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THE ALASKA AILY THE NEWS ALL THE VOL. NO. 2427. JUNEAU, ALASKA, 13, 1921. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.

PRICE TEN CENTS. CAPITAL MOST NECESSARY AT PRESENT TIME Remarkable Address Made Today by E. H. Gary to Commencement Class. DEFINES ISSUES OF CAPITAL AND LABOR Anarchy or Sovietism Will Result if Main Progress Principles Lost.

SYRACUSE, June 13 E. H. Gary, chairman of the Hoard of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation, told Syracuse University students in an commencement address today that capital is necessary to the progress and prosperity of every country and any people. The only alternative to it, he declared, was the anarchy or Sovietism now gnawing at the vitals of Russia. This Russian system he a poison in the natural system or iSat'tOlnal and individual life which would eventuate in destruction.

If the people of America would sutdy the facts about this tfttal question, he said, there would be no epidemic of Sovietism here. Capital and the rights of all people would be conserved. In this country'the door of opportunity is open to both capital and labor and neither, he said, should be permitted to abuse it. n. nilal vra a Ho expressed the opinion that there might be no objection to- a fair and reasonable law subjecting organized capital, exceeding certain amounts, to governmental Inquiry and restriction in its uses, "provided organized labor should also be subjected to the same Mr.

Gary began by pointing out that the people of the United States have the greatest opportunity for success In every department of worthy endeavor. The expression that "the world owes each individual a living," was too frequently used and It was foolish to endeavor to support that claim by citing the acknowledged principle that all men are created free and equal. This meant, he said, no more and no less than, the right of protection and opportunity. Speaking on the of capital and labor, Mr. Gary said that these two interests recognize their Interdependence but that outsiders often seek to antagonize them He declared, however, that the majority of employers or managers of business are more solicitous for the welfare of the workmen and do more to promote their.

comfort and happiness than outsiders ever have done or were disposed to do. Labor was never in the world's history mere highly respected nor treated as liberally as today, he declared. It had been demonstrated to be profitable to the employer to treat the workmen fairly and this would insure the latter full justice. Need of Capital. Laying etress on the necessity of capital he said: "Money is essential to provide facilities for preparing one to accomplish the best results in any profession or calling.

The material progress and prosperity of any and every country are to an enormous extent the result of large capital. Without these the inhabitants would De neither happy nor comfortable. "Accumulated capital provides the (Continued on l-age Eight.) BUSINESS BECOMING STAGNANT IN GREECE; AMERICAN COSINESS MEN ARE IDLE; SHIPPING IS PROSTRATED ATHENS, June in Greece has fallen off to such an ex tent that American commercial rep reaentatlves find themselves without anything to do. Trade In all lines haa become stagnant. The shipping bneineaa Is prostrated.

The only vessels to arrive in Salonihl harbor a during the last three weeks were two hospital ships bearing dead an.1 wounded from the Anatolian front. The government is buying nothing except a limited quantity of food sup plies for the army. It is withhold (Couttnued on Page Bevea.) BRIDE OF BANISHED GERMAN 1 I I i Miss Virginia Mackay-Smith. socially prominent in Washington, Philadelphia and other large cities, was recently married in Hamburg, Germany to Captain Karl Iloy-Ed, former naval attache to this country. The bride Is the daughter of the late Bishop Alexander Mackay-Smith, of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.

The romance of Miss Mackay-Smith and the German diplomatist, dates back to 1912, about the time she made her debut in Washington. Boy-Ed was one of the most popular bachelor diplomatists in Washington and they formed an attachment which endured the rigors of war in which their respective countries were involved. i FLOOD OF RESERVATIONS FOR ALASKA PORTS ON STEAMERS INTO SEATTLE OFFICES Coastwise Shipping May Be Exempt from Panama Tolls WASHINGTON, June Senate inter-oceanic canaj commit- tee has favorably reported a bill ex empting coastwise shipping from i paying Panama Canal tolls. The committee vote was unani- mous after Senator Walsh, of Mon-, tana, withdrew his request that hearings be held. The decision on the report of the bill was reached, exempting only coastwise steamers, instead of all American steamers, as was embodied in the Jones-Poindexter bill, after the committee had been assured that Great Britain, during the Taft ad ministration, had formally conceded the Hay-Pauncefort treaty authorized free tolls to American coastwise.

