THE
DAILY EMPIRE
‘‘ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL XXL, NO. 3140.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS,
STATE OF SEIGE
FRENCH IN THE
IS DECLARED BY
OCCUPIED AREA
SEATTLE BANKER IS INDICTED
FOR GRAND LARCENY ;GRAND JURY
MAKES REPORT ON SEATTLE VICE
CONDITIONS ;NOTHING TO CHARGE
SEATTLE, Jan. 12—The special
grand jury today indicted P. B
Trua.it, vice president of the Seattle
National Bank, charging him with
grand larceny.
The report of the grand jury de
clared that allegations that vice was
flourishing in Seattle were exagger
ated.
The report also said that law en
forcement was “not worse than at
certain other times in the past.”
The gran.l jury members expressed
regret that they were unable to in
dict for alleged reckless misman
agement of the Scandinavian Anver I
can Bank on account of the statute
of limitation.
It is charged Tntax on ained two
checks totalling $18,474 from the
Frank Waterhouse &, Co. on August
24. 1921, promising to deliver auto
mobile contracts that wc-ra held as
collateral, but refusing to do so after
icashing the checks.
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Jackie Coogan
Signs Up
Big Contract
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: IjOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.— j
1 Jackie C.oogan, child motion pic- ,
tore actor, has signed a con- |
tract to mako four pictures for ,
! the Metro Pictures Corporation.
1 receiving $500,000 In cash and
60 per clat of the net profits. '
This was the announcement
made here today.
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U. S. Miniver to
Sweden Has Resigned
WASHINGTON’, Jan. 12.—Dr. Nel
son Morris, of Chicago, American
minister to Sweden, has resigned to
resume direction of private interests.
CABLE MONEY
RECOMMENDED
Army Appropriation Bill Re
ported to House — Car
ries Aid for Alaska.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. — The
Army appropriation bill reported to
the House this afternoon carries
$750,000 for replacing the Waehing
tcn-Alnska cable, between Seattle
and Sitka.
The bill prvoides for a standing
army of 12,000 officers and 125,000
men the tame as last year.
The bill nrcvidcs an appropriation
of $3,250,000 for reserve officers’
training camps and $2,500,000 for
civilian training camps.
FOR ALASKA TRAILS.
SEATTLE, Jan. 12. — A Times
rpecial this afternoon rays the army
appropriation till carries $465,000
to maintain reads and trails in
Alaska but no provision for Federal
to the Gcvemcmnt railroad.
nationalTaws
TO BE REVAMPED
Important Conference to Be
Held in Washington Dur
ing Coming Month.
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—The organ
isation of an American Law Insti
tute today was accompanied by an
announcement that leading lawyers
and Judges of the nation, including
the United States Supreme Court
bench, will be invited to a confer
ence in Washington, D. C„ on Feb
ruary 23 to consider revamping of
state and national laws and remove
present defects.
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Memel Forms
Separate
Territory
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| COPENHAGEN, Jan. 12— ]
I According; to official advices |
; Memel has been proclaimed in |
| a state of seige and that Si- I
monaltles, former Lithuanian !
Minister is said to have been j
created President of the Meeml
Territory.
governWneff'
PLANS TO FIGHT
Declares Three Men Are Kill
ed Daily in Tevas—Makes
Talk to Legislature.
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 12—Governor
Neff addressed the joint session of
the legislature this afternoon and
declared three men were killed In
the state every day and liquor smug
glers were constantly working.
Governor Neff so id:
"I pledge mysolf to fight the law
less element with my back to th
wall."
LONG WOOING, BUT SHORT MARRIED LIFE.
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After three years of spooning, Miss Bessie Pais, of Chicago,
spent a married life of just five days with Abraham l.yman, Los
Angeles orchestra leader. lie was a great lover until we got
married,” she said.
HAS GOODS ON OFFICIAL DRINKING
DECLARES REPRESENTATIVE UPSHAW;
EVIDENCE IS TO BE TURNED OVER
SILVER MONEY
IS WANTED IN
WEST; NO PAPER
—
Senator Smoot Proposes
Measure Which Will Aid
in Silver Mining.
