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VOLUME XIX NUMBER 161
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1921
DAVIS DECLARES HE
WILL LEAD PARTY
VICTORY THIS FILL
NEW YORK, July 10.—In the first
pronouncement following the nomina
tion of John W. Davis, he said he
Hoped to rally to the aid of democ
racy that great body of liberal, pro
gressive and independent voters who
believe that “progress is motion and
government is action,” and who de
test special privilege in whatever
form, and which does not wish the
American people or their govern
ment to stand still or retreat. In the
midst ol a changing world there can
be no compromise with reaction. Lib
eral principles must and will pre
vail. This is the mandate of the
hour and i shall obey it.”
Davis addressing the convention
j before midnight and formally ac
cepting the nomination, sad he would
lead the party to victory.
Nominations for Vice President
Nominations for vice-president to
day included Governor Jonathan Da
vis of Kansas, Bennett Clark, a son
of the late Champ Clark of Missouri;
Leroy Springs of South Carolina; W.
A. Gaston, of Boston; Mayor Hylan
of New York; E. T. Meredith, Geo.
Berry of Tennessee, James Vi. Ge
rard. The convention at midnight re
cessed for an hour.
Bryan Was Opposed to uavis
The opposition of Bryan and the
attempt of McAdoo to deliver his
strength to E. T. Meredith, tailed to
stop the nomination of Davis, it was
said here today. The general talk
about the convention hall following
the nomination of Davis was that
the vice presidency would be offered
to Senator Walsh of Montana. The
convention started to vote tor the
vice presidency this morning. Sena
tor Underwood was next to Davis in
strength at the time the nomination
was made and had a few more votes
been taken would have been in the
lef?.
Walsh Refuses Vice Presidency
At the opening of last night’s ses
sion a letter was received trom Sen
ator Walsh refusing to take the nom
inal® for the vice presidency. The
letter was read by Acting Chairman
Barkley. Last night’s session would
have been unnecessary had not
Chairman Walsh immediately after
the nomination of Davis and duiing
a demonstration to name Walsh tor
vice-president, been cut short by the
chairman, who adjourned the con
vention despite an overwhelming loai
or “No’s” that greeted his decision.
• On a call for nominations John
C. Greenway of Arizona, and Alvin
C. Owsley of Texas, former National
commander of the American Legion
were placed in nomination for the
vice-presidency.
Alaska Voted for Davis
The Alaska delegation voted tour
for Davis and two for Underwood.
Wall Street vs. La Follette
The nomination of Davis as the
Democratic standard bearer means
the issue is clearly between Wall
Street and Fighting Bob Lafollette,
Wm. H. Johnston, permanent chair
man the conference for progres
sive political action. He said that
Wall Street had captured the two
tickets.
H) 111 PORT
... FROM Tit WESTWARD
The steamship Redondo arrived in
port last night from the westward
with the following passengers: V.
Caraco, wife and daughter irom Red
Fox Bay, W. H. Ward from Anchor
age; R. W. Strong from Kukak bay
and four steerage.
The Redondo will sail west again
following the arrival of the North
w extern.
KANSAS NEEDS 40,000
TO HELP THRASH WHEAT
KANSAS CITY, July 10—Fully for
ty thousand men will be needed to as
sist Kansas farmers in the wheat har
vest this month and August, it was
estimated today at the offices of the
United States Employment Service.
(*ool weather has retarded the har
vest slightly. The first demand for
assistance being early this month, in
South central Kansas. Wages are giv
en as $3.50 to $4.00 a day with board
and lodging. %
NEW ELASTIC STEEL TO
IMPROVE SHIP BUILDING
LONDON, July 9—A revolution in
the ship-building industry is said to
be imminent as the result of the in
vention of an improved elastic steel
by Frederick J. Martin, chemical and
metallurgical expert to Alrfed Holt &
Co., famous English shipbuilders.
It is stated that the new oteel has
a much h gher elactieity limit than the
kind now used in ship construction,
with the result that the plates may be
thinner without losing their strength.
COOLIDGE IS NOTED
FOR ITS SIMPLICITY
WASHINGTON, July 10.—The only
difference between the funeral of Cal
vin Coolidge, and that of any other
youth of the country, was its extreme
simplicity and absence of display. The
east room of the White House was
banked with flowers and after the
short funeral service the body was'
taken to the train to be conveyed
to the family burying plot in Ver
mont.
