The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. XLVL, NO. 7097. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1935. MEMBER OF "ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICL TEN CENTS BiG PUSH INTO ET HELENA NOW | CLEANING UP QUAKE DEBRIS KING CALLED BACK TO GREECE Damage Done in Montana City Estimated at Two Million Dollars BULZETIN — HELENA, Oct. 21.—Windows were shattered in a fresh series of earth shocks at 9 o'clock this morning. No new casuzltics and no new major damage resulted. HELENA, Mont., Oct. 21.—A giant broom, fashioned with Federal Re- lief Funds, has started sweeping earthquétke debris from this pic- turesque state capital. et 1t is believed the quakes of the last ;;:;:g;‘,::;:r:,::;;;:}“;;,:;;zj Former Chief of U. S. Signal es while others require 0splial . . . Corps, Stretching Wires Over G.:ece discarded her 11-year-old republic in a royalist coup d’etat restoring the monarchy. A national plebiscite will be held Nov. 3, The former King George (left) is expected to be recafled to the throne and Alexander Zaimia (center), president, will resign. Gen. George Kon- dylis (right) Is regent. (Associated Press Photos attention. Last Priday night's iuake, ‘which collapsed buildings and toppled store | 1S VISIBLE IN LEFT SWING FRENCH VOTE Laval Wins—R_election but Faces ,Fight to Over throw Cabinet PARIS, Oct. 21—Premier Laval was reelected Sunday in an election{ [} which saw the country drifting |88 slightly to the Left. Laval won two seats in the Sen~ ate, an arrangement possible under | the French system, in what is regard- ed as a virtual plebescite on both his careful Italo-Ethiopian policy and his drastic moves to maintain’ eco={’ | nomic stability at home. { Marcel Cachin, first regular Com- || | munist ever to'sit in the upper house of France, was also elected. Notwithstanding, the Premier's success faves a fight to overthrow | his cabinet by the Leftist popular front when the Chamber of Depu- ties reconvenes. One hundred seven ,000 H;f:ar First Lady in Hol ly'war(r)dr Bbaél | FASCIST ARMY IN SOUTH NOW " MOVES NORTH Drive Begins Toward Hor- rahei in Heart of Ogaden Province NORTHERN ARMY IS | MASSED ALONG FRONT Empetor Selassie Dispatch- es 8,000 Imperial Guards to Dessye EULLETIN-—Geneva, Oct. 21. —Feroint Ialy's big push into Ethiopia hes started from Italian Somaliland where the arwy of Gen. Rudoife Graziani iv driving toward Harrzhel, in the heart of Ogaden Province, in scutheac) frents, was the severest. Only two persons are reported to have been killed. | Cracked walls and fallen brick work led Oscar Baarson, City Engi- neer to estimate the losses as per- haps running close to $2,000,000. All places of public gathering were ordered closed last Saturday until further notice. Several slight temblors were felt Saturday night. COLD WEATHER SETS IN HELENA, Oct. 21. — Ruidents.‘ hampered by cold weather, are e seats were filled in Sunday's elec- _| tion, or one-third of the Senate. Alaska, Passes Away in D. C WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — Gen./ Adolphus W. Greely, aged 91, Arc-| tic explorer, died in a hospital here Sunday. He became seriously ill on October 7 and was removed to the # hospital where heart ailment and artery trouble brought death. Two sons and four daughters .surviv&j As Chief of the United States Sig- | nal Corps, Gen. Greely is estimated | to have directed the laying of 34,- 000 miles of telegraph wires. Delayed Recognition Belated recognition came to Gen. | The outcome is only an -inglirect expression. of popular feeling, since | | the balloting was done by members | o ]of departmental and general coun- | cils and delegates to municipal coun- cils instead of the people. SIDNEY SMITH, are unmet by the Government. | | AMENDED DEBT COMIC ARTIST, [BILL HELD NOT + To 20,000 persons—a great proportion of them w.men — Mre. Franklin D, it-csovelt, 1 Hollywood Bowl at Hollywood, Cal., addressed a plea for “neighborly Mrs. Roosevelt spoke under the awinices cf the Californin Wemen's © mittee of the 1935 Mobilization for Human Needs. shews the scene at the Bowl during Mrs. Roosevelt's addré: Ethicpia. Th: main Fascict