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Daily Edition; e Alaska Weekly Post
-gg'jj-_—— —---.- .. ... WEDNESDAY, July 9. 1919. \ ' ____ __— _
VOLl'ME XIII NUMBER H * _ ___ ——■ ■ - —=-SBSm—5 S3
MORE AIDS
IN ALASKA
VANCOUVER. H. C. July i>— The
Development League was written t*»
the Vancouver Board of Trade asking
endorsement of the r .juest to th *
Minister of Marine a>king more aids
to navigation in Alaska waters.
The \ ukon League asks the estab
lishment of a wireless station at t ape
Beale or Triangle Island.
The statement shows that 42f» ships
have been wrecked in Alaska water*,
arut S50 people lost in 21 wrecks.
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DIRIGIBLE'S SAILING
POSTPONED BY WEATHER
MIN KOLA- X. Y • July 9— Unfav
orable weather is holding the British
dirigible .U ^T*4 from making a flight
back over the Atlantic. The airship
may start within the next 24 hours.
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George Kinney, formerly of Fair
banks. is nov.* playing in Fatty Ar*
buckle’s moving pictures in California.
tv Associated Press
CINCINNATI- July Promote*
Cochran- of Paris, has offered Jack
Dempsey $125-000 to fight the winner
of the George Carpentier— John
Beckett bout which takes place in
England this month. Dempsey expects
to accept and will .go to Europe if the
winner will not come to America.
VICTORIA MAN TO
FLY OVER THE
PACIFIC
VICTORIA* July 0— It is reported
that G. D. White, of the G. D. Whi'e
Aviation Company is to enter a sea
plane in th«- flight for the $50-000
prize for transpacific flight. The
route is from I.os Angeles to* San
Francisco, to Victoria- to Sitka- Cn*
atuska. Petropavlosk- Yokohama and
Shanghai. ...
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I .OS ANGELES. July T>—The
Pacific aero cluh rules forbids memb
ers trying for the trans-Pacific flight
prize offered ny Thomas B. Ince- mov*
| ie magnate. The route is to skirt the
Alaska coast.
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JAZZ CRAZE HAS RI N
ITS COl'RSE IN STATES
SAN FRANCISCO- July 9— Co,.
ductor Alfred Hertz- of San Francisco
Symphony Orchestra- sums up the
modern jazz craze by saying "A peo
ple can no more indulge in jazz an I
escape demoralization than they can
touch a crock *nd not be smutted: on
the other hand good music uplift-;
morally and spiritually."
Mr. Hertz believes that .jazz owe.;
its popularity to the abnormality oi*
life under war conditions and now that
the world is back to sanity again- it
will disappear like other unwholesome
fads. "The influence of good music "
declares Mr. Hertz- “is already unit
ing erstwhile enemies and restoring
harmony to the world at large. '*
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A CHANCE TO SECl'KE
SOCVENIRS OF MAINE
The governor’s office at Juneau has
received word from the navy depart*"
ment that there are on hand at the
navy yard. Washinjrton 1.311 memo
rial tablets made from metal recov
ered from the battleship Maine* which
any municipality, nfllitary or naval as
sociation or societies, and former offi
cers and members of the crew of the
Maine and their heirs and represen
tatives are entitled to receive the sou
veniers by paving the cost, which is
estimated at $5 plus the freight and
express chances to the point of desti
nation.
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Bv A88CHMa*»-d PtfHS
CHICAGO, July !>— Several thous
and men and women- candy factory
workers- struck for higher wages to
day and better working conditions.
The police attempted to disperse a
crowd of strikers in front of the Na
tional Candy plant. One striker fired
ami the police returned the fire- shoot
ing into the air. None were injured.
One striker has boon arrested.
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PARIS. July 0—The general Fed
eration of Labov is planning a lab<v
demonstration in Frame. England and
Italy on July 21 as a protest against
Allied intervention in Russia.
