MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 34.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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DEMOCRATS UNITE
SENATOR JAS. A. REED PUT FOR
WARD BY ASSOCIATION FOR
PRESIDENCY
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March 2.
(jp)—Senator James A. Reed will be
put forward by a United Missouri
Democratic association, for the Pres
idential nomination in 1928. This was
assured here last night at a State
Democratic dinner which formally
opened the campaign in behalf of Sen
ator Reed’s presidential candidacy.
Among the 700 Democratic leaders
' who attended the dinner were anti
Reed men from the rural districts, who
stated that their communities were
ready to forget the Wilson-Reed
scheme which split the Reed party in
this State. There was a general wil
lingness of Democrats throughout the
State to climb aboard the Reed “band
^ wagon.”
NO HOPE IS HELD
FOR ENTOMBED IN
IN WALES DISASTER
PREMIER AND MRS. BALDWIN
) SUBJECTED TO ANGRY MOB
DEMONSTRATION
CWM, Wales, March 2. (fP)—Coal
miners staged an angry demonstration
against Premier Baldwin shortly after
he and his wife arrived to express con
dolence for those bereaved by the
mine disaster. When the couple
emerged from the company’s offices
hundreds of angry persons met them,
.mostly crying in Welsh. One voice
shrieked above others: “"What about
the men lying in the black vein?”
Rescue parties labored throughout
the night driving their way through
rock to reach the entombed men,
though no hope is held that they are
alive. Women hovered about the pit
head throughout the night awaiting
news of the missing men.
(Cmw is pronounced “thwim”.)
. SENATOR ATTACKS
SHIPPING BOARD
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POLICY PURSUED BY ADMINIS
TRATORS “ALMOST WITHIN
THE CRIMINAL LAW
WASHINGTON, March 2. (^—Urg
ing the development of a strong and
adequate merchant marine, Senator
Fletcher (Democrat of Florida) de
clared in the Senate that the admin
istrators of the merchant marine act
*bave pursued the policy of disposing
of government ships which comes al
most within the criminal law. “So
active was the U. S. Shipping Board
in placing government ships in private
hands,” he said, “that in one instance
$40,000,000 worth of vessels were sold
for $4,500,000.”
AVIATOR AT BUENOS AIRES
| BUENOS AIRES, March 2. (/P)—De
pefaido, the Italian aviator, arrived
1 here, completing the first flight ever
made from Italy to Argentine.
SCHERMEYER CASE
VERGED ON FISTIC
BATTLE TUESDAY
IDITAROD MAIL ROBBERY CASE
! ENTERS THIRD WEEK—MANY
!
WITNESSES CALLED
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FAIRBANKS, March 2. (£>)—’With
I the Iditarod mail robbery case in the
third week of progress the defense
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called witnesses in rapid succession
> yesterday in its first day’s effort to
prove the continued residence of Nel
lie Bates on a mining claim on Chick
en creek in Iditarod on September 24.
Attempts were made to prove that
Schermeyer had previously sacked
' the mails when the court upheld ob
jections to several witnesses. A
clash between counsel verged on fis
tics when Attorney Marquam intro
duced affidavits purported to have
been made by Virginia Howard, a gov
ernment witness, in variance with her
testimony on the stand. The prose
cution charged that the affidavits were
stolen from the government confi
dential files.
SIR THOMAS LIPTON
TO MAKE ANOTHER
EFFORT LIFT CHP
RETIRING FROM BUSINESS TO
PAY AMERICA FIRST VISIT IN
FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS
LONDON, March 2. (JP)—After 67
years spent in building up his tremen
dous interests, Sir Thomas Lipton,
1 great sportsman and exponent of hard
work, is relinquishing the active di
rection of Lipton’s, Limited. He will
make another effort to gain the yacht
ing cup from the United States early
this spring, he stated in an exclusive
interview.
