The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 16, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7227. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS THREE NORTHWEST STATES ARE SHAKEN BY QUAKE PLANE CRASHES NEAR FAIRBANKS CRAFT PLUNGES T0 EARTH FROM HIGH ALTITUDE One Woman, Mrs. Norahi Lehto, Instantly Killed in Tailspin Accident ANOTHER PASSENGER, PILOT ARE INJURED| Miss Lehto Internally Hurt —Percy Hubbard Sus- tains Fractured Leg FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 16— Mrs. Norah Lehto was killed in-| stantly, Miss Betty Lehto and Pi-| lot Percy Hubbard were critically| injured in an airplane crash near the University of Alaska campus vesterday. The plane went into a tail spin up 1500 feet and crashed into a clump of trees. | Pilot Hubbard took off from | Chena Slough on an intended pleas- ! ure hop. | The plane was owned by Dr. Bart Larue, of Ruby, who is now in Se- attle. The plane is a total wreck. Miss Lehto suffered cuts on the | head and internal injuries. | Pilot Hubbard's right leg is fractured at the ankle and he also, sustained injuries, some perhaps mw’ ternal. The Lehtos came here recently from Bay Center, Washington. Pilot William L. Lavery flew to the scene of the accident, which is | about four miles from here - — CANADA PILOT EXONERATED AT DEATH INQUEST Young Man in ‘Boat Killed| by Airplane Taking Off Into Sun GOLDFIELDS, Saskatchewan, July 16.—Harold Pierre, 30, was killed almost instantly when a boat in which he was riding on Lake; Athabasca was struck by an air- plane taking off. J. F, Warren, pilot of the plane, was exonerated today at an in- quest. He testified that neither he nor his mechanic saw the boat as they were taking off into the sun. — e, — { | | It’s for Contrast HONOLULU—In Hawaii, where colorful foliage and bright dresses are plentiful, motorists will become comparatively sedate with their 1937 license plates. Orders specify blue lettering on a field of white, replacing this year's green back- ground. e DIES OF HEART ATTACK Edward P. Rindero, 61-year-old fisherman, member of the crew of the herring boat Yellowstone, died of heart failure off Point Ward near Ketchikan recently. He had just taken in a' seine when he dropped dead. IR WATER ON RAILROAD Traffic was stopped last week on the Copper River and Northwest- ern Rauroad due to high water over the tracks. At one point the road bed was four feet under water. The cause of the excess moisture was the recent hot weather. - NEW MINISTER ARRIVES The Rev. R. S. Peterson has ar- rived in Cordova to assume the duties at the Presbyterian Church there, vacated recently by the transfer of Rev. William McAdoo to Anchorage. a5 L P HAIDA HAS NEW OFFICERS ! Two United States Coast Guard Academy graduates have arrived in Cordova to become student en- gineers aboard the cutter Haida. They are Ensigns J. P. Snow and G. R. Reynolds. Maxie Returns to der Vaterland—a Hero Even in Germany it was felt that Max Schmeling hadn't a a “heil” marked his depa back he was nearly mobbed. He is shown with his wife, the actress Anny Ondra, sailed for America scarcel. THIRD PARTY ALLIANCE I FORMED NOW Smith Forces Reported Merged in Campaign CLE/ ELAND, July 16—A Third Party alliance bringing together the forces of Radio Priest Charles E. Coughlin, Dr. Francis E. Townsend and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, is formally announced after a con- ference of the three leaders. “We will stand together against this unholy trinity of Roosevelt, Landon and Brower,” declared Ra- dio Priest Coughlin. Earl W. Brow- der is the Communist Presidential candidate. Dr. Townsend said: “James A. Farley is trying to throw brickbats at our convention.” The Rev. Smith assailed Presi- dent Roosevelt's Administration, as i a “subtle plot to communize the Na- tion.” Coughlin on Tirade The Rev. Coughlin today aligned himself with Dr. Townsend in an address to the delegates attending the Townsend National Convention and termed President Roosevelt a “betrayer and a liar” and further said that “he who promised to drive the money changers from the temple had built up the greatest public debt in the nation’s history. Is that driving the money changers from the temple? He has adopted Communistic measures and the Na- tional Union is for Social Justice. I, personally, will not endorse any candidate who advocates the re- election of the great betrayer, Roosevelt.” Coughlin said he was also forced to repudiate Gov. Alfred M. Lan- don’s philosophy. Anchfigfidn Is Flown Seuth for ll_naralinn Homer Havenstrite Passes Through Juneau En- route to Seattle SEATTLE, July 16.