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HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE e — A —————— JUNEAUV ALASKA SATURDAY DECEMBER 11, 1926. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS OlL SGANDAL EVIDENCE GOMPLETE WORK REPORTS |V jtuskened AGRICULTURE 'z s IBCLIQUR *, ... TJURY TO HAVE Invite Fraszier BUSINESS;ASKS . ©» - IS IMPROVING > IS NOT AGED &5."5 ., f, 0IL CASE NEXT SEATTLE, Dec. 11.—A man awak 38, Dec F 0 R N 0 M U N E Y ened R. V. Jewett, aged 1 miner, SAYS JARDlNE mee McPherson's expensive car was - . and demanded $1,500 which Jewett stolen and found stripped of @ 38~ s Mot s 2 ¥ . i WASHIN ON, Dec 11 The | | drew from the bank at Seward, Ala: |sorics. Mrs. McPherson said *Prob- Distillex 3 Gives Out SCCICIS‘ | Republican Committee on Com- | P | ka. Jewett refused and shouted. The TR ably (he car was stolen (o obtain and Shows How Prov- | mittees has reed to invite | | man hit him on the head with a finger prin United S iator Lynn J | | Annual Accounting of l“tcr_%\\‘ronrh which was found in the room. |O€cretary Notes Moderate W T ince Laws Evaded. Gl A el dnL iy ] Rex Allen and Jack Kinsey have veen | Change for Better—Tar- NV ANCOUVISH, B, G Dot 11fiued| | 5o ot vesiiine hig placo in thia | | All IEvidence Is ‘Submitted== ior Department Is Made |juited. Jewett was sent o the hos ; e e e e i e e S L B B R S Statement of Facts pital. iff and the Farmer. "‘l "“ ‘m"“l ”“('r" 'l‘;ll‘;"idnd:jll Committees as a regular. | ormer Secretary Not — £ concern, tolc e ) m- | 3 _flo a ™ S . i o1 0] om [0 Te&llfy B2 ‘ lx|.<|.~|n||‘ it ships unaged liquor from - - WASHINGTON. Dec. 1A bird's- | Further moderate improvement in {na and it is brought back for con- AN G D e .-,\:-v\[-wwl u|f _!um!lm;: hm;ru_n' Depart the aiioultital . 'situation. as & sumption here or for smuggling mw‘\ l;mun of evidence in (h;- nlll tl‘;m]o of ment activities that reach into many ¢ 5 Ras fis nE 5 “ the United States > expla he government iinst 19, L. Doheny Pl BRGS0 EscuRTED UUT whole hus taken place during the| TOKIO. Japan, Dee. 11,—Two thon-|the Unite : He explained ' [¥g [ L 1 k Lot . and former S of Interior A ast vear according to the annual{gung homes were destroyed last night first, that domestic liquor, less m.n” € ¢ ) 0] ::,[,..;h:,“f,,”,'.:”,'_, :,‘,( i “{';I.k”" A report made today to Congress bY|hy fire at Namazu, Shisuoka Prefec-| WO Vears old, camnot be sold in Bri- vlln: l:in»l "\”\mp\il‘:; 'Im»“\.»[mp:‘x‘::";:‘ e e B ] : Secretary of Agriculture William|ture, Ten persons are known (o ;‘““ olumbla, but when taken lo a {ite middle of ne%t WkE. el countings of modern times in whicn|State Official Handled M»fl"-”;""‘ Cithi Jon gt have| have been burned to death and 7oy @reIER ROM and roturned hev i Late yesterday, Postmaster General Ak i o A . suffered reverses, notably the cotton|are estimated as homeless. The logs| 00 i e law; Se . 5 W RnRGE ,l. ‘.r;.m;::'”.rx'rn;[ : ml:u]li vfl.hlx‘ :'lrx]):l:.‘ Roughlv Trymg to Make States, whose principal crop, pro-lis placed at 5000000 yen. The town | M it British Columbia liquor was ';\‘“‘ “é.,\ .;:‘..“..1 two character wit- AEREHEDIBHIE VARG 10 CODRIIMORS | ! - e el to be loaded here for the Unite EugEsts lors e was doing, and asked for nothing Hartley Speech duced in exceptional abundance, is/hall, Post Office and Police station | g ¢ SRENE Tty whita ,}'_',f'l; [ Counsel for Doheny reopened his The 104 printed pages formed .| selling at very low prices. Parts of | were among the buildings burned. 