The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 5, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NO. VOL. XXXVL. JUNEAU U, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 5, 1930. PRICE TEN CENTS HUNDREDS ARE HOMELESS IN EAST AS RESULT OF FIRES tal investments during recent years (Continued on Page Three) craft 68%. P p L) g e o MRV A s AP e ; ) . B . » ; ‘ ) ore ) : ! RED CROSS U. S. Prisons Packed to Double Capacity fore Power Given THEIK WEDDING EXPECTED SOON | . To Dry Agents by o | y | , CGNVENT"]N s et b SR Sy preme Court | “ . 4 ‘ ] ® WASHINGTON, May 5. ® | BY HIGH WI N D Sg l P |le —F¢ al Prohibition En- gl < i {® forcement Agents are declar- © i I (“' |® ed by the Supreme Court to | ksl oE ‘t hav ority to seize bar- e President Hoover Wel- el boills, corks or other o ; e .® articles intended for use in | 3 % L, comes DelegateS~New i® the illegal manufacture of Various Sections of East n ' 1 | 4 2 e Emergency System o 5 | Swept by Fire with pldcAE S i 5 S [ 1 A WASHINGTON, May 5.—Welcom- ' AR ! Appalling Loss ing the delegates to the Ninth An-| : ‘ et : i G nual Convention of the Red Cross, FRCHI 4 9 | President Hoover said the increas W ; {FIVE HUNDRED ARE ing strength of the organiz n ! 4 3 | represents the growing sense of ; # P ¢ { | HOMELESS, ONE TOWN v responsibility of the Nation toward i P : e | - those who meet disaster. | 1 | ¢ 4 ; { f The Red Cross plans to begin ! ARREST TflflAY iThousands of Acres Are soon the establishment of a s | | . 3 W s . « tem for emergency and first aid i L ] . | Laid in RUlns»——Flres Re- along the more important high- S | 3 ; ported in Many States ways of the country, James L.| B s » l A h 3. A t! % e, Fieser, Vice Chairman of Domest ritish Authorihes Ac! 4 Operations, announced. Thishsy i | Suddenly—State Secre- NEW YORK, May 5.— tem will meet the need until physi-| ! Plamen. i : Giais’ Arrive and take chatge of | tary Makes Statement | smi::; :;‘ thwc‘dé'y t“":."“e" the cases. X | fr. 2 ast, whipped . =t g 3 ‘ \ JALAPUR, India, May 5—Ma-| by winds, wrought great hatmi Gandhi, leader of the Indian hav 3 av v ) Civil Disobedience movement| AYOC Bungaye . against British rule, was suddenly A fire, starting from a arrested here this morning under wood i a century old regulation. N e brldge. at Nashua, VIADUGT Tu | | Gandni disavowed urging vio-| ew Hampshire, destroyed j {fififinng:mst thel Gufve!linmenl: for | the southeast section of the g a monopoly of the salt sei ci s e : X L3 lat Dandi. ity. One hundred and twen- Death of 300 convicts in crowded Ohio State Penitentiary calls attention to bulging Federal prisons, i | ty five homes, church, school Atlanta (top), Leavenworth (right) and McNeil Island (below), which house twice their capacity, Fires' LONDON, May 5—Edgar Widg- | |and industrial plants were de- o —_— men are shown (left) fighting flames in the Ohio Pprison. wood, who has been Secretary of | . deyavinten Preda Phojo. | oty ! ‘State in India, $id’ questioners %lie T"f pigslallE serfonita Leonor Liorente of Mexico City and Stroyed. ; { ¢ eneral Plutarco Elias Calles, f i i | Fiv Body Struck High Tension pLicur or prIsoNs in 1100 ditferent jals await sen-| In Beauty Dispute)/ lthe House of Gommons, following | soon. ormer president of Mexico, Is expected | Five hundred persons are . . . | HOWN BY FIGURES ? the arrest of TR R AT S T ) . Wires — Service Dis- | g e ter:ft b tmé D ot B . aumm«nf; n‘i‘c fi)uncontro'ifiitf uhp-’ Tt e 7 SRR R0 TR ‘h("lrnhele?s. 4 h ; © ' WASHINGTON, May 5.