The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 23, 1930, Page 1

HE DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5546. LASKA FISH BUYER JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930. IS MUR KA EMPIRE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PR PRICE TEN CENTS DERED Ca DEMOCRATS T0 STAGE DOUGLAS RALLY TONIGHT Campaigners Fresh from Successful Trip, Launch Local Campaign Fresh from an encouraging swing arcund the triangle route, and elat- ed at the hearty receptions given them everywhere, Democratic nomi- nadian Av Seeks Executive Post On Repeal Platform nees, led by George B. Grigsby, can- didate for Delegate to Congress, will open their Gastineau Channel campaign tonight at Douglas, speak- ing at the Coliseum Theatre. The meeting will start at 8 o'clock. Candidates to appear on the platform with Mr. Grigsby are: Thomas Gaffney, candidate for Au- ditor; Allen Shattuck, for Senator; Judge Frank A. Boyle, and Mayor Thomas B. Judson of Juneau, and E. L. Sampson, Ketchikan, for rep- resentatives. A, H. Ziegler, the fourth candidate for the House, was not able to join the party owing | to the term of district court which is now being held in Ketchikan. Juncau Friday Night The Democratic candidates will come here Friday evening for a ral- ly which will be held in the Coli- seum Theatre. Mr. Grigsby, who is carrying the main burden of the| addresses, will make the principal address here. Mr. Gaffney and oth- er candidates will speak briefly. The nominees returned here last night from the triangle route tour. Only one meeting was held—at Sit- ka—owing to the lack of time at most of tite ‘ports of call. At both ‘Haines and Skagway they were met with enthusiasm and friends and supporters in both towns assured them the entire Democratic ticket would receive substantial majorities. sitka Gives Ovation At Sitka, where a highly success- ful meeting was held Tuesday night, the Democratic speakers were given a genuine ovation. Mayor W. R. Hanlon, who presided at the rally, expressed confidence that Sitka [ | would give the Democrats & tremen- dous majority. “The situation at Sitka looks very much better than it did two years ago when the Democratic ticket carried the town for the first time in several elec- tions,” Mr. Grigsby said. “Faction- alism, which in former years has divided Sitkans in the Territorial as well as local elections, has been 1aid aside and we are getting umt,ed' ‘support from all groups. | ~«In Sitka, Skagway and Haines, as has been the case in the towns T have had the pleasure of visiting since the campaign opened, the impression prevails strongly that this is a Democratic year, in Alas- ka as well as throughout the entire | nation. Alaskans are turning to the Democratic party for relief that the Republican officeholders in the past | decade have failed to give them. Truly, I have never before seen SO much genuine enthusiasm for the party ticket and the party platform, particularly its Home Rule plank, as has been shown in all parts of the Territory.” Vice-President of : Argentina to Quit BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 23—En- rique Santa Marina, Vice President of the Provisional Government, an- nounced ‘he is resigning his post. He assigned illness as the reason for giving up his position. el Two Aviators Talk By Radio Telephone Half Way Around Globe SCHNECTADY, N. Y., Oct. 23—Wing Commander Kings- ford-Smith and Eddie Ricken- backer talked to each other last night by radio telephone half way around the globe. The conversation was broadcast. Rickenbacker asked the Aus- tralian about the /flight from London to Sydney and was told a plane was needed for commer-* cial work along such a route capable of cruising 150 miles an hour. Capt. Kingsford-Smith pre- dicted that within five years there will be passenger, express and mail lines between Sydney and London making a trip in 12 days. Thecdcre F. Green, of Providence, { R. i, chairman of the Democratic Rtate Central Committee,'was nom- !nated for Governor at the Demo- cratic State Convention. The Deamacrats adogted a wet platform ealling for both the repeal of the dry law and the State’s Enforce- ment Act (Intewnss'o-al Newsreal) SOVIET SCHEME BELOW SCHEDULE Five Year Industralization Program Not Up to Anticipation | | | MOSCOW, Oct. 23.