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VOlTxXI., NO. 2T91T JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY. MARCH 13, 1923. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. PRICE TEN CENTS
ISLAND IN PACIFIC DISAPPEARS
Sea Power of U. S. Navy Is Short Under 5-5-3 Ratio
SERIOUS NAVY
CONDITION IS ]
i REPORTED UPON
Navy Experts Show Navy Is
Far Short of Tonnage
Under Anns Agreement
WASHINGTON, March 13.—So!
rious d|ifTiei(itie;s of t lie I'r.itoli
States under the 6-5-3 ratio adopt-!
ed at the Washington Arms Con-'
ference 'Will be called to the at-!
tention of the Sixty-eighth Congree;
as soon as It- convenes.
This is officially learned from ex
perts of the Navy Depatrment whoso
survey shows American sea power
la from 300,000 to 400,000 tons
short of Its proper standing under
the agreement.
With the official opinion virtual
ly unanimous that the navy needs
scout craft it is expected legisla
tion will be asked for fast cruisers
and submarines with an additional
tonnage of this type of war craft
annually for a period of years.
The deficiency in the personnel
is estimated from 12 to 20 per cent
with many official believing the
present 86,000\ officers and men
should be raised to 108,000.
To/, Tap Clouds
By Electricity
To Produce Rain
MOUNDSVILLK. w. Va„ March 13.
—A isicrg'eant 'and throe soldiers have
arrived at the army flying field here
to prepare for 'the coming of scient
ists who will endeavor to produce
ratin by dropping electricity from
aeroplanes on the "roof of the
clouds.”
woulTmake
4 DID CROUPS
OF RAILROADS
Burlington Chief Has Com
prehensive Plan for West
ern Railroad Systems.
WASHINGTON, March 13.—A plan
fer consol i'dhlfion of ad 'the railroads
west Ot Chicago intto four great sys
tems, each operating over 30,000
miles of line, wa's laid before the In
terstate Commerce Commission by
Hale Holden, president of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy.
The object of the vast consolidation
Ibe proposed, which would go far be
yond present government consolida
tion plans, would bo the creation of
four such systems as would reach
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SONS IN EVER* BUBBLE; BUT
JUt OF HAITIAN STROP GETS
STOLEN; NOW THERE'S TROUBLE
ItfEW YORK, March 13.—Fritz
Spelegel, skipper on the steamship
Argyle, planted himself at 'the foot
of the gangplank to catch the man
who took his jug of song syrup.
While wafting he explained:
‘•We’re just in tram Port-au-Prince.
Down there 1 met a chemist who
takes the Juices of tropical fruits and
mlxe*3 them. Ho tosses in a few
drops of this, a pinch of that and a
teaspocnful Of the cither thing, and
•shaken up ‘the combination. Nothing
alcoholFc about 'it. but Oh, man!
“He calls It Pan's Pan-eloquent Pan
acea, and he says It is the very stuff
Ithe great god Pan used to wet his
(whistle with (before he hurst into
Isotfg.
“I took a »lp and I had a funny
feeling 'in my throat. I felt happy
hnd my neck began to swell, and
all of a suddetn 1 heard a grand opera
teolce cut lobse out to the tune of the
“Old Oaken Bucket.’ I looked about
to see who was singing, and it was
yours truly.
“Well, itbo chemist lot me have a
Jug Of the Stuff, and 1 hid H In my
cabin. Every little while I took
TITLED HEIRESS IS TO WED JOCKEY.
T/a£yUc$vlI& Gx'ofv&noi? fon,
Lady Ursula Grosvernor, daughter of the Duke of Westmin
ster. Ip shown here with the Countess of Lytton. Lady Ursula,
just 21, has a considerable fortune in her own name. From Lon
don comes the report that site Is soon to become the bride of
Jack Anthony, prominent and successful jockey of steeplechase
racers.
FIFTY PRIESTS
FALL VICTIMS
TO SWINDLER
pTSSW YORK, Marcft 13 By pos
ing as an army officer ami pleading
for monicy 'to go to Ft. Oglethorpe.
Ga„ to “confess” the murder of a
soldier there. William McDonough
was sail'd bv detectives to have swin
dled 50 Catholic priests in various
: parts of the Country.
Four Brooklyn priests appeared as
complainants against McDonough
when lie was arraigned in court on a
grand liarcony charge and held in
$25,000 bail for a hearing. An agent
lot the Department of Justice also »p
peared and announced ho was pre
pared 'to submit 40 complaints from
persons in New York who declared
jUhey had been swindled by McDon
ough while lie was posting as a Fed
eral officer.
