The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 4, 1931, Page 1

5 - - HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5815. PRICE TEN CENTS OLD DAYS ARE REVIVED:RANGE MEN IN BATTLE Cattleman Is Killed by Sheep Man in Cali- fornia Section SLAYER IS ABSOLVED BY CORONER’S JURY Authorities ‘T-a—ke Hand—' Make Arrest, Pend- ing Investigation YREKA, Cal, Sept. 4—Page out the Old West when cattle and sheep men battled with guns over range land. An old-West drama has been en- acted and one cattleman is dead and a shéep raiser is in jail. Fred McManus, aged 60 years, was shot by Tom Flournoy, aged 50 years. The argument started over a fence between the adjoining ranges in Tehama County. Flournoy erected a barrier to keep‘ the cattle owned by McManus off the sheep range. The two men met in a store yes- terday afternoon ,both with rifles, in the little town of Bray. Flournoy asked McManus out- side the store and opened fire without any words being spoken, witnesses said. McManus was shot in the chest. Flournoy handed his rifle to a bystander and surrendered. A coroner’s inquest absolved Flournoy on account of self-defense, but the authorities are holding him pending further investigation. HAWKS'RECORD | It was a heavy engagement whe; Harry A. Rowher filed their intention to wed in Los Angeles. young bridegroom tips the scales in Hawaii, 'ANNOUNCEMENT CARRIES WEIGHT Assocated Press Photo and The at 787 pounds. They'll honeymoon n Merida Caswell, 1i0 poun SUNBEAU AND TWENTY GRAND IN GREAT DUEL, World's Greatest Money| Winner and Kentucky | : Derby Hero to Race [ ikl S SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, Sept. 4—A fifty thousand dollar race will take a back seat tomorrow at the Spa course when Bunbeau and Twenty Grand and a few oth- er horses will battle specifically for IS BEATEN BY JIM DOOLITTLE Crosses Continent in 11 Hours, 10 Minutes, the honor of winning the $5,000 added Saratoga Cup. Financially HOOVER IS T0 GIVE ADDRESS AT YORKTOWN President to Speak at An- niversary Celebration, October 18 WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 4— The celebration of the one hun- dred and fiftleth anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis, at Yorktown, is to be observed on October 18, will be attended by President Hoover. The President will deliver an ad- INDIANS CLAIM AUK TRACT BY Answer IS—F_il::d in Case Growing Out of Occu- pancy of Public Beach cupancy dating back hundreds of years, an answer was filed in the United States district court bhere yesterday in the Auk ¥illage public | campsite case, instituted several | weeks ago by Federal authorities seeking to prevent use of the grounds for home building purposes by a large number of persons. The chief defendants are Willlam Mur- phy and two sons, Miles and Ed- ward, and two daughters, Mabel and Elsie. Mr. Murphy's wife, now deceased, ‘was a member of the Auk tribe, and a large number of other mem- bers of the same tribe are named in the same action which was brought by the United States For- Service after Mr. Murphy had un construction of a cabin on the tract which is located north of A | Auk Bay. Seeks Permanent Injunction ANCIENT USAGE | Claiming rights of use and oc- LOCAL FEDERAL COURT IGNORES LAST JURY LAW !Judge Harding Instructs Clerk to Draw Juries Under Act of 1925 That jurors in the Federal court in this Division, for the present at least, will continue to be drawn under the provisions of the Terri- torial jury law of 1925 notwith- standing the existence of a newer act, passed last Spring, that re- peals the 1925 statute was indi- cated today by Federal Judge Jus- tin W. Harding. Jury lists now being prepared in the office of Clerk of Court for a forthcoming term of court here will follow the requirements of the old law, it was announced. Both grand and petit jurors will be drawn within a few days, and im- paneled on or about October 1. No court order has yet been signed by Judge Harding. He sald today that the grand jury would report for duty on October 1, and it any cases are to be ready for |trial then, the petit jury will report at the same time. If there are no FOREST FIRES RAVAGE IDAHO ‘ 'NO WORD FROM "EXPEDITION FOR PASTFIVEDAYS Relief Organizaton Planned ‘ to Go in Arctic Regions SOME BELIEVE THERE IS NO ANXIETY, YET 'Wireless Experts Doubt Authenticity of Sig- | nals from Sub | 2 OSLO, Sept. 4.—Norwegian | Premier Kolstad announced | that the Govrenment will ®l 'probably send a relief expedi- (tion to search for the sub- 'marire . Nautilus w..ch has 'not been heard from for five days, Ahoard "the craft are Sir Hubert Wilkins, crew and party of scientists. The answer, filed by George B.|geeq ready, the petit jurors prob- Grigsby and Frank H. Foster, asks \gp)y will report for service about :vr: F"‘;t' xx',:judliisgl}\m?;am:{ ::: October 8. The criminal calendar is £ B \sald to be limited, but there are de‘end:;‘ e vfii;hzzfigfu;:’::‘no :m a number of civil actions pending. Do o ament i, | The Territorial Leglslature last unction be issued restraining the;sfiflng ’e_i’;;:f;nm:w }::Cthsé :::n United States Forest Service from |2f'er & & ‘, Interfering with the use and oopu- Made to prevent such w\nk?