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The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31

seized by the agents at Somerset bear the names of certain of the most prominent men and women of the town, it is said These will be produced at trials of the men now under indictment.
 One addict from whom agents ob- tained much of their information, a man who has travelled throughout the country, gave an affidavit in which he said there were more sddiets in Louisville and that narcotics hold more openly than in any other city in the country. The Federal agents found that narcotics were as easy to buy in most Kentucky towns as soft di inks.
 Ninety per cent of addlets are thieves, it was asserted. confining their activities largely to shoplifting. The large amount of goods stolen from stores by these addicts Is re vealed in the statement of one who told agents he had lifted" enough in one day to bring him $20o from . Hence"
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
C0RP0RALS PULL
 OFF H0LD-UP OF
 ARMY PAYROLL
Langley Flying Field Captain Makes Charges = Men
 Are Under Arrest.

NEWPORT NEWS. Va, Jan. 31.- Corporals John S. Wood and James s. Harvey. declared by Captain Nor man D. Gotta 10 have been the two persons Kidnapping him yesterday and rcbbing him of s43,0O0. the Lang ley Flying Field payroll. were cap tured last night 20 miles away Most of the money was recovered
 Captain Gotta and a guard of four men were kidnapped yesterday fore noon after drawing the money from the First National Bank. Three hours after, when the officer was found to be missing, naval, state and Federal authorities took up a search. Captain Gotta and his men were found gagged, bound hand and foot, in a woods near here. The large army automobile was later found badly damaged. Captain Gotta told the authorities that the two cor porals did the deed and net was spread which ultimately drew them in and they were captured.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
WAY OPEN TO SETTLE.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. The British acceptance of the American debt funding suggestions, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon said today, opens the way for the immediate drafting of recommendations by President Harding for changes in the funding law to legalized forms suggested by the American proposi- ton.
 Secretary Mellon explained, how ever, that no public move will be made by the American Debt Funding Commisson pending receipt of official notification of the decision. It is ex- plained the American commission is in a position to begin at once an outline of the details which Presi- dent Harding could transmit to Congress
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
LABOR DISPUTES
 EASILY SETTLED
Large Colorado Corporation Has New Way of Settling
 All Troubles.

DENVER, Jan. 31.-Amieable ad- justments of G60 labor problems aris- ing among the employees of the Colo rado Fuel X Iron Company during 1922 were made as the result of joint representations at conferences between employees and representa- tives of the company. This fact is reported today in the annual report of the company.
 In the settlement of the various problems 515 were settled affirma- lively to the employees and the re. mainder in the negative.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
"TRUMPED UP" IS CYCLoP'S BLOW
 INASSAILINC CASE AGAINST KHAN

Richards still is alive. He said Rich ards mother had heard from her son within the last two months. He also reiterated what he had said at the beginning of the investigation, that the bodies found in Lake La Fourche would have been decomposed had they been in the water from August, when Daniels and Richards disap- pcared, until December, when the bodies were found
 Knows Lot of Things!"
 "Why has the state quit searching for the torture machine?" he asked. "Why. it knows there was no torture machine. It knows lot of things. but it is not willing to take the pub lie into its confidence about things that it knows would hurt the case which it has trumped up."
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31

BASTRCP. La. Jan. 31--Captain J. K. Skipwith. Exa sed Cyclops of the Morehouse Parish Ku Klux Klan. and an attorney. who is expected to defend those accnsed of murder in connection with the laying of Watt Daniel and Thomas Richards, has at last talked Tie purport of their interviews was hat 1t least one of the men SUI ia alive.
 "The state's case IS trumped up, built wholly upon slspicion and cir cumstantial evidence. them ost vital of which has been siven by men whose testimosiy will prove to be val roless in coutt." the attorney said. He consented Ito talk only after a promise had bean extracted that his name wouli not be used.
 Captain skip.xith asserted that
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
GERMAN CREDIT FOR 2 BILLION
 UNDER PROTEST
Secretary Mellon Opposes Bursum and States Posi-
 ton of Treasury.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, in letter to Chairman McCumber. expressed opposition 10 tho Bursum bill estab- fishing a credit of $1000, ,000,000 for the German government for the pur- pose of buying foodstuffs in the United States.
 Secretary Mellon declared this would be contravcntion of the Treas nry Department policy that foreign governments desiring to find financ- ing in the United States should ap- peal to the investing public and not seek government aid"
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
APPEAL
 TO TURKEY IS
 MADE BY CHILD.
American Spokesman Makes s.roeg Talk Tur@ey Is
 Given Peace Treaties.

