The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1936, Page 1

. TREMOR TAKES . THE DAILY ALA VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7202. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA F'RIDAY FEBRUAR\ 21, 1936. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS KA EMPIRE * PRICE TEN CENTS NO HINT OF MORE TAXES FROM F.D.R EARTHQUAKES ROCK SOUTHERNJAPAN U TOLL OF LIFE Twelve Buii(gggs in Osaka Destroyed in Wide- spread Quake FIRST REPORT SAYS FIVE DEAD, 16 HURT Communication Systems Disrupted by Sudden Earth Shocks OSAKA, Japan, Feb. 21. An carthquake extending over ten Pre- fectures killed five persons and in- jured sixteen seriously according to early reports received here. This sea port, in the southern section of the main island of Japan, has apparently born the brunt of the damage although nothing is officially known from other sections because of interrupt- ed communication lines. Both teie- phone and telegraph lines are down and interurban railway transpor- tation is disrupted. Twelve buildings here have been destroyed by the quake and seven- teen are badly damaged Slight shocks continue to be felt late this afternoon. (Associated Press Photo) SPAIN APPLIE MARTIAL LAW AS RAIDS CONTINU Government Moves Against Red Uprisings in Iso- lated Communities FELT IN ALASKA WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—It is believed here that the Japan earth shocks were felt in Alaska, espec- ially to the far westward ADERAT FALLS BEFORE SIEGE IN PUSH SOUTH Italians Take Half-way Point to Next Object- ive, Amba Alaji DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland Feb. 21.—The advance columns of the Italian army in northern Ethi- opia reported to headquarters to- ay that they have captured the village of Aderat, 20 miles south of Makale. Ras Mulugheta, commander of the ! Ethiopian forces in this area, report- ed to Addis Ababa that he made a rategic retreat, losing 147 men| killed and 268 wounded. 268 Italian bombing planes are re- BULLETIN — MADRID, Feb. 21.—The Spanish Parliamentary Commission, meeting in an ex- traordinary session late today, decreed a general amnesty to all political prisoners. This i done to subdue the Leftist- Communist uprisings. MADRID, Feb. 21.—Martial law has spread through Spain against the revived radical rioting in which at least eight have been Kkilled Churches and the rightist centers {have been raided and the red flag of Communism raised at isolated points. | The new leftist Republican govern- ported to be active throughout the MeNt under Premier Manuel Azana ?u-m The invading military expert&'m_()k :fnmedmbe measures to halt dis- consider the capture of Aderat as|°Tdcrs and demonstrations. 1nost important, because of - situa- Civil Guards killed two Extremist as the half way point bflwem‘nnu‘rs and wounded ten more at raising the is believed to be the next objective | of the Italian forces. An Ethiopian communique said increased rioting. that the Italian planes bombed Kor- | em, northwest of Dessye on the| Civil guards and troops are active northern front, and several village [everywhere attempting to restare Martial law has been declared in many communities as the result of - CITY COUNCIL MEETS ABES | order. south of Ml B wu‘he‘“} Hundreds of political prisoners {have been released from jails. i - 350 U[m ls BIVEN Three Kentucky | Cities Mark TERHIT“HY FUR {150th Anmversary LOUISVILLE,, Ky., Feb. 21)— D'REGT RELIE Three Kentucky cities—older than | the State—will celebrate their 150th |anniversary during 1936. Granted charters in 1876 by an Additional $| 000 to Aidiact of the Virginia Legislature, |Frankfort, Washington and Stan- Needy College StUdentS !ford came into existence six years IS AlSO Approved before Kentucky become a State. SO . . | Frankfort, now the state capital, WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Alask> was the smallest of the three, with Delegate Anthony J. Dimond saldeBshingwn now the smallest, the today that a $50,000 allotment to 'second largest community in the| meet direct relief needs in the Ter- |then thinly scattered bluegrass re- ritory during the remainder of the gion. year had been approved by Aubrey| Williams, acting Works Progress Administrator. { Delegate Dimond said he was in-| formed an additional $1,000 to md needy college students under the| lup at the regular City Council National Youth Administration pro-|meeting tonight, with the new city gram