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VOL. XXL, NO. 3206.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY MARCH 30, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FLIGHT TO ALASKA STARTS APRIL 1
PROSECUTION IN l
ILLINOIS TRIAL i
RESTS ITS CASE
Defense Immediately Starts;
Introducing Testimony
in Herrin Mine Riots.
—
MARION. III., March 30. -The
prosecution in the 3cct>nd Herrto riot
trial rested after call tog 32 witnesses
since March 5.
The defense began presentation of
its case.
Thirteen persons, mostly farmers
nnd their wives testified for the
defense in the r-cend Herrin mine
riot trial, all declaring conditions
in Williamran County were peaceful
from April 1 when the miners
slopped work until June 15 when
non-union workers and -armed
guard* were brought in.
The witnesses accused the guards
t,f trying to intimidate the farmers
lining near t.he n'(!ne insulting
women and holding up and assult
ing peaceful citizens, also witli tir
ing the first shots in the outbreak
which caused the death cf three
union men and 22 non-union work
ers.
Not Guilty Verdict
For Capt. Anderson
SEATTLE, March 30.— Superior
ge Sinclair E. Carey late yester
t*i decided a verdict of not guilty
fu the ease of Capt. John L. An
derson, charged with grand larceny
by a grand jury indictment alleging
ha stole $700 worth of fuel oil
while Superintendent of the Coun
ty Ferry System.
Judge Caroy declared no evidence
in ■' been produced to shew Ander
i«ti uMuy and Ho did not see how a
•grsr<t jnty could have found an In
die i en-t.
Foi Dead at Resuit
If Raid, Moonshine Joint
i ICAN. Ky.. March 30.-—De
, i' Sheriff Walker, Isaac Strung,
(>■ _ Strong and Mrs. Isaac Strong
^were killed In a baittle with offi
cers with the Strongs late yester
day when they went to make ar
rests suspecting a moonshine joint
existed. The woman was found dead
in the house after the fussilade of
bullets, a repeating rifle in her
hand. Two stills were destreyed by
the officers.
QUITS K. K. K
INDIANAPOLIS, March 30.—
Lawrence Lyons. Chairman of the
Indiana Republican State Commit-i
tee admitted today he has resigned
from the Ku Klux Klan after hav
ing joined the organization nix
weeks ago. He characterized the
Klan as ‘'Un-American."
HURRAH! HURRAH!
SEATTLE, March 30. A Seattle
Timer, despatch from Washington
•ays General Squiier, Chief of the U.
S. Signal Corps, is working on prob
lems of cable transmission and has
worked out a number of devices
which will be applied to the new
Alaska cable. These new devices
will make the Alaska cable four
times as last as the one now ex
isting. I
ROTARY-RELIGION ME NOT IN
CONFLICT SAYS PRES. HAVENS
DURING CONFERENCE IN TACOMA
TACOMA, March 30.—Raymond M.
Havens of Kansas CHy, Mo., presi
dent of the Rotary International, at
the Rotary district conference here,
stated that Rotary International does
not conflict with religion, ‘Tor it
deals with this present life only." He
said:
"International Rotary allows no re
treat; it does not recognize hermit
loneliness. It is free from fatalism
and predestination of classic-ethics.
To mem of honor it is not easy. The
baittle of the spirit must be fought
among our fellows. Wc Rotarians
do not want to be easy. We must
serve our fellows to prove the worth
iness of ourselves.
"We -ill realize, as Rotarians, that
poor, wc tk mortal man can plunt
his feet firmly upon this earth, but
he can alto lift his eyes to the stars
and grow more constantly in stature.
So Is 04rvoppQrIumity to grow in the
(life ol Rotary; thinking fundatnen
tally, wo can conceive Internationally.
It will wive us an opportunity to
crow within ourselves, seeing things
In aa e-ntirelv different light than
we over sayi them before. We some
times think that our ,puny efforts do
not move harmony, and do not ac
complish results that we desire; but
constant practice, even in a small
way, will grow to proportions and
make a realization of Rotary ethics
throughout thp world.
