THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
ALL THE TSEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXII., NO. 3238.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS,
Prominent Americans Reported Held as Prisoners
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U S. MAY USE TROOPS FOR RESCUE
Anniversary of Peace Finds
Europe in Disturbed State
SIX KILLED;
, TRAIN HITS
i AUTOMOBILE
iFRlHSXO, Ca.1., Ma,v 7. -Six per
■aoms ware instantly killed early last
night at a raiFiway crossing one mile
scut'h elf iSe'.ma, Fresno county, when
a Southern 'Pacific passenger train
'struck an atitounclbile in which the)
six wore riding.
The dead are John Demuts. Mrs.
■Teton .Demcils and Edward Donuts, of
Ontamge Grove, Cal., Dr. and Mrs.
Jaimes C, Ogg, oif Sioux City. Iowa,
and Judge Ward, of Merced, Cal
25 PERSONS KILLED
HAVANA. May 7.—Twenty-five per
sons were killed and 50 injured in a
head-on ccQK-i'on on ‘the Pershey
Raiilroad 30 miles from here. Three
America ms on the tra'in eacaiped in
jury. The bodies of several killed
were burned wihen the cars caught
dire alfitar 'the collision.
EXPLOSION ON
NIVAL GRAFT
LOS ANGELES, May 7.—V. Peter,
third ctaiLS itllremian, one cthe nine
'members of the crew of the battle
ship New York, sc-alpod late Satur
day wltern'oon when tire battleship’s
.-'team evaporator exploded, died to
day. Six others aro reported In a
crttlxtail condition.
Jilted by Girl, Man
Shoots and Kills Her
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iLC3 ANGELES, May 7.—Joseph
Becker, real ct.ate rah1 'man of Salt
Lake City. Hast might what and killed
Juno Kolio'o (bocauac the broke her
onigagcmer.i; to marry him. Decker
walked itlo police headquarters after
■the shootimg and confessed.
Treacherous Mexicans
K91 Italian Party
LAREDO. Tox., May 7. Six Italian
Iminv grant; 'tacking entrance in'a the
United States were shot down and
it'he seventh member of the natty was
wounded when several Mexicans
ihlrOd to 'assist 'them in 'the'ir night
acrK*)« the bandar fired upon them.
This i3 according to advices if.rwn
Oalritr.lbsa, State of - Nuevo Leon.
PARIS, May 7.—France and Bel
gium have categorically refused to
consider Germany's recent offer o'
30,000X00,000 gold marks as repara
tions- The refusal has been com
municated in a joint note sent to the
Allies and also delivered to the Ger
man embassies in Paris and Brus
sels last night.
BRITISH TO DISAPPROVE
LONDON, May 7.—Great Britain
will dispatch a note shortly express
ing disapproval of the latest German
reparations offer and urging Germany
! to present a more practical and lib
eral solution of the problem.
BStSHX, Germany, May 7.—(By As-;
|-sedated ITesvi.)—The Cnurtli apni-l
j versary of the handing of the Ver-,
| sallies peace treaty to the German.,
jdele'gaJies in KVa me is today. Ai.-iO,
! Si is the fourth anniversary of the'
! bin king of the L/usttania, the date
itih.:.t O'.einenceau, representing the a!-;
i died atnd -assweilated powers, delivered ‘
I the peace (lorament to Count Brock-.
I dloi'Jf-Rar.-tzau with the remaiK that
Iitlhe Germans would have 15 days la
j Which to make written observation!
on tiha document.
The document was actually signed j
j by the Germans and allied and as-1
; sielciated powers on June 28, 1919,
I ulCter 52 days of bickering which has
|ibeen continued without cessation in
Ictewferenices without number until a
Frenlch army finally moved into the1
Ruhr and ctlher parts of the Rhine
i land, and industrial Germany is in up-1
ihewval w'hiich bears little resemblance I
Ho peace.
Peace seemed neur on that bright
’seventh of May four years ago when!
j thousands lined the .roadways at Ver-j
“allies and watched the silk-h'utited
German delegation enter the Tr'.in >n
| Palace to face representatives of the
I powers which haul defeated Germany
■at arms. Bismarck’s work was bo-1
i ing undone, according to the French
| -press, and Fits ace was finally getting
1 justice.
j Olomeneeau, Wilson. Orlando,
i Ijlovd George and most of the other
■tldaiders wlho -pantldWnfed in the cere
! ntony at the Trii’non Palace have re
tired from office. Brockdorff-Rant
»au, after a. aomewdiaf stormy politi
cal calreer, has come back info public
i life as German ambassador 'to Rus
I sfa and 'is Struggling in Moscow to
mailco the Roipalllo Treaty -between
-Russia a-nd Germany effective. This
iis a task a little less difficult than
1 the efforts of Chancellor Cuno and
i This associates in Berlin to combat
jt’Jhe French with unarmed resistance
i and bring about a compromise of the
reparations question.
