The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XL]]I., NO. 6524. JUNEAU ALASKA MONDA MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NINE DEGREES UNDER ZERO IS | - LOW FOR TUI]AY’ Schools Suspended as Cold Wave Grips City— Lower Expected ALL DECEMBER COLD RECORDS SMASHED | | into | for | mits, JUNEAU COLDEST IN SIXTEEN YEARS Berrv “Rides Herd” on State, “Winterin® for His Dogies” | PIERRE, S. D., Dec. 18—Tom Berry, the ‘‘cowboy governor’ wr ook the saddle nine months ago fo “ride herd” on the state of South Dakota, is now, in true tleman fashion, looking the problem of “winterin’ for his I to be a tough winter the state, the governor ad- but he has every hope of the herd through with not a 1 per cent ioss from; s going “seein’ to exceed | the storm.” Entire Panhandle Feels Subnormal Cold—Sitka Records Are Broken Juneau and the rest of Gastineau Channel today donned their red flannels and still shivered under « tie coldest temp:rature of 16 years and the coldest ever experienced here in December. was ac- companid by a sharp wind from the east, varying at times to the t, that attained occasional s as high as 30 miles an hour, with gusts of much greater velocity. The official low mark was reach- ed at 2:30 p. m. when the mer- cury stcod at 9.4 degrees below | ¢ zero. It was still descending, and the official prediction was for con- tinued cold tonight and tomorrow. May Break All Records The temperature had fallen all day after 4 p. m. to rzach the low of midafternoon, and it was still falling then. Weather Bureau of- ficials said they believed it might drop to 15 below tfonight. Tf it does it will equal all of the 'mim-; mum records for Juneau. On January 20 1916, the ther- mometers here registered a minus 15 degrees for the first time on , Yecord. A little more than a year latzr, on February 1, 1917, it equal- led but did not lower that record. The lowest December -tempera- ve ever recorded hers was two degrees below zero which first was rgistered on December 24, 1917, and again on December 14, 1924. Schocls Are Closed At 10:30 a. m., Superintendent of Schools R. S. Raven dismissed both the grade and high school + on account of lack of heat. There | will be no school tomorrow, and if| the weather does not improve, none Wednesday. Mr. Raven will an-; nounce toomrrow plans for Wed-| nesday. { Frozen water pipes balky au- tomobiles, boats iced from the spray | # and vapor arising from the water and numerous other minor incon- venienczs were borne in good na- ture by local residen Local gar- ages were amped with automo- biles that refused to function. Householders methodically thawed out their water pipes and incoming | small boats chopped themselves | free from ice. Windows, fillad with fine dis- plays of Christmas wares, blossome ed forth with frost chrystals that traced their delicate drapery in intricate and beautiful patterns! which obscured entire windows in| some instances. Shopping neces- sarily slowed down as women, main Christmas shoppers, delayed com- pleting their lists and awaited moderation of the weather. Sitka Records Broken The cold area covered all of Al- aska. although it was only in the Panhandle that record lows were marked up. Sitka, reporting five degrees below zero this morning, | establishes a new minimum for a period of 50 years for which of- (Continued on Page Three) OLDTIMER OF SKAGWAY DIES . * L. W. Speer, . Former Cot- ductor on White Pass Route Passes On | | ; i SKAGWAY, Alaska, Dec. 18— (Speeial to The Fmpire)—John W. Speer, aged 76 y-ars former con-| ducter on the White Pass and Yu- kon Rout2, and later employed as| train baggageman, passed away at’ his home here this morning a('er a lingering illness. He leaves a! wife in this city, v | monzy EOIN O'DUFFY i the |5 hours, six days a week. a Hard One course. is econo-, has an executive | of this state faced a harder “round up” thaneBerry, owner of a 30.