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HOOVER PRACTICALLY ADMITS
HE IS RECEPTIVE CANDIDATE
• • FOR PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
NKW YORK, March 10 (by Associat
ed Press).—Ralph Arnold, a represen
tative of the “Make Hoover President”
Club of California, has received a let
ter from Mr. Hoover in which he de
clares that he is not seeking public
office, and that he is ambitious of re-'
maining a private citizen. But he be
lieves, he says, like every other citi
zen. that he should always be ready
for service when called upon.
“I am an independent progressive on
the issues of today,” continues Mr.
Hoover, “and I think these issues
transcend partisanship. I was a Pro
gressive Republican before the war
and a non-partisan during my war
service. Alignment on the issues has
^not yet been made by the parties.”
First Presidential Primaries
MANCHESTER, N. H., March 10 (by
Associated Press).—Returns from the
first of the state presidential primar
ies, held in this state yesterday, are
belated. The vote was light, and with
one exception the Republican candi
dates either are pledged for General
Wood or are known to be favorable
to him. One candidate is pledged to
Senator Hiram Johnson.
The Democratic candidates were un
pledged in the First district. Gordon
Woodbury, who is pledged to Hoover,
was elected unopposed in the Second
district. Two delegates pledged to
Hoover and one unpledged were elect
ed in the Third district.
In Behalf of Hi Johnson
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., March 10 (by
Associated Press).—Raymond Robins
and Senators Norris, Kenyon and Bo
rah are planning a tour of South Da
kota, where they will speak in behalf
of Senator Johnson’s candidacy for the
presidency.
FEDERATION
TAKING HAND
IN ELECTIONS
PHILADELPHIA, March 10 (by As
sociated Press).—The first guns in the
election campaign of the American
Federation of Labor were fired today,
when a bulletin issued by the federa
tion appeared, advising members of
organized labor to vote • against con
gressmen who had voted for the adop
^ tion of the Esch-Cummings railroad j
bill.
f The first onslaught of the Federa
tion is directed against twenty-five
Pennsylvania members of the house of
representatives and seven New Jersey
members.
COAST PROFITEERS
WILL BE PROSECUTED
SEATTLE, March 10 (by Associated
Press).—Consumers have been invited
to attend the King county fair price
committee hearings today and report
alleged cases of profifiteering in ne
cesiities.
District Attorney Saunders says fed
eral prosecutions will follow any re
ports of profiteering based on facts.
* AMERICAN LEGION EXPELS
SYMPATHIZER WITH REDS
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BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 10
Associated Press).—The American Le
gion post of this city has expelled A.
C. Durham, a Spanish war and Ger
man war veteran, because he defended
the Industrial Workers of the World.
YOUTHFUL MURDERER
SENTENCED TO DEATH
EVEREET, Wash., March 10 (by As
sociated Press).—Isom White, aged 19
years, was sentenced to death here
yesterday for the murder of Lee Lin
ton. a taxicab driver, in November,
1919. Counsel gave notice of appeal.
'.ATTORNEYSENT
TO PRISON FOR
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SEATTLE, March 10 (by Associated
Press).—Carlos L. Byron, a Portland
attorney, convicted of using the mails
in fraudulent land operations, surren
dered himself today and started for
the McNeil’s island penitentiary to
serve a term of fifteen months’ im
|) prisonment.
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STATE OF WASHINGTON
MAY PROVIDE BONUS
FOR FORMER SOLDIERS
SPOKANE, March 10 (by Associat
ed Press).—The members of the state
legislature have unanimously approved
the proposal to curtail the business of
the special session to the woman suf
frage amendment, appropriations for
schools and a bonus for former sol
diers of $5 per month of service. This
announcement was made after a meet
ing of the delegation last night.
AIRPLANES!
CARRY ORE TO
STEWART,
VANCOUVER, B. C., March 10 (by
Associated Press).—The Boeing Air
plane Company of Seattle has secured
the contract to build specially designed
airplanes for a line planned by Lieut.
E. O. Hall of Vancouver and four
other airmen, to carry ore from the
Granby mines, twelve miles to tide
water at Stewart, B. C.
It is estimated that each plane will
carry a thousand pounds of ore every
trip, and it is believed that aerial
transportation will reduce freight
charges 50 per cent.
Other mine owners also have con
tracted for the service.
WILLIAMS IS FREED
BY BANDIT VILLA
EL PASO, Texas, March 10 (by As
sociated Press).—Villa has freed fhe
American, Williams, who was being
held for ransom.
KETCHIKAN MERCHANT
TO BE BURIED AT TACOMA
SEATTLE, March 10 (by Associated
Press).—The funeral of Fremont King
will be held tomorrow under the
auspices of the Masonic fraternity.
Burial will take place at Tacoma.
PIONEER WOMAN OF
SEATTLE PASSES AWAY
SEATTLE, March 10 (by Associated
Press). — Mrs. Cfassandra Eckler
George, a prominent pioneer, died here
today.
SHIPYARD EMPLOYES .
