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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
One of Founders of
 Girton College Dead

LONDON, Aug. 19.-Miss Sarah Emily Davies, pioneer in the woman suffrage movement, who re- gently died in London at the age of 91, was one of the founders of Cir ton College, the first English col lege for women, and was an honor ary doctor of laws of Glasgow Uni. versity. In 1866, she and Mrs. Gar. rett Anderson took to the House oi Commons, for presentation by John Stuart Mill. the first petition for the vote for women.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
QUICK ACTION
 TAKEN ON BILL
 FAVORINC WOOD
House Military Committee Tables Measure for Ap-
 continent of General.
CLAIM IS MADE BAD
 PRECEDENT BE SET
Must Resign from Army to Accept Governor General
 ship of the Philippines.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. = The House Committee on Military Af- fairs has tabled the bill enabling General Leonard Wood to accept the Governor r-Generalship G of the Philip pine Islands The members hold that 1t would be establishing a bad precedent.
 The opposition in the House de veloped early against the Wood ap- pointment taking it that it was a dangerous practice permitting an officer to hold a civilian position while retaining a rank in the United States Army.
 As soon as it was announced that President Harding had decided to name General Wood as Governor General of the Philippines, the Sen ate immediately prepared bill making the appointment possible.
 Is Up to Wood.
 The action or the House Military Committee in tabling the bill now puts it up directly to General Wood to resign from the Army and then accept the GovernorG Generalship Many here believe that he will not do so as he will soon be retired from the army on certain retirement pay No Criticism Voiced.
 No criticism of General Wood was voiced by but the members of the military committee argued he should resign from the army if he wished to accept the civilian post. Mem bers practically agreed that he would make an excellent Governor General.
 General Wood was placed in com mand of the Central Headquarters of the Army Department, with head quarters at Chicago, in January 1919 At present he is in the Philippines with w. Cameron Forbes, a special commission to report di- rect to the President regarding con- ditions.
 Regular Army Man.
 General Wood was born on Oct. 9, 1860. In 1886 he was appointed from Massachusetts as assistant sur
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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
PARTICULARS OF CRIME

BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 19-Steve Byrne and Theodore Chronos were two of four men convicted of mur- der in connection with the death of Sylvester J. Prenatt, which resulted from an alleged attempt of the four to seize a quantity of liquor said to have been stored in the Prenatt home here.
 Gus Andros and Tom Williams were also found guilty of first degree murder and their penalty was fixed by the trial jury as life imprison ment
 According to the testimony of state witnesses. the four men demanded admittance to the rear door of tbe Prenatt home about o'clock on the morning of December 9, 1919. When Prenatt opened the door he found himself confronting a loaded gun In the ensuing struggle he was shot and died shortly afterward. The men were sentenced to hang August 26.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
RUSSIAN RELIEF
 WORK TO START
Hoover Says Vessels Secured and Supplies Will Be
 Rushed Overseas.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-Complete agreement on the question of Rus sian food relief has been reached between the American and Russian representatives at Riga. This an nouncement was made today by Her bert c. Hoover.
 Relief work will begin at once, Hoover declared in his New York of flee Already vessels have been ar ranged to rush supplies to Danzig for trans-shipment into Russia.
 The quantity of the food required is not at present known and will not be known until survey of the famine conditions is made.
 There will be no appeal for con tributions, said Hoover.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Movement of Harvesters
 Is Started to Prairies

VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 19.-The movement of harvesters to the prair- ies has begun and approximately 800 men from British Columbia have left for points in Alberta and Saskatche- wan The provincial employment service is not sending the men for ward except on definite orders from the districts in need of labor. More vesters' transportation in Vancouver and Victoria Applications from other points have not yet been sent in to the head office.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
WOMEN OF COUNTRY CALLED UPON TO GIVE SUPPORT TO
 LAW ENFORCEMENT :; ADDRESS

