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ing making the first authoritative today of MT. Hughes selection to head the new cabinet coupled with it announcement that Mir Hughes has accepted his offer of the post.
 mediatcly after conference be- tween the two. When asked whether he would go into details regarding consultation with MT. Hughes on diplomatic and state de- rartment affairs, the President Elect replied:
 You may ask Mir Hughes that. Tiere is going to be another policy with the new administration and from the beginning the Secretary of State will speak for that depart ment."
 MT Hughes declined to comment on his acceptance of the post other than to express appreciation of the honor bestowed upon him.
 Other cabinet appointments are understood to have been decided upon but definite announcement of the President Elects selection is withheld.
 Intimate friends say the cabinet. as tentatively drawn up, will include:
 Albert W. Mellon, of Pittsburgh. Secretary of the Treasury.
 Former United States Senator John w. Weeks, of Massachusetts, Secretary of War.
 Will H. Hays, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Postmaster General.
 United States Senator A. B. Fall, of New Mexico, Secretary of the Interior. .f,-
 Henry c. Wallace, Iowa farm journal publisher, Secretary of Az riculture.
 The only change in this list from one announced from Marion sev- eral weeks ago as the President Elects probable cabinet are Mr.
 H Mellon instead of Charles C. Dawes, of Chicago, for Secretary of Treas ury, Senator Weeks for Secretary or War instead of Navy, and elimina- tion of A. T. Hert of Kentucky, as Secretary of War.
 The Navy portfolio is still un- decided It is generally understood that former Gov. Frank o. Lowden, of Illinois, was offered it but de- clined United States Senator Miles Poindexter, of Washington, member of the Senate Naval Affairs Com mittee, is being urged by several Congressional leaders for the post mad his name is said to be under serious consideration.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
German Zeppelins to Be
 Offered to Other Nations

LONDON, Feb. 19.-The Zeppelin Manufacturing Company has decided to offer the German Zeppelin 10 other countries. as Germany is for bidden under the treaty to develop the airship. according to an article in the Cologne Gazette, written by Alfred Colsmann, general manager of the Zeppelin Company and cO- worker of the late Count Zeppelin. and forwarded 10 the London Times by its Berlin correspondent.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
American Heiress Chooses Father Employee for
 Future Husband.

LONDON, Feb. 19.-Miss Violet Selfridge, daughter of H. Gordon Selfridge, American owner of a large department store, is to become the bride of Vicamtc de Sibem, member of an old French family and an employee in her fathers store.
 Announcement of the engagement was the first intimation to the fash ionable world that the titled scion of French aristocracy, who had ire quently appeared in the most exclus- i've drawing rooms, had made his living as an humble clerk.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
Pajama. Made by American
 Mothers Resold by French

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. - Forty thousand suits of pajamas made by American women for the boys in France, but sold to the French Gov ernment after the armistice, are be- ing sold in this country through French and American spectators at s2,45 a suit, L. E. Bicknell, assistant director of the Red Cross, A. E. F., declared before House war inves- tigating committee. French specu, lators obtained them from the French Government later and sold them to Americans who stripped them of the Red Cross insignia.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
TIMETABLES BANK FUNDS TO LOAN
 TO B00TLECCERS
Seattle Bank Teller Con fesses-Three Other
 Arrests Follow.

SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. 19.-Paul teller of the defunct North Side State Bank, who was Thursday to serve from five to fifteen years in the state penitentiary for embezzlement, to- day confessed that he took the bc nk's fund to loan to bootleggers, according to Prosecuting Attorney Douglas The loans were not re- paid, Schaeffer s2id. Three arrests were made in connection with the case a few hours after his alleged
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
Big Lefty" Captured by
 Hunters for Use as Decoy

DENVER. Colo, Feb. 19.-"Bi5 Lefty three-legged leader of a wolf pack in the Crested Butte section of Colorado, whose cunning is blam- ed by stockmen for the loss of hun dreds of dollars worth of young stock, i9 again in the hands of hunt CTS for the United States Biological Survey. Big Lefty" escaped from steel trap eight years ago and as the elader of seven other wolves has left a trail of partly eaten car casses wherever he roamed tho plains.
 The big wolf will not be killed. but instead will be used as a decoy in an effort to trap his disciples, biological officials said
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
TEXAS BANK CLOSED.

