The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVI., NO. 5458. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY JULY II 1930 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEVIBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SECRET NAVAL TREATY PAPERS REQUESTED, SENATE PORTION OF UTAH BURIED UNDER MUD RESERVISTS TO REACH JUNEAU SATURDAY AM Six Destroyers With Over Eight Hundred Due in Morning The ‘Naval Reservist=® aboard the craft of the De- stroyer Division Fourteen, U. S. Navy, are expected to ar- rive in Juneau at 8:30 o’clock tomorrow morning, remain- ing until 7 o’clock Monday morning. The personnel consists of about five officers and 70 men, U. S. Navy, and five % officers and 55 men, U. S. Naval Reserve, in each of six ships. Reserve units are from Se- attle, Tacoma, Bremerton, Aberdeen and Portland. The ships' will hold open house to visitors from 1 to 4:30 o’clock Sunday after- noon. The above information has been received by The Empire from Com- mander Leigh Noyes, of the De- stroyer Division. Commander Noyes, in the rndio- gram to The Empire, which was 1eceived last night. stated he ex:- pected to arrive about noor Satuf- day. A radiogram’ received shortly before noon today at the Alaska Road Commission’s . office, stated ke desired to arrive about 8:30 o'clock in the morning, if arrange- ments were suitable, An answer was immediately sent that arrange- ments would be made accordingly. | The fleet will tie up at the Gov-| ernment Dock in Juneau. Preparations were being made here today to give the visiting Na- val officers and men, and reservists a royal welcome to Juneau. Mayor T. B. Judson and members of the Executive Board of the| Chamber of Commerce will meet the eruadron and formally greet the visi*fors on their arrival. « 1t is expected that the seaplane Taku with seviral aboard will meet the destroyert down Gastineau Channel several miles and escort them to the harbor. Tomorrow cvening the American Legion will stage a smoker in the A. B. Hall arena, and there will be two or more dances. Sunday it is expected to have a ball game, pos- sibly between a local club and a picked team from the squadron. A dance in the Fair building is also planned for Sunday evening. -, — TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS Y L Y e Y e PR A NEW YORK, July 11.—Closing quotation on Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, Alleghany Cor- poration 22%, Anaconda 48%, Beth- lehem Steel 81!2, General Motors 41%, Granby 21%, International Harvester 80%, Kennecott 38%, SHOES on the sides an FOR THE LITTLE COLONEL Photo Designed for “Little Lindy,” two pairs ot shoes were sent to the Morrow home by a New York firm. One set (left) have woven in gold | act replica of the monoplane in which the Lind- berghs flew across the continent. The others of pale blue kid, have the Insignia in silver beads across the toe. ONE MILE RGAD TO | COST TEN MILLION igan boulevard. CHICAGO, July 11.—A mile of pavement, that will cost $10,000,000, is under construction to link up Chicago’s 30 miles of lakefront su- per-highway. It will connect the north shore drive with the south park boule- vard system. This link, spanning the Chicago river, a ship canal, railroad yards, and docks, is ex- pected to take 50,000 cars daily from over-burdened Michigan boul- evard. 4 Objections of federal and state governments and scores of private Montgomery-Ward 34%, National Acme 12, Packard Motors 13%, Sim- mon Beds 23%, Standard Brands 19%, Standard Oil of California 61%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 68%, United Alrcraft 51%, U. S Steel 157%, Fox Films 40%, Hupp Motors 14%, 14%, 14%, Stewart- ‘Warner no sale. owners were overcome.. Permission to erect a viaduct over land and buildings was obtained. An engi- | neering problem to to cut through a row of old warehouses/ "Fhe non-stop lakefront highway now reaches 5500 stpéet numbers south, and 47700 nurhbers on the north. Within the next three SOVIET CLEANING UP ASIATIC PLAGUE SPOT BOKHARA, Uzbekistan, July 11.