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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _
VOL. XXXVI., NO. 5549.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
NAVAL PACT RATIFICATIONS FORMALLY DEPOSITED
NAVY MEN TO
TALK TONIGHT
OVER HOOK-UP
One Step Allowing Citizens
to Get Acquainted
with U. S. Navy
WASHINGTON ,D. C., Oct. 27.— ]
Open house to the general public
is being observed today in naval1
establishments,and aboard war ves
sels in this country's seaboards,
sponsored by the Navy League of
America.
An elaborate program has been1
arranged for the day to permit the
people to "know more about their ■
Navy as it is” and commemorate j
the birth of Theodore Roosevelt [
and "his devotion and understand- i
ing of the American Navy."
Secretary of Navy Charles P. i
Adams and Admiral William V.
Pratt, Chief of Operations, will
make addresses over a nation-wide
radio hook-up at 11 o’clock tonight,
following a radio talk by Rear Ad
miral William L. Rodgers, former
Chairman of the Navy General
Board.
Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, will accept
a silver service from the Mayor of
Houston, Texas, given the new
cruiser of that name.
Navy Aircraft exercises are also
being held in many cities.
DRY AGENT
KILLS MAN
Wounds Another in New
Mexico—Statements
Are Made Public
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico.,
Oct. 27,—Uvaldo Matrinez, highway
worker, was shot and killed by C.
W. Eskildson, Federal Prohibition
Agent, near Bernalillo.
Liberato Leyva, who was riding
with Martinez, was wounded in the
Wf 1st.
Eskildson stopped to investigate
fin automobile accident, he said,
when Martinez, Leyva and three
others drove up and began to at
tack him. Eskildson said his gun
■was discharged when he struck one
man over the head with the barrel
of the gun. Levya said Eskildson
fired without warning.
BOMB HITS
. L.«. CHURCH
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 27.—
A bomb composed of black powder
was thrown Sunday against the
side of the Trinity Methodist
Church of the South. The ex
plosion of the bomb broke several
windows in the church and sur
rounding houses.
The police believe the bomb was
thrown from an automobile in
retaliation for a radio political
statement made by the pastor of
the church, Rev. R. P. Shuler.
RAID TWENTY
SPEAKEASIES
NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Oct.
27.—Fifty Prohibition Agents raid
ed simultaneously last Saturday
night 20 speakeasies in the Bowery
District, arrested bartenders and
owners and drove thousands of
customers to the streets.
Disguised as derelicts, the agents
gathered evidence during the week
at the cheap speakeasies where al
cohol sold for 10 cents a drink and
25 cents for an 8-ounce bottle.
LOAN 34,000 SPECIMENS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—Nearly
34,000 specimens were loaned by
the Smithsonian Institute to work
ers outside Washington during last
year.
NEW FLIGHT RECORD IS SET
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According to an Associated Press dispatch received by The Empire
today from Valley Stream, New York, Mrs. Keith Miller world-famed
woman flier who flew 14,000 miles from England to Australia, has set
a new women’s record for a West to East transcontincntol flight. Her
actual flying time from Los Angeles to Valley Stream was 21 hours
land 27 minutes. Her last stop was at Columbus, Ohio.
| She also recently set a East to West record of 25 hours and 44
I minutes. Miss Laura Ingalls recently made the flight from the West
to the East in 25 hours and 35 minutes, actual flying time. In the
above pieture Mrs. Keith Miller is shown polishing up her pet
plane at the Washington, D. C., Airport.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR INVESTMENT
IN ALASKA FARM IS PRACTICALLY
CLEARED IN SEASON’S OPERATIONS
PACIFIC N. W.
GIRL IS HELD
CAPTIVE, CHINA
First Red Army Demands
$200,000 Ransom—
Others Are in Peril
PEIPING. China, Oct. 27.—A dis
patch to the American Legation
from Prank Lockhart. Consul Gen
eral at Hankow, said the Rev. K. N.
Tvedt, and Miss Bergliot Evenson,
of Mount Vernon. Washington, are
held prisoners by bandits at Loshan,
southeast of Honan, 20 miles from
where the Rev. Nelson was recently
captured.
Consul General Lockhart said he
had received a letter from the I
captives that was evidently dictated.
