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VOL XXII., NO. 3318.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1923. »
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BODY OF
MARION’S SON
RECEIVED
BY HOME
TOLL OUT
GREAT NAVAL
BASE PLED6ED
TO SAN DIEGO
Members of House Naval Af
fairs Committee Makes
Decided Promise.
SAN DIEGO. Cal., Aug. 9—A pledge
of support to the plan whereby Sun
Diego will beronie not only the great
est naval base in Western .America,
but also exclusively a peace time
training center on the Pacific of the
Navy and Marine Corps, was made
hero by members of the naval affairs
committtee of the House of Repre
sentatives. The members of the
committtee are making an inspection
tour concerning naval establishments.
DIES SUDDENLY
IN WASHINGTON
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Dean of Washington News
papermen Passes—50
Years with A. P.
WASHINGTON, Auk. 9.—Edwin1
M. 'Hood, dean of the Washington!
newspaperman, who was just round
ing out 50 years service with the
Associated Press, died suddenly to-j
day at the age of 65 years.
During the McKinley adminlstra-1
tlon Hood declined the post of As
sistant Secretary of the Navy. Later]
lie ruKRcstcd to Secretary of State,
Hay the famous message "Perdicatisi
Alive or Ralsuli Dead" which re-!
suited In the release of the kid
napped American by the bandit of;
Morocco.
HEINTZELMAN RETURNS
FROM TOUR OF FOREST
Ii. F. Heintzelman, Asst. District
Forester, who has been on a tour of
inspection of logging camps, cruising I"
parties and timber areas in the Ton-:
gass Forest for the past three weeks, |
returned here last night on the
Forestry boat Weepoose. He accom
panied Asst. U. S. Forester Carter
on a tour of the district.
Mr. Heintzelman said that a short-1
age of water was reported all over
the district. Petersburg. Wrangell
and other points have short water
supplies. Everywhere the creeks
are at the lowest stages in years. At
Ketchikan Creek, he said, the Ketchi
kan Power Company opened its flume
into the creek to raise it so that:
salmon could get to the spawning
beds. 11
W. C. Keyes, Chief Clerk in the j
Forest Supervisor's office at Ketehi i
kan, accompanied Mr. Heintzelman!
back to Juneau and will spend somo
time in the local Forestry offices. He
will visit the Sitka and Petersburg (
rangers’ offices before returning to
Ketchikan.
PLAY RESUMED TODAY !
IN DOUBLES TOURNEY
After several days' intermission,
play was scheduled to be resumed in
the doubles tournament of the Juneaui
Tennis Club this afternoon. Mr. and j
Mrs. John F. Starr were scheduled' i
to meet H. J. Fisher and Mrs. H. F. I e
Pullen at 3:30 p. m. today. j
Several other events In the doubles ! t
tourney are expected to be played f
Saturday, it was stated. The date t
of the final event in men's singles, j
tournament, in which Capt. P. A. <
Agnew and J. A. Barragar, Sr., meet, I
had not been fixed today but it was j
believed probable that it would take ■ (
place Saturday.
TO PHOTOGRAPH SUN ECLIPSE
ENSENADA, Lower California. Aug. \
9.—Astronomers from University t
of California will make photographs i
and gather observation records of the ^
total eclipse of the sun here Sep- ]
tember 10, according to word receiv- ]
ed from university officials at Berke- ;
jey, Calif. Dr. William F. Meyer will (
head the expedition, t
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Claims Divorce Halbit Gravely
Menacing Life of TMs Nation
“AUNT MARY” NOW CHICAGO COMMISSIONER.
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No official act of Judge Dover, Chicago’s new Mayor, has been
more popular than his appointment of Miss Mary E. McDowell,
head resident of the University Settlement, in the great Stock
yards district, to be Commissioner of Public Welfare. “Aunt
Mary," as Miss McDowell is known to all. has been a social work
er in Chicago for 30 years, and her settlement is almost as well
known as Miss Jano Addams's H ill House. Her new task is a
great one, but she knows every angle of her work from past ex
perience.
BRISTOL BAT SALMON PACK FALLS
SHORTtSEASON POOREST IN TEARS
IS REPORT: RED PACK IS SLIM ONE
Seattle Elks to
Erect Bronze
| Statue of Harding
SEATTLE, Auk. 9—The Elks of |
Seatttlo will raise a fund of
$25,000 to erect a bronze statue
of the late President Harding on j
the exact spot in Woodland Park j
where on July 27 he gave the i
oath of allegiance to 50,000 boys.
S BEQUEATHED
SMALL FORTUNE
Stanford University Chair Is
Left $400,000—Aus
tralian Estate.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal.,
mg. 9—The chair of Psychic Phono
uena has received $100,000 from the
state of Thomas Welton Stanford, of
lelbourne, Australia. He was a hro
her of the late Leland Stanford. The
und will be used In an effort to es
ablish fully whether there is any
serit in the contention the living
an communicate with the dead.
