The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 14, 1931, Page 1

THE ~DAILY ALASKIA‘ EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THF T”IF” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5822. URN B@DHES VI[CTIIMS OF | HURRHCANE Former Vlceroy and Bride ‘ALASKA JUNEAU Aimee Weds ONETHOUSAND ARE KILLED IN BELIZE STORM Hurrica nfiakes Great Toll of Lives in Hon- duras Clty GOVERNMENT TAKES EXTREME MEASURES Torch Ap;;Ti;d to Burn| Areas Where Victims Were Numerous BELIZE, Honduras, Sept. 14— (Copyrighted by Associated Press) | —More than 1,000 of 16,000 inhabi- tants of Belize perished in last Thursday's hurricane according to estimates made last Saturday night after a survey. Unable to keep up with the rising death toll, the Government officials applied the torch Saturday night to burn areas where destruction and death took the highest toll. Funeral pyres were lighted to ward off the menace of disease which was made more threatening by the boiling sun. Fire lanes were cut around t.he1 burning area to protéct the rest of the city. FOOD SHORTAGE 1 ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Immi- nent pdssibility of a food shortage in the harricane disirict was coup- led with dispatches to the Navy | Department late last Saturday with assurance there is enough medical supplies on hand or enroute to take care of the injured among the sur- } vivars. Arrangements were immediately | made to rush food to the stricken area as it was reported there were | only three days’ supplies available. | NAVY CRAFT AT BELIZE WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept, 14—, The mine sweeper Swan arrived at | Belize late last Saturday and is aiding in caring for the hundreds of injured. The TRed Cross arranged for transportation by plane of supplles from Navy and Army stores in Panama and other Central Ameri-| can countries. MARTIAL LAW DECLARED NEW YORK, Sept. 14— The Pan-American Airways announced, that a dispatch had been received stating martial law has been de- clared at Belize. WATER SHORTAGE BELIZE, Sept. 14—Fearing a water shortage and possible epi- | demic, natives are fleeing rapidly | as possible. Lieutenant Commander T. L. Morrow, of the United States! Navy, is directing medical relief. OUT OF CONTROL BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 14. — A prediction that the population of | Belize might get out of control is contained in a radio message from a United Fruit Company official at Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. The message said that Belize “is totally destroyed and there is great Last Curtain Is Run Down on Oldtimer Ferris Ha r—t:an Dies on Eve of Benefit—"Show Must Go On’ FEi!llS HARTMAN BAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 14. —leaving behind him warm mem- orles of 4 smile that glowed bright- est when life was at low ebb, Fer- ris Hartman, oldtime popular San Francisco comedian, went down the long lane from which no one | weturns. A stout heart that kept his mind living, though the frail old body was weary, failed him here and he died peacefully in a hospital Death came on the eve of a ben- efit that would have giyen him a new start in life—money and gifts that would have provided the food and rest denied to him these many weeks. While sorrowing friends were making plans for his funeral, those |who were preparing the benefit show to be held here went ahead with the work that started weeks ago. ‘When he appeared to be improv- !ing, Hartman sensed that the end was near. And so, true to the tra- ditions of his calling, he said: “No matter what happens to me, the show must go on. I'm not the only hungry old man in S8an Francisco.” Now his wishes will be respected. ‘The show will be given and the |funds will be distributed to other {hungry men through San Francis- cos’ unemp!oymem fund. MORE TIME IS GIVEN GERMANY Payment of Nine Million Dollars of Awards Suspended Year danger of the population gemng' ‘WASHINGTON, D, C., Sept. 14— out of control within the next The United States has agreed to two or three days. The authorities one year's suspension of payment are doing what they can but py Germany of $9,000000 due to hardly any one is left in mantall American interests under awards of or physical condition to function' ,the Mixed Claims Commission. The normally.” | —— .