Shoe Convention Held Tomorrow in Frisco SAN FRANCISCO, June dealers front California, Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Nevada, Montana and Arizona are expected to attend the third annual convention of the California Retail Shoe As soclation to be held here June 14, 115 and 16. Several national leaders in the shoe industry will speak at the conI vention, It was announced here re1 cently. SEATTLE, June of Ihe Pacific Steamship Company, the Admiral Line, say that since the resumption of sailings of their steamers to the North, they have been flooded with reservations to Alaska points. Tho City of Seattle, sailing last Saturday, had 237 passengers aboard including many tourists The Spokane arrived here last night and will sail again next Sunday, June 19.

On her next trip she will call at Sitka instead of Taku Glacier for the benefit of the tourists already booked. The Admiral Watson will, sail Wednesday for ports in Southeast ern and Southwestern Alaska. She will have many tourists aboard. The Admiral Goodrich has sailed for Alaska ports loaded to capacity with freight and 40 passengers. The freighter will call at Juneau before going westward.

Evans Being Towed In PORTLAND, June Steamer Admiral Evans, of the Admiral Line, en route to Portland from San Francisco, has been picked up in a disabled condition off Crescent City, California, by the Admiral Schley, and is being towed here. The machinery of the Admiral Evans is said to be damaged. Army Airplanes to Start Forest Patrols This Week EUGENE, June United States army airplanes on June 15 will begin their summer task ot patrolling the forests of Western Oregon to detect and report forest fires. The planes will be stationed at Eugene and will be be commanded by Captain Lowell H. Smith.

Co-operation bWreen the army air service and the -forest service has been assured. The planes will report all fires by wireless to the forest service, which will send fire fighters to the scene. The planes will make headquarters at the Eugene municipal aviation field. Other planes will be located at Medford, south of here. scon C.

BONE NOW GOVERNOR OF NORTHLAND BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 13. Scott C. Bone, nominated last week by President Harding to be Governor of Alaska, was confirmed by the United States Senate this afternoon. Mr. Bone will be the guest of honor at a banquet to be given next Friday night, John H.

Perry, owner of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, being the host and many Alaskans being among the guests. The new Governor of Alaska is expected to leave within the next eight or ten days for Seattle and then for Juneau, the capital of Alaska. A meeting of the special committee of the Juneau Commercial Asso elation recently appointed to ar range for a reception to the new Governor, has been called for tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock by Chair man W. G. Johnson.

The meeting will be held at Mr. Johnson's office at the Juneau Hardware store. The committee will not only ar range for meeting Mr. Bone and his family at1 the steamer, but will make definite arrangements for a public reception so that the people of this vicinity may have an opportunity to meet the new chief executive of the Territory. Mr.

Joli he hoped it would cure a committee of women to meet Mrs. Bone at the time the boat arrives here. Members of the committee on ar rangements aro W. G. Johnson, chair man; B.

M. Behrends, Charles Gold stein, R. K. Robertson, H. L.

Faulk ner, Oak Olson. John W. Troy and George W. Folta. gompersIpens CONVENTION OF LABOR; SPEECH msnvkk, June uomp era, president of the American Federation of Labor, addressing the opening session of the federation this afternoon, made a plea for a closer co-operation between organized industry and the farmers.

Compere warned that lie same interests that are promoting the alleged antiunion drive are trying drive the farmers back from the position they have attained in the last few years." Oompers declared that the labor movement in America now stands intact and will continue to stand so. predict that before winter there will be five million members in the American Federation of said Oompers. Gompers was given a great ovation, the delegates cheering wildly. DENVER, une 13. Matthew Woll, President of the International Labor Press Conference, declares in Ills annual report, that the labor and trade union press of America must dedicate its resources to assisting the trade union movement in re-establishing world peace; in repealing restrictive war lime laws and in combating attacks of the anti-union interests.

I Sugar Drops to Lowest Point In Five Years i SAN FRANCISCO, June 13 Refined sugar cane dropped 35 cents per hundred weight at the refineries today. Sugar is now at $6.40. Beet sugar has dropped to $6.20. These are the lowest prices for fire years. NEW GOVERNOR OF ALASKA Scott C.

Bone, newspaperman, who was today confirmed by the United States Senate us Governor of Alaska. LESS GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION AND MORE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM! KEY NOTE OF FLAG DAY SPEECH Wilson Will Keep His Ideals Before I The Public i WASHINGTON, Juno Former President Woodrow Wilson, in receiving a delegation of Princeton University students late last Saturday aft- ernoon, is quoted as saying lie plans to keep his ideals activt- I ly before the public. Sims Has Not Received Request to Come LONDON, June Admiral William S. Sims said today that ho had not received Secretary of the Navy message immediately recalling him. Two weeks ago he stated he would leave on Wednesday and his plans remain the same.

