THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXL, NO. 3165.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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PRICE TEN CENTS.
EXPLOSION IN B. C. COAL MIN|E
French Tanks Used to Quell Disorders, Ruhr Valley
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RUHR DISORDERS i
ARE PUT DOWN;
TANKS ARE USED
Not a Single Shot Fired in
Two Towns When Dis
turbances Are Quelled
DUSSELDORF. Feb. 10. — The
French infantry aided by tanks,
breke up demonstrations at Recklin
and Essen and generally speaking
not a single shot was fired.
The situation throughout the Ruhr
is practically unchanged.
The German rrsictance is more
staunch than ever.
The agents from Berlin are can
vassing among the Ruhr villages and
towns urging the workers to resist
the French by striking.
Military authorities have arrested)
many who have refused to salute the
French officers and generally par
ticipated in many other acts trying
to foment tiouble.
FOOD GROWING SCARCE.
DUSSELDOKF, Pel). 10. — With
lood growing scarce the Germansj
ore preparing fer re-frictions to take
effect on Monday. The restrictions
include no eggs for breakfast and;
meat only once eaeli day.
ENFORCEMENT IS j
GOOD IN ALASKA
Assistant Prohibition Com
missioner Well Satisfied
with Alaska Trip.
SEATTLE, Fob. 10.—Ur. It. O.
Matthews, Assistant to Prohibition [
Commissioner Roy Haynes, who.
loaves tonight for Chicago after a
three weeks’ inspection trip in Al
aska, declared enforcement it goo.! I
in Alaska.
“Enforcement is better perhaps
north of Ketchikan than south of
it," said Matthews.
"I found -rum runners in (lie!
North Paciiic as from th" Bahamas
on the Atlantic.. The runt runners
ulso carry silks, narcotics, di amonds I
and aliens."
Shipping Bill Is Now
In Senate to Remain
WASHINGTON. Feb. lo. The
shipping bill has been called up ini
llie Senate by Chairman Jones, ofj
the Commence Committee, witli the;
announcement that it will not l>e I
laid aside
Senate.
exerp! by a vote of the
Last Appropriation
Bill Passes Senate
WASHINGTON. Feb. lo. — The
last regular appropriation bill of
the War Department budget aggre
gating $1140,52:5,000 lias been pass- 1
cd 'by Ibe Senate and sent to con-j
lerence.
Crowder Is Named
Ambassador to Cuba
WASHINGTON. Feb. lb.—Major
General Enoch Crowder has been
nomniated by President Harding to'
be Ambassador to Cuba. Ji
Douglas Mam Gets $370 from
Three Pams om Douglas Beach
CARPENTER-HUSBAND WEALTHY MAN’S SQN.
Hr| Hiv 1/ Q ayfeit
baitfon&ult, Jr*
When Miss Katherine O'Brien, 18. fell in love with I. Gaston
JtoirKonault. ,lr., a dashing young- carpenter, engaged in construct
ing a house in the Adirondack®, sie mat t ied him for love alone, lor , I
carpenter:- cant give their wives man on. You may imagine her
surprise when a few days after the wedding, she received an invi
tation to vtsit Ip-r jVaTentH-in-lnw, in Brooklyn, New York, when
she learned her father-in-law wav the millionaire inventor and
manufacturer of the Detectograpli She forgave her rich but re
spectable parents-in-law and then returned to her carpenter-hus- j
band, who wan seeking a change in the Adlronilacks.
Woman Police Judge
Will Study Prisons.
oJusdfe <J&an l-forr
Judge Jean Norris, the only
woman Pol ire Magistrate in the
City of New York, has sailed on a
tour of the world, during which
she will study prison conditions
affecting women offender- in all
tile countries of the globe.
[tails for Alaska R. R.
Are On Way from Alabama
MOBILE, Ala, Eelr 10. Tar first
rer.sel to load a cargo here for ail
Alaskan port dn several years is tile
American Kramer Carster Hall. The
•arffo has been loaded and til" steam
tr has sailed with Alabama stool
•ails 'for us-* of the Government
infllroad in Alaska. The rail will be
Is charged at Seward.
MEXICAN BULL WHIPS EVERYBODY
AND MARCHES OUT OF THE RING
BROWN9Vll,!>K. Tex.. Feb. 10.
The verdict ‘'too vicious to b(
killed." gained freedom for a bill!
■which made a gallant fight at the
Plaza do Toros, in Mutamores. After
it ha^i injured the m itador. two pica
doros and a banderlllo, it was per
mitted to leave the rung without be
ing sacrificed. This is the first
time in a dorado tha-t a bull has en
tered the arena at Mata mores and
lived.
