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VOLUME XIX NUMBER 60
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
DEMOCRATS STATE
REPUBLICANS WANT
TO STOP SCI1
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.—It is de
clared by prominent democratic con
gressmen that republican senators are
striving mightily to hush up the oil
scandals and allow the oil grafters to
go scot free from prosecution, while
republicans charge that the democrats
are attempting to make political cap
ital out of the situation, and that the
preceding administration was guilty
of greater grafting during the world
war than was ever before known.
Senator Harrison defended William
G. McAdoo’s connection with the Do
heny interests and Senator Moses, a
republican severely criticised his mix
up with the oil ring. Senator Glass of
Virginia also joined in defense of Mr.
McAdoo.
“His connections with the oil ring
was so legal and ethical that McAdoo
resigned,” said Senator Moses.
“Assistant Secretary Roosevelt is as
guilty as Denby and should also be
•fired,” said Harrison. “If this be true
why not fire the Senators who were
mixed up with the graft on the dem
ocratic side of the question.” said Har
reld.
THREE HUNDRED BURNED
g TO DEATH IN CHOWTSUN
TSING TAO, Mar. 11.—Three hun
dred were burned to death, suffocated
or crushed in a panic as a result of a
fire which swept the important town
g' Chow tsun, 40 miles east of Shinan
in the Shantung province on Friday.
Seven hundred others were hurt.
IK HIS SINGS IS
BEING INVESTIGATED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.—The oil
investigating committee held an ex_
-ecutive session today for the exami
nation of the Three Rivers telegrams
* exchanged by Fall, Robert Stewart,
president of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana, Sinclair, Zevely and
others extending over a period of the
last three years.
SINCLAIR INTEBESTS TO
FIGBT FOB OIL LEASES
CHICAGO, Mar. 11.—Harry Sin
clair passed through this city today,
en route to Cheyennse, accompanied
by six corporation lawyers and trav
eling in a private car. He announced
that he would fight to the better end
the government’s attempt to cancel
the Teapot Dome oil leases.
C’OOLIDGE SUGGESTS BIG
REDUCTION INCOME TAXES
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.— Presi
dent Coolidge today sent a message to
Congress recommending a reduction
of 25 per cent in income taxes for
1923 be authorized before March 15.
CALIFORNIA BEATS WASH.
BERKELEY, Cal., Mar. 11.—Cali
fornia defeated Washington 32 to 31
in the first game of the series for the
Pacific coast basketball championship.
T*v Huskies led the Bears three times
during the game, but lost out.
ATTEMPT TO SOLS'"
U MEETING FAILS
WAUKESHA, Wis., Feb. 27.—
A7i attempted meeting of the Ku Klux
Kl^rn was broken up here last night,
when a crowd of 3,000 stormed the
hall in which the meeting was being
held breaking the windows and furni
ture.
\i is reported that E. L. Whitte.
more, who had passage engaged in
the Northwestern is a passenger on
the Alaska.
Fresh halibut 15 3-4 and 8 cents
per pound.
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COr”»IGMT UNDERWOOO * UNDERWOOD. N. V.
PLAYGROUND OF W EALTH AND FASHION—THE RIVERIA OF AMERICA
New view of the boardwalk and ocean beach near the bathing casino, at Palm Beach, Florida.
ELECTION OF JUDGES
B! PEOPLE PROPOSED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.—Election
by the people of Judges of the Federal
courts is proposed in a constitutional
amendment introduced in the Senate
today by Senator Dill.
LANGLEY MAKES TARIFF
ON KlISKOKWIM RIVER BOATS
Capt. Wallace Langley, who oper
| ates steamers on the Kuskokwim riv
1 er, has announced that arrangements
have been made for the transportation
of freight from Seattle to Kuskokwim
; river points so that freight charges
will be based upon weight instead of
measurement.
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EIGHTY-ONE BODIES TAKEN
FROM MINE UTAH FUEL CO.
