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GEIIMIY
VOLUME 19, NUMBER 269.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
JAPANESE REFUSE TO
SIGN OPIUM CLAUSE IN
PROPOSE AGREEMENT
Conference for Suppression of Smug
gling Abruptly Terminates Over
Action of Japanese
GENEVA, Nov. 17.—The Inter
national Conference for the sup
pression of opium smuggling and
traffic in the Far East virtually
collapsed Sunday when the Japa
nese delegate announced that he
would not sign the proposed f
agreement because it would inter
fere with Japan’s importation of
opium.
The attitude of the United
States delegation in demanding
restrictions on the growing and
importation of opium and its pro
ducts was the subject of an eager
discussion among the nations at
tending the conference, following
the sensational collapse of the
preliminary meeting yesterday.
AMUMJMN HA5 Mb
SUM FOR EXPLORATIONS
CHRISTIANIA, Nov. 17.—Amund
sen, the Arctic explorer, has had one
hundred thousand dollars placed at his
disposal to enable him to make his
( projected airplane flight over the
North Pole next year, according to
the Tidenstegn today. The plan calls
for his hopping off from Spitzenber
gen in June.
REDONDO SAILS WEST
The steamship Redondo sailed last
night for lower inlet points, with a
good load of freight and W. E. Per
ry for Seldovia, and E. Nielson for
Kodiak. The Redondo has given
the residents to the west a good boat
^ service this season, making a trip each
week, which coupled with the Starr
and Watson placed the westward in
rapid transportation class.
/ robbers!nvade"cafe,
GET OFF WITH $12,800
CHICAGO, Nov. 17— Seven rob
bers today invaded the Pershing
Palace Cafe and Ballroom, owned by
A1 Teamey, the minor league baseball
chieftain, blew open the safe and left
■with $12,800.
GOOD EATS TOMORROW
Manager Holben says that tomor
row’s gastronomical delight will be a
small dinner steak well smothered in
I mushrooms, as well as the usual line !
of good eats.
NUMBER KILIJsD IN
JAVA TOTALS 510
__
BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 17.—The
number of dead in last Wednesday’s
earthquake has reached a total of 510
g and the shocks are still continuing.
Many of the rivers have dried up un
til they resemble a sea of mud.
CAN FISH FOR HERRING
UNTIL DECEMBER FIRST
An order promulgated by the De
partment of Commerce on October
13, copies which were received here
on th elast boat, adds 30 days to the
herring fishing in Prince William
Sound. Under the regulations issued
last June, herring fishing in the
Prince William Sound area was pro
hibited between January 1 and June
24, and between November 1 and De-1
cember 31.
The recent order -permits operations
from November 1 to November 30,
thus deferring the beginning of the |
closed period until December 1. No
change was made in the regulations
for the Cook Inlet area, the closed
season beginning November 1 and
lasting until June 24, next year,
order closing the salmon fisheries
4 The department also modified its
order closing the salmon fisheries in
the Aleutian Islands area in which
salmon fishing was prohibited from
August 26, this year for the remain
der of the season. Fishing for cohoe
salmon was opened on October 13 for
the rest of the season, the depart
ment announces.
fi At the Chamber of Commerce ,
meeting tomorrow noon at the Sew- 1
ard Grill several very important mat- j
ters of interest to the town will come \.
up. All members should be present, j
Join the Chamber of commerce.
CHICAGO POLITICIAN HELD
CHARGE COUNTERFEITING
OF U. S. SAVING STAMPS
CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—Ben Newark
a well known Republican politiciai
of Illinois, who as assistant stat<
fire marshal, attained notoriety tw(
years ago during the trial of Gov
ernor Nen Small by being held foi
contempt of court for refusal to an
swer questions on the witness stand
is being sought by the police anc
federal authorities on charges 01
counterfeiting Liberty Bonds anc
Treasury Savings certificates. War
rants have been issued involving
about seventy persons, many ol
whom have been prominent in poli
tical circles. It is understood thal
among those involved are banks ir
Chicago, Omaha, and New York
through having cashed and bought
the treasury certificates and bonds
Seven of the accused have already
been taken into custody and charg
ed with counterfeiting the $5.00 dol
lar war revenue stamps issued in
19,18 and payable in January, 1924
The counterfeit stamps are declared
to secret service men to be perfecl
examples of the originals. The
fraud was discovered after $200,00C
of the forged stamps had * beer
cashed in the Chicago postoffice. II
is estimated that in all over a hall
million of the bogus stamps have
been turned into money by the gang
Secret service operatives working
on the case expressed the hope to
day that they would find the plates
which had been used for making the
counterfeits.
