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VOLUME XX- NUMBER 289
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SOUTH DAKOTA TO
START POLITICAL
POT BOILING DEC 1
PIERRE, Oct. 2. (/P)—The opening
salute of the 1926 national campaign
will be fired here on December 6 when
the political parties of South Dakota
assemble to designate their candidate
for the United States Senate, also to
make their choices for congress and
other state offices.
Few outstanding issues are noted
between the republicans, democrats,
and farmer-laborites, but the republi
can party itself—which for years has
dominated state politics—is divided
into factions on participation by the
state in private industry.
The progressive wing of the repub
lican party was responsible for the
rural credic act, the state cement plant
and state participation in coal mines
and in the retailing of gasoline. There
is little doubt but that Senator Peter
Norbeck and Governor Carl Gunder
son, both of whom will seek re-nom
ination, will support the state’s past
record in these activities.
Another wing of the republican par
ty in which Sam E. Elrod, former gov
ernor, stands out as a leader, expres
sed itself as irrevocably against par
ticipation by the state in field of
private enterprise.
This faction resolved it would seek
to nominate candidates “who will be
true to republican principals and who
will give support to a republican pres
ident.”
On November 10 the people will ga
ther in the precincts to choose their
county delegates. These delegates
will attnd county meetings November
17, when three proposals will be se
lected. Then on December 1, the coun
ty proposalmen—195 in all for each
party—meet in Pierre.
The vote of the three county propo
salmen depends on the number of
votes cast for the party’s candidate for
governor in the last general election.
The party meetings then selected
iheir candidates. If five or more pro
posalmen disagree they may hold a
meeting of their own and name a “ma
nority ticket.” The tickets and plat
forms are submitted to the counties
for ratification on December 22 and
individual candidates may file on plat
forms different from either the ma
jority or minority stands, until Janu
ary 1, 1926.
The primary election is held March
23, 1926, at which each voter must des
ignate his party affiliation and is giv
en a ballot which contains only the
names of the majority, minority, and
individual candidates in that party.
HAWAIIAN FRUIT
IDEAL FOR THE
MAKING SYRUP
HONOLULU, Oct. 22. (£>)—'The high
sugar content of Hawaiian fruits make
I it possible to produce syrups at a less
cost than synthetic syrups are produc
ed on the mainland, it has been reveal
ed by experiments, conducted by Dr.
S. S. Oliver, chemist, who is experi
menting at the Hawaiian Homes set
tlement on the island of Molokai. He
announced the successful exthaction
of syrups of varying degrees of con
centration through a freezing process
on which he has been working for a
number of years. The experiments
here were confined principally to pine
apples, Which contain an average of
14 per cent of sugar, but he said he
■was able to extract a syrup of triple
that strength.
Nearly 300 tong men have been
deported from the United States to
China, which almost exhausts our
<fuota for this year.
ATHIESTS DENY ARTICLES
FILED IN SUPREME COURT
NEW YORK, Oct. 22. (fP)—'The Am
erican association for the advance
ment of Atheism with the announced
purpose of abolishing the belief in God,
denied articles of incorporation were
filed in the Supreme Court,'which ar
ticles said in part, the Asociation’s
mission was “to conduct general pro
paganda against the church and the
clergy.”
FOUR BIG PROBLEMS
FACE COMING CONGRESS
SEATTLE, Oct. 22. (£>)—Four big
problems face the coming session of
Congress, the World Court, Tax read
justment, Muscle Shoals, and the re
organization of the Federal depart
i ments, said Senator Jones of Wash
ington. The Senator said he favored
the world court, and the reorganiza
tion of taxes under the Mellon plan,
but would not commit himself on the
Muscle Shoals proposition.
FUR SALE UNDER
WAY IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Oct. 22. (/P)—About for
i ty per cent of the offerings of the fur
exchange have been sold for a sum
ranging between* three hundred and
fifty to four hundred thousand dollars.
The demand for white fox is weak,
the average price being about $40.50.
Muskrats declined twenty per cent.
Red fox sales were poor as were al
so cross fox prices. Blue fox sold
well the best grades bringing one hun
dred dollars. Lower grades were un
sold. Silver fox, principally the low
er grades, averaged $72.
Martin, poor colors, brought thirty
dollars.
Lynx sales were weak, large and
extra large Alaska furs bringing $25
to $27.
Beaver on the open market brought
j a basis of thirty dollars for the large
land extra-large.
.
CANNERY MERGER IS
NOT YET ASSURED
According to a recent issue of the
Alaska Weekly the proposed merged
of salmon packing interests in south
eastern Alaska, is not yet assured.
The Weekly goes on to say that
while such a merger is in prospect
that its successful consummation is
still remote and that the stories run
j by the papers of the territory and Se
attle, were premature and unauthor
ized by any responsible element in the
interested group.
