Think What’s Back of The Town That Wins—UNITY!
Hemnrd Bule Gntemny
VOLUME XCTV
NUMBER 10
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
GOVERNMENT RESERVES POWER
OF ALLOCATING TRADE
ROUTES, ETC.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—President
Coolidge today gave his final approval
* to the Shipping Board resolution re
placing the operation of the govern
ment’s merchant fleet in the hands of
the emergency fleet corporation, but
’he board reserves the power of su
pervision over all ship sales and the
.allocation and selection of the trade
routes, and the power to dispense
with the services of the fleet corpora
tion at will.
’ FAMOUS BOSS!
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MOSCOW, Jan. 11.—General Kuro
patkin, commander of the Russian ar
mies in the Russo-Japanese war, and
a brilliant military genius, has been
discovered living in Squeshurino, in
Pskov province, where he is village
ibrarian.
“I am as happy as at any time in my
life,” said the famous general. "I get
all the time I want to read, and have
enough to eat and wear.”
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 11.—Bombs
dropped from American made mili
tary planes on the rebel forces re
treating before the Federal troops in
’heir march toward Vera Cruz are re
ported to have done great damage.
The rebel forces are falling back
along the long battle front, owing to
superior equipment and being out
numbered.
Both the de la Huerta and the rev
o.ut ionary troops suffered heavy cas
ualties in the fighting at Pachucha, ac
cording to information received here.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The im
% mediate arrest of Charles Forbes, for
mer director of the Veterans Bureau,
was demanded of Attorney General
Daugherty today by William Wash
ington Larsen, democrat, of Dublin,
Georgia, who declared that it was up
to the administration to accept the
defi of Charles Forbes, who recently
dared the Attorney General to arrest
him, stating that he would give testi
mony that would overthrow the Re
publican party.
Representative Larsen said that the
offense of Mr. Forbes was too grave to
be overlooked for political reasons,
and that every grafter must be pun
ished.
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WASHJNGTON, Jan U.—The po
;ar expedition on the dirigible Shen
andoah will be commanded by Rear
Admiral Moffett, Secretary
nouneed this afternoon.
Denb^an
CAPTAIN HOBERT IMPROVING
SEATTLE, Jan. 11.—Captain Peter
Hobert, noted Alaskan marine pilot, is
confined in the Virginia Mason hospi
tal here recuperating from a major
operation. Hobert formerly command
ed the Admiral Watson.
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OCCUPATION RUHR
BY (HIED TROOPS
GERMANY APPEAL TO WORLD
FOR RESTORATION OF RUHR
AND RHINELAND
BERLIN, Jan. 11.—Recalling that
4his is the anniversary of French and
Belgian occupation of the Ruhr, Chan
'cellor Marae issued an appeal to the
world to aid Germany in bringing
about restoration of the Ruhr and
Rhineland to Germany.
WOMAN SELECTED TO
DRIVE IN IDAHO DOG DERBY
SALT LAKE, Jan. 11.—Miss Lydia
Hutchinson, noted dogteam driver
has been selected by the Montreal
Winter Sports committee to urive the
team representing Canada in the dog
derby to be run at Ashton, Idaho, in
February.
Miss Hutchinson was awaidcd the
place over a number of noted men
drivers who have participated in the
previous races.
DRAMATIC HEAD U. OF W.
DIES SUDDENLY IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE. Jan 11.—William Pierce
Gorsuch, head of the department of
diamatic art, of the University of
Washington died suddenly today.
WASHINGTON Jan. 1.— “This
means the difference of several hun
dred million dollars a year in the
amount of freight charges that must
be paid by the American people, and
lour times that much in their cost of
1L ing, Senator LaFollette said in ex
planation of a proposed amendment to
the Esch-Cummins bill, introduced by
him.
The amendment provides that rates
for transportation shall be fixed upon
the basis of cost of service which
would abolish the provisions of the
law guaranteeing to railroads a cer
tain fixed return upon their invest
ment. The other amendment directs
the Interstate Commerce Commission
to estimate the original cost of con
struction of the railroad lines.
ATHENS, Jan. 11.—General Dan
glis accepted the Greek premiership
today, with Venizelos taking the port
folio of foreign minister.
HEN PLACED IN JAIL
■/ The only hen ever arrested and
locked up all night in jail lives in
' Boston. At a poultry show she peck
ed a $250 diamond from a ring worn
by a spectator. At a police court
hearing the judge freed the hen hold
1 ing it incapable of theft.
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JUST LIKE FINDING IT.
A New York banker has found a
new way to make money. Not long
i ago he went out in the country on a
joy ride with his family. Something
happened to his car. He signalled
the next car behind to stop. The
driver stopped a moment, handed over
a $50 bill and stepped on the gas. The
man thought he was a prohibition of
ficer.
