Alaska salmon fishing rules set for 1926 season
Secretary Hoover approved regulations governing Alaska salmon fishing for 1926, effective January 1. Rules require at least one mile between traps south of 58 N, add 28 new areas along the coast, ban traps in False Pass, limit purse seines in Prince William Sound, extend weekly closed period, and impose seasonal and gear restrictions across multiple districts. The total estimated impact amounts to about 1,950,000 dollars.
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Washington
Hoover
Alaska
Alaskan
Kuskokwim River
Bristol Bay
Shumagin Islands
Sanak Islands
False Pass
Prince William Sound
Bering River
Lynn Canal
President Hill of American Tobacco Co Dies
Percival Smith Hill, 63, president of the American Tobacco Company, died in New York. Born in Philadelphia he started as a jobber in textiles, later entered tobacco trade in 1892 with Blackwell Durham as sales manager, and became company president in 1912. He served as director of several tobacco subsidiaries and was a Republican Methodist.
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New York
Percival Smith Hill
American Tobacco Company
Philadelphia
Blackwell Durham Tobacco Company
The
American
Must Die on Gallows, Had Chance to Escape
The Washington Supreme Court at Olympia sustained L. E. Mosely’s death sentence for the murder of a Seattle police officer. Mosely spurned a jail break offer to escape in Seattle last September.
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Seattle
Supreme Court At
Olympia
L. E. Mosely
Mosely
Mild Weather Tieups Disrupt Grand Trunk Rail Service
PRINCE RUPERT, Dec. 8. Mild weather in Northern British Columbia has washouts and mudslides, demoralizing Grand Trunk Railroad service. Prince George remains isolated from Prince Rupert since Friday and trains from Prince Rupert are not expected until Sunday. Fall court assizes due to open here tomorrow may be postponed as officials cannot arrive.
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Prince Rupert
British Columbia
Grand Trunk Railroad
Prince George
Three Cabinet Officials May Be Under Fire
Washington on December 8. President Coolidge to deliver annual message to Congress. Sixty-ninth Congress opens amid tax and farm relief debates. At least three cabinet members likely to face criticism Navy Secretary Wilbur War Secretary Davis and Interior Secretary Work targeted over air defense Mitchell court martial Shenandoah disaster reclamation law and settlers relief. Political opposition grows as winter mood tightens fiscal and shipping policy questions remain unresolved.
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Navy
Davia
War Department
Interior Department
War Departments
Shenandoah
New England
Congress
Shipping Board
Ketchikan Named Aerial Base For Mapping Expedition
Washington reports naval aviators under Lieut. G. H. Wyatt will map Alaska from a base at Ketchikan usingBoening amphibian planes in three parallel flights. The team includes Lieuts. Dillon Schur and Curtin. Base ships Gennett tender and King Fisher accompany the mission. If successful, similar work may extend to Northern Alaska and Point Barrow nearby naval oil reserves.
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Washington, D. C
Alaska
Lieut
G. H. Wyatt
San Diego Naval Station
Ketchikan
Wyatt
W. M. Dillon
M. A. Schur
L. W. Curtin
Gennett
King Fisher
Point Barrow
Naval Oil Reserve
League to Ask America Russia Germany to Aid
The League of Nations council decided to invite the United States, Russia and Germany to join the commission drafting plans for an international disarmament conference in Geneva in December.
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Geneva
Dec
Council of the League of Nations
United States
Russia
Deposed Boy Emperor Reported Seriously Ill in Tokyo
In Tokyo on December 8 it was reported that Hsuan Tung, the deposed boy emperor of China, is dangerously ill from pneumonia in Tientsen. He abdicated in 1912.
