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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
SENATORS SCORE
EXPENDITURES IN
EXCESS OF FUNDS
Smoot and King Declare De-
hciency Appropriations
Asked Half Billion.
ATTY. GEN. WILL ACT
To Proceed Against Bureau
Heads Who Do Not Keep
Within Appropriations.

WASHINGTON, April 27.-De-
ficiency appropriations requested by
various Government departments
will total $50O,000,000 by June l.,
Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, pre-
dicted in the Senate today. Requests
now on file total $390,000, 900, he
said.
Senator William H. King of Utah,
supported his colleagues assertion
and declared that the Attorney Gen
eral had said he would take action
under penal statutes against de-
partment and bureau heads who eX-
pend money in excess of appropria-
tions.
Unless this is done soon, Senator
King added he would introduce a
resolution directing that action be
taken to end this disgrace and
scandal"
Senator David l. Walsh of Massa-
chusetts took a hand in criticism of
government departments by declar-
ing that treatment of former
soldiers in hospitals and under vo-
cational training is shameful. He
tnen introduced a sheaf of bills de-
signed TO remedy the situation.
The only measure acted on in the
Senate up to a late hour today was
ratification of a treaty between the
United States and Great Britain TO
make parents desertion of children
an eXtraditable offense between Can
ada and the United States.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Latest Bulletins
By Special Gable

TOXIC, April 27-Lieut. Gen. Saito,
commander-in-chief of the Eleventh
Japanese Division at VladiVostok,
committed suicide today as a sequal
to the recent shooting of Lieut.. w
H. Langdon, American naval officer,
by Japanese sentry, It is under.
stood Gen. Saito held himself re-
sponsible for Langdon's death and
was irritated by what he believed to
be the governments weakness in
dealing with the incident.
WASHINGTON, April 27.-Presi
dent Harding today nominated E. l.
Lewis, of indianapolis, and J. 8
Campbell of Spokane to be members
OF the interstate Commerce Commits
sion, thereby filling the last Vacan-
cies on the board. He also nomi
mated Ed Clifford, of Chicago, to be an
assistant Secretary of Treasury ano
named eiehty-four postmasters.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Admiral Watson, Jefferson
On Way North from Seattle

SEATTLE, April 27.-The steamer
Admiral Watson sailed for the north
at 8 o'clock last night with 49, pas
aengers. Those leaving for Juneau
were NJ Stevenson. F. Henrod, G.
w. Harrison, j. II. Hendrickson,
The steamer Jefferson sailed north
at o'clock this morning with 81
passengers. Those for juneau are:
Mrs NJ. Neill, H. c. Eichmerer and
lord. Louise Frelord. A. NJ Pope. r.
Fronmin. II. L, Palmer. O. Lunde,
Jennie Sannie, NJ. Dopeyich, F. c.
Gregg, Mrs II. Donaghey. j. w Lew
is, H. Saunders and two steerage
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Germans Cbstreperous.


MAYENCE, Germany, April 81
The inter-allied Rhineland commits,
sion is meeting difficulties in the
application of the new customs re-
gime on the eastern frontier of the
occupied territories which became
effective last week. A large per-
centage of the German custom off
GERS have refused to work.
The commission is prepared to
take energetic measures to put the
Germans to \ work, the nature of
which, however has not been dis.
closed. In the region of Duessel-
dorf, Allied Officials say, the first
day the regime came into effect the
frontier customs posts actually were
swamped with parcels, which the Of
ficials declare had evidently been
saved for many days, in order to
embarrass the Allies.
Traffic Loads Uneven.
1t is learned that traffic between
the occupied territories and Ger
many proper is ten times more in
volume than that on the western
frontier of the German republic be
tween Belgium, France and the oc
cupied territories.
An official note issued in Berlin
by the Ministry of the Interior says
it cannot bring pressure to bear on
the functonaries to force them to
work under the new regime, but that
II any choose to work it will not be
held against them.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
STEEL and COAL PROF|TEER|NC
RESPONSIBLE FOR RAILROADS.
Difficult TIES UNIONS ASSERT