CASTLEGATE. Mar. 11.—Eighty
one bodies have been recovered from
shaft No. 2 of the Utah Fuel Co., in
; which 175 miners are entombed.
STAMPEDERSCLAIM BEAVER
RIVER IS VERY RICH STRIKE
DAWSON, Mar. 11.—Mayo radio
messages state that stampeders re
turning from the Beaver river strike
| are well satisfied with the prospects.
I Original stakers report taking sam
ples running from nine to 1500 ounces
! of silver to the ton, with a high con
tent of lead.
PAYING OUT MILUON
CASH TO DEPOSITORS
SEATTLE, Mar. 11.—The receiver
of the defunct Scandinavian American
bank of Seattle began paying out a
'million dollars in cash to depositors
today.
WATSON SAILS TODAY
SEATTLE, Mar. 11—The steamship
Admiral Watson sailed this morning
I with 64 passengers, including the fol
lowing for Seward. Miss W. Wilson,
L. E. Ely, F. S. Kennedy, M. Kelly, A.
J. Bailey, J. B. McKee, B. Anderson,
j Mrs. B-. A. Klesinger, E. J. Warten
ibury, P. Nelson.
GERMAN TURKEY TREATY
j CONSTANTINOPLE, Mar. 11.—A
| treaty of friendship between Germany
and Turkey was signed today. It was
announced that it was purely a com
mercial treaty.
MARINE'S WOUNDED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.—In a
skirmish today between American ma
rines and revolutionists at Honduras,
seven marines were wounded.
Mrs. G. M. Burnett, wife of the as
sistant auditor of station accounts on
the Alaska railroad, arrived of the
Northwestern.
PREPARE PLANS
FOB COMPLETION
IMPORTANT ROAD
jTalkeetna Peters Creek Road Will Be
Completed this Summer, Says
Hawley Sterling
According to Hawley W. Sterling,
superintendent of the Alaska road
j commission, a crew of 15 men will be
i put to work on the Talkeetna-Peters
creek road in May. The road is be
ing constructed through swampy
ground and the commission has had a
hard time finding a roadbed.
The Talkeetna-Peters creek road up
on which the commission has been at
Work for the past three years is at
present nearly built and but two
miles remain.
About fifty tons of supplies are be
ing hauled into the district for use by
the commission.
dewFIsInt
GF MillS REPORTED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.— The
death of Lopez Gutierrez, de facto
; president of Honduras, was reported
to the State department today. A 72
hour armistice has been arranged by
the factions of the three-cornered rev
olution.
HENRY GREGSON CRITICALLY
ILL IN CHEHALIS, WASH.
Henry Gregson, an oldtimer who
'left Anchorage last October for the
| States, was picked up by a farmer
hiving near Chehalis, Wash., wander
ling about in the dense woods of the
State of Washington, in a delirious
condition, with his feet swelled almost
to the bursting point. He is now in
a serious condition in a Chehalis hos
pital.
SEATfLEELECTiS
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SEATTLE, Mar. 11.—The mayor
alty race is being run off today be
tween Lundin and Brown. Some ob
servers predict that the race will be
a close one, although the betting is
10 to 8 on Brown.
ANCHORAGE COUPLE WED
Miss Gladys Short and Howard
Johnson, a popular Anchorage couple,
were married last week. Following
the wedding a supper was served to
a number of invited guests by Mr. and
Mrs. Wolverton.
AMERICAN LEGION MEETING
The local post of the American Le
gion will meet tonight at 8 o’clock at
Legion headquarters. All members
requested to attend.
flohidi suns in
COLDEST SPELL OF TEAR
ATLANTA, Mar. 11. —Freezing
weather is reported in Florida, Geor
gia, the Carolinas and Virginia to
day. The coldest speel of the year is
causing the inhabitants of these states
to shiver and shake.
COLORADO MAINTAINS SPEED
TWENTY-ONE KNOTS HOUR
ROCKLAND, Me., Mar. 11—An av
erage speed of 21.37 knots an hour, oi
.37 knots an hour in excess of the con
tract .«peed was attained by the super
dreadnaught Colorado the largest war
ship, in a trial test here.
