THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
ALL THE NEWS ,ALL THE TIME”
VOL XXII, NO. 2346.
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JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1923 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FLOOD, FIRE AND WIND HITS
TOWN; BIG DAMAGE
Chinese Captives of Bandits Are Hurled to Death
3 CAPTIVES OF
BANDITSSLAIN;
WARNING GIVEN
Reported Three Captives
Hurled Over Mountain Pre
cpice — Bandits Move.
SHANGHAI, May 16.—Three Chi
ncoe captives held by the Suchow
bandits have been hurled to death
over a precipice near the bandit’s
stronghold as a warning that nego
tiations for the release of the re
mainder mu: t be speeded up. This
is the report received here but can
net be confirmed.
TO KILL FOREIGNERS.
SHANGHAI, May 16.—A strong
force of 'bandits in the hills back of
Llncheng contemplating killing all
foreigners are reported gathering
near Ksao Chang.
TO TREAT WITH BANDITS.
SHANGHAI, May 16.—With the
government's consent. Minister of
Communications Wu Ku Lin and
General Yang Ities today proceeded
to the bandits’ stronghold in an
effort ,to obtain the release of all
foreigners held by the Suchow
bandits.
BANDITS MOVE CAMP.
SHANGHAI, May 16. — The
Suchow bandits have moved their
foreign captives 10 miles further
back in the mountains behind Lin
cheng according to advices received
here. This is taken as a strategic
mevo to impress the Peking govern
ment regarding negotiations for re
lease of the captives.
ANOTHER EPISODE.
SHANGHAI, May 16.—Members
of the Chinese government gendar
merie boarded the Peklng-Shanghai
train, attacked officials and bent
their Chinese servants and then
made a raid of everything on the
tables despite the protests of for
eigners. The gendarmerie held pos
session of the train for several
hours.
ANTI-JAPANESE RIOT.
SHANGHAI, May 16. — Several
wore killed and many Injured when
anti-Japanepe demonstrators boarded
a Japanese' river steamer at Shansi.
Province of Hupeh.
A Japanese gunboat has been
sent full speed from Hankowoo to
t.'e scene of the trouble.
STRIKE NEAR
NOME IS 0. K.
(NOME, May IB.—-The Buckland
strike is reported showing progress
amid 'pay iR extensive and rich. Sup
plies of tools and lumber are being
dogdeamed from Kotzebue. 1
FRENCH WASPS I
SAVE CANADA
WINNIPEG. May 16.—Dominion
<bug experts will import from the
United States this summer a horde
of parasitic wasps which they will
turn loose in the Canadian corn-belt
to destroy and fatten upon their
hereditary enoroy, the corn-boring
worm.
The campaign will be waged along
lines drawn by W. R. Walton, super
intendent of ,t'he insect division of
the United 8tates Bureau of Entomol
ogy, who offered his aid at a recent
meeting of grain-growers.
Wherever corn is grown In Amer
ica there lfves the corn-borer, taking
his toll of millions of dollars from
the value of crops each year. He
makes his homo within the green
husk of the tender plant, and eats
his way over the milky ear, com
pleting hds work of destruction long
before the crop mature*.
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PRINCE REGENT AND PRINCESS NAGAKE KUNI.
Here are the latest photographs of the Prince Regent of Jap
an, the future Mikado, and his fiancee. Princess Naguke Kuni,
the wedding being scheduled for November. The Prince Regent
is its popular among his people as the Prince of Wales is umong
the British.
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Deadlock Unbroken
On American
Rhineland Costs
PARIS, May 16.—liie deadlock be
tween the United States and the
Allies on the final agreement tor
payment of the American costs at'
occupation of the Rhineland is not
broken. A session was held today
without result.'! The dispute Is
whether the Allies will be permitted
to arbitrate the agreement if the
United States collects war damages
directly. The question must again
be reforrod to the Allied govern
ments.
TEXAS STORM
DEATHS CROW
COUORiAiDO CITY, Tex.. May '•! -
The death list here caused by the
tornado of two days afro has b> n In
creased to 21 by the Undine of
four additional .bodies.
Th'e list of injured is increased to
i200, a number of whom are exprcled
to die.