Claims Wall Street Will
Be Shaken by Exposurei
NEW YORK. Aug. 9.— Disclo*
ires of so Btartllng a nature thal
he financial section of New York
fill he shaken to the foundations
fill result when the confession ol
hlward M. Fuller and W. Frank
IcGee, bankrupt bookkeepers, arc
indo public. This is according to
lull E. Whitney, counsel for the
wo men,
I ASTORIA, Aug. 9—The Columbia1
River Packers Association ship Chilli
coythe sailed from Bristol Bay for
Astoria according to advices received
here.
The ship Is bringing an exception-1
allly small pack of salmon,
, The fishing season throughout Brls-:
i tol Bay has been the poorest ini
years and the advices received said
the Nushagak River pack of all;
kinds of salmon will not exceed 200, :
000.
It is also stated that the Bering j
Sea and Western Alaska red sal-1
mon pack will be about 400,000 cases]
short of last year's pack.
CAPT. O’BRIEN GOES SOUTH.
Capt. John A. O'Brien, well known
steamboat captain of the North Pa
cific Coast, and who Is an oldtlmcr
on the Alaska run, passed through
Juneau on the Admiral Evans en
route to Seattle . He accompanied
Capt. Dane, master of the Buford,
! ns far as Cordova on that ship,
1 taking the Evans south from there.
ARTHUR FERTE IS MUCH
BETTER; LETTER RECEIVED
Arthur Ferte, fprmer well known;
Jutieau painter, who has been In
the States for several years recover
ing his health, writing from Ellens
burg. Wash., to L. R. Smith says
he is now in fine health. Ferte
says his eyesight is the only thing
that is now troubling him.
CATHOLIC CHURCH SERVICES
As announced on Sunday, services
J at the Catholic Church will begin at
j 9 a. m. sharp tomorrow, consisting of
j Holy Maas, singing and a short talk
; by Rev.' P. H. Deignan, S. J. Every ]
i member of the parish is requested to j
]be present and spend the day accord
| ing to the letter and spirit of the
I President's Proclamation.
“This much and more we owe to
our late Chief Executive, the friend
of Alaska,” said Rev. Deignan.
WINONA LAKE. Ind., Aug. 9—(Uy
Associated Dress)—Divorces ure
granted in America at the rate of one
every four minutes throughout the
year, and are more numerous here
; annually In proportion to total popu
j latlon than In any othuY country
I which records marriage statistics.
The annual total of decrees for the
148 states is in the- neighborhood oi
160,000 and is increasing three times
as fast as the population. Such are
the conclusions of kludge W. II.
Thomas of Santa Ana, California
former associate Justice of the Cali
fornta District Court of Appeals
drawn from a world survey of ntur
riage and divorce Rgures in propara
tion for an American campaign for
a national code governing marital re
lations.
Goes Far Back
Judge Thomas' survey included 64
countries, and the summary of his
study, made puMic here, reaches i*tk
into tile domestic delations of ancient
Rome, Greece and Babylon. In his
conclusions is the suggestion that our
national life is seriously threatened
by the present status of otir family
relationships. Much of our trouble,
he believes, is chargeable to the
chaotic state of our marriage laws,
and his recommendation Is a uniform
law, applicable to all American terri
tory, based on wisdom and experi
ence.
"in conirasr WH^r&ur records, one
divorce for every nine marriages,"
Judge Thomas said, "those of France
and Germany, our closest competitors,
dwindle Into Insignificance. We have
only one rival, Japan. Until recently
that nation has been grinding out di
vorces faster than our own. Now,
however, the United States Census
Bureau discloses a rapidly mounting
table of divorce which far outstrips
the ratio of increase in population.
Our rate of increase In divorces be
tween 1870 and 191V, was for the en
tire country, exactly 400 per cent."
In 1870,” he said, “we had 28 divorces
for every 100,000 of population; in
191)1 the figure was 114 for each
100,000.
Downward Procession
"Our country heads the list among
the nations of the world In this down
ward procession. In 1890 there were
33,107 divorces here; in 1916 there
were 112,000. In Canada in the
whole year of 1913 there were 59
divorces."
Judge Thomas came here recently
to present his findings to officers of
the National Reform Association at
the organization's International Con-:
ference on Christian Citizenship.
Seventeen states in the Union fix
no marriageable age, ho pointed out
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Whitfield and Bilbo Are
To Run Race for Governor
JACKSON. Miss., Aug. 9—Unof
ficial returns from Tuesday’s Ueino
ertlc primaries Indicated H. L.
Whitfield and former Governor
Theodore G. Bilbo would enter the
second primary on August 28 to de
termine the gubernatorial nomina
tion which Is equivalent to elec
tion. Bilbo entered the race while
serving a Jail term of contempt of
court.
