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VOLUME XVIII
NUMBER 296
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5,1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
FALL TESTIFIES THAT FORMER
PRESIDENT DID NOT WANT
TO TAKE ACTION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—Appealing
before the Senate Public Lands com
mittee which is investigating alleged
corrupt official acts, former Secretary
of the interior Albert Fall and George
H. Shuler, treasurer of New York
state and former captain of marines,
testified today. Shuler said he was
sent with a squad of marines to the
Teapot Dome oil reserve to stop the
oil ocmpany from drilling. Secretary
Fall, he said, told him that the oil
company was treaspassing on naval
oil reserves.
Mr. Fall testified that he had taken
the matter up with former President
Harding, who did not want to take ac
tion because one of the officials of the
leasing company was a friend to the
president and a heavy campaign fund
contributor, but that he finally con
sented for Fall to act in the matter,
but it was then to late.
UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASING
BERLIN, Dec. 4.—Unemployment in
the unoccupied regions of Germany
showed a further increase the last
fortnight in December. A quarter of
a million persons lost their jobs with
out getting new ones in that period.
At the weekly luncheon of the Sew
ard Chamber of Commerce last even
ing, several matters of importance
were taken up by the members. An
unusually good turn-out was on hand,
several new' faces being observed at
the long table.
A communication was read from
the Wrangell Chamber ol Commerce,
asking co-operation in securing an ap
propriation for dredging the narrows.
The communication stated that this
would shorten communication by wa
ter between Juneau and Ketchikan by
six hours, eliminating the dangerous
outside passage through Sumner strait
It was voted to assist the \\ rangell
Chamber in every way possible.
H. E. Ellsworth brought up the
question of the Resurrection river sur
vey, for a connecting road between
t Seward and Skilak lake. The secre
tary was instructed to take the matter
up with the proper authorities.
Mr. I1 rank Kempfer reported to the
Chamber on his recent trip south, and
a vote of thanks was tendered him by
the members for his efforts in secur
ing co-operation of officials of the
New England Fish Company.
Mr. Roy Gilley, of Uzinki, addressed
• he Chamber on a plan to popularize
the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
for tourist parties, and explained in
detail his ideas for conducting parties
to the valley. He stated that he had
been to Seattle on a business trip con
nected with tourist travel to the Val
ley, and that he had received much en
couragement from officials of the Mt.
Rainier route, and also from the offi
cials of the Admiral Line. Mr. Gilley
stated that his plans as yet were not
completed, but that he planned to take
tourists desiring to visit the Valley
to Geographic Harbor by boat, and
provide packers and guides for them.
He promised to submit his plans to
the chamber in writing at any early
date and was assured by Chairman
Whittlesey and the members that ev
erything possible would be done to
help divert travel to the famous scenic
wonderland.
The meeting was a most successful
one. Mr. Jos. Badger and Mr. Earl
Mount were new members present.
PROPOSED LOAN TO HUNGARY
LONDON, Dec. 4.—Details of a pro
posed loan to Hungary worked out by
a committee from the League of Na
tions dealing with reconstruction for
that country were made public yester
day. The loan will be directed by a
commissioner general responsible to
the League and is expected to total
250,000,000 gold crowns.
Attend the Chamber of Commei’ce
luncheon tonight at Six o’clock. im
jwrtant business.
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN
1 Sill Of Bli Lift
MORE THAN 12.000 BANDED SINCE
JULY 1. LAST
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.— Rapidly
growing interest in the study of mi
gratory birds and their habits is in
dicated by the large increase in the
banding of birds, the Department of
Agriculture declares. Since July 1st
of this year more than 12,000 birds
have been banded by the biological
survey in its bird-banding studies.
For tiie year which ended June 30th
last more than 25,000 birds were
banded an increase of 6000 over the
previous year. Reports have been re
ceived from 1200 banded birds after
their liberation which officials con
sider a very good percentage.
Returns from banded birds are ex
pected to throw light on such ques
tions as how fast, how far, and how!
long individual migratory birds fly in
their trips; whether the same routes
are always followed, with the same
stopovers for feeding; the relation be
tween the breeding and wintering
grounds; where the birds go that do
not return to the vicinity of their ori
ginal nests; and how long birds live.
