The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVI., NO. 5468. DETROIT RECALL ELECTI JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1930, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ON RESULTS ASSASSINAT %0 PERSONS ARE KILLED, EARTHSHOCKS Several Hl'mdred Known Injured—Naples Report- ‘ed Near Destruction NAPLES, Italy, July 23.— Two hundred and fifty - one| persons were killed in three sharp earthquake shocks in! Southern Italy today. Several hund red persons are known to have been in- jured. Relief measures were im- mediately started. It is believed that at least| 50.persons died in Naples!' alone from fright, If the quakes had been slightly sharper, the entire city of Naples would have been destroyed. ——,-————— PIONEER OF ALASKA I8 FOUND DEAD Body of D. R. McKay, Wealthy Retired Man, Found in Brush, Seattle SEATTLE, July 28-<Members of two Boy Scout camps searching the brush under the direction of King County officials found the body of D. R. McKay, aged 70 years, wealthy retired realty dealer and Alaska pioneer. He is credned' with being one of the first in the Klondike rush and, first mining re- corder in Dawson. A revolver was® found near the body. | The sheriff's office reported Mc- Kay apparently committed suicide although his wife is reluctant to accept this theory. She said her tusband was suffering from the heat and disappeared from the home last Monday while she was asleep. — NIECE OF GOV. ARKS ARRIVES HERETOMORROW Miss "I'homp::n_and Friend and Other Guests Ar- riving This Week To spend sometime visiting her uncle, Gov. George ‘A. Parks, Miss Smoot’s Bride Is In Immediate Family of Senator Fourth “Alice” 'POPULATION OF \WORLD WATCHES U. S. EFFORT TO STEADY WHEAT By F: B. COLTON (A. P. Statf Writer) NEW YORK, July 23, — World Is Recalled | [ i | | { } commodity producers who falled to. stabilize their own crops are watch- | ing the work ‘of the U, 8. Farm| Board with the interest that follows | a stubbed toe, | Coffee, rubber and sugar, three ol‘ the most sharply depressed com- AT 1 22,957,0[][]| modities on the New York markets WASHINGTON, July 23"-!dur1ng the recent deflation, all sank When the Census Bureau t0-|to these low levels despite desper- itals ati the 2te efforts by the countries produc- fi e 1,?'30 pop\lldt;lm'. Jess | [ME them to stabilize their values. igures will be somewha €53 | persistent withholding of sup- {than 123,000,000 as expected piies from the markets, they found, US. ESTIMATED | 1 . {to be. This result is on the basis of preliminary returns from, 40 States and the District of Columbia. The Associated Press calcu- lates the population at 122,-i 957,000 people. ——— —— | SN = 10OWADEMOCRATS The bride (left) of Sen. Reed Smoot (inset) will be the fourth Alice in' his family circle. The othess . are hic granddaughter, Mrs. F. H. Chambers (center), his baby great granddaughter, and his daughter- ENTERGA\MPA‘GN ; y, L TFOR Smoot. They live in Washington. (up a brilliant debut to wed thE’ADUPT LA 0 Mrs. Smoot is a close friend of [man of her choice. | in-law, Mrs. Harold Reed Smoot (right). Mrs. Edward E. Gann, sister of| The third Alice is the baby' Vice President Curtis. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ! i 2L WASHINGTON.—Alice seems to | Senator Smoot's son, Harold Reed| The senator’s granddaughter gave be a popular name in the house- hold of Sen. Reed Smoot. Before Senator Smoot’s recent |tion, only served to speed up pro- without definite control of produc- Chief Executive of Detroit, who Is called from his office by majority of 30,956 votes, duction until the supplies being withheld became unwieldly and _ had to be disposed of at sharply reduced prices: . Chairman Legge of the. farm board and Secretary.’of Agriculture Hyde have been touring the grain belt to urge reduction of "acreage. It is understopd that. the board does not intend to finance the grain stabllization corporation in buying surplus ‘of the 1930 crop. Commodity dealers here regard these facts as Indicating a determi- DETROIT MAYOR IS RECALLED BY LARGE MAJORITY natlon to avold. such experiences os Charles Bowles Loses Office that of Brazll with coffee. \ In 1924 the Bragilian Coffee In- After Tqrbulgnt Ad- stitute was otganized ta-buy up sur-, minstration plus doffee and hold it back (rom; the market o ‘Kedp the price from . DETROIT, Mich,, July 23 —Mayor talling, But there was no adequate Charles Bowles has been recalled provision for. curtatling. productlon, from the office he held for six marriage, there were three Alices in his immediate family. Now they | will welcome a’ fourth in his bride, | who was Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets of Salt Lake City. “Alice, the.first,” is the wife of JUNEAU- GIRL, FAMEDHARPIST, VISITS HOME Miss Aleece Graves Is Here Cham- < 3 The second Alice is the daughter | bers. Advocate State Regulation of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smoot. Her | Senator Smoot’s first wife died| jwhich - was ‘estential ta'the succéss months by a majority of 30,956 of of the plan;" a total vote cast of 210,770. {ington when she was 17 caused a |bishop of the Latter Day Saints, to Spend Few Weeks With Parents Renowned in the realm of music, Miss Aleece Graves, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Graves, of Ju- neau, arrived from Seattle a few days ago to spend two weeks' vaca- tion with her parents. She is at theit home in the MacKinnon Apartments. Miss Graves was born:in ‘Juneau and went to the grade schobl here. Her further education in scholastie subjects was acquired in California. Bince early childhood, she has been a student of the harp, and notwithstanding her proficiency on the instrument and her successful professional - career in connection with it, she still strives for improve- ment and continues to take lessons. Her present teacher is Prof. Hu- bert ‘H. Graff, eminent instructor, of” Seattle. Member of Melody Trio on Sale of Liquor— Other Planks DES MOINES, Iowa, July 23.— o=~ ‘The Democratic Party will enter the, Fall campaign with a platform NGERS . elopement and marriage to Fred- more than a year ago in Washing- erick Howard Chambers of Wash- | ton. His bride was the widow of a| stir in capital's society circles. THER | church. 'S WITCHERY IN HER FL { |advocating. State regulation-of the R isale of liquor, declaring for a ref-' 3 jerendum on the Eighteéenth Amend- ‘ment apnd opposing the State in- \come tax. The planks were adopted at a State convention. The platform assailed the new tariff and also urged the repeal 'of the primary election system. The platform condemned the Re-; publicans on farm relief. e ———— TWO ARE DEAD ' IN EXPLOSION Fa!hér Bélieved to Have Set Dynamite Charge to Wipe Out Family ' BARNESBORO, Penrn, July 28— Two children were killed and the'r mother injured in an explosion of a charge of dynamite bellevéd st by the father of the children as a result of differences with his wife. The explosion demolished front of the family home. Mrs, Terry Langham and four children lived {n the house after scparation from Langham. | A boy, aged one year, and a girl, aged 5 years, were killed. the enough both: to supply. current de- mand and” also to increase the sur- 'plus which gréw to the enormous total ot 16,500,000 bags;, four fifths jof a year's supply for the world, ‘With' this vast: supply in existence which must eventially be placed on the market green coffee prices could no ‘longer ‘be‘ held ‘at their artifi- clally-maintained level and broke as low as 9 cents 8 pound wholesale, Destruction of the surplus or per- mitting ‘the 1830 crop to rot on the bushes have been suggested as the ‘emergency. Temedies. Ameri¢an ahd $100,000,000 loan “to . the - industry, however, with’ provisions - that' pro- dudsion be eurtalled and’ the “sur- plus ~gradually =exported "over 10 years. British rpbber growers in 19028 organized the “Stevenson pool” to buy up surplus yubber and control the ‘market. The result was similar to that in Brazil. The price of crude rubber broke W half and has gone as low ag' 12% cents. Cubarr sugar growers tried to fe- strict marketing through the Single Beller agencty, but this proved un- satisfactory @nd raw sugar prices tumbled close to 1 1-5 cents a pound before payment of duty, the lowest for 100 years, 100 DROP INTO RVERGERMANY Coftee crops continued to be-large | Britfsh bankers have furnished aj Mayor Bowles was recalled from the office he held for six months .after a bitter two weeks' campaign. | The vote was as follows: for re- call, 120,868; against - recall, 89,- 1907, Bowles will -continue "in office until his successdi'™is elected.” He automatically becomes a candidate at’ the next election which must be held” within 30 days. Bowles |will. be a candidate. No other caa- |didates have been announced. The turbulént administration of ‘Mayor Bowles has ended after one jof “the bitterest 'political = fights, with- his recall. | ‘‘After many months in the City Hall, ‘during_which time:the Mayor clashed with his Council, his Com- missioners. ‘and two ' of 'the clty's leading newspapers, the climax came on May 21' when a group of citizens started' ecirculating pett- tions for his recall. The recall movement followed the !Mayor’s discharge of Police Com- missigner Harold H., Emmons and appointment of Thomas C. Wolcox, former Department of Justice man in his stead, Just Dbefore the storm = broke Mayor Bowles went to the Kentuicky Derby. In his absence Commission- {er Emmons and his men swooped down on handbooks and policy houses and arrested more than 200 persons. Returning, the Mayor fired his Commissioner and charged the rajds were made to discredit his adminis- tratjon. DOUGLAS GRAY GOES Mary Catherine Thompson of Bolse.