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VOLUME 19. NUMBER 279
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
CANADA WILL
REVISE TREATY
TO STOP BOOZE
One Hundred British Col
umbians Engaged in
Liquor Running
BRITAIN BANS BOOZE
■No Further Shipments Will Be Per
mitted to Leave Vancouver
for Any Port
VANCOUVER, B. C.. Nov. 28—Re
vision of the treaty between the 1 ni
ted States and Canada, designed to
regulate liquor smuggling and ’he
promiscuous flow of liquor between
Canada and this country will be re
quested by Washington, as an out
come of the upheaval at San Fran
cisco last week, involving 100 Brit
ish Columbia and Vancouver men of
prominence, alleged to be Pacific
coast rum runners. It is announced
here that representations will be
made through ambassadorial chan
nels early in the new year for such
sweeping regulations that no further
cargoes of liquor will be able to leave
Vancouver or any other British Col
iumbia or Atlantic port, ostensibly for
South America, but actually for the
cities in the United States.
It is understood that Canada will be
found in a receptive mood over any
regulations concerning liquor.
Father-in-Law Refuses •
Further Aid Bankrupt
SEATTLE, Nov. 28.—Moritz Thom
sen, fatherinlaw of James MacFar
lane, upon whom the creditors of the
defunct brokerage firm of MacFar
iane looked as the savior *of their
claims against the firms, gave scant
solace this afternoon to a committee
which waited upon him to find out
what he would do toward liquidating
.Its soninlaw’s debts. He said: “Only
two years ago I paid a quarter of a
million for another failure, and I do
not think this failure is a family af
fair; or at least do not think it so
strongly as to pay out good money
to liquidate bad debts. Let him pay
his own way.”
WEALTHY NEW YORKER
WOULD DIVORCE BRIDE
WHITE PLAINS, Nov. 28—Leon
ard K. Rhinelander, a scion of one of
f'.'ew York’s oldest and wealthiest
families, whose marriage to Alice
Jones, daughter of a negro driver of
a New Rechester taxicab company,
shocked New York society a month
ago, has filed suit in the Westches
ter county clerk’s office for annul
ment of the marriage decree, charg
ing fraud. He maintains in his com
plaint that his bride deceived him as
to her lineage, and had denied that
£be had any negro blood in her veins.
Rhinelander's parents and friends
have been importuning him to leave
his young bride, and their pleas have
been successful.
LOCAL NEWS
Mrs. Brice Howard, wife of the An
chorage agent of the Admiral Line
left on the Admiral Watson for the
States, and will be joined later bj
her husband, when they will tour
Washington, Oregon and California,
may extend their trip to Mexico
They plan on being away about three
months.
Arthur Prickett, a resident of Hope,
. arrived on Saturday’s train and will
leave on one of the next boats for
Virginia and the east. Mr. Prickett
states that about 40 or 50 men are
wintering in Hope, and that the camp
is busy with tie-cutters and prospec
tors. He also stated that but two
^.nen are left in Sunrise.
The dance Saturday night will be
a good one. Manager Joe Burns has
engaged some excellent music and
a good time is expected.
The electric siren has been install
ed on the fire hall and Fire Chief
Lanning announces that it will hence
forth be blown only in case of fire.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Wagner of Sel
dovia, are rejoicing over the arrival
of a ten pound boy, born November
12. Mr. Wagner recently went to
Seldovia from Anchorage.
UNITED STATES AND AUSTRIA
ENTER INTO AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—The
United States and Hungary entered
into a tri-parte agreement providing
| commission to settle the claims aris
| ing out ot the world war.
BONE AND SUTHERLAND
CONFER OVER ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—Governor
Scott C. Bone and Delegate Dan A.
Sutherland are holding a conference
today, on a tentative legislative pro
gram for the forthcoming congress,
and especially to request the exten
sion of the provisions of the nigh
! way act, with certain modifications,
! to Alaska.
