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VOLUME 19. NUMBER 294
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY' DECEMBER 17, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
MUSCLE SHOALS
BILL READY TO
REPORT HOUSE
MEASURE PROVIDES SALE OF
I \ NITRATE PLANT TO FORD,
IN CASE HE WANTS IT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17 —
The House bill providing for the sale
of Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford was
presented to the Senate today by pre
vious agreement.
A message came from Detroit to
day in reply to a request of senators
that Henry Ford renew his bid for the
property:
“Answering yours of yesterday, Mr.
Ford’s offer was withdrawn by him
in a letter to the president October
15, and will not be renewed.”
Senator McKellar, democrat, of
Tennessee, one of those who took up
the question with the Detroit manu
facturer, said he did not know how
to interpret the reply.
The task of finding a solution for
the long continued Muscle Shoals
l problem confronted the senate today,
a unanimous consent agreement at
the last minute giving it the right of
way.
In efforts to reach a common ground
on which the various factions can
stand, there is a general disposition to
look to the White House for guid
ance. Leaders of the forces support
* ing the numerous proposals for dispo
sition of the Muscle Shoals property
generally feel that nothing can be
accomplished now without the admin
istration’s support.
Unless the president takes the sit
uation in hand there is a possibility
that debate on the subject will extend
over several days without a chance of
|r ending in anything but a deadlock.
Timber Culture Asked
By the Chief Forester
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—'Under in
tensive forest management, sufficient
pulp wood to meet future domestic
requirements could be grown in this
country, but if our pulp timber in
dustry is to be permanent, forest
destruction must give way to timber
culture, Chief Forester Greeley de
clared today in his annual report to
^ congress.
FACT FINDING
COMMISSION ON
WAY TO SEWARD
^ L. B. Hopkins and T. F. Joyce, of
the field commission of the United
States Tariff Commission are on their
way to Seward, now being employed
at Juneau, where they were joined
by Samuel Schoenfeld, the third mem
ber of the commission and Mrs. Hop
kinson, wife of one of the other men.
The commission started their work
in Seattle in September and visited
Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Ketchikan,
and Juneau. They will also visit
Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Sitka
and Seward, before returning to
^rashington, D. C., to make their re
port for' use by the Congressional tar
iff commission.
The results of their findings will be
placed before Congress some time in
January or February, and anyone in
terested in the halibut industry may
present a brief before the commission
either in person, by proxy or written
communications.
The records kept on the halibut in
dustry covering a period of several
^ years have been examined. The vol
ume of trade done, what expenditures
are made, and for what purpose, the
comparative cost of upkeep of vessels
and gear, marketing facilities, in fact
everything in connection with the
halibut industry will be examined.
As Seward shipped about 2,500,000
pounds of fish this year, the commis
sion will be here for several days be
fore returning south.
JOHNSON WOULD CHANGE
VOTE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Senator
Hiram Johnson, of California, today
proposed a constitutional amendment
providing that the President should
be elected by a plurality of the elec
toral college, instead of a majority
as now provided.
WATSON DUE AT EIGHT
Late reports on the arrival of the
Admiral Watson state she will arrive
at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning in
stead of at 4, as announced elsewhere
in the paper.
NEW JAPANESE AMBASSADOR
TOKIO, Dec. 17.—The appointment
of Thuneo Matsudaira, vice minister
of foreign affairs, as ambassador to
Washington, was announced today.
SUIT FILED BY
GOVERNMENT
SEATTLE FIRM
RETURN OF 5764,842 FOR SHIP
BUILDING CONTRACTS
IS DEMANDED
SEATTLE, Dec. 17.—Suit for $764,
842 against the firm of Skinner &
Eddy was filed in the Federal court
here today on behalf of the United
States, by Clarence Reams, special
counsel for the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration. The bulk of the money be
ing sued for was turned over by the
government as advance payments on
ships which were never built, the
contracts being cancelled after the
signing of the armistice, the com
plaint alleges.
Consolidation of Veto
of Postal Salaries Bill
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Senator
Ashurst moved in the Senate toda^
that immediate attention be given to
Coolidge’s veto of. the postal salaries
bill, but administration leaders block
ed his efforts.
M’INTOSH NOMINATED
TO BE COMPTROLLER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17 —
Joseph W. McIntosh, of Illinois, dep
uty comptroller of currency was
nominated today by President Cool
idge to be comptroller.
