The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 3, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL XXX\/I NO 5)29 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA, FRIDAY OCTOBLR?v |930 MEMBER ~ PRICE TEN CENTS OF A590C1A1 ED PRESS POLICE KEEP COMMUNISTS FROM HOOVER MEETING FLOOD CAUSED C"UPLF BELIEVED LOST IN APPOINTMENTS NORTHLAND REVEAL : BY HEAVY RAIN AT KETCHIKAN WHERE. More than Flve Inches Fall in Twelve Hours— Creek Rises THREE COTTAGES, ONE BRIDCE, WASHED OUT! Basements of Many Homes Flooded—Famiilies Mov- | ing Belongings KETCHIKAN, Alaska,. Oct More than five inches of rain; in 12 hours yesterday sent waters of Ketchikan Creek to @ new mark and washed out three cottages, one bridge and flooded basements of . at least a dozen homes. The rainfall is continuing. Families are moving longings and themselves to safety Washed out houses and drift logs picked up, jammed at the Stedman Street bridge. Dynamite failed to dislodge the mass. Spawning salmon were driven out ‘of the main channels to the flood- ed roads. Two crews are watching the pow- er dam at the lake a mile above the spillways, which are open, with water over the top. DEER INDUSTRY CAN BE PLACED IN 600D SHAPE “Cortin Improvements Are Needed for- Stability, Declares Sawyer The reindeer industry of west- ern and northwestern Alaska can and will be lifted out of the dol- drums and become prosperous, de- clared Ernest Walker Sawyer, Spec- ial Assistant to the General Man- ager of the Alaska Railroad, who arrived here Thursday after spend- ing the summer in the reindeer growing and grazing sections, in- vestigating conditions and confer- ring with herd own Eskimo, Lapp and white. Two preparatory steps must taken at once by the Federal Gov- ernment before stabilization can Begin, in his opinion. First, the range boundaries must be defin- ftely fixed, and, second, grazing ases must be issued to the herd owners. With this done, questions of ownership of deer, not exten e now, and the minor differences, most of which arise from a lack of comprehension on the part of the (Continued on Page Eight) AL TR TODARS STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Oct. 3 —Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock today is 6, Ameri- can Can 124%, Anaconda Copper! 38, Bethlehem Steel 83%, Fox!| Films 412, International Harvester 567, Granby Corporation 151, Ken-! necott Copper 29, Montgomery-| Ward 27%, National Acme 10, Pack- | ard Motors 117, 11, 11%, Simmons Beds 24, Standard Brands 18%, Standard Oil of California 56%, United Aircraft .43, U. S. Steel 158 CALIFORNIA GEOLOGIST GLENDALE, Cal Albee, young ‘mel, ents here, has brcken a thr Dawsol ukon Territory. Albée his, bRide made Liard Post in ni ks. F provis and th lived moose meat the Liard River on a ra They finally reached saying the following day, hike to lin Lake the winter. Several months ago, the Royal Canadian Oc California, s gave out t to Dease ' ph September and Police pair. 3.—A letter geologist and his bride, months left-Fort “Georg At Liard Post they res where they fears were started WILL BE MADE & IN DEBEMBER Pxesldent ta-Maki - ol Nominations as Soon as Senate Convenes 4BOUT9 ; Nominations for two Federal || judges and two United States Mar- A | shals in Alaska probably will be sent to the Senate premptly after ||it convenes next December, in the |opinion of Charles P. Sisson, As- !|sistant Attorney General of the | United States. !| Thursday, | George A. Parks relative to various |matters, leaving on the Fisheries flagship Brant late in the afternoon |to overtake the Northwestern at a cannery south of here. Mr. Sisson has spent several weeks in the Territory, visiting every Division, talking with present umbents of cffices to be filled, Department of Justice agents. and to aspirants for office. Makes No Statement While he would make no state- ment relative pirant for office, his chances or lack of them, he admitted that his fe- port in connection therewith would undoubtedly be taken into con- sideration at the time the Presi- 'dent selects the men who will be |nominated for the six Alaska of- fices to be filled. However, he de- {clined to comment on the tenor of his report which will be made di: rectly to Attorney General Mit- chell. 