VOLUME XIX. NO. 72.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 25. 19 24.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HOUSE AUTHORIZES
INVESTIGATION OF
" AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY
Washington, p. c., March 25—!
The "house today authorized the inves-;
tigations into the aircraft industry and
also an investigation of the report that1
government bonds were duplicated in
the bureau of engraving and printing.
Edward W. Pielow, former sergeant,
and Edward J. Hagen, former patrol
man were sentenced to two years at
McNeil’s Island for conspiracy to vio- j
late the prohibition act.
BOAT SERVICE ON YUKON
RIVER COMING SUMMER (
SEATTLE, Mar. 25.—For the first'
time since the gold rush days summer j
travelers will have a regular service
on the sea and river from the interior
of Alaska to Nome stated the Alaska
committee of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce. The Northern Commer
cial company, following the ice break
on the Yukon in the spring will oper
ate power vessels from Michael to
Holy Cross weekly. These weekly
trips will enable tourists and other
traveler to go to Nenana, take either
of the steamers down the ^ ukon to
Holy Cross and from there to St. Mich
ael and thence to Nome.
Germany Led in Ship
Building During 1923
LONDON, March 25—Germany was i
the world’s greatest shipbuilder in the
past fiscal year, according to Lloyd’s:
Register. England, for years the lead
X er in this industry, turned out only
648*000 tons of shipping during this
year, altho her capacity is 3,000,000
tons. The British 1923 output was 1,-j
400,000 tons under 1924.
Government restrictions, lack of or-;
ders from German operators, the fail
ure of British shipowners to place new |
orders, and competition pf France with
cheap Ruhr steel are blamed for the
slump .
Stolen Boat Returned
To Victoria by Pirates
VICTORIA, Mar 25—Displaying the
same cool effrontry which characteriz
ed their actions from the start ,the
Peter's Cove pirates have returned
the gas boat Hadsel, and to the very
place from which they took her with
$10,000 worth of liquor stolen from
her rightful crew.
This was learned yesterday when
the provincial police heard from Pen
der Island where residents reported
the finding of the Hadsel, badly shot
up and empty, in Peter’s Cove. No
trace of the bandits who shot Davidson
and trussed up his companions in the
daring raid has been discovered nor
can the speed boat which was used to
do the job be found. Chief Constable
Robert Owens is in Seattle conferring
with the American authorities on the
while affair.
Meanwhile Frederick Davidson is re
coevring slowly from the two wounds
received in the fight ,and his compan
ions, Joe Edwards, A. M. Martin and
Adolf Ongstead, have been released.
Sutherland Scores
Goldstein of Juneau
; ---
Delegate Dan Sutherland in an open
letter to Mayor Goldstein of Juneau,
published in the Ketchikan Examiner
takes the city’s executive to task for
sending Mr. Robertson to Washington
to lobby for division of the Territory.:
Mr. Sutherland is his letter shows that
he is strongly against division and that
he does not approve of bonding the
city.
REGISTER!
You have to register sometime if
you are to vote at either the city or
primary election. The books will
close soon and you will be out of luck.
Up to today less than half the voters
in Seward have registered.
NEW YORK, Mar. 25.--Grover C.
Bergdoll, American dr-aft dodger, has
fully decided to accept the invitation
of the American Legion to return to
America to serve his term in the Fed
eral prison. He has made no state
ment as to whether he will divulge
the identity of the officials who aided
him to escape from prison.
SEATTLE HOTEL MAN
WINS DANCING CASE
SEATTLE, Mar. 25—John C. Sav
age, proprietor of the Butler Hotel in
this city, six times fined $200 in police
courts on charges of violating a new
ordinance by permitting dancing Sun
day nights, was acquitted today by a
verdict of a jury in a superior court
to which he had appealed one case.
Savage’s defense was that he did not
conduct dancing within the meaning of
the ordinance, but furnished music and
was not to blame if his guests danced
when they heard the strains.
Rules are Drawn for
The Neaana lee Pool
The Nenana Ice Pool committee has •
announced the following rules to gov-,
ern the conduct of the pool:
Any alterations or erasures on
tickets must be certified to on the back j
of the ticket to the correct minute, '•
hour, day and month, and signed by
the owner, otherwise these tickets will'
be thrown out when the twpcwritten
list is made and checked.
All tickets must be filled out with <
pen and ink and plainly marked.
The minute will be decided the same
as previous years, one minute until
two, etc. No seconds will count.
All tickets must be at Nenana not
later than noon, April 20, 1924.
Committee in charge: Frank 0.
Robinson, Chas. Sheldon, electricians.
Wm. J. Taylor, chronometer.
Wm. Cowgill, AL Clarno, L. Isabel,
and B. Tunison, business managers.