NEW YORK- July !)— Delegate*
from ten countries are attending the
first annual Congress of the Pan-Am
erican Federation of Labor. A resolu
tion was adapted at the session thi;
afternoon unanimously demanding a'*
nations he eligible to the League ot
Nations
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TOKIO July 0— The warships to
be built for the Japanese Navy in th-*
current financial year 1010- 1020. a*<*
the battleships Kaga and Tosa, two
battle cruisers whose names have riot
yet been chosen, two cmisers, eight
destroyers and seven submarines.
The two battle cruisers are to be
of the latest type. The design hav ’
already boon drafted and it is expected
that the Minister.of Navy will short!'.'
issue formal instructions for under
taking their construction.
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* Al STRIA IS GIVEN
* FRIENDLY ADVICE "
* PARIS. July 9— The peace con* 0
0 ference is to tell Austria that the *
, * nation will he admitted to the
* League of Nation* when eompli* r
a nee has been made with the
* peace conditions. Austria recently *
* wrote asking about admittance.
* The Allies reply will he friendly. *
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FORMER BIG LEAGUERS
AGAIN MAKING GOOD
MILWAUKEE* July 9— This is the
year of “Comeback” Tor former ma
jor league baseball players. Several
men who won fame in years past en
tered the American Association and
have been going the distance. They in
clude Ed Walsh and Roy Patterson*
both great pitchers for the White SoX
in the old days.
Big Ed Walsh* idol of thousands of
fans • now is with the Milwaukee club*
which is in charge of Clarence Row
land* former leader of the White Sox.
Rowland expressed confidence tha'
Walsh was not through and gave him
a chance to stage his “comeback ’
against St. Paul. Walsh mowed the
hard hitting Saints with ease. A few
days later Walsh went against th*
Kansas City club and won 14 to 3.
Now the fans are pulling for him to
take his regular turn.
Roy Patterson insisted he was “as
good as ever* when Joe CantiHon told
him he was going to use him as coach.
“Pat” said if he couldn’t be a regular
ho wouldn’t sign. The eowtrmrt -w-a*
signed and Patterson pitched for Min-(
neapolis against Milwaukee. He wetf
the entire distance and his team won.
Charley Hall, another former hero
of the big show, is going well for St.
Paul. At one time he starred for* the
Red Sox. Two years ago Manager
Mike Kelley sent him to the Pacific
coast league. The warm western sun
seemed to instill new fight in Hall,
and this year he came hack to St.
Paul and has been doing his share in
the Saint’s fight for-premier honors.
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NEVADA MINING CAMP
ENJOYS BOXING BOOM
TONOPAH, NEVADA* July 9—
Twenty-five round boxing matches ,
have become a regular feature of the J
athletic program of this community j
and many of the best fighters of the
I Pacific coast have been seen in action
j here. Mufti interest is being taken i»'
! the sport and* with California limited i
1 to four round bouts* this interest ox*
j tends to followers of boxing in the
' Goldfti state.
With the influx of those interested j
i in the mining boom connected with 1
^he Divide district, no trouble ha>
been found by the promoters in draw j
ing capacity’ houses T*nvt this camp is j
becoming one of the taxing centers of !
the Pacific slope.
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ONE 91st YANKEE
WEDS FRENCH GIRL
SAN FRANCISCO. July 9— Head
quarters officers of the 91st division
who returned recently, desire Cnli
fornia girls to know they brought
their sweethearts home heart free. Out
of the ”0.000'men of the 91st division
onlv one was captured *by a French
girl, and he was of French birth. “The
fear of American girls that the men
would many in France were unneces
sary,” said division staff officers. “We
got only a fow requests to marry, and
th<v*e werp easily discouraged.”
