THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIMEV
VOL. XXII., NO. 3235.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
TO REJECT GERMAN
DOVE OF PEACE
BECOMING ILL
SENATE ADOPTS
NEW SCHEDULES
fOft TAX BILL
Overthrows House Fisheries
Pack Taxes and Net In
comes on Mining.
By a vote of twelve to three, Mr.
Wuson being: absent, the House re
fused to concur in the Senate
amendments to House Bill No, 60,
the revenue and taxation measure.
The negative votes were cast by
Representatives Callahan, Grant and
Keys.
The Speaker appointed Ross. Daly
and Price as the House members of
a Conference Committee.
The Senate this afternoon com
pleted the conaideiation of the Gen
eral Appropriations Bill, and
changed it only by the adoption of
some minor amendments. The prin
cipal discussion was on an amend
ment offered by Mr. Snodgrass to
appropriate $15,000 additional for
the agricultural branch of the
Alaska Agricultural Ccllgce and
School of Mines. The amendment
was defeated by a vote of four to
four. Senators Aldrich. Brown,
Dunn and Snodgrass v:ted for the
amendment.
With the schedules standing as
adopted last night, the Senate this
morning passed the taxation anc
revenue bill without a vote being casl
against it. It was considering the
general appropriations bill this after
neien, hearings having opened on ll
shortly before noon.
Both Houses had virtually cleared
the way for continuous action on
theee two measures when recess was
taken at noon. In the House onlv
one Senate bill remained to be acted
on, Senator Ayer’s bill requiring
branding and marking of reindeer and
registration of such brands and
marks. Passage of this bill was
anticipated.
In the Senate, House Bill No. 52
appropriating $3,000 for the survey
of the Unalakleet-Kaltag portage
(Continued on Page Bight.)
SAYSlSmELD
CONFESSED THAT
HE KILLED GIRL
Jail Mate of Alleged Slayer
Testifies at Trial in
Vancouver, Wash.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 3. —Hoy
Motore, alwaiting trial on a charge of
iptMitHclipating in the robbery of the
SeRsuFWto circus ‘ticket wagon last
iyoaT, testified today that George Ed
ward Whhtflokd told hint' in jail on
Itho might of April 8 that he had
tflain, lUydar-old Anna Nosko.
According tio witness Moore, Whit
field . Said ho mot the girl on the
rafflrelad truck oral hit her with it is
ifi«t When she screamed. He then
onkTied liar into the woods and said
be cut her ithroalt to end her misery.
SMOKING IS HARMLESS, OPINION
! GIVEN or BRITISH PHYSICIAN
laONDON. 'May 3.—The danger to
•smokers from nicotine .poisoning is
doCla/rod by Dr. B. P. Roger to be "so
ttmaU iaa (to be almost negligible.”
Tbh should be tidings of comfort and
joy to many smokers in America,
•whore. McoortJing to dispatches re
centred hero .aomctlnng like a crusade
is under way against ‘ M.v Lady N'ieo
Uno." She is there denounced it is
said, las a “dissipated jade who is
rflnpanslble «or much that is injurious
to health."
Dr. Roger's opinion is based on
erporiments oonduotod by himself to
ddtermuno the action of fire on the
itObacco consumed. He Iras just pub
lished an 'akoount of thorn with the
oondusions 'he hire reached.
He firs1!, took 10 grains of tobacco
(■beeped In alcohol and water in order
to extract. all the nicotine. He said
Ifbc nobition was Mtnong enough tn
SHE MAKES A $187,000 APOLOGY.
'<3Umou.r*
Mi s. Cobtruds Lindarn. m 'll niour, in order ito obtain ;i legs v
of 1187,000 from the estate of her mother. Mrs. Gertrude Lin.1 .•
'man. of Grand Kapids. Michigan, has har. led a written it.poh<gy >
her brother. B. A. Linder in an, president at the .Liredenman y el A.
Machine Conip iny, oif Muakeegon «nd Choj'gj The beqne. was
imado upon condition that the sister make amends t r wha! : i ;
another thought was a wrong to her eon.
