VOLUME XVIII.
NUMBER m \
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 2
5, 1923
PRICE TEX CENTS
Noose Creek
Germany Is in State of Terrorism
President Harding Appeals to Nation
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BELIEVE FRANCE WOULD KEEP
GERMANY IN STATE OF
PERPETUAL BONDAGE
LONDON, May 25.—England be
lieves that the question of reparation
by Germany is now definitely subordi
nated to the idea of keeping Germany
in a state of perpetual servitude.
Opinion here in England is unanimous
that the reparations question should
be re-opened and given to a commis
sion to determine what Germany can
really pay. England expected that!
when France realized the economic
failure of the Ruhr invasion it would
bring about a change of mind in the !
government, but k now realizes that;
Poincare has committeed himself so
deeply that he cannot turn back. If j
he tails to maintain his policy his own
tall is certain.
Doth Italy and Belgium are dis
quieted over the stalemate in the
Ruhr. Moreover, while the chief con
sequence of the economic holdup oi
the Ruhr tails on Germany France is
sustaining a heavy loss. The mere
cost of the occupation is enormous.
The Lorraine iron industry is collaps
ing because ot lack of coal from the
Ruhr.
Finally the military position pre
sents a serious problem with 1U0.0UU
armed men in the midst of six million
people, far lrom their base and de
pendent on supplies on communica
tion through a hostile country.
France is unable to strengthen her
military position on account of the
tremendous demand for man power,
which would bring about a revolt ii
drawn by conscription from French
citizenry.
CAPT. GOTTFRIED HANSEN SERI- j
OUSLY WOUNDED DURING
NAVAL MANEUVERS
COPENHAGEN, May 25.—Captain
Gottfried Hansen, x\rctic exploder and
former associate of Amundsen in his
polar explorations, was perhaps fa
tally wounded by the premature ex
plosion of a bomb on board the Dan
ish cruiser Gejser during naval man
euvers south of the island of Zealand
today.
YUKON IFi) C01IT1S
The river is high and the ice run
ning thin at Gibbon. The launches
Tanana and Sibillia reached Gibbon.
Water is high at Hot Spring. Con
ditions at Nome are the same.
The Pollywog arrived at Fort Yu
kon. The ice is running thin and the
river is falling fast.
At Ruby the ice is running heavy,
and at Bethel it has been running
freely since the 19th.
At Nulato the ice is running thick
and river very high.
The ice moved at Nulato the 17th.
At Holy Cross the ice is still hold
ing and the river is rising.
At St. Michael ice conditions are the
same.
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GOLF CHAMP HAGEN WEDS AFTER ROMANCE ON THE LINKS
Walter Hagen, the American born holder of the British golf cham
pionship met his bride, then Mrs. Fdna Strauss, of West End, N. J., on
the golf course. They were married April 30th and sailed for England,
where Hagen will defend his title at Troon, Scotland, early in June.
THIRTY EMPLOYES FOR SAN
JUAN COMPANY AND MANY
ROUND TRIPPERS
SEATTLE, May 25.-%The steamship
Alameda, sailing tomorrow, will have
about 250 aboard, including an Alaska
Road Commission force of forty-five
for operations in the Copper River
Valley and the Richardson road. A
number of tourists and round trip
pers will alos be aboard. Thirty em
ployes for the San Juan Fishing and
Packing Company will be aboard.
PROPAGANDA IN
GREAT BRITAIN
REPLY TO ENGLAND’S NOTE NOT
QUITE SATISFACTORY TO
NEW CABINET
LONDON, May 25.—The Baldwin
cabinet, at its first meeting this aft
ernoon decided that Russia’s reply to
Foreign Minister Curzon’s ultimatum
was practically satisfactory, but that
Russia must cease her propaganda be
fore relations would be resumed.
In his note to Russia Curzon com
plained that England was seething
with Bolshevist propaganda spread
by paid agents.
DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT
Dance Saturday night at Odd Fel
lows Hall, 9:00 o’clock sharp; special
music; admission $1.00.
DETROIT, May 25.—The city today
borrowed two million dollars from
Henry Ford at four per cent interest.
PROPAGANDA MAILED BROAD
CAST TO EDITORS ALL
OVER COUNTRY
WASHINGTON, May 25.—President
Harding is bitterly incensed over a
bitter attack on Great Britain and
other allied nations made in a cur
rent propaganda sheet issued by the
Republican National Committee and
mailed broadcast to Republican edi
tors, big and little, all over the coun
try.
REPORTS IRON AND STEEL MILLS
CANNOT ABANDON TWELVE
HOUR WORK DAY
NEW YORK, May 25.—Elbert H.
Gary, chairman of the United States
Steel Corporation suffered a collapse
while delivering an address here to
day. Charles Schwab completed read
ing Gary’s address. #
Gary was reporting for the commit
tee on iron and steel appointed re-,
cently to investigate the feasibility bf i
abandoning the twelve hour day in the
steel industry, that he could not re
commend such a step.
POUTER IN PORT
The gas boat Pouter, with Manager
. O. Roberts, of the Kodiak Island
Fishing and Packing company, from;
the company’s new plant at Uganik.;
Mr. Roberts was formerly manager of
the San Juan Fisheries and Packing'
Co. plpant at Seward.
ADDRESS TO OPENING SESSION
OF NATIONAL AMERICAN
COUNCIL
WASHINGTON, May 25.—An ap
peal for a re-dedication of the Amer
ican people to the aims and purposes
of their government as set forth in
the preamble of the Constitution, was!
made today by President Harding in
an addfess at the opening session oi
the National American Council, an or-!
ganization recently formed to en
courage better American citizenship.
Such a re-dedication, the President
said, would furnish to the nation a
commanding and dominating interest
which he said had been lacking since
the end of the world war.
Quoting the preamble to the consti
tution President Harding said it con
stituted the complete statement of
the nation’s aspiration; the chant for
our course, and the inspiration to ev
ery effort to make one and all of us
better citizens.
PLOT TO OVERTHROW BOLSHE
VIK GOVERNMENT BRINGS
DEATH TO MANY
MOSCOW, May 25.—Fifteen per
sons, all of them princes, generals or
noblemen, have been executed by the
Red government as a result of the
discovery of an active revolutionary
plot to overthrow the Soviet govern
ment in the Province of Gjurgia, says
a dispatch from Tiflis to the Prayda
today.
SEWARD LEGION WILL
OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAT
The Committee ou arranging plans
lor the Memorial Day services under
the auspices of Seward Post, Ameri
can Legion, together with a member
of the Seward Woman’s Club and a
member of the Legion Auxiliary met
last evening in the offices of Attorney
A. E. Rucker and formulated plans to
properly observe Memorial Day, Wed
nesday, May 30.
The services will commence at the
city dock at 1 p. m. where water rites
in honor of America’s dead sailors will
take place. From there the parade j
will march to the Bank of Seward
corner where autos will take the peo
ple out to the cemetery. Here it
might be stated, the committee in
charge asks that every car be placed
at the disposal of the people to con
vey them to the cemetery, where ad
dresses will be made and the graves
of five American soldiers be deco
rated.
Everyone is asked to be on hand
Sunday morning at 9 o’clock to go out
to the cemetery and clean it up pre-<
paratory to the exercises. A good!
luncheon will be provided for the
workers by the Ladies’ Auxiliary and
Woman’s club. The co-operation of I
the various orders is asked by the|
Legion.
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STRIKE IN RUHR IS GAINING IN
NUMBERS AND INCLUDES
50,000 MINERS
LONDON, May 25.—The German
government is alarmed at reports that
armed bands of communists are men
acing Essen, says a Central News
dispatch from Berlin this afternoon,
and has asked permission of the occu
pational troops to send a large force
of German police to Essen and Gel
senkirchen.