The lone Wrild West doughboy who
married missed coming home with his
division because of his wedding and
the subsequent celebration, but the
govpinment will bring him home lat
er, and his wife, too. , - .,
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C. Chloperk and A. McCuo have
started installing a cold storage plant
at Klawok. It will bo completed by
September 1. Fishermen will he out*
fitted by the company installing the
plant. y.-rr * •
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By Associated Press
SEATTLE. July 9— Logan Billings
ley has escaped from the county farm
jail. Within three days the famous
bootlegger would have completed his
sixty day sentance for peddling booze.
It is believed that Billingsley made hh
get-away in order to escape a warrant
from Oklahoma where he is wanted
for bootlegging.
BLIND SOLDIERS BECOME
PROFICIENT IN SHIPYARDS
r
SAN FRANCISCO. July 9— That
both the blind as well as the mained
of the great war are fully capable of
doing certain necessary work in ship
yards. rigging lofts and hangars »s
the opinion of F. J. Luebbert* head ot
a tent manufacturing concern- who
made the discovery while endeavoring
to find sufficient help in order to fill
his war contracts with the United
States government.
Short of help for prepreparing foot
stops and guy ropes for his tents,
which consists in knotting and splic
ing* it occurred to Mr. I.uebbert that
if the blind were capable of becoming
adept at basket weaving. the same
principle would apply to making com
plicated knots and slices. His offer
of work to the students of scvernl in
stitutions for the blind was accepted*
and the result proved a complete suc
cess. ,
For the foot rope, dr loop that holds
to the tent peg* the Mathew Walker
knot is used, among the most compli
cated known to mariners. By patient
work and with the aid of heavy n>pe
over wbtt-h Mr. liueWx'rt could gttidr
the hands of his pupils, the fcorkev«
were able- at the end of a week, to
make the knot as well as their teacher.
“Not only could they do as well as
myself, but they could do it a whol*
lot faster.” said Luebbert. 91 I paid
them three-fourths of a cent each for
every foot ston delivered* and they av
eraged between $4 and $»* a day. Out
of several millions of these foot stops
delivered there was not a single rejec
tin. I also taught them how guy l'opes
were spliced and whipped* and they
became equally expert in this.
“Under the circumstances I am con
vinced that these people could be ex
pertly used by the United States Ship
ping Board in making the rigging for
the new merchant marine fleet which
we are constructing. There is much
work in rigging lofts that they can do
as expertly as a sound worker.
“With the tremendous growth in
aviation, which I believe is bound to
•ome. they also qould be employed in
the hangars, where wire cable has to
he wrapped with rope.”
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STATE-WIDE SEARCH
FOR MISSING WOMAN
ENR SUCCESSFULLY
LOS ANGELES. July 9— Mrs.
Mattie Rooney. 55. left her peaceful
home in Sawtelle* near here- unan
nounced. and for nearly a month was
the object of a state-wide search by
hev friends, aided by the police of
many cities.
Topango Canyon, is a natural path
leading from the San Fernando val
ley* a narrow tout fertile strip of land
on the plateau above Ios Angeles, to
the sea.
On a high ^mountain overlooking
this scenic canyon, Mrs. Rooney took
up her abode in a lonely cabin.
Three donkeys, five dogs and a par
rot were her only* but constant com
panions. Mrs. “Robinson Crusoe.” as
her friends nov; call her* planted a
garden to vary her diet of the wild
game she shot and the fish she caught
in the sea below. v
And so she lived happily for nearly
a month. ^
But her friends found her and now
Mrs. “Crusoe” is once again Mrs. Mat
tie Rooney and lives again in her
peaceful home at Sawtelle.
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The American Mining Congress re
cently held at Fairbanks, discussed
the advisability of asking for an ap
propriation for the Erection of a cen
tral power plant at Lignite.
PREDICTS GREAT
FUTURE FOR THE
FISH OF ALASKA
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SEATTLE. July 9— Prof. H. B. *
' Ward , of the Cniversily of Illin
ois* »s here enroute lo the Copper
1 River Meet ion to study fish condi
tions for the Bureau of Fisheries.
