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VOL XXI., NO. 3218.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1023. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HARDING URGED TO GOME NORTH
Republicans Making Plans for Campaign Next Year
REPUBLICANS
MAKING PLANS
, FOR CAMPAIGN
Many Conferences Have Been
Held Between Leaders of
Party and Officers.
.V ASHING TON. April ' 13. — A
nprohenslve survey of the Ro
dtcan outlook for next year has
b in made In the last few days at
c iferences here between most of
t. i leaders of the party.
Vt the conferences the leaders
tusred not only men and parties
such questions as to the party
the different states and also con
tion cities.
io definite conclusions have been
ounced hu.t the net result uc
plished has been still further
meed that an at any reason of
convention activities and the
; s are already far ahead of pre
s years.
te conferences so far have
b?' ght together such figures as Nu
t 1 Chairman Adams, Treasurer
Upturn, several members of the Cab
inet and a number of Senators.
Within a few days Charles Hilles
and Will Hayes are expected to con
fer with others interested in tho
■welfare of the party.
Ambassador Harvey, to London,
who plans to Return to the Unite!
States shortly, is expected to take
a prominent part in the pre-conven
tion conferences. Although he is
expected to return to London it
would not cause surprise if he re
signed next winter to return home
and take an active part in the cam
paign.
ADAMS ON RENOMINATION.
NEW YORK, April 13.—Pleading
he is out of touch with politics,
John T. Adams, National Republican
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SUGAR PROBE
, INDICATED ON
* WAU STREET
Acting Attorney General Ar
rives in New York and
Deductions Are Made.
NEW YORK, April 13.—The ar
rival of Acting Attorney General
Seymour, who conferred with Presi
dent Harding yesterday in Wash
ington, is taken to indicate focusing
upon Wall Street of the investiga
tion into sugar prlcee.
REPORT NOT READY.
WASHINGTON, April 13. — Dlf-i
ferences in opinion of the tariff;
committee members on the language
of the report on the sugar price
situation preventrl submission of i
the report to President Harding!
scheduled to take place last night.
Mexicans Being Signed
To Work in Canneries
jCAiIjEXIOO, April 13—California
and Alaska are drawing on Mexico
for canneries. This was learned here
today when a party orf 50 Mexicans
left ifor the .North to remain through
out the packing season. It is under
stood many more are to start soon.
AMERICAN ACTRESS TO WED BRITISH PEER.
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'Miss Jessica Brown, former “Follies” girl, of New York, is
soon to marry the Earl of Northe.sk, a Scottish peer, who is only j
til and an officer in the famous Coldstream Guards. Miss Brown
is a native of Buffalo. The annjunoenwut of the engagement
revealed for the first time that Miss Brown has divorced s' hand
some Spaniard, whom she marriel several years ago.
BOARD OF EDUCATION HOLDING
MEETING TODAY ;REAPPOINTMENT
OF HENDERSON TO BE TAKEN UPt
Lady Mary Cambridge Is
Soon to Marry.
Lady Mary Cambridge's engag. -
ment to the Marquis of Worces
ter lias set England by the eurs,
for rhe hud always been men
tioned as the bride-to-be of the
bachelor Prince of Wales. Lady
Mary Is to act as a bridesmaid
at the forthcoming marriage of
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and
the Duke of York. Her fiance is
heir to the title and estate of the
Duke of Beaufort.
DECLARE BIG DIVIDEND
BOSTON', Agril 13.—The Calumet
and Hoc la Company announces a
dividend of $10 a share, payable on
June 4.
SOMEONE'S SON; BUT MOTHER OF
NOTORIOUS DRAFT DODGER HAS
! FORGOTTEN: SENDS MAN TO JAIL
PHILADELPHIA. oPnn., April 13 —
Airs. Emma C. Borgdoll, who fough'
hard to keep her draft-dodging sons
out of prison, aided in sending an
alleged petty swindler to tho county
prison for eight months.
'Maurice Rappart, accused of hav
ing fleeced a numlber of persons of
small amounts, obtained S170 from
Mrs. Bergdoll to use his influence
■with persons in Washington to gain
the release of her son, Erwin Bert
loll, from Federal Prison at Ft Leav-j
>n worth.
Counsel for the prisoner asked Mrs..