World War Medal
| Of Honor Man
Extended Courtesy
' WASHINGTON', Aug. 9.—Re- |
| warding a fighting man’s loy- j
| alty to his Commander-in- 1
Chief, President Coolidge yes- !
terday invited as a guest on i
| the Presidential train lo Mar- ,
! ion this afternoon, Michael A. {
| Donaldson, of Hagertown, N. |
| Y., a World War Medal of |
Honor man. Donaldson, al- I
[ though he admitted it took
some pinching to find fare to |
| come to Washington, arrived |
| on time and marched from the i
| White House to the Capitol j
behind nin dead commander. |
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LATE PRESIDENT
LEAVES CAPITOL
I FOR LAST TIME
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Distant Guns Boom Farewell
as Funeral Train Leaves
for Marion, Ohio.
BODY PASSES THROUGH
I LINES OF INFANTRYMEN
Mrs. Harding Never Falters
in Determination to Re
main Calm During Day.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 —Warren (J.
[ Harding loft Washington last night
'forever: Itia short but eventful mo |
I ment of power was ended; Ills ctarnl- i
ty of rest begun,
I The grim voiced distant guns spoka
the Nation's farewell as the funeru'
jtrain drew out of the station.
A legion of armed mm stood with
| rifles and sabres at silute.
A g-eat fo'k and small, stood s'lrn'
•with h ads bared la the fading light
| of evening and the dead President
was gone.
Mrs. Harding, for whom th° ev
| ents of the dnv had been a sorry
trial, did not follow the casket on
i the trip from the Capitol to the sta ,
* lion. She left the White House at j
15:50 o'clock to motor directly to the
i train. Heavily veiled, she walked to,
the motor car on thp arm of Sucre j
tary Christian, apparently bearing up
I bravely, and walking with a slow
but firm step. Dr. Snwyer also ac
companied her.
Escorted hv cavalry and followed i
hy President Ooolidge, cabinet mein-i
hers and other honorary pallbearers |
in automobiles, the cortege passed 1
from the Capitol to tip* Union station I
between two lines of infantrymen!
standing at "present arms."
As the body of the dead President
was carried through ihe station Into
the car which had brought It across!
the continent, the Marine Band sta
tioned on the concourse played "Load.i
Kindly Light.”
On the funeral triln with Mrs
Harding were a parly of personal
friends, also members of the party
which made the Alaska trip anil all I
members of the Cabinet now In this I
country.
Tonight President Coolidge and oth-1
er dignitaries will leave for Marlon. \
Having never faltered In her de I
termination to remain calm, al
though the day was long and trying,
Mrs. Harding retired shortly before
the train reached Harrisburg. Pa.,
last night, still entirely self-possessed, i
Plan Air Mail Service
From Coast to Coast
MITCHELL FIELD, Aug. 9—The i
five day teat of a 28 hour transconti
nental air mail service which the
government proposes to Inaugurate
hetweeen New York and San Fran
cisco, will he made beginning August
21. This was tho announcement to
day.
Flaherty Is Re-elected
By Knights of Columbus
MONTREAL. Aug. 9. James A. '
Flaherty, of Philadelphia, has been |
unaniniously iwelected Supreme
Knight by the Keight3 of Columbus
in the annual convention in session ;
here. |
Honor Former President;
Mountain Is Called Adams
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — The,
■Geographic Board has official an
nounced a mountain on the Alaska-,
Canadian border Ml. Quincy Adams
<hus honoring a former President.
This was the announcement made!
here today.
Convicted Germans Denied
Appeal by French Court
PARIS, Aug. 9. — The high court
loday rejected the appeal of Bjron
Krupp inn Rohlen. h‘-ad of the
Krupp plant at Eseen. and other
directors of the Krupp Company,
from sentences Imposed by Hie
French court martial for alleged sab
otage, i
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I Trains of Country
To Stop Five
| Minutes Tomorrow
, | CHICAGO, Aug. 9—The West
j ern Railway General Managers
I Association announced today that
| all train service In the country
I will be suspended for live min
1 utes. from 2 o’clock to 2:05
o’clock. Central Standard time,
tomorrow afternoon out of lust
' respect to Harding.
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THOUSANDS VIEW
LATE PRESIDENT
IN WASHINGTON
Estimated that Thirty-fivt
Thousand Pass by Cas
ket m Capitol.
ALL CLASSESTCREEDS
PASS IN PROCESSIOf
Mrs. Harding Faces Ordea
with Stoic Courage—
Frail Slender Figure.
WASHINGTON, Aug. !l It Is esti
mated tli \t 35,000 persons passei
through the rotunda of the Capita
yesterday past the catafalque and a
many more were tanted back dls
appointed after hours In the slov
moving line.
