The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1936, Page 1

v THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 'SHIPS IN DISTR COAST CUTTERS RAGE T0 AID OF STRICKEN BOATS — } Vessels Crippled as Disast-| erous Winter Storm | Whips N. Atlantic } TRAWLED DISABLED | OFF NOVA SCOTIA COne Craft 7STn.|'(s. Anotherl Goes Aground When Ice i Breaks in Roaring River BOSTON, Feb. 15.—Distress calls | from far out on the storm-whipped | North Atlantic Coast sent Coast Guard cutters hurrying to crippled) vessels of New England’s deep sea|$150,000,000 for rivers, harbors and | fishing fleet today 1 The cutter Algonquin put a tow line aboard the disabled schooner Mary Julia to the north while the| cutter Cayuga raced to answer a' call for immediate aid from the| tr awler Winthrop, disabled 1301 miles off the Nova Scotia coast. | Heavy seas and strong winds; forced the Boston pilot boat in-| side the harbor for the secondk time this winter. 1 | | ICE CAUSES HAVOC RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 15— Smashed by ice and raging waters in the breakup of an ice jam in the James River, one ship was sunk, another swept aground and | three others imperiled. There were no reports of any loss of life. { Going out without warning near| midnight last night, the dammed! jce and water tore vessels from their moorings and sent them toss- ing down stream amid the grind-| ing ice cakes. ! The steamer Norwalk with 25{ men aboard was swept aground one and one-half miles below Rich- mond after going down stream out of control. The tug Mary Belle was| snatched loose from the wharf and hurled against a pumping station and whirled away to sink with no; one aboard. HAUPTMANN'S REPRIEVE ENDS AT MIDNIGHT No Indication Governor Will Grant Another— May Die in Five Weeks TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 15.—Bruno Hauptmann's 30-day reprieve ends at midnight tonight, with indica- tions that Gov. Harold G. Hoffman will not grant another. Unless the Governor again inter- venes, Hauptmann may go to the electric chair in five - weeks. The State will seek a new execution date, which would fall between March 23 and April 13. MURPHY GOES SOUTH; WIFE IS IN HOSPITAL R. E. Murphy, DuPont Powder Company representative, sailed for Seattle on the Northwestern. He received a telegram yesterday stat- ing that his wife is seriously m\ and has been taken to a Seattle hospital. e —— RETURNS TO BARRACKS The Chilkoot Barracks tender Fornance sailed for the Army post at 7 o'clock this morning. The Fornance arrived here Thursday for her annual inspection of hull} and boiler by the Steamboat In- spection Service. - e KANE FOR HOONAH Steve Kane, Hoonah merchant, was & passenger on the Northland | from Seattle to- Hoonah. { —l MRS. RUDOLPH RETURNS Mrs. H. C. Rudolph, wife of a Sanitary Grocery employee, arrived on the Northland from Seattle. | Record Army Bill Awaits Senate Vote Backers Hopefal ‘No Cuts Will Be Made in Huge Appropraitions WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Back- ers of the big Army appropriations bill, which ran the House gauntlet yesterday and emerged without a scar, now hope for quick Senate approval. The opposition bloc in the House was balked at every turn in its repeated efforts to trim items in the record peace-time bill, calling for the spending of $545,000,000. Included in the appropriation measure are more than $300,000,000 for national defense, more flood control, and more than $8,- 000,000 for defenses on the West Coast, Hawaii and Panama Canal. STOCK MARKET GOES UPWARD, SHORT SESSI0 Substantial Advance Aided Tdahoans Snowbound | by Steels, Rails and Specialties NEW YORK, Feb. 15—After a hesitant start, the Stock Market was given a substantial lift at the short session today by rails. steels and specialties. Gains of fractions to one point or more predominated with a num- ber of issues settling in high ter- ritory for the past several years. than | DISEASE, STORM, talian Aerial OLD, HARASSES| Raid Feared in UNITED STATES Negus Capita Epidemics Spread as Land-|Addis Ababa Is Expecting | slides and Floods Harry | Destruction from Skies California and Coast by Fascists Fliers \SCORES ISOLATED AS | GENEVA Peb 1o - mihiopiat | HIGHWAYS BLOCKED icar o Tiaiian imiencions of