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American Legion’s Washington Birthday Dance Saturday Night
VOLUME 20.
NUMBER 41.
U’j£/n SEWARD’ -ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
NOMINATIONS GO THROUGH SENATE
WITHOUT ONE DISSENTING VOTE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 19.—The Senate today
confirmed the nominations of George Alexander Parks for
Governor of the Territory of Alaska, and W7illiam M. Jar
dine for Secretary of Agriculture.
The Senate also sent to President Coolidge the House
Bill authorizing the establishment of Industrial Schools
for Alaskan native children.
MEETS WITH APPROBATION OF ALASKANS
f SEATTLE, Feb. 19.—A special from Washington to
the Seattle Times, said: “The appointment of George A.
Parks as governor of Washington, appears to have met
with the general approval of those interested in Alaskan
affairs and those who favor rewarding trained men who
have worked upward in the government service. Eastern
newspapers are printing many favorable comments upon |
Mr. Park’s service and the modesty with which he received!
the news of his advancement.”
MITCHELL AGAIN
TELLS OF POOR
SYSTEM DEFENSE
TELLS COMMITTEE DEFENSES OF
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ARE AS IN
ADEQUATE AND OBSOLETE AS
PRIMITIVE BOWS AND ARROWS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 19 —
Instead of going to the White House
for his much-advertisud reprimand for
statements derogatory to the Naval
air service. General Mitchell, assistant
chief of the Army Air Service, reap
peared before the House Aircraft
Committee, whose meeting a report
of the Presidential summons broke up
yesterday, and again declared that the
Nation’s airpower is inadequate and
pronounced the defenses of the Ha
waiian Islands as obsolete as the prim
itive bows and arrows used by the ab
origines.
V% HITMAN BEATS WASHINGTON
WALLA WALLA. Feb. 19.—Whit
man Seventh Conference team defeat
ed Washington yesterday in basket
ball 34 to 25.
Coast and Geodetic
Steamer Sails March
SEATTLE, Feb. 19.—The Coast and
Geodetic Survey will send the steam
ship Explorer on March 15th by the
inside passage to remove submarine
obstacles in Chatham Strait. The
survey boat Surveyor will sail March
25 for Sitka, Cape Omaney, and later
to Cape Spencer.
The motorship Nato'ma brought from
San Francisco to handle the work in
Iviagaini Strait, near Cape Muzon, will
sail in March; the Discoverer will pro
ceed to the Shumagin Islands and the
Pioneer will go to False Pass.
Much work will be done by the de
partment in southwestern Alaska wa
ters this year.
Demand for Copper
Show Steady Gain
VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 19.—C. P.
Browning, manager of the Brittania
mine, addressing the British-Columbia
division of the Canadian Institute of
Mining and Metallurgy yesterday said
there was every prospect of a good
demand for copper for a long time,
and cited the new needs for copper in
the electrical industries. He declared
that prosperity of the mining indus
trv of the Province depended largely
on copper production.
LET’S GO !
AMERICAN LEGION COMMITTEE
DECORATES HALL FOR DANCE
The American Legion decoration
committee, consisting of Comrades
Bolam and Orndorf, with the assis
tance of the Legion Auxiliary com
mittee. of Mrs. Weybrecht, Miss Syl
via Sexton and Mrs. J. P. Hannon
have decorated the I. O. O. F. hall
very beautifully for the American Le
gion dance Saturday night, February
I 21. Excellent music and a good floor
will furnish an evening of pleasure.
SCREW TAKEN FROM MAN'S
LUNG AFTER 28 YEARS
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 18.—A one
inch brass screw, swallowed 28
years ago, was removed from the
right lung of Frank Craw'ford at
the Francis Memorial hospital here
recently. A tube equipped with a
small electric light bulb was in
serted through the mouth, and af
ter the screw had been located a
long forceps was used in its remov
al.
CARSON WILL ASK
INJUNCTION AND
CLOSE PLANTS
WINNER OF TWENTY MILLION
INFRINGEMENT SUIT MAY BE
CAUSE OF COPPER REDUCTION
PLANTS CEASING WORK.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19.—John
H. Miller, attorney for George C. Car
son, the itinerant miner who won a
$20,000,000 suit for damages against
the American Smelting and Refining
Company for infringement of patent,
announced today that injunctions will
be sought against the company that
would stop the smelters at El Paso,
Tacoma, Hayden, Arizona, and Gar
field, Utah.
