The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL., NO.5713. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1931. 'PRICE TEN CENTY BIG LOSS CAUSED BY FIRE IN BUFFALO ARMORY SWEPT BY FLAMES IN EARLY MORNING Blaze Spreads to Surround- fing District While Raging HOME DWELLERS FIGHT FIRE FROM HOUSE TOPS One Structure Destroyed with Loss of Seven Million Dollars BUFFALO, N. Y., May 6. —The fire that swept through the 160th Field Artillery Ar- mory and caused damage es-!: timated at more than $7,- 000,000 was brought under control this morning. The blaze spread during the night and one nearby church; was destroyed, the loss being | AQueen’s Necklace Showing the magnificent string | $50,000. More than fifty firemen were overcome. All were treated and then discharged from the hospitals. A panic spread through the! neighborhood as fire brands scat- | tered far and wide. Several near-| by buildings caught fire. House-, holders stood on roofs of their! homes and fought the brands with! wet blankets and garden hose. | Records, 100 years old, stored away in the armory were destroyed. The fire started in the basement. ———— FOURTEEN DIE IN FIRES THAT RAGE N JAPAN Thousands Are Homeless in One Section—Series of Blazes i TOKYO, Japan, May 7.—Four- teen Japanese were burned to death and property valued at $2,000,000 has been destroyed in a series of fires sweeping various Japanese! communities today. | The most destructive fire was at Yamanaka Hot Springs in Iskikawa Prefecture. Four persons were burned to death there and thirty hotels' have been destroyed. Hun- dreds of persons have been in- jured and 4,000 are homeless. Fire destroyed 800 dwellings and four persons met death at Yoko-| hama. Sixty dwellings have been burn- | ed in Tokyo and six persons lost| their lives. — e+ TODAY’ STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 7. — Cloalng; quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 13%, American Can! of emeralds which she will wear to the Charity Carnival, at Madison Square Garden, New York, Mrs“ Jean Bertschmann {s pictured| above. The emeralds are consid-! ered to be the finest of their kind in the world. Given to his Em , Mumats Mahal, by Shal gahan. builder of the Taj Mahal| the jewels have only recently beer | .acquired in this country. COPPER PRICE AT LOW LEVEL; SALES SMALL Further Reduction at Mines Operated by Compan- ies Is Possible NEW YORK, May 7—Sales of| copper by customs smelters of 9 cents delivered were reported yes- terday. The price represents a de- cline of a quarter of a cent from the smelter’s previous asked price | and is the lowest level in more than 37 years. Sales are extremely slow and pro- |ducers largely are unwilling to sell | at current prices. It is reported that officials of several leading copper companies and affiliated banking interests have discussed a plan for further) reduction in copper production at |the mines operated by the Ameri-| can companies. It was said the plan was expected to raise prices sufficiently to permit of profitable operations. . USES HAMMER | T0 KILL FVE BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss., May 7. —Five persons were slain in their 106%, Anaconda Copper 26%, Beth- home. The authorities believe they lehem Steel 44, Fox Films 18, Gen-, were killed by A. W. Carter, 8 eral Motors 42%, Granby Consoli- farmer, whose body was located a dated 13%, International Harvest-| er 49%, Kennecott 20%, Packard | Motors 7%, Standard Brands 17%,! Standard Oil of California 37, Stan- | ard Oil of New Jersey 37%, United Aircraft 28%, U. 8. Steel 111, Cur-| tiss-Wright, 3%, Hudson Bay 4%, Checker Cab 10% 10%, 10, Califor- nia Packing 25%. short distance away. The dead are Mrs. Carter, the farmer’s wife; Mrs. Nora " Carter, aged 38; two children, Martha aged 9 and Mary aged 8, and Miss Anne Jefferies, aged 65 years. The five had been beaten to death with a hammer. Carter shot himself. Texas-to-Panama Highway Bl_ocked by Lack of Funds SAN SALVADOR, May 7.—Unit-| ed States money must be forth- | coming if Salvador is to build her link in the international highway planned to run from the Texas border to the Panama Canal. Officials of this republic believe that other Central American Gov- ernments are in the same boat. Dr. Francisco Espinoza, Minister of Finance, said the Salvadorean share of the project would cost $5,000,000. But already the customs receipts of the country are pledged to New York banks for paving and other public works loans and until or the coffee situation improves there is no other sourte of income in sight. The recenj Pan-American high- way conference at Panama esti- mated the construction costs for each of the Central American na- tions as follows: Costa Rica and Guatemala. $12.- 000,000 each; Nicaragua, $10,000,- 000; Salvador, $5,000,000; Honduras and Panama, $3,500,000 each. LARGE DEFICIT | ro:- REPORTED FROM U, S. TREASURY Has Reache—tiFNearly One Billion Dollars Up to May Fourth ONE OF TWO POLICIES MUST BE ADOPTED i(Chairman of Appropria- tions Committee Makes His Assertions WASHINGTON, D. C,, May 7.