THE ALASKA D AILY EMPIRE
'ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME'
VOL. XXII., NO. 3314.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1923.
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Coolidge’s First Official Act Is to
Declare Nation’s Mourning Day
MOURNING DIY
PROCLAMITED
> 8 V COOLIDDE
First Official Act of New Ex
ecutive Is to Issue
Proclamation.
NEXT FRIDAY DESIGNATED
NATION’S MOURNING DAY
Coolidge Gives Attention to
Details for Carrying Out
Harding’s Policies.
BULLETI — WASHINGTON, Aug.
4.—The first official act of President
Calvin Coolidge as the new Chief
ExtvUtive was to sign a proclama
tion announcing the death cf War
ren G. Harding and called the conn
Sto observe next Friday, August
as a day cf mourning and
prayer.
COOLIDGE IN WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Calvin
Coolidge arrived to asvurne the
duitias aa President stepping from a
rpreial train at »: 10 o'clock last
night. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Coolidge and several friends.
Coolidge arrived at New York at
6:15 o’clcok yesterday afternoon. He
lushed immediately to the Pennsyl
vania station where a special train
awaited him.
PLAN3 OF COOLIDGE.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 4. — As the
funeral train moved eastward. Chief
Executive Coolidge devoted his at
tention to plans for fitting services
here and prepared to carry out the
policies of hia predecessor. He ex
pects to accompany the body to
Marion and until his return to
Washington, expects to devote much
attention to other matters than
those pertaining to the 'Harding
funeral and burial.
Having announced that he would
dedicate himself to the task of car
rying out Harding's policies, his
friends and advisors believe lie will
make no chances in the government
machinery at least for the present.
In conference with newspapermen,
Executive Coolidge let It be known
that he expects the personnel of the
Harding Administration to continue
unchanged indefinitely. He also an
nounced that the credentials of the
American representatives who are
negotiating for reapproachmcnls be
tween the United States and Mex
ico, rnd the United States and Tur
key will be renewed Immediately.
Secretary of State Hughes and
Secretary of Interior Work will pro
ceed without interruption.
Mrs. Harding will tiave the use of
the White House as long as conven
ient. The Cooltdges are stopping at
the New Willard Hotel.
Chief Executive Coolidge express
ed the hope that former President
Woodrow Wilson would take part in
the Harding funeral.
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Proposes to
| Rename Alaska
As Harding
PHOENIX, A viz., Aug. 4.
| Mitchell Cassidy. Director of
i Federal Prohibition, annount »d
I that he proposed that Alaska be
; renamed Harding in memory of \
the first Chtef Executive to visit
' that Territory. Cassidy said he j
wnl submit his proposal to Unit
[ ed States Senator Ralph H. Ca
meron. of Arizona.
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MONUMENT TO
HARDING MAY
BE ERECTED
Seattle Makes Plan for Monu
ment to Cost Between
$25,000 and $40,000.
SEATTLE. Aug. 4. Plans are under
way to erect a monument costing
from $25,0000 to $40,000 in Woodland
| Park to mark the spot where Presi
j dent Harding spoke to 40.000 boys
j on Friday afternoon, July 27.
J. E. Rimholdt. Exalted Ruler of
the Seattle Lodge of Elks, announced
the plans will be put before the State
Elks Association at the annual con
vention at Everett on August 13 to
August 15.
LUNCHEON IS MEMORIAL
SEATTLE, Aug. 4 The Chamber
! of Commerce turned the luncheon
! yesterday into a memorial meeting
land passed a resolution on the death
; of President Harding declaring that
[ills visits to the girls at Volunteer
(Park and the boys at Woodland Purs.
; although he was late and in pain one
week ago. would make them better
I men and women. The resolution s/irl
I his charm and sincere, open hearted
! personality in coming to them as a
I Big Brother, should always be re
j membered and cherished.
! Frank Waterhouse, President of
| the Chamber of Commerce, said: “He
j stuck to his post of duty to the end
| and died with his colors nailed to
, the mast."
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John Martin, Familiar
1 Convention Figure, Dies
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 4.—John Martin,
Sergeant at arms at the Democratic
National Conventions for the past
25 years and a familiar figure at
national conventions, died of apo
plexy In his office here lust night,
j He was 77 years of age. For many
i decades he had been prominent In
St. Louis and Missouri politics where
| he was a warm personal friend and
supporter of the late Senator George
Gordon Vest.
