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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 42. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DISPUTES BETWEEN
MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF 100
YEARS BETWEEN AMERICA
BRITAIN, LIFTED
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GENEVA. Feb. 20. (IP)—Disputes
between the United States and Gr8at
Uiitt.in in the last 100 years which
r» 'gin have resulted in wav at any
time were amicably settled by arbit
ration. “ ,
Baron Coshendun of Great Britain
told the League of Nations, Secur
ity Commission, this fact in deliver
ing an earnest appeal for develop
taent of conciliation in arbitration
declaring disarmament and peace
could be promoted either by multi
lateral treaties of conciliation arbit
ration or by other treaties.
Baron Cushendun pledged Groat
Britain’s help in the creation or such
treaties. He urged the Security Com
niUhion to-, propose world regions
where pacts of security o‘: non ag
gression, rim Ear w the T.cca'mc
treaty, could be elaborated on in the
interest of international peace.
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I COLLISI
CMINT.SE AND JAPANESE EOATS
IN COLLISION SATURADY
NIGHT
SHANGHAI, Feb. 20, (/P)—Three
hundred Chinese are reported to
drowned in a collision between th^
Chinese vessel Iesen Ta Ming and
the Japaneses steamer Atsuta Mani
The accident oceured Saturday
night off Chian Kiang. The S. 3.
Atsuta Maru left London on Decern
her 16 for Far-Eastern ports.
LID ENLISTED IN II. S.
IDIW IT ICE OF 14
PAULBORO, N. Y., Feb. 20. (TP)—
Warren Rj Broadware has been a
first class private in the United
States army at the age of 15. Rela
tives obtained his release from the
army in Honolulu by showing that
he had enlisted at the age of 14. He
is a very big fellow for his age and
said he was 18. He wants to enlist
again when possible and become a
noted flier like Lindbergh.
LOWER DEATH RATE
CHICAGO, Feb. 20, (TP)—Chicago’s
death rate for 1927 was 11.52 per
1000 population, figures released by
Health Commissioner Kegel show, or
16 lower than the rate 10 years ago.J
SEPALLA ACTIVE RACER
QUEBEC, Feb. 20, (/P)—Sepa.Ua
was amojig the 17 starters in the 6th
annual dog derby which started in a
light snow and 10 above zero. Th:s
an international race,
Pi CONVENTION
ENDS AT HAVANA
TO REORGANIZE
CNGTHY convention scene
MUCH CONFLICT BETWEEN
NATIONS
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HAVANA, Feb. 20. (JP)—'The P-n
American Union Convention was ^oa.
iuded by the signatures of *!•?
arious heads of delegations to t1,.e
Sixth Conference Conference
The Convention provided for the
'-organization of the Pan Americai
’uion with respect to its governin .
boar ! and activities in gencah
It was over this preamble at t'"'
convention that Honorio Pueyrredo1
o!" Argentina came hi to conflict with
the United States apd other Amer
ican -Republics a:.«i •'.ic;»
resigned his p *s . and the Argenti t
•,'ment erd red its delegation o
i ve and «^v-’ the rVcument.
LOS ANGELES GALE
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20, (/P)—A ter
rific gale cut a swath of havoc thru
| the Los Angeles region, killing one
! boy, Chester Hammack, and tearing
the dome off the Mount Lowe obser
i vatory.
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SAILING DATES OF S S
VICTHI BERING SEA
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SEATTLE, Feb.20, (#>)—'The S. S.
Victoria, of the Alaska Steamship Co.,
is scheduled to sail from Seattle on
June 5, July 6, September 7, October
10, for Bering Sea calling at the usual
ports and at Teller and Kotzebue
Sound. A cargo steamer will also
call at these ports leaving Seattle
od or about July 15.
STAYS AS IS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, (/P)—
National Committeeman William But
ler, after a joint meeting of the com
mittee on arrangements of th# Nat
ional Committee, announced the Rep
ublican Presidentian Convention will
not be moved from Kansas City.
TO PREVENT OIL WASTE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, (/p)—A
cooperative development o£ new oil
fields to prevent waste and uneconom
ic production, is the major recommen
dation made in a report submitted to
Secretary Work by an investigating
committee.
WAR ON U. S. ACTORS
LONDON, Feb. 20, (#)—The British
Ministry of Labor has started a war
on American actors, banning several.)
NEXT TO MAN’S HEART IS HIS
STOMACH, SAYS HEAD OF SIG
NAL CORPS
A hundred miles over mountains |
and tundra to Kenai by dog sled and
back again without accident. No ?
Well, there may have been an acci
dent or two, or was it a dozen? What
difference does it make anyhow?
The real hardship of Alaska winter
travel, according to Captain Guthrie,
who traveled to Kenai last week on an
inspection trip for the Road Commis
I sion, is what happens after the last
| gruelling mile. It is when you settle
I back in your chair and pick up routine
I again.
“Lars Indegard and 1 made the’trip
| with a string of 17 dogs, which was
as long a team as the people along
the trail had seen in years and as long
| too as one cares to handle—also as
! short. There 'is glon in the 17 dog
j string. You burst with pride -when
| you meet a shorter outfit. You feel
like Leviahtan cruising past the Dolly
D of Mackeral Cove,- R. I. You “rank”
a gee pole and a musher on skis.
There are tassels on your harness.
The leader glances at the five dog
j leader standing with his tail between
| his legs in a snow drift, and winks.
jDogs are catty like that.