bomin- ing Addis Ababa in revenge for i in |asserted Fascist casualties along }Daéo_tas ;“gn M'cfi \vvjefll mlme northern front. : rip O € O ors ‘ Winters in Years " #nt- aerial-attacks of the last few {ways, when Italian planes swept {down on Makale, Dessye and other concentration points of the defend- The fear arose from the persist- | | CHICAGO, 1L, Feb. 15—Fear of |{ i | death from disease, escaping gas,| & ] | 1 Informed sources and fuel and food famine was felt arious places in the nation to- {Ported that the invaders are push- day as a new cold wave deancedlmg the northern front offensive in |eastward from the Rocky Moun- |80 apparent effort to solidify their |tains. Zero weather already was |lInes. | gripping the west and the expected | An Ethiopian communique said {chill was anticipated in the east| that the two missionaries who have | before the weck end passes. been held for failing to leave the Landslides and floods harried | War zone have been sent to a con- E‘Cahrumin as rains continued on the | centration camp at Sodu. {in v | Pacific Coast. Epidemics of coldsi - e e — and influenza spread in the wake of the storms. Flood waters smashed | Ho"e l.lld c“tt" |a 125-foot bridge over a creek nearlAppeln on | Watsonville, Calif.,, isolating 50 | ranch families and 100 federal tran- | Streeh 0‘ .’llll““ | sient workers. Landslides cut 140 | CCC boys off from the rest of the! | world at Placerville | The first horse - and - cutter trip of the scasoi—wita “Nellie of the Juneau Dairy furnishing the motive power—was inaug- urated this morning by four Juneau youths, Maynard Peter- son, Juneau Dairy employee; Lee Smith, Kenneth Lea and Bill Alexander. Nellie’s scope was limited to city streets as the highway has become too slippery for her un- shod feet. The unusual vehicle attracted much attention. FULE S A S S | Pifty persons were believed snow- | bound on the highway east of Lava | | Springs, Idaho. Bitter cold encir- cled the Dakotas and Minnesota and | snow plow rescue parties started | |in three directions from Rapid City | and Sturgis, So. Dak. to isolated | | communities in Meade County. Threat of a bread shortage in Sioux | | Falls was lifted after an airplane| |carried a thousand pounds of yeast from St. Paul. t Rationing of food and fuel began in Rome re- t 3 _|in Southern Minnesota and some Unifed ‘States Bteel led ‘the up. towns were cut off by deep drifts. | Escaping Gas Kills Two Escaping gas carried into homes turn. Today’s close was firm. ANCHORAGE ALL CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Feb. 15. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 16%, American Can 120%, American Power and Light 10, Anaconda 34%, Bethlehem Steel 563%, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 2%, General Motors 59%, International Harvest- er 66', Kennecott 36%, United States Steel 59%, Southern Rail- way 18%, Cities Service 6%, Boe- ing Airplane 25%, United Aircraft 30%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’'s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 152.40, rails 4878, utilities 33.56. — e BPWC DINNER MONDAY EVE Members ol tne Business and Pro- fessional Women’s Club are remind- ed that they are to meet Monday evening in the Terminal Cafe at 6:30 o'clock for their monthly dinner and social hour, according to announce- ment by Mrs. Daniel Hickey, Chair- man of the club’s Department of International Relations, under whose auspices the dinner is being given. Mrs.- Wm. L. Paul, toastmistress, will offer an interesting program prefaced by the reading of messages from each of the 23 nations in which the BPWC claims membership. Reservations for the dinner are to be made with Anita Garnick. — e oo —— HERMLE OFF ON CALIFORNIA TRIP John Hermle, one of the owners of the Home Grocery, sailed for the States on the Northwestern. He expects to visit California and will return in about three weeks. — .