Some such organization powerful
enough to stabalize the pink salmon
end of the industry both as to produc
tion and market is an essential if the
industry is to continue and it is hop
ed that the present effort toward that
end will materialize.
ARTISTS PORTRAY LIFE
MOSCOW, Oct. 22. (fP)—Soviet edu
cational authorities have decided to
send to various places in the Soviet
Union 72 artists to paint pictures of
local revolutionary events, portraits
of local leaders, sognes of labor pro
cesses and other social features of the
present day life. The expedition will
include a number of noted artists.
They will visit the Crimea, the Urals
and the northern provinces. A num
ber of artists are to sent abroad for
the same purpose.
A prize if offered by the French
Academy of Colonel Science for the
best suggestions for developing the
Sahara desert country. The first
step, of course, should be to open a
few filling stations.
China ought to be able to help
herself. The other nations have
long set her a fine example in that
line.
WORK WOULD PUT
ALASKA BUREAUS
UNDER ONE HEAD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22. (/P)
—Secretary Work today recommend
ed a broad conservation policy, cover
ing the nation’s natural resources, af
ter a survey of the year’s work. Inter
ior department recommendations in
clude the coordination of all Alaska
administrativities under one bureau
under one cabinet officer in the inter
ests of economy.
NEW ISLANDS DISCOVERED
BY JAPANESE EXPLORER
TOKYO, Oct. 2. (#>)—'The newspap
ers report that a group of more than
ten coral islands, the total value o
which is estimated at about two hun
dred million yen, has been discover
ed in the Sputh Seas, by a Japanese
explorer, M.. Inouye.
The Japan Geographical Society has
started a technical furV^y of the is
lands, it is said. ^Hej^are situated
about 350 miles at sea off Minandano
Island, Philippines, and th^ actual po
sition will be made public after the
discovery is reported to the Internat
ional Geographical Society, states Mr.
Inouye.
These coral islands are not des
cribed on the chart, and the largets
one is reported to be some fifteen or
twenty miles in circumference. They
are uninhabited. • . .
RETURNS WALLET AND GETS
FREE BARBERING FOR LIFE
YAKIMA, Oct. 22. (/P)—Because Le
Roy Poole hunted up the owner of a
wallet containing $100 which he had
found, he can sport a clean shaven
face and a trim poll the rest of his
life without cost.
The owner of the wallet was a bar
ber. When Poole refused a monetary
reward, the barber insisted upon his
receiving an order for “free barbering
for life,” as a mark of gratitude.
SOVIET PAPERS
DECREASE 32 PC.
IN 12 YEARS
MOSCOW, Oct. 22. (/P)—'The num
ber of newspapers in Soviet Russia in
comparison with 1913 has decreased
32 per cent. There are now publish
ed throughout the Federation 586 pub
lications, as against 870 in pre-war
times, but the circulation of the So
viet papers exceeds the pre-war time
circulation by 110 per cent, having
reached by July 1, this year nearly 8
million. The large political papers,
like Pravda and Izvestia, have a cir
culation of more than a million and
a half each.
The present number of magazines
published in Russia is about the same
as before the revolution, but owing to
their high prices, they are practically
inaccessible to the, average reader.
The magazines seldom find their
way to the villages.
LONDON EXPECTS TO HAVE
WORLD’S FINEST AIRDROME
CROYDON, Oct. 22. (#*)—A scheme
which It is stated will make the Lon
don terminal airdrome the finest com
mercial station ih the world and to
cost nearly a quarter of a million lbs.
has now been begun in earnest.
Much work will have to be done be
fore the airdrome is complete. Trees
and hedges are being removed and a
road diverted in order to take in an
adjoining stretch of land. When this
additional ground becomes available
the air expresses will have a clear un
obstructed space of between two and
three miles upon w’hich to take off and
alight.
“VOTES FOR WOMEN” MAKE
MEN FREE,.. SAYS WOMAN
SUFFRAGIST OF ENGLAND
CHICAGO, Oct. 22. (#>)—'“Votes for
Women, made men free,” Mrs. Em
meline Pethick Lawrence, English suf
fragist told a Chicago branch of the
National Woman’s Party.
“Equal suffrage has given men three
fold freedom, economical, social, and
emotional,” said Mrs, Lawrence.
“They are given economic freedom
because the woman is willing to work,
socially, because a wife’s time is taken
up with her own social interests, em
otionally, because the wife is too busy
to be jealous of the stenographer.
BLACKMAILERS IN CHICAGO
REAP RICH HARVEST
CHICAGO, Oct. 22. (/P)—Blackmail
ers, preying bootleggers, and gamblers
exacted tribute upward of a million
dollars from wealthy Chicagoans in
the last few months the Herald said
in a leading editorial last night.
