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» THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7230. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, I936.7 ALL THE TIME” 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS F—— TORNADO KILLS 3: SCORES ARE REPORTED HURT Fifty Families Made Home- less by Terrific Mis- | souri Wind [ SCHOOL TEACHER | SAVES 30 PUPILS| Marches Ch;Ees Into Yard| —Orders Them to Lie | Flat on Ground SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, March 24—One woman, a girl and a man were killed, several scores injured | and fifty families made homeless by | & southwestern Missouri tornado late | vesterday afternoon. | Striking Nrst at Niangua, 32 miles northeast of here, the terrific wind | wrought destruction to more than| half a dozen communities before PROFESSOR s blowing itself out over the lake of Ozarks. The dead are: Mrs. Jess Elmore, aged 70, killed as she sought shelter in a storm cel- | lar. | Bert Snell, 21, hurled to death from a roof of a house he was re- pairing. Miss Reba Keisling, aged 18, who died from injuries received when the hamlet of Rader was virtually wiped out. A quick witted country school teacher, Miss Pauline Rader, aged| 21, saved her 30 charges from sure: death or injury by marching them | out of the building as the storm ap-| proached and ordering them to lie flat on the ground in the school yard. The wind “demolished the building from which they fled. BRAZIL UNDER MARTIAL LAW | FOR %0 DAYS: President Vargas Places Forty-seven Million Under Army Rule. | RIO DE JANERIO, March 24— President Getulto Vargas has pro- claimed what is the equivalent of | a state of war throughout Brazil as the result of “subversive activit- ijes” and enforced martial law over' 47,000,000 people for a period of 90 days. | The decree was published 51 hours | before the expiration of the three months state of seige declared dur-| ing the November uprising which | the Administration characterized as; Communistic. The decree suspends consitutional | guarantees, including those forbid- | ding the death penalty, banishment, confiscation of property, right of foreighers to enter the nation unmo- lested and makes everybody liable to c#stody at the discretion of the NS FAIR PRIZE | His popularity with the students brought Prof. E. T. Grether of the University of California this pretty co-ed prize, Miss Marie Phillips. His el the rgward secretary, date. (Associated Press Photo) of MAYOR FILES IN CITY CAMPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION Goldstein, Beistline, Harri, | and- James Connors, Jr., on Ticket Mayor I. Goldstein, completing his third successive term as Mayor of Juneau, this afternoon filed for re- election. On the Goldstein ticket are Ralph H. Beistline, Oscar Harri and J. J. Connors, Jr., for councilman. Mayor Goldstein has been mayor five times during his 50 years in the city. He said today he is standing n his record in office. Councilman Beistline also has served the city a long time, having been in the Council eight or 10 years. He is head carpenter at the Alaska Ju- neau. Mr. Harri and Mr. Coanors also are widely known. Mr. Harri is pro- prietor of the Harri Machine Shop and Mr. Connors is manager of the Connors Motors and son of J. J. Connors, Collector of Customs. Three tickets are now in the field. N. G. Nelson heads one, Wal- lis George another and the -Mayor the one filing today. S T PROCESS TAXES T0 BE BROUGHT BEFORE HOUSE s |Ways and Means Commit- | tee Includes Ticklish Item ——— PHES'DENT UN | in Report on Program i EATKES, | WASHINGTON, March 24—The | Huose Ways and Means sub-Com- 3 je mittee has decided to include proc- | essing taxes on agricultural and | competing products in its report to | the full committee which will form a 4 3 basis for the start of open hearings Ch,ef EXCCP(]VC Tells NCWS-‘ Monday on the $792,000,000 tax pro- men He Expects to Be | gram. 6 e Chairman Samuel B. Hill, Demo- GOHC TWO Weeks crat of Washington, declined to say what would be recommended, ex- PORT EVERGLADES, Florida, plaining processing taxes were mere- March 24—President Roosevelt is| )y yoing included for consideration out at sea, on a fishing irip, aboard Such processing taxes would con- ;‘he United States destroyer Monag- template a yield of $221,000,000 