THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL XXII., NO. 3272.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS,
BREAKING OF LEVEES SAVES CITY FROM FLOOD]
FLOODS ABATED
AT OKLA. CITY;
FT. SMITH SAFE
Hundreds Left Homeless by
Oklahoma Floods—Cloud
burst at Wichita.
FORT SMITH, Ark., June 15.—
Breaking levees on the banks of
tha Arkansas River nearby today
saved this city from the worst flood
in its entire history. With the river
far above all previous high water
marks, it seemed early today that
a grave disaster was inevitable.
Hundreds of people had left the
city for less exposed points and
others were preparing to depart when
the levees, weakened by rains, gave
way, relieving the pressure.
A large area of lowland tracts
are inundated by the waters through
the broken levees.
8UBSIDES AT OKLAHOMA CITY
OKLAHOMA CITY. Jyne 15.—The
worst flood stage has passed in the
Canadian River and this city, at
present, is relieved from further
danger. High water of the past
two days, however, did considerable
damage. Hundreds of dwellers in
the lowland section of the city are
homeless. Local relief organizations
are taking care of the affected.
CLOUDBURST AT WICHITA
WICHITA FALLS, June 15. —
Driven before a heavy wind, a ter
rifle near cloudburst swept portions
of this city today, carrying away
two honses. Merchants banked their
doors high with sandbags as water
rose over the sidewalks and entered
the stores.
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J Boat Buys More Whiskey
Than Passengers Can
| Drink;Dumps Overboard
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] NEW YORK. June 16— On
\ Its arrival off Sandy Hook to
! day the steamship George
| Washington dumped overboard
| 87 eases of assorted liquors. I
j By this amound had the stew- i
ard’s department overestimated !
| the “carrying capacity" of Its j
j parmngers. The excess above !
I consumption had to be dumped |
| into the ocean to prevent |
J seizure.
Forest Fires Sweep Large
Area in Canadian Province
FREDERICKTON, N. B., Jne 15.—
Forest fires raging in the northern
part of this province thus far have
proved more disasterous than any
since the great fires of 1823. More
than 250 square miles have already
been destroyed. No fatalities are
reported.
QUEBEC. June 15.—Sully and les
Detroits, villages in Temiscouta
County were destroyed by forest
fires today. Two are reported to
have lost their lives in the flames.
Tumulty Sues for Big Fee
From Shipbuilding Firm
NEW YORK, June 15. — Joseph
Tuanulty, former Secretary to Presi
dent Wilson, today filed papers in a
gu'it in the State Supreme Court
against the Staten Island Shipbuild
ing Company for $97,500. He al
leges this gum is due him for legal
services rendered the company.
ALLEGED MONARCH ST PLOT FOUND.
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Turmoil in Paris has followed the discovrey of an alleged mon
archist plot to overthrow the French Republic. Following out
rages perpetrated in the French capital by a secret organization
known an "Peddlers of the King. M. Maunroy, Minister of the
Interior, announced in the Chamber of Deputies that proofs were
I in hand of the activities cf a royalist organization, spread through
4- out France,.directed against the life of the Republic. The royalists,
it was stated, have planned to place Iaruis Philip Robert, Duke of
Orleans and Pretender to the French crown, upon the throne
yielded in 1871 by Naipoleon III, with tlie title of Philip VIII. The
Duke Is a member of the Bourbon family and is in exile in Belgium.
LAKE WASHINGTON MSTERY CANOE
EXPLAINED iCAPSIZES WITH WOMAN
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SEATTLE, June 15.—Information
given a newspaper reporter here
tc-day by Miss Nora Noonan, a
school girl in a local convent, i3
believed to have established the fact
that Mrs. Dona Barnes, well known
Seattle woman, wias accidentally
drowned in Lake Washington list
Tuesday. Police have been search
ing for her body for two days with
out success.
