VOL XXI., NO. 3204.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COL. MEARS RESENTS HIS REMOVAL
AS HEAD OF RAILROAD IN ALASKA
WRONGS OF SMALL PACKERS
HAVE BEEN RIGHTED CLAIMS
OPERATORS OF CANNERIES TO
WESTWARD PART OF ALASKA
8EATTLE, March 28.—Any injus
tlces done small packers in the is
suance of permits for cannery opera
tions in the Southwestern Alaska
fisheries reserve have now been cor
i rected by the Bureau of Fisheries,
according to 1 . M. Foster, head of the
Alitak Packing Company- Mr. Fos
ter, with Otto Hcfstad, of the Katmai
Packing Company, went to Washing
ton teveral weeks ago in behalf of
the email cannery owners to protest
against the regulations and permits
under the Kodiak-Afognak zones of
the reserve.
He reported modifications made
after a conference with Henry O'Mal
ley, U. S. Fish Commissioner. He
said the permit of the Robineon Fish
eries Company, one of the small pack
ers, hsd been modified to permit them
'O fish near the mouth of Karluk
River, principle salmon stream on Ko
diak Island.
The Katmai Company will be per
mitted to buy fish from Ugamk, Ter
ror, Viekoda and Litnic Bays, which
were closed to them under the origin
al regulations.
The one big cause of the protests
made by Mr. Foster and others was
the license permitting the Alaska
Peckers’ Association and the North
western Fisheries Company to build
walr across the mouth of Karluk
River, taking 50 per cent of the fish
going Into the lagoon. Thie privilege
hae been cancelled, said Foster, add
ing that the Commieeioner has issued
regulations limiting them to beach
seining at in former years.
Commenting on the situation as it
new appears, Mr. Foster said:
‘•The small packers feel that any
Injustice which may have been done
them when licenses were first issued
have now been corrected. In any
effort to conserve fishing resources
cf Alaska it is inevitable that some
body should be hurt,"
son of ahy.
GEN. IS MIXED
UP IN MURDER
Draper Daugherty Is Men
tioned Connection of Case
of Death Pretty Model.
NEW YORK, 28.—Doteclive
Inspector Coughlin, in charge of the
Invest nation of the murder of Dor
1 ofay Keenan, pretty cloak model, is
seeking further light on the story
published .in a morning newspaper to
the effect that Draper * A Daugherty,
only f ">n of Ait Ltarney denarul Daugh
erty. was a close acquaintance of the
ilaad girl in the hopes that he might
l»o able to assist ‘in the finding of
the blackmailers believed by the
police to have used her as a pawn.
Tlhc newspaper quoted Daugherty,
who was a major in :he American
forces overseas, a i saying he knew
Mls3 Keenan well and had visited
hor apartments several times. Daugh
erty said ho once gave Miss Keenan
a check to pay a till. He said he
wad suspected recently that he was
marked for blackmail.
Daugherty caul be had nothing to
feaT from the blackmailers as his
I relations with the pretty model had
been most casual. He said he only
■regretted hia fathers' name had been
drawn 'Into the case particularly since
hits father and mother have both
been quite 111 recently.
Defendant in Damage
Case Planned Tragedy
CRAN'D RAPIDS. Mich . March 28.
—iMrs. Gertrude Bultry. testifying
for the defence In the suit of .John
W. Han3ell against the “House of
David" tor recovery of $80,000 alleged
damages, declared Hanuell had
planned to fill the Shiloh residence
of Ben Purnell. head of the cult,
with gas and carry off the strong
hex while the inmates were ren
dered helpless, •__
“I Love Another”
Girl Cries and
Suicides at Altar
CE.VEVA, March 28.—Newa or a pa
tbsttc tragedy comes from Lindau, ;t
ama.ll island in Lake Coinstance,
where pretty Frauleln Moser. 21 years
oM, shot herself before a church
after rather than be wed lo a wealthy
man twice her age.
