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BONE AND SUTHERLAND PLANS
NEW LEGISLATION FOR BETTERMENT IF ALA?ih
60V. BONE AND
SUTHERLAND TALK j
ON ALASKA NEEDS
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WASHINGTON. Nov. 28, (AP)—Special—Gov- !
ernor Scott C. Bone, enroute to the conference of
Governors which, will he held in Florida, conferred
with Delegate Dan Sutherland on tentative legis
lative measures for Alaska, including the Alaska
Federal roads, industrial schools for native chil
dren and a different plan for the treatment of the
Alaskan insane who are hospitalized in the state
of Oregon institution at Salem. The conferees an
nounce that an extension of the provisions of the
Highway act for Alaska and modifications would
be requested at the short session of Congress and
their opinion is that the Territory could bear about
ten per cent of the expense for highways. Congress
is to be asked for an appropriation of a million
and a quarter for road purposes this year. Gov
ernor Bone said in conclusion “Alaska for four or
five years has progressed tremendously though de
liberately thWsrogT .e constitution of the A+z&ku*
Railroad which is the biggest step yet taken in
the development of the Territory.’’
SUTHERLAND WILL
ASK FOR AIR
MAIL SERVICE
WASHINGTON. Nov. 28. (AP)—Special—Con
gressional Delegate Dan Sutherland will endeavor
to have Congress authorize the extension of the
air mail service to Alaska. He announced the
experiments conducted last winter in this line and
said that the results make the extension feasible.
Mr. Sutherland said that he would endeavor to have
the plan included in a bill to be presented at an
early session with authorization to make special
contracts for carrying mail to Alaska during cer
tain periods.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TO BE
HEARD ON WEDNESDAY
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. (AP)—President Cool
idge’s message will be read to Congress on Wednes
day, it was agre^l at a conference between the pres
ident and the Republican House Leader. Plans
have been made for the Senate to adjourn on Mon
day until Wednesday.
URGES APPROPRIATIONS FOR
MODERNIZING NAVY VESSLES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. (AP)—Reappropriations
of funds available by the sixty-seventh congress for
elevating the main batteries of the older battleships
of the U. S. fleet is urgently recommended by Ad
miral Ederle in his annual report to Secretary of
t£e Navy Wilbur. He said that six of the older
ahips should be modernized.
MANY STILL BELIEVE MRS.
SHEATH LEY WAS SUICIDE
COLUMBUS. Nov. 28, (AP)—pThe capital Uni
versity football team is still guarding the Sheathley
home from curiosity seekers. Many believe that the
minister's wife was a suicide.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 28. (AP)—Charles Cbap
, lin, with his bride, formerly Lita Gray, returned
today to their forty-room home here.
EGYPTIAN TROOPS START
FORCED EVACUATION OF
SUDAN AT ONCE
KHARTUM, Sudan. Xov. 28, (AP)—Owing to
thedemands of the British that the Egyptians go
through with the evacuation of Sudan at once,
units of the Egyptian army have received orders
to make the move without delay and the third bat
talion has already left. The fourth batallion of
Egyptian artillery is making preparations to move
tomorrow.
LONDON. Nov. 2S, (AP)— To keep the Egypt
ians impressed with the decision of the British to
inforce their orders, British troops are daily marched
through the streets of Cairo, making a good im
pression to the would-be rioters.
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Gfl?i£\A. Nov. 2S, (AP)—A telegram protest
ing the Brjtit^ action towards Egypt following the
■;j?»'*a>vij«crUr -j., Ge\se*2P Stark has been received
by the Secretary of the League of Nations. Indi
cations are that similar communications have been
forwarded to all the world parliments. Interven
tion is not asked but confine Egypt and England
to the differences.
CAIRO. Nov. 28. (AP)—No word as to the fate
of two blue-jackets who have been missing for two
days has been received. The men were members
of the British cruiser Valient.
Geneva. Nov. 28. (AP)—The League of Nations
officials are uncertain what to do with the commun
ication received from the Egyptian government in
complaint against the British action in regard to
the assassination of General Sir Lee Stack, and will
probably refer it to the members for information
as to the proper proceedyire. Egypt is not a mem
ber of the League and has no power to raise a
question, which power is given to members only.
CURTIS SELECTED
AS REPUBLICAN
SENATE LEADER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S, (AP)—Senators La
Follette of Wisconsin. Land and Frazier of North
Dakota, and Brookhart of Iowa were practically
read out of the Republican party at a conference
of the Senate R.ip.rMeans. Senator Cirtia cf
Kansas was chosen as the Senate leader. The
resolution will' have no effect on the present com
mittee assignments.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, (AP)—Informal dis
cussions have been instituted by Representative
French of Idaho on the basis of the funding of the
French debt.
RADIO t OStPASS WILL GUIDE
airmen through the fog
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. (AP)—The first test
of the new “radio compass” which has been invented
to guide aviators through fog and clouds, promises
to end the fears of the birdmen of loosing the sence
of direction. The mechanism has been perfected
after long experimenting by the Army Air service.