SCHEDULE OF PHYSICIANS
MAY BE ENACTED INTO LAW
OLYMPIA, Wn.. Dec. 5.—The most
complete schedule of doctors’ fees iu
the world is being circulated by the
department of labor and industries as
a result of several years of research
and investigation, and the next legis
lature may enact a law requiring phy
sicians to publish a schedule of their
fees charged. These fees were ar
rived at after a world wide comparison
of fees and after being adopted for
industrial insurance computations will
be turned over to the department of
labor.
SEATTLE PLASTERERS WANT
INCREASE OF $2.00 PER DAY
SEATTLE, Dec. 4.—Plasterers be
longing to Local Union No. 77, who
struck recently for an increase of $2
per day, have won their fight. Con
tractors on unfinished jobs claim the
advance will cause them a loss as the
jobs were figured on the prevailing
wage scale of $10.
10 0BT11TRADE
SHANGHAI, Dec. 5.—Tlie hanging
of Chinese war lords to telegraph
poles was advocated here today by
Capt. Robert Dollar, the Pacific coast
shipping king, in an address before
the American chamber of commerce.
He declared the possibilities of future
trade in the Pacific are beyond the
wildest expectations.
ENGLAND PREPARES TO
WREST OLYMPIC HONORS
LONDON, Dec. 5.—Britain Is mak
ing a keen endeavor to win back her
lost laurels at the Olympic games in
Paris next year.
Training centers, it is proposed,
will be opened up throughout the
country for the preparation of ath
letes and budding athletes by the
British Olympic Games Association,
while the services of former athletes
and world-beaters are to be enlisted
as advisers.
Work has already commenced on
the tracks at White City and the Crys
tal Palace, two London suburban
amusement parks, where the candi
dates for Olympic games selected
from the South of England will be
trained.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 5.—
The state senate has approved the
clause in the anti-mask act, making it
unlawful for any person to wear a
mask, covering or hood concealing all
or any part of the face of the wearer,
in an effort to bring the Ku Klux
Klan into daylight Children, persons
going to or from masquerades, partici
pants in any public pageant, of educa
tional, religious or historical charac
ter, meetings within buildings, and
shows and circuses are exempt from
the law.
BUST OF LLOYD GEORGE
Miss Yan McCleod, young New York sculptress is seen at work on the
idealistic head of Lloyd George whic h she presented to him as a token ot
admiration for his policies, just beior e he returned to Europe.
LONDON, Dec. 5— Mob violence is
being practiced at many of the 'elec
tion meetings throughout England.!
Col. Spencer Clay, a Tory candidate,!
was mobbed while attempting to de-|
liver a speech a Stonebridge, and
Winston Churchill narrowely escaped
the same fate while making a cam
paign speech in the outskirts of Lon
don. Glasgow is a hotbed of disorder
and the police are advising candidates
to arm themselves before attempting
to speak.
LEDGE OP TUNGSTEN
JUNEAU: That a well defined dike!
of tungsten ore, worth $2,000 a ton,
occurs on the El Nido claim at Lisian
ski was brought in yesterday to Ju
neau by Ed Davis, associate of Capt.
Cann and one of the original locators.
The presence of this dike has been
known to Mr. Cann for a long time,
but he had no means ot determining
what it contained. The ore was very
heavy and Mr. Cann suspected it was
tungsten and sent samples to the Ag
ricultural College and School of Mines
tor analysis.
The reply from the Fairbanks insti
tution was that the samples were
tungsate or scheelite, practically pure
tungsten ready for shipment without
treatment and worth $1 per pound on
open market.
It is stated there is a large body oi
the ore available.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5.—The
next major war will be won or lost on
the sufficiency of munitions reserves,!
Major General Clarence C. Williams
chief of army ordnance, predicted in
his report today.