Countrymen came in uncountec
numbers to honor the dead Presi
dent :ts he lay in the quiet austen
Chamber under the dome of the
Capitol.
They moved through the rotundi
two abreast, passing by at the rati
of about 6,000 an hour.
All Races Represented
Youth and age. rleh and poor, rep
resentatlves of every race Joined It
the solemn procession.
M 'ey c hildren had to he lifted ir
the arms of parents to look upon the
dead. Many wanted to linger bn
the lines were kept moving In hop<
none of those outside would be dls
appointed.
Faces Public Ordeal
Mrs. Harding sat erect and mo
tlonless beside the casket throughoul
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NEW FIRST LADY OF LAND SAID
TO BE MODEL HOUSEKEEPER; HAS
PROVED POPULAR IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON. Auk 9—Friends of
Calvin Coolldge nay of him that he
la “'as plain as an old shoe,” hut for
Mrs. Coolldge, the new first lady of
the 1 ind. Is reserved the title of be
Iiik one of the bast housewives In
New' Mil gland.
Restricted In social entertainment
here by living in a hotel while her
husband was vice president, she has
not had the opportunity to demon
strate the excellence of her cooking,
which her friends say held a good
repute In New England, hut now It
la predicted that she will resume the
practices of marketing and shopping,
will supervise the menus at the
White House and prohahly will cook
some of the president's favorite
dishes, as she used to do In North
ampton.
Popularity Established
Tall and graceful, with black hair
and blue eyes. Mrs. Coolldge already
has established 1 popularity in Wash
ington which is confined to no
fa< tlon or por
faction or party. A good mixer so-1
dally, she came to Washington with
no prejudices and has permitted
none to develop. As wife of the
vice president, she be( nine president
of a dining club composed of the
wives and daughters of senators, and
In that (apadty she proved a dis
tinct success.
Mrs. Coolidge is noted for a con
servative taste in clothes. Finely
poised, she wears things comfort
ably and well. She likes suits best
of all.
“I feel perfectly comfortable In
a suit ami pretty blouse," she one*
explained.
‘‘The Coolldge Red”
The Coolldge red was made fash
ionable by her soon after coming to
Washington but recently she has
worn blue a great deal because it
Is better liked. She Is also uoted for
ter well shod feet, generally having
rer footwear match her costume.
Mrs. Coolldge plays the plnno, In
ilsting that she does so merely to
iccompanv her two sons, both of
whom play stringed Instruments. The
t)oys have betyi away at school most
of t he time
of the time their parents have been
In Washington with the result, she
says, that their music has not capsed
much annoyance to Mr. Coolldge.
She is also a dyed-in-the-wool radio
fan.
Duties Arduous
While Mrs. Coolldge found the du
ties of wife of the vice president
ml nous she always showed marked
rigor and pleasure in meeting them.
Deeply interested in the welfare of
ler husband, she has been a fre
juent visitor to the senate galleries,
where she followed the debates over
which he presided. She often accom
panied him on his speaking trips.
Mrs. Coolidge Is a stanch Republi
can but she has never been partisan
and has never attempted to be a
leader. Sfie never permits herself
to be interviewed on politics, laugh
ingly remarking in explanation that
she had established the rule so as
to keep from contradicting her hus
band.
' MARION'S SON
BACK AT HOME
FOR LONG REST
Body of Lale President Hard
ing Reaches Home Town
—City Mourns.
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' MARION IS DRAPED IN
BLACK AND WHITE TODAY
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| Funeral Train Arrives Over
Two Hours Late—Bells
I Toll Mournfully.
MARION, Ohio, Aug. 9.—Travel
ing slowly through long lanes of
- homcfolks, the Harding funeral
train arrived at Marion at 12:38
o’clock this afternoon, 2 hours and
38 minutes late.
Scarcely had the wheels ceased to
turn before the church bells began
tolling slowly for the city’s dead
[ son who had come home to rest
forever among the friends and
I neighbors he loved best of all.
Before the casket was taken from
the train, those who accompanied
! the body from Washington, stepped
upon the platform and entered au
i tomobiles.
STOP AT CANTON.
1 ABOARD THE FUNERAL TRAIN,
1 Auk 9.—The funeral train stopped
at Canton. Ohio, one minute as a
mark of respect to McKinley. I>ater
another stop was made at Calen
donia, whore Harding spent hi#
boyhood days.
The train passed all morning
through dense crowds of persona
who had waited for hours.
The arrival of the train at Can
ton was nearly two hours behind
schedule.
PALL OF MOURNING.
•MARION, Ohio. Aug. 9. — This
city today wears a pall of mourning
with business houses and residences
draped in black and white crepe
I from the roofs to the street levels.
Last night the streets were be
jginning to seethe with persons com
! ing from distant places for the fun
j oral of the late President to be held
! here tomorrow afternoon.
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