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VOLUME XIX.
NUMBER m
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SCHEDULE ARRANGED
FOR MIDNIGHT SUN
EXCURSION FAIRBANKS
The following telegram was received
by the Seward Chamber of Commerce
today from Colonel Landis setting
the schedule and fare for the “Midnite
Sun” excursion to Fairbanks:
President Hinde,
Seward Chamber of Commerce,
Now preparing a schedule which
contemplates a special train in both
directions on account of the Chamber
of Commerce excursion to Fairbanks.
The special will leave Seward at
eight A. M. next Thursday morning,
the 19th, stopping one hour at Anchor
agdf for lunch; thence to Curry for
dinner and all night. The special will
arrive at Fairbanks at Eight P. M.
Friday, the 20th.
The return special will depart from
Fairbanks at ten A. M. Sunday, the
22nd, stopping at the Curry Hotel for
the night, and reaching Seward at 8:00
p. M. Monday, the 23rd. The excursion
tickets will have a final return limit
of the 24th so that anyone desiring to
stop over in Fairbanks until our regu
lar train, leaving there at 6:00 P. M.,
Monday, 23rd, may do so.
Our arrangements provide a mini
I'fMm of twenty-five tickets out of
Seward. The round trip fare,from
Seward will be twenty-eight dollars
and five cents. Superintendent Cun
ningham is arranging to have Agent
Sweek deliver your twenty-five tickets
tomorrow. ‘Tickets will be sold only
through the Chamber of Commerce.
Hope all of you can make the trip.
LANDIS, Gen. Mgr.
The citizens of Fairbanks and the
Government Railroad are certainly do
ing all possible to provide Sewardites
with a pleasant trip and everj one
stmuld take advantage of this oppor
tunity.
Lloyd Muscle Shoals
Operation Explained
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jane 12—
The Lloyil Muscle Shoals proposal lor
the operation of Muscle Shoals was
explained to the Senate Committee ol
Agriculture last week, just before the
end of the session, by its sponsor. J.
T. Lloyd, former representative from
Missouri.
He said he represented no company
or interest and that his proposal was
offered simply as a suggestion in the
interest of the public. The proposal
he described as a compromise be
tween government and private opera
tion.
j. D. Ross, superintendent of the
municipal light and power system at
Seattle, Wash., explaining the opera
tion of the plant said a privately op
erated plant in Seattle was forced to
ni| t rates established by a municipal
plant. Ross said the private concern
was in the business for profit while
the municipal corporation sought to
upbuild the industry and serve the
public
Ross declared the Skagit river in
Washington offered greater piimarx
power possibilities than Muscle Shoals
and said plans had been made to de
velop the Skagit river power for com
mercial purposes. He estimated the
ri’^.r possibilities at 300,0°0 horse
power.
KU KLUX TO INAUGURATE
WAR ON PETTING PARTIES
GADSEN, Ala., June 12—'The Ku
Klux Klar has declared war on “pet
ting parties” in this section.
In a letter to sheriff 11. A. Leach the
organization filed a vigorous objection
to the continuation of “roadside out
rages” according to the official, and
demanded that they be stopped. Copies
were also sent to Gadsden newspapers.
“Our membership is going to furnish
you with car numbers, occupants
names, also to bring this mattei be
fore the Grand Jury of the countiy,
and we assure yau that we are pretty
well represented in every community
of the county. If the law cannot cope
with the situation we will help the
law.”
BUTTER HOLDING 16
PER CENT MOISTURE
NOT “ADULTERATED”
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 12
Butter holding 16 per cent or more of
moisture is not adulterated, under the
act of May 9, 1902, the supreme court
held today, and is not subject to a
tax of ten cents a pound unless an ab
normal quantity is added.
WORKING WEEK OF SHOP
FORCES MAY BE REDUCED
NEW YORK, June 12—Principal
railroad companies throughout the
country are considering reducing the
working week of their shop forces to
five days rather than reducing the
number of employes, says the New
i York Times. This reduction will be ac
companied by a corresponding cut in
wages.
Recent surveys, it says, showed that
5,000 locomotives and 330,000 freight
cars, in first class condition are wait
ing for business.
Government To Renew
Veterans’ Bureau Probe
CHICAGO, June 12—Federal offi
cials prepared today to reopen the fed
eral grand jury investigation into the
administration of the veteran’s bureau ;
under Charles K. Forbes, former di
i*ector.
