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THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE "ALL THE NEWS Alt, THE TIME" < — VOL. XXV., NO. 3776. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1923. . — — ■■ — — — in iii ■—I ^mm i, ,■ ^——wwi—n^—» a. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESC PRICE TEN CENTS * I v CONGRESSMEN CHARGED WITH LIQUOR TASTES Stayton Says if Abstainence Was Required One Week, Act Be Repealed. NEW YORK. F'eb. 3.—If the mem bers of Congress were compelled to abstain from intoxicants for one week .the Eighteenth Amendment would be repealed at the week's end, William H. Stayton, head of the Anti-I’rohibition Association, said last night at the Enlightenment Dinner in the Hotel Astor. Stayton declared that a group of wealthy men called on Coolidge and annointed him as a total abstainer and invited other government offi cials to take the pledge. "The polls are still open but not a single vote lias been cast," said Stayton. Stayton recommended "the auth orities try to enforce prohibition as it concerns f»30 members of con gress.” AMBASSADOR TO II. S. FROM ITALY NAMED MEN AND WOMEN IN NEWS SPOTLIGHT. KASSON 6IVES CREDIT TO DOG IN NOME RACE Leader Made Way Through Blizzard — Kasson Went Two Days Without Sleep NOME. Feb. 3.—Leompd Seppalf met the relay team from Fualaklil at Shaktolik, halfway between t tic foothills and Bonanza roadhouse After he made 40 miles, he turner around and retraced hte steps tc t'hinik or (iolofin, where T>ls*-n tool the serum to Bluff. Ounnar Kasson. with thirteen dogf of the Mammon Consolidated Cold Fields Company, waited two days without sleep at Bluff. Shortly af (Continued on Page Seven.) RESCUE WORKER REACHES MAN IN CAVE ;l$ INJURED Injured Man Moaning from Broken Leg — Pinned Down by Huge Stone. CAVE CITY. K.V., Feh. 3. — A rescue worker succeeded today in reaching Floyd Collins, who has been imprisoned in a cave with a broken leg since last Friday. Yes terday Collins’ brother offered $500 to any surgeon or physician who would cruwl through the small pas sageway and clioloroform him in order to amputate his leg. The rescue worker found Collins not lying down but nearly erect, like a person in a dentist's chair. A huge sandstone block fell and pinned Collins' foot when he straightened up for a squeeze through an eight inch passage. The passage has been cleared be side Collins as far as his knees, the debris having been removed [dece by piece through the 100 foot tunnel to the entrance. The cavern is declared as really u sinkhole and water is dripping incessantly. Col lins begged his rescuers not to leave him and groans whenever a slight hit of stone hits him. Police of Cairo Declare Cocaine Threatens Egypt MINE TENDER TO BE RUSHED TO NOME AREA; ’Swallow Is Ordered tt> Make 1 Reach' for Trip to Ice Pack, Bering Sea. SEATTLE. Eeb. 3. Commandant T. V. Chase, of the navy yard at Bremerton, has been ordered to out fit the mine tender Swallow for a voyage to die edge of the ice pack i In Bering Sett to aid in case of any I trouble occasioned by the airplane on the proposed fight with antitoxin for Nome. Dr. Magruder. of the Public Health j Service, expressed the opinion to |day that the frozen serum which (Continued on Page Seven, i ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE TO FLY TO NOME Darling and Mackie Are to Carry Antitoxin in Air plane from Nenana. ANCHOR urn, Fell. 5. Final ar rangements have been completed for Roy S Darling's flight to Nome. He has accepted Ralph T Mackie. of Ilie Canadian Royal Flying Service as mechanic, instead of Farnsworth. Darling lias decided to use a stand aril passenger biplane with 150 horse power, wing spreal of 25 feet, speed Of 75 miles ah hour and fuel capac ity of eighty gallons. The fliers arc prepared with pet (Continued on Cage Seven. I 1 _ ASK 80V. BONE TO AUTHORIZE PLANE FLIGHT Nome Board of Health Makes Request—Epidemic May Have Spread N’OMK, Feb. Members of the Nome Hoard of Health issued a statement today that it was almost inevitable the diphtheria epidemic has reached outlying districts and Nome, will be called upon for a supply of antitoxin. Tlie Hoard of Health has cabled to Oov. Scott C. Bone, at Juneau, ask ing Ills assistance to expediate an titoxin shipments by airplane and asked that the consignment from Sea ttle on the Alameda, be divided at Nenana of Fairbanks and that 10, 000,000 units be sent immediately by