The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVL, WHITES MAKE RAID ON FILIPINOS NEAR NO. 5403, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNE AU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1930, © MEMBER % REPORTED KILLED WHEN TORNADO HITS Many Injured in Texas and Property Damage Said to Be Large MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ‘VICTIMS One Town Is Practically; Demolished —Guards- men Dig in Debris DALLAS, Texas, May 7.— xty-six persons were killed snd many injured and proper- ty damage estimated at more than $500,000 was caused by} a tornado which struck Cen-, tral and South Texas late yesterday. A partial check revealed the death list included 25 men, women and children near, Runge, and seven wite men' and three women, and four children of negroes, near Frost. 4 \ National Guardsmen, fire-| men and volunteers are work-| TORNADO FIRST VOYAGE TO HONOR WAR DEAD TAKES NEBRASKA GOLD-STAR WOME Among Nebraska gold-star mothers and widows who will be first to visit graves of American soldiers in France are Mrs. Thomas E. Wood (left) who lest a son, and Mrs. Sophie Lisenbee, whose husband OMAHA, May 7.—Thirty-seven Nebraska mothers and widows will | 3 & f 3 :sail for France today, the first of ing in the debris at Frost,!the 6000 gold star wearers whom where it is feared the death list will mount higher. Nearly | every building in the “town' was demolished. FIVE THOUSAND ARE HOMELESS IN NEW JERSEY Brush ‘and Forest Fires Continue in Parched Eastern States NEW YORK CITY, May 7.—Des- pite a three-day battle waged by ihousands, forest and brush fires | the government will take across as its guests. Three years willwbe: required. fory all to make the trip to the battle-| ficlds and cemeteries, hospital sites and places where concentration | camps were located—sacred soil to these who lost sons and husbands| in the World War. { Nebraska has 125, women who! have sons or husbands buried in| foreign cemeteries. Of these, 119 are | mothers, five are widows and one is a step-mother. Almost half of the eligible women | did not care to make the trip. Many | felt they were too old; others| thought a visit to the graves of their dead would revive grief scme-| what alleviated by time. Of those who sail next month,| two are widows, 35 are mothers, ‘The only Nebraska mother who lost more than one relative, Mrs Anna Weyerts of Gurley, whose two sons, Tony and Henry are | | MOTHER KILLS SEVEN KIDDIES " ASTHEY SLEEP Attempts to Take Own Life—Taken to Hospital in Dying Condition COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 7.—Mrs. Ethel Geller, aged 44 years, shot and killed seven .of her eleven children last night after putting them to bed and then attempted to commit suicide. She was tak- en to a hospital in a dying condi- tion. Her second husband, Darby Yel- den, aged 46 years, was sentenced in 1926 to the Ohio Penitentiary, convicted of a statutory charge. The dead are Alice and Alden, twins, aged 3 years; Byron 6 years, are still burning on many fronts|bPuried in the Meuse-Argonne ceme-lpjoanoro aged 7, Elaine aged 8, throughout the parched Eastern States. Five thousand persons are esti-| mated homeless in New Jersey. where all but two of the worst Jfires are under control. State Juthorities and Red Cross agencies! have turned their attention to sup- plying food and shelter to families in the fire swept area. SIX HUNDRED DEAD, QUAKE RANGOON, May 7. — Casualties as a result of Monday's earthquake places 400 as the death list at Pegu. Two hundred were killed here by the subsequent tidal wave., — esescee0 0000 ¢ ] ° ° . TODAY'S STOCK . . QUOTATIONS . . ° eeeveeroeoseoen NEW YORK, May 7.—Alaska Ju- neau mine stock is quoted today at 6, Alleghany Corporation 26z, Ana- conda 54%, Bethlehem Steel 9312, General Motors 45%, Gold Dust 42%, Granby 28, International Harvester 102%, Kennecott 42, Mis- | souri Pacific 80, National Acmel 18%, Packard 17%, Standard Brands 23%, Simmons Beds 35 tandard Oil of California 69%, Aircraft 68, U. S. Steel 168%, Ward Baking B 11, American Can 137%, American T. & T. Company w!