THE
ALASKA DAILY
EMPIRE
ALL THE 1SE *11 THE TIMET*
VC XXI., NO. 3207.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, S.-.il I'9 AY, MARCH 31, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEW INVESTIGATION
STARTED
OUTRAGE
RAILROAD MEN
EXPELLED FROM
RUHR DISTRICT
Proclamation Issued by Gen
eral Degoutte of French
Occupation Forces.
ESSEX, March 31—General lie
goutte, cc.mnur ier-in-chief of the
French occupation forces, lias posted
4 proclamation throughout '.he Ruhr
area ordering the expulsion of rail
way workers who have refused to re
.turn :» tho:r jobs. The expulsion
order includes the families of the
men. About 500 men ire affected.
It Is understood Germany Is
preparing to distribute the men and'
their families broughtut tile unor’
eupied district, giving the men posi-j
tfons cf some kind.
ROSE CITY MAY
10SE ITS TITLE
PORTLAND, Ore., March 31.
Famed as the "R^se City." Portland
ic in danger of losing that title un
less greater activity is taken by the
people <in cultivation of the flower,
according to organizations which
have started a movement to stimu
lato interest. The Chamber of Com
merce and the Portland Parent-Te;,"h
er Association are back of this effort,
one of the first step^ being the
’ •**?*»»n*» tdiiUv. among. cUU*.
dren.'welrool pupil* will be furnished
rdaats, and prizes will be awarded
for the best results ob’ained.
iPortland residents are using more
thrubs and fewer roses in their land
scaping, according to Clay S. Morse,
who. through the Chamber of Com
merce, Is aiding in the rose culture
movement. “Other cities in the
Northwest can grow roses." he said,
“and if we don’t watch out someone
* <else will bo stealing our laurels.” I
Man Who Aided Wilson
On Kg Scheme, Is Dead
■ CHUG AGO, March 31.—Edmund 1J.
IJuibert, president of the Allied 11-i
Uncl3 Merchants Banks, who aided,1
former President Woodrow Wilson in j
plamn ing the Federal Reserve Sys-!
tern, U dead.
Coast Stockbrokers
Ask for Receiver!
SEATTLE, March 31.—The Jordon
Went worth Company, stock brokers,
with Offices here, Tacoma and Port
land, went voluntarily today in tho
(hands at a received. No statement
on liabilities nnd assets is available.
I
Building Collapses;
Many Are Injured
NEW YORK, March 31.—One manii
iaras killed and a dozen injured when
a live-story building on Elbridge
Street collapsed. Foremen rescued
nine men.
Nation Wide Round-up
Of Confidence Men On <
DENVER. March 31.—The Denver
Times today iprmts a story that the -1
conviction of 20 alleged confidence j |
men last Wednesday is the first step 11
in a nation-wide cleanup of bunko 11
men, wtith Don Reamey, who turned |
state’s evidence, acting as informer, t
Tire first start on the clean-up will i
be'at Los Angele3, the Denver Times
says. <
. _ I*
COPPER ADVANCES ABOVE
17 CENTS AND IS FIRM I
■BOSTON, March 31.—Copper has 11
apparently definitely passed the 17- j■<
cent mark to remain. Recent sales!,,
are all for 17 1-8 to 17 1-4 cents per ,
'pound, and the pniee is firm and the ,
metal active at those figures.
CHARLOTTE, Mich.—-Congressman
J. M. C. Smith of the Third Michigan !
district died last night. 1
_ 11
DAYTON—An attempted endurance ; i
flight of Lieutenants Oakley Kelly 1
and J. H. Mac ready failed when their 1
plane developed engine trouble and '
was forced to descend after 7 hoara i
pad S3 minute*. *
FIRST EXCLUSIVE PICTURE OF PRINCESS
MARY AND BABY.
^\ IcVmcesrfKaty anci lier
Here is the first picture to reach America of Princess Mary,
daughter of 'the British rulers and wife of Viscount Hascellcs, a
commoner, and her first-born baby boy.
memf. s. is approaching
FREE LOVE; BISHOP SOUNDS A
WARNING TO All CREEDS NOW
Life of One
Catholic in
j Russia Spared
MOSCOW, March 31—The '
Central Executive Committee of
| the Soviet government has com
! muted the death sentence im
: posed on Catholic Archbishop
| Zepliak to 10 years' Imprison
ment under strict isolation, but
! denied the appeal of clemency
! for Vicar General Butchkavic,
i also sentenced to death.
FOSTER CASE
EVIDENCE IN
2ouit Adjourns Until Tues
day when Final Arguments
Will Be Presented.
ST. JOSEPH. Mien.. March 81.
Pho state has rested 'in the William
!. Foster Communist case and the
ourt has adjourned to Tuesday
vhen arguments will start.
