VOLUME 2Q. NUMBER S2
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
GRIER INTRODUCES
RILL PUBLICITY
DIRECTOR ALASKA
^ALSO BILL FOR ASSISTANCE FOR
FAIRS IN ALASKA—BLUE FOX
, BILL FOR PROTECTION
(Special to The Gateway)
JUNEAU, Alaska, Mar. 24—The cre
ation of an official publicity bureau
for the Territory is proposed in a
measure introduced this morning by
Representative Grier of Anchorage,
carrying an appropriation of $30,000
for the biennium. Grier also intro
duced a bill continuing Territorial as
sistance for Fair Associations on a
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large scale, providing annually $2000
for each division, and an additional
$2000 for expenditure by the Governor
for the purpose of sending Alaskan
exhibits outside.
A measure to tighten the present
law for protection of blue fox farmers
was introduced by Grier.
The Publicity Bureau measure pro
vides for the appointment of a board
of four members, by the Governor,
with himself as chairman, the employ
ment of a director at a salary of $5000
annually, the bureau being designed
as a co-ordinative agency for all
chambers of commerce.
LIVERPOOL GROWS 4
LITTLE MORE SOBER
LIVERPOOL, Mar. 24.—(AP;.—
The inhabitants of this city are not
consuming as much liquor as in
1920 or else they are taking it more
wisely. At tne recent annual ses
sion of the licensing committee
Chairman Joseph Hunter said con
victions for drunkenness in 1924 were
4.434 as against 8,506 in 1920. The
healthier condition of things was
due in a great measure to the action
of the bench and the supervision of
the police.
Some women do not wait until they
are widows to contest their husband’s
will.
Chamber Luncheon Is
An Enthusiastic One
Every seat was again filled at the
Chamber of Commerce luncheon at
the Grill today, besides several visi
tors. After enjoying the substantial
repast, the members were called to
order by Vice President McMullen.
Minutes of the last meeting were read
^ and approved.
Communications were read from ;
numerous parties desiring information
* on Seward. An Oklahoma party ask
ed about hotel conditions in Seward,
stating that he was about to dispose
of his fifty-room property in the Mid
dle West, and would like to come to
the Northland.
Two young men asked for informa
tion concerning homestead lands in
and around Seward, and sent a long
list of questions to be answered.
The chamber returned a vote of
thanks to Mr. Lanier, proprietor of
the Seward Dairy, who recently com
pleted his hot house, and furnished
a fine lot of succulent lettuce for the
luncheon.
The committee on printing inform
ed the chairman that the news books
for the chamber were completed and
the committee was discharged.
^ A communication was received from
the Nenana Igloo of Pioneers asking
for assistance in erecting a monument
I to the Alaska malemute, at Nenana,
where the antitoxin relay race started.
Messrs, H. Horn, assistant manager
$ of the Alaska Railway, and Mr. Brown,
car foreman for the railway, transpor
tation department, were guests of the
chamber.
At the rate the membership is in
creasing more room will have to be
provided for these luncheons in the
* * near future.
Parliament Gives Vote
Confidence Government
LONDON, Mar. 24.—The govern
ment received a parliamentary vote of
approval over its Singapore policy,
when the House of Commons by a
vote of 2S0 to 125 rejected Me Do if
aid’s motion to reduce the naval ap
propriation as a protest against the
government’s building the Singapore
naval base.
Income Tax Payments
Yield Enormous Sums
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 24.—
Official reports on March income tax
payments indicate to treasury offi
cials their estimated quarter of the
receipts, totaling $34,000,000, and for
the year, $66,000,000, will be borne out
as 80 per cent of the taxes have been
collected.
COMMISSION WILL REPORT ON
MUSCLE SHOALS PROJECT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 24.—
President Coolidge will soon appoint
a commission of five or six congress
men to report to Congress on the Mus
cle Shoals project. The body will in
clude some one connected with the
administration, possibly a cabinet
member or some prominent engineer.
A close man never has any close
friends.
WHITES TO START
COUP AGAINST THE
RED GOVERNMENT
WHITE TROOPS FIGHTING IN
CHINESE BATTLE LINES
AND ARE TRAINING
VANCOUVER. B. C„ Mar. 24.—En
route from Peking, where he trained
the navy for one of China’s govern
ments, to command the engine room
in the ship Discovery, which will sail
from Portsmouth, England, in May, on
a scientific expedition to the Antartic,
Lieutenant Commander W. A. Horton
predicted that White Russia would
spring a coup from China against the
Bolshevist government inside of a
year.
