U.S. WILL DEMAND
SQUARE DEAL IN
HER WAR DEBTS
AMERICAN CLAIMS AGAINST
GERMANY EQUAL TO THOSE
OF GREAT BRITAIN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—The State
Department has received a commu
nication from the British government
explaining the attitude of Great Bri
tain on the question of the cancella
tion of war damage claims from Ger
many by the United States under the
Dawes reparation plan.
In the light of what has been said
by the administration spokesman on
the question involved, it is considered
certain that Secretary Hughes will
insist upon recognition of the prin
ciple that American claims against
Germany shall be treated as equal to
those of other powers.
BIG LAND BRIDGE
ONCE CONNECTED
ALASA AND ASIA
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The navy
through its projected expedition to
explore ocean depths and their life,
looks forward to aiding in solving the
problems of today and yesterday.
One of these grows out of the fact
that every year the Mississippi river
dumps into the Gulf of Mexico a vast
quantity of mud with an effect not
heretofore fully appreciated.
A study of the sea bottom between
Northern Siberia and Alaska might
uncover interesting data concerning
the supposed land bridge that long
ago linked two continents, Dr. E. W.
Nelson, chief of the Bureau of Bio
logical Survey informed the confer
ence.
“It is believed that north of Ber
ing Sea a great land bridge once con
nected Asia with Alaska and thus
made a road across which came most
of our big game and many of our
smaller animals.
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OWING TO HOLDUPS
INSURANCE INCREASED
SEATTLE, Dec. 10.—Owing to nu
merous holdups and robberies, insur
ance and mercantile safe burglary
rates will go up 50 per cent in Janu
ary.
GRAY’S HARBOR CELEBRATES
LOADING BILLIONTH FOOT
OF LUMBER IN ONE YEAR
HOQUIAM, Wn., Dec. 11—Within
ten days Gray’s Harbor will celebrate
loading its billionth foot of lumber
aboard ship this year, establishing a
world’s record for water shipments
of lumber from any port in one year.
Admiral Watson Sails
Yesterday for North
SEATTLE, Dec. 11—The steamship
Admiral Watson, of the Pacific S. S.
Co., left Seattle yesterday morning for j
Seward and way ports with forty
three passengers including the fol
lowing for Seward:
Mrs. M. A. Gilman and E. L. Tim-'
mons. For Kodiak, Chas. A. Ophem,!
W. L. Farrell and wife and W. H.
Trout.
CLEELUM ROCKED
BY DAMAGE SUIT
SEATTLE, Dec. 11.—The town of
Cle Elum, Washington, was rocked
from center to circumference today
when one city councilman, one coun
cilman-elect, and seven business men
of Cle Elum were named defendants
and branded as bootleggers by Mrs.
Glenna Karterman, jeweler’s widow,
of Seattle, in a suit to recover §40,000
for the sudden death of her husband.
She alleges in the suit that the men
furnished her husband the liquor that
killed him.
Basketball practice tonight. All
members of the team are requested
to turn out.
Only 14 more days before Xmas.
Shop early and avoid the rush.
For the Prospector
Can you make an accurate compass survey of your
claim?
The strange minerals you find in the hills—can you
determine what they are with the blow-pipe?
Do you know how to test your ore for various meth
ods of concentration such as amalgamation, cyani
dation, jigging, table concentration and flotation?
Do you know how ore bodies form and their habits?
If you do you can pick favorable areas for prospect
ing and eliminate much dead work.
Would you like to be able to assay your ore for gold
and silver?
Will not these aids better your chances of putting a
new mine on the map in Alaska?
TUITION IS FREE
This is the nature of the work the prospector takes up
in the Mining Short Course at the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines.
The first short course of 10 weeks duration begins No
vember 3rd. The work is repeated in another short
course beginning February 2nd.
The charge for books and supplies used, totals about
$25,00 for the complete course.
Work is offered in geology, mineralogy, mining meth
ods, ore dressing, and fire assaying.
There are no educational requirements except the abil
ity to read and write.
This is not a dressed-up course. Bring along your wool
shirt and overalls. You will need them.
CHARLES E. BUNNELL
President.
