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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXIX., NO. 4349. ^ JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER II, 1926. ~ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS
OIL SCANDAL COMPLETE
WORK REPORTS
BUSINESS; ASKS
FOR NO MONEY
Annual Accounting of Inter
ior Department Is Made
—Statement of Facts.
WASHINGTON. Dee. 11. A bird's
eye-view of bustling Interior Depart
incut activities that reach into many
far nooks and deep below the surface
of the earth was given in tlie an
nual report of Secretary Work.
It was one of the few annual ac
countings of modern times in which
a cabinet officer merely told of the
many important tasks his department
was doing, and asked for nothing.
The 104 printed pages formed a
handbook of facts and figures des
criptive of Departmental interests
ranging from the conduct of many
million-dollar reclamation projects to
the number of Portuguese admitted
during the year to the Govermental
hospital at Kalihi. Hawaii.
In view of the fact that Congress
already is occupied with a continuing
reclamation program, that subject
was given barely one-one hundrelh
of the space of the whole report.
Kvcn this was devoted entirely la
a tabloid recital that the Reclamation!
Bureau had made certain surveys
and carried out certain construction
authorised by Congress, had provided
complete irrigation for 1,802,970 acres
and parlial water supply to J.340,
(HiO acres, operated more than 100
dams and 1G.000 miles of canals, and
built 431 bridges, 410 culverts, and
82 flumes.
Pension Statistics ;
Tlie scarcely less conspicuous Itu
vchu of Pensions recited its accom
plishments in three-quarters of r.
page. It paid during Ihe year $207.
844,348 in pensions, and received Jim
classified 42,804 Civil War and 72
437 Spanish War pension claims. All
of this required the mailing out of
(1,311.105 separate cheeks.
The Alaskan railroad reported an
increase in earnings reflecting tlie
growth of Hie Territory’s manifold
industries. The Governor of Hawaii
recorded "normal and gratifying pro
gress" in tlie territorial economic and
social matters. The various and
widely scattered hospitals and
schools under tlie wing of the Inter
ior Department all noted improve
ment, and submitted exhaustive slu
tistical data to prove it.
General Land Office
So the report ran through the in-j
tiniate contacts of the General Land
Office, which did an eleven-million
dollar business: the Indian Office,
whose ministrations to the Red Man
included the erection of new schools
and hospitals, and the improvement
of the old ones; the Geological Sur
vey, which mapped the structure of
the earth in forty-three States, locat
ed the point of origin of the Montana
earthquake, and picked up the trail
of valuable potash deposits in Texas
anti New Mexico; and the National [
Park Service, host during the year1
to a record national park tourist
horde numbering 1,930,8G5.
A resume of many conferences,
studies and investigations was con
tained in (lie section devoted to the
Bureau of Education. Among other
things, this Bureau distributed .'itiij.
UOO copies of a pamphlet entitled
“The Story of the Declaration of in
dependence," and cooperated with
many educational insittutions and
teachers anti parents societies in the
promotion of knowledge. The Alas
kan reindeer herd, which was assem
bled years ago by agents of this
Bureau end which incidentally put.
the Bureau also into the shipping
business, came in for a paragraph.
Reindeer Industry
"The reindeer industry in Alaska,
which was established by tIre Bureau
of Education, continues to prosper.
The Bureau’s vessel, the Boxer,
transports considerable quantities of
reindeer meat to Seattle, where it is
sold for the benefit of the native
owners."
The volume closes with a recital
of the internal arrangements of the
Interior Department here in Wash
ington down to the number of light
and heavy delivery trucks In the De
partmental garage, and the character
of the new equipment installed in the
cafeteria that is maintained for em
ployes.
The signature of the Secretary
then is appended without a word of
boasting: or a single hint that a few
extra dollars might come in handy
here and there to meet the far-flung
demands of so great a load of pub
lic activity. Merely,
"Very ••espectfnlly,
“Hubert Work."
Man Awakened
Ami Told to
Give Up $1,500
SEATTLE, Dec. 11.—A man awak
ened R. V. Jewett, aged .'17. a miner,
and demanded $ 1 ,r>oo which Jewett
drew from the hank at Seward, Alas
ka. Jewett refused and shouted. The
man hit hint on the head witli a
wrench which was found in the room.
Rex Allen and Jack Kinsey have been
jailed. Jewett was sent to the hos
pital.
KNOCKED DOWN
ESCORTED OUT
State Official Handled
Roughly Trying to Make
Hartley Speech.
