THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
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VOL. XXII., NO. 3240.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1923.
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ALASKA FREIGHTER HITS ROCKS
ULTIMATUM IS PRESENTED RUSSIA
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Seven Americans Held by Bandits “Almost Dead”
BRITISH SENDS
ULTIMATUM TO
SOVIET RUSSIA
Specified Demands Are Made
by British on Russia—
Only One Conclusion.
BULLETIN—HULL, England, May
8.—It is reported the British trawl
Astor has been seized by a Rus
sian gunboat off the Murmansk
Coast on a charge of fishing within
tne Russian territorial limits.
LONDON, May 3.—The British
note to Soviet Russia was made pub
lic Iasi night.
The note is virtually an ultima
tum and gives the Soviets ten days
to reply complying with uncondi
tionally and Ncertain specified de
mands. Failing to make reply Great
Britain will take it that the So
viet Russian government does not
wish to maintain the existing rela
tions.
The British note to the Soviet
government demands satisfactory as
surances concerning propaganda and
admission of financial liability for
offenses against British subjects.
Another part ftf file note protests
against the religious prosecutions.
Warning that the note would be
sent was made yestreday at Moscow
toy British Representative Robert
Hodgson to Maxim I.itivinoff, Assist
ant Commissiont’r of Foreign AfTalrs.
Anticipating a break in the rela
tions between Great Britain and
Soviet Russia, the British Minister
recently warned all Britishers in
Russia to be prepared to leave the
country on short i|ptice.
COX SUPPORTS
WORLD COURT
Says Any Essential for World
Peace Should Be Ac
ceptable to All.
OHICAiGO. May 9.—Any plan which
(provides ifor essentials for perman
ent would peace should be aecepi
•aible to the Rapmlhi leans and Demo
crats alike, flaiid .Tames M. Cox to
day in a talk Ibefore the Illinois
Wotmen’s Democratic Club.
“tr I were a member of the Sen
ate,” said Vox, "I (would vote for
(membership in the International
Count of Justice Without any quib
fbllng even to the extent of indulging!
in caprices like Mr. Hughes.”
i&.UVT LAKE CITY. Utah. May 9 —I
Mialoolm M. Keyser, local golfer, qual
ified for membership in the hole-in
on* club when, on the Parley’s Can
yon course to ere recently, he made
(the ifilftlh hale, 240 yards, in t'hat
mcore
U. S. Writ Saves Girl
from Deportation.
Esllheir Kaplan, who arrived in
j Now Yk»r!i in 1914, was taken l>y
I Federal authorities to Ellis Island
I inrniigrat ton station, New York Hur
, tor, to be departed to Russia on
I the grounds that sha was pi ‘.afer
I Oar nieritUilhy. Her mother and
1 faith or ware permitted to return In
j Airoer-jc-g, and Hhe girl faced l;fe,
i 'Wi'tWou't. friends, in Europe. (’on
[ gn vcr-in Samuel Dtoksteln Inter
ested himself in the case and se
emed a writ at' habeas corpus front
United Stales Judge Julian .Mai k.
arriving with it just before the g'rl
was t.o have been plated on iae
liner Bayern for deportation. E^r
mother, Mrs. Dora Kaplan, faints!
(from joy.
B-----9
j And Hubby
Pays the Bill,
As Is Usual
I WASHINGTON. May 9.—More
than $1,000,000,000 worth of I
j women's elotliiing was manufau- j
1 lured in 1921, while in 1914 ■
there was less 'than half that I
amount.
Value of such products was
placed at $1,022,743,000 for 1921, ;
! In a Census Bureau announce- '
| ment. today, which gave the 1919
! total as $1,208,543,000 and that,
i of 1914 as $473,888,000.
1 The statistics, which include
girls’ and children's wear, do 1
I not take info account the value 1
i of millinery, lace goods, corsets
| or knit goods, which in 1919
! brought the produotfion valup to
$2,233,049,570 The total values
1 represent, manufacturers’ prices; 1
I noo sStaitd:»rlos are available based j
| n retail (price*, wlhich would I
| run up the totals considerably. I
CORVAiLiUIS, Ore., May 9—Mar
shall HJelte, basketball center of
Oregon Agricultural College. Iras ac
cepted a position as director of phy
sical education at Punaihou prepara
tory school at Honolulu.
