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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1936.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
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PARIS, Sept. 21.—All France
is today singing the praises of
Premier Briand, because of his
patriotic speech in the chamber of
deputies yesterday, in rt?ply to
pacifist talk indulged in by Depu
ty Brizon and others.
Addressing himself to Deputy
Brizon, the premier, in measured
tones and great solemnity said:
“Your country, Monsieur Brizon,
has a splendid past, which should
make you love it. This country
was seized by the throat. Her as
sailants had passed over the
bleeding bodies of Belgians, and
by a treacherous blow Germany
{ ad tried to strike it down. The
^enemy failed, but will try afresh
to wield the knockout blow. For
44 y«ars your country worked
with a wound in her side. There
already gleams on her forehead
an aurole of prestige and glory.
If you wish ideals of justice to
triumph, pray ardently for vic
tory.”
Austrians May Evacuate Trieste.
ATHENS, Sept. 21. — Austrian
troops are preparing to evacuate Tri
este, on the Adriatic sea, according to
advices received here through diplo
matic sources. Trieste is the object
ive point of the Italian army that re
cently captured Gorizia.
£ Bulgars Prepare to Leave Monastir.
LONDON, Sept. ' 2i.-* A dispatch
from Athens says that information re
ceived there is to the effect that the
Bulgarian army is beginning an evac
GENERAL STRIKE
OF N. Y. UNIONS
IS INEVITABLE
NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—A general
sympathetic strike of all the unions
affiliated with the Central Labor un
ion appears certain within the next 24
lw*rs. The action will be taken to as
sist the Street Car Employes’ union,
which is affiliated with the Central
Labor union. If a general sympathet
ic strike is called, as the labor leaders
declare it will be, practically every
union man in the metropolis will walk
out and a tie-up of practically all in
dustries and other large employers of
labor will result. Efforts of a busi
ness men’s and citizens’ committee to
avert the threatened strike have prov
ed entirely futile.
' MEDIATORS GIVE
UP IN DISGUST
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SEATTLE, Sept. 21.—The federal
mediators today announced that they
would abandon further efforts to set
tle the strike of the longshoremen.
They declared that they had made
every effort to bring the employes and
the workmen to an understanding, but
that both sides to the controversy
were obstinate and decline to give in,
one to the other.
The longshoremen’s union is pre
paring for a protracted fight, in an at
tempt to hold up the commerce of this
city as well as other Puget sound
ports. The employers’ union declares
that it finds no difficulty in securing
all the help needed to handle the
freight on the docks.
Judge Frater, of the superior court,
|fii issued an injunction against the
Stlcgshoremen’s union, which prohib
its members of the union from inter
fering with the work on the docks.
The sympathy of the people is with
the employers’ union, as opposed to
the longshoremen’s union.
uation of Monastir, in Serbia. Bul
garian archives have been hastily
transported to Uskub. The capture
of Fiorina by the French troops open
ed the way to Monastir, to which
point the allied troops are now pro
ceeding.
Roumanian Army Claims Victory.
BUCHAREST, Sept. 21.—The Rou
manian army, assisted by Russian
forces, have won a victory over the
main Bulgarian-German-Turkish ar
my in a battle yesterday at Engea,
Dobrudja, according to official advi
ces by the Roumanian government.
The report says that the fighting con
tinues, but that the enemy is retiring
before the Roumaniar .ttacks.
Greece Issues An Ultimatum.
ATHENS, Sept. 21.—Greece has
sent an ultimatum to Germany de
manding the release of the Greek
troops stationed at Kavalla, on the
Aegean sea, now in the possession of
the Teuton-Bulgar forces. The ulti
matum will expire tonight.
Germans Take 2,500 Slavs.
BERLIN, Sept. 21.—The German
war office today says that a German
force deceived the Russian army, cros
sed the Stokhod river and took cap
tive 2,500 Russian soldiers.
Infantry Fighting Ceases.
PARIS, Sept. 21.—Infantry fighting
between the Italian and Austrii a nr-1
mies on the Carho heights has n$cic«!-'j
ably diminished within the past few
days, although artillery fire still con
tinues on both sides.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept. 21.—In a
speech here last night, Candidate
Hughes renewed his attack on Presi
dent Wilson and the democratic ad
ministration for the passage of the
Adamson eight-hour law. Hughes
cited the declaration, attributed to
former President Cleveland, in sup
port of his contention that it was a
“surrender to force.” “We have seen,”
said the candidate, “what appears to
be immediate political expediency, em
ployed at the expense of the public
welfare.”
