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SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
YESTERDAY’S TEMBLOR ONE OF WORST
. RECORDED IN THE STATES IN PAST FOUR
YEARS AND EXTENDED OVER WIDE AREA
Both Georgetown and University California Seismographs
Show Quake was Centered at Point Several Thousand
Miles Away—California Scientists Declares Started
In Aleutians—Alaskan Towns Generally Shaken Up
Anchorage Is Shook Up.
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 24.—The most
severe earthquake in the history of
Anchorage occurred at 1:55 yesterday
afternoon, lasting 19.5 seconds. There
were two shocks, the second being
P the most severe, accompanied by deep
rumblings. Slight damage was done,
dishes being broken and clocks were
stopped by the shock. School children
were excused from their duties and
patients in the hospital were shaken
out of bed. The quake is reported
stopping clocks at Curry.
Fairbanks Feels Shock
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 24.—An earth
quake shock of considerable inten
sity was felt here yesterday afternoon
at 2 o’clock. No damage was done
but homes and stores were shaken
up.
BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 24—The
University of California seismograph
recorded a heavy earthquake shock,
begining at 3:59:37 yesterday after
noon, and ending at 4:53. The shock
# w as computed to have started at a dis
tance of 2,770 miles with its center in
dicated in the Aleutian islands. It
was one of the heaviest quakes re
corded here in a number of years.
Valdez Feels Disturbance
VALDEZ. Feb. 24.—A heavy earth
quake shock was felt here about 2
o’clock yesterday afternoon, lasting
about 20 seconds. Clocks were stop
ped and in some cases dishes were re
ported broken, but beyond alarming
the citizens, little damage was done.
CORDOVA, Feb. 24.—Cordova citi
zens were alarmed yesterday after
noon when a heavy earthquake shock
hit this city about 2 o’clock. No dam
age was done.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—An ex
tremely heavy earthquake shock,
starting at a point about 3200 miles
southerly and west of here was record
ed by the Georgetown University seis
mograph last yesterday.
Father Tondorf, seismologist, said
the disturbance was one of the most
prolonged and most violent in the past
four years. It started at 7:02 and the
last tremors ended at 7:21 p. m.
OSBORNE WOOD
FOUNWN SPAIN
BAIRRITZ, France, Feb. 24.— Os
borne Wood, son of the governer gen
eral of the Philippine Islands, who
disappeared from his home here a few
weeks ago has been found at San Se
bastian, a small town over the Span
ish frontier, where he is waiting for
an adjustment of financial’ difficulties
in France. Young Wood made a kill
ing on the stock market a year or so
ago. and since then has been hitting
the high spots. It is said his money
is gone.
Senate and House
Agree on Postal Bill
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Senate
and House conferees agreed on the
postal pay and rate bill, which will be
substantially the same as that passed
by the House recently. Some of the
second class rates will be lower than
those proposed, and the bill will in
crease the postal pay beginning Janu
ary 1, next year. The new rates will
become effective next April 15.
WARRENwEL BE
ATTY. GENERAL
WASHINGTTON, D. C.. Feb. 24.—
The Senate Judiciary Committee or
dered a favorable report on the nomi
nation of Charles B. Warren for At
torney General. The vote was unof
ficially quoted as nine to four. The
matter ha3 been before the commit
tee six weeks, opposition to Warren
centering on his testimony at the Su
gar Trust investigation twelve years
ago.
Daniel Guggenheim
Dies Yesterday
EXETER, N. H., Feb. 24.—Daniel
Guggenheim, of Philadelphia, a stu
dent in the Phillips Exeter Academy,
died suddenly yesterday as he was
about to participate in a track meet.
He was a nephew of Simon, one of the
famous Guggenheim brothers.
“WILD BILL’ WEIGHTMAN
IS JAILED FOR BIGAMY
BINGHAMPTON, N. Y., Feb. 23.—
j Another jail sentence has been meted
i out to William Weightman, who in
herited $750,000 from the estate of his
j grandfather, County Judge Baker, was
j sentenced to serve two years for
bigamy.
STOVE GIVES FATAL SHOCK
WHEN FARMER PULLS CHAIN
, GAION, O., Feb. 22.—When Leonard
! P. Long, 30, farmer near here, grasp
| ed the chain attached to the damper
i of his furnace he received a shock
| from which he died an hour later. The
damper chain had come in contact
j with an electric wire from which the
insulation had been worn off.
ATTEMPT TO BOMB
TACOMA JOINT
'
TACOMA, Feb. 24.—Something said
to have a detonation like black pow
jder, but which lacked the fumes, to
tally wrecked a two-story dwelling in
| which Clark Ruston resided at an
early hour this morning. The building
was burned to the ground.