Army in the north is maseed from Aduwa and Adigrat and only awaits the zero hour for the drive of Makaie, *rategic gateway te the moun- nou interier. The aparent principal cbjective Is Harar, ctern metropolis. Emporer Haile Selas:le's prin- cipal forces are midway between Makale and Harrar, The Emperor has dispatched OLD EHGLISH STATESMAN IS | ooz e atly, in the " te the T 'k wh L n needs The first lady was acecvded a co'orful welzeme. Phe In Ethiopia plunging into the task of rehabili- Greeley for distinguished army ser- tation although the shaking earth vice which stretched from the Arc- has. not. yet. completely stilled. Re~ tic to the tropics.and.spanned pair activities are hastened as the pearly half a century of active duty. temperature dropped below the freez- A Congressional Medal of Honor ing point during the night. was bestowed upon him March 27,; Guardsmen patrol the city. 1935, his 9lst birthday, but this The Weather Bureau officials said was 51 years after he had led an at least 347 tremors have occurred expedition of regular army men to during the past nine days. the then “farthest north” and 27 Four hundred refugees are- still years after he had gone on the re-! huddled beneath tents, FERA tem- tired list as a Major General, a| porary relief shelters. rating to which he had made his py telegraph and cable many of the — e, way from a start as volunteer pri- | widely separated army posts in the |vate in the Civil War. Friends said philippine Islands. He also assisted MOT"RS T AKE it was typical of his life-long deter- |in the construction of telegraph lines VADOLPHYS W. GREELY. mination that he chaiked the figure in China. It was Gen. Greely who {18 on the soles of his shoes so he pujlt the splendid system of 12,000 could tell a federal recruiting offi- miles of telegraph land lines, cable cer in 1861 that he was “over 18" lines and wireless stations in Al- although he had then just turned aska. 1. | Army aviation received the first { The medal was presented “In stimulus under Greely, for it was| recognition of a long life of dis- he who was instrumental in cbtain- | tinguished public service” and the ing the government appropriation |aged recipient acknowledged it|for the construction of Professo: Numerous New Highs Re- W: °I am very grateful to the|rangley's machine. Ak Congress and the people of the, s corded — Gains Range united states for hestowing upon| At 'Frisco Quake from | to 3 Points ™ this honor Reach “Farthest North” | | Up to that moment the Ameri- NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Speeding can government had given almost motors ran away from most of the no recognition for Greely’s mOst| ith the aid of the late Gen. Funs- other contestants in the Stock Mar- specacular feai, the leadership of the ket today althoush scattered spe. Lady Franking Bay expedition | romypms oo o, 0 Sisted the cialties were close. The session was Which went to the Arctic in 168l., ne same year he was given com- the second active one in more than Their regular relief ship Was|pang of the northern division and one year. Numerous new highs were crushed in the ice, two other relief ;; 1907 assumed command of the recorded and gains raged from one Parties failed to find them and it|pepartment of Columbia. There he to three points among the favorites. Was not until 1884 that Greely and|remineq until he was retired by op- Today’s close was firm. his six companions were brought ergtion of law on March 27, 1908, — |back, sole survivors of an original gince tha time General Greely had CLOSING PRICES TODAY DParty of 25. They had attained to the |54 his home in Washington. then “farthest north’ and assem- manom at t;x;:;b: :ft n:‘m. on NEW YORK, Oct. 21— Closing bled weathed data of World-wide|yarets 21, 1844, tne Cencral was the quotation of Alaska Juneau mine importance. son of Jobn. B: and’ Franges- Cobb stock today is 14%, American Oan Greely, a Fizst Lieutenant at the Greely. He receivad T ednoation 146%, American Power and Light time and in line for promotion, re- ¢ the Newburyport High School 7%, Anaconda 20%, Bethlehem Steel turned to find instead of honors,| where he was graduated in 1560' 39, General Motors 51%, Interna- that the captaincy which rlgmfully# At the beginning of the Civil Wax: tional Harvester 59%, Kennecott. was his, had been given to another | he enlisted as a private in & Massa- 24’%, United States Steel 46%, Pound and that he had been demoted!chycetts volunteer regiment. He 84914, Calumet and Hecla 5%, several files in the promotion list.