an. . Before leaving here, the Chief exe-]z?;::go;n ;re At S0 proqycia e | roducts. cutive told the newspapermen that| ~ngany cupy_committee members are he was going to stay at sea for two seeking to avoid processing taxes, a weeks, if possible . ticklish item in election year. B SRR sl v Rl PUET I SR A ' FUR RENDEuVOUS | Widening the activiiies at the PALMER COUPLE WED next annual sports tournmament to, Miss Mildred Purguson, school be held in Anchorage, the Booster | teacher at Palmer, and Mr. Ernie Club of that city recently voted to| Kling, operator of the Palmer bus invite all trappers of Alaska and ! service, were wed recently in An- all fur buyers to gather there for a| chorage. “fur rendezvous” during the sport- — ., y ing events. It is planned to conduct GLEE CLUB FOR ELKS the rendezvous on lines similar to| The Elkr Lodge in Cordova has that of the old Hudson Bay Com- | formed a glee club of 24 members, pany but without charging commis- | who are under the direction of Mrs. sions. ' ‘Mnmn Fredeen, tion as “the most popular professor of economics” won him rting Miss Phillips, voted the “ideal confidential " to the “Derby Day” dance. Here they are making their National Labor Relations Act Unconstitutional CHICAGO, IIL, March 24— Federal Judge John P. Barnes teday termed the National Labor Relations Act unconstitution- al and said he will grant an in- junction against the Nafional Labor Relations Board in favor of the Bendix Products Corpor- ation of South Bend, Indiana. COURT RULES ON MOTHER OF “SONNY BOY" Mrs. Fletcher Held to Be Child’s Mother—Doc- tor Contests Claim CHICAGO, March 24.—Superior Court Judge Rudolph Desort has ruled that Mrs. Margaret Mann Fletcher, 24, is the mother of “Sonny Boy,” three years old, whose parent- age had been the subject of a court fight between Mrs. Fletcher and Dr. Gordon E. Mordoff, suburban Wailmette physician. Dr. Mordoff claimed the boy had been born to his late wife, Madge Mordoff. Mrs. Fletcher claimed the boy was born to her out of wedlock and loaned Mrs. Mordoff because she couldn’t care for him at the time. Witnesses testified Mrs. Mordoff represented to her husband that the boy was her own. The question of who will have future custody of the boy will be decided later. GANG LEADER | BETTER TIMES GIRLS ARRIVE ~ INSANDIEGD Juneau Winners Continue to Be Center of Attrac- tion—Wear Badges SAN DIEGO, Cal., Better Times contest winners, on their special train, arrived here this morning and spent the after- noon in the famous Exposition grounds, to return at midnight to- night to their sleepers for the ride to Los Angeles. The Juneau girls continue to be the center of attraction. The group is really in the heart March 24— :.of the tour at present and is look- forward with eagerness to visits to Mexico, Hollywood, Catalina Islands and San Francisco. The average age of the girls is 21, many of them being high school students and stenographers, one a teacher. They are accompanied by a hostess, a chairman and director, and have for their use two pullmans, on2 club car and a diner. Highlights of the trip from Eu- gene, Oregon, to San Diego included hot sunshine, palm trees and fruit orchards, and a view of the large Kern oilfields. Misses Elizabath Kaser and Thais Bayers were compensated for hav- ing contracted colds when, on Moh- day, the train ran over a skunk. GIRLS WEAR BADGES The Nailv a Empire, sponsor of the campaign with the coopera- tion of local merchants, has been notified by Don Eck, tour manager of the Northern Pacific and Sputh- ern Pacific railroads, that ali Jun- eau girls have been supplied” with attractive Alaska badges. Newspaper reports from Seattle tell of the excitement created the Queen City by the arrival of the seven Juneau Better Times winners. Even the staid “Seattle Business," published by the Seattle Chamber, devoted one-half column to the ar- rival of the Juneau Queen, saying in | part, “When the M. S. Northland tomorrow docks at Pier 5, she will have on board seven fair Good Will representatives of Juneau, Alaska.” The Post-Intelligencer, in com- menting on their arrival, said, “Sev- en lovely, lovely young ladies of Ju- eau, Alaska, started on their way to Seattle yesterday on the good ship Northland, and the Seattle Cham- ber of Commerce is all adither pre- paring to greet them.” .