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VOLUME XVIII
NUMBER 204
SEWARD. ALASKA, FRIDAY. AUGUST 17, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Five Power Treaty Signed Today
U. S. Will Scrap Old Warships Immediately
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UNDER TERMS TREATY ANGLO
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JAPANESE ALLIANCE TER
MINATED
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 17—
The actual scrapping of first-line ships
under the new naval treaty begins im
mediately, and by the terms of the
Four Power Pact, the Anglo Japanese
alliance is terminated automatically,
by today’s deposit of ratification.
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PA? HFR DEBT TO 0. S.
^ WASHINGTON, D. C., August 17—
It is understood that Secretary Mellon
is returning from Europe with the re
port that France has no intention of
paying four billion she owes to the
United States.
OTTAWA, August 17—Miss Monica
Mosseau, drug clerk, recently fell heir
ess to a share in a $1,500,000 estate
left by her aunt, but she remained true
to Eudorde Gubord, with whom she
has mixed soft drinks for years. She
married him.
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FRENCH PREMIER RAPS LLOYD
GEORGE FOR PLACING PARIS
AND BERLIN GOVERNMENTS ON
THE SAME PLANE.
VILLERS-COTTERETS, France, —
Premier Poincare yesterday spoke at
this place at the unveJUng of a monu
ment to the soldiers who fell in war.
k He made no allusions to the British
note concerning reparations.
Mr. Poincare began his address with
a dramatic outline of the French of
fensive in the summer of 1918 and
then replied to the recent speech of
Lloyd George, former British prime
minister, describing the prosperity of
France. A considerable part of the
speech dealt with the German general
staff's monster program of economic
annihilation of France, drawn up in
1916, by specialists.
To place France and Germany on
f the same plane as Mr. Lloyd George
did, was “iniquitous,” Mr. Poincare
declared. When Germany rebuilt her
mercantile fleet, developed her rail
ways, and dug new canals, was she re
pairing damages or undertaking new
improvements? Was she paying for
these improvements with available re
sources or to the detriment of pay
ment of her debt to the allies? the
premier asked. All of this might be
“amusing,” as Mr. Lloyd George said
he found it, but for France it was sad
—even unbearable.
“Why didn’t they go into the Ruhr
with us?” asked Mr. Poincare. "They
f^Awould better understand what the real
dangers of tomorrow are.”
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SCHOONER CAROLYN FRANCIS
SAILS FOR THE KUSKOKWIM
SEATTLE, August 17—The schoon
er Carolyn Francis sailed for the Kus
kokwim this morning with a unmber
of passengers including Miss Jean
Doreen Shinabarger, University of
Washington Junior, to become teacher
at Quinhagak, E. M. Forest, Supt of
the Kuskokwim School District, Doc
tor and Mrs. Rirestone, for Akiak, L.
Gorm^p, Robert Henderson, traders,
and Hi Kershong, of the Nixon mine,
returning to the country ‘from the 1st
trip out in twenty-six years.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 17—
The five-power naval treaty negotiat
ed at Washington Armament Confer
ence and the four power pact, conclud
ed here in December, 1921, became ef
fective at noon today.
THOUSANDS OF ACRES COTTON
MAY ROT AS RESULT OF SHORT
AGE OF NEGRO LABOR—EF
FORTS TO HOLD THEM FAIL.
Think Negoes May Get Frost bitten
Next Winter and Will Then Return
to Their Old Masters in the Sunny
Climes.
WASHINGTON, D. G\, August 17
Thousands upon thousands of acres of
cotton in the south now whitening in
the summer sun, probably will rot in
the boll this year because of lack of
hands to gather the crop, according to
word reaching the department of agri
culture with the opening of the cotton
picking season there.
The South is pictured in these re
ports as being in the throes of the
worst labor shortage in its history. In
a few communities, it is reported, com
mon labor has virtually moved away,
migrating north of the Mason and Dix
on line. In other sections from one
quarter to one-half of the negroes are
said to have gone north to mills and
factories of industrial states lured by
wages, the likes of which no cotton
picker ever saw before. In all sections!
the shortage is pictures as being dis- j
tressing proportions.
Four hundred thousand negroes
have moved north since the beginning
of the year, according to estimates
sent the department and the move
ment appears to be increasing at the
present time. One estimate states that
fro m2,000 to 3,000 negroes are leaving
the South daily. These figures probab
ly are high, but there appears little
doubt that the migration approximates
50,000 a month.
RALPH DE PALMA, FAMOUS
RACER, SLIGHTLY INJURED
CHICAGO, August 17—Ralph De
Palma, famous racing driver was in
jured, and several spectators weie
hurt here last Sunday when the car
driven by Louis Chevrolet smashed in
to his racing car, forcing him through
the fence on the back stretch of the
mile oval dirt track at Hawthorne. De
Palma was not seriously injured.
