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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 238.
SEWARD ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19,1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
! LABOR COUNCIL OF
i' SEATTLE WANT SEE
! HARTLEY RECALLED
HAS PROVED HIMSELF WORST
FOE UNION EVER HAD IN
STATE HOUSE
1 ^ SEATTLE, Oct. 19. (/P)—The State
Federation of Labor executive coun
cil passed a resolution pledging their
support to the recall resolution and
• declared Governor Hartley “Practic
ally demoralized the administration
of labor legislation and vetoed all leg
islation supported by labor and pas
* sed by the legislature. He proved
himself the worst foe of organized lab
or that ever held office of governor
in the history of the state.” President
Short said “Volunteer workers from
the ranks of organized labor will be
recruited to assist in circulating re
call petitions and we can help raise
funds for the campaign.”
! AI1ITI-SALD0N LEAGUE
I < WILSON, DEMOCRAT
ISdUST FORGET PARTISAN LINES
AND SEND ABLE MAN AS
OPPONENT
[j WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. (IP)—'The
Anti-Saloon league endorsed Wilson,
Democrat from Pennsylvania. Sena
tor Wayne Wheeler, the league’s gen
eral counsel said it was a question of
whether “Vares, in the first 20 wards
t of the machine ridden Philadelphia,
was backed by brewers contribu
tations,” or “elect the senator.”
“Respectable true Americans should
forget partisan lines and send to
Washington a clean and able oppon
ent of the Quaker city boss.”
CORRECT SKIRT LENGTH
NEW YORK, Oct. 19. (IP)—Irene
Bordoni, actress returned from Paris
- saying that skirts should extend two
inches below the knee to be in
vogue.
It is reported Henry P. Karstens,
superintendent of McKinley National
park, will pass thru Seward shortly
en route to Washington, D. C.
“B1E" RUTHBE OFFERED
, 575,010 CONTRACT, 1127
EW YORK, Oct. 19. (^—Accord
ing to reports Babe Ruth will be
offered a contract for next year sti
pulating a seventy-five thousand dol
lar salary. This is the highest sal
ary ever paid a baseball player or
any other person connected with
baseball.
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ATTORNEY KILLS WOMAN
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18. (IP)—
Emmett Healy, a young attorney who
shot a woman who repulsed his af
fections, surrendered to the police
yesterday and was released on $10,
000 bail.
In observance of Alaska Day, yes
terday, the local schools closed during
the afternoon.
KAISER REFUNDED MILLIONS
BERLIN, Oct. 19. (£>)—'Compromise
bill giving former Kaiser Wilhelms
family $3,600,000 and historic Wil
liam I palace was adopted by Prus
sian diet after days of hectic debate
and dowdyism.
FUNDS ARE VOTED
FOR PORI SURVEY
VICTORIA COUNCIL PROVIDES
$4,000 FOR EMPLOYMENT R.
D. PINNEO
VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 19. (£>)—The
City Council has voted $4,000 to be
used in employing Roger D. Pinneo,
Seattle port development expert, who
will make a survey of Victoria’s port
facilities, particularly with a view to
the construction of a grain elevator
here. A large cold storage plant also
is planned for a site near the ocean
piers in an effort to attract some of
the West Coast of Vancouver island
fishing business, which now is going
to Vancouver and Seattle.
Mr. Pinneo will open an office in
the city hall immediately and proceed
with his project. The survey will
take three months. Mr. Pinneo’s ser
vices were loaned to the City of Vic
toria by H. F. Alexander, president
of the Pacific Steamship company.
The Canadian Pacific Railway com
pany has completed plans for altera
tions to its terminals here. These
plans will be forwarded within the
next few days to Ottawa for approval
of the Department of Marine and
Fisheries.
TURKEY MOBILIZING
LONDON, Oct. 18. (^P)—Turkey is
reported to have mobilized four army
corps in the threatened region but
cables failed to designate what re
gions they were.
