ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
'ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’
VOL. XXL, NO. 3158.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1923. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS,
Barks Out “Winter Is Over”!
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Groundhog Doesn’t See His
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Shadow; Stays Out of Hole
“Winter is Over,” reports the Groundhog “Hole Lookout.'’
This morning Old Man Groundhog stuck his nose out from his under- j
ground home, on gray world and was met with a flurry of snow. No;
shadow appeared, to frighten him and he decided to stay cut and greet |
the eaily spring, hi. appearance prophecies to this district, any a the Lock
out’s report.
But wait a minute.
February e, lari year. Old Man Groundhog also made Ills lit at ap-;
pearance of the year on a gray dat k world, with no shadows, and from |
February 6 In it, Juneau was taken unaware by one of the strongest
divisions cf the Toku Wind forces.
Window:, v.v, > broken, buildings tern down, email crafts piled!
high on the beaches and general havoc wrought throughout the town. |
A second attack raged through from February 15 to 17. the two
attacks being considered by oldtimers, the worst that had struck the
town in years. There was no sign or promise that it would not occur
again.
And that’s that.
HOT TIME IN
SENATE TODAY;
REBUKE MEMBER
Stormy Session Is Witnessed
in Which Horrible
Language Is L^sed.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. — The
Senate twice this afternoon rebuke.1
Senator J Thomas Heflin, of Ala
Iwuna, fot the language used against
Senator James W. Wadsworth, Jr.,
of New York, and Senator James
Couzens, cf Michigan.
By a vote of 40 to 28, the re
marks of Heflin regarding Wads
worth were held improper, and then
without a record vote, the Senate
expunged the remarks regarding
Senator Couzens.
A few minutes later, after one of
the stormiest sessions in recent years
the Senate expunged the remarks by
Couzens regaiding Heflin.
World Wide War Is
Declared on Fascism
MOSCOW, Feb. 2. The Communist
Internationale Soviet Trade Unions
today Issued a proclamation declaring
a world-wide war on Fascism.
Russian Refugees at
Manila Are Given Aid
iMANHjA. Feb. 2.—Governor Gen
oral Wood announced today that the
American Relief Association for Rus
sia and the American Red Cross have
donated |5,0b() each to aid the Rus
sian refugees now aboard Admiral
Stark's Russian fleet. Other dona
tions from various organizations in
the United States are also expected.
MEN BURIED
ALIVE TODAY
EVERETT. Wash.. Feb. 2.—S.
Brown and R. W. Brown were bur
ied this afternoon when the walls
of a sewer trench ccllapsed S. Brown
is dead but It is believed the other
Brown may be reached and saved.
Oh! Very Well,
| And Let’er
j Go at That
WASHINGTON', Feb. 2. -After I
receipt of the ordinary conimer- i
: cial message from Moscow.
1 rigned by Maxim Hitvinoff, as- j
! slstant commissar of'Foreign Af- i j
1 fairs, asking that Russians with
| furs be barred from Alaska, the j
1 State Department said no atten
| lion would be paid to the re- | j
' quest. The officials stated im
I migration regulations would ap- |
I Pl.v
I I
Is R. W. Boyden to Be
Col. House No. 2?
'Rcl&rA' Ur tSoyJ&tu„
Roland \Y. Boydn. Boston luw
yor and financier, “tlie mystery
man of two continents,” acting as
American “observer" on the Inter
Ailicd Reparations Commission, in
Paris, has, by his recent actions,
caused many politicians in Wash
ington to ask: ‘ Is he Colonel
House No. S?"
FEDERAL TAX
COLLECTIONS
SHOW UP 0000
Amount Collected in 1922
Exceeded the Estimates of
Treasury Department.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 Federal
tax collections for 1922. despite the
depressed business during part of
the year, exceeded the treasury es-,
timates bringing a total of $2,247.
187,000. This amount is far under]
the Federal taxes of 1921 but the!
drop is charged largely to a change
in the revenue law.
