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VOL. XXL, NO. 3210
JUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENT&
LITERACY
BILL LOST BY
TIE VOTE
I
GOLDSTEIN IS
NAMED MAYOR
BY ELECTORS
Citizens’ Ticket Nearly Makes
Clean Sweep — Judson
Elected to Council.
In yesterday's municipal election.
I. Goldstein was elected Mayor and
Myth him J. Latimer Gray, J. .1 Con
n*rs. 'H. H. 'Shepard ami William
Reck ot the Citherns' Ticket were
elected to Ithe Council.
Thomas B. Judson was the only
successful candidate bn the People's
Ticket, Winning a two-year term as
member of the City Council.
The Citizens’ Ticket swept all three
precincts.
M. B. Summers and M L. Merritt
were elected members of the School
BtUrd w.Ull little opposition.
The ■weather was tine and nearly 1
90 per cent tf the registered vote j
was cast.
The candidates and their friends |
were active unt'.J t'he close of the
polls at 7 o'clock in getting out the;
votes.
The total vote was 833 as com
pared with 830 lust ye.tr, s»03 .n 1.U1,
and 806 in 1920.
While the contest was spirited,
there <was little or no bitterness in
it, and everybody was good 11 at it rod I
throughout the day.
A. P. McKinnon ts the hold-over
councilman.
March Customs
Receipts Have
Broken Records
WASHINGTON. April 4 —
Majrth customs receipt^ totalling '
1*2,07^.000 brtKe 'AIT records,
the nearest approach being last
1 September, when the receipts
f were >53,135,000.
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CATHOLIC HEAD
IN RUSSIA IS
SHOT BY SQUAD
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MOSCOW, April 4. — Mnnsignor
Constantine Butclikavltch. vicar
genera) of the Roman Catholic
Church in? Russia, who wap con
demned to death for wilfully op
posing the Soviet Government, was
executed by a firing squad last Sat
urday It la announced here.
Butler and Harding
Have Long Conference
AUGUSTA, On , April 4.—Nich
olas Murray Butler, at a conference
With Praeldent Harding, recommend
ed the proposal that the United
States accept membership in the
International Court of Justice as an
Issue the Republicans can safely
taken before the country.
President Harding and Butler dis
cussed various angles of the ques
tion at length.
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Krupp Employees
Will Strike for
24 Hour Period
—
BERLIN, April 4.—Employees of
the Krupip Motor Plant at Essen,
■Will go on a 24-hour strike as a
protest against the French action
laett Saturday in firing on a (frowd
to Krupp workers, killing 11 per
sons and seripudly wounding aj
score. The plant employs about
54,000 men.
SHOT IN BRAIN; HAS HEADACHES;
FULLY CONSCIOUS; WILL RECOVER
UL.Y, Nev., April 4—With a bullet
imbedded in Ms brain. Martin luaa
ragarat, 28. a Spaniard, wounded in a
•booting affray here February 17, is
fully comacvau3, feels only a slight
headache, and is expected to recover.
'Iuzaraga rat. former service man,
Md said to have been in poor physi
cal condition on account of shell
Bbook, deserted his wife, Mary
Ubalde. 30, also iSpunisdi. about fouri
months ago. 10 days after their mar
riage here, and wont to California.
U« then wrote to her, asking to be
taken bark, which who refined to do.
Returning to Ely. he engaged in an
altercation with her at the lodging
house sho conducted. When she
asked Etcbebarrcn. a* lodger, to go
tor the police. Iuxaragarat shot them
both and, fleeing, turned the revolver
on himself, inflicting head and ab
dominal wounds.
After a violent hemorrhage he
seemed perfectly rational and com
plained of no pain, except that his
head ached. Ho Inquired for the oth
ers and was informed that they were
hot it recovering.
WINNERS IN YESTERDAY’S ELECTION
Mayor—I. Goldstein, Citizens' Ticket.
Councilmen — (two years) — J. L. Gray, Citizens Ticket;
Thomas R. Judson, People's Ticket; J. J. Connors, Citizens' Ticket.
Council men — (one year) — H. R. Shepard, Citizens’ Ticket; j
William Reck, Citizens’ Ticket.
School Board—(one year term)—M. B. Summers.
School Board—(three year term—M. L. Merritt.
