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VOL. XXII., NO. 3286.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY,^JULY 2, 1923. Iff
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PRICE TEN CENTS*
BIG FIGHT IS
STILL IN AIR;
NO $100,0011
Doubt Exists Regarding Final
Payment of $100,000—
Statement Later.
GREAT FALLS. July 2.—Finan
cial affairs of the Dempsey-Gibbous
vght were rapidly approaching a
crisis at nodn today with the situa
tion so serious that Jack Kearns
said he had doubts about receiving
the final $100,000 due Dempsey by
midnight tonight.
The latest turn of events became
ovidcnt after Major J. F. Lane, new
ly appointed trustee of the fight,
notified Kearns, who said Lane told
hint that the “affairs are in a ter
rible muddle."
Lane declined to meet newspaper
men but promised a statement liter.
MINT STOCKINGS
STARTLE^ PARIS
PARIS, July 2.—Summer haa sud
denly appeared without warning and
with it short organdie frocka with
many and beautiful flowers.
While the majority of the women
how to couveation and wear ordi
nary silk stocks, Marth# Rednier
and Nina Myritl, two of the moat
prominent actresses in Europe, have
created the sensation of the season
by appearing with their legs care
fully gilded, their knees glittering
in the bright aunahfne.
At the Grand Prix bail the other
night many of the notables of fash
ionable life had dyed limbs, but so
far as known these were the firs',
golden ones.
Battleship Maryland
Makes Record for
Sustained Speed
SEATTLE, July 2 — Battleship
Maryland, arriving here, was 19 days
from Norfolk, Virginia and used 14
days 23 hours and seven minutes in!
actual running time. Commander j
Galbraith announced that this run j
aa the longest on sustained speed!
ever made on a battleship.
Will Ask Indictment of
Anti«Saloon League Man
NEW YORK, July 2.—-District At j
torney Bran ton, whose office recent-]
ly dropped Investigation of the charg
es against William N. Anderson,1
State Superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League, announced today that
on the baste of newly-found evidence
he would ask the grand jury next
Monday to Indict Anderson. An in
dictment of Anderson will be on
ChaTges of grand larceny, extortion
and forgery.
Wonld-Be-Citizens
Swarm Ellis Island
NEW YORK.' July 2.—Ellis Island
la facing the greatest onslaught of
Immigrants since the enactment ot
the 3 pGr cent. law. Four of 11
ocean liners anchored at quarantine
yesterday and were taken to Elili
Island. The others were landed to
day and the would-be-citizens, with
few exceptions were passed.
One of Seattle’s Oldest
Pioeeers Has Passed Away,
SEATTLE. July 2.—William H.!
Surlier, aged 89, one of Seattle's
oldest pioneers and the first Chief
of Police, died yesterday at Laurel
hurst. in the home which he built
in 1859.
YAH ESTATE MUST PAY.
BOSTON, July 2. —The Vermont
Supreme Court has found against the
estate of the late Theodore N. Vail
and in favor of the Eastern States
Agricultural & Industrial Exposition
ot Springfield, Mass., which sued to
enforce the payment or a large bal
ance due on a f lOO.nrto subscription
hy Mr. Vail tpade in hie lifetime.
Are to Extend
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Against the U
WESTERVILLE, O, July 2.—Plans
of the World League Against Alco
holism were announced in a state
ment issued today by Dr. Ernest H.
Cherrlngton, general secretary. Dr.
Cherrington said that William E.
(‘'Pussyfoot”) Johnson now is arriv
ing in London, whence he will pro
ceed shortly to South Africa to aid
in a prohibition campaign. He then ]
plans to go to Egypt.
Dr. Cherrington will sail August
1 for the British Isles and Europe,
PROUD TO HAUL HARDING’S TRAIN.
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hikginecr J. A. Dixon and Fireman H. A. Griffin, of the Balti
more & Ohio, were certainly proud to be placed In the engine which
pulled out of the Washington station with the Presidential train
in which Presidnet Harding begin his long trip Alaskaward.
