THE ALASKA. DAILY EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL XXL, NO. 3187.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1923.
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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
FROZEN TO DEATH ON ALASKA TRAIL
O’MALLEY REPLIES TO SUTHERLAND
SARDONIC REPLY
TO CHARGES OF
DAN SUTHERLAND
Fish Commissioner Henry
O’Malley Comes Back to
Delegate’s Charges.
COMMITTEES MAY COME
NORTH TO INVESTIGATE
Department of Commerce Is
sues Invitation to Con
gressmen for Trip.
WASHINGTON. March 8. — Fish
Commissioner Henry O'Malley today
announced that the Department of
Commerce has invited members of
the House and Senate committees
dealing with fisheries to go to
Alaska during the Congressional re
cess and inspect the fishing reserves
recently enlarged by Presidential
order.
Commurioner O'Malley dealt sar
donically with Alaska Delegate Suth
erland's charges of an “alleged fish
grab, etc.,'' saying that this terrify
ing gigantic piece of corruption not
only embraces the old villianies cf
the salmon canners. embalmed fish
i slim. War Department frauds, the
Chicago meat packers, all of whom
are busy levying graft for their ne
farcious purposes, but the iniquity
also falls upon Stanford University,
which truly needs the money, invrlv
ing eminent professors of zoology at
Stanford, the Universities of Wash
ington, Illinois and others, the Cali
fornia Academy of Science, the Am
erican Association of Fishermen, the
Fish Commissioners of California,
Oregon and Washington, none of
whom ever has ertcugh money; upon
right Chambers cf Commerce and
Pioneer Igloos of Alaska, none of
whom arc able to collect all their
dues."
WOMAN FOUND
GUILTY MURDER
TRIES SUICIDE
Verdict brought in by Jury
Which Was Told to Try Case
with Heads Not Hearts.
NEW YORK. March 8. The jury
vHiich tha judge hail exhorted to try
the case with their heads instead of
their hearts, found Mrs- Paulette Sa
lad oa guilty of second degree mur
der of Oecwr Mar.telliere, u broker.
The sentence carries from 20 years
to life ftnsltead of a possible first
degree veTd.ict with electrocution.
On the way to her cell after the
verdict was rendered, the woman
swallowad a box bellowed to have con
tained poisonous brass polish. She
was carried groaning to her coll.
Later Mrs. Saludeu tried to slash
her throat with the lid of a tin
box and also attempted to dash hor
brains against tha walls of her cell.
The murder 'was committed after
Mrs. Snludes clalimed Martelller had
Induced her to leave her husband,
taiken all Of her money and then
told her to go her own way.
Washington Arms Treaties
To Be Ratified by French
PARiBS, March 8.—The French gov
ernment iwtlH usk the Chamber of
Deputies to vote on ratliflcation of
the Washington Arms treaties. This
was the statement made today by
M4 ulster of Marine Raifearti in the i
Chamber. J
WUI Give His Life for
League of Nations.
At. Leon Bourgeois, President of
the French Senate, will resign to
devote all hie time and energy to
the spread of tile League of Na
tions, believing that only through
it.G agency can future wars ho
averted.
WAGE RAISE
IS ANNOUNCED
Butte Miners Are Boosted in
Pay—Scale Is Effective
on March 1 5.
(BUTTE, Meat., .March X. A raise
in wages effective on March 15 was
today posted in all mines in the
Butte district. The new scale gives
ft he men a minimum of $5.25 per
shift- The raise affects on the day
shifts. Contracts are not affected.
RAISE IN MICHIGAN
HOUGHTON. Mich.. March S The
Cailumet and Hecio Copper Company
and all subsrdaries announced a gen
eral wage increase from 10 to 20
per cent effective as of March 1.
This announcement was made today.
WAGES BOOSTED
WALLACE. Idaho. March 8.—An
increase of 50 cents a day to min
ers throughout the Coeur d'Alene dis
trict ran announced today. This is
the result of the rise recently in
I'h? price of lead.
Wins Championship
In the Egg League
WINLOCK, Wash., March 8 In
Ithe presence of a large crowd,
Charles Smith, a lumberjack who
towers six feet six inches in his
stocking feet, established himself as
the champion eater of this section.
At one sitting he ate two dozen fried
eggs and a 12-inch slice of h tm.
After the feat he declared he t.al
only Started 'to appease his appltc
and he offered to wager he could
eat another dozen eggs.
Picks Strawberries
Right Out in Snow
TEXIXO, Wash., March 8. Ripe
strawberries, despite cold weather
and snow, rare being gathered here
by Frank Whalen. His strawberry
plants have a groat many ripe and
preen becrios and a profusion of blos
soms.
