The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 7, 1930, Page 1

~% -~ " tor Simeon D. Fess, today set out| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5532. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, | BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO PROBE DIRIGIBLE DISASTER REVOLTS NORTH AND SOUTH ARE RAGING, BRAZIL Government Is to Call Two, Classes of Reserves to Colors TROOPS DISPATCHED; _ BRIDGES ARE BURNED Foodstuffs Have Been Com- mandeered by Federal Government RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 7.—The Brazilian Government is faced to-| day with revolts both north and south. It is announced that the Gov- ernment will call both the first| and second classes of Army re- serves. All foodstuffs have been requisi- tioned by the Federal Government in the capital city. Federal forces are marching to- ward Minas Gerase but the pro- gress has been slowed by many bridges which have been destroyed; along the Century Railroad. CURTIS, FESS TO CAMPAIGN Vice-P resid; and U. S. Senator Off on Speak- ing Tours | WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 7— Two Republican campaigners, Vice- President Charles Curtis and Sena- | on speaking tours to the Middle West, both to speak at Clarksburg, West Virginia, tonight. % Thursday they will participate in a celebration at Springfield, Ohio, commemorating George Rog-; ers Clark. I The Vice-President goes to In-! diapolis Friday, New Albany, In-| diana, on Saturday night and he| will also speak later in Missouri| and Colorado as well as in his home State, Kansas. | ————————— | CUBS DEFEAT SOX 4 TIMES | T0 WIN TITLE | | CHICAGO, Ill, Oct, 7.—The Cubs defeated the White Sox yesterday | afternoon by a score of 6 to 4 and| won the city title and fourth vic-| tory in the six game series. | The Sox were leading by one run ‘as the ninth inning opened. Thel Cubs scored off Braxton who Te-) placed Caraway. Thomas replaced e, Gen. Feng is reported retreating | ]u PASSENGERS fwar, announced it will be neoessary’wnh the xfmjznt;woi g mnoog.m"mhed when a tornado struckthe """ \Houston County town of Crackett ON NORTHLAND FOR THIS PORT ppeyg JuLn SEATTLE, Oct. 7. — Motorship, Northland sailed for“wianeau and wayports at 9 o'clock last night with 15 first class passengers and one‘ steerage. X | The following passengers are booked for Juneau: Frank Snyder, E. F. Kruger, G. Henry, Helen Lyndstrom, E. Martinson, wife and Mrs. J. M. | Dr. 930. _ MEMBER Pit Storm Against Storm, Scientist’s ORM | HOOVER AND | Plan to Halt Caribbean Hurricanes COOLIDGE AT | A OCA VR‘esultjsArea C“’"{fg‘ of ] Exfllosxon Starts Result is Area Cle vances re Excessive pa A ocal Storm Whe: X Tops Warm, Moist Air — By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE | 7 peculiar formation of the atmos-|explode several tons of gunpowder, (A. P. Science Editor) phere, in which a lower layer of each explosion projecting upward WINTER PARK, Fla, Oct. 7. Warm, moist air is topped by a|about 34 tons of air. _“Backfiring” to protect against great blanket of abnormally cold| Dr. Franklin said that no one West Indian hurricanes on exactly air. The potential energy in this | could predict whether such a plan the principle that forest fire de- combination, due to the Lender}cy would succeed, but that certain pre- vastation is stopped is the lates! of the warm air to start rpshxng‘lxmlnary observations which could proposal of science upward, Dr. Franklin said, is tre- |be made safely, are well warranted | mendous. e |in view of the tremendous losses The idea originated by the late| If, he said, as a hurricane ap-|from hurricanes. William S. Franklin, former proaches such an area, a series of | The plan was sent to U. §. Sena- professor of physics at Rollins col- artificial explosions could start the |tor Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida lege, has been submitted to me-|warm air rushing upward, and local | who submitted it to the U. 8. teorological and other scientific| storm might begin and create an ‘Weather Bureau, which advised authorities according to plans made |area denuded of its potential hur-;that it was not feasible. It was before his death. {ricane energy. sent also to the bureau of