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THE
EMPIRE
» "ALL THE NEWs ALL THE TIMET’
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VOL XXV., NO. 3714.
JUNEAU. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1924.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRICE TEN CENTS
KING OF
PACIFIC COAST
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TRADE
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UNDER
ARREST,
SEATTLE
INDICTMENT OF
i NEWSPAPERS IS
BEING SOUGHT
Publication of Income Tax
Returns Taken Up by
U. S. Government.
WlA-S 111 NOTON, Nov. in Atlor
r-v General Stone has rent instrue
tlcne to “fix or seven" Gavi'mitiont
attorneys t > make presentations to;
i.rand jurii inking indictment of
that number of newspapers for the;
publication of income tax returns.
Tbi' Attorney General declined In
n it me I he m wspapers but raid he
expected al Icarl one soil would be
1:1 1 wit bin a few days. ’
JUNEAU BRINGS TEST CASE.
WASHINGTON, Nov. ID. Will
i: m .1. .In ii can. taxpayer of Mil
waukee County, Wise nnin, has
bronchi tlie first test i;ee befor"
the Sim remi Court regarding Cue
< ii-liliuiionality of the laws author
izing public income tax returns. In
1C' i-uit. Juneau seeks interpret a
ti.n of the Stale publicity law re-,
Intin;; to returns. The <i< cision is
r'licffl to have direct bearing m
the validity of Urn Federal statutes.
American Citizen Shot
And Killed in Mexico
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. Paul
-Met-. American citizen, employed by
ttie Pfiiolos Minin.tr Company. wits,
shot and killed list Sunday at Guan-'
cc vl according to reports receive I
here from f’on: ul M-cEnolly, It i
reported the assassin escaped.
Military Authorities in
China Form Government
WASHINGTON. Nov. 19.—■Consul
CeniT. I Hi.intzieman. at llankov.
It. s cabled the Slate Department
that military authorities in the
K i rtze-Kieiia and Yellow River
Provinces have formed a militarv
Rove unent as an "emergency meas
ure t uphold the constitution.”
Order Mobolization to
Check Armed Refugees
som, Nov 19. Mobilization of
tlie ini ulutio.) of all males over
IS years o-f pgo, along the Jugo-j
filavln a frontier, has been ordered!
in an effort to cheek armed in
cursloir) from Bulgarin of political
refuge s who have been living in
Serbian territoiy.
Mill Worker Electrocuted
Attempting to Remove Wire
BLBWNGHAM. Nov. M John
K. Brown,' aged a mill \v< rker. |
was electrocuted when lie atU-met
ed to t.ii.h aside an epi-liie in, - j
Inoke'i by a heavy gale last night.
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Two Bandits Escape in
Hail of Shot; Pursued
TACOMA, "'ash., Nov. 19. Two
bandits robbed I be State Bunk ol'j
Orling, nearby, of J Hie Jute yes-,
terduy afu rroon and escaped in
a iiail of sltol with a posse in pur
suit.
Wife of Member of Dial
Is Fatally Shot Today!
BELFAST. Nov. 19— Mrs. Cano!
Figgis, whose husband is a mem-,
ber of the Bail, was fatally shot'
ttiis afternoon at Rathfarnham. >nt-|
side of Dublin, according to police;
reports.
believesIfe
TOOK OWN LIFE
COLILUBL'8. Nov 19.—Rev. O. V. ■
Slicafley. who refused after <iuc«-|
tinning- yesterday to admit thnt Ills’
wire suicided by crawling into t'.io1
furnace in the residence and shut-;
ting the door, today told tlie prose-!
cv.toi- he had changed his mind and
r> illy believed sbo did.
Ashe-* of hi* wife’s body were
found in the furnace and a coron
er’s jury returned a verdict of
suicide,,
FIRST AND SECOND LADIES OF THE LAND.
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HRS’. CAW*>* COOjlDGB <$ KKS* CG ,DAWE^‘
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A wive arc shown the Kim and Second Ladies or the Land. .Mrs.
Cal\ in Coolidge and Mrs. Charles Catos Dawes, posed logtthoi when
Mrs. Dawes paid a recent visit to Washington.