- AGED MAN IN HOSPITAL Jack Crane, 80, Pairbanks resi- | dent, was transferred by ambulance this morning from the steamer Northwestern to St. Ann’s Hospital, where he will be confined as a rest- ing patient. His condition is consid- ered not immediately critical. | from broken mains because it could | not leak through continued to peril | sET FnR THREE Belleville, Tll, with two dead and| 41 ill since February 3 ‘ Snow slides in the mountain sec- tions of Central Pennsylvanial {blocked highways. | | —————— FARM SUBSIDY by Blare of Bugles, Roll of Drums ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 15— To the fanfare of bugles and the roll of drums, the first contingent | | ‘ l | of visitors to the sports tourna- ment was welcomed here yesterday \ |Senate Passes $500,000,- atternoon. Hockey and basketball . o |teams and fans arrived from Fair- OOOC Bl“ f(:r So'l ' banks, Wasilla and Palmer to par- onservation | ticipate in the events. _— Seward contestants and rooters WASHINGTON, Feb. 15— The First Contingent Greeted MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS ESS OFF E AST COAST RUTHLUNDELL STILL LEADS ~ VOTE COUNTS got affairs of state and enjoyed “ ed in Past 24 Hours— ; Ida Roller Second | By far the biggest landslide of | votes on record swamped the Bet- ter Times Drive “counter-Upper” in The Empire office yesterday, when ! over 1,000,000 votes were placed on !file. Two candidates, Thais Bayers and Ida Roller submitted over 100,- 1 000 votes each. Miss Roller is now {in second place with a count of | 580,825, while Miss Bayers is well #semed in fourth position with | 566,350. 1 Ruth Lundell, of Douglas, added | | 50,000 votes to her total before noon Friday, to bring her count to 631,- 275, high among the 30 contestants. | Bessie Powers is third with a count | today of 578,850 | | One Withdrawal | Betty Daniels, by withdrawing| yesterday afternoon, reduced the | field to 30 girls. High scorers in| yesterday’s poll included Misses | Bayers and Roller. Miss Powers | 80,800, Esther Davis 69,875, Eleanor | ! Gruber 65000, Catherine York 64- | 175, Rosa Danner 64,100 and Miss Lundell. i ! Total votes to date, 7.824,900. ! - e - ' KETCHIKAN PAIR “First” and “second” families of United States for- I casion when President and Mrs. Franklin_D. Roose-" ! QL Vice President Garner [[JEM Mrs. Roosevelt] 8 President Roosevelt = a gala social oc- Brishane Sees Advantages of North Country. HELD SUNDAY |Over 1,000,000 Votes Fil- Famous Columnist Calls Pl‘esb)’leriagzfiux-(zh Scene World's Attention to Al- aska‘s GOld, Fish, FurS WASHING' Washington w ly Alaskan minded todry fol- lowing publication on the front page of the Washington Herald this morning of a remarkable tribute to the Territory of Alas- ka. velt were guests of Vice President and Mrs. John N. Garner at the annual vice president’s dinner for | | the chief executive in Washington. | FORCE OF 1,000 'MOVES ON JAPAN MILITARY POST i Latest Clasi\VUrpsets Effort for Peaceful Settlement of Boundary Dispute | ' ANXIOUS EYES, WORLD, !TURN SEETHING ORIENT [ Mixed Commission May Be | Called Upon to Adjust Latest Controversy | LONDON, Feb. 15—Reports to- |day of a new Manchukuoan border | h disturbed indications of con- :rem\d efforts by Japan and Russia to settle the Soviet-Manchukuoan | boundary disputes peacefully, and |turned the anxious eyes of the world on the seething Orient. Japanese news dispatches report- ed an attack by an outer Mongol- fan force of a thousand men on N ' | the Japanese-Manchukuoan mili- DS tary outpost at Asailsuma. The i |report came amid indications that | pressure was being brought on Gen. +|Jiro Minami, Commander of the | Japanese forces in Manchukuo, to | control the martial spirit of his |subordinates and curb provocative | declarations by Manchukuoan of- ficials. FUNERAL RITES An official communique from the Soviet Government at Moscow said Russia and Japan agreed in prin- ciple upon the appointment of a mixed commission to settle the bor- der controversy by diplomacy rather of Service for Be- loved Pioneer Funeral services ior Mrs. B. M. than tocce Behrends, who p: d away Feb- ruary 12 in Ketchikan Hospi Further open warfare has been will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow feared in the Far East since Jap- afternoon in the Northern Lxgmjmlese forces moved into Manchukuo Presbyterian Church. ,more than two years ago. Feeling Rev. John A. Glasse will deliver between the Japanese and Russia the eulogy and Lola Mae Alexander | has reached the breaking point on will be vocal soloist. The burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Active pallbearers