The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5544. JUNEAU, ALASK A, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 1, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ONE HUNDRED UNACCOUNTED FOR IN MINE EXPLOSION CONDITION OF FOSHAY FIRMS LOOKS BETTER Over Eight Thousand Claims Are Rejected— Receiver Is Optimistic ‘MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, Oct. 21.— Edward Stringer, Special Master In Chancery, has rejected 8,850 claims filed by the Public Uutili- ties Consolidated Corporation charg- ing the corporation was paying dividends “illegally, unlawfully and unproperly” the year prior to the time it collapsed with other con- cerns of .the W. B. tem. The ruling determined. the cor- peration has -enough resources to pay its debts provided its rejection of some of the disputed claims are’ approved. Stringer characterized as “worth only 6 per cent of its face” a total of .$7,600,000 which the Foshay Company owes the Public Utili- ties Consolidated Corporation on open account. Rejection reduced to about $1,- 400,00 the amount of claims against the corporation which are not: disallowed by the United States; District Court or the Special Mas- | ter. Of that amount $1,000,000 is' disputed by the receiver of the utilties corporation and is being contested in the Federal Court. Should the receiver win these cases, the total claims which the utili- ties corporation admits valid could | be scaled to $400,000. Receiver Chapman saild this amount will be more than covered. by cash and negotiable assets. Part of Historic Fort Astor Is Unearthed ASTORIA, Oregon, Oct. 21.— Historians announce that work- men excavating for a new hos- pital near the supposed site of the historic Fort Astor, built here in 1811 by the John Astor Expedition, have unearthed part of the old fort which is still well preserved. The site has been long sought. e CHILDREN TO GREET FLIERS Public Reception for Coste * and Bellonte in Paris Saturday PARIS, Oct. 21.—8chool children of Paris will be given a holiday Text Saturday to participate in a public reception to Coste and Bel- Tonte who are enroute home on a French liner from the United States. The fliers are due at Le- bourget at noon Saturday. Coste and Bellonte recently made the hop across the Atlantic Ocean from Paris to New York City, then to Dallas, Texas, back to the me- tropolis and off again on a good- will tour of the United States. HOMELESS ARE TURNED LODSE NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Oct. 21.—Hundreds of homeless today shivered in the whistling winds after being turned loose from flop houses. Three hundred men slept aboard the Municipal Steamboat last night and 1,000 beds in the Municipal Lodging House were filled. TRAFFIC NORMAL YBUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 21.—Snow has been cleared away from the main thoroughfares and traffic is again normal. Settle Dispute With Razor and Leather Knife ALTOCEDRO, Cuba, Oct. 21. —Joaquin Botsch, a barber, and Manuel Lopez, a shoemaker, decided to settle a dispute with a razor and & leather knife. The two retired to a lonely spot for a duel. Fifteen minutes later “ Lopez was dead. Botsch was ar- der. Foshay sys- | “NEW BRIDGE LINKS COASTAL ROUTE ' aqn | - COX WANTS T0_DISCARD TARIFF LAW |Former Presidential - Can- || didate for Unceremonious Repeal of Smoot Act G | | | LIMA, O, Oct. 21—Former Gov. |James M. Cox, Democratic Presi- | dential nominee in 1920, in a | political address here in support |of the Democratic ticket, said that |while he did not speak for the | party or the Democratic House and Senate that will be elected in No- {vember, the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill will be repealed without hearings or other cere: |monies. He added that there are I schedules that doubtless should be retained, like those agriculture, but they can be con- sidered separately from the gen- eral repeal propositon. Sty ERR i - NYE EXONERATES i TENNESSEE DEMOCRATS MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 21.