PRINCE OF WALES SHOWING
INTEREST IN HOSPITAL DAY
I Little Child Ends
Long Legal Fight
For Possession
•CHICAGO. May 3 In a long legal
flgM by Mrs. Ada Morris, her 11
yc*ar-old <1 aiujfhter, A!ire Boaltrice, was
| today awarded ito Mr. and Mrs.
| Janies A Nrtital.
Tho girl was taken from the moth
er wiithin 24 hours of birth. She
was obtained by the NiattrJia from an
orphanage.
On the stand itlio little girl said
she thought she could learn to love
j their mother, tout already loved the
| >Pastltal3 and Wished ito stay with
| thorn. *
ruthenFerg
IS GUILTY
•ST. JOSEPH. Mk-h.. May .'I
Charles K Rm'henlmrg, of ’Cleveland,
has town convict(d of violating the
Michigan crtmimajl syndicalism law.
The jury took three ballots. The
doclr'hon t unreal on the state of
RuChenbr.rg's mind on the Communist
program when he attended the con
tention of the Workers’ Party last
August.
j kill a (log weighing four stone
He then took *a simitar quantity of:
!the same fobaleeo im<l 'burned it In a|
■pipe so constructed as to retain the;
whiole of tho .smoke produced. The:
■liquid rayulfing was found to have j
no worse Off art on a dog than toj
tirouiblo libs digestion. Tho dog was |
of the aanie 'Wright as the dog on i
which nicotine had been used with|
flnltal dEfek-t.
IDr. Roger says he found that com- j
bulst ion destroys the nicotine, or rath
er transforms it into cro-aols, phenols i
and dtheir substances which if they!
are rather irritating are neverthc- j
| leSs excellent antis optics. Tho pipe
‘■Or oiffcvr rtf e-holder hr says should be
kcgVt clean, but with that danger
guarded against there is no other. ■
“lin (these cendhtlons,'’ he states in j
conclusion, ‘Itoibarco may be even I
good for the health ”
CHICAGO. May 3. Tin- Pr ice
Wales Iih.h wi'iu.'i E. S. Gilmore,
suportStttender«., We •It .. M. i. . j1
IfoUpetul, Ch ij,gj, and fhadmaji • t
the Nlaltic il H j.ml Day committee,
of hi» ln,\!to?.- in Uht> cib.tervanc© of
Nlait.ionin.l Hoipi'.al Diy, May 12. by
'the hoaplttaJs •of the IT not e l Sl V.es
and Gonadu, and of bin 1 retention to
ibring this rreovdmiaret :o Hie vtontl.n
of England hospital ::un‘h ..lea w h
it he idea, cif having them coiiiohi? In
itihe cel otbra lion.
On aocoiinl of the ir.i'nrtvit I ikrn in
Noitiionnl Hospital I>aiy iby Cum ! in
hoK»pllta®3. Hinder ithc direction of L>r.
M. T. MicBochcrn. Ganiadiam < l; iir
inlnn. ami at.o httmii.ro Nijfiooal H( ■
ipStial Day is observed on M ly 12. tii •
aniniverrory -at :h© ibiuih t>f Floronea
Nightingale, founder of modern hos
pital and nursing in; Ihodis. Mr Oil
‘more wrote to the Prince, indicating
he believed he would bo glad li
hear of the itrnmor.d.vtm sitooe.ss of
the movement. The Prime, who i,
pirorklent of (the Itoyai Northern Hos
pital of Eowiton, in iho letter for
ward ed to the uomvmiiiUoo for the
King EdwuI’d's H .pi; I Kund for
laondon. of which lie also is presi
dent, hate roqua-dod it his cerium it.tee
to give it aitcntiion.
According to rop it a received by
Matthew O. Holey, ( hi '.ago. executive
secrcitory of the Nut ion 11 Hospital
Day committee, some 3,000 hospitals
ithrsniRhouit the United States and
Canada will founts “open house” and
dtherwi.se disserve the 1923 Nattional
Hospital Day on May 12. The sole
objtxst of the movement is to make
t'ho public hotter moqUaiimtod with
hoop i tala.
Government Prosecute*
Case for Injunction
OHICAGO, May 3. -Although the
load org of t'ho railroad shopmen
withdrew from the defense in the
injunction proceedings against 'them
by the 'government, the government
has started presonti lon of evidence
to support tide governiment's action
to intake the order permanent.
