THE ALASKA
EMPIRE
ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXL, NO. 3205.
JUNEAU. ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FISHERIES BILL
IS INTRODUCED
IN LOWER HOUSE
Foster Sponsors Fish Bill
Identical with Britt Bill
of 1921 Session.
LEGISLATURE urged to
ACCEPT OFFER OF BONE
Believes it Duty of Lawmak
ers to Present Concrete
Plan to Congress.
The fir- ? f|> Inlicalirg accept
knee by the Legislature of the ::iv:
tation of Gov. 'Scott C. Ilona to it
to present to Congress a solution of
the Alaska fisheries problems In the
shape of legielattion was taken in
live House of 'Representatives this
morning wfhen iMr. Foster presented
a complete fish bill with a concur
rent resolution which requests that
the bill be made a law by Congress.
The measure 'is virtually identical
with the Britt fisheries bill which
was passed by the Senate in 15*21
and failed of passage in the House.
“I am convinced it i3 the duty of
the Legislature to respond in good
faith to the Governor's suggestion
that It enact « fisheries law giving
a square deal to everyone concerned
with the assurance that it will re
ceive -the support of 'the Administra
tion, " said Mr. Foster, commenting
on the re-inlroductlon of the meas
ure. "The bill tin its present shape
probably will not be acceptable to
everyone, but tt offers a starting
point, something concrete from which
an accesptable code may be evolved,"
he added.
Assails Present System
The resolution draws attention to
tile over-fishing of the waters of the
North Pacific, depletion of salmon
streams In Alaska, steady decline
of prosperity in the salmon canning
industry and points out the inade
quacy of the present fishing laws. It
declares that "regulation of the fish
eries of Alaska, even with the best
of intentions, can never be adminis
tered from Washington by officials
(Continued on Fas* noven.)
Dream Proves
Accurate; Wife
Loses Husband
PHILADELPHIA, March 2!».—A
wife’s dream that her husband had
fallen from a ship and drowned was
a true one, it was proved, when the
widow of Oscar Lawrence, of Olou
coster City, M. .1 , identified the body
of her husband in the morgue uf
Coroner Drewes at Darby, Pea t • rt
the eve i t its burial
(Lawrence, who was 51 year., old,
was employed at Hog Island when
he disappeared February 13. Mo
trace of him could be founu by
searchers, and Mrs. Lawreu a in
sisted that Ive had drowned the wav
s'ae saw In a dreaim.
His body *was found in Darby Creek
and taken in charge by the Coroner,
who read of Mrs. Lawrence's dream,
in a Philadelphia newspaper He
comaiumicatcd with Gloucester cdtj
polk‘a and the mystery of Law.vn.’a'a
disappearance soon was solved
THREE PROMINANT WOMEN ARE
TO SEEK PRESIDENCY OF D. A. R.
WASHINGTON. March 29.—Inter
est lin the annual conprcss of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion to be held here April 18 to 21
is centering in the triennial election
of officers with a tih rce-cornered con
test on for the offico of president
general.
Tho ■candidates now in the field to
succeed 'Mrs. George Maynard Minor,
whose term expires this year by con
stitutional limitation, include three
prom'inent members: Mrs. Anthony
Wavne Cook, of Pennsylvania; Mrs.
G. Wallace Hanger, of the District
of Columbia, and Mrs. William Cum
mins Story, of New York, honorary
presrident-Rpnorat of the D. A. R.
Tickets have been announced par
tially by the candidates, and there Is
every Indication of an exciting con
test when the 2,«(M) delegates assem
WILL FORCE “OTHER MAN” TO MARRY HIS WIFE.
When Ilarrie S. Everett, a manila importer, learned 1hut
Shelly Perry White, Manila banker, had won the love of Mra.
Everett he forced the banker to sign a confession. Then lie made
White give Mrs. Everett $1,750 to go 10 San Francisco to get a
divorce and forced White to pledge himself to marry Mrs. Everett
when she had obtained the de. re ■. Mrs. Everett was Miss Mildred
Ayes, a San Francisco society woman, before her marriage.