WASHINGTON'. May 7.—President
Harding has appointed Edward H
-Cunningham of Iowa, dirt farmer, a
memlber of the Federal Reserve
• Board.
MISS ADDtMS FINDS RACIAL
FEELING STRONG IN INDIA
RAIXOOON. May 7.—iMx-.t Jane Ad
dams, American etK-iologis!. noted as
the founder and heft'd of Hull Home,
Ohtda^jo, has come to the conclusion
In a rilx weeks’ tour of British India
«Mt racial feeling Vs St ill strong and,
thafc tihe pralbletm rtf harmonUinR the |
various antagonistic "elements is no! i
Ibeintg adequately Cared fit present.
When interviewed here by a reprc
eenltaltivo of the Associated Press.!
Miss Ad drams satld: "The question of,
the relation of the races is very
tncute in India, and has not been per
fectly sltudtied. We need ito approach
ttt w*Tth an open mind as uye have ap
Turdaiehed economic and other prob
lems. In inlany eases these racial
prejudices are due to differences in
refljigfon. As a ruflo, racial antagon
isms have their basis in t.he minds
c!f the people, rather than in any
inherent i edibility to live in har
mony wFth each other.
‘‘In the larger Cities," said Miss
Ad darns, “the housing situation coil
's dilutes another difficult social prob
lem. This is especially true of Bom
bay and Calcutta, whore the prob
lem lias got beyond the 'power of the
civil authorities. In this respect,
however, cities are very much alike
the wortd over. In each Indian city
I have met small groups of people
who are making consciontous attempt
to meet .the situation and to promote
a h’iphe.r standard of living.”
OFFICIALS OF
U. S. TO QUIT
VLADIVOSTOK
VLADIVOSTOK. May 7 Owing to
the political situation here. t.he Amer
<an consul will close the doors of
he consulate liore on May 10 and
with hi; staff will leave for the
United States.
No American representative will re
main in any capacity.
American citizon* have been given
the option of leaving with the consul
or rem.i nii*g. -The nvajority an
nounced their Intention to remain.
foundgIjilty
SLAYING GIRL
VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 7. -
Oaorge E. Whitfield has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The Jury recommended the death
ipemailty tor the killing of Anna Moslio,
11-year-old girl, who was killed or.
(her way home from School near Bat
tleground on March 8. The jury was
ouit seven hours.
AMUNDSEN MAY
HOP OFF SOON
NOME. May i.—au conditions max
make it possible fur Oapt. Roald
Amundson to hop off earlier tint
Juno 2o, according to advices receive'
from Kotzebue. 'Which Amundsen le.CI
on April 26 for Waimwrighit.
Advices say Amonrisen stayed at
Kotzebue several days, suffering from
snow blindness, and .was delayed at
Candlo later on account of snow.
CHARGE LIBEL
FORT WORTH, Tex., May 7—The
county grand jury has returned a
report charging Congressman Thomas
Blanton with criminal libel In con
nection with the publication o an
article In the Morning N’ews of last
July in wniich Blanton charged Oscar
Calloway with having urged his
friends not to buy liberty Bonds flur
ing the World War. not to conserve
and to obstruct the drift.
(hullo Way was a firmer m amber of
Congress.
Former Congressman Is
Found Guilty “Annoying”
WASHINGTON. May 7 Former
Oongreaftnian Manuel Herrick, qf Ok
lahoma. was convicted latte Saturday
afternoon of disorderly conduct. It
was charged and proven that he an
noyed a young woman on th? street
Herrick will take an aippe it.
MacNider Is Silent
On Political Plans
MASON CITY. la., May 7—“Noth
ing to stay." was Col. Hanford Mac
Nider's comment concerning a report
from WnaMnigiton he had been sug
gested as a po-orlhle running mate Tor
President Harding at the next elec
[ t ion.
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PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO MEET.
