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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 22.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SENATE VOTES ON
PARTICIPATION
IN WORLD COURT
ALMOST UNANIMOUS AGAINST
ENTRANCE IN LEAGUE OF
NATIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27. (/P)—
In the first vote on World Court reser
vations, the Senate approved by a vote
of 81 to 1 the proviso that the United
States accept no legal connection with
the League of Nations. Senator Fra
zier cast the lone vote for the meas
ure. Senator Swanson was author of
the- proviso.
On the second Swanson reservation
providing the United States partici
pate in selecting judges for the World
Court, the Senate approved by a vote
of S3 to S; Elease, Borah, Frazier, La-;
Follette, Moses, Reed, Shipstead and:
Williams opposing.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27. (TP)
—The Senate is prepared to decide ;
whether the United States shall parti- i
cipate in the World Court, and there
appears little likelihood that the res
olution for adherance to will fail to
receive the two-thirds majority as it
was approved yesterday by a vote of
91 to 1.
The fifth‘Swanson reservation stip
ulating advisory opinions be render
ed publicly, and that no such opinions
be given in disputes affecting the U.
S. without the consent of the United
States carried, only Blease voting no.
The Senate approved the statement
that recourse to court for settlement
of differences between the United
States and other States, “can be had
only by an agreement through treaties
between the disputing parties.” The !
Senate also approved 91 to 1 the fourth
Swanson reservation proposing per
mission of the United States to with-;
draw from the court anytime that it j
cannot amend the court statue without I
permission of the government. Blease !
again voted in the negative.
DAN SUTHERLAND
EXPLAINS BILL
S-1126
Dan Sutherland, Alaska’s Delegate
to Congress, writes the Gateway that
he has had a number of enquiries re-1
garding Bill S-1126, introduced at this !
session of Congress by Senator Cam
eron of Arizona, and for that reason
stated he would appreciate this paper i
inserting the following explanation:
“This bill was introduced by Sena-:
tor Cameron, at my request, at the;
last session of Congress, and was es
sentially the same as a bill that I in
troduced in the House.
“When Senator Cameron was re-in
troducing his many bills at this ses-;
sion of Congress, this bill was inad
vertently included; I am enclosing
herewith copy of the bill. It is es
sentially the White bill now operat-.
ing in Alaska.
The reference to rights of aboriginal!
people apply only to a bay on Afognak
Island where white residents, as well
as the Bureau of Fisheries, have al
ways recognized the privileges of the
native people to fish there exclusively
There were no other exclusive rights
exercised by natives of Alaska at the j
time this bill was introduced.
Sincerely yours,
DAN SUTHERLAND,
Delegate from Alaska.”
Bill S. 1126, which was read twice
and referred to the Committee on
Territories and Insular Possessions,
is as folcws;
A BILL To extend the authority of
'the Secretary of Commerce in
regulating the fisheries of Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress as
CHURCHILL ASKS
ENGLAND TO
ECONOMIZE
IF PEOPLE AND PARLIAMENT ARE
TO REDUCE TAXES MUST
SUPPORT BILL
LONDON, Jan. 27. (/P)— Chancellor
Churchill speaking in Leeds, warned
that unless drastic economies are
made in government expenditures Eng
land faces perilous financial difficul
ties and further taxation.
He said economy had many fair
weather friends but few rainy-day sup
porters. If people and Parliament
wish to avoid financial trouble they
must support the economies bill, which
provides for a progressive scheme for
curtailment. He defended proposed
economy in education as not reall a
reduction in the amount received but
a slowing down of the rate of expen
ditures.
SOVIET OFFICIAL TAKE
JEWELS FROM TOMBS
MOSCOW, Jan. 27. (£>)—'The tombs
of several former emperors and em
presses of Russia in the Church of St.
[Peter and St. Paul at Leningrad, were
opened by Soviet officials today, and
1 crown jewels worth §1,000,000 were
i seized! and removed to Soviet museum
[ vaults.
_
YUKON MINER
BARRICADED IN
LONELY CABIN
SHOOTS REVOLVER FROM HAND
OF WOULD-BE CAPTOR—M. P.
