THE
ALASKA DAILY
EMPIRE
ALL THE NEWS'ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXL, NO. 3223.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
INJUNCTION IS STARTED TODAY
BY GOVERNMENT IN SCGAR CASE
MEANS TO HAVE
BOATS TO HELP
ON PROHIBITION
New Enforcement Officer of
Alaska Coming North—
Co-operation Arranged.
iSEIATTLiE, April 19.—.Arthur G.
Means, new prohibition enforcement
officer for Alaska, Bailing yesterday
on the Admiral Rogers for Juneau,
his headquarters, made arrangements
tor cooperation with the agents here.
'Means will have one boat at his dis
posal constantly and also be aided
by the Coast Guard boats and by
marshals. Means will have six
agents under him.
Means was formerly agent here un
der F. A. Hazeltine and spent sev
eral weeks in Alaska earlier in the
year, but coming South on account
of lillness. Means succeeds John H
Marshall, ordered to Washington,
D. C.
BRITISH DELAY
DEBT PAYMENT
American Commission Is Un
able to Understand
Proposition, Statements
(WASHINGTON, April 19—Mem
bers of the American Debt Funding
Commission are unable to understand
the continued delay in consummation
of the agreement made here in Feb
ru&ry. The British Embassy official
said several factors are responsible
Including the delay of Eliot Wads
worth, secretary of the American
iCcnimission at Paris, in negotiating
repayment of the costs of the Ameri
can occupation of the Rhineland.
NEW DANCING
RECORD MADE
CLEVELAND. April 19.—Howard
Klein set a world's record when he
quit dancing after 83 hours and 18
minutes.
lLate yesterday afternoon Miss
Magdalene Wolfe established a record
of -continuous dancing when she qu.it
differ 73 hours. Klein kept right
on and ibeat iher record.
DANCING IN GREENWICH
GREENWICH. Ccnn.. April 19— In
an effort to establish a dancing rec
ord, Vera Sheppard, dancing with
Theodore Bill, quit at 11 o'clock last
night after being on the floor con
tinuously for GO Jiours.
LIBOR PLANS
TO RON SHIPS
Marine Engineers Association
Makes Proposal to U. S.
Shipping Board.
NEW YORK. April 19 —The Ma
rine Engineers' Beneficial Association
has offered the Shipping Board casn
for the .Hanley, Hannawa and Po
mona, each 12.000-ton boats, as a
nucleus of a labor owned and labor
operated fleet
The letter of Thomas B. Healey,
business manager ctf the Association,
to Chairman A. D. .Lasker. said it was
felt that the ships could be profit
ably operated and promised “to have
a satisfied crew, pay fair w-ages and
Instill into the men the fact that the
ships .were theirs." k
U. S. Wants Aid to
Keep Country Dry
SAiNTMOO. Chile, April 19 —A pro
posal whereby American nation* may
a«>!st the United States In keeping
alcoholic liquors out of that country
was submitted to the hygenic com
mittee of 'the -Pan-American confer
ence today at the Instance of the
United States representatives.
Battle Against Slush Ice
to Carry Word of Starving
Persons on Michigan Isle
NORTHPORT, Mich., April 19.—Cold and exhausted and nearly
! starved, three men, after a 48 hour battle against slush ice in open water,
| reached here this afternoon bringing word that 10 other persons, Includ
I ing a woman, were slowly starving to death on Kox Island, 18 miles dis
! tant. Provisions on the island gave out three weeks ago and the men
‘and woman have only had frozen potatoes since then. Army aeroplanes
iare expected to start from Mt. Clemens late this afternoon to carry re
jlief to the islanders.
SUES HUSBAND’S SECOND WIFE.
MWBekit Milner $Qwrtoffe
<? Misr HC ner (£&»>)■
^ ,A/m.
Mrs. Helen Milner, of Chicago, shown here with her daughter,
Charlotte, has tiled suit against the second wife of her former hus
band, Mrs. Harriet Capper Milner, asking $100,00(1 for alleged
alienation of his affections. The first Mrs. Milner charges tlie sec
ond Mrs. Milner won her husband front her becalire she was
wealthy. He married one year and one day after the divorce.
