Washington Nov. —President
Wilson lias sent to the st'te depart
ment a l'l<-a for American re
cognition of the Independence of Ir0
' land.
[ The document is signed by D'Lav
em as President of the Irish rapub
: lie.
Se3"t!<; Nov. 27—-Adrift In a ter
rific st.'riu which has s\vePt the nor'
radii.' ".ast yesterday afternoon an
la*t niil.t the steel barge W. J.I'lr
iie with sixteen women anil a baby
: board is I elieVed to have gone
destru^ti. n.
Th» r,."ort state3 tliat it is thou
ght that llie IVrrie went ashore on
t .• !•.. %y I.each of Janies Island
n,-ar ti.t mouth of the Quil'yote riv
er. It Probable that al on board
crew cs \vell as Paisengtrs 1 a-vo boo
lust.
TliJ ir'.ft was being tewed to
Sout'i America by the steaiushii'
Stnia I'.Ma anil broke away in the
storm.
Seattle Nov. 27—-U1 lioi'e has
tu-.n ' .:'.ndo!»cil of £iuiling Che I'lf
ri.. .>. r.ichin; VgSs<J$ this after
noon it M e totac and report that not
.« vestage of the wrecked shii' has
be, n vi<!b'e
THREE KILLED
l!i MITO fifiCES
Los A:igoU'S Nov. 27—Gaston Ch0v
rolei i famous automobile racer
was k y. storday In a cr^sh on
the «;>j0ilway while contesting for
tile tw > hundred and fifty mile auto
ltiing championship.
Lyali Jolls the mechanician for
Eddie O'louneil also lost his life
in th,. lollisiou and OI»onntlt was
»«'Vere'}' injured.
Roas.'n :?earles drove the entire
distant,- without a stciP and own the
race.
Los Anse'eS Nov. 20—Eddi0 ODo
noil tne cuto ractr who w-is injured
yesterday in th0 s;ai:iva; accident
di ed u ;s morning.
S*.uUij Nov. —::ol>t.rt Ward of
Decutui Illinois ami a f .iruur Amer
ican A>.\. b'-tl 'a i.o ha* lart !y bt.eu
manai: i for u Cliiaa-Arjork-au cX'-'oe
tin^ i i;(, rn iu Skany'.iai wr.s ar. to
1 t-d l.i : nigh0 ui'on liis arrival la
ii-at J., oil thoKasIiItna JU.r'J.
Wari is cu-'rg J with stealing
.
ols iu .Shanghai.
?■ ttlp .Nov. -0—"William ilingle3
who con mended tbe ltil-t D. s. la
fan;ry i:.i rancvduring thp war wflj
comm'.t-i-lcned as a Major ia ihe reS"
ular aray.
Maji>r .Min^^s v ill bo ►stationed
at Fori WurdL.n.
BE THANKFUL
Many Are Thankful
because they have associated then.selves
with this bank
We give you new, profitable id<-3s.
A bank account heie is something to be thrnkfu!
for because it gives you somethiug to depend on in
any emergency. The more vcu know about the
convenience of a bank account, tho moie you ap
preciate it.
BanK of Alaska
FOR THANKSGIVING
Cape Cod Cranberries [Eastern]
Extra Large Crisp Head Letlucc
Florida Grape Fruit
Celery Sweet Potatoes
Grapes Bananas Oranges
Extra Fancy Eating Apples
Plum Pudding
Impotred Jordan Shelled Almonds
Fancy Packages Fli^h Grade Chocoiatcs
Layer Raisins Dates Figs
Libby's Bulk Mincemeat
Preferred Stock Cream Pumpkin
New Pop C\>rn in Bulk
P. fi. GANTY
CHURCH GOERS Sim III
SIBHT OF fiJRITISH FLAG
New A ork. Nov. 2G—Thanks
yh ing <1 r v was violently interrupted
yesterdft \vjit.n crowds who attenipt
f-,l to attend High Requiem Slass in
memory of tlic. la to M&yor McSwin
e>" of C->rx. rioted at the slight of a
krltishflrg. Tlie flag was decorat
ing the facade of th0 Union club
r.cross l'itlh avenue from St. Pat
rick's c&tiierdral.
The Msbt wais Participated in by
hundreds of Irish s.vmPathizers dur
ing which J'lr.to glass windows1
in th0 clutj were shattered by mis-j
bIcs burled by the mob.
QrdPr was finally restored when i
c co-Jon of 200 Police was estab-1
lished around the building. 1
Dublin. Nov. L'G—Arthur Griffith
the fouudtr of tlie Sinn Ft.in orga
nization- end Professor John Mj
Neill. i tinn FtJu mt.ruber of pai
llauie'it forr Londonderry city and
connect,.o with the National Univer
sity of Inland. were arretted and
are b(.-U.fi lipid in custody Pending a
charge v liich will be made iateir.
Washington Nov. 27—President
Wilson on Thouksgiving Diy comma
}d tV Sentence of Franz von Rin
tvln a svrman who was convicted of
uartJm» con&P]rlcy.
The lardonProvideS that Rinte'en
must !<avo tU United States before
January
UFvUlliPifHi |!
EiiiDESl KILLED
£cati!e Nov. 27<—Elmer RileJ" a
Washington University law student
was killed and G. E. GraJiam peri
liars atully iujured in an automobile
accident In the suberbs of Ai'den Te3
tt-rday.
The automobile overturned and
piuion;<! th young' men beneath it.
