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The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
MRS. KOHL TO
WE'D v|COMTE

PARIS, Aug. 27--Mrs, G. Freder.
lex Kohl of San Francisco, announced
her coming marriage to the Vicomte
de Lambeytye, a member of one of
the Oldest families of the aristocracy
in France.
Mrs. Kohl arrived here after
visit at Etretat.
Mrs. Kohl is the widow of a San
Francisco capitalist who committed
suicide in November, 1921. They
had previously been separated for
some time and publication of Kohl's
will astounded society because he
left the bulk of his fortune, valued
at approximately $2,0O0.OOO, to Mrs.
Marion Louderback Lord of New York
City.
To his widow, the present BRIDE
elect, Kohl left paltry $25O,O0O,
with an alternate that she should re-
ceive $1,000 month for life, or dur.
ing the term of her widowhood She
accepted the monthly plan, and wheth-
er she ever changed her mind and
accepted the $25O,0OO as her late
husbands will provided, she could
do, does not appear. Whether she
could do so now. in view of her ap-
preaching marriage, is a legal ques-
ton
Mrs. Kohl was born in Washing.
ton of humble parentage There is
no record that she ever contested
her husbands will giving the bulk
OF the estate to her rival.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Unwilling Hosts Escaped
Convicts Presents Bill

SALEM, Ore, Aug. 27.-C. L. New
man, Of New Era, unwilling host OF
the three escaped convicts from the
State penitentiary. has filed bill
of $21 with the Secretary Of State
for food and clothing the convicts
took. The bill will be presented to
the next Legislature. Newman said
the convicts left signed statement
they would repay him for his ex
pense.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
-Four Thousand
Quart Bottles of
Beer Smashed

SEATTLE, Aug. 27.-Four thou
sand quart bottles of beer were
thrown out Of windows Of an apart
ment house here last night and
smashed on the pavement below
when officers raided a FIVE room
suite. Although the beer had been
destroyed the officers found a home
brewer who operated on the largest
scale of anybody SO far discovered.
Fred Davis Is the name Of the
home brewer and he was arrested, /,
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
CUNFIRE LEVELS
GUNS OF ENEMY,
COAST MOROCCO
Rebel Guns Put Out of Com
mission-Krim's Head
quarters Raided.

MELILLA, Aug. 2-.-The Span
ish Morocco coast line at Alhucemas
has been virtually levelled by gun
fire from Spanish warships. The
cruiser Alfonso fred IL shots broad
side and put the enemy guns out OF
commission. The gunfire has also
destroyed several rebel villages.
A squadron of giant sirplanes
bombed Add Ell Krim's headquarters
at Adjir.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Seattle Gambling
Den Raided; Arrests

SEATTLE, Aug. 27.LAfter fail
ing in twelve police raids on the
Mint, downstairs gambling den,
Acting Prosecutor Mcfarland. took
five officers and two Constables and
caught the dealer in a chuckaluck
game and others. 1t is said that so
they got tips every time the Sheriff
or police planned a raid.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
WIFE MURDERER SUICIDES in CELL
Forest Seruice Policies
In alaska Are Denounced

been overripe for a long time and
should be harvested the same as any
other crop. Overripe timber is a
menace to forest. Had the Forest
Service sold half a thousand 100
acre tracts for $500 each it would
have created taxable wealth of
$50, 200, 900. Development of the
Territory has been retarded in a
manner that is criminal" said
Josin
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27

SEATTLE, Aug. 27.-The policies
of the United States Forest Service,
in respect to the forests of Alaska,
are denounced by Falcon Joslin, Sc
attle and Alaska lawyer and, min
ing man, before the meeting of the
Seattle Mining Club.
Joslin said Alaska's population
would be 100000 if a proper policy
had been pursued.
Vast areas of timber there have
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Fat Persons Are Born, Not
Made; Reduction Cannot Be
Done by Medicine; It's Bunk

DES MONIES, Aug. 27-Drugs an
medicines cannot make a fat perso
thin and they cannot lose weight b
taking preparations.
This statement was made today b
Drylman Hobby, of the Bureau c
Chemistry to the delegates attendin
the American Pharmaceutical Asst
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
NAVY ESTIMATES
ARE BEIN C CUT
# 0 R 7 Y MILLION
Terrific Slash Reported by
Officials : To Close
Many Navy Yards.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-Acting
lon request of the Budget Bureau
to reduce its program for 1927,
the Navy Department has slashed
original estimates $40,000,000. 1t
is understood the revised estimates
provide for the closing of the Boston
Navy Yard, Charleston Navy Yard,
Brooklyn Supply Base and either
the Great Lakes or the Hampton
Roads Naval Station. 1t is said
$47 100000 for the new construc-
ton program faces a prospect of
sharp revision.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Ku KIux Klan News
Comes Under a Ban

