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The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28
S0MMERS HEADS
 ROAD WORK IN
 NOME DISTRICT
To Superintend All Roads and Rivers and Harbors
 Work This Summer.

R, ]. Sommers will superintend the work of the Alaska Road Com mission and the Board of Rivers and Harbors Enginers on Seward Peninsula this season, according to q statement made today by Col. John c. Gotwals. MT. Sommers will leave for Nome early this summer. He will be in charge of the river and harbor work, the improvement of the Nome-Shelton railroad, and all road work. The naming of MT tSommers as superintendent in the Seward Peninsula district is on ac- count of the effort being made to get the railroad in good shape this season and to complete the harbor work. Col. Gotwals said.
 The dredges installed on Little Greek necessitate improving the roads leading from Nome to Little Creek, and this work will be car ried on during the season.
 MT. Sommers was formerly with the Alaska Road Commission at Nome and at Fairbanks where he had charge of the road work on the Richardson Highway.
 William Leonard Smith, now working on the Nizina bridge pro feet, will leave Mccarthy about April 1, for Nome, to inspect the rivers and harbors work at that place, Col Gotwals said. It is the present plan. to dredge the harbor before navigation opens and MT. Smith will supervise this work, Dredging will start about May 15 and should be completed by June 16. when navigation opens.
 The plan Of dredging the harbor as early in the season as May is be cause of the usual fine weather il that time. the storms occurring after navigation opens. Col. Got wa1s said the completion of th' dredging by June 15 will be biz aid in the navigation of small boat' and lighters from the steamers, t' the shore.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28
LEOPOLD DAVID IS NOMINATED MEMBER
 OF COLLEGE BOARD

Gov. Scott c. Bone today sent to the Territorial Senate the nomination of Leopold David. of Anchorage, to be member of .flc Board of Regents of the Agricultural College and School Of Mines. at Fairbanks, succeeding A. J Ncrdele. resigned.
 Leopold Day.d isia pioneer of An. chorage, having come to Alaska from Oregon. During his residence in An ohorage David has been United States Commissioner and Mayor, and is now senior member of the law firm of David X Ray, his associate being former Territorial Senator L. V, Ray, of Seward. 5tssss
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28
STEEL CYLINDERS
 FOR NIZINA BRIDGE
 COMPLETE IN PLACE

The first two steel cylinders for the Nizina bridge, sunk in the river bed for piers. were complete in place March 9 last. according to tele- graphic adviees received today by Col. John e. Gotwals Tho cylinders each measure nine feet in diameter and arc 30 feet high. The placing of the cylinders is a feat of especial merit. entadling skillfui engineering and considerable labor, Colonel Got walls said. It was necessary to con struct special rigging driving the cylinders.
 Colonel Gotwals expects to make a trip of inspection of work now being donc on the bridge, on his next trip to the Westward, leaving here Sat- urday on tho steamer Northwestern.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28
MERRITT AND SUMMERS
 FILE FOR SCHOOL BOARD

NJ. l.. Merritt, Assistant District Forester for Alaska, and M. 5. Sum mers, Meteorologist for Alaska, to- day Diled as candidates for the School Board, at the City Clerks office, the former filing for tho three-year term and the lattor for the one-year term.
 Both men are prominent citizens of Juneau. Mir. Summers has been a resident here since 1917 and MT. Mer- ritt has resided here the past two years.
 Cid bundles of newspapers at the
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28
TWO STEAMERS
 ON WAY NORTH

SEATTLE, March 2S.-The steamer Northwestern sailed at 9 o'clock this morning for Southcastern and South western Alaskan ports with 395 pas. sengers aboard, including the fol- lowing for Juneau: F. H. Knicker. booker Mrs H. F. Kimblc and child. James Toby and eight steerage.
 Steamer Queen sailed at 9 o'clock with 236 passengers, tho complete list of Juneau passengers being: G. B. Datson and wife. w. s. Jensley. J. H. Kiel, K. E. Dixon, L. Wer- nccke, George Bolxap, E. Yerber, Rob- ert Simpson, F. L. Dazen and wife, Elmer Allen, F. Peterson and one steeragc.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28
NOTICE.