CHICAGO, April 27.-Wartime and
postwar profiteering are held re
rponsible for large part of the Ii
naneial difficulties of American rail.
roads in an exhibit filed by the rail
way union before the National all
road Labor Board today. Decreases
in the cost of materials have already
brought large measure Of relief to
the roads, the exhibit said.
The two industries in which profit
eering was most rampant were the
IRON and steel industry and the coal
minues, according to w. Jett Lauck,
economist for the unions, who com
piled the exhibit.
"a conservative estimate, he said
"of what this profteering cost the
railroads from 1916 to 1919 is seven
ty-fve million dollars year in coal
bills and $2O0,0000O0 for steel and
iron products"
Prices Increased.
Prices in 1920 were increased to
such such an extent that the pro
portion attributable to protiteerlng
was unquestionably much greater
and would probably have totaled
$500, 900 900, the exhibit continued
at must be understood that these
estimates are thoroughly conserya-
tive and are based upon incomplete
information.
"The railroads expended approx
mately s700.700,000 for coal and ST..
2l0. 300. 900 for other materials and
supplies in 1920, a total expenditure
of about $4,000, 100000. Since then
there has been decline in the cost
of almost everything purchased by
the railroads. According to figures
published by the Bueal Of Labor
Statistics. there was up T. February
1921. decline of 1872 per cent. II
wholesale prices Of all commodities
although the decrease in the cost
Of living in the same period was less
than ten per cent If, as the rail
roads claim. this recession is to con
tinue. it will be only Comparatively
short time before an average decline
Of fifty per cent will be recorded.
Operating Expenses.
"It is plain that this would me1T
the same amount Of materials pur
chased in 1920 will cost one billior
dollars less. Making no allowance
for increased traffic and the conse
ouent higher revenue at increased
rates now in effect. railroad operat
ing expenses would be reduced b.
this amount"
Earnings Of seventeen compaule
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Dover DISCUSSES
ALASKA Governor
WITH PRESIDENT
Qualifications of Hazelet
Wickersham, Perkins and
Behr Is Subject.
HAZELET is FAVORED
Washington Advilces Say Cor.
dova Man Believed by Nc
Bride to Be Certainty.

SEATTLE, Wash. April 27.--
Elmer Dover, of Tacoma, prominent
ly mentioned as likely to be the
next Chairman Of the Republican
National Committee called on Presi-
dent Harding at the White House to
discuss the governorship of Alaska
but SO far as could be learned moth
ing definite regarding the filling OF
he place was decided upon, says a
Washington special despatch receiv-
ed by the Seattle Times today.
The qualifications of George c
Hazelet, James Wickersham, Cob w
T. Perkins and Carl Behr for thc
office were discussed
Mr.. Dover again urged the Presi-
dent to visit the Pacific Northwest
and Alaska this summer and was
told that the visit depends entirely
upon the length Of the present ses-
sion of Congress.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Reds Threaten Overthrow
OF American Government

ST. PAUL, Mnn. April 27-The
police today were searching for two
unidentified men who last night dis
tributed hundreds of hand bills
throughout the city calling on work
ers to prepare for a revolutionary
uarty in America that would over
throw the government and establish
4 soviet regime The circulars were
5igned United Communist Party of
America
PHILADELPHIA, April 27-Forty
Eve men and three women were ar.
rested here Yesterday as alleged
dangerous radicals
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Newspaper Advertising
Rates Low Enough, Claim

NEW YORK, April Warning
against possible Generalization of the
newsprint market, T. r. Williams,
president of the American News
paper Publishers Association, in an
address before the associations an
nual convention here today, declared
advertising rates should not be al
lowed to descend.
He also urged upon publishers the
necessity of cooperating with the
Government in restoration of world
peace, and bringing business condi-
tions back to normalcy.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
SEEK TO AMEND
LAW TO REMEDY
NOME SITUATION
Nome Faces Serious Situation
Over Lighterage Failure
Fur Tax Passed.

