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VOLUME XX, NUMBER 327
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COOUDGE SPEAKS
" TO FARM BUREAU
CHICAGO TODAY
CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (/P)—President
•Coolidge arrived "here this morning and
addressed the Farm Bureau Federa
tion. An immense throng greeted the
president and his wife.
Coolidge tola the American Farm Bu
reau Federation that “the surplus
lands of the country were exhausted
and the industrial population is out
stripping the farm population in man
ufacturing centers. These must come
to the farmers for food and raw
1 materials. Markets for food are in
creasing faster than productivity. “I
propose actively and energetically to
assist the farmers promote their wel
fare through co-operative marketing.”
Regarding the organization of corpo
rations through which the government
would directly or indirectly fix the
prices of food and engage in buying
1 or selling, President Coolidge said:
“This would be a dangerous under
taking. As the: emergency is not acute
it seems at present to have lost much
support. No matter how it is disguis
ed, the moment the government en
gages in buying and selling, by that
act it fixes prices.”
BROWN WANTS
REPORT KILLED
SEATTLE, Dec. 7 (JF)— Mayor Ed
Brown filed a petition in the Superior
Court today demanding that the at
tack of the grand jury on his admin
istration be deleted, as “extra official,
extra judicial, meddlesome, false, and
untrue.”
Bailey announced that 2500 recall
petitions were being circulated and
announced that he would preach Sun
day night on the topic, “Can Adver
tising Cure the Political Halitosis of
Seattle.”
Democrats still believe that one
Davis in the White House would have
been better than two in the cab
inet.
If we ever want to put the in
surance companies out of business
we might pass a law compelling them
to issue policies on the Navy.
PERC1VAL HILLS DEAD
NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (£>)—Percival
Hill, president of the American To- !
baqpo Company died suddenly today.
FOOTBALL GAMES
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7 (JP)—U. S.
C. 28; O. A. C., 0.
WHITE HOUSE BULL GETS
MUSSED UP DURING ATTACK
3
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5. (£>)
—Paul A. McDuffie, a member of the
White House police detachment, was
subjected to a mutilating operation
last night or early today at the
hands of unidentified persons and is
in a critical condition in a local hos
pital.
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FRANCE BUSY WITH PLANES
PARIS, Dec. 5. (JP)—With her pres
tige in the Near Ea&t seriously com
promised by the Damascus massacre,
France is resorting to the air service
to holster up its commercial rela
tions. Daring French flyers now are
engaged in opening up an air route
from Paris to Teherin, capital of
Persia, over which it is planning to
operate passenger and freight planes
on a regular schedule.
The old timers who wrote of
“death in the cup” were true pro
phets, but they failed to get a hunch
about the blindness that also lurks
therein.
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Rock Slide on Great Northern
Tumbles Freight Into River
BONNER FERRY, Ida., Dec. 7. (/p)
—Charles B. McGuire, head brakeman
Was killed, and Engineer John Har
rington injured last night when a
Westbound freight train on the Great
Northern railway ran into a huge
rock slide near Sitka. The locomo
tive and ten cars tumbled into the
Kaatenai river.
McGuire, Harrington and Clarence
Finn, the latter a fireman, leaped as
they struck the slide, McGuire being
buried under the avalance of coal
from the tender. The three men all
reside in Spokane.
ALASKA LAW IS
UPHELD BY THE
SUPREMECOURT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7—The
Supreme Court today upheld the law
imposing a graduated excise tax on
the Alaska canning industry. A large
amount of money has been tied up
for several years awaiting a decision.
WASHINGTON SCANDINAVIAN
ORIGIN SAYS PROFESSOR
CHICAGO, Dec. 7 —George Wash
ington was of Scandinavian origin,
Dr. Oscar Olson, president of the Lu
ther College, Decorah, Iowa, said in
an address on The Relation of the
Norse and English Languages. He
names five presidents ending in son
names five presidents who may have
had Scandinavian blood in their veins.
COAL GAS KILLS BABIES
LENGO, Westphalia, Germany, Dec.
7 (#>)—Coal gas killed seven babies
aged from 1 to 3 years at a children’s
hospital here today.
INDICTMENTS QUASHED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7 (/P)—
The District of Columbia lower court
declared the indictments against Fall
and Doheny for bribery valid, over
ruling the lower courts which quash
ed the indictments.
FEEDS AND DOCTORS
PIGEONS AS A HOBBY
CHICAGO, Nov. 2S (#>)—Feeding ;
peanuts to pigeons in Grant Park on j
busy Michigan boulevard costs him !
approximately $150 a year, but to
Harry J. Lane, the benefactor, it is a
small item in his recipe for kindness.
