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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” - VOL XXXVI NO 5542 JUNEAU ALASKA SATURDAY OCTOBER 18, 1930 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FIVE MEN, CAUGHT IN BLIZZARD, FREEZE T0 DEATH BRAZILIAN REBELS MOWED DOWN FEDERALS TRAP CRASH OF R-101 NO BAR TO U. S. AIRLINER PROJECTS;COMPLETION REBEL FORCES; STOP ADVANGE Insurgents " Suffer * Severe Defeat on One Front— Airplanes Are Used RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 18. — A stinging defeat of Revelutionists and a sharp halt in their advance into the State of Sao Paulo be- vond Itarare is indicated in stories of Federals returning with prisoners from the front. Both sides are reported to! have suffered heavy casual-; ties in the engagement which/ began Thursday and contin-| ued for many hours without cessation. The Federals took 300 prisoners. Rebel infantry and cavalry, with | an artillery barrage, attacked be- fore dawn along the entire Itarare sector. The Federals withstood the first charge and finally mowed down the Insurgents with machine guns. Airplanes entered the fray with the coming of dawn Friday, flying low over the rebels and bombing them. At noon yesterday the Insurgents slackened the fire and the Fed- erals advarfcad. They occupied some territory and then suddenly re- treated. The Rebels were drawn into the net and they crowded into the evacuated area and were mowed down by hidden machine guns which had been left by the Federals. GENERAL OFFENSIVE PORTO ALEGRE, State of Rio Grande Do Sul, Oct. 18.—In spite of setbacks, the RevoMitionisis an- nounced a general offensive against the Federals in the State of Sao Paulo is expected to start at once. ——————— DEMOCRATS T0 OPEN CAMPAIGN DRIVE SHORTLY Candidates' Leave Tomor- row for Tour—Is Demo- cratic Year Say Leaders The active campaign of Demo- cratic candidates for Territorial and Divisional offices will be opened in this Division next week when several of the party’s nominees leave here for a visit to Haines, Skagway and Sitka, returning here for meet- ings at Douglas and in Juneau be- fore carrying their drive to the southern end of the Division, The group will be headed by George B. Grigsby, candidate for Delegate to Congress, and will in- clude Thomas Gaffney, nominee for Auditor, Allen Shattuck, for Sena- tor, and Mayor Thomas B. Judson of this city, Judge Frank A. Boyle and E. L. Sampson, candidates for the House of Representatives. Home Rule Issue “Home Rule for Alaska vs. Con- trol of the Territory from Wash- ington,” the main issue of the campaign, “is the livest question in Alaska today, and the Democratic (Connnupd on Page Five) ———.e———— X-Ray Tube Is Invented that Takes Snaps of Atoms NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Oct. 18.—One section of the American Chemical Society an- nounces the invention of a new X-ray tube which “takes snap- shots of atoms.” The tube takes pictures that formerly required hundreds of hours, in' cne minute. The pic- tures show the arrangements of atoms in crystal form and it is HEIRESSES ON WORLD TOUR Associated Press Photo Martha (left) and Helen Candler of Atlanta, Coca Cola helresses, shown as they left 8an Francisco on a tour around the world. Treed by Brown |Bear Long Enough {To Catch a Cold SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 1 E. L. Robbins, manager of the Brown and Hawkins gen- eral merchandise store here, was treed by a brown bear while out hunting. The bear kept Robbins up a tree long enough for him to catch a FRENGH FLIERS OFF FOR HOME: ABOARD LINER NEW YORK C1TY, N. Y., Oct. 18.| —French fliers Coste and Bellonte who flew across the Atlantic from Paris to New York City, and while in the United States made a good- will tour, sailed for home yesterday aboard a French liner. They took | their plane, the Question Mark, with them. e FORCED DOWN TRYING FOR RECORD TRIP BATAVIA, Java, Oct. 18.—Dis- aster overtook Lieut. Hill on the last lap of his 10,000-mile flight from England to Australia to beat the 15%-day record set by Bert Hinkler. Lieut. Hill was a full day ahead of Hinkler's record but overturned | his plane in a forced landing on' the seashore between Keopang and Atapoipoe in Timor. Capt. Kingsford-Smith, who was also out to beat Hinkler’s record, was forced to turn back from a trip across the Timor Sea to Port {Darwin and landed in the harbor at Atamboeo. Missing 3-Year-Old Boy, Lost in Wilds, Is Found| ROUND MOUNTAIN, Nevada,; Oct. 18—Lawrence Sullivan, aged 3 years, missing since Thursday in the wilds of the mountains, was Ifound today alive and unharmed. More than 300 men joined in the search for the boy. He wandered away from his uncles’ automobile. An airplane left Reno this morn- ing for here to join in the search/ believed the invention opens a wide field for industrial