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VO! XXI. NO. 3209.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FIRST TEST OF STRENOTR IN
SENATE INDICATES LITERACY.
BILL MAY FAIL OF PASSAGE
The Foster Literary Bill passed its
second reading this morning in the i
Senate without debate after Senator ! :
Chamberlin’s second attempt to incor-:t
porate in It an amendment to provide : t
for its validation by Congress was i
lost by a four to four vote. The bill t
will come up tomorrow morning for 1
third reading and final passage of,s
which, from all indications, it will!)
fall, the probable lineup being Ayer, j i
Chamberlin, Oimond and Hunt for. j l
and Aldrich, Brown, Duhn and Snod- j j
grass against passage. ji
The first test of strength in the j
Senate on the Poster Literacy Bill, i j
talcem yesterday afternoon when that,,
measure was under discussion in I;
Committee of the Whole, indicated
that the measure will die in the ■
'upper Hous'd on a tie vote unless
there Is a switch in the lineup before
It oonto3 up for a third reading. To ;
meet objections advanced against the ,
Mil on the ground that the Legists- ,
tura lacks power to enact such a law, <
Senator Chamberlin, one of its sup
porters. Introducod an amendment ,
providing (hat should the bill be en
acted it would not become effective j
until it wras validated by an act of j
Congress
"With this provision in the bill the;
q|iia?t!i<:n of whether or not the liter-;
*cy tost is contrary to othor statutes/
whether it is outside of our jurisdic
tion, is not longer at issue, if it
wer was,” declared Senator Dimond,
who made a strong argument for
passage of the bill.
The vote 'in the Senate, however,
indicated that the opposition's fight
s deeper seated than mere llmita
ion of legislative 'power of the local
.ssenibly. Senator Aldrich, who was
he only member to take the floor
gainst the measure and who made
such of what he alleged was an ef
art on the part of the Alaska Legis
ature to "amend a United States
tatute," referring to the Indian Sev
iralty Act, was the first member to
oto against the amendment despite
he fact it was aimed to remove the
srouivd for the objection he had jus;
'aiised. v
■Senator Brown, who ulso voted
igainst the amendment, declared tint
nstead of attempting to pass a law
rhlch would have to tic validated by
m act of Congress, the Legislature
ihould pass a memorial on the sub
ecL
Four Support Bill
Four Senators, Ayer, Chamberlin,
"limond and Hunt, championed the
treasure in the session, which lasted
wo aind one half hours. At the end
it that itiixne, the committee adjonrne 1
Vithout final action, the bill being
tontimied on the dally filo, consid
eration to bo resumed today unless
t should be further continued.
Recognizing the fact that allege!
njustice to Indian voters who can
1 either read nor write English was
>eing made the basis of much of the
apposition, every supporter of the
Treasure denied such injustices would
-esult.
“Alaska is a wonderful country.
jfea.nly every man is a lawyer an I
nany of them constitutional law
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LESLIE MIKES ;
AT HYDEft ARE 1
REPORTED SOLD i
Eighteen Claims Adjoining (
Premier Mine Have Been <
Purchased by Syndicate ,
VANCOUVER, B C.. April 3.—A i
I rief telegram from New York says
O. B. Bush, who originally controlled j
the 'Premier -Mine, near Hyder, Al- 5
pska, 'has sold the Leslie 'mines, com- j
'pnisLng 18 t,lIvor and gold claims ad- ,
joining the Premier. The purchaser t
is not named. Tt is surmised here (
that the purchaser is a syndicate ]
■that bought the Premier. The Leslie ,
mines were located by (leant Mahood. (
Former Kaiser
And Wile Have
Separated
"YORK, England, April 3.—The cor- c
respondent of the Evening News says I
it ks learned from "singularly well t
informed sources” that the former t
Kaiser and wifo have definitely ectpa- <
rated as a result of domestic trou- t
Wes. Tbo correspondent says site ro- 1
costly wont to Germany ostensibly to t
visit the 'family estates, but really to •
live and remain with relatives. I
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Pastor Quits; Says ;
Choir Is Atrocious
WASHINGTON, April 3.—Rev.
