The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5490. TEN CENTS 'MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1930. IN AIR OVER 647 HOURS, TWO FLIERS COME TO EARTH GREAT DAMAGE BY CLOUDBURST IN TWO STATES Lightning and Hail Accom- pany Downpour—Four Persons Are Killed BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 18.—Four persons were killed and damage estimated at more than $1,000,000 was done late last Saturday after- noon in Massachusetts and Con- negticut by a cloudbirst, lightning and hail. Worcester suffered the brunt of the storm. Fred Dibble, aged 51 years; George Nolan, aged 42 years, and Alfred Seam, aged 50 years, were | killed when lightning struck a shed | at ‘Windsor. 1 Charles Bowse, aged 30 years, was killed at Farmingham. Two other persons were rendered unconscious by a bolt of lightning | which passed through the ceiling, of a house where there were 20 other workmen employed. ——— OUTBREAK OF WARFARE IN * NEW RACKET Two Building Contractors Gio& to Stay ’-with Husband ‘She R(;alns 317 ARE SAVED FROM DISABLED STEAMERTAHITI Thrilling Rescue Recorded in' Lonely Corner of World WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Aug:18—In one of the lonesomest corners: of the'world, one of the most thrilling chapters in maritime “hzstory was enacted in the rescue l0£.175 passengers and 142 members of the crew of the disabled liner Tahiti- by the Matson liner Ven- tura, Mail was also removed. The @ahiti was abandoned while racing against an impending storm. The Ventura crossed the un- chartered portion of the South Pa- cific,’ disregarding’ hidden shoals, 16 500 miles sou:nwest of Cooks Island where the Tahiti,had wal- owed since early Friday morning when the propellor fell off and the tall shaft was damaged. Water rushed into the holds and the members of the crew fought the inrushing water with pumps. ——————— —Associated Press Photo. OON CREATES HAVOC IN JAPAN N JACKSON AND " O'BRINE END LONG GRIND Forced Down on Account of Trouble with Mot- or, Fliers Claim (CRACK IN CRANK | CASE IS LOCATED [ Small Crowd Witnesses De- scent — Previous Record Smashed ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 18. |—The first comeback refuel- ing endurznce flight ended at €:30 o’clock Sunday morning {when Dales “Red” Jackson 'and Forest O'Brine landed the | monoplane Greater St. Louis \ An Japan and the public market of Nagasaki (upper) was wrecked. Steamer world’s sustained fhght record Ryohi Maru (lower) swamped and wrecked at her pier in Nagasaki. (of 647 hours 38 minutes and ‘l When her husband, a naval officer, is ordercd to far places, Mrs. Elizabeth Crosley follows on any craft she can find. She is shown “painting ship” on a freighter to while away time. | T BALTIMORE. — Mrs. Elizebeth | She used an assortment of freight | Now she s on her way to the C§051€Yv former Chicago society girl, | boats until she rejolned her hus- |west coast aboard the freighter sticks by her husband. |band at Shanghai. PFights with | Tashmoo. Her husband has been But her husband is Lieut. Paul | Chinese rebels were in progress and ordered to Seattle. Cunningham Crosley, of the United | Mrs. Crosley was busy finding craft “Our four years of married life States navy, and sticking by him |of all sorts to keep up with her | has been in one chase around the CULBURIA 18 ~ ON REEF IN B.C. WATERS 130 seconds. $121,875,000 TO BE USED TO 4 | The two fliers said motor Itrouble forced a landing. Lack of financiel returns as given as the reason by William Pickens, their man- ager. ID STATES AFFECTED, DROUGHT Vessel Bound South from Alaska Cannery |Youth Saved from Shot and Killed in New York City NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Aug. 18.—A gang raid here Saturday af-| Soon ‘after their marriage Lieut. ternoon, in which two contractors!Crosley, whose home was in Wash- | these four years has sent her: | husband. | world after another for me,” she l | WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 18— More than 25,000 miles on water, T SRR Al wa s | said. | hen her husband was transfer-| gyt what's the use of being red to the Philippines and onother | owady oain Jove with your hus- Points Stranded Death by journey came for Mrs, Crosley. band if you can’t be near him?" sy {Then to the Panama Canal. Lite aboard the frelghters is in-] VANCOUVER, B. C. Aug. 18.