ELLEKSBUUG. Wash.. Dec. 11.—
Martin .1. Flyzik. State Supervisor
of Safety and former District Organ
izer for the United Mine Workers,
was knocked down and then escorted
from the Central Labor Council Hall
at Roslyn last night when he tried to
make a speech in favor of Gov. Hart
ley. The meeting was called to hear
William Short, President of the State
Labor Council, and Robert Marlin, of
Seattle, former United Mine Workers
district President.
Flyzik arose and many shouted
"throw him out.” A miner and Fly
zik clashed and Flyzik fell to the
floor.
It is announced that over SO Ros
lyn miners signed the recall petition.
LYNCHINGS IN
U. S. INCREASE
MINNKAUOLIS, Minn.. bee. 11.—
The Committee oil Race Rotations
reported yesterday there were 27
lynchings. nine more than last year,
up to November 15, this year, in the
United States. The report says this
represents the severest setback since
1022 and a plea for a lynchless land
seems farther from realization than
any year since that time.
Nobile Cannot Talk in
English; Suit Results
DAVKNl’ORT, Dec. 11. The Amer
ican business Club of Haven port,
which sponsired Commander Nobiles
lecture last Monday night, has sued
the Lee Kendrick Company, of New
York City, Nobile's hooking agency,
for $1,800. The Club charges mis
representation as Nobile is unable to
talk in Knglish and none in the uudi
enco could understand him.
Fire Causes Panic
In Theatre in Rome
Home, Dec. 11. One thousand per
sons became panic stricken when a
fire swept a theatre last night, in the
middle of tlie performance. Four act
resses were killed.
Senate Orders Probe
Shipping Board Sales
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. — The
Senate has unanimously ordered an
inquiry into the proposed Shipping
Hoard sale of the United States lines
and the American merchant lines
ami ordered the Board withhold ac
tion. Senator Johnson of Cali
fornia. Introduced the resolution.
House Passes Two
Appropriation Bilk
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. — The
House passed the Treasury and Host
Office appropriation bills late yester
day afternoon.
I New Treasury Issue
Oversubscribed 5 Times
1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. — The
i Treasury Department announces the
i $200,000,000 offering of nine months,
'three and one-quarter per cent Treas
ury certificates has been five times
oversubscribed.
NORRIS SUCCEEDS CUMMINGS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. — The
Committee on Committees has de
cided to recommend Senator George
B. Norris as Chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee succeeding
Cummings.
AGRICULTURE
IS IMPROVING
SAYS JARDINE
Secretary Notes Moderate
Change for Better—Tar
iff and the Farmer.
WASHINGTON. I). Dec. 11. -J
Further moderate improvement in
the agricultural situation as a
whole lias taken place during the
last year according to the annual
report made today to Congress by
Secretary of Agriculture William
M. Jardine. “Certain regions have
suffered reverses, notably the cotton
States, whose principal crop, pro
duced in exceptional abundance, is
selling at very low prices. Parts of
the spring-wheat States have liar
vested a poor crop. Generally speak-/
ing, however, the position of agri
culture 'is better now than it has
been in any year since 1920. Live
stock raisers, dairymen, and winter
wheat growers have earned good re
turns. and underlying conditions in
the Corn licit have Improved. The
year, in short, has been similar to
the last few years in that it has
seen marked but not uniform im
provement in agricultural condi
tions.
"Since tile depression period of
1920-21 every agricultural section
of the country and every important
branch of agriculture have made
progress. Recovery has not been!
uninterrupted; nor, as I have indi
cated, have all groups of producers
shared in it equally. Nevertheless,
the gain lias been substantial. For
the crop year 1925-26 the net in
come of the agricultural industry
ms n unit is estimated at about
$2,757,000,000, or 1 per cent more
than for the crop year 1921-25. In
the same period the net return on
the value of the capital invested in;
agriculture was about 1.6 per cent,1
compared with 3.1 per cent In the
crop year 1922-23 and only 0.6 per,
cent in the crop year 1920-21.
Emerge from Depression
“It will be convenient to glance|
briefly at the present situation in!
regard to the leading crops againstj
tile background of the depression
period from which we are emerging.
Winter-wheat growers have harvest-1
ed and marketed early an excellent1
crop of high quality. Wheat is not|
selling at as higli a price this year|
as it was at this time last year, i
In parts of the spring-wheat States,!
where yields were reduced by j
drought, there is distress. Spring,
wheat wus practically a failure in!
much of South Dakota and central
North Dakota. Indeed, all crops
suffered there. A great deal of the
area seeded was not harvested. Busi
ness conditions have naturally been
affected adversely. In northern and
eastern North Dakota, however, the
situation is much better. The Moun
tain States, particularly Montana,
have made good progress this year
in recovery from the effects of the
depression. It may be said, indeed,
that over the greater part of the
wheat States conditions have been
good for three years. In 1924 our
I wheat farmers produced 863,000,
1000 bushels, and for what they sold
they received an average price of
$1.28 a bushel. In 1925, with u
crop of only 669,000,000 bushels,
the average price received for wheat
sold by farmers was $1.16 a bushel.
