THURSDAY
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(JHRMANS ASK FOR
APPOINTMENT of PARKER
Washington. May 22—At the re
quest of Germany President Hard
ing named Judge Edwin Parker as
the umpire of the mixed claims Com
mission, to succeed Judge \V. R.
Day, resigned.
ALASKA S. S. CO.
BUYS NEW FREIGHTER
Seattle.. May 23rd The Alaska
Steamship Company has purchased
subject to dry dock Inspection, the
freighter Lake Fieldbert for the
Alaska service. The new purchase
will take the place of the wrecked
Lake Gebhart.
GREEKS ANTICIPATE
MORE TROCHEE
Belgrade. Servia. May 2 4th The
Greek government has asked the
Jagoslav government to state what
attitude it will adopt in event of re
sumption of hostilities in Thrace. j
< X»LM 1' NISTS MA KE
SCCCKHSEUE RAID
Essen. May 24 Communists have j
taken possession of police head- ]
quarters at Gelsenkirchen and have i
hoisted the red flag over the build- j
KKATTI.K 1 *AIM>K BODY HUS ENTS j
DICTATION OF liOMPERS
Seattle. May 24—After he had j
declared that as long as he is its !
Secretary the Central Labor Coun- j
cil will continue to support the Sov- j
let government. James U. Duncan j
was given a vote of approval, by the I
labor body. But one negative vote ■
was cast. The executive council i
voted to defer action for two weeks
on the letter from Gompers. trans
mitting an ultaxuatum from the Ex
ecutive Council of the Federation of
Labor that the central body in Seat
tle purge itself of I. W. W. tenden
cies and repudiate its approval of;
Soviet dictatorship and principles of
Communism.
BKLT WIDELY
KNOWN CAPITALIST
Seattle. May 24—McGruder Bolt,
reported shot today in Southern
California. is a wealthy. widely
known Seattle-Vashon Island Green
House owner and Berry Packer. Yle
Is also heavily interested in silver
SWISS ARRESTED IN RUSSIA
Copenhagen. May 24—Moscow’. ,
reports by way of Berlin say that i
the Soviet authorities at Petrograd. j
Moscow and Kiev have arrested sev
eral Swiss citizens and that a num- i
ber of Swiss shops have been wreck- i
ed at Petrograd. while at Odessa '
three Swiss have been attacked.
CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE
CAUSES SPECULATION
Washington. May 24—A prolong
ed conference was held ye-terday
afternoon between Harding. Lodge.
Root, Harvey. Ambassador to Eng
land. and John H. Clarke, former
justice of the U. S. Supreme Couit
who is now leading a movement to
revive the League of Nations inter
est in America.
The conference is causing much
speMilation in official aid political
Washington today. Root and Har
vey dined with the President.
HYDROPLANES FOR
S. E. ALASKA SURVEY
Washington. May 23—A point on
Baranof Island, near Sitka, is to be
tbe base for two naval hydroplanes
which will operate several months
this summer attached to the Com
mission headed by Rear Admiral
Chfsev . j A?as announced today.
The Commission is to make a
general survey of Alaska waters
for naval and military purposes.
The planes will leave San Diego
May 24th on the U. S. ship-Cuyama,
which will act as the mother ship
for the plane operations. The plan
is to drop the planes overboard in
smooth water and when they have
made their flight they will be hoist
ed aboard again. The planes are
piloted by Ebril TJ. Stevens.
CURZON WHiL REMAIN
IN NEW CABINET
London. May 24—Declaring he
<ame to his decision only in order
to help lift the shadow of war hang
ing over Europe. Ctirzon annonnced
he will remain as Foreign Secretary
in the Baldwin cabinet.
GEOLOGISTS AND ENGINEERS
FOR AKASKA AKRIVK
Seattle. May 24—Sidney Paige. J.
Eimsitaker, Gerald PiUgerald, E.
