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KEY PITTMAN IS
OPTIMISTIC OVER GOLD
—
TOttOPAH, Nevada — In an I
address here Senator Key Pitt
man, former Alaskan and Yukon
er, gave assurance that gold and
silver prices will be maintain
ed and may probably go higher
if the present war continues.
Pittman said: “Silver is a w’ar
metal used to pay soldiers by
virtually every nation. The price
of siver is bound to go up. We
are working on the fixing of our
monetary system and are deter
mined that gold shall remain at
$35 an ounce and will seek a
price of $1.29 for silver.
“It would be impossible for the
government to reduce the price
of gold again to $20 an ounce un
less some persons woud desire to
wreck the economic system of
the world. God may even go to
$41.47 an ounce and this may be
in the near future and especial
ly so if the war continues and for
eign countries continue to de
value their money.
“It is inevitable that the gov
enment will issue and circulate
gold coins and silver coins to the
extent of the present seigniorage.
There is at least two billions of
dollars in gold that could be safe
ly coined and circulated. A bil
lion and a half dollars worth of
silver bullion now owned by the
government could be safely coin
ed and circulated and this would
obviate the possible necessity of
going above the 45 billion dol
ar statuary debt limit or assess
ing additional taxes.-’
Pittman urged that close co
operation between all mining in
terests be developed and contend
ed that all metals have a direct
bearing on each other. “What is
good for one metal mining dis
trict, is good for another,” he
said.
CANADA REGISTERS ALL ITALIANS
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The Canadian caption accompanying this picture said it showed
Montreal Italians being taken into provincial police headquarters
by a detective (right—light hat), where they were to be finger
printed and registered. Unnaturalized Italians in Canada—estimat
ed at 12,000—were to be fingerprinted and registered and in addi
dition were to report to the police periodically.
COPY OF CHECK FOR
ALASKA AT FAIRBANKS
From time to time, the state
ment is made that the amount
the United States paid to Russia
for Alaska was not actually $7,
200.000 as stipulated in the
treaty of purchase. Some of the
! stories about the price given for
the Territory is that payment
was made in two checks, and
that one of these went to busi
ness interests in this country, to
which Russia was indebted, in
stead of to Russia directly; also
that while the amount mention
ed in the treaty of purchase was
87.200.000 only about five million
was actually paid by the Ameri
can government.
In the possession of the federal
government at Washington is the
original check, cancelled that was
given Russia by the United Stat- j
es. It is for $7,200,000. Photostat
copies of this check have been
taken, and one of these is in
possession of Curtis Adams, ex
ecutive vice-president of the
Bank of Fairbanks. It has been
framed by him, and may be seen
at the Bank. The check reads:
"Treasury Department”
“To the Treasurer of the Unit
ed States, Greeting:
“Pay to Edward de Stoecker,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary of his Maj
esty, the Emperor of Russia, or
order, ,out of the appropriation
named in the margin, Seven mil
lions, two hundred thousand dol
lars, being, in consideration of
certain; territory ceded by the
Emperor of Russia to the United
States as described in treaty of
the 30th of March, 1867.
“Agreeably to a certificate of
the Comptroller of the Treasurer
No. 165615 dated 29 July, 1868, re
corded by the Register, For so
doing, this shall be your War
rant.
“Given under my hand and
the seal of the Treasi/.y this
first day of August, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight and of Independence
the 93rd.”
The check was signed by the
Secretary of the Treasury and
by the Comptroller and counter-1
■signed by the Register.
The appropriation named in
the margin is $7,200,000 “to car
ry into effect the treaty with Rus
sia of March 30th, 1867.”
REPORTERS IN ROLE
OF DAN CUPID
SEATTLE, July 15 — The dau
ghter of the Governor of Hawaii,
Helen Poindexter and the son of
the Governor of Alaska, Peter
Gruening, both aboard the SS A1
eutian which sailed North Satur
day and reporters tried to stir
up a romance but she said “he
is just a little young’” to which
he agreed. They met first in
Honolulu two years ago.
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house naval COMMITTEE
heads for north
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SEATTLE, July 15 — Three
members of the House naval af
fairs committee left Saind Point
for an inspection of the Navy s
new bases at Sitka and Kodiak,
while two companions, also re
presentatives, remained in Seat
tle far a conference with Repre
sentative Warren G. Magnuson,
chairman of the subcommittee on
Yards and Docks.
The five Congressmen are Reps
J. '.V, Me it‘of Oregon, Georgie
Bates of Massachusetts, John An
derson of California, William
Jackson of Iowa and B. M. Vin
cent of Kentucky. They arrived
after a brief stop at Tongue
Point, Oregon, a new reserve
! base. »
Bates, Jackson and Vincent
tent northward and Mott, Magnu
son and Anderson will probably
join them at Sitka or at Kodiak
before the week end.
NEW SECRETARY OF
NAVY ON THE JOB
WASHINGTON, July 15 —Col
onel Frank Knox inaugurated his
first active day as Secretary of
the Navy with the assertion that
he intends to be a “traveling cab
inet officer.’’
The new Navy Secretary said
that he planned to visit ship
yards, flee: bases, naval air bas
es and other naval properties as
soon as he has familiarized him
se'f thoroughly with his new du
ties. Knox said he intends to
make most of his trips by plane
in order to save time.
The former Chicago publisher
emphasized that he did not con
sider his office that of a Navy
technician. He described his func
tions as those cf an executive
and a business administrator. He
added that the technical prob
lems cf the Navy were being
handled by some cf the most
brilliant minds in the world.
WAR ITEM-Pretty Ira"
Cherkassky, 18, Finnish motion
picture actress, has come to U. S.
to visit her father in Boston and
Hollywood. She was in Helsinki
during the War.
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FIFTY HELD FOR
REFUSAL SALUTE FLAG
MOOREVILLE, Indiana, July
13 — Fifty persons wno gather
ed last night at a Jehova’s Wit
nesses meeting remained today
on the second floor of a building
here, held captive, by a group of
men who set up an American flag
at the exit and demanded they
salute it before leaving.
S. K. Schuler, a member of
the sect, who pedged allegiance
to the flag got out. He said many
of them believed the “Bible
teaches not to revere any man
made thing.”
The crowd threw eggs and le
mons and broke windows.
State police later escorted 47
members of Jehovah Witnesses
from the building; there was no
violence.
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EMIL LUDVIG SETTLES
DOWN IN CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.,
July 15 — Noted Biographer
Emil Ludvig settled down in San
ta Barbara and said that he
would henceforth make it his
home. Ludwig said that he had
fled from Locarno, Switzerland,
because of fear of the German
Gestapo. .
The biographer is an outspok
en foe of Chancellor Hitler
and feared possible vengeance by
the Nazi secret police.
Ludwig said he would begin
writing on the history of the Ger
man nation and a story of the
Mediterranean.
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hundred thousand troops and hu drcds of ships are poised awaiting the zero hour for the con
quest of (he island fortress, Great Britain.