— ‘The Treasury deficit reached $903,- 320,757 on May 4. The statement showed that dur- ing the present fiscal year the overnment collected from all sources $2,694,632,531 and cpent $3,- 508,003,288, The present deficit of the Treas- ury, of nearly one billion dollars is extremely high as compared with $152,950,984 on the same day last year, May 4. DRASTIC REDUCTION OR INCREASED TAXES WASHINGTON, D. C, May 7.— Chairman Wood, of the Appropria- tions Committee, said either a astic reduction in Government xpenditures or an increase in tax- es will be necessary at the next session of Congress. He made this statement after accepting an invi- tation made by President Hoover that he attend the first of a series jof conferences with heads of Gov- ernment ‘Departments at Hoover's Virginia camp this week-end with a view of finding' means of reducing Federal outlays. Burning Oil Well at Last Nine Workmen Perish in Earlier Attempts to Conquer Fire GLADEWATER, Texas, May 7.— The Sinclair oil well which has been burning eight days was ex- tinguished late last.night with a shot of nitroglycerine. Nine workmen fost their lives in the fire in an earlier attempt to «put the blaze out. NEW ONE IS SPRUNG NOW BY GENERAL Butler Relates, Perhafis for First Time, How He Was a Spy - * PHILADELPHIA, Penn., May 7.— Gen. Smedley D. Butler told the members of the United States Asso- ciation at their dinner last nigh! that he served in 1914 in Mexico as a spy, obtaining information for ‘Woodrow Wilson, then President of the United States, and when rela- tions with the Mexican Govern- ment headed by Huerta was strain- ed because of the Vera Cruz inci- dent.” Gen. Butler said he posed as a bibliophile, capitalist, author and accountant and obtained an order from Mexican President Huerta, when he was “drunk” to enter the army barracks in Mexico City “to examine the men at close range, examine the equipment and count the guns,” for which he won his first Congressional Medal of Hon- Gen. Butler said: “This yarn has not hitherto been published and I do not know whether the Mexican Ambassador to the United States will take a shot at it or before tell- ing it perhaps 1 ought to really jump down to Mexico City and see if the Palace where I obtained the order from Huerta is really there.” ————— At the age of is seeking the Muskogee county, Oklahoma. Extinguishedl ~lier | When Hugh' Herndon, Jr. of New York, starts the round-the-world flight which he is planning to make with Clyde H. Pangborn sometime next month, he will have no more enthusiastic rooter than Miss Ellen Farley, prominent in Albany, N. Y. society, whose engagement to the flier has been announced The happy pair is shown above, PATROLIS TO. AID YOSHIHARA Five Vessels to Westward Ready to Be of Assist- ance to Flier NEMURO, Japan, May 7.— Stormy weather forced Seiji Yoshihara, Japanese flier, at- tempting to fly to San Francis- co via Alaska, to return to this port several hours after taking off this morning for Murotan Bay, Kuriles Island, on the third leg of his trans-Pacific flight. GOAST GUAKD PATROL In the event of any untoward in- cident happening to Sleji Yoshi- hara, Japanese flier, in the neigh- borhood of the Aleutian Islands, United States Coast Guard cutters, which are now patroling those waters, will give him every assis- tance in their power. Four or five cutters of the Ber- ing Sea fleet are cruising along the western islands of the Aleutian chain to be ready to act in emer- gencies, according to unofficial ra- dio advices received in Juneau to- day from Unalaska. Official infornfation was trans- mitted today to Collector of Cus- toms J. 'C. McBride by his dep- uty Durrell Finch, at Unalaska, to the effect that the Japanese steam- ship Forol has put into port there and had reported that she had cached oil and gasoline on Att1 and Anchitka islands for Yoshihara's; airplane. 1In acordance with instructions re- cently issued by the collector; the Forol was not delayed in her mis- sion by the enforcement of customs regulations. Baby Found Alive After 5 Hours In Abandoned Well GENEVA, Wis, May 7.—Aft- cr five hours’ imprisonment in an abandoned well, Carroll, cight-months’-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brower, was found alive last night by res- cuers. THhe baby apparently suffered no ill-effects. The child’s father drove over the well with a motor truck causing a cave-in. The child, toddling along later, fell through the opening which was large enough to admit an adult. —————— ‘The city council of West Univer- sity Place, a Houston, Tex., sub 84 J. P. Ledbetter |urb, has organized an employme) post of sheriff of |bureau to make the population 100|pair of runaway horses recently at percent workers, RUSHES NORTH T0 SEE PLANE Gilbert Skinner Reaches Ketchikan from Rup- ert by Airplane AL DANO HAS EVEN CHANCE TO RECOVER 3 'C. J. Alexander Probably in Hospital for Next Three Months KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 7.