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- -'g===^ SFWARD ALASKA. FRIDAY. APRIL. 16. 1920. IEN < ENTS PER C°P 1
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CINCINNATI, Apiil 1*1— All af
ternoon newspapers were cut to eight
pag.'S today on account of the paper
>hortage.
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MILWAUKEE. April 1G- The
Journal and Mail issued editions this
morning without any advert sing ow
ing to ihe newsprint shortage.
NEW YORK. April 1G— The scar
city of book paper has caused many
periodical publishers to combine two
month’s issues in one and also reduce
the number of pages and curtailing
the advertising.
WASHINGTON, April 10— Accord
ing to reports from all sections ol the
country, newspapers today are ap
peal ing in small form, scores minus
the great quantities of advertising
and many eliminating the special fea
ture pages. The paper shortage is
now more acute than in the history of
the country.
CAN BOX
TWELVE
ROUNDS
TRENTON, N. J. April IK— Gov.
Edwards has signed the boxing bill
permitting twelve round bouts in this
state.
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TRAIN ON THE WAY
The Gateway City limited which
left Se .a.d Wednesday morning, and
was held up by the snow slide at Mile
71, reached Anchorage at 4:30 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The train got
away from there at D o’clock this
morning and is due in Seward late
this afternoon or early Ur's evening.
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VCCEPT RESIGNATION
WASHINGTON, April 1G— The re
signation of R. C. Leffingwel! assist
ant Secretary of the U. S. Treasury
has been accepted.
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LONDON, April 16— The Mail in
a dispatch from Berlin says that there
is every indication that a civil war is
imminent along the Baltic. The troops
have raised the Kaiser’s flag. Russian
reactionaries are reported raising
Germany- Russian detachments to
fight.
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BREAK AMONG STRIKERS
CHICAGO, April 16— Big breaks
have occurred in the ranks of the rail
road strikers. Men have returned at
Toledo, Pittsburgh, and the switch
men in Florida have gone back.
Cleveland, April 16— The Brother
hood of Trainmeen, Engineers and
firemen have replied to the Genera
Managers ultimatum to get the strik
ers back to work by Saturday noon
The nature of the reply has not ycl
been divulged.
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ST VRT SPIT TO SET ASIDE
MARY PICKFORD’S DIVORCJ
MINDEN, Nevada April 16— Sui
to set aside the divorce of Mary Pick
ford from Owen Moore was filed ii
the district court today by Attorne;
G me’al Leonard B. Fowler. The stab
aMeg's fraud. connivancn and collu
sion between Mary P:ckford, Owe]
Moore and Douglas Fairbanks.
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TO REPORT
! ON YUKON 1
FISH I
SEATTLE, April 16— Dr. Charles
Gilbert, of Stanford University, and
Henry O’Malley, chief assistant of the
; Pacific Coast Federal Bureau Fisher
ies, soon leave on a TOO mile trip
along the Yukon investigating reports
of the commercial fishing at the ;
mouth of the Yukon and cannery op- i
I erations. It is reported the operations
of the canneries are seriously menac
' ing the food supply' of the natives.
The two men expect to return in Sep
tember.
wool tT
BE HIGH
SALT LAKE CITY, April 16
Wool prices will be as high as last
season according to the secretary of
the Wool Growers Association. It is
announced that the demand for cloth
ing is stronger than last year.
SEATTLE, April 16— The Navy
Department has authorized the con
struction of a small coal dock at Sitka
by day labor oving to no contract bids
b^ing received. The work will start
soon under direction of the public
works d^nartment of the Bremerton
navy yard.
DISCOUNT RATE RAISED
LONDON, Anril 16— The Bank
of England has ra;sAd the discount
rate from six to seven per cent.
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WRESTLE 3 HOURS- DRAW
r <n»nK*VE A"H1 16— Waiter
? MiW ard Trtd Thye. nrddWeights.
i night to a draw for th*' c''nmp;on~hip
WASHINGTON, April 16— Repre
senting Hock, Republican of Kansas,
today introduced a resolution direct
ing the House judiciary committee to
investigate the charges against assist
ant Secretary of Labor Post made by
Chairman Johnson, of the immigra
tion committee, and otheis, because of
Post's attitude towards the deporta
tion of aliens. If the evidence war
rants the resolution directs the com
mittee to report on impeachment.
