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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 102
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS.
APPROPRIATION
• FOR HATCHERY
STILL REMAINS
%
Final Effort of Paul Faction
to Cut Fishery Appropria
tion Ends in Failure. Bill
Passed Today.
LAST DAY OF SESSION
Pension Bill With Amend
ments Passed Yesterday.
Prohibits Indians from re
* ceiving Pensions.
(By Associated Press)
JUNEAU, April 30.—The Senate
yesterday passed the old age and
Mother’s Pension Law amendments,
both containing the Jensen amend
ment which excludes from receiving
the benefits from either act, Indians
or Eskimos.
^ Old age pensions under the new
law can be paid only citizens of the
United States.
The taxation measure passed by the
Senate with but one amendment
which restores bakery taxes at the
same rate as in 1923. Another am
endment had been made by the Sen
ate limiting the operation of the 1923
fish trap license provision to end this
year, but this was stricken when Gov
ernor Bone made know'n he would
pocket veto Paul’s bill for a $3 per
thousand tax on trap taken salmon,
which bill both houses passed.
The general appropriation measure
taken up in the Senate yesterday af
ternoon precipitatod in. a fight againet
a full appropriation for the fish com
mission, efforts being made to strike
the provisions for the Seward hatch
^ ery and to cut off money for stream
improvement work in Prince William
Sound regions. All efforts failed
however, and the commission item
! stands unchanged. The entire bill
was put over until today for final pas
sage.
A fight was made by Aldrich and
Dunn when the House passed Bill 40,
instituted by Sundquist, making it a
misdemeanor to print or possess sam
ple ballots similar in size and form
to official ballots. The measure was
aimed to prevent the use of form or
^ stencil ballots. The House also pass
ed Sherman’s bill empowering the
canvassing board to canvass indivi
dual ballots where contests have been
raised over the legality of a vote.
Senate Bill No. 43 instructing the
treasurer to prepare a budget for the
^succeeding legislature year; amend
ment to the compensation act provid
er- ing for hospital and medical aid funds
for injured workers; bills authorizing
the construction of airplane fields, in
the third and second divisions only,
are the three bills remaining for fi
nal action today, which is the last day
of the session. All these are House
bills including the appropriations bill,
canvass board bill, and the bill regu
lating the .size of sample ballots.
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SLIGHT TEMBLOR
(By Associated Press)
KETCHIKAN, April 30— An earth
quake lasting three seconds at two
thirty yesterday afternoon hit this
city. As far as can be ascertained
no damage was done.
NOTED WAR CORRESPONDENT
DEAD IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
$ iVk**— --
A (By Associated Press)
ONCORD, N. H., April 30.—Ralph
1>aine, author, athlete, and war
correspondent was found dead in his
bed at a local hotel here this morn
ing.
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OFFICERS' TAUNTS BLAMED
FOR AUSTRIAN ARMY SUICIDES
(By Associated Press)
VIENNA, Apr. 29—Thirty-two sui
cides in 1924 and eight since the be
ginning of the year among soldiers
of the Austrian army have caused
the adoption of measures designed
to end the growing morbidness in the
ranks.
Investigation and farewell letters,
says the Arbeiterseitung, show that
the men take their lives because they
are systematically harassed and gib
ed at for their republican opinions
by officers who are of monarcliistic
traditions.
INDIANS TAKE
FOURTH GAME
OF BALL TODAY
Seattle Sluggers Beat Oak
land Twelve to Five in
Speedy Game
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, April 30—The Seattle
Indians slugged their way to victory
for the fourth consecutive time on
their home grounds, Plummer work
ing the first full game for Seattle.
Frank Tobin, Seattle catcher, left
last night to join the receiving staff
of the Portland team. He was sold
outright.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Apr. 30—Scores
of men and youths were nabbed by
surprise in a raid of fifty downtown
establishment while in a flourishing
business of bookmaking for horse
races.
No Game Today.
NEW YORK, Apr. 30.—All major
league games were postponed today
as the result of rain and cold weath
er prevailing along the coast. This
happened only once in the last two
seasons, September 17, 1924.
Yesterday’s- Standings
COAST LEAGUE—
Seattle, 12, Oakland 5.
Los Angeles 3, Sacramento 7.
San Francisco 15, Salt Lake, 4.
Portland 4, Vernon 3, twelve inning.
AMERICAN LEAGUE—
Philadelphia, New' York, rain.