- The pancy of the lands by the delend<1pr'"°ma1’ C’k’:"‘lc mb:dfi if)y t c"ne(»‘\) ants; Third, that the sum of $1)000 {18 is in the numi i of names be taxed against the Government be included in the !ist from which for attorney'’s Xées jurors are drawn. Under the terms f the 1925 status, it was optional The answer alleges that the dis- | F puted tract was never and is not]w“h the Clerk of Court whether 1,000 names or three-fourths of the :llz:‘fgally :. ‘:fi:’i ZLET;‘;:;“ g voters in the last preceding elec- proclathatio "of February 16, tion were used. The 1931 Act re- increasing the boundaries of that forest, did not lawfully include the area; and that the setting aside of the area by the Forest Service in May, 1924, was not a valid act. Based on Ancient Use The defendants claim that their rights rest in usage since ancient ‘vqmms that the names of at least {four-fifths of the persons voting at !the last preceding territorial elec- tion be placed on the list from which the drawings are made. It also repealed the Act of 1925. B the Fifty Thousand Dollar Hope- dress on the site where the British times. When the explorer Vancou- ver cruised along the shorelines of this land, in 1790, declares the an- CHINESE FLEE Twvio villages have been burned destroyed by forest foresters sought to b SELLING WAVE COMPLETED ON res in Idaho as citizens, national guardsmen, and % the flamzs, where inhabitants fled to the open with their belongings. BANK ROBBERS The sealer Vieding or sloop Fridtjof Nansen may be sent into the Arctic although after a discussion of the advisabil- ity of such a search experts 'are of the opinion there are no grounds for anxiety but ~———————— that preparations should be made for an expedition in view of the lateness of the ‘season CAUGHT GlVEN | Wir;lesu experls are im- L] clined to doubt the authentic- ity of signals a whaler and woto Associated Lress and thousands of acres of timber Here is a scene near Placerville N.Y. EXGHANGE - PRISON-TERMS Stocks Make Feeble Effort to Get Back on Feet; Foreign Markets NEW YORK._—;DL 4 — S[OCk.s‘ made rather feeble efforts today to get on their feet after yes-! [ b’ Forty-eight Hours After f Crime Committed, Trio | Is in Penitentiary pmi&f up several days ago as coming from the Nautilus. It i five days now since any reports have heen receiv- ed from the Nautilus expedi- tion. The submarine at last SALEM, Oregon, Sept. 4-——Forty- eight hours after they robbed the First reports intended to go under National Bank of Aurora, the ice in the Arctic. ful stakes, the first of all the two, year-old features of the year, heads 10 Seconds NEWARK, N. J,, Sept. 4—James Doolittle, flying from Burbank, California, landed here at 3:15:10 o'clock this afternoon, flying 11 hours, 10 minutes and 10 seconds compared with Capt. Frank Hawk's record of 12 hours, 23 minutes and 3 seconds, for a transcontinental record. Capt. Hawks flew to Roosevelt Field ‘instead of here, adding ap- proximately 6 or 7 minutes to his time. Doolittle is going immediately to Cleveland for the air races there. Enormous Snail, Petrified, Found In West Alaska ENORMOUS SNAIL— 1st | i the closing day’s program. But the | crowd of twenty thousand or more | will witness the races because of the expected duel between Sunbeau, | the world's leading money win- ner, and Twenty Grand, co-holder | with- Mate of the three-year-old championship title for 1931. | Mate, who has beaten and been | beaten by Twenty Grand, who was scheduled to be in the Saratoga; Cup Race, is not expected to start | tomorrow. ALLEGED SPY SHOT, KILLED IN MANCHURIA [ SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 4— ‘ An enormous petrified snail | TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 4 — The found in a sand cliff near Hom- | i er by Oscar Munson, is belleved | vernacular press today says Japan to be evidence that Alaska was 'might resort to force against Man-“ churia because of the alleged un- satisfactory accounting by the lat- ter for the killing, a month ago,' of Capt. Shintaro Nakamura, as- serted to be a spy. The press said the attitude of the Japanese War Office toward Mukden has suddenly stiffened and the Japanese authorities haye demanded @ more satisfactory ex- planation in the case than has been given. | perfect condition and plainly marked. It weighs 150 pounds and was brought here by Charles Madsen and given to Claud Berr, game hunter, for the Illinois State Museum. Local estimates place the age of the snail at fifty million years. —————— MIDLETOWN, N. Y.—New York, Ontario, Western railroad July net operating income totaled $341,179, against $282,666 in July, 1930. CHICAGO—OChicago, Great West- | ern Railroad July net income was $138,326, against $64,813 in July 1930, $25,000,000 Road Work Tied Up in Wrangle in Illinois| SPRINGFIELD, IIl, Sept. 4.