THE
ALASKA
DAILY
EMPIRE
A\ : THE HEWS ALL THE TIME"
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VOL XXII., NO. 3253.
JUNEAU ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
CHINESE TROOPS
TO CHARGE
BRIGANDS,
RELEASE CAPTIVES
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Presided Harding Appeals
for Rededication of People
to Purposes of Government
BATHING SUIT
PARSON AGAIN
BACK IN FOLD
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Rev. Irvin ot Oklahoma Re-f
instated by Presbytreian
General Assembly.
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TNTHANAPOL, S, ,M:- v .1 Th I
General Assembly < ' the Fre byter
ian Church has ordered tin rein
statement of ilev. Thom is J. Irvin,
ot DaMdon. Okla., su-.pend?d las; |
year when he was charged with per-i
forming a roarriago ceremony with]
the principals all in bathing suits.
•The Judicial committee reported I
the punishment evas "too severe and
Unwarranted) by the facts."
late yesterday afternoon the
Fundamentalists opposing the liberal
ism of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdlck
forced through the General Assem
bly by a vote of 4311 to 359 a resolu
tion directing the New York Preaby- i
terlan .Assembly to require preaching!
In the Fir sit Church in New York j
City to conform to the confession of]
faith.
WEALTHY MAN !
SHOT;MYSTERY I
IS APPARENT!
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BAKERSFIELD, Cal.. May 24.—!
Magruder Beall, wealthy Seattle-!
Vashon Island florists, heavily inter-j
eeted in nllver mining ventures in
Mojave County, is lying critically
wounded In a hospital here.
The police are investigating and:
have held W. E. Raymond, who
came here recently.
The authorities said Beall stopped |
to give aid to a man apparently;
hadly injured and lying be?.!de the
roadside.
The ‘‘injured" man suddenlyl
straightened up and shot Beall'
through the back.
Other companions or Beall gave
inconclusive stories. j
Utah Firm to Lay
Mexican Rail Link
OQDTN. Utah. May 24.—The Utah!
Construction Company at' Ogdon an
nounced that it had obtained iv,
$6,000,000 eontrlaot from the South*:
om Pacific Railroad Company oft
Mexico 'for the construction or truck-)
age Ibetweom Topic and Laiquennada. i
This link is pant of the line which1
will connect Nogales with Mexico!
City via the We# Cot'at.
E. O. Wattis. Official of the Utah;,
concern, telegraphed from Los An- I
goles that his company had been i
awarded the contract.
Sole Survivor Custer
Massacre Passes Away
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‘ QKLiLINaS, Mont., May 24.—Chief !
Shuh Shea .Ahish, or Curley. Indian: ‘
scout, solo .itirvivor of the Custer!1
massacre and who brought the news | ;
df the tragic ‘buttle to the outside I :
world, died Tuesday and was burled I ’
at the Crow Agency. He was 681
years old. :
BEL6IUM TO GALL ADDITIONAL
CLASSES TO COLORS; PRESENT
CONSCRIPTS WILL BE KEPT ON
•ROME.LS, May 24.—The Belgium Cabinet today decided to keep the
preaant conacripts in the army four months after expiration of their
tar me and to call several additional classes to the colors to reinforce the
Ruhr occupation and to fight th* railroad strike.
WASHINGTON. May 24.—President Harding addressing the open
ing of the National American Council, recently loimcd to incourage
better American citizenship, appealed for rededication 'f the people to
the aims and purposes of the government as set forth in the ccn
ctitution.
President Harding said such rededication would furnish to the na
tion a '‘commanding and dominating national interest" which his been
lacking since the war.
President Haiding declared that ‘human society never faced a
mere complex or more difficult situaticn and it ir therefore of first
importance to all Americans that they br brought to an undemand
ing of the underlying purposes of the Commonwealth and fix firmly
their detorminatoin to maintain institutions capable of pr gressive
evolution and development.-’
STARTLING DISCLOSURES IN POISON-PEN MYSTERY.