stand- A hurricane, he held, probably | To produce these backfire storms | ards which returned a similar re- gets much of its tremendous energy |Dr. Franklin suggested steel cones, | ply. like a forest fire, by feeding upon about 100 feet in diameter and| Franklin began advocating the certain favorable conditions lying |eeveral.hundred feet high, open at | plan two years ago while a mei ber iLos Angeles and Detroit for the the top. |of the Massachusetts Institute .of waiting in its path. al In the bottom of each he would Technology faculty. This hurricane “foos AL MEETING President and Former Ex ecutive Make Short Ad- dresses in Boston | | { BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 7.—One thousand Legionnaires of the Na- tional Convention here cheered | President Herbert Hoover yester- day when he sald: | “The peace of our country nc\":r“ stood more assured than at this moment.” ! The President paid a tribute to former President Calvin Coolidge, | Honorary Chairman of the Con-' vention, who was on the platform.' for carrying through the Kellogg- Briand peace pact. | Following a clamor for a speech, Coolidge responded, saying: “Ihave time to give you just one sentence |You pald the debt of LaFayette 'and still owe a debt to yourself and| | the United States.” | This drawing illustrates the plan of the late D. William S. Franklin for halting hurricanes by creat- ing local storms in its paths by means of explosions. FIGHT FOR CONVENTION POSTON, Mass, Oct. 7. — The ~ (contest for next year’s convention| leity for the American Legion Na- |tional Convention has narrowed to |a fight between Los Angeles and | Detroit as the only official bidders. | {The selection will be made tomor- row. Portland, Oregon, withdrew a ibid, the delegates explaining they |were not prepared,for the ruling {requiring presentation of a certi- | fied check for a substantial amount |{of money. ) FROM WORK TO PLAY BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 7—The del- egates to the American Legion con- vention turned their backs on work today to play while officials met l/in hotel rooms and lobbies in an |attempt to settle differences over | | Inext convention city and groom candidates for National offices. Dr. Eckener Read. To Fly to North Pole Aboard Graf o LEIPZIG, Germany, Oct. e 7.—Dr. Eckener, Graf Zep- e pelin Commander is quoted e here as saying he has decid- ed to accept the invitation e to lead a Zeppelin on a e North Pole Expedition next summer. Wife of Mayor CHENG CHOW 777 v IS CAPTURED ctéur: Robbed ) FROM_REBELS |Nationalists Reported Vic- torious in Honan Prov- i ince Campaign CHICAGO, Tll, Oct. 7.— e The crime wave here reached o the brazen heights with the e robbery of Mayor Thomp- e son’s wife in the very door- e step of her Gold Coast home. ® . . . L] Three thugs took jewelry vdlued at $20,000 and also robbed her Policeman chauf- feur of his star and revolver. 00000000000 @0 o000 vecs oo — et 1 | | NANKING, China, Oct. 7.—The KHUPP FIRM 'Nationalist Military h e a d quarters |KING'S MOUNTAIN, South Caro- claimed the capture of Cheng Chow 1 ! ] lina, Oct. 7.—President Hoover has | |from the Northern rebel '.roopsl | {crossed the North Carolina line; commanded by Gen. Feng Yu Shiang. Although the claim is not verified it is' probably true. Cheng Chow is an important railroad city in the northern part of Yonan Province and was the| {headquarters of Gen. Feng for ‘;weeks where he held his ground jagainst determined attacks of the ! Nationalists. 2 L ' The announcement also said the ESSEN, Germany, Oct. 7—The waiisnaligts have taken Hononfu,| {Krupp firm, great military subplyisy miles west of Chang Chow on| !builder of world war days which e the Haichow-Tungkwan Railroad. lentered other activities after the R . T0 CURTAIL Twenty-five Hundred Em- ployees to Be Dismiss- Braxton. Blake had pitched for the ed Next Month Sox until the eighth inning. Pet-' ty finished. Wilson made a home; run in the fifth inning. IN DARKNESS Town—Floods Cause Heavy Damages DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 7.