THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXII., NO. 3258.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1923. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Indiana Representative Wood to Help Gov. Bone
MUCH MYSTERY !
IN WRECK OF
RUM RUNNER
Boston Man Is Victim—
Charred Body Found—
$ 100,000 Is Missing.
NEW YORK, May 30.—Federal
officiate are investigating: the mys
terious sinking of the “rum lin
ger” John Dwight off Vineyard i
Haven with a loss of nine lives. |
It is reported that James A. j
Craven, of Lyn'hurst, N. J.. one of
the victims, had $100,000 in hi a i
possession when the ship sank j
which was missing when his mutil
ated body came ashore.
Ca.pt. Malcolm J. Carmichal, of
Jersey City, (kipper of the lugger,
la reported to have been seen in
Havana 10 days after the tragedy i
although all hands aboard had been
givei), up as lost.
One or two other members of the
crew have also been reported seen
in Cuba.
VICTIM IS BOSTON MAN.
BOSTON, May 80.—Reports frcm
New York that James A. Craven was
one of the victims of the sinking of!
the rum runner John Diwight off!
Vineyard Haven on April 6, gives!
the first plausible explanation of]
the disappearance of the well known
man. It is known here Craven had
over $100,000 witih him when he
left here.
.Eight bodies from the rum ruuner
were found floating on the sea. The
body of Craven was first identified
as that of James Cronin, of Cam
bridge. The hands were charred,
eyes removed and face horribly
burned. Craven's brother later
identified the body.
JS COMING TO
TAKE CARGO OF
SPRUCEABOARD
Big Barkentine Leaves South
Tomorrow for Juneau
to Load Lumber.
ISEATTL.E, iMa.y 30.—The tug Sea
Monarch will leave tomorrow to take
tho barkorttlne Phyllis Comvn from
Winslow In tow to Juneau, where the
third cargo of spruce from South
eastern Alaska will be loaded. The
spruco will be usod for aeroplanes
sad manufacture otf paper.
Noted Concert Singer
Poison-Pen Victim.
j Gautlvtay
Miss Eva Gauthier, noted con
cert singer, of New York City, is
one t>f the ten women hit by the
Elurs of the poison-pen writer
whose case Is now before the
Grand Jury. George Maxwell,
noted composer and music pub
indictment as the writer, but he
lisher, now in Europe, is under
Is returning post-haste to tight
the charges, which he denies iu
toto, declaring he himself was a
victim.
PURCHASE OF
SILVER OFF;
CHECKING UP
Senator Key Pittman Places
New Information Before
Treasury Department.
WASHINGTON, May 30.—The
Treasury announced a suspen
sion of silver purchases under the
Pittman act until it can be deter
mined whether purchases already ex
ceed 200,000,000 ounces, which the
law authorized the government to
make.
Senator Pittman has laid before
tho Treasury reports 'indicating that
whllo the smelting companies have
boon deducting 5 per cent from the
minors a.s a ions in smelting, they
have boon selling tho ibullion to the
government on a basis that there
has ibeon no such loss.
ENGLISH INDULGE IN MOCKING
AMERICA; POKE FUN IT MANNERS
(LONDON. .May 30.—(By Associated
(Press.)—Certain English newspapers
seem to delight in poking tun at
American customs and manners, and
some of the London publications
make more or leas of a practice of
parading the idiosyncrasies and hab
it* of American tourists. This is
■especially true where American cus
■toms differ from the orthodox traits
Of the Englishman.
■A London mows paper with a circu
lation of a million has featured the
following paragraph regarding a “cul
tural revolution'’ which was taking
■place in the United States:
"Cuspidors aro being removed
from countless American drawing
' rooms Chewing gum is being
scraped off parlor chairs. Several
million Americans spend hours
dally in practicing the correct
•pronunciation of the words
* Stunt', ‘clerk’, ‘Derby* and ‘adver
tiKunenf.” '
Then came the Ironical Information
that “bootlogging <is no longer the
principal occupation of the cultured
minds of America,” and that much
more time <ls being spent "in read
ing tho social culture advertisements
and learning how eiasy it is to misbe
have unless ono buys ‘The Book of
Good Manners’.”
The British public is told that a
great' wave of etiquette Is sweeping
AmdHoa. "Half America's 110,000,
000 people are now spending « large
part of their time in watching the
other half and seeing that they con
form to the rulos of social culture,”
days this satirical journal.
Patrons of rostaurants are pictured
as spending so much time watching
one another that they oat only about
a half what they consumed before
tho wave of etiquette struck America.
Tho paper quotes a Broadway man
ager as saying that “when a diner
uses his knife on a salad or takes
t;wo tbits at a strawberry, such a
bush tails upon the assembly that one
can ever bear the orchestra.”
CONGRESSIONAL
PARTY NEARING
ALASKAN GOAL
Reach Seattle Last Night—
Entertainment Planned
for Three Days.