4 e { Rolhi s auharb e ket el e case (o present McCormick’'s testi- handbook of facts and figures des-| ELLENSBURG, Wash, Dec. 11— fthe spring-wheat States have har- B Tallaliai URG : S e e T e PANE o . |mony, after the detense rested. Mec- criptive of Departmental interests | Martin J. Flyzik, State Supervi ed a poor crop. Generally P bk e e e ot 3| Former Premier, Whose Life|cormick saia: “1 know no man who ranging from the conduct of many-jof Safety and former District O i however, the position of a 2 . | f bia in transit and tax free. as -1l ) ha higher reputation for honesty, million-dollar reclamation projects to| izer for the United Mine Workers. |culture 4s better now than it il R R Was Th““"‘g One, Dies rity and patriotism.” He safd he the number of Portuguese admitted | was knocked down rted | been in any r since 1920. Live- mn Belgrade had known Doheny for a quarter of during the year to the Govermental | from the Central Labor Council Hall|stock raisers, dairymen, and winter-| — la century lospital at Kalihi, Hawaii at Roslyn last night when he tried (0| wheat growers have ned good re-| > | | HUP GIVES » g |” Fall is not to take the stand In view of the fact that Congress|make a speech in favor of Gov. Hart-|tyrns, and underlying conditions in| i | i Attorney Roberts read letters from already is occupied with a continuing [ley. The meeting was called to hear|the Corn Belt have improved. The o | 4 & Admiral Robison to Congressman Sin- reclamation program, that subject | William Short, President of the State|year, in short, has been similar to| SEATTLI, Dee. 13— after ||i||r-| PAT AND RAP i 3 nott and Senator Harreld in which was given barely one-one hundreth | Labor Council. and Robert Harlin, of | he Tast few years in that it has|year suit which went into four courts | s Fhe was unable to say when naval re- of the space of the whole report.|Seattle, former United Mine Workers|sean marked but not wuniform im-| Bater Bedgisoff, former Alaskan, has ' i 4 G % [serves had heen leased. The Admir- ven this w devoted entirely |‘<]iK£ri"l Pr -x(lvnl provement in agricultural condi-|been awarded $12,000 in the Federal AN " {al also wrote to the late Congress- a tabloid recital that the Reclamation| Flyzik ] .uul many shouted | gjon Court, to be id by the American / man P. H. Kelly, and this was read, Pureau had made ("l'l'lalin surveys ‘!hrnw him nlll A miner and Fly- “Stuce the depression period or | Express Company. 3 . Robison stated he was committed to and carried out certain ('unslru‘ll‘n;zlk clashed and Flyzik fell to thel 169091 every agricultural section| Bedgisoff gave $9,862 to the com- k L 5 5 | no policy on leasing land only where authorized by Congress, had provided | floor. g e i i pany in 1917 to be placed in Ru g0 P drain of naval oil ¢ y M 2 I ¢ . of the country and every important b 4 t % ; : detag al oil through private complete irrigation for 1,802,970 a -x.ul It is :|1|||m||||w: that over S0Road]CLALES SORILY. SELICEEH) | banks and the Bolshevists seized it Ca!hoh& Plelate Ddle)llldbdes e . [wells mado offset operations deir- and partial water supply to }.310.[lyn miners signed the all petition. | *T4T L ! acel podgisoff decided not to return to ing Generation—Pleads : % ] able. 000 acres, operated more than 100 progress. Recovery las mot been g : L Russia and the Express Company | : ; N i dams and 16,000 miles of canals, and uninterrupted; nor, as I have indi-| T eyany | Circumstances. ; : o, T | ! 3 vainly attempted to regain the | 3 John May, now S Sec- built 431 bridges, 416 culverts, and cated, have all groups of producersp ..., Aiorneys reached a settle- b 25 ; 4 ’ retary of Nuvv v:;.lr:‘::ry‘;:m::: %8, filtes: shared in it equally. Nevertheless, |y oni“tor 85000 loss than the prinei.] NEW YORK, Dec. 11.——The Flam: : 3 4 the gain has been substantial. For| . wiih 7 ner cont interost ing Flapper,” the much criticized A k Pension Statistics H the crop year 1925-26 the net in- N, s i TR modern young woman found today g The scarcely less conspicuons Bu- U s |NcREAsE come of the agricultural industry sympathetic defender in Bishop Johnit 9 i yoau of Pensions recited ils_ accom- M s unit i estimated at_sbout, Ormiston— Arzives in Dunn, viar-genapal of o Ootne, ' - ctagy of Navy plishments in three-quarters of & & $2,757.000,000, or 4 per cent more| ¢ Diocese of Ne the ledsing busine: tioult add involvel. ft. i tull of page. It paid during the year $207, b T o tor the oray yhar 108425, In Chicago in Custody|ing on the follies and the trailties of 841,318 in pensions, and received ans | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., bec. 11.