The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVI, NO. 5552. 4JU NEAU, ALASKA, THURS DAY, OCTOBER 30, 1930, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DORBANDT STRANDED WHILE SEARCHING FOR BURKE MELLON ASKS COUNTRY FOR /6.0,P.VOTES Secretary of Treasury Pleads for Republican Majority in Congress WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 30.—/| Secretary of the Treasury A. w. Mellon, in one of his rare radio speeches, last night made a plea for | the election of a Republican Con- gress. He praised President Hoo- ver and expressed the opinion that the Chief Executive would lead the Nation out of the present business depression. Mellon disputes the implication that Republicans were responsible for the business conditions of the country. He reviewed the accom- plishments of the party since it was; returned to office in 1920, and cited the action of the President in en- listing the aid of business when the stock market crash occurred jast fall He said the conditions were due to world wide causes: pri- marily to overproduction of certain commodities, especially raw ma- terials. —————— LUIS REFUSES T0 RESIGN AS BRAZIL CHIEF President Declares He Will Remain Until Term Expires RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazl, Oct. 30—Refusal of President Washing- ton Luis to resign as Chief Execu- tive of Brazil, although ousted, makes foreign recognition diffieult for the Provisional Brazilian Gov- ernment. Although he is held a prisoner in the Copa Blanca fortress, Luis refused to sign away his authority | which was desired by the Military Junta and it will probably be No- vember 15, when his term as Presi- dent expires, before the old Gov- ernment will cease. Luis told visitors he is head of the only legal government in Brazil and will remain so until his term expires. The recent revolution was ac- centuated by dissatisfaction over the election of Dr. Julio Prestes who was last reported a refugee in the British Consulate at Sao| Paulo. PLANES Z00M IN FAREWELL Body of Ral_pI—Wien, Crash Victim, Enroute East for Burial FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 30— Airplanes zoomed low in a last| farewell this morning as the’ train| left the station bearing the body! of Ralph Wien, killed in the crash of the plane Marquette Mission- ary at Kotzebue recently, with Fathers Delon and Walsh. The body is being taken by the wjdow and two small sons to Cook, | Minnesota, for burial. LARGE ATTENDANCE AT ELKS’ ROLL CALL The lodge room Wwas crowded, likewise the banquet room, last night at the annual roll call of the Elks. Practically every chair, three; rows around the lodge room, Was, occupied by members answering! “present” when their names were| called by Secretary M. H. Sides; and fully a score of visitors were| present from other lodges. Follow-| ing a short business session, ad- journment was taken to the ban- qitet room where a most appetizing repast -was served by a host of as- sistants in charge of a committee composed of A. B. Clark, Gus George and John Hermle. Members and visitors inspected the auditorium where the stage has been torn out and floor space correspondingly increased for danc- ing. Henry Messérschmidt and Exalted Ruler R. B. Martin acted as Country’s Leading Financial Analyst, By BYRON PRICE WASHINGTON, Oct. 30— The off-year election of 1930 furnish-| es extraordinary enticements to those political star-gazers who are seeking some portent of the presi-| | dential year 1932. The turn of events has brought| into interesting juxtaposition some | of the most luminous members of a somewhat numerous constellation of presidential possibilities. Nearly all the aspirants who are in active politics are on the party ticket this year in some capacity. Both sides agree that the result |this year might have a direct bear- 'ing on the Hoover fortunes two, years hence. To mention but a few of those Democrats whose friends already are talking hopefully of eclectoral | York, in a campaign that has riv- \falling plane and pulled him to colleges and 1932, Joe T. Robinson, Smith’s running mate two years! ago, is a candidate for reelection to the Senate from Arkansas and| Franklin D. Roosevelt is seeking a second term as governor of New PROPHETS’ EARS TO GROUND - IN NOVEMBER VOTE FOR SIGN OF PARTY FORTUNES IN 1932 DEMOCR ENCOURAGEMENT eted national attention. Albert C. Ritchie is his party’s| nominee for a fourth time, for Gov- ernor of Maryland; Thomas J. Walsh, the Teapot Dome prosecu- tor, is asking for reelection to the Senate from Montana, and Robert J. Bulkley has