é. Ford Limited 18. e, KILLED IN COMBAT CHITTAGONG, Bengal, May 7'_;sus enumerators found a woman e here who was proud to tell her age. o Four rebels were killed and two captured on the south bank of the She is Eliza Mayo, negress, 121. The e Karnafulo River oposite here. One'0ld woman owns a Bible which e constable and four villagers were'shows she was born in October, ® killed in the conflict, tery, decided against making the| trip. 1 E. Wood of Omaha, whose sonj sleeps in Surenes cemetery. He was Kkilled while serving with a searchlight crew, a few months af- ter he had been graduated from a Washington electrical school. Mrs. Mary Peck, of Omaha, de- spite her 70 years, will make the trip to a grave in which lies her| son, killed eight days before the armistice. Mrs. Sophia Lisenbee of Omaha, is one of the war widows in the, party. Her husband, a private in| the 137th infantry, died in the Ar- gonne, and there he sleeps in the Meuse-Argonne cemetery. The second delegation of war mothers and widows will go from Iowa on May 21. | Lightning Strikes Sky, ! Not Earth, Part of Time| LINCOLN, Neb., May 7.--Prof. J.| C. Jensen of Nebraska Wesleyan| university has recorded 3,075 light-| ning discharges from clouds. [ Of these 1979 indicate that thel lower side of a cloud is negative, while 1,006 indicate it is positively charged, he says in a report to the| American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. Photographs of lightning from the positive portions of clouds should branch downward, he thinks, while those from the negative part should branch upward. His pho-I tos indicate that this is true, but |that there are marked exceptions.'q AR S Y SHE'S PROUD OF HER AGE NEW BERN, N. C, May 7.—Cen- 1808, as a slaye in Virginia, ) 5. In the party will be Mrs. Thomas Earven aged 15, and Wayne aged She kept the name of first husband. Worry over losing her fight to provide for her rhildren is be- licved the reason for her uct. - SENATOR REED RETURNS FROM NAVAL SESSION NEW YORK, May 7—United States Senator David Reed, of ! Pennsylvania, last of the American delegates to the London Naval Conference, returned on the Olym- pic late yesterday with Mrs. Reed and hastened to Washington to attend the Senate hearing on the Treaty which is scheduled to begin today. TREATY HEARING MONDAY WASHINGTON, May 7. — The Senate Foreign Relations Commit- tee has hearings on the naval treaty be- | ginning next Monday. Plane Taku To Make First Flight to Taku According to announce- ment made today by Agent Larry Parks, the seaplane Taku will make a flight to Taku River next Sunday morning, weather permitting. This is the first plane trip to the mining district this season. vEI NS OR VUL EY decided to hold publicl | 4 Two Small Chow CONFIRMATION 7t chowe DENIED,SENATE Two small chow dogs,, mbined weight 105 pounds, off a large cougar ; ; * 'Vote on Nomination cf o Associate Justice, High ° Court, 41 to 39 Mrs. Nate Sable, their ress, escaped attack of animal in a pasture near arm home. Her husband y frightened off the WASHINGTON, May 7.— The Senate this afternoon voted 11 to 39 against the confirmation of Judge John |3. Parker to be Associate Jus- after one of the had been slashed. tice of the United States Su- preme Court. This was the first time a Supreme C o urt nomination has been rejected since 1894. The Senate’s decision leaves’ As-| |sociate Justice Sanford’s scat va- cant. Senator Dill, of Washington, vot- ed against confirmation. Senator Jones, of the same State, voted for confirmation. Twenty-nine Republicans and ten | Democrats voted for Parker and' SPRINGFIELD, I, May 7.— seventeen Republicans, one Farmer- Charging that through her expen- Labor and twenty-four Democrats diture of more than one million | voted against. dollars in her Senatorial Primary {campaign, Mrs. Ruth McCormick RICHMOND, North Carolina, May had lost the right of her legal nom- 7—Judge Parker said he had no ination, the Democratic Central comment to make except to thank Committee called on voters to con-} his friends in the United Statés sider James Hamilton Lewis, Dem- Senate and elsewhere who have ocrat, as the only legal nominee for stood by him. |the United States Senate from Illi- xnols, | The Committee charged that {three-quarters of a million dollars { were poured into Mrs. McCormick’s ‘campaign from other sources. : — eee - | | | | i | | | whi a ct ° ° S e s e 00000000 R | ILL, DEMOCRATS ASK SUPPORT BE BIVEN TO LEWIS Make Charges Against Mrs. | McCormick for Cam- paign Expenses \ Nc.nmm Ice Break-Up Now Believed Near The ice at Nenana is look- ed to “go out” on May 8, maybe later, according to private advices received this forenoon in Juneau. - “The river is opened above and below. Weather has been* freezing at night in the high and lowlands. The river dropped several inches dur- ing the past day and will have to rise two feet before the ice will move. The weather is warm and sunny at Nenana today.” : “THE FIGHTING : PREACHER” IS : DEADIN SOUTH » +Dr. Lincoln McConnell, *' Former Policeman, Evan- o ¢ gelist, Passes Away ° ° . ° . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S TAKEN ON RIDE, KILLED SPREADS DEATH IN T 1 Olga Bebin Olga Eide Edwards, actress who was found guilty of extortion in & ¢ase prosecuted by Nathan L. Amsteér, pictured in her cell in Harlem prison, New York City, NEW YORK, May 7.—Convicted of extorting money from Nathan PRICE TEN CENTS EATTE OF ASSOCIATED PRESS FARMLABORERS ‘CONDUCT RAIDS UPON FILIPINOS ‘Swoop Down Upon Camps in Truck Farming Dis- trict Around Kent THREATS OF VIOLENCE " ARE REPORTED USED Prison Bars Four Filipinos Are Kidnap- ped — Others Flee Scantily Clad SEATTI E, May 7.—State Highway Patreclmen and King County Deputy Sheriffs have concentrated on the truck farming district arond Kent in trying ‘to round-up two score of youthful white labor- ers who late last night con- ducted a series of raids on ranches employing Filipinos. The white laborers, it is re- ported, were recently replaced cn many ranches by Fili- pinos. The raiders swooped down on Filipino camps in automo- biles. In one instance the raiders ng the pro- nouncement of sentence upon her. She is liable to receive from three and a half to seven ’ imprisonment. YA D antional Newareoi! | After’ the verdict she askéd ‘to be pefmitted to {Body of C};;;o Gangster Is Found on Boot- legger Battleground CHICAGO, Ill, May 7.—Another gangster went to his last ride The mutiliated body was found face down in a ditch along the Joliet Road, the favorite boot= legger battleground. The police believe the victim is Jack Heinman, Capone henchman. He was probably tortured before slaying. A machine gun had spray- ed a dozen bullets into his head: DR LINCOLN McCONNELL AssociaTen outas PACKSONVILLE, Florida, May 7. —Dr. Lincoln McConnell, former Policeman who turned author, lec- INEW OBSERVER GOES TO FAIRBANKS POST|turer and minister, finally be- coming pastor of many leading Bap- Malcolm Rigby, Observer of the|tist churches in the south, died of United States Weather Bureau whola heart attack here. is under assignment to the Fair- banks aerological station, visited) Territorial headquarters of that bu-) feau in this city last night and to- FIGHTING PREACHER By using a verbal cudgel and an author’s pen th a fearless fight | perts will be brought to | day. He is a passenger on the jAleutian. condition, Lincoln McConnell gained | Mr. Rigby ‘will be assistant tojthe name of “the fighting preach- {Howard J. Thompson, who is infer” charge of the Fairbanks station.| McConnell won national promi- He is an Everett, Washington man nance through lyceum and evange- |and has been attached to the Se-|listic work. Story telling, especially attle station for sometime before|negro anecdotes, was his stock in 1ooming tothe “Tesritory. trade. With it he placed his au- f jdiences in a receptive mood; then shot horfie his main thought. When McConnell became pastor of the First Baptist Church in Ok- lahoma City, Okla., in 1924, he ex- pressed himself as satisfied with; against what he. believed to be evil | — .. | YACHTS WILL RACE TO TAHITI | | SAN FRANCISCO, May 7—A 4= '000 mile yacht race between San Prancisco and Tahiti in June will have six entrants. In 1925 a similar race was won by L. A. Norris with his craft, Mariner, in 21 days 11 | hours. | “I was born in Blount County, Tennessee, June 6, 1869, he said. “I am getting well along in years, but I have more to do right now ' (Contipued on Page Three) e ,,— H. T. Tripp left here on the Aleutian for Seward, | L. Amster, Olga Eide Edwards, formerly of Seattle and former show girl, was late yesterday sentenced to three and one-half to seven years in prison. 'The sentence was suspended. The jury recommended mercy. go to Europe. The court will decide later on this and also custody of the child which has not been settled. WIZARLDS OF AIR AID LAW TO MAP LEGAL CODE FOR THIRD DIMENSION PRIMARY HELD CHICAGO, May 7.