Miss Noonan told the reporter
that Tuesday she was going to Mer
i cer Island and met a woman on a
street car, who, when she saw that
Miss Noonan had missed her boat,
offered to put her across to the
island in a canoe. The offer was
accepted. When the trip had been
(completed to the island. Miss Noo
nan remarked that the water was
rough and told the woman she had
■better take a ferry back. The advice
was laughingly refused, the woman
speaking confidently of her ability
to paddle.
This is believed to explain the!
mystery canoe which was washed |
ashore Tuesday night on the east;
shore of Lake Washington with a!
woman's hat.. Miss Noonan said the
woman answered the description of
Mrs. Dona S. Barnes as given by
her husband Kenneth Barnes, man
ager of a local manufacturing plant,
to the police.
ANOTHER WOMAN MISSING.
SEATTLE, June 15.—While the
police were searching Lake Wash
ington for the body of Mrs. Dona
S. Barnes, believed to have drowned
when her canoe capsized Tuesday,
the disappearance of Mrs. H. A.
Palladay, wife of a prominent manu
facturer of this city, was reported.
Mrs. Palladay left home a week
ago and has uot been heard from
since. It is believed she wandered
away wtiiie suffering from insomnia.
Dill Will Support Leasing
Of Muscle Shoals to Ford
SPOKANE, Wash., June 15.—
Speaking at a County Farm Bureau
pirnlc yesterday 'afternoon, Senator
C. C. Dill formally announced that
he would work with the "farm bloc-’
In the Senate. He 3aid he would
advocate and .work for the accept
ance by the United States govern
ment of Henry Ford's offer to leaf©
and proposal to develop the great
Muscle Shoals power project.
Arrest Revives Taylor Crime
Police Still Seeking Valet
SANTA ANA, Calif., June 15.—]
Echoes of the William Desmond
Taylor murder mystery of Los An
geles were revived here today when
Otis G. liefner Was arrested on a
‘'bum check" charge. Hefner is said
to have confessed a year ago in
Seattle that he had a ring belong
ing to the famoius movie director,
whose death at Hollywood is still
cloaked la mystery, hut he denied
abaolutely having Any first hand
knowledge of the affair,
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SANDS IN MEXICO.
L09 ANGELES, June 16.—Viague
tips that Edward R. Sands, formerly
vailet to William Desmond Taylor,
la now in Mexico have been re
ceived here, according to the sher
iff's office. Sands disappeared en
tirely from sight about the time of
the murder and is sought to shed
light on the slaying.
Information furnished the sheriff
said Sands is engaged in business at
Some unnamed town in Mexico.
Gotham Bandits Make Haul
Of $22,000 Pullman Payroll
NEW YORK. June 15.—One of
the boldest daylight holdups In re
cent months was pulled off at the
Sunnyeide works of the Pulknan
Oomoany at Ixing Island City today
whonsfx armed bandits held up the
company's cashier and his body
guajrd as they were on the point
of eiit orln.tr t-he works. The bauits
secured $22,000 intended to rover
the weekly payroll and escaped.
Pioneer Yukon River Boat
Captain Is Dead at Dawson
DAWSON, Y, T., June 15 —C'apt.
Samuel Cromarthy, veteran pilot of
river boats in the North, both on
the Fraser and Yukon River, died
here today after a brief ilLneea. He
was ill when he arrived here last
Monday as pilot, on the White PaB»
Company’s boat Canadian.
Capt. Cromarthy was a pilot on
the Fnaser River before coming to
Lite Yukon. He worked for the
White Pass many years on the
Yukon River and its tributaries and
was considered one of the moet
skillful of the navigators of north
ern waters, < particularly of the
Stewart River,
Lloyd George Will Make
Long Delayed Trip
To America Next Autumn
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15.
Lloyd
LONDON, Junel
Gliorgd. Englantrh great war
premier whose government held
together longer tiyn any of the
other wartime governments of
the big powers, will visit the
United Stages and Canada dur
ing the coming autumn, it was
reported here today. The
"Times" said it is "virtually
assured" such a visit will be
made about that time.
