The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 26, 1938, Page 8

. 8 DEATH TOLL IN HURRICANE AREA NOW ABOVE 475 Property Damage in Five Stricken States Estimated at TwoHundred Million REHAB]LlTATlON WORK | IS ALREADY STARTED| Administrator Hopkins Ar- rives on Scene—Con- f(‘l'fi V\llh G()\'(‘rnol'.\' BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 26 Hatry L. Hopkins, WPA Admi istrator, mapped out a rehabilita- tion program with the Governors of the hurricane. flood and fire strick- en New England States and relief workers, reports tabulated show tI the identified dead has reached above 475 through discovery of more bodies in the storm area Authorities estimate the property e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 1938. Fake Sweepstakes Tickets S 35% e Assistant United States District Attorney Jackson Holtz (left) and Acting District Attorn annavan, of Boston, are pictured in the Fed- sral building, Boston, inspecting some of the fifteen tons of fake sweep- stakes tickets seized from all sections of the country. Republican Is Victor in Maine damage in Rhode Island, Ma chusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire to be about two hundred million dollars. Administrator Hopkins said all storm projects will be put on an emergency basis, all ordinary regu- |~ altions will be waived and ther will be no time limit placed no hours for work. It appears probable that the final toll of death will reach 500, ¥ All relief agencies are called" out to meet the ex demands of suc- coring the victims. e ——— — LOYALISTS ON SPANISH FRONT STALL REBELS HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, Sept. 26. — Bad weather and strong Government resistance i5 believed to have stalled the In- surgent effort to reconquer the Ebro River salient in eastern Spain Both Spanish Government and Insurgent communiques agree that the irom is qulct Can't Keep His Campaign Bids ; Can't Fill Chair TULSA, Sept. 26.—“I'm built for comtort, not speeq, uaid Eddie J Shields (weight 348 pounds), whe disclosed he lost 48 pounds in & campaign for police commissioner Shields was elected and he saic big hi the bis about fill worry now s slogan: “I can He said he had discovered he not only fills the chair in the polic’ commissioner’s office but fills it too well and it may bave to be re- built to accommodate him. Especial- ly if he gains back the 48 pounds — e — Clipper Cancels Out; Poor Skies Bad weather between Seattle and Juneau prevented the Alaska Clip-| per from taking off today on its| seventh trial flight over the new ait route, according to advices received from Seattle today by the PAA of- fice here, The flight will be attempted again tomorrow, and probably Joe Cros- sen, General Manager of Pacific Alaska Airways, will fly the PAA Stinson Reliant north also. Crosser recently flew a hospital case to Se- aftle from Fairbanks, via the In- terior route. >-ee BasketBall Artist Here; Formerly { With Oilers { With the basketball season just over the sports horizon in Juneau a new bit of material has appeared in the person of Leonard Bishop a first stringer from the famed Tul- sa_ Oilers. Bishop came to Juneau looking for a job—and if jobs are given ou | for basketball artists, he ought Ic| click in a hurry for the name “Tulsa Oilers,” in basketball parlance, i| just another way of saying “class.’ i Besides playing for the Oiler: has also played for Univer- ral—both teams considered tops ir Wfi- casaba play. W OmClALS AT BETHEL " Assistant Commissioner William | Jr., of the Bureau ot Indian Affairs in Washington anc G eral Superintendent C. M. ol the Bureau in Alaska are Béthel, according to word jumu office here and wil o thére to Eklutna. Dr. J. F. ‘Medical Director, who ac- | | them to Bethel has gone 30 Freighter Tanana wort from Seattle h umber during the day The freighter has been discharg Dinners from 5 till 9 Daily. ng coal al the Pacific Coast Coal | Special Sunday Dinners 11 to 9. Junkers ) > JUNO-MAID ICE CREAM 5 | Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows (above), of Maine, along with three other Republican candidates, were swept into offices in the first 1938 election in the United States. Barrows defeated former Gov. Leuis J. Brann, Democrat. Barrows is shown in his office at Augusta, Me., as he read cheering election returns.