—Sen- ator Gerald P. Nye, Chairman of the Senate Campaign Funds In- vestigating Committee, announced I i ) | lmmedhnly/ relating to, SPAR LATIN AMERICAN NATION YEAR OF UNREST TOPPLES RULERS IN FOUR STATES By LESTER POSVAR | NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, | ‘Oct. 21.—While their effect on ‘ business generally still is un- ! certain, political upheavals in | | Latin American this year al- | ready have boomed the demand | for Sam Browne belts. | The shiny leather accoutrement of army officers who have over-' thrown old governments and estab- | |lished new ones has become mantle of power from shores of the Caribbean to the tip of Cape Horn.| Starting in one of the smallest| | countries—the Dominican republic, —revolutionary sparks have scat-| tered until Brazil, the largest na-| tion in South America, now is afire' with civil war. | Four executives were unseated,, one revolt failed and one was set- tled in six outbreaks preceding the| | Brazilian strife. KS OF REVOLUTION TOUCH SEVEN i THIS YEAR [CEARA) et (R0 GRANDE] D0 NORTE I VATAL &Y iy QY PERNANBUCY ,/‘ BOLIVIA ; \\\\ \ RT6 DB JANEIRQ % A0 PAULO 24 ASSESANTA CATRAR INA) Y fi@ e CiVIL WAR : IN : it | OCTOBER REORGANIZED /N SEPTEMBER « £ BRAZIL PRESIDENT OUSTED FOR MILITARY RULE| N AUGUST i ILITARY JUNTZ ESTABLISHED /N JUNE Shaded areas show that it found no basis for any charges of a serious nature against the managers of the campaign for | Youngest President | The Dominican revolution’of last February resulted in the ousting of | af- of Brazilian states fected at outset October uprisings. the nomination of Cordell Hull for the long term Senatorship or W. E. Brock for the short term, victors in the Democratic Senatorial pri- mary. Nothing was done, certain- ly, that would or ought to disqual- A ler of the $4500,000 cantilever bridge- in Seattie, n approach pier of the cantilever bridge in Seattle, Wash., which will be 2055 feet long and 165 feet high from water to 'Y either Hull or Brock. roadway. It is a part of the Pacific International highway, stretching | E. V. VALENTINE VEILED RAP al;'}gufifnfimg - DIES ATHOME ~ AGAINSTUS., == .. Noted Sculptor,Who Would Soviet Ne\;papers Voice €ras .Are Gathered on Have Been 92 Next | Threats of Economic | Niuafou Island \ \ | MOSCOW, Oct. 21.—The news- Horacio Vasquez, one of the land- ed gentry, and the rise of Gen Ra- | | M {fael L. Trujillo, who at 38 is the| ppjs map shows areas of Latin America which have witnessed jyoungest national president in the goven uprisings since February. The series of revolts began in the |world. 1 7 4 s blic, w . 2 | Bolivia was the xt to change Pcmlnlcnn Republie, with Brazil as the latest seat of revolution. from a civil to a military govern-| ment. Like Vasquez in the Domini- cy, which he had held for more cers, exiles in Argentina, apparently |can republic, Dr. Hernando Siles at-|than a decade, and also set up a | encouraged by the political success tempted to circumvent the consu-;mllitary junta. ‘;o( comrades in the military pro- tution so he could remain president| Later Lieut. Col. Luis M. Sanchez fession at Buenos Aires, decided to ilonger than the term for which Cerro became provisional president. ' start a revolution in their own Ihe had been elected. ! Revolt in Argentina }country. The result was the establishment' Argentina’s government passed| They swooped down from an air- iof a military junta, headed by Gen. 'into the hands of army and navy|plane on Chilean soll at Concep- {C’arlos Blanco Galindo, which took officers in September shortly af-|cion, with the object of persuading {over all functions of government in ter Hipolito Irigoyen gave up the|the garrison there to turn against |June. presidency, which now is filled Dro-iPresident Carlos Ibanez. In August Peru followed Bolivia's visionally by Gen Jose Francisco But Gen. Enrique Bravo and Col. |suit. Army officers drove Dr. Au- Uriburu. |Marmaduque Grove had to reckon ‘gusto B. Leguia from the presiden-! Two former Chilean army offi- (Continued on Page Eight) CAPT. GENERAL TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS Month, Passes Away Retaliation | NIUAFOU ISLAND, Oct. 21-A RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 21. who | Papers Isvestia and Pravda today battery of gigantic cameras and scores of scientific instruments Edward Virginus Valentine, ' would have been 92 years old next |voiced threats of economic retalia- month, a noted sculptor, is dead at itlon by the Soviet against countries 1his home here. |which may pass laws prohibiting |the import of cheap Russian goods. have been brought into action as observers- from the United States and New Zealand sought to record the secrets of the sun during the eclipse. . L 1 | | | . . NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Oct. | 21.—Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- | neau mine stock today is 6%, Amer- ican Can 112%, Anaconda Copper WEYLERPASSES REVOLTS;JOINS FAMOUS WORK In the chapel of Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va., lies the marble figure of a sleeping soldier, the right arm resting across the chest while the fingers of the left hand lie where they have fallen on the hilt of a swort. It is the recumbent statue of General Robert E. Lee, the work of art for which Edward Virginius Valentine gained world-wide fame. So life-like is the statue that art critics have said the visitor speaks softly as though afraid of awaken- ing him who has “lain down to pleasant dreams.” Probably no other work/ of Ed- ward Valentine is so well known, although some critics have pro- nounced his “Andromache and As- tyanax,” in the Valentine museum at Richmond, his masterpiece. The talented sculptor who placed his art first throughout his life held his association with General Lee as one of his most treasured memories, and many of his critics say he carved much of the Southern leader’s char- acter in the marble of the recum- bent statue. Valentine was born at Richmond on November 12, 1838, a member of {men slugged cashier B. W. Moore, in an effort to save his failing sight. Two cameras, one 63 feet long and the other 65 feet long, were erected on special concrete bases to photograph the sun during the eclipse. The editorials did not mention | the United States but little doubt is left that that nation is meant. The newspapers said the cry against Russian dumping is “organ- ized machination of limited capi- talism and it is known the dumping outery is nothing but a myth. All capitalistic trusts, combines and ’ i | concerns dump their goods on thel | world markets, then attempt to ac- | A cuse the Soviets of trying to ag-] gravate a crisis which embmces“ WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21.— most of the countries. {Arthur Woods, former New York “This is idiocy on the part of City Police Commissioner who was those making the outcry as the in charge of unemployment work Soviet exports comprise only two for President-Harding’s commission EFFICIENT SOLDIER per cent of the world’s turnover in 1821, has been asked by Presl-| General Weyler was regarded by and therefore -could not be of any dent Hoover to assume charge Of |the gpanish Government as its influence.” |the organization being created t0|most joyal and efficient soldier, al- s = i —— relieve unemployment and suffer- though among Americans he is re- SI_UG 2 MEN ing during the coming winter. |membered as the man whose rule 4 in Cuba was merciless, which had 5 Booth Tarkington GET $16,000 much to do with the bringing on Tnes to Save SIght in him in Spain, however, was such Oct. AWAY IN SPAIN Noted Soldier Dies at Age fo 92 Years—Arous- ed Ire in Cuba MADRID, Spain, Oct. 21.—Cap- tain General Valeriano Weyler, of the first rank of the Spanish Army, is dead here at the age of 92 years. of the Spanish-American War. Falth BALTIMORE, Marylapd, Oct. 2L 4ot even in his 77th g year, in Jan :—Booth e n, of Indiana, uary, 1916, he was appointed Presi- novelist, is recovering from a third|geng’ of g Cenitral General Staff DALLAS, Texas, 21.—TWO opefation performed on his left eye (Continued on Page Three) of the Union Terminal Company, and Policeman Charles Murray on one of the principal streets yester- day afternoon and escaped with! BROOKLYN BRIDGE, DEAN OF SPANS, NEVER HAS MET ARMY SPECIFICATIONS 34%, Bethlehem BSteel 72%, Fox Films 37, General Motors 34%, Granby Corporation 13%, Interna- tional Harvester 59%, Kennecott Copper 25%, Montgomery Ward 23%, National Acme 8'%, Packard| Motors 10, 9%, 9%, Simmons Beds 157%, Standard Brands 16%, Stan-| dard Oil of California 51%, Stan-| dard Oil of New Jersey 53%, United | Aircraft 33%, U. S. Steel 145%. | DORBANDT OFF FOR ANCHORAGE VIA WENATCHEE Hops from Seattle, Plan- ning to Take New Course to Alaska SEATTLE, Oct. 21.