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The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Joseph Pelletier Is Ousted
From Position By the State
Court of Massachusetts
Fisherman Killed and
Partially Eaten by
Brown Bear, Is Report

Tiavas Armas WHEN, a sailor
and fisherman, was killed and
partially eaten by a brown
bear near the village of Wakta-
lee, on October 20, 1920, accord
ing to official reports received
at the office of Territorial Sec
rotary. The bear, after mauling
and partially eating his victim,
went to Wilens cabin nearby,
broke into it. and was living in
it when Wilen's body was found
about a week later
Information regarding the kill
ing WAS brought to Commission
err Craig. of the Koggiung pre-
cinct, by Angie Muller and An
gust Schroeder. Despite the
fact that Wilen's death occurred
more than a year ago, the first
news regarding it was received
here on the last mail from the
westward The cabin where it
occurred is situated about II
miles up Wood River, in the
Bristol Bay district.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
z|ON|STS HAVE
REVIVED PLANS
FOR SHIP CANAL
Would Construct ESQ Mile
Canal Through Palestine
Rivals Suez Canal.

JERUSALEM. Feb 21-The Zion
old plan of constructing a 250-mile
canal through Palestine as a sup
plement to the Suez Canal This
project was first brought out rs
years ago by the late Duke of Suth-
erland, but was buried unceremoni-
ously by Sultan Abdul Hamid be-
cause OF his opposition to progress.
Traffic through the Suez Canal has
become SO congested these days that
it is claimed an alternate canal route
is required Zionist leaders have
become convinced that the ever ex-
panding trade relations between Con-
tinental Europe and the Far East
have reached such dimensions that a
canal in Palestine would fill an urg.
ent need and reap untold CONNER
cial benefits for Palestine.
AS planned by F. A. Maier, of Hoi-
land, its ardent supporter, the canal
would be divided into two sections,
one of which would extend from
Haifa on the Mediterranean to Afu
leh, on the Lake of Liberals, or
Sea of Galilee.
Then there would be an interven
ing part to be formed by proposed
Jordan lake to extend from the Lake
of Tiberias toward the Dead Sea.
This would be filled with Mediterran
can Sea water. Having crossed the
UnlIIh hnpfn
again at Arabah at the foot of that
sea and extend to Akabah at the
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
REMARK ABLE
SENSATIONAL
CASE IN EAST
District Attorney Charged
with Blackmail Is Re-
moved from Office.
FIVE HIGHEST JUDGES
FIND OFFICIAL GUILTY
No Defense Offered When
Case Taken Before Court
a~ Charges Made.

BOSTON. Mass, Feb. 81. - The
Supreme Court of Massachusetts TO-
day removed District Attorney JOS
eph c. Pelletier, Of Suffolk County,
after finding him guilty on several
counts charging malfeasanoe, mis-
feasance end non-feasance in Office.
The case has proved to be one of
two most remarkable ever brought
in this State to the Supreme Count
on account of the official implicated
and the charges made.
The courts ruling was on charges
brought by the States Attorney
General that iPelletier had been
party to conspiracy to extolt money
under threats of prosecution and to
suppress indictments.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Riot Guns Are Used on
Rhode Island Strikers

PAWTUCkET. r. l.. Feb. 21.-One
was killed, two seriously wounded
and s.x hurt when the police used
rio guns on crowd of 1000 who
gather,1 at@the plant of the Jenckes
Spinning CcmSspy where strike is
progrc ssiEg.
Tie riot guns were used after
several patrolmen were knocked
down during the arrest of three
strike sympathizers.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
JAPAN CHINA
CONTROVERSY
IS NOW OVER
Admiral Baron Kato Is Pleas.
ed with Results of Arms
Conference.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21-Ad
justments reached between Japan
and China in the Washington Arms
Conference in relation to the future
handling of Shantung. however just
and in honor to the parties inn
mediately concerned is hardly ex-
to please every faction in every coun-
try" This statement was made here
last night by Admiral Baron T. Kato,
member of the Japanese delegation
at banquet
The speaker said the long standing
and vexatious question between
China and Japan had been definitely
removed, however
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Sh-h! 1t Is
Sunday; Don't
Play Checkers

