THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXII., NO. 3263.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. PRICE TEN CENTS.
SHRINERS ADDRESSED BY HARDING
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Highest Court Makes Important Decision on Schools
SUPREME COURT IK DECISION
HOLDS STATE STATUTES WHICH
PROHIBIT FOREIGN LANGUAGE
SCHOOLS IS INVALID! REVIEW
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WASHINGTON, Juno 5 —The Su
frtme Court in a decision held th iL
state statutes prohibiting the use of
fldreign languages in public and
private, and parochial schools in
Iowa, Nebraska and Ohio and 18
other states Is invalid.
Justice MoRoynolds, delivering the
decision, said that in enacting laws
the (tats had “attempted to mate
rially interfere with the calling of
foreign language teachers with oppor
tunities of pirpils to acquire certain
knowledge. Parents control the edu
cation of their awn children."
The court declared that an in
dividual has certain fundamental
rights which must be respected. "The
protection af the constitution extends
to those who speak a foreign lan
guage as well as those born with
English on their tongues."
QUE8TION IS RAISED
WASHINGTON, Juno 5.—The right
of teachers In parochial and private
schools in the states of Iowa, Ne
braska and Ohio, to instruct pupils
below the eighth grade in foreign
languages, or to use any language
ether than English in teaching them,
waai raised in the Supreme Court by
a number of cases brought by per
sons In those states who contended
that they had been deprived of priv
ilege's and liberties guaranteed by
the Federal constitution.
During and after the World War a
number of states .passed laws pro
hibiting the use of foreign languages
lin all graded schools, public, private
and parochial. Among these were
Jowa, Nebraska and Ohio No at
tempt was made to deny that the
legislation was aimed particularly at
the U3e in such schools of the Ger
man language.
In presenting the cases to the
court it was pointed out by those
who brought thorn that no challenge
was attempted of tho authority of
tbe states to regulate their public
schools, it 'being conceded that so
far as such schools are concerned
the states had complete control In
determining what studies should be
pursued.
Casas Are Brought
The Iowa case was 'brought by Au
gust Bartels, a teacher .in the St.
John's Evangelical Lutheran Paro
chial 'School at Max/ficld, those from
Nebraska by the Nebraska District of
tbe 'Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
Mssouri, Ohiio and other states, by
Detnich Siefkon and John Siedlik
of Platt county and by Rdfiert T.
Meyer, who was a teacher In the
Zion’s Parochial School in Hamilton
county, and those from Ohio by Emil
Pohl, toachor, and H. H. Uohning.
trustee, of the <St. John's Evangelical
Congregational School at Garfield
(Oonttnusd OB nn KTM.I
Drank Pint of Bootleg
Liquor; Body Is Found
iLOS ANGELES, June 5.—Juan
Montoye, proprietor of a soft drink
establishment, has been arrested
after the body of an unidentified
man was found ibeneath the floor of
the place.
Montoye said the stranger died
four months ago after drinking a
pint of bootleg liquor and he feared
to tell the authorities.
Glider Makes Hundred
Miles on Little Gas
GARDEN CITY. June 5.—Georges
Bar bat. ^French aviator, made the
round trip In a gliding flight to West
(Paint, using but two of three gallons
In hie fuel tank. The Journey was
more than 100 miles.
Bloodhounds Trace
YenngBey to
His Watery Grave
SEATTLE, June 5.—Bloodhounds
employed to hunt three-year-old Chris
(Larsen, lead to the end of the dock
St Houghton, across Lake Washing
bon. where the body was recovered
In )$ lent of water. The lad strayed
yesterday from the Norwegian schoon
er Buanca. C. T. Larsen, father ol
the (boy, R master of the ship
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Hail and Hearty
At 103 Years of Age
I And Still Going j
LOS ANGELES, June 5.—Dr. j
Andrew Malcolm Morrison, of j
Santa Monica, celebrated hU j
103rd birthday yesterday by go- 1
ing about his duties, practicing |
medicine. He was married three
years ago, his bride then being |
72 vears of age. |
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GOVERNMENT TO
OPERATE SHIPS
CERTAIN ROUTES
American Flag Will Be Kept
on High Seas—Commit
tee Reaches Decision.
