Attend the Big Celebration at Seward July 4th
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
* VOLUME 20.
NUMBER 165
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
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BAPTISTS RUN UP
AGAINST MANY
RADICAL IDEAS
SEATTLE. July 2 (£>)—'The North
ern Baptist Convention is voting to
day on a resolution introduced by Dr.
W. B. Hinson of Portland, despite the
pleas of many prominent speakers for )
peace between the Fundamentalists;
and modernists so that the church
“can go about its work unitedly.”
The resolution would require mis
sionaries to believe in “the divine
creation of man in the image of God,
a plenary interpretation of the Scrip
tures in both new and old testama-1
ments, the certain deity of Christ in
volving his virgin birth, his sinless
life and sacrificial death, his bodily;
resurrection and ascension to the
right hand of God,” and to uphold the
Baptist belief as a condition of mem
bership in the church.
The resolution would direct the j
Foreign Missions Boards immediately
to recall all those even doubting any
of “the great fundamentals of our
faith aforementioned.” and replace
them with equally competent men
“whose evangelical faith an'1 fervor
cannot be questioned.”
Battle Is Raging.
' SEATTLE, July 2 (/P)—Staved off
for two days, the battle between the j
Fundamentalists and Modernists raged j
today on the floor of the Nineteenth
Annual Meeting of the Northern Bap-,
tist Convention on whether to seat
four delegates from the Park Avenue,
Baptist Church of New York City.
The Credentials Committee which
is headed by Corwin S. Shank, of Se-!
attle, recommended seating the dele-;
gates despites the protests received.;
Fundamentalists moved to reject the!
report and exclude the delegates.
President Milliken, former governor j
of Maine, ruled this motion out of or-;
der on the ground that the Park |
Church men were all financially obli
gated to co-operate with all agencies |
of the church and its schools and mis- j
sions, and could not therefore be bar- J
red without a change in the laws of
the convention. At a late hour to-;
day the debate was raging fiercely, i
BAPTISTS BATTLE
OVER PRINCIPLES
SEATTLE. July 3 (£>)—'The Mod
ernists defeated the Fundamentalists
by a vote of 912 to 364 in seating the
delegation from the Park Avenue
Church of New York City, in the an
nual Northern Baptist convention be
ing held here.
Hunchback Notre Dame
At Liberty Theater Tonite
Seward tonight and tomorrow night
will have the opportunity of seeing
the massive production which swept
into overnight fame in Newr Y'ork and
made the critics rave over its superb
acting and sublime scenic effects.
Lon Chaney, admittedly the finest
interpreter of unusual character roles,
on either stage or screen plays the
stellar part of “Quasimodo,” with Ern
est Torrence as “Clopin the under
world king.” and Patsy ’Ruth Miller
as “Esmeralda.” Seventy two other
noted performers have featured parts
while 200 players interpret smaller
roles with the mob scenes numbering
in excess of 3500 persons.
The total cost of this great produc
tion was a trifle less than $1,500,000.
This will be your only chance to
see this stupendous production in
Seward. It cost $1.50 outside. The
prices tonight will be 75 cents for
adults and 25 cents for children.
^ Attend the Liberty tonight.
/
Company Former Dredge
Claims On Kuskokwim
SEATTLE. July 2 (/P)—Frank B.
Wiestling told the Mining Club at
luncheon yesterday that a company
had been formed by him to dredge
on the Kuskokwim. He said lie had
to go toi New York to get capital, and
declared that improvement in water
transportation would insure develop
ment of mining on the Kuskokwim.
W. G. Tanner, operating a mine at
Hyder. related the difficulties of fin
| aneing a mining proposition.
BRITISH TRADE
I DROPPING OFF
| GREAT EXTENT
LONDON, July 2 (/P)—The monthly
summary of the American Chamber of
Commerce says: “ The gloomy out
look for British Industries continues
overseas, trade diminishing in May
to a large extent. May imports were
18 million pounds sterling less, and
exports five million less than for the
same month last year. The nation’s
I unemployed number 1,287,700 against
; 1,243,300 in June and 1,052,643 more
| than a year ago. Over 160,000 men
! without jobs are miners. A special
! trades union congress meets July 24
| to consider the situation,
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GLACIER, FORMER
US NAVY CRAFT
IN FISH GAME
_
FORMER REFRIGERATOR SHIP
FOR NAVY NOW CANNERY VES
SEL AT BRISTOL BAY.
The Northern Fisheries, Inc., liead
j ed by Cres P. Hale, which company
! sometime ago took over the Bristol
1 Bay Packing Company, of which Mrs. j
Kate G. Pedersen had been the pro-!
praetor and manager of since the
death of her husband, H. A. Peder
sen, has added a new vessel to its
Westward fleet, the steamer, Glacier.
During Mr. Hale’s recent trip to
Seward, while en route to his many
canneries to the Westward, he gave
the Gateway a brief outline of the
vessel.
