MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 259.
SEWARD ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COOLIE S STAND.
ON WORLD TRIBUNAL
WILL NOT REQUEST SENATE TO
MODIFY RESERVATIONS AND
TERMS ON WHICH AMERICA
WOULD ENTER TRIBUNAL
UNMOVED BY EUROPEAN IRE
Favors Conscription of Wealth as;
WeAl as Man Power to Stamp Out j
Profiteering During War Time
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 11. (^—Pres
ident Coolidge declared that the
United States would adhere to the
World Court on the basis of the
Senate reservations in an address
at the dedication of the Liberty me
morial erected in honor of citizens
who served in the World war. Cool
idge said: “While the nations in
volved cannot yet be said to have
made final determination, and from
the most of them no answer has been
received, many of them have indi
cated they are unwilling to concur
in the conditions adopted by the reso
lution of the Senate. I do not in
tend to ask the Senate to modify
its position. I do not think the Sen
ate would take favorable action on
any such proposal.
“It is more ani more becoming
the conviction of students of ade
quate defense that in the time of na
tional peril the government should
be clothed with authority to call to
its service all of its man power and
all property under such terms and
conditions that it may completely
avoid making a sacrifice of one and
profiteer of another. Any policy of
conscription should be all inclusive
and applicable to the entire wealth
of the whole nation.”
Speaking of war debts, the Presi
dent said: “Moderation is a mutual
international obligation.” Referring
to the unfriendliness of foreign na
tions, President Coolidge said he
wanted to “be sure tha the attitude
and acts of the American government
are righ.t” He was “willing to in
trust others with a full responsibility1
for the results of their own be
havior.”
FALL AND DOHENY PLEAD
NOT GUILTY TO CHARGES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11—Former
Secretary Fall and Doheny entered a
plea of not guilty when arraigned on
the charge of conspiracy to defraud
the government on the Elk Hills
naval oiil lease, in the District of
Columbia Supreme court.
WETS TO RESIST VOLSTEAD
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. (/P)— Sen
ator Edge announced that the sena
torial wets will fight vigorously
against the efforts of Andrews to ob
tain re-enactment of bills strength
ening the Volstead enforcement law.
Anti-prohibition sentiment in the re
ferendums, especially in New York
■and Illinois, strengthened the wets.
There is no concerted scheme adopt
de to oppose Andrews.
KETCHIKAN, Nov. 11. (^—Hali
but, 15.50 and 9; salmon 28, 18 and 8.
ARMISTICE DAY
In these days when history is being made over
night and recurrent events are treading upon each
other’s heels it becomes necessary to segregate out
standing episodes, and present them lest we too
soon forget their significance. Of those stirring
historical epoch which have intermingled in the
life of the nation, three deserve to stand out boldly
as an integral part of American life and ambition.
These are the contest for American independence,
the blotting of slavery from the nation and the
great crusade of American doughboys in Europe to
emancipate the world from the thraldom of monar
chal ambitions, and reaffirm our national faith in
and vindication of democracy. <
Today these modern watchdogs of world safety
who shed undying glory upon the Stars and Stripes
will gather in sentiment if not in person as they did
in the shambles of France and live again those stir
ring days when they offered their all in defense of
the honor of the nation and the higher moral ethics
of the world.
And these days and those who sheded the eful
genee of a nation’s glory upon a sore-stricken world
should not be forgotten, nor the boys who carried
the standard of liberty to the far places of the
earth, not as conquiscadors in search of national
pelf, but as crusaders in the cause of right. May
their glory never dim.
