VOLUME FOUR
THE DAILY PROGRESSIVE-MINER
Ketchikan, Alaska,) Friday March 28, 1919
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Number 136
AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION OF
LEAGUE 10 PROTECT MONROE DOC
TRINE UNNECESSARY SAYS GREGORY
Preliminary Peace Treaty Will Be Signed April 20,
Is Belief of Members of the Congress-Women
Will Hold Office in League of Nations
PARIS, Mar. 28.—No amendment concerning the Monroe
Doctrine has been included in the League of Nations covenant.
This was decided after Thomas W. Gregory, former attorney
general of the United States who is advising the peace confer
ence commission with reference to the legal phases of the
amendments proposed, had expressed it as his opinion that it
was not necessary to introduce a specific amendment affirming
the Monroe Doctrine.
Mr. Gregory asserted that the doctrine is sufficiently protect
ed by the covenant as it stands.
Colonel Edward M. House, Premier Eliptherios Venizelos of
Greece, Lord Cecil, M. Airdenand and Larnande will constitute
the draft committee to which the league has been referred.
President Wilson has issued a statement denying that the
consideration of the covenant has delayed the peace treaty a
month.
General Jan Smuts, of South Africa, Premier Orlando, and
Baron Makino of Japan, have been named as a committee to se
lect the city which will be the permanent seat of the League of
Nations. Brussels and Constantinople have been offered.
Members of the peace conference have expressed the belief
today that the preliminary peace treaty will be signed by April
20th.
The powers have now under consideration the question of
establishing a general staff to work with the League of Nations.
This proposal fo rwhich the French have been working hard for
some time, willcome along with the Monroe Doctrine question
and the Japanese demand for racial equality when the special
committee submits the new draft to the League of Nations
commission.
It is announced that women may hold any office in the League,
even that of presidency. Premier Asquith of England is men
tioned most frequently, however, in conection with this office.
The Council of Foreign Ministers has decided to raise the
blockade on German-Austria within a few days, it was learned
today.
There is available in England for immediate movement ap
proximately 30,000 tons of pork products, 5,000 tons of beans,
5.000 tons of rice, and 15,000 tons of cereals. The United
States has in Rotterdam and on the way there, approximately
75.000 tons of. breadstuffs.
NOTICE
TO OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF
MOTOR BOATS;
Your attention is inivited to the fol
lowing act: “To require numbering
and recording of undocumented ves
sels," approved June 7, 1918:
That, every undocumented vessel, op
erated in whole or in part by machin
ery, owned in the United States and
found on the navigable waters thereof,
except public vessels, and vessels not
exceeding sixteen feet in length mea
sured from end to end over the deck
excluding sheer, temporarily equipped
with detachable motors, shall be num
bered. Such numbers shall be not
less in sire than three inches and paint
ed or attached to each bow of the
vessel in such manner and color as to
be distinctly visible and legible.
Sec. 4. That the penalty for viola
tion of any provisions of this Act
shall be $10, for which the vessel shal
be liable and may be seized and Pro
ceeded against in the district court of
the United State in any district in
which such vessel may be found.
1. Application for numbers will be
made by the owner or master to the
collector of customs of the district In
which the owner resides. The owner
will then receive full instructions as
to the number awarded, how it is to
be placed on the vessel, etc.
M. S. DOBBS.
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New Edition of Chart No. 8124.
"Harbor Charts; Clarence Strait and
beam banal, Alaska. Dimensions
28x28 inches, Price 25 cents.
The difference between this and the
preceding editions consists In the
nlan of Ratz Harbor which is from a
recent survey and the plan of Dewey
Anchorage has the benefit of a new
topographic survey and a recent hy
drographic examination of a part ol
the area.
You Have An Advertisng
Message For The Public
Tell It Now
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Never were the people—the buying public
more ready and able to buy than they are today.
There is no scarcity of money. The purchas
ing power in America today is greater than in
all history. The field for new and greater busi
ness development is here.
Advertising is the certain, quick and econ
mical method of developing your business.
When you put the power of advertising pro
motion and its great economies back of your bu
siness, you are also spreading the spirit of opti
mism and good will.
