The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 24, 1936, Page 1

THE VOL. XLIX., NO. 7338. DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUN[:AU ALASKA TUESDAY, NOVFMB%R 24, 1936. MEMBhR ASSOCIATED PRFSS PRICE TEN CENT? FEAR DEATH TOLL OF 16 IN SLIDE ALASKA SHIPS ARE EXPECTED MOVE SHORTLY Colonel Ohls:Negotialing with Strike Leaders in - San Francisco SECRETARY ICKES GIVES HIS VIEWS Dr. Gruening—Also Adds Rosy Outline that Food to Come Soon SAN FRANCISQO, Cal., Nov. 24— Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Man- ager of the Alaska Railroad, this forenoon said he was hopeful ves- sels will be released to carry fresh food to Alaska. Striking unions are referring the proposal submitted to them by Col. Ohlson and expect to report to him late today. Col. Ohlson asked the unions to nan the steamers at the wages pre- railing at the time the strike was alled and any subsequent boost m‘ rages would be retroactive. TEAMER EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH VERY SOON WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—Secre- wy of lnterior Harold L. Ickes id food supplies will be on the ay to Alaska “in ten days.” He iade this statement at a press con- srence this afternoon. Secretary Ickes said Col. Ohlson ad completed arrangements with te strike leaders at San Francisco » release vessels. He said arrange- lents to ship food to Hawaii are ot complete, adding the situation not so acuté there as. in Alaska. Secretary Ickes sald he had au- dorized Col. ‘Ohlson to charter as jany vessels as needed and strike jaders have agreed, he said, that cews should be paid at the recent revailing rate with a proviso for stroactive payment if any increase i obtained in the strike settlement. ARRANGEMENTS NEAR WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. — Dr. imest Gruening, of the Interior Department, Terrifories Director, iredicted arrangements to send food upply ships to Alaska and Hawaii vould be completed ‘“probably to- lay,’ referring to San Francisco ne- jotiations. LL.A. PICKETING VANCOUVER, B, C, Nov. 24. — The ILA is picketing the water- font on the second day of the walk- @t. A dense fog is prevailing. The pickets are grouped peacefully 4 the street emnds of the docks. %he Vancouver Waterfront Em- Hoyees are moving freight aboard al vessels, notwithstanding the Prketing. SLIDE GOVERS POWER PLANT * AT ELECTRON O{w oid TEl;ree Employees | e njured Escaping—Light Load Is Shifted i TACOMA, Wash,, Nov. 24—The! hyiro-electric plant of the Puget Somnd Power and Light Company at Electron on the Puyallup River, 35 miles south of here, was cover- ed by a huge landslide when the pemtock broke. Qneé of the three employees was slightly injured. The electric service was only slightly interrupted as the load was shified to the White River plant. The Electron plant cost nearly $5,000/000 when built in 1800. The damige however, is estimated at $1,00,000. James Spencer, aged 25, received slight head and arm cuts. The slide happened to be late at night. Above, roof of the Matson Boarding House and remains of other Below, where the Nickinovich Apartments once stood there day avalanche on Lower Franklin Street. buildings caught in the Sun- is only muck and debris. (Photos by Ordway’s, Times, Wide-World.) (Pilot Barr CHET BROWN s Vey Mch 1 1ve, days d0 REPURTED TU } Yesterday there was a wild rumor BE MISSING BULLETIN—The AAT receiv- | ed a request this afternoon from Hugh Brewster, Aeronautic In- spector for Alaska, to take off as soon as possible to make a search fof missing Chet Brown. Sheldon. Simmons, flying a Lockheed, and with two mechan- ics aboard, will take off to- morrow morning at daylight, weather permitting. lan accident The Empire did not print the rumors, not believing that is good policy in any case, unless reports are positively verified. This following radiogram from Anchor- age, which is self-explanatory: “Understand you received report |T crashed. Naturally interested in| | my own death so please forward any | details you may receive.” (Signed)> L. F. BARR. o TEMPERATURE DROPS, NORTH Chet Brown, piloting a tri-motor Ford plane with 12 passengers on board and a mechanic, took off from Cordova for Juneau at 8 o’clock yes- terday morning, according to advic- es received by the Weather Bureau. According to advices received by the AAT a plane left Cordova this morning. to make a search. The Cutter Morris, in a radio to the Tallapoosa and released by Commander N. G. Ricketts, states that she will keep a lookout for the missing plane, but the weather is stormy and visibility low over the | Gulf of Alaska. The Morris also reported that a| gale was blowing off Cape St. Ehm yesterday morning starting at 10 o'clock and continuing until t‘flrlY: Snow is ranging from flurries to last evening. | 2lmost three inches in a wide sec- - — |t of the northern part of the COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA United States and winterish weath- DISCONTINUES PRACTICES er prevails. UNTIL AFTER FIRST YEAR| There is heavy snow in South iDakota and Pennsylvania. Snow Is Also Fallmg Over | Wide Section—Paci- i fic Coast Warm CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 24—Freez- {ing weather is reported over most of the northern tier of states to- | day. Owing tosthe many