VOL. II. NO. 100
McGrath, Alaska Wednesday, January 10, iul’3.
PRICE 25 CENTS
OCCUPATION
OF GERMANY
French Troops Are at
Dusseldorf, Essen,
CoblenzJ
/Paris, Jan. 9.—The allied rep
arations commission today vored
Germany in wilful default on her
eoal deliveries. The vote was
three to one, Sir John Bradbury,
the British member, casting the
negative ballot. The discussion
over the question of default last
ed over one and three-fourths
hours, the greater part of which
time was taken by the British
delegate in giving his reasons
why he considered default should
not be declared.
Paris, Jan. 7.—At a secret
meeting today President Mil
lerand. Premier Poincaire, Mar
shal Foch and General Maginot
completed France’s plans for
military entrance into the Ruhr.
Th"e first step will be to send in
fantry to. Essen to protect the
Flench engineers in the coal dis
trict.
BRITAIN’S
BIG DEBT
Not Much Encourage
ment for Members
of Commission.
Washington, Jan. 9.—Secre
tary of the Treasury Mellon told
the members of the British debt
commission, at a meeting this
afternoon, that there was scant
hope of relief from their pay
ment of four billion dol'ars, their
obligation to the United States.
Mellon stated that the terms of
payment of the debt are fixed
hard and fast by act of Congress
aud that he had no latitude in
the matter.
Washington Bootleg
gers Are Provided by
Foreign Embassies
Washington.— Federal prohibition
authorities declared tonight that much
oh the illicit liquor retailed recently by
Washington bootleggers came into the !
United States under consignment to <
foreign embassies and legations here.
The matter is being given a thorough
investigation
Washington.—The Senate last night j
parsed the Interior Department appro- (
priation bill, increasing the amount
named in the bill as passed by the ’
.House by $3.030,000.____
2 WHITE
5
Killed in Race Riot at
Rosewood, Ga.; Lynch
ing Coming Up.
Rosewood, Fla., Jan. 9.— A
posse of three hundred armed
white men are t.oni lit scouring
the countryside Tor Jesse fluu
ter, escaped negro convict, the
search for whom, in connection
with the negro’s attack on a
white girl resulted in a race riot
here last night., in which two
white men and five negroes were
killed and five white men badly
wound* d The greater portion
of the town, largely the homes
of blacks, was burned by the
frenzied mob
6,000 Mahers of Chil
dren’s Clothes in New
York Are Locked Out
Ne» York.—Six thousand makers of
children’s clothes are locked out here,
the contractors claiming they cannot
make such garments at present prices,
and the indications are that all such
factories will he closed.
DECLARED
DEFAULT
Short in Coal Deliveries
to France, Says Allied
Commission.
Berlin, Jan. B.—Fifteen hun
i ed French troops arrived at
D isseldorf Sunday and demand
el accommodations from the
mayor of the city. The mayor
5 Dusseldorf notified the gov
ernment today that three hue
iced automobiles were comm m
ieered by the French troops and
that two schools and part of the
bureau of finance we re demand- j
si as quarters for three hundred
>fticers. Tanks and cavalry pa- i
broiled the streets during the!
Jay. The town is reported in a:
itate of great excitement.
Tlte advance guard, of French
troops, under General Du*goutte, !
ias arrived at Eettwig, near E>
j->n, according to dispatches from j
(lie latter city. Chizens of Essen1
lad expected the French t'» enter
Luring the night.
From Coblenz comes the re
jort that French troops are on
ihe march today along the Rhine.
Engineers and detachments of
ailway workers are on the way
o Essen.
Great activity on the part of
French aviators is reported from
j Mannheim, where airmen crossed
over the neutral zones of that
city wiih their planes for a con
side ru ble time last night.
A dispatch from Amsterdam
j says that many German residents
! of the Ruhr basin are preparing
i to leave* fearing disorders upon
; French seizure of the district.
Disappears in Transit
Between Flat and
Ophir.