Subpoenas were prepared it was un
derstood, for many witnesses who ap
peared before the grand jury in the
original proceedings in February.
Colonel Forbes and J. H. Thompson
a Chicago and St. Louis contractor,
were indicted by the February special
grand jury impaneled to review evi
dence in the veteran’s bureau case,
gathered in nine months of senate in
quiry.
LONDON POLICE PLAN TO
WIPE OUT CHINA TOWN
LONDON, June 12—Chinatown, or
| that part of the east end of London
! long the haunt of orientals and known
| only to the majority of the Britishers
thru the eye of the novelist is rap
I idly vaanishing thru the activities of
j the police .
i In clearing the place of its drug
i traffickers the police have done a fine
piece of work. Quietly, but very thor
oughly, they have gradually eliminat
ed the master-minds' of the “dope
i gangs,” and those who worked under
! them are now unable to carry on their
terrible trade.
WOMAN SUES MANAGER
KEARNS FOR ASSAULT
LOS ANGELES, June 12—Mary C.
Tenney, of Los Angeles, today tiled a
?200,0<»9 suit for damages against the
manager of Dempsey, Jack Kearns,
alleging criminal assault on the third
t.f May. Of the sum demanded in the
suit ? 100,000 is asked lor actua dam
ages caused by mortal anguish and
100,000 punitive damages.
The complaint alleged the plaintiff
was overcome by force and ;he us
of narcotic drugs.
Mrs. Tenny, who -s a in ’ion pic
ture ext”a, is known in Hollywood as
Fiances Mary Emerson.
Some time ago the district attor
ney's cilice investigated the woman’s
charges against Ktarns and refused
to issue a complait i against Demp
sey’s manager on the ground that
there was not sufficient; evidence pi
warrant such actiou.
CHASES HUSBAND WHEN HE
OBJECTS TO PINK NIGHTIE
CHICAGO, June 12—Mrs. Arthur
Rider is a very determined woman, she
hastened to inform policemen, who
asked her why, attired in a pink night
gown, she was chasing a gentleman
around a tree on a busy Chicago res
idence street.
“Oh, that’s my husband,” Mrs. Rider
| said, pointing to the trembling object
of her pursuit.
“My husband came home and found
me entertaining some friends the way
I am dressed now. He did not like it,
and he said he was leaving me for ever
and then started out of the house.
“I would not let him get away with
anything like that and so I chased
him,” Mrs. Rider explained.
One of the policemen placed his coat
around Mrs. Rider and escorted her
j home.
j Mr. P. C. McMullen received today
on the Admiral Watson a seven pas
senger “Willys Knight” automobile; it
is of dark blue finish and equipped
with all the latest appurtenances.
Seward with its limited x'oads, can cer
tainly boast of as fine an aggregation
of cars as any city of its size in the
country.
Miss Betty Dykstra ,\vho had the
misfortune to break her arm while
playing at school Tuesday, is rapidly
, recovering under the care of Dr. J. A.
Baughman.
SERIOUS DROUGHT IS
RUINING OREGON CROPS
SPUING GRAIN IN SOME PARTS
OF THE STATE SAID TO ,BE AL
MOST BEYOND RECOVERY. '
PORTLAND, June 12—Serious dry
weather over a large part of the state
is reported in the weekly crop bulle
tin issued here today by the weather
bureau. Drying winds and lack of gen
eral precigitation have affected spring
wheat and in some sections spring
grain is almost beyond recovery. Some
rye is being pastured and much has
been cut for hay. Unirrigated pastures
are suffering and stock is being taken
t othe summer ranges early. Irrigated
garders are doing well, but gardens
unirrigated are poor.
Rain long delayed for which the
Umatilla country has been waiting for
long dry weeks, started falling today.
If the rain keeps up to a point where
any considerable amount falls it will
be of inestimable value to crops par
ticularly in the lighter soils in the west
end of Umatilla county.
Clara Kimball Young
Has Abdominal Tumor
FORT WAYNE, June 12—Clara K.
Yroung, the actress who collapsed at
a performance four weeks ago, left
here yesterday for her home in Los
Angeles to be operated on for an ab
dominal tumor.