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 21--
The House of representative
has defeated a bill to legalize
the playing of checkers and
chess on Sunday.
Committee members. whose
report against the measure was
accepted, explained there was
nothing in the law forbidding
the game indoors on Sunday.
They come under the ban of old
blue laws, however, when played
outdoors, and a cripple recently
was convicted and fined at
Brockton for having played
checkers on Sunday in a public
park.
1t was after this incident that
the Massachusetts State Check
er Association sought to amend
the Sunday sports law to in
clude checkers among the "ath
letic outdoors sports or games"
permitted between and 6
O'Clock on Sunday afternoons.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Vet Found
Accidental Find Is Made

As Frank Durwarde started from
he court room he bumped against
us elder brother. For a tense mo-
nent they stared at each other, Then
words of recognition broke from
hem both. As memory returned to
ne younger man he became un-
'erved and sobbed.
After Frank had been attended by
; physician he boarded a train with
MS brother for the East. II was de-
clared by an employee of the ranch
nan that the Durwarde family had
spent thousands of dollars in search
ing for the war veteran. who had
been wandering over the United
States.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb 21.-Frank
U. Durwarde, who disappeared from
his parents home on Riverside Drive
New York. four years ago Will
suffering from the effects OF She
shock. recovered his memory in 81
Paul police court when confronted
suddenly by his brother.
Police had arrested the man on
vagrancy charge. but the charge
'gainst him was dismissed in court.
His brother. o. v. Durwarde. a Mon
ANA raReher. had come to court to
who had inbibed too freely OF
moonshine
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Clues Believed Found to
Organized Robber Gang

TACOMA, Wash, Feb. 21.-Deteo-
tives of Seattle. cooperating with
the Pierce county sheriff's office,
early this morning arrested three
men at Falkland, Wash. The arrest
may result in new clues to the or
ganized gang of burglars and high
waymen operating in cities OF the
Pacific Northwest. This is the con-
clusion reached according to state
ments of the arresting officials.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Just a TriAe Late But
Civil War Bill Is O.Ked

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-The Sen
ate has passed a bin which would
reimburse the city of Baltimore to
the amount of $4,000. This is for
expenses contracted constructing de-
Tense works in and around the city
during the Civil War.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Death Rate in
United States
Is Decreasing

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-The
census bureau today published fig
ures showing the death rate in the
United States decreased to 1906 per
10000 in 1920 from 1,496 in 1910.
All age groups showed a decline in
the death rate but most pronounced
decrease is recorded in the figures
showing infant mortality dropped 26
per cent.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Aliens Being Bootlegged
Into U. S.; Charges Made

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Hun.
dreds OF aliens are being Illegally
"bootlegged' into the United States.
This was the declaration of Secre-
tary of Labor James J. Davis after
a conference with President Harding
today. Davis declared the enact
ment of law requiring all aliens
TO register was the only solution OF
the situation.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Big Joy Fund For Boston
Will Leaves Big Income

largest taxpayer, and was president
of a drug and chemical corporation.
Control and disbursements of the
income from the fund is to be in the
hands OF the mayor. president OF the
city council. the city auditor, presi-
dent of the Chamber OF Commerce
and president OF the Bar Association.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
America Praises Baliour
Before Plymouth Society

LONDON, Feb. 21.-Amcrica Joined
in the praises of Arthur j. Balfour,
head Of the British Arms Conference
at Washington. when United
States Ambassador George Harvey
last night addressed the Pilgrihis'
Society dinner. at which 300 were
assembled to welcome him home.'
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Allied Debt Refunding
Commission Nominated

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Secrn
tary OF Treasury Mellon, Secretary
of State Hughes, Secretary of CON-
merce Hoover, United States Send
tor Smoot and Representative Bur-
ton have been nominated members o,
the allied debt refunding commas
sion
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. PA fund
of approximately $5.0O0,00O, the in
come from which is to be expended
for the "use and enjoyment of the
inhsibitants'' of this city, is provided
for by the will OF George R. White,
filed here.
0lr. White Tor years was the. city's
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Economic Conference May
Be Postponed by Italy

BERLIN. Feb. 21.-The French
government has informed Germany
that Italy has been requested to post
pone the Genoa convention. The
economic conventions date has beer
set for early In March.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Jafet Lindeburg Has Flu;
Arrest Stalled for Time

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21.-Jafe.
Uindeburg, arrested on an extradition
warrant. was later released today on
a writ 7 habeas corpus returnable
February 90 Officers found him i'll
with influenza and the physician for
babe taking the former Tacoma bank
err into custody.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Cleveland City Council
Wants Change Dry Laws

CLEVELAND. O., Feb. GA reso-
luton protesting against the prohiJi-
ton amendment and appealing ID
Congress to modify 1t to permit Of
the manufacture and sale of light
city council at a special session here
asst night
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Former Director Bureau
War Risk Insurance Dead

NEW YORK, Feb. 21-Col. r. G.
Cholmeley Jones. former director OF
he Bureau of War Risk Insurance,
died today after a long Illness. He
vas 3S years OF age. Death was due
to heart disease.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
HISTORY OF CASE.