—The Iz- vestia, organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, admits the Soviet five- year industrialization program which finished the second year October 1 is five percent below schedule, yet in an editorial claimed a great victory along the lines of Communistic Gov- ernment. The#biggest deficiency is shown in light industries. The Izvestia becomes jubilant over what it terms collective farming and claims approxi- mately 250,000,000 acres were cultivated during the year of which about 80,000,000 acres were cultivated collectively. e NEW STREAMS YIELD $100,000 J.-C. Murra_):—'l'ells of Rich Creeks that Are Tribu- tary to Cache Nearly $100,000 in placer gold iwas taken from newly mined creek sireams, tributaries to Cache Creek, |45 miles from Talkeetna in the lpast season, reported J. C. Murray, |veteran mining man of the Cache iCreek district, who was in Juneau |last night while the steamship |Northwestern was in port. With |Mrs. Murray, he is on his way to |the States to spend the winter. “Forty prospectors were washing jgold in the new fields in the past |season,” declared Mr. Murray. “There will be twice as many pros- |pectors next year. Better equip- iment then will probably treble the loutput. At the head of Nugget |Creek, there are indications of a mother lode.” | COL. CHEEVER PASSES AWAY ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 23. |—Col. Benjamin Harrison Cheever, laged 80 years, retired, awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for |service in the Indian Wars, died {here yesterday. | Col. Cheever also saw service in the .Philippine Insurrection, Span- ish-American- and World Wars. . | | ' | DIRECTOR FOR UNEMPLOYED IS SOUNDING CALL Requests American Indus- try to Find Jobs as Soon as Possible | ! WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 23.— |& call to American Industry to cooperate in alleviation of suffering among the unemployed this winter |has been sounded by Col. Arthur | Woods, Hoover’s Relief Director, | following a conference at the White House. Col. Woods arrived last night | from New York City, where he; was a former Police Commissioner. He was Chairman of President Harding’s Unemployment Commis- sion. K | Col. Woods 'conferred an hour \with President Hoover and Secre- |taries Lamont and Hurley. After the conference, Col. Wood made {a formal request to all industry to |cooperate and give as many jobs ;as possible and as soon as posslblc.‘ COUNTING WORKLESS | NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Oct.| 23, —Policemen today began count- ing the workless in need as part of & campaign to relieve suffering this winter because of unemployment. | An Emergency Employment Com- | mittee composed of 100 industrial- |ists, financiers and civic represen- tatives organized yesterday to raise |sl50,000 weekly for a payroll for improving conditions of the poor. Mayor James J. Walker, in an- {nouneifig' the Police would make a | census, said he is planning to open the Recreation Pier at the Bronx Terminal Market and other munici- pal buildings to house the home- less. He said subordinate employ- jees of the city will be asked to con- tribute a dollar a month to a re- lief fund. This will amount to an additional $150,000 a month. At the meeting of the Emergency Employment Committee, a message was read from President Hoover expressing his appreciation of the work undertaken. | FOR DEMONSTRATION H DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 23.—A per- mit for a demonstration in Grand Central Park here tomorrow by the' unemmployed has been granted by Mayor Frank Murphy. The permit was requested by a committee or‘ five men and two women. The! Mayor said the Police have been ordered to leave the demonstrators alone. ‘ Anthony Gerlach, one of the com- mittee, admitted he was a member of the Communist Party. e 251 KILLED MINE BLAST ALSDORF, Two hundred and fifty-one bodies out an engagement tonight Seeks Divorce 9 Associated Press Photo Mrs. Gertrude Van Loan has filed suit for divorce from H. H. Van Loan, author and scenario writer, in Los Angeles. BOYS FOUND BURNING TO0 DEATH, ALIVE Mystery Brush Heap Fire Reveals Strange Crime —Had Been Beaten MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 23.