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JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1923. < MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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ALASKA FISH
ANNOUNCED
Earth Shocks Shake
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SEVERE EARTH
SHOCKS SHAKE
UP CALIFORNIA
Heavy Tremors Are Reportec
from Two Sections—Rocks
Are Jarred Loose.
! Earth Shocks
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I WASHINGTON. Jnly 23. —
I Earthquakes of severe Intensity |
j of two hours duration were re- .
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j. gervatory seismograph. The
! scene of the disturbance Is esti
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LOS ANGELES, July 23.—South
ern California was jarred last nigl:
and early this morning by a aerie
of earthquake shocks some of sul
ficicnt force to shatter plate glas
windows and rend tons of brick an
stone tumbling from buildings.
‘The tremblors were the heaviei
in San Bernardino and Redlands.
Milder shocks were felt betwee
11:28 o’clock last night and
o’clock morning.
Three men lying in bed at Sa
Bernardino were severely injure
by falling debris.
Roc’:* weighing more than 20
pounds apiece plunged from son
of the roofs of the higher building
One large rock crashed into th
rcom of George R. Fisher shatteriu
his bed where he slept. He escape
uninjmed
SEATTLE RECORDS SHOCKS.
SEATTLE, July 23.—Earth shod
were recorded on the seismograp
at the University of Washington t
11:35 o’clock last night and coi
tinned for 15 minutes.
The heaviest intensity was aboi
11:40 o’clock.
The distance is estimated at 1,0(
mile* away, probably in Californi
Canada or Southwestern Alaska.
Drugged Crazed Man Runs
Amuck; Shot and Kill*
METAIRALI, Cal . July 23. — Tvi
were killed and seven others stabbe
one perhaps fatally, when a nia
believed to have been erased by druj
ran amuck on the platform of tt
Southern Pacific depot here. A p
liceman shot and killed the craze
man.
ARE TO AVENGE
VILLA’S DEAD
EL PASO, Tex., July 23.—Rumoi
along the border since the news c
the murder of Francisco Villa thi
followers of Villa would organize 1
pursuit of the murderers, were tods
strengthened by reports from Mexic
City that Nicholas Fernandez, or
of Villa's lieutenants, has returns
to Canutillo with such an object 1
mind.
BOSTON PROFESSOR POINTS OUT
MENACE IN COLLEGE CONTROI
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. July 23.—(By
Associated Press.)—Co-operation be
tween national societies represent
ing college teachers on the one hand
and college administrative officers on
the other as a means of arriving at
a better understanding and better
methods in American colleges and
universities is suggested by Profes
sor Harry W, Tyler. Professor Ty
ler Is head of the mathematics de
partment of the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology and secretary of
the American Association of Univer
sity Professors.
Referring to the recent enforced
resignation of President Alexander
Melkeljohn of Amherst College and
the resignation of several Clark
University professors accompanied
IP fUtepSfU grotecttaf afalnst fte
j methods of President Wallace \
I Atwood, he says:
| “These events cannot be regard*
| as merely local In their signlflcanc
j Quite regardless of the faults i
merits of Individuals is there m
reason to Infer that the events ai
merely symptoms of some more fu
damental defect in the organizattc
of our higher institutions?"
Groups Involved
The four groups involved In ui
; versity management. Professor Tyli
I says, are the trustees, the facult
' the alumni and the undergraduate
The trustees are usually “somewhi
averse to innovation." Members i
the faculty “may have become crii
cal rather than constructive or c
operativa” To a certain faction i
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Commands U. S. Marines
on Harding Trip.
t| Captain Franklin T. Steele, ol
3 the U. S. Marine Corps, commands
- the guard of U. S. Marines on the
s' U. S, S. Henderson, which is car
1 rying President Harding and his
party on his Alaska tour. Captain
t Steele nominally commands the
marines on the dreadnought Cali
1 fornia and was assigned to the
1 Henderson for this trip.
PRESIDENT ENDS
ALASKAN VISIT;
ENROUTE STATEI
s; Visit Brings Determinatio
tj to Harding to Aid North
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seriated Press.)—President Hardin
here yesterday concluded his vis
to Alaska, exactly two weeks fro;
the day he first stepped on the so
of the Territory, and last night th
Marine Transport Henderson carr;
ing the Presidential party, steame
out of the harbor bound for Vai
couver and Seattle. The Chief Ex
cutive and Mrs. Harding expresse
a deep feeling of regret as they sal
farewell to the citizens of the littl
town where occurred the ceremon
transferring Alaska from Russian t
American rule, and through thee
citizens they 3aid goodbye to AlaBk
The two weeks spent in the Te
ritory have given the President an
the Cabinet advisers accompanyir
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I Gunmen Are Blamed for
Herrin Riot by Minei
SPRINGFIELD. III., July 23.—“Th
ugly countenance of the America
gunman” Is blamed for the "Herri
calamity” In a brief filed by Prei
dent Farrington of the Illinois Mlt
Workers with the United States Co;
Commission. This is the first fo
mal expression from the Miner
President regarding the Herrin rl<
case.