won the notice of party leaders by his campaign for a Senatorship from the normally Re- publican state of Ohio. On Republican ballots, too, will be printed more than one name linked in political gossip with the White House. Dwight W. Morrow’s overwhelming nomination for Senator from New Jersey, on a platform advocating repeal of the prohibition amend- | ment, led to immediate demands among his admirers that he lead the wet eastern revolt against Hoo- ver in 1932. The movement gained further headway when New York Republi- cans likewise adopted a repeal plank. Morrow himself, however, IN TELEGRAMS favored Hoover's reelection. Two veterans of that western | band of Independents who have found themselves so often in disa- greement with their party leader- ship—William E. Borah of Idaho and George W. Norris of Nebraska —are candidates for reelection. In Pénnsylvania Gifford Pin-| Telegrams received in Juneau chot is seeking the Governorship during the last twenty-four hours without the support of some of the /lhave encouraged supporters &f most prominent of his party lead- |George B. Grigsby and Democratic ers. Territorial and Legislative ticket to Like Borah and Norris, he is a | believe that success awaits them at dry. His friends say a victory on |the polls next Tuesday. Particular- November 4, under the circumstan- |1y encouraging news comes from ces, would put him in the front Wrangell where George B. Grigsby. rank of available leaders in 1932. Allen Shattuck, Frank A. Boyle apd The constitutional purpose of the E. L. Sampson spoke Tuesday night, national election of 1930 is to and from Cordova where Thomas choose a new House of Representa- Gaffney had a successful meeting tives, one third of the members of last night. The telegrams declare the Senate, and some state offi- that the Democratic nominces ex- Wrangell and Cordova Re- ports Please Supporters of Demo. Nominees ATS GET ® educed Navy Likely to Save Many Millions \ "y DOG TEAMS 60 WITH GASOLINE T0 RESCUE FLIER Missing Canadian Pilot’s Plane May Be in N\ Lake Ice WEATHER IS STORMY AND VISIBILITY POOR | ichahan Who Left Van- | couver Has Not Been | Heard of Lately Frank Dorbandt, veteran pilot ¢f the Eielson and other mercy flights in the Arectic, cials. But for reasons here stated, and others too numerous to state, poli- ticians will be reading returns on election night with other things called a halt by announcing that he in mind. Books that just refuse to balance | are child’s play to this Washing- ton, D. C., auditor. And the more unfihom the figures are, the more she enjoys making them snap out of it and fall into line. BRUSH FIRES UNCONTROLLED INCALIFORNIA {Are Raging in Ventura| County — Two Towns | Have Narrow Escape She 18 Mrs. Vera Rhine and she has just been adjudged the country’s fore- | most analyst of financial state- ments by the American Institute {of Banking. 1 (International Newsreel) Plays Football Game with His Back Broken ° BALTIMORE, Maryland, o Oct. 30.—Edward Duffy, Loy- ola College football tackle, played the entire game last Saturday against Western Maryland’s eleven with a broken back, received on the first play of the game. This was made known when an X-ray was taken and reveal- ed a fracture of the third lumbar vertebra. Duffy will be placed in a cast for three weeks which will be required for recovery. Loyola lost the game by ® a score of 40 to 7. o0 eecos0snccoe ——————— HOT ON TRAIL OF KIDNAPPERS Abductors of Illinois Bank- er Surprised |, but Elude Capture KEWANEE, Illinois, Oct. 30.— Officers are believed closing in on the kidnapping gang which ab- ducted Earl Yocum, Galva, Illinois, banker, released yesterday after he is said to have paid demands of his abductors. The trio of kidnappers eluded capture. last night when they fled from where it is believed was the final pay-off tryst, half a mile west of here. The men were sur- prised by three highway policemen. One shot was fired and the kid- nappers returned one shot and fled afoot but their trail was lost. MAIL PILOT DEAD, CRASH Uses Parachute to Escape But Is Caught by Falling Plane LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 30.—C. 0. McGuire, Cincinnati mail pilot, was killed when his plane crashed near Brockton. McGuire used a parachute which caught on the { VENTURA, California, Oct. 30.