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The Washington times., 1936-10-12
DIED

BEAN, CLARENCE--on Friday, October
o, 1886, at his residence, 72s Taylor
Street Northwest. CLARENCE BEAN, the
beloved husband Of the late Elizabeth
Bean member of Stansbury Lodge
No. "a F. A. A. NJ.
Funeral services on Monday. October IL,
1886, at 2 p. M, from his late residence
72S Taylor Street Northwest.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
Interment in Glenwood Cemetery with
Services by ". W. Chambers Co.
DEAVER, ROY Bon Saturday October
10. 1885, at Tuberculosis Hospital. ROY
B. DEAVER, the beloved husband Of
Della Deaver. of 1925 Park Road North
west, and father of Roy B. Deaver. jr..
c, Deaver and Shirley NJ. Deaver.
Funeral services from the residence Of
Mrs Ernest r. Schaffer. 221S Minnesota
Avenue Southeast on Monday, October IL,
1885, at 2 80 p. m.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
Interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Services by Chambers Co.
EDGAR. CASsANDRA-on Sunday Octo.
ber IL. 1885 at Providence Hospital,
CASSANDRA EDGAR the beloved wife OF
Charles H Edgar and mother Of Mrs; Les
Edwards Mrs. Grin C. Young, Mrs. Foster
C. MAYNARD land and GiibeEt E EdSsT GSsmb. n
s. E. on Tuesday October IS. at Il O.:
clock noon Thence to St. SteDhens Epls-
copal Church Mllersville, Maryland whers
services will be held at 2 p. m. Relatives
and friends are invited.
Interment in st Stephens Church CemS
terry.
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Relatives and friends are invited.
Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Services by W. W. Chambers Co.
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Remains resting at her late residence.
5403 Forty-first st. \. w.
Funeral services from St. Stephen
Episcopal Church. Newton and Center
Streets Northwest. on Monday. October IL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24
Firemen Hampered
BY Snow Drifts

R. Lloyd, predicted the mercury
would continue mounting, but
added that the cold will be fol.
lowed by driving Snowstorms in
most of the upper Mississippi
Valley.
Chicago, where the temperature
dropped to Ill degrees below zero
yesterday, was promised a reading
in the neighborhood of Is above
by midday. The temperature at
midnight was IL below. The bitter
cold took a toll of eight lives here.
Chicago and suburban hospitals
were crowded. Miss Edith Field,
nurse, faced amputation of her
feet today. She was rescued late
yesterday from far out on frozen
Lake Michigan where she had
wandered during the blizzard Wed
neSday night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24
POINTED
FOR SLASH IN
LIGHT RATE
Enqineer Would Value
Property Retirement
On New Basis

Through testimony of a New
York consulting engineer, the
Public Utilities Commission was
informed today of a means by
which heavy slaSheS could be
made in the 1896 rates to be
charged consumers by the Potomac
Electric Power Company.
The engineer, Andrew Sangster,
testified at the public hearing be-
ing conducted by the commission
of the proposal to cut the COM
pany's 7 per cent minimum rate
of return permitted under the
sliding scale arrangement.
Would Lower Rate Base
In his testimony, Mr.. SangSter
informed the commission that
the company's rate base, figured
at 500, 425, 900, as of December 81,
1885, coulC be reduced by $3,289,-
600, if another method was
adopted of valuing properties re-
tired by the company since De
cember, 1924, when consent de-
cree of the District Supreme
Court set up the sliding scale
method for rate fixing.
RetirementS, the witness told
the commission, are carried on
both the company's and the com.
MISSIONS records at $6,053, SAT.
The engineer said these figures
were based on original cost"
estimates.
Mr.. SangSter suggested that by
using 1924 price figures and fol-
lowing price trends, ano h r
method of valuing the properties
could be used. by which the re-
tirementS would be valued at
$9,342,824. He declare this
method would meet with the re-
quirements in the consent decree.
RetirementS Deducted
Since retirements are deducted
from the rate base. this suggested
method WOULD cut the 500, 425 900
figure by $3,289,000. The 7 per
cent return rate allowed under
the sliding scale consequently
would be figured against the
lowered base rate, making the
company's excess profit greater
than the $169.170 now estimated.
Half of the excess profits are
used as a basis for rate reduc-
tons, under the sliding scale ar
rangement.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24
TRAFFIC TOLL
RISES HERE
TO 13
Miss Nettie Graham,
so, Dies From Injuries
At Emergency

