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THE NEWS ALL THE VOL. NO. 3890. 17 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK; OTHERS DYING Emigrant Train Wrecked Explodes. HACKETTSTOWN, N.

June 16. Late this afternon it is officially announced 29 persons are dead and 69 injured in the train wreck near Rockport, New Jersey. HACKETTSTOWN, N. June IB Seventeen are known to have been killed when a Lackawana train, I known as the Emigrant Special, car rying 185 persons who were to sail today from Hoboken for Europe, was wrecked earl this morning while the passengers were asleep. Doctors, hastily summoned, said a minimum of 12 of those injured, will die.

The engineer and fireman were killed. Lightning had struck and displaced a rail and a landslide had covered the rails. The track had been undermined and seven of the ten cars left the track. The first coach was hurled half way over the capsized locomotive. Men and women fought, madly for egress from the coaches.

The locomotive exploded and fill -ed the air with steam and the passengers were able to see only a few feet away Washington State Not to Assist in Defense Day Plans OLYMPIA, June 16 Washington State will not participate in the National Defense Day, Gov. R. H. Hartley announced today. Thik is due to the inability of the National Guard to participate and no other directing organization! Royal Guest HOWELL HOWARD Mrs.

Howell II. Howard of Dayon. Ohio, and Chicago, was among he American women to be present'd to Court of St. Jamess by Mrs. A.

D. Houghton, wife of the Ambassador to London. TO ELIMINATE EVILS OF WAR SAYS ROTARIAN President of Rotary International Makes Stirring Address Today. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June rwelve thousand Rotarians from all jarts of the earth stormed into 'Cleveland at the opening of the session of the Sixteenth Annual Con mention of the Rotary International, rhe outstanding feature is the cbl-j irful pageant with a Rotary cast of performers. CLEVELAND.

June na ion that accepts the challenge of vorld service and prefers human tv's advancement to the roar of onq tiering guna is assured of an immortality, asserted Everett Hills, president of Rotary Inernational. in an address before its innual convention here today. In serving best liis home and his tomeland, man serves best the vorld, Mr. Hill said, hat world brotherhood is composed if peaceful homelands linked together in but a larger and stronger loud of social and mortal standmi when home ties are snapped ly the strong winds of doHtiny, vlien marriage is converted into Here social convenience, when childlood is frozen by parental indif 'creme, when the; name of God is lever mentioned in reverence by he firesides of a modern age. then is headed straight for lie maelstrom, and over every eaptal and nation there will hang a loom heavier than the burden of The spirit of intolerance has gripped the nations ami defied the exorcism of all rue charity, Mr.

Hill continued, who that no longer is the right of lonsclence freely conceded or the (Continued on Seven.) is available. UNITED STATES UP AGAINST IT IN BOOZE FIGHT VANCOUVER. R. 16 John McNlsh. director of a distillery, said the United States is up against the almost Impossible task of keeping liquor out.

"Up to six months ago. more! Scotch whiskey was shipped to the United States than at any time he-1 fore prohibition The cost to maintain the dry fleet wil be so enormous that the United States cannot maintain it much longer. As soon as the fleet disappears on Rum it springs up again some other I place." College Refuses Accept Resignation Pres.1 WALLA WALLA, June The Board of Overseers of! Whitman College refuse to accept i the resignation of President, Penrose on account of blindness and decided he shall name an assistant. ITALY COUNTS ITS THEATRES. ROME, June recently made public show that only 16 out of every 100 townships in Italy have thentres.

In the entire country, it was shown that 1.662 townships possess playhouses. Explorer Turns Aside I To Greet Old Friends 1 WISCASSET. Maine. June 16. Boston and Wiscasset will earh give a semi-official sendoff to the Donald MacMillan Arctic expedition this month, but the isVand of Monhegan will have the distinction of being the final take-off point of the ex plorer, friends of MacMillan assert This Is explained as in accord witli his regular custom, in starting fot the north, to pay an over night visit to the isolated island community where friends who are descendants of generations of seafarers give tht final farewell.

