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VOL. XXII., NO. 3337.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
MARES PROPOSAL
TO STOP STRIKE
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PLAN NEW MILL
AT SNETTISHAM
FOR NEXT YEAR
Mill to Be Erected in Short
Time to Manufacture Pulp
Into Pulp-Wood.
Construction of a pulp-board mill
at Sped River to manufacture the
entire product of its plant there
into pulp-board is announced by the i
Alaska Pulp & Paper Company in a
letter received by local stockholders
as contemplated in the near future.
The program proposed entails the
expenditure of $100,000. it was an-1
nounccd.
The company's official announce
ment said that, the company will
proceed with the construction and
operation of the new mill so as to
have it in operation as early as prac
ticable in 1924. Wtille funds for
the additional mill are available on
liberal terms from "a amall group,”
according to the announcement, all
stockholders arc offered an oppor
tunity to participate in the arrange
ment on the same terms.
In announcing its plans to the
stockholders, the company said:
“The directors of your company
have decided that it is advisable,
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Protege of
Former Kaiser
Dies Under Guard t
NBW FORK, Aug. 31. — Princess
Iwoff Parlaghy, artist and protege
of former Kaiser ’Wilhelm, and who
moved in the ultra select society
circles in Etiro-pe and America, died
in her house here where a Deputy|
Sheriff had been guarding her art’
treasures pledged as collateral for,
judgments against her totaling more
than $200,000.
Seattle-Tacoma Power
Systems Are Connected
SEATTLE, Aug. 31. — A switch)
was thrown last night connecting1
the municipal power systems of Se-|
attle and Tacoma with a tic-up coet-]
lug $176,000. This makes one sys
tem of 800,000 horsepower.
CUBA WATCHING j
CABLE MESSAGES
NEW YORK, Aur. 31.—The Com- 1
merclal Cable Company has received ;
word that no censorship has been .
declared on the cable to Cuba al
though the Cuban Government has
sent men to the cable office to in- ,
epect all Incoming and outgoing
messages. It Is stated observation .
will be limited, however, to mes- ,
sages of “political significance.'*
EDITOR MAKES BIG LOAN
NEW YORK. Aug. 31—Arthur Bris
bane, the Hearst editor, has borrowed
$1,400,000 at 6 per cent to improve
five pieces of real estate which he
owns at the Madison Avenue and
Fiftieth Street section of New York
City.
Report Daugherty Will
Quit Coolidge Cabinet.
The reports will not down in
Washington that Attorney-General
Harry M. Daugherty, of Ohio, la
soon to leave the Coolidgo Cab
inet. Mr. Daugherty was a close
personal fiiend and political men
tor of Mr. Maiding and is said to
have entered the Cabinet only as
a favor to Mr. Harding. His ill
health will probably cause him td
leave the office now that his chief
is dead.
LUMBER FIRMS
ARE OUSTED BY
COURT ORDERS
Court Shutdown of Lumbet
Firms in Missouri Sets
Precedent—Combines
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Aug. 31—
By Associated Press)—Missouri has
icored a complete victory over the
lew form of business combinations
mown as “open price associations," in
i suit brought by Attorney General
[esse W. Barrett against the St.
vouis Lumber Trade Exchange. The
Missouri Supreme Court ousted each
if the nineteen St. Louis lumber com
lanles composing the Exchange, as
lessed fines totaling $96,000 and
>UBted the Exchange itself.
The court sustained the attorney
teneral in holding that the combina
ion violated the State anti-trust
aws, even though it did not directly
ix prices. So far as is known, It Is
he first decision of any State court
>n the points involved and follows
loseiy the decision of the United
states Supreme Court last year in
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INDIANS PLAN TO COMBAT
OLD LECENDS OF SAVAGRY
CHICAGO, Aur. 31—A campaign to
eliminate any existing belief that the
primitive methods of the American
Indian are still employed, will be
started at the pow wow to be held
here September 24-30, which will
bring together the leading members
Of the remaining Indian tribes.