FORBES WAS A
DESERTER AND
ALSO BIGAMIST
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FRANK A. VANDERLIP CALLED
TO TESTIFY AS TO CHARAC
TER OF DEFENDANT
CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—Replying to
questions propounded to him by the
counsel for Forbes, former veterans’
bureau director, E. N. Mortimer, gov
ernment witness this afternoon un
loosed a fresh tirade of scandal con
cerning Forbes.
“I told Frank A. Vanderlip while in
Washington last winter that he was
a bigamist and a deserter from the
Army,” Morimer declared.
Vanderlip, the financier who estab
lished the research bureau in the cap
ital last winter to aid the Investi
gating committee, has been subpoe
naed to appear at the Forbes trial
here.
j Another question from Forbes’ at
j torney brought forth the fact that
Forbes and Mrs. Mortimer were
I shooting craps in Mortimer’s bed
room at the Drake hotel the night I
| gave the Colonel that $5,000 given to
me by Thompson and Black.”
Soviets Now Ready to
Backslide In Views
j
MOSCOW: President M. Rykoff,
of the Council of Commissars told the
Federal trades union at the Congress
of the Soviet Government that “We
bent the stick too far and too fast in
fighting private capital.”
He stated ihat gold and silver re
serve must be used to buy manufact
ured articles abroad which the state
and co-operative industries have fail*
ed to produce.
! FOUR DEAD IN
PLANE WRECK
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 11— Four
men missing in this morning’s sea
plane disaster off the entrance to the
harbor are dead. They were Lieut.
G. Varini, pilot in command; Lieut.
A. P. Thurston, observer; Lieut. K. H.
Roby, second pilot; F. D. Trull, avia
tion machinist mate, and Joseph W.
Wieczk, radio man.
NO CLUES UNCOVERED IN
HUNT FOR CAMP BANDITS
SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 11.—Sheriff
Matt Starwich today called off a
hunt near Snoqualmie Falls, 25 miles
east of here, for a band of armed
robbers who escaped with approxi
mately $700 after raiding the office
of the Snoqualmie ‘Falls Lumber Co.,
near Snoqualmie Falls, lastnight.
Two suspects, taken the first day
of the search, were released when
they furnished satisfactory alibis to
the police.
Failure to find clues to the direc
tion taken by the armed men makes
further search futile, stated Star
wich. ,
BRITAIN BLOCKS
PAYMENT TO U. S‘
LONDON, Dec. 11.—The statement
by Winston Churchill in the House of
Commons as chancellor of the ex
chequer that the British government
considers it essential that any pay
ments by Great Britain’s debtors in
Europe to the United States should
be accompanied simultaneously by
proportionate payments to England
has greatly pleased the press of the
country, which declare that England
should be paid first.
United States Accepts
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The U. S.
Treasury department has accepted
the statement of Winston Churchill
on the Allied debts as obvious and
logical.
Charles Capt. Charles Emswiler of
the gasboat May arrived from Nuka
Bay. He states that little snow has
fallen in that vicinity. He left Frank
Kempfer and A1 Blair located on the
north arm of the bay, prepared to
spend the winter trapping and pros
pecting.
YALE TO BUILD NEW
CONNECTICUT HALL
NEW HAVEN, Dec. 10.—Old Con
necticut Hall, built years before the
Revolution and now distinguished as
having been the college home of Na
than Hale, when he was an under
graduate of Yale, no longer will stand
in lonely dignity on Yale Campus. An
exact duplicate of that famous struc
ture is to be erected alongside Con
necticut Hall as part of Yale’s pro
gram to enlarge its freshman, class.
The university plans to complete the
structure by next fall, putting there
in accommodations for fifty-six men.
Walter V. Chambers, of New York,
graduate of Yale, in the class of 1887
has drawn plans for the building,
which will be built by the university’s
own construction crew.
ROLLED HOSE CONDEMNED
BUT DANCING GETS O. K.
CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Rolled stock
ings put kinks in girls’ feet and hurt
the circulation of the blood but danc
ing is a beneficial pastime, Dr. Carl
A. Herzog declared here in an address
before the Illinois Pedic Association.
“Rolled stockings tie kinks in the
nerves. Dancing and walking are the
best exercises for aiding the feet.