The Glacier is a new English built
ship, and was taken over by the
American Navy from England, about
two years ago, for the sole purpose
of converting it into a refrigerator
vessel. This accomplished, the ship
was sent around the world with the
American battle fleet, remaining in
the Navy’s care until last fall when
Mr. Hale purchased it from the de
partment. Naturally it has always
received the best of care and atten
tion, being turned over to him in
an absolute first class condition. The
vessel might possibly call in at Sew
ard this fall while on its way to
San Francisco, it is stated. On the
Northbound trip, in the spring, the
trip to Nazinki, Bristol Bay, was
made in eight days, considered very
good time for the run.
Among the floating equipment the
company owns in the Bristol Bay
district is 120 gill net boats; five
power boats and tenders, and a fleet
of carriers, including the steel freight
steamer, Costa Rica, the barkentine
City of Sydney, the bark ’McLaurin,
and the barkentine Kate G. Peder
sen, the latter which is often used
for off shore charter. Mr. Hale and
other officials of the company are
expected to return to Seward on the
next arrival of the steamer Starr.
After a separation of 52 years, Mrs.
Delphit Mathieu and Mrs. Fabien For
rest, sisters, were reunited at Mon
treal.
BANDITS KILLED
BY MARSHAL IN
BANK ROBBERY
—
ROBBERS MET WITH RAIN OF
BULLETS AS STEP OUT OF
BUILDING WITH LOOT
TACOMA. July 2 (JP)—Two uniden
tified bandits were shot and killed at
Buckley. 25 miles east of here by
Marshal Ed Nelson, during an at
tempted bank robbery yesterday aft:
ernoon. The bandits entered and held
up the Buckley State Bank and were
leaving the building with S2000 when
they met the marshal who fought a
pistol duel with them.
William Rose, a cigar stand mer-1
chant was shot in the abdomen by j
a stray bullet from the bandits’ re
volvers and is in a critical condition.
T. Pagen was slightly wounded.
| One of the bandits was killed as he
| entered the waiting auto and the oth
er was fatally shot when he returned
to get the body of his dead comrade.
DRILUNGSTARTS
YAKATAGA FIELD
JUNEAU, July 2 (/P)—Max S. App,
of the production department of the
General Petroleum Corporation, ac
companied by C. M. Wagner, geolo
gist. and Frank Friedel, engineer is
here on his way to the Yakataga oil
fields to begin drilling on the Sulli
van claim of the St. Elias Develop
ment Company group. Fifteen men
and 200 tons of equipment left Seat
tle Tuesday on the Admiral Evans.
The App party will join here and
take the men and equipment to Icy
bay, where the material will be trans
ported ten miles inland to the scene
of operations. The company has also
contracted to drill a well for the Yaka
taga Oil Company at the same loca
tion.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY GETS
RARE SET OF ASTROLABES
OXFORD. Eng., July 2. (/P)—The
63 astrolabes given to the university
by Dr, Lewis Evans, brother of Sir
Arthur Evans, the archaeologist,
■when taken with those now in pos
session of the colleges, form the
most complete anti representative
series of this rare and ingenius in
strument.
The astrolaabe appears to have
been invented in the second century
before Christ by Hipparchus, who
measaured the exact length of the
year, the distance to the fixed stars,
the time of revolution and eclipse of
the moon, and invented trigonometry
and the system of locating points
on the map by latitude and longi
tude. It is a flat dial with a sight
across it and a number of hands
which can be set against the numer
icl tables around the circumference.
It use is to measure the altitude
of the sun and the stars.
The astrolabe is one of the few
scientific instruments saved from the
wreckage of Greek civilization. The
Arabs, who in their great day were
among the most enthusiastic scien
tists known until the present scien
tific developments in America and
Germany, brought the instrument to
a high standard of perfection and
used it generally for navigation.
Miss Marie McKay was voted the
prettiest telephone girl in Kansas City
in a beauty contest with 300 entries.
Miss Judith C. Waller is director of
the radio broadcasting of the Chicago
Daily News, managing the program
and radio staff.
Ruth Roach of Fort Worth, Ten., is
one of the most skillfull “cowgirls” in
the country.
Rain Interrupts Match
Between Walker-Greb
NEW YORK July 2 (/P)—Rain fall
ing this morning threatened to cause
the postponement of the Italian hos
pital fund boxing tonight at the Polo
Grounds between Walker and Greb
and Wills and Weinert.
TREASURY BUSILY
REVISING TAXES j
FOR NEXT YEAR
WASH1NGTTON. D. C.. July 2 (/P)— j
With final figures showing a surplus of j
$250,000,000 for the fiscal#year ending j
Tuesday, the Treasury department to
day began a revision of its estimates j
for receipts for the new fiscal year. !