- Ll & Y | g the younger generation, the Bisho : classitiod 12,804 Civil War and 38.|Thé. Committes on Race Relations|ilie mame period the nel return om) i Ll A \ dynamite. I do not want to have . 2y s cevorted vesterday there were o¢|the value of the capital invested in; CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—The Iferald |84 Y anything to do with it.” 437 Spanish War pension claims reported yesterday there were 27 . The idea that the youth of ‘thi il - ey 2 'nchings. y Y a = agriculture was about 4.6 per cent,!and Examiner announces that a rep- Lopucal TR AR s > of this required the mailing out of|lvnchings, nine more than last year, & . 1 By e i ol | country is going wrong 18 ridiculous. 5,311,105 separate checks. up to November 15, this y in the|compared with 1 per cent in the re sentative of that newspaper .n!d |'Miey aRe inot. Had .ab HEart Al The Alaskan railroad reported on|United States. The report says this|Crop year and only 0.6 x»x-n'llx:{llls- officer arrived |91‘N‘ last night j"“‘* h;'-:n-rl'u The ‘lmr(l m-‘vr-r put naval reserve crude oil, Denby stated incroase. I earnings refloeting the | Tepresents the severest setback since | cent in the crop year 1920-21. WAL Een o G Ol by {an cmbargo on pleasure. It is only ithat the use of ofl' s only aVgil growth of the Territory’s manifold| 1922 and a plea for a lynchless land Emerge from Depression | duupss - SIgEe | the extreme that must be condemned.| BELGRADE, Dec. 11.—Former Pre.|terfuge.” Fall was quoted as saying industries. The Governor of IlawaiijSeems farther from ization than| “It will be convenient to glance] OAKLAND, Dec. 11.—Mrs. Kim-| 550 S b B0 T omes | mier of Jugoslavia, Nikola P. Patch.|!0 Robison that “it we don't get oil recorded “normal and gratifying pro-|#ny year since that time. briefly at the present situation in{ball announces she is going to seef SN GO H TN pC T iteh, died here yesterday. jout of Klk Hills in three months gress” in the territorial economic anid — > ——— regard to the leading crops against|Ormiston when he comes to Los An-| Htion.: ¥ et there will not be any left.” # £ e . ki e del o ake ) ke kol sibil;. ox-Plomior Robison testified last week that gocial matters. The various and o o the background of the depres xun‘ktlow ‘uul make him admit she is Home Barriers Down Nikola Patchitch, ex-Premier and]| P a widely scattered hospitals and| Nobile Cannot Talk in period from which we are emer, 5 no' Miss X wIhere has heen & great breaking |former Minister of Foreign Affairs|Buch statements were absurd. b i i 3 . 0 a o —_— — ¥ " { i avis a 3 p i T . cnea] schools under the wing of the nm-‘ Engllsh; Suit Results| Winter- wlu.ll‘p,umlsx'; have yh. o Pri i :—]" | down of the home barriers on uu-:f:]l"-‘l;u;ufild\llxfl-' at 1”"': “\’1".. ';f] h--; jor Department ;.u] nm‘ml e ik od umlr lln‘u]kind“c.n v\::‘ exce (n:‘ rince of Wales to [part of the parents. - Home, s wo|eloction to the PRl el ment, and submitted exhaustive sti s S o8 i icrop of high quality heat is no . \ understand it, doesn’t exist anymore, |that country was a Serbian states- tistical data to prove it. | DAVENPORT, Dee. 11 The Amer- selling at as high a price this year, VlSlt Ca.nada m JlllY‘ : i i ';mun with a long and tempestuous Concerning Robison’s plan to pay for the Pearl Harbor project with i i h v 8 8 @ e i1 ace. jcan Business Club of Davenport Now it is simply a sleeping pla I — i r ; ; ; S e lag it was at this time last year. The parents themselves have set|bolitical career, | General Land Office which sponsired Commander Nobilesty o (B0 S o States, | OTTAWA, Dec. 11.