WIDE BAY OIL MAGNATE
AN ARRIVAL IN SEWARD
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lee, of Wide
Bay, one of the original locators in
the oil district, was an arrival on
one of the last boats. Mr. Lee is
heavily interested in oil properties
at Wide Bay and one of the Standard
rigs is now drilling on his property
16 miles out of Kanatak. Mr. Lee
disposed of a one-quarter interest of
this claim recently to Oscar Ander
son, proprietor of several large in
dustries in Anchorage and vicinity,
for a consideration of $30,000.
Mr. Lee located this claim on the
Pearl Creek Dome in 1920, and filed
upon it in the same year, receiving
his permit from the Land Office in
1921. In August, 1922, the claim wag
assigned to the Standard Oil Com
pany, who placed a rig on the ground
and are now down around 3,000 feet
The Associated Oil Company is drill
ing on an adjoining claim and indi
cations are that oil will be struck
in commercial quantities. Mr. Lee
has been located on Wide Bay for
some time where he has a number
of horses used in packing in supplies
and used in his private enterprises.
He has great confidence in the dis
trict, and believes that if oil is struck
it must go to the coast by way of
Wide Bay.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee are registered
at the Van Gilder, and will leave on
the Starr for Wide Bay.
WIFE AND LOVER GET
LONG JAIL SENTENCE
MIDDLETON, Pa., Nov. 17_Mrs.
Annie Willow, who was convicted
last week of the murder of her hus
band, was sentenced on Saturday to
the maximum penalty, from ten to
twenty years. The same sentence
was imposed upon Ralph H. Shadle,
an employe of the Willow farm.
Shadle and the woman were in love
and apparently connived at Willow’s
death. Shadle is but a boy, eighteen
years old.
INDIANS HOLD UP
HAWK INLET P. M.
JUNEAU, Nov. 17.—Word received
here yesterday told of the holding
up last week of A. E. Cresas, acting
postmaster at Hawk Inlet by five
Indians armed with a rifie. Cresas
is the watchman of the cannery of
P. E. Harris & Co. at that point.
The Indians bound him and looted
the commisary at the cannery, taking
twelve rifles and a large quantity
of groceries. They loaded their
plunder into a gas boat and escap
ed. It took Cresas fourteen hours
to free himself from his bonds. He
’•ecognized two of the Indians as
Charley Johnson and William Wat
~on, both of whom broke jail in Ju
neau November 1. They were eon
'med on a charge of stealing an au
tomobile.
V
PURCHASING AGENT
FOR ALASKA RAILROAD
GIVES OUT CONTRACTS
SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—Purchas
ing Agent Dole for the Alaska
Railroad, announced today that he
had awarded the contract to the
United States Products Company
for the thirty steel bridges to
replace the wooden structures on
the line of the Alaska Railroad
between Seward, the salt water
terminal, and Fairbanks, at a con
tract price of $246,000. Delivery
totaling 2,700 tons will be made at
Seward commencing in February
and being completed in May.
CANADA PROTESTS
AGAINST ARRESTS
PROMINENT MEN
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17.—Offi
cial action by the Canadian govern
ment protesting to the United States
against the arrest in San Francisco
last week of R. R. Anderson, a weal
thy and prominent Vancouver, B. C.,
attorney, in connection with the inter
national booze scandal, looms on the
horizon, says a dispatch from Otta
wa tonight.
REPRESENTATIVE SHELDON
IN TOWN FROM FAIRBANKS
Robert E. Sheldon, representative
elect from the Fourth division and
manager of the Richardson Highway
Transportation Company, passed thru
Seward yesterday on his way to Cor
dova to attend the annual meeting of
the Highway company and to make
plans for next season’s operations.
