THE
EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. XXL,
NO. 3213.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FRANCE IS
WEAKENING
IN RUHR
PACKERS AND
FISHING MEN
CAN’T AGREE
Alaska Fishermen Want Nine
Cents for Reds — Pack
ers Will Pay Six Cents.
iSHATTUE, April 7.— The sailing
of the cannery fillip iSt. Haul, sched
uled for tomorrow, may be delayed
through 'failure‘fif the packers urn!
fishermen to agree on the price of
aaimon for the coining season.
iThe fishermen are demanding 9
cents for reds and the packers are
wiUlng to pay ti cents- Tiie unioners
have been ordered not lo sign unless
their demands aie met.
(Negotiations are being conducted
in San Francisco between the Alaska
PUckera’ Association and tile Fisher
men's Union and the price agree
ment will apply to all canneries.
FIVE STEAMERS
LOAD FOR NORTH
Heavy Cargoes for Alaska
Taken Aboard at Seattle
—Two Boats Enroute.
iSEATTLE, April 7.—Buey scenes
on tho decks yesterday and today
'With Alaska vessels taking cargoes
aboard recalled tho Klondike rush
dayc
The steamers Alameda and Jcf
ferson 'loaded yosterday land this
imoming. getting away for the North
shortly after 9 o’clock. Tho Alameda
ds northbound for ,r>orts in SouWi
eastern and Southwestern Alaska and
tho Jefferson for Southeastern Alaska
ports.
The Victoria, Latouche and Valdct
and also Wading for tills- North.
Almost all of the cargo of the Val
des Is for Kanalak, on Cold Bay
whtlch 'Will be delivered after several
cannery crews and supplies are dls
charged at various places.
The Victoria is going (o cannery
points and the Latouche to Hyder.
Couple, Big Game
Hunters, Divorced
CHICAGO, ApTil 7.—A divorca
granted here to Mrs. Delia J. Akeley
from Carl J. Akoley terminated ia
unique partnership that has carried
them together through 21 years ol
life Into the junglos of Africa and
onto ithe lecture platform. Both were
hunters of big game, known to three
continents.
Oppose Leasing Indian
m Lands to the Japanese
YAKIMA, April 7.—The Daughters
cf the American Revolution in state
convent! on hero, indorsed the protest
of the American Legion against leas
ing of Indian lands in the Yakima
reservation of Japanese.
SNOW COVERS MONTANA
HELENA, April 7.—With a snow
fall of Dine inches since yesterday,
H ale :Ja is expecting the heaviest
Apnil snowstorm recorded. The snow
fall is general throughout Montana.
Fast Boat to
Chase Northwest
Rum Runners
SEATTLE, April 7.—'Returning
from Washington. Millard T. Hartson,
Collector of Customs, announced that
a 35-foot 18 knot boat will be here
within a month to fight rum-running
from Canada.
Captain Dodge. District Command
ant of the Coast Guard, announced
today that two Eagle boats are un
der oon'&truction in San Francisco
and will come to the 'Sound during
tbo early part of May to join in war
ding on booze.
WARN AMERICANS TO FIGHT SHY
OF All PACIFIST ORGANIZATIONS
WASHEWTOX. April 7.—'"Paclf
l»ta” organizations in the United
States were denounced as public en
•® k s by Secretary Weeks in a state
ment published by the War Depart
ment.
Secretary Weeks declared Ameri
cans will do well to "inform them
Iselvesof facts and examine the char
acter of patriotism of those promot
ing pacifists campaign 'before taking,
a step that may readily align them
w1i<h enemies of the Republic.”
Secretary Weeks said the Pacifists
organisations have accomplished wide
spread circulation of incorrect and
misleading statements.
PROMINENT WOMEN TO FIGHT PROHIBITION.
Mrs. F. Lothrop Ames, leader of Boston society. has been
made Honorary Chairman of an association there that has opened
a fight on the prohibition amendment.
IB-a
Gullible Public
Cough Up Millions
j | To Oil Fakers
WASHINGTON, April 7. Oil
stock piiomolers of Texas have j
Hilched more than $100,000,000 :
■from the 'public during the last j
dive years, Solicitor Edwards of
the Post Oftlce Department and j
Chfef Postal inspector Simmons
have ladvised Postmaster General j
New. Bo*h officials have been
cooperating in an Investigation
I at Port Worth, Texas.
WOULD SCRAP
WORLD NAVIES
• Suggests International Law
Maintain Order Among
Nations of World.
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PARIS, April 7. Gustave de Ker
Iguuzo, president of the naval cam
mitteo of the French Senate, in a
I statement to the Associated Prate
! guarantees "in the name of the
1 French Parliament" that Prance wtl
'■suppress the entire fleet if othei
jipowers will do likewise. He sag
! gested the AI 1 fes scrap ^all worlii
' fleets submitting to international law
! to maintain order.
