The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7226. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - FLOOD DAMAGE REPORTED ENORMOUS ALASKA RED CROSS OF TERRITORY TO SOLICIT FUNDS B. D\ Stewsist Nuiwed Ju; neau Chairman—Quota | of $400 Is Set } GOVERNOR ASKS FOR | GENERGUS RESPONSE| Northland Asked to Con-| tribute Eighteen Hun- | dred Dollars | Alaskan aid for the flood sufferers | of the East is under way today, wit the appointment of a Red Or committee to solicit popular sub- serintions on behalf of the victims, | a ctatement by Gov. John W.| urgimng full support of the ai Troy move. ! An estimated $3,000.000 is neces- sary to carry on relief work in L!\ei stricken areas, of which the quota | of the Juneau chapter of the Red | Cross is $400. B. M. Behrends, chair- man of the Juneau chapter, has ap- | pointed B. D. Stewart head of a com- | mittee to raise funds. Mr. Stewart | will name the other members of the | group. 3ov. Troy has urged the pecple of | Alaska to respond generously to the | fund. for which has been set a ter-| ritorial quota of $1,800. The Governor’s statemen follows: “Floods in Pennsylvania and New England states and other centers of population between the North At- lantic seacoast and the Allegheny Mountains have caused a major dis- aster to a large part of the country. | More than 200,000 people have called | on the Red Cross for immediate re- | lief, including shelter, food, clothing | and medical care. Large Sum Asked “The American people have been asked to raise a large sum of money to meet this situation, which atfects 11 states. Admiral Cary Grayson is | in direct charge of the relief work, and already has 100 trained disaster | workers in the field. | “Alaska is called upon to help in" the work of raising funds for the | flood sufferers. The Red Cross is al- | ready organizing in each chapter to raise money. Contributions to this | fund through the Red Cross should be general. They should not be con- | fined to Red Cross members. ! “Over The Top” | “Alaska’s quota has been fixed b':[ the Red Cross at the sum of $1,800, and it would be greatly to Alaska'z;: credit if she would go over the top and contribute more than is asked for. T urge the people of the terri- | tory to give generously to this fund | to aid sufferers, and to remember | | t is as| A S ‘RULE LEAP YEAR CIRCUS These two pretty co-eds were Leap Year royalty at the University of California “Sirkus,” held every four years to provide funds for the lettermen’s “C” club. Smith-Willd, princess. (Associated LABOR HEARING IS EXPECTED TO END TOMORROW Night Session to Be Held This Evening— Defense Winding Up in Morning | The labor hearing at which charg- es of employment discrimination, | made by Local 203, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter ‘Workers against the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company are being aired is expected to be completed to- | morrow, the ninth day since the sessions opened March 12. Trial Ex- | aminer Charles W. Hope has ordered | a night session from 7 to 9 this eve- | ning and Defense Attorney Carl E. | Croson said he expected to com- | plete his case easily tomorrow. The | government has previously com- | pleted its side. | An intermediate decision will be | given by Examiner Hope after he| has had time to go over the entire | record of the proceedings and his | ecommendations and opinion will! g0 to Washington for final decision | by the National Labor Board. | Mine Records | This morning’s session was giv- en over mostly to history and rec-| ords of the Alaska Juneau. With L. Billic Withers (left) was queen and Jeanne. Press Photo) Blinding Blue Flash, Explosion Causes Excitement OAKLAND, Cal, March A blinding blue flash, then a mysterious shock, startled hun- dreds of residents during (he night. It is believed a meteor ex- ploded. An officer sent to inve: said residents the the disturbance believed aerial bomb had exploded. It is surmised that the explo- sion took place at a great height and residents are today search- ing for fragments of the meteor- ic body. ALASKA FARM BILLS BEFORE igate ¢ of an Extension of Experimental Service to North Is Given Approval —_— | WASHINGTON, March 20.— The Senate Agricultural Committee has approved the Schwellenbach bill ex- tending the farm extension experi- | mental service to Alaska. that he who gives quickly gives|H Metzgar, General Superintendent, [ At the same time the House Com- doubly. jon the stand, Attorney Croson {mittee is considering a similar Di- “T urge everyone in Alaska to get !hrought out the complete story of 'mond bill, OF NATIONS T0 Signers of Locarno Treaty Plan New Interna- tional Conference ed as Direct Move Against Germany LONDON, March 20.