TWENTY THOUSAND DELEGATES
ATTENMJ. E. A, CONFERENCE 1N i
OAKLAND; CHANCES ARE NOTED!
MANILA HIT
BT TYPHOON
MANILA. July 2.—One person was
killed, one mall boat foundered and
all telegraph and telephone lines
outside of the city have been blown
down by the typhoon raging here for
two days.
Serious damage has been done in
the Northern Provinces.
No serious damage has been done
here.
Alleged Murderers
Escape from Jail
ALBANY, Ore.. July 2. — George
Parker and Rulie Johnson escaped
yesterday afternoon from the Linn
County jail where they were being
held for the murder of ex-Sheriff
M.! J. Dunlap, whom they shot on th.j
streets of Albany May 21 during a
running fight.
Parker was recaptured while at
tempting to scale the prison ler., eo
but Johnson Is still at large.
The two men dug a hole In ;hf
rear of the wall of the jail.
Venezuela Official Is
Asphyxiated in His Bed
CARACUS, July 2.—Juan C. Gom
ez. first vice-president of Venezuela
and a brother of Juan C. Gomez, was
laspyhxlated in bed last night. This
is according to an official bulletin.
World Drive
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primarily as one of the represents- I
tives to the seventeenth International
Congress at Copenhagen, August 20
26.
Prof. John C. Cranberry of South
western University, Georgetown. Tex.
now In Burope for the League, will
survey conditions and will develop i
organization literature. He will seek
to complete some of the work of in- >
vestigation started by the late John |
G. Wooley. who died while repre-:
senting the League in Spain.
OAKLAND, July 2.—Twenty thou
sand delegates from 40 nations and
all states in the United States are
here today for the first sessions of
the National Educational Associa
tion conventions.
Mayor John I,. Davis of Oakland in
extending a welcome to the dele
gates said Oakland has the present
distinction of having one of the most
progressive and best known school
systems in the United States. Mayor
Davis said:
“Oakland as a city has such a
wonderful future that we of today
must face the problems of a metro
polis of the future to meet particu
larly the continual growth of our popu
lation. We have just completed a
construction program involving the
building of $5,000,000 worth of new
schools. They are not more than
completed than we find ourselves
faced with the necessity of another
bond issue to provide additional ade
quate facilities for the children of
the people who are here, and of the
people who are coming here In ever
increasing numbers.”
Responses to Welcome
Dr. A. P. Wlnship, pditor of the
Journal of Education, Roston, Mass.,
in responding to an address of wel
come by Mayor John D. Davis, said
every visit he had made to the Pa
cific Coast was a moving picture
with a new film every time. This,
he said, was his fifty-fifth trip across
the continent. Wonderful as it was
in 1875, “it becomes more wonderful
every time I cross the Sierras." Dr.
Winship said.
Dr. Winship outlined the changes
which have taken place since the
N. E. A. met In San Francisco in
1915. He said:
lOoMtia««i op r$*i nerra i
PRESIDENT HARDING LEAVES FOR ALASKAN TRIP.
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President Marding is shown, with Mrs. Harding and Secretary ('hri-'l. n, on the observation car
of the special train in which ha loft Washington for his 16,000- idle trip to Alaska. lie will lie
in Juneau July 1-10,
Partisan Politics May Prevail
on Poincare to Soon Resign
BIG SUM FOR
BRIGHT IDEA
One Hundred Thousand Dol
lar Prize is Hung Up for
World Peace Plan.
NEW YORK, July 2.—It Is an
nounced I hut Edward W. Bok, of
Philadelphia, former editor of the
Nadirs’ Home Journal, has donu'.al
$100,000 to be Riven as a prize 'a
the American offering I ho best prac
ticable plan for co-operation of 'h*
United States with other nations for
attainment and prosrevatlon of
world pear. ■>.
The aware will be given in two
parts, $50 000 each for the first
Idea itself, the second when prac
ticability of the idea is proved oi'h^r
through adoption by the Senate r
convinced by popular endorsement.
