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Volume XIV, Number 42 SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEB. 18,1921 PRICE TEN CENTS
ALL IMMIGRATION FROM
EUROPE J SUSPENDED
TRIESTE, Feb. 18.—Immigration from Central Eu
rope to the United States has been suspended. The east
ernfrontiers in Italy have been dosed pending a deanmg
up of the sanitary situation.
Rigid Regulations Put In Effect
The most rigid regulations have. been put into ef
fect regarding movement of all immigration not cov
ered by the suspension order. All cases of typhus are
under strict quarantine.
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DIFFICULT TASK TO REACH AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The senate is facing a
difficult task in reaching an agreement on the tanfl
amendments in the Fordney measure. The senate and
house conferees will meet to complete the enacbnwit of
the bill as soon as possible. More than a score of amend
ments have been added.
IRELAND BEEN MUSSED UP SOME
DUBLIN, Feb. 18.—For a hundred miles throught
out the South and Southwest County Cork all the prin
cipal roads have been rendered unfit for use. Trenches
have been dug, barricades erected and bridges destroyed
acording to a report issued at Dublin Castle. ,
PROMINENT SEATTLE MERCHANT DIES
SEATTLE, Feb. 18.—A. J. Rhodes, former presi
dent of the chamber of commerce and a memberof the
United States chamber of commerce, die<T today. mr.
Rhodes was president of the Rhode* department store_in
this city and prominent in the northwest He wasstnk
en with influenza, according to a message received here
today from New York.
MOB LYNCHES NEGRO IN GEORGIA
ATHEN, Georgia, Feb. .18—A mob five thousand
strong stormed the jail and took John A. Berhart, a ne
Vo, harged with the murder of a white women, and
burned him at the stake.
TIRPITZ HAS SOMETHING TO SAY
BLASIEN BADEN, Feb. 18.—Admiral Von Tirpitz
in an interview here told the Associated Press correspon
dent that, in his opinion, batttehips won the world war
and would win future wars. Owing to the peculiarities
of the world war, he declared, the submarine had been
given greater importance than the facts warranted. He
credited the British surface fleet with victory.
BANDITS HOLD UP POST OFFICE
TOLEDO, Feb. 18—Five bandits held up four em
ployees of the main postoffie here and took nine sacks of
mail estimated to contain nearly half a million m cur
I reny. The robbers escaped in an automobile.
WILD UPROAR IN HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—One of the wildest up
roars in years occurred in the house when Representative
Summers atf&ked Representative Blanton, both Texas
Deni'‘rats. The attack attained the sensational when
Blanton arose to reply. Botii Democrats and Republi
cans howled him down. The lie was passed several
times.
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AFTER WANDERING FDR
DAYS PLUCKY AIRMAN
REACHES CIVILIZATION
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After All Hope Had Been Given Up Lieutenant Pierson
Reports Himrself Save at a Border Ranch.
Was Lost For Oyer a Week
YOUNG LIEUTENANT IS PRAISED BY OFFICERS
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Wanders For Days in Desert Without Food and Short of
Water.—Swims for Miles in Rio Grande River and
Reaches'Help^ •
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 18 (by Associated Press).—
Feb. 18.—Luck mid determination enable Lieutenant
Pearson, of the United States army flying corps, to land
in a crippled-condition with his Airplane in the wilds of
West Texas on Thursday morning, and make his way
back to civilization.
Lieutenant Pearson Supposed to Have Died
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Lieutenant Pearson left the Kelly Field in his air
plane on a scouting triji along the! Mexican border anc
failed to return. After a week had elapsed relief planer
were sent in search of the plucky aviator but returnee
without success, stating that their was no hope of find
ing Pearson alive.. It was thought then that he had died
from thirst in the arid regions along the border.
Lieutenant Pearson arrived at Sanderson last night
and told a startling story of how his machine failed
while he was flying over Ranger canyon where there art
no landing fields for Several hundred miles in a desolate
and arid country. Pearson nursed the engine and man
aged to keep it going until he was well out of the mou
tainous region. He finally was forced to land in the
desert where he abandoned his plane and in an effort to
reach aid he wandered for several days without food and
was short of water.. After he had given up hope he
reached the bank of the Rio Grande river which he* en
tered and swam down stream for a great distance, even
tually reaching a cattle ranch along the border.
Army officials here, express their surprise at the
good luck of the young aviator in reaching civilization.
Presence of mind in this tryng experience was the only
tiling that enabled the army officer to reach the cattle
ranch, is the opinion of his fellow aviators
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LONDON, Feb. 18—The ‘"Times”,
voicing the general attitude of the
London press, declared that another
i padlock had been beached in the Irish
situation which tontttuted another
world emblem. Referred to eighteen
came to this country without a pass
port must either leave today dr be
arrested for deportation, according to
,an announcement made by the De
partment of Labor.. *
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FOR SOVIET RUSSIA
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—There is hopes in the \
near future of constitutional monarchy and later a dem
ocracy in Russia, according to statement made by John
Hays Hammond, who delared before the house foreign
iffairs committee that with Russian pressure removed
the pyramid built by the Bolsheviki would fall and sane,
people would then be able to organize a better govern
ment He said he did not think Russia would ever go back
Ur a rule like that under the czar.
SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN APPOINTED
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PORTLAND, Feb 18.—The telegram prints a spe
cial from St. Augustine, Florida, saying President-elect
Harding has indicated he would appoint Senator Cham
berlain to the shipping board if he would accept
. BLIZZARD OVER IN CANADA
WINNIPEG, Canada, Feb. 18.—Communications are
being restored following yesterday’s blizzard. Clear and
cold weather succeeded the storm.
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[ HORRIBLE CRIME IS COMMITTED
CLEVELAND, Feb. 18.—Louise Wolf and Mabel
Foote, school teachers, were found beaten to death on a
road at Parma Heights, a suburb of this city. A bloody
stick was found besides the body. ,
BOLSHEVIKI INVADE CENTRAL ASIA
LONDON, Feb. 18.—An armed invasion of the Par
>er region in Central Asia by the Bolsheviki begun last
October was reveal in a commique issued by the Indiaof
cice. The region is on the threshold of India and China.
The present attitude of these countries has not been an*
nounced.
REORGANIZATION DEMOCRATIC PARTY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Reorganization of the
Democratic party machinery preparatory to next year’s
congressional campaign and the next presidential cam
paign was the topic discussed at a meeting held here yes
terday. Chairman White and other members were re
:ently appointed by the executive committee.
FORDNEY TO CONSULT HARDING
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Chairman Fordney. of
the house ways and means committee and the author of
the tariff bill passed by congress yesterday left for St
Augustine to consult President-elect Harding on a plan
to seek to pass at the extra session of congress a secon
dary emergency tariff bill which will provide protection
for all products of American industry.
LOWDEN NOT IN HARDING CABINET