EXTEND ALASKA VOYAGE
TO COVER ANOTHER DAY
Representative Wood Prom
ises His Support to Gov.
Bone to Aid Alaska.
SEAT'rt.E, May 30.—Transport
C&mbnai, with the Congressional
party aboard, bound for Alaska, ar
rived last night.
Representative John F. Miller, ot
Seattle, a member ot the party, re
ports that books and maps In the
transport's library relating to Alaska
received much 3tudy on the voyage
from San Francisco to Puge-t Sound.
Three days’ entertainment and
sight-seeing in Seattle and Tacoma,
has Lean profiled for tho members
o! the Congre.-clc-nal party.
The Iran opart will leave here Fri
day night for A'o.tka, cutting short
the visit on Puget Sound by on3 day
lin order to enable 'the party to spend
one day long 'r in Alaska.
William R. Wood, Of Indiana, chair
man otf tho House subcommittee on
appropriation*, said he is going to
visit another Hoosder, Governor Scott
C. Bone, of Alaska, and will do all
In his power to help him secure for
Alaska what is most needed
No Politics
“No polities’' as a rule has cropped
out aboard -the Ci.nbra.i. Democrats
and Republicans p'jvrd $Iah Jangg,
told yarns and s-'udle>1 Alaska on the
5rip up the coast.
Alaska Booster
Alaska has ctlo ardent bo os-tor
aboard at least in the person of
Rapreaontaitive James H. Me Lafforty,
of California. who declJrcd:
"You Ea:itornet3 have not under
stood our problems end for that rea
son Ala-ska lias not received a square
deal. This trip will do much to give
Alanka aid and he opportunity Aho
ncoda.”
SEATTLE MAN
IN INDICTED;
STOLEN MONEY
Attorney Who Defended Wife
Murderer Alleged In
volved Idaho Case.
SBATThE, May 30.—Lea Johnston,
attorney who defended Janies E. Ma
honey, wife murderer, hau been in
dicted at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. John
ston Its accused of accepting $2,000
he knew hud been stolen by Edward
J. Hlcka, who Is serving a term at
McNeil Island.
The indictment was returned on
charges made iby U. S- post office
Inspectors who investigated the
$20,000 mail robbery at Kellogg,
Idaho.
Johnston rocelvod the money from
Hicks’ daughter for efforts to get
Hicks •paroled.
Johnston has pasted a bond of
$3,000. Ho declares the charges are
instigated by malice.
Train Drops Through
Bridge; Many Are Killed
MOSCOW, May 30—A dispatch
from Chita reports that a passenger
train in the CbKa-Amur region fell
through a bridge Into the river, a
distance of 60 feet.
fTwonty-eight bodies have been
taken from the river and 40 more
are believed there.
Store than 100 passengers were
Injured. 1
"THEY HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN!
"On Fame's eternal camping ground their : 11 e:it tent* ara spread.
And Glory guards, with solemn iqu.uI, the Bivouac of the Dead.''
-—Father Ryan.
t
LaFollette Not Likely to Be
Candidate for President, Sen.
Johnson may Oppose Harding
CLARA PHILLIPS DECLARES SHE'
IS INNOCENT OF MURDER; SAYS
PECCY CHAFFEE IS MURDERESS
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Confidence Is
| i Expressed in
j Premier Poincare
PARIS, May 30.—The Cham
ber of Dcpiu'Jes today by a ma
' jorlty of 438 voles expressed
confidence in Premier Poincare
and his government and voted
j money to carry out his policy in
the Ruhr.
DIES, OWN HAND
' WASHINGTON, May 30 —Jess W.
Smith, otf Washington Courthouse,
Ohio, prominent in Republican poli
tics in Ohio, and a lifo-iong friend
of Attorney General Daugherty, sui
cided this morning. No reason is
known
Smith has iboon Having in Daugh
erty's apartments while the Attorney
General has boon u guest of the
Whlto House.
THEmOFF
SPEEDWAY, INDIANAPOUS. May
30.—With a roar from perfectly tuned
motors, 24 drivers shot away at 10
o’clock tbda morning at the start ol
the SOO-mllo automobile race oarer the
speedway course . t »S .
I
NEW ORLEANS, May 30.- Clara
Phillips, "hammer murderess,". who;
©soaped from the Lon Angeles countyj
jail Hast December and wan rocontly
captured in Honduras and arrived
.loro yesterday 'in custody ot a deputy
sheriff, lass night gave an Interview
to the newspaper men.
Mrs Phillips declared she was ln-i
nccent of the killing of Alborla
Meadows, pretty widow, and she was
going back to California of her own
free will to prove It.
Mrs. Phillips 'assorted that Peggy
j Oh.'ilfc-c, alleg 'd wltn ■ is hi the kill
ing, w..s the actual nlayer.