The U. S. Department of Labor urges all pro
gressive merchants and manufacturers—in fact
all who have anything to sell—to advertise now
and take advantage of the great market which
exist at this time.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
W. B. Wilson, Sec. Roger W. Babson, Director
EMPEROR CHARLES
REPORTED VERY ILL
GENEVA, Mar. 28. — Former Em
peror Charles of Austria is again seri
ously ill suffering from a complete ner
vous breakdown according to advices
'rom Innlsbruck.
His wife who is also said to be in
bad health has been employing every
means to leave Austria for the Riviera
but has been unable to obtain French
passports.
CLEVELAND, Mar. 28. — Nearly
half of the 4000 garment workers who
are ou strike here have decided to re
turn to work doing on a 30 per cent
wage increase and a 44-hour week
basis. Ten of the 40 firms have agp§#8
to the terms of their employees, it
was stated.
NEW YORK, Mar. 28.—Enrico Car
ruso is celebrating his 25th year on
the operatic stage and has received
many costly gifts from admirers this
week from all parts of the world.
canadian’scTdiers
MARRY AT RATE OF
300 WEEKLY-REPORT
OTTAWA, Canada, Mar. 28. — Ac
cording to a report from the paymast
ers branch cf the militia department,
Canadian soldiers have contracted
the marrying epidemic and are marry
ing overseas at the rate of three hun
dred a week. The Paymaster’s branch
is at present disbursing $12,000,000 a
month and sending out two hundred
thousand checks of every variety in
the same period.
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EUENOS AIRES, Mar. 28.—A zinc
box containing four dynamite bombs
was unearthed here during the making
of an excavation for a building In Ba
hia, Brazil, says a dispatch to the Ra
zon. The bombs apparently had been
buried nearly half a century as they
were wrapped in a copy of The New
York Weekly Bulletin dated 1874.
J, J, DALY NOT
EXPECTED TO LIVE
Mayer Wakefield who returned on
•'the City of Seattle last evening le au
: t^ority for the report that Mr. J. J.
; Daly, of the Ketchikan Power Com
. nany is very seriously ill, and indeed
not exoected to live, according to a
• wire received by his two sons in Se
. attle from New York physicians, who
advised the boys to come east imme
•tiatelv If they wished to see their
father alive, adding that he was not ex
oected to last more than ten days
longer.
Eldon Daly is stationed at Bremer
ton with the Marine Corps and hoped
to aet a furlough to go east with his
brother Milton, who is a student at the
'University. The boys were expecting
to leave Tuesday evening for New
York , providing a furlough was
: granted.
GRANBY MANAGER
AND FAMILY LEAVE
Mr. and Mrs. N. W, Sweetser and
•■hree sons were southbound passengers
m the Alameda last evening for Ta
coma. where Mrs. Sweetzer will visit
I with her family while Mr. Sweetser
makes a short trip to Arizona.
Mr. Sweetser has been Alaska man
ager for the Granby mining interests
in this district which have been closed
down on account of the uncertain
condition of the copper market Mr.
Sweetser expects to return to the em
olev of the company next spring at
! their plant ftt Anyox, B. C.
W. H. Smith and Harry Lillon, of
Blaine. Wash., were arrivals on the
Seattle and will be employed at the
Smiley cannery at Metlakatla this
year
DR. DICKINSON BACK
Dr. George Dickinson returned on
the City of Seattle last evening from
Seattle and Portland where he has
spent the past three weeks.
SMASHES FINGER BADLY
Win Brindle suffered a very painful
accident to his left band this week
when he crushed the tip of his middle
finger in the clutch of the family gas
boat Wildwood. He is carrying his
arm in a sling but says his hand is
much better.
MOVEMENTS OF BOATS
Southbound
Farragut Wednesday 2nd.
City of Seattle Wednesday.
Northbound
City of Seattle 6 p. m. today.
Princess Friday.
Alaska Saturday 29.
I Admiral Watson, April 2.
WICKERSHAM
GRINDS OUT
CHARGES
Declares Lane bid What
Congress Feared From
BALLINGER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 28, —
In the fourth chapter of the sensa
tional letter sent to Secretary Lane,
Delegate James Wlckersham deals with
the turning over of the Bering River
leases to representatives of the Alaska
Syndicate (the Guggenheims).