SENDS NOTE TO CHINA AGAINST
WIRELESS CONCESSIONS TO
FED TELEGRAPH CO.
TOKYO, August 17—Japan again
protested to China against her recent
wireless concessions to the Federal
Telegraph Company of America, where
by five wireless stations will be erect
ed in China, for commercial purposes.
AMERICAN TRADING VESSEL
CONFISCATED BY SOVIETS
NOME, August 17—The American
trading schooner Belinda, of Nome
has been confiscated by the Soviet au
thorities and converted into a gunboat
Her entire cargo was seized.
DETECTIVES TIM
ST. PAUL, August 17—Edwin Rust,
gunman, and slayer of Sheriff I. C.
Fuller, of Aberdeen, South Dakota, for
whom police have been searching for
two months, was killed by detectives
here early today.
FLOWERS DESTROYED
Henry Phaben, who has such a beau
tiful flower garden on Fourth Avenue- j
is considerably riled up by unknown j
parties helping themselves to the best ;
and largest flowers in the yard, break- j
down more than they pick. Mr. Phab
en warns everybody to keep out of his
yard while he is at work.
SAVAGE GREAT DANES ATTACK
LAD AS IS TRYING TO GET
FOOD FROM PICNIC TABLE
NEW YORK, August 17—With halt
a dozen men pounding them with
rocks and sticks, two Great Danes to
day attacked a nine-year old boy so
savagely, that his jughlar vein was
severed and he bled to death.
The boy, Joseph Genatt, Jr., nad
slipped through the amusement park
fence in hope of getting something to
eat from a picnic table. As Joseph un
latched the wooden gate to the park
and slipped in, two Great Danes, sta
tioned as guards against intruders
leaped at him.
Before Joseph screaming his horror
could turn back to the road the ani
mals had pounced upo* nim and beat
en him to the ground. The boy srruck
back desperately, but his weak blows
had no effect on the dogs, as they sank
their teeth into his face, hands and
body.
For an instance Joseph managed to
squirm lose. But he was so weak with
his wounds that he could not scram
ble to his feet. He started to crawl
limply toward the gate, w'hen the en
raged animals threw themselves on
him again.
By this time perhaps seventy-five
persons had rushed to the park. Auto
mobilists hurried to the fence. But
only half a dozen men tried to save
the boy. They pounded the dogs with
rocks and sticks and a few went at
the snarling animals with their hands.
Joseph had quit struggling, but the
animals continued to mangle his face
and threat.
The police arrested the owner of the
park and the dogs, Adolph Bentz, on
a charge of manslaughter.
WOULD ESTABLISH
FISHERIES ADVISORY
BOARD FOR ALASKA
BE COMPOSED OF MEMBERS OF
FISH COMMISSION UNDER
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GOVERNOR BONE
JUNEAU, August 17—Secretary of
Commerce Herbert Hoover proposed
the appointment of a fisheries advis
ory board, headed by Governor Bone,
to assist in the solution of the terri
torial salmon fisheries problem, it was
revealed through the publication of a
telegram from the Commerce Secre
tary to Governor Bone.
According to the telegram the pro
posed board would consist of the gov
ernor as chairman, and all members
of the territorial fish commission.
MM5TIC TROUBLE
IS STILL COMIC
AIX LA CHAPPELLE, August 17—|
Communistic disturbances are contin-1
uing, resulting in eight more deaths!
and fifty injuries in a collision be- J
tween Communists and police.
CALGARY, August 17—Proffessor
\Y. L. Carlyle, manager of the Prince
of Wales ranch, at High River, has
just returned from England, bringing
with him a shipment of purebred race
horses, cattle, sheep, and ponies with
which to stock the Prince’s ranch.
Included in the shipment 'is Will
Sommers, one of the best-known race
horses, from the stables of King Geo.,
and a consistent Derby winner on the
British turf. This horse, it is believed,
may carry the Prince’s colors on race
tracks in the United States and Can
ada, and in addition, will be used in
the stud. Shorthorn cattle, Shropshire
sheep, and Dartmoor ponies complete
the shipment.
“YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS"
MAKES THE PRICE OF PANAMA
PICKLES RISE SUDDENLY.
CHICAGO, August 17—The banana,
long the butt of jokes about its slip
pery peel, and the mainstay of the
“hicks” who visit the city, has at last
come into its own.
When some rollicking students at a
Chicago north side school started the
“Yes, We Have No Bananas,” they in
augurated something that spread all
over the country. Songs have been
written on the theme, bands play it in
cessantly and it now appears in the
vaudeville circuit. Many people, who
have never heard of bananas have be
come curious about them.
