THE
DAILY
EMPIRE
“ALL THE HEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXL, NO. 3184.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. PRICE TEN CENTS.
67TH CONGRESS HAS ADJOURNED
Sixth Biennial Session of Alaska Legislature Opens
HUNT IS NAMED
IN SENATE AND
i COLE, SPEAKER
First Division Men Head Both
Branches of Territorial
Legislature.
SENATE IS DEADLOCKED
OVER SECRETARY’S JOB
P ermanent Organization
There Halted — House
Organization Perfected.
Cohvenng in a regular 00-da.v sss
-'on. the Si**'i Biennial Ala-ka Legis
lature started to work at noon today,
cptr ng tarmalitiea lanjt carried on.
by Secretary Karl Theile. Senator
Feres: J. Hunt, of Ketchikan, was
e-lectd President of the Senate with
out opposition, and Cash CV'e, of
this city, was elected as Speaker of
the House also without opposition
The signs of harmony in the Sen
ate, however, dtsapperred as sacn as
the question of filling the Se fret ary
yh’p was taken up, and before a re
cess had been taken a.t 1 p. m„ the
dove of 'peace, if n<; already in
flight, was poised for instant move
ment. In the House ail pre-se sic a
dissensions had been smoothed out
before the session was opened. House
organization was carried out with
matehine-like regularity and when it
adjourned at 1:20 p, m. it had up
nrtintogl o 'f’nmm iit on /vn fi’mnlnvpns!
and tho all-important Committee on
Committees.
Senate Starts Smoothly
Secretary Theile called the Senate
to order promptly at 1 2 o'clock noon.
Manty spectators were present, in
cluding Mrs. Scott C Itone, wife of
Governor Bone, Territorial and Fed
erail officials and their wives, and
others. Rev. A. P. Kashevuroff
opened .the proceedings wi’ib an ap
peal for Divine Guidance for th?
Legislators.
Secretary Theile certified to the
personnel of the Senate, calling the
roll. Oaths of office were adminis
tered by U. S. Commissioner V. A.
Paine.
A temporary organization was
quickly perfected. Senator Frank
Aldrich was nominated for President
Pro Tern by Senator Hunt, the nomin
ation being seconded by Senator
Bunn. Nominations were closed on
a motion by Senator Chamberlin,
seconded by Senator Dunn On a
motion by Senator Dimond, seconded
by Senator Ayer, the vote of the
Senate was cast unanimously for Sen
ator Aldrich, who was escorted to
S U nHAnii4lnrr w.oih'w fill o 1 r Vitr r>
committee of two, Senators Brown
and Hunt.
The Presiden t Pro Tent thank ad
the 'Senators in a few words far
the honor bestowed on him, saying
in part: “we have too much work
before us to take up your lime in
dtscuacting it. The future is in your
hands. Alany mistakes were made
t«y former legislatures which you will
rectify and it is by mistakes we
roach the truth "
The first signs of discard appeared
in the nomimations Cor Secretary
Pro Tent. Senator Chamberlin, sec
rndei by Senator Ayer, placed Mrs.
Delia B. Chace in nomination. Sen
ator PnodgTass then placed the name
of Mrs. Vivienne Stevens in nomina
tion. It was not seconded as Sena
tor 'Hunt said he thought Senator
Snodgrass was mistaken as to the
purport of the. nomination wh/ich was
merely ito fill the position temporar
ily and not permanently. After a
minute's hesitation, the Senator from
Fairbanks withdraw the nomination.
Mrs. Chace was then unanimously
elected Secretary Pro Tern.
Permanent Oraanization Starts
Harmony again reigned in the elec
tion of President of the Senate.
When nominations for that office
were declared open. Senator Snod
grass gd .nel the floor and said: “I
wish to place in nomination the
name of Senator Hunt." It was
seconded by Senator Ayer. The
nomina' iors were closed on a motion
made by Senator Dunn and seconded
'by Senator lDinland, ansi the Sena
tor from Ketchikan was unanimous
ly elected. This covered the agree
ment which was reached by an open
caucus of the Senators yesterday.
Senate in Deadlock
Senator Hunt was escorted to the
chair by Senators Snodgrass, Cham
berlin ansi Aver. His remarks were
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ELECTRICAL WIZARD BELIEVES IN GOOD
HOUSEKEEPING.
Uf\ Charles I’. Steinmetz, the electrical wizard of the Urnerul
Electric Company, who recently startled scientists by tugge.'lng
that the world s future food supply might; wr|| be obtained cheaply
by breeding nitrogenous bacteria for use us food, on a recent visit to
New York City spent a day at the Good Housekeeping Institute,
where he was very much intersted in the many electrical devices
used for fim plying housekeeping. Jle is shown 'ter at op t
electric washing machine.
