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VOLI ME \l\. Nt MBER n , _ _ ■ - • --------—
WASHINGTON. June - Herman
Ha ruth has written a letter to Con
uresMnan Mason demanding he huh
niit evidence >ui poitimj the cha.'p * n
the floni of the House that Ha inch
“stole fiftv million dollars from the
government in copper alone, t on
gres.'inati Mason, this afternoon* in a
lottot to the public, said he would
amend this sum to .$200,000,000. ( on
eressman Mason has already submitt
ed his evidence to Congress in connec
tion with tho investigation into war
expenditures.
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I MTED WITH MOTHER
HE NEVER HAD SEEN
MISSOULA, Mont., Juno It— On a
recent trip ot tin* glee club ot tho l n
versity ui Montana to Kalispcll, Pro
fessor Dol.oss Smith. dean of the un
iversity school ot mu.sic, was reunited
with his mother, whom he could not
remember ever having seen.
During the afternoon before the
j concert at Kalispcll, Professor Smith
was walking on the streets when a
man handed him a note reading:
“Mr. DeLoss Smith: If you would
care to see your mother, please call
at__ We will be glad
to see you. Lovingly, Mother. (Mrs. J.
J. Sever ns.)
The man who had delivered tho note
then introduced himself as tho music
teacher’s stepfather. Prof. Smith’s
parents lived in Illinois at the time of
their son’s birth. Two years utter th«>
boy was born, Mrs. Smith separated
from her husband ami left foi the
west. When the boy was ten years old.
his father died and he was caved tor
by his father’s parents. Some years
ago he came to the state university ,
hero, where he has since been dean of j
the school of music.
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PROFESSIONAL CROOKS
AND waiters JOBLESS
IN THAT OLD VIENNA
VIENNA, June 11— Aristocratic
Vienna, once frmed for its chefs, now
offers small opportunities for the d?s
play of gastronomic art Professional
cooks are regarded as “supcrtuitics
as are also an army ef waiters, all
jobless and forlorn.
Many hundreds of Austrains who
were interned in England during the
war returned here to find they could
got no work to do. By far the greater
number are waiters. They are in a
despot ate plight. Owing to the great
increase in the cost of living theie has
been a great diminution in the num
ber of those who were wont to patron
i7e hotels and restaurants.
Waiters fortunate enough to get a
job st their calling encounter almost
insuperable difficulties in providing
themselves with conventional garb.
There are few second hand dress suits
in Vienna. And new dress suits now
cost from 6.000 to 6,000 crowns. It has
been suggested that in lieu of dress
suits they should be allowed to wear
white linen uniforms which could bo
had much more cheaply and would
render it easier to distinguish between
waiters and guests.
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SUBSCRIBE FOR THE GATEWAY
WASHINGTON, June :l— Edwin T.
M«* v(lith, Secretary of Agriculture,
told the Senate today that the high
c«;sc ot timber and newsprint was due
largely to the decimation of the east
ern forests. Secretary Meredith said
that lb * ' i r’th of the national timber
wa.- rone and the consumption is four
tunes as fast as the growth.
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ROOSEVELT ROAD OF
REMEMBRANCE l RGED
FROM COAST TO COAST
NEW YORi’., June 3— A R ms
velt Road of Komemberance, planted
with memorial trees from oc'um to
oc< an, would be the greatest of all
men:-mb* that *ould be OiCm'vI m
hono.- of the foimei president, deehir
ed Charles Lath.op Pack, ivesident
of the American Forestry, Associa
tion, oi Washington, in an address at
Flush'eg today. Mi. Pack spo’w at a
memo ni tree planting in imm i\ of
Theodor* Roosevelt and if mruin
Rooseveit. Two white oaks that have
been ,vg.stered in the Associations
hono •• . oli were decorated.
“In a Roosevelt Road of Remem
berance/* said Mr. Pack, “every citiz
en of the United States would have a
part and no finer memorial could be
erected than such a memorial high
way. As never before the United Stat
es needs a groat outstanding lesson
in forest conservation for this coun
try today faces one of its gravest
problems; the perpetuation of its
greatest natural resource, the forests.
“Millions are to he spent on im
proved highways that the producer
and consumer may be brought close
together. Let us beautify these high
ways in the building. Let us keep the
message Theodore Roosevelt gave us
alive. That message was that nation
prospority and.well being is depend
ent upon a nation’s forests.
