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VOL. II. NO. 93
McGRATH, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1922,
PRICE 25 CENT &
PREMIERS
ADJOURN
♦ Open Rupture Threat
ened Over German
Reparations.
London, Decv9.-~The premiers
< of Britainj France* Italy and Bel
- gium.met here today to-sketch
i the latest, and perhaps, most im
t portant, chapter in the long
story oft German reparations.
.Details, it is expected, will be
i filled <to at the forthcoming con
ference at Brussels, to which the
• conversations beginning (today
are preliminary.
' London, Dec. ill. — Adjourn
ment of the premiers’ conference
tonight for eight days in-order
to avert an open rupture between
England and France over, the
. question of German reparations
t has been virtually decided-upon.
, ‘Prime.SMinister Bona#.Law* in
i formed ! French* Premier Foin
- caire thatdBritish public opinion
was overwhelmingly opposed to
any military measures against
Germany, tPoincaire hadmade
a demand for the occupation of
the,Rubrr as a guarantee for a
; German moratorium.
London.-^Tbe conference of
allied premiers has broken down,
it being announced at. (i o’clock
> this evening that the premiers
had taken an adjournment until
. January *26. After the confer
ence adjourned. Poincaire said,
“It is finished.”
The conference on January. 2b
will be held id ’Paris.
Poincaire- issued a statement
today, denying the charge ,that
France planned to annex the left
bank of the Rhine.
* ‘Used to Work Here/
Former, Vice President
Tells a Senate Page
Washington. -1- Ex-Vice 1 President
vMarshall visited the Capitol today, but
, was barred from the Senate chamber
by a page.
“Thai’s all riglu, l used to work
here.’’Marshall replied.
The page, however, refused to admit
the former ex-Vice President until
identified.
, Ship Subsidy Bill to
Be Dropped, Predicted
Washington.—The - ship subsidy bill
will be dropped by the Senate in favor
of farm.and neal legislation within a
week, democratic ladies and republican
insurgents claimed today.
John Cameron, Little creek mining
r man, arrived yesterday afternoon on a
hurried business trip, returning in the
i evening to Tacotna.
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Officials Say Fire Was
of Incendiary Origin;
750 Homeless.
—
Astoria, Dpc. tO.— Seven hun
dred and fifty people were ren
dered homeless by the fire which
yesterday wiped out the business
section of this city Relief is
pouring in from many cities.
The cause of the tire, which
broke out in a pool room, is un
known. George J. Smith, a log
ger, committed suicide during
the progress of the fire.
“Astoria, tlie oldest American
city west of the Mississippi, will
rebuild,” said Mayor Bremer.
Astoria, Dec. 10.—State and
city officials today began an in
ves'igiition as to the cause of the
tire, following charges by Mayor
Bremer and Chief ol Police Carl
sen that the tire had been set.
“I am certain that the tire was
incendiary,” said the mayor,
“and I am likewise certain that
radicalism is responsible.”
Bankers announce that seven
million dollars in cash and se
icurities were in the vaults of the
burned banks.
Bombing Planes and
Machine Guns for
Onslaught.
Covington, Ky., Dec. 13.—
Preparations to mass tive hun
dred prohibition agents,equipped
with bombing planes and ma
chine guns, for an onslaught on
the stronghold of Bob Allard’s
band of Menfee county moon
shiners, are being made by the
federal authorities. Two prohi
bition agents have been killed
during the pas' three days in ef
forts to seize the moonshiners.
Homes of Free Staters
Burned in Reprisal
Dublin.—The homes of several Free
officials, including that of toe post
master general, were burned today by
rebelists in reprisal for theTecent exe
cutions of Kory O’Connor and Liam
Mellows at Mount joy prison.
Jack Brandon, after a visit of several
days here, returned Tuesday to Ta
cotna.
