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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 7 Wo/
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1925
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BORAH SCORES
BRITISH POLICY
RUM RUNNING
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—The Commit
tee of One Thousand for Law Enforce
ment received a letter last night from
m Senator Borah comparing the activi
ties of British co-operation with the
American bootleggers with the Zino
viev letter preceding the downfall of
the McDonald ministry. He said:
The Eighteenth amendment noti
fied the world that the United States
would undertake the stupendous task
of ending the liquor traffic. Wre are
entitled all governments respect this
policy and compel their people to re
spect it.”
He cited Chamberlain’s declaration
to Russia: “You can either control
your national in its effort to sow dis
cord among other peoples, or you can
not.” Wre say to Britain, "You have a
government or you have not. You
> can control your nationals in their
effort to break our policy Nnd plant
murder and misery among other peo
ples or you cannot.”
If it is against international law
to run guns, or spread diBcord and se
dition among nations, it should also
be against international law for a na
tion’s subject to conspire to violate
the laws of another country declared
Mr. Borah.
Kid McKoy Gets One To
-> Ten Years In San Quentin
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8—Kid Mc
Coy, former middleweight champion
of the world was today sentenced to
serve from one to ten years for man
slaughter. He received the sentence
with apparent indifference.
LIVENGOOD HOTEL HAS
FIERCE BLAZE AND
BURNS TO GROUND
One of the fiercest fires that has
ever occurred in the Livengood dis
trict happened on the morning of
the 24th, when the Livengood Hotel,
a wooden structure, owned and op
erated by Mrs. A. L. Dickenson, went
up in flames and burned to the
ground within an hour. All efforts
to recover furniture and personal be
longings proved futile as the ravag
ing flames swept from one end of
the building to the other.
Guests stopping at the hotel at the
time were all asleep, as the fire
broke out in the early morning. Liv
engood being but a small camp, is
one of those unfortunate places
where the fire demon has the advant
age in that no fire department is
^ being maintained by it. The loss of
the hotel is estimated at about $7,
000.
Mrs. Dickenson, the proprietor of
the hostelry Is a well-known business
women of Interor and a sourdough
of the Fairbanks region, having own
ed divers establishments for years
throughout the Tolavana district and
was at one time in business in Nena
na when the latter town boasted of
a population envied by other towns
along the Alaskan coast. When Nena
na was doomed and took the count,
after construction days of the Alas
ka Railroad, Mrs. Dickenson was one
of the business women to seek better
pay. She started a roadhouse at
Log Jam, on the Tolavana river and
*■' later moved to Livengood where she
received her recent loss. It is Mrs.
Dickenson’s intention, according to a
letter received In Seward, to remove
to Fairbanks and look over the field
there for future prospects. She being
interested in other business in In
terior camps she will make Fair
banks her headquarters for a time.
Her daughter has been visiting with
her for the past month, the latter los
ing considerable of her belongings.
4 After spending a month or so with
her mother, she will come to Seward,
where she expects to make her home.
SMOKING CIGARS AND EATS
HEARTILY 105TH BIRTHDAY
HOBOKEN, N. J., Jan. 7Kupper
Bier, a butcher, who claims to be
the oldest active business man in the
United States, celebrated his 105th
birthday yesterday by eating a hearty
dinner and smoking a strong cigar
afterwards.
Bier is looking forward to March 4,
when he says he will attend Presi
dent Coolidge’s inauguration, having
received a special invitation from the
president.
BOSTON SHAKEN BY QUAKE
BOSTON, Jan. 8.—An intense fif
teen second earthquake was felt here
last night.
MAN SLEEPS IN
WARM WATERS
OF CAVE SPRING
SALT LAKE. Utah, Jan. 8—K. N.
Jensen was found yesterday floating
naked in a pool of natural warm sul
rpuh water in a cave nearby. He
told the police he had no place to
stay and had slept in the cave for
months to keep warm. He used a
wooden pillow to keep his head out
of water, and apparently was as com
fortable as if in bed.
CAUSE SALMON
POISON FOUND
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 8.—The
cause of salmon poison, a mysterious
disease nearly always fatal to dogs,
in case they eat the fish uncooked,
has been discovered by a univeresity
of Oregon medical student, and a
remedy for the disease partly found.
FIREMEN ATTENTION
There will be a meeting of the Se
ward Volunteer Fire department at
8 o’clock tomorrow night at the Fire
Hall. All member are urgently re
quested to be on hand.
Eddie Cannonball Martin
and Augie Pisano Fight
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—After Eddie
(Cannonball) Martin, recent bantam
weight champion and Augie Pisano, of
Coney Island fought three slow
rounds in a scheduled six round bout,
the referee waved the men to their
corners and declared no contest. The
crowd booed Martin from the start.