RANGER, Tex, Feb. 19. - Tho Firat National Bank of Ranger fail ed 10 open today and officials said it has been taken over by the Fed eral Bank Examiner The suspen- sion was the result of failure to realize on loans and run ycster- day Deposits were s1.50O.0O0 ac- cording 10 the last statement.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
Railway Mail Robbery.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 19. Two bandits early today Eeldup three mail clerks in a Northern Pa cific Railway mail car near St. Cloud and fled with registered mail, esti- mated to contain several thousand dollars, after wounding one of the clerks who attempted resistance.
 Later two suspects were taken into custody near Little Falls, Minn., after a battle with officers.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
Oregon g lure Passes
 Docb. Ele ion Board Bill

St o.. Feb. 19. The Oreg .eligl re today passed the dout .st.r board bill providing that hc shall start counting ball ait enty votes have been cas T1 his system it is ex- pc .l fh Q results of an cleo tit wi" known within a few n .-- the polls close
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
Held on Murder Charge.

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-Charles T. Davis, wealthy surgical instru- ment manufacturer. held here with cut bail charged with the murder of Detective Joseph Bridget Thurs day night, today declared that he kept a riot gun, siren and revolver in his office to guard against burg
 lars. Bridget was killed and an other detective and an insurance adjuster wounded in Davis office
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
Northwestern Sails for
 North; Eight for Juneau

SEATTLE, Feb. 19.4The steam CT Northwestern that sailed for the North at nine o'clock this morning carried 155 passengers and four and a half days mail. Juneau passen- gers are J. D. Geyer, J. M. Tanner, J. T. Tucker, Charles Ottesen, w. E.. Novel;, E. 0. Swanson, w. P. John son, Mrs. o. Hewitt.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
Bandits Holdup Mining
 Camp, Escape with $2,3OO

SHERIDAN, Wyo.. Feb l9. Masked bandits last night held up eighteen men In pool hall at tho Dietz mining camp near here and escaped with between $l.600 and $2,3O0.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
Turner Reelected Head te
 of s. P. and s. Railway

PORTLAND, Ore, Feb, l9e-W. r. Turner was reelected president oi the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad at directors meeting here yesterday. Other officers were also reelected.
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Boy Prisoner Recaptured.

SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 19.-- Elliott Kitchener, IA, who escaped officers in Northport yesterday by jumping from a second story win dow after they had arrested him on a charge of having stolen $14, ,0OO in Liberty Bonds from his fathers home in Couer d'Alene, Idaho, was arrested near the scene of his es- cape last night when he returned for food. Securities valued at $14,- 500 were found in his possession.
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Dry Law Agents Indicted.

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 19.-H. D Brown, State Prohibition Inspector, end Harry Sweet. Prohibition Agent were indicted here today charged with stealing liquor and transport ing it illegally.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-19
SERBIAN MONARCH
 GROWING FEEBLE, END NEAR, BELIEF
King Peter Confined to Bed,
 Only Son and Daughter Allowed to See Him.

PARIS, Feb. 19.-King Peter Of Serbia, now 79 years old, is very feeble, according to reports reaching Paris from Belgrade. He is totally deaf and spends all of his time ill bed or in an invalid's wheel-chair. Only the Crown Prince and Prime ess Helene, his widowed daughter, whose husband was killed by tal Bolsheviki, are permitted to see hilA.
 While the paralysis that has af- fected the old monarch's right side for the last two years has improved somewhat. he is unable to waln. He has lost steadily in weight and energy since coming from his retreat in Phaeron, Greece, year ago, anu has ceased to participate in the af fairs of State.
 He is living in a little stone house outside the city of Belgrade. His only companions are his physician and a personal servant
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Latest Bulletins
 By Special Cable

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1s. - Two United States Marines, serst. Don aId Mack, Seattle, and Pay Clerk Douglas Booth, Key West. were kill ed in an airpIane crash in Haiti yes terday, the Navy Department an nounced this afternoon.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 1e. Henry Bruckner, President of the Borough Of Manhattan, was stricken by sleep ing sickness today. The Health De- partment announced that there has been two hundred cases of the mal- ady here since January 1, including forty this week. Three deaths were reported today.
 coNSTANTiNoPLE, Feb. 1e. - A Russian 5olsheviki army is threat enina Tiflis, capital of the Republic Of Georgia and the Georgian govern nent has fled. It is believed the Moscow authorities desire to hold Tiflis as base for operations against Persia. It is understood that several Americans who were at Tiff tic escaped.
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HUGHES ACCEPTS STATE PORTFOLIO
FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO HEAD NEW CABINET; REMAINING
 PORTFOLIOS VIRTUALLY DECIDED