—AP Photo. Gov. Empire classifieas pav You DINE BEST WHEN YOU Arrives Today DINE Freighter Tanana, of the Alaska AT THE eamship Company, arrived in ROYAL and will sail for c Westward with a shipment CAFE In Dishes, Cones or Bulk Try an Empire ac. Carpenters Attention SPECIAL MEETING—TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27—8:00 P. M. Election of Delegate to Unity Conference. YOUR ATTENDANCE REQUESTED ART PETERSON, R. S. GO MODERN A Grand Luxury! Automatic Hot Water ! Not hot one hour and cold the next but Hot all the time. We'll be glad to explain. RICE & AHLERS CO. Third and Franklin Streets PHONE 34 —_———_— ...ATTENTION... JUNEAU MINE & MILL WORKERS UNION 203 Important—All members requested to attend meeting MONDAY, SEPT. 26. S I 'REV, DR. BURKE, | see " DISTINGUISHED - ALASKAN, DIES Cleric and Physman, Well-| known in Interior, Pass- es Away in Seattle SEATTLE, Sept. 26. The Rev. r. Grafton Burke, 51, one of Al- 's most distinguished clerics and | physicians is dead here. He suf- fered from a nervous breakdown and complicated stomach ailment hortly after Episcopal Bishop P r. Rowe ordained him priest of the Episcoal Church last August The Rev. Dr. Burke wa taken seriously ill at Fort Yukon sever weeks ago, was flown to Fairbanks and then came out over the Alaska | Railroad to Seward and was brought | to Seattle by steamer. comban- ied by a nurse. He died while in a state of coma. The Rev. Dr. Burke was founder and physician-in-charge of the Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital at Fort Yukon and Priest-in-Charge of St. Stephen’s mission. He ha been stationed in Alaska about 30 years Mrs. Burke was at the bedside of her husband when he passed on. SEAPLANECRASH rdoan nooe SUNDAY INJURES (Continued riom Page One) Alaska Air Transport Pilot John Amundsen flew to Hawk Inlet to- off the water, all fl day to bring in Oscar Danielson 'lost and the plane dropped.” and John Doe in the AAT Stinson. According to Goudie, Simmons Saturday afternoon, Shell Sim- then got his passengers out, even being forced to dive under the half submerged elage to get one of ns flew Harry Lucas and George Folta to Mary Joyce's Taku River Lodge and Pilot Amundsen was to them out, and got everyone safely pick up the two today. ashore. On the return flight Saturday, Once ashore, Simmons walked the two miles into Chichagof and sent 1 boat out for his passengers, Goudie said he understood Simmons to say. Simmons brought in Pete Turner. prospector, from the upper Whiting River country AN S . Mrs. Gallemore, passenger in the plane, and Mrs. Lee Atkinson, of Chichagof, both trained nurses, gave Simmons first aid. Weather at the time of the crash was “thicl according to reports received a short time before Sim- mons was forced down. That the well known flier dis- played his usual calm and thought Mrs. Spickett fo Sujuurn in South Mrs. Lottie Spickett, well-known for safety of those he was carry- Juneau pioneer and property own- | ing, is evidenced by the manner in er, left for the States on the which he rescued his passengers Princess Louise expecting to remain for the winter months. Mrs. Spickett will first visit with the Ben Burfords in Seattle, from where she will go to Corning, Cal., to be with her sister, Mrs. Whit- nack, then to San Francisco, where she will visit her niece, Georgia Graef, after which she plans “to relatives in Los Angeles. - Today's News Today..—F'mplre. and then stoically himself dering to first aid, but last. Passengers Arrive Three of the five passengers who were with Simmons arrived in Ju- neau this afternoon with Marine Airways Pilot Alex Holden. They were all young miners from Chichagof, Ernest Hill, Dorr Hol- loway, and Jim Rocheleau. All were slightly injured in one way or another and told a story of a surren- | Light up a Chesterfield and you’ll get your wish for refreshing mildness, better taste and pleasing aroma. ° You'll say... “Chesterfield is a great cigarette.” I t takes good things to make a good product. That’s why we use the best ingredients a cigarette can have. .. mild ripe tobaccos and pure cigarette paper . . . to make Chesterfield the cigarette that smokers say is milder and better-tasting. | Tom Marshall who has retired after serving the White House for 39 | years, is pictured above. In the 39 years he has been librarian, bookbinder | and gencral factotum to all Presidents from William McKinley to | Franklin D. Roosevelt. | wk water the few fortunate escape fell in shallow from shore Ernest Hill, head, cut on t plane feet a bruised on the fore- e chin and limping with a wrenched knee, said he “didn’t know how he got out.” He