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VOLUME XIX NUMBK 194
SEWARI), ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1924
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COOLIDGE ASSAILED
BY SENATOR WALSH
IN BITTER SPEECH
HELENA, Mont., Aug. 18.—'The at
titude of President Coolidge toward
the oil disclosures was assailed last
night by Senator Walsh, prosecutor,
of the Senate Industrial Committee
and Chairman of the National Demo
cratic Convention. While the Presi
dent, he said, thought the moral as
pects of the oil scandal were most
serious, lie had not the sensitiveness
to official misconduct that the Amer
ican people expect and demand ot a
Senator’s condemnation of Coolidge
president of the United States. The
♦■speech was the opening fun of the
Democratic campaign in Montana.
Departure of World
Flyers Is Delayed;
Ice Must Move First
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 18 —
The departure from Reykjavik, Ice
land of American army airplanes
may be delayed indefinitely to await
improved conditions, it was indicated
by a message from Lt. Smith, pres
ent flight commander, received on
Saturday by Patrick, chief air ad
vance guide. The message was dated
the 16th and told of new delays due
to the ice and other circumstances.
COOLIDGE FAMILY TO
VISIT IN PLYMOUTH
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Aug. 18.—
President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge,
accompanied by their son, John, left
the capitol on Saturday afternoon for
a twelve day vacation at the farm
house of Coolidge’s father, at Ply
mouth, Vt.
GERMANS AGREE ON
PLAN SET BY ALLIES
\ BERLIN, Aug. 18.—Germany is
facing an ultimatum in the London
conference to the effect that the Al
lies, who are supporting the French
proposal to take twelve months in
-ISich to evacuate the Ruhr, have
agreed to that program of the meet
ing parties and it was reported into
the German government which is be
ing presided over by President Eb
ert.
The German delegates to the Lon
don conference were authorized to
conclude an agreement with the al
lies.
SENATOR DILL WILL
SUPPORT DEMOCRATS
SEATTLE. Aug. 18.—Senator Dill
in a speech here Saturday, night,
declared he will support John W.
Davis, the democratic nominee for
President, although he lauded Robert
La J/ollette as the nation’s greatest
Progressive organizer.
Body of Socialist
*■ Deputy Is Found
ROME, Aug. 16.—The body of Gia
como Mattiotti, socialist deputy, who
disappeared June 12th, was found
five miles from Rome, near the spot ■
whi?/e his coat was found some time
ago.
EDITOR HARRY G. STEEL
LAID UP WITH NEURITIS!
A cablegram was received in Cor
dova from Harry Steel, publisher of
the Cordova Daily Times the other
day, stating that he was laid up at
Baltimore with an attack of neuritis,
and that he would leave for the west
as soon as he was strong enough to
start. Harry accompanied a brother
about a month ago to the Johns Hop
kins hospital at Baltimore, where he
remained with him during two opera
tions, both of which were successful
so that he will be able to leave the
hospital within two weeks. When
Harry was about ready to start for
Cordova, via California, he was him
self afflicted.
DAVIS LISTENS IN
LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y., Aug. 16.
—John W. Davis, presidential nomi
nee for the coming election listened
in last night to the acceptance ad
dress of Coolidge.
DANCE TONIGHT, A. B. HALL
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Martin’s Plane Found
On Small Hill In
Port Moller District
BELLINGHAM, Aug. 16.—“Will
iam Sullivan may call the sloping
ground where my plane crashed a
foothill, but I consider it a moun
tain,’’ declared Major Martin here,
when informed of the Port Moller
dispatches last night. “He is wrong
when he says the Flag plane, Seat
tle, could have avoided the foothills
and mountain one mile away by fly
ing 150 feet higher,” said the Major,
“and at the time of the crash, on
April o0, the staff sergeant, Alva A.
Harvey and myself, were ten thous
and feet above the foothill and 1,500
feet from the top of the mountain
where we landed ”
Helen-Maria Are Names
of Chas. Dawes Sisters
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Hell an’
Maria,” heralded by the press as
the picturesque invention of Charles
G. Dawes, Republican candidate for
the vice presidency, turns out not
to be a cuss word after all.
It is nothing more devilish, it is
learned, than an innocent ,abbreviat
ed contraction of the names of two
charming sisters ,the former Misses
Helen and Maria Buell, who were
campus belles back in Marietta Col
lege, Ohio, when the general was
a freshman there. All the students
swore by them—without being pro
fane.
