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j JSILL , INTRODUCED IN BOTH
. DULSES AUTHORIZING SALE
OF CABLE SYSTEM.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—A bill
i.ssa. introduced Saturday in both
of Congress proposing the
sa.e hi the Alaska cable system. The
Hoover administration is favoring
..he move, and it is understood would
be.,pleased to see the bill passed at
this . session, which appears highly
improbable. No indications are given
in the bill as to the identity of the
, , would-be purchaser, but in all proba
bility it is either the Western Union
or Postal Telegraph System.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — The
House military committee has taken
no ad ion o nthe bill authorizing the
sale of the Alaska Cable and Tele
graph System, and no other session
of the committee is scheduled for
this session. The bill provides for
the sale of the system to the highest
responsible bidder, and was intro
duced at the request of the War De
partment.
SUPREME COURT HEARS
ARGUMENTS ON RULING OF
JUDGE CLARK, NEW JERSE\
WASHINGTON. — The constitu
tionality of prohibition is still in the
hands of the Supreme Court, which
is expected to hand down within a
few weeks a decision on the Clark
ru.ing that prohibition was illegally
ratified.
The C.ark decision was recently at
tacked before the court by Solicitor
General i hatcher, who argued that a
decision has already been made by
the court. Thatcher took half an
hour to enlarge on his view that the
court has already covered the point
that it was within the discretion of
<• Congress to decide the mode of rati
fication.
Julius Cohen and Seldon Bacon,
New York attorneys, maintained it
is mandatory that a proposed consti
tutional amendment subjecting indi
vidual rights to federal control be
ratified by State conventions.
Cohen and Bacon argued that the
.ibertles of the people are at stake.
They said if legislatures could legal
ly abrogate the constitutional rights
of the people then government will
became a despotic oligarchy.
they mace frequent references to
John Marshall and James Madison on
the scope of the Constitution, and
rights of the states and people. Mad
ison and Marshall held methods sim
i ar to those us.d in adopting prohi
tiun are improper and illegal.
. BLAST FATAL TO 28 ENG
LISH COAL MINERS
WHITEHAVEN, Eng. — Twenty
. eight coal miners were killed in an
i explosion which buried them in the
. Haig pit.
Sixteen bodies have been recovered
and the others located.
Twenty-five miners were brought
, out alive, but twenty of them are in
serious condition.
The death toll would probably have
totaled more if miners on the fringe
* of the explosion had not turned back
. and been rescued. The cause of the
l. blast has not been determined.
Death Takts
T. A. Parsons
rASSES AWAY AT WHITEHORSE,
Y. T., FROM A SUDDEN
HEART ATTACK.
That T. A. (Ernie) Parsons, big
.'artor in Northern CommerriaL Com
any affairs and superintendent of
*‘a.!,a stations of that company, had
“ei suddenly at Whitehosse, was the
sud news contained in a telegram to
Ol.ver Anderson, N. C. Co. manager
at McGrath on February 20. This
telegram, very brief, stated only the
.act of Mr. Parson’s death and that
iOiiiains woh.d be shipped to Seattle
for bdrial.
Later news received here stated
that death was cadsed by a sudden
heart attack.
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A • A A. A AAA uw iifcJ u*
as he was best known to his many
friends and acqdaintanes throhghoht
.he North—was born in Rochester,
Mich., and was about 55 years of age
at the time of his passing. As a
young man, he went to Dawson in
the early days of that camp, became
connected with the old A. C. Co, and
also took a hand at mining. Arriv
ing at Fairbanks in the early days of
that cur p, he engaged in two mer
chandising ventures, his last being
on C.eary creek. Disposing of his
C.eary creek store, he berame assoV
ciated with the Northern Commercial^
Company, later serving as manager
of stations at Eetties, Circle, Ruby
and Nenana. While serving as man
ager of the station at Nenana he
was appointed traveling auditor, and
ihen superintendent of all Alaska
stations of the N. C. Co.
Loyal to the utmost to his friends,
honorable, fair and just in his every
transaction, news of the death of
Lrnie Parsons will be rece.ved with
1 egret by all who knew him in many
oeetions of Alaska.
Mr. Parsons is survived by a wife
and four children. Mrs. l a a id
a son and daughter are liv.. g a Se
attle, while another son, recently
married, lives in Anchorage and an
other son in Nenana.