CALL REINFORCEMENTS
DAWSON, Jan. 27. (JP)—Barricaded
in a cabin forty miles north of here,
John Smith, a miner, is holding at bay
a posse sent to arrest him for shooting
at a neighbor. Police sent from here
to reinforce the constables, hope to
capture Smith alive, although he is
an expert marksman, having shot the
revolver from the hand of a would-be
captor.
sembled, That the authority vested
in the Secretary of Commerce and
Labor by the Act of ■ Congress of
June 26, 1906, to close to salmon fish
ing any stream in Alaska for a dis
tance of five hundred yards from Its
mouth is hereby extended to all Ter
ritorial waters of Alaska over wrhich
the United States has jurisdiction;
this extended jurisdiction shall be
exercised by the Secretary of Com
merce in compliance wfith the provi
sions of said Act of Congress of June
26, 1906: Provided, That no exclusive
or several right of fishery shall be
granted, permitted, or recognized in
the Territorial waters of Alaska by
the Secretary of Commerce, the Al
aska Territorial Legislature, the Al
aska Fish Commission, or any other
constituted authority except the Uni
ted States Congress: Provided fur
ther, That this provision shall not
affect any right exercised by the
descendants of the aboriginal people
of Alaska or those of the half blood
who are descendants of the abori
ginees, which were exercised and
claimed up to the passage of this
Act. That any area of water closed
to fishing shall be closed to all per
sons alike, and the right of fishing
in areas where fishing is permitted
shall not b© denied to any citizen
of the United States. That no ex
clusive right of perparing, preserv
ing, or manufacturing fish or fish
products shall be granted by any
constituted authority except by the
Congress of the United States.
: CRY AGENTS ARE
PROSPERING ON
EASTERN COAST
MAKE MANY RICH HAULS—NEW
BEVERAGE, “FOUNTAIN OF
YOUTH” COMES HIGH
NEW YORK, Jan. 27. (/P)— Federal
dry agents, by the use of an English
man with a monocle as a decoy, gather
ed in evidence of dry violations by
which they plan to padlock the ten
million dollar Morrison hotel in Chi
cago, the tallest in the world.
In Brooklyn today, after a battle of
bullets and fists, ten custom men rout
ed 25 river pirates and rum runners
attempting to unload a booze cargo
from a Belgian steamer at Pier 2. Ten
thousand dollars in liquors including
a number of bottles of “Fountain of
Youth” which retails at thirty dollars
a pint, were seized.
Rep. Summers in a speech in Con
gress today, advocated the rock pile
for foreign diplomats who drink, Am
erican dry law violators and all news
paper editors and owners who urge the.
modification of prohibition.
The destruction of more than 12,
000 bottles and many gallons of valu
able liquors, seized on ten steamships,
was ordered by the Federal Court to
day, which also directed the United
States to sell all small boats seized
by the Coast Guard near the British
vessels anchored on rum row.
SMITH PARTY IN NENANA
WORKING ON SNOW MOTORS
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 27. (^P)—The
Smith party arrived at Nenana this
morning and are preparing to assemble
their snow motors.
Bridge, Whist Party
Next Frday Night
Two nights more and one of the
most enjoyable evenings of the sea
son will be on hand, meaning, the
card social at Odd Fellows hall which
will be given Friday night, beginning
at 8:30 o'clock, under the auspices
of the local Woman’s Club. Bridge
and whist will be played and the
•affair is not only for members of
the organization but to the public
<as well. Refreshments will be serv
ed. A door charge of 50c per per
son will be made.
WAFFLES LATEST AMERICAN
DISH TO INVADE CHINATOWN
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27. (JP)—
Waffles, or in Chinese “Low Leang”
has invaded Chinatown. Introduced
by an American born Chinese, the
trade has grown rapidly as though the
one restaurant where “Low Leang” is
sold caters largely to the younger‘ele
ment.
The proprietor, emulating the Am
erican restauranteur, cooks the “Low
Leang” in the window. On the side
walk usually are seen openmouthed
Chinese observing the operation.
As an added attraction, this res
taurant man has installed a soda foun
tain also the first in Chinatown. Here
may be seen the Chinese boys and
girls shaking dice to see who buys the
drinks.
WATSON DUE AT 3:30
The Admiral Watson, oif tile Paci
fic Steamship company, was sched
uled to arrive in port tins afternoon
at 3:30 o’clock, according to the lat
est dispatch received from the ves
sel at noon today.
Cattle and other animals have been
shipped by airplane in Holland.
Rice cooked with chopped bits of
mutton is the staple food of inhabi
tants of Syria.
SPECTATORS GET
NAMES OF ALL
LSQUOR DEALERS
NAMES OF PATRONS, HOTELS, OR
GANIZATIONS GIVEN IN OLM
STED HEARING
SEATTLE, Jan. 27. (,fP)—Spectators
at the Olmsted trial were thrilled to
day, when the names of patrons of
the organization were revealed. The
evidence was obtained by wiretapping
and was only introduced after a long
wrangle over the legality of their ad
mission. Many controversies were i
introduced by Whitney, overheard on
a telephone entering Olmsted’s down
town office.
Agents reported calls for liquor for
private customers, clubs, hotels, also
instruction given to employes on how
to ship. Some of the calls came from
as far distant as Vancouver, B. C. and
Walla Walla, and frequently averaged
one a minute. In addition to chatty
conversations on conditions of the
liquor market, supplies on hand, vari
ous warehouses, their whereabouts,
consignments, merchandise in transit
and other company business and pri
vate affairs of some of the defendants
were overheard. Actual wire tapping
was accomplished from another office
in the same building containing Olm
sted’s headquarters.
