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VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 142.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
RADICALS THREATEN
BLOW UP MORGUE
CONTAINING BODIES
THREAT IS RESULT OF SAILORS
WRECKING RADICAL HALL
SATURDAY NIGHT
SAN PEDRO, June 17—Threats to
blow up the morgue containing the
ladies of forty eight victims of last
Thursday’s explosion aboard the bat
tleship Mississippi, uttered by radi
cals whose hall was raided and wreck
ed by sailors fiom the Pacific Fleet,
caused a strong armed guard of civil
ian and naval police to be thrown
about the building Sunday.
The laid on cnc radical meeting
was the result of slurring references
by a radical crater to the men who
perished.
DIFFERENCES DEVELOP
« AMONG REPUBLICANS
WASHINGTON ,D .C., June 17.—
Differences among the members of
the Administration group of Repub
lican leaders were displayed openly
during the closing hours at the
Cleveland convention and burst out
again and a break only was avoided
by action of President Coolidge in
an issue that was forced through by
Secretary of the President Slemp to
the President over the methods used
by Butler, which aroused strong
ffelings on both sides and the mat
ter came to'the President in a threat
by Slemp to resign and this action
was avoided only when Coolidge as
sured Slemp he had planned from
the first to lodge active conduct of
his campaign in the hands of an ad
visory committee and that there was
no intention in maintaining one man
directorship. Slemp, after the con
ference with Coolidge issued a state
ment before leaving the convention
for Cincinnati saying: “He expected
to retain the secretaryship and also
participate in the real management
of the coming campaign.”
ELECTROCUTED WHEN
TOUCHES AllTO WIRING
INDIANAPOLIS, June 17—Edward
H. Hilbert, 21 years old, is dead to
day as the result of a tornado, which
did damage estimated at a million
dollars, in Northwestern Indiana.
Reports today brought the news of
the.destruction of many farm build
ings, but few casualties.
Hdbert attempted to remove a
charged wire from his automobile and
was electrocuted .Many small stiearns
are reported to be near the flood
stage.
Ashorst Refuses To
Be Placed Nomination
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17—
‘I’ll hit any man who puts me in nom j
nation for that post over the head
vith a custard pie,” Ashurst wired
prominent Angonans seeking to draft{
lim for the Democratic vice-president
lomination. i
HINESE AND GERMANS
FINALLY COME TO TERMS
1 3KING, June 17—An agreement
n the outstanding questions between,
hina and Germany has been signed:
he formalities having been completed
Klay, according to information. Little
as been disclosed concerning the ae
on or the negotiations lading to it.
Opposition by the senate of the
hinese parliament is reported to
ave been ignored by those anxious;
> complete the agreement.
The conferees were the finance
inister and a representative of the
eutchasiatsche bank.
The most important feature of the
yreement is said to be restoration
payments on the German loans, |
hich amount to $2,230,000.
ILL ATTEMPT ANOTHER
* COAST TO COAST FLIGHT
NEW YORK, June 16—Lieuten-j
it Russel Maughn will hop off this,
>ek in another attempt at the non-!
,p flj^ht from coast to coast.
Big Explosion Expected
From Kilauea Volcano j
-:
HILO, T. H., June 17—Professor T.!
A. Jagger, the volcanologist who hur-j
ried back here to observe the erup- |
tion of Kilauea, is of the opinion that |
a big explosion of the volcano is im- j
minent. This opinion is based on yes- j
terday’s explosion and landslide, ami,
the fact that noises of dashing waves j
are arising from the pit.
JAPANESE AUTHORITIES I
DISAPPOINTED IN SHIPS I
THAT BO NOT PASS TEST
TOKIO, June 17—Japanese naval
authorities are anxious about the per
formances of some of their newest
light cruiser's which are being launch
ed at the rate of two a year by a
domestic shipyard. Newspaper reports
of defects are substantially confirmed
by well-informed experts.
The light cruiser Tama, 5,500 tons,
developed engine trouble recently
during her trials, it is understood,
and a few days previously the smaller
cruiser Yubare showed similar de
fects in her trials.
MILLERAAND QUITS THE
PALACE AT PARIS
PARIS, June 16.—Retiring Presi- j
dent Millerand, who vacated his of
fice this week as chief executive of
the French republic, moved out of:
his palatial home yesterday and has;
taken his family to Versailles, where j
they will occupy a modest villa near
the hall where the national assembly
elected Doumerque, the new pres
ident.
IMPERIALISM DENOUNCED
BY BRITISH CLERGYMAN
BIRMINGHAM England, June 17—
Imperialism and its social structure
finds few advocates among the pres
ent day leaders of Protestant church
es in England, who have been meet
ing here for the Conference on Chris
tian Politics, Economics and Citizen
ship.
