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Evening star., 1925-05-17
PLENTY OF WORK
FOR DISTRICT LABOR
846 Persons Find Jobs
Through U. S. Employment
Bureau Last Week.

Employment conditions in Wash
ington, improved by recent work
awarded on the new conduit to carry
water from the upper Potomac to
Washington and by the boom in
building operations about the Cap
ital, have never been so good as they
are today. The past week, up to
noon yesterday. set a new high rec
ord for job placements during the
NJ. Pilkington, director of the Wash
ington Office of the United States
Employment Service.
Eight hundred and forty-six per-
sons were placed in jobs last week
Mr.. Pilkington said, the largest num-
ber given positions by the public EN-
ployment service since lie became di-
rector three years ago. About SO per
cent of this number were common
laborers, many Of them hired to work
on the new conduit. Wages of S2S
a week, which were regarded as high
for common labor, are being paid for
men on the conduit. Nearly a scoI e
of carpenters have been placed in
employment during the week, while
as many more jobs await men to fill
them in buildings now under con-
struction.
The clerical situation was held by
the employment service director to
be only fair, although there are fewer
distressing cases in Washington than
there were a few months back, when
several score Government employees
were summarily dismissed from their
posts.
THE situation with regard to both
skilled and unskilled labor in Wash
ington today is good" Mr.. Pilkington
declared. There is no reason today
why any man who wants to work
should be out of a job"
Along with the unusual demand for
all kinds of labor now apparent, the
Federal director sees a great demand
for unskilled labor of all kinds in
July and shortly thereafter, when Dis.
trict funds for the next fiscal year
become available. Street improve
ments and many public undertakings,
involving expenditures totaling hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars, will
cause a boom in the employment stu
alton here, he said. Building con
tinues to reach toward new peaks of
activity, with building tradesmen con-
sistently we'll employed and no slack
ing off apparent.
Evening star., 1925-05-17
DR.. WALSH QUOTES
RECORDS OF REDS
Lecture Series on Russians
Brings Thanks-Speaker
Against Recognition.

Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., vice
president of Georgetown University,
closed series of ~ lectures on Rus
STA at the National Museum Friday
night. in an address in which he
voiced strong opposition to recogni-
ton of the Soviet, and said the
American people had ample cause to
be thankful this Government had
never accorded such recognition.
rather Walsh spent nearly three
years in Europe, 81 months of which
were in Soviet territory. During his
course of lectures, opening February
IL, attended by capacity audi
ences of fashionable Washington, the
speaker gave insight into the eco
nomic, political and social life of the
Soviet, from first-hand knowledge.
Thanked by Committee.
At the conclusion of the lecture la st
night, a committee from the audience,
headed by Rear Admiral Benson, Miss
Janet Richards and Dean William
Allen Wilbur of George Washington
University, waited upon Father Walsh
and Dean Wilbur expressed in a
graceful speech, the thanks and ap-
probation Of the clientele for the
illuminating and convincing course
Evening star., 1925-05-17
JEWISH ELEMENTS
UNITED FOR DRIVE
All Groups Represented in Pales-
tine Fund Cam
paign.

Levi H. David, representing the
reformed element of Washington
Jewry, last night was announced as
co-chairman with Jacob Hickman of
the mems division in the $4,000 joint
campaign of the Palestine Foundation
Fund. the Ort and the Emergency
Refugee Relief
Leading teams of reformed workers
as captains will be: Capt. Julius 1.
Peyser, Mordecai Ezekiel, I. B. Nord-
linger, Maurice d. Rosenberg, Harry
Roller, Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, DIR.
Abram Simon, Harry S. Wolf, Jack
Bernstein, Charles Goldsmith, Maur-
ice MaZo and DR.. Bernard Baer.
with the reinforcements from the
solidation of all the clements of
Washington Jewry was made COM
plete. An intensive drive will be
made this week with the campaign
ending a week from tomorrow in an
elaborate banquet and dance at the
Mayf1ower.
with the re-inforcements from the
reformed group" General Chairman
Joseph A. Wilmer said last night, I'VE
should sail over the top. No worthier
CduSc ever WdS put D6lOT6 In6 jewish
people of Washington
The Palestine Foundation Fund is
for the rehabilitation of Palestine, the
Ort Reconstruction Fund for the re-
construction of Central and Eastern
European Jewry and the Emergency
Refugee Relief Fund for the relief
of Jews stranded in foreign ports.
New York City has just finished a
campaign for the Palestine Founda-
ton Fund that went S233, 900 over the
top of the quota of a year ago, the
1925 total being S733,000.
This success was pointed to by
Chairman Wilmer as an indication of
the advance made by the Palestine
movement recently.
Until the end OF June, the close of
its fiscal year, the American Pales.
tine Fund organization expects to
raise an additional million dollars in
cash, and a special call has been is
sued by the national officers to local
committee heads and campaign lead.
ers to strain every effort toward that
end.
The funds are needed, it was
pointed out by Chairman Wilmer, not
only to keep up the normal program
of work of the fund in Palestine, but
to provide for the unexpectedly large
stream of immigrants which has been
pouring into Palestine and which is
expected to increase.
Evening star., 1925-05-17
TELEPHONE PIONEER
CHAPTER IN SESSION
Officers Elected, and Day Includes
Visit to Circus, Luncheon
and Dinner.

