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VOLUME XIX NUMBER 53
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
DESTROYERS WILL
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3.—In con
nection with laying the new Alaska
cable, the destroyers Hull and Corry
will take sounding in April every four
miles from Seattle to Seward, Alaska.
It is expected that the route of the
new cable will take it far from the !
halibut fishing banks, where it is oft- j
en broken by boats catching their an
il chors in the cable.
WOMEN SAY COMPETITIVE
RIFLE SHOOTING IS WRONG
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 3.—Acting j
on the theory that women should not
engage in competitive rifle shooting
matches while the men folks are stri
ving to bring about peace through dis
armament and otherwise, the girls of
Pomona college, California, have call
ed off their shooting match with the
Montana girls, it was announced to
day by the headquarters of the Ninth
corps area. The shoot was to have
been sponsored by the war depart
ment.
“The women of Pomona feel that in
receiving arms and ammunition free
from the government we are sanction
ing armament.” said Miss Lucy Stoles
bury, the Pomona rifle manager. “We
see no connection between the arma
ment program and the use of arms by
women,” Miss Mohrman, another rifle
shot replied. “Men will not use guns
to less even if women give them up.’
Admission in the future of Indian
children from Alaska to the Che
mawa Indian School at Salem ,Ore.,
will not be permissable under a de
cision recently made by the U. S.
Indian Field Service, of the Depart
ment of the Interior, according to an
announcement recently made by Har
wood Hall, Superintendent of the
school. Alska students now in the
school, however, will be allowed to
complete Mmir courses if they so
desre, it was stated.
Under date of February 6, last,
Mr. Hall issued a letter outlining the
new policy as follows:
"I regret to bo compelled to ad
vise that the Commission of Indian
Affairs, Washington, D. C., has i»
sued direction to me to the effect
that the future policy of the Bureau
ot Indian Affairs in the matter of en
rollment of Alaskan pupils at the
school io "s follows, contained in
a letter dated Washington, D. C. of
January 31, 1024, viz.:
“ 'Tne matfei of tho enrollment
of Alaskan pupils al Sa.em has re
ceived careful consideration by the
office with a view to the formula
tion of a definite future policy re
grding this disputed question.
“ ‘As a result it has been definite
ly decided that, while no obstacle is
to be placed in the way of those who
being already enrolled, are desirous
of completing their course, no fu
ture enrollment of these pupils will
be permitted.
terval elapsing between the present
time and the opening of school next
year, it would be well to give all
possible publicity to this decision of
the office in order that such pupils
as may have had the intention of
seeking enrollment at Salem during
the approaching school year may be
given the opportunity to make other
arrangements.’
“You will understand that all Al
askan pupils now in attendance at
this school may remain until they
complete their course, but I cannot
enroll any new pupils.’ ?
FOR SALE—Ford light deliveery car
in good running order; price $100;
Seward Express. tf
WANTED—Work of any kind; ap-ply
to Jack Williams, Seward Hotel. 2
Stiff fibre plates pressed together
with thumb screws form a new de
vice for smoothing wrinkles from
neckties and holding jewelry.
THEATRE PATRONS LAUGHS
HIMSELF INTO ETERNITY
READING, Pa. Mar. 3.—A hearty
laugh resulted in the death of Emmet
Crowell, 64, in a theatre here last
night. With a neighbor Crowell was
enjoying a comedy and laughed up
roarously. Suddenly he slumped down
in his seat and was dead before med
ical attention could reach him.
BILL REPBHTEO li
WASHINGTON. Mar. 3.—The in
sular committee cf the House today
decided to report a bill providing for
Philippine independence. .
WYOMING RANCHER AWAKE
TO BEAUTIES OF HIS HOME
CHICAGO, Mar. 3.—Not until the '
picture of his products stood before!
him on canvas in all the color of its j
native surroundings, was a veteran !
cowman and rancher of Wyoming brot
to appreciate the beauty of the home
and soil which nursed his industry.