The Three Links Social Club has l postponed the party planned for Wednesday, March 2sth, to Tues- day, April 3rd. -auvs
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28
SENATE REPORT NOT FAVORABLE
 LITERACY BILL
Brown, Snodgrass, Aldrich Bring in Adverse Report
 on Contested Bill.

That the supporters of the Foster Literacy Test bill, passed last week by the House. will have an uphill fight in the Senate. was indicated today whom the Senate Committee on Rules, Elections and Election Laws brought it in with a recommends tion that it do not pass. The com mittee's report was unanimous and was signed by Brown, chairman; Snodgrass, and Aldrieh.
 The fate of the measure will very probably be determined tomorrow when it goes on second reading The Senate is said to be evenly split .on passage of the measure with both sides maintaining their lines solidly MT. Shepard. who championed the measure in the House and who wrote the minority report recommending its passage, which was adopted by the House, expressed surprise al the opposition of Senator Aldrich, who, he said, following the primary cleo ton last April, had been strong in his condemnation of the mass voting of illiterate Indians and in his con tentlon that the condition permitting such voting should be remedied
 Discuss Two Bills
 Two other measures are slated for general discussion by the Senate in Committee of the Whole tomorrow Senate Bill No. 5, the so-ealled fish ermen's lien law was brought back into the Senate this morning by the Committee on Fish, Game and Agri- culture without any agreement be- ing reached on it. Senate Bill No TT. the so-called herd law. prohibit dng livestock from running al large was in like condition. Both were re ported with the recommendation thai they be considered in Committee o the Whole.
 New Bill Introduced
 Senate Bill No. S5, by MT. Dlmond a bill for An Act to provide for tht time of filing of affidayits of annua labor on mining claims and repeal ing former acts, was introduced thi! morning. It provides for such filint within 90 days after the close of thf yearly period during which sucf labor now is. or hereafter may bt required to be done by law. The present law requires these affidavit' to be filed within 90 days after tht end of the calendar yelr while tht period for doing the work has beer changed from the calendar year tC between July 1, to June 30, sue ceeding.
 Senator Chamberlin's memoria asking that the time for convenint the Legislature be changed from tht first Monday in March to the firs Monday in February blennially, was reported favorably. The Senate con curred in House amendments to Sen ate Bill 24. relative to making non support ground for filing of divorce actions.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28

,Yuruiture more0 ana stored. H(afy 'Aaplil9 done Phone AS. Ju-
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28
Crew at aku

BOB TURNER'S AUTO SERVICE.
 Phone 257. New ' passenger Stakeholder car. Comfort and safety
 Stand next to Boston Store. adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28

Cid bundles of newspapers at tn Empire. 26 cents.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28

CT and Wilson. The Committee on Labor had been working on the measure. said Mr Wilson, and will be ready to announce it's hearings in the near future. Copies of the bill.. he said, have been mailed out to vir- tually all interested parties who will be given an opportunity. to appear and De heard before the committee's report is submitted to the House.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28
Women Can Express Their Views
 Tomorrow Afternoon

Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives, Territorial Legislature, will hold a meeting at which all women interested in the compulsory jury duty measure are requested to attend. It is understood committee of the Woman's Club will appear tomorrow afternoon.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-28
HEAVY SALMON RUN PROBABLE
 THIS SEASON
Capt Ahues Anticipates Run Tn This District-Says Sea
 son Determine Icy Straits.

A heavy run in this district during the salmon season this year is anti cipated by Capt C. E. Ahues, super. intandent of the Libby, McNeil X Libby cannery at Taku Harbor ac- cording to a statement made by him today Captain Ahuos arrived here this morning from the cannery on tho tender Excursion, on his first trip to Juneau this season, having ar rived at Taku Harbor early this week from Seattle. This year will be his 24th season in the fishing business in Alaska.
 Captain Ahues said he supported his expectancy that this district will have a heavy salmon run as based on occurrence of runs in previous seasons.
 The run was heavy in 1916-17-1S and began to fall away in 1919, be ing only normal in 1920-21-22, while during those four seasons the run was heavy in the Ketchkan district He said he believes the run in the Kctchikan district will be only nor nal.
 Future Icy Straits
 The run this year in the Icy Straits district will determine the future of that district as a salmon fishing ground, Captain Ahues said If the run is small he believes it will be an indication that the salmon have been depleted there and that tho only future success of the in. dustry must come through measures taken for the protection of the fish q closed period or reserve being most logical.
 Libby. MeNel & Libby will operate all it's cannerie5 in Alaska except two in Boring Sea. whore short run is expected this season. These two canncries were operated last year.
 Crew at Taku
 A crew of TO mon arc now at work at the Taku Harbor cannery, get ing the plant in readiness for the seasons operations. Pile-driyers will be taken out April l to drive piles for the traps. The entire crew will be at the canncry by April 10, when 60 Cinnamon will be brought from the South. About April 15 work will start on making cans. The com pany has prepared to make So,ooo cases of cans for this season, Captain Ahucs said.
 Captain Ahues left Juneau at 3 o'clock this afternoon for the can nery.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-09-27

