THE
AT. ASK A
EMPIRE
”ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
1
VOL. XXII., NO. 3306.
JUNiixU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENT*
HARDING
ADVISES AGAINST ANY
ANNEXATION
CANADA-U. S.
“Keep Out of European Affairs” Warns Sen. Johnson
JOHNSON RAPS
WORLD COORT;
P GIVES ADVICE
Declares Europe Is Not Both
ering About Proposed
International Court.
WOULD DECIDE FOREIGN
POLICY AT THE POLLS
California Senator Gives His
Views at Dinner in His
Honor in New York.
NEW YORK. July 26. — United
Statce Senator Hirom W. Johnson,
at a dinner given last night in his
fyraor by a committee composed
largely of men who supported Theo
dore Roosevelt for President in the
third party campaign in 1912. de
c la led America should stay out of
tha World Court and the League of
Nations and also that this nation's
foreign policy should be decided at
the polls in 1924.
Senates Johnson said:
‘‘Nobody in Europe cares a rap for
the International Court.
“Many care very much whether
we get inlo it.
"Nob;dy expects the \yorld Court
to reive any piovocative interna
tional ircbkms but many expect
lhat if the United States can be
Juicd into it. th: United States is
on the way not only to the League
of Nations but to full participation
in European affairs.''
Senator Johnson further declared:
“The International Court will not
stop a war nor will it have the
slightest effect upon wars ’’
Johnson said that although the
tuestiona, membership in the League
of Nations, had been settled in 1920.
it had recurred and that he agreed
with Former Justice Clark and Ham
ilton Holt, League advocates that
the question of foreign policy should
“come frankly, fairly and honestly"
before the people so that they
might decide" whether they wish to i
participate in the European political
mess or follow the policy that thus
tar has been ours, that had brought
us our fame, cur prosperity, cur
happiness and our glory."
“ME TOO" SAYS MOSES.
CONCORD. N. H.. July 25—Unit
ed States Senator Moses today tele
graphed U. S. Senator Johnson: |
“You said it. There are two of
ui. en.vway."
Moses referred to the Californian's
denouncing cf the World Court and
league of Nations made in New
Yoik last night.
Money Presses of
Germany Kept Busy
BERLIN. July 26. — Germany
money presses are reeling off notes,
to the amount of more than two
trillion marks daily. The output is
being speeded up to enable the
Reischbank to supply the demand!
which is large.
NATIONAL COMMANDER OWSLEY i
DECLARES SOVIET CHIEFS PLAN
TRIPS OF SENATORS FROM U. S.
CHEYENNE, July Alvin M. j
Owsley, National Commander of the
American Legion in an address at aj
banquet here last night said:
"I condemn with all the power
I've got the plea we should recog
nize the Soviet government of Kus
31 aand I do it knowing full well the
number of our Senators and Con
grsesmen taking special trips ar
ranged by Lenlne and Trotdky and
then reporting conditions good. They!
know that those two would only j
permit them to see places and look t
over situations where conditions
were good."
T T
Would Call Special
Session to Fix
Price of Wheat
PORTLAND, Ore.. July UK. :
United Slues Senator Clirale^ 1
L. McNary announced today he j
would ask President Harding j
to call a Bpecial session cf i
. | Congress to fix the minimum
j price of $1.75 for wheat.
i J I i
■- ■ —-■
EUROPE IN NEED
OF AID OF U. S.
SAYS UNDERWOOD
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. July 26 —
United States Senator Oscar W. Un
derwood. in his first speech since
his return from Europe, made it
clear that in his opinion assistance
cf America was badly needed in
Europe to straighten out affairs. 1
Senator Under-wood said that un
ices European governments were
stabilized, American citizens would i
suffer greatly.
i
HALF OF U.S. I
TIMBER IS OUT
SAN FRANCISCO. July 26. — A|
severe timber shortage In the Unit-:
ed States is inevitable, according j
to the forest service. United States i
Department of Agriculture, in a|
statement issued here. The timber
of the countryside is more than half
cut, the forest service points out.