—Governor Gen- i '"" e 4 Tlie was born in 1848 and educated So the report ran through the in-flecture last Monday night, has sued | G S0P C g B 200 BT G0 G Cleral Wellingdon, at the opening of | uly is difficult now to distinguish|at the Polytechnic School in h, timate contacts of the General Land|the Lee Kendrick Company, of New G . 5 SN v'I]n- Sixteenth Parliament, :nmuunu-.l‘”_l f Bow The girls bob their| Switzerland. His public life ” Office, which did an eleven-million| York City, Nobile's booking agency,|d70UBNL. there s distress. Spring .. p/5yc of Wales | PR R L LSRG L il " g g 4 b NG k 8 HEENCY.| Uy oat was practically a faflure in|the Prince of Wales h pted an| oo fike the boy's affect the boyish|bunctuated with (wo death sentences dollar business; the Indian Office,| for $1.800. The Club charges mi b b Kbt ey tral| IDVitation to attend Canada’s figure and do everythi possible|and several exiles, as a result of whose ministrations to the Red Man | represcntation as Nobile is unable to |Much of South Dakota and centrall . ;"5 hiee of the Confed I i ihia ; . adlo : . ¥ i 5 ¢ which he became an extreme radical included the tion of new schools|talk in English and « in the audi- | NoTth Dakota. Indeed, all crops .o : to break the e line of demarcation n Ak s ta inglish and none in the audi- | D - next July habwhan e Lhe KERAR At the time of his Qeath, howeve SRARTEE and hospitals, and the improvement|enco could understand him suffered there. A great deal of the; T L e SEA LE, Dec. 11.—A low pres- \ Siim ar " P Golden Calf Anti-Climax Pachitch was known as one of the aren follow of the old ones; the Geological Sur- area seeded was not harvested. Busi- A SohLervative Btatnng _ sure area followed by a high wind, vey, which mapped the structure of ness conditions have naturally been Japanese Empe"’" This Is not wuecessarily immod-|most conservative statesmen in thel i oywouping cold from the Yukon il i A 2 AR s st h . but it constitutes a loss of that|Balkans. ; s 5 the earth in forty-three States, locat-| Fire Causes Panic affected adversely. In northern and Is c"nca“y "I {fomininity which man, deep i his e was, snccessively, Mayor of por. 410 Aluska down across the Prairie ed the point of origin of the Montana| . castern North Dakota, however, the ity Jees Bt fe ) " |Proviuces and moving toward the carthquake, and picked up the traill In Theatre in Rome| i\ ation is much better. The Moun-| ToKyo, Dee. 11 Six oxygen ,“""l" anis, Moaisduiss iy mon Biace: BEICHE o M e Miavant wd Ntk LT T of valuable potash deposits in Texas SR, taln States, particularly Montana,|tanks have heen installed in Emperor | Mg ot wOm L vt | Minister to Russia when, in 15y, Weather Observer Summers learned and New Mexico; and the National[ Rome. Dec. 11—One thousand per-|yave made good progress this year|Kochihito's room. He is il of bron-| o Ba0rt SErts B e k| the attempt was made to assassinato| thal the mercury fell 32 degrees Park Service, host during the year|Sons became panic stricken when aijy"tocovery from the effects of the|chial pnewmonia, Empress Radako| Dm0t o o iimax ot tne |King Milan In the streets of the In Fairbanks in 12 hours registering to a record national park tourist|fiTe swept a theatre last night in the | qop ocgion. It may be said, indeed,!is at his bedside. His pulse is weak | “ollan. calt. oid bas cotie " "I Serbian capital. Patchitch was placed |12 degrees below zero. horde numbering 1,930,865 ; :]::Ldul: ""_:‘r‘l"";“:’lf’('l"’"“‘“""" Four act-} yyap over the greater part of the|and heart stimulants are used. e o e on trial as one of a number of con-| A 65-mile an hour hour wind in A resume of many conferences, | d g wheat States conditions have been —————— Testi