airplane as tlie present supply wiU lie exhausted by the time the air plane will reach Nome. Unless a dispatch of serum Is made by air plane. this section will be without any for 25 days perhaps, if the reg ular mail service Is depended upon. An official cable front Dr. Welch authorizes him to arrange with Oov. Hone and Health Officer Dr. H. C. Devlghne, of Junenu for antitoxin transportation. The Hoard has asked the Governor to authorize the trans portation by plane. The Nome radio station lias re ceived orders to continue service day and night starting last night. Or. Welch has used nearly 40,000 units of tlie antitoxin up to last night which arrived yesterday morning. One new cuse of diphtheria is reported when John, Jr., son of John Wlnthers, was stricken. APPEAL FROM NOME The appeal of the Nome Board of Health for authority to dispatch au airplane from Fairbanks tomorrow with 60,000 units of serum for dip* htheria patients Is apparently based on an impression that the shipment of 1,100,000 units made Saturday from Seattle has arrived at Nenaua, it was said at the Governor's office today. The appeal was received hy Gov. Rone early this morning. Tlie Nome board asked that the big shipment be split and 600,000 units be sent at once by aerial dis patch and 500,000 by regular mall teams. This shipment is aboard the Alameda which is due here this evening. The serum will reach Nenaua next Tuesduy. The Juneau serum shipment, comprising 300,000 units, arrived in Nenaua today and is being sent forward by regular mail. Whether or not the Seattle shipment will be sent forward by airplane probuhly will depend on the condition of the Nome epidemic when it arrives at Nenaua. Praise Given Wetzler. Gov. Bone praised highly the ef ficient manner in which Chief R. M. Clerk Wetzler, of N'euana, had hand lied arrangements for lie special dogteanis which yesterday Landed Lhc first serum supply in Nome. It is ‘said to have been largely a result of these preparations that the teams were able to make such excellent time. Mr. Wetzler, in a cablegram received by the Governor today, said he Had been informed by the Nome postmaster that the situation there was not considered dangerous. Mall from Nome is being disinfected by fumigation to prevent possible spread of Hie disease to other parts of the Territory. Danger Is Potential. A wire received last night by l>r. II. ('. DeVighne. Territorial Com missioner of Health, front Dr. Cur tis Welch at Nome, said the situ ation there was only "potentially dangerous." The new cases outside of families infected at the outbreak of theepidemic, he said, numbered only two. Dr. DeVighne has asked for full information as to the number of cases, whether white or Eskimo, pro gress, deaths and other data. This had not been received late today. PHOSPHATES PRODUCTION DOUBLED. CASABLANCA, Feb. 3.—Phos phates produced in French Morocco during 1924 exceeded 436.000 tons. This is more than twice the output >t 1923. . i (JIRL SLAYER ACCUSES MUSICIAN. e- m.i_^ <*.. .. • 2-TISS SPEARD TINS'tEE/g JACOB Ji- BAKTmNr '9*U>1; TStAtJClV JC SUTKMMT fj &ET7KRX/Y BvMrNE. Beverly Bayne, star of the screen, has startled Hollywood, Cal., motion picture people by the announcement that she and Francis 7. Bushman, movie star, have decided to part, and that divorce proceed ing* would follow. District Attorney Joab B. Banton has ordered criml- ! na) investigation into the baseball scandal in which Jimmy O’Couuel) j ?,?<V£»02y„D<,)h!'1 2f ll?e New York Giants, are said to have attempted to bribe Helnie band of Philadelphia to throw a close game in the pennant race. Ten hall players are sought as witnesses. Miss S. Pearl | .‘h-. . , reigneiJ °nly a short time ago as California's queen of .he swimming pool and dunce floor, has now returned to San Francisco is t full-fledged member of the bar, a doctor of jurisprudence NINE MEASURES URGED j FOR ACTION IN SENATE! WASHINGTON. Feb. 3 James D ■ Martina will succeed Prince Caetani as Italian ambassador to Washington when the latter retires early this month. It is understood the Italian For eign Office already has been assured of the acceptability of Mr. I)e Mar tino to the United States and that his official nomination will be issued without delay. Mr. De Martino, at present ambas sador to Tokio. has held many of the highest positions in the Italian dip lomatic service, which he entered in 1909. After serving in various ca pacities in