THE AT, ASK A DAILY EMPIRE
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VOL XXII., NO. 3291.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1923. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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HARDING AND HK PARTY DDE IN
CYTY TOMORROW: ENTERTAINMENT
Harding Celebrates One of
32 Wedding Anniversaries
in Alaska; Visits 2 Towns
KETCHIKAN, July 9.—(By Asso
ciated Press.)—president and Mrs.
Herding yesterday celebrated one of
the most memorable of their 32 wed
dlog anniversaries by arriving in
Algsha. tbe first Chief Executive
and the First Lady of the Land to I
aver visit the great northern Ter
ritory.
The party landed first at Metla '
katla, the site of the historic mis- j
siohary effort of Father Duncan,
known as the apostle of Alaska.
The party spent three hours, twice
as long as intended and President
Harding heard first handed regard
ing one Alaskan problem, namely
the struggle of the natives for food
against the increasing inroads of the
salmon canning industry.
Members of the party visited the
church erected as the result of
Father Duncan's efforts, talked wAlh
the Indian population of the little
fishing village numbering 500 people.
Noisy Welcome
A noisy welcome was accorded
at Ketchikan. Fishing boats, tugs,
motorboats and other craft met the
Henderson at the entrance of the
harbor and escorted the transport
to the dock. Every boat was black
with people of the town which has
a population of 1,400. The city was
decorated with flowers and flags in
hWlttr of the most distinguished visit
ors In its long history. The weather
was perfect, clear and pleasantly
cool.
Party Goes Ashore
The Presidential party went ashore
at 8 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The
dock was crowded. The Navy band
oh the Henderson and the Ketchi
kan band played patriotic airs and
wild cheers echoed and re-echoed
in the hills and mountains behind
the city when President Harding
stepped down the gangplank.
The Presidential party was taken
In automobiles for a short ride and
then to the speaker's stand in tjie
heart of the city where 2,000 or
8,000 gathered.
President Talks
President Harding was Introduced
by Delegate Dan Sutherland, who
joined the party at Metlakatla. The
SEARCH FOR
BALLOONISTS
i
Wide Search Made for Lieu
tenants Missing in Elim
ination Contest.
BULLETIN, Port Analey, Ont., July
9.—The baeket of the Navy balloon
A-MM containing one body waa
found fourteen ml lea aouthweat of,
hero today. The body clad only in
underwear, waa laohed to the baaket.
Lata thie afternoon the body waa
Identified aa that of Lieut. Roth.
DETROIT, July 9.—The Ilyins
boat Duckeye carrying newspaper
men returned here late yesterday
attar a fruitless 200-mile search over
Lake Erie for Lieutenants L. J.
Roth and T. B. Null lost when their
balloon fell.
The two lieutenants were in a
balloon leaving Indianapolis on July
4th in the elimination balloon race.
Woman b Sentenced to
Be Electrocuted; Murder
NEW YORK, July 9.—Mrs. Anna
Bussl whs today sentenced to be
electrocuted during the week of Aug
ust < for the murder of Frederick
8chnelder, wealthy Bronx contractor
with whom she had lived for eight
years.
North Dakota Section
b Struck by Downpour
CARRINGTON. N D., July 9. —A
terrific windstorm with a torrential
down poor caused damage estimated
at several hundred thousand dollars
in this district last night Reports
are Incomplete. No casualties have
been mentioned.
11 'ii 1 m • tm■
delegate Introduced the President,
saying his coming means a dawn of
better and brighter days for Alaska.
The President, in a brief address,
declared Alaska already a source of
wonder to the party emphasized the|
fact that the Federal government j
was deeply interested In the affairs!
of the people of Alaska and he as-'
aerted he did not know where one1
could go in the United States and
find a better looking group of peo- j
pie than those before him.
Secretaries Introduced
Secretaries Work. Wallace and
Hoover were then introduced, each
making a brief address.
The women t of Ketchikan gave
Mrs. Harding a chain and locket j
made of gold nuggets.
The partv was then taken on a
drive of the city while the Navy |
Band, by direction of the President,
gave a concert for the townspeople.
Masons Honored
President Harding later laid the
cornerstone of the new Masonic
Temple.
The Henderson sailed for Wran
gell at 5 'clock yesterday afternoon
TOUCHES ALASKAN SOIL
METLAKATUA. July 9 — President
and Mrs. Harding stepped on Alaska
soil at 8:15 o’clock yesterday morn
ing landing at^ this little mission
station where they were greeted by
Mrs. John Minthorn. aunt of Secre
tary Hoover and the entire popuia :
tlon.
The Henderson steamed into the !
boy at 6 o'clock yesterday morning j
accompanied by whistles of the har- j
bor craft and canning plant. AI
hand on a tugboat had anchored j
most of the night at the lower end i
of Annette Island to greet the Presi
dential Party and then escorted the
Henderson Into the harbor.
