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VOLUME 20.
NUMBER 58
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
PRESIDENT FREDERICK EBERT, OF GERMANY IS DEAD
LA FOLLETTE MEN
PLACED BOTTOM
OF COMMITTEES
REGARDED AS INDEPENDENTS
AND PROGRESSIVES INSTEAD
OF REPUBLICANS BY PARTY
LEADERS—ALL ARE DEMOTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 28.—
Without a single dissenting vote, the
Republican committee on committees,
today assigned LaFollette’s three
supporters to tentative places at the
bottom of committee lists, as though
they were elected as independents or
progressives instead of on the Repub
lican ticket, demoting them from the
ranks on standing committees.
Many Riders Attached
Rivers and Harbors Bill
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 28.—
Carrying over fifty new proposals the
Senate’s $41,000,000 rivers and har
bors bill entered a stormy period in
the Senate because of attempts to at- ^
tach controversial measures as riders.
FORMER LEADER
IN THE SENATE
DIES IN MIAMI
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 28.—James Edgar
Marline, former United States Sena
tor from the state of New Jersey and
one of the most distinguished solons
during the Wilson administration, died
in this city today as a result of apop
lexy. He was taking a rest while
in the southern resort.
OBLIGATORY PRACTICE MAKES
GOOD MARKSMEN ARGENTINES
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 28.—The
reason Argentines rank among the
best shots in the world, as shown in
various international rifle contests
in past years, is that marksmanship
is obligatory upon every male citi
zen of Argentine between the ages
of 18 and 45. This is part of the
Argentine system of compulsory mili
tary instruction.
Not all citizens have to serve in
the army, its ranks being recruited
by lot, but those chosen may reduce
their one year term of service by
three-fourths if they take the mark
manship course. Those not chosen
are obliged to take the course any
way.
Statistics recently issued by the
ministry of war show that during
last year 44,000 citizens took lessons
at the 130 rifle ranges in the coun
try, and shot off 4,500,000 cartridges.
Ten Killed When Forty
Tons Powder Explodes
RIO JANEIRO, Feb. 28—Ten per
sons were killed and 300 injured in
an explosion of 40 tons of powder and
other combustibles, on Caju Island,
near Nichteroy, yesterday. The prop
erty loss is over one million dollars.
Henry Ford Backs Up
Men Accused of Stealing
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28.—Charges
of pilfering from the local Ford plant
made against four employes were dis
missed yesterday, after a telegram
came from Henry saying, “Men are
your employes, not felons."
Read The Gateway “Ads.1
Coolidge Insists On
Agricultural Program
■WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 28.—
President Coolidge renewed his in
sistence that an agricultural confer
I ence program be enacted by law this
j session. The regards the recommen
dations made as necessary for the
success of the farmer.
ATTEMPT STIFLE
MITCHELL FAILS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 28.—
Secretary Weeks told the House air
craft committee, that Brigadier Gen
eral Mitchell had published articles
without the War Department’s appro
val, and after President Coolidge had
written General Mitchell cautioning
him not to do so.
Secretary Weeks testified that no
one had been muzzled in the airplane
discussion, and said the articles which
General Mitchell published in the Sat
urday Evening Post without his ap
proval, would have been approved if
submitted to him. He added that
neither he nor Coolidge had authority
to force Mitchell to resign. He de
clared that General Patrick, chief of
the airplane division, had a good
knowledge of airplanes, except as to
Japan, “though Mitchell knows more
from personal observation.”
He remarked, “as far as that goes,
Mitchell did not get much from
Japan.”
Governor G. A. Parks
Will Leave For Alaska
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 28.—
Governor George A. Parks will start
for Juneau next week to complete his
work as chief of the general land of
fice. Mr. Parks will stop in Denver
three days to visit his parents, and
will also be in Seattle several days.
HEAVY HUSKY SCHEDULE
DEFERS HONOLULU TRIP
SEATTLE, Feb. 28.—An invitation
by the University of Hawaii to the
University of Washington football 11
to play in Honolulu on Christmas and
New Year’s Day next winter, has been
deferred because of a heavy travel
schedule arranged by the Husky team
in fall, Darwin Meisnest, graduate
manager of the Associated Students
of the University announced here to
day.
Washington has football trips to
Lincoln, Neb.; Pullman, Wash.; and
Berkeley, Cal., in its 1925 schedule in
addition to a short trip to Tacoma for
a game with the College of Puget
Sound.
TOADSTOOLS MISTAKEN FOR
MUSHROOMS CAUSE SICKNESS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28.—Six
San Francisco residents who ate toad
stools by mistake for mushrooms are
on the road to recovery, after a period
of serious illness.
