The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 27, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5549. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930. S NAVAL PACT RATIFICATIONS FORMALLY DEPOSITED S ———— RS MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS REBEL LEADER WILL NAVY MENTO TALK TONIGHT OVER HOOK-UP One Step Allowing Citizens to Get Acquainted with U. S. Navy WASHINGTON ,D. C, Oct. 27— Open house to the general public is being observed today in naval establishments and aboard war ves- sels in this country’s seaboards, sponsored by the Navy League of America. An elaborate program has been arranged for the day to permit the people to “know more about their Navy as it is” and commemorate the birth of Theodore Roosevelt and “his devotion and understand- ing of the American Navy.” Secretary of Navy Charles F. Adams and Admiral Willlam V. Pratt, Chief of Operations, make addresses over a nation-wide radio hook-up at 11 o'clock tonight, following a radio talk by Rear Ad- miral William L. Rodgers, former Chairman of the Navy General Board. Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, will “accept a silver service from the Mayor of Houston, Texas, given the new cruiser of that name. Navy Aircraft exercises arc also being held in many cities. ——.—— DRY AGENT (ILLS MAN Wounds Another in New Mexico—Statements Are Made Public ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico., Oct. 271—Uvaldo Matrinez, highway worker, was shot and killed by C. W. Eskildson, Federal Prohibition Agent, near Bernalillo. Liberato Leyva, who was riding with Martinez, was wounded in the wEist. ~Eskildson stopped to investigate 20 automobile accident, he said, when Martinez, Leyva and three thers drove up and began to at- k him. Eskildson said his gun -was discharged when he struck one man over the head with the barrel of the gun. Levya sald Eskildson fired without warning. = BOMB HITS L. A. CHURCH LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 27— A bomb composed of black powder was thrown Sunday against the side of the Trinity Methodist Church of the South. The ex- plosion of the bomb broke several windows in the church and sur- rounding houses. The police believe the bomb was! thrown from an automobile in retaliation for a radio political statement made by the pastor of the church, Rev. R. P. Shuler. RAID TWENTY SPEAKEASIES NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Oct. 27—Fifty Prohibition Agents raid- ed .simultaneously last Saturday night 20 speakeasies in the Bowery District, arrested bartenders and owners and drove thousands of customers to the streets. Disguised as derelicts, the agents gathered evidence during the week at the cheap speakeasies where al- cohol sold for 10 cents a drink and 25 cents for an 8-ounce bottle. e—— LOAN 34,000 SPECIMENS WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—Nearly ! will | NEW FLIGHT RECORD IS SET i | | \ i According to an Associated Press dispatch received by The Empire today from Valley Stream, New York, Mrs. Keith Miller world-famed woman flier who flew 14,000 miles from England to Australia, has set a new women’s record for a West to East transcontinentol flight. . Her actual flying time from Los Angeles to Valley Stream was 21 hours !and 27 minutes. Her last stop was at Columbus, Ohio. She also recently set a East to West record of 25 hours and 44 minutes. Miss Laura Ingalls recently made the flight from the West to the East in 25 hours and 35 minutes, actual flying time. In the above picture Mrs. Keith Miller is shown polishing up her pet plane at the Washington, D. C. Airport. TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR INVESTMENT IN ALASKA FARM IS PRACTICALLY CLEARED IN SEASON’S OPERATIONS PACIFIC N. W, GIRL IS HELD CAPTIVE, CHINA First Red Army Demands $200,000 Ransom— Others Are in Peril SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 27.