With such a memorial, arousing the
whole nation as it surely would for
ach would have a part. Theodore
Roosevelt would both be honored and
would know that his message had been
heard ’’
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KEEP WAR TIME LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON, June The
. House Judiciary committee has ordcr
d out the resolution repealing aM war
►iivio emergency legislation with the
•xception of the Lever act, tra^g
with the enemy act and the Dirt/let of
1 Columbia rent profiteering measure,
i \n attempt will be made to pass the
i resolution under suspension of th*
rule*.
ALASKA
ON WAY
SEATTLE, June 4— Steamer Alas
ka - ailed at 0 o’clock this morning- for
lie north with 201 passengers, the
following being for Seward:—
Miss H. Lawler,
Josephine McKeehan,
J. J. Miller,
E. H. Miller,
C. Anderson,
Marcus Mayor,
John Knutson,
H. E. Brown,
Carl River,
Miss J. Ski lb right,
A. Olson,
Eourteen steerage.
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DISEASE CARRYING BES'IS
MAY BE l SED IN WAR
S\YS NOTED S(1EST1 >T
LONIJON. June 3— Mobilisation -*f
the mosquito, the housefly, the louse
anil various other disease-carrying
pests for the dissemination of deadly1
govms in enemy territory is n possi
bility of “the next war*' picture'! by I
Professor Maxwell I.efroy, a scientist.
“1 forsee the mosquito from Brazil
*1 iting yellow fever in new lands, tne
house-fly, duly infested with cholera. |
dysentery or enteric and the typhus
laden louse doing their deadly work
much mo»*e effectively than spies pn;s
uning wells,” said Professor kefroy m
[i recent address.
“This would ho part of the work of
i War Office of entomologists -- the
working out of strategy plans for the
list’ ibution of these pests by airplane.
It «»cms that the world is intent upon
furnishing an airplane service or
those pests, many of which are now
held somewhat in check by n itu al
enemies in their native climes. '1 ’ is I
will give them just the means of tran-1
they have required. It will bo a
peace-time danger as wdll as one that
-ould be used very offensively in w *t.
The danger from these winged battal
ions of death is more serious than one
laic estimate.”
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\V R A T I! R K H V V O It T
The following i* the weather
for (h»» 24 hours ending at 7 0V0 *lr
lM‘« morning:—
SEWARD 60, Clear, Calm.
Anchorage 52, Clear, Calm.
Matanuska 60, Clear, Calm.
Wasilla 66 Clear, Calm.
Talkeetna 65, Clear, Calm.
Goldcrcek 60, Clear, Calm.
Hurricane 52, Clear, Calm.
Summit 50, Clear, Calm.
Raines 58, Clear, Calm.
Healy 57, clear, Calm.
Xenana 64 Clear, North.
Fairbanks 65, Clear, Calm.
B. Ik MEETING TONIGHT
Those interested in baseball, espec
ially for a game on the Fourth, are
requested to meet tonight at ^ o eb>ck
at The Key and discuss the matter.
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DIE FROM THE PLAGUE
VERA CRUZ, June 3— Throe more
deaths have occurred from the bubonic
plague. One third of the houses of the
city will be burned in an effort to
eradicate the scourage.
PASS POSTAL PAY BILL
Washington, June 3— The Postal
nay increase bill passed the house this
afternoon unanimously.
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ROAD BUILDERS RETURN
FROM INSPECTION TRIP
Major Waugh and Antonc Eide, of
Alaska Road Commission, and J. M.
Myers, United States Highway En
gineer, returned last night from an in
spection trip out the line and down
towards Kenai.
WASHINGTON, June The
State Department has asked the Dis
trict of Columbia commissioners for
the facts as to the reported burning of
' a British flag yesterday in front of
the treasury building, by women sym
j pathizers of Irish freedom.
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EXTEND ALLIANCE
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LONDON, June 3— The Daily *
Mail says that very probably the
r Anglo- Japanese alliance may be
* extended for another year.
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WILL LAUNCH EMPRESS
OF CANADA IN AUGUST
VANCOUVER, R C., June 3— It
is officially announced that the great
new passenger liner Empress of Can
ada will he launched on August 17th
at the Fairfield yard* on the Clyde.
The ship will be of 22,000 tons dis
placement, 044 feet in length, 77 feet
beam and 54 feet deep, with a speed
of twenty ‘'lots. The Empress of
Canada will come to Vancouver via
the long rouml-the world route. The
big liner will go on a regular run to !
Hong Kong, Yokohama and Shanghai.