—
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—Senator
Smoot Introduced another bill this
afternoon to aid the silver mining
industry but It is designed primarily
to meet the demand of the people of
the west for silver instead of paper
dollars.
The Smoot bill also provides that j
the government instead of Federal
‘Reserve banks pay the express from!
i the mints to the banks oh shipment
| of silver dollars.
■CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—An Increase
of 39,772 in the communicant mem-1
bership of the Episcopal Church Is
reported by the Living Church An-;
nual, with an increase in contribu-j
j tion3 of $875,404. Other gains re
ported are 34,132 In Sunday school
mom bership. 5,022 now teachers.
6,026 confirmations and 4.152 bap
tisms. The gain in communicants Is
a record for the last 25 years.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Repre
sentative Upshaw, of North Carolina,
who charges members of Congress
and high government officials have
been violating the prohibition law,
today said evidence in his posses
sion will be turned over to Prohibi
tion Commissioner Haynes at once.
Several weeks ago. Representative
Upshaw, In a speech on the floor
of lhe House, urged ail his fellow
legislators and all high government
officials to take the pledge before
they try to enforce the 18th amend
ment. He also charged that Intoxi
cation was noted among legislators
and high officials! The New York
World asked Representative Upshaw
to explain his position further and
his reply follows:
By WILLIAM D. UPSHAW
First you must allow me to dissent
from your report of my 13-minuto
speech in Congress calling upon all
governors, cabinet officers, senators,
congressmen, judges ajid prosecuting
attorneys to personally practice and
proclaim the prohibition they pro
pose to enforce. It was not ‘mock
applause,’ as you say, that greeted
my speech.
Witnesses will testify and the rec
ord of the official stenographers will
show about as many interruptions of
real applause as there were minutes
in the speech. I had one supreme
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CLARA SKARIN
TESTIFIES IN
MURDER TRIAL
Tells Same Story as Told in
Confession—Cross Fire
Fails to Tangle.
BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Jan. 12.—
The jury visited the Mochbrunn home
today In charge of two bailiffs. At
torneys were not allowed to accom
pany the jury to the House.
The crowd today at the trial was
greater than ever, several hundred
trying vainly to find places in the
court room.
Both sides rested in the case short
ly after the noon hour. The after
noon will be given over to argu
ments.
Attorney Von Tobel was called at
a rebuttal witness and he denied he
conspired with Clara to conceal
Hochbrunn’s death and also denied
he met her at the Plaza Hotel in San
Francisco last February as she had
charged.
Clara Skarin was also called as a
rebuttal witness and admitted after
the slaying she scuffled shoes about
the room to make the people below
think Hochbrunn was walking about
In his slippers.
Or. Alexander Rock Robinson,
pathologist, testified that from Hoch
brunn's history he was a "man to be
feared.”
Bryon L. Page asserted Hochbrunn
once attacked him with a chisel.
SEATTLE, Jan. 12.—Late yester
day Hi’tirnoon Clara wkarlfc took the
stand and told her »tory of extremei
cruelties suffered at the hands of
Ferdinand Hochbrunn, eccentric but S
wealthy recluse.
Slve stuck absolutely to her story
i under severe cross examination and ;
| also asserted that Edward Von To-]
i bel, attorney, was an accessory after j
the killing.
Lieutenant of Detectives William
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NEW SURMISE
IS EXPRESSED
LA. HEARINGS
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Sentiment Expressed that Dr.
McKoin Fired Shots Into
His Own Automobile.
BASTROP, La.. Jan. 12.—.Robert!
L Dado, Mayor of VIor Rouge, testi
fied today that ho had been a mem
ber of the Klan. but did not like j
methods, which he said had made!
enemies of friends and put the Par
ish town In a “critical condition."
iMayor Dade declared that it was,
hi« opinion and that of the majority!
In Mer Rouge that 'Dr. B. M. Me-!
Koln had never been shot at but that
McKoin fired shots himself which
started much trouble. Dade said the
ippearince of the automobile indicat-:
ed buckshot had boon fired when
nobody was at the wheel.
