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Slogan: “A Godly Nation Cannot Fail99
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VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 281
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17,1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Recent Department Decision
Nay Be Benefit to Alaska
DIVERGENT VIEWS AS TO WHETHER RULING IN
TENDS IMPOSITION OF DUTY ON FRESH FISH
ICED FOR SHIPMENT AT CANADIAN PORTS—
KETCHIKAN BE BENEFITTED BY RULING.
KETCHIKAN, Nov. 16—The new treasury depart
ment ruling regarding so-called “American fish” entering
the United States through a foreign port, has caused con
siderable interest in this city, fishermen and business men
believing that the ruling as it stands would subject to duty
w upon entry to the United States, all fish which have been
iced and boxed at a foreign port.
However, others see in the clause, “unless the said fish
are immediately shipped to the United States,” a possible
loophole by which fresh fish discharged by fishing vessels
at Prince Rupert may be sold, iced and boxed at the Cana
dian port and, if then shipped immediately, may enter the
United States free of duty.
Upon one point all are agreed, says the Ketchikan
Chronicle, that the practice of having fish caught in Amer
ican vessels, frozen in Prince Rupert and held there in
cold storage, subject to market conditions in the United
States, must cease, unless the consignees are willing to pay
the two cents per pound duty. Many believe that if the in
terpretation of the ruling were strictly enforced even the
smallest loophole would be closed in such a manner that
all fish not shipped in bond from one American port to an
* other the same as any other merchandise would be subject
to the duty.
Another point that most people are agreed upon is
that Prince Rupert and Canadian interests will do all in
their power to avoid the payment of duty on fish packed
in Canada. The Canadians, of course, would much prefer
to have their buyers in Prince Rupert buy the fish, have
the business of the fishing fleet at their port, have their
mills furnish material for the boxes, furnish the ice and
have their labor put. up the fish, and under the guise of en
deavoring to conform with treasury regulations, escape
pavment of any duty.
CANADIANS REAP BENEFITS
Thus, as has been pointed out, the
Canadians get the cream of the busi
ness from a strictly American pioduct,
consumed in the United States, and
America, where the business origi
nates, gets merely the husks.
Moreover, from all accounts, the
Canadians are not slow to regulate
against American and Alaska firms,
even while they are getting most of
the benefits from the Alaskan busi
ness. It is claimed that, when a
Prince Rupert sawmill charged fisher
men $1.40 a box for halibut boxes, an
jf-tempt was made to ship boxes from
Ketchikan to Prince Rupert in which
Ameiiean fish could be packed. The
Canadians at once slapped ou a dump
ing duty, then a merchandise duty,
until the price was brought up to that
charged by the Canadian firm. This
practice discouraged any attempt to
ship halibut boxes to Prince Rupert to
put up American fish.
Other practices, it was su’d, have
teen airneu at American fishermen to
try and compel them to trade and buy
supplies from Canadian ports.
The viewpoint of Alaskans, inter
ested in Alaska and American indus
* tries, is that the fish caught in so-call
ed Alaskan waters and the deep sea
off Alaska shores, for American con
sumption should be packed in Alaskan
ports with Alaskan material and Alas
kan labor; that the Americans, in
fact, and not the Canadians, should
have the benefit of the business which
originates in America and ends in
America.
Business Should Go to Alaskans
It is claimed that this fish business
established in Alaska, the improved
transportation and new industries cre
SAirplane Service from
Seattle to Juneau
JUNEAU, Nov. 17.—Jea^ Vanopheg,
of Brussels, manager of the Jualin
mine at Berner’s Bay, Alaska, an
nounced tonight as he was departing
for Paris and Brussels, that he would
return in the spring with a five pas
renger airplane owned by a company
amply financed, which would operate
on schedule between Seattle and Skag
4 way, making regular stops at Ketchi
kan and Juneau.
Gov. Scott C. Bone was a passenger
on the Alameda from Seattle to Ju
neau, returning from a trip to Wash
ington.
ated by it will be of great benefit to
Alaskan fishermen as well as all other
residents. Facilities then could and
would be provided for handling the
traffic on a large scale and for extend
ing the market.
The larger boats could also extend
their cruising radius to the more re
mote fishing grounds and quicker
means of transportation would be pro
vided which will create more business
for each town on the coast of Alaska.
