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LAWYERS ASK PRESS TO REPORT TRIALS WITH DUE SOLEMNITY CHICAGO, 111., Jail. 2G.—As a means of eliminating the formulation of public opinion upon matters to be judged by juries alone, under co ordination of press and bar, commit tees of the Chicago Bar Association are planning to recommend two new steps with relation to publicity for courtroom trials. These are the pro hibition of the taking of photographs of courtroom scenes, and measures to ensure reporting of judicial proceed ings as solemn trials rather than theatricals. The Chicago Bar Association Rec ord in its last issue says: “The present-day practice in re porting sensational law-suits in the public press is typified by the pub lication of photographs of court-room scenes. The attendant stories stress in like fashion those features which excite popular attention. This sat ing of the public appetite for the un usual not only brings the undesir able results incident to all scandal, but is peculiarly harmful in its ef fect in its effect upon the adminis tration of justice. “Thus we find the presentation of a trial in the light of a theatrical performance rather than a dispas sionate inquiry into the merits of the case. This is bound to lessen respect for the law and its instru mentalities. “Akin to this is the creation of an erroneous conception of the true working of the judicial machinery. Frequently there results the formu lation of a public opinion upon a mat ter to be judged by the jury alone. And of course there is the catering to the public appetite for scandal, with the consequent detriment to the public welfare. “It is believed that a co-ordinated effort on the part of the press and the bar will in time bring about the desired development in this import ant field of reporting, and that a uni form rule which will place all news papers upon the same basis in this respect will be welcomed by them as by the bar. “The Chicago Bar Association, through its Committee on Relations of the Press to Judicial Proceedings and its Committee on the Judiciary, now has this work in hand, and, as a first concrete measure, will di rect its efforts against the publica tion of photographs of court-room scenes. It is planned to recommend to the courts the adoption of a rule prohibiting absolutely the taking of any photographs in court. 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Next will come the proposal of measures to ensure the reporting of court pro ceedings, not as dramatic or bizarre incidents, but as solemn trials.” Pittsburgh Broadcast Heard In Australia (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—The West inghouse Company, whose broadcast program from KDKA, at Pittsburgh, for Australia, announced that cable grams were received for several hours afterward, indicating that hundreds of thousands there heard the program perfectly. It is declared the greatest achievement in radio history, as the distance is 9,000 miles. BERLIN APPLAUDS CAREFULLY TUNEFUL MUSIC LAST CENTURY * (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Jan. 26.—As if in sharp contrast to the ultra modern ten dencies recently observable in the first-nights at the Staatsooper, the Deutsches Opernhaus, another of Ber lin’s four operatic institutions, has gone back to the fifties of the past century for a first-night, by produc ing Adolphe Adam’s comic opera, ‘“If L Were King.” This return to the melodious, uncomplicated, charming airs of the age of Cherubini, Auber, Herold, Flotow and Donizetti is the more significant as it also marks the gradual return of French opera to the German stage. In its modern dress, with all the latest technical possibilities of the stage brought into play, Adam’s opera was a decided success and numerous repetitions are planned. GEOLOGIST EXPLORES THE ISLAND OF MADAGASCAR PARIS, Jan. 26— M. Barrabe, a geologist and member of the French Ecole Normale who was sent on an official geological mission to Mada gascar, has returned to France after spending three months on the island. He traveled extensively in the Ma junga region, and brought back nu merous samples from the carboniler ous lands. The coal beds do not ap pear to be as important as those of Indo-China, and it would appear that the bituminous sands and petroleum fields of Madagascar are much more important than the coal beds. Brunswick monographs and Re cords. The Alaska Shop. tf The Ladies’ Aid Society will meet with Mrs. Dunlap at the Parsonage, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS Mrs. Stump of the Seward Beauty Shoppe will leave here Thursday for a short visit to Anchorage. She will return Saturday night. Anyone wish ing work done please make their dates before Thursday. 