LAUSANNE. Jan. 31. = Richard Washburn Child, chief American spokesman, made a strong appeal to- day for peace at the Near East Con- ference on the occasion of the formal presentation to Turkey of the treat ies drawn up by the Allied Powers.
 Turkey must be responsible re- garding the outcome of peace, stated the American.
 The speech made deep impress sion upon the delegates attending the conference.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
Belgium to Hand Utimatum to Germany Tonight
HEN SHOWS UP HEN
 OF NEW JERSEY; CACKLES DEFY
 AND JUST LAYS A DOUBLE EGG

Siamese twin eggs have startled the Alaskan hen world.
 Two full-size eggs, joined by nar- row membrane, were laid by White Leghorn owned by W. A Monge, oi Hood Bay recently. The eggs are the same size. They were preserved in alcohol by Mir. Manze and sent by him to The Empire.
 Mr Monge says his White Leghorn is jump ahead of the nen owned
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31

by Henry S. Winterhalter. chief sani- tary inspector of the board of health at Bayonne, N j.. which laid two eggs on the same day, one in the morning and the other in the even ing. The story of this unusual feat appeared in The Empire on Janu ary II.
 An Alaska White Leghorn could let nothing like that get by, says Mr Monge and so his hen proceeded to lay two eggs at iae same time.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
Recognition
 Of Mexico Is Now Urged

TOPEKA, Jan. 31.-~The Kansas state Senate today unanimously adopted resolutions asking the Ma. in dts power to establish more friendly relations with Mexico to the end that Mexico may again take her place among the foremost na. tions of the world
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
MINERS CAUGHT BY FIRE DAMP; l;
 ALL MAY DIE
Two Hundred and Fifty Men Are Entrapped-Fears
 All Are Lost.

BERLIN, Jan. 31.-Fire damp, following an explosion, cut off 250 miners this forenoon in the Heinity mine at Beuthen, Polish Silesia. This is according to a Central News mes sage.
 Several bodies have been recov- cred.
 According to latest reports the.e IS little hope of saving any of tie miners cut off.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
Wealthy Woman Robbed
 Of $250,O00 in Jewelry

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 31-Jewelry worth $250,000 was stolen from the bedroom of Mrs. David c. Joyce, wife of a millionaire Chicago lumberman, while the family was dining last night The robbery was reported 10 the police this forenoon.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
Figure in $Z5,000
 Love Suit Is Dead

OAKLAND. Jan. ,1.--a1ars. Rodney Hendricks. who recently filed a suit against Mrs. FdIth Spreckels Wake field for $25.O5o damages, alleging that she alien me affections of her husband, RoJae, Rand rick, news. paper artist, is dsa4 hero. She was 25 years old, I9'i i've If Atlantic City. N. J.. ant re aed In California since her marr aye
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
Sol Bloom, Democrat,
 Elected to Congress

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.--Sol Bloom, Democrat, has been elected from the 18th Congressional district to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rep resentatiyeeleet Samuek Mark, Demo crat. xvIF
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
Conference of Governors
 Postponed Indefinitely

DENVER, Jan. 31.-The confer ence in Kansas City next Friday of Governors of eight Western states, called by Gov. John J. Blaine, of legislation, has been postponed in- definitely. This was the announce ment made today. The conference was called off because it was i'm possible to hold it at such an early date.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
UP TO TURKEY
 ABOUT LEAGUE Question of Jurisdiction on Certain Matters Placed
 Before Turks.

PARIS, Jan. 31.--Aftcr Earl Bal four presented to the Council of the League of Nations the question of the frontiers of Anatolia and Irak and disposition of the petroleum de- posits of .Mosul. the Council awaited the reply of the Turks as to whether the jurisdiction of the League of Ma tions would be accepted.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 31. A daughter was born today to the wife of Richard Barthelmes. movie actor. Mrs Ba-thelmes is known In movie circles as Mary Hay.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
CITY OFFICIAL
 GIVEN WARNING
Mayor of Mer Rouge Receives Letter Advising Him of
 Two Things.