When the feet move in the dance the
whole body is benefited. When one
walks every motor nerve is in action
and the circulation stimulated.”
Charles Henning, merchant tailor,
is showing some nice samples of suit
ings these days and is one of the
busiest men in the city over his holi
day trade. Mr. Henning is one of the
pioneer tailors of the city.
CONDUCT OF BUREAU
AGENT HELD IMPROPER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 11 —
Action of the bureau of internal rev
enue officials in the tax settlements
of the Richard Croker estate was ap
proved today by the committee in
vestigating the bureau, but the con
duct of George B. Walker, the bureau
agent who handled the case, was de-1
scribed as improper due to misjudg-!
ment. The case revolved around a
complaint made by Walker against
the bureau officials, who he charged
had interfered with his invstigation
of the estate by attempting to prevent
him from opening the Croker safety
deposit box at the First National Bank
of Palm Beach, Florida.
Testimony, Chairman Couzens said,
brought out that Walker disregarded
instructions from his superiors and
opened the box, discovering ?117,OO0
in bonds and municipal transfers not
included in the estate.
JUDGMENT CAN BE
LIQUIDATED IS RULING
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Judgment
can be liquidated out of property in
the hands of the alien property cus
todian, under a supreme court deci
sion handed down today.
The trading with the enemy act, it
was held, makes unliquidated claims
for damages a debt collectible out of
property of alien enemies in the
hands of the property custodian.
The court held to be valid a con
tract of the German firm of Beerond
heimer & Co., for the purchase of
crude ore from F. C. Robertson of
New York.
TWO DROP DEOD WHEN
STANFORD TIES SCORE
WITH CALIFORNIA TEAM
BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 11.—Ex
citement attendant upon the tying of
the score in the last few minutes of
play in today’s Stanford-Califomia
football game claimed two victims.
W. H. Philips of Berkeley, and Os
car H. Hansen of Alameda, chief
cashier in the Southern Pacific com
pany’s San Francisco office dropped
dead as Stanford evened the score
count.
The Gateway is printing up a list
of legal blanks. Attorneys and news
stands, may get a supply of blanks
arranged by a local attorney particu
larly for the needs of Alaskans.
The Chamber of Commerce has in
vited the members of the Woman’s
Club and lady friends of the mem
bers, to attend the weekly luncheon
next Tuesday noon.
OPEN WARFARE
OVER SHIPMENTS
CANUCK BOOZE
PRIVATE STEAMSHIP LINES ARE
BUCKING MERCHANT MA
RINE FOR BUSINESS
VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 10.—Open
warefare over shipments of liquor
from the United Kingdom to ports on
the west coast of Mexico and Central
America via Vancouver and Victoria
on through bills of lading has broken
out between private lines and the
Canadian government merchant ma
i rine.
AUGUST BELMONT
DIES SUDDENLY
IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—August Bel
mont died suddenly at his home here
this evening.
August Belmont was born in New
York Feb. 18, 1953; a son of the late
August -and Caroline Slidell Perry
Belmont; a brother of Perry Belmont.
He was educated at Harvard univer
sity, 1874; married Elizabeth Hamp
ton Morgan 1881 (died 1898), married
the second time to Eleanor Elise Rob
son, Feb. 26, 1910. Was head of Au
gust Belmont and Company, Ameri
can representatives of the European
banking firm of the Rothschilds; was
chairman of a score of railways, real
estate firms, etc.
FORMER ALASKAN
WEDS SECRETARY
SEATTLE, Dec. 10.—Charles D.
Garfield, secretary of the Alaskan
Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, and
Miss Viola M. Edmundson, his pri
vate secretary, were quetly married
last evening and are honeymooning
on Whidby island.
Mr. Garfield came to Seattle sev
eral y^ars ago from Juneau, Alaska,
where he was deputy collector of cus
toms. He recently made a trip thru
Alaska compiling data to be used by
the chamber.
NOT GUILTY IN
TRIBUNE CASE
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—A verdict of
not guilty in the case of the govern
ment against the New York Tribune
and the New York Herald for pub
lishing the income tax lists was re
turned by a jury in the Federal court
here this afternoon.
. The second number of Seward Fol
lies will be off the press the first of
the week.
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