Hate yesterday afternoon Foster’s
wok on “Syndicalism." which figured
n the Congressional Investigation in
he 1919 steel strike. was used
igainut him, the prosecution reading
tarts to the jury over protests that
he book no longer represented the
rriters’ view.
Sixth State Ratifies
Colorado River Treaty
DENVER. March 31.—The Legisla
tive has completed ratification of
foiorado River treaty, making Colo
ado the sixth state to do so. Ari
ona is the only state which has not
atified the treaty. t
GOLD VEIN STRUCK
DENVER, March 31.—A gold vein
our feet wide, said to bp worth
housands of dollars, has been struck
n the Forest Queen mine in which
mu Blonger, convicted leader of the
mnko ring of 20, holds an interest.
Phis information came two days
fter Blonger, aged 72 years, was
rnt to jail.
•NEW YORK, March 31. Cillin;
Jin n all religious organizations, Catli
olic, Protestant and Jewish, to uniti
tor action against easy divorce
Bishop William T. Manning, of thi
Episcopal •Church, declared 'that thi
trystem ot monogamous marriages rap
idly was being abandoned in thi
United States, and that the nation al
most had reached a condition o
legalized free love
His remarks were part of ; J.entei
| ser.non on “The Present Cr.sis Witt
jllegirti to Marriage in file Imme.”
I “1 o allow men a.iu .torn n to iiv<
together for a me, ana then wilt
| legst sanction on trU.:;l and frivo
j lous grounds to separate and torn
i new alliances as they please,” In
isoid, “is in principle to abolish mar
I riage and to adopt a system of legal
I ized free love. This Is the svsteo
| that we almost have reached.
“The proportion to divorces to mar
Iriage.s its appalling, in our coutnr;,
| as a whole there is one divorce tai
every sight marriages, and iu a few
•of our states th-re is one divorce
for every two or three marriages."
Tiie Influence of religions agaiinsi
divorce and remarriage was weak
ened hy varying standard* of differ
oat churches, “and even of diffarem
ministers of the same church," lit
said.
“Those whom one church refuse!
to marry immediately go to anothei
and are married without question.
“Think what -the effect would bt
if the whole uniied influence of re
llgion was exerted in this great com
mon cause."
Armed Guard Activities
Presented Herrin Tria
MARION, 111.. Marcn .'ll—The de
fense in the Herrin riot trial con
tinned 'introduction of evidence re
garding the alleged ucts of aggres
sion on the part of the armed guards
immediately preceding^ the outbreak
in which 25 men were"slain.
i Alabama Flogging Mobs
Put Fear Into Victim)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. March 31.
Klogging ntobs have put such feai
into the hearts of their victims In
this part or the country that it h
next to impossible to induce them
to appear dn the courts of Jefferson
county.* The grand jury made thi*
report to the court of the 10th Ju
dicial Circuit Court this morning.
DALY PROPOSES
REPEAL OF FUR
TAX SCHEDULES
Declares Tax on Fur Industry
Discriminatory—Retains
License Fees.
Viisual repeal of the fur tax law of
1921 is proposed in House Hill No.
23. ini rod need in the House this
morning by Representative Daly. The]
measure romovoB the taxes on all
furs, revises the I'ce^ae fees fnr fur
buyers, ami places a license lax on
fur farmers, the proposed fees being]
$10 for fur farmers, $15 for station-'
ary fur buyers and Sal) f r itinerant
buyers.
■Commenting on the hill, Mr. Daly
said: "The tax on firs impost:! by
the Legislature in 1921 Ins been on
a class of people who could leas
afford to pay it, Indiana and white'
trappeTs. The Indians catch about
50 per cen
white trap)
peetors. in
grubstakes
placed on
■handicap oi
Territory.
Tax a
"The fur
faitOy discrli
pers as it
against them
portion to th
industries, f
the Territory
The trappers
cent on theti
“Woe
>ies in a wing
profit of aime
r 1m tit, $50,000
the Territory,
a fur catch tlr
at yield. The
ule. are pros
it. >m get their
0 ner. Any tax
■, itty places a
pment of the
Dtsct'un. atory
nlinued. "mi
utes
ufl
1 Hat all trap
■'4 assessment
1 opt of pro
le :ed un other
•n mining In
tie per cent,
n i to 40 por
uies.
tig compun
!'. tweA a net'
it on which
a taxes to]
tie year on
lame of which !
.r«
I
| was about $2,500.000. there was paid
[ into the Territorial Treasury about
$21,004). The comparison speaks fori
Itself." The tax on canneries. he]
added, is less proportionately than on
furs.
