Hemnrd Daily Gnteumy
V0LUMET9. NUMBER 302 ^
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1924
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PRICE TEN CENTS
FIREMEN PREPARE
FOR BIG DANCE;
LIST PRIZES
The members of the local Fire
D^artment met last night and com
pleted arrangements of their annual
masquerade ball to be held in A. B.
hall tomorrow night. Among other
rules adopted at the meeting it was
decided that all masked dancers must
be on the floor by ten o’clock, or they
would not be considered as entrants
for prizes.
The grand march will take place
at 11 o'clock sharp, all participants
being masked. Childreii up to 12
years old will be charged 50 cents ad
mission, but no door prizes will be
given on 50 cent tickets.
Walter Holben will preside at the
punch bowl in a dignified and grace
ful manner, and all gentlemen are re
quested to accept the punch “as is.”
Punch will be free to all who attend.
Stores and business houses are ask
ed to make every effort to dispose of
tickets by Wednesday afternoon.
Tnie Anchorage Basketball girls
team will arrive in the city tomorrow
night and they are cordially invited by
the boys of the Fire Department to
be their guests at the masque ball.
Prizes are on display in Urbach’s
window.
Twenty handsome door prizes will
be given to those holding the lucky
tickets.
List of Prizes Offered
For the most beautiful costume
made for the occasion by a lady, a
$15 gold pen and pencil; second prize,
an $8.00 lady’s purse.
For the best dressed gentleman, in
costume made for the occasion, a $15
Traveling Bag and JPullmau Set ; sec
ond prize, an $S.00 Silk Shirt.
For Most Comical Lady, first prize,
an $11.50 Aladdin Lamp; second prize
box of groceries valued at $5.00.
For the Most Comical Man, first
prize, one box of fifty King Optimos;
second prize, one $5 box of groceries.
Best Sustained Character, Lady,
first prize, an electric iron; second, a
basket of candy.
Best Sustained Character, Man, first
prize, a S5 meal ticket; second, box
of cigars.
For Best Male Impersonator (must
be a woman), first prize, String of
B^t.Js; second, $2.50 cash.
Best Female Impersonator (must
be a man), first prize, one box of Ci
gars; second, meal for people.
Best Dressed Girl under 12 years
of age, first, String of Beads; second,
a Toboggan.
Best Dressed Boy under 12 years,
first prize, two boxes Candy; second,
one Cake. /
Best Dressed Girl Under 10 years,
:&st prize, $2.50 cash; second, Fruit
Cake.
An orchestra of seven pieces will
render the music for the occasion.
Remember to keep the stub of your
ticket. It may win a prize.
Read tomorrow’s paper for final de
tails.
FIRE ON BOARD
JAPANESE BOAT
1 SCARES CREW
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.—Fire on
board the steamship Ginyo Maru late
last night forced 79 passengers and
crew of the vessel to take to the
life boats. Later however, the flames
were being battled by a squad of 30
men which returned to the ship for
a short time, according to radio ad
vjpes from the freighter Julia Luck
e«ibach which picked up the occu
pants of the lifeboats.
ALBANIAN CAPITAL TAKEN
TIRANA, Albania, Dec. 30.—The
Albanian cabinet, headed by Premier
Jan Noli, fled before the capital was
occupied yesterday by rebel forces,
the correspondent of the Giornale d’
Half* states.
BARRICADED BLACK STANDS
OFF OMAHA OFFICERS
OMAHA, Dec. 30.—Barricading
himself in his house, where detec
tives had been sent to arrest him on
a serious statutory charge, a negro,
said by police to be Frank Nyler,
shot Chief of Detectives Ben Dan
baum and then sent a bullet into De
tective Tom Ryan’s hip.
The negro resisted all efforts of
the police to dislodge him and it
was decided to burn the house. He
kept up his fusillade, seriously en
dangering the attacking officers and
others who congregated about the
scene. The house is located in the
negro district.
NEW WESTMINSTER HAS
BAD FIRE IN CHINATOWN
NEW WESTMINSTER. B. C., Dec.
30.—Quick action by the fire depart
! ment here late last night saved the
lives of many Chinese when a block
of Chinese stores were burned at an
estimated loss of $30,000.
ATTORNEYS GET
ENORMOUS FEES
IN MURDER CASE
CHICAGO. Dec. 30— Clarence Dar
row and the firm of Benjamin and
| Walter Bachrach, lawyers, who saved
Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold
from the gallows when the pleaded
guilty to kidnapping and killing Rob
j ert Franks, received $150,000 for their
services it was announced today.
1924 IS BAD YEAR
FOR CENTENARIANS
LONDON, Dec. 30.—This has been
a bad year for British centenarians,
t No less than twelve persons who had
lived for more than 100 years died
since the beginning of the year,' five
of them during the month of No
vember. The oldest, Nathan Lapat
rick, of Sheffield, had reached the
age of 112 years.
| Other centenarians survive the de
| parted old-timers, however. Mrs.
