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VOLUME XVII NUMBER 301
SSWARD. ALASKA,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER, U, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1J. -Work of
organizing the Senate was blocked
this afternoon when a deadlock devel
oped in voting to confirm Senator Al
bert 13. Cummins as chairman of the
Interstate Commerce Comimsri >n i
Much opposition developed to the
Iowa solon among the progressive re
publicans backed by ’he democrats.
Would Wipe Out Labor Board
WASHINGTON, Dec Li. --Senator
Senator Smith W. Brookharl ot iowa
introduced a biti loda> which would
wipe out the Railroad Labot L»oaid,
and revise the transportation act. j
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Coolidge Recommends Reduction
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—President j
Coolidge today specilically recom
mended to Congress today a reduction
of $300,000,000 in the national lax bill
and at the same time presented nis
views in opposition to iite soldier bo
nus. The executive xn a message
transmitting the annual budget said
frankly that “any progiu.iu of the new
expenditure is impossiuic for years iO(
come
Nominations Sent to tne Senate
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11- -More thau
2000 nominations were sent to the sen
ate today by President Coolidge. They
include the name oi Frank A. Boyle
for registrar of the land office at An
chorage, and Henry S. Sogn, for post
master at Anchorage; Kellogg lor am j
bassador to Britain, and Robert J.t
Grant for Denever director of mint.
Pension Given Mrs. Harding j
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The Sen
ate notified te House of the passage
of two bills granting a pension of
$5000 a year and extending postal
franking privileges to Mrs. Harding.
Coolidge Favors Repeal Taxes
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—President
Coolidge in a budget message to con
gress further said, “I am in favor of
a repeal of the tax on telegrams, on
telephon messages and on admissions
to amusements which are a source of
inconvenience to taxpayers. Govern
ment expenditures for 1924 were esti
mated at $3,298,080,444 which is $268
957,641 less than the expenditures
during the current fiscal year.
GIF OF SIX 1TI0NS j
INIS MITT BIS
PARIS, France, Dec. 11.—Seskaheth
chief of six nations who dwell on the
Canadian shores of Lake Erie, today
appeared before the League of, Na
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Huntington, of Seattle demanded re-j
cognition of the sovereignty of his
people by virtue of a tieaty with King:
George III. of England.
STHSTEE
DISABLED BUT Q» !
WM 10
The steamship Starr was anchored
at Kizhuyatt Bay last night, on her
way to Kodiak. Capt. Johansen wired
that the Hillside reached the Starr at;
11 a. m. and is assisting the vessel to;
port. The message stated that the,
steering gear was disabled, the helm
going to amidships on one side and
about half way over on the other, butj
with the assistance of the Hillside he!
would arrive in Kodiak in good shape j
today. The ship is not leaking but1
the bottom was in bad shape from the
pounding she got.
JAPANESE OFFICIAL GUILTY
TOKIO, Dec. 11.—Captain Amakasu
was found guilty today of slaying a
socialist leader and was sentenced to
10 years Imprisonment. Sergeant Mori
an accomplice, was given three years.
A trio of soldiers were acquitted.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.- The latei
President Harding vas elogized by'
President Coo idge in a ) address (
broadcast tonight as one eminently |
fitted io seive a distracted w orld in aj
difiicult o' i iod of its historv.
H DESIBOTtaS
MANILA, Dec. 11.—Six destroyers j
from the American Asiatic fleet liavei
been ordered to proceed at once to j
Hong Kong in connection with thei
situation at Canton and vicinity.
CHETOPKA, Kan., Dec. 11.—Con
gressmen and Senators are at odds:;
“farm bloc’’ members and others
prominent in me worKiugs Oi me
Government are receiving and offer
ing multifarious solutions of the prob
lems facing the farmer with little ap
tle apparent progress —all of which
has exasperated one farmer miss re-j
siding in this Kansas town.
While the administration has been
mapping out a legislative program
to bring relief to the financially strick
en soil tiller, pointing to months of
delay, Miss Pearl Holderman, who op
erates a 1UU0 acre farm across the
state line in Oklahoma, was not in
clined to wait tor this promised re
lief, especially with prospects bearing
a considerable degree of uncertainty.