MONROE, La. 5an. G1.-Robert L. Dale, Mayor of Mer Rouge. an- nounced today he had received a let ter dated January 8, believed mailed from Hot Springs, Ark, saying:
 You are hereby notified to pack mp and get out of town within 10 days. Either leave or become a corpse"
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
Pension Measure Is
 Approved by Committee

WASHLNGTcN, Ian. 31. The Sen ate pensions son niEtee has favor ably reported hbc 8arsun bill. in cluding pension 1r Civil War vet erans which fhe president vetoed The bill as passed nls tbe objections of the Preside nt 1tirely removed.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
BELGIUM WILL
 MAKE DEMAND
 UPON GERMANY
Last Appeal Will Be Made to Germany on Matter of
 Reparatlon.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 31-The Bel eium Finance Minister will present t3 the German government at 6 o'clock tonight an ultimatum de- manding, for the last time, that Germany fulfill the separations pro- gram as executed by the treaty of Versailles.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
REFUSE TO VOTE DRY

HARTFORD, Conn. Jan. 31.-The legislature for the third time since adoption of the eighteenth amend ment refused to ratify it.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
DEBT FUNDING
 PROPOSALS OF
 U. s. ACCEPTED
British Will Accept American Ofer-Statement Is Made
 by Secretary Mellon.

LONDON, Jan. 31.-Great Britain has decided to accept the American offer in regard to the funding of the British war debt to the United States.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31

PERNAMBUCO. Brazil. Jan. al.- Lieut.. Walter Hinton, flying his sea plane from New York tn Rio Janeiro, has arrived hcra.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-31
CABLE IS CUT.

CABLE IS CUT.
 DUSSELDORF, Jan. 31. - The Cologne-Berlin main trunk line of the cable of the telephone and tele- graph system. has been cut in sey- eral places near Essen city com pletely shutting off the remainder of Germany.
 Ccblenz reports 34 German civil
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THREAT MADE GOOD.
 DUSSELDORF, Jan. 31. = The French this afternoon made effective their threatened economic measure seizing the entire customs service in the Ruhr Valley.
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-05
POST MASTERS CONVENTION

Mr.. and Mrs. o. Buchanan an(
their daughters, THETA and Edna, re
turned the first of the week from
the tri-state convention of post
masters held at Salt Lake on the
twentieth Of June, attended by Utah
Idaho and Wyoming pOstmasters.
There were addresses of welcome
by the governor and Utah's CON
gressional delegates, and a very ex-
cellent address was given by the as
sistant postmaster general, w. Ir.
wing Glover. The keynote of all ad.
dresses was service, and so far as II
applied to postal work it spelled bet
ter postal service.
The meetings were held at the
Salt Lake theater, and a banquet and
social time at Saltair.
Observers must have noticed that
there is a wonderful advance in
courtesy and service in all lines. 1t
used to be that the average railroad
ticket agent or telegrapher was a
tyrant, discourteous and snippy.
Now they are, courtesy itself, and
seek to serve and guard the interests
of the patrons of the road. Not so
long ago the express agent was gen.
enally Indifferent and discourteous;
now the average express agent is
quite the reverse. 1t used to be that
the postal clerk merely tolerated the
persons who bought stamps, and now
the clerk makes the change and
thanks the buyer They used to
take the attitude Of a person selling
something, cent for cent without any
profit. Now they take the attitude
of one who is there to serve and
who represents the government in
dealing out strips of printed paper
that are exchanged for real money
at profit Of nearly all there is in
the deal.
1t used to be that a postmaster
TOOK his appointment as a reward
for being on the winning side in pol
itics. Now he takes it after passing
an examination and a checking up
OF his career to see what kind of a
man he is and has been. The pres
ent encumbent at the Blackfoot post
Office went to Boise and studied that
office several days before taking up
his work, and while at Salt Lake
made careful study of methods in
that Office. 1t used to be that the
new postmaster fired some of the
help and put in his friends. He
doesn't do much OF that now, but |
accepts the help that his predecessor
had, and sets up his own administra-
ton with such changes of methods |
as may be desired, and with such |
new standards as they may agree
upon, retaining all the advantages
Of their experience and training be-
fore the change of chiefs.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-05
A TRICK OR TWO

