The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5821. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS - HUNDREDS REPORTED KILLED BY TROPICAL STORMS ) HEAT WAVE IN MANY SECTIONS, UNITED STATES Torrid Blasts_Sweep Across - Nation with Previous Records Broken DEATHS REPORTED IN CENTRAL AREA Prostrations Occur in Sev- eral Cities—Schools Forced to Close CHICAGO, Ili, Sept. 12.—A late summer heat wave has brought tor- rid blasts to many sections of the United States and previous records have been broken.” The Weather" Bureau promises some relief in sev- eral areas. The mercury climbed to 100 de-! grees in South Dakota and Min- nescta, with no relief in sight, however. Cooler temperatures are predict- ed for the Central and Eastern States. | The hottest spot in the United States was Phoenix, Arizona, where the thermometer registered 104 de- grees yesterday. It was 98 degrees at Marquette, after she had related, under question right) of Passaic hid her face a: Ruth Jayne, 27, was confronted with a charge of felonlous assault her New York apartment during which State Senator Roy Yates (ins N. J., was shot and seriously wounded. Miss Jay ameraman tried to take her picture In the district at- Sorney’'s office. Her picture Is shown in inset below. s « Assoctated Press Photo ing, a story of a drinking party in Michigan, Albany, New York; Bal- timore, Maryland, and Philadelphia. SRR FOSHAY FIRMS e e ) BILKED PUBLIG FALSE CLAIMS Wisconsin, two in' Michigan and | Used Advertising to Sell one in Pennsylvania. There were six prostrations yes- Stock Misrepreserit- " ing Condition s terday in Maryland, one in Penn- sylvania and three in Washington, D. C. New York had the hottest day of the summer and the highest since 1870, with -a, temperature reg- istration of 95 ¢ /grees. - » Schools were * closed yesterday early in the day in many cities be- cause of the excessive heat. MANY TO SEE | WORLD SERIES PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Sept. 12., It is estimated that 90,000 letters have been received, here already making requests for tickets for thel world series. The requests have come from all parts of the nation. e COL. LINDBERGH | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 12. —Scores of advertisements empha- sizing the safety of the W. F. Fo- shay enterprises, before placed in voluntary receivership, were read to the jury in the trial here of seven former officials of the W. B. Foshay Company, charged with using the mails to defraud. The Government contends the advertising, inserted in hundreds | of periodicals, falsely represented the financial condition of the Fo-| shay concerns and the defendants were aware the companies were! facing collapse while sdvemsing' “Guaranteed all your money on, demand.” ‘The Prosecution charges the; company officials gave away stock valued on their books at more than half a million dollars, as premiums ! STOCK MARKET IS FEEBLE AT CLOSE OF WEEK Rally of Late Yesterday Fails to.Deyelop— Prices Shrink NEW YORK, Sspt. 12.—Stocks ended the week feebly and there was no disposition to extend the rally that developed at the close of yesterday's session. Seling quickened in the last hour of the short seesion today and prices shrank rapidly and losses Jot one to four points were numer- ous. Westinghouse fell off four points to the lowest since.1922. Rails and utilities showed weak- ness, United States Ste2l sank and American Telephone and Telegraph was off five points. Allied Chemical, Delaware and Hudson dropped five points to the lowest since 1925 and 1923 re- spectively. Miscellaneous shares losing two DELAYS FLIGHT| ‘ofl the books, as a loss. %o induce investors to purchase oth- to four points included American er stocks, then failed to mark this 'Can, Consolidated Gas, New York | Central, Atchison, Coco Cola, East- KASUMIGURA, Japan, Sept. 12.) 2 1 —The tail end of the typhoon 1n|Expediuon Finds Scene ! Formosa whipped the waters of \ i Osaka and caused Col. Charles A. of Meteorite Shower: Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh to postpone their takeoff here for Osaka. Oklahoma Bans Insurance as ‘Sideline’ Occupation|® ADELAIDE, Australia, Sept. 12.—' {A large group of meteorite craters| has just been discovered in central | Australia, according to a report of | museum expadition. i The expedition found 13 craters! on the Finke river, varying in size OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept.|from 10 to 220 yards across. i 12.