2 That he has gone into the matter | Ithoroughly was evident, and he| seemed to have a good grasp on all| phases of the situation. “I talked | with encumbents and aspirants; heard tales of woe, condemnation and praise,” he- said smilingly. He treated the matter good-naturedly {and if there were any unpleasant memories conneeted” with his" txip the middle of last June and jang its studies, he gave no. sign weeks out from Fort George their of them. the remainder of the journey on ted a week and then floated down! His River,t thence to Dease Lake. i fected Creek they wrote a letter 18, they were beginning a 250-mile would go to Dawson, to spend D BRIDE Mrs. William to their par | couple enroute o rom Mr. and the Scope of Work trip, he said, not only af- future appointments, but where personnel and procedure of the De- partment of Justice.” He was “secks- ing ways and means of promoting efficiency of the Department so that it render the best possible service to the people of Alaska.” ! There are certain problems met felt the couple had a rch for become lost se the missing An Auturan Deb Associated Press Photo Lucille Swift of Washington, | daughter of Col. and Mrs. L. Palmer | Swift Is one of the national capl | tal's autumn debutantes. i e B | RIO SCHEMES TO | MAKE NIGHT LIFE LURE RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 3.—Pre- fect Antonio Prado of this city has worked on the beautification and modernizing of it to attract tourfsts from north of the equator as well as those from neighboring South American countries. ‘This has resulted in two special excursions from Argentina and Uruguay in recent weeks when a thousand vacationers came to Rio’s sunshine to get away from the rigors of the winter at home. Two European liners were taken from their regular runs, the first bring- ing 400 and the latter 600 tour sbgre for a week's stay during a8y o ! which | TO TOURISTS they used the ships as hotels. Night life is almost unknown a million and a and the boosters for demand that such at 13 forthcoming if the ci its place as a fourist tourist trade tractions be to take nter. “People want to do something at night except go to bed,” said one advocate of bright lights in a news- paper discussign of this subject. , “Make Rio the Monte Carlo of South Ameriea,” is the slegan of the advocates of tourism, but the organic law of the country pro- hibits gambling. o |Ralph !\ BANDITS KILL \by the Department here which are peculiar to Alaska, and not en- |countered by it anywhere else in ;m(- United States, he pointed out }I" has given these particular study | with a view of arranging procedure ‘Lu solve them. Mr. Sisson visited Ketchik | Wrangell, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Nome |in making his investigations. !spent more time than he had or T\\O Women Klunapped nally contemplated but felt repaid by it. Last Junc, Slain—Fin- | He expressed regret that he was L |unable to stay in Juneau longer Of qr_“;_("‘” Ofl |and said he hoped he would be Chin |able to revisit here sometime in the m‘:“ near future and take advantage of i ities o . Podtiow RSt Bdith some of the opportunities for hunt. aid Eleanor June Sarrison |10g aad kg i » b B ish missionaries, captured’ by MRATH FIRE death threat would'bo carried out| A R E[drldge Has Nar- if the ransom meney of $100000| FOW Escape when Store was not paid. Is Destroyed It is understood the Britishj s are awaiting all details | taking action. | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 3 it L] |R. Eldridge barelyyescaped with his :Iire when his genelal merchandise |store at McGrath burned last Tucs- MBRE L'GHT day night, He wasgburned about ; < the head but not seriously. Volun flN GHARGES |teers saved the adjoining war NOW ASKED es and contents. WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 3—— 'AUXILIARY DELEGATE HOME FROM INTERIOR| former. Denver Land (o8, B0 Bt e Mrs. Edith Sheelor, one expansion of his! Legion Auxiliary to the Departr of unpropm handling M\Convenz:on at Anchorage in shale lands in Colorado, from tember, returned on the st Depastment of Justice. Kelley NOTthwestern after visiting ir mm to say whether he had‘MaSkfl She had a delightfu Nthe Government's' inquisitors. |[and met many friends and f Ikelley went I fto a conference|Acquaintances in Fairbanks v with Chairman Nye of the Senate she spent a winter some 15 Public Lands Comumittee, lago. ——————— |‘ There, Mrs. Sheelor, was the E. M. Polley, Territorial tax col- at a joint meeting of the Am well ger EIPING. sages reaching Oct. 3—M British Consul Nettleton Brit- bm- at have the two mn-mu protracted ne- release, in the : of which thi dits cut off | of Miss Nettleson's fingers and it to the British Consular | on of 1 failure of «d ne A, before he| an nt| sep- | er | or [ ip ter re irs 1 ol (R‘C' st | in to any individual as-| also all “matters pertaining to the| He | | 1 Gunning for Partner, Man | HERE CARDS AND A’S WILL M He visited here conferring with Gov. | | 13 SPORTSMANS S PARK *ST. LOUIS | Cardinals left Philadelphia last night and are due ‘n St. Louis today |the game tomorrow. The third game of the 1930 World Series will be played in St. Louis tomorrow. EET IN ST. LOUIS HOOVER SAYS NOT LET HARD TIMES STOP US Presxdenl Declares Depres- sion Is World Wide but We Must Not Wait “URGES AMERICANS |~ 'NOT TO CUT COSTS |Standards ;f_iiving Must | Be Maintained and Improved | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 3.