ADMIRAL TO TOUR WORLD.
! TOKIO. Aug. 4. — Vice-admiral
Kenji Ide starts shortly on a tour of
[the world. He will visit Europe, and
| return home way of the United
I States.
DESIGN AERIAL RAMS TO
• DEMOLISH ENEMY PLANES
LONDON, Aug. 4.—Heavily-armored
steel-prowed battering rams, for use
in the leviathan airships now being
designed, are being -constructed sec
retly by British aircraft experts, says
the Dally Chronicle’s aeronautical
correspondent. These new terrors of
the air will be launched at an Im
mense height from the mother air
ships and will rush down, guided
by a solitary man sitting protected
within their hulls, ready to strike
hostile ships or bombing planes.
"Without guns or any weapon save
si knife-like, cutting bow,” says the
■writer, “the pilot of the ‘ram’ will
•eek as his quarry the big, slow flying
troop planes or transports, or he
. will swerve In deadly at^ck toward
~a hostile battleship of the air. Be
fore he strikes his blow he will
t
have the power, by operating Interior
mechanism. of drawing In his tele
scopic, metal wings. Then, with a
fearful final plunge, like a great
projectile, he will steer, not at the
hull of the craft he seeks to cripple,
but at vulnerable wings or control
•’ surfaces. Through these he will cut
and rip his way, and the great craft
he has rammed, stricken and' put
. out of control, will reel earthward
I to destruction'.'
The writer then says the “air
1 ram” will extend Its wings again
i and check Its pell-mell descent. The
pilot will be able, after starting a
1 powerful interior engine, to bring
Into action previously shielded air
screws, and by aid of these he will
steal upward, regaining his mother
airship and then prepare for another
devastating dive.
UNPUBLISHED BIT OF HISTORY
SHOWS PERSONAL INTEREST FOR
WOODROW WILSON BY HARDING
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. -Here fol
lows h bit of hitherto unpublished
bin lory.
Bear Admiral Grayson had been
former President Wilson's physician
fo, eight years and knew Wilson's
are even better than any other
jhjslcian could.
When Brigadier General Sawyer
arrived. Grayson's assignment ended
and he was subject to detail else
where.
But without request or sustention,
Harding personally qnlered the Navy
Department to asaig- Grayson to duty
in Washington so he might he avail
able when needed y Wilson.
If Wilson reads this dispatch, he1
will get his first knowledge of
Harding's action.
Volstead Law May Be
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1924 Issue in Michigan
TWO JURY ACTS
EFFECTIVE NOW;
ALTERS METHOD
Law Altering Drawing of Jur-'
ies and Women’s Jury
Act Now in Force.
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This past week two laws passed;
: by the Territorial Legislature last
; Spring went into effp< t under which
’the election of juries and, to a eer
i tain extent, Ihe personnel of the
i juries themselves, is radically al
tered. These are the Dimond Jury
law and the so-called Women's Jury
] law.
Under the former all juries, ex
jcept in certain civil cases under spec
ific conditions, are drawn from Jury]
; boxes containing 75 per cent, of the.
| names of the voters, by precinct nnd j
j division. This includes not only'
juries serving In the District Courts
1 but also those sitting in cases in the
IU. S. Commissioners' Courts. In
civil cases, by agreement of counsel]
for the litigants, juries may he!
drawn in any other legal manner.
The intent and the effect of the
Dimond Art is to do away with the
drawing of juries on open venires.
While In the District Courts jurors
are seldom if ever drawn on an open
venire until after the regularly sum
moned panel has been exhausted, in
the Commissioners' Courts up to the
present time the open venire has]
been the only method of drawing,
jurors. Under the new law. Coni-j
missioners in the several precincts;
are required to list the voters and j
such other qualified persons as are
known to reside therein and deposit
In a box ten inches in cubical con
tent. three-quarters of the total list.]
As occasion arises for summoning
jurors, the names required are pub
licly drawn.
Both Men and Women
Under the Women’s Jury Act. both
men and women are equally eligible]
for service. Women, however, may
claim sex as a ground for exemption
providing the claim is made within
a stated time. In the District Court,
within two days after the summons
for service has been received.
In the Commissioners’ Courts both
laws are operative at once. Judge
Paine, in the local court, has already
prepared his lists for use when the
next casp arises before him.