BERLIN WOMEN IN LOVE PACT;
AGREE TO POISON HUSBANDS
THEN UNITE. COURT IS TOLD
1 | Harding Is Not
Pleased With
I Presidential Talk
| ^ ST. .VUG IJ ST INK. March 29.
I 1 It has became known that Presi
! dent Harding did not consider
Attorney General Daugherty's
! | recent statement predicting ho
will bo a candidate for re-elec
1 tion as necessary, opportune or
dn good form.
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CAVALIER OF
ANCIENT DAYS
TO BE HONORED
St. Augustine Will Celebrate
Discovery of Florida Next
Week — Big Events.
ST. AUG USTI.VE, Fla . March 2p.— !
With a touch of historic sentiment, j
St. Augustine, tike oldest city in the [
United States, will celebrate the dls-1
covery of Florida by Ponce tie Leon
on April 4, ,r> and 6. The celebration
to be presented this spring is the!
Ifir.il since the World War and into!
jit there is to be crowded all the j
: gayety, beauty and charm of 16th con-1
tury romance1.
Plans for the Ponce de Leon cele
bration are unique and essentially a;
part of 'St. Augustine, for the pro
gram is designed to portray famous
historical happenings of which the
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blc in Memortial Continental Hali. i
Officers will servo for three years'
with the exception of the vice presi-,
dents-genoral, whose terms are only
for two years.
The , proaidents-Keueral of the U.
j A. it. have include! notable Amerl.
can women. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison
was the first accepting the office
while first lady of the land* Mrs.
! Ad-lai Stevenson and Mr- Charles]
j W. Fairbanks, wives of vice pro si-]
dents of the United States, also have1
j served in this office.
Two picturesque figures will l>ei
] missing from the convention this
] year—Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, known
] as the "Little Mother of the D. A.
| H.,” vVho died last fall, and Mrs.
John A ix>gan. widow of the C.ivll i
War general, whore death occurred
last month.
HERLIX, March 211 \ psycliopa
thologicat drama war. unrolled hefsi-r*
Berlin Criminal C.urrt when uorei
of it lie 600 lova letters be. ween twc
women, who. it Is allege I, agreed
to poison tlvelr hudtan.'l.s that they
might live together, were read at
their trial.
Chau Ella Kit:a and Frttu Margaret
Xebbo are th? woman on trial, with
Frau Xebb"'s mother named as ac
ctufoWPi Frau Klein, officials say
[tolacau/l her husband for weeks unti
he rftliwly I; cl. Frau Nebbe's has
bund Sir.("j| ed, it is declared, because
a clalrvp.vint gave 'to her a secrel
poison that turned out to be a harm
less powder.
Writing to her “only loved one
little mouse." Frau Klein is alleged
to have said:
“It is night and 1 am in bed. I
cannot slpep. Klein is in a high
fever, walking the floor. Ho hai
such pains that he wants to climb tile
wall. Bult it does not matter. I will
not lot him slip through my lingers.'
Another letter said: “Today 1 gave
him u strong potion and it gave him
llalpitation of the heart. I was ta
place compresses'cm iiis heart but !
put them under his arm "
A letter said -to have tie -n written
by Frau Xebbe to Frau Klein read:
“Dour Love: Do be cautious lest it
be discovered. The scoundrels are
not worth that we should suffer for
it.”
Another from Mrs. Xebbo said: “If
you had only given him enough so
that it would he over. If only he
does not go and have himself ex
amined. Mother and I are so worried
lest It bn discovered
“If once he was only so far gone
that he could not leave the house—
If something should happen to him
outside he would be taken to a hos
pital and then it might be found out.”
To this Frau Klein answered: “IE
the pig would only die today. Twice
he got something in his coffee."
In desperation, Mrs. Xebbe finally
wrote: “Get enough of the stuff and
when lie comes home again drunk
give him sufficient so he never will
git on his feet again.”
When Klein finally died, his wife
wrote to Mrs. Xebbe: "Happy tid
ings."
And Frau Nebbo answered: “How
happy I ami I hail to laugh to my
self.''