also had been allotted Alas- building code one of the probable ka. points of discussion. ) . S. Gold Takes Journey the first gold to leave American shores since October, 1934, and there’s $10,477,000 of it. Part of the shipment of 114 keg: six for the French government, is being unloaded from an armored | Grocery coniest, adding 10,000 votes truck at the New York docks to be put aboard the President Harding. Routine business will be taken| The couple is 1iving temporarily THREE CONTEST | GIRLS GAIN BY 3-DAY TRADING Results of Specml Efforts of Five Merchants Made Public T WINNERS { 3utler Mauro Drug Co. 1 Rosellen Monagle. tineau Liquor Store Thais Bayers. Sanitary Grocery Ruth Lundell. American Meat Co. Rosellen Monagle. Hollywood Style Shop Thais Bayers. | | | | Two candidates in the Better | Times Drive grabbed the lion’s share |of balloting in five individual mer- ichants’ contests which closed lasl' | night | Thais Bayers has 10,000 votes |waiting for her at the Gastineau | ,Liquor Store, and another 10,000 at the Hollywood Style Shop. | Rosellen Monagle also won two |contests, with 10,000 votes waiting for her at The American Meat Com- pany and at the Butler Mauro Drug | | Co. all but Ruth Lundell won the Sammr\ |to her total. Al 'Well Pleased ! All five merchants are well pleas- ed with the results of the contest but stated that the girls did not get the support of the public they de- served. Some customers, it was said made purchases and refused to leave the votes with the merchants to be placed in the private contest boxes This, in one instance, it was said, | defeated one candidate in winning the coveted votes. H. R. VanderLeest, of the Butler- Mauro Drug Co.. is well pleased with the results of his contest, stat- ing that a big increase in business was noted. Thirteen candidates in the field of 29 now competing, were ' represented in the drug store con- test. Mayor Chase, of Cordova, Injured; Auto Hits Car OLVMPIA, Wash.,, Feb. 21—Dr Wwill #i. Chase, Mayor of Cordova, Alaska, was painfully injured here ! when an automobile he was driv- 1 ing crashed into the rear end of a street car. Dr. Chase received fa- cial cuts and is suffering from the shock. His condition is not be- | lieved to be serious Dr. Chase, who was alone in the car at the time of the crash, was taken to a hospital votes, the Better Times contest edi- that they received many votes in th HE A D BERING m---slore contests: Misses Mary Pierce, Margaret Nelson, Esther Davis, Ida Roller, Elisabeth Kaser, anor Gruber, Rosa Danner, Cath- erine York, Eunice Anderson, Lucile Fox, Betty Whitfield, Bessie Powers, Linda Furuness. They may know the ct amounts credited to them y calling the contest editor. Figures in the five contests will be recorded in tomorrow’s standings. Kaser Polls High In balloting since the last pub- lished report, Elisabeth Kaser set lhe pace by falling just 850 vol.es sholt of the 100,000 mark in 24 hou: votes up to yesterday noon, 99150 brought her count today to 470,525, and into eleventh position. Bessie Powers, Lucille Fox, Thais Bayers, and Rosa Danner, in their order, were the other girls totalling over the 50,000 mark. Complete stand- ings appear elsewhere in today's Empire, New Apartment House, Anchorage | ANCHORAGE, Aiaska, Feb. 21.— Fire Chief Thomas Severs and City Councilman Emil Pfeil announce a call for bids for an apartment house | | to cost approximately $25,000. Space for stores will be on the ground floor and the second and third stor- | ies will be for apartments. Other Votes, Too In addition to the 10,000 bonus Commander of Seattle Di- vision of Coast Guard Is Assigned Northern Task SEATTLE, Feb. 21.—The Coast | Gupard has assigned Capt. R. Dempwolf, commander of the Se- attle Division, to head the Bering Sea patrol, leaving Seattle on the Cutter Shoshone April 20. Other ships which will be under his command are the Chelan, Northland, Tallapoosa, Haida, Red- wing, and patrol boats Morris, Cy- ane, Alert, and Daphne. - CUPID ENTERS - SPORTS MEET, TAKES HONORS Anchorage School Girl Elopes with U. of A. Stu- dent, Athletic Carnival FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 21.— Archery is not included in the ev- | after ARMY BOMBS lSOLATED ISLAND WITH FOOD This army plane turned groc: eake Bay. The ship is pictured flying low over the :' bags on the ground show the extent of the army’s food distribution. GIRI. DIES OF ATTACK;POSSE SLAYS SUSPECT Mother and Daughter Vic- tims Manhunters’ Guns Fell Negro ALTUS, Okla., Feb. 21.