Boston, Washington, cold.
Chicago, Cleveland, rain.
Detroit 11, St. Louis 5.
NATIONAL LEAGUE—
Newr York, 9, Philadelphia, 13.
Cincinnati, Chicago, rain.
St. Louis, Pittsburg, rain.
Brooklyn 3, Boston 10.
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COULDN’T REACH
POLE WITH THE
SHENANDOAH
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 30.—Walter
Wellman, former Arctic explorer, the
first man to cross the Atlantic with a
dirigible, predicted the McMillan ex
pedition with planes will succeed in
their attempt to cross over the North
Pole.
Wellman declared a dirigible could
not reach the pole, and the Los An
geles and Shenandoah will fail if they
are used to attempt the rescue of the
polar explorers, as Wilbur announced
will be done if necessary.
MINE HEAD RETURNS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 30.—H
Foster Bain, director of the bureau
of mines returned today from a five
months’ visit in Argentina where he
has been studying the possibilities
for the production of iron for Ar
gentina.
PIONEER ALASKA
FREIGHTER DIES
NEAR PITTMAN
James E. Wilson, Veteran of
Early Dawson Days, Pass
es Away While Hauling
Mine Supplies.
WELL KNOWN PACKER
Has Large Holdings in Dif
ferent Towns of Terri
tory—Former Road Com
missioner 3rd Division.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 30 —
James E. Wilson, pioneer freighter of
Dawson. Fairbanks, Valdez and An
chorage, dropped dead at Pittman
yesterday while hauling supplies to
the Willow Creek mines.
James E. Wilson was born in W’ick
low, Ireland, and came to America
when but a young lad. After working
a short time in the East he drifted
west and later joined the stampede
to the Yukon. Here he engaged in
the freighting business, making and
losing considerable money., later go
ing to Fairbanks, where he engaged
in freighting for a time. Mr. Wilson
then went to Valdez where he lived
for many years.
Mr. Wilson was a member of the
town council of Valdez and was promi
nently identified with the growth of
the city, having at one time forty or
fifty head of horses and a large quan
tity of equapment, as well as large
barns, etc., there. While ir Valdez
Jim, as he was known, became Road
Commissioner for the Third Division,
and laid out many trails in this part
of the Territory. The Nash road
at Seward was laid out by Mr. Wilson
during his term of office.
Mr. Wilson was a hard worker and
underwent many hardships while on
the trail. When things grew slack in
the Valdez section, during railroad
construction days, Mr. Wilson remov
ed to Anchorage and engaged in
freighting at Matanuska and other
points, also doing considerable work
around McKinley. The past winter
he was engaged in a tie contract at
Indian, but a few weeks ago purchas
ed a number of horses from the Alas
ka railroad and went back to the bus
iness he knew best.
. Mr. Wilson leaves an Uncle and a
niece, who visited him in Anchorage
last summer. He was a man about
55 years of age.
Leading Wash. Lumberman
Upholds Gov. Hartley’s
Rejection of Big Project
SEATTLE, Wn., Apr. 30— B. R.
Lewis, president of the Clear Lake
Lumber company and leading lum
berman in the state of Washington,
wrote in a letter to the chamber of
commerce here thoroughly approving
the stand that Governor Hartley took
against a contract from the govern
ment for the state to settle lands
under the Kittitas highline. He said,
“only natural citizens of Ellensburg
want the United States to spend nine'
million in their community. If I
understand the contract, the govern
or showed good business judgment
and courage.”
NEGRO CHAUFFEUR SOUGHT
FOR MURDER RELEASED
LOS ANGELES, April 30.—Harold
Ennis, a negro chauffeur, who was
sought for the slaying of Mrs. Bab
cock, was arrested last night, and
after being questioned was released,
his answers satisfying the police he
^d no connection with the murdei
c* the pretty modiste.
MOTOR DRIVEN VESSELS
REPLACING STEAMSHIPS
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Apr. 29.—A big “sea
change”—steamships to motor-ships
—is predicted in the annual report
of Harland and Wolffs, the big ship
building firm.
The company, which has 13 motor
ships under construction, including
three liners of over 20,000 tons, re
ports that, judging from present in
dications, “the motorship will su
percede the steamship in much the
same way as in the course of the
last century the steamship super
seded the sailing ship.”