BIG TIME PLANNED
AT GRAND IGLOO
A big time is planned at the Grand
Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska, at Fair
banks starting March 27, Thursday.
Delegations from Southeastern
Alaska and other points along the:
coast have arrived and left for the in
terior on Monday’s train.
Two dances have been arranged by
the oldtimers of Fairbanks for the en- i
tertainment of visitors, and an elabo- j
rate musical program is being prepar
ed for memorial service/ to be held
on March SO. Another feature of in
terest will be a visit to the Alaska Ag
ricultural College and School of Mines,
and several airplane flights by Avia
tor Ben Eielson who will stage a trip
to McGrath while the Igloo is in ses
sion.
Valuable Furs Stolen
From Anchorage Man
Fox furs valued at $1500 were stol
en from the room of Hjalmar Evans,
in the Parsons Hotel, at Anchorage,
while he was either asleep or absent.
The skins were in a pack and number
ed 47 skins, both reds and cross fox.
No clue has been discovered by the
authorities up to date.
NO CABLE TODAY
The Gateway received but two small
press cables today, consequently is
short of outside news. In case the ra
dio station gets press tonight we will
have our usual supply in tomorrow’s
paper.
SCHWAB TELLS COOLIDGE
HYSTERIA INJURES BUSINESS
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25—
Congressional investigations were de
clared by Charles M. Schwab at a con
ference today with President Coolidge,
to have produced a state of public hys
teria, which is injuring business.
“I told the president,” he said after
ward, “that general business condi
tions are sound, but that development
and extensions have been held up by
the uncertainty due to this hysteria
and the holding up of the administra
tion’s tax reduction legislation.”
Mr. Schwab also gave the president
a survey of European economic condi
tions as ascertained during his recent
two months’ visit to Germany, France
and Belgium .
SOVIET MINISTER ORDERED
LEAVE CHINA IMMEDIATELY
LONDON, Mar. 25—The Chinese
government has ordered the Soviet
minister in Peking to leave the coun
try, because of a note of insulting text
which he sent to the Chinese govern
ment, practically demanding that the
government recognize the Soviet.
COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO, NEW YORK
FAMOUS SPRINTER AND PRESDENT OF THE AR. A. U.
Charlie Paddock (left), crack California sprinter, and William C. Prout,
President of the American Athletic Union. Paddock will run again this year
He was recently reinstated after several months suspension on account
of infraction of rules of the union, for running without permission
AVIATORS PREPARING
PLANES FOR LONG FLIGHT
SEATTLE, Mar. 25—The aviators j
here are preparing their planes for the j
hardest test on their whole journey.!
This will be the leg of 4168 miles from \
this country to Japan. The machines
will not touch land upon leaving the
United States until they arrive in Ja-j
pan.
SHOW TONIGHT WILL BE
‘THE VALLEY OF SILENT MEN”
At the opening of the Liberty The
atre tonight The Valley of Silent Men
will be shown. A three-piece orches
tra will furnish the music. The Lib
erty has been newly renovated and
many improvements made under the
new management. The Valley of Si
lent Men is one of the best of James
Oliver Curwood’s northern stories, and
it will be faithfully depicted on the
screen. A Pathe News and Vodvil
will also be shown.
John W, Frame Gives
Platform to People
John W. Frame has published his
platform as Republican National Com
mitteeman, which is as follows: “I
pledge the people of Alaska that if
elected Republican National Commit
teeman, I will not recommend any man
for an appointment in Alaska who is
not first approved by the people of
the Territory, and by those residing
in the vicinity where such appointee is
to seive.”
In conclusion Mr. Frame say?: “I
have voted the Republican ticket
straight for ten years.
Wrangell Will Have
Hotel With 76 Rooms
Work will begin the first of April
on a third story for the Wrangell Ho
tel. Hot and cold running water will
be supplied in aU rooms, and twelve or
15 baths will be distributed over the
building. The new structure will have
76 rooms.
ENGAGE WHOLE SHIP
FOR TOURIST TRIP
The first Presbyterian Alaska Ex
cursion of this season will come to!
Alaska in July, aboard the steamer
Alameda, according to information re
ceived here from Dr. S. Hall Young
of Juneau, who will personally con
duct the party from Seattle. The par
ty will form at Los Angeles, leaving
there June 26, and going to Seattle by
rail.
The entire passenger accommoda
tion of the Alameda will be reserved
for the excursion. This means that
from 175 to 200 persons will make the
tour. The itinerary, according to Dr.
Young, will include all of the regular
ports of call made by the Alameda,
and in addition, all of the points at
which Presbyterian missions are main
tained.
The tour is being specially adver
tised in literature issued at Los Ange
les. It is stated that arrangements
have been made with the transporta
tion company to issuei stopovers to
members of the party desiring them.