—a virtual, Super-League of Nations is disclosed | by the French as the ultimate goal of the proposed International Con- ference to consider the situation | arising from Germany's Rhineland | march. i Parley agenda issued today ln-‘ cluded five points as follo H ©One, organization for collective | security | ‘Two, more exact definition of ob- | ligations and applications of sanc- | tions. | Three, armament limitations. Four, strengthening and widening | economic relations of the organiza- | tion of financizl and economic ex- | changes. Five, . examnation.-of conditior under which Germany may return to the League and formulation of a European non-aggression pact. i I PLAN NEW ALLIANCE LONDON, March 20—The House of Commons was told this af- | ternoon that the four remaining Lo- carno Treaty signing powers have ' agreed to join a virtual alliance if President Hitler refuses to consid- er proposals to reestablish security in Europe. HITLER'S DEFI HAMBURG, March 20.— President | Adolf Hitler asserted this afternoon ! he will not “retreat a single centi- | meter” in the Rhineland and will | “accept nothing which infringes on | the German honor.” [ The statements were made in an- | swering the agreement reached in London that an International force | will be placed in the Rhineland and Germany must withdraw troops 20| kilometers back. | e ——— - ! YOUTH LIVES ON BORROWED BLOOD 2 YRS, Donors Sought to Keep Vic-| in touch with Red Cross workers and | the A, J. since its start in the '80’s | Recognizing the growing wmport- tum Of Apasllc Anae' Prospects of a bitter battle at the senate hearing | £ resuming investigation of utility lobbying activities loomed following 4" clasli Between osident of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce, Severson, Buffalo utility official, with P Chairman Black of the senate committee. Schwellenbach (D.) of Washington accus sgrams protesting the federal control of public utility holding ecom- son of “forgery” in signing tele —_Sennlur Minton panies. Silas Strawn, for- Senator ed Sever- | Natural Gas Co., he would in riminate himself. telegrams were sent with consent of the signers SUPER-LEAGUE } Telegrams Rouse New Battle at Lobby Probc | The senate committee's efforts to obtain the telegrams were temporarily balked, however, when, Strawp. ebtained .an..iniaaeion. forbidding Western Union t produce the telegrams: son, shown at the hearing with his attorney, John Howell, and James Richie, official of ‘the Dominion Sever- refused to testify on grounds that Severson claimed 100 ANIMALS Turkish Rivers STORK WORKS FLOOD RAGES One Bear, Two Leopards Still Alive but Face Certain Doom MANCHESTER, N. H,, March 20. —Two hundred animals in the zoo here are believed to have perished in the Piscatauog River flood. One pet bear and two leopards re- main alive, but are facing almost certain doom. b The bear is on a cake of ice jam- med against the flooded building and the leopards are crouched on the 200 roof. The 200 is inaccessible high, raging water. e THREE KILLED owing to Homes Submerged Three Hurlal:ea 7Houses Cov- ! ered by Water—Thous- sands Are Shelterless ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 20.— | Ninely are known to have drowned at Adrianopie and Arca by the sud- | den submerging of more than 300 houses caused by the flood waters | of three rivers which are now 15| bove normal. The plain of Thrace is flooded. Thousands are reported to be with- | out sheltes ———————— PAF DECLARES " DROWNING AS Rise Suddenly; ~ WHILE FLOOD WATERS RAGE Fire Department Aids Doc- tors in Hospital De- livery Room SPRINC ELD, Ma. March 20 Two babies were born in this flood stricken city last night with the aid of the Fire Department. Floods shut off electric lights and the hospital delivery room was plunged in darkness until firemen arrived with flood lights. FI JGEE IS MOTHER MILTON, Pa, March 20— Mrs Helen Maursteller, flood refugee. gave birth to a daughter this morn- ing in the Biology Department Lab- | oratory in the high school. She was | one of the many women sheltere in the high school on account of the | TARTS FLOOD RELIEF DRIVE NEW RAVAGES ARE CAUSED BY RISING RIVERS Weary Eastern America Is Confronted by Many New Problems THOUSAND HCMELESS Destitution and Panic Re- ported—Death List Is Mounting BULLETIN.