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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 282
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Championships Awarded
by International Union
Paris, France, Nov. 19.—The. International. Union
t awarded seven world's championships to American box-!
ers, including Pancho Villa, flyweight Joe Lynch, bantam
weight; Mickey Walker, middleweight; Harry Greb, light
heavyweight; Jack Dempsey, heavyweight. Siki was de
prived of the title of light heavyweight. This title was left
vacant. Carpentier, owing to his failure to respond to a
French boxing commission request, was disbarred.
Starr Reaches Port Sunday
With Large Cargo
Many Changes Made in Personnel o
Crew—Boat Load to Utmost
^ Capacity This Trip.
The steamship Starr arrived in porl
from Seattle Sunday morning aboul
10 o'clock and sailed last night at 4
for Unalaska and westward points.
The Starr brought twelve passengers
and a capacity load of freight. Upon
reaching Seward between 500 and 600
sacks of mail were placed on the boat,
the vessel being so heavily loaded that
it was piled on the after deck and cov
ered with tarpaulins. Among the pas
sengers arriving from Seattle wer<
Mrs. Frank Horn, bride of Purses
Frank Horn of the Starr, Dr. H. B
Wentz, U. S. Bureau of Education;
and Mrs. Dykeman and family, wife
of Second Mate Dkyeman of the Starr,
who will reside in Seward.
The Starr had as passengers for the
Westward, Dr. Wintz, U. S. Deputy
Marshal Dan Boss, Rev. Fr. Hotovit
zky, Mr. Smith and sou, Alex Bear,
and a large number of others, Purser
Horn being too busy to make up a list
for the Gateway.
The Starr will return in time to re
sume her regular schedule, sailing
again about December 10th.
Severel changes were made in the
personnel of the crew, while the Starr
was in Seattle. Purser Lucas resign
ed because of illness; and his place
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l^een acting as radio operator. Mr.
Horn will also act as radio operator.
Second Mate Ramsay resigned and his
place was filled by Second Mate
Dykeman, who brings his family with
him. Chief Engineer Jensen resigned
and his place was taken by Morris
Sergeant.
FAST TIME MADE BY
AUTO BERKELEY
TO SEATTLE
SEATTLE. Nov. 18—Returning from
a football game by automobile, Paul
M. Cone. J. Willis Sayre and J. Dut
ton reached Seattle at 10 o’clock last
night in 25 hours and 36 minutes from
Berkeley, Calif.
GEORGE SUNDAY TRIES TO
COMMIT SUICIDE YESTERDAY
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18.—George
Sunday, a noted evangelist, attempted
to commit suicide by asphyxiation
this afternoon.
PROMINENT ENGINEER DEAD
SEATTLE, Nov. 19.—Col. Archibald
O* Pomell, army engineer who prepar
ed plans and specifications for the
i^aKe w asiiiiiKLuii tautu auu iuuivo.
di^d suddenly today.
Coolidge Gives Approval
Expansion Coast Guard
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.— Presi
dent Coolidge today gave his approval
to treasury plans for the emplpovment
of the coast guard service for preven
tion of rum smuggling.
The plans contemplate the expendi
ture of twenty millions for new craft
and^additional personnel for service.;
TACKY DANCE A SUCCESS
The Tacky Dance given in Odd Fel
lows Hall Saturday night was an un
qualified success, a large nummber of
persons attending. A fancy lunch was
served, in boxes, by the ladies. The
affair terminated the Red Cross drive.
COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT
The Council will hold its regular
semi-monthly meeting tonight. Busi_
n^jis of importance will come before
it, ft is said.
WEATHER FORECAST
Rain near coast; fair interior to
night and Tuesday.
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Pioneer Skilak Rancher
Badly Damaged by Flood
Steve Melchoir, the pioneer Skilak
rancher, arrived in town Saturday,
and reports that the late floods dam
aged him badly, his house being mov
ed from the foundation, filled with de
bris, and his cellar containing many
tons of vegetables, fruits, jellies and
his winter’s supply of foodstuffs was
filled to the top with gravel, ruining
everything. j
I Mr. Melchoir was compelled to shoot
his pet bull moose, “Tommy,’> which
went on a rampage during the high
water, horning his tent down and at
tacking Mr. Melchoir. Another tame
moose was drowned, but Mr. Melchoir
brought in the survivor, a female.