“So at last the truth about Char
lie Dawes’ famous phrase has come
out,” said the former Miss Maria
Buell, now Mrs. Donald P. Hart, of
New York.
“The phrase isn’t ‘cussing’ and
never was. It is nothing more than
a lucky slogan, like some of our
slang phrases of today, and is not i
intended to be profane. General ;
Dawes fell into the habit of using |
it back in the days when he was '
a freshman at Marietta College. I j
have heard him use it thousands of
times while he was a student, and
he was not the oniy one.
“You see,” Mrs. Hart continued,
“Helen, now Mrs. Karl Anderson, of
Westport ,and I lived on the camp
us at Marietta ,and—I say this with
| all modesty—we were quite popu
i lar with the college boys at the \
time. We knew all of the Dawes
boys well—had been playmates with
them from childhood. The phrase
‘Hell an’ Maria’ was undoubtedly de
rived fro m a combination of our'
names, Airs. Anderson furnished the
Hell part of it and I the Maria.
“After his testimony before the
investigating commission in Wash
ington, Charlie Dawes visited us
here and explained why he used
some strong language on that oc
casion. He said that he merely
wanted to wake the country up to
the seriousness of the situation and
the folly of the proceedings. He
thought the best way to do that was
the picturesque manner which he
adopted.’ ’
Mrs. Anderson, “the hell part of
it,” in her sister’s words, who was
with Mrs. Hart during the inter
view, smilingly endorsed everything
her sister said. A third sister, Mrs
Creelman, widow of the author and
war correspondent, James Creelman,
also seemed to relish the “Hell an’
Maria” joke.
COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT
The council will meet tonight at S
o’clock. Among other business to be
transacted will be the appointment
of a town marshal and fire chief.
BABY PEGGY
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Little movie miss now appearing
in “The Family Secret.”
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OLYMPIC TENNIS TEAM
Left to right: R. Norris Williams, 2nd, Captain; Francis T. Hunt
er, Vincent Richards and Watson M. Washburn, the members of the Am
erican Olympic Male tennis team as they Jooked after returning from
acros the pond.
LONG STRUGGLE TO
ADJUST REPARATIONS
LONDON, Aug. 18.—The pact of
London, marking the successful ter
mination of the five years’ strug
gle to agree on a means of selecting
war reparations from Germany, was
signed at a plenary session of con
ferees on the Dawes report tonight,
ratification by the several parlia
ments only remaining to be effected
before the Dawes program becomes
effective.
Under the terms of the program
France agrees to completely evacuate
the Ruhr within one year from date,
and Germany in turn promises to be
gin payment of reparations immedi
ately if the pact is ratified by the
several conntries. Germany will get
a two hundred million dollar loan
from the United States.
Letters Exchanged
LONDON, Aug. IS.—The French
and Germans this afternoon settled
their controversy over the military
evacuation of the Ruhr by an ex
change of letters in which they
agree to the principle that August 15
of next year be fixed as the date
when the French and Belgian troops
must evacuate German territory.
LONDON, Aug. 18.—A conference
between French, Belgian and Germ
an delegates this afternoon, merged
with the Council of Fourteen and
another joint body, took up the Ruhr
question and Germany has agreed
to a compromise plan that the
French withdraw from the Ruhr
within one year. It was- also an
nounced that France withdraw at
once 400 railroad industrials, leaving
only enough Belgian trainmen to
look after the troops of occupation. |
Germany insists that the French
withdraw all their control over the
civil courts.
Northwestern Has l arge
List Leaving Seattle 16th
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SEATTLE, Aug. 18.—The North
western, o fthe Alaska Steamship
company left here Saturday morning
with 121 passengers, including 39
roundtrippers. Those booked for Se-1
ward and Anchorage are as follows: j
C. A. Schonacker, Charles Al-;
aert Nush, Albert and Margaret |
Dunlap, Miss C. L. Hutchinson, Miss1
C. Hagen, Mrs. M. Packeldust, A.
Shellhouse, M. B. Mosee, J. Ward,
Flelen Blaine, Mrs. G. Ostrander, W.
B- Tood and wife, Lieut. H. F. Mis-!
;er, Carl G. Carlson, Carl Kuhler.
MIEEP FOR ALASKA AND
WOOL TO FOLLOW LATER
BEND, Ore., Aug. 18.—G. M.
