THE
ALASKA
V
EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” I ***,
VOL XXII., NO. 3309.
JUNEAU. ALASKA, MONDAY. JULY 30. 1923.
, * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. PRICE TEN CENTS.
PRESIDENT
VERY
ILL:
CALIFORNIA
CANCELLED
San Francisco Commerce Tourists Reach Juneau
SAN FRANCISCO
EXCURSIONISTS
ARE IN JUNEAU
Trade Tourists from Califor-i
nia Metropolis, on Al
aska Tour, Are Here.
A round table diacussion between
local merchants, member of the Ju
neau Chamber of Commerce and the
San Fiancisco Chamber of Com-,
mi ice's del: nation will take place!
tonight in the social hall cf the'
iteamcr Bufoid, scheduled to begin,
at 8 p. m. This was announced to-’
day by President Allen Shattnck, of |
the local Chamber, after conferring
with B. 8. Hubbard, chairman of the ;
visiting trade envoys and J. L.
Calender.
The individual members of the
delegation spent most of the day
calling on local merchants and gath
ering inf oimation tn local indus
tries, conditions. etc. Several mem
bers of the party, despite the unfav
otuble weather conditions, made au
tomobile trips out over Qlacier High
way and to Mendenhall Glacier.
- The entire party was received by
Gov. and Mrs. Scott C. Bone at 2:30
p. m. at Governci's Mansion.
With flags waving, the ship being
dressed In holiday attire, the steamer
Buford reached port yesterday after
noon at 4 o’clock. IS hours ahead of
schedule time, bringing to Juneau a
trade commission from the San Fran
cisco Chamber of Commerce, making
a tour of Alaska, mapped out and
arranged by the Alaskan-Siberian,
Navigation Company, owners of the;
Steamer.
On deck with the business men
from San Francisco, were many,
shrlners, on official duty to Nome,
wearing their fezer,. The trade tour
ists wore large badges on their coats
and the male passengers with the
scores of ladies on board piesented
a regular holiday appearance .
The famous Six Brown Brothers
were on the forward deck end their
little band played continually while
Capt. L. L. I.ane made a splendid
landing.
Movie picture men were on the
deck of the Buford and as the steam
er swung into the dock, the couple
of hundred Juneauites on the wharf
waved a greeting and this was all
Tegiotcred on the celluloid.
As soon as the gangplank had been
put out, the Juneau delegation of
greeters, Mayor 1. Goldstein, Allen
Shattuck, Elmer A. Friend, W. G. i
Johnson, J. W. Troy, J. C. McBride i
Charles Goldstein, B. M. Behrends,
R. E. Robertson, H. L. Faulkner!
and John Reck, were on the Buford;
getting acquainted with the San Fran-i
cisco tourists and making arrange
ments for entertainment and business
sessions while the party remained in
Juneau.
The San Frandco business men
. are on a trade excursion to the north
making a combined business and
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England Now
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Undersea Battle
Possesses
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Cruiser
vHATHA.il, icngiana, July sv — inj
Associated press)—When England's
new "mystery ship,” Submarine X-I,
was launched here recently, news
papermen and spectators were rigidly
excluded, and tlte approaches to the
dockyards were heavily guarded to
make siire no unauthorized person
should see her take the water. Nev
ertheless it can-.be said the launch
ing was In all ways successful, and j
the latest addition to under-sea pow
er was at once towed to the dock
yard tor completion.
The new vessel is the last word
In submarines; she is really a sub
. mersible battle-cruiser. Her dis
placement when submerged will be
-|,000 tony, 1,400 tons greater than
tbfi of the largest German submarine
and considerably greater than any
oi me existing American types. cu
the surface the X I will use steam foi
navigation, but when submerged will
use electricity. There is a great d!
versify of opinion regarding the size
of the new vessels armament. lr
some quarters it Is said she wii:
mount a'gun of 12 or 13.5-inch call
bre. It is possible, however, thal
the X T has been designed for a high
surface speed, enabling her to worl
with the Grand Mattie Fleet. If thli
Is true a big gun would nqt be car
rted.
The cost of the new submarine
apart from armament and ordnance
stores, will be nearly $5,000,000. Al
present there are 59 submarines ir
the British Fleet, and of these the M
class, which mount a 12-Inch gun, &r<
the most powerful.
Greetings to Juneau
From San Francisco
Trade Tourists.
By B. & HUBBARD,
Vice President Schwabacher Frey Co.