Hughes Edwards, former assistant
palstor of the Church of the Cove
nant here, has announced his resigna
tion as the pastor of the Ridley Park I
Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, 3
it was learned here. The reslgna- d
tloo becomes effective July 1. Or. 3
Edwards is said ito blame petty gos
sip and the singing of the choir for |
his resignation. His statement that
the choir's 'singling was “atrocious"
resulted in the resignation of Mrs.
Jennie Johnson, soprano. Dr. Ed
ward'S created .1 sensation when he 1
ddciaired in a sermon recently thatje
there was less .religion now in homes jc
and schools than formerly. e
iudge Day, Former
Veil Known Alaskan,
)ies in Seattle
SEATTLE. April 3.-Judge II. A.
)ay. former resident of Skugway
feme and Fairbanks, died here lusl
light, aged 74 years. Me is sue
ived by a‘ widow and son.
Judge Day went to SkagWay fron
Vilorado in 1897 and witli Waltei
’hureIt, formerly of Boston, forme
he law firm of Church ana Day
n 1900 Church and Day went t<
Jome. Church and Day practfcec
aw for a time at Nome.
Judge Day afterward located it
•ort Angeles and lived there and a
leuttle for two or thtee years whet
ie went to Fairbanks. At the lat
tr place he was Deputy Clerk o
he Court in charge o fthe Lan<
Iffico as Register for several years
i'rom there he went to Seuttli
,-here he lias 'been living for sev
ral years.
American Red Cross
To Quit Greece Field
WASHINGTON, April 3. —Secretarj
f State Hughes has informed Great
tritaiin. France, Italy and Greeci
hat the American Rod Cross wll
orminato emergency relief work it
Iroece on June 20. The at atom an
ec lured that temporary relief wa->
inadequate to ipcrmit a solution o:
he situation and suggested an agree
vont between the nations interostc.
hat will make it possible for refu
oes 'to be awlod "into the norma
conemic life of the country where
hey find themselves.''
romlinson WiD Again
Be at Mount Rainiei
WASHINGTON, April 3.—Owen A
'omllnson, superintendent of the Ait
Ij.il Service, has been renominated
s superintendent of the Mt Rainiei
rational Park.
7ight at Union Meeting;
One Man Shot, May Di<
CLEVELAND, April 3—Oue mat
ras shot and probably fatally wound
d in a fight al a 'meeting last nighl
if the local Srructural Iron Work
rs’ Union.
BURIED FOR FIVE MONTHS;
' HOO REALLY RESOOED ALIVE
AK.KOX. Ohio. April 3.—A hog
weighing 250 pounds, which was bur
lied accidentally under a fttrawstapk
an the farm of George Helmick, a
miles south of Barberton, last
October, was Pound by a hired man
Stilt alive, but scarcely able to stand
and weighing only 100 pounds.
Helmick, who is serving on a petit
Jury in Common Pleas Court, says the
hog was nPiased out of a drove of 14
immediately after threshers had vis
ited his farm. The animal was
•ought, hut no trace of it was found.
It Is thought the hog laid down for
g nap directly under the blower of
the thrashing machine and was x:ov
ered by straw before it could escape
Neighbors who have seem the hoj
marvel at its apparent good health
They are mystified over how it could
have subsisted for five months wl'li
out food or drfink and with but little
air. It Is thought a few drops ol
water may have trickled along the
ground to the ^prisoner, and that the
animal may have boon able to 'mast i
cate a little of the straw occasional!)
during its long imprisonment
The hog Is being fod small portion!
Of milk, and apparently .Is regaininj
strength.
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SUGGESTS FISH RESERVE
ENTIRE FIRST DIVISION
Women’s Party Secretary
Ends National Tour.
Miss Anita Pollitzer, Secretary
of the National Women’s Party,
has just returned to Iter office in
j Washington, after a six months'
■totut of the West and the Middle
1 Wost, visiting Legislatures in the
tight for Iter party for equal
rights for women.
COURT-MARTIAL i
! FOR IRUPP MEN!
Four Directors of German
Concern to Face Trial
KSSKX. Apr1! 3. ■Four directors of
i the Krupp Motor Plant charged by
the French authorities for the clash
(last Saturday in which 11 are dead,
i are ox’feoted to he court-martialed
:noxt week
CONDEMN OCCUPATION
LONDON. April 3. The Independ
ent Labor Party has passed a resolu
! t.ion condemning the Ruhr occupation
,and demanding the withdrawal of all
foreign forces from Germany.