{ “We arrived Sunday February 5, at
i Rawing, unloaded from a freight car
land wrapped our gastromonic appara
i tus around one of mother Decker’s
| marvelous hamburger steaks. The
dogs were slumbering each in his pri
i vate snow drift, a furry bundle of high
| voltage. ' One and all they got their
i dried ^almon and an invitation to help
| themselves to the snow to wash it
down.
“The next morning, at breakfast
time Mr. Hardy of Kasilof and Mr.
Wagner of Kenai arrived at the Law
ing roadhouse by sled, bringing a sick
man from Kasilof. They had travel
led all night and Mr. Hardy had brok
en thru the ice on the lower lake at
Black Point. The train from Seward
brought Mr. Lucas a prominent trap
per of Skilak lake who was to ride
with our team. Then we set off. Ar
rived at George Lean’s cabin and
roadhouse at Cooper’s Landing at 1
o’clock. Mrs. Lean had a dinner \yhich
amounted to a spread. I would warn
any* plump lady desiring to reduce to
avoid Mrs. Lean’s table. She is the
natural enemy of the slim svelt figure,
at least for dog mushers. Lars and I
ate fish, beans, pie cake, meat in
variety, potatoes and salids that would
make a pood amateur out of Oscar,
the Waldorf’s prize chef.
“Before reaching' this oasis of in
terior fulfillment, our team jerked a
knot in its tow line and ardent in a
tree and the mijsher and myself land
ed somewhere off the port bow and
skated for yards on the backs of our
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FAVORS REGISTRATION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, (/P)--TUf:
..tie Judiciary CommiU.
record as favoring the registration of
lobbyists with the secretary of the;
Senate and with the clerk of the j
I-Touse.
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MOUTH OF RIVERS PROTECTED
FOR DISTANCE HALF MILE
VANCOUVER AREA
VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 20. (/P)—
Important amendments to the fishing
regulations are announced from Otta
wa. These include prohibition of seine
nets in many areas.
The mouth of rivers are protected
for half a mile out; purse Seine nets
are reduced to 200 fathoms and by not
less than 250 meshes, and half an
inch mesh.
The closed season for cod has been
changed from February and March
to January and February; cohoe sal
mon are protected from January to
May 15 on Vancouver Island on the
East coast and South.
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STIGMATA HAS STOPPED
BERLIN, Feb. 20, (/P)—Theresa
Neumann no longer shows signs of
stigmata which occurred each Friday
I afternoon for several years. Under
its influence she was subject toT bleed
ing from hands, eyes, feet and ide.
She is now altogether normal.
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DECIDING QUESTION IN
! TAX REFUND, INTEREST
MUST BE REFUNDED
SUPREME COURT LAYS DOWN
PRINCIPLE GOVERNMENT
MUST REFUND
WASHINGTON, Fob. 20, (/P)
Deciding the question which has
arisen in the tax refund cases in
voiving millions the Supreme Cou»t,
laid down the priciple that the gov
crnmont must pay interest on re
funded taxes under the law in force
when the refund was allowed.
TO REMAIN NEUTRAL
MOSCOW, Feb. 20, (£>)—1The latest
eport from acute observers with Rus
sia indicate a swing towards the right
is not expected either in,Soviet’s in
ternal or external* policies unless the
richer peasants demonstrate a distinct
antipathy to the government's real
action favoring the poorer classes.
NARROWLY AVERTS DEATH
SHANGHAI, Feb. 20, (iP)—Dr. C. C.
Wu, former foreign minister in Nank
ing, narrowly escaped death when he
was fired upon as he was leaving the
Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
COOLIOfiE IS VEXED
OVER THE COURSE
CONGRESS PURSUES
COOLIDGE FEELS TWO HOUSES
BEEN TOO LIBERAL FUNDS
TAX CUT REMOTE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, (^—Pres
ident Coolidge is our of sympathy
with the course Congress is pursuing
with respect to appropriations to the
farm relief and flood control and be
lieves the the chances for tax reduc
tions is critically endangered.
The President feels that the two
Houses have been too liberal in ap
propriating1 Federal funds an# that
as a result the tax reduction is cor
respondingly remote.
He noted that in addition to the
$65,000,000,000 increase in the pro
posed tax curtailment, voted by the
House. Congress had added §8,000,
000 to the Army appropriation which
was in excess of what~he thought was
necessary, and has doubled the ship
ping board appropriation. In the mean
while the tax bill is lying dormant in
the Senatq,
HICKMAN AND HUNT
ENTEfi FOURTH DAT
OE MURDER TRIAL
GIRL MURDERER GRINNING AS
ENTERS COURT ROOM WITH
YOUNG HUNT
' LO« ANGELES, Feb. 20, GP)- -
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Grinning and apparantly fully at his
|eacc Hickman, and Hunt, marche 1
| with guards into the court room for
Hie fourth day of their joint trial for
t’ r slaying of druggist Toms. Hiram’s
birthday is today. He is 17 years Old.
The monotonous questioning of pros
pective jurors continued.
NEW LOVE CULT
SATJLT ST. MARIE, Feb. 20.
| Wrecked homes are reported numer
| ous following the arrest lof G. E.
| Smith, head of a new love cult here.
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: COMMISSION DETERMINED
!• END HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20, (£>)—
Determined to put a stop to highway
accidents involving auto passenger
stages, the Railroad Commission ord
ered bus companies to adjust their
time schedules so that no stage will
at any time be operated faster than
provided for in the State motor-vehi
cle Act.
LOTS SCHOOL MONEY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, (^—Am
erican cities spent one-third of their
potaf income on public schools accord
ing to the Department of Commerce.