BUCKLEY LAKE. Ohio. Aug. 81
Officials of the Ku Klux Klan have
clamped censorship on information
OF the National meeting following
publication Of newspaper articles OBJ
tanned from delegates. 1t is an
nounced all news will be given out
by the Imperial Dragon and anybody
else caught giving out news will be
ousted.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Two Will Attempt to
Fly, Paris to New York

PARIS, Aug. 27.-The Petit Par
isian says Lieutenant Tarascon,
French flier, and his companion. in
tend to attempt a Paris-New York
fight about the fifth of next month
Raymond Orteig, of New York, has
offered $4,000 for performance Of
the feat.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
COAL MINERS
WILL STRIKE
Government Experts Believe
There Is No Chance of
Averting Walk-out.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 27.-Govern-
ment observers see no hope of avert.
ing suspension of work in the an
thracite coal fields on September 1.
Experts are not turning their atten-
ton to study the effects of nation
al prolonged shutdown. The visible
hard coal supply will last until De-
cember, it is estimated. =
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Body of Mrs. Reice
Found at Petersburg

PETERSBURG, Alaska, Aug 81.
The body of Mrs. Thomas Reice,
formerly Mrs. Hogue, has been
found on the tide flats near where
her husband pushed her overheard
from gasboat and then drcwped
himself. Her husbands body was
recovered.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Hazeltine Will Accept
Job With New Dry Unit

SEATTLE, Aug. 81. = Divisional
Prohibition Chief Hazeltine has re-
turned from Washington, d. c. dry
conference. He said he knew nothing
in regard to appointments in this
district, including Alaska, except that
he will accept the position of Assist.
ant if it is offered him.
Staff Administrator Roy Lyle has
not yet arrived from Washington.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Killed During Turret
Drill on Battleship

WASHINGTON. Aug. 81. - One
man was killed and another in
jured in turret drill aboard the
battltship Oklahoma enroute from
New Zealand to Samoa according to
radio advices.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Dorothy Ellingson
Is Given Sentence

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 81
Dorothy Ellingson, jazz flapper who
slaughter, for the murder Of her
mother last January, has been SEN
fenced from one to ten yeais at San
Quentin.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Courtmartial Ordered
For Two Sleepy Marine.

SWAMPSCOTT, Mass, Aug. a.
A summary courtmartial has been
ordered for the two marines charged
with sleeping at their posts on
guard duty at the summer White
House. The maximum penalty is
dishonorable discharge.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
NEW EVIDENCE.

RICHMOND, Cal, Aug. 27.-ln a
lonely ravine and at another spot
near an abandoned resort called Cody
Cove Inn, investigators in the Loren
mystern found several articles or
infants clothing, sui of mans un-
derwear blood stained, and broken
vial which had contained nitrate of
silver.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
CAPTURE FRENCH GARRISON.

LONDON, Aug. 27.-A telegraph
message from Cairo says rebellious
Drusse Tribesmen have captured the
on the right bank of the Euphrates.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Mail Clerk Shot by
Bandits, Dies, Wound.

SANTA ANA, Cal, Aug. 27.-Elmer
Campbell, wounded mail clerk and
messenger on the Santa Fe train,
who was shot by robbers several
nights ago, died this morning.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Mexico Plans to Pay
Her Debt to Nations

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug. 27.--
A. Meilas, Financial Agent of the
Mexican Government, and a relative
of President Gales, said Mexico will
begin paying her $5O0,O0O.OOO war
debt, owed chiefly to the United
States, about September l.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Coast Business
And Trade at
High Peak, July

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 81
John Ferrin, Federal Reserve
Agent on the Pacific Coast, re-
ports improvement in trade and
business began in June and
continued through July, the
activity. then being near the
highest levels of years.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Population Of Free
State Over 100000

