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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 19.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1926.
PRICE TEN EENTS
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FIGHT AGAINST
APPROPRIATION
FOR AIR CRAFT
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BUTLER LEADS FIGHT TO STRIP
MONEY FOR BUILDING
PLANES FROM BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23 (^P)—
Points of order stripped the Navy
Department appropriations bill of
the $9,000,000 asked for new aircraft
construction during the fiscal year, ,
when the two House committees <
handling Naval affairs came to an
open breach. Chairman Butler of the
Naval committee led the fight against
the aircraft appropriations charging (
that the appropriations naval sub- ,
committee infringed its authority by
taking over matters within the prov-! ■
ince of his committee.
TWO MEXICAN BANDITS
STOOD AGAINST WALL
MEXICO CITY, Meat., Jan. 23 (/P)— |
Summary execution has been meted !
out to three of the bandits who last j
week massacred the passengers, train
crew and guards on a local train.
Two of the others who were captured
were spared on their promise to di-:
vulge the location of the rest of the!
gang.
WANT ALL-METAL DIRIGIBLE j
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22. (IP) i
—The Navy department is planning
to ask Congress for a $300,000 ap
propriation for the construction of
a small all-metal dirigible. The re
quest for funds is understood to have
been submitted to Director Lord, of
the Budget Committee and is said to
have the approval of Pres. Coolidge.
COLD KILLS MAN
IN NEW JERSEY
TWO COLLAPSE
NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (JP)—A cold
wave which swooped down on this
district last night caused the death
of a man at Perth Amboy. Two men
collapsed on the streets from the bit- i
ter cold. The temperature dropped!
25 degrees in less than 24 hours.
Cold Weather at Chicago
CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (/P)—1The tem- j
peratture dropped 5 below freezing
here last nightt. Low temperatures
are reported as far south as El Paso, j
Texas.
GASOLINE WITH TETREHYL
NOT DANGEROUS HEALTH
WASHINGTON—A special commit-:
tee has informed Surgeon General
Cummins of the Publis Health Serv
ice that commercial gasoline contain- i
ing tetrehyl was not a hazard to the
public health and that there was no
reason for it being prohibited. The *
committee was investigating the acci
dental deaths of five workers at the
Standard Oil plant at Bayway, N. J.
CANNOT BORROW FROM U. S.
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 23 (#»)—Pres
ident Machado announced that Cuba
cannot accept loans from American
banks.
VIC LEAVES WITH
60 PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, Jan. 22. (JP)—'The steam- j
ship Victoria of the Alaska Steamship
Company sailed from this port this
morning at nine for Seward and way
ports. Passengers booked for Seward
are Mrs. Marguerite Schlosser, Paul
ine Reynolds, L. S. Wickersham, Niel
McDonald and one steerage.
PRINCESS BIBESCO FALLS
FROM HER HORSE
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22. (JP)—Prin
:ess Bibesco, wife of Prince Bibesco,
he Roumanian Minister to the Unit
'd States and a daughter of Earl As
luith, fell from her horse while rid
ng on the Douglas Fairbanks estate
md was slightly injured.
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINATIONS WARMING UP
SAYS NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK, Jan. 22. (£>)—'The New
fork Times says that the campaigns
:or two and possibly four candidates
’or the Democratic presidential nom
nation have been started.
Those mentioned are Gov. Albert C.
ititchie, of Maryland, Gov. Donahey
)f Ohio, Gov. Al. Smith of New York
ind William G. McAdoo.
DANCE NOTWICRED
BUT IS DANGEROUS
DETROIT, Jan. 22. (/P)—Every ef
fort to “denature” the dance has end
sd in failure, declared Dr. W. H.
Phelps, an editor, saying “Henry Ford
lias put the world on wheels, but to
teach the world to dance decently is
“We no longer think of the dance as
a giant’s task.
being wicked, as we once did, he add
ed, “but we think of it now rather as
being dangerous.”
SPANISH PLANE MAKES
SECOND HOP IN FLIGHT
MADRID, Jan. 23 (JP)^—'The radio
at Las Palmas set the time for the
start of the second hop off in the
trhnsatlanic flight from the Canary
Islands to Cape Verde tomorrow. The
distance is 1056 miles.
WANT STANDARD LAW
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22.(JP)
—A delegation from the General
Federation of Women’s Clubs called
on President Coolidge, to seek his
approval of a constitutional amend
ment permitting Congress to enact
a Federal Marriage and Divorce law
saying that at present the states
have to control the problem indi
vidually.
PROFESSOR OUSTED
NEW YORK, Jan. 22. (jP)—Profes
sor William Bradley Otis, of the
College of the City of New York,
was ousted from the National Secu
rity League by its president, Major
General Bullard, because of Otis’
stand against Military Training in
colleges.