'Dry Legislation Finds Favor
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ed Press.)—The question of enforc
ing prohibition laws came up recent
ly in the legislatures of fourteen
central states, and action was taken
as follows:
ILLINOIS—The 53d general assem
bly enacted no “wet" legislation.
Two “dry" bills were passed. One
of them provides for a fund for the
enforcement of prohibition drawn
from fines collected for violations
of the. law, prosecuted by the state's
attorneys and the attorney general.
This hill will relieve tax payers of
the burden of enforcement, and, it
is believed, create a surplus.
The other bill makes the man who
sells poison liquor which causes
death punishable the same as If he
committed murder.
INDIANA Four bills, two of which
amended laws already in force, hav
ing to do with strengthening of the
state prohibition law, w-ere passed
by the Indiana general assembly at
Its recent session and have been
signed by Gov. Warren T. McCray.
The bills, briefly, provide that:
Persons operating vehicles while
under the influence of liquor are
guilty of a misdemeanor punishable
by a fine not exceeding $500, to
which shall be added a Jail sentence
of from ten days to six months.
Persons convicted a second time
are guilty of felony, punishable
wiMIriiitvjatl sentence or from one to
five years.
If^ Is unlawful to have in posses
sion or..under control any still for
manufacturing intoxicating liquor in
violation of the laws of the state.
Persons caught so doing are guilty
of felony, punishable by from one to
five years Imprisonment and a fine i
ranging from $100 to $1,000. Posses-1
slon of any still or distilling apparat-!
us not registered according to the I
provisions of the laws of the United;
States shall be prlma facie evidence j
that such possession was for the
purpose of manufacturing Intoxicat
ing liquors.
Anyone transporting liquor In any
vehicle, or by water or aircraft,
shall be guilty of a felony, punish
able by from one to two years im
prisonment and a fine not to ex
ceed $1,000. \
A fine ranging from $100 to $1,000
and 30 days to six months imprison-j
ment is provided for the first con-j
vlctlon on charge of giving away,
selling, bartering, etc., of intoxlcat-j
lng liquor. Second offense punish
able by imprisonment of from one
to two years and $200 to $1,000 fine.
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IOWA—Seven new prohibition laws
were enacted by the Iowa legislature
which adjourned April 27. A sum
mary of them follows:
Bills defining the sale of liquor
that causes death as manslaughter;
declaring illegal the possession of
materials with which to make liquor;
extending search and seizure laws
to cover those materials; making the
driving of a motor car while intoxi
cated subject to a penalty of $1,000
fine or one year in prison; apply
ing a special penalty for the misde
meanor of furnishing liquor to a
minor; providing for the confisca
tion of vehicles used to transport
liquor, and defining any person twice
convicted of liquor crimes as a per
sistent violator.
KANSAS—When the law makers of
Kansas forty years ago enacted the
first prohibitory law they did not
anticipate that the control of ‘‘moon
shiners” would ever become a state
problem. Nor in later years, when
the prohibitory laws were tightened
up by the “bone dry" law and other
enactments, did they contemplate,
any ‘‘moonshine’’ menace. So it be
fell the 1923 Kansas legislature to
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COIL MINERS
END WALKOUT
SYDNEY. N. S.. July 23.—The coal
miners of South Cape Breton decided
at a mass meeting last night to re
turn to work tomorrow.
The miners of the North Cape Bre
ton section are expected to follow
suit.
The action of the miners will end
the strike In District No. 28, United
Mine Workers, and will forestall
the presence of trdops In the dis
trict
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NAVAL LIEUTENANT WHO PUNCHED PASTOR.
ana MrtfS W. M H-a>* 1
Hero Is the first portrait of U. S. Naval lieutenant Wesley
McLaren Hague, with Mrs. Hague. Lieutenant Hague punched
Rev. George Lyman Paine in the jaw, in Boston, because the
clergyman, in an alleged impulse of "fatherly affection,’’ tried to
kiss Mrs. Hague. The clergyman, who ts extremely prominent in
Boston church circles, iB a descendant of one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence. He lias written a letter ot apology
to Mrs. Hague and has reslgne i ar Kxeeutive Secretary of Ihc
Greater Boston ^'pderaiion of Churches.
