COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 301.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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esist Militarism
SPEAKING AT TRENTON, N. J., PRESIDENT COOL
IDGE POINTS TO IDEALS OF WASHINGTON AS
SPIRIT WHICH CREATED AMERICAN NATION—
SUGGESTS THAT REMAINDER OF THE WORLD
TAKE NOTE
TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 31. (/P)—President Coolidge
upheld the ideals and faith which led Washington to vic
tory in the revolution as guides to the nation of the world
in quest of lasting peace in an address concluding the ses
qui-centennial celebration of the battle of Trenton and
Washington's crossing the Delaware.
DETROIT PIPER TO
ElillCE WILIS
ARCTIC FLIGHT
BEN EIELSON WILL ACCOMPANY
CAPTAIN; PLANE HOPS IN
MARCH
DETROIT, Dec. 31. (/P)—The Detroit
News is to finance Captain Wilkin’s
second attempt to explore unknown
area in the Arctic and Ben Eielson,
aviator, will accompany him on the
hopoff from Point Barrow in a De
ATTENTION EX-SERVICE MEN!
Beginning next month it will be im
possible for ex-service men to re
ceive adjusted compensation pay, ac
cording to an announcement made
by Harry Lyons, member and officer
of the local A. L. Post. Mr. Lyons
advises those who are intitled to ad
justed compensation to call on Mr.
Ellis or Mr. Rucker, local attorneys.'
GIRLS TEAMS LINE-UPS
The W. A. C. line-up which will face
the Alaska College girlts team to
morrow and Sunday evening will com
prise the following players: Elsie
Earsson and Roberta McIntosh, for
wards; Cecil Leslie, Sigrid Rosness,
Mrs. H. F. Morton, centers; Mary
McConnell, Clara Manthey, Katherine
Neville and Viola Sheldon, guards.
The Alaska College girls line-up is:
The S. S. Alameda, Captain Wester
holm, of the A. S. S. Co., arrived in
port this morning from the South
■bringing a fair number of passengers
and 100 tons of general cargo. Of
the cargo 85 tons is billed to railroad
points and 15 tons for local. The
Alameda departs for Halibut Cove and
Tutka bay where, at the latter port
the San Juan Fishing & Packing
Company herring crew, numbering 55
persons, will be taken aboard and
• south. The steamer is due to return
to port Sunday morning and following
embarkation of passengers will leave
immediately. The southbound listing
from this port is reported to be small.
I The President declared the United
; States and other countries must be
I prepared to make the same sacrifices
in behalf of amity that Washington’s
colonies made to establish indepen-;
dent America. He declared that the !
I world has been striving toward peace ^
by seeking to rely upon reason rath-^
er than force, but “We are in danger j
| of slipping back into the old formula.
We cannot establish a new principle
unless we are willing to make some
i
sacrifices; unless we are willing to
put some courage into our convic
tions.”
Speaking for America, President j
Coolidge said: “We are strong
enough and brave enough to resist
another domination of the world by
military spirit thru our own indepen
dent action.”
it COMMITTEE
ASKS QUESTIONS
CLAIMED SECRETARY WILBUR
REFUSED TO SUPPLY CON
FIDENTIAL REPORTS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. (/P)—The
House Naval committee is inquiring
into the Pacific war scare in which
figured the Fall-Doheny trial. Mc
Clintic of Oklahoma, a Democrat, said
Wilbur refused to give the committee
confidential navy reports on the sub
ject. “I am advised by a high rank
ing officer of the navy that the reports
show that the secret policy of the
navy with respect to the oil leases and
building of tanks was not justified.”
MASS MEETING SUNDAY
The attention of the citizens of
Seward is again called to the pub
lic meeting to be held at the Liberty
theater Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock
at which time local matters will be
taken up and discussed. Heading
these will be the proposed plan of
bonding the city in order that a new
school building may be erected. Don’t
forget the time and place and be on
hand!
It is quite likely the awarding for
the $350 radiola set, which is being
given away by the Holiday Club, will
be made tonight at the Firemen’s An
nual Mask Ball for indications are I
that all the tickets will be sold. I
AVERAGES
$12.1 FOB TOP
SEATTLE SALE
SEATTLE, Dec. 31. (IP)—A special
sale on the Seattle fur exchange show
ed an active market on all fresh
items excepting wolves, which lacked
demand. Mink averaged $12.GO for
top. Twenty red fox averaged $20.25
with the top for best lots $23; the
best specimens at $40. Muskrats im
proved. Blue fox sold very well, one
lot containing all grades bringing $65
average. The entire collection aver
aged $51.96. The next sale will be
January 26.
BLAST VICTIMS
DESCENDANTS OE
PIONEER STOCK
C. DUNLAP AND J. S. SHAW WELL
KNOWN IN MINING
WORLD
LITTLE SQUAW MINE, Dec. 31.
P)—C. Dunlap, who was blinded Mon
day by the explosion of a box of de
tonators, was born at Bannock, Mont.
His people are among the first settlers
there. He wrent to Nome in the 1900
rush and has been mining in Alaska
ever since except for two years spent
in Nevada. Various syndicates em
ployed him for exploring the Bering
coal fields and for hydraulic mining
developments in the Cook Inlet coun
try. P. E. Dunlap, a brother, is the
locator of the rich Snowshoe mine at
Libby, Mont. J. S. Shaw, also in
jured in the explosion, comes from
Humboldt county, Calif., his people be
ing among the early settlers there.
