Hemard Baily Gnteumy
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 33.
SEWARD,
ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1926.
PRIC^TEN CENTS
MILD WEATHER
CONTINUES IN
THE INTERIOR
MINING MEN GATHERING OUT
FITS IN ANTICIPATION OF
EARLY SPRING
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 10. (/P)—Unbrok
en mild weather, having no precedent
continues in Interior Alaska, baromet
ers forecasting cloudy skies, and gen
eral atmospheric conditions presage
stormless warmth.
The snowfall in the hills is scant,!
miners rushing their equipment to-:
gether in anticipation of the early dis-;
appearance of the snow.
Teilot Bennett, of the Fairbanks I
Airplane corporation, brought mining 1
engineers E. B. Brigham and J. Me- !
Pherson from Eagle to Fairbanks in j
three hours yesterday. The engin
eers have been to Dawson where they
have been investigating mining meth
ods for the Fairbanks Exploration Co.
for the past four days.
The first derby for the newly organ
ized Fairbanks Kennel Club will be
run on February 22nd., Washington’s
birthday. The all-Interior-Alaska
sweepstakes with a big purse, has
been planned, the run to be over the
Richardson trail from Fairbanks. This
race will take place on Seward Day,
March 30, and will be a two day event.
Many fast teams are entering for the
race.
THREE MEN LOST
FROM SCHOONER
OFF EAST COAST
GLOUCESTER, Feb. 10. (£>)—Three
fishermen, members of the crew of the
schooner Ralph Brown of Gloucester,
were killed during a blizzard which .
blew the vessel ashore on Briar Neck.
Captain Quadres of the ship is safe '
with some of his twenty-one men, and
are being sheltered in summer cot
tages here. Fifteen men from the
coast guard base near the wreck are
on their way overland through deep
snows to the schooner, which is pound
ing hard on the rocks and is expected |
to go to pieces.
BERNHARDT
GIVES REASONS
FORUNEMO™
WOMEN NO LONGER WEEP A1
THEATRES BECAUSE OF EF
FECTS ON BEAUTY
PARIS, Feb. 10. (JP)—Lysiane Bern
hardt, granddaughter of Sarah Bern
hardt, says she has discovered thal
women no longer weep in theatres and
has been seeking explanation of this
change. She remembers how, when
her grandmother played Marguerite
Gauthier, the sad fate of the lady with
the camelias brought tears streaming
from the ey£s of almost every woman
in the theatre and caused much snif
fling among the male part of the au
dience.
For the passing of such emotional
displays she advances two explana
tions. Late supper and dancing par
ties are now the usual sequel to an
evening at the theatre and women try
to avoid going to them with red eyes
and noses. But the fundamental rea
son, she said, lies in the changed sta
tus of women in France since the war,
They have achieved a sort of indepen
dence and with it self-control and a
dislike to be found indulging in dis
plays of weakness that might mark
them inferior to men.
Mile. Bernhardt regrets this change.
She says emotion is good for women
and prevents their natures being de
stroyed by egotism and selfishness.
LATIN ART SHOWN
IN COAST EXHIBIT
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10.—Valpa
raiso, Chile, has contributed 'to the
Latin American Art Exhibit toeing
held here at Exposition Park to the
extent of five cases of original paint
ing valued at $18,000.
HARTLEY DECLINES TO
MEET WITH TIMBER COM.
OLYMPIA, Feb. 10. (JF)—Hartley, in
a public letter “respectfully declined”
to meet with the legislative timber
investigating committee, which “is
well selected for an attempt to defend
the present system and prevent reme
dal legislation to save the face of the
majority of the organization.”
The governor assured the commit
tee that his investigators were work
ing and that “any information which
may come into my possession will be
submitted at the next legislature, even
though it is not contained in the re
port.”
The governor said the committee has
given its letter to the press before it
reached him, and was “taking liber
ties of handing copies of his replies
to the newspapers.”
SEVENTEEN MEN
DISMISSED FROM
OLMSTED TRIAL
AMONG THESE ARE FIVE WHO
PLEAD GUILTY TO HAVING
PURCHASED LIQUOR
SEATTLE, Feb. 10. (/P)—1The total
number of defendants who were dis
missed yesterday by Judge Neterer
total seventen, including five who
plead guilty. The court pointed out
that many of these wrere liquor buyers,
the court holding that buying liquor
was not proof of conspiracy against
the government. The defense an
nounced they would move to free the
remaining thirty-three. The defense
said they would call in fifty witnesses
ind hoped to complete the case by
next Tuesday.
