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WASHINGTON, Oct.. 2S- The
Senate judiciary committee has favor
ably reported the bill providing t'c*r
the punishment t'oi persons exhibiting
the red flag or advocating the over
throw of the American government.
BOAT SINKS
10 DROWN
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MUSKEGON. Mich.. Oct.. 2S
Three passengers and seven members
of the crew of the steamer City of
Muskegon were drowned this alter
noon when the steamer, entering the
harbor here, smashed into ’he pier and
sank within four minutes. Twenty two
passengers stepped from the steamer
to the pier and were saved.
Out of 2a pupils admitted to tlu*
university of -Washington this y-ar
from Alaska, seven are f»om Skagway
a fine showing for the gateway to the,
Yukon.
* VETOES KIM.
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WASHINGTON. Oct.. 28—"
President Wilson has vetoed the
prohibition enforcement bill.
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WASHINGTON. Oct.. 2.'— Speed
records for congressional action was .
broken when the House passed the wu?
tune prohibition enforcement over the
President’s veto within three hours
after he had vetoed the measure.
The e was an uproar in the house toi- •
lowing the reading of the veto mes-|
sage from the President. Prohibition- |
i>ts howled over the wets in attempts :
to delay the vote.
WASHINGTON. Oct.. 28— A White ‘
House message says the President wdl |
oWd war time prohibition when the
Senate ratifies the treaty.
WASHINGTON. Oct., 2s— Th
Senate is considering passing the pro- ,
hib'tion enforcement law over the veto
of the President who it is said vetoed
the measure because he felt the war
time and national prohibition ought to
he seperate and legislated upon sepe»
ately.
The President, in bis veto message,
said: "Matters having to do with per
sona! habits and customs of people,
ought to he handled through establish
ed processes. War time prohibition
legislation served its purpose now that
the army and navy have been demob
olized.”
tiRKXT DAM V<;F DONE
BY RATS IN ENGLAND
EOXDOV. Oct.. 2* - Rats do a
yearly damage in the l nited King
dom of $200,000,000. or nearly fiv
dollars per head of the* population, ac
cording to generally accepted figures.
The prr-wa’ estimate of this damage
was ?7'> 000,000. The seriousness of
the situation has resulted in the in
augrat’on of a country-wide campaign
headed * # the Board of Agriculture,
for the destruction of the pests.
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Fred Tracy, Alaska Steamship Co,
agent at Cordova, has been appointed
administrator of the estate of C. L.
Hale, former dentist of Cordova.
WASHINGTON, Oct.. 28— General
John J. Pershing announced today he
intends to make a tour of the war in
dustries built up during his absence
for the purpose of formulating recom
mendations to Secretary of War Bak
er for plants to be retained for future
national emergencies. Gen. Pershing
will go to the Pacific Coast and then
visit his old home in Missouri.
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CONTI NT KS TO IMPROVK
omCIAC— Washington, Oct., 2S
President Wilson continues to pro
gress according to a statement issued
his forenoon.
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\L.\SKA COLONEL
BACK AND WILL
REJOIN RAILROAD
Home from Fiance, whore h •
served IT months, working an aver
age of more than 12 hours a day and
having only three days off in nil thin
time, H. 1*. Warren, until recently
lieutenant colonel of the 55th Engin
eers, yesterday returned to the staff
of the Alaskan Engineering Commi t I
sion, says the Seattle Times.
He is under orders to proceed to
.Seward, Alaska, in a few weeks.
In France he receive*l a citation
from General Pershing. Col. Wairea
known in the Panama Canal zone and
Alaska as “Horse-Power” Warren
helped to build the canal and the j
government’s Alaska railroad. In 1
11)18 he was detailed to Seattle i
engineering r-l^resentativ** of tn*•
commission.
Yank* Best in World
“l come back from Franc** with
one fact stamped on my mind.” he
said today, “and that is, that tin* ,
American soldier is the topnotch man
of the world and what 1 say is true
of the infantry, artillery, engineers j
and all the rest.
“Give me a hunch of privates and
noncoms from our engineer troops
and I’ll guarantee to do anything
The 55th was a wonderful regiment
composed mostly of farmer hoys
from the middle west, and they wen
the most adaptable men l ever have j
seen.”