— ‘i’l‘wo brush fires are raging un- contrglied-in widely separated Ven- tura County watersheds. One has burned over 12,000 acres and the jother 600 acres. The brush is‘ |scrub oak. | | The largest fire is described by |fire wardens as the most devastat- |ing since 1924. Moor Park and Simi, towns which escaped the! first fire Tuesday, fought a second yesterday. Everyone, including housewives, were out to save their| jhomes and the flames were finally| beaten back to the mountains| where Coyote Peak last night look- ed like a huge flaming torch. Five Filipinos are believed to have perished. i The damages so far have reach- | ed $750,000. PETE SCAMIDT, | PIONEER, DIES Alaska Tragg Gold Rush| Stampeder, Passes Away in South SEATTLE, Oct. 30.—The funeral of Pete Schmidt, aged 64 years,| Alaska trader and gold rush par-! ticipant, many years engaged in the | truck and transfer business in the North, was held here yesterday. Mr. Schmidt died last Friday at Snoqualmie Falls where he had| been visiting a friend, Alfredi Schmidt, no relation. Both were from the Rhine District. Pete Schmidt operated business- es at Nome, Fairbanks, Forty-mile, Eagle, Iditarod, and Nenana where he lived for 10 years. He was a t{member of the Nenana Igloo, Pio- neersof Alaska, and the Nenana Moose. Paris Re}uses to Allow U. S. Guard For Liquor Watch PARIS, Oct. 30.—The French government has decided to re- fuse Washington's request for permission to place an Ameri- can observer on the French islands of St. Pierre and Mi- quelon, near the Newfound- land coast, to watch incoming and outgoing liquor shipments, it was disclosed today. The request was part of the prohibition enforcement war against the liquor traffic be- tween the once-poor islands and the United States. The United States embassy here denies hav- ing handled the request but suggests the State Department may have dealt directly with the French embassy in Wash- earth. He was dead when picked up. Residents in the neighborhood of the crash said the engine seemed to stop suddenly. — - sanford Dodge of Beverly Hills,| Cal, who directed the comedy, “Keeping Up With the Joneses” given Tuesday under auspices of the Juneau Moose, has been asked to stage an entertainment at Sitka.| He will go there to look into the| conductors. dramatic possibilities of the town, Ingtom, {program and it developed into & }Oct. 30—The German airplane FOXES FROM ALASKA SWEDEN ARE BALDWIN IS | REAFFIRMED CON. LEADER Former Premier Given Vote of Confidence —460 to 116, , LONDON, Oct. 30. Stanley Baldwin has been reaffirmed as leader of the Conservatives by a vote of 460 to 116 ‘at a meeting precipitated by publication yester- day of a manifesto signed by 44 prominent Conservatives asking for his resignation. Some of the signers denied plac- ing their names on the manifesto. The meeting wds nominally to hear the former Premier define his vote of confidence. GERMAN PLANE COMING IN NOV. DO-X Expected to Fly Across Atlantic, Start- ing Nov. 12 FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,; Do-X is scheduled to begin a flight to the United States not later than November 12 from Lisbon with stops enroute, at the Azores and, Bermuda. On the final trial flight, the ship will leave Alteurline for Amsterdam next Bunday, probably following the Rhine most of the way. The plane will also go to Southampton on the final test flight. BOYD, CONNOR | OFF ON TOUR CROYDON, England, Oct. 30.— Errol Boyd and Henry Connor, trans-Atlantic fliers, left here today | in their plane Columbia, the same in which they made the flight over the ocean, for Berlin on a tour of Europe. Storekeeper, Suspected Of Theft, Kills Officers R, E. de-l er- son, ren dy ent the the CAMERON, Texas, Oct B. Brady, storekeeper, killed Donmamn, Santa Fe Railroac tective and Guy Pope, Deputy & iff. He wounded Ray Rob Deputy City Marshal and ended his own life. The took place when the officers to Brady's store to investigats theft of merchandise from railroad. — .- - Mrs. Mary Ellen Smith David A. Bryant were marric Fairbanks. They will make home there, 3 MILLIONS OF BOUND FOR TO BE QUARANTINED SEATTLE, Oct. 30.—All foxes from Alaska and the Pacific North- west bound for Sweden will be held n quarantine at Gotheburg not longer than 14 days to determine whether they are diseased. Seattle shipping men were notified of this today. There are 50 foxes and 300 mink | to leave here Saturday for Gothen- butg. They are going by rall to New York City and will be shipped from there to Sweden. —————— TRIBE GOES ON RAMPAGE Head Hunters Massacre 86 Japanese—Troops | Are in Pursuit TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 30. A tribe of head hunters, on a ram- page and responsible for killing at least 86 Japenese, is being hunted in the jungles of the mountains of Formosa by 2,000 soldiers and| also police. The expeditions face a handicap of working in tropical rains. Troops have occupied Muski vil-| lage, the scene of the massacre and found the savages had decapitated, their victim§ before retreating. i Numerous bodies were mutiliated. Six airplanes have bombed var-| fous camps of the savages. The cause of the rampage is said| to be forced labor on roads and other public projects under Japan- ese pay which is little and some- times. nothing. — ( DOLLARS WILL BE MEDICINE Drafted Sum Secured to| Bring Color Back to Nation's Health NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Oct. 30.