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Daily Edition, and Thc Alaska Weekly Post .
SEWARD, ALASKA.THURSDAY. JUNE 19. 1919. __ ___
VOLUME Mil N1 MBER ST. __;_____l.. . --——
FLIGHT IS OFF
WILL WATCH
HUNS
H\ VsMHiated Press
l.O\l>ON. June 1!> The proposed
flight of tne dirigible K—14 to Ani''t
ira. ha- hern indefinitely |K>stponed
or until (Icrmany decides what the in
tention is regarding the treaty.
The dirigible will fly eastward in
stead of westward if (lermany re
fues to sign the treaty.
Several Hiitish aeroplanes are mak
ing demonstration flight.- over tier
many. They will return to their ha-*';
tonight.
MI NS \KK THINKING
NEW YORK- June IP The A se
riated Press in a summary this af'**1
noon says that the German feeling to
ward the peace terms appears to *» *
taking a more 1'avornhle trend.
A dispatch from Weimar says th *
majority of the ^ni-j^Rsts* who dom
inate the German politics* are declar
ed to be more tavo:ably inclined than
at first.
The clericals and democrats of the
left wing are reported slowly swinging
in the same direction.
A dispatch from Rerlin says the
residents art* resigned to the future
and want t » see the peace treaty sign
ed.
The German peace delegates are
opposed to singing the peace treaty ac
cording to official dispatches received
this afternoon by the Associated Pres
from Paris.
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JAPANESE ESE SWORDS
\ND BVYONETS; CRCSH
* DOWN THE KOREANS *
TOKIO- June IP— (Correspondence
of The Associated Press.)— Thirty
five Koreans were shot or killed with
swords or bayonets by Japanese sol
diers in a Christian church building |
at Cheam-ni. forty miles from Seoul
in connection with the Korean inde
pendence movement.
This has been confirmed by an in
vestigation by Rritish and American
consular agents and by missionary
leaders in Korea. The facts are admit
ted by the Japanese authorities a*
Seoul- including the Governor General
Hasegawa. The authorities say that
orders have been given to prevent a
recurrence.
Investig.itois also have found that
Soochung- another village near Cheam
-ni* was burned by the Japanese and
that several Koreans there were
wounded in an attack by Japanese sol
diers who shot them or used their
swords and bayonets on therr. as they
fled from their burning homes afte.
the troops had set fire to the build
ings.
Reports have been received of the
burning of Christian churches in three
other villages and Koreans told Th-*
Associated Press correspondent at Se
oul that they could show him nine vil*
lages which had been burned by th *
Japanese.
Details of the massacre at Chenm*
ni were obtained by The Associated
Press correspondent whe visited tba*
place in company with Raymond S.
Curtice* the American Vice*( ounsul
Seoul and Mr. Underwood an Ameri
can missionary. Subsequently the co?
respondent again visited the place
with Mr. Royds* the British Consul
and several missionaries includ fig th *
Rev. Herron Smith* who ts in charge
of the work of the Methodist church
in Korea. Describing his visit to
Cheam-ni. the Seoul correspondent
writes that when they asked resident -
of nearby villages why that h:\mM
had been burned they were told that
it was because there was a Christian
church and many native Christians in
the village.
“When we got to the place which
had been a village of about 40 houses
we foupd only four or five standing
all the rest were smoking mins-” he
continued. “We found a body fright
fully turned and twisted lying n *i
compound anti another eltlu t < . a
young man oi woman jud out ide tim
church compounded. Several group
0f |,«M>pl«* wort1 huddled under litti
straw shelters on the hillside with .1
♦Vw of their pitiful belongings ahoid
them. They wore mostly women- some
,dd. others ytmng mothers with ha
hies but aU sunk in the dull apatuy
• if object misery and despair. M**- I p
lonvood an American missionary whc
-Mp ,.,1 to them in their own hme-’a?"
brought the story of v bat had hap
pened.
"The day before wo nrr;ved t»l
die.-s came to the viMng' ami t>»tc re.
ad the m:de rhri t»ans to gather n*
the church. When about “0 wore in
the church th<% soldiers opened tire O"
them with rifles and then entered the
church and finished them off with
sword* and bayonet*. After this they
set fire to the church amt to houses
which otherwise would not have been
burned.”
One Korean told the correspondent
h<* was ahve beeaase be was not a
Christian and was not in the church.
