The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1931, Page 1

/g /, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWb ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5681. JUNEAU ALASl(A TUESDA\ MARCH 31 1931, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE,SS PRICE TEN CENTS | KNUTE ROCKNE KILLED IN CRASH, PASSENGER PLANE MANAGUA 1S REPORTED ]IN FLAMES CAPITAL CITY OF NICARAGUA IS DESTROYED Teriihe Entih quake Re-| | ported to Have Laid City in Ruins AMERICAN RED CROSS IS DIRECTED TO AlD Only Few Houses Said lo Remain Standing— Fire Raging BULLETIN — PANAMA CITY, March 31.—Late this afterncon advices were re- ceived from Managua that it is estimated that more than | | 1 i 500 are believed to have per- ished in the earthquake and fire that has destroyed the city. The central business section was levelled, the wat- er system and pavements torn out. PANAMA CITY, March' 31. —A terrific earthquake shook Managua, capital of Nicara- gua this morning at 8:10 o’clock, Pacific Coast Time,| according to a Tropical Radio report. The message further stat-| ed the city had been destroy- ed, only a few houses left standing and the ruins of | the city are in flames. 40 KNOWN DEAD PANAMA CITY, March 31. —Forty persons are known| to have been killed in the quake, the Tropical Radio re- ported. The cable office at Man- agua has been burned and all cable communications are out. All information is scarce as the Tropical Radio station is five miles out of town. Advices late this afternoon stated Managua is under " (Continued on !"x’;g(nFoufl TALLMAN CLUE IS RUN DOWN Suspect Only Looks Like| Alleged Slayer, Of: ficers Radio LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 31. —District Attorney Buron Fitts said he has received a radiogram | from officers who went to Gaute- mala in search for William Tall- man, wanted for the brickbat mur- der of Mrs. Virginia Patty. The radiogram said they found the man only resembled Tallman and had no connection with the mur- der. —-— DOCTORS USE ARMY BOOKS WASHINGTON — S8ix thousand civilian doctors made use last year of the army medical library, one of the most valuable collections of medical books in the world. GODDESb OF CHAN(‘L LL RES THOU £ DS TO RENO (,AMPI ING HALL —Associated Press Photo. Mayer E. E. Roberts of Reno, standing behlnd a chuck-a-luck machine at right, formed part of the all-night and all-day crowd which | | the day’s rush had begun. things. inaugurated wide-open gambling in Nevada. On this particular game—faro—the dealer limited bets to $50 cach. At the left is a corner of a gambling hall there after the The all-night crowd had left and before Mayor approved the new order of POLICE CHIEF | - IS KILLED BY WIFE'S SHOT Lips Frame Messa ge of Love for Women Be- fore He Dies | KLAMATH FALLS, Ore, 31.—While his lips framed sage of love for his wife, i Swindler, Chief of Police of Chilo- |quin, died in the hospital at‘tflr, declaring the woman fired a bul- | | let into his body. Mrs. Swindler is in a local hos- {pital with a bullet wound in the {head, inflicted her husband said,, |after she had shot him through | the side. “I love her as much as ever I| did, and do not want her locked | up or have anything unp]easam[ happen to her,” he said shortly | before he died. The Chief told the Police he reached his home at 5 o’clock yes- terday morning and his wife was waiting for him with a revolver in {her hand. “You're smart, aren’t you,” he {quoted his wife saying, and then she lifted the revolver and dis- | charged it. The bullet tore through his left| arm, entering under the heart and | lodging near the spine. | Neighbors said the couple quar- | reled rect-ntlv BALCHEN IS FLYING HOME Returning from Fruitless| Search for Viking Victims ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, March 31.