Several times in the past
Lloyd Geoflge contemplated
trips across the Atlantic. It
was planned for him to be iu
Washington during the Arms
Limitation Conferpnae of 1921,
but European cojgiplieations
arose which ma<^T it impos
sible. i
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PICTURE BRIDES
PROBLEM, HAWAII
Congressmen Johnson and |
Raker Return from <
Special Study Islands. J
SAN FRANCISCO, . ant.. June 15.!
—Rapid Influx of “picture brides" | J
front the Orient and dual citizenship .
Df the Hawaiian Islands are proving 1
detrimental to the American institu- J
tlonH there, In the opinion of Con
gressman Albert Johnson, of Wash
ington and John Raker. California. 11
who returned today'h’bm the islands, j
The two members of Congress made (
a special study of immigration prob
Jems. I
As a result of what they learned, j
it was stated, they will make two
recommendations to Congress when (
it reconvenes next December, as foi- j
lows: The exclusion of aliens who
are not eligible for citizenship from (
the islands, and. second, cancellation 1 ,
of citizenship of American born chll-!,
dren of aliens when they return to!
the land of their parents. I
Dublin Jury Decides Will >
Case Favor Croker Widow
DUBLIN, June 15. — The jury,
which heard the contest over the
will of the late Richard Croker. not
ed Tammany leader, returned a ver-.
diet today In favor of Mrs. Bula.
Oroker. Other heirs claimed she
was not the legal wife of Croker
and was not entitled to participate
in tho bequests. !
The Jury found the allegations
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lone when she married Croker were
unsubstantiated and also found that,
she was not guilty of influencing;
her hus’ ind against his children, j
Pope Grants Audience to
American Admiral and Men
ROME, June 15.—Pope Pius to
day granted an audience to Rear
Admiral Andrew T. Iaong and 50
American sailors. The Admiral and
men came from the American flag
ship Plt&slmrgh which is anchored
at Naples.
VANCOUVER, Wash.—The sale, of
150,000,000 feet of timber at Sun
derland Inlet, 60 miles north of Van
couver, to Patrick McCoy, of Seat
tle, was announced today. The pur
chase price was declared to be above
$250,000.
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Love for 14-Year-Old
Girl, Leads 35-Year
Filipino to Run Amuk
MONO DC I-U, June 15.—Dis
appointed in his desire to wed
a 14-year-old girl, Pomno
Croso, 35-year-old Filipino, to
day killed three persona Includ
ing himself and seriously
woflnded two others.
Croseo wanted to marry his
14-year-f>ld sweetheart but. was
blocked In his amibiitions by the
girl’s mother. He took a re
volver and shot and killed both
the girl and her mother, se
riously wounded the father and
a brother and then shot and
killed himself with the same
gun.
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IURY CONVICTS
GO DINAS, FIRST
DECREE MURDER
'ound Guilty of Killing ol
Gust Karas, March 17,
at Everett, Wash.
rHREE OTHER PERSONS
KILLED AT SAME TIME
Voman Also Killed and Twc
Children Smothered in
Fire Covering Deed.
' EVBRETT, Wash., Juno 15. -
it't< r nearly seven hours delibera
lon tho jury found George Dinas
[reek rcthnurani owner. guilty ol
rat degree murder for the death ot
lust Karas, one of four persons
filed when a local hakery burns 1
n March 17th, last. The jury
ccoitnniended he be senlenced to life
m>prh niment In the State penlten
I ary.
When* the crime for which Dinas
:t\r ecuvIdled was first discovered
3ve:ett author'ile- inspected 1
Ireek vendetta. Dinas was arrested
wo days after the fire. He It
wner of a restaurant at Morton
Cash.