One person lay dead today and
three others we're recovering from
injuries as result of traffic acci.
dents in Washington yesterday.
The dead person-the thir-
teenth traffic victim of 1936-waS
Miss Nettie Graham, 80, of 1903
Nineteenth st. N. w.
Just after alighting from a
street car at Eleventh and G Sts.,
N. W., yesterday afternoon, Miss
Graham slipped and fell under
the wheels of the trolley as it
started to move.
She was rushed to Emergency
Hospital, where she succumbed
shortly before midnight. A sis
ter, Anna Graham, of the Nine
tenth Street address, was noti-
fled by police.
The death of Miss Graham
paralleled exactly that of another
traffic victim. She was killed at
the same corner by street car
operated by the same mctorman
whose trolley on January z
struck Charles Jackson, 38, col.
ored, 1416 Sixth st. N. W., police
declared today. He was exon"
Grated of any blame in the Jack
son death.
The motorman, Daniel F. Hart
nett, "a, of the TOO block Of
Eighth st. N. w., was arrested
by Sergt. o. R. Sanders Of the
Traffic Bureau and was being
technically held for action of the
coroner in an inquest to be held
on Miss Graham's death.
In a freak accident at North
Capitol Street and Rhode Island
Avenue this morning, an automo-
bile which police said was oper.
ated by J. Franklin Beal, %, Of
1911 B st. N. E., careened into
tree after a collision with a
car driven by C. Oscar Green,
1923 Thirteenth st. N. w.
Beal was taken to Garfield Hos.
pital, and sent to his home after
being treated for minor cuts and
bruises.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24
Aged Man and Sister
Dead in Chicago Blaze

CHICAGO, Jan. "a G.N.SO.
Trapped by fire in a wooden ga
rage used as a combined home and
office, Joseph Scarf, TO, a junk
dealer, and his sister, Anna, IS,
died of suffocation early today.
An overheated stove was blamed
for the fire.
The deaths increased the Chi.
cago death toll due to overheated
stoves and furnaces to six since
the sub-zero temperatures encom.
passed the city Tuesday night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24
2 Die, 80 Rescued As Fire
Sweeps N. Y. Building

NEW YORK, Jan. "a G.N.S0.
An elderly couple persisted, one
man was injured critically and
80 persons were carried to safety
down fire ladders today when
fire swept two upper floors of a
four-story rooming house in the
midtown district.
Joseph Smith, SIS, and his wife,
Farah, 81, were burned to death
as they slept. John Mccarthy,
Sc, was injured severely while
making his way from the flaming
structure.
Bitter cold, which hampered
fire fighting efforts. necessitated
treatment of 10 of those rescued
for exposure,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24

One person lay dead today and
three others we're recovering from
injuries as a result of traffic acci.
dents in Washington yesterday.
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office, which are located in the
same block. Firemen kept the
flames confined to the theater
however. The building was com
pletely wrecked inside.
Firemen were handicapped by
the zero temperatures which
coated streets and sidewalks with
ice.
Six firemen had a narrow es
cape when they were trapped by
a falling section of the roof, but
they escaped without injury.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24
Chicago Weather Toll 8
As Relief Is Promised

CHICAGO, Jan. "a. 0.N.S).
It's fury spent, the icy blast which
brought death, suffering and mil
lions of dollars of property dam.
age to the Midwest will further
release it's grip today.
The government forecaster, ].
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24
Don't Neglect Dangerous
HIGH BLOOD
PRESSURE

