THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL XXI., NO. 3168.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
SEATTLE IN GRIP OF GOLD WAVE
ARM IS TORN OFF BY EXPLOSION
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Bank Messenger in Seattle Is Shot, Killed, Robbed
INVESTIGATION
IS HALTED BY
AN EXPLOSION
Taking of Alleged Spy’s De
position in Chicago Case
Ends Suddenly.
PREMATURE EXPLOSION
BLOWS OFF MAN’S ARM
Further Revelations Are Made
in Communist Case of
Middle West.
CIHUICAGO, Feb. 14. -The taking of
eh!-* d. icn 0.1 Albert alias
Ha late >w. >• if confessed spy and de
tective agent, for use at the tif. tl of
Communists - S . Jasoph. M oh.,
ended ab.-uptily Hate ye terday after
noon when the pry nature exrJo. ten
of a flashlight occurred. blowing off
the right arm of Captain Nicholas
MoDonaid, photographer and former
member of General Pershing's head
quarters staff in Franc?.
Mrs. Ida Silverman, court stenog
rapher, was injured.
Tho commissioner's office was
wrecked.
McDonald is expcctc 1 to die.
Prior tto th'3 exp’.o ‘.on, Balanow
who m'ade many startling revelations
fa his confession, as announced yos
terday. declared that Alien G. Mey
ers, af the Burns -Detective Agency
had hunt go to the office of the Tkeil
A.p-p.n/'V i rtiv.dil VP hllTP.'lll
and write a threatening 'letter to the
postmaster of New York City, 011 the
Thc'M typewriter.
U. S. May Investigate
Crude Rubber Industr)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 —It is in
diieated at the White House tlial
President Halrdiing w.ill soon rtc ku
mend an appropriation of stiffkieni
funds to make a. thorough inquir;
into the world production of rrud
rubber and also carry on ex peri
menta of cult! van ion of rubber plants
in Insular posse anions of the United
States.
BOMBPLOT
FRUSTRATED
TOKIO. Feb. 14.—The Nichi Nichi
today says the police frustrated a
plot to blow up public buildings anil
bamks at Seoul, Korea.
This police seised 50 bombs and
15 plotters were arrested. Including
the leader, named Kim.
United States and Japan
Sign 2 Mandate Treaties
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Premier
Poincare and United States Ambas
sador Herrick, at Paris, have signed
the treaties between the United
States and Franco covering the man
dates over Togolund and Kameruns,
former German colonial possessions
la Africa.
GERMAN DEBT NEARS
TWO TRILLION MARK
BERLIN, Feb. 14.—Germany's float
ing debt during 10 days ended Jan
uary 2 lincreased by 210.000,000,000
marks to L821,000,000,000 marks.
MRS. POINDEXTER STIRS HORNET’S NEST. \(
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Mrr. Mile? Poindexter, wife of the defeated United S'ates Sena
tor from Washington, lias stirred up a hornet's nest in Washing
ton by her public revelations of official secrets, in which she named
wives of Cabinet secretaries as using Government automobiles, hi v
ing the Marine Band play for them and getting flowers from Gov
ernment conservatories. One of the women moat stirred no te Mrs.
| James J. Davis, wife of the Secretary of Gabor, who is said* by Mr.v.
j Poindexter to have used Government automobiles on her shopping
I expeditions.
AMERICAN ARMY OFFICER SAYS
WAR VETERANS WANT FRANCE TO
APPLY HANDCUFFS TO GERMANY
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NEW YORK. Feb. 14 - The hope
mf France Is for complete occupation
of the Ruhr ami to “make the hand
cuffs secure," staid Major General
Clarence R. Edwards, retired, today,
•In an address delivered before t'he
National Republican Club.
Major General Edwards said he be
lieved lie echoed the thought of every
man who fought in the war against
Germany anil further stated that he 1
also belliored every veteran hoiwd ‘
“the 'handcuffs would be placed ao
seeuredly on the hands of the Ger
man people, they would never be able
to slip off."
Major General Kd wards command
ed the 2<Jt.li Division overseas and
wi’tne«eed some of the cruelties prac- ,
tiice-d by the Germans during the
World War.
OIL INDUSTRY
MAY BE UNDER
FEDERAL EYES
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14.—The Sen
] ato manufacturers' commltte’, which
j for two mouths has been investigat
ing the oil rndaiustry, today began
preparatltona of a report which may
recommend iin some way for govern
ment regulation of the Industry.
The committee members, however,
sa'ld today they wore not prepared
at the present time hoav or by what
i agency the regulations wiHl ho car
ried out.
HARDING APPROVES OF ARMY AND
NAVY BEING CONSOLIDATED ONDER
ONE DEPARTHENT;UP TO CONGRESS
■WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Presi
dent Harding has approved the plan
lor ithe re-onganizattiton of the army
and .navy departments in a single
portfolio designated am the Depart
ment of Defense. This is according
to high administration leaders. These
otfioials said the plan has been sent
to the printer tin preparation for sub
mission to Congress by the Presi
dent.
