THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME*
VOL XXI., NO. 3136.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY. JANUARY 8, 1923. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENT&
FRENCH FORCES CONCENTRATED
READY FOR GERMAN
Rivers Out of Banks; Valleys Near Seattle Flooded
FLOOD WATERS
IN VALLEYS AT
SEATTLE TODAY
Traffic Between Seattle and
Tacoma By Land Has
Been Cut Off.
CITIES IN OREGON ARE
SURROUNDED BY WATER
Railroad Traffic Between
Oregon and California
Is Paralyzed.
SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—Heavy rains
In the mountains today caused the
White, Green and Duwamish rivers
to overflow flooding the White River
Valley from a deptli of one to five
feet.
All valley roads between Seattle
and Tacoma are impassable.
The high line road through Des
Moines is the only connection be
tween the two cities.
All interurban and bus service
between Seattle and Tacoma ha
been halted since Midnight.
Water is from one to three feet
deep in the town of Kent.
TRAFFIC IS STOPPED.
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 8.—Flood
conditions in this state have brought
through traffic between here and
California to a complete standstill.
The Southern Pacific main line
bridge across the Santia River went
out last night.
The Pacific Highway is flooded in
many places and in other places
blocked by slides.
The Willamette River is muddy
and the torbid torrent is filled with
driftwood.
EIGHT FEET IN SALEM
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 8.^-ln West
Salem, water is today standing at a
depth cf eight feet. Many houses
are inundated.
It is feared the pavement between
Salem and Dallas, on the highway,
has been materially damaged by the
water.
HIGH WATER AT PORTLAND
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 8—At
Sheridan, Ore., the Yamhill River
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Ralston Is Looming Up
As Presidential Timber
SPRING-FIELD, 111., Jan. 8.—In
diana may furnish the Democratic
Presidential nomination candidate
next year in the person of Senator
Elect 8amual Ralston. This is ac
cording to gossip heard here today
preceding the Jackson Day banquet
at which Ralston will be the prin
cipal speaker.
Settles $100,000 On His
Proofreader Bride.
f PJj'Vf.oJoW T.DavJ'oaru <
Now Bedford (Mass.) society
was startled when it became
known that Miss Eleanor Weik,
for many years a newspaper proof
reader, had become the secret
bride of John T. Dawson, million
aire ice manufacturer, who settled
$100,000 on her on their wedding
day.
EDUCATION IS
DISCUSSION AT
BIG CONFERENCE
Many Important Subjects Be
ing Reviewed by Asso
ciation Convention.
CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—Religion con-1
ditions, academic freedom, athletics,
college endowments, publiciay and I
related subjects of importance in the'
field of education, will be revel wed
here this week in connection with!
the annual conventions of the Asso
1 elation of American Colleges, tire j
Council of Church Hoards of Educa
tion and Church Workers in Cul
vers ities.
The educational situation in Am
erica is most encouraging, according
to Dr. Robert I,. Kelly of New York,
executive secretary, and never ini
! history have so many young people
j sought college training. "So greut!
jlias been the influx of students since!
the war that nearly all of the larger'
institutions are over-crowded and
forced to turn students away. Thej
greatest problem now facing these|
institutions is that of finances."
Prominent Men Attend.
Executives, heads of religious and
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SCHOOL FOR WAITRESSES AND
• WAITERS OPENED IN PORTLAND
PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 8—Backed
by the United States government, a
school for waiters and waitresses
has been opened here, and it intends
to turn out graduates trained In all
the finest points of courteous serv
ice, according to Miss Jennie Baker,
instructor, and K. E. Elliott, voca
tional director for Oregon. Expenses
of the school are met by funds de
voted by the government for voca
tional training, and fees paid by the
students.
The venture, the first of the kind
on the Pacific coast, was made to
fill a great need, said Mr. Elliott,
who pointed out that a good waiter
Is vastly more than a slinger of
hash or a smasher of crockery. The
government, in establishing vocation
al training courses in various lines
has in mind the preparation of work
ers in callings where there are no
apprenticeships and where those en
gaged in them have no way to learn
except “picking them up.”