— A. A. Shonbeck purchased a farm/of 320 acres last fall, par- tially cleared, bought full equip- ment, including a thresher, in- vesting a total of $10,000. He cut this season 200 tons of wheat, cat and vetch hay, D gt NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Oct. 27. —Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock today is 6%, Amer- |ican Can 121%, Anaconda Copper |34%, Bethlehem Steel 75%, Fox Films 39, General Motors 37, Gran- !by Corporation 13, International |Harvester 61, Kennecott Copper 26, Montgomery Ward 20%, National Acme 8%, Packard Motors 9%, 8%, 187%, Simmons Beds 15, Standard selling for $40 a ton, practically clearing his investment in one season. The Alaska Railroad and the Government Experimental staff is greatly interested in his op- erations. —ll PEIPING, China, Oct. 27.—A dls-lPAchIc cuAsT patch to the American Legation' ” from Frank Lockhart, Consul Gen- eral at Hankow, said the Rev. K. N.| Tvedt, and Miss Bergliot Evenson, of Mount Vernon, Washington, are held prisoners by bandits at Loshan, AIDlNG LABu southeast of Honan, 20 miles from | where the Rev. Nelson was recently | captured. | 4 Consul General Lockhart said he Helps in Unemployment had received a letter from the| g ¢ captives that was evidently dictated. | Situation — 24 - Hour | The letter said the First Red Army | Day, Seven Day Week demanded $200,000 ransom. Both captives are connected with EATTLE, Oct. 27.—A program of the -Lutheran United Mission. IB SR Pt g, D hay The whereabouts of AmMerican) g . without the usual midwinter Caftiolic: Pathers Thowphs M. Mxe"suspension of operations is an- |gan and Joseph V. Hinkles, regis-|y,,;,ceq by the Pacific Coast Coal |tered in Loshan, is uncertain. It is Company. b s i i eseaped | “rme increase in working hours will |me:1 vy ntg :dehc wlt wall as the ;44 more than & quarter of a mil- 1 emjerad the- oY lion dollars to the payroll of more A { than 1,000 workers including those |- datas dE‘:entscon. ;:ention:z ": lhi;flt the Dall Island quarry near Ket- jabove dispatch, is a graduate Of| .y, ajaska, the lime plant here ithe Mount Vernon schools and| = ." /o 'in the mines Kt.-mght there. A sister is living there f 'now and her father and another sister are living in Lynden, Wash- TODAY’S STOCK ington. QUOTATIONS | LKills 3, Saves 'Wife, Dynamites 'House, Suicides | PETERSBURG, Virginia, Oct. | - 27.~Gibson Toler, aged 38 years, | killed his three children, Iris ' aged 2, Robert aged 4, and Vir- ginia aged 6, with a gun and 2.on dynamited the house, after VARGAS ASKED | T0 TAKE HEAD | OF NEW GOVT, Military Junta of Brazil ' Selects Insurgent Com- ‘ mander as Chief IS NOW ON HIS WAY | TO RIO DE JANEIRO President-Elect Prestes Is Reported Virtually a Prisoner RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 27—/ Getulio Vargas, Insurgent Com-| mander and chief Liberal candidate in the Presidential elections last spring, has been invited by the Military Junta, which overthrew the Brazillan Govenment, to be-! come Provisional President of Bra- zil. | Assurances have been received | from rebel leaders, both in the North and South of their support. Cessation of hostilities in Sao Paulo is announced and Bahia has been taken without resistance. Vargas is reported now to be enroute from the State of Rio Grande de Sul to Rio de Janeiro. He is President of that State. President-elect Julio Prestes Is said to be virtually a prisoner in the State of Sao Paulo. He re- signed the office of President of that State te become & Conserva- tive candidate for the Presidency. | | | | | | | \ | SURRENDER UNCONDITIONALLY | PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Oct. 27. ~—1It is learned here that the Bra- zilian_ Federal troops surrendered unconditionally to the insurgent army at St. Arare on the Sao Paulo-Arana fighting front and joined the revolutionists under their .own commander. RECOGNITION " OF BRAZILTO TAKE COURSE Secretary of State Stimson OQutlines Policy to Be Pursued WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct American recognition of the new regime in Brazil will be guided by the same policy the State Depart- ment has followed in the recent recognizing of the governments of | Argentina, Peru and Bolivia, Secre-} tary of State Stimson said. | | | | | 7= BRAZILIAN CITI E PRES IDENT PRICE TEN CENTS ES NOW UNDER REBEL. GOVERNMENT 5 7 Associated Press Photo General view of the harbor of Santos, which w.5 cne of the cbjectives of the