Guerin. Win. T. Forest and James
Gilluly geologists and engineers,
constituting the expedition ordered
by the government to determine the
extent of the Point Barrow field as
a producer of oil for naval purposes,
arrived here. The expedition will
sail for Nome in June.
MINING MAN MYSTERIOUSLY
WOUNDED BY GUN SHOT
Los Angeles. May 24—M< Cruder
Belt, a Seattle mining man. was shot
and dangerously wounded on the
road to Bakersfield today. He de
clined to give the details of the
shooting.
AMERICAN WOMEN TO BEND
* KNEE TO ROYALTY
London. May 24—Twenty four
American women will be introduced
at the British Court on May 30 and
COUNCIL OF DLPIAMATS
WIJJ, INVESTIGATE
Washington. May 24—The coun
cil of diplomats at Peking decided
to send an international commission
to Thao Chwang to investigate the
bandit situation, it was announced
by the State Department.
ICE CONDITIONS YUKON RIVER
Reports from up the river on May
24th state that:
The Tanana river is clear at ice
Steamer Jacobs sailed from Nenana
Inst -night.
The Yukon is clear of ice from
Dawson to below Holy Cross.
The Kuskokwim river is clear
from the head to the mouth.
Lake LeBarge will soon be ,dear.
RUSSIANS AGREED TO
URITLSH DEMANDS
London. May 24—Russia's sec
ond reply to the British ultimatum
accepts the majority of the British
demands and agrees to hold a
conference to consider the points in
dispute.
BALDWIN RECEIVES
ENCOMIUM OF PRESS
London. May 24—No incoming
Prime Minister could wish for a
better recommendation from the
press than that accorded Baldwin.
TURKS PROTEST
AGAINST GREEK FLEET
Constantinople . May 24th—The
Gi$ek fleet is cruising about the
entrance to the Dardanelles and
the Turkish government has form
ally called attention of the British
to the incident, lodging a protest
against the presence of the Greek
vessels.
BREVITIES
Nashville. May 24—Judge Arthur
P. Sumner of Providence. R. I., was
elected President General of the
Sons of the American Revolution.
Chicago. May 24—Ben W. Hooper
was re-elected chairman of the U.
S. Railroad Labor Board.
Copenhagen, May 24-—Premier
Halvorson of Norway, died vester
AM ERICA N PRISONER
PAROLED BY' BANDITS
Shanghai. May 24—J. B. Powell,
American newspaper correspondent
of Shanghai, who has been held a
prisoner by the Chinese bandit9 has
been paroled. The conditions of his
parole are that he will take part in
the new conference being held for
the release of captives.
FRIDAY
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BONUS BILL GOES OVER
THE TOP IN ILLINOIS
Springfield, 111., May 25—Gover
nor Small signed the Bill for the
appropriation of $55,000,000 ,for
Illinois Soldier Bonus.
ANARCHIST SHOOTS UP
EDITORIAL OFFICE
Paris, May 25—Shouting “I came
to assassinate the editor” Georges
Taupin, an anarchist, emptied his
revolver into the ceiling of the edi
torial rooms of the Actione Fran
caiae today. Chas. Maurras, the
editor, had declined to see Taupin.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NUGGET
RUTH INDIAN (TONTRIBUTK8
TO CHURCH FUND
Atlantic City, May 25—Jack Ber
nett. a full blooded Creek Indian,
gave $500,000 is. United States gov
ernment bonds for Baptist Church
Home Mission work.
ASSOCIATE OF AMUNDSKN
INJURKD IN KXPLOHION
Copenhagen, May 25—Captain
Gottfried Hansen,. Arctic explorer,
associated with Amundsen in his
Polar expeditions was perhaps fat
ally injured by the explosion of a
bomb on board the Danish cruiser
Gejser. during naval maneuvers
south of the Island of Zealand today
HARDING DON’T 1AKE
ATTACKS ON BRITAIN
Washington. May 25—President
Harding is known to be incensed be
cause of the bitter attacks on Bri
tain and other allied nations, made
in a current propaganda speech is
sued by the Republican National
Committee. This publicity matter
was mailed broadcast to Republican
editors, big and little, and to all
parts of the country.