The direct result of all this is that
tons of the Central American “pic
kles ’ are now being sold and right in
the midst of the season, when they
ordinarily sell at three for five cents,
they bring sixty cents a dozen.
“Of course people ate bananas be
fore songs were written about them,”
said a leading commission merchant
today. “Six months ago tne business
of handling them had its drawbacks,
but now we cannot get enough of them
to supply the demand. We are selling
tons and tons of them.”
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
SHELBY CLOSED DOORS
GREATFALLS, August 17—The 1st
National Bank of Shelby, has closed
its doors by order of the directors. De
posits total $577,000.
FREED OF CHARGE BY JURY
SEATTLE, August 17—Mrs. Maude
Sweetman, member of the legislature,
has been freed of the charge of disor
derly conduct, and has charged in
court that the police had “jobbed” her.'
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 17—
Coolidge, acording to those close to
him, is deposed to probe Lasker’s
handling of the merchant marine.
At present there are two groups ad
vancing different methods of operat
ing, and the president proposes to ter
minate the deadlock.
CONFERENCE FOR PROGRESSIVE
POLITICAL ACTION TO LAUNCH
CAMPAIGN
Meddlers and Muddlers Also to be
Fought.—All Party Blocs
Must Go
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 17—
j Flushed with successes in the last el
ections, the Conference for Progres
I sive Political action, founded only a
year ago, is laying plans for a great
political campaign in 1924, which will
extend to every state and every con
gressional district in the country, ac
cording to a statement from headquar
ters here.
“Of course, the statement said, “the
conference workers realtze rneir cam
paign of 1922 was only a skirmish and
preliminary to the greatest contest
that they will wage in the coming
Presidential year.
“In that year, meddlers, muddlers
and mutts, who dance as marionettes
to the music of dictatorial corpora
tions will be swept out of Congress,
the Federal departments and White
House.”
BROTHER OF JOHN D. WORTH
$102,250,000 AT TIME OF DEATH
NEW YORK, August 17—Wm. Rock
efeller, brother of John D. Rockefel
ler, Standard Oil King, left an estate
of a gross value of more Gian $102,
250,000, it was shown today. The re
port of the state tax commission show
ed the estate was valued at more than
sixty-seven million after deductions
were made for administering expens
es, funeral expenses and commissions
to the executors.
TWO IRISH PRIESTS KIDNAPPED
HANKOW, China, August 17—Two
Irish priests were kidnapped today
when bandits pillaged Tsaoshih, and
burned the Catholic hospital.
WILL ALSO DO ALL IN ITS POWER
TO BRING BACK BERGDOLL,
DRAFT EVADER
CINCINNATI, August 17—The U. S.
government will not only do every
thing in its power to obtain the re
lease of Lieut. Houver Griffiths and
Hamilton from prison in Germany, but
will exert all its efforts to bring back
Bergdoll, the draft evader to America.
This is the gist of a telegram from
Secretary of State Hughes to Lasance,
National Adjutant of the Disabled
American veterans of the World War.
PITTSBURG, August 17—The work
ers in most of the steel mills ot this
district were placed on an eight-hour
day basis today.
FORMER MINISTER TO WASHING
TON RELUCTANTLY JOINS CAB
INET TO STABALIZE HIS COUN
TRY’S GOVERNMENT.
PEKING, August 17—Wellington H.
Koo, who recently assumed the port
folio of minister of foreign affairs, ac
cepted only after repeated urging by
Wu Pei Fu and Tsao Kun, North
China, military leader and in spite of
the continued reluctance of Wang
Kemin to take the portfolio as minis
ter of finance. Dr. Koo has acted as
minister from China to Great Britain
and the United States.
Tsao and Wu apparently are desir
ous that the present semblance of gov
ernment be maintained pending some
arrangement for the election of a new
president. There is little prospect of
such an election in the near rjiure.
Agitation for the assumption of the
presidency by Tsao has subsided in
the face of his seemingly determined
resolution not to acquire the post ex
cept through regular procedure.
Wang Kemin, notwithstanding the
issuance of a decree appointing his
finance minister and assurances of
support by Tsao, does not want to
take up the burden, entailing as it
does the raising of much money for
administrative military expenses. An
other deterrent is said to be the pres
sure of financial interests which want
him to remain in charge of the Bank
of China for the good of the institu
tion.
Nonpayment of Chinese diplomatic
representatives abroad and their ap
peal for funds are giving the framers
of the cabinet so much anxiety that
the latter are repeatedly appealing to
Wang to assume office.
Failure of the powers to agree on a
concerted plan for aggressive action
toward China as a result of the bandit
kidnapping episode am* the prospect
that only indemnities win De exacted
has removed one of the greatest ob
stacles which hitherto has restrained
Dr. Koo from taking office. It is ex
pected that the cabinet will have the
majority of its portfolios filled.