The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 22, 1935, Page 1

_California at Berkeley, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVL, NO, 7098. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICL TEN CENTS FEAR DEATH TOLL, TR THREE DEAD IN NEW HURRICANE CARIBBEAN SEA Damage in Jamaica is $2,- 500,000 — Santiago Reduced to Debris SANTIAGO, Cuba, Oct. 22— With the eastern end of Cuba, including the United States Nav- al s*ations on Guznamo Bay, cut off by the hurricanc, authorities fear re st ored communication: would rhow widespread loss of life. The recent tropical blow is believed to have hit the eastern a-ca the hardest. The benana shipping city of Exacea and cther points east 2-¢ cut off from the western part ¢! the i-'and. HAVANA, Oct, 22. — A roaring hurricane swept the eastern tip of Cuba and western Haiti causing $2,- 500,000 damage to Jamaica and re- ducing Santiago to debris. Brief reports from Santiago said that the only means of communica- tion with the rest of the Republic is by wireless. Three are reported dead, Two east Cuba town:, Caimanera and Bouqueron, have Leen evacuat- ed. Roofs Lifted The hurricane was accompanied by torrential rains that wrecked build- ings and lifted roofs in Santiago, filling the streets with debris. ‘The city's electric light and power was cut off when the plant’s roof | ripped loose. There is a scarcity of bread and milk. Wind and rain prevented search for possible victims who were fear- ed to be buried in the ruins. The roof of the hospital collapsed and the Cauo River overflowed, flooding large sections of the city. Some residents fled to escape the danger of falling debris. Havana was not hit by the storm. —_— - TEACHER FROM HOONAH GETS PHD. AT U, OF . Lavirscheff, Former Priest, Awarded Degree in Edu- cation, Summer Work BERKELEY, Cal, Oct. 22.—Tik- hon I. Lavirscheff, teacher at Hoonah and formerly priest of the orthodox faith in Cordova, has been awarded the degree of PhD. in Education, after completing his summer work at the University of California. Lavirscheff, who with his wife has bcen teaching the Hoonah school for two years. came to San Francisco in 1922 and was there ordained a priest in the orthodox faith and relegated to Prince William Sound. He built a church at Cordova, and in 1924 became a teacher at Tatitlak, |! where he remained for two years. In 1926, he asked for leave of ab- sence and joined the University of where he received his AB degree, after which the appointment, first to Bristol Bay 2nd then to Hoonah followed. He was married shortly after leaving the University. Lavirscheff, aceording to the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, Curator of the Territorial Museum, will continue his teaching career at Hoonah. —————————— Cocktail-Weary London Turns to “Black Velvet”| LONDON, Oct, 22.—*“Black velvet”, 2’ mixture of stout and champagne, is being served with oysters in place of cocktails and snacks at social gatherings. Londoners are tiring of cocktails and this new substitute for thein, besides offering novelty, is considered { morning of October 25 the program | the re-roofing of his house, healthier. s o - JapanInsists His Visit Be Formal So “Cactus Jack” Will Actually Don Top Hat Scandalized at the suggestion that Vice-President Garner (left) make a sjmple “informal” vicit to Nippon, tlge Japanese Gavernment inci:ied that he be reccived “with alf fitting ceremony.” Official host Keisuke Okada, Premler, [ER e AT N ta Gerner and his party will be Admiral right. § By GLENN BABB ‘ney of 10 miles to Tokyo. The Im- TOKYO Oct. 22. — Because the |perial audience probably will take Japanese government is determin- | place before noon. In the afternoon led to pay him all the honors due there will be a reception in the the official who stands next to the ‘ American embassy and in the even- President of the United States, any ing a state dinner, at which Admiral hopes Vice President John Nance ' Keisuke Okada, premier, probably Garner may have had of avoiding will preside. Mr. Garner will go by fuss and formality, silk hats and train to Kobe om Octobcr 26 re- stiff eollars in his passage through joining the President Grant at that Japan late this month are doomed port. to disappointment. [ Mr. Garner, whose adherence to the simple, informal ways of his Texas home is proverbial, will visit Jépan on his way to Manila, where he will attend the inauguration No- vember 15 of Manuel Quezon as first President of the Philippine Com- monwealth. Byrns Ccos Along Traveling with him on the liner President Grant, due at Yokohama | October 25, will be a Congressional | delegation of about 50, including Speaker Joseph W. Byrns and chair- men of the Congressional commit- ’ fees. associated with Philippine at-| 1akes Place in Hotel fairs. 