CONFERENCE BEGUN
SHANGHAI, Jan. 22. (TP)—A con
ference between the radical Chinese
leaders and the Soviet agents was
begun with the view to founding a
new Chiese Party, openly professing
the Red doctrines.
WHY DO WE LIVE?
NEW YORK—Dr. Charles Gray,
prfessor of philosophy at the New
York university, in a statement derid
ing the mechanical civilizaton of to
day said that some one should post a
prize of one million dollars for the
invention of a reason to live.
APPROVES MITCHELL VERDICT
WASHINGTON—The War Depart
ment board of review has approved
the legal aspects of the conviction of
Col. William Mitchell of the Aviation
Service.
KLAN AGAINST EVOLUTION
ATLANTA—Edward Young Clarke,
former Imperial Wizard of the Ku
Klux Klan was appointed head of an
organization which will aattempt to
suppress the teaching of evolution by
barring teachers with the theory from
every school in the State.
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OLMSTED’S WIRE
TAPPED AND
EVIDENCE HEARD
CONVERSATIONS OF INCRIMINAT
ING NATURE HEARD BY
GOVERNMENT AGENTS
SEATTLE, Jan. 23 (JP)~C. O. Mey
ers, manager of the Seattle exchange
of the Pacific Telephone and Tele
phone numbers over which conversa
graph Company who testified as a
witness in the Olmsted case today,
enumerated 34 telephone numbers
over which conversations were heard
by government agents^ in 1924. The
testimony was the first given as to the
source of the government’s information
and showed that the three telephones
were tapped, those at Olmsted’s home,
Finch’s office and the general office
of the organization.
MAUD RELEASED
LIBEL CLAIMS
SEATTLE, Jan. 23 (/P)—The gas
schooner Maud, Explorer Stefansson’s
vessel, was released from her libel
claims today tto return to the Arctic
as a trading vessel for a British Col
umbia firm.
CALIFORNIA POLITICIAN DEAD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 23 (JP)—
Representative Raker, democrat, of
California, died here today.
JOHANNESBURG
REEF NEARS END
OF PRODUCTION
UNLESS OTHER VEINS ARE DIS
COVERED FAMOUS MINE BE
FORCED CLOSE DOWN
SEATTLE, Jan. 23 (JP)—Henry Lan
dan, engineer from Johannesburg, S.
A., arrived here last night on an
Oriental liner en route to London and
a globe circling trip. He declared
that from its discovery in 1891 the
Witwaters Rand, later named Johan
nesburg, was the world’s greatest gold
producing district, but added that the
reef at Johannesburg is approaching
an end and unless some new vein is
discovered some other place its glo- i
ries will dim and expire.
He stated that production the past
few years had fallen off rapidly.
FRENCH BET ON SUZANNE
PARIS, Jan. 23 (JP)—French sport
ing men are betting 2 to 1 that Su
zanne Lenglen will defeat Helen Wills
the American tennis champion, when
the pair meet on the French courts.
MRS. VANDERBILT ILL
NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (JP)—Mrs.
Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, wife of Gen
eral Cornelius Vanderbilt, is seriously
ill at the Vanderbilt Fifth avenue
mansion with five physicians in con
stant attendance. Cornelius Jr. was
hastily summoned home from the
south and is in attendance at his
mother’s bedside.
STREET CAR WRECKED
BOSTON—The motorman was kill
ed and 12 passengers injured when a
Boston Elevated street car left the
rails today when one car stalled and
backed down into another coming up
the grade.
FIRE IN WINNIPEG.
WINNIPEG, Can., Jan. 23 (JP)—A
fire which broke ‘out shortly before
10 o’clock last night did great dam
age to the Stobart apartments and an
office block on Portage avenue, in the
I center of the retail district.
^OOLIDGE CHARGED WITH
DELAYING SUGAR REPORT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23 (TP)—
Senator Norris of Nebraska charged
:hat President Coolidge, Senator
tteed Smoot and dthers attempted to
nfluence Wm. S. Culbertson, a mem
aer of the tariff commission, to delay
lis report on the sugar tariff.
RUSSIA WILL JOIN, BUT— 1
MOSCOW, Jan. 22. (TP)^In its re
ply to the invitation of the League !
of NaJtions to participate in the work
of the preparatory commission for
the League’s disarmament confer- '
ence the Rusisan Government will '
say it can accept only, if the meet
ing is held outside of Swiss terri- 1
tory.
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AGRICULTURAL
BILL CARRIES
SUM FOR ALASKA
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23 (TP)—
The Agricultural bill introduced this
week provides $90,000 for animal
breeding and protection in Alaska;
which is $4,900 more than last year;
provides $76,240 for agricultural ex
periment stations, the same as last
year, and $8,560 for National forest?
in Alaska.
