“ALL THE HEWS ALL THE TIME”
EMPIRE
VOL XXI., NO. 3143.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY. JANUARY 16. 1923.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
GERMAN FORGES ARE MASSING
Immense Meteors Startle Natives Along Kuskok wim
HEAVENLY BODY
FALLS {NATIVES
ARE STARTLED
Immense Meteor Falls m In
terior—Recent Eruption
Starts Things.
ANCHORAGE. J..n. 1C. \n ira
mense meteor falling last Monday
night between Fairbanks and Chata
nlka led to the theory that it may
have bee nr,' 'he top of Mount
Pavlof
Accord n . • a, to tse me
teors fell ti:• • Ktt - . lit Riv
er, fright he a .1 I pros
pectors . "i i’ll, d miles
around.
iLairge ;‘U> - v
by the e ip
The sta
tea near
George Gt
eat seafar '
this was i
seen in th : i
M.. St •
Acccrdin ><
Northwestf i
Mount. Mos- ...
ed eruptin. t c
and flame a sing
MIX-UP OCCURS
ON REPARATIONS
U. S. Representative Says He
Has Plans to Settle Prob
, lem—Officials Say No.
PARIS, Jan. 16.—Roland Boyden,
United States representative on the
reqaarations commission, told the As
sociated Press today he had sub
mitted a plan for the settlement of
the reparations problem. Tiie plan,
Boyden said, had been approved by
Secretary of State ChaTles E. Hughes
after the return of the commission
from Berlin early last November.
SOMEBODY IS “OFF”
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1G—The
State Department in a formal state
ment says Boyden is without in
structions to present any plan to
the reparations commission and
neither Secretary Hughes nor any
one else had approved any plan for
submission.
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Claims Standard Oil
Dictates All Prices
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—The con
trol of oil prices and particularly the
price of gasoline by the Standard Oil
Company is alleged by representa
tives of the Independent oil com
panics in a hearing conducted by the
Senate committee investigating ol
prices.
Submarine and Destroyer
Operating and Supply Base
Is Recommended for Alaska
MILLIONAIRE’S SON MAY WED ACTRESS.
[Btar5iw.tr S& pgtan % Jfa,»ae'^£fe>iory
According to report in Chicago. Horace O. Wetmore, 2 2-yea r
old son of Frank O. Wetmore, miiloinaire president of the First Na
tonal Hank of Chicago, is shortly to wed Hiss Helen Shipman, mu
sical comedy star, at present appaaring in "The Lady in Ermine.”
Voting Wetmore is learning the packing bus,inass from the ground
up and is working now in the stockyards as a day laborer.
REAL GARDEN
SPOT IS IN
S. E. ALASKA
Dr. Evans oi Agriculture De
partment Boosts South
ern Alaska Section.
SEATTLE, Jan. 16.—A special dis
patch to tlie Times this afternoon
from Washington, D. says Dr \\ •
N'. Evans, Chief of the Division of
Insular experimental stations of the
Department of Agriculture, told the]
House appropriations committee that]
Southeastern Alaska, at least in the|
vicinity of the towns and villages,!
| was becoming a garden spot.
Dr, Evans said the district was
I highly productive and fruits and veg
| ©tables nowhere had shown a great
I or degree of progress.
■Oire of the great needs of Alaska
is extension of tire work In agricul
ture. It is desired that the Depart
ment. send agents to visit Ihe farm
| ors and instruct thorn regarding the
| brflt methods to socure good crops.”
I LONDON1, Jan. 16.—A court eirou
I lar issued today announces the en
i gagoment of the Duke of York, sec
I ond son of the King, to Lady Eliza
'betb ‘Bowes Lyon.
CLINIC TO REDUCE CRIMINALITY
SOON BE OPENED IN CINCINNATI
CINCINNATI, O, Jan. 10—The
Cincinnati Centra] Psychiatric Clinic,
said by physicians to be the first of
tts kind in the country to attempt to
reduce criminality, will be opened
here soon, it has been announced.