—Bur- ton Hensley and Woodrow Wilson, both of Bald Creek, North Carolina,| high school students 17 years of age, were found late yesterday by woodchoppers in the lonely swamp lands, bruised, beaten, and burning alive in a mystery brush heap fire. Both boys died later. Physicians said the boys had been beaten six or eight hours be- fore and neither recovered consci- ousness. ; Letters .a diary and auto Key served as a means of identification. Hensley was found with one side enveloped in flames. Wilson's left foot was burned nearly off. Bald €reek reports sald the boys left their homes on October 14 in an auto and visited Wilson's father in Greenville, North Carolina. GALLI-CURCI IS SHAKEN UP BIRMINGHAM, England, Oct. 23. —Madame Amelita Galli-Curci was badly bruised and suffered a severe shaking up near here late yesterday |when an auto in which she was riding with her husband, Homer |samuels and others, overturned. The chauffeur swerved to avoid a collision with another automobile and lost control. The car somersaulted into a ditch. | The Madame made light of the ermany, Oct. 23-- incident and sald she would carry|carried from the office in a men- and have been recovered from the appear on subsequent musicale pro- wrecked coal mine. still being investigated by Governmei'l. Miss Somji Sent to Jail for Six Months, tuE mAGUE, Holand, oct. 2. t BOMBAY, India, Oct. 23 —Miss States Secretary of State, newly Somji, President of the All-India elected World Court Judge National Congress who was ar- presided over rested Tuesday, has been sentenced France and Switzerland regzarding to six months at simple imprison- free zones. Male associates arrested at| time received longer Alahama Democrats Sell ment. the same sentences. Another group was arrested to- day while shouting “Don’t pay im- port duties on British goods.” ————— Wills $15,000 For Care of Her Pet C LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 23. —Mrs. Maude F. Ide willed $15,000 in a trust fund for care of Mitzi, an 18-year-old cat, by Mrs. Pauline Agnes Goetz, Mrs. Ide’s housekeeper and also pro- vided her $15,000 residence to be maintained as long as “Mitzi lives” In order that she may have a home. Search con- grams. tinues for more victims. The dyna-| mite blast on the 700-foot level is the PRESIDES AT WORLD COURT |—Frank B. Kellogg, former United today litigation between —e— “Loyalty Certificates” | MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 23.— |“Loyalty certificates” at a dollar |aplece are being sold by the Ala- {pama Democratic committec to fi- |nance its Senatorial and Guberna- torial campaigns. The party faces a contest | jvember, John H. Bankhe the Senatorial nominee, being opposed by Sen. J. Thomas Heflin, running |as an Independent after having been barred from the pari: Ppri- mary, and Judge B. M. Miller. Dem- ocratic nominee for Governor. Op- posed by Hugh A. Locke Heflin's running mate as an Independ 1t ‘The loyalty. certificates bea: like- nesses of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilso No- | imyself were in a physical. condi- {Railroad Tunnel iator Disappears Wit CAPTAIN BURKE IS LOST AGAIN 1 i {Interior Flier Is Missing— | | Dorbandt and Cope to Make Search ‘ . 5 | VANCOUVER, B. C, Oct‘! - A ™ g 23. — Pilot Frank Dorbandt jand his mechanie, Alonzo {Cope, have been authorized by the Airland Manufactur- ing Company to search for iCapt. E. J. A. Burke who is }missing with his companions {Bob Martin and Emil Mad- ing in the Laird district of |British Columbia. Dorbandt is at Hazelton enroute to Anchorage, Al- aska. Dorbandt said he had suf- ficient cruising radius to! Imake the flight from Hazel-; ton into the Laird district and return to Telegraph| iCreek or Atlin. Burke and his companions are believed frozen in on some small lake. When they left Atlin the weather was balmy. Capt. “Burke was recently lost for several days. He was found on a small lake. With aid of his rescuers he got out lof the mountain-locked lake isafely with his plane. —————— BREAKS DOWN; CONFESSES T0 SLAYING BIRL Step-mother Grilled Over Six Hours by Detec- tive Captain DENVER, Colo.. Oct. 23.