develop- but arrived after the boy was| found. The lad was a son of Dan Sullivan. ~ INDIAN CLAIMS ' MADE BASIS OF SUIT BY JONES Suit Against Power Com-. mission Negatived by Interior Department | J Dl The claim of hereditary rights of |an Indian chief residing in Ketchi- kan forms the basis of the suit just filed in Washington, D. C., by J. T. Jones, Tacoma, for an in- junction preventing the Federnl _‘and the vast ground facilities that OF HUGE SHIPS URGED BY MOFFETT By OSCAR LEIDING (A. P. Aviation Editor) WASHINGTON, Oct. 18— | Come what may of question- ‘ ing and criticism following the | erath of Britain’s pride, the R-101, the American navy hopes' to carry on with its program of “ two monster airliners. | mistresses of the air, is well beyond the cne-third stage of construction but there is a loop-hole in the con- tract that could doom the second, the ZRS-5. awarded in 1928, but opportunity to "cancel the second is allowed after |the first has been tested in service, some time after the end of the pres- | ent fiscal year. Disaster Is Lesson It is on the performance of the Akron, rather than on the failure of other dirigibles, that the navy hopes judgment will be based to enable it to complete its program. To Rear Admiral William A. Mof- fett, chief of the navy bureau of teronautics and a stern advocate of lighter-than-air development, Britain’s disaster is a lesson to America to build its two ships. “The crash was an extremely sad event,” he said, “but England should feel fortunate in having another ship, the R-100. Lighter-than-air development is destined to go on have been provided will not lie idle for several years because disasier overtook one craft. “It would take two years or more, if England had no other chip, to build another ship that could make use of the hangars and other facilities, including trained talent. In the mean- time, progress would be impos- cible. The United States know- ing that lesson, should carry to completion its program of two ships.” America’s dirigibles became a part (of the navy’s five-year aeronauti- (Continued on Paze Six) s v O . TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS . NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Oct. | Contract for the two ships was W hat Next? Are Tagging Baby Buggies in N. Y. NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Oct. 18.—They are even tag- ging baby buggies now. The police parking rules make it a misdemeanor to park a baby buggy on the grass in Central Park. As a result of the rules, court summons were served on 100 nursemaids and they were fined $1 each. e0eccccscecce eeeeco 00 e CLAIMS DRY FORCES ARE The Akron, first of the proposed | | Chicago — City as Quiet as Baltimore | | Prohibition Director Woodcock said |today on his return from Chicago on a visit to the Prohibition forces, that the forces were pitifully in- adequate to cope with conditions. Woodcock recently announced he would ask Congress for an mcrease in the force by 500 men. i He said the police were cooper- ating in Chicago with the Prohibi- with that anywhere else in the country. Woodcock said he was pleased with Wisconsin and coop- eration in that State. He said Milwaukee officers aided in every way possible. He said Chicago was no worse than any other cily in the United States and was just as quiet as Baltimore.. Contrary to previous announce- ment of the Department of Justice Prohibition Director Woodcock sald results of the poll being taken among 3,000 newspapers on the dry law attitude would never be, made public. | HYDE TO ASK CONGRESS FOR HIGHWAY AID | e000ccccecoco WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 18.— ' tion forces and their aid ranked _ 'her husband, Clyde Garrison bling house operator, was wounded ithey entered their home from HOOVER SPEAKS BEFORE A P, OF | A INADEQUATE — i | Director Woodcock Visits Making his second speech of the day in Boston, President Hoover delivered an address before the American Federation of Labor con- vention. Seated directly behind th dent of the American Federation of Labor. Hoover Names Cabinet Members to 1S SHOT DOWN ON DOORSTEP OF HER HOME Wife of Gambling House Operator Victim of Ma- chine Gun Fire PEORIA, Ill, Oct, 18.