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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 88
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS.
HOUSE ADVANCESHEARING LITERARY
BILL ON CALENDAR, SPRINGING
- SURPRISE ON ITS MANY ADHERENTS
JUNEAU, April 14.—The House today advanced the Grier Literacy Bill
•on the calendar, adopting the committee amendment which exempts persons
from its provisions who have voted in previous elections, and passed it to
its third reading. The vote on its final passage comes up tomorrow. The
House last Saturday had fixed Tuesday afternoon for special consideration
and hearing on the measure, and today’s action came as a surprise to the
many adherents of the bill. The Parent-Teachers’ Association here had ap
pointed a special committee to attend the hearing and protest against the
amendment. Other organizations also had been expected to protest. Cor
dova American Legion Post and Ketchikan Auxiliary today wired the legisla
ture urging passage of the measure without amendment.
Senate Bill 12, creating the office of transportation commissioner with
the attorney general filling the office, was reported by the Mining committee,
without recommendation.
Thd Pratt bill, prohibiting a change olj venue in criminal cases except on
motion of the defense, from one division to another, was reported favorably.
The Grier bill for Territorial aid to county fairs was favorably reported,
i with an amendment cutting the appropriations to one thousand dollars per
annum for each division, the same as last year.
The Ross bill providing that the Territory assume eighty per cent of the
maintainance of public schools in municipalities up to $25,000, was reported
favorably.
The House passed a bill empowering the Commissioner of Health to se
cure serums, antitoxins, and to guard against a repetition of the Nome diph
theria incident.
The Watson memorial asking for a survey of the mouth of the Tanana
river and for improvements to the steamer channel was favorably reported.
FORI) DAM BREAKS
FLOODING HOMES
DEPTH 12 FEET
^ DETROIT, April 14.—The dam at
the big power plant of the Ford Mo
tor Company, at Flat Rock, burst to
day, releasing millions of gallons of
water, which covered 5,000 acres to
a depth of 12 feet. State, police warn
ed the inhabitants when guards at the
dam telephoned them, and immedi
ately started along the river, but soon
had to take to boats. Going from
house to house they rescued scores
of families, sending a man ahead to
push the work of warning.
No loss of life is reported, but
< small barns, boat houses, wooden im
plements, trees, bushes and furniture
wrent careening down the valley at 10
miles an hour. Chickens dug to roofs
and dogs howled from the tops of
barns.
The earth bank flanking the new
^ Detroit Edison Company’s dam, sev
eral miles above the Ford dam, crum
^ bled yesterday allowed an inrush of
water greater than the structure could
«tand.
CANADA’ MEXICO
LEAD MIGRATION
< UNITED STATES
NEW YORK, April 14 —In the first
six months operation of the new immi
gration law, Mexico and Canada pro
vided the greatest part of the total
net immigration to the United States,
the National Industrial conference an
nounced today.
Of the 79,741 aliens arriving from
the Eastern hemisphere from July 1,
1924 until January 1, 1925, 559,916 re
. turned. At the same time 88,948
aliens came from the western hemis
phere, principally from Canada and
f Mexico. Only 6,898 were returned.
The total immigration was 68,689,
against 533,471 for the corresponding
period of the previous year.
GOOD WEATHER IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, April 14.—Generally good
> weather is reported for the eight open
ing games of the two major leagues.
U, S. MARINE OFFICER DEAD
SAN DIEGO, April 14.—Colonel Gil
eis Bishop, one of the best known of
ficers in the U. S. Marine Corps, and
author of several books of adventure,
died from a heart attack at the naval
hospital here.
STREET FIGHTING REPORTED
IN MANY CITIES OF ITALY
ROME, April 14.—Clashes and fight
ing on the streets between fascisti and
communists continue to be reported
throughout the country while the ten
sion of the whole political situation
has been aggravated by the death of
a facisti who was shot in a pistol duel.
POWER PRESIDENT
REMOVE OFFICIALS
BEING DISCUSSED
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.—
The president’s power to remove his
own or his predecessors from office
was argued by the supreme court in
a suit brought by the late Frank S.
Myers for back pay.
President Wilson removed Myers as
postmaster of Portland, Oregon, in
1920.
Solicitor Beck defended the Presi
dent’s rights, and Senator Pepper
acted in behalf of the Senate, which
intervened, contending that the con
sent of the Senate is necessary for
removal of first, second and third
class postmasters.