—Enroute to the United States| after a fruitless search for Viking| victims, Bernt Balchen, Merion| Cooper and Randy Enslow hopped off for Boston, via Portland, Maine, this morning. e London is to have a second 'news reel theater, following success | ol Lhe first. i Pestilence Threat Seen in Australia’ SYDNEY, Australia, March 31.— With about 200,000,000 bushels of unsold wheat in storage fears for a plague of vermine, followed by a national pestilence, are growing in Australia. In 1915-16, when great quanti- ties of grain were held over, there was a plague of mice and rats. Caught in huge traps, the vermine were carted away in trucks by the s Grain Surplus, GIRL ON TRIAL FOR MURDER Asanciated Press Photo Joan Dayle (center), 21, cabaret singer, with her mother, Mra. Ida Lane of Seattle, and a deputy sheriff leaving the court te, Saig *ake City, Utah, where she went on trial on a charge cf .. drring Sam Frank, Memphis jewelry auctioneer. IS FOUN T GUILTY SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, 1 31—Jean Dayle has beer not guilty of the murder of Sam Franks, Memphis auctioneer, found by a | jury this morning. The defendant watched the Court closely as he read the verdict. A quick breath and tightly clenched hands were the only show of emotion as the Judge said: “Not Guilty.” The jury received the case yesterday. Baby li;rn i.‘Laval_ Wms 4,000 Feet Support of Government Up in Alr {Plane Rushlng Through French Premlel Is Sustain- Higher Regions Is Caught by Stork THE PAS, Manitoba, March 31.| PARIS, March 31—The Govern- —Master Miller came down out of | ment of Premier Pierre Laval has the air yesterday, possibly the | | been sustained by a vote of 318 first child born unexpectedly in(to 347 on a motion in the Cham- lan airplane in full flight. | ber of Deputies to refer the pen- The plane started from mile 214. | sion phase 6f the budget to the Mrs. Alex Miller was being rushed | Finance Committee for detailed to a hospital by Flight Lieutenant | study which will require a month, ed on Vote to Study Pension Law | | ton. If something cannot be done to, shift the present harvest it is feared that a greatér plague, of| which signs are not wanting, will be created. | Silos and grain sheds are full to overflowing with wheat, the termi-| nal ports and railways are con-| gested, and in the country wheat is stacked and stored everywhere. ] Mophee of the Royal Air FOrce. | mne proposal is 1o put all pen- Fifteen minutes after the take-| .o gz;xfioed prior cI«; 1914 with off, the son made his appearance |tnose granted now on the same at a height of 4.000 feet. | it The plane landed here safely, | Plerre Laval is firm in seeking the mother and babe were hustled | a further study of the measure. to a hospital and both are reported | He said it will add almost $38,000,~ doing well. ‘ooo to the budget. ——————— S - T3 oA Deaths from diphtneria were re-/ ' Guced 27 per cent in 1930 as com- | ipared to 1929, Children under 12 cannot be ex- }eculed in England, i PAVLOF SHOOTS SMOKE, FLAMES UP 2000 FEET ‘Eruptxon Suddenly Stops— Southeast Face, 12 Miles Wide, Is Black PORTLAND, Ore, March 31.— | Pavlof voleano in, Alaska is again | quiet, according to a short wave lmdiu message picked up by C. W. ‘Watson, amateur operator. He said ‘Lmy Osterback, of Unga, an ama- teur, signed the message. The me; sald: “Voleano now quiet after throwing out great clouds of smoke and flame. Erup- tion started 8 p.m. March 29 and lacted until 6 p.m. March 30. On- lookers es ated smoke and flame reached 00 feet above top of mountain. = Southeast face of Pav- lof for space of 12 miles wide is now black from peak to water. The crater is filled with hot lava.” GOV, ROOSEVELT SAYS NOTHING ze ON PRES. POLL Possible Democratic Presi- dential Candidate, Keeps Working ALBANY, N. Y., March 31.