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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 110
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SEWARD, ALASKA, APRIL W, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
DECKER REFUTES I. W. W. ALLEGATIONS
Idaho Senator Takes Stand Against Court Move
■ ROOT IS SUPPORTING
COURT P LIS
HARDING
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 27.—
Elihu Root is vigorously supporting
President Harding’s contention that
the United States should participate
in a permanent international court of
justice. He told the American Soci
ety of International Law tonight that
the question presented by the Presi
dent’s message to the Senate was a
question of “moral support.”
CHAI1LES W. MORSE RND
SONS ON 111 TODAY
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. WASHINGTON. Apr. 27—The selec
tion of the jury for the trial of Chas.
W. Morse, his three sons and four
^others, charged with conspiracy to de
fraud the United States and the Ship
ping Board through wartime ship
contracts was begun today in the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court.
STAMFORD, Conn., Apr. 27.—Dra
per M. Daugherty, son of the United
Slates Attorney General, is in the
Hall sanitarium here on a voluntary
commitment pending action on a for
• mal commitment proceeding in the
Probate Court.
MELLON ORDERS PROBE
WASHINGTON, Apr. 27.—Secre
tary Mellon this morning ordered a
sweeping, nation-wide investigation
of the charges of graft and corruption
among prohibition agents.
CONCESSION SECURED
Among those who returned on the
steamer Northwestern yesterday was
Dan T. Kennedy, well known oldtimer
and packer of the interior. Mr. Ken
nedy had made a special trip to the
states for the purpose of conferring
with officials of the park bureau in
’ regard to securing a pack train con
cession in McKinley Park. He was
successful in his endeavor and with
. in a few weeks there will arrive a
large number of horses from the
states to be used in conducting tour
ists through the latest addition to the
nation’s park system.
EXPRESS AUDITOR VISITING
C. M. Hall, traveling auditor for the
American Railway Express company,
is at present visiting in Seward. Mr.
Hall is the successor of C. S. Crider,
who for many years traveled through
Alaska in the interests of the express
company but who is now working in
another section. Mr. Hall will leave
for Anchorage Monday morning on
his way to the various offices of the
company to th' northward.
Thos. McKinnon, a well known min
ing ma'a of the Fairbanks and Tolo
——yria districts, accompanied by Mrs.
McKinnon, is on the Admiral Evans,
returning to Alaska after spending
the winter in California.
Paul Novak, brother to Andy No
vak, proprietor of a local express
* service, is numbered among the Ad
miral Evans’ passengers.. He is com
ing to Alaska directly from Bavaria,
the seat of the present revolutionary
trouble.
Mike Hyland, well known on the in
„ terior, is returning north having left
Seattle yesterday.
MOUNT LASSEN SENDING
OUT CLOUDS OF SHE
REDDING, Cal., Apr. 27.—Mt. Las
sen peak broke forth in a violent
eruption last night, great volumes of
black smoke ascending high in the
air. The blowoff is the most severe in
years and quantities of hot rocks are
falling in the towns at the base of the
mountain.
WHIES WALK OUT
IN WASHINGTON
LOGGING CAMPS
SEATTLE, Apr. 2<.— len thousand|
of thirty thousand logging camp |
workers in Western Washington are!
idle as a result of the I. W. W. strike
called to free the prisoners confined
in Federal penitentiaries for undue
anti-war activities.
The strike along the water front
had but small effect in this port but
has tied up shipping in San Pedro,
Everett and Grays Harbor.
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EMPLOYES INCREASED
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SAX cl'AN, Ponto Rico, Apr. 27.— j
Horace M. Towner, new governor of
Porto Rico., signed the first lawr to be- j
come effective in his administration j
increasing the pay of the insular gov
ernment employes by an average of 15
per cent.
ALBERT, DUKE OF YORKE,
WEDS LADY BOWES LYON
LONDON, Apr. 27.—Albert Duke of
Yorke was united in marriage yester
day with Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon
in solemn old Westminster Abbey,
with the pomp and panoply reminis
cent of medieval days, and a tumultu
ous demonstration amid the vast con
gregation that gathered to witness the
wedding pageant.
