The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 13, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7224, JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS HEAT CONTINUES TAKING TOLL OF LIVES STEELE NEW MIDDLE WEIGHT CHAMP TACOMA BOXER BETS DECISION IN 15 ROUNDER Western Fighter Puts Up Great Scrap with Syracuse Tithist JUDGES UNANIMOUS AS RESULT OF BOUT Knockdown Scored in First Round—Over 25,000 Fans Witness Go SEATTLE, July 13. Freddie Steele of Tacoma won the world's middleweight ¢ h a m pionship here last Saturday night with a decisive fifteen-round decision over Eddie “Babe” Risko of Syracuse, New York. | The Tacoma boy scored the fight's only knockdown in the first round when he put Risko on the floor for six counts. Secores Knockdown The Tacoma wonder-boy scored the knockdown with a vicious left to Risko's jaws a few seconds be- fore the round ended. Midway through the fight Steele | ,»Traffic Officers—1936 Model : TOWNSENDITES ‘PLAN FOR BiE - OHID MEETING [National Convention May | Consider Supporting ‘ Lemke, Coughlin CLEVELAND, July 13.—The Town- send organization will open on Wed- nesday its five-day National Con- | vention in which delegates may pos- | sibly signify their attitude toward @ Ceuing a traffic ticket at Long Beach, Cal., wouldn’t be so bad i the offender were arrested by these bathing beauty cops who wer sworn in by. Police_Chief McClelland, right, to_ pntrol_thg_l)each.j opened a cut over Risko's left eye and a couple of rounds later he similarly damaged the right eye. A crowd estimated at 25,000 saw the battle and saw the title change hands. Decision Unanimous The judges’ decision was unani- mous. The Associated Press score card gave Risko the third, seventh and thirteenth rounds. The fifth and ninth rounds are called even. Steele is credited with the other ten rounds. The battle was the biggest fight spectacle in the Pacific Northwest since Jack Dempsey outpointed | Tommy Gibbons in Montana thir- teen years ago, Was Assured Victory Steele’s attack in the early rounds assured him of a victory. Risko was coming back stronger in the final stages of the fight, bu{ he could not overcome his first round knockdown nor the mass of points Steele had rolled up earlier. Risko Fights Back Risko fought back all the way.| He staged a closing rush which all | but evened the battle. | Steele weighed 156% pounds and | Risko weighed 158 pounds. St A O S FIGHT BY ROUNDS LUCIANO RING Steele’s ribs. Risko missed a right | to the side. Steele mised a right | cross. Risko connected with a left Twenty - three - Year - Old Redhead Found with Carvings on Body ROSALIE DILL IS CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS Asks that She Be Designat- ed Wife of Ex-Sena- tor C. C. Dill SPOKANE, Wash., July 13. - Rosalie Jones Dill, who asked that she be referred to as- “the former announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination to Congress from the Fifth District. The former Senator won a divorce decree from the one-time suffragist “general” two days ago after a sen- sational nine day court battle. Mrs. Dill will seek the seat va- cated by Representative Sam B. Hill, who has been appointed by Presi- dent Roosevelt to the Board of Tax Appeals. to the nose and the champion then landed two hard rights to the ribs. Steele missed a left hook to the jaw but connected with a hard right to the ribs folowed with an- other to Risko's midsection. Steele landed a terrific left to Risko's jaw | and the champion went down for the count of six but got up three seconds hefore the bell. ROUND TWO Steele came out of his corner cautiously 1goking fof" an opening. He took a lgft to the mouth. Stecle walloped Risko with two heavy SR Rhdonten. rights 1o the head but was caught [\ULAPSOER. L With 8 left. Sieele [missed a left | oo, " t1q police that she had hook as Risko scored a left to the | s ‘WASHINGTON, July 15.—Margar- let Louise Bell, striking red-haired, 23-year-old witness against Charles |“Lucky” Luciano, convicted New | York vice lord, was found in her apartment here Sunday with the eryptic initials “CL” and the nu- merals “3-12" carved on her thigh Mrs. | wife of ex-Senator C. C. Dill,” has| head. Risko missed a right swing| but. connected with a left to the chin. Steele took another left to the mouth and sent a right to Ris- ko’s ribs. Risko took a right to the chin but rolled back with a punch and Steele came back with a hard right to the jaw at the bell. ROUND THREE been beaten, bound and carved by Austro-German Agreement Mao Public by Ra Austria Is “German St and Will Work f European P ieace BERLIN, July ~Ax | | is made that German; | ed Austria’s indepenc apparently bringing to uation which has been 1:¢ danger for Europe. The anur ment was made after an agros with the Austrian government which 4 contained the significant proviso Heudquar that Austria declared herself a ‘< man state.” as r | tional Committee CHICAGO, I, July 13.