Semswd DUEIY GREwa
VOLUME 19, NUMBER 247
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
SUN YAT SEN IN
CONTROL OF CANTON
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CANTON, Oct. 21.—Troops of Sun j
Yat Sen fully controlled the city today
although fighting was still in progress
at the outskirts of the city.
More than 2,000 civilian casualties
4 have occurred from recent fighting,
and looting and fire has destroyed ful
ly fifteen hundred homes.
Urge Japanese Intervention
TOKIO, Oct. 21.—Five thousand
persons, including members of the
house of peers and representatives, at
t£t\*iing a meeting in Shiba park to
day adopted resolutions urging the j
Japanese government to interfere in
the civil war in China as an ally of
General Chang Tso-Lin, the Manchu j
leader, who is carrying on hostilities j
against the Peking armies for con- |
trol of the central government of Chi- i
na.
“The Japanese government must
carry out a 'policy in China, independ
ent of other powers,” the resolution
read. “This is made necessary owing
to Japan’s special position in China.”
Major General Sato, addressing the
meeting said “Japanese troops should
be sent to China before the Peking
troops enter Manchuria,” where Gen
eral Chang Tso-Lin rules.
TREMBLOR IN THE SOUTH
ROCKS HIGH BUILDINGS
SPARTANSBURG, N. -C., Oct. 21.—
Greenville and Spartansburg counties
sustained heavy earthquake shocks at }
”:30 yesterday orning. No damage
was done other than rocking high
buildings.
HUGHES SPEAKS ON
RETAINING BALANCES
OF SUPREME COURT
ALBANY, N. Y„ Oct. 21.—Secre
tary of State Huhes in an address
last night at the convocation of mem
bers of the New York university in
^ an dadress which he prefaced by
saying that it would be non-political,
in favor of retaining the original con
stitution balances established be
tween the president and congress.
The constitution of the United States
was too sacred to be regarded as a
fetish, he said.
THREE KILLED IN
EXPLOSION ON SHIP
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21.—
^ Three men were killed and eighteen
injured in a powder explosion on the
new light cruiser Trenton at the drill
grounds near Cape Henry, Virginia,
yesterday afternoon.
DIVORCE USELESS IN VIENNA
BECAUSE OF FLAT SHORTAGE
VIENNA, Oct. 21.—Vienna still
struggles with problemss arising from
4 housing stortage, and every now
and then some new phase of the
situation draw's public attention.
Just now it is the question of ac
commodations for divorced persons.
Apartments are so scarce that in a
great many cases divorced couples
are compelled to go on living under
the same roof. A man in such cir
cumstances recently went to court
to compel his former wile to move
away as he wanted to marry again.
The judge ruled she should go.
1 DISCOVER SILVER ORE
IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 21.—
A. B. Trites, director of the Premier
mine, returned here w'ith samples of
high-grade silver ore from a strike on
Gold Cliff, two and a half miles from
the head of Portland Canal, almost
directly opposite the town of Stew
art and across the ridge on the Bear
r river side from the Premier mine.
The discovery is reported to be a
wide fissure vein %vith five feet of
high grade ore. There are eighteen
claims in two groups extending from
the river bank to an elevation of four
thousand feet, and strikes diagonally
up the mountain and dips at an angle
of 65 feet degree. Bill Dan, a hotel
man who arrived a fortnight ago with
P a satchel of samples, is also inter
ested in tire find with Frank Riva, the
latter having made a sensational find
m the gulch where the cut was made j
in the early days of the camp.
; DEMAND COOLIDGE BE
ADVISED OF POLITICAL
ACTIVITIES IN PARTY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21.—
A demand that Coolidge be advised of
! the shameful conditions within his ad
ministration and his party by resolu
j tion, and of the activities of Joseph
W. Tolbert, republican, federal pat
ronage huckster in South Carolina,
was made here today by Representa
tive Stevens of that state.
CHINESE AIRMEN DROP
BOMBS NEAR BRITISH SUB
CHIN WANG TAO, China, Oct. 21.
—Four bombs dropped by Manchuri
an airmen under command of Gen.
Chang Tso Lin, fell within 70 yards
of the British submarine L-73. The
sub was rocked by th eexplosions
and nearly turned turtle.
PLANE RUNS INTO
BAD SNOW STORM
INTERIOR DISTRICT
(Fairbanks News-Miner).
Flying for two hours in a blind
ing snowstorm, in an attempt to
find a pass through a range of
mountains near Wiseman, was the
experience undergone recently by
Pilot Noel Wein, Peter Dow and his
son. Unable to find their way thru,
they were forced to return to Fair
banks.,
The plane left Fairbanks at 11:05
in the morning, bound for Wiseman,
in the Koyukuk. By airline the dis
tance is about 200 miles, and is
almost directly north. The distance
between is covered largely by moun
tains, and the weather is extremely
variable. The sky was almost cloud
lesss when the plane started from
the landing field, but when within
about fifty miles of its destination the
snow was falling so heavily that it
was practically impossible to keep
on a true course. Because of the
heavy load—three men and about fif
ty gallons of gas—the plane could
not get above 3000 feet.
