THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL XXL, NO. 3142.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FRENCH TIGHTEN
GERMANS REFUSE
GRIP ON RUHR;
COAL DELIVERY
DARING BANDIT
FOUND FROZEN
IN AUTO SEAT
Man Believed to Be Leader of
Denver Mint Robbers
i Is Found Dead.
DENVER, Jun. 15.—The daring
bandit who stood oil the running
board of the auto and with his tw
ru®s aimed at guards and passer
by*, kept them from pulling anything
while his accomplice# robbed the
Federal Reserve Bank truck of $2t)0,
<100 in front of the Denver mint on
December 18 and 'then sped away
timid a rain of bullets, paid with his
life deserted by his pals.
Thie body of the dca 1 robber, be
lieved to be the leader of the ban
dits, was found last night in a pri
vate garage of the fashionable Capi
tal 'Buildir.?, in the residence dis
trict.
A wound near tho hdart told the
story.
The man had rented the garage a
week before the robbery occurred.
When the new tenant failed to p iv
his rent, the owners investigated.
The man was found stretched out
in the front seat of an auto, frozen
to death.
SUSPECT ARRESTED
CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—-A man answer
ittg the description of Albert Holly
wood, said by the police to have
been one of the bandit band which
robbed the Denver mint last De
cember, was arre3ied today when
detectives raided a room in the
Loop Hotel. The man denied lie Is
Hollywood, claiming to be Dan Cul
liane, a St. Louis gambler.
Former French Premier
Dies After Long Illness
PARIS, Jan. 15.—'Alexander Ril»t,
Premier and Minister in many
french cabinets, died suddenly last
night. He had been under treat
ment for stomach trouble for over
four years.
COAL MINING
IS OVERDONE
Instability of Bituminous Coal
Mining Given as One
Reason for Troubles.
■WASHINGTON, Jan. 1,'..—Instabil
ity of the bituminous coal mining
Jndu&! ry Is the fundamental cause
for the high i»i ices of fuel and also
•the fuel shortage which has menaced
the public repeatedly in recent years.
This is the preliminary report of
the Federal Coal Commission into
recent labor troubles.
Transportation difficulties and
over-development in Ihe mines of
man power to a point where the in
dustry was much larger than neees-i
sary to supply the public demand I
are other factors.
Milwaukee Transients
Will Possibly Be Marked;
'MILWAUKEE, Jan. 15.—Transients I
in Milwaukee will be marked by the |
police department, if an ordinance]
unanimously recommended by the,
judiciary committee is passed by the)
Common Council.
The ordinance was proposed to j
aid in stopping crime in Milwaukee.
Every rooming house keeper in!
the City will be ‘required to report
new-comera to the department with-!
In 24 hours, giving ages, homes and I
genera! description of the roomers. !
By a cheaik with the Bert lllon!
measurements ami description of
criminals, ft is hoped Chau suspicious
characters will he “spotted.”
The system is criticized as being
“Prussian."
C. S. Townley Is Killed;
Auto Hit, Grade Crossing
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 15.—C. S
Townley. brother of A. C. Townley,
former president of the Non Parti
san league, was the man killed in an
auto at a grade crossing accident
here, late last night
Seven Are Believed Dead;
Trapped in Tacoma Fire
TACOMA, Jan. 15.—Police and
. firemen today began to search the
ruins of a $100,000 fire in the busi
ness district during the night. In
the belief that from two to seven
persons perishod. The dead hid
been guests at two low price hotels
which were destroyed, including the
hotel registers. The loss of the
regi :ers made the check Impossible,
but firemen claim a number of per
sons were trapped by the flames.
RUMANIAN MINISTER RETURNS TO U. S.
Prince Antoine Bibesco. accompanied by Princess Bibesco and
their daughter, Priscilla, has returned to Washington from a visit
,D Rumania, which country he represents as Miuistei m America.
Piincoss Bibesco Is a daughter of Mrs. Margot Asquith, of England.
HIGH CATHOLIC
OFFICIAL MUST
LEAVE MEXICO
Presidential Order Issued Ex
pelling Apostolic Dele
gate Filippi.