President Harding was happy to
see the first Alaska town.
The party landed, and after greet
ings by the committee on the dock,
was taken to the school house and(
further extension of welcome was
given.
Makes‘a Speech
While here a petition was present-1
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j Near Ea*t Conference
| Reported to Have
| Ended Satisfactory
LAUSSANE, July S*. — Ismet j
Pasha leaving the Near East |
Conference about midnight in- ]
formed correspondents that |
agreements had been reached |
on all points.
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WILLIAM DAY
PASSES AWAYi
Former Associate Justice of
Supreme Court Dead at
Home in Michigan.
MACKINAW ISLAND. Mich.. July
9.—William R. Day. former Asso
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, died here at
his cottage at 9.30 o'clock this
morning. His son and daughter-in
lav/ were at hia bedside.
Former Cabinet Member.
The name of William R. Day is
indelibly linked with that of Will
iam McKinley. When the latter was
elected President, Justice Day was
little known outside of Ohio, where
he was born in 1849. He had grad
uated from the University of Michi
gan, studied law in a law office,
taken a few law lectures, and began
the practice of hie profession. He
had been elected judge of the com
mon pleas court in Stark County,
Ohio, when 37 years of age and in
1889, President Harrison had offered
him the position of judge of the Dlt
troit oCurt for the Northern District
(Continued am Fnge Flee.)
ed to tho President expressing their!
desire for a change In the fisheries j
law so the Indians could again catch,
enough fish in the fall to feed them;
in the winter.
The petition said the canneries,
have spoiled the hereditary occupa ,
tton of the Indians, that they have1
lived on saltnon hut “what chance has
a fish and one Indian" with fish-1
traps, wiers and pounds cluttering I
up the water and getting all of the;
salmon in the runs: moreover, dur-i
ing the runs they cannot sell to the |
canneries whose nets catch all thei
fish.
“We do not cjire for preferential j
rights,” runs the petition, “nor for!
any privilege in the fisheries that
may not be enjoyed by all other
classes but we do appeal to jhe
President and to Congress to ttabol
ish all executive privileges which in
cludes traps or weirs and to enu< t
such restrictive measures as shall
apply to all fishermen."
The President listened to the peti
tion, while young braves stood around
and kodaked him.
• Replying to the petition th? Presi
dent said he sympathized with the
native hardships bill the remedy
could not be wrought hy returning
to primitive conditions as this would
be against the law of (tod
Pleasant Trip Nortli
So far the Alaskan trip has been
delightful and uneventful.
The President has spent much of
his time on deck watching the moun
| tain panorama on either side. He
jhas played bridge with the Cabinet
! members and Speaker Gillette in the
evening.
Yesterday he spent some time with
Governor Scott C. Bone and the In
dian Mayor of Metlakatla, getting
the lowdown on the local Alaskan j
situation.
The perfect calmness an' test, of,
the Inland oceai. voyage his done;
Mr. and Mrs. hut ding a vorid of i
good. The Pre.khnt was a prettyi
tired man when he got ah'.aril 'lie;
Henderson aftc we week < of In-j
cessant speech eking and hand!
shaking
DAWN TO DUSK
FLIGHT IS ONi
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MITCHELL, FIELD. NEW YORK.;
July 9.—Lieut. Rust-ell L. Maughan.i
piloting a pursuit plane, hoped off!
at 3:68 o’clock this morning on the,
CrBt leg of his dawn to dusk flight']
Serose the continent. He plannedi
to fly at the rate of 170 miles an;
hour over plains and 160 miles over
mountains keeping an altitude of;
about 2.000 feet above the ground.1
He carries a letter from Secretary
Weeks to President Harding which
will be forwarded to Alaska.
BEHIND SCHEDULE.
DAYTON, July 0.—Lieut. Mau
ghan arrived one hour and 35 min
utos behind schedule having lost his
way In heavy fogs and hazy atmos
phere. He left here at 9:35 after
a 25-minute stop.
His neat stop is at St. Joseph.
Broken Ra3 Is Struck;
Cars of Train Overturn
MAJAVE. Cal., July 9.—A South
ern Pacific passenger train struck
a broken rail near here last night
and three baggage cars and three
chair cars were overturned. One
Bleeper was partly overturned. Sev
eral passengers were hurt but none!
seriously.
Conspiracy Charges Fall
Flat; Eight Are Acquitted
LOS ANGELES. July 9.—Two army
officers and six civilians have been
acquitted In the Federal Court on
charges of conspiracy to defraud the
government in connection with the
sale of army goods at Camp Hear
■ey. The trial was In progress forj
several weeks.
PROGRAM TO BE '
I FOLLOWED WITH
i LITTLE CHANGE
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| Gov. Bone Wires Local Ar
rangements Approved—
Will Arrive 10 A. M.
