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January 22nd.t 1926. .. ,
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NEWS 0 7 THE WFEK.
While‘'admitting the present winter is the mildest Alaska
ever experienced, oldtimers recall similar conditions during two
winters two decades ago, when conditions were almost the same as
now. This gave rise to speculation at that time whether the Jap
anese current had shifted, hut later this theory was shown not to
be true, as will probably be shown later in regard to the cause of
the present mild winter which is attributed to the same cause.
The Reverend James E,Sherra Montgomery, Chaplin of the House of
Representatives, addressing the convention^ of American Grocer£
Specialty Manufacturers* Association, in Washington last week,
interpreted the controversy between ’’Mode mists" and " Fundamental
ists", in an even dozen words. He said: "Modernists say, *there
ain’t no hell'. Fundamental!sts say, ’the hell there ain’t*".
The friends of Billy Hudson, who has been playing the piano
for 50 years in Washington and Alaska, are urging him to accept an
invitation from Henry Ford to go to Detroit and play oldtime dance
tunes. Hudson and his wife took the first piano into Dawson dur
ing the gold rush days, carrying it over Chilkoot Pass, before the
days of the railroad from Skagway to White horse.
A group of business men of Los Angeles, California, announced
their willingness last week to finance the Demysey-Wills champion
ship bout, to the extent of $2,000,000, if held in the Los Angeles
Coliseum. Jack Doyle will manage the affair, it is said.
President Coolidge has announced the selection of hajor Gen
eral William Lassiter5 Commanding the Department of Panama, to
succeed General John J.Pershing, as President of the Tacna-Arica
Plebiscite Commission. General Pershing was expected to submit
his resignation and permit General Lassiter to take over the work
on January 15th.
United States Senator George E.Nye, of itforth Dakota, was
seated last week in the Senate, and classified himself as Repub
lican-Progressive and was given a seat on the Democratic side of
the Chamber,
Hearings before the House Appropriations Committee on the
Alaska Road Commission items in the War Departments annual supply
bill were held last week and were very satisfactory, according to
telegraphic advices received at headquarters of the Juneau office,
from Colonel James G.Steese, President.
The items for road and trails construction call for $900,000
and a Juneau dock item for $40,000. Colonel Steese has just returned
from Algiers to the United States and will probably remain in Wash
ington until the Senate completes it’s work on the War Department
measure,
Charles Schwab says that deflated Europe, with a lower standard of
living, longer hours of work, threatens to undersell American
goods, despite the tariff. Economy only can save us.*