Gordon declared, rests upon every law abiding citizen bravely to coop crate with federal and state enforce ment officials and to work for the election regardless of party affilia- tions of candidates who believe in prohibition and it's enforcement.
 Today, she added, the United States is a vast unified laboratory where the findings and declarations of eminent European and American scientists, economists and sociologists concerning the dangers of alcoholic drink and the benefits of prohibition are being successfully tested.
 "All the world is looking on," Miss Gordon said, "and will judge prohibi- tion by the brand that, is labeled Made in America To enlighten the family of nations we must help hold aloft the brightly burning torch of a well enforced, successful prohibitory law. We must still crusade. We must still dare Comrades, we must carry on"
 Reporting on her recent trip to South America, Miss Gordon said that prohibition was live issue in Chile, Argentina, Brazil Paraguay and Uruguay and that the presidents of Chile and Uruguay were enlisted in the prohibition movement.
 Sentiment for world disarmament the w. C. T. U. leader declared must "unceasingly be created and constantly kept at white heat"
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
To Photograph Mexico
 From Air; Contract Let

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 19.-
 Mexico, according to advices received here, is to be photographed from the air" The contract for the job has been turned over to Los An geles ex-service man, at the behest of President Obregon. The photo- graphs will supplement maps to show the typographical conditions throughout the country. All photo graphs will be taken from airplane.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Demands of the Big Five
 Brotherhoods Turned Down

CHICAGO. Aug. 19-The demands of the Big Five Brotherhoods to wipe out the recent wage cut and with draw all further requests for wage decreases and cancel all demands for elimination of time and one-half for overtime work in yard service, were refused today by the executives of the Western railroads.
 The executives turned the propo- sitions down because they said such terms disregarded the public's in terest in the economical operation and the resultant lower freight and passenger rates.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
City of Seattle Sails
 Tomorrow for North

SEATTLE, Aug. 19.-The steamer City of Seattle will sail for South eastern Alaska ports tomorrow fore noon at 10 o'clock. One hundred been booked, the following being for Juneau: Jewell Clark, Grace Clark, Eula Clark, Miss A. Morrison, Mrs. A. Morrison, Clyde Mcdonald, C. H. Hawkins, Miss c. c. MacMa- hon and Miss Marian Robertson.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Lie Is Passed in House Over the Tax Measure

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.- The House was thrown into an uproar last night when Repre- sentative James F. Byrnes, of South Carolina, passed the lie to Representative Joseph w. Fordney, of Michigan, when the latter challenged the truth of Byrnes allegation that the Re publicans. in framing the bill, shifted the burden to the poor and to benefit the rich contribu- tors to the Republican campaign fund. Order was quickly re- stored
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
More Tax Revision Now
 Agreed to by Committed

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-The ma jority of the members of the House Ways and Means Committee have agreed upon the elimination of the $l0 license on vendors of soft drinks from the tax bill. It is also agreed to exempt from income tax all sums received as pensions and allowances from the government by veterans or their dependents.
 The Ways and Means Committee has also agreed upon the elimination of the proprietary medicine tax and also voted to tax cereal beverages only from 6 to cents a gallon, in stead of 15 cents
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Ex-Convict Murders One
 Then Takes His Own Life

PETALUMA, Cal, Aug. 19.-Theo- dore Hofer, ex-convict, early this morning killed Evelyn Grant with an axe. fatally wounded her sister, Le- ona, and seriously mained Mrs. Thersa Grant, the girls grandmoth CT Hofer then committed suicide. Unrequitted love is believed at the bottom of the crime.
 Hofer also injured the girls fath. CT, who is not expected to live.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Bursum Is Nominated
 To Be Colorado Senator

SANTA FEE, N. M, Aug. 19.-U. s. Senator Holm o. Bursum. present incumbent by appointment, was nom mated yesterday as the Republican candidate to succeed former Sena- tor A. B. Fall now Secretary of the Interior The Democrats also made nomination. The special election will be held next month.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Federal Aid Roads Bill
 Passed the Senate Today

