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VOLUME XIX.
NUMBER 78.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Flyers Not Start
Until Thursday, Apr. 3
SEATTLE, Apr. 1.—Mechanical dif
n ilties and unfavorable coast weather
ju British Columbia, will delay the
*wtil of the round the world squadron
un’l Thursday, and perhaps later, it |
was announced today.
Fairbanks Physician Is
Injured Aboard Ship
Ur. Frank K. (ie la Vergne of Fair
banks, who left on the last trip of the
Alaska, with several prisoners, was
unfortunate in breaking a shoulder
^ blade on the trip. The Alaska en
countered very rough seas in the Gulf
oj. Alaska and the doctor was thrown
down breaking his shoulder.
Mrs. Stephen Adelman and daugh
ters ailed on the Northwestern for
Seatde where they will await the
arri' .1 of Mr. Adelman who recently
list sed of his dairy interests in this
city. Mr. Adelman will wait until the
ope ng of navigation on the Yukon
go outside by way of Dawson and
horse.
in’s School Law Is
)eclared Unconstitutional
.TLAND, Apr. 1.— Oregon’s
Jsory public scohol law which
soug it to force parochial and private
schools out of existence, and which
was promulgated by the Ku Ivlux Klan
was today declared unconstitution by
an opinion rendered in the Federal
court in a test case.
The law would not only have forced
all secular schools out of business, but
would have caused several military
schools for boys and a number of girls
schools to cease operations.
Solidified Alcohol Cause
of Seven Deaths When
Used as a Chaser
TOLEDO, Ohio, Apr. 1.—Solidified
alcohol, known as “canned heat,” melt
ed and dmnk by occupants of a hotel
here, resulted in the deaths of seven
persons today. The men who were re
covering from a prolonged debauch se
cured the “canned heat” and me'ting
it, poured the alcohol off and drank it.
They died in great agony within a few
hours.
Southeastern Republicans
Believe Indians a Menace
An advertisement in a Juneau pa
( per, signed by J. H. Davis, H. R. Shep
ard, Howard Ashley, and A. E. Gurr
prominent Republicans, states that a
plan is on foot to extend to the Indians
of Alaska all the privileges of whites,
including the right to sit on juries, to
vote irrespective of mental qualifica
tions, and to send their children to
white schools, to mingle, regardless of
physical condition, with white children
at the latter’s peril.
An organization has been perfected
^ to carry this plan into effect and this
"iganization has been adequately fin
anced.
The advertisement continues: “We
do not believe that the Indians are yet
ready to assume all the duties imposed
on the white; and we do not believe
that the Indians generally have suffi
ci nt knowledge of the rules of sanita
tion to insure the safety of white chil
d on should both races be admitted
lreely to our schools together. For
th'-se reasons we have declared in fav
o; of a law to prevent the mass vot
ing of illiterate Indians; and we are
against the law that will be proposed
at the next Legislature, to compel
school boards to admit all Indians who
apply for admission to the Territorial
schools.
“Remember, those who are exploit
ing the Indians are well organized and
financed.
“Unless those who are opposed to
having Indians in the Legislature and
white schools and on juries, also or
ganize, the Indians are certain to hold
the balance of power.
“An opportunity to keep the Indian
in his place until he is better qualified
to exercise all the privileges and as
sume all the duties of the whites; and
to keep him there for his own good
and the benefit of the Territory is af
forded all Republican voters by sup
porting the undersigned at the prima
| vies April 29th.”
WILL HOUSE MOST HISTORIC DOCUMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES
President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge at the unveiling of the Shrine in Washington, D. C’., where the Declara
tion of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are to be installed.
Northwestern Has
Light List Southbound
The steamship Northwestern sailed
Saturday night with a light list of pas
! sengers tor southern ports. Those
taking pasasge from Seward were:
For Latouche—Dan Williams, Henry
Stone.
For Cordova—Miss Neville Lewis,
Harry N. Porter,
For Juneau—E. Thiessen, S. Shuek
lin, Robt. J. Rogers, Julia Willsant.
For Ketchikan—J. Jacobson.
For Seattle—Mrs. Stephen Adelman,
Margaret Adelman, Frances Adelman,
Josephine Adelman, Geo. A. Frenchik,
W. E. Moultray, Roger H. Stevenson,
Mrs. Stevenson, L. J. Scanlon, F. M.
j Crocker, Mrs. W. S. Woolaver, J. E.
; Crutcher, Mrs. Anna M. Crutcher.
Autoist Overcome by
Alcohol in Radiator
MORRISTOWN, April 1—A warn
ing to autoists not to drive in closed
cars if they use wood alcohol in their
radiators has been issued here. It was
voiced by Frank Rivers, Indianapolis,
after he was revived by a local physi
cian.