MEXICO CITY. Jan. 13. An cv cu
tive order was* Issued last night di
recting the expulsion from .Monica
within three days of Monsignor Er
nesto Filippi, Apostolic delegate to
Mexico.
The expulsion order follows the
participation by Filippi in religious
ceremonies contrary to the Federal
law. '
The order is taken in many quar
ters a- President Obregon's fir t im
portant move against alleged Catlio
lie aggressiveness.
Several months ago an order was
issued to all Catholic clergymen that
as long a,s they confined the nsolves
to purely religion they would he
“tolerated i:i Mexico,’’ but ;h ■ first
signs of “pernicious activity" they
would be asked to leave and to re
main away.
President Obregon as well as for
mer presidents have many times ac
cused Catholic priests of being the
real cause for unrest among the ig
norant people.
Labor Forces Are Being
Mobolized for Real Beer
CINCINNATI, Jan. 15. Mobiliza
tion of the forces of organized labor
for a modification of the Volstead
act which would permit beer and
light wines, was arranged yesterday
nt a conference between Samuel
Clampers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, and !he execu
tive board of tho Brewery Workers’
Union.
Gas Burner Under Still
Nearly Kills 4 Persons
SEATTLE, Jan. 15.—Charles Lari
more. aged 52; his son. Melvin O.
Lari more, and the latter’s two chil
dren. aged 8 and fi years, are in
the city hospital as the result of be
ing partially asphyxiated by a
two gas jet burned beneath a
moonshine still. The children will
recover. Larimore has a fiehting
chance,
■--V
Clara Skarin 1$
Acquitted of
Murder Charge
I „ _ - I
KKATTGK. Jan. 15 -Clara '
Skarin. accused of the murder
I of Ferdinand Hochbrunn, was
' acquitted late Saturday after
1 noon by tile jury, which was
j out two hours and 38 minutes.
Three votes were cast, the
first being 9 to 3 for acquittal;
the second 11 to I for acquittal,
and the third 13 votes for ac
quittal. The fiftht women on
the jury voted for acquittal
1 throughout.
The case attracted more at
| tention In .Seattle than any :
other criminal case since the
Mahoney trial.
|----|
HAYNES ISOFF
ON LONG TOUR
Pro l\i bition Commissioner
Starts on Trip Around
the United States.
WASHINGTON. Jan, 15 Prohibi
tion Commissioner Haynes has left
on u long tour, speeches and confer
ences, which include a. trip to the
Paoltic Coast.
H. O. Mathews, special assistant
to Haynes, leaves for Alaska this
week on “important official busi
ness."
Seaplane Is Wrecked;
4 Persons Lose Lives
kEV WEST. Jan. 15.—Edwin F.
Atkins, Now York capitalist, a nurse
and two children wore drowned, and
Mrs. Atkin i and four others were
rescued by a ferry boat when the
-eaplane Columbus was wrecked by
[‘he waves when the pilot came down
•o fix the engine, which was missing.
The accident happened late Satur
day afternoon L’O miles northwest of
t Havana.
Plant on Oakland Bay
Destroyed, Loss $100,000
I SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 The
' Salt Company plant on the eastern
j-hore of the hay south of Oakland,
, was destroyed by fire yesterday with
I a loss of more than f 100,000.
TEACHER TORN FROM BRIDE AS BIGAMIST.
.dNBKSmtez*.
I
\
, ys- He I cn BryarCf
j Mr&nch cirJ child.
Professor Ralph French, 26, of Mountain View, N. J., is the principal figure in a bigamy case
that has aroused New .Jersey. He was arrested while on Iit3 honeymxm with Mrs. Frances Tyack
French, on charges preferred by Mrs. Helen Bryant French, of Dove1, N. J.. who declares she is bis
legal Wife No. t. and that he has never obtained a divorce. Ills bn> her, Andrew French, school prin
cipal, of Montclair, N. J., in held as an accessory to Ibe alleged biginw-os marriage.
INSTRUMENT OF
TORTURE FOR 2
MEN NOT FOUND
'Denial Is Made Regarding
Finding of Machine Used
in Louisiana Case.
BASTROP. La , Tin. 15. George
Onion, assistant state attorney gen
eral. said his department h id no in
formation to show the torture ma
chine alleged used to punish Watt
Daniels and Thomas Richards had
been found. It was reported the
machine had been located.