“Tommy” was quite tame except dur
ing the rutting season, and could be
used on a sled or pack. His death was
unavoidable.
Mr. Melchoir, who has lived on the
lake for many years, has a mining
claim on Surprise creek, which he is
operating. The damage was done by
the waters from the creek overrun
ning the country.
Mr. Melchoir will rebuild in the near
future on higher ground.
man is a mechanism
HAS 28,000,000,000,000 ELECTRIC
CELLS, SAYS SCIENTIST
CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—Man is simply
chemical reaction, a machine made up
of twenty-eight trillion electric cells,
which furnish life or animation to the
body. Emotions, love, hate, fear, are
but stimuli, loosening currents of
electricity, through certain paths, as
serts Dr. George W. Crile, of the
American College of Surgeons,
Each cell of the body, 28,000,000,000,
000 of them, is a tiny wet battery,
with a negative and positive pole, ac- .
cording to the surgeon. The brain ^
cells are the most positive; the cells
of the liver the most negative. The
energy which makes Babe Ruth drive
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a homer, which drives the feet of the
business man to work, which works
the fingers of the typist, which cau 4
Jack Dempsey to drive his right for a ‘
knockout, is stored in a layer sur (
rounding each of the 28 trillion cells,,
a layer 1-628,000 of an inch thick, Dr
Crile says.
The greater the difference in elec
trical potential between positive and ^
negative, the greater the energy the
body possesses. With death, the dif-i ^
ference of potential vanishes. All is
equilibrium. Fatigue makse this dif- ^
ference less. Sleep restores it.
LABOR UNION OPENS BANK
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xnujw Y urctv, i\ov. u.— i ne unions
in the Needle Trades will open an in
ternational labor bank on Fifth ave- J
nue December first.
MR. AND MRS. LEE H. LANDIS
LEAVE ON SUNDAY’S SPECIAL
General Manager Lee H. Landis,
who arrived on a special Saturday to j
meet his wife, a passenger from the, ^
States on the Alameda, left yesterday j.
with Mrs. Landis, Major Gotwals and ^
other railway officials, for Anchorage.
Mrs. Dykeman and family have tak
en rooms at Mrs. Paulson’s.
Charge that Petit Jury t
Has Been Tampered With 1
SEATTLE, Nov. 19.—The charge
that the petit jury panel of the Supe
rior court has been tampered with in
an effort to influence members in fa
vor of Dr. W. A. Shannon, a pioneer
physician, to be tried for alleged vio
lation of the State narcotic law, were
sustained by a King county grand jury
this afternoon in a special report to
Presiding Judge Everett Smith.
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FORBES REFUSES TC
ANSWER CHARGES
OF DESERTION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—“I do no
care to affirm or deny anything ii
this articles,” was the answer of Chas
Forbes, former director of the Veter
ans’ Bureau, and his counsel, James
E. Smith to charges in the Decembei
issue of Hearst’s Internationa! Maga.
zine that he had been a deserter frorr
the United States army.
Pe-'s-nts Pi^ht With
Separatists; Many Dead
PARIS, Nov. 19.—Eight were killed
and 60 wounded in renewed fighting
between peasants of the Rhineland
and Separatists, which broke out to
day at Hinberg. French troops in
tervened and disarmed a thousand
Separatists.
FORTUNES MADE BY YOUNG
IN VENTURES IN GERMANY
BERLIN, Nov. 17.—A majority of
the automobiles owned in Beilin are
the property of persons between 20
and 25 vears of age. The youths had
availed themselves of the gambling
chances which have presented them
selves in the kaleidoscopic changes
which have come in the financial sit
uation in Germany and most of the
new rich are youngsters.
Many of them are not Germans.
The fortunes earned by some of these
young speculators are reported to be
enormous and their expenditures are
lavish. But the methods of most of
the get rich quick chaps are of a sort
which will probably be wholly out of
place when Berlin gets its currency
stabilized.
FR. JETTE WILL RECOVER
SEATTLE, Nov. 19.—Er. Jette, a
prominent pioneer Alaska missionary,
of Tanana, now In Providence hospi
al, who underwent a dangerous op
eration Saturday, physicians believe
will recover.