—Gov. Franklin D. Rootevelt omly took unofficial cognizance of the poll of the Democratic National dele-. gates at the 1928 convention in-| dicating preference for him as a Presidential candidate in 1932. He said he was giving no con-! sideration to anything now except ' the du(les of Governorship. ~~~~~~ —e-— — William Castle, Jr., To Succeed Cotton WASHINGTON, D. C., March 31. —President Hoover has announced the appointment of Willlam Castle, jr., ©of Washington, D. C, to be Under Secrstary of State, succeed- ing the late Joseph Cotton, of New York. —— ——— Associated Press, Acquires New Staff In Foreign Lands NEW YORK, March 31.—Acqui- rition of the Pacific and Atlantic, | Ltd., British Corporation, by the { Associated Press Photo Service is announced by Kent Cooper. He said the Associated Press thus ac- quires its own news photo staff in Europe. The concern has been joperated for several years by the , parent company of the same name _in this country, OPPOSES TAX INCREASE AND FEDERAL BOND Senator Watson Consults President on Govern- mental Issues NO EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS NEEDED People Not Stepping to| Union Music but to Click of Ticker WASHIN! GTON, D. .0, M\rc!n 31.—Scnator James E. Watson fald | he is opposed to a tax increase 0-"] to a Federal bond issue to meet the Treasury deficit. He made this ,statement after a breakfast conference with President Hoover. The Indiana Senator did not get the President's views on the financial situation but expressed his own to the President during the half-hour talk about politics and governmental problems. Senator Watson said it was agreed there is no need for an |extra session of Congress to deal | with unemployment and Farm Re- | lief and that an armistice in poli~ ;tical debate would permit of a more rapid economic rehabilitation. Senator Watson said: “Our thought was to let the people of the country rest from politics and go ahead and attend to the busi- ness to rehabilitate themselves, free frem political clamor. There are too many paying too much atten- tion to the stock market with the result that business, instead of keeping in step to the music of the union is keepmg in step to the click of the tlcker L0U TELLEGEN HAS NEW FAGE Former Mahnee Idol, Nea: ing 50, Again Looks Like Youth NEW YORK, March 31— Lou Tellegen, matinee idol at whom ladics were heaving sighs back in the Theodore Roose- velt administration days, has obtained a new face and will shortly reappear in the old perfect lover stand. Lou is nearing 50 years and lcoked it two weeks ago, but he has taken a face rejuvina- tion treatment and now looks like a youth. It wasn't a face lift, instead his face was daubed with a colorless lotion treatment that took about 10 days to do the work. At first Lou's face turned yellow, then brown, then red, then pink, and he is now pre- sentable again. SRR SR o Released from Brig, Goes to Roadhouse; Gets Into Trouble SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 31 —Robert Farley Francis, of Se-! !attle, who was placed in the brig’ |aboard the liner Sierra enroute \fram Honolulu to San Francisco as a result of a fight with his wife over jewelry, has been arrested on |a federal warrant charging as sault on a roadhouse owner. He was released under $1,000 bond and April 6 was set for he date of his arraignment. e — i | i | | i | l. TODAY'S STOCK QflOTATIONS P ‘mg quotation of Alaska Juneau 'mine stock today is 14, Amercian| |Can 123%, Anaconda Copper 33% »Bethlehem Steel 57'%, General Mo.. tors 42%, Granby Consolidated 17%, International Harvester 50%, Ken- necott 24%, Packard Motors 9%, Simmons Beds 16, Standard Brands 18%, Standard Oil of California 43%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 41%, United Afrcraft 34, U. 8. Steel 139%, Curtiss-Wright 3%, Hudson Bay 5%, Checker Cab 14%, 13%, 14%, General Foods 52%, !so many of Is Killed T od(tv KNUTE ROCKNE Who mezt death in airplane ident ln Kansas todny LIEUT. BAUCH IS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT World's Most Skillful Avia- tion Expert Victim of Crash AKRON, Ohio, March 31.