ar2: Guy Mc- The editorial tribute was writ- ten by Arthur Brishane, the world’s highest paid editorial several occasions, and charges have |been made by Tokyo that the |Boviet, through Communistic pro- |paganda, was attempting to turn er in his famous column, Today,” which is read by mil- lions. BRISBANE'S COMMENT “The Daily Alaska Empire con- trasts Ceylon with our Alaskan Empire,” Brisbane wrote. on's 25,552 square miles tory support 5000000 peaple, export $65,000,000 in goods chiefly tea, rubber and spices. Alaska, with 600,000 square miles of Territory, more than twenty times the area of Ceylon, with 60,000 people, a little more than one percent of Ceylon’s popula- tion, exports about sixty million dollars worth of fish, gold, and furs. “Many a great fortune live more than three blocks from a drug store or moving picture the- ater.” will be ! JURURS lNDIGT |made in Alaska by those willing to | the passing of Mrs. Behrends, who Naughton, George E. Cleveland, [China against her. Russia, watch- John N. Morrison, George W. Kohl-|ing Japah carefully move into hepp, John A. Krugness and H. J.|China, has declared she fears ag- | Turner |gression by the Japanese into Si- Honorary pallbearcrs are: Gover- | berian territory. Relations have nor John W. Troy, J. J. Connors been strained for months. Sr., M. S. Whittier, Frank A B()yl(’,‘} . gm0, IO H. L. Faulkner, R. E Rulmrtson,lTAI-lAPoos‘ Tu | marrying Mr. Behrends and moving | to Juneau R Friends in all walks of life mourn Cutter Will Tow Alaskan to Taku Where Travellers Isadore Goldstein, John Reck, Al- {len Shattuck, W. 8. George, George A. Parks and H. R. Shepard Behrends, nee Virginia M 1s a resident of Alaska for | . coming to Sitka in 1886. {She was a missionary and teacher jat the Sitka Training School for| jthree and one-half years before was prominent in Juneau life for |47 years. She was active in the Am NOW erooned affairs of the Presbyterian Church | Sl and the Pioneers’ Auxiliary, as well | are due here this afternoon. $500,000,000 farm bill to subsidize soil conservation, backed by the New Deal today to replace the AAA, was passed by the Senate and now goes to the White House, where Democratic leaders forecast its early consideration. Just before the final ballot the Sen- at rejected a motion by Senator Mc- Nary, Republican leader, to return the measure to the committee with instructions to report out a new bill in three weeks. McNary said the Administration measure was unworkable and un- constitutional. RIFLE AND SHOTGUN FANS HOLD SHOOTS Shotgun and rifle experts will try their skill in matches again tomor- row. The regular shoot of the Juneau Shotgun Club will be held on the grounds in the rear of the Juneau Dairy at ten a. m., with members of the Juneau Mine Workers As- sociation special guests. Plans will be made for the Washington's Birthday program of the club. Members of the Juneau Rifle and Pistol Club will shoot on their range in the Arctic Brotherhood Hall tomorrow afternoon and even- ing. The rifle shooting will start at 2:30 p. m., with all intersted in- vited to attend. The sports tournament will run! | through Tuesday. Mild weather Mr. Brisbane also stressed the op- as in private charitable work. | The Coast Guard cutter Talla- T gtios She is survived by her husband,!Poosa, commanded by Lieut. Miles prevails. DR. COUNCIL WILL BE HOME MARCH 1 Home by the first of March, and glad to be back, is the present pros- | pectus of Dr. W. W. Council, Ter- ritorial Commissioner of Health, who, accompanied by Mrs. Coun- IN DEATH GASE‘portunmes of fur farming as one of | I 'Two Indians Held for Stab- bing—Fish Pirating | Case Weighed KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 15.