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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NO. 5764 VOL. XXXVIIL, UNITED WINN REPORTS EXCELLENT RUN OF RED SALMON Packers in Bristol Bay; Have 350,000 Case— Escapement Good More than 250,000 cases of sal- mon were packed in the Bristol Bay district during the week end- ing July 4, it was indicated by a message received at local head- quarters of the Bureau of Fisheries from Agent Dennis Winn. The total pack to that date was slightly more than 350,000 cases and the red fish accounted for above 90 percent of the aggregate. On the south side of the Alaska Peninsula the red salmon pack to last Saturday was about 111,000 as compared to 50,000 at the same date in 1930, and the total pack Saturday was 166,844, almost 47,000 cases above the total at the same time last season. On the north side of the penin- sula, the total pack to date is about 28,000 cases as compared to 4,928 “Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp patiently waiting six we last year. Conditions in the Bristol Bay fishery continue to be favorable. Excellent runs and heavy escape- | ment are noted into Kvichak, Nak- | nek and Egegik. Fair run and | escapement are present at Nusha- | gak and a strong improvement has | taken place in Ugashik runs. - RAGING FIRES ARE REPORTED IN CALIFORNIA Blackened Fields in Var- ious Sections Revealed —Cattle Burned SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, July 7.— Ravaging flames in mountain brush and grain fields have left black- ened wastes in more than a dozen different parts of California. Mountain towns and ranch houses have been destroyed. Pastures fell a victim to the onslaught of the flames yesterday. Today hundreds of persons are bending their efforts to quell the spreading flames. Five hundred head of cattle have been burned to death. Scores of summer homes have also been destroyed. —_—————— MISS LEROY VISITS OLD FRIENDS HERE YESTERDAY Miss Mabel LeRoy, former local nurse and now ‘attached to the Government hospital at Unalakleet, visited with friends here yesterday while the steamer Aleutian was in port. -Bhe flew from Unalakleet to Cordova to catch the vessel. She is enroute to the states for an ex- tended vacation. e, First Native \ W ashington Son Passes Away COL. LINDBERGH T0 ESTABLISH FUEL STATIONS Japanese Government Grants Permission for Dump in Kuriles TOKYO, July 7~The Aviation "Burcau announced today that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has been \granted permission to establish fuel Island; Kakumabetsu and Para- mushir, all in the Kuriles, to aid him on his proposed flight from the United States to Japan. POST, GATTY GREETED BY PRES.HOOVER Globe Circl—i;g_ Fliers Are Guests for Day at White House WASHINGTON, D. C, July 7.— Personal congratulations from Pres- ident Hoover were extended yester- day to Wiley Post and Harold Gat- ty for their globe circling - flight. They posed with the President on the White House lawn shortly be- fore going to lunch with the Pres- ident in the Executive Mansion Cabinet members. Post and Gatty arrived here by train as weather prevented them flying here with their wives and backer Hall. OLYMPIA, Wash, July 7— Christopher Columbus Simmons, aged 86, described by historians and biographers as the state’s first native son, died here at the home of a daughter. A widow, eight children, 22 grand 'children and 16 great grand children survive. Christopher Columbus Sim- mons had been ill for several months. He is declared to have been the first white child to have been born north and west of the Columbia River. GEN. ATTERBURY IS ON CRUISE KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 7— Gen: W. W. Atterbury, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and his family, arrived here Sunday. He outfitted his yacht Monday and plans to go to the Pribilofs to see the seal herds. Gen Atterbury will cruise in Alaskan waters until next month. _F oreign Colonies Opening Career to PARIS, July 7—Ambitious French women, unable to obtain their “rights” at home, have gone to the colenies where they found no prej- udice against entering public ser- vice. This revelation came out in the discussion of a bill in parliament calling for woman suffrage. The work of these women in the countries of hot sun and semi-civ- ilized peoples is being used as prop- aganda to break the tradition that woman's place is secondary to man’s. That tradition is especially hard set in the French senate, which has- spiked all efforts to give women a French Women voice in public affairs. Colonial activities of women who left their homeland have been con- glene and the raising of maternity standards. One woman: created the first co- lonial library. Another interested herself in the legal status of wom- en and began a movement to raise their social standard. Groundwork for these accom- plishments was laid by wives of commercial men whom business fotced to live in the colonies. They were followed by university trained women who- thrived in the free af- mosphere. : would be an appropriate song for the great influx of di- yorce seeking men and women to hum as they putter around their tents erected on the outskirts of Reno, | Nev., as an answer to the hotels which are unable | to accommodate them in the famous divorce oasis. | Hundreds are now sleeping in these tents while im- | for their final decrees | dumps at Muroton Bay, Shimushiru ' where he was surrounded by his centrated on hospital work, hy-. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1931, 'I:ented7C1ty Rises on Divorce Oasis Grounds’ mill. Even the get together an the Tented City right), driving a many waiting fo! barring such canvas colonies. ing the oasis in the desert of married life. to be ground out by the well-oilea Reno diverce councilmen of the “Capital” had to d pass a new ordinance permitting to exist contrary to an older law Leona Sherman (at stake for her tent, is but one, of r their final papers before departs Wanted. Babies (TET The “tiniest aviatrix in the world,” Margery Brown (above), was granted a divorce in Reno the other day when she said that while she loved babigs, her husband, Sanford Brown, millionaire manu- facturer, forbade her to have any- Margery is only four feet eleven inches tall and when she took her first solo flight in 1927 at New ork, she had to sit on a soap box and pillow to see above the cockpit. YOSHIHARA TO - ADD KODIAK T0 LANDING CALLS Japanese Flier Changes Itinerary to Provide for Two More Stops A new itinerary for his proposed flight from Tokyo to San Francis- co has been adopted by 8. Yoshi- hara, Japanese flyer, which adds Kodiak and Portland, Ore., as stops |according to official advices receiv- ed by Gov. George A. Parks. The | Japanese aviator is ready with a new plane and waiting for favor- 'able weather to make his hop. The start, sald advices received by the Governor, will be made not later than August 3. Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian chain, has been selected as an emergency landing place. In his original attempt to make the flight, Yoshihara came to grief and wrecked his plane. A new ship has been provided for his use It bears the markings “J-BESB". With a view of providing him with comprehensive weather re- | ports, Japanese vessels will be sta- tioned in the Aleutians, taking | weather observations and keeping 'him posted on conditions in that ia.rea el i o/ Former Lord Mayor | of London Is Dead; { Operation Is Fatal LONDON, July 7—Willlam Wat- erlow, aged 60 years, Lord Mayor of London, in 1929 and 1980, is dead. He underwent an operation for ab-! dominal trouble and never rallied. joppey S ars CORDOVA BANKER ENROUTE SOUTH FOR MEDICAL AID Thomas S. Scott, prominent Cor- dova, banker and former member of the Alaska -Legislature, visited friends here yesterday while. the Aleutian was in port. He Is en- route o the States on account of Aun:unh. seeking medical aid. Ted" By~ Jimmy Matern and PLANE STARTS FORFAIRBANKS; ATWHITEHORSE |Refuellers for Robbins and - Jones Winging Way | to Interior The Ford tri-motor airplane; pg:l- | Greener, enroute to Fairbanks and Nome to refuel the Robbins-Jones plane on the Seattle-Toyko non- stcp flight, landed at Whitehorse at 8 o'clock this morning accord- Empire's McLach- lan. The plane refuelled and left Whitehorse at 11 o'clock this fore- noon for Fairbanks. The refuelling plane was forced back to Telegraph Creek yesterday by storms in the vicinity of Atlin. |1t took the air early this morn- ing, when the weather cleaved, and Imade a fast flight to Whitehorse. Mattern and Greener told Corres- pondent McLachlan that they will probably accompany the Robbins- Jones plane into Siberia for final refuelling and then return to Nome. The nonstop plane will be re- fuelled over Fairbanks and Nome by Mattern and Greener. correspondent OFF MAYBE TOMORROW SEATTLE, July 7—If the refuel- ling plant reaches Fairbanks to- day, Robbins and Jones will prob- ably hop off from here tomorrow morning. NEW PLANET DISCOVERE Japanese Observatory: Makes Announcement of Latest Find KYOTO, Japan, July 7—The dis- covery of a new planetoid by the Astronomical Observatory is an- nounced. It is calculated to be about 11,000 miles in diameter and Ithe distance is figured at 180,000~ 000 miles. $ The position of the new planetoid is given as in the aréa south of |the “Snake Charmer” constella- tion, $ DISCOYERY DOUBTED PASADENA, Cal, July 7—Dr. W. 8. Adams; head of the Mount Wilson Observatory, said he doubt- ed the discovery of the planet reported from Kyoto, He said lone that large would have been discovered before now. Queen Helen to 'Go Into Exile, France BUCHAREST, July 7.—Queen Helen and Prince Michael have igone to a palace on the Black Sea jat Mamaia to spend the summer. She is expected to shortly go into exile in France and will be de= |prived of the companionship of {Michael when she returns to visit 1hlm at intervals, to be determincd by King Carol. ing to advices received from The |, PORTLANDCANAL TOWNS T0 JOIN IN CELEBRATION Cov: Park:h—flay Attend Mining Carnival There July 18, 19 and 20 An internatienal celebration, in Stewart and Premier, B. C., will Join in a demonstration of mining and its progress, will be staged in the Portland canal towns on July 18, 19, and 20, according to ad- vices recelved by Gov. George A. Parks, who has conditionally ac- cepted an invitation to attend the ceremonies. The Governor expressed a keen desire to be present and said if his official duties here did not make it impossible