Bank Cashier Reported
Nearly Million Shorl
CINCINNATI, April 7.—A. J Pen
| Hold, former pamhllor of thr Spring
i field National Bank of Springfield.
Indiana, charged with misappropria
ton of fund*, is now alleged to have
got away with at least $973,233.
■Ponfiold attempted suicide when ar
rested recently.
I Porto Rico Is Hitting
For Her Independence
'SANTIAGO. Chile, April 7.—The
j governing board of the Panama Amer
! lea conference Was filed without rec
ommend ing action. a message from
tlho Porto Rico independ -no» Associa
tion requesting a conference of dele
gates join in asking the United
States to grand independence to Porto
Rico. It was deckled the message
and Mubjoct was outside of the con
ference program
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AUTHOR UF DRY
TO RETIRE!:
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Volstead Says He Is Con-;
vinced I here Is Nothing !
in Political Game.
WASHJN'OTON, April 7. Alter 30; I
years tin Congress, Andrew J. Vol-i;
! stead, of Minnesota, is convinced that!:
‘‘there is nothing in the game ot
polities," and he intends to retire to i
his modest home town Oranite Falls
— and again hang tip his shingle as
an attorney. ]
"By tue time a member of Con
gress finances his campaign and pays
the high rent; hcie and the high
-prices for Pooi," he said, “lie hits
nothing left. ‘
Mr. Volstead said he had no inten
tion of entering the lists as a candi
date for the Senate us a successor to
Senator Knute Nelson, whose term
l expires shortly. Because of liis ad
vanced* age, the impres-iion prev.uiLs
■in political circles taat Senator Nel
son will not be a candidate to suc
ceed himself, and he will follow the
footsteps of Uncle Joe Cannon -by
retiring.
While not boasting of the fact, it
is no secret that the most cherished
accomplishment of Mr/ Volstead was
the enactment by Congress ot the
prohibition enforcement, art which
bears his name. He is convinced
that that measure will not he altered
to any perceptible extent by succeed
ing Congresses.
"The campaign for light wines and
beers," he declared, "will get no
where. To approve ..he sale of those
beverages would mpan the return of
the saloon. and ythe American people
have eradicated those dens of in
iquity for all times to come.”
Mr. Volstead's announcement that
he intends to return home to prac
lice l:.w comes as a surprise, for the
li
report was current here that his re
election would he assures! of by the
Anti-Saloon League because of his
activity in behalf of the dry cause.
Rabbi of San Francisco,
Beaten Up, Passes Away :
SAN' FRANCISCO, April 7. Rabbi
Alfred Lafoe, of the Bush Street 1
Temple, beaten unconscious by an
unidentified mun in a hotel room last
Tuesday uit'.it, Is dead.
Bills Be Recommended '
WASH! NIG TON, April 7—Recom- ,
nvondations for a general revision in
designs of ipaper money are nearly
ready for submission to Secretary of
Treasury Mellon by a committee of
treasury officials. +110 recommenda
tions will include the elimination of
tho $2 'bill shunned by gamblers and
mutilated by the superstitious to de
stroy evil omen.
Rear Admiral Knapp
Dies Very Suddenly
HARTFORD, April 7.—Rear Ad
miral Harry S- Knapp, retired, strick
en suddenly, died en route to the
I
hospital
I
HERRIN RIOT
DEFENDANTS
ARE FREED
Jury Acquits Six Men After
Deliberating Onlv Six
Hours, 45 Minutes.
M.AIUON. 111., April ‘v-All six Her
la riot defendants wvo :o quitted by
toe jury which was out airly.^x hours
ind +5 niinutes. ’t***
The defense waved argomeat a
he com insion « r the xie-ning state
nent of lira prosecutdpif
Jmdge Hartwell imiifdiatel.v be*.it
giving the instntcUop*’ to the j in
ind the case Wat, in *!*• jury's hard*
ate yesterday afternoon.
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PROMINENT MAN
BIG KLAN CHIEF
-
Northwest Publisher Identi
fied as Exalted Cyclops
of the Ku Klox Klan.
SEATTLE, April 7.—Fallowing the
llsoovery by the Post-Intelligencer
hat he was “E. C. Blcxkinan." Exalt
he Ku KJux Klan, W. W. Wood
tridgte, one of the- publishers of t he j
.Vest Coaist LumlK'rman, has resigned
tis office and membership in the
(Han.
The discovery resulted from an in
’estigation of a letter signed “Bloek
tftin." protesting agadnst connecting
he Royal ltd dors of the Red Rose and
lit Ladtes of tho Invisible Empire'
vit.h the Klan- I
Woodbrldgn when-*e admitted his i
dentity alter sparring with a ra-|
»orter, said tile exposure would prob
ably di*ive him 'from the city.
