The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 4, 1935, Page 1

T~ ——— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRI VOL XLVI., NO. 7056 ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS HUNDREDS.LOST WHEN TERRIFIC HURRIGANE HITS Estimates Place Dead at Between 400 and 500— Wreckage Litters Area GOVERNMENT RUSHES | AID TO D DlSTRlCT 40 Patients Dle as Hospxtal Crumbles — 150 Bodies Counted on One Island BULLETIN, Mlllll Florida, Sept. 4.—It .is estimated, late this afternoon that 200 war vet- erans have been -killed in the hurricane that swept over the Florida Keys, MIAMI, Florida, Sept. +— The death toll as the result of the hur- ricane which yesterday swept the Florida Keys, is estimated between 400 and 500. This is gathered from PRICE TEN CENTS INF LORHDA STORM Search for Lost Peak of Emergency Is Now Reached, \Declares President rescue jparties, survivors, 'and mercy expeditions. All forces of the government have joined with the Red' Cross in rusi\ ing supplise to the areas of death. Wreckage litters the Keys. ¢ Camps Demolished The 'heaviest loss. of life is re- ported on _the lower “““Matesumbe Keys mt‘:&ng vil4 lages wheré the majority of the vietims are reported. Several government camps were “located on the Matesumbe Keys \where veterans are engaged in building & highway down the Keys. ‘These camps are reported dcmoush- ed and one rescue party clnlm.: hundreds have been killed. One man lost his wife, two daughters and two lranddaughwrs as a building, used as & hospital,| {crumpled. Forty patients were in the hospital at the time, half of' them women and children. Only seven men and three or four wom-| en were saved. 60-Mile An Hour Wind The wind, averaging from 50 to 60 miles an hour, carried flying itimbers through ‘the air causing most of the casualties. Many injured have broken backs, hit by flying debris. An Associated Press representa- tive flew over the area this fore- noon and reported that almost nothing man-made remains. Only 25 Saved.on Island Only 25 residents of Isla Morada, an island, were savpd. The station master there reported 150 bodies counted. The hurricane, after raging across the Keys, swerved north into the Gulf of Mexico and raged along a portion of the coast. ‘Communication lines are down. — - . RESCUE SHIPS | ARE AT SCENE GROUNDED BOAT Seas Contm—u:— to Break Around Dixie Pas- sengers Lining Rails BULLETIN, Miami, Sept. 4. —A Pan-American Airways pilot who flew over the grounded Dix- ie, radioed this afternoon at 2:45 co'clock the work of re- moving the passengers has started. Four of nine steamers in the vicinity have hove to to aid. Pliot Roy Keeler reported high seas were obviously ham- pering the work, 5 MIAMY, Florida;,” Sept. 4.—Life boats have been swung over the sides of several rescue ships ready to be dispatched to the aid of the stranded liner Dixie-which pounded on PFrench Reef in-a gale last Monday night, With 349 passengers and members of the crew aboard. Tension- among the' crews of the (Continyed on Page Two) i | } » 4 A widespread search is being made by veteran Alaska pilots for the whereabouts of Arthur Hines and his three passengers who left Dawsen for Fairbanks on August 19 and have not beén seen since. John Lonz, Fairé' banks l' .!lflt, (-icnm N were the passengers. ANOTHER HUNT FOR MISSING PLANE FUTILE Investigation of Five Fires on Trail Furnish No Clues ‘Thorough investigation of the most recent development in the !search for the missihg Hines plane '—five fires along a trail in the Chisana River region, seen by the PAA Lockheed Electra, southbound Sunday—filed to disclose any in- formation regarding the missing aviator, Arthur Hines, and his three passengers, Mr. and Mrs. John Lonz and Alton G. Nordale. Joe Crosson, Murray Stuart and Robert J. Gleason, who left Juneau yesterday morning at 5 o'clock aboard the pontoon-equipped PAA Fairchild, stopped near the point where the fires were lighted and questioned inhabitants, but discov- eerd no trace of the Hines plane. The Fairchild plane arrived in Fairbanks last night. ! Money for Search An Associated Press dispatch from Fairbanks says public subscriptions to the search fund tops $3,000, re- ceipts of the Empress Theatre do- nated by Capt. A. E. Lathrop. This makes a total in excess of $5,000 from all subscriptions. It is believed three planes furn- ished by the NAT may continue the search: The Preacher' Creek district and Crazy Mountains have been searched and no trace found of the missing plane. ———————— Social