—A barade of Communists, estimated at 600, was broken up when they attempted to break away from the RAILROADS T0 PILOT FRANK BLOCK NATION | DORBANDTIS ONWATERWAYS - IN ACCIDENT i ‘ |Senator Bk hirt Says Cracks Up on Attempted ‘ ! , |_waSuinGTON, D. 0. Oct. 3—‘THREE ABOARD PLANE | Northwéstern Raiiroad, that th !Av;alor Wlll Travel South and public roads, United States; tamount to a declaration of war i “This attack is not mere idle gay attempting to take-off on the of the shrewdest lawyers of the|bilo; Dorbandt. mechanic Alonzo g i ney, improvement of our rivers in com- | ‘H(IUI‘ his distanes He had reach- Declaration of War | Flight from Anchor- Made by Systems { age to Seattle iTaking issue with Fred S1lrzen1.,( President of the Chicago mm, REPORTED N()T HURTi Government is drifting toward con- fiscation of the inland waterways | {Senator Smith W. Brookhart, of by Steamer to Brmg I |Towa, said the statement was tan-! Back TWO Planes | {by the railroads on the nation’s| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 3.—| {waterway improvement plans |Frank Dorbandt cracked up yester- ' |vaporing,” said Senator Brookhart,!first passenger and mail flight| “but the result of mature thought|rom this section, for Seattle. i country. It means that every legal Cope and Harry F. Morton, attor- artifice will be used to stop the iy o BT b %) - | b ; Frost on the glass of the cabin of jfiion willy radlzosds ithe ship (';lusrfi Dorbandt to mis- —ee—— | et the end of the field before he The ship struck some | brush and came to earth about 100 an, i yards from the field. { The landing gear, wings and pro- peller were damaged. | Dorbandt had planned to travel Seattle via Whitehorse and| ton. Dorbandt SHOT, KILLED to H: will leave tomorrow by steamer for Seattle and bring back |two planes, one of which he will} m‘ nunh | Oct. 3 | TAKEN SOUTH whom he had a grievan «-ldmn» Last of Oldtime Chinese in| ally shot and killed Harry Olark, | Los Angeles business man aboard Cassiar, Indigent, | Deranged Kills Another on Oak- land Ferry OAKLAND, Cal. Russo, on his way, to “get” his former the ferry Yerba Buena as it left| the slip. | Russo told the police the weapon | was discharged accidentally as his hand encountered it in his pocket ! and a bullet struck Clark in the| back. ‘ .. | WRANGELL, Alaska, Oct. 3.— HURLS GUBS |Lee Que, the last of the old time | |Chinese miners in the Cassiar Dis- TU vlcTuRY \trict, passed through here under es- fcort of Sergeant McBIill, of the| |British Columbia Police, for the Om ide, as an indigent and slight- Blake Hurls Good Ball for | Sox—Cuyler Helps | with Home Run y!) deranged. Lee Que came with his falhr‘r‘ CHICAGO, Tl Oct |from China 50 years ago and went Fred Blake had one of his best d to the Cassiar at the time of the boom He was a prospector,’ min- yesterday and with elaborate pmch hitting by Kiki Cuyler, hurled the er and also cook for the Hudson's 3.—Sheriff | Bay Company on Dease Rive Cubs to a 4 to 2 victory over the White Sox here in the City Cham- - pionship series Fourteen British Mmers Are Killed in Explosions The score was the eighth inning WALLSALL, England, Oct. 3.— Fourteen miners met death today when two explosions dumped tons then English singled of debris into galleries one mile and |to third. Cuyler made a half to the bottom of the shaft for three scores The White Sox day. tied one all in Blair singled, sending Blai a home run e eoe — Minister of Japanese Navy Resigns Position won the previous R Harry Stonehouse e of the del- egates from the local American Le- Tckyo, Japan, Oct. 3.—Minister ‘m m- lector, who has been on an nI'lcml'Lesmn and Auxiliary, giving trip to interior and south anlrin‘dfl account of the Anchorags Alacka areas, returned home on th»'vention. - Enroute south amer Northwestern, visited at Anchorage and ¢ d.)Anchorage and S of Navy Takeshi Takarabe, delegate to the Londoy Naval Conference, has resigned. Baron Keyokazu Ebo bheen appointed successor. gion post to the recent Anchorage convention, returned here Thursday after spending a f daye between |and | of 68,000. rand carriers -ee Out-lawing of Al War Fails in League’s Committee GENEVA, Oct. 3.—Efforts to amend the League of Na- Covenant in a form would outlaw all war tions | i making it harmonious | i i that and with t Kellogg-Briand r pact, failed in the League’s Assembly Judicial sub-committee. The vote was 10 to 2. Only Great Britain and Chi- na favored the amendments. It is now likely the ques- tion will be held over for an- other year. e e 000 000 00 —_——-—-———— anti-w Fourteen Arrested in Smuggling of Diamon TON, D. C, Oct. 3.