spirators responsible for the attempt, the Wenatchee Valley has damaged estifies Col. Green studies and investigations was con- LT e good for three years. In 1924 our|Seattle’s Milk War on the King's life. He sentenced apples in the orchards. tained in the section devoted to the wheat farmers produced 863,000,- Did Clrry Away Liquor‘m prison but afterward pardoned Freezing weather is promised in Bureau of Kducation. ~Among other Senate Orders Probe 1000 busbels, and for what they sold Is to End Sunday i Fails to Form Ministry 5 things, this Bureau distributed 325 Shipping Board Salesthey received an average price of| 5 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11.—Mrs.| In 1902 King Alexander-asked him | - 000 coples of a pamphlet entitled |$1.28 o bushel. In 1925, with a| SEATTLE Dec. 11.—The milk war|pigrence Flanagan, secretary of Col.|to form @ ministry but he failed in Witnesses Subpoenaed “The Story of the Declaration of In-| \WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. — The|crop of only 669,000,000 bushels,| Which started on October 12 ends|Neq Green, now on trial for embez- i the task. After the assassination of | P dependence,” and cooperated With|goyate has unanimously ordered an|the average price received for wheat|l0morow and the price of a quart of| ,jing government liquor while Prohi-|Alexander and his consort, Queen: For Seattle Grand Jury many educational insittutions and|j;quiry into the proposed Shipping|sbid by farmers was $1.46 a bushel. | M1k delivered. which was cut to 10} pitjon Administrator, testified that|Draga. Patchitch became Minister of | teachers and parents societies in the|po, 0 s of the United States lines|This year high yields in many|C°h!s from 13 cents, goes to 12 cents.|ywice she saw Green take liquor | Foreign Affairs in the Gruitch cab-| EVERETT, Wash, Dec. 11.—Pro- promotion of knowledge. The AI‘""‘aml the American merchant lines!States will compensate most farmers |jg— & @|from the safe in Prohibition head-{inct. Subsequently he was also P (hibition agents are serving sub- kan reindeer herd, which was assem-{,, 4 o.jereq the Board withhold ac-|for the drop in the price. quarters. Green asked for the safe! mier during (he reign ot King Peter |poenas and checking up Snohomish bled years ago by agents of this|i W e o0 yonncon of € Corn Belt C dm key and she opened it. He took out and occupied this position when the|County witnesses for the Federal Bureau end which incidentally DUt|e, 5 gy roquced the resolution. i e Gt BTt Sonitions: hio a bottle of cocktalls. He asked her|worfd war broke out {Grand Jury which opens In Seattle the Bureau also into the shipping aaw saiiaiilike St earabls thas | to wrap it up. “I put the cocktails! In 1908 the annexation of Bosnia|next Tuesday. Bootleggers and business, came in for a paragraph. )H P T they have been for several years. in a big government envelope and|and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary moonshiners arrested have been ar- Reindeer Industry ouse §-hashs wo. . There is a tendency toward a l)cl; the "(‘,nlmml departed with the pack-|and the revolution !n ’I‘u.l‘kry broug !; gned without charges made in “The reindeer industry In Alaska, Appropriation Bills| .}, 1.nce between corn production | nes palt, MM”,‘,:mm”g'::f“'&',;,ml,,, S Ahon :.':":”‘r','f,',“,‘,',rr'”':”1;’;;,‘“'3{"',1:,,",‘::, aftldavite for the: G0 e nbng which was established by the Bureau WASHINGTON: Dac. ‘11, — i 8. 