Heresy Charges Are to
Be Dropped for Present
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Rev. Percy
Stickney Grant, rector of the Episco
pal Church of the Ascension, has re
ceived u letter from Bishop Manning
saying to let the demand for a re
cant or his resignation, rest for the
present. Bishop Mannning said the
rector failed to make it clear wheth
er he doubted the Dlety of Chi i t.
Blind Student
Wins 2 Scholarships
In One Year
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—Blind since
birth, George II. Weinmann, agad
23, has accomplished more than any
sightcr student at the Northwestern
University winning two law scholar
ships the same year.
“It is all due to my mother's eyes.
She reads all my work to me,"
Weinmann said.
HALF OF GERMAN POPULATION ,
PUTS APPEAL UP TO AMERICA
BERLIN, Feb. 2.—Chairmen of the executive boarde of the General
Federation of Trade Unions and Federations, Christian Labor Unions,
League of Clerical Employees and League of Liberal Trade Union3. rep
resenting more than half of the population of the German Republic, have
ricned and dispatched to Washington, an appeal addressed to the Ameri
can Congress.
This appeal, expressing the views of the German workmen that they
agree, calls for complete disarmament and readiness to adopt a Demo
cratic constitution if America will promise that right and justice shall
prevail in post-war adjustments.
PINCH OF HUNGER HITS
GERMAN OCCUPIED AREA
t
ALASKA SHOCKS
ARE REGISTERED
VICTORIA, Feb. 2.—Three earth
quake shocks vaiying in intensity]
ind believed located in the Aleutian'
Islands, were recorded last night at
the Gonzales observatory.
DEBT FUNDING
CONFERENCE IS i
MONEY GETTER
Believed American Proposals
Will Get War Debt from
British Government.
WA:'HIXCTON. Feb. 2. The mem
bers of the Am ,-ie.aa Debt Fun.line
Commit. Von met with British Am-.
bassadur Geddes late yesterday after
noon and when adjournment was
taken late last night it i3 under
stood the Ambassador and Commis
sion had virtually reached an agree
wont regarding the funding of th< !
British war debt.
It was stated the facts of th m
agreement will be given at once to
President Harding, with recommen
dations, and the President cm trails
mit the matter to Congress early]
next week.
DECLARES IT A BONUS."
WASHINGTON,, Feb. 2. Senator;
McKellar, Ucmoer.it. of Tennessee,
declared today in Hie Senate that
Congress is without right to "grant
such a bonus or sub. idy" to Croat
Britain as contained in the proposed,
debt settlement.
Senator McKellar declared the re
duction in interest would be 558.-1
760,000 annually for l he first ten
years and $140,000,000 annually
for the remainder of the period cov
ered in Hie proposed settlement.
The Tennessee Senator argued
that Croat Britain should pay the
United States “no more end no le. s”
on its debt than the United States
must pay those from whom it bor
rowed the money troirt her own tax
payers.
Debt Settlement.
The proposals made by the Am
erican Heft Funding Commission to
Croat Britain, and upon which the
present negotiations are being per
fected suggested an interest rate of
3 per cent for the first ten years and
3 Vs per cent thereafter, with pro
visions foy extinguishing the entire
debt In sixty-two years.
Tlie suggestion included provision
for 3tated annual payments and an
amortization rate of one-half of 1
per cent in addition to the yearly
payments on the principal. The
yearly payments, it was explained,!
were to increase as the amount of
the interest decreased.
The whole scheme, considered over
the entire sixty-; wo-years' period,|
would average a rate of npproxi-'
mately 4 per cent.
Mexican Strikers Clash
With Mexican Federals
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 2. Ten were
killed and more than 00 wounded
this afternoon in a dash between
Federal soldiers and striking street
car workers in front of the labor
headquarters.
SAVE AUSTRIA
THROUGH LOAN
International Guarantee Goes
Though—League of Na
tions Is Winner.
PARIS, Feb. 2. Formation of an
international guarantee for a loan Is
expected to assure the financial so!
va.tion of \ sir a. This was an
nounced in the Council of the League
of Nations by Earl Ba-lfour. It Is
understood Croat Britain, France,
Italy and <hsecho-Slovakia guarantee
84 per eent of the loan of fi.'O.OOO
crowns assuring the bankers repay
ment If they lend to Austria.