The plan of the institution is to
give the- youths of the city the maxi
mum opportunity for normal develop
ment through coordination with the
courts, social agencies, the public
schools, Board or Health Vocational
Bureaus and other institutions in
touch with deficient persons.
The Clinic will bo under the super
intendency of Dr. Emerson K. North
former superintendent of the Long
view Hospital for Insane, at Cln
clnnati.
The aim of the clinic, according tc
Or. North, will be to eliminate de
pendents by prescribing remedies tc
fit the individual.
Before arriving at the remedical
point. Dr. North said, the individua
will first be given a general exam
ination. Then it will bn determine.!
briefly if there are any mental de
ficiencies. The ease will next be
analyzed, first to ascertain the so
ciological conditions of the individ
ual. secondly to ascertain complete
ly his physical state. Following this,
the .individual’s intellectual level will
bo determined, through the process
of tho Simon Dinrot test, outlined
to determine tho intellectual capa
bilities and possibilities.
With these records. Dr. North con
l finned, the case will be determined
on finally by the head psychiatrist
and remedies prescribed. These rem
edies, he said, would vary from in
stitutional treatment, to social reod
i justmont such as change in vocation
al fields or a chango in home en
vironment.
Tito Clinic is being financed bv
tho Cincinnati Community Chest.
Fifteen thousand dollars was ad
vanced for the first six months with
the! understanding that $30,000
be given for the year.
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Boys, Playing
With Matches, Set
A Fire, Suffocate
FORT I>0DOE, Jan. 16.—Four
boys, all under five years of
! age, of four different families,
suffocated to death last night.
The boys were playing with j
matches at tiie home of one of
the families whore tiipy had '
been left alone. The boys set
! firp to a couch and sought saf
ety by crawling under It.
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MEDICAL^TEST
FOR THOSE WHO
WOULD MARRY
Woman Representative in
Oregon Introduces Rad
ical Measure.
—
! SALEM, Ore., Jan. 16.—A bill tr
require men and women applicant:'
| for marriage licenses to undergo a
i medical te:U. wa-t Introduced today
1 by Mrs. C. B. Simons, representative
, to the state legislature from Multno
I mah county.
1 Failure to pass an examination
i would prevent issuance of a license
i unless one or both applicants sub
j Milt ted to sterilization.
|New Coinage oi Fifty
Cent Pieces Authorized
WASH r>HJTON, Jan. 16.— The
House today passed the Senate bill
authorizing :ho coinage of 1100,006
special RO-cent pieces commemorat
ing the 100th anniversary of the
enunciation of the Monroe Doctrine.
The coinage is Issued on request o(
the Los Angeles Clearing House in
connection with the exposition there
this coming summer.
Chen Chiung Meng Is
Off on China War Path
CANTON'. Jan. 16.—General Chen
Chiung Meng, following the report
that the victorious Yunnan Kwangski
forces, which have been supporting
Dr. Sun Yat Son, were approaching
the capltoI, has left by special train,
accompanied by his -staff. His des
tination is said to be Waichow.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—A report
by a board headed by Rear Admiral
Hugh Rodman assigned to recom
mend a shore establishment policy
for the United States navy, was to
day transmitted to Congress by Sec
retary of the Navy Denby.
The report urges six secondary
bases with priority In the develop
ment of one at San biego after which
ranks a site for an Alaska submarine
and destroyer operating and supply
base.
The report recommends action of
the Alaska p. salt "be limited at
this time to the selection and acqui
sition of a site."
The development of an adequate
' fleet ba3c at Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.
| ir placed at the head of the major
projects.
The mail fleet bases are to be on
San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound, at
New York, on Narragansett Bay and
Chesapeake Bay in the order given.
The report says an air station
should ultimately be completed in
Alaska.
The report c* the commission
recommending the development of a
naval base at Alameda, Cal., was de
nounced by Representative Curry, of
California, as “just one more deliber
ate attempt on the part of the Navy
Department to *in*- $160,000,000 of
the peop.e's mont'y ,V> the Alameda
mud flats.
