VOLUME 21, NUMBER 118
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
!
IF ORDER OR GOFF’S BILL PUT INTO EFFECT A
HUNDRED MILLION SOULS BE SUBJECTED TO
TYRANNY OF ODIUS AND HATEFUL LAW, AS
I SERTS SENATOR.
ANDREWS ANNOUNCES CDOLIDCE ODDER IS DANGEROUS
DRY CZAR HAS NO INTENTION TO AUTHORIZE
STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS BE MADE PRO
HIBITION AGENTS—LAW ENFORCEMENT IS
BREEDING HYPOCRITES.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24. (AP).—Denouncing
as “a menace” President Coolidge’s order authorizing the
enrollment of state and city officials as prohibition ag
ents, Senator Edwards of New Jersey, announced he
would call up the Senate this week and present his reso
lution demanding an investigation of prohibition and its
enforcement “in all its phases.”
In view of the President’s order and “the fact that an
early and favorable action will be demanded by the ad
ministration leaders on the Goff Bill to tighten enforce
ment,” Edwards said he suspected “something was rotten
in Denmark and that something warrants a complete and
thorough investigation.” He declared if either the order
or the Goff Bill is put into effect “America will be meta
morphosed into a slave market or one hundred million
souls completely subjected to the tyranny of an odius and
hateful law, which already has hopelessly disrupted our
age-old scheme of general law enforcement and is breed
ing a nation of hypocrites, both active and potential
criminals.”
Assistant Secretary Andrews, dry czar, announced
he had no intention to authorize state and local officials
to be prohibition agents and said Coolidge’s order Involv
ed aspects which might be “very dangerous.”
WITCH THRU WINDOW
' OF LETHAL CHAMBER
TO SEE SLAYER DIE
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MURDERER GOES TO DEATH WITH
A SMILE ON LIPS—LAST
WORDS: “GOOD BYE”
CARSON CITY, Nev*, May 24. (/P)—
Stanko Jukich, smiling and cheerful,
went to his death in the lethal gas
chamber at the State prison yesterday
paying the death penalty for the mur
der of his 15-year-old sweetheart. As
he entered the death house he waved
gayly to officials and joked with at
tendants who strapped him to the new
ly painted chair in which he was to
/I die.
The doors were slammed shut and
made air tight. Several men and a
woman newspaper writer, watched
thru an airtight window. Jukich look
ed at the woman and smiled. He
spoke and those outside read his lips.
They said, “Good-Bye, girlie.” A mo
ment later the gas was blown into the
chamber. In 30 seconds, with a smile
on his lips, his head dropped forward
and within three minutes he was pro
nounced dead.
d Special Firemen’s meeting Tuesday
night at 8 o’clock.
COURT GRANTS NEW HEARING
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24. (/P)
—The Supreme Court of the United
States granted a hearing of the appeal
of T. H. Deal and the United States
Fidelity and Guaranty company of
Baltimore against a verdict over the
loss of a registered package continuing
$10,000 while Deal was postmaster at
Fairbanks.
The Methodist Ladies’ Aid will
meet at the church Wednesday at 2
o’clock. Come and enjoy the meeting
and the social time with us.
The Seward Chamber of Commerce
will hold their weekly business meet
ing and luncheon tomorrow at noon at
Fisher Cafe. Bring a guest.
The Gateway is busy these days
pounding off the last issue of the
Farthest-North Collegian on it press
es.
The special meeting of the Volunteer
Fire department will take place to
morrow evening, beginning at eight
o’clock, at the fire hall. Plans for the
4th of July celebration will be com
pleted.
TODAY’S FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN.—Halibut prices here
are quoted at 14 1-2 and 7 cents; Sal
mon at 16, 13 1-2 and 5 cents.
Weakly Gateway—13 par year.
SHE DID BATHE IN WINE!
NEW YORK, May 24. (£>)—Arthur
Irwin, testifying in the Earl Carroll
perjury suit declared that Joyce Haw
ley, entirely nude, bathed in a tub of
champagne, as men passed by and fill
ed their glasses from the liquor.
STARTED I SEATTLE
BYALASKANWHOWAS
THOT DIED YEAR 1GB
SOMEONE OBTAINED A FIRST
CLASS FUNERAL UNDER
FALSE PRETENSES
MARSHALS CONFIRMED DEATH
Mrs. Newman Marries Martin Mon
sen Upon Learning of Death of
John Newman.
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SEATTLE, May 24. (/P)—A S25,000 j
■ alienation of affections suit by John
!
Newman of Alaska and Seattle against
j Marlin Monsen of SeaUle will be tried
man Monsen said she received a copy
! this week. Mrs. Liza Johanna New
of a Juneau newspaper last Summer
containing a Cordova dispatch an
nouncing the death of Newman while
he was d&ing assessment work on
Dan creek. Mrs. Newman said she
: wrote Marshal Cloes at Cordova who
| confirmed the death and referred her
to Marshal J. H. Reynolds of McCar
j thy. Reynolds informed her that New
man was drowned in a sluice ditch af
i ter being dazed by a blow from a
brown bear. He said Reynolds even
.described the funeral. Mrs. Newman
obtained a divorce on March 24, last
; year, and married Monsen. Newman
; returned to Seattle last February and
j said somebody had obtained a first
j class funeral under false pretenses.
