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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 108
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
MILLION AND HALF IS REQUESTED BY REP. ROSS
Liberal Allowance Be Devoted For Educational Purposes
PHmciraim». s.
IN WORLD COURT
IS URGED
NEW YORK, Apr. 25—“Participa
tion by the United Spates in a world
court, as proposed by the administra
tion,” President Harding today de
clared, “would be in harmony with
party platform pledges, candidatorial
promises and American aspirations,
and would not be an entry into the
League of Nations ‘by the side door,
the back door, or cellar door.’ Exces
sive friends of the League,” the Pres
ident declared, ‘‘Have beclouded the
situation by the unwarranted asump
tion that the proposal is a move to
ward membership in the League,
while,’’ he added, “the irreconcialiable
opponents of the League have also be
clouded the question with the assump
tion that entanglements with Europe
would unavoidably follow.”
Joe Urquhart, who some time ago
resided in Seward, is hered among
the crew of the freighter Valdez.
C. W. Feleh, salesman, registered in
this morning. He is at the Sexton.
J. L. Graef and Charles Cooper re
ceived several chickens on the Valdez
for this summer’s egg crop.
Ben Grier, former maanger ot the
co-operative store at Anchorage, was
among those booked on the Valdez
Gris morning, going to Kanatak where
he will be in charge of the Larson
projects.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25.—Presi
dent Harding’s New York speech in
which he frankly declared for a world
court has caused much discussion and
worry in republican political circles,
and some interpret this as a declara
tion on the part of the President to
the effect that if there is to be a split
in the republican party let it come.
Certain party leaders have been do
ing their utmost to prevent President
Harding from espousing an Interna
tional Court of Justice, claiming that
. it means certain defeat for the Re
publicans if he does.
Senators Borah and other insurgent
leaders are very outspoken against
the plan and have warned the Presi
dent that it will not be tolerated by
the Senate.
COLUMBIA AND BRITANNIA
CLASP HANDS OVER SEAS
LONDON, Apr. 25.—Columbia and
Britannia clasp hands across the sev
en seas, declared Ambassador Harvey
in a speech last night a* Guild Hall.
Continuing, Mr. Harvey said in
part: “New England in the United
States reveres old England to which
she owes her business and true En
glish principles as against the Social
ist theories. Her true English Chris
tian faith is opposed to Bolshevist pa
gan practices.
DAWSON, Y. T., Apr. 25.—Sistei
Mary John, dean of St. Mary’s hospl
tal and dean of Yukon’s nursing worn
en, died here today after a lingerie
* niness. She was one of the besi
* known pioneer women in the Terri
tory.
DUSSELDORF, Apr. 25.—French of
ficials have confiscated eighty billion
marks in unfinished German paper
money which the yfouud yesterday at
the printing plant in Mullieim of the
General Anzeiger. At the same time
Belgian troops seized two billion
marks in paper money.
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MUNICH, Apr. 25.—Adolf Hitler,
I leading the Fascisti movement in the
! unformed Bavarian government, has
given orders to his followers to shoot
anyone who attempts to carry out
warrants for the arrest of Nationalist
; leaders issued by the special high
| court at Leipzig for political crimes.
Seward Post No. 5, American Le
sion, met in regular session last eve
! ning, and much business was tran
sacted, among which was the adop
tion of a permanent constitution for
the guidance of the organization. The
Legion has decided to divide its ses
sions each month; one evening to be
devoted to Legion business, the other
to social activities. On the latter
point it was decided to give a smoker
on the next meeting night.
Among other matters transacted
was the procuring of suitable head
stones for the deceased soldiers bur
ied in the Seward cemetery, Chas. W.
Brown and Lum Straughn, and others
\ who may later be laid to rest in the
cemetery plot. It is hoped that the
stones would arrive in time to hold
approppriate services on Memorial
Day.
An appropriation was made for the
American Legion permanent memorial
| fund, which is for decorating the
graves of the American soldiers bur
| ied in France. A nation wide move
ment among the posts is under way to
raise annually a hundred thousand
j dollars for this purpose.
| The repos* of the delegates to the
! Anchorage Legion convention was ac
! cepted. No other business coming up
I for consideration an adjournment was
! taken.
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new YORK, Apr. 25—The New
; New York Herald announces today
! that commencing tomorrow it will is
sue a miniature newspaper for the
j busy man which can be read in ten
minutes. Frank A. Munsey, the pub
lisher, in making the announcement,
says: "The average man hasn’t more
than about twenty minutes for his
‘ morning newspaper. * * * The truth is
that the average man with so little
time for his morning paper does not
get very far with the news of (.he
| day. Twenty minutes cannot do the
| work of twenty hours and there is
I well nigh twenty hours of reading in
! a copy of the New York Herald.”
notice to owners
. Beginning April 26, all stray dogs
and horses caught running at large on
j the streets of Seward will be taken
up by the town marshal. A fine wil’
be charged before same are released
J. H. WALKER,
2t Special Police.
