VOL. 1. NO. 78
McGRATH, ALASKA. OCTOBER 22. 1921.
PRICE 25 CENTS
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WILL AWAIT
A DECISION
No Strike Until R. R.
Labor Board Decides
Upon Grievances*
Chicago, Oct. 2V-—Tire Rail
road Labor Board today, backed
K by all authority of the Govern- j
ment. called the railroads of the |
country and the five big . unions
to appear.here next week, ..and
solemnly warned the unions not
to strike untili the Board had
heard their grievances and ren
dered a decision.’ The action of
the Board virtually means that
there will be noi strike October
30th unless the unions should
choose to openly defy the Gov-,
i eminent, for-it is hardly prob
able that a decision will be ren
dered by the Board -before that
date.
Chicago, Oct. 20.--The feeling
isigeneral that the conference in
progress here this; afternoon be
tween the Railroad Labor- Board
and the chiefs of the principal
brotherhoods will avert a strike.
Oklahoma City.—Governor Robert
son declared today that Oklahoma will
take possession of all railroads within
the State should the occasion' demand.
Chicago.—Announcement Jwas made
today that the united brotherhoods of
maintenance of way employes and of
railroad shop laborers, numbering
35:090, will join the ^strikers if a walk
¥ out comes.
New York.—Three thousand yard
masters in the Metropolitan district
will not go out on strike, according to
J. L. Cone, grand president of the or
ganization.
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How They Do in Washington.
London—The Washington State De
? partment has informed the British
delegates to the disarmament confer
ence to bring their; own liquor—that
is,* if they must have it.
Washington.—Internal revenue offi
cers early this morning unearthed a
gang of bootleggers operating almost
under the eaves of the Capitol. Forty
arrests were made.
Dick Bemtesen Operated/ Upon.
^ The intestinal trouble from which
Dick Berntesen has been suffering for
some time necessitated an operation,
which Da. W. F. Green performed this
morning. Mr. Berntesen is -resting
t easily at present, and hopes are enter
tained for his earlv recovery. Mrs. E.
Marsh Shannon is giving; him all need
ed. attention.
Olaf Waagen arrived from Candle
this afternoon, and will leave in the
morning for Anchorage...
NAI1LTY IS
INDIGNANT
Because Amundsen Is
to Use Airplane to
. Reach Pole.
Washington. Oet. 21.—Edwin
Fairfax Naulty, who plans to fly
from Seattle to the North Pole
by way of Point Barrow, start
ing next month, is more than in
dignant over Captain Raold Am
undsen’s announcement that he
intends to use airplanes in reach
ing the North Pole.
Speaking today of Amundsen’s
announcement, Naulty said:
“Sufficient publicity has been
given my plans to make them
known to everybody, and an at
tempt to anticipate our carefully
planned work with a- scratch
flight, sarcastically conceived, is
not in line with the very strin
gent code which hitherto has
governed explorers.”
HARDING AT
YORKTOWN
At Ceremony Commem
orating Surrender of
British Forces.
Yorktown Va., Oct. 21.—“It
is unthinkable that either of the
two English-speaking nations
should ever again lift sword
against each other. We should
rather be joined together in a
trusteeship for the - preservation
of civilisation,' for which we are
naturally arranged.” said Presi
dent Harding today, in an ad
dress at the Williamsburg cere
monies in commemoration of the
final surrender of the British
forces to Washington.
Speaking of educational mat
ters, the President declared that
the United States is confronted
by an educational crisis caused
by a shortage of teachers and
inadequate housing capacity for
schools.
Washington.—Secretary of the Navy
Denby today issued a call for volun
teers in the naval reserve forces, which
have fallen from two hundred thou
sand to less than five thousand.
Louis Gorman is scheduled to leave
in the morning for the Niocon mine.
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Depends On Wireless Tests.
Washington.—If wireless tests be
tween the St. Paul islands and Japan,
undertaken this morning, prove suc
cessful, a vast amount of the Govern
ment business with the Orient and the
Philippines will hereafter be routed
via Alaska, San Diego and Hawaii, es
pecially as all Kast-bouDd messages
have to be relayed.
Emergency Tariff Law Extended.
Washington.—The House passed the
bill today extending the emergency
tariff law to February 1.
PASSING OF
STATESMAN
Philander C. Knox Dies
at Washington From
Paralytic Stroke.
Washington, Oct. 20.—Philan
der Chase Knox, Senator from
Pennsylvania, Secretary of State
in President McKinley's Admin
istration, and for many years
prominent) in public life, died at
his home in this city, tonight.
Death was due to a stroke of
paralysis, the Senator being on
his way to the dining room when
he suffered the stroke, and died
fifteen minutes later, despite al
most immediate medical attend
ance. _
Telegraphic Ticks.
London.—Ludwig, former king of
Bavaria,. passed away in this city to
day. __
Seattle.—John E. Smart, formerly
proprietor of a hotel at Whitehorse,
| died here today.
Rome.—Government figures disclose
that Italians in the United States send
home thirty-five million dollars an
nually.
Salt Lake City.—Blaming his wife
for his unhappiness. Gust Pogonis, a
wealthy Greek magnate, killed himself
here today.. _
Mexico City.—President Obregon an
nounces that Mexico will have no dele
gate to the Washington disarmament
conference. _
Borne.—Admiral Bravetta declared
todao that the American disarmament
conference is the one thing preventing
war with Japan.
London.—King George today con
ferred the Victoria cross on an un
known American soldier, to be buried
in Washington^
Leavenworth, Kas.—Joel and James
Chatwood, twins, celebrated their
ninetieth birthday here today. Both
have reared large families.
Berne.—Since the right of initiative
given them- in the new constitution,
Germans have presented ten thousand
such petitions to the reichstag.
BRUMFIELD
IS GUILTY
After Return of Verdict
He Attempts to Take
His Own Life.
Eoseburg, Ore., Oct. 21.—The
jury in the trial of the case of
Dr. R. M. Brumfield, well known
Oregon, charged with the mur
der of Dennis Russell, in the at
i
,tempt to conceal which he par
tially destroyed the body in an
automobile wreck, returned a
verdict of guilty at midnight
yesterday. Following the re
turn of the verdict the court an
nounced that sentence of death
by hanging wTould be imposed
Saturday.
After being returned to his
cell Brumfield loosened a piece
of bridgework from his mouth
and cut his throat so seriously
that but little hope is entertained
for his recovery.
BY DEADLY
METHODS
Communists of World
Would Stay Execution
of Convicted Men.
Seattle, Oct. 21—Reports from
European capitals and South
America today indicate the ex
istence of an international com
munists’ plot to secure by in
timidation the freedom of Nieolo
Sacco and Bartolome Venzitti,
the communists convicted of the
Buthel murder at Dedham, Mass.
The American ambassadors in
Rome, Brussels, London and
Paris have received threatening
letters from communists in those
countries.
Paris, Oct. 21.—One hundred
police are guarding the home of
Ambassador Herrick and the .
American embassy tonight, due
to threatened march against both
by communists.
Seattle. —John Stringer, former
sheriff of King county, was arrested to
night on a charge of grand larceny, the
warrant alleging that he is withhold
ing six thousand dollars of funds due
the county.
A1 Goslaw, from. Yankee creek, came
down yesterday from Tacotna.