The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 26, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5833, JUNI:AU ALASKA, SATURDAY SLPTEMBER 26 I93I MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE ThN CENTS TWO FLIERS ARE FORCED DOWN IN FLIGHT SOUTH FLOOD VICTIMS GATHER ARllllND Starving Chinese Surround Americans en Landing Made CRAFT IS IN SERIOUS | SITUATION FOR TIME[ Occupants FaceHarm from’ Throng — Finally Forced to Takeoff \ANKI‘IG China, Sept. 26 —A starving throng sur- reunded Col. Charles A. Lind- | bergh’s plane when it landed on the flood waters near Kinghwa, Northern Kiangfu Province, and for a time it was feared the plane would be seriously damaged and even its occupants, Col. Lind- bergh and Mrs. Lindbergh, | might be harmed. Coming in sampans and tubs, anything floatable, the throng surged around the plane, snatching at packages the plane had abeard. Hungry members of throng wanted food and they were bitterly dlsappomted when it was learned the plane ' had only medical supplies. Mrs. Lindbergh was not alone in the view of the sxtua« tion and the plane took off| and returned to Nanking!| without further maneuvering. The plane cleared a space and then took to the air. Many of the Chinese had never seen a plane closely be- fore and thought it some kind of a miraculous intercession. The Lindbergh’s related their ex- periences here yesterday in mak- ing a report to the Nationalist Gov- ernment of conditions seen on the flight over the flooded sections. Col. Lindbergh has received China’s aviation medal for the flood service from President Chiang Kai Shel. The medal is silver, about three inches in diameter. The colors of the design are blue and white, and shows a blue air- plan> on a background of a white star. Everett Dog Joins i Wenatchee Chain Gang WENATCHEE, Wash., Sept. 26.— A large white bird dog, wearing an Everett license, found wander- ing the city’s outskirts, has at- tached himself to the jail work gang and refuses to leave. He sleeps in a cell with the prison- ers and goes out to work daily. et These graphic pictures, the first of the devnnatmg floods in China, show (top) a scene along the Pin dan railway, near Hankow, where the Yangtse liver overran its banks and caused ;:ru\t damage I | river ri N flT 6 U"_TY IS ‘Wild Doughnut,’Whirling Like| Pinwheel, Is Hurricane Razing One City in Bnush Honduras “*PLEA MADE BY MRS. M. ARNOTT - Woman Under Indictment for Alleged Murder Is in Court May Seek Divorce ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 26. —Mrs. Martha Arnott, under in- cictment for alleged first degree murder for the death of her hus- band, John Arnott, oldtime mining man of Alaska, pleaded not guilty when arraigned here yesterdey. The date of her trial was not set bul will probably be held at Cordova when the court holds another ses- sion there. Arnott was shot to death while asleep in his cabin in the Chitina district. KILLED WHEN AUTOS CRASH Former Premier of Poland Victim of Accident on Highway WARSAW, Sept. 26.—Count Al- exander Skrzynsky, aged 49 years, Polish diplomat and former Pr&; mier, was killed in a collision of| automobiles today on the highway | at Ostrow. Count Alexander had been i virtual retirement since Pilsudski's coup d'etat in 1926. i j n Associated Press Photo Aviation Proves With Fortune of Doolittle NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Aviation has been a ficklz jade to Jimmie Doolittle, who today wears the crown of American speed king, for it both snatched away his sav- ings and a little later poured riches in his lap. Barly this year Doolittle, who ui 34 years old, bowed to his wife's opinion that he was getting a little too o3d to continue air racing. But he decided on one last fling a® speed at the National Air Races at Cleveland. So out of the wreckage of a plane cracked up by his friend, Jim Halzlip, who flew him to St. Louis after he had made his new transcontinental record and hopped back to Cleveland, Doolittle con- structed a plane to make a new speed mark. It cost him all he had, friends have said, but Doolittle | has a reputation for never doing things in half-hearted fashion. On June 23 Doolittle test-flew his | new ship at East St. Louis. It flew | fact and it finally flew just about all to pleces in the air. Doolittle Ada May, English actress, refused © comment on reports that she was Nanning a divorce from her hus- hand, Col. Wilson Potter, wealthy *hiladelphian, Fickle {Huge U. S. Fleet to Maneuver on Coast Next Year came down in a parachute, his plane gone beyond repair and his personal fortune with it. How se- riously the mishap was considered in the Doolittle family was shown | - by the reaction of 10-year-old Jlm- SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. 