—Ti- nois and by a new state law which linois' $25,000,000 road buflding ac- |took effect July 1. tivities are virtually paralyzed with prospects that only a fraction of The+law stipulates that all con- tracts for public construction let |after July 1 must provide for a the summer's program would be payment of wage rates considered Commander sufrendered his sword to Washington and terminated the revolution. President Hoover has issued a proclamation calling for observa- tion of the day as a holiday. STEERING GEAR OF AUTOMOBILE BREAKS ;6 DEAD Car Plunges Into River— Mother and Five Chil- dren Are Drown COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 4—P. ‘G. Reichley, aged 31 years, is the only survivor of an automobile ac- cident that took the lives of his wife and their five small childrer by drowning when the steering gear gave way and sent the car hurtling into 20 feet of water in the Sciotto River. Reichley was thrown clear of the car and swam ashore. The family had been out for an evening ride. Besides Mrs. Reichley, those drowned in the aceident were Con- rad, aged 9, Juanita, 2221 G, Rob- ert and Raymond, tw'ns, aged 4, and Charles, aged 2 years. Search for 200 Bodies, Flood Zone River Overflows Washing Houses, Huts and People Away SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sepi. 4— The bodies of 200 persons, helieved drowned when the river over- swer, he discovered at the site now in dispute, a village he described as thriving and inhabited by sev- FROM MEXICO; eral hundred Indians. Before and since that time, down to date, it is averred, the Auk Indlans have continued to use and occipy the land, and their rights should not now be disturbed. The Government’s complaint claims that the Indians moved away and left the land, and ceased to use it about 30 years ago, and that for many years, in fact until after CROSS BORDER Jails on Am-;;m Side Are Filled with Illegal Entrants NOGALES, Sept. 4—Jails on the 2 Arizona side of the Mexican bor- 1024, when it was set aside 85 8400 grg crowded with Chinese Who public campsite, no effort was made have fled from Mexico in view of by;l’:el;. ‘w :lther oceupy or cultl- oo xpulsion edict by Legislarures A o of several Mexican states. FRAUD CHARGES The Chins fearing bodily in the American jails as entrants. The expulsion order fcllowed an intensive Nationalistic campaign in Mexican territory. illegal terday's selling wave, in advance of a three-day Labor Day shut- down. The selling wave seemed to have| been largely completed. | The market as a whole was dull U. S. Stesl dropped but recov-| ered to show a small gain. | General Motors, Dupont, Radio, | Government ‘Contends Divi- dends Were Paid from Capital Stock MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, Sept. 4— The Government today sought to prove the charge that seven former officials of the W. B. Foshay en- terprises being tried in the Fed- eral Court here on charges of using the mails to defraud, author- ized stock dividends when the financial conditions of the various concerns did not warrant any divi- dends. The Government alleges the divi- dends were paid from the capital stock and this was done in a general scheme to deceive the in- vestors. e ——— pany, in year ended June 30, had net earnings of $7,121,204, against $6,- 145,059 in preceding fiscal year. OTTAWA—Chatineau Power Com Board to coordinate FOSHAY TRIALIpL AGING BOARD T0 BE CREATED Will Coordinate Production with Consumption— Plans Studied WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 4— Results of a survey indicating American business wants some system of economic planning to promote continuity of work and prevent unemployment will receive the efforts of the United States Chamber of Commerce now study- ing such proposals. One committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce is considering various suggestions for the creation of a National Placing production with consumption by watching and advising industry of the current trends of business. and Westinghouse recovered to show small gains. | Chemical, Lambert, Kreuger, Am-| erican Can and Union Pacific sold up to about one point. | Utilities and ¢om mu nications! were heavy and showed little recuperative power. American Telephone and Tele- | graph and Western Union lost about three points. American Waterworks lost about two points. | Two weekly reviews were mndly% cheerful. | The Berlin Bourse had a better | tone. | London markets were weakened by yesterday's slump on the Am- erican Exchange. 2 rd 'Sugnud, Frank Farley and Lou Bruggman, alias Lou Smith, { were in the State Penitentiary, with LINDBERGHS TO FLY TO CHINA ten-yeg sentences before them. Bruggman was arrested Wednes- day night, the others were arrested yesterday. | The ¢ three men pleaded guilty and s:ntence was imposed. . o Less. than 200 of about saoo Colonel and Wife Will Con- |taken < in the robbery has been 1 1 1 e | tinue Vacation Trip The ytrio overpowered Catherine JoehnKe, Assistant Cashier of the bank, and knocked down an aged man in their attack on the bank. STRIKE ENDS AFTER RIOTS September 10 TOKYO, Sept. 4—The officials of the American Embassy announc- ed today that Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh and his wife will continue their vacation flight to China leav- ing here on September 10. chhool Teacher Juneau High Delayed in South BREAK FORTH BARCELONIA, Spain, Sept. 4.