—A Gorst Air Transport seaplane arrived here yes- terday from Anchorage, via Juneau, bringing Homer Heaventrite, strick- en with a kidney ailment, here for treatment. He was taken to the Virginia Mason Hospital where he will undergo an operation. eparture. and on his right is his mother. Parentsof 13- FORMAL NOTICE " Year-Oli Wife Face Charges ECoughlin, Townsend and’Cirl Tells Court She Wants | to Go to School, Not Be Married TACOMA, Wash,, July 16—Ac- cused of perjury, Mr. and Mrs. "Elias Orsulich of Tacoma were ar- raigned here in the juvenile court after their thirteen-year-old daugh- ter revealed her marriage to a 45- year-old fisherman. Second de- gree perjury charges were filed against the couple and the girl in Kitsap County where the marriage is alleged to have occurred. All three were released under $1,000 bail after their arraignment. Under special orders from the Kitsap prosecutor the girl, Eva Gnejech, dictated an affidavit as- serting that her mother and step- father forced her to marry Roy Cupik at Port Orchard on July 3. The girl told the court that the couple forced her to swear to the Kitsap license clerk that she was sixteen, and they swore similar statements. The girl said the ceremony was performed by an unnamed woman Justice of the Peace. She told the Judge that she wished to continue going to junior high school here and didn't want to get married. She only agreed to her parents’ plan because she thought it might aid the Orsulich family. The Judge ordered the child to remain temporarily under the su- pervision of the Ccunty Detention Home. Cupik is away on a fishing trip and not expected to return before September. | .- Fort May Go to City in Site Exchange Plan LAREDO, Tex., July 16. — Fort host of a chance against Joe Louis. When he %ut when the dirigible Hindenburg carried him | 10WA SENATOR KILLED TODAY IN AUTO CRASH Louis Murphy Was News- paperman Before El- ection to Senate CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wisconsin. July 16—United States Senator Louis Murphy, Democrat of Iowa, was killed today in an automobile accident near Bloomer, north of re. { Louis Murphy was born in Du- buque, Iowa, and lived there all his life. He was a newspaper re- porter and editor for 20 years, and | first became a national figure when he was elected to the Senate in 11932 for a six-year term He is survived by a wife, Ellen ; Emma McGuire, whom he married +in 1917, and five children REEP CONCERT WINS AUDIENCE; WILL REAPPEAR \Contralto Responds to Many | Requests for Second Program Tomorrow hanging on his left arm, | Due to eountless requests from OF APPOINTMENT 2z il SENT DUFRESNE concert as well as from those who attended, Miss Ellen Reep, Juneau Man Approved by, Civil Service to Head rising contralto, has consented to give another concert tomor- Alaska Game Com. row night at the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. She is arranging a complete new program, and will appear in new costume. A glorious voice, singing a diffi- Formal confirmation of the ap-|cult classic program rewarded those pointment of Frank Dufresne as who attended Ellen Reep’s concert Executive Officeer of the Alaska at the Northern Light Presbyterian Game Commission was announced ' Church last night. Her audience— in a telegram today to Mr. Dufresne‘the church was full to capacity— from Stanley B. Young, Chief of the | was enthusiastic and appreciative. Division of Game Manaagement o(‘Xn the two years since her last| the Biological Survey. |concert in Juneau she passed from Dufresne's appontment had been'an aspiring artist to one who has‘ made several weeks ago, as an- accomplished her aspirations. nounced in The Empire at that time,! The very diversified program she following the transfer of Hugh Ter- | presented consisted of compositions hune, but formal approval awaxted‘mnglng from such long-loved melo- action of the Civil Service Com- dies as Grieg's “Spring” to the mission which has now passed on{more modern and perhaps more | his service record to conform with|flexible songs of American com- Civil Service regulations. posers. Miss Reep's personal and dramatic interpretations seemed to The appointment is effective as of | July 1. give a special vitality to her songs. | | MclIntosh, established here in 1850, may be given to the city in ex- change for a location further away from the Rio Grande. When Representative Milton West | advised Mayor Albert Martin that| the War Department was interest- ed in the proposal for a new regi- mental military post here, the May- or submitted a surveyed plot of; 1,250 acres to be exchanged for the river front site of the old fort. United States troops entered La- redo March 3, 1849, after the war with