The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 6, 1930, Page 1

3 'HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS WHITNEY DENIES TEARING PAGE FROM “BLACK BOOK” PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA 1S OUT OF OFFICE Resigns After One Week of Political Agitation— State of Seige BUENOS-AIRES, Argentina, Sept. 6.—President Hipolito Yrgioyen, twice Argentina’s Chief of State, has resigned after one week of po- litical agitation, and turned over the ship of state to Vice-President Enrique Martinez. Immediately on assuming author- ity, Martinez declared a state of seige existed. ‘Troops are held atl the barracks. H The news of Yrigoyen's resigna- | tion burst over the fever-heated | city like a bombshell. Yrigoyen was first elected in 1916 and again in 1928. Discontent against him was mainly within his own party because of failure to provide his supporters with posi- tions over the present hard times. MUTINY PREVAILS BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 6—Mutiny against the regime of President Yrigoyen, who last night delegated% State powers to Vice-President; Martinez, broke out today in army and navy forces here. ment is led by Gen. Jose Uriburu,’ former Chief of Staff of Inspec-! tion. Troops have been stationed in various parts of the city and others are proceeding here from other sec- tions. Resignation of all officials of | the Yrigoyen regime are demanded. | e CHARGED WITH CONSPIRAGYT0 KIONAP 2 MEN Governor of Louisiana, Seven Others, Alleged Involved in Case NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 6.— Gov. Huey P. Long, District Attor- ney John Fleurry of Jefferson Parish, and six other State offi- cials are charged with conspiracy to kidnap Sam Irby and James Terrell while they were wards of the Baton Rouge District Court. A writ of habeas corpus demands that the men be brought into court next Monday. The men were seized in a hotel | in: Shrevesport last Thursday and; are now in the Jefferson Parish jail | Irby is a former chemist of the| High Commission and recently act- ed as principal witness for an in- vestigation commission. ——————— LEVIATHAN IS | NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Sept. 5.—The liner Leviathan was in col-| lision in New York harbor today a few minutes after sailing for| Southampton, with 538 passengers aboard. The Leviathan struck and sank a railroad barge in the Hudson River. No lives were lost. ——————,————— MRS. ARCHBOLD RETURNS TO PETERSBURUG AFTER VISIT Mrs. C. M. Archbold, whose hus- band is United States Forest Ran- ger at Petersburg, left last night on the steamer The move-|_ from Alexander Winton, 70, picneer ENGLISH GIRL NEW U. S. CHAMP o — pryr - e o Assoctated Press Photo Betty Nuthall of England receiving the cup emblematic of the tennis championship of the United States. She defeated Mrs. Anna Harper (left) of San Francisco in the finals at Forest Hills, succeed- ing to the title held by Helen Wills Moody, who did not defend the erown. FOUNDING OF FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL CELEBRATED BY RELIGIOUS GROUPS NEW YORK, Sept. 4—Founding of the world's first Sunday School, among the dirty, rowdy ragamuf- | fins of an English factory town iby Robert Raikes, British editor, in 11780, is being celebrated this year | by religious orzanizations every- | where. In 150 years the Sunday School idea has grown from the handfuli of rebelious street gamins gathered Gets Divorce cester, England, until it ‘embraces a world enrollment of 37,083,662 The United States alone has 21.- 038,526 people in its Sunday Schools, of whom 2,167,848 are teachers and officers. Nearly half the Ameri- |can population under 19 years of age, or 44.1 percent, attends Sun- {day School. Kansas leads with 66.4 percent, while Arizona and yMontana _are tied for last place with 22.3. Sunday Schools have improved {in technique as they have grown in size. |its lessons through plays which {they act themselves, stories, hand {work, drawing, model-making and | costuming, explains Dr. Harrison 8. - 'Elliot, head of the department of |religious education at Union Teo- Assoctated Press Photo Mrs. Marion Campbell Winton was granted a divorce in Cleveland sutomobile manutacturer. _ |everywhere. ‘in a kitchen in Sooty Alley, Glou-| Children now learn the Bible snd‘ Trial Fl HURRICANE DEAD FOUR THOUSAND, PERHAPS LARGER U. S. Marine Corps Planes | Fly Over Devastated Re- gion—Bodies Byrned SANTO DOMINGO, Sept. 6.