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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 12.
SEWAIID, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY^ JANUARY 14, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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ALLIED POWERS
SIGN DAWES
AGREEMENT
(By Associated Press)
PARIS. Jan. 14—All powers of the
inter-allied financial conference sign
ed the agreement for the distribution
of the Dawes’ annuties, eliminating
the clause which would limit the Am
erican damage claims to three hundred
and fifty million dollars.
Rumania and Italy signed with res
ervations; Rumania seeks an increas
ed percentage of reparations and Italy
objects to the repaying of the excess
she has received over the percentage
allowed her by the conference. The
allies will consider these points.
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Jan. 14.—France, abandon
ing her demand for an increased
share of the reparations, relinquished
part of what she already had; Britain
gave up some, Belgium gave up more,
but all appeared happy because the
American representatives came into
the conference. Closing speeches to
day sounded a note that American par
ticipation cost much, but was w'orth
the price.
JONES REINTRODUCES PLAN
WASH. Jan. 14.—Jones reintroduc
ed his commission plan as a substi
tute measure, starting the Senate
again around in a circle in w'hich it
swung yesterday.
COMMISSION RECOMMENDS
AID BE GIVEN LIVESTOCK
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14—
The Coolidge Agricultural Commission
recommended that assistance be given
the livestock industry through exist
ing financial agencies and through
permitting grazing on unappropriat
ed public domain.
WICK ASKS AID
IN MARKETING
OF ALASKA COAL
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SEATTLE, Jan. 14.—Former Dele
gate Wickersham told the municipal
league yesterday that “boats are car
rying coal from Nanimo to Alaska,
yet we have an inexhaustible supply
of good heating coal right at our door.
Help us market this coal in Califor
nia or some other place where it is
needed, and you will benefit both us
and the city of Seattle.”
BLACKMAIL LETTERS TRACED
TO SMALL BOSTON LAD
BOSTON, Jan. 14.—A dozen black
mail letters received by a wealthy
( Boston-Cambridge man, Lynn Brain
tree, have been traced to Hyman M.
Nathanson, thirteen, who explained he
\ saw it done in the movies.
F. O.
EAGLES DEDICATE
NEW KETCHIKAN HOME
The Fraternal Order of Eagles of
Ketchikan, Lodge 162, is already to
occupy their new hall on Main street
when the grand opening was held
recently. Arrangements were made
and carried out with radio broad
casting station KFOA to broadcast
a program for the Eagle Lodges all
over the country on that evening and
Malcolm Douglas, president of Seat
tle lodge, aerie No. 1, gave a ten
i/urute address to the members of
the local lodge, wrhich was listened in
by Ketchikan fans at 8:15, the night
of dedication.
ORE OUTPUT FOR WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—The geo
logical survey reported gold, silver,
copper, lead, and zinc produced in the
state of Washington last year valued
at $895,000, compared with one million
dollars in 1923.
RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE
WILL INFORM SOVIET OF
AMERICAN ATTITUDE
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 14.—The Russian
Charge D’Affairs, Rakivsky, has gone
to Moscow to inform the Soviet lead
ers of Kellogg’s attitude toward the
recognition of the Russian government
and is expected to return soon to dis
cuss with Kellogg the conditions on
which the United States is willing to
resume relations.
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 14.—The advent of
Kellogg’s conference with the Russian
representative has been intrepreted
by the State Department as a relaxa
tion of the American attitude toward
Russia.
SENATE PASSES
DEFICIENCY BILL
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 14.—
The senate passed the first deficiency
bill today, including an appropriation
for forty thousand dollars for the in
auguration of Coolidge.
The President declared against an
elaborate inauguration saying the
simpler the better. He vetoed all
plans for a night social reception.
CAPTAIN ROSS, NOME
COAST GUARD, WINS A
DESERVED PROMOTION
As a reward of honest and faith
ful service Captain Thomas A. Ross,
of the Nome Coast Guard station
has recently received a promotion
from the rank of warrant officer
to that of ensign, boatswain. Cap
tain Ross was sworn in by Captain
EFampwolf of the Coast Guard Cut
ter Mojave on its arrival in Nome
just before the ship started for the
hunt for the ill-fated Silver Wave in
the Arctic ocean, in which trip Capt.
Ross player a noteworthy part. Capt.
Dempwoll’, and the Nome officer are
old mates and it was with great plea
sure that the commander of the cut
ler officiated in swearing Captain
Ross in on the receipt of his com
mission.
The train is reported due O. T.
tonight.
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THE KODAK KING
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George Eastman, the Kodak King,
v,hose educational gifts now exceed
$40,000,000. The boy who had to leave
school at fourteen to help a widowed
mother, and who went to work at
$Ji.OO per week, and for years felt
the disadvantages of trying to get
ahead without the benefit of training,
h?s grown up to the man who has
given millions to almost every con
ceivable institution for teaching oth
ers. He is now past seveuty, making
the fortune nearly all himself, and
n-.w his wish is to see results be
fore he dies.
OIL FIRE AT SANTA FEE
The blazing oil pool at Santa Fe, 18 miles from Los Angeles, which
destroyed over $1,500,000 in derricks and oil storage tanks.
KEYSTONE VIEW CO. NEW YORK
| NANIMO BANK
I ROBBERS WILL
BE EXTRADITED
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(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 14—William Bag
ley, held with Watson and two others
charged with the Nanimo bank rob
bery, have been ordered extradited to
day by Washington officials. The
Canadian government is working hard
to have three more men implicated
in the robbery extradited also.
MASKED BANDIT ROBS
MAIL CAR NEAR N. Y.
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—A masked
bandit robbed the mail car of a Long
Island train as it left the Bellmore
station last evening, and escaped with
ten thousand dollars in currency.