FRANK PECK MAN AND
CLO. SETTLES IMPROVING
Frank Beckman, we.l known Tols
.o, mining man, who was taken to
.moorage Hospital some weeks ago
r treatment, is reported as greatly
. *,-i ved, accord, g to Frank Dor
haiiut, wuo arrived h.th his plane
here on Sunday. Mr. Beckman, says
Mr. Dorbaudt, is ceclared by the hos
pital authorities to be suffering from
usu.ma, a .aige part of his trouble
a so being due to overwork. Mr.
pi'obab.y go to e.ther Arizona or
California, where improvement will
be aided by a milder climate.
George Betties, who was so badly
burned by an explosion in a shaft in
| the Poorman section some weeks ago,
and who was also taken to Anchorage
hospital, is also getting along nicely,
says Mr. L-orbandt. The burns on
Mr. Betties’ face were treated with
transplantings from his legs,, an op
eration which was most successful.
\\ ith his head covered with bandages,
zilr. Betties is m st ■•heerful and he
hopes to return to Poorman within a
few weeks.
a number of years. He returned to
McGrath, on his way to Candle, on
Sunday.
Sureme Court ;
Okays . 18tfr
Amendment
WASHINGTON, Feb...2b-rdtteverfi
.1 g 1 fc^cral Judge William Clark of
New Jersey, the United States- Su
preme Court Tuesday handed down
its decision that the . Eighteenth
Amendment is valid.
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. iOAirSON RENOMINATED
FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO
CJICAGO, Feb. 25.—-Mayor Thomp
i, Republican, was renominated at
Tuesday’s primaries for the fourth
time.
A. J. Cermak was winner for the
1 .en.o.ratlc nomination.
Alaska’s
Reindeer
PLANS FOR STABILIZING INDUS
TRY HEARD BY INTERIOR
DEPT. COMMTTEE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Plans
constructive organization of the rein
aeer industry of Alaska on a co-op-;
orative marketing basis were outlined
-j the Interior Department reindeer
comm.ttee today by Leonard B. Bald
w.n of New York City, one of the
backers of the Lomen reindeer cor
poration. 1 he keynote of the plan .is
a measure of local control through
responsible representatives of the na
tives, the corporation furnishing cap
ital for boats, abattoirs and market
ing. I
George B. Goshaw, Alaska fox
farmer and critic of the Lomens,
agreed that the Baldwin plan would
be beneficial :f government supervi
sion is sulhcient and the natives gain
cOi.fideiiCe that their interests are
e ng protected.
FLAT AND IDITAROD
IDITAROD, Feb. 24.-rMrs. Jim
Woods of Shageluk, who was brought
to Fiat for .trial for insanity, was
pronounced not insane by a jury. She
is being returned to Shageluk by
. ames Cummings, temporary mar
shal.
Lei Thompson left for Takotna
j ester cay, traveling with the mail
team.
The landing field in Flat has been
well rolled, and is now being used by
airplanes. The gravel is well covered
with snow.
Larry Applegate is a recent ar
rival in Idiiarod from his camp on
Little Blanche creek. He reports
Charlie Arnold again in good health.
• any I’am her is owner of a new
-og .earn of n:..e white pups of Ches
ter Brink’s fast-stepping breed of
ogs, born yesterday.
i .ra hjr wail attended dance and
card pany was held in Moose Hall
Saturday night.
Aaron Erickson and Carl Olson,
f c-r a visit of a couple of uys here,
io crr.ed to their homes at Ophir un
Tuesday.
Dan McDonell, Candle mining man,
was a last Saturday arrival, coming
up to give attention to business af
fairs. It was his first visit here for
He’s Short
$100,000
MANY IMPOVERISHED BY DE
FALCATIONS OF SEATTLE
BOND BROKER.
SEATTLE,. Feb. 21. —John G.
Price, prominent bond mortgage
broker, long conspicuous for his busi
ness .activities., was today charged
with grar.d larceny in embezzling
funds of clients, mpoverishing many,
including •» ^number of widows and
orphans.
Public Prosecutor Burglund. inti
mates that. Price’s embezzlements
may run-far above one . hundred thou
sand . 41ars.
hKNAIK FE.AIYS 'JfKlC'lS’t'KUtSC.
OF COMMODITIES, SECUBITIKS
WASHINGTON.—A-proposal for
a general investigation of fluctua
tions in commodity and security
prices is pending in the Senate, .vhieh
previously ordered p. probe of bread,
sugar and ■’wheat costs.
The broad study of prices will be
conducted by a special civilian ocm
■nittee to be appointed by Vice Pres
cient Curtis. Determination of, the
causes and remedies was proposed in
ihe resolution,' which was introduced
by Senator Steiwer of Oregon.
The meat investigation was added
to the bread and sugar inquiry of
Senator Capper’s committee yester
day. Cupper called a meeting of the
committee today preparatory to hold
ing hearings.