| nfrigs Graves is a member of the Idaho, will arrive here Thursday|aeiogy Heart Trio, harpists, well on ‘the steamer Prince George. She |y qwn for professional work. The will be acompanied by her friend.|i;io heagquarters are in Seattle [ Miss Beryl Rear of Vancouver, B.lny; i plays in all the larger cities C.. of Washington. Its services are in Miss Thompson, Who 18 8 gradu-igemang ot theatres, clubs, formal ate’ of Mills College, Oakland, O8l.lqinyorg ang at private and public recently completed post-gradudte|entertainments, In adaition to Miss work at Yale Graduate School. Graves’ activities with the trio, she Two other guests will arrive here| o o o0g 41 5010 work. She is one of next Saturday for a visit With the y, o orpicig nearq over KXA, Seattle Governor. They are Mr. and MIS.| o4, gtapion She s also a mem- Sherman P. Saunders, Denver, Col0. {yor of the Cornish Symphony Or- who visited Gov. Parks last SUMMET. | 4y ogipg e i KRS Not content with musical con- Mr. and Mrs. R. Southworth and {heir Qaughter, " Miss -U. “South- tingtion in dancing. She is studying quest, Miss Graves aspires to dis- | Miss Aleece Graves, who has achieved fame as a professional harp- | MENACE SEEN Langham' was seen near - the house shortly before the explosion. ————— BY BOGDANOY Soviet Trading ('mnpany| President Makes State- ment, Investigation NEW YORK CITY; N. Y, July worth, are round trip passengers on the Princess Charlotte. Mr. Southworth is Vice-President of the Emporium, the largest departmend store in San Franeisco. Bromley Waits On Good Weather For Hop, Tokyo Yo . TACOMA, Wash, July 23. ‘—Harold Bromley and his partner, Harold Gatty, navi- gator, expects o' take off for the flight to Tokyo, the first good weather break affer tomorrow. Bromley hopes to install a new exhaust collector ring today. sessesvece § oy and practicing tap dancing under af . . "o seates, is enjoying a visit to Jumean, her birthplace. Her 23. — Peter Bogdanov, President of teacher of professional experience,| . .. ¢o: juct a few weeks—too brief a time, she says, and the many the Amtorg Company, said Rus-. and gives promise of unusual excel- h'len;‘l of her childhood think 1il G sian-American trade amounting $o° tence. 5 more than $100,000,000 & year will Likes Rain and Juneau | ' Scores’ Aré Killed at Cele-| ON EUROPEAN CRUISE bration in Liberated Rh' d Douglas Gray, son of Mr. and - Rhinelan Mrs. Pelix Gray, Douglas, mid- R ) shipman at Annapolls, is on a ‘COBLENZj’ Germany,, July 23.—|summer cruise to European waters Twenty-four. ‘pgagons were killedfon the U. S. 8. Florida. Letters when. 100 were precipitated into tbeihave just been received from him Mogelle River during the Frenchtby his parents from Kiel, Germany, evacuation celepwation, Some were |where the Americans were given a drowned and others were injured |splendid welcome. by falling’ timbers. At* Kiel, Midshipman Gray met President von Hindenburg was|two German naval cadets, Adolph here but, was not near the scene|Schmidt and Chirles 8Schulz, wh» of the X visited here on the cruiser Emden g M__. in 1927. They ‘were delighted to ABANDONS TRIP see someone from Gastineau Chan- nel, and were enthusiastic in their praise of Alaska and the Alaskan greetings extended to the Emden’s party. They asked to be remem- bered to the people of Juneau and Douglas COBLENZ, July 23. — ‘President von Hiad rg's friumphal prog- ress’ in Rhineland wis tragically ctt short by the collapse of the rickety pontoon bridge across “I lke Juneau,” she said yes-( terday. “Since living in the States, 1 have visited it occasionally and my recollections.of it are the most pleasant imaginable. I regret I dan stay only a brief while this time. “Rain! I don't mind it. I should be happy to tarry all winter. But the season in my work begins in Beptember, and I feel I should be back in Seattle within a few weeks to get ready for it.” Miss Graves is.a .striking bru- nette; pretty, vivaclous and charm- ing. It she could not play a note or dance a single measure, she | would continue to make hearts tin-l llemthmn?k. cis Seufertx, The Dalles. It is the be seriously menaced unless ac- ‘the Moeslls JUNEAU IMPRESSES town in Southeast' Alaska, pictur- esque in its mountain and ocean setting, and modern in its develop- ments, in the opinion of Mrs. Mae F. Seufertx, Portland, Ore, and a ,pu G. B. Rice, while the Dorothy Alexander was in i cusations against his company prov-' first trip any of them had made ‘0 ed groundless. 