—Drafted dollars, 996,000,000 of them constitute restorative applied | to bring the color and health back to American prosperity. | Cities, states and the nation are| marshalling monies for work which' means relief. The Pacific Coast States Ieud; with $475,000,000, the Middle West with $285,000,000, the South with $75,000,000, the Southwest $74,000,000, Eastern States $4,000,000, Mountain States with $25,000,000 and Northwest States With $18,- 000,000. The monies will be used in pri-| vate and public works which are designed to give employment to thousands of men during the nor- mally slack winter which has been enhanced by depression | | |tically the same audience ' from their viewpoint. The speakers |morrow night at 8 o'clock. It pect to carry both Wrangell and the Copper River Valley precincts. A telegram from the Wrangell Sentinel to The Empl received last night, sald: “Grigsby, Shattuck, Sampson and | Boyle spoke here last night to prac- as the Republicans had last week, receiv- ing much better response. Grigsby successfully refuted charge ma against him by Wickersham with reference to the Jones Bill, gaining adherents by his outspoken defense | in terms of biting sarcasm. The consensus of opinion here is that the Democrats will swing some Re- publican votes Many split tickets are predicted.” Mr. Grigsby telegraphing from Wrangell said that evidence pro- Before duced at the Petersburg and Wran-| gell meetings that Judge Wicker- @ sham had deliberately misrepresent- ed him in connection with the Jones|e Bill was effective. He added that e they were “sure to carry Wrangell” . A telegram from Cordova said that Gaffney spoke there for over|e an hour last night and dcvotcdin before the crash to earth at half or more of his time to the e Beauvais, France, on October candidate for Delegate and others e 5. on the ticket with him. He “made'e @ @ @ ¢ @ @ ¢ ¢ 0 & & o many votes for the entire ticket.”| — > “Most reliable information” is Lha!.‘ITAlY SHAKEN For greater efficiency and econ- omy, the navy will put out of commission shortly 120,000 tons of ships now in service and will reduce its enlisted ¥ersonnel by 4,800. The fleet and base shake- up has been outlined by Admiral William V. Pratt (above), who has just become chief of opera- tions. (International Newsreel R-101 Engines Running 0. K. Crash LONDON, Oct. 30.—A page from the log of the dirigible R-101 introduced at the Gov- ernment’s public inquiry, showed the engines of the ill-fated airship were work- ing smoothly nine minutes “Cordova and entire Copper River Valley will go strong for Demo- cratic ticket.” Mr. Gaffney leaves Cordova for Seward today. REPUBLICANS HAVE MEETING TONIGHT Republican nominges will have a mass meeting at the Palace Theatre | in Juneau, tonight, where they will discuss the issues of the campaign Thirteen Towns in Three Provinces Damaged —Many Dead will be James Wickersham, candi-| ROME, Italy, date for Delegate to Congress; C. T. known to have b Gardner, ‘candidate for Territorial heavy carthquake carly today which Senator, and Grover C. Winn and shook thirteen towns in the Pro- Walter P. Scott, candidates for vinces of Ancona, Pesaro and Mace- Representatives. p bata. 4 Great DEMOCRATIC WORKERS {resulted MEET HERE TOMORROW| Among the towns damaged are | Arezzo, Ravenna, Frabriano, Fano i | There will be a meeting of Dem- yy.0. 000 Mondalda, Morozzo, Grot- ocratic workers and others inter- 3 ested in the success of the Demo- ,1” ashzs. KOG o | Communication with the quake- atic candidates at the office of sidden towns was partially restored Allen Shattuck on Pront Street to- |y ¢<“% (97 T 77 PR “ litary units have been rushed important that there be a good at- |, atary Wiee e (, ey linto the district which extends tendance as 1t is proposed to make ., *pyjes along the Adriatic gll:::m:ordagemng the vote out on /oot to the hills and back into & the valleys beyond, scene of the e ——— of last July \ the entire | | INGUME TAxEs | WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 30. |Four carthquake shocks were re Tu BE PRGBED corded on the instruments of the 30.