MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 7.
SEWARD, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1929
PRICE TEN CENTS
iew Graces
CULLED KELLOGG
TREATY: SENATE
BORAH CONFIDENT HAS SUF
FICIENT VOTES TO RATIFY
THE TREATY
WASHINGTON, Jan., 9, (fP)—
The Senate started to talk itself
out on the Kellogg treaty as hopes
faded for a compromise of the dis
pute over an interpretive declara
tion.
Kellogg and Borah blew up the
tentative agreement reached yes
terdayy by declining to be com
mitted to inserting any interpre
tive resolution in the treaty.
New conferences have been call
ed for during the day: conferences
yesterday disbanded. Borah has
taken the floor with the determina
tion to fight it out and is confi
dent of having enough votes to rat
ify the treaty without any reserva
tions.
TROOPS CALLE DTO HALT UP
RISING; CASUALTIES OCCUR !
ON BOTH SIDES
TOKYO, Jan., 9. (IP)—Three com-;
panies of regular infantry were
’•ushed to Namoru when Japan’si
smouldering rural unrest flared up 1
momentarily and 2,000 peasants:
marched in a body on to the local
Government office. •
Three hundred police were una
hie to control them and fighting ;
•rnsued with casualties on both
sides.
The troops were called when the ,
peasants began protesting against
the Government riparian project
which they claim will flood hun- i
dreds of acres of rice paddy fields.
It is reported peasants are still
gathering in neighboring districts
and arming with bamboo spears.
Mil BAYS
HOOVER PAYS SECOND CALL TO
WHITE HOUSE FOR DISCUS
SION WITH COOLIDGE
WASHINGTON. Jan., 9, (A5)— Her
bert Hoover called at the White !
House for a second general discus- j
cion with President Coolidge of the :
various problems facing the present
and the next administration.
Hoover has spent two days de
veloping the view's of Congressional
leaders as to an extra session of
Congress for farm relief and other
subject" and it is assumed these
natters formed the chief basis of
his conversation with President
Coolidge.
ROGERS SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, Jan., 9, (IP)—The S. S.
Admiral Rogers of the P. S. S. Co.,
sailed at 10 o’clock this morning for
Alaska with 35 passengers. The
Reward passengers ere E’mer Sar
scn and Will C Schirmeyer.
THOUSANDS PHI LUST
RESPECTS TO RICKH
i NEW YORK, Jan., 9. (JP)—Moic
jfhan =>0 Opersons were in line when
I rhe doors of Madison Square Gar
Iden were opened this morning to
hermit the public to file past the
body of George “Tex” Rickard lying
in state.
Many of the number, including a
few women, had been waiting since
dawn Soon after the doors opened
the crowd had grown until it was
estimated at least 3,000 had gather
ed to pay their last respects.
SUMMER SCHEDULES IN EFFECT
SOON AFTER LINERS EN
TER SERVICE, MARCH
SEATTLE, Jan., 9, (/Pi—'The
The Alaska Steamship Co., will
start its increased steamship ser
vice to Alaska when the freighter
Tanan? sails on January 18.
The liner Aleutian will be re
rurned to service starting February
23 operating in the passenger ser
vice with the S. S. Alameda, North
western, Latouche and iTanana.
The summer schedules will go
into effect soon after the S. S.
Alaska and the S. S. Yukon enter
the service in March.
YUKONER DIES
SANTA BARBARA, Jan., 9, OR) -
Austin D. Cowan, one of the first
.'wners f the Yukon River boat line, j
died here.
B¥ P. I. FISHERIES
| CONCERN NOW CONTROLS 17
CANNERIES ALONG ALAS
KA COAST
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Jan., 9,
(A3)—Involving a consideration of
53,000.000 the Pacific American
Fisheries has purchased five can
neries in Alaska, with the steam
ship North King and other float
ing ecmipment, President E . t>.
Deeming announced.
Two canneries were purchased
from the Alaska Portland Packers
Association at Bristol Bay, one
from the Alitak Packing Co., Ko
diak Island; One from the Robin
son Fisheries Coproation, Kodiak
Island; One of the Petersburg
Packing Co., in Southeastern Alas
: ka.
The steamship North King was
purchased from the Alaska Port
land Packers.
The purchase gives the local
concern 17 canneries in Alaska
and one each at Anacortes, Bell
ingham. All will be operated this
year, Mr. Deming said.