Berlin, Constantinople and Berne he was appointed in 1913 sec retary-general at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the highest post in the service next to the minister. • He served in the post from 1913 to 1920, having a consplcious part in the shaping of Italian policy from the days preceding the World War through the Versailles peace con ference. He was appointed ambass ador to Berlin in 1920, to London in 1921, and finally to Tokio in 1923. --- Borah Asks About Debt Italy Owes United States WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Senator Borah, of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee, has asked Secre tary Mellon if Italy proposed any plan of settlement of its war debt to the ■ United States. - - Extravagant Wile Is Refused Alimony SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3—Wives who refuse to live with their hus bands and who live so extravagently that their husbands are forced into business reverses are not entitled to alimony. Judge Thomas F. Graham ruled when he told John Mathis that he would allow his wife, Jessie, now in New York City, not one cent. He granted the plea of Mathis for divorce upon the graunds of de sertion. ALASKA BILLS ARE PROPOSED WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. — Two bills have been introduced in Con gress by Delegate Sutherland. One bill is for an appropriation of $200, 000 for a new jail at Ketchikan and the other is for the establish ment of an aviation school at the Agricultural College and School of Mines at Fairbanks. Mexico Now Recognized As Sovereign Government WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. — Secre tary of State Hughes has issued the statement that Mexico is fully, recognized as "an independent sov-j ereign government." Authorized to Make Air Mail Contracts WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—President Coolidge has signed the bill to auth-j orize the Postmaster General to con-1 tract for carrying mail at a minimum postage rate of 10 cents per ounce I for first, class, four fifths of it to j be paid to the operator for the mail j carried. - ! ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Nine measures have been selected by ihe Republican Steering Comittee for action by the Senate before the March 4 adjournment. The German commercial treaty heads the list but legislative recommendations of the President's Agricultural Committee are omitted. The McLean bill, authorizing the Treasury to reduce the interest on rates of government loans to rail roads which the Commerce Commis sion regards necessary, is in second place. Other bills the Steering Committee recommended are: civil service re tirement measure; a bill enlarging naval reserves; McFadden bill, Hrookhart game refuge bill; gov ernmental department reorganization plan, French spoliation claims, and the Wadsworth resolution for a con stitutional amendment reciuiring act ion for changes in the organization law he taken only by those state legislatures elected after submission of the proposed amendment. NO SPECIAL SESSION WHITE HOUSE, Feb. 3—Since the refusal of the Republican Steer ing Committee to give his farm relief program priority. Coolidge accepts the decision and does not contemplate n' special session after March 4. ■ ♦ ♦ ♦ Tribute to Faithful Dog Carries Message of Love DARIEN, Wis., Feb. 3 —A bronze reproduction of a pet Scotch collie dog. Lassie, tops the monument placed by Charles II. Langs at the grave of his wife, Mrs. Jennie H Langs, in the little country ceme tery here. Beneath the recumbent figure of the dog is this inscription: “Be Kind to Animals.” Lassie, a blooded collie, died sev eral years before Mrs. Langs. The Langs devoted much of their time and part of their income to the care of animals and humane work. Mr. Langs explained that in placing the reproduction of Las sie at Mrs. Lungs’ grave he not only regarded it as a tribute to his wife’s memory, but believed it would be a lesson in the general subject of kindlineos to animals. Dorothy ISlIIngson, sixteen-year-old San Francisco gin, who eon fessed killing her mother when reproved for too many jazz parties, Is shown here before Judge Lazarus, swearing out a warrant for the ar i resi of Keith Lord, young jazz musician, whom she charged with con tributing to her delinqeacy. Lord, a native of Lynn, Mass., has been living in Sun Francisco with his mother for the past six years. Me Is under arrest. ... -1...