Discussing the outlook for Alaska,
the governor said: “Alaska in the
next four or five years will progress
j tremendously.”
IMPORTANT LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28.—
A program of important legislation,
which will consume the time until
at Christmas was agreed upon by
the Senate leaders today. It will
follow thenywith the disposal of the
Muscle Shoal’s action upon Presi
dent Coolidge’s veto; a salary in
crease for postal employes; the rati
fication or rejection of the Isle of
Pines Treaty, and the passage of a
$175,000,000 deficiency appropriation
bill.
HANGS HIMSELF
FROM BELL CORD
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Nov. 28.
! —W. G. Hollingsworth, 25 years of
! age, was found hanging fro a bell
i cord in the washroom of a westbound
j train, prior to reaching Smithers on
j Sunday.
Hollingsworth boarded the train at
j Jasper, at which place he had recent
| ly arrived rom the mining camp of
| Trail.
MR. AND MRS CHAPLIN HOME
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 28.—
Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey, his
| 19-year-old bride, came home today.
FAIRBANKS MAN COMMITS
SUICIDE BY SHOOTING
Friday, November 21, Oscar Wack
! witz, 29, a resident of Alaska for a
| number of years, barred the door of
; his cabin, wrote a letter, and picking
t up his .30 government rifle fired the
shot which ended his life’s troubles.
| Financial worry is said to have been
the cause. Wackwitz lived with three
brothers and had considerable prop
erty on Cleary creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Southworth ar
rived from Anchorage on Wednes
day’s train and spent Thanksgiving
with Mr. and Mrs. Andy Novak. Mr.
Southworth is an old timer in the
Territory, and formerly ran the Ne
nana News. At the present time he
is editor and proprietor of the An
chorage Daily Alaskan.
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HEAVY GALE YESTERDAY
A heavy southwest gale yesterday
caused terrifiic swells and an unu
sually high tide in the bay. The tide
came up three feet over the Kenai
road and the road to'the radio sta
tion washing out bridges. Mr. and
Mrs. G. C. Henderson were compell
ed to move from their home near the
San Juan wharf, and much damage
was done to the local wharf, the Stan
dard oil dock, and the San Juan dock.
I A quantity of ties piled on the beach
| were scattered over the bay.
GENAL HOST OF BELMONT
ENTERTAINS HIS GUESTS
The guests of the Belmont met
I with a pleasant surprise last evening
| when at 6 o’clock the doors of the
dining room were thrown open and
I the guests of the house invited to an
elaborate Thanksgiving spread of
roast turkey and all the fixings, in
cluding fruits, candies, cigars, etc.
Joe Hofman, proprietor, was the
toastmaster and gave his guests a
short talk on the festivities of the
day. Thd guests were: Harry Lyons,
Ed Miller, B. Renoult, R. Dickinson,
M. A. Hunt, Wm. Peterson, Bob Dal
lerson, R. Pohlson and J. Johnson.
After dinner a pleasant hour was
spent with cigars and stories by the
guests assembled.
It was a very enjoyable evening and
the guests departed with the wish
that there were many more hosts
like Mr. Hofman.
EGYPT AFLAME
WITH REVOLT
AG AINST BRITON
Two Platoons Sudanese at
Khartum Fire on Hos
nital Killing Three
BRITAIN BREAKS FAITH
English Writer Claims Action of En
gland Sounds Death Knell of
League of Nations
CAIRO, Nov. 28.—Two platoons of
Eleventh Sudanese at Khartum mu
tinied today and attacked the mili
tary hospital, killing ope British and
two Syrian doctors. British troops
fired on the mutineers, who suffered
severe casualties. It is known that
a certain restlessness existed in the
Eleventh battalion last August. All
Egypt is said to flame ;yvith unrest
and revolt against British rule.
A big meeting of students of the
A1 Azhar university is called for to
| day.
League Takes Up Question
GENEVA, Nov. 28.—The League of
Egyptian parliament’s protest against
Great Britain’s actions in the seiz
ure of the Alexandria and Cairo cus
toms houses will be brought to the
attention of the League of Nations,
which meets in Rome early in Decem
ber.