Horton was chief engineer on the
ship Terra Nova, on the expedition
in which Robert Falcon Scott perished
after reaching the south pole in 1912.
Horton said, “The White Russian
troops are fighting in the Chinese
wars, which are not dangerous, to ob
tain training, and revolt is talked on
all sides. Social conditions in Rus
sia are bound to change, and the
change will come soon because condi
tions are bad there.’’
COMPLAINT MADE AGAINST
PRACTICES ALIEN SYNDICATE
WASHINGTON. D. C., Mar. 24.—
Senator George Harris today com
plained to Secretary Kellogg against
the practices of the French-German
potash syndicate.
WHITE ROADS GIVE
DRIVERS VARIETY
OF EYE AILMENTS
LONDON, Mar. 24.—The grey of
white surfaced roads of England, at
which the increasing number of auto
mobile drivers are compelled to gaze
intently in guiding their speeding
cars, are causing* a mass of minor eye
troubles, according to Arthur Upson
in a recent address before the Insti
tute of Opticians.
White roads reflect the harmful ac
tinic rays, and Mr. Upson recommends
that road builders mix green coloring
matter with their surfacing material.
UNIONS PLACE BAN
ON CO-OPERATIVE
MINING BY ITS MEN
jMEMBERS CANNOT LEASE PROP
ERTIES AND WORK THEM
FOR COMMON GAIN
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Mar. 24.—
Officials of District No. 11, United
Mine Workers of America, have no
j tided local unions in Indiana that any
| members in the future affiliating with
co-operative mining ventuers in •vio
lation of previous agreements will be
■ dropped from the order.
Several prominent unionists have
i leased properties and operated them
| at a lower scale than that provided
j for by union contracts.
English Jury Gives Wife
Verdict for 5000 Pounds
LONDON, Mar. 24.—A jury has
awarded Dorothy Muriel Denistoun
£5,000 sterling, after a 15-day trial
in her suit against Colonel Ian Onslow
I Dennistoun, husband of Lady Carnar
j von, and former husband of Dorothy
! Muriel.
The jury found the sums advanced
to the Colonel by Muriel were loans
and not gifts, and found that he broke
i his contract to support her after their
| divorce four years ago.
CHILD POUNDS CAN
OF NITRO GLYCERIN
SIX PERSONS DEAD
MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN
WHO WERE ABSENT AT
THE TIME SURVIVE
MONTICELLO, Ky., Mar. 24—Peter
Franklin, aged 55, and his five young
children were killed at Frazer, near
here, when a can of nitro glycerin,
picked up by the father and carried
home from a nearby plant, exploded,
! when one of the children started to
! open the can by beating on it with
I a stone.
The mother and two children who
were absent from home at the time
of the explosion, survive.
The home was literally blown to
atoms, a great hole opening in the
earth where the house formerly
stood. Fragments of the bodies were
found hundreds of yards away.
, LONDON, Mar. 24—The quantity
| of fish landed at ports in England
| and Wales during the year 1924 was
‘valued at $75,750,000. This is an in
| crease of $6,400,000 over 1923.
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Ail Bodies Recovered
from Mine at Fairmont
FAIRMONT, W. Va., Mar. 24.—The
last of the 33 bodies in Mine 41 has
been recovered. All except two have
been identified.
Texan Man Is Named To
Succeed Nelson Hartson
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 24 —
A. W. Gregg, of Texas. \Vho helped to
frame the present tax laws, has been
selected by Secretary Mellon to suc
ceed Nelson T. Hartson of Seattle, as
solicitor for the internal revenue bu
reau.
Secretary Mellon denied the state
ment that the resignation of Hartson
W'”Vh is effective April 1, is connect
ed w th the assessment of additional
taxes against Senator Couzens on the
sale of Ford stock.
Competition is the life of trade. Two
pants suits may s^rni be followed by
an extra coat and \
; Master Motorship Oregon
i Gets $300 and 90 Days
JUNEAU, Mar. 24.—John B. Ed
wards, master of the motorship Ore
gon, on which Federal raiders here
found a cache of whisky last Thurs
day, was fined $300 and given 90 days
in jail. Edwards paid the fine and
the sentence was suspended when he
promised to refrain from rum running
in the future.
The cas& against J. Leroy, purser,
j was dismissed. No action was taken
; against the ship.
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ALAMEDA OUT OF KETCHIKAN
KETCHIKAN, Mar. 24.—The Ala
meda cleared north yesterday after
noon at 12:30 for Juneau.