DR.. Young of Blackfoot and Mark
Farmer of Firth have been kidding
each other about the speed of their
cars, and it resulted in trick or
two. Mark has a Ford Sedan with
an extra gear la it for speed and
heavy climbing, and he likes to tell
people he can make it jump fences
and the like. DR.. Young has q fine
Hudson and has been carrying the
idea that none of the Fords could
go up telephone pole ahead of him
and get away with 1t in the finish.
Mark Is convincing talker when he
kids people and he told Doc he would
show him something one of these
times and he did, so the story goes.
The way we get it is that some
OF them were motoring to Idaho
Falls to lodge meeting, and Mark
started out of Firth just ahead of
Dr.. Young, in the deepening shadows
OF the evening. Both of them
sprinted right along up the road, Doc
watching the tail light of the insect
ahead Of him, and planning to whiz
past it up the line like it was stand
ing still. Mark overlook a party
with some loose stock in the road,
and just after he got around or thru
the stock and the teams he pinched
his lights off and turned short on
to the right into by-road, and sat
very still until DR.. Young had gone
by, and busted himself trying to get
sight of that tail light that was sup
posed to be ahead Of him on the main
road. He remembered the assur-
ance with which Mark had told him
he would run away from that Hud-
son of his, the Docs, and 1t looked
now like Mark had got around and
away from that mess in the road
awfully quick But the Doctor
stepped on the gas and would soon
overtake the insect and in a fair
field would run by him. BY the
time he reached Monroe he had not
sighted the darned tail light at all,
and he gave it plenty of gas too.
AT Shelley he had to slow down a
little out of respect for the cop, but
the tail light of the insect was still
invisible. When Doctor got on the
paving he burned the wind, so they
say, and as he entered Idaho Falls
he sighted a Ford Sedan ahead but
in turning the corners it vanished
from sight.
The Doctors guests in the car say
he is good driver and never made
a slip, but while they were still on
the road they did not know for sure
that he was going to come under the
wire right side up. Mark entered
the meeting some time after the
Doctor did, but Mark Is good
oluffer and put up some plausible
remark about having been down the
street smiling with a friends for a
while, and the Doctor wasn't sure.
We haven't seen DR.. Young to get
lis views about the speed of insects,
,ut If there is anything special we
will wire you.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-05
ENLARGING GREATER NEW YORK

An eminent construction engin
eer, T. Kennard Thompson, of New
York City, has published plans fol
extending New York several miles
! out into the bay and providing some.
thing like six thousand acres of new
surface for buildings. 1t will pro-
vide quarters for about three million
more people, and will make what
| engineers say would be q model city
a spotless town.
The bay is comparatively shallow,
and has a rock bottom. About fifty
years ago they tunneled under the
harbor and blew up some of the
shallow parts of the neck where
! ships had trouble getting in-the
part known as Hell-gate, and greatly
improved the harbor entrance. Now
they propose to capitalize this shall
lOwness by using 1t as building site
for six thousand acres of new city
reclaimed, not from the ocean bed
exactly, but from an arm of the
ocean lying between New Jersey and
the west end of Long Island where
the bay is too wide to all be useful.
The plan for doing this is to build
monster sea-wall down the bay
and around back to the Battery, and
then put great power pumps to work
pumping out the water and sand
and muck, and leave the area clean
and dry, a rock bottom lying be-
low sea level and forever protected
from the sea by the great wall. In
this open space they will build q
model city, providing water, sewage,
power and light and telephone lines, |
driveways, ~car lines, auto lines, belt |
systems for carrying pedestrians at |
slow or swift speed according to |
which belt one rides on, and plan
everything for full capacity from the
start, so that there shall be no re-
modelling, no after thoughts and no
waste in rebuilding under something
else that is already finished.
1t is proposed to use no coal in
the new addition; they will use only
or gas for all heat and
motive power and for lighting, and
there will be no SCOT, no ashes to
dump, no dirt in the air. Instead
Of having sooty, dirty, roofs, they
will have roof gardens made of dirt,
and Fairgrounds, tennis courts and
that can be provided in
the open, making it as much as pos
,ible like nature.
The plans have been studied for
4 couple of years by a good many
experts in city building, including ,
Thomas A. Edison, and they all agree .
hat it is feasible, and that adopting ,,
he plans would relieve the con-
,ested condition and make New York !,
easily the queen city Of the world. +,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-05
LIQUOR AND SLAVE SMUGGLING