- 000 acre ranch and himself & hard riding, bronzsd western cowman Berry's irrepressible cowboy hu- mor, however, prevails Commenting on South Dakota severe drought and grasshopper gue—the cause of much of th here this winter — Ber “Why, if South Dakota Was appax tioned funds on the basis of its production curtailment, it oug. to gei a million. We ain't r nothin’ in three year Fights Fer His “Herd” But there is more to Tom Berry than humor. He has secured for his “‘herd” in the more severely stricken drought sections relief for both animal and human needs, The Siate Legislature has passed a beer bill -that - turns tho each month info the coffers of lief agencies. He has fought | and won reduced rates for feed shipments, and many credit S')\lul‘ Dakota’s share of public \nolkx‘ in large measure to his rangeland tactics. On his return from Washingt the governor found hi a farm strike. But against it Though the thing “Reund Up” The storm, of mic, and seldom TTOM . Tem cowboy his job trcubles of hi BERRY" South Dakota’s Gevernor, isn't letting thrcw him, though besetting the farmers “herd” are serious ones. Berry, He looks at his job much as good “cattleman would lcok his thousands of head. B men—and E is one left today—expect to tak e nt loss each win He hopes to low human herd entirely sympathetic to the farmer is trying to accomplish by a strike,” Ber can- not ses how strike will accom- plish the desired purpose.” \hh this| winter. OVERTIME IS IS RUN IN BY GRANTED FOR IRISH POLICE STOCK TAKING Head of Blue Shirts Under NRA Modifies Agreement| Arrest After Clash ii Free State for Purpose of Year- End Inventory D 18. - NRA Blue Eagle agreement WEST PORT, Trish Free State,| WASHINGTON, fec e o T Bk SN, sbied | Sindasgnadiier i Ireland party leader and head of| Blue Shirt organization, was, arrested Sunday after a clash be- tween the police and Blue Shirts. O'Duffy was arrested once and then rescued by his followers. La- it to work employ year-end inventory purposes but e must be paid tat the least time and z |one-half and the increase in hours ter he was rearrested. ;g be limited to those “necessary ODutfy opposes de Valera's eo- |y lete the calendar year-end onomic warfare on Great Britain. i ; ”O‘LT(‘)D“ : ¥ i e s ’l’n mr,mn(annn is not extended SHORECAPTAI uves L0ST TAKES HIS LIFE N TORNADO Master of Sleamer Exarch' EARLY TODAY Suicides Following d |Storm Comes Out of South- Accident | west to Hit Section 18—A in Louisiana less received here this afternoon e said A. T. Hickey, master of the| gSHREVEPORT Dec. 18—A steamer Ezarch suicided after s/ (omado roared out from the South- ship went ashore on the coast of | west ea this morning ac a Cyprus, lumber camp and killed one white Capt. Hickey lived at Rochester.|woman and three negroes New York, and was not married. Nineteen others are reported to A later wireless said it is be- paye peen injured. lieved the Exarch may be refloated The property damage is reported T AT large over the tornado-swept KETCHIKAN STREET WORK section, NEW YORK, Dec. > Two shifts of 38 men each are TROUBLE FINDER HIRED "on the payroll of the CWA at Ket- | The Ketchikan Council has hired chikan employed on the Stedman a man to be “trouble shooter” and Street fill-in. Each crew will work find out the location of all inter- | ferences to radio reception. § 90-MILE GALE OF WIND _| thirty - | twent TWO VESSELS GROUNDED OFF | OREGON COAST Freighter Henry D.Whiton Loses Deckload of Lum- ber and Equipment 'ANCHORS DRAG DURING |Second Shipion Columbia Bar — Crews Re- main on Board Dec. 18.—The coast D. Whiton, was night after drag- anchors, and an- the Charles L. Wheeler, Iplessly lying on the bar ;on coast this morning buffeted by a ninety- wind that lashed thel nous waves during | een in this region Hope ex- sed by owners the | ships might be saved The Whiton lost her deckload of | llumber and equipment when she| {was grounded off Yaquina Bay. | received later that the| s power had been restored| and that she was proceeding to-| jward Astoria with the assistance| |of the German motorship Oakland. ! The Wheeler WS driven “by “the | wind and tide onto the Desdemona |Sands just within the mouth of the Columbia River. It is believed she may be floated by dre channel on the bar. Effort | Coast Guard cutter to pull her free failed The PORTLAND. | freighter, Henry driven ashore |ging both { other ship Jr., was he off the Ore after being mile of |sea in the higt for he gale mour tide ye many was that ui | has | re- Whiton carries a ' crew wo and the Wheeler X Both crews are in‘dm'n” aho:n'u !hc vessels. PREMIER COAL " MINE FLOODED OUT AND LOST (One of Three Operating Mines in Matanuska Valley Wiped Out Wa broke through into | worki ngs of the Premier Coal Com- | pany’s mine on Moose Creek in | the Matanuska on November defied all efforts to check its flow | and flooded out the property, which is probably a total loss, according to B. D. Stewart, Federal Mining Stpervisor for Alaska. Mr. Stewart was at the time and rushed to mine on a special train with pump- | ing equipment and additional ¢ S He tried for almost two days control the flood, but was forc | to abandon the effort and extri cated the pumps only after con- siderable difficulty. Less Not Estimated The financial loss involved has not been estimated, Mr. Sewa gaid. The company lost some tools and mine cars. All of the work- men and a horse that had been underground four years escaped The greatest loss was in the coal deposits developed du the past 10 years, and which are now no longer available for operati (Continued on Page Two) | | G T € ti v d ( « w Christmas Shi p Alaska I Due Tomorrow;Santa Claus Has Prese The Alaska Steamship Cemnpany’s Christmas ship the loaged with gifte for all Alaska children will bring Santa Claus to Juneau tomerrow at approximately 4 o’clock in the afternoocn. Threugh the thoughtfulness of of the company and his cxecutives, and Mr. Schlenther, practically every child living on the South- east and Scuthwest Alacka ccast from Santa Claus. The Christmas ship went over big in Ketchikan today ac- cording te advices received here b, Santa Claus. | B NRA a extended cember |code only. came from Detroit, Grandmother F Cole, Road and blown by Where ‘World’s Wealthiest Girl Resides Doris Duke Doris Duke, whose twenty-first birthday brought her one-third of the 8 the late James B. Duke, tobacco magnate, leads the life of a reclu 'v—]du to vary that existence. At top are gardens of her 5,000-acre es “Duke’ Center, her town mansion at No. 1 East 78th street, on Fifth .w(’m\e 'New Yor! ner Tudor castle at Newport, R. I. a falm in North Carolina. s livv mansions in which P; ula. l.xL Somerville, N. J, elow, “Rough Point,” In addition, the world’s wealthiest girl owns a villa at A?mbes and She rushed to seclusion on New Jersey estate after coming into the legacy, AUT(] |NDUSTRY Price of Gold Takes Advance; Jumps to $34.06 an ()um'm WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—The price of gold jumped cents today to $34.06 an ounce. Bar gcld in London is being punl sed at $32.48 on the basis of the sterling which opencd DEMAND TEN T. KOPROVICH SHOT, KILLED THOUSAND IN EXTORT CASE AT FAIRBANKS Federal Agents on Trail of Another Oldtimer, Larence! Gang—Former Cham- H. Ferrais, Under pion Threatened Arrest for Crime IRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 18— s Koprovich, a farmer, aged s shot and k m“r'nnl GODEISTOBE EXTENDED NOW five [Request Is Made Followmv Most Successful Operation | WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. — The utomobile industry has. filed with| request that its code be | until September 1, 1‘»“‘ en. Hugh .S. Johnson annou | Hl\day The request will be grant-| the NRA Administrator said he present auto code expires De- 21, having been trial | | for the extension it is said, where | e auto industry reported a most | 1ccessful concerted drive sale in-| icating an upswing. - a The request | CHICAGO, T1il., Dec. 18.—Federal | agents are seeking the trail of éx- tortionists who tried, but failed, in| their attempt to collect $10,000 by Larence F: a pros-| from Robert Gardner, wealthy Lake | pector aged 45 3 both old-} Forest broker and former National | timers of the inter as the re- eur Golf champion. | sult of ill-feeling stand- i The collection was attempted ing. ;under threat of slaying Henry K.