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VOiAJME XV. NUMBER 227.
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rARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
OTHER FACTIONS GATHER
ING WITH HOSTILE IN
TENTIONS
SIMLA, India, Sept, 8. (/P)—
Sever fighting between British
and raiding Afghan tribesmen,
along the northwest frontire,
broke out Saturday and contin
ued Sunday.
An official announcement said
seven native recruits and three
militiamen were killed by hos
tile tribesmen from Kurram who
attacked the post 10 miles south
of Parachinar and also skir
mished with the post which is
held by friendly natives along the
Kurram river. The defenders
beat off the attacks with shrap
nel and rifles.
The enemy casualties were
believed to be considerable.
At Kurram the British lost
seven; the Chighas killed seven
and wounded three.
rne inoesmcu
back but late yesterday reoccu
red threatening positions. Other
tribesmen are reported gather
ing in the Peiwar area with hos
tile intentions.
NO JOBS IN
ARGENTINE SO
GANG REVOLTS
BUENOS AIRES. Sept.. 3. (A3)
_President Hipolito Yrigoven,
twice Argentina’s chief 0? state,
resigned after of political agi
os iotn and student riots, and
tamed over the ship of state
to Vice President Enrique Mar
tinez who declared the state
would seize here the troops
which held the local barracks.
Yrigoyen was first elected in
1916 and again in 1928. This
•news burst over the fever-heat
ecS city like a bombshell. The
discontent and agitation against
Yrigoyen was mainly within his
■vn party because of the fail
ure to provide his supporters
with positions over the present
r.ard times.
80# DEAD AT
SAN DOMINGO
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 3.
•?)— Governor Roosevelt was in
; - rmed that 300 were dead in the
city of San Domingo alone as the
result of the tropical hurricane. N *
part of the rest of the Domincan
republic has been heard from.
The governor’s information came
from Major Cary I. Crockett, who
flew from San Juan to Dom
inican capital. Major Crockett’s
estimate was made after he con
ferred with President Tn.jil.o and
Charles B. Curtis, Ameiic?n Min
ster.
Heir to a throne
BRUSSELS, Sept., 8. UP)—'The
Crown Princess Astrid of Bel
gium, wife of Prince Leopold,
iave birth to a nine pound son,
.r Stuyvenburg castle. The babe
comes heir to the throne in a
Crect male line. He was bap
tized Babuoin Albert Axel Marie
Gustav, the first name for the
ate elder brother of King Al
bert.
FINANCIER DIES
NEW xORK, Sept. 8. (/P)—Simon
William Straus, noted financier
and chairman of the board of the
S. J Straus Company, died here at
the age of 63. He had been ill for
more than a year. Straus was a
pioneer skyscraper builder and is
also known as the originator of
the first mortgage real estate bond.
THOUSANDS KILLED
HUH STORM:
SID IS HUSHED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. (/P)—
Captain Silva, Red Cross official,
reported that 1,000 were killed,
2,500 injured, 4,700 homes des
troyed and 29,000 persons were
homeless as the result of the
Carribean hurricane at Santo
Domingo.
One of the greatest relief
problems ever to face the West
Indies confronted officials of
the United States. Cuba, Haiti
! and Porto Rico.
Governor Roosevelt, at San
Juan undertook a relief expe
dition using the Naval tug Grebe
1 stationed in the Virgin Islands
| CtilU I/I1C ot-vi****v* ~ —
which weathered the storm and
he is enroute to Santo Domingo
to make a survey and to take
aid.
—SO THEY WERE WED
• Washington, sept., 8. t/pt—
'Mrs. Caroline H. St-ollehwerck
' Ssarsdale of New York and La
mont Dupont, president of the
Dupont Denemours Company
were married at the home of
the bride's mother, Mrs. Rogers
Wlison.
BURNING THIS
TIE!) TO TIS 8F
DOMESTIC BOrFSLO
SHANGHAI. Sept. 8, (^P)—
Burning torches tied to the tails
of domestic buffalo by commun
ists, stampeded the animals to
ward Changsha in the hope that
i the animals would break thru
the lines of defense.
Advices from the Hunan cap
ital reported the animals were
stopped by machine gun fire
and the Red attack broken for
me mue ucmg.