Se% era I thousand spot its tors were
at the fight. As the bull entered the I
arena with the red nag flapping!
around its horns he appeared tlie re-J
incarnation of fury. He killed t!ie
horse of the first picador, and
rumpled the man. Wheeling quickly,
he attacked and injured the <•<• md
picador, who manag 'd to esi ipe with
his life. After a few minutes of
Waiting by bandorillos and capa r*>res
ha matador was knocked down and
trampled. The bull attacked a ban
Icfjllo. then created oo automation
tmung the audience by jumping the
six-foot stockade around the arena.
It was driven back and finally driven
:> the pen. It will be returned to
the ranch from which it name. The
d'et was that .the bull bad earned
its right to live.
Historical Places
Of Lincoln
Are Given Honors
II,
WASHINGTON. Feb. 10.
To Hodgenville, Kentucky, the
birthplace of Abraham Lincoln
goes the honor of being the
first post office to sell the new
three-eent stamps bearing; Lin
coln's portrait, while Sprlug
Ib Id, Illinois, hie home when
he was elected President, and
also his burial place, will be
the first post office to sell the
new $1 stamp showing a view
of the Lincoln Memorial.
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FOX FARMERS
ORGANIZE TO
SELL PRODUCT
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Southeastern Blue Fox Ranch- 1
ers Form Combine to Mar- ,
ket Their Own Goods.
8EATTIJ5, Fel>. 10.—Capt. A. n.
■Somerville, of I'etersburg, now here,'
reports the formation of the Soeth
! eastern Alaska Blue Fox Farmers'!
Association to market their own
product.
('apt. Somcville said: "The blue
fox farmers of Alaska have felt for «
a long time that they were not set- t
ting a square deal. Blue fox farm- t
ink lias been one of the principle t
industries of Alaska and in a few s
years more many hundreds of thou- \
sands of dollars will be invested in f
hundreds of islands in Southeastern
Alaska.”
Hughes Declines to go
Before Sen. Committee'[
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WASHINGTON. Feb 10 Secre- <
tary of State Hughes in u letter to
Senator la>dge. Chairman of the S n- |
ate Foreign Relations Committee
has virtually refused to go tiefore the!
committee aH required by Senator!
Robinson in connection with the1
Robinson resolution, for tlie appoint-|l
inent of an official American repre- j i
senlative on tlie Reparations Com-|r
i mission, 15
Three hundred and seventy dollars'
ire reperted to have been washed out
resteiday afternoon ftom three pans
f gravel on the beach below the
ailings of the Ready Bullion mint
jy Nels Anderson.
Today the entire island is excited
:vtr the clean-up of the well known
lastincau Channel man.
This morning. Anderson put three
nen at woik on the beach and re
mits of their clean-ups today is
inxicusly awaited.
Nels Anderson has been foreman j
;f the Ready Bullion mine for years ■
Icccntly he secuied a lease from the.
hcadwell Company to work a cer
ain area on the beach and yesterday j
vas his first day's work.
MANY CHANGES
RECOMMENDED
FOR NORTHLAND
Judge Schofield of Nome Pro
poses Ten Steps for De
velopment of Alaska.
SEATTLfC, Feb. 10 Judge Scho
it-.lcl, of Nome, speaking before the
Mask'a Bureau of th" Seattle Cham
>or of Commerce, d. dared that 118;
- avernmeiusl bod. wt.h no eo .
?••<!jnation. each lr.!e.nt upon bringing]
jumne-s through .1 maze of regtila ,
ton.-, is opp.-cv mg Alaska and]
nukes it imoos do to accomplish j
kings in 0 busir.es dik' .manner and
indent way.
Judge Schofield urged that th> fol-j
owing steps be liken:
First Abolition of the multiplicity
if government.il boards.
Second—-Appointment of .1 Western]
nan as Secretary of the Interior.
Third Abolition of the present as-,
essmenl work and substitution of a.
-.roviaton requiring miners to apply j
» certain number of dollars annually!
o the Fedora! treasury.
Fourth Abrogation of the present
ootract he 1 ween the government:
md the Foulk • Fur Company, of St.
..ouis, for the PrlWlof Islands seal
m:put.
Fifth I’rotei dim for American |
Sixth—'KfMler.il oil survey in North
ve-tern Alaska.
Seventh—‘Development of Alaska
feat deposits.
Kighth Kish survey of Bering Sea.
Ninth—investment of a clearing.
teit.se in Seattle, where Alaskans with
vorth-whille mining propositions
mild present them to men interested
n financing them.