WASHINGTON, Aug, 19. - The Senate has passed the Federal Aid Roads bill appropriating $75,O0O,- 900 for construction purposes, two thirds of this amount to be immed- lately available.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
BRITISH PROTEST
 SEIZURE BY U. s
Schooner Is Taken from High Seas Contrary to Inter-
 national Law.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-Formal notice that it cannot recognize the jurisdiction of the United States over the high seas beyond the three mile limit as fixed by international law, has been served by the Brit ish government in connection with the seizure 12 miles off Long Island of the British schooner Marshall said to have been laden with liquor
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Canadian Beer Shipped
 To Southern Countrie.

MONTREAL, Aug. 19.-The ruling of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew w. Mellon that liquor may be shipped to one country from another through the United States has resulted in q movement southwark Many thou sands of gallons of beer chiefly to Central and South American coun tries, have already been shipped from here.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
SHOCKING CASE.

ADRIAN, Mich, Aug. 1S-Mrs. Hattie Kirby, of Hudson, prominent temperance and law enforcement worker, was arrested today on a charge of murder. This charge is alleged in connection with the dis appearance of a child born July to her twenty-year-old unmarried daughter Alice.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Former British Soldiers
 Want to Go to War Again

LONDON, Aug. 19-The publica- tion of the news that the Spanish legation was enrolling recruits for a Foreign Legion to fight against Mo- roccoan tribesmen resulted in such a rush for former British soldiers to enlist that large force of police was required to keep order.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
WEALTHY MAN PINCHED.

MIAMI, Fla, Aug 19.-Judge Crosland, wealthy and president of the Miami Sisheries Company has been arrested on charge of con spiracy to defraud the government in violation of the National Prohibit tion Act. This charge is made in connection with the seizure of the schooner Henry Marshall at Atlantic City on August 2.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Omaha Starts General Drive Against Wobblies

OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 19.-The police, during the night, raided the Industrial Workers head quarters and arrested 100. Eff teen of those arrested held fred cards" The unexpected raid was the first one of a general drive inaugurated against the wobblies by the authorities.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Jail Breaker Caught;
 Offered No Resistance

SEATTLE, Aug. 19.-Earl c. New burn, who with Henry Bradner es- capped from the Kitsap county jail on August 10, after assaulting the night jailor and escaping in his automobile, was captured last night in a hotel without resistance.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Secretary Wallace Shows
 Up Very Bad Situation

WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.-Secre. tary of Agriculture Henry c. Wallace, testifying before the Interstate Com merce Commission, declared that high freight rates had practically stopped agricultural product. He asserted that if the present rates continued, future production would be greatly reduced.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Canadian Steamer Sunk
 In Collision, Men Saved

QUEBEC, Aug. 19.-The Canadian governments freight steamer Can. adian Recruit, sank off Stones Pillar in a collision last night with the steamship Maskinonz, of the Domin- ion Coal Company's service. The crew of the Canadian Recruit was saved
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
CHOLERA RAGING.

LONDON, Aug. 19. - Famine Is not only ravaging the Volga district of Russia but cholera epidemic is raging and has not shown signs oi decreasing. A Moscow correspond ent of the Daily Herald says that during July 22,000 cases of cholera were reported.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
GEORGE SAYS BRITISH
 REACHED LIMIT
Fullest Kind of Freedom Of- fered Irish-It Is Now
 Up to Them.
IRELAND RESPONSIBLE
 FOR FURTHER HORRORS
British Premier Also Favors Home Rule for the
 Welsh People.

