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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 15.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
AWAIT APPROVAL
OF SENATORS ON
TAX MEASURE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19. (/P)
—The Senate Finance committee
is awaiting the approval of the Treas
ury and some of the Senators, of the
tax reduction bill, despite an agree
ment between republicans and demo
crats to back the new measure. Mellon
withheld his approval pending a
thorough study on the reduction
which he asked to be limited at three
• hundred and thirty million.
Chairman Smoot of the Finance
committee, estimated that the bill
in quesetion xvould effect a three
hundred and sixty million dollar
reduction and overwhelming support
would be assured for the measure
which is expected to pass betore
March 15th, when the income tax
(for the past year is due.
WOMEN BARRISTERS IN FRANCE
PARIS, Jan. 19. (JP)—On the occa
sion of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the admission of wromen to the
bar in France it was disclosed that
there now' are 137 women advocates
inscribed at the Paris bar. Less than
twenty are practicing barristers in
the courts, however, the others being
salaried employes in law offices
where they prepare briefs, interview
clinents, ect.
AMERICAN OPERA SINGERS
GIVEN A BETTER CHANCE
NEW YORK, Jan. 19. (/P)—Amer- j
ican singers have a great opportuni- !
ty in grand opera than ever before I
and the increasing love for music
in this country is held largely re
sponsible.
On the roster of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, there ar thirty
ight Amricans, including Lawrence
Tibbett, Rosa Ponselle, Jeanne Gor
don, Marion Talley, nineteen year old
Missouri girl, and Mary Lewis, wfio
advanced from the ranks of a chor
us girls.
INDIANS DIG FOR OR£ THEIR
FOREFATHERS USED FOR PAINT
ALPINE, Tex., Jan. 19. (.<¥>)—Burrow
ing in the rugged mountains of south
west Texas, stolid Indians today are
mining for its treasures of quick-sil
ver, the blood-red ore their fore fath
ers used as warpaint.
The miners live in village that are
silent as the tomb. Far beneath the
surface they spend their waking hours
taking from the hills a heritage which
civilization discovered and claims as
its own.
Tarlinque and Waldron, ninety miles
from a railroad, are the center of a
district where the expected opening
of a new mine may give Texas first
rank in the United States’ production
of quicksilver. The state now ranks
second.
FINDS PROBLEM OF BUYING
A FACTOR WITH IMMIGRANTS
LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 19. (^—Ac
customing the immigrant, and particu
larly his wife, to the great American
way of buying is an important aim of
emigrant agencies, Miss Sophonisba
Breckinridge, professor of social eco
nomy at the University of Chicago,
found in her study of “New Homes
for Old.”
Reporting the agencies’ work on a
subject newest to immigrants, Ameri
canization, Miss Breckinridge said that
from the viewpoint of arrivals, saving
is the problem over there; that spend
ing is the problem here.
Miss Breckinridge was the first wo
man to be licensed to practice law in
Kentucky.
TODAY’S WEATHER
Temperature, 32 above.
Cloudy.
Plane for Polar Flight
Lost In Conflagration
DETROIT, Jan. 19. (/P)— Cap
tain Wilkins announced at the
Union Club dinner today that a
fire yesterday destroyed a stout
all-metal, three-engined airplane
which was just completed for
the Polar flight.
The loss, however, he added
would not delay the starting of
the expedition.
INCREASE TAX
ON CORPORATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19, (/P)
—The Senate finance committee ap
proved the measure to increase the
corporation tax to 13 1-2 per cent from
12 1-2 per cent on all levies, after the
pending revenue bill becomes a law.
The change was made after the
treasury department estimated the bill,
as previously ordered would cut taxes
this year almost four hundred million
or one hundred million more than the
administration recommended.
APPROVE CONVICTION MITCHELL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19. (/P)
—The War Department Board of Re
view aprpoved the legal aspects of
the conviction of Colonel Mitchell.
“TEMPLE OF SACRIFICE” WILL
BE PROVIDENCE MEMORIAL
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 19. (£>)—
A “Temple of Sacrifice” in monumen
tal form, unlike any other World
War memorial committee on a de
sign presented by Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney.
Rising from a circular base 70 feet
in diameter to a height of 270 feet
will be a huge round fortress tower
of brick and terra cotta on a steel !
frame, surmounted by a sculptured
temple of sacrifice. Within will be
a powerful beacon light "which at
night can be seen for 30 miles across
Narragansett Bay. Lighted torches
on the outside of the temple will
add to its effectiveness.