CHAPMAN IS SON OF
OLD IRISH IMMIGRANTS
NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 14.—
Gerald Chapman, who was sentenced
to death for the murder of a police
man, is the son of Irish immigrants,
it was revealed today, and his real
name is Gois George Charles.
FAMOUS STEED DROPS DEAD
DENVER, Colo., Apr. 14.—Old Mc
Kinley, the famous mount of the late
Colonel “Buffalo Bill” Cody, dropped
dead in his stall at the stable here
yesterday.
FOREST FIRES DAMAGING
NEW YORK, Apr. 14.—Forest fires
which are menacing many sections of
the Eastern states are doing a wide
spread damage to property.
ARBITRATION OF
WAGE DISPUTES
IS UNLAWFUL
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.—
Holding that compulsory* arbitration
of industrial disputes is unconstitu
tional, the Supreme Court yesterday
deprived the Industrial Relations
Court of its last material weapon.
Justice Vandevanter, delivering the
opinion, declared that the assumption
of the Kansas act that it was in the
“interest of the public” did not remove
the unsurmountable unconstitutional
objection.
William Green, President of the
American Federation of Labor, pro
nounced the decision a “clear vindica
tion of the position taken regarding
the Kansas court of industrial rela
tions by the American Federation of
Labor,” and declared the decision
completely destroyed the Kansas In
dustrial court act.
WILL TRY CUT COSTS
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 24
President Coolidge’s economy program
is extended to local government agen
cies throughout the country, it was
announced today. Additional efforts
will be made to cut the cost of oper
ating expenses of the various branch
es of the government, and attention
has been directed to the feasibility of
abolishing some and consolidating the
other offices of about forty indepen
dent commissions, with a more or less
expensive payroll.
SAY DEMPSEY WILL
NEVER FIGHT
AGAIN
LOS ANGELES, April 14—The Los
Angeles Times says that Jack Demp
sey admits to his intimate friends
that he has retired and never will en
ter the ring again except for charity.
In sporting circles Dempsey’s retire
ment has been accepted as a fact
since his marriage to Estelle Taylor,
motion picture actress.
HAS NEW INVENTION
BALTIMORE, Md., April 14.—C. F.
Jenkins of Washington, D. C., describ
ed before the American Chemical So
ciety today his invention, the “pris
matic ring” the invention enabling ra
dio fans to see the next Olympic
games as well as hear the cheering.
WEEKS RECOVERING
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.—
Secretary Weeks held an informal re
ception in his sick room on his 65th
birthday.
PRESIDENT ENTERTAINS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.—
The President shook hands with near
ly a thousand guests at the White
house Easter Sunday.
KING ALFONSO
WASHES FEET
OF POOR PEOPLE
FOLLOWING ANCIENT EASTER
CUSTOM OF SPAIN—PARDONS
FOUR CRIMINALS
MADRID, April 14.—King Alfonso
performed the ancient Easter custom
of Spain yesterday, washing the feet
of thirteen poor men and twelve wo
men, most of them blind, at the royal
^alace after attending mass and an
oitation of the cross.
The king also pardoned four men
awaiting execution.
UNDERGROUND RADIO
HEARD IN FRANCE
HYATTSVILLE, April 14.—Radio
messages broadcast from here under
ground and undersea have been pick
ed up in France according to advices
to Dr. James Harris Rogers, inventor
of the underground broadcasting sys
j tern
WIFE CARTOONIST DEAD
j CHICAGO, April 14.—Mrs. Sydney
I Smith, wife of the well known Chica
! go cartoonist, died of heart disease.
NEW AIR ROUTE PLANNED
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.—
! New air mail routes linking the most
j important cities are being planned by
! Postmaster General New, under au
I thority conferren by congress at the
last session.
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BIG HEARTS IN THE
NORTH HAS PROVEN
FACTOR IN WORK
ALASKA BISHOP PRESIDES AT
ALTAR SEATTLE CHURCHES
COMING NORTH APR. 16.
SEATTLE, Wn„ Apr. 14.—The Rev.
Peter T. Rowe, Bishop of the Episco
pal diocese in Alaska, who conducted
Easter services at St. Clements and
Trinity churches during the absence
of the regular bishops said that the
“American’s big heart has made my
thirty years of missionary work in Al
aska possible.”
Bishop Rowe is leaving here Thurs
day, April 16, for his regular tour thru
Alaska.