Finances Of Territory
Be Drawn Heavily On
(By Special Correspondent)
JUNEAU, Apr. 25—One of the heav
iest budgets ever to be presented to
the Alaska legislature for school pur
poses was introduced yesterday by
Representative H. H. Ross, of the
Fourth division, chairman of the ways
and means committee, when he sub
mitted a general appropriations meas
ure in the House calling lor $1,540,000
or $362,000 more than was asked for
jn the. 1021 sessions bill. More than
fifty per cent of the allowance as.ced
for is for educational puipo ses. ''"he
alloCtiiions of the measure were as
follows;
For educational purposes, $837,,r0o
This includes $380,000 for schools in
incorporated towns.
For Alaska Agricultural College and
School of Mines, $182,600.
For Roads and Trails, $240,000.
THREE IRREGULARS ARE
EXECUTED FOB
BEARING ARMS
TRALEE, Ireland, Apr. 25.—Richard
Hatheway, James McEnery, and John
Greaney were executed here today by
the Free State authorities.
Hatheway was captured in a siege
on a cave in which a band of irregu
lars were holding out on the Kelley
Cliffs.
DUBLIN, Apr. 25.—Revolvers are
being issued to reputable citizens for
their protection against robber bands
operating under the guise of irregu
lars.
TACOMA POLITICIAN 13
OFFERED HUSTON
POSITION
PORTLAND, Apr. 25.—Ralph Wil
liams, National committeeman from
Oregon and vice-chairman of the Na
tional republican committee, was ten
dered the appointment as assistant
secretary of commerce, by Secretary
Hoover, to succeed Assistant Secre
tary Huston, resigned.
PHSKI’S TOUR RETS
NEW YORK, Apr. 25.—Paderewski’s
present tour of America closing May
2, will net him over half a million
dollars in good United States coin. .
He will leave shortly after the con
clusion of his tour for Warsaw.
MANY STARS RECEIVED
The Browiji & Hawkins corporation
this morning received on the freighter
Valdez a whole firmament of constel
lations, four Star autos comprising
the shipment. Two were landed on
the local dock and two were sent to
Anchorage ,
TWO FORDS SOLD.
Chas. Lechner, Ford agent, states
that two Ford cars will arrive on one
of the next boats, one for P. H. Pe
terson, carpenter and contractor, and
the other for M. S. E. Slaton of the
government radio plant.
CARDINAL OUTLINES RUHR
SITUATION TO THE POPE
ROME, Apr. 25.—Cardinal Schulte,
archbishop of Cologne, has arrived in
Rome to outline to the Pope the situ
ation in the Ruhr.
For Fish Commission purposes,
which was almost overlooked, $12,000.
This amount is asked for to investi
gate the salmon supply for the can
ning industries and the storing of
equipment and planting of eggs in the
hatcheries, but does not allow for new
work.
Pioneers’ Home at Sitka, $97,250.
For Pensions, $60,000.
Dependent children, $35,000.
Relief of destitution, $24,000.
Shelter cabins on Alaska trails,
$10,000.
The remainder of the amount asked
for in the measure would be devoted
to administrative purposes and covers
other miscellaneous small items.
This does not include special legisla
tion which carried appropriations va
riously estimated at between $100,000!
and $250,000.
IS VIRTUALLY CERTAIN
WEEKS WILL IT
VISIT ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25—It is vir
tually certain that Secretary Weeks
will not accompany the Alaska bound
congressional party farther than San
Francisco, thence returning east over
land, stopping off at various army
posts and camps for inspection and
addresses.
Members of the congressional party
will probably go to a number of points
not included in the present itinerary,
which names only Fort William H.
Seward and the Town of Seward, the
terminus of the Alaska railroad.
HOOVER WILL COME
WITH moil TQ
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25.—Secretary
of Commerce Herbert Hoover, has de
cided to make the trip to Alaska with
President Harding, leaving Washing
ton about June 15. He will not cross
the continent with the President, but
will join the party on the Pacific
Coast, and make the round trip with
the Presidential party.
Seattle man
SEATTLE, Apr. 25.—O. T. Erick
son, Robert B. Hesketh, Samuel F.
Rathbun, Philip Tindall, C. S. Cos
grove, and J. A. Stevenson were nam
ed for councilmen in yesterday's pri
maries.
MONTANA SENATOR WILL
STUDY THE SOVIET SYSTEM
MOSCOW, Apr. 23.—Senator Bur
ton K. Wheeler of Montana, arrived
here for a ten-day study of the So
viet system of government.
VALDEZ IN PORT
The freighter Valdez arrived in
port shortly after two o’clock this
morning and after discharging fifty
tons of freight left for Anchorage. The
vessel, after discharging cargo at the
upper city will proceed to Uganik and
from there to Kanatak, having much
freight for the oil town.