When conditions for farmers took
such an unfavorable turn during the
last several months this farmerette
laid plans to mine coal on the land
where, financially her business vtas
not a success on the returns of the in
vestment.
Like the experience of other farm-|
ers, frosts, drought, and floods, added
to low prices, brought a large net lossi
to her business which would havej
returned small profits if any, if crops
were at their best.
Disappointed but not disheartened,
Miss Holderman, unlike others in the
business began looking for a way out
of her own situation to see where she
could bring profits where losses pre
vailed, ont satisfied to wait for aid
from the government.
She decided to mine coal was the
best method. So now she has a steam
shovel in operation on the farm taking
the earth covering off the coal depos
its and hopes that soon she will be
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home use.
Miss Holderman, wtiose graudiather
was a full-blood Cherokee Indian, has
an enviable record which tells of an
unusual and indomnitable spirit which
reverses failed to break.
She was given forty acres of land
and has acquired 1000 more acres by
purchase.
iH WINDS KILL 10
IN CITY QF LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11.—N. C.
Plaumes^ of the Pickford-Fairbanks
studios and R. K. Townsend, a Texan,
was killed in accidents, a result of
high winds which swept the iitv M is
afternoon
TACOMA MAN SHOT AT
BOOZE PARTY IS DEAD
TACOMA, Dec. 11.—Samuel J. Gil
lespie, traveling salesman, who was
shot at a booze party which he was
attending with his wife, is dead to
day. He became engaged in an alter
cation with Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Keel
ey, and the woman shot him.
American Legion meeting tonight at
8 o’clock.
MAYBE HE’LL BE FLORIDA’S REPRESENTATIVE
William J. Bryau has refused to b a candidate for Governor of Florida,
but if the Democratic boys are good and act nice, he may accept the nomi
nation for the United States Senate. He would be pleased to consider it in
tiie light of a larger opportunity in which to serve nis country and party.
Photo shows Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan snapped in the home of
their daughter, Mrs. Richard Hargreaves in Los Angeles, Calif., where
they spent a few weeks. With them'aFe their three grandchildren. Left,
to right, Margaret, 9; Evelyn, 2! and Richard Bryan, aged Mr. in .. an
has ! is home in Florida.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The Me
Adoo effort to win the democratic
nomination lor the presidency is tak
ing on the proportions of a real cam
paign.
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Mr. Brice Claggett, formerly private'
secretary to Mr. McAdoo, when he
was secretary of the treasury—ana
later private secretary to the director!
general of railroads, has resigned ins
position with the Guaranty Trust Co.
and gone to Los Angeles to take per !
sonal charge of the political corres
pondence of his former chief.
In almost every state in the Union
McAdoo supporters are planning to
establish either a headquarters or a
campaign union to prepare the dele-i
gates to the next convention. The!
victory of the McAdoo forces in Pi
erre, South Dakota, is pointed to asi
evidence that the campaign is one ofi
earnest and from now on the fight
for nomination will be pushed with
all the vigor of an electoral contest.
No longer is there any doubt where
Mr. McAdoo himself stands. He is
for a reduction of taxes and the sol
dier bonus, the League of Nations
and flexible European policy. He will
demonstrate his right to assume the^
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The real fight tor the nomination,;
however, does not turn upon what will
happen in the primaries or even on the
respective merits of the various can ii
dates as related to present day issues.
It turns on tht* ability of the different
managers to compute ‘he Wilson
strength in the party, which by the
way has nothing to do with Wilson,j
o.' ti e league of nations, but means
the strength of the former office hold
ers wrho were pm in power during the
Wilson administration ot eight years
ago. The stand McAdoo takes on the
League may or may not meet with
opposition from Ine former president.
McAdoo would like the Wilson sup
port, but in cast he can not get it,
hopes the ex-President wPl remain
neutral. McAdoo Is an ardent dry,
while Wilson is a wet pru-openent. It
is pointed out mat ail these things
having a beanng on McAdooV. chance
for the nomination.
