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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XX. NUMBER 291.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
POLICEMAN ON
STAND BERYL G.
MURDER CASE
VICTORIA. Oct. 24. (/P)—Charles
"Morris, former Seattle policeman took
the stand in his own defense for the
murder of the Gillises, father and son
who were murdered near the Ameri
can boundary line last spring, after
Paul Stromkins had told a jury Owen
Baker and Harry Sowash had threat
ened to kill him the night of the hijack
mg raid, if Morris had not objected.
Morris told the jury he was asleep
'in Stromkin’s boat the night the Gil
eses were slain on the rum runner,
Beryl G., and knew' nothing until he
£wroke next morning at six, near Ana
eortes.
small boy rescues cripple
TACOMA, Oct. 24. (/P)—Her grand
son, six years of age, rescued Mrs. W.
Justice, a wheel-chair invalid yester
day, when fire destroyed their home
rear Riffe. .
FIRST HEN EGG LAID
IN SPITSBERGEN
* BARNETSBURG, Spitsbergen, Oct.
-4. (IP)—The first hen egg to be laid
in Spitzenbergen, was laid in, the hen
nery of Director Dresserlby, of the
Dutch Coal Company, which was heat
ed artificially, and darkened a part of
each twenty-four hours to stimulate
night during the midsummer period. In
the Arctic winter, artificial sunlight
V was provided.
THIRD LIBEL ACTION
AGAINST MAUD FILED
SEATTLE. Oct. 24. (>P)—The third
libel action against the Maud was fil
ed by the Winslow Marine Railway
and Shipbuilding Company of Seattle,
alleging a debt of twenty-three hun
dred and eighty-three dollars.
LIFE IN ARCTIC
IS NOT WHAT IT
* WAS YEARS AGO
CHICAGO, Oct. 24. (/P)—An Arctic
explorer’s life “ain’t what it used to
be,” because radio has taken away all
the thrills and perils, Lieut. Comman
der Eugene McDonald of the McMil
Jand expedition said, upon his return
ing home today.
LIMIT HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE
TWO HOURS GRIND DAILY
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 24. (/P)— Ath
letes in the local schools under no cir
cumstances may exercise more than
two hours in an afternoon. Na stu
dent may try out for more than one
major sport a semester.
The Board of Education, “alarmed at
the steadily increasing displacement
of studies by athletics in the minds of
the students,” set these and other
^ rules for high schools here.
• Only two practice games in each
sport will be permitted to precede the
regular season.
BANDITS INVADE MISSION CHINA
HONGKONG, Oct. 24. (/P)—Bandits
invaded the academy of the American
Presbyterian mission at Canton .Wed
nesday and kidnapped fifty-one Chi
nese students and four Chinese teach
ers.
Steve Crothers of Chestnut Hills,
Pa., made a score of 400 straight and
broke the American trapshooting rec
f ' ord at Dayton, O.
A shipment of baby chicks sent
from Metropolis, 111., to Topeka,
Kan., by airplane arrived safely with
out the loss of ac hick.
FIFTY-FOUR KILLED AND
AND THAT MANY HURT
WHEN MOUNTIES CLASH
LONDON, Oct. 24. (JP)—A Cairo dis
patch said that fifty-four persons were
killed and forty-three injured at Tan
ta, Egypt, where about a million peo
ple are attending a great religious
fair. The fatalities occured when
mounted police cleared a way through
a mass for one of the ministers.
The fair, which is held three times
a year attracts many fanatical Mo
hammodans from their countries. Eu
ropeans rarely make the visit.
YUKON HAS NINETY
ABOARD FOR
NORTH
SEATTLE, Oct. 24. (JP)—The steam
er Yukon sailed at nine this morning
for Seward and way-ports carring the
following passengers for Seward:
R. Morrison, John G. Brady and
wife, Louise Parcher, C. E. Mousain,
and wife, Olive Smith, Mrs. B. B.
Metzdorf, W. E. Moultry, Rev. J. E.
Yardell, E. G. Wetzler, W. A. Thomas
Eife and son, and four steerage.
AMERICAN DISCOVERS
ART OF WORKING GOLD
ATTLEBORO, Mass., Oct. 24.—Lost
for nearly seven centuries, the art
thru which gold used in the manu
facture of jewelry is made lighter
in weight 'but greater in volume, has
been rediscovered here. f
Victor D. Davignon, 26 year old
jewelry worker, is credited with this
accomplishment, which, according to
manufacturers, should virtually revo
lutionize the jewelry-making indus
try.
History shows that the famous Ben
venuto Cellini, last master of this val
uable secret, carried the art with hitm
to his grave, and that since his death,
metallurgists had sought the lost for
mula in vain.
Noted metallurgists say that Davig
non’s discovery is equal in import
_ance to the recent rediscovery by
General Electric Company engineers ;
of the lost art of hardening leads.
The total amount of gold consumed
annually by the arts in the United
States is about $60,000,000. Accord
ing to Rathbun Willard, metallur
gist, Davignon’s discovery should re
sult in a yearly saving of at least
$9,000,000 on this amount.
