THE ALASKA. DAILY EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. XXL, NO. 31%.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1923.
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Zero Weather and Blizzards Hit Middle West
Lid Clamped Down on Alaskan
Fisheries and Lid Is to Be
Sat Upon Says Sec. Hoover
REPARATION
ISSUES ARE
COMING
Premier Poincare, in State
ment, Gives Position
Clearly of Government
PARIS, Munch 19.—'Premier Poin
care usy3 I10 will neb entertain any
proposition 'for negotiations with Ger
many until the Berlin government
makes known directly and officially
to France she wants to negotiate.
Thl3 is the statement made in offi
cial quarters.
The sltia.temeirt further says that
any attempt 'by a third 'power to in
tervene or provoke discussion of!
terms or settlement which might be [
' reached Wfll be rogarded by the
Fbetpch government as an unfriendly
act.
U. 8. KEEPS HANDS OFF
WASHINGTON. March 19.—State
Department oflMciaU have received a
statement from Germany regarding
that nation’s position on reparations
bift it is declared the information
caJUs ’for no action by the United
States looking to mediation or inter
vention 'in 'the reparations dispute.
GERMAN IS SHOT
E99BN, March 19.—A Gorman was
Shot anid Willed at the rail1 road sla
Iion here yesterday and three Ger
mains lhavo been amrested on suspicion
<of having done the slaying. A fourth
German rwho tried to evade arrest j
was wounded by tho officers and I
finally captured.
SPENT 73 YEARS DIGGING COAL.
DUQUOIN, 111., March 19.—Pat
rick Bann of this city is believed
to be one of the oldest coal min-!
ere in the United States in point of
active service. He Is 80 years of
age, and began work as a miner in
England when only seven years old,
making 73 years of active service
in the mines. He has been a resi
dent of Doquoin for half a century,
and is active in union affairs.
Three Hundred Horses
To Be in Show April 3
LOS ANGELES, March 19.—More
than 300 horses, representing the
finest stock of Washington, Oregou.
and California, will compete for the,
-12,000 in stakes and premiums ot-|
fared In connection with the second I
annual horse show, scheduled to j
open here April 3.
RUSSIA SEEKS MORE COAL.
iVliADI\rOSTOK, March 19—The
Far Eastern Branch of the All Rus
sia Geological Survey Depart ment
has decided to make a complete
survey, during the coming summer
of all the mineral bearing regions
of the Primoria. The first place3
to be surveyed will be coal fields
of the upper Suchan district, tho
coal fields of upper and lower Sul
foun, and the iron deposits of tho
Serglevo district.
P. 0. IS ROBBED.
OLYMPIA, Wash., March 19.—
Robbers broke into the post office;
Sunday night and drilled into the'
money order vault, blew the stamp
nafe and escaped with stamps val
uedjj>etween $15,000 and $20,000.
IN STATE OF COMA. ‘
ST. LOUIS. March 19.—Rev. Dan
iel 8. Tuttle, presiding Bishop of
the Episcopal Church of the United
States, the oldest Angelican Bishop
in point of service In the world,
who ihas been critically ill, re
lapsed in state of noma this after
noon. '
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WASHINGTON, March 19.—Whatever protests have been made on,
the Presidential reservation setting aside Alaskan waters to prevent fur- !
ther taking of salmon have no effect and the reservations will be contin
ued. Secretary of Commerce Hoover declares in a letter to Senator Wes
ley L. Jones of Washington state.
Secretary Hoover gave assurance there was “no polite answer’’
to Alaska Delegate Dan Sutherlands recent criticism on the
government’s policy and he said the action of the government
was taken in the best interests of the people of Alaska and the
nation.
“The real issue is that having fi ted a lid on further destruction in
Northwestern Alaska of salmon, the lid will be on until Congress acts,"
says Secretary Hoover in the letter to Senator Jones.