PORTLAND^ Jan. 11.—Charles D.
Dowliles, a noted shipbuilder and in
dustrial leader of the Northwest died
this morning of heart disease.
FORMER KAISER’S SON
COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO.. NEW Y
EARNS HIS OWN LIVING
PrinCe August Wilhelm, third son of the former German Emperor is in
sad straits these days, as he must a ctually word to earn a living, and his
specialty is painting flowers. He Is seen in the big greenhouse of his
Potsdam residence working. His paintings are pui chased bj admireis.
SIXTY THOUSAND WOMEN AND
GIRLS VANISH EVERY YEAR
AND NEVER HEARD OF
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Sixty thou
sand girls vanish every year in the
United States.
About that many run away from
farm or village homes and are swal
lowed up in the cities. But more miss
ing and runaway girls come back than
go down, so says the National Asso
ciation of Travelers Aid Societies,
which every year traces thousands oi
missing persons in the United States.
All of the runaways are not flap
pers by any means. The number of
^-ornen between the ages of 40 and
60 who disappear from their homes
is startling, the association reports.
A majority of runaway girls are
from small towns. Some seek adven
ture. Others are stage struck. Many
dream of going into the movies. They
are quickly disillusioned. The ex
pected romance proves sordid. The
stage is overcrowded and instead of
such positions the luckiest of the
girls obtain jobs as underpaid clerks
or waiters
Of the 8 per cent who seldom come
back or are ever heard of, some trust
taxicab drivers to find them lodgings,
other answer fraudulent advertise
ments for positions, hundreds are
lured into matrimonial agency traps.
And many more find the character so
few believe exist out of fiction—the
well dressed man and the solicitous
women who lurk in railroad stations
seeking youthful girls to recruit the
dives and dance halls. From these
places no person ever returns.
More girls and women have the
runaway fever than men. Of the
14,000 missing persons in one city
last year 8,303 were women and girls.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The Sen
ate farm bloc, it was revealed today,
has under consideration a move to
unseat Senator Albert B. Cummins of
Iowa, as president pro tern of the
Senate.
NO TWIN BEDS HERE
“The Lord’s will be done,” exclaim
ed L. C. Gentle, 63 Atlanta, Georgia,
when his 28th child was born a few
days ago, thereby displaying a becom
ingly chastened spirit, but placing the
Lord in a position uncalled for Gen
tle had 10 children by his first wife,
and 18 by his second. Seventeen are
•still living. The same family physi
cian has officiated 21 times. No twin
beds in this house.
Odd Fellows dance Saturday night.
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POPULAR OFFICER ONLY MAN
THUS HONORED BY WAR
DEPARTMENT
A very pretty compliment was paid
to Captain Lloyd C. Parsons, officer
in charge of the local division of mil
itary telegraph and cable lines, by the
War Department recently.
Captain Parsons’ first assignment of
foreign service expired last May, and
so well pleased was the War Depart
ment with his work, that he was given
an extension of a year, to May 1, 1924
His application for a second extension
was recently approved by Colonel
Hartman, officer in charge at Seattle,
who forwarded it to the War Depart
ment. The department promptly con
firmed Col. Hartman’s decision.
This is the first time in the history
I of the service that such extension has
been granted and shows that Captain
Parsons’ services are appreciated by
his superiors.
Capt. Parsons is a very efficient and
capable officer, and is well liked by
the men under him. The fact that he
is retained in charge of the local sys
tem is much appreciated by his Sew
ard friends.
In case the Signal Corps is removed
to Seward this year the Captain and
Mrs. Parsons will be a welcome addi
tion to Seward social circles
LONDON, Jan. 11.—In a mimic bat
tle off Portland, the warship Resolu
tion rammed the submarine L-21
causing the latter to sink with all on
board.
Wallace Davken is authority for the
statement that the Navy will raise
the towers at the local radio four and
half feet.
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DERROIT, Jan. 11.—An extensive
improvement in waterways looking to
the development of an all-water route
from Green Island, N. Y. to Detroit
tand the completion of the St. Paul
plant, and an additional Kansas City
plant are among the items of expan
sion on this year’s program of the
Ford Motor Car Company. This pro
gram will involve the expenditure of
from $100,000,000 to approximately
$150,000,000.
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MAN WHO GAVE FALL $100,000
EVADING ISSUE BY QUIB
BLING OVER LAWS
PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 11.—Ed-j
ward McLean, the Philadelphia pub
lisher who is alleged to have “loan
ed” former secretary of the interior,!
