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VOLUME XX, NUMBER 323
{SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
„ NOEL W. SMITH
MAKES REPORT
ALASKA RALWAY
WILL COST ELEVEN MILLIONS
TO FINISH PROPERLY—DE
FICIT IS REDUCED
FREIGHT RECEIPTS ARE LESS
No Rapid Development of Alaska Is
Looked for in Next Few Years,
But Railroad Is Needed
WASHINGGTON, D. C., Nov. 2 (£>)—
The completion of the Alaskan rail
road will extend over a period of years
and will cost $11,878,781, so that it
can be operated efficiently and eco
nomically. The above is recommended
in the annual report of General Mana
ger Noel W. Smith, of the Alaska rail
way. The report called attention to
the cutting down of the annual oper
ating deficit by $489,901 during the
fiscal year, figures for the previous
year showing $1,246,674. The road
hauled 53,086 tons of freight, a de
crease of 9.7 per cent over the year
previous.
Smith reported that while no rapid
development of Alaska is looked for
in the next few years, indications
pointed to a gradual increase of traf
fic over the road. He said, however,
that there was no prospect that the
operation of the road can be continued
for some years without substantial
appropriations to meet the deficit.
WHEAT JUMPS TO
HIGHEST RECORD
CHICAGO, Dec. 2 (JP)—All deliveries
of wheat jumped to the highest point
of the season. December wheat gain
ed 4 3-8 cents overnight touching §1.75
owing to reports received from Ar
gentine that crops had been heavily
damaged.
The freighter Latouche, which ar
rived in port yesterday from the
South with a large cargo of supplies
for the Standard Oil plant, departed
for the Westward in the afternoon.
Tomorrow night is ladies night at
the S. A. C. gym. It is announced
that men and boys will not be permit
ted in the hall during the evenings
set aside for the ladies and girls.
ATTENDANCEAT
POST SERViCES
IS ON INCREASE
WASHINGTON, D. C , Dec. 2 (£>)—
Under the law of averages figures on
church attendance at army posts dur
ing the last fiscal year would indicate
“that every member of the military
personnel attended church on an army
post at least thirteen times during
the year,” Col. John T. Axton, chief
of chaplains, said in his report today.
The total attendance at post serv
ice for the year was 1,880,027 or 550
554 in excess of that for the preceding
year, and a new high mark for the
army. The strength of the army and
the number of chaplains available re
mained unchanged for the two years,
Col. Axton commented.
Judging from his own visits to
V about half the army posts in the Uni
) ted States during the fiscal year, Col.
Axton attributed the growing interest
in religious matters “to the deep per
sonal concern of the officers in safe
guarding the moral and spiritual life
of all members of their garrisons.”
He recommends an appeal to Con
gress for funds to permit four or five
post chapels to be constructed each
year” adapted to forms of worship of
the major divisions of the church.
MOONSHINE, WOMEN AND
SONG ARE BLAMED FOR
DOWNFALL OF BAGLEY
SPOKANE, Dec. 2. (;P)-^John W.
Bagley, of St. Paul, Minn., collector
for the Great Northern Railway com
pany, pleaded guilty in superior
court here today to a charge of mis
appropriating $451 company funds
and was sentenced to a term of
two to 15 years in the state peni
tentiary. The sentence was sus
pended, however, on recommendation
of the prosecuting attorney, who
said Bagley has a mother and a crip
pled brother in St. Paul partly de
pendent upon him for support.
“Moonshine, women and song,”
were blamed by the prosecuting at
torney for Bagley’s trouble. He was
collecting company money from news
dealers on trains and in depots. He
promised the court that he would
make the shortage good.
OUTLOOK FOR
COPPER BRIGHT
OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 2 (/P)—'The out
look for the copper industry is ex
ceedingly bright, in the opinion of D.
C. Jackling, of San Francisco, presi
dent of the Utah Mining Company. He
said he expected there would be a
heavy production of copper because
increased uses of copper resulted in
an increased demand.
FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN
BURIED IN ONE CASKET
SEATTLE, Dec. 2. (£>)—All in one
tiny casket, the bodies of the four
children of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Peters
of Silver Lake, who were burned to
death September 2S in a fire which
destroyed the Peters home were
buried in Calvary cemetery, Seattle.
The funeral of the children, who
ranges in age from seven to two
years, was held up by a manslaugh
ter action against the father, which
wtas dismissed in Everett October 13.
CONSTITUTIONALITY OF
VOLSTEAD ACT UPHELD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2. (/P)
—The constitutionality of the Vol
stead act again was upheld and its
provisions discussed in detail today
by the supreme court.