Rivers was driving his closed auto
when he felt a severe pain across his
eyes, similar to a blinding headache.
Becoming dizzy, he stopped the car,
opened the door and fell to the ground
unconscious.
Dr. J. B. Jeffery said Rivers was
overcome by carbon monoxide gas, due
to an improperly adjusted carburetor
and to the use of wood-alcohol to keep
the radiator from freezing.
Senator Robinson May
Be Choice Democrats
WASHINGTON, Apr. 1— Former
Ambassador Harvey today predicted
the nomination of Senator Joseph T.
Robinson of Arkansas for the presi
dency by the Democrats.
Stills Nabbed by Cops
Pay for Gym Fixtures
CHICAGO, April 1—If bootleggers
and manufacturers of “white mule”
who ply their trade near the Shakes
peare avenue police station feel that
the dry squad is overzealous, it may
be explained by the fact that the men
assigned to that station are getting a
lot more than “glory’ and that feeling
of duty well performed when ever they
pinch a still.
By selling junk seized in moonshine
raids they have cleared enough money
to equip fully the station gymnasium
with new apparatus. Captain Patrick
Harding obtained permission to sell
the old copper and bottles that had
been confiscated during the mopping
up raids.
H. S. Young, a prominent merchant
of Kenai, accompanied by his wife,
w’ere through passengers on the Admi
ral Evans for Kenai.
SINCLAIR INDICTED
FOR OIL FRAUDS BY
FEDERAL GRAND JURY
WASHINGTON, Apr. 1—Harry Sin
clair was indicted for oil frauds by a
Federal grand jury today on ten
counts including contempt of the Sen
ate. A brother of the attorney general
was also cited for contempt and his
indictment asked on the ground that
he refused to testify before the com
mittee.
Students Lazy, Says
University President
ANN ARBOR, Mich. April 1—A
plea for the return of chivalry and
the removal from the campus life of
“many things that should turn red
with shame the faces of any decent
man or virtuous woman,” was made by
President Leroy Burton, in an address
to the students of the University of
Michigan.
“You students are lazy,” he said.
You loaf, you gamble, you spend week
ends in the big cities and then you
wonder why we don't want you here.”
Air Pilot Killed, Asks
Others Keep in Game
CLEVELAND, 0., Apr. 1.—The
mother of Capt. Leonard Brooke Hyde
Pearson, a world war flyer and mail
airman who was killed ten days ago
in the fall of a plane made in Pennsyl
vania yesterday made public a letter
from the captain addressed to “‘My
Beloved Brother Pilots and Pals,” to
be opened after his death, urging them
to stick to it.
One paragraph of the letter read:
“We risk our necks; we give our lives
and perfect the service for the benefit
of the people of the world; yet, mind i
you, they are the ones who call us
fools.”
Mail Waits in Juneau
Two Years for Delivery
JUNEAU: About two years ago,!
Joseph F. Novachak left Juneau on a
trapping expedition. Novachak told i
Postmaster Bradford to hold all his
mail until he called for it, no matter |
how long, and not to return any of it;
to the senders.
There is now a large stack of let
ters in the local postoffice and the
Postmaster is beginning to get worried
fearing something has happened to
Novachak.
The missing man was around Ju
neau some time prior to leaving on
his last trapping expedition. Very lit
tle is known about him here. The
many letters at the postoffice for
Novachak are postmarked from Hood
River, Ore. During the last two years
the letters have arrived regularly but
never an inquiry as to whether they
were delivered.
Germany Able to Pay
Five Billion Annually
PARIS, Apr. 1.—Germany will be
i able to pay two and a half billion
gold marks annually for five years,
according to figures which Commis
sioner Dawes, head of the expert com
! mittee, adopted in a report which
they will submit to the reparations
committee Saturday.
Bill for 67 Millions
Reported to House
WASHINGTON, Apr. 1.—A bill car
rying $67,000,000 for the Department
of States and the Departments of Jus
tice, Labor and Commerce was report
ed to the House this afternoon.
133 VOTES CAST AT 3 O’CLOCK
At the hour of 3 o’clock 133 votes
had been cast, considerably less than
half, in the city election. There will
undoubtedly be a heavy vote cast yet
this evening owing to the fine weather.
SENATOR DILL WANTS
ROOSEVELT RESIGN
ASSIST. SECRETARY
\\ ASHINGTON, Apr. 1.—Senator
Dill introduced a resolution in the
Senate today demanding the resigna
tion of Theodore Roosevelt, as assis
tant secretary of the navy, whom he
declared more involved in the Teapot
Dome oil scandal than Secretary Den
by.
Believes Man Has a
Right to Commit Suicide
LONDON, Apr .1.—Has a man a
right to die?
The point has been raised again in
England by George T. Royle, the cor
oner for the Scarborough district of
Yorkshire. At a recent inquest he
said:
“So far as human law is concerned
people have a right to commit suicide.