CITIZENS PROTEST
AGAINST INDICTMENTS
HERRIN, 111., Mar. 25—Citizens
participated in a monster parade in
protest to the “unrighteous verdict”
which the special grand jury return
ed, indicting 99 Ku Klux Klan.
.Mortgaging homes and automobiles
was resorted to in an effort to obtain
money for bail.
SEATTLE FIRM TO
OPERATE CANNERY
SELDOVIA, Mar. 25.—The Chisik
Island corporation, whose offices are in
the Coleman building, Seattle, will op
erate the Snug Harbor clam cannery
this year. The company will employ a
large force and expect to put up a re
cord pack. Workmen are now repair
ing the buildings and otherwise get
ting the plant in shape.
Sliver Went From Foot
To Breast in 50 Years
WINNEMUCA, Nev. ,Mar. 25—Fif
ty years ago, F. M. Clay, then a bare
foot boy and now a Baptist minister,
ran a sliver in his foot. Recently a sur
geon removed it from his right breast.
Except for a pain in his leg many
years ago, Clay said he had not been
troubled until a few days ago, when
the pain recurred, this time in his
chest, while he was cranking his auto
mobile.
The sliver of wood, more than an
inch long, was still firm despite its age
and long journey.
TO CONDUCT EXTENSIVE
STUDY YUKON BIRD LIFE
Enroute to interior and the west
ern coast of Alaska to spend several
months in scientific study of bird and
insect life, B. S. Dickey, M. Dunn and
F. P. Davis, prominent Eastern scien
tists, passed through Seward noi-th
ward recently.
The members of the party are said
to be specially commissioned by the
Federal Bureau of Biological Survey
to conduct their studies which will be
made largely in the Yukon River delta
bird reserve. This reserve is under the
jurisdiction of the Survey. One of the
members is a specialist on bird life,
a second on insects and will make a
particular study of butterflies, and the
third will study the mosses in that re
gion.
The party was met in Fairbanks by
a team of ten dogs and an agent of
the Biological Survey. From there it
will proceed on its mission, traveling
by the way of the Kantishna, Lake
Minchimina, the upper Kuskokwim, ac
ross country to Iditarod and down the
Iditarod and Innoko Rivers to Holy
Cross and from there into the Yukon
Delta. It is planned to be in the Delta
Reserve at the time of the break-up.
In this district is said to be located
one of the greatest bird breeding
grounds known anywhere. Several
weeks will be spent by the entire party
in the reserve. In July, one member of
the party expects to work his way
back up the Yukon while the other
two travel along the coast toward the
mouth of the Kuskokwim. A second
will come out next fall by Unimak and
the third, Mr. Dickey, will remain in
the Kuskokwim district during all of
next winter.
TOBACCO WINS FRIENDS
FOR OHIO WOMAN REALTOR
Cleveland, Mar. 25—A box of cigars j
on her desk is the way of the business
woman to ‘‘man to man” business talks
according to Mrs. J. L. Champan, sec
retary of the Land Title Abstract and
Trust company. It took her ten years
to learn the secret of making men in
business treat her like a real execu
tive.”
“Don’t let them ask if they may
smoke,” she advises. “Make them
feel you want them to smoke .Some
nights the floor about my desk is lit
tered with ashes—but I have had a
good day.’
Mother Who Took Lysol
Fights to Live After
Visioning Baby’s Fate
ATLANTA, Ga., Mar. 25—It was !
only after Mrs. Edna Reed, 18-year-old
wife of this city, had peeped into the
mirror of death and saw reflected the
life of her year-old baby faced in the;
world, without a mother, that she want
ed to live again.
Life had grown “disgusting unbear
able, a drudgery and hardship,” for the
wife. She attempted to suicide by tak
ing lysol.
Lying on the brink of death, she re
gained consciousness for a moment,
thought of her child—then it was that
she pleaded with physicians to save
her life, to spare it for her child.
Now she is well again and back in
her home .
“I am very happy.” she said today,
“for I am planning a new life and ser
vice for my child.”
American Firm Honors
Japanese Radio Workers
TOIvIO, Mar. 25—Kaichiro Yonemu
ra, the man who flashed from the
wireless station at Tomioka the first
news given the world of the Japanese
earthquake last September, has just
ben decorated for his performance.
Jefferson Caffery, charge d’affaires
of the American embassy, presented
Mr. Yonemura with a medal given by
the Radio-Corporation of America. A
purse of 1,000 yen also was given him
from the same concern;
Yonemura has become a notable fig
ure, his exploits even being recounted
in verse in the Tokio papers.