Of the original 822,00.000 acres of
'lmhti land, only 470,000.000 acres
stand today.
German Frontier Opened;
Rush on for Business
DUfBEbDORF, July 26. — The
frontier separating the Hubr from
the rest of Germany was opened at
midnight and thousands of Germans
are passing in and out of the sec
tion today making haste to transact
urgent business
Concentrated Tablets of
* * * * * * * * *
Food May Be Discovered
WASHINGTON. July 26—Concern
t rated food tablets, so small that
they may be-balanced on the tip
of the tongue, may yet supercede
the weighty viands which now sus
tain man at the price of an enor
mous amount of kitchen drudgery.
Women may eventually put aside
dish washing as a lost art.
This opinion Is'expressed by Sur
geon General Hugh S. Gumming, of
the United States Public Health Ser
vice. However, he tacked on a res
ervatlon or so.
"Personally I like to eat,” he de
clared. “There is nothing more
pleasing to my gastronomic struc
ture than to gaze upon a table well
aet with plenteous food. Palate tick
^ r..'
ling through the eye. which sets
the gastric juices flowing, is held to
be a great aid to digestion.
“On the other hand. It may some
day be possible to sit down to a ta
ble full of dishes beautifully done
in wax. swallow a pill and get away,
with It. My grandfather, who died !
in 1909 at 93, used to say he con-)
sidered nothing Impossible in this:
wonderful age; that if it were said)
man would yet fly. he would net dis j
pute it. So I say that man may.
carry his dinner in his vest pocket, j
“The best we ran now do is to j
dehydrate foods by some 70 per
cent. Beyond taking the water out
you can't reduce the weight and siae.
The job of putting a square meal
into a tablet is still open to science.”
U. S. REVOLUTION
MAY GOME SAYS
SENATOR ELECT
_
Magnus Johnson Makes Start- j
ling Announcement to
Associated Press.
ST. PAUL. July 26.^Revolution—
political, industrial or even a resort;
to am*—faces the Unittd States "if!
conditions confronting; the labor man1
and the farmer arc not changed,”I
debWrcd Mannur Johns a r catly
elected Farmer Labor Senator.
"You only think that the same
thing that happened in Russia can
net happ:n in this country," the
Scnator-dc:t said in a statement to-'
day to the Associated Pres*.
But, don't fool yourself, it could
happen here before you knew what
was going on.”
“Poison Pen” Writer
Is Woman Declares
George Maxwell
NEW YORK. July 26. Dj-nounc-l
ing A. A. Ryan and tins Dlsmct At-!
torney for making public the names;
of women In argutAg for the Indict-!
menu against him. which were sub
sequently dismissed yesterday, Geo.
Maxwell music publisher, declared!
the author of the "poison pen" let
ters was a woman and known to1
him.
Reports from Paris says Mrs. Ryan|
declared she had a love affair with I
Maxwell, and the latter de< Jared j
this was a lie, that she never said j
it and someone was plotting to ruin l
her.
Fraud Charged in Sale
Of Powder Plant by U. S.|
WASHINGTON, July 26. --Chars-1
lng fraud and collusion, Attorney!
General Daugherty has filed a petl- j
tion in the Federal Court at Nash-'
ville to set aside the contract sale!
by the Government of the Hickory;
1’owder plant at Jacksonville. enn.,|
to the Nashville Industrial Corpora ;
tion. The sale was made two years,
ago.
Elsie Ferguson Given
Her Divorce in Paris
PARIS, "TSilly 28.—Elsie Fergueon,
American actress, was today aranted
a divorce from Thomas Benedict
Clarke, whom she married in 1916,
The divorce was prattled on the
grounds of extreme indifference, de-j
sertion and failure to provide. Clark
is a well known financial man of
Now York City.
Approve Plan for Merging
Of M. E. Churches of U. S.