KETCHIKAN, Jan., 9, (/P)—“Tex”
Rickard’s start as a fight promo
ter was not at Goldfield in 1906 as
is generally believed for Alaska
oldtimers recalled “Tex” staged
fights for profit to himself and ■
fighters aboard the Steamer Val- .
encia enroute from Seattle to -
Nome in 1900. <
VANCOUVER, .Tan., 9, (^—Fif
teen voung husky dogs are on their
way across the Equator to the froz
en Antarctic to .loin the Byrd expe
dition, aboard the liner Niagara
sailing from Vancouver today for
Australia.
The dogs must reach Dunedin
February 7 in time to be forwarded
by the steamship Elinor Bolling to
the expedition’s base. The dogs
are being sent by E. J. Farr, agent
for the White Pass & Yukon Rail
way.
PLANS CALL FOR CREW TO FLY
PLANE TO SAN DIEGO THEN
TO WASHINGTON
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 9, (IP)—
The entire nation is paying homage
to the five Army men who flew
the “Question Mark”. A mass of
congratulatory telegrams are still
pouring in to all members of the
crew.
Future plans call for the full
crew to fly the plane to San Diego
his week, after minor repairs
have been completed, and then
fly the machine to Washington.
OUT OF DANGER
CLEVELAND, .Tan., 8, (A5)—Myron
r. Herrick, United States Ambassa
lor to France, who has been seri
msly ill with influenza, was de
:lared out of danger.
AX SMASHING SALOON IS SIGNAL
FOR DRY CRUSADE IN KANSAS CITY
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KANSAS CITY IS PERMSTTIMg
BOOTLEGGER TO OPERATE wiT«
twenty-five feet • ■
OF THIS CHURCH *?
A dry crusade is under way in Kansas City because
Mrs. Maude Wilson (upper right) smashed with an ax a
saloon. Inspired byy sight of the battered bar (upper dZSfe?
left), ministers are calling attention to violation of pro
hibition laws from the pulpit, with such signs such as that
shown below. All this is taking place in a city from Carrie
A. Nation ‘lower right) was driven back to Kansas a
quarter of a century ago.
HOOVER IS m
HOIIS LEADERS
WAS REQUESTED MAKE PUB
LIC STATEMENT ENDORS
ING CRUISER BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan., 9, (JP)
—Herbert Hoover, President-elect,
discussed many problems with Sec
retary Mellon and a number of
congressional leaders approving of
the plans for a simple inaugura
tion followed by a civic parade.
The conference lasted two hours.
A later conference with Chairman
Hale of the Senate Naval Commit
r.ec then took place. Determi
nation was expressed not to inter
fere in the present legilative sit
uation after Hale requested Hoo
ver to make public a statement
endorsing the pending measure
authorizing for the construction
of 15 light cruisers and one air
plane carrier.
LARGEST TOOTH
ESTIMATED TO BE 50,000 YEARS
OLD: FOUND IN BANK IN
PORCUPINE AREA
BOSTON, Jan., 9, (£>)—'The lar
gest tooth in the world, 11 feet
long and weighing abount 300
pounds, has arrived at the Har
vard Dental School and Museum,
from Alaska.
The tooth is from the jaw of a.
mastadon and is estimated to be
50,000 years old.
It was found imbedded in the
bank on the Porcupine River, a
tributary to the Yukon River, and
was hauled 55 miles by dog team
then shipped to Fort Yukon.
TWELVE COUNGILMER
INVOLVED IN GRAFT
BOSTON, Jan., 8, (JP)—Twelve
Couneilmen named in an alleged
ittempt to collect a bribe of $65,000
’n return for a passage by the City
;Council of Sunday sports measure,
iwere summoned to appear before
the Finance Commission to testify
dn the investigation of the bribery
: charges.
STEAMER STM DUE
SEATTLE SATURDAT
SEATTLE, Jan., 9, (A3)—Officials
of the Washington Tug & Barge
Co., said the tug Roosevelt towing
the S S. Starr, arrives here on Sat
urday barring unforseen delays.
The Unalga convoyed the two ves
sels across the Gulf of Alaska.
CAN NOW BE HEARD
WASHINGTON, Jan., 8, (A3)—The
agreement between the United
•State? and Germany whereby cer
tain “late claims of American citi
zens against the German Govern
ment may now be heard before a
mixed claims commission, was an
nounced by the State Department.