- —— HAGOOD GIVEN THREE MONTHS ABSENT LEAVE Disciplined Major General Has Two-Hour Talk with President PORT EVERGLADES, l’-‘lurida.} March 24.—President Roosevelt has authorized a three months leave for in| 20,000 FLEE FROM NEW FLOOD THREAT ALASKA C.OF G, |Hu URGES OPENING OF GLACIER BAY, Territorial Group Wires Di-| mond Endorsement of His Prospecting Bill The fourteen member chambers, } of the Territorial Chamber of Com- (merce have endorsed Delegate An- theny J. Dimond’s bill, introduced | in Congress calling for the opening | of Glacier Bay National Monument to prospecting, and last night the| | Territorial group telegraphed the | Delegate of the action taken. | In the message, the Alaska Cham- | ber said: “Referring to your bill, House Res- | olution 9275, to permit mining with- jin the Glacier Bay National Monu- ment, will state that after a ref- | erendum vote of our 14 member | | ebambers all unanimously approved your bill and urge its passage. Lo- Ica.l knowledge confirms the state- {ment made in 1924 by the late Dr.! Alfred Brooks, then chief Alaskan | Geologist, in writing to W. S. Coop-| ' | er, whose activities were largely in-| | strumental in establishment of Gla- | | cier Bay National Monument, when | Brooks said there are on Glacier Bay known to be deposits of copper, | molybdenite and probably gold and | | silver. Again in May, 1935, W. C.| | Mendenhall, Director of the Geo-| lcgical Survey, writing to John W.1 Troy of Alaska stated such subse-| quent information as has been re-| — ceived by the Geological Survey| By WILLIAM S. WHITE would make it even more confident| waSHINGTON, March 24—The of its earlier conclusions as to the 2 possibility of the occurance of com- Democratic Party's ace soothsayer, mercially valuable mineralization in Emil Hurja, is polishing up the ]the Glacier Bay region and further crystal ball for another look into weonfirm it in opposing any attempt |the future—as to what may happen to exclude prospectors from likely'in the November election. mineral areas in it. ‘ But just how he is adjusting the “In the report of A. F. Buddington strange implements of his craft for of the Geological Survey he states, 'that look and just what he expects recent studies in Glacier Bay dis- to see remain the secret of Emil +| close the fact that that region con-|Hurja, tains numerous mineral prospects| Robust, bland and heavy-jawed, containing gold, silver, lead, anti-|Hyrja astonished the political world money, molybdenum and iron ore. i, 1932 with his almost uncannily “In the name of our membership | aeoyrate predictions as to the re- we, therefore, protest the excluding syiy of the voting that put Franklin of prospectors from this likely min- D. Roosevelt in the White House., eral area and urge passage of YOur \ge went far beyond the usual ef- bill. Please present our expression |forts, and even predicted how indi- to the committee on public lands i and other interested parties.” gvldual counties would go. Then he r ja.’; Silence liro;nises 1936 Predictions by Man Who Foretold 1932 Voting Soothsayer Emil Hurja eyes reports, charts and maps in an at- tempt to duplicate his other uncanny political predictions. “RIVER VALLEY 'INUNDATED IN " EARLY MURNING Residents of Lower Cins cinnati Make Escape to Highlands |DIGGING OUT FROM ‘ DEBRIS HAS STARTED lStricken AgSends Out i Appeal for Aid—Mili- i tary at Hartford CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 24.— | Twenty thousand residents of the }lowcr Ohio River Valley fled from |their homes early this morning to ‘high land to escape from the rising | flood waters. The river kept rising during the night and early this morning in- undated the entire lower sections {causing thousands hastily to leave their homes, ARE MUCKING OUT PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 24. {—Residents of the vast flood belt extending from Maine to Ohio and Kentucky in which 168 persons lost | their lives, today began to scrape muck and debris' from the silt laden cities. The Cincinnati section in Ohio, jwhere the crest of the flood swept to new territory, is the only immedi- ate high water zone today. | papermen, and he waves away in-, quiries with a few explosive words' meaning “No!" and a broad grin. | APPEAL FOR AID Whatever is written or done about! BOSTON, Mass., March 