Visiting Elk Officials
Entertained Banquet
By “Bills” of Seward
SPIRIT OF FRATERNITY, GOODFELLOWSHIP, WIT
AND HUMOR HOVERS ABOUT FESTIVE BOARD
WHILE MEMBERS ROMP THROUGH PROGRAM
BETWEEN COURSES OF APPETIZING CHEF
D’OUVRES FROM HANDS OF CULINARY ARTIST
PIST EXALTED HER M’CUTGHEDM GIVES SPLENDID TALK
Outline of Aims and Precepts of Great Fraternal Order
Presented in Able Manner—Dinner Climax to Tour of
Westward Where Half Score Members Inducted into
Elkdom
AFTER a triumphant tour-of the Westward,
with Kodiak Island as the roundup corral
containing a half score of initiates, upon
whom they put the brand ot Elkdom, Exalted Kuier uan
Martin, accompanied by Past Exalted Rulers H. H. Mc
Cutcheon and Lyle W. Larsen, brought their fraternal ac
tivities to a grand climax last night with a banquet at the
Seward Grill, where 27 of the antlered herd gathered, and
where an evening was crammed full of goodfellowship
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CITY TEAM ID HIGH
SCHOOL WIN GAMES
Good Crowd Turns Out to Witness
Two Practice Games at S. A. C.
Gymnasium
Last night was a great night at
the S. A. C. gym for two games of
basketball were played off before a
good-sized crowd of spectators be
tween the Jesse Lee Home and High
School fives, and the Soldiers and
City team. The High School and
City teams were both victorious, the
first winning their game by a score
of 28-6 and the latter 33-23.
The City team five won their game
but, as the 'score indicates, with little
margin considering the lack of prac
tice the Soldier boys have had. It
is difficult for the members of the
team to get away together for prac
tice owing to their various duties,
but it is hoped this will be arranged
more conveniently shortly.
Flashes of clever play broke forth
occasionally among the ranks of the
Soldiers last night, but the superior
team work and excellent cage shots
of the City quintet halted all on
slaughts on their hoop.
Seward folks are going to have
much enjoyment this winter watching
these basketball games gauged by
the interest shown last night, for
the balcony rail seats were all occu
pied, the overflow being taken care
of on benches placed at one end of
the gym floor.
The Jesse Lee boys put up a rat
tling good game against, their more
experienced opponents, and will un
doubtedly prove to be a formidable
team before the season is over.
Their team work and basket shooting
is seen to be increasing in accuracy
with each succeeding game. The
High School lads have a pretty look
ing machine and individual stars.
The Jesse Lee home boys and
trainer are not very well known yet,
so for the benefit of the fans their
names are given: Otto M. Love,
centre; Wanker Andre and Charles
Nelson, forwards; David Edy and
Mickey Hiedel, guards. The regular
guards are Alex Conn and Charlie
Carlson, but they were not in the
line-up last evening owing to poor
grades in school during the last,
month. One of the sub forwards,
Andy Peterson, was also out of the
game for the same reason.
GUN KILLED
WHEN WIND DAZES
MARYLAND SCHOOL
LIVES OF FIFTEEN TOTS SNUFF.
ED OUT AND TWENTY INJURED
AS BILDING IS TWISTED INTO
KINDLING WOOD
SIGHT HORROFIES PHYSICIAN
From Across Street Sees Children
Hurled Hundred Feet by Wind
While He Stands Helpless
LA PLATA, Md., Nov. 11. (JP)—A
windstorm which destroyed a school
house here yesterday killed 15 and
injured 20 others mostly children.
Other houses were blown down. Dr.
G. D. Heath of the Maryland health
department who has offices across
the street saw the school house
twisted into a mass of splinters and
closed his eyes to shut out the hor
ror. The wind carried some of the
children a hundred feet. Muriel
Hardesty, aged 13, said: “The first
thing I knew what was happening
was when the window panes began
to clatter. Then there as a thunder
clap and a roar; the stove began to
wabble about the room and then the
whole building went over. The next
I knew was when I awoke in a hotel.”
The storm cut a 50-yard swath,
from La Plata to Cedarville, 14 miles
northeast. Aid and medicines have
been rushed to La Plata.
YUKON DUE ARRIVE TONIGHT
Announcement is made that the S.
S. Yukon is due to arrive in port at
midnight, tonight, from the South,
which is almost a full day ahead of
any previous time made during the
past season for any of the Alaska
Steamship company vessels to arrive
in port during the past year.
DR. JNO. WITHERSPOON DEAD
SEATTLE, Nov. 11. (/P)— Dr. John
Witherspoon, formerly head of the
government hospital at Noorvik, died
Sunday. The funeral will be held
today.