Fifth Annual Inter-School Meet Opens in Southeast Alaska
The opening day features five high schools from the southern division including Juneau Douglas Petersburg Wrangell and Ketchikan. The first basketball game saw Douglas defeat Petersburg 33 to 11 in the girls’ section while debating and hoop events proceed. Delegations from Ketchikan Wrangell Petersburg arrive aboard the Admiral Rogers and officials including superintendents and coaches discuss final preparations.
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Alaska
Douglas
Petersburg
Ketchikan Worth
Board of Control
W. K. Keller
Juneau
G. A. Shumway
S. E. Boselly, Jr
C. FE. Hagie
Wrangell
Local basketball and debate schedule announced
Tonight features boys basketball matchups Ketchikan versus Wrangell and Juneau versus Douglas. Tuesday's events include elimination debate at 1 a.m. and later finals with Juneau and Petersburg qualifiers. Wednesday showcases girls basketball Petersburg versus Wrangell and finals for boys and girls with multiple matchups.
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Ketchikan
Wrangell Juneau
Douglas
Wrangell
P. m
Juneau
Petersburg
P.m
Chicago Association Seeks Federal Aid to Clean Up City
The Chicago Better Government Association urged Vice President Dawes in the Senate to rescue Chicago from a reign of lawlessness. The petition accuses coalition between the underworld and officials, claiming citizens lose many rights without protest and the community is left helpless. A separate dispatch from Alaska notes severe cold and fuel transport preparations to Tanana and Point Barrow.
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Chicago Association
Nenana
Alaska
Wilkins
Tolowana
Tanana
Point Barrow
Washington
Dawes
Senate
Chicago
Chicago Better Government Association
Nationwide drive to raise 15 million for Presbyterian ministers
New York March 1 Will H Hays chairman of the Laymen's Committee of the Presbyterian Church announced the opening of a nationwide campaign to raise a 15 million dollar pension fund for aged ministers missionaries and educators. Secretary of Treasury Mellon is treasurer and will direct the drive.
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New York
H Hays
The
Presbyterian Church In the
United States
Treasury
Mellon
Byrd Plans Polar Expedition Flight Start in March
Admiral Richard E. Byrd will sail from New York on the Shipping Board steamer Chantier this month for a polar expedition. A three engine Fokker will ferry Byrd to Kings Bay Spitzbergen where Lloyd Bennett, chief petty officer, accompanies the flight. Success hinges on avoiding ice landings and water and may only land on solid ground to dodge ice movement dangers.
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Washington
Richard &. Byrd
New York
Shipping Board
North Pole
Kings Bay
Spitzbergen
Byrd
Lloyd Bennett
University aid to Northwest industry observed
Seattle march 1 economic development in the Northwest receives staunch aid from the University of Washington. The college of fisheries developed a crab canning process adding 450000 in value the first year and now works on canning smelt while aiding cod fishing in the North Pacific with 50000 square miles of banks and 36 vessels. The college of forestry created a fir drying kiln cutting time by a third and a lumber firm estimates five year savings over 256000. The college of mines is devising.
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Seattle
Northwest
Husky Young Commonwealth
University of Washington
College of Fisheries
Washington
Alaska
Ance
North Pacific
College of Forestry
College of Mines
Devisinez
Alaska Bill Passes House to End Rectangular Homestead Survey
Washington March 1 The House approved Delegate Sutherland s measure to abolish the rectangular survey system in Alaska and permit natural boundaries on irregular terrain.
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Washington
House
Sutherland
Alaska
Borah and Reed Accused of Plotting Senate Overthrow
Chicago March 4 United States Senator William McKinley of Hindis charged in a radio address that Senators Borah and Reed are attempting to overthrow the Republican Senate majority and tilt the body toward the Democrats. He noted Reed and Borah urged defeat of Senators who backed American adherence to the World Court, a position McKinley himself supported.
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Chicago
United States
William MckKinley
Borah
Reed
Senate
McKinley
Alaska items carried in appropriation bill report
Department of Commerce bill totaling 29.708 million dollars was reported in the House site last Saturday. Alaska items include the Alaskan Fisheries Service with 50070 and vent fisheries protection at 800000, with 100000 immediately available. Mining investigations at 10860. Forsey A. Lyon notes mining’s current results lag long term hopes, but opportunities may improve in 10 to 20 years.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
House
Alaska
Alaskan Fisheries Service
Forsey A. Lyon
Bureau of Mines
Alaska Summer Trip Boost Across Railroads
March report notes Southern railroads led by Union Pacific and Santa Fe will offer round trip summer excursion tickets to Alaska from all points at reduced prices. Dates run through September from April 20. Ninety day passes drop 20 percent and one day tickets drop 8 percent.
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Seattle
Southern
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Western Pacific
Alaska
Alaska court sets alimony in mink skins trade
In Anchorage a tribal court ruled that a Ninilehik man must supply his wife with a fair share of hunting and pelts. He must deliver ten mink skins dressed and stretched, five grey fox pelts or one silver pelt, plus 100 full grown linen, valued at local market prices. The claim arose after he halted his drinking and threw his jiquaw into a creek when reproached.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Charlie Big Eyes
Ninilehik
Cook Inlet
Jude
Congressman Hill Accepts Baltimore Drinking Challenge
Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland accepts a drinking contest with Congressman Thomas L. Blanton of Texas. Blanton claimed Baltimore was open to liquor, Hill offered to drink all the beer Blanton would buy if he gets drunk, with $100 to the Anti Saloon League or Blanton must donate $100 to a wet organization.