24 —Every the political situation in the most Stricken area in the New England isolated corners of the nation are States made an appeal today for | grist to his mill. Federal aid, both financial and for Studies AAA Votes supplies. There are 80,000 refugees | For example, the returns of the in the New England states and prop- | various farmer votes on continua- €'ty damage is estimated into the |tion of programs under the old hundreds of millions of dollars. |AAA and the responses to major | Presidential speeches to the coun- GUARDSMEN ON DUTY try are reduced sometimes even to , IARTFORD, Capn, March 24— county divisions. Twelve hundred guardsmen are on Just as he used to analyze mines, duty here and patrol the streets to 50 now does Hurja try to apply a Rrsvens lnawus. similarly impersonal formula to an-! TV A % alyzing the temper and the feeling FITTSBURGH CGHDITIONS of the voters. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 24— This stout and imperturbable 41- Conditions in this city and nearby year-old son of a Finnish immi- territory are getting normal and grant miner, also is the political thousands of residents started to right-hand man of James A. Far- clean up flood debris. Scores of ley and a job-getter extraordinary. Plants are planning to operate with- Perhaps his hardest assignment i the next few days as soon as ma- was when he was sent to the In- chinery is placed in readiness, which terior Department to get jobs for 'ncludes digging out of the mud, Democrats, in the face of Secretary WiPing and oiling. Ickes’ well-known disapproval of the patronage system. P.S.: He got TOP SOIL GONE the jobs—at least some of them— HARRISBURG, Pa., March 24— for the faithful, then he returned Many farms in Pennsylvania will be to his forecaster’s desk at Demo- Unable to produce as the rich top cratic Headquarters . soil has been washed away. elections, however, he emerged from the silences with the forecast that the Democrats would make import- President in Cleveland ‘JAFSIE Is Campaigning i | ; CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 24— | l N TE R v I Ew Tn GOV. HOFFMAN ant gains in House seats. When the smoke had cleared away the United States Senator L. J. Dickin- son, of Towa, avowed candidate fm" |final returns showed just how well the Republican Presidential nomi- | s |retired again to the lonely contem- < plation of his charts, maps and re- nchINSON HAS e HIS Gfi 05 P. RAGE he had called his shots. His plans for 1936 do not now e comprehend discussions with news- pation, said here today that the | New Deal has abandoned common sense thrift for a policy of “borrow, | Before the 1934 Congressional Avowed Candidaie for| ; boom and bust.” | | disciplined Major General Johnson | Hagwood pending decision for “fu- CONVICTED OF MAIL ROBBER Thomas Touhy, Last of:or Once Powerful Chicago Mob, Is Found Guilty MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. March 24,/ —Thomas Touhy, the last of the| once powerful Chicago mob which bore his name, has been convicted in the Federal Court of complicity in the $78,000 mail robbery here on January 3, 1933. Judge Gunnar H. Nordby has de- ferred sentence. - e KEHOES ON YUKON J. W. Kehoe, United States Dis- trict Attorney for the Third Division, and Mrs. Kehoe are passengers aboard the Yukon enroute to Sew- ard. They are returning from a three-months’ trip through Calif- ornia and east to Washington, D. C. While in the east, Mr. Kehoe said, they met many Alaskans in- cluding Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond, Harry Morton, who has risen rapidly in the legal department of the Court of Claims, in Washington, D. C. and others. | 1 | | ture assignment to duty.” The President and the General conferred two hours yesterday af- ternoon as the train traveled across Florida to this port. Hagood was relieved of command the Eighth Corps for terming WPA funds stage money before a | Congressional Committee. Lamson Jury Cannot Agree, Is Discharged SAN JOSE, Cal, March 24—The jury in the case of David Lamson was hopelessly deadlocked today and finally discharged by Judge J. J. Trabucco. Lamson, visibly shaken, was rushed back to the county jail at the end of his third trial. Lamson, charged with slaying his wife Allene in their Stanford Cam- pus home, was convicted and