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VOLUME XVIII.
NUMBER 186
SEWARD. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
U. S. Transport Henderson Rams Destroyer
SEATTLE
CREW OF DESTROYER ABANDONS
^ VESSEL, WHICH IS TOWED
TO BREMERTON
SEATTLE, July 27—President
Harding experienced an exciting col
lision this morning at 9:45 o’clock,
when the transport Henderson ram
med the destroyer Zeilin, off Double
Bluffs, at the entrance to Admiralty
Inlet close to Whidby Island, causing
the abandonment of the destroyer by
the crew.
No one was injured, either on the
destroyer or the Henderson.
The accident caused a delay in the
arrival of the President at Seattle,
which was scheduled for 9 a. m., for
the Henderson stood by the badly
damaged Zeilin until the crew was
removed to safety and the destroyer
Nicholas took the Zeilin safely in tow
to the Bremerton navy yards.
WINS WORLD'S FEATHERWEIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP IN FIFTEEN
ROUND FIGHT
NEW YORK, July 27, Flash—John
ny Dundee won the world’s feather
weight championship tonight from Eu
gene Criqui, of France, in a fifteen
J round go.
Criqui recently acquired the title
from Kilbane.
HI NOME
PARTY MAROONED IN FAR NORTH
FOR YEAR BE SOUGHT
NOME, Alaska, July 27—Harold
Noice arrived here recently on the S.
S. Victoria from Seattle, enroute to
^Wrangell island to rescue Allan Craw
ford and associates, who have been
marooned on the island for two years.
Crawford led the Stefansson expedi
tion, which went to claim Wrangell
island for the Canadian government.
Upon arrival here Noice stated that
he would charter a boat in Nome ror
the trip to Wrangell, and will make
the trip regardless of obstacles.
Noice, who has been commissioned
by the Arctic exploiter Villijamar Stef
ansson, expressed the opinion that the
Canadian government may finance
the trip later, but so far, he said
Stefansson has been the only financier
for the expedition.
GRANDE RONDE VALLEY SWEPT
BY HAIL AND RAIN STORM
LA GRANDE, July 27—Loss esti
mated at several thousand dollars was
0 caused by a terrific storm of hail and
rain this week in the Grande Ronde
valley, according to reports received
here today. Fall wheat crops near La
Grande, Imbler and Alice, were damag
ed and fruit crops in the same district
were hurt somewhat. The greatest
damage was done by the heavy rain
which preceded the hail. The North
Powder district experienced the se
vere storm, but Union Cove and Hot
Lake escaped with little injury.
ALASKA DUE TOMORROW
The steamship Alaska is due to ar
rive in Seward from the South about
^noon tomorrow, sailing on her south
bound trip tomorrow evening.
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VHOeo-'OCIC' 4 UNOEH
PRESIDENT OF AMHERST COL
LEGE RESIGNS
Dr. Alexander Mikeljohn has re
signed as head of Amherst College,
after serving 11 years as president.
He did so at the request of the board
of trustees rather than face a fight
in the courts.
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GARY SAYS ABOLITION OF LONG
DAY IN STEEL INDUSTRY WILL
BE STARTED IN SIX WEEKS
NEW YORK, July 27—Elbert Gary,
head of the United States Steel Cor
poration, today stated that abolition
of the twelve-hour day, in the steel in
dustry, recently pledged to President
Harding, probably would be begun
within the next six weeks.
Speaking through his secretary, Mr.
Gary said:
“We shall probably commence ac
tively taking steps to reduce the num
ber of twelve-hour workers within the
next six weeks.”
He declined to reveal the machin
ery already set in motion to abolish
the twelve-hour day, nor would he es
timate the number of workers who
would be affected within the six week
period.
Labor leaders have shown intense
interest as to when the steel industry
would begin making good its promise
to the president. The most positive as
sertion previously made by Mr. Gary
was that steps toward wiping out the
twelve-hour day would soon be taken,
when increasing labor supplies were
obtained from the negroes of South,
Mexico and the Philippines.
CLOUDBURST IS FATAL
TWO DROWN AS RESULT OF HIGH
WATER IN COLORADO
DENVER, July 27—Two persons
were drowned, Live others narrowly
escaped drowning, highways were dam
aged, many motorists were marooned,
sections of railroad track were wash
ed out and other damage done in Cen
tral Colorado yesterday by cloudbursts
that swelled the streams and moun
tain canyons.
Mrs. Carl Swanson of Cripple Creek
and her baby were drowned near
Cripple Creek, when a wall of water
sw'ept down on the Shell road in Crip
ple Creek canyon and caught the au
tomobile in which she and her hus
band were riding.
