THE ALASKA
EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL XXI., NO. 3189.
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JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTSk
LITERACY LAW
OF HOCSE BILL
World’s Most Powerful Oil Plant Set Up in Alaska
STANDARD OIL
HAS GREATEST
) PLANT, ALASKAj
Most Powerful Drilling Plant
in World Has Been Set
Up at Cold Bay.
SEATTLE. March 10. — A radio
message received by the Standard]
Oil Company at San Francisco and
reported in a letter to A. S. Kerry,
of Seattle, head of the Westward
Development Co., which negotiated
the leases between the property own
err. and the Standard and Associated
oil companies at Cold Bay. says the.
Standard Oil Company will start
drilling about March 15.
W. H. Bag, head of the Field Di
vision for the Standard Oil, 3trted
in the letter received:
“Once we elait there will be noth
ing like rock to cause us to shut
down. Wc have set up in the Alaska
field the most powerful drilling plant
e ver erected in the world in search
for oil." _
Still Explodes;
Babe in Arms
Burned to Death
CLEVELAND. March 10.—While
Mrs lanilse Bordunnaro tended to a
still in the attic of her home today
with her nine months old baby in
her arms, acording to the police,
the still exploded, burning the baby
to death. The mother is in a hos
pital in u dying condition.
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“Unde Joe” Canon Back
In Old Home to Remain
CHICAGO, March 10. — “Uncle
Joe" Cannon is back in Danville for
good after half a century in the
pulbllc -service. Cannon raid: "I'm
going home . I'm going to get some
sleep.”
Cannon inquired after all of his
neighbors.
POSSES RIGHT
BEHIND NEGRO
NrA!SHVlLi.K. Tcnn., March 10. -
Po&ae'i are at the heels or blood
hounds pressing close on the trail of
Louis Douglas, paroled negro convict,
who yesterday wounded five persons
at the home of Sam Hasten, brother
of the Secretary of State, near Spen
cer. All wounded iparsona were ex
pected to recover, according to a.
tendlng iphysiclans.
Herrin Mine Riot
Case Is Delayed
MARION. Ul., March 10.—Judge
Hartwell ordered another recess late
yesterday in the Herrin qjine riot
cafce t>ecause of the illness of th#
wife of a Juryman. It was announcfl
the trial would be resumed Monday.
Torpedo Explodes on
Warship; Two Men Dead
GIBRALTAR, March 10 Two sail
ers 'were killed and Jour injured, two
probably fatally, by the explosion of
a torpedo od the British cruiser
Cov entry.
Caruso’s Belongings
Bring Large Amount
NEW YORK. March 10:—The auc
tion of' Caruso's personal things, in
cluding his paintings, bronzes, cos
tumes, statues, books and art relics
brought *15,1,000.
2 AMERICAN AVIATORS ACHIEVE
CONTACTS. FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
iMfN'EOLA. -N. Y„ Msifh ID.—Lieu
tenant* Clyde Finter and Lawrence
Sperry, for the fir.-it thno in the his
tory seif aviation, today achieved con
tact a at will 'between two planes
while fly in* at red mod apeed so mes
sages and food could be exchanged.
MYSTERY SHROUDS SLAYING OF AVIATOR.
Mr. ff Hr'S' Earl® i&mingtoxV'
“Look for the woman!" is th' motto adopted by the l>os An
geles police in iheir efforts to solve tlie mysterious murder cf Karle
Remington, wealthy clubman and war hero aviator, whose body
was found In the back yard of his home, with two charges of buck
rhot through the heart. Remington, who was separated trim his
wife, it known to have had a doz.n affairs of the heart with other
women. He feared for his life, an 1 cn the very night he was killed
had arranged to have a private detective guard him, but failed to
meet tile man who might thus have saved his life.
TEACHING OF
HISTORY MAY
BE CHANGED
President Harding Offers Sug
gestions to President of
Bowdoin College.
BRUNSWICK, Me., March 10.—
Teaching olf history should be changed
to hake a broader view that wotil I
consider the nations Of the Western
world in relations to one another.
Instead of considering them sepa
ratoly.
This ir. ono of the many things
urged in a letter from President
Harding to President Hills, of the
Bowdohi College.
President Harding c ingratiated
the college on plans for an institute j
of 'modern history to be held here|
anti said:
“Our 'point of view in history has
been shifted greatly by events of
the last decade."