INTERNATIONAL
COURT SCHEME
IS DEAD ISSUE
Senate Tables Administra
tion’s Plan Until Next Ses
sion of Congress.
WASHINGTON. March 5. The Ad
ministration's plan fnr participation
in tho International Court of Justice
at The Hague was finally shelved for
the fifth session of Congress when
[ the Senate voted 43 to 24 against
| proceeding with consideration of
King's resolution granting the Presi
dent necessary power.
The vote was almost on a straight
parity lineup. All Republicans, <x
c-ept Norbeck. of South Dakota, vet
ling against considering the tv-olu
| tion.
Shield of Tennessee, Walsh of
Massachusetts and Walsh of Montana
voted with the Republicans
Senator Simitiins Is
On Debt Fnnding Com.
WASHINGTON, M reh 5.—Senator
F. M. Sfcmmons, of North Carolina,
was last Saturday night appoint 'd a
mi'nnbor of (the war debt funding com
mit? ston after Senator Carter (11a -s,
of Virginia, decline I appointm mt.
Impeachment of Governor
Is Knocked in the Head
_
PIERRE, So. Dak., March ', Ini
PMichment procoodings brought Fri
day against Governor William H.
| Mi Masters and several other ate
officials in a petition filed by Wal
ter Flaifagan, 'publisher of the Labor
News at Sioux Falls, has been dis
missed bv the House judiciary com
mittee.
The petition elaiimed that Governor
MoMasters hsd not fulfilled his duty
•in demanding investigation of alleged
mDtwe of state funds.
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Unidentified Robber
Is Shot and Killed
SEATTLE. March 5.—An unidenti
fied robber attempted to burglarize
the office of Iho City Dye Works
during the night, but was shot and
killed iby a night watchman. The
robber's key-ring bore th? name of
John Atkins,
Oldtime Alaskan
Is Found
Drowned
ANt'.HOKAGH. .Margil 5. • August
, Johnson. aged (57 ye in, one of th(
old-:imcr3 In Alaska, has been fount
drowned on the beach near Seldoviu
AMUNDSEN TO
HOP OFF FOR
POLE JUNE 2C
Nome Chamber of Commerce
1 Is Planning Flashing De
tails to Entire World.
NOME, March •’>.—Roald Amund
sen Is planning on hopping off aboul
June 20 for ills flight across the
North Pole regions, according to an
nouncouKat made here.
The Nome Chamber of Commerce
is considering the feasibility of flash
ing details of the hop-off to the
world by signal fires along the 450
mile coast front Wainwrlght to Noor
vik. the nearest wireless station.
Captain Amundsen says he has re
reived a wire from Norway that his
ship Maud is in daily communication
with Spttzlsergen, The wiire did not
give the position of the Maud, whicli
is in the ico drift.
Gold and Silver
Mining Is to Be
Investigated
WASHINGTON. March 5.—In the
i dosing hours of the Senate 'the reso
lutii.n was pas e l which authorize*:
a committee of five to push the in
vestigation into the gold and silvoi
mining industry during tho recess.
The resolution creating the com
; mission provides an inquiry in>to th<
cattues of the depressed condktjUin o:
I the industry, production, sale am
! uses of gold and silver, affect of th(
decreased production upon commerce
industry and cxciianga and prices
The cotHinl.s; ion must report to tin
'senate by January 1, 1924.
Tornado Raises Havoc
Around Missouri Towi
ST JOSEPH. Mo.. March 6- A tor
| nado tore across this city late Sat
j unfuy night.tinroofing houses, uproot
ing t.re.r.s and injuring nine persons.
HARDING HAS
FAILED SAYS
CORDELL HDLL
Chairman Democratic Na
tional Committee Pays
Respects to G. 0. P.
WASHINGTON, March Declar
ing that the first two years of the
Harding administration leaves be
hind “only a trail of failures and
broken promises,” Chairman Cordell
' lull, of the Democratic National
i Committee, today predicted that his
tory would find 'not a sin etc aocam
1 pll hment of public bent tit" recorded
(since President Harding assume 1
I office.
Chairman Hull declared Congress
exhibited a lack of vision and can
>tructive policies. The leadership
was “utterly astounding' said Hull.
WORDS OF PRAISE.
WASHINGTON. March f,. History
will record that no Congri s handled
responsibilities more eatirfactoi iiy
than the Sixty-seventh Cong re a,
said Repreentatlve Mondell. retiring
l-louee floor leader declared in his
farewell address.
“The volume of business tran
sacted and the enormous problem',
met anti pasred titpen were many
land difficult,” raid Mondell.
Turning to survey tile Harding
I administration, Mondell said lie be
lieved the survey would convince
any fair observer that, the I'nlted
Slates had made a greater advance
than any other nation in tbe same
period.