PRESBYTERIANS ARE TO VOTE
ON FORMING GENERAL COONCIL
INDIANAPOLIS, May 9.—(By As
sociated Press.)—Nino hundred and
tot y-seven commissioners, regxre
seCtMng ai proslmatc'.y -1,800,000 mem
'hers of tlio Presbyterian Church In
Uultod States, will attend the
135th general fseembly of the de
odmlniafijltVn tn this city May 17 to
24. The eonsniaalonera will be from
202 Presbyteries.
An Inrporthnt dononvina t ional prob
lem <0 ccmo boToro itho meeting will
•be tho consolidation t>r tho executive
work of as3omb’y. At tho present
tine this is porformed between as
atmbly periods iby 13 missionary, odu
•octiooul and benovolcnt boards and
numerous permanent and special
committee3 divided into four boards.
As a part of the plan of consolida
kirn, the assembly will take final
atetCon on tho establishment of a gen
eral council. ootfsisfiag of 27 persons,
which skill supersede tho present
executive commission at 15 members
mod the .promotional organization
known las the new era movement. It j
was said. The general council is i
proposed as an authoritative body to
act on denominwtlona.l problems be
tween assomfbly periods, having a sal
aried executive txfCicer to give his en
tire time to representing the church's
interests.
The cotnvmitteo of the general as
sembly which drew up the plan of
consolidation was appointed by the
assembly In Philadelphia in 1920. It
made Its (final report to the assembly
■meeting at Dos Moines in 1922. The
proposal haa been submitted to the
302 PreSbytterlos, and 152 of them
■must vote aipproval of it before It
can ibe put into operation.
The first important business, to
came before the meeting will be the
election of a new moderator. The
Rev Calvin C. Haijrs of Johnston, Pa.,
la the present moderator,
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CLEAR OUTRAGE
SAYS MINISTER
TO WASHINGTON
Chinese Minister Dr. S. K.
Alfred Sze Talks of Ban
dit Kidnapping Case.
CHICAGO, May 9—<Dr. S. K. Alfred
Sze, Chinese Mini <ter to the United
States, here on route from Pairing
tin Washington, said itoday concerning
tho It I'd napping <tase:
1 "It senmw a el oh r outrage. It is
ili' work of a band of brigands for
■wli'pm the Chinese government «in
MiTd’.y be responsible."
BANDITS SURROUNDED
TIENTSIN. M'ny 9—It is believed
i here the govcrrini'ni' troops have
gCtniplf'eV strrrhturided the stronghold
Where the bandits are holding the prl
Ri'iruti. Thus is according to C. C.
Jacdbsen, whlo run the gauntlet of
bif?'.<ys to carry the bintlrts' demands
outside land who arrived here today.
AMERICAN MAJOR WOUNDED
YHNCHOW. May 9 - Tho Chinese
bandits have been locate 1 30 milos
trmn Linchong. One A:u>r!can Major
is reported wounded N'egnrtl.ivions
BULLETIN—SHANGHAI. May 9.
—Fourteen foreigners, including at
least seven Americans held in the
hills back of Lincheng by the Chi
nese bandits, are almost dead"
from exposure and lack of food and
clothing, acocrding to a Lincheng
message.
PRISONERS SHOT.
BULLETIN—PEKING, May 0.—
Some of the foreign prisoners were
shot when the brigands used them
ae shields for bullets from the gov
ernment troops according to uncon
firmed reports received here.
GARRISON MOBOLIZED.
LONDON, May 9. — A Central
News dispatch says British and Am
erican garrisons at Tientsin have
teen mobolized.
OREGON WOMEN CAPTURED.
BULLETIN—PEKING. May 9.—
Mrs. Sanderson. Miy Flora Flem
ing and Miss Virginia Mid, of Eu
gene, Oregon, are berie#d still held
by the Chinese’bandits.
have sturt(«1 tor Hie release of the
iprlisonora.
