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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 85
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1025 PRICE TEN CENTS.
* ADVOCATES OF LITERACY BILL ARE
POURING IN PETITIONS ASKING FOR
< PASSAGE-SHARP CONTEST CERTAIN
Dimond Memorial on Alleged Statement of Former At
torney General Stone Regarding Lawlessness in
Alaska Ordered Recommitted to Committee
JUNEAU. Alaska, April 9.—The expected fireworks over the Dimond
memorial on an alleged statement of former Attorney General Harlan F.
Stone, regarding lawlessness in Alaska failed to materialize today in the
Senate. When the measure was reached in the second reading it was ordered
recommitted on motion of Senator Brown, Senator Dimond not opposing the
move, which was unanticipated.
Senator Pratt introduced to the Senate Bill 28 prohibiting a change of
venue from one division to another in criminal cases, except on application
of the defendant. In the recent Fairbanks postoffice robbery case this was
the issue, and two Federal judges. Clegg of Fairbanks and Reed of Juneau,
luled it was permmissable for the government to secure such change.
Representative Ross, alleging that disputes were occurring over the loca
tion of the capiral of Alaska, introduced a memorial asking for a referendum
^ at the next election on the matter of the site.
Alarmed at rumors that the literacy test measure introduced by Repre
sentative Grier faces defeat, or at least drastic amendment, local civic organ
izations continue to petition the Legislature urging its passage. Strong reso
lutions were received by both Houses this morning from Juneau and Douglas
Parent-Teachers Associations.
The Jensen bill increasing the salary of the commissioner of education
to §5,000 per year, and a measure enlarging the powers of the Territorial
Health Commissioner, were favorably reported to the House.
Representative Grant introduced House Bill 53, authorizing school boards
to levy special school taxes in municipalities.
The Hardy measure providing for a limited period of detention and medi
cal examination and observation of persons charged with insanity before the
hearing was held, and three minor Senate bills were passed by the House.
COOLIDGE INFORMS
PERU WILL NOT
CHANGE AWARD
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10 —
President Coolidge informed Peru lie
was constrained to regard his award
in the Tacna-Arica dispute between
Peru and Chile as “final and without
appeal.”
The communication pointed out the
action agreed with the terms of sub
mission signed by the two govern
ments on general principles of inter
national law.
He declared that deference to the
nations involved the importance of a
correct understanding, that the award
was deemed advisable, and that he
would “make certain additional obser
| vations later.”
DISTILL THEIR OWN
BERLIN, Apr. 10.—Germans are
taking to the American method of
“distilling their own.”
A firm which makes “essences” is
doing a rushing business with its
product, which is guaranteed to pro
duce the finest liquor at half the
usual market price. It adds that
these essences can be “brewed at
home,” thus freeing the consumer
< from the present high cost of public
drinking.
The police in Germany cannot in
terfere with this process.
SUGAR BEET LEAF HOPPER
WILL BE INVESTIGATED
YAKIMA, Wn„ Apr. 10.—With
headquarters in Toppenish, Walter
Carter, who arrived in Yakima to
ll day, will investigate the leaf hop
per as applied to sugar beet culture
in the Northwest and California, he
announced last night. Ravages of
' the leaf hopper caused the Utah-Ida
✓ ho Sugar company to withdraw its
three plants from the Yakima valley
and remove one to Bellingham and
two to Canadian fields.
Investigations will begin at once.
A. E. Rucker will return tomorrow
(k * night from a business trip to Anchor
age.
INCORPORATION PAPERS
FOR PORT ANGELES RAIL
LINE PLACED ON FILE
OLYMPIA, Wn„ Apr. 10.—(AP).—
Incorporation papers placing the cap
italization at $4,200,000 were filed
with the secretary of state by the
Port Angeles Western Railroad com
pany here recently.
The line will connect with the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul sys
tem at Disque, in Clallam county,
and go west to Tyee, according to
F. S. Scritsmier, who filed the pa
pers.
ELLINGS0N GIRL
; TAKEN ASYLUM
! INSANE AT NAPA
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10.—Doro
thy Ellingson. the girl murderer of her
mother, was taken to the insane asy
lum today at Napa. She will be ex
amined within 30 days by experts
here, and returned to San Francisco
to be tried for murder in case she
is found sane.
SYSTEM OF BOOTLEGGING
IN HUMANITY IS CHARGED
OTTAWA, Ont., Apr. 10.—(AP).—
Existence of a great system of
“bootlegging in humanity” whereby
Armenian immigrants were smug
gled or brought into the United
States and Canada on passports
illegally obtained, has been charged
by George H. Alexander, an Ar
menian on trial here for conspiring
to obtain a passport under false
pretenses.