— Humane Judge i She followed on the first avaiiable | teresting, Mrs, Crosley finds, and The freighter Culburia, of the Pa- were shot to death and another |ington, was ordered to sea, his des- | Ship, a freighter. |she sometimes whiles away long Cific Steamship Company, enroute was wounded, is regarded by theltination being China. Soon to Chesal _bay for_the,hours by helping to paint ship ang|to Seattle from Alaska cannery Police as- an outbreak of warfare| Wives are not permitted on bat- review berorepmdent Hoover |other jobs. points, ran on a reef fwo miles] in the building racket. tleships, even newly married ones, |went her husband's battleship, with | And will she follow him when he/South of Swanson Bay, northern Peter Morello and Joseph Perrano [so it was up to Mrs. Crosley to fol- | Mrs, Crosley aboard the first steam- | leaves Seattle? |British ' Columbia, this morning. | were killed and Gaspar Pollaro wasjow the best way she could. ler following. I 41 certainly will?” she said. The: Chivags Bing. fias It Vib- seriously wounded. ~The gunmen i, BB L. — IN BRUSH WITH CHINESE REDS Countless miles on trains. Aboard tramp steamers. | Through Chinese war perils : } toria for the scene of the strand-' ing. The Culburia was in Juneau sev- eral weeks ago with a cargo ol oal. cornered them in Morello’s office. I 1 Morello was hit by five bullets. Perrano jumped from a second story window after he was shot in the chest. The Police found a ticket for a boat leaving Sunday and a passport to Italy in his pocket. Morello has a long Police record including counterfeiting, for which he had been convicted. Half an hour later Benjamin Prince, described by the Police as +a gambler and narcotic dealer, was shot and killed in a hallway a| Afew blocks away, on the same street | on which Morello's office is located. 5,000 SEEKING WORK;TRAMPLE | ~UPON ONE MAN . I’NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Aug. 18.—A 56-year-old job hunter, Jac- ob Snappy, was trampled upon and painfully hurt by a crowd of more than 5,000 unemployed who tried to push their way into the City's Free Employment Bureau when the doors were unlocked this morning. The man was taken to a hospit~l and treated for scalp lacerations. Several others in the crowd re- ceived minor injuries in the crush but declined medical attention. The line began to form at 3 ¢'clock this morning. Twenty-one clerks of the Bureau Population of | Chicago Given |4s 3,375,309 WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 18—Chicago’s popula- tion, revised, is 3,375309, an increase of' 24.9 percent in 10 years. ‘The population of the state of Illinois is shown to he 7,607,684, an increase of 17.3 percent in ten years. —eto—— CROP REPORT FROM EUROPE Russia and Rumania Only Countries with Sur- plus of Cereals Mrs. Yost Announces Plans for G.0.P. Work WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 16.— Mrs. Lenna L. Yost revealed that her first act in preparing to as- sume active leadership of the Re- publican women’s activities will L2 to resign her Washington, D. C, representation of the W. C. T. U. Mrs. Yost refused to comment {on Prohibition. It is said her se= |lection is a bid for dry support. | - | 1,500 WALK OUT. STRIKE| BESEEMER CITY, North Cary- lina, Aug. 18. — Fifteen hundred |{employees of the Americans Mils INo. 1 and 2, textile manufacturing plants, are on a strike as a pro- test against a wage cut which was effective this morning ——————— LONDON, Aug. 18—Reports from many countries where harvesting is about to begin showed Russia and Rumania will be'the only ones with a surplus of cereal crops for ex- port. England, France, Italy, Germany and Austria, have subnormal yields of wheat, rye, oats and barley. ————.———— MOVIE STAR'S FATHER DIES GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Aug. 18.—Melville Daniels, aged 65 yeas, father of Bebe Daniels-Lyons, movie o actress, died today at his summer | home at Camp Lake, north of here.| Senator Tydings Makes Prediction on Novem- ber Election dssociated Press Phuto The gunboat Palos aboard which five American bluejackets were wounded by Chinese communists near Chansha. The ship is one of seven American gunboats protecting ‘American lives and property in China. NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Aug. 18.—Archibald Roosevelt, son of the late President, learn- ed that a southeast outrigged canoce is not the safest thing in which to navigate New York harbor. Roosevelt and two com- panions stirted from Staten Island last Saturday afternoon for the New York Yacht Club. SHOOTS MOTHER OF 4 CHILDREN SEATTLE, August 18.