BOOTLEGRING
IS DISCOVERED
Four Seattle Men, Two For-1
mer Policemen, Arrested
on Secret Indictment.
SEATTLE. March 10— Edward Pie-1
low und E. D. Hagen, both former
members of the i>olice department; !
C. A. Givens and Chrtetcipher Brown,|
have been arro.ftod on secret Federal I
grand jury indictments.
The four men arc charged with
conspiracy to violate the prohibition!
act.
Prohibition officials are alleged to
have seifcod a quantity of whisky and
book*. The hooks show, according
to the agents, that tho four men were
doing a ibootlegging -buainea* averag
ing 11.000 turn-over daily.
Sperry piloted a messenger plane,
attached a ladder to Finters’ plane
and 'mounted to the latter, then re
turned to his own and resumed an
Independent flight.
This was accomplished eight tithes
under favorable weather conditions.
German Children
Being Sent Out
Of Trouble ione
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| BOCHUM, March 10. T!io
1 Dormans today began the trans
fer of several thousand front
the trouble zone, sending them
' by special trains to Bremen,
where they will bo cared for In
private families until the trouble
ends.
SOLDIER HANGS
FOR SLAYING OF
POLICE OFFICER
Deserter from Camp Lewis
Pays Penalty — Killed
Portland Patrolman.
'8ALEM, tare.,, March 10 Hutted
A. Walters, convicted of the murder
of Jerome Palmer, patrolman, of Cort
land, 'Was hanged here al the state
penitentiary.
. SADISM, Ore. March 10.—Husted
A. Walters was convicted on Docam
bor 23. 1920. for the murder in Corf
laud on November 17. 1920, of Cu
trblm'an Jerome Palmer.
Walton; and a companion deserted
from Camp Lewis. \Va3Il., where they
were in the army, and fled to Port
land. Patrolman Calmer was shot
while attempting to arrest Walters
and his companion
Walters -was sentenced to hatig on
February 10. 1921. but the ease was
appealed. Tlve state supreme court
affirmed the judgment of the Mult
nomah circuit tutr. Walters has
been in the penitentiary here while
the case was pending in the supreme
court. When that tribunal took final
action. Walters was sent back to
Portland, iresentenc I and returned
to his eoM here.
Walters' companion at the time of
the killing of Palmer was sent to
the reformatory. He is a youth of 17.
War Veteran Takes Big
Leap to Kill Himself
WASHINGTON. March 10—A man
believed to be A Bernie Snip, war
votoran. louped to death from the ob
servation tower of the Washington
.Monument today. No c.nisc Is known
for tho act.
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Oppose Presidential
Preference Primary
I)KS MOINES, la.. March 10—The
Senate today defeated the Brookhart
bill for a ipronldential iprojprence
primary.
HENRY FORD
SETS A NEW
PRECEDENT!
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Will Use Four Million Dollars*
More to Pay All Claims
of Lincoln Company.
DETROIT. March 10. — Henry
Ford, who Iasi year paid $8,000,000
for the assets of the Lincoln Motor
Car Company, Is to 11:0 $4,000,000
In paying all crditors In full.
This was anounced tcday by a
person close to Henry Ford.
It 1st said the action of Ford was
prompted by a desire to play square I
with those who helped build up the
Industry though some of the credit
ors are his enemies.
Ralph Stone* President of the Ite
• roll Trust Company, receiver for
the Lincoln concern, declared the
action of Ford was unprecedented in
the business world.
Naturalization Fraud
Men Enter Guilty Plea*
SAN FRANCISCO. Mitch 10.—Wil
Item P. Deighton, Jame- Pouileas and
Manuel Lampros. 'arrested witli five
cithers in a widespread naturalization
fraud fonfspirdey, entered pleas of
guilty 'before United States Commis
sioner KduH.
Fred N. Littloton, field agent of j
the Naturalization Service, alsoj
charged with frauds, entered a pie i j
or not guilty.
Two other defendants failed to ap
pear and the cases were continued ;
untii March 16.
Broker Is Found Not
Guilty Grand Larceny
SEATTLE. March 10. E. Tllden.
prominent inve itunen't broker, has
boon acquitted rtf the charge of
grand •larceny rtf money from Mr*..
Anna Holms. TUden’s firm was re ,
contly doclarod insolvent.