—A squadron of six Cuban airplanes | bearing doctors and medical sup- | plies has landed here. | United States Marine Corps | planes flew here from FPort au | Prince yesterday and estimated deaths at 4.000#5,000 injured and 30,000 homeless in the hurricane | | struck area. | One Marine Corps officer said it} looked as if a “giant had smeared | the entire country then stirred it | |up with a stick.” The officers of the flying corps i said the water works have been | Gemolished and there is no water it to drink. ' The rivers are seas of mud. { The dead are unaccountable. Floods have washed out the newly buried in cemeteries and cof- |fins are floating around like corks., The dead are being collected in ncunds and heaps, then burned. | Wagons were seen with bodies | loaded on like cordwood and there ! is more dead and still more dead | ] The Dornier DO-X, the world’s e, ———— ‘ largest seaplane, taking off i from the waters of Lake Con- | stance for its first trial flight p since the installation of the | TONIGHT WILL BE & = = Local Motion Pictures and Stage Acts Fea- ' ture Program | | | Entertainment, varied and of ex- |ceptional merit; announcement of | prize winners and public daneing to |dulcet orchestral strains until the early hours of tomorrow will amuse land interest the throng of visitors |at the concluding period of the |Southeastern Alaska Fair here to- | night. Doors this evening will be open at 7 o'clock. Music by the Juneau |city Band and over the radio will }begin the festivities, and intersperse |the early evening program. On the screen Ordway's Motion | Pictures are sure to attract atten- |tion. For the first time here, they ‘will depict life-like representations {taken in this part of the Terri- jtory from a flying airplane. The |Juneau Fire Department in action, the aerial trip of Skookum, the cub tors. B E ST fi w EE K“ BOOP-AOP_—WHOSE $50,000? With American ight The substitution of the American motors for the air- cooled engines which were orig- inally installed was calculated to increase the horsepower of the giant craft by more than 1,500 horsepower, giving it & Motors total of 7,500 horsepower. Fol- lowing a series of test flights the DO-X will undertake a pro- posed flight across the Atlantic giant plane is scheduled to take off from Lishon. (Internations! i"‘l‘(l”('l’ Is Ready to | Negotiate Treaty |For Limitation | |® PARIS, Sept. 6.—The Asso- e ciated Press correspondent ¢ has been informed by an au- ® “thoritative French source |'® that France is ready to nego- |® tiate a general treaty for e limitation of armament based e on the existing strength of | e the French Army. vesosososccas e ., FRENCH FLIERS Are Given Big Receptio in Lowsville Enroute j from Dallas LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Sept. Ocean to the United States. The | srect) " OFFFORN.Y.C. FIVE ROBBED OF $130000 !logical Seminary. | The modern Sunday School recog- Inizes its responsibility to the pu- | pil's everyday experience, he points out. It deals with such matters as choosing a life work, questions of i IN VALUABLES {conduct and character that crop up “in the child’s everyday life. EVANSTON, Illinois, Jason Whitney Sept. attending a theatre, was robbed | of jewelry valued at $130,000. 6—| with a party of | IN GULLISIUN |four, enroute home last night after Raikes founded his first Sunday School for the children of the poor jand criminal classes because he has found it difficult to reform adult criminals. At first his experiment was op- The young robbers wore hand-|posed both by the Church of Eng- kerchief masks. Whitney is President of the Kraft-Phoenix Cheese Company. Mrs. Whitney reported her per- sonal loss at $125,000 including a! ring valued at $50,000. e, Mrs. F;derick Dent Grant Dies in East WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 6.| Grant, ' daughter-in-law of the former! : 6.—Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- bal dance, staged by two India Admiral Rogers |President and mother of Lieut. Col. |poan mine stock today 1s 6, Alle-|To measuredl drum beats, which —Mrs. Frederick Dent |land and the government. A bill for the suppression of his {school was introduced in Parlia- ment. Through his newspaper, the Glou- |cester Journal, Raikes eventually }won support for it. | ; TODAY’S STOCK | QUOTATIONS NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Sep! bear, and other local incidents will (delight spectators. ! Persian Garden Dancers On the stage, a Persian Garden lact in pantomime will be presented. ‘,The Persian dancers will include |Gene Anderson, terpsichorean solo |artist; Sylvia Anderson, Loretta Haglund and Jennie Haglund, all ;tralned especially for the occasion by