$1,700,000 FOR
OPERATION OF
GOVT. RAILWAY
Operating Deficit of Over
Million and a Half Is
Reported by Smith
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The
budget for the Interior Depart
ment presented to the Senate
today, carries an appropriation
for the Alaska Railroad of $1,700
000, of which $1,200,000 is to meet
an estimated operating deficit of
the railroad and steamers until
*1026, and $500,000 for capital ex.
penditures.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Noel W.
Smith, special assistant to Secretary
of Interior Work, said today that it
would be several years before the
government could expect any returns
from its large investment in Alaska,
if ever. He declared that the rail
road district must have a settled pol
icy of development, and every induce
ment given to prospective settlers.
“The agricultural lands of Alaska
are capable of supporting a large
population,” said Mr. Smith, “and the
country will be rapidly settled up as
soon as people receive the facts as to
climate and resources.”
JOSEPH LEITER’S FARM
' HOUSE RAIDED, CHOICE
LIQUOR SEIZED BY GOVT
BEVERLY, Mass., Dec. 3—Federal
prohibition agents raided the home of
Joseph Leiter, of Chicago, which is
situated at Beverly farms, and seized
600 bottles of choice liquor.
WILSON SCHOLARSHIP AT
VIRGINIA “U” FAVORED
SAVANNAH, Ga„ Dec. 3.—Election
of officers, selection of next year’s
convention city and consideration of
the educational comittee’s report, in
^hich the establishment of a Wood
row Wilson scholarship at the Uni
versity of Virginia, was recommend
ed, is before the United Daughters
of the Confederacy today.
E. E. Kurtz, manager of Carstens’
local market was reported on the
sick list yesterday, but is able to be
about today.
NEW TUNNEL EVAN JONES
NOW CROSSCUTTING COAL
The new tunnel about 600 feet
in length at the Evan Jones mine
at Jonesville, is now crossing the
measures, according to J. J. Corey
coal mining engineer, who returned
to his headquarters in Anchorage,
following an inspection trip of the
property says the Anchorage Daily
Alaskan. A double shift is working
which includes about 100 men. The
drying plant is fully completed and
the washer is producing a much
cleaner coal than previously, under
the old method.
MISS NIEMELA IS WED
TO VERNON G. NELSON
In the presence of a few friends,
Miss Nelma Sophia Neimela and Mr.
Vernon Gustaf Nelson, both of Doug
las, Alaska, were married at the
Presbyterian manse in Juneau by Dr.
George G. Bruce.
SHOP EARLY XMAS
Postmaster Charles Sheldon asks
the people of Seward to send out
their Christmas packages as early as
possible, in order to not congest the
inaail service. About Christmas
time a rush to get off belated mail
is generally the order of the day, and
it is to prevent this that Mr. Sheldon
gives his warning.
OTHER NATIONS MAY
PAY DEBT TO U. S.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—With ne
gotiations for the settlement of the
French debt under way, high treas
ury officials believe today that fund
ing proposals may shortly be receiv
ed from Italy. Belgium and two oth
ers of the principal debtors of the
United States.
j Capt. Charles Emswiler sailed to
day for Nuka Bay. The May carried
as passengers A1 Blair and Frank
Kempfer who will remain in the camp
until some time in January before
returning from the camp.
WILLIAM L. PAUL WINS
ELECTION FIRST DIVISION
JUNEAU, Dec. 1.—William L. Paul,
opponent of the literacy bill and anti
fishtrap man, is now 30 votes ahead
in the race for representative from
the First division, and all reports in
dicate* that he is elected. Returns
from Yakutat show that Paul receiv
ed 44 out of <60 votes cast there, plac
ing him ahead of James J. Connors,
his closest competitor.
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ALASKA BUDGET
GIVEN TO SENATE
COMMITTEES
Education, Medical Relief,
Liquor Traffic all Call
for Large Sums
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—The Inte
rior Department appropriation bill
reported to the Senate today for
Alaska carries the following appro
priations:
For the Bureau of Education, $437,
075.
For medical relief, $122,320.
For suppi’ession of liquor ti’affic,
$16,200.
For maintenance of railroads and
steamers, $200,000.