Albert B. Fall, $100,000 shortly after1,
the lease of the Teapot Dome oil re
serves to the Sinclair interests today
asked postponement of his examina
tion by Senator Walsh of Montana re
garding the loan made to Fall until
McLean could consult with his attor-i
neys and find out his rights in the
matter.
RACE OLDER THAN ANCIENT
EGYPTIANS FOUND IN MACHINA
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Discovery of
a tribe whose people he believed to
have antedated the ancient Egyptians
was reported today to the national
1 foreign trade council by John Giffen
i Culbertson, a manufacturer of Wichi
ta Falls, Teaxas, on his return from
a South American tour of a year and
■a half.
These people, known as Machina,
speak a language very similar in word
j construction to English and they wor
I' ship trees in the tradition that their
ancestors escaped extinction in the
Biblical Hood by climbing trees. The
tribe lives near the headwaters of the
^Amazon where Culbertson said he had
invaded forests never before pene
trated by white men.
COiTEIIFEII.il
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CHICAGO, Jan. 11.—A counterfeit
federal reserve note of one dollar de
nomination has been discovered by ag
onts of the U. S. secret service. From
the information let loose it appears
that about $500,000 of the illicit cur
rency is in circulation and traces of
-the bad money have been found in
hundreds of places scattered between
the Atlantic Ocean and the Rocky
Mountains. The federal sleuths have
fceen hot on the trail of the counter
feiters following the discovery of nine
hundred dollars of the bad bills in an
underground cache in this city. Five
1 persons, including one woman, have
been arrested in this city, St: Louis
and St. Paul, charged with being in
the plot to circulate the counterfeits.
TRAFFIC CONDITIONS
ARE GROWING WORSE
OLYMPIA, Wn , Jan. 11.—The city
of Seattle has the invidious honor of
leading the state in the number of
fatalities resulting from automobile
accidents in the month of November.
Complete tabulation of accidents now
show that twenty-seven persons were
killed in Washington during that
month, eight of whom are credited to
Seattle. Traffic conditions in the lar
gest city of the state are such that
drastic reforms must be instituted if
fhe death rate from this cause is not
fo snow a constantly increasing ratio
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Another
scandal has developed in the Veter
an’s Bureau New York, Manager
Lent, of New York, being relieved by
Director Hines pending investigation
of charges that liquor parties were
held in the district office here and
that liquor was carried to a hotel din
ner in the Veterans’ Bureau ambu
lance.
Odd Fellows dance Saturday night,
I AX ME ILL
PRECEDE BONUS
B1UJHG0H
COMMITTEE MAY NOT RECOM
MEND ENACTMENT OF BO
NUS B JLL, IT IS SAID
WASHINGTON Jan. 11.—House re
publicans in conference last night in
structed the Ways and Means commit
tee to report the tax table before
taking action on the soldiers bonus.
Under instructions from the confer
ence the committee will report the
revenue bill containing changes in tax
rates as well as administrative mea
sures February 11, then determine
Whether enactment ot a bonus bill
should be recommended.
The administration is working hard
to prevent the bonus bill from being
taken up at this time
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Tex Rickard
announced tonight that Dempsey and
Gibbons would probably fight a return
match here in June.
It was planned to have Gibbons
meet Firpo, the Argentina champion
but Rickarfd believes that a match
; between Gibbons and Dempsey would
i prove a great drawing card at this
! time.
HIGHEST RAILROAD WILL BE
BUILT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
SEATTLE. Jan. 11.—Gilbert Living
stone a maintenance of way engineer
' on the Pacific and Great Eastern Rail
way, who is spending the holidays in
Seattle with his family, stated today
that his company was preparing to er
ect the second highest railroad bridge
in the world. The structure will con
nect the two towns of Quesnal and
Prince George in Britis hColumbia,
and span the deep gorge of Cotton
wood Canyon in order to extend the
line to Howe Sound. Mr. Living
stone said to be the highest railroad
bridge now in existence was over Vic
toria Falls in Africa.
TOKIO, Jan. 11.—The wedding of
Crown Prince Regent Hiroshito, fu
ture emperor of Japan, and Princess
Nagako Kuni, will be solemnized the
26th of this month, it was announced
i-today.
OF NOTE PASSES lit
VANCOUVER, Jan. 11.—Reverend
John Hogg, the best known Presbyte
' risn minister in Canada, died here to
" in his ninety-fourth year. Rev.
Hogg has been in the ministry nearly
seventy years.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11.—Four
hundred and seventy-two students
were flunketj out of the University of
California at the close of the recent
semester, President Campbell stated
Today
FISH PRICES
JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 11.—Halibut
13 and 8 cents.