This year high yields in many
States will compensate most farmers
for the drop in the price.
Corn Belt Conditions
“In the Corn Belt conditions are
now somewhat more favorable than
they have been for several years.
There is a tendency toward a bet
ter balance between corn production
and hog production, and therefore
between corn prices and hog prices.
Although there is no undue surplus
of corn, as there was last year,
there Is enough of it on hand to
fatten a probably increased number
of pigs. It should be borne in
mind, however, that the supply of
corn is still very large and that a
hog-cholera scare is reducing the
number of hogs. Similar optltnism
is warranted in regard to the live
istock Industry generally. There was
a lack of balance in that branch of
agriculture in 1925. Corn, oats,
and hay were heavy crops, while the
number of animals to be fed. es
pecially hogs, was relatively small.
Livestock producers were therefore
unable to take full advantage of the
low price of feedstuffs. That trouble
has now been fairly well corrected,
(CoBtlnupq on rage Right.)
Mrs. McPherson's
into Is Stolen
And Stripped
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11. Mrs. \i
mee McPherson's expensive car was
stolen and found stripped of acces
sories. Mrs. McPherson said "Prob
ably the car was stolen to obtain
finger prints.”
SEVENTHOUSAND
WITHOUT HOMES
TOKIO. Japan, Dec. 11. Two thou
sand homes were destroyed last night
by fire at Natna/.u, Shisuoka Prefec
ture. Ten persons are known to
have been burned to death and 7,000
are estimated as homeless. The loss
is placed at 5.000.000 yen. The town
hall. Post Office and Police station
were among the buildings burned.
formeraTaskan
WINS HIS CASE
SEATTLE, Dec. XI,- Alter a nine
year suit which went into four courts
Hater Hedgisoff. 'former Alaskan, has
been awarded $12,0(10 in the Federal
Court, to be paid by the American
Express Company.
Hedgisoff gave $!t,8t!2 to I lie com
pany in 1017 to he placed in Russian
banks and the Bolshevists seized it.
Hedgisoff decided not to return to
Russia and the Express Company
vainly attempted to regain the
money. Attorneys reached a settle
ment for $,'1,000 less than the princi
pal with 7 per cent interest.
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Ormiston Arrives in
Chicago in Custody
CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—The Herald
and Kxamlner announces that n rep
resentative of that newspaper and a
police officer arrived here last night I
with Kenneth G. Ormiston.
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OAKLAND, Dec. 11.—Mrs. Kim-|
hall announces she is going to seel
Ormiston when lie comes to Los An-j
geies and make him admit site is
not Miss X.
Prince of Wales to
Visit Canada in July
OTTAWA. Dec. 11.—Governor Gen
eral Wellingdon, at the opening of
the Sixteenth Parliament, announced!
the Prince of Wales lias accepted an
invitation In attend Canada's Dia
mond Jubilee of the Confederation
next July.
Japanese Emperor
Is Critically 111
TOKYO, Dec. 11. Six oxygen
tanks have liei-n installed in Kmperor i
Koehlhito's room. He is ill of hron-i
chial pneumonia. Knipross Kaduko
is ul his bedside. His pulse is weak
and heart stimulants are used.
Seattle’s Milk^War
Is to End Sunday
SKATTLK. Dec. 11—The milk war
which started on October 12 ends
tomorow and the price of a quart of
milk delivered, which was cut to 10
j cents from 12 cents, goes to 12 cents.
More Shopping Days
Before Christmas
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8. C. LIQUOR
IS NOT AGED
Distiller Gives Out Secrets
and Shows How Prov
ince Laws Lvaded.
VANCOUVER, IS. C„ Dec. 11. Rus
.sell Whitolaw. President of a distill
ing concern, told the Dominion Com
msision. it ships imaged liquor from
Ilritisli Columbia to Europe and Chi
na and it Is brought back for con
sumption here or for smuggling into
the United States. He explained
first, that domestic liquor, less than
two years old, cannot be sold in Bri
tish Columbia, but when taken to a
foreign port and returned here, it
does not come within the law; Sec
ond, if British Columbia liquor was
to be loaded here for the United
States the export duty would be ex-1
acted but when it is sent to Euro
pean or Chinese free ports, it is
brought back through British Colum
bia in transit and tux free.