—Mrs, Cora Garrison, aged 37, was killed and' gam- late last night by an assailant who opened fire with a machine gun as a garage. Garrison emptied his pistol at the assauam but it is not known if Unem ployment Situation | Meyer, | Power Commission from issuing a' 18—Closing quotation of Alaska |final license to the Zellerbach in-|y oon mine stock today is 6%, terests of California to & water-| . ican Can 111, Anaconda Cop- power project at Carrol Inlet, near per 35%, Bethlehem Steel 72%, Fox etiinm, L4 |Films 34%, General Motors 33%, | Local officials of the United granpy Corporation 12%, Interna- |States Forest Service, pointing out ¢,nq) " Harvester 59%, Kennecott that this claim of Jones has been o,pper 26%, Montgomery-ward {rejected three times by the Fed-'pps “National Acme 8%, Packard eral Interior Department, are con- Momrs 10, 9%, 9%, Simmons Beds {fident his present suit will likewise 15%, Standard Brands 15'%, Stan- {fall to the ground. The only pos- gard Ofl of California 51%, Stan- sible effect it can have, they be- gurq o) of New Jersey 54%, United lieve, would be to delay the issuance any of the shots took effect. Garrison said he did not know why anyone should attack him. The| police believe the shooting is a result of the gangsters’ and ;:am- blers' war. Allotment for 1932 Urged for Immediate Use, Drought States | GAUSlNGWURRY ment of Agriculture to request Congress to make the 1932 allot- ments for Federal high money im- mediately available for emergency lof the Zellerbach permit which is ‘thc next step in the establishment (r)r a pulp and paper industry at | Ketchikan, | Due to Act Soon The Power Commission, it is un- derstood, is ready to consider and jtain data on the dam construction |has been supplied by the engineers who represent I. and J. D. Zeller- bach, applicants. That the Jones’ suit can serve to delay the Commission's decision is ‘resmly apparent. But it is hoped sel will urge immediate considera-| Ition of the matter by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. |All phases of the matter are dealt lmlh in a case relating to the Jones' claim which was initiated | before the local United States Land Office in Alaska, and carried through the Commissioner of the General Land Office and, as a last resort, to the Secretary of Interior. Rules Out Jones The local Land Office held against Jones. Its decision was up- held by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and, upon appeal by Jones to the Secretary of Interior, that official, in a ruling made by Joseph Dixon, First As- sistant Secretary, affirmed the | Commissioner’s action. The original hearing before the i | jchikan in May, 1928, United States Commissioner J. W. Kehoe acting (Continued or Pagc Three) act upon the Zellerbach application | for a final license as soon as cer-' that the Commission’s legal coun- local Land Office was held in Ket-| Aircraft 32%, U. 8. Steel 145% ———.———— GIANT PLANE T0 MAKE TRIP IN NOVEMBER Dornier DO-X Scheduled to Fly Across Atlantic to New York City FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Oct. 18.—The giant Dornier IJO-X New York sometime early vember. The exact time is but the German Postal aut set November 3 as the last receive mail for America. The plane will fly from Lake rities | lay to! employment in the drought States was announced and at the same; time it was announced the drought States had large unexpended por-| tions of previous appropriations/| which they could spend on roads. No appropriations for a specific fiscal year can be spent until that year without Congressional sanc- tion. i The allotment requested would pluh road work and aid greatly in rellet of unemployment throughout! the States affected by the drought{ last summer. swiflfifi‘ DIE IN AUTO CRASH Enroutc to—fitness Foot-| ball Game when Ac- cident Occurs Constance to Amsterdam, then to Lisbon, to the Azores, to Bermuda and thence to New York City No passengers except new men will be taken on the fl Maurice Dornier, director company building the shi} make the trip but his & Claudius, designer and inv the huge plane, will remain i1 many. iper- | { the will ' Jther, or of Ger- ————————— November 15 has been ! the date for the beginnin special term of the United district court at Cordova. 1 a8’ |Oct. 18—Three students enroute to FREDE R ICKSBURG, Virginia, the Duke-Navy football game at| Annapolis were killed this mornlng} when their automobile and two moving vans collided. Fred Ingram! of the North Carolina State College was killed outright. Henry Chap- man, Duke sophomore, and James iJohnson, of Trenton, New Jersey.| [the old Lodge {has been working on the new lodge land owners to irrigati ‘died soon after the accident. One van was towing another, | NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Oct. 18.—Jack “Legs” Diamond, Broad-| way racketeer, presents the figure of a man nobody wants. The Directors of a hospital, where Diamond is recovering from bullet | wounds and blows received last Sunday, have asked the Police to move him. They said they had re- ceived a threat over the telephone that the hospital would be bombed to get Diamond. The Police replied they did not want Diamond since he would not tell who shot him. The uniformed | force has been doubled around the hospital although it is believed the telephone call was the work of a lcrank. The Police said Diamond went to the hospital as a private pa- tient and no law is known which | ywould allow the Police to take him | BISHOP'S NEW LODCE BURNED SFWARD Alaska, Oct. 18.