— illicit diamond merchants WASHI} Police escort and head for a pub- vsociaicd Press Phote | Mounted officers threw tear gas el was broken. |C. jca must go forward independently 3the standards of living must be 'T do not accept such a theory, but Congressional = Distriet gave Jesse | increase the standard of living by ber of Congress since 1913. He was 'people. !ing a decision on protests filed by‘v.mt for the recovery of the rest of t# be 102. He lost 22 in the re-| WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 3.— strongest dry leaders in the Michi-|first leg of a 3000 mile swing eighth year in Congre: was de- main in Washington until Sunday Superintendent of the Anti- Saloon ' \be before the American Legion afternoon. The President will then noon. « Non- [nlerference Policy Is . WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 3.— ds forthcoming election in Haiti have Fourteen were caught by the the Hoover Administration an- lic hall where President Hoover was addressing the American Bankers The Athletics and bombs into the ranks of the demon- to have a complete night's rest for strators and -Policemen used clubs The President did not know of DHY FL 0 0R the demonstration until afterward. i America Must Go Forward | President Hoover told the bank- |ers that although the current busi- to recover and maintain its stand- ard of living. Recount of anary Votes Defeats Prohibition !lowered, the President said: Disagrees LANSING, Mich.,, OGt. 3.—Com-of the contrary the whole purpose pletion of thé recount of Republi-'and ideal of this system is dis- P. Wolcott, wet,” & majority of 84 |adcption and conveniently widen- votes over Louis C. Crampton, vet- ing and disfusing of invention and the recognized floor leader of th:, “Because depression is wcrldwlde, drys The certificate of Wolcott's'and the causes are worldwide, it Crampton, |the world.” The official returns before the' | count. | President Hoover returned to the The defeat of Crampton by a wet White House {rom his Cleveland gan delegation in the National through the midwest, east and south House of Representatives. Grant'during which he will speak in three cisively defeated in the Republi- night when he leaves for Boston, can primary by Seymour H. Per-|to make two speeches there on League in Michigan. He organized |Convention in the forenoon and the led the forces that carried other before the American Federa- |go to Kings Mountain Battlefield, {South Carolina, and make his i ——————.———— «| Made Known by Am- ol ‘ erican Govt. |Definite policies of non-interfer- ence by the United States in the been determined upon by the American Government, Diamond Squad of the Customs Dounced the present poiicy was the Service during iscal year of Same as enunciated by Elihu Root Association. |before the short-lived demonstration |He took a train for Washington D, IN MIGHIGAN ness depression is world wide, Amery In reply to the suggestion that Leader j “I emphatically disagree. Not only can primary ballots in the Seventh (tinctive of our country which is to eran House dry leader and mem<‘discmor3 among the whole of our | nomination has been held up pend- does not require that we should | recount shewed Wolcott's majority | FIRST LEG OF SWING insures the elimination of the two trip this morning, completing the M. Hudson, who is serving his widely scattered states. He will re- son, wet Hudson was formerly |Monday. One of the addresses will Michigan dry in 1916 by a majority tion of Labor convention in the |fourth address on Tuesday after- IN CUBA, HAITI 5 #l — present situation in Cuba and the This became known today when 1930. is revealed by a re-|While Secretary of State, that the port ."‘,‘Aq(. by John Roberts, head United States is not contemplating of Diamond Squad. {American “intermeddling” with Cu- AT ban internal affairs. Husband Drops Dead Wife Is Going Soptll Jump from Windows in Apartment House Fire FAIRBANKS, Alasxa, Oct. 3. Mrs. Paul Pottér, of Nome, whose{ WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 3.— husband dropped dead several days Jessie Cammack, aged 75 years, ago on » streets of Lima, Peru, was burned to death and a dozen left day for New York. Shelothers suffered injuries in a fire arrived here Wednesday by n:t’])l.\n(' this morning that damaged two > oo |apartment houses. Scores of room- A new petroleum region on the ers jumped from windows when the borders of the Caspian has flames cut off their escape. About been reported 200 lived in the two houses.