The letter said the First Red Army '
(demanded $200,000 ransom.
I Both captives are connected with j
the Lutheran United Mission.
The whereabouts of American
Catholic Fathers Thomas M. Me
gan and Joseph V. Hinkles, regis-|
tered in Loshan, is uncertain. It is
known one foreign priest escaped;
I by climbing the city wall as the
| bandits entered the city.
| Miss Evenson, mentioned in the
above dispatch, is a graduate of
the Mount Vernon schools and
'taught there. A sister is living there
now and her father and another
sister are living in Lynden, Wash
ington.
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Kills 3, Saves
Wife, Dynamites
House, Suicides
PETERSBURG, Virginia, Oct. ,
27.—Gibson Toler, aged 38 years,
killed his three children, Iris
aged 2, Robert aged 4, and Vir
ginia aged 6, with a gun and
tl.on dynamited the house, after
shoving his wife out to safety.
A shot was heard before the
explosion of dynamite, and he
is believed to -have suicided.
SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 27.—
A. A. Shonbeck purchased a
farm^f 320 acre3 last fall, par
tially cleared, bought full equip
ment, including a thresher, in
vesting a total of $10,000.
He cut this season 200 tons
of wheat, oat and vetch hay,
selling for $40 a ton, practically
clearing his investment in one
season.
The Alaska Railroad and the
Government Experimental staff
is greatly Interested in his op
erations.
PACIFIC.COAST
COALCOMPANY
AIDING LABOR
Helps in Unemployment
Situation — 24 - Hour
Day, Seven Day Week
SEATTLE, Oct. 27 — A program of
a 24-hour day and a seven day
week without the usual midwinter
suspension of operations is an
nounced by the Pacific Coast Coal
Company.
The increase in working hours will
add more than a quarter of a mil
lion dollars to the payroll of more
than 1,000 workers including those
at the Dali Island quarry near Ket
chikan, Alaska, the lime plant here
and men in the mines.
TODAY'S STOCK I
| QUOTATIONS |
NEW YORK CITY, N. Y„ Oct. 27.
—Closing quotation of Alaska Ju
neau mine stock today is 614, Amer
ican Can 121%, Anaconda Copper
34%, Bethlehem Steel 7514, Pox
Films 39, General Motors 37, Gran
by Corporation 13, International
Harvester 61, Kennecott Copper 26,
Montgomery Ward 20%, National
Acme 8l4, Packard Motors 9%, 8%,
8%, Simmons Beds 15, Standard
Brands 16%, Standard Oil of Cali
fornia 52, Standard Oil of New
Jersey 54%, United Aircraft 36, U.
S. Steel 152%. I
VARGAS ASKED
TO TAKE HEAD
OF NEW GOVT,
Military Junta of Brazil
Selects Insurgent Com
mander as Chief
IS NOW ON HIS WAY
TO RIO DE JANEIRO
President-Elect Prestes Is
Reported Virtually
a Prisoner
i mo DE JANEIRO, Oct. 27.—
Getulio Vargas, Insurgent Com
mander and chief Liberal candidate
in the Presidential elections last
spring, hao been invited by the
Military Junta, which overthrew
the Brazilian Govenment, to be
come Provisional President of Bra
zil.
Assurances have been received
from rebel leaders, both in the
North and South of their support.
Cessation of hostilities in Sao
Paulo is announced and Bahia has
been taken without resistance.
Vargas is reported now to be
enroute from the State of Rio
Grande de Sul to Rio de Janeiro,
He is President of that State.
President-elect Julio Prestes is
said to be virtually a prisoner in
the State of Sao Paulo. He re
signed the office of President of
that State to become a Conserva
tive candidate for the Presidency.
SURRENDER UNCONDITIONALLY
PORTO ALEGRE. Brazil, Oct. 27.
—It is learned here that the Bra
zilian Federal troops surrendered
unconditionally to the insurgent
army at St. Arare on the Sao
Paulo-Arana fighting front and
joined the revolutionists under their
own commander.
RECOGNITION
! OF BRAZIL TO
I TAKE COURSE
Secretary of State Stimson
Outlines Policy to
Be Pursued
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 27.— '
American recognition of the new i
regime in Brazil will be guided by!
the same policy the State Depart-'
ment has followed in the recent
recognizing of the governments of j
Argentina. Peru and Bolivia, Secre- j
tary of State Stimson said.