—The six- year-old-daughter of a prosperous farm couple died today, an hour a negro sought for a vicious attack on the girl and her mother was shot and fatally wounded by a posse of 100 men. The girl, Alice Wilson, succumb- ed in a hospital a few minutes after a skull operation was attempted to remove pressure on her brain. Her mother, Mrs. Alice Wilson, 31, lay in a critical condition in the same hospital, her head bearing wounds inflicted with a pickaxe. The negro suspect, Willie 25, was surrounded by a posse in a clump of woods. He started run- ning and four blasts from shotguns brought him down. Five other ne- groes are held for investigation concerning the attack at the Wilson home. - . FORMER FRENCH PREMIER BACKS - RUSSIAN PACT Herriot Amtude Contrasts Sharply with Ex-leader, Communist Party PARIS, Feb. 21.—Former Premier unionists say their way is the only|cratic Women's Club. will way—to have unions which com-|interested ln-nd his support to ratification of the prise all employees in an mdustry.‘durlng the coming political Franco-Soviet mutual assistance |irrespective of the kind of work paign, are cordially Edouard Herriot; of France, |pact, e declared in defending the | Soviet Union before the CHamber of Deputies as a bulwark of Euro- pean peace. The attitude of the former pre- mier and dominant head of the radical Socialist party, however, con- lmsted sharply with that of Jacques | Doriot, former leader of the French ' Communist party, who denounced the Soviet Union as a subversive force. ents at the Anchorage Sports Car- nival but Cupid managed to enter the lists, and as a result Verla Mary Hughes, 17, Anchorage High School girl, eloped with Donald Stump 24, University of Alaska stu- dent. They returned here on a spzcial train and were married by Rev. John Youel, Presbyterian minister. GRANDVIEW, Manitoba, Feb. 21.{ —Rather than desert his horses, im- | prisoned in a snow drift one mile from his home, Frank Hebner per- ! ished with his team. He was a vic- ,tim of cold and exhaustion in at- at the home of friends. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Gobel, Signal Corps, Anchorage. Farmer Remains With His Horses in Snow Drift; All Are Found, Frozen to Death tempting to extricate his which were frozen. horses, Searchers fcund Hebner's frozen body near those of his horses was 57 years old and a farmer Jones, | Workers and He | ery wagon to bomb Tangier Island, Isolated by heavy ice floes in Chesa- Condition of Secretary of Navy Improves WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Th most optimistic report in a week as (o the condition of Secretary of Navy Claude A. Swanson, came from the Naval Hospital today. Capt. George Thomas said the Navy Chief is improving continu- ously. LABOR PARTY MAY BE BORN: POSSIBILITIES Showdown éeTween Cralft, Industrial Unionists, Is lndlcaled By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Lead- ers of organized labor say private- ly the impending showdown between the craft and industrial unionists holds possibilities of vast political significance. While none is so bold as to pre- dict flatly that a labor party will emerge. on the political scene if the industrial unionists are victor- lious in their fight to say which Itype of organization shall prevail, many regard it possible. This, they say, is the situation: Labor has fared well under the| Roosevelt Administration. Regard- less of which party is in control of the Government in 1940, the odds are that labor will never get the |break it has under President R.oose- velt The therefore, necessity for is evident. organizalion, Industrial they do. LEWIS' TWO REASONS In the words of John L. Lewis, President of the Wnited Mine leader of the indus- trial unionists, such a step will be- |come increasingly necessary for two reasons “First, |racy; and, second, to secure leg- islative and perhaps constitutional sanctions for labor's program “Success in the organization of our basic industries,” says Lewis. will bring with it the political power which the labor movement has hitherto lacked for the attain- ment of its objectives.” While labor leaders like Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of Ameri- ca; David Dubinsky, President of the Ladies’ Garment Workers, and (Conunued on Plcc Two) to safeguard the funda-| (mental rights of industrial democ- ground to drop the food to the islanders. The