Much interesting and valuable
data concerning the necessity for
deepening the channel of the Rari-
tan river, from the Great Beds to a
point 400 feet above the Central rail-
road bridge, will be presented to ].
Spencer Smith, president of the
Board of Commerce & Navigation,
at a conference to be held by the
Raritan Terminal & Waterway As
scciation in the city hall here tonight
at 8 o'clock. Besides Mr.. Smith it is
expected that Congressman Elmer
H. Geran and State Senator Morgan
f. Larson will also be present.
Mr.. Smith expects to leave for
Washington, d. c., early next month
for a conference with the board of
engineers in connection with the
deepening of the channel which they
declare is not warranted at the pres
ent time. In order to make Mr..
Smiths argument more convincing
to the engineers, data concerning the
action on the part of the city to inn
prove the waterfront has been col
lected as well as the amount of ship
ping and other similar information.
Armed with this data 1t is believed
Mr.. Smith will be better able to pre-
sent the need for the channel to the
engineers on behalf of the Raritan
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-09-27
BEGINS
ITS SUMMATION
Attorney General Sherman
Makes Attack on Address
of Wards Attorney
MRS. WARD IN COURT
defense Unable to Disprove
States Testimony" De-
CIares States Prosecutor
MRS. WARD IN COURT

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Sept. 81:
(By The Associated Press)-Opening
with a vigorous attack on the four
hour and fifteen minute address to
the jury yesterday by Isaac N.
Mills, chief of the defense staff, At
torney General Carl Sherman today
began Inc summation of the prosecu-
tion's case against Walter S. Ward,
charged yith numbering Clarence NJ
Peters, of Haverhill, Mass.
Mr.. Sherman characterized Mr.
Mills address "a pitiful demons
tration against conclusive and dam
aging evidence" and said it was in
tended as a smokescreen to camou-
flage the inability of the defense 10
disprove the states testimony.
The attorney general said there
has been ample evidence to convict
Ward since last year when he re-
commended prosecution after the
first indictment was handed down.
Mrs. Ward, the defendants wife
came to the courtroom before the
session opened carrying half a doz-
en- handkerchicfs in one hand and a
packet of letters in the other from
which several ether handkercniefs
protruded.
Mr.. Sherman asked the jurymen If
they did not want to know the de-
tails of the blackmail plot Ward has
alleged he was implicated in. Allan
R. Campbell, one of the defense at
torneys, objected to Mr.. Sherman
saying that Ward had paid $4,000
to the blackmailers to preserve his
secret, but Justice Wagner told the
attorney general to continue
Mr.. Sherman contended that Ward
was asking the jury to believe that
he was blackmailed without offer
ing any proof and he asked the jury
men If they would not like to see
the letters Ward said the despera-
does wrote to him. He said that nc
Dne had ever heard of "Ross" and
Rogers" the two men mentioned
by Ward as accomplices of Peters
Then, denying the defense asser-
tion that Peters was a gunman hired
out by the blackmailers, Mr.. Sher,
man said that the murdered man had
had no gun. ''If the state has con-
vinced you that Ward planted that
gun you must believe him guilty of
first degree murder" he declared
"He killed a man twelve years
younger and much smaller than him
self.
'He says he drove mile up the
road, turned around and came back,
picking up the gun. Isn't that in
credible? Isn't that impossible?'
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-09-27
BADLY INJURED
BY AUTOMOBILE
State Street Man is in City
Hospital in Serious
Condition