The accomplishment of the loan Is
considered a triumph for thd League
of Nations,
FIRST PICTURES OF FRENCH ENTRY INTO ESSEN.
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French armored oars are nho vn, with ♦ ,ir camouflage, on the roads from lJu-soldorf to Ks-'oii, in
tlie Ruhr advance, anil French tto >ps are sliown on the actual march into the Ruhr, placing cannon ul
advantageous positions near Kssen and getting out their barbed-wire entanglements.
Prer'Ki-Ia
Tart^Ie^
(av4 r’tq/u)
IT
iLaquor Smugglers Starting
ir on "Highj ackers” and
Plan to Outwit Dry Agents
EXPERT CLAIMS GOVERNMENT
LOSING MONEY ON PRIBILOF
ISLAND CONTRACT; CHARGES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—That th Department of Commerce so manip
ulates the contract with a St. Louis firm for dyeing and dressing fur
seals taken at the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, and that the government each
year loses a tremendous amount of revenue, were charged by Henry W.
Elliott, expert of fur seal industry, before the Senate Commerce Commit
tee today.
Elliott said the skins should be sold raw and at auction so other fur
companies will have an opportunity to bid for them.
Elliott contended that the present plans creates a monopoly and is
largely responsible for the increased price of furs.
Dc’egate Dan Sutherland, from A'aska, charged the Department of
Commerce issued certain orders and regulations which were in the Inter
est of the fish trust operating salmoi canneries in Alaska.
COFFIN IS TO
BE EXAMINED
FOR TREASURE
Body of American Seamen
to Be Exhumed for Smug
gled Russ Jewels.
—
WASHINGTON, Pot). 2 -TheI
Treasury Department today granted)
the request of the War Department j
for the exhumation and examination i
of the coffin containing the remains |
of James Jones. American seaman.i
hurled in the Cypress Hill Cemetery.'
Brooklyn. The request was mod* to j
determine whether the smuggled \
Russian crown jewels are buried !
with the body as has beep claimed.
Hot Time Is Expected
In Senate of Idaho
BOISE. Ida . Feb. 2. The Demo
crats of the .State Senite today in
trod need a memorial to ask Con ,
press to pass Ute Borah resolution
for nn international economic con-,
terenre. A hot fight Is expected!
when the resoinilon comes up for;
discussion and a vote. I
GOSHAW TESTIFIES
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—A special from
Washington to the Times this after
noon says George Goshaw. Alaska
fur buyer, appearing before the Sen
ate commerce committee, declared
people dealing in raw furs ‘'have no
chance to compete with the Missouri
politicians.”
Goshaw said the present system re
garding seal skins absolutely pre
vents other fur buyers getting seal
skins.
Goshaw denied that the St. Louis
firm was the only one having the
secret of taking guard hairs from
furs and dressing them for the
market.
Car Shop Foreman Is
Dead from An Assault
TACOMA. Ken. 2.—Adam (took, ear
shop foreman, died this morning as
the result of wounds received when
he was attacked Inst night. The
police are working on the theory tint
the attack may have be n the result
of the shopmen's strike.
Repeals of Prohibition
Law Passes in One State
CARSON CITY, Keb. 2. Two
measures to repeal the prohibition
law have passed the State Assembly
the vote on both being 27 to !t. The
measures hud previously pawed the
Senate,
SEATTLE, Fe’j. Z.—State Pro
hibition Director Roy Lyle confirmed
a despatch received here this morn
ing that liquor smugglers at a meet
ing in Vancouver. B. C„ had decided
to put time bombs in whiskey car
goes to blow up "highjackers” and
air o decided to abandon Discovery
Island, off Victoria, near the Inter
national boundary, as a place of
transfer from Canadian to American
beats.
Each boat owner was permitted
o chocre liis own island by lot. The
smuggle is will use many islands
planned not only to baffle the pro
’ibitirn agents but also the "high
ackrrf.”
