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THE ALASKA : >AILY EMPIRE imV ■«///» T‘ ^ P "ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. XXIV., NO. 3632. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1924. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ~ PRICE TEN CENTS i t MW CONFESSES SLAYING WOMAN POLICE ASSERT Former Welterweight Cham pion, Long in Public Eye, Alleged Murderer. BULLETIN—LOS ANGELES. Au§. 14. — Kid McCoy confessed to the murdir of Mrs. Mors to his sister shoiilv aft.r 1hr shooting, Assistant Cap'ain of Detectives Herman Cline announced this forenoon. McCoy },od told the police Mrs. Mors sui cided. CLAIMS SUICIDE. LOS ANGLES, Aug. 14.—Norman Selby, known In fistic circles as Kid M-OCioy, held for the murder of Mrs. Tinresa Mors, told the de tectives lart night the woman com mitted suicide and evidence found tended to corroborate the state ment. Officers said, however, the bullet found in her head, from a .32 cali bre revolver was fired from a wea pon of the type found nearby Mc Coy in a hold-up of a brokerage office 4n .the residential district which Is Faid to have wounded two men. The woman carried a .45 said the officers. INSANITY TO BE PLEA. LOS ANGLES; Aug. 3. —Friends of McCoy said he will make a plea of insanity. McCoy declared he was ctazetl with grief and drink. McCoy, almost simulanoously with i he finding of the body of Mrs. Mor?. was discovered in the West I alte resldental shopping district and ti a cl invaded Mors antique shop. With a revolver in his hand, he It eld up the attendants and patrons and wounded W. G. Ross, a chance arrival. He went next door and slllghtly wounded Sam Schepp and his wife who had sought to reconcile Mors and ihis wife. Mcllfty was captured running across the IWest Lake Park. He spike incoherently but appeared dap per and confident today. The desk sergeant said today that at 3 o’clock yesterday morning, shortly after Mrs. Mors death, Mc Coy appeared at thellollywood Po lice Station and asked to see Patrol man Puirsinger who had been call ed to a dinner party where Mors was present. Mrs. Mors and McCoy had gone to the party uninvited. Informed that PtUsslnger was out, McCoy said; “He will consider hlm f If lucky when the reads the morn ing papers.” The police claim Mrs. Mors was tContinued on rage Berea.i * UNITED STATES SHIPS MUST BE j KEPT UPON SEAS Special House Committee Re turns from European Trip —To Give Policy. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—Members of the Special House Committee in vestigating the -Shipping Board have returned from an European inspec tion tour and are convinced that eithe.r a permanent shipping policy must be adopted or the Board must withdraw the vessels from the seas Immediately. Representative Davis said the whole organization is handicapped as the Europ-sn idea is what the United States ships are In the ser vice only temporarily. It is said the committee will rec ommend a policy to maintain the marine lines permanently. Tariff hetoi 1922 For Liquor Violators WASHINGTON. Aug. 14—Attor ney General Stonp hae sent instruc tions to United States District At torneys of the coast and border points to employ the tariff act of 1922 In prosecuting liquor smug gling cases. Section 593 provides for penalties of imprisonment and fines at 15.000. .. ■-« I t ! One Leg Lost! Owner Wants to i Find It j • - i | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 14. | —Waiter A. Nolan has asked i radlocawters to help him find I 3 wooden leg he left in Oak land as security for a hoard bill for $14, a year ago. When | he got the money he could j not find the landlady. He val ued his leg at $150. I_ —_ij DEMOCRATS IN SO. CAROLINA TO GO STRONG Will Select Complete Ticket on August 26—Contest for U. S. Senator. COLUMBIA, S. C„ Aug. 14.