—Mrs. Pearl O’Laughlin this morning ad- mitted she is alone responsible for the death of her 10-year-old step- daughter Leona whose mutiliated body was found in City Park Lake more than one week ago. Ground glass was also found in the girl's stomach. Detective Captain Clark said he obtained admission after grilling the woman for six and one-half hours. She broke down and was tal and physical breakdown. “Neither Mrs. O'Laughlin nor tion to continue,” said Clark. The detective captain said he expected a more detailed confes- sion later. The father of the girl, also a detective on the police force, is recovering from eating ground glass. Other members of the fam-|® ily reported finding ground glass in sugar. Crumbles; Three Men Are Victims STUEBENVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 23.—~Three men entombed in a cave-in of a tunnel of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Rail- road near Adena are believed dead. The men were all trainmen. They were in a caboose of a | train which was backing | through the tunnel when both | ends began crumbling. | It is said the caboose was | split in two. The trapped men are Con- | ductor Jerry Sells, Brakeman | E. E. Duga and Flagman Al Rur: ndo. | The train of 25 cars had been backed about 300 feet into the tunnel when the tun- nel caved in. INLAIRD REGION h Two Companions PRIESTS KILLED IN ARCTSC CRASH . s " G.P. MARSHALL " FOUND SLAIN - ABOARDVESSEL Strong Box Is Missing from || His Boat—Hands Tied ‘ and Feet Lashed KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 23.—With his hands tied be- hind his back, feet lashed and a bruise over the right eye, the body of G. P. Marshall, aged 60 years, a fish buyer, was found yesterday on his boat the Phoenix IV at Point EHiggins, 12 miles from here, by the cutter Cygan. | Marshall operated alone. He BODIES ARRIVE AT NOME ;]et‘t Monday and his boat was d: NOME. A‘laska. Oct. 23.—Father Feltes, co-pilot of the Mission ;)lane‘f()und anchored in a harbor Marquette Missionary which was wrecked recently at Kotzebue, accom- fori i N panied by Father Post, has arrived here by plane with the bodies of gf exing -t Droteciion s Fathers Walsh and Delon, who were killed in the wreck. The bodies, “100M used by fishermen. will be shipped to the States on the steamer Baldwin today. | Marshall generally carried Father Feltes denied the engine stalled. He said a snow storm $500 or $1,000 in a strong blinded Ralph Wien as he attempted to land but climbed and went box, which is missing into a tail spin from which he was unable to get out of before Lhe‘ About $GO in cux‘l‘en‘cv was crash. . The body of Wien was taken to Fairbanks ifound in the pockets of his |clothes. and will be sent to the States for interment, Kb 5 -} Marshall’s boat was robbed ONE BATTALION LOGAL CHAMBER -’z REVOLTS:JOINS IS PRAISED ON BRAZIL REBELS BOX RESOLUTION Other Chambers Join Fight on Fibre Boxes for Salmon Cases Fathers Philip I. Delon, (left) head of Jesuit missions in Alaska, and William F. Walsh lost their lives when a Catholic missionary air. plane was wrecked near Kotzebue, Alaska. The pilot, Ralph Wien, was | also killed. last week by plane B D — TWO TRAPPERS DISAPPEAR IN WEST ALASKA CURIT' zi i Another S VBA, Brazil, Oct. 23— champer of Commerce on the fibre | Mystery Revealed Brazil " i indi Brasilian Revolutionists 1003 hourq contaner simation, has re-| DY Finding of Head- seurs at Timbo, State of Bahia, CciVed the endorsement of tpree less Skeletons have revolted and joined, the In-,‘?‘l-ler Obambers and Js being. given surgents |serious consideration by the Asso-| slation of Pacific Fisheries, it was' Timbo is a rail center 100 miles from Bahia, on the coast, revealed today by communications The Insurgents claim the defec- read at the weekly meeting of the tion has opened the way for an|Chamber. advance directly on Bahia. | Petersburg, Ketchikan and Se- The Rebels claim they have re- | attle Chambers of Commerce ac- pelled the attempt of the Federals knowledged receipt of and prom- to destroy bridges across the Rio ised support to the local resolutlon, Tagitaly, south of Itarare which,adopted by the Chamber on October would Nave cut the line of com-|9, urging preference be given Alas- munication between the Insurgents ka made wooden containers. |The daughter of Kazahaya said advance and the clean-up forces. | Seattle To Aid |her father and his companion ex- The Petershurg Chamber of Com- |Pected to return about th: last Insurgents Claim Way Is in Paved for General Ad- | \ vance on Bahia [ | | | | | | | SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 23.