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VOL., iy, NO. 24 TOKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1924. PRICE 25 CENTS
Coolidge and Dawes
Republican Nominees
Cleveland, June 12.—Calvin
Cqolidge was nominated today
by the republican convention Jor
President on the first ballot, re
ceiving 1,066 votes, as against '31
for La Follette and 10 for Hiram
Johnson,,the latter having been
Elaced in nomination by Dr.
larion Leroy Burton, of Mich
igan.,
A motion to make nomination
by aeclamatiqn was ruled out of
order.
General Charles G, Dawes, of
Illinois, was tonight nominated
for Vice President.
Early Sidelights of
the Big Convention
Cleveland, June 9.—The com
mittee oh 57 met today and began
preparation of the platform.
Lowden declined to consider
the vice presidency, and Dawes
is being boomed.
The La Follette delegates from
Wisconsin, who will cast in block
their votes against Coolidge,
were called together today to
tal^e fiaal action on the platform
proposals they will fight for in
the convention.
Charles B. Warren, ambassa
dor to Mexico, and chairman of
the platform committee, an
nounced today that while some
of the principal planks had been
forwarded trom Washington, the
actual drafting of the party pro
nouncement will be done here.
Mellon and Weeks have ar
rived.
A bitter fight is raging in the
committee over, the -question cf
the ku kluk klan plank.
William J. Bryan is here in
the capacity of a writer. The
weather is uncomfortably cool.
Senator Jones, of Washington,
and Governor Dixon, of Mon
tana, are being brought out as
vice presidential candidates.
Percy W. Howard, negro law
yer, and William H. Crocker,
banker, elected national commit
teemen, respectively, for Missis
sippi and California.
Within a stone’s throw of the
republican convention headquar
ters, representatives of the ku
klux klan this afternoon indorsed
Senator Watson, of Indiana, as
a vice presidential candidate.
Siena p, Coolidge’s secretary,
5faa- arrived from Washington
with a draft of ths platform, in
which Coolidge insists that gov
ernmental economy be the dom
inant issue.
Cleveland, June 107-—Still
searching for a vice presidential
candidate, the republican con
vention went into formal session
today with the question little ad
vanced “toward solution over,
night. ’ The movement for Ken
yon, Iowa, showed new strength;
the talk £cr- Hoover grew per
ceptibly stronger, the movement
for Dhwes lost no ground, and
Lowden’a supporters renewed
thteirresistance that his nomina
tion be not accepted.
Theodore E. Burton, assurm
ing his duties as temporary
chairman of the convention, re
viewed the accomplishments of
the Administration and called
the republican party to rally
about the leadership of Coolidge,
adding that in the great array
of rulers, kings and prime min
isters intrnsted with power,
there is none who ca:i surpass
him in honesty of purpose, cour
age or devotion to the welfare
of his country.
Weeks stated tonight he had
submitted the platform that he
had drafted, but declined tc dis
cuss its contents.
La Toilette's substitute plat
form was presented to the com
mittee on resolutions late this
afternoon. It was received in
silence, notwithstanding which
the leaders here recognized the
menace of the Wisconsin man
and .the approaching dangers in
the third party movement which
promises to tear away a dozen
western states, normally repub
lican.
Mellon- got tne biggest ap
plause of the day, the cheers for
him exceeding in- volume and
duration those which were given
for Coolidge in the course of
Burton's speech.
The rules committee in execu
tive session this afternoon adopt
ed the 50 50 rule, which places
women on an equal status with
men in the republican organiza
tion.
Six of North Dakota’s thir
t.ppn Hplpim,tp«i HpHpiI t.hp ot.hpr
seyen tonight, walking out on
them and going over to the Wis
consin 29 La. Follette delegates.
Cleveianu, June 11.-^ A Cabinet oonr
mittee, composed of Secretaries Work,
Weeks, Wilbur, New and Mellon, at a
midnight executive session, presided
over by Slemp, eliminated Kenyon-,
Borah, Lowden and Dav/es as vice pres
idential timber.