“This statement that I am about
to make, may not be entirely approv
ed by you, but Rotary International
is something far greater than Rotary
Itself; it is therefore the highest
degree of Rotary, for it confers the
consciousness of being a citizen of
the world, with the vision far greater
than we ordinarily have when we
confine our activity to our own com
munity and club life; that is only a
part of the founding of this tremen
dous idea of Rotary Internatlonay."
WITH SECRETARY DENBY IN WEST INDIES.
Brigadier-General Rufus II. Lane, Adjutant and Inspector
General, and Major M. K. Shear r, both of the United States Ma
rins Ccrps, Aide to Nav&l Secretary Deniby, accompanied their
cltief on the journey of the trail port Henderson to the West In
dies. Many naval officers and numbers of Congress are also on
board, bound to witness the annual maneuvers of the combined
Atlantic and Pacific fleets, in the Panama Canal Zone.
FOSTER DENIES HE IS REGULAR
COMMUNIST; GIVES TESTIMONY
Clemency Appeals
For Catholics
To Be Heard
I i MOSCOW. Martli 30.—Clem j
eney appeals fnr 'the Catholic
prelates sentenced to death will
) be considered at tho first meet- 1
ing of tho Central Executive
' Committee of the 'Soviet govern
I ment either late today cr next
! week, it was 'announced. Mean
i while those sentenced to lie exe
cuted. 1H in number, for opposi
| tion to the Soviet government,
will remain in prison.
Four Men Frozen to
Death; Tug Capsizes
NORFOLK. March 30.—Four men
were frozen to death on Albemarle
Sound when a tug capsized in a
storm. Five other members of the
crew- were rescued by a passing
at earner.
Acetylene Uas Tank
Explodes; Two Killed
FREEPORT, III.. March 30.—The
wife of William Wernicke, rancher,
and her son, were killed and three
persons were seriously injured by tne
explosion of an acetylene gas tank
In the home last night.
WARRANT FOR RIOTERS.
SYDNEY, N. S.. March 30. War
rants have been issued for 35 steel
workers charged with participating
in clashes between pickets and non
union workmen and police during p
strike at tlie British Empire .Steel
Corporation here last month.
ST. JOSEPH. Midi.. March 30.—
William Z. Foster, Communist on
trial hare, tool; the stand in his own
defense and testified that ha had
' been a member of the 1. W. W„
j Seamen's Union. Carmen's Union and
! oilier organization'!,
j Foster testified that ho quit the
Wobblies because ha canid not longer
agree with the program,
j Foster declared he was not a mem
ber u>f the Communist Party in
1 August of last year and never was
| a member of it he Workers’ Party,
j Fo ter testifie I he 'had made a
I speech at the sand dune convention
| that the idea Americans were Ini
j mine from radical ideas was false,
l declaring that highly developed c.i'pi
I taltarn of America helped to create
a militant unionism.
Fount or admitted on cross examina
tion lie planned a radical union of
copper miners in Montana. Minnesota
and Michigan mines last summer.
Questioned about the strength of
the Communist Party which estab
lished a dictatorship vrodetartat in
Russia he admitted Russia has a
population of Ho.bod.ooo and tdie i
I Communist Party had 172.000 liiein
| bers in 1917.
Immense Throng Sobbed
| At Bernhardt’s Funeral
—
PARIS. March 30.—Old residents;
said the throng at Hie cemetery yes
terday afternoon when the body of
I Divine Sarah Bernhardt was placed
in Hie vault was the largest in his
| tory. As the casket was lowered in
the simple tend), a great sigh swept
over the crowd punctuated by sobs.
Klan and Anti-Kian
Candidates Run Close
NEW ORLEANS. March 30 The
incomplete and unofficial returns
show Judge H. F. Brunet, running as
an anti-Klan candidate, is leading
Judge Robert S. Ellis and Judge Co
lumbus Reid, both Klan candidates,
in tlie -primary for Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the Fifth
District.