BOSTON. Feb. 21.-The trial of
District Attorney Joseph. c. Pelletier
of Suffolk County, before the full
bench of the Massachusetts Supreme
Court. which began on December 27
last and ended January "a, was the
second hearing OF tLc kind in the
States history and involved 32 spec
Continued on Page Three.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21

The Naval Board mentioned in
the above dispatch has been engaged
in work in the Matanuska district
for the past two years AT present
there is large force of experienced
miners engaged in coal mining and
general development work ascertain
ing the extent and quality Of the
Matanuska coal for naval purposes
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
Department OF
INTERIOR MAY
OPERATE MINES
Government Coal Mines in
Alaska May Go Under
New Department,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Secre-
tary of the Navy DENLY today
recommended the transfer to the
Interior Department of the Navy
Department activities in connec-
ton with the development of coal
for naval purposes in Alaska.
A Board of Naval Officers with
Commander o. c. Bowling at the
head. is now engaged in the work
especially in the Matanuska district
and, will report next April. After
that time, Secretary DENLY recon-
mended thSt the project, including
expenditure of the appropriations
involved be given entirely to the
Interior Department.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
INDEPENDENTS
ARE MEETING
FORMING PARTY
Farmers, Socialist-Labor and
Other Organizations
Are Conferring.
ORGANIZATION MAY
BE FORMED TONIGHT
Working Class May Be Put in
Legislative Halls Of
Nation.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Feb. ri. = The
political conference of members OF
the Farmers, Socialist and
other organizations called by Will
lam H. tombstone, President of the
International Association of Machin-
lists began formation of its program
expecting to complete the work Of
preliminary organization by tonight.
The committee on the program
discussed the report to be prepared
at secret session this afternoon.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
NEW MOVEMENT.

CHICAGO, H., Feb. 21.-Unani-
nous support of the new movement
to install a men and women class
in the nations legislative halls was
pledged here last night by men,
bers of farm organizations, Social
lists, labor party members, labor
leaders and clergymen in the con-
ference called by the group of rail-
way union men headed by William
H. Johnstone, President of the In
ternational Association Of Mach
inists.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21

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The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-20
Soap King EleUated to
Baron of LeUevhuln,e

Another peer OF recent creation is
Baron Leverhulmc, the British "Soap
King" the builder of Port Sunlight. Il
model industrial city. As William Hes
keith Lever he began as the owner of u
small soap plant in Warrington, Eng
land. and gradually developed busi-
ness that reaches into many countries.
The popular title of Soap King" did
not satisfy him. He wanted n title
backed with the authority Of the King
one that would be certain social asset
and that would attest his great sue
cess as n merchant.
Accordingly. in 1911, he became Sir
William and six ycars later, with Lloyd
George at the British helm. he was nd =
vanced to the grade Of baron. His
baronial estate is I.ewS Castle, Storno
way.
An authority on soap and all the
chemical processes used in the making
of that friend of civilization, Lord
Lcvcrhulme has gained unpleasant no.
toriety in the matter of art.
His first clash was with a portrait
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-20
Little Benny's S
Note Book
BY Lee Paps

] was laying on the setting room floor
wishing vacation was all yeer GROUND
insted Of jest sun.mir. and pop was writ.
ing letter at ma 5 desk, and ! had 4
id"'r. saying. Hay pop. our fletcher
told us once that germs grow quicker in
milk than they do in rnything
She was quite rite. and that's the rea.
son the law compcllS the milk com.
panies TO take so meny saniterry pre.
cautions, Pop scd,
Well how is that, pop, do germs like
milk? / sed.
They're crazy about IT, pop sed.
How about microbes. do they like q
too? l sed.
jest as mutch, If not more. pop sed.
And backteria too? | sed.
You bet, pop sed and | sed. q,
that's u good thing to know, amt L
pop?
Splendid, pop sed, and scd, I'm GLAD
| found it out.
Nolledge is power, pop scd.
And h" k'pp ON writing his letter ana
] scd. Well hay pop?
Watts matter now? pop scd.
II milk Is libel TO be 20 full of gerns
and microbes and things, wy cant n
have a glass of grape jooce for brekAst
and suppir insted OF glass Of milkYI
sed.
Because Y is a crooked letter, nov
either 90 to bed rite or get up oR ~
floor one or the other, pop scd.
Wich got up oR the aoOs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-20