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Tokyo
Hsuan Tung
China
Tientsen
Costs of ROTC training $500 per Second Lieutenant
GALESBURG Illinois December 8 Costs to maintain 124 senior ROTC units at as many colleges runs about $500 to produce a qualified Second Lieutenant of Infantry per Captain Robert W Corrigan Inf military instructor at Knox College In an Infantry Journal article he notes there is no substitute for trained officers and calls ROTC expenditures infinitesimally small relative to national wealth The corps mainly supplies about 10 000 replacements for organized reserves annually and aims to improve the physique habits minds and morals of a larger population of students who enroll though few continue to the fourth year to qualify for commissions
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Galesburg
Robert W. Corrigan
Knox College
Infantry Journal
United States
Ance
Corrigan
Popular Referendum on Prohibition Proposed in Congress
Washington dispatch reports Maryland Representative John Phillip Hill moves a repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment with state conventions by popular vote. The plan would let states define intoxicating beverages and could legalize 2.75 percent beer while transferring enforcement to the Attorney General. Also in Seattle city business a petition with 5860 signatures seeks impeachment of Mayor Brown and is referred to the Judiciary Committee.
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Seattle
Brown
Judiciary Committee
Washington
United States
John Phillip Hill
Maryland
Hill
Chinese Anti Red Leader Wounded by a Cabin Boy
In Shanghai a gunman, a Cantonese cabin boy, attempted to murder Gen. Hong Chow Ling, head of the Anti Red faction at Canton, aboard the steamer President Pierce near Woosung. Ling was wounded in the abdomen and nose. the assailant later died by his own hand.
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Shanghai
Hong Chow Ling
Canton
President Pierce
Hong
Woosung
Every Claim Under Mineral Relief Act Largely Adjudged
Secretary Hubert Work reports that with one exception all claims filed under the Federal Mineral Relief Act have been adjudicated. Ninety claims were examined in the fiscal year ending June 30. Five suits remain pending and a balance exceeding $950,000 remains from the original $5.5 million appropriation.
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Washington
Hubert Work
Secretary of Interior
League Council Opposed To Hearing Mosul Dispute
In Geneva on December 8 the League of Nations Council voted against hearing the Mosul dispute between Britain and Turkey. Turkey and Britain abstained in a move that kept the matter from the Permanent Court of International Justice even as both nations opposed formal acceptance.
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League Council
Mosul
Geneva
League of Nations Council
Permanent Court of International Justice
Great Britain
Turkey
Council
Dynamite Explosion Kills Two at Black Diamond Mine
SEATTLE on December 8 Frederick Backer and E W Foster died and David Forbes was critically injured when a stick of dynamite exploded at the new Black Diamond coal mine today.
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Seattle
Frederick Backer
E. W. Foster
David Forbes
New Black Diamond
War College chief opposes unified air force plan
Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, Commandant of the Army War College, testified before the Army Court in the Mitchell court martial and opposed creating a separate air force. He argued it would strip power from the commander of all forces needed for optimal results.
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Washington
Army
Hanson E. Ely
Army War College
Minister Convicted For Obscene Mailings Faces Five-Year Term
Rev Albert Sidney Gregg author lecturer and former American Civic Reform Union superintendent was convicted in federal court of sending obscene material through the mails. The sentence includes five years imprisonment and a $5000 fine.
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Cleveland, O
Albert Sidney Gregg
American Civic Reform Union
Gregg
Seattle
Tacoma
Cheaper Wool Substitute Promises Lower Clothing Costs
Manchester report notes Woolulose a wool substitute 70 percent jute fibre and 30 percent recovered wool. Inventor expects cheaper clothing as raw material priced at about three quarters the cost of cheapest wool.
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Manchester
England
One Killed Four Injured In Seattle Train Smash
SEATTLE December 4 Felix Harder a car inspector was killed and four others were injured when a lightless and crewless locomotive crashed at 35 miles per hour into a switch engine. The switch engine was shoved into the rear of a passenger train at the local depot. Harder was uncoupling the engine at the head of the passenger train when the crash occurred.
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Seattle
Felix Harder
Harder
Logger Killed and 16 Injured in Flat Car Crash
Near Beaver, 50 miles west of Port Angeles, Gus Luece, a logger, was killed when a runaway flat car loaded with logs rammed a box car carrying 50 loggers. Sixteen others were injured in the collision.
