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Newspaper
The Daily Alaska Empire
Location
Juneau, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1923
Page
1
A union church rally closes Juneau Americanization for Juneau and features Capt. S. N. Dancey farewell. Town leaders praise Alaska schools and education, with Mayor Goldstein and Commissioners extolling progress as Elks and Legion members urge public support.
Paris reports the Allied Reparations Committee will form two expert committees to assess Germanys capacity to pay under Premier Poincare proposals. An American observer has invited the United States to appoint members to the two committees, while Washington says it will not join a restricted inquiry into German finances.
Martha Mansfield, a screen actress, died this afternoon after her legs and lower body were badly burned when her dregs caught fire at the city garbage dump during a location shoot in San Antonio Texas on December 1.
Tokyo December 1 Minister of Marine Takrahi announced the Navy Department must again reduce its budget to fund reconstruction efforts for the area devastated by the recent earthquake. The action follows reallocations already required by disaster relief priorities.
The Senate Public Lands Committee invited former Interior Secretary Fall to testify regarding the Teapot Dome lease after Carl Magee testified about Fall's finances. Magee said Fall told him three years ago he was broke. Separately in Seattle, a proposal to transfer naval oil reserves to Interior was unanimously approved by the Navy Council.
Elizabeth Grant niece of Robert Henderson discoverer of gold on the Klondike won the Yukon beauty contest in Dawson. She will be crowned Queen at the Pioneer ball December 7. All contestants were born in the Yukon and Klondike will back them when facing the world.
Tom O'Brien who escaped from the Oregon State prison on November 26, 1917, serving a life sentence, has been captured in Thermopolis, Wyoming and returned to Salem.
Prince Rupert B C reports rough November weather cut halibut receipts early but most of the month’s catch arrived later. Officials expect a total of about 2,122,000 pounds, only slightly below the seasonal average.
New York reports Henry Webendordfer, an American with the Italian Bolivian mission in Southern Peru, died from a fly bite poisoning. He was buried at sea, per received advices.
Kenzo Ikeda, noted Japanese banker and President of the Tokio Savings Bank, died here yesterday at the age of 68. His death marks a significant loss for Japanese banking circles and the Tokio financial community.
Official climate summary shows November 1918 as the warmest since 1905 with a mean of 40.82 degrees, 6.7 degrees above 28-year normal. The article notes four days below normal, a record 14.73 inches of precipitation, 4.5 inches of snowfall, and 91 percent cloudiness, plus rare sunshine and notable lunar corona observations.
In Macon Georgia today the northbound Kansas City Special derailed near Folkston after a sideswipe by another train. The locomotive baggage express and mail cars overturned. Engineer John H. Evans was killed though no passengers were injured. Weather and cause not disclosed.
Lorraine Arnold Rowan of Pasadena will marry Robert H. McAdoo, son of William G. McAdoo, around Christmas in Los Angeles.
DUSSELDORF December 1 Joseph Mathis launches a new Rhenish Union for Independence at a meet ing in his new headquarters. Seven resolutions were adopted including a plan with Mathis as chief to negotiate with French and Belgian authorities.
Governor and Mrs. Scott C. Bone will sail tonight from Seward aboard the steamer Victoria. They will not extend their visit to Anchorage.
Northern Republican leaders meet in Washington as President Coolidge is expected to indicate soon whether he will run for the Presidency next year under the Republican banner.
Frosty conditions hit the Upper Yukon Valley as temperatures fell to fifty below zero. Weather officials warn of continued extreme cold affecting residents and travel plans in Dawson and nearby Klondike areas.
American delegates to the International rum smuggling conference returned home last night without announcing what had been accomplished.
An international dialogue by air will be attempted tonight with American and British speakers in back and forth conversation. The event follows a series of tests to gauge practicability of spoken dialogue. New York report.
Indiana Republican leaders will meet next week to consider the situation after Governor McCray was indicted yesterday on charges of forgery and embezzlement.
Washington report that a bill by Representative Louis V. Fairchild would reapportion the House based on the 1920 census without changing the 425 member body. California would gain three seats, Washington one, with New York Texas Michigan and North Carolina also increasing.
Fourteen liquor cases are docketed in the United States Commissioner's Court beginning next Monday. The backlog occurred while Assistant Prosecutor Julian Hurley was away in Valdez.