The saving in weight of articles
made from gold can now be reduced
from 8 to 18 per cent, depending up
on the color and carat of the gold
used, according to Willard. That is,
the manufacturer who could hereto
fore produce 100 articles from a giv
en amount of 14-carat gold, can in
some instances, make 118 articles of
jewelry from the same weight as a
result of Davignon’s discovery.
BERLIN STARTS MOVEMENT
REVIVE MILITARY BANDS
! _
BERLIN, Oct. 24. (/P)—Efforts are
being made to revive the old time mil
itary bands which formerly were pop
ular in every-day German life. In re
cent years they have given away to
string orchestras and jazz bands.
In the movement to bring the mili
tary band back to its own, a monster
concert was organized recently at the
-Stadion when 20 bands played simul
taneously under the direction of Pro
fessor Oscar Hackenberger. More
than twenty thousand persons attend
ed the concert.
26 Pet. Soviet Exports Here.
MOSCOW, Oct. 24. (^P)—More than
26 per cent of Russia’s total ex
port went to the United States in
the last half year. Nearly 60 per
cent of the total amount of furs sold
during this period was exported to
America.
BODY OF BOHMAN
IS FOUND HALF
BURIED IN SAND
NOME, Oct. 24. (&)—The body of
Ernest Bohman, member of the crew
of the missionary motorship Ariel,
which was wrecked near Teller, was
fourid yesterday partially buried in
the frozen sands, one mile west of Til
suk creek.
Bohman left the vessel to seek help
and it is believed he was drowned in
attempting to cross Tilsuk.
Bohman’s father, a banker of Troy,
Idaho, financed the second search for
the body, which has been brought to
this place for shipment to the States.
MISSIONARIES FROM ARIEL
ARRIVE IN SEATTLE ON VIC.
SEATTLE, Oct. 24. (/P)—Still suffer
ing from the effects of the storm which
wrecked the Mission ship Ariel near
Teller, Missionaries N. F. Joijer and
| Karl VonLehnsburg, arrived aboard
the Victoria.
NEW MISSIONARY SHIP FOR
PRESBYTERIANS IN ARCTIC
SEATTLE, Oct. 24. (£>)—'The Mis
sionary cruiser Princeton dedicated
last Saturday by Rev. Clinton Green,
in Lake Washington canal will be used
by the Presbyterian missions in Al
aska under the charge of Rev. David
Waggoner, of Juneau, who was pres
ent at the ceremonies. Rev. Edward
! Marsden of Metlakatla pronounced
, the benediction. The vessel is sixty
| three feet long and fifteen feet beam.
LACARNOPACT TO
FORCE HAND OF
UNITED STATES
CHICAGO. Oct. 24. (£>)—Senator
Pepper told the Women’s Republican
Club yesterday the motive of the men
who produced the pacts at Locarno
was to “irritate Coolidge to force the
Hand of the United States.” He said
those agreements were merely formu
lated to show what would happen with
out any treaties. “But President
Coolidge, while swift to hear, is slow
to speak and slow to wrath. He knows
that this is the time of International
affairs when we Americans must keep
good tempered,” he added.
TYPOTHETAE MEMBERS TO
RENEW POSTAL RATE
REVISION AT MEETING
CHICAGO, Oct. 24. (/P)—Two thou
sand delegates to the 29th convention
of the United Typothetae of America,
who meet here next week, are to
consider a renewal of their fight for
revision of postal rates.
Great Britain will be represented at
the convention by A. E. Goodwin of
London, secretary of the Federation
of Master Printers and Allied Trades
and A. E. Owen Jones, editor of Cax
ton Magazine, London.
The opening day will be devoted to
registration and to group meetings,
among which are the Typothetae Cost
Accounting Trade Composition Asso
ciation, the International American
Printers’ Cost Commission and the
Council Presidents.
SCOTT C. BONE HEADS
BIG NEWSPAPER CORPN.
SAN" LUISOBISPO, Oct. 24. (#>)—
The Western Publishers incorporated
at Atascadero; announced yesterday
Scott C. Bone will become its vice
President. The company will pub
lish several periodicals including the
Americanization magazine.
Fine show at the Liberty tonight.
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT TO
SHOOT POLICE TO ARCTIC
TO ABSTAIN ENCROACHMENT
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 24. (#*)—
Canadian mounted police have been
ordered to prepare for special duty in
the Arctic next spring. It is the Ca
nadian government’s intention to pre
serve all islands in the Arctic used by
Canadian fur trappers and settlers for
Canada. Officers on their visit will
establish posts on every island claim
ed by Canada early next year. It is
alleged that the encroachments of for
eign expeditions has caused the gov
ernment to take such action.
BEAUTY SHOP
GIRL S BODY IS
FOUND IN GRAVE
EUREKA, Oct. 24. The body
of Carmen Wagner, eighteen year old
beauty shop proprietor, was found yes
terday in a shallow grave three miles
from here, where Henry Sweet, her
■ companion on a hunting trip in the
mountains was found shot dead. Her
dog also shot, whs buried with her. A
half-breed Indian is sought in connec
tion with the killings.