=. DUBLIN. Aug. 27.-An official es-
innate gives the population of the
Free State as 3,163.O00, There is a
slight decline in the birth and death
rates. The Free State has not yet
taken a census.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27

citation.
Fat persons are born, not made.
Sensible eating is the only method
of keeping the figure" said Hobby.
He said some fat reducing medicine
manufacturer fleeced the public out
of half million dollars during the
last year
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Sixth Chinese Shot
In Eastern Tong Wal

BALTIMORE, Aug, 27.-Two uni
Identified Chinese shot and killed
Louie Kwong. proprietor of a res
taurant here last night and escaped
This is the sixth death in the coun-
try-wide tong war which started
Tuesday.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
Laplander's Reindeer
Hit, Hoof, Mouth Disease
|sA> Q

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 27. - The
hoof and mouth disease has attacked
the Lapp's reindeers according to
official Government reports.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27

OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 27. - The
butchery victim found in the marsh
of the Elcerrito River has been
positively identified as Mrs. Bessie
Loren, young, attractive nurse.
Identification was made from teeth
found in the swamp.
With the surrender late yesterday
to the San Francisco police of Mrs.
Jane Peabody, beauty parlor op-
orator, sought for questioning in
connection with the butchery of
Mrs. Loren, the authorities are con
tinuing the search for a middle
aged man of professional appear
ance" who visited Mrs. Loren on
August 19 in a San Francisco hotel.
Mrs. Peabody explained she had
just found out the police wanted her.
She denied knowledge of the murder
of the nurse.
Family Questioned.
Questioning of Mrs. Annie Fer
guson, Mrs. Loren's mother, has con-
vinced the authorities to the belief
an illegal operation was performed
which resulted in the nurses death.
The mother furnished the name of
San Francisco business man whom she
believed will have some knowledge
of the case, also a San Francisco
physician.
Experts working on the case de-
clared the body had been dismem-
bered by a person skilled in the
use of the knife.
The police questioned the girls
family closely believing they are
concealing valuable information to
protect the family name. 1t has
been discovered the mother visited
her daughter in San Francisco
hotel on the night of August ~,
when Bessie checked out.
Sheriff Barnett's wife told the in
yestigators today that Bessie's moth
er told her on Monday that Barnett
had seen her daughter. Mrs. Bar
nett claims she told Mrs. Ferguson
her daughter was blackmailer. Mrs.
Ferguson replied that Bessie does
not need blackmail money. She has
a fiance in San Francisco who gives
her everything.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27

PRINCE RUPERT. B. C.-Amer-
lean halibut sold today for 11.7O
and six cents and Canadian halibut
for 1880 and seven cents.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27
SLAIN VICTIM
BUTCHERY CASE
! IS IDENTIFIED
More Mystery Develops in
Murder of Nurse-Many
Are Questioned.

BULLETIN-OAKLAND, Aug. 27.
j. Loren Pease, dentist, and J. ].
Meyer, surgeon, prominent here, ar
rived at Police headquarters late
this afternoon for questioning in
the death mystery of Bessie Loren.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27

CH1CAGO-Vice-President Charles
G. Dawes celebrated his sixtieth
birthday by going to his office and
attending an informal luncheon.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-08-27

NEW YORK-The American to-
day says Charlie Chaplin will build
$1,00O.000 theatre on broadway
and open with play written by
Chaplin featuring Judith Anderson.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-06-04
WORLDS NEWS
IN MIDGET FORM
Long Stories Of Big Events Told
in Brief Paragraphs for
Quick Reading.
NATIONAL CAPITAL SNAPSHOTS
Geanings of Interest From Washing
ton-Late Happenings In the
Realm of Sports-Foreign and
Domestic Occurrences.
WASHINGTON

Senator Norris (Neb., Rep.) has is
sued a warning that he would start a
movement to open the entire income
tax returns IL the administration
should attempt to repeal the present
partial tax publicity provision,
Treaty negotiations for the taking
over of the entire Republic of Panama,
If that be necessary for the protection
of the canal, will be re-opened be-
tween representatives of both gov
ernments.
The Polish Minister of Foreign At
fairs, Dr. Alexander Skrzynoski, will
come to the United States in July, to
attend the sessions Of the Williams
town Institute of Politics, the State
Department was informed.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has announced that the hearing
in the Eastern class rate investigation
would be resumed June % instead of
June Is as previously scheduled.
The cry for speed has finally envel-
oped the Washington Monument and
bids have been opened for an elevator
in that structure capable of carrying
passengers ESQ feet minute.
Who's PRESIDENT" the Bureau Of
Education of the Department of the
Interior was asked in letter received
from school teachers stationed at UNI
max, a settlement on the Aleutian
Islands.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-06-04
FOREIGN