Eight hundred of England’s greatest
notables, including state, court, dip
lomatic and social dignitaries, as well
as an impressive assemblage of for
eign princes, dukes, duchesses and
others of rank and title were there,
attired in finery and jeweled embel
lishments that represented the pro
verbial king’s ransom.
SEIM'S WED CHIEF
WIEE JOIN FOX Fins
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James Paulson, who for the past
year acted as Seward’s chief of po
lice, recently purchased from Fred
Liljgren the group of islands in Prince
William Sound which are known as j
the Dutch Group, and in the future!
Mr. Paulson will devote himself to j
fox farming, having secured eight
pairs of blue foxes with his purchase.
The islands are among the best on
the Sound lying within a few miles of
Valdez, and having fine shelter and
feed.
The former chief will leave on the
Victoria to assume possession of the
industry. Mr. Paulson has many
friends in Seward who will wish him
a large measure of success in his new
venture.
Mr. Liljgren will retain possession
of his interests in the Naked Island
group.
FIRE KILLS FIVE PERSONS
LYNN, Mass., Apr. 27.—Five per
sons were killed in a fire which de
stroyed the Essex Castle, a five story
apartment building.
WEEKS LEAVE PARTY
AT SAN FRANCESCO
OR SEATTLE
WASHINGTON, Apr. 27.—Secre
tary of War Weeks, who left Wash
ington this afternoon on his San Fran
cisco-Porto Rico-Panama trip to the
Pacific coast, said he found it practi
cally impossible to extend his trip to
Alaska because of the pressure of bus
iness at the War department, and that
he would leave the party either at
San Francisco or Seattle.
FREE STATE NEARS END
DUBLIN, Apr. 27.—It is generally
recognized that the armed opposition
to the Free State is almost at an end
but the prospects of permanent peace
many influential persons believe, de
pends on the manner in which the re
sistance is terminated.
MYSTERY OF THE SEA
REPORTED FROM AFRICA
LONDON, Apr. 27.—The Portu
guese mail steamer, Messamedes,
which grounded several days ago at
Cape Frio, southwest Africa, was seen
today sailing around abandoned, writh
no trace of the 237 passengers she
carried.
BERNE, Apr. 27.—Switzerland has
repaid the United States $10,000,000
on account of loans made during the
war period it was announced today.
GOULD SUFFERS RELAPSE
CAP MARTIN, France, Apr. 27.—
George Gould today suffered a relapse
and is said to be dying.
Dr. D. C. Hardy, former Seward
resident but now located at Nenana,
who for the past several weeks has
been in the Kuskokwim section, was
last reported at McGrath on his way
to the Tanana river city. The Doctor
is attending to the dental needs of the
interior section.
Thos. King, proprietor of the Happy
Valley fruit ranch at Mile 4, was in
town today on a business trip. Mr.
King states that he will experiment
with a limited number of apple trees
this year, to see if they will bear fruit
in this temperature. He also reports
the snow nearly gone at his place, C.
E. Orlander’s car reaching his place
last night.
WAR AND POLITICAL UNREST
FOLLOWS OPENING SPRING
PEKING, Apr. 27.—War, attended
by general political and social unrest
is following close on the trail of
spring in China.
AMERICAN CONSULATE CLOSED
W ASHINGTON, Apr. 27.—The con
sulate of the United States govern
ment at Vladivostok was closed today.
DEMPSEY WILL DEFEND TITLE
CHICAGO, Apr. 27.—Jack Dempsey,
the white heavyweight champion, will
positively defend his title on July 4,
against some opponent who is not
definitely decided upon as yet, his
manager, Jack Kerns, announced last
night.
SEATTLE, Apr. 27.—The Nawsco
line freighter Brush is ashore on the
Oregon coast. The vessel is a total
wreck. The crew escaped.