7 f Alaska and they were deeply !1-| Representative Fish, Chairman of pressed with the scenery of :° the Congressional Committee inves-| country. All of them expressed 4 tigating Communist activities in; desire to make another tour =il this country, before whom Bogdan- remain sometime in this,vicinit’. ov's statement was read, promised N T, {lll charges will be investigated with thoroughness. M. Sullivan of San Francisco, */! Bogdanov referred to the charges the American Can Company, was 4 that the Amtorg Company was passenger on the Princess Char- not solely a trading corporation lotte, which called here last ever-|but also served as a- local point ing enroute from Vancouver, B. C. for Communist activities. to Skagway. He is making "¢, Bogdanov' said some American round trip. In Mr. Sullivan's par'y fifms have already declined to are Mrs, Sullivan, Mrs, F. Pul end W. Wirket, of Portland, Orc OREGON TRAVELERS impressive Juneau is the' most ty of frieds who visited with local business man, In the party wesiaes Mrs. Seu- fertx, were: Miss Frances Rice, Miss Ann Mueller of Portland, and Fran- | chatges. finance purchases because of theselotte. She i 2 of 18 - *° i River. - It is now esti- mated between and 50 persons lost their Lives. ‘The President gave up the re- mainder of his trip and returned to Berlin gfter attending the mourning . services. . Americans Victims Raymond Lawler ,aged 6 years, an Americah boy from Akron, Ohio, is among the victims. He fell to death with his grandfather, Péter Conrad. e a— Mrs. E. Laugér of Chicago, conducts a- fourfst agency, is trip North on who on a the Princess Ohar- in charge of a party LR | Mr, Schmidt is a nephew of Count Felix von Luckner, famous sea raider of the German Navy in the early days of the World War, FREIGHTER DEPERE IS DUE TOMORROW The Alaska Steamship Company's freighter Depere is due on the Channel about noon tomorrow from Igeattle enroute to Westward points. The Depere has general freight fo. Juneau and piling for the new Standard Oil dock.’ % PRICE TEN CENTS [ON RADID STATION " COMMENATOR 18 SHOTILLED Charles E. Buckley Slain in Hotel Lobby by Three Gunmen REWARD OF $50,000 OFFERED BY COUNCIL Gov. GreenTakes Hand in Tragedy—N. G. Adjut- ant Ordered to Detroit DETROIT, Mich., July 23. —Two and one-half hours after he announced over the radio last night the recall of Mayor Charles Bowles, Charles E. Buckley, political commentator at the radio sta- tion WMBC, was assassinated by three gunmen as he sat in the lobby of a hotel. A reward of $50,000 for the arrest and conviction of the killers or those “back of the killing, who instigated it,” has been posted by the City Council. The slaying was the climax of three week s of g:{ngster killings. Gov. Fred W. Green has taken ‘a hand in the assas- sination by ordering Col. John Bersey, National Guard Adjutant; to-Detroit. The Governor and Col. Ber- sey came to the city by air- plane. Police Commissioner Wol- cox said he saw no connec- tion between the recall and the killing. Paul Buckley, brother of the slain man, said the recall battle was the “sole reason for the shooting.” Mayor Bowles said it is “Terrible, a terrible thing.” HEAT SPREADS TOVA. VALLEYS Mercury Is ge—;; Above 100 Degrees — Scores of Deaths Reported CHICAGO, 1l July 23. — Heat has taken up its last stand in the valleys of Virginia as rain and storms swept East and sent tha mercury above 100 degrees for the fourth consecutive day. With 1028 degrees, Richmond has the hottest July day on record. Scores of deaths are blamed to the heat in the last four days. The menace of water shortage and forest fires added to the dis- comfort of the various sections. Thirty-five fatalities are reported Says Kennecott Mines to Produce Indefinitely [ CORDOVA, Alaska, July 23.— Dr. Alan . Bateman, Harvard geologist, after an inspection of the Kennecott mines, said they would continue to produce in- definitely. -— | “Millionaire ; 444 {Hobo” Dead, Result '0/ Self-Denial STAUNTON, - Virginia, July 23.—James Eads Howe, aged 56, years, “Milliopaire Hobo,” is dead here as the result of 15 years' self-denial, physicians at- tending him said. Death was due to pneumonia, evidently induced by starva- tion. Despite the bequest of half a million dollars from his mother in 1915, he denied himself the necessities of life to ald unfor- tunates, especially hoboes. =3 jIn the New York metropolitan area. \