THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS yiLL THE TIME?’ .«hm
VOL XXII.,' NO. 3278.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CEtfra
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PRESIDENT HARDING APPEALS
FOR MEMBERSHIP WORLD COURT
HEAT WAVE IS
CLAIMING MORE
VICTIMS TODAY
Parts of Some States Near
1 Freezing Temperature—
Hotter in Other States.
CHICAGO. June 22.—While por
tions of Wisconsin. North Dakota,
and Arizona aro experiencing slight
ly above freezing temperatures, the
remainder of the Eastern states are
sweltering today with little prospect
of immediate break in the heat wave.
The thermometer has readied 100
here.
30 DEAD IN OHIO
COLUMBUS, O., June 22. — The
death toll in Ohio aa the result of
the heat wave stands at 30 since
last Monday. Thermometers reached
97 in some sections. At Birming
ham, Ala., the thermometer reached
94 degrees.
MORE HEAT VICTIMS
DETROIT, June 22.—The heat wave
has claimed three new victims, with
in the past 12 hours.
SCHOOLS CLOSE
PHILADELPHIA, June 22. — The
public schools have closed on account
of the heat and will remain so until
there Is a change in the temperature.
WASHINGTON IS HIT
WASHINGTON. June 22. — Four
additional deaths have occurred here,
bringing the total to 21.
ALASKA HEAT WAVE
WASHINGTON, June 22. — The
Weather Bureau announces a mater
ial drop In temperature on the At
lantic Coast but hot weather con
tinues In the Central and Great
Lakes region.
Even Alaska is suffering from a
heat wave, Engle reporting 84 de
grees.
It is relatively cool In Honolulu
with the thermometer standing at
80 degrees.
The Alaskan heat wave Is at
tributed to calmness of the atmos
pheric conditions.
FORMER JUNEAU
MAN LOSES LIFE
HAINES. June 22.—Charley God
dard was drowned Wednesday after
noon at Fish Point in the Kleheni
Hlver. Lieut. Grulin and Private
Meyer of Chilkoot Barracks were
with Goddard at the time. They were
fording a river and Goddard was car
rying a pack. Particulars are lack
ing.
Charley Goddard was a former Al
aska Juneau employee and well
known here gt one time. He has a
homestead In the Chilkat Valley.
Goddard was about 38 years of age.
Slayers of 33
Persons Are
Executed Today
MOSCOW, June 23.—Ivan Kant
arov and wife, who slew 33 per
sons while attending tea parties in
their homes to which they invited
guests ifor the purpose of robbery,
■were executed early todsy.
MRS. FIELD INSURED FOR MILLIONS.
1 3DC
Mrs. Marshall KleTd, 3d, bfeautlful wifo of i scion of Hies famous
Chicago merchant prince, is said :to bo the most heavily insured
woman in the world, having just taken out policies which bring
the total of her insurance up to $2,000,000. The policies arc divided
among 24 life insurance companlos.
BRITISH APPEAL FOR-WAY TO
SHIP LIQUOR INTO KLONDIKI
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New Powder Is
; Developed by
| War Department
WASHINGTON, June 22. — I
The War Department announces j
j the successful development of a !
new. powder for small arms and j
’ artillery which possesses all of j
| the driving power of the type |
I now used but at the same time |
! is smokeless, flashless and 1m- |
pervious to moisture.
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Los Angeles Bandits
Hold-up Small Bank
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LOS ANGELKS, June 22.—Bandits
late yesterday afternoon held up the
Security Trust & Savings Branch
bunk and escaped with $2,000.
SOIL NEEDS STUDIED.
LOS ANGELES. June 22.—A cam
paign to educate the farmer and
fruit grower in the proper use of
fertilizer as a means of preventing
impoverishment of the soil is being
planned by the California Fertilizer
Association, recently organized here.
SEATTLE TO PRESENT VIEWS ON
ALASKAN MATTERS TO HARDING
SEATTLE. June 22—The Alaska
Bureau of the Chamber of Com
merce last night heard several com
mittee reports which will be embod
ied in a brief to be submitted to
President Harding as an expression
of the Chamber’s views on Alaskan
matters.
The transportation committee rec
ommended a colonization scheme to be
immediately effective to develop the
region traversed by branch lines of
the- government railroad and that
spurs be built to all points where
further development Is undertaken
and where the traffic will justify.
More roads and trails are also urged.
The report said that the building
of roads and trails is most import
ant and fixed $1,500,000 allotment
for a comprehensive highway policy, i
The report urged appropriations to
provide additional lights and buoys
and other aids to navigation.
Roads to the Mount McKinley dis
trict and Mount Katmai district wpre
urged for tourists.
WASHINGTON, June 2.’. — Th
long reach of the Volstead law eii
braces the Klondike. In consequent
the British government has formal!
appekled to the Treasury Departmer
to find some means to allow trangpo
tation of liquor across American te
rltory, from Skagway to Whltehort
and other Yukon Territory district
Thus far the Treasury Depai
ment has been unable to find a wa
to great relief holding that the pi
hibition laws set aside the form*
treaty granting the British right t
transport liquor across the countr
under bond.