PRESIDENT WHITMAN COLLEGE
OPPOSES CHILD LABOR BILL
SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—S. B. L. Pen
rose, president of Whitman college,
announced today in a luncheon ad
dress before the Federated Industries
of Washington, that he had written
each member of the legislature a per
sonal letter opposing the child labor
amendment. He said conditions were
well regulated at present and the
state “needs no Federal bureau to
direct its affairs.”
WISCONSIN FARMS
RUN HIGH FIGURES
EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Jan. 7.—Wis
consin farm lands are selling better
this fall. While there has been no
such slump as was seen in some other
states, sales of land have not been
brisk in the last three years, but re
ports last week give $227 per acre as
the selling price of one farm, and
other good figures for larger farms
sold.
Flax is coming back as a cash crop
in Wisconsin. This statement is based
on prices paid for flax seed and field
tests made by the Wisconsin experi
ment station. The results of the last
two years showed net return of $10
to $15 per acre more from flax
than from oats.
WILBUR TELLS
COMMITTEE U. S,
NEEDS A NAVY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Although
declaring his department wanted a
navy in accordance with the five-five
three ratio throughout, Secretary
Wilbur today told the House Naval
committee that the administration’s
economy program prevented his re
commending gun elevation and in
dorsing the pending $70,000,000 con
struction bill.
Secretary Hughes read a letter to
the committee which opposed the ele
vation of American guns on capital
ships. He said that their elevation
would not violate the terms of the
treaty but would promote naval com
petition, and contended that elevation
in this respect would i 1 to neu
tralize the disarmament /oceedings.
Senator Capper said that he believed
opposite to Secretary Hughes and be
lieved our navy should equal in
strength and the number of vessels
that of any other nation.
Asked whether the American navy
equalled that of the British, Secretary
Wilbur proffered the report of naval
experts made to the committee at a
previous sitting. He stated that the
United States made ships slower than
the British government, believing the
weight in armor more valuable than
speed in engines. He declared that
the speed of the slowest vessel de
termined the mobility of the fleet. The
British navy had several slow capital
ships. He pronounced the idea that a
2,000 pound bomb dropped upon a ves
sel would jam its turrets and the
shock incapacitate! the crew was ridic
ulous. The practicability of the Shen
endoah and the Los Angeles have not
yet been proven and the big dirigibles
may be utterly useless in war. 1
Secretary Hughes’ letter said that
the British “laid particular emphasis
upon what it called the larger aspect
of the question; that one of the ob
jects of the treaty is to reduce the
burden of competition in armaments.”
TOOK PAPER 24
YEARS AND QUIT
ACCOUNT PUZZLE
SIOUX FALLS, Jan. 8.—After tak
ing his local paper 24 years, a sub
scriber wrote to the editor: “I am
compelled to abandon your excellent
newspaper and take another which
prints cross word puzzles that can be
worked without one’s staying up all
night.”
CHANCES FOR “LOW BUSH
MOOSE” HUNTERS NOW
A letter from the Goldsten Glaciei*
Fur Farms, Inc., of Juneau states:
“We are anxious to procure about
500 rabbits, with entrails removed
and delivered to the docks at Seward
or Anchorage, but know of no one in
your neighborhood that would be able
to procure them for us.”
Anyone in the vicinity of Anchor
age that desires to undertake the
job can write to the anadan Gla
cier Fur Farms, Inc., for further in
formaton. The company desires in
the first letter a quotation on the
prce per animal.
EYESIGHT OF ENGLISH
FAST DETERIORATING
LONDON, Jan. 7.—The eyesight
of the English as a nation is deter
iorating, if rehent figures of the
number of elementary school chil
dren treated for spectacles can be
taken as a criterion.
Of less than a million children at
tending these schools, 23,000 were
found to have weak eyesight.
For the past few years one in ev
ery five children has been found to
possess defective eyesight. Special
ists predict that of future genera
tions possibly one in every four per
sons will wear spectacles.
IRISH ARE TAKING TO
METHYLATED DRINK
DUBLIN, Jan. 7.—Irish whiskey
is soaring in price, with the result
that Dublin is taking to methylated
spirits as a beverage. Disastrous
results are certain to follow, accord
ing to General E. R. Murphy, chief
commissioner of police.
Dr. Alfred Barnes, former presi
dent of the Pharmaceutical Society
of Ireland, declares that efforts in
England to make the methylated
spirits nauseating have not prQven
successful. He advocates that this
spiriit should come under legislation
equally stringent as the Dangerous
Drugs Act.