VOTE
BY PRECINCTS.
No. 1 No. 2
FOR MAYOR
Goldstein
Woodard
(Cit.)
(Peo.)
263
186
238
246
223
216
199
137
FOR COUNCIL (Two Years)
Gray (Cit.).
Judaon (Pea.) .
Connors (Cit.)
Metcalf (Peo.)
McKinnon (Peo.)
Kline (Cit.)
FOR COUNCIL (One Yeai)
Shepard (Cit.) 237
Reck (Cit.) 229
Blcmgren (Peo.) 261
Bavard (Peo.) 144
FOR SCHOOL BOARD (one year term)
Simmers 378
146
94
162
120
139
77
74
97
148
149
94
58
161
FOR SCHOOL EOARD (three years term)
Meiritt 324 125
Fecro .... 53 40
TOTAL VOTE CAST 459 242
No. 3
83
50
73
85
69
57
43
34
80
75
55
32
97
75
30
132
Total
492
330
503
451
431
350
316
268
463
453
410
234
636
524
123
833
SENATOR SMOOT
HAS NEW PLAN
FOR TAXATION
Imposition o! Taxes on Ex
penditures One Item—
Discusses Conditions.
SALT UAJCKOiTY. Utah, April 4
United States Senator Reed Smoot
of Utah is working on a new plan
of taxation, imposition of tjxes on
expenditures, which h'e hopes to have
ready to submit to the next regu
lar session of Congress. The senior
Senator made this announcement
upon his arrival here to spend# the
summer.
"I do not expect any call for a
special session of Congress this year,”
he said. “My plan.; call for a good
rest. If there is any hitch in the
agreement with Great Britain over
the debt funding scheme I may have
to return to Washington, but 1 hope
there will not be.
"At the ibeginnlng of Lite session
agriculture was tin despondency.
There were millions of unemployed
and Idle cars were noted everywhere
on the railroads. While agriculture
lias not fully recovered. It is on the
high road to normal conditions. There
are no unemployed except the lazy.
Railroad Troubles
“The chief trouble the railroads are
having is to get cars enough to han
d’e the traffic. Building is on the
boom Deposits in Savings banks
have increased and interest rates
have declined. Our foroig,n trade Is
increasing with leaps and bounds,
contrary to all predictions of the
calamity howlers. Taxes fof redaral
purposes have been reduced. Mili
tary armament has been limited and
our chief 'foreign credit, with Eng
land, has been funded.
‘Peace is assured on the Pacific
and emigration has been restrained
within reasonable limits and the
American business world has confi
dence in the future.
“The present administration has
reduced the public debt from August
31. 1919. when it was at its peak,
to .January 31, 1923. a little more
than $3,000,000,000.
(Continued on Page Six.)
College Boys’ Pranks May
Elect Him Mayor.
T. Lambert (“Tub”) Wyatt,
sophomore at tint Kansas Oity
University, may be the next
Mayor of Kansas City as the re
sult of a prank by college boys.
The students got up and Hied a
petition naming Wyatt as a may
oralty candidate. A street par
ade was held, and the joke oam
I paign began to assume serious
1 proportions, when many voters
took occasion to approve Wyatt's
candidacy. Because there are
many other candidates engaged in
factional fighting, Wyatt may se
cure the nomination. He is 24
years old and captain of the foot
ball team.
FIND MILLER
NOT GUILTY
a-—
Assistant District Attorney at
Ketchikan Is Freed on
Slander Charge.
KKTCHIkam, April 4 Charles
H. Miller. Assistant District Attor
ney. has been found not guilty of
slander by % Jury in United States
Commissioner Morrissey's court.
.fames E. Smith, taxicab man,
last Saturday charged Miller with
libeling and slandering him. Smith
claimed Miller called him a dope
peddler and other names unprint
able.
Authorities Are Seeking
Robbers; Assault Is Done
SEATTLE. April 4.—King and
Pierce county apriorities are seeking
the robbers '/bio cracked the safe of
Grange Warehouse Company at Yelm,
obtaining $1,300. They are believed
to be the sarno men who attacked
Goorge Marsh, of Seattle, taxicab
driver, who was found on the Pacific
Highway with his skill! fractured and
his pockets rifled^
DEMOCRATS ARE
IT INJHICAGO
Elect Judge Dever as Mayor
—Democrats Carry City
Offices—Quiet Affair.