Wodibnidgo afterwards wrote out
tis resignation and tlie r isignat Ion
vtas accepted.
“Blockman" has been known as the!
flxalted Cyclops for more than one I
'ear, but Wood-bridge said he had:
leld office only for 10 weeks.
Harding Warns
Against Envy
And Jealousy
AULuHTA. A|tri! 7.—Declared that)
ve did not belipve there wa i aj
‘vpstigo of sectionalism of the Civil,
A'ar left in the United Stales,” Pres-I
dent 'Harding, at a dinner given in|
ids honor by the city, deplored the
levelopment of clashes, organizations
ind blocs. The President said: "LetI
is be on our guard against envy
ind jealousy.”
Seattle Official Will
Yet Face Criminal Charge!
(SEATTLE, April 7.—Following the I
Ilsmlssal of t.he grand larceny I
•hargps against Dwight Lamb, chief
accountant of the city light depart
nent, who is accused of embezaile
nont of city funds, Prosecutor Doug
as announces he will file new
iharges. Douglas says the dismissal
esnlted through a technicality.
[owner Is Now New
Govenor, Porto Rico
HAN JUAN, Porto Kico, April i -
•’ormer Congressman Towner, of
owa, (became Porto Rico's eighth
Vmerican Civil Oovarnor today, tak
ng 'the oath of office before a die
ir.igwished gathering
American Legion Session
Is Now on at Anchorage
ANOHORACE, April 7 —Ed Old fen
tra-s -named chairman of the American
region Alaska convention, opening
esterdaty. Fourteen posts of Alaska
.re represented.
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GIANT CIGAR THAT
IS SMOKEABLE 13
GIVEN UNCLE JOE
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DANVILLE. 111., Anril 7—The
'largest smoketible cigar ever
manufactured has just been pre- ,
sentert to Uncle Joe Cannon 'by
the Cigar Manufacturers’ Asso- '
ciation of New York, it is 28 ;
inches in length, a foot in clr- I
cumferenee and is made of pure I
Havanna shade-grown tobacco, !
filler and wrapper. The cigar i
wetighs a little more than five j
pounds. J
!
Tills is the first picture to reach America of the Kin* cf Slum
and his bride, wiio is a member of (lie royal dancing ballot. Tho
romance of flic King and the dancer entranced those who followed
it, and the wedding was the occasion for much celebration among
the Siamese, who thoroughly approved it.
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Coolidgc Says
Harding Will
Be Re-elected
WASHINGTON. April T. -He
I sponding to Inquiries to his at- j
! titiule toward 1924. Vire-Preii
| dent Ooolidge predicted Hard j
| ing's renomination and re-elec
I tion will be demanded because I
of the record of the admlnistru
j tion.
| Coblidge declined to predict ]
| what his own attitude will be to- |
I ward renomination. indicating
j 'thut lie did not regard the pres- j
j ent as an opportune time to dis- -
I cuss tlhe subject.
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HIGH OFFICIALS
ARE CONDEMNED
Prohibition Commissioner R.
Haynes Roasts Purchas
ers of Bootleg.
NEW YORK, April 7.—Prohibition
eominlKsionpr Roy Haynes made a
speech here condemnin'? persons ‘‘In
high official and professional posi
tions who tacitly sanction viol cHon
of the prohibition laws by purchas
ing bootleg liquor.”
iHiiynes declared the New York
state census figures show a decrease
in death rates from alcoholism front
5.4 per cent in 1317 to 1.2 In 1322.
Alma Gluck Will
Adopt Russian Tots
NEW YORK, April 7 -Alma (thick,
Lhe opera star, aid that she Is
going to adopt four ItusBlan children
Site already has three of her own.
”1 began about <a month ago to
negotiate for the adoption.” she said.
"Pour promising children will be
selected for me. children who will
make the .best of the educational ad
vantages I will provide for them.”
Ku Klux Klaners Are
Fighting for Control
ATLANTA, April 7.—The contest
for control of the Ku Klux Klan be
came three-cornered today when
Harry B. Terrell and other member*
oi the so-called insurgent faction,
expelled from membership several
months ago, petitioned for the ap
pointment of a receiver.
Former Emperor Simmons, founder,
is practically in charge now of all ex
penditures but Dr. Evans, head of
the Klaners, Is making a fight for
control.
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STEAMSHIP MAN
IS QUESTIONED
FOR TWO HOURS
Rustgard Asks Many Ques
tions of Knickerbocker
on Minor Matters.
For i wo nours lasl n 11.i Attorney
General John Rustgard questioned
General Manager Knickerbocker, of
the Alaska Steamship Company, on
minor phases of the general trans
portation situation before the Joint
legislative committee now consider
ing that subject. In the main, the
questioning of Mr- Knickerbocker
Win apparently in the nature of a
"fishing expedition,” which, at the
time iat least, seemed to produce
nothing tangible.