26.—An mie, Jr., a pilot in his own right announcement issued by the 1ith though he is yet too young to ob-‘Naval District headquarters here tain a license. |revealed that next spring the “As 1 hit the ground,” Doollme‘mlahtiest fleet ever assemb led un- said later, “young Jimmie ran up der the American flag in this area to me and T thought he was going| | will base at San Diego during the to ask if I was hurt. But he maneuvers of the United smtes didn't say anything about that. ‘!'Jeet He just shouted: ‘How much mon—y, The fleet concentration will bring did we have in that ship, dad?' " 12 battleships, 15 light cruisers, 60 Doolittle announced at that time|destroyers, 3 aircralt carriers, 24 that he was through with racing| submarines, 4 mine-layers, 10 ves- unless someone furnished a plane 'sels of the train, 10 tugs, 3 oilers, for the Cleveland air races. And the hospital ship Relief and more someone did. A group of men ar-|than 300 aircraft, manned by more ranged for construction of the hmelthan 37,000 officers and men, into biplane Doolittle flew, and &t the the San Diego-San Pedro area, un- end of the flight he had $10,000 der commanc of Admiral Frank brand new dollars in his pocket Schofield. for prizes, probably somewhere m‘ Sy R AN the neighborhood of the amount ' Polard is establishing a fund of he lost in the plane that went to $44,000,000 for highway improve- pieces ten weeks ago. , ment, As Chinese Floods Wrought Chaos | ridge, and suffermg Throughout the entire Hankow dis. trict thousands lost their lives and homes from the sing to its greatest heights in years, photo depicts the barracks of the Chin Hankow Vlnual]y uj der the r'mnlly rising w Lower army at By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE (A. P. Science Editor) NEW YORK, Sept. 26—The storm that's shaped and acts like an ex- ploding doughnut— That is the West Indian hurri- cans, the most recent of which has laid waste Belize, British Hondur- as, killing more than a thousand persons and injuring many more. | The doughnut metaphor and what happens to it go far to clar- ify the reasons why these annual hurricanes are like so much dyna- mite. In the West Indies, where it forms, the hurricane is relatively small and compact, round as a doughnut, with its center a true hole, an area of calm air, almost perfectly circular in shape, walled about with winds circling like a giant pinwheel at 100 miles an hour or more. This wind doughnut does not ex- plode quickly. Tt gyrates about somewhat like the Fourth of July whizzers, which spin on an axis much faster than their motion of forward travel. Travel 20 Miles an Hour | The hurricanes travel ahead at 15 to 20 miles an hour, generally at last curving off north-eastward across the Atlantic. But many wan- der due west and others straight north, to blow themselves out against Mexico or over the United ' States. It is during the compact, dough- nut-shaped form that the hurri- cane wrecks cities, and lays waste even entire islands: How much force is packed in this 1small area appears after the dough- !nut has “exploded,” and started to spread in all directions. It does this by expanding. It 'is not unusual for one such ex- I panded hurricane to fill about one- third of the North Atlantic ocean. It is still a gigantic whirl, but no longer violent, no longer packing a hole at its center. ! This hole—the area of almost dead calm—is from 10 to 20 miles ,in diameter. It is a column of air | which weighs considerably less than ordinary, due co light atmospheric pressure. It is rising rapidly. This area of lessened weight may be one of the factors in the power (Continuea un Page 8ix) 1 | Californians Urge Hoover Reelection SAN JOSE, Cal., Sept. 26.—Pres- ident Herbert Hoover should be re- elected in 1932, speakers said here at a meeting of the Council of Re- publican County Committeemen of the northern district of Califor- nia. Among the speakers were United States Senator Samuel M. Short- Representative Arthur M. Free, Mark L. Requa, Republican national committeeman, and George Barr Baker, personal friend of the President. ALASKA- JUNEAU PAYS ANOTHER 10 CT. DIVIDEND Company's Announccmenl Is Third of Kind Since | Beginning of Year | Declaration of the regular quar-‘ terly dividend of 10 cents a share was announced by the Alaska-Ju- neau Gold Mining Company at its offices in San Francisco today, ac- cording to Associated Press advices rer~tved in this city. This is the third quarterly divi- dend declared by the company since it has gone on a dividend basis, the first havine been de- clared in PFebruary of this year. | This quarterly rate of 10 cents a share makes the annual return on the par value of the capital stock 4 per cent. There is a to- tal of 1500000 shares of the par value of $15,000,000. The quarterly dividend distribution amounts to about $145,000, inasmuch as there are some shares of the capital| stock still in the company's treas- | ury, as set forth in the last an-| nual report. " FASCIST ITALY INCREASES AID TO SOV, UNION Southern Nation Strength-! ening Relations with Russians S i ROME, Sept. 26.