Chairman of the Delegation of the
San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce.
More intimate soiial anil business
■elations with Alaska is the message
we bring to the citizens of this great
rerrttory. Under the auspices of the
Domestic Trade Bureau of the San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce
there haH been three trade extension
excursions this year, one to South
America, one to Mexico and this one
to Alaska, which we believe to be
lie most important of all.
At the very beginning of Alaska
ievelopment some of the leading men
jf our city m-ie pioneers and devel
jpers of Alaskan commerce and ter
ritory, thus there is a basic good
will und firm foundation for a re
itewal of the old time Interchange
i>f mutual business relations. Due to
i lack of direit ships frufn Sun Fran
risco to Alaska our business later
BBts have suffered and the purpose
jf this trip Is to make a complete
survey of the situation and deter
mine how we can alleviate this ad
verse condition for both of our copr
munities.
Upon taking up the matter with
San Francisco shipping interests as
to ships for the Alaska run they toll
us that the lack of return cargoes
makes It unprofitable to serve this
territory. We feel with the develop
lilt-* III UI JUUI Il'BUUM I-S II1IH l.
dition will be (-tanged and we have
already found in the cities of Alaska
to your south there is a probability
of cargoes for Han Francisco ships
and we hope for a like condition
here in Juneau and other cities to
he visited.
The merchants of San Francisco
want your business and this friend
ship and good will excursion Is to
renew old acquaintances and make
new ones and to offer the facilities ol
tte Han Frarfcisco Chamber of Com
merce with its seven thousand five
hundred members to the people of
Alaska on all matters and problems
of interest to your territory generally.
Formerly the Pacific Coast territory
west of the Rocky Mountains includ
ing Alaska was a vast unoccupied
area containing the greater part of
the undeveloped natural resources ol
the United States. This is the treas
ure house of the nation.
It Is being rapidly populated and
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Well Known Geologist,
Mining Man, Is Dead
MINNEAPOLIS. July 30.—Horace
V. Winchell, mining engineer and
geologist, who died in Los Angelet
fast Saturday, was known as one ol
the foremost geologists and mining
experts in t'ne States. lie had
handled mining affairs in China
Russia, Mexico and Alaska and was
prominent in the Anaconda Coppei
Company of Butte.
Winchell left here several weeki
ago _!or a visit to the Coast. H«
was 57 years of age and was formet
president of the American Mtninf
Institute.
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| MORE SOVIET
! SEIZORES ARE
REPORTED NOW
I
One Hundred Killed Near Hast|
Cape, Siberia — Word
Is Carried to Nome.
i -
NOME. July 3u rite schooner
Silver Wave lias arrived here after
being held by Soviet authorities at
[East Cape since fall fall.
Captain Hammer reported all of
the property of the Olaf Swenson
Company, in Siberia, has been con
fiscated on the grounds Swenson was
not acting in good faith with the
Soviet government.
Captain . Hammer said the schoon
er Hitte Sea, American craft, has
been confiscated aud is being used
as a Red transport.
Captain Hammer said during the
winter 100 men were killed within
a radius of a few miles of his ship
by tile Reds.
. Mrs. Hammer's hair turned gray
i as the result of the terrible ordeals
I she witnessed.
3 YOUNG MEN
ARE INVOLVED
i BANK FAILURE
Prominent Financiers in Den
ver Concerned in Closing
of Large Bank.
DENVER. July 30.—With the
irlofllhg of the doors of the Hibernia
Bank and Trust Company last Friday
| afternoon, three young men well
known in Denver financial circles
• are in jail following the discovery
of a shortage in the bank's funds
estimated between $400,000 and
i $500,000.
The arrested men are D. P. Dloyd,
! secret ary of the company; John Har
rington, teller, son of M. C. Har
i i lngton, vice-president ofcithe bank,
' and* R. M. Mandell, head of the
i Man dell & Company, investment
i brokers.
Detectives claim "a woman In the
lease'’ is being sought,
i A check of the books later showed
Mandell got all but a few dollars
of the loss which exceeds $400,000,
and statements made by l.loyd and
Harrington, when grilled by District
I Attorney Vanciec also corroborated
this.
It is said that all hope of recover
ing any of the stolen securities has
| been practically abandoned. Officials
'said irregularities began in 1920.
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'Business Section of
California Town Burned
STOCKTON, Cal.. July 30—One
man was killed, eight persons were
overcome and property loss estimated
at $300,000 to $1,000,000 resulted
II from a fire in the heart of the busl
' npss section here yesterday.