Tho shop 'crafts ct«ffctta.ls claimed
the strike has 'boon sri'Jtlod
Attorney General Daugherty said
the ease Would be •puolicd to make it
contain ithtuit no future . fprarece of
ma'iD's could roreu'ft fr.~i.ii vrlkes.
BRITAIN TO CUT TAXES
IaONDON. May 3 -Great Britain's
budget calls tor $4,000,000,000. The
ireoome fax may be redut ed, Sir
‘Robert, Horne contending conditions
justify a further cut of a shilling to
the pound, multi c g the rate four
Shillings 'to the pound, or 20 i*r
cent.
SILENT TRIBUTE
PAID TO MEMORY
SENATOR NELSON
Both Houses of Legislature
Cease Work Ten Minutes
in Tribute to Dead.
‘Silcr.lt tribute to ie m n.cy of
late Sr.nUtor Knute Not on, of Min
nosota, was paid this iu ruing by flu
Alaska IjegitOalturo when for ID min
ntes, Iboginnlag at 11, a m.. b I
HauBos paused in t.iiejr work, dr. y
plug every tilling as it .itc-od, and fat
j the •iu’op'le of Alat'ka thus express
, Jippreeiaittan of the kindly Interest j
oMtaa displayed in 'the Territory by
the iMinnepiOta Senator. The Leg.Ala
i nro’* nicit.on was tali eh in accord
with 'Serna.to OoneurTcftt Heiriu:: n
.Vo. U, Introduced late yesterday to
Senator Chamberlin, and pi ?.!
wlUiuwt delay ibv (both Houses.
The retool tit ion declares:
•rphlai; ull Alaska m wras the da.ith
-'of the Honortuible Kmfte Nelson, for
mer United iSLaites S.-rrator irom Min
nesota, who during his entire public
life wU's a Saaunch friend and a warm
slipperier of all lno.i arcs that tend
I ed towards the date foment of Al
ludkia; wlhio had -ah firiimate knowledge
i if Alaska and all <nK»Ucrs pertaining
''to A'la.dii f and whft ever felt and
; inian'ifosited a kindly attl intelligent in
, tereet in ithe wolta.nl of the T>rri
tory.
■'Bo is further resolved: Tb it. is
appreciation at the high regard ci
toritainod by the people of Al.nk i
-iltor tlhe deceased -Senator, this I. gis
laiture. 'at. the hour 11 o’clock on
Ithe 3rd daiv of May, 1923, tlie Iasi
day of the session, cease all luisi
j news for Itdta period of ten minutes In
I order to rondor a silent tribute to
Ithe memory of the dead.
“Be lit furilher irosolved : That ill is
: resolution ibo sprottd upon ihe jour
nal of Ithe Scuttle anti of the House,
j and It hat cop his ba forwarded to the
I President, itio tho Congress of the
United i9ta!t«s- and to the Delegate
of Alaska ”
Flags at Half Mast
iHnblic Iflaigs aro hanging at half
11las-t fa-rum ithe VuriottB Federal an I
; TorTlIorial ofifire --'ta.Ffs in respect tq
Sontiior Nelwin and will remain so
i unit!I the Iftmereil hour tomorrow.
RUMRUNNERS
FIGHT BEGUN
! Coast Guard Concent rates
Forces Off New Jersey
Coast for Sharp War.
| (WASHINGTON, May 3.--Coast
tlU'atd headquarters today ordered a
eonx eiUtrat.. n of all available cut
tors off title Jersey Count to oombat
riim runners. The casters will i>
all communication ihntwoen the rum
ftorit and the shore, watching bath
day and night.
BOOZE GRAFT SCANDAL
L WASHINGTON. May 3. Prohib:
I it. loo itrouibloa from bootlegging to
allcftaltiiOt»s of bribory in several
; utlates a|ocuTtnil|atP“l here anti engaged
| the 'Hitt eintlon or high officials of at
! least throe FVxl ral agencies, the
jtreasury end justice depactm nts and
i prohibition entfor ometrt Hie adquariers
Thoro wore n-dicaitiJODS til 11 facts
i developed from he 'aver a I invesri
Iguititma in progro a might ultlmatrly
lootine 'before Pneddoat Harding.
huffyTquits
DAYTON. Ohio, May 3 Dr. George
'de Bothezat, Inventor of the helicop
ter being tedad rat the McCook
Flying Field, has notified the Com
mandant that under present condi
tions be could nio longer continue
work. Tt ts report**! 'that, he re
garded .published sttwtomen's as be
ing derogatory.