Sims was Saturday reported to have been called back to Washington, owing to trouble arising out of his remarks made in a speech here recently concerning Irish sympathizers In America. Hundred Foreign Miners Driven Out by Vigilantes PRINCETON, Ind June 13. More than 100 miners in Glbsrn and Pike counties have been forced to leave by the miners' vigilantes. There was no bloodshed. Weeks Suggests Uncle Sam Purchase Cape Cod Canal WASHINGTON.

June tary of War John Weeks has recommended the purchase by the government of the United States of the Cape Cod Canal for Water in Columbia and Willamette Rivers Drop PORTLAND. Ore 'June 13 first drop Is reported today in the Columbia and Willamette Rivers since the recent disastrous floods. "-V) Jk Asserting that the basic American idea is that government is instituted solely for the protection of citizens in their right to work out their own individual destinies, unhampered by restrictive regulations, J. A. Hellenthal, who delivered the oration at the Elks' Flag Day exercises yesterday afternoon, made an impassioned plea for less governmental regulation and more individual freedom.

He urged Elks and all good Americans to exercise unceasiing vigilance in seeing that the nation kept this idea constantly in view. Mr. Hellenthal said the country was suffering more from the operations of the bureaus and commissions at Washington than from the propaganda of the Bolshevists. Destroying Government. are two forces now at work trying to destroy the fabric of our said the speaker.

"One is working at the roof and the other is boring at the He declared that the roof workers, comprising those who believe in the yovernment regulating everybody and everything, are more I dangerous to the country's welfare the Bolshcvlki, who he said (are trying to topple over the entire I existing order. No Good Commission. "There never has been such a thing as a good asserted Mr. Hellenthal, I am prove it. You hear people unlver(Contluued on Page Two.) Halibut Catches Increasing 7 Gain Made In Four Months I-1 Short Circuits Caused by Spiders; Service Crippled BUENOS AIRES, June 13 large part of the telegraph service Into the Interior of the country is in terruptod, as occurs almost annually 'at this time, as a ult of weaver spiders, whose long silken lines crossing the wires cause short clr1 cults.

SEATTLE. June halibut fisheries of the North Pacific show an Increase over last year for the first four months of the present year. One hundred and ninety-one vessels landed 2,667.800 pounds of halibut, valued at $388,552. The four first months of last year only 215 vessels landed 2.720.000 pounds, valued at $396,021. The halibut catches brought here are from Cape Flattery, Vancouver Island, West Const, Hecate Straits and Alaska.

I vi. i ROY GARDNER ELUDES THOSE HUNTING HIM Mail Robber Who Made Escape from Train FridayStill at Large. COUNTERFEITER PYRON IS EASILY CAPTURED Second Man Who Escaped from Train Is Taken Without Firing Shot. KELSO. June Gardner, mail robber, who escaped from two United States marshals last Friday night by jumping from a railroad train after handcuffing the officers, has not yet been apprehended.

Gardner was being taken to McNeil Island penitentiary to serve his sentence. Norris H. Pyron, counterfeiter, who escaped at the time Gardner made his get-away, was recaptured on the outskirts of this villege late yesterday afternoon by W. A. Pratt, member of a posse.

Pyron offered no resistance, although he was armed. Pyron told the officers he separat ed from Gardner as soon as the two escaped from the moving train near Castle Rock. Posses are scouring the country for Gardner and airplanes are also aiding in the search. This afternoon sheriffs of three counties are directing the efforts of posses in the hopes of capturing Gardner. It is believed he Is hiding in a swamp nearby.

It Is pointed out1 that if he escapes from the there are many avenuea through which he may he able to pass and once out 'it will be difficult to capture him. There are officials who believe Gardner has confederates up the Cowlitz River and they may have sent aid to him. NORTHWESTERN IS TURNED BACK BY SHIPPING BOARD SEATTLE, June was announced this forenoon that the steamer Northwestern, of the Alaska Shipping Board, on her last trip to Alaska! to carry supplies North, has been turned back to the company. The Alaska Steamship Company will operate the Northwestern with a crew on her sailing today from here for Southeastern and Southwestern Alaskan ports. Duke of Devonshire Will Retire to Private Life LONDON, June the I Duke of Devonshire return- to Eng i land from Canada, after laying down his dunes as governor-general, he will, according to press reports, re- tire entirely from public life and i pass much of his time at Chatsworth, is now being prepared tor I his reception.

It is understood that the duches3 will resume her former appointment as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Mary..