NAG RUNS AMUCK WQMlUiS’
SHOP; U PI HIPS
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Oct. 18. (IP)—
An old decrepit nag ran amuck in a
woman’s shop here yesterday, got
all entangled with silk lngerie, then
kicked an assortment of silveflfrare
over the landscape. He was finally
persuaded to leave the battle front
after two thirds of the girl clerks
had fainted. When last seen he was
still attired as a flapper in pink
undies.
JUDGES APPOINTED IKUTAN
Judges for the territorial election,
November 2, at Ikutan have been ap
pointed as follows; Oscar Vanner,
Nick Christenson and Vernia Gre
gory. #
TORONTO DISSOLUTION, STATED
TORONTO, Oct. 19. (IP)—Morning
paper predicted immediate dissolution
of the Ontario legislature. The Fer
guson government will appeal to the
electorate government for control of
liquor. \
Capt. Joe Bernard, skipper of the
Teddy Bear, Arctic trading vessel, is
a visitor in Seward. Captain Bernard
is at the Van Gilder.
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RUMANIA'S QUEEN
ARRIVES NEW YORK
STREETS T
WOMEN WILL END ALL WARS
UNLESS START FIGHTING
AMONG THEMSELVES
NEW YORK, Oct. 19. (#*)—A hund
red stood in the drizzling rain and
cheered Queen Marie of Rumania,
Princess Ileana and Prince Nicholas,
as they stepped upon American soil
from the S. S. Leviathan. Huge
i crowds thronged and lined Broadway
| to see the royal party which were es
corted about the vity by police, sol
diers, sailors and marines.
Mayor Walker, met the vessel in
the harbor, and presented to Queen
Maria an official welcoming scrool.
The Queen said, in a five minute
interview, that she would have to
make some arrangement whereby
she would not be constantly inter
viewed. “I am especially interested
in the position of the women here and
what they are doing in the cause of
universal peace. Women have done
so much for peace and women will
some day end war, that is if they
don’t start fighting amongst them
selves.” The royal party was due to
arrive at Washington, D. C., last night.
MOTHER KILLS SON.
DAUGHTERS, SELF;
WAS A FAILURE
PUTS CHILDREN TO SLEEP WITH
TABLETS, THEN TURNS
ON GAS
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19. (JP)— Ada
B. Chamberlain, killed her two daugh
ters and son, the oldest nine years of
age, and herself on Friday.
It was found today that she wrote
she could not let her children live in
a world for which she “had failed to
prepare them for.” Police recon
structed the tragedy stating she left
home Friday and rented a house and
put the children to sleep with the aid
of sleeping tablets, then turned on
the gas and went to the next room
where she wrote four letters. She
then went to another room. She
wrote “I am capable of being a good
mother but failed. I put that duty
first and a girl cannot meet the world
without definite religious and home
training.”
ROVERTISING COMPANY IS
ASKED TO GET TRUE FACTS
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 19. (£>)—
George E. Merrick, founder and de
veloper of Coral Gables, Fla., the fam
ous suburban residential city adja
ceht to Miami, has wired N. W. Ayer
& Son, the national advertising agen
cy here, asking it to see “that the
people of America get the true story
of the hurricane as all reports will
be grossly exaggerated and “we are
connting on those who know our sec
tion of Florida to let the world know
the exact facts.”
BIG FIGHT TONIGHT
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19. (£>)—
Odds of two to one or two to one and
one-half that Tod Morgan will retain
his Junior Lightweight championship
crown against Johnnie Dundee to
night are given.
WHALING ACTIVITIES
CONTINUE, DECEMBER
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ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MEN
EMPLOYED; AKUTAN plant
NOW CLOSED DOWN
The latest count of whales caught
at Port Holbron now totals 185, ac
cording to a report sent The Gateway
a few days ago. The fertilizer plant
has been in running order for the last
four weeks with steady production.
The Akutan plant closed down Oc
tober 3 and two whaling boats from
that station have been transferred to
this plant making a total number of
five whalers.