Only a few intimate friends were
present, together wth cabinet mem
bers, chiefs of diplomatic missions,
justices of the supreme court, mem
bers of congress and high officers
of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
NO OFFICIAL MOURNING
WASHINGTON, July 10.—President
Coolidge directed that there be no
official mourning for Calvin, junior.
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SEATTLE, July 10.—G. W. East
man, head of the Kodak company,
passed through here today en route
to Vancouver from which port he
will embark to southeastern Alaska
on a pleasure trip. He expects to
be gone about two weeks.
WHALE IS CUT IN TWO
BY OCEAN LINER
SAN PEDRO, July 10—An enor
mous sperm whale part of a large
school playing about the ship, was hit
by the Panama Pacific liner Finland
and cut half in two while the liner was
off the Mexican coast recently, it was
reported on the arival of the Finland
here.
A large portion of the dead mam
mal became fast to the bow of the
steamer in the collision and remained
there two days before it could be re
moved, Capt. Munroe said. The Fin
land was delayed several hours by the
collision.
HEAVY SALMON RUN
REPORTED AT SAWMILL BAY
A heavy salmon run is reported at
Sawmill Bay, the San Juan company
packing about 1000 cases a day. The
company expects to pack about 30
thousand cases.
THE BONUS PAYMASTER
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Major General Robert C. Davis, who
has chareg of the department’s dis
tributing the bonus to the Army, Navy
and Marine veterans of the World
War.
LOOK WH 3’S HERE
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pic kford known to every American movie
fan, are here seen with two little tots in the West London Hospital, where
Doug and Mary started the $25,000 d rive to provide an X-ray department
in the Hospital for the needy. We no tice that Doug feels quite at home.
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AMERICAN FLYERS IN
CITY OF BAGDAD TODAY
BAGDAD, Mesopotamia, July 10.—
The American Army airmen, flying
around the world, arrived here this
afternoon and will take flight "for
Sleppo, Persia, tomorrow morning.
Commander Smith 1 states that the
machines are functioning perfectly
and expects to reach England early
in August,
BUSHIRE, Persia, July 10.—The
American Army flyers stopped here
today on their way to Bagdad.
WATER ALONG ROADS BE
TESTED TO AID TOURISTS
HARRISBURG, Pa., July 10—An
alysis of drinking water along state
highways as a precautionary move
ment to protect motorists, has eben
started by the state health depart
ment. An ambulance converted into a
field laboratory, took to the road at
the extreme end of the Lincoln high
way, and opened the movement de
signed to protect the hundreds of
thousands of motorists in Pennsylvan
ia by sampling a well in Morristown,
Pa.
The converted ambulance, manned
by two expert analysts, will travel
over the entire length of the Lincoln
Highway in Pennsylvania, sampling
and testing the water available to
traveling motorists. Then the field
laboratory will start over the William
Penn Highway. It is expected that ev
ery one of the watering spots along
will bo visited before the end of the
all the main highways in Pennsylvania
summer. v"
As soon as tests are completed the
results will be forwarded to field en
gineers, and placards stating that the
water has been examined and found
pure will be posted over the wells or
springs.
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FIRST CHINESE JUNK AT
ANCHOR IN U.iS. HARBOR
NEW YORK, July 9—The strangest
craft that ever cast anchor in Sheeps
head Bay was piloted in by Capt. Geo.
Waard, a huge Dutch Canadian skip
per, who brought his Chinese wife,
their eleven year old son and bizarre
tales of adventures during their 15,009
mile trip from Amoy here, via. Van
couver, B. C., and the Panama Canal.
The “ship” is fifty three feet long,
a Chinese junk, built of camphor wood
and Chinese fir, and is held together
by bamboo pins. She has an enighteen
foot beam and d. aws four fe^t of
water. Waard plans to keep his ves ;
sel here for several months for sight- |
seeing purposes and then sail for Ear- j
ope.
JUNE SNOW FALL TO
GIVE MINING IMPETUS
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One of the most unusual snow falls
thus experienced in the history of
Nomeites, occurred in June when snow
fell continuously for two days to a
depth of five inches. Due to the fact
that there has been a scarcity of wat
er this spring, the snowfall is greatly
appreciated by the mining men as it
will give an abundance of water for
immediate use.