—Philadelphia, Pa. March 20.—At 3 o'clock this af- ternoon the flood death toll was placed at 142 persons. PHILADELPHIA. Pa., March 20— New river ravages in the New Eng- land states and also thg Ohio Val« ey brought new problems today jorn of destitution, panic, a heavy death list and collosal damage to roperty. These problems confronted weary astern America on the third day f unprecedented floods. Death Toll Rises The revised list of dead has reach- *d 136 and scores of others are nissing, believed to have lost their ives in the flood waters. Unofticial estimates early today slaced the property damage at well wer the $300.000,000 mark. It is estimated that over 200,000 rersons are without homes. To Spend Millions The New Deal officers are consid- Ting spending $400,000,000 to aid hose whose property has been dam- ‘ged and also the homeless. This imount does not include the $3,- 000,000 the President yesterday pro- laimed will be needed for immedi- ite relief of the flood sufferers. Section Hard Hit e worst hit sections are Pennsyl- vania, where the property damage is *stimated at $150,080,000; West Vir- ginia, with over $20,000,000 and the New England States with damage stimated at least $100,000,000. CANDLES—50 CENTS CONCORD, New Hampshire, Mar. 20.—Candles are selling here for 50 cents apiece as the city faces an- other night of darkness tonight. There is no electric power and no gas, due to flood conditions. This city has a population of 25,000 and is entirely cut off by road and frail from other sections of the state TYPHOID THREATENS BINGHAMPTON, N. Y., March 20. Four hundred persons are home- less here as the result of floods. City authorities have ordered ty- phoid serum rushed here as a pre- aution against an epidemic result- ng from the crippled drinking water supply flood. 25 DVIDEND give as much as he can afford to]as a placer operation on Gold Creek |ance of farming in Alaska, the rmease | this humanitarian cause.” !and in Silver Bow Basin to the gres- | ure would ailow 3,300 Jcr the vear | The Governor’s Office was inform- |ent time when it ranks as the larg- | beginning July 1947, for experimental | ed by A. F. Schafer of San Fran- |est low grade quartz mine in the | . western director of the Red |yworld. Matter of profits, operations, RUSH MEDICAL SUPPLIES HARRISBURG, Pa., March 20— The Health Department has receiv- ed a rush call for gas and gangrene vaccine from SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.— The Pacific American Fisheries has declared a quarterly dividend of 25 cents on common stock. This divi- WHEN BLASTS wia Alive Longer 1 ) JT. LOUIS, Mareh 20—Volunteer work increasing annually to $37,500 |donors are being sought to keep aliv by 1947, also allowing $2,000 for the | James Hedley, 23, who has lived for CHARRED RODY Cross, that every chapter has been | informed of the nation-wide appeal and quick action was urged. Grayson's Message | A telegram from Admiral Cary T. Grayson, national chief, to Chair- (Continued on Page Four) | B s A | HAUPTMANN'S EXECUTION IS SET, MARCH 31 Kidnaper and Slayer of Lindbergh Baby to Die in Chair TRENTON, N. J., March 20.—Bru- no Richard Hauptmann’s execution for the kidnaping and slaying of‘w Baby Lindbergh has been fixed for | the night of March 31 at 8 o'clock. This is the date and hour chosen by Warden Kimberling. The Ward- en has mailed invitations to official witnesses. employment, detail. heard this afternoon when Mr. Cros- | evidence in the case the judgment‘ against Heard after his conviction | in the suit brought against him by | Mayor I. Goldstein. The Examiner | allowed the judgment to be admit- ted for identification and informa- tion of the Board but rejected it as | evidence in the case, upholding the objection of Government Attorney | £. A. Eagen that it was not material. | |Croson held it had bearing because | Heard was Secretary of the miners’ union at the time and as such print- ied the Alaska Labor Dispatch in | which the article which resulted in the conviction appeared. Eagen and | Senator Henry Roden both con- tended the paper was Heard's pri- vate enterprise and had nothing to do with the Union. Mayor Stand Both Mayor Goldstein and H. L. Faulkner, City Attorney, were on | the stand this afternoon. The May- or explained the much discussed city (Conuinueda on Page Two.) |American Net Star Nabbed Territory during the past year, ex- fon attempted to have admitted as clusive of those in the Federal Mata- ) HELEN JRCOBS, TENNIS PLAYER FINED 1 POUND by London Police for Speeding LONDON, March 20.