BORAH PLUNGES 10
FIGHT AGAINST
COURT PLAN
ASSERTION THAT AMERICA CAN
GO INTO COURT AND STAY
OUT OF LEAGUE UNTRUE
WASHINGTON, Apr. 27.—Senator
Borah today plunged into the fight
against Harding, Hughes and Hoovers’
world court plan this afternoon with
a vigorous formal statement denounc
ing the proposal as a step toward en
tering the League of Nations. He de
clared that Secretary Hughes and
Secretary Hoover, the President’s ad
visers on the court issue, are “under
written pledges to exert their power
to take us into the League.”
He added, “The Republican party in
asserting that it can go into the court
and stay out of the league is taking
a position which will bring down upon
it the moral condemnation of every
one.”
MOVIE ACTRESS MARRIED
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 27— Marjorie
Daw, moving picture actress, and Al
fred Edwrn Sutherland, screen actor
and director, were married yesterday
at the home of Douglas Fairbanks and
Mary Pickford.
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SUED FOR mm
CHICAGO, Apr. 27.—Samuel G. Rip
ley, of Richmond Cal., has filed suit
for $50,000 against Waldo Evans, for
mer governor of Samoa, and now in
command of the Great Lakes naval
training station, and W. A. McDonald
of Lakebluff, who was formerly Evans
secretary. Ripley alleges he was kid
naped in 1921 and held aboard the
governor’s yacht in various parts of
the South Seas, until he finally es
caped at Honolulu after being a pris
oner for 30 days.
DUTIES ON SUGAR NOT
FRGTOR IN PRICE DUSE
WASHINGTON, Apr. 27.—The tar
iff commission reported to President
Harding today that the duties levied
by the new Fordney-McCumber tariff
act were not a factor in the recent in
crease in sugar prices, and the report
declared that the increase was due
to other causes and that if the tariff
was removed or reduced the tendency
would be to decrease the production
of American beet sugar and increase
the exports of the foreign product.
Acting Attorney General Seymour said
that the government proposed asking
for a court order annulling all spec
ulative trades since February and to
prevent settlements being made be
tween brokers and customers.
APPROPRIATIONS FOR NAVY
CANNOT BE USED NOW
WASHINGTON, Apr. 27.—Appropri
ations made by congress for elevat
ing the guns of the American fleet
cannot be used for that purpose, Sec
retary Denby announced today, be
cause of unintended erroneous state
ments made by naval representatives
in recommending the appropriation.
STEAMER SATSUMA IN STORM
LONDON, Apr. 27.—The steamer
Satsuma which arrived here from
New York after a 22 day passage
reports several members of her crew
injured by high seas which struck M»e
vessel.
The Seward bridge club is meeting
this afternoon at the residence of
Mrs. W. E. Root.
Syndicalist Bill Is Defeated
in House by Large Majority
(By Special Correspondent.)
JUNEAU, Apr. 27.—The bill of
Representative Decker, of the Second
Division, calling for the repeal of the
Territorial syndicalist act of 1919, was
yesterday afternoon defeated in the
House by a vote of 13 to 3. Decker,
Ross and Wilson supported the mea
sure. Prior to the vote Decker read
a prepared address which took an
hour and forty minutes to deliver. In
covering the subject he argued that
the syndicalist law was abridged be
cause there were plenty of Federal
laws which covered the subject.
It was his opinion that the present
law was a vicious one, directly and
indirectly. He also made further ref
erence to the alleged street rumors in
which stated that he was a radical
and was backed by the I. W. W., giv
ing absolute denial of any connection
with that organization. In concluding
his address he asserted that the re
peal measure had the support of sev
eral churches of different denomina
tions. On his resigning the floor a
roll call was taken with the above
mentioned results.
Senate bill No. 107, giving to the
regents of the Alaska college power
to appoint instructors was defeated in
the House. The House also defeated
the measure which would give to In
dian villages certain powers enjoyed
by municipalities regarding police
control and trial. Representative
Ross of the Fourth division, who vot
ed against the measure gave notice
that today he would ask for a recon
sideration of the measure.
The bill regulating the speed of
motor vehicles on highways outside of
incorporated towns was passed.