Kills Boy With Auto;
Will Be Prosecuted
SEATTLE, Dec. 17.—A coroner’s
jury today recommended the criminal
prosecution of James R. Stewart for
running down and killing George Lar
son, two year old, with an auto.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
STUDENTS VERSATILE
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 17.—Versa
tility abounds in Syracuse university.
Take the employment office for in
stance. According to reports on file
at the office there are plumbers, bar
bers, masons, paperhangers, bakers,
cooks, printers, chauffeurs, druggists,
electricians, bankers, carpenters, and
scores of others talented in various
trades and professions, waiting for
employment outside school hours in
their best suited occupations.
Flayed By Germany
for American Speech
BERLIN, Dec. 17.—The well-inten
tioned but unfortunate after-dinner
speech of Dr. Hugo Eckener, comman
der of the ZR-3 on her flight to the
United States shows he does not com
prehend the political atmosphere as
well as he did the ethereal atmos
phere during the Zeppelin’s voyage.
FUNERAL TRAIN
REACHES EAST
BODY GOMPERS
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—The body
of Samuel Gompers, accompanied by
his widow, members of his family,
and Federation officials, reached here
this morning and will lie in state
at the Elks’ Club until tomorrow
morning when the funeral exercises
will be held.
Arrives in Washington
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—
The body of Samuel Gompers arrived
here yesterday afternoon and reposed
last night in a fragrant, flower-bank
ed room, where for years he fought
the battles of the American working
men and women. Through this im
pressive setting, representatives of
American labor filed in slow proces
sion, stopping for a moment at the
flower-decked bier for a last glance
at the features of their departed dead.
CAPITAL WILL SHARE
WITH LABOR RESPECT
OF SAMUEL GOMPERS
NEW YORK, Dec. 17—The entire
nation, officially, and through the
representatives of big finance and
business industries as well as profes
sions, will share with the labor ele
ment in honoring its dead chieftain,
Samuel Gompers, at his funeral in
this city tomorrow, it was indicated
in the completed arrangements and
announced by Hugh F **yne, national
organizer of the American Federation
of Labor.
GOLDPRODUCED
FAIRBANKS DIST.
IS LARGE SUM
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 17.—Gold pro
duced in the Fairbanks district and
handled by the First National Bank
here, amounted to $784,182.74 during
the fiscal year of 1924, ending Decem
ber 15, or $231,275.66 greater than
1923, R. C. Wood, manager of the
First National Bank, says in his an
nual report made public today.
Bog’s Life An Old One,
Says Chicago Professor
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 17.—Absolute
proof that dogs were domesticated as
long as seven thousand years ago,
has come out of the ancient tombs of
Rich, which is considered the oldest
city and which scientists record so,
Professor S. Langdon, in a report to
B. G. Davies, director of the Federal
Museum here, today. To substanti
ate his statement and finding he said
that three figures of canines were
found in the chamber of the palace
library of Rich which were said to
be as old as the hills.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17._
Rear Admiral Louis Nolan, command
ing the battleship division of the U.
S. battle fleet, will become command
ant of the naval academy at Annapo
lis in February.
Chooses Dreadful Escape
from World’s Activities;
Poison, Cremates Herself
BRENTWOOD, N. Y., Dec. 17.—
Choosing her husband’s lonely grave
in the Brentwood cemetery as a pyre
for her death, Mrs. Laura Baker,
killed herself by fire and poison to
day when she swallowed poison
and saturated her clothing with gaso
line and then turned herself into a
livipg column of flame by applying a
match.
FIRE DESTROYS MANY
PRICELESS RECORDS
SEATTLE, Dec. 17—Fire last night
destroyed the Mineshall university,
containing many priceless records
and research material.
TODAY'S FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 17.—
Salmon was quoted here this morn
ing at ten and eight cents.
HUGHES WILL REPRESENT
COOLIGE GOMPER’S FUNERAL
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Secretary of
State Charles Evan Hughes will be
at the head of the list of honorary
pallbearers at the funeral services
of the late Samuel Gompers, repre
senting President Coolidge.
SHIP BUILDING
ON COMPETITIVE
BASIS PLANNED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—
Naval building by the nation would
on a competitive basis, give promise
of a better hope for the future, in the
respect to the American Navy. The
opinion of President Coolidge, with
administration viewpoint was again
referred to as looking forward to a
navy adequate for the defense of the
country, without considering steps
taken by other nations. The Presi
dent regards as unnecessary any Con
gressional inquiry into the state of
the Nation’s navy.