II the titles of nobility granted in the
last five years have been an ever widen
ing stream, the distribution of knight
hoods has become torrent, crested
with more "Sir knights" than the age
Of chivalry ever saw.
To American eyes the most notewor-
thy case of title bagging In recent years
was that by William waldorf Astor,
great grandson of the fur trader who
founded the Astor fortune.
William Waldorf Astor gave up his
American citizenship and established
himself in England. For sixteen years,
according to general reports, he stalked
title. but met rebuff after rebuff.
The World War brought him his op.
portunity. He gave literally to vari.
GUS funds and. acting on the Prime
Minister'S advice. King George created
Astor Il Baron in. 1915.
But that lowest grade In the nobil. =.
ity apparently did not satisfy him.
Greater exertions and expenditures fol-
lowed, and in 1917 Lloyd George pre-
sented Astor's name at Buckingham
Palace for a Viscounty.
The promoted peer took the title of
Viscount Astor Of Hever, after Hever
Castle in Kent. the birthplace of Anne
Boleyn, which he purchased and re-
stored.
Astor died suddenly in October, 1919,
and was succeeded by his son, Wal
dorf Astor, whose wife was the first
woman to win election to the House of
Commons.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-20
BARON ASHFIELD
Educated in America. Albert
Stanley won his way in England
and finally the great ambition, a
title

The founder Of the Guinness for
tunes was Arthur Guinness. II brewer
In small way, who had saved his
money while working as butler for
an aristocratic Irish family,
The original Guinness migrated from
the little Irish town Of Leixlip to Dub
lin, where he leased small establish
ment at the st. James Gate. His bust.
ness grew steadily until his death, when
1t passed under the control Of his son,
Benjamin Lee Guinness, an even better
business man than his father.
Benjamin Guinness. in the course Of
years, made Guinness stout" known
tionally and incidentally ac.
quired a knighthood. The Earl OF
Iveagh is the third son Of that scion
Of the brewing house, one of the rich
est In the world.
Edward Cecil Guinness stepped first
on the baronetcy rung Of Ensland's
social ladder. Six years later, in
1901, he became a baron and in 1905,
q viscoupt. He had to content himself
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-20

United Railways and soon aftcrward At.
tracted the attention of Colonel W. r.
Hines. of the Public Service Railway9
Of New Jersey.
Stanley became manager Of the Pub.
lie Service Railways. When the United
States declared war on Spain he en-.
listed in the United States naval 70.
serve and served through the war on the
auxiliary cruiser Yosemite.
When he resumed his street railway
work his fame soon spread 10 England,
and he was invited to become manager
of the London Underground Railways.
He accepted the offer and speedily was
recognized as one of the foremost tran.
sit experts Of England.
In 1914 baronctcy was conferred
upon him. and when Lloyd George
form ed his war Cabinet Sir Alfred Stan.
and president Of the Board Of Trade.
In 1920. through the good Offices Of
Lloyd George, he became Baron Ash.
field.
The bestowal of "A peerage on the man
who started his career in Detroit was
one Of the conspicuous exceptions to the
honor awards which have created the
present uproar in England.
There have been outcries before over
the handing out of coronets and knight.
hoods. But they never have reached the
intensity and fury Of the present out.
burst. 8.
Lloyd George proposes royal COM
mission to assist the Government with
selections for the honors list. But tns
sharp attack comes at time when 4
reconstruction Of the House of Lords y
contemplated
The extreme liberals want to do
away entirely with hereditary legisla.
tors. The modcratcs and conservatives
believe that England still dearly loves
lord"
And Enslishmen who know their his.
tory and genealogy slyly point out that
Of the 600 members of the House OF
Lords scarcely thirty can trace theie
ancestry back to the Reformation.
But the Britons who are titins
against the entire order OF nobility say
the situation in these modern days 10
only aggravated by the wholesale en-.
nobling Of green grocers. tea merchants.
tanners, soapmakers, cnndlestickmak.
ers, distillcrs and brewers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-20