Clark, who crawled out of the ruins
with a pistol in his hand, said he saw
several men disappear behind some
nearby buildings. He found a large
white sheet on the ground. He at
tributed the explosion to a band or
ganized to combat liquor selling.
-Clark said he ran a beer joint.
CHURCHMEN CLASH
IN MEXICO CITY
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 24.—One per
son was killed and seven injured in
a clash between followers of a recent
ly proclaimed Mexican Catholic Apos
tolic church and orthodox Catholics,
when women worshippers attacked the
so-called separatist priest, Luis Mon
-je, when he attempted to celebrate
mass in Soledad church Sunday.
It required a large force of police
men and soldiers to separate the two
factions.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
TOD KENT WINS
IDAHO DOG DERBY
ASHTON, Idaho, Feb. 24—Tod Kent
of Ashton, won the American dog der
by of 24 miles, in two hours and 18
minutes; Emoky Gaston of Pocotello,
was second.
A large attendance and an unusual
number of entries marked the event
this year.
NEW DISCOVERY EXPECTED
TO END ABSCESSED TEETH
TORONTO, Feb. 24.—What is called
the greatest advance in the art of den
tistry in 100 years is announced from
the Royal College of Dentistry here as
a result of research work carried on
at the University of Toronto and ex
periments by Toronto dentists.
Briefly, the result is that no longer
will there be danger of abscesses '
forming at the roots of teeth. The es
sence of the discovery is the use of
copper amalga'm as a permanent fill
ing for the root canals of the teeth.
Copper amalgam has been used as a
filling for teeth before, but not until
now Nvas it known to have a germi
cidal effect.
It is stated that when the nerve in
a tooth has been destroyed the cav
ity can be filled with copper amalgam
| and there will be no danger of an ab
I scess forming at the root of the tooth.
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ARGENTINE FLYER i
ARRANGES FLIGHT |
SEATTLE, Feb. 24— Patricio D.
TVlurphy, representing the Argentine
government, arrived here yesterday
to make arrangements for the flight
of Major Pedro Zanni, of Argentine,
who is at Osaka, to complete his
flight around the world. Zanni started
j last year. It is stated that Zanni will
! fly from the Kuriles to Prince Rupert,
via the Aleutian Islands, Seward, Cor
dova, Sitka and on down the coast.
Because of the friendship of the Uni
ted States for Argentina, Zanni will
make the flight to San Francisco,
thence by the air mail route across
the country instead of crossing Cana
da. He will complete the flight via
New Foundland to Ireland, or New
Foundland to the Azores, according
to weather conditions.
Murphy will return to Japan after
making arrangements for the flight
here and at Vancouver, British Colum
bia. He will travel ahead of Zanni
all the way to Amsterdam, where the
start was made. He said he did not
know w'hether private American or
government boats would convoy Zanni
around the north Pacific. His stops
will be the same as those made by
the American aviators.
AMERICAN NAVY
BE MAINTAINED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 24.—
Secretary Wilbur told the Women’s
Council of Defense, that as a peace
insurance, the American navy, like
all others, was organized to fight, and
for that purpose alone. He added,
“When we are ready to yield to the
will of others; when property, life, re
ligion, and home mean less to us than
the effort to maintain them, we may
abandon the navy and submit to a
more virile power than we.”
GOLD FOUND ON
TRIBUTARY LENA
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—The Ameri
can Chemical Society published a re
port at Horten, Norway, which said
that J. R. Sweet, an American engi
neer, has discovered large gold fields
on the Siberian shores tributary to
the Lena river. Prospectors are hur
rying to the place.
EXPLOSION KILLS ON MINER
HEATLAND, Indiana, Feb. 24.—One
miner was killed and one severly in
jured in a gas explosion in the Stan
dard Coal mine. One hundred and
twenty-five miners escaped.
Contenders for Fistic
Crown Are Unseated
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Three hard
hitting candidates were removed last
night from contending for the light
weight crown which Benny Leonard
doffed when he retired from the ring.
George Chaney, of Baltimore, and Ed
Wagner of Philadelphia, lost here, and
Joe Benjamin defeated Jack Silver of !
San Francisco.
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FORMER ALASKAN
COMMITS SUICIDE
SEATTLE, Feb. 24.—A body found
floating in Elliot Bay at the foot of
Spring street, has been identified as
that of Charles McKnight, former as
sistant roadmaster on the Canadian
Grand Trunk railroad, and employed
on the Alaska railroad about four
years ago. He had been living here
the past several months at cheap ho
tels, and when his money became ex
hausted committeed suicide.
HALIBUT PRICES.
KETCHIKAN: Halibut 15 and 10;
I salmon, 20 and 9 cents.