Supt. Tigert of the Bureau of Edu
cation, testifying before the sub-com
mittee which reported the bill, said
that $24,000 would be expended by
the Bureau on a building program,
which has been apportioned tenta
tively to include Eklutna, industrial
school and orphanage, $6,000; White
Mountain, industrial teachers’ resi
dence, $5,000, and for the completion
of schools and teachers’ residences at
Quithiook, Quigilingok, and Kanaka
nak schools, $3,000, $2,000 and $4,000
respectively.
CHIEF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY
ON VISIT TO STATES
E. P. Walker, chief of the Alaska
Biological Survey, accompanied by
Mrs. Walker, left on one of the last
boats for Seattle, where they will re.
main until about February 1. Mr.
Walker, while absent will investigate
the possibility of purchasing a ves
sel for use by the Bureau in West
ern Alaska. He and Mrs. Walker will
then go east, stopping in Minnesota
for a visit with relatives, and from
there to Ohio for a stay with Mr.
Walker’s family. Following this they
will go to Washington where Mr.
Walker will be held for 30 days for
work in the Bureau’s headquarters.
They will return via Chicago for a
short stop.
JOE IBACH RETURNS
Joe Ibach, the well known Middle
ton Island fox farmer, returned re- J
cently to Cordova from his ranch in
southeastern Alaska.
VALDEZ CABLE STILL DOWN
The Dellwood is working in the vi_
cinity of Ketchikan and the old cable
line to Valdez is broken somewhere
in the vicinity of Prince William
Sound. It will be repaired when the
cableship comes north.
$1,400,000 Is Asked for
Alaska’s Roads, Trails
In Annual Report Today
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2.—One
million four hundred thousand for
the constructions and maintenance of
roads, bridges and trails in Alaska,
is the appropriation marked down in
the annual report of the Chief of
Army Engineers.
LEONARD ISSUES CHALLENGE
TO TAKE ON ANY ASPIRANT
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Benny Leon
ard, lightweight champion, has issued
a challenge to any and all % rivals
for the crown.
CHICAGO GANGSTERS
IN SHOOTING AFFRAY
CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—In a shooting
affray yesterday Tony Manchuso was
killed and Michael Mikovich wound
ed. The police attribute the affair
to another outbreak in the gangster
war that followed the murder of Don
O’Bannion.
WOBBLIES START STRIKE
ASHLAND, Ore., Dec. 1.—A Wob
bly agitation caused 100 tunnelmen
on the Oregon Power Company’s site
on the Klamath river to strike. The
strikers were rounded up, taken to
Hornbrook and told not to return.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 3.—Henry
M. Dawes, whose resignation as
comptroller of currency announced in
Washington recently, has become the
new president of the Pure Oil Co.
FACT-FINDING BODY
FOR WEST PROPOSED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3.—Cre
ation of a fact-finding commission to
investigate control of the public do
main in the western states was pro
posed to President Coolidge today by
a committee representing the confer
ence of extension service of eleven
western states.
The committee asked the investi
gation be conducted with a veiw to
oulining a policy which would pro
mote the livestock industry and at
the same time protect reclamation
projects.
SEATTLE ATTORNEY
ARRESTED FOR FRAUD
SEATTLE, Dec. 3.—Edward M.
Comyns, a Seattle attorney, was ar
rested here today on a Federal war
rant charged with having engineered
a §50,000 land fraud near Index, in
this state. Comyns is said to have
used the mails in his land promotion
schemes, and this is what got him
in the toils of the law.
FINANCES RESTRICTING
NORMAL CHINESE TRADE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—A general
financial stringency is seriously im
peding resumption of normal trade in
China said a cablegram received to
da\* to the department of commerce.
The uncertain political situation
there has caused heavy hoarding of
silver in tlie interior and the native
banks in the trade centers have
been handicapped. The larger banks
have ample supplies, however, of sil
ver for all requirements.
WOMEN’S LEGION COUNCIL
FAVORS CHILD AMENDMENT
SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 3.—Ratifica
tion of a proposed child labor amend
ment to the constitution of the Unit
ed States was unaniously approved
and made a part of a legislative pro
gram to be presented at the next
state legislative session by the Wash
ington State Women’s Legion Coun
cil at the close of a three-day con
vention here yesterday.
Mrs. Harry John Miller, of Ever
ett, re-elected to the state house of
representatives November 4, was
chosen to launch the bill.