PRIMATE OF
IRELAND DIES
VERY SUDDENLY
Cardinal Michael Logue Pass
es Away at Home—Public
Not Warned of Illness.
BELFAST, Nov, 19. Cardinal
Michael Logue, Primate of all Ire
land. died today at his residence
Aril C.'oeli in Armagh, without the
public having received any intima
tion that Jic was ill.
Cardinal Michael Joigue. yen, raids
Archbishop of Armagh and Primate
of All Ireland, “the successor of Hi.
Patrick." strove for Irish tranquil
ity and peace. The guerrilla tactics
i f .S1nii Fein symiKithi/.crs and the
reprisals of the Black and Tans fill
ed 11 i in with horror and evoked
strong pastoral letters denouncing
the crimes which, in 1920. Iirougui
Ireland to the verge of civil war.
Exhorting the people lo prayer
and to avoid all associations leading
to crime and (lisa ter, the Cardinal
in November of lh.it year charged
Unit “the activities of the British
military authorities arc being car
ried into districts which hitherto
havo been considered peaceful.” Me
concluded: "GiM help our country,
mn ning under llij: competition in
murder.’ The calamities in Ireland,
h< deelrred. wore greater than in
the m mory of any living man.
Visited United States.
Cardinal Ligue was physically
email, with grey hair, ruddy face
and blue evs and was vigorous and
omxgetle despite his eighty years
lie denounced I lie attempt on the
life el Viscount French, the Lord
lieutenant of Ireland, in 1919 and
said that the shooting <•" the police
war “i lain murder." When condi
tion? 'became critical he forbade
political meetings; later ho received
a warning threatening his life.
The Cardinal paid a visit to the
United States in 1908. at tile time
i?f the centenary celebration of the
founding of the Roman Catholic
archdiocese of New York. He cole
hrat d pontifical mass in St. Pat
tick"? Cathedral in a $6,000 vest
ment and later was the guest of
Pro: idi nt Roosevelt whom he great
ly admired. Before, returning home
he placed a wreath on the tpmb of
Washington at Mt. Vernon. Ho also
met Andrew Carnegie and John D.
Rockefeller and In a public state
ment praised them for their phil
anthropies.
At the outbreak of the World
War. Cardinal Jxigue said Irishmen
would “stand by England” but later
blamed the Government for the po
(Continued on rage Six.) i
CAP! BARTLETT
PLANNING TOUR
ACROSS ARCTIC
NfciW YOHK. N'o\ IP. (‘apt.
Robert A. ilartlett today -aid In
loped to s(.:n next spring on a
three ye..i journey, in a boat from
Some to Spiii.oiibergcn, across the
North T’oie with a crew of 10 men
uni two scientists. He aid tic
‘expedition will cost about t'HiO.IMKJ
ind I am making some progress
oward getting financial hacking.”
THOMAS HINCE
DIES SUDDENLY
HOI.I/YVV'OOI). N >v lb. Tliomi#
'I. Incc. on- of l Im lie t known
movie producers in Uie Cisite.l
Slater, (lied ! nddenly of hear)
ronblo in one of Ills studios lierc
tlii forenoon.
Union Coal Concern Is
Censured by Amer. Labor
KL PASO. Texas. Nov lb. Oif
'ercnce; between i lie Cniled Mine
Workers and the Coal River Col
leries, owned by l lie Brotherhood of
D womollvo Engineer: . was l.briu;'
into III*' American I’cderal ion of
Lalior convention here tart nigiit
by the introduction of a. censure
naming the engineers' organization.
Foibles of Men Are
Denounced, Convention
CHICAGO. Nov. lb. Hot towels,
el >se shaving and labial massage#
were denounced at the convention
if the Master Barbers last night 1»
Henry Wever, editor of the official
brgan of the Association.
Law for Son to Support
Parents Upheld by Court
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Nov. lb.
The Indiana Supreme Court today
upheld the law ompeling Barnard
Lundy, stone cutter, to support his
parents if they are dependent and
if lie is financially able to do so.
A. P. MAN IS DEAD
SALT LAKE CITY, llah, Nov.
19.—Ambrose M. McKay, GG years.