I^ter when the correspondent made a
second trip to Chcam-ni* with Mr. Rov
Is- the p.rit'sh consul and a party ot
seven including sewral missumaHC"*
he said. “We plmtographcd freely
without interference but when we
start ml to talk to the natives a no’iiv
man would saunter up and tho Korean
would *fr4M»7.e up*. They wore in feat
or what might hennen later it* thi»y
wa re s4»en talking 1 o us.**
The party however- «1 ivi4l4*«l up an 1
I obtained many interviews as the cor
respon4lent learncil it on h's first
Th ov W4»re told that two i»f those kill
4 4I in or near the church were women
who went to that building to learn
what was happening to their hus
bands.
The party heailed by the British
consul then visual Soochum and found
the village ha4l been burnc«I. The Kor
eans told the visitors that they wet:
awakened >n the night by finding
their homes an fire. \N hen they rar
out they were struck with sworils* and
bayoneted or shot. None were killed
hut several were wounded* and w e saw
one man whose arm had been laiil open
with a sward. A church and thirty
houses hu4l been burned here hut no
attempt had been made to clean up
t hi* others.
The Rev. Stacy L. Roberts an Am
erican Presbyterian missionary stat
ione<l at Pyeng Yang has issued 0
statement asserting that more than
100 Koreans were shot or beaten to
I death in Tyung-ju and a church there
was burned by Japanese.
In another village eight miles rway
another Christian church and an aca
demy for hoys burmnl by Japanese sob
diers after th** content.* such as ben
ches* • I »vcs anil mats were carried
away anil put to use in the govern
ment school at Tyung-ju.
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* FREE TRAINING
* FOR THE WIVES
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LONDON. June 10— The Min
• istry of Labor announces that it
* has made arrangements to pro*
• vide free training to wives and 4
I * fiancees who desire to learn
| * housekeeping and cooking pro
' • vided they register with the cm* *
* ployment exchanges as desiring
• employment.
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PARISIAN ACTORS
FORM TRADES I'MOS
PARIS* June 19— The actors and
singers of the Paris stage have
formed a regular trades-union* to b«
affiliated to the General Labo»- Feder
ation and so compelled to take part
in * nv strike ordered bv that body.
The machinists.* electrician* and
oihe** employes of the theatr** an'’
music-halls have been unionize'! fo»
some time. Tho now union will try to
'establish a minimum salary of *1 a
day with payment during rehearsals.
YES! IT IS ODD
KIEL- GERMANY* June 19— Tn
these days of strikers for seven and
six-hour days* the action of work men
at the Kiel docks in voting voluntarily
to work eight rather than seven hour>
is so unusual that the papers call at
tention to it in special articles.
NORTHWESTERN
OFF FOB NORTH
By Associated Press
SKATTl.lv June P»— Steamer
so.thwestern sailed at (J o’clock this
ovenoon for Alaska ports. I he follow
up passenpers are aboard for Seward'.
Klizubcth Bom ip.
Charles Cook,
R. H. Beck.
Willie McMillan.
Th >mas Wellborn- wife and baby.
K. Berp
Kd. Bcrpdol*
(ius. Peterson,
1). Kelly.
V. K. Taylor.
Mrs. Charles Kroflinp.
Kleanor Kroflinp.
lten Gold*
(leorpe Stevens,
ALASKA TOWNS IIAVK
|«KKN \W \UI)K!) HONOR
FLAGS IN LOAN DRIVE
Alaska’s subscriptions to the Vic
tory loan total $1,444,450. This is
$180,550 in excess of the quota of the
tenitory. or an over-subscription of
51.27 per cent. This is quite remark
able showing when it is consider**!
hat the drive came at the season ol
ihe year when money is tighest in
Alaska— after a long winter and be
fW.- ‘he activities of the new’ year had
started.
There wer* 5,64a subscribers ill the \
territory. \
The totals for the several divisions j
follow: ‘'I
First division— Quota, $420,.»00,
subscribed, $606 950;* number of sub
scribers. 2 165: percentage of oversub
scription, 41.4.
Second division— Quota, $114 550;
subscribed, $131,850; number of sub
scriptions . 414; fcrcentago of over
subscription, 12* 2.
Third division— Quota, $247. 800;
subscribed $399 500; number of sub
scribers. 1,055; percentage of over
subscriptions, 61.
Fourth division— Quota. $163,600;
amount subscribed, $200,050; numbo
i of subscribers. 840: percentage of ov
: ersubscriptions, 78.