“It is for the purpose of showing
the people of the country that the
American Indian, who has always
been looked upon as a scalp huntinK
tribe, is only a kind, intrepid and
educated brave enjoying life in his
own simple way, that the pow wow
ip planned,” according to Miss Cath
erine Cook, Indian worker establish
ing closer relations between the In
dians and the Department of the
Interior.
"From many Indian reservations ol
the country will come the Indian
braves and squaws, not in their na
five attirement, but in the hablli
meats of civilized people. They wrlll
formulate plana whereby < they can
have better representation and better
conditions. These tribal leaders seek
a relationship with the interior de
partment which will not keep them
inconspicuous , because of their In
ability to deal directly with the de
partment. They desire a method of
procedure which will be one of co
ordination,"
Indian activities, at present wide
spread, will be coalesced here, if th(
plans of the convention are realized
Several Indian teams of I,a Crosst
players will start East several weeks
before the pow wow here, playing ar
elimination series en route. The twc
teams surviving the series will ciast
here for final honors.
One of the forest preserves ad
jacent to Chicago will be name
during the convention. An Indian vil
lage will make Its appearance thereli
during the convention. Indian mu
sic. displays and other exhibitions o
Indian lore will bo held during thi
week.
AMERICAN BAR
SHOULD WATCH
LEGISLATURES
Attention Is Called to Ap
palling Number of Bills
that Become Laws.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. III'. - The
American Bar should give attention
to the “appalling number of bills
which become laws during legisla
tive i-easTona” the committee on
noteworthy changes in statute law
] reported to the American Bar Asso
ciation today. The icport was pre
sented by Joseph P. Chamberlain,
jehrirman of the committee, who
said:
1 "Many of these acts should never
be brought before the legislatures,
but should be settled by the admin
istrative departments interested, or
| submitted to some form cf court of
j claims and finally passed there. The
let. passed at the last se'slon of
; Clr-ngretis permitting the adjust
1 menu of certain classt of claims
I against the United Stale* founded
I on tort, is a step in the direction of
| reducing the number of private bills
j introduced In Congress.
Home Rule Ptinriple.
“An extension of the principle of
home rule would avoid much special
and local legislation, but it will
, l ave to be accompanied by a will
lingnccs of the local authorities to
i accept responsibility. More courage
| on the part of the legislature in re
1 fusing to assume the duty which
properly re-Ts on the local authority,
ind more courage on the part of
j the local authority in taking re
(Contintted on P i/m Twj l
Rhineland Residents
Swat Native
American Mosquitoes
COBLENZ, Auk. 31—The United!
States is ldamed for havinK supplied i
Coblenz and the area about the June :
tion of the Rivers Rhine and Moselle'
with larger mosquitoes than are;
known In any other part of the Ger-j
man Republic.
In the Franco-Prusslan War of 50 j
years ago. Fort Ehrenbreitstein was a
concentration point for French pris
oners and an important cavulry and
artillery center,
Largs numbers of horses and mules >
were kept there, and because of the j
shortage of forage in Germany to I
meet the needs of the animals, great]
quantities of hay were Imported
from the United States. American
mosquitoes were imported in this hay,
according to the old German army of
ficers who were there at that time,
and throve in their new surroundings
However, the American brand of
mosquito has hot wandered far front
his new home and the pests along the
Baltic Coast and throughout the in
terior of Germany still are of a type
so small that they can (liter through
the ordinary mosquito netting.
Body of Harding Is
Placed in Sarcophagus
—
MARION, Aug. 31.—The cat'tet
containing the body of former Presi
dent Harding has been placed In an
asphalt sarcophagus weighing 2,600
pounds and then returned to the re
ceiving vault. It will be placed in
a mausoleum which is to be built.