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Startling exposures, Involving men and women at the top of
the social ladder in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, are ex
p cted to follow the indictment, by a New York City Grand Jury,
or George Maxwell, immensely rich music publisher and President
of the America Society of Composers, Authors and Publisher \
Maxwell, who is now in Europe, is hurrying home to comibat
chargee made by Allan A. Ryan, financier and son cf Thomas
Fortune Ryan, that Maxwell is the author of a series of letters
received by Mr. Ryan, coupling Maxwell’s name with that of Mrs.
Allan A. Ryan in an uncomplimentary manner. Scores of other per
sons high in social life have received similar letters, coupling the
names of women with that of Maxwell, and the charge is made
that Maxwell himself wrote the letters. In Europe, Maxwell denied
the charge, intimating he himself hud been a victim of the poison
nen and that a woman wrote them.
ALASKA TOURIST SEASON STARTS
EARLY RESULT 6000 ADVERTISING
Years
Narcotics Seller
Gets Five
SAN FRANCISCO. May 24 — David
3«fllario was sentenced to serve five
'■ears In the Federal penitentiary at
aoavenworth, Kan., after having been
ound guilty of selling 37 ounces of
HMTotirs. United States Judge John
?. Partridge explained the heavy sen
enco with the statement that "a
nurderer is a gentleman compared to
rou.”
'SEATTLE, May 34. Success of a
cooperative advertising campaign of
tlie Alaska Steamship Cam puny. Pa
cific Steamship Company and Cana
dian Pacific lines Is indicated when
24 round-trip passengers left on the
Queen yesterday.
Hugh MacKenzle. Admiral Line
general passenger agent, declared
this is the earliest in the season that
loWQf/t0f/ovor left here for tiie North.
Adhwrtising last winter throughout
Canada and the United State-- de
cltfrwF that May and September
were ideal months to travel in Al
aska, pointing out thut the atmos
phere was dearer than in June, July
and August.
Doctor Fined $1,500
On U. S. Dope Charge
CHICAGO. May 24.—Dr. James A.
Lyon was fined $1,500 by Judge
James H. Wilkarson in Federal court
when Federal narcotics agents al
leged that he had issued in 14 days
nearly 2.500 prescriptions for 71.636
grains of narcotics- The prescrip
tions, Federal agents said, were dis
trlbuted among 75 patients.
HAMMER SLAYER IS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED.
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Htfy Effk Ma£
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MorrJ* Lavine. afLos Ange oe newspaperman, tin a positively
jail at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, ai Clara Phillips, and her "baby slater,” Mrs
Phillips escaped from jail in Lot Angeles,
“stone age” hammer murder of Mrs. Alberta
States as a deputy sheriff has arrived at Tegucigalpa.
identified the woman held in the
Kttu Mae Jackson. Mrs.
where she was serving a life sentence for the brutal
Meadows. She will soon be returned I i the United
WRONG ROOM ENTERED BY WOMAN |
OHIO PASTOR IS CHARGED SIXTY
DOLLARS FOR KISS; ARREST MADE
| Communists Seize
, Police Headquarters
I At Gelsenkirchen
WSSpJSl, M.1 v 24.—Communists
'• have taken possession of the
! police headquarters at Gelsen
I klrchen anti hoisted the red flag.
Advices from German sources
! sahl five were killed and 61
( injured during the iflght for pos
' session of the building.
| The struggle continued all
; night- ]
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RAILROAD SPOR
NEARANCHORAGE
WILL BE BUILT
Secretary of Interior Author
izes Building of Spur
to Coal Property.
WAiSHTN’GTOX, May 24.—Secretary
otf Interior Work has authorized the
building otf a opnr track, four miles
long, from the Matanuska branch of
the government railroad in Alaska,
to the Moose Creek coal mines.