SIS HIST
UNDER 11FOLLETTE
CLEVELAND, 0., July 10.—The
National Socialist party of America
last night formally enlisted under
the La Follette presidential banner
and will work for his election.
PLAIN CLOTHES COPS ARE
CRGEI) TO END SPEEDING
CHICAGO, July 9—Plain clothes
detectives to stop speeding on the city
streets were advocated by Richrfd E.
Kopf, supreme regent of the Royal
Arcanum, in a safety address here.
“The drivers breaking the speed
laws should be arrested,” said Mr.
Kropr, who has been tireless in his ef
forts to simplify traffic problems.
Speeding causes most of our ac
cidents, and successfully curbing it
will mean a long step toward reduc
ing motor fatalities.
STRANGE SHOOTING OF
Albert Martin, the oldest son of F.
Martin the local fur dealer of Nome,
who was accidentally shot by a boy
friend last month while hunting is
showing slight improvements daily.
The bullet it is reported, entered
just above the temple and passed in
the rear of the right eye and lodged
back .1 fhe left eye. Thu Loy ran for
help ond a stretcher was hastily made
and Albert taken to Maynard hos
pital, where he is receiving the best
possible attention. It was learned that
the young man is resting easily and
taking nourishment .His eyes, which
were dosed for two days after the ac
cident, show some signs of sight re
turning as the youngster is now able
to discern light from darkness.
FAMOUS ST. PAUL’S IN
DANGER OF COLLAPSE
’ + LOXDON, July 9—St. Paul’s cathed
ral, one of England’s most famous
churches, and well known to all visi
tors to London, is in danger of col
lapsing, according to eminent archi
tectural authorities .
Built more than 250 years ago by
the famous Sir Christopher Wren, St.
Paul’s dominates half of London with
its enormous dome reaching to a
height of nearly four hundred feet.
Authorities state that the dome has
sunk several feet in the last century,
due to passing traffic. Unless the
sinking is immediately remedied, they
say, there is a very, real danger of
its collapsing.
STRIKE ON BUFF CREEK
NEAR NOME, REPORTED
Jack Smith, an oldtinie prospector
of the Nome Section, who has been
prospecting all winter along the bench
es of Buff creek, a tributary of Arctic
creek, has uncovered, so it is report
ed, pay dirt uiich averages six cents
to the pan. It was also learned that he
has taken out a small dump which he
is now cleaning up with the aid of a
rocker.
38 WOLVES ARE SLAIN
IN ONE ILLINOIS COUNTY
MONMOUTH, 111., July 9—War on
ground hogs has been declared by the
farmers of Warren county. A total of
1,007 ground hog scalps have been
turned in to the county clerk and $376
has been paid out in bounty on the
scalps. Ground hogs have been very
troublesome the past year in the coun
ty.
Thirty-eight wolves also have been
killed in the county since March and
bounties claimed on them.
WHAT BECOMES OF OUR
VICE PRESIDENTS
It is said that the road to political
oblivion is through the vice presi
dential chair, and that the saying is
true is shown by the fact that very
few persons can name them. The fol
lowing is a list of the vice-presiden
tial nominees of the Republican and
Democratic parties since 1856:
Republicans
1856—William L. Dayton.
1860—Hannibal Hamlin. (E)
1864—*Andrew Johnson (E)
1868—Schuyler Colfax (E)
1872—Henry Wilson (E)
1876—William A. Wheeler (E)
1880—‘Chester A. Arthur (E)
1884—John A. Logan
1888—Levi P. Morton (E)
1892—Whitelaw Reed.
1S96—Garret A. Hobart (E)
1900—‘Theodore Roosevelt (E)
• 1904—Chas. W. Fairbanks (E)
1908—James S. Sherman (E)
1912—Nicholas M. Butler.
1916—Chas. W. Fairbanks.
1920—‘Calvin Coolidge (E)
1924—Charles G. Dawes.
Democrats
1856—John C. Breckinridge (E)
1860—H. V. Johnson
1864—George H. Pendleton.
1868—Francis P. Blair, jr.
1872—Benjamin G. Brown.
1876—Thomas A. Hendricks.
1880—William H. English.
1884—Thomas A. Hendricks (E)
1888—Allen G. Thurman.
1892—Adlai E. Stevenson (E)
1896—Arthur Sewall.
1900—Adlai E. Stevenson.