CHICAGO, April 4.—Judge Will
iam G. Dover, Democrat, has been
eletled Mayor by Wore than 100,000
plurality over Arthur C. Deader,
Republican, in one of the quieter!
elections in the history of the city.
Moron N. Bull, Republican, de-i
feated Rabbat O'Hirn, Democrat.
by 14,000 ,for the seat of late Con-1
gressman James R. Mann .
The Democrats made clean sweep
In city offices.
The campaign was marked by the
lack of mudslinging
The majority of »the newspapers
agreed itnat an efficient admin: sf ra
tion would be secured by the election
of either Do vara or Lenders.
MICHIGAN ELECTIONS
iDKTROIT. April !.~ Republic in
voters of Michigan “Swung hack ini »
line" in yes.eirday's minor oir-ehions,
according to Burt 1). Ca iy. Republi
can State Chairman. The entire Re
publican ticket was victorious with
the exception of Hotrod, where Frank I
L. Doremus. former C mgressman. a i
Democrat, was elected on a Non-l’arti j
san ticket.
Most of the Republic.in earn! lutes |
tied their Democratic opponents b.> |
3 to 1.
'Among those elected to the fin uit j
bench was Vincent Brennan, who re !
Ureal as Congressman from the 13th j
district last month.
ALASKAN TOWNS
HOLD ELECTIONS
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All Alaskan towns hold municipal i
elections yesterday. Owing^ to tho|
dable Ivclng down and the wireless '
swamped with commercial and press, j
matters, returns are belated.
ELECTION AT SKAGWAY
SGAK.WAY, April 4.—Howard Ash- i
ley was elected 'Mayor at yesterday's j
election; O. Zelnier. treasurer’ and
L. C. Gault, dork. The three coun-!
oilmen elected were K. Kville, H:*y
Ga ult and John L. Thompson, the
, latter being the only nominee on the
1 Taxpayers' Ticket elected.
1 Mrs. Prank Ward, Mrs. S. Slaugh
ter and Mrs. Catherine Nyo, for clerk
and tor council, polled 82. 711 and 78
I notes respectively against. 89, 88 and
i 10.7 votes of their opponents.
AT CORDOVA
CORDOVA, April 4.—The following
were el acted in yesterday's election,
jail unopposed: .Waver-. Dr. Council;
| councilman, George Dooley, Allan
| Lund, C. P. Miohelson; treasurer,)
[ Thomas Scott; clerk. K. G. Robinson; |
i school director, S. N. Laurie.
KETCHIKAN ELECTION
! KETCHIKAN, April 4.—In yester
j day's eleettion, Thomas Torrey was
ire-elected Mayor without opposition.
I Thomas 'Davies. M. J. Bueey. Richard
j Harris wore elected eouncilmen. John
| Sjoursen and Mrs A. L. Spaetli were
1 elected (o the school board.
ELECTION AT WRANGELL
WRANGELL, April 4—In yester
day's election J. Q Grant was elect
ed Mayor; Ernest Campbell, Ole
Gsindcrson, F. E. Olngrass, council
men: and Mrs. M. O. Johnson, clerk
of the school board.
AT HAINES
HALVES. April 4.—At. the city elec
tion held here yesterday, C. A. Bur
dette, J. H. Obiael, (i. DeHaven,
M. A. Oestnor, Harry Higgins. C. A.
Lindblotn and James McQuinn were
elected city councilmen for the < ant
ing year. K. Pryer was elected clerk
of the school board and \V. Ft. Stout
was elected director on the school,
•board
ELECTION AT VALDEZ
VALDEZ, April 4—At the election
yesterday A. J. Dimond was elected
Mayor and John H. Biggs, Bruce
Haines. Owen E. Meads. Charles Naud.
M. M. Skrivan and W. T. Stuart,
, councilman
Mayor-elect .Dimond is now attend
ing the Territorial Legislature a*
i Senator Trotn the Third Division and
■his friends put him In the highest
nmn h; i pa 1 posd t ion.
TORNADO IN KANSAS.