3LINDF0LDED
MEN ARE SEEN
IN AUTOMOBILE
| Actions of Black Hooded
Louisiana Band Are Ex
plained by Witness.
BASTROP, I.Ian. lfi.—Gus Boyd.
storekeeper at < dlinston, La., testi
fied today that on August "4. last
year. a blank hooded band stopped
at his store and purchased gasoline.
Boyd said they had two blindfold
ed men in an automobile.
The witness testified that he Joke i
with several of the hooded men
when he recognized two or three of
the band.
P. C. Easton, of Monroe, testified
that SkipwRh. in discussion about
Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards,
after the alleged murders, said "the
community thought they were bad
characters and needed attention.”
| Twelve Persons Injured
In Explosion of Dynamite
CROWLEY. La., Jan. 16—Twelve
persons were injured early this
morning an 1 many buildings were
j wrecked when a dynamite explosion
j occurred at Scott, 20 miles from
here.
Details a.ro larking but it is un
derstood that soma one, carrying a
lantern, entered a garage in which
dynamite was stored with gasoline.
The explosion was felt 20 miles.
Bodies of Fire Victims
Are Believed Under Debris
TACOMA, Jan. 16.—Up to a late
hour this afternoon no bodies had
been found In the ruins of the two
cheap hotels destroyed by fire here
yesterday morning. It is believed
that from two to seven persons lost
their lives and ths bodies are buried
under debris 2~> feet deep.
Former Coast Guardsman
Tries to K31; Suicides
SEATTLE. Jan. 16—George H.
Gilman, former Colast Guard sailor.
I who recently finished his enlistment
on the Bear, last night shot and
wounded Patrolman Arthur Lunts
! ford, as the latter was arresting him.
| then suicided. Another officer Jailed
Oilman's companion, Carl Thorker
son.
FROM SLAUGHTKR HOUSE TO PRESIDENCY.
r 7. Ed^on. WfifFe "1
When I1'. Edaon White left public schools at Peoria, Illinois, lie
j needed a job desperately bad—and he got It as a slaughterer in a
Pr.iria packing house. Then he transferred to tlie eume kind of job
with Armour & Co,, in Chicago. Today, at less than 50, he is
I’n . idem of Armour & Co., one of the largest packing industries in
the world, at a salary said to he in excess of 5100,000 a year. The
business of the interests he direct amounts to more than $1,000,
000.000 yearly. If the proposed purchase of Morris & Co. is com
pleted White will head the greatest packing industry ever created.
Sitka Against
Arbuckle’s Return
To Ricker Drama
i I -
(Special From Tribune.)
SITKA, Jan. 10. The Friend
' ly Society anti the Woman's j
Christian Temperance Union of |
this city have adopted a resolu
tion against the return of Ros
eau "Fifty” Arbwklo to the
filnts. Tlie two organizations
hav' written letters to Will !
iHay i, stating their action and |
i enclosing copies of rho resolu
tion. I
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MAY CALL OUT
ARKANSAS N. G.
Townspeople and Rail Strik
ers Clash in Harrison—
Call for 1 roops.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark . Jan. 10,—
Governor McRae his received a re
quest tor aid from Harrison, where
rioting between townspeople and rail
strikers is reported to have broken
out yesterday.
Governor McRae has sent Colonel
Mc-AlllBter, of the National Guard, to
Investigate If a call for troops Is
nee ess a rv.
START HOUSE CLEANING
HARRISON, Jan. 1(>. Several hun
dred armed citizen* who began a
‘‘house cleaning" yesterday were
■dill walking the streets this morn
ing searching for strikers In an ef
fort to liiirn who were responsible
foi the recent destruction of prop
erty.
Rail Striker Found
Strung Up on Bridge
HARRISON, Jan. 16—The body of
E. C. Gregor, rail striker, was found
hanging from a bridge near the rail
road yards this morning. The au
thorities clj^ini he is the man who
opened fire on officers and citizens
who searched his home yesterday
afternoon.
BIG DEAL IN
COPPER IS ON
Anaconda Copper Mining
Company Planning Pur
chase of Chile Stock.
XRW Yom\, jan. 1C.—John D.