Mr. Sheldon reports a very success
ful season just passed and states thaa
all indications point to an increased
tourist travel next year.
Mr. Sheldon states that much activ
ity is manifest in the Fairbanks dis
trict considerable ground having been
staked during the past few months.
The Hammon and other interests are
planning extensive mining operations
; next year, and from all indications it
j wwill be the best yet enjoyed by the
camp.
NORTHWESTERN TAKES
OUT MANY PASSENGERS
| Loaded with freight and passen
| gers the steamship Northwestern sail
; ed last night for southern ports after
remaining here about forty hours.
Her passengers were:
For Latouche—A. Birkland, Babe
| Smith, M. R. Felts.
Valdez—Herman Dumarce, Joseph
J Gangnon, Lou Reviere, C. J. Minor,
j Cordova—Robert E. Sheldon.
Ketchikan—Fred B. Kniffefo, George
Ashby, Frank J. Cotter.
Juneau—Geo. Redmond, H. Morris,
Geo. C. Blondin, Oscar R. Hart, C. E.
Burgman.
For Seattle—J. J. Keenan, Miss A.
Frazer, Clyde S. Taylor, Peter Dy
Bald, Anton Strom, A. Carlson, Mrs.
A. Carlson, Louis Anderson, Miss H.
Svenson, H. Eyerdam, Roy Pearmain,
Geo. Hogg, E. McDaniels, Miss Stella
Fuller, Albert Sandvik, Mrs. George
Sexton, Jacob Railing, Kim Peterson,
Miss Bell Hosking, John P. Miller,
Uumer Wickstrom, Mrs. E. Wick
strom, G. W. Bilger, M. Malilor, W.
J. Gilmour, G. C. Daniels, Ed Hess,
Arthur Lappi, T. R. Mitten, Mrs. A1
Hilty and children, Selma E. Lippi, H.
Eastman, John Michely, F. Horn, C.
Patmquin, Mrs. Eli DeHon, L. V. Ray,
H. 0. Roberts, John Hiver, J. Rob
erts, Arthur Andrews, L. Lund, Pe
ter Sandell, Adolf Shener, Keith Mc
Cullough, W. H. Toms, D. S. Mc
Donald, R. Annabel, Lee C. Griffin,
W. H. Laughlin, A. E. Lathrop.
MRS. HARDING WORSE
MARION, O., Nov. 17.—Further
complications have developed in the
case of Mrs. Florence Kling Hard
ing, wife of the former president, and
it is not believed she will survive
the week out.
VATICAN TO SELL GEMS IF
OWNERS DO NOT CLAIM THEM
ROME, Nov. 17.—A wartime secret
of the Vatican has just come to light
through an announcement that unless
certain valuables are claimed from the
vaults they will be sold and the pro
ceeds devoted to charity.
During the war people of all na
tions believing the Vatican a safe
place sent jewels and other valuables
for safe keeping.
VALUABLE BATTLESHIP
BE DESTROYED UNDER
ARMS LIMITATION PLAN
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 17.—The
incompleted battleship Washington
was towed from its berth at the
Navy Yard here today and headed to
ward the ocean where it will be de
stroyed under the terms of the arms
limitation conference.
MORGAN SAILS FOR HOME
LONDON, Nov. 17.—J. P. Morgan
sailed for home today on the steam
i ship B/rangaria.
BOARD BEEN SELECTED
TO DECIDE FATE OF
BRAND NEW DIRIGIBLE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 17.—
Navy officials are puzzled over the
problem of what to do with the diri
gible ZR-3 which occupies a dual
identity to a strictly commercial ship
under a strictly military jurisdiction
and a board has been selected to
decide the fate of the pride of the
air.
EMMA GOLDMAN OPPOSED
i TO BOLSHEVIKI TACTICS
LONDON, Nov. 17.—Rebecca West,
a noted writer, in an interview given
to the London Daily Express on her
return from a visit to Russia said
that Emma Goldman will be “the
best advocate of anti-bolshevism that
England has ever listened to.” Miss
West declared that Emma had been
completely disillusionized of social
istic theories by her sojourn in So
viet land. Emma told her that the
welcomed deportation when the Unit
ed States shipped her out of that
country but that she was “a disap
pointed woman.”
