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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 259.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1927.
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KETCHIKAN, Nor. 25. (JP)—At a
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chikan Commercial Club with local
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trap owners and a representive group
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of citizens a resolution was unani*
mouely adopted requesting Henry I
O’Malley, U. S. Commissioner of Pish- l
eries, to hold a hearing at Ketchikan
before issuing new regulations for
salmon fishing in this district.
The club adopted the report of the
executive committee that bays and;
estuaries contingious to spawning
grounds be closed and the weekly q
It closed period extended sufficiently .to
provide proper escapement of salmon
thereby removing the need of the
present seasonal closed period; also
requiring provisions for a more vigor- v
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WAS THE DOMINATING PERSON
ALITY IN POLITICAL LIFE FOR P'
MORE QUARTER CENTURY
BUCHEREST, Nov. 25. (JP)—Ionel ir
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Bratinau, for more than a quarter of a ei
century the dominating personality in
file political life of Rumania, died.
Thus, in four months, Rumania lost
ai crowned anduncrowned king as King
Ferdinand died last July soon after
I
Bratinau had taken over the premier
ship again.
Bratianu died from a complication of ,
diseases which proved fatal after an
operation for an abscess of the throat
for removal of a diseased gland on the
left of his lower jaw.
STATE PENNSYLVANIA
-The
. PITTSBURG, Nov. 25. (JP)
' American Federation of Labor voted u‘
•unanimously to ask President Cool- t(
idge aid in the fight of striking coal 5l
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miners in central and western Penn- ‘
sylvania and Ohio fields. They also P
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voted to demand from Governor John
Fisher immediate investigation into
charges of misuse of power against
mine workers in Pennsylvania and _
t^eir dependants as being on the verge
(of starvation because of oppression
and condemned use of the injunctions
in labor disputes.
EAR mil BULLARD
DIES ON EIIE OF BEST
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. </P)—<Rear
dmiral William H. G. Bullard, chair
an of the Federal Radio Commission,
ied on the eve of a two weeks rest
3 had planned prepatory to a tonsil 1
jeration. High blood pressure was
sponsible for his sudden ending.
President Coolidge appointed Bul
rd who was the Commissioner’s first;
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cecutive. Bullard served in the navy
om 1888 to 1922.
OF WASH. HANDS i
BOOSE EBB. OREGON
BIB BOID BATTLE
HARLES CARROLL, STAR HALF-\
BACK, PLUNGES OVER LINE
FOR LONE GOAL
SEATTLE, Nov. 25. (/?)—'The Uni- (
srsity of Washington handed the Ore- ,
on “Ducks” a goose egg on their
urkey Day gridiron battle after a ^
;ubborn battle, scoreless, until six
inutes before the final gun. (
Oregon put up a determined fight
at Charles Carroll, steller Washing
in halfback, plunged over the Oregon
pal line for a lone touchdown ball,
he ball was in the Oregon territory
)r most the first period and the
Huskies” came near scoring in sec
ad quarter; and again in the third
?riod when they started another drive
Bginning at the final period This fail
1 at the Oregon goal line. Beginning
. midfield again the “Huskies” work
1 the ball down for a touchdown.
FOOTBALL SCORES
Washington, 7; Oregon, 0.
Whitman, 31; Willamette, 7.
Denver University, 48; Colorado
University, 0,
Brown, 0; Colgate, 0.
Pittsburg, 30; Penn State, 0.
Pennsylvania, 35; Cornell, 0.
Columbia, 14; Syracuse, 7.
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Johns Hopkins, 14; Maryland, 13.
Missouri, 20; Oklahoma, 7.
Georgia, 20; Alabama, 6.
Nebraska, 27; New York University, £
18. *
Florida, 20; Washington Lee, 7.
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THAT’S AN IDEA! i
ST. PAUL,, Nov. 25. (jP)—An un- j
;ual but availing defense of Joe Dot-:
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>, a dairyman charged with water- \
ig his milk, was that he milked so ,
ust “a lot of foam forms in the!
lil and water develops from the I
am. He got 15 days.
COOLIDGE FOR* CONSTABLE £
WAYNESBURG, Pa., Nov. 25. (JP) (3
-A Greene county voter cast his bal- c
t at the primary for Calvin Cool- I
ge for high constable of Jackson <3
iwnahip. His was the only republi- 1
in vote cast in the township. *]
IN HATI01L
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN FIX
ED STATIONS, WAVE LENGTHS,
INCREASED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. (^—Bas
er radio communication in continen
al United States is promised Ameri
ca’s outlying possessions by the
American delegates to the Interna
:ional radio conference as the result of
lew wireless conventions although
iuch communications to the Carribean,
3acific possessions and Alaska, will
'all under the international regulations
lelegates assert new regulations by
co-ordinating and organizing radio ser
vices will improve existing conditions.
The new convention allocates inter
lational communication between fix
10,000 from 3,000 meters or between
id stations with wave lengths of
10,000 from 3,000 meters or between
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:en 100 kilocycles allowing five kilo
cycles for each communication chan
lel or the equivalent of 18 channels.
Such distribution promises to make
nternational radio communication
ivork in the future considerably
smoother than the past as far as in
erference Is concerned.
ENGLAND. MI!