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John Philip Hill
Maryland. Net
Thomas L. Blanton
Texas
Baltimore
Blanton
Congress
Hill
Will
Anti-Saloon League
World Chemists to Meet Across the United States
Chemists from around the world will attend five major gatherings in America this year. The American Chemical Society spring session in Tul a Okla April 15 will discuss the chemistry of oil and by products. A symposium at Columbia University July 6 to August 12 will feature five foreign chemists and 21 American chemists. A chemical warfare work symposium will occur at Williamstown during the 126 conference of the Institute of Politics. The American Chemical Society will hold its fiftieth annual convention in Philadelphia the week of September. The week of September 18 marks the first U S meeting of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in Washington.
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America
American Chemecal Society
Tulea
Okla
Columbia University
Institute of Politics
Williamstown
The
American Chemical Society
Philadelphia
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Washington
Appeals Court Denies Retrial In Patent Case
In San Francisco on March 1 the Circuit Court of Appeals denied the American Smelting and Refining Company petition for a retrial. The case centered on patent infringement involving itinerant miner George Campbell Carson who was granted an accounting of millions of dollars.
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San Francisco
Circuit Court of Appeals
American Smelting and Refining Company
George Campbell Carson
Slayings Linked by Found Pistol in Seattle Case
Detectives stated a pistol found Saturday along Lake Washington ties to the Wednesday slaying of Estelle Jones. The gun matches the number on a pistol taken from her husband John Ro Jones a month earlier during a narcotic arrest involving Bernice Davenport. Davenport says she and Jones were in a car when the pistol was located.
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Seattle
Lake Washington
Estelle Jones
Newress
John Ro Jones
Estelle
Bernice Davenport
Ferguson Seeks Re election for Democratic Term
In Austin on March 1 the candidate Ma Ferguson announced her bid for reelection. She said she needed another term to vindicate her family and to continue her work.
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Ferguson
Austin
Texas
Ma” Ferguson
Revenue projections touch deficit and surplus fêtes
March 1 President Coolidge faced fears the revenue law would create a deficit of 100 million dollars, but Treasury officials estimated a surplus of 11 million dollars by the end of the current fiscal year.
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Tan
Coolidge
Treasury Department
Biplane Spin Kills Pilot in Seattle Practice Flight
SEATTLE March 1 Alonza FE Beil an airplane factory employee was killed at Sand Point yesterday when a Curtis biplane he was piloting in a practice flight fell to the ground. Charles Cairncross the father occupant was seriously injured. They had just taken the air when in making it turn the biplane fell into a spin.
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Seattle
Alonza FE
Beil
Sand Point
Curtis
Charles Cairncross
Halibut Prices Steady in Prince Rupert Market
American halibut fetched 10 6 and 12 6 cents while Canadian halibut sold for 11 6 11 10 and five cents. About four hundred thousand pounds were traded, with the majority being American halibut.
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Princerupert
BG. C
Prohibition Units Chief Proposes Study Commission
Washington March 1 Gen Lincoln C Andrews head of the U S Prohibition Units proposes creating a commission to study all aspects of the prohibition question. This is the first such move in six years since prohibition began and is in response to social concerns and complaints about enforcement and liquor consumption.
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Washington
Lincoln C. Andrews
U. S. Prohibition
Alcohol Supervisor John Foster Named in New York
New York on March 1 reports John Foster has been appointed supervisor of the alcohol industry. He plans to cut output by 2,000,000 gallons yearly from 86,000,000.
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New York
John Foster
Treasury Secretary Mellon Rejects Probe Into Prohibition
March 1 report states Secretary Mellon will not endorse General Andrew’s proposal for an impartial commission to investigate all aspects of prohibition. No further details provided on actions or timing. The note places Mellon opposed to a comprehensive inquiry.
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Mellon Waste von
Secretary of Treasury
Mellon
Gen
Andrew
Much Wanted Man Arrested in San Francisco Case
William Barlow aged 26 known also as William Weller Jack Jordan Jack Glifford and Franklin Voss has been arrested in Tacoma Washington He faces charges in San Francisco for shooting ammonia into a U S Marshal s eyes during the January 29 1925 incident that left Milo Eggers escaped and Ariel Eggers killed The fugitive is also sought in Los Angeles for jewel theft and in British Columbia for piracy He is linked to Milo Eggers led gang looting ships near Vancouver and Victoria from Scotland. Ariel Eggers was killed and Milo Eggers escaped as a Commission on deportation proceedings was about to begin. Deputy U S Marshal John Donnelley was attacked by burning liquid in the eyes during the confrontation.
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Tacoma
Wash
William Barlow
United States
San Francisco
Milo Eggers
Ariel Eggers
Tarlow
William Weller
Jack Jordan
Jack Glifford
Franklin Voss
Voss
Los Angeles
Tie
British Columbia
Barlow
Vancouver
Victoria
Scotland
Milo
U. S
John Donnelley
Donnelley
Federal Building
G O Pin Texas Takes First Stand as Party
Dallas Texas March 1 Peculiar quirks of the Texas primary law trouble the Republican party planning its first state party primary next July The law requires 100000 votes for governor to trigger a primary In the last general election George C Butte Republican governor candidate polled 200000 votes three times the prior Republican tally A dispute over use of ballot boxes voting booths and guard rails has counties in a quandary with formal demand from Republicans for supplies and county officials’ response continues on page three
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
George C. Butte
Miriam A. Ferguson
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