A formal opinion in the Druggan i
case from Chicago, in which an ap- ;'
peal by the defendant recently was 1
dismissed, was made the occasion<
for the court’s re-definition of its
support of the validity of the dry i
law. I:
HARTLEY VETOS
OF BILL UPHELD
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OLYMPIA, Dec. 1 (JP)—The lower !
House by a margin of two votes sus
tained Governor Hartley’s veto of the
Banker reclamation bill which re- J
quired a two-thirds majority vote, by
34 to 62. Three King county repre
sentatives who vot§d for the bill on
its passage, switched to support the
governor’s veto.
Reasons for Switching i
SEATTLE, Dec. 2 (£>)—'The Post- ]
Intelligdncer said that stories that c
legislators voted against the Banker r
bill yesterday when the House sup- i
ported the bill, was because that if
the bill past it would add four judges
for King county.
Frank Clarkin, one of the best i
known conductors on the Alaska Rail- t
road, in which service he has been
connected for many years, arrived
in Seward a few days ago and will
leave oh the Admiral Watson for
Seldovia where Mrs. Clarkin is con
ducting a hotel.
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CHILI ACCUSES
BAD FAITH IN
ARICA DISPUTE
GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 2 (/P).
Chile filed accusations before the
League of Nations: declaring that Gen
eral Pershing, president of the com
mission of plebiscites to determine
whether Chile or Peru shall rule the
Tacna-Arica strip under dispute, “has
convoked new meetings of the com
mission without putting on the agenda
questions fixing the plebiscite or vot
ing conditions.” Chile said the com
mission has been sitting in Arica
twice a month, although Chile had ful
filled all of Pershing’s conditions.”
CHARLESTON BARRED
AS INDECENT DANCE
OAKLAND, Dec. 2. (/P)—Chief of
Police James T. Drew, today issued
an order barring the Charleston
dance from public dance halls in
Oakland. Mrs. Anna Ryan, chief
dance hall supervisor, claims that
the Charleston, as danced in Oak
land halls, is indecent. She said,
however, that the Charleston, if
properly executed, is not indecent.
NEW WHEAT DEVELOPED
BY NOTED AGRICULTURIST
WINNIPEG, Man., Dec. 2. (/P)—
Samuel Larcornbe, of Birtle, Man.,
internationally known agriculturist,
has developed a new wheat which
gives promise of being resistant to
black stem rust, it was learned here
today. The grain has been named
Axminster. It yields 30 per cent
more than Marquis and was pro
nounced equal in milling value to red
fife and Marquis.
Larcornbe began developing Ax
minster in 1916. Last year it showed
less than 5 per cent of rust infection,
when Marquis and other varieties
grown within five feet of it were in
fected 100 per cent. This season it
did even.better.
LOTHARIO KILLED
WHO BRAGGED OF
HIS CONQUESTS
NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (/P)—A woman
connected with Gordon Pirie, accused
>f murdering George Nye, has been
found. Pirie made a second confes
sion last night, saying that Nye had
masted over his conquests with dif
ferent girls and that lie was annoyed
iy Nye’s disparagement of the char
icter of a certain girl. Pirie invited
STye to spend the night with him and
tilled him while asleep. The woman
lelped obtain the second confession.
The district attorney said that
‘Pirie had a plan to dispose of the
)ody, but it is too revolting to tell
ibout.”
KARL THIELE
ON WAY JUNEAU
SEATTLE, Dec. 2 (Jp)—Karl Thiele
irrived here today on his way to Ju
leau after visiting his parents in Ohio,
le will sail on the Alameda Satur
day. Said Parks plans on leaving Ju
leau December 15 en route to Wash
agton.
NOTICE OF MEETING
Regular business meeting this even
tig at 8 o’clock of the Seward Athlet
es Club at the gym. All members re
vested to attend.
TODAY’S WEATHER REPORT
Cloudy, calm, snow and rain.
Temperature 37 above.
Unsettled with tendency toward
igh winds.
ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS
INCREASE SINCE WAR
DES MOINES, la., Dec. 2.—Illegi
timate births in Iowa trebbled in
1924 as compared with 1915, according
to records in the office of Dr. Don
M. Griswold, stale health commis
sioner.
YOUTH BECOMES SULTAN OF
SPANISH PROTECTORATE
TETUAN, Spanish Morocco, Dec.
2. (JP)—The 15 year old bay was in
stalled as khalifa, or sultan of the
Spanish protectorate in Morocco. He
is Sheriff Muley, Hassan Ben-El
Ehdi, and his word will mean law
as far as it concerns native civil
affairs.
KEIl) MUST NOT
SLUR WITNESSES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2 (£>)—'
Major General Howze, president of the
Mitchell court martial, warned the
counsels of the prosecution and de
fense that he must protect the wit
nesses from “irrevelant, insulting and
improper questions, and harsh, in
sulting treatment.