—Wizards of the air and of the law will meet in August at Northwestern University to take some measurements of the rights of man in the third dimen-| sion. | At the Air Law institute, a fea- sure of the Northwestern Law C S ege summer session, they will strive % do for the law of the air what McMaster and Bulow Nom- was done in other new fields for, jnated-—Woman Ahead centuries past by the more diffi- . ~ cult medium of experien-:. accord-! I Race for Governor ‘ ing to Dean Emeritus Join H. W. more and Dean Leon Green | sIoUX FAL “While man was conter move 'May 7. — Senator Wili‘am Her and live on a plane sur Dean McMaster, Republican Independent, Green said, “the problems of the'and Gov. W. J. Bulow, Democrat, law presented only two dimensions,|have been nominated for the Unit- With his advent into the jed States Senate from South Da- law must be extend the n their respecl tickets ac- third.” jcording to the unofficial returns Experiences of Europeal ex- ! from yesterday’s primary. insti-| Miss Gladys Pyle, now Secretary :nch,|of State, is leading the field of five Republicans in the Gubernator- ial race South Dakol tute by lectures on Br German and Italian air D. McNair, Cambridge England; Capt. Albert I retary-general of the Internationale de Navigati enne of France; Dr pikofer, director of the I Luftrecht, Albertus Konigsberg, Prussia; and tonio Ambrosim, direc Italian Istituto di Dirit nautico. George B. Logan, chairm Legislative Committee Louis Air Board and mc advisory board of the stitute, and Prof. Car air law lecturer of Marc versity, will repre: A methods. Prominent among Am and law experts will be liam P. McCracken tant Secretary of Aeronautics, Maj ace during the war Walker Willebrandt tant U. 8. Attorney member of the commi nautics of the Am sociation, and How general counsel of the Transport Associatio Afr rights of public their practices of and buildings in t way tracks and come in for consid ——————— Deputy United State R. Garster and M recently took fede: an insane patient s home last night Aleutign, - - MUST BE IN SHAPE May 7.—Central que officials have chool athletes onn 1 decided that A be examined ph: e comp on the of thefiyo longer dashes and run: ACTO"| decision was made following a two B mo.’ year discussion on e | OVEr-€ jon on the tra SL1 vouths in the formative y r of rl(" RS Law In-1 poopje MacKinne Zollmann, | gouth g short time ago guard Uni-|yith prisoners from the Federal | jail, returned on the Aleutian leut ic An-|po 3 k who went qu in law Co! Ret | | | ] assis- and | Ad \ aero- | Ay i TOKYO, Ma modern ities, with | Japanese youth whose life has been streets | blighted jumps from the roof of a air over rail-|business bloc tead invoking s, will also|the honorabl harakiri ". figure tly the le: and history Japan Because of the earthquake dan- ger t al skyscraper in Japan, bu s new depa merrt stores, seven and eight stories hig! lof enough for the y ed By GLENN BABB ¥ (A. P. Corresnondent) ican A buil of e pror in ation. S0 — | Marshal W. | Garster, who | al prisoners and . returned steamer the IN S0. DAKOTA ‘ UP HARAKIRA AS SUICIDE METHO kidnapped four Filipinos. In other cases the raiders drove the Filipinos off under threats of violence in case ithey returned. | The victims of the raiders 'fled from their assailants, scantily clad. — .- Crosson and Robbins Believed Caught In Snow Storm NOME, Alaska, May 7. — Pilots {Crosson and Robbins in two Fair- ‘child planes hopped of from . the motorship Nanuk at 8 o'clock yes- |terday with loads of furs of the | Swenson Company enroute to Nome {via Teller and should have arrived at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It is believed that a heavy snow storm forced them back to Teller. Pilot Graham is delayed here on account of bad weather from taking off for Fairbanks with a $60,000 fur shipment from the Nome section. Graham also 'has a heavy first class mail with several thousands dollars ir order for supplies from Seattle firms and that should make con- nections with the first steamer en= route to Nome upon the opening of navigation to Bering Sea. e e - Boycott on British Firms Now Looms BOMBAY, India, May 7.—Threat of a widespread Indian hoycott on British firms lcomed today as the outstanding features of Gandhi's non-violence campaign and ecivil resistance. Bombay remains quiet. i — .r——— 1 E. B. Clsyton arrived on the Aleutian froi Seattle and will be connected with the Coliseum the- or here, [or the present, as one of the operators. - p\ ed in his examinations or just be- come tired. © Within recent weeks a dozen, young men and girls have leaped from the roofs of the Mat= a or Matsuzakaya department stores. Suicide has an honorable place in the Japanese code, quite at vari- ance with occidental ideas. When defeat or dishonor loomed it was the only way out for the samurai; loyal retainers killed themselves to follow their lords in death; patriots died to emphasize a truth they (Continued on Page Six)