—The orney Generals Mitchiell has : | situation in India. He said c.andhi’c ists’ Activiti { - Ruedons ds. miore than SE rupted in Portland nine Caltod Statcs prisona now |{0ld the senate judilary commit-| o gk g ommuinsts ctivities 500,000. | houmse twice as many inmates tee that because of this congestion loffense mor teled under -ed. P Ak 3 2 PORTLAND, Oregon, May 5.—! th il 1d: 12 | further stimulating activities of | pces Dropose . . | rush fire on Staten Tt toorh fihe prd. Street via=| . sues mese buils 45 Boys: 18, it Hensiglovalitng| |ings but could be detained. { tarts F'rove: iens Island d ¢ I cet Via-| oo " ompared to 6,687, normal | Prosecution under any law will get | | S et i U et S sland destroyed 200 cottages duct, a well dressed man late last| chnagity . us into difficulties.” ! | s { 7 & at Oakwood Heights. Hun. Saturday afternoon, plunged to his o To relieve conditions somewhat, | ]\ d S IB A ; 3 death. 100.faol fo Jélfersop. Btreet, | m’l“l;:fls;f:nr:sp:;n f:;:xl-::e:enx_ Bates says many inmates of federal 3 GUARDSMEN amne 9n aa, € gopltsd"fk axe. hipmeloms. Papers found in the pockets of| g o Bages, superintendent | Istitutions are being sent to gov- i to oo - ) S | Fires on Long Island, 100 the man indicated he was William of prisesis: ernment road -camps and dxscxp]i-' ' '.‘*quare miles, are the worst ¥. Chlyst, aged 54 years, of Oak-| 3 il nary barracks. M |'Their Harvard-Yale | WASHINGTON, May 5.—Chalr- . . + land, California, S (:an;r:i:: 1:5:;. bl E T be ke 1 1aad | H | R Strik {man Johnson, of the House Immi- in a quarter of a century. Several onlookers said the body| o TPEURIORe CEpAciy for narcotic addicts will provide for ‘ omance Strikes Rocks |gration Commitiee, has asked the| Fires are raging in Atlan- h struck high fension wires and broke| o, & ¥, 2500 paiaong With this outlet | Labor Department for information tio City, New Jersey fhiem, Glseupfing the' fervive.: Thal . AMSUER oo LSS ‘BB o, 0 Cpiey expocts: ‘e fedsral |concerning the manner of entryic i dersey, ard B8 % control wires of the radio station U.Le S. l'emnlelntmy, Loao 3310 |prison population tn 1034 of 15,000 | into the United States of some 0 500 acres have burned over. KOIN were broken and broadcasting| evenwertl oo BHE 5 prisoners, 3,000 in excess of normal {4 —— | Sretly, nemagih, decinenil Tmaes Nineteen homes have been de- was suspended. 2 | . ! public in New York Friday, as g < e IR S LT 1200 1603 [capacity. o {Crew of Chaser Believed| Communist sgents, The documents® XoyE0- y T Yy v ti Prohibition violators constitute | | Forked River: # burned by striking the high ten- U. S. |Penluen iary, b et b JArCh: ot this- Caderal to Have Met Death on ! purporting to show the Commun- orked Rivers has been de- § E 3 McNeil Island, £ A b | ists are fomenting disorders in the s i S Wi Ll Washington 558 1,081 |Prisoners with violation of the ! Lake Near Toledo | i ety SOt Aleimenty Lor|iioVeE Jgpd: hundrgin, o A R T U. S. Industrial Re- Dyer auto theft act and the Mann | lice Commissioner Whalen, of New‘iorced to flee. Ten thousand t H F M'GLEL AND formatory, Chilli- ‘r‘ocl‘ fif:::‘af":c‘f\f‘her' ghist causes | TOLEDO, Ohio, May 5. — Coast | York City. J acres are reported to have cothe, Ohio 1,000 1,499 2 Guard: Soviet representatives said the 7 [ il o Federal Indus trial The number of prisoners in penal i :nh‘;e‘; :im;:‘;?:es:;nga b?&;l;! o et 3 ‘geir:i ‘burn}e:fi over and many ; | Institution for institutions of the country other [chaser crew may have met death Chairman Johnson is planning to|PUildings have been burned. v DIES |N SUUTH Women, Alderson, l;‘l‘f‘gmfi"e"fll, ;: Pf‘;‘,‘éj;’ls as about at the hands of rum runners investigate visitor's permits and re-| Laurelton has been de- W. Va. . 