Federals raided the home of E. H.
Mclnnis, one of the defendants, yes
terday, and found fifteen cases of
vhiskey. Mclnnis explained he was
storing the liquor to oblige a friend.
BRITISH WOMEN
LOST MOST OF
POLITICAL VIM
LADY ASTOR DECLARES INTER
EST OF WOMEN IN PUBLIC
AFFAIRS HAS WANED
LONDON, Feb. 10. (/p)—Lady Astoi
declared recently that British women
have lost their political energy since
they were enfranchised. Their in
terest in public affairs has weaned, she
said, and added that the full force of
the vote of English women can be
made felt only through the adoption
of a prohibition by one of the parties.
She is attempting to arouse nation
al interest in the liquor problem thru
a series of lectures in the country dis
tricts and speaks whenever she can
get away from her parliamentary du
ties.
Lady Astor expects to visit her Vir
ginia home during the first vacation
of the house next year and to make a
study of the prohibition situation in
the Unted States.
SOAP TO BE MADE
OF C0C0ANUT OIL
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10. (/?)—Los
Angeles soap manufacturers are run
ning full time, as shown by the ar
rival of the American ship "Salina”
from Manila with 983 tons of cocoanut
oil-valued at $180,000, for use in soap
factories.
VALENTINO HOME
TO BE BEAUTIFIED
EOS ANGELES, Feb. 10.—Coning
the absence of Rudolph Valentino in
the east, extensive plans have been
made for the beautification of his
new Beverly Hills home.
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Sixity days after a hog disappeared
from the farm of Wilbur Jennings
at Brownsville Md., the animal was
pulled from a straw stack, thin but)
lively, having been covered up by I
threshers.
Weekly Gateway—$3 per year.
STORM DEAD
NOW TOTALS SIX
NEW YORK, Feb. 10. —The to
tal dead from the storm now rag
ing over the east coast, has reach
ed six. A locomotive killed Al
fred W. Ogle, of the Marine Corps
and one man died of exposure in
Philadelphia.
Nine inches of snow fell this
forenoon, with a fifty-two mile
gale blowing.
MUSSOLINI SAYS
WILL BACK UP
ALL STATEMENTS
ROME, Feb. 10. (/P)—Mussolini, in
answering the address yesterday of
foreign minister Stresemann of Ger
many, said:
“I will confirm by letter and spirit
my previous speech, not excluding the
emphasis of the possibility of the Ital
ian flag going beyond Brennero, the
Italian frontier, which Stressemann
can interpret as he chooses.”
SIXTEEN HORSES
PERISH IN FIRE
DAWSON, Y. T., Feb. 10. (^—Six
teen valuable horses perished in a barn
that burned to the ground at Bear
Creek, about eight miles out from here
yesterday. Dawsonites rushed in au
tomobiles to the scene of conflagration
and helped the residents save other
buildings.
Defective wiring is given as the
cause of the fire.
CHARGES DISMISSED ON 15
OLMSMTED DEFENDANTS
SEATTLE, Feb. 9. (JP)—Charges
igainst fifteen defendants in the Roy
Olmsted case were dismissed today.
INDIA BECOMING
SOURCE OF STEEL
LOS ANGELES, Fell. 10— India
has become an essential source of
supply for iron and steel products.
On nearly every recent steamer from
Calcutta to Los Angeles Harbor
have been shipments of pig iron con
signed to local manufacturers. The
last lot was 101 tons on the Japan
ese ship “Siberia Mara.”
Personality Urged as Keynote
Of Modern Scholarship Now
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10. <JP)—
That the keynote of modern scholar
ship is the development of personal
ity, is the belief oif Dr. John H. Min
nick, dean of the School of Educa
tion of the University of Pennsylva
nia.
“Modern ducation is rapidly doing
away with the so-called ‘greasy
grind’,” he said. “In the old days,
superintendents of public schools
were most impressed by the marks
made by future teachers, but nowa
days they are most anxious to hire
living personalities for their class
j rooms than mere fact absorbers.”
Missionaries Support Plan
For University for Kansas
TOKIO, Feb. 10. (JP)—Despatches
from Korea state a movement has
been started by American missionar
ies there for establishment of a new
university at Seoul. Considerable
funds have, been raised and it is hop
ed construction can be begun this
year. The new university would be
devoted to higher education for Ko
reans. i
W. G. Skelly, oil man of Tulsa,
Okla., sued for $75,000 for beating
his butler, declared that if he hit
him “there was probably good and
sufficient reason.”
