Schanber, former foreign minis
ter and minister of finance. We con
tributed in blood and America in mon
ey,” he added.
Miss Olive Dille, who has been con
Roads, left on t ysmechi
nected with the Road Commission at
Anchorage left on yesterday’s boat
for headquarters at Juneau.
NEW ENGLAND FISHERIES
OFFICIALS GO TO KODIAK
Messrs. Nunan and Davis, represent
ing the New England Fisheries, arriv
ed in port on the Admiral Watson, and
left on the same boat for Kodiak to
inspect that town as a possib*e site
tor the establishment of their big
fisheries and cold storage plants. They
vill return on the Watson and will re
main in Seward several days looking
over prospective sites in this city.
GOVERNOR OF INDIANA
IS INDICTED FOR FORGERY
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 30.—Govern
or McCray was indicted today for for
gery and embezzlement by a Marion
county grand jury.
John G. Brady, forest ranger, was a
passenger on the Northwestern for
Cordova.
MPT. PETER JENSEN
OF GLADSTONE DROWNS
Word was received here by Messrs.
Tecklinberg and Benson, owners ol
the halibut boat Gladstone, that Capt.
Peter Jensen, master of the vessel,
was drowned near Ketchikan yester
day, as the vessel was leaving for the
fishing banks. Jensen had been with
the Gladstone for about five years, and
was promoted to the captaincy of Vie
vessel about five months ago. He was
a single man, having no known rein
tives.
On November 28th the owners re
ceived a telegram from Capt. Jensen,
stating that he had sold 28,000 lbs. of
fish for 12.8 and was leaving Ketchi
kan at midnight for the fishing banks.
The telegram announcing his death
canit* a few hours later.
SEATTLE, Nov. 3-.—Nell Austin,
Seattle school teacher and choir sing
er mysteriously missing tor four days,
for whom a nation wide search was
being made by the authorities, was
picked up on the streets of Vancouver,
B. C., last night. She was delirious
and suffering from hallucinations
when found, and it is teared her mind
is permanently injured.
Miss Austin left home last Sunday
night for church. Identification ot
the young woman was established
this evening.
Although two sisters deny it, Seat
tie police officers whose information
led to the discovery of her where
abouts say that Miss Austin left home
because ol a family quarrel.
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BERLIN, Nov. 30.—A new three
party coalition cabinet has been form
ed, ending the governmental crisis
with Dr. Win. Marx, clerical leader
as chancellor, and Dr. Stresemaun, its
deposed head, as foreign minister.
PURSER DAVIS LIKES SEWARC
When the Admiral Watson sailed
westward Wednesday night, it lei 1
Purser Davis behind, the popular otli
cial missing the boat by about sis
feet, and not being missed until the
vessel was out of the Narrows. Mr
Davis had business in town and tilt
ship in the meantime moved to thf
fish dock. When the half hour whis
tie w'as blown he hurried for tin
wrharf, but the ship was just pulling
out into the stream and the wind
prevented his shouts being heard. Ht
got in communication with the boat
by wireless, however, and will bt
picked up on the way back.
NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Thanksgiv^
ing liquor caused the deaths of three
men and one woman, and put sever
others in the Bellevue hospital yester
day.
MAN AND WIPE CONFESS TO
MURDER OF EDW. LEHMAN
CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—Otto Malm and
wife, Catherine, 19, returned to Chi
cago coday ana confessed to the mur
dcT* of Edwaid Lehman, whose death
ha» been r'Jzzhng the police for some
time. The mother said that the desire
to see her child drove her to returr
and surrender.
JOHN B. MARSHALL IN DETROIT
John B. Marshall, formerly of Ju
neau, is representing the Federal gov
ernment at Detroit, as a special pros
ecuting attorney attached to the pro
hibition enforcement office. Mr. Mar
shall is securing a lot of publicity
through Detroit papers.
Assisting him is Assistant District
Attorney Delos G. Smith of Detroit.
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PARIS, Nov. 30.—Spain, Italy, and
the South American countries may
withdraw from the League of Nations
to form a Latin bloc, according to a
Madrid dispatch to Le Matin.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—President
Coolidge will deliver his first radio
message on the night of December 10,1
it was anonunced at the Whitehouse
tonight. It will be in behalf of the
campaign for the Haruing Memorial
Association to raise funds to build a
fitting memorial at Marion.
NEBRASKA FOR COOLIDGE
OMAHA, Nov. 30.—Calvin Coolidge
clubs are bving organized throughout
Nebraska.
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The Chamber ol Commerce win
meet at 8 o’clock tonight in .he Fed
eral court room. Matters pertaining
lO the future welfare ot Seward wii
be taken up, after which an informal
reception will be held to permit res.
denis of Seward to meet Governor
Bone ami General Manager Le* ii
Landis of the railroad board.
All are invited to attend.
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ALASKA MOTION PICTURE
WILL BE IN SEWARD SOON
“The Cheechakos," the big motion
picture production recently filmed at
Anchorage, will reach Seward some
time in December. A. E. Lathrop,
president and manager of the Anchor
age Moving Picture Corporation, will
leave Seattle December 1, tomorrow,
bringing a print of the film with him]
to be shown in Alaskan cities. After
being shown in Anchorage, the pict-j
ure will be shown in Fairbanks, Sew
ard, Valdez and Cordova, and will be
taken to southeastern Alaska. The
picture has been dedicated to the Pio
neers ot Alaska.
IRENE CASTLE MARRIED
CHICAGO, Nov. Zn.—Irene Castle,
the celebrated dancer, and Frederick
McLaughlin, a wealthy Chicago coffee
merchant were married here today.
CEDARHURST, N. Y., Nov. 30.—A
hot fight here between members of
the American Legion and members of
a local Ku Klux Klan marred the cere
monies dedicating a monument to nine
j youths who lost their lives in the
world war. The Legion members
were victors.