MITCHELL HANDS
IN RESIGNATION
AS ARMY OFFICER
QUESTION HAS ARISEN AS TO
LEGALITY OF ACTION—MAY
NOT BE ACCEPTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27. (ff)
—Mitchell resigned today saying: “I
hereby tender my resignation as an of
ficer in the army to take effect on the
first of February, 1926.”
The question has arisen whether the
resignation will be accepted. Some
army precedents indicate that such
withdrawals should state that the res
ignation is submitted for the “good of
the service.”
Coolidge will render the final decis
ion as to whether the resignation will
be accepted or not. Friends of Mit
chell said the Colonel, if permitted to
resign, will lecture in a crusade for
‘the reorganization of the national de
fense. Intimates declared Mitchell
would resist any effort to put him in
a position to say his withdrawal would
improve the service. They pointed
out it is the right of the President to
accept the resignation of any army of
ficer, and this right has never been
tested in courts.
War Department officials, including
Davis, indicated they would recom
mend his recommendation, if it was
for the good of the service.
JAPANESE WILL
STAY OUT OF U. S.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27. (/P)
—The Japanese will stay out of the
United States. This was the sub
stance of foreign minister Shidehara’s
address to the diet in Tokio today, a
copy of which was made public by the
embassy.
The address said in part, “It is not
our policy to send immigrants to any
country where they are not welcomed.
NEW COAST ROAD
IS GRANTED NAME
NEWPORT BEACH, Cal,, Jan. 27.—
Approval of the name “South Coast
Highway,” along Orange county’s
coast line, has just been granted.
OLMSTED CASE
WILL BARE MANY
CONVERSATIONS
NETERER ADMITS EVIDENCE IS
GATHERED BY MEANS OF
TAPPED WIRES
SEATTLE, Jan. 27. (/p)—Legal ar
gument over the tapped-wire testi
mony opened the seocnd week of the
Olmsted trial.
Neterer, after two days’ fight ad
mitted the Olmstead evidence was ob
tained by tapping wires, and a flood of
inside details as to the business man
agement of the office in the Henry
building was secured. Among the
evidence was the news that Olmsted
and associates employed three ships
a fleet of small craft and seven auto
mobiles, used in bringing liquor to
Puget Sound from Scotland, via Brit
ish Columbia.
Many names not heard hitherto will
be entered in the case, as William M. \
Whitney, prohibition administrator on
the Pacific Coast proceeds with his
testimony as to what he heard, and
hundreds of interesting conversations
are promised before the coming week
end.
HOUSE PASSES HAUGEN BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27. (P)-—
The House passed the Haugen bill, es
tablishing a cooperative marketing
division in the Department of Agricul
ture, proposing an appropriation of
two hundred and twenty-five thousand,
dollars for one year. The measure
goes from the House to the Senate for
recommendation.
HUNDRED SETTLERS A MONTH
VAN NUYS, Cal., Jan. 27. (P)—1The
population of Van Nuys increased dur
ing the past year just closing at the
rate of 100 new settlers a month, as
conservatively estimated from the new
dwellings erected during 1925.
AGENTS WHO ENTER
HOMES WITHOUT RIGHT
WILL BE PROSECUTED
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27. (P)—
Federal prohibition agents who enter
homes without a search warrant, will
be prosecuted for violation of the law,
Colonel L. M. Breen, prohibition ad
ministrator for this district, announced
here today.
IMPERIAL FAMILIES IN JAPAN
NUMBER 17 WITH.65 MEMBERS
TOKYO, Jan. 27. (JP)—The nation
al census disclosed that there are sev
enteen Imperial families in Japan with,
a total of 65 members. One of these
thirty-four are Princes and 31 are
Princesses. These figures do not in
clude four members of the Royal Fam
ily who are abroad.
The number of court servants in the
three Imperial palaces in Tokyo was
placed at 1,929. These include 880
men and 1,049 women. %
LEGION POST PICKS GOLF
LINKS FOR WAR MEMORIAL
EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 27. (JP)—A
public golf links is the World War
memorial chosen by Earl Falkner Post
of the American Legion. This meth
od of honor grew out of the efforts
of a citizens’ committee to obtain a
course for Everett, a manufacturing
city of 29,000 people.
A §30,000 corporation will operate
the links at a fee of 25 cents for share
holders and post members/ and fifty
cents for others. A site of 100 acres
is being acquired by the Legion organ
ization. This ground passes by lease
to the control of the corporation but
title stays with the Legion to assure
■it against loss should the enterprise
fail. The veterans subscribed for
§10,000 of the stock.