The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1936, Page 1

'Y 'Y T \OL XLVII., NO 7199, HE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1936. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ PRICE TEN CENTS COLD IMPRISONS FARM COMMUNITIES ETHIOPIAN ARMY DENIES ITALIAN VIGTORY CLAIM Ras Vlulug,hela Reports Heavy Invaders’ Losses in Late Fxgntlng GENEVA, P b M'nister 18. — Ethmpmn War Ras Mulugheta tele- graphed to his government a den‘al of the Italian claims of a victory | cont th of M=kile on the n rikern ta said the Ethiopians 'ral patrol skirmishes last we: whicin the Italians lost he he Ethiopians suffered 30 klled and 75 wounded, he sa'd. Field Marshal Pietro Badoglio, in @ report to Rome, set Italian losses in the battle of Enderta at 186 dead and 600 wounded. He estimated Eth- iopia’s losses at between 5000 and 600 dead and twice as many wound- ed. PRISON RIOTS FOLLOW WAKE OF ELECTION Liberal Vlctory in Madrid| Causes Disorder Among Political Prisoners MADRID, Feb. 18.—Prison riots flared across Spain in the wake of B Beauty Weds | | ] | | L | | i | | | The old question of what happens to| beauty contest winners was an- | swered in case of “Miss United States of 1931” when Anne Lee Pat- terson, Kentucky beauty, married Joseph Bandler, New York manu- €acturer in surprise wedding & ! Hmnsou,N ¥e BESSIE POWERS STEALS SECOND Ida Roller Hold Other the National election, which was s won by extremists, whose pz'mclpal: Three Head Positions campaign plank was amnesty for S participants in the 1934 socialist re- | Six girls in the Beiter Times bellion. | Drive scored individually over the Ten persons were killed in riots in- ! 50,000 mark in balloting to noon side and out of prisons. Demu)mem\1_\mwrdx,\-. as total voting to date of shock troops surrounded Gijon City jail to prevent a general out- break. R occurred also in Cartagena, Valencia, Zaragosa and Burgois pris- ons. - REVOLUTION IN PARAGUAY SUCCESSFUL Gover nmen_!;f President Ayala [s Overthrown in Swift Thrust ASCUNCION, Paraguay, Feb. 18— A military revolutionary movemant has been proclaimed by exiled Col. Rafael Franco, former Provisional President, who after a swift rebel- lion overthrew President Eusebio Ayalas’ government. Rebels, headed by Col. Smith and ). Recalde, veterans of the Chaco emerged victorious from a ser- o ies of street battles yesterdsy with | the loyal forces of Ayala whose po- lice and sailor defense forces sur- rendered before superior rebel strength last night. Ayala has taken refuge aboard the tugboat Paraguay, in the Paraguay river MAY DELAY PROGRAM WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. — Fear lest the successful Paraguay revo- Jution might delay President Roos- evolt's Inter-American peace pro- gram is expressed in some diplo- matic quarters. The revolt was entirely unexpect- by officials here. —,—— FORREST AND FOSTER LEAVING FOR STATES ed Two Royal Blue Cab drivers, Wally Forrest and Bud Foster, are leaving the company after today. and will be succeeded by L. R. Pride and V. O. Lee. Both Foster and Forrest ex- pect to sail for the States within a few days. Break Through Thin Ice; Two Skaters Drown EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 18— Breaking through the thin ice on Silver Lake last night, Frank Barrett, aged 19, and George Myers, aged 24, both of Everett, were drowned while skating. Three companions escaped. the nine million mark. veteran second place | went over |Ida Roller, | candidate, found her place stolen | today by Eessie Powers. In fact, |she fell to fourth position, with | Miss Powers and Thais Bayers both ahead of her. With Ruth Lundell still in No. 1 position, ‘mentmned have all passed, the 600- {000 mark. Few important changes were no- ticed in the lower ranks. Ten ccn- | testants have reached over 400,00, sixteen over 200,000, while twenty- three have passed the 100,000 mark. will be found elsewhere in today's Empire. CHANGES ARE - PROPOSED IN ~ RADIO ZONES | to Aid Sparsely Settled Areas WASHINGTON Feb. 18. — The Senate Interstate Commerce Com- mittee has reported on a bill de- signed to strike out of the