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VOL. XXI., NO. 3208.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. PRICE TEN CENTS
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GERMANS ARRESTED FOR INCITING
TAX PROGRAM
OF CONGRESS
AGREED UPON
Progressive Bloc of House
Has Complete Legislative
Program Mapped Out.
WASHINGTON’, April 2.—A pro
gram for tax legislation at the next
Congress has been tentatively agreed
upon by the Progi e*3tv' bloc o£ Lhe
House, according to a h^.cment made
public by Representative Kreac, Re
publican, of Wisconsin,
Representative Frear declared that
‘tsevoral moasiures have been drawn
to meet the weaknesses of the 1921
revenue law.”
The Progressive bloc will urge the
adoption of a constitutional amend
ment to bring investments and tax
free securities and ttock dividends
within the taxing powers of the gov
ernment; an increase in the inherit
ance tax, enactment of a gitt tax r e
troactive, tax on the undistributed
profits and excess profits tax.
PHONE RATES
NOT GOING OP
State Department Knocks
Out Attempt of Corpora
, lion to Kaise Rates. "
OLYMPIA, Wash.. April 2. -The
Department of Public Works by a
vote of '2 to 1 denied the increase of
37 per cent in the rates in Seattle,
Tacoma and Spokan-o proposed by
the Pacific Telephone ft Telegraph
Company.
The Department of Public Works
ordered the charge of depreciation
reduced to 3% per cent from 0 pet
cant and compensation to the par
eat corporation, the American Tele
phone ft Telegraph Company, made
of 90 cents pen- station- it is de
clared those changes iwould make the
earnings show a reasonable percent
age on the valuation.
Says Movie Actor
Is Paying to
Support Child
DENVER. April 2.—Thomas Lee
iWoolwvne. district attorney of Los
Angeles, in a statement, said William
8. Hart, movie actor, despite the lat
tar's emphatic dental, made $5C
monthly settlements on a child al
leged by the mother, a young Boston
woman, to be the son of Hart- Wool
wine said the settlement was mad?
after the woman engaged an attorney
to bring civil action against Hart.
ST. .LOUIS, April 2.—Armed ban
dits with sawed-off shotguns held up
a mall truck in the business section
of the city this forenoon aiul took
nine pouches cf registered mail and
escaped. The value of the loot is
not determined
ITALIAN PREMIER MUSSOLINI
. IS URSED TO RESCUE EUROPE
VIENNA, April 2—Faacimo Is com
lag to 'be rogarded in Austria as a
panacea tor all of the Ills of Central
Europe, in the opinion of some ob
servers in the Austrian capital, and
lta leader, Benito Mussolini, as a
second Garibaldi A letter from
Count Richard* Ooudenbove-Kalergl,
founder of the Central European Cul
tural Society, addressed to Mussolini
and published recently in a local
newspaper, bears out this thought.
’ fThe count writes: "I appeal to
you to save the youth of Europe. Ger
many and France have been at war
tor 1,000 years Italy' alone is quali
fied to end this war, to law the foun
dation for the restoration of Europe.
“You love Italy, but no European
notion can live and 'thrive if the
others die. Look across tho ocean.
At a time when Europe, from th?
Rhino to Thrace, is tearing herself
to pieces, an entire continent is pre
paring to assemble at Santiago, Chile,
In a oplrlt of trnst and hope and In
tho service of peace and progress.
"Froolahnod a century ago <by Soli
var, the Pan-American idea has be
came today the keynote of the devel
opment of the world. United America
j.s .marching at Its apex, while divided
Europe is bleeding to death in in
ternal warfare.
•'Summon the first Pan-European
[conference in Home; launch a new
| Europe.
I “Both Great Britain and Russia
j have outgrown Europe and can sur
vive her destruction, but the other
peoples of Europe, have the choice
only between union or destruction.
“Europe is not threatened from the
north. Economic dangers menace
her from the west and political peril
from the east. A divided Europe
must fall a prey to American compe
tltiion; a disunited Europe will be
come the victim of .Russian leader
ship. Only an economic union. a
court of arbitration, and a treaty can
give Europe prosperity, peace and
independence.
"Save Europe from her fate. Ster
into the European cl\aos courageous
)y, and lay the foundation stone ol
tbf United States of Europe."
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Changes Are Looming
in Soviet Regime.