It is estimated the cc>3t oif the new
construction will b 1 $125,000 and it
is estimated it will ;sae the railroad
nearly the entire amount of the cost
during the first your.
Russian Refugees
Bound for Frisco
MANILA. May 24.—Transport Mer
ritt his left for San Francisco, carry
ing 040 Russian refugees who were
expelled from Vladivostok for Mon
archist indications.
Gems Sold Merchant
Turn Out to Be Glass
SHENANDOAH. May 24 Two
strango men tame to town and
worked a 'hard-lock story on Harry
Rubinrtky, a rod rod merchant,
Which cost him $3,000.
They Hold him a number of dia
irtonds which turned out to be
CHICAGO, 111 , May 21. “Whsre I
upon the woman burst into ihe ius !
tor's rormi and till row her arms about
his nock and kissed h u and su 111
unto him:
“ ‘VcTily I lovo tliee.' And the!
pastor give her the gate.”
All of whlcn may run" (lay lot in!
the basis for a sermon on "pitfall ;
for pastors in a great city," by a
minister from Perrys burs. Ohio.
It happened in a Loo;) hotel
The minister was putting the fin ;
Ishing touches to a shave when thej
door of his room burst open. TU
pastor gauped and blushed simuitane ;
ously. Fraimed in tho doorway was'
a stylishly dressed young woman,
swaying gently Ibut unsteadily.
“’Sense me.” sh° exclaimed vv I tit j
an immi.dikably John Barlsycoi nlsh I
accent. "Wrong room. My mistake
Oh. well " she staggered toward the
start led pastor, 'threw ail arm about
his neck, planted i fervid kiss upon'
bis bhow and clung tight.
Whereupon the pastor resorted to
j force tlie young woman out of his!
room. With the door safely lock'd,
he wiped his brow, thin he made anj
alarming discovery. His purs.i, con-|
Itainlng $60. hid vanished from ills,
j hip pocket. He carri d his tale to!
! Serge,m: Thomas McFarland.
“Old sftu'f," n not 11 the Sergeant, i
I “Como with mo."
'At the detective bureau ho hauled i
out a dozen iphotos tct.' women. The
minister identified one. It was of|
Wary Moore, known variom y by n j
buffet ilozen aliases. Sergeant M ■K.tr
lend arrested her.
Believes Grlat Lake
Of Oil Under Alaska
LOS A.VGKLKS. May 34. Aha ska j
threatens to compete with California |
as one of the oil producing regions,
according to Leo Margulcs, Howard,
.Alii ska.
"The Standard and Associated Oil'
Companion have started drilling for'
oil just wed of Soward,” said Mar-'
gules. "I ml illations are that there j
Is a lake of oil under Southeastern;
Alastak. and if wo (bring in a gusher;
the territory will probably see ap-1
other ruyh. which will no doubt ex-'
(teed the gold rush of earlier days” j
Wail Street Bomb
Suspect Discharged
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I NEW VOItK. May 24. Noah I. r-:
ner, suspect in the Wall Street bomb I
explosion, has boon discharged on!
account of Insufficient evidence.
Congressional
Party Reaches
San Francifco
I, SAM KHANCISCO, Muy 24 —
Sc-vetary Weeks and the bits
i CoiiKregglcnal party has arrived
hero. Secretary Weeks addressed
| tlie Chamber of Commerce and
Commercial Club.
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WORLD'S SPEED !
RECORD REATEH
Tacoma Built Cruiser Mil
waukee Beats Record on
Builder’s Trial Trip.
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SMATTLfC, .vi:i y 24. The United
States cnil it Milwaukee, Inillt at
he Tod 1 Shipyards in Tacoma, broke
he world'-. speed record for vessels
nor 1.400 tons at the builder’s trial
rip yo'iterdav. It in announced the
tpeed developed passing Ports Wor
ion and Casey was 41.47 miles.
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Kentuckians in Alaska;
Will Hunt in Interior
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ItAlXKS. Alaska. May 24.— !