Frad Carpenter, dioriff of More
house Parish, don “d that a com
mission had ever been Riven to SUip
with or any other men to arrest Al
onzo Braddock. farmer, who testified
Saturday lie was -seized a-t his homo
by Skipwith and osvoral others,
taken to Bastrop and turned over to
| the sheriff.
Cyclops Skipwith said he has can
celled his proposed conference with
Attorney Gemeral Coco because thu
latter '■ i placing witnesses on the
stand discrediting the activities ol
th Ku Klux Klan.
Skipwith intended to confer with
Coco, giving all information concern
ing the Klan movements and show
ing up raids by hooded mobs not
connected with the Klan In any
manner.
Texas Floggings Are
Now to Be Investigated
HOUSTON. Ton , Jan. 15.—Crim
inal Judge Robertson today instruct
ed the district grand jury to devote
its entire time to investigate flog
gings of Mrs. H H. Harrison an I
Oxra Arniand at Goose Creek re
cently.
Barring Japanese from
Indian Lands, New Policy
YAKIMA, Jan 1.'..— .Secretary Fall,
in a letter to the American Legion,
stated, with regard to his recent
ruling that Japan *e were not to bo
allowed to lea o lands in Indian
reservations, whll not anti-Japanese
the action was taken to safeguard
what remains of 'ho nation's public
lands for two Haases of citizens,
particularly former soldiers. He
said the action taken was the policy
of the Harding administration.
• Twenty-fourth Victim of
Herrin Massacre Is Dead
CHICAGO. Jan. 16 Sidney Murr?
son, the first nran •woun-lcd in the
Herrin. Illinois, mine massacre, last
June, died at a local hospital, bring
ing the total death toll of the mine
trouble to 24.
New Commands U. S.
Naval Forces.
rrs'T
Under (lie recent reorganization
plana. Admiral Edward B. Eberle,
becomes Cotnmander-in-Cbief of
the American lialtle llect in war
times, lie Is at present in com
mand in the Pacific.
FRENCH BIRTH
RATE SHOWING
BIG DECREASE
National Alliance Presents
Facts in Startling Manner
—Reasons Given
PARIS, Jan 15. -Tlie high cost o(
living. luck of apartments and home
for ncwlv married couples, selfish
ness, too many women employed In
industry, and too much pleasure, are
the general causes a-" ignod for the
alarming decrease of the tdrlh rate
in Franco, now the lowest In Ett
rope.
This is a condition that has bent
accentuated by the war, which took
many men to the front, whence many
never returned. The war also ere
i ted new conditions of living for
women, gave them work, made them
(Coutlnued on Pago Seven.)
Dies Following Arrest
Upon Serious Charge
VANCOUVER. B C. Jan 15.— A!
I !en Haynes, who 14 years ago pub
j 11 shed the Inland Herald, Spokane
and came to Canada when th“ paper
failed, died of cerebral hemorrhage
1 ist Saturday evening shortly after
being arrested on a charge oT oh
laining money under false pre
tenses. He had been In-talling an
efficiency eystpm for several firm
[in this city.
BOAT SERVICE
ON THE YUKON
Alaskan Engineering Gommis*
sion to Operate Steamers
—Nenana to St. Michael
SBATTL.EC, Jan. in.—The Seattle
Chamber of Commerce has been ad
vised from Washington that the Al
ask i Bngineering Commission. oper
ating the Alaska Railroad, In order
to provide better w.iler transporta
tion to the interior cities of Alaska,
plans a tea rush ip service between
Nenana and St. .Michael during the
opentnv season ihlB year.
Woman Branded on Her
Breast by Hooded Men
TILLAMOOK, Jan. la. Men robed
In white entered the house of .Mrs.
Neva St.an.dlsb and branded her on
the breast with a hot motul cross,
according to reports received by Dis
trict Attorney Goyne. lie said the
atl.ck hid presumably occurred n
month ago. Tho woman has pre
viously been acquitted on charge of
vloliting the dry laws.
