VOLUME XIX.
NUMBER 62
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
Daugherty Investij
Suit Started to Cancel
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—The in
vesligation of the official acts of At
•torney General Daugherty has prom
ised to eclipse the oil scandal in th
way of a sensation, with Roxie Stin
son of Columbus still on the stan
today. As the former wife of the lat
Jesse Smith, confidante and friend o
• Daugherty, she testified to the inti
mate relations of the two men, addins
that Smith cleaned up $75,000 durinj
his association with Daugherty.
Smith Made Much Money
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—Mrs
Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of Jess
W. Smith, who committed suicide i
Attorney General Daugherty’s apart
ments, told the Senate committee in
vertigating the Attorney General tha
she had disposed of certain stocks fo
Smith and Daugherty, her former bus
band claiming that the stocks had cos
oi nothing. Mrs. Stinson explainei
Smith had more money after Hard
ing’s election than he had ever had be
fore, and plenty of stocks after hi
inauguration.
NORTH ATLANTIC GOSS]
NEW YORK. Mar. 13.—A Nortl
♦ Atlantic blizzard accompanied by a 75
mile an hour sale, swept over the Eas
coast today, paralyzing shipping am
seriously interfering with telegraphii
communication and causing great dan
age to be done.
Many vessels are sending out S. 0
S. call, and the rum fleet has beer
scattered to the four winds.
' LOANED HUGE SUM
BY II. S. BIKER
NEW YORK, Mar. 13.—The Banh
of France has been g.ven a nankinc
credit of $100,000,000 by a group oi
New York financiers, headed by J. P
^.lorgan. The loan is fully seemed by
gold held in the vaults of the French
bank, which is acting for the French
government, and will be used to sta
bilize French exchange and as the gov
ernment may determine.
Devastation in Apple
Orchards Controlled
OLYMPIA, March 13—Determined
measures now being taken by fruit
growers in the Spokane valley will
bring devastation among the apple or
chards by the ravages of silver leal
fungus under control, Charles Robison
supervisor of horiculture, declared to
day.
Hundreds of acres of apple trees
have been infected by the new disease
and the trees burned, according to Mr
Robinson. First traces of the fungus
among the trees of this state were re
sided last November and the winter
has been especially favorable for the
spread and development of the pest,
it is said.
The entire valley has been organ
ized into pest districts, and a spring
/ampaign is expected to prevent the
further spread of the scourge.
WIFE OF M’CORMICK INJURED
LYONS, France, Mar. 13.—Four
persons were killed in a train wreck
here today. It is reported that the
wife of McCormick, the noted tenor
linger was slightly injured.
CALM WITS
■CHAIM
i MADE MORE RIGID
- WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—The Cal
- iforina Department of the American
- Legion, the California State Grange,
e and the Native Sons of the Golden
- West today urged the Senate Immi
i gration committee to retain the sec
e tion in the Immigration bill excluding
f ineligible eliens.
Attorney General U. S. Webb and
r Ex-Senator Phelan and McClatchy,
r represented the organizations.
McClatchy argued if immigration is
restricted it should begin on aliens of
ineligible citizenship, and asserted the
, question of domestic citizenship should
? | bo settled by inference,
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Ku Klax Klaners Quarrel:
New Society Formed
. ATLANTA, Mar. 13.—The tempo
1 rary government board of the Knights
. of the Mystic Clan, a new organiza
tion was launched here at a meeting
5 of klansmen and former klansmen op
posed to the Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan and its recent administration
met here today to revise a temporary
constitution adopted last night and to
vuuriuci ci piciii ui j;iui cuuic iUl tilt*
1 new order. Nearly 200 men said by
those in charge to represent 13 states
I attended the meeting.
Kansas City, Mo., was named as na_
tional headquarters.
1 The order it was set forth, will take
' as members men “who are white and
■ of the Protestant Christian faith,” and
' who can qualify under the rules of the
order. Masks and secrecy are to have
1 no place in the Knights of the Mystic
Clan the resolution stated, the organi
• i zation placing its acts before the pub
lic “unashamed and unafraid.”
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—The sol
dier bonus bill will be passed by the
House next Monday, if the plans of
Chairman Green of the Home Way
and Means of mm it tee go tnrough.
Green said he thought the sub-com
mittee is now working out the details
of a paid up msuta? r>. policy plan,
adopted by the cornu dtee, and writ
ing it in the form «.f a bill. He ho^ed
to call up the bill Monday morning.