Mayor Dado Identified McKoin, |
Skipwlth. Kelly, Harp and Ed Ivey
rib members of the Ku Klux Klan I
band which held up Daniels and I
other Mer Rouge citizens near Gal-1
lion several months prior to the kid-,
napping of Richards and Daniels.
Go Into Detail*
Cyclops Skipwitli this afternoon re-'
quested a conference with Attorney j
General Coco In connection with the
hooded band atrocities and he will i
go Into full details of operations In1
the Morehouse Parish of the Klan ;
since it was organized and at the!
same time try and establish the
fact that the operations of the black
hooded band Is not under supervision
of tlie Klan.
Col. Archibald Fiskc,
Famous Man, Is Dead
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12 —Colonel
Archibald Flske, said to have been
•assistant adjutant general under Ab
raham Lincoln in the Civil War. died !
at Eagle Rock, a suburb, yesterday
evening. Colonel Flske was 87 years
of age. He has been a political writ
er In Southern California for many
years.
WIFE NAMES 122 “OTHER WOMEN.”
JfcrMi
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| K.I/.'Dra.ytojv J'fisvAliae Ma-nning^
Iiate Mr*. Minnie Kngelhardt, of Providence, K. I., is suing for
a divorce from tier liuaband, Rev. Adolph Engelhardt, cliargiug him
with practicing "Negligee Religion,” aided by piiuntoms, a "High
Priestess” 'and “Soul Colored Kimonos.” Herself a “Love Patient”
of her husband, she objects to his manist rations to 1200 other wo
men via. his novel “Tottph System” of “Divine Healing.!’ She names
tliese 12!? women as cu-rbspondents, the oldest being Mrs. H. U.
Brayton, aged 82. Among the others are Miss Alice Manning, who
has enlcrcd a counter-suit against Mrs. Kngelhardt, and Mrs. Ida
Angeil, aged 60.
LESS FOR NAVY; MORE PENSIONS;
MANY SHIPS WILL BE RETIRED
! When Is a Wife
Not an American?
j Trouble Brewing
! -
COBLENZ, Jan. 12. It ia
feur.'d tha.t some of the 200 ■
Kiris who have married Amerl
! can soldiers more or less secret
ly and without sanction of the
army, may be barred from
America by the immigration |
| laws.
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Well Known Financial
Attorney Passes Away
NEW YORK, Jan. 12. William H
Moore, former assistant to the late
William B. Leeds in the organization
of the tin plate trust and a cor
poration attorney who figured In
some of the highest financial deals
during the last quarter of a century,
died at his home here last night of
heart trouble. Ha was 74 yeurs of
age.
NEW SECRETARY
OF INTERIOR TO
BE KNOWN SOON
President Harding Has Four
Men in View — Require
ments that Are Necessary.
WASHINGTON, Jan 12.—Pres!
dent Harding is expected to make a
choice of Secretary of the Interior
before Secretary Pali's resignation
on March 4 takes effect.
Pour of those tinder consideration
ore said to be Postmastor General
T)r. Hubert Work, John Hays Ham
mond. Representative M owlet I of
Wyoming, and former Governor
Campbell of Arizona.
It is said the President haa de
cided that be must have a man who
knows the West, and -is in sympathy
with development projects.
By ASHMUN BROWN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—What
sort uf a navy la the United States
to maintain under the economy pol
lrv which hua governed the making
of the navy appropriation bill for the
fiscal year beginning July 1 next?
The beat answer Is found in th"
statement of Secretary Den by to
Congress when he explained that he
had merely "acquioscod” in the re
dilutions made by tho Budget Bureau,
adding that tho low figures coming
from (lie Bureau—and adopted in tho
main by Congress—do not “represent
what I firmly believe should be ap
propriated for tho proper defense of
the country. Failure to make them
larger is juutlfied only on the basis
of tho necessity for the most rigid
public economy.”
