Hewnrd Dale Gateumy
VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 305
SEWARD, ALASKA,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1923
PRICK TEN CENTS
JOHN E. NIUE
THREATENS FORCE
CONGRESS TO J.CT
Not Out to Embarrass President But
Square Deal Must Be Given the
Railroad at Once
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.—Promis
ing to force a congressional investiga
tion, it’ President Coolidge refuses to
act, John E. Ballaine of Seattle has
announced his intention of bringing
Railroad Brotherhood leaders to the
capital this month to insist in a “radi
cal change in management and poli
cies of the Government’s railroad in
Alaska.”
“Ballaine said he is not out to em
^ barrass the President. On the con
trary, he said in his letter: "1 am a
republican, as are the officials of the
railroad Brotherhoods in the State of
Washington, and we will help the
President if he does the square thing,
in this Alaskan railroad matter, but
are going to have it straightened out,
regardless of politics or party.”
Distinction Must Be Made Between
Impropriety and Vulgarity, Says
Eminent Divine
LONDON, Dec. 15.—Although the
Bishop of London has found much sup
port in his charges that London parks
are full of immorality, he has been
more frequently attacked.
Canon Durell, rector of Clapham,
takes issue with the Bishop of London
and declares that “spooning’’ couples
should be allowed to use the parks and
open places for their romancing.
“While there may be a great deal of
Evil in London,” said the Canon, “we
can see no harm in a man and a wom
an loving each other in public, how
ever much it may offend the sensibil
ities.”
“The young people should be given
the fullest possible opportunity!- fo
young people to do their courting and
I am certainly not going to count the
large number of young couples who
are to be seen on the ground by Clap
ham Common on Sundays.”
“There is considerable difference- be
tween immorality and impropriety.”
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Crack Liner Leaves Seattle With 97
Passengers, 27 for Seward
SEATTLE, Dec. 15—The steamship
Alaska sailed north this morning with
97 passengers, the following being for
Seward: R. C. Lukow, A. S. Kepner,
H. P. Karsteus and wife, Eugene Kars
tens, E. Vangundy and wife, A. H
Johnson, H. S. Hale, Paul Hopkins,
Ole Wolden, J. B. Gawar, A. T. Ander
son, Rilla Vachon, Mrs. E. R. Mc
Farland, Wm. D. Coppernoll, Mary and
Frances Vachon, Thomas Monroe,
4 How-ard Sparks, A. Gustafson, Victo
ria Roberts, Thomas Maher, Mrs. T.
C. Morris and baby, Mrs. T. H. Quirk,
Helen Quirk.
Coolidge Starts Off Campaign Under
Management of Butler
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 15.—An
nouncement was made this afternoon
that National headquarters for the
Coolidge pre-convention campaign will
^ be located at Chicago, December 27,
under the management of Chairman
Butler assisted by former congress,
man Good.
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Dr. Harold N.
t Noyer, a nationally known authority
on nervous and mental diseases died
of dilation of the heart.
Odd Fellows’ Dance tonight at I. O.
O. F. hall, everybody invited.
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HOIST DRIVES 10
SflFETV. THEN DIES
Feels Heart Attack Coming on and
Pilots Car to Curb to Avert
Accidents
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Although the
hands of Frank Alton lie stilled in
death it was but a short time ago
when these hands gave a demonstra
tion of careful driving that Chicago
motorists have classified as a remark
able feat.
Alton was driving north on South
Michigan avenue one morning last
week when the street was jammed
with traffic. Death tapped him on the
shoulder, and when he felt his chill
touch he guided his car carefully to
the curb, stopped his engine and ex
pired.
Alton’s car had been halted in a
non-parking zone and policemen who
went to investigate, found him top
pled over the steering wheel dead.
1 MILLION 19
GUILD BIG BOULDER
Dffl IS GEGUESf
Next Congress to Be Urged to Appro
priate Big Sum for Colorado
River Project
DENVER, Colo., Dec. 15.—The sixty
eighth Congress of the United States
now in session, will appropriate in the
neighborhood of $100,000,000 for the
gigantic Boulder dam project on the
Colorado river, if recommendations
of the United States reclamation serv
ice are adopted.
