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Newspaper
The Daily Alaska Empire
Location
Juneau, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1925
Page
1
Washington June 1 President Coolidge reduces routine matters before an extended Swampscott vacation. He plans a trip to Minneapolis next Saturday to speak at the Norse Centennial on a special train as he clears his desk of duties.
New York June 1 The Park Avenue Baptist Church draws crowds as Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick is called to pastorate amid broader church liberalities. John D Rockefeller and his son greet the crowd, with Rockefeller handing out dimes to children and patting them on the back.
In Summersville South Carolina on June 1 hundreds of old tea plants from around the world, once part of early American tea cultivation, are being transplanted for landscape use. Dr Charles A Shepard who died in 1915 and once owned a large plantation began collecting plants in China and Japan and conducting experiments. Many trees from the Shepard plantation will be dug up to form borders and other landscape features.
Wind Pass mine near Chuchua in the Thompson river area is announced to pass to New York capital backed by B N Sharp of Spokane. Transfer from A B Trites and associates is completed. Terms are not public.
In Bozeman Montana June 1 an experimental program backed by the Laura Spellman Rockefeller foundation aims to solve landlord tenant issues in the northwest Great Plains. The Fairway Farms corporation has acquired farms and tenants to test guiding young tenants to ownership, develop privately owned lands under competent direction, tailor northern plains agriculture, and promote private capital in farm companies to buy lease and resell to capable tenants.
Denver June 1. Charles W. Henderson of the US Geological Survey says the moving mountain between Meeker and Rifle Colorado shows signs of weakening its base. Large cracks across the base suggest a sandstone layer giving way could trigger another slide toward the Rio Blanco valley. Geologists blame highway construction for a physical amputation of the base upsetting the peak's balance.
West Baden Ind June 1 The General Federation of Women’s Clubs will launch national campaigns to create a Federal Department of Education and a Secretary of Education in the Cabinet. They will urge state legislatures to reconsider anti Child Labor Amendment votes and push U S participation in the Permanent Court of International Justice. The federation’s 17th council opens today and runs to Saturday with resolutions on education, world citizenship, and peace. Mrs John D Sherman national president presides with Miss Florence Dilbert and Mrs Edward Franklin White assisting.
Kayaka Toyohiko, Kobe labor leader, arrived in London to study Britain’s Labor Party and aid forming a Japanese Labor Party modeled on the British system. He says Japan’s Socialist and Labor groups unite for the movement, with ties to the Federation of Labor, Social Democratic, Fabian circles, and peasants’ unions.
Nanaimo British Columbia June 1 Ross Watson testified at his trial for participation in the December 12 bank robbery. He said he was born in Washington State spent most of his life there and lost his Seattle City Detective job after being accused in the Bon Marche hold-up. He described travel from Seattle to Bellingham with a man named Nelson for liquor in an automobile and identified a December 11 receipt for a $50 car payment.
OLYMETA Wash June 1 Vance Clelland said Maurice Langhorne Tacoma will defend former Gov Louis Hart in the Scandinavian American Bank robbery case Clelland noted Langhorne is a longtime Democrat. He added two Republicans and two Democrats will also participate in Hart's defense offering free services.
In Annesmasse France fifty people were gassed when yellow fumes from a liquid tank swept the streets. The heat caused the container to explode and twelve are in a serious condition. One American, Ernst Steinworth, living in Geneva, was overcome.
Four Chinese students were killed in renewed mill strike demonstrations in Shanghai on June 1. Three Russian agitators were arrested as police blamed Bolshevist propaganda for the disturbance.
Thomas R. Marshall former vice president died at New Willard Hotel in Washington after a week of illness from a cold and heart trouble. He had been exhausted by speaking engagements and was to return to Indianapolis. Burial was planned near Marion, Indiana.
Virginia born, Indiana raised Thomas Riley Marshall rose from law practice to political prominence. Born March 14, 1854 in North Manchester Wabash County he studied at Wabash College then read law in Columbia City. He became prosecutor, then Governor of Indiana paving the way to national figure as Wilson’s running mate.
Vickers Viking airliner piloted by Col. J. Scott Williams of Montreal departed Three Rivers at 11 30 forenoon bound for Wrangell Alaska en route to Cassiar. Williams anticipated a two hour flight to Wrangell.
New York reports the death in England of Lon Pericardis, once seized by Moroccan bandits led by Raisuli in 1914. The affair drew international notice and spurred the Secretary of State to demand either Pericardis release or Raisuli’s capture.
A lumber yard blaze in Hammond Indiana caused about 2 million dollars in damage Saturday night. The fire quickly spread through the industrial district and drew apparatus from several neighboring towns to battle the flames.
Oslo June 1 Arrangements are under way for prompt relief action by the Norwegian Government if no word from Amundsen is heard within a week.
Paris June 1 The Ministry of Marine has offered the noted oceanographic research ship Pourquoi for use in Ainundsen relief efforts. The offer signals urgent support from France to assist in the disaster response and search operations.
Orlando on June 1 Samuel W Entriken Arctic explorer and Peary Expedition officer says Amundsen’s protected absence isn’t worrying him. He predicts Amundsen will return within three months after helping establish a tent site at Fairbanks.
Centralia Washington June 1 Congressmen Albert Johnson of Hoquiam proposes a single act to combine all exclusion laws previously enacted. He argues this would prevent charges of discrimination and lawmakers from “tinkering with the laws” affecting Japanese Americans.
Berlin reports housing scarcity forces divorced couples to share the same address. The shortage of suitable dwellings deters separation, causing friction and often a party to abandon plans to separate.
Police in Los Angeles arrest Charles Stevens Billy Wood and Claude Holcomb for a planned kidnapping of Mary Pickford. The trio, disguised as Shriners, planned to seize the actress and hold her for $100,000 in the mountains. The investigation also mentions Pola Negri Buster Keaton and E L Doheny’s grandson as part of the plot.
Washington June 1 H Foster Bain resigns as Director of Bureau of Mines effective July 1. Bain leaves to become Chief Secretary of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical Engineers.
Berkeley in June reports city attorney Earl Sinclair interprets the anti noise ordinance to ban nocturnal piano practice after 9 p m neighbors complain of late hour scales and technique roosters canaries have been silenced before cats and car horns used unneededly.
Chicago June 1 Vice President Dawes will use crutches for several days after a sprained ankle from a fall. The injury became known when he appeared on crutches on the lawn of his home during a Boy Scouts review.
Vienna June 1. Thirty two personal crisis reports in 1924 and eight since the start of the year among Austrian army soldiers prompted measures to curb morbidity in the ranks. Investigations and farewell letters cited by Arbeiterzeitung show men take their lives due to harassment and jeering over republican opinions by officers with monarchist traditions.
Swedish mining engineers have located copper arsenic zinc and trace gold deposits in the north using electrical prospecting methods. Wires buried in trenches detect ore by conductivity and electromagnetic effects, with finds under a frozen lake and deep under sandy plains. The Lundberg Nanthorst and Sundberg systems are now used in the United States Canada South Africa Spain Finland and Norway.
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