“I intend to sit on the lid whether Delegate Sutherland, cer
tain canneries, certain fishermen or more of the same sort like !
it or not," ,
“I understand that thousands of understanding citizens comprising
various bodies devoted to public interests are in a conspiracy to obtain
money tor preventing these fisheries being massacred. It is somewhat
of a incongrous fact that a large part of the fishermen and canneries
and the people of Alaska who looked to the future of their country, sup
port the policy of keeping the lid on, and includes them also among the
insulted.
“These fisheries are the precious asset of the American people. We
have the right at least to demand they shall not be demolished in fertility
by the action of persons to whom profit is more precious than the mis-'
cellaneous national food supply.”
Secretary Hoover sent Senator Jones copies of the reports of experts!
of the salmon fisheries and recommendations of the American Fisheries
Society, Stanford University, authorities of Washington and Chambers of
Commerce of Seattle, Portland, Cordova, Wrangell Juneau, Petersburg
and Ketchikan, endorsing the reserve policy
Startles Staid Boston by
Dance in Square.
Miss Joyce Sterling so startled
a Boston cop when she two
etopped around In Copley Square
with Richard B. Anderson, son of
United States Judge George VV.
Anderson, that ho arrested her.
She told reporters all Harvard
men were super-cake eaters and
that she spoke from experience
with 'them.
ZOO Have Narrow Escape
In Fire, Portland Hotel
PORTLANTr, iviarcn 13. -Fire prac
tically destroyed the five-story Alber
Hotel with a loss of $150,000. Two
tiundred guests and employees es
■aiped death narrowly. There were
many thrilling rescues.
Wants $500,000 for
Injury to His Name
XEW YORK. Miarch 19 -Phillip
Mattson, on official of the Pacific
& Eastern Steamship Company, has
filed a ■suit for $500,000 damages
against the United States Shipping
Boa I'd, Emergency Pleet Corporation
and others, alleging they injured his
name when a eonapirak-y was entered
into to prevent his line from getting
steamship allocated.
HURLBURT MAY
f BE SUCCESSOR
TO MARSHALL
Prohibition Officer at Seattle
Recommended for Alas- j
kan Enforcement Agent.
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SEATTLE, .March 19 The Seattle
■ Post-Intelligencer today says It j
| learns from authoritative sources that!
I George Hurlburt, present, acting Divi-i
I s Iona I Chief of Proh ibRion Enforce-'
j meat In this district, has been recom
; mended as Prohibition Enforcement!
I Officer of the Alaska Division to suc
jceed John II. Marshall, who has been
! ordered to • report to Seattle.
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. Novelist Sinclair
; Is Nominated
For Congress
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LOS ANGELES, March 10.—Upton
Sinclair, novelist, bus been nominated
for Congressanian from the 19th Cali
fornia district 'by the Labor Party,
(which Was iorganlized liere yesterday.
A special election will be held r May
1 to chose a sueces-or to Representa
tive Onborno, who died in office re- i
cently.
I Arrested on Suspicion
Of Slaying Policeman
SEATTLE, March lit.--Thomas E, ,
Smith, aged 42 years, was arrested *
on Washington Street yesterday after
noon iby Defective J. .1. MoLennon on
suspicion of ibeing the murderer of
Patrolman Cruse, ‘at Los Angeles, on
(January 20 during a running fight,
l The fight followed the attempt of
two 'bandits to rob a woman. The
police cdaUm Smith answers fully the ,
description furnished .by 'the Los An
gelos ‘police. r
Cannot Regulate
Liquor Business,
Must Annihilate It
WASHINGTON'. March 19—Sena
j tor Fens, of Ohio, in a letter to
Governor Smith, of New York, de
clining to comtply with the petition
of the New York LegkJ’.aUtre to sup
port the proiporsal to legalize light
wine and ibecr, declared that only
proper course is Jor opponents of the
dry amendment no seek Its repeal.
