THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIMET*
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VOL. XXII., NO. 3293,
JUNEAU, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1923. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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PRICE TEN CENTSL
BETTER GOVERNMENT FOR ALASKA
IS PROMISED; PLEDGES ARE MADE
SKAGWAY GIVEN
THRILL i HARDING
l VISITS THERE
Presidential Party Pays Visit
to Historic Place—Party
Off for Seward.
SKAGWAY. July 11.—(By Asso
ciated Press.)—This now small but
once world known town lying at
the head of Lynn Canal was thrilled
today by the unexpected visit of
President Harding and members of
his party. Tho members of the Presi
dential party found this little towm,
known by the memorable days of '97
and '98 when hardy and adventure
rome men by the thousands came
here bound for the Yukon and for
tune, nestling among glacier crown
ed mountain peaks, quiet with only
a few reminders of the days when
it was one of the wildest and gayest
places in the whole wide world.
Here it was that those who came
under the spell of the Yukon out
fitted for the toilsome climb over
the summit of the White Pass and
thence to brave the dangers of Miles
Canyon. Whitehorse Rapids, Five
Finger Rapids, Rink Rapids and
orcr perils met by there seeking
the yellow metal.
Rain which marked yesterday's
visit at Juneau had ceaced and the
gdn often times breaking through
the clouds often revealed the beau
ties of' the glaciers reaching down
from the mountains along Lynn
Canal.
Pass By Muir Glacier.
By direction of the President, the
transport Henderson will pass by
Muir Glacier on the way to Seward
and the President recalled the vaca
tion trip of a year ago spent with
the late John Muir, Henry Ford and
others in the Maryland mountains.
President and Mrs. Harding went
to the hotel here owned by Mrs. H.
S. Pullen whose son Royal Is now a
Colonel in the United States Army
and was a famous West Point foot
ball captain. A reception was held
at the Pullen House and the Presi
dent made a brief address speaking
about the romance of Skagway.
Mrs. Harding was presented with
numerous bouquets of flowers, great
dahlias nearly one foot across, large
poppies and sweet peas.
The Henderson sailed shortly after
noon for the trip across the Gulf of
Alaska on the way to Seward the
next stop.
FURTHER USE OF TRANSPORT.
WASHINGTON. July 11.—Secre
tary of Navy Denby announces the
transport Henderson will be avail
able for President Harding to use
from San Diego to Washington. D.
C., If he go desires, when he returns
from his trip to Alaska.
CHICAGO, July 11.—Wheat Is
dow-n to fl a bushel and showing
no tendency to rebound although
the authorities declare the price Is
below the cost of production.
NOTED STARS OF STAGE TO MARRY.
Wallace Eddlnger and Margarot Lawrence, well-known Ameri
can stage stars, have filed applications tor a marriage license in
London. Mina Lawrence formerl" was the wife of Lieutenant
Commander Orson Nunns, of the United States Navy.
{LEAGUE IS DIVIDED UPON
| QUESTION OF DISARMAMENT
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Greetings from
Shanghai Sent to
President Harding
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| SHANGHAI, July 11.—Tlio
| Amercian Chamber of Commerce |
| of Shanghai has sent greetings
j to President Harding on ac- !
; count of his first voyage on |
j Pacific waters. The message f
j makes an urgent appeal that j
I he take the lead in saving De- •
1 mocracy for China.
Machine Guns Be Used
On Honolulu Smugglers
HONOLULU, July 11. — Harry
Muray, Collector of Customs, Just
returned from Washington, said the
Treasury Department had authorized
transpacific liners to mount machine
• guns on their decks for use against
smugglers operating into Honolulu.
CALM AND AUSTERE ZITA OF
AUSTRIA FACES LEAN YEARS
VIENNA, July 11.—Recent reports
from Spain that Zita, former empress
of Austria, and queen of Hungary, is
facing immediate destitution, has
prompted a denial from Count Albert
Apponyi. her intimate counsellor, who
has Just returned from a visit to the
ex-empress at San Sebastian. Zita,
he says, has managed to get together
sufficient funds to support a very
frugal standard of living for the next
two years, during which time she will
not relinquish any effort to recover
at least a portion of the private es
tates of the late Emperor Karl.
“Zita lives,” explained Count Ap
ponyi. " in the manner of a lower
middle class family. Her grand
mother. the Archduchess Maria Ther
esa. lives with her, and they share a
maid between them. For actual ser
vice they have a rook, a chamber
maid, and a kitchen maid. Naturally
with eight children, there must be
teachers for the older ones, and a
nurse for the younger. The children
cannot attend school because they 'do
not know Spanish.”