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
SEATTLE, March 10 (by Associated
Press).—Three employes of the Skin
ner & Eddy shipyards were killed by
the fall of a crane yesterday.
! BRITISH COLUMBIA TRADE UNIONS
GIVEN KNOCKOUT BLOW BY “ REDS ”
VICTORIA, B. C., March 10).—Delegates attending the conven
tion of the British Columbia Federation of Labor here yesterday, by
a vote of 45 to 5, decided to dissolve the federation and to join the
i “one big union.”
Resolutions were introduced approving the Russian soviet form
of government.
WOBBLY CASE AT MONTESANO
IS EXPECTED TO BE SUBMITTED
TO JURY BY NOON OF SATURDAY
MONTESANO, Wash., March 10 (by
Associated Press).—J. P. Jones,
Charles Norman and Frank A. Faue,
rebuttal witnesses, testified yesterday
in the Centralia murder case that
Eugene Barnett, one of the defendants,
was not in the Roderick hotel at the
time of the fatal shooting.
Barnett, when on the stand, at
tempted to establish an alibi.
Both sides expect that the case will
be submitted to the jury by Saturday
noon.
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More rebuttal witnesses testified to- j
day that the paraders did not break
ranks until shots had been fired. Three
men who marched in the parade testi
fied that the parade was at rest vhen
the shots started.
The defense will introduce sur
rebuttal testimony tomorrow.
Damaging Testimony
Waite E. Jordan, a Centralia bar
ber, who was one of the first to reach
the “wobbly” hall after the shooting,
testified that the shooting started be
fore the marchers, broke ranks. He
said he ran the full length of the hall
to the ice box, where some of the de
fendants were hiding. McElfresh, he
said, fell in his tracks before any of
the soldiers rushed the hall.
Other witnesses said that Elmer
Smith, one of the defendants, several
days before the shooting, said the
“wobblies” were ready for the raid.
Brief Excitement
Several shots fired at midnight last
night by occupants of an unknown auto
started the inhabitants of Montfesano,
All remained quiet at the jail, and the
troops did not shoot.
KAISER’S COUSIN
AFTER WEALTH
IN CANADA
SEATTLE, March 10 (by Associated
Press).—Alvo Von Alvensleben, who
is reputed to be a cousin of the former
German kaiser, has arrived here to
fight for the $6,000,000 worth of prop
erty he held in Canada before the war.
Von Alvensleben was released re
cently from the internment camp at
Fort Douglas, Utah, where he had
been held as an enemy alien.
Von Alvensleben will reside here.
YEARLY PENSION IS
GRANTED AGUINALDO
MANILA, March 10 (by Associated
Press).—The territorial legislature has
granted a pension of $6,000 yearly to
Aguinaldo and Cayetano Arellane, for
merly chief justice of the supreme
court of the Philippines.
The legislature also voted the sum
of $25,000 to Frank Carpexer, retiring
governor of the depatment of Min
danao and Sulu.
SOCIALISTS TO
HAVE NOMINEE
FOR PRESIDENT
CHICAGO, March 10 (by Associated
Press).—The executive committee of
the Socialist party has decided to call
a national presidential nominating
convetion, to be held in New York on
May 9.
It is announced that an effort will be
made to enlist the radical and pro
gressive elements of the labor organ
izations.
Eugene V. Debs is the only candidate
in the field.
PUTS OUT NEW ISSUE OF
TREASURY CERTIFICATES
WASHINGTON, March 10 (by As
sociated Press).—Secretary of the
Treasury Houston announced yester
day that a new issue of treasury 4%
per cent certificates of indebtedness,
dated March 15, and to mature in one
year, is to be offered to the public.
A ruling of the department makes it
possible to purchase the certificates
on the installment plan.
ADMIRAL SIMS MAKES FURTHER
STARTLING STATEMENTS AS TO
NAVAL MEN’S DILATORY TACTICS
WASHINGTON, March 10 (by As
sociated Press)—Continuing his testi
mony before the senate investigating
committee today, Admiral Sims said
the failure of the navy to fully co
operate in the war during the first six
months after America’s entrance into
the struggle cost half a million lives,
fifteen billion dollars in money, and
half a million tons of shipping, and
prevented a victory in July, 1918,
If the North sea barrage had been
laid in 1917 the United States could
have had a million men in France at
the beginning of 1918, instead of hav
ing only three hundred thousand men
overseas, said the admiral.
It was probable, said Admiral Sims,
that the German offensive in 1918
would never have started had the
United States had a million men over
seas.
Involves Wilson and Lansing
Admiral Sims said that President
Wilson and Secretary of State Lan
sing for several months did not heed
the cable of the late Ambassador
Page, sent in April, 1917, declaring
that there was reason for entertaining
the great alarm about the issue of
the war, caused by the increasing suc
cess of the German submarine cam
paign.
Ambassador Page, said the admiral,
urged the immediate assignment of
every available American destroyer
and submarine chaser to British
waters.