— After machine guns had rattled in i | | . i | TODAY'S_STOCK T ithe streets and pistols were used | QUOTATIONS | |in a dozen encounters am trik- L] e |ers and soldiers as disor broke lout in the city, an announeement NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Closing was made that strike leaders d quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today was 17% ,American Can 89%, Anaconda Copper 22%, Bethlehem Steel 37%, Checker Cab 8%, 7%, 8%, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Fox Films 13%, General Motors 34%, International Harvester 36%, reached an agreement and th2 men were to' be sent back tu work. Four, deaths and a score of !wounded was the toll of the dis- orders. | Women united against centinuing SEATTLE, Sept. 4.—Miss Dcrothy Israel, English In- structor in the Juneau High School, who has been vacation- ing at her home in Dayton, Ohio, will miss the first faculty meeting. Miss Israel left Dayton just in time to catch the steamer Queen, but was delayed by a minor train wreck and missed that boat. She then engaged an air- plane which would overtake the Queen at Nanaimo, but fog prevented the plane from fly- ing and she is waiting for the next steamer to Juneau. Standard Brands 18%, Standardgo home out,of danger. craft 26', United States Steel 83.| WASE e 5“”“”"1 g as unglon Arouses omen vitations have been sent to 15000 | |the strike and many appeared in Kennecott 16%, Packard Motors 6%, | places pleading with the men to Oil of California 39, Standard Oil' 4 v of New Jersey 38%, United Air-| g . et Comparison of Hoover With OLD DOMINION GRADS RICHMOND, Va. Sept. 4—In- University of Virginia alumni to witness the football clash with BALTIMORE, Md,, Sept. 4—Com- parison of the greatness of Presi- state federations for use at meet- ings of new voters, to be arranged by the state clubs as part of the completed. standard in the various sections.|flowed at Ponce, are being sought. Nearly Half of-eWorld’s” Virginia Military Institute on Oc- tober 15, when the Scott Stadium dent Hoover with that of George Washington Bicentennial celebration Washington in a booklet issued by Southern Tllinois taxpayers pro-!The attorney-general ruled that tested as unfair the 97% cents-an-|contracts on $10,000,000 of work for hour rate proposed for common la-|which bids had been asked prior bor in the northeastern part of the /to July 1 could not be let because state, halting work on projects to- bids did not provide for prevail- taling $3,194,937. ing wage rates. More than $20,000000 in work| Another $10,00000 in work was had been suspended or delayed by,tied up by delays occasioned by wrangles over the prevailing wage the necessity of drawing a state- rates in the various areas of Ili- wlz.le prevnmn; wage_rate schedule. Thirty bodies have been racover- ed’ by the Police and Natiinal Guardsmen. Houses and huts were carried away during the overflow of the Portuguese river. The flood was caused when the river was put at high staze by rain, 3.28 inches of rain falliag in 24 hours, WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 4~ The Federal Reserve Board, in the weekly statement today reported the United States lacked only $2.» 000,000 of having $5,000,000,000 in gold, almost half of the world’s Gold Supply Now in U. S. on September 2. The amount of gold held in the United States now is the greatest in history of this country. The total ‘gold supply in the world amounts to a little more supply, at the close of business than eleven billion dollars. nex ar. is to be_lorwfl}',of,nefl'_ the General Federation of Women's Mtr;'esmpel denied the charges . X o |Clubs in connection with the 200th |the publication of the pamphlet P |anniversary next year of the birth |had been held up by dissensions THE WEATH of the First President, was dep}or-&wuhm the federation and that it (By U. S, Weather Bureau) »d here by leaders of affiliated or- |was not issued until she had gone b e | ganizations. to the White House and received | Porecast for Juneau and || Mrs. John F. Sippel of Baltimore, |the President’s personal approval. . | vicinity, beginning at 4 pm. | |President of the General Federation | The booklet is belng sent only to today’ since 1928, accepted responsibility |officers of state federations. It Fair tonight and Saturday; moderate easterly winds. D -0 for the booklet and denied it had |describes Washington and Hoover ical significance or intent. [as engineers who put-their efforts | aid the booklet was merely (to building the nation and the un suggested to officers of | world, $