A revamping is due practically every
item of receipts for the last year,
which exceeded expectations. Much
of the excess is due to payments in
March and June and this is taken
as an indication of the trend which
will develop. Income receipts the last
year were $1,160,000 000 which is 100
millions over the estimate. Customs
and miscellaneous receipts were unu
I sually high, totaling $3,790,000,000 and
expenditures were S3,259,643,000.
The treasury statement explains
j that the surplus is not available for
tax reduction. Since tax reduction
means a loss of revenue annually it
j is the only annual surplus to be ex
j pected in future years which is the
! margin available for tax reduction
! and should be so used.”
MINERS DEMANDS
ARE ANNOUNCED
SCRANTON, Pa., July 2 (TP)—'The
tri-district convention today adopted
the recommendation of the scale com
mittee, that in negotiations to renew
contracts expiring 31, that complete
recognition of the union be demand
ed. This will mean the re-establish
ment of the checkoff system of pay
ing union dues. The committee de
manded a ten per cent raise in ton
nage for the men and a dollar a day
advance for men not employed as min
ers.
WOUNDED MAN
DIES AT BUCKLEY
TACOMA, July 2 (TP)—William
Rose, the Buckley cigar dealer, who
was shot in the groin during the re
volver battle in front of the State
Bank, when two robbers were about
to escape with $2000, died today.
The bodies of the two bandits who
were killed by Marshal Nelson have
not as yet been identified.
Brotherhood Bank Opens
In City of Tacoma, Wash.
TACOMA, July 2 (TP)—A Brother
hood Co-operative National Bank was
opened in the Washington building,
just completed in this city, with de
posits. of $638,320 for the first day.
BASEBALL
Coast
Seattle 10, Salt Lake 8, 11 innings.
Portland 3, Sacramento 2.
San Francisco 15, Oakland 8.
Americans
Boston 8, New York 11.
Cleveland 11-1, Detroit 0-4
St. Louis 8, Chicago 6.
Nationals
Brooklyn 4, Boston 3.
Philadelphia 4-7, New York 6-16,
Chicago 6^ Pittsburgh 8.
STATES MAY BAR
EVOLUTION IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
DOCTRINES OF DARWIN OBNOX
IOUS TO DIRECTORS IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
| SEATTLE. .July 2 (/P)—Organiza
tions for the purpose of presenting
anti-evolution laws similar to those of
Tennessee for consideration by State
legislatures have been formed in
Minnesota, California and Oregon. Dr.
W. B. Ruley of Minneapolis announc
ed that he would soon organize in
Washington and present the present
anti -evolution law at a special session
next fall.
KARL THIELE
TAKES OATH
JUNEEAU, July 2 (/pj—Karl Theile
today took the oath of office at the
first Territorial Secretary of Alaska.
Theile was surveyor general and ex
officio Territorial secretary for four
years past. The office of surveyor
general was abolished Tuesday.
IMPROVEMENTS
TO NAVIGATION
ARE SLIGHTED
The Department of Commerce is
prepared to proceed with its work of
safeguarding navigation in Alaskan
waters as rapidly as funds are made
available by Congressional appropri
ations, according to a letter received
by Gov. Scott C. Bone from Assistant
Secretary J. M. Drake. The commu
nication was in response to a memo
rial passed by the Legislature recent
ly urging surveys and erection of nav
igation aids in the waters of South
western Alaska.
Mr. Drake pointed out the activi
ties of the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey and Lighthouse Service in all the
waters of Alaska during the past few
years and particularly in the section
covered by the memorial.
“The condition of navigation due
to fog and storm and long darkness
for half of the year, to the consider
able amount of precipitous and rocky
coast line, the range of tide with its
strong currents and great depths, the
infrequent convenient landings, are
fully appreciated by the Department
of Commerce and warrant as much aid
being given mariners in the way of
more and improved sea marks as the
ship traffic and the resources of the
country justify,” wrote Mr. Drake.
During the last fiscal year, he added
the Department spend $365,718 in the
construction of new light and fog sig
nals. Work is in progress on a new
station at Cape Spencer and the De
partment is desirous of installing au
tomatic aids at Cape Decision and
Resurrection Bay.
Since 1922 much work has been
done in western and southwestern
waters including Kachemak Bay and
Cook Inlet and surveys made in Wide
and Portage Bays. Shelikof Strait
and Chignik Bay. Topographic sur
veys have been made of 648 miles of
the shoreline^ greater than the length
of the outside coast line from San Di
ego to San Francisco Bay; over 7,000
miles of sounding lines have been ac
complished which is greater by 1000
miles than twice the distance between
New York and San Francisco; more
than 80,000 soundings have been tak
en and a water area of 1800 square
miles has been surveyed, he said.
In conclusion Mr. Drake assured
the governor that there would be no
let up of the Department’s work and
vessels would be kept in the field as
long as possible.