Count Apponyi, who always refen
tQ Zita an “Her Majesty,” ssid the
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former empress has been living all
winter and most of the spring in an
Rnnex of the hotel San Sebastian.
She was previously In a delightful
house In Ix»queito. on the Bay of Bis
cay, which she was forced to leave
because the owner did not care to
continue letting it. Through the in
fluence of the Spanish King he was
pursuaded to sell it. and a group of
rich aristocrats purchased it for Her
Majesty. It is a comfortable and
sufficiently commodious villa, and has
been thoroughly overhauled to make
it habitable winter and summer.
“The queen," continued Count Ap
ponyl, “lives according to the sever
est regime. She rises every morning
at five-thirty, wears the plainest of
clothes, avoids society, and devotes
herself to her 'eight children. A
deeply religious woman, she spends
much time In prayer, and is supported
by an almost exalted mood of faith
and an almost fanatic sense of duty.
She is not discouraged; dismay is
absolutely foreign to her tempera
ment Sometimes she is even merry,
and langhs a little, but she is a very
serious woman,” X
GENEVA, July 11— (By Associated
| Press)—The League of Nations ap
pears to be moving toward a deadlock
| in its efforts to bring about a general
| reduction of armaments. The special
i committee that was to draft, for pro
posal to all members of the League,
I a general treaty to that end, with a
! mutual pact of guarantee to give
I effect to Article Ten of the covenant,
' has failed to accomplish anything. It
1 is divided between the Cecil project
for a general guarantee pact, and a
French substitute providing for limit
ed agreements between two or more
members.
The success of any such project
calls for the assurance of security to
such countries as France and Poland,
which make it a requisite condition
i to any reduction in armaments. The
French delegation insists that the
Cecil project for a general guarantee
, pact does not give that security be
cause several of the smaller members
of the League, such as Switzerland,
j Denmark, Norway and Sweden, have
made It clear that they will remain
I outside of it. These countries are
not counted upon to furnish military
aid under such an agreement, but
their absence from the combination
it is argued, would make It impossible
to apply the hlockade to Germany,
for instance, and, under the League
covenant, the blockade is the first
[weapon that would be used against
I a prospective aggressor.
I Cecil and his friends point out that
! the French project for regional agree
I ments between two or more members
! tends only to the perpetuation of the
| old system of alliances and the de
velopment of groups of powers hostile
to one another, such as existed before
the world war.
The permanent military commission
of the League, which pronounced the
Cecil plan as unlikel|f to afford the
assurance of prompt and efficient
help for a menaced member that
would justify it in reducing Its ar
j mament. has been called upon to give
i Its opinion of the French plan.
I An earnest effort will be made to
reach a compromise between the two
projects, but failing that, a strong
drive* will be made in the assembly
in September to reach a decision as
to the application of the blockade,
under the covenant.
WASHINGTON. July II. — The
Treasury and Prohibition officials
have decided on forfeiture proceed
ings as a means of disposing of
liquor seized from ships in violation
of thj, liquor laws. Libel suits will
be brought against contraband liquor
but not against ships or commander*.
RECOGNITION
OF MEXICO IS
RUMOR HEARD
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| Wall Street Gets Tip that
Differences Between U. S.
and Mexico Settled.
NEW YORK, July 11. — Wall
Street heard rumors today that dif
ference* between the American anti
Mexican member# of the arbitration
committee have .la}fir settled and
recognition of the pbfreg'on govern
ment might be announced by the
State Department at any moment.
At the office# of the Mex.can
financial agency It was said the
rumors had been heard and it ‘.van
“hoped they were ■me.’’
NO BASIS OF FACT.
WASHINGTON, July 11 High
officials of the State Depart mint
said they know of no basis of fact
f.t tire rumor on Wall Street that
American recognition of Mexic > i.t
immediately immlufat.
MAKING PROGRESS.
MEXICO CTTY, ' July 11.—“We
are continuing to make progress
every day,’' Cpinmtssionc Warren
declared after last night’s confer
ence with the Mexican delegates to
the recognition commission. It is
understood the agrarian claims of
the convention are virtually com
plete.
Editor indictedM Counts,
For Contempt of Court
LAS VBG-AS, July 1 1.—Brought
to trial on four indictments charg
ing contempt of court, Carl C.