LONDON, Nov. 17.—Emma Gold
mai, the famous American anarch
ist, who was deported to Russia, was
the guest of honor at a banquet
given by 300 Britons last night. Re
sponding to the address of welcome,
I Mrs. Goldman condemned in the
I most measured terms the present
1 communist government of Russia
1 and excoriated the officials in
charge of the Soviet regime at Mos
cow. In a final burst of eloquence
she declared that if she ever re
turned to the United States it would
be on her own terms and not on
conditions laid down by the Ameri
' can government.
AMERICAN EDUCATION
WEEK STARTS TODAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 17.—
By designation of the President of
| the United States beginning today
will be celebrated as Education Week
j for the purpose of bringing education
al problems to the attention of the
people. Chruches, lodges and civic
organizations are asked to cooperate
with the National Education Associa
tion, the American Legion and the
United States Bureau of Education
in making this observance a nation
wide success.
ALLIES HAND BACK
ROADS TO GERMANY
ESSEN, Germany, Nov. 17.—All
railways in the occupied area were
turned back to Germany at midnight,
by the Franco-Belgian railway ad
j ministration as arranged in carrying
! out the Dawes plan, without a hitch
I or untoward incident.
BANDITS TAKE TOLL
SEATTLE STREET RY.
SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—Three men
held ujp the Fremont office of the mu
! nicipal railway this morning in an ef- ■
fort to get yesterday’s receipts from
the street cars working out of the
barn, but a hitch was thrown in the
plans of the robbers when $8000 in
coin and currency was left lying on
the floor of the office vault, while one
of the robbers snatched up several
empty money boxes and fled.
The steamship Nabesna is in port
today with a quantity of freight.
The tie camps are taking all avail
able men and more are being sought.
The pay is said to be good.
REINDEER MEAT IS
FEATURED IN EAST
SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—Fred Ornes,
addressing the weekly luncheon of
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
yesterday, gave his listeners some in
side information on the reindeer in
dustry in the North. Ornes, who is
the local representative of the Lo
men Reindeer and Trading Corpora
tion, stated that the chief difficulty
in making the reindeer business a
success financially was the question
of transportation from source of sup
ply to the market. He declared that
there was no refrigerating space to
be had on vessels sailing to the At
lantic coast and that San Francisco
ships which had such space would ac
cept no shipments that originated to
the north of that city. He declared
that transportation across the conti
nent by train added 2% cents per lb.
to the retail price of the meat in the
East.
DAVIS WANTS TO RESIGN
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 17.—
James J. Davis has asked President
Coolidge to relieve him of his post
of secretary of labor next March 4th.
The President is understood to
labor under an expressed hope that
Mr. Davis will remain in the cabi
net. Reports current in political
circles persist that other cabinet of
ficials will signify their intention to
retire to private life within the next
few months.
REPTILE FOUND IN
WOMAN’S STOMACH
CHUR, Switzerland, Nov. 17.—When
th estomach of a young nurse who
had died in terrible agony was
opened a living -viper was found.
The patient had been put on a
strict diet and the venomous snake,
driven by hunger, had eaten the in
testines of the young woman.
Only one explanation seems like
ly, namely, that the girl, while on
a hike in the Swiss mountains,
drank from a mountain brook and
swallowed either a serpent egg or a
small living reptile.
SPOKANE MAN TO BE
NAMED SUPREME JUDGE
SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—State Repub-1
lican leaders say that Frank H. Ru-1
din, of Spokane, a member of the U.
S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth
Division, will be appointed a member
of the United States Supreme Court
upon the retirement of Justice Mc
Kenna.
DAWES OPERATED UPON
CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—Charles Gates.
Dawes, vice-presidential elect, under
went an operation for hernia late to
day.
COOLIDGE MAPS OUT A
PROGRAM FOR FARMERS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Presi
dent Coolidge today put up to the
committee of representative farm
leaders he has appointed, the problem
of mapping out a progranv for a per
manent agricultural committee which
met in the cabinet room at the White
House for its first session. Coolidge
told the members that his purpose in
naming the organization and placed
in their hands tl\e formulation of a
workable plan for farm relief.