—More numerous farm houses were de- ito dismiss 2,500 employees in No-!gggjers, vember unless business improves., in the darkness last night {The Krupp firm has been working F'lofdst:elsostcaus‘ed heavy dame ;on s v s, A age in ate. ral T ;on short time for several months. |]3( Japane'e Police e floo:leed. Se\’;l‘: B::;_ River carried away more than 30 homes. Nearly 300 persons are homeless at Brady. Cross Into Manchuria TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 7.—Reports Ireceived here state that 130 Jap- anese police have been sent across the Korean border into the Chirn- tao district, Kirin Province of Man- churia after a clash there between Japanese and Chinese police. Two i i | i 27 PERSONS INJURED DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 7.—Twenty seven persons are known to have been injured, a large number of MANUI RESIGNS | BUCHAREST, Oct. 7.—Premier rrecked, Julla Manui has resigned as head Japanese police were killed a"d%::lr::;ufi'cl:é;g: ltnlz?;:ir:erfunricimuw of the Rumanian Government be- °De wounded, the Consular report| ., oy s ‘s ill rising as the result of torren- cause of his health. King Carol| tial rains and high winds which! has 'accepted his resignation bug| The clash occurred last night | a When Japanese police attempted wtsoared out of the southwest during son, Mattie Baldwin, asked Manui to continue until . . |the night. Bennett and one steerage. new ministry is formed. |intervene between Chinese police | i |and Korean residents near Lung-| T s o chingtsun. o 1 ALPINE CHASMS TAKE |7 mopavssrock | |1 QUOTATIONS HEAVY DEATH TOLLS| 7.—|is $80. The trip takes two days. The insatible Alps have claimed Without a guide, the cost is less‘me Seattle Times, has donated a CHAMONIX, France, Oct. more victims this season than in any recent years, Up to September 26 mountain climbers met death either by falling into crevices or by freezing to death. . Lucien Tignol, founder of the lo- cal Alpine Club, says that one rea- son for these tragedies is the high cost of guides. For Mont Blanc, the price, with food, guide and carrier, |them with -snow they are lost. ‘motorf:ycle collision last month. Seattle Publisher Gives Medal to Univ. CHAPPEL HILL, North Carolina, ,Oct. 7—C. B. Blethen, publisher of NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Oct. 7. —Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock today is 6'-, Am=- erican Can 119, Anaconda Copper & /Danville, Virginia, where he chatted | Tornado Strikes Texas!several minutes with railroad em-| TALKS WITH | " STRIKERSIN ~ NCAR.TOWN {President Discusses Strikes with Workmen at Textile Center ENROUTE WITH HOOVER TO bound for the sesquicentennial CEl—i ebration of the battle of King's Mountain. The President was up early and on the - observation platform, at| ployes and told the workmen he| was having a fine trip. He said he, was sorry the workmen and mill| owners could not get together in the textile industry to eliminate hard-| than 20 persons were injured and |ships that attend strikes. | The President also made a plat- form appearance at Greenboro,| where a large crowd had gathcred.i ———————- | PICNIC BOAT SINKS, STORM | GUADLAJARA, Mexico, Oct. T—| Fifteen persons were drowned h(‘re] when a Lake Chapala picnic bo:m‘ foundered in a storm. Six of Lhu‘yv-i | aboard escaped with their lives. The boat was caught in the middle of the lake by a sudden storm. ST B S | Man and Wife ; Shoot It Out ; In Seattle SEATTLE, Oct. 7.—William J. Christie, aged 65, a night watchman, and his wife, were both fatally wounded yester- day. Two pistols were found on the flcor of a room in their house and numerous bullet holes in the walls and ceiling, indi- than $5. Hence amateurs dispens:'medal to be given annually to the |7 Bethlehem Steel 70, Fox | with the expenses and go alone. |North Carolina University student|Flms 41%, General Motors 38%, He also attributes so many fail- who shows the “greatest sports-|CGranby Corporation 15% Interna- ures to the sporting desire to climb manship and greatest help in uni-|tional Harvester 63, Kennecott| somewhere that no one else has versity sports.” Copper 28';, Montgomery - Ward |been. There are too many young| The medal will be known as the|24%, National Acme 9, Packard Mo-, |men who come here in thegfool-'Alden J. Blethen medal, a mem- tors 10%, 10%, 10%, Simn Beds | 18%, Standard Brands 17 . Stan- | hardy spirit. As long as the weather"orinl to his son, a student =t !stays fine, so do the young men North .Carolina University, who But when the winds come and blind,was killed, in an automobile and dard Oil of California 55 Standard] Oil of New Jersey 58%, 1 Alr- craft 38%, U. S. Steel 152 cating they chot it out. Chris- tie presumably shot himself after Kkilling his wife because her mind was failing. —————— Mrs. Dorothy Ash was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital Saturday for treatment, BUST RECALLS ALASKAN ROMANCE' PRICE TEN CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS OF INQURY WILL START FRIDAY ' INTO DISASTER LONE WATHOUT HELP THIS COURALEQUS GIRL RAN A GRUS TENT NEAR LOG GARIN SHE FED AND LODGED coln cAkzED e | _ GENERATIONS { sy xvow - ONE OF EIGHT WHO ESCAPED IS DEAD S INSPIAING SDIRS !|Seven Survivors Only Re- !| ported—Bodies Are En Route to England (Official Fu;l—e;l and Me- morial Will Be Held for Victims LONDON, Oct —The British Government's first step toward a public investigation of the disaster | to the dirigible R-101 of early last i Sunday mc ng, over France, has been taken by the ordering of a corcner’s inquiry to start Friday. The disaster is regarded as the |worst in dirigible aviation history. ] The coroner’s inquest will follow ) 'closely on England’s official fun- ileral and memorial to the dirigible \ dead at St. Paul's Cathedral. !| The Prince of Wales is to repre- ! sent the King at the gathering and “Packer Jack” Mollie Walsh, “flap-jack” queen of the Yukon during gold rush days, |son or by proxy. has had a bronze statue made of Alaska, square. Aisicrstia e Phista }omer members of the Royal fam- Newman of Seattle, Wash.,, who wooed and lost |ily are expected to attend in per- the girl to be placed in a Skagway, | The disaster took the lives of the leading officials in British avia= tion. | I ;Italiafis Would Like America as Ally in African Trade War Kerosene Lamp Is Upset; 17 Persons Are Burned to Death ASTRAKHAN, Soviet Russia, Oct. 7.—Seventeen persons in- cluding several children, were burned to death when a kero- sene lamp was upset last night in a Workers’ Club during a movie s ow. Fourteen others were severely scorched and many were slightly injured. e TERHUNE LEAVES | | iF 0R TH WE Italy, development of her own ccl-i , an improvement of trade re-| AL | [Takes Warden Tibbs tol‘i Kenai Where He Will Be Stationed for Service Enroute to southern points on the Alaska Railroad, Kenai Penin- sula and possibly Kodiak Island, H. W. Terhune, Executive Secre- tary of the Alaska Game Commis- sion left here today on the steam- er Yukon for Seward. He will be absent for two or more weeks. Mr. Terhune was accompanied by Game Warden Eugene Tibbs who has been assigned to the Kenal Peninsula district and will his headquarters at Kenal. Mr Tibbs has been here for the past two months, attached to local head- quarters of the Commission and [coverlng this district. Mr. Terhune will go to Kenai, and visit Anchorage, Seldovia, Sew- ard and Kodiak to study conditions | before returning here MISS INGALLS S ON FLIGHT WICHITA, Kansas, Oct. T.—Miss Laura Ingalls, St. Louis aviatrix landed here this afternoon from Kansas City. e WIDGEON ON PATROL The Fisheries patrol boat Wid-| geon, Capt. Greg’ Mangan, left port vesterday afternoon for a patrol of streams in this district to Fresh- water Bay. It will return about t end of the week. — e CAPT. CROWLEY GOES SOUTH Capt. James Crowley, pioneer Yu- kon River captain, now with the Alaska Ra ad system, is a uthbound pa r on the Alas- ka. He will spend the winter in Seattle, where he owns a hotel, as usual, maka | attempting to establish a woman’s| record for a transcontinental flight,| | The bodies of the victims will ‘be taken directly to the mortuary attached to Westminster. A special 2Royul Air Force Honor Guard will |meet the warship at Dover and |another guard of the same force |will meet the train in London as jan escort to the mortuary. Facilities will be afforded rela- By ANDRUE BERDING tives of any of tvh_e dead who wish to attempt identification. (A. P. Staff Writer) | - ROME, Oct. 7—An economic al-| WATCH PROCESSION { “j‘:“;tn?";‘(',‘-;”t‘h“'e “““e?