The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE‘ “ALI, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6405. JUNEAU AU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1933 2 PRICE TEN CENTY NEW YORKER RELEASED BY KIDNAPERS MATTERN GIVEN FINE WELCOME, NEW YORK CITY Smiling Flier Greeted by| Seven Thousand at Flying Field BLAMES RUSSIAN OIL FOR FLIGHT FAILURE Relief Pa rTy—Rea ched Metropolis Two Hours Ahead of Jim NEW YORK, July 31. — Jimmy Mattern, the smiling flier who was unsuccessful in his attempt to make a world solo flight on ac- count of his plane crashing in Siberia, returned to New York Sunday by plane from Toronto and a Sunday crowd of 7,000 greeted him at the Floyd Bennett Flying Field. Blames Russian Oil Mattern blamed “that Russian oil” for failure of his flight. He said he burned at a rate of two gallons an hour, then when he got inside the Arctic Circle the reserve supply of 35 gallons in the rear tank would not flow. He explained that he would have landed and changed the oil from the forward tank but fog prevented him from seeing the ground. Reliefers Ahead The relief plane flown by Bill Alexander, arrived two hours be- fore Mattern. Mattern was escorted to the Coney Island Hotel where he made his headquartérs before his take- off on June 3 to await the City Hall reception planned for today. PLANE HAS MISHAP TORONTO, July 31—The MB‘,tv tern plane, piloted by Pat Reid, chief of the Canadian pilots WhO who will act as secretary, and Mr.|4,000 additional strikers from the took part in the Eielson-Borland gonnors was accompanied by Mrs. adjoining Greene and Washington search, made a forced landing at Lions Head on Bruce Peninsula Jast Saturday afternoon on account of a cracked cylinder head. Neither Mattern nor Reid were injured. Mattern came here by automobile and secured another plane and then flew on to New York City. there and return to Fairbanks byjunder threat of a declaration of ——————— SOVIET UNION 'GOING TO BUY FROM AMERICA Technicians Coming to U. S., to Shop' Around for Equipment NEW YORK, July 31.—The So- viet Union, which has decided to purchase 75,000 industrial equip- ments of various kinds for im- mediate needs, will send 41 tech- nicians to the United States to shop around. The technicians will not act as purchasing agents but will study and inspect American plants and materials best suited for the Soviet needs. The technicians will ‘be appor- tioned to study industrial equip- ment of aviations designs, engines, deep oil drilling, coke and gas plants, automobiles and cotton mills.; The equipment desired is t)}e kind supplied by Germany in hu;e s past but the Soviet Union switched to the United States cause of more liberal credits, cently arranged by the Soviet. The most needs tools and cotton machinery. —lp Assessments Decrease KANSAS CITY—The City Asses- sor has reported that the assessed valuation of Kansas City property for tax purposes in 1933 amount- ed to $465951920, a decrease of approkimately $24,000,000 since last year. Swedes Take to Pedaling be- re- are STOCKHOLM—Bicycling is en-|ful.Grand Master John I. Preiss-| joying renewed popularity in Swe-|ner, will be held tomorrow night den. A total of 800,000 bikes have|at the Masonic Temple. H been licensed and more than 200 bicycle clubs with a membership of 16000 encourage the use of foot- -power machines. S Volléead Lose; Job : | | Andrew Volstead of St. Paul, | called the “father” of the Volstead act, was “indefinitely furloughed” egal advisor to the dry law ad. inistrator in the St. Paul district. | (Associated Press Photo) TROY, CONNORS “STARTONLONG INTERIOR TRIP Officials Probably Be Ab- sent Three Weeks— Go as Far as Nome Gov. John W. Troy and J. J. Connors, Collector of Customs, left this afternoon for Skagway on the steamer Alaska, on the first leg of a journey that will take them at least as far as Nome, and probably entail an absence of three weeks from Juneau. It is the first official | trip they have made since assum- 'ing their respective offices. Gov. Troy was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. H. E. Morgan Connors and Deputy Collector of Customs M. H. Sides. i ~| There has been no violence since SOLDIERS ON | ' GUARD TODAY, STRIKE ZONE State Troopers Move Out| from Camp with Fixed Bayonets |PATROL OF HIGHWAYS, |ENTRANCES 1S BEGUN Indications that Trouble | In Pennsylvania Re- gion Will Spread BROWNSVILLE, Penn, July 