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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME 20. NUMBER 298
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
ELECTIONS OVER
COUNTRY BRING
MANY SURPRISES
DEMOCRATS CAPTURE NEW YORK
CITY AND NEW JERSEY
REPUBLICAN FOR BOSTON
NEW YORK. Nov. 4 (/P)—Complete
eturns today show that Walker was
lected mayor of Greater New York
:>y a plurality of 401,581 votes. The
total vote was a million and a quar
ter. Four of the amendments favored
y Governor A1 Smith were adopted.
Walker is a democrat.
Hetch Hetchy Project Beaten
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 4 (/P)—1The
voters yesterday elected nine super
visors and disapproved of the sale of
the hydro-electric power at Hetch
Hetchy to a private corporation for
distribution to the city. The proposal
to buy the old §36,000,000 Market
street railway line was downed eight
to one.
Democratic Governor Elected N. J.
NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 4 (JP)—Harry
^ Moore, a wet democrat, was yesterday
elected governor of New' Jersey, de
feating State Senator Whitney, who
was endorsed by the Anti-Saloon Lea
gue. Moore had a plurality of nearly
90.000, with 1,171 out of 2810 precincts
yet to be heard from.
Klan Candidate Defeated
DETROIT. Mich., Nov. 4 (/P)7*-Ma'yor
Smith wras reelected yesterday defeat
ing Henry Ford’s Klan candidate,
Charles Bowers. The complete vote
gives Smith 140.83S; Bowles 111.051.
Republicans Win in Louisville
LOUISVILLE. Ky., Nov. 4 (#>)—The
Courier Journal says: “Slugging,
shooting and the alleged use of re
peaters attended the return of the
Republicans to power in this city, with
the election of Arthur Will mayor over
Joseph T. O’Neal, democrat. Dis
patches from Eastern Kentucky tell
of three dead and several wounded.
* The vote from 664 out of 700 pre
cincts gave Will 55,337: O’Neal.
53,106.
Republican for Boston
BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 4 (JP)~For
ihe first time in 18 years democratic
Boston elected a republican mayor in
the person of Malcolm E. Nichols, who
recently resigned as collector of inter
nal revenues. Ten candidates were in
4ffae race. Nichols polled 64,233. His
nearest competitor. Thomas Glynn,
polled 41,933.
AUSTRALIA NEARS
SIX MILLION MARK
MELBOURNE, Nov. 4. (^—Sta
tistics recently completed show that
on March 31, Australia had a popu
lation of 5,900,000, in ‘increase of 31,
000 in three months.
Savings banks deposits on the same
day aggregated $800,525,000. The
total industrial prdouction of Aus
tralia for the year ended June 1 is
shown to have been $1,971,000,000.
Mine Foreman, Latouche,
Making Trip of Inspection
w Nuka Bay Quartz Claim
B. L. Stoltman, mine foreman at
Latouche, who, previous to entering
the service of the Latouche corpora
tion, was for many years engaged
in mining and prospecting, especially
in the Kuskokwim, left Seward the
other day for the Nuka Bay quartz
field, to investigate the Blair, Smith
and Sather prospect, considered to be
the largest vein to date in the dis
trict.
SWEDEN’S AUTO
IMPORTS MOUNI
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 4. (/P)—'Tn*
number of automobiles in Sweden
government statistics show, increas
ed from S 506, or one for eaea 705
inhabitants in 1919, to 62.S20, or o:ie
for each 95 inhabitants at the end oi
1924. The cars are mostly America::
made.
The government’s income, from
motor business last year included
$1,423,314 taxes on automobiles;
$774,043 on tires and $1,347,046 or
j gasoline.
MOORE WOULD
MODIFY LAWS
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i NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 4 (/P)—Com
missioner Harry Moore, of Jersey City,
is the Democratic leading opponent of
State Senator Arthur Whitney, Re
publican. for governor. In a signed
statement Moore said if he is elected
he “will initiate a movement to urge
Congress to modify the Volstead Act,
J permitting the manufacture of light
| wines and beer.”
—
i Destitute of Korea Emulate
Cave-Dwellers of Long Ago
TOKIO, Nov. 4. (TP)—Reports from
Seoul, Korea, state that more than
3,000 residents of that place are
dwelling in caves, just as their an
cestors did in a primitive age. It is
believed that most of these cave
dwellers are members of the poverty
stricken, unemployed class which has
been greatly augmented lately be
| cause of the industrial depression.