On a crowded afternoon street in Kansas City two Negro bandits held up H. B. Lamb assistant manager of the S. S. Kessage Company and a Negro porter. They escaped in a car with $5,000 cash after Lamb fired seven shots.
LOBENSTEIN Thuringia Dec 1 leading playhouses in this little city accept for tickets carrots turnips cabbages Soranda briquets stove wooly milk chickens ducks geese at prices prevailing at city markets.
Washington December 1 all members of the Senate Progressive bloc were absent from the Republican Senate conference where party organization was promptly formed with the election of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge as leader.
Representative L C Dyer of Missouri has drafted an amendment to the Volstead Act. The bill would permit manufacturing beverages with alcohol content not exceeding 2.75 percent by weight or 3.46 percent by volume.
Secretary Hughes declared in Philadelphia that the Monroe Doctrine remains an essential policy to be applied whenever emergencies arise requiring action. He spoke at the Academy of Political Science outlining its ongoing relevance and readiness for use in crises.
Irene Castle, famed dancer, and Frederick MelLaughlin, prominent Chicago coffee dealer, were married here last Wednesday, a fact made public today. The ceremony details and location remain undisclosed.
A gale in San Francisco Bay last night drove four vessels adrift and toppled power and telegraph poles. The freighter Tobin Gray was driven onto rocks but refloated with only slight damage.
ISSYLES MOULINEU France December 1 Marquis Pescara an Argentine engineer stayed aloft for more than five minutes in a helicopter and set a new record for his type of machine.
Rev Frederick, priest held by bandits in Shantung Province since November 13, was rescued on Wednesday according to an official provincial report. The notification confirms the abduction and rescue event with no further details.
SAN DIEGO December 1 Lieut Com Walter D Said of the U S S Fuller is acquitted by a court martial of negligence charges connected with the wreck of destroyers at Point Honda. The verdict clears Said in the naval inquiry and closes the case against him.
Tacoma dispatch reports Richard Westin of Fairfax found dead in his car wreckage after a 76 foot slide near Fairfax, believed to have slept at the wheel.
Theodore Roosevelt rejected the Ku Klux Klan’s offer to back his candidacy for governor of New York. In a letter to the NAACP he stated that the fundamental right of an American is equality before the law and that men should be treated equally regardless of race or creed.
In Saginaw Michigan December 1 a report says steps are underway to place Henry Ford on the Democratic ballot for the next spring presidential primary. Frank Pickard, a member of the party’s State Central Committee, demanded Ford declare his stand on Democratic principles first, asserting Ford has no right to run in the Democratic primary unless he is a Democrat.
President Coolidge will deliver his message to Congress via a nationwide broadcast from the Capitol. The event will reach listeners across the country as the address is aired.
Nell Austin a Seattle school teacher missing since last Sunday was identified in Vancouver by two Seattle police officers and two local friends as the delirious girl found unconscious last Wednesday night. No bodily harm reported. her two sisters are traveling from Seattle to take her home.
Vancouver police find gloves and torn photograph near the residence where Nell Austin was found. Two parallel beach tracks show a man and Nell leading to the cottage, with the man’s prints ending short of the cottage. Mayor Jones reports Nell’s claim about a West Point officer with a yacht. Doctor Batley says sleeping sickness of queer form possible.
Seattle Chief Sev eryns reiterates belief that digression with elder sister Leila and younger sister Georgia, with whom Nell Austin shared a boarding house, led to her vanishing. He suggests Nell wore hiking clothes beneath street dress, dropped her hat, and fled toward Vancouver by foot and car lifts, while church members report Nell spoke of trouble with her sister and being tired of it all. The girl was described as highly nervous when she left last Sunday night.
Premier Mussolini told the Chamber of Deputies that Italy will raise no obstacle to recognizing the Soviet government by de jure means. The statement marks a formal shift in Italian policy toward the USSR.
Berlin reports the German government will suspend unemployment allowances in the occupied territory starting tomorrow and municipalities that made advances will not be reimbursed. A second item notes La Grande Oregon recorded the season’s first snowfall late yesterday afternoon and last night.
On Thanksgiving Day at Dr. F. B. Whiting’s Seattle home, Dr. Albert F. Mattice an eye surgeon and former AEF member shot himself two minutes after a clarinet solo. Coroner linked intense emotion from an old melody to the suicide. guests were not alerted. His father was a pioneer physician in Skagit County.
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