Miller denied the statement that his
client had been alleged to have made
one time in New York, that damages
would not exceed $500,000.
OLD LADY CARRIES FORTUNE
ABOUT IN TWO OLD TIN CANS
MONTREAL, Feb. 18.—An old wo
man, dressed in shabby black, car
rying two battered tin pails, shuf
fled into the Royal Bank of Canada
recently and inquired about a safe
ty deposit box. On being told $5
to $50, she raised her pails to the
counter and produced $15,000 worth
of bonds and about $86,000 in cash.
“Would it be possible to place
these in a $5 box?” she inquired
timidly.
The amazed official said he thot
it would be a tight squeeze, where
upon the old lady sighed and walk
ed away.
COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOO x UNDERWOOD.
COULD YOU CONCENTRATE UNDER THESE
CIRCUMSTANCES?
Anne Fire, of St. Augustine, Fla., fair cross-word puzzle addict, has i
developed such powers of concentration by working on the intriguing
things that not even a pen full of large, mature, amply-toothed and pre
sumably ferocious alligators can take her mind off her “work.”
HARTLEY ADOPTS
RIGID ECONOMY
STATE AFFAIRS
BIMONTHLY AGRICULTURAL BUL
LETIN ISSUED BY PUYALLUP
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE CON
SIDERED UNNECESSARY
OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 19.—Gov
ernor Hartley yesterday denied the
requisition of the Western Washing
ton Experiment Station at Puyallup
from printing the bi-monthly bulletin,
issued for many years, and the mail
ing list of which reaches 35,000. The
governor wrote: “I have repeatedly
stated that the only way I know of
to reduce taxes is to quit spending
the people’s money for nonessentials.
I have not singled out this particular
institution, as the axe fell here first
because it is the first request to come
before me. This bulletin costs the
taxpayers from four thousand to six
thousand annually. I do not believe it
is essential, but one of those things
we must get along without if we are
to reduce the cost of government.”
Corned Beef Keeps
Marooned Party Alive
BERNE, Switzerland, Feb. 19.—
Corned beef and hardtack which air
planes dropped in daily flights over
their refuge, saved the lives of three
Swiss Alipinists whom storms had
confined to a shelter hut on top of the
Bernina mountains for eight days.
White House Employes
Striving For Prize
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 19.—
While Whitehouse employes are await
ing announcement of the winner of
the ‘‘Economy Suggestion Prize,” of
fered by President Coolidge to the em
ploye who suggested the most efficient
system of economizing, evidences of
economy are already appearing in the
Whitehouse executive offices.
The daily towel ration for the five
washrooms has been reduced to 80
from 175; the substitution of the old
time drinking glass for individual pa
per cups at the fountains in the corri
dors; and a reluctance on the part of
employes to continue the practice of
giving lead pencils to newspaper men
are among the innovations.
Radio fans were recently treated
to a “concert” by 25 roller canaries
from the broadcasting station at To
ronto, Canada.
COOLIDGE FAVORS
ABOLISHMENT OF
FEDERAL TAX
SAYS PRESENT METHOD IS CON
FISCATORY AND SAVORS OF
SOCIALISM—LAW SHOULD NOT ;
BE USED DESTROY INDUSTRY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—Address
ing the National Inheritance and Es-1
tate Tax conference, of the National
Tax Association. President Coolidge j
advocated the withdrawal of the Fed- j
eral government from the inheritance |
tax field, and urged more economy in
the collection of taxes. He asserted
that the existing Federal law “quite
closely approaches if it is not actu
ally confiscation. If we are to adopt
Socialism it should be presented to
the people of this country as social
ism and not under the guise of law
to collect revenue.”
ALASKA-YUKON
PIONEERS PRAISE
NOME MUSHERS
SEATTLE, Feb. 19.—The adoption j
of a resolution by the Alaska-Yukon
Pioneers, concerning the dogs and
drivers with the antitoxin for Nome
was announced in a resolution ad
dressed to Gunnar Kasson, W. F.