Wein flew through one range which
was so high that he just missed '
the trees on the mountain tops. He
says it was one of the hardest trips
he has ever undertaken; not quite
sure of his position, 'with the possi
bility of the clouds just ahead con
cealing a mountain, he had to trust
mainly to luck.
He soon saw that the plane could I
never make the mountain ahead, and !
decided to return. Wein had trou-1
ble in finding his course on the way j
back, but finally sighted Brooks and j
j landed there. The field was covered |
with four inches of snow glazed with i
ice, all of which added to their trou-1
bles in the takeoff. To cap the cli
ax, one of the magnetos went out of
commission soon after leaving Brooks
and the * flight to Fairbanks was
made on one magneto.
The plane landed at the park after
having been in the air five hours and
ten minutes. Wein does not expect
to attempt the trip again. The wea
ther is so uncertain at this time of
year that it might be weeks before
another try could be made. It is
thought the plane will be taken down
for the winter. Wein expects to
leave for his home -in Minnesota in
about a week, returning to Fairbanks
in the spring to resume his flying.
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BANDITS ATTEMPT TO
ROB PORTLAND BANK
PORTLAND, Oct. 21—While rid
ing on a streetcar last week, Andrew j
Larson, a policeman, noticed the pm- j
ployes of the George W. Bates bank, j
standing in the bank door with their j
hands in the air. Larson jumped off
the car and ran toward the bank door j
just as the chief bandit was entering
the vault. He immediately commenc
ed shooting and the five bandits fled
amidst flying bullets, escaping in a
waiting .automobile.
'There was I,>.000 in the vault at
the time the bandits entered the bank.
HAREM BEAUTIES SEIZED
TO PAY PRINCE’S DEBTS
BUDAPEST, Oct. 21.—Business is
business, and since Prince Abdul
Kadir, son of the late Abdul Hamid,
lived in an imposing suite with his
harem in one of the city’s best ho
tels during a visit, he couldn’t ex
pect the manager to give him ser
vice for nothing.
So, now the hotel has given in
structions to a collector to seize
the prince’s entire harem of fifteen
Circassian beauties for the debt.
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NEW MAIL CAR EMBODIES THREE “BANDIT PROOF
FEATURES”
Mail clerk in new type of ear devised by C. B. & Q. R. R. and
tested near Brewster, New York, firing on “bandits” through “uni
versal joint” that permits freedom of aim, but does not expose him
in the least as a port hole would. If bandit gets too close to car to
be reached by this, clerk shoves riot gun into “spreader hole” in
car floor and pulls trigger, steel cone spreading deadly buckshot
in all directions. Magnesium flare, automatically ignited when
shoved through tiny hole in car wall, dazzled bandit’s eyes and
brilliantly illuminates surrounding terrain. Car is virtually a bul
let-proof fortress.
DEFUNCT BANK WILL
COME THROUGH WITH
ANOTHER PAYMENT
SEATTLE, Wn., Oct. 21.—Deposi
tors of the Defunct Scandinavial-Am
erican Bank which went a begging
two years ago, will soon get another
hundred thousand dollars thruogh the
sale of the Railway Exchange build
ing here to a New York capital
ist for half a million dollars, the de
ficient institution having an equity
on the property.
INDIANS WILL RECEIVE
NEAT SUM OF MONEY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21.—I
1226 Klamath Indians of Oregon willj
share $122,600, as the result of a per
capita payment'of $100, authorized!
today by the Interior Department to |
help them through the winter.
The money was derived from the
sale of timber belonging to the In
dians.
REICHSTAG DISSOLVES
BERLIN, Oct. 21.—The Reichstag
| dissolved last night and the new
j election will be about December 10.
FEDERAL JUDGES ARE
RELIEVED OF POWER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21.—
The Supreme courts today rendered
a decision which strips the Federal
judges of the United States of the
power to punish striking employes
for contempt in their courts without
a jury trial.
BOOZE CONSPIRACY ON
HIGH SCALE CHARGED
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NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Prohibition
officials claimed to have uncovered a
gigantic Anglo-American liquor con
spiracy with ten million dollars in
volved, when they towed into the har
bor today the twin screw British ship
Frederick B., with its crew of twenty
eight men and two women, under an
armed guard with a $500,000 liquor
cargo aboard.