The votp is so close, however, that
results of an official count must be
awaited
Mosquitoes, Smoke
To Be Eliminated
SAI/r LAKE CITY, Utah, March
30. — Local residents battle wit!h
tnioke in the winter and mos
quitoes in the summer and authori
ties hope that in the not far distant
future both of these nuisances will
be eliminated.
Stringent measures for fire build
ing are In force rnd to a great ex
tent the winter smoke problem in
fast beitrg overcome. Mosquitoes?
arc doomed, city officers declare,
for the marshy land in the vicinity
of the Great Halt Lake is to bo
covered with oil.
Many Salt Lakers say they can
put up with the rraoke in the win
ter If the mosquitoes of the sum
mer are done away with. These
pests breed fast and are quite a
problem to visitors at lake resorts.
AIR STRENGTH
OF FRANCE IS
CAUSING WORRY
Weakness of Air Strength of
Great Britain Is Brought
Out—France Is Rival.
LONDON, March 2,0.—Britain'
wcaknes in air defense again oc
cupics public attention, ani) the
government Is being urged to give
serious and immediate attention L:
the strengthening of that arm of
England's fighting forces. In an ar
ticle in ithe Dally Telegraph Major
C. C. Turner, a well known air ex
pert, compares BriL/in’t air equip
ment with that of F’rafice and de
clares that the British "are incred
ibly weak in, Ihis fes/pdfct, consider
(ng their geographical aquation an.I
their responsibilities." *
Major Turner proceeds to givi
some interesting figures respecting
Prance’s growing airplane resources
and cays Prance entity is mlstre.-s
of the air of ithe world. “That
country," he says, "according te
authoritative information available
in Paris, will have a total of 22C
air squadrons by fne end of the
present year. This means 2,200
airplanes in the firri line, wit It pro
portionate reserves and with tht
necessary transport, medical ami
other auxiliary services. The French
government is actuated by the con
sideration that the strategic situa
tion of France makes he.r more open
to attack by land and sea than any
other western power, and it feels,
therefore. I hat as her 'military pow
er diminishes it Is necessary that
her air [tower bo increased."
France's Reserve.
France's war reserve in the air
service, Major Turner continues, la
about 4.800 airplanes of various
types, with the necessary means of
supply and maintenance. “In the
piece,1 months Ailed Nov. So,
1922,” he writes, "French airplane
manufacturers turned out Ii,3o0
machines, including a few' required
for export.
"The total number of British ac
tive air squadrons is thirty-two, of
which the greater number are
abroad. This makes a deplorable
showing as against France's more
than 200 squadrons."
The British expert then says that
aerial warfare a* conducted in 1914
1918 was child's place compared
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EDDIE HUBBARD
IS NEAR DEATH
Seat tie-Victoria Postal Air
Pilot in Disaster — Is
Rendered Unconscious
VICTORIA, B. C„ March 30.—
Eddie Hubbard, Seattle - Victoria
petal air pilot, 'narrowly escaped
death late yenterdaytAfternoon when
his (seaplane took a nose dive short
ly after starting here. The plane
turned completely ovdr and dumped
Hubbard Into the water. (
The accident was seen from chore
and a pilot boat roncued him. It took
over an hour to restore Hubbard to
consciousness.
Exonerate Patrolman
For Slaying Suspect
SEATTLE. March 30.—Policeman
Percy Pizor has been exonerated
by the Coroner's Jury in connection
with the shooting of Delmi Perry
mly yesterday morning.
SEATTLE, March 30.- Coroner
Corson has called an Inquest to
probe the killing of Delma II. Per
ry, aged 48. Iftrmer checker for the
Pori Commission, by Policeman Per
cy Pizor in order to determine If
Pizor wuh justified in the shooting.
Pizor claimed lie shot Perry when
the later resisted arrest on suspic
ion of being a bold-up man.
Whites to Be Replaced
By Japanese ^Protestation
MEDFORD, Ore., March 30. An
nouncement by the Sacramento In
vestment Company, which recently
acquired title to one of the largest
orchard properties in this vicinity,
that white employees will be re
placed with Japanese, has culled
torth vigorous protests from* civic
end riaternal organizations. An ap
peal has been made to the State
authorities.