— Charles Bauch, aged 34 yea signed as First Naval Officer the crew of under construction here, when his automobile cras bridge last night, Lieut. Bauch was considered one | -Lieut. S, 8- of was. killed hed info a >f the world’s most skillful lighter- | than-air aviation experts. He was an officer aboard the Shenandoah when it crashed in Ohio in 1925.| He directed ballooning at the after! and of the craft that seved many lives. —-————— |2, 000 SEAL SKINS BRING 600D PRICES Auction Sale Held in St.| Louis of Catches of Governments ST. LOUIS, Mo, About 25,000 seal fourths from the Ala herds of the Government, e sold at the auction at the Fouke Fur Company yesterday. 31.— three- March Twenty thousand pelts were sold | at the morning session and brought $453,699. The prices averaged as follows: Blacks $29.44, scarred and faulty $21.26, poor $6.94 and brown $22.48. Some furs were sold for the Union of Scuth Africa, totalling about 2,000; 300 for the Japanese Government and 1200 for various | other nations. the Zeppelin Akron| FAMOUS COACH OF NOTRE DAME DEAD, ACCIDENT His Life Snuffed Out with Five Others in Crash in Kansas FOOTBALL STRATEGIST MEETS SUDDEN DEATH Transcontinental Western Air Express Craft Dives to Earth KANSAS CITY, Mo., March | 31. — Knute Rockne, Notre | Dame foctball coach, was kill- ed with five other occupants [of a Transcontinental West- | ern Air Express airplane in 'a crash near Emporia this | afternoon. EIGHT ARE KILLED KANSAS CITY, March 31, —Late this afternoon more particulars of the disaster were received and Rockne and seven others are said to | have been killed when the plane exploded in the air, | burst into flames and crashed near Bazar, Kansas. Rockne boarded the plane | here enroute to California on | business for .the Studebaker | Corporation. The bodies of the victims have not yet been identified but it is certain the noted coach was a passenger on the ‘ship and that all aboard were killed. The list of dead includes: Knute Rockne. . J. Christensen, J. H. Hooper and G. A. Lobrech, nf Chicago. : W. B. Miller of Hartford, (mnnectxcut Goldthwaite - of New ‘ Y()rk Pilots Robert Fry and Jess Mathias. i Edward Baker, an ¢ye wit= | ness to the disaster, notified the authorities after seeing the plane explode and crash. Baker did not see the plane in the muggy fog until he heard the explosion. Then he saw the plane crash but a short distance from where he i | was feeding cattle. MADE FOOTBALL HISTORY The combined success of Knute Kenneth Rockne as football player, | coach and strategist seldom has & e ens ek ued on Page Eight) | (CH Gasolme Tax of 16 Cents a Gallon Is Now Threatening Purses of British Autowtfii By TOM WILHELM LONDON, March 31.—An addi- tional gasoline tax of 8 cents a gallon, doubling the present rate, is confronting British motorists The measure is being discussed unofficially in parliamentary circles almost a certain indication that ol Tme exchequer plans to ask for this additional revenue. Americans who may wonder wi their British cousl ride bicycles or motorcycles, or drive the tiny cars known in the United States as “road bugs,” will | find the explanation' in gas prices and license fees. Gasoline of medium grade now costs (with the presel ax) 32 cents’ a gallon in the larger cities and up to 45 cents in outlying neighborhoods . Adding another 8 cent$ would make motor fi2l range from 40 to 53 cents for Em(!n'h | a British | which is 20 the Ameri standard gallon, | cent larger than l measure. To offset the added gas tax, | government is proposing that | annual license fee of $4.86 | horsepower be reduced one-foul Just what the annual fee m |to the motor car owner can learned by simple arithmetic. | dreds of thousands of of moderate means operate cars ¢ 40 horsepower. In England would pay close to $200 a year 1§ their license plates. One popular American auton bile, sold generally with a ard 24-horsepower motor, is ed to English customers with optional engine of 14 at an additional cost of $25. y added cost is saved twice over the reduced license for the year. s