BRITISH DEBT
FUNDING BILL
BEFORE SENATE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Th® Brit- j
j'ish Debt Funding bill was taken up |
late yesterday 'in the Senate under
ibe agreement reached after confer
ence* between Pr^srdent Harding and
t'h Republican leaders for laying
aside, temporarily, the shipping bill. <
without displacing it from priv
| Ueged status.
i Later, Senator King, of Utah, ob- '
! jected to the plan to keep the sub- 1
sidy bill on privileged status and on f
motion of Senator Jones it was f.n*
anally laid aside, giving the debt bill I
tile right-odf-wav.
The loaders said they ox peeled
onLy a short debate, perhaps lasting
through a doy and night session.
Negro Executed for
Crime in Quick Time
TRENTON, N J.. Feb. 14.—Wil
liam E. Balttle, negro, aged 19 years,
convict od of slaying Mrs, Eleanor
L. Crigham, at East Orange, on De
cember 27, was executed hi the elec-'
trie chalir here this morning. |
SEATTLE BANK
MESSENGER IS
SHOT, KILLED
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fragedy Takes Place in Heart!
of Seattle Commercial
Center—Robbery.
SEATTLE. Fob. H A robbery ia
hp jobbing ‘aittd commercial district
ook place this forenoon an 1 Sen
el McGee, messenger of the First
rational Hank, wtas ahoi. anl billed.
The robbers escaped with an un
eienmitiod amount. One oj the
hots fired at. MdQao wen wi’ * and i
truck George Melius An the 1 g.
LOS ANGELES ROBBERY
LOS ANG-ELE8, Fob. 14.—A single
nbber had up Rol Coin u’s Diamond
’a lace in the heart of the down
own Sevition tdVts .forenoon and took
75.000 tin diamonds and over $1,000
a gold. A pedestrian gave chase !
•rid the robber threw the diamonds
n Inis face turn! escaped with the
old.
EXPRESS OFFICE HELD UP
EUREKA, Cal.. JPVb. 14,-Three
iur<fl!:s held up tho American Kx- i
i .-h Company loft'ice hiere and es
•aped with $1,200 'in coin and ^eur- i
enev.
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FRENCH START
NEW WAR ACT
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’rench Cavalry Swoops Down
on German Town and
Carry Off Officials.
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BERLIN', Feb. 14.—A !
wj agency despatch nay's French |
avaJr.v occupied (lelftonlcircher, cl*s
irmed and removed all German po i
tee officials :ud then withdraw, talc.-;
ng along the Mayor, prc der.t of.
ho branch of the Reirchsbank and
ttlher off Idials.
MEN TO WORK MINES
WAS!1TNGTON, Feib. 14.— ft is an
lounefrd through tire French Enbas
y itlhait 12,000 Belgian and French
non are at the disposal of the tech
ilcal commission in the Ruhr and
'’ranee will -accordingly be in a posi
lon to obtain as much coal from
he district ns before occupation.
BELGIANS OCCUPY TOWNS
DUSSELDORF. Feb. 14.—The Bel
fimn .forces have occupied the towns
rf Emmerich and Weeel cm the right
lank of the 'Rhine, dt U announced
he move is 'taken to allow France
nd Belgium to 'leave absolute super
Islon and control of exports and im
imrts along the line Into the Ruhr
falley from Holland.
looded Band Raids to
Soon Be Investigated
BASTROP. La . Feb. 14.—Twenty
dtizens of Morehouse Pariah from
vhom a grand jury will be named to
nvestlgate the hooded band raids.
Mill be chosen on March 5. Five
rill be named by the Jury Commla
Ion.
i President to Call
Conference of
Governors
WASHINGTON. Fcl>. 14- i
President Hardin* jrtill shortly
call another conference of .state
governors hero to dlacuss •prohi
bition enforcement, according to
a statement made today from
i;h!o White House. The date for I
the conference will be an- !
nounced Valter.
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SUES TO BAR DAUG ITER'S WEDDING.
Colonel William Jjittauer. immensely wealthy New York and
Washington railroad owner and knitting mills magnate, has asked
the courts of Pails, France, to issue an injunction to pwvent Ills
daughter, Catherine Ianilse lAUaucr, from becoming t.hw bride of
William Eldon Itoeller, former officer In tlie United States Army, but
now in the automobile business in New York, He contends that the
young couplo are subject to French laws, which require parental
consent to marry, but the contention of the youthful lovers Is that
they are American citizens and can do as they please.
FORMER SOCIAL
FIGURE, .BROKE
FACES DIVORCE
Man Who Ran Away With
Wife of Son of Admiral to
Lose Wife — Rumor.