Iron and Steel Workers Out
ESSEN, May 25.—The strike in the
Ruhr district inaugurated by the com
munists is gaining in numbers and
includes thousands of iron and steel
workers besides the miners previous
ly out. The latest to join were tin
20,000 employes of the steel works at'
Remscheid. Fifty thousand miners
are striking in Gelsenkirchen and the
district adjoining.
VICTORIA LEAVES VALDEZ
The steamship Victoria left Valdez
this morning about 10 o’clock and is
due in Seward some time Sunday
morning. She calls at a number of
canneries near Latouche.
JUNEAU FISH PRICES
JUNEAU, May 25.—Halibut 11 and
7; king and red salmon, 15c; small
reds, 12c; whites, 5c.
COST OF PROPOSED SPUR BE
$125,000; TWO AREAS TAPPED
B YIMPROVEMENT
WASHINGTON, May 25.—Secretary
Work has authorized the building o: a
spur tour and a half miles long from
the Matanuska branch of the Alaska
railroad to the Moose creek coal mines
which contain a good quality of steam
coal suitable tor export and for uye
on the government railroad. It is es
timated that the cost of the new con
struction work will be $125,000. Two
areas now covered by government
leases upon which a large sum has
been expended in preliminary devel
opment work will be reached by the
proposed spur.
BOSTON, May 24.—William Alien,
governor of Montana, surrendered to
the police last night on an indictment
charging him with the larceny of over
$600,000, the property of the Boston &
Montana corporation and conspiracy
to steal the monies of the corpora
tion’s three subsidiaries.
PORT MOLLER MAN MISSING
SEATTLE, May 23.—Mrs. George of
Port Moller, cabled friends here yes
terday that she fears her husband was
lost while en route from Port Moller
to Naknek in the gas boat Eunice,
which was found ashore at Bear creek
filled with sand.
Poincare and Cabinet Resigns
Over Action of Communists
FULL BLOOD GREEK GIVES
ATLANTIC CITY, May 25.—Jack
Barnett, a full blood Creek Indian, to
day gave $500,000 in United States
government bonds for Baptist home
mission work.
mm SUSPENDED
J YEAR IDO IS
DEINST1TED
MARRIED COUPLE DRESSED ONLY
IN BATHING SUIT AND WAS
UNFROCKED BY CHURCH
INDIANAPOLIS, May 25. — Rev. j
Thomas J. Irwin, of Lawton, Oklaho-'
ma, who was suspended by the El
Reno PTesbytery, a year ago when it
was charged that he had perlormed a
marriage ceremony with the princi
pals dressed in bathing suits, was or
dered reinstated today by the general
assembly of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States.
Rev. Irwin appealed his case to the
general assembly.
EVANS WILL CALL AT KANATAK
The steamship Admiral Evans, sail
ing yesterday morning, will call at
Ketchikan, Petersburg, Juneau, Cordo
va, Valdez, Latouche, Seward, Port
Graham, Seldovia, Anchorage( Snug
Harbor, Uzinkie, Kodiak, Port O’Brien
and Kanatak, returning calling at all
regular ports southbound.
GOVERNMENT MUST EITHER ACT
AGAINST MALCONTENTS OR
ACCEPT RESIGNATIONS
PARIS, May 25.—Premier Poincare
and his cabinet resigned today as a
result of the refusal of the Senate to
proceed with the trial of Marcel Ca
chin and other communists charged
with illegal acts against the French
republic, but President Millerand re
fused to accept the resignations which
were withdrawn tonight.
It is understand, however, that un
less the government prosecutes all
Communists spreading propaganda
against the French invasion of Ruhr,
the cabinet will hand in its resigna
tion later.
FISH SHIPS AM Mil
NORWOOD AND REDWOOD AT
AKUTAN
The Pacific American Fisheries
steamers Norwood and Redwood,
which sailed from Bellingham May 15
have reached Akutan en route to King
Cove and Port Moller.
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