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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 273
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
PROTESTS MADE
BY ALASKANS
OVER RULING
INSPECTOR HUNGERFOR SAYS
HERRING PACKERS ASK FOR
LONGER SEASON
CORDOVA, Oct. 6 (/P)—H. H. Hun
gerford, a Bureau of Fisheries inspec
tor who returned here from the La
touche district, says that the herring
I*' packers of Prince William Sound are
protesting against the movement to
close the season early. He said the
pack doubles that of last year and
declared that 85 per cent of the her
ring are being salted.
The Cordova Chamber of Commerce
sent a letter to Washington protest
ing against any change in the mail
service. The postoffice department is
■, arranging to send Alaskan mails by
freight instead of in the care of mail
clerks, thereby saving a few dollars,
but adding greatly to the inconve
nience of the patrons.
COOLIDGE TALKS
* ’ WAR VETERANS
OMAHA, Oct. G (JP)—An audience
of 5,000 cheered President Coolidge
repeatedly here last night. The big
audience of war veterans applauded
vociferously when he declared, “No
i body says now that Americans can’t
V fight,” but he urged preparations for
peace instead of war.
{ Four Pairs Blue Fox
Pups for Kenai Farm
Four pairs of blue fox pups arrived
in Seward Saturday on the steamer
Redondo from East Chugach Island,
billed to Jim Newman, who -with hi3
partner, conduct a splendid silver fox
farm down on the lower end of Lake
Kenai. The pups created lots of com
ment and were viewed by many local
citizens. The new C.M.B. truck con
veyed the fox out to the Lake Sunday
4 afternoon.
Five Prisoners Escape
From Winnipeg Jail
WINNIPEG, Oct. 6 (/P)—Five pris
oners, two of whom were held for
murder, escaped from the provincial
jail here last night. They sawed their
way out of the cells, bound and gagged
the jailer, took his keys, and walking
out the door escaped in an automobile.
PUBLIC INVITED TO
ATTEND TEACHERS
RECEPTION, FRIDAY
The general public of Seward is in
vited to attend the teachers’ reception
^ 'which will be tendered them by the
Seward Woman’s club, Friday even
ing at 8 o’clock at Odd Fellows. A
splendid program is in course of prep
aration and it is the earnest wish of
the officers of the Woman’s club that
the local public will respond by at
tending the affair.
: Interior Insane Taken
South On S. S. Alaska
Two insane prisoners were taken to
the States on the steamer Alaska by
a Fairbanks marshal party, composed
of Fred Parker, deputy marshal, and
matrons, Mrs. John Durand and Mrs.
William Lehman. The insane are
Stola Susa from the lower Yukon and
Virginia Gadderes.
Extra Jurors Drawn
Yesterday By Clerk
A revised list of the petit jury for
the Seward term, starting Monday,
is turned in to the Gateway by Clerk
of Court Cuddy. A number of jurors
were drawn yesterday to take the
places of those who failed to come or
who had removed from the Territory.
The list follows:
Albert Parmenter, Mrs. B. M. Stone,
Chas. Carlson, F. Bartholomew, J. A.
Magill, T. W. Hawkins, A1 Chamber
lin, F. E. Leslie, A. F. Rasmussen,
Miss J. S. Rasmussen, T. P. Murphy,
W. W. Jones, Rudolph Larson, Mrs.
C. H. Phillips, James O’Brien, John
Erickson, Mrs. H. E. McDaniels, Ed
Fries, J. L. Graef, J. P. Hannon, H.
V. Hoben, B. M. Stone, Mrs. V. H.
Pierce, Dorothy Urbach, J. A. Clin
ton. M. Erickson, Mrs. M. Edna
Stump, M. B. Malloy.
AIRPLANE MAIL
SLOWER THAN
TRAIN SERVICE
CHICAGO PAPERS MAKES EXPER
IMENT THAT CAUSES DE
PARTMENT TO YELL
CHICAGO, Oct. 6 (£>)—'The Tribune
reported today that it had made re
peated tests showing that letters de
posited in Chicago took from two to
three days by air mail to get to New
York, which was much slower than
by train delivery. Air officials an
nounced that the paper had made the
experiments at a time when the serv
ice was delayed by heavy storms and
that the test was not a true one.
DR. STRESMANN
SERIOUSLY ILL
LUCERNE, Switzerland, Oct. 6 (/P).