Plans have been perfected in the
Denver offices of the Reclamation
Service for construction of the dam
which will cost between $40,000,000
and $50,000,000 and also for a power
project in connection with the dam
that will cost a similar sum.
According to F. E. Weymouth, chief
engineer for the Service who has been
consulting with his board of engineers
on designs and cost estimates, the pro
posed Boulder Canon Dam and power
plant would make possible:
Protection of life and property in
the Imperial Valley through the con
trol of floods on the Colorado River.
Reclamation of some 2,000,000 acres
of land below the dam.
Development of a continuous flow
of 800,000 to 1,000,000 kilowatts of elec!
tricity—providing power for industries
in California, Nevada, Arizona and
southwestern Utah.
Storage for irrigation and power
purposes of 34,000,000 acre feet of wa
ter.
The repayment of the tremendous
cost of the project to the government
would come through the sale of elec
tric energy in a reasonably short
time.
The dam proposed is 740 feet high
from its foundation in bedrock, 110
feet below the surface of the water.
It is about 1100 feet wide across the
top. As planned the dam would be
more than twice as high as the high
est dam now in existence—the Arrow
Rock dam near Boise, Idaho, which
351 feet high.
ISMEETSSll
Fill SEME TO III!
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Every fall
John Frankenstein, 57, gets a hanker
ing for free board and lodging that
can only be satisfied it seems by a jail
sentence. This year was no exception.
Franckenstein showed up recently
for arraignment on a charge of va
grancy and at his own request was
given 60 days.
He was formerly a policeman.
JUDGE MAKES DRY DECISION
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 14.—Federal
Judge J. W. Woodrough said in his
opinion that prohibition agents are not
civil officers in a constitutional sense
and have no lawful authority to serve
warrants.
BARBARIAN BEATS DUNDEE
DETROIT, Dec. 14.—Sid Barbarian
of Detroit defeated Johnny Dundee in
a ten round no decision match here
Saturday.
Machine Guns Brought to Bear on
Colored Fugitive Before He
Was Conquered
DREW, Miss., Dec. 15.—Mortally
wounded by machine gun fire, Joe
Pullen, a negro, for seven hours last
night held a posse of several hundred
armed men at bay, before his capture
at 1:00 o'clock this morning, after he
had killed three men and wounded
eight. The negro was brought to Drew
where he expired an hour later.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14.—Llo\d R.
Hushes, leading man for Mary Pick
ford, Colleen Moore and many other
screen artists, takes issue with the re
cently published statements of Con
waj Tearle that physical acting is not
worth a larger salary than $5U0 per
week.
“While I respect Mr. Tearle I do
not agree with him that acting is
worth no larger salary than $5dU per
week,” says Hughes.
“Acting is as mucn an art as writ
ing, painting or any other creative
force. The art of acting—real acting,!
such as Mr. Tearle and others of his
class are capable of—is a creative
work. To create a great characteri
zation is to present a work of art that
must compel ‘box office power* re
gardless of whether or not the person
who performs such a characterization j
has ever been heard of before.”
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 14.—The
“Jiggs Bill,” recently passed by the
Alabama Legislature and which pro
vides that a man can obtain a divorce
on the grounds of cruelty if his life
is threatened by his wife, now is un
dergoing its first test, the tester be
ing a negro, George Rutledge, who has
filed suit against his wife, Ann.
Green charges he has been the vic
tim of dishpans, dishes, well-aimed
rolling pins and even axes.
“She’s been pickin’ on me fo’ five
years becase I could not give her all
she wanted,” Green said, “and when
dat vimans gits mad she shore acts
like de nearest weapon is de handiest
for her.”
Many Alaskans Who Sent Money for
Supplies Left Holding Sack
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Word was received here in today’s1
mail that the People’s Grocery Com
pany, a mail order concern of Seattle,
had gone into the hands of a receiver,
the Seattle Merchants’ Association
taking charge of their affairs. In a
letter to the Gateway, H. E. Warner,;
secretary of the association, says that
there are several creditors in Alaska,
the exact amount of whose accounts
cannot be determined. Many orders
for goods, enclosing money, were re
ceived by the firm and never filled.