To relieve a grave emergency at
Nome arising from the decision OF
the Alaska Lighterage Company not
to operate it's lighterage plant there,
he House this morning under sus-
pended rules passed bill amend
ing existing statutes SO as to auth
orize municipalities to own, operate
and control lighterage businesses.
The bill was introduced by Repre-
sentative O. d. Cochran, of Nome,
at the request of Mayor Charles
Rice
Mayor Rice, in a telegram to Mr..
Cochran, stated that the Alaska
Lighterage Company had advised
Nome that it would not operate this
season. AS all freight coming into
Nome for Seward Peninsula points
from the South is handled by light
ors between ship and shore, and as
there are no other practical means
Of handling the freight, Mayor Rice
stated that it was necessary for the
city to take quick action At a mass
meeting of Nome citizens, it was de
cided to finance the undertaking To-
cally and ask the Legislature to
pass law enabling the city to en-
ter the lighterage business.
After reciting the facts, Mr. Coch-
ran was given unanimous consent to
introduce the bill which was passed
without a dissenting vote and ord
cred transmitted to the Senate
Conference Is Asked.
After communication had been
read from the Senate advising that
it had refused to recede from its
amendment to the Getchell eight
hour bill by substituting Mr.. Hess
General eight-hour bill, on motion
by Mr.. Getche ell, Speaker Nerland ap-
pointed Representatives Brown, Get
chell and Trip to act for the House
in a conference with representatives
from the Senate regarding the bill.
The House was also advised that the
Senate had appointed Senators
Frawley, Chamberlin and Britt to
meet the House representatives in
conference on the Soldier Bonus
Memorial
Brotherhood Protests.
A protest against the passage OF
the Britt Fisheries Bill was re
ceived by the House from Louis
F. Paul. President of the Grand
Camp of the Alaska Native Brother
hood. Mr.. Paul stating that the
protest was signed by business men
and other residents of Wrangell
House Bill No. 81. imposing IL
cense taxes on fur farmers. fur buy
ers and trappers, under its second
reading was amended by adding a
tax on trophies as follows: Moose
trophy. SO; Deer trophy, $3.50:
ccribou. sheep and goat trophies. s.
each. Section ~, giving game war
ders and deputy marshals right OF
search and seizure without specific
ally stating the process of search
and seizure. was stricken, Mr.. Muir
ray, Mr. Holt and Mr. Brown con-
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27

Private advices received today
from Washington say that the agi-
tation relative to Col w. T Per
kins is largely propaganda. While
outside men have been mentioned
National Committeeman J. C. Nc
Bride and the Republican organiza-
ton are standing squarely behind
the candidacy of George c. HaZelet
Of Cordova and are absolutely con-
fident that Mr.. Hazelet will be ap-
pointed.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Tacoma Judges Life Is
Threatened in Letter

TACOMA, Wash, April 27.-Judge
w. Askren, who Monday dismissed
five indictments against Ole Larson.
former president of the defunct
scandinavian American Bank. and
Charles Drury former director, yes
terday received through the mails a
threat against his life The note
read:
Shoot straight or / will. I can
do better than that woman"
The writer evidently referred to
Julia Smith now serving a prison
term for shooting and woup ding
Judge AslSrcn last year.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Shipping Strike Conference
Fails to Effect Settlement
Boynes Nails Canard
That Harding Said
Forbes to Be Governor
(By the Associated Press)

10y lIIe ASSOCldleu TTeSS
SEATTLE, Wash, April 81
R S. Boynes, President of
the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce, today branded as false
published reports that Presi-
dent Harding had told him Col.
Charles r. Forbes, of Seattle,
had been selected for Governor
of Alaska
There is absolutely no truth
in the report" Mr.. Boynes de-
clared. My recent conversation
with the President had nothing
to do with Alaska. My policy
and that of the Seattle Cham
Der of Commerce regarding AL
aska appointments is policy
of hands off. We will be solidly
behind the new Governor of
Alaska when he is named but
we will have nothing to do
with his appointment.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Rube Marquard Niarries,
First Ceremony Illegal

CINCINNATI O., April 27.-Rube
Marquard, pitcher on the Cincinnati
National League baseball club. mar
ried Miss Naomi Malone, Of Balti-
more. yesterday The couple had
been married before but had TO re-
marry to make the ceremony legal
because the first marriage was per-
formed before Marquard's divorce
from Blossom Seeley, well known
1ctress. had become effective.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Scheme to Bring Chinese
Laborers to U. S. Nipped

WASHINGTON, April 27 The
Department OF Labor today an
nounced cancellation of an arrange
neut with officials OF the Chinese
Merchants Association permitting
Chinese industrial students to enter
the United States. The Department
was informed the arrangement was
scheme TO bring 10000 Chinese
laborers into the country.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Draft Evader's Assistants
Are Denied Another Trial

PHILADELPHIA. April 27.-Mrs.
Emma G. Bergd0ll, Charles Braun,
James B. Romig. Harry Schuh and
Albert Mitchell. who were convicted
last September of conspiring to as
sist Grover Bergdol to desert from
the army in war time through draft
evasion. were denied new trial to
day. They probably will come up
for sentence Nav s. All have been
at liberty on bail
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
1000 Delegate Attending
u. S. Chamber Commerce

ATLANTIC CITY y. J.. April 27.
More than 4o00 delegates were
in attendance when the annual con
vention of the United States Cham
Der of Commerce opened here today.
Revision of traffic, tax and anti
trust laws, foreign trade, immigra-
ton. housing problems and remedial
measures for the Industrial situation
were subjects of discussion,
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
BABE RUTH FINED.