WASHINGTON, June 2.—The Ship
ping Board has decided to proceed
with government operation of a suf
ficient number of ships to keep the
American Mag on all trade routes. A
committee consisting of Chairman
Lasker and Commissioners O’Connot
and Thompson, have been named to
map out plans for “companies or or
ganizations to be owned and con
trolled by the Shipping Board.
The decision was made after Com
missioner Lissner, conferring wiith
| New York patties submitting bids
| for routes at present operated by the
I government, reported that only three
I or four promising offers were sub
j milted.
GOOD WHISKEY
HARD TO GET
i Washington Director Says
Spurious Article Being
Sold in Seattle.
aPOKALVE, Wash., June 5—Roy L.
Lyle, Fedte-ral Prohibition Director
ifor Washington, in an interview to
day, declared that a "tremendous
flood” oif spurious liquor was beilng
. sold in Seattle because the rum
I runners were finding it difficult to
bring the genuine article from Can
ada.
Lyle declared the rum runners
■were malting their last stand on the
British Columbia-Washington border.
Cardinal Assassinated
With 3 of His Friends
| SARAGOSSA, Spain, June 5.—Car
dinal Sofldevlrla y Romero, Arch
bishop of iSargossa, was assassinated
last night hy two unidentified assail
ants. Three friends of the Cardinal
were also killed.
WiU of Gould
Reveals Something
To the Public
TOMS RIVER, N. J„ June 5.—The
will of George J- Gould has been
filed for probate here. The estate of
$36,000,000 rig bequeathed to his
widow and 10 children. For the first
time, public acknowledgement Is
made that he la the father of three
children born before his marriage to
her after tho death of Edith Kingdon.
by whom he had seven children.
Three children by Ms second wile
are -prevented by tew from sharing
! the Jay Gould eatate, but are bene
flcarlea with two special trustees.
WAR SECRETARY AND PARTY OF CONRESSMEN AT SAN FRANCISCO.
Those pictures were caught by the cameramen fit the San Francisco Call and Post when Secretary or War Weeks and the big
Congressional Party reached Sat Francisco on the pre-ent trip to Alaska and Hawaii. The picture was sent to the Umpire, courtesy
of the fail and Post, secured by representatives of the Associated Press. Several in the picture are coming to Alaska on tlte Cambrai
and will be in Juneau next w tek. On the top row. left to right, Mrs. Charles K. Abernathy, Senator J. T. Robinson, Mrs. Frances
E. Warren, Senator E. E. I .add. Mrs. J T. Robinson. Center row, left to right, Mrs. A. J. Sala, Congressman Elliott W. Sprout, Mrs.
E. E. Ladd, Congressman Al. John sea,. : Bottom Ifpw, left to right, Miss Spruul, daughter of Congressman Sproul, Congressman C.has.
E. Abernathy. Y'V 'i~
i | Frenchmen Are to I
Strike Unless |
j Assured of Wine (
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' | PAJU8, June 5.—A general
strike «f firemen on the steam
, ship L<aiFayette, due to leave
I Havre for New York next Sat
urday, and all French ships Uo
; parting ft r the United States
! after that time, is threatened un
, | less the men are assured t'hey j
, ; will receive while in New York
1 harbor two litres of wine to .
which they are entitled under
| the French marine law.
PACK TRAIN
SERVICE TO
ALASKA PARK
—
Dan T. Kennedy Secures Con
1 cession — Range Horses
Being Shipped North.
EVERETT, June 6.—Dan T. Ken
nedy, of Nenanu, who will have
■charge of the pack train service intt
the McKinley National Park on the
Alaska Railroad, left Sunday for A1
aska With 16 Montana range horses.
PACK TRAIN SERVICE
According to a dispatch from
Washington in a recent Seattle Dali)
Times, pack train service into Mt
McKinley National Park, Alaska, will
be available this summer from Me
KPnlery Park station on the Alaska
Railroad, it was announced by the
Department of the Interior. Tht
service to the public w.ill includt
tourist accommodations in tent camps
to be erected i\t Savage River, Iglo<
Creek and Toklat River, 12, 30 and 51
miles respectively from the railroad
The trip to the Savage River rami
will be made by four-horse stage ovei
a rough wagon road, but bp.vond lha
travel will be by saddle horses ,ir
pack tradns.