JUDGES IKE NO OENI
PROHIBITION EVASIONS
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NEW YORK, Mar. 13.—Rear Admi
| ral Plunkett, commandant of the Third
; Naval district and the Brooklyn Navy j
yard says that prohibition enforce
ment under the present laws are a flat
! failure. He says if all the judges and
| lawyers worked at nothing else, they
could make no dent in the present
'conditions, as the present prohibition
j laws have no teeth in them.
The Admiral says that vast quanti
; ties of the rankest kind of poisons are
I sold in the Navy yard zone to work
! men.
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JAPANESE LOAN FLOATED
NEW YORK, Mar. 13.—The Japa
nese reconstruction loan has been
successfully floated in America.
BRIDGE CLUB MEETS
The bridge club will meet tomor
row with Mrs. Ralph Reed at the usu
al hour.
Mndi.'f
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KEYSTONE VIEW CO, NEW YORKy
WHERE DEM OCRATIC C ONVEI TJON WILL EE HEI )
vi Square Card0- New York, where the Democratic convention
Jd June 24. The giant arena \v:li have 20,000 seats.
POSSESSION OF LIQUOR
DECLARED VIOLATION
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—The U.
S. Supreme Court today sustained the
;state laws prohibiting possesion of li
quor mqaned before .aticnal pt<*hibi.
jtion became effective, affirming the
i conviction of Raymond Moore of Ida
j ho, who contended that a state could
not prohibit what the government per
mitted, and therefore he was entitled
! to have liquor in his possession.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Mar. 13.—
Colorado’s delegation to the National
Rrepublican convention has been in
structed by the Republican State con
vention for President Coolidge.
BOOZE-LADENSHIPS
CLUTTER “RUM ROW”
MOBILE, March 13—Holds full and
decks piled high with cases of liquor
the Utilla, and Rhatamante, are still
on “rum row” and are still bound for
Tampico the United States coast
guard cutter Tallapoosa reported here
today. The two ships are anchored
off Brenton island, one under the Hon
duran and the other under the British
flag. Both are beyond the seizure lim
it. The “runners” admitted they had
liquor and greeted the coast guard of
licials cheerfully when the cutter came
within hailing distance, according to
officers of the Tallapoosa. Both ships
have been on the “rum row” since last
October. Both always show clearance
papers to Tampico and are apparently
legal and proper.
NEW YORK, Mar. 13.—Two severe
earthquake shocks were felt in Punta
Arenas, the capital and seaport of
Costa Rica.
1U. S. CONSUMPTION
OF PORK ENORMOUS
—
\ WASHINGTON, D. C., March 13—
A double file of hogs a round the world
it the equator and a single unbroken
lire from the north pole to the south
ern end of South America is the graph
ic picture presented by the depart
| tnent of agriculture by America’s
I slaughter of porkers last year. The
| department’s statisticians calculate
the 81,532,500 hogs killed for con
sumption would reach 61,770 miles if
placed end to end, allowing four feet
for each hog. The same number, they
add, if placed twenty-one abreast,
would form a bristling lane from New
York to San Francisco.
COUZENS ASKS FOR
INVESTIGATION REVENUE
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—Senator
Couzens today offered a resolution
calling for an investigation of the Bu
; icau oi internal revenue, wmen nan
cies all Federal tax matters. The
resolution passed the Senate and a
committee will begin functioning to
day, with Senator Watson as chair
man.
Automatic Device Takes
Care of Farmers Chickens
MT. VERNON, Wn„ Mar. 13.—A
Skagit county fanner has perfected a
device by which his chickens are awa
kened by an alarm clock, arise by elec
tric lights and are fed with exacting
regularly by an iron hand that scat
ters a choice breakfast with beautiful
regularity without any waiting for
the fanner to get out of bed.
The contrivance consists of an alarm
clock at the top of a wooden framed
machine, four feet high, with a uten
sil for grain or feed forming the
top and so arranged that the clock
sounds automatically at the hour for
which it is set, the alarm turning on
electric lights to which the contriv
ance is connected, and five minutes
later an automatic hand scatters grain
throwing it over a circle twenty feet
in diameter.
BIT! WILL SHIFT
HER IUVIL BASE TO
MEDITEHilEI
LON F ON, Mar. 13.—Admiralty offi
cial.' admitted today that plans are
on foot to shift the British naval base
from tne North Sea to the Mediterra
nean, keeping the bulk of their fight
ing forces there. It is pointed out that
| the Mediterranean has become the cen
ter of British trade and therefore a
| strategic point. No offense to nations
j bordering on the Mediterranean is in
tended, the plan being merely to po
lice a waterway so vital to British
1 trade.
i it is planned to maintain eight bat
tleships. eleven light emtsers, and Sd
(destroyers and auxi’iaiies in Mediter
anian waters.