-■ ■ — -— > p-i _______ CAIRO, Feb. 3. — The cocaine habit among Egyptians has grown to such an alarming extent that the commandant of the local police lias issued an appeal to the public to assist him in keeping down the svil. The Egyptian nation, this official declares, Is destroying itself through the drug habit, which is demoralizing the youth of Egypt and iilling the hospitals and prisons. lie deplores the absence of statutes dealing adequately witli the evil and asserts that if the laws were made more rigorous and re ceived more support from the ;; tb lic, Egypt could yet be delivered. I-* Fox Felts Take Bin Drop in Sales ' On London Market I - | A drop of fib per cent in | | prices for blue fox. and a gen- | | erally declining market on | j other fox pelts, are reported on | | the London market in the | | January sales, it was learned | here today. Alfred Fraser, | j New York agent for Lumson j | & Co., the big London sales | j agents, reported this in u cable- j j gram received late yesterday | | by B. M. Behrends Bank. | Mr. Fraser’s dispatch said | | the following declines from | | October prices had occurred in j j current salea: Cross fox and j whites 10 per cent, silver fox | 30 per cent, blue fox 00 per j cent. t-i DRAUGHT BEER ON SALE NOW Victoria, R C.,Feb. " Iiraughl and bottled beer as high as four and one half per cent alcohol will be sold now in Rritiah Colmnoia’s new beer halls Attorney General Manion an nounced today. Tlie beer however will be sold only in tlie electoral ills tricts which voted for beer by i lie glass in the June plebiscite. Will of Bachelor" Recluse Is Rejected CHICAGO. Feb. The purported will of tlie late Edwin Jennings bachelor recluse, who left a $6,000, 000 estate, has been rejected in tin probate court opening the way fot several cousins coining into the es tate for proof of heirship. The court held the multlluted document was mailed after thd death and was re voked by the deceased. Johnson Alleges Extortion in Fight for Seat WASHINGTON, Fell. .1.—Magnu* Johmtpn has filed a petition against the seating of T. I). Hchall in tilt Senate. The petition alleges extor tlon over $75,000 from bootlegger* for use of Rchall’s campaign and it Is further alleged SclntH's head quarters made promises of protec tlon. HOUSE ASSERTS ; ITS AUTHORITY WASHINGTON, Feb. :!. - The : I fount) has awwerted its right to in | itiat.e revenue legislation voting to (return the postal pay and rate bill j to the Sena^*. Tin* vote was 225 to ! 153. -■» ♦ ♦ Former Slave Dies Respected Citizen MIDDLETOWN, Conn , Feb. 3.— Thomas E. Smith, an agetl negro, born a slave in Virginia, who es caped to the I'nion lines and joined tile Federal forces in the Civil War, has dieil here. He was the owner of a four-story brick block on Main Street. His estate will total about ; $50,000. Mr. Smith opened a small antique and second-hand shop. He develop ed the business, became well-to-do and won the respect of th« com munity. lie was an active prohibi tion worker, and had been nomin ated for office on the State ticket. Nettie May MacLean is Granted Divorce __ TACOMA, Feb. 3.—Netttie May Me , Lean, who last February charged her I husband, Kenneth Itoss,then a stu jdent at Bowdoin College, in Maine, with the murder of their one year old baby, bus been granted tin in jterloctory divorce. Netv Hunch for Hidden Gold Draws Swede Across Ocean TONOPAII. Nev., Feh. 3.—Pete (island. known as "that lucky Swede," Is hack in Tonopah after a long visit to his native Sweden. Some years ago Pete worked as a leaser in the Halifax mine here. He had labored hard and found nothing. But he had a hunch that there was high-grade ore in the Halifax. He stuck to his hunch, and refused to abandon the lease after his partner had declined to share the cost of one Wore round of shots. He pawned his watch for the price of a few more sticks of powder. Two days later I he opened up rich ore on (he 1,000 foot level. It was a veritable jewelry shop. The lease hud but 30 days to run, and so Pete stayed on the job night and J day. He dug out $28,000, which seemed to him quote a titjy sum. He then retired quietly to the homeland for a prolonged rest. Recently word reached him that some of his old pals had made a new gold strike in1 the Cow Springs range, j 30 miles from Tonopah. This gave him another hunch, and he is back on the Nevada desert, testing the power of his luck to repeat.