LAVA FLOWING
FROM VOLCANI
Eruption of Aetna Is Decreas
ing But Danger Is Not
Over Is Report,
CATANIA, June 22.—The violet
eruption of Mt. Aetna is deoroasin
but the danger ie not ended for th
crater is utlll belching forth lava.
The eruption In extraordinary i
that while damage is estimated a
$100,000,000, the lives loet are eon
paraitively few'.
RED CROSS TO HELP
WASHINGTON. June 22. — Til
American Red Cross has forwarde
help to relieve suffering In Skill
due to the Aetna eruption.
Canada Is Planning
Expedition to Arcti
OTTAWA, June 22.—It is ai
nounced that an expedition to th
Arctic islands to establish polir
posts and gather scientific inform*
tion Is 'being planned. The stean
•hip Franklin will be equipped U
service at a cost of ¥80,000,
YOUNG MUNIS
SWUNG TO MS
DEATHtMURDER
Youngest Prisoner Ever Ex
ecuted in California Pays
Penalty for Crime.
SAN QUENTIN, June 22.—Lawr
ence O. Campbell, aged lli years, of
Marquette, Mich., was UMXged here
I this forenoon for the Surlier of
l/eslie Nichols last Jiytuafy 20. lie
was the youngest *f(Mt(oner ever
STORY OF CRIME.
SAN QVBNTIN, Jane 22*—Belie
Nichols, an adjuster ol' automchlle
ineutance, of San Francisco and Los
Angeles, was driving across the C'olo
i rado River desert near Nilnnd, C'-illf.,
on January 20, last, when he came
upon two youths on fool. He asked
them to ride with him. They .lump
ed in and after being driven a short
distance, sprang up<4i Niehots and
clubbed him to deatii. They buried
' the body in the mind and drove
| away in Nichols' ear.
A low days later tfawrencc Camp
bell and Charles Davitf, former siil
: ors, were arrested at Bly'the, Calif.,
; by Riverside County officers Investi
] gutlng automobile thefts. In the
i County Jail -at Riverside they were
iovcrhoaid talking about the killing
! of a man on the desert. When ques
] tiojted they broke down and admit
! fed they slew N+eh^-j-then led offl
|cialH to the spot In Imperial County
j where they left ttie body. This was
I the first intimation Nichols had met
i with foul play.
| Both Campbell und Davis claimed
to be under 18, consequently not
i subject to the death penalty. It
; was finally established that Camp
bell was 18 on November 19, 1922,
while Davis did not reach that age
until March 6, 1929. Davis plcudol
guilty in the Imperial County Supev
lor Court, lie was sentenced to life
imprisonment for first degree mur
der on April 1. Campbell was con
victed by a jury and was sentenced
to hang.
Ran Away from Home.
It was brought out in Campbell's
trial that he ran away from home
at Marquette, Mich., to join the
navy, but was d! barged from the
151 service as undesiraible. Davis came
ylfrom Birmingham. Ala., and had
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To Try for Release
Of American Craft
y;
TACOMA, June a.— Secretary of
State Hughes has notified the Phoe
nix Northern Trading Company, own
era of the schooner IskunJ, that the
revenue cutter Bear has been or
dered to proceed from Nome to Fast
Cape to use good offices to secure
the release of four American craft
held there by the Soviet authori
ties.
J Tacoma Smelten Furnaces
Explode; Many Are Burned
TACOMA, June 22.—One man was
blinded and possibly fatally injured,
two others were seriously burned and
twelve slightly burned when furnaces
In the Tacoma Smelting Company’s
plant at Rnstan. exploded this after
1 noon.
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Fur Prices Show Slight
t Increase;Tacoma Auction
TACOMA, June 22.—Prices of mink,
muskrats and red fox showed an
advance when $60,000 worth of furs,
mostly Alaskan, were sold at. the
o regular auction of the West Coast,
d Grocery Company. Other furs brought
y approximately former prices. Twenty
five large buyers of the country at
tended and purchased all skins of
fered .
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Leviathian Is Setting
New Record for Speed
ABOARD THE LEVIATHAN, June
22.—The reconditioned Leviathan, re
turning to New York on a trial trip
has set a new record of 26.4 knots.
The Mauretania with 27.5 held the
previous record,
STAGE STAR AND BANKER SEPARATE.
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(jMffKz IWrgurorv 3 Claris^]
There has been much specula ion a.-* I.) whether the separation
of Elsie Ferguson, noted beauty or the stage and screen, from her
husband, Thomas H. Clarke, ,lr., vice-president of the Harriman
National Hank. New York, will be followed by divorce proceeding*
or other legal notion. The couple have three children. Their
i seven years of married life were thought to have been ideally
happy one of the few romances of the stage which prospered. Their
marriage, in 1H16, was a social event. Rumor has been current'for
some time that the actress and her husband wore having diffi
culties.