Herr Orisbien, of Germany, said the
! Socialists of his country did not de
I slro that the British withdraw alone,
i but all foreign forces.
Says Bribery Attempted
In Bunko Men’s Cases
for Inciting Riot,
DENVER. April 3. .District At
torney (yamolio told the Denver liar
iAssociation members today that at
tempts worn made to bribo witnessej
In the case resulting in tile conviction
of 30 confidence men last week. An
effort was all so made to bribe Vun
cise's assistant.
Girl Writing Story
Falls to Her Death!
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j OVBW YORK. April 3.—A story j
I which 16-voar-old Miriam Wilson had
started to write for her high school
maya/linc Will never be completed.
Miriam went up to the roof of the
five-story apartment wlie.re she lived,
seeking qnielt to write her master-1
piece. A fe-w minutes later one of;
the tenants heard a crash and. in-j
vestisatiny, found tier body on the
pavement of tho court
Ft is believed the sirl, who was
; subject to attacks of dizalneas,
.1 swooned and fell to her death.
! Oregon Woman Is
To Manage City
WARRBNTON. Ore., April 3— Mrs.
R K. Barrett. Seaside. Oro.. business
woman, has filed her formal accept-,
ance with the city commissioners of
the office of Warrenton city manager, i
and will begin her duties April 15. j
'In acrtepBing the position of city |
man'aypjr Mrs. Barrett said:
"I am entering office on April 15 j
detorm.inied ito do all in my power
to make Warrenton grow."
SETTLING HILL SQUABBLE
8T. PAUL, April 3.—The hairs of
Mrs. James J. Hill, widow of the late
railroad builder, have ugyod on a
basis of distribution of the bulk of
the SI 1,000,000 estate lsfi by her and
tha probate court will be asked to
Approve of ithe partial distribution.
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SOUTHWORTH IS
PIONEER HEAD;
IGLOO ADJOURNS
Annual Convention of Alaska
Pioneers Comes to End—
Reception at Fairbanks.
1 NORDALE HOTEL AT 1
FAIRBANKS BURNED
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j FAIHBAlYKS. April 3. Tim j
’ Nordalo Hotel waa burned hero
Sunday and delegates to the
Grand Igloo ci I ho Pioneers
were forced to talc > quarters
elsewhere during ' Imiri visit to |
this city.
GRAND IGLOO PROCEEDINGS
FAIRBANKS. April 3. The <5ra.n l!
[gk>o convention of the Pioneers of
Alaska adjourned at 12 o’clock noon
last Sunday after holding memorial
services in the foronoou at the Coil
mum at Neneuna. Tit is was done tij
Mow the officers and delegates to
lake a special train; from Nenana to
Fairbanks as hud been arranged.
The nows of the burning of ths
Nordjjje -hotel roachod Nenana Just,
aa tho train left and at acconvmodu
'■ions had boon t^ade at the Itolol l or j
he officers and delegates the party j
>n arrival wait divided into groups'
ind other quarters were secured by]
Fairbanks Igloo, No. 4
Session Is a Success
The Grand igloo wav a very lia"-,
irtoniou.s and enthusiastic mooting,
much work being done.
Every one was unanimous in do-'
during the session was tho most!
tuecevsfn! over held by the Pioneers'
if Ali.uika,
Tho two most important resolutions i
adopted were as follows:
Full territorial form of government, j
Fisheries question, the resolution
being adverse to the reservation sys
tem in principle and recommending
either an amendment to the Organic!
Act giving Alaska the power to han-1
die the fiiicslion <vr a direct law by j
Congress to regulate tho fisheries
adequately.
Southworth Elected
Thu Grand Igloo officers were elect
ed principally from Nenana and Fair
banks as the latter city was selected j
for the next convention. Roy South
worth. ipubltshcr of the Nenana Now*,:
wo.; elected Grand President.
The coast delegates left Fairbanks]
this Tuesday morning and will make;
connection with tho North wc3torn at j
Seward.
RUSSIA CALLS j
DOWN POLAND
Recent Protest to Execution;
of Catholics Resented
by Soviet Russia.