—Fascist Italy, | for all her hatred of communism within her borders, is strengthening her relations with soviet Russia. ‘Within the last few months Italy has sent englneers, workers and| money to aid the five year plan! and still more recently entertained | a party of 340 “industrial pilgrims” from the soviet union. All of which has its foundation in the plan of Mussolini to use Russia as a base of supplies for the enlarged industrial organization of | Ttaly. Sccks Raw Materials Italy has many workers. She has modern and well planned factories. What she needs are the raw mate- rials to keep her wheels turning,| profitably if possible, but at any | rate turning. | For this she is looking to Rus- sia, from which by a short sea voy- age she hopes to get the oil, coal, iron and lumber of which her in- dustries are in need. ‘The first step in the closer operation of the two coun was | a comprehensive trade treaty, now in its second year. This provides| for the Russian purchase of Ttalian | manufactured goods worth more than $30,000,000. Naturally Italian purchases are correspondingly large. co- Big Business Helps The Italian trade mission includ- ed some of the most important men in Italy, notably one of the Pirelll) brothers, heads of the tire firm bearing their name. But not content with captains of industry and technical experts, Italy | has also exported actual brawn to supplement the brains she loaned. | Building trades workers are being sent to Russia to aid in much need- ed construction work. Cash, in payment for almost all the oil Italy consumes, has aided | Russian finances. — e Tone Regulation to Join “Squeal”’ in Radio Discord| NEW YORK, Sept .26.—Tone con- trol is going the way of the squeal- ing receiver of earlier radio days. That's the view of Percy Harris, British engineer who says that it is no longer justifiable in radio re- celvers. In the models of a year or so past tone control was useful in compensating variations in repro-| duction with settings of the tur | and volume centrol dials, and in the reduction of background noise by cutting down on the high notes. | Now it is possible to tune a re- ceiver so sharply that the baci ground noise is reduced gre: i [Many lssues Drop in Short| | erican Tobacco B Bethlehem Steel, Young ) Q!rop n Saved [rom Price $100,000 ES & £ ociety Matron for That Demu- S “ho Acted as “Moral $200,000,000 Heir % Tea (,h('l‘ Suing ration Pllu\." for § HunTiNeToN HARTFORD Ties HstmA HarTEFORD Claiming to have rescued Huntington Hartford, 19-year.old heir t. about $200,000,000, from the clutches of a Broadway siren, Mis Mildred King, of the Boston Conzervatory of Music, is suing the heir s mother, Mrs. Henrietta Hartford, for $100,000 as a remunsration foi leading'the young man from the primrose path. Miss King claims she was hlrud by Mrs. Hartford to steer her son away from questionahb'e and induce him to take more interest in young people of his stratum and financial position. Mrs. Hartford, widow of e and prominent in Newport, R. 1. alleged contract and all Newport waits forthicoming GET TOGETHER T0 AID SPAIN Carlist Pr(‘lcnuer and For- mer King Establish Relations PARIS, Sept. 26 Bourdon, Carlist Spanish society, deni STOCK MARKET | TRADING SLACK, N. Y. EXCHANGE Session—Turnover Be- low One Million o |h(- NEW YORK, Sept. 2§.—Steady- ‘hl' ing of nerves at the end of one of | = "™ fen Alfonso. have the most trying weeks of the year | to * of was apparent in financial markets brotherly friendship and work to- today. | gether fcr che salvation of fi]mm 5% Trading slackened and markat | — fluctuations were narrower but a| late flurry of selling gave the list a heavy tone at the finish. Commodities were marked by heavy profit taking. United States Steel rose about a point and American Can about two | points in early dealings, but both | fell off at the close. Coco Cola dropped five points. ~Don Pretender Lo Throne, announced King decided stablish r~'ations MONTREAL, Sept. 26—A dis- |covery that X-rays may be used to !protect the public, and particular- Eastman dropped five points. |1y