sen- tenced to hang at his first trial, but the California State Supreme court ordered a retrial. The jufy disagreed at the second . The jury in the third trial also disagreed. —————— PASSES AWAY Mrs. Grace Paschun, aged 30, of Kake, died recently at Petersburg as the result of pneumenia. Senator Dickinsin proposes sub- | stituting a program ‘“not nearly so exciting but guaranteeing a safe arrival in port, quit borrowing and spending and settle down when we settle up the nation's obligations.” BORAHISHELD | TOBEG.0.P.S “WHITE HOPE” Former Senator Declares All Other Rep. Candidates “Tools of Wall Street” WASHINGTON, March 25—For- mer United States Senator Smith| Brookhart of Iowa, said today that Senator William E. Borah is the win. Brookhart branded all other West- ern candidates as “tools of Wall Btreet,” declaring: “Morgan and Company want a candidate and| g0 to Chicago to get an Illinoisan.' Standard Oil wants a candidate and goes to Kansas and picks a| supposed independent. Dupont goes out and picks a dark horse Iowan.” No names were mentioned, Republican Party's one chance to[ta Key Figure in Hauptmann Case Says Gov. Shows Lack of Good Taste TRENTON, N. J., March 25—Gov. Harold G. Hoffman has declined to comment on charges of Dr. John F .(“Jafsie”) Condon that the Gov- ernor’s activities in the Hauptmann case showed a lack of good taste, |sincerity and impartiality, Bruno’s status remained un- changed today. Dr. Condon, in a iong telegram, agreed to talk in his Bronx home with Hoffman and Attorney-Gen- eral David Wilentz. The aged negotiator defended his activities in the Hauptmann case and questioned the Governor's legal authority in his present actions. He referred to “statements deroga- tory to me which were allegedly given through your press represen- tives or agents.” In his communication, he told |Hoflman. “Although you have ap- parently usurped the functions of | the court and duly constituted in- vestigating officials and despite your unfairness I have decided to permit you to confer with me.” He=suggested that Hoffman write the questions he wants answered. The Governor previously had re- quested a personal interview, STOCK PRICES Germany Tums HOLD STEADILY ~ Gold Shoulder MOSTOF DAY 1o lflgflfl Plan |London Offer Said “‘Unac- and Maintams It to Near Close NEW YORK, March 24— The Stock Market turned irregular short- ly before the close today after a fairly steady course maintained by a selective group of industrial spe- cialties and rails. Transfers today totalled 1,950,000 shares. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, March 24.— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15, American Can 122, American Light and Power 127, An- aconda 35, Bethlehem Steel 56%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, Chicago, Mil- | waukee, St. Paul and Pacific Rail- road 2%, General Motors 64%, In- ternational Harvester 86, Kennecott 37%, United States Steel 63, Cities Service 5%, Pound $4.96%, Boeing Airplane 23, United Aircraft 25%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 156.56, {rails 37.53, utilities 32.08. | ——————— BOUND TO HOT SPRINGS | Mrs. D. G. Hosler, wife of the Hot Springs mining man, is a pas- | senger aboard the Yukon for Sew- jard, Selective Group Sets Pace| ceptable Because Based | on Discrimination™ BERLIN, March 25.— Germany |has rejected all important features of the Locarno proposals. It was announced officially hex that the German answer deseribed |the London offer as “unacceptable |because based on unendurable dise |erimination.” One feature of the program pro- |vided for stationing British and |Italian soldiers temporarily in the | Rhineland. MISS LITTLEPAGE | ON WAY TO MOSCOW Miss Marjorie Littlepage, 17-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Littlepage, sailed early this morn- ing on the North Sea, enroute for Portland, from which city she will later embark for Moscow, Russia. The girl, accompanied by her cousins Georgia Littlepage and Ern- estine Smith of Portland, will visit their uncle, John Littlepage, Am- been for the past seven years in the Soviet employ. Littlepage was recently awarded the highest honor given in the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin, erican mining engineer who has.

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