A two-auto garage is being built for
Ed Crawford on Second avenue be
tween Adams street and the glacier
stream. Cal Brosius and Peter Peter
son are engaged in the work.
CHICAGO, Apr. 25.—A request for l
a return to the wage scale in effect
prior to July 1, 1921, was made of the
Railroad Labor Board by the United
Brotherhood maintenance of way em
ployes and railway shop laborers. The
petition effects 28 railroads and over
175,000 employes.
UNEMPLOYED CLASH
WITH POLICE 1
GERMANY
ESSEN, Apr. 25.—More than seven
thousand unemployed clashed with
the police forces at Katerinberg this
afternoon in an another outbreak, j
which German officials attribute to
communist agitation. One was killed
and one wounded before the mob was
dispersed.
IVGfl 811 TO
STMT SHAKE-UP
SEATTLE, Apr. 25.—Following the
charge of financial irregularities made
by examiners from the state bureau
of accountants, Mayor E. J. Brown !
is making a cleanup in the Seattle \
municipal light department which has i
charge of the production and sale of
electric current.
D. W. Lamb, freed by dismissal in
the superior court of a charge of lar- j
ceny, announced today he had resign-i
ed as chief accountant and would be
connected with a Seattle electrical
company.
The mayor absolved J. D. Ross, who
has for many years been head of the
department from all blame, but said
Mr. Ross should have an assistant to
look after details, leaving the chief to
deal with large questions.
P. C. Jackson, who conduces a
small farm near Anchorage, was
among those leaving for the south on
the Watson. Mr. Jackson intends to
purchase a hundred head of sheep
while in the States, and bring them
north for the purpose of experi
menting as to the possibilities of rais
ing mutton for market.
RELEASED FROM CUSTODY
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 25.—Clar
ence B. Hicks, naval seaman, who has
been held as the suspected murderer
of Rabbi Lafee, has been released
from custody by the police court and
exonerated of all charges.
The murderer of Rabbi Lafee was
arrested at Phoenix yesterday and ft
is stated has confessed his crime to
offfficials there.
CONFERENCE RECONVENES
FRENCH FLAG OVER ESSEN
ESSEN, Apr. 23.—The French flag!
is flying today for the first time over
Essen, where the Ruhr coal barons
once centralized a business of a hun
dred million tons of coal.
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C. C. Cooke, teacher of the Ozinkie
schools, arrived in Seward this morn
ing on a short vacation trip.
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ATLANTA, Ga., Apr. 25.—Charges
that the present legal battle to oust
him from control of the Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan was conceived and is
being engineered by Edward Young
Clarke and Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler Grow
former associates in the propagation
department of the Klan, were made
early tonight by Dr. H. W. Evans, im
perial wizard of the organization.
Dr. Evans made public a copy of a
telegram he said he sent to Tom
Akers, and imperial officials from
Washington Monday before he was
aware that court action was being
taken, instructing Mr. Akers to call
a meeting of Klansmen from every
state in the Union to be held in At
lanta in the near future for the ex
press purpose of considering the ad
visability of organizing a woman’s
auxiliary to the Klan.
Clarke recently retired from the
Klan tendering his resignation to the
imperial wizard. Later a proclama
tion was issued from the imperial
palace saying that “for the good of
the order’’ Clarke was no longer rec
ognized as an official of the Klan.
Federal authorities are now seeking
him on an indictment charging him
with using the mails to defraud.
Mrs. Grow, better known in Klan
circles as Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, re
tired from the Klan two years ago
after charges had been placed against
her and Clarke. Her resignation fol
lowed an alleged attempt to assassi
nate her at her home near here.
ASTORIA, Ore., Apr. 25.—The re
vised proposal made by the Alaska
Packers association regarding various
prices to be paid for salmon at the
various Alaska packing points during
the coming season, was again reject
ed by a referendum vote taken by the
union members last night by a vote of
401 to 41. The fleets of the packing
companies are being held up at the
various coast ports.
Ill MATERIALS !T
BE SOLO TO ALIENS
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25.—President
Harding has directed the War and
Navy departments not to permit the
sale of surplus war stocks including
arms and munitions to any foreign
nation or alien. It is understood one
offer for material has been made by
agents representing the Irish repub
lic.
MINISTER OF U DIAZ
IS UK RETRENCH
ROME, Apr. 25.—Minister of War
Diaz, continuing the plan of retrench
ment laid down by Premier Mussolini
has placed on the retired list 2000
officers, ranging from generals to sec
ond lieutenants.
RAROINGSEES RISE RUTH
KNOCK OUT HOME RUN
NEW YORK, Apr. 25.—President
Harding witnessed the New York
Yankees and Washington Senators in
a game this afternoon, and saw Dabe
Ruth knock out a home run.