GREEK ARTILLERY
KILLS 5 SENTINELS
SOFIA, Oct. 22. (J-P)—Bulgarian tel
egraphic agencies declared today that
Greek artillery penetrated Bulgarian
territory killing five sentinels firing
against the village of Petrich.
WOMEN SEE DANGER LIQUOR
BERLIN, Oct. 2. (!■P)—Women doc
tors, lawyers and economists of Ger
many favor local option and see in the
excessive use of alcohol one of the
worst dangers confronting Germany.
They held a joint conference, with
delegates from the Association of Ger
man Women Physicians, the Federa
tion of Women Lawyers, and the Asso
ciation of Women Economists, at the
conclusion of which a resolution was
adpted memoralizing the Reichstag in
favor of local Option.
TRAM HEADS STEAL RIDES
TOKYO, Oct. 22. (JP)—Four hun
dred officials of the Tokyo Electric
Bureau in disguise discovered that
they could beat the company in steal
ing rides on the street cars. Reports
of many free rides had received little
credence until this experiinnt. The fi
nal report showed but five of the 400
were caught by the vigilant conduc
tors. »
TIRED OF BEING A STENO, SO
SHE ENTERED MAN'S FIELD
LONDON, Oct. 22. (/P)—Kathleen
Britter has become London’s first wo
man conveyancer. And she does not
see why any capable woman could not
do her sort of work if she was inter
ested in ft.
“The trouble with so many girls is
that they get into a groove and stay
there,” she said. “I got tired of be
ing a stenographer, studied real prop
erty and persuaded a firm that was
advertising for a male conveyancer
that a woman who handled that sort
of work for solicitors for years, could
fill the place as well.”
Miss Britter is 24, and has been a
business woman for about five years.
Her mother was housekeeper for the
late Lord Leverhulme who took an in
terest in the ambitions of the young
stenographer and encouraged her to
study law.
Hardy Party Return To
Anchorage—Boat Wreck
Seward arrivals last evening from
Anchorage brought word that the A1
Hardy pa'rty of -big game hunters
who had been overdue in returning
from the Kassilof district, arrived
back in Anchorage October 17. It
was stated Hardy’s gas boat was
completely wrecked in the lecent
storm which swept over this dis
trict. The engine was salvaged.
ONE PERCENT TAX
MAY BE RATE ON
LOW INCOMES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22. (£>)
—Mellon presented to the House Ways
and Means committee a proposal sug
gesting the rate of one per cent for
the first three thousand taxable in
come; two per cent on the next thous
and; and five per cent thereafter. He
said this would be more satisfactory
than Monday’s treasury schedule.
THREE HUNDRED KILLED
BY RAIDING TRIBESMEN
LONDON, Oct. 22. (/P)—A Bagdad
exchange telegraph dispatch reported
three hundred killed when Druse tribe
Arabs burned the native quarter in
Damascus.
WASHINGTON HAS
HOPES BEATING
CALIF. THIS YEAR
SEATTLE, Oct. 22. (£>)—'The Uni
versities of Washington and Califor
nia, monarchs of the north and south
on the Pacific Coast football field,
have each won four games and two
have been tied. The dearest wish of
the Husky heart this season is to de
feat the Golden Bears.
Not since California renewed play
ing relations has Washington been
able to triumph. Enoch W. Brag
shaw, Washington coach, who at the
Everett high school built a team that
won national champioships, is in his
fifth year of trying to defeat Califor
nia. Last year his team in the clos
ing minutes made it seven to seven.
Washington reaches farther from
home than usual this season, meeting
the University of Nebraska at Lincoln
The Huskies play Leland Stan
ford here November 7.
Confident that the veterans in his
backfield could take care of most new
comers, Bagshaw concentrated on the
line and kicking.
YUKON RIVER
MARINER SAYS
INTERIOR BETTER
SEATTLE, Oct. 22. (/P)—Captain S.
E. Lancaster, veteran Yukon river
mariner, arrived in Seattle yesterday,
declaring Alaska’s railroad likely will
be linked with a modern steamship
service1 on the Yukon. He said three
hundred thousand dollars’ appropria
tion has been asked for to construct
river vessels equipped with diesel en
gines, which would operate on the Yu
kon from Nenana to St. Michael, con
necting with Nome boats. He report
ed Yukon boats handled twenty per
cent more traffic this year as compar
ed with last year. There has also
been a big increase in mining opera
tions throughout the interior.
FOOTBALL GAMES
SCHEDULED FOR
NEXTSATURDAY
Ohio State vs. Iowa, at Columbus.
Minnesota vs. Notre Dame at Min
neapolis.
Chicago vs Pennsylvania, at Phila.
Purdue vs. Wisconsin, at Madison.
Illinois vs. Michigan, at Urbana.
Indiana vs. Miami, at Bloomington.
Northwestern vs. Tulane, at Chi
cago.