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TIE FIMOOS ORIGINAL |
'111 111 KNOWS” IS
COMING LIBERTY SOON
Murdock, the eminent White Mahat
ma, will come to the Liberty for an
engagement of 3 days, May 30, 31 and
June 1, with his company of elabor
ate show of mystic wonders. We are
promised in his coming the original
White Mahatma wiiose great success
has been the signal for many ludi
crous imitations and his world famed
Crystal Seance of remarkable and in
teresting mental and psychic tests.
| His entertainment .includes as well nu
merous bewildering mystifications
I India and the Far East and various
; oriental divertissements.
His experiments are baffling in the
extreme and even college professors,
versed in the. higher sciences, have
confessed themselves baffled at mys
terious power which enables this man
to answer questions after they have
been written and placed on a table
before the eyes of those who wrote
them.
There is not a single objectionable
feature about his act and he especially
invites those who are skeptical to sub
mit their questions .to him or apply
Si DIEGO EN ROUTE KETCH TENDER
CHET DEPARTS ID THREE BIG PLANES
SEVEN OFFICERS AND THIRTY-SEVEN ENLISTED
MEN IN PERSONNEL; LARGE BARGE HAS BEEN
CONVERTED INTO A FLOATING BARRACK AND
LABORATORY.
FIR FEARS' IRA BE DONE MARIE AEASAAN COAST
NAVY DEPARTMENT’S PARTY WILL BE EQUIP
PED WITH SENDING AND RECEIVING SET, GUNS
AMMUNITION, CANOES, WHALE BOATS—EV
ERYTHING FOR WORK AND PLAY
SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 24. (AP).—Part of the Al
askan airmapping expedition left at seven o'clock last
night en route to Ketchikan aboard the aircraft tender
Gannet. Three amphibian planes will take off Monday
morning. The expedition inculdes seven officers and 37
ensisted men. A 250-ton ammunition barge has been con
verted into a floating barracks and laboratory, which
will be towed to Ketchikan, then to other points on the
Alaskan coast. It is estimated at least four years will be
required for the work. The department has provided the
expedition with radio sets capable of keeping in constant
communication with San Diego and Bremerton. The
planes wdll carry wireless and the expedition will have a
broadcasting and receiving set, guns, ammunition, canoes,
whale boats and every bit of floating equipment needed
for play and w^ork in Alaskan waters.
PERSONAL NHK
Frank Case, who has been * out at !
Hunter over the past winter, left for
Nuka Bay, Saturday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hubbard from
Primrose were visitors in Seward Sat
urday. They motored in from lake
Kenai.
The gas boat Rolfe No. 1, Captain
Pete Sather, left port late Saturday
night for Nuki Bay carrying a half j
dozen miners and mine owners. Capt.
Sather announces he is returning to
Seward June 1.
The halibut boat Rolfe No. 2, Jack
Smith, left Saturday night for the fish
ing banks.
The halibut schooner Democrat ar
rived at the San Juan Fishing and :
Packing company this morning with
a good size cargo of fish aboard.
Mail received by the Gateway from
Fairbanks carried the news that ah.
men in that town will be at work by
June 1.
H. S. Balderston, vice preside!•: of
the Bank of Seward returned Saturday
evening from a brief trip to Anchor
age.
any reasonable test of his pcwesr.
There will also be a special matinee
for "Ladies Only*’ Tuesday, June 1, at
2 p. m., at "which time girls under the
age of sixteen will not he admitted to
the theater and Questions of a more
private or personal ns tare may he
asked and In return will he answered
in a direct and comprehensive man
ner.
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DIRIGIBLE NEVER IN ANY DAN
GER OF WHIRLING ICE
FROM PROPELLERS
WALKED ON TOP OF BIG AIRSHIP
Nome Catboics Plan Receotion *o
Commander Nobile When He
Gets Back from Teller.
NOME. May 24. (jP)—Lieu Oskar
Omdahl said “at no time was -he~e
ice on any par: of the Norge excey'
on the propellers, and never was :'n
any danger of ice from the propeller*
knocking holes in the dirigible as tbe~e
was an extra canvas to prevent i*
Why, I walked on top of the dirigib'e
the entire length when in the viefaity
of Barrow and upon our arrival at
Teller another member ran on of
the airship before finally landing. »
ice was encountered as the ooHw*
weather recorded was fmr degree*
above freezing T
It Is reported Nobile, before >e*v pr
Borne, bsc an audience w fb the Pope.
. who gave hfnr. letters to OatboJice
mission aries in Alaska. TIeasing of
this the catholics of Nome planned a
meeting to give Nobile a rerefwto*
upon his arriva: Tro* Tbl'-err.
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