Monhegan is an elongated islei nine jnljes from Pemaquid Point or I the mainland and about two or three hours steaming from Wiscasett. Its total voting population numbers 52. The island has been a landfall for ships through the centuries since the first adventurous voyager skirted the shore of the Gulf of Maine. Fisherfolk made their homes there in the early days of colonization and descendants of these people stil wrest a livelihood from the waters surrounding it and from a small settlement of summer visitors. About the native firesides many old-time traditions are revived and stirring tales of pioneer struggles, wrecks and sea-roving long forgotten elsewhere, are told again.

JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1925. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS, PARKS INAUGURATED AS GOVERNOR DENTIST KILLS WIFE; MURDER IS PREMEDIATED Dr. Thomas W. Young, of Los Angeles. Gets Wife Drunk and Gasses Her.

I ANGELES, June arrest of a handsome woman, declared to have helped Dr. Young administer lethal gas to his wife, is expected. I.0S ANGELES, June Charles Reimer. investigator for the District Attorney, told the coroner's jury that Dr. Thomas W.

Young, dentist, who confessed lie killed his wife last Fedbruary, frequently quarreled with her. Mrs. Grace Young, whoso first 'husband was Patrick Grogan, was called Olive King. Her body was removed Saturday from beneath a mass of concrete in a cistern of cottage at Beverly Glen. The woman disappeared last February 21 when Young drove with her from roadhouse to his office and there plied her with liquor until she became confused.

He induced her to write a letter and a postcard, addressed to him, which ne had a friend mail from the east, as indication that she was alive after February 21. Young had his wife sign several blank checks and other papers enabling him to secure $100,000 in Liberty bonds. He pocketed a quantity of lethal gas in a cone tube for administering it on cotton wadding. He left tile office with bor and she fell asleep in the car. As they drove to Beverly Glen, June Week at Annapolis PARKS BECOMES GOVERNOR WITH NO CEREMONIES 'Will Do My Is Modest Comment of New Governor of Territory.

URGES UNITED EFFORT IN CONSTRUCTIVE WORK Solution of Local Problems Rests with Alaskans Not With Outsiders. Unostentatiously anil with the same simplicity that marked hla official career and private life for 18 years in the Territory, George Alexander Parks was Inaugurated this morning as the tenth Governor of Alaska. The oath was administered In file Governor's offleo hy Judge T. M. Reed, of the Federal District Court, and a friend of long standing of Gov.

Parks. The ceremony lasted in all not more than two minutes. In the presence of a few witnesses, the new Chief Executive took the usual oath, shook hands with those present, chatted a few minutes with those present and settled down to work Those present were Surveyor General Karl Theile, Collector of Customs .1 ('. McBride, Martin George, Acting Asst. Supervisor of Surveys, L.

Li. Harding, Secretary to the Governor, P. W. M. Colburn and Mis3 Mary B.

Cook, of the Governor's clerical staff, and a reporter of The Empire. 5 NAVAL, CADE Here are the cadets at the TT. ft. Naval Academy at Annapolis on dress parade during the annua! Woek ceremonies which are a part of the graduation eierclses In which the senior class receive Us I commissions, i Greets Old Navy Grads i i i. in i SEARCH PLANS FOR AMUNDSEN ARE HELD UP 1 Navy Department Will Make No Announcement Statement Wilbur.

WASHINGTON, June 16. Any effort of the naval planes with the MacMillan kJxpeditlon to search for apt. Roald Amundsen will he made only by order of the Navy. mont after the expedition reaches Utah. Greenland, Secretary Wilbur said to (lie flying personnel of (he expedition Secretary Wilbur asserted the Navy is under agreement to make the prime object of the expedition the exploration of the unknown see lion between Alaska and the North Pole.