CLKVHLAND. duly 26—The plan
to merge the general conferences of
the Methodist Kpiscopal Church,
North Methodist Eplscol Church-!
bs and South Methodist Kpiscopal |
churches, separated since 1845, has
been adopted by the joint confer
ence on unification plan. The reso
lution now goes to the General and
National conferences of the church
M.
I
DECLARES QUEEN WILL VISIT AMERICA.
, ifoaru?*
Wuean Mario ot Rumania, Moth or* in-'Law of the Balkans and the mos>t beautiful royal won in
in 1 lie vvci Id, will visit America this Kail, according to Lady ,\1ari ina Sever-Itocu. Rumanian noble
woman and noted war-relief wor.icr, who has just rilled fo Kmope, after a three months' tour of
America in behalf of Rumania’s widow, and war orphans. With her in the photograph is N. S.
Neumt i, American representative of Kumaniin newspapers and Misa Frances Tarbox, of New York
and Washington, who has had Luiy Srvoi Bccu as her guest.
Baptist World Alliance; Is
For World Peace; -Resolution
Is Before Stockholm Session
STOCKHOLM, July 26. -Baptist
churches the world over arq called
upon in resolutions before the llap
tlst World Alliance to assist in
promoting world peace through urg
ing their governments to make the
maintenance of peace their first aim,
to support tlie League of Nations
ahd to cooperate in completing the
League of Nations by -seeking to
bring into its membership all na
tions which have not joined it al
ready, thus making of it a universal
agency for the promotion of world
peace.
The churches were also called up
on to employ their efforts in elim
inating from all text books of all
nations those tilings calculated to
promote racial and national antag
onisms; to quench the worship of
military heroes and to kindle instead
In the minds of the young an admira
tion for those citizens who serve the
world in positive ways.
I ‘ f
| To Occupy Ruhr
Until Reparations
Paid, Says Belgium
; — i
i I
i BRUSSELS. July 26.—The |
I draft of the Belgian reply to
| the British reparations note. '
| which was sent to Paris vester- I
day, is in complete accord with j
! the French veiws according to
most reliable Information ob- |
; tatnablc.
The reply of the Belgium |
| government holds that the oc- |
! cupatioi. of the Ruhr must be
! maintained as long as Her- |
many’s unpaid reparations are
I due I
l
Resolutions
The resolutions wen* moved by ihe ■
Rev. Dr. Frederick S purr of Bir
mingham, England, pastor of thej
Ilanistead Road Hitptlst Church of i
that city and president of the .Va
tlonal Council of the Evangelical Free|
Churches, Incorporated, of flreat l
Britain, anil follow in full:
"The members of the Baptist;
World Congress, meeting in Stock
hdlrn. deplore the many signs of!
the continuance of the war spirit.!
The results are disastrous to the j
commerce of the world, to tip- pro !
glens of liberty, to reeovery front!,
tt.e exhaustion of the late World I
War. to the advancement of the bro
therhood of man, ami to the extension
•it the Kingdom of Christ in the
world.
Pray For Peace
“The Congress first urges the
Bit in hers of the ehurehes throughout
'he world to pray for peace, to
counterwork everything likely to p t»
-kt' »ar, to foster klml feelings, to
tleunse all tit • text books of ull
lot nations of all racial and national
mtagonisms, to quench the worship
>f military It noes, and to klmlle ad
nlration for all who serve the world
n positive ways.
“The Congress welcomes tin for
nation of »' League of Nations at.d
Lite i.stablighment of an international
Trihunal for the settlement of tils
D'f'-s between nations; It urg e the
•'•i.relies to support the League and
i complete it by bringing all na
:ions into ft In order to avoid war
led to meet the desire of tile people
or universal peace.
The Congress, representing very
nany millions of citizens, belonging
,o many governments, appeals to the
jovernnients of the world to make
:he maintenance of peace their first
lim, for the sake of each nation's
people and for the sake of the hap
piness and well being of all mail
kind.”