The newspaper, Journal de Geneva,
characterizes the British ultimatum
to Egypt as brutal and against the
principles of the League of Nations.
“It is perhaps, only a coincidence,”
1 says the newspaper, “that the nation
which took the lead in establishing
a league of nations should be the
first to refuse to obey its mandates.”
—
Says Britain Betrays Trust
LONDON, Nov. 2S.—George Ber
nard Shaw, the noted English writer,
last night declared that Britain had
' absolutely destroyed the League of
j Nations in declining to refer the
j Egyptian trouble to the League, and
he said the British government was
: terribly exercised over the murder of
! Sirdar Stuck, while it viewed with
| small concern the murder of Sir Hen
! ry Wilson in the streets of London,
| and the attack on Pussyfoot Johnson,
in which he lost an eye.
Secretary to Minister Arrested
i CAIRO, Nov. 28-—British military
authorities today arrested T. Enrashy
Be\% secretary to the minister of the
I Interior, ahd Abdul Rahman Faheny,
one of former Premier Zagoloul’s
I closest political assistants, together
with a prominent member of the Na
tionalist delegation who visited Lon
don with the former premier.
—
Egyptian Cabinet Resigns
LONDON, Nov. 28.—Three mem
bers of the new Egyptian cabinet have
resigned following the arrest this
morning of four anti-British sympa
thizers, says a dispatch from Cairo.
Minister of Interior Arrested
LONDON, Nov. 28.—Bakarat Pa
sha, minister of the Interior in Za
gloul Pasha’s cabinet has been arrest
ed by British authorities, according
to an Exchange telegraph dispatch
from Cairo, which also asserts that
Egyptian Nationalists have arranged
to make a desperate attempt on the
life of Viscount Allenby, British high
commander.
STANDARD STRIKES
GAS; DRILLERS HOPE
OIL IN SHORT PERIOD
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 28.—
Mrs. Claude Shea received a radio
message from her husband Satur
day afternoon from Kanatak stating
that the Standard Oil company were
down to 3,100 feet on their Pearl
Dome oil claim in the Cold Bay re
gion, and that at that distance gas
had been struck. The message also
said that the drillers wrere confi
dent oil would be struck in a very
short while.
The radio message was received by
Mrs. Shea at 1:35 Saturday after
noon.
Mel Horner left yeste/lay for low
er Kenai to be gone a week.
Eric Nelson, who has a large tie
contract at Indian, was a Seward
visitor yesterday.
PRESIDENT AND LADY
OF UNITED STATES
HAVE TURKEY FEAST
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28.—
Mrs. Coolidge and the President
led the nation yesterday in the ob
servance of Thanksgiving in the
good old New England fashion by
going to church in the morning af
ter which they enjoyed an old-fash
ioned turkey dinner. The remainder
of the day was spent quietly at the
home. The presence of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank W. Stearns as guests of the
White House constituted their pro
gram for the day. •
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO
ITS BANK DEPOSITORS
SEATTLE, Wn„ Nov. 28.—One mil
lion dollars will be distributed to the
depositors of the defunct Scandina
vian-American Bank within the next
two weeks as a result of the State
Supreme court decision case, involv
ing shipbuilding contracts for a Nor
wegian firm.
GOV’T EMPLOYES WHO
BUY BOOTLEG BOOZE
SHOULD BE LET OUT
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov, 28.—
A resolution declaring the law en
forcement situation demands serious
consideration of all three branches
of fhe government was presented to
President Coolidge by the anti-Saloon
League of America. The resoluti^i
protests the continued employment
of those government employes who
are violatnig the law by purchasing
liquor from bootleggers.
MEN DON’T HAVE TO
WEAR RING; MAY MAR
POSSIBLE FLIRTATIONS
LONDON, Nov. 28.—The church of
the English House of Clergy has re
jected a proposal requiring men as
well as women to wear wedding
rings.
