THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
‘ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’
VOL XXL, NO. 3137.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1923. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTSi
FRENCH TROOPS ARE TODAY ON
WAY TO OCCUPY GERMAN TOWNS
IMPEACHMENT
OF DAUGHERTY
IS ALL WRONG
House Committee Makes Final
Report — Evidence Does
Not Support Charges.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 9. — The
House Judiciary Committee passed a
resolution this afternoon 12 to 2
that from the evidence obtained by
It it did not appear to be any
ground to believe Attorney General
Daugherty tvar guilty of any high
crime or misdemeanor requiring in
terposition of the impeachment
power of the House.
The committee asked to he dis
charged from any further considera
tion of the Keller charges and that
the Keller charges be laid on' the
table.
HIGH WATER
IS RECEDING
Flood Conditions in Oregon
Rivers Improve—Dam
age Being Repaired.
PORTLAND, Jan. tt.—Flood con
ditions in the Willamette and Hood
liver valleys, which yesterday turn
ed most of the streams into torrentB,
are greatly improved today.
Early reports state the waters are
receding rapidly.
Railroads and public service cor
porations also residents have begun
repairing the damage which is esti
mated at many thousands of dollars.
DANGER NOW OVER.
SEATTLE, Jan. it.—It is believed
the crest of the flood situation has
passed and only small damage is re
ported in this section.
This Man Had an
Awful Grouch
Against Himself
Vancouver! b~ c., Jan 9.— ]
When his former landlady rejected I
Ills proposal of marriage, Emil Fill
man put a stick of dynamite be
tween his teeth, lighted a fuse and
blew his head off.
First. Measure on Farm
Credits Is Introduced'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The first
measure on the farm credits pro
gram, the Cipper bill, providing for
co-operative loan associations, was
today formally presented to the Sen
ate by the Hanking Committee.
Breaks Down from Work
Aiding the Refugees.
Mit* Margaret Anne Stewart,
who has been working for the Y.
M. C. A. for two years 'n Con
stantinople, aiding refugees, was
disabled on duly and had to bo
brought back to America by her
brother. Dr. George Stewart,
KNIFE WILL BE
USED SLASHING
STATE AFFAIRS
Kansas Legislature Will Be
Asked to Prune Here and
There—Davis’ Program
TOPEKA. Kan.. Jan. !•.—Numerous
state boards and commissions will
be eliminated nr consolidated, state
salaries will be cut and s!a‘e ap ,
propriations will be slashed, if the
Kansas legislature, which convened
today, carries out the main part of
the program to bo outlined bv th
new governor, Jonathan M. Davis,
P.ourbon county farmer, in his open
ing message.
During his campaign and since
election. Governor Davi3 vigorously [
has proclaimed high taxes a chief ;
bane of agriculture in Kansas. It is j
on lower taxes that the Democratic
governor and the Republican legisla
ture doubtless can accomplish some-1
thing. On other issues, however,'
there is strong indication that the
governor and legislature may be
wide apart.
The governor, in keeping with the
Democratic platform, declares for
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SENATORS FREED OF BOOZE GUILT;
GEORGE. WAITER, ASSUMES BLAME
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'WiAlSHING'TON, .Ian 9.—Following
the charge by Representative Up
shaw that members of the national
Legislature are conniving at bootleg
ging. the quart bottle of whi3ky that
fell from the pocket of a waiter to
the floor of the Senate dining room
a few days ago exploded with a
noise that out-echoed the "shot heard
round the world."
lAnd George, the negro waiter from
whose pocket the hooch hurtle 1,
probably will go down in Senate his
tory as something closely akin to a
martyr. He assumed entire responsi
bility for the presence of the stuff
on his hip. refused to say where he
got it, but insisted it was for his
orwn consumption.
And those of the Senatorial diners
present at the official investigation
ordered by Senator Curtis. Chairman
of the Rules Committee, just sat
there and let George do it.
No one in the dining room, ap
parently. had even thought of such a
thing as an alcoholic stimulant. Bn
ter George with a bottle on his hip
aDd his handkerchief draped careful
ly over it. No one seems to know
whom he was serving—several tables,
it Is said, y was a warm day for
Peeemher. and George feared t?te
t
perspiration might fall from hi*
brow, so ho deftly reached bark for
his handkerchief.
That handkerchief had no idea of <
being fed up on perspiration when it
was already wrapped around a bottle i
of Pikesvilie bottled in bond It I
clung to the 'bottle like an old soak.
Then came the crash, the odor and
the investigation in the sequence
named. Said Senator Curtis:
"Where did you get that liquor?”
*'A friend gave it to me for Christ- i
in.'s." George answered. <
' Por whom was it intended just 1
now?” s
“Jes’ for me. sun." I
“Who was the friend who gave It
to you?" i
"I don’t jets' remember his name,” t
replied Our Kero. \
George was a popular waiter in the j
Senate dining room a very popular
waiter—and his assumption of re- i
sponsibllity for the booze has not
hurt bis popularity, although stern I
duty compelled his discharge ITnw
ever, there is a persistent rumor that
a distinguished Senator has a new
butler named George, and. for that
matter, almost any waiter in the 1
Senate dining room will answer if :
T'"4 eal! him George. i
WOMAN ABOUT
TO BECOME A
MOTHER, HANGS
Mrs. Thompson and Frederick
Bywater Executed by
England for Murder.