When the priest asked the usual
question whether or not she accepted
the man as her husband, the bride
replied: “Mo, no, 1 love another!
My pifront? know this-—I would rath
er die first!"
With these words she drew a small
revtolver from heir bridal bouquet and
shot herself, .falling unconscious at
the feet of the priest, and dying
within a few moments.
BUILDING ON
COAST SHOWS
BIG ACTIVITY
Record Increase Is Shown in
Production of Need
ed Commodities.
SAX PR ANTI SCO, March 28. The'
record activity in building has in 1
creased mineral, oil and lumber pro !
dilution and practically normal weuth-1
er cord'ltions is giving promise of a I
successful year in agricultural pur !
suits. Thr3 is the gist of the report j
issued by the Federal Reserve Di3-1
trict for February.
According to the report of the
I District Agent the retail trade is
greater than for any February since
1919. ,
The demand for raw materials con
tinued to exceed the available supply.
The report says 'the “mineral pro
duction, particularly of metals of in
dustrial Importance, continues to
grow. More coppor was produced
than dL.ing any month of the past
two years. Large increases in lead
and zinc production is also reported.’’
GIRL BRIDE
KIDNAPPED
IN STREET
Eludes Captors After Five
Days in Terror in Dark
Room — Unconscious.
CHICAGO, March 28.—Gertrude |
LedIos Olahan, 18 'yours old and a j
bride of three weeks, who has boon [
missing since the night of Marc h 22, i
wuk found in a stnto of collapse, ly-1
ing In a lonely street far cm tliej
Soirth Side.
Partially revived at a hospital, she
told an amazing story of having been
seized on the street, carried to a
bundling aho cannot identify, and
held a prisoner dn a dark room for
five days. There were no windows
in tho room and I he dingle door led
Into a long dark passage. A eot had
been placed in the room and one of i
the men tried to force a tablet down j
her throat, she said. She was In a
sltate of collapse nearly all of the
time from lack of air in the little j
room, according to the story.
Last night she said she overheard
telephone plans to removp her td
another biding place, as the search
was getting trio clone. Two men,
both intoxicated, gagged and bound
her and threw her into a large car.
They drove for almost an hour, when
something went wrong -with the me
rihaniem.
Bot.h men got out to fix It and
the girl managed to untio the ban
rdages about her ankles and slip from
the car. She ran until she fell ox
(Continued on Page Three)
Mondell Is Appointed
to Finance Board.
Representative Frank W. Mon
dell, Republican, of Wyoming, for
mer majority leader In the House,
defeated at the last election, has
been appointed Director of *fthe
War Finance Corporation by
President Harding. The post pays
$12,000 a year, and Mondell will
hold it until May 17, 1926. He
had been offered his choice—this
job, that of Ambasador to Japan,
or Governor of Porto Rica.
COMMUNISTS IN AMERICA ARE |
UNDER CONTROL OF PARTY IN i
RUSSIA; TESTIMONY IS GIVEN
ST. JOSEPH. Mich.. March 28
Charles Rathenl yg. co defendant
with William 7.. Foster, (' nnmur.iat,
who is now a t 1 al hr:?, was forced!
Lo admit today on th? stand that!
the activities of the Communis, parly
in America was coniirollod on orders I
PREDICTS OFF
YEAR IN NORTH
Field Supervisor of Bureau
of Fisheries Talks on
Alaska Fish Season.
SEATTLE. March 28 -Dennis
Winn, field supervisor of the United
States Bureau of Fisheries, in a
statement here, gave warning that
too many were going to Alaska to
fish this season.
Winm said more people were pre
paring to go to Alaska to fish this I
year than at any other time in the
last 10 years.
Winn, tin his statement, said: “The
summer of 1923 promises to be an
>ff year for chum srlmon."
The field supervisor predicted Jliiat
many small firms will fail to get fi
nancial backing when the true condi
tions in the North are learned.