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PROGRAM TUESDAY
July 10, 10:00 a m. -»Hccep
tion In harbor. . Committee
aboard Alma to meet llendrr
! son. Procession to Governors’ ]
; House under escort nf the Ani
i erlcan Legion and Detachment
I of Soldiers from Chllkoot Rar
racks. Children In white to |
greet President and Mrs. Hard- |
! Ing with flowers at intersection j
| of streets. Possibly brief speech
; from porch Governors’ House.
; Public reception at entrance of
Governors’ House. 4 ,
11:00 a. m.—Trip to Men
denhall Glacier,
1:00 p. m -■* Luncheon tb
President and* other guests by
Gov. and Mrs. Boho. Luncheon
to visiting officials at Gastineau |
Cafe. Luncheon to newspaper
men at AVcade Cafe.
2:00 p. ra.—Conference at
City Hall of citizens and Sec- 1
j taries Work, Wallace and j
] Hoover Presentation of gold |
card to President, at Governors' j
House. Presentation of gold 1
desk knHe to ^’resident by |
Scottish Pile \fitoAtus PTbsen- *
1 latlon to Mrs. Harding by Elks. j
j Presentation to Mrs. Harding '
by the Pioneers of Alaska. Gift
to President by Indians. Pres- |
entation to Mrs. Harding by
S. E. Alaska Blue Fox Farmers’ |
Association. Concert at Gov
ernors' House by Navy Band. j |
4:00 p. m.—Visit to Alaska- I
Juneau mine by Cabinet Offi
cers and newspapermen (Inter- 1 i
i lude for rest and sightseeing.)
! 7:00 p. in.—Dinner to Presi- | I
Hal Party at Governors' House.
Concert by U. S. Navy Band 1 i
j from veranda Governors' House. I !
j Dinner at Gastineau Hotel to
' newspaper men and other vle
i ltors.
j I 9:30 to 11:00 p. m.—-Recap- j
I J tlon to Federal. Territorial and 1
| City officials. Citizens’ commit- j
: tee and wives, and visiting 1
newspaperman at Governors’ :
I House. |
; July 11—9:30 a. m. -— l)e- -
parture of Transport Henderson i
j for Seward.
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1 President Harding and his guests.
i aboard the transport Henderson will j
I arrive in Juneau at 10 a. m. tomor
row, according to a radiogram re
ceived this morning from Gov. Scott
1C. Bone by Mayor I. Goldstein. The
| local program will be closely follow
j ed in its entirety, the Governor
I said.
Information that the Henderson
would not reach Juneau until Tues
day Instead of Monday as had been
oxpected. reached here early Satur
day evening. This was given gen
eral circulation and the local com
| mlttees made their arrangements ac
I cordingly.
Tuesday Is Holiday.
The Mayor's proclamation of last!
Friday which called for a special
holiday today was rescinded and a
new one issued today fixing Tuet
dav as the holiday, aa follows:
"Whereas, the President of the
United States will honor us with a
visit on the 10th day of July, 1923,
and that It will .be fitting and pro
per that we, the citizens of the
municipality of Juneau, do observe
(Continued on Page Bight.)
BROTHERHOOD
PEACE BASIS
DES MOINK8. July 9.—Brother
hood Is only a basis upon 'vhlch
lasting peace can be built William
Jennings Bryan told the delegates
to the International Christian En
deavor Convention yesterday after
noon.
“But before peace can be estab
lished,’' continued Bryan, “the na
Itlons of Europe must learn the
meantng of the word forgiveness,”
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FIRST CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE UNITED STATES
TO VISIT ALASKA WILL BE GUEST OF
THE CITY OF JUNEAU TOMORROW
GEN. PERSHING
! TO MAKE TOUR
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| WASHINGTON. July g.—General
jjolin J. Pershing will uiako a tour
! of tho rummer military camps over
I the country according to an an
nouncement of the War Department,
i It if flatod his desire is to gain
| Intimate knowledge of the progress'
, being made in training camps for
i the development of an efficient
peace time nucleus of a citizens'
! army provided for in the National
IDispatch Act of 1920.
\ France and Belgium
Not Be Affected
By Pope’s Action
PAIti.S. .Inly it. -The Franco-Del
! gian action against (iormany in re
! taliation for the bombing of Duis
j burg will not be affected by the
■ Papal representations at Paris, and
Brussels it was said in official clr
! cles today.
| Both France and Belgium reserve
the right to take away any and all
measures necessary to prevent a re
j currence of such violence.
French Deputies Approve
Pacific, Naval Treaties
PARIS. July 9. -The Chamber «f
Deputies has unanimously approved
the Washington treaties relating to
j the Pacific. These treaties with the
; naval limitation treaties approved
t Saturday, will go to the Senate im
■ mediately.