SMOKE CURTAINS FROM
SKY TO PROTECT FLEET;
TESTS BE MADE SOON
SAN PEDRO. Cal, June 12—Smoke
curtains droppd from the sky will be
given a comprehensive test by air
craft of the battle fleet next month,
according to Lieutenant Commander
P. M. Bates, chief of scout plane div
ision Two. Two big H-1G seaplanes
will try dropping a tianeum tetra
chloride curtain, and cn June 15 the
fleet will make its first practical use
of the new sky screen, with seaplanes
endeavoring to protect with their cur
tain of smoke, a force of destroyers
bent on “annihilation^ of the battle
ship divisions in the force practice 1o
be conducted off San Clemente island
Man Who Sees Pearly
Gates Is Not Arrested
HOQUIAM, Wash., June 12—Re
ports that an intoxicated man was
found lying in the street a few blocks
from police headquarters, sent police
men hurrying to the scene late last
night but Ernest Deoer, the man was
not arrested. Deoer told the officers
; he had just started home from an
1 evangelistic meeting when he saw the
pearly gates of heaven opening in the
sky, and was struck by the sight. He
was perfectly sober, the police re
ported.
HEART OPERATION AT SEATTLE
IS SAID TO BE RARE CASE
SEATTLE, June 12—Forcing a fine
needle into the sac of the heart of H.
Wiggins, 20, an ounce and a half of
clear fluid which collected as a result
of inflamation, was drawn from with
in the pericardium by Dr. W. C. Spei
del of Seattle and the patient will soon
return to work, it was disclosed last
night at the regular monthly meeting
of staff physicians at a local hospital.
Dr. Harris B. Haskell a Seattle phy
sician, who diagnosed the case, and
Dr. Speidel, who performed the opera
tion, said at the meeting they had
never heard of a heart complication
similar to it in Seattle and that the
operation was considered rare by the
medical profession.
ATMOSPHERE IS TOO
STUFFY FOR MEDIUM
PORTLAND, Ore., June 12—W. W.
Aber, accused of fraud in the practice
of his profession last night attempted
to give a satisfactory demonstration
in the circuit court before a jury of
his ability to materialize a spirit, but
after an hour’s effort gave it up, say
ing that the atmosphere of the court
room was too stuffy and not sufficient
ly harmonious to permit a successful
test.
The body of Mrs. Frank Belmakof,
an aged lady of Kodiak who died Tues
day at Latouche, is being taken to
kodiak for interment.
BOND THIEVES ARE
LED INTO TRAP
THREE SURVIVORS OF ROBBER
GANG MEET DISASTER WHEN
THEY TRY TO PEDDLE LOOT.
NEW YORK, June 12—Arrest of
three men here last night in connec
tion with a huge bond theft, police be
lieve today will clehr up a bank rob
bery at Walton, Kan., in January, of
last year, another in Denver soon af
ter, and the slaying of two men in
St. Louis, in October, 1923.
The men arrested all of whom gave
New York addresses, were: Frank W.
Markey, 31, an iron worker; John
Elmkoff, 24, a printer; and Joseph
Faber, 21, a steam fitter’s helper.
Liberty bonds valued at $47,000,
which were recovered from the trio,
| were stolen from the Walton State
bank, police learned from the federal
reserve board at Washington .
Information given the police by a
private detective agency, disclosed
that the bandits the nnumbering five,
jimmied vaults in the Walton bank,
and escaped with $140,000 in Liberty
and state bonds.
The gang then committed a similar
robbery in Denver and in October, they
went to St. Louis to divide up the loot,
detectives say. They quarreled. Re
volvers flashed and William Grant and
Richard Stalnaher, fell mortally
wounded. They died soon after.
The arrest, followed a tip from a
pi’ominent bond dealer. He told the
police that three men offered him $200,
000 in Liberty bonds for $30,000 in
cash.
Detectives in the role of buyers met
the men at the hotel. They produced
only $47,500 in bonds, but explained
that they would have the remainder
in “half an hour.” Detectives made
an appointment and made the arrest.
LOWELL CREEK SURVEY
ORDERED BY SECRETARY
(Juneau Empire)
Telegraphic instructions were re
ceived today by Col. James G. Steese
from the Secretary of War to examine
and report on the protection work on
Lowell Creek, Seward, to safeguard
the Alaska Railroad and other govern
ment property from damage. This
stream is an old trouble maker in the
district and in flood periods is said to
endanger valuable government prop
erty.