Woods Goes to Japan;
Moore Goes to Spain
WASHINGTON, March 5. The
President's nomination of Cyrus C.
Woods, of Pennsylvania, retiring Am
bassador to Spain, to he Ambassador
I to Japan, and Alexander >. Moore,
publisher of (Pittsburgh, to Ve An
I bassador to Spain, were couf • aied by
the Senate late Saturday n „h
Exclusive Section Raided
In Seattle; Joint Seized
SBATTIvK, March 5.—Federal pro
i hibltion officers raided u house in
the exclusive Capitol Hill residential
| district yesterday afternoon and de
I moiished two 7b gallon stalls, con
fiscated $1,000 worth of liquor and
; arrested C. L. O instead and Von
] Bcrnhanl Flicker
MANY PROBES
| TO BE MADE
THISSUMMER
Congressional Investigations
Are on During Nine
Months of Vacation.
WASHINGTON, March 5. The
jcountry today faced the unaccustom
ed prospects of nine months without
! a session of Congress.
The exodus of members is in full
i swing today.
Many individual members will not
he idle during the summer at a num
b' r of inquiries will be pushed in
cluding a probe of the Veterans’
Bureau, investigation of the gold and
•-ilver mining industry, naval oil
land leases, reorganization of gov
ernmental departments. Great hakes
guards and water way projects.
Measures Failing.
Measures of importance which
i failed of passage during the session
Including the Shipping Bill, Smith
revolution appropriating $10,000,000
for the purchase of nitrates and cal
cium areas, aid to southern cotton
producers, proposed constitutional
amendment advancing the date of
convening Congress and inaugura
tion of tlie President, and constitu
tional amendment for a popular ref
erendum and a few other constitu
| t ional changes.
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WASHINGTON. March 5. -Propon
l entg of the resolution for a Senate
investigation in the recent increases
• in the price of sugar maintained un
• der the last minute of the session
■ vestrrday In efforls to obtain action
but failed,
CAVALRY CAPTAIN TO WED ITALIAN PRINCESS.
?1 Countdlzrles'Ca.'Un in Befitoto. fj
hi ■>»*..... . . __. ...vZ_MflJu
Here is the first photograph received in America of Count
Charles Caloi de Hergolo, distinguished Captain of Cavalry in the
Italian Army, who is to marry Crimrss Yolanda, eld st daughter
of tlie Italian royal family.
SENATE RATIFIES TREATY FOR
PROTECTION HALIBUT INDUSTRY
IN NORTH PACIFIC; AMENDMENT
WASHINGTON, March 5.—The
American-Canadian convention for
control of the halibut fishing In
dustry in the North Pacific was rati
[tied by the Senate just before ad
journment.
The treaty was brought up Satur
day night, during a lull, by Senator
Lodge, but was blocked by an ob
jection of Senator Wesley L. Jones
of Washington.
The treaty was then brought up
President Coming to
Alaska If Wife’s
Health Permits
SEATTLE, March 5.—A special
dispatch 'to the Seattle Times from i
Washington, D. qnot~u Pro ‘Went I
Harding a* definitely promising Sen
ator Wo.doy L. June - and llepre |
sentativo John K. .Miller, of Waali
Infflon state, he will vi*!t Saittie and
Alaska this suntmor, providing his
i wife’s health permits.
Governor Hone today received a
cablegram from Delegate Dan Sutler
land stating he was present wh»n
President Harding promised Senator
Jones and Representative Miller he
would visit Alaska next summer,
providing the health of Mrs. Maiding
permitted.
Former Klan Wizard
Arrested, Released
ATLANTA. March 5. I'nited
Statei Commissioner Carter, after re
ceiving a certified copy of the K.'li
teral indictment from Holt ton, Texas,
I chargiing Edward Voting Clarke, tor
I mrr Imperial Wizard of the Kn Klttx
j Klan. with violation of the Mann
! act. sstirsl a warrant Into last Sat
i unlay afternoon for Clarke's arrest.
I CJarke -was notified over the tele
; phone and directed to appear.
] Clarke appeared a» directed and
|win released on $1,000 bond.
Jury Says Man Did Not
Embezzle Big Amount
PORTLAND. March 5. John I.
Etheridge has been acquitted on a
charge of embezzlement of ,$25,000
worth of securities from the bond
house of Morris llrothers, of which
he was president.
again yesterday with the amendment
by Senator Jones providing that the
restrictions against Canadian halibut
fithermen should apply with equal
force to all other British nationals.
The treaty was signed last Thurs
day by Secretary of State Charles E.
Hughes and Ernest LaPointe, Min
ister of Marine and Fisheries of the
Dominion of Canada.
The convention establishes a closed
seacon from November 16 to Feb
ruary 1.