The "highjackers” are those “high
:a bandits" who under guise of be
ing revenue or customs officers, have
been boarding liquor smuggling
beats, confiscating the cargo, of
liquor and then escaping with it for
their own purposes. It is said five
DC'sens are musing, believed to have
been killed by "highjackers.”
PIONEER OF
ALASKA DIES
INJEATTLE
W. G. Whorf, Resident of
Northern Territory for 30
Years, Passes Away.
SEATTLE, Fell. 2.- W. O. Wharf,
; i i Seliioviii, one of the oldest pio
| ni ers >f the Cook Inlet district, died
■ i local hospital this morning.
; Whorf came here from Anchorage
lor tr timent about three week- ago.
He w n 77 years of age and had been
in Alask t for 30 years.
W (I. Whorf received the first pat
int issued by the governmetn for
i coal lands in Alaska and operated the
j first mine developed in the Terri
tory. Ills property was located at
| S Idovi.i. where he had a wharf,
warehouses and other seaport f.veili
i ties and was engaged ;n the merean
jt'le bn iness.
ANOTHER PIONEER DEAD
SEATTLE. Fob. 2. Nathaniel
[•Gregory. ugod 76 years, one of the
first to join in -the Alaska gold rush
jin 1K!>7. died here fhis afternoon.
FOOD SHORTAGE
IS REPORTED IN
VALLEY OF RUHR
Information from German
Sources State Many Towns
Are Near Hunger.
INDUSTRIAL GRIP OF
MILITARY NOW FELT
Railroad Strikers Reported
Returning to Their Trains
Along Rhine River.
DATEL/B86 — While the grip of
Prance and Belgium on Industrial
control is being felt In unoccupied
Germany to which coal and coke
hipmonts are completely cut-off, the
pinch of hunger is being felt in the
Ruhr Valley itself according fo Ger
man authorities.
Food supplies are reported running
low in many towns.
Government officials are confer
ring concerning the situation.
Resumption of partial train serv
ice is reported in the occupied area
today.
STRIKERS ABE RETURNING.
rom.KNZ. Feb. 2. Rail striker*
in tills area are returning to work
and full train service between hero
u . • ’ hv t. I
v t ' t ; , r try, «.*■’ ndju> v ' *
Cl Align, of the I'. 8 * ~
erly on the Rhine, has been directed
by the State Department of Wash
ington to discontinue Immediately
official relations witli the Rhineland
High Com mission.
ARREST COPS;
• BOOZE RAID
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.—Lieu
tenant l): Braefield, Patrolmen Will
iam Harrion and Mark M. Willever,
of t he San FTunrlsoo Police Depart
ment, with seven chauffeurs and
truck drivers, were arrested early
tills morning; while present at the
alleged unloading of a large ship
ment of contraband liquor from
barkenline into six motor truckB.
4 MURDERERS
PAY PENALTY
1, ITT IK ROCK. Feb. 2. — Four
convicted murderers were electro
cuted In the Arkansas penitentiary
during this forenoon.
Three wore convicted for the mur
der of Ira Culp, a farmer, and one
for the murder of W. M. Silsby and
wife.
Representative Kahn,
III, Returns to Home
WASHINGTON'. Fob. 2. —Chairman
K.ihn of the House military com
mittee. who has been 111 tor some
months, left today for his home in
! California. Representative McKen
zie. of Illinois, will act as chairman
for thp remainder of the session of
Congress.
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IT—;-;
Russian Refugees
Wanted in Alaska’s
Railroad Belt
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AMP HORACE. Feb. 2— Pres!
| 1 dent E. M. Spauling. of the i
Chamber of Commerce, presi- |
dents of ihe three local banks |
and a majority of the business
; men, have jolne<l In a request ]
| that the government direct the j
I fleet of \dmirol Stark, with
| re hi goes, now in the Philippines, |
to come to the railroad belt !
and settle on land Tt Is be* j
; lieved maximum aid Is neces
' sary for Alaska to Rain 10.000 J
1 population to get the wheat |
belt settled.
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