BISHOP GIVES
PAT AND RAP
FOR FLAPPER
Catholic Prelate Defends Ris
ing Generation—Pleads
Circumstances.
N1CW YORK. Doc. 11.—“The Flam
ing Flapper,' (lie much criticised
modern young woman found today a
sympathetic defender in Bislpop John
i. Dunn, vicar-genwal of tlje fialho
lie Diocese" of Nc«rVttflt? ColSAMiT-'
ing on (he follies and the frailties of
the younger generation, the Bishop
said:
“The idea I hat flic youth of this
country Is going wrong is ridiculous.
They are not bad at heart. It is i
just hysteria. Tlie l»rd never put
nil embargo on pleasure. It Is only
tlie extreme that must be condemned.
I am not a Puritan when it comes
to pleasure, but 1 believe in moder
ation.
Home Barriers Down
"There lias been n great breaking
down of (lie home barriers on the
part of the parents. Home, us we
understand it, doesn’t exist anymore.
Now it is simply a sleeping place.
The parents themselves have set
asitle ail law.
“It is difficult now to distinguish!
bills from boys. The girls bob their
hair like the boy’s affect the boyish
figure and do everything possible
to break the e line of demarcation
between the two sexes.
Golden Calf Anti-Climax
"This is not necessarily immod
est, but it constitutes a loss of that
femininity which man, deep in his
soul, wants. Men admire manly men
and womanly women—not hybrids.
“Short skirts, bobbed hair and
painted faces are merely an indi
cation that tho anti-climax of the
golden calf era has come.”
Testifies Col. Green
Did Carry Away Liquor
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 11.—Mis.
Florence Flanagan, secretary of Col.
Neil Green, now on trial for embez
zling government liquor while Prohi
bition Administrator, testified that
twice she Haw Green take liquor
from the safe in Prohibition head
quarters. Green asked for the safe
key and she opened it. He took out
a bottle of cocktails. He asked her
to wrap It up. "I put the cocktails
in u big government envelope and
the Colonel departed with the pack
age,” said Mrs. Flanagan.
Later. Mrs. Flanagan testified, Col.
Green asked her if there was any
“good stuff" in the safe anil she said
she did not know but that he could
look for himself.
Kicks Malamute
And 3 Operations
Result
SEATTLE, Hoc. 1!.—Cal Town
send, Fisheries Commissioner of the
Lower Yukon, Alaska, has returned
here from Fairbanks for a third op
eration resulting from his kicking
of a malamute sled dog 24 years ago,
while on the Kuskokwlm river.
Townsend wore mucklucks when ae
kicked the dog. His right toe soon
after bothered him and he had it am
putated. Other toes were also thrown
out of joint. He later Injured him
self in the same leg and it was am
I pntated three years ago.
Invite Frazier
Hack Into
G. (). /*. Hanks
| WASHINGTON, Dec. II Tim
| Republican Committee mi Com
j mlttees has agreed to invite
j United States Senator Lynn J.
Krazier, of North Dakota, lnsur
| gent, to resume ills place in the :
Republican l’arty Councils and
| Committees as a regular.
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N. P. PATCHITCH
PASSES AWAY
IN JUGOSLAVIA
l
Former Premier, Whose Life
Was Thrilling One, Dies
in Belgrade.
wool*;
NIKO LA 'P. FATCH ITCH /
BELGRADE, Dec. 11.—Former Pre
mier of Jugoslavia, Nikola P. Patch
itch. (lied here yesterday.
Nikola Patchitch, ex-Premier and
former Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Jugoslavia, at the time of his
election to the National Assembly of
that country was a Serbian states
man with a long and tempestuous
political career.
lie was born in 1818 and educated
at the Polytechnic School in Zurich.
Switzerland. His public life was
punctuated with (wo death sentences
and several exiles, as u result of
which he became un extreme radical
At the time of his death, however.
Pachitch was known as one of the
most conservative statesmen In the
Balkans.
He was. successively, Mayor of Bel
grade, President of the Skupshtina,
head of the first radical cabinet and
Minister to Russia when, in 1899,
the attempt was made to assassinat •
King Milan in the streets of the
Serbian capital. Patchitch was placed
On trial as one of a number of con
spirators responsible for the attempt
on the King's life, lie was sentenced
to prison but afterward pardoned.