Credit | Administration ! Set Up, Calgary CALGARY, Sept. 4—Eight men who never sat around a council ta- ble before formed the world's first Social Credit Administration, when William Aberhart was sworn into government office. Not one of the Ministers ever sat in the legislature before, let alone in the cabinet. Aberhart was elected on a social Credit platform promising $25 a month to every man and worhan in negotiable credit certificates, as divi- the province, not in money but in' dends on/wealth. Aberhart - said it vould -be- up to Libby Company ‘representative, is a|for one and a quarter billions of | a year and a half before payment of the first dividend. HYDE PARK, N. Y, Sept. 4. —As-erting that the peak of emergency has passed, President Roosevelt has ordered all Em- ergency Federal Agencies under control of the Budget Bureau to cut down on personnel and cur- tail as much as’ possiblel ——ee—— NEW RADICAL SHIFT IS DUE IN AIR POLICY Special Aeronautical En- gineering Section to Be Established WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Naval officials have disclosed plans for a radical shift in air policy designed to increace efficiency in that fight- ing arm. The plans embrace depar- ture from the practice of interrupt- ing specialized work to send expert officers on periodical sea duty. A new proposal contemplates an crganization of a special aeronau- tical engineering section to enable experts to devote their entire careers to the design’' of planes and air- eraft engines. From its adoption of- ficials expect more rapid develop- of fi .eraft. in the. con “efius world Soele e saparion air equipment, The first step outlined is me ap- pointment by Secretary of the Navy Claude A, Swanson within a few days, of a special board to de-| cide the number of officers, line and natal construction corps, to be assizned to permanent duty in this branch. The beard is scheduled to meet some time this month. The change of policy was made under an act passed by the recent Con- gress. NAZ| REGIME IN NEW ACTS BERLIN, Germany, Sept. 4—Con- | fusion returned tp Nazi relnlom;I with Catholics and Jews when lead- er Hans Von Jagow told the brown shirts: “We don't want persecution of the Jews, but we will not permit a *foreign race to live among our peo- ple.” He asked aid of storm troops to carry “this problem to the last man of our people by word of mouth and not by individual acts.” DEVELOPING PAA SAFETY PROGRAM In accordance with the PAA safe- ty program, the PAA Fairchild piloted by Alex Holden and Flight Mechanic Lloyd Jarman left Ju- neau this morning to check all bars in the Eagle River and Bern- ers Bay districts on the air route between Juneau and Skagway with regard. to tabulation of all points where emergency landings with land planes might be pouible NOME TRADING SHIP REPORTEI{ DESTROYED The trading freighter Jewel Guard |operating from Nome north along the coast, ‘has been destroyed, ac-|~ cording to s message to the Col- !lactor of Customs here from C. C. Tanner, Deputy Collector at Nome. There were no casualties, Tanner sald. No further details were given in the telegram, that information being sent by mail. | The Jewel Guard is a vessel of ! 12 gross tons and is owned by Hu Ewert. She is 403 feet long, 11.7 foot beam and 3.8 feet in depth. She was built in Seattle in 1916. - MORGAN TO KETCHIKAN J. P. Morgan, Libby, McNeill and passenger to Ketchikan from Ju- |neau on the Victoria, ITALY TAKES - FIRM STAND Mussolini Agents Refun to .,‘ Discuss Ethiopia Issue on Equality Footing London Prepared for . Action as No Definite Word from Leagfigt’ GENEVA, Sept. 4.—Italy ; drove forward today in warlike nnmm telling the League of Nations she| no longer would discuss thé- con- troversy with Ethiopia “at ‘the| League on an equality. footing with| " Ethiopia,” and added, “Italy .re- i serves complete liberty of action’ 50, as to adopt all measures nw for security of her colonies ‘nd! safeguarding her interests.” UNDERSTANDING WITH FRANCE LONDON, Sept. 4—Cabinet Min4 isters returning to London were prepared for swift action if war- ranted. ‘ France ‘and Britain, who )uvo' been of somewhat divergent ifeas concerning the lbfln—w i ‘troversy are reported to -have -ai tained a common ‘rooting although details were not available. Prime Minister J. B. M. Hert- 20g of the Union of South Africa, | |said he believes the “world is be- ginning a long war and one of the | bloodiest ,and cruelest peflog. ever | - known.” WEAKENED BY OIL CONCESSION ar. H : ROME, Sept. 4.