|served throughcut the conflict, be- United Foundries 1. hflfi'l ;‘“pfi‘;ce‘;m“:gm;‘;’md fi:lng wounded twice at Antietam and . ' The following are Dow, Jones aver- their extremities of starvation, and :h:h ‘,fl‘;s:"fif ;;eF;fierrilccks::;: : gfi; DOW, JONES AVERAGES Greely was criticized for having or- rank of brevet-major of volunteers. (vision of the army at the time of |the earthquake and fire at San i Francisco in 1906, Gen. Greely took ages today: Industrials 138.95, rafls, dered the execution of one of his| on June 20, 1878, Gen. Greely 33.82, utilities 26.25, men who had endangered the liVes yarried Miss Henrietta H. C. Ne- E— . e of the entire group by stealing lhe‘smnh_ They had six children, pitifully small ration of his com-! R R & rades. Greely had to wage a vigor- | ous fight to obtain recognition ror-THHEE DlE lN the survivors of the expedition and| ] to get the commission as captain | TIH J“AR which was his by right of seniority. | Attached to Signal Corps | l A% i After the expedition Greely was| “ 288 ‘attached to the Signal Corps, in S Authorlmcs on Guard After jpien ne necame Onief Officor of| TACOMA, Oct. 21—Three men i i the United States Army with the Were killed and 11 injured late last Batt S Wthh TWO rank of Brigadier General. He was Saturday night when a truck swerv- Are leled first volunteer private soldier of the |ed to avoid another car and crashed Civil ‘'War to attain that rank in into a building on South Pacific Ave- EL PASO, Oct. 21.—Mexican au- the regular army. I nue. All available ambulances in Ta- thorities are on guard against fur- He pérformed constructive service coma were rushed to the scene. The ther disorders in Juarez as a result in the development of the insular men on the truck were relief work- of a bloody political riot which killed territory of the United States and |ers returning to their camp. two and wounded 36 yesterday. in Alaska from 1898 to 1902. He T Followers of rival mayoralty can- supervised the erection of thousands| Chan Chan, a ruined and de- didates clashed, wielding cleavers., of miles of telegraph lines in Cuba serted pre-Inca city on the coast sabers, pistols, clubs, and even house- and Porto Rico after the Spanish-|of Peru, is situated 300 miles north hold utensils, { American’ War and linked together| of Lima, DEAD IN CRASH CONSTITUTIONAL: g o T PR Dostaer Tourt B {Cartoonist Killed in Aulo‘Um.”'s Rsurllces Ao;l;i:lnst ! Collision Enroute to- | Faym Debt Relief Summer Home iy | PEORIA, 111, Oct. 21.—The amend- ed Frazier-Lemke Farm Debt Relief CHICAGO, Il Oct. 21.—Sidney gy} j5 held unconstitutional by ! Smith, 58, cartoonist, was killed early | y,qges Charles Briggle and J. Earl, |Sunday when his cat collided with in g major U. 8. District Court rul- { another near Harvard, 1llinois. ing given in answer to the petition He was enroute to his summer |of william Young, Fulton County home in Lake Geneva, Wis., at the | farmer, seeking to come into court 3 |under the amended law, which was Wendell Martin, Watseka, Ill, driv- | passed by Congress after the Su- | or of the other car, sustained a brok- | preme Court held the original meas- len hip, fractured jaw and possible ure unconstitutional. internal injuries. | Creditors objected, alleging the No other persons were in the cars. unconstitutionality of the amended | Smith created the famous “Gumps ' | act. { |and “Old Doc Yak.” | Fred Russell Dr. R. Hockma: Among the Americans staying i1 Ethiopia despite danger are Fre: Russell of Seattle, treasurer o United Presbyterian Missions a Addis Ababe, and Dr. Robert W Hockman of Wheaton, Ill. He i superintendent of St. George Me morial Hospital and is heading Re: Cross unit at the front. those who saw and heard him real- | GENEVA, Oet. 31.