Final Totals
The final totals in the various towns
of the territoy follows:
No. ot
Town Quota Sub’n Sub’rs
Juneau 251,350 311,00 1150
Douglas 28,800 10.500 72
Ska g" ay 10.800 3.>.300 13*
Ketchikan 01.800 145,250 60/
Petersburg 21.750 20 800 101
\nchorage . 61.150 131.200 787
Cordova 90 000 121000 755
Fairbanks 100,000 221.200 531
Nenana 38,150 53,150 2<'‘
Idilarod 25.100 16,500 13
Nome 11 1 550 131.850 111
Seward 65,300 102.350 2I.»
Wrangell 12.800 I .>.000 80
Valdez 28.350 41.950 168
Total $954,000 $1,114,450 5015
J1 NK.U FISHERMEN IS
INVENTOR OF FSEFUL DEVICE
An automatic device has been in
vented by Tom Running, a fisherman
and for 12 years a resident of Alaska
and now living at Juneau, which may
revolutionize the fishing industry.
The invention will enable three men to
operate a big purse seine boat where
about eight men arc now needed, and
the automatic apparatus, if it will do
the work claimed of it, will let out and
pull in the seine by power from the
boat’s engine, and will do the work
much more rapidly than can he done
with manual labor, and coils the seine
up on the deck of the craft.
The working model is in Juneau
and ha< created much interest among
practical fishermen and they claim
that it works without u hitch and
has great possibilities. It is said it
can be made to fit any kind of boat.
Mr. Running has applied for patent
to bis invention which he calls “Run
ning’s automatic purse seiner.’’
The AJitak Packing Company at Al
itka* Kodiak island* has extended the
wharf out to deep water where ocean
goin^ ships may land.
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* BOMB MENACE *
HAS NOT PASSED ’
i • •
* WASHINGTON. June 19— The *
* Department of Justice believes *
* that the menace from bomb out- *
* rages still hangs over the United *
* States. It is believed that more 4
bomb outrages are coming in an *
* attempt to create a reign of ter- *
* ror. *
CANADIANS
UPRISING
—
By Associated Press
LONDON. June 19— Unrest among
tin* Canadian soldiers in England on
account of their continued postpone
ment of homeward sailings* culminat
ed today in attack by 400 Canadians
on the Epson Police station to release
an arrested Canadian soldier. One po
liceman was killed and several wound
ed.
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LEADING BRITISH ACE
PROVES TO BE AVIATOR
BLIND IN ONE EYE
LONDON- June 1!)— The late Ma
jor E. W. Mannock was the leading
“ace” of the British aviation corp*
but it was not until months after the
armistice that the fact was known
and he never will be officially credit
ed by the Air Ministry with being
England's premier flyer. It was the
policy of the Ministry during the war
not to proclaim individual exploits
and it has not been changed since
fighting ceased.
The record of Mannock’s eighteen
niomhs service is most unusual. He
started hv outwitting examining phy
•icians in concealing the fact that he
was blind in one eye. At 20 years of
age he was older than most of the pi
lots in training but he seemed to lack
nothing required of a successful air
fighter and soon qualified and went to
France.
Immediately he adopted tactics pe
culiar to himself and it finally was a
deviation from those tactics tha*
brought him down. He alwavs flew
very high and enticed his adversary
into a high fight but* in bringing down
his seventy-third German- he chased
his falling foe too near the ground
and a bullet from an anti-aricraft gun
ended his career.
Officers of the Royal Air Force
have acclaimed him the greatest air
dietician in the service. He had .none
of the excentricites prevalent among
successful French aviators hut he wu
"ientifio* persistent and (logged. One
'f his brother officers recently said
hat he had seen Mannock stalk a TTun
ror an hour or more, attempting to
gradually draw him higher and then
when the slightest opportunity for ad
vantage presented itself* he was on
the foe like a cat.
Although Mannock was presented
with the Distinguished Service Order
and the Military Cross it was not un
*dl the thousands of records of pilot*
were checked in the Air Ministry here
hat it was known that he had more
Germans to his credit than an> otne*
British aviator. This face was allowed
become known at the ministry but
not officially.
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Y. M. C. A. DOING GREAT
WORK AMONG THE RUSSIANS
VLADIVOSTOK* June 19— “We
ave now giving a definite service to
nine nationalities in Siberia**’ said G
S. Phelps* senior national secretary of
the American Young Men’s Christian
Association, speaking of the organiza
tion’s work to the correspondent of
The Associated Press. “These include
Americans. Czechs* French* Russian.
British, Italian* Serbian. Rumanian
and Chinese* but our chief work is
among the soldiers of the United
i States and those of Czecho-Slovaka.
The Y. M. C. A., added Mr. Phelps
I is now conducting about twenty huts
1 in Siberia and about thirty rolling can
teens which are freight cars equipped
,to resemble comfortable clubs.