When Col. Warren landed in
France, the regiment was sent 10
LeMans, where Warren was appoint
ed division engineer. Later he has
promoted to assistant section engi
neer of Intermediate Section West,
the largest section of the America**
engineering corps in France except
the advance section, which covered
the fighting front. The Intermedia*!
Section West embraced about one
eighth of France.
Col. Warran hail charge of all
the construction work in the section
and was building six large hospitals
when the armistice was signed.
Men Never Complained
Col. Warren built a large num
ber of barracks with hunks for 100
men. Because of lack of materials,
’.’rare were no floors.
“Hut we never had even a in I no*
complaint from our soldiers.” If
said today. “They were superb.”
After three months, the headquar
ters of Intermediate Section West was
transferred from Geivres to Paris
and Colonel Warren, in addition to
his other duties, had charge of build
ing the huge Pershing Stadium, seat
ing 17,000 persons, for the interal
lied athletic meet last June. Kis as
sistant was Maj. Joseph Jacobs, for
merely a consulting engineer in Seat
tle.
After the a. mystice Col f/arrcn
began restoring roads. He had 15,000
soldiers on that job for three months.
One of Col. Warren’s gangs had
to dig through a section of Homan
coins. One was presented to Co1.
Warren. It is a copper coin of the
great Emperor Constantine.
The Alaska engineer was promoted
from major to lieutenant colonel last
February and acted as commanding
officer for the following four months.
He left Fiance in August and receiv
ed bis discharge at Camp Lewis Sept.
24th.
JAPANESE PROTEST AT
HIGH COST OF RICK
TOKIO, Oct., 28— Declaring that |
editions of thirty newspapers have
been suppressed because of attacKs on i
the governments over the high cost of ,
rice, the Yamato, charges that ruf- |
fians belonging to the Seiyukai or!
government party, has threatened its
chief editorial writer and says “this is
an act of oppression of the right of
free speech.”
MAY VOTE
ON STRIKE
PITTSBURGH, Oct., 28— The mine
unions of this district are to take a
strike vote to determine the truth of
the charges made in the Senate that
th*» miners do not want to strike.
SPRINGFIELD, III., Oct., 28
President Lewis said he had received I
no official communication from Presi* ;
dent Wilson regarding further aibi- !
tration of the coal miners strike. Pres
ident Lewis said the widely heralded
intimation that force may be used by
the government will not allay the cris- i
is and said threats to prosecute union
officials, including himself. will not
prevent the strike.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct., 28— Ellis
Searles, Editor of the Mine Workers
Journal, the official publication, said,
the miners do not want to strike and
still have hopes the operators will ar
bitrate. Editor Searles said the owners
of mines had so far refused to arbi
trate.
WASHINGTON, Oct., 28— The Kx
ecutive Committee of the Miners Na
tional Union will meet tomorrow. Of
ficials hope the committee will heed ;
Wilson’s warning not to strike. Vn<‘;
committee has the absolute power t• > j
call off the strike.
CAKVF. I P I>EAI> HOUSES
SO AS TO GET THE MEAT
PARIS, Oct., 2S American R»*d
Cross relief men just retyrnod her''
from Budapest tell a harrowing story
of the oxtvonu * i<» which th<* <*ivi1 •»'»
pulation were reduced when the Bol
shevik and Rumanian armies strug
gled for the mastery of the city and
staple food supplies disappeared fron
the market.
As the troops swept on leaving be
hind them cavalry and artillery hors
es killed in action, men and women
from the Budapest suburbs, made des
perate by privation, descended upon
the battlefields and vied with one an
other for the moat supply thus made
ivailahle. They fell upon the carcasses
cutting away chunks ot meat with
pocket knives and cleavers, and carry
ing them off wrapped in old newspap
ers.
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HAYS GREAT BRITAIN
REA LILY DEMOCRATIC
AND PROVES TO BE SO
LONDON. Oct.. 2K— Proof that
Great Britain is a really Democratic
•ountry was furnished by the recent
railway strike episode. Premier Lloyd
George declared in an address.
Speaking at the Mansion house t at a
reception to Field Marshal Allenby,
"onqucrer of Palestine who was given
the freedom of the city, the premier i
said:
“Now that the episode on the
whole front is over, all classes must
work together. The country’ needs it.