POSTCARD 14 YEARS IN MAILS
PITTSBURGH. Aug. 31—A post
card, mailed from Astoria, Long Isl
and, fourteen ye«rs ago, has Just
reached its destination at Wllinerding,
near here.
The card was mailed by Mrs. Mar
garet Crawford to her brother Jack
son Kerr, and was postmarked “As
torla. March 16, 1909.”
; "Postal authorities said they believe
: the card had slipped into a crevice or
some other nook at Astoria, and when
j found recently by a clerk was sent to
Wilmerding.
| ITALIANS BUILD AIR FLIVVER
WITH TINY 3 H. P. ENGINE
ROME. Aug. 31—The small air
plane Is claiming the Interested at
I tentlon of aviators In Italy, who are
experimenting In this field as are air
•! colleagues in England. France and
j the United States.
Italian airmen have produced the
“Swallow.” said to be the smallest
plane In the world, with an engine of
' three horse power. So pleased are
i they that 100 machines are in course
of construction.
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Statesmen Gather to Review
Work of League of Nations
Shoulder Stoop Is Cause
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of Old Age Says Doctor
Nicholas Murray Butler
May Be Candidate.
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With the return from Europe of
I)r. Nicholas Murray Butler, Presi
dent of Columbia University, New
York City, who has been lecturing
before foreign student bodies, It
was reported he would again east
his bat into the ring for the Re
publican Presidential nomination
in 1924.
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CANADIAN PACIFIC
TO GET NEW ROAD
WINNIPEG, Auk. 31. — Negotia-,
timm are virtually completed for!
the C. P. R. to take over the op- j
oration of the Pacific Great Eastern'
of British Columbia, the Winnipeg i
Free Press says It learns from nuth- >
nritative sources. The Minister of: t
Mines and Railways for British Co- t
lumbia and the management of the f
C. P. R. have been conductinK nego-'i
ilations for some weeks in connec-ll
tlon with tile deal and it Is ex-j c
pected it will he completed in a few e
days.
The purpose of the C. P. R. In; ^
taking over t he line is to gain'
control of the traffic from the Peace
River district. Whether the road
will be purchased outright or leased
is not definitely known. d
AUSTRIA TO HAVE RADIO.
LONDON, Aug. 31. — A wireless 1
telegraph company, the capital of '
which was subscribed by the Mar- f
coni Wireless Telegraph Company 4
of laindon and the Austrian Gov- 4
arnment, has been organized in Aus- 4
Iria and will begin the erection of 1
stations there at once.
The company has been granted (
exclusive rights to conduct wireless k
traffic between Austria and other
countries for a period of thirty
years. Operation will start early I
next year.
FAR NORTH ELECTRIC ROAD >
OPENS VAST IRON HELDS '
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STOCKHOI.M, Aug. 31.—The elcc-.
triflcation of the moat northerly 1
railroad in the world has Just beon ]
completed and inaugurated. This r
electric railway itaa a length of 285 i <
miles, and is the second longest j1
In the world, being surpassed only 11
by an elecriflrd stretch of the Chi- (
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Itail-jt
road In the United States. .1
The Swedish rohd links the iron,!
ore mining districts of latppland j
with the Svartoen and Narvik ports
In tjie North, and. hefore being
completely electrified. had carried
76,000,000 tons of iron ore valued
at nearly \$260,000.000.
AMERICAN MONEY IN EUROPE
NEW YORK, Aug. 31—It is esti
mated that there are 1500,000.000 in
American currency In circulation in
Europe, mostly in Germany, and the
volume is growing rapidly.
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PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 31—Dr. Peter
MacDonald startled the British Meili
, al Association ( {inference here by
stating that a stoop of the shoulders
causes old age—a direct inversion of
the popular theory.
He said tlmt by following the ad
vice of a layman he throw a score
of years from his shoulders.
"I was feeling old and decrepit,”
explained Dr. MacDonald, ‘'When 1
picked up a book, published tiv this
layman, from a bookstall. 1 was
tlu-n a prematurely aged man.