New York, April 27 Babe Ruth
home run king OF the New YORK
Yankees was fined S25 today for
driving an automobile down Broad
way al 27 miles an hour.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Counter Attack on Dry Law
Is Launched in Congress

WASHINGTON, April 27.-As IA
counter attack to Representative An
Grew J. Volstead's drastic amend
ment to the prohibition enforcement
law introduced yesterday by which
physicians would be prohibited from
prescribing beer as a medicine, Rep
resentatiye John p Hill, Republican,
of Maryland, yesterday introduced a
bill placing prohibition enforcement
entirely in the hands of the De
partment of Justice.
NEW YORK, Aprn GT.-Refusal OF
a grand jury to indict alleged VIC
lators of the states new bone dry
law unless proof was submitted that
they had liquor for sale, announce
ment that expert counsel plans to
test the laws constitutionality and
the first conviction for violation are
outstanding developments in the
police anti-rum crusade here.
After the grand jury threw out
eight cases of alleged violation its
foreman laid down a general rule
that persons arrested simply for hav-
ing liquor in their possession, with
out proof of intention to sell would
not be held for trial.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Greeks and Jews Clash at
Constantinople Over War

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 27 -
Several persons were injured in riot
ing here yesterday between Greeks
and Jews whom the Greeks accusd
OF being hostile to the Greek cause
gcainst the Turkish Nationalists.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Several Killed in Rioting
Between Opposing Factions

ROME April 27.-SeveraI extreme
Eationalists and Communists were
killed and others were wounded in
clash between two factions al Tu-
rim yesterday, according TO adyice5
received here.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Alaskan Launch Held by
Canadian Customs Officer.

PRINCE RUPERT, B. c., April 27
The Alaskan launch Valorous was
held by custom officials here today
On the ground that whiskey in the
boats cargo was not included in the
manifest.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Eskimos Starving in North;
Many Are Reported Dead

THE PAS, April 27.-Trappers ar
riying here today reported that Es-
kimos along Repulse Bay on the Are
tic Ocean are starving because of
the failure of caribou herds to come
into the territory during the winter.
Many deaths are reported to have
occurred
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27

ELROY, Wis, April PA tor
nado swept through Juneau County
and adjacent sections today destroy
irg all buildings on a number of
farms and killing cattle and horses.
The twister also is reported to have
hit the towns of Hustler and Kendall
but the extent OF damage there is
not known. Wires are down, cut
ting communication.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Haywood Safe in Russia,
Atty. Gen. Daugherty Says

WASHINGTON, April 27.-Attor
ney General Harry NJ Daugherty to-
day announced that Department of
Justice advices indicated that Will
lam D. C'Big Bill'D Haywood, head
of the l. w. w, without doubt has
fled to Russia to escape serving a
20 year prison sentence for violation
of the espionage act during the war
and is not likely to return soon.
Haywood is reported to be work
ing as general manager of employ
ment activities in a communist or
ganization. Mr.. Daugherty said no
action could be taken at present to-
ward bringing him back in view Of
existing relations between the United
States and Russia.
LEAVENWORTH Kansas. April
27.-Twenty-tWo of the as l. w. w
sentenced with William D. Haywood
TO prison terms for conspiring to
obstruct the draft during the war
all of whom have been at liberty on
bail pending appeal proceedings, have
been received in the Federal peni
tentiary here. Department of Justice
agents are still working on rounding
up the missing men.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
Dozen Reported Killed
In Mississippi Tornado

HATTIESBURG, Miss, April q
More than dozen persons are
reported killed and scores injured
of Braxton yesterday. demolishine
every business house except a bank.
BraXtOn is a town of 500 inhabi-
tants 80 miles from Jackson. All
wires are down
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27