When L. M. Charlton, witness in
a Chicago count, was asked his oc
cupation he said that he was “a dec
orator; a beauty doctor.”
POOR COOKING
LEADS MEN TO
DRINKING BEER
noted ear and throat spec
ialist URGES WIVES STUDY
ARTS OF KITCHEN
NEW YORK, Feb. 10. (/P)—-Wives
are being urged to improve their cook
ing to bring about less drinking with
the men.
Many a workman drinks beer to
minimize the bad effects of his wife’s
cooking, in the opinion of Sir Wiliam
Milligan an ear and throat specialist of
England, addressing a meeting of the
Chyrch of England temperance society.
Sir William declared that if all young
women were taught how to cook po
tatoes and roast beef properly, instead
of a lot of fluff about botany, physiol
ogy and kindred subjects, there would
be much less drunkenness in the
world.
GERMAN BARBER
IS STRONG MAN
BERLIN, Germany, February 10.—
A former barber from Essen, weigh
ing only 125 pounds is astonishing au
diences by strong man features which
recall Sandow and Breitbart in their
palmiest days. He is Karl Gorris, 21 j
years old.
Among his stunts are driving nails
thru three half-inch planks with his
bare hands; bending iron bars into
fantastic shapes;- and biting thru wood.!
Riding in a truck he pulls a trailer j
containing sixteen men by a chain I
gripped in. his teeth.
Hungarian Football Gains
Postage Stamp Distinction
BUDAPEST ,Feb. 10. (jp)—Foot
ball has received the honor of illus
trating postage stamps.
The recent issue of stamps by the
Hungarian government might be call
ed ithe “athletic series.” In addition
to football, swimming, diving, hurd
ling, skating, fencing and skiing are
portrayed.
The denominations vary from one
hundred crowns to twenty-iflve hun
dred. Physical exercise for adults or
bedroom physical culture is rated at
100 crowns while the “high jump”
rather appropriately represents .the
most expensive stamp of the series,
2,500 crowns.
REDUCED FARES TO ANCH.
Agent Sweek of the Alaska Railroad
reports there will be reduced fares to
Anchorage, beginning tomorrow morn
ing and ending Saturday with the re
turn of the train. Those who wish to
go over with the basketball team will
be able to take advantage of this re
duction.
After being married and childless
for 20 years, Mrs. Arthur Cowan of
Hampstead, Eng., is the mother of
triplet boys.
RACE GIANTESSES
IS SPRINGING UP
UNITED KINGDOM
RESULT OF ATHLETICS SHOWN
IN COMBATIVE SPIRIT DE
VELOPED IN WOMEN
LIVERPOOL, Feb. (/P)—England is
raising a race of combative giantesses,
Dr. Leonard Williams, an internation
ally known medical specialist, assert
ed recently. He said it has become
the fashion to teach induce and even
compel girls to play games which were
origionally invented for big boys and
young men.
“In teaching and making girls play
these games,” he claimed, “you de
velop the combative instinct and the
combative muscles. In this way you
are raising a race of giantesses, who
are going to have the combative dis
position. Another effect of this ul
traathleticism among girls of today is
to produce a creature who has the
male rather than the female character
istics.”
INVENTIVE GENIUS HAS
HIS NEIGHBORS WORRIED
PARIS, Feb. 10. (JP)—The neighbors
of a Paris journalist were startled the
other day to hear a great rumbling in
his apartment on the fifth floor of the
building, accompanied by the unmis
takable exhaust of a gasoline motor in
full action.
Summoned to the door the journal
ist explained with great composure
that he was engaged in research work
with the idea of incorporating im
provements in his automobile.
He had taken a small two-seater to
the house, smuggled the parts up
stairs, assembled them and was now
occupied in studying the mechanism
by running the car around his room.
ROMANOFF GEMS
NOW RESTING IN
AMERICAN HANDS
MRS. DANIEL WHARTON, WASH
INGTON, HAS ONE UNLUCKY
EMERALDS
LONDON, Feb. 10. (Jp)—Most of the
Romanoff jewels not in the hands of
the Soviets are now in America.
Whenever the jewels of the late
Czar’s family are offered for sale in
London, Americans are always promi
nent among the would-be purchasers.
At present there are very few of the '
Romancff treasures to be found here, j
where once they could be bought at I
Almost every shop in the West End. !
The last of the jewels offered for j
sale, a pair of perfectly matched pig- j
son blood ruby ear rings, have been
sold to Mrs. Daniel Wharton of Wash
ngton. Americans evidently have lit
tle fear of the misfortune which is
said to hang over these jewels, for
Mrs. Wharton some time ago purchas
ed one of the Romanoff emeralds, said
:o be the most unlucky of all stones.