ST. AUGUSTINE Florida Feb 19-Charles Evans Hughes of New York former associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and Republican candidate for President 1916 will succeed Cambridge Colby Secretary State when latter steps of office March with the outgoing Wilson administration.
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After the liberation of Serbia from the Austrians in October 1918. King Peter retired to Belgrade with his army, and entered actively into the reorganization and reconstruction Of his shattered country. Failing health. however, compelled him soon after to seek retirement to private life. The affairs of state and court were turned over to his son. Prince Alexander who became Prince ne- gent of the new state of Jugo-Slavid
 Early in 1919, the King was rc- moved to a quiet retreat near Ata- ems. Greece. where he lived for a year or more in a small sixroom house overlooking the Bay ol Pnal- eron.
 To meet his long cherished wish that he might die on his native soil the Serbian authorities late last yaal brought the invalid King back 10 Dis beloved Belgrade. He has avoided society and kept aloof from al court and public functions.
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Queried on Attitude

Twill you tell me what you think of a Soviet Government? Will you go back to the United States end speak against us?"
 There was Iona Oause in which the thoughts of the four months iu
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New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Congressman Asks Probe
Of All Secret Societies
upshaw, of Georgia, Introduces
Resolution: Defends Imperial
Wizard of Ku.Klux

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7-Investiga-
tion of each and every secret or
ganization in the United States" was
called for in a resolution Introduce d
to-day by Representative Upshaw, Dem
ocrat, of Georgia.
Proposed as a supplement- to efforts
to investigate the Ku-Klux Klan, Mr.
Upshaw said in statement that he
felt sort of wounded pride in hear
ing many criticisms hurled at the Klan,
which was organized in his district and
whose imperial' wizard "is one of the
knightliest most patriotic men ! have
ever known"
Declaring the public would commend
the fairness of his resolution to in
vestigate concurrertlv with the Ku-
KluN all other organizations holding
meetings behind closed doors, Mr.. Up
shaw added:
IF imperial wizard and grand goblin
are titles to make the plain people
shudder tand they are) then these
same plain people have a right to know
the meaning of such other startling
titles as imperial potentate, most
duissant and illustrious grand master
grand exalted ruler and a full thou
sand other weird titles of secret order
officials, who seem about to fascinate
the majority of American free men
into joining mystic conclavss of in
scrutable words and deeds"
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
New Army Gun
Hurls Missile
Twenty Miles
Largest Rifle in the World,
With a Range of 80 Miles,
Tested Before Hundreds
of Experts and Engineers
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUNDS,
Nd, Oct. TESTS of the largest gun
in the world, with a firing range Of
thirty miles, the largest bomb in the
world, weighing two tons, or twice as
much as any used in the war, and the
first fashless gunpowder were carried
out here to-day in the presence of sew
eral hundred army experts and enci-
neers.
The gun was tried out in connection
with new barbette carriage, which
is expected to do away with the neces-
sity of building pits for disappearing
coast defense guns. The gun has so
much greater range than any naval
weapon and the new carriage design
offers such greater protection from air
planes than the present mounts that
officlals foresee the possibility of aban-
doning the disappearing carriage as no
longer necessary. The rife, measuring
69 feet long, took an 850-pound powder r
charge and hurled a projectie weigh
ing 2,340 pounds into the waters of
Chesapeake Bay.
To Strengthen Coast Defenses
Experiments to find the maximum
range of the gun were not made, as
haze hung over the bay and officers
IN charge feared that ships might be
within range. AS result the missile
was fred about twenty miles. Army
officials are planning the purchase of
number of these guns to strengthen
the coast defenses.
The fiashless powder was tested out
this evening. Ten rounds were fired
from 75-millimeter guns, but there was
no fash Only dull red glow accom-
panied the roar, and army officers as
serted that the invention of this pow
der would do away with the greatest
objection to night firing in the great
war-the fash showing to the enemy
the whereabouts of the American guns.
The bomb that was dropped was as
big as an automobile. When it struck
the earth, more than mile from the
spectators, it tore a hole in the ground
twenty feet deep and $50 in diameter.
Experiment With Tractors
A tank and tractor parade featured
the afternoon. There were tanks weigh
ing three, six and forty tons. and
tractors of all sorts. Among the nov
elites was a Holt tractor, on which a
75 millmeter gun was mounted, which
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
W age and Price
Cuts Advocated
To Aid .Jobless
Conference Committee Re.
port Said to Hold View
Revision Is Necessary to
Bring Industrial Revival
For Lower Freight Rates
Passage of Rail Funding
Bill Also Held Step Tow
ard Economic Betterment
Practical