Collector of Customs
Piper Seriously 111
PORTLAND. Ore.. March 10. —;
George l’. Piper, Collector of Cits-,
terns and former part owner of the
Soattl^ Post-Intelligencer, brother of
Edgar Piper, editor of the Portland
Oregonian, is In a critical coadtlcm1
today following a stroke of apoplexy
last Tuesday.
Another Record Smashed
In Panama Canal Business ^
WASHINGTON. March 10. The
week ending February 17 ret a new.
record in Panama Canal traffic, Hitt
vessels, including 81 of the Atlantic
Fleet going to joint the Pacific Fleet
for maneuvers, were sent through
the canal.
Young Man Arrested for
Fiendish Murder of Girl
VANCOUVER. Wash., Marsh 10 1
Edward Whitfield, aged 20 years,;
nephew of a farmer living near Battle j
Grounds, Is held in the county jail
for the murder yesterday of Anna I
Nosko. aged 11 years, school girl,
whose mutilated body was found liid-i
den under brash on a- farm near
Battle Ground.
TAKING PRECAUTIONS
VANCOUVER. March 10 Whit-1
field and his brother, John, also1
Joseph Take, were 'brought to the,
county jail and the sheriff took extra i
precautions hccauso threats of lynch
ing. .Despite the long grilling Whit
field denied he killed the girl and j
maintained his innocentee. He said!
blood found on his garments was that I
of a chicken he had killed. Dr. H
L. Benson, ctf the Oregon Medical
School, however, pronounces the
blood that tof a hitman being.
Debt Funding Pact b
Nearly Ready fur Signing
W ASHIf NOTON', .March 1<> The
dobt funding commission has com
pleted a formal draft at the debenture
embodying terms of the recent set
tlement with Orest" Britain- The an
nouncement is not made, however,
when the contract wBl be submitted
to the Brill kh represents fives for
■dgnature.
YOUNG WHITNEY IS MARRIED IN PARIS.
Mtsr !jyfar*iV.
*orn«/littj V Wj.nt j.u/y?
The marriage of Cornelius Vauderblft Whlmey, son of Mr. anti
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and grandson of the late Cornelius Van
derbilt. to Miss Marie Norton, Now York society girl, was sol
emnized in Puris on March 5.
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Taxation in
U. S. Becoming
Unbearable
NEW YORK. Man'll lit. Tax
1 a'Uon Is raipidly becoming un
bearablo and the Koderal incom ■
tax threaten i economic progress, t
the Natt tonal Industrial Confer
ence warns In a statement Is- j
sued today. |
The Statement says that 14
| cpuIs of every dollar earned by
j the nation last year will be
| paid in taxes.
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HIGH WEDDING
CAUSING MUCH
ATTENTION NOW
Duke of York s Wedding Is
Exciting English Society
at Present Time.
LONDON, M inch lit The women
who are to be invited to the wedding
of the Duke e: York and Lady KIIkui
beth Bow-es-Lyon are perhaps most
concerned with deciding what t,>
wear, bint millions of other w »men
In England and elsewhere are Jus
now 'more Interested in guessing who
will be ha mod as bridesmaids.
So far no n.unn's have been an
nounced, but Ih ise on the outside
hear from those on the alleged in
side that there will lb1 eight, of them
Including three ITInl^sses. Two of
thesa Princesses. Maud. younger
daughter of the Pfimess Royal, an I
Ladiv Mary Cambridge, niece of the
Queen, werp bridesmaid < at the wed
ding of Princess Mary la -1 year. Lady
May Cambridge. the 16-y ear-old
daughter of the Eirl and Countess of
AUrlone. will be the third Princess
to attend the bride. Another of
Princess Mary's bridesmaids. Lady
Dor's (lordun-Lennox, so the gossips
«iv, wtil also 'bo in tho wedding
party at the coming royal nuptials
Who Will Be Honored
Aiming*'! ho. other young women of
the aristocracy who. one hears, will
be similarly honored, are to be at
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GUARANTEE OF
BRITISH GIVEN
ANOTHER PHASE
Former Assistant of Treasury
Takes Another Exception
to Earl Balfour.
NK\V YORK, March l(>. Oscar T.
Crosby. Assistant Secretary of Treas
ury during the war, today declared
that the assertion of Karl Balfour
in the House of larrds that tho
United States demanded the British
guarantee before financing the Allies
was a misapprehension.”