PITTMAN SHOWS
UP DEPARTMENT
U. S. TREASURY
Correspondence Published Re
garding Silver Situation
—Presents Evidence.
WASHINGTON, .luly 23- Letters
published by Senator Key Pittman
charged that statements of the Treas
ury Department to the Comptroller
General, In connection with sllvei
bullion allocations” have been ills
proved by evidence.”
In discussing this correspondence,
Senator Pittman said Treasury offic
ial* have “greatly and deliberately
Ignored the mandatory features of
the law requiring the purchase of
silver to replace that sold during
the war to Great Britain."
Senator Pittman declared evidence
before the Senate Committee showed
that th^ Treasury Department, when
It stated to the Comptroller General,
that, it held 10,000,000 ounces ot
fine silver obtained Trom allocation
of standard silver dollars to bt
used for emergency coinage ot sub
sldiary coins during the war. It had
not one ounce of such silver.
Declares Arctic
Wastes Good
Flying Terrain
BERGEN, July 23c—Giving his op
lnion regarding the Arctic as a fly
lng terrain, Lieutenant Dietrichsen
Is quoted as follows by the Aften
posten:
“Once one has risen above !h<
mountains, the mists vanish ant!
weather conditions become extraor
dtnarlly even and free of wind pock
els. The further north one proceedf
the better becomes the possibilities
of good and safe landing placet
among the vast flat tracts of let
and snowflelds.”
The lieutenant also expressed hlf
firm conviction that the Polar flight
was only a mattpr of time.
Lieutenant Dietrichsen Is one ol
the airmen sent up to Spitsbergen bj
the Norwegian government in con
nection with relief measures foi
Amundsen.
Former Klondiker Dies1
At Home in Seattli
SEATTLE, July 23.—James P. Ag
new, aged 63, former Deputy Coun
ty Auditor and at present Deput)
City Comptroller, died at his home
hero yesterday. A grew spent a yeai
fq Alaska during the gold rusk
Kissing Mass. Preacher
Defended by Bishop.
Bishop Samuel G. Babcock, suf
fragan bishop of the Massachu
setts Diocese of the Methodist
Kplscopal Church, defends Rev,
George L. l’aine, Boston clergy
man, who engaged in a timothy
hay "tickling party” with the wife
of Lieutenant W\ M. Hague, U, 8.
N„ during which he tried to kiss
Mrs. Hague. The episode resulted
in Lieutenant Hague striking him
In tile jaw.
Liberty League Boosting
Smith for U. S. President
OMAHA, July 2J. — The National
Liberty League organized here to
advocate legalization by Congress of
the sale of beer and light wines, is
^circulating petitions here . to place
the name of Governor Smith, of
New York, on the Democratic pref
erence primary ballot for the pri
mary next April. This is accord
ing to announcement made by Sec
retary Don Debow.
Political Embroglio
Occurs in Philippines
MANILA, July 23. -The split be
tween Governor General Leonard
Wood and Manuel Quezon which re
suited in the resignation of all lead
lug officials of the Philippine gov
ernment has developed into a local
political embroglio with the Demo
Cmtic party supporting Wood and
the Collectivists Party opposing hint
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HUUVtn lu ArrUINI UUMMIoolUN
FOR ALASKA FISHERIES RESERVE
POLICY WILL NOT BE ABANDONED
People of Westward and
Interior Towns Give
I Support to Sec’y Hoover
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People of Westward towns and |
I the Interior are behind Secre- |
| tary of Commerce Herbert C. |
; Hoover In his purpose to con- j
| serve the 'Alaska salmon supply I
and they have endorsed the meth- |
ods he has taken and proposes
| ; to take, said Capt. .1. .1. Finne- |
| Ran, who was here yesterday. 1
| The matter was submitted to a
vote of those who attended the ]
| hearings at Fairbanks, Nenana, j
Anchorage and Seward, and at j
each place the verdict was unant- j
mously behind the Cabinet offl- 1
cer except one vote at one place |
1 1 where the voter said he did not |
j i not know anything about it but [
| he had confidence in Delegate i
Sutherland.
Mayor Thomas A. Marquam j
presided at the Fairbanks meet- |
ing and Introduced Mr. Hoover. |
The matter was presented to the j
people by the Secretary, and j
i th'>n Mayor Marquam asked for a j i
vote of those who were present, j
j | They voted unanimously to up- |
j I hold the position of the Admin- i
j | Istratioii In creating the reserva- 1
tlons and his purpose to create
i : more of them unless Congress
; I passes la-ws 4<>r the protection
; I of the fisheries.