All France Mourns Death
* * * * * * * * *
of World Loved Dai^hter
PARIS. March 28,—All
mourns for the world-loved
ter, 'Saraih 'Bernhardt.
Not since the death of Victor Hugo'
has the country ibeon so stirred. She I
shared with Hugo and Pastuer the]
distinction of being the most illus-j
Irfous person in the last 100 years
af French history.
■It is thus fitting that Ihe public!
which idolized her and which she!
In turn hcild »o close to liter heart]
should have lingered reverently in)
the JUlIt. spring night, outside htyr
hmfewrWHtVlng the vigil with the iann-j
lly *'WiYh. '
iUtor^midnight, when the titeaters'
closeo1, came the people of the stage
to pay tribute, to their illustrious com
rade.
The body lies on the, bed covered
with flowers, tall candj4s burning on
either side.
/
Franco
daugh
Drunken Men
j Are to Be
j Arrested Now
1 WASHINGTON'. March 28. j
Prohibition Cbittni'iasioaer Itoy i
, Haynes today issued orders for ;
all | ,'ohibitl.on agents to arrpst j
, all men that they so.1 drunk on
! tho Streets.
Oil Stock Faker * ven
Jail Sentt/u Suspended
BBATTUfi, Ma •
en.u. in, who wit
ccnitly opor.it id
here and sold 1: ;
stock, pleaded u
Was -.oniteneed l t.i
years dn the re m
was suspended
told satisifactoi <
been made with
Rubenoteia h t
Pity.
A similar c' ■
has bcen.dismi -d
ster Rub-1
1 liven re |
f ,e house1
os of oil
and and
it to 10 i
Sentence i
. otirl was]
limits had
mijjr s.
i. leave
tho
against Kalven
approved at Moscow months in ad-i
vanco of the National convention of |
the party on the sand, dunes near |
hero. The convention, ituthenborgi
said, was postponed by orders by i
cable from iRussia, for the purpose of;
awaiting the arrival of delegates |
from Moscow. j
WILLIAM -HART
IS IN scandal!
_ I
Pays Boston Woman Month-'
ly Sum for Support of j
Child—Alleged Father.
LOS ANGELES, Marcn 28 Wil
liam 8. Hart, movie actor, accused
by a young Boston woman of being!
tho father of her child, executed a!
tail alt deed to pay $50 a month lor
tho support of the Infant, Asa Keyes,
Chief Deputy District Attorney, said i
Boday.
Ii
■The accusation was made in I)e-,
cember, 11*18, and the details were
published tin the Los Angeles Exam
iner today
A transcript allows Hairt denied tlie
woman's fi'fltrtnent, even while exe
cuting tho trust deed. The* woman's
name is not given.
NEW YORK. March 28 This city'
rang With 'tributes to the art and
perskwHality and life of Sarah Bern
hardt. /
John Drew was deeply affected and
mourned the loss of a dear friend.
David Belasco said: ‘‘No one had
equalled her in spirit save Joan of
Arc. ’No one ever equalled her in
tale.pt
Augustus Thomas characterized bsr
us the greatest actress of two gener
ations.
Pope Gives $25,000
For Ruhr Relief
ROME. March 28. Popo Pius XI
appropriates! $25,009 to relieve suf
fering of German workers in the
Ruhr.
SPOKANE, Wash, March 23.—The |
ocal Women's Christian Temperance
Jnioh has passed a resolution cam i
nending Mrs. Miles Poindexter for
ter series of newspaper articles rc !
te.itly and “fearlessly exposing so
:lety, that which has become cor 1
•upted while under the protection of 1
exemption granted by law to our
aw makers."
The reeolutlon passed asks specific!
nformation from her as follows:
yVhat is the name of the Senator1
whose wife was an expectant mother
who was dizzy with drink?
Who was the farm bloc Senator
who would not give his wife large
sums of money to gamble with?
What large apartment house in :
Afashlng*on has a liquor tester as
tart of the equipment?
What are the names of the Sena- '
:ors, Representatives and Cabinet of !
icialo in whose homes liquor is !
terved?