Magee, editor of the Now Mexico
State Tribune, declared that lands
owned by Senator A. A. Jones and
hlr, opponent in the last. Senatorial
campaign, Stephen B. Davis, jr.,
since made Solicitor of the Depart
ment of Commerce, were unequally
assessed under the jurisdiction of
the court of the Eighth Judicial
District.
LIGHTNING
KILLS FIVE
CHICAGO, July 11, —- Eleven
deaths from heat and five from
lightning are reported from various
sections of the country. Iowa had
one death, Michigan 1, Nebraska 5,
Illinois 4. Lightning claimed three
victims in Michigan and two In
Iowa.
twelveFlled
BY EXPLOSION
ALTON, III., July 11. — Twelve
persons including seven women are
dead and 23 were injured as the
result of the explosion late yester
day afternoon at the plant of the
Western Cartridge Company in East
Alton which is believed to have been
causedd by loose powder jammed ill
a decapping machine.
Buildings within a radius of five
miles were rocked. /
The lives of the rescuers were
endangered by contact with loose cart
ridges.
One woman killed was the mother
of 10 children and had Just started
to work in the plant.
War Time Wage* Probable
For Conductors, Trainmen
CHICAGO. July 11.—A return to
war time wages for conductors and
trainmen, will be suggested to the
rank and file of the Order of Rail
way Conductors and brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen according to an
nouncement made at the conference
of western association chairmen.
Cleveland Grand Jury
Indicts Oil Promoters
CLEVELAND, July 11.—The Fed
eral grand jury has indicted 26
Texas oil promoters including Dr.
Cook on charges of using the malls
to ifefraud. •
BANKER'S WIFE ON REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE.
IChdLvleP H
Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, of Nov York, wife of the International
ally known banker and financier, has been appointed as New York
j State's representative on the Women’s Advisory Committee of tho
National Republican Committee, recently created by John T. Adams,
Republican national chairman. V, ’
SHELBY BUNK
: CLOSES BOOBS
Second Bank Failure in Mon
tana Occurs—Fourth Fight
Not Responsible.
GREAT FALLS, July 11. — The
First think of Shelby, of which
Mayor Jim Johnro'n ip President,
1 closed its doors this morninir on
! orders of Slate Bank Examiner L. Q.
i Skelton who came here to take
I charge of ihe Stanton Trust and
Savinas Bank which voluntarily li
quidated yesterday.
George Stanton, President of the
Stanton Trust and Savings Hank,
said Ihe financing of the Fourth of
July fight of Dempsey and Gibbons
bad nothing to do with the bank
failure.
Examiner Skelton stated the First
Bank of Shelby was closed because
affiliated with the Stanton Bank.
The Shelby hank has $200,00 as
sets. $25,000 capital and $103,000
deposits. Mayor Johnson is one of
the principal stockholders.
George H. Stanton today pledged
his entire private fortune for set
tlement or the affairs of the Stanton
bank If liquidation is allowed.
CASHIER’S STATEMENT.
SHELBY, July 11.—I,. A. Murrlls,
cashier of the closed Shelby Htute
Bank, declared today the bunk was
adversely affected by the champion
ship fight only through criticism
aroused by Mayor Johnson's connec
tion with raising the second $100,000
guarantee for Dempsey and subscrib
ing individual deposlters to the first
$100,000, thus withdrawing accounts.
James G. McFarland Is
Chosen Head of Elks
ATLANTA, .liny 11 James G.
McFarland. of Watertown. South
Dakota, has been elected Grand Ex
afted Ruler of Ihe Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks at the first
session of the grand lodge here. Bos
ton has been choRcn as thp next
convention city.
Helen Ring Robinson
Dies; III Long Time
DENVER. July 11. —Helen Ring
Robinson, Colorado's first woman
State Senator, writer, lecturer and
politician, widely known throughout
the West as a suffrage leader, died
bore late yesterday after a pro
tracted Hines. She was 45 yean
of age, ,
KISSES BRIDE:
PASTOR BEATEN
! BOSTON, July 11. Rev. George
Lyman Paine, Kxocutlve Secretary of
the Greater Host<)n Federation of
Churches, has sent a letter of apol
ogy to Mrs. Priscella Redgrove
Hague, brldo of Lieut. Wesley
Hague, of the nuvy, who beat the
clergyman in the latter’s office yes
terday with his fists after lenrnlng
Paine had kissed Mrs. Hague.