The property damage is now esti
mated at half a million dollar*.
IRE TO HELP
'$ CROP OF CORN
Until the United States entomolo
gists discovered in Franco the tiny
wasp, there was no known means of
destroying the borer without aJso
destroying the corn. This insect does
the trick, according to Mr. Walton.
Brought to America to a new hunt
ing ground, dt was discovered he
liked the climate, reared large fam
ilies. and had a predilection for corn
borers. making his home on the husk
of the ear within easy striking dis
tance of his game.
With the arid of this parasite, con
siderable .progress has been made
toward exterminating the horer from
the corn-fields of the United States,
Mr, Walton reported. It Is now plan
ned to (bring several armies of the
‘insect from the government nurseries
across tPle 'border and liberate them,
in mid-summer, in Ontario and other
provtinces of the corn-belt where the
borer has been most destructive.
ALASKA PROBLEM:
STUDIED BT H/
TRIP; HAS PR
No Break Between
British and Russia
At Present Time
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[ LONDON. May 16—After a
I debate 'ill the House of Com- j
mens. Ronald McNeill, Under
j Secretary of Porntan Atfiirs, j
| ! announced there -lvcitxM he no ,
j immediate break with , Russia, j
but thut negotiations whlild be
started immediately towards
many disputed points.
NOME GREEKS |
BREAKING UP
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NOME. May lti.—Tho break-up i
here is appearing on the streams.
There have boon no lee movements j
S but loads aro appearing in Bering j
Soa five tnilcs oft shore. J
Governors May Be Called
On Prohibition Conference1
WASHINGTON, May lfi. -it is said j
at the White House that President
Harding is still hopeful of calling a
governors’ conference in Washing
ton on prohibition enforcement be
.fore he leaves on his Western trip.
Well Known Alaskan Is
Dead; Funeral Is Held
SAN FRANCISCO. May 16-The
funeral was held here late yesterday
afternoon of Charles Edward Darl
ing. agwl 52 years, merchant in va
rious Alaskan towns for 17 years,
and the husband of Esther Birdsall
Darling, author of "Bald.v of Nome.”
Darling died last Sunday at Car
mel. He was proprietor of the Oak
land Iron Works
iMrs. Darling owned Scotty Allen's
nmlamutes,
George J. Gould, Railroad
Man and Financier,: Is Dead
BULLETIN—MENTONE, Aance,
May 16.—George J*y Gould, noted
American financier and railroad
man. died here this afternoon after a
long illness. His bride was in con
riant attendance at his bedside. j
OF FAMOUS FAMILY
■George Ja'y G(mld, financier and!
railroad man, succeeded to the lead- j
erslifp of the famous Oduld family
upon the death of his father, J a;/
Gould. December 3. 1892.
■In addition to assuming respans.
hility, as trustee u.nd executor, for
the $80,000,000 estate left by his
father, he carried on and expanded
the great railroad holdings of the
latter, and within a few years, dur
ing which he applied the lessons j
lairned from the elder Gould, he be
came one of America's foremost rail
road financiers. Tlie 6.000 miles otj
road left by Jay Gijuld grew intoj
more than 20,000 miles under the I
management of hia son, while 'the i
many investments in other huge en- ’
ter pisses, including the Western1!
Union Telegraph Obmparry, also were |
largely managed by the principal!
heir.
Born In New York
George Jay Gould was born in
New York City Kpbruury 8, 1884, tho J
sixth in line of descent from Major!
Nathan Gould, or Gold, the original |
ancestor, who camp from the south |
of England, in 1640 and settled in j
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i ARE TO BE
1RDING ON HIS i
EPARED SUBJECTS1
WASHINGTON. May AS.—After
finally announcing that ne would
leave here June 20 for hi' Alaskan |
trip, the President intimated he has i J
prepared a list of problems confront-]1
jug the government in respect to Al- -
aska which will servo a basis ror | 1
study he and his accompanying cabi
net members will make on the trip. j
ALASKA TRIP PLANS
WASHINGTON. May 16.—Presid .!
Harding plana to make tile trip to.