Com-| munications Act the provision that radio facilities be allocated equit- tions based on population density. Chairman A. S. Prall, of the Com- munications Commission, said the measure is designed to improve the radio service to sparsely settled areas and that the existing law concentrates facilities even though interference consideration would permit operation of one or more ad- ditional stations. - e — Dimond Is Seeking Pension for Widow, Capt. C. S. Cochran WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Alaska | Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has iintroduced a bill in the House to pay a pension to Mrs. Frances H. Cochran, widow of Coast Guard Captain C. 8. Cochran. who died last year after many years in the Alaska service. — e — AUXILIARY MEETS Members of the American Legion Auxiliary will meet tonight in the Dugout at 8 o'clock for a social evening, according to announcement by Mrs. Edith Bavard, Publicity Chairman. PLAGE IN VOTE | "Rulh Lundell, Thais Bayers, rivai of fire apparatus, and firemen the four | Complete standings of candidates ' {Senate Committee Strives ably among five zones with alloca- | F|HE []FUNKNUWN Ace Flyer’s Son Woiasas Father MER[}H ANTS TU ORIGIN DAMABES C. L. TUBBS HOME Severe Losrswtg Roof, Sec- ond Floor Results from Mid-day Blaze All of the available men and equipment of the Juneau Fire De- partment were required to extin- guish a fire which caused damages amounting to several hundred dol- lars this noon at the home of Cary L. Tubbs, A. J. employee, at 802 Gold ' Belt Avenue. The house, which is jowned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ot- teson, parents of M: Tubbs, and | the house furnishings owned by the | Tubbs family, were partially insured, | according to Mrs. Tubbs. Miss Caro- | line Todd occupies an apartment in ! | the basement of the building. | The cause of the fire which burst through the roof near the chimney \ fore it was discovered shortly after | noon, is unknown. Flames were first [nbser\od by Mrs. Bob Davlin, living next door at 112 8th street, directly | selow the Tubbs re ence. Mrs. | Davlin rushed to the Tubbs home | nd notified Mrs. Tubbs and her | e children, Charles, Mary and ! Agnes, who had just returned home | ‘wmn school. Mrs. Tubbs immediate- telephoned an alarm and Charles Hun w0 a nearby fire alarm box and I1urned in another alarm ! ack of Pressure Both fire trucks were sent to the fire and lines of hose were laid from {two hyarants, one on 7th and one on |9th street. The fire had made ¢ |siderable headway before the a {Were hampered in their efforts to subdue the flames by lack of p sure due to the fact that the Tubbs home is located at a high elevation on top of the Main Street hill Mr. Tubbs, who was at work in the A. J. Mill, was notified of the fire and arrived at his home a short time later. Flying embers threatened the homes of Bob Davlin next door on 8th Street, and the Rev. David | Waggoner, next door on Gold Belt Avenue, but firemen prevented the flames from spreading Remove Furniture As soon as the flames were under control, Police Officer George Gil- \bertson and a number of volunteers | xemcved the Tubbs furniture from the burning building to the premis- 'es of the Waggoner residence next door, and across the street to the |home of W. D. Gross. | At a late hour this afternoon fire- men still remained at the scene of | |the fire, although the flames were junder full control at about 1 o'clock Six Killed When Camp Wiped Out | Snow and Rock Avalanche Sweeps Down Moun- tain Side | MANCOS, Cal., Feb. 18. — Five | men and a woman cook were killed and two others were seriously in- jured late yesterday when a snow |and rock avalanche wiped out | Hesperus mine camp 16 miles away | Word of the disaster was brought | here by Ben Hartley who battled ten foot drifts of snow. { Bartley said 12 men escaped in-| jury. The slide was three quarters of. a mile long and started 1,000 feet above the camp. The slide carried some of the mine buildings 150 yards before burying them in a small canyon. Mrs. Janie Rees, of Cortez, was in a portion of the cook shack