VOL. II. NO. 60.
MCGRATH, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922,
PRICE 25 CENTS
Harding Addresses Con -
gress on Country’s Fuel
Supplies, Transportation
Says No Body of Men
Should Be Permitted to
Take Course That Im
perils Public Welfare.
Washington, Aug. 18.—Presi
dent Harding is resolved to use
all powers of the Government to
maintain transportation and to
safeguard the public’s fuel de
mands. His declarations to this
effect were high lights in his
speech before the joint session
of Congress today. In his mes
sage he dwelt upon the critical
. situation resulting from the coal
and rail strikes.
Immediate provision for a tem
porary national coal agency,
with the needed capital to pur
i chase, sell and distribute coal
which- Is carried in interstate
shipment, was asked by the
President. He sharply rebuked
the raih?oads for ignoring deci
sions of the Labor Board, but
said the workers’ remedy was
not in seeking to paralyze inter
state commerce. The Pres ent
directly urged the restoration of
seniority rights to the str ng
railroad shopmen. He also a :ed
authority to create a coal < >m
mission to investigate the . es
ent coal situation.
“Government by law must and
will be maintained,” the Presi
dent said, “no matter what
clouds may gather, no matter
what storms may ensue, no nat
ter what hardships may at nd,
or what sacrifices may be n< es
sary.
“Surely the threatening con
ditions must impress Con. ess
and the country,” the President
went on, “that no body of men,
whether limited in number and
responsible for railway manage
ment. or powerful -in numbers
and constituting necessary forces
in railroad operations, shall be
permitted to choose a course
wlpch so imperils the public wel
fare. ”
R. R. STRIKE
SITUATIOI
Carrier Presidents and
Union Chiefs Again
in Conference.
New York, Aug. 17.—Negotia
tions toward peace on railroads
again shifted from Washington
to New York today when the
carrier presidents and union
chiefs assembled for conference,
which marked the fifth attempt
of an outside agency to suggest
an acceptable solution for the
seniority problem.
Washington, Aug. 18.—Presi
dent Harding was told today by
Senator Watson, of Indiana, that
long-distance telephone conver
sations with brotherhood chiefs
and representatives of road ex
ecutives in New. York had dis
• closed that both sides were hope
ful of settlement of the rail strike
at today’s meeting.
Seattle.—Delegates to the conven
tion of veterans of foreign wars visited
the navy yard this afternoon The vis
itors included lit. llev. Joseph M.
Gleason, vicar general of the Catholic
church, chaplains of the army and
navy, and the personal representative
of Archbishop Hayts of New York.
A HP HAM
MILL HAN
Identified as ‘Drowned
Auto Dealer of Bir
mingham, Ala.
Hoquiam, August 17.—J. ( .
i Ellis, working as a mill labor*:
in Hoquiara, was today identifies
by Alabama police authorities as j
Elwell H. Albretton, a wealthy |
automobile dealer of Birming
ha m. Albretton disappeared fro
Birmingham two years ago, t
which time he was supposed to
have been drowned, and his rela
tives are now endeavoring to
collect $105,000 on the fictitious j
death assumption. Ellis, or 1
bretton, was placed under arrest j
and will be returned to Alabama:
immediately.
Three Babies Born On
Strike Trains, Arizona i
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Los Angeles. — Three babies were
born on trains held up by strike near
Seligman, Arlz. Also aboard a Sant i
Fe train was the infant son of Evau
Burrows Fontaine, dancer, who has
begun suit against Cornelius Vander
bilt Whitney in the East.
Nels H. Pearson arrived Friday from
Berry Landing, for a brief visit.
Alexander Bell, In
ventor of Telephone,
Passes On, Aged 8S
Baddeck, Nova Scotia.—Alestandei
Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
and one of the country’s most distin
guished scientists, died here today, a
the age of 85. Death is said to bav'
been caused by progressive anemia.
Flexible Tariff Plan.