ITALY TO PAY DEBT
NEW YORK, May 3. A London
oaibie to the World says Italy now
realizes the necessity of mskinr. clear
tihe tfadt that she intends to p lv her
American and British defbts. I i
underritood Premier Mussolir.. w;!l
appoint a committee to Invest i;;a‘e
the debt questton and report .-n tut
■btwi possible methods of pay x.en\
HE IS NAMED IN $500,000 LOVE SUIT.
Warren MqOirtrthf. weui hy N.Y :k ',’j;wv r mi l i inn, hn
'been named defendant! In a $r>0u,n00 alienation of fed :.n» at'\
filed 'by Julio Galbricl de rz:iro y Jarrln, w il.hy Cuban .planler
«nd 'investor, well known In the United SJttttea because of hia fre
quent ’visits, The Cuban alleges MoCouihe has come between him
'and bis beautiful wife, who, until their .marring- In Newt* rt. Rhode
Island, in 1915, was Ih- vivacious Virginia FVsIit, of S hauls.
Mrs. JaaTin a.t present is in Paris nnd her husband in Havana.
MoOonlhe ’alleges tho suit was filed because he hid won a judg
tnent for $".0,000 again R Jarrin far money he had loaned him.
WOMEN TO CONSIDER FIGHT
AGAINST SALE OF NARCOTICS
Claims He Has
Cure for
Tuberculosis
I PITTSBURGH, Alay 3 —I)r.
j Williaun P. Nolajii, addressing the
I Wct't Moreland County Medical
| iSoofcrty (today at Oreenburg,
| claimed ho ha t established i
; cure for pulmonary ;.«bejvuloKi<
! 'through the use of pure cirbiti
latwl calc linn. Dr. Molun de
cbtrod that 73 advance'! c > -es
j h! * I been benefited to -uch a
'stage they could b> pronounced
j as cured.
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COLLEGE HAZERS
j ARE SUMMONED
I
Death of Student at North
western University to Be
Thoroughly Probed.
•CHICAGO, May 3. Convinced that
college hiucra .taw CeighLon .VI junt
•die, Ooronor Wolff halted the inquest
lalte youtierday (afternoon and an
! nmincod he would denmnd from the
Madtihw cetera University < umplele
lists of sophomores ansi -freshmen
wlto took part In the class rush in
Stiptombcr. 1921. .after 'whh.h Mount
disappeared Coroner Wolff said he
would question soparaitoly each per
aon ' summoned.
'Mount’s body was found yestsrd .v
beneath u dock on the waterfront a:
Evanston. Until his body was found,
nothing warn known of the student
who hat Ihoen v,o long miisring.
FIX AMOUNT*GERMANY OWES
WASHINGTON'. May 3. . The
United 'States Ins tentatively fixel
$1,187,736,867 the amount demanded
ftsrtm Germany for American World
Wbr Halms, which total 12,319.
•ATLANTA, Mmy 3. -The General
1 Federation of W(linen's Clubs, vhen
jit conv'Oincu in this ctty May 7 11.
will take up, among other thiaas, the
question uf a <■;:mp.iIgn against the
mile of narcotic i throughout the
country.
It h declared by iri offh lal of th •
federation that. -the women will Join
hands with t he Ant i-N'.irv-otb League
iio lanirtching a national campaign!
against the drug evil- An endeavor j
will be m id;' to secure tile C(K»|»er,i
ion of every imcuibor of the feder
>fto:i in the Work winch the ‘•Com
lilttee to Publish Facts'' already im
: ill h ind. Tins comimtltoo consists of
Hr. H. B. v >n Kiclnsmld. president
of tlie I’nive .1:y of California; Judge
Benjamin Binds.>". United States
Judge of tile 12th Federal district;
1 HiaroM .Lloyd, fiini star comedian;
1L. I> Oak(. Los Aug ales chief of
I police; .1 I*. Carter. Bonnier colter
tor of tli United Sitatirs Uevoiiuc
| Department; Hr.wad er C. if Boyd, of
the rtalv.ut hi Army, and others.