500 42 11O PN QS | Commander Rasmussen, of Buf-{ rewals. |stroy it R e s gg | In general, it is said that the |falo, has arrived to investigate the | || Representative Fish said he has | ltr]mted by fire anf! part of Detention House, N. prison population is below normal sinking of the rum chaser, The /been assured that his resolution.|, © 'OWI of Bassville, both 5§ Y. 200 18z |capacity in most of New En d i bodies of two members of the crew |calling for an injuiry Into Com-|In New Jersey, are in ruins. Discoverer of Copper Prop-| camp Brags, Fay- land the Rocky Mountain sections, {have been found at Maums Bay. munist activities, will be approved| Roads are clogged with re- erties Near Cordova etteville, N. C. 129 but considerable above in nearly |They have been identified as Gard- | by the House Rules Committee!c o d | all the other states. iner Young, Chief Boastwin, and| shortly. [ ugees. [} Passes Away | Totar 678 12360 | - |Willam Pratt, Chief Motor Ma- | Many fires are reported in = | chinist. The boat was used ‘0 SOVIET DENIED REQUEST 'Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, SANTA MONICA, Cal, May 5—| | patrol the lake and has been out i Rhode Island R. F. McClelland, aged 63 years,| WASHINGTO:, May 3—Death 48 hours without reporting. NEW YORK, May 5.—The request| -+ 100€ 1Sian and Delaware. . Chairman of the Los Angeles|of more than 300 prisoners in the! i e z£ f:etflrm:imfioe{i:n;v, c‘x:nurmani County Board of Supervisors, is|over-crowded Ohio state peniten- 7 € Trading’ Corpora- |y, v,y dead here. tiary puts bulging federal prisons tion, en official Soviet company,| “pp i e AP reiis i crsartiaiond Bk egatiins, | i § permission to determine the authen-| PESTROYED, HAMPTON ROADS g . T80 4l estankd. e Assoctated Press Photo | ticity of the documents purporting | oy ganizers in Alaska of| EBullt In sud. “desgned: %0 Disagreement over who will rep- | lto link the Communists Interna. . NORFOLK, May 5.—Pier Seven, the first railroad on Copper River house 1500 men, 4300 were con- resent. United States at Rio de | tionale with Red activities in the |tD€ Hampton Roads Naval Operat- and also discovered the copper fined in the Ohio prison when it | Janelro beauty contest arose at | |United States has been denied by |8 Base recently reconditioned at - mines of that district which de-|was swept by flames. } i A s & Miaml between supporters of Janet | o X i Y la cost of $210 ; Third M P. Police Commissioner Whalen | ,000 to house the veloped into the Kennecott produc-| Not only are federal penitentiar-|1NIr emper of I'ariy, ajEastman (below), Miss Texas, win- Ch e | s adiast” carhok 4 airplane carrier Lexington, was de- A s d fes, in some instances, housing| Woman, Refuses to Give |Bestrios Loe, Miss Utane " " | arges of Sedition Madej 5, 5 b with becacss. the tavestigation: now|tFved by fire today.. McClelland has served on the|double normal capacities, but Jails | i . ; A A | by British Authori- prorm r,‘,.“‘(("}:}i’:)dfi;‘:' {}f,‘,"]?,'}‘f‘x.