CONFESSES BOMBING PLOT
LONDON, Mar. 11.—Deep mystery
and profound secrecy surrounds Ralph
Thurber, a prisoner in an English jail,
who has confessed to a participation
in the Wall Street bombing plot, in
which 30 persons were killed.
REDONDO TO SAIL MAR. 20
SEATTLE, Mar. 11—The steamship
Redondo of the Alaska Steamship Co,
will sail from Seattle Thursday, March
20, to inaugurate her summer sched
ule from Seward.
YANK, B. C„ BURNS
CRESTON, B. B., Mar. 11.—Half
of the business section of Yank, B.
C., near here, was destroyed by fire.
The loss is placed at $25,000.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.—Travel
to Alaska next summer will break all
records, according to information re
ceived by the Department of the In
terior through Alaska railroad offcials
it was announced today.
The steamship Yukon, sailing June
28 from Seattle will carry 140 to
Seward. The entire number will make
a one way trip over the railroad and
Richardson highway. Seventy will go
over the highway from Chitina to
Fairbanks and by railroad to Seward
while 70 will go from Seward to
Fairbanks over the railroad and then
by auto to Chitina.
BELASCO WILL RUN OPEN SHOP
NEW YORK, Mar. 11.—David Be_
lasco, the theatrical producer, an
nounced today that he would before
June 1 close the engagements of all
his productions on tour and direct his
local theatre as he could no longer
accept the principles of the closed
shop as applied by his actors.
THIRTY-FIVE INDIAN ORPHANS
There are about 35 orphans being
cared for at the Tyonik Indian school
at Tyonik, on Cook Inlet, according
to W. T. Lopp, head of the Bureau of
Education.
jflUGHERTY ID
ELKINS DABBLED
IN SINCLi STOCK
WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.—The first
mblie investigation by the Daugherty
committee will be held Wednesday.
Senator Walsh announced today re
cords of brokers on Wall Street show
;hat both Daugherty and Senator El
ans have been dabbling in Sinclair
lil stock. Walsh also announced that
McLean would be placed on the stand
Wednesday.
The committee today announced
that it had come into possession of
another batch of telegrams which
passed between Fall, McLea, Doheny
and Sinclair.
ARTISTS DESIGN MS
SANTA MONICA, Cal., Mar. 11.—
Airmen called local artists to their aid
today in making the transglobe flight
which is scheduled to begin March 11
for a design to put on their planes.
The design must be of striking colors,
must be visable from afar, and must
include the American eagle.
FUR catch very small in
KOTZEBUE SOUND DISTRICT
Up to December 26, not a skin had
been taken from the traps in the Kot_
zebue Sound district, the natives mak
ing one of the smallest catches in the
history of the country. There is no
explanation of the disappearance of
fur animals in this section, but it is
supposed they have migrated.
Ij. LINDLEY GREEN NAMED
REGISTER IT. S. LAND OFFICE
Advices were received in Seward on
this mail that J. Lindley Green had
been nominated to succeed 1 rank
Boyle as register of the U. S. Land
Office at Anchorage and it is said his
nomination will be unanimously con
j firmed by the senate.
NEW YORK, Mar. 11.—In replying
to Senator Wheeler’s charge that Do
heny had financed a Mexican revolu
tion, Doheny admitted that he and
Sinclair had loaned the Obregon gov
ernment money to crush the de la
Huerta revolution.
The committee today is endeavoring
to establish the fact from Harry S.
Obbon, former mayor of Calexico,
California, that Fall and some of the
present government officials were in_
volved in a million dollar Mexican
gun running plot.
ICE JAMS IN PLATTE RIVER
BROKEN BY GIANT BOMBS
OMAHA, Mar. 11.—Hurling three
hundred pound bombs from a height
of several hundred feet from two
Martin bombing planes piloted by
Army fliers, two big ice jams in the
Platte river were shattered averting
a flood in the lowlands.