WASHINGTON, Oct 7. - Practical
completion of majority report on
permanent measures for the better
ment of business throughout the coun-
try was effected to-day by the manu-
facturers' committee Of the National
| Conference on unemployment Whether
| a minority report will be submitted to
the full conference when it reassem blcs S
Tuesday was not disclosed.
On the question of business read
justment the majority Of the commit
tee was understood to hold the view
that readjustment Of wages and prices
downward was . necessary precedent
to q commercial readjustment from
which . revival Of the nations in
dustry could spring. In connection with
the readjustment process the report
was understood to favor lower freight
rates to permit Of a greater flow of
commerce.
Passage Of the railway funding bill
for the financial relief of the carriers,
now pending in Congress. was under
stood to be regarded by the report as
an important step in economic better
ment, while the discontinuance of
functions of the Railroad Labor Board
which come in conflict with the ac-
tivities Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission was regarded favorably.
World Change Eight-Hour Law
Legislation, changing the Adamson
eighthour law, was understood to be
suggested as a means. Of more readily
accomplishing industrial readiustment.
On the subject Of taxation the report
was understood to favor program
at the same time providing ample
revenues for the Federal government.
Lack of unanimity upon various fea-
lures Of the report was indicated by
co-Amittee members who, however, de-
clined to discuss the report until 1t
was made putlic Mt the full conference
The resignation of W. II. Stackhouse,
of Springfield, Ohio, as chairman of
the committee, which includes Samuel
Gompers and Charles NJ. Schwah, was
announced. Mr. Stackhouse said he
was compelled to return home on bust
ness. James A. Campbell, of Youngs-
town, Ohio, was named as his sue
cessor.
Railroads Pledge Cooperation
Emergency measures for the relief
# 7'mr oymont adopted by the cor =
ference were said to be in operation in
a. ,,.-ta VA the country. Cooperation
Of tho railroads in making effective tic
conferences recommendations was un-
derstood to have been rendered by g
number of railway executives In con-
ference to-day with Secretary Hoover.
The executives were understood to
have evidenced their willingness to
employ as many as possible on mantc-
nance to aid in meeting the general
situation.
Among the executives at the confer
encc were Howard Elliott, of the North
ern Pacific; R. S. Lovett, of the Union
Pacific; julius Kruttschnitt, Of the
Southern Pacific; Alfred H. Smith, of
the New York Central; Samuel Rea, of
the Pennsylvania; c. Fl. Markham, OF
the Illinois Central, and T. Dewitt
Cuyler, president Of the Association Of
Railway Executives.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08

attained speed of thirty miles an
hour. 1t has a water-tight engine and
demonstrated that fact by churning
its way through water-filled ditch
deep enough to cover the top of the
engine. incidentally submerging the
gun.
Another tractor novelty was one
which generated electricity by a gas
motor on the first vehicle and supplied
the electricity to the rear caterpillar
tractor, carrying 1856 -millimeter now
itzer and driven by twin dynamos.
A six-whecled ammunition truck
showed the front wheels tired as on
ordinary trucks, but with the two pairs
of rear wheels fitted with caterpillar
trucks. Seventy five -millimeter guns
were fired mounted on several sorts Of
carriages, one with the ordinary trail
and others with split and box trails.
The last named is a 1921 model and
especially adapted for anti-aircraft de-
fense, as it has range of $1,000 meters
at it's maximum elevation.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Canadian Election Dec. 6

OTTAWA, Ont, Oct. 1.-The Cana
dian general election will take place
December 6, Premier Meighan an
nounced to-day. Nominations viii be
made November %. Parliament will
be summoned January II.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Sinn Feiner 10 attend
Parley IL, Rebel Regalia