The Secretary outlined the three
points on which recognition de- j
pends:
t 1. Whether the Government is
in control of the situation to pro
tect life, liberty and property.
2. Whether the Government is
backed 4>y public sentiment,
i 3. Whether the Government can<
fulfill obligations of a Government. I
30«0 HOMELESS;
j 61 DEAD, FLOOD.
SMYRENA, Turkey, Oct. 27.—At
least 68 persons perished and 3 000
are homeless in a flood which in
undated the lower portion of the
icity today.
| Six hundred and fifty-five house*
have been demolished.
No word has been received from!
the American schools but the fact
.that the International College and
Girls’ School are on high ground
!gave hope the property escaped
.the high water.
Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen. of he
Extension Department of the Alas
ka Agricultural College and School
of Mines, expects to leave here his
week for Wrangell and other South
-east Alaska towns. .She will soon
i return to Fairbanks.
| Harold Olds returned home to Ju
, neau on the Admiral Farragut after
| a brief vacation trip to Seattle.
BRAZILIAN CITIES NOW UNDER REBEL GOVERNMENT
Associated Press Photo
General view of the harbor of Santos, whieh w ,3 one of the objectives of the revolutionary forces in
their advance northward but which is now under CO nmand of the Military Junta.
A ssocintcil l*teas 1*11010
City of Pernambuco which is in the hands of t;ie new Brazilian Military Government.
I
'Dying Request
Obliterates Party
Lines in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 27.
—Party lines have been oblit
erated as Republicans and
i Democrats united in the last
i wish of Representative Otis
| Wingo, who died last week af
ter 18 years of service. He
! asked that his widow be sent to
the House of Representatives to
fill his position. The Democrats
announced she will be their
| candidate and the Republicans
announced she will not be op
j posed.
ONE HUNDRED
MINERS DEAD I
IN EXPLOSION
Second Disaster Within
One Week Occurs in
German Coal Fields
SAAR BRUECHEN. Germany,
Oct. 27.—At least 100 men were
killed in a coal mine explosion:
at Maybach late Saturday making;
the second great coal mine disaster,
in a week.
] Ninety bodies have been recov- j
ered and no hope is held out for,
the others known to be buried. |
Rescue work has been abandoned i
because of the heat in the mine,
i Flags were still floating at half
staff for the 261 men killed at the |
Alsdorf mine explosion four days!
before.
Last July# a mine disaster oc
curred at Neurode and with the
past two disasters, 500 men have
been killed in the coal fields dur
ing the past four months.
Nick Bex, a eanneryman and
James L. Freeburn are in Juneau
on business. They are at the
Gastineau.
NEW TAX LAW
IN OREGON IS
HELD INVALID
Million and Half Dollars
Collected Must Be Re
turned to Payers
SALEM, Oregon, Oct. 27.—Sud
denly and unexpectedly, Oregon
Stale finances have been thrown
into confusion by an opinion of the
State Supreme Court that the new
state intangibles tax law is uncon
stitutional and that $1,500,000 col-!
lected must be returned to the tax
payers.
The Supreme Court held the law
violated the Fourteenth Amendment1
guaranteeing equal protection under
the law's because it taxes individu
als and not corporations.
The opinion said an ‘'individual is,
unlike a corporation and cannot be
taxed for the mere privilege of ex
isting. A corporation is an arti
ficial entity and owes existence to
the State. Individuals have the
rights of living and owning prop
erty. These are their natural
rights and an excise tax cannot be
imposed upon them.”
The law imposed a tax of 2 per
cent interest on money, dividends,
stocks, bonds and mortgages when
they produce an income exceeding
$200 annually. I
j
Campaign Against Rebels
Northern China, Is Ended
NANKING. Oct. 27—The Nation
alist Government Military Head-1
quarters announced the ending of
the campaign against the North
ern Rebels in Honan Province. The'
announcement said the rebels und-!
er Gen. Feng have been driven;
out of Honan into Shangsi and i
Shensi Provinces and the National
ists are in pursuit.