—An- other mystery was brought to light by the finding of the headless skeletons near Kanatak when Frank {Kawabe, local merchant, reported the non-appearance of Frank Ka- zahaya and Sam Shasi, who left Seward last December in the small gasboat Tina on a trapping ex- pedition to the Westward. They have never been heard from since. WAR BROUGHT HOM RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 23— The arrival of the first wounded |20 [tion of Pacific Fisheries which held | from the south brought home tolits annual convention at Belling- D#d Dbeen spent at sea, merce telegraphed its endorsement | |of the local position to the Associa- | ot April. Kuzakaya years has been in Alaska and most of the time He was the residents here that the coun-'pam last week. Ketchikan said it | Vel Acduainted with the wostward try is involved in,a bloody clvil war just a few hundred miles from this, the most beautiful capi- tal in the world. Rio de Janeiro has remained calm with little excitement about recruiting but the wounded has |would also take similar action. The Seattle organization advised | (it had referred the matter to its| ! Alaska Department for special study i section. Shasi North two years. Kawabe said although he made inquiries from officials and friends about ike trappers, the story of their dicappearance did not becoma pablic. until now. had been in the | senger, (Continued on Page Eight) J raised interest in the war. ' “ - Official communiques have been ! monotonous and all much alike as today's communique saying the Government is maintaining posi- tions in all sectors, with seldom | any details. | —,—— PEACE SCHOOL TO AVOID WAR OPENS IN PARIS By JOHN EVANS (A, P. Staff Writer) PARIS, Oct. 23.—The School of NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Oct_‘pe"“"" opens its doors November 1 23—Closing quotation of Alaska|t©_study ways of avoiding war. Juneau mine stock today is 8-"..‘ It is a real school. It has a fac- ‘American Can 115%, Anaconds Uty and a great big lecture hall Copper 33%, Bethlehem Steel 73, It is a “grown ups” school but Fox Films 37%, General Motors ON¢ Where the young also may go. 34%, Granby Corporation 12%, In-|It i for statesmen and the com- ternational Harvester 613, Kenne.|MOn People, for the ones who in the cott Copper 25%, Montgomery-‘pa‘t have made wars as well as for Ward 237%, National Acme a%‘;lhc ones who fought the wars or Packard Motors 9%, 9%, 9%, Sim- |83ve their children to a hungry mons Beds 15, Standard Brands|MArs 16%, Standard Oil | Aristide | TODAY’'S STOCK QUOTATIONS the discussion of foreign affairs, Icremed and edited by Mademoi- selle Louise Weiss, who has made a big place for herself in the little world where affairs of state are discussed. It is to increase the size of the world where world affairs are at issue that she has estab- lished the school. She thinks the people, after studying peace, will get it The School of Peace is to be a Inight school, with 26 lectures, one |a week. The lecturers are high |officials of the League, Rector Charlety, head of the Sorbonne; | diplomats, capitalists, labor chiefs and statesmen. Among them is {Andre Siegfried, well known in the | United - States for his books on |America and his lecture courses on American affairs in the famous ‘Free School of Political Sciences™ here. It will be an expensive school for some of the rich students but almost free for others. The course may be taken for as low as $1.80, but patrons are expected to finance it through life memberships. . | | . of California | Briand, French Minister 51%, Standard Ofl of New Jersey |Of Foreign Affairs, creator a year 53%. United Aircraft 34%, U. S, |20 of the embryonic European fed- Steel 146% eration, is at the top of a list of —_——————— | patrons. Others are cabinet min- isters, present or past, social. and conservatives, teachers, L ers and | business men. Departing on regular schedule,! It is the pfan of this new schoo! the motorship Pacific left Junenu{co give a two-year course on the at 10 o'clock this morning for Teb- | League of Nations and all interna- enkof and way ports. She carried |tional efforts to establish perma- considerable freight and one pas-jnem peace. SAILS FOR TEBENKOF W. C. Maeser. He is| It was founded by “L'Europe booked for Tebenkof. Nouvelle,” a publication devoted to