AGED WOMAN BURNED
IN PREPARING DINNER
TACOMA, Wn„ Nov. 28.—Mrs. El
len Teffre, seventy, was burned to
death today preparing a Thanks
giving dinner for herself and her
bedridden husband.
ANCHORAGE HIGH BOYS
BEAT SEWARD TEAM
The Anchorage High School bas
ketball quintette who arrived on Wed
nesday night’s train, defeated the
Seward team in a hotly contested
game in A. B. hall yesterday after
noon, the score being 23 to 28. The
Anchorage boys, by superior team
work, piled up 16 points in the first
half, to Sew'ard’s 10, and were never
headed, altho the Seward boys were
playing stronger every minute of the
last half and had the game gone on
another few minutes would have un
doubtedly tied the score or perhaps
won the game.
The game was marked by fine
teamwork by both sides, and even
point was hotly contested. The line
up for the Anchorage team was Clark
Anderson and Mert Elliott, as for
wards; Bill Gill center; Nieme and
Sam Moyer guards, and Bernard
Young and Hal Noggle subs. Prof.
Olsan rccompanies the team as coach
and scorekeeper.
The Seward line-up was: Forwards,
Stump and H. Selby; center, Nip
Johnson, guards, Kennedy, Tinkler,
Logan and Thomas Selby.
The Seward team will be changed
in tonight’s line-up, Harry and Thos.
Selby playing forwrards; Johnson cen
ter, and Stump and Tinkler guards.
Subs, Shellhorn, Logan and Kennedy.
The girls’ game was hotly contest
ed, the Reds winning from the
Whites by a score q£ 12 to 10. The
girls have improved greatly in their
playing and will make a strong team
before the winter ends. They will
play again Saturday night.
Tonight’s game will be called at
8 o’clock sharp, and will be a hotly
contested one.
MESSAGE BE DELIVERED
CONGRESS ON WEDNESDAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28.—
President Coolidge’s* message to con
gress ■yvill be read on Wednesday, it
was agreed at a conference with the
President and House leaders.
YUKON LEAVES CORDOVA
The steamer Yukon of the Alaska
Steamship Company left Cordova this
morning at 11:30 o’clock for Valdez.
REDONDO NEARING SEWARD
The Redondo is scheduled to ar
rive late tonight or early morning
from the Westward. «
MRS. HARDING LEAVES
BULK OF HER ESTATE
TO GRANDCHILDREN
MARION, Ohio, Nov. 28.—To Jean
nie and George De Wolfe, the grand
children of the late Mrs. Harding are
left the bulk of her estate under her
will, which was filed for probate
here today.
The will makes special bequests ag
gregating $56,000 to friends and rela
tives and leaves the residue to the
grandchildren, who live here.
Mrs. Harding’s estate is estimated
at approximately one half million
dollars.
JAP CAUGHT IN DRY
NET CLAIMS HE WAS
“WORKING FOR GOD”
HONOLULU, Nov. 28.—Protest that I
he was a Buddhist priest did not |
save Takumatsu Wakamia from be-;
ing arrested for violation of the fed
eral prohibition law.
The Japanese was caught in the dry
net by prohibition officers in one of
the largest liquor seizures in months.
More than 600 gallons of mash and
forty-seven gallons of finished liquor;
were confiscated.
The Japanese . appeared excited
when found by the officers.
“Me hanahana Akua,’’ he cried pro
ducing a string of beads. “I work
for God.’’ •
“All right, tell it to fhe judge,”
was the' answer.
ANOTHER DENTIST
COMES TO TOWN
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
Dr O. A. Braafladt, a graduate
of the Chicago College of Dental
Surgery, and who has been located
at Seward for the past three years,
has moved to Fairbanks and brought
his wife and child with him, to
stay with the country.
His offices, which are open for
business today, are over McIntosh
and Kubon’s drug store.