Homer Felts, former principal of
| the Porterville Schools, was killed In
j a leap from a ln$tel window.
j Roche Harbor Lime
Plant Is Destroyed
| BEDDING HAM. Wash., July 30.—
I The plant of the Roche Harbor
Dime Company on the north end Of
San Juan Island, was destroyed by
fire last night With a loss of $750,
000 to 41,000,000. All of the work
| men's homes were saved.
Refuses to Marry,
Woman Is Murdered
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.—B.
Smith, aged 24 years, was shot and
killed by Chafles Netlaen, aged 37
years, who then turned the gun on
himself inflicting a fatal wound. Her
refusal to marry Nellaen. is believed
to have been .the cause of the
tragedy. '
WOMEN’S PARTY IN SESSION.
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£}<iZovo Msv: Oliver. K&Odnioi U~ $ u -^xt $ A mho t? y %EU%zbetk, Cjdy
The memory of Susan li. Ait holly anil Kllzahetli Cady Stan on, iLidets In the tight for wo
men's suffrage. was honored at t 10 Soneca Kullo and Kocheuter (N. V.) mr llnss of the Conference
of the Womrn's I’atiy July 20-22. M -. <>. H. 1’. Helmont, Prp l k it <' l ip W'omi tin Party, pre
sided. Miss Anita 1’oilUser, of Chari; t >n. S. was National 83er ary id Mrs. Clarence M. Smith
was Acting State Chairman for New York State. Mlt • Alice Paul led tin light for the adoption of
a resolution demanding a Kederal Crnstltu'.ionul amendment declaf ir;> l'er • ir.nl right:; for women.
Minnesota Dirt-Farmer
Goes to Senate.
Magnus Johnson, unique char
acter in American politics, has
been elected to the United States
Senate from Minnesota, defeating
Governor J. A. t). Prcus. Repub
lican. Johnson, an honest-to
good ness dirt-larmer, made his
speeches in his shirt sleeves with
out a collar. lie is a Farmer
Laborlle of the radical type, a
follower of Senator Hebert M. !.«
Follette. He does not believe in
hooks, asserting the only ones ho !
reads concern Lincoln, whom he
considers America's greatest man.
Lumber Yards of Big
Company Burned in Fire
MT. VERNON. Wash., July 30.—
Fire destroyed two thirds of the
lumber yards of the Big Lake Mills
at Big Four Lake, west of here,
yesterday afternoon, also twelve
dwelling houses and school house.
The mill buildings were saved. The
less Is estimated at *60,000.
Four Actresses Killed;
Auto Struck by Train
NEW YORK, July 30.—William
I. Gottlieb, garment manufacturer,
and four actresses were killed last
night when an automobile in which
they were riding was struck by a
passenger train.
CAPTAIN OF TRADING SCHOONER
ISKUM TELLS OF DUPLICITY OF
SOVIET OFFICIALS IN SIBERIA!
—HP
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Flight Across
Alaska Planned
By Belgian
^ MANILA, July 30.- An urn- !' |
bilious flight program w.,s re- | !
sealed here today when Jose | I
Lefert, wealthy young Belgian |
aviator, purchased a lOu horse- '
power Curtiss plane. Lefert de
clared lie had made a wager of j
half a million francs, that he | l
could fly from China, theuco I ,
across Siberia. Alaska and Can- |
ada, with New York as his j
final goal.
FAST STEAMER
RAMS SAILING
SHIP; DAMAGED
Barkentine on Trip Around
World, in Collision in
Puget Sound.
SKATTLK, Juiy 3«. The five
■patted barkentine Monlerev was hit
in a fog 20 miles Inside the straits
of Sfln Juan de Kura by a steamer
which upended on before It. was
Identified.
The Monerey was dented, 100 feet
of Iron bulwark was ripped away
by the steamer and 70 feet of bills
work carried off the stern as the
steamer veered off. ,
Captain Dennesche, of the Mon
terey, said a sheet of flume eight
fee.t hjgh was caused when the
speeding steamer rubbed the steel
aides of-file barkentine.
The Monterey was 1 .'50 day*, out
df Durban. South Africa, on a voyage
around the globe.
NoMK. .Inly jo (By Associated!
I'll t-i.) A story of duplicity, double,
dealings mill of peculiar notions of!