— | | The Federal Grand Jury has i ANkh ) DalenaL |2 daughter, Mrs. J. F. Mullen, and Aid To Dimond | three grandchildren, Misses Beatrice Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said | and Virginia Mullen and Ben Mul- today that he intends to use the|jen. Countless messages of condo- Brisbane cditorial when he makes lences have been received by the his plea before the Senate Appro- family, and many are expected to |priations Committee, in the near,attend the services tomorrow to pay future, for additional Alaskan mail | final tribute to the beloved pioneer funds. | woman. { it e LA Following is a reprint of the edi- Imlay, with the gasboat Alaskan in tow, left Juneau this afternoon on an errand of mercy to Taku, | where Mr. and Mrs. George Bacon and Mr. and Mrs. A. Lingard are awaiting transportation to Juneau. Mr. and Mrs. Bacon and their two | children, and Mr. and Mrs. Lingard jand two children, have been at Taku | since their arrival at that point by dog team on February 12. Mrs. cil, has been touring the Eastern: dicted Joshua and James Kashakes, ot published and Southern States following a lndians, for first degree murder in v "THEFT CASE LEADS The Empire Bacon is ill and telephonic requests for aid resulted in the dispatching in business trip to Washington, D. C. {in the interests of his office. Advices received from him today. postmarked Montgomery, Alabama, | tell of storms, bad roads, and gen- eral adverse conditions for motor travel, which have prevailed to a large extent ever since they left Sebring, Florida, where they were the house guests of Rex Beach According to present plans, Dr. and Mrs. Council expect to arrive in Seattle the last week in Febru- ary, from which place Dr. Council | will embark immediately for Ju- neau, and Mrs. Council will entrain for North Dakota. where she will visit relatives until spring. —————— LEAVES HOSPITAL Mrs. Frank James and baby of Douglas were discharged from the Government Hospital this morn- ing. | connection with the fatal stabbing refers ‘;_zrliloseph Searris aboard a boat lastl ALASKA VS. CEYLON. | fall. i { a 1 wi b en i Jory, also. indigted. Waiter |-, Fmils Huris, wbo - 1us, be writing in The Empire so enter- tainingly of the Philippine in- augural and his visits to foreign lands en route, points out in a recent article that the island of Ceylon with an area of but 25,332 square miles supports a popula- tion of more than 5,000,000 peo- ple and has an annual export trade of around $65.000,000. rep- resented mostly in tea, rubber and spices. Interesting contrast is the Territory of Alaska with an area of 600,000 square miles, a popula- tion of around 60,000, with an average export trade running between fifty and sixty million dollars annually, with fish, gold (Continued on Page Two) Brown and Harold Gilman, both of Seattle, for grand larceny, for al- |legedly pirating salmon traps last/ season. Both were released on $3,000 , bond. { FLYING COMPANY OF | KETCHIKAN ORGANIZED The Alaskan Flying Service, a Ketchikan organization, has filed articles of incorporation with the Territorial Auditor’s office. Directors and incorporators of the air travel company are Edward N. Lynch, Wesley Myers and Char- ley Anderson, Capital stock was set at $25000, with indebtedne&s‘i limited to the same figure. | January 24, to which Mr. Brisbane | TO 4 MONTHS’ TERM : David James, 21, Douglas ludmll.i | charged with the theft of several| | bottles of beer and wine early last Thursday morning, was sentenced jto four months in jail late yester-| |day afternoon by Commisioner M.| |E. Monagle. i The charge against James, ac- cused of breaking into the Douglas |Inn, was reduced to petty larceny land he pleaded guilty to the count TR A R | BROKERS GO TO SITKA l Five commercial travellers are | passengers to Sitka on the North- !land, including: P. H. Adams, of the gasboat Northlight, Capt. Nels Lundine, to Taku yesterday. The Northlight was unable to reach the mouth of the Taku River be- cause of a heavy coat of ice which formed on the vessel, endangering the light craft, and returned to Juneau last night. It is thought that the protection afforded by the Tallapoosa will pre- vent the formation of ice on the Alaskan in dangerous quantities. Ice from the Taku River extends about a mile and a half into salt water and the Tallapoosa will be prevented from reaching the edge of the ice by the shallowness of the water at that point. When the ! Seattle Hardware Company; N. A.!two vessels reach the mouth of the | McEachran, Schwabacher Brothers; |K. Louring, Pacific Bottlers Sup- river, the Alaskan will proceed -to the edge of the ice, where oil flares |ply; E. J. Reiland; Schilling Prod- ucts; and Elmer Jakeway, Colum- bia Brewing Company. will be lighted in an attempt to notify the s'randed travellers that help is at hand.