—Helen Jac- obs, tennis star, was today fined one pound for speeding. The police said the auto she was driving was one attached to the United States Embassy and she was exceeding the 30-mile an hour limit. number of men em- |extension service for the same Iis- two years on borrowed blood. ) | ployed, equipment and all phases of ical year increasing to $10,000 by ! |the operation were gone into in|1940. Hedley, the victim of the rare con- dition of Aplastic Anemia, has re- 1 | Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- ceived 33 transfusions, undergone | Echoes of the locally well known mond told the committees that 68 two operations, [Neil Heard criminal libel case were | families have settled on farms in the pitalized seventeen times. He and has been hos- will undergo a new transfusion today Doctors say his condition is caused by the failure of the bone marrow to create red blood cells. Airline Reports Business Grows ST. PAUL, March 20.—Northwest Airlines, Inc., report more than twice as many passengers were carried in its planes last year than in 1934. ‘The report, issued by K. R. Fergu- son, general traffic manager, showed 25,123 persons were carried in 1935 compared to 12,097 in the previous year. An increase of 1,198,071 miles flown over the previous year's total of 1,643,127 was also reported, and air mail poundage showed a gain of more than 500 per cent, from 91,113 | pounds in 1934 and 658,492 in 1935. ROCKS TOWN {Six Business Concerns Are Wrecked—Damages $75,000 TEXARKANA, Texas, March 20 —Three men were killed when an | early morning blast, followed by fire |wrecked six business concerns and caused damage amounting to $75.000. A fortune teller by the name ol |Van Zan is the only identified vic- tim He lived in an apartment above a grocery. Firemen searched ruins for other {victims. The surrounding neighbor- {hood was jarred by the violent b! Witnesses said that within a few minutes the other buildings were | mass of flames. - SITKA STILL IN PORT Dynamo trouble has delayed the sailing of the motorship Sitka, owned by Mayor 1. Goldstein, and skippered by Capt. William Doucett. The Sitka was scheduled to sail for the hali- but banks yesterday afternoon or evening, but will remain in port un- til repairs to her electrical equip- ment are completed. a dend is payable on April 15 to hold- ers of record on April 1 6.E.EARNINGS MAKE RECORD NEW YORK, March 20 ral Electric Company, the country’s larg- electrical equipment manufac- turer, revealed that 1935 earnings were the highest in five years. Based | upon the increased profits, directors raised the dividends to 25 cents a G est FOUND, ASHES Johnstown, enough for 1.000 persons. The vaccine is be- ing sent from Philadelphia. DAM STILL HOLDS Police at- Anchorage Have o \ Mystery Case—Fili- | pino Is Held | ANCHORAGE, Alaska ! Chief of Police Walter L. Brew- ington found the charred remains of a man, with skull smashed, in bon- | fire ashes back of a cabin nine miles | from here. The remains are believed to be those of Primo Jerial, a Filipino. | The police are holding Rnbl'l’l()} JOHNSTOWN, Pa., March 20.— ‘Continued on Page Two) FISHING TRIP OF ROOSEVELT AGAIN DELAYED common share from 20 cents paid in the two previous quarters. The lat- est dividend is payable April 25 to tock of record March 13 {Dionici for questioning Net income Jast year was $27,843,- 000, after depreciation, interest, fed- \eral taxes and other charges, which was equivalent to 97 cents a com- mon share, compared with $19.726,- 044, or 59 cents a share, in 1934. JIPRGL51035 T a CITY COUNCIL MEETS The second reading of the new building code for Juneau will be the main item of business at the regu- ilar City Council meeting tonight. FARM SUBSIDY'S FUNDS ALLOTTED WASHINGTON, March 20.—Pres- ident Roosevelt is expected soon to sign the appropriations bill carry- ing $440,000,000 with which to start the New Deal’s soil conservation and lfarm subsidy program. |President Postpones Depar- ture for Florida for Another Day WASHINGTON, March 20.—Pres- ident Roosevelt again postponed for at least another 24 hours his depar- ture for Florida on a hunting trip. The reason for the delay is for further check on flood development. Yesterday the President issued a proclamartis asking for $3,000,000 in subscriptions for Red Cross work in the flooded areas in the east.