The trip from the railroad to the
Tokdat River and return takes eii
days and covers atbout 100 miles
costing approximately $128 pernor
for parties of six or more. The
service will be in charge of Dan T
Kennedy of Nenana.
Calumet Hecla Mining
Co., to Increase Stocl
BOSTON, June 5.—The stockbold
ers of the Calumet Hecla M,In Inf
Company have approved the proposed
Increase in capital stock 100, OOf
shares at par value of $24 to 800,00(
at the same par.
Canadian Village Is
Destroyed, Forest Fire
iST. HONORE, Que., June 5—-Th<
village of Whatworth, 18 miles from
Riviere de Loup, has been destroyed
by forest fires.
CASES BROUGHT IN SUPREME COURT
TO DETERMINE CONSTITUTIONALITY
OF MATERNITY LAW ARE DISMISSED
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WASHINGTON, June 5.—The Su
preme Court has dismissed the cases
brought to determine the eons;itu*
j t.onality of 'the maternity laiw
I The power u* > ougress *o make
I a; proprlations to aecompli.rh indl
| roctly what tho courts had JieiJ was
,beyond the constitutional Ju -n-, diet ion
of the Federail government was ques
tioned by (Massachusetts in t s at
tack on the maternity act.
The state alloyed that the la -v and
j * milar legislation was a bid to tho
; v a rice of the states to relinquish
I their sovereignty in exchange for
I money unlawfully appropriate'1 from
j the Federal treasury. Having failed
j :.i |t* efforts to intrude ltaeif into
i he reserved rights of th<> stai-’
: through recourse to Us taxing pv>w
| ors and its control over" interstate
I commerce, the state asserted, Con
gress had attempted to invade the
.domains of the states by distributing
I among them money raised in part
^ by taxation.
Motion to Dismiss
The case was heard in the Su
preme Court on a motion of t he
United States to dismiss the pro
reeding.as well ns that brought up
by Harnef A. Frothingham from the
■ courts of the District of Columbia,
where the validity of the law was
sustained. Tho Federal government
insisted that the court’s had consist
ently uipheld the night of Congress
to make appropriations and had al
ways refused to restrain the dls
-bursement of such funds. Thp eases
were vitally defective in other re
spects, the government asserted, and
did not present a controversy which
1 the court was required to consider on
its merits- It was further argued
that Massachusetts had not brought
Into court all those who -were entitled
to be heard, had sued the Federal
u. a. tu 'tv. t ‘ -
government without its consent, and
had sought wrongly to act in behalf
of citizens wtio hail not themselves
objected to the law.
The power of Congress to make
appropriations from the general
funds ts almost unlimited, the gov
eminent asserted. €'rom the earliest
years in the country's history, Con
gress had repeatedly made appropri
ations, it was said, relating to mat
ters whiclt it was not entitled to
regulate. It was asserted that the
appropriations made under the mu
ternlty and similar acts were atithor-l
Ized because made for the general |
welfare, and did not entrench upon >
the powers of any state or state of- j
tidal.
lie LOAN FOR
AUSTRIA SOON
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i Recoustruction of Country,
Made Necessary by Re- ;
cent Events in Ruhr.
LONDON. June 5—Thomas A L.a-|
! rnont, of Morgan & Co., conferred to
iday with Montagu C. Norman, gover
! nor of the Bank of England, over
j floating the American share of 27,
1000,000-pou.nd loan for Austria.
] Governor Norman said: "Recon
struction of Austria becomes more
and more necessary as the Ruhr sit
uation becomes more and more acute.
Austrian currency ha3 been the
stablest In Europe since stabilization
last September.’’
BY AEROPLANE
TO SEATTLE ON
BUSINESS TRIP
St. Paul Banker Makes Flight
to Puget Sound—Shelby
Is Wet City.
SEATTL/h;, Juno s.—Olvo von Al
Yenslesen has arrived in an aero
plane from St. Paul with Russel H.
Phinney, St. Paul banker, on a busi
ness trip. Nilck Namer, of Spokane,
who flew the plane, stayed in the
air 20 hours and 30 minutes
Alvenslesen sa.ld: "At the first
stop, which was at Shelby, Mont., we
found the wildest city in America
and certainly the wettest, wide
open.”