From The Trtbunc's European Burecu
Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Tue.
LONDON, Oct. 7.-When the
Sim Fein delegates meet Premier
Lloyd George and his advisors IN
London next Tuesday in an effort
to reach g settlement of the Irish
question, Michael Collins, chief Of
the republican army and one of
the delegates from Dublin, plans
to appear in Downing Street in
his rebel army uniform, the Trib-
une's Dublin correspondent says.
The presence of Collins is con-
sidered in some quarters as open
to objection by the British gov
ernment, and this is particularly
true if he defes the authorities
by coming in uniform.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08

ties revealed in an exchange of ear,
munications with Mr.. LLOYD c..,s.
their desire to begin discussions e.
mediateiy. They consented merely :.
examine the governments pronosal =.
plicitly dissoc;a;ing themselves e.
responsibility for the policy 70 ="
adopted by the government. Ben ~,
lett. Labor member OF parliamen, 80
organizer of the lockers. union ans
wnicn Tor many years ne has been rer. NJ
era! secretary, in a manifesto to.nscn. scn.
said: '''"'gnt
Bankruptcy stares US in the ,.u
This winter will be the testing tir.
for working-ciass organization r,'a rne
form of government is in STATE erE ps
panic or ruin. Whether 1t will bs y. W
imperial or national government a. an
aster impinges on the Administrative
but whatever the chaos of accumnlatns,
debts, labor and industry will have w ~
meet the impost." "
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08

uation is the apparently sincere desire
Of both sides to come to an under.
standing.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
College Pilgrimage Urged
Pennsylvania State Asks Dem.
onstration for Disarlning

STATE COLLEGE, Pa, Oct IA
bid for students in the universities of
Europe to join the undergraduate
bodies Of America in a concerted move
ment to further the aims of the Con-
ference on the Limitation of Arma-
ment in Washington was made here
tonight at a mass meeting attended BY
1900 students Of Pennsylvania State
College.
Without a dissenting voice the meet
ing adopted resolutions calling for a
simultaneous pilgrimage of student
delegations from every university and
college in the United tSatcs to Wash
ington with petitions urging the arma-
ments conference in the name of the
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Death Toll in Paris Tunnel
Disaster Nav Reach Forty

PARIS, Oct. 7 (Bv The Associated
Press The death list in the St. La
zare tunnel disaster probably will ap-
proXimatc forty. Two burned bodies
we're recovered to-day when the last of
the wreckage wos removed One Of
these was identified, the other is be-
lleyed to be that of woman.
Inc bodies recovered number thirty
and ten persons are missing. Some Of
them may possibly have been saved,
but they have not communicated with
the police.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Labor Urged to Force
Britain to Aid Jobless
Til!cst Says the Country Faces
Bankruptcy; Union Leaders
to Examine Relief Plans

LONDON, Oct. 7 (By The Associated
Press).-The pressure of the unem-
ployment problem is steadily ncreas-
ing, and intense anxiety is being mani
tested by labor organizations. manufac-
turers and the public regarding the
plan which the government is formu-
lating to deal with it.
A joint conference OF labor leaders
to-day accepted the Premier's invita-
tion to confer with the Cabinet next
week on the question. but the labor
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Decies Urges Freeing
OF Al Irish Prisoner,

DUBLIN, Oct. Lord Decies, who
lately has been acting as military press
censor in Ireland, writing of the con-
stant dread which exists in the minds
OF the people that something suddenly
may happen to hinder, and perhaps up-
set, the peace negotiations, strongly
urges the government to release all
prisoners immediately
Many of these men, says Lord Dccics,
Rave been nterned for months without
trial or without any charges having
been made against them.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Treasury Expert Asserts
Home Market Is Rcpiiuii1,e

WHlTEFIELD, N. H., Oct IA re-
vival Of American business on stead
lily improving scale WIS predicted by
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Eliot Wadsworth, of Boston, in an ad-
dress tonight at the annual banquet
Of the New Hampshire Bankers AS
sociation.
I'VE think the worst is over" he
said. 'We know that our main re.
lance, the home market, is beginning
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
House Warns
OF Fight ON
Tax Changes

CONTINUED from page one)
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to revive. slowly perhaps. but on !
sound basis. Certain industries de-
pending upon the export trade will no
doubt suffer seriously, but those bust
nesses which depend upon the normal
American life, the feding, clothing,
transporting and keeping warm of no.
on a steadily improting scale"