Harding Assailed for
Calling League Dead
NEW YORK, July 2,—The i.eaauo
of Nations Nonpartisan Association
has addressed a telegram to Presi
dent Harding, challenging the Presi
dent's statement in his St. Louis
speech, “That ihe League of Nations
is as deed as slavery." The message
was signed by George W. Wiclier
sltam, president of the organization's
lounoil; Everett Colby, chairmar of
the executlvo committee, and Will
iam H. Short, executive director.
Split Looms Up Between
Gov. Gen. Wood, Filipinos
MANILA, July 2.—Manuel Qnc
soa, Prosider.l of the Philippine
Senate. In a statement today, charg
ed Governor General Leonard Wood
with mterferrieg In domestic affairs,
linesnn preukied a split between
the Legislature and W(K»d if the
present adminiet ration policy v/as
continued.
Sensational Charges Made
In Alaskan Divorce Case
SEATTLE, July 2. — Geraldine
Schoelwald, in her divorce suit
against Ernest Schoelwald, President
of the Petersburg Packing Company,
accused him of lavishing gifts on
other women. She asserts that one
woman to whom he posed as an un
married man, sued him for 1100,000.
She charges him trying to secret
his property holding* worth $ 1,000,
900. Mrs. Schoelwald asks for $50,
900 expense money.
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Government Ends
i Fiscal Year with
Big Surplus on Hand
WASHINGTON, July 2— Di- "j
| rector of the Budget Lord an
! flounces that at the close of the
| | fiscal year, last Saturday, there
i was a surplus of 1310,000,000 for |
I the Federal government. This
I ' is $110,000,000 more than I’rest
| [ dent Harding and Lord estlmat
j ed at the last business moet- ;
ing of government officials two
j weeks ago.
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HERRIN RIOT
REPORT WARM
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I Special Committee Deals Out j
Criticism Without
Mincing of Words.
SPRINGFIELD. 111., July 2. — A
special Investigating ooimnlttee which
i probed the Herriu mine riots found
' Adjutant General Black derelict mi
Ids duty and primarily to blame “for
' not sending troops to Williamson
I County at Hie time of the riots."
| The report also condemns nearly
everyone who "hail a hand in fi,> j
affair." Besides laying blame on Ad
jutant G< neral Black, the report de
ciares Colonel Sam Hunter, State
Staff Officer at Herrin "was abso
lutely Incompetent, unreliable and un
worthy to perform the duties as-j
Rigned to him.” Former Sheriff Mel-|
via Thaxton, of Williamnou County
and his deputies are declared "irr'- J
sponsible and incompetent to hold |
any office of trust in Ihy Static"'
First White Man Crosses
Lake Erie Paddling Canoe
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CLEVELAND, July 2. •'Texan,
Jack" Sullivan yestprday established j
a new record in puddling a canoe
across Lake Erie. He made the dis
tance of BO miles in four minutes
I less than 24 hours. This is said to
the (he first time a white man has
l accomplished a c anoe trip across the
i lake.
NEW YORK. July 2.—Eighteen
Federal Prohibition Enforcement agj
ents In Manhattan and Brooklyn j
have been dropped from the staff of
Divisional Chief for New York and
Northern Npw Jersey because of lack
of sufficient appropriations,
PARIS, July 2. 113y A* otiated
Press.) -Partisan politics, which are
absorbing the attention ot the French
Parliament more and mure as the
elections of next year come nearer,
may drive Poincare from power In
the opinion of some political proph
ets.
The Premier is tired, physically and
mentally, lie has aged considerably
under the tremendous load he has
carried during the past eighteen
months, and Is thoroughly disgusted
Ills friends say, with the Intrigues
that are occupying the attention of
parliamentary leaders at a time
when their entire efforts ought to
he centered on the solution of the
reparations question and the extri
cation of France from her critical
financial situation.
Poincare has sharply criticised dep
uties and senators for delaying the
voting of the budget by putting for
ward selfish local interests against
the general good of the country, de
manding appropriations that had been
cut out In the interests of economy.