—~Many are killed in a damage to property has peninsula RECORDED IN U. S. | Georgetown University this morn- {ing and are believed to have been {the quakes that damaged the Ital- WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 30.— |fan district Representative John N. Garner, of | Texas, Democratic leader, advocates ® investigation of income tax re-| “ funds by the next Congress, calling|_ attention especially to the receam\. b refund of $246917 to the Aluminum! NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 30 Company of America. Closing quotation of Alaska Representative Garner said the neau mine stock today is 6%, Amer- QUOTATIONS . | ——— with|total tax refunds to this company,!jcan Can 118%, Anaconda Copper | in which the “Mellons are inter- 367, Bethlehem Steel 70%, ested,” had amounted to $3,035,000. | Pilms 37 General Motors Garner said the total income tax|Granby ation 14%, Interna refunds during the last eleven years !yjonal 607, Kennecott to all parties amounted to nearly Copper 267, Montgomery-Ward 20, three billion dollars |National Acme B, Packard Motors B35 v, 9. A B |9, 87, 9, Simmons Beds 15%, Stan- PACIFIC GOES TO KAKE dard Prands 16%, Standard Oil of California Standard Oil of On regular weekly schedule, the | New United Aircraft Fo: rvester ey 53% ————-——— — Mrs, Wilbur K. Burford, whose nd {husband is in the billiard hall at She in{Burford’s Corner, successfully un-lof general freight eir|derwent a surgical operation this|senger was Frank Pearce for Sum- liams are registered at tl morning at St. Ann's hospital, motorship Pacific left Juneau this|ggiy 146 Curt morning for Kake and way por'.s,[w,.m!- took almost a capacity load | Her one pas-| S. Steel H. P. Thompson and Alaskan dum Hotel Ju-| who left Atlin Monday for Liard Post in search of Capt. E. J. A. Burke, Air-Land Manufacturing Company, pi- let, unreported since October 10, was himself stranded on’ Paddy’s Lake, 50 miles south of Atlin, B. C., because of ‘shortage of gasoline. | Dog teams are being rush- , jed from Atlin with the need- ed gascline for Dorbandt. ! Pilot Dorbandt reported that Pilot Burke arrived at I'Liard Post October 10 and {left there the next day, Octo- ber 11, on his return to At- Llin. When last seen, Burke was flying toward Atlin at an es- timated speed of 50 miles an hour. He has now been miss- ing 19 days. At the time the Burke plane was last seen it | was headed south with the {weather unfavorable for fly- |ing. Pilot Dorbandt, with Mechanic Alonzo Cope, was enroute to An- |chorage, Alaska, from Seattle, via Wenachee, Washington, and Prince {George B. C; when he received word that Burke was missing. Dor- bandt and Cope were in their new Bellanca six-place plane. Dorbandt |fléw to Hazelton, B. C. and then hopped to Atlin. He left Atlin Monday for Liard Post and was on his return flight when stranded. May Be Frozen In Pilot Burke took of from Atlin October 10 to carry “Three-Finger {Bob” Marten to the Liard district to consult with his partner, Oscar Anderson, trading post operator, regarding a quartz property in the Atlin district. With Burke and |Marten was Mechanic Emil Kading. |Burke was flying a seaplane and it is believed he has been forced Ito land and is frozen in on some isolated lake. Renahan on His Way Pilot Renahan left Vancouver, B. 0., yesterday to join the search. He is flying a Fokker plane. He was reported to The Empire yes- terday afternoon as over Alert Bay about 4:30 o'clock but since then has not been reported. One rumor is that because of heavy rain, high winds and low visibility in the Juneau district, he has gone to | Telegraph Creek and expects then to hop to Atlin. Advices received from Skagway |today state there is stormy weather !in the Atlin district, rain and |snow, with practically no visibility. |Dorbandt is not expected to take the air until weather clears, after |gasoline reaches him. —.—— —— |Lisping Co-eds, Sure of Charm, Turn Down Cure | | YPSILANTI, Mich,, Oct. 30. —Lisping, it has been discover- ed by a professor of speech at State Normal College here, now takes rank alongside those oth- er adjuncts to a woman’s gen- cral make-up whose composite is charm, When Mrs. Ida H. McKay sought to cure co-eds in her speech class of lisping she was informed the girls didn’t want to be cured. They liked their lisps, they said, because it makes them more attractive to male students. ———————— W. A. Pecking of Kennecott, is among the guests at the Zynda Ho- tel,