Milner was formerly a barber, but now is vice-president of a big
haberdashery concern.
Announces from Jail
He Is Candidate
For Governor
OXFORD, Miss-, April 19, -Theo
dore G. Bilbo, serving 30 days far
contempt of court, announced from
the jail today that he is a candidate
for Governor of Mississippi, which he
formerly wa3.
I Eugene Debs Is Lauded
For “Unselfish Service”
MADISON, Wls., Apnil 19—The
Assembly has adapted a joint resolu
tion lauding Eugene V. IJebs for a
“life long unselfish service In the
Interest of humanity.”
The State Senate has memorialized
Congress for a constitutional amend
ment requiring an affirmative vote of
the people before a declaration of
war is made.
Child Killed; Pinioned
When Log Rolls on Her
MARSHFIELD. April 19.—Ruth
Cook, aged nine, was /pinioned against
a forest snag yesterday in the re
mote Curry county when a log on
which she stepped while hunting cat
tle -tipped. The mother was called
by a small brother of tho girl. The
mother cut the log away and the
dead body of the girl fell.
Mark Take Another
Tumble; Is Explained
•MERLIN, April 19.—After standing
for weeks at 92,000 to a pound sterl
ing, the mark today dropped to
120.000. The Boersenkurier blames
the Reschbank, which after placing
2.000. 000 pounds on the market to
support the mark, found It was neces
sary to replenish Its supplies with
i foreign currency.
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BART. SKIPWITH
FACES CHARGES
's Named in Many Wavs in
Connection with Kidnaping
Cases in Louisiana.
BOSTROP, l..t„ April 19.—T.urty
iIIIb of Information were filed here
ite yesterday afternoon. They In
lude charges against Capt. ,1. K.
kipwitli for conspiracy in the ntur
er uf Daniels and Richards, carrying
ireartns on the premises of another,
onsplring to compel persons to leave
ome, conspiring to assault persons,
nd conspiring persona to leavp their
utomobiles and also places of busi
ess. Skipwith is the only one ac
used of conspiracy to murder.
Dr. B. M. Mc.Koin, former Mayor of
let Rouge, is named in several
din.
MUST SURRENDER.
BASTROP. Da.. April 19.—Sheriff
arpenter notified 16 defendants In,
he Morehouse Parish kidnapping
gses to surrender. Three have al
eaiy appeared and gave themselves
p. Capt. Skipwtth, charged with
onspirac.v to commit mnrder lias
elegruphed he will surrender.
rive Are Dead in Fire;
Another Person Missing
LYNX, Mass.. April 19-—Five arp
ead and one person is missing as
he result of fire which destroyed
he Essex ■Castle, a five-story apart
lea* honse on Ellis Street, In tne
enttor of the city, this morning,
lany occupants were .hurt.
SAX DIEGO, Apnil 19.—Four big
I art in bombing planes under eom
nand of Major Roy Geiger hopped
ff for a cross-country flight to
Juantico, Va., early this forenoon.
ARMY AIRPLANES COMPLETE RECORD FLIGHT.
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Six army airplanes, curryin j 1U officers, under command of Captain Thonta (1. Dan phi or.
shown arriving In Washington, af.er the completion of a recprd-breaklng 11,000-mlle flight, which was
made to prepare pluns to "bottle up" the Caribbean Sea In the event of an enemy naval attack. The
planes traveled on absolute schedule from San -Antonio. Texas, (q C m and Porto Rico, returning to
Washington, where they were gre >ted by Secretary Weeks, Assistan' Secretary Dwight Davis, Qen ral
Macon T. Patrick. Chief of Army Air Service; and Brigadier-Gen ual Hines, Araistunt Chief of
Staff. The planes etvered f>,4*• 0 miles in til hours 1 :■? minutes Hying time. By reaching Por:o Rico on
schedule time l ney'sltowed that within three days the entire American Air Karoo can he Mhoiliged on
that island to'bontb and sink any approaching enemy fleet. There was not an accident on the flight
BIG LAUNCHING !;
IS ON TONIGHT
Steamer Alaska Is to Slide
Down Ways at Tacoma—
Juneau Girl Sponsor.