He has also let it be known to
leading senators that ho attributes
the recent action of the senate in
refusing to try the communists as a
distinctly political maneuver, in
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Fishing Smack Caught;
Booze Cargo Is Found
HOS ANGELES. July 2.—A fishing
smack containing more than 100 cases
of liquor was seized last night off
Ansheini Landing. Orange County.
The members of the crew were all
held as alleged rum runners. Gov
ernment agents pursued the smack
in a cutter and exchanged shots
with the crew before the smack was
surrendered.
Family Nearly Blotted
Out; Engine Hits Auto
LOS ANGKLKS. July 2.—Threw
were killed and one seriously In
jured when an automobile In which
they were riding was struck by an
electric locomotive on the T'nion
Pacific railroad at Whitlier, a su
burb. The dead are Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Morgan and their dae^hter
in-law, Mrs. William I). Morgan.
American Observer in
Europe Has Resigned
WASHINGTON, July 2. -The resin
nation of Roland W. Boyiien, Ameri
can observer with the Reparations
Com mission, announced in Paris yes
terday, is due to his desfte to resume
the practice of law. The State De
partment. In a formal statement, said
his duties will be taken over by Col.
James A. Logan, Jr., his assistant. 1
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FRENCH ISSUE
STATEMENT ON
RUHR TROUBLE (
German Government Must
Make Agreement-—Ugly
Actions Are Noted.
PARIS, July 2,—Until the Ger
man government gives a solemn
promise to bend all efforts to stop
outrages In the occupied district and
until new German proposals, under
written by neutral countries or al
lied powers are made. France will
not abandon the character of the
Ruhr occupation. This statement
vas officially made today.
It was recently stated that If the
Germans abandoned “passive" re
eistance, occupation activities would
be lessened. Lately the ‘‘passive"
resistance has resulted In a crop of
time bombs and other outrages.
FRANKFORT SURROUNDED.
LONDON, July 2.—Advices receiv
ed here say that Frankfort is now
entirely surrounded by the opeupy
lnK forces and is completely severed
from unoccupied Germany.
OCCUPY KRUPPS WORKS.
LONDON, July 2. — A Central
Nows dispatch says the French have
mitirely occupied the Krupps Works
I at Essen and all work has ceased.
WAGES RAISED
ON S. B. BOATS
WASHINGTON, July 2.—Immediate
increase in the wages of dock and
engineer officers, radio operators and
members of the steward’s department
on the Shipping Board vessels, rang
ing from $7 to »20 or more, was
announced today by Vice-Chairman
T. V. O'Connor, of the Board. 1
Survivors of Boat ’
Wrecked Month Ago
Land; Sufferings
I’ORT LOUIS, Mauritius Island,
July 2.—A life boat which left the
British steamship Trevasa with 24
men just before the craft sank in
the Indian Ocean a month ago, has
arrived with 16 survivors. The others
died of hardships, one when In sight
of 'laud.
The last biscuit and last drop of
water had been consumed.
The daily ration was one biscuit
and a few drops of water p‘.r man.
Some of those dying drank sea wa
ter.
500 Russian Immigrants
Reach ’Frisco; Refugees
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. — A
band or Russian immigrants number
ing about 500, who have been refug
ees on the Kar Kastern seas since.
October, 1921. arrived here lull yes
terday on the army transport Mer
ritt. They include the remn»nt of
the Russian White Guard which
fought the Red Army after Commun
istic control was entrenched. They
were forced to flee from Vladivostok
when the Japanese troops were with
drawn from there.
Two Car Train Hits
Open Switch; 40 Hurt
BUFFALO, July 2 — Forty were
injured, a number fatally, when- a
two car train on the Niagara Falla
line tan into an open awitch at
Tonawanda this afternoon, both car*
being ditched.
New President Takes
Charge at California U.
BERKBLKY, Cal.. July 2.—<Dr.
\V. VV. Campbell, director of Lick
Observatory, took over the presi
dency of the University of California
with simple ceremonies today from
T)r David I*. Barrows, The latter
makes a trip abroad and then re
turns to necGjr.e prbfesdor of politi
cal science.