activities in the city, practices of the Juneau eral temperature of 27 degrees above Community ; Orchestra will be dis-|zero, continued until after the first of the‘ It year. “Netice will be given at the|Coast. time practiges are resumed,” says Byron Mulu, leader of the orches- tra, is warm along the Pacific - ROTARY CLUB MEETS ————— ANKLE—NOT WRIST It was am ankle that Represen- tative-elect George Laiblin injured last Saturday night and not his wrist as previously reported. The Legislator will be confined to his home for several days, it is under- V. W. Mulvihill was introduced as a new member at. the Rotary Club today by President A. B. Phillips at the regular weekly luncheon today at the Terminal. Entertainment was provided by community singing, J. F. Blanchard gave a talk on “The Credit Sys- that Pilot L. F Barr had met with| forenoon The Empire received the| PORTION U. S. New York State reports a gen-| | | | LEE'S CALL TO WIFE STOPPED BY EARTHSLIDE; At the time the lights went out |last Sunday evening's slide, George | Lee was attempting to telephone his wife from an uptown restaurant {and failing to receive a connvcuun because of the power shutoff, went | toward his home, in the Nickino- vich Apartments, only to come upon | |the slide scene and learn that his| wife was one of the victims, All night long, and all the nexl day, Mr. Lee helped to comb the wreckage, before at least being forc- ed to abandon hope of his wife's survival, neither he nor his friends having seen any trace of her. Mr. Lee left his wife at 6:15 Sun-| day evening, in order to get some-| | thing to eat and go to work. Mrs. Lee was not feeling well and had declined an invitation to join the dinner party at their neighbor, Joe Vanali’s place. Mrs. Lee did not feel like going out to eat with her hus-| band, and Mrs. Vanali had promised to bring her in some of the turkey being served at the dinner. ‘When Mr. Lee called his employ- er to find out where he was to go to work, he was told that there would be no work for him that night, as it was too wet. He was just calling his wife to tell her that he was com- ing home when the lights went out. Mrs. Lee was the sister of Lee Barragar, who was to have left An- chorage by plane this noon, immed- lately after the news of his sister being missing reached him. Besides Lee Barragar, Mrs. Lee’s relatives include her mother and father in Seattle, Mrs. Olive Barragar, and J. E. Barragar Sr., her father’s brother. MRS. LAITO HERE Mrs. Oscar Laito, wife of the Sitka man who is believed to have been caught in the earthslide here last Bunday evening, arrived in Juneau this afternoon from that lcny by Alaska Air Transport plane. Above, Mayor Goldstein and Wallis George tion while the Mayor takes a couple minutes off George'’s plant was damaged. Below, trucks by the trees. (l‘hol.os by Ordway's, Tnne\s, Wide- “orld) TOURISTS IN | HONOLULU ARE COMING HOME |Over Four Hundred Trans- ferred from Barge at | Sea to Liner 1 HONOLULU, H. 1., Nov. 24 of Honolulu’s strike bounc [(Jllll‘~‘> ‘dl’e now enroute to the mainland of the United States after a dra- i matic transfer in a rough sea from a pineapple barge to the Matson | liner Monterey late last night. | Pour nhundred and forty-seven| passengers were transferred two' miles off shore under the ship’s | searchlights becausy the company officials feared the ship would be tied-up as it came into port. ——e < VICTIMS OF SLIDE NOW RECOVERING Victims of the earth slide of last Sunday night are slowly recovering from their injuries in St. Ann’s Hosptial. - Several will be patients of the institution for perhaps weeks, i however. NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—Closing Mrs. William Lott is suffering quotation of Alaska Juneau mine|from leg fractures, bruises, and stock today is 15, American Can|culs. At the time of the slide she 122%, American Light and Power | Was playing pinochle with Mr. and 11%, Anaconda 50%, Bethlehem)Mrs. Gust Erickson. When the steel 70%, Calumet and m(h\mhts went out Mr. Erickson grop- 14%, Columbia Gas and Electric 17%, [ed his way toward a table that ICOIHanweB]Lh and Southern 3 held some matches, he then opened Curtiss Wright 6e, General Motors |the door and yelled, “Stay back!” 70%, International Harvester 98%, Just then the stove pinned him to Kennecott 61, New York Central|the wall and the chimney fell on 43%, Simmons 46%, Southern Pa- \11\ Erickson and Mrs. Lott. Mr. cific 41%, United States Steel 74%, |Erickson said he believed he heard United Corporation 7, Cities Ser- | his wife say something just as he vice 3%. Bremner bid .02, Pound|was being carried out. $4.80%. Mr. Erickson ?