Governor Hardwick to Be
Special U. S. Attorney
ATLANTA, Ga„ March 8—Gov.
Thomas W. Hardwick, of Georgia, an
nounced today that he would accept
■the appointment of special lrnitod
States Attorney at the expiration of
his term next June*
IL & DIRIGIBLE BEING BUILT
FOR FLIGHT TO EARTH'S POLES
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NEW YORK, iMairch 8.—The North
and South Pole# may soon bo con
quered b.v atr. Roar Admiral Mof
fetr. CbiQf the Naval Bureau of
Aeronautics, made this statement to
day when he announced (hat the
dirigible ZR-1, now under construc
tion, was for ithe purpose of ftolnn to
pne of the poles. The dlrigrible will
ibe launched about July 1,
HALIBUT MEN
AGREE TREATY
GREAT THING
Officers of Fishing Vessels
Owners Association in
Accord with Treaty.
HALIBUT INDUSTRY IS
FAST BEING KILLED OFF
Spawning Fish Have Been
Taken from Deep at Rate
Which Is Alarming.
SEATTLE. Mu roll 8.—Officers of
the Falling Vo xels Owners’ Associa
tion are in perfect 'accord with tho
treaty between the United States and
j Canada for a closed halibut scaecn
from November 15 to February 15.
It is stated at the headquarters
I of the Association that the officers
| pointed out thabvhalibut is growing
| scarcer each year, ajul the catches
i decreasing.
One officer of the Association said
, halibut begin to spawn about Nov
ember 1 and that 1,000 spawning
| tlsh uro taken every year under
| present conditions.
The Association officer also said
| hooks of the halibut fleet dragged
j t he floor of tho ocean destroying the
spawn.
HERRIN RIOT
DEFENSE WINS
LEGAL POINT
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Victory Is Claimed When Evi
dence Against One Defend
and Practically Ruled Out
j MAIUON. 111., March 8.—The de
fense in the second trial in connec
tion with the herein rioting claimed
| a victory today In the ruling: regard
ing testimony against Bert Grace,
one of the defendants in the non
union miners' slaying, by which It
Us claimed Grate is eliminated from
the case.
The ruling followed the long legal
battle over testimony of Fred Harri
son, student of the University of
Ulinotis, whom the prosecution sought
to slliow that Grace had been carry
ing a gun about a mile from ilia spot
where a miner named Mulkovieh' was
slain.
The court permitted the testimony
but indicated it would Instruct the
Jury that the prosecution must show
the grand Jury that Grace conspired
to kill or actually participated in;
tiae Millings.
Hugh Willis, of tile State Board,
I member of the Illinois Mine Workers,
was pointed out by a witness today
on the stand as 'the man who ordered
‘'kill them all" after the mob took i
+8 nun-unioners from the mine of thei
Southern Illinois Coal Company lust i
June.
MIGHT RIDERS j
START ALIBIS!
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State Rests in Oregon Night,
Riders Case—Defendants
Declare Innocence.
MEDFORD, Or©.. March 8. J. F.
Hals, alleged victim of the night rid
ers, wasj today started on his way to
S-ati Diogo. .Physicians assert that
l^ile would never recover from his
present illness, caused by being
strung up several times by the mob,
If he rema.ined in Medford during I
the nemniindor of the trial.
I.ato yesterday afternoon the state
rested.
Dr. Joiiett P. Rrav, J. F. Hit ( son
and Howard Hill, the throe defend
ants in it he night riding case, de
clared Itheir innocence and related
pi ibis.
No Wedding Ring On
Her Finger—Yet.
Mlia Mary Lundon Baker, Chi
cago heir esc, who left young Al
lister McCormick "waiting at the
church” on so many occasions,
both here and in England, lias re
turned from Europe —• sans wed
ding ring. She declares she will
never marry McCormick. Miss
Baker came hack with a lavishly
augmented wardrobe and a broad
English accent, and it is reported
now she is to wed a Britisher—
Geoffrey Algernon Cunard. of the
famous steamship family, who mot
lier at the pier in New York.
PULP TIMBER
CONSERVATION
IS SUGGESTED
Two Prominent Men Appear
Before Special Commit
tee of U. S. Senate.
WASHINGTON. March 8 -Secre
tary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace
and Hugh B. Baker, executive secre
tary of tin- American Paper & Pulp
Association, today urged a national
policy to conserve timber before a
special Senate commisslion of retor
est ration. This committee will next
month start a tour of the principal
timber grounds of the country.
-Baker raid ’the paper men were
ldoking to the South as a source for
pulp. He also said that Alaska pulp
timber had great possibilities hut
•the forests were at such a great dis
tance from the population center that
this would make development slow
Commit Double Murder;
Confess; Recover Bodies
•FRANK LINTON. La, March 8.—
The bodies of Willis Crane and Wiley
Pierce, deputy sheriffs, slain by moon
shiners, iwere today found buried
in the mud Into which they had
been pressed with tho carcass of a
dead cow.