—John A. JUDGES, POLICEMEN, POLITICIANS MENTIONED IN LEDGER OF SLAIN i GANGSTERS;THEY TRY TO EXPLAIN| The fliers, after a sleep, | secretary of Agriculture Hyde has\",‘,)ld the ‘newspapermen thak | authorized the immediate appor- | finances had nothing to do tionment of $121875,000 of the| with their landing. F[e::eral rf:oa:ldm: F{\:\dsltu v;:‘ious‘i Jackson said he crawled states affecte y e drought. ia ORLARNONA . CEY, OKia; | Allocation s oralnarily not made|OUE. 0N the eat-walk last Sefs Aug. 18—The death sentence until next January, urday night and fo und a imposed on Ted Cole, aged 18 | This imfvediate “dpportionment s | crack in- the crankcase and years, who pleaded guilty to a |in response to pleas of Governors . ) $400 robbery at Tulsa, has been | of state and aid agencies in re- oil was getting into the mag- reduced to 15 years' imprison- | lieving unemployment distress caus- netos. :’nentih'l‘he c«;:rt brm?e:‘“th; ed by the drought. | Only a crowd of 500 wit- ca penalty as unju: el The money will be matched by" and unreasonable. tate BIHAN, nessed th'e two fliers come ’to f R A B g ‘carth while one year ago 25,~ f i RAIN IS REPORTED 1000 saw them land. | WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 18— # | from Governors of drought|dUring a rain storm after | RESULT FRUM |stricken States as to progress in;t)\ey broke the record of 553 forming relief organizations, the| o ¥ 5 e eaas vencitan benstioiy R e, (48 mark set by the rains in th> past 24 hours and|Hunter brothers. AN EXPLUSIBN predtted further preciplation. i Omaha reports the heaviest rain of the drought season, 2.16 inches. 1 el Four Visitors, Member of DEMUOR Ts MAY‘ | Oil Tanker Crew | Are Killed ! JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 18— The death toll as the result of en explosion on the Atlantic Re- fining Company’s tanker Brilliant has reached five with the death of Joseph Jeffords, visitor aboard the! caft. ‘ L, The tanker was destroyed. Th2| WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug 18— Archibald Rooseveli cargo of 378,000 gallons of gasoline That there is an even chance for|y . One Thi was HEERS ~ |the Democrats to galn contral of earns Une LAing Others killed in the explosion |the Senate in the November elec-| About Boating which took place yesterday after-tjon, is predicted by United States| noon were A. D. Haltwanger, H. genator Millard E. Tydings, of| G. Jehkins, Chandler Morgan, Vis- Maryland, and chairman of the| itors and Robert Windbrow, second pemocratic Senatorial Campaign | engineer, all of Jacksonville. Committee. e j - AE | To get control of the Senate 1‘ e ,Democrats must win 10 seats now | : held by the Republicans, and thirty | He was stricken with pneumonia e & ‘;“Wdi::h are at stake, said Senator last winter anc never fully re- ydings. —y- TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS CHICAGO, 1, Aug. 18—The > London Society Woman received applications and within two hours distributed jobs to 75 tledger of Jack Zuta, slain gangster, | ltold of rich profits in the liquor traffic and the notorious gang's Weds Marshall Field, 11l Goldman shot and thrice wounded his former wife, mothér of his four | |children, in a street chase Satur- gained his health. ( NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., August| 18.—Closing quotation on Alaska ! Juneau mine stock today is 5%, Al- - [ | A wash from a passing steamer Two couples in Red Wing, Minn., overturned their craft throw- who married on April Fools' Day Epploerts. T hany Ouiporation 1%, /Anadonds Hin. 1027, were divorced. this year| ing that info the water. Fhey POPULATION GAIN OF | 255 MADE ON KODIAK gopperl 4;‘». Belhlehenz} s:,ebel 79, in the same week were rescued by a lighter. eneral otors 4£3%, ranby no o s % s S s e TESTS WITH RATS district during the past decade, it|e€ry-wal %, Nation: cme 12%, | FAIL TO SUPPORT EVOLUTION “PROP” was shown by census figures made | Packard Motors 13%, 13, 13%, Sim- gang. ]bride is the widow of Capt. Coats, 20 years and she secured a ¢ public today by Charles E. Nag}xg],'mons Beds 23%, Standard Brands lof the famous thread manufact-,four months ago. Neighbors s2id heidirector of Census for Alaska. |18%, Standard Oil of California | . - ling family. The #prvice’ was, uriique,often Wens o it Rome and QUSFCIiERhe total for 1930 was shown to|61%, Standard Oil of New Jersey | Eight Persons Killed, in its simplicity. relled since the divorce proceedings. [be 1,720 as comparbd to 1465 in|7l, United Aircraft 57, U. 8.! —nt 11920. The population by settle- |Steel 165 1-3, American Can 125, Geman A“to B“S SMh el FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Aug. 18—One [bly weakens it, causing it to be- lof the f the evolution | come reduced, and ends in its dis- ms?