Hawaiian PreVents Robbery
Of Territorial Treasury
HONOLULU. Jan. 1. George
Ueka, aged *10 years, an Hawaiian,
beat off 'wo masked bandits lute
j Saturday who attempted to lirejk
jin') til Territorial Treasury
GERMANS DEFY
FRENCH FORCE
RUHR DISTRICT
French Immediately Increase
Zone to Be Occupied by
Military Force.
GERMAN INDUSTRIALS
BEGIN SHOWING TEETH
One More Important German
Place Occupied—Repara
tions Discontinued.
i BULLETIN—LONDON. Jan. 15.—
The rupture between the Franco-Bel
gian Control Commission and the
German Industrialists is complete
says a despatch received late this
j alter noon. The despatch declares
military penalties are most severe
and extensive than before contem
plated and the effective advance into
Germany is entered upon even to a
greater scale than at first proposed,
i .
I GERMANS BUCK.
PARIS, Jan. 15.—The Reparations
Ccmmission has received a note from
the German government signifying
its intention to suspend payments of
money of any kind because of the
j occupation of the Ruhr which it con
; riders a violation of the Versailles
1 treaty.
INSTRUCTION.0 ISSUED.
PARIS. Jan. 15.**=— Instructions'
from the Government "overnment
have been sent to the German in
dustries not to co-operate with ths
French in deliveries of ooal.
SHARP ANSWER RETURNED.
DUSSELDORF, Jan. 18.—France’s
(Continued on Page 8tx.)
Masket Bandits Make
Big Haul at Roadhouse
OAKLAND. Cal.. Jan. 13.—Masked
| bandits said to-have numbered six or
! nora, held up the fashionable Pergo
I la roadhouse .u Hayward, a suburb,
I early this morning, robbing approxi
l mately the 300 patrons of money,
I Jewelry and valuables estimated at
$50,000.
Umpire Being Questioned
Regarding Death; Booze
OLEY'BLAND, Jan. 15.—Ollle
Ohlll. American League umpire, is
being questioned bv the police today
in connnectio with the death of Ed
ward J. Mctlregor, who was found
[ shot to death in an apartment house
last nigh!.
Chill, according to the officers,
was in til** apartment with one or
! three men when the officers broke
In. A drinking bout is said to have
i preceded the shooting.
HISTORY STUDENTS DECIDE
WOODROW WILSON GREATEST
STATESMAN OF ALL AMERICA
MOSCOW, Idaho, Jan. 13. Wood
row Wilson, former president of the
t'n.ied State*, is the nation's great
lest statesman, and Charles Kvans
1 Hughe-. secretary of state, is the
1 next greatest, in the opinions of
htstor students at the Univeratt/
J of Idaho.
The history students wet - nke.l
to n i ne the 10 greatest statesmen
j of the nation, giving reasons. They
i voted as follows:
Wilson 96, Hughes 94, William K.
| Borah, United States Senator from
Idaho, *7; Herbert Hoover, Secre
! tary of Commerce, SI: Warren G.
Harding. President of tiie United
Stan--. 80; William Jennings Bryan,
former Secretary of State, 78: Wil
liam Howard Taft. Chief Justice of
| tin Hutted States, 7i: Robert M I,a
t'ollftte, Cnited States Senator from
Wisconsin. 74; Kllhu Root, former
I United States Senator and Secre
, tai v cf State, 71. ami William U
McAdoo. former Secretary of the
Treasury, <10.
Wilson won praised because he
took the I.cjgite of Nations "out of
thi* realm of dreams anti made it a
question of practical politics.” Bo
rah's virtues included playing "a
inn- hand’’ and fighting for "his
eight-cylinder independence." Taft,
Root arid Hughes were compliment
ed on being "brainy.”
IaiFoHelte was said to have
"shown Big Business for 25 years
■ tliuf there ire blows to give us as
well us to take " VIcAdoo and Hoov
er were given i red!,* for administra
tive ability in connection with their
wartime jobs of railroad and food
at min 1st rotors.
"Intellectual patience." "capacity
to listen” and “surrounding himself
with able advisors," were bouquets
handed Harding hv the history stud
ents. The general verdict was that
h ■ had acquitted himself with wis
dom in a period of readjustment.
Of Bryan it was said that he
thought "30 years ahead of his
lime,” and that he had a “gteater
moral influence than any other liv
1 ing public man."