Kfitl’I iSacUHs-' {rlbovej
1C am i n*2\r. (Ze/o^-)
Because of the illness of Nik
I olat Lenine, Russian Soviet Pre
mier, which may prove fatal at
ajiy time* Qha»ges are looming in
the Soviet Government. .\i. 'Karn
inev, Lenfne’s right-hand man for
j years, may then assume the Pre
miership, fwith Ktirl Kadek. one
of the shrewdest and most cynical
of the ‘revolutionary leaders as
his adviser.
CHESTERTON IS
TO COMBAT BIO
MONOPOLY NOW
Well Known Author Is to
St^rt Magazine to Support
His Stand on Property.
GONDON, April 2.—Gilbert K.
Chesterton, the author, is going to
start a new weekly magazine to com
bat monopoly and support his stand
for scattered 'property with as many
small owners us possible. 'There
is no organ today that presents this
view,” :Mr. Chesterton explains, "and
there should be one.
•'I think that the modern evil is
monopoly," .Mr. Chesterton continues.
"My objection to socialism is that
it is really only the culmination of
capitalism. and my objection to capi
talism is that it is likely to turn into
socialism, because what they have
in common is that they both make
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GRAND JURY AT
KETCHIKAN TO
REPORT ON FIJI
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Fisheries Has Been Under In
vestigation for Week—
Report Being Made.
(Special From Chronicle.)
KETCHIKAN. April 2.-The gran
jury Is 'today reluming a special n
port on (he fisheries question whic
has been under investigation for Lit
past week. The report will probabl
be a long one, but it is said it wi
be of great importance.
ASST. DISTRICT ATTORNEY
IS CHARGED WITH LIBE
KETCHIKAN. April 2.—James 1
Smith last Sa:uiday attention swot
out u complaint charging Charlrw 1
Miller, Asdsta nt District At tome
with libel and slander under the 191
■sessfon law». iSmEth alleges Mill*
(called him a dope peddler and oth<
name* unprintable. The heath]
will probably 'take place the la CM
| part of this week.
GIRL ATTEMPTS
SUICIDE; CRAZY
j OVER CHAPLII
Claims She Was Ejected froi
i Movie Comedian’s Bed
room Early Today.
HOLLYWOOD, Cal., April 2.
young woman giving the name
; Mrs. Marina Vega, of Mexico Cit
{claiming to be but 15 veirs of ag
I told officers she had swallowed pt
i son after being ejected from the be
'room of Charlie Chaplin this mor
l ing.
Physicians who examined her sa
{they found poison In her stomach.
The girl has been ejected frequer
lly front the Chaplin house.
! It is said the girl became infs
uat.ed with the comedian through pi
j tures 'showii In Mexico City.
The police expressed the opinlc
I the girl's alleged attempt at suieii
1 wag a publicity move to secure
i film position. ,
ALASKA PATROL
SYSTEM FIXED
FOR THIS YERI
Captain Carmine Will Ha\
Charge of Bering Sea
and Arctic Patrols.
SJSATTLiE, April 2.—The Coa
Gnat'S euttar Ha.lda has been assignc
to Bering Sea waters and will rear
Unalawka the latter part of th
month and then stand by off the Be
lnft Soa side of Unimak Pass to a
sist cannery fleets.
Cap:. D. C. Carmine, hitherto
charge of the California district, w
have charge of the Boring Sea a.r
Arctic 'patrols this* season and w
sail for llnaia3ka, his future hen
quarters, before April 15 on the cu
ter Haida.
The cutter Bear will again ^
North, leaving Seattle the middle i
May for patrol duty in the vicinll
of Nome
The cutter Unalga has been a
signed to the district Trom Dixon
Entrance to Cook Inlet and wei
ward to Kodiak.
Army Scandal
To Be Investigated
By Secretary Weeks
WASHINGTON, April 2.—Socrcta
of War Weeks will hold an investlg
i tton Into the controversy betwet
Col. Arthur Conger, commanding tl
20th Infantry, and Capt. ECdwin Fla
del. same organization., which gre
out of the charges by Mrs. Rand
that Conger had given her husbai
tihe alternative of divorcing her
resign from the army. •
WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE CONVENES.