NEW FOREMAN AT TALKEETNA
Neil McDevitt, former A. E. C. con
struction foreman, who recently re
turned from a long absence in the
States, has been appointed section
foreman at Talkeetna.
FAILURE ENFORCE LAWS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.—Charges
of failure to enforce the anti-trust
laws in connection with cases trans
mitted by the Federal trade commis
mission will probably be produced be
fore the committee investigating the
actions of Attorney General Daugh
erty.
BABY BOY FOR BAGSHAWS
SEATTLE, Mar. 11—A baby boy
arrived at the home of the “Husky"
grid coach at the University, Enoch
Bagshaw.
ORGANIZED DOPE
01 OPERATING
IN UNITED STATES
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 11.—America
the richest country in the v 11 l.i anti
a country with no apparent enemy, is
the special objective of an organized
interna-ional dope ring, according to
Capt. Richmond Pearson Hob.on. tlie
Span' bn v ai veteran, author, lecturer
and formti Congressman from Alaba
ma, his native state.
Cart. Hobson is preaching a new
crus.Mf, whose motto, “Ye shall know
the truth and the truth shall make
you free,” expresses his leun’nation
to have the facts concerning dr eg hab
its taught to every boy and gm in
the land. To this end he has formed
an asso^'ation with headquarter s in
Los Angrles and branches i.. Europe
and all parts of the United States,
whose business is to supply ail infor
mation necessary to educators and
publicists as to narcotics and their
effects on the human system. Sociolo
gists are studying the effects of what
Capt. Hobson calls the rising tide of
narcotic addiction on the body politic.
“The latest reliable figures,” says
Capt.Hobson, “show that Italy con
sumes one grain of narcotic drugs per
capita per year. Germany two, Eng
land three, France four, and the Uni
ted States 3*3 grains—enough to drug
every man, woman and child in the
! country for 30 days out of every year.
We need not wonder at the wave of
juvenile crime and delinquency and
other alarming symptoms in our so
cial structure. The appaling increase
in crimes of violence, causing virtual
reigns of terror in our great cities,
has been parallel with the increase in
1 narcotic addiction.”
house MbIT
SSLE MUSCLE SHOALS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.— By a
close vote this afternoon the House
j passed the bill providing- for the sale
of Muscle Shoals properties to Henry
Ford.
INDEPENDENT STEAMSHIP
ORGANIZED AT JUNEAU
The Independent Steamship Com
i pany of Alaska is the name of a new
I corporation organized under the laws
of Alaska, with C. A. Burkhardt, pres
ident; G. L. Wakeman, vice president;
J. C. Allison, treasurer, and W. B.
McCord, secretary. The directors are
J. A. Hellenthal, well known Juneau
attorney; C. A. Burkhardt, of the
Alaska Consolidated canneries; J. C.
Allison, assistant manager of the
Bank of California, and E. S. Mc
Cord, Seattle fisheries attorney. The
headquarters of the company will be
in Juneau.
The company has purchased the
Diesel powered wooden ship Oregon,
284 feet long, 43 feet beam and 23
feet deep. She will have a freight
capacity of 2500 to 3000 tons and will
have a speed of 11 knots. Operation
of the vessel will be under the man
agement of W. F. Swran, who for many
years was the Juneau agent of the
Pacific Steamship Company.
GENEVA, Mar. 11.—The British
delegate, addressing the Opium con
gress being held here today, declared
that Britain would never give up the
traffic in opium and its products, and
that as opium wTas generally eaten in
India, a British possession, its produc
tion should not be limited or subject
ed to International rules as contended
for by America delegate.
DOCTOR KILLED BY AUTO
EVERETT, Wn., Mar. 11.—Dr. Ce
cil G. Moorehouse, a prominent physi
cian of Everett was killed last night
by an auto as he was hurrying to an
swer a sick call.
American Legion meets tonight.