! Sarah Parker, of Westonsuper-Mare,
I who celebrated her 104th brithday
I last month, received a congratula
| tory message from Mrs. Chamber
lain, a neighbor, aged 101.
At least two centenarians cast
i their ballots in the general election
on October 29.
MARTIN TESTIFIES
IN TRIAL FORBES
AND MORTIMER
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—Testifying for
the defense in the trial of Forbes, for
mer head of the veterans’ bureau,
Major Frederick Martin, first flight
commander of the world flyers, said
he would not believe Mortimer on
oath, and told of alleged irregular ac
tivities of Mortimer, while he, Mar
tin, was in the army air service ofTice
in Washington.
HUGE BLACK BASS STOPS
WHEELS OF DELEWARE MILL
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DOVER, Dela., Dec. 30.—August
Jensen’s flour mill at Reynolds, Del.,
came to a sudden stop. There was
plenty of water in the pond, but the
wheel refused to turn.
Jensen made an investigation and
found that the mill wheel had been
stopped by a huge black bass that
had been drawn into the race and
wheel. The fish weighed just ten
pounds and eight ounces.
Pioneer Lawyer of
Seattle Passes On
SEATTLE, Dec. 30.—A. W. Hostle,
aged 78, a pioneer lawyer, died here
today.
AMERICAN DOLLAR
HAS CONQCERED
THE WORLD
LONDON, Dec. 30.—Commenting
on America’s great wealth the London
Chronicle says the action of Ameri
ca’s vast wealth is rapidly drawing
in all that money can buy. There has
been nothing like it before in the his
tory of the world. The ancient power
of Rome and Carthage was small in
comparison to that which America
wields. All this power has been won
not by physical conquest, not by the
sword, but by a new kind of economic
imperialism.
The Chronicle bewailed the fact
that Europe is being stripped of all
their treasures by rich American peo
ple, who outbid the poverty stricken
collectors of Europe.
LITTLE ENGLISH RIVER
REWARDS PATIENT PEARL
FRESH WATER FISHERMAN
STRATHYRE, Eng., Dec. 30.—Fresh
water pearl fishers may be seen daily
at work in the waters of the river
Balvaig, seeking the mussel shells
that occasionally conceal pearls.
They use a tin can, with the bot
tom removed and a glass substituted
for locating the shells in the river
bed, an'* — Vshaped stick at
one e . .„gmg the shells to
tv ., icasionally a gem
v , ned; one such re
cently was sold a jeweler for $100.
YOUNG MAN RESCUED
FROM STARVATION
CLyde Davis, a young mi ? .former
ly of Juneau, who is said to have
been trapping in the vicinity of Oli
ver’s Inlet was found in a starving
condition in his cabin Monday even
ing by William S. Howard, who was
hunting in the Inlet. The latter
brought the man into town with
him on his gas boat Kitty and is
taking care of him in his own
home. According to the report given j
by Howard, Davis had a partner i
who had taken their boat to go to
town and had failed to return.
British Justice Speedy
la Case of Burglary
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VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 30.—j
Young Fee, a Chinese, broke into a ;
tobacco store this morning,, was ar-!
rested at 8:45, arraigneed at 9:30 and
at 10:20 was on his way to serve two
years in the penitentiary.
Administration Fight To
Uphold Postal Veto
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The ad
ministration believes it now has
enough votes to sustain its veto of the
postal pay bill.
LA GRANDE COUPLE DIE
IN RESIDENTIAL FLAMES
LA GRANDE, Ore., Dec. 30.—Mr.
and Mrs. Will Church were burned
to death in their home in the west
part of the city in a fire which start
ed at 3 o’clock this morning. The
cause of the fire had not been de
termined this morning. An early sur
mise that an overheated stove was
the cause, was discredited by Fire
Chief C. O. Murchison.
The fire trapped Mr. and Mrs.
Church, who were sleeping upstairs.
When found the former was lying in
a sleeping porch with one arm out
slretr*htd ,as if he hat opened the
door from the hallway to the sleep
ing rcrcli in an tatempt to escape.
Mrs. Church was founl near her
husband.
Neighbors who were awakened by
screams turned in the fire alarm.
When the firemen art* tJ the in
terior o'' the house was a mass of
flames.
Mr. Church was 7m ted States
■jomuJMsion here.
ASKS FOR HALF MILLION
FOR PORTLAND VETS' BUREAU
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30— Repre
sentative Watkins, of Oregon, has
introduced a bill to make $500,000
available for the Veterans’ Hospital
Bureau at Portland. This includes
a complete hospital plant.
NATIONS' FARM CROPS ARE
VALUED OVER NINE BILLION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Import
ant farm crops of the nation for
the year are valued at $9,479,902,
000, according to estimates made
by the Department of Agriculture.
The estimates are based on Decem
ber 1 prices.
GOLD COAST HOLDS
NO TERRORS FOR
ENGLISH PRINCESS
LONDON, Dec. 30.—Princess Marie
Louise, King George’s cousin, has de
cided to leave London in February
for a months’s visit to the Gold
coast of West Africa, where she will
take part in some big game shooting.