This leaves Alaska customers in the
position of general unsecured credi
tors.
Another expensive argument for
trading at home.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Comptrol
ler of Currency Dawes made an open
appeal to the country in his annual re
port today for the preservation and
protection of National banks.
Odd Fellows’ dance totnight
Politic* Being Injected in Organization
of the House to a Surprising
Degree, Say Dispatches
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—With W.
J. Br,van prominent in the back
ground, Democratic presidential poli
tics are being injected to further com
plicate the organization fight in the
House of Representatives. Bryan’s
activity behind the scenes has had
surprising effect in blocking the plans
of Republican leaders to have com
mittee slates of both parties ratified,
and of deferring consideration of this
last act oi organization process over
to Monday.
OLYMPIA, Dec. 15.—A large part of
the hight cost of living is due to the
demand <of the average person for
breads and pastry baked away from
home.
Breadmaking in the home is becom
ing a lost art, Mr. E. L. French, direc
tor ot the department of agriculture,
declared today, while home brewing is
almost back to the important position
it enjoyed in the middle ages.
A bushel of wheat on the farm is
worth s5 cents. As bread delivered by
the grocer it costs the consumer $5.5U
a bushel. Bread made from Washing
ton wheat can be had in London, after
being transported nearly hall the cir
cumference of the globe at but little
over hall the price it commands in the
city where the flour was milled from
wheat grown within a radius ot two;
hundred miles.
The difference between the piice of:
wheat and the price of bread is made
up ol service. In other words a wom
an pays the high price of $6.50 a bush
el for the wheat which goes into the
bread used in home consumption.
MADRAS, Dec. 15.—An Indian rob-'
ber named Jambulingam, known asj
“Robin Hood,” because of his stern
ness with the rich and his kindness to
the poor has been shot dead by the
police after a desperate struggle
which has ended in an intensive cam
paign of daylight robbery throughout
the Nanhuhori division.
Jambulingam, with his lieutenant,
Kasi Nadan, escaped from prison a
third time and immediately proceeded
to follow his usual plan. This includ
ed a call on prominent people to
whom he disclosed his identity and
purpose, at the same time demanding
a fixed sum of money. Almost inva
riably his demands were complied
with His last exploit was at a village
wedding at Nambi Kurichi where the
robber and his gang mixed with the
guests, placed two armed guards at
the door and took their valuables and
money.
All the police In ttie district were
set to get Jambulingam. Late in the
month of September at a place called
Korivar special police surrounded a
house occupied by the gang. Jambu
lingam made a dash for freedom kill
ing the inspector in his rush but was
himself killed by the police.
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 14.—Four
University of Colorado students were
killed last midnight when an auto
crashed into their bobsled.
NORTHWESTERN GOES TO
SELDOVIA AND HALIBUT COVE
The steamship Northwestern goes
to Seldovia and Halibut Cove this trip
returning southbound Monday even
ing.
LIGHTS ON KITES
GUIDE RUM CRAFT
St. Lawrence Bootleggers Are Aided
by Confederates Operating
On Shore
ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y., Dec. 15.
Kites carrying lights are being used to
signal bootleggers by confederates liv
ing along the St. Lawrence River
near here. The beacons of light far
into the air are used to guide motor
boats that ply between Canada and
this locality.
For some time enforcement officers
and customs men have been aware of
the fact that the rum boats were be
ing guided by signals from the shore,
and in a couple of Instances farmers
have been taken in custody for signal
ing with lanterns the smugglers laying
off the coast.
The kite scheme however, is a new
one and apparently used for the pur
pose of deceiving enforcement men.
In the first place it is hard to tell in
the depths of the night who is flying
the kite, and the speck of light in the
sky looks not unlike a star. Only the
slight difference in color and motion
caused by the swaying of the kite in
the wind shows the difference.”