POTENTIAL ENEMIES
DECLARES DELEGATE
N CASE OF ANOTHER EUROPEAN
WAR U. S. WILL NOT JOIN
ENGLAND’S SIDE
LONDON, Nov. 25. (/P)—Henri De
rouvenel, former French delegate to
he League of Nations, predicted in a
etter at. an International War Danger
conference the United States would
lot be on the same side as England in
mother Eurpean war.
Jouvenel pointed out the holding up
>f the recent naval conference and
taid “naval rivalry brings in its train,
concurrently with the growth of land
t
rmamentts, rivalry between Great
Britain and the United States which
ire potential foes.”
ISPMIESE FREIGHTER
ASHORE. CALIFORNIA
ABERDEEN, Nov, 25. (#*)—The Jap
nese freighter Tenpaisan Marti was
riven ashore off the Washington
oast in a 50 mile southwester. The
2mma and the S. S. Dorothy Alexan
er are standing by. The ship is not
eaking and carried a crew of 40.
'here are no passengers on board.
SENATOR DILL GIVES
NEW YORK, Nov. 25. The New
York Times quoted Senator C. C. Dill,!
Washington democrat, as saying the
democratic candidate for president
should be a man of such strength that
in addition to getting himself elected
he should carry a democratic House
and Senate into office with him. With
the right kind of fight and a proper
candidate should be possible.
CONVICTS IN REVOLT
FOLSOM. SURRENDER
1FTER 24 HOURS
(TWO GUARDS AND SEVEN PRISON.
ERS KILLED, 17 CONVICTS IN
JURED
—
FOLSOM, Calif., Nov. 25. (£’)—'The
revolt of 2,000 convicts, which result
ed in the death of two guards, seven
prisoners and the wounding of 17 other
prisoners, came to end this morning
when the rioters .surrendered their
rifles and released four guards who
had been imprisoned with them.
Warden Smith advised Governor
Young the prisoners had accepted his
terms of unconditional surrender
which marked the end of the revolt.
The guards, who were held as prison
ers, emerged from the cell house car
rying their arms, including two pistols
and a number of knives and an axe,
with which the convicts had held off
the guards for 24 hours.
The end came after a night during
which the convicts had held state of
ficials assembled at the prison. All
resources of the National guard, in
cluding guardsmen, machine guns and
armored tanks, were called and was
the greatest turnout of State troops
since the Wheatland hop riots in 1913.
SENATOR BORAH, GLASS
STAND IS CRITICIZED
FOR INCONSISTENCY
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. {&)—'
Piquant by criticisms of tbeir demand
for enforcement of' the Volstead Acti
Senator Borah informally and Senator |
Glass in an open letter made reports
to the charge of inconsistency levelled |
against them by Senator Edge and
Captain Stayton of the Anti-Prohibi-!
tion Association. Inconsistency, it was;
charged, lay in urging enforcement of
the 18th amendment while virtually
upholding non-enforcement of the 15th
amendment.
BOAT DUE IN MORNING
The S. S. Northwestern, of the A.
S. S. Co., is scheduled to arrive In
,port in the morning at 2 o'clock, ac
cording to the local report.
GOOD SILVER FOX
DEMAND m SEATTLE
FUR AUCTION SALE
LARGE NUMBER WOLF EXCHANG
ES HANDS; BLUE FOX AVER
AGED $35.00
SEATTLE, Nov. 25. (JP)—'The silver
fox and wolf demand at the monthly
Seattle fur auction disposed of 75 per
cent of the offering. Twenty five
hundred wolf exchanged hands at an
average of $10.27 an increase of 10
percent; the best lot sold for $14.25.
Silver fox veraged $112.35 and $330
for top price. Martin advanced 25
percent the average going to $27.74;
Mackenzie river’s $27. Average darka
sold up to $50, Cascades $12 to $15,
British Columbia coast’s $18 to $25.
Ermine sold well at an average of
$1.75 to $2.50 for Aalaksas. The best
lot brought $3.35. Practically no red
or white fox were offered but a small
offering of cross fox averaged $56.
Fresh Northwestern mink sold well at
an average of $12. Otter sold in the
pen market at prices averaging from
$23 to $25. Beaver, on the open mar
ket, averaged $27 and blue fox averag
ed $35.
FOUR OTHERS RECENTLY RESIGN
ED; INVESTIGATORS MAKING
INVESTIGATION
CHICAGO, Nov. 25. (/P)—Four physi
cians on the staff of the Edward Hines
Jr. Memorial hospital staff have been
suspended for 90 days pending in
vestigation, hospital officials said to
day, of sales of liquor prescriptions.
The superintendent of the hospital de
nied that 14 had been suspended as
previously reported. Colonel R. W. C.
Frances, commander of the institution
and three other physicians recently re
signed. Investigators said the ColoneJ
was not involved in the investigation,
ill health having been given as the
reason for his retirement.
NIcLARIN WINNER
DETROIT, Nov. 25. (JP)—Jimmy Mc
Larin. Los Angeles lightweight and
championship contender, won the
referee’s decision over Billy Wallace
of Cleveland in a 10 bout the winner
having been promised a shot at Sam
my Mandell’e title.
“DEATHS NOT FELONIOUS"
GREELEY, Colo., Nov. 25. (/F) -The
coroner’s jury, investigating the
deaths of John Eastenes and Nick
Spandahrls, brought in a verdict that
the two men killed at the Columbine'
mine last Monday by bullets ftred by
persons unknown and their “death#