THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS Alt THE TIME"
VOL XXI., NO. 3135.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, !923. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTSL
OREGON RIVERS FLOODED TODAY
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Want American Troops Off Rhine; Trouble Feared
WAR FEARED IN
EUROPE; YANKS
TO COME HOME
Senate Takes Action Suggest
ing to President to Bring
Forces Home.
BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, ban.
6.—1 he Senate this afternoon adopt
eo tne Retd resolution decla'ing it
Is the sense of the United States
Senate that the President shoulo
bring about the return of Airo .'.in
forces from Germany.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Declaring
that “trouble may break out any
tints,” Involving I he American forces
on the Rhine. Senator Reed this
forenoon asked the Senate to act im
• mediately on his resolution for the
return of American troops.
S.nator Reed’s request started an
other general debate on foreign re
lations.
Senator Brandege? said he under
stood France intended to occupy
Coblenz.
'Senator Lodge said the indicated
plans did not involve the Coblenz
unit.
PLAN COERCIVE
ACTION TO GET
GERMAN MONEY
Well Planned Moves Be Taken
Against Germany by
France, Italy, Belgium.
PAR-IiS, Jan. 6.—After a confer
ence Premier Poincare had with the
Italian delegate and -Belgium repre
sentatives to the Premier's confer
ence, which brokn up, it became
known the three countries will not
enter the Ruhr hastily but intend to
carefully plan coercive action.
U. S. HAS NO MOVE
•WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The gov
ernmc nt has no project in mind for
calling an International economic
conference to deal with German re
paration problems. This was the
statement made officially from the
White House.
TURKS GET HOSTILE
■LAUSANNE, Jan. 6.—The Turkish
delegation of the New East Confer
ence left the meeting hall today as
protest to the Allied insistence fot
tho establishment of an Armenian
National Homo.
McCormick Love Nest
Now Ready for Walska
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Thousands
of dollars have been spent during the
past few weeks lo make a beautiful
love nest for Harold McCormick and
liis bride, Ganna Walska, when they
return here January 10.
5'ijc. Walska's mansion on Fast
Ninety-fourth Street, has been deco
rated from top to bottom, ea>h of
the 43 rooms being thoroughly •.>no
vated, a beautiful Japanese garden
has been built in the entrance hall,
six van loads of costly furniture has
been trundled and the mansion has
been given a coat of battleship paint
Breaks Gliding Record
In Air; Intense Cold
.PAlRlS. Jan. 6.—Lontheoret, French
military aviator, last Wednesday set
a new world's record in gliding, re
maining in the air at Biskra, Algeria,
seven hours and three minutes. In
his telegram to the Matin, he stat^l
he could have stayed longer if he
had been dressed to stand the in
tense cold. Lontheoret u.-ed an aero
plane whose propellor was wedged
to prevent operation of the motor.
A. R. Titlow, Prominent
Democrat, Dies Today
TACOMA, Jan. 6.—A. R. Titlow
Democratic National Committeeman
from the state of Washington, died
at his home here this morning.
HOOVER DECLINES TO ACCEPT
SECRETARYSHIP OF INTERIOR
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—President Harding: has tendered Herbert
C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, the place as Secretary of the In
tciicr which Albert B. Fall will va ate on March 4.
After a conference, however, it was decided that Hoover will re
tain his present job.
Preeident Harding called Hoovr'g attention to the fact that in
seniority, the Interior Department ranks above the Commerce Depart
ment.
Hoover recalled the fact that cn entering the administration, he
declared his intention to make th; Department of Commerce ‘‘a real
Deoartment" and to this purpose he is. to adhere.
DUKE OF YORK REPORTED ENGAGED.
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According' to rumors in London, the engagement is soon to he
announced of the Duke of York, second son r.f the royal family, and
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, daughter of the Karl of Strathmore
! and Kinghorne, with estates in S otland and England. It is said
King George does not approve announcing the engagement yet.
TORTURE GIVEN
| THEIR VICTIMS
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; Pathologists Make Report in
| Morehouse Kidnapping
Case—New Evidence.
R A STROP, La., Jan. G.—Dr.
| Charles W. Duval anil Dr. John A.
| Dang ford, pathologists, in a report
j submitted at today's kidnapping
hearing, are of the opinion Daniels
land Richards were subjected to
some “specially constructed devise
inflicting punishment" before they
died.