"The evils of this ‘business have
convinced the American 'people.” said
Seamier Foss tin his letter, “that It
cannot be regulated and must be an
nihilated,”
MIDDLE WEST
IS BLIZZARD
SWEPT AGAIN
Traffic Is Delayed in Many
Sections—Loss of Life Is
Feared in States.
CHICAGO. March 19 The Middle
West fs burled in snow and in the
gt'ip of aero weather.
Railway traffic to the Wen is se
rlonsly irAeri opted w'h schedule?
pPact ipa.lly abandoned.
SEVERE BLIZZARD RAGES
OMAHA, Marsh 19—The worst
blizzard f'ir.ce 1888 struck Nebra. .tea
and Western Iowa In at night. The
temrpera-ture dropped to nine degrees
below zero here.
Loss of life Is fefsrod.
State highways are blocked w a
mow.
All towns are covered with a heivy
fall of snow and mad train's are
stalled.
At the height of the storm here
this morning fire swept t hr cm; ill u
half blook of business house:,, earn
ing losses of more than $250,000, and j
endangering the entire business dis
trict.
FROZEN TO DEATH
PUFiBLO, CoTo . March 19. Tiiree
children of Mr and Mrs. Allan Evans
and A. O. Baxter, near here, were
found .frozen to death in a shanty, a
rpmrter of a mile from their home,
tills morning. The children were
found ‘by a searching party who!
sought thorn all n!,rh,t. The children i
had been caught In a 'blizzard on
their way to a mail box and had'
taken refuge 'in the shanty.
HEAVY SNOW BLANKET
DENVER. Marieh 19—The blizzard
which 'swept this section late ye*ter-j
lav left a iblanket of anew over Colo- J
ruido ranging from 18 inches to sev-j
oral foot in many .plaices.
BITTER COLD WAVE
CHICAGO, March 19—With only;
one day intervening between winter!
and theoretical spring, the entire j
Mississippi Valley from tho Rockies;
sastward from the far northwest to;
.upper FHorlda H gripped this after-'
noon In a bitter cold Wave. The
irea is partly covered with snow
piled into drifts as the result of
aiigh winds.
Kansas City reports a cold wave
it zero wKh the thermometer go
ng down.
At ■Lacrosse, Wls., it is 12 degrees
oelow zero.
Fort Dodge, Iowa, reported IQ de
crees be'low zero. Did residents in
fowu claim the storm is the worst in
>0 years.
At Birmingham, Alabama, snow be-j
;an falling this afternoon and the
emperature is dropping.
Burn to Death
In Full View
Df Hundreds
EL FASO, Tex.. March 19.—Jay C. j
itolncbcnbach umd Kenneth M.
Irown, df the Army -Air Service, were I
>urned to death at Port Bli»3 yes- ,
erdaiy when the plane in which they!
vero making a practice flight crash-1
*d to the ground and caught afire in i
'uiil View of ’hundreds of spectators. !
Prominent Financial
Man Dies of Pneumonia
NJUW YORK. March 19.—Charles L.
HoNetll. president of the Utah Clip
ter Company, and many other indus
.rleis. active In .mining, financial and
■ailway circles, died Saturday night
'ollawtng ian att'alck of pneumonia.
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San Francisco to Get
Naval Operating Base
WASHINGTON’. March 19—Forma!
ardors establishing a nnval operating
aa.se at Sun Francisco have been sent
o Rear Admiral Hh1dt«fei>d, of the
I3tfh Navel District, w<ho 'has boon in
structed that when the bane is estub
ishod ifhe present station on Coat
Island wPl bs abandoned.
GOMPERS BETTER.
NEW YORK, Match 19.— Samuel
[Jompers. President of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor. wlio has
hemi Bori-aualy ill, is recovering and
will shortly bo able to leave his
ltd.
VICTIM OF INJUSTICE IS FREED.