Paef |
TV Harry
V. Pos/lty
tU, Dr cJ.V.<Won,t V&.CU&,Yt'ler$‘cAnlotlr X)c.}il£bintayi, feir.C?i»rIgyf2oy^
Tho General Assembly of tie Prosbytariau Church 01 a.i,™. a will TiTeOt In Indian.aiiMii i Alay 17
to May -1. l>r. Harry L.alty Bvwloy. mud ... .11 • L11 1 y A illamcc, iwitll make iiim fir 11 r.riart a»
•sonrrfJary of the Presbyterian Permanent ('dmmittoe of S1] t.. iu ; ibaarvaneo, 'thin comnriitto;’ h.iviny
boon meoigod with tho Board o’ Christian Bduutlon. Ur. n . Iby, a native of Ashbury. .Vow
Jersey, has boon threatened with douth Iboetauso of his efforts ai Sunday enforcement. One of the
rtlstin-gulrhed Commissioners to tho Assembly Is Dr. John Willis I aor. a tfi minder. of Pasadena. Cali
fornia, 'fornve.pl,v Of Boston, who U the only layman who ever h d ithto dfffco of Moderator in the
church. For the first time sines lie became general net-rotary if 'ho Pros/byterian Now h)r.i Move
ment. I>r. William Hiram Fourke , of $few York. Is Commission r ad as such is said to be slated
for .Moderator. .Mrs. Oharlos K. Roy;, of Chiva. will roport on to women’s .boards of the church.
Ur. Charles Scartlttn. general seero ary of the Proabytorian Board of Temperance land Moral Welfare,
will urge censors*ip of motion p cturcs. Ur. William P. Schell. I onto -Secretary for tlho Board, will
report on wlork in Africa, India, Obi ms. Japan and Korea I)r. . ohn M. Gaoton, of Pittsburgh, gon
er: 1 ecret iry of the Board for Frocdmen, will tell of his woik for educating negroes. Dr. Har
old M. Robinson, general secret a-y of the Board of Publication rffil Sabbath Sctawll Work, will nuke
bis iiiiinv.il report. Dr. William F Weir, of Chicago, will mike his report «s general secretary of
tho Permanent Committee of Jlo ,'n Work. Ur. John A. Marquis, general secretory, will report fur the
Board of Home Missions.
Good Eating
Can Combat
Tuberculosis
9
WASHINGTON. May 7-- One mil
Hon people in the United States con
t Ini tonally are tffiek with tuberculosis,
it da announced by the United States
Public Health Service in a study on
the predisposing cause of tuberculo
sis.
Children, particularly under the
alge olf five years, are aisM to be moat
ausleaptiihte t'o tnifedtlan. Attention Is
etalled to the fact that tuiberclo bacilli
are culpable of remaining virulent in
the human body for many years and
that nn apparently healthy person
m'ay lose immuniiy to them. The
Public HealDth Service states that one
if the I'umimoneslt causes of the de
velopment otf tuberouloals is poor
itourifftiment, ashling that “the well
fed resist tuberculosis well; the un
derfed yield readily.”
The service recommends better
fcod for \u.wig ohMran; deplores
the fou’i.y breakltl.istt and lunches of
■bu.-tiness men; (Mils attention to the
generally prevailing lack of know
ledge of food Values, and says that
diet should be suited to the age of
the individual.
Ten Are Dead from
Explosion in Mine
TRINIDAD. Colo., May 7. The
dctalt'h Wslt of the explosion of last
Saturday afternoon in the Southwest
ern Mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel
Company, near Aguilar, -tard- at lb
All bodies have been recovered.
$50,000 Loss from Fire
In Oakland; Incendiary
OAKLAND, May/ 7.—Two firemen
were slightly injured and property
valued a,t more than S'>M0O was
burned in a fire on the edge of the
business (Patriot fast night. Tlte.
cause of the fire 'has not been de
ttermined. but is believed to be of in
cendiary origin,
NEW YORK LEGISLATURE KNOCKS
VOLSTEAD LAW; OFFICIALS NOT
REQUIRED TO HELP ENFORCEMENT
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| Agricultural
j Outlook Best
i In 3 Years
WASHINGTON'. May 7 Th\
DaiJaaftmenit <if ABrtoulture, In
the monthly review. deelnred ,
the .'l.Ri'k if/'iiimI outlook is (lie 1
| lies' In throe y stars. The out- 1
look for next fad and winter .1- |
I ipondu in*>n Hie (•ori'tlnuHneo of i I
| the 'present imlusttrlial boom.
1-.
