MONDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
41.000 ALIENS ready
TO DASH INTO NKW YORK
New York, Dec. 3—Nine trans
Atlantic liners with six thousand
aliens aboard were anchored outs.de
New York harbor the last day or
November, ready to make n dash
into port Saturday morning. the
1st day of December, that being the
day on which the December immi
gration quota is admissable.
VIGOROUS KNFOIM tEMKNT
MONROE DOCTRINE
URGED BY Hl'GHKS
Philadelphia, Dec. 1—Secretary
Hashes declared that vigorous en
forcement of the Monroe Doctrine
as a policy is esential to national
safety and the continued friendly
relations with the people of this
hemisphere. The address was made
before the American Academy <>f
Political and Social Science at Phil
adelphia during the celebration o,
the centenary of the doctrine.
V. H. WILL TAKE NO
PART IN INVESTIGATION
Washington. Dec. 3—The United
States will not take part in the in
vestigation planned by the Allied
Reparations Committee to deter
mine Germany’s capacity to make
Reparations payments, it was an
nounced at the White House last
Saturday.
WRITER OF POISON PEN
ARTKTiBS ARRESTED
Oakland, Dec. 3—Gustav William
flecks, 18 years of age and a Univer
sity of California Junior Medical
Student, the son of the wealthy
German chemist, has been arrested
as the writer of a dozen poison pen
letters in which the wives of men
prominent in Sau Francisco and
Oakland were accused of intimacy
with University students.
MRS. HEARTS HAS TEA WITH
FIRST LADY OF THE LAND
Washington, Dec. 3—Mrs. Win.
Randolph Hearst. had tea with Mrs.
Cool id ge at the White House recent
ly according to a dispatch from the
Capitol city.
PENN8LYVANIA PASSENGKR
TRAIN WRECKED
Stubenville, Ohio, Dec. 3—An
east bound Pennslyvania passenger
train known as the “Gotham Limit
ed” from St. Louis to New York
was wrecked at the east end of the
Gould Tunnel about seven miles
east of Stubenville. Six of the
nine coaches, including the sleep
ing cars left the rails but none of
them were overturned.
BAPTIST TA«KH\A(1iK •
REFUSED GERALDINE FARRAR
Atlanta. Dec. 3—Denied the us?
of the auditorium of the Baptist
Tabernacle of the Wesley Methodist
Church, Geraldine Farrar was heard
in concert at Atlanta last Saturday
night in the 'city auditorium with
only half the space occupied by the
TEN THOUSAND SINECURE
HOLDERS DISMISSED
Peking, Dec. 3—Ten thousand
government Sinecure holders were
dismissed recently according to a
dispatch from Peking.
SISTERS OF NELL AUSTIN ASK
POLICE DROP INVESTIGATION
Vancouver, Dec. 3—Miss Delia
and Georgia Austin have requested
the police to drop further investi
gation of the case of their sister
Veil Austin who is in the hospital
In Vancouver following her strange
disappearance from her Seattle
Attending physicians consider
that Veil Austin has only an even
chance to recover.
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT STILL
UNWILLING PARTICIPATE
IN INQUIRY
Washington, Dec. 3—The Ameri
can government has notified James
A. Logan, the American Observer
with the Reparations Commission
In Paris, that the United States is
still unwilling to participate In an
inquiry mto German finances.
L«0al Blanks, all kinds, for sate m
#ha Nuget Offica.
BmUrtn Your Eya fWJBM
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KAN HITS HOLD
IT KKSTAURANT
San Francisco. Dec. 3 Robbers
held up Albert Nelson, proprietor
of a restaurant at 148 Embarcadero
Street .yesterday in his place of
business. The bandits fixed one
shot at him which missesd him and
then drove Nelson into the base
ment of the restaurant and robbed
him of $153 in cash and three
watches. The reataurant was
crowded with patrons when the
bandits entered, one of the bandits
summoned Nelson to the back of the
room saying that he wanted to
talk to him privately. up«>n arriving
r. the rear of the room the bandit
Nelson's ribs and ordered him to
detach himself to the basement.