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Married only two months, 1 e ltoy McKinney or Cincinnati, i
Ohio, was torn from Ilia bride’s arms and sentenced to life im
prisonment in Wilmington, Ohio, for the murder of a policeman
in a hold-up. His wife, who knew lie was with her at a motion
picture theatre at the time the crime was committed, newer gave
up hope and worked night and day for his release. Mow, after
serving live months in prison, ho has returned to his bride, ilia
actual slayer, conscience-stricken, having confessed tlie crime und
received a life sentence.
DAUGHERTY SAYS HARDING WILL
BE NOMINATED AND RE-ELECTED
!
iMIAMI, March 19.—Attorney Gen !
oral Daugherty predicted today that
President Harding will be renominat
od and re-elected.
Daugherty said: “Harding will lie
a candidate for renomination. There
will bo no other candidate against
hfin except one and that ono Is al-1
Ways a candidate."
The Attorney General said nothing]
but tin pairmenlt of the Prestdoiit's
health, which is conr.ldcred the best
alnco 1920, can prevent Harding’s re
nomination and ire election- Daugh
erty said Harding diad no desire to
conduct a campaign.
It !.> 'belleYod Daugherty mean* llob
ei‘t LaFPlloItte as the other candidate
PLAN ORGANIZATION
WASHINGTON, March 19 Tits an
nouncement by Attorney General
Daugherty in Miami that the Presi
dent would be a candidate for re
nom'inatlfon, Urns started work to
hasten formulating plans by whicii
tllte campaign can Ibe started at once
throughout ifhe country. Will Hays,I
of Indiana, and Charles I!. H. lies. I
of New York, are 'mentioned as pos-1
sllble selections as pre-con,on!inn I
managers.
EXCITING RAID j
B.Y 3 BANDITS!
N. P. Train Robbery Frus
trated by Quick Witted
Messenger—Captured
TAOOMA. March 19 —Throe Dan-1
dits attempted to' hold tip a North-j
ern Pacific passenger train on which i
$15,004 In currency w'us en route to |
Buckley. The bandits -were foiled |
by the quick wit of C. K. Going, ex-'j
press messenger, who, when lie heard ]
the shooting as the train stepped, j
took the money from the safe and
hid ft m a remote section and then|
refused to tell whore he hid placed!
It, despite the threats orf the robbers..
The 'bandits escaped .from the train
in an autoimobile. widhout any loot,
and exchanged 100 shots with < Jll
zons as thoy pussed through the!
town. Posses wore quickly organized ,
ami took up the chase with the re
sult that two of the bandits were
co.ptiirod and hho third, who was
wounded, ew.a,ped but wag latqr found
and ca.ptured.
Alaska Taxes
Show Increase
Over 1922
iSKATTLE, March 10.—Income and
profit taxes collected 'in Washington
and AlnOka on March 15 totaled
$263,778. ccimipared tto $176,627 of last j
voir. Thlls la itho report on the,
Internal Revenue officers who at
tribute the Lneraaao to greater popu
lation.
Attempts to Address
Wobblies; Is Arrested
CKNURALIA, Waslh., Ms roll 19.—j
Elmer Smith, local attorney, was ar-.
rt'sted yesterday alftornrton when lie'
attempted to .oldloss 'a meeting ot |
Wobblies and the American liberties
Union.
FOUR BURNED
TO DEATH IN
EVERETT FIRE
Mystery Surrounds Incident
— Coroner Makes
Charges Murder.
EVBRBTT, Wash . March 19.-The
bodies of Mrs. Clee-patra Karas, har
brother-in-law. Oust Karas, and her
two childion, George, aged 4, and
P. ily. 2. wore found in the ruins of
the hurao and bakery which was de
stroyed yesterday by fire.
Coroner Fickle declared 'that the
two older persons had met death
treat a sharp instrument and the flro
was 'sot to destroy the traces of tho
crime.
Tho tiwo children, says Coroner
Fickle, were suffocated iby the smoke.
No motive is known.