The first practical test was made yesterday in a1
flight from Dayton to Moundsville, West Virginia
and the new instrument directed the plane without j
the pilot seeing the earth.
CAIRO, Nov. 28, (AP)—British military author
ities arrested Necrashy Bey Cey, Minister of tlie
Interior Zagloulscan and Abdul Rahman Fahny,
one of the Zagout poliitcal assistants together with
prominent members of the national delegation who
visited London with the former Premier.
LONDON. Nov. 2S. (AP)— Barakat Pasha.
Minister of the Interior of the Zagout cabinet was
arrested by the British authorities according to a
Cairo despatch.
CAIRO, Nov. 28, (AP)—Twelve more persons
have been arrested this morning and police expect
to take thirty five as a total precautionary measure.
CAIRO. Nov. 28, (AP)—Two platoons of the;
tlt> udan-<=nes at Khartum mutinied and ana.-'idj
the military hospital killing one British and two!
Syrian doctors. British troops fired upon the
mutineers causing severe casualties. The mutiny I
followed an order for the evacuation of Sudan.
CAIRO. Nov. 28. (AP) The mutiny of the
Kgyptia troops cannot spread sufficiently to endan-j
ger the British position in Sudan is was officially
stated by officials of the new government who are
in co-operation with the British.
LONDON, Nov. 28. (AP) Ir was learned that
Egyptian nationalists had arranged to make a des
perate attempt on the life of Viscount Allenby
through a Cairo correspondent to the Daily Mail
who stated that danger is officially regarded as
serious and that guards have been doubled and
precautions increased.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NOME WEEKLY NUGGET
u. $. CONCLUDES
AGREEMENT WITH
AUSTRIA HUNGARY
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, (AP)—It has been
officially announced that Secretary of State Charles
Evans Hughes has concluded an agreement with
the Austria-Hungarian government under which
war claims arizing since 1914 have been favorably
adjusted.
GENERAL DAVIS OBJECTS TO
ONE YEAR ARMY ENLISTMENT
WASHINGTON. Nov. 28. (AP)—Objections to
the law requiring one year enlistments in the army
if it refers to the three year term being reiterated
were shown in the annual report of Major General
Robert Davis, Adjutant General of the Army. One
of the reasons given was that “the services of a
one year man are seldom utilized in training others.”
The actual army strength was given as 140,000.
ZEV GOING GOOD
MEW YORK. Nov. 28. (AP)—Zer. the champ
ion three-year old of 1923 retired Stub, together
with his eight-year-old stable mate Mad Hatter at
the tilt here yesterday.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NOME WEEKLY NUGGET
PLANS LARGEST
POLAR DIRIGIBLE
EXPLORATION
CHRISTtANIA. Nov. 28. (AIM -In a lecture
before the Norwegian Geographical Society yester
day. Commander Grans, German aviator outlined
the project of a flight over (he North Pole using
a dirigible balloon for the trip. Nansen is re
ported to have agreed to personally accompany
the voyagers and he proposes to use an airship
larger than any in existence which will be cap
able of travelling one hundred hours at the rate
of seventy-five miles an hour.
DR. N.XXSEN WILL NOT BE READY
FOR POLAR FLIGHT TILL 1927
CHRISTIANIA, Nov. 2S. (AP)—Doctor Nansen
told the “Tagblad” that there would be no race
for the North Pole as far as he was concerned
in the spring. His expedition would require longer
preparation and will probably not start until 1927
WOOLD TRANSFER
PROHIBITION TO
JUSTICE DEPT.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 28, (AP)- Bodily trans
fer of the Prohibition unit from the Treasury De
partment to the Department of Justice, is among
many of the recommendations from the Judicial
conference of Senior Court Judges. It became
known that Taft wrote Attorney-General Stone
asking him to embody the clause in his annual re
I SAYS WEEKLY MAIL SERVICE
BY ZEPPELINS WILL BE STARTED
Berlin. Nov. 28, (AP)—Weekly Zeppelin air
mail service will soon be in practice according to
Dr. Hugo Eckener, Director of the Zeppelin company
who also added that they would not be able to
institute the passenger service at this time.
REFUSES TO RECEIVE SOVIET
DELEGATES—RECALLED FROM POST
PARIS. Nov. 28, (AP)—When Admiral Exilman’s
Port Admiral. Bizerte, Commander of the French
Naval forces in North African waters declined to
receive delegates of the Russian Soviet government
he was immediately recalled from his post.
WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER MAX
INJURED IX JUAREZ, MEXICO
WASHINGTON. Nov. 28. CAP) The American
Consul at El Paso instructed the State Department
today that Harry L. Rodgers, Washington news
paper man who was injured in Juarez the other
day had been accorded every care and good treat
DESERTION IX r. s. NAVY HAS
•BIG INCREASE DURING YEAR
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, CAP)—Naval Court
Martial charges, increased 350 per cent during the
, fiscal year of 1924. according to an announcement
bv Admiral J. L. Latimer in the Judge Advocate
General report to the Navy Deportment. It is
understood that Secretary of the Navy Wilbur is
conducting an investigation of the causes of the
wholesale desertion of the sailors.