that was not swept away and the snow crushed through the walls and | forced her body through the roof ! inflicting fatal hurts. | GOING TO RELIEF MANCOS, Feb. 18 —Forty men on snow shoes and skis are fighting snow drifts five feet or more deep in a new blizzard as they struggle, to reach the injured and recover the dead at the Hesperus Mine. | Ten tractors and a snow plow, |opened the road for a distance of {nine miles and from that point imen on skis and snowshoes started llhe seven-mile trip to the scene of the tragedy. L e P 4 ENTERS HOSPITAL | Frank Mark was today admitted to the Government Hospital for | medical treatment. | chll‘ll Kingsford-Smith, Jr. Australia’s “favorite son” is beautiful bloade Charles Kingsford- Smith, Jr., who spent his birthday at home in Sydney picking flow- ers, possibly in memory of his famous flying father, who is shown below with Mrs. Kingsford-Smith in one of the last photos of the couple taken before the ace aviator disappeared on a flight from England to Australia last year, ‘Former U. S. Consul at Dawson Is Killed After Doin g SEVEN PERSONS IN ONE FAMILY PERISH IN FIRE Flames Destroy Small Home Early This Morning HUTCHINSON, Kansas, Feb. 18— | Seven persons, all members of one {family, perished in a fire which de- | stroyed a small house early this | morning. The dead are Frank E. Bmy]es aged 36, salt plant employe, his wife and five children. Firemen said an explosion might have caused the blaze. GAS EXPLOSION IN CITY MAINS HALTS BUSINESS Fire Evacuales Town— Manhole Covers Are Flung Into Air UTICA, N. Y., Feb. 18.—Several thousand persons hastily evacuated the main business section this afternoon when a series of illum- inating gas explosions set fire to two buildings and hurled manhole covers high into the air. Fire Lieutenant Cornell Reese was injured. The gas company is understood to have succeeded in finally shut-| ting off the flow of gas YUKON PIONEER DIES, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Feb. 18.—Frank Wing, aged 76, Yukon pioneer, died at his home here as the result of a heart ailment. King went north in 1896 and re- turned to Seattle in 1900. —————— SCHRAMMS ON VICTORIA Charles Schramm and wife of Douglas, after a visit south, wil arrive tonight on the Victoria. Act of Kindness!: PASADENA, QB] F‘t‘h 18.—An act of kindness cost the life of Hein Te Roller, aged 82, United States Con- sul at Dawson during the gold rus days. Te Roiler died as the result of in- \yunm received Sunday night when ! he was struck by a hit and run mo- torist An automobile as he wa. | ping to aid another motorist whose , car went over an embankment. Te Roller was visiting his sist:r, ! Mrs. John B. Manning ->> Phlladelpma Shuw ' Given “Top Billing” Since Smith Talk By HERBERT PL( MMER WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Several |days before Al Smith made speech to the Liberty leaguers in Washington and before any one knew what the former Democratic nominee for the Presidency would say, W. Forbes Morgan, Secretary of the party’s national committee, struck Te Roller ations for the Philadelphia conven- | tion. f Morgan's speech, for the most part, | was devoted to a recital of routine ! nstructions to delegates and others | who plan to be present. At the end, however, he made a statement which now seems prophetic. “We Democra ' he said, “have | had many charges and complaints | hurled against us during our many years of political life, but no une ye" has ever 1sed us of being some or dull When have a ram- ily disagreement we ‘speak right out in meeting’ and say exactly what we mean.” Apparently Morgan has called |h(~ shot. Al Smith’s threat to “take a walk” at Philadelphia virtually ah- | sures the Democratic convention in | | June in the “City of Brotherly Love” | Position No. 1 among the political | spectacles of the year. { Philadelphia Indebted Those citizens of Philadelphia who | raised the ante in such bold fash- | ion over Chicago in Washington few weeks ago for the privilege of | being hosts to the Democratic Na- | tional Convention owe a deep debt | of gratitude to Smith. | Before his speech to the