DROPPING CONTRACTS ARE
HELD TO BE INVALID
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. —“Crop
ping contracts” with aliens ineligible
:o own or lease lands in California
ind Washington were held by the Su
preme court today to be invalid
Man Pinned Under Auto
YYrrites Will on Collar
MONTEREY, Calif., Nov. 19.—Tear,
ng off his collar, while he lay pinned
tnder an overturned automobile, suf
ering from injuries which later prov
ed fatal, Hugo Futterer wrote his will
>n his collar, also writing that he
vas responsible for the accident in
vhich his niece, Erna, Vogele, was
ilso fatally injured.
3R. KILLED WHEN AUTO HITS
CAR DRIVEN BY FRANK FRYE
—
SEATTLE, Nov. 19.—Doctor Wal-|
ace W. Potter, retired physician, was
;illed when he was struck by an auto
Iriven by Frank Frye, wholesale meat1
lealer.
CALIFORNIA BEATS WISHINGTON
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 19.—Cali
ornia defeated Washington U. 9 to 0.
a Saturday afternoon’s football game.
SIGHT PERSONS TRIED
FOR HIGH TREASON
BY BAVARIANS
BERLIN, Nov. 19.—Charges of high
reason have been formally lodged
gainst eight involved in the recent |
litler-Ludendorff rebellion at Munich.
lUdendorff’s ame, however, is absent
rom the list and he is at liberty on
is “word of honor.”
HAMBER MAY CHANGE HOUR
OF LUNCHEON TO 6:00 P. M.l
At its meeting tomorrow the Cham
er may vote on changing its hour of
incheon from midday to 6:00 p. m., in
rder to give the business men an op
ortunity to attend.
Numerous advertising changes to
ay made the paper an hour late, but
re trust its excellence will make up
he deficiency.
Gus Borgen will leave on Saturday’s
teamer for California, where his fam
y are located, returning in April.
i PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
ARE SWEPT BY
TYPHOON
MANILA, Nov. 19.—A typhoon o
i unusual violence swept over Luzoi
. and Visayan islands yesterday. Rai
• and telegraphic communication is en
i tirely suspended, with Manila parti)
■ under water as a result of the down
pour and tidal wave. Boats were usee
in the principal streets in the place Oi
autos and street cars.
Thousands of nipa huts in the native
quarter were blown away or unroofed
and it is feared that loss of life may
be heavy in outlying islands.
He. d of American Express
Company is Dead
NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—George C
Taylor, president of the American
Express Company is dead in Pelham
FRANCE WILL REMAIN ON
RHINE UNTIL DEBT IS PAID
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—France
will remain on the Rhine not only un
til every single clause in the Ver
sailles treaty is fulfilled but until she
is solidly guaranteed against aggres
sion, Premier Poincare declared in a
speech at Neuilly sur Seine yesterday
afternoon.
PLANE CATCHES FIRE;
AVIATOR IS INCINERATED
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 19—First
Lieutenant Paul Wagner, 33, was in
cinerated when his plane caught fire,
after a spectacular collision in the air
with a plan*1 piloted by First Lieuten
ant Walter R. Peck.
Johnson’s Candidacy Is
Not Taken Seriously
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—It re
mains to be seen whether Hiram John
son will be a formidable contender for
the Republican presidential nomina
tion. Opinion on the question is di
vided, many believing that Johnson
cannot accomplish a “throwback to
1830 and make isolation a paramount
issue. If this is true his candidacy
need not be taken seriously.
SON OF MISSOURI DIVINE
LEAVES FLOOD OF BAD CHECKS
SEATTLE, Nov. 19.—Willis Buck,
27, son of a Missouri divine, attempted
to drown himself in Lake Union yes
terday. He told the police he had
flooded Kansas City with bad checks
and fled.
White Labor Mulcted
by Chinese Contractors
SEATTLE, Nov. 19.—Charges of
mulcting white contract labor of Alas
kan canneries by Chinese bosses and
substitute boss contractors, and re
ports that large quatities of narcotics
are being sold to laborers at Alaskan
plants, were made today by H. P. Ev_
erett, state supervisor of industrial
relations.
RED CROSS COMMITTEES
GO OVER TO TOP HANDSOMELY
The official figures thus far obtain
ed in the Red Cross drive, ended Sat
urday, shows $836.85 collected, includ
ing Kanatak and Kodiak, but not the
rest of the branches in the Reward
Chapter. Complete figures will be
given as soon as obtainable.