| Koprovich Gardner, the 11-year-old son of the | farm here. former champlon, Ferrais recently 13 WOUNDED IN HAVANA STRIFE home talking 1 Perrais enter- ed, spoke a words and began shooting, hitting Koprovich and Soldiers Massing to Pre- vent Outbreak When Cafferty Arrives 10m 55 v i aid al aces Death In Scaffold FRANKLINTON, La —Mrs. Allie Mae Pu 38 years, a grandmothe death cn the gallows for al- legedly- bribing a negro yard boy to push her husband into a river on a fishing trip. Her husband drowned. The verdict of guilty carries the death pen- alty. was d on a Dec. 18. from . aged , face | killing him insttar Mrs. Agbaba ran to a neighbor's house and phoned the United States Mars office. Patrick O'- Connor, responded and found Fer- rais in the room with the body of Koprovich saying te — JIL TRUCK IS BLOV FROM ROAD, U oil truck driven skidded from JURED to beat me me.” and will be the officials| An by Jimmy the Thane wind fron oon, was iver for jailed fte murder The he road early this htly damaged. n‘n_yurod Was| HAVANA, Ouba, Dec. 18—Six dead and thirteen wounded in e Capital's latest bloodshed dis- orders. 12 hundred 1 rounded up and | ress charged with participating outhreaks. Sold! prevent n tions were son Gaffney ative re Sumner efforts to bring Cuba’s political st D AND MRS. VANDERWALL WAY SOUTH ON NORAH rs. F. B. Vanderwall who have been visiting Mr. Van- ell's family at Skagway, are outhbound passens on the Prin- cess Norah, -— {Little Plumbmg Is Found on Farms Spaniards have ut in a fort- in WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 Mui, farm n the United le or no plumb! by the De has revealed, have been massed to v violence as prepara- made to receive Jeffer- President sevelt's who will pick up Welles left off in settlegment of nts for Kiddies ir -~ BRICE HOWARD IS CUPERATING FROM SERIOUS MRS. Alaska, ¥ Howard is conval- home in Tacoma, from a serious opera- she recently underwent to word received herz Howard, formerly Juneau the Admiral Line, now Pacific SteAmship Lines in Tacoma, dent instry Brice f Tem Wilson, Vice-Pre: Mr. Sheehan, Mr. Mc ton Ao 4 according om Mr g for with the Limited will receive a remembrance y Agent R. J. McKanna from | i i surrendered, | TWO SECTIONS ARE HARD HIT, SEVERE GALES West Sf-dlon of Washing- ton Also Deluged by Rain Storm FLOODS PREVAIL IN GRAYS HARBOR AREA Five Hundred Persons Res- cued in One Locality —Others Warned SEATTLE, Dec. 18.— { Storms lashed the Washing- 'ton and Oregon coast lines today. The Washington coast was pot cenly hit by high i wind 'put deluged by rain. Aberdeen and Hoquiam are again under unprecedented | high water. Five hundred persens had to be rescued from their Gray Harbor homes which tare under two to four feet of water. The business districts of Aberdeen and Hoquiam are flocded and fully 2,000 homes are under water. The third successive high tide, one of nine feet hit the section and was backed up still further by gales from the sea at midnight. At vesterday there an 1114-foot tide and backed up.over a large | | noon at Aberdeen main power The main highwa blocked and the plant is out of order. Seventy-five families at Cosmop- olis have been ordered to leave their homes as it is feared the city reservoir and dam is weakening The port of Orford, on the Ore- gon coast was hit hard when the $65,000 dock was washed out and ten fishing boats were tossed on the beach Wires are down to Astoria, Ore- gon Fallen trees are blocking Columbia River Highway. Victoria, B, C, is also hit he high tides. is the by WAVE STRIKES SHIP; THREE MEN INJURED; TAKEN TO HOSPITAL VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 18—Chief Officer Jehn Gair and two Chin- e the crew of the freighter Vanavon are in the hospital as result of injuries. The injur were caused when a huge wave swept across the stern of the Venavon, 20 miles off the entrance of Juan de Fuca Strait, and pinned them to the deck under scattered cargo. Their injuries are not serious. COWLITZ RIVER RIS VALLEY IS AGAIN FLOODED LONGVIEW, Wash. Dec. 18.— Rain and winds are descending on | the Cowlitz River valley again. The river is out of its banks and low- llanrk are flooded. It Is believed the damage will ot be as great that caused by the | flood of a week ago. B A Novehst Claire Smith Wins Nevada Divorce CARSON CITY, Nev., 18— Dec. 1 * | Charges of cruelty heard today at a " | secret session by Judge Guild, iined a divorce for Smith, well known novelist, from Oliver Harrison Smlth OPERATION | bans fo Chvistwmas