PATRIDGE. Kan., April 4. — A
tornado has injured two men and
mimed property damage estimated
at $50,000,
“QUEEN" 0. K. UNTIL SHE WENT A. W. 0. L.
Two (lays alter Miss Uirtiudo Nunn was crowned He.iuty
Queen of Hamline University, ut St. Paul, Minnesota, she viiitel
friends and failed to live up to the college curfew law by return
ing to her dormitory at 10:;>0 p. m. As a result she has been sus
pended. Miss Nunn is a sophomore, living in Detroit.
Fairbanks Oldtimer
I Dies from Burns
j In Hotel Fire
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FAIRBANKS, April 4. I
William Q tile Italian, w’io rub- I
mined severe burns and was j
injured jumping from a win
dow of tlie Nordale Hotel in
last Sunday’s fire, is dead. i
Quicharias, at the time of tlie
fire was trying to find a chtun- ;
bernmid who was believed
' trapped by the tlamos. When
the tire pot too close to him he
was forced to jump from a
window.
Qutcliarlas was an oldtimer
here and at Fox where ho was
a barber.
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PACIFIC FLEET
IS HAMSTRUNG
Admiral Sims Makes Startling
Allegations in Cali
fornia Address.
PASADENA, Cal.. April 4 Ad
miral Sima, addressing the Call-1
fornia Institute of Technology, as
serted the American Navy on the
Paciflr was •'hamstrung."
Admiral Sims declared thait wiiile
the maitter of placing defenses were
purely a military problem, selfish
and unpatriotic communities anti
citizens were using influence to
have the army and navy bases placed
where there Syotild be commercial
advantage.
Admiral Hints declared Congreae
was spending h|ige sums of money
j list to please the voters.
Old Papers Are to
Form Swimming Hole
RIVERSIDE. Cal., April 4.—Boy
Scouts of Riverside county will at
tempt lo convert old newspapers and
magazines into a awiinmiag hole.
During this month and next they will
collect cast-off periodical:; and sell
them for old paper, devoting the pro
ceeds to ihe construction of a pool
Churches Calling
For Vice Crusade;
May Form K. K. K.
MONTREAL, April 4 —Appeals to j
form an organization patterned along i
the lines of the Ku Klux Klan. which'
will lay waste the vice district are j
being broadcast here. All creeds are
urged to join under the banners of
the crusade which Is to world either
In league with or independently- of
the police.
The plea adds that the public must
be pro pa red to make the same sacri
fices for the youth of the city as
were made during the great war for
the youth of the entjre world.
MIDNIGHT FIRE
CAUSES DAMAGE
TO 3 J*ARTIES
Stubborn Blaze Makes Hard
Fight —- Britt and Mrs.
Turners Are Big Losers
Fire whton moke out shortly I
fter midnight last night on the
vicf of the Welcome Rooms lodging
inn n 'twc-story frame structure
o the rear of the Hritt Pharmacy
in Seward Street, cuitsed damage and
loss to three parties, eatimated at
ibout $9,000, only partially covered
hy Insurance.
\V. K. Britt, proprietor of the
Britt Pharmacy suffered the heav
iest loss, which was caused entirely
by water, estimated at between
$4,000 and $5,000.
Mrs. A. Turner, proprietor of the
Welcome Rooms, estimates tier loan
at uboirt $2,000.
The damage to the building,
which is owned by the First Na
tional Bank, is estimated at about
$2,000'and is covered by insurance.
Mr. Britt and Mrs. Turner carried
no insurance on their stock and
fixt urea.
Cause.
The lire was caused by a defective
flue In the chimney at the rear of
tlie building, according ot J. l-si'ti
nier tiray, Fire Chief The flames
first hurst, through the roof around
the chimney and the ceiling of the
room ttymugh which the chimney
exltend* and which was unoccupied.
Passersby saw the flames and
turned In the fire alarm.
When lhe firemen arrived at the
scene lhe flumes had spread through
the attic space and hurst through
the roof hi several places, soaring
(Continued on Pag# t€od
LOVE IN DESERT IS SERIOUS
AFFAIR; FAITHLESS ONES ARE
NOT DIVORCED; STONED; DEATH
bONimxi April 4 -Mr ami .Mrs. |
Shaft—tiho husband and wife of the;
grant sandy -pares—must love each1
other until the sands of the desert •
grow cold or they are stoned 'toj
rte-ot h
Mrs. Itofta Koirbos. writer and ex
plorer, who returned from the East
receiyly. told how the Arabs handle
tlio" iujTrieste and divorce problem
wlu-h is causing so much concern
among the Western nations.