MOSCOW. April 3.—Rusala hies
nont a note to Poland declaring that
Poland's attempted "interference with
Russian justice” is an unfriendly act.!
So far as known here Butchkavitch, I
Catholic clergyman, has been exocut-1
(«1 for interfering wlili the Soviet j
govpniniicnt's policy.
POLAND S PROTEST
A Warsaw dispatch last Tuesday
said Premier Sikoerski of Poland sent
for Ixtonid Obolenski, Soviet Minis
ter to Poland, and ' Indignantly con
demned the represented flagrant vio
lation of liberty and conscience' in
the planned execution of Catholic |
olorgymen, Zcpllak and Butc-hlcaviteli.
Zepllak'ft death sentence was cotn
nmtod to lb years' imprisonment but
ButchkavItch's clemency appeal was
turned down.
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Says Husband Hired
Men to Phone Her
VtUiWAUKBK. April 3—A charge
thait her husband, Walter Mischke,
22. hired “other men” to call h"r
up on the telephone so that it would
appear as though she was unfaith
ful to him. was contained in Liu*
counter claims filed bv Anita
Mischke. She alleges her husband
was very jealous and refused to al
low her to dance with anyone but
himself In January, she Charges, he
threw a chair at her.
STILL SEEK SLAYER OF MODEL.
An arrest Is expected soon for the murder, in her New York
apartment, of Dorothy Keenan King, beautiful artist's model, who
trod the primrose path that led to death. It is believed she was
chloroformed by a man who wanted to secure possession of letters
he had written her and that the theft of several thousand dollars'
worth of jewelry, which she la shown wearing in this picture, was
an afterthought.
ASKING FOR
GRAND JURY
IN SCANDAL;
I
Probe of Washington, D. C.,
Societv Is Demanded— j
After Lawbreakers.
. :
SPOKANE, W.i li.. April 3.—H <
Harris, chalirmin of tho Citizens'
Porn in it tee. announced today that pe
titions are bo in* circulated in Los!
\ngoles, San Francisco, Drover. Port
and, Tacoma. Seattle. Salt Lake in I :
Spokane. asking Attorney Oenoral |
Daugherty to empanel a feilorul Jury
aero to investigate tlie allegations
>f misconduct in Washington. D. C.,
society maide by Mrs. Miles Comdex
Lor 'in ticwspa.por articles.
The miotto of the campaign is an
nounced as being "We cannot en
force the law if the lawmakers are
lawbreakers."
Elopes and Furnishes
Dad with Good Story |
MARTINEZ. Cal., Apr! 3. -Georg •;
Honrsl, aged 31. son of William R.
Hours!. and Miss Blanche Wilbur,
tged 19. daughter of (). K. Wilbur,
pioneer merchant and banker »f
Idaho Fail*' cloned from the Uni
versity of California, where they were
students, and were married here ye
Lerda.v.
Alleged Defaulters
On Trial in Oregon
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore. April 3
John Wiseman and John SIowan, Jr.,
indicted by the grand jury lust Sep
tember on nine counts charging de-j
faications totaling -more than $37,000
ip connection with the affairs of the
First State and Savings Bank, were
placed on trial in the Circuit Court
here today.
Grand Jury Indicts
For Jury Tampering
WAUKEGAN. HI.. April 3.—J. B.
Fields, -member of the >ut-y in the
trial which as-quitted Gov. Lon Small
Inst year, together iv-1h two others,
has been inflicted as the result of a
grand jury probe charging the -Small
Jury was tampered with.
I
I Fear and Suspicion
j Stand Between
; France-Germany
■NEW YORK. April 3. Kefir
and 'suspicion of the twin aged
old demons whicii can be ban
ished only by .some form of j
association of nations aro the
forces that stand between France
j and Germany in settlement of
| the reparations, declared Lord
Robert Cecil, British advocate j
1 of the League of Nations, In his j
ifiiivt American address here i
| last night. Lord Robert Cecil |
! Is making a tour in the United j
| States advocating tho League of ,
j Nations. ^
MONEY RATES
COMING DOWN
Upward Movement in Stocks
About Culminated—Down
ward Movement Now.