More than 275 veterans" of the
telephone industry met at the City
Club yesterday on the occasion of the
third annual meeting of the Alexander
Graham Bell Chapter. No. Is, Tele-
phone Pioneers of America, and elect
ed new regime of officers.
P. o. Coffin, vice president and gen
eral manager of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Co, was elected
president, succeeding w. B. Clarkson,
general commercial manager here.
Fred T. Iddings of Baltimore, G. H.
Weber, division manager at Richmond,
and Miss Anna Lehman, chief opera
tor at Piedmont, w. Va, were elected
vice presidents. and Miss Carolyn H.
Martin of this city was reelected sec
retary-treasurer.
The following executive committee
members were named: w. B. Beals,
outside plant engineer, of this city;
Alfred George, division auditor of re-
ceipts, Baltimore; Miss Ethelyn Good
man, toll chief operator, Lynchburg,
and Charles M. Slack, plant wire chief,
Charleston, w. Va.
At the business session, r. H. Star
rett. secretary of the national society,
announced that his organization will
hold it annual meeting here October
16 ard II at the Mayflower Hotel.
Membership IN the society is re-
stricted to telephone employees who
have been in the service more than
21 years. There are 375 members Of
the local chapter.
After the routine business of the
chapter had been concluded the men,
bers We're rendered a luncheon at the
City Club, following which the entire
membership went to the circus, oc-
cupying a block Of reserved seats.
The third annual meeting came to a
close last night with a dinner at the
Willard Hotel, featured by a number
Of special entertainment numbers
Evening star., 1925-05-17
Bus Line Reports
483,O77 Carried
In Record Month

Continuing to show a steady
gain in business, the Washington
Rapid Transit Co. yesterday re-
ported to the Public Utilities Com
mission that it carried 483,077 pay
passengers in April. the largest
number recorded in a month.
The number of pay passengers
per month since January has been
as follows: January, 346,S37; Febru-
ary, 397.014; March, 461,371, and
April, 4S3,077.
Despite the increase in traffic in
April over March, the company's
net income for April was slightly
lower, due to expenses deferred
from the previous month, it was
reported.
Evening star., 1925-05-17
c., M. &ST.P.PR0bE
ORDERED BY |. c. c.
Receivership Probe Is Step
Taken on Federal Body's
Own Initiative.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
A special inquiry into the manage
ment and financing of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad,
which recently was thrown into re-
ceivership, was ordered yesterday by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The three receivers of the property.
II. Il. Byram, former president of the
road Mark w. Potter, who resigned
from the commerce commission last
February, and Edward j. Brundage,
were made respondents along with the
corporation in the commissions pro-
ceeding. Times and places for hear
ings viii be fixed later.
Full Investigation.
The commissions order said that
the step was taken upon its own
motion, and that the inquiry would
concern the history, management,
financial and other operations, ac-
counts and practices of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad, in
order to determine the manner ana
method in which the business of said
company has been conducted, with a
view to making report and such
order or orders may seem ap-
propriate."
The st. Paul system, one of the
largest in the country, was Volun-
tarily placed in receivership, with the
announcement by its directors that
the corporation would be unable to
refund or refinance a $4S.000,00 bond
issue which falls due in June. Earn
ings during recent years were SAID
to have been inadequate to sustain
the fixed charges and expenses.
though the valuation of the road is
said to be close to s700, 100000. It's
officers declared that competition
from the Panama Canal on trans
continental business, competition by
automobile transportation routes and
low rates and agricultural depression
in the West were responsible for the
step.
Receivership Criticised.
In financial circles some criticism
of the receivership as unnecessary
has been voiced, and Senator Lenroot,
Republican, Wisconsin, recently an
nounced that he would ask a congres-
sional investigation of the subject.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
| issued a statement touching some of
| the reports, which declared that no
application for aid had been made to
| 1t prior to the corporation admission
of inability to meet the liabilities.
A special bill was introduced at the
last session of Congress providing that
| the st. Paul road. which is indebted
| to the Government to the amount of
about $50 900 900 for advances made
after Government control, be given a
lower interest rate than the per cent
now charged. This measure, how.
ever, failed of enactment and was
mentioned by the company's officials
as an additional factor in forcing the
receivership.
Evening star., 1925-05-17
Sues for $4,000.