Accordingly. he was painted full length,
but sitting down.
Sir William had offered to paint the
noble lords head und shoulders for
$4,000. and half or three. quarter
portrait for $500. The price for d
full length portrait was $4,000.
When the full length portrait of the
seated baron was completed and the bill
for $4,000 was presented, Lord Lever
hulme refused to pay the full price on
the ground that a portrait sitting down
did not show enough of him to justify n
SIC, 900 fee. Sir william retorted that
he did not sell his art work by the yard
stick.
Aristocratic eyebrows were raised in
Mayfair when the 1919 honors list was
announced and the name Of William
Nall Walker was noted among the new
barons.
Not that Baron Wavertree-the title
he took-was unworthy of the honor.
He came of fine old country family
and was a noted sportsman and lover OF
blooded horsetlesh.
But the new baron's chief bids to
fame were that he had bred Derby
winner and that he won the Grand
National and the National Hunt
Steeplechase with his entries. The
crowning tor was it the coroneting) act
Of his career was his presentation in
1916 Of his stud Of race horses and mares
to the nation to start national stud.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-20
Oil Played Big Part in
Making British Lords

Oil, which gave the world its richest
man in the person Of John ID. Rocke-
feller. has played a part in the making
OF British Lords.
Viscount Cowrlray is the outstand-
ing representative of the oil interests,
who sits occasionally in crimson
cushioned seat in the House of Lords.
This nobleman won his way to i'm
mense wealth as Wectman ID. Pear
son. He is president Of 5. Pearson &
in many parts of the world. Cowdray
has had a truly romantic career
lie is remembered in this country as
the builder OF four tunnels under the
East River. New York. for the Penn
sylvania Railroad. His engineering
profession won him renown before he
climbed to the heights of the oil empire
he administers.
His chief oil holdings are in Mexico.
Persia and Russia. In the republic
south OF the Rio Grande his oil fields are
so vast that he has been spoken of as
"the member from Mexico in the
House Of Lords.
Niscount Cowdray was made a baro-
net in 1894, and baron in 1910. In
1916 he was created viscount. He
takes his title from Cowdray Castle,
magnificent pile in Sussex. Tradition
has it that curse has been on the
castle for centuries.
Most of the 1000 acre Cowdray
estate in Sussex is woodland and it in
cludcs 6O0-acre deer park, where
Queen Elizabeth shot deer with cross
bow. and where her brother, Edward
vi. had hunted some thirty years be.
fore
One Of the newest Of English barons
is Lord Ashtield, better known in the
United States as Albert II. Stanley.
The Baron was born in Derbyshire in
1873, and was brought to this country
when five years old.
The family, a branch OF an old one
named knatteries. settled In Detroit,
where the future Lord Ashfeld's father
changed his name TO Stanley.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-20

painter. Augustus John. who placed the
baron's likeness on canvas two years
ago. Mr.. John was chagrined and
infuriated when the portrait was re.
turned to him in a mutilated condition.
The representation Of the head and
part of the body had been cut out OF
the canvas. In that condition it was
placed on exhibition in the Chenil Gal =
leries in Chelsea.
Lord Leverhume tried to soothe the
angry artist. He explained that he
wanted to keep the canvas in safe
and that it was too large. So there
was nothing else to do but cut out the
head and lock that away securely. He
further explained that his housekeeper
returned the remainder of the portrait
by mistake.
Last year the "Soap King" had an
other artistic row. this time with Sir
William Orpen. renowned portrait
painter. Sir William made the aston
ishng announcement in Paris that Lord
Leverhulme refused to pay the price
agreed upon for n full-length protrait
of himself.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-20
LOOMS Nv ENGLAND as CHARGES FLY II
THAT PROUDEST TITLES IRE BOUGHT SECRE7L

Baron Forteviot was Hir John AleH.
ander Dewar. Bart, before he was given
a coronet In 1915. lie IA chairman OF
John Dewar 4 Sons, Ltd, one OF
the biggest distinlns concerns In the
world.
Baron -Dewar IL the managing direc-
tor Of this gigantic distillery, whose
products are passed over the bars OF
public houses in every city, town and
hamlet Of England. The Dewar whis-
kies have a wide vogue in other coun-
tries as well. not including the United
States, where they once were readily
obtainable favorites.
This noble lord was Sir Thomas Rob.