— This ancient eity, whose swamps, stagnant pools and polluted water supply made it for centuries one of the plague spots of Asia, is being cleaned up by the Soviet govern- ment. Enormous tanks, elevated on steel skeletons, are replagcing the old surface reservoirs where, for a thousand years, the natives not only drew their drinking water, but bathed and washed their clothes. A new drainage system is being installed which, it is b/ged, wil make the pernicious dirase known as “Bokhara Button” a thing of the M b Street. sprmkling is still done by carriers who squirt water from pig skins./Eventually these relics of the past are also due to disappear. Water is precious in this arid part of Central Asia. Housewives carry pitchers and jugs to the near- est water station and buy it by| the quart or gallon as if it were milk or_ wine. ‘The price is 10 kopecks a gallon and while this @roup of this year's debutantes, in-{ ‘cludmg eight Americans, made their 'ten gallons of syrup and smaller| The Emma, Capt. Tom Ness, 10-,myo .miners were killed by a firs bow at the final Royal Court today qulnutlu of preserves from these|day brought in 22,000 pounds of figures roughly as equivalent to a nickel, coins are none too plenti- {Last Royal Court Is ful and water is a top item in the household budget, A new Chicago thoroughfare over the “mouth” of the Chlcl(o; River will cut through warchouses (sketch) and’span railroad yards,! cost $10,000,000 and is expected to take 50,000 cars daily from Mich-| | years it will reach Evanston, the northern city limit. Completion of the highway to the city southern limits depends upon the gpeed with which new land is made along the lake front. Much of the outer drive south of the “Joop” district is on land which A few years ago was lake floor. When north and south side outer speed through the running into the congested down- town district, or encountering the tortuous thoroughfares of the west| | side. |Brother of Film Actresses Pleads Guilty to Crime LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 11.— Jack Noonan, brother of Sally! O'Neill and Molly O'Day, screen actresses, halted the court trial DEVASTATING RAIN SWEEPS with Mud—Highways: \ Are Also Covered CHICKENS, SHEEP AND Mile Front — Damages | Estimated Over Million SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 11.—Farmers are today ‘dlgmng their homes out of {the mud and State highway mcrkers are cleaning mud fccvered highways and public 'utilities companies and rail- roads are starting repairs as ilhe result of the most ex- storms ever experienced in | Utah. The damage is estimated at over $1,000,000, extending over a 150-mile front, from Utah-ldaho line, to Spanlsh Forks. The “Storm Broke Tate ?u southward ‘|terday afternoon and ' con- tinued for several hours. Chickens, sheep and cattle were killed. HUSTON WILL STATE STATUS G. 0. P. Chalrman to Make' Statement After Ad- journment Senate | WASHINGTON, D. C, July 11.— |Turning his back on his party ennounce his status as Chairman jof the Republican National Com- {mittee after the Senate adjourns. The declaration by Huston was Commlttee of Republicans who in- |terpreted the statement as mean- ing he will resign then. —————.——— FIVE KILLED, Plane ‘Believed Struck by Lightning — Wings i, Break OfF—Crash ARKANBAS PASS, Texas, July {11.—Five Kansas City men, Murat '90}% aged 48 years, President of 'the Missourt Bar Association; Ray- mond Watson, aged 39, an attorney; |R J. Delano, aged 47 years, a bulld- er. Eugene Lynn, an accountant, and Gene Gabbert, pilot, met death yesterday afternoon near here when the plane exploded in the air and OVER sr“mj [ |[Farmers’ Homes Are Fllkd | CATTLE ARE KILLED, Storms Rage Along 150} tensive and devastating rin| |Smithfield, Utah, near the! |foes for the second time, Claudius H. Huston has given word he will| {made to officers of the National| " AIR ACCIDENT drives are connected, motorists may city without | jwas pronounced dead 12 minutes'shot while in the living room of his ‘REVOLUTIONARY OUTBREAKS STIR BOLIVIAN CAPITA | | | | | i This Is a general view of La Paz, A dispatch to La Naclon at Buenos Aiics i @ visional government had resigned. canital of’ Balivia, where revolutionary outbreaks are reported. . l.ry committee was in charge, and that tha pro- Associated Presa Photo KILLING HEAT Pt o, S CONTINUING e MIDOLE WEST {Death Toll Increased to 31 | —Temperature of 103 Reported PARIS, July 11.