Armour Company Takes
Over Morris Company
CHICAGO, March 2!*.—The formal
merger of Armour Company and the
Morris Company was completed last
night when signatures of 100 per
sons interested were affixed to the
transfer order. Armour Company
through subsidaries paid approximate
ly *27,500,000.
ST. LOUIS, March 29.—Bishop
Tuttle shows signs of improvement
and physicians attending the cele
brated clergyman now have hopes
that he mav survive his present 111
ae
POSTPONEMENT
OF EXECUTION
OF CATHOLICS
Special Instructions to Be Is
sued in Russia Is
London Report. '
IXXVHON, March -9.—A Moscow
dispatch says the chairman of the
Alldtus-sia executive committee has
ordered a postponement of t.he oxecn
tians Of Archbishop fmpliak and
Mens. Huttaiohaivitt'lr. gjfcnding is-ui
j ance of special 'instruct ions. The
1 two church dignitaries of the iloman
jCtUholic Church were convicted sev
■ print days ago on ccargos preferred
by the Soviet government
OUTRAGE AGAINST HUMANITY
iWASHTN’OTOiNf, March 29. If the
decision of the Soviet government to
execute Catholic clergymen in Mos
cow stands, it is characterized by the
State Department as constiluiing an
outrage against humanity which could
not fail to create l.he deepest feeling
Of resentment and horror In the,
United States^
An appeal to*the Slate Department,
protesting iiga-idst t,lie Moscow axe ;
cutiions was received from the New j
York OathoHc Club.
Officials of the State Department
declined to state what action would
bo taken officially, but intimated that
tho Russian authorities at Moscow;
would not bo left in doubt as toj
American sentiment!.
It E. CIHLBERG
IS BANKRUPT
Income Tax is Settled for
$40.54 All that Remain
ed After Bankruptcy.
SEATTDE. .March 29.—Internal
Revenue Collector Burns Poe has ac
cepted $40.54 In settlement of an in
come tax of $1,289.67 due from J. E.
ChiJbcrg. This sum was accepted as
it was all Chilberg had left after
paying court costs in the bankruptcy
, proceedings begun In the. Federal
Court on July 17. 1922.
Tho government had a priority
right to what was left after the
I bankruptcy proceedings in which dill-1
' Istrg confessed his debts were
- *1,595.980 with ass«ts of only $25,749.
.1 E. Chilberg is one of the prom
inent citizens of the Pacific North
Uve.it and Alask i. He was head of
j the defunct Scandinavian American!
| Bank, in Seattle, which failed several
I years ago.
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HART DENIES
LATE EXPOSE
UJS AN GULES, March 29 Wil
liam S. Hart today dsnlod categorlc
ally that tip la father to any child
other than William J. K.. born to his
present wife, or had he over executed
any trust or provision for - mainten
ance of any child other than Ills
own son mentioned. Mrs. Hart also
denied the charges which were made
public yesterday that Hart had signed
a trust for a child of a Bon'on wo
man who claimed Hart was the
father
Massachusetts Town
Laid in Waste by Fire ;
HULL, Mass., March 29. Eire '
which laid in waste much of Nan- j
tuekoy Beach last night was finally |
controlled after causing a loss of
$750,000. iSeventy-flve houses and (
eottuges, with practically all contents,
were destroyed.
Inter-American Conference
Is Proposed; New Issues
SANTIAGO. Chile. March 25.—
Chile learns the United States dele
gation to the Pan-American Congress
will propose to the communications
committee that an Inter-American
convention Ibe called within three
months to agree on uniform laws for
aerial navigation and radio communi
cation.
GIRL’S 118-DEGREE FEVER A HOAX.
Tile medic;]! world was start I ni by the statement of l)r. Harry
J. Uefnet. of Esoanaba, Michigan, that the fever of Miss Evelyn
Lyons, a former nurse, had actnalyy blow out the top of his clin
ical thermometer, and that a specially built one showed she had
118 degrees of fever. Specialist! rushed there from Chicago ascer
tained that the fjrfrl was faking and that she was placing the
thermometer against a hidden water-bottle to show the phenom
enal temperture. She said site Uarted the trick for fun and then
didn't know how to get out of It.