he would make the trip. The ‘arrival here of a Congressional delegation on July 21, and other official visitors about him from attending. The three communities are plan- ning an elaborate program for the three days. A feature will be a procession depicting a “Mining Pa- rade of Progress,” in which will be prospectors, packhorses, trucks, miniature mine and mill, steamship and bank floats. It will show all operations from the location of a mining clalm to the return of ore. The sports program will specialize in ‘mining, including rock drilling contests with four or five teams competing, mucking and tramming | contests, and boxing matches. A banquet to visiting dignitaries will be tendered at the Premier Mine. A sightseeing trip up Tex- as Creek to the glaclers will be taken. The U. 8 8. Defroit will be in port at Hyder for the entire cele- bration. It will be the first Amer- ican warship ever to visit there. INTER-RACIAL CLASH, KORER Thirty -seven Reported Dead—Police on Guard in Trouble Center TOKYO, July 7—The most seri- ous inter-racial clash In Korea in recent years left 37 dead and police are protecting the Chinese colonies |in Chemulpo and Pingyang against further possible violence. The Koreans, incensed over the inter-racial trouble of July 1, swept through the Chinese colony and at- tacked resident with bamboo sticks. Hundreds were injured and scores of residences were destroyed. The rioters numbered about 7,000. The trouble started when 500 Chinese attacked 200 Koreans at Janpaoshan because of Chinese ob- Jections to Koreans being employed jon .an irrigation project. TROOPS DISPATCHED L TOKYO, July 7—The War Of- fice announces a movement of Jap- anese troops to the scenes of clashes between Chinese and Kor- eans which in two days have re- sulted in 82 deaths and hundreds of injured. LIVES SAVED BY SOFT SNOW Portland Men Fall Into Crevasse on Mount Rain- ier — Await Rescue RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Washington, July 7.—While cre- vasses of Mount Ralnier and Nis- qually Glacler, weakened by the sun, sent rumbling threats against the searchers for Robert K. Zinn's body, O. G. Brady and Calvin Quinlan, of Portland, are recover- ing from a ‘similar slide of more than 1,000 feet and a fall of 60 or 70 feet to the bottom of a cre- vasse. Only soft snow saved them from being killed. They are bruis- ed and too weak to escape and are waiting rescue. Zinn, also of Portland, went 800 feet from the top of Mount Rai- nier, slid and dropped over Nis- qually Glacler a distance of 1200 feet and was instantly killed last Sunday. SO A e ST SITKA MAN SENTENCED Nicholas Dick, Sttka, convicted of violating the Alaska Bone Dry Law, was sentenced by Judge R. W. De- Armond to serve three months in which the towns of Hyder, Alaska, | | that time, may operate to prevent | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS What the Moratorium Means WHAT MORATORIUM WOULD COST CREDITOR NATIONS IN INCOME DURING 1931 AND 1932, | $ 246,000,000 476,000,000 000, OOIL $41.000,000 UNITED GREAT [ | stares Brrran FRANCE I STOCK PRICES TUMBLE AFTER OPENING SALE Selling Lightens During Afternoon and Lists Show Stiffening NEW YORK, July 7. — Traders anxious to cash in on the good news regarding international debts caused the stock market to turn distinotly reactionary after opening advances of 1 to more than 3 points were chalked up in the first few minutes of trading and this| was replaced by net losses of 1 to more than 6 points. Selling lighteped in the early afternoon and the list stiffened a little. Losses appeared in U. 8. Steel, American Telephone, Bethle hem Steel, New York Central, Southern Pacific, Atchison, American Can, American Foreign Power, Johns- Manville, Allied Chemical, Air Re- duction, Eastman and Case. Auburn pushed up more than 4 points and reacted to a loss of 15 points. Important banking quarters ex- plained the reaction should not be interpreted as reflecting on any cooling enthusiasm over the debt moratorium. The Street feels the stage has been set for a business recovery although it may be slow. Sl ———— TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS . | | . NEW YORK, July 7—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14; American Can 1087%, Anaconda Copper 28, Beth- lehem Steel 49%, Fox Films 19, | General Motors 37, International Harvester 43%, Kennecott 24, Checker Cab 11%, 10%, 10%, Cur- tiss-Wright 3%, Hudson Bay 5, Packard Motors 7%, Standard Brands 17%, Standard Oil of Call- fornia 37%, Standard Ofl of New Jersey 37%, Trans-America T%, United Alrcraft 27%, U. 8. Steel| 98%. - Ida Vera Simonton Dies in New York NEW YORK, July 7—Ida Vera Simonton, aged 60, authority on American Life, and author of the novel “Hell's Playground,” which inspiration was the stage play “White Cargo,” died here after a long illness which followed two re- | cent operations, e J. A. Willlams of the engineer's office of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, was a passen-| ger on the southbound Princess Alice this morning. He does not expect to make a prolonged visit | to the states. s £425000,000 BELGIM, crrmaNY | @ TALY vucosLAVIA AND OTHERS The chart shows the amounts the one year moratorium on war debts and reparations will cost the various creditor nations in income | during the one year holiday and how much Germany will be richer for the year. The figures are approximate. Year’s Debt and Repara-' tions Holiday Just Drop' in American Financial Bucket — Possibilities Are Staggering By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, D. C., July 7.