WOULD PAY BONUS
TO SAILORS OF
MARINE
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. April 30.—
Chairman O’Connor' of the Shipping
Board announced yesterday he has
presented to President Coolidge a
plan to put the Americah Merchant
Marine on a “fighting basis,” by pay
ing American seamen a monthly wage
bonus out of the treasury.
It is announced he will put the pro
posal before congress as a major fea
ture of a program to revive the Mer
chant Marine. Those receiving the
bonus will be enrolled in a Merchant
Marine Reserve.
O’Connor announced the plan im
mediately after the sale of five Cali
fornia orient vessels to the Dollar in
terests.
Russia Gives Concession
Exploration Lena Fields
(By Associated Press)
MOSCOW, April 30.—Russia has
made the largest concession ever
granted since the regime of the So
viet government, signing a fifty-year
contract with the British Lena Gold
fields Corporation for exploration and
exploitation of the Lena gold fields
in Siberia, which are estimated to
contain one hundred million dollars
worth of gold.
American banking interests are
participating 50 per cent in the in
vestment in the Lena mines which the
Soviet government is operating and
which will be taken over immedi
ately by the British company, which
exploited the fields before the revo
lution. The concession covers mining
operations over several million acres.
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SURVEY BEING
MADE FOR NEW
CEMETERY
Engineer Kyle of the Bureau of
Public Roads, with a crew of men, is
surveying and platting the ground for
new cemetery, on the point just north
of the old powder house. This land
was secured from the Alaska railroad
by the city and will be divided into
burial lots. A number of the bodies
from the old graveyard will be re
moved to the new site.
NEW HONOR CODE
WASH. UNIVERSITY
SEATTLE, Wn., Apr; 30.—Follow
ing a breakdown in the honor sys
tem and agitation throughout the
academic year, the faculty approved
a new honor code for a year’s trial,
it was announced yesterday. A joint
committee from the faculty and stu
dents made the code, which the stu
dents voted their approval. It gives
the student a senior council with
the power to try those accused of
cheating and fix punishment
SMALLPOX IN
VIRULENT FORM
IN WASHINGTON
Fifty-Four Cases With 19
Deaths since January 1—
Disease Breaks Out In Its
Most Virulent Form.
ALL MUST VACCINATE
President Coolidge and His
Cabinet Agree to Undergo
Vaccination at Request of
Board of Public Health.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.—
Smallpox in its most virulent form
has broken out in this city, 19 deaths
being reported with 51 cases. Neew
cases are being taken to the pest
houses daily.
The Board of Public Health has re
quested that all government employes
in the District of Columbia be vac
cinated, and President Coolidge and
members of his cabinet have signified
their willingness to have the vaccine
injected into their systems.
Indian Boy Stabbed
After Quarrel With
Inmate San Quentin
(By Associated Press)
SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Apr. 30.—
Andreas Gomez, sentenced for carry
ing concealed weapons stabbed and
killed Lawrence Mahach, an Indian
boy who was serving a twenty-five
hitch for robbery. The murder took
place in the wash room of the jute
mill after a quarrel.
Agrarian Leader Killed
Suspect Bomb Outrage
(By Associated Press)
i SOFIA, Apr. 30.—Former Deputy
j Grantcharoff, one of the leaders in
! the recent cathedral bombing was
| killed yesterday after a widespread
police search. He led the agrarians,
who joined with the Communists and
has been suspected to be implicated
in the bombing.
WALES AT CAPE TOWN
(By Associated Press)
CAPE TOWN, Apr. 30.—The Prince
of Wales arrived in this port aboard
the Repulse and after disembarking
drove through miles of people to the
| grand parade, where royal addresses
i were presented.
ROBS MESSENGER
FOOTBALL FASHION
NEW YORK, Apr. 30.—A messen
ger, nineteen years old tackles Otto
Schmidt football fashion as Schmidt
started down the stairway from the
third floor of a Broadway skyscrap
er after seizing from the messen
ger an old sachel containing securi
ties valued at sixty-five thousand.
Schmidt was arrested by the police.
JOHN COOLIDGE
UNDERGOES TREATMENT
PLYMOUTH, Vt, Apr. 30.—Colonel
John C. Coolidge, father of the pres
ident, started for Boston today to
undergo treatment for his heart.
Bandits Rob Jewelry
Store of Big Stock
NEW YORK, April 30.—Five ban
dits held up a jewelry store on St.
Nicholas avenue, Washington Heights,
and escaped with the entire stock,
valued at $30,000. They bound and
gagged the proprietor and two clerks.