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TACOMA, April 1 :* The handsome i
j new steamship Alu-ka will he launch-1
od Ibis evening at the Todd yard for .
the Alaska Steamship Company. Miss |
Frances Nowell, of Juneau, i- spoil-,
sor at (he launching.
The steamship Alaska i, the first i
j steel passenger line; Guilt on the P i
iclflc Coast and will be the large *t j
'vessel in the Alaska service. I
Falls from Grandstand
On Head to Cement Walk
PORTLAND, Or-., April lit. By anl
unexplained full from the grandstand
at the (Portland S.in Francisco game
yesterday, Louis E. filer, Portland 1
postal clerk, struck on his head on j
the cement approach to the gaie. He
la critically injured.
FISHERMiNMAr |
CO OUT; STRIKE1
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ASTORIA, Ore. April 19.—The j
Fishermen's Union is taking a refer- j
enduni vote today whether to strike
following the Alaska Packers' Asao- 1
elation last Bristol Bay offer for the 1
price for fish during the coming 1
season. The Association has issued 1
an ultimatum that the price mention- !
ed yesterday is the lust to be made. ‘
Hawaiian Representatives i
Want Beer and Light Wines ^
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HONOLULU. April ID.—'Dip Terri- ,
torial House of Representatives has (
adopted a concurrent resolution re
quest1!pr the Congress of the United [j
States to amend the Volstead act to t j
permit the manufacture of beer and
light wines in Hawaii. |
DAMAGED BY FIRE
BUTTE. Mont.. April 19—The plant
of the Butte Miner was damaged by
fire late yesterday afternoon and
the newspaper is being published in
the Butte Post's plant until repairs
can be made.
Still in Anchorage
Is Revealed in Heart
)f City; Explosion
ANCHORAGE, April 19.—An ex
ilon'lon of gasoline ,:i a .'hack in the
leart of this city, which act fire ta
he shack, near the Seattle Hotel,
evealed a big still. Thirteen barrels
>f masih were also found.
CHICAGO CANNOT
SUE NEWSPAPER
FOR ANY LIBEL
mportant Case, Only Kind
on Record, Decided in
Favor of Newspaper.
SPRINGE1EUJ. 111., April 19— Af
i rating liic decision of the Cook
Jonnty Court, the Circuit Court has
uled that the city of Chicago cannot
naintaln Its libel suit against the
llricago Tribune.
The libel suit which the City of
Ihiiago brought against the Chicago
frihune was the first on record In
America in which a municipality
ought to restrict criticism of its
orporale acts. It resulted from news
nd editorial articles published lit
he Tribune.
The bill alleged that the city had
’oe.n damaged in that the articles
ad kept investors from buying
ontis of the municipality and ha I
rfinanced contractors and others who
ad business dealings with the city,
o demand onerous terms of pay
pent. It was alleged that the city’s
red.it had bpen reduced and that In
his respect It had suffered as w slid
private individual or an Industrial
orporatlon under like circumstances.
Assertions In Bill
The bill asserted that the olty
ras suing in its corporate rather than
ts government capacity, and to bring
■ut the distinction, tainted out the
umerous ways in which it con
tacted business bh rough its muni
ipallv owned water-wttrks. tits de
iartm»nt of streets and alleys and
ts purchase of supplies for fire, po
ioe and other departments.
Attorneys for the newspaper de
murred to this pleading, and the find
ng of the lower court on October
5, 1921. was that this demurrer was
veil founded. The attorneys for the
lewspaper argued that the city could
lot separate itself from Its public
unctions In order to act in the
apacltv of a private corporation
(Continued on Page Six.)
CASH BALANCE
OF FORD STILL
i AT BIG AMOUNT
Automobile Manufacturer De
dares He Is Not Going
to Borrow Money.
j NEW YOKE, April 19.—Henr;
Eord's cash balance still excecdi
$200,000,000 despite his recen
| numerous purchases of coal proper
lies, timber I and*, water sites ant
! other investments. The Wall Stree
' Journal declures, in publishing
1 Kurd's answer to a questionnaire
I that the automobile manufacture!
| said he had no present intention ol
| going into the market to borrow
! money.