He says, “It is the culmination of
’-ho monopoly which congress feared
when it crucified forqjer Secretary
Ballinger of the department of the In
terior, under suspicion that he intend
ed to do what you have actually
done.’’ And again, “The Govern
ment railroad organization under the
authorization of your telegram and
'etters carried on the most corrupt
election in 1916 that Alaska has ever
known. Since the Alaska Syndicate
voted 800 men out of its construction
"ang in 1908 in violation of the Con
rressional Act. And too, every offi
-ial and teacher in the Bureau of Edu
cation engaged in Alaska school |
work from Claxton to Hibbs was lined ^
•o under your leadership In the same
nernicious political activities.”
Excerpts from the final chapter of i
Wickersham's arraignment of Lane fol
lows: “You should, but possibly will!
not feel humiliated when you contem-'
plate this record of your failure in
Government ownership,, operation of:
public .utilities, your waste in Gov-;
ernment funds and your responsibility
tor crimes against the veyy existence
of the Government itself.'
‘,ln the meantime the Alaska Syndi
cate has its guaranteed Government
monopoly of copper, ccal and transpor
tation. Poor Ballinger was a piker."
“When Riggs had become a menace
to the completion of the Government
Railroad through his incompetency,
vou appointed him Governor of Alas
ka. nothwithstanding his record at Ne
naua.
"Your partisan mruv-uce ar occie
tary and as administrator of the rail
road was so persuasive in partisan
politics on the government railway
'hat it was directly responsible for
many criminal violations of the elec
tion laws, there. Riggs and Cramer
got overly enthusiastic of your idea of
conducting partisan politics from the
-j'fice of the Government Railroad and
j ‘went over the top”. It was your bad j
I example which made the Alaska Engi-;
' neering Commission the head and:
front cf the most corrupt political ma
chine we have even seen in Alaska. A;
corrupt political machine hand in hand i
with the White Pass and Alaska Syn
dicate and when the electors of Alaska
gave a majority against you, your as
sociates undertook to steal the elec
tion for delegate.
“Your administration of these great
trusts in the name of the President of
the United States is more than a fail
ure. It is a positive injury to the de
velopment cf Alaska, it is just what
Congress attempted not to do. I am
‘nformed that you have made some
suggestions of placing John E. Bal
’aine in charge of some of the activi
ties of this r°ad. While it may be
conceded that he is a good citizen and
I familiar with the conditions in Sew
ard where he is a large property hold
i er, he is not a practical railroad man
and ought not to have anyofficial con
nection with the management of this
road.
"Finally, in my judgment, there is
no remedy for bringing success to the
enterprise or which can save from
public scandal so long a6 you remain I
as its administrator.”
JINX FOLLOWING
THOMPSON FAMILIES
A queer co-incidence Happened here
within the past week when three
Ketchikaners bearing the name of
Thompson were indisposed, two suf
fering painful accidents.
Mrs. W. F. Thompson, whose hus
band is manager of the Men’s furn
ishing Department of J. R. Heckman
&Company, is confined to her bed as
the result of a bad fall down stairs.
She is progressing rapidly, however,
her friends will be glad to learn.
Mr. H. R. Thompson, owner of
Thompson’s grocery, Is carrying his
arm around in a sling. While crank
ing his car, it backfired, breaking sev
eral bones in his forearm, which is
mending rapidly.
Mrs. Julia Thompson, public librar
ian, mother of Mr. H. R, Thompson,
has been confined to her son’s home
under the doctor’s care, but Is re
ported doing well and hopes to be
tack at her desk shortly Mrs. E. E.
r lackmar has been relieving her at
the Library. }
BOLSHEVIKI SEND
AMBASSADOR TO U, S,
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 28 —
A communication was received from
Ludwig Christian Alexander Klaovlch
Martens, by the state department to
day announcing that he was at New
York and that he had credentials
from the Russian Bclshevikl govern
ment as ambassador to the United
States The state department has
given no inkling as yet as to what
steps will be taken.
WASHINGTONfV.’c~Mar. 28,
The 8800-ton freighter West Helix was
assigned to the Admiral Line here by
the U. S. Shipping board, making 12
ships in the Pacific Steamship Com
pany’s oriental fleet. The vessel was
delivered to the company today and be
gan loading immediately for the Or
ient.
LONDON, Mar. 28.—One of the very
rare copies of the first edition of the
Pickick papers, has been sold here
'or $825. today.
