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The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
HEAVY STORM
HITS SEATTLE
CHRISTMAS EVE
Steamers Off Coast Have
Hard Tussle In Gale-Tug
Sinks, Four Men Drown.

SEATTLE, Dec. 26.-The wind
blew so miles an hour here Mon
day night, the highest record here.
The Canadian boat Tyee sunk off
Pender Island. near Victoria. Two
men of the crew were saved and
four were drowned.
The steamer Jackson, towing the
schooner Thistle, attempting to
reach Port Angeles had a hard
struggle in the gale.
One small steamer was blown on
the beach on Lake Washington and
pounded to pieces near Leschi Park.
The Yogen Maru, lumber car
rier, is aground inside of Grays
Harbor.
Tho British steamer Author,
bound for Vancouver with a cargo
of liquor, had engine trouble and
became helpless off the Washington
Coast. Calls for aid were cancelled
later as the wireless reports said
she was able to make three miles
an hour and was fighting to stay
off shore.
The roof of the Seattle house
occupied by M. s. Dargon and wife
and three children, was blow off.
Dragon was bruised by a falling
rafter but all reached the outside
safely when lightning struck the
house and set 1t aiire. The roof
was carried 100 feet and was shat
tered to pieces.
Tacoma reports 50-mile gale.
The highest previous record for
wind in Seattle was GA miles, in
1912 and again in 1914.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
Offers Blood to
Prosecutor Who
Sent Him to Prison

PARIS, Dec. ga man named
l.. Lapelle, who Thomas Lee Wool.
wine had sent to prison in Cali
fornia whom u. S. District Attorney,
called at the hotel here last Monday
and offered pint of his blood for
TRANSMISSION to the former Los Ange-
les man. The offer was declined
as little hotel maid who had been
serving the Woolwinc family had
offered the blood and the offer had
been accepted.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
CORNERSTONE FOR FAMOUS
CATHEDRAL LAID THIRTY .
ONE YEARS AGO; SERVICES

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-The un.
completed cathedral of ST. John the
Divine, which occupies commands
ing position on Cathedral Heights
at 10th Street, will celebrate to-
morrow, the fifteenth anniversary OF
its inception. and the thirty-first
of the beginning of actual construc-
ton.
When the structure is finished its
area will be 109,0S2 square feet, the
largest in the English-speaking world
It's size will be exceeded only by St
Peters in Rome and the Cathedral
OF Seville in Spain. Today, how
ever. only the great choir stands
with radiating chapels and section
of the crossing.
A clause in the State charter pro.
vides that seats in the cathedral
shall always be free, and although
1t is the administrative center OF
the Diocese OF New York, Protestant
Episcopal Church, persons of many
creeds and many races have gathered
under its roof to worship in their
own way.
Besides the Bishop, the Right Rev
William T. Manning. the speakers at
the celebration will be the Rev. DR..
s. Parkes Cadman, pastor Of Central
Congregational Church, Brooklyn. and
George w. Wickersham, former at.
torney general of the United States
and one of the Cathedral trustees.
Services in the Cathedral are held
1t times in foreign languages, as
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
KILLED IN STORM.

SEATTLE, Dec. 27.-The storm
that brought havoc on Christmas
Day to the North Pacific Coast
killed Gus Quarstorm, who met
death in contact with a live wire,
and also boy, Michael Grazenoff.
aged 13, at Aberdeen, who was
struck on the head by board fly
ing in the air.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Themk, of
Couer d'Alene were seriously injured
in Tourist Park. Hoquiam, when
tree fell across their automobile.
The storm damage in Western
Washington is roughly estimated
at 100000.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
PARDON FOR
ONE ALASKAN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-President
Coolidge last Monday afternoon grant
ed Christmas pardons and commu-
tations to IL mon in Federal jails
Including the remission of the un.
paid portion Of the fine against Louis
Grimstad, convicted at Unga, Alas.
ka. for assault and who was sentenced
In July to six months. He had
served his term but was held for
non-payment of his fine.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
Macmillan Receives
Christmas Greetings
Sent by His Sister

CHICAGO. Dec. 26.-Donald
Macmillan, frozen in the ice
II degrees from the North Pole
received Christmas Greetings
by radio from his sister. Mrs.
Lillian Fogg. OF Freeport,
Maine, who came to Chicago
to talk to the Arctic explorer.
Messages from Macmillan
were sent In telegraphic code
to a broadcasting station in
which he acknowledged the
greetings.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
Young Man Drifts 10
Sea in an Open Boat

NEWPORT, Gre, Dec. :s.-Eight
Coast Guardsmen who left Monday
to seek an open boat containing
Victor Webb, aged is years, which
went to the open sea, arrived off the
bar here last night but were unable
to make land on account of the storm.
Webb's boat has been found at Wald-
port, 16 miles south, shattered on the
rocks. a..
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
RIG p1RIaIBtE ARrFT.