1917 1918 1919 1920 1921
Explanation of the position of the railroads in their re-
quest for a decrease in wages is contained in the
latest issue "American Railroads. published by authority
the Association of Railway Executives The publication
charts that the wages relatively higher
than the prices of necessares and also the concurrent in
since 1915 of railway and the decrease of net
railway operating income in the period The charts
above explain themselves.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27
PREPARATION OFFER
IS UNACCEPTABLE,
OFFICIALS STATE
French Ambassador at Wash
ington Is Notified Of Gov
ernment's Decision.
BRITAIN INVESTIGATING
Representatives at Berlin
Told to Gain More Infor-
nation on Nature of Offer

PARIS, April 27. - The French
Government today informed Ambas-
sador Jusserand at Washington that
Cermany's latest reparations pro-
posals are absolutely unacceptable
to France.
LONDON. April 27-The British
Government has requested its rep
resentative at Berlin to inquire in
formally regarding the new German
reparations offers for the purpose of
clearing up ambiguity concerning
the term of years in which the pro-
posed payments would be made.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-27

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Continued on Pago Two.j
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-15

prettiest of all Indian girls. There are
no white half-breeds among them SO
strong in the tribe is hatred of our
race that. II Seminole woman were
80 have a child by white man. she
would be likely tdsbe put 10 death
Around their necks tile women wear
many strings of beads Of cutglaSS
which they buy from traders. Some
times squaw is adorned with as
much as six quarts Of these beads,
aud even the girl babies are loaded
down with them. The women pierce as
many as ten holes IN the upper rim Of
each ear 60 hold pegs OF wood,
IKE Seminole house is of peculiar
construction, having q roof and floor,
but no sides, It's framework is of pal.
metto poles, which support a platform
three feet from the ground and roof
Of palmetto leaves. II is all one room
open to view from without and one
might Imagine that hero was the limit
Of nOnprivacy were u not that tie
Seminole dwelling is Customarly hid
den in the jungle, - Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-15
REALM OF DEATH ON EARTH
Country in the Vicinity OF Mount We
suVius Graphically Portrayed by
Gifted Frenehwoman.

The country at the foot of NeSuNius
is the most fertile and best cultivated
of the Kingdom most favored by
heaven in all Europe The celebrated
Lacryma Christi vine Aourshes beside
land totally devastated by lava as if
nature here made q last effort and re-
solved 10 perish in her richest array
As YOU ascend YOU turn to gaze on
Naples ana on the fair land about it.
the sen sparkles in the sun as If
strewn with Jewels; but all the SPLEEN
doris of creation are eNtinguished by
degrees, rs you enter the region of
ashes and smoke, that announce your
approach to the volcano.
The iron waves of other years have
traced large black burrows in the soil
At certain height birds arc no long
or seen further on plants become very
scarce chen even insects find no nour-
lshment. At last all life disappears;
YOU enter the realm Of death, ana the
slain earths dust slips beneath your
unasSurcd feet. Madame ne Stael.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-15
RITES or MOUND BUILDERS
How Bundle 5urlalsr and "9unals in
the Flesh" Were Conducted ~
Ancient Race.

After aa Indian mound has bean
cleared and surveyed 1t is stripped OF
the surface sod and cxcavatcd by q
series Of trenches one mound, says
the Southern Workman, contained no
less than - bundle burialS,' with two
"burials in the iiesli'' above Of later
date, These bundle burals were
dlsarticulated skeletons that had been
taken down from trees and made Into
bundles In each bundle as rule,
were the bones Of FROM Two TO four
individuals. They were placed end to
end lengthways, north 10 south, and
formed layer some ten feet long and
fiYe feet wide. They were placed on
q carefully prepared bed ot alternate
layers OF golden and brlght-red sands,
evidently of ceremonial import, and
surrounded by several stone affairs,
On these, appropriate sacrifices were
made to the dead; there were signs
If fire all about Some half-hurned
human bones in well-preSeryed oak
charcoal were found near the top, in
dicatng that some poor captive had
been burned at the stake to minister
to the souls of the dead an their jour
ney to the happy hunting grounds. In
the top strata were found two Skel-
etons, both OF them strongly fixed,
with the knees drawn mp to the chin.
They were evidently OF considerable
age, but of later origin than the
bundle buials. In fact, all the
bones in this group of mounds showed
extreme signs Of decomposition. 1t
was necessary to paint" them all with
ransfuslng huld the minute they
were exposed to the air. These two
skeletons were perhaps the remains
Of people who had died during the
construction of the mounds ana were
given burial in the top Of them.