Assist. District Attorney
Fined, Contempt of Court
SEATTLE, March ■>. DeWolfe
Emory. sslstant District Attorney,
wa.i Saturday afternoon fine I $2"> by
F, k-ral .Indue Jeremiah Nelerer for
contempt of court as the result of
a fist figihlt with Attorney John F.
Dm in the Federal court room last
Tin .I iv afternoon. Emory claimed
Du e c.i I him a liar during the
i'.i il of a bootlegger.
YES, SIR, RIGHT IN NEW YORK!
GIRL REPORTS DUEL CHALLENGE
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NEW YORK, March 5 Miss lat
i Ha Whitehurst oT Americas. Ga.,
who '.ins she in the niece of a fqr
mf*r t'nited Slates Senator, told Mag
istrate Oberwang -r tin court that
Mariano Vidal, Spanish Vice Consul
in lliiii city, haul boon challenged by
a Mexican to fight a duel for love
if her, hut hud declined
The magistrate, who had been lis
tening quietly to a story of frenzied
lovemaking, and violent jealousy,
brought Into court bee t use Miss
Whitehurst had eharg d Vidal with
having knocked her down and taken
back an eng; gement ring, showed
marked dnrtcrout when the affair of
honor was mentioned
"A duel!" lie exclaimed "A litel
In New York City?”
“Yes," replied Mist Whitehurst
calmly, "a duel." Tile Mexiean Ell
rioo Mendoza, of whom Vid u liad be
com > Jealous, she said, “desired to
v« blood flow, but Vidal would not
fight, because he said the Mexican
wav of a lower station in life and
ho would light only liis equal*."
Vidal repeated the denial.! he made
tn the District Attorney's offiice, that
U? ever h.:d pronilAtyl to marry Miss
\Viiirt-h 11 r.4t. or that he had wrenched
a ring from her utter punching her.
"Wo only were good friends." said
th • Spatulard. “and the ring was
nothing more than a token of friend
ship." ,
The Spun: ml's version of the af
fair was that tho girl hud called at
Ills apartment one night and threat
ened to kill herself, whereupon he
had called the police. He appeared
voluntarily in court to listen to the
allegations of Miss Whitehurst,
whoso lawyer asked for a warrant
charging grand larceny in connection
with the alleged theft of the ring.
At this point, the magistrate tried
to bring peace wi th the assertion
that “love heals all wounds.”
“There never has been any love.”
retorted Vidal
The court, however, suggested a
consultation in his chambers and ad
journed the cau until later with the
assertion that "Huh is no common
American girl.”
CONGRESS HAS
ADJOURNED FOR
LONG VACATION
Great Rush During Last Hours
to Secure Passage of
Many Measures.
PRESIDENTHARDING IS
BUSY TO LAST MINUTE
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Swan Songs Given by Mem
bers Leaving Congress
Tribute to "Uncle Joe."
WASHINGTON, March 5. — The
Sixty-Seventh Congress, second ses
t; —ten, adjourned at noon Sunday.
During the last hcurs President*
Harding spent part of his time at',
the Cspi'cl signing the farm credits
bill and 98 other measures.
The House members staged an
impromptu concert just before ad
journment with solos, quartettes and
choruses by members and music by a
section of the Marine Band.
Saturday night's session lasted
until 3:30 o'clock A. M. in the
House and 2:45 A. M. in the Senate.
Beth Houses reconvened at 10
o'clock yesterday morning.
The Senate heard swan sengs from
revet al of its members.
The House also listened to
eulogists and a striking tribute was
paid to "Uncle Joe" Cannon retiring
from Congress. "Uncle Joe” was led
down the aisle and cheered to tha
echo
CONFIRMATION FAIL S
The contented nomination of James
Me,Nary for Comptroller of Currency
failed, being blocked by Senator
Couzens, of Michigan, who declared
Me.Nary wan unfitted for the posi
tion.
Final Rush.
The majority of all bills having
been disposed of, Congrees found
time in the closing hours last Sat
urday to lake up many lessor bills
and resolutions such as usually die
unnoticed amid the hurrah of con
fusion at the session’s windup.
“Chicken Feed" Bills.
Starting last Saturday morning at
the opening of the sessions discus
sions were begun on. "chicken feed”
moasures with many members seek
ing aid in many cases and finding
opportunity to get a vote which they
had never heretofore expooted leav
ing the decks clear for only the
formalities for the brief meeting on
Sunday the session ending Sunday
noo n.
On Long Vacation.
Dozens of hilts and hundreds of
nominations went into the hopper
hut most of the 11.000 slill on the
calendars were doomed to be lost.
Many farewells and many Bwan
songs were given prior to one of the
longest vacations of Congress in
otght years.
Doubleheaded Filibuster
•Congro-Hi'ona! hooks were virtually
closed Saturday night with only one
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