The slayers, John Murphy and
Gideon Heater, confossed to the
crimp ami led the officers to the
burial spot.
PASS SUITABLE
FISHERIES BILL, j
SUGGESTS BONE.
Assures Legislature of Sup
port of Administration
to Impartial Law.
SUGGESTION WILL BE
ADOPTED, IS BELIEF
Members of Opinion Legisla-'
ture Will Undertake to
Enact Full Code.
The formulation of h u adequate
fisheries code for Alack* w:ih pti.
squarely up to the Territorial Legis
lature yesterday afternoon by Gov.
Scott (' Bens, who, d!gre.;:i:ng from
the prlnicsl copy of his message, said
the Administration an) the Depart
ment of ■Commerce would welcome
I such a measure. This came nt the
olo#e of the Governor's remarks on
! the fisheries situation in which he
, declared that the Administration did
not wholly favor the reservation sys
item but had adoptel it as an ex
pedient ponding the enactment of a
| suitable code.
“In this connection," said Cover
j nor Bone, “I am authorised by Sec
rotary Hoover to say the department
of Commerce will welcome a mean
juro prepared hero for the protection
<ft the fisheries,, safeguarding the In
terests of the ^Perrlww.v. .the rights
of a,H Alaskans and fa.ir to those
with investments in the Industry
It any committee or tho entire Legis
lature will prepare such a measure
I can promise you the support of
Secretary Hoover and the Adminis
tration"
Measure Will He Introduced
| It is virtually certain that a flsh
i cries measure, or poasibly two or
three, will be introduced in the hear
future, said members of both Houses
j hist night. “Wo had always under
| stood t hat we could not Ret any
j where by enacting any measure torj
the protection or regulation of fish
[eries. Wo will certainly accept the!
suggestion of Governor Bone and
pass a bill that will have the ai>-1
proval of the majority of Alaskans."j
said Senator frank A Aldrich. Otli
jer members expressed a like opinion.;
Tho Governor’s statement was di ;
rectly in point «*th one made by |
Secr'et '"y Hoover in a letter to the
former which appeared in The Um
pire in its Issue of March 2. In
that letter the Secretary said in
part:
“The Department dues not wish
to create any special privilege
f -r anybody, nor sloes it wish to
destroy any proper part of the
Industry, whether fishermen or
cannerB. What is wants is to
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Claims 100,000
Separated from
Government Payroll
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WASHKVOTOX. March 8. During
ithtt two years of the Harding ail-1
ministration almost 100,000 employees!
have been separated from the «ov-j
eminent service. Thiis Is according I
to a statement Issued from the White I
House today, made and published at i
the direction of President Harding
Charge State Senator
With Spending Big Sum
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ST. PAUL. Minn., March 8. State
Senator James A. Curley has been t
charged tbetore a special legislation
commission of the Republican party'
with having collected and spent more
than $1,000,000 during the 1920 elec
tion campaign n Minnesota.
Turkish Government Hopes
Treaty be Negotiated
CONST ANTIXOPLE, March K
WhUo the Angora Assembly has da-*
elded ithe Lausanne treaty is not (
nccepta’hle. the government ha> au- 1
thorized continued negotiation^ on 1
the conditions that the questions w.ill |
be settled in conformity with cron- 1
ple.tr independence to the Turkish
nation.
Woman Is Assistant U. S.
District Attorney.
tl^ltyxAIma JyGytxrj:
Miss Alma Myers, of San KVa li
cit &co, has been appointed Arfllatant
United Stales District Attorney by
Attorney General ItaURliorty. She
'bar. been practicing law for sev
eral years.
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BANK SHORTAGE
IS DISCOVERED
Alleged Shortage of $600,
000 Found—Bond Cash
ier Attempts Suicide.
SPRINGFIELD. Ohio, March 8.
Examiners are clucking the books of
the Springfield National Bank, which
has closed its doors following discov
ery of an apparent shortage of
1600.000 in Liberty Bond accounts.
A. M. Penfield, cashier, who had
charge of the Liberty Bond accounts,
Is recovering from an attempted
suicide but charges have not as yet
boon placed against him.
Today Penfield confessed that he
is responniblo for tile shortage.
Coup d’etat Prevented
By Arrest of Fifteen
MUNICH, March 8. — A coup d'etat
[or the middle of 'this month hua
been prevented by the arrest of 15
perrons here. This is according ti?
the Munich authorities.