3 erg doll what she would have the
•ourt do with Rappart and she re
plied :
"He should go behind the bars "
■'Do you want him shot at sun
rise?” again queried the attorney.
“No, no shooting,” replied Mrs.
Bergdoll. “Just behind the bars,
where ho belongs.”
I A meeting of the Territorial Board j
of Education was scheduled to bej
I held at the Governor's office begin-!
wing at 3 p. m. today, at which the
matter of appointment of Commie-1
eioner of Education for the current!
two-year term, and settlement of thei
I Board's educational policies for the
biennium were expected to be taken |
up. Members of the Board are Uov-j
ernor Bone, Chairman; Senators |
Hunt, Brown, Chamberlin and Snod-i
grass.
The term of Commissioner Hen-1
d era on ended .March 31, last, but un
der tho provisions of his uppoint
meiit he retains. office until a suc
cessor has been appoint 'd and quali
fied. Mr. Henderson is a candidate
for reappointment with only one I
other candidate, H. L. Rowley, of,
Douglas, filing for the office. While!'
It has been reported that there Is!
some opposition among certain Board;
members to Mr. Henderson's reap'-1
pointment. it has not been made pub-|
lie and the reasons for it generally;
are not knowm. U is understood,
however, that a majority of the
Board favor his reappointment. Many;
requests for such reappointment from I
various school boards over Ihe Terri !
tory have been received by Governor
Bone, including Juneau. Douglas,
Ketchikan, Seward, Cordova and!
other towns.
Makes Eitnmal Report
In the Commissioner's biennial re
port to the Legislature, which has
Just been published, a general ad
vance along educational lines is noted
and the marked feature of the bien
nium is the rounding out of the Ter
ritorial educational system from kin
dergarten to college. In a general i
survey of the situation, Mr. Hender
son's report said:
"The biennium covered by this re
port is marked by an increase in
the number of schools maintained;
a larger enrollment of pupils; a gen
eral expansion of the curriculum in
a number of the schools; the estab
lishment of a number of new high
schools; a larger teaching force with
an increased number who have had j
previous teaching experience in Al
aska; increased expenditures which,
however, have not resulted an larger
per capita costs; greater attention
to physical education, including a phy
sical examination of pupils, super
vised play periods, and a wider range *
of athletic events and intra-school ‘
and linter-sebool competition; closer
relationship betweon schools and *
communities, as evidenced by the ,
organization of Parent-Toaeher As
sociations, tho organization of the
Alaska Branch of the National Con
gress of Mothers and Parcnt-Teach
or Associations, and the publication
of school annuals, school papers, and 1
weekly school news sections in local !
papers; provision for an annual Al- *
aska Teachers' Institute; and last, 1
and by no means least, tho selection 1
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SAYS SPIRITS
HOVERING OVER
TBMD OF KING
Illness of Carter, Co-discov-i
erer of King Tut’s Tomb,
Strange Coincidence.
NEW YORK, Ajpril 13.—The sud
den illness of Howard Carter, co
discoverer of King Tut g tomb cor
roborates the belief that there exists
un "elemental spirit” in the Tombs
which takes vengeance upon those
who open them. Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle said here today. He declared
that tlie illness of Carter, reported
from Cairo, was more than a strange
coincidence coming closely after
Earl Carnarvon’s death. Many men
who have entered the tombs have
met death suddenly.
REPORT IS DENIED.
I/JNDON, April Id. A dispatch
to Reuter's from Cairo denies the
report that Carter is ill.
■
Reported Four
Irish Rebel
I Chiefs Captured
! r~
I LONDON, April 13—A die- ,
| patch from Dublin soys that it ' i
J is reported that Count Plunkett, | (
; Countess Markievltz, Mary Mc
| Cwiney and a brother of Liam
, Lynch, deceased Chief of Staff, 1 j
' have been captured near Cion 1
! nel. i
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NAVY HEADS !
BE CHANGED
General Switching Around of
High Command Contem
plated by Sec. Denby.
WASHINGTON, Aptt'.l 13.— Sweep
ing changes in the high command of
the navy is expected to follow when
Secretary Denby returns from a visit!
to the fleet. It is understood sug
gested changes include the following:
Admiral Robert Coontz, new chief
of naval operations, to -succeed Ad
miral Hilary Jones as commander of
the combined fleets, Jones going to (
the General Navy Boapd.