CALIFORNIA CROPS SHOW BIG
IMPROVEMENT ^SUMMARY IS MADE
SACK AM KN'TO. Cal.. July 2fi.
Grain, fruit, vegetable and nut crops
show a general Improvement, ac ,
cording to the July report of the
California Department of Agrlcul- ■
tore Issued here. A sutmrtary of
the report shows:
Preliminary estimates of the ac
reago of Indian corn reveal an ln-1
crease of t»jn per cent, above last
year, which indicates a total plant- j
ing of 128,000 acres.
Wheat condition is very good, with1
a total state production of 14,oh!*,
000 bushels.
The state condition of oats is
1
ninety two per cent, of normal, com
pared with eighty-five p> r cent, last
year. ami clglity-three per cent, as
ten year average. This condition
Indicates a i rop of .3,669.000 bushels,
compared with 5.250.000 bushels In
1022.
Forecast shows a production of 34.
721,0nn bushels of barley. The eat!
mated barley production of the tinlt
cd States Is 198.105,000 bushels.
The preliminary acreage of rice
planted in f'ntifornia in 1923 Is 105,
300 acres, compared with 140,000 ae
(Continued on r»ge save*.*
HARDING TALKS
TO CANADIANS
ON FRIENDSHIP
i _
Reviews Pleasant Relation
i ship Which Has Existed
for Entire Century.
SAYS EXAMPLE GOOD
FOR ALL EUROPEANS
Warns Against Any Talk of
Annexation Between
American Countries.
VANCOUVER B. C„ July 26 —
President Harding', in an address
here today—the first visit ever made
by an American President to Canada
—printed to the century’s old
fiiendship between the people of
Canada and the United States as
prc:f to Hie nations of Euiope that
public will rather than public force
is the key to international peace.
"And is it not a gratifying cir
cumstance." raid President Harding,
“that it has fallen to the lot of us
North Americans, living amicably
for more than a century, under dir
fcient flag?, to present most striking
fxamjles yet produced of the basic
fact that if only Euiopean countries
would heed the lesson conveyed by
Canada and the United States, they
wculd strike at the root of disagree
ments and in their own prosperity
forget to inveigh constantly at
ours."
President Harding ccupled his
statement with advice to the people
of the Dominion of Canada to guard
against giving to anv end looking
to Canadian annexation with the
United States.”
Canadian Town Is
Threatened by Fire
\V Y N A HD, Suck., July 26—Fire
which last night threatened the
btuiluMe section of this town was
checked eurly today after seven
houses iiad been destroyed.
FLIMSY ATTIRE
NOW UNDER BAN
WHITR 1*1,AIN'S, N. Y.. July 26.—
An edict against sleeveless dresses,
sheer material ill the other parts of
gowns and other evidence of scanti
ness in apparel of feminine employ
ees has heen issued by .1, Crawford
Stevens. President of the Westches
ter Title and Trust Company.
Mr. Stevens revealed that he had
once sent one girl home to "get
some clothes on.1' Then he Issued
an ultimatum in the form of a note
in each pay envelope. Kac h of the
80 girls was told to either dress in
a manner becoming to a business
office or ' get out.”
The effect was satisfactory. Mr.
Stevens said the girls had obeyed
the order.
"Any objections to bobbed hair?"
he, was asked
“Not the slightest," came his re
ply. "Hut the costumes—well, one
had to do something.”
Priest Found Guilty by
Jury in Ten Minutes
DENVER. July 26.—Father Grace,
priest of the Catholic church at Ar
vada. on trial in the Federal court
charged with forging a permit for
application to ship liquor into Colo
rado. was found guilty by a jury de
liberating only 10 minutes.
The penalty for forging a permit
is from one to five years and a fine
not to exceed $.000.
GROWS HEFTY LEMONS
OAKLAND. Cal.. July 26—A lem
on weighing one and one-half pound*
has been grown on a tree in the Tel
aciano ranch, near Hayward, CaUf,
according to ranch owners.
i*a«