piles (Associated Press Photo) ALCOHOL SHARES :: TAKE LEAD ON STOCK MARKET : Motors and Utilities Steady with Sli ht Advance- |formulated finally next NEW TAXBILL T0 TAKE FORM COMING WEEK President PlranrsrBillion Dol- lar Cancellation in Auth- orized Borrowing CURTAILING OF DIRECT EXPENDITURE PROBLEM Optimistic Note Emanates from Chief Executive and Congressional Advisers WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Presi- dent Roosevelt said at a press con- ference today the tax bill to finance the new farm program would be after his return week from a week-end visit to his home at Hyde Park. He added that conferences with heads of Government spending agencies would continue Through April a billion dollar cancellation in authorized borrow- ing is projected by the President. intimation was given by the |Chief Executive what may be ac- (‘un\phshfll in the way of curtail- ling direct expenditures. Legislators are hoping and pray- ing the President will make his tax bill as small as possible this campaign year and took comforf in the optimistic notes struck by the yressional tax advisers - o PILOT DENIES Closing Irregular shares assumed the leadership in the final minutes of trading in the Stock Market today The list whole highly mixed as a remained FOUND ALIVE Motors and utilities, together with /\ll Wllhams [n<lska Noth- various individual industrials were ', steady at slightly advanced prices.| Ing to Story Missing Flier Rails, with fractional changes, moved in both directions The late tone was irregular CLOSING PRICE NEW YORK, Feb. 21 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 117%2, American Power and Light 8 Anaconda 35, Bethlehem Steel 587, Curtiss-Wright 6%, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 2%, General Motors 60% International Harvester 69':, Ken- necott 38%, United States Steel 632, Southern Railroad 197, Cities Se e 57, Pound $4.98 Blaw Knox Steel 20, Boeing Airplane 24%, United Aircraft 30% TODAY Dow 153.74, are today's Industrials 50 | The following |Jones averages rails 51.07, utilities 3 - eee | ’DEMOCRATIC WOMEN | Feb. | Was Located in Wilds GEORGETOWN, British Guiana, 21.—Art Williams, American aviator who has been seeking Paul Redfern, missing since 1927, insist- ed today that whatever befell Red- fern on his attempted flight to Rio de Janeiro was still a mystery. Williams, the man who taught Redfern to fly, said of the recent aerial expeditior We made new contact with 10 new Indian villages and collected a great deal of information. Most of it established the fact that Red- fern did not land in that area.” Most of the data collected consisted of photographs of the area, the aviator said Pilot Williams denied that Alfred Harrod, Paramaribo newspaper man accompanied him on the trip Harrod in an interview at George- town yesterday said he and Wil- liams had found Redfern alive in the Tumac mountains of Western Guiane. He told a story of how Red- WILL MEET MONDAY fern was held captive by an Ind‘an Gastineau Channel women already affiliated with the Demo- but who are activities cam- at- in Democratic invited to |tend the club's luncheon afternoon at 1:30 o'clock er's Coffee Shoppe announcement today Krause, Chairman Those wishing to ed to communicate with Mrs. Krause in that sufficient reservations may be made Members of the club at that time will elect their officers for the com- ing year. A tentative program will | alsc be mapped for activities of the | club in furtherance of Democratic principles in Alaska. -o in Mod- ording to by Mrs. G. E attend are ask-| order MRS. WOOD INJURED IN FALL ON SIDEWALK| The river Mrs. H. L. Woud wife of Pastor| Wood of the Seventh-day Adventist | Church, slipped and fell on | tribe, “m\( ause he had come from the skies Monday | |sweled | Colusa, the| who believed him a god be- D FLOOD AGAIN THREATENS IN CAL, SECTION Sacramento River Is Rising Rapidly Account of Heavy Rain SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 21, -Rain of cloudburst proportions the Sacramento River at 125 miles north of here, and an overflow is expected to inundate the entire countryside. at noon today, was ris- {ing rapidly KEN SWIFT IS DEPUTY Ken Swift, bookkeeper for Brown sidewalk opposite the Juneau High|and Hawkins, Corp.. at Seward, has School yesterday, cut which necessitated |at St. Ann’s Hospital. sustaining a bad |resigned treatment|the office to accept a position in of U. S. Marshal C. J. Todd at Valdez.