THEODORE
VAIL DEAD
NEW YORK, April 16— Theodore
Vail died this forenoon after a short
illness. Born at Lyndonville, Vermont.
July 16. 18*15, Mr. Vail at an early
age began experimenting with elec
tricity. It was he who stuck by Alex
under Graham Bell, who invented the
telephone, and aided him in bringing
the telephone to perfection.
A.> President of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company, Theo
dore Vail was the head of the largest
telephone system in the world. He was
not only its nominal head but he was
from the first the genius that promot
ed the popular use of the telephone,
the first man to establish long-dis
tance communicat’on by telephone,
and. when past seventy years of age,
he was still the initiative head of a
system that numbered nine million
telephone subscribers and represented
an investment of a billion and a ha’f
dollars.
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PRESIDENT OF YALE
UNIVERSITY RESIGNS
NEW HAVEN. Conn. April 16—
I>\ Arthur Twining Had^y, presi
dent of Yale University for twenty
two yea’s, has tendered his resigna
tion, to be effective in June of next
year.
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BIG SUM NEEDED BY ROADS
FOR NEW EQUIPMENT
CHIC\O0 April 16— Th« Asso
rintion of Ra’Uvav Ex^cuHves an
that, the rniVoad^ nned $600,
000 000 this yen'- t" f!nnnce the pur
eh^se of new enir^mont.
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WASHINGTON, April 16— Repre
sentative Curry, of California chair
man of the ilouse committee of tc.ri
vories, in a statement tod y sa d: “We
have got to amend the la. s so fai as
apply to A’aska ;o as to make it pos
1 s bio for a man to go to Alaska with
! the opportunity of bettering lrs con
dition. Long range government has
never been a success and the long
range government for Alaska has
proved no exception.”
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SEATTLE, April 1G— The cxccu
t ve co,..m tteo of the A aska Bureau
of thr Chamber of Commerce, in a
m mortal, urges a Federal Board for
Alaska of Alaskans as n ccssary and
to ffclent’y administer suitable leg
islaCon. The mcmo.ial says the popu
a'.ion has actually decreased in the
t*Mi ye "s an»l a cont nuation of
the present conditions will result in
Alaska becoming a national weakness.
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MEXICO
TO FIGHT
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WASHINGTON, April 16— Mexico
has asked permission to move through
American to rito y to attack Sonora
from the north. No action has been
taken.
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LABOR BOARD ORGANIZES
WASHINGTON, April 16— The la
bor organized th;s afternoon by elect
ing Hm~y Hunt as Chapman and G.
W W Hanger as secretary. Poth mm
are of the public group recently nam
ed b> President W;lson. The railroad
d-’spntn as it stood when th" bi-par
tisan eonfe* enc° b”oke up a fortnight
ago. The railroad strike was submit
ted for immediate considerat;on.
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QTr*TTrE *T YOKOHAMA
YOKOHAMA. An*!1 16— All Ves
v„i« w tied up today by
a strike of stevedores.
CHICAGO, April 1G— William I)
Haywood, head or the Industrial
Vo.ke.s of the Vvor.d, domes con
nection with the msuigeni lauway
strike, lie said crfo.wS or making an
ins..«.utc lor industrial unionism
among the rail read workcis lor one
b g union wornd be continued.
LOS AXGELES, April 16— South
ern Pacific conductors have voted to
i esjond to the cads to run trains re
gardless of the stiike condit.ons.
CHICAGO, April 16 — Eight offic
ial of the outlaw raih ay un ons have
bojn arrested by United States mar
shal on warrants cha.ging them with
a violation of the Lever’s act. Sixteen
additional wa rants are said to be out.
DESTROYERS TO
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LOS ANGELES, April 16— Ad
miral Rodman, of the Pacific Fleet,
announced today that four destroyers
wpl v*s’t A’a~ka waters during July
and August.
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