Four were members of the same
family, Nath Fibak and his wife and
two children. All of the six who were
made ill picked the toadstools in the
Golden Gate park.
AMPHIBIAN AIRPLANE
ESTABLISHES NEW RECORD
DAYTON, O., Feb. 28.—What Mc
Cook field officials said today was the
longest flight to be made with an am
phibian airplane was accomplished
late today when Lieut. W. H. Brook
ley, Dayton flyer, landed at the Mc
Cook airport. Lieut. Brookley made
the flight from New York, a distance
of 550 miles with the new ship, which
can land on either land or water.
DELEGATION TO |
RUSSIA RETURNS
TO ENGLAND
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PREPARE TWO HUNDRED FIFTY j
PAGE BOOK IN FACTS COMPILED j
BY LABOR COMMISSION—DE-1
CLARE GOVERNMENT IS GOOD, i
LONDON. Feb. 28.—The British j
Trades Union Congress delegation, af- j
ter a six weeks’ tour of inspection
thru Russia, issued a two hundred and
fifty page volume dealing in the gen
eral condition of Russia. . The dele
gates believe that the Soviet govern
ment is maintaining a strong adminis
tration and is carrying the support of
| the majority of workers and peasants;
that its Federal structure gives fair to
cultural and political liberties, and to
racial and regional minorities, with i
full religious toleration. They declar
ed that the whole idea gained on the
tour was well worth foreign study.
City Churches Crowded
To Welcome Ex-Convict
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 28.—A man
who, as a confessed criminal and an
undesirable left Minneapolis 23 or
more years ago by order of the po
lice, recently returned, a convert to
Christianity and a leader in wel
fare and criminal rehabilitation work.
He is John Callahan, superintendent
of Hadley Rescue Hall, famous res
cue mission in the Bowery, New
York, and chaplain of The Tombs
prison.
Conditions surrounding the man’s
departure from Minneapolis and his
subsequent return, according to Cal
lahan, himself, offer a great contrast
Driven from this city in its infant
days as a convict “too crooked to
tend bar” and as a confessed thief,
Callahan on his return found Minne
apolis paying homage to him in al
most unprecedented manner.
Callahan spent one week here, and
was swamped with visits and mes
sages from Minneapolis’ leading men
and women.
Welcomed by the bench and bar,
the pulpit and the home, Callahan
had a program of activity which en
gaged his time on an average of 14
hours daily. He spoke before many
of the leading local civic, business
and church clubs in addition to in
numerable other gatherings. On the
only Sunday spent here Callahan vis
ited different churches to speak
briefly, and special afternoon ser
vices were held to give the parish
ioners an opportunity to hear him.
“Faith in the Bible,” Callahan told
his audiences, “made me good and
kept me good.” He still carries the
same little copy of the New Testa
ment given him the night of his con
versation.
325,910 GALLONS CANADIAN
WHISKEY FINDS ENTRANCE
VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 28.—Ameri
cans are growing thirstier every day.
Figures showing Canada’s whisky ex
ports to the United States, received
by the Chamber of Commerce here,
reveal that 325,910 gallons valued at
$5,027,392 went to the states in 1924.
The year before Americans bought
$8,160,944 worth of liquor, and in 1922
the exports to the United States were
only $827,272.
Placed end to* end the bottles reach
from New Year's Eve to the Fourth
of July.
YUKON IN PORT.
The steamship Yukon arrived in
port this afternoon about 2:30 o’clock
having made good time from Seattle.
The Yukon will sail south some time
tonight.
Coolidge Asked Create
Muscle Shoals Commission
!
—
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The mill-1
tary committee reported a resolution j
declaring it the sense ot' the House j
that President Coolidge create a com-1
mission to make recommendations
concerning Muscle Shoals.
STR. ALASKA SAILS
WITH 175 ABOARD
_
SEATTLE, Feb. 28.—The steamship
Alaska sailed’for Seward today at 9
o’clock with 175 passengers aboard.
The following are for Seward: Mrs.
E. Franks, Mrs. W. K. Flugan, H. G.
Watson, A. E. McCrae, A. Lappi, H.
Pierson, J. V. Fidler, J. McAllister, S.
B. Findley and wife. W. E. Austin. J.
D. Andrews, Mrs. J. S. Bogart, Ed
ward Hess, Mrs. F. E. Brentlinger, E.
D. Waugh, Fred Olson, Mrs. F. L.
Bragshaw, Mike Larson, Jack Lodge,
S. M. Sells, Charles Holky, G. Fitz
gerald, W. R. Smith, F. E. Deluzene,
Ray Shafer, J. C. Murray and wife,
W. D. Alexander, F. B. Sigurdson and
wife, J. E. Barrack, John Michaely, J.
