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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-27
HELPFUL ACT COSTS LIFE

CHICAGO. Jan. 27. - A good Samaritan act cost John Mann, salesman, his life today. Mann stopped to offer assistance to two workmen wrecking building and was injured fatally by falling plank.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-27
RETURNING TO SITKA

Miss Mae Mills sister of w. P. Mills, well known merchant of Sit ka, is a passenger on the Queen. returning to her home after a six months visit to Atlantic coast cities. She was accompanied on the trip by Miss Porter, formerly of the Sltks Public Schools,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-27
CoU. Pmks Pays Respects to Col. EieIson

Q Expressing regret that Col. Q Carl Ben Eielson's plane was found badly smashed near North Cape, Gov. Q George A. Parks today paid tribute to the missing flier. He was the father of Alaskan aviation" Gov. . Parks said, "and undouhted- Q iy helped moie tliaa a4lg Q other one man to develop air travel in the Territory. c It is to be regretted that c he is gone"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-27
High School Lore Afaiir
 Is Fatal One

. BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 27.- Q As the result of an upset
 D of a high school love af-
 ? fair Donald Munson, aged IT years. shot himself to , death early Sunday morning } in his home on return from } a dance. Friends said Mun- son and Miss Ruth Summers had quarrel. Munson was } a high school football player.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-27

c. V. Wagoner, prominent can neryman of Sitka, is a passenger on the Queen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-27

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
JUST A MERE PUFF OF BREATH
AND OUT GOES ELECTRIC LIGHT
Such Procedure Might Have Been Joke Once, but It's
Serious Business Nowadays.

planes, scientific apparatus, punch
presses and other machines in which
hands and feet are busy. 1t also can
be made to actuate devices that open
service doors of restaurants. and to
operate the carriages of typewriters
and billing machines. It Is even
claimed that the breath device can be
made to turn the pages of sheet music.
For extinguishing the lights person
blows into q trim little funnel, which
resembles the mouthpiece of a tele-
phone. The breath strikes phosphor
bronze springs, arranged so that the
air impact strikes a large surface and
Is thereby amplified sufficiently to
make regular contact" The posi-
ton of the springs at the bottom of
the funnel protects them from being af-
fected by ordinary air currents.
The story is that q friend Of DIR.
Free. objecting jokingly to putting his
hands on apparatus handled by other
persons, said:
why don't you scientists give us
something so that we don't have to
touch things II we don't want TOP"
That's easy" was Frees reply, I'VE
could do it with just a pun of air"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
GUM SHOE R0BBER SENDS
FOUR MEN TO HOSPITAL
Rv tha AssocInied press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, September -Four men,
all owners of small shops, were in Re-
ceiving Hospital today, each with
severe wounds in the head, victims,
police say, of gum shoe slugger," who
assaults and robs without being seen or
heard. Each of the men was found un-
conscious on the floor of his shop, his
pockets turned inside out and his cash
drawer looted. Each told the police he
This series of robberies, which
prompted special police activities.
started Monday. The fourth victim was
taken to the hospital last night. He Is
Zelik Kardal. who has clothing store
on Brush street
Previously Simon Diamond. Lawrence
Goldberg and Max Goldberg had suf-
fered similar attacks.
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DINNER TOFEATURE
CELEBRATION HERE
FOR FRENCH PILOTS
Reception for Coste and Bel
Ionte to Be Biggest Since
Lindbergh's Return.