Postal Inspectors Say
Robbery Was Inside Job
CHICAGO, June 17—Every man in
seventy who manned the fast Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul mail train, i
which was held up and looted last j
j Saturday night of six hundred thous-;
and dollars, was taken into custody j
by federal operatives today for ques- j
tioning. A. M. Germer, postoffice
inspector declared the job as put
; up and inside work.
K. K. K. BACKS G. O. P. CANDI
DATE IN INDIANA
UNDERWOOD 4 UNDERWOOD. N. V.
Edward Jackson, Republican nomi
nee for Governor of Indiana, whose
campaign for the nomination was
cpenly backed by the Klan and whose
aceptance of that backing was not de
nied. As a result, political writers are
declaring that the Klan is in control
of the party in that State; and likely
to control the entire state govern
ment.
WINTER SCENE IN NATIONAL PARK
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Trick Falls, Two Medicine Fiiver, Glacier National Park, Montana.
New Automobile Co.
Organized in Fairbanks
A half dozen young and progressive
chaps of Fairbanks have recently or
ganized a taxi company and in a
few days will start their initial trip
of automobiles oevr the Richardson
Highway. The Alaska-Jewitt Trans-j
portation Co., by which the firm is!
known, has as its head Mr. Rivers,!
former city clerk of the Interior city;
and one of the best known young men
in the Territory. The company
plans a regular scheduled trip over
the highway to Valdez, which port on
Prince William Sound, will be their
southern terminus.
Mr. Rivers in a recent statement
to the Seward Gateway, said that the
Valdez Chamber of Commerce had en
dorsed his company and were lending
every aid to make the trips a success.
The owners of the company all
own new Jewitt autos, splendid five
passenger, six-cylinder touring cars,
and are ,each and everyone, experi
enced auto drivers, which will tend
to lend much to the comfort of the
tourists who take the trip. In addi
tion to this, it is stated they are all
Alaskans and as such are in a posi
tion to discourse with accuracy on
points of interest, either along the
highway trip or in other parts of the
Territory, which should be a great
asset, in the form of publicity to the
Territory.
That the firm is enterprising and
full of keen zest to make the trip to
the tourist, full of interest, is set
forth in the following facts. One of
the inovations to be introduced by
them will be the opportunity afforded
the tourist to visit one of their placer
claims and actually pan gold them
selves. They will be permitted to
keep whatever gold they pan and it
is a foregone conclusion that every
tourist who rides on these Jewitt
cars, will avail themselves of the
chance to go gold hunting. What
stories they will have to tell their
many friends upon their return to
their homes in the states.
In the company’s literature which
they are sending throughout the U.
S., they tell in a simple and sincere
manner what the tourist who takes
this trip with them, to the many
creeks and points of interest adjacent
to Fairbanks and the highway trip,
will see. Fairbanks, situated in the
heart of the Tanana valley, and at
the extreme end of the wonderful
Alaska Railroad holds thrills of every
sort for the visitor. In fact they
state, the only thing Fairbanks l^cks
at the jpresent time, is a submarine.
Hundreds of miles of fine highways
lead out of Fairbanks to the outmost
points of the fringe of civilization,
bringing one truly into a primitive
land, but a few hours distant from
the modern. Should the tourist wish
to take a fishing or hunting trip ar
rangements can be made with the
company to stop over at one of their
camps where guides can be secured
and a trek into the hills made from,
and at at nominal sum. One will eer
i tainly be able to sleep on a real
spruce bough bed, if they so desire.
Every turn of the road on the
Richardson Highway, is a fresh sur
prise, at all seasons of the year. The
hardened traveller over this road,
never ceases in extolling the merits
of the three day auto journey thru
Alaska to the coast.
The Alaska-Jewitt Company natur
ally maintains its main office at 'Fair
banks, and the new arrival to that
city is requested to call at their
office for any information relative to
the country in general. In all the
world, they conclude, there is no
place like Fairbanks.
ALL-WOMAN JURY
CONVICTS WOMAN
LONDON, June 17—A coroner’s
jury composed entirely of women yes
terday returned a verdict against a
woman who had entered a suicide
pact with a man and who had at
tempted to carry it out by inhaling
illuminating gas with him. The man
died.
Slate Naval Reserve
Sailing North on Cruise
SEATTLE, June 17,—Fifty-five
men of Tacoma Batallion, State Na
val Reserve, Lt. Arthur H. Meddleton,
commander, sailed Sunday for Alas
ka on a training cruise, aboard the
Eagle Boat No. 32.
NEW RADIO BEAMS
REACH BUENOS AIRES
BUENOS AIRES, June 17—The
Marconi new radio beam ray afford
ed communication today between Corn
wall, England and Buenos Aires, a
distance of 6333 miles.
Survey Party Finds New
River in Far North
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17—
The discovery of a new river two
hundred yards wide and several hun
dred miles long in Northern Alaska,
was announced in a message received
today by the Interior Department
from Doctor Smith ,chief of the ex
ploring party at the naval petroleum
Reserve in Northern Alaska.