—With nomination by the Democratic Party in this State equivalent to election, South Carolina Democrats will go to the polls August 26 to choose a com plete ticket, from United States Sen ator down through the smallest county offices. Principal public Interest Is held by the contes; for nomination as United States Senator. Senator N. j B. Dial, of Laurene, who Is complet ing his first lerni and is seeking re-election, has three opponents. Con gressman James F. firynes, of Aik en, who was elected to the 62nd and each succeeding Congress, is one of them. Former Governor Cole L.! BleaBe, a storm center of South Carolina polities for more than a dozen years, is another, and the third is John J. McMahan,. former I State Superintendent of Education, and now Stair Insurance Commis sioner. Governor Thomas G. McLeod, serving his flist term, Is opposed by John T. Duncan, a Columbia law yer, who has offered for the office l at various times for the last 20 years. Lieutenant Governor Edmund B. Jackson, of Wagoner, is unop posed for re-e'.ectlon. The race for Congress will be run In five dis tricts. Japanese Editor Suggests Pact Against The Anglo-Saxons TOKIO, Aug 14.—That “the three orphans of the world,” Japan. Ger many and Rmsla. must unite for ^helr common protection against An glo-Saxon domination Is the gist of an editorial appearing In the Yomi uri Shimbun, formerly a liberal Jour nal but now cne of the organs of the nationalistic elements. “In International politics.” said the Yomulurl. “there are three orphans In the world. Germany, Japan and Russia. Now .hey are isolated from each other, but the time may come when changing poltical conditions will require them to unite. It Is likely that at some time an alliance, or relations approximating an al liance, will be affected between Ja pan and Russia. When the orphans are united it will strike consterna tion to the soul of Anglo-Saxomlom ” ARMY OF JAPAN BE REORGANIZED TOKilO, Aug. 14.—The Council of Marshals of the War Office today officially approved of the general outline of the army reorganization scheme calling for abolition of four divisions and the removal cf an other from Japan to Korea. Funds saved -will be expended in expan sion of the army aviation and pur chase of modern weapons. Prohibition Agents Raid Resort, Make Big Seizure SA8 FRANCISCO. Aug. 14.—Pro hibition agents raided a resort on 8a If.da Beach, ten ml ice south of here last night and confiscated li quor valued at $75,000. Jack Morer, proprietor, was arrested. 1 GOOLIDGE TO BE NOTIFIED THIS EVENING President Expected to Sound Keynote of Republican Campaign. WASHINGTON. Aug. 1-4,—Ready to! launch the political campaign Re-, publican leaders from every section ' of Hie country are gathered here! to hear President Cooiidge's views j in his acceptance speech tonight 1 at 8 o'clock. Tile notification committee tonight , is headed by Prank \V. Mondell, permanent chairman of the National j Convention at Cleveland who will • make the notification address. Presl i dent Coolidge, in Ills response, will j sound the keynote of the National campaign from the Republican stand- ■ point. The Continental Memorial Hall j where the notification ceremonies 1 will be held seats less than 2.000, but tlie whole proceedings will he ! broadcasted by radio over the entire country. Desire to have the cere monies broadcasted led to the de cision to hold litem indoors and at night. ^ | 1 . Ti | Oregon Trail Blazer { Forsakes Ox Team For Airplane • - I OLYMPIA, Aug. 14. Ezra ' | Meektr. Oregon trail blazer, | forsook Ills ox team for the | airplane aud flew from Seattle | to Rochester. Thurston County, j to attend the Pioneers annual 1 banquet. m—-----■( DISAPPEARANCE OF PAYMASTER TO BE PROBED SEATTLE. Aug. 14.—An Inquiry into the disappearance of Lieut. I/ester B. Karalle, Navy paymaster at Bremerton, has been reopened by orders of Secretary Wilbur. Karalle disappeared several j months ago. He and his wife left Bremerton and separated at Port land. She went East to Chicago andj later returned here and secured a divorce. She stated when she and] her husband left for Portland she did not know he was absconding. Karalle has not been heard from since parting from his wife in Portland. huntingTarty COMING NORTH SEATTLE, Aug. 14— C. Arthur Foss, with Interests in Tacoma and Seattle, with a party of friends has left in the combination tug-yacht Foss No. 19, oil a three week's hunt ing trip in Southeastern Alaska The party will go as far as Skag way. Homer Otto, of Denver, big game hunter, is a member of the party. Mate Legally Dead, Wife Gets Insurance PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 14.