—A | plane of the Alaska-Warhington Airways, piloted by Gene Meyring, {brought Gilbert Skinner, President jof the Alaska Pacific Salmon Cor- | poration here where two officials of ithe company are in a serious con- | ditlon, here as the result of the | plane crash lasteSunday at Karta :Lake in which Steve Selig was killed. |~ Pilot Meyring picked up Skinner and Mrs. Skinner at Prince Rupert from the motorship Northland. Al Dano, Assistant to C. J. Alex- | ander, General Superintendent of the Alaska Pacific Salmon Corpor- ation,” is given an even chance to recover. Alexander, who suffered both legs broken in two places, fac- jes three months in the hospital. Pilot James Dodson, whose hero- ism probably saved both Dano and | Alexander, is recovering from his injuries. The funeral of Selig will be held Saturday under the auspices of the Rubber B 021 t Picked Up Is Not Renehans {Indian Make?find on Zayas Island but Owner- ship Denied rubber boat picked up by an In- dian yesterday on Zayas Island was first thought to be from the Ren- ahan plane, lost last October, Ross Cunningham, of the Alaska-Wash- ington Airways, for which Rena- (han worked, said he did not believe the boat was Renahan’s on account of the color. ‘The boat found on Zayas Island was yellow whereas Cunningham gray. Also the Zayas Island boat was folded and tied to the sides by ropes, while Renahan’s boat was packed in a bag. Zayas Island is about 35 miles south of Percy, Islands, Alaska, where the rubber wheels of Rena- han’s plane were found on the beach. il CHIEF JUSTICE SUPREME COURT MAKES APPEAL {Urges Organization for Col- lecting of Crime Statistics | WASHINGTON, D. C, May 7— | Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (of the Supreme Court of the United | States today recommended to the | American Law Institute that an |“adequate organization be main- tained by the Department of Jus- tice for collection and arrangement of criminal statistics to be pub- lished by the Government which has been severely criticized in the report of the Law Enforcement Commission. There are major de- feets with respect to crime.” Chairman Wickersham of the | Law Enforcement Commission, urg- led the American Law Institute be- gin an intensive study on the crim- inal law with a view of aiding the fight on crime, L R It took an automobile to halt a | Clafin, Kas. CRASH VICTIMS SEATTLE, May 7.—Although the | said Renahan’s emergency boat was | Fir President Hoover receives the first ibled veterans, from little Hazel V Michigan. 108t of the Chief Executive. WIDENING OF | LOWER FRONT STREET URGED | Important Road Matters Get Chamber of Com- merce’s Attention Widening of lower Front Street, improvement of the Basin Road, support of business men in the States of the International High- way project, progress in plans for‘, acquirement by the Federal govern- ment of the block of land in front | of the Capitol and embellishment of the property with a statue of Sew- ard, and affiliation with the Ter- ritorial Chamber of Commerce were the chief subjects discussed at the noon luncheon meeting today of the! Juneau Chamber of Commerce. Widening of lower Front Street |from the City Cafe to the Juneau Lumber Mills, by the municipality is urged in the immediate future because of the decision of the United States Forest Service to reconstruct at once at an expense of $200,000, the Juneau-Thane unit of the Glacier Highway system. City’s Share Is Small “I understand,” said G. H.| | Walmsley, secretary of the Cham- |ber, “that the Forestry Service's work will begin at the Juneau Lum- | ber Mills .and proceed toward ‘Thane, leaving cnly the short stretch between the City Cafe and the Lumber Mills for the City to take care of.” The widening project will receive the immediate attention of the| special committee that has had the| proposed improvement under con- sideration, declared Allen Shattuck, | the committee chairman. Other| members of the committee are Roy Rutherford and H. I. Lucas. “We shall confer with M. D. Williams, Distriet Engineer of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, who has made plans for the Thane road reconstruction,” said Mr. Shattuck, “with a view to gaining his cooperation in the city’s project.” Basin Road Repairs Complaint against the poor con- dition of the Basin Road was sub- mitted by R. E. Robertson. | Dr. W. W. Council, president of | the Chamber, requested the Civic Improvement Committee to investi- gate the condition of the road and to make recommendations at next week's meeting. | Major Malcolm Elliott, president of the Alaska Road Commission, ‘in a formal letter notified the Cham- | ber that the United States Cham- ber of Commeres had indorsed the | proposal for thorough investigation of the engineering feasibility of the proposed International Highway. Supplementing the letter, Major El- liott expressed gratification at the action of the United States Cham- ber and for himself and for his associates on the International high- way Commission thanked the Ju- neau Chamber and other commun- ity chambers in Alaska for their activities in interesting the United States Chamber in the project. (Continued on Page Eight) i st Poppy for President lat 4% SOLDIERS ARE DISPATCHED TO | TROUBLE SCENE “buddy poppy,” made by the dis- iola Markinson, of Easton Rapids, The seven-year-old girl was raised up by Paul C. Wolman, Jommander-in-Chief of the V. F. W., as she vinned the poppy to the CLAM DIGGERS, FISHERMEN ON REDUCED PRIC 'New Scale Goes Into Effect at Cordova Because of Depression CORDOVA, Alaska, May 7.