AIR MAIL riLOT MISSING
San Francisco. Dec. 3—Clair K.
Vance, an air mail pilot and one of
the best known flyers in the country
was the object of a search last Sat
uiday. following his failure t- ar
rive ill Reno with mail from San
TO CALL INTERNATIONAL
RADIO < ONFERK\( K
Geneve, Dec. 3—Preparations for
calling an International Radio Con
ference have been made by a Com
mission of Experts, which have been
meeting at Geneva under the aus
pices of the League of Nations. The
fixing of International radio regula
tions concerns the United State- as
much if not more than any other
country and it is likely that the
United States will be invited to par
HELICOPTER STAYS IN AIR
FOR FIVE MINUTES
Bordeaux. France. Dec. 3—Mar
in-er stayed in the air more than
five minutes in his "Helicopter.”
viiich is a record.
GOVERNOR INDICTED ON
EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE
j Indianapolis, Dec. 1—"Governor
I McCray of Indiana has been Indicted
i tin a charge of forgery and embez
j ^lenient by the Marion County
I Grand Jury, according to a dispatch
received yesterday.
WELL KNOWN JAPANESE
RANKER IS DEAD
Tokyo. Dec. 1—Kenze Ikeda, a
widely known Japanese banker is
dead in Tokyo, according to a dis
patch received from that cit>.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
OF VOLSTEAD ACT
| Washington, Doc. 3—An a in end -
j ment to tho Volstead Act. to legalize
I the manufacture of beverage- hav
ceed 275 percent by weight or 345
percent bv volume, is proposed in a
Pill drafted by Representative Dyer
of Missouri, a Republican member
of the Judiciary Committee.
TRANSFERER PROHIBITION
UNIT TO DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE
Washington. Dec. 3—The White
House announced last night that
President Cool idee was committed
to transferring the Prohibition Unit
from the Treasury Department to
the Department of Justice where it
will be under the direction of the
Attorney General.
SEPARATISTS PARTY
OCCUPY COBLENZ
Coblenz. Germany. Dec. 3—Seven
hundred Separatists headed by Dr.
Hans Dorton occupied Coblenz last
Friday according to recent dispatch
es from that city.
TUESDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
COMMITS SUICIDE WHEN
ACCUSED OF FORGERY
Seattle. Dec. 4th—When served
with a warrant charging him with
forgery and embezzlement while he
was city clerk of Ellensburg, B. L.
Titus shot himself and died a few
minutes afterward.
FORMER MEMBER SEATTLE
SCHOOL HOARD DEAD
Seattle, Dec. 4—R’chard Windsor,
75 years of age, a lawer and for
mer member of the Seattle School
Board, Is dead at his home In Se
PACKING COMPANY BUYS
FREIGHTER ABRILLA
Seattle, Dec. 4—The Atlantic and
Pacific Packing Company yesterday
purchased the wooden government
owned freighter Abrilla. which is
one of the Lake Union Fleet, for the
Alaska Cannery service.
AMUNDSEN'S ASSISTANT
ENGINEER DEAD
Seattle. I>ec. 4—Assistant Eflgin
eer Syvertsen, of Amundsen's ‘-x
ploratlon ship Maude, which is now
drifting through the Northwest Pas
sage. died July 10th.. aboard the j
vessel, according to a wireless re- i
ceived in Christiania. Norway from .
Captain Wi Ring, Master of the ■
Maude.
ITAOl-SI'AMSH AlillKKMKXT
IS MKNACE TO f. S.
Paris. n^r. I A srrimis m.nnrf |
tr, America’s South American trade |
influence, amounting to a practical '
challenge to the Monroe Docfrne. J
looms in the new Italo-SpanLh »r- j
cord, which was sealed during the j
visit of King Alphonso to Rome
LATIMER LEAVES A
FORTUNE TO RELATIVES :
Seattle. Dec. 4—The late Presi
dent of the Reiter Horton National j
Bank. N. H. Latimer, willed k.s wife
$321,000. his daughter Margaret.!