RUSSIAN ANNUL
OIL CONCESSIONS
SINCLAIR COM’Y
MOSCOW, Russia, Mar. 24—The
Soviet government has annulled the
concession of the Sinclair Oil inter
ests on Saghalien Island, and directed
the government to return 200,000 ru
bles advanced as a guaranty deposit
by Sinclair. Japanese have been oc
cupying all of Saghalien Island and
the Sinclair company contends that
this has prevented it from proceeding
with development work according to
the terms of the concession.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Mar. 24.—Har
ry F. Sinclair’s counsel announced to
day that the Sinclair interests would
fight to retain the Russian concession
at Saghalien.
CLAIM 0FN.P.T0
BIG TRACT DENIED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 24.—
The congressional investigation com
mittee took up the claims of the
Northern Pacific railway to 638,450 ;
acres of land claimed by reason of a j
junction of the east and west line
with the north and south line, in Ta
coma. The railway demanded that
the extra acres cover both strips be
side the tracks where they overlapped '
in corners, which the Interior Depart- j
ment had refused to grant.
Naval Limitation Talked
of By President Coolidge
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Mar. 24.— j
President Coolidge has suggested that
Frank Kellogg take preliminary steps
toward a naval limitation conference.
The President sees two phases in the
work ahead, one to determine the me
chanical aspects of disarmament, and
two. discussion with other nations on
whether a conference is desired.
Wadsworth Tenders His
Resipation, As Director
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Mar. 24.—
Elliott Wadsworth, Bostog IflUISHS
to the Secretary of the Treasury in
charge of the foreign loans and rail
road advances department has sub
mitted his resignation.
VACCINATION AT
VANCOVER, B. C.
VANCOUVER, B. C„ Mar. 24.—
Confronted with an order by the
United Public Health Service effec
tive a week ago, all persons from here
entering the United States must be
vaccinated, the city has ordered ev
erybody vaccinated free.
Those who resist the order are to
be sent to a segregation which is to
be established.
GRAND IGLOO WILL
MEET IN VALDEZ AT
ITS NEXT SESSION
JOHN T. SPICKETT OF JUNEAU,
NAMED PRESIDENT; M. R.
SHEPHERD, SECRETARY
JUNEAU, Mar. 24—The Grand Ig
loo of Pioneers, representing eighteen
Igloos of the Territory, adjourned
last night after electing John T,
Spickett, president; M. It. Shepherd,
secretary, and John Reck, treasurer.
All the new officers are Juneau resi
dents.
The next session of the Grand Ig
loo will be held in Valdez.
The Constitution was amended so
all persons coming to Alaska prior
to December 31, 1905, are eligible for
membership to the order.
The meeting was declared one of
the most harmonious and successful
since the organization of the institu
tion.
DISCOVER BIG
COAL SEAMS IN
NORTH SIBERIA
MOSCOW, March 24—The discov
ery of four big coal seams under the
Petchora river, was reported by the
northern scientific expedition which,
has just returned to Leningrad.
Iron and copper were reported near
the Popaia river. The expedition ex
plored Novaya Zembla island and re
ported it possesses many fur animals
and is capable of supporting a colony.
TEN CONVICTS ESCAPE
DRIP, Mass., Mar. 23.—Ten convicts
held up the guards at the Mississippi
State prison Sunday, took their guns,
locked the guards up and escaped in
two autos. Prison bloodhounds are
being used in an effort to find trace of
the escaped men.
NAVY SWIMMERS WIN
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Mar. 23.—Navy
swimmers defeated Rutgers in a dual
meet here Saturday.
COLD WAVE ENDS IN CHICAGO
NEW YORK. Mar. 23.—Cold weath
er prevailing in the east and middle
west for several days disappeared
suddenly today to make way for an
other colder wave which swept from
the lake region to the Atlantic coast.
The Middle West was particularly
hard hit.
ALASKA STEAMER
VICTORIA IS BEING
REPAIRED FOR RUN
SEATTLE. March 24—The Alaska
steamship company is extensively al
tering the Victoria in preparation for
the coming season which it will ini
tiate by starting for Nome on June 3.
The company is installing new life
boats with davits which will increase
the deck space; building a smoking
and observation room aft, adding room
for the passengers on the upper and
lower decks; refurnishing the dining
saloon, building new bulkwarks for
ward to protect the vessel against the
heavy northern seas; extending the
upper deckhouse amidships thirty-two
feet aft; constructing new upper deck
rooms with protection from the seas;
rebuilding the crews' quarters and
adding steerage accommodations.
When all alterations are made the
Victoria will be one of the crack pas
senger ships on the northern run.
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