SAN .SAI.VAIKHI, .May 7. Ii is re i
ported from T H-irttri; I i that Claru
RhMMps. “hammer" murderess, want
ed in I. :>s Aip«elea, Cal., lias pa -ajted
from jail. The report is not con
firmed.
ALBANV, N. Y , May 7.—Repeal o
the 'State prohibition enforcement am
and the passage of a bill directed
against the Kn Klnx Kl.m featured
the work of the state Legislature Just
aid Jour n ed.
Ooverntor Smith is expected 11 utp
prove troth bills.
The prohibition measure leaves
New York the only state in the tfnloi:
without legislation supplementary R
the Volstead act enabling state of
ficials to help enforcement.
Another bill makes it a crime for
peace -utlfPcers to search persons,
automobiles or residence* withofit a
warrant.
The measure against the Kn Klux
Klan requires associations requiring
an oath ftiom the members and not
beleyolemit in character to file the
names and addresses of the members
and copies of the cons! sitution with
the Secretary of S: .ftp.
TREASURY WILL HIVE SURPLUS
OF SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS AT
END OF CALENDAR YEAR; REPORT
WASHINGTON, May 7. —Director i
Lord, af the Burtjret Bureau, predicts
the 'Prei.nsury will fiaish the ourrea1 |
ralend.fr ye.rr with a surplus of'
160,000.000 on the hn-s! oasis of
Heims of the Internal Roenue and
CustomJ receipts
Director Lord said he did no* in
tend to allow the lid of Federal* ex
penditure to he pried loose as the
■■■MB
result of better outlook.
The Director of the Budget said
expenditures of the various depart
merits nhow a reduction of more than
$200,000,000, t>u’ hopes to mike tlr
,-aving even greater.
PORTLAND. Ore. May 7.—The I
W. W. strike is reported at an end
in flit* aoc'ion. Men are returning
■<> work
m
m
BANDITS MAKE
DARING RAID;
KIDNAP MANY
Thousand Pig-tailed Bandits
Hold-up Train and Steal
All Passengers.
NEW YORlfwOMAN IS
TAKEN;FATE UNKNOWN
Situation Regarded as Men
acing Between China
and the United States.
BULLETIN—WASHINGTON. May
7.—Any action by American troops
for the relief of American captives
in Chnia were discussed this after
noon at a conference between Sec
retary of State Hughes and Acting
Secretary Davis of the War De
partment.
Davis announced the War De
partment stands ready to back up
with the armed forces, land or sn,
any decision reached by the State
Department of Council of Foreign
Administrators at Peking.
PEKING, May 7.—One foreigner
was killed and 150 passengers were
carried off by bandits when thry
hcld-up the Shanghai Express train
on the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway
near Shantung', on the border, early
this morning.
Miss Iucy Aldrich, of New York,
daughter of the late Senator Nelson
W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, and
•ister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., were among the passengers. Her
fate is unknown.
The bandit? suddenly appeared
and disarmed the soldiers. The ban
dits are estimated to have num
bered 1.000. They tore up the
track for a long stretch which
forced the train to stop.
Later a message from Shanghai
says the bandits numbered 1,000.
Thoy carried off 27 foreigners and
100 Chinese passengers.
MENACING SITUATION.
WASHINGTON. May 7.—Minister
Schurman. to China, has reported to
the State Drpaitment regarding the
capture of Americana by bandita
near the Shantung border.
The situation ia apparently re
| enrded as menacing the Rood rela
' tions between the United States and
1 China.
It is understood Minister Schur
I man has already made official rep
1 resentations on his own responsi
bility. U is expected the govern
ment will instruct him to pursue
the most vigorous course to secure
the release of the prisoners, who are
Americans, unharmed.
His report is based in information
by an American who was on the
spot when the bandits attacked the
train. It is indicated so far as
; known that no Americans have yet
been harmed.
Minister Schurman is hopeful all
will be released.
Should any American lost his life
the State Department is prepared to
make vigorous demands for restitu
tion.
Not onlv ruitablr apologies will
be required but indemnity will be
paid and those responsible must be
punished.
i In apv ease the United Statse
will insist that moie effective steps
must be taken in the future to pre
text Americans.
; Use of American troops to secure
the release of the Americans is sug
gested as among the possibilities.
BRITISH SUBJECT KILLED.
PEKING. May 7 —Reports trick
! ling slowly from the Shantung bor
der at Linching where 1,000 bandits
I captured 150 passengers from an ex
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