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Port Angeles
Gus Luece
Beaver
Here
Discovery of New Ore Body At Bunker Hill Mines
Kellogg Idaho December 8 The discovery of the greatest ore body yet found on the Bunker Hill Sullivan silver lead mine properties was announced today by manager Stanley Haustor. The new ore body lies on the lowest level at a depth of 1800 feet. The Bunker Hill Sullivan property is famed in the West and has already produced 100 million. It is owned by the Bradley interests of San Francisco.
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Kellogg
Idaho
Stanley Haustor
Bunker Hill-Sullivan
Bradley Interests
San Francisco
Alaska Delegates Seak Western Chamber Meeting Agenda
Alaska delegates at the Western Division meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce discussed Alaskan matters including National Forest development Nome Harbor improvement Alaska Railroad maintenance improved mail service and a tariff on fresh fish while opposing the Federal economy program. Attendees included Allen Shattuck George W Woodruff Lester Gore John Grant B A Grier H Ellsworth and J H McCord. A medallion was given to George Clinton Ward for the Kaiser Mountain tunnel completion, a 13 12 mile hydro project costing about 17 million dollars as part of a 375 million dollar plant, with John O Leary urging the establishment of a permanent sound merchant marine.
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Seattle
Alaska
United States Chamber of Commerce
Nome Harbor
Allen Shattuck
Juneau
George W. Woodruff
Lester Gore
Ketchikan
John Grant
Wrangell
B. A. Grier
Anchorage
H. &. Ellsworth
J. H. McCord
Seward
California
George Clinton Ward
Southern California Edison Company
Kaiser Mountain
Mileage bill passed by Washington Senate
The State Senate approved a mileage bill that raises funding for the University, State College and other schools by 850,000 dollars over current mileage. Gov Hartley opposes mileage increases and sent a message to the Senate outlining his stance.
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Washington Senate
Olympia
Wash
State Senate
State College
Hartley
Senate
Boiler Explosion Kills Two on Railroad Engine
ELKTON Md Dec 8 An engineer and fireman were killed on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad when the locomotive boiler exploded as the train ran four miles north of Elkton. The blast fatally mangled both men in the blast and debris scattered along the track.
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Elkton
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Here
Alaska road and harbor funding request to Congress
Recommendations to Congress for the Alaska Road Commission and the Bureau of Rivers and Harbors total 1 950 000 for the next fiscal year. Road Commission seeks 1 750 000 and Rivers and Harbors 200 000. Of the harbor funds 175 000 covers Wrangell Narrows shoals dredging and 25 000 Nome harbor storm repair and dredging. Road estimates include 22 500 for a government dock at Juneau.
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Congress
Alaska Road Commission
Bureau of Rives and Harbors
Alaska
Road Commission
Wrangell Narrows
Nome Harbor
Juneau
Alaska Road Plan Aims to Speed Construction
Washington December 8. The Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska urges accelerating road and trail construction to maximize benefits from ongoing projects. The annual report, submitted to Congress, argues for faster work to unlock existing gains and improve transportation.
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Washington
Alaska
Board of Road Commissioners For
Con
Veterans Bureau to cut 1926 27 appropriation to 314 865 000
Director Hines released the annual Veterans Bureau report estimating 1926 27 needs at 314 865 000 excluding adjustments for hospital construction and the adjusted service fund. Current appropriations total 405 719 569 with 50 000 000 allocated for the adjusted service act administration this year compared with 100 000 000 last year. He cites decentralization and expanded service to the disabled as the bureau’s major achievement.
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Washington, Dec
Hines
Veteran Bureau
United States Veterans Bureau
Penniless Millionaire Russell Conwell Dies After Illness
Russell Herman Conwell of Philadelphia, famed lecturer and founder of Temple University, died last Saturday at his home after a long illness. The multi faceted life included soldier, journalist, author, lawyer, and educator. Transformation of wealth into education earned him the nickname the penniless millionaire. He kept only his expenses, dedicating fortune to help needy students and Temple University.
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Philadelphia
Russell Herman Conwell
Temple University
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