Washington. — Tho lexible tarif
plan, proposing authority for the Presi
deut to increase or decrease tariff rate
in the pending bill until July 1st, 1923
was rppi’u -'od tonight by the Senate.
Baseball Magnate for
Commander dn-Chief
of Foreign War Vet*
Seattle—Colonel Tillinghast L. Hus
ton, half owner of the New' Yotl
Yankee American League basebal
club, was elected commander-in-chie
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, to
day. Norfolk, Va., was selected fo
the 1923 encampment.
Prior to adjournment the encamp
ment adopted a resolution protestinj
against the use in public schools o
history text books which have been re
vised in an un-Americau spirit am
which defame or ignore the nation'
founders. _
Russian Forces At
the Polish Frontiei
Warsaw.—The Polish a my . force
are being increased to 300,000, due t<
the presence of Hussian forces on th<
L Ul I5U HUUtltU .
London.—Trotzky, Russian '.var lord
ms crossed the Polish frontier, ez
route to Beriin.
Telegraphic Ticks
Brattleboro, Vt.—Three o vu-> its o
an airplane were burned to d u.h din
ing the dedication of the dele
here. .
San Francisco.— Herbert Taw, 56
millionaire clubman, and Mi Leah L
Miller, were united in mar lum her:
Friday. _
Paris.- Premier Poincaire has or
d i ed the French debt comuii -don tc
return to L’aiis from Wash ugton im
mediately. _
Albuquerque, N. M.—Several bombs
were exploded in the Santa Fe railroad
shopyurds here Friday. No damagt
resulted. _
London.—Reginald Dunn and Joseph
O’dullivau, assassins of Sir U. V. Wil
son, British lield. marshal, were exe
cuted at 8 o clock this morning.
London.—A Calcutta cable -ays tha!
Blake, the British aviator, is ill, and it
may be that he will be forced to aban
don his flight around the world
Washington.—Governor Sproul has
appointed Major D. A. Ared, of Pitts
burgh, to succeed the late William N,
Crow as senator from Pennsylvania.
Shawuboro, Que.—Ten children, a
nan aud a woman were burned to
lea til here today in a fire which de
stroyed the Jewish Boys’ Home here.
Vanceville, Ind.—A bomb was thrown
nto the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
-ailway yards here yesterday. No one
rvas^killed, although there was some
lamage to property.
| Says Government Alert
Regarding Oil, Gas and
Coal Lands of Alaska*
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si Seattle, Aug. 17.— Assurance
’ Ithat the Government is alert tc
prospects of ail, gas and coal
j lands in Alaska, and will foster
| their development and develop
! the other great resources of that
} Territory, was given by Vice
President Galvin Coolldge in his
. public address here today,
c Alaska offers alluring fields
\ for oil explorations and develop
ments, said Frances M. Good
„ win, Assistant Secretary ol! the
Interior, who also is in Seattle
- today. Goodwin agreed that the
' Government railroad in Alaska
for some years must be operated
, principally to stimulate the do -
3 velopment of mining and other
enterprises without profit.
Vice President Coolldge and
J party left fer Washington to
night, traveling over the Cana
I dian Pacific line.
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4 at Seattle, Going 50
Miles an Hour Are
Injured in Crash.
Seattle, Aug', lb.—A high
powered auto, in which four hi
larious policemen—J- red Mills,
G. C. Jensen, J. Davy and Rob
ert Kerner—were jov riding,
crashed into a street car at 7
o’clock this morning, iu which
all the officers were dangerously
injured. The men were off duty
at the time. The car, owned by
Mills, is said to have been going
at a speed of fifty miles an hour
at the time of the crash
Arthur Griffith. Irish
Patriot, Laid to Rest
I _
i Dublin.—Ireland buried another of
I her distinguished sons to; av when Ar
thur Griffith was laid to rest in the
historic Glasnine cemetery, where so
many famous patriots lie.
Funeral Services Held
for Lord Northeliffe
London.—Funeral services for Lord
Northeliffe were held in Westminster
Abbey today. Leading publishers from
ail over England, representatives of
the king and other notables attended
the service.