Mrs. Myra Collins. Shoreham Ho-
tel, has sued the Black & White Taxi
Company, for S25.0 damages for al
legged personal injuries. She was rid
ing in one of the cabs January IS, and
at Fourteenth street and Columbia
road the machine struck a rut in the
roadway, and she was bounced to the
roof of the cab, striking her head and
injuring her spine, the plaintiff says.
She is represented by Attorneys Will
ton j. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeatman
and Austin F. Garfield.
Evening star., 1925-05-17
Rat Exterminator Costly.

Los ANGELES, May IS CP.-The
Rodent determination Department of
Los Angeles, organized late last year,
reports that during the first four
months of 1925 it cost the city $1.40
for every rat captured, except in the
harbor district, where the figure was
81 head. The total cost to the city
during the four months approximated
S125,o00 for the capture of 10000 rats.
Evening star., 1925-05-17

gates have been completed and are
ready for operation.
At three places along the road are
gigantic gates for controlling the flow
through the new main. Should it be
desired to cut out a section of either
conduit at any time, 1t will be done at
one of these gates. When water is
turned into the new conduit in Sep
tember, the work of constructing the
connecting gates to the old conduit
will be started. All of the gates of the
old conduit are covered with houses,
but it is the present intention not to
cover the new gate controls. Eventu-
ally 1t is the purpose of widening con-
duit road to cover the new as well as
the old conduit, and to put up houses
over the gate controls, it is said, would
operate as an obstruction.
Evening star., 1925-05-17
RECEIVER WELCOMES PROBE.

SEATTLE, Wash, May is P).-
Brevity of an announcement from
Washington today that the Interstate
Commerce Commission, following
passing of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul Railway into receiver
ship, had ordered an investigation,
prevents comment, H. L. Byram,
president of the line, stated here
today.
Edward j. Brundage, eight years
attorney general of Illinois, core
ceiver with Byram and with Mark W.
Potter, said IAN investigation is wei
coined, of course
Evening star., 1925-05-17
CHICAGO TERMINAL OPEN
$75, 900, 900 Rail Station Started in
1914 Is COMPLETED.

CHICAGO, May 16 P.-Chicago's
new $4,000 union railway terminal
opened tonight.
Construction of the new terminal, be-
gun in 1914, was halted by the war,
and was resumed in 1920 when Joshua
d Esposito, chief engineer, returned to
Chicago after serving in the United
Evening star., 1925-05-17
Capt. Nichols, Ill, Honored.

Capt. w. H. Nichols, 83 years old,
retired District Government empIoye,
who formerly was employed in the
District assessors Office, was pre-
sented with a large bouquet of flow.
ers by the Grand Lodge of the T. A.
A. NJ. Thursday. Capt. Nichols has
been seriously i'll for several months
He is one of two surviving brothers
of the late Lord Nichols Stewart, who
made his home in Galveston, Tex.
Evening star., 1925-05-17

States Shipping Board service. The
formal dedication will take place in
June.
Evening star., 1925-05-17

Mail boxes are being attached to
street cars in some cities in England.
Evening star., 1925-05-17

An inventor has combined cal
endar and savings bank in such a
way that the dates can be changed
only by the insertion of coins.
Evening star., 1925-05-17