BRITISH BOOZE
Government Investigates. But Appar
ently to Curb Fraudulent Projects
Being Advertised in Papers
LONDON, Dec. 15 —Despite the fact
that the British government has ex
pressed a desire to aid the United
States in checking the smuggling of
liquors into American ports, adventur
some speculators a.e still continuing
their appeals to Lii.Mi investigators
to put money into liquor dealing oper
ations off the American coast.
rilie British Government has int- r
vened in several id ihe.j ventures but
apparently its intervention has been
on the grounds of possible fraud on
the part of the backers of the scheme.
Although several actions have been
brought in connection with fraudu
lent advertisements, the papers gen
erally are panning the publishers of
prospectuses.
TACOMA, Dec. 15.—While the rest
of Tacoma was giving thanks Novem
ber 20th, Charles Aldrich, 55, a labo
rer, out of work, was lying in the
county hospital with nothing to be
thankful for. He had been a failure!
in everything he said, and all that he
had left was to take his own life. But
he was a failure even at this.
He jumped from the Fifteenth
street bridge the day before Thanks
giving seeking to end his own life,
but his wooden leg would not let him
sink and kept him afloat until res
cued by the bridge tender.
TOLEDO, Dec. 15.—Mayor Unger
and 24 residents of Tiffin, Ohio, were
indicted by a grand jury today, charg
ed with conspiracy to manufacture and
sell liquor.
IN AIRPLANE ACCIDENT
SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 15.—Lieuten
ant Earl D. Willis and Private Deain
and were burned to death when an
aeroplane in which they were flying
fell to earth.
Anna Luke, an old timer of the In
terior, arrived on the Northwestern,
and will leave on Mondays train for
her home.
Government Troops Victorious in En
gagements in Many States— No
Cessation of Campaign
TAMPICO, Dec. 15.—A dispatch
from Mexico City to the newspaper, El
Tiempo (The Times) here tonight
states that deputies representing the
Huertaists and the Federal govern
ment have proposed an armistice pend
ing efforts to arrange a settlement of
the revolution now raging in several
states.
Government Troops Victorious
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Dec. 15.—
President Obregon at the head of the
government troops is advancing on
Guadalajara City, which is iu the
hands of the rebels under command of
General Enrique Estrada, according to
an official telegram received here by
Consul General Alejeandro Dubbert.
The Federal troops are pushing the
rebels back at many points, and Pres
ident Obregon announces there will be
| no cessation of hostilities until the
rebels lay dow n their arms.
STATISTICS SHU
Southeastern Alaska Committee Is
Gathering Facts to Present
to Congress
JUNEAU, Dec. 15.—Members of the
committee on statistics, appointed
during the meeting here of delegates
from both the incorporated and unin
corporated towns of southeastern
Alaska lor the purpose of framing a
report to be forwarded to congress,
with the expected plea to admit the
panhandle district of the territory
into the union as a separate state, an
nounces some of the data compiled.
The outstanding data prepared lor
the report shows that the population
of the first division of the territory
from $15,216 in 1910, increased to 17
401 in 1920, and that enormous strides
have been made by the seventy-six
canneries of the Territory, all of
which are located in the Panhandle
district.
The report also discloses that the
total population of Alaska has de
creased from 64,346 in 1910, to 55,690
in 1920. This includes whiles, Indians
and Eskimos residing in the Territory
at tills time.
It has been estimated by the com
mittee on statistics that the approxi
mate total value ot all industries in.
the first division of the territory total
$59,503,000.
Government Willing for Private Con
cerns to Finance Germany
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The Uni
ted States Government is willing to
have American Bankers participate in
the floating of an international loan
to Germany it was announced at the
White House this afternoon. The
government would prefer to have the
loan financed by private concerns,
rather than from the treasury.
Despondency Caused by III Health Is
Said to Have Been Cause
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15.—Mrs. Ru
pei t Hughes, wile of the noted author,
committed suicide in China, according
to a cablegram received by Hughes.
Despondency, caused by ill health was
the motive. Mrs. Hughes was on a
tiip around the world following a ner
vous breakdown.
WASHINGTON, Dec. I5.-Workers
in the Navy yards of the country will
receive a slight increase in pay begin
ning January first.