Joseph Laulthesky, fifty-four years
old, of 672 State street, is in seri-
Gus condition in the local hospital
from injuries received in an automo-
bile accident on outer State street,
near the United Lead Works, about
1850 o'clock last night.
Laulthesky, a laborer at the Lead
Works, was returning from work
when he was struck by car driven
by Bernard Prohaski, of Sewaren.
The car was travelling south on State
street. 1t is said that Laulthesky
stepped from in front of another
automobile.
Police headquarters was notified
after the man was taken to the Office
of DIR. J. V. Smith for treatment.
and he was taken to the CITY Hospi-
tall where he is being attended by
DIR. M. S. Meinzer.
His left collarbone is broken and
both legs are badly bruised. Chauf-
feur William Buchan and Aaron
Franzblau took the man t. he New
Brunswick avenue institution.
At the hospital this morning the
condition of the man was said to be
somewhat improved.
Trolley Accident
A Rahway trolley car rammed into
a truck driven by Russell Stillwell,
of Matawan, at the corner of State
and <Fayette streets last night. Ser
geant John Larson, who investigated
the accident, reported that the large
front light of the trolley car was
broken off and the front of the car
dented. The truck was damaged but
no one was injured. Ed Langan of
T. -
and L. G.. Nugent, of Plainfield, the
conductor
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-09-27
PUBLIC SERVICE WILL
TRY SUGGESTION OF
UTILITY COMMISSION
No Transfers Will be Given
Under New Plan of Trolley
Company
FOUR MONTHS TEST
Will be Able to Better Com
pete With Buses Which win
be Better Regulated

NEWARK. Sept. 27-The Public
Service Railway Company today
filed with the Public Utility Com
mission its acceptance OF the nve
cent fare rate within the larger ci-
ties served by the company.
The company accepts the plan.
suggested by the commission. for 4
trial period of four months.
The r;dn will go into effect Ocfo-
Der 1, and includes the giving OF no
transfers.
The company's acceptance was
delivered in a statement by Presi-
dent Thomas McCarter OF the COM
pany to the commission.
The eight cent fare with one
cent transfers previously in effect.
will remain in force on the com
pany's lines outside OF the cities in
which the five cent fare win be
charged.
Putting of the five cent fare
schedule into effect Is subject to q
perrlissive order from the federal
! court where the fare case Il ncs~
pending, and to approval or the
Public Utility Commission OF the
fare limit zones as proposed by the
company.
In its statement of acceptance the
company says that it entertains
grave misgivings as to the financial
results of the plan, but is desirous
of trying the plan for four months
or such shorter period as may clear
ly indicate it's results.
The statement says that in accept
ing the plan it relys upon the Coop
Grafton of the commission in curtail-
ing and limiting wasteful and unnec-
essary competition and further seeks
the cooperation of the commission
in obtaining relief from municipal
paving obligations.
In accepting the company also
withdraws the proposed rate (ten-
cent fare) filed by it with the COM
mission of September 21 last.
The five-cent rate will apply to
trolley service within the present city
limits of Jersey City, Hoboken, Bay
oBne, Newark, Harrison, Paterson,
Haledon, Totowa, Elizabeth, Rosells
Park and Camden.
Other lines to be given the five-
cent fare include Paterson city line
through Clifton and Passaic TO the
Passaic river and the Passaic city
line at Romaine avenue; on the Pat
erson line from the southerly PAS
sale city line to the Essex county
line, on the Hawthorne line from
| Paterson city line to Passaic county
line; and on the Singac line from
Paterson city line to Singac. Certain
other sections of the company's lines
also are affected.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-09-27
DROWNED MAN,
BODY ISFOUND
Watehman Sees Remains of
Man in Sound-Died
Long Ago