BOSTON, April 3.— Tim weekly let
ter of, the* Harvard University Kco
nomiit Service says an upward move
uient in stock prices in progre
ivince 1 !*-1 hail about culminated am
pointed to the advance In rates foi
money from 3 per coni to S and f
per coat last August to 5.0 and >
per cent dll March.
The letter says -uc ji an ad valid
“has preceded every major down
ward movement in industrial stoeki
since 1887.”
DEATH BREAKS UP CARD GAME;
A QUEENS BEATEN BT 4 ACES
DAYTON. Ohio, April 3.—Alotud
SoueMn. known from the Statue ol
L.il»erty to the Golden Gate as “Tlu
man with the broken neck.” held
four queens in a friondiy little saint
played here in the back room of a
soft drink cafe.
He wagered heavily. So di«fc ills
companion. The lima I bet was called
Soustin's opponent laid down (out
aces. *
'Comrade." said Souslin. "you’re at
old crook.” Then he slumped for
ward oh the table When bystanderi
approached a minute later they foun;
him dead.
iftouslin’a jterk was broken in 1901
; when a plank, falling from high above
him, struck him when he was work*
! In? on a Dayton building. He was
a painter.
j For months he was tu a hospital.
; For years he wore a "'harness" on
| hd'S shoulders, ami managed to sup
■ ipcrt his wife and son by traveling
, j throughout the country, selling book*
11 lets telHng of his history as "the
only living man with a broken neck.”
11. Dayton was the city he called the
illume town. It was the city where
i I he wa-s horn, where he cheated (loath
I! and where, perhaps, he believed he
1 was ( heated in a cayd game—and
■| died.
KETCHIKAN IURY
j URGES RESERVE
WITHOUT DELAY
Declares Emergency Exists
Which Demands Action
of Stringent Nature.
FINAL REPORT CONTAINS
PLAN FOR CONSERVATION
Asks Immediate Creation
New Reserve and Sets
forth 8 Regulations.
KKTCHIKAN, Apttl! 3.—(Special
| to The Umpire)—Declaring that an
i emergency exists in ttye fisheries of
i Southeastern Alaska,/ the Grand
' Jury at Ketchikan in a formal re
j port returned in the U. S. District
! (A»urt before Judge V. M. Heed at
Ketchikan yesterday
urges the lm
<if a "Federal
medial o creation
fisheries reserve covering ail the
Teriitorlal Waters off the First Di
vision .... in order \that the fish
ing and canning operators of tho
present 1933 season may be rogu
ittted and the supply conserved.”
, The same report sets fobj|h eight
regulations which it recommends be
adapted for the administration of
the proposed reserve. One of Phese
is for a zoning system which (has
been heretofore so strongly con
demned by Delegate SutTierland and"
suggests tile boundaries for such
zones. The reserve is recommended
hr tin expedient to serve only until
Congress can enact adequate legisla
tion for the industry.
Report in Full.
The Grand Jury report in full is
is follows:
"We tlie members of the Grand
Jury duly empaneled and sworn at
the special March. 1933 term of the
United States District Court. Divi
sion Number One, Territory of Al
aska. having been charged wiith the
investigation of the salmon fisheries
of Southeastern Alaska, do hereby’
submit the following report in ac
cordance witli your instructions:
We have examined thoroughly the
alleged wanton waste of food flsh
in this Division during the 1923
season and have found that ap
proximately luO.OOO salmon were
dumped in Wrangell Narrows dur
1 ing the season; that most of the
fieh, we believe, were fit for canning
and were wantonly wasted. As a
result of this investigation we have
Indicted one corporation and one in
dividual on this charge. We have
also found that about the same
number of fresh salmon were dump
ed In Tongass Narrows during the
season. This was done mostly by
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Alaskan Boy
| Saves Four From
! Certain Death
[ TACOMA. April 3,—The lives of
Bon Welch, his wife and two children,
of Oyeter Bay. were saved lest even
ing by Clifford Roundtree, aged 16
yen *. Roundtree reached them with
a bout while they were clinging to
the gunwales of their burning launch
In which they were riding a quarter
of it mile off shore.
Young Roundtree is a resident of
Petersburg. Alaska, where his par
ents live. He went south several
months ago.