—Bish- op's new Russian River hunung and fishing Lodge, known by sports-' men of several continents, has been destroyed by fire which started in adjacent. Bishop | | for two years and lived in it three' ! the and piled on top of the auto of days. Bishop Immediately started to 100,000 acres of I tates the students and plunged down an build another. . |embankment. He lost everything but his foxes and mattress, ! missing Itield pes FOUND FROZEN T DEATH WITH ~ AID NEAR THEM Bodxos of Five Men Found n Automobile—Ma- rooned in Blizzard RE GIN A, Saskatchewan, Oct. 18.—Five men, all of Re- gina, have been found frozen to death. They were marooned in a blizzard, in an automobile, al- though shclter and help was close at hand. The automobile, with the five men in it, was found after the blizzard subsided, 100 feet from the gate of a house in which a light had been burning to guide trav- elers. | One man was found weak ~ and hysterical in another car in which four men were so 'badly frozen they were un- able to move, but will re- cover. The five men who met eir death in the blizzard lare G. R. Roswell, Leslie WASHINGTON. D, C. Oct. 18— Hallsworth, Walter Tyndall, President Hoover has announced Thomas Houtson and H. M. the appointment of a Cabinet Com- Savage, mittee to cope with lmvmplo)m“nz during the coming winter. The Committee is composed of Secretaries Lamont, Davis, Wilbur, Hurley, Hyde and Mellon, with Gov. of the Federal R“sen'e Associated Press Photo e President is Wnlllam Green, presl- Deal With e ——————— WINTER MAKES 'NEW ADVANGES, - MANY SECTIONS Montana Again Gripped i Ice and Snow—One Death in Chicago NEW lOKK AIDS 20 i I NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Oct. | CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 18.—Weather 18.—An item of $1,000,000 for un- 2PProaching winter threatened re- employment has been placed in the NeWed attacks today after a lull [tentative budget of the city for Yesterday. the first time in history. The Montana is again gripped in ice money is appropriated directly for 2R, snow. A minimum tempera- ea ot um‘mph»yed \ture of 10 degrees above zero is rbcnrded at Havre. Wyoming' fared little better, hav- ing a temperature of 16 degrees above zero. Snow fell in the mountains in Northern Idaho up to 16 inches. There is a new show fall in the Cascade Mountains in Washington. Snow blankets part of the State of Colorado and the Dakotas. Had Been Mlssmg for Week Ll;ar!s of Utah and the Great | h —Head Covered akes region have felt the freezing e | temperatures. with Bumps Board. The Committee A’Ormul;\te and submit to the President plans for continuing and strengthening | Federal acmmes for mcroased employment. The President’s dacision to name such a Committee came after a conference with financiers when short selling in the stock markat | was discussed. (‘ 5 to BANKER FOUND | ON DOCK, DAZED | New Mexico and Oklahoma fail- | |ed .to escape and temperatures eTY !dropped to just above freezin SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 18. i —Eugene DelMonte, former Vicc-’ ST SR N todky I t 18 s President, of the Bank of Iialy,! e lgéaf;‘m.i A y(>~{?~;d:"/w week, was found ing i the flurry of snow which late wandering on a' hit Chic: wharf, dazed with his head (‘Overed\ sottRihod s & with bumps. Physicians said he was delirious and apparently was suffering rrom\ a frightful experience. Mrs. DelMonte reported her hus-| band was regular when he left the | family home. 'To Reconsider Merger Of G.N. and N.P. Roads WASHINGTON, D. C,, Oct. 18.— {The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has agreed to reconsider the cenditional authorization for a mer- ger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific roads, complying with the requests of the Northwest- ern States. The Commission said the dates and places for hearings will be an- nounced soon. e ,—————— PES T Irrigation Will Develop Famed Valley in Oregon BURNS, Ore,, Oct. 18.—One of the west’s rapidly diminishing frontier lines “behind the ranges,” the Har- ney valley, famed in fact and fic- tion as a land of cattle barons and | limitless herds, is turning to well|Buried Three v\a(er for irrigated agriculture & center of a huge flat vals W eeks; Cow ‘(y on a tract picked for its rela- | Lives tive poor of soll, the Oregon| experimental station has harvested | abundant crops, irrigated by two) large wells. The drought turned ‘ness LORAIN, O, Oct. 18.—After being buried for three weeks under a straw stack, a cow be- longing to J. H. Sheldin, farm- er near here, is alive after be- ing rescued. The «cow was first misced after threshing was com- pleted and was discovered only when the straw was baled. tention of and with ximately | be de- tatoes and crops. ample well water app nd veloped. Alfalfa, whe: s are princl -