TOULON, France. Dec. 26.-The
French dirigible Dixmude with so
officers and men which had been
seen drifting seemingly helpless
over the Gulf of Cadiz last Monday,
was sighted last night over Thar
ratahouin. south OF Meninin Tunis.
1t was reported ball aboard con-
sidered themselves safe and only re-
manned in the air to find suitable
place to land.
French war vessels had been sent
out in hope they might pick up
lines dropped from the dirigible and
tow her into port where the fuel
supply could be rcplenished.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
Cost Of Living
Increases; Value
OF Dollar Shrinks

NEW YORK, Dee. 26.-The
cost of living increased two
and one tenth per cent between
July Is ard November Is. ac-
cording to q statement by. the
National Industrial Conference
Board and just made public.
The purchasing price of $1.00
Is based on the cost of living
in November which was so and
five tenths cents as compared
with $1.00 in 1914.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
NO INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.-lt Is In
dicated that the topic of speculations
by Lieut. Wood was never formally
presented to the War Department
but that Secretary Weeks was told
informally and then intimated through
private channels reaching both Gov.
Gen. Wood and his aide that con-
tinuance of speculations, by the son.
might prove embarrassing.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
Russian Boy Scouts
Have New Celebration

MOSCOW. Dec. 26.-Russian Boy
Scouts instead of celebrating Christ
mas celebrated the DAY of the
Suns Turn Towards Spring." Every
thing resembling religion was elm
mated from the exercises. The
Russian peasant celebration will be
within a fortnight.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
Venizelos Is to Go M
ssH &, To Aid Of Greece

IS PARIS, Dec. 26.-venixelos has de-
cided to return to Athens forthwith
saying he could not In the face Of
overwhelming sentiment refuse to
help his country. He declared his
political action however is only Of
q temporary character.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
SEATTLE MAN TALKS

SEATTLE, Dec. 26.--P. B. Gil,
Secretary of the Deep Sea Fisheries
Union, declares that halibut fisher
men are not making large profits
generally and said the reports OF the
last three weeks showed that the
men Of six schooners have not made
over $50 and couple Of men al,
in debt to the vessels. Gill said 1t
should be considered that the men
work IA TO 20 hours day in all
kinds OF weather and the work Is
such that only the strongest men
can perform It.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
Typographical Union
Has Won Long Fight

ST. LOUIS. Dec. 26.--The Inter.
national Typographical Union has
spent $17000,000 In a strike for
"A hour week begun in May. 1921.
and has virtually won. according to
President Gibbons. of the local
branch.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
Giant Liner Is Laid
Up for Winter Month,

WASHINGTON. Dec. 26. The
American giant liner Leviathan has
been laid up for the winter at Ho-
boken. according to announcement
made here today.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
Air Mail Pilot Falls;
Dies Shortly After

OMAHA, Neb.. Dec. 26.-James
"Dinty" airmail pilot. who left North
Platte, fell near Burns. Wyoming,
three hours later eld died at Chey-
enne where he was taken
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
HOPE ENTERTAINED.

PARIS, q Dec. dg6.-Some nope -s
held for saving the Dixmude, wEicn
went adrift four days ago when ner
fuel gave out and she drifted far
inland over Tuni3.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
POLAR FLIGHT
PLANS MADE BY
SPECIAL BOARD
Shenandoah to Make Flight
to North Pole = Nome
Recommended as Base

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-Recom-
mendations for the navy's polar ex-
pedition and flight to be attempted
during the coming summer with tha
dirigible Shenandoah and using
Nome, Alacka, az the main operat-
ing base, are contained in a report
by the special board of naval Off
GERS headed by Rear Admiral Will
liam A. Moffet, cAief of naval
aviation.
The report has been published
with the approval of Secretary of
Navy DENLY. 1t is subject to
possible notifications later.
Exploration Trip.
One paragraph in the report en-
phasizes that the mission be termed
an exploration OF the North Pole
Regions" rather than a dash to the
pole.
Detailed plans have been worked
out and contemplate numerous
flights of the Shenandoah for map
ping and cruising purposes to 'es-
tablish practicability of trans
polar air route" from western Eur
ope to japan over the top of the
world"
For Mooring Masts.
The recommendation is made that
two vessels, preferably tankers, be
equipped with mcoring masts and
six planes be equipped with appar-
atus for landing in the water or
on land.
A permanent mooring mast Is
recommended at Nome and mooring
facilities established at certain other
points in the north.
The ships and planes are to be
sent to Nome and Spitzbergen where
preliminary flights and observations
will be made.
To Explore Arctic Regions.
The report says that when ready
the Shenandoah will fly to Nome
via mooring masts at Fort Worth,
San Diego, Seattle and the base
at Nome, thence northward for the
accomplishment of this mission. The
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-12-26
FRENCH AIR
SHIP ADRIF1