McDonough was arrested when he
made a sec on d call on a priest here.
Police said McDonough, under the
name of William Galley, had been ar
rested in Columbus, Ohio, in Feb
ruary, 1915, and sentenced to two
years for having impersonated a Fed
eral officer. In October, 1921. police
records strew, he was arrested under
the name of William Murphy, on conn
! plaint of authorities of Waseca,
1 Minn.
".‘bout a teaspoorfful. The trip homo
w»3 an uninterrupted ovation for me.
“Nobody could understand my new
accomplishment. 1 sans all the hits
of the day.
“Now look at me—I can’t sing a
sWj.e. Somebody stole 'the jus. and
I'm going to get him."
Just then five cabin Iboy came down
'►‘he gangplank ringing “Sweet Rosie
O’Grady,” and the skipper started to
•grab him.
An instant la'ter a sailor fame
down singing “Bon Bolt.’ He was
followed 'by ithe second mate singing
“Jufit Before the Battle, Mother.”
Then came the purser singing
‘"Sweet Genevieve." The engineer
was humming “Tipperary." A couple
of ktokers made a duet of “Madelon.”
Six sailors tackled the sextet from
"Lucia.”
The skipper looked sorrowful. His
eyes became dull. He relaxed his
tense attitude. Ho was wholly de
spondent
“I cant lick the whole crew,” he
said, going back to his cabin to
mourn.
Puzzled Doctors
; But Feat Is
! j Said to Be Fake
I | CHICAGO, March 13.—Dr. : j
Morris Fi.-'lub in and l)r E. T.
I 1 Wdodyet Smvo returned from ! j
Kscanuiba, Mich., and declared
ithat Miss Evelyn Lyons, of iliat
j city, who amazed and 'puzzled J
j | the medical 'profession of the 1
] entire world 'by ntriming tem
r ; peratures ;>v r 111 for 21 days,
faked the t tnpcr 8 uro.v ' 'I he
I doctors claim lire woman used a , |
j small! hot water bottle concealed j j
under her arm. The ease has ( |
; attracted wide -a'tentton.
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PRAISE^™
CONGRESS FOR
GREAT ACTION
Retiring Republican House
Leaders Gets Statement
Into Official Record.
WASHINGTON’, March 13.—A law
and a half a day was the record of
the 67tli Congress, according to re-'
tiring Republican House Leader Man-1
dell in a sfei tem out inserted In the
Congressional Record. j
One hundred and forty-four bills
which passed the House failed in the
Senate and Morn! dl declares:
“It ought to be in order In the
House ‘to discuss rules or lack of j
rules in t.he Senate under which a
minority can prevent action on high
ly important legislation which has
passed (the House.
The former Republican House lead-;
er says under the Fordnoy tariff!
law both imports and exports In- j
creased and “as a result of good
business management.” the country's
gross doiht was reduced from *36.594,
267,878 on August 31, 1919, to *22.
715.338.7S0 on February 28, this year.
“In three years w? have reduced
I the national dc'bt. as much as was
reduced between I ho close of it lie
t CTlvIl War and ‘the beginning of the
World War. The nation met all ex
penditures from revenues and had a
balance of nearly *300.000,000,” says
Mondoll’s Statement.
Astoria Fire Victims
Not to Lose Securities
ASTORIA. Ore.. March 13.— C. R.
Higgins, otf the Astoria National
Rank, has returned from Washington
with assurance from officials that
neither bank tor customers will lose
by the destruction of Federal se
! cur Idles In the safety bores during
I tho conflagration several months ago.
BILL PROPOSES
REORGANIZATION
OF GOVERNMENT
Aldrich Introduces Measure
to Strip Governor of
Executive Power.
Stripping of the Governor and Sec-:
rctary of Alaska of all executive po<(-1
er so far at lies within the power!
of the Territorial Legislature, is pro- j
posed in Senate Bill No. 64, which i
was introduced this morning by Sena- j
tor Aldrich. The duties now exer
cised by officials in these two offices
would be conferred on three officials
separately and upon a board com
posed of the same three officials.
These officials named in which It
is proposed to vest the executive
control of Territorial affairs are:
Controller, Attorney General and
Treasurer. The AMI provides for|
dection by popular vote of all three,
the first and second named to be,
paid a salary of $6,000 each and the
third $5,000 per annum. The trium-!
virate would be elected at the 1524;
general election but pending that, in
order to establish the new system as ;
soon as the bill becomes a law, pro-j
vision is made for election by- the!
present legislature in joint session
of a Controller.