MISILSDS'S
3N"ew \ork Xov. 27—Tli0 assembly
of th0 I-eagUe of Nations now meet
ing in lu-nva has svnt a communi
cation regarding American co-oper
ating in Armenian nffajrb to Presi
dent Wilton.
Wasli.'iigon Nov. 27—President
Wilson served notice on Great Brit
ain ;oday that she cannot bar Amer
icans from engaging in oil develop
ment eatrPrisies in Mesopotamia.
Washlngton.Xov.27—Senator Knox
made a statement today that Peace
with Germany by congressional resol
ution should be accomplished as
&oon 33 Possible.
The .sr-na.torsaid that ho would In
troduce a Peace resolution as soon a4
| congreJs convenes.
FRANCE WOULD j
ISEMKIDE1
Pari3 Nov. 27—The Suppression
of tli0 Russian blockade is favored '
by Prnnident Leygues.
Lfeygu0s tol comittee on foreign!
Relations of the Chainbep of Del>u
ties thEi, inatynuch a# the Soviet'
govc»nicient is actually in the open j
it has b. en decided to Permit French
tr«'ders and manufacturers to do all
the busiUfcSs the}" can with,Russia. J
Sarins* Sj>ain Nov". 26—A Pow
erful bomb was exploded earb' to-1
day in the doorway of the Arch-EPis
copal ra]ice.
Considerable damage wag don0
but no c'sualties occurred.
Ano„-. bomb was explcded on tli<j
bridge which did an immtnse am- I
mount cf destruction.
if rs«| r j i s <r\ s J" r\
OH/UlH! \-U
m\ tfvviiiUL
5IWSIED
New Orleans >5ov. 2"—J. M. Cur
tis who is charged with swindling
Seattle Francisco and JIinn0aPo
lis bankers ouij of fifty! thoi^sand
do 1 Lars was arrested here by the pos
tal authorities today.
Curtis claimed to be engaged in
the oil business .
FRESH SEEIi
"Wellington Nov. 27 —President,
Wilson ^ iewjd from the east Porch |
of tie 'White Hou^e colorful i>a- j
geuat commemorating the landing of
«Jhe Piigrtns thre0 hundred J'ears
ago.
RiSPiD FLIGHT
MineoMo Nov. 27—Flying three 1
miles u minute Lieutenant C. C. Mos
elj I'ilo'Jng an American made Plane'
a Verville Packard plane* ^on the
first Pulitzer troPhy aeronauti]cal
race yesterday against a field of,
four starters.
New York Nov. 27—It was an
nounced today that John D. Rock-,
efeller had provided sixty four mil-j
lion dollars towards the Laura Si'e'l":
man RoCcefeller memorial.
This is dono ih memory of Mr.
Xtock0feileTS' wife- ^ . ■ ]
Washington Nov. 27—In his an
nual ror'°i't J^idg^ Advocate General
Crowdgr states that thirty t\vo Per
sons in th0 army weire aeflteflcgd
to death by court martial during the
laBt flsc'U Tear.
Teh r^Port further states that not
one of these wpre earned out'
HOME MURDERER IS FIRST
ON WILSON'S PARDON LIST
Washington Nov. 27—Heading his
list of Thanksgiving pardon Presldea
AVllson Put the V^-nio of Anton Clau
son who was sentenced from Juneau
in May 1908 for the murder of Rob
ert Ford.
Chanson was s|;nt up for life hut
his sentence was commuted and will
expire today.
Robert Ford was a saloon Jceeper
in Keewall&k Alaska and Clauson
was a miner Tvjhi'e intoxicated the
men quarrelled and Clao:son shot
Ford and killed him.
Clajjson served ^he ffest Part of
his term in MclNfclll's Island but was
transferred to Leavendworth some
time aSo>
Clauson's mother ha(s be^n 'word
ing for seVgtfal Te^rs to obtain his
release and it w&s through, her en
deavors thaJt he wai) pardoned by
Presidet-t Wilson.
FEDERAL MONEY
Washington. Nov. 26—The har
bors > uci -waterways Improvement an
mainta!nence will require an aPpro
dollars for the fiscal yeajr of 1921
Priation of seventy eight million
is the estimate put. by Major Genera
Bea<Ji chief of the army engineers
in his annual rePort made public to
day.
fTlie funds include 'en thousand
for the harbor In Nome and one
hundred and twenty five thousand
for Lak,> Washington.
Washington Nov. 24— The Rus
sian Soviet authorities' tfstlmato
that the unemployed in tills country
will number five million by the end
of the year.
Two representatives of the third
Internalionaal have been sent hero
to organize Soviets in thiis country.
This information was sent here by
Moscow.
RUSSIA SOVIET 10
ABOLISH IOIET
Berlin Nov. 27—Tlio council of
the Peoples Commission In Russia
has dlrected the Russian finance
commlsttonera to Prepare a Plan
"within a moniit for the abolishment
ot mon( y Is a i<ePort that reached
here fri'in <Mscow today.
The dispatch waa ^ent t0 t'le
Flag the Communist organ here
fThe disPatah. states that It Is ex
PeCed ha the moneyless period will
be deCK-fd a3 efettiv on January
first,
Washington Nor. 26—The aerial
for^ thi. (Pacific Ooast fleet
leave San Dlago on December 2Sth
for a flight 'to the Panama canal and
return.
The distance to be convietred is
ovei 6000 mllePt
This annouacement was made by
the navy dePaytmeent today.
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