This is the first train holdup near
New York in years.
MEXICAN PORT
CAPTAIN JAILS
CREW U. S. SHIP
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—
The Port Captain of Progreso, Mexico,
has jailed the captain and crew of the
sailing vessel “Ruth” of Pensacola,
and “a well-bred man, claiming to be
Dr. W. F. Lorenz, Chairman of the
Wisconsin State Board, of Control.”
WILL ACT SOON ON CHILD LABOR
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—Fourteen mid
western states are expected to act
soon on the Child Labor amendment.
BOY SKATER FALL THRU
ICE TO HIS DEATH
FT. WORTH, Tex., Jan. 14.—While
fifteen of his playmates gazed in hor
ror, Willard Bright, 10 years old,
son of the president of the Ft. Worth
State bank, fell through thin ice
while skating on the Double Dam
swimming hole yesterday afternoon
and drowned. Ambulance drivers be
covered the body with grappling hooks
about 5 o’clock, one hour after the
boy plunged into the icy waters.
1924 HARD YEAR FOR
SOFT COAL DIGGER
(By Associated Press)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 14.—The
year 1924 was a poor one for the bi
tuminous coal industry, said a state
ment by the United Mine Workers
of America here.
It said: “Hundreds of mines
were idle. Hundreds more worked
only a fraction of the time. Few
mines were operated full time. Soft
coal miners all over the countr*
were hard hit by unemployment.
They did not earn a decent living.”
PAROLES ISSUED
BY DAVIS MAY
BE VOIDED SOON
(By Associated Press)
TOPEKA, Jan. 14.—Pardons and
paroles issued by Governor Davis at
the close of his administration, may
be declared void in the near future,
if found they were obtained by fraud,
Attorney General Griffith announced
today.
CONEY ISLAND SUFFERS
SOME LOSS BY FIRE
(By Associated Press) i
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—A fire in the
Seagate section of Coney Island, sev
eral blocks from the amusement
parks, recently destroyed four large
bath houses, four bungalows and 150
feet of Coney Island board walk be
fore it was brought under control.
The damage was estimated at $200,*
000.
The fire started in the hotel anfJ
bath house of the Fulton Bathing
corporation, near the Seagate resi
dential colony at the west end of
the island. The block swept by the
flames is bounded by the board
walk, Surf avenue, West 33rd and
West 35th streets.
HEAD OF ONE OF WORLD'S
LARGEST BANKS
XOPvmCHT. UNDERWOOD 4 UNDERWOOD,
Mr. Charles E. Mitchell, President
of hte National City Bank, of New
York, one of the greatest financial
and commercial institutions in the
world. He recently announced that
the National City Bank is to increase
its capital to $50,000,000, making an
additional $20,000,000 available for
development of new business in the
period of greatly increased domestic
prosperity.
HERESY BISHOP’S
HEARING HELD
AT CLEVELAND
(By Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, Jan. 14.—The Cath
olicity of the Protestant Episcopal
church in America; the origin and au
thenticity of the Nicene Creed, and
the binding effects of the creeds upon
church members, was desired as the
opening argument by counsel for Bish
op William Montgomery Brown, ap
pealing a conviction made last May
for Heresy.
(By Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, Jan. 14. —Joseph
Sharts of Dayton, counsel of Bishop
Brown who was recently convicted of
heresy, and Brown took the stand at
the Bishop’s hearing yesterday. Brown
argued: “We maintain this Catholic
church protestant only in some as
pects, while catholicity provides cat
checliisms and creed it relegates them
to their proper places as symbols of
the doctrine.”
When he referred to the resurrec
tion of flesh. Bishop Brewster of Con
necticut said, “creeds referred to the
resurrection of the body,” and when
Sharts asked if ‘body’ wasn't the same
as flesh, Brewster replied the church
stood on the words of St. Paul:
“Though worms destroy this mortal
body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.”
Sharts attacked the character of
Constantine, under whom the Nicene
Creed w'as adopted, and declared that
“it is treason of the human soul to say
that in this age and under such waste
mankind reached its ultimate concep
tion of the diety.”
GIRL SHOOTS HER
MOTHER RESULT
DANCEQUARREL
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 14.—Earl
Ellington, a drug clerk, returning to
his home from work at night, found
his mother shot dead and his sister,
Dorothy Ellington, sixteen, gone with
part of her belongings. The rest
were strewn about the room.
According to Ellington, his mother
had reproved the daughter for attend
ing jazz dances and because of the
wild life she was leading.
Police are now searching the city
for the girl and expect' to find her
within twenty-four hours.
SENATE ADOPTS
LEASING BILL
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—
The Senate by a vote of 46 to 33 adopt
ed the Muscle Shoals private leasing
bill as a substitute for the Norris
measure.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—
After the rejection of the proposal
brought forward by Senator McKel
lar to authorize the president to in
vestigate the project and make leases,
the Senate, with a vote of fifty to
thirty, adopted the Underwood Leas
ing bill and sent it to the House,
which passed a measure at the last
session to accept the offer of Henry
Ford, since withdrawn.
PIONEERS INSTAL OFFICERS
At a recent meeting of Seward Ig
loo, No. 9, Pioneers of Alaska, the fol
lowing were elected officers for the en
suing year:
John H. Flower, president; Peter
N. Anderson, first vice president;
Charles A. Fisher, second vice presi
dent, Peter Anderson, (Pistol Pete),
historian; Cal M. Brosius, chaplain;
Frank Laugerquist, sergeant at arms,
and C. A. McDougall, secretary and
treasurer.
Don't miss the show at the Liberty
tonight. Also Late Pathe News.