■LONDON. .Ian. 9.—Mrs. Edith
Thompson and Frederick Bvwater
were executed this morning tor the
murder of the woman's husband on
October 1
iBotli met death protesting their in
note nee
Late yesterday afternoon the Sec
retary of Home Affairs announced
he could not grant a reprieve in the
case of Mrs. Thompson and Bywater.
Mrs. Thompson's counsel and
friends attempted to secure a stay
as the woman was about to become
a mother.
Mrs. Thompson is the first woman
to be h mg.'d in England tor lb
years.
DEBT FUNDING
EXPERTS FACE
HARD PROBLEM
No Settlement in Sight Under
Present Laws— Make
Recommendations.
WASHINGTON. .Tan. 9. Prelim
inary negotiations with the British
Debt Funding Commission lias con
vinced the administration that no
settlement of iho problems can be
mode under the law as it. now exists.
This is according to the White House
spokesman.
The spokesman declared that
President Harding and the members
>f the American commission, in deal
ing with tile situation, must recom
mend a tentative plan of settlement
tor each debtor of the nation, these
plans later to be present for ap
proval to Congress.
Alaska’s Garden of
Volcanoes Again
Before the World
WASHINGTON, Jan. !*. The re
port by the Associated Press that
Puvlof mountain, on the Aleutian
Peninsula, had lost the entire top
by possible earthquake erupt/Ion,
aguin puts America's Alaskan vol
canic garden on the map says a bul
letin of tlie National Geographic So
ciety today.
The bulletin says:
“This peak is in a region where
volcanoes at one time were as thick
as dog mounds on a western plain.”1
Hr. Robert K. Griggs, who led
five explorations to Alaska's volcanic
region, predicted five months agoj
disturbances fn the region of Pavlofj
and the eruption seems to vindicate!
his prediction.
3 KILLED UNDER
WALL OF WATER
Little Girl Is Swept Down
Stream for Half a Mile
—Rescued Alive.
TACOMA. .Ian. !t Joe Peterson,
engineer, and hi* son, two years
aid, and P. Nyckoff, < unp cook, were
killed when a wall of water de
stroyed the West Pork Cogging Com
pany near Morton.
Peterson's small daughter was car
ried half a mile down the stream
and caught under 1 log Jam from
which she was rescued, hadl.v in
jured.
The damage is estimated at
(75,000.
Lock Three in Vault of
Bank;Escape with $10,000
HINTON, Okla., Jan. 9—Three !
bandits locked three persons in the
National Bank of Hinton’s vault this
morning and escaped with flO.OOi).
FIRST PICTURE OF ALLEGED K.
L K. MURDERS.
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Here are the first exclusive pictures of the alleged Ku Klux lvlan murders at Mer Rouge, Louis
iana, that have stirred the nation. K. Watt Daniel, ex-service ntHu.and Thomas K. Richards were
kidnapped by a masked band, and never reappeared. Governor Pjtrkr.r ordered State troops to Mer
Rogue to guard the divers seeking the bodies there under direction t>f ,1. 1). Rooney, United States
Agent, who declares the whole work was that of the K. K. K. While the divers were at work un
known men set off a charge of 1,000 pouuds of dynamite in an cttort to destroy the bodies, wbielt,
htntitr., we iSWltgtht to the surface. '’'bet higt been weighed down. At the exit's-me tott <i e,(
\ iew ol Agent Rooney and tlio tliver is Tot Davenport, kidnapped at the ante time, beaten and re
leased.
No Public Building
Bill During Present
Session of Congress
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WASHINGTON, Jan, 9. |
I Senator Fernald, of Maine, and
] Representative Langley, of Ken
j tucky, chairmen of the Senate
and House committees on pub
! lie buildings, announced today,
after a conference with Presi
dent Harding, there will be no '
| omnibus public building hill
tilts season of Congress. The
condition of the treasury will
i not permit of such a bill, it was I
; said, 1
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LEGISLATURE OF
WASHINGTON IS
NOW IN SESSION
Organization Fight Predicted
in Both Branches—
One Bill Passed.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 9.—The
18th session of the state Legislature
formally convened at noon with an
organization fight looming in each
branch.
The Senate passed the firs' bill of
the session, an appropriation of
$10.“).(too for legislature expenses,
whleh amount is $10,000 less than
last session
An additional appropriation was
made of $1.1,000 for printing
P. Ff. Carlyon. of Olympia, lias
been elected president protempore of
the Senate, and Mark K. Heed, of|
Shelton, lias been elected speaker!
of the House. Both men are Re
publicans.
Governor Hart's message is slated
to be given to the Legislature to
morrow.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE
SACRAMENTO. Jan. 9. The 41th
session of the California Legislature
has organized by electing Prank F
Merrlani, of Long Beach, speaker
of the assembly, and Arthur H
Breed, president protempore of tie
Senate.