—Offic- of the Republican National ters said the “largest crowd | ever to assemble to a political meet- | ing in the Middle. West” will attend _ Paul Josef Goebbels, German Min- | Goy. Alfred M. Landon's notifica- ister of Press Propaganda, described | tion in Topeka, Kansas, on July 23 this accord to his countrymen in a| qpo Topeka Chamber of Com- radio broadcasL: He stated that the | merce reports all hotel space has agreement provides that the two na- tions refrain from interfering ineach | o1, taken, fraternity. and. sorority e houses n College and other’s internal affairs, and that ouses.” of. Washiurn, Gipllege o 2 | private homes have been utilized for both will co-operate in stablizing the | tha avexting. | Central European situation. The lat- | ter is to be undertaken as two close- | o PR |ly related German states although | Snake Twined in Fan it is stated specifically that Naziism Causes Motor “Knock” in both countries will be regarded |as strictly an internal affair. | MASSILLON, 0., July 13.—“There |goes a bearing,” said Glenn Morrow | It is understood that the Aus-| |trians will permit the inclusion of | when his motor cracked and bang- |one Nazi Minister in their Cabinet. | o4 a¢ he stepped on the starter. ————— | But when he raised the hood 38 1]0 woRI-D he found a blacksnake twisted | L] WASHINGTON CREW WINS OLYMPIC TRYOUTS Staging another of their masterful closing drives, the Universily of Washington Huskies scored a smashing triumph in the final Olympic Games tryouls on Lake Carnegie, Princeton, N. J., and won the The arrow shows the Washington eight repeating its Poughkeepsie victory with Pennsylvania and California, Olympic champions of 1928 and 1932, trailing. right to represent the United States at Berlin. (Associated Press Photo) EXTRADITION TURNED DOWN Governor of California De- nies Request—To Be Reopened July 21 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, July 13.— Alfred Whittell, oil and mining op- erator, has been released from jail without bail after Gov. Meriam re- scinded extradition on a warrant for rendition in Alaska where Whit- tell has been indicted in connection with the alleged issuance of an $800 check in Kodiak, Alaska. The extradition angle will be re- opened July 21 at the next hearing in Sacramento. Whittell is claim- ant in litigation to $4,600,000 share of the estate of his foster mother, Mrs. Anna Whittell, MRS. JOE BARROWS IS FLORIDA BOUND Mrs. Joe Barrows and three chil- dren left on the southbound Al- aska, beginning the long trip to Miami, Florida, where they will make their future home. They were accompanied by Miss Dorothy Moore, sister of Mrs. Barrows who is enroute to Seattle. Mrs. Barrows, who is the wife of Joe Barrows, widely-known Pacific Alaska Afrways pilot, and family are going direct to Miami, and Mr Barrows, who has been transferred, through the Pan-American Air- ways to Florida, will leave Alaska in a few weeks, joining his wife in the South. Mrs. Barrows and chil- dren and Miss Moore arrived from . airbanks yesterday aboard the PAA Electra. around the fan, its tail cracking ‘ |the sides and top of the hood as | ' WARVETERANS (the fan whirled. Sled Gone or Seattle Post Office An-| nounces Distribution of Money to Date Sourdoughs of Alaska, from Hy- | der to Point Barrow and all inter- Sourdoughé on Stam,petie; To . Stage Rush Until Last Dog Gold Pan Lost the Blueberry Kid has got 'em all backed into the stream and drown- a man she said was a member of |the Luciano gang, and then left to die in the gas fumes from four je.s |that he turned on after torturing her. Police found the woman in a semi- |conscious, condition bleeding from | her wounds on the kitchen floor of |the apartment after the telephone Risko took two lefts to the operator, hearing screams, notified mouth as they met in midring.|the authorities. 