1 The party will continue to Manila| TROY, N. Y., Qct. 22. — Capt. on the same liner, making possible | ilarry Hublitz, New York, injured a stay of only one day in Tokyo. PR [ CAPTAIN DEAD:; RUTH NICHOLS MAY RECOVER Scheduled Wedding of | Plane Crash Passengers | with Miss Ruth Nichols in-the crash | | RECEIVEHIGH MASONI HONOR, Washington Scottish Rite Masons Name Juneauites in Court of Honor WASHINGTON, Oct. 22— The Southern Supreme Council of the| 33rd degree Scottish Rite Masons i elected the one hundred and sixth | one to receive the degree and named 296 to receive decorations for rank of Knight Commander. | The Court of Honor degree awards | included W. B. Heisel of Junheau, Alaska. | Knight Commander rank awards went to R. V. Ellis, of Ketchikan, | Alaska; R .B. Julian, of Nome, Alas- | (ka; Charles Goldstein, C. W. Hawkes- | | worth, C. K. Tripp, all of Juneau. I 'These are the highest honors pas= sible in this branch of Masonry. | | | — e e LACK OF FUNDS DELAYING NEW part of ! i Dimond Says Northland!_ ; défending force used by Emperor Haile Ethiophg\etammu unshod infantrymen, below, are Selassic as snipers to harass Italian invaders dur- GREAT BRITAIN TAKES LEAD, PEACE j Ethiofiizifig Resort to Guerrilla Warfare Tactics to the front. Company Turned Down P. O. Dept. Offer Indication that the Post Office De- partment and the Northland Trans- portation Company are still far from agreement on a possible mail con- 2 tract to Southeast Alaska was re- Judge Lindsey vealed here today in a message to " the Territorial Chamber of Com- T""wfl Down for merce from Alaska Delegate An- Juvenile Bench thony J. Dimond, in response to a| plea from the Chamber for early, LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 22. action. | —Judge Ben Lindsey’s ambition In the message received Ly the| to take over the Los Angeles Secretary’s office of the Territorial| County Juvenile Bench, has been Nhamber, Delegate Dimond said: | frustrated. Forty-four fellow jur- “I have presented the matter of ists passed over his application the proposed Northland mail con-| and named instead a jurist who tract to the Post Office Department| was not a candidate. Judge on several occasions and again today. | Lindsey was for years head of The reply is that no funds are avail-| the Denver’ Juvenile Court. able for increase in carriage of Al-| P i aska mail, such as would be neces-| sary if the proposed contract was| awarded. The department lurther'HELEN,A B A c K 'says an offer was made to the North T0 NORMALCY ; ’ Issue first class mail every trip but that| the company refused to take the| contract, and the company also re- Spending Is Seen as Big | in Politics in’35| By BYRON PRICE 1 (Chief of Bureau, The Asso(-mm“ Press, Washington) The timancial policies of the Rocs velt Administration, its vast spend-| ing operations and its unbalanced Budgets, are becoming the center of political attention claimed today by few other issues. The trend gives increasing weight to the predictions of many politi- cians, that, in the end, the dollars- and-cents aspects of the situation in Washington will influence far more votes in 1936 than all of the talk about economic theory and the con- stitution. When the ordinary voter grapples with the constitutional issue, or tries to dissect and examine “the new economy” or “the more abundant life” he usually fetches up at last in a fog of argument and bewilder- ing their adyance. 3 “men frofy'the hills, armed with riffes; on their way Top photo sk tribes- GERMANY IS NOW 0UT OF LER, NATION Two - Year Notification Takes Judicial Effect Yesterday Noon GENEVA, Oct. — Germany strode formally out of the League of Nations yesterday. Two years ago, Dr. W. Krauel, German Consul, walked across the street from his office to the League's 92 Secretariat and gave a two year pre- | ‘iminary notice of his nation’s resig- nation from the League which took juridicial effect at noon yesterday. Dr. Krauel packed up to go to Ber- lin for discussion of new relations between the League and the Reich |regarding the war. ing contradiction. o ¥ This is a sort of “old home 4f an airliner, died at midnight in the Good Samaratin Hospital . month” in American-Japanese re- lations, for George H. Dern, Secre- | tary of War, also on his way to the Miss Nichols i§ reported to be! “holding her own.” She is given a fair chance to recover. fused to carry all classes of mail on four trips so that the department ‘With money matters it is different. Well-informed German sources aid the Reich is expected to main- Manila inatguration, reached Yoko- | hama October 14 and was an official guest ¥| Tokyo urmtil October 18. Thege\ two visits afford an oppor- tunity lor publicizing American- Japanese friendship which the Tokyo government is preparing to seize. Informality?