COCAINE BROUGHT
INTO FRANCE IN
WOODEN LEGS
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FRONTIER GUARDS BECOME AL
ARMED AT NUMBER CRIPPLES
PASSING INTO COUNTRY
PARIS, Feb. 10. (fi3)—The unusually
large number of wooden legged men
crossing from Germany into France
recently aroused the attention of the
French frontier guards. As a result
one pegleg was requested by the guard
to alight from his automobile at the
customs house at the Kehl bridge over
the Rhine.
He fumed and raged, insisted that
he was a veteran of the great war and
denounced them for submitting him to
such an indignity. The officers search
ed him but found no contraband until
and Alsatian guard had an inspiration.
He suggested that the man’s wooden
leg be detached and inspected. It
was found to contain more than 100
ounces of cocaine.
Wooden legged men now undergo a
more rigid customs inspection on the
Rhine frontier.
NEW SOUTH WALES
TO ADOPT BUSSES
LOS ANGELAS, Feb. 10. —-An
nouncement has been made 'that the
state government of New South Wales
will authorize the railway commis
sioner to run motor busses within
the city of Sydney, according to ad
vice received here.
American-Built Movie
Opens Soon in London
LONDON, Feb. 10. (/P)—London’s
first American-built moving picture
house, The Plaza, on Piccadilly Cir
cus, will throw its doors open Febru
ary 8, with “Nel Gwyn,” an English
made film starring Dorothy Gish, as
its feature offering.
Miss Gish will be present in person
for the opening. The theater was be
gun about two years ago by the
Lasky-Famous Players Company and
is a handsome atone building with
every modern convenience and a mag
nificent pipe organ.
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SEVERE STORM
SWEEPS OVER
EASTERNSTATES
SNOW SO DEEP AND BLINDING
MEN CANNOT KEEP STREETS
OF NEW YORK CLEAR
NEW YORK, Feb. 10. (IP)—A storm
| its fury equal to that of last week.
I swept over the Northeastern United
| States, disrupting trains and almost
I paralyzing surface car and motor traf
fic.
The blinding snow prevented work
! men from clearing the streets of snow,
i which has already cost the district
millions of dollars.
Gales swept out to sea, hampering
; shipping, numerous ships requesting
radio compass bearings. A snow sweep
er yesterday killed a track-walker on
the elevated. Twelve men on a fer
ry have been marooned since yester
day on the St. Lawrence river near
Ogdenburg.
GAVE MOST OF HER JEWELRY TO
ROYAL FAMILY SEVERAL
YEARS AGO
LONDON, Feb. 10. (/P)—If the will
of the late Queen Mother Alexandra
is published it will be found that she
left almost no money. This is the
understanding in court circles, where
it is said that the Queen Mother’s gen
erosity w"us limited only by her re
sources. She gave avvay all her sur
plus income and for many years she
pledged all of her annual allowance of
70,000 pounds in advance to needy in
stitutions and individuals.
However, she had much valuable
property, including some fine China
and the art collections left by her
husband, Edward VII. She also had
fine libraries at Sandringham House,
where she died, and at her towrn resi
dence, Marlbourough House. Sand
ringham House was her own, having
been left her by King Edward.
It is commonly supposed that King
George will be heir to all or almost
all of his mother’s property. Queen
Alexandra gave most of her jewelry to
other members of the royal family
several years ago.
ALASKA TO START
ROLLING HER OWN
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10.—A local
! jobber has secured orders from Nan
amo, Alaska and Vancouver, B. C., for
leaf tobacco to be used in cigar mak
ing.
WHEAT FAILURES
NOTED IN MEXICO
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10.—Success
ive 'wheat crop failures in the Aguas
calientes district of Mexico have
caused local millers to shut down
many of their plants, while others
have been forced to import wheat to
keep running.
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This Explains Mystery of
Missing Catsup Bottle
COLUIMBUIS, O., Feb. 10. (/P)—Re
moving the catsup botle rom the res
taurant table and placing it on the
sideboard, to be produced only when
it is asked for, has reduced the an
nual consumption of the viand ap
proximately 40 per cent. This has
been ascertained by the National
Restaurant Association for present,
tion to its members at regional in
ferences which are held in various
parts of the country about every two
months.
Three women teachers of London,
discharged for getting married, were
denied redress by the count.
iMme. Marie Dulans of Brussels sold
'her husband to another woman for