What are the names of the high 1
rfficials of the government in whose
tomes bridge gambling is prompted?.
Sit POLITICAL
CONVENTION IS
CALLED,JOLT 3
Call Is Sent Out to Hundreds
of Independent Groups
for Coalition Party.
—
CHICAGO. iiiMr.ii 28. Til • Nat: a
il T.’ommitto.' of iLi,• farm r-Labor!
party has authorized the calling of ii
national convention here on July :!
ivhem an attempt will I, ■ male to er-1
sanlze a co llt'on of all labor, farmer
SoeiaMst and other independent
rrou p».
The Inv'itatlic.n h in been sent i.i
Ltoo Woman’s Parly, League of Wo
men Voters, National Non-Pnrt> i a
League, Socialist Party, commit t o!
if 48, nil slate Federal inns of Labor,
International Latter Colons and lab.tr
parties In the various states nn I him
Jrods of other organizations.
Marshal's Party Fired
On by Renegade Piutes
BLAiNDIeVG. Utah, March 28.
Mar tial Ward utt 1 his party were
lift'd on the second time I a-1 night
after establishing a camp. This Is
according to a inesgongor reaching
acre. The marshals pay returned
,he fire, but diid not learn the affect
n the darkness. One dog with the
wrty was killed. The marshal an 1
its pi *e ccatlixiod tii ‘ search for
Mil .Posey, renegade Piute, today.
| Spring Weather
I Hits Frisco;
| AU Enjoy It i |
SAN FRANCISCO. March 28.
I The mercury registered Ml rle- 1
I greed yesterday. the highest
; record for March slnui! 1!»14.
! The beaches and parks were .
I crowded.
I- I
Bastrop Kidnapping Case
To Be Taken Into Court
NEW ORLEANS. March 28 Anur
iev General Coco -aid today he would
appear in Bastrop on April 9 and
tilo information In i aimed Ion with
die Morohouae mask'd band aetivl
ieci. Recently the grand jury failed
a> return any Indictments.
Attorney General (toco raid charges
will b" tiled again.-*!] soven or eight
Wilsons.
Bandits Wound Sheriff
After Robbing a Bank
TOPEKA, March 28.—-Maudits who
looted (the Farmers State Bank at
Westmoreland shot and -or, >usly
wounded Sheriff Mayer of Pottawa
Ibmllo er untv, according to advie -s
received here.
The Immlits are reported lo have
secured only about $2,00(1.
Iowa Man Governor
of Porto Rica.
n&Cjp To^n: Jr j
Representative Horace A.
Townor, of Iowa, nominated by
President Harding to be Governor
of Porto Rica.
hardingTakes
HAND IN SUGAR
INVESTIGATION
Asks Tariff Commission to
Find if Duty Has Caused
Recent High Prices.
sr Ai;;:rsTi\K. M r :\ its.
Prosld nt Harding list telegraphed
tho tariff commissi. :i ,• 1 ord >r to in
vestigae tlie relation of .duty on
sugar In the high priors of sugar
stating that If the duty had any
part in mftking the prevailing abnor
mu! price he would proclaim a re
duct it ti in the duty. Pr i lent Itirl
!ng aid it > found it “H.'l'icult to be
lie vo" tile duty was tit' can e of I lit
present high price of ;agar.
1-—~ * -•
BANS CHAPLIN FILM
i —— i
| WALLA WALLA, Wash.,
] March -S The Ministerial
| I’nlon has pa ;sed a resolution
I protesting to showing the latest
Chaplin film hore. It H til- I
legcd til • film ridicules the
clergy. |
i- -4
RADIO MOVIES ARE NEXT ON
LIST OF LATE INVENTIONS;
REMAIN AT HOME SEE SHOW
WASHINGTON, March 28. Kv-ry
family will be able In the near fit
lure to gather about tilie radio sot in
the parlor and a complete moving
picture show.