«mg conducted by the Police De-|, T mes spread from the 1300 # Los Angeles County Board of Sup-|and reformatories in all parts of the, Name or Explain e — e Mer Alics Richouts, whom he has bartment into criminal activities of |10t Structure to the tugs Catawaba ervisors since 1906, the same year|country are being swamped with! R H Bill ties 1n India sued for divorce. Pennypacker, certain Communists and Commun- and Kewaybin, and two oil barges he ran for the Republican nomina- | prisoners. | OARLAND, cal, May 5—witn|ftouse bull on | graduated from Harvard in 1916, 'ist groups in this city has not been | 10ngside, damaging them. tion for governor of California. Increasing at a rate of moré than|two men dead, one an Oakland Prohibition Unit AMRITSAR, India, May 5—Dr.| p a son of the well-known Henry ccmpleted,” said Commissioner |, L0€ damage is estimated at more e St 10 per cent a year, inmates in fed-|Police officer, and a woman refus- Kitchlow, Chairman of the Recep- o:“&?gg&;‘n f]or;!:lerq).x}:-mllm 1is| Whalen. “Disorder and violence in SHaR 0090 GRIGSBY AT LUMBER MILLS [eral prisons total more than 12,000,/ing to tell even her name, the Approved by Com.|tion Committee of .the Lahore| was an ogtormdin Coinony 1yt Many trades and industries in whicn The Lexington was to have been lan amount almost double the com-|Police confronted a blank wall in e Congress, has been arrested charged | man of his time. y || Communists are involved, which has | oCr¢0 tOmorTow. Melyin Grigsby, who has been|bined normal capacities of the in-efforts to determine the cause of| WASHINGTON, May 5. — The with sedition. ~The Police forced (International Newsreel)| 1esulted in death, injury and de- hlA loose _electric connection 13 ® spending the winter in Juneau, has stitutions, Sanford Bates, superin-|the hand to hand duel in the Po-|House bill transferring Prohibition the walls of the Doctor’s grounds| " [struction to property, makes it the | ~med for the fire. been added to the office force of the |tendent of prisons, says. ! liceman’s apartment. Enforcement from the Treasury to|t0 make the arrest and entrance Three Are Killed i jcuty of the police to safeguard evi-, O T Juneau Lumber Mills as an assist-| In addition, Bates points out that| The authorities said the womanthe Justice Department, has been | Was effected to the house by bat- ee Are ed n dence already gathered and unt:l Stage, Screem Star - ant. He began his duties today. 'more than 13,000 federal prisoners|was present in the spartment of [approved with amendments by the tering down the doors. P]ane crmh in Texas the investigation is closed.” H N | Alex Sanderson, Police Officer, |Senate Judiciary Committee, and| Kitchlow’s supporters, after his i A ; Bogdanov informed the Commis- as Narrow Bscape | shortly before or during the duel|will receive early consideration by arrest, proclaimed a warning for e sioner he is willing to testify if Sl EJKP ERT THIN KS |which also claimed the life of [the Senate. all to cease work, whereupon the| FORT STOUXTON, Texas. May,there is a Congressional investiga- | NEW YORK, May 5—Hal Skel- 2 JGeorge Mellin, of Alameda. i SRS S PSS streets were picketed with troops. 5—Three men were killed in an tlon. |ly, stage and screen star, turned WORLD’ S TR 4DE | sanderson was shot through the e SRRl Sundey. | The dead - a ground loop in landing his plane | o " ® »t: Man-| 'at an airport here Sa - |head and abdomen. Federal Reserve o o0 0% o000 00 0 ofare “Smoky’ Adams p Ma g E % b3 PO e Saturday but ] | The Police said Sanderson, Mel- 4 o |Bum Johns and Jack ° pas- Rebellious Convicts jescaped injury. ‘Che landing gear A I’ U TU RE BRIGH T lin and the woman were seated Banking Laws to TODAY’S STOCK sengers. | At Columbus Kill O | was smashed. drinking when the two men quar- : Be Invesligaledi: QUOTATIONS " V:/ltn;ues said the plane fell 200} ;)' FENOUE AL Une ., relled. o |feet when the engine balked risoner by Beating Uses Rope of B. By JOHN EVANS of expansion are cited as factors| Mellin was shot three times in| WASHINGTON, May 5—The ®0 000000000 00 o Adams was taking up passengers ” gish 4 pe , ed i (A. P. Staff Writer) in the present moderate business|the back. Binate Tids adopvéll {he Gisss redisl el ARy for short ride | coLumus, onio, May 5.