Reindeer Round-up
Is Completed
At Point Burrow
POINT BARROW, Alaska.
Oct. 27.—This vicinity is cele
brating completion of one of
the largest reindeer round-ups
in the history of the Arctic. A
herd numbering more than 14,
600 is in an ire block corral
6 to 8 feet high which was con
structed by the natives. The cor
ral will hold the deer while
they are being counted and
branded.
2 MEMBERS,
STOCK FIRM
TAKE LIVES
Believed Suicide Pact Is
Executed for Benefit
of Creditors
1 PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.—The
possibility of a suicide pact be
tween Sidney Brosk and George
Reilly, members of the brokerage
firm of The Reilly hnd Brock Com
pany, who ended their lives with
! pistols within three days of each
| other, is being investigated by the
police.
Reilly killed himself last Thurs
day and Brock took his life Sun
, day.
[ Each man left $700,000 uncontest
able life insurance for the benefit
'of the firm.
John Brock, brother of Sidney
Brock, said he believed both men
killed themselves to satisfy their
creditors.
The books showed assets of $5,
723,573 and liabilities of $535,280.
A total of $4,000,000 in credit
pledges were made to banks for
loans aggregating $3,448,229.
L. E. Herrin of Punter Bay is
among the guests at the Alaskan
Hotel.
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THREE NATIONS
ARE AGREED ON
NAVAL LIMITS
Representatives Complete
Final Transactions
of Big Issue |
MUTUAL TRUST AND
GOOD WILL EVIDENCED
Equal Protection Now Fur
nished—Is Substitute
for Suspicion
LONDON, Oct. 27. — Representa
tives of the United States. Great
Britain and Japan today deposited
ratifications of the London Naval
Treaty at the Foreign Office.
Prime Minister MacDonald’s
speech, following those of President
Hcover and Premier Hamaguchl,
touched at length on the Franco
Italian negotiations to solve naval
limitations between them. He said
ultimate failure was unthinkable
since the world hopes for disarma
ment and progress is focused on
efforts of the two nations to come
to an agreement.
Fair to All
President Hoover classed the
treaty as "fair to all and danger
ous to none.”
President Hoover joined Premier
MacDonald and Premier Hamaguchl
l in an international broadcast.
President Hoover declared it was
a pleasure to felicitate the peoples
! of Japan, Great Britain and the
! United States upon conclusion of a
sonnd and reasonable agreement
| which has been accepted by each
I as affording equal protection and
I which substitutes for suspicion and
competition, a mutual trust, good
will and confidence.
Japanese Sentiment
Premier Hamaguchl said he felt
it was a great privilege to have
: contributed to “this happy thought.”
' He said the treaty was bound to
| exercise an immense moral influ
j ence on mankind. He said the
pact was a striking demonstration
of the mutual confidence and good
will among nations.
SHOTS DROP
2 ATTACKERS
Mother Fires in Darkness
at Two Men Waylaid
ing Daughter
SOLDIER, Kansas, Oct. 27.—Mrs,
Edith Thornton, aged 50 years, fir
ed a revolver into the darkness at
two men she believed were attack
ing her daughter.
Cecil Crltchlow, aged 26, is dead,
and Sam Curtis, aged 28, is dan
gerously wounded.
The men had beaten the girl’s
escort, Curtis said.
Curtis said he and Critchlow,
when they passed the couple, told
them to stop. The girl's escort
Immediately started to fight.
Mrs. Thornton saw the struggle
from a window of her home and
opened fire.
TRYTOlinr
PROHIAGENT
WHEELING, West Virginia, Oct.
27.—An attempt was made last Sat
urday night to assassinate Roy
Hightland, aged 31 years. Federal
Prohibition agent. Three men fired
on him with a machine gun as he
stepped from his home.
Hightland dropped behind a hedge
at the first shot and the gunmen
fled.
Joe Fragale, John Goudy, who
were recently indicted for conspir
acy to violate the Prohibition laws,
and Robert Ringer, were arrested
later and held for questioning.
BACKS COCLDVT WAIT, LOSE
EAU CLAIRE. Wis., Oct. 23.—
Wausau high school lost a game to
the local high. 6-0, mainly through
the loss of 156 yards, charged for
violation of the shift rule.