—Pilot Frank Dorbandt and mechanic Alonzo Cope hopped off yesterday for Wenatchee on the first leg of a flight to Anchorage, Alaska. | Dorbandt claims the logical route | BRAZIL REBELS Matto Grosso Is Reported to Have Gone Insurgent —Rains Prevail PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Oct. 21. |the State of Matto Grosso, the sec- ,ond largest in the Brazilian Union, |has joined the insurgents. Information said the forces have |been organized in Cuyaba by Col. |Lima Silva. The Federals are reported to 'have revolted and their command- |er, Major Ravello, has assumed the Presidency. The State of Matto Grosso is lone of the inland States some- {what removed from the principal theatre of fighting. | Rain is hampering military op- eratiohs all along the coast. POLICE CHARGE " INDIAN CROWD |—Revolutionary quarters here claim | (Continued on Page Two) g G Yk $16,000. By FOSTER B. HAILEY Mysterious Explosion (A. P. Staft Writer) s NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—For 47 Wrecks Bl" ] HOIISC |years and 6,016 feet it has stretched A from Park row across the fish mar- kets of lower Manhattan and the oily waters of the East River to the flats of Brooklyn. “Harp of God,” a writer called it. Its more prosaic name |“Brooklyn Bridge.” i In many ways the great steel span |is like a harp. Its cables sin: Mrs. Samuel Shabaldak gave birtn the fingers of the wind pluck to a daughter yesterday evening at TheY BTOW taut as a loaded St. Annm's Hospital. . The baby Yated train places a heavy fo weighed seven pounds and three- |its center stop. They relax quarters. Mr. Shabaldak is in the the warm sun of summer ————————— LT PALESTINE, Texas, Oct. 21.—. { UN WAY HGME mysterious explosion injured five S persons, one probably fatally, and | wrecked two business houses. In-, vestigators are unable to account for the source of the explosion. ., BABY GIRL ARRIVES nce is Sails from. Japan Aboard Liner — Gatty Still Ill in Hospital TOKY®, Japan, Oct. 21.—Lieut. Harold Bromley is enroute to #e- lame aboard the liner President | Jetterson. instead of by airplane as he had attempted. Harold Gatty, {hu navigator, is still ill in Tokyo| from the effects of gas poisoning to Alaska is via Wenatchee as fli-| ers escape fog and bad weather along the coast if inside the moun- tains. BOMBAY, Oct. 21.—Twenty per- sons were injured today when the Police fired then charged into a Dovbandt * lotimated Wemtcheeicmwa surrounding a speaker, and Ty Do, the LaHUIAAL or thie PAGHALT o Tefused 1o disperto, . Anvo- Tt st N A jcent decree makes public meetings Dorbandt, when he left here, ex- “Toav I e 542 | Miss Somji, neW President of the pected to leave Wenatchee today on |y . Council, f ¢ who was eaki his flight to Anchorage, StOPPINg|yqs arrested with four o(ss\? i only at Whitehorse enroute. = ¢ e kit L i e L e A TW[] PR'ESTS Use of Alcohol in |per cent reduction in the use of IfilCC\hOl in Germany since last year Germany Decreasing SHANGHAI, Oct. 21.—Two Chi- This is disclosed in a report by the nese Catholic priests are reported official Reichsanzeiger, 1883 ,as a toll bridge—10 cents for each vehicle—and so it remained until 1912. For years, until other and longer suspension bridges were built, it was the eighth wonder of the modern world. It cost $25,000,- 000. The annual upkeep is around $250,000. The rental for elevated trains and surface cars, and from gable companies, who string their wires across its spans, often earns more than the upkeep cost, how- ever—in 1928 there was a credit balance of $30,000. At the center Brooklyn bridge rises 133 feet above mean high water in the summer and two feet and a half more in the winter. The bridge has never met army | | | BERLIN, Germany, Oct. 21.