Four bodies were discovered in
he ruins of the burned home and
akery where tlie killing of Karat
s shown to have taken place. They
rore besides Gust Karas, his sister
n-law Mrs. Cleopatra Karas anr
ter two children, George, aged 4
nd Polly aged 2. A fifth persor
lf.rvs asleep in the building at th<
lme buL escaped. ThiH was Georg,
fhakos, Mrs. Karas brother. II,
vas held at first under suspicion ol
leing implicated but denied anj
nowledge and was later released
At the coroner's inquest it wai
ound that the two older vietimi
ud been killed with some sliarp in
v i uiii inn, i uc u Mii'iiuj'
o cover up traces of thb crime. Tin
wo children were suffocated 1>;
moke from the burning building.
Testimony given at the trial o
Unas Indicated that Karas and Mrs
Caras had been crushed to deatl
md the two children smothered.
H.O.T.C. Opens at Camp
Lewis; Over 200 Recruit
CAMP LEWIS, Wash.. June 15.
do re than 200 young men from al
>arts of the Pacific Northwest at
■ived here today to begin one month'
ntensive work In the Reserve Off!
■era' Training Corps. It is expectei
hat. the enrollment will exceed SOI
lefore the end of this week.
Camp Lewis reserve officers at
ending the course will Include col
ege students from many Paclfii
toast and Northwestern Institutions
n<|uillng the California Institute o
rechnology; Montana College of A
fe M. Arts, Bozeman; Oregon Agri
■ulturtil College. Corvallis. Ore.; Stat
College of Washington. Pullman; Uni
rersity of Montana. Missoula; tin
rersity of California. Berkeley; Un
irersity of Idaho, Moscow; Ilnlversit
)f Oregon. Eugene, and the Univei
lity of Oregon Medical School, Por
and: University of Washington, S<
ittle.
The students will be trained fo
nfantry. ’ field artillery, englneei
nedleal and dental units.
Slew York Lawyer Appointei
United States Claims Boari
WASHINGTON. June 15. ('hand
er Anderson, prominent New Yor
ititorney-at-law, and specialist In in
;ernational law. has been appolnle
t memiber of the United State
Jermans Claims Commission, it wa
in non need here today.
Anderson succeeds Edwin- B. Par
ter, who recently resigned from th
'onmiision to become an umpire li
lie claims negotiations.
LOS ANGELES PLANS PULL OFF
GREAT PAGEANT INDIAN WAR
LOS ANGELES. Calif., June 15 -
\ movement to make Los Angela
he scene of a groat Indian wa
>ageant, or exposition, at whic]
'eteraus of the nation's wars wouli
meet famous prairie battles of tb
last and portray the life of the old
,lme scout and his Redskin adver
lary has been launched by the In
ilan War Veterans' Association o
his dlljr.
Calls Billion Bid “Summer
Dream.”
Albert I). Lacker. chairman of
the United States Shipping Hoard,
and other officials of the Board
have declined to take serlcuolv the
offer of the Columbia Postal Com
pany. if ‘Silver Creek, Nov- York,
of a billion dollars for the Oov
i erniinent’s merchant fleet. Canker
has characterized the offer |s a
I "Summer dream." "No cash has
i accompanied the bid,” the chair
man raid, in Washington, "and
| wc do not expect a sale to mater
ialize." John W. Slack, president
! of the Postal Company, has denied
that Henry Ford is backing bis
offer.
NEW YORK UNCONVINCED.
NEW YORK. June 15.—It Is said
that Henry Ford is one of those
| who has been Interested in forming
a corporation to take over vessels
. belonging to the Shipping Board
and to operute them on regular lines
; ip foreign ports.
Henry Ford has contended that
the American lines can he operated
jit a profit without the aid of a
i'subsidy or other bonus.
HART WILL NAME
BLUE SKY BOARD
i Will Appoint Commission to
Report on Restrictive
Corporation Laws.
i OLYMPIA. Wash., June 15—The
! appointment in the near future of
a Commission to report on the ef
j feet of "blue sky" laws as they may
■ be unfavorably affecting the milling
.Industry, was announced today by
flGov. Louis F. Hart. It will eullaho
. j rute, it was stated, with similar com
- niissions to he appointed from Idaho
s Oregon and Montana.