MARKETS WITH ESKIMOS
BY AUTO FOR FIRST TIME
HERB LAKE, Man., Oct. 24. (JP)—
Far to the north of here, a small au
tmobile chugs its way over the ice
and snow, the first vehicle of its
kind to invade the land of the Es
kimo.
It was taken into the far north by
John Harris, who has returned to
his home there after marketing a
large number of furs here.
On his visit to civilization, Harris,
brought his Eskimio wife and three
children, “just to give them a treat,”
anad if wide and wondering eyes
were a criterion, it was a treat for
them.
When he returned, he took with
him the small automobile, besides a
large stock of provisions and goods,
to be used in trading with the na
tives. So far as is known here, it
will be the first automobile in this
section of the north.
Harris also took a power boat built
in sections, and 'when he left the
rail-head, he planned to put the
boat together, transfer the automo
bile engine to the boat, and proceed
under that power as far as possible.
Harris said he would have no trou
ble running the automobile over the
hard packed snow as he made his
rounds in trading with the Eskimos.
IF LEAGUE MEETS IN MADRID
MEMBERS’ WIVES RESPONSIBLE
GENEVA, Oct. 24. (JP)—If the next
session of the Council of the League
of Nations is held at Madrid, the se
lection may have been made by the
wives of the Council members.
The Spanish Ambassador was ask
ed by a friend whether he thought the
Spanish invitation to meet in Madrid
would be accepted.
“What do you think?” rejoined the
| Ambassador.
“Well, I know that Mrs. Hymans,
(the wife of the Belgian member of the
Council) says she wants to go to Ma
drid,” saitr the friend.
“Then it is all set,” said the Ambas
sador with a laugh. “If the wives of
the Council members have decided on
Madrid, then we shall certainly go
there.
Many thorofares are being widened
but the straight and narrow way still
appears to be adequate to handle its
traffic.
It would be fine if clothing manufac
turers would sew on buttons with the
same care that is devoted to the affix
ing of the size and price tags.
i
GREEKS CONTINUE
WARFARE WITH
BULGAR TROOPS
SOFIA, Oct. 24. (IP)-Twenty-five
have been killed and fifteen thousand
are homeless the result of Greeks oc
cupying forty square miles of terri
tory, which has been taken in the past
two days’ operations.
SOFIA, Oct. 24. (/P)—Bulgarian tele
graph agencies declared large bodies
of Greek troops continue to approach
; the Bulgarian border.
ESKIMO WILL SERVE FIFTEEN
YEARS FOR KILLING TRIBESMAN
SEATTLE, Oct. 24. (£>)—Timothy
Dienouluck, who killed a medicen man
of an Eskimo tribe south of Fort Yu
jkon, because he thought he cast a
! spell which killed his father, was
I brought here to serve a fifteen year
term for manslaughter in the Federal
Penitentiary. He came in the cus
tody of Marshal L. S. Kerr, and was
sentenced by District Judge Lomen.
The native said he hoped to learn
a trade while in prison.
HONEYMOONERS RETURN
NORTH FROM OUTSIDE
j Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Johnson,
: af Fairbanks, who have been spend
| ing the past several months honey
! mooning in California and Oregon,
returned to Seward yesterday on
i the Alaska. They are departing for
! the Interior Monday,
i Mrs. Johnson is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George ' Meyers, old
tiime residents of Fairbanks, and wa3
i born in Fairbanks. Mr. Meyers, in
j the early days, was engaged in bu«
1 iness In Dawson. w > ,
IMLACH PLANTS ,5
CLOSE FOR THE 1
PRESENT YEAR
W. J. IMLACH AND LAST CREW
LEAVING FOR STATES—IM
LACH GOING EAST.
W. J. Imlach, manager of the Im
lach Packing Company, premier
Scotch cured herring packers, with
salteries at Port Benny, Uzinki, and
Seldovia, departs from Seward this
evening on the steamer Alaska, for
Seattle, en route to the Eastern mar
kets, where a comprehensive study
of the herring marketing conditions
will be made. Mr. Imlach stated this
morning he would .probably be East
the greater part of the coming win
ter. He has promised to drop the
Gateway a line occasionally with in
formation relative to the fishing bus
iness in general, as he finds it. It is
certain these news letters will be
read with a great deal of interes:;.
During the past season his company
has packed about 11,000 barrels of
Madji cured herring in the compa
ny’s three plants. With the excep
tion of the craw at Port Benny, all
have departed for their various des
tinations. On this trip South of the
Alaska, about fifty members of the
Port Benny crew will be taken out
on the vessel, with the remaining
crew to follow next week on the Yu
kon.
Must Close Neck at Church.
\TENNA, Oct. 24. (/P)—In several
Jewish synagogues notices have ap
peared stating that women will be
admitted to services only if they
wear dresses closed at the neck.
About everything has been suggest
ed for Muscle Shoals except using its
power to operate a hairpin factory.