2t MRS. STUMP. Special rates on the Alaska Railroad will be given Thursday to Saturday, $9.15 for the round trip to Anchorage. FOR SALE—Dried Silver Salmon for dog feed at 10 cents a lb. Se« C. M. Brosius. k28 FOR SALE—Household furniture; Anyone interested call at the house or phone Main 94. H. A. Weck werth. tf Mrs. John Carey left on the Alaska for several weeks visit with friends and relatives at Seattle and Courtney, Vancouver Island, B. C. Sheaffer’s Life Time Pens, at the Alaska Shop. tf Nip Johnson returned from Anchor age on last night’s freight train. He went over as a member of the Seward basketball team. __ Eaton, Crane, Pike Stationery at the Alaska Shop. tf The steamship Starr will sail Mon day, February 2. Haas Fresh Candies at the Alaska Shop. tf Parker’s Duofold Fountain Pens, at the Alaska Shop. tf Ladles’ ana Gents' Alfalfa Harvest ing—0. K. Barber Shop. tf. Picture Framing at the Alaska Shop. tf Ebb of Golden Tide May Mean Sounder Money in Europe (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Year-end figures make available today a clear er picture of whether Europe’s mort gaged pre-war gold on deposit here has definitely begun to go back home, and if so, to what extent. A remarkable outbound movement of the yellow metal amounting to $40,242,000 in the first 27 days of December produced to first surplus of exports over imports in a single month since August, 1920. More gold went out during this short pe riod than during the entire twelve months of either 1923, 1922 or 1921. Its impetus obviously developed un der the cumulative pressure of for eign loans amounting to $1,623,696, 000, w’hich American banks turned back into depleted but premium-pay ing reservoirs abroad in 1924, some $350,000,000 of which were arranged in the last three months. Whether foreign loans in the new year of 1925 will take up at the extraordi nary rate the old year left off is ex pected to determine whether this new export phase in gold is to be continu ous and permanent. Some bankers would reserve de cision and, for the time being, av erage the closing months spirited ebb tide with the 12 months as a whole. Comparison of 1924 and 1923, with fig ures for 1924 as yet approximate, reveals: 1924—Exports, $62,226,478; Imports, $315,684,387; balance, $253,457,909. 1923—Exports, $28,643,417; imports, $322,715,812; balance, $294,072,395. Thus, it is seen that where the United States received across the international counter in 1923 eleven times as much monetary gold as it paid out, in the year 1924 it receiv ed only five times as much. Export shipments for the past 12 months are seen to have doubled. Net im ports fell off one-seventh. Meanwhile the United States still holds two-fifths of all the $10,000,000, 000 in monetary gold in the world. This stock, according to some finan cial observers, is twice as much as is required to support the credit and currency facilities adequate to trade needs. They would like to see gold continue to ebb in proportions suffi cient to take up the slack. They further welcome a growing gold demand abroad as an earnest of increasing use and money sentiment among other nations. This would bring them out of the wilderness of paper money and depreciated cur rencies and back under the gold stan dard. It would also save the United States from the threat of any gener al repudiation of gold, of which it holds the greatest single portion Were the world at large to turn its back upon gold as a basis for mone tary systems it would leave the Unit ed States with its gold stock like a white elephant on its hands; a stock with lessened use and corres pondingly lessened value. Trade Between Bulgaria and Greece Grows, Claim ATHENS, Jan. 26.—Greece is fast becoming Bulgaria’s chief medium of communication with most of her for eign markets for grain, tobacco, hides and farm products, and as a result the trade between the two countries is steadily increasing. In 1919, the first year of record, the Bulgarian exports amounted to 7,392,736 drachmae, while her im ports were valued at 3.313,490 drach mae. Last year Greece’s exports amounted to 40,000,000 drachmae, while Bulgaria’s shipments to Greece amounted to 107,000,000 drachmae. The principal item of Greek export is olive oil, for which Bulgaria is al most wholly dependent upon Greece. Howrever, Italy is making some in roads into the Bulgarian market. Remington Portable Typewriters at the Alaska Shop. tf MADAM X REDUCING CORSETS ASK TO SEE THEM ELLSWORTH'S QUALITY COAL NONE BETTER Lump Mine Run Steam YOU need our coal. WE need your business. Give Us A Trial EVAN JONES COAL CO. Office Mines ANCHORAGE, Alaska. JONESVILLE, Alaska WHEN DOWN TOWN AT NOON OR AFTER THE SHOW WHY NOT TRY ONE OF THE APPETIZING LUNCHES AT THE Seward Bakery SEWARD NEWS COMPANY GEORGE PHELPS, Proprietor . BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS NEWS DEALERS Plumbing, Steamfitting, Oxyacetaline Welding R. F. TILLMAN, Next to Crawford’s Shop