The instruction begins in the kitch
en. where the food is assembled, and
follows each step in the work of
serving a patron until the dishes are
removed.
"Patrons must not he rushed while
they are eating,” said Miss Baker.
"They must be given ample time
between courses and dishes must not
be removed prematurely. Neither
should the delay between courses be
too prolonged. Pood must be served
promptly, and patrons must not he
kept waiting. A smooth operating
dining room Is as essential to the
sue cess of a hotel as treatment ac
corded at the desk.”
Accort^ng to Mr. Elliott, there has
been an actual shortage of efficient
dining room help, and it is the aim
of the movement started here to
meet this demand.
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GREAT DAMAGE
IN COLORADO
Eastern Slope of Rockies
Swept by Terriffc Storm
—Damage Is Heavy.
DENVER, Jan. 8. — Descending
upon the eastern slope ot: the
Rockies a severe windstrom with a
velocity of from 35 to 75 miles an
hour left destruction and havoc in
parts of Denver today.
Nearly a score of other Colorado
towns and farming sections have re
ported damages.
Trees were uprooted in many
places and frame houses were dam
tged.
No lo. g cf life has been reported
but the property damage will prob
ably be exceedingly heavy.
Easy Divorces to Be
Stopped Says Judge
CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—Judge Timothy
Hurley took a new step today In his
war on easy divorces by announcing
he would refuse a decree on allega
tions of misconduct unless a peti
tion was signed for a warrant for
the arrest of the accused on a charge
of adultery.
German Potash Contract
Made with 1). S. Company
BERLIN, Jan. 8.—The directorate
erf the potash syndicate has been au
thorized by the syndicate’s supervis
ory council to conclude a contract
with the Potash Importing Corpora
tion of New York City for all foreign
potash required in the United States
for the next five years.
Grave Containing Romanoff
Jewels Now Well Guarded
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—Major Gen
eral Bullard has sent a detachment
of soldiers to Cypress Hills cemetery
to guard the grave of Seamen Jones,
in whose coffin $4,000,000 worth of
'the Romanoff crown Jewels are re
ported to have been hidden by smug
glers.
Former Petersburg Man
Passes Away in Seattle
SEATTLE. Jan. 8—Dr. J. Lang
don Hawes, aged 47, died Sunday
after a prolonged Illness. He was a
resident of Petersburg many years
ago and came here about five months
ago for special treatment. The fune
ral will be held tomorrow, attended
by many Alaskans.
TITLOW PROM*NENT MAN
TACOMA, Jan. 8.—A. R. Titlow,
Democratic National Committeeman
from this stale, who died at his
home here last Saturday, was one of
the leading democrats of the state
since 1896, when he left the Republi
can party on the silver Issue. Al
though long engaged in politics, only
once did he hold an elective office
and that when he was prosecuting
attorney of Pierce county in 1896
Titlow came here in 1898 from Ten
nessee and was an extensive real
estater as well as attorney.
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Top of Alaskan
Mountain Reported
Blown Off
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1 ANCHORAGE, Jan. 8—(By i
' Associated Press.)—The top of :
j Pavlof mountain, on the Aleu- !
I tian Peninsula, has been blown i
1 off, according to a wireless mes- I
1 sage received here. It is be
1 lieved the "blow off" was
' caused by the earthquake on [
| December 30, felt throughout 1
1 this district. Navigators predict 1
I a phenomena similar to the ris- |
! Ing and disappearing of Gogos- !
I lof Island in 1896.
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HOW AMERICA GOT ITS HOLIDAY LIQUOR!