Flyers Returning from
North Africa to Paris
QUEZZAN, Morocco, Dec. 1 (/P)—;
Sixteen American aviators who for
two months have been operating with
the French troops against the tribes j
of Abd el Krim, carrying on with the i
French troops but under colors of the
Sultan of Morocco, “th-e most humane!
colonial war in history,” are leaving j
North Africa today their season’s
work having been completed.
Notwithstanding the orders of the
state department at Washington last;
month to Consul General Blake at Tan-,
gier that the birdmen were operating
contrary to the laws of the United
States, they have continued at their
work, but now, with the advent of
the rainy season have decided to re
turn to France. France contended
that the airmen were not fighting for
France but for the sultan.
HOQUIAM, Wn., Dec. 2 (/?)—'The j
abandonment of the steam schooner j
Halco last night after the rescue of
her crew of 20, following a 24-hours
battle with the storm.
Capt. L. A. Nelson arrived here to
day and reported that all 21 persons
aboard the ship were saved. The ves
sel will be a total wreck. The men
were rescued by a breeches buoy,!
after many futile attempts, because
the wreck was more than a thousand
feet off shore.
AREAS FOR TIE
CUTTING MARKED)
Fourteen small tie contractors will
operate this winter in cutting areas
adjacent to the right of way on the
Alaska Railroad, according to H. J.
Lutz of the forest service, a recent
visitor in Seward. These camps
will be located at intervals between
Seward and Indian station, or Mile
88. The ties will be hauled out by
dog teams, horse and tractors, de
pending on the distance they are
taken. Contracts average from 1,200
to 12,000 each and aggregate 50,
000 ties to be cut by spring. This
is in addition to the contract calling
for 100,000 ties now being cut at
Knight's Island. While in this dis
trict, Mr. Lutz was engaged in mark- 1
ing the boundaries of the cutting
areas. ]
CONGRESS URGED
STUDY ALASKAN
AFFAIRS FAIRLY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1 (£>)—
Secretary Work in his annual report
urged Congress to make “a prompt and
sympathetic study of Alaska and its
natural resources and methods of gov
ernment, and whether governmental
control should be constructive in type
or continue to cultivate a dependency,
or be removed entirely.”
He said the suggestion that the gov
ernment should merge its activities
in Alaska in one department should
have immediate consideration by Con
gress.
Secretary Work also suggested that
funds for additional physicians, nurses^
and hospitals to be erected in a cen
tral region, should be appropriated.
He urged a shallow draft motor boat
for a small hospital clinic in inland
waters, and declared that to abandon
the Alaska railroad, despite the loss in
maintenance would be a reversion of
the American policy of progress.
He pronounced the use of the rail
road right-of-way as a highway to bo
impractical because of weather con
ditions, and added, “the cost of trans
portation can be eliminated by home
production and consumption.
He called Alaska a territory rapidly
becoming- “a lost province,” where bu
reaucrats “made hesitant by limited
authority” curtailed expansion.
BLUE SKYLAWS
ATTACKED BY
BUTTE BROKER
SPOKANE, Dec. 2 (/P)—George Por
ter, a Butte, Montana, insurance com
missioner, attacked the Blue Sky laws
before the Northwest Mining Associa
tion convention here today, saying, "I
think I am the only Blue Sky commis
sioner in the United States who
knows anything about the mining in
dustry. The Blue Sky law is no good;
it is a detriment. All the Blue Sky
laws in the United States have not
protected the people from oil promo
tion swindles in Texas. I don’t believe
in fighting the industries of a state.”
SPECS WITH COLORED
FRAMES TO MATCH THE
DRESS LATEST THING
PARIS, Dec. 2. (^*)—Dame fash
ion’s latest vagary has been to get
all the women to wearing spectacles.
The pretty eyes of the 1925 Parisi
enne are no weaker than those of
1924, but the celluloid frames of the
eye glasses made in many varieties
of colors are novel and chic when,
they match her dress. /
A Paris optician in the Rue
Rivoli, who advertises himself as an
“American opticfan,” displays in his
windows a large try filled with cel
luloid frames in mauve, green, beige,
blue, rose and, in fact, almost any
conceivable hue that might be re
quired to harmonize with madem
oiselle’s suit or frock.
“I sell about 100 pairs of spec
tacles with plain glasses through
which any one can see, every day,”
said the optician. “The correct thing
is to have the frames made in colors
to match the dress.”
STARR IN PORT TOMORROW
The steamer Starr, Captain O. A.
Johansen, of the San Juan Fishing
fc Packing Company, is due to arrive
in port tomorrow afternoon from the
Westward according to a wireless
report received from the vessel this
morning. Prior to the vessel's de
parture for the Westward, the big
)arge Lawrence tied up at the Seward
wharf, will be towed back to Knights
sland.