G. R. Allen has been named as the
Alaska member of the resolutions com
mittee.
Organisation leaders say Coolidge
will be nominated tomorrow, and man
agers of the convention have already
named the personnel of a committee to
formally notify him.
Paul Howland, attorney for former
Attorney General Daugherty, has been
elected chairman of the rules commit
tee of the convention.
Washington, June 11.—Hbover, fol
lowing a conference with Coolidge, de
clared that be is- a candidate for the
vice presidency.
Prohibitionists Also
Nominate Candidate
CoPumbus.—The national convention
of theprohibition party </otcd Tuesday
to continue the party machinery and to
"nominate candidates, following which
H. P. Farris, of Clinton. Mo., was note*
inated as the party’s candidate fbr
president.__
Santa Ana and Fran
cis Arrived Bethel Dtli
—
Bethel, June 10.—The steamer Santa
Ana and motorship Carolyn Fraocis ar
rived last night. Both boats are sched
uled to sail for Seattle on June 15th. .
Joseph Kane*Tanana,
Arrested on .Charge of
Attacking Small! Girls
Fairbanks, Juue &—District Attor
ney Collins and Dr. Sutherland made
an airplane flight Saturday from Fair
banks to Tanana. where they placed
Joseph Kane under arrest. Kane is
charged with attacking Hazel Shade
and Margaret Feterson, two small
girls. The Shade child is declared, to
be in a precarious condition.
46 KILLED ON
BATTLESHIP
MISSISSIPPI
Misfire of 14-Inch Gun
In Practice Causes Ex
plosion in Turret
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Los Angeles. June 12.—Dur
ing battleship practice off San
Clemente island, this afternoon,
one of the 14 inch guns of the
dreadnaught Mississippi mis
fired, causing an explosion in
the turret and the death of
forty-six men, including three
officers and Captain W. D. Broth
erton, commander of the Missis
sippi.
A second explosion, shortly
after the first, hurled a projec
tile which barely missed the
steamship Yale, eu route to San
Francisco, with hundreds of pas
sengers on board.
(With the Around
|the-World Flyers
New York, June 8.—A Rio do Ja
neiro dispatch says that Major Pedrc
Zanno, an Argentine aviator, expects
to hop off next week in an endeavor tc
beat the English and American flyers
in an around-the world llight.
Tokio, June 9.—Doisy, French avi
ator, arrived here at noon today, com
pleting his flight from Faria,
Hongkong, June 9 -The American
army flyers arrived here yesterday af
ternoon from Amoy, having made the
flight of three hundred miles in three
and one-quarter hours,
Hongkong, June 10 - -The American
army around-tbe-world flyers left here
this morning for Hnipong, French
Indo-China. _______
Haipong, Indo-China, Junell.—The
American army flyers arriued here to
day. __
Chris NelsoD returned Thursday
from a trip to McGrath, bringing ur
Thomas McKinnon, George Wesch,
Miss E. Marsh, Leon G. Loomis, Hilly
Case and Owen Gray.
The Pioneer arrived Friday from 8
trip to Medfrs, bringing a good con
signment of first-class lumber from tbe
mill of the (nnoko Lumber Companv
Paul Flynn, of Nicholson & Flynn
Little creek operators, was a town vis
Itor Wednesday, returning homo oi
Thursday. He spoke hopefully of i
nrosDerous season
HATREDjFOR I
AMERICANS
Feeling in JapanToward
U. S. Is at a Dan
gerous Height.
Tokyo, July 9.—Kiyoura and
his cabinet resigned this after
noon, the premier indicating that
he (Kiyoura accepts full respon
sibility for the diplomatic blun
der in connection with the exclu
sion of Japanese from the United
States.
Gangs last night forced sev
eral motion picture theaters
showing American films to close,
and the anti-American feeling
has already reached a serious
height.