The Seoul authorities are declared
j to be somewhat perturbed over the
I situation and . are planning relief
measures in order to halt the cave
digging tendencies of the inhabitants.
Sword Forged As Gift for
Japan’s Imperial Grandchild
TOKIO, Nov. 4. (TP)—Sadakatsu
Getzan, Japan’s leading swordsmith,
has been ordered by the Imperial
Household to make a sword for the
Imperial grandchild, expected some
time in November. It has been a
custom of the Imperial Court, from
time immemorial to give a sword on
the arrival of an Imperial child, who,
whether boy or girl, keeps it during
its lifetime as an heirloom.
Says Hunger Causes
Many Mental Cases
BELFAST, Nov. 4. (TP)—“Hunger
has driven seventy per cent of the
patients here,” declared County Coun
cillor Keegan before the committee
of Mullingar Westmeath mental hos
pital. Another member declared that
the poor in his district had to eat
bread without butter, and that the
food they were obliged to subsist up
on was a disgrace to civilization.
Bobbed Hair, Short Skirts
Toboo Among Japan Girls
TOKIO, Nov. 4. (TP)—Japanese fash
ions are set by the geisha girls.
The cut of the kimona and the ar
rangement of the coiffeur, follow
their dictates. There has been a
noticeable trend toward occidental
styles. Short skirts and ibobbed hair,
however, will not be permitted by
the powers that rule the geisha in
dustry. Everybody occidental kind
of coiffeur was prohibited after Sep
tember 1. This regulation also ap
plies to the dress.
Scaramouche at the Liberty.
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DAVIS FOUND TO
BE WRONG MAN
BY HIS ACCUSERS
SWINDLED MAN SAID DAVIS WAS
NAME OF MAN WHO ROBBED
HIM BUT NOT THIS DAVIS
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 4 (£*)— Roy
J. Davis, well known aviator arrested
in Alaska about two months ago and
held in -jail -since that time was brpt
here on a charge of impersonating an
officer and fraudulently obtaining .$160.
When confronted by Martin Hurst of
Oakland, whom Davis was accused of
robbing, Hurst said, “Why, that is not
the man.” Davis was released. The
aviator said that the wanted man had
used his name before and that he re
sembled him in many ways.
Davis when arrested was operating
an airplane at Seward. Alaska.
WHITE KING OF WAR
LIKE AFRICAN TRIBE
RETURNS TO ENGLAND
HULL, Nov. 4 (Jp)—Ruler of the
500,000 dusky warriors and one of the
most romantic figures in the history
of East Africa, John Boyes, the white
king of Wa Kikuyu, has returned to
England after 14 years spent in the
company of the savage and warlike
tribes of Kenya.
i Born in Hull, the English seaport,
Boyes ran away to sea in his early
years and made his way to Africa. In
the company of a big game hunter he
made his way to the Kikuyu country,
where only two white men had ever
been before. The British government
had previously sent numerous parties
to make peace with this district but
they had all been massacred.
Boys persuaded the natives that it
was impossible to kill him and gain
ed their good will by drinking effer
vescing salt, convincing them that he
could drink boiling water because he
was “iron lined.” A chiming clock
and and a phonograph which they
thought was a great spirit boxed up
completed his conquest of the tribes,
and he at length became a king, unit
ing them in a blood brotherhood.
Many of the chiefs whom he enter
ed into the brotherhood with have
passed away and now their sons drive
about in $2500 automobiles.
ADMIRAL WATSON
DUE TO ARRIVE IN
SEWARD, 5 o’CIock
VETERAN VESSEL OF PACIFIC
S. S. CO. COMING WITH
FIVE HUNDRED TONS.
According to Wayne Blue, local
agent for the Pacific Steamship com
pany, the Admiral Watson is sched
uled to arrive in port at 5 o’clock
this afternoon. The vessel has been
delayed owing to the large general
cargoes which have been discharg
ed at various ports, en route to Sew
ard.
An approximate 500 tons will be
discharged locally. On the liner's
regular Westward trip the following
ports of call will be made: Port
Graham, Seldovia, Halibut Cove,
Uzinki and Kodiak.
Deserting Harvest
Hands Are Fined
WINNIPEG, Man., Nov. 4. —
The first fines to be recorded in
Manitoba for refusal to obey em
ployers’ instructions were assessed
three harvest hands who abandoned
their work during the height of the
harvest season. They were fined $5
and costs.