Mexico. - e As the result of a safety cam- pangn, hundreds of Salt Lake City motorists have placed metal tags on their cars reading: “Count on ,Me to Prevent Accidents.” | twelve Mr. Dufresne is now in the In- terior and is expected to return to his Juneau office in about three| weeks. He was formerly Assistant Executive Officer. | Mr. Terhune, whom he succeeds, | is now in charge of game refuge at| St. Charles, Arkansas. e s Leaves College in '66; | Receives Degree in '36 | GREENVILLE, S. C, July 16— James L. Moss, 91, received a de- gree from the Citadel 70 years after he was a student of the col- lege. Moss left the school at the age of 21 to enlist in the Confederate Army and said he never had the ppportunity to re-enter and finish work on his degree. " "The Citadel awarded him the de- gree as an honorary citation at the last graduation exercises. Mineral Produ;:tion of Alaska Last Increase WASHINGTON, July 16.—The In- [ terior Department announced mati Alaska, purchased from Russia ror: $7,200,000, produced minerals worth | eightes million, three hundred and | thousand dollars in alone, compared to sixteen million thre hundred and emf cm cmfwy seven hundred and twenty one thou- | sand dollars in 1934. The Department’s compilation | considered one of the most difficult | pret, gave her an opportunity to Her tones in pianissimo subjects | were handled beautifully and the dynamic effects were as subtly handled as if executed by an ex- acting instrumentalist. | She was probably at her best m; her Grieg songs. Grieg, who is composers for an artist to inter- show her great ability as an inter- pretor of songs. Dr. F. F. Beale, the accomplished | head of the Music Department, | College of Idaho, who accompanied | her, gave Miss Reep an artist's support at the piano. Miss Reep opened her program with the difficult “Dido’s Lament” | (Purcell) which charmed with its/ simple tragedy, followed by the lighter and gay “Love Has Eyes” (Bishop) and “Mary of Allendale” (Hook.) A group of Brahms' compositions (Continued on Page Eight) Year Shows Over Year 1934 showed the Territory of Alaska has produced in excess of six hundred and ninety-ejght million dollars in mineral wealth since 1880. Gold declined slightly in 1935 compared to 1934, but silver, copper, creased. The Department of Interior's ATTACK IS MADE ON BRITISH KING LONDON, July 16.—A man threw a loaded revolver at King Edward today as the British Monarch rode hor: ack at the head of a parade. No shots were fired. The King was not hurt, The revolver arrested. Scotland Yard officials did not give out the suspect’s name but he is held under the Firearms Act. It has developed that possibly the man intended to take a shot at the was quickly tosser Senator Willlam E. Borah (left), upper house of congress for 30 ye Democratic governor, C. Ben Ro: home from the East. Governor Ro hi the senate seat held by Borah. (Associated Press Photo) " BORAH MEETS SENATERIVAL | PEOPLE RUSH INTO STREETS DURING NIGHT . Tremors, Lasting Several King. A woman in grey knocked' * the gun from his hand and the| Segonds, Stnk'es Pan- man’s only comment was: I did| ic Into Residents Ty st e p WALLA WALLA VALLEY {CENTER OF MOVEMENT remanded to eight years on a charge of unlawful possession of a firegrm with intent to endanger a life {Oregon Town Sustains Damage — Operator Rolled from His Bed Scotland Yard said the man gave his name as George Andrew Mahon, a journalist. | A jeering throng was held back| by guards and police while the ar-| rest was being made. 1 SPOKANE, Wash., July 16.—Top- i pled chimneys, and at least one | badly damaged building occurred in Walla Walla Valley, the apparent center of an earthquike which awakened residents of three north- west states last night and sent many inhabitants racing out-of- doors. The tremors were felt for several seconds at 11 o'clock last night and several Spokane women cowered in a park in nightgowns. One mother snatched up her bab'y and raced barefooted up the street. The telephone operator at Fort George Wright was reported rolled from bed. The town of Milton Freewater, Oregon, reported the heaviest loss of any of the shaken towns. The corner of the Union Pacific depot collapsed, showering masonry and bricks to the sidewalk. Officials of the Utah Canning Company es- timated that $10,000 worth of dam- age was done to their warehouse, ¥ THOMPSON HAS TRANSFUSION Parties Would Be “All Things and to All Men”i SECRET SERVICE AND G-MEN ARE IN OPEN FIGHT Reports, Denials Former Making Investiga- tion of Latter WASHINGTON, July 16.