Crosby said ho believed Karl Hal
fctn's Impression was due to the
grunting of a loan of $170,000,000
to Hue-da on British guarantee.
Defense in Night Riders’
Case Trying Impeachment
MBDH'Oan, Ore , March 10 The
defense in th> night riders’ trial
here continued of forts to Impeach
the testimony of tho prosecution's
witnesses, but tho court ruled out
most of the questions at immaterial.
SUBMARINE MOUNTAINS, PLAINS
AND VALLEYS ARE BEING MAPPED
OUT ON FLOOR OF PACIFIC NOW
SAN DIKGO. Gal.. March lO.-Sub
rinrine mountains an<l valleys, plains
an 1 pi I'tom*. every geographical
form, in fart, except .perhaps sub
marine deserts, an* being mapped
out on the 'flour of the Pacific from
Cordova. Alaska, to Mexico. In hy
drographic surveys by the United
States government. I^ator the ocean
bed In tlm vicinity of the Hawaiian
islands will also be surveyed.
Three steamers, the Pioneer, the
Discoverer and the Guide, are en
gulfed In the work, which will prob
ably not be enmpieied before 1925.
For the past four months the Pioneer
and the Discoverer have been work
ing along the Southern California
BILL REQUIRING
LITERACY TEST
IS INTRODUCED
Foster Seeks New Qualifica
tion for Electors—Simple
Test Is Suggested.
SHEPARD INTRODUCES
NEW PENSION MEASURE
Provides for Increased Pen
sions Under Presnt Sys- *
tem of Management.
The establishment of educational
requirements for electors la the end
aimed at in a bill Introduced In the
House this morning by Represents
tlve Trank H. Foster, of Cordova,
and which was read by title for the
first time and referred to the Com*
mlttee on Elections, Election Laws
and Mileage. It was indicated by the
author of the measure, after the
House adjourned, that it la assurod
of strong support.
The bill. I toted as Houso BUI No.
3, Is entfrled: "An Act to prescribe
I ho qualifications of HI actors In the
Territory of Alaska.” It re-enacts
tho present statute covering that
subject and contains, in addition, this
clause:
"And provided further that no per
son wTh> is unable to read the Cop.
attention Of the United 'States and
to wrtta the English language shall
bo eligible t'o vote." i
Other Bills Jpt -educed
I Three other tneasuiros were intro
jditced In the Hotise.'one t>y Mr. Boss
amending the existing taw relative
(Continued on Tag* Eight.)
Porterhouse Steak
Creator Passes Away
I MILFORD, N. H., March 10.—Mrs.
Ann.i F. Ilemieh. who created the
porterhouse steak while a cook at
| the Porter House, at Cambridge,
! Mass., shortly after the Civil War,
died here late yesterday at the age
of 87 years.
Million Dollar Fire
In Providence, R. L
'PROVIDENCE, R. I , March 10 —
Fire swept tihe Sheppard Company
department store in the heart of the
business siectlon today, causing dam
age estimated between $1,500,000 and
$2,000,000.
Prominent Witness in
Arbuckle Case Is Dead
HOIjLYWOOD, Cal.. March 10 —
Alfred Sommelier, motion picture
man. who was a prominent witnese
in the ArbmWlo trial a. iliod here after
a brief illness. Semnachor was for
merly manager of Virginia Rappe
an.I was present at the <party given
by Arbuckle at which the girt met
her it oral h.
WEST PRANK.TORT. 111., March
| 1ft. 'Constable John Kolly. of Zeigler,
| on > of the men under indictment in
connoction with the Herrin mine slay
ings. was allot and killed early this
1 morning by Dan Davis, a coail miner.
coast. hut are now en route to Al
askan waters, via Sun Francisco. On
Jun-' 1 they will be Joined by the
Ouide, now at .Now York.v haring a
sounding device installed.
Onp of the interesting discover
ies made bv the Pioneer Is that sur
| vr-ys made in 1853 of Cortes bank,
1 90 miles west of here, were so ac
curate that few changes, If any, will
I be needed for present-day charts. On
* the other hand, it was found that
| Bishop rock, a rock and clay projec
tion a't the center of the Cortes
| bank, on which a four-masted ship
j w is wrecked in the eartv fifties. Is
! approximately one and one-half miles
qff ppelMoa. c-jf