We all belong to the working classes
in this country. I claim to be a
working man in all except the eight
hour day. The strike proved that i
this is a really Democratic country \
where public opinion must prevail/'
Keeping along the same line of
thought the Premier continued:
“Pwssianism in the industrial and •
economic world must not prevail.;
Great Britain has once more ren
dered a deep and lasting service to
real freedom by defeating an effort
to hold up the community and
strangle it into .submission. The na
tion means to be strong, firm and
just but always master.
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* WINTER AIDINli
THE BOLSHEVIKI
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* LON DON, Oct., 28— Winter is *
* aid to the Bolsheviki forces in de
* fending Petrograd. It is now be*
* lieved the Bolsheviki will be able
* to defend Petrograd indefinitely.
There is furious fighting reported
r around Kiev.
SEAL SKINS
SHIPPED
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SEATTLE, Oct., *28— The OUi'r
Nanshan arrived today fror the IV:
biloff islands , Alaska, with 26,000
seal skins worth $2,500,000. There
were'twelve live blue foxes aboard tlv*
Nanshan and they will be sent to ex
perimentul farms in New York.
KING TALKS
TO SENATE
WASHINGTON, Oct., 2S— King
Albert visited the White House this
forenoon and talked with Mrs. Wilson
for half an hour. Later he was receiv
ed by Vice- President Marshall, Sena
tor Cummins and Representative Gil
lette.
King Albert addressed the Senate
and said that the American army was
the decisive factor in determining vic
tory.
The King of Belgium addressed tho
House and said nothing could better
characterize the reign of universal de
-norcracy than the freindship between
America and Belgium.
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PUBLIC MARKET WILL
REDUCED LIVING COST
EL PASO, Tex., Oct., 28— Liberty
Hall, built as a public meeting place
in the new courthouse, is to be con
vertedinto a public market as a means
of reducing the high cost of living.
The big amphitheatre is to be equip
ped with stalls and an outdoor market
will be operated by the county author
ities.
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Mrs. E. M. Kelly and daughter El
lanore, who has been connected with
the fashion store at Juneau for three
vaars, left recently for Port Angeles,
Wash.
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WASHINGTON, Oct., 2H- After
cutting the Alaska railroad appropria
tion from seventeen million to six mil
lion dollars and eliminating the fif
teen million dollars provision for the
army air service, the house and senate
conferees have reached an agreement
on the general deficiency bill.
According to private advices re
ceived in Seward last Friday, it was
known that the Alaska railroad appio
priation bill was to be fought. Chair
man Good, of the House appropria
tions committee threatened to cut out
all large appropriations added to the
deficiency bill as he said the Republi
cans meant to retrench.
The Alaska railroad appropriation
item was the largest increase made to
tlie bill by the Senate. Joe Cannon was
one of those strongly opposing the
seventeen million dollar appropriation.
Tm ici'irt !y the attitude of Chairman
Good became known. a co' ‘promise
was perfected. This comnromise was
nothing more nor less than for the
Alaska rail load to be given six mil
lion dollars, the estimate submitted
for construction work, etc., to the end
of the present fiscal year which is
June :J0th. 1020.
The com premise was agreed to and
the remainder of the seventeen million
dollars will be placed in the next sun
dry civil bill.
The Deficiency bill will possibly
be passed by congress within the next
few weeks. Anyway the appropriation
of the six million dollars will be avail
able when needed and will not be trail
ing along during the summer and rail
road retarded like has been done dur
ing the past throe years.
GARY PLANT
OPERATING
CHICAGO, Oct., 28- The steel of
ficials say every department of the
Steel Corporation’s plant at Gary is
being operated.
Soldiers are leaving Indiana Har
bor as conditions there are nearly nor
mal again.
The men returning to work are old
employees of the corporation and they
say they are glad to return to work
that they were misled in going out on
a strike.
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PEACE CONFERENCE TO
TAKE UP MANDATORIES
PARIS, Oct., 28— The Peace Con
ference believes America will not ac
cept mandatories in the near east but
may later let the conference settle the
Turkish questions. These mandatories
are not being discussed by the confer
ence.
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