“I wish to emphasize the preponder
ating irnpoi tance of adequate emer
gency reserves,” Genera 1 Williams
said in his report, adding in view of
the isolated position, highly developed
specialized industries and immense
resources of the United States, “it
seemed fairly ceratin that no power
or combination of powers now in exis
tence could successfully invade the
country after American man power
and industry had been fully mobil
ized.
“The possible rate of mobilization
will always be determined by the
state of our reserves,” the report
said, “since man power can be mobil
ized more rapidly than industry.”
Bean Supper and dance
Saturday night.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—In his an
nual report to congress Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty declares the rum
runners off the American coasts to be
the most gigantic criminal problem
the i'nited States has ever had to
wrestle with.
OFFICIALS VISIT SEL'IG
H. C. Uunan, Ketchikan manager of
the New England Fisheries Company,
and Engineer Davis of the same con
cern, arrived in Seward today on the
Admiral Watson, and are conferring
with Chamber of Commerce officials
and property owners looking toward
the establishment of a large halibut
cold storage and packing plant here.
It was hoped that these gentlemen
would remain in Seward until the ar
rival of the Alameda, but they have
changed their plans and will go on
through on the Watson.
Nothing definite will be known as
to their decision in regard to building
a plant here until the matter is taken
up with their company.
TRUNK FULL OF MUD BRINGS
MAN $1,802.39 WORTH OF GOLD
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 5.—Frank Bru
baker of Omaha, several weeks ago
bought an old trunk at a sale of un
claimed baggage for $4.50. When he
opened the trunk he found it full of
black mud. Someone suggested that
instead of throwing it away he have it
analyzed. He took to the American
Smelting and Refining company Sat
urday and got a report on it. The
supposed mud had $1,806-89 worth of
gold in it. Brubaker is now trying to
trace back where the trunk came from
in the hopes of finding the mine.
MAY BE RELEASED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—A special
commission appointed by President
Coolidge to investigate the question
of releasing all remaining political
prisoners, placed its report before the
attorney general tonight.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—A New York
editor spent much time recently try
iing to decipher a recent letter from
a country contemporary which read
as follows:
“Dear Editor: I am the only man
in town with a typewriter, so am in
an eggstremely difficult position, the
worst in all by eggsperience as a
newspaper eggsecutive. I have brok
en the eggs on my machine. Please,
send me new bar or a man to repair
same at once.”
The editor rushed a new typewriter
with the letter “X” on it to his con
temporary.
JONS DEFIED BY LONE
' WOMAN IN LONG TREK
—
DRIVES 600 HEAD THROUGH AFRI
CAN DESERTS
CAPETOWN, S. A.. Dec. 4.—A re
markable exploit of an African woman
farmer who trekked 400 miles across
the desert and through lion-infested
country with her herd of 600 cattle to
save the herd from extermination is
exciting admiration here.
Mrs. Ida Francis had a farm behind
the western edge of the Kalahari des
ert, and a little over two months ago
her ranch was devastated by floods
and rhinaerpest Finding herself and
her cattle without shelter, and danger
of the herd being exterminated, she
decided on removing her cattle to her
son’s ranch in Bechuanaland, over 400
miles distant.
Many of the water holes were dried
up; some of the district through which
she passed was badly infested with
lions, whose attacks had to be stood
off with her rifle, but despite these
hardships she was able to reach her
son’s ranch with the loss of about 50
| animals.
AGED MAN DIES WHEN HE
IS CALLED IN A POKER GAME
MIDDLETON, N. Y., Dec. 4—Pat
rick Burns, 80 years old, a former
merchant at Port Jarvis died sudden
ly iu that city Saturday night while
playing a game of poker.
There had been some lively betting
and Burns had driven all his fellow
players out but one, who finally called
him. As this played turned to Burns
and said, “What have you got?’’ the
aged man fell forward ou the table
and breathed his last. The man who
called had been bluffing and the
shock was too great.
FOOD SITUATION GERMANY
IS NOW WORSE THAN EVER
BERLIN, Dec. 5.—Tlie food situa
tion which was temporarily relieved
after the recent food riots, is now
worse than ever and many experts in
distribution say nothing less than a
general seizure of wholesale supplies
by the government, together with a
rigid price fixing can relieve it.