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Here are the most prominent women in Hie Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, who met in Washington to discuss the best means that can bo adopted by the United
Staites im the world crisis today. From left to right in the group are: Mrs. Harriet C. Brown, of
Washington; Mrr. Louise W. At'Unson. of Detroit; Mrs. Kuth Colton, Mrs. Amy Woods, National
Secretary; Mrs. Robert, La Follotite, wife of the Senator from Wisconsin; Mbs Maude Hoyden, of
New York (formerly ltvHig in London), known as the foremost w< man preacher of the world; and
Mrs. Lucy Biddle Lewis, of Lanalowno, Pennsylvania, National Chairman of the League. Mrs.
Lewis presided over the sessions
Bulgarian Cabinet Members
Brought to Trial For Going
to "War on Side of Germany
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FRAUDS TO BE
INVESTIGATED
P. 0. Department to Make
Intensive Probe Into
Fake Selling Schemes.
'SEATTLE, April 2. The Federal
post office officials expect to begin
shortly an intensive investigation of
alleged fraudnlont oil and other slock
selling schemes in this section, which
changes have already been made
that most of the people of the atate
havo contributed more than
>1,000,,000.
County officials tire also probing
stock selling propositions with a view
of criminal prosecutions under the
Blue 'Sky Act recently passed by the
state legislature.
Fifty Shots Are Fired
In Holdup of Mail Truck
SPRINGFIELD, III., April 2.—Six
armed .men with revolvers and shot
guns early yesterday morning held
up a mall truck loading at the Chi
cago & Alton raiilroad baggage rooms
and escaped with four pouches of
mail. The bandits fired almost 50
shots at the station employees.
Klaners Are Ordered from
Church; Masks Torn Off
PITTSBURGH. Kan., April 2 Six
members of the Ku Klux Klan wore
shorn of their masks in a scrimmage
yesterday forenoon after they had
been ordered to leave Bellevue Meth
odist Church by the pastor. Rev.
R. U. Urmy. The pastor told the
men they wore disturbing the re
ligious services and could not remain.
As the man hesitated, ushers tore
the masks from their faces. The
Klanors hurried away in automobiles.
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Dr. Sun Yat Sen
Declares for
Progressive Policy
CANTON. April 2.—Opening
the doors for American and
British capital, construction of
railroads by foreign capitur and
seeking expert advice on financ
ing and modernization of South
ern China wore the high spots
in Dr. Sun Yat Son's declara
tion of policy made here Sun
day.
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| Americans Gouged
| By Coal Barons
I Says Goethals
NEW YORK. April 2.—Ger.ar.il '
Georgo W. Ooethtls, whose of
fice as fuel utlm.lnlat rat or be
came nonexistent la u Saturday ,
night, declared the people of 111 •
United States had been. frozen j
and gouged by extortionate
'prices und_ suffered from an
"unequal division of coal sup- (
plies because there was not 1
enough courage in official Wash
ington to dictate to the c ml j
barons of Pennsylvania."
NOTED PRINCE
IS KILLED IN
AUTO ACCIDENT'
3rother-in-Law ot Emperor
of Japan Killed when
Automobile Hits Tree.
PARIS, April 2 Prince Narhlsa
vitashlrakuwa, brother-in-law of the
Smpcror of Japan, was killed hero
esterday afternoon when the motor
ar In which he was riding crashed
nto a tree, having apparently become
inmanagoable.
The wife of the Prince, Princess
hisake, and Prince Kushiko Asasak, '
tso married to a sister of the Bm- ,
teror and a lady in-waiting, were so
loualy injured.
Tho chauffeur was also killed.
President Harding Is
On Last Week, Vacation
AUGUSTA, da.. April 2.-President!
Warding and wife arrived hpro yestor
lay morning to spend the final week]
>f their vacation. At the President's:
•equost no formal functions have I
aeon arranged for the week, the time
0 be devoted mostly to golf and rest.
ALL IS LOVELY
DENVER. April 2.—William McAdoo
and former President Woodrow Wil
son have come nearer on accord on
the Colorado senatorship when Mc
Ad-oo telegraphed Governor Sweet
that both Huston Thompson, whom
Wilson endorsed, and Morrison Shaf
roth, whom McAdoo endorsed, are
"a^nirably qualities'’ for the place.
BULLETIN—SOFIA, April 2—The
Supreme Court has sentenced to life
imprisonment six members of the
Radoslavof Cabinet which held office
at the time of Bulgaria's entry into
the World War. They include Pre
mier Radoslavof, Minister of Finance
Tontchef, Minister of Public Instruc
tion Pcshef, Minister of Agriculture
Dintchef, Minister of Justice Popof,
and Minister of Public Works Petkof.