The letter said: "The last tiling
In the writer’s mind was to give of
fense to the lady. Certainly at the
time you took no offense and 1 would
stopped playfully tickling you with
a grass stalk the moment you
asked it."
Lieut. Hague, who has been as
signed to Bremerton, was married
by Paine.
Knight Templars to
Entertain President
HAN FRANCISCO. July 11.—
President Harding will be the guest
cf the Knights Templars of Cali
fornia at a special ceremony at the
outdoor theatre at Hollywood on
August 2 according to announcement
made by Albert K. Roynton. Com
mander. Thirty members of the
Marlon Command. No. dfi, Marion,
Ohio, of which the President is a]
member will be present.
COOPERATION IS
AIM, PRESIDENT
TELLS AUDIENCE
Better Understanding Needed
to Bring About Develop
ment of Alaska.
THREE SECRETARIES AND
SPEAKER GILLETT TALK
Cabinet Members to Study
Administration—Gillett
Promises Assistance.
"If it be true that we are largely
constituted in harmony with our
environment, you of Juneau must be
a very sturdy and stalwart people,
and I may say to you that you look
the part," declared President Hard
ing to the hundreds of residents of
Oastlneau Channel towns who stood
bareheaded in the rain yesterday
morning before the Governor’s House
as he spoke to them briefly. The
purpose of the visit, he said, was to
bring about a bettor understanding
both of and by Alaskans, "so that
we may co-operate In making your
wonderland a greater part of an
even greater republic.”
Text of Remarks
"Ladies and Gentlemen, My Coun
trymen, All:
“I think there must be many Bap
tists in Juneau: at any rate people
who would turn out In such great
numbers on a rainy morning like this
to extend a greeting ought to have
some measure of return, and I wish
t might offer it to you. I can only
say how grateful we are to have
your cordial greeting, how pleased
we are, and how heartened we are
to ronie here and find such a fine
people so kindly and cordially dis
posed. I do not know how It af
fects you, blit during the course of
my Journey amidst the wonderful
scenery of Alaska, certain adjectives
have been constantly recurring to
me. I think of the words ‘sturdy.’
‘majestic,' ‘stalwart,’ and 'Immovable'
as expressing but In poor fashion the
marvels of this wonderland of ours.
If it be true, as I believe it to be,
that we are largely < onstltuted In
harmony with our environment, you
of Juneau must be a very sturdy
and stalwart people, and I may say
to you that you look the part, f
am proud of you as oltizens of the
United States of America.
Good to be Here
“It is very good to come here
and to he able to know Alaska
better. Some of ns have had mis
erable, petty ideas about Alaska.
Some of us had the notion that It
was In the frozen and lockedup
Vorlh: but we are having a most
delightful awakening. The purpose
of our visit is'to know you better
nnd, if possiblee. to have you know
your government better and to
come into closer relationships, so
that we may Jointly cooperate in
making your wonderland a greater
part of an even greater republic.
“I love to see these children. Un
happily. perhaps, children are never
allowed to choose where they are
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Queer Little Door Parts
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Mother and Baby Forever
RIO DR JANEIRO, July lt.-One,
of tin' most curious institutions In
tills city Ik the "Casa dos Expostos,"
a foundling asylum that receives Its |
sinall Inmate through a sort of re-j
voicing iloor which is so built in a!
j wall that the person operating it from j
i the outside c annot see inside the
; building nor be seen by persons from
• within.
The purpose of this mysterious door
| is to enable unfortuuate mothers to
j place their offspring in safe keeping
without revealing their identity or
whatever secrets may have been con
I nec ted with,,thelr existence.
Most of the foundlings, the asylum
officials say, are put within the re
volving door at night when there is
little or no traffic on the street out
side. With the turning of the door a
hell rings, which announces to the
attendants that a new guest has gr
rived.
If a note giving t.he child’s name
or other information is pinned to its
rlothes, it is baptised with that name,
but once a baby is placed within the
door h.v the despairing mother, it is
never returned, no matter what
change in fortune may come to the
mother or what claims she may ad
vance to suport her repentance.
The inmates of the “Casa dos Ex
postos," are raised like orphans and
prepared for life with the best care
within the ability of the gentle nuna
who manage the institution. Many
of the children are adopted by child
less couples. Founded in 1739. the
institution in the two centuries of its
existence has furnished more than
45.000 citizens to this city, some of
whom achieved renown and high poai
tion- - -and their introduction to the
world was a revolving door.
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