—Hard feelings between the Secret Service and the G-Men burst into the open| today with reports and denials the| former is investigating the latter. | Reports have been current for| some time and hark back to the last ssion of Congress when it was ar- gyed whether the G-Men were spending too much money and whether too many persons were being shot in the war on crime. Attorney General Cummings said: | “There has been some activity I| suspect of an ill-advised nature.” BARANOF HAS TPASSENGERS FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, July 16 —Steamer Ba- ranof, of the Alaska Steamship Company, sailed for Southeast and Southwest Alaska last night at 11 o'clock with 89 first class and 32 steerage passengers aboard. Passengers aboard the Baranof| for Juneau include Ivar Anderson,| Anna Field, Mrs, Shaw, L. Martin, Miss M. Scott, Mrs. J. O. Cupples, 1935 | dead and miscellaneous minerals in-| Miss T. Cook B o1 Model afirplanes are a hobby of statement said a revival of copper mining is among the noteworthy incidents of 1935. Craig Reynolds, new recruit to the films, and he has one of the largest collections fn the world. | the members of all parties, but so is shown as he met Idaho's | " Young Man's Condition Is 'ocatello, Idaho, on his return announced his candidacy for | Reported as Extreme- ly Critical Don Thompson, former carpenter on the new Alaska Light and Pow- er Company building at Second and Franklin Streets, had a blood trans- | fusion given under the supervis- P ion of Dr. R. M. Coffey this morn- Broken party lines are by no ing at St. Ann's Hospital, making means a phenomenon new to Amer- ‘ the third transfusion given him ican politics, yet the present situa-| during the last month. tion has some aspects it would be Thnr:'lps:n, w:‘o 1fh29hy°”si :'ldi : 55 hictopy| WAS taken to the hospita difficult to match in the hmory:mfl month +suffering from a nose- hooks. |bleed. The bleeding has contin- Roosevelt’s speech of acceptance|ued intermittently since then and is one of them. Not only was his|the great loss of blood has neces- appeal very frankly and openly to|sitated the transfusions’ The pa- | tient’s condition is reported as ex= By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated ‘ Press, Washington) | ilton was warmly inviting far as memory serves, that mam- moth notification meeting on the Franklin Field was the first occas- jon when a Presidential candidate accepted nomination without men- tremely serious today. s Amateur Diver’s Outfit Made Largely of Junk tioning on what party tickct he was | running. But if there was no precedent for this specific omission, there w am- ple for the President’s general text of non-partisan pleading. publicans did the same t"ing in their Cleveland platform, and at the moment Roosevelt was wri n~ his speech Republican Chairm:n Ham- a former Democratic Presidential nomince, Al Smith, to camipaign for Landon and Knox. ALL VERY CONFUSING It is all very_conlusmg to people who are used to selecting their poli- tics by the old standard labels. Undoubtedly, among some poli- ticians on both sides, there is plen- ty of pretense about it—plenty of The Re-| } BONHAM, July 16.—Bonham has an amateur diver whose equipment consis largely of junk Earl !“Sparky” Sparkman. i The diving helmet is made of an ordinary hot water tank and has a heavy glass window. Air is pumped {lo him by means of inner tubes. !'The pump is an old style auto tire | pu | Sparky's dives have been made n the lake in the State Park here. jIe has been down to a depth of |10 feet. Once, he says, he went lnwvr. but the pressure was so great |ne threw off the helmet and beat | t hastily to the top. R Veteran’s $40 Ch Interrupted by Cops talking @bout principles above par- | ty cpupled with very definite and energetic efforts down underneath to oil up the same old party machin- ery which the spellbinders are pre- tending to discard PORTSMOUTH, Ohio. — Police | took a 43-year-old World War vet= eran who had just received his bons us money, to the station on intoxis cation charges. The desk sergeant noticed he was T Nevertheless, much of the cross- party appealing appears enough. The obsolete character of the party divisions as they have existed in recent years is recognized by many intelligent public men. For various reasons they have found it very difficult to get away from the| [old party and old party forms, but perhaps they are on the way to at (Continued on—Pa—ge- Three) genuine | | chewing paper. A probe produced a $40 chew. One $20 bill and two tens had become mixed with his tobacco, Houses on Wrong Lots KAMLOOPS, B. C—After living for years in homes they built, three local residents find that they were others. Now theyre considering moving the houses. mistakenly built on lots owned by , .