—Charles H. Tabler. missing nearly 14 years, is legally dead today. Records show Tabler deserted his wife at Port Moody, B. C., October 10, 1910. His death has never been established. But if he Is alive the fact has escaped Investigators for the Woodmen of the World, in which fraternal order he held in surance. Circuit Judge Rossman, In decid ing the case of Mrs. Clara E. Tatt ler against the insurance society, formally declared the man dead and ordered the W. O. W. to pay the 11,000 Insurance her husband held, together with costa of the court ac tion. _ t WILL SHE BE AMERICA’S FIRST WOMAN GOVERNOR? § -- — .— — - mmmmmumm* 1 * * Mr-s Geo Mdllg , Mrs Menem (W^uson Miss 0.Ra%feb,y tore. Mariam A. Ferguson, of Temple, Teias, wife of ex Governor James Ferguson, shown here with h«r two daw tere, may be the first woman Governor in the United States. Her husband was impeached and drlvei frim office as Governor, and she ran In the initial primaries this year to vindicate his name. She ran recall, and under the Texas laws the two leading candidates are the only candidates in the run off of the primaries. Ex-Governor Ferguson, who managed his wife's campaign, Is leading the fight to se cure the election for her. WORLD FLIERS MAY HOP OFF ON TOMORROW REYKJAVIK. A UK- 14. - The United States army globe fliers will hop off for Greenland tomorrow if the weather permits. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The do stroyeres Harry and Coe lxl an have left for positions off Greenland to aid the fliers in the Atlantic flight. REYKJAVIK. Aug. 14—The U. S. S. Raleigh, off the coast of Green land, wirelessed (this afternoon re ports that half a gale was raging and the barometer was falling. millMneed AID IN CHINA WASHINGTON. Aug. 14.—United States Minister Srhurman has re ported to the State Department that figures show the China International Relief Commission needs 20,000,000 in Mexican dollars to aid the flood sufferers which is estimated to be 10,000,000 Chinese, caused by the floods. PEKING, Aug. 14. The Interna tional Famine Relief Committee es tlmates that d' aths in the floods at 13,000 with 15,000,000 people affect ed In the provinces of Honan, Chihli, Kiangsl Fukien. Kwentung, Shan tung, Solian and Hupeh. Mexico and Russia Resume Relations MOSCOW, Aug. 14—Full diplo matic relations between Mexico and Russia have been resumed. Repre sentative* of both countries have made this announcement in Berlin. I a- a Track Sweeper Comes Into $30,000 Fortune i - i PORTLAND, Ore., Auk. 14. ,1 Robert Moreland, employed , us a track sweeper in the j Soutlhern Pacific Yards, lias | been notified of his share of | $30,000 of a $200,000 estate j left him in Hot Springs, Ar kansas. ■-« GIRL WATCHES HER SWEETHEART SLAY HER RIVAL BBNXQ.M HARBOR, Mich. Aug. II Fliin-hi^: ,„yc£lnlry. 19. sweetheart of EhlilrZapke ci^uf esseil today she watched him kill her rival, flora May Ruber and then helped hide the body. Znpke. aeeording to the sheriff, confessed he killed Miss Baber, who was about to become a mother, when she refused to release him from their betrothal so he could marry Miss McKinney. Znpke confessed he lured the girl with a promise of marriage drove her into the country anil then choked her to death. GIHL IMPLICATED BENTON HARBOR. Ang 14 The Sheriff today said Florence McKin ney, who Is a decidedly pretty girl. Instigated the secret pact under which Znpke killed (’ora Raber. 1 Californian Acquitted Murder of Wife and Man LOS ANGELES. Aug 14.