KOHLER WINS SIX DAY RACE
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Ernest Koh
ler of Chicago and Percy Lawrence of
San Francisco riding as American en
try won the thirty-fifth international
six day bicycle race at Madison
Square Garden.
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KING RETURNS TO LONDON
LONDON, Dec. 11.—King George re
turned from Adnringham where he
expected to remain until after Xmas.
His private secretary called on Pre
mier Baldwin today.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 11.—War has
seen declared on public “mugging”
ind “necking’’ by moralists and the
issue is being met by the flappers and
modern Romeos and sheiks.
Women’s clubs are leading in the
rssault on the conduct of young cou
ples in motion picture theatres. Hug
ging, spooning and kissing in public;
places is disgraceful and must stop,1
hese stiff-necked females aver.
“But,” say the flapper and her
ardent admirer, “love will find a way..
We can’t sit around in the rooming
house parlors. The young people of
today won’t do anything in private
they won’t do in public, hence the
public love-making.”
Then, too, they adit, “what is a lit
tle ‘mugging’ and ‘necking’ among
friends? We mean no harm.
Numerous women prominent in club
activities of the city have expressed
disgust with conditions * which they
term disgraceful. They declare they]
will clean up the park benches and the
picture shows. A man has no right to
cheapen a girl by putting his arm
about her in public, one prominent
club woman declared. “I would not
think having mv daiiehtors act
so.” To which one sheik who was in
court on a charge of public love mak-j
ing replied: “They are safe, madam,!
if they look like the family repre
sentative.”
Catch as catch can holds, cheek to
cheek dancing and other methods ot
tripping the light fantastic must also
cease in Kansas City dance halls this
winter.
ENGLISH CABINET IN SESSION
TO DETERMINE RESIGNATION
LONDON, Dec. 11.—The cabinet is
in session this afternoon to make final,
decision as to whether Premier Bald
win will resign at once or await the
assembly of parliament January 8, and
receive his dismissal from the gov
ernment by an adverse vote in the
House of Commons.
SIXTEEN PEOPLE PERISH AS
RESULT WASHINGTON GALE
SEATTLE, Dec. 11.—Sixteen people
are believed to have perished as a re
sult of the 24 hour gale which swept
the Washington coast causing great
property loss and inundating portions
of Hoquiam and Aberdeen.
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CORPORATE WILL DISTRIBUTE
FIFTY MILLIONS TO EMPLOYES
t NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Holiday dis
bursements to stockholders in Ameri
can Industrial and railroad corpora
tions in the form of extra dividends
will total fifty millions.
FREDERICK & NELSON'S
SUPERINTENDENT DE1D
SEATTLE, Dec. 11.—William S.
Lassiter, assistant superintendent for
Frederick & Nelson’s department store
committed suicide today at his home
n this city, following a three days’
llness.
LONDON, Dec. 11.—Having again
finished last in a contest for a. seat in
Parliament from the London univer
sity division, H. G. Wells, the noted
writer announced that he would nev
er again enter another political race.
SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Dec. 11.—One
of the first things that a visitor to
San Quentin penitentiary is likely to
notice as he goes through the interior
oi tne great prison is uie large num
ber of little gardens on every hand.
They are owned and cultivated oy
prisoners for their own use and en
joyment, and it is pathetic to observe
the pride taken in developing their
tiny -patches ot flowers, vegetables or
lawn. ,
“A surprising thing." said ;he war
den, “is that these gardens are the
strongest incentive to good behavior
among the inmates that we c mid pos
sibly think of.
‘It doesn’t matter what a fellow
glow's, his small garden Lecomes hi3
v hole concern and interest. It needs
constant care and attention and there
isn't one man in a hundred that will
do anything that might deprive him of
his opportunity to visit his little patch
each day.”
• ifticials of the great prison wdiich
houses nearly 3000 men declares they
wall continue to encourage prisoners
to take an interest in gardening, be
cause when a man is busy he has no
time to misbehave.