J. Chisholm, J. J. Heste, Edward Myn
dal and wife, Ida Triplett, Gus Borgen
and seven steerage.
Americans May Organize
Country Club in London
LONDON, Feb. 28.—An American
country and residential club may be
organized in London in the near fu
ture. One of the historic tracts
near London where Henry VIII used
to hunt has been suggested as the
site, and as there is plenty of space
for golf, Americans interviewed in
the deal rather look upon this place
with favor.
It was proposed by the prime mov
ers in the idea to take over all the
buildings as they stand, this includ
ing a splendid Georgian mansion
known as Addington Park, one of the
show places of this section. The
site of the proposed club is near
Croydon, the large airdrome from
which London planes arrive and de
part for the Continent, and until a
few years ago was the country seat
of the Archbishops of Canterbury.
The hunting lodge of Henry VIII
stood near where the mansion is lo
cated. Originally this site was grant
ed by William the Conqueror to his
cook on the peculiar condition that
he and his successors should present
at royal coronations a certain mess
of pottage in an earthenware pot.
Bon Marche Bandits
Get Heavy Sentences
SEATTLE, Feb. 28—For the Bon
Marche robbery, August 8, Judge Gil
liam today sentenced J. M. Booley,
Edward and Lee Fasick to 25 to 50
years each in Walla Walla, and Mrs.
Fasick 7 to 15 years. He answered
the pleas of their lawyer for clem
ency with the remark, “I see nothing
that appeals to the lienency of the
court.”
The trio were convicted February
20, after Norris Lockwood, a former
employe of the store, had turned
State’s evidence. Former Policeman
Joe O’Neal and wife fled. The rob
bery yielded $14,000 in cash and $8000
in checks, some of which were re
covered.
Gus Borgen, pioneer merchant and
well known oldtimer of Seward, is a
returning passenger on the Alaska,
having spent the winter in Palo Alto,
California. Gus has been on the sick
list for several months with a lame
back, or he would have been here be
fore now.
MAN WHO SAVED
GERMANY FROM
CHAOS PASSES
WAS SON OF GERMAN SAILOR,
AND APPRENTICED TO SADDLER
AT EARLY AGE—PROM IN ENT IN
SOCIALISM OF THE REPUBLIC
BERLIN, Germany, Feb. 23.—
President Frederich Ebert, who
was apparently recovering from
an operation for appendicitis, per
formed Tuesday, began sinking at
five o’clock this morning, and died
at 10:15 without recovering con
sciousness. President Ebert’s
nervous system had been severely
shocked by recent denunciations
for loans of government funds to
Burmat Brothers, and the virtual
declaration of the judge before
whom an editor convicted of libel
ing Ebert was being tried, that
Ebert was “a traitor to Germany
during the world war.
Monarchists generally ridiculed
President Ebert, but the people
generally esteemed him, and cred
ited him with bringing order out
of the chaos that followed the ab
dication of Emperor Wilhelm.
Ebert was credited with pre
venting the radicals from coming
uppermost in the turmoil of the
revolution following the war.
Ebert was born at Heidelberg,
the son of a sailor. He was ap
prenticed to a saddler and worked
thirteen hours daily, but studied
much and acquired industrious
habits that persevered to the hour
of his death. As president he was
astir at an hour in the morning
long before official Berlin was
awake, and after partaking of cof
fee and a roll, took his usual ride.
After learning the saddlery busi
ness, he migrated from town to
town, settling later in Bremen,
where he became interested in
Socialism, and 25 years ago be
came secretary of the local trades
union. Later he was elected to
the presiding board of the Social
Democratic party, chosen to the
Reichstag in 1912, and pushing
slowly forward became head of
his party in Germany. In 1918 he
became chairman of the main
committee of the Reichstag. His
salary as President was meagre,
but he returned to the treasury
the allowance for social events,
which he spurned except for the
visits of a few intimate friends,
when beer was the only refresh
ment. Walking and horseback
riding were his principal recrea
tions. Under fire Ebert always
held his temper, and usually had
his way with the final word, after
everyone else was talked out. He
was thus credited with healing
many controversies.
Ebert was married in 1894 and
had four children.
NICK LONGWORTH
SPEAKER HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Nicholas
Longworth, of Ohio, a son-in-law of
the late President Roosevelt, was se
lected as Republican candidate for
Speaker of the House. The first bal
lot stood 141 for Longworth and 85
for Madden, the latter moving to make,
the vote unanimous. Representative
Tilson of Connecticut was named by
acclamation to succeed Nicholas Long
worth as floor leader.
KETCHIKAN FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN, Feb. 28—Halibut 7
1-2 and 3 cents to 8 and 4 cents.