revolutionary forces in | their advance northward but which is now under co nmand of the Mil y Junta. Associated Press Photo City of Pernambuco which is in the hands of the new Brazilian Military Government. Dying Request Obliterates Party Lines in Arkansas LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Oct. 27. —Party lines have been oblit- erated as Republicans and Democrats united in the last wish of Representative Otis Wingo, who died last week af- ter 18 years of service. He asked that his widow be sent to the Houce of Representatives to fill his position. The Democrats announced she will be their candidate and the Republicans The Secretary outlined the three points on which recognition de-; pends: | | 1. Whether the Government is in control of the situation to pro- tect life, liberty and property. i 2. Whether the Government is backed ®y public sentiment. | i 3. Whether the Government can| fulfill obligations of a Government.| 3000 HOMELESS; 5 DEAD, FLOOD SMYRENA, Turkey, Oct. 27.—At' least 68 persons perished and 3000 are homeless in a flood which in- undated the lower portion of the |city today. Six hundred and fifty-five houses have been demolished. that the International College and |Girls’ School are on high ground \gave hope the property escaped the high water. g, o o oo ; Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen, Extension Department of the ka Agricultural College and |of Mines, expects to leave he: week for Wrangell and other |east Alaska towns. .She wi return to Fairbanks. | — e announced she will not be op- ONE HUNORED MINERS DEAD IN EXPLOSION Second Disaster Within One Week Occurs in German Coal Fields SAAR BRUECHEN, Germany, Oct. 27.—At least 100 men were killed in a coal mine explosion at Maybach late Saturday making| the second great coal mine disaster in a week. No word has been received :'Omb Ninety bodies have been recov- stocks, bonds and mortgages when | the American schools but the fact ered and no hope is held out for they produce an income exceeding day and Brock took his life Sun- the others known to be buried. Rescue work has been abandoned because of the heat in the mine. Flags were still floating at half staff for the 261 men killed at the 'Alsdorf mine explosion four days| € pefore. Last July, a mjne disaster oc- curred at Neurode and with the past two disasters, 500 men have been killed in the coal fields dur- ing the past four months. - - Nick Bez, a canneryman and driven +itaxed for the mere privilege of ex- | Reindeer Round-up Is Completed At Point Barrow POINT BARROW, Alaska, Oct. 27.—This vicinity is cele- brating completion of one of the largest reindeer round-ups in the history of the Arctic. A herd numbering more than 14,- 600 is in an ice block corral 6 to 8 feet high which was con- structed by the natives. The cor- ral will hold the deer while they are being counted and branded. >ee ) MEMBERS, NEW TAX LAW IN OREGON 1 HELD INVALID Million and Half Dollars Collected Must Be Re- turned to Payers SALEM, Oregon, Oct. 27.—Sud-| |denly and unexpectedly, Oregon State finances have been thrown | into confusion by an opinion of the State Supreme Court that the new | state intangibles tax law is uncon- (stitutional and that $1500,000 col-| lected. must be returned to the tax payers. | The Supreme Court held the law | violated the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteeing equal protection under |the 1aws because it taxes individu- Believed Suicide Pact Is [ |als and not corporations. ~ 3 | | The opinion said an “individual is, Executed for Benefit of Creditors unlike a corporation and cannot be isting. A corporation s an arti-| puILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.—The !ficial entity and owes existence t0 poscibility of a suleide pact be- |the State. Individuals have the tween Sidney Brosk and George rights of living and owning prop- Reilly, members of the brokerage erty. These are their natural firm of The Reilly ind Brock Com- {rights and an excise tax cannot be pany, who ended their lives with | imposed-upon them.” | pistols within three days of each | The law imposed a tax of 2 per- other, is being investigated by the cent interest on money, dividends, police Reilly killed himself last Thurs- jday {$200 annually. . ————— | Each man left $700,000 uncontest- able life insurance for the benefit |Campaign Against Rebels 'orjn‘w fem e Northern China, Ts Ended 5 ohn Brock, brother of Sidney | rock, said he believed both men ikilled themselves to satisfy their i NANKING, Oct. 27.