It is rumored that Dr. Stresmann, who
is seriously ill here, was given poison
by his political enemies. The German
delegation declares the poisoning the
ory improbable as Dr.. Stresmann had
his own cook, and the food served was
first tasted by the cook. Police seiz
ed a bottle of wine from which Stres
mann drank Sunday shortly before
taking ill. The Foreign delegates are
visiting his bedside.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Salisbury were
‘among the passengers on the steamer
; Starr bound for Kodiak. Mr. Salis
: bury is the new radio operator assign
| ed to the Naval station at Wood Is
land.
Mrs. Henry Emard of Anchorage,
arrived in Seward last evening.
Frank A. Aldrich, veteran member
of the Territorial legislature from the
First District, who has been making
a brief business to this district of Al
aska, passed through Seward Satur
| day en route to Juneau on the steamer
| Alaska.
Cattle Inspector En route
To Westward On Redondo
Dr. Robert Jay of Juneau, cattle in
spector for the Biological Survey de
partment, was among the passengers
who.left Seward on Sunday for the
Westward. Mrs. Jay accompanied her
husband to Seward on Sunday for the
Westward. Mrs. Jay accompanied her
husband to Seward and will remain
here until his return. Dr. and Mrs.
Jay arrived in town last Saturday from
the Interior. Mrs. Jay is a guest at
the Hotel Sexton.
Some well wisher evidently prayed
for it to rain in Seward.
SCHOONER MAUD
RETURNS FROM
ARCTIC DRIFT
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AMUNDSEN’S VESSEL BACK AFT
ER AN ABSENCE OF TWO
YEARS IN FAR NORTH
"
SEATTLE, Oct. 6 (/P)—A Scant half
dozen welcomed Amundsen’s explo
ration ship, Maud, when she returned
to this port last night from her three
years’ drift in the Arctic, in an en
deavor to drift across the North Pole.
Five thousand bade the vessel good
luck when she sailed from her June
3, 1922. Her captain said that the
coldest weather experienced on the
trip was 84 degrees below. A Curtis
biplane carried for exploration flights
was wrecked after two short hops.
Radio enlivened the monotonous ex
istence of the North. Then men had
plenty of food and the voyage was
uneventful aside from the death of
S. Syverson, the Norwegian assist
ant engineer.
Amundsen ordered the Maud sold
and the crew are removing their ef
fects from their floating home and
dispering.
■. . .
Charles Woberg Becomes
Life Member, Pioneers
Charles Woberg, deputy U. S. mar
shal at Unga, during his recent visit
in Seward, became a life member of
the local Igloo No. 9, Pioneers of Al
aska. Mr. Woberg has been a resi
dent of .Alaska for 25 years.
COPIES WANTED
Copies of the Seward Daily Gate
way of September 7 issue were com
pletely sold out and as this office has
call for several and being unable to
pick one up, anyone wanting to sell
their copy, is asked to drop in with it
and collect a dime.
Mrs. James G. Moore of
Fairbanks Goes Outside
Mrs. James G. Moore, ot' Fairbanks,
I was among the Seward arrivals Sat
urday from the Interior, who depart
! ed for the South on the steamer Al
jaska. Mrs. Moore is a pioneer of the
i Interior and Dawson country, and
leaves a host of friends behind for it
is expected she will make her home
near Seattle. Mr. Moore and son, Jas.
jr., who are remaining in Fairbanks
over the winter, will join Mrs. Moore
in Seattle next spring.
ATTENTION!
COURT WITNESSES.
Airship pictures will be a diversion
from fish cases. Come up and see the
pictures and ask any question about
the freight and passenger craft, the
ore carriers, and heavy duty-aircraft
for local and long distance service.
Right over the bank, plenty close
enough to court house. Bring your
pipe and come early and ooften. Noth
ing on sale, no obligation; just sim
ply welcome—come every day. Give
us your confidence,
tf ALASKA AIRSHIP COMPANY.
YOUNG DAUGHTER BORN TO
MR. AND MRS. DONALD TYER
A telegram was received by The
Gateway this morning from Tulsa,
Oklahoma, announcing the arrival of
Miss Alice Selby Tyer, a handsome
young miss of eight pounds. Mother
and daughter are doing well. Mr. and
Mrs. Tyer were former residents of
Seward, leaving here last September
for Tulsa.
Heavy Rainfall Reported
from California Town
FRESNO, Cal., Oct. 6 (/p)— An inch
and 18-one hundredths of rain fell in
one hour, flooding the downtown
streets and stores, stranding autos
and flooding the Southern Pacific sub
way.
PALlERREMOVED
FROM SHIPPING
BOARD FLEET
MADE MANAGER OF EUROPEAN
OPERATIONS IN PLACE OF
ELMER CROWLEY, BOSTON
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 6 (/P)—
The Shipping Board touay removed
L. C. Palmer as President of the fleet
corps and made him manager of the
European operations replacing Elmer
Crowley, president of a Boston corpo
ration.