CAM IN ETTI DEAD
JACKSON, Ala., Nov. 19.—Anthony
Caminetti, former immigration inspec
tor, died here last night.
DEVICE PERFECTED
TO TRANSMIT RADIO
MESSAGES IN SERIES
NEW YORK, Nov, 19,—William G.
Finch, Lieut. Com. A. M. Stevens,
and William A. Bruno, radio engi_
neers, have perfected devices which it
is claimed make possible and practical
the transmission of four stories sent
simultaneously and secretly by radio,
transmitting from one central sta
tion to four separate typewriters in
newspaper offices receiving the serv
ice.
TAXES DELINQUENT
City taxes were delinquest Thurs
day, October 15, and a penalty will
be charged those paying after this
date.
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Zev Defeats In Memoriam
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Decision in Doubt
Churchill Downs, Kentucky, Nov. 17.—Zev defeated
In Memoriam by a scant nose for $30,000 a mile and a
quarter, Time 2 minutes, six and 3-5 seconds. Considera
ble dispute has arisen over the winner as newspaper pic
tures show that In Memoriam the winner by a few inches,
the latter’s foot being down while Zev’s was still in the air.
The race may be run over again.
Steamer Alameda Has
Heavy Listing South
I'he steamship Alameda sailed for
Seattle Sunday morning about 1:30
o’clock, with one of the heaviest lists
ol the season. Her passengers from
Seward were as follows:
For Latouche—John Campbell, C.
1 A. McGahen, Frank Stukel, Hank Rod
well, Frank Stukel, W. A. Avakunoff,
W. Stroufe, John M. Morgan, S.
Kearns, Mike Spier, R. Catalan, Ole
Haloff.
Fop Valdez—Joe Johnson, S. H.
Staser.
For Cordova—Paul Barnes, W. E.
Ford, N. M. Morris, Mrs. W. L. ^wo
man, John Ludwig, H. Rodwell.
For Juneau—Fred Dahlquist. Jack
Champlain, Chas. Perelle, W. E. Ford.
For Ketchikan—Frank Manatana.
Foj, Seattle—H. A. Tucker, E. Wel
lein, P. F. Vain, S. W. Clark, Mrs. S.
W. Clark, J. H. Foreman, Henry Pae
ben, C. A. Schonacker, Mrs. O. R.
Adams, Thos. Neville, Wm. Neville,
C. L. Baker, C. L. Baker, jr„ Mrs C.
L. Baker, Mrs. V. Corning, Mrs. Marie
Siebel, Theo. Eoje, A. Aarons, E. Hol
brook, Clara Holbrook, Carl Anderson,
i G. H. Berners, A. Hanot, A. Little
wood, I. Itadt, M. H. Guise, F. Bass
ham, A. Anderson, O. H. Nelson, Min
nie Thompson, Jas. O’Donnell, George
L. Ray, Jas. H. Lavin, Dan Gagula,
Mrs. Hattie M. D’Orsey, John B. Hen
derson, Mrs. M. P. Birt, H. L. Eggert,
Chas. Anderson, Jacob Merrill, H. F.
Minzoff, M. Bond, G. B. Stevens, H.
Clark, W. Fisher, L. Roggie, J. Claw
son, F. Davis, J. Zing, five prisoners,
Alax Chatham, Geo. Miskulin, Otto
De Lindsey, Carl Shagman, Thomas
Hanna, H. S. Palmer, A. J. McDonald,
John Noonan, Tyree Brown, George
Langford, T. Riley, James Ross, John
Cavallo, Franklin Armour, Oscar Ans
co, Mile Beten.
Booked by Anchorage office sailing
from Seward were:
For Seattle—Chas. Bates, E. C. Pe
terson, Philip Echert, Mrs. Geo. A.
Morrison, O. Eggen, Carl Johnson, C.
McLaughlin, Lena Hammond, Frank
D. Balcon, A. T. Anderson, Thomas
Maher, S. Samis, J. B. Sluder, Mrs. J.
D. Sluder, Miss Mary Sluder, Pal
Byrne, A. Mclvor, H. L. Bert, Mrs. H.
L. Bert, W. H. Haun, Mrs. W. H.
Haun, Lloyd Haun, Mabel Haun, Nick
Balamakoff, M. J. Jivekoff, Mrs. E. Me-,
Coy, Mrs. Ollie Roemer. Howard C.j
Dick, George Tom, R. C. Luckow and
son.