The Steiwer resolution would start
consideration of “all 'factors influenc
ing price relationships and practices
which directly or indirectly depress
prices paid producers- or enhance
prices paid by consumers of food
products, including all practices
which influence Said Delationships by
affecting- credits and. -vaiues of se
curities and -commodities.”
MASQUERADE THOROUGHLY
ENJOYED, WELL ATTENDED
The masquerade dance, at Pioneer
Hall on Saturday night wa<r largely
attended and thoroughly enjoyed 'by
all who attended. Dancipg- continued
until a late hour the following morn
ing, the merry throng even at that
time being reluctant to quit.
Among those in attendance from
McGrath were Mrs. Charles Konig
and little ones, coming up with Nick
Point; Miss Helen Konig, coming up
with Russell Hubbard; Mrs. Oliver
Anderson, coming up with Johnson
Sozov, and Mrs. Anderson boasts of
the fact that the trip up was made in
2 hours and 3 minutes; Miss .Hattie
Konjg, also coming up with Johnson
Sozov; Charlie Ulch, who brought up
H. JE. Williams, MrGrath’s he school
“ma’am;” Miss Avia and Miss Rose
Vanderpocd, who came up with their
brothers "Woodrow and Robert, and
Harry Dulac. All of whom returned
to .MGrath on -Sunday.
U. S. Commissioner Christian Bol
gen was a Saturday arrival from
Ophir on business matters. He was
among those present at the Saturday
night masquerade, returning to Ophir
on Sunday.
Mail Carrier Charlie O’Halloran,
with the ingoing mail, arrived Tues
ay, continuing to Ophir an Wednes
day.
Doings At
Washington
$700,000,000 VETERANS LOAN
BILL PASSES—HOOVER WILL
VETO MEASURE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. — Thr
Senate last night passed the seven
hundred million dollars veterans lean
bill, by a vote of 72 to 12.
It appears certain that Hoover will
veto the bill, and equally certain that
both houses will then pass it over his
i veto.
WASHINGTON, Feh. 2L—Presi
dent Hoover sent word to loaders of
I both houses today that ‘he will return
I the veterans loan bill to Congress
I next week with his veto. Sponsors
of the measure confidently prediet
i that it will be passed over hia veto,
—
WASHINGTON, Feb. -21. — The.
Senate, today received a masp of doc
uments, data ■ and testimony on the
subject of Liquor . control from the
\Vickersham commission. Much of
! the secret testimony includes the
views of .Treasurer Mellon, Attorney
General Mitchell and other officials*
not including submission of testi
mony. Tire submission o.f the docu
ments was made in compliance with
a resolution.adopted by the Senate.
WASHINGTON, - Feb.- 25.—Senator
Davis of Pennsylvania, a member of
the Cabinets of Presidents I Larding,,
Coolidge and Hoover, denied -today
before the Nye Senate lobby investi
gation committee that-he had beat
paid $150,000 for lobby services dur
ing the session when the tarifT was
considered. .Cross-questioned, he ad
mitted owning '$150,000 worth "-flC
stock in one of the allied corpora
tion* of the sugar trust,
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WASHINGTON^ Feb. 25. — Th«
Senate today ratified the treaty be
| tween the United: States and -Great
j Britain looking* to preservation of
halibut fisherie*’in the North Pacific
Aiaskan v»ater*.
MASKED'.MEN LYNCH
. , NORTH DAKOTA SLAYER
SCHAFJ-ER, N. D.—Charles Ban
non, 22 years old, confessed killer of
five .members of the A. E. Haves
family, was lynched by a party of 80
masked men just before daybreak.
Bannon had been arraigned os
murder charges. The lynchers broke
down the jail door, tied the sheriff,,
disarmed a deputy and took Bannon
to a bridge outside the town. A rope
was tied around his neck and he was
pushed off the bridge, dropping 20
feet. -The mob was not bothered.
Bannon’a father, James Bannon, is
also accused of murder.
Young . Bannon . confessed he killed
Mrs. Haven and her four children,
ranging in ages from 3 to 17 years,
and buried their bodies on the Haven
farm. He told neighbors the Havens
had gone to Oregon. The first inti
mation of murder came when young
Bannon was arrested for selling hogs
from the Haven farm.
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Pilot Alonzo Cope of Dorbandt &
Cops, flying a Pacific International
plane, arrived Monday, bringing a
large quantity of freight for these
parts. He returned to Anchorage on
T uesday.
Mail Carrier Charlie Konrg,
the outgoing mail, arrived tpda'"