—Setting a precedent in the in-{ The largest was 50 feet deep and surance industry, the Oklahoma in- 80 meteorite fragments were dis- | surance board has ruled that only covered. The scientists believe the persons who depend upon sale of craters are many thousands of policies for a livelihood will be en- years old. 1 titled to do business in this state. Builders, building and loan com- panies and real estate firms were notified their licenses to sell in- surance had been revoked. ———————— ENTERS HOSPITAL Pascal Alogoso entered St. Ann's hospital yesterday for observation. ! U. S. Has Eight Autos | for Each Mile of Road; NEW YORK, Sept. 12—If all the [chart of expectations based upon autos in the United States were|studies of present automobile den- ' spread evenly along its 3,016,000 | sity. H miles of roads, there would be 817 | “Automobiles,” said Fox, “have' machines to every mile. a definite relationship to popula- But in California 79 autos would |tion. Experiments indicate that be lined up in every mile if the|there is an equally definite rela-| state should spread its home-owned | tionship between the number of! cars over only its own roads. automobiles in a given area and the These figures are given in Civil famount of roadway needed. | Engineering, official journal of the | <After several years of experi-! American Society of Civil Engineers | mentation with various methods of | by Willlam J. Fox, chief engineer | predicting the future demand for ! of the Los Angeles county regional | highways as to frequency, width, planning commission. and -direction, we have concluded | Fox tells the engineers a method | that the most valuable factor to successfully used in California to|employ in such @ determination is| imate future road requirements|that of ultimate population, used as without relying upon guesswork.'a load factor. In order to arrive| In California they count the Popu-fat a more or less scientific meth-: lation, the number of autos and es-|od of preparing a comprehensive | timate the future population, Put|nhighway plan, charts showing the | a “graph” on these figures and|trend of the population load should ! have the answer, The graph is @lpe employed”” - 1tors 314, man and a few others. Monthly copper statistics showed a gain of refined stock on hand to a new high record and this amply explained the recent cut in the export price and further agitation \for curtailment of production. ——ee——— e e e oy | TODAY’S STOCK | | QUOTATIONS | . . NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 19%, American Can 88%, Anaconda Copper 20, Bethle- hem Steel 357, Checker Cab 8, 8, 8, Curtiss-Wright 2%, General Mo- International Harvester 32%, Kennecott 15%, Packard Mo- tors 5%, Standard Brands 17%, Standard Ofl of New Jersey 35%, United Aircraft 23%, United States Steel 80%. ———-————— KELSEYS LEAVE TO STAY WITH FRIENDS AT SEWARD Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kelsey, who arrived some time ago to visit with Mrs. Kelsey's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tke Sowerby, left this week |for Seward to spend two weeks with friends. They will return here at the end of that time for another visit. ———————— INDIAN WOMAN ARRESTED CHARGED WITH ASSAULT Charged with assault and battery, Gertrude Peters, local Indian, was atrested last night by Deputy Unit- ed States Marshal Newcomb, She is alleged to have assaulted Mrs. Jennie Jal in the Indian village. ———— STRONG FROM TAKU Capt. William Strong arrived from the ,Taku River late yesterday afternoon with the following pas- sengers from Tulsequah: J. C. Har- lin. Edward Gibbon, William Gib- hon, NEW SYSTEM IN FORCE AT SPEAKEASIES Uniformed Police Are Picketing Places in National Capital CUSTOMERS ARE NOT MOLESTED, HOWEVER Authorities Hope to “Dry! Up” Places or Stop Patronage ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 12— Reviving the old-time practice of passive resistance, uniformed po- lice are now picketing the en trances to certain reputed speak- easies in the National Capital. Sometimes a single patrolman is on duty, sometimes there is a group consisting of two or three, who stroll before or lean beside thc chosen entrance. Such prospective customers as care to venture through the picket line are not molested, however. Inspector of Police Beane ex- plained the picketing practice has been adopted only against resorts where dry agents are unable to gain admittance tp obtain evi- dence. “We find a place where there is a doorkeeper who will not pass anyone except those he knows per- sonally, and we station a picket,” said the Inspector. “We merely pa- trol the entrance to see that no liquor is carried in. When the sup- ply inside is exhausted or the cus- tomers drop off, the place must close.” e, — ¥ GANDHIISIN . LONDON READY FOR MEETINGS Great Leader from India Arrives — To Attend Conference Monday LONDON, Sept. 12. — Mahatma Gandhi arrived here today and went directly to the headquarters of the Society of Friends on Eus- ton Road. “I will take part in Monday’s meeting of the Federal Structures Committee but I shall be there listening. Monday is my day of silence,” Gandhi said. AMELIA NOT HURT, CRASH DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 12— Amelia Earhart-Putnam crashed this afternoon in her autogiro when landing at the fair grounds. She was not hurt. R TRt e g MEXICO NO MEMBER L. N, GENEVA, Sept. 12—Mexico Pe- came a member of the League of Nations today when the Assembly voted unanimously to receive that country “as though it had been invited to join at the beginning.” City Taxes Cause No Worry in Three Southwest Cities KANSAS CITY, Sept. 12.