$50,000 and seven sons *3“.°00 ;
MEMORIAL TO WASHINGTON
PIONEER LI* MJ'.HUMAN
Seattle. Dec. 4 -Tn memory of one
of the State's pioneer lumbermen,
the late Alfred Hend< rum, the
University of Washington is to
have a $250,000 Forestry Pudding.
His widow pledged that -urn to re
gents last week.
FIRST AND SECOND
WIFE DINE TOGETHER
Chicago, Dec. 15— -Madame Gani)a
Walska McCormick and Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller McCormick. Harold Mc
Cormick’s first and second wife,
met across the dinner table from
each other recently at a family
gathering which was sponsored by
Miss Elizabeth McCormick. Harold’s
SIX HUNDRED DROWN IN FIjOOD
Rome. Dec. 4—Six hundred wer
drowned in Dezzu and Camonica
'’alleys when the dyke burst, flood
ing the valleys with mountainous
walls of water. The villages of Rez
zo. Cuggia, Tevena and Coma were
inundated.
FILM STAR BURNS TO DEATH
San Antonio. Dec. 4th—Martha
Mansfield, the film star who was
burned about the face and body la«r
week when another actor struck a
match to light a cigarette and the
flames ignited her dress, died Sat
urday afternoon.
CHIN’A MAX KILLED, WOMAN
IX.lt RED RY STREET ( AH
Seattle. Dec. 4 Wong Quk Yen
a Chinese Importer was k:,led am1
Injured by a street car on Wall
ingford Avenue. The couple w-r*
rushing to hoard the car when they
OOVKKXOR ARRESTED AND
RELEASED ox jionii
Indianapolis. Dec. 4th -All told
eight True Hills, with lt> counts,
were returned against Governor Mc
Cray of Indiana by the Grand Jury
Among other charges, the Governor
was indicted for embezzling $155.
000 from the State Board of Agri
culture, the third count of the sev
enth bill charges that McCray as
Governor and Acting Governor, and
acting as a member of the State
Board of Agriculture, stole, appro
priated and embezzled for his own
use the sum of $25,000.
McCray has been arrested and re
leased on bond. He was arrested
yesterday.
FORD HOIJtS CONFERENCE
WITH COOLIDGK
Washington. Dec. 4—Henry Ford
had a conference yesterday with
President Coolidge regarding his of
fer on Muscle Shoals.
SIXTY EIGHTH CONGRESS
HAS CONVENED
Washington. Dec. 4—The Sixty
Eighth Congress assembled yester
day and It is said to he facing un
certainties both as to its ability to
organize and to enact even a major
portion of the pressing legislation
confronting it. With the Progress
ive Bloc wielding the balance of,
power and prepared to make a de-,
termined fight for the reorgon*-a
t;ion of committees, and for Its ter’s
Intlve program, the new Congrenn
faced a situation unparalleled in a
number of years.
Mr A 1)00 DOES NOT RELIEVE IV
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
OP RAILROADS
Washington, Dec. 4th—Thar th*
railroads of the United 8tat»*s and
loyalty of their employees saved the
Allies dur ng one of the greatest
emergencies of the world war by
rushing wheat to the short-rationed
western front, and that he did not
regard Government ownership as
the solution of the American rail
road problem, were the outstanding
statements made in San Francisco,
by MoAdoo, in an address before the
brotherhood of Locomotive Fir**
: \i r. ami Fnginemen, who were ceto
bruting their fiftieth anniversary of
their organisation.
WHITE HOUSE TO
11E RECONSTRUCTED
Washington, Dec. 4 Beach, who
is Chief of Engineers of the Army,
in a report to Secretary Hughes, has
declared that the Whit'* House is
unsafe and Congress will be ask d
for $400,000 to defray the expense
of reconstructing the interior of the
famous building to make it secure.
NATIONAL COMMANDER
ON BONUS QUESTION
Washington, Dec. 4. —The Bonus
Question, -.n the opinion of Quinn,
tlx- National Commander of the Am
controversial discussion with the
WHAT CONGRESS IS IK).