TOULON, France, Dec. 26. = l.
was reported late yesterday the
dirigible Dixmude has been sighted
In the Teatahounin region.
, 1923-06-29
May Test State Law

SHERIDAN. wyo., June ga
test case will probably be made of
the case OF the state OF Wyoming VS..
w. T. Price. Dietz rancher. charged
with violation of the herd law. which
comes up for hearing before Justice
Cusick next week. Information
was filed upon complaint of Stock In
spector J.. r. Harrington hat Price
had twice ignored his warning to
keep his domestic stock from grazing
in the Dietz roadway.
Section 3119 of the Wyoming com.
piled statutes prohibits the running of
domestic stock on public lands or
roads during the months of May to
September. Two years ago this stat
ute was amended to make this unlaw.
full al any time of the year. Penalty
for conviction is a fine OF not less
than $40 nor more than 800.
Price contends that inasmuch as
this road is not fenced he was not
violating the law. Price was former
Iy a special deputy sheriff of this
county.
, 1923-06-29
Appraisers Named

SHERIDAN. wyo.. Juno 2s.-Ap-
praisers for three North & South
railroad ~right-of-way condemnation
suits wero appointed by Judge James
II. Burgess in district court. They
are Charles W. Skinner, Earl C.
Green and ]. A. Church. They were
instructed to appraise the damages
in h cases against Samuel j. Nc
Neese, Clara S. Burns and Matte A.
Stout and to report their findings to
the court within 60 days.
Appraisers for the suit against
James NJ. Enochs were appointed a
month c and fixed damages at 1870.
The court gave the defendant 80 days
in which to file objections to the re-
port. The IA against Pear NJ
Snyder was settled out of court.
, 1923-06-29
TwO-GwO-Tee Pass
Open

LANDER. wyo., June 2e.-The
Observation-Disclosures Bus Line has
started running their bus between
Lander and Moran. and the first reg
ular bus was loaded to the brim. The
season looks very promising as in
quiries are coming from all sections
Of the country. and we will miss u
guess II one bus a day will be able
to take care of the tourists after the
4th of July. Last yea the railroad
was slow in getting started, and the
strike was on during the whole sea
son. which kept people from making
the trip. This year the railroad has
advertising scattered around the
United States in such n way that 1t
Is now taking hold and in every city
of the east you can hear of the new
Lander Gateway to the Yellowstone
Park" No business of mcuh account
is looked for until after the 4th of
July when most people arc starting
on their vacations, Reservations are
, 1923-06-29
pei Season On Dudes

SHERIDAN. wyo.. June &C.
July l is h date on which dude
ranches of northern Wyoming expect
h 1923 tourist season to begin in
earnest. reports gathered from vari-
GUS ranches in Sheridan county in
dicated.
So far this summer but few of the
fasteners who plan to spend the
summer here have arrived on tho
scene of their vacations. Manage
ments of most of the ranches say
they expect their facilities will be
fully taken up by new arrivals soon
after July /.
At the Spear ranch the season
opened with a fishing trip to the
Seven Brothers lakes. A camping
party returned to the ranch Tuesday
from Penrose park and will proceed
to the Cross Creek lakes the last OF
this week It is expected.
The Lodore ranch. which deals
mostly in transient traffic, reports
business much better than usual this
year. despite the handicap of cool and
rainy weather.
, 1923-06-29