-- ‘The Ttalo- . | Ethicpian situation s 8 } iy ;- rthis morning.. et w0 | fArthur ch&c_rson, Pres"‘ One report says the Ttaltan armies | dent World Disarmament |are poized tor an imminent big push . e | into interior Ethiopta. Meellng, Passes AWa)’ Another report says there is ba- {llef In Addis Ababa that Premier | LONDON, Oct. 21.—Arthur Hen- Mussolini may try to initiate direct | derson, President of the World Dis- | peace negotiations with Emperor | armament Conference, died here Halle Selassie. This report is cred- | Sunday. The old British statesman | ited to foreign observers who claim | died in less than one month after|the crisis is merely suspended or de- | an operation, He has been suffering | layed. } | Jaundice due to gallstone condition. Flank Advances | Arthur Henderson was a sick man| Headquarters of the Northern Ital- | when, as its chairman, he opened the |ian Armies report slight flank, ad- | World Conference on Disarmament | vances and strengthenjng of the lat Geneva in February, 1932. Fascict Northern front line, i\r a re- Sicker, probably, than many of newed drive southward. % Ttalian soldiers on the southern ized, for ruddy good health and gen- front are reported to have wiped out iality sloughed rapidly away from strong Ethiopian forces. Rains in the MAnJ_LuunnNE e | In command of ihe Pacific Di-| charge of the relief operations and, | | His attorney, Ednyfed Willlams. | said that Smith had just renewed a| Americans Like | contract with the Chicago Tribune R and New York News Syndicate call-| 1 veir Beer, ing for payment of $750000 over a) Figures Show five year period. * | His survivors include his second wife and son. His first wife died sev- eral years ago. | e, PRIVATE FUNDS | AVAILABLE FOR P. W. PROJECTS, = - > POLICEMAN LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 21.— Americans drank twenty three billien beers during the year end- ing October 15, said C. D. Wil- liams, Secretary of the United States Brewers Association which opens the Sixtieth Annual Con- vention on Wednesday. Williams said the beer con- sumed in the past year was about nt of the 1914 consump- | ki tion. TROPICAL GALE HITS JAMAICA; GROPS DAMAGED Storm Is Reported Ahead of President Roosevelt Aboard Houston JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 21.— A tropical storm roared through the western Carribean Sea this after- noon and according to reports con- siderable damage to crops and com- munication lines has been done. him after the Labor Party's catas-| trophic defeat in the English gen-| eral clections in the fall of 1931. | Possibly the strain of the cam-| paign. and the hectic months that went before it, the opposition of old | friends and the fact that he was| the focal point of the attack, may | have aggravated his allment. At all| \events, he learned the news of his| {own overwhelming defeat while lying |11l in a hotel hedroom. He was chairman of England’s La- bor Party, succeeding Ramsay Mac- Donald, and for the moment it must | have seemed the collapse of a life- timz's hard work. Hiss illness pre- vented further public appearances in England for many weeks and he went | to the south of France to recuperate. | |For a time it was thought that an | operation would be necessary. Known from Land's End to John| south are delaying advances. Strained Relations Observers here declare that the relations between Great Britain and France are still critical as Premier Pierre Laval has not answered di- rect egarding his position relative to support of Great Britain in a possible war between Great Britain and Italy in the Mediterranean. Premier Laval is still reported trying to find a way to give Italy occupational right to Northern Ethi- opia and economic mandates over the remainder of the empire and at the same time save the face of the League of Nations. For Huge War Loan ‘Premier Mussolini is reported to have started public subscriptions for a huge war loan from every bank in the Nation. In London, authoritative quarters Jamaica is said fo be the center of the hurricane which is believed passing westward and heading to- ward Eastern Cuba and Haiti. The storm is far ahead of the U. in Nation 