In its comparison of rum-runnfng
| with the continuation of the slave
trade after it became illegal the
Springfield Republican is not quite
accurate when it says that "as late
as 1858 the yacht Wanderer landed
800 African negroes at Brunswick,
Ca, and they were sold as far north
as Memphis" The Wanderer, sail
ing under the flag of the New York
Yacht Club, landed $50 negroes from
the Congo on the coast of Georgia
as late as the spring of 1859 and
they were successfully disposed Of to
planters in the interior. But the
Republican - is altogether correct
when it shows that the slave trade
persisted to a large extent for fifty
years after the Constitution outlawed
it in 1903. There were Southern
authorities who winked at 1t and
Northern traders who continued to
make great deal of money out of
it, as they had done for generations
before, Rhode Island alone having
$50 vessels in the then legitimate
trade as late at ITO, according to-
the showing of John R. Spears in his
American Slave Trade"
The persistence of the illegal
slave trade for half century and
its extinction only by a great war
and the hanging of several convicted
smugglers may be regarded as pre-
cedent or history likely to be more
than repeated in the case of liquor
smuggling. 4The latter promises to
enjoy an even larged and more Wig
orous existence because the world s
opinion is not opposed to it to any
thing like the extent that it was set
against the illegal slave trade. The
Illicit trade in human beings was
almost universally regarded as NOR
ally heinous, while liquor smuggling
is everywhere condoned except in
the United States, and even in the
United States probably at least half
Of the people look upon 1t as merely
a statutory offense. There is this |
marked difference and obviously it |
will have to be taken into account in |
all considerations Of the future of
liquor smuggling.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-05
ROCKFORD
tFf+--f.a..t-s-f.-f.-f-t.s-f
Received july 8


Swan Berg, Clarence Bryant and
7. A. Hall were visitors at Black
| foot Monday.
The farmers are now very busy
putting up their hay.
Raymon Sjostrom of Blackfoot has
been working for Everett Hines.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Jensen, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Calvin and Mr.. and
Mrs. c. c. Sjostrom motored to
BlackfoOt Thursday to hear the
presidents speech.
The stork visited the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Lewis Barnes Wednesday
and left them a fine baby girl.
Mother and child are doing nicely.
Mrs. Abram Scott went to Salt
Lake Saturday to visit relatives and
expects to be gone about three weeks.
Lars Peterson of Portland, Ore
gon, is visiting his sister, Mrs. T. A.
Hall.
Willard Barnes, Lewis Barnes, J..
P. Jensen, T. A. Hall and Swan Berg
were visitors at BlackfoOt Saturday
Mrs. Paul Lauvolitte, who has
been i'll for several months, is now
able to walk little and is improv-
ing in health.
Mrs. Jane Miles of Smithfield,
Utah, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Merrell and family.
Miss Eva Jensen of Gray is visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Jensen.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-05
SHELLEY
Received July 2
Observation-Disclosures

| Miss Mary Patterson left Monday
morning for Dillon, Montana, after
visiting here for two weeks with he1
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. Peter.
son.
Miss Ethel Moore went to Poca.
tello Friday evening to visit with
friends and relatives for a few days
Mrs. Clarence Mitchell was in
Idaho Falls Saturday evening.
large number of Shelley citi-
zens went to Idaho Falls Thursday
to see President Harding.
Dee Killian left Tuesday for
Pleasant Grove, Utah, where he in
tends to visit with friends and rela-
tives for a while.
James Humphreys was in Idaho
Falls Saturday evening transacting
business.
Lester Humphreys, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. S. Humphreys, was married
on June 20 in the Salt Lake Temple,
to Miss Emma Eek of Salt Lake
Miss Irene Wheeler of Lincoln,
Nebraska, is visiting through the
summer with her sister, Mrs. R. B.
Waller.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. E.
Priest was made happy by the arrival
of fine baby boy, weighing twelve
pounds Mother and child are do
ing nicely.
DR.. Egbert left this week for Az
ton, Wyoming, to visit with his
brother and transact some business.
Mrs. William Oler left the first
part of the week for Salt Lake, where
she is going to visit for a short time
Mr.. and Mrs. o. P. Jensen re-
turned home last Sunday from diff
ferent points in Utah, where they
have been visiting for some time.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-05
Soul Development.

Every trouble is an opportunity to
win the grace Of strength. A trouble
is a moral and spiritual task. 1t is
something which is hard to do.
Strength is increased by encounter
with the difficult. Every day we are
blessed with new opportunities for the
development Of strength of soul.