-—~Foreign Minister Briand . announced suspension of France's ship- building program until De- cember to open the way for naval negotiations with Italy, saying "another war in Eu- e rope is impossible and inad- missible.” INCREASE IN POSTAL RATE IS FORECAST Postage on First Class Mail May Go to Two and Half Cents an Ounce CHICAGO, Hlinois, July 11. —Killing heat surged anew oyer. fll& Middle, West States {today eausing more deaths. The total of deaths caused by the heat wave is now 31. The scourge of summer struck the hardest at St.| Louis where nine persons 'died. )’ The thermometer touched 103 degrees in' Missouri. Heat casualties in the pres-| ent oppression reached 11 in' iy S toleteny Missouri' ‘Cunvmced that an increase in pos*-, Most of Iowa reported to- age rates is the only feasible way dav that the temperature of lifting the world's biggest publlc utility out of the red, Postal of-| ‘was 100 degrees. ficials are preparing to press advo- N cacy of a higher charge for carry-| BANK BANDIT ing first class mail. | DIES, GALLOWS This year's deficit is estimated, over $60,000,000. Postmaster General Brown be- lieves the rate of 2% cents an ounce for first class mall will balance the -department budgetj now. CANON CITY, Colo., July 11.—| Ralph ‘Fleagle was hanged at 9:03 o'clock last night. He was pro- ;nounced dead at 9:16 o'clock. He ‘msmtnmed his ¢alm nerve until the ‘end and showed no signs of falter- ing while the black cap was being adjusted over his head. Fleagle was the leader of the La- mar Bank bandit gang. BANSTERS GET 1 MORE VICTIM 'Forty-seventh M urder of| Year Committed by | Chicago Gangs DIES CLAIMING INNOCENCE WALLA WALLA, Wash., July 11. —Preston. Rae Clark died on the !gallows at the State Penitentiary 'at dawn today for the murder of Bonner, obscure racketeer and one- A. L. Bldwell. in December, 1927. !time sispect of a mail robbery, was The trap ‘was sprung at 4:11 the forty seventh victim of gang- oclock this morning and Clark men in this city this year. He was CHICAGO, 111, July 11.—Thomas ilater. “The body will probably be home last night after an argument turned over to Clark’s aged DAar- with two men who were admitted ents. {to the house after knocking at the Clark showed no emotion and door. They escaped. walked calmly to the scaffold, pro-' o testing his innocence. ‘Magazine Cover Giris St. Louis Boy Meets Make for “Arty” Public iuomls to flee from the | Yantsze Valley. yesterday afternoon on charges of ‘crashed. The fuselage with the burglary and receiving stolen Drob-|trapped victims, was buried in the erty by pleading guilty to the lat-iflats, The wings broke off in the ter charge. He was accused Of gir It is believed the plane was | burglarizing Ted Lewis's apartment. | gtrycle by lightning. Part of $10,000 worth of clothes, and jewelry stolen were found in Noonan's possession. —eeo—— ,lndmu Take Up Hunt i For Cactus Bush Fruit PHOENIX, Ariz, July 11.—Sev- ieral hundred families of Papagos Death in Crevice in Zion National Park ZION NATIONAL PARK, July 11. —The body of Eugene Cafferata, 19 year old boy of St. Louis has; been found in a crevice 100 feet| from the top of Lady Mountnlnl The boy had been missing since last jTuesday. Finding of the boy's sig-| nature on the register at the top! Held ;Eight American 'Indians have migrated into the gi* Girls Are Received ant cacti “forests” this summer %0 [hnrvesc the fruit of the cactus last bush. Most families will make three to LONDON, July 11.—The before King George and Queen'fruits, using no sugar in the pro= ) Mary, iceu of the mountain led to the dis- covery of the body. —————— BRINGS - IN SALMON ‘ salmon and sold to the Marlyn Flsh] Company, lSonth Dakota Miners WASHINGTON, July 11. — The girl on the cover sells the magazine, the annual convention of the Am- erican Federation of Arts revealed. Magazines sell in direct ratio to the beauty of the feminine face on {the" cover, it was brought out. J. Scott Willlams, noted mural paint- er, sees in this evidence that the public is becoming art-minded. Are Killed in Fire LEAD, South Dakota, July 11.— that destroyed three buildings of | townsfolk. Gold Mine Com-|who were thrown out in the annual the Homestake .pany last night, GUNBOATS OF 3 NATIONS PATROL RIVER IN CHINA Cooperatmg to Protect Foreign Shipping Against Pirates MISSIONARIES, OTHER FOREIGNERS, IN PERIL! Kidnapping daF et ed— Reds Continue Pepper- ing with Bullets SHANGHAI, July 11.