I object to their being punished for
attempting to do so.
“If they want to cut their throats I
do not see what they shouldn’t from
the human point of view. Whether it
is an offense against divine law is an
other matter. If a man has no right
to kill himself, the law has no right to
kill him.”
“‘I have always felt that it is con
summate impudence on the part of
the human mind to try to gauge the
physical pain and mental agony of
those who reach the point of suicide.
“Some have more capacity for bear
ing pain, both physical and mental,
than others. I say that the courts
have no business to charge a man with
attempting to commit suicide; it as a
matter between himself and his God.
“I draw a sharp difference, howeevr,
between a case where a man injures
no one but himself and a case where
a man’s mode of life is a source of;
danger to the public health.”
;
WOMAN MAKES LONG MUSH
TO ATTEND LEAP YEAR DANCE
Mrs. William DeLage, wife of one
of the operators at the North Fork
power plant, mushed 19 miles; on
snowshoes recently to attend a Leap
Year dance at Bear creek, making the
trip in five hours. Arriving at the
dance she put in the night on the ball
room floor, returning home the next
day. Some jazz artist, what?
Fight Pictures are Being
Shown; Law Again Violated
NEW Y'ORK, Apr. 1.—Motion pic
tures of the Dempsey-Firpo fight are
being shipped about the country and
shown in various theatres in direct
violation of the law.
Spokane Tailor Found
Guilty of Burglary
COLFAX, Wash., April 1—Joseph
W. Cress, a tailor of Spokane, was
found guilty by a jury in superior
court here this afternoon on a charge
of first degree burglary in connection
with the attempted robbery of the
Whitman County National Bank of
Rosalia last November. He is to be
sentenced Friday.
Two charges of assault and one of
attempted burglary, all in connection
with the crime, still are standing out
against Cress. It will not be decided
until Monday it was announced, wheth
er he will be tried at this term of
court on one or more of these charges.
Census Bulletin Gives Per
Capita Wealth at $2918
SEATTLE. Apr. 1.—A census bulle
tin today gives the wealth of the na
tion at $321,000,000,000 and the per
capita wealth as $2918.
Administration Defends
Acts of Andrew Mellon
WASHINGTON, Apr. 1.—An attack
in the Senate on Andrew Mellon, sec
retary of the Treasury, met with re
sistance from the administration re
publican leaders, Senator Smoot of
Utah, declaring that the question of
Secretary Mellon’s legal status in hold
ing the office had been considered be
fore he accepted the secretaryship.
Admiral Evans in Port
On First Trip Anchorage
The steamship Admiral Evans ar
rived in port yesterday from Seattle,
: on the first trip of the season to Cook
Inlet points. The Evans brought the
[following passengers for Seward: W.
Duvall, Geo. H. Koppitz, W. F. Lyons
and wife, Mrs. W. W. Clake, Lloyd
Pinkerton, J. E. Holmgren, J. D. Bur
ton, Mrs. R. E. Lander, C. E. Bryan
and 5 steerage.
Passengers sailing on the Admiral
Evans from Seward were: H. B. Mad-!
land, Fred Hamburg, for Kodiak; Os
car W. Anderson for Seldovia; John
Kozak and Vincent Couch for Anchor- j
age.
Other passengers on the vessel en
route to points westward were:
For Port Graham—Wm. Kirby, Ed
Johnson, E. Sorits, Anton Johnson and
wife, Eleanor Johnson, Lind Jorgesen
and wife, John Casey, C. Erickson, C.
Hanson, J. James, A1 Smith, Carl E.j
Johnson, Harold Johnson, Herman j
Matson, Thos. Costello, John Mars, W
Anderson, Olaf Bol, Ed McCloskey, J.
Johnson, W. M. Groke, W. Kline, Tom
Alger, Ben Thompson, Mike Thomp
son, Sig Jacobson, Sam Thompson, J.
Stave, Harley Hathaway, Joe Tjosvold
Dick Hansen, J. Hansen, A. Arneson,
Ras Tjosvold, Iver West, Victor Locke,
Beemard Strand, Ed Sperring, W. Iv
eerson, Seid Fook Yee, Leong Hong
Chow, R. B. Hursley, W. Willmont and
21 steerage.
For Seldoiva—M. Forren, R. C.
Dunning, A. Holmes, A. K. K. Thomp
son, M. J. Vand, F. H. O’Neill, Mrs.
F. H. O’Neill, Freederick 0‘Neill, H.
S. Young and wife, E. J. Fribrock, J.
F. Tigh, J. W. Patton, C. Hanson, O.
Hansen, M. Sagen, John Holden, G.
Johansen, Oscar Hange, E. Holson, G.