Changsha dispatches reported
sharp clashes between the Reds
and the defenders of the south
city with small losses to both
sides. Changsha was recenty
sacked by the communists.
NOW ITS ON THURSDAY
AOMORIA, Japan, Sept., 8, (/P)
' —Bromley will be unable to
fly to Tacoma before Thursday
or Friday at the earliest as
j preparation of the ramp runa
way at Samishiro is expected
to require two or three days.
attempt lower record
OKLAHOMA, Sept. 8- (/P)—Wiley
Post, of Oklahoma City, flier, who
: won the Los Angeles to Chicago
^non-stop air derby, will take off
'for California to await favorable
weather for an attempt to lower
the trans-continental flight record
of Captain Frank Hawkes, he an
nouced here.
Frank A. Aldrich, former Ter
ritial Senator, has entered the
Pioneer Home at Sitka. He has
: been in poor health for many
' months.
OUT ARGENTINE
ARMY ID M
FORMER CHIEF OF GENERAL
STAFF SENDS ULTIMA
TUM
BUENOS AIRES. Sept., 8, (ZP)
—Mutiny against the regime of
President Irigoyen who Satur
day night delegated powers to
Vice President Enrque Martinez,
broke out in the Army and Navy
here.
The movement was led by
General Jose Uruburu, former
chief of the general staffand
j inspector general. He sent an
Ultimatum to the President de
j manding his formal resignation
j and threatened to bombard the
j government palace if he refused.
! The general had troops near
i the center of the city and others
| were reported enroute from
i Campo Demayo garrison in the
; federal capital. A large body of
j troops are stationed there in
i addition to 4,000 foot police,
cavalry ana aruueiy itguucmo.
OVER
j
—
CLEVELAND. Sept. 8, (/FJ)-Tom
my Freeman of Cleveland, won tlie
world’s welterweight championship
Referee Patsy Haley awarded his
a decision in the 15-rounds over
Young Jack Thompson of Oakland,
defending the title-holder.
Haley undeliberated after the
last punch. Thompson was stunned
at the decision. The crowd gasped
and cheered a tremendous greeting
to the new title-holder.
Thompson was floored by Free
man to the count of six with two
ripping left hooks to the jaw- In
the second round he had him in
distress and at the end of the 10th
when landed a hard right to the
jaw that buckled Freeman’s knees.
Freeman made a big drive for the
crown at the beginning of the 12th
and scored effectively with lefts to
the face which caused the champ
ion to miss frequently.
ELEVEN SMS TO
; HOLB PAI1AIES
i PRESENT WEEK
WASHINGTON. Sept., 8, OP)—
1 Eleven states will hold quinary
| elections this week to choose
| candidates for the Senate, House
and State officials.
These are Maine, Maryland,
South Carolina, Louisiana, Col
I orado, Michigan, New Hamp
j shire, Vermont, Arizona and
! Washington.
The latter three states only
j have state officials and con
| gressmen to choose,
j Georgia has a primary on Wed
| nesday, Maine, today and the
| others Tuesday.
Ma^achusetts, New York and
Wisconsin will , hold primaries
September 16.
William Young of Juneau and
Miss Verna Gunyah of ^Gaw-;
ock. were maried recently at Ju
neau.
DEFINITE REJECTION
BOMBAY, Sept. 8. (TP)—Definite ;
rejection by Mahatma Ghandi and |
his associates of proposals for j
peace in India through the cessa- J
tion of the civil disobedience cam
paign dashed the hopes of the mo
derate envoys who had br>ea m j
conferences with the nationalist;
leader for ma'ny weeks
WHIMS M NOTEBOOK
ON 000) OF AiiEE
TROMSOE, Norway, Sept. 8,m
—The story of the Andree bal
loon expedition up to Septem
ber 5, presumably 1897, and the
writing aftqr that date in the
notebook found on Andree, is
not readable in its entirety and
so it will be impossible to fol
low the story of the expedition
as told by the leader.
It would appear, that the lead
er of the trio arrived at White
Island September 5 after hav
ing battled their way across the
ice since July when their bal
loon met disaster.