Five special government agents, un
der leadership of William A. Walker
of Washington, general field superin
tendent of the dry forces, made the
capture after they had, according to
Mr. Walker, dickered for the purchase
of 25,000 cases of whisky from the
vessel’s master, paying $100,000 in
checks for the contraband. Bankers
in this country, England and Canada
were concerned in the conspiracy, Mr.
Walker said.
ALASKAN SHOOTS WOMAN
AND THEN KILLS HIMSELF
SEATTLE, Oct. 21.—Sam Erickson,
an Alaskan shot and killed an uniden
tified woman and then killed himself
in one of the hotels here this morning.
They had been living together, the
landlord of the place stated. Erickson
had lived for a year at the hotel on
a stake he obtained in Alaska. He
was thirty-five years old.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
CONSIDER STATUS
TURKISH FRONTIER
GENEVA, Oct. 21.—The president
of the council of the League of Na
tions has informed Sir Eric Drum
mond, the League’s secretary gen
eral, that he will convoke an extraor
dinary session of the council to a
just the differences between Britain
and Turkey regarding interpretation
of hte status quo of the frontier be
tween Turkey and Irak.
JOHN DAVIS ATTACKS
SPEECH OF COOLIDGE
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 21 —
John W. Davis, presidential nominee
en the Democratic ticket in a speech
in this city last night, in referring to
the stateent made recently by Pres
ident Coolidge that under the terms
of the Washington disarmament con
ference “we are now entitled to a
navy equal to that of any other na
tion,’ ’has asked, “when in the name
of Great Jehovah and continental con
gress did we have an agreement in
order to maintain a navy equal in
strength with other powers?”
With biting sarcasm, he contin
ued, “I do the President justice to
believe that he did not know the
import of what he was saying. Sure
ly the United States does not need
an agreement with other nations to
maintain an adequate national de
fense.”
Dublin Restoring Buildings
Damaged During Revolt
DUBLIN, Oct. 21.—The Free State
government has at last started rebuild
ing the Dublin postoffice destroyed in
the rebellion of Easter, 1916. Work
has now commenced on the old site
with a view to preserving the trading
and character of the original build
ing intact.
Dublin’s next most beautiful build
ing, the Four Courts, was destroyed
in the fighting of July, 1922. The
dangerous parts of the ruins have
been repaired and the walls are con
sidered good enough to justify the re
building of the whole edifice. The
restorations so far designed are in
keeping with the treatment of the
original eighteenth century architect,
James Gandon, and stone similar to
that used in the original structure is
being used.
JURY FINDS OLDTIMER
OF KODIAK IS INSANE
P. M. Peterson, said to have re
sided at Kodiak for many years and
more recently employed at Taku
Harbor as a carpenter, was adjudged
mentally unsound yesterday by a
jury in the U S. Commissioner’s court
Court. He was committed to Morn
ingside Sanitorium by Judge V. A.
Paine.
Peterson with his family, consist
ing of Mrs. Peterson and eight child
ren, moved to Juneau from Taku
Harbor several months ago.
ARMY PLANES UNABLE TO
FIND TRACE SHENANDOAH
San Francisco, Oct. 21.—Two array
airplanes that went out to meet the
Shenandoah when she was reported
to be coming in to San Francisco
from Tamales bay, 40 miles north of
here, returned to headquarters with
the report that a dense fog prevent
ed them from sighting the aircraft.
OFFICE ALIEN PROPERTY
HOLDER BEEN ABOLISHED
WASHINGTON, D. €., Oct. 20.—
President Coolidge today directed
that the office of alien property cus
todian, which was formed during the
war by orders of President Wilson,
be placed in charge of Win. W. Wil
son, Seewell W. Abbott, the pres
ent- general manager and the assist
ant general council respectively of
the bureau, which will be abolished.
ALASKA SERVICE
RECORD COMPLETE
The record of Alaskans entering
the country’s service in the World
War has been compiled by the of
fice of Secretary Karl Thiele and
bound in volume form for future
preservation. The list contains a
total of 2.088 names showing 1,942
Alaskans entered the army, 128 the
navy and 20 in the marine corps.
The data was collected from the \
| files of the Adjutant General’s of- j
! fice, Bureau of Navigation, headquar
ters of the marine corps and from
j local draft records. The work was
I authorized by the last session of
j the Territorial Legislature which ap
! propriated $500 to defray any nec
! essary expenses in connection with
I the undertaking.
The records are as complete as
could be gathered from official sourc
es. They show the date of enlist
ment or induction of each person j
entering the various services giving.
Alaska as his place of residence. I
I Names, place of residences, dates, j
I places of discharges and the nature
| of discharges are also given. The
I service of each man is also given.
The total shown on the record, it \
is said, does not represent thej
actual number of Alaskans entering
service during the war. Many w’ho
enlisted or were inducted in the I
States are not credited to Alaska '
but to the places where such en
listment or induction took place.