—INE‘;;‘mea}::ei’ggir::ley.kfi;%‘ {theory, e Lamarckian fac- |appearance.” 5 tor, is considerably bent by experi-| To test this contention Harold Jments at the Museum of Northern S. Colton amputated the forelegs f very young albino rats and their ments is given as follows: ‘Fox Films 397, Hupp Motors 13%, i end six injured Sunday when an| | Arizona |o ¥ six generations. Afognak 298, Aiktalik 30, Alitax 12%, 13%, Stewart Warner 24%, The Civil Service has announced auto bus smashed through a stone! | descendants for 86, Kaguyak 52, Kanatak 82, Kar-|241;, 24%. luk 192, Kodiak 440, Old Harbor ]flm' 1 Senaf i i amination for Civil and Me- ois State tor {wall and plunged into the Eloe a:a:‘c‘al Engineers for service in| d; Believed Poisoned miver. 2 . Ferry Boat Capéizes| Dead; erry Boat Capsizes | In a report to the southwestern r— §ftic; tnt. mar division of the American Associa- 84, Uzinkie 168, Wood Island 116, | scattered 172, ——l— | connection with construction of PRINCE RUPERT SOUTH ] Boulder Dam. Salary rates range {CHICAGO, Ill; Aug. 18 -State| Texas farmers are finding arma-|from $3800 per annum up to $6400 CALCUTTA, Aug. 18 —Thirty-two | DOt use. It says: “In every animal | ¢jon for the Advancement of Séi= Senator John Joyce, who feared!gdillos, a pest since they have de- per annum for Senior grade. Fur-| jute mill workers were drowned (Which has not excebded its term |ance he says there was no demon= death because he testified a gun<|yeloped a taste for young chickens ther information can be obtained and 23 others we:e rescued by a)of development the more frequent |grable change in the lost bones man invaded the Forty Second and eggs. lat the office of the Alaska Road lounch, A ferry boat in which the|and sustained use of any organ, de- | of the last generation over the firss, ward during the April primary | “commission, workers were crossing the Hugii|velops and enla it and gives | “Therefore,” he says, “this ex—. election, died Saturday under mys-| Sweden's bus routes cover 45000 A River on the western arm of the|it th proportional to the|pariment contributes no evidence _ terious circumstances. His brother miles, four times that of its rail-; Ganges, was caught in a strong length of time of such use. {supporting the Lamarckian factor charged he wEs poisoned, Vays, {are operated in Italy. tidal current and capsized. Constant lack of use imprecepti- {in evolution.” Iigf:: l;léheigoll Tflse 2‘:‘1‘9?:;;53;“[ LONDON, England, Aug. 18—,day afternoon from her home. then 3 Eifes A QOIS €' The religious ceremony marrying Teturned and committed suicide names of Judges, Policemen and 'nporchay Field, III, grandson of On the front lawn at the home af- politicians. This started a Proces-|ine noteq Chicago. merchant, ani ter threatening his son-in-lav, Who sion of public men to the State At- |y pudley Coats, London socieiy fled. torney’s office to explain entries|yoman was performed today in! Mrs. Goldman is not expecicd to on the books of the Moran-Alello[the Church St. Ethelburga. The live. The couple had been married| ree —-————— Arrival of Holmes Awaited at Barrow POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 18—Ice on the shore is loosening slightly, giving rise to hope that the schooner Holmes, pringing pro- visions from Seattle will be. able to discharge her cargo when she reaches here. Stocks are running low. Permits were issued allowing them | to kill more than 500 deer last week. A net gain of Two Women Are Sentenced for Desecrating Flag CIVIL SERVICE EXAM IS ANNOUNCED HERE Thirty-two Die When This Lamarcki ' ELMIRA, New York, Auz. 18 | —Ailene Holmes and Mabel Husa, directors of a Workers International Relief Camp near here have been convicted of in=' sulting and desecrating the American Flag in a trial in the, Justice of Peace Court. Fach were sentenced to pay a finc of $50 and spend three montis in the county jail, holds in he doe. factor ses what | The Prince Rupert, Capt. Mabbs, of the Canadian National Line, arrived from Skagway at midnight Saturday and sailed for Vancouver about one hour later. Passengers boarding the ship here were: John Hogar for’ Prince Rupert, and one other for Vancouver. More than 20,000 farm tractors|