1904—Henry G. Davis.
1908—John W. Kern.
1912—Thomas R. Marshall (E)
1916—Thomas R. Marshall (E)
1920—Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1924_ ? ? ? ?
E—Elected.
*—Became president same term.
BRIDES LIKE AIR FLIGHTS
TO START OFF MARRIED LIFE
LONDON, July 10—Honeymoon
trips to the continent by air seems to
be a fashion which is rapidly grow
ing, and the swift and exhilarating
flight across the channel has now be
come recognized as an ideal way to
start married life.
In nearly every case these trips
seem to be the thought of the bride,
and it has been noticed that she is in
variably the least nervous of the two
when waiting for the airplane at the
Croydon air station.
MAY BE BRIDE OF PRINCE OF
WALES
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COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD A UNDERWOOD. N. Vfli
Princess Ileana, youngest of three
daughters of King Ferdinand and
Queen Mary of Roumania, who is a
possibility as the future bride of the
Prince of Wales. The Princess was
born at Bucharest, December 23rd,
1908.
NOB IS NE ASKED TO
RESIGN SAYS SEC. IRK
WASHINGTON, July 10.—The res
ignation of Lee H. Landis as manager
of i he Alaska Railroad has neither
been tendered nor requested, said
Secretary Work last night., in reply
to a rumor that Mr. Landis had been
asked to tender his resignation, ow
ing to the appointment of Noel W.
Smith as superintendent of the road.
Mr. Smith will work in connection
with Mr. Landis in reorganizing the
personnel of the railroad.
SOUTHERN COURT UPHOLDS
PLEA FOR OBEDIENCE
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, July 10
—The age-old marriage vow contain
ing the word “obey” fast tending to
ward absolescence, was given an in
terpretation with “teeth” by the Ala
bama court of appeals, when it upheld
in effect the right of a husband to ob
ject to his wife’s employment of ad
ventitious aids to her supposedly nat
ural beauty.
It is the imperative duty of a man’s
wife to obey, the court held. The wife
in question had curled her hair against
her husband’s wishes.
In rendering the opinion the court
also decided it not only was the right
but the duty of the husband in absence
of proof of bad character, to fix the
domicile of his children irrespective of
the mother’s wishes. The ruling was
made in reversing the lower court writ
of habeas corpus to Mrs. Macon Spark
man to recover custody of her daugh
ter.
Following domestic incompatibility
as a result of his wife’s curled hair,
it was said, Mrs. Sparkman left her
husband, taking the child. Later Spark
man recovered the daughter and plac
ed her in his mother’s home. Mrs.
Sparkman filed petition for a writ of
habeas corpus and the lower court 01*
dered Sparkman to prodnce the child.
The order met reversal in the ap
pelate tribunal.
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HICK INTERIOR PRICES
Tourists reaching Seward this year
are emphatic in their disapproval of
the high prices charges for small
articles worth ten or fifteen cents
on the coast. A party recently ar
ming in Seward were especially
loud in their denunciations, and for
a time believed they were being held
up until convinced they were charged
only what Interiorites themselves
pay.
BARGE LINES PROSPER
AGAIN ON MISSISSIPPI
CAIRO, 111., July 10—The old Mis
sissippi has come back as an artery of
trade. Nearly one hundred barges and
tow boats of the Federal Barge Line
are now handling hundreds of thous
ands of tons of freight over its waters
every month.
MONUMENT TO AUTHOR OF
“HOLY NIGHT” IS PLANNED
SALZBURG, July 10—One hundred
years have elapsed since the song
“Silent Night, Holy Night,” now sung
as a Christmas carol throughout the
world, was composed in the little vil
lage of Oberndorf, Austria, near here.
In*commemmoration of the event a
monument is to be erected in Obern
dorf, the foundations of which are to
be laid this summer. The unveiling
is to take place on Christmas day.
The words of the song w£re written
by the chaplain of the Oberndorf par
ish, Rev. Dr. Mohr, and the music by
a teacher of the local school, a man
named Gruber.
OFFICIAL DECLARES MUCH
CONVENTION LIQUOR SEIZED
NEW YOR$, July 10—Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti
Saloon league, declared today federal
prohibition agents had seized 5,300
cases of liquor, 300 barrels of beer and
3,500 gallons of beverage alcohol in
New York since the democratic conven
tion began. M