—Charles W. Dorris, of Long Beach, has been acquitted of two charges of murder In the recent shooting to death In his apartment of his wife ami Henry D. Meyker, of Pasadena. * *ri a GOING AFTER LA FOLLETTE BUFFALO. N\ Y, Aug. 14. Ail dressing a Republican ralljt, John H. Bartlett, assistant Postmaster f!en eral attacked La Follette and his followers and said: "La Follette Inay not he so wild a* some tire, I mean un-American, yet 1 regard it as profoundly sign! fieant they so quickly recognise one of their kind.” Girl Found Dead Is Not Suicide, But Murder Case V'AiNCOUVKU, B. ('.. Aug. 14. Janet Smith, found dead from u hullet v^ound several weeks ago in the laundry of F. Baker, wealthy resident, did not suicide but was' murdered, the police stated today, after an investigation at the r'-queet of Caledonian Societies. LEAGUE ASSEMBLY WILL HEAR SPEECHES BY THREE PREMIERS * ■ ! v ' GENEVA. Aug. It Kor the first j time In the history of the League ' of Nations the heads of the three great European powers will attend the assembly hero which opens Sep tember 1. Not only liavp Premiers MacDonald. Harriot and Mussolini announced thelt intention of coming, but it is expected all three will make important speeches. The les ser powers are - expected to send their fori ign ministers. • In view of the increased c.ollabo . ration of the United States, more : particularly with reference to opium and matters affecting the problem of reduction of armaments, the question is being asked at Geneva whether there is any llkllhood Of • At Ok Washington sending observers, either official or unofficial. It is believed In Geneva that dis armament will constitute the great subject of this year’s assembly de bate. As one Swiss newspaper put It, England's recent repudiation of the League of Nations’ provisional draft treaty of mutual assistance has resulted In the effectual burial of that treaty. It will be exhumed, undoubtedly, but only to serve as the basis of a general inquiry dedi cated to the finding of some more suitable arrangement for the redue tlpn of armaments. Question of 8oeurity Can security for Prance and Bel (OoatlBMti M PW ElTS.) NEW DANGER THREATENING PEACE PLANS ../v^» French and Germans Dead locked in London Confer ence on Evacuation. _____ lAJNDON. Aug. 14. —A deadlocK i between the French and Germane on the time limit for military evac I nation of the Ruhr is imperiling | fuccesH of the International Confer? i ■ nee. This was disclosed this atter noon after a hurried meeting of French, Belgian and German repre sentatives with Premiers at the Downing Street office. , Premier Her riot, after returning to his hotdl suid: "The Allies are with us and we are in complete control of the situaion." Chancellor Marx vlalted Premier tierrlot at the hotel, and 'United States Ambassador Kellogg and Janies A. Ixigan, jr., American rep resentative, rushed to the American Embassy and Joined Owen I), Voting. American expert, on the Dawes plan, for a consultation on complications arising. Tlie French insist on a year for evacuation with reductions only if special conditions warrant. The year is to begin with the signing of liie agreement in lxmdon. GERMANS WITH DELEGATES. HEREIN, Aug. 14.—The Cabinet after a hurried session, declared in accord with the German dele gates in Ixindon. HUGHES SEES NO ALARM. NEW VOHK. Aug. 14.—-Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes returned today after a visit of one month in Europe. He expressed belief that alii powers concerned will accept the Dawes report and it "will be put into effect very soon." Secretary Hughes Is of the opinion acceptance of the report does not hinge on tfie evacuation of the Ruhr region. Yakima Fruit Plant Burns; Incendarism Is Suspected YAKIMA, Wash., Aug 14 — The plant of the Pacific Produce Com pany burned to the ground last night, entailing a hate of 1150,000. The incendiary theory is being In vestigated. Tills Is the second larga flro here tills month. Literature Against Defense Day Seized CEDAR RAPIlfS. Aug. 14 The Postmaster today seized literature urging people to rebel against the order of President Ooolidge making September 12 "l>efense Day" and suggested using crepe instead of flags and observe the day aa ' Black. Friday.” hooveOpens CAL. CAMPAIGN LOS ANOBLEfi. Aug. 14 Secre tary of Commerce Herbert Hoover opening the national campaign in California last night said the people see success in the aspect of the mini! of Coolidge.