Tenth- Better 1 slits for the Alas
;an Coast.
.1. U Ifeekman. of Ketchikan. said
hat something must be done imins
■lately if the salmon Industry of!
loutIveastern Alaska is to bo saved,
feckman deelared, as a cannery
nan. that he roallzed that unless a
lo • • 1 season was mule effective im
tvofl lately, his Tannery would not
ive fish to can
EXPECT TURKS
TO SIGN PACT
WASHINGTON. Keb. 10. Obscrv-j
rs familiar with the Near Fasti
ltuatlon expect the Turks to sign!
lie treaty of Lausanne with the;
cinnamic clauses omitted and thnn,
new conference will be called at
,’liicli the eeotiomie issues will be
Iscussed.
AGREEMENT REACHED
LONDON, Feb 10.—An agreement
as bom readied between the Turks
t Smyrna anil the Allied naval com
landers under which status nothing
.ill be done r sardlng prohibition
f war vessels in the harbor pending
iplomatic negotiations.
jerman Minister to
Chili Meets Death
SANTIAGO. Keh. 10 Von
Irchart, German Minister to Chill,
■ as accidentally killed while as
endlng a volrano named lairiH, in ;
■outhcrn Chili.
MINNESOTA HAS REGISTERED WOM AN ARCHITECT.
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Mr«. Emma F. Brunson, of St. Paul, hap the distinction of being
the only woman architect ret;littered in the State of Minnesota. She
nays men architects are all right in their place, but that they miss
the Utile things a woman needs In her home.
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Irish Rebels
Do Not Want
Peace
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j LONDON, Feb. It). Tlie Irish
1 rebels have decline I to enter
J into any pease negotiations
• with the Irish government, ae
1 c-ortling to dispatches received
from Dublin. The government
I issued a pr x l i.mafion granting
| amnesty do till r.tb"'H who would i
\ surrender with t'hhir arms with- j
! in lit d ivs.
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CONFESSES TO !
MANY CRIMES
Baffling Series of Crimes
Cleared Up by Confes
* sion of Negro.
BULLETIN—WACO. Tex., Feb. '0.
—The police and National Guardsmen
are being mobilized to defend the
;ounty jail in the event an attempt
is made to gel Mitchell.
CONFESSES TO CRIMES
WACO, Tex.. Fell. in. A series of|
•rimes Wltfth have baffled tile offi- I
iters for the past year, lias Imeri
cleared tip by the ullognl confe c m
if Itoy^ Mitt Ill’ll, a tittgri
According to Sheriff Leslie St..
Pall, MUchi ll has conies ed that lie j
:-o:i’m ed eight murders. three as
sail its aril tinmen its attacks on w ,
men from February 12, 1912, to Jan
Freezing Rain Cancels
Flight for Endurance
DAYTON', Ohio. Feb. 10. A freezi
ng rain moving towards Dayi n
mused Lieutenant. John MueC ready
rnd Oakley Kelly to i> tpone thr.ir
flight to establish a new world .
•ecortl for end-urjinee The flight will
probably no: be made before Fob-!
•tiarv 25.
British Debt Measure
Is Passed by House
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. The
House, by a vole of 201 to 44. has
tpproved the British debt sctth
rneiii. Tlie measure now goes to the (
3enalc.
No Second Interoceanic
Canal at Present Time
WASHINGTON', Feb. 10. C'oo
l ruction of another interoceunir
anal was again discussed at the
cabinet meeting. For the present
the eftimated cost of $1,000,000,000
Is declared prohibitive.
t#uj a a uuv aiikvi v«
Duke’s Estate.
^BiyUTt>~ AH.;.:
Sir Mallaby-Deeley huR paid the
Duke of l.oiit! lev, hen dltary Hint?
of Ireland, $6,000 a year for a life
interest in Ihe Duke's estate,
which is held by his creditors to
pay off his huae debts.
DRUNKENNES^TnCREASING.
NKU YORK, Kob. lo. Arrests
or drunkenness in New York City!
n 1022 were 9,SOB, an increase of
over 1021.
NIGHT SHIFT
AT B, G. MINE
MEET DEATH
Fire Damp Fxplodes as Men
Gp to Work—33 Bodies
Recovered So Far
CUMBERLAND, B C.. Feb. 10.—
Four men have been found alive in
Mine No. 3, Cumberland Colleries,
Ltd., two miles from heie.
One Chinese in the hospital is
the only other known survivor of
the explosion of fire damp on stoop
No. 1 which imprisoned between 50
and 60 of the night shift who had
just gone to work.