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These exclusive photographs, taken at great risk three tulles rff the Long Island coast, show
how America, despite Mr. Volsteal, got its holiday supply of ‘'hard stuff.” Liquor it shipped directly
from the Bahama Islands and tak mi off by either airplane or motorboat outside the three-tnile limit,
being smuggled ashore at night. THE MYSTERY .1 is just whiff its name implies, and it is one of the
chief rum-runners. In one of tin pictures Bahama natives are tliown transferring liquor from THE
MYSTERY .1 to ',)\e waiting seaplane, which lands It In some obscure eovo on Ixttig Island, where
high-powered automobiles wait to transport It at top speed to pureh asere of the smuggled good*. Tbes
pictures were taken by one of tha men engaged in rum-running.
NEW LIQUOR
SMUGGLING
PLOT FOUND
Foreign Diplomatic Officials
Believed Engaged in
Liquor Traffic.
WASHINGTON’, Jan. 8. Sources
of “embassy liquors” which it is
claimed have been finding their way
into illicit traffic in this city in
large quantities, are being sought by
the local police.
This Is the result of three succes
sive raids on apartment houses in
the fashionable northwest section.
The police claim several embassies
and legations’ officials have appar
ently participated in an organized
traffic in liquor.
American Steam
Shovels Demolish
Walls of Paris
PARIS, Jan. 8.—American steam
shovels, left behind in France by j
the American army, are speeding j
up the work of demolishing the fortl-.
fled walls of the old city to such an
extent that ft will probably be com- j
pleted In five years, instead of the j
25 years it doubtless would havej
taken by pick and shovel.
The work smarted in 1919, and its
end seemed so far away that no one
concerned himself with the outcome.'
Now the end is virtually at hand, j
due 'to the efficiency of American
machinery, and the astonished people;
of Paris foresee the inevitable battle
between Paris and its suburbs over j
the extension of the city limits to
include the entire department of the
Seine.
As 90on as the wall is down u
law will he introduced into parlia
ment consolidating the suburban
towns of Boulogne, N'euilly, Levallois,
Saint Deni.s, Pantin. Charenton. Vin
cennes, fvry and a good many others
with Paris. The suburban communi
ties say 'this is too much honor.
They prefer to go on living a modest
mhurban life, to share In the splen
lors of the capital Besides, they
-eckon the cost will be greater than
he honor.
Paris replies Hiat the suburbs will
mjoy the Improvements that will be
made on the site of the fortiflca
Ions, and that therefore they should
come In and ahare the expenses.
Preparing Peace
j Treaty with Turks;
One Break Occurs
' L.AUSANNK, .Ian. 8.—Not- ;
| withstandlng the disappointing
collapse last Saturday ot nego- I
nations between the Allied rep- j
1 resentatives and the Turks con- j
cernlng special judicial provi
! sions for foreigners in Turkey, j
the Allied delegations are push
| ing forward preparation of a |
! peace treaty which they still
j hope may tc1 signed. j
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TREATY SHORTLY
1 LONDON, Jan. 8.—A peace |
I treaty will be presented to the
| Turks within a fortnight and
I the Turkish representatives wall
| be told to sign it or tear it up
] and then take the consequences.
Tills is according to reliable In- I
1 formation given out here today
i in official circles.
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INVESTIGATION
OF EMIGRATION
RECOMMENDED
Trained Workers Suggested
to Leave Sweden Instead
of Routine Laborers.
SrTOCKJlOLVI. Jan. 8.—The emi
gration from Sweden of highly quali
fied engineers, expert foresters and
agriculturists, of especially trained
industrial workmen rather than of
unskilled laborers and ordinary far
mers. is recommended by Dr. Adrian
.Violin, an authority on the subject
of emigration. Since there must be
emigration of some kind, argues Dr.
Violin, It would be better for the
home country, and would insure
greater success for the emigrants
themselves, If those who establish
a new domicile in America and else
where were persons of professional
or technical equipment.
Swedish statistics show that, be
tween the agos of 15 and 50, there
are now 200,000 more persons en
gaged in gainful occupations than
were in 191.2. This surplus has been
taken care of partly by Increased
work In the industrial world, and
partly by emigration, while the re
mainder about 88,000, at the end of
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ATTACK UPON j
HEAVEN MADE
BY RUSSIANS
Young Communists Launch
Widely Heralded Propa- j
ganda—Dieties Burned.