"I saw the author, and he told me
that I was old simply because I
stooped. Under the treatment hi
aid down I threw off my stoop, and
n a few weeks I became a different
man."
Dr. MacDonald la an upright,
spruce looking man, with an eyeglass
and when he stretched himself to his
full height and carefully adjusted his
monocle he looked barely thirty
years of age.
“We doctors." he said, "are too pre
judiced against laymen who make a
study of a certain subject, and often
'earn more than we do, despite all our
knowledge of medicine and surgery.
"We have accepted the id^a that
the stoop of the shoulders and the
bpud of the neck are inevitably link
ed up with old age.
"I know it will sound unorthodox
to you all to suggest that old uge is
brought on by this stoop of the
shoulders, but 1 have been convinced
that It is so; the stance of the body
seems to be bound up with the period
one can live, and if every man would
hold himself upright he would live
many years longer.”
HUMPBACK RUN
SLACKENS UP
BELLINGHAM. Aug. 31. — The
Pacific American Fisheries Company
i oport a slackening In the humpback
run. Canneries are still running
to full blast. It Is auggeited that
flshei men may be he lciijyt buck for
belter prices. During the past week
prices dropped from 24 cents to 10
cents a fish owing to the phenom
enal run.
LEADERS THINK WEST
AGAINST NEW ENGLAND;
BOSTON, Aug. 31 A Washington
dispatch to the Boston News Bureau
says Republican leaders are inclined
to believe that the West will not ac
cept the concentration of political
power in the New England States
which has been increased by the
succession of Mr. Coolhlge as Presi
dent, a situation which must be over
come If President Coolhlge is to re
celve the Republican nomination next
year.
SWEDEN TO LICENSE
ALL RADIO RECEIVERS
STOCKHOLM, Aug 31—Radio
phone sending stations in Sweden
are to be owned and supervised by
I ho Stato, while receiving sets may
be installed and operated by vir
tually any person who goes through
tho fomallty of obtaining a licence.
This Is indicated by the request
which the Swedish government has
Just made to the Department of
Telegraphs to submit formal appll
catoin for the right to establish
radiophone broadcasting service. The
request also Invites further proposal
of plans and requires the department
to consult with the proper military
authorities, as well as with the
Meteorological Institute.
DECLARE CROPS MUST BE
SAVED FROM DISTILLERS
BERLIN, Aug. 31—Herman profes
sors of hygiene have criticized the
Increase of alcoholism In Germany in
a memorial addressed to the various
governments urging that further steps
be taken to conserve the national
foodstuffs now used in making liquor,
and to protect public health against
the increasing consumption of alco
bol.
i GENEVA, Aug. 31—(By Associated
Priss)—The fourth general assembly
of the League of Nations will be
I called to order Monday morning,
J Sept. 3, by Viscount Ishil, former
I Japanese ambassador at Washing
ton and now ambassador to France.
The forthcoming meeting is regard
'd with great international interest.
Pile League has passed through Its
most active, year of endeavor, and
numerous are the questions which
will tome up for discussion by the
representatives of the 62 nations
affiliated with the Geneva organize
(Ion. it Is regarded as certain that
Ireland will apply for membership;
Turkey and one of two other states
may do likewise.
The assembly will bring together
many of the world's foremost states
men, including General Smuts, the
celebrated leader of the South Afri
can Republic; Lord Robert Cedi; Dr.
F. Nansen, for many years promtent
in European relief work: former Pre
mler Ilranting, of Sweden; Foreign
Minister Benes, of Czechoslovakia;
representatives of the British over
seas dominions, und spokesmen of
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Ex-Congressman Slemp
Is Coolidge’s Secretary.
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Tlie first, official appointment
made by President Coolldge was
thut of ex-Congressman C. Bas
coui Slemp. of Virginia, to bo
Ills private secretary, the appoint
ment to become effective after
Labor Bay. Mr. Slemp, a resi
dent of Big Stone Gap, Va., Is
53 years old and a wealthy bache
lor. For years he was Virginia's
only Republican Congressman.