The bill reducing individual bank
ing loans to thirty-five per cent of the
capital stock and surplus, instead of
fifty, as now provided, was brought
up and after short deliberation, was
passed.
The bill including the allowance for
the construction of schools outside of
incorporated towns was passed. The
measure pprovided for the sum of
$2500 instead of $1800 previously in
corporated in the measure.
The Senate passed the bill provid
ing for an additional appropriation of
$12,000 for relief of the destitute.
STENOGRAPHER GETS
HEAVY DAMAGES
US HEART BALM
SEATTLE, Apr. 27.—Miss Gladys
Meredith, a New York stenographer,
was this afternoon given a verdict for
$13,900 in her breach of promise suit
in Judge Ronald’s court against Lio
nel Hibler, son of Ross Hibler, a Se
attle sugar merchant. She sued for
$23,170.
SHOW IT IS FILL! UP
PANAMA, Apr. 27—Soundings made
in Culebra Cut show the depth of the
canal to be only 35 feet near the
spot where the British steamer Har
rison Smith ran aground this week.
It is said the cut is slowly filling up
from river silt.
WILL STRENGTHEN DEFENSES
WASHINGTON, Apr. 27.—Army and
navy authorities are considering the
strengthening of the defenses of the
Panama canal by the installation of a
number of 16-inch naval rifles to be
erected at the artillery fort, on Ta
boga island, near the Pacific terminal.
SILVER WEDDING AGED
ROYAL COUPLE OBSERVED
COPENHAGEN, Apr. 27.—The sil
ver wedding of King Christian and
Queen Alexandrine was celebrated to
day at Frendensborg Cast’^, where 40
years ago the crowned heads of Eu
rope were accustomed to gather
around the picturesque figure of the
man now known as “Europe’s father
in-law.”
SAFE TAKEN FROM TRUCK
CONTAINED TEN THOUSAND
KANSAS CITY, Apr. 27.—A safe
containing about $17,000 in checks
and $10,000 in cash was taken by ban
dits from a truck of the American
Express Company. The bandits fired
several shots before escaping in an
auto. They did not attempt to open
the safe but took it along with them.
IRISH AGITATOR DEPORTTED
NEW YORK. Apr. 27.—The U. S.
department of labor has ordered the
deportation of James P. Larkins, Irish
agitator, who was recently pardoned
by Governor Smith.
will ram
WASHINGTON, Apr. 27.—The ad
ministration hopes to be able to re
commend to Congress in December a
reduction in taxes, as is indicated in
Mellon’s announcement that it is his
intension to renew his recommenda
tion for a cut in surtaxes.
NEW YORK, Apr. 27.—Each time
Babe Ruth knocks a four bagger, a
number of lawyers will dig up one
thousand dollars for the Salvation
Army in New York. The agreement
between Ruth and the lawyers was
made today.
LORD flOBEfll CECIL IS
PLEASED IT RECEPTION
WASHINGTON, Apr. 27.—Lord Ce
cil, leading British exponent of the
league of nations, came to Washing
ton today and expressed himself as
highly pleased at the way he had been
received during the swing around tae
circle in behalf of the league.
STEAMSHIP AUDITOR LEAVES
R. V. Watkins, auditor for the Alas
ka Steamship company who was in
Seward for the past few days check
ing up the local office, left on the
Northwestern for Cordova, to attend
to affairs in that city. He will pro
ceed down the coast later.
BRYAN TELLS OF SUSPENSION
LINCOLN, Neb., Apr. 27.—Governor
Bryan announced today that the rea
son the monthly publication of The
Commoner, edited for the past twen
ty years by himself and his brother,
Wm. J. Bryan, had quit publication,
was that neither of the owners had
the time to attend to its publication.
TODAY’S FISH PRICE
SEATTLE, Apr. 27.—Price of fresh
halibut at noon today, 27 and 19 cts.
Mr. and Mrs. John Rosness, old
time residents of Seward, who lefit
here last fall on a six months’ visit to
Norway, are returning on the Admi
ral Evans with their three children.
Mr. Rosness is locomotive engineer on
the Seward-Anchorage run.