- James Bryce, English historian, said of the Panama Canal that it ! was the greatest liberty man had ever taken with nature. United States will however pay | Germany $18,000000 in awards made by the commission. Grain is inherent in paper. There is no way of removing it. Auditing Firms Agree on Stan Unable to ding of W. B. Foskay’s Many Enterprises MINNEAPOLTS, Sept. 14.—Audit- ing firms failed to agree whether the W. B. Foshay Company was los- ing money or operating at a profit, according to the testimony of Rob- ert G. Clark, Vermont Bank Com- missioner, on record in the trial lact Saturday in the case of W. B. | company applied for a license to sell securities in Vermont, one auditing firm reported a net loss of $218501 for the year ending De- cember, 1927, while another audit- ing firm reported net profits of $281 434, ‘The second week of the trial was completed last Saturday with the prosecutors - expecting mmmmwmum MACHINERY SET INMOTION FOR HELP TO IDLE| Local Unetplbyed: to /Bl Listed by Legion as Step in Program Machinery to cope with the local unemployment situation was set in motion today when the Alford John Bradford Post No. 4, American Le- zion, through Post Commander J. T. Petrich, announced plans for enumerating the unemployed and compiling data to be furnished em- plovers with jobs to be filled. The Legionnaires will take the census, keep the records, and those with jobs to offer will go to them for persons to do the work, it was announced by Commander Petrich. Fred Cameron will have charge of listing the unemployed and com- piling the information sought. The Chamber of Commerce has turned over its information booth to the Legion to be used by Mr. Cameron as an office. He will be there between the hours of 6 and 9 pm. for the next four days, be- ginning today, and all persons de- siring work are requested to re- port to him at the booth which is located on Front Street opposite I. Goldstein's store, It is the hope of the Legion, mu- nicipal officials and the Chamber of Commerce that serious unem- ployment can be averted this Fall and Winter by arranging a definite program now. “The first» step, of course, is to find out just how many idle men theré are in the community,” Mr, Petrich said. “We first have to determine what is the extent of the unemployment prob- lem before any definite program can be adopted to relieve it.” It is believed that all of the un- employed can be listed in the four evenings assigned to the work. Aft- er this survey 1s completed, other agencies will be ready to cooper- ate in the effort to find work for them. AMER, LEGION TAKING STEPS T0 AID NEEDY Is Preparing g for War on Unemployment and Winter Distress WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 14. —The American Legion has mar- shalled Federal, State and city of- | ficlals and leaders of labor and industry for a war on unemploy- ment and distress. More than a score of Governors or their representatives agreed to participate in the conference called by the American Legion to formu- late a concrete plan combatting distress among the jobless during the coming winter. Officials of the American Legion hope to work out a remedy for business depression in order that unemployment will be. eliminated. DIRECTOR OF HOOVER DAM WORK IS DEAD William H;—\}/:ltis Dies in Hospital as Result of Cancer SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Sept. 14. —William H. Wattis, aged 72 years, president of Six Companies, In- corporated, principal builders of the Hoover Dam, is dead from cancer. ‘Wattis had never set foot on the site of his last and most stupen- dous undertaking. From his hos- pital bed he coneeived the idea of organizing a syndicate to undertake the construction of the $50,000,000 project. He directed work from his sick=bed. g ————a— — The Bureau of Standards says the ordinary gasoline. weighs about 622 pounds lvokdlwgh per: gal- rh- Marquis of Reading, former Ambassador to the United States and oy to India, is shown in ;&fl: in India and England. His first wife died London with his bride, the former d, who for many years was a member of his diplomatie Lord Reading is 70, while his bride is 38 about a year ago. STOCK MARKET AGAIN HIT BY HEAVY SELLING Issues, with Few Excep- tions, Sink to Bottom Recorded June 2 F. W, LEHMANN PASSES AWAY IN ST. LOUIS Former Solicitor General,| President of Bar Asso- ciation, Is Dead NEW YORK, Sept. 14. — Heavy selling hit the Stock Market today, f but pressuse lightened after the! first hour of trading and the! market continued ‘to work lower and with few exceptions sank to' the neighborhood of the bottom recorded on Jume 2. | Utilties, rails and miscellaneou: industrials contributed to the out- standing wedk spots. | | Coppers . sold heavily but the losses were small as they were in olls. American Telephone and Tele graph ‘lost five points. Thé news over the week-end provided little information to in- ' fluence the markets. | Weekly advices of investment and | advisory services continued to be gloomy. ) I | 1 | | TODAY’S STOCK i 1 | QUOTATIONS | . NEW YORK, Scpt. 14.