{fers from severe |cuts and bruises, DOW, JONES AVERAGES | Mrs. Hazel Justin, who'is recov- The following are today’s DoW,|ering nicely from the shock and Jones averages: industrials 18111, pruises, was able to remember more up 247; rails 5528, up 55; utilities | than others of the victims of the 34.84, up 41. |slide. She was in the apartment L S with her son George Justin as the Other Slide lights went off. “He yelled for her Pi | to run out. She didn’'t think they Elsewhere : ~ hould but went as far as the she saw of hind - 2] 4 STOCK QUOTATIONS .I} heard many screaming and Pete Battello standing outside the corner apartment and be- him several other (Continued on Page Eight) Slide pictures, besides those on the first page, will be found on Pages 5 and 6, today’s Em- Ppire. persons. | W o .s‘* of the Juneau Cold Storage plant look over the situa- from directing cleanup operations. cold storage plant carrying away the mud, rocks and The front of Mr. Lurge Sum of M oney N eeded to Pay for Emergency Work As Result of Slulo Disaster| Mayor Estimates at Least $20,000 to $25,000 Must Be Raised—Faulkner Named to Head Fund-Raising Committee — Donations Should Be Made at Once At least from $20,000 to $25,000, probably more, will be required by the city to clear away after the avalanche of Sunday evening on Lower Franklin Street, it was esti- mated by Mayor 1. Goldstein today as he named a public committee headed by H. L. ner, City Attorney. Others on the committee are Shattuck, John Reck, John and R. E. Robertson. “A considerable sum of mon»y be required immediately,” Faulkner this afternoon. contributions from every cn: and substantial contributions from tho.c who can afford it. We are g support from the Outside cnd must do something in Ju 1 selves as we cannot expect t side world to help us unle ourselves.” hiels Sends $1,000 Following an inquiry to M: ner and Gov. Troy, Ar Pacific American Fisherie radioed $1,000 toward the fund,| $500 from the Alaska Packers and $500 from his own organization. Several other contributions from l!u- Outside are expected following re- plies fo inquiries. | This money will go into a special Jones we |fund for the city and will be sep-| arate and apart from the funds used in rehabilitating refugees from the disaster. The latter work is be- ing carried on by the Red Cross.| That organization, under the direc- tion of Chairman John Newmarker, was providing for two families to- day and he said they would take h and as she hesitated there |CAT® Of others as the occasion arose. Red Cross headquarters in San Francisco has radioed Chief New- marker for a full account and said it stood ready to respond immed- (Continued on Page Three) Mi) Allen = 4 MORE BODIES FOUND,BRINGING TOTAL TO FIVE 11 Others Are Stll Report- ed Missing with No Hope for Their Lives HOAGS, SON FORREST, MRS. VANALI LOCATED 3 Women and Elderly Man Added to List of Those Unaccounted For FLASH BULLETIN—Little 3-year-old Lorraine Vanali was being res- cued alive this afternoon at 4 o’clock from the slide. “I've been alone a long time. Won’t you hurry and get me out,” little Lorraine Vanali told rescuers when they located her in the debris of the Nickino- vich Apartments late this after- noon. y Lorraine, three - year - old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Vanali, slide victims, was the pet of all who knew her, ac- cording to Dave Davenport, As- sistant Manager of the Gas- tineau Hotel, where her father was employed as maintenance man. “She is a little doll, with short dark curls. We all love her,” said Mr. Davenport when he first heard that she was found. “It's too good to be true,” he added. | | Four bodies were recovered from |the Lower Franklin Street aval- (nmhe last night, bringing the to- (tal known dead in Sunday's dis- ms!.er to five. Four more persons |were reported missing today, hold- ilng the number missing at eleven, ‘hope for whom has been given up. | Officials estimated fhe total death an probably will be at least six- [teen. There may be others of which |no record has yet been obtained. | The four bodies recovered last ‘mght were those of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Hoag and Mrs. Hoags young son, Forrest Beaudin, a Mrcshman in Juneau High School, jand Mrs. Joe Vanali. Mrs. Gust | Erickson’s body was taken out Sun- day night. All the bodies were ‘bad]y scarred and broken, indicat- ‘mg that death in nearly all cases had been almost instantaneous. ( The Missing List | The missing list today included Ithe following, none of whom are expected to be brought out alive now: MRS. JAMES RONA, wife of Jim Rona, of Juneau, and sister of Jack P. Brown of Hoonah, who arrived here this afternoon to aid in thu search. She lived in the Nickino- _vich Apartments. M LENA PETERSON, of the 10w White Laundry, who lived with her son, Arthur, at the Matson Bearding House. She also has a 1 and daughter in Oakland, Cal. ghter, Mrs. Margaret ‘Stew- been notified in response of inquery. iEORGE LEE, who ickinovich. Her husb: eft a few minutes before to 2o to work., He is a truck driver, and he reported today be had given LY MAN, who had a the Nickinovic] whose ot yet teen ascertained, ND MRS. HU PETER- ‘TE BATTELLO. MRS. FRED MATSON.. JOE VANALI AND THREE-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, LORRAINE. OSCAR LAITO, of Sitka, who was |rooming at Matson's. Three Leave Hospital Three of the nine persons taken out alive Sunday night and remov- ed to St. Ann’s Hospital have been able to leave the hospital. They are Albert Persson of the Tallapoosa and his two children, Gail and Al- len Persson. Mrs. Persson is still in the hospital suffering from shoeck and bruises. Others in the hospital are August Maki, who is suffering from cuts and bruises; Alfred Bates, who is re- ported in serious condition as the | result of a plerced side; Gust Erigk- son, cuts, bruises and crushed; Hazel Justin; ‘tufs’and cruises, and” * (Continued on Page Eight) Mirsie o