FURNESS DIVORCE SUIT STIRS LONDON.
\ IHgft £.F-Turirvg,CousvgellorP*]
Mrs. Elizabeth Ear Earnest!, an Amcrlcuit woman, eh own
here with her counsellor, is pictured leaving the Uindt n courts
alter a hearing of the divorce suit brought by her hti'-ltund, a mout
her of the famous Hrltish sbl|iplltv family Eurnese charges! her
with misconduct with Maurice, the famous dancer, former hus
band of Miss Walton. Ills dancing partner.
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Broadcasting Is
j Heard Distance
Of 8,000 Miles
j | CHICAGO, March 30. — A
; ] radio enitcrtanlmrnt rent broad
; ! cost from the Brazilian Cen
! | tennial Exposition at Rio de
I j Janerio was heard by the
| j United Slater, government’*
. | station at Honolulu. 8.U00 !
I | miles away. This sets a new ]
| | record for broadcasting accord
; | ing to an announcement made '
| by tht Western Electric Cent- ]
I i pany’s office.
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LENINE SAID
TO BE DYING
bONDON, March .10.—Nikolai Le-:
nine, Bolshevik Premier. Is dying, at
cording to a report front Helsingfors
which was received from Moscow.
Paralysis has tlaime l the Premier, it
is said.
After Leni-te's d ull a military dic
tators-hl'.p will h - c ta'olishc'l, headed ,
by Trotsky with four or five assu-i
elates.
Two Thousand Patients
In Hospital Endangered
NEW YORK. March 30 Two fire-1
men weretkilled fighting a spectacu
lar -fire this afternoon which -wept:
two factories and four tenements anil
endangered the Bellevue Hospital
witli 2,000 patients
Harry Dawes Is to Be
Comptroller Currency
ST. AUGUSTINE. March 30.
Precedent Harding let it be known,
that upon returning to Washington i
tie would appoint Harry M Duwoe.
Chicago .banker and brother of
Charles G. Dawes, former Director
of the Budget, to bo Comptroller of
Currency.
DR. SCOTT AT WINDHAM
FOR DEVELOPMENT WORK
WINDHAM. Alaska, March 30.—
(Special) Dr. A. It. Scott of Seat
tle arrived here last week. He ex
pects to do some development work
on mining property he is interest
ed In.
COOL MURDER
DONE IN N. Y.
Woman Waits for Wealthy
Man, Then Shoots Him
— Assassin Is Suicide.
NKW YORK, March 30. Aflor
Benins in her card and then calmly
waiting in the anteroom for un
Interview, Helen Zeliger, asecl .’6
years, entered the office of Freder
ick W. Burnham, wealthy eon
traetor, and shot him with a double]
barreled pistol. Slie then killed her
self with tlie same weapon. Burn
ham is said to be dylns.
NOTED VIOLINIST OFF
ON ORIENTAL TRIP
PHATTLK, March 30. Fritz Kreia
lor, noted violinist, accompanied by
Mrs. Kreigler amt his accompanist,'
Michael Fauchelson, will leave on the
Admiral Oriental Hirer President
Grant on a two months' tour to the
Orient. The concert trip includes all
the large cities of Japan and China.|
HBATTLK, March 30. Slid to be!
tiic (finest furnished ship on the Pa-1
elfic. the Admiral Oriental liner Presl-j
dent Jackson is pow speed in a across I
the ocean for tho Orient. Morej
than $30,000 was spent in transform-1
Ing the liner into a floating palace, i
A dinner given to 37 newspaper man!
of Seattle was staged before the liner!
sailed. I
TEXT OF MEASURE THAT MAT
EXCLUDE RUM FROM URITAIN
LONDON. March 30. Introduced
Into (ho House of Commons by Bd
win Bcrymgoour, the only member
elected on a prohibition platform,
there has been ih3ued the text of a
bill to prohibit the manufacture. Im
portation iind sale of alcoflolic liquors
for beverage purposes.