When this project is completed it
VIII present most pleasing appear
ance. The filter water reservoir will
be covered with grass, and the other
parts of the plant, with the exception
of the coagulating basins, will be COW
cred with an attractive building, with
a large tower in the center This
tower will have an ornamental as well
as utilitarian effect because it is
here that the water will have added
the purifying chemicals
One of the most interesting parts of
the whole project is the tunnel
through solid rock at the inlet gates
1t Great Falls. The rock was blasted
Tar the entire length OF the tunnel,
which is reached by descent in a deep
shaft. Although - is electrically
G2hted, it is necessary also for the
workmeh there to wear miners lamps
on their caps. A railroad has been
laid there, for the purpose of trans
porting the concrete with which 1t is
being lined
Gates Are Protected.
The entrance gates at the dam are
protected by great steel rods to fend
1fp pd of 10 dahricz q nd
Evening star., 1925-05-17

The entrance gates at the dam are
protected by great steel rods to fend
off logs and other large debris, and
inside there are small screens to keep
out the smaller material. The inlet
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21
CHARLES HEBRON STARTS
 COMPANY TO MINE SILVER

The Hyder-Skookum Mining Com pany, of which Charles |. Heron, Of Seattle, is the leading spirit, is the latest concern to enter the Portland Canal mining fesld, according to the Hyder Herald.
 The new company was formally launched on it's career with the com pletion of it's organization during Herron's visit to Hyder recently. The officers are: Charles E. Heron, president; B. B. Smith, vice presi- dent; J. G. McEwen, of Seattle, secre- tary; II. J. Edmonds, assistant secre- tary; D. B. Patterson, treasurer. The board of directors comprises B. B. Smith, H. J. Edmonds, c. E. Herroon, J. L. Campbell and D. B. Patterson.
 The company is capitalized for $750,000, divided into an equal num- Der of shares of $1 par value. One thousand shares will be placed on the market at once tor financing pur- poses. The properties owned by the company comprises d large group of claims in the upper Fish creek sec tion on which approximately $10,00O worth of development work will be done this year.
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21

then taxes the public to keep the costly government printing establish- ment in operation. The public also 8 required to pay an additional deficit to cover the cost of transporting the envelopes from Dayton. Ohio, where they are made, to the many postoffices throughout the country, where they are sold below cost. The miners and prospectors of the Kantishna help to pay these deficits, but they cannot buy the envelopes, because they have no postofdce. They are shut off com pletely from postal benefits, but there are no regions in Alaska so remote or neglected otherwise that they are not expected to contribute their bit to make good the losses resulting from government eXtrayagances elsewhere.
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21
BARNEY CHENEY, NOME OLD-
 TIMER, CROSSES DIVIDE

Barney Gibney, sourdough of the K1ondike, the Yukon distrist, Nome and Teller, died in Nome recently, after three weeks illness, at the age of 67.
 Owing to the unusual number of deaths in Nome during last winter there was a scarcity of caskets there, and realizing that it might be necessary to construct a special cas- ket for him, the oldtimer expressed a desire to have it made from the ma hogany bar of the old Dawson saloon, which has been stored in Nome since the old saloon days. Gibney worked in the Dawson saloon for a number of years, and many happy recollec- tions were associated with the old bar.
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

In the Probate Court at Ruby, Nulato Precinct, Fourth Division, Ter ritor yof Alaska, before Al Day ton, United States Commissioner and ex-officio Probate Judge. In the matter of the estate of Thomas Byrne, deceased
 Notice is hereby given that the un- dersigned has been duly appointed ad- ministratoor of the estate of Thomas Byrne, deceased.
 All persons having claims against said estate are required to present them, duly verified, with proper vouchers attached, to the under signed, at the United States Commits sioner's office, Ruby, Alaska, within six (6) months from date of this no- tiee.
 Dated Ruby, Alaska, Nov. IS, 1925.
 JAMES BYRNE,
 Administrator. JOHN ". DUNN,
 Attorney for Estate.
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21

two brown bear cubs to the Washing ton Park Geological Society, of Mil waukee, Wis. The cubs, male and a female, are about three months old, and are believed to be the only pair of genuine Kodiak brown bears in captivity. The animals were captured by native of Afognak. The mother was killed, and her three cubs taken alive, one of which escaped. The hide taken from the mother measured 12 feet in length.
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21
TERRITORIAL SECRETARY.