It was after this statement was
received and after Congress ha 1
agreed to the low figures that Con
gress enacted a new and liberalized
law governing pensions for Civil War
veterans and their widows tiiat, ac
cording to the Commissioner of Ten
sions, increases the annual pension
charge on tho government more than
$105,000,000 a year.
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Three Nominations
For Treasury Dept.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12. President
Harding is clearing the slate of im
portant pending troastiry appoint
ments by nominating Comptroller of
^Currency Crisslnger to be Governor
of the Federal Reesrve Board; James
(i. McNarry, of Las Vegas, New Mex
ico. to be Comptroller of Currency,
and Milo D. Campbell, “dirt farmer,"
a member of the Federal Reaerre
Board. \
TO OPEN ROCKY SCENIS
ROUTE DURING THIS YEAR
BANFF, Alberta, Jan. 12 The of
fieial opening of the Btnff-Wltider
mere motor highway through th
Canadian Rockios hus been set for
June 30, when the lust link In ih
6.500-mile scenic tour through West
ern Canada and the United States
wd! be thrown open to traffic. The
road. 93 miles long, passes through
tin* heart of the Rockies and virgin
mountain and forest country. The
average cost was $7,000 per mile
but in ihe rock cuts the cost reached
$27,000 per mile.
GEN. DEGOUTTE
; DECLARES FOR
' MILITARY LAW
State of Seige Proclamation
Is Issued in Germany
by French Forces
NATIONAL STRIKE IS
CALLED AS PROTEST
German Government Presents
Protest to Government
of United States.
] ESSEN, Jan. 12. — General De
Igcutte this morning issued a pro
1 el?mation that a state of seige exist
ed throughout the German area oc
cupied by the French army of occu
pation.
The proclamation stimpulatts,
however, that the German laws will
remain in force.
NATIONAL STRIKE.
BERLIN, Jan. 12. — A nationr.l
strike of one hour of all workers ln
cudlng government employees has
been called for next Monday us a
protest to the occupation of the
Ruhr district.
FIFTEEN MINUTE STRIKE.
BSSEN, Jun. 12.—Forty thousand
employees of the Kiupp plant went
to work as usual this morning.
Strifes as protest against the
French occupation are reported lo
the Huehuai rfslt
The pereentage of strikes, how
ever. is email.
Factories will close next Monday
from 11 to 11:15 o’clock as a pro
: t.osst against the occupation of the
French. It Is Raid this will be a
! quiet demonstration and during the
• 15 minute strike, the men will re
, main at their stations.
PROTEST TO U. S.
! WASHINGTON, Jun. 12. — Late
j yesterday ufternoon the German Am
boesudor sought an appointment
with Secretary of State Charles B.
Hughes who asked him to call again
1 today
It Is understood the German Am
hut tador plans to place Germany's
i formal protest before Hughes.
Today German Ambassador Weid
\ fetdt left with the State Department
: 11 formal protest to the occupation
I of the Ruhr district by France de
I daring it contradicted the Versailles
| trouty and International law.
NO RECOGNITION.
LONDON, Jan. 12.—The British
fovernment will take no recognition
I of the German protest to the French
I advance in the Ruhr which the Ber
, lin government addressed to the Al
j lies last night.
In no way will the protest affect
the British action or future policy.
These statements are made from
official sources today.
MINISTER LEAVES.
BRUS8E1.S, Jan. 12.—Dr. Reands
burg. German Minister to Belgium,
left here late yesterday afternoon
following his recall by the Berlin
government.
RUM RUNNING
FLEET STRIKES
EASTERN CORST
Big Fleet Bobs Up Off Sandy
Hook—First Casualty Is
Reported — Seizure.
BULLETIN—NEW YORK. Jan. 12.
—The rum running fleet euffered the
first casualty late thl* afternoon
when the launch Margaret B., laden
to the gunwales with whisky, was
captured by a Coast Guard cutter.
Three other \>oati were overhauled
and seized.
BLOCKADE RUNNING
NEW YORK. Jan. 12.—A rum-run
ning floet of two stoamerg and 14
schooners carrying cargoes estimated
to be worth more than $500,000,
bobbed up off Sandy Hook this after
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