31akely, representing a Portland
rroup in purchasing sheep in central
Dregon, is planning to ship 10,000;
;heep and 200 cattle to the Aleutian
slands in Alaska.
'UKON SAILS TOMORROW P. M|
The steamship Yukon will sail
outhbound tomorrow afternoon, at a
ime not yet announced. The vessel
as a large cargo to load and unload
nd will be a day late in leaving.
DANCE TONIGHT, A. B. HALL
PRESIDENT AND WIFE
VISITING IN VERMONT
PLYMOUTH, Vermont, Aug. 18.—
President Coolidge and wife arrived
here this morning from Washington
on a short vacation to the home of
the President’s father, a prominent
citizen of Plymouth. As Mr. and Mrs.
Coolidge motored to Plymouth they
stopped at the cemetery where a
month ago they buried Calvin, jr.
Coroners Jury Brings
Verdict Charging Kid
M’Coy With Murder
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16.—Mrs.
Morse came to her death from a bul-!
let fired by the hand of a person to
this jury' unknown,” was the verdict
of the coroner’s jury late this after- j
noon. Kid McCoy' will be charged I
with having murdered the woman...)
STANDARD OIL !N KODIAK
Construction of the new distribut
ing station of the Standard Oil com
pany at Kodiak has reached the
state where it is possible to announce
that the station will be opened about
August Sth. Four tanks large en
ough to supply all‘ the possible re
quirements of that region, are being
built. Two 20,000 gallon tanks will
contain Red Crown gasoline, one of
the same size will contain Pearl Oil,
(kerosene), and a 70,000 gallon tank
will be for engine distillate. These
are located at the Erskine company
dock, which, with the warehouse
thereon, has been leased from Mr.
W. J- Erskine.
Mr. Eskine has heretofore handled
some of the Standard Oil products,
but as the Standard people felt that
the time had arrived when a wider
range of products and greater facili
ties were needer, they decided to put
up their own storage tanks and main
tain their own establishment. In
addition to gasoline, Pearl Oil and
engine distillate, there will be a full
line of lubricating oils and greases.
At present, however, there is no
Diesel engine fuel stocked. Large
meters are being installed on all pipe
lines, which will insure accuracy and
speed in delivery.. 0
Mr. H. J. Grub, formerly of Pet
ersburg and Ketchikan, where he has
had much experience with the Com
pany-, will be in charge of operations.
The establishment of the station at
Kodiak is a concrete indication of the
confidence of the Standard Oil Com
pany- in the permanent possibilities
of business in this district of Alaska.
VAN GUNDY OPERATED ON;
LOCAL ANESTHETIC USED
E. Van Gundy, assistant general
manager of the Alaska Railroad un
derwent an operation the other in the
Fairbanks hospital for appendicitis.
Local anesthetic was administered to
dim by Drs. Haverstock of the An
chorage army post and Romig, the
latter, physician for the Alaska Rail
road with headquarters in Fairbanks.
During the process of removing the 1
troublesome member, Mr. Van Gun
dy smoked liesurely as tho nothing 1
vas happening. He is speedily re- (
lovering. 1
Mining Congress Will
Influence Activities
Dereopment of Coal
SEATTLE, Aug:. 18.—Alaska’s vast
coal and oil deposits, which have been '■
laying; idle for so many years with
out proper aid must be adequately
developed, and the American Mining j
Congress may be counted on to use
its influence to that end, G. F. Gal
braith, secretary of the Mining Con
gress now visiting this city said at j
a luncheon address .
American Flyers Will
Change Greenland Base
REYJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. IS.—The j
American Army flyers have decided j
to give up the flight from Reyjavik
to Angmagsalik, on the east coast
of Greenland and will fly instead to
Frederieksdal on the southwestern
pont of Greenland, a jump of S25
mles.
The new base is said to be free
of ice and more suitable in every
way for the purpose intended.
YOUNG MAN MARRIES;
DISOWNED BY FATHER;
WILL WORK HIS WAY
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SEATTLE, Aug. IS.—When young
Boris Bogoiavlensky, son of the Rus
sian consul here, informed his father
that he was married yesterday to
Miss Tony Tolstogusoff, a pretty
member of the Russian colony, he
was informed by his father that he
was disowned, and would have to
shift for himself.
The young man immediately moved
out of the beautiful Boylston avenue
home, declaring he would work his
way through the university, where he
and his bride are students, despite
parental displeasure.