SALEM. Ore.. Jan. 9 The Ore
gon Legislature has organized by
electing K. K. K Ruble, of Multno
mah county, speaker of the House,
and J. H. Upton, of Prineville. speak
er of the Sonatp.
DOCTOR HELD IN K. K. K. MURDERS.
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This photograph shows Dr. II. M. McKeon, formerly Mayor of
Mol House. Louisiana, under arrest in Baltimore on the cliarse of
complicity in the two mysterious murders in the little Louisiana
town that have been charged directly to members of the Ku Klux
Klan.
GOVERNMENT IS
LOSER IN BIG
AGENCY ISSUE
Publishers Permitted to Make
Contracts—Clayton Law
Is Not Broken.
WASHINGTON’. .Inn. 9. Publisher.;
are not i>rohiblted hy ihe Clayton
law from entering into contracts with
nows dealers to act exclusively a ;
wholesale distributers and agents,
tic Supreme Court ruled today in
the Curtis Publishing Company case.
PARTICULARS ABOUT CASE
WASHINGTON. Jin. 9.—Whether
publishers of newspapers and unfa
zines can maintain exclusive w.i dr
sale distribution agencies or mil
(Continued on Pag* Seven )
XKW YORK. Jan. !» Bight have
lii’ n indicted for arson, alleged to
have fired laundries In a campaign <
of tiig plants against the little ones j
ft io were cutting prices.
FRENCH ARMY
TODAY MOVING
INTO GERMANY
Thirty - eight Trainloads of
Troops Are Enroute to
Point Near Essen.
GERMAN CHANCELLOR
MAKES STATEMENT
French Move Is Regarded in
Germany as Breach of
Versailles Treaty.
BERLIN. Jan. 9. — Thirty-eight
trains loaded with French troops
have left Mayence with Essen as the
destination says a telegTam this
afternoon from Essen.
Heavy artillery with a complete
arsenal appeals to have already ar
rived at Bash, three miles from Das
stldorf.
GERMAN CONTENTION.
BERLIN. Jan. 9.—In connection
with the intention of France to ex
tend military occupation to the
Ruhr, Chancellor Cuno made the
following declaration:
"Force is force whatever it'a
guise.’’
Chancellor Cuno said Germnw
new regards the application of arbi
trary methods of Franoe as a breach
of the Versailles treaty.
TROOPS NEAR ESSEN.
ESSEN. Jan. 9.—The advance or
trcoDg of the French army has reach
ed the neighboring town of Kettwig,
seven miles southwest of Essen.
Troops are also reported in the sec
tion between Dussedorf and Essen.
F.ARLV PB-EPARTIONS.
BERLIN. Jan. S. — Preparations
tor an advance were last night re
ported under way at Dusseldorf,
Duisburg and Muethetm, according
to advices from official quarters In
tlioae cities.
Twelve military trains are report
ed on the way to the Ruhr region
from France.
(Continued on Page Two.)
Death Ends Problem
Of Armless and
Legless Babe
CHICAGO, Jan 9. dtaby Lebrasca,
born several weeks a no without
arms or less, has ceased to be a
problem. She died after a brief at
tack of pneumonia, ending a con
troversy t hat has raged with In
tensity ever since her birth.
Public attention was attracted to
the case by a published statement
th.c a relative had expressed a wish
that the attending physician permit
the deformed babe to die. Drs. Por
terfield and Balsted. in charge of the
cise, refused, saying the child was
normal mentally and might become a
celebrit . Nature's method of recom
pensing It for having neglected to
supply arms and legs
Numerous Inquiries came In from
persons eager to adopt the child.
The case attracted unusual atten
tion because of the fact that several
months ago Cue attending physicians
refused to perform an operation that
would have prolonged the life of a
hopelessly deformed baby.
MAIL STARTED ON JOURNEY OVER
LONGEST AND LONELIEST ROUTE
HDMONTON. Alta. Ian. !>. Can
ada's longest nnil loneliest nui! route,
covering .1 diatw > of 3,500 miles,
now n operation. With the north
i ru rivers frozen, Iiuskie teams of
tie' Northern Trading Company have
let- I r! MoMurray, the terminus of
tie A'horta and tjre.it Waterway*
It lroad. for the settlement of Akta
vik, 1.750 miles to the north.
Mail will he left at all fur trading
po nls along the Mackenzie, Slave
anil A'hahascan Hirers. It is ex
pi a ted Aklavlk will he reached about
Kehru y 1, and. after a brief rest,
tlie re urn trip to Fort McMurray
will start, reaching the railhead
about March 1.
Five relays of dog teams will be
used, the longest single “mush" be
ing that from Fort Simpson to Akla
vik. a distance of SSfi miles. The
mail load will Iip comparatively light
by the time this stretch is reached,
thus enabling the dogs to go the
entire distance without relief
The man carrying the mail has no
spate for a tent or other comforts.
At night he curls up in his blankets
under some convenient spruce tree.
w*th bis dogs crowded around him
for warmth All day he breaks trail
through the snow and occasionally
must (hop his way through the Ice
human*'..- which pile up In the
Mackenzie.
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