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Public Funeral
In Paris for
Divine Sarah
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, PARIS. March 29. The bixly
i ol' bivine Sarah Bernhardt was
! removed today from iter home 1
■ to the Glrurch of Sf. Francis do
Salles and it will them * bo con
| veyed to the cemetery. The
I funeral will be public under the
auspices of the city of Paris.
This afternoon Paris paid
tribute do Sarah Bernhardt,
j Great crowds filled the streets
about the church. A great pro
| fusion of flowers covered the
j altar. The services were- simple
' In compliant; - with the request
j of the Divine Sarah. The body
] was infert: I In a vault marked
■wilth the simple word ‘'Bern
hardt."
As the prove jsiun moved to
! ward the ec netery all Paris
j seemed t > be lining the streets
I or hanpir.t from places of van
| (age on the route. The police
i estimated that more than 1,000,
j 000 persons were between the
' ebuich and cemetery. All
1 traffic iwas suspended James
1 K. Hackett, prominent American
| actor, was present at the t^iurch
j as representative of the British
| and American writers and play
Iers. |
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Files Suit for Divorce
From Actress Swanson
l.OS A.YGEIaES, March 29.—Hoi
>ert H. Somborn has filed suit for
llvorce against Gloria S^anaon,
n<ivie actress, charging abandonment,
rile couple was married in Decent
>or, 1919, Just one year after Miss
1 wans cm's liirst husband. Wat I ace
leery, had secured a divorce on tie*
unto grounds as in the present case.
Somborn and Swanson were married
n September. 1921.
Hospital Purchase by
Government Is Held Up
WASHINGTON. March 29 The
!ovpTnmen.t's purchase of the Hahnu
nnn Hospital), Portland, Ore., is held
IP by refusal of the owners to ar
'Opt $180,000 offer. This is the
I'.'.atcnient made today by Veterans’
iureau I)irector .Hines. who add. d
hat the yovornment had aire t ly
pent $lft.a.l>00 In filtitiK tiie instil tt
lon up for disabled veterans.
Communist Admits He
Wrote About Revolution
ST. JOSEIPH, Mich.. March i9 —
Charles Ruth’wbcrg. co-defendant
with William Z Poster. Communist
>n trial here, admitted it after pre
viously denying it, timt ho had writ
:en an article cayirvg workers most
Mlopt an “extra parliamontary means'
Includiiwc the "tmo of armed forces
:o overthrow the -government of the
L'nited States.”
TWELVE JURORS
! FACING PROBE
Jurymen in Bunko Case, Held
Party, Are Summoned Be
fore Grand Jury.
—
DENVER. March 29.—The jury, out
since last Saturday morning, late last
| night brought in a verdict of (onvic
! tion of 20 members of a natlbn wide
bunko ring, but recommended clem
ency.
i DHNVEH, March —District At
tortfey VanCtse announced today that
the entire jury in the case of Tom
i Clarke, former chief deputy siieriff,.
' and three bunko defendants, woul I
be summoned sometime today befor•
the grand jury. This action is a
| result of the “high Jinks" said to
have been staged in tiie Jury room
Iasi Saturday afternoon in which
I liquor wna furnished the jurors. It
la claimed that Clarke, in some man
ner. was a member of the party
Tbe up-shoot of tho affair, as stat
ed -in the Itoeky Mountain News to
day. ijs that Herman M. Okuly, 'Juror
In the case, declares in an Inter
view he .was offered a bribe of $500
two days after ho was sworn In. and
others, perhaps three jurors in line
for a verdict of guilty in the bunko
lease, were also offered a bribe.
FAKE STOCK COMPANY.