The interior will have stone floors
and plastered walls. In the base will
be commodious rooms for war tro
phies, records and other purposes.
DANCING HAS BECOME LOST
ART IN LAND OF SOVIETS
MOSCOW, Jan. 19. (JP)—Dancing
has become a lost art in Russia. It is
looked upon as a “bourgeoise” pastime
by the Bolsheviks.
Although the government does not
actually prohibit it, there are really no
halls, restaurants or cafes where the
dances are held. In the Russian
home, dancing has long since disap
peared, as the average city family now
lives in one room.
Ballet dancing is the only form of
the Terpsichorean art that remains,
and that may be seen only on the
stage.
PRESERVE NEW ORLEANS HOME
OF BEAUREGARD AND MORPHY
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 19. {&)—'The
New Orleans home of Gen. P. G. T.
Beauregard, heroic Confederate Army
officer, and the birthplace of Paul
Morphy, chess champion, will not be
converted into a macaroni factory.
The architect unique residence
on Chartres street will be bought by
an organization formed to raise funds
when the threat of the macaroni fac
tory appeared.
A boxing show added more than
$2,500 to the fund.
Keeping of useless sacred cattle in
India is estimated to cost about two
billion dollars a year.
NEW JERSEY ASKS
RESTORATION OF
THESTATE RIGHTS
TRENTON, N. J. Jan. 19. (/P)—Gov
ernor Moore in his inaugural ad
dress here today, demanded the res
toration of the State’s rights for
the New Jersey legislature to me
morialize Congress to modify the
Volstead Act and repeal the state
prohibition amendment. It suggest
ed the destruction of the Anthracite
coal monopoly and the creation of
a Tri-State commission operating and
competing with the mines’ coal car
ried on the railroads, and declared
the Eighteenth amendment was a
“crowning act with a series of de
velopments tending to destroy State
rights.”
FINDS ABILITY WITH TOOLS
AN ASSET FOR THE INDIANS
BISMARCK, N. D„ Jan. 19.
Innate ability with machinery and
tools may eventually lead the Amer
ican Indian to a new place in the
i sun, believes Clark B. Dickinson,
head of the government Indian school
for girls here.
During his 10 years in the Indian
service, Dickinson says, he has found
that the Indian has an ingenuity and
an ability with tools which most
white men would envy. This is the
result, he thinks, of long centuries
in which the Indian was compeled to
devise tools to meet his peculiar con
ditions.
Indian boys make excellent automo
bile mechanics, he declares, and many
have displayed proficiency in other
trades where steadiness of hand and
accuracy of eye are assets.
MURCHISON TRAINS FOR 400
METERS RATHER THAN DASH
URBANA, II., Jan. 19. (/P)—Loren
Murchison, one of America’s premier
sprinters, will train for the 40 meter
run instead of the 100 meter dash in
future trials for the Olympic games.
Murchison, whose brother, Gerald,
was a star of this year’s Illini fresh
man football team, is in training for
the national indoor championships,
which will be held at Chicago in
February.
Several years ago, when Murchison
was beginning his career as a sprin
ter, "Paddy” Fitzgerald, .St. Louis vet
eran track coach, urged Murchison
to train for the 440. It was Fitzger
ald’s opinion that Murchison could
crack the world’s record for the
' quarter. Trice in indoor races, the j
| Illinois Athletic Club star has nego
I tiated the quarter in 50 ,and once
in Chicago, in a one mile relay race,
he did the distance in better time.
He mdae these marks with no train
ing.
RUBBER OF DOMESTIC SOURCE
IS MANUFACTURED IN TEXAS
(MARATHON, Tex., Jan. 19. (fp)—
In this little southwest Texas town
domestic rubber is manufactured from
the guayule plant, which grows wild
all over this section. A factory, un
der the spur of high rubber prices,
•»:i3 .eached an ou!rut of a ton a day.
The guayule is a shrub, three to
five feet high, and resembles sage
brush. Beneath its outer bark is a
sap, known as latax, from which the
rubber is made.
The shrub is put up in bales, like
hay and the sap is pressed out in a
machine called a ptbble mill. About
30,000 gallons of water, supplied by
wells, is required to produce a ton of
rubber. The plant is gathered, root
and all, and brings about $40 a ton
at the factory here.