General Manager of the Salt Lake
Tribune and First Vice-President of
the Associated Press, died last night
BIG MOONSHINE I
CACHE SEIZED
AT ANCHORAGE
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White Mule Valued at $20,
000 Is Found as Result
of Raid by Officers.
ANCIlOllAflK, Nov 11t. The 5
largest cache of white mule ever j
grabbed in Alt ska v, ,i „< Izeil Mon
day night by men from the 1 s.,
Marsh ,1's office, pi ihihilion agents
and the City Chi f of Police. Af
ter digging in tho ha ment of tliei
Chickaloon l’ool I lull for seven/
hours, llm raider* heated five bar-1
tels of moonshirn eontaiuiiig 521
gallon' each. Clinton Malehorn, |
proprietor of the pmd hall wit
arrested and freed on $2,000 hail.,
Tite moor.shino Is valued at $20.
otin. Somebody tipped the officers]
off and tile raid followed.
SHOT USED TO
STOP GIG LINER
Officers Board President
Grant and Make Search
for Narcotics.
SEATTLE, N'liv. HI. \1'U.- til
, s.-um ship Pi’fe Tdgiit Grant i Hi ■ I
to* slop at :r sitf/Vi from tin- eutti',
Snohomish. the cutter find . shell
lust night across the bow if ■ li-; |
big liner.
The Iusident Grant air to ;■
stop a;u! otliters hoarded th • ship i
ii’ul Rfarli.l fi> u limit for n.ireidies.
The 1 i.i • • .leu proceeded wh.'e tin
Snohomish kept in the rcu. ml
played a seaichligllt or. the water;
to p>- veil! .lulling of the c..tttra
bund ov.. I'u'nrd.
Supposed Higber-up in
Liquor Smuggling, Gives Up
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SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. lit. ,
Max Kipslein, supposed director of ,
tlic Exportation Corporation of licit- i
ish Cclumhia. bus snrrenil red here
following his imlictinenl churgin'g
conspiracy to violate the liquor law
iu corni-idle,i with operations of tin-; )
suspected rum steamer Quadra ;
Which was seized off the Furnlloiie! ;
Island : intently.
Pneumonia Plague Cases j
Now Reach Total of 39
|,l)S ANGKM'IS, Nov, lit. New I
puigue wises from lie pneumonic
epidemic brings the lolul to I!!*-!
Nn deaths nave occurred since,
November 11
REV. R. T. CLOSE DEAD
TWIN’SIlliKb. col.. Nov. 19. Itev.j]
It. T .Cross. ,.g. d .SI) years, oldest j
survivor ot tm- Qberlin Academy)
faculty who in 1S70 discovered the
t'avo of tile Winds near Muuitoti.
died here lust night,. lie was nn j
expert on mineralogy and was the.,
author of several books. (
STURDY MOUNTAIN CLIMBER j!
FINDS AGE NO BARRIER \
I,OS ANGKM.S, Nov. 19. -Ceic- 1
i,riling lii; sixty Mirth birthday by
(climbing the Grand Tclon in the!
raitigo forming 'he west ride of
.1 i.ekson's Hole. near Yellowstone.
National I’.irk. William O. Owen.!1
ITesii'cnt of the Wyoming Statu j [
Society of Los Angelos, found on the
••.oniniit the records tie left there 1
20 years ago when, he says, he was
(the first climber to scale the peak.
; Owen made his first ascent after
iroven unsiicceesful attempts, a feat <
iwhich won him rocognlion from the 1
lain don Alpine Club.
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Slight Earth
Tremor Reported v
From Kodiak
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| Weather Mali it. C. Mize
| receivi d a report this morning
from Kodiak that at 7:51
| o’clock last night a light blit
j distinct earth tremor was
j felt. Tlie tremor lasted for !
! eleven seconds.
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i'ikst Woman in Illinois senate.