A joint resolution was introduced in
Congress recently asking for an appro
priation of $100,000 to control the
j stream. The House Committee to
which it was referred has declined to
report it out until a thorough exami
nation has been made and authorita
tive estimates submitted to cover the
necessary work.
At the request of the Department
of Interior, Col. Steese was instructed
by Secretary of War, to make the sur
vey. This, he said today, will be
made sometime this summer and the
report will be available for the next
session of Congress.
MANY FORTUNE TELLERS
ARE NABBED IN AUSTRIA
VIENNA, June 12—Fortune telling
has become such a pest in many of
the larger Austrian cities that the au
thorities hav begun to take action for
its suppression.
Twenty-two prisoners who included
many women of the aristocracy were
hailed into court at Budapest, and
charged with making too much profit
at an illegal occupation.
They were all weeping and during
the proceedings amazing confessions
were made as to the high charges
extorted from women.
The Standard Theatre building, one
of the old landmarks of Dawson, pur
chased last fall by Jack Learm\nt, is
being torn dtwn. The Standard ,in the
first days o fthe camp, was one of the
most popular amusement resorts in
the north. Probably one of the best
known old time entertainers to appear
in the Standard was Cad Wilson, who
was in Dawson in 1897 and 1898, and
who, upon her return to the outside,
stated in an interview with a Coast
paper that ehe was actually bruised by
the nuggets thrown to her by the rich
miners in appreciation of her histrion
ic abilities on the stage. It is stated
that she had a large picture framed
wTith hundreds of corks from cham
pagne bottled which some of her ad
mirers had bought for her at $15 a
bottle.
CHICKEN POX EPIDEMIC
CONTINUES IN NOME
An epidemic of Chickenpox is af
fecting many of Nome’s school child
ren and others too young to attend
school, the cases reported to date are:
Jerry Lomen, Brenda Hegness, Made
line Calkins and the infant daughter
Marion of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McDon
ald.
Commencement Program
Seward Scool Tonight
The Graduating Program and School
Plays of the Seward High School will
be held in A. B. Hall tonight at 8:00
o’clock, at which time an elaborate
program will be given.
The exercises will start off with
music by the High School Orchestra.
Address of Welcome for the City
Mayor JL. V. Ray
Addjoss of Welcome for the School
Willis Perry
Response and Graduating Essay
Edith McIntosh
Music - School Chorus
Address - - Curtis Morford
Presentation Diploma Curtis Morford
Athenian Oath - - School
Cheers - School
Song Medley - - School Chorus
Music - School Orchestra
At the close of the graduating
| program there will be an intermission
of 15 minutes after which will follow
two high school plays. People who
stay for the plays wiU be asked to
donate to holp pay the expense of
the hall.
High School Plays
“Bills,” cast, Marit Eide, Francis
| Leslie, Merritt Shellhorn.
“The Pi-ice of Ambition,” Cast, Cla
ra Perry, Patricia Ray, Willis Perry.
After an intermission of fifteen min
, utes there will be dancing until 1:00
a. m., music by the Seward Serena
ders. Persons who stay for dancing
will be expected to contribute to help
; pay for the music.
Mins Edith McIntosh is the only
; gi-aduate this year.
MILITARY TRAINING
AT “U” IS OPPOSED
Seattle, June 12—A movement to abol
ish compulsory military training at the
University of Washington has been
I started by the Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom. In a
reply to a letter from Mrs. Jane Gar
rot, president of the league, President
Henry Suzzallo wrote that the board
of regents would not be inclined to
favor such a move.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL
Miss Selma Simonson, who has been
j attending the U. of California, is a
returning passenger to Anchorage on
the Admiral W'atson. Miss Simonson
i taught school a year ago at Unga.
M. K. McDonald, with the Imlack
Packing Company, at Kodiak, was a
through passenger on the Admiral
Watson.
George Raymond, champion rock
driller of the Third Division, arrived
on the Watson and will leave tomor
row for Anchorage.
A crew of men are excavating a
basement under the Commerce build
ing. The Alaska Transfer has the con
tract for the work.
Another fine delivery car was added
to Seward’s fleet of trucks on the ar
rival of the Admiral Watson today,
j Air. John Flowers received an “Over
land Spad” which will be put into use
immediately.