1os production; and “‘“““’”‘ Green asked her if there was any|Hungary to bring about the realiza- «“ R i © ekl | House pakp&d e Treasury aud, Post i ooL, COUA TEloes and hog pricce; “good stuff” in the safe and she said |tion of the dreams of many Serbs, «A" in Flvol’ Say “Aye”; s aparta: considerable. quantitios of | Office appropriation bills late yester-| A1 OuE" :l‘;"’:h:’m“"w‘;:d?:;“;‘;‘;“:’f she did not know but that he could |that is, the union in a single empire; Ah, the “Ayes” H.ve It e v ! day afternoon. look for himself. of Serbia, Bosnla, Herzegovina, Mon- I reindeer meat to Seattle, where it is day there is enough of it on hand to tenegro, and the Sanjak of Noviba-| wWASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Represen- e nativ e i n fold itar-ithe " benpllt (of the: native fatten a probably increased number Kicks Malamute zar including Northwestern Macedo-|(ative Gilbert, Democrat, of Ken- owners."” ury The volume closes with a recital New Treas lssue oL iRigs... i10 1aRaRla e« barnein nia. tucky, has proposed a referendum N it of the Ovenulucribed 5 Times wind, howorer, that thie supply of And 3 Operations Serbla demanded compensation | to determine Philippine sentiment Interior Department here in Wash- aenn . e ¥ IRFEe- 80 il ks Result ¥ from Austria-Hungary for the annex-|g,r Iudependence Ington down to the number of light | WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. — The|ho8-cholera scare is reducing the Wi ation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but | Rt 9 0 n the De. Treasury Department announces the|Pumber of hogs. Similar optimisn 0 B o I neither the dual monarchy nor the xonn MONEY REQUESTED ;:(rlt:g::flyl dseul:;:y ntl‘;:lld:ll:el th:‘l‘n( ter | $200,000,000 offering of nine months, Is warranted in regard to the live- ne:?;,Al’rl':‘l‘n:;'iusl)(’ "m"h‘“m(;l:lr ;";:L'ymmg Turks would consider l}l" ses:| WASHINGTON, Dec: 11. — Presi- of the new equipment installed in the ' three and one-quarter per cent Treas}stock industry generally. There was Lower Yukon, Alaska, has returned "!0“ of any territory and in Junuary,|dent Coolidge has asked Congress cafeterla that is maintained for em-|ury certificates has been five times|a lack of balance in that branch of here from Fairbanks for a third op.|120% the outcry for war was re for a supplemental appropriation ot ployes. oversubscribed. agslpultgpe b 1905 . i0ove,qalh, eration resulting from his kicking|™®%eh . $175,000,000 to be used for refund- The signature of the Secretary ————— and hay were heavy crops, while the 56 L ihaiaThdte Klod:dax 4 xdinrakol Imhd‘m-lhi"m“wd lSerr;la m aban-|ing of taxes the Internal Revenue then s appended without a word of| NORRIS SUCCEEDS CUMMINGS |number of animals to be fed, es- 1 1 while on the Kuskokwim river.| 0% DT claim to tewitorial “compen-|coliected illegally. boasting; or a single hint that a few e peclally hogs, was relatively small. Townsand: ware muokluaks .whét he sation” and leave the l’u an ql.x(,':x- extra dollars might come in handy| WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. — The|Livestock producers were therefore . 2 Kicked the dog. His right toe soon |l 0" fOF solution by the Powers. Pac-| wASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Twenty here and there to meet the far-flung|Committee on Committees has de-{unable to take full advantage of the More Shopplng Days after bothered him and he had it am- "‘""" was a close friend of the late]y, voted *“nay” when the House demands of so great a load ol pyb-|cided to recommend Senator George|low price of feedstuffs. That trouble 2 putated. Other toes were also thrown !"'".D_""' Nicholas of Russia. His|yo4ay dismissed the impeachment lic activity. Merely, B. Norris as Chairman of the Senate|has now been fairly well corrected, Before Christmas out of joint. He later injured him- pollcy wia u}»held by Great Britaia.|proccedings against Judge English, “Very respectfully, Judiciary Committee succeeding self in the same leg and it was am- Russia, France and Italy. who resigned. The affirmative vote et Rl o oot ot et IR, “Hubert Work.” Cummings. (Continuea on Page Right.) e glputated three years ago. (Continued on Page Right.) was 286,

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