OPERATORS START
ON ESTER CREEK
i Brown, McKenzie, Ohlsen and Dun
nely are the first miners on Ester
creek to begin work for the winter,
says the Fairbanks News-Miner. They
are rigging up at the present time,
preparatory to taking out a dump. It
will not be necessary to sink a shaft
as the one that is already dowTn will
provide sufficient dirt for the winter.
The ground is about seventy feet
deep, and there is not much water.
A crew will be put on as soon as the
actual mining begins.
Brown and Dunnely purchased the
part formerly held by Henry Crook,
who left recently for the States. The
| ground is on Discovery, and is own
ed by George McQuarrie. The claim
above No. 1, was the richest on Ester
creek, and a fortune was take from
it.
From all indicatinos, there will
be several claims operating on Es
ter this winter.
DECISION MADfi IN STRIKE
CASE OVER U. S. MAILS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21.—
The conviction of R. H. Clements and
other former employes of the Santa
Fe for conspiracy to obstruct the
mails in the shopmens’ strike in 1922
has been upheld by a decision of the
United States Supreme court.
The motive of railroad employes
in ordering a strike which results
in obstruction of interstate commerce
and delays the dispatch of mails
must however be determined by a
jury and the verdict must not be
set aside by the Appellate Courts
when appeals of all essential facts
are presented at the trial. The
principle of law is recognized by
the Supreme Court in the Santa Fe
decision.
Seward members of Rebekah lodge
held a meeting last evening which
after the business was transacted
turned into social card games and
sumptuous luncheon.
SHENANDOAH BUCKS
HEAVY WIND AND RAIN
STORM ON WAY SOUTH
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21.—Bat
i tling through fog, rain and wind blow
1 ing sixty miles an hour, and for a
while reducing her speed to ten miles
an hour, the Shenandoah, en route from
Seattle to Lakehurst, New Jersey via
San Diego, passed over San Francis
co at three yesterday afternoon.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21.—The Shenan
doah arrived at six this morning, stand
ing out to sea awaiting the lifting of
the fog before coming into the field.
LODGE OPERATED ON AGAIN
BOSTON, Oct. 21.—Lodge was op
erated on again at the Charles Gates
hospital yesterday afternoon. The op
eration was the second and final one
for an obstruction of a vital organ.
CAUSE OF DAVIS AND
BRYAN BY NO MEANS
LOST SAYS DANIELS
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21.—Declar
ing that the result of the presidential
election will pivot on the western
states and that the cause of Davis and
Bryan is by no means lost, Josephus
Daniels arrived in Los Angeles to tes
tify in the federal suit to cancel the
Elk Hills oil leases held by Doheny
interests.
ROY GARDNER, MAIL
BANDIT BE EXAMINED
LEAVENWORTH, Oct. 21.—Warden
Biddle, of the Federal Penitentiary
announced today that Roy Gardner,
mail robber, will be examined soon
j to determine the truth of the con
tention that his criminal activities
were due to an old injury in his
head. He has been operated upon
while serving time in the penitn
tiary here for several mail robberies.
Gardner never killed any person
! during the hold-ups. He made two
! sensational escapes while being ta
ken to penitentiaries after twice con
! victed.
ISLAND MAY BE DESERTED
BY ALL ITS INHABITANTS
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MANILA, Oct. 21.—The entire pop
| ulation of Bubuyan Island, one of the
! Bubuyan group which is about one
! hundred miles north of Luzon, may be
! transferred to another island nearer
the coast of Luzon. An active vol
cano has driven the 250 inhabitants
from their home down to the water’s
edge, and frequently they are forced
to take to their canoes to escape the
showers of rocks and the lava which
streams down the mountain side.
An American Red Cross investiga
tor, who is now on his way to the is
land with relief supplies will assist,
the inhabitants who want to move to
another island, where agricultural
conditions are better.
CLAIMS CANDIDACY
WAS AUCTIONED OFF
VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 21.—
The Republican party “auctioned off’
its gubernatorial nomination to Rich
ard H. Hartley, the highest bidder in
the primary election, Ben F. Hill, the
democratic candidate for the gover
norship charged in speaking here last
night.
CANNERYTOBEBUILT
AT CAPE CHACON, REPORT
According to a recent issue of the
Juneau Empire, the old Marathon
Pkg. Co.’s cannery plant a tCape Fan
shaw is being dismantled and the
machinery and equipment moved to
Cape Chacon, where a new plant will
be established by the Alaska Consoli
dated Canneries. The mess house and
bunkhouses are being moved from
Cape Fanshaw to Pybus bay.
It is understood the Alaska Con
solidated interests expect to have the
Cape Chacon plant completed and
ready for operation by the beginning
of next season. The company had
two traps in operation in that dis
trict during the past season which
are said to have been highly success
^ful and which will furnish part of the
salmon for the new plant.