Taxing pelts taken by the fur far-]
• mer Is at the present lime unwise, '
• he said. Fur farming is an infant I
. Industry that should be encouraged]
■ rather than taxed. Ho regards the:
^license foe system as preferable to
• taxation of pelts. The fur farmer, he
‘ added, in not making any money yet;
j by marketing pelts, his profits com-]
' lng rather from the sale of breeders.1
Other Bills Introduced
Mr Dally introduced House BUI No.
23. which requires the payment of
wages 'and other compensations of
' employees in private employments in I
"lawful money of the United States, j
•jc'r by good and valid negotiable check
I or draft,” payable in American money,
11 and making wilful refusal and ne-,
I gleet to do so a misdemeanor punish-j
■j able upon conviction by fine and im ]
prisonment.
Mr. Price Introduced House Bill
No. 24, to provide for certain legal I
forms.
i The House passed 11 s daily culen-;
Idar owing to the absence of six I
! members who left yosterday for Sitka]
j to inspect the Pioneers' Home at,
! Sitka. There was no formal session
in the Senate, four Senators being on
the same inspection committee leav
ing the upper House without a quo
rum.
Two Boys Meet Death
In Strange Manner
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal.. March
31.—-Richard Jensen and Dean
Meehan), boys missing since last Sun
day, wore late yesterday afternoon
found in the show casein a workshop
I building In the business district
I whore a trapdoor had closed behind
them after they had crawled in.
Mectiam had died of snffocaiion.
Jenson 'was still alive but died short
ly after being rescue*! wiihont making
any statement.
OLD CASE REVIVED.
ATLANTA. March 31. A meat
chopper, cauldron and quantity of
lye said to havo boon used to dc
' slroy (ho ‘bodies of Mrs. Eloise Den
nis and her sister, Miss Beatrice]
Helms, who disappeared ten years
ago in San Antonio, Tex., were in
troduced by the state today in the
trial of Victor Innes, In the Federal
Court, dbarged with i$ing the malls
to defraud Mrs. Dennis. tA the mur
der trial the Indictments against
Innes and his wife were dismissed
>pn account of corpora deltkto.
MYSTERY SURROUNDS SLAYING OF MODEL.
\1 l^>orotlny Klt^,<
Dorothy King, known as Dorothy K'iernan, a beautiful ar
tist's model, upon whom her 'masculine admirers lavished a for
tune In gifs, was found In her elaborate New York apartment,
murdered with chloroform, and more than $30,000 worth of jew
els she was known to have possessed were stolen. A man admirer,
upon whom she had bestowed many rf the presents given h r, waft
detained, though t'he police admitted they had no evidence agaln t
him. An unnamed millionaire, who had been familiar with the
girl and with whom dhe had taken trips out of town, was sought.
Draper M. Daugherty, son of Attorney General Daugherty, has
been drawn into the case but he cleared himself. The New York
IM>llce believe the girl was used as a foil in a blackmail case and
would not stand being a party to such a scheme and was slain.
NKW YOllK. March 31.-—District Attorney Poeora starting a
re-examination of witnesses in the Keenan tragedy questions the
girl's family today. Pecora announced that Francis - Keenan,
brother, admitted he wus tile man wiio telephoned Draper Daugh
erty. after the death of IiIr sister, asking him to make good his
promise to get liim a job in the United States Department of
.1 ustice.
RECEIVER ASKED
FOR PACKING CO.
Company at Petersburg In
volved in Case—Started
in Minnesota Court.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 31. Judge!
Bard well, of the Hennepin County I
Court, has Ordered the Pacific Canal '
and Norway Pinking Company, re
lated companies, and the Seattle
Trust Company, to show cause on
April 12 why a receiver should not
be appointed tintd 1 the ownership of
the properties. Including the town
of Petersburg, Alask i. Is determined.
The suit has been stalled by a
minority of the stockholders under
the leadership of Jojoph Kil.lars, of
Seattle.
Kildare asserts the Norway Com
pany went Into receiver hip in 1914
by court order and leaked the prop
erty to the Petersburg Parking Cam
pany. of officers and directors of f’.iu
Norway Company, transferring the
property" to the Trust Company in or
der that, it be turned over to the
Petersburg Packing Conjgtany.
. The court is asked to return the
property to the Norway Packing
Company. The suit alleges the Pet
ersburg Packing Company made)
enough money to pay the debts to
the Norway Company, but failed to
do so.
TOWNSITE NOT INVOLVED
According to Information in Juneau I
the towns!to of 'Petersburg Is not in .
vdlved in the above mit, only, the
premises occupied by Iho abort
named companies.
Original Uncle Tom Is
Burned in Fire Today
RIVERSIDE. Cal., March 31. J J.