31 | —Guardsmen, with fixed bayonets,| | moved cut of camp today and be-| |gan patrolling the highways to this' | mine town and all entrances to the | | coal strike region. i the militia arrived but the strike is| | very likely to spread according o) | all indications. | SOLDIEKS AT SCENE i BROWNSVILLE, Penn, July 31. —Quiet settled over the strike-torn mining camp of Southwestern Pennsylvania last Saturday night| as a battalion of National (‘nm.rds-i men bivouaced on the hilltop over- | | looking one of the nation’s greatest | soft coal regions. The Guardsmen were sent here) {by Gov. Gifford Pinchot to pre- serve peace in the strike zone| where gunfire wounded five pickets| during the week. Fixed Bayonets The soldiers detrained late last { Saturday afternoon and marched into the camp, with bayonets fixed! to their guns, where 12,000 Fayette | County miners are on a strike de-| ! manding the companies recognize the United Mine Workers of Am- | erica. The number was augumented by counties. Deputies on Duty Despite the presence of the The party will remain in skag-‘ way for a day or two, then proceed | Guardsmen, Sheriff Harry E. Hack- to Whitehouse, Dawson, Eagle, Cir-{ney, of Fayette County, had not! cle, over Steese Highway to Fair-|withdrawn his deputies last Sat- banks, and thence to Nome by plane. It will spend a few days, plane, and -after visiting Alagka| | Railroad points and Prince Willlam {Sound communities, return here. | |No set itinerary was adopted by | either the Governor or Collector | Connors, but they will visit as' | many towns as time will permit. | ———————— HOTEL FRONT IS BLOWN 0UT BY EXPLOSION Twenty Guests Found Alive; in Ruins — Thirty ' Others Missing BRUNN, Czechoslovakia, July 31. —An explosion of an undetermined origin blew out the front of the four-story Hotel Europa early this morning, burying scores of guests in the ruins. Three bodies were soon found urday night and whose removal was demanded by Gov. Pinchot martial law. Meanwhile the State made ar- rangements to provide food for the families of the striking miners. ——a——— HOT ELECTION IS INDICATED IN WASHINGTON Nearly 400 Candidates File to Special Repeal Vote on August 29 OLYMPIA, Wash, July 31.—Of the 396 candidates qualified to take part in the special repeal election on August 29, 261 are wets and 135 are drys. Voters will register either wet or dry. A comparison of the vote totals of each ticket will determine which |ticket is to be elected. Ninety- inine delegates are to be elected. ————— COVERNMENT IS OFFERING NEW ISSUES Bonds and Treasury Notes Placed on Sale Today | in Washington and. taken to the morgue and 20 persons were taken to hospitals| (badly injured. Thirty persons are missing and are believed to be dead. £ The. blast rocked the whole city. Flames which’ followed the ex- plosion shot 200 feet into the air. The police and firemen were immediately on the scene to do| rescue work and also to maintain order. The citizens were thrown into a panic by the explosion and fire. MASONIC BANQUET WILL BE GIVEN VISITOR TUESDAY Masonic organizations scheduled for tonight in honor of Most Worship- program. | Treasury notes. Mr. Preissner and his wife are enroute to Juneau aboard the tractive to small investors, their journey through Alaska. the notes as:low as $100. THREE HALIBUTERS WASHINGTON, July 31. — The|was the only halibut schoone Government today offered an $850,- arrive in port today from the v 000,000 issue of securities to thejern banks. The schooner brou The banquet .and meeting of public retiring the indebtedness of in 38,000 pounds of halibut 2 the finance administration recovery solld for 7% and 6 cents a pour The issue consists of $500,000,000 dock brought in 16,000 pounds o in bonds and the remainder in halibut and sold for 8% cents ¢ /6 cents a pound, and the In ordir to make the issue at-'with 3,000 pounds of halibut the 8,000 pounds of sable sold for steamer Yukon and will continue'bonds will be as low as $50 and and 6 cents, and three cent pound. Post ‘Clinibifig Out of Plane After F light Around Globe Here is the finish of Wiley Post’s whirlwind solo flight around the world. Surrounded by cheering thousands, he is shown climbing out of the cockpit of his -purph frimmed monoplane at Floyd Benitiett Field, New York, after shattering by mecre than 21 hours the time he and Harold Gatty established twe summers ago. The stocky flier wore a handkerchief