Doctor Gunnar Horn propos
ed a Swedish expedition next
summer to White Island think
ing it possible to find more rel
ics and information.
ARE DRIVEN BACK
INSTANBOUL, Sept. 8. (/P)—Kurd
ish rebels who have been operat
ing along the Persian fronties,
pressed on attack upon the Turk
ish infantry headquarters at Lia
bekr, but were repulsed with se
vere losses, and pursued into the
foothills.
PEACE PERILS
BROT HOME TO
WAR VETERANS
BALTIMRE, Sept. 8. —Se
veral hundred members of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars inured
to the dangers of battle were brot
to a realization of the perils of
peace by illness laid to a crab and
ice cream luncheon at the grounds
of the Naval Acadamey at An
napolis.
Physicians who were delegates to
the annual convention and Balti
more doctors were kept busy all
night and a part of the day fol
lowing Litry.Ling ai nui/Cia tuc vet
erans and members of the ladies
auxiliary.
Some of the sufferers had pto
maine poisoning and others just
grievious cases of stomach ache.
WHERE AND HOW
NEW YORK, Sept. 8- (/P)—Rudy
Valee, through his attorney, will
ask supreme court justice to re
quire Agnes MacLoughlin, a show
girl at Earl Carrol’s Follies to show
when, where and how he ever pro
posed marriage to her. Valee denies
that he ever at any time either
oraly or in writing asked a girl to
marry him.
JAPANESE COLONY
DIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 8. (/P)
—Five hundred and 70 Japanese
immigrants arrived here aboard
the Japanese steamer Kanakura
Maru, enroute to the state of Para
where they are going to settle and
start a Japanese colony.
Jimmy Moore, Juneau box
er arrested on the charge of
aiding and abetting a prisoner
to escape, has been released as
all charges were dismissed.
WHITNEY
TORE LEIF FROM
IE OLQE' BOOK
SAYS HUBBARBS TESTIMONY
ON BRIBE TAKING FAB
RICATION
SEATTLE, Sept., 8. (/P)—Whit
ney denied that he haji torn
i a leaf from the “black book”
seized from Olmsted or. that
he saw any notation In the
book indicating bribe payments
to himself or to Lyle or Re
velle.
Whitney denied he tipped off
the Olmsted ring to the Wood
man Beach raid and said a
“police prowler had tipped off
Olmsted before the raid on.
the Union stables in 1925.
A $3,000 suit, filed in the sup
erior court against McKinney
by Martin Boskovitch who said
i McKinney, when a private at
1 torney last year accepted the
above amount, went by the
board when Boskovitch and a
! number of others failed to ap
pear in court when the case
was called for trial.
Whitney said Hubbard’s tes
timony about bribe taking was
“pure fabrication” an dsaid Olm
j sted was dumfounded when he
discovered Hubbard was a gov
ernment agent and dropped his
appeal in the first Olmsted
case and pleaded guilty to the
second. This was done after it
was confirmed as to Hubbard’s
identity while he posed as a
member of the Olmsted gang.
STUDENTS AND
POLICE CLASH
BUENOS AIRES, Sept, 8. »£>> —
One person was killed and two were
injured in a clash between police
and several thousand students
who marched toward the govern
ment house.
The students formed without
police permision and then began
a march through the principal
thoroughfares, the Aveninda de
Mayo. They had nearly reached the
Plaza de Mayo where the govern
ment house stands when they were
blocked by a force of mounted pol
ice.
SEATTLE MAID
AFTER RECORD
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8. (/P)—
Kelene Madison, of Seattle, arrived
in San Francisco for the far west
ern swimming championships that
will be staged at the Fleish Sacher
pool.
The brilliant maid of the Pacific
Northwest went once to the big
swiming pool at the ocean beach
to prepare for her attack on the
world’s 100 meter swiming record
and the world’s 200 meter record.
MAY HOP THIS YEEK
AOMORI. Japan, Sept., 8, (/P)
' —Harold R*omley and Harold
Gatty are prepared to staT this
week on their proposed flight.
They flew to Samishiro, a re
mote beach on the northern tip
of Hondo, the largest island in
Japan, yesterday, fnjpi Kasumi
gaura, 350 miles closer to Ta
coma.