••Tin' people them solves," she said,
"have a peculiar punishment for mis
conduct which usually acts as a do
torrnnt for hushuaxi* ami wives who
would otherwise orr.”
“SliouJii a man or woman be un
faithful the guilty persons are taken
to a public siiuaro. stripped and then
buried up to thoir lU-mplts in sand.
Then their companion.) stone them
to death, showering curses on them
for lining unclean. Obviously, pro
j mUcuotv* love moots with little en
Icouragement.”
The divorce law of Arabia, tbe
(•writer explained, makes it necessary
for tbe wife to watch her steps
ihrough tho sand.
When a man can divorce his wile
by simply dapping his hands .end re
peating three times. "I divorce you,”
tbe wife Is sure to be carefttl, Mrs.
Forbes declared.
LITERACY BILL
FAILS TO PASS
ON FINAL VOTE
Measure Lost by Tie Vote—
Opponents Assail it as
Class Legislation.
The Fositer Literacy Bill, requiring
electors to be able to read the Con
stitution of the United States and
write the English language, failed of
passage in the Senate this morning,
tillrt vote standing tour to four. Sen
ators Ayer, Chamberlin, Dltnond and
Hunt voted far tho bill, Aldrich,
Brown, Dunn and Snodgrass against
It.
When it was seen that the opposi
tion to tho bill was unbroken and It
would fall on the final vote, In an
effort to stay such defeat and In the
hope of arriving at some compro
mise, Senator Ayer moved that it be
recommitted to the Committee on
Education for the purpose of revising
the measure so that it would at least
operate to lurewcnt future mass vot
ing by illiterate Indians. The mo
tion w1 is lost, the four members sup
porting the bill voting for it and the
opposition voting against It solidly.
Dunn Makes Main Speech
Tho prlnripal speech of the opposi
tion was m itfe by Senator Dttnn, oth
ers speaking against it being Brown
und iSnod grass. Senator Aldrich did
nclt speak. At tlio conclusion of
Dunn's addness at noon, Senator
Chamberlin moved to recess. Tho
motion was opposed by Dunn and, on
a division the motion was lost by a
rifting vote, four to four/ with the
linoup unchanged.
Senator Dunn argued against pass
age on the ground that the bill was
contrary to .law, morality and prin
ciple. lit violated the Organic Act.
prior Federal statutes, the Treaty of
Co-. Ion, an t tiue Act of the Legisla
ture or 1915 oreuting a means for In
dians attaining citizenship.
Classes Vs. Mass**
He characterized the bill as class
legislation of tho most vicious kind
which sought to deprive citizens of
their moat precious right, the right
of franchise. He said it involved a
question which had been at issue
stneo time imtnemorlaJ, that of the
classes against tho masses, the uppers
against the lowers. Ho referred to
the "proud whlto race" crowding back
tho aborigines in Alaska. He de
clared when tho United States ac
quired Alaska in 1S*>7, it promised
the Indians to place thorn on a foot
ing of equality wFth tho white race.
Tin- latter, instead of keeping that
promise, he charged, has taken away
from him his hunting, fishing and
trapping grounds and now "would
ake away, from him the right of be
ing a full citizen." The bill, he
charged, is an attempt to take away
from cartatn citizens contadn privil
eges. If tho Indian is ignorant, he
declared. It is tho fault of the white
man and not the Indian and the latter
lie not to blamo.
Need* Ignorant Workers
He argued tha.t the bill would be
l handicap to Alaska in its edfart to
attract workers, laborers, etc. Al
aska need.i miners, prospectors, home
steader*. roindeor herders and others
who can do real manual labor, he
argued, whose ability tq do it Is not
lessened if tihey cannot read and
write English. “In my own part of
live country we want 1.000 men, rough
necks. and 'the rougher their necks
i the better it will be." he asserted.
Quotes Court Decisions
Mr. Dunn quoted a number of court
! decisions in an otfort to establish
the eights of Indians to citizenship.
J He declared it is not only impossible
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