WASHINGTON', Feb. It. Just
iozon yoHrs a no, Horace Wylie, on
standing figure in capital society, left
i wife and (our chi! Iron and olo;>" i
with the girl-wtf* of hia neighbor
Phijllip S. .Hiclibonn, son of an ul
rr.iira.1 in the l!fitted Sti'tos navy.
Today, Horace Wytle, an ob nr
srovernmetH clerk, ins' fortune gone.
Faces a suit for divorce to be filed
by the woman who, ua a girl, d f •!
sotflety that ithey might live a I t
■>f love outside the law.
Four years after the elopement
they iega’lzed thpir romance by mar
rtlaige and mow ll't Is sel l a new r
mance has onter-d the life of Mr
Kleanor Hoyt Mich born Wylie, d., agi
ter of a former solicitor for the state
tepartmont.
Mrs. Wylie, now a resident of N w
Volk, it has been learned, plans ta
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If Mason, Cannot Be
Member of Fascisti
ROME, Feb. 14.—Tlio FaFcist I
Grand Council, with Mussolini pre
siding, has decided that Free Mu
mis must /ealKn membership from
i it her the Fascist! or Masons. Tilt
Grand Council had thus upheld the
: proceeding* of the Cabinets.
VRAMOROODA, N. Mex.. Feb. 14
W. i,. Rutherford, sheriff of Other
• unty, shot and killed two escaped
uviicts last night when they resist
I airest. The two convicts earliei
a '.be day drove Into town in a
U 'mobile which 'they had stolen
oni a deputy marshal, having es
ip'd proviiouwly from the jail.
SENATE APPROVES
OF INAUGURATI
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 The Sec
ale has approved the Norris amend
ment to the Federal consUtut • >n
t'ltmln-.nirg tile present es*ion qI
the old Congress aftor the election
of a prefideret -and changing the date
of th ■ Creel dent’s Inauguration from
March 4 to the third Monday in
January
voto was 63 to 6.
GOLD WEATHER
; IS HITTING IN
i PACIFIC N. W.
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Records Broken for Low
Temperatures in Seattle
—Snow Prevailing.
FISHING BOATS CAUGHT
IN ICE, PRINCE RUPERT
Portland Gets Touch of Bliz
zard — Cold Wave
Strikes Middle West.
BULLETIN—SEATTIE, Feb. 14.
—A tlizzaid with snow ranging in
depths fi om six inches to three left
drifts accompanied by a freezing
•and ha: this city gripped trday.
Hall a dc'Z.n traffic accidents have
teen reported.
Continued cold and snow is the
telecast isrued this altcrncon.
SEATTLE, Feb 14.—Only three
rime3 on record has the temperature*
here been lower than it was between
' o 'id 10 o’cl 'ca yesterday Warning,
d'dared Otarge N. Salisbuiy, sec
ion director of the Weather Bureau.
The t: mp; lature dropped to 17 dt
,ro:s at:vc zero the lowest February
cmpetalurc for years.
Sub-zer: weather is also reported
them many options in the North
west.
One man, Frank P. Harris, was
killed breaching smoke while trying
to thaw out bis water pipes.
Snow continues to fall over the
Pacific Northwest.
i Test evening the temperature at
I Prince Rupert was five degrees above
izeio and Vancouver, B. C., reports
j lower temperature, whioh is a
; record.
t lshing boats have been, caught in
ce five inches thick near Prince
Rupert.
| O Aging camps and mills are re
verted shutting down in Wa&hing
; n. and British Columbia and
| jchcels have closed in some places.
Trains are reported hours late
from their regular schedules.
BLIZZARD IN PORTLAND.
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 14.—This
|city Is gripped by a blizzard with
I a heavy fall of snow.
Street car traffic Is paralyzed.
COLD WAVE REPORTED.
CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—A cold wave
1 carrying a new record for low tem
Iperaturer. breaking rocord3 of years
its sweeping down the Mlslssiippl
Valley anil from the Rockies to the
'Canadian Northwest.
Heavy snow storms are reported.
CLAIMS DEAD
| STILL ALIVE
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i IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. Feb. 14 —
A man Introduced as Dr. Lew Burger,
spooiul spokesman of the Ku Klux
K!an addressing an open naeei ing
h; rei at the ioo.i.1 chapter of the Kian.
declarod that Watt Daniels and
Thomas Rilcharda*. whose supposed
bodies were found in Lake La
Fourohc, La., are alive and living in
| New Orleans.
changin61Tate
ON OF PRESIDENT
The measure now so&3 to the
: House with approval thereof prob
j able.
The present law permits of the odd
Congress to continue to March after
: the general elao’iion >!n November.
The Senators voting against the
. amendment were Brus&ard, King.
Overman and Reed. Democrats;
■ France and Nelson. Republicans.