FLORENCE FIFE St- DOHREI^
Mis Humic. I'.lVi Uohrer, ot Bloomington, 111., the strikingly beau
lilul ihinghti r ot the late tlu.i rnur ".In Him, running on Uu Republican
lickei. hue been fleered to the lllymis Slute Senate, umj ^vir be the ttnl
woiin.li to ell in lliat body '
BOMBS THROWN
HIGH MILITARY
OFFICER, EGYPT
OAII’.O, Nov. If). Two Ijo'.'ibs w ■.-o
thrown this morning liy a ga r;
of tlm '• or j nr mini at th. auto
mo!)ll > contulu'ng Major tl’n-.oral Kir
Lee Ktiuk. Slid i of th ■ Egyptian
Army. One oi th bombs exploded.
Several shot - v,. , also tin il ami
Slat k is in a cltleal i onditlon from
the shock and e wound In the stom
ach. The chunffelir of the ear and
a pollee offle*T were also wounded.
The bt nib tin nver i oseape I.
FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLAR PRIZE
BEING OFFERED
Most Original I realise on
i “Theory of Wages” Will
Win Large Sum.
ClirAdO, Nov 111. A P iz ol
$5,00U for the heat original treatise
on “The Theory of Wages" has
been •uinouncci! by I’rof. .1. I.aur
ance Luughlln of tin l otversily of
Chicugo, ehairmau of a committee
on - economic prize ;.
To gin iin h slant ; tline for tlie
necessary re.osren, ilia committee
will receive eeuti ilmfiou until Oct.
1, 1026. Tin award will he an
nounced us s .oil after that dale as
possible. The prize is to lm paid
hy Hurt Seim uer f. Marx, at tlm
i invitutioti of the committee.
I’rof. Laugh'in's aunmini i nient In
j traduced tin cont .it m- the possible
forerunner of ail animal p: Ize for
distinguished oik In the field of
economic:-.
The eontesf is to le unuoiun ed
i in Europe as well us in this toini
i try. Foreign economies may com
| pete, ’In i om.nitlei. said, provided
! their manuscripts are In English.
Any point of vie .v may le taken,
land any phas of th ■ wage problem
i may be discussed. Ownership of tin
j copyright of the winning treutlm
j is to vest In the doaoi who will
j arrange for publication of the bosk
j the announcement said.
I Prof. Laughlin's associate* on tin
j committee ar • I’rof. John Hut. -
! Clark of Columbia 1'uiversity; 1);
! Edwin F. Cay of Harvard Culver
.city; Congressman Theodore E. Bur
| ton. and I’rol. Wesley (.'. Mitch 1
[of Columbia University.
STATE INTRUSION
WILL BE FOUGHT
BT AMER. LABOR
Executive Council of Ameri
can Federation Makes
Important Report.
>-L i’ASO. Tex , Nov. 11*. * Indus
try must solve iis own iirobtcnis 01
face the alternative of stall in
trusion. the American Federation
of Labor's Fxociitlve Council re
'porutod to Iho organ I/. Ml Ion’s an
nual convenllun b re. State In
trusion, II added, "must Inevitably
load lo bureaueraey and break
down."
"Industry must find its own way
through the difficulties with which
lit Is bes"lsaid the report "Thete
!s no magic wand with which lmr
riors may lie waved aside. There
lb no outside agency, governmental
or otherwise, whhleh may he called
in as physician to cut away the
onl aiigiemcnlK. Ucmoeraey caiinol
; come in Industry through tin state.’
Hamm I O-omper.-. President o
.Mm Federation and ten other mem
hers of the committee signed tin
report, which dealt with aetivitle:
. spreading over tb geographical fleli
of lid ciidin id. including Mexico
Canada, and the 1'ana mu Cana
Zoti", as well as the United States
ami with objectives in political anil
social spheres as wo II ns In In
1 dust rv.
"Wo must point mil," it continued
“and we wish to emphasize tin
point beyond mistake the road t<
democracy in indu try is not a rosi-1
that labor can travel alone. Democ
1 racy in Industry Implies and involves
the part iol|i*t ion of every useful
i element in industry. While then
are lnrg • groups ol employers that
'mill hold‘the despotic attitude which
, denies to lnli.it even Its most ele
! mental and fundamental rights, pro
I gres toward democracy is being
mad" While there are groups ol
employers that still refuse to ree
! ognize tb - right of wage earners
| to organize freely and to be repre
! sented by men of their own choos
ing. progress toward democratic
practice still lontluues."