Washington today was planning the
biggest celebration since Col. Lind
bergh's memorable return from Paris
in 1927 to do honor to Capt Dieudonne
Coste and Maurice Bellonte. intrepid
French flyers. who on Tuesday made
the first complete east-west passage of
the Atlantic by plane and who will ar
rive in the Capital Sunday afternoon
at 5 O'Clock to receive the off1cial plau-
dts of the Nation.
President Hoover win welcome them
Monday. Col. Lindbergh will be on
hand and all Washington is expected
to turn out to show the admiration Of
the Capital for the first flyers to make
the dangerous ocean dash by plane.
Probably the biggest event of the two
day visit of the Frenchn1en will be the
dinner being arranged for them in the
ball room of the Willard Hotel Monday
by the Washington Board Of Trade.
Guests at Dinner.
Capt. Coste and Bellonte will be the
guests of honor, and the invited
guests will include President Hoover,
Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of
the Navy Charles Francis Adams.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Aviation David S. ingalls,. Assistant
of War for Aviation F. Trubee
Dawson, Col Clarence Young, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Aviation:
Gen.. Pershing, Mai. Gen. James E.
Pechet, chief of the Army Air Corps;
Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief
OF the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics:
the District Commissioners, officials of
the Diplomatic Corps and Washington
business and professional men and
women.
More than 1000 invitations. have been
sent out for the dinner and more than
l 900 of those invited are expected to
attend the affair.
Capt. Edward v. Rickenbacker, Amer
lean lace of aces" during the World
War, today accepted an invitation to
make one of the speeches. Another will
be made by high Government official,
probably Secretary of War Hurley.
Samuel j. Prescott of the Board OF
Trade has been made chairman of the
special committee in charge of the ban
uuet With him will work w. w. Everett
and Lawrence Z. Williams.
Plans Completed Last Night.
Plans for the banquet were completed
last night at q conference between Board
of Trade officials and Jules Henry,
charge d'affaires of the French embassy.
President Hoover will be host at the
White House Monday afternoon at a
luncheon for the French flyers. The
Frenchmen will spend Sunday evening
at the French embassy, where elaborate
plans are being made for their enter
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RED CROSS CABLES
CASH FOR RELIEF
$4,000 Sent to Santo Do
mingo as Emergency
Appropriation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Red Cross acted Immediately to-
day to aid the suffering in Santo Do
mingo on receipt of plea from Presi-
dent Rafael L. Trujillo of the Dominic
can Republic.
Fifteen thousand dollars was cabled
to American Minister Curtis as IAN in
itial appropriation for the emergency"
Capt. Antonio Silva, manager of the
Porto Rican Chapter of the Red Cross,
was ordered to go by air from San
Juan to the scene Of devastation.
Report Expected Today.
He can cover the distance in one
hour and half A report from him
is expected late today. He is to make
a survey and take charge Of first relief
activities.
in disaster relief provided by the Red
Cross, in his own country after the 1928
hurricane disaster. 1t was found at
that time that it was impractical to
send in relief commodities. For this
reason, officials decided today to send
the cash. Silva will be in charge OF
obtaining relief supplies from nearest
available sources. He was ordered to
place himself at the disposal of Ameri-
can Minister Curtis.
Curtis relayed the request from Presi-
dent Trujillo. Red Cross officials head
ed by Chairman Payne already were in
conference when the State Department
word arrived.
Mr.. Curtis cabled the storm had
caused widespread destruction" to the
Dominican capital and its suburbs.
While he had not received reports from
the interior, ne said the loss OF life
there so far appeared small.
President Hoover was kept appraised
of the reports of devastation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
Man Says Woman
Proposed Marriage,
In Answer to Suit
Declares Agreement Off
When Prospective Bride
Introduced Son.

Edward E. Brown, AZ, lawyer con-
nected with one of the Government de-
partments and residing at 1874 Twelfth
street, today filed plea in defense of
suit for $4,000 damages instituted
against him in the District Supreme
Court, August 10, by Norma l.. Chef
ham, AZ, SIC Third street, for alleged
breach of promise to marry.
The plea, filed through attorneys
Fred B. Rhodes and Cooper b. Rhodes,
is regarded as the shortest ever made
in q breach of promise case.
Brown says he met the plaintiff for
the FIRST time Monday, July 28, 1890,
that on Thursday. July 81, he "ac-
cepted her proposal of marriage" on
her assurance that she had never been
married; that on Friday, August l., he
consented to her request that a mar
rage license be secured, and that the
marriage took place on Saturday, Au-
Continued on Page 2, Column -
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PElPING COLLEGE BOMBED