Admiral E. W. Kberte. commanding 1
the battle floe-, wiill be chief of;
naval operations
Miners and Operators
Can't Agree on Scale!
SEATTLE, Apni-1 13.—Little hope Is
felt mat hie coal miners and opera-j
tors of Eastern Washington will \
agreo on a wage scale. It is believed j
negotiations to end the strike in j
the Roslyn and Cle Elttni fields, j
which has been und'cr way three’
days, will be suspended Indefinitely, j
Jews Libelled by Article
Claims New York Tribune
NEW YORK, April 13.--An article
appearing In ‘the Jewish Tribune to
morrow will declare that an article
headed ‘‘Jews in Poland," in the sup
plement-ary volume of the Encyclo
pedia 'Biilttainia, contains allegations
“inaccurate, unfair and grossly mali
cious.’’
Twenty Are Drowned;
Motor Boot Capsizes'
MEXICO CITY, April 13— Bishop1
of Beliza, British Honduras and 19
others tvero drowned when a motor
boat capsized today near Payo
Obispo, Mexico.
Texas Town Flooded
From Heavy Down Pour!
FORT WORTH, Tex., April 13 —
Following a heavy rain, water stood
several feet deep In the business sec
tion of Desdemona, nearby, this
morning. The damage Is reported
heavy.
A cyclone struck Rising Star yes
terday, causing sons* damage.
RE MARRIES HUSBAND SHE DIVORCED.
. . ■ — -
Mrs. William Hitt, formerly Miss Katherine Elkins, secured
a divorce, in Paris, in 1921, fr< m William Hitt, well-known
Washington society man. They were first married in 191:1, fol
lowing reports t lint she was to wed the Duke of the Abrnzzi,
cousin of the King of Italy. Hitt went to France after his wife
divorced him, wooed her again, and they were re-married in At
lantic City, New Jersey.
HOUSE OF BISHOPS SEEKING TO
REVISE THE PSALMS OF DAVID
I
LONDON, April 13. (By Associat
ed Press.)—Drastic changes and eli
sions in the vivid Psalms of David in
tho Book of Common Prayer ard
recommended by tlio Bipedal commit
toe of the House of B-ishopa which
has been sitting In solemn conclave
on the subject for many months. The
allocations, if sanctioned by the Na
tional Assembly of the Church of
England, will constitute an alterna
tive text of tho psalms, to bo used
at the discretion of ministers. The
proposed revision of the prayer book
includes also tho shortening of the
ten commandments and tho alteration
of the marriage service.
The psalmist's vision of unforget
«ible doom for -the ungodly is radical
ly modified. Psalm 38 is to be!
omitted aUcgrther, It c.mtain j such;
expressions as:
"Break their tooth, O God, in their
mouths, let them fall away like water
that runneth apace. Get them con j
jurac away like a snail. The right
eous shall rejoice when he seeth the j
vengeance; ho shall wash his foot-1
steiis in the blood of tho ungodly.’’ I
Verses Left Out
Verses arc to bo left out from !
eight other psalms, and in each case j
the cntilments are for death and ;
condemnation, as, for example, in j
psalm 88, verse 211: "That thy foot I
may be dipped In the blood of thine
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RED RADICALS
MENACING U. $.
j
Legislation Is INeeded Now to
Keep Them Down De
clares William Burns.
DALLAS, Texas, April 13.—lied,
radicals are becoming a menace ini
the United Stales, preaching armed
resistance and open rebellion among
the laboring classes and the time
is near when legislation preventing
them obtaining a foothold Is posi
tively necessary, declared William
J. Burns, head of the Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Jus
tice.
Chief Burns said the Bureau did '
not plan to discharge any agents of j
the Bureau of Investigation who
wore members of I lie Ku Klux
Klan.
Children Found Locked
In Ice Box; Unconscious
WARREN. O, April 13—Three
children, aged 3 and 4 yeurs, for
whom the whole city has sought
since lust Tuesday, were found today
In an ieo box in an abandoned mar
ket house. They had had no food or
water and all were fainting. One Is
unconscious. It is believed they j
looked themselves iin the box during,
play.