Admiral Sims said that Secretary
Daniels opposed the convoy system
for a time. *
ALONG ALASKA RAILROAD LINE
SEATTLE, March 10 (by Associated
Press).—A Post-Intelligencer special
from Washington says that congress
is beginning to realize that no laws
are in existence for aiding the devel
opment of traffific and colonization
along the line of the Alaska govern
ment railroad, such as usually have
been found along pioneer railroads.
t
This condition led the senate to
pass the Jones resolution yesterday,
requesting three sets of facts from
the department of the interior, as fol
lows :
I First—What steps have been taken
| to develope the country along the rail
| road?
Second—What steps have been
taken for developing traffic?
Third-—Has any organization been
| created to settle and develop the coun
try? If not, why not?
It is believed that the department
of the interior will answer all these
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questions negatively, as it is declared
that it has authority only to build a
railroad.
Laws to develop the country may be
included in a rider to the sundry civil
bill, which carries the railroad appro
priation.
Mears Returning tc Duties
Specials from Washington say that
Colonel Frederick Mears, chairman of
the Alaskan engineering commission,
left for* Alaska today.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
HalloAvell, Colonel Mears and J. L. Mc
Pherson of the Alaska bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce spoke
before the appropriations committee cf
the house of representatives yesterday
on the need for the appropriation of
$8,000,000 for the Alaska railroad.
The committee appeared to be
friendly toward the railroad, and mem
bers said the* project ought to be com
pleted as soon as possible.
AMERICAN EMPLOYE OF
MEXICAN OIL PLANT IS
MURDERED BY BANDITS
HOUSTON, Texas, March 10 (by As
sociated Press).—A telegram from P.
J. Blackson, manager of the Magnolia
Petroleum Company at Tampico, says
that Pat Foley, an employe of the com
pany, has been killed by Mexican ban
dits.
AVIATORiSBURNED
TO DEATH IN PLANE
ELKHART, Ind., March 10 (by As
sociated Press).—Lieutenant Clayton
Stoner of Chicago, a government aerial
mail carrier, was burned to death to
day when his airplane fell and was
destroyed by fire. Stoner lost his
way in a fog.
UKRAINIA READY FOR
PEACE WITH POLAND
ZURICH, March 10 (by Associated
Press).—A Moscow' wireless message
says that the soviet and Ukrainian
governments have informed the allies
that they are ready to negotiate im
mediate peace with Poland.
CANNOTREACH
SOUTHERN POLE
WITH AIRPLANE
MELBOURNE, Australia, March 10
(by Associated Press).—An airplane
will be of little service in attempting
to reach the South Pole, in the opin
ion of Dr. Griffith Taylor, of the Aus
trian Meteorological Bureau who was
formerly an Antarctic explorer. Dr.
Taylor said he believed that the ex
pedition to the South Pole to be con
ducted next summer by Dr. J. L. Cope
would find it difficult to reach the
South Pole by the air route. He said:
“Hurricanes blow for weeks in the
Antarctic and can spring up in half
an hour from nothing to 60 miles an
hour. I do not think it possible that
an airplane can rise above a blizzard.’
It can not stay up indefinitely and it
can not descend.”
Dr. Taylor is skeptical as to the
mineral wealth of the Antarctic, for
which Dr. Cope’s expedition is spe
cially to explore. Speaking from his
otvn experience, he does not think
there is anything of economic value on
the coast of the Antarctic continent;
and although coal is to be found in
land, thd extent of the deposits, he
says, is uncertain, and it is improb
able on account of the remoteness
that it can be mined within the next
fifty years.
VOTING POWER
IN COVENANT IS
PASSED UPON
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WASHINGTON, March 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—In the senate yester
day the reservation referring to voting
power in the League of Nations was
modified to provide that until the cov
enant is modified to give equal voting
power, the United States declines to
be bound by decisions to which con
gress has not consented.
The reservation was then readopted
by a vote of 57 to 20, seventeen Demo
crats supporting it.
Article 10 is the only reservation
now remaining unsettled. A number
of Republicans have agreed to a sub
stitute, but it is understood that not
enough Democratic votes have been se
cured to carry it.
BURNING AIRPLANE
KILLS THREE PERSONS
WICHITA, Kan., March 10 (by As
sociated Press).—Basil Saegusser, an
airplane pilot, together with a woaiaa
and a boy, were killed here yesterday
when an airplane caught fire and fell.
UNCLE SAM TO MAKE
NO MORE ALLIED LOANS
WASHINGTON, March 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Secretary of the Treas
ury Houston announced today that tha
American government would make uo
more loans to the allies.
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
TENDERS RESIGNATION
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URBANA, Ohio. March 10 (by As
sociated Press).—President James of
the University of Illinois has tendered
his resignation.
raiseMon
DIMENSIONS OF
PEACE ARMY
WASHINGTON, March 10 (by As
sociated Press).—The house today ap
proved the bill authorizing a peace
time army of 289,000 enlisted men and
70,820 officers.
By a vote of 79 to 25 the house re
fused to amend the army reorganiza
tion bill to fix the maximum strength
at 226,000 men and 14,000 officers.