. semnrd Dale DE- ateumy
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 155.
SEWARD. ALASKA, TUESDAY. JULY '.a : >'•
PRICE TEX CENTS
I
John W. Weeks Former
Secretary of War, Dies
Following Long Illness
SENT WOODS-FORBES TO PHILIPPINES — DESIG
NATES MAJOR GENERAL WOOD AS GOVER
NOR GENERAL OF ISLANDS—REDUCTION
ARMY CAUSED FIRST FIGHT
HTED NMKJJJK ■ STRENGTH
Against Physicians Advice Walked in Line of March
Four Miles to Honor America’s Unknown Soldier—
Began fo Fail in Health from That Time
LANCASTER, New Hampshire, July 13. (/P)—John
W. Weeks, former Secretary of War died of Angina Pec
toris following a long illness. He relinquished his cabinet
4 office in April 19, 1925 and resigned six months later. He
was opposed to the Mitchell aircraft policy.
It was generaly assumed in the event the Republican
party won the national elections of 1921 that John W.
Weeks would be a member of President Harding's cab
inet. His selection for Secretary of the Navy or Secre
tary of the Treasury was regarded as certain. His suc
cess as a financier was recognized. His .graduation at
* Annapolis and experience in naval affairs had been re
corded as fitting him for the navy secretaryship.
HUGE CROWDS WELCOME CON
QUERORS NORTH POLE; PO
LAR BASIN IN INTERNA
NATIONAL WATERS
OSLO, July 13. (/P) — Explorer
Amundsen and the Norwegian mem
bers of the Norge expedition arrived
at Bergen. Huge crowds welcomed
them and the town was befiagged and
festivities held. Amundsen stated:
“The Polar basin is in international
waters and no nation could claim
jthem.”
' SIX ARSENAL VICTIMS
IDENTIFIED BY FINGERS
NEW YORK, July 13. (jP)—Six ad
ditional victim bodies from the arse
nal explosion were identified by
means of fingerprint records at the
Brooklyn navy hospital. These in
cluded Virgil Barker, Ernest Poyell,
Orlando Alfson, Frank Weber, John
Monroe and Mason Edison, all East
erners.
DOVER, N. J„ July 13. (&)—'The
cessation of bombardment has per-:
mitted the recovery of the dead and j
wounded. Parts of 17 bodies have been
found, ten of which have been iden
tified by health officers.
JUDGE STOWE, COMMISSIONER
A. F. Stowe, attorney, and well
known along the Alaska Railroad
belt, is a passenger on the S. S. Ad
miral Watson en route to Kodiak
where he will assume the duties of
i
United States Commissioner.
I A big surprise came, however,
when President-elect Harding an
nounced he would appoint Mr. Weeks
as secretary of war.
A rich life experience in the 60
years preceding the appointment was
found to have equipped Mr. Weeks
for that duty also, and he soon was
recognized as a “fortunate selection”
for the army, then facing the post
war problems of reorganization and
reduction to a peace-time basis.
It was said of him that he “slid in
to his job” the easiest of any of the
other cabinet officers and grasped the
conglomerate details of army admin
istration with a thoroughness and
quickness that spelled confidence
throughout the war department for
the staff officers and hundreds of sub
ordinate chiefs.
From the time he was born on the
little New Hampshire farm near Lan
caster, April 11, 1860. he kept in each
stage of life an ever present human
viewpoint.
i Until lie was 17 he was doing chores
1 on the farm, and taking a friendly in
l terest in the horses and other living
things about the barn yard. His gra
duation at the cross roads school and
| local high school placed him soon af
terwards in the school master’s chair,
also at a country cross roads in his
native state. He continued studying
and learned one thing well—that a
little knowledge was not «nough.
The then young school master suc
ceeded at the age of IS in gening an
appointment to the Naval academy at
Annapolis, where he was graduated
four years later, a midshipman. But
two more years sufficed to kill what
ambition then remained in the mind
of Midshipman Weeks for a perman
ent post in the navy. He and a num
ber of his classmates resigned. The
reason was two-fold. He failed per
sonally to enthuse over the service
as a life’s work and congress failed
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WETlOmi Enr.. July is. S»—
The Nan on a! Railwaymer. union yes
terday pave an overwhelm nr vote of
confidence to John E Tfc has. fener
al secretary, on hie con one: durinr
The recent eeneral strike tbrourhiw:
Great Britain. Mr. Thoms - va* noted
for his work as a labor member to
the House of Commons ax "Lac been
faced with several resole- ns as^rtuc
his removal from of ice . the union
because of his opposition the strike.
Mr. Thomas’s attitude 'ware the
strike was outlined in a oeeek last
Sunday in which he an free his
critics within the labor m m~rt At
one point he declared th a franc ral
strike by the very natir of t blurs
must fail. It is doom t: failure
from the moment it is dared be
cause it is a brutal a*tem- to punish
the innocent as well as • runty. he
declared.
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WASHIXGTOX. JuB . —The
French debt settlemen: i- am of the
hands of the American deb* roman ip
si or and if France van; en; er term*
she ams: go xo congress va The opi
nion expressed by Secretary UeBoE.:
It is improbable the sen ire Kill ear
sent to the chares since the bouse
ratified the agreement in 'rieK cd fbe
administration in France > ix a less
favorable position. If T-anot does:
ratify, the Frited State? vl h'-B i
demand note calling for settlors®:
in €2 years.
TRIAL SET cofi J4-4.V X
SEATTLE. July IS. iJP —WaBace
Gaines vho is charged with tbs mur
der of his daughter. Sylvia, KiE stand
trial July 26.
--
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Helen, of Anchorage, vfcc brat
the house guests of Mrs K S FaJder- ’
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