1 In repiyii g to Italy’s demands for
an explanation. Britain says its rea
sons are (one) the prcocsed union of
Latin States headed by Italy and for
I commercial supremacy in the Medit
erranean; (tv.o), France’s anxiety for
supremacy on the Mediterranean;
(three) Turkey’s ambitions for expan
sion in the Mediterranean, and (four)
political unrest in Greece.
I
ST. PAUL, Mar. 1C.—A meeting of
the Farmer-Labor party has been call
ed in this city for June 17, for the
purpose of nominating a President and
Vice-President, and to adopt a Na
tional platform for a third party.
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin is
probably the choice for the presiden
tial nomination.
NEW YORK, Mar. 13.—The British
steamship Oduna was seized at her
pier this afternoon on an order from
the Treasury department. A large
quantity of morphine and whisky was
found aboard. Eight members of the
crew were held.
PARIS, Mar. 13.—Premier Foincare
will no1 accept the Senate revision of
the iiseui law. this means that either
Poincare will resign or the Senate will
back down.
ABOLISHMENT OF OFFICE
DECLARED II SACRILEGE'
TEEIFTE, Switzerland, Mar. 13.—
Abdul Medijid, the deposed Turkish ^
caliph, has issued a call to all Mos- ]
lems to determine what should be
done regarding the caliphate in view 1
of his exile. He attacked the abolish- ;
ment of his office as sacrilegious and j
void. ,
TWO NEW CI1I1LS :
WILL BE ELEVATED I
ROME, Mar. 13.—A public consis
tory has been announced for March 27,
at which Archbishop Hayes of New
York and Archbishop Mundelein of
Chicago are to be elevated to a cardi
nalate. The ceremony will be held in
the basilica of St. Peters for the first
time irt the history of the church.
ACTION TO ill. ■
TALL'S OIL LEASTS
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ENNE, Alar. ITT.—CTuug ng
fraud., conspiracy and illegality, the
government filed suit today to cancJ
tne Teapo Dome lease and o' cot
tracts. The g ivermr.c. ' special coun
sel petition the United States Diict
Court to do three ihl.<_* s• issue
an injunction stopping oii production,
appoi. t a receiver to • kc c.targe of
the property, and enter a fi.n^i . ecree
cancel ng ihe leases and contracts and
returning the .properties D t..c g.»v
ernmei■ and enforcing an accounting.
Temporary Injunction Granted
CHEYENNE, Alar. j.‘T.— Federal
Judge Kennedy today granted a tem
porary injunction forbiuuicg furtner
levelopmcnt work by the Aiammotn
Oii Comp any on the Teapot Dome on
reserve. Kennedy named Rear Admi
ral Si,auss of the Navy, and A. E.
Watts, vice president of the Sinclair
Corn-oii da ted Oil Company as joint re
ceivers 'rr the Teapot Dome property
pending the final outcome of litiga
tion.
Young Woman Admits
She Murdered Matron
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Mar. 13.—
Gladys Ellis, alias Katherine Rodgers,
23, confessed today that she killed
Miss Louise Richards, 70, teacher and
matron at the Indiana woman’s prison
here as a preliminary to her escape,
from the institution. Miss Richard’s
skull was fractured by a blow on the
head.
The young woman was taken into
custody by detectives as she stepped
from a taxicab at a downtown corner,
where she had an engagement to meet
a young- man.
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—Leading
a renewed attack on Attorney General
Daugherty today, Senator Borah, re
publican, Idaho, declared he was will
ing to help lay the 1 umiation for im
peachment proceedings to get Daugh
erty out of the cabinet.
xiic iuanu acnaiui & w cts niciuti
luring r, general debate in which the
position t ieeii by Republican Senate
leaders, who have demanded Mr.
Daugherty’s immediate retirement,
vas defended by Democrats who de
clared that Republicans are only try
ng to confuse the issue.
“Mr. Dougherty should retire for
;he public good. There are times when
i man must make personal sacrifices
md the situation now calls for a man
it the head of the department of un
>eccable ability, and holding the pub
ic confidence.
“I look upon the department of jus
ice as vi.e key to the whole siiuatioi:
is it now lies. It must be apparent
hat legal proceedings must be had not
»nly for recovery of property but for
he punishment of guilty persons, not
mly in the oil lease cases but in those
■elating to the veterans bureau, alien
iroperty and other matters. It’s a
natter of public duty to try to get at
he head of the department for the
landling of these matters a man who
s not tained with graft.
INVESTIGATION SHIPPING BOARD
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 13—
rhe House has authorized a sweeping
Investigation of the U. S. Shipping
Board by a comimttee of four Republi
cans and three Democrats to be named
by Speaker Gillett.