1 Steele weaved and bobbed under| The girl was taken to an emer-| Babe’s guard and scored a right to gency hospital for treatment. the jaw. Freddie blocked the cham- ‘ I plon’s left but took a left to the 2 . forehead. Steele hooked a left to Rldl ore Shlpped g ve another into gfi:: b:.db); .n;‘dlmm crowded the| TONOPAH, Nev.,—A 50-ton car- Tacoma youngster to the ropes with ‘ load cg) gg;d ;:': ‘:cl‘;'dc ‘:h:mwc: a left and hard right to the body o8 pmen! t|since the boom days of old, has but. Steels. drgve ut. & Bard digh], v shipped:40;/a- Garfield, Uta, smelter by the Jumbo mine, l | | | (Continued on Page Seven) SEATTLE, July 13— The Post|mMediate points, including those nr‘ed. Office announces that 38,110 world | Dog Cape, Agattu Island, have hit| war veterans have received $14,519,- | the trail on a wild stampede, andi 050 in cash through it in exchange | they are wild, for a cache has beoni for bonus bonds. The total repre- | fobbed. The sourdoughs are K“‘“X‘ sents money paid to Alaska vet,er-fw hunt for the robber until the lans as well as those in the State|last gold pan has rusted through,| of Washington with the exception'the bottom and the last dog sled is| of the cities of Tacoma and Spo-| Worn to splinters, kane. Nothing is safe any more and the | cry “gee, haw, mush on you blan- | kety-blank son-of-a-malamute” is| fairly screaming through the air. Tom Kendall, third-year medical| You bet your last pound of bacon student at the College of Puget Sound | and last pinch of flour, there is go- and son of the Rev. O. L. Kendall,|ing to be a grand clean-up some- returned to Juneau Saturday on the Where and somebody is going to get Victoria. Young Kendall has just his-her and the whole darn litter. attended summer session at the Ta-, Somebody with malice aforethough coma school and plans to spend the | acussed display of to Hades with remainder of his vacation with his| everybody and everything has com- | father in Juneau. mitted a crime that for the gaul of! TOM KENDALL RETURNS Think of it—that whistle that has echoed over the tundra, has been heard with its low rumbling sound from shore to far inland and from the water to the sky's limit, was and can be remembered by the chee- chako way back when Alaska gold was being planted in the ground and imbedded in the rocks, isn't any more, or wasn't last Saturday and again this morning. Doggone it—somebody has chang- ed the whistle on the steamer Vic- toria. From that melodious deep base, it is now a shriek between a husky's dying moan, a coyote’s yelp and musk-ox's moo—if they do moo. That's the reason the sourdoughs are on the stampede for the why and the for what. [Tiny Spitz Saves Mistress from Attack by Cougar SWEET HOME, Oregon, July 13.—A tiny Spitz, with a mas- tiff’s heart, won a battle with a huge cougar, worrying the beast until the cougar took to the woods instead of attacking the Spitz’s mistress, Mrs. Bert Sim- mons, Later the cougar paid with his life at hands of hunters. Mrs. Simmons sought three sheep and found them dead, with the cougar hiding nearby. As the cougar advanced, the dog darted back and forth, out of reach of the cougar's claws until the beast abandoned the attack. Rev, S. P. Cadma Passes Away; for Jusjgna Week Famed as Pulpit Orator— Quality of Sermons Spread Generally PLATTSBURGH, N. Y., July 13— The Rev. S. Parkes Sadman, famed “radio preacher” of Brooklyn, dled‘ in a hospital here after one week's | illness at the age of 71. He instituted at the Young Men's Christian Association in Brooklyn a Sunday afternoon service that was regularly broadcast. Through this agency he was said to have spok- en to more people than ever before| in history had been addressed by a| preacher. His fame as a pulpit orator and| the quality of his sermons had | spread far beyond the confines of | the Central Congregational Church,! Brooklyn, the patorates of which he assumed in 1901 to continue for he remainder of his active minis- try. As pastor of that church he, gained rank as one of the outstand- | ing Protestant ministers of the coun- | try. National recognition of his lead- | ership came to him in 1924, when he | was elected president of the Fed-| eral Council of Churches of Christ in America, the highest office among he Protestant churches of the coun- try. He was re-elected for several vears and during his incumbency won many additional honors for the quality and quantity of his religious | ! ONE GROUP OF SHARES 60 UP TO NEW HIGHS Continued Industrial Pro-| OVER 1400 IN WIDE SECTION REPORTED DEAD Records A;;—['ixpected to Be Broken Before Day Is Ended MORE WARMTH IS MADE IN FORECAST Weekend RfiF izzles Out But Much Benefit by Showers CHICAGO, Il July }3.