Four or five times daily Mr. Lane,
who is treasurer of the Orchestra Hall
association in a skyscraper overlook
ing the park, crosses the avenue with
bulging pockets of peanuts to ration
the birds, many of them of four years’
acquaintance. His appearance causes
a winged offensive.
GIRLS HELD IN SERVITUDE
MAMNILA, Dec. 5 (/P)—Girls are re
ported being held in servitude for a
period of from one to seven years in
Occidental Nerros province and in
conditions amounting to slavery. The
situation was revealed in a statement
issued by executive officers of the
Governor General here.
NEW INVENTION RAISE SUBS
TOKIO, Dec. 5 (£>)—The Navy de
partment is understood to have tested
a new invention for the raising of in
capacitated sunken submarines. The
device is said to be an extremely in
vention and is known as the Bracket.
At present only one ship is equipped
with the device.
The 96th Article of War is what
a man is guilty of breaking if some
thing wishes to “get” him.
A lot of folks who are clamoring
for justice would set up a louder
sqawk if they really got It.
CONGRESS MEETS
WITH CONTEST
OVER SPEAKER
WASHINGTON, D. C~ Dec. 7 (/P)—
Congress met today with the House
facing a three-cornered fight over the
speakership, the result of a new chal
lenge for the Republican leadership
by the insurgent group, who nqjni
nated their candidate in Representa
tive Cooper of Wisconsin.
The insurgents declared war on the
Mellon tax plan and announced their
intention to urge real farm legislation.
Hundreds of bills were introduced
in the House. Hill of Maryland pre
sented a resolution to repeal the 18th
amendment.
GEN. CHANG TSO LIN
DECIDED TO RESIGN
TOKIO, Dec. 7. (/P)—A dispatch
(from Tokio said that Geeral Chang
Tso Lin military ruler of Manchuria
has decided to resign and disband
his army.
Majority Rules No Game
Between Huskie and Cal
SEATTLE, Wn, Dec. 7. (^)—1The
Board of Control here has decided
that the Huskies will not partici
pate in the International game of
football between them and Pasadena
on New Year’s Day. There wTas only
a small majority of the Husky play
ers who sanctioned the game.
Movie Aviator Meets Death;
Companion Hurt Seriously
THORN, Calif., Dec. 7. (/P)—Cecil
DeFrietas -was killed, and Bert Howe
severely injured when their air
plane crashed from a high altitude.
Both men were moving picture em
ployes.
TEMBLOR REGISTERED
DENVER, Dec. 7. (£>)— Regis Col
lege seismograph registered an eath
quake at 10:20 this morning wyth
considerable intensity. It registered
about six hundred and seven miles
southwest.
FLORIDA TOWN THREATENED
TO BE ENGULFED BY WAVES
WEST PALM BEACH, Dec. 4 (#>)—
Many millionaires mansions and ocean
boulevards were threatened today by
lashing waves as thousands of volun
teers worked feverishly to throw up
a temporary bulkhead to prevent the
boulevard two miles south of the inlet
from completely washing away. Old
seamen here declared the ocean to be
the wildest for many years. The sea
wall along the ocean boulevard is grad
ually weakening as mountainous waves
pound against it.
T. W. HAWKINS GOES STATES
T. W. Hawkins, member of the
Brown & Hawkins Corporation, de
parted from Seward Saturday on the
steamer Alaska, bound for California
where he will spend the holidays,
with his family. After New Year’s
Mr. Hawkins expects to leave for the
East on an extended buying trip.
He plans returning to Seward early
in March.
A1 Hardy, game warden, in charge
of this district, was an official vis
itor in Seward over the week end.
Latest press reports indicate that
there is a spirited rivalry for the
title of wettest city. Some person or
another has suggested nearly all of
them for that doubtful honor.
Truck Driver Beats Girl
to Death with Iron Pipe
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 7. (JP)—The body
of Mrs. Callie Blacky aged 25 was
found in an alley here beaten to
death with an iron pipe. Russell
Miller, agent 21, an express driver
who was arrested on suspicion con
fessed to the brutal assault.
LOENING PLANES
WILL BE USED
TO MAP ALASKA
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7 (#*)—
Loening amphibian planes, similar to
those used by the MacMillan expedi
tion will be used in the Alaska map
ping expedition by naval aviators un
der Lieut. G. H. Wyatt, who is now
at the San' Diego naval station prepar
ing for the flight. The expedition’s
base will be at Ketchikan. Three
planes will fly five miles apart in
parallel lines 100 miles an hour and
map a strip twenty miles wide, and
100 miles each hour. The planes will
fly at an altitude of 12,000 feet.
i With Commander Wyatt will be
Lieuts. W. M. Dillon, M. A. Schur, L.