Liberty Leaguers it was to Cleveland and | the Republican National Convention ‘ that politicians and observers turn-| ed their eyes for the blg show of (Continued on Pnze Slxi crossing a road after stop- | his went on the air to tell about prepar- | {out at 500 feet, GIVE BONUS ON | CONTEST VOTES Five Local Firms Offering Special Awards on Pur- chases for Two D Girls, here's a chance to get a big block of bonus votes in a special two- jay contest! As a gesture of appreciation for your patronage and that of your friends interested in seeing you make that Mexico trip, five firms are J0ing to award one or more worthy "ontestants a total of 10,000 votes »ach as a bonus in addition to the regular sales ballots. Of course, the thousands of votes aren’t going to fall right out of the ky. Each of the five merchants list- ~d today is conducting a popularity rontest of his own, on purchases made within his store. Each will have ais own store ballot box and votes from purchases made within his itore all day Wednesday and Thurs lay will be deposited in the prive rallot box. At the ¢ :ach merchant, with the a: >f Better Times Drive representa- | tives, will count the votes in the soxes, and the highest girl in each of the five contests will be awarded he prize Only votes received from purchas- | 2s made in the stores holding their | »wn private contest during the two- day period, will go into the special | prize ballot boxes. Girls, Get Busy The five merchants opening their |own popularity contests tomorrow jare: American Meat Co., Gnslmeau | Liquor Store, S8anitary Grocery, Hol- | {lywood Style Shop, and the Butler- |Mauro Drug Co. Each individual | m\lt.st will run until the end of | Thursday's business. Announcement 8 of the winners of each race will ap- ‘DP;II in Saturday’s issue of The | Daily Alaska Empire, which is |soring the drive. | Now, girls, get s your |vantage of this opportunity to win n»n twenty, or even fifty votes, by checking over your need running all the way from fresh meats |ana vegetables to party frocks and phonograph needles. Get your friends to buy their best. Wednesda and Thursday. ing to an end The contest is rush- | now, and 10,000 or ' {Whirlwind Finish Wipes Out | various or- | ganizations behind you, and take ad- | thousand | | 20,000 votes are not to be sneezed at | in this cold weather. Let's go! The above-mentioned ‘menlmm\ have their ballot boxes all ready, and may the businest girl | {win! FLIER KILLED | DELAYING HOP N PARAGHUTE Jumps at 200 Feet, Meets Death—Companion, at 500 Feet, Escapes | BEAUMONT, Texas, Feb. ! Lieut. Lawrence Westley, Ba.rksdale | Field, Shreveport, La., {in a crash four miles ea.sb of Sour Lake when he waited until disabled plane fell within 200 feet of the ground before he bailed Ou! in a parachute. Lieut. W. J. Klissel, who bfl,lled escaped without | injury. - NEUTRALITY ACT M. E. G. Burgard Found| GETS EXTENSION WASHXNGTON. Feb. 18. — The Administration’s stop-gap neutrality | resolution has been adopted by the | |Senate. The measuré now goes to !the White House. The act extends the 29, 1936, to March 1, 1937. I | CHANNEL FROZEN SHORE TO SHORE Upper Gastineau Channel Norway Point north, is frozen from . |shore to shore. The ice formed has not moved since last Sunday. | ?smcx PRICES |dragged the market down for most She s sworm Center NO LET UP IS FORSEEN FOR UNITED STATES [ [ Midwest Rural Sections in Distress—Stock Re- ponted Suffermg 5 ABOVE ZERO LOW POINT FOR JUNEAU Pacific Northwest Still Held | n Grip of Abnormal WmlerTempflatures || CHICAGO, Iil., Feb. 18— More |[sub-zero cold struck the mid-west ‘\(‘(‘lmn of the United States today, hampering the month-long fight against piling snow. Twenty and {30 below zero temperatures froze the | faces of snow plow and shovel crews bent on rescuing persons in farm | homes imprisoned by the heavy snow | land cold. Some were reported in ac- | tual distress. Stock is suffering and I farmers are having difficulty supply- ing feed and water. The zero belt extended as far outh as Memphis, Tenn., spreading Rumania to his sweetheart, Mme, | OVer to the Atlantic seaboard. Many Magda