—Informed Ital- ian circles are convinced Britain's stand has been so weakened by the oil concession incident in the Unit-| ed States that Capt. Anthony Eden, the British representative, may not {move for application of league |sanctions. Italy is confident she ‘will win n‘ sweeping diplomatic victory in the League Council, although prospects for rapid solution of the crisis {waned in the wake of news from iGeneva that the Italian delegation | had taken 80 bulky packing cmsw all labeled “bologna,” filled wnh\ : doctimentary évidence alleging Ethi- | opia’s barbaric unfitness tocantlnue\ s a League member, Italian WOMEN VOLUNTEER ' s ABARA B r G £ Secrétaty of Treasury Plans ~—Women with spears and other F au leure T"p crude weapons volunteered for army | service here as rumbles of war be}-" e Eu",pe PN Jh080. TmcibA; | WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Secre- . 'tary of Treasury Morgenthau is try- FORMER D[RECTOR |ing to arrange for a Fall pleasure !trip, fo Europe, a visit which some OF GAME lS HERE believe might place him in a posi- | tion to discuss stabilization of In- R. F. James, who was Dlrecwr tenational exchange. of Game for the State of Wash-‘ ington for three years until his resignation on August 10, arrived| Fairbanks May Have Monday on the Princess Louise 3 and is a guest at the Gastineau| Broadcast‘ St.atlo",’ Hotel. James visited the offices of | Application Filed the Alaska Game Commission yes-| - terday. He expects to spend two, WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—Appli- or three weeks in Juneau and will| cation for permission’ to construct engage in hunting and fishing ex- a broadcast station at Fairbanks, peditions before his departure. SNy | Communications Commission by the RETURNS HOME | Fairbanké ‘Btoddeasting Company. Mrs. Alec Zibio, who entered the | The company requests a' 250 watts hospital on August 27, for medical | power unlimited time on a frequen- treatment, has returned home. Icy or 1220 'kilocycles. New F mancm‘g, to sze Out Old Liberty Bonds, Announced by Treasury WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—A $1,- helped finance war costs. 750,000,000 financing operation, de-| Paralleling this huge refunding, signed to wipe out the iast of the | Morgenthau also asked the public World War's famous Liberty bonds|for one half billion of new money and raise new cash, was announced | to build up the Treasury’s cash box. by the Treasury. Completion of the conversion of It offered to trade new securities | $8,000,000,000 of Liberties into lower interest rate securities is estimated old debts in the final block otlmsne more than $100,000,000 yearly ,000,000000 of Liberties which)in interest charges. typl n were photographed as they m reh-d Q that salled together. The Ethiopians are part of _Addis Ababa to offer_their aid to_ Emncror Halle Selassi Speeches by Roosevelt, Snell, Are Seen as the 0pemng Guns in 1936 Presidential Battle Alasks, has' been filed with the | being eondomund by the hundred h ts of iters, Italians (Assoclated By BYRON, PRICE (Chiet of Buress, The - Associated 'President Makes Statement Press, Washington) Although eléction day still is some 14 months away, the disposi- tion of political leaders now is to spedk of the 193¢ campaign in the present,” rather than the future, tense. Vatious unusually early party ac- tivities have contributed to this, but the culminating event—widely regarded as a sort of curtain raiser —was the exchange of speeches be- tween President Roosevelt and Re- publican House Leader Snell. Mr. Roosevelt disclaimed politi- cal intent, bub he spoke over the| air to a Democratic party gather- ing, and he dealt almost exclusive- ly with topies which are surround- ed by the most active political dis- pute. Mr. Snell hardly ‘alluded at all to political affiliations, but his address to the nation* delivered under the auspices of the Republican Na- tional Committee, and , his appeal for. votes against the New Deal was ANk and open. i Molives, whetter partisan’or ‘ndt, usually: we! vesy! whereypomzah is involved. ’\?Jhnt LL? politicians think of is the political effect, and most of them are fhink- ing that these two speeches really opened .a political campaign. PRESIDENT BPOKE TO YOUTH This being true, it is well worth while to exqmine the speeches and the surrounding 'circumstances in some detail, Fhe following facts are set down for whatever they may be worth as indieating what is to come hereafter: From among,k many invitations, the