—Three southwestern cities greet that age- worn saying about nothing being certain except death and taxes with a laugh. Chanute, a city of more than 10,000 population in southeastern Kansas, eliminated its city tax levy in 1930. Colby, in northwestern Kansas, with more. than 2,000 residents parted company with city taxes three years ago. Ponca City, in north central Ok- lahoma, has not levied a general city tax for current expenses upon its 16,000 residents in six years. A tax for sinking fund revenue at present amounts to about 8 mills. In the three cases the money that obviates the necessity of taxa- tion is derived from municipally owned utilities. CAPT. HANSON HEARD HUM OF PLANE ENGINE Pilot on Steamer Alaska Makes Report on Ar- | rival at Seward | Has Cotton Plan ! i SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 12— . H. Hanson, pilot of the Bl er Alaska, on arrival here reported hearing the hum of a plane passing overhead at 11 o‘clock] last Tuesday night, when the Alas- ka was about 30 miles off shore from Lituya Bay, Gulf of Alaska. Capt. Hanson, said aparently the plane was flying east. Tt is not considered probable that | = local commercial planes were fly- | ing in the vicinity at that time| -\ | Associated Iress Photo | Senator W. F. George of Georgia | of the night, The weather condi- | suggested to the fa'm board im- | tions were described as dark and | Mediate payment ci eix cents a| misty, but the sea was fairly calm. | Pound for 1931 c-%. 1 v.ith an addi- | tional six cent n October, The plane heard by Capt. Han- 1932, to all f e waul; son may have been Moyle and Al-| agree not to ' v on_any len’s plane, flying from Japan to Seattle on an attempted non-stop flight and from which nothing has] been heard since shortly after it! | left Samushiro Beach, Japan. Tt is| said the plane should have been in that location about the time Capt. Hanson heard the hum of! UPERATED uPnN | | | SEATTLE, Sept. 12—According | | to advices received here from ‘Whitehorse, the plane heard over| - Carmacks last Thursday, and be-|n.. | Miner Caught Under Rock the engine. lieved possibly to have been Moyle —Life Saved by and Allen, has been identified as; Arm Amputation land contrc! :xt years! ANOTHER HOPE GONE a Fairchild plane, used by the Treadwell-Yukon Airways Com- pany. | = E | CHARLESTOWN, W. Va,, Sept. Former Alackan Named |12—an amputation, performed un- . \der jagged slate, far down in a as King County J“dgegcoal mine with the doctor lying {flat on his back, has saved the life OLYMPIA, Wash,, Sept. 12—GOV. | o Aygoek Cotter, aged 30, a min- | R. H. Hartley has appointed Kazis' Kay, Seattle attorney, and former | Chief Inspector of the Alaska Di-| vision of the United States Im- migration Service from 1904 to 1912 to the King County Superior bench succeeding the late Judge Gilliam. The entombed miner was later | liberated after hours of efforts,| during which a minister read pas-| sages from the Bible for him, and | food was lowered to him at the end| of a pole extended through a crev- ice. “ | Cotter was trapped when thej !mine roof crashed down. | Both arms were pinned to the| Kazis Kay, mentioned above, wa known in Alaska as Kazis Krau zunas. He changed his name Beattle in 1926. He was 1“ Delegate to Congress from Al-ijor “gum "yt were unable to fre *1’:'1‘; on the Soclalist tickel IN ype pigne arm and amputation was | § { necessary | Following the operation, |was carried from the mine and is, on the road to recovery. for Marital Asylum s L PITTSBURGH, Penn, Sept. 12. R E. ROBERTSON AND —8ays Dr. M. C. Elmer, head of | the sociology department at the SON SAIL TOMORROW‘ University of Pittsburgh: “You ought to be crazy to get married— in candidate ————--e Warns Nuts to Bolt Cotter | you may go crazy if you don R. E. Robertson, attorney, and “There are five times as many.son, Elliott Robertson, will be pas-| divorced men as married men in sengers on the southbound voyag:) the psychopathic wards, more than of the steamship Princess Lou twice as many widowers and nearly which will sail from Juneau to-| three times as many single men. morrow morning. The father willl As a matter of fact, the nuts stay rémain in Saattle a few days while single. the son arranges to enter the Uni- “You may think a guy is crazy versity of Washington. { to get married, but when he does he comes to his senses pretty quick- from Seattle to San Francisco, 1y. Or else he doesn't stay mare where he has law business requiring| ried.” his attention. He plans to retura| Dr. Elmer is married. home in about a month. 