Karl Thiele, who served the Terri tory during the past four years in the dual capacity of ex-officio secre- tary and surveyor general, took the oath of office on July as the Terri tory's first regularly appointed Sec retary, having been appointed to that office by President Coolidge. T
 The office of surveyor general ceased to exist when TheieIe compiet-
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21
X kANTlsHNA AND THE MAILS
-Anehorage Times.1


 The Postofiice Department refused 70 pay S200 month this summer to provide the people of the Kantishna district with mail service, and that 1ast and struggling region, in conse- quence, has been cut off from the rest 5f Alaska and the outside world throughout the entire season, except for such letters as have been carried to and from the district by chance travellers over the trail. free and at no small inconvenience. And this not 3ithstanding the fact that the Kan ishna district admittedly is one of most promising mineralized areas in the Territory, out undeveloped be- cause of it's isolation
 Some day the copper and silver and gold ores of the Kantishna will be productive to the extent of providing targe tonnage for the Alaska Rail read, but 1t will take a long time to overcome the handicaps under which 1evelopment must be carried on, with out roads, without dependable mail service, without recognition or aid of any sort from the government.
 Uncle Sam has no money to pay for carrying the mail into the Kantishna has none to improve the miserable service imposed upon the great Kus- kokwim district, beyond Kantishna. yet there are fupds almost without limit for the hed .jration and distri- button of official and unofficial propa- ganda-prepared in the government office for individuals and departments and carried by the ostoffice Depart ment without cost to the sender. The men who are trying to develop the Kantishna contribute their proportion to this monumental extravagance, yet they are not privileged to receive the propaganda which they pay to trans port elsewhere
 One of the costly and pernicious practices of the government is the printing of envelopes, seemingly benefit to the public. In this activity the government not only competes with private printing plants, but it does the work for such small price that no private concern could hope to compete with it. It supplies the pub lie with these cheap envelopes and
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21
NOTICE.

Public notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against the estate of the late L. E. Bonham to present them, with proper vouchers, to the undersigned, at Bethel, Alaska, Dated at Bethel, Alaska, this 17th day of September, 1925.
 JAMES J. BROWN,
 Administrator.
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21

Brent Gravroek, a pioneer resident of Douglas, passed away recently from cancer of the stomach, at the age of 72. He was born in Gravrock, orway, and came to the United States Norway, and came to the United States about forty years ago. He came to Douglas from Michigan g years ago, and had resided there scince continuously. He is survived by his wife and four daughters.
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21
Alaska Notes Gleanings From Territorial
 Exchanges.

TOUT young marten, born and raised in captivity on the Goldstein Glacier fur farm near Juneau, were recently exhibited in one of the win dows of the Goldstein Emporium in Juneau The marten were three and one-hal months old, of good size, and would eat from the hands of their caretakers. Crowds which gathered at the windows to see them, gave the little animals no concern.
 A late report from the Kanatak oil fields states that the Standard Oil Company, drilling on the Lee claim, is now down 4,I12 feet. At 1000 feet the bottom of the hole caved, and a strong gas pressure was encountered. Casing was put in, and drilling is now going on in a 1-2-inch hole A gusher may come in now any day, it is said.
 John E. Judge, a well known for mer resident of Valdez, passed away at his home in Seattle few weeks ago. He was 61 years of age, and had been in failing health for some time.
 John Sundbaek, Alaska sourdough, for years a resident of Nome, and for three years a member of the Alaska Territorial Legislature, died in Se- attle on July IS, following amputa- tion of his left leg.
 Last winter Mr. Sundback froze his left foot following 8 fire which de stroyed his cabin at Nome. The foot failed to respond to treatment, and he left Nome on the steamer Victoria on June 20 to seek medical aid in Seattle. It is said that amputation of the left leg above the knee was necessary, and Mr. Sundbaek failed to recover from the operation.
 Mr Sundback was one of the pio- neers of Nome. He was a member of the Territorial Senate in 1917-1919, and president of the Senate in 1923. He had host of friends throughout the Territory.
 Following announcement of MT. sundbaek's s death Dr. A. N. Kittilsen was appointed clerk of the United States District Court at Nome, suc- ceeding MT. Sundback.
 Dr. Kittilsen is also sourdough of the Seward Peninsula, being the first recorder at Nome, appointed at miners meeting in the early days. Previous to the Nome stampede he was connected with the reindeer in- dustry on Golovin bay, going to Nome when the camp started.
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21

W. J. Erskine,, the well known merchant of Kodiak, recently shipped
The Kusko times., 1925-11-21

John E. Judge, a well known for mer resident of Valdez, passed away at his home in Seattle a few weeks ago. He was 61 years of age, and had been in failing health for some time.