—Tch, Tch! ‘When it was suggested to high Japanese officials that Mr. Garner, plain man of the people, dirt farmer A widow survives Hublilz. Meanwhile, their flying compan- jons, Miss Gladys Berkenheiser, married Ray Haines, Miss Nichols' mechanic, and her sister, Miss Nene Berkenheiser, became the bride of william Holt, tour ticket taker. The double wedding was to have taken place Monday night in Miss Nichols’ plane over New York. ‘The trousseaus of both brides were destroyed in the plane crash. The wedding took place in a hotel. and fisherman, would like to make his brief visit to Japan informal, the Japanese were little short of scandalized. “But he is the Vice President of the United States, the chief lieu- tenant of the head of the American| nation and he must be received with all fitting ceremony by our Emper- or,” was their reaction. Reception Schedule So “Cactus Jack” and selected members of his party, probably | Speaker Byrns and the committee chairmen, will be received in audi-| ence by His Imperial Majesty, Hiro- | hito, 124th Emperor in the dynasty | of the Sun Goddess, the morning of their arrival. Aware of Vice President Garner's| wish to see something of Japan while wearing easier habiliments than the silk hat, cutaway and striped trousers of his official status, the| foreign office has suggested that| if he will stop for a week or more on his return voyage from Manila, the government will arrange for him to enjoy Japanese hospitality in an informal way. When the Vice President and his“ party arrive at Yokohama on the, | | | l calls for an immediate motor jour-| WAS KNOX’'S FRIEND Capt. Hublitz, who died last night at Troy, N. Y., from injuries received when Ruth Nichols’ plane crashed at the Troy airport, was an old-time friend of Bill Knox, Acting Airport Manager for the PAA. Capt. Hublitz and Knox were hoth employed by the Curtis Company during 1930, '31 and '32 as pilots of land company to cover carriage of | {appropriations for the coming fiscal Busmess Resgmea n Pnn-‘ ar.” cipal Section—Minor H Na replies have been received yet 1 {to similar appeals made by the Ter- Tremors Still Felt HELENA, Mont., Oct. 22—Citi- ritorial Chamber to the Post Office | Department and the Northland Com- | ipany, but the Chamber Board of zens began returning to their homes | Managers are expected to authorize today, reassured by scientists that| ‘the Secretary’s office here to con-|the crashing shocks which wrecked tinue pushing the matter in the hope |their homes and damaged business ithat something can be worked out houses were probably ended. to improve the present mail service.| Hundreds who have been sleeping The Chamber pointed out in its|in the streets, near their houses, or |message sent last week that with in tents in the National Guard only two vessels on the Alaska Line camp, ventured inside their dwell-| and the Canadian ships carrying | ings. 3 mail, Southeast Alaska cities are| Though minor tremors continued, \ badly crippled for mail service, city authorities permitted the re- actually receiving mail only about sumption of business in the prm-!, once a week. |cipal business section, though the) older portion is still parred. | .- ’FlND TEAGHER Eighteen shocks; registered since | | midnight, failed to disturb citizens. | —_—————— could ascertain the probable cost of | }such contract, and thus be able to| |give definite figures to Congress for Many obscurities linger in the gov- tain a neutral policy, much like ernment’s financial statements, but OPICAL STORM DEBATE STARTED IN PARLIAMENT, AFRICAN POLICY {Foreign Secretary Hoare Says Country Backs Peaceful Solution PREMIER MUSSOLINi f BRINGING PRESSURE (Italian Forces Acvancing, | Rain Soaked, Over Southern Mud Fields LONDON, Oct. 22—The British government, leader in League of Noatien© cancticns, has left a way cpen for fhe end of East Afiican he dilities, In #n opening debate in Par- liament, Foteign Secretary Sam- ue! Hoare declared that Britain be pover furned her back on a peaceful colution. | “Trere’s «fill breathing space befcre eccncmic prescure can be applied. Can it not be used in another attempt at scttlement?” he arked. PEACE OVERTURES GENEVA, Oct. 23.~An-Italo-Brit- ish understanding, necessary to se- cure peace in Europe, today hung in the balance as Premier Benito Mus- rolini strengthened his bargaining position. A peaceful settlement of the Italo- Ethiopian conflict appeared depend- 'nt on further Itallan victories to bring Emperor Halle Selassie to a possible acceptance of whatever terras might be agreed on by Euro- | bean diplomatic negotiations. 