Falls to Form Ministry
In 1902 King Alexander asked him
to form a ministry but he failed in
the task. After the assassination of
Alexander and his consort, Queen
Drags. Patchitch became Minister of
Foreign Affairs in the Gruitch cab
inet. Subsequently be was also Pre
■ inler during the reign of King Peter
and occupied this position when the
| world war broke out.
In 1908 the annexation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary
and the revolution in Turkey brought
about un acute crisis. The whole nu
lion clamored for war with Austria
Hungary to bring about the realiza
tion of the dreams of many Serbs,
that is, the union in a single empire
of Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Mon
tenegro, and the Sanjak of Noviha
zar including Northwestern Macedo
nia.
Serbia demanded compensation
from Austria-Hungary (or the annex
ation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, hut
neither the dual monarchy nor the
young Turks would consider the ses
sion of any territory and in January
1909, the outcry for war was re
newed.
Patchitch induced Serbia to aban
don her claim to territorial "compen
sat ion” and leave the Balkan ques
tion for solution by the Powers. Pae
hitch was a close friend of the late
Emperor Nicholas of Russia. Hi:
policy was upheld by Great Britain
Russia. France and Italy.
(Continued on Pago Eight.)
JURY TO HAVE
OIL CASE NEXT
WEEK IS BELIEF
All Evidence Is Submitted—
Former Secretary Not
to Testify.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Presen
tation of evidence in Hie oil case of
the government against K. H. Dolieny
and former Secretary of Interior A.
it. Fall, is completed. It Is probable
that the jury will be sent out by
tile middle of next week.
Hate yesterday, Postmaster General
New, was one of two character wit
nesses for Fall.
Counsel for Dolieny reopened his
case lo present McCormick's testi
mony. after (lie defense rested. Mc
jCoimiek said: "I know no man who
lias a higher reputation for honesty.
Integrity and patriotism." He said lie
had known Dolieny for a quarter of
a century.
Fall is not to take the stand.
Attorney Roberts read letters from
Admiral Robison to Congressman Siu
nott and Senator Harreld in which
•lie was unable to say when naval re
serves had been leased. The Admir
al also wrote to the late Congress
man P. If. Kelly, and tills was read.
Robison stated lie was committed to
no policy on leasing land only where
drainage of naval oil through private
wells made offset operations deair
able.
Navy Man Testifies
John May, now Socretury to Sec
retary of Navv Wilbur, formerly
Navy Department Confidential clerk,
Bnbinltt,<aL.pi>U* p« minute- r* the
Navy Ahlobor IIP
sue Mm -inf»er 2S liwl. when forme<L
Sej'reUjjKy of Navy _D«nby said "that
the IcAsIhg business Is the most djf.
ficulf. and involved. It Is full of
dynamite. I do not want to have
anything to do witli It.”
Concerning Robison's plan to pay
for the Pearl Harbor project with
naval reserve crude oil, Denliy stated
"that the use of oil is only a sub
terfuge.” Fall was quoted as saying
to Robison rhat "If we don't get oil
out of KIk Hills in three months
there will not be any left.”
Robison testified last week that
such statements were absurd.
ALASKA COLD
WAVE MOVING
TOWARD SOUTH
SEATTLE, Dec. 11.—A low pres
sure area Tolloweil by a high wind,
I is sweeping rold from the Yukon
land Alaska down across the Prairie
| Provinces und moving toward the
'Midwest and Northern States today.
Weather Observer Summers learned
that the mercury fell 22 degrees
In Fairbanks in 12 hours registering
12 degrees below zero.
A 65-mlle an hour hour wind in
the Wenatchee Valley has damaged
apples in the orchards.
Freezing weather is promised iu
Seattle.
Witnesses Subpoenaed
For Seattle Grand Jury
i _
i EVERETT, Wash., Dec. 11.—Pro
hibition agents are serving sub
poenas and cheeking up Snohomish
County witnesses for the Federal
Grand Jury which opens In Seattle
next Tuesday. Uootleggcrs and
moonshiners arrested have been ar
raigned without charges made iu
affidavits for the Government.
All in Favor Say “Aye”;
Ah, the “Ayes” Have It
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Represen
tative Gilbert, Democrat, of Ken
tucky, lias proposed a referendum
to determine Philippine sentimeut
for Independence.
MORE MONEY REQUESTED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. — Presi
dent Coolidge has asked Congress
for a supplemental appropriation of
$175,000,000 to be used for refund
ing of taxes the Internal Revenue
collected illegally.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Twenty
two voted "nay" when the House
today dismissed the impeachment
proceedings against Judge English,
who resigned. The affirmative vote
was 286.
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