SEWARD SCOUTS
MEET WEDNESDAY
ATHLETIC CLUB
YOUTHS’ ORGANIZATION GETS UN
DER WAY WITH MEETING
HELD LAST EVENING
Meet Atheletic Club
Election of Scoutmaster and Assist
ants and Other Officers Be
Held Tomorrow Night.
jy _
Thru the concerted efforts of a group
of local youngsters, Seward business
men 'met last evening with regard to
the formation of the Seward Boy
Scouts, the outcome of the talk being
that a meeting will be held tomorrow
evening at 7 o’clock, at the Seward
Athletic Club building, (Dreamland
Hall), to which all local boys who are
desirous of becoming a member of the
organization, are asked to attend.
The meeting tomorrow night will
be purely that of a general discussion
of ways and means to start the ball
rolling. Registration blanks will be
signed up by those who wish to be
come a member of the local club,
which in turn, will become affiliated
with the national organization. A
Scoutmaster will be elected as also
will be two assistants and a board of
directors. Other appointments will
be made in the troops proper, such
as a secretary and treasurer, leaders,
etc.
The Boy Scouts of America is rec
ognized thruout the world as having
many distinctive elements of strength.
Its strictly democratic scheme of or
ganization and system of definite reg
istration are, from an organization
point of view largely responsible for
its unique success. Today it is not
only the largest scout organization in
the world but the largest uniformed
organization of any character in the
United States of America. The scouts
and scout officials are just as definite
ly registered and commissioned by the
National Council as are the 364,000
members of the Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps by the United States Gov
ernment. This and all the other ad
ministrative expenses of the vast or
ganization proper are provided by the
nominal registration fees of each in
dividual scout supplemented by Sup
ply and Magazine Department receipts.
The expenses of the National Field
Deparment with its Regional Staff and
of Local 1st and 2nd class Councils
are met by volunteer contributions.
There is no use of trying to keep
up with a woman if, as President Mac
en of Vassar says, they are 50 years
ahead of a man.
COOK ARRESTED
FOR MURDER OF
THOS. DOVERY
FORMER CONVICT HELD ON AN
OPEN CHARGE IN CONNEC
TION WITH MURDER
KELSO, Wn„ Oct. 6 (/P)—John W.
Smith, a cook, with three fingers
missing on the right hand, is named
as the slayer of Thomas Dovery, the
Kelso editor June 10, in a warrant
charging first degree murder, issued
by R. G. Sharpe, assistant attorney
general and special prosecutor.
W. L. Thompson, a former convict,
is held on an open charge in connec
tion with the murder. A third man,
who is unnamed, is being sought by
the authorities.
Smith has in Kelso at the time of
Dovery’s death promoting a prize
fight which Dovery bitterly opposed in
his paper.
Police say that robbery was the mo
tive of the murder as the dead man’s
pockets were turned out.
Need of Shelter Harbor
In Evidence Today’s Gale
The need of a shelter harbor for
seagoing craft was evident today, a
stiff southeaster causing the smaller
vessels to pick up their anchors and
shift around the point toward the San
Juan cold storage. The Bureau of
| Fisheries vessel, Kittiwake, steamed
out into the harbor and dropped an
chor a considerable distance off-shore.
—
CLOSED SEASON
FOR HALIBUT TO
BE CONTINUED
TWO MORE YEARS WILL BE TRIED
BY INTERNATIONAL COM
MISSION IS SAID
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 6 (£>)—*
The International Halibut Commis
sion decided yesterday to continue the
closed season from November 15 to
February 15 two more years. The
commission was informed that over
3,000 fish tagged and the earbones of
3.000 more were obtained from the
150.000 fish tagged last year. The ear
bones of the fish were returned to de
termine their age.
The first meeting of this session
was held in Seattle September 21 and
continued at various places, gather
ing reports from the workers and ex
changing communications.
Commissioner Found, director of
fisheries for Canada, said that the
commission hoped to obtain a compre
hensive report at the end of the three
years.
Taking Evidence In
Emard Case This P. M.
Yesterday afternoon at the Federal
building where the Seward term of
court is now under way, the corpora
tion consisting of the Bank of An
chorage, which was absorbed a few
months ago by the Bank of Alaska,
was dissolved.
This morning the Emard case came
up for trial, the entire time, until the
noon hour, being taken up with the ex
amination of jurors, followed by the
opening statements of the council. Evi
dence is being taken in the case this
afternoon.
This is Fire Prevention Week. How
about that chimney of yours! Have
you made a personal inspection of it?
Many of us cannot obtain credit to
live beyond our means.