David Walker and I). T. Martin of
Louisville. Ky„ arrived on the Ad
miral Ungers and are going on Into
the Interior on a hunting expedition,1
il-so to look tile country over. Whale
hero they are the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Steve Sheldon.
SCIENTISTS PREPARE TO OBSERVE
SUN'S ECLIPSE AT CATALINA ISLE
LOS YNUBLIOH. Mi.v 21. (By A.
■•ex : ate I Press)- When the shadow
of ilia moon ends 1:;. diagonal dash
across the Pacific September 10 next
it nil strikes inland near Santa Cata
linn Island near here, pilgrims from
all | art ; of the world will be on
hand to watch the first total eclipse
of the mn visible in the United
States since 1018.
Regarded ns 'the moat important as
tronomical event of the year, the
September eclipse will attract thou
sands of scientific men to Southern
California, anal preparations have
been made to facilitate the work of
observers and to accommodate the
various -cienttlflc organisations which
will hold gatherings In this city Id
'connection with the phenomenon.
While th“ total phase of tho eclipse!
vtll In1 visible from Santa Catalina
»land. several expeditions from
Vmcrican and European observatar
os will await the obscuration at Kn
conda, L«»wer California, where the
X'riod of totality will la3t three itnin
itcs and IS seconds, as against two
minutes and 48 seconds at Santa
Catalina.
Some of the scientists will photo
graph stars in the vicinity of the sun
in an effort, further to substantiate
'hr Einstein theory, according to
which light rays, being matter and
therefore subject to the pull of gravi
tation, are deflected from their
course by the proximity of a heav
enly body.
Other observers will devote their
attention to the corona, thp golden
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CHINA WILL
FORCE FIGHT
ON BRIGANDS
Troops Are to Engage in At
tack to Secure Release
of Foreign Captives.
SHANGHAI. May 24. — A panic
hnr- seized the Paotzuku brigands
as tlie government troops launch a
determined campaign against the
outlaws in efforts to break com
munication sand force an issue in
the international problem revolving
about the capture of the foreigners.
It is understood the government's
plan Is to rescue the captives by
force and this movement will be put
into action at once.
The bandit chiefs are said to be
greatly disheartened at the refusal
of the Peking diplomatic corps to
deal with them.
AMERICAN PAROLED.
SHANGHAI. May 24. — J. B.
Powell, American newspaperman,
captive of the Huchow bandits, has
been paroled to participate in the
conferences for the release of the
captives according to advices re
ceived here.
SITUATION IS WORSE.
WASHINGTON, May 24.—An of
tielaPPeking dispatch suys the mor
ale of the bandit prisoners is “be
coming lower.”
Sanitary conditions are described
aB very bad.
The dispatch also raid the bandits
aro showing a desire to negotiate.
Another dispatch received from
China today says the situation is
complicated by Chinese politics.
Claims Man Was Slain
Body Placed in Lake
SEATTLE, May 24.—Acting on
the report a man wa>s slain and his
body thrown from a houseboat into
Lake Union Tuesday night, the po
lice cent a patrol boat with a diver
to conduct an investigation. The re
port came from a man who claimed
to have been an eye witness to the
disposal of the body. All names are
withheld.
Finds Possible Way Around
Recent Prohibition Ruling
WASH LVGTQ.V, May 24.—Indica
tions are given that Treasurer Mel
lon has found a way of reconciling
the Supreme Court's recent prohibi
tion ruling with foreign laws re
quiring shy>s of their nationals to
carry Mquor as rations Tor crews.
Claims Canada Wants to
Control Paper Industry
WASHINGTON, May 24 —Dr. Hugh
M-.ikiv, legislative secretary of the
American Paper & Pulp Association,
addressed (the Association of Paper
Industry today and declared Canada
has determined to control the paper
Industry of this continent.
Dr. Maker said the permanency of
the industry in the United States was
dependent upon protection of the
nation’s forests.