Negotiations of the Rumanian gov
eminent with London bankers for q
loan to recondition the state railroads
have been halted, because of the Ru-
manian law forbidding mortgaging of
revenue or physical property of the
railroads
The university in Vienna has been
closed and 1000 police called to spe-
cial duty following bloody clashes be-
tween the anti-Semitic students, wear
ing the 'ehook-cross" emblem, and
Jewish and liberal students. The
schools of technology and agriculture
have Joined in the wholesale head
cracking.
The French and British govern
ments have come to an agreement on
the proposed disarmament note to
Germany, and 1t is understood that
the note will be dispatched shortly.
A well preserved, life-size bronze
statue recently unearthed in Pompeii
has been removed to the National
Museum in Naples.
Declaring that her shot that killed
Ernest Berger, of LAction Franchise.
royalist paper Of Paris, was intended
for Leon Daudet, editor and leader Of
the royalists, domestic servant
named Bonnefoy confessed the crime.
Great Britain is at present receiv
ing no allied war payments, Winston
Churchill, chancellor Of the excheluer,
told Herbert Williams in Commons re-
Gently
The mayor, town secretary and two
agrarians were killed at zempoala in
battle following attempts to enforce
the Mexican presidential decree
against arms for farmers
The arms conference military com
mission at Geneva rejected the Ameri-
can proposal for prohibiting export Of
poison gas. Delegates Of England,
Italy and Japan were the principal OBJ
jectors.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-06-04
GENERAL

Major General Morrison, command
er of the Canadian artillery forces in
the world war, has died in Ottawa.
Richard Washburn Child, former
United States Ambassador to Italy,
was elected president Of the Arbitra-
ton Society of America at the annual
meeting of the society in New York.
Home Secretary Representatives. an
nounced in the House of Commons
that he has issued instructions that
aliens known to be engaged In sub
versive activities abroad should not
be admitted to the United Kingdom
to participate in the Communist con-
ference at Glasgow.
DR.. Charles H. Mayo, of Rochester,
MINI, was the guest of honor at a
luncheon given by DR.. Floreston
Aguilar. chief surgeon and physician
to the King of Spain.
Whatever the many acts that are
forbidden in Central Park, New York,
kissing a girl with her consent is not
one of them. according to Magistrate
Brodsky.
Wllllu du muir d1tCA liS C1OoO Va
the General Assembly at Columbus the
lines began to form for the new con-
test within the Presbyterian Church
over issues which admittedly are
grave.
Serious discussion over the war
debt between Paris and Washington
already have begun, Foreign Minister
BRAND announced
To celebrate her thirty-eight years
of work in the prisons of the United
States, Mrs. Maude Ballington Booth
held her anniversary at Sing Sing. ac-
companied by a band Of professional
entertainers.
Dr.. j. B. Collip. of Edmonton, Can
ada, told the convention of the Amer
lean Medical Association the reju-
venating properties popularity credited
to monkey and goat glands are, in
Teality, all buncombe.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-06-04
SPORTING

England eliminated Denmark from
the Davis Cup tennis play in the
European zone by winning a doubles
match.
Al Manaux, former pitching star
with Pittsburgh and Brooklyn in the
National League. has quit organized
baseball permanently and will play
semi-professional ball with Jamaica,
L. l., this season.
The DR.. Ginoux medal for the Yale
University three-weapon champion
ship has been won by A. ]. Kelsey,
1925, Lakewood, Ohio, who won first
in the foils. third in the epee and tied
for fourth in the sabre in the uni
versity championships.
Bobby Walthour, blond haired
yonngster, scored his most notable
victory of the season when he defeat
ed Willie Spencer, national sprint
champion of 1922 and 1923, in two
straight heats of thrilling mile match
race at the Newark Velodrome re-
Gently
Canada's Davis Cup players, Willard
Croker and Jack Wright, carried off
both the singles and doubles titles in
the Castle Point tennis championship
at the Hoboken Tennis Club.
Holland officially informed the open
ing session of the International Olym-
pic Congress that Holland formally
engages to hold the 1928 Olympic
Games at Amsterdam.
Circuit Court Judge Hugo Friend
refused to enjoin Ed ("Strangler')
Lewis from advertising himself as
world champion wrestler in his match
with Wayne big" Mum.
Paavo Nurmi, the great Finnish run
ner, who has spent the last FIVE
months whipping Americas distance
runners and SCATTERING worlds dis
lance records, chose to face Alan
Helffrich, our premier middle distance
star, in a half-mile run in his final
race, and was soundly whipped by a
margin of fully six yards in the com
paratively ordinary time of / minute,
Sc As seconds.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-06-04
WORLDS BUSINESS