Herman Dauth, a mining engineer
from Los Angeles, is in town this
week on his way outside. Mr. Dauth
has been investigating the placer dis
tricts around Fairbanks and also the
Willow Creek ar.d Moose Pass sec
tions.
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MARSHALL DflEOT
UNITED SITES
“MIGHT BE WILLING TO TAKE OF
FICE IF HE COULD WORK
NIGHTS ESCAPE KICKING”
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 27—
“I don't think I could be nominated it
I wanted to be, and I wouldn’t want
to be if I could,” said Vice President
Marshall, discussing the Presidency,
which he said he “might be willing to
take if he could have the night shift
to escape the kicking and grouching
which goes along with the office.”
TODAY'S FISH PRICES
JUNEAU, July 27—Fresh halibut,
twelve aud eight; frozen ^alibut 11
and one half, and seven and one-half;
king salmon, reds twelve, small reds
eight, white three.
FRANCE TODAY, LIKE FRANCE OF
1871, RESTORING
RAVAGES
LONDON, July 27—France of today
like the France of 1871, is making a
magnificent effort to restore the rav
ages of war, according to an official
report of the British Department of
Overseas Trade. The report is the
work of the commercial counsellor or
the British Embassy in Paris, J. R.
Cahaill, and is painstaking and ex
haustive. The general conclusions of
the report are:
The present economic position of
France is strong.
Her industrial population is fully
employed and her output in most of
the fields of production is only limit
ed by shortage of man-power.
The industrial reconstruction of the
devastated areas is fast approaching
completion.
RADIO REPORTS ANYOX, B. C., ON
FIRE—EXPLOSIONS OCCUR
SEATTLE, July 27—A radio mes
sage from the steamship Grissco, in
the Portland canal, picked up by the
Seattle harbor radio station, stated
that Anyox, a smelting town in North
ern British Columbia, was on fire, and
that the vessel had heard several
sounds resembling explosions.
Only meager details were received
from the Crissco, which stated that it
had endeavored to draw closer to the
town to investigate. The harbor sta
tion here stated that the Grissco’s
wireless and the local station had
broadcasted the news with a view of
obtaining further details of the fire.
I. W. W. DEMONSTRATION
AGAINST FARMER PLANNED
MINNEAPOLIS, July 27—A five
day demonstration against agricul
ture in the Northwest which will make
the “wheels stand still,” during har
vest time, is being planned by the I.
W. W., Charles Gray, secretary of the
agricultural department of the order,
announced today.
The “demonstration,” Gray said,
has for its object the release of what
he termed political prisoners of the
world war, and will be held about the
middle of September.
The steamship Admiral Evans i3
expected south bound some time next
Wednesday.
CIVILIZATION CANNOT SURVIVE
MATERIALLY UNLESS RE
DEEMED SPIRITUALLY
BOSTON, July 27—Woodrow Wil
son, writing under the caption of “The
Road Away from Revolution,” for the
August number of the Atlantic Month
ly, sounds a note of warning that “civ
ilation cannot survive materially un
less it be redeemed spiritually.” He
continues; “In these dreadful days
when all the world it at unrest, it is
only common prudence that we should
look about us and attempt to assess
the causes of distress, and the most
likely means of removing them.”
RADICAL SENATOR
SENATOR ELECT SAYS REVOLU
TION SAME AS RUSSIA WILL
HAPPEN THIS COUNTRY
—
ST. PAUL, July 27—Revolution, po
litical, industrial, or even the resort
ing to arms, faces the United States,
if conditions confronting the laboring
man and farmers are not changed, is
the opinion of Magnus Johnson. “A
great many think the same thing that
happened in Russia can not happen in
this country, but it couid happen here
before you knew what was going on.”
SCRAPPING OF SHIPS IS
TAKEN UP BY ROOSEVELT
WASHINGTON, July 27—Acting
Secretary Roosevelt conferred with
navy commandants here today rela
tive to the feasibility of scrapping at
the yards those naval ships which are
to be abandoned under the arms limi
tation treaty.
The outlook for the navy yards ob
taining the scrapping work was thot
to depend largely upon whether it
could be done as cheaply in that way
as by selling the ships as they are, to
be dismantled by private interests.
ANGRY MOB PROTESTS AGAINST
SEIZURE—MOTOR BOATS ARE
HELD ON TECHNICAL CHARGE.
DETROIT, July 27—Federal prohi
bition agents, assisted by representa
tives of the treasury department last
night ,and early today seized 200 mot
or boats off Ecorse, Wyandotte, and
Trenton, in the Down river district.
The operations were conducted in the
face of an angry mob, who, according
to the officers attempted to dynamite
a small bridge giving egress to a boat
well.
The boats were seized on the ground
that they did not comply with govern
ment requirements as to equipments.