Prof. \Yrard says Alaska fish will
bring more than Alaska mines.
selTbooze
BOSTON* July 9— Five hundred
liquor dealers have resumed selling
beer* ale and light wines. The Dis
trict attorney is to make one arrest
o
for a test case.
CONSIDERING PROHIBITION
WASHINGTON. July D— T!»» j
House is considering prohibition en
forcement legislation on the floor. The
debate is limited to 12 hours.
PITTSBURGH. July 9— The gov
ernments drive against the sale of
beer containing two and three quart
ers per cent alcohol has started. Thi
Federal Attorney sued the Pending
Brewing Company* charging a viola- j
tion of war time prohibition.
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON. July 9— Nearly
one hundred thousand persons greeted
President Wilson at the depot last
night upon his return from France.
Officials state that this is the largest
crowd ever gathered to greet a presi
dent returning from any place.
President Wilson is spending u
busy day signing various appropria
tion measures and conferring with
congressmen and members of the cabi
net.
The President may receive the
members of the Senate? foreign re
lations committee late this afternoon
for a conference regarding the pear'
treaty.
President Wilson told the newspa
permen this forenoon that he believed
the American people are in favor ot
the League of Nations. The President
expects to start on a tour within two
weeks and*to arrive on the Pacific
Coast about the time when tfio new
Pacific fleet reaches there.
CRITICISES PRESIDENT
* WASHINGTON. July 9— Repre
sentative Campbell, of Kansas* a Re
publican. today introduced a bill pro
hibiting the President from leaving
the country or perform duties excop:
at Washington.
Representative Campbell prepared
a lengthy address in whuh he sharplv
criticised President Wilson tor going
to Europe. No applause; was given to
the speech.
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PACIFIC FLEET STARTS
AROUND DURING MONTH
WASHINGTON. July 9— The new
pacific fleet leaves Hampton Roads
for the Pacific on July 19th according
to announcement today.
WASHINGTON. July 9— Many
ships of the new Pacific fleet will
make their base at Pearl Harbor. Ex
tensive improvements will be made in
Haw-aii for handling the ships.
Secretary of the Navy Daipels will
probably go to Honolulu with‘the fleet
in September.
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GAME LITTLE FIGHTER
QUITS RING FOR GOOD
SAN FRANCISCO. July 9—
Friends of former lightweight boxing
champion Willie Ritchie, are glad that
the little fighter has no idea of follow
ing in the footsteps of some of his
predecesors by fighting second and
third rate1# in his declining days as a
boxer. Ritchie was thrifty in the days
of his prosperity and is comfortably
fixed. He said recently:
“I would not go into the ring again
unless I was paid a good round sum
for doing so* and no one appreciates
better than I do, that no promoter is
going to offer me anything like what
would be required for the reason’ that
I know I am no longer a drawing card.
*8 a boxer.”
By Associated Press
WEIMAR* July 9— The German
National Assembly today* by a vote of
two hundred and eight to one hundred
and fifteen,, adopted a resolution rai?*
fying the peace treaty of the Allies.
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LOVERS OF SPORTS FORM
ORGANIZATION TO KEEP
BOXING TRUE TO FORM
TACOMA* Wash.. July 9— Lovers
of boxing here have organized with a
view of protecting this sport in th?
future from the disrepute which often
attaches to it as the result of question
able actions by both promoters and
boxers. '
Under the title of the “Western
Washington Association for the Gov
ernment of Boxing" an association of
sportsmen was formed with Daniel
Salt of Seattle as President. The Unit
ed States service boxing rules will
govern. Just what control the organi
zation will exercise has not yet been
determined.
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Superintendent George A. Learn of
the Kodiak Baptist mission is collect
ing shells on Wood island and imme
diate vicinity, and recently sent over
forty species to the Smithsonian In*
stitute for identification and classifi
cation,
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