The British rubber restriction and
the Sac Paulo coffee valorization
schemes have got beyond the control
of their instigators, it was declared ia
official quarters in Washington.
A good market in Germany for
American Holstein dairy sires of
good milk production ancestry is re.
ported by William A. Schoenfeld,
agricultural commissioner represent.
ing the United. States Department Of
Agriculture at Berlin.
Attorney General Sargent will at
tempt to reconcile trade association
activities and the law out of court, by
offering to assist associations indi-
vidually in consideration Of their
problems, he has informed trade asso-
cation officials who have interviewed
HIM recently on the matter.
A strong foothold in London's the
aires has been gained by United
States interests through deal just
concluded.
Jesse l.. Livermore has quit the
stock market. No more will Wall
Street be able to accuse him Of stag
ing spectacular bear drives or of man
aging stupendous bull pools.
The oil industry believes that it
now faces period of prosperity, with
higher prices for crude and refined Pc
troleum during the summer months.
Re-establishment of the gold stand
ard by Great Britain is of "the vast
est Importance to the United States"
according to a statement issued by
the Advisory Council of the Federal
Reserve Board.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-06-04

Real live pirates actually exist in
this twenty-ffth year of the twentieth
century, declares c. B. Brown, char
tered accountant, an Englishman who
has lived at Hongkong for many years
and is now in New York.
Vice-Chancellor John H. Backus, Of
Newark, N. j., decided in the Court OF
Chancery, that where industrial
works are circumspectly carried on,
noise, characteristic of such enter
prises, must be endured by those
who, by choice or necessity, live in the
vicinity"
Frank w. Stearns, Of Boston, close
friend of President Coolidge, returned
with Mrs. Stearns on the steamship
Olympic after two months in Italy and
France. They went directly to Bos-
ton.
Demands of employees for a wage
increase of 35 to 40 per cent has re-
suited in the closing of all textile
mills in lower Austria. About 10000
men are involved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur H. Lamborn,
of New York City, arrived in Ber-
muda on chartered steamship.
bringing with them especially pre-
pared serum for the treatment Of their
son, John Lamborn, who was stricken
with pneumonia.
John ]. Carey, thirty-eight surren
dered to the sheriff at Perryville, Mo-,
and asserted he was the slayer of DR..
William A. Dillon at St. Louis, April
30. The sheriff and prosecuting at
torney doubted his story, but held
the man for investigation.
Boy publishers Of sixty-nine boys
clubs decided at the nineteenth annual
international convention of the Boys
Club Federation in New York to form
a news service of their own, modelled
on the large press agencies. Lew
Williams, director of the Toledo
Newsboys' Club, was elected presi-
dent of the news association.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
KENTUCKY OIL MEN
BUY MEDINA LAND

Three hundred acres of the jung
man farm, south of Noonan Switch,
Medina county, have been leased by
Will H. Caudill and associates, of Ash
land, KY, according to an announce
ment Saturday, and they propose TO
drill 80 or 90 shallow wells there for
oil which is found at around $50 feet.
There is an old well on the Jungman
farm which has produced oil for n
number Of years and it is believed they
can get ten barrels a day from the
shallow sand in each well.
Jack White, San Antonio geologist
and field man, will be in charge of the
lease. A rotary outfit has been sent
to the lease and the first well will
spud in Monday, it is stated. The
Caudill interests also are reported to
have secured a part of the Fletcher
acreage north of Hondo for deeper
drilling and they probably will drill
n test there to see If the Pensylvanian
is within drilling distance in Medina
county.
Mr.. Caudill said:
There are more than 100 oil men
of means residing in Kentucky and
Ohio who arc coming to Texas to dc
velop shallow oil and the general topic
of discussion w there is shallow oil in
Texas along the BALCONIES Fault"