'I he Secretary he intended to do whatever was reasonable In searching for Amundsen more." No plana of Amundsen have been submitted to any departments of this government and Wilbur said he regraded it as utter folly to undertake a search without data. Ur. Young lacen a rumrei muc her mouth, adjusted the cone and poured in lethal gas fluid which stopped her nostrils. Arriving at the cotage, Dr. Young trundled the body into the cistern Young Patrick Grogan, the dead woman's son, unknowingly helped concrete and covered the body with cement in the cistern.

Yester day he destroyed a will he made on June 9 bequeathing $1,000,000 to Young. Young will be charged with pre meditated murder of his wife. Sourdough Dies Telling tf here His Money Hidden CORDOVA. June to my cabin and pull a nail out from behind my living room table." was the deathbed request of Carl J. Carrson, aged years.

Alaskan sourdough and well known ships carpenter who died yesterday. Searchers spent three hours examining every nail head in the cabin and finally tapped hollow place, on the table leg locating a secret compartment containing over $1,200 $20 bill was found stuffed in a crack in Carrson's cabin. SENATOR REED STARTS FIGHT WORLD CODRT KANSAS, CITY, June 16. of the United States to the World Court will make this nation subject to the will of fourteen men who will control the destiny of the declared United States Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, opening his campaign opposing American participation In the World Court.

San Francisco Has $3,000,000 Blaze HAN FRANCISCO. June One fireman was killed and three Injured in two spectacular fires today. One fire destroyed the three principal packing houBes of tho Is lais Creek plant. Thousands of cattle were freed from the pens and roamed the streets. The loss is put at $3,000,000.

American Legion Urging Maintaining 5-5-3 Ratio INDIANAPOLIS, June The National Executive Committee of the American Legion has decided to urge the United States Oovernment to make provisions tor maintaining 5-5-3 naval ratio fixed at tho Washington Arms Conference and also an increase in the navy personnel by 4,000. Pledges Self to Task. the 'office. Gov'. Parks pi in a brief informal statement to the task of stimulating the development of the resources of the Territory The big need is for Alaskans to "think, plan and work for the upbuilding of their homeland, spurning obstructive doctrines, he commented.

"Alaska has the resources and there must be some reason why handicaps have not been surmounted and their development more rapid than has been aeheived. We shall try to discover what that reason is and get it corrected. The National Administration, from President Coolidge down through every department, is anxious that Alaska shall develop on sound, sane and conservative economic and business principles and will extend a helping hand whenever and wherever possible. If legislation Is needed we will try and get it, and are assured (Continued on Page Eignt.) T-- Coolidge Pays (i rare fill Tribute To Stars and Stripes i CHICAGO, June Flag Day message received yesterday from President Coolldge by Dr. B.

.1. Clgrand, President Na- 1 tiona) Flag Day Association, dej dared: "The Stars and Stripes alone of all flags expresses sovereignty of the people It has never flaunted for the glory of Royalty i but to be born under it is to be a child of a King: to estab- lisli a home under it Is to be the founder of Royal i.i President Coolldge heartily welcomed members ot the U. S. Naval Academy graduating class of 1881 when they came hack to witness the 1H25 commencement. Ho received them on the White House lawn, 1 where he is shown greeting Commander Albert Moritz, wbil; General Barnett and Mrs.

Barnett waited. RECOVERY OF EUROPE MAI RI ALLY HELPED liY COl STANDARDS NORWEGIAN OLARCH PLANS ADVENT RAY, June 16 The Amundsen Sean li Expedition will be transfcired to the Heimdall, a 640 ton lioat of the Norwegian Fisheries Service, which Commander Hegerup, who has been commanding the Farm, will command The Farm is going to tie used on the annual i scientific expedition under Prof. Adolf Hoel. The Heimdall is com ing here from Finmarken, northern Murder Charge Against Stromkins Is Dismissed i VICTORIA. II June I charge of murder against Paul I Stromkins.