right to enter the country is sub
jected to a humiliating and disgust
ing treatment which ought to shame
the United States.
1t must be a dash of dish water
in the face of immigrant and
traveller alike. The assumption is
that the immigrant comes to be a
citizen. His first impression is that
the United States is a nation of
slums. If he is accustomed to them
he will feel perfectly at home. As
a first idea of American citizenship
this treatment must be a knockout
to any of the finer aspirations and
ideals which America should en-
courage in people to whom it is will
ling to offer a vote.
1t would seem perfectly simple
to determine the eligibility of peo-
pie to enter the United States be-
fore they have Teen carried across
the ocean, and it would seen pos
sible for the United States to have
decent quarters for the people who
come here il it insists on detain-
ing and examining them on this
side.
By Dur liquor regulations we
subject other people touching our
shores to = boorish tyranny, which
they resent, and for which they hate
US. A false impression Of real Am
erica Is created, and these petty
provocstons swell into q sense Of
injury. Il does the United tates no
good to be detested because OF its
stupid, unmannerly, and unneces-
sary treatment Of people whose
favorable opinion it would be fine
to have.
Serious trouble may have its
roots in these international exasper-
atoms which our disregard of other
peoples rights, comforts and de-
cencies rouse. - Tho Chicago
Tribune.
, 1923-06-29
IN FLYING

The public, according to Lad slas
d'orcy in Aviation, has largely mis-
sed the point Of the gliding ex-
periments which have excited the
world during the last year. There
has been little tendency to regard
long motorless flights as of interest
to the entire science of flying. The
development of planes without en-
gines, or of planes, like Barbot's,
with small engines, have been dis
cuSsed. The question Of the influ-
ence of gliding on bigger machines
has gone relatively unnoticed.
Yet this, according to Mr.. d'Orcy,
is the most significant aspect of
gliding. "The main point about
motorless flight" he quotes from
Major Brocard of the French air
service, sis that it enables one to
become familiar with and to meas
IN all kinds Of atmospheric energy,
little known as yet. which arc either
contributory or deterrent to flight.
We must learn to find their loca-
ton and know their strength and
size" AS Mr.. d'orcy points out,
such knowledge can be applied to
heayy-powered machines. Just as
Newport in 1911 with the first
"steam-lined" plane was able to do
with a 2s-horse power motor what
other aviators could do only with n
50-horse power motor, so discover
les made about air currents and air
conditions in glider may be ap-
piled to motored airplanes to bet
ter their performance per horse
power.
How vital q matter this is be-
comes apparent on consideration.
Recently a new type of radiator, by
making possible a better airplane
shape, enabled flyers to reach a top
speed of 244 miles per hour. But
this radiator n be put in slow as
well as fast machines, and should
increase speed by something like 20
per cent in almost any type. Util-
i2ation of knowledge got while
gliding should make possible inn
provements which, like this one, can
have n general application to all
types.
The result will be inevitable.
Speed will be increased in relation
to power, or the fuel necessary to
attain n certain speed will be re-
duced. As n result, the cost of COW
ering a given distance will lessen,
and the airplane, already scientifi-
cally successful, will be closer to a
purely economical usefulness.
, 1923-06-29
OUT OF THE
NIGHTS

II would be interesting to dis
cover, il it could be done, just what
it Ii that leads a young Chinese
eoolis Of the better class to pay
$500 to have himself smuggled into
the United States. No doubt it is
some vision of fame or fortune or
achievement more or less i~llusory.
At any rate, the coolies come in
when they can.
. And whatever It Is that bring,
them brought twenty young and
we'll dressed coolies into such a
bloody, wierd and piratical adven-
ture off the coast of this civilized
country as they would have had to
wait a long time to experience
among the junks of their native
rivers. How they reached Cuba is
not revealed, but once there they
arranged to pay the Captain OF
tho little sloop Mary Beatrice $500
each for a landing in the United
Ststss-$250 down and the re,
mainder on delivery. The captain
got as far as Sandy Hook, but
found it more difficult than he had
expected to discharge his psssen-
gers. Instead. he deserted on a
boot!egger's launch, leaving the
cook and crew in charge. The
cook and crew consisted Of two
white men and two negroes- Thss,
four got ready their weapons and
demanded the second instsllment,
Of passage money from the Chinese
It vas denied-and the rest wa;
carnage. Five Cinnamon, two white
men and two Negroes went over.
board for good. The sloop drifted
in painted with blood.
At least, that is the story OF tn.
fifteen surviving coolies, told thru
Interpreters. 1t may be true, ever
though it sounds more improbabl,
than Treasure Island" II so, MT
additional risk must be added t
The list Of those run by Chimes,
-boys who hunt their pot OF gold al
the foot of the American rainbow.
, 1923-06-29
WOMEN'S AS