, DKNVKIt. Call)., March 29. The
I twenty alleged confidence men.
| charged with operating "fake stock
i exchanges.” were said to have taken
■more than $500,000 from the puh
j lie, and the District Attorney de
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DOLLAR GASOLINE HOLDS NO
FEARS FOR PROFESSOR LEWIS
—
BVANSTO.V. III., March 29. It is
| not probable that hoiiio birtherto tin
I known substance will be discovered
as a substitute for gasoline, accord
ling to the opinion of \V. Ice Lewis,
1 famed inventor and professor of
'chemistry a* Northwestern Uni
versity
"Tlte attention of si iontific men
anil Of the industries ii being direct
ed rather toward extracting more
[gasoline from crude petroleum .in I
Utilization of low gride sources such
‘as the Oil-boaring shales and sand
i stones." eaid Professor Lewis. "Rapid
) progress is being made along the
i first line, that is. in the development
.of so-called ‘cracking processes' which
in.-rease the yield of gasoline from
icrud* petroleum. I think there is a
i great promise In the so-called alumd
| nium chloride process. if one dis
itills 10 gallons of keroscuo with alum
in,uni chloride ivo obtains some sin
or seven gallons of gasoline. The dif
ficulty Is at present to recover the
NEW CHAIRMAN
OF ALASKA R. R.
MAKES A REPLY
Colonel Steese Makes State
ment Concerning that
Made by Col. Mears.
JDEPARTMEMS IN FIGHT
ONE VERSION OF AFFAIR
Scheme to Consolidate Al
aska Road Commission
with R.R. Laid Bare.
ANCHORAGE. March 29.—When
asked t'< r a statement re-Colonal
Moan's statement that he was in
I ignorance of a contemplated change
in tlie administration of the Alaska
{ Railroad. Colonel .lames G. Steese,
i new Chairman of the Alaskan En
1 gin ee ring Commission. professed
having no previous warning of the
eh ange.
Those in close touch with the
Commission's activities see in the
episode a clash between the War
and Interior Departments.
East summer an emissary of
Colonel Mears aRked the Chamber
of Commerce to further move for
the consolidation of the Alaska Road
Commission of which Colonel Stew'
wa» chairman, to be merged no as
the Mean’s organization would ab
sorb Hie Road Commission.
It Is believed this action caused
I i conflict to open.
Secret a rf K*all and Secretary
| Weeks- became involved in the pro
j posed governing board, Secretary
Pall holding the nipreme powers.
It is known that Colonel John
C. G.)tWills, vice chairman of the
Ala ka Road Commission, white on
reconnaissance work in the Kan
ishna country, altr selected a rail
way spur route. It was announced
tliero was eventually a necessity for
; "uc'i teeders.
In opposition to these views of
Col. Steese and Gotwals that spurs
and wagon roads be embraced In
the general policy of the railroad.
Colonel Mears announced he was
l sent to Alaska to build a railroad
and nothing else.
The general sentiment here is
I thnl as the railroad was built by
I Colonel Mears, he should have re
i maim'd until after tlie golden spike
I was driven about the first week in
| June.
j First American
: Teacher at
Sitka Is Dead
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DIXON, 111., March 29— Miss Ruth
A, Messer, said to have been the
first A inertia n school toacher to go
o Sitka. Alaska, where she went In
18G8. died horn yesterday.
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE
NEW ORLEANS. March 29.—The
1 refining pi -at of tho Sinclair Oil
| Coiwpuny. nearby, has been damaged
' by fire, the lo<-4 estimated at more
‘than *1.000.000.
aluminium chloride so it may be used
; oyer again. Chemists will solve that
problem soon, however.
Oil-bearing shales are already be
inn utilized for gusolino and if the
l>rit-;■ goes up. will become an irn
portant industrial *ource.
‘•As for the prediction of dollar
gasoline recently made In Congress,
don't scrap your automobile yet.
When a Congressman gets scientific
he’s like Polyhcmua in love. When
j the price passes 40 or 50 cents per
gallon, alcohol, which can be made
j for 3?> cents per gallon, t an be used.
The 18 th amendment didn’t cover
automobiles.
“These are tho lines of progress:
Better yields from present petrol
eum sources, utilization of low grade
sources such as shales. better car
buretors and leas wasteful engines,
and, finally, if it comes to cases, a
switching to known combustibles such
as alcohol I can’t conceive of any
miraculous solution outside of tho
above lines.”