This it the confident prediction ol
C. Francis .1 tikins. iih'- well known
inventor, who is transmitting an I
receiving moving picture t.
Jenkins recently startled the pul>
11-’ by th ■ transmission by radio ol
phonographs from Washington t
Philadelphia.
"I will have my apparatus ready
for a trial within a v r. short while,’
Jenkins said “I hive nearly fin
ished it, and am ah- dutoly confident
that the experiment twill be success
fill.
Matter of Speed
“There Is nothing In the way ol
transmission of moving pictures bul
the matter of speed,” he d‘dared
“iml 1 am surd 1 can provide f >i
that.”
Jenkins created a sensation in th;
opening session ot Secretary Hoov.tr’:
radio conference recently by a brie
I announcement that lie was perfectlnf
COLONEL MEARS
DOES NOT LIKE
HIS REMOVAL
Chairman of Alaskan Com
mission Resents Being Re
lieved of His Duties.
MAKES STATEMENT AT
MEETING IN ANCHORAGE
Col. James G. Steese Now in
Charge of Commission's
Activities on Railroad.
ANCHORAGE. March 28.—Speak
ing: before the Chamber of Com
ma cc here. Cel, Frederick Mears,
voiced resentment at being relieved
of the duties of Chairman of the
Alaskan Engineering Commirsicn
befci. the Government railroad wai
completed early in June.
Colonel Mears said: "The first in
timation I had that a cuccessor was
■ being- appointed was when I lead
the article in the newspapeis. Sec
vtary Fall, when questioned, said
his understanding was that I under
i vtood the airangement. I feel it is
1 unfair to be relieved of my duties
j before the lailrcad is completed and
unfair that I am not able to par
i ticipate in the final touches."
Colonel Meaio two kitmbrage at
i the publishment of Colonel Stecse's
; reread as a transportation expert.
Col.-Meats raid in Steese's case it
‘was cnly a matter of operating a
railroad and maintenance of loyalty.
Criticism Follows Tribute,
i Col. Mear s criticism followed a
tribute by Col. James G. Steese who
said the lailway stands as a monu
ment to Mears who had turned ov:r
,i flirt clarD enterprise which lie
hoped would be made to cay its
way. H? pointed cut that the rail
road already is earning pait cf the
(Continued on'Page Three.)
LORD ROBERT
I CECIL IS IN
j AMERICA NOW
Comes to Speak in Behalf of
League of Nations—
Wants America in it.
MKW VOIU\. Mi l l 28. IfjrJ R>b
i-rt Cecil ; 1 rivi .I li r.> it 1 ;y and
will apeak t he I. .ign > of Nation.!.
! Cord Robert Cei .1 said Soviet Run
I -la and Uernrany will probably be
•idai.’.tod to the Lcaguo it they ap
Iplii-l in a egular way. He said h;
' w 'n il Amorie i w 11 la the League
i inil w -h. 1 as much for Germany.
| h‘> m.iv i|>p:ii'Jt4i i and would like
! ,o have this considered in the al
j otraont ivt wave leng'hs.
‘ I will li > a very simple affair,”
! io sai l in describing the receiving
r. r :i fh.it wiil be used in his
. ht;mo.
) “it will i in of a little box.
, ibn.it 111 by li by 15 Inches, which
will be cannooteil with tho receiving
j set in th » sane- win that the be.td
; i-im-e Is a. ,v Tin* electrical Impulse,
(instead of being transferred Into
|s und, will be changed In rite delicate
.instruments within the box into pic
' lure's Just an in the still photograph
; trail Hitting apparatus already per
fected.
“Tile family can gather around In
I the evening, and have their own
moving picture performance."
Jenkins is not sure yet whether
[he ( in itf-rfect tho apparatus to the
'[ requirement* of acrysta. set or not.
Howev r. li ■ ss.id it would be easily
'adapted to the ordinary size l raiHo
, act used in most homes
i! A receiving machine ahould not
: | cost over $5, ho said,
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