T. D. 39822
Products of American fisheries
landed in foreign territory and
sold to foreign persons, firms, or
corporations by whom they are
stored, frozen, salted, dried or oth
erwise preserved for shipment to
the United States would not un
der existing law and court deci
sions be entitled to free entry.
(See T. D. 29143). Fish which are
stored, frozen, dried, salted, or
otherwise preserved, in foreign
territory before shipment to the
United States are not entitled to
free entry unless the master or
owner of the fishing vessel retains
title to the fish, and such storing,
freezing, etc., is done by the mas
ter or crew of the vessel, or under
their supervision.
The effect of the rigid enforcement
to the letter of Treasury Department
Decision No. 39822 would make it prof
itable for firms now buying fish for
the American market at Prince Rupert
to transfer their buying and shipping
operations to Alaska.
It is understood that as soon as this
is done Alaskans are ready and will
ing to furnish both transportation and
handling facilities.
Sailing of Northwestern
Postponed for Tomorrow
SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—Sailing of the
Northwestern was postponed until to
morrow morning. About 75 persons
are booked, with the following passen
gers for Seward: Mrs. M. Stern, Mrs.
B. H. Polling, F. S. Lorence, George
Carl and wife, Helen Overton, Mrs. A.
Rosness, Mrs. C. A. Watson, Mrs. C.
Robinson, Mrs. M. Clayson, F. Miy
sheck, Helma Williamson.
Ketchikan—No fresh fish offered, no
pickled.
Tacky Dance at I. 0. 0. F.
Hall tonight
Present Husband Says He
Thought He W?s Second
But Was the Fifth
SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—Col. Wni. M.
Inglis, who led the 161st Infantry,
| “Washington’s Own,’> when it went
back to France, was made defendant
in a divorce action today, filed in Los
Angeles by Mrs. Irene Inglis, who is
a sister of Mrs. Louise Burckhard'
wife of Frederick Otto Burckhardt,
who featured a sensational divorce
case in the courts of this city a few
weeks ago.
Mrs. Inglis had been divorced four
limes prior to her marriage to the col
onel. “At the time I married her I
thought I was the second husband, bul
found out later that I was the fifth,”
the Colonel explained. “She has ap
parently got the habit.”
POLITICAL BREAK IN
EUROPE CAUSES
DROP IN EXCHANGE
WASHINGTON, Nov. *7.—Foreign
exchange rates and prices of foreign
government securities broke sharply
in today’s markets in direct response
i to unfavorable political developments
abroad. Tonight a very heavy trans
I fer of capital and funds from Europe
1 to America, through fear of further
1 political and economic disturbances
abroad are reported in financial cir
i cles.
Ambassador Childs Warns
Against Propaganda
WORCESCTER, Mass., Nov. 17
Ambassador Child today sounded a
warning to the people of the United
States against the utterances of for
eign propagandists in a public state
ment in which he refers to the advice
given to the President and Congress
of the United States by foreign diplo
mats, adding that if our prominent
statesmen went to foreign countries in
Europe and went around telling them
what to do they would be sent out on
the first steamer.
ITALY DISAPPROVES
FURTHER ADVANCE
GERMANS AN INTEGRAL PART OF
CIVILIZATION AND MUST NOT
BE DESTROYED
ROME, Nov. 17—The statement that
! “this government cannot give its ap
proval to any further occupation of
Germany territory by the French,”
was made tonight by Premier Musso
lini of Italy, in the Senate tonight.
“One must have the courage of their
convictions to say thatthe German
people cannot be destroyed,” the Pre
mier continued. “They are a people
which have an intense civilization,
and a people which may tomorrow be
an integral part of European civilza
tion.’>
Mussolini described the League of
Nations as a Franco-British duet, in
which Italy has an inferior position.”
Italy does not wish to withdraw from;
the League, but it will not remain a I
member in the inferior position which'
it holds today.”
—
DAVIS FOR PRESIDENT
MOVEMENT LAUNCHED
MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Nov. 17.—
The first move to put John W. Davis,
a son of West Virginia and former am
bassador to Britain, in the front rank
of presidential possibilities in 1924
was made here last night when lead
ing democrats formed the John W.
Davis for president club of Marshall
county.”