Dr. Duval, in his report, said, “the
heads, arms and legs of the victims
had been either chopped or mashed
off while the men were still alive.
Fractures were three in unmber
and evidently were done by a ma
■ chine because oqui-dlstant."
Today Dr. Duval stated': “My Idea
is the bodies were Inhumanely tor
j tured.”
In the open hearing In the More
house kidnapping cast late yester
day, J. L. Daniels identified a watch
containing his initials as one car-:
ried by his son. Watt Daniels, one |
of the victims of the hooded easel
| here last August. I
J. L. Meliwain, of Mer Rouge, said
| pieces of cloth taken from the body
of Thomas Richards were the same
las that from which he ordered ill
j suit from him.
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BONDS FOR M’KOIN
BASTROP, La.. Jan. 6.—Dr ft. M.
, McKoin, of Baltimore, arrived here
I last night and conferred with At
j torney General Coco and then left
immediately for his home In Monroe, |
Coco announced an agreement had i
been reached for a bond to insure i
MoKoin would remain in the jurisdic-l
tion of the state of Louisiana to an-|
swer to the charge of murder In 1
connection with the Morehouse kid
napping cases.
Florida Mob Shots
Down Another Negro
SUMNER, Fla., Jan. 6— Handed
over to a mob when It appeared
a fresh racial clash was imminent,
an unidentified negro was shot to!
death at Rosewood this afternoon
over the newly made graves of three
negroes killed Thursday night.
GIVES OPINION
ON OPEN SHOP
Decision Sweeping m Scope
Is Rendered by Attorney
General Daugherty.
WASHINGTCN, Jan. 6.—Agree
ments or contracts having for the
purpose of maintenance of the
“open shop" labor policy contravenes
the conspiracy clauses of the ('lay
ton Act, Attorney General Daugherty
declares in a ruling today.
The ruling is occasioned by the
specific situation relating to the
Builders' Exchange at San Francisco.
The opinion is declared to be
sweeping in scope and covers gen
erally all phases of combinations ef
fected either by Labor against em
ployers or vice versa.
PROSECUTION TO START
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6.—United
States Attorney Williams today pub
lished a letter from Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty ordering him to pre
sent as soon as possible evidence
to the grand jury showing illegal
combination of building firms in San
Francisco.
Arbuckle Pardon Is
Arousing S. S. Society
ST. LOUIS, Jan. fi.—The Missouri
Sunday School Association has taken
steps to have a motion picture cen
sorship bill introduced in the forth
coming session of the slate Legisla
ture a3 the result of the recent per
mission given Roscoe Arbuckle to
return to work as a film actor, ac
cording to Lansing F. Smith, chair
man of the executive board.
Dorothy Dalton to
Wed Friends Claim
LOS ANGELES. Jan. fi—Reports
of an engagement between Dorothy
Dalton, film star, and William God
cell, president of the Goldwyn Cor
poration. were circulated here by In
timate friends of the couple in Los
Angeles.
Formal announcement of the be
trothal Is expected to be made within
a week. The wedding. It was report
ed, will take place before spring.
NEW SCANDAL STIRS MOVIE WORLD.
A new scandal, in which Wll Hays, Director-General of the Miv.oi, bds taken ati active hand, is
revealed in the announcement th t Wallace Held, famous movie star is hovering between lifo and
death in Los Angeles, in an eftor tc break himself of the drug hah t. Heid is married to Dorothy
Davenport, and they have one so . Wallace, Jr., and an adopted daughter.
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Mrs. McCormick
Denies Rumor of
Krenn Wedding
CHICAGO. Jan. '• Not now -or
ev’r.”
Thus Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc
Cormick shattered expectation that
(he world's richest woman will wed I
Edward Krenn, 2t> yearold Swiss J
rreniteet.
The vehement denial of her 1m-]
pending marriage to Krenn was de-j
livered on the eve of the expiration
of the legal ban on her remarriage I
in Illinois. ,
Divorced a Year Ago
Mrs. McCormick's divorce from
Harold F. McCormick, harvester mag
nate and since happy bridegroom of
Ganna Walska, the Polish opera'
singer, was granted a year ago. The
decree's formal entry was made tic
next day.
The "not now—or ever" was some
what modified by Mrs. McCormick!
- hastily adding "whom I marry is noi
one's business but my own," her!
friends pointed out They persist in'
the belief that the McCormick-Krenn j
nuptials soon will take place, per
haps as soon as any day.