! Ryan, president of the Anaconda
Hopper Mining Company, announced
today that arrangements hare been
mad.' to acquire the majority stock
in the Chile Copper Company. The
dc il is said to Involve from $100,000,
000 to $150,000,000.
The Anaconda Copper will Issue a
$50,000,000 debentures, which plan
has been authorized, und the (iug
gen helms are expected to take part
in part payment for the Chile st ick.
DKN'VRR, Jan* 1*.—The slain ipint
bandit, found frozen to death yester
j day in a garage, was Identified today
las .1 C. Sloan, of Casper. Wyo.
TWENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND MEN
ARE MASSING
Gentians Reported Concen
trating for Probable At
tack on French.
i FRENCH FORCES FIRE
; UPON DEMONSTRATORS
Reparations Commissioners
Report that Germany
Wilfully Defaulted.
I DORTMUND. Jan. 18. — The
French General Headquarters has
been informed that 25,000 Germans
are concentrated in Southern Mon
ster less than 25 miles north of here.
The French today advanced to
both Dortmund and Luenen outposts.
The French and German forces at
?omc points are only eight cr ten
miles apart.
FRENCH OPEN FIRE.
FIERI,IN. Jan. 18.—French troops
drecl killing one and wounding sev
J oral in a clash with German demoti
, strators at the Bochum railway ela
tion early this morning.
ORDER RESTORED.
PARIS, Jan. 18.—Order line been
restored at. Bochum where German
| demonstrators and French trojps
clashed early this morning. This is
according to an official report re
ceived from -Kronen K^rh.
WILFULLY DEFAULTED.
PARIS. Jan. 18.—The Reparations
Commission today decider! that Ger
many hud wilfully defaulted In de
liveries of many kinds.
Belgium and Italy voted in the
affirmative on the Issue.
; Kimball Cook, representing Great
llrituin, abstained trom voting,
LONDON, Jan. 18. — A Central
Nows despatch says the Lithuanians
I have occupied the city of Memei and
[disarmed the Frencli forces there
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CONTINENTAL
COMBINATION
PLAN DENIED
Premier Mussolini Makes
Statement to Cabinet—
Gave France Advice.
HOME, Jan lfi.—iPremler Mussolini
told the Cabinet of Italy today he
never proposed a continental com
bination against England.
'Premier Mussolini said he advised
France to limit her military actions
!n the Ruhr Valley to the utmost.
■Tiie Premier expressed the opinion
hat no Kntente could give Europe
peace without participation ol Oreat
Britain.
WILL ATTEMPT TO SECURE WORLD
PEACE THROUGH EDUCATION; PLAN
BERKELEY, Cal., Jan. IS.—World
| pouco through education will be fos
I terod by prominent educators from
| all part ) of tho world who will meet
'here for two weeks preceding the
J National Educational Association con
iveni'on in Oakland next July, ac
I cording to an announcement by Dr.
| Walter Morris Hart, dean tjf the
i summer session of the University of
i (Vilifronia.
Designation of a day to he known
las “World Good Will Day" and a
more effective system of the teach
j ing of international civics are among
•he proposals to be considered at
the conference.
In his announcement Hart set
forth the objects of the conference
i is follows:
To promote friendship, Justice and
good will among the nations of the
earth.
To bring about a world-wide tole,r
| r.nce of the rights and privileges of
ail nations regardless of race or
creed.
To develop an appreciation ot the
value of the inherited gifts of na
tionality through centuries of de
velopment and progress.
To secure more accurate and satis
fying information and more adequate
statements In the text books used
in the schools of tho various coun
tries.
To foster a national comradeship
and a confidence which will produce
a more sympathetic appreciation
among nations.
To Inculcate into the minds and
hearts of the rising generation those
spiritual values necessary to carry
forward the principles emphasized In
the conference on limitation of arma
ments.
In all the schools to emphasize tha
unity of mankind, the evils of war
ind tho nocessity of universal peao*!.
A far reaching system of exchange
teachers and students between na
tions is nnother idea to be discussed
at the conference.