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ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
THIRTY-TWO BALLOONS
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COBLENZ—Thirty-two America!
observation balloons were destroye:
in the war. most of them by Germai
aviators. One fatality resulted, thi
balloonist's parachute catching firi
from sparks from the burning bal
loon. Each balloon cost $8,000
and the expense for inflation abou
$350 for gas.
Anti-aircraft guns used to pro
rect observation balloons accountet
for four German aviators, in eacl
case the enemy flying machine be
ing brought down after the aviate:
had set fire to the American bal
loon by incendiary bullets.
LATEST SINN FEIN
ORDER IS UNPOPULAF
DUBLIN.—Instructions by thi
Central Sinn Fein executive to stof
hunting throughout Ireland pending
the release of the Sinn Fein pris
oners have not been welcomed it
the country where the local hunt:
give a certain amount of employ
ment and help the circulation oi
money rmong the farmers and shop
keepers. The men who hunt, thoug1
mainly of the weathier classes. ar(
not confined to one class and hunt
ing is a popular amusement.
Charlie Thrift returned to Ne
nana today with the Maiamute Kit
from Fairbanks He has been Out
side for a trip and arrived in thi
upper town recently.
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ANCHORAGE. — Definite and
| comprehensive action should be
J taken by the federal government to
! bring about early and proper de
| velopments of the coal resources in
Alaska, declares Andrew Christen
sen, manager of the Land and In
dustrial department, of the Alaskan
Engineering ocmmission. in a report
that he has just submitted at Wash
ington, D. C., to William 0. Edes,
chairman of the commission,
j "There is still complaint,” say;s
I Mr. Christensen, "against the pro
j vision of the leasing law and also
i against the terms of the lease and
1 it may be that in order to offer
necessary inducements that both the
j law and the terms of the lease
should be amended.
“On July 1, 1918. Congress pro
i vided $1,000,000 for use of the
| navy for mining or for contracting
| for coal in Alaska. It also pro
11 vided that part of this money should
j be used in transporting such coal
to tidewater, but as yet no mining
; operations or contracts for coal
| have been made by the navy.
"During the summer the secre
| tary of the interior appointed a
I special committee to investigate
the question of coal land develop
| ment. This committee was in Alaska
during par: of the months of Sep
tember and October, and made a
i thorough study of the resources of
! Alaska. The committee was com
1 posed of E. O. McCormick, vice
j president of the Southern Pacifi"
Railway, who was chairman; Geo.
C. McFadden. chief engineer, and
: L. A O. Gabany. geologist, of the
Peabody Coal company of Chicago;
; and George Watkins Evans, a min
.jing engineer of the United States
1 Bureau of Mines.
“It is hoped that when this com
! mittee submits its report a definite
| and comprehensive policy will be
! adopted for the development of the
I coal lands in Alaska. There is no
I question but that the most vital
| item to the success of the govern
| ment railroad in Alaska is an early
! development of the coal industrv.
i
1 “In adopting a policy the follow
! ing are some of the questions that
l should be considered,
j “1. Whether there should be any
| change in the coal land leasing
I law of October 20, 1914.
“2. Whether there should be any
i changes made in the terms of the
I present lease and the leasing regu
! lations under the law.
“3. Whether or not the govern
i ment should undertake a thorough
j prospecting of all of the leasing
units in the Bering river and Matan
1 uska coal fields.
j “4. Whether the navy should
| undertake the mining of coal under
j the million-dollar appropriation.
| “5. To what extent if any should
: the government undertake the min
ing of coal
“6 Should the government inter
| pose objections to the construction
i by private interests of railroads into
; the Bering river coal field,
j “7. If so, what should be the
! policy of the government with
j reference to furnishing the neces
sary transportation facilities for the
! Bering river coal.
! “8. What steps if anv should be
i
! taken with reference to furnishing
necessary - transportation facilities
for coal between Alaska and the
States.
"The questions are all vital to the
success of the development of the
coal industry in the territory and
should be given immediate and care
| ful attention.”
Venana. Alaika'a Interior Fuel Depol
i The new steamship passenger tar
j iff which went into effect on March
20, makes a reduction in the rates
from Cordova to way ports as fol
lows: Ellamar, $4.86; Valdez anc
Liscum, $5.94; formerly $8 64; La
touche. $11.34; formerly $14.04
Seward. $15.12, formerly $16.20
Anchorage and Kodiak, $20.08; for
; merly $34.56.
LONDON DIVINE
FEARS DECLINE
IN BUD BILE
—
LONDON.—Race suicide, as the
result of the “aristocracy of labor",
will be the outcome of the move
ment by which labor now seeks to
destroy capital, according to Dean
Inge, of St. Paul’s Cathedral, in an
address recently at a meeting of
the Eugenics Education Society.
England’s dense population, he as
serted. will then disappear and the
country will revert to the quiet,
rural England of 1750. with Lon
don, bereft of her wealth, the “spir
; itual capital of the world.”
“Neither voluntary restriction of
births, which only lowers the death
rate,” he said, “nor famine, nor
pestilence, nor war has much ef
fect in reducing numbers. The
late war cost 12,000,000 lives from
the separation of * husbands and
wives, in addition to about 8,000,
000 killed. But those losses, he
added, may be made good in a few
years.
“But at home we must face the
fact that the upper and middle
classes probably will be destroyed
by predatory taxation. We are
witnessing the creation of a new
privilige class, an aristocracy of
labor, which will become exclusive
and conservative when it has won
the privilege of exploiting the pub
lic for its own profit. It probably
will refuse to tax itself for the
benefit of the proletariat, so that
■ when the loot of the minority is
; gone, we shall no longer support
the waste products of civiliziation.
"From the eugenic point of view
this will be an advantage, but since
the cheap races must end by cap
turing our trade, the privileged
1 workers must themselves decay,
trade unionist probably will be al
, lowed to place only one son in his
! union and will take care not to
have more. The industrial emplov
ment of women will also lower the
birth rate. Thus, in every class
there will be a tendency to progres
sive decrease.”
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OMSK. Siberia.—When the cit;
of Ufa was captured by the Bo!
sheviki Recently the peasants in thi
outlying districts immediately bur
ied or hid their entire stocks o
wheat fearing that the Bolshevi!
“commissaries" would seize all th'
grain and send it off to Moscow
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town are required to purchase
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Tickets can be purchased from
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ground floor of the general office
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