children, against spread of scar- Union Pacific, Goodyear, Dela- let fever was reported to the Am- ware and Hudson closed three tolerican Public Health Association. four points lower. | The X-rays sometimes reveal in- so low- |fecticn still lingering in a scarlet Am- fever patient after the usual tests |have indicated that it is safe to let him out of quarantine. The report is “preliminary its author warned that “it is un- fe to draw far-fetched conclu- sions.” The author is Dr. A. Clem- ent Silverman, Director of | Bureau of Communicable of the Health Department of Syra- cuse, N. Y. NEW YORK, Sept. 26—C Hidden Infection quotation of Alaska Juneau m He said the medical profession stock today is 14%, American Can has had reason for believing that 78%, Anaconda Copper 16%, Beth- infection of scarlet fever may re- lehem Steel 31%, Checker Cab 5, |main hidden in the sinuses, par- 5. 5 Curtiss Wright 24, Fox Films ticularly those small openings con- 9, General Motors 27%, Internation- 1 the nose. It has been ] Harvester 21%, Kennecott 13%.|di detect these sinus rem- Packard Motors 5%, Standard nants and his department set out Brands 15%, Standard Oil of Cali- to learn whether X-rays might fornia 32, Standard Oil of Newdiscover any of them. Jersey 31%, United Aireraft 17%,, Some significant pictures have United States Stesl 77%. {been found among 292 scarlet fev- L Issues closing a point or er include Allied Chemics Borden, General Motors, Drugs and International Hs \ Today’s turnover for the short session fell well below 1,000,000 shares. and . b G STOCK PRICE CLA ne | | | | Jaime, | the | Diseases | ICE FORMS ON WINGS, PLANE BROUGHT DOWN Moyle and Allen Make Landing at Fairbanks on Tacoma Trip ENCOUNTER RAIN, LOW TEMPERATURE | Gasoline Su—pm Runs Low " —May Resume Flight During Today | BULLETI —FAIRBANKS, | Alaska, Eept. 26.—TK: sea- sows first snow ste'm is holding Moyle and Allen to 'the ground. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 26. — Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, who started from Solo- mon Beach yesterday fore- 'neon at 11:15 o'clock on am attempted nonstop flight to Tacoma, Wash., landed here at 4:35 o'clock yesterday afternoom It was raining +hard and visibility was low. Late last night, the two |fliers said they hoped to be 'able to take off for the south ‘wonietime. this 9. Moyle said they were unable to tage off from Solomon beach with as heavy a fuel load as they in- tended, 800 gallons of gasoline, and they only had 500 gallons in the tanks when they took the air. The fuel aboard was not believed sufficient to carry the plane to Tacoma and with heavy rain and low visibility they decided to make a landing here. The first part of the flight from Solomon beach was in fairly good | weather. Then a cloud bank was ‘encnuntcr:d with freezing tempera- | ture. | As the plane proceeded, after the | half way mark, the rain fell heav- ‘xly and with the low temperature prevailing, ice began to form on | the wings. MPre rain was run into jand clouds began to be lower so lh‘\t visibility was practically only a few hundred feet. Sighting Fairbanks, after several circles in the air, Moyle and Allen decided they would descend. The flight from Solomon Beach to Fairbanks was made in five hours and twenty minutes. ! >>e - 'Ruth Nichols Gives Up Paris Hop Plan NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Capt. H. H. Railey, flight manager for Ruth Nichols, said the injured aviatrice definitely has abandoned her in- ,tention of flying to Paris this year. Captain Railey gave unfavorable weather conditions as the cause. X-Rays May Be Protection : from Scarlet Fever S pread er patients X-rayed up to the end of August under direction of Dr. Donald S. Childs, Professor of Clinical Radiology, Syracuse Uni- versity. Dr. Linus S. Cave and Dr. Gordon D. Hoople of the nose and throat service of the City Hospital, acuse, cooperated Four casss were childen, dis- charged as cured and sent home with the evidence of all usual tests showing they no longer carried in- fection. In each case the X-rays showed one or another peculiar ap- pearanc> of one or more sinuses, These X-Ray shadows were not at that time well enough understood to be considered even as warn= ings. But six days after the home- coming of the first patient, a mere boy, his brother came down with scarlet fever. The next was a boy whose brother came down thirteen days later A Ten days intervened in the third - case, that of the return home of & girl, befors a brother and a sister | became ill with scarlet fever. The fourth was a girl whose sister sev- eral days later developed the di- sease.