INC AT WASHINGTON
Washington, Dec. 4 -The Prog
re-s;ve Bloc in Congress yesterday
nn:go.id its threat to throw th.
F- use mto a deadlock over the elec
lot. no candidate received a majority
lot. no .-undulate recived a majority
ov.-r all. required to be elected.
Washington, Dec. 4—The Senate
Democrats yesterday elected Robin
sen from Arkansas, as their Fh»>r
Washington, Dec. 4—Lodge has
renamed the majority leader of the
Senate. T.ongworth was chosen as
the Republican Leader of the House.
The Republicans will control the
Senate by n majority of six over all
opposition and by u majority of Of
WEDNESDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC^
ANTI KliANSMEN IN) ATTEMPT
TO OUST K. K. K.
Oklahoma City, Dec. 5 All Anti
Klan organizations in the State of
Oklahoma have been called to meet
en December Rtli., and form a State
wide body to put the Ku Klnx Klan
< IIINBSE VETERAN OF
CIVIL WAR DEAD
New’ York. Deo. 5- John Hang. ;
said to be one of the few Chines
veterans of the Civil War. died in ■
New York recently at the age of Sti. 1
ILANKS COLLIDE
San Diego. Dec. 5—A collision of j
two planes flying in opposite direc
tions yesterday afternoon resulted!
•n the death of F. E. Entwistle and |
W. B. Jackson, two Aviation Chief
Machinists Mates, who were* in a
training plane, and Lieut. Frank M.
Byers, who was in a combat plane.
WRIGLEYS
Take it home to
the kids.
Have a packet in
your pocket for an
ever-ready treat.
* delicious confec
tion end an aid to
the teeth, irppetite,
digestion.
“Wrigley's is 5 cents
a package the
World Over’’
I IU.KS DEMOCR ATH
SUPPORT PIMMiKKSSi VKS
Washington. Df. . 7, William Jen
nings Bryan ban be*n reported as
nrging the Democrats, if they are
enable t-> rtlwt Carrot a* Speaker of
th- House, to support the Progress.
MARTIN KI.YTIK f’HARGED
with i.irifn.
.*v Pec. 5 -The Prosecutinc
Att-rr.ey ban fifed an inform.r >•
charging Martin Plyzik. who is Pres
ident of District 10. United' Mine
ly libeling William Short. President
of th •• State Federation tt Labor, in
writing that Short bad been- convict
ed by the • highest tribunal in our
organ:zatinn of larceny.”
SA.OOO MTIiOI'WI m i) FOP.
WORK ON NOME HARBOR
W iiington. pec. r, - An appro
priat- .n of five thousand dollars for
work on the Nom • H -rhor was car
Chief of th.- Army Engineer-. ar
BERGAMO VALLEY IN ITALY
FLOODED WITH WATER
Bergamo. Italy. Dec. 5—-Corona
is practically buried with only the
military barracks and the church re
maining. Bernardo Moro, the Par
ish Priest, saved b'mself by climb
ing to the dome of the church, sus
taining an injured foot. Organized
relief work is going r.n. and the col
lifting and burying of bodies is tak
ing place. The Royal Engineers are
constructing bridges across the
f’noded valley in order to relieve
the two villages which are sur
rounded by water and the inhabi
tants are starving.
Rome, Dec. 5—The King of Ttnly
has left Rom*- for the Bergamo Val
iev. The Pope expressed his grief
and sent a sum of money to be used
in relief work. It is reported that
Mussolini is busy arranging expedi
tions to the stricken area.
JAPAN FEELS SEVERE EAKTH
T-.kyo. Dec. 5—A sudden severe
earthquake shock, which last* ! for
forty seconds, visited Nagoya yes-j
terday morning, according to a dis- i
patch received today.
HEAD OF UNITED KEITRITIHS
ARRESTED
Seattle. Dec. a H. (1. Lopp. who
is th- head of the United Securities
whs arrested last night ..n charges
of appropriating large sums of mon
ey entrusted to him by .Mrs. Nina B
Ingalls, with which to buy Kenno
cott Copper Stock.