Type Set by Harding
Given Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Mar. 25.—The last
stick of type set by President Warren
G. Harding, was turned over to F. B.
Noyes, president of the Associated
! Press by W. F. Thompson, publisher
i of the Fairbanks News-Miner. Presi
, dent Noyes has arranged to have Hen
: ry Cantwell Wallace, secretary of ag
| riculture, to formally present the
type to the Associated Press at the an
nual meeting in New York next month
after which it will be presented to the
museum.
HERE’S NEW WAY TO PUT
ONE OVER ON HUSBANDS
ELMIRA, N. Y., Mar. 25—If hubby
interferes with your “petting parties”
have him locked op.
This was the creed of pretty Mrs.
Clara Conklin, according to her hus
band.
Conklin said his wife had him ar
I rested on a charge that he “beat her.”
| Convincing authorities of the injus
! tice done him, Conklin went home, and
j behind darkened shade found one
; pretty girl and two young men. The
wife was secreted in a clothes closet.
Conklin didn’t prosecute on account of
the three little children.
DEMPSEY DOESN’T EXPECT
MUCH WORK THIS YEAR
_
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 25—Jack
Dempsey declared he expected very lit
tle work this year. The only possi
bilities of fights being with Firpo, Ro
jas or Spalla. He will in all probabil
ity take a long vacation and at the
same time participate in the produc
tion of moving pictures.
AMBASSADOR CLEANS UP
PARIS, Mar. 25—Ambassador Her
rick is declared to have realized a huge
profit of 1,500,000 francs by throw
ing $200,000 on the market when the
franc was at its lowest ebb.
AMERICAN FISHERMEN
ARE NOT MISTREATED,
SAYS CANADIAN PATROL
VICTORIA, Mar. 25—Commenting
on the charges that American fisher
men are constantly drifting unwitting
ly across the international boundary,
where they are being subjected to fire
from British Columbia patrols, to seiz
ure, and to harsh treatment,” Col. A.
W. R. Wilby, agent for marine, stated
Saturday that only one vessel, the Sil
oam, had ever been subjected to gun
fire from a Canadian patrol, and that
the Captain of the American vessel,
far from being in the vicinity of the
boundary line, was well within the 3
mile limit of Canadian territorial wat
ers.
Many vessels have been seized, Col
onel Wilby said, but he had never
heard before of any complaints about
harsh treatment.
WIFE OF SEATTLE AVIATOR
DEAD IN KETCHIKAN
Mrs. Leo Huber, aged 33 years, and
wife of a Seattle aviator, died in Ket
chikan recently.
Mrs. Huber came north on the North
western a week before, planning to
spend the summer in Ketchikan with
Mrs. Sawyer to recuperate from an at
tack of influenza, which she had in
; Seattle recently. She contracted the
measles in Ketchikan and died from
the complications.
CONGRESS PUTS INSECT
POWDER ON SACRED BUG
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25—
j None of the awe in which the wor
l shippers of the ancient Egypt held the
' beetle is accorded the insect in Con
gress.
The House appropriation committee
in reporting the agricultural bill, ap
proved provision for spending $237,
j 500 for extermination of the Japanese
beetle in Pennsylvania where it is do
ing great damage to crops.
Will Fowls to His
Sons and Daughters
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25—
What is believed to be one of the
strangest wills ever filed for probate
in the District of Columbia was just
filed here . It was that of August H.
Weineke, who died in the early part of
December, 1923. The will directs that
his three daughters be each given one
“rooster and five cents,” his two sons
“one hen and five cents each,” and the
remainder of his estate be given to a
third son.
The executor is directed to buy the
hens and roosters, if the deceased has
j none, out of the third son’s money. In
the event other heirs turn up, the ex
| ecutor is directed to give them each
I 39 cents. The third son has the us&
of the estate during life.
Eielson Cannot Carry
Passengers on Trijjs
As accounted in a previous article,
| Ben Eielson, air mail pilot, has been
denied authority to take passengers on
j his trips. He received an answer to a
I wire sent recently which said that he
could not take passengers, cameramen
or others until after the completion of
the ten experimental flights which he
has contracted for. The wire also said
he should not make any other flights
1 except to McGrath with mail.
He also received word that Harold
I T. Lewis, pilot in charge of the Chey
| enne area of the air mail service, with
( headquarters at Cheyenne, Wyo., is
on his way to Fairbanks to look over
conditions and inspect the progress
and effects of the service as inaugu
rated by Pilot Eileson. Mr. Lewis is
| a passenger on the Northwestern.
CHAMBER LUNCHEON TODAY
The Chamber of Commerce held its
usual weekly luncheon today at noon,
with a large attendance. A report of
the business transacted will be pub
lished intomorrow’s paper.
The American Legion will meet to
night.
TURNEY BEATS DELANEY
St. Paul, Mar. 25.—Gene Turney, the
American light heavyweight champ,
outpointed and outfought Jimmy Dela
ney in a tend round battle last night.