The bill, which is entitled: “A bill
for an Act to reorganize the executive ,
department of Alaska to the extent!
the same is within trie jurisdiction of
the Legislature and to revise the laws
relative thereto,” is sweeping in its
scope and details at some length the
proposed system of, .'dnunietration of
Territorial affairs It was referred
to the Committee on Territorial in
stitutions for report.
The three officers constitute a
Board of Territorial Control, the Con
troller being named as Chairman, the1
Treasurer as Secretary, and the At-'
torney General legal advisor and
member. Duties not imposed by law
on the three as officials of the Ter-j
ritory are placed on the Board.
FLYING FIELD
AT FAIRBANKS
NAMES WEEKS
Farthest North Aviation Field (
Is Launched — Plans
of New Company.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 13.!
—Thd City Council has named the;
farthest north aviation field "Weeks)
Field" after a telegram was re
ceived from Secretary of War
Weeks, from St. Augustine, Florida,
giving sanction.
Secretary Weeks is expected to
dedicate the field when In Alaska
next June. t
To promote aviation a company
has been organised with C. R.
Wood, of the First National Bank,
president and W. F. Thompson, of
the News-Miner, business manager.
The company plans to give a
service throughout. Interior Alaska
and proposes to carry tourists to
the summit of Mount McKinley and
all over McKinley Park next sum
mer.
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Portland Bandits Get
Away with Jewelry Swag
PORTLAND. Ore., Marsh 13—Two
armed highwaymen last night entered
the store of G. Cramer, upstairs in
an office building, covered Cramer,
two clerks and a girl stenographer,
with their guns, tied the four up with
twine, and then took $20,000 worth
of watches and jowelry from the
show cases amd made their escape:.
TestiCo District Judge
Was M^y Times “Drunk”
CARSON CITY. Mareh 13— Liquor
seized iln raids .In the ninth Judicial
District of Nevada was delivered to
the homo of ClaTonce J. McFadden,
District Judge. This Is according to
testimony at the hearing by the
legislature committee. One witness
testified that the Judge was occasion
ally Intoxicated.
BOSTON WOMAN TO HUNT LIONS IN AFRICA.
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I
Mrs. Richard C\ Curtis, Bos on society women, with her hus
band, will accompany her brother-in-law, Charles P. Curtis, Jr.,
into the African jungle on a lion hunt, following the same path
as that used by the late President Roosevelt.
i—:-f
i Not to Evacuate
i Germany Until
Reparations Paid
i -
BRUSSELS, March 13.—The |
1 evacuation of German territory
| recently occupied will be a grail- j
ual operation c-arrioil out only
* when Germany fulfills bur re- j
' pa rat Ion obligations. This is \
1 -the substance of a eommuniea- |
| tion Foamed after a meeting of
1 the iFVench and Belgian Pre- 1
] miers.
CARRIED AWAY
ON ICE FLOE
Two Missouri Farmers Ma
rooned on Sandbar Die
Trying to Escape Rood.
OMAHA, March 13.—iManooned on
a sandbar by ithe sudden rise of the
Missouri River. Harvey McIntosh
and Ills brother, Thotmas. farmers of
Mon.dam.ln, Ohfo, Jumped on a cake
Of .ice lust Salturdav nip*ht and were
swopt away. Relative) wore on the
bank nr 1 lis'toni 1 tfo their calls Tor
help which c. uld not he given. The
two men have not 't*c(>n seen since.
Efforts no launch boats at the time
failed 'hi cause of the k:o floes.
Supreme Court Takes
Part in Pothier Case
WASHINGTON'. March 13.—Reject
in* the .petit inn for a writ of review
the Supreme Court aiinfe'iintNU It wotrid
not determine at this time whether
the Pod era I courts lwve jurisdiction
in the cirse of Roland Pothier, In
dieted ait Tacoma, Wash., for the al
leg ml murder of Major Alexander
Cronkhlte, at Camp I.cwls, In Octo
bar, 1918. This is regarded as a vie
lory 'for the government which b
seeking to send Pothier to Tacoma
for tntal.
Presidential Primary
Bill Vetoed in Montam
HELENA, Monti March 13—Gov
ernor Dixon has vetoed the bill t<
submit to a referendum the repaa
of the presidential primary.
Mississippi Storm
Kills 1; Much Damagt
GREENWOOD, -Miss., March 13
One man was klljod and pV»pert;
damage estimated at 1100,000 wu
done here as a result of a storn
early yesterday morning.
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BIG COMMUNIST
CASE IS BEGUN
BY GOVERNMENT
William Foster Is Placed on
Trial on Charge of Ex
citing Terrorism.