PEIPING, China, September (Rl.-
A bomb explosion this morning wrecked
the office of the Rockefeller Endowed
Peiping Union Medical College, serious
ly injuring a Chinese clerk.
The bomb exploded when some one
opened a suit case left two days age
by an unidentified person. Chinese
police are investigating the explosion
has some connection with q recent
Chinese legal case, Relatives OF Chi
nese patient, who died in the hospital
unsuccessfully sued two doctors of the
college, charging they had performed
an autApsy on the body withoutEcon-
sent Of the family.
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IN SANTO DOMINGO
DESCRIBED BY WRITER In AREA

automobile today, after leaving Port
au-Prince, Haiti, last night. I COLI
tinued by horseback and am pushing
on to Santo Domingo City.
On my journey 1 found as I entered
the stricken area that roads had been
destroyed, telegraph wires blown down
and gardens and country estates
wrecked.
The floods resulting from the hurri-
cane washed out many houses People
In some places we're reported TO have
taken refuge on improvised RATS.
Aqua is near the south coast Of the
Dominican Republic and about So miles
west by south of Santo Domingo City.
Its population is given bnNgazeteers as
$500.
fCopyright, 1880, by Associated Press, AL
rights reserved,)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
HOOVER SPEECHES
HELD SIGNIFICANT
Viewed as Opening of Cam
paign to Return Party to
Power in Congress.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Viewed generally as the opening Of
President Hoover's campaign for return
of his party to power in Congress in
the Fall and for his own reelection
two years hence, his acceptance of in
vitations to make four addresses early
In October was widely speculated upon
today in the Capital.
Marking as 1t does sharp departure
from the policy followed by his prede-
cessor in Office, the program of four
major speeches in six days, which was
announced late yesterday, also will be
one of the most ambitious efforts of
Mr.. Hoover upon the platform.
Not only will the quartet of addresses
take him to three widely separated
States, but it will permit him to gain
contact with the people of several others
as he passes through. Also the speeches
will take the Chief Executive before
three OF the most powerful civil groups
in the Nation.
1t has been generally accepted that
all of his addresses are to be appropri-
ate to the occasion which might mean
that before the American Bankers AS
ISOLATION at Cleveland on october 2 he
would talk on finances and business,
Continued on Page 8, Column -
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BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, September 4.-The old
jokes about lazy folks who work merely
by drawing their breath today became
the latest reality of scientific develop
ments to reduce mans physical toll
An electric light, which can be blown
out with the same small pun that ex-
tinguishes a match. was placed on ex-
hibition at the Westinghouse Lighting
Institute here.
Its secret is new kind of electric
switch, the breath relay" for which
is promised many useful applications
It can be set to turn either on or of
It gives a man a third hand" for
some kinds of mechanical operations
and a substitute for hands in cases
where he wishes to avoid direct touch.
The latter purpose was the object OF
the inventor, DR.. E. E. Free. New York
consulting engineer. But when the
device was perfected by the Westing-
house Co. 1t proved to be unexpectedly
reliable and not greatly subject to op-
Grafton by vagrant breezeS.
The company says 1t can be used
for safety deSices and for extending the
operators coptrol of automobiles, air
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
YANKEES LEADING
MATS, 81, IN THIRD
Lazzeri's Triple in First, With
Two on Base, Helps Home
Club.
Lineup.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.


NEW YORK, September 4.-Lazzeris
triple with two on and two down in
the first inning sent the Yankees of
to an early lead over the Nationals in
the second game of the series here today.
FIRST INNING.
WASHINGTON-M flied to H.
Rice. E. Rice doubled to right. Manush
walked AS Cronin took third strike,
E. Rice and Manush advanced, Rice
being safe at third when LaZzeri drop
ped Dickey's throw. Judge walked, fill
ing the bases. Harris walked, forcing in
E. Rice Bluege was called out on
strikes. One run.
NEW YORK-Combs singled to CEN
ter, and took second when Z. Rice FUN
bled the ball. Larry walked. Ruth took
a third strike. Gehrig struck out.
Lazzeri tripled to right center, scoring
Combs and Larry. H. Rice walked.
Dickey fouled to Bluege, who made
nice catch against the left field boxes.
Two runs.
SECOND INNING.
WESTINGHOUSE fame d.
Hadley famed. Chapman tossed out
Myer. NO runs.
NEW YORK-Chapman hunted down
the third base line for single. john
son lined to Myer, who threw to Judge,
doubling Chapman at first. Combs
grounded to Judge. No runs.
THIRD INNING.
WASHINGTON - e. Rice walked.
Manush lined to H. Rice. Cronin was
called out on strikes. E. Rice stole Sec
ond, johnson throwing to Gehrig, whose
peg to Larry was late. Judge lifted to
Ruth in short right. No runs.
NEW YORK-Lary fouled to Spencer.
Ruth doubled of the left-field stand
wall Hadley tossed out Gehrig, Ruth
taking third. Lazzeri went out the same
way. No runA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
PLANE REPORTS ON DAMAGE.