EARTHQUAKE RECORDED
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.—
A heavy earthquake 6500 miles from
Washington was registered on the
Georgetown University seismograph.
SNOW IN NEW YORK
OGDENSBURG, April 14.—Snow
j covered the ground for the Easter par
I ade Sunday.
INVENTOR OF FIRST
AUTO SUCCUMBS TO
INFLUENZA IN ILL
CHICAGO DIDN'T LIKE HIS CON
TRAPTION AND ORDERED
HIM OFF THE STREET
KOKOMO, Ind., Apr. 14.—El
wood Haynes, inventor of the
first American automobile died
from influenza here last night.
On the Fourth of July, 1894, El
wood Haynes, then a young field su
perintendent for a natural gas com
pany with headquarters at Kokomo,
Ind., had a queer buggy, without
tongue or shafts, towed out onto the
country road. He drove it triumph
antly back into Kokomo, at the re
markable speed of eight miles an
hour, under power generated by a
gasoline engine. That, it is claimed,
was the first trip of a gasoline driv
en vehicle in America.
This horseless carriage, which
soon became a familiar sight in the
streets of Kokomo, was the result
of two years of experiments and now
is preserved in the Smithsonian In
stitute at Washington, D. C. Mr.
Haynes said he was ordered to “get
that contraption off the streets,”
wiien he drove his first automobile
into Chicago.
The automobile was the direct re
sult of th- ' ct that Mr. Haynes had
a large te. „ory to cover in his du
ties as field superintendent for a:
PROPOSE NON-STOP
FLIGHT CALIFORNIA
TO HAWAIIAN ISLES
TWO ENGINE PLANE BEING CON
STRUCTED IN SEATTLE ON
2,500 MILE CRUISE RADIUS
WILL JOIN HAWAIIAN MANEUVER
Henry Ford Brings Forth First Com
mercial Airplane in the U. S.
Carries Mail and Express.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 14.—
The United States Navy will test
their new long distance scouting
planes by attempting a non-stop flight
from California to Hawaii, in June or
July in connection with the grand fleet
maneuvers.
Ships will be stationed alone the
route as a safeguard. One of the
planes recently completed in Phila
delphia showed so well in her trial
flights that the idea of waiting for a
plane with a 2,500 mile cruising radi
us which the Boeing Airplane compa
ny is constructing in Seattle is about
to be abandoned. The Boeing plane
has two engines in tandem style, so
one may be stopped and adjusted or
any other repairs made during the
process of flying
The Detroit Ford Motor Company
initiated what is declared the first
commercial^ airplane in the United
States when the "Maiden Dearborn,"
an all-metal plane of the air Pullman
type hopped from the Ford Airport
at Dearborn with the company’s mail
and express for its plant at Hege
wisch, Illinois.
NAVY DEFEATS YALE
ANAPOLIS. April 14.—The Navy de
feated Yale 11 to nothing at lacrosse.
BREAKS KNEE CAP
PHILADELPHIA. April 14.—Joe
i Hauser, first baseman for the Phila
| delphia athletes, broke his knee cap
in a game at the home diamond and
will probably be out of the game for
the rest of the season.
natural gas company. He desired to
make his rounds more rapidly than
he could with a horse and started
his experiments, being of an inven
tive turn of mind and having a tech
nical education.
A year after his first successful
trip with his horseless carriage, Mr.
Haynes formed a company for the
manufacture of automobiles and was
president of it for many years. He
invented numerous improvements in
the automobile.
“The Father of the Automobile”
was a school teacher at the start of
his career. This did not suit him,
however, as he always was of an in
ventive turn of mind and, long be
fore he developed the idea for a
horseless carriage, was given to ex
perimenting in chemistry. One of his
ambitions was to find a combination
of metals that would resist the oxi
dizing influences of the atmosphere
and at the same time take a good
cutting edge. An alloy of cobalt and
chromium, which is used now for
making dental and surgical instru
ments, was the result. He also in
vented and discovered a number of
other alloys.
Mr. Haynes was a native Hoosier,
having been born at Portland, Ind.,
October 14, 1857. After completing
the course in the public school there,
he attended Worcester Polytechnic
Institute at Worcester, Mass., where,
he was graduated in 1881. Later he.
was a student at Johns Hopkins uni
versity. He was married in 1887
to Miss Bertha Lanterman, also ot
Portland, Ind. The two children, a
son and daughter, both assisted their
father in his laboratory work in
connection with his factories in Ko
komo, Ind.