The finished product comes from
the presses in sheets about three
inches thick, 30 inches long and 15
inches wide.
SNOW MOTORS FAIL TO DELIVER
FREIGHT DURING TEST MADE BY THE
ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION, INSIDE
JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 19.—(By the Associat
ed Press).—That Captain Wilkins’ snow motor may
fail to haul supplies from Nenana to Point Barrow
on the Arctic was indicated in a report of the Al
aska Road Commission after it had tested out a
with 3 tons of freight and arrived at Birch Lake,
a distance of fifty-eight miles. The Commission’s
tractor left- Fairbanks January eleventh, loaded
with three tons of freigh and arrived at Birch Lake
on the fourteenth with only eight hundred pounds
of the load. It was necessary to discard the remain
der of the load en route
The running time for the above experiment
was reported at 24 hours, sixty-seven gallons of
gasoline being consumed, indicating that it will re
quire more than four tons of fuel between Nenana
and Point Barrow.
Officials, who are responsible for the report also
said that the steering gear was unsatisfactory, and
it is impossible to operate the tractor through dry
snow which is common in the interior of Alaska.
Lack of water prevents the snow from packing,
_ which is reported to be one of the most essential
things neccessary to furnish proper traction for the
revolving threads. A test tractor dug itself into
the huge drifts and moved sideways until it worked
itself over the side of the trail.
Portion of Liquor Sent
Inlet Hospital, Water
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 19. (^)—
The shipment of liquor seized
at Seward two years ago and
then removed to the marshal’s
office at Valdez—-and more re
cently a portion of it shipped
to the Anchorage Government
hospital was found to be most
ly water.
WOULD REMOVE PICTURES OF
STATESMEN IN WOMEN’S ROOM
LONDON, Jan. 19. (/P)—’Pictures of
eminent male statesmen hang on the
panneled walls oi me little room
■which is. set aside for the use of the
four women members of Parliament.
The women members have not made
any objection to those male intrud
ers, but women who are less busy
with the affairs of state complain
that sta'teswomen should not be forc
ed to look at men politicians all day
in the House and then compelled to
look at more men when they with
draw to their private apartment
to rest and look after their corres
pondence.
There is enough material in the
great wall of China to build one 8
feet high and three feet thick entirely
around the earth.
Will Rogers, the notel comedian, had
his life insured for $800,000, which
costs nearly $100 a day in premiums.
Workers at the British mint in Lon
don are said to be among the finest
craftsmen in the world.
Ancient Romans considered it an
omen of death for an owl to alight
upon a house, unless the bird was kill
ed and nailed to the wall.
Certain natives of Australia are
said to live almost entirely upon a
diet of mushrooms.
Lieut.-Ool. Clarence O. Sherrill has
resigned from the Army to become
city manager of Cincinnati.
I
GASOLINE IS NOT
INJURIOUS TO
PUBLIC HEALTH
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19. (IP)
—A committee informed Surgeon.
General Cummings of the public
health service, that the commercial
use of gasoline, containing tetrehyl
is not a hazard to public health, and
there is no reason why it should be
prohibited.
The investigation arose after five
workers met death in the Standard
Oil plant at Bayway, N. J.
JAPANESE DAILY IN CHICAGO
SHOWS PROGRESS OF PRINT
CHICAGO, Jan. 19. (IP)—The evo
lution of the art of printing is oddly
and graphically shown in each is
sue of the Dai-Nippon, Japanese daily
newspaper published here. Printed by
hand,- it has a circulation of five hun
dred.
There are 50,000 characters in the
old Japanese alphabet and some 20,
000 in the simplified writing vocabu
lary. That is why three-fourth of
the Dai-Nippon's news is in the com
plicated characters of the two al
phabets, laboriously drawn by stylus
on a stencil.
The remainder of the news is half
in English and half in the ne<w ro
man-letter Japanese, both transcrib
ed on the typewriter. Current ad
vertisements are sketched by hand,
but forty per cent of the four pages is
advertised matter printed weeks in
advance, with the aid of metal, hand
set characters. The news is run off
by mimeograph and the composing
and printing of the newspaper re
quires from eight to twelve hours
daily.
Roll newsprint runs through the
newest printing presses at the rate of
about 45 miles an hour.
The new king of Siam is a graduate
of Oxford University and is an ardent
movie fan.
There are on average about 36,000
Americans in France constantly.