HJALMAR BRANTING, FORMER PREMIER
OF SWEDEN, PASSES AWAY AT HOME IN
STOCKHOLM AT AGE SIXTY-FOUR YEARS
Played an Important Role in Nearly all International La
bor Conferences and Was a Member of Peace Confer
ence Paris, Where He Indorsed Ideas Pres. Wilson—
Wras Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for the Year 1921
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 24.—
Hjalmar Branting, who resigned the
premiership of Sweden a month ago,
died here today.
Hjalmar Branting, the first Social
ist prime minister in the history of
Sweden, and one of the outstand
ing public men of that country in
his time, was regarded by the Swed
ish people as their country’s most
prominent international politician.
Devoting virtually his entire life
to the amelioration of the condi
tions of the working classes and the
attainment of the Social Democratic
dream of universal peace by univer
sal understanding, Dr. Branting
worked unceasingly and with a fine
optimism for the realization of his
ideals. He spared hmiself no per
sonal sacrifice, and even sat in pris
on for his championship of the cause
of those whose casts and culture
were inferior to his own.
Interference with these activities
which he regarded as his more im
portant international work, promi
nent Swedes said at the time, was
the real reason for Dr. Branting’s
resignation as finance minister in
the Eden government in 191S, altho
he had said he was withdrawing
from the cabinet because of the con
dition of his health.
The ministry from which he re
signed fell in power, however, only
from March to October, when it re
signed. As a result of the Socialists’
victory in the elections in the fall
of 1921 he was returned to power.
His government remained until Apr.
1923, during which Branting was
both premier and foreign minister.
It resigned after having been defeat
ed in the upper chamber on a pro
posal by the government to distrib
ute doles among the unemployed.
The succeeding ministry resigned
in October, 1924, because of diverg
ent views between it-and parliament
on the question of disarmament and
for the third time Dr. Branting was
called to head the government.
During the World War Dr. Brant
ing was outspoken in his criticism
of Gremany and in May, 1917 he
made a bitter attack upon the Ger
man government for its submarine
warfare, characterizing Germany’s
ruling clique as “the common ene
mies of mankind.”
As the representative of the Swed
ish Social Democracy, Dr. Branting
played an important role in nearly
all international labor conference.
He took part in all the meetings of
the First International and in the
summer of 1917 was chairman of the
Dutch-Scandinavian delegation which
sat at Stockholm and in turn con
ferred with delegations of the Social
ist parties from nearly all the belli
gerent countries with a view to de
vising a platform for joint interven
tion by them in the interests of
peace. In January and February,
11919, he was chairman of the Inter
national Social Democratic Confer
ence at Berne, at which British,
j French and Germans met for the
first time since the war.
During the Paris peace conference
Dr. Branting was active as an advo
cate of peace on the lines of Wood
row Wilson’s fourteen points. As
Sweden’s delegate to the League of
J Nations he took a prominent part
in its proceedings with special inter
i est in the movement for disarma
ment. He was chairman of the as
sembly committee on disarmament at
the 1920 and 1921 sessions and also
was appointed a member of the lea
gue council’s commission on arma
ments.
Dr. Branting, with Christian L.
Lang of Norway, secretary of the
International Union, was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize for 1921.
Born at Stockholm, November 23,
1860, Dr. Branting was the son of
Professor L. G. Branting. He was
educated at Upsala University, study
ing natural sciences.
A trip abroad prior to 1882 brot
the young scientist into touch with
Socialism and when he returned he
immediately got into politics thru
the journalistic channel, becoming an
editor on the TIDEN, a Social Dem
ocratic newspaper. He went over to
the SOCIALDEMOKRATEN when it
was founded in 1886 and a year later
became editor. In that position he
carried on his activities in behalf of
the working classes and peace.
The Social Democrats organized
as a party with Branting one of the
leading promoters. There was oppo
sition to it from the start,, accom
panied by a movement for the re
pression of free speech and free as
sembly. In two years, or in the sum
mer of 1889, the four principal edi
tors of the Socialistic press, includ
ing Branting, found themselves sit
ting in prison together. Despite im
prisonments, combined with fines, re
peated many times, Branting and his
fellow fighters would not give way.
In 1895, when war against Norway
was advocated by the Swedish mili
tarists, Branting was sentenced to
three months’ imprisonment for de
livering a speech denouncing the
idea of war “agaist our brothers of
the north,” and containing weirds
interpreted as suggesting the assass
ination of the king. The sentence
subsequently was changed to a fine.
Dr. Branting was first elected to
the second chamber in 1897 on the
Social Democratic ticket. He made
a brilliant and honorable record and
by his sincerity and ability won the
respect of those who had been his
bitterest opponents. He was the au
thor of several books and treatises
on political subjects.