For years this rancher has come to 1
Chicago, usually with carloads of cat
tle for market. The stock yards he un
derstood, but not the large buildings
on Michigan avenue guarded by huge
bronze lions. He learned it was the
Chicago Art studio, and it being a
ree day with time hanging heavily on
him, he entered. How he came upon a
painting of a cow and was amazed to
find a wonderful likeness. It touched
ground upon which he was familiar,
and he inquired for the galleries hav
[ ing the paintings of ranch and farm,
I themes ,
When this rancher went back home
he began to perceive interesting
.hings about him that he had never
noticed before. There was color in
everything. The alfalfa patch of blue
green, the golden yellow of the straw
stubbles, the tender green of the oats,
t,’ne shifting light of cloud shadows on
the meadows the bristling coats of his
animals all began to reveal their
beauty to him. Most of his idle time in
Chicako is now spent in the Institute’s
atmosphere.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3.—Constitu- j
ti. nal amendments would be voted on j
Ivy the electorate of the States in
I .vend of the legislators under the
amendment to the constitution approv
ed today by the Senate Judiciary corn- j
mien sends
MESSAGE TO COOLIDGE
1*11 MI, M.V. —Attorney General
P ' .. , erty will send a message lo
IV." i’ent Cook Ige •«»'* this a'tevno n
“*v iimay bf> •> i-.tVred important,”
he -sr •' I today.
LONDON, Mar. 3.—Premier Mc
Donald in a letter to Premier Poin
care says the people of England are
depressed and regard with anxiety
what appears to be the determination
of France to ruin Germany and domi
nate the continent.
Its dates changed by turning its
handle, a rubber stamp has been pat
ented with inking pad to be carried
in the pocket.
London, which now obtains about
500,000 kilowatts of elecricity from
electricity from a number of sources
is planning a larger central station.
Dance Saturday night.
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UNCLE SAM’S FLOATI NG AIRPLANE FIELD
U. S. S. Langley, only airship in the Navy. The Langley is not a
beauty, but she is the last word in naval efficiency with storage for a score
planes, elevators to take them up t o the landing deck, windbreaks to pro
tect them when they are there, wireless aerials that jut upward, obliquely
from the side instead of fi’om the deck and slow motion movie cameras
to record the flights and check up on errors.
STATE WAGES ABE HIGH
Skilled Labor in Lumber Industry Is
Best Paid in the World
OLYMPIA, Mar. 3.—Skilled labor
in the lumber mills of Oregon and
Washington receive the highest aver
age hourly ;oay of any such workmen
in the world according to figures re
ceived in the state department of la
bor ai d industries from the United
States bureau of labor statistics.
The average full time hours a week
for head sawyers ranged from 48 in
Oregon to 61.4 in South Carolina. The
average was 57 hours. The average j
earnings for this occupation ranged J
from 64.9 cents in Kentucky to $1,15 ;
in Washington and Oregon. Florida
was the only state east of the Missis
sippi where sawyers averaged over $1
an horn. The average earnings for all
states was 88.3 cents.
Head sawyers in Kentucky received
but $37.71 per week the lowest in
the ration. In Washington they re
ceived $55.39 or $6.10 less than paid j
in Tlorida. Ths average for the 17 J
S. was $50.33.
FORD PRESIDENT CONFIDENT
1924 IS BANNER YEAR
Even though 1923 exceeded all ourj
expectations, there is every reason |
to believe that in 1924 business will
attain to far greater proportions.
More people will buy automobiles
during the coming year than ever be
fore. Evidence of our belief in this is
the extensive expansion program we
are now carrying out and which is
aimed to effect new manufacturing
economies and materially increase
production. So in the new year we
will produce more cars and trucks
and confidently expect to sell more of
them both in the domestic and for- i
eign fields.
There was a time when figures con
jured up by statisticians to show sales
possibilities, replacement require
ments and such were guide posts in
the industry, and when much time
was devoted to discussing sales res
istance. These to a great extent have
all served their purpose. They were
a part of the educational campaign
necessary not only to salesmen but
to the public. They are passing out
just as the phantom of saturation has
disappeared from the automobile hori
zon.
Today America is completely “sold”
on the automobile.
Women are a greater influence in
the automobile buying field than ever
before and the coming year will see
this influence considerably extended.
It will be expressed particularly in the
closed car sales, for it is natural for
a woman to turn to this more comfor
table means of motoring.
Women, you know, through their
guardianship of the family purse, have
become remarkably good judges of
values and their knowledge in this re
spect now' extends as much to auto
mobiles as to anything else.
While a wealthy woman may be a
ble to afford a finer car than one of
moderate means, each will exercise
the same careful scrutiny of value
w'hen she comes to make selection.
It follows, therefore, that the man
ufacturer who gives the greatest val
ue for the lowest investment must
certainly enjoy the greatest share of
thebusiness. And to maintain this
business he must continually incorpo
rate better quality into his product for
the public is motor-wise and transpor
tation value is going to count most
this year.