END OF CALIFORNIA
STOCK MALADY NOW
DECLARED IN SIGHT
OLYMPIA, June 17—That the end
of the foot and mouth epizootic is in
sight is the belief of E. L. French,
director of agriculture.
“No new infections have been re
ported from California for several
weeks,” Mr. French said, “While we
will not let up on our quarantine reg
ulations until thirty days have passed
without a new infection, the severity
of the attack has been spent, and the
future is more hopeful.”
PUSSYFOOT JOHNSON
NOW ON PACIFIC COAST
SACRAMENTO, June 17—Prepared
to argue that the attempt to make
America as “dry as a bone,” has suc
ceeded, and that the country will
even be drier than it is now, Wil
liam E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, agent
for the World League against Alco
holism, has arrived here.
MT. VERNON SHERIFF
IS FATALLY WOUNDED
MT. VERNON, June 17—Sheriff J.
Gillum was shot twice and probably
fatally wounded in a battle with rum
runners in Camano island today.
Coolidge Going Ahead
With Soldier Bonus
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17—
' Directions for the administration of
the bonus law, despite the failure of
Congress to appropriate funds for
the purpose, were given today by the
! President in orders to the government
! heads, to become effective at once.
—
PREACHER WANTS PLANE
TO COVER HIS PARISH
WILCANNIA, New South Wales,
i June 17—Rev. L. Daniels, of Wilean
nia has ambitions to be a real “sky
j pilot.” He has issued an appeal for
an aeroplane in which he can visit
his parishioners explaining that his
parish is as big as England.
M’ADOO LEAVES FOR N. Y.
LOS ANGELES, June 17—McAdoo
left last night for the convention in
New York.
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MRS. BELMONT ARRIVES HOME
CO*vm«NT KEYSTONE VIEW CO, NEW YOU*
Mrs. Oliver P. Belmont, President
of the National Women's Party, who
recently arrived in New York, after
a stay in France. She was met at the
pier by 200 women Party members,
who welcomed her back to take part
in the equal rights fight.
PEAK OF JAPANESE
AGITATION IS PAST
SAY FOREIGN EXPERTS
JAPANESE WILL BOYCOTT ALL
AMERICAN GOODS AND
LUXURIES
TOKIO, June 17—The belief that
the peak of the agitation in Japan,
against the enactment of an immigra
tion law, barring Japanese, has pass
ed, was expressed in well-informed
circles here yesterday. The activities
of the agitation, it was agreed can
not continue for more than two or
three weeks, but regardless of the
forecast, however, efforts to extend
the Japanese boycott against things
American could be observed today.
Delegations of members of the
Great Forward Society, the organiza
tion which arranged Saturday night’s
demonstrations at the Imperial Hotel,
visited the larger department stores,
trying to persuade the stores not to
sell American merchandise; and hand
bills were scattered throughout the
city, urging the people to boycott all
I luxuries as well as American goods
and to show their patriotism by do
ing so.
Police officials took occasion to de
ny the previous reports that they
had had advance warning of the dem
onstration a week ago Saturday, in
which members of the Great For
ward Society and other agitators,
broke up a dance at the Imperial Ho
tel, with bitter anti-American speech
ed made from the center of the dance
j floor. The police insisted that they
i were doing everything in their power
to protect Americans from injury and
insult. Responsible Japanese spokes
men also unanimously regretted the
incident.
BILL BRENNAN. FORMER
PRIZE FIGHTER KILLED
NEW YORK, June 17—Bill Bren
nan, one of only two men who ever
went the route with Champion Jack
Dempsey, was shot and killed by New
York gangsters today .
U. S. RIFLE TEAMS
WIN TOURNAMENT
RHEAIS, France, June 17—The U.
S. rifle team won the international
rifle tournament here yesterday. The
picked Switzerland team was second.
American Answer to Japan
Handed Jap Ambassador
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17—
America’s answer to Japan’s protest
against the exclusion provision of
the immigration bill, was handed to
the Japanese ambassador this after
noon.
MEN WHO PARTICIPATED
IN BREAKING UP DANCE
ARE GIVEN LIGHT FINES
TOKIO, June 17—Three of the men
who participated in the demonstra
tion a week ago Saturday night were
sentenced to three days in jail, and
two others were fined ten Yen each,
yesterday.
BANDITS ROB JEWELER
FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND
NE WYORK, June 17—Three ban
dits today bound a Bronx jeweler and
his salesmen and then ransacked the
store escaping with merchandise and
cash valued at $45,000.
BRITAIN PAYS SIXTY
EIGHT MILLION TODAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17—
Britain paid sixty-eight million dol
lars on her war debt to the United
States this afternoon.
COOLIDGE HOLDS CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17—
Coolidge held a political conference
today aboard the Mayflower with
Mondell and Smoot.
SEATTLE DENTIST SUICIDES
SEATTLE, June 17—Frank W.
Hall, Seattle dentist, suicided today
by shooting.