'A mail robbery! This was the start
liny news which threw this usually
quiet and subdued district into intense
excitement last Sunday upon the ar
rival of information from Idit.arod that
a registered pouch had beeD extracted
from the consignment of mail which
left. Flat on Fridav, Dee 29.
Reports are somewhat meagre, but it
is stated that Mail Carrier i3ill\ Duffy
left Flat on the above date, having,
among other mail sacks, a pouch of
registered mail destined for McGrath.
This pouch, through the inability of
the McGrath postmaster to often the
lock on account of not. having a kev to
tit it. had been sent to Fiat so that, the
hick might be changed. This had been
accomplished, and Mr. Duffy, starting
to return here, loaded tnis particular
sack upon his sled aud started ont foi
Scbermeier’s roadhouse, where be
stopped that night. The following
night was spent at Fritz’s roadhouse,
the run toOphir being made the next
day, aud it was at Ophir that the car
rier discovered that the registered
sack was missing.
At the Scbermeier roadhouse, the
first t.ight from Flat, aside from Mr.
Duffy and the proprietor, there were
four others—one a passenger coming
with tire carrier to Tacotna. aud the
other three headed for Flat.
From Ophir Mr. Duffy came through
to Tacotna and McGrath, reported his
loss to the local office, and proceeded
on his usual run to Big river and back
to Fiat.
Outside of the postoffice authorities,
nobody knows precisely what was in
the sack, liumors. however, are cur
rent that the sack contained at least
one shipment of thirty thousand dollars
iu currency.
Mr. Duffy is non-plussed and, of
eourse. can give no inkling as to how
the sack was lifted or the probable
thief.
t
i
1
Vivian Howard, Tacotna, mourns the
loss of $600, or tberealmuts, which was
taken from her domicile while she was i
out to dinner, a few nights ago. Not t
the slightest clue to the culprit. t
1
Waino Puntila, who piloted Mr. and
Mrs T. P. AS*ken out to Nancy over „
the Rainy Pass ’rail, returned here c
today, and will probably leave for Can- t
die in the morning. t
Owen Gray, with sleigh heavily a
loaded, left this morning for the Nixon ^
mine, being accompanied by Halfdan
W i i g. _
Chris Gudmandson, a well known fur £
buyer, was a yesterday arrival, having v
come via the Kobi trail. n
PRESIDENT
MAY GOME
Harding Is Anxious to
Visit Alaska Com
i ing Summer.
Washington. Jan. 9—President
Harding’s firm conviction that ho
will be able to visit Alaska dur
ing the coming summer is shov. n
in orders just issued to recondi
tion the presidential yacht May
flower and equip her as an oil
burner. Unofficially, it is admit
ted that the work is to be begun
immediately at the Noriolk navy
yards and is being undertaken
with the Alaska trip in mind. In
May the Mayflower will be dis
patched to Seattle via the Pan
ama canal, and in June, if all
goes well, the President and
Mrs. Harding and their party
will proceed by train to Seattle,
there to begin the sea journey to
Alaskan points.
Tacoma.—A II. Titlow, democratic
Dalit ual committeeman for Washing
ton and a pioneer of this state, died at
his home here today.
Sen. Reed Has Way for
Britain and France to
Pay U. S. Debt.
Washington, Jan. 8.—Presi
3eut Harding would be author
ized to communicate with Britain
md France regarding the tran
sition of their island possessions
n West Indies in payment of
iheir war debt to the United
State under the terms of a res
)lution introduced in the Senate
/odu.y by Reed, of Missouri.
Detroit Auto Speeders
Must Look On Death
Detroit. — Weekly visits to the
norgue were added to the routine of
be automobile division of the record
:r's court today bv Judge Charles L.
iartlett.
Judge Bartlett announced that here
fter, ouce each week, men and women
onvicted of traffic law violations and
iveu jail sentences will be conducted
hrough the morgue “to view the re
ults of auto drivers’ carelessness.”
Judge Bartlett vesterday began what
e announced would be daily trips to
eceiviog hospital when he conducted
wentv-eigbt persons convicted of traf
c law violations through a ward in
ihich were several victims of auto
lobile accidents