Letters produced by Alexander
implicated officers of the Canadian
department of immigration and evi
dence produced indicates that the al
leged system had ramifications in
New York City.
RUTH RESTING COMFORTABLY
NEW YORK, April 10.—Babe Ruth
rested comfortably after recovering
from injuries received by a fall yes
terday. He is suffering ’’om acute
indigestion and influenza.
POLAR PARTY TO
CARRY AMERICAN
FLAGS AND RADIO
J
NEW YORK, April 10—The Mac- j
Millan Polar expedition will carry a
supply of American flags to stake out
my sub-continents found for the
United States. The Arctic ^leaders
plan to give out daily news of their
experiences and discoveries to the
world by radio. The expedition will
carry a twenty meter wave length out
fit and hopes to talk with the cruiser
Seattle which will be in far Southern
waters.
DAYTON, O,. April 10.—Captain
Donald B. MacMillan, Arctic explorer,
who lectured here last night, declared
that he favored little men to man the
airplanes which will attempt to find
a sub-continent in the polar seas. He
said: “If I had my way I would elimi
nate every applicant not under five
feet, eight inches. Big men are like
big dogs; they wear out too quickly
in the face of adversity ami hard
ships.”
URGES WHIPPING
POST FOR ALL
WIFE BEATERS
CHARLESTON, W. Va„ April 10.—
Most people get a divorce in order to
get married again.
This statement was made here by
Rev. J. W. Graves of Clarksburg, W.
Va., in discussing the widely heralded
divorce situation in the United States.
Divorces, he declared, are too easily
obtained and their large number is
gradually undermining the nation’s
home life.
Urging that a constitutional amend
ment providing uniform marriage and
divorce laws throughout the country
should be adopted, Dr. Craves declar
ed that divorce laws today are not for
the good of society, but cater to the
whims of individuals.
“People are getting married who
lack the training that is essential to
matrimonial success,” he said. “Many
of the married men do not know how
to earn a decent living and many of
the married women do not know even
the fundamentals of cooking a meal.”
Dr. Graves advocated a return to the
old-fashioned whipping post to pun
ish men who abuse their wives. “In
stead of punishing the man who mis
treats his wife, the courts give the
woman a divorce which frees the man
of responsibility.”
“Men and women who are not men
tally, morally or physically fit for mar
riage should not be permitted to come
to the marriage altar,” Dr. Graves
said.
Sharp Earthquake Hits
Vicinity Tokio Yesterday
TOKIO, April 10.—One of the sharp
est earthquakes of the year occurred
on the eastern side of Tokio bay yes
tei'day.
Many fishing craft and a 600 ton
steamer foundered in a gale on the
south coast, which followed the earth
quake. Over fifty are dead and miss
ing.
MISSIONARIES BADLY NEEDED
TO CIVILIZE HERRIN, ILLINOIS
HERRIN, 111., April 10.—The second
bombing for this month wrecked the
grocery store of Marshal McCormack
& Brother. McCormack is the may
oralty candidate for the anti-Klan fac
tion.
A i.. flowers blooming in the back
yard beats a lot of bloomin’ trash.
Government Worries
Over Falsity Reports
WASHINGTON, I). C.. April 10.—
Reports that the Washington govern
ment views with suspicion the oil con
cession provisions of the Russo-Japa
nese treaty are causing high American
officials great concern, and a formal
declaration that the reports are en
tirely baseless may be issued.
CORONER FINDS
MERCURY ENUF
TO KILL VICTIMS
1
CHICAGO, April 10.—Coroner Wolfe
in a statement tonight quoted, “A
study of Dr. McNally’s report on the
vital organs of Mrs. Emma McClin
tock and Dr. Olson permits me to say
that the amount of mercury found in
their stomachs was sufficient to cause
their deaths from mercurial poison- j
ing. Examination of the prescriptions
furnished by physicians at the time
of their last illness, shows that no
mercury was contained in the formu-!
las. Therefore it must have been
;
! administered with deadly intent by
others than the physicians.”
HERRIOT FLAYS
GOVERNMENT
FOR SPENDING
_
PARIS, France, April 10.—Premier
! Herriott replied to the Senate in a
; most scatching arraignment of liis
| government during its ten months of
life. He cried: “If this be war, let us
; have it out righ here and now.’’
Herriot said that France’s debt
j weighed heavily upon the country’s
i foreign policy and sometimes ham
pered the negotiations.