5 ' Associuted Press Photo William H. “Coin” Harvey (seated), veteran of free silver days, shewn with a group of his farmer g''oporters at Monte Ne, Ark., where he called a convention and launched a rd party. Harvey, now party. RELIEF PLANS MOVING ALONG IN FINE SHAPE Leaders Confident There Is No Occasion for Public Alarm AWASTHTRRGION, R C.. Septe A2 Federal relief offorts for the com- ing winter are progressing to such |an extent that those in charge of | various organizations are confident |the situation will be ndequncely; cared for and they feel there is no occasion for public alarm. Leaders in relief movements be- lieve that estimates empleyed of distress two to five millions. -oo———— LIQUID AIR HELPS SHOW HOW ATOMS FIT TOGETHER show 6,000,000 were un- last winter, the number situations was only from CAMERIDGE, Mass., erati ibed to the Nation- al Acadamy of Sciences by Dr. J B. Conant and F. H. Crawford of Harvard University. while the census bureau | HURRIGANE IS " FOLLOWED BY ' TIDAL WAVES Caribbean Sea Section Is Swept by Disastrous Disturbance BRITISH HONDURAN CITY IS DESTROYED Central American Coun- | tries Reported Damaged © —U. S. Sends Aid WASHINGTON, D. C,, Sept. 12— Mounting reports of death and de- struction at Belize, British Hon= duras, and other Caribbean Sea countries has prompted the Ameri- can government to order naval ves- sels to Central American countries on errands of mercy. Reports received here today show secticns are either recovering from or bowing in fear of slashing winds and tropical storms while succor is being rushed to the maimed, hungry and homcless in the devas- | tated areas. | Four hundred, including cleven American priests, are reported kill- ed and hundreds have been injured in the hurricane which swept out on the Oarribbean Sea yesterday and continued during last night and today. High Tidal Wave A huge tidal wave followed in the wake of the hurricane, which raced at a speed of 150 miles ar hour, and washed houses, churches and other buildings into the sea. Bodies of the dead were also carried out from the shore. Ships were thrown high aground. The lashing rain and angry waves swamped buildings. sy Brllve Destroved The greater section of Belize has- been destroyed and the people are without shelter. The death toll. at San Juan, Porto Rico, is not known herc al- though scores are reported to have |been drowned and considerable damage has been done to bulldings. The disturbance passed over {Santo Dominico and is believed |to have reached Port au Prince, |7 (Continued on Page Eight) 'MORE PAY FOR FED.EMPLOYEES 1S NOW URGED Some compounds when examined with the spectroscope at this low | . temperature give mdications of the [ Alaska Representatives at shapes of the systems in which ground by slate. Workers freed the | !the Attorney Robertson will continue | gr. their atoms and molecules are fit- ted together. This knowledge is valuable to chemists, who obtain some of their ssemingly magical results partly by knowing or gues- | sing correctly the arrangements in which various atoms are hitched together. - - Dick Donaghue, former Notre Dame star, will assist Frank Thom- as as football coach at the Univer- sity of Alabama. Scientists in London Meet Convention Make Suggestions | SEATTLE, Sept. 12.—Walter B. Heisel, of Juneau, and M. L. Stepp, !of Ketchikan, urged that Federal |employes in Alaska receive 25 per- cent more pay than those in the | states because of the high cost of living. The suggestion was made at the Federal Employes conven- tion here yesterday, by the two Alaska representatives. to Argue U niverse’s Origin LONDON, Sept. 12.—The greatest muster of scientists that Londor ever has seen is expected for the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science which celebrates its hundredth year September 23 to 30. is the first time the meeting has been held in London The highlight is expected to be the discussion of the evolution of universe. Sir James Jeans will lead this discussion and others who will tak part include Dr. Barnes, the Angli- can bishop of Birmingham, Prof. A 8. Eddington, Sir Oliver Lodge. Prof. R. A. Millikan, Prof. E. A. Miine, Prof. Willem de Sitter and General J. C. Smuts. olution, of whatever kind, has provoked a storm at the ion’s meetings, starting with s famous theory in 1859, oke into fury in a famous deba and Samuel Wilberforce then Bishop of Oxford, demanded know whether Huxley claimed from an ape “through his other or his grandfather.” Huxley quickly rejoined that he “would rather be descended from 1 ape than a bishop.” For years this controversy stivred always associat Darw to de: ‘he meetings. Four years ago Sir Arthur Keith brought it up to date with a bang General Smuts is coming from South Africa to be the centenary oresident and he has called it “the greatest honor the empire could sonfer upen me.” After the opening speeches, the neeting swings into an elaborate igenda which includes everything scientific from insect pests to the voice as an expression of person= ality. Americans Take Part Not many Americans are taking part in this year'’s meeting, but more than 20 will attend and some will deliver papers. ‘They include Prof. Millikan, Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Dr. H. 8. Person, of New York, C. G. Ab- Yott, of the Smithsonian Institute, ®rof. D. W. Bponk, Philadelphia, Jr. J. McKeen Cattell, Cambridge, Vatson Davis, Washington, D. C, orof. A. E. Kennelley, Cambridge, Or. E. H. Linfoot, Princeton, Prof, 7. W. McBain, California, Prof. Cecil Drinker and Dr. Celia Payne, Zambridge, Dr. W. A. Noyes. Wash- ngton, D. €., Dr. T. M. Rivers, vew York and Prof. C. G. Rogers, Dhio.