FORTUNE IS LEFT
TO ADOPTED GIRL
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 28. — The
will of the late Frederick C. Talbot,
millionaire lumber king, was filed in
mobate here and makes Miss Sylvia
T. Helms, an adopted daughter, his
chief beneficiary. Besides receiving a
special bequest of $50,000, she is given
control of one-third of 75 per cent of
the residue of the estate which is val
ued at approximate! $10,000,000. A
brother, Wm. H. Talbot is made exe
CUtOT.
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Mar. 28.—Great
Britain plans on sending a fleet of 12
warships to tour South America as
soon as the peace treaty is signed, ac
cording to an announcement made here
today by government officials.
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 28. —Accord
ing to reports from headquarters, war
stamps were sold in the United States
’n the United States in January at
the rate of 4’ cents for every per
son, with total sale of -48,399,000.
GREAT BRITAIN
BUILDING GIANT
AIRPLANE-REPORT
Another great British airship made
a trial flight today. She is the R-34,
and four feet longer than her sister
ship, R-33, her length being 665 feet
■md diameter 80 feet. Five engines
"1ve her a total of 1,250 horse power,
and she is expected to make eighty
miles an hour with a load of 29 tons.
The R-34 can carry enough petrol to
f'V to America and back without land
-ntr, and when once she is tuned up
she is expected to be able to negotiate
‘he Atlantic flight practically regard
less of weather conditions, says the
1 cndon Times.
British preparations for a transat
'antic contest are not confined to air
shios. Several heavier-than-air ma
chines are made or in the making, the
best known amcng them being the
'-lancHey Page products. There is, how
'•ver, another plane, o rrather set of
"’anes of which little has been said,
but which are being fitted out and
burned up for the special requirements
o* a transatlantic flight. This squadron
is under the command of Lt. Col. Porte
-vhose tame is familiar in American
'viation circles. Its squadron of fly
ing boats is called the Felixtowe Fu
-ies,” from the seaside resort which is
‘heir headauarters. During the later
stages cf the war Porte’s Furies did
-meat war against the German subma
rlnes. and now their commanders are
•vit for fresh laurels.
General Seely’s claim that Great
T-itain is further advanced than any
^‘he- rountry in preparations for civil
flying was not immediately conce-ned
with transatlantic ventures, but it is
’-ecognized that unless this country
toes win the Atlantic Blue Ribbon
‘here will be a disposition to regard
‘he claim as one of the boasts which
''-eneral Seely deprecated.
General Seely referred to a mystery
o’ane “conceived by a brilliant brain
and entirely novel in type” now under
construction.
1 ms macnine, uenerai occijr baiu,
-night attain speeds hitherto undream
-d of, and possesses qualities of a kind
different from anything yet seen. It
is ki’own as the Tarrant. It will be
driven by six engines developing 3,000
Horse power, it is on entirely novel
lines, which are expected to insure
greater control and stability than the
most perfect types previously devised.
LEAVES FOR VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. H. Nordness of New
‘own were southbound passengers on
Khe Alameda last evening for Seattle
vhere they expect to spend a few
veeks.
•^lr,.Ch?s. W. Durkee of the local Im
migration office left last evening for
the north on official business.
LENINE PROMISES TO FINANCE
HUNGARIAN ACTION AGAINST
AUSTRIA FOR $20,000,000.
Millions Dying of Starvation in Russia Under Rule of
Bolsheviki, and Must Go Without Lights
At Night and Fires in the Daytime
BERLIN, Mar. 28.—Despatches i'rom Petrograd state that
Premier Lenine has wirelessed the Hungarian Soviet Govern
ment urging that it send a Bclsheviki army against Vienna. He
has promised to finance the Hungarian expedition against Ger
man-Austria to the extent of twenty million dollars, the mess
age states further.
Dispatches from Russia, via Copenhagen, from travelers ar
riving from that country say that the scarcity of food and fuel
in all parts of the country is responsible for the deaths of
thousands of Russians daily. In the provinces the mortality is
so great that the Bolsheviki have issued orders to kill the incur
ables, hoping thus to counteract the typhoid, which it is almost
impossible to stop by any other means. Hardly any medecine
is available.
Food is so scarce in Moscow and Petrograd 'hat cat® sell rapid
ly for$3 each. Wood is so scarce that thei. is not enough for
coffins and there is no fuel for lighting, consequently millions
live in darkness after nightfall. Bolsheviki paper money has no
value in the country districts and the peasants refuse to ex
change it for food.