With customs departments seals affix
ed to their engines, the vessels were
put out of commission until their own
ers have explained their failure to
equip them in accordance with feder
al navigation laws. They were towed
to docks along the river front and then
placed under guard.
The halibut boat Nordland arrived
in port today with 29,000 pounds of
halibut.
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GENE BRINGS BACK THE LATEST
IN GOLF PRIZES
Gene Sai’azen, American Open Goll
Champion, returns to the L nited
States with the same old smile and
a new trophy—a solid silver cup em
blematic of the professional champion
ship which he won in Scotland.
POLITICAL BATTLE IN LOWER
CALIFORNIA IS FATAL
TO THREE
MEXICALI, Lower California, July
27—Police, state and federal authori
ties expressed confidence today that
; there would be no resumption of the
violence of last Saturday night, when
three were killed and several wound
ed, five seriously, as a result of a bat
tle between police and a group of de
i posed councilmen, headed by Mayor
Juan Loera and Congressman Rican
Covarrubia.
The trouble started when Loera,.
Covarrubias and their followers were
alleged to have assembled iu the city
hall with the asserted purpose of seiz
ing the office of the city treasurer.
The treasurer, having heard rumors of
such a plan, summoned the police.
Reports differ as to how the violence
started. One report was that Loera,
believing that Covarrubias was about
to be fired upon by the Police, shot
at Chief of Police Guillermo, who fell
with a wound in the abdomen.
When the police saw their chief fall
they began firing.
PHOENIX, July 27.—Gov. George
W. P. Hunt, of Arizona, today indorsed
William G. McAdoo for president of
the United States, in a telegram sent
to Joseph H. Myers, labor commission
er of Texas, one of the leaders in the
movement to organize a McAdoo-for
President club in Texas.
PARIS, uJly 27—Battling Siki, al
though imporevished because of legal
attachments against his fighting in
come, is again running wild since his
victory over Marcelle Nilles. The pug
ilist was taken to a police station last
night after a free-for-all fight in an
al-night resort in which he made a
great showing and caused much dam
age. The trouble arose when Siki’s fe
male companion claimed she had been
robbed of 400 francs.
PRESIDENT
FIRST AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO
SET FOOT ON CANADIAN
SOIL— SALUTES FIRED
VANCOUVER, July 27, Special to
Gateway—President and Mrs. Harding
disembarked from the United States
navy transport Henderson on Canad
ian soil here yesterday at eleven o’
clock. His arrival marked the first
visit Canada has ever received by an
American President during his term of
office. Several varying kinds of salutes
were fired, and a formal welcome was
extended at the pier by officials of the
Dominion of Canada, England and the
City of Vancouver.
VANCOUVER, July 27—Harding’s
party left for Seattle yesterday at
nine-thirty, after viewing the largest
crowd since leaving Washington. At
a reception yesterday the Presi
dent became “overwhelmed” by the
friendliness and courtesies tendered
him, and tears were in his eyes and
his voice trembled, as he rose to speak
before the gathering at the Hotel Van
couver.
In an earlier address Harding refer
red to the century-old friendship be
tween the people of Canada and the
United States, adding in effect that
European countries should follow the
example set by the two countries.
Harding advised the people ot the
Dominion to guard against giving en
couragement to any enterprise looking
to Canada’s annexation of the United
States.
Joseph H. Hutchinson, prominent
mining man of the Crow Creek dis
trict, and a warm friend of the Gate
way city, has been stopping in Seward
the past month. Mr. Hutchinson has
been sending numerous communica
tions to the Reno Evening Gazette, ot
which paper he is correspondent.
His articles deal with Seward, and in
his description of the town he says:
“This is the prettiest location ot any
town in Alaska. It is the terminal of
the United States Railroad. It has
been handicapped by strangulation
from Washington, but it is slowly,
surely coming into its own.”
Mr. Hutchinson goes on and gives
a tabulation of the exports from the
Territory with their value, and his
J article is a distinctive boost for Sew
ard.
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VOTE OF CONFIDENCE GRANTED
BY ITALIAN CHAMBER
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ROME, July 27—Amid scenes rarely
enacted in any chamber, Premier Mus
solini last night won a vote of confi
dence from the chamber of deputies,
with a margin of 163 votes on his el
ectorial reform bill.
Before the vote was taken he har
angued the deputies in his accustomed
style. His fiery address was punctu
ated with outbursts of applause both
from the benches and the galleries.
The emotional wave swept his audi
tors into songs and wild demonstra
tions. The vote was 303 to 140, seven
not voting.
The bill changes the system under
which the present chamber is chosen,
abolishing the plan of proportional rep
resentation and giving the party re
ceiving the most votes two thirds of
365 seats in the chamber.
NOTICE PIONEER MEETING
There will be a meeting of the Pio
neers tonight at eight o’clock.