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j Land Office Case
Is Left for
i j President Harding
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| j SEATTLE. June 22.—Secre- I
1 lary of Interior Hubert Work
j j ban advized the Seattle Cham- |
j | bn of Commerce he has not j
I j recommended suspension of the
order removing the band Office
from Juneau to Anchorage un
til President Harding has had
j a chance to study the situa- I
! tfon at first hand.
HARVARD IS
DEFEATED BY
YALE OARSMEN
{Former Coach of University
of Washington Brings
Out Winning Eights.
NEW CONDON June 22. — The
Yale freshman and junior varsity
crews, coached by Ed Leader for
mer University of Washington row
ing coach, easily defeated Harvard's
eights today.
The freshmen won the race hy
four lengths over a two mile course
and the Junior varsity won by five
and one-hair lengths.
The varsity race is scheduled for
this evening.
Seattle’s Population
Estimated at 349,525
SEATTLE, June 22.—This city's
population is estimated at :!1(t,525
fby the newest edition of Polk’s Di
rectory. This is an increase of 15,
000 over Ust year's estimate and
S4.000 over the last census figures.
BEST ASSET OF
UNITED STATES
ARE HER BOYS
Rotanans Arc Told Plain
Facts—Supreme Challenge
of Each Generation.
ST. IiOtnS, June 22.—(Hy Asso
ciated Press) -Conserving the na
lion's greatest natural resource—
the boy—to the eml I hat hi- will
grow up with the Idea that "he
profits most who serves best," is
the idea underlying the boys work
of Rotary International as outlined
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WORLD COURT
IS DISCUSSED
BY PRESIDENT
Harding Renews Plea for
American Adherence to
International Court'
DECLARES THERE IS NO
DANGER IN MEMBERSHIP
Declares League of Nations
I Is Dead an Issue as Slav
ery—1920 Election.
BULLETIN—KANSAS CITY. June
22.—The Presidential train arrived
1 here at 10 o'clock this morning.
The party will remain 12 hours, the
visit concluding with an address on
' the transportation problem.
' Governor Hyde and Mrs. Hyde ac
jeempanied the party from St. Louis
and Governor Davis, of Kansas, .joins
I the party tonight for the trip across
! the State.
FIRST PREPARED SPEECH.
ST. LOUIS. June 22.—President
Harding, in his first prepared ad
dress on his western and Alaskan
trip, made here last night, renewed
his plea fer American adherenoe to
the permanent Court of Interna
tional Justice, as one and the only
| existing agency of peace to which
we can safely subscribe without
i violating the basic principles of our
I national bring.”
President Karding declared that to
attain the end he would ‘gladly
wipe out factional differences.” He
proposed reconstruction machinery
of an international tribunal “to dis
pose conclusively of all other cited
i apprehensions of our danger from
! the exercise of any influence what
soever either coen or furtive by the
! League of Nations or any other or
I ganization.”
The President said this could bs
I done In one of two ways:
! First—By empowering the court
| to till vacancies In itself.
\ Second—By continuing the power
I of the present court to nominate but
I transferring the power elect from
: the League of Nations to the re
! draining membe rs of the court.
Would Submit Terms.
President Harding. anticipating
| (mentions of doubters as to whether
40 nations represented in the court
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French Aviator
; Plans Flight
jTo North Pole
PARIS, June 211. — The French
[aviator who plans a flight to the
North Pole In Ueut. l)e Payer ac
cording to local newspapers. It Is
!claimed Do Payer plans to establish
j a base at Virgin Bay. Spitsbergen.
I 7U0 miles from the pole. It ts hoped
! the expedition will sturt uext sum
I nier.
WOO DIE YEARLY EDOM
PREVENTABLE DISEASES IS
STATEMENT MADE MEDICOS
I
SANTA BARBARA. Calil\, June 22.
— (By Associated Press.)- “There are
over 400,000 deaths In the Pnlted
States every year from preventable
diseases." said f)r. William F. Snow
of New York In addressing the Na
tional Tubereulosis Association to
day. “The death rate from sueh
diseases as tubereulosis, syphilis,
gonorrhea, infantile paralysis, ty
phoid fever and others have declined
largely as a result of the application
of scientific knowledge and commun
ity organization. The next forward
step in further life saving in this
country must come through more
erective co-ordination of existing
health agencies.
“In addition to the officially c-on
stltut“d Health officers in various
•states and cities throughout the
country, there are from twenty to
fifty different voluntary health agon
cies. each striving to get over a
particular program. To reduce the
death rate from preventable diseases '•
to a practical minimum there ittuf /
be a getting together of these orgafF
tzations.
“This is a task which the National
Health Council has set for itself.
Already very definite 3tr,.c ha*e
been taken in this direction by the
national health agencies, including
the American Social Hygiene Asso
ciation. National Committee foi Men
tal Hygiene. National Organization
for Public Health Nursing, National
Tuberculosis Association, American
Public Health Association, American
Red Cross Conference of State and
Provincial Health Authorities of
North America. Council on Health
and Public Instruction of the Amer
ican Society for the Control of Can
cer, and a number of other asaaelafc-..'
ed national agencUm,"