—Banditry has caused gunboats of the United States, Great Britain and Japan !to protect foreign shipping against machine gun and rifle fire. Consuls have also warned Na- middle Cooperation in a common inter- est to humanity, the warships sof the several nations are patrolling the Yantsze. They have already driven off outlaw bands who pi- rated numerous Chinese vessels and plundered river towns. Missionaries and other foreigners are in serious danger of being cap- \tured by the bandits and held for mnsom The Reds have virtually stopped shipping by peppering bullets from |both banks of the Yantsze above Hankow, brushing defeated Govern- ment troops aside. The Rebels continue their victor- jous march through Shantung ! Province. B — .()klahonm Man Found Guilty of Murder; Death Recommended WEWOKA, Oklahoma, July 11.— {Paul Cole, former Secretary of the Seminole County Election Board, has been convicted of murder by a jury and death has been recom- mended. Cole was charged with the death of Ernest Irby, former Texas banker. Archduke Leopold Has Surrendered to Police; Lodged in N.Y.Tombs NEW YORK CITY, July 11-- Archduke Leopold, of Austria, in- dicted last April for grand larceny in connection with the sale for $450,000 of the Napoleon diamon vecklace which belonged to his aunt, surrendered today and has been plnud in the Tombs Prison. — |SENATORS WANT DOCUMENTS ;ASK BY RESOLUTION Requestfo_rAll Papers Passes Upper House by Vote of 53 to 4 HOOVER AND STIMSON GO INTO CONFERENCE Expected Refusal Will Be Made as it Is Against Public Interest BULLETIN —WASHING- TON, D. C,, July 11. — Late this afternoon President Hoo- ver refused the request of the Senate for secret naval pap- rs. " The President said this might affront other nations and be considered a breach (of trust. He offered to allow any Senator to see them if it was promised the contents would not be revealed. ® WASHINGTON, D. C., July 11. — President Hoover has studied the problem of the renewed ‘request, he deliver to the Senate -confidential documents-in the negotiations of the Naval Treaty. He pre- viously declined to give the papers to the Foreign Rela- tions Committee. Messages hetween Ambas- sador Dawes and the State Department, before the con- ference in London started are |among the papers requested. The request for the docu- ments- came to the President in the shape of a resolution which passed the Senate 53 to 4, asking him to submit the papers if he considered the course “not incompatible to public interest.” Treaty Denounced Amidst expectations of the re- fusal of President Hoover of its request for confidential naval docu- ments, the Senate today heard ths Naval Treaty denounced by Sena- tor Frederick Hale, Republican of Maine. Président Hoover of State ‘Stimson situation regarding cret papers to the quick reply to the Senate’s reso- lution 1is expected, denying them &8 not in public interest. For the third day of the special session of the Senate ,only a bare quorum, 49, was present. Senator Hale said: “The British, by terms of this treaty, has the TUnited States ham-strung and hog- tied, and there they will keep us long and limitation of armaments will be the order of the day.” High German Officer During World War Is - Dead at Age of 81 BERLIN, July 11.—Gen. Freder- ich von Vernhardi, High German Officer during the World War, died today at the age of 81 years. He was the first Prussian Officer to enter Paris after it fell in the Franco-Prussian War. delivering se- Senate and a Reds Expel Those Who & Drink or Go to Church KHARKOFF, U. 8. S. R., July 11.—Drinking, churchgoing and wife beating were among the offenses for which sentences of expulsion were meted out by the communist party in this section of Ukrania. These findings applied chiefly to Most of the peasants “house cleaning” were found guilty of refusing to join collective farms, hiding their grain, dodging taxes and otherwise discrediting the or= ganization in the eyes of outsiders. All told the party lists were pruned by nearly 11 per cent. Of the guilty 64 per cent were foufl in the country and 36 per cent im the city. Most of the town com~ munists are factory workers and Junder constant party discipline, =~ 3