— Reduced to its direct cash effect on the pocketbooks of American taxpayers, President Hoover’s pro- posal for a year's debt and repara- | tlon holiday is but a drop in the American financial bucket, Measured by the indirect effect an economic or political collapse in Germany might have on individual Americans, the possibilities of the holiday are staggering, What Mr. Hoover proposed to Europe is that the United States forego for a year annual payments from France, Italy, England, Bel- glum and other former allied coun- tries concerned, aggregating some- thing llkke a quarter of a billion dollars, In return those countrles will forego for the same period equiva- lent war reparations payments from Germany. ‘The theory is that Germany, giv- en that ald, can weather not only the ecgnomic crisis which makes her the greatest natlonal victim of the world depression, but also the internal political chaos which now threatens her middle-of-the-road republican government. See Start of World Up-Swing If Germany can start up hill agaln eeonomically, then world re- covery of business .and industry may be considered definitely begun, many officials feel, In the United States, acceptance of the President’s proposal and its ratification by Congress will mean that about a quarter of a billion' dollars in the revenues on which bugetary computations for the next fiscal year are now based will not be avallable during that year. Whether Congress shall decide to make good that sum, as well as the home deficit now running close to the billlon mark, by increasing tax- es or in other ways, remains to be seen, The additional amount any indi- | vidual taxpayer will have to pay | due to walving debts payments,! both principal and interest, for a| year could be figured out only after | revenue legislation is completed. | Obviously, howeyer, the increased sums an Indlvidual taxpayer willl (Centinued on Page Three) ' PRICE TEN CENTY STATES, FRANCE, SIGN WAR DEBT ACCORD MORATORIUM FOR ONE YEAR {Hoover's Holiday Plan on Reparations Acted Upon Favorably |CREDITOR NATIONS JOIN IN AGREEMENT |[Paymen ts_?y Germany Suspended — Gratitude | Expressed by Officials WASHINGTON, D. C., July 7.—The accord between the |United States and France for a one year moratorium on inter-governmental payments is announced by President !Hoover who has been in close |touch with Secretary of {Treasury Mellon and Ambas- sador Edge, in Paris. | It is also said that all im- | portant creditors have accept- fl to World Businresrs;r T i Likely to Offset Loss Of Europe’s Payments TEXT OF AGREEMENT | PARIS, July 7—With the ink hardly dry on the docu- {ments establishing President Hoover’s moratorium, nego- tiations are already under way for a meeting of experts to work out the technical is- sues involved in the Franco- American portocol accepting Hoover’s plan. Such a conference may be held this week but it is more ,:thfln likely to go over until next week because of the French National Holiday on July 14, | The text of the agreement lists the following chief stip- ulatigns: E Payment of inter - govern- mental war debts postponed from July 1 to June 30, next year., | - Germany to pay uncondi- :,tioonal annuity' under the | Young Plan to the Bank of International Settlem ents which in turn will reloan it to Germapy and suspended ;payments are to be subject to interest to be repayable in ten annual installments. GRATITUDE OF GERMANS BERLIN, July 7.—The signing of |the moratorium agreement was (‘greeted with gratitude by officials and commoners. Foreign Minister Curtius express- ed elation. “It is the very highest time, not only for us but for all {concerned. What American Secre- |tary of Treasury Mellon did is (Continued on Page Three) ——ee— Mechanical Brain iInvented; Is {Lightning Calculator CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July 7. —The invention of a mechani- cal brain, whose gray matter is mostly light, is announced by | the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The brain is a calculating machine and makes use of light by a trick almost as simple as cutting out paper dolls. The brain performs in a few minutes mathematical problems which by human brains and hands require hours and days. It analyzes graphs by turn- ing them into light. War Debt Holiday in Brief WASHINGTON, D. C, July 7.—The moratorium on war debts and reparations will cost the United States about $246,000,000 in income for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Great Britain and France will lose approximately $20,000,000 and $96,000,000 respectively, these amounts the excess of their reparation money due from Germany over their debts to other countries. Italy will lose more than $8,000,000. The combined loss of the | other allies is placed at approximately $41,000,000. Germany will be richer by .some $425000,000, her reparations bill for the year. Only inter-governmental obligations will be affected by the sus- pension of payments. IS ggpnnven‘