THE MUNICIPAL
DOCK QUESTION
The question of building a municipal
dock is coming before the voters at
he coming election Before it can be
decided it will be necessary to see If
we have the necessary funds.
We first must provide for our regu
'ir salaries and expenses for running
'he school and the town. Then comes
"enerai street repairs, new streets,
'i-e apparatus, etc.
It is very necessary that an addi
tional float to provide better facali
ties for the fishermen and small boats.
Consideration should be given to
a permanent fire hall and jail. After
ue se-ious accident of the last week
•vhen the jail was burned and the fire
hall damaged, it is up to the town to
Provide a more suitable building where
■ife and property may be protected.
The city owns a piece of property
centrally located on which a concrete
-,r fire-proof town hall could be cons
• rocked in which all of of the town’s
'nteres*s could be located, having the
fire hall and police station on the
-round floor and the library and the
-ouncil chamber above.
If this property should be so used,
’» could be graded off at the same time
->s the adjoining bank property, and
robably at a less cost than if under
‘aken separately. If this property is net
■sed. some other must be secured on
which a city jail can bebuilt.
The reck that will be taken from the
bank property should be used by the
-tty in cnstructing a permanent street
1' the immediate vicinity.
This will require considerable labor
for retaining walls will have to be
-onstructed in addition to the handling
of a large amount of rock. It will be
-asily seen that there are numerous
expenditures which will consume the
samll amount of taxes at our disposal.
It is essential that we should spend
this money in a business-like manner
and where it will be for the benefit
of the greater number.
.JAPAN PLANS SEA TUNNEL
TOKIO.—A bill providing for the ex
penditure of about $9,000,000 for the
-instruction of the railroad tunnel
under Shimor.oseki strait, it is re
ported, will be introduced in the com
ing session of the diet. The Shlmini
seki strait separates ‘he southwest cor
ner of the Island of Hondo, the ter
minus cf the central railway system,
with its southern neighbor island,
'■'iushiu.
The building of this tunnel has been
•nder consideration for a long time
-"•'ing to the i-aoid tide which makes
’ifficuit the o-Tration of the railway
■^_ry between the main island and
•'ivshiu. The t oposed tunnel will be
-h-ee and one-half miles in length, one
mile being under the sea bed at a
depth of 30 feet. The plan proposed
includes a road for foot passengers.
Ilf'PFR T”E 9TARS
AND STRIPES AT
REDMAN HALL
The nub'ic school ooeretta ‘‘Under
Stars and Strip***-” Is to be given
•‘his evenino at Redman Hall, and
I will start promptly at 8 o’clock.
The operetta consists of flag drills,
■) choruses, tableaux, and character
sonas, recitations and dances. Miss
’ Inabelle Hawk will play for the oper
etta. for which Miss Henry is stage
manager and Mrss Buor, business man
I afer. The teachers of the various
0-1 ados have di’ acted their own classes,
and it is estimated that aproximately
one hundred children will be on the
I stage at different intervals, presenting
one of the most tuneful and colorful
‘ amateur operc'tis given by juveniles
in Ketchikan.
TO INVESTIGATE COURTS-MARTIAL {
William K. Borah, United States
senator from Idaho, is a prominent fig
ure just now in connection with a
probable congressional investigation
of the general subject of courts-mar
tial in the United States army. Says
Senator Borah:
“So many complaints have been
laid before me thut I have asked that
the war department furnish the sen
ate complete data on all court-martial
cases. After this has been obtained,
hearings may be necessary to bring
out additional facts. It is my intention
to ask President Wilson to issue u
general amnesty to all prisoners con
victed and sentenced to prison by
courts-martial. This is that we may
take the taste of the war out of our
mouths. It is another step toward our
old-time ideals of democracy and Jus
tice."
The question has also been brought
to public attention by a speech In the
ovuu^ WUUiVi V. tiaiuua IU1U UJL lUimUJUll Ul lilt? V.UUiUliL\Ct3
military affairs, and by au address by President George T. Page of the Amers
lean Bar association.
It Is charged that a startling inequality exists in tl.e severity of sentences
imposed on different men for the same offenses; that undue sevrity is exercised
for minor infractions of military discipline; thut courts martial have been com
posed in some instances of men not qualified either by training or tempera
ment to sit as judges.