A dance at the Imperial Hotel
Saturday night, largely attend
ed by American, was stopped by
anti-American demonstrations.
The situation is so tense that
American officials have been ad
vised to keep automobiles bear
ing their licenses off the streets.
The problem of returning Jap
anese residents of the United
States at present in Japan to
America before the exclusion act
becomes effective, on July 1, has
caused the government to ar
range with shipping companies
for three special ships to reach
America before that date.
Coolidge Vetoes Pos
tal Salaries Increase
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Washington, June 7.—The postal sal
ary increase bill, which provided for
$65,000,000 for increases among- 300.000
postal employes, was vetoed by Cool
idge today, with the declaration that
“Government extravagance must stop.’’
Bills That Died When
Congress Adjourned
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Washington, June 7.—Congress ad
journed at 7 tonight. The deficiency
bill, providing money for administra
tion of the soldiers’ bonus, and the
reclamation and naval reconditioning
bills died without a count.
Foreign Flashes
Peking.—Karl Beck ami George R.
Snyder, missionaries of the Reformed
Church, Presbyterian, were each
wounded when bullets entered the mis
sion during factional fighting at Shen
cow, New Hugan province, yesterday.
Paris.—Frederic Franeois Maral suc
ceeded Poincaire as premier on Mon
day, starting at once on the naming of
a new cabinet._
Vienna.—Austrian Chancellor Tgnaz
Heipel was shot and dangerously
wounded while alighting from a train
here, Tuesday._
Manila. — Earthquake shocks, fol
lowed bv a tidal wave, has thrown the
populace of the town of Agno, in the
province of Pangas, into a panic.
Honolulu.—Thirty American air
i planes greeted the big British naval
v squadron which arrived here, hound
for Vancouver.
Two Staged in One Day
in Seattle Business
District.
Seattle, June 10. — Two of
Frederick & Nelson’s messen
gers were held up at noon today
in the heart of the financial dis
trict, the robbers securing one
of the store’s several payrolls.
The holdup netted the bandits
$01,000, though only $400 of this
amount was in cash, and $57,000
worth of indorsed drafts and
checks were recovered near a
Lake avenue foundry by two
students.
Two hours after the Frederick
& Nelsou holdup three auto ban
dits, presumably the same out
laws, undertook to hold up Wal
ter Cooper, cashier of the Union
Oil Company, on his way to the
First National Bank, accompa
nied by Policeman N. Anderson,
with whom fifteen shots were ex
changed before the bandits were
beaten off. Cooper had $5,000
cash with him.
Loyalties Urged in
Coolidge’s Address
Washington, June 10.—Speaking at
Georgetown University, today, Presi
dent Coolidge said there must he loy
alty to family, loyalty to vu-lous ser
vice organization-; of society, loyalty to
government, which comes first of all in
the observance of its laws, and loyalty
to religion._
Dill’s Secretary Nabbed
By Ohio Dry Officers
Dayton, O., June 11.—The motor trip
of Frank Bell, secretary to Senator
C. C. Dill, of Washington, en route to
Seattle, was halted today when federal
prohibition olKcers found eight gallons
of whisky in bis car. The driver of
the oar was fined six hundred dollars.
Washington Notes
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Washington. The Dial amendment
to the omnibus pension bill, incieasing
pensions to Spanish-Ami rican war vet
erans, was eliminated in conference be
fore adjournment, on account of Cool
idge having expressed unalterable op
position to the provision.
Washington.—The treaty designed
to suppress the smuggling of liquor
and narcotics across tho United States
and Canadian boundary was signed
Mondav by representatives of the
American and Canadian governments.
Washington.—The reply to the Jap
anese protest against the exclusion
section of the new immigration law has
been virtually completed by the State
Department._
Washington. — Secretary of Navy
Wilbur did 93 miles an hour in a flight
from Norfolk to Washington, Monday.
Washington. — Brigadier General
Malin Craig, now in Manila, has been
named chief ot • valry by Caolidgo.