DUBLIN, March 8. Ail explosion
of trigger mines atltwo barriers
killed 12 Irish prisoners here early
today. Tlie National troops were
moving from Tralee to Killorgin and
mcountered the barriers. The pris
oners were set to work removing
them when the explosions oceurrod.
FIVE MEDAL WINNER ENDS HIS
THIRTY YEARS’ HERO SERVICE
SAN FRANCISCO, Match 8. Her
geaut John Swift. U H. A., famous
[ndi.in fighter, wearer of five cl j s
tlugulshcd service medals and said
to he the only niun in the service
who has a medal for bravery in the
Indian wars, will retire this month,
ifter 30 years In Untclo Sam's service,
to spend hits •remaining days on a
farm.
The docoratlons worn by Sergeant
Swift were awarded for gallantry In
five different wars in various parts
of th" world. They Include the In
dian war inciignla. Spanish war deco
ration. Philippine .insurrection medal.
Mexican border modal and a decora
tion for (Ustingilished service dur
ing the World War. During his en
tire "period of service he has borne
in excellent record, without a single
mark being chalked up against him
ror discipline.
He enlisted in the army with the
First Cavalry In lSS.Y. ami three
rears liter participated in his first
battle with Crow Indians on the
Ulttle Big Horn River During
dial encounter ho is ered ted with
having shot and killed an Indian
•liief. after his own jfi; -o had been
tilled under him.
The next year Sergo mt Swift par
ic.lpa.ted in a campaign against In
linns in Northern Wyoming on the
lYingne River. In those days, ac
W. 0. MARX, OF
TELLER, DIES
IN BLIZZARD
j United States Commissioner
Perishes Alone on an Un
| marked Trail—Frozen
IS SEPARATED FROM HIS
PARTNER IN BUZZARD
John Reed, Associated With
Marx Narrowly Escapes
Death at Same Time.
NOME, March 8. — W.,0. Marx,
United States Commisioner at Teller,
has been frozen to death on an un*
marked trail between Teller and Ear
Meuntain, 23 miles from Teller.
John Reed and Marx were return
ing from a prospecting trip when
they became separated in a blizzard.
Reed nairowly escaped death, fall
ing over a 400 foot precipice.
Reed finally reached Teller safely
wheie he organized a searching
party to go out and search for Marx
Marx leaves a wife and two
children.
Marx was about 45 years ot age
and had resided on Seward Penin
sula (or more than 18 years, accord
ing to Representative J. P. Daly,
c\( Nome. He resided at Nome for
•everal years and was employed at
one time 'by the D. E. Crowley Gro
cery Company He removed to Teller
Whout or raven Jeurs ago.
Marx was appointed as V. 8. Com
nilraioner at Teller in 1»17 by Judge
W. A Holzheimer and has acted In
that capacity since that time. He
lalso looked after the reindeer Inter
! eBts of the Ix>men Company,' having
general supervision of the herds In
! i he Teller district.
Plane Dives Into River;
Two Aviators Are Killed
WAISHINUTO.,. March 8—Lieut.
R. M. Farrar, naval aviator, and
Stephen F Sullivan, mechanic, were
killed when the aeroplane they were
bringing here fell into the Delaware
Rlvor this morning, seven miles from
Philadelphia.
I Negro Miners Are to
Be Sent to Ruhr Area
NEW YORK, March 8—Harry V.
Dougherty, arriving here on the Ma
jestic, announced 'he has perfected
pi ins to transport from 2,500 to^.OOO
American nejrro miners ‘to the Ruhr
district. Tile miners will be used
1 by the French government.
cording to his own story, when the
telephone ami telegraph were little
heard of, he was obliged to travel
120 roller on horseback as a message
hearer from post to post. He claims
to have traveled on horseback
through almost every section of the
N'.irth west.
In 1x92 Sergeau' Swift saw duty
at the Presidio here, where he Is
now stationed, and in 1898 left with
his detachment for Manila to par
j ticiput ■ in the war with Spain. He
, lefi the service for a short period
| in 1890.
i In 1911 he war In charge of
I mounted scouts on the Mexican bor
I rter; aftor several years of quiet em
j'balked for the old world to particl
; pate In the World War, serving in
Itho Aisne, Argonne and St. Mihiel
j sectors.
Veteran army officers at the Pre
sidio say that Sergeant Swift was a
( member of a “sacrifice squad” In
i the Philippines in 1S98. With seven
[other men, he made a forced landing
j at Santa (Vuz. and thus purposely
directed the fire of the Spanish
tretops upon them. The America®
forces me intime stormed through
i n'.oughs and dugouts and got Into po
sition before the surprised Span
tanls could return their sudden fire.
The city was taken, but Sergeant
Swift was shot through the neck and
lay unconscious for several days. **
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