The bill starts with tho preamble:
" Whereas the inherent evils aris
ing from the production, importation
an 1 talo of alcoholic liquors as bov
erases are intolerable;
“And whereas the traffic in thoso
liquors is opposed to tho best in
tern ts of the nation;
"And whereas all legislative and
SOON HOP OFF
FOR A FLIGHT
AROUND WORLD
i _
! Five Frenchmen Will Start on
April I Around World
Touching in Alaska.
) NICE, Franco, March 30.—Fivo
iFrench aviators composing vvliat is
| known as tho "around the world
squadron" have assembled their
| planes at Marseille and will fly here
I sometime today preparatory to tak
ing off on the flight on April l
around the world.
The flight will be eastward across
Asia, to Nome, Alaska, thence down
tho Pacific Coast to Southern Cali
fornia, thence to Argentina, 'thence
to Pernambuco, Brazil, a jump
across the Atlantic to Bakar in
i French, West Africa, will be made.
PLANES AT MIAMI.
MIAMI, March 30.—The six army
j planes from Havana have landed
| here safely and will remain here
for a day or so. The planes are on
tlielr return trip from Porto Rico to
Teras
BREAK SPEED RECOBD.
DAYTON, Ohio. March 3d—
Lieutenants l.ester Maitland and R.
L. Maughan today beat the world
aeroplane speed record held by Sadi
; Locointe, of France, according to
! announcement at McCook’s Field.
The official announcement is that
Hie two aviators’ speed attained Is
'Withheld until measuring instru
ments used have been calibrated.
NON-STOP FLIGHT
WASHINGTON. March 30.- The
Army Air Service today announced
bjenten.ints Oakley Kelly and John
MiaoReady were preparing to attempt
unothc.r transcontinental non-stop air
CANADA DEFEATS BILL
TO RESTORE GRANTING
OF TITLES IN COUNTRY
OTTAWA, March 30. It Is not be
lieved that ever again will ttie ques
tion of receding; from the posfltlon
taken In 1919 against granting titles
In Canada be presented to the Can
adian Parliament, so emphatic was
the defeat of the motion made by
Loon J. Lardoer, Conservative mem
ber from South Vancouver, B- C.
The vote against granting titles
was 121 to 14. All the Liberals es
copt two and all tho Progressives
volte:l against the motion while all
the Conservativei eaoept three voted
Tor it. as did A. M. Noli, Indapendent,
or British Columbia. Captain George
Black of Yukon and W. F. McLean
and P. L. Church of Toronto voted
with tho government against the
motion. Arthur Mcighan. leader of
tho Conservative Party, voted for the
measure.
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New Leaf Nose
Snake Is Caught
TUCSON. Ariz.. March 30.—The
capture if a specimen of reptile known
ns Brown's Leaf NoHed Snake, the
fifth of its kind ever seen, was made
recently by l)r. C. V. V or hies, pro
fessor of entomology at the Uni
versity of Arizona here.
The species, peculiar to this sec
tion. attains a length of less than
one foot. It was given its name be
cause of tile peculiar scale formation
ot its nose, and in honor of Herbert
Brown of Tucson, its discoverer. Mr.
Brown captured the 'first two speci
mens near here some years ago. The
la-:i capture was reported in 1916,
when two specimens were taken 4n
the vicinity of San Xavier mission,
nine miles south of here. None had
been seen since that time, until Mr.
Vorhies' capture was made
o.her efforts aatiifictorily to regu
late till) traffic have failed;" and
Mien proposes that it shall be en
acted.
“I. From and after the fifth day
of April immediately succeeding the
passing of this act It shall not be
lawful to grunt any new licenses for
the manufacture or sale of alcoholic
or other exciseabie liquors for bever
age purposes; all then existing li
censes shall absolutely cease and de
-termine on the said fifth day of
April, anil It shall not be lawful to
renew any of the said licenses (eltfe
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