The first juries to be drawn in the
District Court in this Division under
these two acts will sit at Ketchikan
next month, and will probably bo
drawn within a short time.
Department Not To Question
The Department of Justice, it was
Indicated today by C. S. Attorney
A. G. Shoup. will not question the
validity of either law. Any fight as
to the right of the Territorial Logls
, latere to enact such statutes. It was
] further said, will come from private
litigants and not from the Govern
] ment.
i This conclusion is based on an
opinion from the Department Just
received by the District Attorney
In which it was held that the Alaska
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DETROIT. Aug. 4 l By Associated
Press.)-—Only the decision of Senator
Janies ('ouzens not to seek reelec
tion next year can halt the gaining
momentum of the Volstead law as an
issue in Michigan’s 1824 campaigns,
according to opinion among politi
cal leaders and wet and dry advo
cates. Divisions of the latter al
ready are in the field.
Senator ('ouzens declared for en
tenement of the Volstead law. but
also for modification of its interpre
tation of intoxicating liquor. He
holds that beer of legs than five
per cent, alcoholic content Is not
necessarily intoxicating
Tlie declaration resulted in a con
troversy between the senator and
national officials of the Anti Saloon
League, and the state Anti Saloon
League announced its intention of
going out to “beat ('ouzens." The
organization hopes to do it either by
supporting one of the avowed can
didates who Is considered dry. or by,
putting its own candidate into the:
race, it Is Indicated in present ae-j
tlvities.
Dry leaders assert that prohibi
tlon sentiment is stronger In Michi
gan now than it was in 181(1. when
an amendment to the state const!- [
tutlon placing Michigan In the dry
column was adopted 352.STS to 284.-!
7,r>4. Wet proponents counter with
the assertion that the rapid growth
of industrial communities has stored
up an Immense volume of votes fa
voring the repeal of the dry laws
The drys claim that the farer com !
muni ties and the larger counties,
previously dry. will stay dry. The
wets reply that a few precincts in
Detroit or the other industrial cen
ters will poll more votes than entire j
out state counties, and that If Sena |
lor Couxens decides to run lie will,
sweep Detroit and other manufactur I
ing communities.
Luren D Dickinson, former Lieu
tenant Oovernor and an active dry;
worker, issued a warning to his fore
ps that the issue must be met in the
primary.
INTERNATIONAL i
POLICIES WILL
NOW BJEDEL AYED
Death of Harding Forestalls,
Immediate Settlement
of Reparations.
LONDON, auk 4.—To British of-,
flcialdom. one of the grevlous ef ,
fects of Hardiijg's death on Inter-;
national policies, |g the probable tie-j
lay in mobilizing public opinion con ',
cernlng the Ruhr and final repara-1
tlons settlement with Germany.
Yesterday's debate was expected
to delay reaction in Allied countries
and It is realized that mourning in
America will also make a further
delay.
CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—Six terra cotta
manufacturing firms charged with vio
lation of the Sherman Act, entered
pleas of being guilty today and
were fined from 91,500 to 93,000
each.
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Cherished Hope of
| Harding Was
| To Visit Alaska
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 Prc si- '
| dent Hardings trip to Alaska.
I with the personal strain and
hardships which culminated in
| his death. had been the un
j realized hope of years, while a j
! member of the Senate, and prob
! ably long before he had Presi
; dential aspirations. Hu told us- |
1 social es he had long cherished
; the hope of visiting Alaska.
: Friends saiil lie had always been
j Interested in the far off Territory
| and its affairs.
MESSAGE FROM
WILSON, PUBLIC
Condolences Are Sent by,
Former President to Mrs.
Harding — Other Messages,
SAN FRANCIS!Atisr i. Th ',
message trom Woodrow Wilson, sent
to Mrs Harding, which was not made
puhllc in Washington yesterday, fol
lows:
“Allow me to express tny profound
sympathy. "l deplore with all of
my heart the loss which the nation
has sustained."
REGRETS BY IRELAND
DUBLIN, Aug. 4 The Irish Free
State lias passed a resolution ex
pressing deep regret at the death of
Harding.
GOV. HART CONDOLES
OLYMPIA. Aug. 4. (Jov. Louts F.
Hart, in a telegram to Mrs. Harding,
said:
“While the nation mourns for the
noble man and revered Chief Exe
cutive. your grief is for him who from
boyhood days never ceased to be a
lover.”