MIAMI, Fla, September 4 (F1.-R. S.
Dunton, operating manager of Pam
American Always here, said that a
plane dispatched today from San Juan,
Porto Rico, to Santo Domingo City to
set up emergency radio equipments and
to ascertain the damage from the West
Indies hurricane, landed at Santo Do
mingo at $40 am. E. S. T., and re-
ported from the air that the city was
badly wrecked.
"As soon as we learn the extent of
damage, we will Offer all of our facilities
and equipment to the government of
Haiti" Dunton said.
All buildings OF Pan-American Air
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
BLAST LAID TO STRIKE
CRIPPLES LIGHT PLANT
Providence, KY, Plunged into
Darkness When Poles Are
Wrecked.
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press
PROVIDENCE. KY. September A.
Electric light poles at Coiltown, two
miles from here, were blasted last night,
crippling the Providence lighting sys-
tenn for more than an hour. The dyna-
mitings were the latest of a series be-
lieved arising from labor troubles in
the Webster County coal fields.
Four blasts were heard about 9
o'clock, and Providence was plunged
into darkness. Linemen for the Ken
lucky Utilities Co. went to the scene
and restrung the wires.
No one was injured by the blasts.
Webster County officers found no clues
to who set them of. The Artero Coal
mine is located at Coiltown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04

There we're several reports OF the ter
rife destruction visited upon Santo
Domingo before communication with
that end of the island ceased yesterday
afternoon At $3.50 pm. message
received at San Juan said wind OF
$50 miles an hour was lifting roofs of
of houses, with all communication and
power lines rapidly going down.
All communication with the island
republic ceased as the hurricane devel-
oped yesterday. The All-America Cables
Co. said its service was interrupted with
out warning. Although it operates a
submarine cable, the companys land
station is above ground and exposed.
Radio service to the island was inter-
rupted a little later and the Pam
American Always lost the use of its
private wireless.
American Always reported that
all planes bound north and south were
safe, their schedules all having been
suspended with first news of the hurri-
cane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
BY ERNEST NICHOLS,

epecial Correspondent OF the Associated
P4ess.
aqua, Dominican Republic, Sep
TENDER 4.-Santo Domingo City today
Law desolate from a hurricane that
swept over the Dominican Republic
yesterday. 1t is in urgent need Of med
ical supplies and water.
Almost the entire city is said to have
been destroyed.
The hurricane hit 1t early in the aft
ernoon.
Its greatest violence was felt from
about 3 80 pm, after blowing for four
hours. IL moved northwest diagonally
across the country, cutting a wide
swathe of destruction. Damage is es-
timated In millions of dollars. but no
accurate total can yet be formed.
/ arrived 90 miles south Of here by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
WIND REACHES BAHAMAS.

Barometer at Waiting Island Stands
at 29.9S.
MIAMI, Fla, September R).-
Tropical radio here reported today that
a message had been received from San
Salvador, on Waiting Island, Bahamas,
saying a wind of 10 to "a miles an
hour was blowing from East by South
there this morning and that the barom-
eter reading as 1898.
Waiting Island is on the Southeast
ern fringe of the Bahamas.
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Aristocratic Quarter Raced.

sANTo DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, September Q-The
CITY ancient settlement Of the white man
almost destroyed by hurricane that swept
over the eastern of Haiti yesterday.
The hurricane Domingo at and blew Tor
arsocratc quarter were razed 10 tne
simply disappeared on the wings
of wind estimated to be blowing $50 miles hour
of Horror
exceeded anything witnessed mere IN ~
reneI
he entire
totally disrupted NO
of
impossible Telegraph
the disaster the New York oces
Lunatic Asylum
crumbd before the wnd
OF its
those inmates escaping death ran
the CONFUSION
finally police
WipedO Out
today haveb
DESTROYED sacea OF a standing
the high mountains dividing me
visited sano Dominican Tspu0nc from ha passed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
TAIL END HITS HAITI.