—The Nation- creditors alist Government Military Head-|! The books showed assets of $5,- quarters announced the ending of 723573 and liabilities of $535,280. {the campaign against the North- A total of $4,000,000 in credit ern Rebels in Honan Province. The pledges were made to banks for anncuncement said the rebels und- loans aggregating $3,448.229. er Gen. Feng have been | ostarice Mk THREE NATIONS ARE AGREED ON NAVAL LIMITS Represemntives Com ple(e Final Transactions of Big Issue MUTUAL TRUST AND GOOD WILL EVIDENCED :Equgl Protection Now Fur- nished—Is Substitute for Suspicion LONDON, Oct. 27. — Representa= |tives of the United States, Great ;Britain and Japan today deposited (ratifications of the London Naval Treaty at the Foreign Office. Prime Minister MacDonald’s speech, following those of President Hcover and Premier Hamaguchi, touched at length on the Franco- Ttalian negotiations to solve naval limitations between them. He said ultimate failure was unthinkable since the world hopes for disarma- ment and progress is focused on efforts of the two nations to come to an agreement. Fair to All President Hoover classed the treaty as “fair to all and danger- ous to none.” President Hoover joined Premier MacDonald and Premier Hamaguchi {in an international broadcast. President Hoover declared it was ’n pleasure to felicitate the peoples jof Japan, Great Britain and the United States upon conclusion of a {sound and reasonable agreement which has been accepted by each |as’ affording equal protection and ]which substitutes for suspicion and competition, a mutual trust, good will and confidence. Japanese Sentiment [ Premier Hamaguchi said he felt (it was a great privilege to have | contributed to “this happy thought.” |He said the treaty was bound to |exercise an immense moral influ- ence on mankind. He said the pact was a striking demonstration of the mutual confidence and good will among nations. | —eee— SHOTS DROP. 2 ATTACKERS Mother Fires in Darkness at Two Men Waylaid- ing Daughter SOLDIER, Kansas, Oct. 27.—Mrs, Edith Thornton, aged 50 years, fir« ed a revolver into the darkness at two men she believed were attack- !ing her daughter. aged 26, is dead, and Sam Curtis, aged 28, is dan= gerously wounded. The men had beaten the girl's escort, Curtis said. Curtis said he and Critchlow, when they passed the couple, told them to stop. The girl's escort immediately started to fight. Mrs. Thornton saw the struggle from a window of her home and |opened fire. TRY TOKILL PROHI AGENT WHEELING, West Virginia, Oct. 27.—An attempt was made last Sat- urday night to assassinate Roy Hightland, aged 31 vears, Federal Prohibition agent. Three men fired on him with a machine gun as he stepped from his home. Hightland dropped behind a hedge at the first shot and the gunmen fled Joe Fragale, John Goudy, who iwere recently indicted for conspir- acy to violate the Prohibition laws, and Robert Ringer, were arrested later and held for questioning. BACKS COULDN'T WAIT, LOSE EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Oct. 23.— ‘Wausau high school lost a game to |Brands 16%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 52, Standard Oil of New| Harold Olds returned home Jersey 54%, United Afrcraft 36, U. neau on the Admiral Farragu' S. Steel 152%. a brief vacation trip to Seat!l shoving his wife out to safety. A shot was heard before the explosion of dynamite, and he 1s belleved to-have suicided. 34,000 specimens were loaned by the Smithsonian Institute to work- _ers outside Washington during last| . year. L E rmong - James L. Preeburn are in Juneau out of Honan into Shangsi and| Herrin of Fu They are at the Shensi Provinces and the Nations the guests at |ists are in pursuit. r Bay is|the local high, 6-0, mainly through the Alaskan|the loss of 156 yards, charged for violation of the shift rule. Hotel.