COOLIDGE COMPLIMENTS
AMBASSADOR KELLOGG
PLYMOUTH, Vermont, Aug. IS.—
“You have greatly contributed to the
welfare of the world,” President Cal
vin Coolidge cabled Ambassador Kel
logg today in reply to a cable from
the Ambassador formally notifying
the President that an agreement had
been reached by the delegates to the
reparations convention.
MR. AND MRS. KARL DREGOR
ENTERTAIN AT HATCHERY
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Dregor enter
tained a number of Sewardites at
the fish hatchery last evening. Lunch
and dancing were enjoyed. Those
enjoying Mr. and Mrs. Dregor’s hos
pitalty were Lawrence Scanlon, John
Henderson, Martin Kilian, Jack Mc
Cord, E. E. Kuntz, Elsie and Cecil
Leslie, Dorothy and Beatrice Baugh
man, Thelma Ellsworth, Gordon
Shea, Mrs. Claude Shea, Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Ellsworth, Jack Bush.
DANCE TONIGHT, A. B. HALL
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF
THE PROHIBITION PARTY
H. P. Firis, of Clinton, Mo., who 1
vas nominated for President of the i
Jnited States by the Prohibition Na
;ionaI Convention at its meeting in
Holumbus, 0. He was nominated on
he first ballot, receiving 82 votes.
SEATTLE MAYOR
URGE MUNICIPAL
TELEPHONE SYSTEM
SEATTLE, Aug. 18.—In a letter
addressed to the city council on Sat
urday ,Mayor Edwin Brown urges
that body to confer with the corpora
tion council on steps necessary for
acquiring or building a municipal
telephone system.
Radicals May Gel
Control Congress
Says Noted Writer
SEATTLE, Aug. IS.—The Seattle
Times’ correspondent, Jermane, tele
graphed the Times today that the
outlook so far as the next congress
is concerned is not good, La Follette
radicals holding the balance of pow
er in both houses of the present con
gress and they seem certain to hold
it in the next Senate, with the chance
that the Senate may have more
Democratic than Republican votes.
ASKS REDUCTION OF
TARIFF ON SUGAR
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Charles
B. Warren, retired ambassador to
Mexico is now active in the campaign
of Coolidge. Senator Frazier charges
that Warren is heavily interest in
beet sugar manufacturing and wants
to get sugar duties reduced.
La Follette Policy !
Favors Conservation
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—The La
Follette-Wheeler movement is in re,
ality conservation because it seeks
to preserve for the people the human
rights bought with the blood of the
founders of the Republic, La Follette
said today in a letter to the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
The letter was written in response
to a formal endorsement of his can
didacy by labor leaders.
FORMER GERMAN LINER
HAS TURNED BOOTLEGGER
NEW YORK, Aug. IS.—The Herald
today says that the 17-thousand ton
ship, Kron Prinz Wilhelm, or a ship
suspiciously like her in build, is lying
off the 12-mile limit with a full cargo
of liquor, supplying rich New York
ers.
BUSINESSMEN ARRESTED
IN RAID ON LODGE HALL
COUNCIL BLUFFS, la., Aug. 16
•—Fourteen business and professional
men, including a state lodge officer
of the Fraternal Order of Eagles,
and Lou Zurmeuhleu, twice mayor of
Council Bluffs, were arrested in a
raid on the Eagles ’club rooms here
this afternoon.
The raid was made by Chief of
Detectives Tom Callahan. Disor
derly charges were place** against all
those arrested who \vere all given
their liberty under $25 bonds. The
officers alleged the me nwere gambl
ing. Poker chips, cards and an
ancient roulette w'heel were confecat
ed.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL
F. A. Hazeltine, a prominent news
paper man from Eastern Washington
arrived on the steamship Yukon, and
will be in town a day or so.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Hubbard of
Primrose are registered at the Hotel
tfan Gilder.
Sam Shuklin, well known traveling
nan, is a Seward visitor.
Judge Leopold David of Anchorage
’ame over on yesterday’s train ac
jompanying his nieces, Mrs. Schlarb
ind Miss Walgren, who have been
nsiting with Mr. and Mrs. David the
aast month.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Reed returned
>n the Yukon from a well earned
vacation trip to Fairbanks, coming
>ut to Cordova by the Richardson
lighway. They report a most enjoy
ible time.
HALIBUT PRICES
JUNEAU, Aug. 18.—Halbiut 12 and
r; salmon 10 and 5.