The known dead is now 33 men.
The explosion Is the second dir
ar.ter to occur In Mine No. 3 in six
months.
On August 30, 1932 an explosion
occurred taking 13 lives.
The four survivors found from tha
lust i xplosion are in a very precar
ious condition.
The mine salvage apparatus Is
bring used to revive them'by artl
ilclal respiration.
NEW MEXICO EXPLOSION.
DAWSON. Nrw Mexico, Feb. 10.
—Two miners came out unassisted
from Mine No. 1 of the Plielps
Lmdge Corporation where an ex
plosion entombed over 100 miners.
Tlio two miners met the rescue
party near the mouth when a ter
rific blast they put out, lighted their
lamps which undoubtedly saved their
lives as it eliminated the chance of
an. uxutoriflB in their '.dully.
Seven more bodies have been re
covered, making u total of 38.
There Is little hope that any of
the remaining 115 miners In the
mine at the time, will bo fount
alive.
brioTlost
N'KW YORK. Fob. 10.—After a.
two day search of hotels, James F.
Mel Ire go r has asked t lie police to
find Ills bride. The couple arrived
here two days ago on a honeymoon
trip. Mrs. McGregor went to call on
friends and failed to return.
Presidential Nomination
Machinery Under Attack
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. — The
Providential nomination machinery
In [iasl operation is attacked by
Senator Hiram Johnson, Republican,
of California, lit a letter made public
by the Peoples’ i.egislatlvo Service
under whose auspice* tile recent
conference of the "Progressives" was
held and the "progressive bloc” was
organized.
WILL HAYS' BIG SALARY AT ISSUE;
TOO MOGH. SAY SOME PRODUCERS
1.08 ANCKI.KS. K ;b 10 While] A
!i • indrpinl.mt film in i'rh a:i-1 f
m »:*.** s.it-hi ring - * 1 i'lly under Hip [ la
i(ic r.ihii» of Douglas Kali banks,
her** war.* rumblings (inlay or a,tl
evo! in th<* ranks of th* big pro i r
lurer* of the motion pit*.:ur» “trus*," l>
Tii i: there is a battle going on' lj
leiifnd closed doors over tin* value of
A* II II K.iys, hired by them as "ad-,
: to the motion picture Industry" |-,
a - : iry of $150,000 a ye.tr, seems
•,-rtaln.
1' is known timt some m • in bias of
hi organization of pr dm ■*- and
I.-tribuiors feel th it paying Mays
tils salary is pnt.Mng overhead east
m producers, distributors uni event
■ idiliy on exhibitors whit h is not
vorth 'he price.
Stand Pat for Hays
.1 - * I.. I.iiSkv and \dolph Znkor.
iwever. heads of tiio Famous I’lay
-l.asky and Paramount orgmiza
•ns riie li>!gge*t in the group, are
.’town In bo ifandim; pat on Hays
md Ills value to tin* m * .in picture
ndin*t ry.
Mr. II ays’ record naimpeaeh
ibt»* and bln integrity ndlsputable,”
•a.sky declared. “-Sinee In* lias been
•hr leader of tin* Motion Picture
'reducer t ind IMwtributoi's' As- n*,ia
I on the eni'H-e Industry has been
iplifted. Me Is a grea* benefactor
oid I have the utmost fatth in him.
]] hu-lneS n i a leader. and the
lm tmhi i rv Is a nationally organ
nl business.
"I deplur- the seeming division in
• rmk of the industry, e*pecially
;er tla* value of Mr. Hays, but I
1:i■ \ i recent furors is definite
i tiling of the past.”
In answer to questions as to wheth
there w i - ' i he a conference short
hv 'lie “trust" producers to dda
i-. Hays’ saluo to the industry,
i sky sild:
"It will probably never reach that
tgo. But if it does. I am for Hays,
i t, I i ’ and all the tiuio."
Laemmle Opposes High Salaries
Carl Laemmle. It: years ago a re
II clothing merchant in Oshkosh,
" but now head of rndvorsal. one
the largest producers, has arrived
r his annua! inspection of Unl
— sit City, opening his arrival with
blast against (he actors and ac
ess’os, whom he declares are being
i!d too much
Laemmle also declared that the
ors are charging too much for ad
ds ion and he blames it hie on ■ ex
sssivc salaries.
"Th 'ater i now charging 50 cents
ight to t»- given a chance to charge
i cent and keep thwir theaters full,"
• said. “People would go twice as
’ten. Now they are getting the
nee a week’ td«l,"