WOUL DEPUTIZE ALL
FANATICAL STUDENTS
TO CLEAR UP STRIKE
CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 3.—Former
Premier Zagloul Pasha, today urged
for the deputation of all the students
from the school of professors to end
the strike which they instigated in
protest against the British demands
upon the Egyptian government in
connection with the late assassina
tion of Major-General Stack.
REFINING MAN DIES
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Frank Hills,
comptroller of the American Smelt
ing and Refinning Company died in
this city late last night.
BOUNTY HUNTERS WIN
BIG SUMS BY FRAUD
TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 3.—The coy
ote, the fox and the wolf long have
stood as synonyms of guile and re
sourcefulness, but many hunters have
put these animals to shame accord
ing to accounts related by A. K. Fish
er of the Federal biological survey,
who recently passed through here on,
an inspection trip.
Thousands of dollars have been
collected illegally by dishonest hunt,
ers, Mr. Fisher declared. He said the
most famous fraud was perpetrated in
Wisconsin where $250,000 was paid on
the heads of wolves shipped in from
Nevada. He added that about $18,000
was paid in Pennsylvania before the
deception was discovered.
Wisconsin did not have many var
mints, so the head hunters organized
and sent men to Nevada where there
were many wolves, the animals being
killed and the bags shipped to Wis
consin and Pennsylvania.
Another favorite trick of the boun
ty hunter, according to Mr. Fisher, is
to alter rabbit and squirrel scalps so
they resembled young coyotes and
wolves.
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ANNUAL MESSAGE
SAYS ECONOMY
BE WATCHWORD
May Be Possible to Reduce
Taxes Next Year If
Ills Are Remedied
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—President
Coolidge advised Congress in his an
nual message today that perhaps the
most important work it could do at
the present session would be to prac
tice such rigid economy as to make
possible a reduction of taxes during
the next fiscal year.
The government can do more to
remedy the ills of the people by a '
system of rigid economy in public
expenditures than can be accomplish
ed through any other action. Altho
stressing economy President Cool
idge presented a wide range of other
recommendations, some new and oth
ers reiterations of proposals made a
year ago in his first annual message.
Most of these related to domestic
affairs, but he also went into the
field of international relations to re
new his plea for American adherance
to a permanent court of international
justice; to declare the United States
not to be disposed to join the League
of Nations; to appeal for support by
public authorities and private citi
zens; for a European reparations set
tlement plan, and to repeat his dec
laration of opposition to the cancel,
lation by the United States of debts
owned the country by foreign na
tions.
DEFICIT APPROPRIATION
BILL PASSES THE SENATE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The Sen
ate today passed the 3176,000,000 de
ficit appropriation bill which was
blocked last session as a result of a
filibuster by Senator Key Pittman of
Nevada, who objected because the: ap
propriations for reclamation projects
in his st^te were dropped from the
bill.
RAILROADS OPPOSED TO
ADDITIONAL LEGISLATION
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—No condi
tion exists today which calls for ur
gent legislative action by congress
with respect to the railroads, de
clared the Association of Railway
Executives at the annual meeting
here yesterday.
In an extensive “declaration of
policy” for the coming year, the as
scoiation held that all railroad prob
lems should be met as economic
questions and not as political is
sues; rate making by legislative ac
tion would be destructive; amend
ments to the transportation act must
be kept from political doctors; ade
quate revenues should be assured the
carriers to meet needs for service
and expansion; more educational
publicity would be developed by the
roads themselves and the roads are
determined to keep transportation
facilities abreast of national growth.
JUDGE BEN LINDSEY
REMAINS ON RANCH
DENVER, Colo., Dec. 3—Judge
Ben F. Lindsey, Denver’s nationally
known juvenile jurist, will retain
the bench seat he has held for 23
years as the result of the November
4 election.
This was determined iast night
when mail votes were counted, giv
ing Judge Lindsey a majority of 100
votes over Royal Graham, his re
publican opponent. His majority
election total was sixty votes. He
was opposed by the Ku Klux Klan,
MUSCLE SHOAL’S FATE
LAID BEFORE COOLIDGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3.—
The Underwood plan for the opera
tion of Muscle Shoals was laid be
fore President Coolidge today by
Senators Curtis and McKinley.
FIVE MEET DEATH IN
FLAMES AT PLYMOUTH
PLYMOUTH, Pa., Dec. 3.—Five
lives comprised the toll of a fire
which destroyed seven frame build
ing in the business section here
today.