Miss Nellie Martin, of the Mar- |tinique School of Dance and Drama. | Public dancing will begin at 10 {o'clock. “Home, Sweet Home" will not be played until the last of the revellers is tired and weary. This afternoon at the Fair, the “Kiddies Frolic” was the chief event. Every little boy and girl appeared to be there. All had a hilarious \time. | Judging of the pie exhibits in the |Home Ceoking Department 00K \place this afternoon. Selectior of ithe winning entries will be made this evening. | Indians Delight Crowd The high light of the last night's ntertainment was the Indian t for her home. She has been visit«|U. hS Grant, III, died here 1ast|gpany Corporation 23, American after a slow start rose to rapid night at’the age of 76 years. Heart |c,n 1327, Anaconda Copper 47%.|tempo, the aborigines shuffled and ing Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bernard for the past month. | trouble is given as the cause Part of Diary of Andree Balloon Exp Readable; Facts Are Lost edition Not TROMSOE, Norway, Sept. 6.— The story of the Andree balloon expedition is legible up to Septem- ber 5, presumably 1897, the writing after that date in the notebook found on the body of the leader nov being readable. The condition of the diary after that date is such as to make it impossible to follow the story of the expedition. As told by the leader of the ex- pedition, it seems the trio of bal- Bethlehem Steel 89%, Fox Films 52, General Motors 45%, Granby {23, Hupp Motors 13%, 13%, 13% !International Harvester 81%, Ken Inecott 36'%, Montgomery-Ward 37, |National Acme 13%, Packard Mo- tors 13%, 13%, 13%, Simmons Beds |27%, Standard Brands 20%, Stan- dard Oil of California 60%, dard Oil of New Jersey 70, Stewart- ‘Warner 27%, 26%, 27%, U. S. Steel loonists arrived at White Islaud onyq73i;. i September 5, 1897, after disaster. Dr. Gunnar Horn, who discoveredE the bodies of two of the ill~ra!edi’ SIMLA, India, Sept. 6. — Severe taken south by United States having | battled across the ice since July of that year, when the balloon met British and Raiding { Afghans Are in Battle stan- . |stamped their feet, twisted and con- \torted their bodies and shook and |nodded their heads with violence, the meanwhile themselves keeping |vocal time with a series of chauts, isnorts and grunts. | All in all, the offering of the In- |dians delighted the crowd, which was disappointed because tribesmen to |vouchsafed to respond only on: encores, ——————— | TAKES INSANE MAN OUT ! Adjudged insane at a hearinz & few days ago in the United Stules | Commisioner’s Court, L. Glacier w38 Je- expedition, proposes a Swedish EX- fighting between the British and puty Marshal C. V. Brown on ‘he pedition be sent to White Island raiding Afghan tribesmen on the steamship Admiral Rogers. The next summer thinking it is possible 'northwest frontier broke yesterday mented man will be confined in‘and taken from tourist informa- land continues today, to find more relics and tion, an official {announcement says. i le~ Morningside Asylum at Portiind, \‘ Oregon, -|has investigated the railroad bonds for her. |—The plane Question Mark and fliers Costes and Bellonte who re- icently crossed the Atlantic Ocean |from Paris to New York City in a nonstop flight, arrived here last |night from Dallas, Texas. | flie: | here. . | At 5:38 o'clock this morning the |plane took the air for New York | City on the second leg of the Dal- las-New York flight and headed {for Cincinnati % | - - Assoclated Press Photo Helen Kane, who boop-a-doops to music on the stage and screen, shown with her attorney in New York court as witness in bankruptcy hearing of dress firm. She broke down and cried when faced with demand that she hand over 850,000 given her by Murray Posner, mem- ber of the firm. She said she had given him the money to buy Liberty | 'Gives Inspirational SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 6. — A plan whereby Congress would grant to the Alaska Railroad tracts of coal, mineral, timber and agricul- tural lands, is under consideration by the Senate 'Commiitee which The committee is now enroute to Seat- tle on two destroyers. The plan, which was proposed at the final hearing of the committee in Seward, was submitted by former Mayor L. V. kay and would pro- vide clear title to the Alaska Rail- road so it could sell, lease or,use in anyway to aid in the upkeep of the railroad. Senators Howell, Kendrick and Thomas were so impressed with the plan that they invited Ray to work |out a detailed plan and take it to ‘Washington, D. C. Indications are that three men, with no real duties, will be dropped {from the payroll of the Alaska Railroad and this will save $30- 000 annually. The committee will \also propose, it is said, that the promotion of tourist travel be held {to a cost within $3,000 annually fares re- ceived. . ' l Laxness in collecting aceounts NEW PLAN PROPOSED TO AID ALASKA RAILROAD Talk Over Radio And then Suicides H SAN FuAl 5C0, Cal.,, Sept. | 6.