Met in Switzerland
Krenn and .Mrs. McCormick be
came acquainted through their at
tendance of the classes in psychol-f
ogy in Switzerland. Since coming toj
America they have been almost daily |
companions. Krenn occupies a placet
of honor in Mrs. McCormick's box I
at the opera. He lives across the ]
street from the McCormick town'
house on Lake Shore Drive. Muriel i
McCormick was quoted as confirm
ing the rumors that her mother and !
Krenn soon were to wed.
Mischa Elman and
“Ideal” Not to Wed
NEW YORK. Jan. 6.—Parents of j
Mildred Stone, Mischa Elman's ‘’ideal I
Kiri," have announced that their |
daughter will not wed the famous
violin virtuoso, to whom she was ea
caged. Elman is on a concert tour, I
and his parents and sisters refuse to I
make any comment on the announce
ment. A. F. Stone, the girl’s father,
declined to disclose reasons for the
abrupt termination of the betrothal.
Their engagement was announced,
in October, and the wedding was toj
have been held on Christmas Eve.!
Miss Stone expects to sail soon fori
Europe with her sister and will be!
gone for a year, her father said.
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Woman Attorney Makes
Argument Liquor Ruling
WASHINGTON. Jan. 6—Mabel W
Willebrandt, assistant attorney gen
eral, argued yesterday in thp Su
preme Court on the appeals by th:>|
American steamship companies:
against the Daugherty ruling banning,
liquor from American steamers. She.
contended the prohibition amend
ment to the constitution extended!
wherever the United Stptes had juris |
I diction.
SCIENTISTS WORKING NOW TO
DEMONSTRATE EINSTEIN THEORY
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 6 Down
In thp basement under the dome ot
Lick Observatory, near here, astron
omers recently opened a box of huge
photographic plates, taken at a far
away Australian outpost during the
September eclipse of the sun, and
started developing them to prove or
disapprove I)r. Albert Einstein's
theory of relativity.
Dr. Einstein thinks the pictures
will show the correctness of his
theory, which is that the sun at
tracts or bends the light of nearby
planets. I)r. W. W. Campbell, direc
tor of the observatory and hand of
the W. II. Crocker expedition, which
took 'the pictures, will make no state
ment until the plates ire developed
and Infinitely delicate measurements
mil comparisons are made. Sev
eral weeks will be required tor this
work.
Forty-eight photographs of the
skies were taken by the expedition.
Eight of them wore in connection
with the Einstein theory and the
others wore of the stars and spec
trum and corona cf the sun.
Four “Einstein cameras.” designed
and constructed especially for the
“clipso, were used by the expedition.
STEFANSSON IS
TO TAKE STUMP
Exploring Is to Be Discon-!
tinued and He Is Going to
Reach World Truths.
NEW YORK, Jan. fi.—Vilhjalmur
3tcfansson is through with exploring
and lie intends to devote his time
teaching the world the Polar regions
ire nut huge mysterious unhabit
able lands ns commonly supposed,!
but arc habitable and have great
■ommerclal possibilities. This was
the announcement made by the
plorer last night fit the annual dln-j
ncr of the University of Iowa Alum
ni Association of New York.
Final Action Is Taken
By Hays, Arbuckle Matter
NEW YORK, Jan. C—Will Hays
chief director of the movies, today
Issued what he called the final word
in the Arbuckle reinstatement mat
ter.
Hays stated he would refer all sug
gestlons to the proper parties and
declares the fate of Arbuckle Is up
to the judgment of the public and1
producers.
Hays said he had removed the ar
tificial condition of one man. Judging
or appearing to Judge for 110,000,(KMj
They required plutos 17 Inch*
quare and a quarter of an Inch
thi k. The plates were made of plat
gl i.sa and weighed seven pound
each. Tiie gun's corona was photo
graphed with a camera 40 feet in
focal Wng'th on plates 14 by 17 inches
In size.
The plates recently arrived here
from the South Pacific with 84 pack
ages of scientific instruments used
by the party. The shipment was
sent to the observatory, which Is on
Alt. Hamilton, in bond by truck, auJ
th ■ packages wore opened with a
government customs Inspector pros
cnt. The package of plates, careful
ly packed, weighed 600 pounds. Dur
ing their journey across the Pacific
great care was taken to see that the
pl.ite-i arrived intact.