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SUBSCRIBE FOR THE GATEWA 2
I WU: TO
STOP WARS
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, June VJ— Senat
or McCumber. Republican of North
Dakota, told the Senate the oppon
ents of the League of Nations had
conducted a campaign of misrepresen
tation and distortion. Senator McCum
ber said that the league’s covenant of
tered the only prospect ot preventing
n the future more terrible wars an*!
concluded his speech with the re
marks: ‘‘The League is entirely con
sistent with American constitution
and will not entangle American inter
ests.”
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. HONOR WILSON
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♦
* BRUSSELS* June 19— The
* King and Queen guided President
• Wilson and his party through de
• vastated Belgium yesterday and
* today. Ypres, Ostend Zeebrugge
* and Brussels gave great demon*
• strations such as might have been
• accorded a conquering hero .
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MAJOR GENERAL MORRISON
COMES NORTH ON A TOUR
SAN FRANCISCO- June 19— Ma
jor General Morrison* Commander o»
the Western Department* left toda\
for an eight weeks inspection tour o'
the Alaska forts. Lieut. Miller Smith
accompanied the Commander as aide.
The two will go to Fairbanks* down
the river and visit St. Michael and
Nome, perhaps returning along the
coast and visit Fort Liscum.
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FOURTH FIGHT DOPE
TOLEDO* June 19— There will be
six 9- round preliminaries staged im
mediately preceeding the Willard*
Dempsey fight here on the Fourth of
July.
Sergeant Walter Monohan, Willard’s
chief sparring partner says Willard is
200 per cent better than before the
Havana fight and the fighter has a
tremendous punch by which he be
lieves Willard will win the fight.
WANTS A NEW^JOB FOR
THE U. S. VICE-PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, June 19— Repre
sentatives Walsh. Republican of Mas
sachusetts. today introduced a resolu-.
tion providing that the Vice-President
perform the President’s duties during
the President’s absence of over 24
hours.
JAPAN MAKES DENIAL
TOKIO. June 19— The Foreign Of
fice has denied as “unequivocally fal
se” a statement published in Chinese
newspapers that Japanese agents in
1916 and 1918 concluded secret agree
ments with Germany. *
By Associated Tress
WASHINGTON* June TJ— The
Alaska railroad appropriation has
passed both houses of C ongress and is
certain to go to the Tresident lot ap
proval.
There i* a delay temporarily in the
general deficiency bill* of which th*’
Alaska railroad appropriation is a
part, pending a settlement of a div
agreement between the two house** on
another item. This item is one com
pelling the Secretary of the Treasury
to purchase the ( hieago Speedway
hospital.
MORE ROAD MONEY
WASHINGTON* June 10— Major
Iterbery Buell* of the Engineering
Corps* has askt*. lit.- . ay s how nr m •
committee to increase the House an
propriation of $100,000 tor Alaska
post roads* to $300*000.
Major Buell stated that a largo
amount was needed for maintenance
and the remainder for the construc
tion of roads in southeast Alaska.
If the House amount stands* Majrv
Buell said that it would be necessary
to devote the entire $100000 to the
Fairbanks—Valdez road.
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STONED
■ ^
wmciated frejtS
PARIS. June 19— Yesterday a
crowd threw stones and bricks at the
German delegates. Two Germans were
hit and injured by two French mi'i
tavy chauffeurs. The trouble started
when the crowd misinterpreted a Ger
man typist’s act as provocative.
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FEDERATION OF LABOR
ASKS RESTRICTION OF
IMMIGRATION FOR TIME
ATLANTIC CITY. June 19— The
American Federation of Labor has
passed a resolution favoring a restric
tion of immigration during the recon
struction period.
The Federation has also passed a
resolution condeming usurpations bv
judiciary . government, legislature and
executive powers and recommended
that organized labor should disregard
injunctional court decrees on the
ground that the decress violated the
rights guaranteed under the constitu
tion.
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FORTY FIVE HAVE DIED
AT UNALASKA OF THE FLU
H. S. Balderston* of the Bank of
Seward, received a wireless this fore
noon from Paul Buckley, at Dutch
Harbor, regarding the flu epidemic
there. The wireless was as follows:—
“Unalaska has had a sad time with
influenza* forty-five deaths but the
sickness is now over* people convalesc
ing— I have been well and running
the hospital in our quarters. The Un
alga crew did splendid work. They and
the Marblehead, with doctors and
nurses* left for relief at Bristol Bay
points yesterday.”
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