PROMISES TO PAY RANSOM
WASHINGTON. Mav 9.—The Pek
ing government hills promised to pay
the ransom of 2.000,000 Mexican dol
lr<n3 demanded by the Chinese ban
d‘i:« who hold up the Shantung Rx
iprcos on the ‘border Monday and
(Continued as ;'im Kt*c.»
INTERVENTION
i SUGGESTED BY
| CONGRESSMAN
Judiciary Committee Chair
man Wires His Policy
on China to President.
| SAN FRANCISCO. May 9 —Con
| greattnun L. (’. Dyer, of Mlaaourl,.
■obaiirman <:.f the H. me Judilelarj
idomnivitco, aren.oura'cJ trday at n
meeting of tho For"gn Trade Cam
!<n»lttr» elf the San Frarr ateo Ciistn
jibor of CWmmorTe that ho had tele
; graphed it) Presidin' I fir litis sug
agc ttiins a Join' In;oirventton in China.
I ■Oongre ■■nnan Dyer said coniHUJiUi
aro ruelt that *h re a na i\htble
johltnico for China {> i.rginlze :i sov
'fv.uin iii ar I bring the eounitry out o'
j a; rv'ny.
WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT
WASHINGTON. M y 9.- The White
| House spokesman today said:
“Crv/rltwial law<1o enoss la reanonsl
'ble for coni 11 Mon i in Chiba. It ia
•add President Harding regarded the
ertitiiW Ion In China due almost wholly
‘Ho the wuakno n of the rentrtU gov
(Continued on Page Five.)
Alaska Navy Base Is' to be
Built by United States; Be
Link in Control of Pacific
EIGHT CONVICTS
FLOGGED, DIE IN
FLORIDA CAMP
Social Worker Startles Legis
lative Committee by
Her Testimony.
TAULAMAJ89EE, Flu.. May it.— Mrs.
Thelma Franklin. social worker, to
day 'told the jiolnt legislative commit
tee Inventigatlng the "convict flog
ging cases,” Chat lino convicts serv
ing in a convict camp of State Sena
tor J. T. Knailb, In Baker county,
died last year, the coroner’s inquest
showing ''natural causes,” but the
deaths were due 'to frightful beat
ings.
Mrs. FranWMn startled the commit
tee when she said Mary Sheffield,
negyess, and her daughter, who were
to tave ibeen witnesses before tihe
committee, were shot and killed last
week by Warden Thompson at
K mi,lab's camp.
SAFE BLOWN
MT. VERNON. 111., May 9.—Ban
dits blew the safe of the Bunk of
Bonnie, nearby, and escaped with
$2,100 in cash and $28,000 in se
curities.
WINNIPEG, May 9—Five ban
dits looted the Bank of Hochelaga,
at Dollar, Sas., during the night,
and escaped with $5,800 In cash
and securities worth $20,000 besides
other valuable papers.
Chamberlain’s Resignation
Is Accepted by President
WABHffNOTON, May 9.—Presi
dent Harding has accepted the re
signation of former Senator George
Chamberlain, of Oregon, Democrat,
as a member of the Shipping Board
effective June 30. Chamberlin, It is
said, expected to remain here some
time and It la understood will open
n law office.
WASHINGTON, May !). The Unit
ed -9:altea will advance no objection
'Bo the Bi'It: 3U admiralty's plans for
developing Singapore into a huge
‘and powerful nival (ba.se, It was stat
ed in o'fificJal circles.
; American naval experts do not con
slier the Br >h policy in building
[ up a powerful base at .Singapore as
maned at the United States, but
irafdher a.' Japan, wnosa increasing
[•power in the Par.' lc is known to ,be
ia source ri; worry !o the British.
Sequel Found
The inrojeet at Singapore finds its
sequel in steps being taken by the
United (Sdates to develop a powerful
naval base In Alaska. Secretary of
the Navy Uetuby has appointed a
board of naval i xtperts to make a
thorough survey of Alaskan 'Waters
anil im'aifntand witili a view to the es
tablishment 'there of an important
niavail base.