THE
DISTRICT COURT
VALDEZ, Sept. 21.—The federal
grand jury, in session here, lias re
turned true bills against Nadia I’es
tiThluff and Teisie Kotoff, charged
'.vitu infanticide, and Cruye Martinez,
charged with murder. < 'buries Mann
of Kodiak, was released from cur.i.oav,
the grand jury failing to find a true
bill. He was accused of burglary. The
Pestriakofl' trial ended last night,
the petit jury retum'ng a verdict of
not guilty. The Alaska Packers’ as
sociation was found guilty of the wan
ton waste of fish in the cannery at lve
nai .
WOMENTO WEAR
LONGER SKIRTS
NEW YORIJ, Sept. 21.—Fall fash
ions for women indicate that longer
and less flaring skirts will be worn.
The skirts will reach to the ankle.
POWDERED COAL SUBJECT OF
INFORMING ARTICLE FROM PEN
OF MINING ATTORNEY LEEHEY
Hon. Maurice D. Leehey, the foremost mining lawyer on the Pacific coast,
who resides at Seattle, and who- is in Anchorage, en route to the Matanuska
coal fields, contributes to The Times the following very able article on the
subject of powered coal. Mr. Leehey is especially interested in this subject,
and in the article below points out the possibilities in the way of additional
demands for the coal product of the Matanuska fields. He is concerned in
the Willow creek mining camp and is no stranger to this part of Alaska.
The article follows:
Powdered coal has been used with such splendid results at the
Anaconda smelter that much attention is being given to its applica
tion elsewhere, and it bids fair to revolutionize, fuel conditions.
It is not too much to ay that powdered coal should be given
credit for the wonderful success obtained with the flotation process
in copper smelting during the last few years. Flotation c f sulphide
ores is not new. The process was known at least 40 years ago but was
not found practical because it is necessary to ci-ush the ore very fine
in order to applv the flotation process. The values are thus obtained
in a finely pondered concentrate which cannot be successfully smelted
in a btast furn; ce. The problem of smelting these so-called “lines”
was solved at the Anaconda smelter where Mr. E. P. Matnevsor. and
his able assistants developed the method of treating crushed concen
trates in the reverberatory furnace, using powdered coal as the fuel
instead of coke. This would have been worth while just to make flo
tation possible, even if there were no saving in fuel cost, but it is in
teresting to note an immense saving in the cost of fuel. The Ana
conda smelter was using Connellsville coke in its blast furnaces cost
ing $9.25 a ton delivered at the smelter. The coke had a smelting ef
ficiency of 7, which means that one ton of the coke would treat seven
tons of Butte ore . Now the powdered coal from the company’s own
mines is delivered at the smelter in Anaconda, powdered ready for
use, at a cost of $3.50 a ton, and has a smelting efficiency of 6.54, or
nearly equal to that of coke. That means a saving of about 75c a ton
in the fuel cost of smelting at Anaconda. The company mined con
siderably over four million tons of Butte ore last year, and will prob
ably exceed that output this year, so the saving in fuel cost at that
smelter by the use of powdered coal amounts to over $3,000,000 a
year.
This saving also made possible the application of the flotation
process to Butte ores, and also a modernized leaching system by
which the finely pulverized tailings are treated so that the loss in re
covery is now less than three pounds of copper per ton of Butte ore.
Under the old system the smelter lost about 14 pounds of copper in
the slag. The result is the saving of about 11 pounds of copper in
each ton of ore treated. I mean an additional saving of about 11
pounds per ton formerly lost in the slag. That saving alone means
something like $11,000,000 a year on the present output of the Butte
mines.
Mr. John D. Ryan, president of the Anaconda Copper Mining
Company, states that when the new system is completely installed,
that company will make 55,000,000 pounds more copper each year
from its present output “without increasing the tonnage of pre min
ed.” Just think of it! That increased tonnage of copper is about
equal to the entire annual production of Senator Clark’s United Ver
di mines, and is almost equal to the normal annual production of the
Calumet & Hecla. And it is not too much to say that this great sav
ing of over $12,000,000 a year should be credited very largely to the
success of powdered coal.