3 o WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — Hun-| Two Other Officers Are| dreds of proposals to finance the| ¢ & major portion of the Public Works| Held “:1 Co"necuon |8 with Case |ident Roosevelt, which is reported |in clear weather. S. S. Cruiser Houston, bearing Pres-| jo' Groats as genial, smiling, expan- | dropped the hint that plans for peace | slve—almost an impersonation of the | have begun to crystalize in Paris |well known figure of John Bull—|and Rome, also in London, and this | Henderson's face was haggard, drawn | eased the tension over the week-end. | with " suffering and decply creased |It is emphasized that the move how- iwhen the Geneva conference met.! ever is in a very early stage. But despite the bitter campaign | > {which had sprung up in England project with private funds are cited | by the Public Works Administration | ' LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 21.—A/| police matron and a policeman are | as evidence of a nation-wide im- provement in municipal credit. Officials said that while credit re- ' booked on suspicion of manslaughter | covery is evidenced in all sections of | in connection with the fatal shooting | the country, it is particularly strong of a brother officer, O. D. Yancey | in Washington and the New England | of the Radio Car squad. | States. Matron Jean Pierce said she fired | ‘\t.hrwgh a window at a figure she | thought to be a prowler. Policeman | Broest Hice said he was in another | part of her dwelling at the time. The prowler was killed. He was| Yancey. ] e —— LOUISVILLE, Ky. Oct. 21.—Mrs. Former Alaska Pastor | Anna Smallwood Keith, aged 20, and . her 11-month-old son, is dead in a| Puses AWIY m Oregon local hospital as the result of gun- shot wounds. The police are search-| EUGENE, Oregon, Oct. 21.— The ing for John Coffman, neighbor.|Rev. E. L. Dinterberger, aged 61, died | The Sheriff said the woman, with|here yesterday. He resigned his pul- | her baby in her arms, was shot down | pit in Anchorage, Alaska, a month | when she stepped between her hus- | ago and came here for his health. He band and Coffman during a quarrel. {had Jived here before going to Alase Coffman, after the shooting, fled ka. Puneral services will be held to- from the Keith house. ! morrow, iMother, With Babe in Arms, ;ls Shot Down 9 ARE DEAD IN AUTO AGCIDENTS SEATTLE, Oct. 21.—Motor vehicle accidents Sunday in this state claim- ed nine lives and injured at least 17. Six persons were killed in Pierce |county and 13 were injured; one man was killed in Lewis County and three injured and King County re- ports two dead and two injured. - PATCO AT ANCHORAGE Sheldon Simmons, flying the Patco in the Westward with Fred Lucas of the Bureau of Fisheries and John Blythe of the FERA, is reported in Anchorage today and is expected Lo return here in the next day or two. Lucas and Blythe are relurning here cn the plane, ;against his keeping the post of chair- | \man, he did so. Certainly this told | something of his tenacity of char- { acter. nto National Polftics Hz was born in Glasgow September 13, 1863, into a poor family. As a vouth he was apprenticed to the iron workers ade in Newecastle end it was through his trade union tha he climbed into national politics and promingnee. By 1903 he was mayor of Newcastle The next year he was elected to Par- liament, holding the seat until 1913 He was defeated In the “khaki” elec- tion of that year along with most of the other labor party candidates. But he eame back in 1922. Henderson was first made chair- man of the labor party in 1908 and in 1914, when pacifism fo Ramsay MacDonald out of politics, he again took the reins. Joining the wa time coalition gov- (Contipued on Page Three) NICHOLS (INJURED WHEN PLANECGRASHES \Five Others Are Also Hurt in Accident at East- ern Airport TROY, N. Y, Oct. 21, -— Ruth Nichols and five others were serious- ly injured today when Miss Nichols' plane crashed at the Troy Alrpart. The others injured were Capt. Harry Hudlotz, pilot; two mechanics and (wo passengers. A few minutes after the ageident, 'the 20-passenger Candor passenger plane burst into flames aud was de~ stroyed, i