The fight arose over members or
Klan attempting to attend the exer
cises in regalia.
JAPANESE BANKER DEAD
TOKYO, Nov. 30.—Kenzo Ikeda, a
widely known banker, died here today.
Six hunters at Windy station are
reported to have bagged fourteen
sheep one day last week.
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WILL AGAIN TRY FLIGHT TO
NORTH POLE
Capt. Roald Amundsen, Norwegian
explorer, who discovered the South
Pole, was the first man to navigate
the Northwest Passage and the first
to project a flight to the North Pole.
While he failed in his first attempt to
fly to tthe Pole he hopes to try again
next year, flying directly across the
Pole from Spitzbergen to Point Bar
row, Alaska, the reverse of his pre
vious attempt.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30.—Russell
Hughes, a photographer, and George
L. Wade, of Kansas City, are dead as
a result of an accident which occurred
as the drivers were wheeling their
cars into place for the start of the
250-mile automobile classic this after
noon. Benny Hill won the race.
TAMPICO, MEXICO. HAS BLAZE
TAMPICO, Mexico, Nov. 30.—The
business section of this city was de
stroyed by fire. The damage is esti
mated at three million.
STARR DUE TOMORROW
The steamship Starr left Chignik
southbound Wednesday evening and
will reach port some time tomorrow
about 12 o’clock. The vessel reported
good weather at the time of sending
her position.
\EW YORK, Nov. 29 -Oklahoma
Gregorio Carmichael, an American
soldier and his Fi'»pino wile will ar
rive in Seattle on ina President Madi
son December 7, to claim half of his
fathei & $30,000,000 estate in the Ton
kawa, Oklahoma oil fields. P. S. Ma
son, appointed administrator of the
property, 1 *'i t-iday fo* S-aMi* to meet
Gregario, w.io is acc.i t .nied by his
mother.
AMERICAN DELEGATES TO
RUM CONFERENCE LEAVE
OTTAWA, Nov. 30.—Amencan del
egates to the international rum smug
gling conference between the United
States and Canadian officials left for
Washington today. Both groups of
delegates declined to state what if
anything had been done.
ANCHORAGE HEARS WNP
Layton E. Schell, amateur wireless
operator at Anchorage picked up WNP
the Donald MacMillan exploration
party, which is aboard the schooner
Bowdoin, 760 miles from the north
pole, and in latitude 78.30 north and
72.30 west. The messages were pick
ed up the same night the Gateway
wireless picked up the message, and
was the same as that received here.
TIDAL WAVE AT SKAGWAY
Skagway was the scene of a destruc
tive tidal wave last week, much dam
age being done. Transformers blew
out and the town was in darkness for
several days.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 30.—
Or. Frederick Cook, Arctic explorer,
and convicted oii promoter, and his
principal co-defendant, H. E. J. Cox,
>t Houston, were routed from their
steel cots this afternoon and inform
ad that a five million loot gasser had
been brought in at a depth of 1300
feet on the Hughes-Craig O'Neill tar
mineral wells.
“It means much to us,” said I)r.
Cook, “as it will show the authorities
were giving our stockholders a
run for then money. I am thankful.
1 am doubly thankful that I did not
get fifty years in the penitentiarj in
stead of fourteen.”
CORDOVA, Nov. 30.—Captain Sal
ter, his two sons, and four Japanese,
who remained with the wrecked Japa
nese steamer Shinkoku Maru, on the
rocks at Montague Island, abandoned
the vessel upon orders from her own
ers and arrived here yesterday after
noon.
BANDITS OVERTURN RICKHHAW
AND WALK OFF WITH MONEY
SHANGHAI, Nov. 30.—Six bandits
overturned the rickshaw of the Tung
Yih Trust Company, in the business
district today, escaping with half a
million dollars in cash and negotiable
bonds.
SCHOONER BOXHR IN SEATTLE
SEAT i LE, Nov. 30.— “lie ^cl.oun-n
Boxer, operated by the Br.i r t»i Ed
ucation and the last vessel to b*ave
Point Barrow arrived h re laO night.
BERLIN, Nov. 30.—Germany is im
mediately confronted with bankruptcy
and will no longer be able to meet
her public payrolls, Dr. George Goth
ein, Reichstak democratic leader, de
clared today. He said Pres. Ebert
was on the verge of being forced from
office, having despaired of Germany’s
chances under the present democratic
system.
DR. DAGGETT NOT WITH
APPERSON MOTORS COMPANY
A letter was received from Dr.
Charles Daggett, stating that he is lo
cated at 2002 Sutter St.. San Fran
cisco. Dr. Daggett asks the Gateway
to deny the report that he is connect
ed with the Apperson Pacific Motors
Company, of San Francisco. Dr. Dag
gett says he is still prospecting, but
has found nothing to suit. California
is very prosperous. Mrs. Daggett and
children are in Seattle, where Iiob and
Alice are attending Broadway High.
R. L. Clifton, former principal of the
Valdez and Petersburg schools, was a
Seward visitor over Thanksgiving.
A. W. Ashman of Anchorage, is reg
istered at the Hotel Sexton.
STASER WITHDRAWS OFFER
Deputy Marshal Staser. who some
time ago offered any child of school
age in Anchorage. $5 to report the ex
istence of moonshine stills in the
city, has withdrawn the offer at the
insistence of the Woman’s Auxiliary
of the American Legion.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Reher and son
left on the Northwestern for Juneau,
where they will spend the winter. Mr.
Reher has been in charge of Bureau
of Public Roads wmrk in this district.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Flynn of Mile
20. were Seward visb. rs. returning to
their home on yes ei lav *« train
TODAY’S FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN—Fresh halibut 15c
and 20c.