Plans for organizing similar clubs
throughout the country were discussed
by the organizers.
Man Who Killed Four
Over Girl Captured
KILLIHER, Nov. 17.—Leonard Por
tano, who shot four persons to death
in a quarrel over the affections of 1G
year-old Myrtle Sanders, was captured
tonight a few miles out of the city.
TO 1ITEO SHIES
Nation Will Pay When Ger
many Pays Says Pre
mier Poincare
PARIS, Nov. 17.—Premier Poincare
consolidated his position before a
cheering Chamber of Deputies this
afternoon by practically repudiating
her allied debts.
“The Allied debts were the price
paid for a common victory,” he de
clared today| "We shall pay our debts
with Class C bonds when Germany has
paid France and not before.”
Class C bonds represents the figu
rative debt of Germany above fifty
billion gold marks in cash, and these
bonds will probably never be paid.
Civil War Veteran
Killed in Auto Accident
Nov. 17.—Horace P.
Mann, aged 80, for three years assist
ant paymaster during the civil war,
Is dead, from injuries received in a
street car accident.
Another Collection Charges
Filed Against C. Forbes
V\ ASHINGTON, Nov. 17—The sharp
ploughshare of the Senate eVterans
Bureau investigating committee, being
driven ruthlessly through the affairs
of former director ^Charles Forbes,
has turned up another collection of
charges showing mismanagement and
graft. •
The committee has Forbes on the
stand today, under a fire of cross ex
amination. The inqury has traversed
a wide field of subjects ranging from
hospital contracts to drinking parties
and pleasure trips.
The former director continues to
vigorously deny accusations of mis
conduct that have been filed against
him.
Woman Injured by Officer
Files Suit Against City
SEATTLE,Nov. 17.—Mrs. Violet Da
vis, a victim of the bullets fired by
Traffic Officer Short, when he fired
four shots in a crowded street in an
attempt to halt shoplifters, this after
noon filed claims against the city for
$53,000. Mrs. Davis was injured at the
same time Isaac Hamburger was fa
tally wounded.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT WILL
NOT BACK UP FRENCH PLANS
LONDON, Nov. 17.—The British
government will not accede to the de
mands of France to take punative
measures against Germany and has
notified the British ambassador in
Paris to so notify the Council of Am
bassadors.
Former Chancellor Wirth
Dies From Apoplexy
BERLIN, Nov. 17.—Former Chan
cellor of Germany died to day of apo
plexy.
ASSAULT CHARGED AGAINST
BAKER WHO UMPIRES GAME
SPOKANE, Nov. 17.—Umpiring a
baseball game for a group of youthful
stars is not what it should be, says a
Spokane baker. He recently was haled
into court to face charges of assault
after acting as umpire during a con
test enacted across the street from
his bakery.
Tiring of his position the baker re
sumed his baking. A batted ball roll
ed into his shop and was thrown out,
with the result that it was lost. The
boys informed the baker he would
have to pay for it. The boys attacked
him and in the melee one of them was
thrown to the ground.
The baker, called into court, was
found not guilty of assault, but he
was ordered to buy the boys a new
baseball.
The Starr will sail at 6 p. m. Sunday
for the westward.
Red Cross Dance tonight
Government Making Time on
Proposed Reparations Clan
WASHINGTON HAS HOPES THAT REPARATIONS
QUESTION MAY BE SETTLED A STEP AT A
TIME—FRANCE WILL FALL IN LINE WHEN
NATION REALIZES POLICY IS UNPOPULAR
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Secretary of State and
other government officials maintain an attitude of distinct
hopefulness that the reparations problem of Europe is go
ing to be settled this time, and a feeling prevails, ontwith
standing the apparently discouraging reports emanating
from Premier Poincare, who insists that rather than that
Germany be allowed to lower her reparations payments,
France will undertake to collect single handed, by further
invasion of German territory. Military experts" plan to
march through the Rhineland provinces, cutting all com
munication between Berlin and Munich. This would take
away another large section of German manufactories and
according to Allied ambassadors, would render Germany
less able to pay than in the Ruhr were restored to her and
she was allowed to develop her resources.
The meaning of the many speeches promulgated by the
French premier is hard to understand, unless one realizes
that for him to agree to reduce Germany’s payments
would be to commit political suicide.