Headaches, shOrtness Of breath and dizzy
spells may be warnings of high blood pres
sure. To get at the cause, drink Mountain
Valley Mineral Water, direct from famous
Hot Springs, Arkansas. Endorsed by physi-
clans for over 80 years. Phone for booklet.
Mountain Valley Mineral Water
MET. 1853 n 1GOS X Of. NJ W.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24
Would License Cats

BOSTON G.N.S).-Representa-
tive James Woodward of Hyannis
has new idea for raising
revenue. He filed a bill in the
house requiring the licensing Of
catS-at so cents each.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24
Record for Cow

CLOVERPORT, KY, QN.SO.
P. M. Ringo believes COW on his
farm might have a record. She
has raised triplets and twins in
aide Of Is months.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24

wound his feet with chains when
sidewalks were slick. He made his
rounds on schedule.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-24
Chain Skids for Walkers

GLASGOW, KY. G.N.SO.-They
work for cars-why not for hui
mans? With this theory, Elem
Underwood, local mail carrier,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15

WASHINGTON, May 15.-A stall wart Kentuckian will deliver the Democratic answer to the Repub- lican challenge voiced by rugged Oregonian.
 Two weeks after Senator Fred erick Steiwer gives the keynote speech at the Republican conven- tion in Cleveland, Senator Alben w. Barkley will sound the Demo- cratic call to arms at the Phila- delphia convention, which opens June g.
 A seasoned campaigner and a frequent Senate defender of the Roosevelt Administration, the sen for Kentucky Senator keeps a powerful. resonant voice virtually always in tune for oratorial action.
 Attacked Hoover
 Withdrawing as a possible favor ite son candidate in 1892 to sup port the nomination of MT. Roose- welt, Barkley was selected as the temporary chairman of the nation al convention at Chicago
 His keynote speech there was a blistering attack on the Hoover Ad- ministration, and he followed it up with vigorous campaign for the election of Roosevelt and Garner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15
ICE BREAKS
 ACCRAVATINC
 FLU SCOURCE
200 Persons Stricken-Six Natives Dying at
 Fort Yukon

FORT YUKON, Alaska, May 15.- Winnifred Dalziel, school teacher here, said the week. epidemic of 200 cases of influenza with six na7 tives dying is believed to be wan ing. Four nurses and doctor labored over cases in the forty bed Hudson Stuck Hospital.
 The epidemic was aggravated when the Yukon ice broke Sun day at midnight inundating numer- ous cabins and stores, and flooding the streets with eight feet of wa ter. There are only three new cas7 es, it was reported today.
 The ice in the Porcupine river has not yet broken but the flood is sub siding.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15
DR. CRUENINC, PARTY VISITING
 SEWARD TODAY
At Matanuska Tomorrow and Thence to Fairbanks
 by Plane Sunday

SEWARD, Alaska, May 15 Spec ial to The Empire visiting Columbia Glacier and Valdez yes- terday, Gov. John w. Troy and Dr. Ernest H. Gruening, Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, and party arrived here today on the steamer Alaska. pr. Gruening and the Governor are in vestigating and listing various pro- jects recommended by the com- munities and today were guests of the Seward Chamber of Commerce for luncheon.
 This afternoon the party was being taken by Col. Otto F. Ohlson over the Alaska Railroad to An chorage and tomorrow morning will go to Matanuska to attend the first anniversary celebration of arrival of the Colonists and meeting of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation of which both are members of the Board.
 Dr. Gruening is much impressed with the possibilities in Alaska, commenting especially on the scen- cry and the great tourist oppor- tunities.
 Sunday morning the Governor and pr. Gruening will go from An chorage to Fairbanks by plane, others in the party going by train.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15
NO DISORDER WHEN VESSEL
 RUNS AGROUND
College Professor, Aboard North Sea, Enjoying
 Adventure
BEHAVIOR OF ALL
 ABOARD EXCELLENT
Tells of Hitting Early in Morning, Then Trans
 fer to Lifeboats
ABOARD NORTH SEA, May Is.