The powdered coal is blown into the furnace in the same maimer
as fuel oil. Compressed air is used, and oxygen thus distributed so
as to permit almost perfect combustion. Then there is no trouble
with ash or clinkers. It is said that the ordinary railroad locomotive
actually utilizes only about seven per cent of the fuel energy of the
coal it bums. The other 93 per cent is wasted. The New York Cen
tral has equipped some of its fast passenger locomotives to burn
powdered coal and is giving it a thorough test for railway use.
It is too early to predict what elfect the use of powdered coal
may have upon the Matanuska output, but it would seem as if pow
dered coal might soon be substituted for fuel oil on our steamships.
The equipment for oil burning requires very little change, I am told,
in order to permit the use of powdered coal, as both fuels are blown
into the furnace in the same manner, and no provision for handling
ash or clinker is necessary in either case.
The U. S. Bureau of Mines has sent George Watkin Evans, the
Seattle coal mining engineer, into the Nenana coal fields, where he is
now engaged in studying certain problems of utilization, including
the proposed use of powdered coal in the Nenana field to generate
electric power. Mr. Evans must be well known in this region, for it
was he who selected and mined the shipment of Matanuska coal
which was tested on the battleship Maryland with such splendid re
sults as to fully satisfy the navy and secure its support for the gov
ernment railway bill in congress. A report from Washington states
that the bureau of mines is anxious to demonstrate the wisdom of
generating electricity in the Nenana fields to operate the railway
north of the Alaska range and also to distribute electric power for
use in the mining districts about Fairbanks. The statement in the
Mining Congress Journal, published at Washington, D. C., indicates
quite an ambitious project being considered by the bureau of mines,
and powdered coal evidently plays an important part in the study of
plans.
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JAPANESE SEEK
METALS FOR MUNITIONS
CHICAGO, Sept. 10.—Baron Mika
mi and Prof. Taesoe, special envoys of
the Japanese government, are here
en route to Alaska. They declare they
are seeking mining concessions in
Alaska in the hope of securing min
erals needed for the munitions of war
which their country does not possess.
The Japanese, who are among the
scientific men of the Japanese nation,
declare Japan is greatly handicapped
by lack of mineralization. They be
lieve if they find what they want in
Alaska satisfactory arrangements can
be made with the American govern
ment for a concession.
The allies give Premier Briand cred
it for the entry of Roumania into the
world war.
BASEBALL DANCE ON
SATURDAY NIGHT
The tickets for the baseball dance
scheduled for Saturday night have
been distributed among the fans for
sale. From the ready sale of these
tickets is another proof that Anchor
age people will come to the front in
time of need for a worthy cause. That
this is a worthy cause and one which
every citizen should support is he
id the question and there is no ur
->nt to the contrary.
the payment of the $500 debt
agui.ist the grandstand it will become
the p rty of the people of Anchor
11 i an i it should be considered an
w nr . to feel that_the_ best and most
substantial grandstand in the whole of
Alaska belongs to the people "Of'jtal
chorage.
SUPPORT OF TIE
PROGRESSIVES
NEW YORK, Sept.21.—The contest
is close between Governor Whitman,
republican candidate for governor, and
Judge Seabury, democratic candidate
for the same office, for the progress
ive endorsement, which is being deter
mined by a state-wide primary elec
tion. Early returns today indicate
that Governor Whitman will gain
the progressive endorsement, al
though Se.abury will be close behind.
William M. Calder, republican, and
William F. McCombs, democrat, are
practically assured of the nomination
for United States senator.
NOMINEE PRIDE
FAVORS DRY LAW
SEATTLE, Sept. 21.—Former Gov
ernor McBride, primary nominee of
the republican party for the governor
ship, in a statement to the press to
day, came out strongly in favor of the
“dry” law effective in the state of
Washington. He said that the pres
ent dry law should not be disturbed,
save to strengthen its weak parts, in
the way of enforcing to the fullest ex
tent its mandates. He declared him
self to be opposed to the brewers’ bill
and the hotel bill, which met defeat in
the last legislature and which are slat
ed te again come up before the state
legislature.