A Master “Mechanic”
Such a title is infinitely small when
applied to Professor Albert A. Mi
chelson, of the University of Chica
go. He is the inventor of a new
machine, the interferometer, which
can measure a change of ristance of
one five-millionth of an inch, and
which he uses in his solar and star
studies. Professor Michelson has
made a life study of the velocity of
light and spectrum analysis. He won
the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1907
and is classed as one of the great
est if not the peer, of the world’s
physicists.
RADIO CRAZE
SWEEPS JAPAN
TOKIO, Nov. 4. (/P)—The radio
craze has grown to such an extent
in Japan that some of the middle
school authorities in Tokio have is
sued orders that students shall not
“listen in” during certain hours of
the evening, but shall devote these
hours to their studies. The school
heads found upon investigation that
the youngsters were neglecting their
school work in the evening to listen
between the two countries.
Veiled Prophet Holds Sway
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 4. (/P)—The
mysterious Veiled Prophet will make
his forty-eighth annual appearance
here. The carnival event will bring
thousands of visitors.
The Veiled Prophet, whose iden
tity is known only to a few of his
intimate associates, will participate
the first night in a street parade, and
on the second night will attend the
grand ball in his honor. There he
will crown the Queen of Love and
Beauty, who will reign as a society
leader until her successors is chosen
next year.
Mrs. E| A. Williams, who has been
making her home in Seward for the
past few months is moving to An
chorage next week. Mrs. Williams is
the wife of the well known conductor
employed by the railroad. They have
a splendid home of their own in the
Inlet town.
Takes Apartment In Town
for Over Winter Months
Mrs. Starr, wife of the superinten
dent of the local fish hatchery moved
into town yesterday for the winter in
order that their sons may be closer in
touch with their school work. Mrs.
Starr, and family have taken rooms
in the Paulson building.
Charged with marrying two wo
men and proposing to another, John
Dolan, a former Canadian army avia
tor, told a Hot Springs judge: “I
don’t know what’s the matter with
me. I wish some doctor would ex
amine my head.” But John seemed
to have the right dope on himself
at that.
SEN. JAS. WALKER
MAYOR OF N. Y.
i
| NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (/pj— Senator
| James Walker swept into the mayor’s
' office on the crest of a Demicratic ti
i dal wave, leading his Republican op
i ponent, Frank Waterman, by more
i than 378,000, with the votes from all
I hut 1093 precincts counted. The Dem
ocrats captured all the important of
fices ip the borough.
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Bulgaria To Study
the German Art
SOFIA, Nov. 4. (/P)—The Bulgarian
board of education has decided to
■ send a delegation to Germany to
-study the most recent development in
; the arts and with the abject of es
I tablishing closer cultural relations
j total industrial production. The
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Birds Perpetuate Oak Tree
LONDON, Nov. 4. (JP)—Profession
al foresters in England are not plant
ing many oak trees, but the birds
are carrying acorns and in wastelands
the oak is being perpetuated by na
ture despite the decline in the de
mand for oak in commerce. Concrete
has displaced oak for fenceposts and
in many parts of England sycamore
and other soft woods are more popu
, lar with builders. *!
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Special Cars Constructed
By Alaska Railroad for
Conveying of Automobiles
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j Among the innovations recently add
| ed to the rolling stock equipment o£
i the Alaska railroad is two cars for
j carrying automobiles over the line.
These are similar to those used in
the states having not only large doors
on the sides but an extra door on the
end. There is ample room for three
autos in a car. The cars were built
complete in the Anchorage- shops.
Birch Wood Now Being
Manufactured by Shops
of the Alaska Railroad
In line with the policy of the Alaska
Railroad to further the resources of
the Territory, the Anchorage shops
are now manufacturing birchwood
flooring, for its own use. Formerly
maple was used but after a number of
months experimenting it has been de
termined that Alaska birchwood is as
good if not better. A large saving
in cost is also effected besides furn
ishing additional employment to Alas
kans. The birch wood used thus far
by the railroad has with few excep
tions been sawed at the mill at Dun
bar station.
Reception to Rev. and
Mrs. Graham on Friday
A public reception to Rev. and Mrs.
Thomas Philip Graham will be given
at the Methodist church Friday night
at 8 o’clock by the Ladies’ Aid assist
ed by other ladies of Seward. A splen
did program which will be in charge
of Miss Ruth Eccles, is being prepared
for the occasion. The general public
is invited.
Catherine McMahon, known to
many in Seward and who for two
years was employed in the headquar
ters office of the Alaska Railroad,
is now employed by a financial firm
of Seattle, according to a report in
Seward.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Seward volunteer fire department will
be held Friday evening at the fire hall.