1200 lltlSH UHIM'IIMI'ANS
ARK RELEASED
Belfast. Her 5 Twelve hundred
Irish Republicans. prisoners ai F n
MOTHKIl OF KI.OXOVKK AND
FAIRBANKS PIONEER REAR
Seattle. Dec. -Elizabeth Jane
went Oregon in the year 1S47. is
dead in Seattle. Mrs. Crawford was
the mother of It. M. Crawford, a
Kiondyke and Fairbanks pioneer. .
MOTHKR ABSENT 2 CHILDREN
Bl'RN TO DEATH
Longview. Wash.. Dec. 5—Pauline
Clark, aged 2 years, and her babj
brother. were burned to death in
their home yesterday while the
mother was momentarily absent
from the house.
Live Glossy Hair
Follows use of Cuticum Soap and
Ointment. On retiring rub Cutieura
Ointment into the scalp, especially
spots of dandruff and itching. Next
morning a bam poo with Cutieura
Soap and hot water.
ImW tMk VmJ* KiA Ailitrewn •OMtonb*
rsr^^aiByjat'ssag:
mrt H wSwadwa sOhifM.
Petersburg vtinh in i,Awm iT
; San Francis* •*. D“C. f» The town
: >>f Pep-rsbure. Alaska. bas a right
I ft' vote $112.'TOO bond? for an elep
I trie light system and school h-mse.
: according to a ruling of the United
j Scares Court "f Appeal* handed
[ down after th> reviewing of an ac
[ tion brought by Paul Land, a Pet
’ • r-»bur? taxpayer, to hav*' th<* issue
| declared invalid.
FI RT1IKR INVESTIGATION
RKG\ltl*« mi, AUSTIN
V.imroovf*r, Dec *»- Immigration
offiri;*!? .ire under orders from Ot
tawa r.o hegin an Investigation as :o
how Nell Austin, th^ Seattle or',
coui I -nter Canada. crossing the
boundary unobserved
PRESIDENT I'AltHOXS
NEW VORK COMITl’lH.I.EU
Washington, Dec. !> President
Coolidu,- ha? pardoned Com pi roller
Craig >f N**w Yorlc City who was
“•ntencod to jail by Federal Judg*
ENGLISH DIPLOMATS
ARE WONDERING
London, Doc. 5—Diplomatic cir
cles in London are wondering
whether Secretary of State Hughes'
address ,.n the Monroe Doctrine was
not a subtle projected entente with
the South American Republics.
BUSINESS IN SENATE BLOCKED
r.V HOUSE TIEUP
Wash ineton, Dec. 5 The House
r up ha? blocked the business in
the Senate and is a"n obligated not
the House has been organized,
due to the long established preced
ents of the Senate. This prevent** :
the Senators from introducing RiM?
and Resolutions and will compel the
adjournment of the Senate for *h*
first day without any other provul
ttre than the catling of the roll. \U ■
less the deadlock In the House is
ended b> Wednesday. December "»;h.
i». will be impossible for Presided
Conlidce's message to be delivered
P,v throwing their seventeen vote*
steadily f'-r Representative Henry
Cooper. Republican from Wisconsin,
the Insurgents prevented the Re
publican •'Regulars” from muster
ing a majority of *he whole House,
which is necessary in order to elect
a Speaker. At the same time the
Democrats con'd no* muster a maj
ority for Representative F. 0 C-i*
rett. Democrat from Tennessee. The
ballot for Speakership gave fllllePa
15*7. Garret 19R. Cooper 17 aid
Madden 5.
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BUMS’
RESTAURANT
* ..SPECIAL DINNER FROM !fi
* 5 I*. M. to 7 I*. M. *
Miners & Merdwnts
Bank of Alaska
NOME. ALASKA
WE PAY
Interest on Time Certificate*
of Deposit.
3% per annum
On 6 month rtepoakn.
4 % per annum
On IS month deport*.