tied around his head and was on the verge of exhaustion, but he promptly announced that he could do it again in faster time. Associated Press Photo. They Were There to Greei Post Mrs. Wiley Post, wife of the world flier, is shown above with Harcld Gatty, who flew with Post around the world in 1931. The picture was made while they waited at Floyd Bennett Field to welcome Post at the end of his famous dash. Associated Press Photo. SELL AT SEATTLE neroRADE ratest statistics re- | veal 3,200,000 batchelors and 3,- 000,000 unmarried women in Jugo- lavia and that out of a total pop- lation of 14,000,000 the women outnumber the men by only 225,000 Divorced women total only 15,000 Diamonds Boom Town SAO PAULO, Brazil—Diamond discoveries on the Rio Tibagy in SEATTLE, July 31—The Paci From the, local banks, the M l;' ini;h-;f Dash Arour;l Wt;rid_ Plainly showing the strain of his long flight, Wiley Post sits atop his sturdy plane while this picture was made a few moments after he landed the Winnie Mae at Floyd Bennett Field, New York. He completed the world flight in Surplus of Bachelors |- rthern Parana have brought a that typical boom town to the Campina recently went south, is to undergo tomtom has been fashioned by + Alta region although the extent of ja serious operation in the flnd_ has not been determined. Oregon. ciated Press Photo. 186 hours and 49 minutes. Asso- BARANOF FLIES TOURISTS The Baranof flew five loads of tourists from the steamer Alaska over Mendenhall Glacier this .morn- ing and then took off at 1:15 this afternoon for Sitka with members of the Pioneers’ Home Building Commission on an inspection trip, 176 to return this evenin; OG5 I TO UNDERGO OPERATION been received Nordstrom, who Information has Mrs. Peter % Few Aliens Work O'CONNELL SET | FREE:RETURNED TO HIS FAMLY ‘Young Man Abducted on ¢ July 7, Released on Ransom of $40,000 BILLS ARE REPORTED TO BE DEFTLY MARKED Police Alre;a-yfi"Hold Three Men for Question- ing in Case ALBANY, N. Y., July 31. —Johrt O’Connell, Jr., son of J. 0’Connell, nationally known Democratic leader of New York State, kidnaped from in front of his home early on the morning of July 7, was returned to his family at day- break Sunday by the kidnap- ers who received 40 one thou- sand dollar bills as ransom. It has been revealed that the bills are marked but se adroitly as to defy all but expert detection. These marked bills are ex- pected to leave a trail for the police to follow. Young O’Connell is in good health but suffering from a nervous shock and exhaus- tion. He said he was well treated. POLICE ON TRAIL ALBANY, July 31. — A solution of the O’Connell kid- naping is promised in short order. Two men are already de- tained here for questioning. Their names are withheld. THIRD ARREST ALBANY, July 31. — A third man has been arrested in the 0'Connell kidnaping case. Like the names of the other two helg»for question- ing, the third man’s name has not been made public. NOTHING NEW ON URSCHEL GKLAHOMA CITY, Okia. July 31.—Charles Urschel, millionaire oil operator, kidnaped last week, is still missing and no word has been received from his abductors. 1 KIDNAPING ECHO DENVER, Colo., July 31.—A fus- iiade of shots riddled the home of W. B. Ellsworth, whose wife supplied the police with informa- tion leading to the arrest of the kidnapers of Charles Boettcher the second. KIDNAPED IN ST. PAUL ST. PAUL, Minn, July 31.—The notorious Verne Sankey is sought as the ringleader of the abduction here of David Kahan, once a wealthy real estater of Brooklyn. Re'atives feared the kidnapers do not know he is no longer well- to-do. DEATH PENALTIES WASHINGTON, July. 31.—A sur- vey showed six States have in- creased the penalty for kidnaping to death since the abduction wave started in this country. DEATHS RESULT 'FROM TORNADO, TEXAS SECTION MADRID.— Spain has only a | small percentage of foreign Iabor —_— say recent statistics which shawon e Hundred Homes De- 18,240 alien workers in a popula- tion estimated at 24,000,000. Ameri- can wage earners numbered only | - e | Tom-Tom for Roosevelt PONCA CITY, Okla.—An Indian ' President Roosevelt. stroyed—Three Killed, | Scores Are Injured DALLAS, Texas, July 31.—Three persons lost their lives and scores were injured in a tornado which swept through Oak CIliff today, wrecking approximately 100 homes. Portland, |Ponca Indians for presentation to|The property damage is estimated lat $250,000. Py