SPEAKS FOR U. S.
LONDON, Dec. 17,—Chancellor
Churchill, speaking in the House of
Commons today, said that “Great
Britain had in no way opposed the
claims brought forth by the United
States government for the cost of its
army of occupation in Europe.”
Training Camp Romance
Ends In Happy Marriage
—
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 17.—Word
reached Portland recently that Thos.
L. Turner, president of the Portland
Club of the Pacific Coast baseball
league, was married last week to Mrs.
Clara Dorfner, a widow of Philadel
phia.
Turner and his bride left imme
diately afterward for New York and
from there went to the National Lea
gue meeting at Hartford.
The romance began two years ago
in Pasadena when the Portland club
trained there.
Stressman Is Asked To
Form German Cabinet
—
BERLIN, Dec. 17.—President Ebert
today asked Dr. Gustav Streseman,
foreign minister in the Marx cabinet
and leader of the German people’s
party form a cabinet to succeed the
Marx ministry, resigned.
Another Seattle Convict
Receives Pardon as Xmas
Cheer from the Governor
SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 17—John Sou
das, the Seattle foreigner-murderer,
walked out of the State penitentiary
this morning as a result of another
Christmas pardon, issued by Gover
nor Louis F. Hart of Washington.
Soudas is the second life-term con
vict, who is alleged to have wealthy
relatives, to be liberated by the ge
ial governor in ten days. Soudas
has served sixteen months of the
sentence imposed on him by a Seat
tle grand jury for the brutal killing
of Blanche Coleman about two years
ago.
Immediately after Soudas’s release
from the Washington State peniten
tiary he was rearrested and the au
thorities here are exerting their ef
forts toward his deportation to his
homeland in Greece.
O’MALLEY UPHELD
BY COURTS IN
FISHING ORDER
P. E. HARRIS & COMPANY LOSES
IN EFFORT TO RESTRAIN
BUREAU FISHERIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17.—The
right of the Federal Bureau of Fish
japjo s.nuajna am aojojua o? saua
designating a closed season for fish
ing in Alaskan waters was upheld
here today by the United States Cir
cuit Court of Appeals.
P. E. Harris & Company, owner of
a cannery at Hawk Inlet, and operat
ing a line of fishing traps, sought to
restrain Commissioner O’Malley, fish
ing commissioner for the Territory
from putting into effect an order sup
plementing the Congressional Act.
WIFE OF GOTTSTEIN
SUING FOR DIVORCE
SEATTLE, Dec. 17.—Action to ob
tain a divorce was begun in the Su
perior court this afternoon by Hazel
E., wife of Joseph G. Gottstein, allied
with the Jensen Vohnerberg inter
ests, scions of a wealthy pioneer Se
attle family.
British Officials Leary
So Will Quit their Posts
for Fear Being Targets
LONDON, Eng., Dec. 17.—Viscount
Allenby, the British high commission
er for Egypt, received a letter today
threatening his life before leaving
for Cairo Monday, on a visit to Alex
andria.
The Daily Telegraph’s correspond
ent at Cairo reports that a great ma
jority of British and other foreign of
ficials have decided to exercise their
option and quit the Egyptian service
next fall, if they are still on earth to
do so.
Bitter feelings between British and
Egyptian subjects have arisen since
the murder of Major-General Stack,
and many notes are being exchanged
in anticipation of clearing up the
case.
COLDEST SPELL IN
YEARS SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Dec. 17.—The mercury
registered 14 degrees above zero this
morning, the coldest in ten years.
Damage was done to many water
pipes and to unprotected shrubbery.
DEFEATED ENGLISH PREMIER
SEEKS HEALTH ON HIGH SEA
LONDON, Eng., Dec. 17.—Ramsay
Macdonald, former premier of Eng
land, left here Monday on a sea voy
age in anticipation of regaining his
health.
Girl and Boy Students
Meet with Closed Doors
Seattle School Cleanup
SEATTLE, Wn„ Dec. 17.—Sixteen
school students, both boy and girls,
were suspended by the School Board
last night, for participating in affairs
where students had liquor.
The Lincoln students were barred
from their classes a week ago.
It is announced that more startling
disclosures will be forthcoming in or
der to rid the Seattle schools of the
debauchery existing outside of class
es. Three schools so far have sus
pended students where they have
been found indulging in wild orgies
and imbibing in liquor which caused
lax in their studies.
The regular freight train will leave
Seward Friday morning instead of
Thursday, as formerly.