Alaska on the transport . Henile: non,;
blit on the return voyage he is ex
pected to transfer at San Francisco I
Ui a Shipping Boa I'd vessel f or i he!
circuit through the Panama Canal toj
an Atlantic port.
Tentative plans provide fo. Cue
President to board the Henderson at
Seattle for the trip to Alaska and
return to San Francisco, the f.p oc
cupying about one month.
By returning through the Panama
Canal the President curtails hid
speaking tour one-half. oniittin* *he
northern trip in the States
'During the Alaska visit President
Ha.rding will drive the golden spike,
celebrating the completion at ’.lie
Alaska Railroad. The spike will be
furnished by citizens of Aic'icrugo
Mid the spike Will be driven eltner
at Anchorage or at the Tana 11 Itiver
bridge.
BALLAINE PROTEST# JOSLYN
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SEATTLE, May 16.—John E. Bal l,
Line, of Seattle, founder of the town I <
of Seward, has sent an open letter! i
to Frank Waterhouse, president of j
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. |
protesting the naming of Falcon Jos-ji
l.vn, of Seattle, president of th> CMI-;
kat Oil Company ind Bering Riverj|
Coal Company, on the Chamber's |l
committee to w-Ocomo President *
Harding.
Ballaine declares that such a man '
r»n the committee will "place the t
President in a- prejudicial light in '
bis announced 'purpose of the In- 1
vestIgalion of conditions In Alaska i
impartially.” 1
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Xr <» JMQv. G&ovtfb «T- Gom/1oL.t»»«»
; Activities of
; Government to Be
j Shown Congress • j j
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WASHINGTON, May IK I
President Harding uml his cabl
net members luio yesterday «1 is
cus3cd the question of govern- 1 !
ment activities and decided to
present to Congress next Do
eember a program for construc
tion of more adequate facilities.
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AMUNDSEN MAY
SOON HOP OFF
NOME, May lt>. A wireless front
Cotzobue via Noorvlk stutes that
Lmundsen and his party left Kotze
mo on April 28 for Wa^'weight and
imundson expects to take off during
lay, A&und-en is driving his owe
ogs.
The reports to the effect that Ont
abl. Amundson's flier, is dead, art
Iscrodlted A mail carrier roportet
II well when ho left Wainwrlghl
n April 10.
w. wTmarine
STRIKE IS OFF
i
X/obblies Can Return to
Work at All Pacific Ports
Except San Pedro.
PORTLAND, Ore., May :6. The
ratorfront strike of the marine
ranch of (tier Wobblies lias officially
eon called off at all porta on the
’adit'ic Coast with the exception of
t San Pedro. This U the announce
nent made from the I. W \V. h ad
uarters here.
WOBBLIES ARRESTED
LOS ANGELES. May Id. Addition
1 airresta of Wot) biles here have
irought the total to 860, all charge!
vith crliminal syndicalism. The
lily Council is considering plans for
mllding a stockade to handle those
mable to procure ball.
jushcr Brought
n On Teapot
tame, Wyoming
WASHINGTON, May Id \ gusher!
rith an estimated daily production'
if 4.000 barrels was brought in on;
roapot Dome in tbe Naval Reserve.
Vyaroing. according to notification !
e.ceived by the Department of the,
iiterior. ^
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C. H. COSGROVE
PASSES AWAY j
AT KETCHIKAN
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One of Alaska’s Prominent;
Attorneys, III for Months,
Dies Suddenly.
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KETCK1KAK. Tu.ij 10. -Charles!*
H. Cosgrove, ono of the most prom- M
inent attorneys of tills rity for more!'
than twenty years, died here yester-' 1
day afternoon ut three o'clock. He
had .been 111 for many months, but!
was believed to be recover!na. lloj
rolurfted recently front a long visit
ut Portland and Seattle wh.ro lie)
hud (tone last fall for his health.1
le was in a hospital for several'
weeks at Portland, but was dis
charged early last month and fame!
home, thinking that he was on the!
road to recovery.
Not only was Mr. Cosgrove u bril
liant lawyer, but ho was one of I
Alaska's ablest citizens. He lias'
taken a leading part in public mat
ters In tills section of Alaska for a
score of years, and was regarded
as one of I he leaders of the Demo
cratic Party in the Territory.