Reduce Income Surtax
Rate From 50 to 25 Per
Cent. Says Sec. Mellon
Washington.— Reduction of the max
imum income surtax rate from the
present 50 per cent to not more than 25
per cent, and closing up so far as pos
sible existing avenues of escape from
federal taxes, were urged by Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon in his annual
report, transmitted to Congress today.
Kuskokwim Valley to
Re Opened in Spring,
Says Maj. Gotwals.
Seattle. Dec. 11.—Major J. C
Got.wills, chief engineer of the
Alaska Road Commission, in an
'interview today, announces that
| the valley of the Kuskokwim
! will he opened next spring. This
is to be accomplished through
construction work, now in pro
gress on a road from Kobi, on
' the Government railroad line, to
I McGrath.
I Telegraphic Ticks.
Pricing.- The province o! Shantung
i was restored to China at noon today by
the .Japanese.
Philadelphia. — John VVanamaker,
.la, ionally known merchant, died at
his home here this morning.
Washington.—The ship subsidy bill
was or dered favorably reported to the
Senate by the commerce committee, to
I day. _
j Peking.—Anton Lundeen, American
: missionary, recently kidnapped by ban
dits in fcloDan province, has been re
leased. _
San Francisco.—Keith Smith, Eng
lish airman, is here, planning to fly
around the world in three hundred
hours.
| San Francisco.—The Orteric, a Brit
ish ireighter, tan ashore lit miles north
of here last night, and is reported
to be breaking to pieces. The crew
have been rescued.
I Philadelphia.—Clemenceau stood in
! silence today by the historic liberty
: bell, and then, on invitation, sat in the
John Hancock chair. *T feel deeply
honored,” he retnarKed, as he arose.
| Seaitle—The Alaska Steamship Com
pany today purchased the 4,70U-ton
freighter Delrusa from the U. S. Ship
ping Boat'd. The freighter will he
used in the Alaska trade.
Washington.— Representative Con
nelly declased hi the House today that
American observers at the Lausanne
peace conference had associated them
selves emphatically whenever the
“holy xuestion of oil” was orought up.
Jack Mutehler and Frank Hart were
Sunday triuivals, both leaving Tuesday
for the Porks.
Louis Susan, of Tacotua, was a Mon
day arrival, returning home yesterday.
Mark Inaugural Cere
mony of President
of Poland,
Warsaw, Dec- 12- —Four per
sons were killed and scores of
others wounded today in rioting
that marked the ceremony of the
sweating in of Gabriel Naruto
wicz as president of Poland.
Twenty thousand nationalists
started trouble by pelting, the
new president with, snowballs,
which was followed by acts of
extreme violence and greatest
disorder, in which much shoot
ing was indulged in.
30,620 Acres Patented
in Alaska During 1921
Washington-—During the fiscal sear
ending June 30. according to the report
of the commissioner of the Genera!
Land Office. made public today
30,621.71 acres in Alaska were patented
during the year, divided among lane
joffice districts as follows Fairbanks,
12,121.12 acres: Juneau, 17,804- 27 acres
Nome. 605.21 acres.
Louis Blackburn, after an absence o:
several months at the workings of
Blackburn, -Eld ridge cv Goebel on Hid
den creek, was a late Saturday arrival
Story of New Y ork Pub
lication Creates a
Sensation.
Now York, Dec. 11. —The Ma
rine Nows, a reliable publication,
created .a sensation today when
it announced / hat marvy wooden
ships and a_va^t cuantTity cf en
gines and other equipment which
the United States Shipping
Board had been selling at the
rate of three cents on the dollar,
ostensibly to American concerns,
were transferred to Berliu cap
italists and are being used in
building up the German mer
chant marine.
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Gen. Leonard Wood to
Keep Philippine Post
Washington.—Gen. Leonard Wood
has resigned the office of provost of the
University of Pennsylvania, the duties
of which he was to assume on January
1, in order that he might "comply with
the expressed wishes of the adminis'
iration” that he remain as gov^rno*
general of the Philippine*;