Almost all the first honon for
study taken by members Of the
graduating classes of New York
University's coeducationnl schools
this year were won by m The
one man who scored, a student in
the School Of Retailing, shared the
first honors there with a m
Today the event quite fails to
ruffle public attention. Twenty
years ago, or even ten, it would
have made thousands of eyes stare,
would have led to snorts and out
cries, would have inspired plays.
Sex equality as to mind capacity,
was less widely accepted then, it
seems, than now.
But how far are women likely to
carry such scholastic leadership, 1t
used to be said that women had no
head for business. That has cer-
tainly not been borne out by their
work in business courses at New
York University. Doubters Of femi-
nine mental worth must now fal.
back to a stand % mems superior
mental quality.
Quality of mental output is some
thing else. indeed, than capacity.
Man has not yet learned how to
measure mental quality, but he has
made no startling difference in col
lege mems and women's mental
ages.
, 1923-06-29
Accident Causes Loss
of Eyesight

NEWCASTLE. wyo.. June Ia
John Pettcnsill. son OF VIM. Petten.
gill. formerly of Weston county but
of late years employed in the Home
take mines at Lead City. 8. D., met
with an accident which caused the
total loss of both eyes and may re-
suit fatally. Mr.. PettensiI had
placed a shot which from some cause
prematurely discharged. with
the disastrous results stated. He has
n wife md two SINAI children and 1t
is understood that should he live he
VIII receive a pension from the
Homesake company.
, 1923-06-29
MEETING THEM WITH
DISH r

Undersecretaries in tho British
parliament are busy these days an
swering questions regarding the
treatment OF British subjects In
American ports. Angry statements
r made in France. provoked by
American treatment of French.
Protects rome from Italy. America
is disliked abroad and i. keeps ir-
ritating the other nations with pin
pricks.
Ellis island is n cause OF COM
plant, and it should be. 1t is n
monument to the incapacity Of Am
ericun bureaucracy. a European
luckless enough TO be detained
through some defect in his passport
. or some other question as to his
, 1923-06-29
Khan Is Active

SHERIDAN. wyo.. June 2e.-The
Knights of tho Ku Klux Klan ap-
peared in public in Sheridan for the
second time this summer. when three
automobile leads of the w~hite-garbed
klansmen paraded north on Main
street to Fourth street. then back
south on Gould street to Burkitt.
back to Main street and up the court
house hill and disappeared ove the
hill.
They were first seen on Main street
about $40 o'clock by a member of the
police force. He said they made no
conspicuous demonstration other than
their appearance. but drove quietly
up he street.
An anonymous telephone call came
to The Post about $50 o'clock. saying
that a news item could be obtained
If a reporter would go out or Main
street al 9:15 o'clock.
, 1923-06-29

EXPERT watch anc jewelry repair
ing. Casper Jewelry Co.. O1S Bldg.
, 1923-06-29
Bolt Plays Trick

THERMoPoLIs. wyo.. June 2s.-
While a group of cattlemen and help
ers Were branding took at Phil Nc.
Cures mountain ranch. during a
local thunder storm. a bolt of light.
mig struck a cow that was in the
branding chute and knocked the ani.
NAL to the ground. Phil Mcclure had
a hot branding iron on the animal at
the time and was dazed by the shock,
Bobbie Nostrum was struck to the
ground by the bolt and Johnnie Sapp
was knocked off the fence where he
was sitting.
, 1923-06-29

N@r@D
TIE CASPER TRIBUNE'S
PROGRAM

Irrigation project west Of Casper
70 be authorized and completed at
once.
A complete and scientific zonins
systsm for the city OF Casper.
A comprehensive municipal and
school recreation park system. in
GLIDING swimming pools for the
children Of Casper.
Completion of tho established
Scenic Route boulevard as planned
by tho county commissioners to
Garden Creek Falls and return.
Better roads for Natrona county
and more highways for Wyoming.
More equitable freight rates for
shippers OF the Rocky Mountain
region and more frequent train
service for Casper.
, 1923-06-29

REMOVAL NOTICE
Harmed Bros. and the City Furni-
ture Co.. have moved to their new
location. 234 South David. Phone 24e.
, 1923-06-29

Member Of Audit Bureau oil
Circulation "a. II. O.
H,mh,r of tb, Associated Press
, 1923-06-29
coming in for hotel accommodations
during the whole month Of July.
Many Cars This Year

ROCK SPRINGS. wyo.. June 90
A partial census of automobiles here
indicates that there are a a
motor driven vehicles in Rock Springs
as in Cheyenne. which has twice the
population of Rock Springs. Many of
the GOA miners employed here ride
70 and from work IN automobiles.
" 2twshrdl shrdlu shrdlu etaoin ea
, 1923-06-29
Receives Appointment

MEETEETSEE. wyo.. June 20
Frank River, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry River of Meeteetsee. has been
selected as one of the Wyoming
young men who will go to Annapolis
Nav academy, through the efforts
of Senator r. E. Warren.