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo., Dec. 4.
The sale of the E. L. Morse home in
this city 10 the Veterans Bureau for
$116,000 was approved today by a
special appraisement board, sent by
the congressional committee investi
gating Veterans’ Bureau affairs. It
was declared by numerous witnesses
before the commiue that the property
was worth only $40,000, but the ap
praisement board decided that Forbes
had not paid too much for the place.
TOKYO, Dec. 5.—The Island of For
mosa in the China Sea was heavily
shaken by an earthquake last night.
CLAIM WAGES FOR MAKING
TRIP NORTH WITH PARTY
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5.—Five mem
bers of the expedition which wrent to
Nome on the schooner Fred J. Wood
last summer, have filed with the state
labor commission claims ranging from
$500 to $900. They allege that each
of them invested $200 in the Eldorado
Development Company that that they
had been promised a wrage of $6.50
per day which was not paid. The
schooner Fred J. Wood was wrecked
near Port Clarence and the party,
nummbering over 100, returned on
the steamship Buford.
MANILA, Dec. 4.—The Republican
Central Committee of the Philippine
Islands adopted resolutions asking
Congress to take action by resolution
which would provide that the pream
ble of the Jones organic act in the
Islands be nullified.
PROPONENTS OF HENRY FORD
WALK OUT IN BODY WHEN
FAVORITE TURNED DOWN
PIERRE, So. Dak.. Dec. 5.—Demo
crats of the State presidential conven
tion declared for Wm. G. McAdoo over
Henry Ford tonight, the onl> contes
tants before the voters.
McAdoo s delegates represented
38,0 L8 votes and Ford s followers mus
tered but 5,022 votes. LaFoilette was
given the farmer-labor pit -identiai
endorsement over Ford by a vote of
four to one.
Ford Followers Walk Out
PIERRE, So. Dak., Dec. 5.—South
Dakota democrats backing Henry Ford
for the presidential nomination, walk
ed out in a body from the State pres
idential convention this afternoon,
following a rejection of its proposal
for a fusion with the farmer-labor del
egates.
Coolidge Given Majority
PIERRE, So. Dak., Dec. 5.—Calvin
Coolidge was given the nomination
in the presidential primary held by
South Dakota yesterday, winning over
Hiram Johnson by a vote of 50,379 to
27,340. Coolidge and Johnson were
the only names presented before the
convention. Senator Capper of Kan
sas was unanimously indorsed for the
vice-presidency.
E
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Frederick
H. Gillett, republican, of Springfield,
Massachusetts, today was eiected
speaker of the House on the ni.*a
ballot taken from the time balloting
first began Monday, his election end
ing a deadlock which lasted two days,
following a successful demand by pro
gressives for free debate and a
chance to vote on liberalization of
House rules. The ninth vote stood,
Gillette, 215; Garrett, 197; Madden,
21; not voting 2.
Armistice Agreed Upon
WASHINGTON, Dec. o.—An armis
tice under which congress may be or
ganized tomorrow was agreed upon by
leaders of the republican insurgents
and regular organizations in the
House.
Joins Farm Bloc
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5.—
Senator Wm. P. Dillingham of Ver
mont announced today that he had for
mally joined the farm bloc.
BRIDGE CLJB TO MEET
The Bridge Club will mee: at ihe
home of Mrs. Wayne Blue Friday aft
ernoon at the usual hour.
WATSON WILL AWAIT TRAIN
The steamship Admiral Watson will
sail about nine o’clock tonight alter
the anival of the train.
SOUTH OUKOTft VOTE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—President
Coolidge acknowledged the action of
the South Dakota Presidential conven
tion in giving him preference at the
presidential primary, and will send a
communication to Republican leaders
of that state which may go a long way
toward indicating his atri'ude towmrd
his 1924 candidacy.
The steamship Starr wdll sail for
westward points some time this even
ing.
Chamber of Commerce luncheon to
night at 6 o’clock. Six Six Six p. m.
TODAY'S FISH MARKET
JUNEAU—Halibut 13 and 9 cents
per pound.