Senator Francois Marsal, accused
i Herriot of not himself running the
government, but that it was run by
all the Socialists of the Nation. He
| quoted President Coolidge of America
j as one of the greatest international
; authorities of the modern world, and
| cited President Coolidge’s words: “If
; we want to overthrow the existing
codes of law let there be no equivo
: cation.”
VETERANS SAYS PRISON
INSTITUTION INADEQUATE
WALLA WALLA, Apr. 10.—(AP).
—Resolutions calling attention to the
inadequacy of present hospital facili
ties in the Northwest for tubercular
afflicted veterans have been ordered
drafted by Walter C. Lee post of the
American Legion, the Walla Walla
post, it was announced today, and
copies will be sent to the director of
the veterans’ bureau, the state com
mittee on hospitalization of the le
gion, the Washington members of
congress and others, with letters
urging their support of a program
to secure additional facilities here.
It is pointed out by members of
the post committee that the hospi
tal here, No. 85, as now constructed,
was built for 162 patients, but that
by putting in extra beds, in space
that should not be utilized because
of crowding, the capacity has been in
creased to 288 and that there are
now 225 patients in the hospital.
The committee also states that
there is no other hospital in the Se
attle regional district available for
tubercular men and some of them
are forced into temporary accommo
dations at Tacoma and Boise, while
others are not being hospitalized at
all because there is no room for
them; and that a total of $10,000,000
has been appropriated for additional
hospital facilities and funds for the
addition needed here should be avail
able from this appropriation.
GREAT NORTHERN
WILL ELECTRIFY
THRU CASCADES
SEATTLE, April 10— Ralph Budd,
president, announced that the Great
Northern railroad would electrify 30
miles from Skykomish on the west
side of the Cascades to Verne, just
east of the Portal tunnel on the sum
mit. The road will expend $100,000
for equipment of the line, and $500,000
for four electric engines which will be
used to initiate the new operation.
It is said that proposals to build
engines are under consideration from
Henry Ford, Westinghouse and the
General Electric company.
The railroad has a power plant al
ready at Tumwater canyon, on the
Wenatchee river, from which it has
been operating electric locomotives
through the three mile tunnel on the
summit.
S. S. NORTHWESTERN DUE
IN PORT TOMORROW NIGHT
The steamship Northwestern is due
in port tomorrow night S: 00 p. m. The
vessel will go as far west as Kenai,
returning some time Monday.
GAME YESTERDAY
BATTLE PITCHERS
SAN FRANCISCO. April 10—Preffer
made his debut in the Pacific Coast
League yesterday, pitched a no hit
game. Stryker for Seattle won the
pitchers’ battle. Brady was ejected
from the game in the eighth inning
for a too vigorous protest against the
umpire’s decision in a close one.
Batteries: Prefeer, Yelle Stryker,
and Daly.
Other Baseball Scores:
Salt Lake 8; Vernon, 2.
San Francisco, 4; Seattle, 3.
Sacramento, 9; Oakland. 5.
Los Angeles, 14; Portland, 5.
Homers—Brazill, Seattle; Kildulf,
San Francisco; Ginsto and Pickering
of Oakland.
TWO OLDTIMERS REST
IN SEATTLE BONEYARD
STEAMERS UTOPIA AND CHIPPE
WA MOORED LAKE UNION.
: SEATTLE, Apr. 10.—(AP).—Three
| old vessels, which have been moored
| in Lake Union here after seeing
years of service, await a problematic
fate.
The wood stern-wheel steamer
Bailey Gatzert, the oldest of the trio,
may be put into service as an auto
mobile ferry. It was built in 1890
in Ballard, a former suburb of Se
attle, and named after the mayor.
It was employed between Seattle
and Tacoma and then sent to the
Columbia river to operate between
Portland and Astoria, Ore. Later it.
was an the Bremerton-Seattie run.
Next in point of years is the wood
steamer Utopia, built here in 1893
for service to the San Juan islands,
Washington. During the Alaska
gold rush in 1897 to 1899, the steamer
carried hundreds of persons between
Seattle and Dyea and Skagway, Al
aska. On one trip the vessel had 300
passengers, although its rating is
less than 100.
The third is the steel steamer
Chippewa, a sister ship to the steam
ships Iroquois and Sioux. The three
were built in Toledo, O., in 1900, for
service on the Great Lakes. The
| Chippewa was brought here in 1905.
It is considered too expensive to op
erate.
You can pretty nearly tell what
kind of a woman will come to the
| door by looking at the front yard.