—Closing quotations -of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 18%, American Can 86%, Anaconda Copper 197, Beth- lehem Steel 35'%, Checker Cab 7%, 17, 7, Curtiss-Wright 2%, General' Motors 30%, International Har- vester 31, Kennecott 15, Packard Motors 57%, Standard Brands 17%, Standard 011 of New Jersey 35%, United Aircraft 21%, United States Steel 79%. — e - DUKE GETS BIG HERBARIUM FREDERICK W.LEHMANN, ST. LOUTS, Mo., Sept. 14—Fred- |erick Willlam Lehmann, aged 78 " years, former Solicitor General of the United States, and President of the American Bar Association, is dead here as the result of hard- {ening of the arteries. Frederick W. Lehmann, who sold newspapers in Cincinnati, slept in barns and vacant dwellings and ran from policemen because he feared they would arrest him as a juvenile vagrant, became president of thes| American Bar Association in 1908 'and solicitor general of the United |States in 1910. He held the latter office two years, then resigned to . ractice in 8t. D M, N. C.—An herbarium resu:te his private practice containing a collection of 16,000 On Christmas Da: o y, 1929, Mr. Leh- plant - specimens ~gathered from p,nn wag presented with a tes- | many sections of the world, has been acquired by Duke Umversity (Onnflmwa on Page Three) Taxes on Maryland’s Szgns Open Up ‘Roadside Scenery BALTIMORE, Sept. 14.— Mary- land is pulling down road signs in a big way, in an effort to make the scenery more - attractive for motorists. A recently enacted State law taxes billboards and other signs in propotion to their size and nearness to the roadside, and in two days, State Roads Commission removed 15,250 signs. ‘Inspectors will patrol the high- ways ,removing unlicensed signs as- they are spotted, it was an- nouneed by Harry D. Williar, Jr., Chief Engineer. The women’s garden clubs and other organizations which spon- sored the anti-billboard legislation fl- tours ‘to combat unattractive signs and to prevent placing sign- boards on trees. The law provides that no adver- tising signs shall be placed within 500 feet of the highways without permission of the commission. Companies erecting legal signs are taxed from $50 to $200 and in addition must pay one-half cent per square foot of advertising space, with a minimum of $1 a sign. Williar said 23 major companies obtained permits the first month, 20 others indicated they would dis- continue operations because of the charges, and individual permits were issued to 4,100 persons. The State realized approxxmatcly $5,000 in revenue.” | there was $300 in other | Operating Expenditures: YIELDS $320,500 IN PAST MONTH August Opclatmns Nets| Company Average Profit : of 40.82 Cents Per Ton Returns from 356,550 tons of ore mined and trammed last month, | the Alaska Juneau recovered $317,- | 500 in gold and $3,000 in lead and | silver, making the total output from the mine for the month, $320,500. The total expenditures for the month were $175,000. The operat- ing profit aggregated $145500, and venues, making the net surplus for August $145800. These figures wore made public today by L. H. Metzgar, Gen- eral Superintendent. The company's statement of esti- mated results for August, com- piled at San Francisco and re- leased here today follows: Estimated results of operations for month of August, 1931: Tons mined and trammed to mill, 356,- 550. | Cents Operating Revenue: Per Ton | Gold ..$817,500 89.06 Lead and Silver ... 3,000 84 Total ... $320,500 89.89 Mining and Tram- ming Milling All other Juneau Operating Costs. New York Stock Transfer and San Francisco Of fice Expenss 25.52 20.05 $ 91,000 71,500 10,000 < 2.30 2,500 Total $175,000 $145,500 300 Operating Profit Other revenue ....... ‘NS 800 TRAIN IS SENT INTO CHASM BY BOMB EXPLOSION Twenty Persons Killed, In- cluding American— Many Injured Surplus BUDAPEST, Sept. 14—Two men are under arrest in connection with the wrecking of the Budapest- Vienna-Cologne Express train in which 20 passengers were killed. Among the dead is an American. His wife was injured with 17 oth- ers, Two bombs exploded under the tracks as the train crossed a via- duct 600 feet above a ravine. The explosion of the bombs hurled seven coaches into the chasm. A slip of paper found on the viaduct, read: “If capitalistic states cannot pro- vide work, we will get dt anyway.” RN 1 AN FLIGHT MADE FAR NORTH TO BREAK RECORD Commercial Trip Reported to Victoria Land in Actic Ocean EDMONTON, Alberta, Sept. 14— Flying from Copper Mine on Coro- nation Gulf to Walker Bay, at the | northwest corner of Victoria Land, | Arctic Ocean, covering 600 miles | over the bleakest of Arctic wastes, between breakfast and supper, W.