The Crocker Expedition was for
tunate in that Eclipse Day w^s
bright and clear. A German expedi
tion 'to Thursday Island, headed by
Dr. Einstein, reported failure be j
cause fog hid the sun when the I
eclipse occurred. Dr. Einstein was;
Quoted at Kobe, on his way home, to i
the effect that ho thought the Camp
bell plates would prove his theory!
correct.
Diva’s Daughter Is
To Be Married Soon
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Vanquished
are college pedagogues, and by Dan
Cupid.
Stage and society circles her; h..vi;
found interest In the recen; an
nouncement (hat Miss Marcia Gluck,
daughter of the noted singer Alma
Gluck, who thrills thousand . with
her beautiful voice, has decked she
v 111 be happier as the wife o', F. I).
7 lark'1, Yale student, than as a stud
cnt in Wellesley College
She has already left Wellesioy, and
tier fiance has also left Yale, being
now engaged in learning the coal
business with a Pittsburgh concern. |
No date lias yet been announced,
for the wedding.
Judge Rudkin Is Named
To Circuit Judgeship
SPOKANE, Wash., Jan 6.—Frank
H. Rudkin, whose nomination was
reported yesterday from Washing
ton as one of the judges of the Cir
cuit Court of the Ninth District,
was judge of the State Supreme
Court of Washington from 1914 to
1911, when he became United States
District Judge of Eastern Washing
ton district.
The Ninth Judicial Circuit Includes
the districts of Northern California,
Southern California, Oregon, Nevada,
Montana, Eastern and Western!
Washington, Idaho, Arizona and thei
territories of Alaska and Hawaii. 1
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RIVERS FLOODED
IN OREGON; RAIN
FALLS, TORRENTS
Much Property Damage Is
Already Reported —
Slides Have Occurred
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 6.—Follow
ing heavy rains last night and which
are general today all over the state,
rivers and streams are reported
looded and property losses have st
eady been suffered at many points.
Hood River is two feet above the
highest stage previously recorded.
The Columbia River Highway is
blocked by slides.
Railroad tracks are washed out in
many places.
Telephone and telegraph lines are
partially crippled. •
Farms and lowlands are inundated.
USE DYNAMITE
TO GET BODIES
Powder Resorted to for Pur
Collapse Victims.
BULLETIN—KELSO. Jan. A
battle to save this city from the
flood water* of the Copeman and
Cowlitz Rivers I* being fought this
afternoon by 150 men temporarily
stopping the search for the bridge
collapr-: victinyL. T*-» 'celdence /lee
tion of Kelao was threatened at rioon,
//hen the Copeman River came up
10 feet.
K33L80, Wash., J.tn. fi.—'Dynamite
will be used in an effort to raise
the bodies of the bridge collapse
victims, according to plans today.
Twenty persons are still unaccount
ed for.
The Cowlitz River arose another
four feet iast night and a boom of
logs broke loose, lodged against the
bridge wreckage, making the work
of the divers more difficult.
pose of
Operators and Miners to
Confer in Ne York Jan. 17
CHICAGO, Jan. 8. —A joint con
ference of bituminous operators and
minors will be called to meet in
New York on January 17 to con
tinue the new wage agreement, ac
cording to announcement made last
night. Yesterday's conference, which
has been continued for several days,
ended In “no decision."
NO STRIKE DANGER
WASHINGTON. Jan 6.—Practical
ly all danger of another coal strike
in the bituminous fields after April
1 has passed, in the opinion of the
Federal Coal Commission as ex
pressed by Chairman Hammons and
other members.
Herrin Oldtimers Testify
In Favor o‘ Defendants
MARION, 111, Jan. 6.—Thirteen
long-time residents of Herrin testi
fied in the trial of five men on
trial, charged with murder in con
nection with the mine riot, that they
saw six prisoners driven through the
town where they were shot but had
not seen a single one of the defend
ants among tltosd marching with the
doomed men.
Imports for 1922 Will
Show Increase Over 1921
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—The 1922
imports will probably show an in
crease of $100,000,000 over those of
1921. This is according to a report
of Dr. Julius Klien, director of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, made on the basis of com
pleted figures for the first nine
months of 1922.
The decrease in exports is expect
ed to be about $700,000,000.
Heavy Railroad Traffic
Is Reported for Season
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—More traf
fic is moving over railroads than
ever before at this season, according
: to car service reports of the Ameri
can Railway Association.