POLITICAL OFFICE OPENED.
MINNEAPOLIS. April 19. Koval
I S. liayner announced today the open
| Inn here of the nutlonal office foi
BOMB STORY
SEEMS TRUE
LOS ANOELES, April 19.—After
Investigailng the story or Herbert
Wilson, alleged mall robber and con
victed murderer, William Burns,
chi of of tho Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice, said Wilson
told a straight fonward story fitting
in with fads previously obtained con
corning the explanation of the Wall
Street bomb explosion of 1920.
Chief Burns saiid if Wilson's state
rnents proved true, tt would revta
the source of tho explosives Burns
tuld ho already knew the parties who
aero respond bio for tho bomb ex
plosion and they are now In Russia.
Former Senator in
Office on Coffimitsior
WASHINGTON, April 19.—For
mer Senator Townsend, of Mtchlgan
today assumed his office as membe
of the International Joint Commls
sion having jurisdiction over thi
Canadian boundary. He succeed
Ohidlah Gardner Main, who re
signed.
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INJUNCTION IS
ASKED BY U.S.
I IN SUGAR CASE
| Action Is Started Today in
New York by United
States Government.
—
RESTRAINT OF TRADE
IS ALLEGED IN ACTION
| Movement Begun by Attor
ney General After Con
sulation with President
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 19.^
The Federal Government today in
stituted injunction proceedings in
New York City in an effort to shut
off trading in eugar futures.
The Government’s bill was pre
Dai ed under direct supervision cf
Attorney General Daughtery after
consultation with President Hard
! ing.
I The bill asks the court to per
manently enjoin the Coffee and
Sugar Exchange from enteiing into
or permitting any transactions in
sugar “unless the person purport
i ing to make such sale has in his
; pcsteesion or under his control a
? up ply of sugar adequate to meet
i the requirements of such tian
; saction.”
j Th: bill ir requested ss the «•
'salt of "original stipulations."
The bill charges conspiracy in re.
| straint of trade.
SUGAR TAKES DROP.
NEW YORK, April 19. — Raw
I nil gar took a perpendicular drop ot
approximately 50 polnta on the
New York Coffee and Sugar Ex
change this forenoon upon receipt
of the word the Government had
instituted an injunction case.
Bandits Steal Safe
Containing $18,000
KANt-AS CITY. April 19.—Ban
] dils heid-up an American Express
Company truck and escaped with a
safe containing $17,000 In cheeks
and $1,000 in cash.
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iTiajui i i cuitn itiouuva
Is Ordered to Alaska
| WASHINGTON. April 19.—Army
! orders have been issued to Major
Francis M. Maddox, of the Third
Ilfvision, to report for duty in
Alaska.
Nation Wide Memorial
Service for Tuttle
BT. laOUIs, April 19.—A memorial
Servicer In respect to Bishop John
8. Tuttle, who died Tuesday, is be
ing planned and all Episcopal
churches throughout the country are
to participate.
LUMBER AND MINING
BOOM MAY CAUSE
LABOR SHORTAGE IN B. C.
VICTORIA. B. C., April 19— Brlt
' Ish Columbia industry between now
' and the end of April will require
every able-t>od!ed man. This is con
veyed In a summary of conditions as
■they exist today by J 1). McNIven.
deputy minister of labor. Because of
these conditions. It is understood the
government will not take any steps
to encourage mon to go to the
prairies. No extra low ratas. such as
wera in vegtie last year, will be
either sought or given. In fact the
prospects for industry this year are
i so bright that not only all surplus
j labor will be taken up but there, may
1 devolop by summer a serious short
| age
| A survey of conditions by govern
[! ment experts shows bhe logging and
j lumber Industries experiencing the
: biggest boom they ever had. Indi
•j cations also point to a startling boom
, 1 hi the mining industry in the
' province. It was early In this cen
• tury that the last mining boom took
i plaoe and ft Is time now for another
t period of activity. This Is being
■ speeded up by the rising price of
copper.