Barrow, first actor to play the role
of Uncle Tom in "Uncle Turn’s
Cabin,” and two other men, ware
burned to death in a bunkhousc fire
this morning at the Arlington Heights
Fruit Company's plant,
Alaska Salmon
Being Compared
i With Siberian Fish
I SEATTLE, March 31. A large
delegation of salmon packers
and canned fish brokers have
j made an inspection of Siberian
| salmon in comparison with the
j Puget Sound, Alaska and British*
; Columbia product under the
1 auspices of the Pacific Canned
Blah tHrokers' Association. The
| tests especially concerned the
! comparison of the Alaska and
Siberian red canned salmon. A
report is expected to be ready i
' within a few davs.
J-.—__4
SEATTLE, March 31. Charles
’ower Topllff, former Alaska mining
mgineer, <B:t<d late yesterday after a
layering illness.
WRONG AGAIN, PROFESSOR; YOU
ARE NO BETTER THAN STUDENTS
N’KYV ORldSANS, La., March 31—
(Hy Associated Rress-) —"Students of
Sowcomb College, a young woman's
educational institution here, wete sub
lected lo an "intelligence test to de
termine their knowledge of every
day subjects." They didn't do ho
well.
The reiults were so poor that the
students were chagrined, so they
Bhallengwl members of the faculty to
lake a similar test. The faculty ac
cepted, and didn't do so well either,
according to the announcement »T
results.
Here are a, few of the results of
test made upon members of the fac
ulty—23 of them.
Al Jolson i» a wrestling champion;
Brands Scott Key, a woman who
wrote poems; ‘‘Boob McNutt," the;
heavy weight champion, and tli? trade j
name of a w idely known food prepa-1
ration that of the wife qf a char
acter in the Bible,
Sequins were described as a variety
of fish, while a certain hairdressing
preparation was declared to be a
preparation “that young ladles put
in their eyes to make them shine."
Beatrice Fairfax was thought by a
few to be a motion picture actress,
and "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean”
were declared to bo iin the transfer
business at New Orleans; another
professor dubbed the vaudeville team
a “version of Dr. Jekyli and Mr.
Hyde."
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll received
two identities. One professor said
he was a World War hero, while an
other answer that he was a "Demo
cratic statesman''
Maraschino, the cherry, "was a Pre
; inter of Russia before the war;" Filet
;iMignon wus declared to be an opera
i by Pucoinni, and Lot, it was af
,finned, was "the man in the Bible
associated with a 'salty wile."
NEW GLUES ON
WALL STREET
BOMB OUTRAGE
Convicted Murderer at Los
Angeles Gives Out Alleged
Important Evidence.
LOS ANGELES, March 31.—Her
bert VVilsc n, former evangelist and
alleged matll robber, convicted of mur
der, has told the Postal Inspectors
lie < m solve tho bombing of the J.
1’. Morgan * Co. offices on Wall
Street. New York City, on Septem
ber 17. 1920, according to the Los
Angeles Times today.
Wilson is declared to have recog
rlrzed the photograph of Max Wolfe,
arrejted at Warsaw, and allowed to
retuin to Europe from New York, a*
the man to whom Wilson sold a largo
quantity of explosives shortly before
the blast on Wall (Street.
As the result of Wilson's revolu
tions, an investigation has been start
ed extending to Canada and Mexico,
WHlson having decided to fall In “line
with Imw and order."
Wilson is the profc.iucd leader of
many mr.ll and store robberies
DECLARES STORY IS BUNK
MIAMI. March ill. William J.
Burns, director of the Buroa.ii of In
vestigation of the Department of Jus
tice. declares tho Wilson Los An
geles story is plain bunk .
Bandit Uses Pepper
To Secure Payroll
NEW YORK. -Vlu|£h 31,—A robber
shot and killed the payuwster for
the Duncan Construction Company,
threw pepper Into the eyes of an
other man anil escaped with 14,000.
Suffocated Trying to
Save His Fellow Worker
CHICAGO, March 31.—In an effort
to save Edward Carson, aged 37, from
suffocation of fumes of silage In the
silage elevator of the Pyramid Mill
ing Company, Charles Brill, aged 59,
fellow employee, was also suffocated
Firemen were also partially over
come in removing the two bodies.
Seven Killed, Train Is
Ditched, Auto Collision
COLUMBUS. O. March 31—Seven
were killed and many seriously in
jured when a fast Big Four passen
ger train struck an automobile this
afternoon at a grade crossing. The
locomotive turned over with four
Pullmans on top.
Governor of Oregon
Victim of Spite Work
MEDFORD, Ore., March 31—The
Jackson (lame Protective Association
has struck from 'its roll the name ot
Gov. Walter N. Fherce, who was elect
ed to honorary llfp membership after
a banquet on February 3. The asso
ciation resented the appointment of
F. Roy Davit. Democratic county
chairman, to the state game comrals
elon.