—The un- rivalled drought and record shat- tering heat clung to the long suf- fering Midwest and East and north- ern half of the nation today, and life giving rains in other sections | fizzled. Deaihs from prostrations and | drowning reached a total of 1,454 Weather forecasts made it a blue Monday with predictions of more heat. What little week-end precipi- | tation there was, did untold bene- fit. Wheat prices remained about the same today on the Chicago Wheat Exchange. Wheat is still 21 to 24 cents higher than a year ago “to- day. Morning temperatures today in- cluded the following highs: Bay City, Michigan, 97 degres; Chicago 85, Indianapolis 99, Du- luth 100. Yesterday's highs were: Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1068 degrees; De- gress Responsible for | Good Advance 1 NEW YORK, July 13.—A better brand of weather news, combined with signs of continued industrial progress, helped to lift selective cquities from fractions to more than | three points at the session today of the New York Stock Exchange. Many issues went into new high territory for the past five years or longer. | There was some late profit tak- ing. | Today’s close was firm with transfers about 1,500,000 shares. i CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, July 13. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 135%, American Power and Light 13%, Anaconda 36%, Bethlehem Steel 51, Commonwealth and South- ern 3%, Curtiss-Wright 64, Gen- eral Motors 69%, International Har- vester 83, Kennecott 40%, United States Steel 61, United Corporation %, Cities Service 47, Hecla Min- ing 11%, Pound $5.02%. i DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are tod: Jones averages: Industrial rails, 51.01; utiHties, 34.55. ALASKAN WILL FLY ATLANTIC ON HINDENBRG Nenana Ice Pool Winner Plans to Do Things in Big Way | | [ troit 100, Kewanee, Illinois, 1129, Ottowa, Illinois 109; Emerson, Man- itoba 112. Michigan deaths have reached 315, and Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta combined, 26. JAPAN REVOLT LEADERS DEAD; ARE EXECUTED Fifteen Believed Shot— Lives of Two Others Spared, Is Report TOKYO, July 13—The War Of- fice announced Sunday night that 15 leaders in the bloody rebellion of February 26 have been executed. No explanation is forthcoming as to why two others, who have been con- demned to death, were not shot. The two men are Yoshiaki Nakamura, former Communist, and Asaichi Iso- be, former Quartermaster Captain. The laconic communique told of the deaths of the 15 but failed to mention the time, place, nor method used Three of the Empire’s most dis- tinguished leaders were assassinat- ed in the Spring uprising. Most well informed observers be- lieve that the executions were car- ried out in the couriyard of the Shi- buyo Military prison, and that death was by shooting. BULLETS WHIZ AGAIN, ALABAMA SEATTLE, July 13. — Oscar C. Neilsen, who wants to spend part of his $16,000 winnings from the Ne- nana Ice Pool by flying the At-| lantic in the Zeppelin Hindenburg, left here by plane today for thel| East. LABOR TROUBLE | | v Snipers Shoot Nonunionist at Dawn Today—Rea- sons Given for Strike leadership. Dr. Cadman was one of the most | prominent and active workers at the | World Conference on Faith and Or- | der held at Lausanne, Switzerland | in Av/ast, 1932. In connection with | the discussion on church unity he delivered what was regarded as one of the most important addressed on | the subject. He asked that greater recognition be given by Protestants, Catholics and Jews of the contribu- | (Continued on Pn’se?siev'en) | | Widow of Former Alaska Mining Man Leaves Large Estate SEATTLE, July 13.—The estate of the late Jennie E. Ford, widow of Jerry Ford, Alaska mining man, is appraised at $931,101 according to an inventory filed in the probate court. She died a year ago. BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, July 13. —A non-union miner was shot to death today in a new -outburst of gunfire in Alabama’s strike ridden iron ore hills. The victim is Paul Hines, negro. Sheriff Fred McDuff said Hines was slain by snipers at dawn today as he was enroute to a small farm (near the mine where he worked. Th unionists struck against the ordered change from an holirly to a tonnage pay base.