One of the small gardens belongs to
Thomas J. Mooney, who was sentenc
ed to life imprisonment in connection
with the Preparedness Day bomb out
rages in San Francisco in 1916. His
patch is outside the walls of the
prison near the little engine house in
which he sits and pulls levers to un
load cargoes onto a wharf a shoit
distance away.
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FAILS TO LOWER RECORD
DAYTON, O., Dec. 11.—Lieut. John
A. MRcreaay, nying a Lapwe uiyiauc
equipped with a Moss supercharger,
failed in his attempt to surpass the
altitude record made by Sadi Le
Cointe, the French ace. Mechanical
troubles forced him down after being
in the air 1 hour and 28 minutes. ]
I0HD sliira"
HEAD C. P. Hi. DEAD
MONTREAL, Dec 11—Lord Shaugh
nessy, chairman of the board of direc
tors of the Canadian Pacific railroad
is dead.
CALLES RENOUNCES CANDIDACY
AND WILL HELP OBREGON
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 11.—Calles to
day renounced the candidacy for the.
presidency of Mexico and offered his
services to Obregon against the in
surgents. Obregon accepted the offer
and named Calles head of the opposi
tion. 28,000 troops commanded by
Generals Amaro and Alaman, are con
verging on the Vera Cruz revolution
ary zone.
CAPITAL OF NAYAFIT FALLS
NOGALES, Dec. 11.—pic, the
capital of the State cf Nay a v, Mexi
co, has fallen into tits hands of the,
rebels.
AMERICAN POLICY TOWARD EU
ROPE PLAINLY DEFINED BY
CALIFORNIA CANDIDATE
NEW YORK. Dec. 11—Ilham John
son will make a personal campaign in
Massachusetts tor the Republican
nomination it was announced ionight.
Alter joining issues on national
problems with the present federal ad
ministration, Senator Johnson placed
before the country the principles he
said would form the background ot‘
his campaign for the republican pres
idential nomination. With his decla
ration as a basis the senator will in*
vade the home state ol nis opponent,
Calvin Coolidge.
I Senator Johnson during the course
of his first public utterance since au
thorizing his announcement as a pres
idential candidate, expressed opposi
tion to the administration foreign
policy, gave indorsement 10 the sol
diers’ bonus and to a plan for reduc
tion of taxes on incomes, theatre and
other admissions, railroad and cable
messages, etc., as well as suggesting
remedies for the country agricultural
ills.
He reiterated his opposition to any
policv that would commit this coun
try to “undisclosed European adven
tures,” and added: “I do noi protest
against an American policy toward
Europe, but that policy should be to
let Europe alone to work out her sal
vation. A policy which does not an
nounce what it is and which seeks to
discover itself at the expense of this
nation, I am against.”
He referred to the reparations con
t'erence plan as a “transparent subter
fuge to get us into Europe with our
cash, and out of Europe with cur busi
ness.”
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ATHENS, Dec. 11.—Eight persons
were killed and 20 were injured in a
clash between Royalists at d Republi
cans tonight.
BALDWIN TAKES STOCK
LONDON, Dec. 11.—Premier Stan
ley Baldwin taking stock of the wreck
age announced that he would with
hold his intention until he confers
with his cabinet this week. If he re
tains his office the first task will be
to form a new cabinet. Six of his
ministers were defeated in last week s
election.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 11—Excusing her
self from a game of bridge, Miss Win
nifred Genimal, 22, a University jun
ior last night retired to her room, and
standing in front of a mirror, shot
herself through the head, dying this
morning.
The girl was playing bridge with a
guest, A. D. Crokes, also a University
student, and her younger sister. De
ceased was a daughter of Victor H.
Genimal, a contractor.
FROST AND HIGH WINDS INJURE
FRUIT CROPS IN CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11.—High
winds and low temperatures the last
three days have left their mark on
the fruit crop in Southern California.
The weather has been unusually cold
for this time of the year.
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT WILL
ACCEPT ROCKEFELLER GIFT
TOKIQ. Dec. 11.—The government
has accepted RqckefeUer institute’s
offer of a hospital and *rill send a
commission to accept the gift.