During today's debate Deputy Arch
ambatid. Socialist Radical, said the
President -of the United States ex
1 pressed remarks "very fortunate not
1 to say unfriendly to France."
“Camp Whipping Boss”
Found Guilty Short Time
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I DA KB CITY. Fla.. July 9. Thoma
(Walter Hlgginbottom, "camp whip
I ping boss.” has been found guiltj
of second degree murder for caus
lng tbe death of Martin Tabert
. North Dakota hoy. and has beet
i sentenced to 20 years. He was re
I leased on $10,000 bond pending heaf
g lng for a new trial. The jury wai
. out one hour and 20 minutes.
DAKE CITY, Fla., July »Wud«i
. W. A. McMullen late this alternooi
. denied the motion of a new tria
, for ,Higginbottom. The case will hi
* taken to the Supreme Court,
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FIRST LADY OF LAND
IS HERE TOMORROW
MUS. WARRKN O. HARDING
Murder and Suicide Is
Indicated; Bodies Found
LOS ANOBLKS, July 9. — The
bo<11 cm of Mrs. Francises Caslanos,
landlady of a rooming house, nad
| 1.0. S. t'ontraria wero found in the;
: woman's apai (meats yesterday, each I
I body with a bullet wound through!
| tlie head. The police believe Coil- [
I traris killed the woman and than [
; suicided.
Railroad Men's
Strike Fund Is
j Seized by French
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i I m’SSKI-nORF, July 9 -The I
j German railroad men’s strike I
■ fund amounting to 17,000.000,- |
s 000 marks lias been seized by j
i j the French authorities at Maxi- j
1 | milineau near Ludwigshafen. I
PRESIDENT IS
TODAY NEARING
ALASKA CAPITAL
s
Harding and His Party Visit
Wrangell — Speech Is
Made to Citizens.
COMES TO ALASKA FOR
“UNDERSTANDING” TRIP
Transport Henderson Leaves
Wrangell for North—Is
Due Here in A. M.
BULLETIN—The Transport Hen
derson sailed from Wrangell at 10
o’clock this morning toward Ju
neau. The transport should be in
lowo r Oastineau Channel shortly be
fore 9 o’clock tomorrow morning and
should reach the Admiral Line dock
at 10 o'clock. ,
WRANGELL, July 9.—(By Asso
ciated Press.) — President Harding
landing here this forenoon, was
greeted by 1.000 people of Wran
gell and Petersburg and in an ad
dress delivered from the steps of the
little courthouse declared he came
to Alaska as an “apostle of under
standing" and wanted his adminis
tration to go down in history as "i
period of understanding.”
Understanding, the President said,
is what the world and nation most
needs.
President Harding was welcomed
and introduced by Rev. Divcn, pas
tor of the Presbyterian Churoh and
after he concluded his short speech,
Secretaries Work, Wallace and Hoov
er spoke briefly.
The Presidential party landed at
8 o'clock to find the town, once the
chief trading station of the Hudson
Bay Company, decorated with flags
and flocd:d with sunshine of a per
fect summer day.
Here the party saw the first totem
poles.
Presidtnt and Mrs. Harding were
pmented with a huge basket of
strawberries twice the sire of the
berries grown in the eastern states,
and a bouquet of mammoth pconi-s.
OFF FOR WRANGELL
I EARLY MONDAY MORNING, JULY
19, ABOARD U. S. 8. HENDER80N
WITH PRESIDENT HARDING— tBy
Associated Press.)—The Naval trans
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Liberal Laws Are
Wanted lor Alaska
Says Judge Winn
SEATTLE, July 9.—Judge John
R. Winn, former President of the
Alaska liar Association at Juneau,
I who has recently wound up bis af
fairs there and is now enroute to
Venire, Cal., declared here that un
less the government lifts restrictions
on the development of the coal and
| oil lands and liberalizes the policy
I of leasing timber lands. Alaska will
j he very much depopulated within
| the npxt 20 years.
Slays Husband; Admitted
To Bail; Curses Hurled
ANNISTON, Ala., July Evelyn
j S. Rlckner. charged with killing her
| husband, James Kitkner, Lieutenant.
| has been admitted to hail of 13,000,
I with the testimony that he died
| heaping curses on her head.
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Acquitted of Conspiracy
Charge in Ten Minutes
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PARIS, July ». — Ernest Judet,
I charged with conspiracy during the
I war, has been acquitted after ten
1 minutes deliberation today.
! Fifteen Shots Are Fired
At Atlantic Rom Runner
HIGHIjANU, N J.. July #. — A
Coast Guard eutter fired IB solid
shots at a speedy rum runner laat
right. The runner escaped as did
another that had taken on a cargo
and made for shore. Shells dropped
near enough to the rum runners to
shed spray over the deck of the