ST. JOSEPH. Mich., March 13.—
William 7. Foster, of Circa go. has'
been placed on trial In the Circuit
Court, charged with writing and ad- ‘
vocatlirs “(IdHbertatelv justifying that'
the doctrine of Industrial political
reform should bo brought about by,
lerimc. s. ibotaga and cher methods to j
terrorize.”
COMMUNIST CASE
ST- JOSEPH, March 13.-The |
Michigan Conxmuntst case Is the out-■
| growth of a mid by Sheriff Cleorge
jBrldgcman and dopai'tment of Justice
! agents on a meeting held In a lonely
! woods in the sand dunes along Lake
! Michigan, 20 miles south of here, on
August 22, 1922.
The government charges that out
there in the desolate sand dunet,
! three miles from the village of,
iBrldgeman, the Communist Party of,
1 America, representing in this country
the Third Internationale of Moscow,
i was holding Its annual convention.
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HOW PERFECTLY CUNNING!!!
i DRY OFFICIALS INVADE RENO
POSING AS DIVORCE SEEKERS
RENO, Nev., March 13.—Reno'* di
vorce colony was gasping today at I
the disclosure that two of its most
recent addition's, whto had becoinp
quite prominent aonong the gayer s“\
were dry enrorcoment officers whoso
activities had brought about 13 nr
re-fts and the closing of a number of j
places wherp, It had been whispered,
those knowing the night word couldj
obtain liquor.
One of the agents posed as a film
company director and the othrr ap
peared in itihe role of “Representative
of the iSteol Trust.”
They gained admittance to the se
lect coterie by convincing attorneys
ut they -sought divorces from ficti
tious wives to wed equally fictitious
women whose purported photographs
nod letters they displayed.
The attorneys were said to have
done what they could to spend the
flouts for their prosperous clients
wiille the latter established the neo
e.,-ary legal residence. One even
EASTER ISLAND
DISAPPEARS IN
PACIFIC OCEAN
Persistently Reported Island
Dropped from Sight
During Recent Quake.
PAPEETE. Tainti, March IS.—
Easter Island, in the Pacific Ocean,
2,300 mllea from Chile and famous
.'nr the ancient Riant statutes be
lieved to have been the work o
;;rehistoric people, has disappeared.
This is according to the captain
■f a French merchant ship who
iried to sight the island to verify
his position.
Rumors have been persistent that
the island sank during the Chilean
irt hqtiake disturbance several
months ago.
Ea"ter Island Is believed to have
had a population of between 900
nd 1,200 persons, including Am
ricatis and Europeans.
IRISH REBELS
RAIDED! ACTION
IS VINDICATED
House of Commons by Vote
Upholds Government in
Assisting Free State.
LOjfDO.V. March 13.—By the large
majority of 108, the House of Com
mons has supported the government
In assisting 'the Irish Free State gov
arnmon’t by deporting to Ireland, men
ind women residing In England and
Scotland supported of supplying arms
and ammunition to file Irish Irregu
lars.
East Saturday r>ver 300 wero round
ed up In England and Scotland and
taken to Dublin on British warships.
Those arrosted Were Immediately tak
en to jail under heavy guard of
marines.
Alaskan Artist to
Work for Alaska
Steamship Company
SEATTLE, March 13.—Rev. Eustace
I’. Zolglor, prominent Alaskan artist,
has arrived here to begin work paint
ing it he murals for the walls of the
Alaska Steamship Company offices
In their now 'headquarters at Fourth
and Union streets.
Storm Strikes Ohio;
Three Persons Killed
CLEVELAND. March 13 —At least
three persons wore killed and dozens
Injured beside* heavy pto|>erty loss
In h storm which struck this section
of Ohio fate yesterday afternoon.
w„s said to have introduced one of
t ip agoutis 'to young women who en
joy ed parties enlivened .by beverages
not compaltlble with the low.
Both officers. It t» said, became
highly popular with the feminine con
tingent of the colony. One received
i variety of notes and a smaller bt^
equally Interesting variety of poems
from one of the prospective divorcees.
These ho exhibited gleefully with
out, however, permitting her name to
become known Thare Is consider
able apprehension In tho colony re
garding subpoenas to testify.
Eight place.? have been raided on
Information obtained by the agents,
and Oomplalnts are to be filed against
the 13 arrested, according to the
United States District Attorney.
Those, he saki. would charge viola
tion of the Volstead act. while a
score of more of others, naming
“Lookouts” at the various places,
would charge conspiracy. Reno to
day was said to be fhe dryest spot
In the United States.