confessed to having par fieipated in the Meryl (I hijacking raid last September 15 In which leapt Oillis and ills sou were killed, lias been dismissed h.v Justice Mar risen following a statement of the ICrown Prosecutor that no evidence I can he offered against Stromkins jlle will still lie a witness against Raker anti Sowash. BRITISHER IS DEAD; SNIPERS COMMIT DEED Shanghai Snipers Shoot and Kill British Companion Injured. SHANOIIAI, Juno 18. William W. MacKenzie, draughtsman of the Municipal Light Department, who was shot and killed by snipers yesterday evening, and Miss Mary Dun can.

has companion, wore liritish subjects. Miss Duncan, who seized the wheel of the automobile and steered the car Into a settlement, after MacKenzie fell dead over the wheel, had never driven a car before. The machine stopped when it plunged into a ditch. Miss Duncan was shot several times in the hand while escaping. GENEVA.

Juno Albert Thom director of the International Jei bor Office, told the delegates of I countries here for the International Labor Conference that the year Him marked the beginning of the re eu of normal economic con ditions. lie attributes the economic improvement to the patient worl carried out by every country slnci the cessation of hostilities to rein edy the direct, or indirect rouse quenees of the war. He paid liigl tribute to the Dawes report, am emphasized that a special plan must be given to direct interventio of the League of Nations in the nnneial reconstruction of Austrir Tlie speaker underlined the sign finance of the fai that immediatel after league action the Austria; crown, whoso headlong fall nothin; scorned able to check, became a Stable as the dollar. Austrian achievement," sail M. Thomas, the starting poin of similar reforms in other conn tries ami was a great lesson to Eut ope, followed by a return to the gob I standard in Russia, Germany, Poland JTO MIGRANT SEEN I BY SOCIAL WORKERS AS FAMILY MENACE and Hungary, whose monetary sit nation before had been desperate.

"These remarsanle results hav not been sufficiently brought out When the League of Nations ntalii I zed the Austrian crown the doila was rising in Austria at the rat of 21 crowns a day. When Points I stabilized its mark, the dollar wa rising in Warsaw at the rate of 0 Polish marks a minute When Hue Isia established (lie chervonets, whit is ten gold rubles, the dollar wa rising in Petrograd at the rate 18,000 rubles a second. When Gel many stabilized the mark by c.roa tug the rentenmark, the dollar wa going up In Uerliii by 013,000 mark a second." M. Thomas emphasized also Hi 1 importance of the return to gol parity of three extra-European eu rencies, the Canadian dollar, the Me lean peso and the Indian rupee, an (Continued on Page Seven.) Three Counties Flooded; Property Damage Is Large DUBUQUE, Iowa, June lives were taken ami property loss estimated at makes up the toll of floods In Dubuque, Dutchman and Delaware counties late yestor day following torrential rains. Major Pedro Zanni Is Summoned BUENOS AIRES, June 10.

Tin Minister of War has raided Majo Pedro Zanni to return immediately to Argentina being Informed tha he found the proposed world High ended. I DENVER, June lfi. The automobile migrant come in for crt tlcism today at the divisional meet ling of the National Conference of Social Work when Miss Adeline Fluf flngton, of Salt Lake City, opened a discussion on the subject before a group dmcussing the family Declaring that the West owed Its development to the pioneer spirit of adventure and initiative, Mian Fluf fington scored the present day mi ,1 grants who "pack their belongings, including babies, furniture, dogs, cats and canaries. Into a worn-out auto mobile and start out with little money, no idea of where they are going and with reckless disregard as to how they are going to live on the way. "The old pioneers made an end of their and settled a country; many of the present mi grants wander ceaselessly and use the plight of their children as an appeal for a livelihood," she said.

the children? Life in the open is healthy nough at times, but what about their education and the effects of this roving upon their habits? Have wo a new tribe of gypsies in the making? Will the next generation know any trade nr have any The characteristics of these famIVPBWBUfB 90 tsv-j.