1 Later, Secretary Hoover sub- j
mitted the question to a vote at |
each of the hearings he conduct- j
■ ed and everywhere the sentiment |
j 1 was practically unanimous In sup- |
| port of his position, according |
i to word that comes from the j
! West. !
PREDICTS OLD
LINE PARTIES
ARE TO FIGHT
Senator Brookhart Looks for
Big Consolidation at
Next Congress.
CHICAGO, July 23,-JfUnlted State*
Senator Brookhart declared here that,
the Progressives In Congress wel
I come the statement of United States
' Senator Moses, of New Hampshire,
calling the Conservatives of both
parties lo meet the "menace to Rad
icalism."
Senator Brookhart said: "The Lin
coln Republicans and the Jefferson
Democrats will he prepared for the
uniting of the Tory Republicans and
' Bourbon Democrats when the next
I Congress convenes.”
Fifth Division
Naval Reserve Is
On Way to Juneau
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SEATTLE, July 23.—The Fifth Di
vision of the Naval Reserve left
here Saturday on Eagle Boat 57 for
a two weeks crulae in Alaskan wa
ters with Juneau as the terminus.
Home Town Repudiates
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Late Bulgarian Premier
SOFIA. Bulgaria. July 23. — The
little village of Slaovltza, where Pre
mier Stamboullaky was born and
where his star set after the battle
between regular troops and the ‘'yel
low guard," on June 9, is weary of
the notoriety w’hlch attaches to Its
name because of the Stamboullskt
incident, and wants It changed. It
has petitioned the ministry of the
interior to change its designation
to Borisovo, in honor of the King.
Slavovitza Is especially desentful
because Stamboulisky. within a
month or two of the tragedy In
which his. Ufe ended, ordered the
seizure or a considerable part of lta
.communal land and distributed it
among gypsies, to Induce them to
i settle down and take up agriculture.
lAn echo of this seizure was heard
' when Stambuollsky was attacked by
| villagers. Including people from Slav*
ovttza. One of the remarks directed
at Stamboultsky In that time was:
‘‘You have devoured our land; now
our land will devour you.”
In their petition to the ministry
of the interior, the villagers of Slav-^
ovitza bitterly attack the fallen, pre
mier's memory as an enemy of. pie
state, the church and the peasants.
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Secretary Announces Policy
—Brings Fight Home to
Delegate Sutherland.
CONSERVATION NEED
IS FULLY RECOGNIZED
Purpose of Fisheries Reserve
Has Been “Deliberately
Misrepresented."
The intention of Secretary Her
bert Hcover to appoint, with the ap
proval of President Harding;, an ad
visory board to aid in regulating
Alaskan fisheries, and his purpose
to adhere to the fishery reserves pol
icy until such time as Congress en
acts a nek fisheries code for Alaska,
are revealed in a telegram received
last night by The Empire from the
Secretary prior to his departure from
Sitka.
It is also apparent that Mr.
Hoover will ask Congress to con
tinue the advisory board in what
ever legislation it enacts as he as
serts that no definite law could be
applied universally and any law
passed by Congress for administer
ing Alaskan fineries should be sub
ject to appeal to some independent
commision, owing to the wide hu
man and property interests involved
in the industry.
Carries Fight to Delegate.
Conservation of this resource at
the same time permitting its utili
sation can be achieved through var
iable and constructive regulations
under broad authority, said the Sec
retary. While he does not mention
the Delegate by name the tenor of
the statement shows that he has
brought the fisheries fight home to
Mr. Sutherland. Both the purpose
of the fisheries reserves and their
methodr were “deliberately misrep
resented," he asserted, while at still
another point he declared, ‘politi
cal oratory will net spawn salmon.”
statement oi oecremiy.
The Secretary's statement follows:
"I have hail an opportunity of
consulting with scores of people In
Alaska on the fisheries question with
firlicrmcn, canners, public officials,
business men, and exports In public
hearings and otherwise. There has
not been a single dissent from tho
conclusion that there must be strong
r.nd Immediate restriction on salmon
fishing if we are to preserve the in
dustry from the same destruction
that has ruined many of our na
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American Legion
Asks Leniency
For Defamer
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I CHICAGO, .fitly 2li. -On recom
| mendatiou of the American Legion
; that leniency be shown Arthur Lor
j enr.. former editor of the Illinois
Staats Zeltung, has been sentenced
| to six months In jail by Judge Hugo
| Hamm. The sentence follows con
viction on charges of criminal libel
growing out of an editorial in bis
paper regarding the American Le
gion.
The article Is alleged to have re
ferred to America's veterans as
“tramps, unis, and vagabonds,” and
composed of the "scum of the coun
try.”