Charles II. Cosgrove was born ati
Dowell. Mass., 52 years ago. lie
was graduated front Holy Cross Col
lege at Worcester, Mass., where he
was a classmate of Senator David
I. Walsh, in the class of lS'Jtl with
the A. B. degree, nad from the
Boston University Daw School in
18117. lie came West and went tol
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CONGRESS OF SOCIALISTS MAT
DISCOSS PLANS FOR COMPLETE
REORGANIZATION NEXT MONTH
VIENNA. May It! A eomprehen
sive plan for tho reorganization o!
tlie -Social Isf International has beet
drafted by th' ox •< uttve committee
of that organization at a two-dav ses
sion at Brogetn. Austria, and hat
boon forwarded tti Hamburg fo:
consideration at thd Socialist Inter
national 'to bo held there nexl
month. ,
The main points of reorganizatlor
are set forth as. follows:
"In the Socialistic Workmen's In
ternationul there shall 'be unitec
those social L r t !<• workmen’s partlei
who aim to substitute the socinlistis
for the capitalistic mode of produc
tion and who regard class warfart
as a means to tho emancipation o
the working classes.
“Tho S. VV. L assumes the tnsl
of unifying the activities of affUiat
I ed parties and combining the same
i in united action.
"The parties allied in the S. W. I.
bind thenv*Pives not to belong to
any federation outside of this exist
i ing pulit'eal infornatiunal association.
“The K. W I is only in such ■
j moasitro a living reality as its reso
lutions in all international questions
may hr binding upon all Its parts,
livery resolution of tho international
j organisation therefore means a self
t “ought curtailment of tho autonomy
i of the^arty in the various countries.
1 “The S. W. *1 is to be an institution
not iunly for the solution of profo
,j lems In time of peace, but .also an
,! Indis-pcn aid.- instrument In time of
’ war.
“I*uring conflict' between nations
j the ft W. I shall be looked upon
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HOT SPRINGS
IS SWEPT BY
3 ELEMENTS
Flood Hits Arkansas Town,
Fire Breaks Out and
Wind Spreads Flames
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., May 16 —
This city is endeavoring- to extricate
itself irom the debris and ruins left
by the flood, fire and wind which
wept this city in the early morn*
ng, wrecking the business section
vith damage running into the mil
iens of dollars.
Several persons are reported kill
id but thus far the fatalities are
act verified.
The Maiquctte Hotel which
jpuglit fire at midnight was de
■troyed.
The only building left standing
n the block io the Citizens National
Bank.
The city is without street car,
cIrctric light or gas service as all
public utility plants including the
telegraph office were flooded out of
tmmission.
WOMAN IS INJURED.
HOT SPRINGS. May 16. — Mrs.
Halo Christianson la the only per
on known to have been seriously
njurgd and she Is In a critical coa
lition.
Many narrow escapes are report
ad when ihn flood carried automo
Mles crushing down the strefcts.
A local compnny of National
juardsmon has been culled out to
nnintaln order.
• ALI, IS QuIET."
CHICAGO, May 16. I’rivntr mes
■ages received from (lies headquart
rs of Wilson Company from the
lot Springs manager said "All Is
inlet," although a few lives are said
o have been loet' and heavy damage
lone to property.
FIND NO DEAD.
HOT SPRINGS, May 16. — A
march oT the hospitals and morgues
tplled to show any dead.
Scores of thrilling rescues are re
sorted.
Penalty Clause oi
Alaska Fisheries
Act May Be Stricken
9BATTLK. May 16. ^Officials of
he FT herica Bureau iplun to ask
Congress to taka from the penalty of
:ho clause of the Alaska Fisheries
Act of June, 190-6, the words "at hard
labor.”
According to Washington <113
;>aU-li to the S outdo Times, a recent ‘
Jecislon of the Supreme Court Is
that these words make offenses
igalnst the fisheries lows felonies
md not misdemeanors and upsets
the practice of years taking such
eases before ca-nmissioners and en
tails cxjKms'' f)f grand jury presenta
tions.