AMBl'SHBD SKATTLKITK
DIRS FROM WOUNDS
Los Angeles, May 25—McGrider
Beal, the Seattle florist and owner
of the Mojave Desert silver mines
who was shot from ambush on the
Bakerfleld highway, succumbed to
his wounds last evening.
PREAMBLE OF CONSTITUTION
TO HE OUR GUIDE
Washington, May 25—An appeal
for a rededieation of the American
people to the aims and purposes of
their government. as set forth in
the Preamble of the Constitution,
was made by President Harding yes
terday in an address at the opening
session here of the National Ameri
can Council, an organization recent
ly formed to encourage better Am
Such rededication, the president
said, would furnish the nation a
commanding and dominating na
tional interest, which he said had
been lacking since the end of the
world war. Quoting the Preamble
Harding said it constituted the com
plete statement of the Nation’s as
piration. the chart for our course
and the inspiration to every effort
to make one and all of us better citi
HOVSTON RECEIVES
NEW APPOINTMENT
Chicago. May 25—C. H. Houston
of Chattanooga Tennessee, former
Assistant Secretary of the Depart
ment of Commerce, was appointed
[Chairman of the Way and Means
'Committee of the Republican Nat
ional Committee.
{CHURCHMAN REINSTATED
AFTER YEAR SUSPENSION
Indianapolis, iway zo—iteverena
Thos. J. Erwin, of Lawton, Okla
homa, was suspended one year ago
by the El Reno Presbyterian Synod.
It was charged that he had perform
ed a marriage ceremony with the
principals in bathing suits. Today
the General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church in the United Sta
tes ordered Erwin reinstated.
ARCTIC EXPLORER SEEKS
BRITISH SUPPORT
London, May 25—V. Stefannson
is sounding the British government
on the proposition of obtaining its
financial support of an expedition
into the Arctic, with the view of
locating new and habitable regions.
TENNESSEE^ FAMOUS
MOTHER IS DEAD
Dixon Springs. Tenn., May 25th—
Mrs. Jane Bennett, 82 years old,
Tennessee’s most famous mother, is
dead here. She is mourned by
1600 children, grand children, great
grand children and great great
grand children. •
FORD LOANS CITY TWO MILLION
Detroit, May 25—In order to
carry forward Municipal improve
ments it was found necessary to.
borrow two million dollars. Instead
of floating more Municipal Bonds a
direct loan of $2,000,000 was ob
tained from Henry Ford at the rate
of 2 per cent.
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS
MRS. STILLMAN
New York, May 25—The Appelate
Division of the Supreme Court yes
terday upheld the award of $7,500
per month alimony a«d'$15,000
counsel fees made to Mrs. Anne^
Stillman by Justice Morschauser last
February.
POINCARK RK8IGN8 BUT
DRCIDKD TO STAY
Paris, May 25—Poincare and his
cabinet resigned at a result of the
refusal ot the Senate to proceed
with the trial of Marcel Cachin and
other Communists, charged with il
legal acta against the French Repub
lic. President Millerand refused to
accept the resignations and they
were withdrawn last night.
I toil* If MAKES DIRKf’T
CHARGES OF INCOMPETENCE
Manchester. S. H., May 25—Sen
ator Borah spoke here last night.
In the course of his speech he
charged the Harding administration
with waste, extravagance, failure to
reduce taxes, and the disinclinati-n
to protect American people against
extortionate demands of the Sugar,
Coal and Railroad barons.
BRITISH ACCEPT
RUSSIAN REPLY
London. May 25—The Baldwiir
cabinet, at its first meeting yester
day afternoon, decided that Russia’s
reply to Foreign Miinster Curran's
ultimatum, was practically satisfac
tory. It was decided that Russia
must cease her propaganda before
relations*between the two countries
will be resumed.
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