EMBARGO ON DAIRY PRODUCTS
NEW YORK—An embargo of milk
and dairy products of 11 Western
states was ordered by Health Com
missioner Harris pending a further
investigation of "bootleg” milk getting
into the city.
MANY BUILDINGS BE BUILT
NEW YORK—S. W. Strauss esti
mates that 800,000 buildings will be
erected this year throughout the
United tSates. Of this number over
200.000 will be private garages and
10.000 public garages.
PAYING OFF PUBLIC DEBT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22. (IP)
—The Government is paying off its
public debt at the rate of three hun
dred and ten million dolars a year,
it was revealed today when the sen
ate finance committee made public
the testimony of secretary of the
treasury Mellon before the commit
tee.
HE DOUBED THE BIBLE—HERESY
ARSEN, Holland, Jan. 22. (IP)—
Because he is alleged to have cast
doubt in a sermon on the statement
in Genesis that the serpent in the
Garden of Eden spoke to Eve about
eatig the apple, Rev. J. G. Geelker
ken of Amsterdam must stand trial
fr heresy.
DEBATE WORLD
COURT AT END
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23 (IP)—
Hope of limiting the Senate debate
on the world court without cloture
collapsed today when opponents of
the court assented to unanimous con
sent of limitations.
By consent the Senate will ballot
Monday on a motion to restrict each
Senator to one hour in the debate.
It is predicted that the roll-call will
show the necessary two-thirds ma
jority.
BEHEMIAN CLUB HAS FIRE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22. (IP)—
Fire, which broke out in the Bo
hemian club late this aftrenoon,
caused damiage estimated at fifteen
thousand dollars. Rare oibjects of
art and furniture were damaged in
the blaze.
The steamer Starr will be delayed
on account of gales.
EIGHT KILLED IN
HOTEL FIRE IN
ALLENTOWN, PA.
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Jan. 23 (£>)—
Sight guests were killed, and a score
njured in a fire which destroyed the
^afayette Hotel last night. Eight
quests are missing. One man wras
tilled by a fall from a window on the
lourth floor. Others were found hud
lled in a corner on the fourth floor
md were carried down the ladders by
;he firemen. The guests fled in their
light clothes in a temperature 15 to
L8 above zero, the water freezing on.
heir flimsy garments.
ALL BUT 3 RECOVERED
WILLBURTON, Okla., Jan. (/P)—
rhe bodies of all but three of the
II .victims of the explosion at the
Degnan McConnel Coal mine, near
here, Wednesday, had been located
yesterday.
DRAFTS NEW CABINET
BERLIN, Jan. 22. (JP)—Chancellor
Luther has drafted a new Reich
Cabinet which has been approved by
the Democrats, Catholics, Centrists
and Peoples Party.
President von Hindenburg is ex
pected to accept the list, unless the
objection of the Peoples Party to
the appointment of a Democrat to
the post of Minister of the Interior
grows too strong.
BILLION $ DRY LOBBY
AIBANY, N. Y., Jan. 22. (/P)—'The
‘Bi/llion Dollar Dry Lobby,” backed
by women social leaders, is prepar
ing to descend on the Legislature
and demand State Prohibition En
forcement. #
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr., and
others, whose family fortunes ag
gregate in excess of the billion mark
are financing the drive.
TWO NEW BILLS
INTRODUCED BY
SUTHERLAND
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23 (£>)-—
Delegate Sutherland introduced two
joint resolutions today. One proposed
a survey of William Henry Bay and
the other to make contractors and
carriers on power boat star mail
routes postmasters so that they will
receive their pay annually.
CHAIN OF STOCK THEATRES
NEW YORK—Otto Kahn has pro
posed the creation of a chain of stock
theatres throughout the United States.
HARRY DAUGHERTY HELD
FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT
NEW YORK, Jan. 22. (£>)—Harry
M. Daugherty, former United States
attorney general was threatened with
contempt of court 'today as the result
of his refusal to answer certain ques
tions put to him by the grand jury
investigating the alleged transfer to
to Swiss concern of stock worth
seven million dollars seized by the
alien property custodian's office dur.
ing the war.
ROUND UP COMMUNISTS
BELGRADE, Jan. 22. (^—Follow
ing the discovery of a plot against
King Alexander and his cabinet min
isters, five hundred known commun
ists have been rounded up by the
police.
QUEEN CONTRACTS COLD
BRUSSELS, Jan. 22. (iP)—Queen
Elizabeth is suffering from a severe
cold contracted while doing relief
work in the flood regions recently.
Good program at the Liberty.