DIFFERENCES IN
PAYMENT WAR
DEBTS SETTLED
PARIS, Jan 8.— Anglo-American
differences over the payment to the
United States of Britain’s war debt
and damages have been virtually set
tled. Both countries made conces
sions, the United States extending
the time of payment of the costs of
the army of occupation from twelve to
twenty years, and Great Britain al
lotted a three per cent share of the
Dawes plan under the Spa agreement.
All countries have been won over to
the American view point.
6,500-YEAR-OLD
GODDESS FOUND AT
v . UR OF CHALDEES
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 7.—
This clay statuette portrait of a
goddess of the time of Father Abra
ham was found at Ur of the Chal
dees by the joint exploration ex
pedition of the University of Penn
sylvania and the British museum of
London.
The woman was a goddess in the
Temple of the Moon God, probably
of a preiod of 6,500 years ago, and
is one of the oldest that scientists
have yet unearthed.
The same expedition discovered
fragments of papyrus bearing a part
of a chapter of the Gospel of St.
Matthew, and written approximately
in 250 A. D.
MERGER TODAY
BIG COMPANIES
NEW YORK, Jan. 8—The American
Telephone and Telegraph companies
today were sold to a banking group,
headed by J. P. Morgan, for $125,000,
00. An issue of 35 year gold bonds
has been issued, the proceeds to be
loaned to the associated firms.
California Assembly To
Vote On Child Labor
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 8.—-The as
sembly of "California rejected by a
vote of 53 to 25 the motion to post
pone action on the child labor amend
ment.
Ram Attacks Woman;
She Demands $10,000
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Jan. 7.—
The suit of Miss Minnie E. Fraser,
of Hampden, for $10,000 damages for
injuries suffered by being butted by
a ram was begun in superior court
here.
Harvey Chapman, owner of a flock
of sheep of which the ram was a
member, is the defendant.
Miss Fraser tried to drive the ram
out of her strawberry bed with a
broom, but the ram knocked her
down repeatedly, and she was com
pelled to remain motionless on the
ground twenty minutes until a
passerby subdued the ram. She al
leged her knee was fractured.
COOLIDGE PANS
LANDLORDS CITY
OF WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—The
move by President Coolidge to have
a bill passed by Congress regulating
rentals in the District of Columbia,
has stirred up realtors, who are ap
pealing to realtors of other cities in
half page advertisements to enter a
protest. The president has ordered
the Department of Justice to investi
gate charges of mortgage pyramiding
and fictitious sales to raise values,
and has asked a police survey of
vacant houses and apartments.
The President requested the chair
man of the District of Columbia rent
commission to draft for Congress a
regulatory bill based upon the police
powers of the Federal government.
Increased rentals here to government
employes have forced higher wages
which in turn forces up the cost of
living throughout the country.
In some cases $10 a room has been
asked for a three-room apartment
close to the capitol building.
SENATE INVESTIGATION BE
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Senator
Watson, heading the administration
forces, succeeded in having the open
ing Senate investigation of member
ship held behind closed doors.
ALLIES RECEIVE
GERMAN PROTEST
BERLIN, Jan. 8.—The German pro
test to the Allies’ failure to evacuate
Cologne declared “Germany feels she
has sustained a heavy blow to her
hopes in consolidating her affairs,
and entering into peaceful co-opera
tion with other peoples.” 'fhe note
insisted that the nation had disarmed
as agreed and demanded a bill of par
ticulars and the order of reply in de
j tail.
FORD SUED BY
JEWISH LAWYER
CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—Aaron Sapiro,
counsel for several farmers’ copoera
tive organizations, mailed Henry Ford
a document today, as preliminary to
a libel suit for one million dollars
against Ford, demanding a retraction
of statements made in the Dearborn
Independent connecting Sapiro with
an alleged Jewish conspiracy to con
trol agriculture by organizing the far
mers into communism interests.
ENGLAND WILL VENTURE
IN SILVER FOX FARMING
LONDON, Jan. 7.—England’s first
venture in silver fox farming is to
get under way shortly, and already
20 pair of foxes have been brought
here from Canada and installed on a
plot of ground near Oxford.
The 40 animals, which will be
used for breeding purposes, are
valued at $40,000. The promoter of
the enterprise, a former Canadian
army officer, believes that the cli
mate of England is ideally suited to
the rearing of silver foxes, and hopes
to expand his farm to iinclude sev
eral hundred foxes within the next
year or so.
Mike McTigne Beaten
By ‘Mickey’ Walker
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—Mickey Walk
er, the world’s welterweight cham
pion, outpointed Mike McTigue, light
heavyweight champion, in a twelve
round, no decision match here last
night. In the decision of the news
papers Walker earned his victory on
points. j