While in the vicinity of the At
lantic Terra Gotta company docks
about midnight last night, a watch
man employed by that company no.
ticed the body of a man floating
about in the water some distance
from shore.
Police headquarters was notified
and Chauffeur William Clooney was
detailed to the scene with Acting Ser
geant John Reager and Officer James
Egan. 1t was necessary to cut
loose a small boat tied in the vicin-
ity of the dock and row out to where
the body was floating. A rope was
placed about the body and it was
brought to shore.
Coroner E. K. Hanson was notified
and he in turn sent Undertaken
James ]. Flynn to the scene. The
body was later taken to Flynn's NOR
que on East avenue, where it will re-
main for a day or two in an effort
to have the man identified.
| When found the man had one
piece suit of overalls on, black
shoes and socks, and has black hair
and blue eyes. He is light Completed
clean shaven, is about five foot. ten
| inCneS Lall ana WG16nS AbO0k ASD
pounds. The police are Of the belief
that the man is between the age of
thirty-five and thirty-eight years.
Judging from the condition of the
body, the drowning must have oc-
Cured quite some time ago. 1t is
believed that the man was connect
ed with a boat plying local waters
Following the finding of the body,
an examination was made to see if
I there were any marks which would
! Indicate foul play, but the police
were unsuccessful in finding any. It
is believed the man may have fall
en- overheard somewhere along the
local shore or on the Staten Island
side. No report Of a missing boat
man was received by the local police
during the last week or two.
If identification of the man is not
made, burial will take place in Pot
| ter's field.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-09-27
FIGHT
IN OKLAHOMA
Lawmakers to Take Cause to
Courts as Governor Pushes
His War on KIan

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Sept.
27 (By The Associated Press The
conflict between Governor j. C. Wal
ton and the lower house of the Okla
homa legislature developed today in
to finish fight as the lawmakers
prepared to take their cause to the
courts.
Meanwhile, the state is in doubt
as to the official status of its lower
legislative branch.
The dramatic action Of national
guardsmen in dispensing on orders
members who gathered yesterday in
the state capitol at their own call to
consider impeachment charges, left
the executive victorious after the
first brush. But the contention of
the legislators that the House for
mally was convoled, notwithstand-
ing the military interference, pre-
sented an unprecedented problem
which a court must solve.
From the maze of charges and
counter charges revolving about
Governor Waltons fight against mob
violence and masked depredations in
Oklohama has appeared a tense sit
prelude to a spectacular climax.
The use of military forces to COM
bat hooded outrages" will continue
until domination of one third of the
counties in the state by the Ku Klux
Klan is broken, the governor said.
Within the next few hours, he added,
he will place another county under
rigid martial law at the request of
some of it's citizens. Rumor has it
that Murray county is the one to
which he referred, although this
finds no confirmation in official quar-
ters.
Political enemies of the governor,
including many of the legislators
who signed the call for the session,
charge that by his official acts, par
ticularly the use of the military in
his war on the Ku Klux Klan the
executive has overthrown the con-
stitutional government and assumed
the powers of a dictator.
Asserting that the proceedings in
the state house yesterday constituted
an official assembly despite interven-
ton, the "rebeF' legislators went
ahead today with plans to institute
court proceedings to test their right
to meet without a call from the gov
ernor. A legal committee is in
charge of the work and while no de-
tails have been made public, II is ex
pected that neither the state su-
preme court nor the federal district
court will be asked to enjoin the
governor from preventing the ses
sion. Action is anticipated before
the end of the week.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-09-27
MAN is HURT IN FALL

Fred Schaltor, twenty-five years
old, of 1908 State street. employed
at the American Smelling and Re-
fining Company's plant. fell about
twenty feet about o'clock this
morning while painting a building
at that place. He was removed &c
the Perth Amboy City Hospital IN
the company's ambulance, where he
is being attended by DR.. NJ. S. Mein-
ger. He has bruises on the back and
is suffering from shock.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-09-27
SEAPLANE ACCIDENT

CowEs, Isle of Wight. Sept. 81
(By The Associated Press ):-One of
the two British seaplanes entered for
the international races for the
Schneider seaplane trophy tomorrow
capsized and sank in deep water
during the seaworthiness tests for
entrants this morning, r. A. w
Kenworthy, the pilot, narrowly es-
capped death, being carried under by
the machine, but rose to the surface
and was rescued.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-09-27
State Bd. Acts Put
Curb On Auto Buses

TRENTON. Sept. 27:-The State
Public Utility Commission TO-DAY no.
tilted all jitney operators competing
with the Public Service Pathway
Company. that the emergency con-
ditions existing during the interrup
tion of service on the railway COM
pany's lines. were ended, and that
jitney operating would
be stopped from now on.
Sometime after the cessation os
service on the lines OF the Public
Service, due to the STRIKE o. platform
rlen inaugurated August |. the util-
ity board lifted the restrictions plac-
ell by them on sitney operation IN
the company's territory. This was
done by the board in order to take
care of the transportation problems
resulting from the incorporation of