Mountains Fend on Greatest Strength
Of Storm.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. Septem-
Der 4 (Py.-Haiti today felt the tail
end of the hurricane that yesterday
almost completely wrecked Santo Do
nlngo. at the other side of the island.
Heavy rain fell here and the wind blew
violently. but the hurricane, Tended
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
Scenes of Horror Unequaled in
Island Are Reported as Wind
Levels All Structures.
LJJNATIC ASYLUM is DESTROYED,
FREED INMATES ADD TO TERROR
Surrounding Districts Are Flattened by
Storm, Which Crushes Bridges and
Destroys Communication Lines.

y
Three persons reported dead and nine hundred
iured left Santo Domingo by hurricane
which swept the Greater Antilles during the last
capital the Dominican Republic city OF nearly $4,000
population storm Not until midday was
city, when ALI American Gables
mprovsed the island city, by which first details OF the
horror began to the world
Trail Of Is Left.
The wind mounted climax of the
hurricane Leaving and almost sinking the Porto
steamship the storm dashed its way toward CUBA
advices ad Swerved sharply
nohwar apparently passing out to and sparng lands urhr
west.
Every agency today
toward gaugng calamity preparing for what
relief might have to be taken
watched closely Tor new
developments headquarters stood ready to use its fac
ties Navy Department awaited messages which would mediate
might play.
Island
Kingston Jamaica this forenoon said that ~
the little
of Dominica Indies Caribbean hurricane The Do
mnica demolished and almost everything on the
destroyed.
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Radio Program, ON Page CA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04

90. 9. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair tonight and tomorrow: not much
change in temperature.
temperatures Highest, 9l at 2:30
pm. yesterday; lowest So. at $3.50 am.
today
Full report on page Q.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-11-05
RAILROAD RATES AND . RADIO RECEPTION ARE
 AIRED BY CHAMBER

Aside from the burning ques- ton of the proposed rate ln- crease by the Alaska Railroad, a number of interesting matters came before the Tuesday lun- cheon of the Seward Chamber of Commerce at the Seward Grill The rate question is treated more at length in another portion of The Gateway. in the letter from the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce which was read and given hearty endorsement .by the Seward Chamber.
 With President Leon Urbach presiding, among other things considered was a communication from the Alaska Chamber of Commerce at Juneau asking the combined action of all Territ0r- ial chambers in support of the movement to secure d powerful broadcasting station at Seattle for the benefit of all Alaska .re- ceiving stations. It IS to be tak- en up with the Federal Radio Commission Locally the matter was referred to the seward Ra- dio Club, F- E. Leslie, president and will be endorsed by the lo- cal chamber
 There were three personal re- quests for information concern ing living conditions in Alaska which Secretary Leonard Hopkins was instructed to answer
 The question of the burial of the Signal Corps cable that runs on poles thru the alley be- tween Fourth and Fifth. Avenues, carrying high voltage and inter- fering with local radio recep- tion, was also brought up It was stated that the Signal Corps had agreed to entrenching this cable at the time it was put UP but there she be. ..
 Let us demand of Colonel Griffin that he take that cable down and bury it. someone sug- gested. "Yeah.7 drawled anoth- er 'now that they're taking the Signal Corps station away let's get brave The Chamber decid- ed to petition the city council to ask for action in this matter
Seward daily gateway., 1930-11-05
THIS DAY IN HISTORY

188O-China and the United States signed treaty regulat- ing immigration.
 1895- Carnegie Library, music hall, etc. ait PittSburg, dedicated
 1911-C. P. Rodgers completed at Pasadena, Calf, an airplane trip across the continent, begun Sept M: distance, 4,231 miles, actual flying time, 1924 minutes
 1911 The Noble prize for chemistry was awarded to Mime Curie of radium fame
 1912 Everett, Wash, first place in the United States to adopt the Single Tax System.
 loa0 -Sena torial railroad in- vest5g2ticn committee, thrilled at prospect of new mines open ing up and a general raise in tariff cvar the line, permit order for M c5uple of dozen new ties.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-11-05
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ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT

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