I
DR. RRDLIGKA
TELLS SCIENCE
ABOUT ALASKA
PRESENTS PAPER DETAILING RE
SULT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL
EXPLORATION
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 31. (JP)~Dr.
Hrdlicka, in a paper prepaed for the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, reported exploration
of 900 miles of the Yukon river from
the Tanana downwards to Bering sea,
the islands and the coast from
Nome to Point Barrow. “The results
were the location of scores of dead
villages with some older sites along
both the Yukon and the coasts, the
finding of a hitherto unknown stone
industry on the lower central Yukon
and gathering many archaeological
objects, particularly fossol ivory,
which shows, collectively, remarkable
and rich old culture with indications
of connections deep into Asia and the
American northwest coast.”
ARMY PLANES ON HOP
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 31. (£>)—'The four
army flight planes arrived yesterday.
HE OF Si
STILL COIF
PARIS THINKS LOST STEAMER1
WAS KAUKASUS—ODESSA
SAYS NO
PARIS, Dec. 31. (^P)—A message
from Vienna said the sinking of the
Astoria was not reported, but that
an American vessel from Batum nam
ed Kaukasus, was reported sunk with
the loss of 45 lives on the Bulgarian
coast. No such vessel is registered.
SINKING IS CONFIRMED
ODESSA, Ukrainia, Dec. 31. (IP)—
The sinking of the Astoria is con
firmed and not identified as the sink
ing Rumanian freighter Prqtus which
went down with a crew of eight.
The S. A. C. basketball line-up for
tomorrow’s and Sunday's games will
be Andresen and Willis, forwards;
Johnson, center; Galloway and Chya,
guards. McEwen will remain on the
sidelines at the start. Lieutenant
Jones will referee the men’s games
and Coach Abell, the girl’s games.
MORE ON AIM EE
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30. (JP)—'The
Times said it had learned that a new
grand jury investigation of the. Aimee
McPherson disappearance opens to
morrow.
SI 00,000 COMPANY IS
FORMED IN ANCHORAGE
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 31. (/P)—Busi
ness and professional men have or
ganized the $100,000 “Anchorage air
transports” to engage in aerial trans
portation to points within convenient
flying distance. The company plans
to use the latest Amphibian travel
planes with Wright whirlwind motors.
The four passenger planes will be
equipped with wireless, the first in
Alaska. It is expected the first plane
will start operating March 1 to be
used in big game hunting expeditions
and by the Alaska Glacier Tours as
sociation.
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WINE PRODUCTION
ALCOHOL SHIS 01
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. (IP)—'The
production of alcohol in the United
j States in the fiscal year 1926 aggre
gated 202,271,670.32 proof gallons,
while the production of wines for the
same period was 5,481,0995.63 gallons,
according to the annual report of Da
vid H. Blair, Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue. It was disclosed also
that at the end of the year covered
by the report, the stock of wines on
hand at bonded warehouses and bond
ed wineries amounted to 15,056,761
gallons compared with 26,290,417 gal
lon son hand at the end of 1925.
FALL HAS RELAPSE
EL PASO, Dec. 31. (JP)—Former
Secretary of the Interior Fall had a <
slight relapse. j
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NEW FORMULA MAKES STUFF
DISTASTEFUL FOR BEVER
AGE PURPOSES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. (/^—Sec
retary Mellon announced his determin
ation to eliminate poisons from dena
tured industrial alcohol, fearing that
prohibition is bound to drive drink
ers to use it. It is not the govern
ment’s duty to poison citizens but to
enforce the law, says the secretary.
Expert chemists will be able to dena
ture alcohol and make it too distaste
ful to drink. When the new formula
becomes effective Saturday poisons
will be eliminated, but four per cent
wood alcohol will remain, which is
not injurious.
COSTUMES GALORE
Not much has been said recently
about the costumes for the mask ball
tonight but as everyone knows pre
parations have been underway in al
most every home for two -weeks past
in designing and the making them. In
dications are there will be everything
from a skeleton to a Charleston ‘ ba
by” parading and waltzing about to
night. Let the horns flare! On with
the dance!
The report also showed that the
cereal beverage production for the fis
cal year had decreased 8,154,340 gal
lons, the total output being recorded
at 150,522,077 gallons. This produc
tion came from 353 dealcoholizing
plants compared with 374 such plants
which were in operation during the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1925.
THE NEW TYPES OF
COUNTERFEIT BUIS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. (TP)—No
tice of three new types of counterfeit
bills in circulation was broadcast De
cember 13 by W. H. Moran, chief of
the secret Service division of the De
partment of Treasury. The division’s
circular reported that agents had
found a $10 gold certificate, a $20 Fed
eral reserve note and a $50 gold cer
tificate being passed as legal tender.
Warning that special caution should
be exercised in handling the $50 note
was given by Mr. Moran who said al
so that the back of the $10 note was
“extremely deceptive.”
DISMISSED MARSHAL
STASER REINSTATED
VALDEZ, Dec. 31. (JP) — Marshal
Harvey Sullivan today received a let
ter from the department of justice
recalling the dismissal of Deputy Mar
shal Harry I. Staser of Anchorage and
requesting his reappointment.
A Firestone auto tire and an adjust
able auto mirror has been donated to
the Volunteer Fire department as
dance awards this evening, by the
Seward Machine Shop.