HEB TO BE VALID
PORTLAND. Or., £ept. 23.—Judge
Davis, of the circuit court of appeals,
in a luling here this forenoon, hiH
that a marriage before a notary pub
lic, in the absence of regularly ■ on
sti luted authority, was legal an!
bircerg. The matiei caine up in the
forgery case of Homer N. Ford. Ford
and Carrie Voight, in the year 1898,
at Eagle, Alaska, went before a no
tary public and took oath that they
would live together as man and wife.
The judge holds that under the Ore
gon law, this became a legal marri
age. The case is unique and is the
first one of the kind that ever came
before a western court for decision.
CENTRAL WEATHER
BUREAU AT JUNEAU
SEATTLE, Sept. 21.—Melville B.
Summers, a meteorologist of the Uni
ted States weather bureau, stationed
at Philadelphia, will sail from here
tomorrow morning, en route to Ju
neau, where he will establish a central
climatological station for Alaska. The
Juneau station will have under its
control all other like stations through
out the territory.
Filipino Runs Amuck.
SEATTLE, Sept. 21.—When asked
for room rent by a Japanese hotel
keeper last night, A. Mehdy, a Filipi
no lately employed in an Alaska can
nery, started to flee the scene. While
being pursued by an officer, the Fili
pino drew a gun and shot three men,
that sought to interfere with his pro
gress. One of the men, R. F. Wood,
a naval sailor, was shot in the leg and
the member is so badly shattered that
it will have to be amputated. The Fili
pino was arrested.
Crow Killed in Train Wreck.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21.—R. W.
Gholson, engineer, and H. A. Osborne,
fireman, was killed when a freight
train on the Santa railway "ays"-'
zona yesterday.
IN S. E. ALASKA
JUNEAU, Sept. 21.—The arrival
of Delegate James Wickersham has
aroused the old-time enthusiasm and
the tide is setting in in his favor, de
spite the efforts of Boas Shackleford
and his crowd, who are supporting
the candidacy of Charles Sulzer, the
democratic nominee.
Wickersham, in the opinion of his
campaign manager, Emery Valentine,
will carry the first division by a fair
majority. Every precinct south of
Juneau is conceded to be for the del
egate.
The delegate has addressed large
and enthusiastic audiences at Ketchi
kan, Wrangell and Petersburg and his
reception in each town augurs well for
his success at the polls. The audience
that greeted him at Ketchikan was
four times as large as that which
greeted the democratic candidate.
The delegate will speak at Juneau
Friday evening, will address the
Woman’s club Saturday afternoon and
in the evening will speak at Douglas.
Sunday evening the delegate will
speak at Skagway; Monday at Haines,
and then will depart for the westward,
going as far as Anchorage.
MILLION PEOPLE
WASHINGTON, Sept. M. —Advices
received here today from consular
agents, state that a million people aie
rendered homeless in China by great
floods*that are prevailing. The floods
are the worst known in 50 years. An
peals will be made to foreign coun
tries to relieve the wholesale distress
conditions that follows the devastation
of the flood waters. Whole sections
are inundated. Thousands of people
were frowned, and the remaining vie
tins are in want for food and cloth
•ng.
BLACKMAIL HEAD
CHICAGO, Sept. 21.—William C.
Woodward, charged by the govern
ment with being the leader in the big
blackmail plot, yesterday surrendered
to the authorities. At a preliminary
examination, he was found over to
await the action of the grand jury. He
was released upon supplying bonds in
the sum of $25,000.
Helen Evers, an accomplice in the
plot, has been reelased on bonds in
the sum of $25,000.
PRESIDENT WILL
LONG BRANCH, N. j., Sept. 21.—
Both President Wilson and National
Chairman McCormick indignantly de
nied the statement, appearing in the
New York papers, to the effect that
the president intends to make a cam
paign tour.
Killed By Auto Truck.
SEATTLE, Sept. 21.—Jaimes Z. Mc
Nae, a son of Mrs. Nellie McNae, a
widow, was run down and killed by an
auto truck belonging to the Schwa
bacher Hardware company last even
ing. The accident was witnessed by
hundreds of people who were on the
streets.
Police Destroy Liquor.
SEATTLE, Sept. 21.—Last night
the Seattle police smashed bottles
containing 1,800 quarts of whiskey.
which were consigned to Juneau. The
1 seiattye wasnvade on an Alaska-bound
vessel.