Fight for Control
These ateps by Great Britain and
'the United Statets to develop de
if endive (Wastes Of great strength in
'the PUcific reveal publicity -what
navtrl isitratogiets have long said pri
v'JtteSy1—that Japan got a little the
Ibesit of the bargain in the Pacific—
'and both rCho BtOtWh and American
governments now rare taking trotlive
Steps to Insure Anglo-American naval
control of the Pacific.
Wobblies’ Picket Slayer
Is Charged with Murder
ABERDEEN, Wash, Ma.y 9.—A
charge Of sebomt degree murder has
been filed ia*ia.lnst E. 1. Green, aged
1H yctarts, wanohmiun. who fatally shot
Wnilaim McKay, Wobbly picket, last
Thursday.
,p-~ * * *--■
$10,000 Is Won !
By Newspaper on
Ice*Break Guess
'FAfRBANiKS, Alaska, May 9
| —The ifce wenit'out in front of j
1 Fairbanks at 10:35 o'clock yes- 1
| tertfay forenoon. The News- |
Miner won the 110.000 pool on j
! 1 the guess of tho time the break ]
| would occ*r. |
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HARD WEATHER
HITS VARIOUS
U. S. SECTIONS
Hail Is Piled 14 Inches Deep
in One Locality — Low I
Temperatures Prevail.
FORT WORTH, M,.y 9.—Hail in!
piled 14 Inches do*p in drifts follow
ing a terrific storm Two mules
were larilml by tho pells ot lull and |
one man was Injurod by lightning
when the storm swept a wide section j
i of Smith county.
j ASHRAM). WIs., May 9. A heavy
| blizzard Is driving snow and menac
j !ng navigation on Isi.lte Superior.
OMAHA, May 9. -Freezing tem
! por-'ktiures are raporded from 10 <|if-|
ferent .pr/nts in Nebraska.
SUPERIOR, WIs.. May 9 Half an:
tach of snow lus .fallen here. Tho |
teimpenalture is 30 degrees above;
zero.
WEDS TODAY
LOS ANGELES, May 9.—Lieut.
John MueReady. who recently made
a non-stop transcontinental flight,1
will be married late this afternoon
to Miss Nellie Turner, of Columbus, j
Ohio, Lieut. Oakley, MacReady’s
flight partner will be best man. j
FORMER S. F. WOMAN
INHERIT8 $1,000,000
SAN FRANCISCO, May 9—Word
was received from Honolulu that
Mrs. S. S Bberle, formerly Mrs.
LoRoy Llntwrd, wife of the manager
of tlho Falrnroirt Hotel here. bad
fallen holr to a mWHonslollar estato
bequeathed to her by an uncle who
’■ooently died In Now York. Mrs.
RJberlo Is now Uvtin-g In Hawaii, where
her hnabund, On plain 8 8. Bberle,
United States army/ da stationed at
^©hoifkdd barracks.
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Miss Littauer May Wed
Doeller Soon.
i'llW CJ/. v itfeuer l
i
Miss Catherine Louisa Uttaaer,
uT \’o,w York. daughter of the mul
Wiinilliomilre society man, Colonel
W. K. bltt:ui?r, has returned from
(Vance, whore she was much In
•;",ie ipmblat eye, i1Seeau.se her father
sskod for a Paris Injunction to pre
vent her from marrying Robert K
Dooller, iin Ohio automobile sales
man. T.he oatirfs refused to act on
the grounds (halt, as m American,
Miss Li t. tier was of legal age to
we ). The 'parents then persuaded
her to postpone the wedding, and
It Is believed whe has returned to
America to marry.
Falls from Top
| Of Oregon Fir,
I 300 Feet; Dead
MARSlfKllBLD, Ore.. May
TJiomtis McMahan, 'a *p»r tree
climber for 'the Smith-Powers
Lumber Company, fell 300 feet
| to his death from the top of a
| f:r tree.
CRUSHED BY TREE
1 HOQUIAM, Wash.. May 9 —
t Clarence Irving, aged 21 years,
i spar tree climber for the Olyim !
ipic 'Cedar Company, was killed |
when a 70.1'oot 'tree if ell, after j
he climbed it, crushing him.