The Seward Serenaders will give
a dance Saturday night.
state is mam
One Automobile for Every Four 45-100
Persons in Washington
OLYMPIA, Wn., Mar. 3—Wash
ington is a prosperous state despite
the high taxes. The steady increase
in the number of autos in the past 13
years prove it, L. D. McArdle, direc
tor of the department of efficiency de
clares. In 1909 there was 1 car to
every 215 persons in the state. In
1923 there was 1 car to every 4.45
persons in the State.
It is estimated that more than 315
000 autos and trucks are in use in the
State,
WOMAN USES CATSUP
BOTTLE ON MAN WHO
KICKS ABOUT BEEFSTEAK
MT. VERNON, Wn., Mar. 3.—Al
fred Hallings of Big Lake went into
the Sinnett Cafe Saturday night and
oidered a beefsteak. When he was
served and his knife slid over the
portion served him he became angry,
threw his knife and fork on the floor,
and followed it with the steak, which
he claimed was fit only for a door
mat. Mrs. Stinnett grabbed a catsup
bottle and crowned Hallings, who as
soon as he recovered from his injury
will face a fine for drunkenness. He
says no more females will mix in his
gustatory feats.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3.—The Sen
ate late Saturday adopted the Wheel
er resolution ordering an investiga
tion of the official acts of Attorney
General Daugherty, which will be
made by a committee of five, headed
by Senator Smith W. Brookhart, Re
publican, of Iowa.
Work Out Plan Procedure
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3.—Members
of the Daugherty investigating com
mittee devoted their time today to
working out a plan of procedure for
the proposed inquiry.
OTENTICITY 8F
TELEGRAMS SENT
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3.—The Tea
pot Dome Committee is endeavoring
to establish the authenticity of tele
grams purporting to have been order
ed sent by Wm. J. Burns, head of the
secret service, charged with tipping
off the fact to McLean that the De
partment of Justice was investigating
his connection with the oil leases.
In this connection Senator Caraway
charged that Attorney General Daugh
erty turned over the secret code of
the Department of Justice so that
criminals in Florida might communi
cate with criminals in the Department
of Justice.
An Australian inventor has com
bined a rotary cultivator with a trac
tor in such a way that the tractor can
be used alone for other purposes.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
APANESE FARMERS TOLD
THEY MUST QUIT BUSINESS
BRAWLEY, Cal., Mar. 3.—No new
ilanting will be tolerated 17 Japanese
armers summoned before the district
ittorney were told here today after
•omplaints had been made that the
Orientals were preparing harvested
ettuce ground for cantaloupes in vio
lation of the recently passed alien land
aw. The Japanese pleaded that they ,
ae allowed to plant until their ground ,
leases expired, but were told they (
would not be allowed to do so. Many |
Orientals claim they will be bankrupt
if forced to pay the leases and not be
allowed to raise crops.
YEAR
PAINTED K, G, SHEIK
KANSAS CITY, Ma. 3—Sheiks who
spend their time in penciling their
eyebrows and rouging their cheeks,
(they really do it) are “vags.”
Municipal Judge M. P. Kilroy, in
the Karsas City North Side Court, so
held when Lee Ledford was brought be
fore him and relieved of a bottle of
brillian*ine for the eyelashes and a
jar of almond cream rouge.
The judge’s opinion of the conduct
of the man is that any male who
spends his time in glossing his side
burns and rouging his cheeks to ac
quire false masculine pulchritude is
none other than a vagrant and meted
out to Ledford a fine of $500. This !
means a year in jail for the sheik who i
'was unable to pay the fine.
"No man can have time to use cos
metics and hold down a job too,” the |
good judge said in making his decree.
Ledford was arrested oh the street
by Sergeant Nat Aldridge, who no-;
ticed the former rolling his sheikish '
eyes and attempting to open conversa
tion with girls passing by on the side
walk.
Explaining to the judge, Ledford
said he had been reading about
ho v the girls were raving about mov
ie heroes and sheiks who use paint.
"I’d been having hard luck with the
girls, so 1 thought I’d try a little doll
ing* up,” Ledford said to the judge,
“And you'd be really surprised how
thf y fall,” he added smilingly*.
The smile rnded a moment later
when the sheik was adjudged a vag.
RAINY WALK WITH PRESIDENT
Two distinguished Chicagoans went
to Washington to see the President.