—~Less than an hour after an | inspirational talk over the radio, last night, Dudley Ayres, aged = > due the railroad showed that $200,- | DENIES SEEING “BRIBE" PAGES - ABOUTHIMSELF {Former Prohibition Official Gives Lie to Govern- ment Witnesses DECLARES HE DID NOT \TIP OFF OLMSTED RAID Claims Hub—l:z;r_d's Talk of ' Graft Payments “Pure : Fabrication™ SEATTLE, Sept. 6. — William Whitney, former Assistant Prohib- ition Administrator and a defend- ant in the conspiracy trial here with Lyle, Corwin and Fryant, while testifying yesterday, denied he tore a page from the “black book” seized from Roy Olmsted or that he saw any notation in the book indicating bribe payments to himself, Lyle or former United States District Attorney Revelle as testified to by several Government witnesses. | Whitney denied he tipped off the Olmsted ring that resulted in the Woodmont Beach raid. He said the “police prowler” tipped off Olmsted before the raid on the Union Stables in 1925. Whitney labelled Hubbard's tes- timony about a bribe payment was “pure fabrication.”” Whitney said Olmsted was dumbfounded when he discovered Hubbard was a Govern- ment agent and dropped his appeal |in the first Olmsted case and |pleaded guilty in the second case 'as soon as he confirmed rumors as to Hubbard’s identity, while he ® posed as a member of the Olm- ® sted gang. ——————— SLAYER OF 2 DIES, GALLOWS :Spols Clergymen Around Scaffold and Requests They L_eave Room | | LEAVENwWORTH rHRISON, Sept. |6.—Carl Panzran, who boasted to be a slayer of 22 persons and who demanded the death penalty, was hanged early this morning for the murder of W. G. Warnke, prison ‘laundry foreman. | Going to the gallows Panzran saw 6 2 Catholic priest and Protestant Chaplain with the newsmen about thé gallows. He asked the warden to have them leave the room and the request was granted. n g ik The two & were given a big receptinxLTwu THousANn | 'FLEE AS FIRE - WRAPS HOMES LONDON, Sept. 6.—Two thou- sand persons fled from their tene- ment homes early this morning be- fore flames that soon wrapped the ,London East End district. Three hundred firemen used 10 miles of ';hOSP in fighting the fire. The damage is estimated at $5,000,000. BHEXI S | Towa State college has a heavy |football schedule for the 1930 sea- son, including five Big Six, one Big Ten and one Missouri Valley con- 000 have been lost as there 15 49 years, actor and radio speak- no hope of making the collections.! ¢ *suicided by shooting him- ; e T | selt. . He was afraid of losing Drops Dead in ! his mind, a note to his wife ("'”. l'()lil'fl | said. ' ference opponent. Lose Reward Y“('II() 1T27 DIRECTS U N \ DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 6— | William Butler, alias William | KANAK 4 SAILORS Banner, held here in connec- | . o | tion with a bank robbery at | Matawan, New Jersey, dropped | IN VAIN RESCUE dead in his cell, thereby de- priving the police of a $200 re- | ward for his capture. CANBERRA, Sept. 6. — Bec e | Kanak: nd white persons clinging - e | they believed that the ghost of their |to pieces of wreckage. Mailboat Patterson !master was watching them, the “You save Missee and the little . | Kanaka crew of the motorship Vai- ' white fellers” was Lieutenant Ber- Reaches Point Barrow viri made neroic efforis to save ge's last order to the Kanakas. “All —— this wife and children when the time, all time, I watch.” POINT BARROW, Alaska, Sept.|ship foundered in a tempest off the The Kanakas, though half of 6—The motorship Patterson, the|coast of Papua, Australia’s tropical them drowned one by one, never first to arrive from the east, is'dependency. ceased their efforts to save Mrs. now waiting ¢ k up the mail| Berge and her children. and two polar cubs for a zoo: Lieutenant Stewart Berge, senior gight hours later a rescue steam- in the States r ent magistrate of New Guinea, er found thirteen semi-conscious Charles Brower and daughter are|with his wife and four children and Kanakas weakly supporting Mrs. also e motorship for a|a Kanaka crew of 26 wa aveling Berge, unconscious. Every other one in the States.[down the coast when the storm person aboard the Vaiviri was continues and | broke hip sank, leaving 'drowned