1 Italians Push Forward Rain-soaked Italian troops hauled guns and ammunition forward through the mud on the southern {ront today preparatory to a drive on the strategic Ethiopian post at Gor- {rahei. The Italians are reported to be in control of the approaches to Gorrahel. Waits for Shew Down Premier Mussolini i3 eaid to be continuing his preparatiens for any eventuality and waited the Brit- ish to show cause why ‘he should withdraw his armies from Ethiopia. ! Lavals Efforts '\ { Premier Pierre Laval )ph gluced | his review of the situation before the French Cabinet in Paris with the proposal to tighten France's de- | fense. The Cabinet. session today was largely devoted to France’s own fi- nancial and political problems, how- ever. . e { by and large anyone who can add and that of the United States, that would | take no political, financial or eco- subtract is able to see whether the income is balancing or failing to balance the outgo, and draw his own | conclusions. Possibly it was in recognition of | this fact, that, within a single week, | Mr. Roosevelt issued his prediction that no heavier taxes would be ne- cessary to liquidate the depression | debts, and Mr. Hoover selected this| nromic advantage of the Italo-Ethi- opian war, operate with the League of Nations wherever possible. i e e conm JOCKEY NAMED 1t is anticipated Germany will co- | same theme as the subject of a speech | ! regarded everywhere as the most im- | | portant he has delivered since he | FOR QUERY IN e PARTY SLAYING The latest official figures forecast | the following situation as of June 30, next: o . Receipts for the preceding vear, Smoky Saunders Sought in $4,470,000,000, Expenditures for the - Connection with Death same period, $7,752,000,000. Yearly de- | ¥ih 9 felt, $3203.00000, Total mationus| of Louisville Matron debt $30,723,000,000. These are the basic figures from | LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 22.—Little Condor and Ford planes on charter | and exhibition flights in the New| York City area. Capt. Hublitz was a veteran of the early days of aviation, Knox said, beginning his careér in 1915 or 1916, with the Stout Company in Miami and West Palm Beach, Florida, and | later at Niagara Falls. “He was an old-time pilot,” Knox said, “and one of the best bigship pilots I have cver known.” ! ., BOWERS RETURNS HOME Fred Bowers, of Arran Island, who has been in Juneau to buy supplies, and also to purchase materials for returned last night to his island home. |World War Veteran SI.AIN; HUTE | Severely IlI, S. F. | it {Nude Body Gives Evidencel EAN FRANOISCO, Cal, Oct. 22. £ By —Lieut. General Hunter Liggett, Of Rawshmg D eath who commanded the first American by Strangulation | army corps ever to enter the fighting | lines during the World War, is erit- LEOLA, South Dakota, Oct. 22— ically ill here. Physicians fear he State officers are depending upon|may die. medical reports for clues in the death of Lela Halvorson, Madison school teacher, whose nude body was found in a hotel room here last| Capt.'A.J .La Gasa, Juneau diver Sunday. Officers said a preliminary | Who has been south on business, is investigation indicated the teacher A passenger aboard the Northland had been ravished and then strangled i sailing for Juneau from Seattle last: Ito deatn. night. i — e — LA GASA RETURNING which all caleulations must start. Willie “Smoky” Saunders, | They mean that since 1926 (often Who rode Omaha to fame in the 1035 referred to by economists as a “nor- Kentucky derby, is named one of mal* year), the government will have (W0 men wanted to question after gone more than $11,000,000,000 deep- the party slaying of a pretty Louis- er into debt. ville married woman, Mrs. Evely Presumably this debt will be stil!| Sliwski, whose mangled body, crus further increased before the depres- ed under automobile wheels, was sion end#, Presumably also the pres- ;cund on a road early Sunday morn- ent tax rates, which Mr. Roosevelt "% says are sufficient, will yield con- siderably more in a year of full pros- perity than the $4.470,000,000 esti- mated for the current year, Presum- ably, likewise, interest rates will go up with prosperity, so that the car- ’ : b ig.reported today by hospital author- xflrjfla_rw_e_mlihc i bt ap: ifles to be “more than holding her (Contizued on Page Three) |own.” — .- CONDITION BETTER Mrs. Ethel Neville, stewardess of the Pire Hall Club, who has been in a serious condition for some time, Jockey | WARRACK LO BIDDER, BLDG. AT KETGHIKAN iTwo Proposals Submitted | for Federal Project, | 2 and 3 Stories i WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—The J. | B. Warrack Construction Company |pf Seattle and Juneau, submitted the low bid of $278582 to the Treasury Department for construc- tion of the Post Office, Court Hous2 and Jail at Ketchikan, Al |sum is for the construction of the baement and two stories including jail floor, compiate with approaches. On the alternative proposal, con- truction of basement, three stories ind jail floor and approaches, the company bid $317,508. e S Ashes of Pastor Are _to Be Brought North EUGENE, Ore., Oct. 22.— Funeral arvices wese held today for the Rev. %. L. Winterberger, {former Anchor- ze, Alaska pastor. 3 ‘The body will be crémated in Port. 'and and the ashes shipped to Alaska, here they will be placed beside A 3. TS