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PLAN MINING EXPOSITION
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. May 9 —
A eampuiign lias been started here
to hold an international mining expo
sition in this city during 1923. Gov
ernor Charles Mabey of Utah is one
of the sponsors of the movement.
STEAMER LAKE
GERHART HITS
ROCKS TODAY
New Freighter Recently Pur
chased by Alaska S. S.
Co., Is on Rocks.
SEATTLE, Nay 9.—The steamer
Lake Gebhart, which was recently
onrchased by the Alaska Steamship
Company and was enroute from San
Francisco to enter the Alaska serv
ice. crashed on the rocks early this
morning near Umatilla Reef off the
Washington coast.
The Lake Gebhart's bow is re
verted pounding: heavily but accord
ing to wireless reports she can be
saved if the weather remains calm.
The Coast Guard Cutter Sno
homish, 100 miles away, is rushing
to the assistance of the Lake Geb
hart.
R. R. Pierson, superintendent of
the Alaska Steamship Company, is
on board the freighter.
It is reported the crew is in no
danger.
The Lake Gebhart is a steel screw
steamer and was purchased from
the Shipping Board for the Seattle
Alarka run.
The l.ake Gebhart was built in
Chicago 111 1919 and is registered
at 2,810 tons. Previous to sailing
from San Francisco for Seattle, the
craft was at the plant of the Gen
eral Engineernig & Drydocking
Company in that city for a general
overhauling.
LIQUOR RULING
MADEBY COURT
! NEW YORK. May 9.—Federal
Judge Knox today, in a decision, de
clared void that portion of tho Vol
stead act limiting the amount of
liquor to be prescribed und granted
an injunction restraining prohibi
tion officers from Inrerferring with
tlie practice of Dr. Samuel W. Lam
bert.
CHEAP SCHOOL HOUSE
SAN ANDREAS, Cal., May 9. -
The Calaveras county board of super
visors accepted a bid of $25 for the
old Spring Valley grammar school
h./J.-'e, located in the historic Bret
Harte mining country. In pioneer
Jays the school housed many pupils
but has since been dosed o<wtng to
lack of attendance.
FREED OF FAMINE, RUSSIA'S
BINS BULGING WITH GRAIN; J
BREAD MAY PROVE DILEMMA
MOSCOW, May 9.—Too much bread
pc vnlses t'o be Russia's dilemma In
1923.
From 1917 until 1922 bread was the
m-oet precious thing in Russia." A
if arm or could trudge into Miss cow
w'ltih a small sack of grain and trade
lit for a grand piano or anything
which the hungry city dwellers had
ito offer. Now the same peasant
oculd walk from one end of Russia
'to (the other and, excepting in a few
isolated famine districts, could not
get a Jack-knife for the same sack of
grain.
If the harvest of this year turns
out as expected, Russia w’ill have a
■surplus of grain which could be sold
abroad
Fnn a country which less than IS
months ago was clamoring for crusts,
j Russia haw changed Into a nation
' wiltleih promises within a few months
I to he swamped with wheat and rye.
I At Harator, near certain communes
that have been listed as famine-stride
en. rye flour,, the scathe of bread,. Is
quoted at leas than 25 cents a pood,
which is 30 pounds. At Samara, the
diw.rtw-t where even cannibalism oc
curred among the Btarviqg a year
ago. rye Roes begging at less than
40 cents a bushel.
In Moscow, naturally. transporta
tion costs have made prices some
what higher, almost double the reign
ing price In the groat producing re
gions. Siberia, once the granary from
which wheat poured Inti Western
Burope/'did not fare so well In last
year's harvest, and there prices are
higher, but In Odessa and at Kieff,
| in the southern wheat, belt, recent of
1 ftotal quotations show wheat costing
1 under 70 cents a bushel.
; The Soviet govednmont,- through
I the cdollecriion of taxes, has rolled up
! a grain reservo amuntlng to nearly
| 200.000.000 bushel- Some of this is
needed to feed tho army, but as for
the hulk of the grain, unless it can
he exported, the government does nut
know wha: to do with It