LONDON, Aug. 19.-British Pre- mier Lloyd George declared in the House of Commons this afternoon that the British Government had ceded in the Irish peace offer and said this offer embodied the largest measure of freedom ever offered Ireland
 Premier Lloyd George said he hoped the Irish leaders would not reject the peace proposals.
 If they reject the proposals made by the British Government" said Premier Lloyd George, and take the responsibility of renewing the con flict they will rob the present of all its glory and all gratitude by its overwhelming horror"
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
RERGDOLL ROBS UP.

GENEVA, Aug. 19.-Grover Berg doll, escaped United States draft ovader, arrived at Constance from Munich, three days ago and is now stopping at Est. Gall, Switzerland, it is announced It is said he holds an American passport.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
Former Premier of
 Greece Passes Away

ATHENS, Aug. 19.-Former Pre- mier fhallys. who was in power when King Constantine was restored to the throne, died here today.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
2 MURDERERS
 NOT TO SWING
Death Sentence Is Committed to Spending Life in
 Penitentiary.

HELENA, Mont, Aug. 19-Gover- nor Joseph M. Dixon today commuted to life Imprisonment the death sen tence imposed on Steve Byrne and Theodore Chronos for the murder of S. J. Prenatt in 1919.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
IRISH MUST ACCEPT PEACE OR FIGHT
Three Nominations For Alaska
 Confirmed by Senate

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.- The United States Senate has confirmed the nominations of the following officials for Alaska:
 First Division.
 Thomas M. Reed. to be Unit ed States District Judge. George D.. Beaumont to be United States Marshal.
 Third Division.
 Elmer E. Ritchie to be Unit ed States District Judge.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19

HOME RULE FOR WELSH.
 LONDON, Aug. 19.-Speaking last night at a dinner of Welsh Nation alists, Premier Lloyd George made the announcement favoring home rule for the Welsh.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04