SELLS BOOZE INSIDE FISH *
SAN PEDRO, Calif., A San Pedro
fisherman selling stale dog-fish, a spe
cies of shark not especially tasty,
at $5 each aroused the curiosity of
George Contreas, country dry official.
Purchasing one, Contreas split it op
en and pulled out a quart of alleged
Scotch whiskey.
STAINS PROBABLY
RABBIT BLOOD SAYS
PASTOR SHEATSLY
COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 28.—Rev.
Shetsly stated this morning that the
blood stains found in his parsonage
were “probably rabbit blood,” he hav
ing killed several while hunting last
Saturday.
ASPHYXIATED BY GAS
FROM AUTO ENGINE
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 28.—Charles
G. Root, livestock president of the
Traders Exchange was found dead in
his garage. Doctors said that death
was due to carbon monoxide gas,
passing from the engine of his car.
CORNEL DEFEATED
BY PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 28.—
Pennsylvania defeated Cornell by a
score of 20-0 in their annual Thanks
giving football contest which was
staged in this city yesterday.
WITNESS TELLS
OF KILLING OF
CREW BERYL G
Cant. Gillis, His Wife and
Son Murdered by Hi
jackers for Cargo
KILLED WHILE ASLEEP
Bodies Weighted With Anchor and
Cast Into Waters Puget Sound—
Reward for Murderers
SEATTLE, Nov. 28.—It now trans
pires that Capt. Gillis, his wife and
17-year-old son William, owners and
crew of the rum schooner Beryl G.,
were killed while they slept and the
vessel rifled of its valuable cargo by
hi-jackers, according to information
received by the sheriff’s office from
police circles in Canada. Without a
chance to fight for their lives, the
father was shot to death and the wo
man and boy killed by blows from
pistol barrels in the hands of the
desperate pirates.
It is alleged by a witness to the af
fair that after the murders the bod
ies were shackled together and after
being weighted by the Beryl’s anchor
were cast overboard off Sidney isl
and.
Application has been made by Can
adian authorities for the extradition
to Canada of Morris and Crager
Cheatwood, accused of having been
accessories in the murders.
VICTORIA, Nov. 28.—The British
Columbia government this morning
offered a reward of $2,000 each for
information leading to the arrest and
conviction of “One Hundred per Cent”
Barker and Harry F. Howash, wanted
by the provincial police in connection
with the murder of Capt. W. G. Gil
iis and his son William, on the gas
boat Beryl G.
PERMITS ISSUED FOR
THE MANUFACTURE
OF GRAPE JUICE
FRESNO, Calif., Nov. 28.—Despite
the fact that the treasury department
has issued permits for the manufac
ture of grape juice to indivduals of
the state of California, the govern
ment will prosecute anyone found
with juice which has over one-half of
one per cent, alcohol at the time of
seizure. Federal Judge McCormick
made the announcement here this
morning.
ACCIDENTALLY KILLS
SELF WHILE ATTEMPT
KILL HOLIDAY GOOSE
CHICO, Nov. 28.—When Leroy
Scott, a leading citizen of this town
yesterday morning struck at the
head of a goose with the butt end of
his gun and killed himself by the
discharge of the weapon.
Prince Got That 'Once in a
Lifetime Thill’ While On
Vacation In United States
LONDON, Nov. 28.—Addressing
American society at a Thanksgiving
dinner last night, the Prince ot
Wales declraed that his recent visit
to the United States was a “thrill
than can come only once in a life
time.”
RECOMMENDATIONS ARE
HANDED IN FROM THE
DEPT. OF COMMERCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28.—
Recommendations for legislation for
reorganization to the Commerce de
partment for the control and devel
opment of radio and aircraft and
also for a revision of the navigation
laws was submitted to the President
today by Secretary Hoover in his
annual report.
Exports on American goods in
creased 9 per cent over the previous
year, while imports decreased six
per cent.
America’s favorable trade balance,
because of these changes, increased
from $175,000,000 in 1922-23 to $757,
000,000 in 1923-24.