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Newspaper
The Daily Alaska Empire
Location
Juneau, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1930
Page
1
Washington reports the new tariff law goes into effect today triggering international reaction. Canada imposes higher duties on over a dozen U S imports and considers reprisal measures. Belgium reviews the law and plans talks with European partners. Spain weighs breaking the modus vivendi with the United States.
A Sandino representative in Mexico City says the insurgent leader has returned to Nicaragua and defeated U S Marines in two engagements. The report claims Sandino’s forces captured a Marine sergeant and an aviator and seized 10 000 rounds of ammunition and several guns.
New Haven Conn June 18 Professor William Henry Bristol inventor of the Bristol phone and recording instruments and president of the Bristol Company of Waterbury died at his home today. He spent nearly a million dollars perfecting synchronized sound and action in motion pictures.
Three unidentified hoboes were killed and another injured when they leapt from a freight train into the path of a passenger train on the Pere Marquette line near Grand Rapids Michigan last night.
Eureka California June 18 Clar ence King convicted of murdering his common law wife Minnie McCoy last February has been sentenced to hang in San Quentin prison on September 12.
Reijiro Wakatsuki heads the Japanese delegation returns to a crowd of 20,000 in London and declares the treaty a good and fair one the best negotiators could secure under the circumstances.
The steamer Northwestern departed Seattle at 9 PM heading north to Southeast Alaska with 209 first class passengers and 47 in steerage. Listed Juneau-bound passengers include George Brandes and several accompanying family members plus other travelers.
Felix Pelit, 40, a Worley lumberjack, says three bandits on a freight train beat him, broke bones, and kicked him before rolling him from the car after seizing $6. Police found him clinging to an electric post. The Okmulgee Chamber seeks census participation with theatre tickets for unenumerated residents.
Sam Kennedy Jr earns the title master farmer by growing and selling over 22 carloads annually of onions cabbage and potatoes. He cultivates 400 acres of peat land plus 40 more rented and has yielded top sugar beet results in the Iowa Minnesota region for four years. He studies peat land issues and is a leading user of this land type in Iowa.
Washington reports Rep. from Massachusetts accuses Bishop Cannon of refusing to disclose how 48200 contributed to the Anti-Smith campaign. Cannon telegraphs from Louisville denouncing Representative Tinkham as a cowardly party attacker under immunity for libel proceedings.
George A. Parks faces possible cancellation of his journey to Prince Rupert and Hazelton for the Pacific Yukon Highway motor caravan due to uncertain airplane service. If the Taku does not return, he likely will cancel. Delegates including Mayor N. R. Walker and J. R. Heckman were to depart Ketchikan by Thursday noon for Hazelton via Prince Rupert.
New Zealand's first domestic airplane has been completed and tested in Auckland. The 4 one seater monoplane features a two cylinder engine and, when loaded with pilot and fuel, weighs 620 pounds.
William Brock and Edward Schlee arrived in Jacksonville at 12 55 p m after completing a round trip to San Diego California. They departed yesterday morning at 5 04 o clock, covering a distance of 2100 miles.
Dwight W. Morrow Republican nominee for U S Senator in New Jersey emerges as a national figure. The article traces his early life at Amherst and Columbia, rise in Wall Street with J P Morgan, roles under Wilson and Pershing, and his vow to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment. It notes his diplomacy, naval conference work, and a 1920s political campaign electrifying the nation.
In Los Angeles on June 14 the low wing monoplane gains popularity among fliers. Col Charlie Lindbergh and his wife crossed the United States in fourteen hours and twenty three minutes in a low wing, setting a fast transcontinental record. Three more similar planes near completion for transoceanic flight, while a fourth for a Pacific dash was destroyed in tests.
Capt Kingsford-Smith, delayed by bad weather, vows not to fly under unsafe conditions on his planned trans Atlantic attempt. He plans to sell the Southern Cross after reaching the United States and return to Melbourne to marry Miss Mary Powell, whom he met at sea.
Jacksonville officials report a thief stole several electric current transformers and long spans of high tension wire. Commissioner of utilities Ernest E. Anders said no ordinary person could strike such lines without severe injury and expressed concern over the audacious theft. A separate note mentions Springfiere, Ohio, and a Central league game involving Fort Wayne.
Dwight W. Morrow won the Republican nomination for United States Senator from New Jersey by a large plurality. Final totals show Morrow around 374,000 votes, with Franklin W. Porter about 107,000 and Joseph G. Frelinghuysen about 42,000. The result was praised by anti liquor groups as a victory for a wet platform.
St Paul Minn June 1 Thomas D Schall secured the Republican nomination for a second U S Senate term in the Minnesota primary held last Monday by a margin of 76000 votes over Governor Theodore Christianson.
Juneau residents are asked to keep youngsters off the steep bank opposite the Governor's Mansion. Chief Getchell says the Juneau Garden Club aims to beautify the hill, city crews cleaned the area, but children continue to play there, undoing the work.
Air corps photographers created a mosaic map of the Chicago waterfront from the Indiana line to Wilmette. The 30 by 4 foot map will document the shoreline as dense smoke and clouds hindered visual surveys.
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