Passages are now being booked lor
the first cruise from Liverpool |
through the Mediterranean, Suez Ca- j
nai. Red Sea. Indian Ocean, to the j
Orient; thence across to Canada, at-1
iving here in Juno, 1921.
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PERSIAN JEALOUSY PUTS
THE JINKS ON POLYGAMY |
TEHERAN, June li— Polygmav is
dying out in Persia, another result of
greatly advanced living costs, tog< th
or with jealousy, which is bcoom ng
more marked a characteristic of 1 *r
sian wives with the permeation of
Western ideas and standards in the j
East. (
With the change has come another
the custom of having tamiiy name*.
A year ago the Persian government
made it compulsory for people to
adopt a surname. Before that only
peasants had any common name in the
family, the upper classes possessing
only one. A man, for instance, might j
he called Ghaffar simply, and his son
Hasson with nothing to show their re
lationship.
CARGO SHIPS NOW LEAVING
MANILA WITH EMPTY HOLDS
MANILA, P. I., June 3— Cargo
*hips are leaving Manila frequently
with their holds practically empty,
shipping agents say, because of ad
verse market conditions in the United
States. The law price for hemp and
cocoonut oil, two leading articles
of export from the Philippines, is one
of the principal factors in causing the
surplus of cargo space, shippers as
sert.
Because of the large stocks of these
products accumulated during the war,
both here and in the United States, a
j surplus has been created and it is said
they may now be purchased at a low
I er price in the United States than in
the Philippines.
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PROTECTION PROMISED
| MEXICO CITY, June 3— All south
ern revolutionary chiefs have been
assured of protection by Provisional
minister of War Callcs, in a statement
issued this afternoon.
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Mrs. Corson will be a passenger on
the Admiral Evans to Port Chatham
where she will open a general fruit
candy and cigar store.
NEW YORK, June :i— The super
dreadnought Tennessee, the hugest
and most formidable battleship afloat,
and the most elaborately appointed
for officers and men, went into com- !
mission today at the Ilrooklyn navy ^
yard. The Tennessee is the fiist bat
tleship to recruit its entire personnel *
from the state after which it is nam
ed. \ he displacement of the Tennessee
is 32,r»00 tons. The dreadnought i«
equipped with a club, library, spacious
Iriths, motion picture theatre, and a
print.-hop with a linotype. Many of
the new devices are controlled by
electricity.
WASHINGTON, June 3— Yester
day, Eugene C. Boniwell, a McAdoo
supporter charged before-the Senate
investigating committee, that Attor
ney General Palmer was permitting
saloons and bonded warehouses in
Pennsylvania to run wide open. Today
Palmer charged that Boniwell was
simply a “character assassin and his
word was not evidence." Senator Edge
following this declaration, announced
that he would withdraw from the in
. estimating committee and said the
evidence had now degenerated into
personalities, that no Federal law had
been broken because there was no law
•o break. Senator Edge stated he was
tire l of charges and counter charges.
ATTACK BY
VILLA IS
BEPULSED
WASHINGTON, June 3— The
State Department has been info lined
that Villa made an attack on Parral
yesterday afternoon and was repulsed
by the garrison there with heavy loss.
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BOLS ENTER TEHERAN
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 3— The
Persian legation here has been advised
that the Bolshcviki forces have enter
ed Teheran, the Capitol of Persia.
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DAMAGE BY CLOUDBURST
HOMER, Neb., June 3— It is esti
mated that One million dollar damage
was done as the result of a cloudburst
’ast Tuesday night In the vicinity of
this place. No lives are believed tr
have been lost.
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WASHINGTON, June 3— Presi
dent Wilson today assured the Senate
Democrats that if the session of Con
fess ends next Saturday, he would
not < all an extra session during the
summer unless for a grave emergency.
The Senate has concurred to the
House resolution for an adjournment
of Congress next Saturday by a vote
of 44 to 24.
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, June 3— Halibut is
quoted at seventeen and {Free quart*
ers cents; sable five cents and ling
and led cod two cents.
OUTFIGHTS KILBANE
PHILADELPHIA, June 3— Andy
Chaney, of Baltimore, last night out
fought Johnny Kilbane in eight
rounds. Jack Britton defeated Joe
Barrel, of Philadelphia, in eight
; rounds.
THIRTY ON TRAIN
Thirty passengers from Anchorage
for Seward are on the Gateway City
limited which is due about 5 o’clock
this afternoon according to advices
[ received by agent Sweek.
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