Goes On Record
| In consideration, of national po
liiiial effort to which the federa
tton has committed itself, the re
part placed first the submission bj
Coocre-s to the States of the Con
i stitutloual amendment emoowerini
federal regulation of child labor
,at.d notified its constituent mem
he rah Ip of unions that It would stll
| (Continued on I’Rge Two.)
ROY OLMSTEAD
I RE-ARRESTED
NEW CHARGES
Ihree Others Are Again Tak
en Into Custody—Ille^
ally in Country.
OLMSTED MARRIES GIRL
HIRED TO SPY UPON HIM
Sensational Developments Re
sult Following Raid Last
Monday Night.
SBATYLK, Nov. 1b • four of ov
a score arrow Led in a raid by pro
liibition office ra last Monday night
| at. the palatial residence of ltoy
' Olms'uid, former Lieutenant. • r l\>.
I lice, in the Maaivt Maker Park iii
trict, were again taken tutu cm-t..dy
late yesterday for investigation as
to their right to be in I lri njiia
try.
Dick Uenneti. mi J Herbert Fb Mr
er, former members of the C’anad
ian Northwest Mounted I'olii • and
I William J. Symonds, are deeiarcil to
| have cut. red the country illegally
I from ('amnia.
The rost-Intelligenei r today pub
■ lisheil tho following descriptions,
j crecdlting them to William M. Whit
piey. Assistant Fedora! Prohibit, km
Director tor jt.e Sir e o, W.i-uin ;
j ton :
i ‘‘Olmstead, King of the Pacific
I Coast rum trade, inti rested in »mi
| ern freighters, a Canadian cum crtt
I exporting liquor; Olmslead is own
j er of smuggling vessels and director
j general of the most extensive liquor
traffic in tlir Northwest.
Dick Mennelt is t»i> ■' Iticiinnl
Klimt and is a itookkeepet for (tint
stead.
| Mrs. OlmstSud was formerly Klsie
i Caroline Paiclie, ami i all -d also
Vivian I’ortor aud Klsie Campbell,
Mirotulrastu at Station KFO in the
Olmstead maesion
i Inv estiguto. s said Utls woman
] aided the Federal officials to try
land get. evidence on Olimdemi but
l Olmstead foiled the gam1 ny mm
i rying her last August when the
I Ulvorc" of hit former wile became
! effective.
‘ GRANDSTAND PTAY. "
SKATTUC, Nov, I ■» M ,m
Brown ibis afternoon <1* nouneiil Hi
! raid on Hoy Olimdt nil's i in-.on :• id
I said:
‘‘I'd call it a ■ r.ind. .■ ml play.
ITltc offhera eotild raid my hottsu
in tin’ same way. l iquor ni l bo
'(•cured tiy !• lophoning ;i l.iooHc •
who would bring it"
Policemen Who Assaulted
Dancers Under Indictment
ClllCAtiO. Nov. Hi V true toil'
, lias been reported p turn'd against
; two itolicotnen for an alleged as
sault upon Hosettu and Vui.tu Hull
call, well known ini' uiliunal dan
cers.
DOREMUS ARRESTED AT
KETCHIKAN;SENT HERE
i II. M. Do. omits, said to he a
| resident of It lliug!... .a. .1 . brought
| lu re ye.tortlay from K-t. bikan,
where he was arrested recently on
\ 1 local wurrart (barging .■mhezrle
■ meht by bull . lb wm arraigned
I before .litdg' V A. I’aine yes.’cr
1 lay ufternoou and his bond fixed
| it *5<Mt pending a preliminary ex
j aniination.
Dor inns is said to have brought
1 boat to Petersburg last Spring
i for a 'lirimp rucking company there
and to have worked for that eon- *
. corn a short time. Later he cat.v
here and w s employed by the
Bureau of Fisheries as .1 sip am
watchman, remaining theie until
i September 1 It is understood h>*
i was employ, d on the mine tender
rhlchugof for sometime afterward.
I He left hero recently on the Motor
! ship Oregon fr. tii" - 'util ami -was
1 arrested at Ketchikan .than th-it
o vessel arrived there.
Dorentic, is cliarged with making
•away with a phonograph owned hv
| George Andetson of Anderson's
Music Store.