"W;" h-buekling Soclet represents- j
live, w:u, boarded the America til
i ran a Sand Point, Siberia, June,
t. ami assumed charge of the
••chooucr wan told here yesterday j
by Captain K.yPutta, oi the trading,
oehoo.'cr Iskuni which urrlviui here
I; rt Wednesday after ovor-powering
i he Soviet guards, and then fleeing,
from Anadyr end coming hero, bring
ing the Soviet guards in irons.
The Iskuni whs Interned for six
weeks by the Red authorities and j
reached here with the youthful ann
ul guards front the Red Army pray
ing tiiat they bo not returned to i
tliiKNia for fear of their lives.
It if. believed the Russians will •
be nken to Tacoma If possible.
Captain Ptilfa told a graphic atoev
declaring among other things, that j
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Bar Meeting to Discuss
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Curb on Supreme Court
M1NXBAP0MS. July 30.--Proposals (i
to curb the power of the United’
States supreme court In the matter
of declaring acts of congress uncon
stitutional by a majority vote, are;
expected to be one of the important1
questions before the annual oonven
tion hart; of the American Bar ns-‘
soefation. August 29-31, according to)
John Junell, secretary of the conven
tion arrangements committee.
An elaborate array of legal talent
In the United States. England. Prance.
South America and Canada will par
i tlctpate. in the sessions. Mr. Junell I
said, the roreign representatives be
ing guetss. Cord Birkenhead. Lord ’
I Chancellor and one of tlreat Britain’s j
'ablest legal minds will deliver one,
{ of the principal addresses Present
; and former mein hers of the supreme
i court leave prominent places on the
i program. Chief ustlc^. Taft, as caair
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liftn of the Committee on Judicial
ethics, will read his report August
10th.
Among other nationally-known per
lounges to attend will be John W.
Davie, former ambassador to Urea:
Britain and president of the ivmert
■an Bar Association; Elihu Root,
former secretary of State and prest
lent of the Council of the American
Law Institute; Charles S. Whitman,
former Governor of New York, Geo.
\V. Wlckersham. former U. S. Attor
ney General, and William llraper
Lewis, secretary of the Ame '..'an Law
Institute.
A report on the meeting of the
American Law Institute. wc\-li w'.l
he held in conjunction wit" ‘he bar
convention, will be given August 31
by Mr. Lewis. The institution has
fur its tiurpose the vitrification and
Simplification of the legal code'ind
its better adaption to social needs.
HARDING SICK
MAN;PROGRAM
IS CANCELLED
President Reaches San Fran
cisco—Must Take a Com
plete Rest for Week.
EXTENDED TOUR MAY
BE CANCELLED NOW
President May Return Direct
East by Rail When He
Recovers from Illness.
BULLETIN — SAN FRANCISCO,
luly 30.—President Hardin# will b«
iiiflied back to Washington by spec
ial train as soon as he recovers from
ills present illness sufficiently to
travel, probably within two weeks.
Dr. Ray Lyman, Wilson, President
»i' Stanford University and Presi
dent of the American Medical As
sociation and Dr. Charles M. Cooper,
heart specialist, remained all night
at the hotel here and consulted
with Dr. Sawyer this morning agun.
BULLETIN — SAN FRANCISCO.
July 30.—President Harding is to
day a sick man, perhaps his physi
cians have not indicated how serious
the illness is beyond saying "new
pymptoms arised" indicating compli
cations.
Two leading California physicians,
me of them a specialist, were called
ast night, after the entire California
program had been cancelled. It is
inl'oiinally stated the President
would lemain in San Francisco until
ontirdy recovered which is regarded
by some to be likely 10 days or two
weeks.
The members of the Presidential
party aie of the opinion the pro
posed water trip east may be aband
oned and the return be made by
rail without stops for speeches or
reeentions.
Others believed, however, the sea
trip would assist in recuperation.
REACHES SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.'—
President Harding. slightly Improved
from an attack of ptomaine poison
ing, arrived here yesterday morn
ing. lie was able to walk from the
train to a waiting automobile but
looked pale.
General Sawyer, bis physician,
said he would neid an indefinite
real to restore him to normal health.
General Sawyer also said the di
rect cause for the President’s Gl
ows waa crabs, put aboard the Hen
derson in Alaska and which the
President ale. The sudden change
to warmer weather in Seattle also
contributed, he said.
In a formal statement issued at
10:SO o'clock last night, it was an
nounced that the President would
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