—one S1teets to Carry recession. , May 5.—Alaska Ju- o convict s PARIS, May 5.—Business probably| “goyever, easier money, increasing > Ll:t:z:;;a;‘m Ghifs g otFfi‘;c neau mine stock is quoted today . is s‘\lzrcrerln;gn:::s (:e: ttk;\ca?:c sl Wontn to Safety : will be a little below par this year ; Plane Goes Into ng laws of the Fed-!a¢ g1, Alleghany Corporation 23 Mulattos and Naiives ace as the| R O ol s et | industrialization -of the world, more b i Bk ‘and eral Reserve system. Aoncha B lyk ml;lo i an auves jresults of a fresh disturbance|® SEATTLE, May 5—Henry e q - istable currencies, better living con- ertica ank a ,» Bethlehem Steel 93, {among the rebellious Ohio Penit: ® Dj ted g # ting along pretty well, thinks | g ©o T Gold Dust 42, G 4 F . ‘eniten- | ick carried Mrs. Katherine e 4 ’ ower taxes are given . . , Granby 28, Interna in Drunken Rage ' : 2 Georges Theunis, former Premier | enconraging signs and theg ;fl_\ DTOPS; Two Killed Clty Shows tional Harvester 1007%, Kennecott 8 t et g l}LuRr?”zgn;;;lz. d = Sikware dowm, 8 1ops 56N of Belgium and president of thelyyre i presented as bright. H D f On. 42, Missourl Pacific 71, National| WORCESTER, South Africa, May gashes on v.hs ":m;e Mysiy dpep 18 Anovis, g, Hiei, S SR s International Chamber of OOM-| wages have been going up in| MIAMI Florida, May 5—Johnny, corease: o e I iandac R o s, e e s B b merce. man; tries, Mr. Th Leavitt, aged 19 years, and Delbert.ln Past Decade Brands 22%, Simmons Beds 387%,|were killed . - o oW conylols, He was fymii % at Riskmond Beach SF S » A world b lottre is given y countries, . eunis says, - g e , 17 were injured and on his cot in the tented stockade. ® when he found the unconsci- e usiness picture is g and “general improvement in tho Ashland, aged 20, were burnéd to . —— Standard Ofl of California 63, U. S./one constable was critically wound-|The guards have no cl . _ by him in his annual Teport Oniyuing conditions of wage earners in|death when & plane fell into ale PITTSBURGH, Kansas, e|Steel 171%, Ward Baking B 10%,|ed here. The Police intervened in| Another prisoner . 1= o:s woman in her IeeE B8 . “Economic Condittons in 1929 |recent years and the spread of ficld near here Sunday. Leavitt was!- May 5.—The census shows 'e|American Can 136%, Fox Filmsia row between drunken miiatios by otviet P dnlf Was set upon|® the bullding which was burn- e The Wall, Street crash reduced |ogucation have intensified the de-|teaching Ashland to fly, Witness- e that this city decreased one o 48%, Montgomery Ward 40%. Ford |and natives. The trouble the ookl ion BN Daseen, {2 12‘; e e AR 8 purchasing ‘powers of farmers and|pon e Tl " s said the plane went out of con-|e person ‘in the last decade, e |Limited 18%, American Telephone| culmination 28 | | the inn which s esteaped. % SoR SNt o ey iy p s maj for uffs, and for lux by 52y gy ertical o g ’ cul of trouble brewing for| Over 3500000 game fish were ® with a loss of $20,000. [ b vy pe: trol wi wen! LA, to 18,051, ° o |and Telegraph 249%, United Alr-|one year. Mulattos in South Africa hatched at North Carolina fisheries|® 4 bank. L4 are “colored persons.” last year. loo..o..ooo...