—The clam diggers and fishermen are ac- cepting reduced prices for work ow- ing to the present depression. The clam diggers are roturning to work cents a pound for clams They were out for one day. The Independent fishermen are accepting 27% cents for red salmon, but with gas, oil, bread and some other supplies furnisned, and $1.25 for kings under the same condi- dions, Last year the fishermen received 30 cents for red salmon and $1.50 for kings without supplies. - e WAGHORN DIES FROM INJURIES Maker of Speed Record in 1929 Is Victim of Plane Crash ALDERSHOT, England, May 7.— Flight Lieutenant H. R. D. Wag" horn, who retained the Schneider {Cup for England in 1929, with a speed of 328 miles an hour, died today as the result of injuries re- ceived in a plane crash near Farn- borough last Tuesday. His plane went out of commission and he jumped in a parachute. The wind Troops Armed with Rifles | and Machine Guns i Sent to Evarts FIVE MEN ARE DEAD, | RESULT OF DISORDER Men Reported Picketed on Tops of Houses to Resist Invasion HARLAN, Kentucky, May 7.—More than 300 members of the Kentucky National | Guard, armed with rifles and A‘mzzchine guns and accompan- \ied by a tank, marched to the coal fields near Evarts where laber disorders have so far st five lives and much de- struction. | | Most of the force of the | National Guard assembled in | London last night and were ! jeined by others at Pineville | this mprning. What will be found in the hills has not been established. | Reports sald some of the women \and children have evacuated the district. | Men, many armed, are cangregat- |ing in the. streets listening to | speeches of their leaders. | Infantry and cavalry are pro- ceeding to Evarts. A medical corps is also among the contingent. Gov. Flem D. Sampson said: “The troops will police the cem- munity at Evarts, protecting those who behave and taking charge of | those who do not.” Two terrific blast swere heard in the hills near Evarts this fore- noon and deputies were sent to investigate. NO TRACE OF EXPLOSION HARLAN, May 7.—No trace of explosions resulted from the inves- tigation made by deputies. Latest reports said that armed men are reported at the top of houses in and around Evarts ap- parently awaiting troops under command of Col. Dan Carrell, vet- eran of the World War and Mexi- | can border trouble in 1916. TROOPS ARRIVE HARLAN, May 7.—Soldiers from 15 cities have arrived here by bus, auto and special trains. There i have been no demonstrations. Per- sons lined the streets. Military of- | ficers conferred with leaders of ‘civic organizations and the authori- | ties. | b 1$30 KEEPS ONE FAMILY 1 MONTH ! RALEIGH, N. C., May 7—The { dashed Waghorn to the ground state board of charities has found half a mile from where the plane’'a widowed mother who has been , struck and was wrecked. | keeping herself and five children —.-e - and sending them to school on WOULD TAX GEMS AND FURS $30.62 a month. The sum of $15 a | BRIDPORT, England.—Taxes | lipsticks, jewelry, furs and e month was given from the mother’s aid fund. The mother spent $7.93 pensive motor cars were advocat- a month for staple groceries, 12 i fornia, ed by Miss F. L. Josephy when the National League of Young Li 1 met here. Will Gather als | Eight Thousand Rotarians cents a month for light and fuel and clothed the family for $6.81 a month. | | | at Vienna at World Meeting During June VIENNA, May 7.—This “jewe city of the Danube” will be the hub of Rotary’s wheel in June when 8,000 delegates from all parts of the world attend the sessions of In- ternational Rotary Three thousand Americans ar expected. The first group from the United States is scheduled to em- bark at New York June 3. Five others will follow up to June 10. The opening session here June 22 will be p! od over by Almon E. Roth, Stanford university, Cali- dent of International Rotary. Roth’s successor will be elected at this year's gathering. Arrangements similar to those a, \* Ostend four years ago are being made to entertain the visitors. Sessions of the convention will follow the lines of the Chicago meeting last year where the dele- gates were divided into groups ilong commercial lines. Technical problems of the steel, wool, cottom, leather and iron industries will be discussed. Enroute the American delegation will be joined by Rotarians from England JFrance and other north- | ern European countries. | International Rotary now eclaims | 155,000 ‘affiliates in 3,400 cities,