Accomodations for the help has
been completed now that the cold
weather is approaching. In all there
I is approximately 110 men on the pay
| roll.
The oil production has been quite
l satisfactory, it is stated and - from
present indications operations will
continue to as late as December,
i weather permitting.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST VIVISECTION
NEW YORK, Oct. 19. (£>)—Duchess
of Hamilton, arrived here to cam
paign against vivisection in United
States.
SHARKEY AFTER TUNNEY
NEW YORK, Oct. 19. {JP)~Jack
Sharkey following his deeisve victory
over Harry Wills is seeking a bout
with Gene Tunney, heavyweight
champion of the world.
PRINCE OF WALES WILL
MARRY INFANTA REATRICE
LONDON, Oct. 19. (JP)—The Prince
of Wales is going to marry at last
and the future British queen is the
Infanta Beatrice of Spain. No offi
cial announcement has been made
except that the work of renovating
Marlborough House has been re
sumed and the Prince is going to
occupy it, but to those who are on
the inside of Court affairs, this sig
nalizes the approaching momentous
event.
DORIS KENYON, SILLS, MARRY
GLENN FALLS, N. Y. Oct. 19. (JP)
—Doris Kenyon and Milton Sills,
both stellar members of the motion
picture world, were married here
yesterday.
JEWELS ARE STOLEN
BARRITZ, Oct. 19. {JP)—Jewelry
valued at $200,000 was stolen during
the night from the villa of Captain
Alfred Alowenstein who recently pro
posed a loan to rescue Belgium from
financial ruin.
Miss Louise Bissett, who has been
appointed to teach the Bureau of Ed
ucation school at Rampart, and who
arrived in Seward Saturday from the
South, left yesterday for the Interior.
LEON TROTZKY AND
FOLLOWERS GIVE
IN TO COMMUNISTS
UNCONDITIONALLY SURRENDER
AND PROMISE ABIDE DECI
SIONS CONGRESS
MOSCOW, Oct 19. (JP)—It is an
nounced the unconditional surrender
of Leon Trotzky and his followers
forming the opposition to the Com
munist party of the Central Executive
committee has been made. In the
face of threatened political punish
ment the insurgents denounced the
committee before the workers for
“their steam roller tactics and lack
of Democracy within the party; their
inefficiency and mismanagement.”
The insurgents, in a signed statement,
admitted their actions and threaten
ed the party unity but promised to
abide by the rules and decisions of
the party congress.
SERIES WEEKLY TRADE NOTES
REPORTS ON RECKLESS
FISHING
CHICAGO, Oct. 19. (£>)—'The Food
stuffs Division, Department of Com
merce, has just issued a series of
weekly trade notes, in which is in
cluded the statement that the North
Sea as a result of reckless fishing.
The full text of the statement in this
regard follows:
According to a report dated Septem
ber 2, 1926, by American Consul Ellis
A Johnson, at Copenhagen, Denmark,
the fishing industry has suffered 14
recent years. Fishing experts declare
that owing to the reckless fishing, the
fishing is in danger.
Up to August 8, hardly 40,000 bar
rels of herring had been salted on the
north coast, as against 100,000 bar
rels by that time last year; and in. re
turn prices are about double of those
of last year.
On the south coast of Iceland,
where herring generally are not
caught the summer time, a consider
able quantity of herring have been
taken this summer.
SIXTEEN YEIR FLAPPER
ROBS MIN OF CLOTHES
DAVENPORT, Iowa, Oct. 18. (£>)—
Beulah Nichols, sixteen year old
flapper, robbed A. H. Mohaney of
his clothes and money with the aid
of a revolver and told him she was
grabbing a freight train west. She
has not been heard/of since.
FACTION BITTERNESS INTENSE
LONDON, Oct. 19. . </P)—Restora
tion of Lord Asquith from Liberal
party leadership, largely intensified
the bitterness between Lloyd George
anff the Asquith factions.
Reverend Thomas who preached at
the local Episcopal church on Sunday,
departed for his Anchorage office yes
terday. * ..