Eight other officials were sentenced
to varying terms in prison.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 2. The
trial of the members of the Ha do
sl.tvof Cabinet, charged with trea
sonably involving Bulgaria in the
World W..T on the side of Germany,
started here today.
It is predicted tho trial will be a
short one, being merely hearing of
demurrers and, if denied, sentences
will he imposed.
The members have, with the exrep
ion of Dr. Radoslavof himself, been
n prison since the end of the war,
[waiting disposition of their cases.
Radoslavof, seeing the writing on the
wall, fieri Bulgaria with the Ger
mans on the eve of the Allies’ entry
Into Sofia, and any sentence against
flm must ha by default. At last
icrount he was still in Germany, en
oying marked hospitality wherever
te went.
The former Ministers were tried
tnder the ‘‘Law for the Prosecution
»f the Originators of the National D«
'oat,“ a s pedal act providing life
mprisonment at hard labor for all
who took part in the de'claratlon of
war without the consent of the So
irinje, or 'Parliament, and deuth for
in.v who acted to further their per
ilnal Interests.
Specific Chargei
The spti fie charges against them
(Continued on rage m*m.i
BE KINO TO ANIMALS WEEK
WILL HAVE WIDE SUPfOBT
CHICAGO. April 2—A drive that
is to take in every state in the Union
has been started by the American
Unmake Society for the general ob
servance of “He Kind to Animals
Week.” April 9 to 14. according to an
announcement by the Illinois Hu
mane Society.
The plans include special proclama
tions to be lssuort by the governors
of various states, mayors of cities
and other public officials; addresses
to be delivered from all of the more
powerful 'radio stations, before busi
ness men’s clubs, women’s clubs, at
schools and In public meetings; dis
play of banners and placards In
stores, on buildings and wagons and
the words ‘‘Be Kind of Animals'*
prominently displayed; membership
drives in local associations, and spe
cial exercises in ail schools and Boy
and Girl Scout organizations.
The drive will conclude with the
observance of Humane Sunday on
April 15. when sermons will be de
livered in churches cf all creeds,
the movement haring been endorsed
by the executive committee of the
Federal Council ot Churches of Christ
In Amorlca; the general conference
of tho Episcopal church, the North
ern Baptist convention, the general
assembly of the Preegyterian church, -1.
and the Methodist conferences.
ESSEN RIOT
RESULTS IN
FATALITIES
Nine Germans Are Killed and
34 Wounded in Clash
with French Force.
iKSSISN, April 2.—Pour directors of
the Krupp Motor Works have been
arrested by the French military au
thorities on charges of Inciting the
attack ilast Saturday which culminat
ed In tins killing of nine Germans
and the woundins of 34 others.
The casualties occurred when a
French lieutenant with 11 men went
to the Krupp works to requisition
motor trucks for the French army.
The French claim the sirens ut rha
Kropp works were blown for more
than two hours alter the arrival of
he French soldiers.
The Herman version of tine shoot
ing is that workmen made no attempt
to nttdck the French soldiers, but
Admit sticks and stones were thrown
it the soldiers.
The Germans confirm the French
assertion that the French soldiers
fired a wanning voljey over the work
men’s heads, but also contend there
was no interval between the warn
ing shots and the firing into the
crowd
WAGES TO 00
IIP $1 A DAY
Employers Do Not Oppose
Demand on Account of
Mounting Cost Living.
SEATTLE, April 2.—At ii mass
meeting the Structural Building
Trades Allianeo declared on an in
crease on $1 a day for carpenters,
iron anil steel workers and steam
onglnoers. This is the announcement
made by Arthur Gerbel, president of
the Seattle branch i»f Associated Gen
eral Contractors of America. It is
announced that the employers are
not opposed to the raise on account
jof tho mounting cost of living.
MINERS STRIKE
IN WASHINGTON
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Two Thousand Men in East
ern Part of State Walked
Out Saturday Night.
| SEATTLE. April 2.—Approximately
! 2,000 miners 'in the unionized coal
i fields of Eastern Washington walked
lout Saturday night as the result of
1 the failure qf the operators and min
ers to negotiate a new wage agree
1 meat.
Western Washington mines, which
are being (y<ra:eJ on the open shop
policy, are not affected.
I Operators tleclure there is enough
coal on hand to supply all demands
for a long time.
Union officials expect the strike to
be of short duration.