The Steamship Admiral Watson ar
rived in port at eleven thirty this A.
A. with one hundred and sixty tons of
freight. She had aboard twenty-one
horses for the Geological Survey party
which will be taken to the Interior.
Isaac Albert Beal, a popular mem
ber of the cable office force at Cor
dova, was married in Valdez recently
to Elizabeth O. Drath, the ceremony
being performed in the presence of a
efw intimate friends by Judge J. L.
Reed.
ATTENTION SCOTTISH RITE
MASONS!
All members of the Scottish Rite
bodies are requested to meet at the Ar
cade Building on Friday June 13th, at
eight p. m., business matters under
discussion.
FROMMING TELLS
OF SHOOTING AFFAIR
AT ANCHORAGE
MAN WHO WAS CLEARED YES
TERDAY OF KILLING ALEC BE
TRIED FOR OTHER SHOOTING.
Paul Fromming, who was cleared
yesterday of the murder of Alec Van
aja, will be tried today for the mur
der of John Vanaja, a jury being form
ed today.
Fromming, apparently under deep
stress of emotion, speaking in low
tones, barely audible to the jury, told
| the following story with seeming
frankness and sincerity.
After briefly sketching his life and
his movements in Alaska under the
questioning of Leopold David, one of
his attorneys, he stated that on the
night of the shooting he was aroused
by loud talking on the road outside of
his cabin. After going outside to see
who it was and discovering no one, he
went to bed. After an hour someone
knocked at his door and he called to
them to come in. John and Alec Van
aja entered, and sat down, and then
began asking for something to drink.
Fromming replied that he had none.
The elder Vanaja insisted that he had.
After John had talked to Alec in their
own language, Fromming went into
the back room and got his .30-.30 rifle
and ordered the Vanaja brothers to
leave. Fromming stated that the elder
Vanaja brother refused to go and was
becoming more angry every minute.
Again they were ordered to leave at
th point of the gun, but the elder of
the two brothers told Fromming that
he wouldn’t shoot; that he was noth
ing but a coward; Fromming fired and
John Vanaja fell, he testified .
Alec immediately blew out the light
and started for Fromming, grabbing
him and they struggled. Fromming ad
mitted that he pulled the trigger on
the rifle ,but it failed to fire and he
dropped it. Alec Vanaja choked From
ming and hit him on the forehead sev
eral times. The two men struggled in
to the back room where Fromming
made an effort and got free. Going to
his bunk he secured the Colt’s auto
matic and went into the back room
and fired. Fromming stated that if he
had not done so Alec would have
choked him to death, as the younger
man was much stronger and larger
i than he.
After the second shooting, From
| ming continued, he lit a match and
saw Alec lying on the floor. He then
; relit the lamp and went to the cabin
of George Gates and Jesse Cornelius
and called them to come over to his
cabin. Upon their arrival he dressed
and then came to the marshal’s office
i in Anchorage to give himself up.
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Lower Interstate Rates
On All Garden Truck
OLY’MPIA, June 12—Permission to
lower intrastate express rates on all
fruits, vegetables, butter, eggs, ber
ries and cherries in carload lots on
June 21 at the same time that lower
rates ordered by the interstate com
merce commission on interstate traf
fic, go into effect, was asked by the
carriers in a notification l'eceived by
the department of public works this
morning.
These reductions will bring a cut in
carload lots of 20.5 per cent ,0. O.
Calderhead, state rate expert announce
ed.
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ATTENTION, VOLUNTEER
. FIREMEN!
Regular fire drill Friday evening,
7:00 p. m. June 13, 1924. All members
requested to be on hand.
2t ‘ J. H. WALKER, Fire Chief.
William P. Kelly ,well-known base
ball player and pitcher, met an un
timely death Sunday evening, turning
his Studebaker automobile over as he
was returning from the Six-mile road
house.
Ross R. Cole, of Anchorage, chief
dispatcher for the Alaska Railroad,
has resigned his position, and with
Mrs. Cole will sail south on either the
Admiral Watson or the Yukon.
Police of Juneau have eben search
ing for a “peeping Tom”, who was re
ported to have been active there last
week. People of Douglas also reported
activities on the man's part, but so far
no trace of him has been found.