PANAMA CANAL
BUSINESS GOOD
WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. — More
than 20,000 vessels carrying 84,
000,000 tons and paying tolls of
more than $78,500,000 passed
through the Panama Canal in the
nine years of operation ending
August 14.
Figures of last year show that ;
4,272 vessels passed through tliel
canal paying $18,975,000 in tolls, j
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OTTAWA, Aug. 31- The Canadian j
Government has appointed a commis
sion to Inquire Into Canada's pulp-1
wood supply and make recommends-1
tlons for its conservation. I
GIRL CLERKS III BRITAIN
POORLY PAID, ASK RAISE
LONDON, Aug 31—Olrl clerks In
American offices who bemoan the
| slimness of fifteen and twenty dollar
' a week are considered lucky by their
! poorer paid counterparts in Ktigland.
| There are 3.000 women clerks in
i government offices, some of them
with eight years' erperlence. who re
■ celve less than the equivalent of
$10 a week. They don't like It, blit
they don’t know what to do about
it. for there are still more than
1.000.000 unemployed in England who
stand ready to pounce upon positions
the minute they aru vacated. Most
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of these government clerks aru In the
late twenties, some have passed thir
ty, and among them there are wi
dows with children to support.
The clerks have asked the govern
ment to increase their pay by $2 or
$2.50 a week. Some of the newspapers
are supporting their requests. The
government hasn't said anything yet.
one way or the other Meanwhile, it
is said the girls who cannot make
both ends meet on their salaries are
making up the difference after hours,
by sewing, doing laundry work, and
1 teaching dancing.
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PINGHOT MAKES
PROPOSITION TO
PREVENT STRIKE
Settlement Is Proposed to
! Anthracite Coal Miners
and Operators.
HARRISBURG, Aug:. 31—Gover
nor Pinchot has rubmitted bo the
anthracite mint operators and min
ers a proposal for a settlement in
the strike scheduled for tomorrow.
The proposal is for a 10 per cent
wage increase, recognition of the
eieht hour day without the "check
off” system but with the right to
have union representatives present
when the men are paid.
ITALY DEMANDS
BIG INDEMNITY
FOR 5 MURDERS
Demands Served on Greece
for Assassination of
Italian Mission.
ALBANIA, Aug. 31.—The Italian
Government has demanded that
Greece pay an indemnity of 50,000,
000 lire for the killing of five
members of the Italian Mission to
establish the Grecian • Albanian
boundary line. It is also demanded
that the guilty be punished. An
swer is demanded from Greece
within 24 hours. The members of
the Mission were lulled from am
bush near the border.
GREAT FIRE IS
BEING FOUGHT
OAKLAND, Aug. 31. — Hundreds
oJ tire fighters are attempting to
control the fire of the two great
naptha distillate tanks which has
been burning for over 48 hours In
the Standard Oil tank farm nearby.
The loss is estimated at more than
$500,000 already.
Movie Actor Kirkwood
Is Not Out of Danger
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31.—Doctors
announce that James Kirkwood,
r.iovlo actor, who suffered a frac
tured rktill when thrown from his
horse last Saturday, Is Improving
In every way. It Is probable that
he must remain in bed. however,
for reveral weeks.
Lower Yukon River
Service Near Close
SEATTLE, Aug. 31. — An an
nouncement has been received from
the Alaska Railroad that the last
boat of the season leaves Nenana
for Holy Cross on September 16. The
service will be Inaugurated again
next year as soon as the Ice goes
out In the Yukon River.
Widow of Tin Plate
King Dead in London
LONDON, Aug. 31. — Princess
Anastasia, of Greece, widow of Will
iam Leeds, tin plate king, has passed
away. It was announced several
days go that no hope was held out
for her recovery as the result ot
Intestlonal affliction.