In coming to the United States,
where he will make an extended visit,
it will be his first vacation in this
country since 58 years ago, when he
came to this country on a steerage
ticket, to lay the foundation of a great
fortune and to acquire an affection
for America, which he says he will
never lose.
THE CHILDREN BURN
TO DEATH IN HOQUIAM
HOQUIAM, Wn., March 2. (ff)—Fail
ing to respond to cries for them to
^jump to safety three children burned
to death in their home as neighbors
watched the flames take their lives.
Alice Owens, aged 14, and two step
brothers, oJhn and Paul Hysong, aged
five and seven, perished. The par
ents were visiting and arrived just
as hte house collapsed.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
ASKS LEGISLATURE
S
WOULD HAVE TERRITORY FIX
TERMS OF CONTRACT FOR
EMPLOYES IN CANNERIES
In his annual report to the Legis
lature Attorney General John Rust
gard asks that steps be taken in the
way of legislation to remedy evils he
claims exist in connection with the
fishing industry, as fdirected under
joint resolution No. 2, enacted at the
last session. Features set forth in
the bill requested are:
1. Sanitary methods for handling
and treating the fish.
2. Sanitary condition of the boats
carrying the fish.
3. Sanitary condition of the can
nery, its appliances and equipment.
4. Proper facilities for enabling the
help to maintain and observe personal
cleanliness.
5. Sanitary living quarters for em
ployes and the inspection of such
quarters.
6. Disposal of the offal in such man
ner as to be least offensive to the
neighborhood.
In support of his recommendations,
the Attorney General takes up the
question of methods of employment
of contract labor and suggests regula
tions for such employment together
with laws affecting the substance of
the contract under which cannery and
saltery employes are engaged. The
portion of the report dealing with the
fisheries question is as follows:
REGULATE FISHER!
The Contract System
The contract labor system re
ferred to in Joint Senate Resolution
No. 2 has been inquired into and on
this subject I beg to report as fol
lows :
As a general rule a salmon can
nery makes a contract for the sea
son with some individual to furnish
i all the labor for performing the work
from the time the salmon is landed
at the cannery wharf until it is in
the cans and the cans labeled and
boxed. As a rule, the contractors are
Orientals, who engage the very
cheapest grade of labor, generally
Orientals and Latin - Americans,
in recent years, as Oriental help has
become less plentiful, the contract
system has shown a tendency to re
cede and most of the smaller canner
ies are at present having the work
done by individuals hired directly by
the canner and paid either by the
hour, the day or the season. Of late
years there has ben a demand at all
canneries for local labor, both native
and white, of both sexes; and it has
become quite a custom for people liv
ing in the cities along the coast of
Alaska, and dependent upon their
own labor, to spend the summer
working in canneries. This applies
to both men and women, and fre
quently to school children, who spend
their summer months assisting in
canning or packing fish. I am satis
fied that the canner, as a rule at
least, prefers local labor whenever it
[can be obtained and is found reas
onably dependable.
Where the cannery enters into a
contract with an individual to fur
nish the help and perform the work,
the payment is on the basis of a fix
ed price per case of salmon packed,
the contractor to supply the labor
without any responsibility resting
upon the canner except to furnish
quarters for the men, generally known
as “China quarters.” Under this sys
tem the canner guarantes a minimum
number of cases for the season, but I
have found at least one cannery, and
it was not a small one, where this
precaution was omitted. In that in
stance the work was undertaken by
Filipinos, many of whom were stu
dents of colleges and who engaged
themselves for the summer in order
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INCREASE RANGE OF GUNS
WASHINGTON, March 2. (£>)—Final
congressional approval of an appro
priation for funds to increase the fir
ing range of the big guns of the bat
tleships Oklahoma and Nevada was
given with the passage by the Senate
; of the bill the House approved yes
[ terday,
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SH1TUI1GESE POUR
DEFENSE SHANGHAI
CHUAIU EVACUATES
—
ENTRENCHED NEAR SUNKIANG,
WHERE DEFENDERS MAKE
LAST STAND
SHANGHAI, March 2. (£>)—'The de
fense of this city, a rich military ’prize,
against the invading Cantonese is left
entirely in the hands of the Shan
tungese by the complete withdrawal
of Marshal Sun Chuan Fang’s forces
from the Sunkiang and Shanghai area.