BUSINESS SUSPENDED
MEXICALI. Lower California. Aug. I
4.—Governor Lugo has ordered sits
pension for the day of municipal and
state affairs out of resp'-c' to the
memory of Harding.
WILSONS LEAVE W*5RD
WASHINGTON. Aug. 4. Lit* y-s
tprday afternoon, Woodrow Wilson,
and Mrs. Wilson stopped at the I
White House and left cards,
SILENT FOR FIVE MINUTES
THE HAGUE. Aug. 4. -The Henna,
pent Court of International Justice*
officials arose for five minutes yes ,
terday afternoon and si.r> 1 s'icn- !
as a token of respect to Hiding's
memory. Dr. Coder, Presiding .list
tire Raid PreHident Harding's death
(b a loss to the whole wori i
Charles Morse and Others
Acquitted War Time Frauds
WASHINGTON. Aug 4. The jury:
has acquitted Charles \V Morse,
New York Shipbuilder, his three
sons and four others on charges of |
conspiracy to defraud the United
States in connection with wartime!
ship construction operations.
PLAN NEW INVESTIGATIONS
TO ABATE SMOKE NUISANCE,
PITTSBURGH. Aug 4>-The smoke!
investigation begun by the Mellon
Institute of Industrial Research of
the University of Pittsburgh in 1912
and temporarily concluded In 1913
will he resumed Immediately under
the direction of Dr. Harry li. Meller.
who has resigned as dean of the
school of mines, to take up the work ;
Systematic surveys of smoke con
ditions in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cleve
land and other Industrial cities will
be carried on. They will be made
up of comparative analysis, smoke
dust and soot contaminations; re
search Into the manufacture of
■‘smokeless’ fuel by especially low
temperature carbonization of bitum
inous coal, and Incestigation of phys
leal means of abating the smoke
nuisance, with particular reference to
electrostatic, precipitation of smoke.
SORROWING TRIBUTE IS PAID TO
DEAD PRESIDENT BY PEOPLE OF.
i SAN FRANCISCO; BODY GOES EAST
Throngs Stand Bare-headed as Coffin Is Borne to Railroad
Station—Band Plays Well Known Hymns and Chimes
Join in—Simple Services Held in Hotel—Mrs.
Harding Bears Up Well—Tears Are Shed
Freely During Sad Scene.
UNDATED—In : r.w unutterable, San Francisco bade goodbye to all
Ih:.' r rr ,al of Pr nd.nt Harding, and to the widow.
II cry tiid far. well with compassion not witnessed since the
r.rrthquak. r.’d fire when San Francisco had an unarsuagable sorrow of
her .vn.
Ti . tcay rtiivvi at the railroad staticn cscciicd by a cortege of
army, n-vy and mriim detachments led by nun high in the official life
of th? city, stcJ and nation.
A; tlr. tcJy war bi.aght firm the hotel, buglers of Troop E. Elev
( l'.h Cavalry, which was mounted at attention befere the hearse, sounded
'in fl'uil.'h'S and iuff. .
lb. Nrvy E.-r.d play .1 It: "Star Spangled Banner" as the throngs
r'.ocd uncovered.
The rime land played Lead, Kindly Light” the favorite hymn
cf Harding and McKinley,
Bugle s rounded "light whc.l" and the troop swung into column
end nr tin cortege got under way, the chimes of St. Patrick's Catholic
Chutrh, a blcck away from the hotel, played “Nearer, My God, To Thee.”
Mir. Harding le..i. the hotel an hour alter the body in a closed
carriage with Brigadier G niral Sawyer and Gecrge B. Christian, Jr.
At tin rtaiirn the body w-.s put in the train s rearmost car which
11.' F.. idi.r.t cuphd en tlrr trip acres: the country.
Th ta: was d :p.l in bbrk inside and garlanded with ferns and
ypi - cn t:,i ou‘:.dc. Overhead, in the car, lights burned as they will
p'.I the wry 1 Wellington. Soldiers and sailors will stand constantly
nr cu rd where friend: of the Preridcnt and the widow will go fer brief
uriti r: the t, in winds i s way across the nation, the longest jcurnoy
(v( r taken with the hrdy of a President.
Harding’s Body
To Lie in State
In Washington
| KAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4. ,
Th ' schedule of the funeral of
(’resident Harding was announced
here last night.