said the plane crashed “neax the beach about 2!2 miles out of Chichagof.” Waded to Meach Dorr Holloway, with a badly gash- ed hand, a cut ankle received when he battered a window out and climbed to safety from the water filled cabin, said he few feet” to where he to the ch, Jim Rocheleau, stiff with bruises, said he climbed out the door All told of Simmons’ heroism in diving to the s 1 cabin ut eight feet und ater and pulling M Gallemore free. ‘She seemed to be the least in- jured of any of us,” Holloway said But I guess she just got her safety belt loose in time, and if it hadn't been for Shell going down afte her, it might have been more serious.” could wade Picked Up The three sa on the beach ab a half hou before the troller ‘Dynamite Kid picked them up. The plane is com- all waited pletely wrecked, they said, wings and fuselage twisted and broken and the floats broken loose. The wreck occurred in about fifteen feet of water, the plane nosing in leaving the tail sticking out. The wreckage is dry at low tide. A fourth senger, “Joe,” an- other miner, was uninjured and went on to Sitka. Mrs. Gallemore returned to Hirst, where she had bearded the plane. - Try an Empire ad “swam only a An OId-Timer Quits His Job NEW DEFENSE AT GIBRALTAR NOW PREPARED Mighty Fon'-lres; Well Pro- tected—Call for Vol- unteers Issued R, Sept. 26, — Extra protecting the south- to Admiralty Harbor and this mighty British for are reported all made and in place preparedness move. GIBRAL' for defenses ern entrance a war al authorities have also called on volunteers from ages 14 to 55 for air d pre ition service, ! Thousands of foreigners, mostly Spanish refugees, are already leav- |ing. BROWN BEAR SAILS TODAY FOR SEATTLE Game Commission Vessel in Sunday from Summer Patrol to Aleutians | Arriving here Sunday annual patrol trip to tians, the Alaska Game n vessel Brown Bear, Capt. John |O. Sellovold, sailed at 11 o'clock this morning for Seattle where she will stay during the winter Abeard the Brownie stopping off here were Frank Dufre: Execu- tive Officer of the commission, Mrs, from her the Aleu- Commis- Dufresne, and Wildlife Agent Doug- las G ho headed the patrol to the nds summer. Going outh t morning were Assistant Executive Officer Homer Jewell who i scuth on fur cases in Seat and Portland; Victor B. biologist of the Biological ey who made the patrol trip to the Aleutians; Lucille Fox, clerk in the Governor's Office, who is roing to Seattle on ation and Louise Kemper of the Forest Serv ice, who is going to Minneapolis on vacation, Among the trophies brought back by Gr this year is the skull of a sea otter, a rarity in modern times, He found it on the beach at Oglinga Island. It is in an excel lent state of preservation, both jaws and the teeth are intact. Gray reported the sea otter apparently increasing. Dufresne, who was in the Kenai district on game matters, reported the greatest floods in that area since 1917. The water ot Skilak Lake was six feet above mdm.u\ high water and consid |done in some when he left, ble damage W of the are he , par- ticularly on the Moose Pass high- way. |3 il DRUMMER Helen Jones stands atop the south’s famed Lookout mountain, scene of the “Battle Above the Clouds” in 1863, to beat her stirring sum- mons to the national Chicka- mauga _celebration. She's from nearby Cha"anooga, Tenn. Shower leenTuday For Mrs, J. Newman Mrs. William Reck and Mrs. Tom George are entertaining this after- noon at the Distin Avenue home of Mrs. Reck, with dessert-bridge and a handkerchief shower, honoring Mrs. John Newman, who is leaving soon for the States. Fall flowers are being used as dec- orations for the occasion, with the following guests present for the af- terncon: Mrs. Don Newman, Murs Nellie Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Walter Ro- binson, Mrs. C. C. Rulaford, Mrs. Jesse Harmon, Mrs. Ray Peterman, Mrs. Harry Iffert, Mrs. Kate Jar- man, Mrs. Fox and Mrs. Mary Mi- chaelson. - LEGION TO ELE Election of officers will be held by Alford John Bradford Post, Am- erican Legion, tonight in the Dug- out. Prior to the meeting a session f the Executive Committee has been called for 7 o'clock to go over the year’s business and prepare to turn the affairs to the new offi- "cers who take office October 3 Chesterfield Time. on Your Radio PAUL WHITEMAN PAUL DOUGLAS JOAN EDWARDS THE MODERNAIRES Every Wednesday Evening AUl C. B. S. Stations .with MORE PLEASURE for millions Copyright 1938, LicerTr & Myzas Tosacco Cou b ». "w