MOSCOW, jan. S.— Young Com-,
inunists observing the 'Christmas of I
the Georgian calendar yesterday,
launched the widely heralded “at-,
■tack upon heaven.”
In a grotesque carnival procession,
participated in by thousands of Rus- i
alan students, the Communlsls did a I
gigantic snake dance around a great
bonfire and the climax of the “at-1
tack" came when they tossed Into
the flames, straw and paper figures
representing the Dletles of the Chris-j
tian, Mohammedan, Jewish and Hud
hist religions.
Lethal Gas Is Legal
For Nevada Exectuions
CARSON CITY, Jan. 8.—The su
preme court has upheld the state '
law authorizing the use of lethal
gas in executions of convicted crim
inals.
STEALS $8,000
PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 8. -More
than $8,000 in currency was stolen
from Assley & Hnmelin, a private
bank, by a thief who unlocked the
cashier's wicket and scooped lip all
the money in Bight.
FRENCH FORCES
A R E PREPARING
INVADE GERMANY
Rhine Army Is Gathering
Ready to March When
Poincare Gives Word.
SOLDIERS HURRY BACK
RECALLED FROM LEAVE
Essen Will Be First German
Place Occupied—Bel
gium Will Assist.
PARIS, Jan. 8.—France’s Rhine
Aimy is gathering ready to march
when Premier Poincare give* the
word for car rying out his secret plan
for seizing the Ruhr district and
the Rhineland.
Trains were crowded last night
with scldiers hurriedly recalled from
lcrvc returning to their posts.
French tro-ps on the Rhine have
been ordered to remain in their
quarters wherever there appears to
be any danger of clashes with the
Germans.
Every precaution i* taken to "void
demonstrations.
TO OCCUPY ESSEN.
PARIS, Jan. 8.—Occupation cf Es
sen fcy a French force accompanied
by Engineers and customs officials
s slated for Thursday morning.
Belt'iurn and Italian engineers and
‘schnical experts will accompany the
French forces.
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| Gold in Well
i Starts Stampede;
Claims Staked
VICTORIA, II. C„ Jun. 8 —
Men dinging a well at a place
owned hy Charles Laliounty, in
the Caribou district, noticed
| gold in the sand. This started
i a rush for locations and most
| of the men in the vicinity have
! staked claims.
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PASSENGERS ARE
TAKEN OFF SHIP
German Liner Stranded on
Cuban Coast — French
Liner Is to the Rescue.
HAVANA. Jan. 8. Three hundred
and twenty-three passengers from
the German trans-Atlantic liner Hol
;atla, which is stranded on Sand
Key, in the Florida channel, near
Carys Port, have been taken aboard
:he French liner De La 3alle. This
is according to a wireless report
nicked up here.
ONE SPOOL OF THREAD PAYS
RENT OF SEVEN ROOM HOUSE
BKRLI.V, Jan. 8. -‘What to do WhenI
the rent fame around puzzled the J
tenant of a seven-room house at t
Celle, Westphalia, when he was short |
of money, until he happened to think]
of several spools of sewing-machine
thread left on hand from purchases
made before the war
The tenant pays 900 marks an
nually for the hpuse and the quar
ter's rent amounted to 225. His of
fer to pay tho landlord with one
spool of the thread was accepted, the
'tenant receiving 10 marks cash in
change since this thread now sells
'or 235 marks n spool. Refore the
I .vat, tho spools coat him 30 pfen
nlngs each.
A federal law limits the prices
that may be charged for rent; thread
follows the dollar rate of exchange.
"A Town without u Telephone” W
the dubious title acquired by Mehr
3todt. a place of 400 inhabitants sit
uated in Thuringia. Up to recently,
Mehrstedt boasted at least the usual
central toll station but one day the
mail carrier came along and official
ly carried off its sole apparatus.
None of thp residents feels he can
vfford the luxury of a connection, so
ill now have to wait for the mails
‘o let them know “how the dollar
stands."