UJMrENSATIUN RATINGS
ARE NOT REVIEWABLE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Compen
sation ratings made by the United
States veterans Bureau are not re
viewable by the courts, the Supreme
court held today, except where it is
shown that they are wholly unsup
ported by facts and are capricious or
arbitrary. The Supreme Court also
ruled that land purchased by Indians
from funds derived from their allot
ments cannot be alienated without
the consent of the Secretary of the
Interior.
FILIPINO NATIVES ARE
ELIGIBLE CITIZENSHIP
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 17
Natives of the Philippines are eligi
ble to become American citizens,
whether or* not they have been in
military service of the United States,
5f was ruled today by the Supreme
court of the District of Columbia.
AMERICAN LEGION
FAVORS UNIVERSAL
DRAFf NEXT WAR
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—A
universal draft in time of war,
and the retirement of disabled
emergency army officers were
among the proposals rincluded in
an American Legion legislative
program presented to President
Coolidge today by Commander
Drain of the American Legion.
The program was adopted by the
last Legion convention. In a way
the universal draft proposed by
the Legion supports Senator Cap
per's and Senator Johnson’s bills
providing for the drafting of capi
tal and labor, industry and trans
portation in addition to man
power.
HOWARD LEADING FOR
SENATOR BY HUNDRED
Returns received today from Unga,
together with the tabulated vote troui
the clerk’s office at Valdez show
that Bartley Howard has gone into
office as Territorial senator by over
100 majority, which will undoubted
ly be increased as Westward returns
come in. Mr. Howard is undoubted
ly elected, as the precincts coming
in are so small that the vote will
make little material change in the
ballot.
Despite the desperate efforts of the
Democrats’to trade part of their tick
et writh the Republicans, Howard has
won out. It is reported that Mur
ray, Jas. Galen and a number of Re
publicans around Cordova supported
Dr .Council, a well known oldtimer
for the office.
UNGA GIVES HOWARD
A LARGE MAJORITY
The election returns from Unga
were received yesterday on the
steamer Meteor, which called in at
that port on her way from St. Mi
chael to Seward. The vote shows
that Howard jumped way in the
lead of Council for Territorial sen
ator, and all other candidates on
the Republican ticket received sub
stantial majorities. The vote is as
follows:
For Governor—Cash Cole 3$, Bone
3 and Gilmore 1.
For Delegate—Frank Boyle 4, Dan
A. Sutherland 45.
For Attorney General—Henry Ro
den 5, John Rustgard 43.
For Senator—Dr. Council 6, Bart
ley Howard 44.
For Representative—\Y. J. Bogard
7, John J. Bugge 28, Ben A. Grier
34, Joe Murray 35, A. E. Rucker 8,
Wm. A. Sherman 15, J. L. Waller 29,
Chas. H. Wilcox 18.
Total votes cast, 52.
STANDARD OIL BUILDS
THIRD DEISEL BOAT
It was learned that following the
satisfactory performance of the two
diesel electric tankers now in oper
ation for the Standard Oil Co. on
the Alaskan service, another vessel
almost identical in size and dimen
sions is being constructed lor opera
tion in the coastwise and Hawaiian
Island service of the company. The
new craft is to be called the Ha
waiian Standard, it is said and is
now being constructed at the Union
Iron Works in San Francisco.
The General Electric Co. of Schen
ectady, New York, has the con
tract for the electrical equipment of
the new vessel which will operate
electrically in all departments pos
sible. Power will be generated by
two 245-kiIowat't generators driven
by diesel engines, the make of which
has not yet been announced. The
propelling unit will be a 600-horse
power motor and all winches, pumps,
and other auxiliary machinery will
be electrically powered.
Practically the only structural dif
ference between the Hawaiian
Standard and her progenitors in the
service will be the fact that the
propelling unit will be installed in
the extreme after % portion of the
hull while the engine room will be
located amidships instead of aft as
in the Standard Service and the
Alaska Standard.
The new addition to the tanker
fleet is expected to be ready for op
eration sometime early next year.
Her carrying capacity is to be al
most identical with that of the two
• “ -els named above.