sition, she became alarmed When she went to her side and touched her, she saw, to her horror, that the young beauty was dead.
 The physician who was hastily sum- moned found Billie Carleton long past all human help. She had died, he de- clared, from an overdose of some narcotic drug, and the coroner's physician con- irmed this verdict after a post-mortem examination of the girls body.
 At tho coroner's inquest some amas- ing revelations were made of the hold which opium and other habit-forming drugs have taken on the people of Lon don since the close of the war.
 It was shown by the testimony of nu- merous witnesses that Billie Carleton had been one of many actresses and their friends who visited London's Chinatown and indulged in the most de- prayed orgies in it's opium dens. She had also frequented various houses in tho fashionable West End of tho city, where what are known as doping parties" were of almost nightly occur 
 renee.
 With poor Billie Carleton. just as with Sara Cowen. dope proved once more that nothing which youth or beauty, health or wealth can offer Is match for the wicked power 1t yields over frail human flesh.
 Will the distressing end which Sara Cowen met in New York few days age help save other girls from similar fats! Will 1t keep their girlish hopes and ann bitions from being blasted as hers were' Will 1t save their innocent hearts from the shame and misery which she enc dured as she sped down Into the shadows? A
 If 50. then perhaps the youth. beauty and all the millions of the il'-fated Balti- more society bud will net have been sao- rifcsd in vain to that cruelest ef all mas- tsrs, King Dope
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son she is drawing nearer and nearer the fate which has overtaken me"
 Still another unfortunate victim of the pace that kills was Anna Robinson. She gave up her fame on the stage to marry the bearer of one of Engiands proudest titles, but even the love and luxury he layished on her were powerless to save her from the habits that elutched her in their evil grip.
 She returned to her native land and tried te win back the favor she had en- joysd during her leng stage career. It
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was no use-she was too broken in mind and body by her years of. dissipation to win theatrical success again. Her de- spair over the fate she herself had in vited by her shameless indulgences finally unseated her reason, and after long suffering she died in an insane asylum. ea
 Another recent tragedy which has many points in common with that of Sara Cowen is the one which claimed the life of Billie Carleton, the beautiful actress and close friend of Irene Castle, the celebrated dancer.
 She was playing in London when the great Viceroy ball was given and was one of the throng of women of smart so- ciety and the stage who helped make this such brilliant and hilarious affair. She was costumed as "Joan of Arc" and was considered one of the most attractive of the many charming figures who traced this memorable occasion.
 Miss Carleton returned from the ball to her apartment in fashionable Savoy Court about o'clock in the morning. man and a woman friend were with her, and she ordered her maid to serve the three of them breakfast in her bedroom.
 While the meal was being prepared Billie Carleton changed her ball costume for kimono and ran into the adjoining apartment for a little chat with Irene Castle. When she returned she sat down with her friends and enjoyed bacon and eggs, toast and coffee.
 Her two guests went home after o'clock and Miss Carleton went directly to bed As the maid later testified, she seemed In the best of health and spirits,
 At 11.30 in the morning the maid peeped Into the room to ses if her mis- tress wanted anything. Seeing her ap- parently still asleep, the girl went away
 Late in the afternoon the maid looked into the room again, and seeing Miss Carleton lying in precisely the same pe-
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millions with a prodi- gality almost equaling that of Sara Cowen.
 She, too, is paying the price of her
 folly. As her < friends learned M the other day WH to their intense dismay, she is
 now an insane
 pauper-doomed t o drag out the rest of her days in a padded cell in one of New York's public asylums.
 In the case of pretty Florence Schenck d. cohol proved itself as pitiless . master as 1lI l. IL
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dVPo uho HI SAAo NooC
 of Sara Cowen. The daughter of prosperous Virginia phy sician, she became infatuated x4 with horse trainer in the em- xt ploy of Alfred Gwynne Van derbilt and broke the hearts & of her parents by running away WX with him.
 / After a wild fling at the gay night life of New York and the European capitals, she came limping back to her village home. bruised and battered wreck of the lovely girl she had been before she madly decided to risk every thing on one brief round of pleasure.
 'Tell girls that in the wine cup lies death and destruction" said Florence Schenck as she lay en her death bed. "Onee In the tolls, there is no escape. It is the first step toward an abyss that Is fathon,less and without pity for in- noceree or remorse.
 "The girl who drinks is lest, with every sip she takes of the insidieus poi
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 oculist.
 This work proved terribly monotonous for girl so fond of excitement and dis sipatien as Sara Cowen had become. but she stuck to her post until the lucky outcome of little Wall Street venture gave her enough ready money to return. to her old associates in the gay restau- rants and cabarets of Broadway, Here the craving for drugs seixed her more strongly than ever. and with . full poeketbook she found little difficulty in gratifying it.
 Soon her physical and mental condi- tion became so deplorsblc that she was sent to the city hospital on Welfare Island as . drug addict. When dis charged as cured she studied nursing at Bellevue Hospital and on completing her course was made probationary nurse at the Post Graduate Hospital. Before she had been there long the ap- petite for drugs got the better of her again and she was dismissed.
 The loss of this position seems to have had a sobering effect on ,her. For months after this she made the most determined fight of her life to conquer her appetite for narcotics. Those who knew her we'll during this period are positive that she did not touch drugs from the day she left the hospital un- til the night bsfcre she died.
 But the desire for something more potent than alcohol or tobacco to sooths her racked nerves was only shoulder ing. When. without the slightest warn ing, it burst forth again into hames it swept her with such . consuming hrs that her life was quickly withered.
 Sara Cowen's last night on earth was spent in a wild round of the gayest cabarcts of Greenwich Village in com pany with chauffeur with whom, she had lately become infatuated. There was much drinking. the chauffeur told tha police, but nothing to indicate that sheawasN under the influence of drugs.
 They were on their way back to the hotel in the pink dawn of summer morning when she suddenly screamed: Stop! must get out!" Before he could bring the big limousine to halt. she had ieaped into the Street end dis appeared down shabby alley with two pale-fsced men who had been lurking in it's skadcws
 The chauffeur called to her again and