They had dinner with him, and were
invited to remain over the night and
take a walk with the President in the
morning. That was, of course, equiva
lent to a royal command. So they turn
ed out at an early hour for the walk.
Unfortunately, it was raining—not in
a gentle shower, but a Washington
winter rain. The President had a rain
coat. So did one of the distinguished
Chicagoans. But the other had none
with him; nor was any umbrella forth
coming. Nevertheless, he set forth. He
got wet, and he got wetter; but he
stuck it out. Neither his overcoat nor
his suit will ever be again what they
were, but he stuck it out. Since their
return the undrenched Chicagoan had
indicated no intention of not stringing
with Coolidge for the nomination. But
the interest of the other is reported a
little damp.
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SCUTARIA, Alabania, Mar. 3.—A
student fired six shots at Premier Zo
gul of Alabania today as he as en
tering the assembly hall, wounding
him in the right arm and left foot.
CHICAGO, Mar. 3.—Charles W.
Forbes, late director of the Veterans
Bureau, who was indicted here Satur
day, intends to confess to stealing
funds and will implicate several mem
bers of Congress.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 3.—The
Democratic State Central Committee
today dropped Edward L. Doheny as
a member and endorsed the candidacy
of Wm. G. McAdoo.
CHICAGO, Mar. 3.—A secret code
ised by contractors’ agents in commu
licating with foi-mer Director Forbes
>f the veterans bureau was to be
)rought to the attention of the federal
»rand jury when it closed its investi
gations last week.
Merle L. Sweet, private secretary to
Forbes during the latter’s term in the
rureau was expected to follow his wife
)n the witness stand to tell of the code
and its method of operation. Mrs.
Sweet who was examined for several
hours Friday was excused after furn
ishing damaging testimony.
According to Elias H. Mortimer who
acted as Washington agent for several
construction firms in negotiations with
veterans’ bureau contracts he was fur
nished a copy of a secret code by Mr.
Forbes in June, 1922, when he was ne
gotiating with Forbes and staff for hos
pital contracts. Mortimer’s testimony
was given before the senate commit
tee which spent nine months investi
gating the administration of Forbes.
SIGNAL CORPS MAN WILL
VISIT IN OLD COUNTRY
Mr. J. S. M. Quist, formerly of Val
dez, but now statione I at Sitka, will
join the cablcship Deilwocd on her
second voyage to London, where she is
scheduled to arrive about July 1, as
assistant to Cable Electrician Bruck.
Mr. Quist will improve the opportun
ity ,while the boat is engaged in lead
ing cable in London, io visit with
friends and relatives in Norway.
NEW YORK, Mar. 3.—The robes of
a heroine have been stripped from
the shoulders of Ada Blackjack, Eski
mo woman. vt
From the Arctic a few months ago
came a romantic story of three white
men who died on Wrangell Island, and
the devotion of the survivor, an Eski
mo woman, named Ada Blackjack, who
was alleged to have succored them.
Noice tells a different story now.
Ada Blackjack, he says, is not the he
roine he first believed, but rather she
played a role of selfishness and the
rude dairy kept by the Eskimo woman
recently deciphered by Noice shows
that Ada refused to aid E. Lome
Knight, a leader of the ;party, as he
lay dying and saved her own life on
food that would have saved Knight.
Since the chief need was warm cloth
ing the woman was taken with the
party to make fur garments. But the
woman, whose husband had died, was
determined to marry one of the white
men.
At first there were plenty of polar
bears but the second winter brought
famine. Knight and Crawford start
ed a dash toward Siberia only to en
counter bitter weather and were forc
ed to turn back. A short time later
Crawford, Galle and Maurer made an
other attempt to reach Siberia and
were never heard of again.
Knight lay in his tent atmost whol
ly dependent on the Eskimo woman
for his food. Entries in his daily
told of the woman refusing to visit
the traps which were set near the tent
and of her washing her hair and mak
ing bread fov herself when Knight
asked her to hunt for game.
Fer own dairy tol l of Knight ask
ing her to visit the trips, “/ said
nothing because l had nothing to say
t-> him,” the woman w”ote.
When the rescue party reached the
island Knight’s emaciated body was
found in his tent. hTe woman was
fat and well fed
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Mar. 3.—
A hundred officers of the army air
service hopped into overalls at four
o’clock this morning building a club
house to accommodate the round the
■world fliers who are expected to take
the air for Seattle and Alaska on the
round the world flight March 16.
FOR RENT—Furnished apartments;
Apply Mrs, Jennie Paulson. tf