| A. Spence completed what is be- lieved to be the farthest north com- | mercial flight in the history of avi- | ation, on September 7. ‘Word of the flight has just been received here and was more than 150 miles farther north than the| flight of Walter Gilbert and Major | L. T. Burwash in 1930, | Spence made the flight with In-| spector Bonnycastle, of the Hud- son's Bay Company to bring furs from Walker Bay. | Cnarles Soloist But Back on Job) |Evangelist of A Angelus Tem- ple Marries on Sun- day, Preaches N-HUTTON LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 14— Aimee gelist, flew to Yuma, Arizona, Sun- day, and was married to Davidel Hutton, 30-year-old Angelus Temple baritene soloist. She gave her age as 38, The wedding was performed in a drizzling rain at the airport at Yuma, by Miss Harriett Jordan, Dean of the Angelus Temple Bible School. The wedding party returned to Los Angeles in time for the bride to conduct the regular Temple services. RECORD TIME BY SEAPLANE British Flight Licutenant! Travels 386.1 Miles An Hour CALSHOT, England, Sept. 14. ~—Flight Lieutenant G. H. Stain- forth set a new world record of 386 1/10 miles an hour Sunday in a seaplane over a three kilo- meter course. The previous record was 357 1/10 miles an hour set in 1929 by Squadron Leader A. H. Orlebar. LINDBERGHS ON FLIGHT OSAKA, Japan, Sept. 14.—Col. A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh have arrived here from Knsum‘gdura near ’lokyo Semple McPherson, Evan- | EXPEDITION BE FINANCED * BY BUFFELEN ‘Owner of Ni);l—e and Allen | Plane Makes An- nouncement NAVY AIRMEN MAY INSTITUTE SEARCH ;Tacoma Capitalist Acts on | Report Made by 1 Pilot of Alaska TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 14, —John Buffelen, Tacoma capitalist and owner of the plane now missing with Don Moyle and C. A. Allen on the attempted nonstop flight from Japan to Seattle, said last Saturday night he would fi- nance an expedition *~» South. east Alaska to seek ing airmen. Buffelen said he had nego- tiated with Ensign E. E. Dil- line and other officers at the Sand Point Naval Station to fly to Alaska on quest of thq missing, The Navy fliers are expect- ed to leave Sand Point short- ly but it is not disclosed { whether they would use a i Navy plane or commercial ' plane. Buffelen's an n ouncement followed the report made at Seward by Capt. H. Hanson, (pilot of the steamer Alaska, |that he heard the hum of a plane passing overhead at 11 o’clock last Tuesday mnight when the Alaska was about 30 miles off short from Li- tuya Bay, Gulf of Alaska. ;Moyle and Allen were due at labout that /time jon their ‘flxght lt is said. GANDHI GOES | T0 MEETING AS OBSERVER ‘Takes Bottle of Goat's Milk ! for Meal—Is in Accident i LONDON, Sept. 14. — Mahatma ' Gandhi, carrying a hottle of goat's !milk for his midday meal, went 'to St. Jame's Palace this forenoon to attend, as a silent observer, the first meeting of the Federal Struc- | tures Committes formed to draw up a new India Constitution. ' Wearing a loin cloth and cotton shawl, the police protected Ma=- hatma Gandhi from the crowds and photographers. Gandhi escaped injury as a car to the Palace collided with a stone support, as it was entering the court yard, and he was throwm forward in his seat. —— Noted French 4mat0r wuh ;’ His Mechanic, Die in Crash Attempting MOSCOW, Sept. 14—Joseph Le lix, noted French aviator, and | mechanic Rene Mesmin were killed when their airplane Paris-2 crashed Saturday near the mouth of the River Tanit in the vicinity of Ufa, Marcel Doret, copilot, saved him- self by a parachute jump. There was a delay in identifying the two airmen due to the fact that none of the populace of Ufa \underslood Prench. to Make Record | Le Blix, Mesmin and Doret hope= ped off from LeBourget Field, France, early last Friday morning in an attempt to beat the long= distance non-stop record made by Paul Boardman and John Polando. They were headed for Tokyo.