‘s““es‘l BEAUVAIS, rrance, Oct. T— yr yr e commercial Pene- kynirty -thousand persons from the tration of Africa is being urged iy “ang countryside lined the here by business men and editorial gt onts today as the procession bear- WIVEES |ing 47 bodies, victims of the diri- The United States would provide gible R-101 . disaster, passed to the money and Italy would furnish, the railroad station, the start of through her four Italian colonies— the journey back to England. Tripoli, Cirenaica, Somaliland and| The bodies were placed on a spec- Eritrea—the gateways to Africa. |ial train which will take them to | The Italo-American ailiance, in|Boulogne where they will be placed the opinion of economists here, aboard the naval craft Tempest would offset and possibly overbal- and Tribune to be taken across ance the similar Franco-British al-|the channel. It is understood the bodies will be buried in a single liance. The advantages for | Brave. would be: SEVEN SURVIVORS lons with African -states, the| BEAUVAIS, France, Oct. 7.—One |of the eight survivors of the diri- ceation of new lines of communi- | o tion; for the United States, meigbé“l_fl?"'-:“hdd‘;":‘”' R w. acquisition of buying rights in rich |RAadcitie, die Ave. JeRWEZEnY, SN A t = _| Only five of the dead have been o g . {never be identified because of thelr Iburned condition. |rica | Ttaly's colonies do not furnish her with the trade wealth that France and England derive from theirs, but they are in strategic positions. Trip- | |oli, on the Mediterranean, is in the |center of North Africa. Massaua,| 'port of Eritrea on the Red Sea, and‘ | i Mogadiscio, port of Italian Somali- land, on the Indian Ocean, open the way to Abyssinia and the Su-| HELD MUNDAY dan. Ttaly's trade with Africa is grow- | | —_— Friends from All Walks of ing fast. In the last fiscal year her total exports reached 1,238,189, Life Attend Fun- eral Services | 000 lire, of $65,000,000, and her. im- | ports 907,131,000 lire. Her exports jumped 1612 per cent over her | previous fiscal year, and her im- ports diminished 10.85 per cent, giv-| SEATTLE, Oct. 7.—Friends from her a favorable trade balance. every walk of life assembled yester- ‘ “Italy and the United States”|day at the funeral of Enoth Bag- the newspaper “Il Tevere” ed-[shaw, football coach of the Univer- ally, “constitute indispensable /sity of Washington for nine years. complementary elements one The last rites were held in the he other with regard to Af-|University Christian Church. Gov. iyica. Ttaly constitutes for America|R. H. Hartley and others from the sole great European power com-|Olympia, where Mr. Bagshaw was pletely independent of the Franco-ia member of the State Board of British bloc. The United States!public Works, attended the funer- constitutes for Italy the gold mine |a] services. scessary to the development of an | PR T Italian vmunumy equal to that oIFEDERAL JUDGE HI.LL the biggest colonial powers.” It the youngest of African|. RETURNS FROM SOUTH colc Only in the last few| s she been able to capital-| Enroute to Valdez after a vaca- or advantages in North Af-ltion of several weeks spent in the Irica. During the war she had t0|states and Canada, Federal Judge ‘rccali her colonial troops first .sex.u\E_ Coke Hill and Mrs. Hill visited there in the war with Turkey in|pere today for a few hours while 11912, and tribal chieftains seized|the steamer Yukon was in port. :a'.t the territory except & DATTOW| <They visited Washington, New stal strip. Now, under the aegis|york, San Francisco and Seattle, Mussolini, she hopes to Wring 2ianq spent a few days in Toronto creditable share of colonial trade|wnile in the east. om under the noses of her rivals, | Judge Hill attended the British land | or |iz | : nd and Prance Fmpire games in the Canadian | R -, i) |city and got the thrill of his entire Frank Parrish, traveling . man, 'trip out of a duel between Eddie larrived in Juneau on the Alaska;Tolan, Michigan, and George Simp- lafter a trip to the Westward and | son, Ohio, sprinters. In the 100- Interior |yard dash, Simpson led the Michi- | Sl P L SO AR |gan colored flash by one yard, and Iinois collected $664,567 in race |also repeated his victory in the treck toxes in the last fiscal year. 220-yard run,