President ichase to deliver his/ message to @ gathering of younz people, among whom the bent to- ward liberalism is commonly sup- posed to be farsstronger than it is among thélr elders, bove) and Ethiopians (belo nd transports at Naple forces raised by General Mikael as they marched into I p s of (hounmu for what part of an outfit a!'zoou Press Photos) SIGNIFICANT VIEWS TAKEN BY ROOSEVELT in Informal Chat with Home Folks HYDE PARK, N. Y. Sept. 4— Repair, not change, is the phil- osophy of our . Government. This was enunciated by President Roose- velt in an informal talk with home folks as he looked ahead toward the 'next campaign. In a significant utterance made in a chat meeting with Dutchess {County Democrats, he called the present House a parable to government and life. He had been attacked on his suggestien that the people decide on broader constitutional authority | to deal with international, social, repairing of the Whltej [MOVE MADE IN EFFORT TO AID PEACE ACTION Standard Oil Drops Con- cession Scheme — Sug- gestion, Government HULL DECLARES PLAN “HIGHLY DESIRABLE” ‘Dollar Diplomacy” »Is No Longer Recognized, Says President Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—With- Irawal of the Standard Vacuum Oil Company from the vast oil soncession war threatened in Etii- opia was announced by Secretary of State Cordell Hull today as an extraordinary move to preserve world peace. ‘The big firm took the step after !Secretary Hull frankly told them it is “highly desirable” because the concession has been the “cause of embarrassment to this Government and other governments who are making strenuous efforts to pre- serve peace.” PRESIDENT COMMENTS HYDE PARK, N. Y, Sept. 4— \President Roosevelt in exprul!.n( ithe hope that, can | Ethiopida Tand® rpeaoe fegotiations #f {the cancellation was “another proof that since Mareh, 1933, dollar di- iplomacy 1s not recognized by the American Government.” The President said that neither he nor the Secretary of State had been the least concerned over the possibility of the oil lease involving the United States in Ethiopian or Italian problems. The only dan- ger he said would have been the —— (effect the Jease would have on ne- | gotiations of European powers and iEthiopla not getting under way at Geneva. Withdrawal of the lease, the President said he hoped, would clear the air of those conferences, ARE NONPULSED ADDIS ABAGA, bept. 4—Mem- bers of the Ethiopian Government |appeared nunplussed when informed {the Standard Vacuum has with- idrawn from Ethiopian concessions. The information has temporarily been withheld from the Emperor WOMAN TAKES -100-FOOT LEAP SEATTLE, Sept. 4—Miss Harriet |Balrd, 27, daughter of Rev. Luclus O. Baird, retired minister and a {former superintendent of the Wash- {ingten:" Co: l,wnql Conference, received a head injury’and, possihly a broken back in a 100-foot leap from Cowan Street car trestle. The father told police his daugh- iter, who was the assistant direc- tor at Four Winds Girly Clmp n Deer . Harbor, Orcas Island,. |and economic problems. “We are not changing the White old White. House. It will always continue in its same beautiful and jarchitectural simplicity. We |constantly repairing and, I think,| I am not much worried about the future of» he United States.” WORLD FLIERS | AGAIN INAIR NOME, Alaska, Sept. 4—Round {the world fliers Fritz Bieler and |Harold Farquhar took Off at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon ' from (Forty Safety lageon enroute to \Whalen, Siberia. were against them but the fliers said they would From among many avaflable ora- IR /% s LN - i (Cant\nu.fl on Pl‘! Three) Alaska ' ‘coast, - probably ' TeRer, if the weather proved too thiek in crossing Bering Strait. | House; ,we are just making it bet- | ter and safer, but it is the same constantly bettering, That is why| Weather reports| return to. the| been “on the verge of a brnk:bm" because of overwork. NRA GODES NOT SOUGHT WASHINGTON, Sept. 4~Only 24 of the nation’s hundreds of indus- tries have applied formally for codes under the Federal Trade !Commission ,which succeeded the NRA as a code maker. Some 112 more made inquiries, (but the possibility of new NRA 'legisiation and the stringency of present laws was said in reliable buriness circles to have prompted raost industries to wait develop- ments. There were some 550 codes under the NRA in addition to 200 supple- mental agreements., » - ee— HOLMBERG TO SEWARD Fred Holmberg, -carpenter, “left Juneau for Seward on the -Alaska, A