REILY CLEARED
BY GRAND JURY
WASHIXGTOX, June 5.—In report
ing the resignation of Gov. E. Mont
Relly of Porto Rico on 'February 16,
it was stated in ihose dispatches that
a grand Jury at San Juan had in
dicted the Governor. This was a
mistake. There was a grand Jury
Investigation concerning several offi
cials there, hut no indictments were
ever returned
Mr. Riley also has drawn atten
tion to another statement on April
27, 1022, contained in a dispatch from
San Juan, which referred to a grand
Jury presentment charging the then
governor and two others with “mis
use of public funds for private pur
poses." Tt is pointed out that what
the grand Jury criticized was that
the “careless way the funds were
handled might cause the government
to lose a considerable sum ' and that
this was not a charge of “misuse
of public funds for private pur
poses."
Statements attributed to Federal
Judge Odlin, in a dispatch of March
9 from San Juan, have also been
questioned by Mr. Reily. Judge Od
lln, when asked as to these state
ments, Raid that Ills references to
Mr. Reily being omitted from the pro
ceedings was because it was dear
to him (Judge Odlin) that the dis
trict attorney did not believe the
statements against Governor Reily.
In what he had said. Judge Odlin
added: “Mot the slightest reflection
upon Governor Reily was intended by
me. The evidence showed conclu
sively. that if his name was used, and
I believe 1t was used, he had no
knowledge of it” ,, ,
SHRINERS ARE
ADDRESSED BY
PRES. HARDING
Highly Purposed Fraternity
Is Given High Praise at
Imperial Session.
WASHINGTON, June 5.—Justice
alone entitles a fraternal organiza
tion to survive and a “secret fra
ternity is one thing and a secret con
spiracy another," said President Hard
ing today in an address to the Im
perial Council of the session of the
Shrine.
“I like the highly purposed fra
ternity because it is our assurance
against any menacing organization.
So long as 20,000.000 Americans are
teaching loyalty and flag cherish
ment to our inherited institutions and
due regard to the legislational author
ities and love of liberty under the
law, we may be assured that our fu
ture is secure."
SHRINERS IN PARADE.
WASHINGTON, June 5.—Twenty
thousand Shrtners inarched dawn
over the "Barden sands" of Penn
sylvania Avenue for the capital to
Washington Circle and passed
through the "Garden of Allah” In
front of the White House this after
noon whore they were reviewed by
President llardlng and Imperial
Potentate McCandlese.
The parade was one of four plan
jned during the forty-ninth annual
convention which opened today.
I The sun was unusually hot and a
I number of heat prostrations are re
ported.
Business Section of
Oil Town Destroyed
BAKBRSFIELl), June 6.—One was
burned t.o death and damage esti
mated at $250,000 was caused yes
terday when fire swept the business
district of Maricopa, an ail town,
45 miles west of here.
CONGRESSIONAL
DELEGATION AT
SEWARD TODAY
Officially Accept Banquet In
vitation—Now Inspect
ing Alaska Railroad.
“Congressional Party accepts with
pleasure kind invitation for ban
quet night of arrival," said a radio
gram received by Mayor I- Goldstein
from U. S. Senator Francis E War
ren, senior member of the delegation
aiboard the Cam bra 1. The exact time
of arrival, said the message, would
be made known later.
A second telegram received by
Gov. 'Scott C. Bone from Senator
Warren said that the Cam bra i would
dock at Seward at « a- m. today. It
was scheduled to leave there on a
special train early this morning for
its Inspection of the Alaska Railroad
to Fairbanks and return, spending
four days on tis part of the trip.
38 Members of Congrese
The party includes 38 members of
Congress, eight Senators and 30 Rep
resentatives, according to lists re
ceived today by Mayor Goldstein from
San Francisco and additions to It
received from Seattle. Seven of the
Senators are accompanied by their
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SUB FLEET IS
COMING NORTH
SAN FRANCISCO. June 5—The
naval submarine tender Beaver
leaves San Pedro on June 9 with
i a detail of Bithmarlnse for a cruise
of the Alaska coast. The fleet will
return to San Pedro by Auguet 31.
Among the Alaskan points to be
visited will be Juneau, Lynn Canal,
Cordova, Kodiak Inland and tba
Aleutian Islands.
On the return Booth the fleet will
call At Vancouver which wilt M<
I about August 13.
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