Amundsen Leaves Nome
Tomorrow for Arctic
—
NOME. April 13.—Capt. Roald
Amundsen plans to leave for Wain
wnigbt 'tomorrow and then fly to
Point Barrow. From Point Barrow
he will hop off for his proposed trip
over the North Pole.
SOLDIER IN
ALASKA GETS
HERO CROSS;
Infantryman at Chilkoot Bar-j
racks Awarded Distin- |,
guished Service Cross.
WASHINGTON, April 13. — St. I'
George T. Maeury, of Company E, I
Seventh Infantry, now stationed at1
Chilkoot Barracks. Alaska, has been!
awarded the distinguished service
cross for extraordinary heroism in!
action at Vladivostok on November
17, lftl». h
Masury entered a burning rail-|
road station and unassisted brought
women and children to safety, i
through a fire swept zone.
SEATTLE ASKS
PRESIDENT TO
VISIT ALASKA
Chamber of Commerce Acts
When it Is Indicated
Alaska Trip Cancelled
SECRETARY HOOVER IS
ASKED TO MAKE TOUR
Promin ent Photographer
Coming to Alaska—Sena
tor Jones to Make Trip.
SEATTLE. April 13.—The Seat
tle Chamber of Commerce has un
ini me u:ly adopted a resolution
>u1 helming the Board of Directors
to immediately telegraph President
Harding leqursting him to carry out
hie plan to visit Alaska.
The telegram will tell the Presi
dent the ‘people of Seattle feel
that the President owes it to the
Teiritcry to make an investiga
tion.”
Reports reaching the Chamber of
Commeice indicated the President
wac thinking of cancelling the trip
because political opponents view it
rs a campaign tour.
The local Chamber of Commerce
has also asked Secretary of Com
merce Hoover not to give up his
nroposed Alaskan trip and makes
the request that the House and Sen
ate Fisheries Committees go north
also.
A. Curtis, well known photograph
er. is planning to visit the Terri
'<>ry an<l take more than 800 photo
graphs, views of resources. Indus
:ries and scenery to be available for
listrlbutton to newspapers and
nugazinea.
It is also being proposed that San
branelsco, Portland, Seattle and Ta
»ma business men charter the for
ner transport Buford to make a
rode excursion trip to Alaska and
Siberia during the coming July.
JONES COMING NORTH.
SEATTLE. April 13.—A special
'rc.ni Washington, D. C., to tha
Seattle Times says that while Sena
,cr Wesley L. Jones, of Washington,
will spend a greater part of the
iummer in Alaska investigating
charges made against the Bureau
if Fisheries, and other matters rela
:ivo lo the development of the Ter
ftory, ho will also do some cam
wlgnlng for the Republican party
u his home stale.
Confederate Veterans
Elect Their Officers
NEW ORLEANS. April 13.—Mc
Jonuld Lee, reported Ku Kluk Klan
landldate, was today re-elected
'’ommandor-ln-Chief of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans, (ten. William
з. Muldeman, of Louisville, Ky., was
■lected Commander-In-Chief of the
"nited Confederate Veteruns.
Dr. George Harding. Union pet
iron, father of President Harding,
'.poke twlee before the Confederate
•million here saying the "south
lever had a better friend than War
den G. Harding.”
The delegates to the reunion
и. ted uproariously adopttng a .mo
ion banning the terms of "Johnny
leb" and "rebel."
PAY CHECKS OF MARRIED MEN
EMPLOYED BY NEW ORLEANS TO
BE SENT TO WIVES; OBJECTIONS
NEW ORI.TANS. La.. April U.— 1
Married men employed by the city <
were thrown into consternation with
the announcement by Commissioner
Murphy that hereafter their pay
checks would he mailed to their home
address, instead of being handed to
them in person.
laong arguments and objections!
counted for naught.
"Every city employee from the
mayor down is going to get his check 1
ut home,” Commissioner .Murphy said ji
'Kvery member of the commission
ouncil Is in the same fix as the
itrent laborer In this move. The
rionoy belongs in the home and I am
toina to do my best to put it there,
ind then if certain of the wives can
rot k ep it the-'e, that Is thoir fault."
On * of the men affected tried to
substitute the address of a police
station for his residence address; oth
ers hurried to the post office and
vnted boxes, but when the payrolls
vere made up the commissioner
thecked with old lists.