I The train hearing the body is |
due to arrive In Washington 1
next Tuesday afternoon, instead
r,f Wednesday.
Services will lie. hold In the
rotunda of the Capitol Building
Wednesday afternoon and at
Marion on Friday, which will be
proclaimed a day of National
mourning.
Immediately on arrival at
Washington the body will lie ta
k n to the Fast Room of the 1
White lions: and thence Wed
nesday morning to lie in state
in the Capitol iiuiiding until
late In the afternoon when it I
will lie transferred to a special I
train for Marion. The special
train is due to arrive at Marion
Thursday morning. The funeral
will he held the next day.
Mis-triai Declared in
Virginia Murder Case
Cl'M ItFRI-A NT) COURTHOUSE
Virginia. ■ Aug. I A mistrial was de
clared today itt the < asof Farkln C.
Garrett, charged with the murder ol
Rev. I,. S. Fierce, th ■ Presiding
Judge ruling that three Juri s were
disqualified for statements made print
to the trial.
Detroit Boys Pleased
With Trip to Alaska
KFATTf.K, Aug. I. Alter three
weeks hunting, fishing and sight
seeing in Alaska. Hi DetroR boys,
sponsored by George Buchanan, have
returned enroute home. They are
all enthusiastic over Alaska. •
fiAN FRANCISCO SERVICES.
HAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4. — At
(In- funeral services yesterday in tin*
Palace Hotel, Mrs. Harding, (Hand
ing between Mr. and Mrs. George
B. Christlun, Jr., as Rev. James 3.
\V< -I read the prayer, nodded her
head slightly as the pastor raised his
hand and said:
"God, Our Refuge and Strength."
As the minister ended the prayer,
Mrs. Harding said: "Amen."
Then she stood while half a hun
dred perrons lead by General John
J. Perching departed from the room
leaving her for a few minutes alone
with her dead before the body weut
to the station.
The body was In a drab steel cof
fin. lined with white Bilk. The sil
ver plate bore only the inscription
“Warren Gamaliel Harding."
Floral Tributes.
The coffin was banked with fl iw
ers while floral tributes filled the
waiting room of the Presidential
■'itiie, where the simple religious
ceremony was conducted.
The President's sister. Mrs. E. E.
Rcmsberg and Attorney General
Daughtcry, were the only persons
coated during the rites. Command
er Rootle helped Daugherty into the
room and from It.
Mrs. Harding, the last to enter
the room, was on the arm of George
It. Christian, Jr. She continued to
hold hie arm as she stood In the
center of the room directly in front
of the glass-covered casket.
As Rev. West concluded his b'.ble
text and bowed his head for prayer,
Mrs. Christian stepped forward and
took Mrs. Harding's right arm.
Mrs. Harding wore deep mourn
ing with a black cape reaching to
her t hoe tops.
Says Amen.
Here eyes were dry at the finish
c#f the prayer, when she said
“Amen."
Then Mrs. Harding walked in
front of the coffin, held her hand
out to Rev. West and gazed at lbs
face of tho dead, as she leaned on
Clu b tiun's arm. She then began to
talk to Rev. West and those present,
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REFORMERS ARE URGED TO CEASE
LABORS FOR REAL MORAL UPLIFT
LONDON-. Auk 4 -So In I reform-;
'th m u class do much more harm
than Rood, amording to Professor
Leonard Darwin, and society would
Improve much faster If they r ml to'
worry about It and let It go Its own
way.
Professor Darwin Is a -no of the
great Charles Darwin, and It Is nat
Ural that he should hold strong views
on the survival of the fittest ami
how this le st can !)■ n< coranllshod.!
He rays that th • misguided efforts
I of many sincere and earnt.st social'
reformers really result In encouraging|
the .continuance of race inferiority
and deterioration, which, is just thej
reverse of what they are trying toi
do. fn a recent speech before the
Eugenic Education Society, of which
he Is president, he dwelt upon the
harm he thought nodal reformers
were doing.
“Mate Selection," was the title of
Darwin's address. He was not sure
that mate selection, in the present
state of society, was good for the
future of the race, and urged that
when the fit married the fit they
tended to have smaller families, while
the Inferior people continued produc
ing unfit types which became more
marked.
"To secure human progress,” " he
said, “the ‘Inferior types must -be
tCoutlnued on Pag* '