The Governors of the Western Dt
- vision of the American Mining Con
- gress recently condemned the dras
t tic provisions of “blue sky" iegisla
- tlon for restricting the develop
ment of Western mines and urgei
Its repeal. Gov. Hart announcer
that the appointments would be madf
r a( the request of Sidney Norman
. Governor of the Washington branch
of the Mining Congress. The com
mission will be asked to make Its
study and report at the next session
[ of the State Legislature.
I DENVER Officials of the Brother
hood of Railway Carmen and Machln
■ Ists organization of shopcraft today
‘ called a strike over the entire Den
- ver & Rio Grande system, effectivt
• | tomorrow, affecting 5,000 men.
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CLOSEST TRADE
RELATOINS ARE
GREATEST NEED
Political Union Foreseen by
Member Parliament Un
less Trade Opened.
OTTOWA, June 15.—The House
of Commons today overwhelmingly
endorsed the Government’s offer of
reciprocity with the United States
in the matter of customs duties on
certain specified commodities. The
proposed reduction in duties to be
i made prorata on the basis of any re
, ductions that may be made by the
I United States.
Members foresaw even political
I union with the United States If
more unrestricted trade relations are
not established. It was declared In
debate. One progressive member,
supporting the reciprocity proposal,
declared: “If we won’t have the
closest possible trade relations e»
tablished with the United States
within a reasonable time, I don't
think we will be able to preservo
the federation. It might become a
political union with the United States
instead."
HALIBUT CLOSING MAY NOT
WAIT FOR TREATY APPROVAL
OTTAWA. June 15.—The Dominion
Government proposes to abandon the
Pacific Halibut Treaty and in its
place to bring in legislation em
powering it to close Canadian Pa
cific ports to halibut fishermen for
a close season when the United
States does the same. This will
accomplish the same ends as the
treaty sought to do without the de
lays which ratification or the treaty
would entail.
The action of the Canadian gov
ernment is made necessary by the
i amendment to the Pacific Halibut
I Treaty by the American Senate, sped
! tying the applicability of the treaty
j to ail British subjects, which would
' necessitate its ratification by alt the
I Dominions.
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I Larson Must Serve Term
| In Penitentiary as
| Hart Refuses Intervene
OLYMPIA, Wash., June 15. ;
—Ole S. I^arson, President of j
the Scandinavian American |
Bank of Tacoma, must serve j
the penitentiary sentence Im- j
posed on him by the courts, it |
was learned today. Oov. Louis j
I F. Hurt announced that he j
i would not interfere with the j
final verdict of the courts, j
| Larson was convicted of em- )
{ bezzlemont of the bank's funds.
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SOFIA, Former Premier Stamboul
isky, of Bulgaria, who was captured
i last night near Slavottza, at Mol
! avia village,, was shot and killed
i by his guards when he attempted to
| escape early today.
i PEKING—x.1 Yuan Hung has tele
j graphed from Tientsin that he re
: signs as President of China and re
linquished all authority to those mem
I hers of his Cabinet now in the capi
tal.
I LOS ANGELES—Charges of lnclt
| ing riot and addressing an unlawful
' assembly were dismissed today
i against Upton Sinclair, well-known
novelist, and a charge of vagrancy
! substituted.
I War Rail Accident Revealed
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Censor Withholds Since 1917
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PARIS, June 15.—Prance todayjw
learned of a railway accident oc-|cl
* currina more than four yearn aao ini111
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, which :!CiO lives were lost when I-,
1 plans for a memorial service were; 51
5 announced. All Information about
■ the disaster was suppressed by the
■ war censor at the time and has
* remained unknown to the public
f | ever since.
Memorial services for the dead
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ri
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Ill be held Sunday at St. Michael
i Maurienne at which a monu
eat to the victim* will be un
dled. An official reiport of tha
icident said a train loaded with
10 French soldiers got out of con
ol on November 12. 1917, plung
g down a mountain grade. At
ie bottom of the grade it left the
ills, the coaches piling up in A
>ap alongside the track, killing all
joiard but 18#, >
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