Most of the time was taken up by
the Attorney General in questions
relative to the pamphlet Issued by
the Alaska Steamship € nnpany an
swering Mr. Rnstgurd's charges on
the joint tariff agreement between
the ocean lines anil tile Alaska Rail
road which was introduced a|, the
opening session Wednesday night.
The Attorney General had claimed
In letters and a purported interview
In the Dearborn Independent that the
ooetan lines received more money
from tho joint through rates than
they would have received under lo
cal rates, while the company main
tained it actually got 21 per cent
less under the through rates. Mr.
Rustgard said, after considerable time
had been spent in questioning, that
apparently thi-re had been some mis
understanding over the matter and
that lie had discovered seven months
ago he had been incorrect in his
original statements as to the com
parative revenues derived from tho
two rates. “If you h id so Informed
the Alaska Steamship Company, I
can assure you this -pamphlet would
never have been printed." declared
Mr. Knickerbocker. "In view of this
(Coutfnued on Page woven.)
FOXY POLICE TRAP FOXIEST OF
BOOTLEGGERS; SOUND FIRE CALL
HAMMOND. Irid.. April 7.—'Whit
ing police mixed craft with psychol
ogy and as a result arrested Frank
Gatarkh, said by them to be the fox
iest (bootlegger in the state., Gata
rlch’s premises had been raided time
and attain but police nerer could
find anything.
They arranged with the fire de
purtment tor a fake call to a house
apposite Gatarich'* saloon. They
planted themselves at tile back door
a-s she fire wagons clanged in front
of the 'saloon. Gatarich rushed out
ro see where the fire was and the
police rushed In to see where the
booze was. They found it behind the
bar, and when Gatarich came in they
arrested him.
BRITISH CLAIM
FRANCE WEAKENS
ON OCCUPATION
Flying Visit of Former French
Minister to England In
dicates New Action.
LONDON, April 7.—British official
dtmi Is reported to see a weakening
by Franco on Knlir occupation. Tills
Is indicated as the result of a visit
this week to England by Louis Look
hour, tornicr French Minister of Re
construction. Minister Lunkheur con
ferred with Lla.vd Oeorgo. Premier A.
Tlonar Low. Chancellor of Exchequer
Baldw'n and Bail Darby. Secretary
cf War. The conference was regard
ing the broad question of the Anglo
French r?ia lions on Downing Street.
BOMB EXPLOSION
ESSEN, April 7. A bomb explosion
on th'o railroad bridge nor Dutscrge
last night did sflght damage.
Murders His Friend;
Admits Being Drunk
TACOMA, April 7. Pat O'Donnell,
arrant d fcr second degree murder
of Martin Ols-on, logger, near Euton
r'ille early yesterday, said:
“1 gftess I am guilty."
O'Donnell d-echarenl he was drunk
and did not know he had killed his
friend.
The Judge refused to accept his
plea of guilty and O'Donnell will face
rial later.
Chicago Bomb Explosion
Wrecks Paper of Kluxers
C'HiK'AGO, April 7-—A bomb ex
pies ion wrecked the office of “Dawn,"
i Ku Klux Klan publication, and
mother explosion partially destroyed
he office of F. F. 0-1*1 li 1 and H.
tlofter, who .idvert.laed in the paper.
Butterfly Life of
Yew York Kills
rwo More Women
NEW YORK, April 7- Miss Beaale
dc Mason. of Buffalo, and Mrs, Irene
lland-ino, of Jersey City, were found
Hindered with their throats cut on
in isolated road.-lcW on Staten Island,
rise jtoSice hcl'iev^p the slayings oe
■urred elsewhere unil the bodies were
.hruwn from an automobile.
Wealthy Man Goes to
Prison for Life;Murder
SANTA ORUZ, Cal., April 7 J. H.
flusters, wealthy realty man, was to
luy sentenced to life imprisonment
or boating his wife to death on Feb
mwy 22. At Eire trial Masters claim
'd two 'burglars committed the deed.
Vutoists Drags Victim
For More Than Mile
'SEATTLE, April 7—B. Itahushi,
ruck driver, is held without bail in
he county jail pending investigation
nto an accident last night when his
ruck struck VV. Wiley, aged 17 years,
ind dragged the boy more than a
mile before being stopped by pur
suing motorists. Wiley is expected
o die. The accident occurred near
Uiburn.
)ver Two Million
)ollars in Bonds
stolen from Mail
ST. IjOUIS. April 7 —The 8t. Louis
’ost-Dispatch prints a story saying .
he bouds of the St. Louis Federal t
iank. amounting to $2,139,900, were
Obtained by bandits who held up a
nail truck last Monday. The loot
ilso included $223,000 in other bonds
if which $$1.U00 are negotiable.