BE TAKEN TO PRISON
LOS ANGEL3S, May 30.—Clara!
| Phillips will spend 41 minutes In |
•this city Friday night, when she
arrives from Los Angeles, according
I the announoomont made by Sheriff'
' Treager.
Her appeal was deniod yesterday.
: iby the Court of Appeals. fX'ara
I Phillips will be taken from he.ro to
j San Quentin to serve a life son'e-naa.
Harding Will Make
I
Masonic Pilgrimage!
WASHINGTON. May 30— President!
: Harding has announced he plans to1
) go to Milford. Do!., on June 9 to be
; Vu if. dated into the "Tall Cedar* of Le
j banon,” a Masonic organisation.
! George B. Christian, Jr., secretary
I to the president, and Assistant Sec
■ rotary of tho Nary Theodore Roose
j veK will he admitted to the order at
1 the aamo time.
DENVER, May 30. — Governor
Sweet, Progressive Democrat, dis
cussing hie recent trip to Washing
ton, told the newspapermen here to
day that LaFollette was not likaly
to be a candidate for the Republican
nomination for President next year.
Harding will probably have the
rield to himself, said Governor Sweet.
"LaFollette is devoting his time to
forming measures and is not giving
rerious thought to the presidency,
Governor Sweet said. "Senator Hiram
Johnson, of California, seema to be
the only possible opponent of Hard
ing but I do not bglieve California
will part with President Harding on
any question except the world court.
“I do not believe Henry Ford will
be a formidable contender for the
Democratic nomination
"I believe the League of Nations
will be one of the main features next
year,” concluded Governor Sweet.
GOVERNOR PREUS
AFTER SENATORSHIP
ST. PAP*., Mian., May 30 -Gov.
.1. A. O. Pn?ua announced that he
will file as a c andictate for the Re
publican nomllaaUon for United States
senator to succeed tho late Knute
No! son.
The primary will be held June IS
and the election July 16.
ONE THOUSAND
REPORTED DEAD
BYEARTHQUAKE
; Many Villages Are Also Re
ported to Have Been
Completely Devastated.
BULLETIN — ALLAHAMBRAD,
British India,, May 30. — Advices
fiom Teheran state that 1,000 per
s.:ns have been killed by an earth
quake at Turbatihaidaii.
Shocks covered a period of sev
eral hours.
Many * villages have been de
vartated.
TRIBUTE PAID
TODAY TO ALL
DEAD OF WARS
President Harding Principal
Speaker at Observance
in Washington.
WASHINGTON. May 30.—As the
principal speaker at llie Memorial
Day exercises at Arlington Ceme
tery tqcluy, President Harding lead
the nation In paying tribute to the
•lead heroes of its wars.
The ceremonies at Arlington
Cemetery, with the officers of the
Grand Army of the Republic and
A trie rlcan Legion participating with
other organizations represented,
formed the principal feature of the
Capitol's observance.
Mrs. Harding, at separate exer
cises held by the Disabled Veterans
of tbe World War. dedicated an elm
tree to the war dead.
Acting (fSeerctury of War Davis
(Continued on Page Six.)
BIO FOR SHIPS
OF S, S. BOARD
*• STARTLES TOWN
Offer to Buy Shipping Board
Crafts for Billion Sur
prises Silver Creek.
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SILVER CREEK. N V.. May 30 —
! The report from Washington. D. C.,
I that ono of Silver Creek’s t)u*ine-i
| neon, with a modest pi ttit employing
! 2ti men, hid bid millions of dollars
for the If. S. Shipping Board's mer
I chant marine fleet, has set this
village agog.
.John S. Slack Is regarded as a
successful businessman, but nobody
hero can understand how he expects
I to swing so stupendous a transaction
j as $1,031,000,000 for all ships, active
; and Inactive, of the U. S- Shipping
! Board.
j Slack confirmed tho Washington
; dispatches, but remained reticent re
1 gardiing his plans
EI6HTY CAPTIVES OF BANDITS
TOSSED TO DEATH FROM CLIFF
SHA.VHAI. May 30.—A shortage of
food in the Chhwso bandits’ strong
hold at Pao'Ziiku before they kid
napped foreigners from the Shanghai- \
Poking express on May 6 c msed the1
brigands to throw 80 Chinese pn'son-<
f>rs to death frtm a cliff. This Is the
report brought by Father William
Loafers, aged German priest, who has
made several trips to the headquar-1
tors of the outlaws.
TIENTSIN, May SO Major Roland
W Pintfor. In a ltttw to the Asso
ciated Prosa from the bandit strong
hold, favors armed Isitorvantlou by
foreign eountrfcvj to exterminate ban
ditry tin China.
Major Pinger says:
“Convince the Chineso bandits with
Krugs and I do not beJJovo many will
have to be used to convince them
they will nfcko good little laundry
mea,"