BRYAN SAYS CHANGE WOULD
WRECK Y. M. C. A. QUICKLY
CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—The question
of qualification for active membership
in the Y. M. C. A. was said today to
be the most important problem before
the recent constitutional convention
of that organization. Every othe<
matter was adjusted.
W. J. Bryan declared that any such
change in the organization’s practice
of admitting to membership only
members of the Evangelical churches
would wreck the Y. M. C. A. and low
ers its standard of membership.
CHAMBER TO ENTERTAIN
HIGH SCHOOL TOMORROW .
The Chamber of Commerce will en-j 1
tertain the members of the Seward
High School at luncheon tomorrow.
The object is to give the youngsters
an opportunity to meet and witness: j
the workings of the chamber. <
Sixty Thousand Men
Answer Adv. of Circus
HAMBURG, Germany, Nov. 19.— 1
Hans Harahan, a circus owner about 1
to start for South America with his <
show, advertising for 300 acrobats and :
workmen employes received applpica
tions from $0,000 men and women,
who claimed to be qualified for the po
sition.
KENAI ROAD FINISHED
BY CONTRACTORS
Delightful Dinner Served to Number
of Invited Guests Who Go Over
Road on Inspection Trip
Siems & Carlson, contractors, with
headquarters at Spokane, Washington,
have just finished their contract with
the Bureau of Public Roads on the
Seward-Kenai lake road, having grad
ed from Mile 14 to Mile 18, which is
the end of the project. Surfacing will
be done next year, the company fig
uring on having a crew working just
as soon next spring as the weather
permit. In honor of the completion of
this important feeder to Seward, I.
Kriken, the contractor in charge, in
vited a number of Sewardites to go
over the road on a trip of inspection,
after which a very delightful dinner
was served to a few guests. Fred
Schrenger, the w'ell known chef, was
the man at the helm, having the able
assistance of Mrs. Schrenger, and the
dinner was one of those that only Mx.
and Mrs. Schrenger know how to pre
pare. After the dinner the ladies were
presented with a nice-looking Xmas
cake, a work of art.
Mr. Kriken and Mr. Beatty were
hosts for the occasion, and every' one
went away well satisfied and full of
nraise for those who had so suppose.
fully arranged the dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ellsworth and
Mrs. L. V. Ray furnished the trans
portation and were led from Seward
in his well-known car. “Asthma.”
The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Reher and son Alvin; Mrs. L. V.
Ray, Lee Ray, jr., and Miss Patsy Ray,
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, Mr. George Do
lan. Mr. P. M. Mooney, Mr. Harry Ells
worth, Mr. Sylvester Simms, Mr. Lon_
Cheatham, Mr. Muzzy.
REP. ALBERT JOHNSON
SAYS VET KIDNAPED
FROM ASYLUM
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. — The
charge that the Veterans’ Bureau kid
naped Charles K A. Savage, a world
war veteran, from the asylum for the
insane in the State of Washington,
and took him to a hospital in Pennsyl
vania was made today before the
Senate Veterans’ Committee by Rep
resentative Albert Johnson, of Wash
ington.
ITALY IN BETTER SHAPE THAN
ANY TIME IN HER HISTORY
LONDON, Nov. 19—Marconi arriv
ing here from Rome, declared today
that no nation since the beginning of
civilization is so perfectly disciplined
as Italy under the Fascisti govern
ment, and that economically she is
better off than ever before.
Unexploded Shrapnel Bomb
Found at Legation Door
BUDAPEST, Nov. 19.—Unexploded
shrapnel bombs were found today at
he door of the Karolyi palace, in
vhich the French legation is quarter
'd at the present time.
GOVERNOR HART WILL NOT
BE CANDIDATE NEXT ELECTION
OLYMPIA, Nov. 19.—Governor Hart
inonunced today that he would not be
i candidate for re-election.
GERMANY TAKING INTEREST
IN ARIAL OF HER WAR LORD
BERLIN, Nov. 19.—All Germany is
aking the greatest interest in the
coming spectacle of General Luden
iorff being placed on trial before a
special court, on a charge of high
treason.
FRESH HALIBUT PRICE8
Seattle—Fresh halibut, 27% cents.
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