Shannon, Edgar Kalian, Dan Green,
John Riker, Mike Nicolai, Dave Corn
ing, Sam Joseph, Harry Pinta, Willie
McCarty, Edgar Nollener, Charley
Evans, Tom Pathy, Jackscrew Victor,
and Leonard Seppala, read:
“They tug so loyally on the trail,
with not a star to show the route,
wrapped in blinding blizzards and
penetrating cold, not caring whether
they had fifty miles or one hundred
and fifty to go, just so long as you
were with them. On they went just
as long as their last ounce of endu
rance remained, because you, their
pal, their master, their god, were with
them.”
The Seattle Times announced that
the fund had reached $269.
Mrs. Evelyn Terry of Liverpool left
$5,000 by her will to Miss Joan Col
yer, because the latter has been
“neighborly.” This was a substan
tial reward for a human quality which
is not as common as it ought to be.
Many persons in the world who have
nothing to leave behind would be
cheered day by day by a little kind
ly attention. It is fine to live with
folks who are neighborly.
BATTLESHIPS ARE
FINAL ARBITERS
SEA WARFARE
REPORT OF SPECIAL NAVAL
BOARD SAYS AIRPLANES WILL
NEVER ASSUME PARAMOUNT
IMPORTANCE IN SEA BATTLES
WASHINGTON, D. C.., Feb. 19.—
President Coolidge made public today
the report of the special naval board
which found that battleships remain
“the Anal arbiters of sea warfare, and
that airplanes can never assume para
mount importance." President Cool
idge adopted the board’s view of mod
ernization of old battleships, not in
cluding the elevation of guns. The.
first requirement will be the comple
tion of aircraft carriers and their
plans; the second, construction of two
ten thousand ton cruisers; third, the
building program will be cut from
eighty to thirty millions yearly for
three years.
The board’s report gave detailed
statements of the bombing experi
ments on the hull of the battleship
Washington, showing that three 2000
pound bombs exploded under the wa
ter near the ship and that two 400
pound blasts were set off by contact
under water, but the hull of the ship
with its watertight compartments
remained afloat for four days, riding
out a storm in the meantime.
HIJACKERS SHOT
WHILE RAIDING
MOONSHINERS
EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 19.—Albert
Kimball of Anacortes, was instantly
killed and Roy Thompson of Everett,
was seriously wounded last night when
Kimball and his brother. Dean, went
to the ranch of a neighbor, three
miles from Snohomish, and broke in
the door with rocks.
The sheriff said that the Kimballs
went to the ranch to hijack a moon
shine plant run by Thompson and a
man named Frank.
Dean Kimball was shot through the
hand.
Brief Biography of
William M. Jardine
William M. Jardine, whose nomina
tion for the portfolio of secretary of
agriculture was confirmed today by
the Senate, is a noted agronomist, born
in Oneida County, Idaho. Jan. 16, 1S79;
a son of William and Rebecca J. Jar
dine; B. S. in Agriculture, Agricultu
ral College of Utah, 1904; student and
graduate of University of Illinois;
was married to Effie Nebeker, of Lo
gan, Utah, Sept. 6, 1905. Lived and
worked on ranches in Idaho and Mon
tana until he was twenty years of
age; assistant department of agron
omy, 1904; instructor, 1905; profes
sor, 1905, 1906 Agricultural College of
Utah; assistant U. S. cerealist in
charge of dry land grain investiga
tions, 1907-10; agronomist at the Kan
sas State Agricultural College and
Experimental Station, July, 1910; act
ing director of Experimental Station
and Dean of Agriculture, April 1,
1913; lecturer, Graduate School of
Agriculture, Michigan Agricultural
College, 1912. Later Superintendent
of Agriculture for Kansas. His resi
dence is Manhattan, Kansas.
AMERICANS BEGIN PRACTICE
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 19.—Eight of the
world champion Washington Ameri
cans, winners of the 1924 baseball
series, trotted on the diamond to be
gin a workout. The first day’s prac
tice was light.
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