Train Is Wrecked; Five
Are Killed, One Missing
SALT LAKH CITV. May 3. Three
ipaonengers and it;wo trainmen wore
kfliled and one trainman Is missing
as tlio result of a wreck of the Den -!
ver Rio (Jrinde & Western train,
eas: hound No. 3. near Woodslde, last
night. This Is according to official
advici s.
HENPECKED CLUB, CLAIMING ADAM
AS FOUNDER, HAS ANNUAL OUTING
YORKSHIRE. .May X The mem
>X3T< of the fa mo tin Yorkshire organ
ization known as t.he "Hen peeked
Club" hail th'-lr “once a ytstr outing"
I recently.
To an ;•(.!,Itrxl hamlet, imiles to
the wp it of Halifax, the president of
ithc «-!tlb invited his “fellow .bonds
! men of tho scrubbing brush and
pciil" to gather, and ns every inani
I ber was loyal to hb pledge of se
TWO NATIONS
OBJECTING TO
REPARATIONS
France Rejects Recent Pro
posals—Belgium Will Prob
ably Do Likewise.
GREAT BRITAIN’S STAND
ON SEAS, THREATENING
j Peace Dove Given Wallop as
France and Turkey Are
Nearing Trouble.
BRUSSELS, May 3.—Belgian of
ficial circles consider entirely in
sufficient Germany's offer made yes
terday for 30.000.000,000 gold
maiks for reparations of which Bel
gium would get about 2,500,000,000.
Advices received here state that
the Fiench government will not
even Consider the offer made by Ger
many and will reject it. at once
Under the Versailles treaty, the
Reparations Committee on May 19,
1921, fixed the amount of German
reparation at 132,000.000,000 gold
irnikr, Germany accepting under the
ultimatum with occupation of the
Ruhr as an alternative.
FRANCE REJECTS IT.
PARIS, May 3. — The French
Cabinet today unanimously rejected
the new German reparations pro
posals.
The reason for the French rejec
tion cf the German proposals is
given as the lack of guarantees and
the insufficient sum offered by Ger
many.
Premier Poincare will consult
with the Belgian government with
regard to a reply which will be
mt to all Allies.
MORE TROUBLE SCENTED.
WASHINGTON. Mey 3 —Yester
day's announcement in the House of
Commons that Great Britain must
‘ command all seas" is accepted
here as a return to the traditional
basic policy of Great Britain as con
trasted with the theory of her
rpokesman at the Washington Arms
Conference.
American naval officers are of the
opinion the announcement violates
the spirit of the naval treaties.
ANOTHER TENSE SITUATION.
CONSTANTINOPLE. May 3.—The
French Charge d'Affairs has handed
a notp to the Turkish Government
declaring- that the French will aban
don the Laussane conference unless
concentration of Turkish troops cn
the Syrian border is ordered stopped
and the troops immediately with
drawn.
FRANCE LENDING MONEY
MOW YORK, May 3 A Paris spe
cial says the 'bill * bran 300.000,000
foams bo Jutfo-Slavra will bo ap
proved by the Krone h Chamber of
Deputies This follow s similar lorn*
to Rumania and Poland
Gompers Appeals
For Support to
World Court
WASHINGTON. May 3. Samuel
Gompons. president of the American
Federation -of I.jibcr. has asked ‘‘non
partisan unity" in support of Hard
lngV-i proposal Cor American member
ship in the World Court, saying that
“ft is an 'initial stop which will in
evitably load to participation in all
efforts to maintain peace between
nations.”
! ito v. the “henpecked" were nut dis
turbed by ithe ‘ henpeokura."
Thu club is counted an the oldest
in existence*. Attaint being claimed as
the first mnmtxc. Kvery year new
members art* enrol lad. but applicants
j hawe to puss a severe tost providing
absolute pralof thut on every day In
•the year exeer>‘ the d ly of tlteir out
ing they are “slaves of ,the apron
string; and domestic drudgery.”