Officers recall that Mrs. Karas’
hit Lind. Pete, iwa.s found murdered
an a lonesome spot on the MukUtoo
rend last summer. The murderer
was never found. The murder was
attributed to bootleggors.
•George Chakos, Mrs. Karas' broth
er. In the rooms at the roar of the
bakery, escaped. He wag arrested
butt, declared ho knew nothing of the
fire except ho was awakened by tho
smoko and made his escape. He was
hold for questioning at the time his
brother-in taw was murdered last
summer 'but throw no lltfht on tho
crime.
ONE ARREST IS MADE
EVBRBTT. March 19.-Geo|p Den
nis, aged 36 years, a Greek restaurant
proprietor, of Morton. Wash., Iras
boon arrested iby the SnohomKh
county authorities In connection with
t'he murder here.
The authorities are ' working on
t'he duos of an organized Greek ven
detta The Officers declare they ex
pect to lay their hands upon the
others connected with the crime with
in the next 24 hours.
18 LOSE LIVES
IN MISS. GALE
MEMPHIS, March 19— Lato re
ports lndtea/te that 19 lost their Uvea
and more Ithan 100 wore Injured In
Friday night’s storm when property
damage estimated at $300,000 was
done in seven counties In N'orthwe ”,
Mississippi.
Nine are dead at Suviaga, three at
Walnut Springs and six at Lambert.
■Red Cross roproaen tat Ives at tha
scenes have called for cots which are
being rushed.
PLANES REAciPpORTO RICO.
SAN JUAN, Porto Ilico. March
19.- -The fix American Deilavlland
planes arrived here completing the
flight from San Anionlo. Texas.
THIEVES HAVE MADE AWAY
WITH JEWELS OF HAPSBVHG;
HEIRLOOMS MOST PRICELESS
GENEVA. March 19. “A swindle I
without procodoot,” is the final ver-j
flirt Just iprontourked by the Fed
eral Court of Genova in trying to
aecounl for the disappearance of the
priceless crown Jowols of rhe Https-,
burg dynasty.
How they were stolen under the]
pretext of sale from a noblauuin to:
whom the ox-Emperor had entrusted
them Just before ho made his last at j
tempt to regain the throne, lias'
(lime cnrt in the court to which the]
distracted ex-Eni'pi'aaa turned in hope I
of recovering eomo of the gents.
The heirloiolms are priceless. The'
value of one million .pounds place! i
tip«>n thorn Is only nominal, and prob
ably represents only about fit) per
rent of th< r Value. One matchless j
d admit, worn by the ex-Empress
Zita, win idt with four of the only
eight pink diaenondo (known to exist
ChariM carried the Jewels in a *iie
(ila‘1 ease, "and they aeeomp unied him
on hie wander mg a. Wh»n he entered
the airplane which was to take the
ex-Emoireos and ihlmself to Budapest,
he banded tho ease to his aide de
camp, Baron Steiner. When the at
tempt, to regain the throne failed,
aurl the royal couple was exiled to
Madeira, creditors descended upon
Baron Steiner.
He thought of the jewels and. cib
u n-ing permission from an aunt of
Charles to dispose of them, he opened
negotiations with a trio of interna
tional jowelers. On their agreement
to buy the jewels, and giving 300,000
frames on account, he allawed them
to 'be taken.
lAitl the Baron knows is that they
were taken ovetr tho frontier from
Switzerland, ami be has never seen
them or a sou of The tbalance of tlhe
nt >ney since. The Jewelers at first
claimed that they had been cheated
by "go-betweens."
What the loss means to the ex
Kmtperor may be imagined when It Is
saiid t.hat at the time of hts exile,
they were his only source of in
cr-me. Charles, with this increased
worry, and also the knowledge that
Zita was again to bekonae a mother,
tramped Ivutless and haggard over
the hills at Madeira. His hair turned
wbfte, he contracted pneumonia, and
dies! within a few weeks.
Thus the jewels of the Hapsburgs
added another victim to their prob
ably large number.