LOMEN ASKS AID
FOR RELIEF MEN
WRANGELL ISLE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Carl J.
Lomen, Nome operator, has appealed
to the Red Cross to go to the relief
of the twelve men, one white and 11
Eskimos, comprising his Wrangell
Island venture, now stranded in Si
beria.
KETCHIKAN MAN FOUND
INSANE BY THE JURY
John Gasper, said to be a home
steader in the Ketchikan district,
was the other day adjudged insane
by a jury in the Juneau U. S. Com
missioner’s court. He was ordered
by Judge elix Gray, of Douglas
who presided over the hearing, to be
committed to Morningside Sanilorium.
Gasper was before a Ketchikan
jury last March for an investigation
as to his sanity and was at that time
said to be sane. It was said he
is laboring under the delusion of per
secution and claimed that he was be
ing persecuted by the Ku Klux Klan.
He was taken south on the Alaska on
her last trip south by Deputy Mar
shal Mort Truesdell.
FUND RAISED SEND
OLD TIMER TO
MAYO BROS.
SEATTLE, Dec. 30.—A fund is be
ing raised to send Wm. J. Julian, a
Broad Pass mining operator, suffering
from cancer of the stomach, to Mayo
Brothers for an operation. Mr. Julian
arrived in Seattle from Alaska about
a month ago.
Mike McTeagne Wins
Over Jinuny King
ATLANTA, Dec. 30 — Mike Mc
reague, world light heavyweight
champion of the world, won a tech
aical knockout over Jimmy King of
Mew Orleans in the fifth round of a
:en-round match here last night.
SMUGGLING OF LIQUOR
ALMOST AT STANDSTIL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Smug
gling of liquor across the Canadian
border and along the Atlantic Coast
is almost at a standstill because
of keen competition on Rum Row,
Commissioner General W. W. Hus
band said in a statement. He de
clared that Canadian liquor prices
are now too high and smuggling
is done at a greater risk than pre
viously.
KID M’COY FOUND
GUILTY MURDER
MRS. MORS
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30— Kid Mc
Coy was found guilty of manslaughter
this evening by a jury of nine women,
and three men, who wrere out delib
erating 78 hours before returning a
verdict. McCoy said: “I wanted to
either be hanged or acquitted.”
McCoy was found guilty of the
murder of Mrs. Theresa Mors, n al
leged sweetheart, while under the in
fluence of liquor.
SPOKANE SURGEON MADE
PRESIDENT ASSOCIATION
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec 30.—The
thirteenth annual meeting of the
North Pacific Surgical Association
v ts conduce • • here today wi'h *he
'1 ction of *• Cht. -«• f Ei »enbary,
of Spokane, as oresident to succeed
Dr. A. E. Rockey, of Portland, and
the selection of Spokane as the meet
ing place for 1925.
Old Klondike Pioneer
Dead at Salem, Oregon
SALEM, Ore., Dec. 30.—Leroy M.
Tozier, a lawyer and pioneer of the
Klondike district, formerly of Seattle,
is dead here.
POLAND NEGOTIATING
FOR AMERICAN LOAN
WARSAW. Dec. 30.—The ministry
of finance today confirmed reports
that Poland is negotiating ;or an Am
erican loan which is expccten to be
in the neighborhood of $30,000,000 or
$40,000,000
300,000 BOXES APPLES SOLD
HOOD RIVER, Ore., Dec. 30.—The
Apple Growers’ association today sold
to New York City export apple mer
chants the entire remaining export
tonnage of all grades and varieties
of apples, totalling 300,000 boxes. The
sale, which will involve payment of
an approximate $500,000, was the
largest in the history of the north
western apple industry.
President To Promote
Mine Safety Measures
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—President
Coolidge plans an early conference of
the governors of the coal producing
states to consider the promotion of
mine safety measures.
SPANISH DIRECTORATE ENDS
PORT VENDRES, Spain, Dec. 29.—
The end of the rule of the directorate
in Spain was adopted here last night
by consent of its members who do
not feel qualified for the tasks, is the
forecast in dispatches cabled from
here.
DRY AGENTS MAY HAVE
KILLED SALOON OWNER
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 30.—Belief that
the four men who killed Omer
Finch, former Joy, 111., grain dealer,
recently, in his saloon at Chicago
Ridge, were federal prohibition men
and not, as federad authorities main
tain, hijackers posing as officers.
Cole Finch’s story that the shoot
ing resulted from his father’s refus
caught him with several drums of
al to pay a bribe when the men
alcohol, was corroborated by Law
rence Pedigo of Rock Island, 111., al
so a witness of the slaying.
Cole was theson of the slain victim.
King Albert Will Try" To
Cross the Sahara Desert
BRUSSELS, Dec. 29.—King Albert
of Belgium and Marshal Petain of
France will leave Friday in an attempt
to cross the Sahara desert by auto.