While Germany and France are not compelled to accept
the findings ox the reparations commission, and Premier
Poincare is right in his declaration that the payments can
not be modified except by permission of France, the Allies
believe that in view of the unpopularity of the French
stand with other nations, whom she is keeping out of their
payments, will force her, in time, to accede in allowing the
reparations to be set at a figure that Germany, otherwise
bankrupt, can pay. When the commission determines the
nation’s capacity to meet Germany’s obligations, it will at
the same time suggest a plan whereby Germany can begin
to pay. This means a basis for an international loan. If
in the face of its recommendations France still takes the
position that the experts are wrong and that Germany can
pay more than has been fixed, and P ranee will not consent
to any reduction, the deadlock which has been going on
for over a year will continue, to the further disruption of
Europe.
Official Washington knows that France is aware that
she can never get her money without Allied backing, and
the administration is therefore hopeful that France will
relinquish her demands, a step at a time, until she becomes
in accord with her other Allies in the world war.
Discharged Soldier Says
He Poisoned Comrade
TACOMA, Nov. 17.—Michael Silk, a
discharged Camp Lewis soldier, the
police say, has confessed that he and
E. C. Hartley and Lillian Buckley
poisoned Clarence E. Woodward, also
a discharged soldier, in order to ob
tain $240 he carried. Woodward was
found dead this week in a rooming
house, and suspicion pointed to Silk.
STAMPEOERS FIND LABRADOR
GOLD STRIKE A FAKE
Victor Jacobsen, better known In
Alaska as “The Scurvy Kid,’’ accom
panied by Jack Skain and Wm. Mor
ris, returned on the Alameda from a
trip to Labrador where they went
from Nome on a reported gold stam
pede. Upon arriving at their destina
tion they found the strike was a fake
the claims having been salted, so are
on their way back to Nome. Mr. Ja
cobsen is one of the best known dog
mushers in Alaska having mushed
over 50,000 miles in the time he has
lived in the Territory.
SOMEONE HITS WIFE OF
EX-KAISER WITH BRICKSTEIN
DOORN, Holland, Nov. 17.—A rock
hurled by an unknown persons inflict- i
ed a serious wound in the ear of
Princess Hermine, while she was
walking with her children last even-j
ing in a wood near the ex-kaiser’s i
chateau.
The police arrested several suspect
ed persons but said they did not get
the culprit.
Wilhelm’s en tourage and the entire
village of Doorn are greatly excited
over the incident.
STARR SAILS 6 P. M. SUNDAY.
Chief Radio Operator O. W. Lee is
on the Alameda this trip, relieving
Chief Nicholson, who laid Aff a trip
on account of the Illness of his child.
Educcational Week
Proclaimed by Mayor
Believing that the Americanization
Program of the American Legion
should receive the support of all good
citizens, I set aside and proclaim the
period, November 18th to 24th inclu
sive as ’’Educational Week.”
C. E. ORLANDER,
Acting Mayor.
Tomorrow Sunday, November 18th,
is the first day of Educational week.
The slogan for tomorrow is “A Godly
Nation Cannot Pail.” Rev. Dunlap
will talk on this Subject Sunday night
and it is earnestly requested that all
who are interested in the Schools
hear this sermon Sunday night.
Let’s make Sunday, the first day, a
big success. Each day’s slogan will
be run at the head of the Gateway,
and shown on the screen at the Lib
erty, the day before.
The objects of educational week
are better understood by the follow
ing extract from former President
Wilson’s speech on the subject.
Popular Education and Free Gov.
Popular education is necessary for
the preservation of those conditions of
freedom, political and social, which
are indispensable to free individual
development. And, in the second
place, no instrumentality less univer
sal in its power and authority than
government can secure popular edu
cation * * * Without popular educa
tion, moreover, no government which
rests upon popular action can long en
dure. The people must be schooled in
the knowledge and if possible, in the
virtues upon which the maintenance
and success of free institutions de
pend. No free government can last in
health if It loses hold of the tradi
tions of Its history, and in the public
schools these traditions may be and
should be sedulously preserved, care,
fully replanted in the thought and
consciousness of each successive gen.
eration.—Woodrow Wilson.
Red Cross Dance tonight