W. Curtain, Aircraft Tender Gannet,
and the mine sweeper Kingfisher will
serve as a base for the ships.
If the project is successful similar
undertakings may follow in northern
Alaska in the vicinity of Point Bar
row naval oil reserves.
WOULD ABOLISH
DIVORCE DECREES
SPOKANE, Wn., Dec. 7 (^—Su
perior Judge Lindsley of Spokane told
the County Bar Association he favored
abolishing all divorces, substituting a
separate state maintenance law abol
ishing remarriage. “There is no such
thing as reforming the so-called di
vorce evil. It would be more sensible
to regulate it than to regulate crime.”
Respectability cansists in the right
kind of prejudices.
S.S. STARR DEPARTS
FOR THE WESTWARD;
BACK IN TWO WEEKS
SANTA CLAUS STEAMER TAKES
WESTWARD HUGE CONSIGN
MENT OF XMAS GIFTS
The steamer Starr, Captain O. A. j
Johansen, was scheduled to leave j
port at 3 o’clock this afternoon, for
Westward ports. The vessel is tak
ing out over 150 tons of general car
go included in which are many tons
of first and second class mail mat
ter, mostly Christmas gifts. There
are also large shipments of turkeys
and meat consigned. At Kodiak, as
has been the custom in the past, the
citizens of the thriving island town
will have numerous fir trees, cut and
ready for loading onto the steamer
which will distribute them to the va
rious ports of call. Captain Johan
sen announces the vessel will rec
tum to Seward in two weeks.
The Westward list of passengers
were as follows: • .
For Uuga—A. Woberg, Mary Lar
son.
For Uganik—A1 Blair, H. E. Kris
tiansen.
For Kanatak—John Kilgonok.
Local Rebekahs will hold a meeting
tonight for the purpose of initiation.
The session will begin at 8 o’clock
and all members are urged to be
present.
The New York paragrapher who
quit because he has run out of ideas
takes his fun to seriously.
AIR INVASION OF
U S. IMPOSSIBLE
SAYS AVIATOR
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7 (#■)-—
Lieutenant Commander H. H. Frost,
a naval strategist and air expert, tes
tified in the Mitchell court martial
that an air invasion of the United
States by an Asiatic power would be
impossible without using Russian and
Canadian territory.
Replying to Mitchell’s charge that
“America will be reached from Asia
by way of Alaska,” Frost said, “I do
not believe any nation could seize
Alaska under any conditions what
ever.”
HOOVER APPROVES
NEW SALMON
RULINGS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7 (/P)—
Herbert Hoover today approved the
new salmon regulations for the Alaska
Coast, effective January 1, 1926, re
quiring a distance of at least a mile
between fish traps in Alaska w'aters
south of 58 degrees of latitude and in
north latitude to 76 degrees. Regions
along the coast closed to commercial
salmon fishing total 23, including an
area off the Kuskokwim river, por
tions of Bristol Bay, the waters adja
cent to Shumagin and Sanak islands,
and traps are prohibited in False
Pass.
This will practically force the E. P.
Harris and Pacific American Fisheries
in this locality out of business.
DEPOSIT HELIUM GAS FOUND
TORONTO, Dec. 7 (/P)—Premier
Ferguson of Ontario, announced that
a deposit of helium gas had been dis
covered at Inglewood, about 40 miles
west of here. The government has
purchased the three wells and the gas
will undoubtedly take a big place in
the scientific field of the world.
Slight Shocks Are Felt
In Salt Lake City, Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 7. (£>)—
An earthquake of small intensity
was recorded at 9:17 this morning
and continued until 9:28.
BASEBALL GAME TONITE
The Nile Parks and the Merchants
indoor baseball teams will clash to
night at 8 o’clock at the S. A. C.
gym. A hot contest is looked for
ward to with the decision of Jim
Bogart, premier pitcher of South
western Alaska, to hurl for the Mer
chants, Shellhorn will back him up.
For the Nile Parks Snyder and Hop
kins will perform. The regular line
up comprise the remainder of the
teams, which follow and all are ex
pected to show their stuff in some
positictfn or another:
Merchants: Jessen, Valade, Selby,
Wolfgram, Sheldon, Bogart, Shell
horn, R. Manthey and Rucker.
Nile Parks: Painter, Hopkins, Dyer,
Paulsteiner, Johnson, Moehring and
Erwin.
Three of the player in the Mer
chants aggregation are on the Gate
way staff with the Prosperity Edi
tion staring at them and it is doubt
ful whether they will be able to at
tend tonight’s game.
The Elwell hunting party, which
has been down at the lower end of
Lake Kenai during the past month,
returned to Seward a few days ago
with a moose and bear spcimen.
George Colwell, roadmaster of the
Seward-Anchorage division, left for
Tunnell this morning.