—The \government is worrying over a 50 |received during the attempted flight| Grover C. Winn, attorney, Repub- when the fliers covered almost half | the distance to the United States |recently. Bromley has stored the plane, City of Tacoma. He said he will return in the Spring and attempt to make the flight from Japan to lican candidate for the Territorial House of Representatives, is a pas- senger on the motorship Norco for Ketchikan. ———————— Fred Johnston arrived in Juneau from Seattle yesterday. He is stay- ing at the Alaskan Hotel. 'ing its center span two and @ feet higher above the water January than in July. It is.a machine, requiring stant olling. A man is always o bridge, quick to report any un- usual change in its unordered move= ment. The bridge was opened in May, n- 3 s 3’ R specifications as to its height above ito have been murdered by Com-| The report said the government's the water. It was supposed to be 135 feet, but the cables slipped in the saddles on the towers while it munists at Kian Kiangsl. Reports alconol monopoly closed the year {said Bishop Mignani of the Italian|with a large deficit in money and Catholic Lazarist Mission, has been|a large surplus of alcohol | was under construction and let it|taken prisoner with six other priests i SR D ) 1D down two feet. It couldnt, of and ten Sisters. The Bishop was| O. Gunderson and Richard Rich- course, be torn down and built|later released to prepare for the ards of Excursion Inlet, are among over, so the specifications were!ransom of the others who were the guests registered at the Gasti- |held as hostages. 1“"“ Hotel, i | THIRTY KNOWN KILLED:BLAST WRECKS SHAFT Debris Piled on Two Lev- els Far Below Sur- face of Earth 'DYNAMITE EXPLODES | 700 FT. UNDERGROUND Cause of Bisasler Is Not | Known—Rescue Work : Extremely Slow | ALSDORF, Germany, Oct. 21.—Thirty miners have been ‘,killud. forty are injured and about 100 are unaccounted :fnr underground as the re- {sult of a dynamite explosion |in the shaft of the Anna Mine. Vietims are buried in wreckage on two levels, at 11200 and 1590 feet. | Previous reports said more ithan 200 were killed but it thas been revealed that many workmen made their escape by another shaft, failed to punch the time clocks and left for their homes. | The dynamite exploded 700 feet underground. The cause is not known. Mone officials said rescue lwork is slow because the main entrance is made im- passible and the victims must be carried out by another ishaft. | Late this afternoon the bodies of /30 miners were recovered. Four of Fhose injured died. The death toll |Is estimated at various figures but |nothing definite will be konwn un- lm all wreckage is cleared away iand a check is made as to the num- (ber of men in the mine at the |time of the explosion and those iwho went home ~without “tim- { | X i — .- | COLD WEATHER | IS CONTINUING Freezing Temperatures Still Reported—More Snow Falling | | CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 21.—Prema- ture winter retained a chilly grasp today from the Rockies to Ten- nessee and freezing temperatures are reported in a wide section. Temperatures are rising in Mon- tana with snow. | Colorado is threatened with ad- |ditional snow while Utah is ap- iproaching normal again. Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri have been added to the cold States with snow and frosts in Arkansas, (Kentucky and Tennessee. |Premier’s Daughter Is Operated Upon EDINBURGH, Oct. 21. Joan MacDonald, second daughter of the |Prime Minister, was operated om 1Ludny for appendicitis and is pro- |gressing satisfactorily. {Grand Jury Refuses f To Indict Slayer ST. JOSEPH, La., Oct. 21.—The |grand jury has declared Mayor A. |B. Ratcliffe was justified in slay- ing Dr. C. W. Merton last Saturday, |by refusing to indict him. Rateliffe |leaded the unwritten law. {Headless Human Skeletons Are Found to Westward | SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 21— Two headless human skeletons were foynd on the shores of Shelikof Strait, 20 miles south- west of Kanatak, at the base of a perpendicudar cliff. The remains were taken to Kodiak but a coroner’s jury was unable to determine identity or the cause of death,