P. Kearns, Jack Mogn.
For Anchorage—John B. Henderson
and wife, N. Kane, Mrs. Bruce Haines
and Mr. Haines, 2 steerage.
For Kodiak—O. Halverson, Tom Tor
gerson, J. Dahl, J. Bomhardtson, J. B.
Gordon, F. Fukhada, 7 steerage.
Rothenburg President
Grand Igloo Pioneers
(Special to The Gateway)
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 1.—The
Grand Igloo of Pioneers adjourned
last night with the election of officers
for the ensuing year, and concluding
all other business before it.
Richard Rothenburg, of Fairbanks,
Grand President.
Charles Taylor, of Iditarod, grand
first vice president.
Charles Nagle. Fairbanks, second
vice-president.
George C. Moody, Fairbanks, secre
tary.
H. H. Ross, Fairbanks, treasurer.
George J. Love, Valdez, historian.
Rev. S. Hall Young, chaplain.
George H. Myers, Fairbanks, ser
geant at arms.
Thos. Evans of Hyuer, Frank B.
Howard of Tanana, Charles Rice of
Nome, J. H. Groves, and George A.
McQuarrie of Fairbanks, trustees.
A resolution authorizing a referen
dum on the question of extending eli
gibility for membership to arrivals'
prior to December 31, 1905, was pass
ed; also a resolution protesting
against the division of the Territory.
The Alaska Native Sons and Daugh
ters of the Golden North were taken
under the guardianship of the Grand
Igloo.
The next convention will be held at
Juneau, March 15, 1925.
The steamship Admiral Peary sail
ed this morning from Seattle, and will
call at Uzinki, Kodiak, Seward, Port
Graham and Anchorage. She will load
250 tons of coal at Anchorage, 200 for
Juneau and 50 for Lake Bay. The
vessel will also take 50,000 feet of
cedar from the Sitka mills to Seattle.
Wednesday
The delegates from the various Ig
loos of the Territory who are present
for the Convention are :
Senator F. A. Aldrich, for Juneau,
who also holds proxies from Peters
burg; T. W. Nelson, for Anchorage;
Frank Harris for Cordova, who also
holds proxies for the Auxiliary at Cor
dova; Alfred J. Ghezzi, and R. C. Mor
ris for Xenana; Charles E. Taylor for
Iditarod; Frank C. Wiseman who holds
proxies for St. Michael; E. Burman
and Frank Rynoll for Anchorage; Geo.
W. Moody, J. W. Rust, J. M. Cunning
ham, .J. W. Raymond. H. H. Ross, Geo
Myers, Paul Rickert, Dick Rothenburg,
Robert E. Sheldon and G. A. McQuar
rie for Fairbanks.
Besides the proxies for the various
Auxiliaries held by the delegates the
Women Pioneers are represented from
Anchorage by Mrs. R. G. South worth
and Mrs. Ike Bayles.
The Grand Officers who were pres
ent were R. C. Morris of Xenana, First
Grand Vice-President; Dick Rothen
burg of Fairbanks Second Grand Vice
President; Alfred J. Ghezzi of Xenana
Grand Secretary; Charles Swanson, of
Xenana. Sergeant-at-arms. George J.
Love of Valdez, missed the train at
Anchorage and arrived Friday.
Mr. Frank Harris of Cordova, holes
the vmxies of Mr. Greening, Mr. Wal l
and Per. Chase. Mr. Chas. Swanson,
who hac> been taking his winter vaca
tions on the Outside, made a special
effort ’< return :n time foi the Con
vention and just arrived fr >m the
coast on the last train.
Senator Aldrich, T. W. Nelson and
Joe Ulmer, who will arrive tonight are
former Grand Presidents of the Grand
Igloo. Mr. Morris holds the proxies
for R. G. South vvorth, Grand President
who is unable to attend, and for Mes
srs. Day and O'Ncili.
Trere was a get-togethei meeting
for all Pioneers and Women Pioneers
at Fagle Hall al eight o’clock, follow
ed by t program and lunch.
A short executive meeting of the
Grand Officers was held to discuss or
ganization plans, and Thursday mor.'i
ing at ten o’clock the first convention
meeting will be cubed to order, the
Grand Igloo convening, committees ap
pointed, credentials examined, and an
adjournment was taken until the re
port of the committees :s returned, af
ter which, the regular meetings were
resumed.
The meeting was preside 1 over by
Grand Vice President R. 0. Morris. G.
C. Moody, G. A. MacQuarvie, Alfred J.
Ghezzi and Paul Rickert were named
on I he credentials comm!tree, and
they vert into sesslrn exa-Dining the
credentials of the delegates.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Haines of Val
dez were through passengers on the
Admiral Evans en route to Anchorage
to visit their son, Tom Haines, assis
tant postmaster, and former Seward
resident.