Lupescu, for whom he once | new cold marks were established, renounced his crown, shocked royal ' the lowest reading being reported as ;lrvlvs ‘qzam 28 he ; 'Iwn:numed |46 below at Little Falls, Minn. him as far as Paris w ver pragrb Lm“lm"w By o r‘:“n‘l"“h No immediate break in the Pacific of King (.wmge V. Norv.hvmst cold spell is expected, ac- m(lmg to weather reports. Spokane orted a minimum of 10 above | this morning with light snow falling. |The weather was slightly warmer |in Western Washington where the | mercury has been around 20 above | zero, Mme. Magda Lupescu Open devotion of King Carol o SENT SKYWARD FINAL TRADING . MERCURY RISING HERE Continued bright sunshine boost- |ed the mercury up slightly in Juneau day, after a low mark of five above ‘|v( mdr(l last night, accompanied by a biting Taku wind | Widely varying weather conditions ibrevailed over Southeast Alaska to- |day, accorging to the Weather Bu- reau. Snow was falling at Sitka and Radioville, the thermometer rose to 18—A WhIrl-|jon apove in Ketchikan, while it fell wind finish sent the Stock Mm'kcll:o nine below in Petersburg. higher today after lagging. Utilities| The interior reported warmer tem- |peratures, and Nome recorded 24 i .. |above, 19 degrees warmer than Ju- Gains of one or l“o“n(‘fl\l. the| U. s. Meterologist outstanding | Thompson forecasts better ,lm tomorrow, with fresh easterly v\mdk WASHINGTUN WHIPPED BY LERO WINDS Many Losses Sustain- ed chlerday NEW YORK, Feb. A of the session. points were frequent during Howard J. fair weather moderate to final hour and some issues wi three points or which completely wiped out |registered after the TVA d Today's closing tone wa with the exception of power ities los m\ n. firm | secur- \ TODAY | 18 Closing Juneau mine | American Can CLOSING PRI NEW YORK, Feb. jauotation of Alaska \(0(' k today is 157, 1120'z, American Power and Light ry . Anaconda 357, Bethlehem Steel 9". Chicago, Milwaukee, St, Paul — and Pacific Railroad 2'2, General Fifty-six Mile Velocity Brings Continued Cold in Northwest MD(UN 59°%, International Har- ester 67':, Kennecott 38, United Smlfli Slt('] 65, Southern Railway 19, Cities Service 5%, Pound $4.98'¢ . United Alrcratt 31 SEATTLE, Feb. 18. — A 56-mile 2 N wind ripped down the Strait of DOW, JONES AVERAGES |5, pe Puca, bringing more sub- The following are today's DOW.|zero weather for Eastern Washing- Jones averages: Industrials 15336, |ton and continued cold for the 18.— | rails 49.20, utilities 32 | west side - | Lakes and streams are frozen to | the bottom. Scarcity of feed has brought livestock losses in south- - HEIRESS DIES - BY OWN HAND, SEATTLE HOME ern Alberta M. Christianson, Indian Bureau Insmw-uu of Alberta and Northwest | Territories, said the food situation |on Indian reservations is becoming | precarious Walla Walla, in eastern Wash- ington, reported five degrees below 1o, a mark exceeded but once this late in February and that ; was 50 years ago. Dea(l on FIOL)F mn P NEIDERHAUSER RETURNING William Neiderhauser, of Connors Motor Company, and also Assistant H(’, r B(‘d room c,.-.s-f:Tf\firfimlfi"”»;H m‘.\llrr.l\ E:::‘l’:‘l"nre Chief, is returning to Juneau BALY,. 8 . | aboard the Victoria. | timber fortune, was found dead in ity A her bedroom of her home in the o fashionable Highlands district. 2 Coroner's deputies said_iney| Funeral Services ound a 38 calibre revolver cluteh- present | ¢ a |mandatory ban on arms and: 8hip-| eq in her hand as she lay beside of | ments to belligerents from Pebruary ; her bed. | | killed herself as she was despond- from | ter of | imber ‘m timber for Pantages May Be Held Tomorrow LOS ANGELES, Cal, Fe). 18 — Funeral services for Alexander Pan- tages, wealthy theatrical man who | was found dead in bed yesterday morning, have been tentatively ar- N nd Mrs. Fred Reding- nged for tomorrow aftrnoon. For- ton Green. 1e latter is now re- est Lawn Memorial Park at Glen- tired. He accumulated a fortune|dale has been designated for in- lands. ( terment. The deputies said she apparently | f ill health. and two children ent on account Her husband survive Mrs. Burgard was the only daugh-