The collapse of Sun’s defense followed
the desertion of one of his generals
and men, Chao Yeh, who refused to
ally with the Shantungese. As the
result of this new development, the
Shantungese who recently came to
Sun’s aid, are pouring in large num
bers into Shankiang, 28 miles south of
here, .to fill the gap left by the disor
ganized Sun’s forces. The Canton
ere are entrenched near Sunkiang,
where the defenders of Shanghai are
making a last stand.
HUSKY WHICH SEPPALA GAVE
UNIVERSITY IS ACCEPTED BY
PRESIDENT SPEARE
BOSTON, March 2. (JP)—For the first
time in history, a university suspend
ed classes to welcome a dog. The ad
ministration granted the request of
the student council for cessation of
Northwestern University classes Fri
day afternoon to welcome a husky
which Leonard Seppala is giving to
the university. The students plan a
parade from the station to the univer
sity grounds, where President Frank
Palmer Spear will accept the mascot.
FORMER HEX. OFFICI1L,
FOLLOWERS CONVICTED
LOS ANGELES, March 2. (^—Gen
eral Enrique Estrada, former Mexican
Secretary of War, and 12 of his follow
ers were convicted of conspiracy to
violate the United States neutrality
laws, by a jury in the Federal Dis
trict court. Fifty other persons who
stood trial with Estrada were acquit
ted, but there remains a second force
of defendants numbering about 20
who face a charge of violation of the
neutrality laws in connection with the
alleged plotting of the Mexican revolu
tion.
CITY POLICE OF TAMPA, FLA.,
HANDLE ITALIAN NOBLEMAN
RATHER ROUGHLY
WASHINGTON, March 2. (^—Sec
retary of State Kellogg yesterday sent
apologies of the United States govern
ment for one black eye in the Italian,
nobility. It grew out of the rough
handling which Nobile io Macchi dei
Conti di Cellere, attache of the Italian
embassy here, received at the hands
of the city police in Tampa, Fla., while
on a vacation there, when they refused
to recognize his diplomatic immunity
in a fight.
The Italian Ambassador registered
a formal protest with the State De
partment, claiming that the dismissal
of the offending policeman was not
sufficient justice, and the apology fol
lowed.
FAMOUS HUSKS DOG
“BALTO” AND TEAMMATES WILL
BE INMATES OF CLEVELAND
ZOO
LOS ANGELES, March 2. (/P)-—
“Balto,” the Alaskan husky who led
Gunnar Kassen’s team on the Nome
diphtheria serum race, will have a
permanent home with six teammates
instead of spending the rest of his
days as a wandering vaudeville troop
er or side-show exhibit. The Cleve
land Balto committee purchased the
team from Sam Houston for $1,500.
They will live in the Cleveland zoo.
Shortly after the diphtheria race Kas
sen brought the team south under a
film contract. Following a disagree
ment with the film company Kassen
sold the dogteam and started a round
of stage appearances andside-show ex
hibitions w-hich finally relegated him
to a stuffy back room in a Los Angeles
side street museum.
SITE PASSES THE
LITERACY BILL; NOW
ALASKA VOTERS MUST BE ABLE
TO READ CONSTITUTION—1924
VOTERS ARE EXEMPT
WASHINGTON, March 2. (£>)—'The
Senate passed the House bill describ
ing the qualifications for voters in
Alaska. The bill, which now goes to
the President, provides that voters at
the time of election shall be able to
read, in the English language the Con
stitution of the United States and be
able to write English. Citizens who
legally voted in the 1924 general elec
tion will be exempt from this require
ment. :.T{<v . . •. , j'
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