ABOARD NORTH SEA, May l5 -(By Dr. F. A. Thomson, Presi- dent of Montana School of Mines) Our party of g seniors, only one of whom has ever been to sea be- fore, are thoroughly enjoying our adventure.
 We have never been in the slight est danger
 We were awakened by the scrap ing sound on the bottom of the ship followed by a blinding crash.
 I dressed at once and went out on the deck to find the bow fast on a low rock The time was 3:30 a. m. an dit was as/,lack as your black hat and thick as a hedge.
 The behavior of the officers, crew and passengers was excellent. There was not the slightest panic.
 The ship warped off the rocks by the use of kedge anchors three hours later. Then it was found that the ship was making water aft and as the Coast Guard cutter Alert had not arrived, Capt. A. w. Nickerson ordered us to leave the ship in the lifeboats.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15
s250,0OO MAY BE OBTAINED FOR
 AIR MAIL HERE
Copeland Will Ask It Be In
 cluded in Deficiency Appropriation Bill
YEAR-ROUND SERVICE
 JUNEAU TO INTERIOR
Dim ond Expresses High
 Hopes that Plan Will
 Meet with Approval

WASHINGTON, May 15.-United States Senator Royal s. Copeland, Democrat of New York, said today he will urge the Senate Appropria- I tion Committee, now considering the first Deficiency Appropriation bill, to include $250,000 to provide for year yound air mail service between Ketchikan, Juneau, Tam ana Crossing and Fairbanks, via Whitehorse. M
 Senator Copeland said he will ap- pear before the committee tomDr- row and explain that if the funds are not provided, the airways rights across that section of Canada be- tween Southeast and Northern AL aska will be lost.
 Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di, mond said the item in the approp- riation bill for the Post Office De- partment was stricken out by the conference committees.
 T have high hopes the approp- riation included in the Deficiency bill will be approved by the Budget Bureau and Post Office Depart ment," said Delegate Dimond.
 The appropriation will also per- init of the establishment of a branch line between Panama Cross ing, Cordova, Valdez and Anchor, age
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15
CONNECTS WALK OUT OF WOODS
 WITH HANDS UP
Two Prisoners Recaptured Six Prison Breakers
 Are Still at Large

ANTLERS, okla. May 15, - Bill Anderson, aged 30, and Archie Her ring, 25, two convicts who broke from the penitentiary at McAlester, were recaptured shortly after three hostages were released alive.
 Tn two convicts walked out of the woods with hands up as off, cers and bloodhounds approached.
 Six fugitives are still at large, four believed to be in one group.
 One of the hostages released by Anderson and Herring was Tuck Cope, a guard who had been stabbed in the neck and lost much blood The other two were Victor Conn, guard, and Wilbur Doaks, cowboy
 An airplane has been pressed in to the hunt of the uncaptured con victs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15

Barkley, a direct scathing-style speaker, was in his teens when he began winning gold medals in ora tory and debate. In college he was a champion debater, prize win ming runer and jumper, a football and baseball player.
 Up from the Ranks
 Later he studied law, learned shorthand and became 8 court re- porter where he made the contacts that gave him political ambitions. He was prosecuting attorney and county judge before election to Congress in 1913.
 He was a member of the House continuously until 1927 when he entered the Senate. A man of pow erful, compact physique, he handles with apparent tirelessness his work as assistant Democratic leader in the Senate and assignments on several committees.
 In the blue grass country, Bark ley is known as an iron -lunged" orator He has delivered 10 to 12 campaign speeches in a single day.
 An advocate of Prohibition for years, he nevertheless as a party loyahst seconded the nomination of Alfred E. Smith in 1928.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15
OFF AGAIN, ON AGAIN


 According to several private ra- dioes received from the North Sea the passengers are a contented lot There has never been any danger and everything has been done by the officers to make everybody comfortable.
 One radio said the passengers arose from their hunks when the ship struck. dressed and went out on the decks. They were told by the officers there was no apparent danger, and they returned to their staterooms and completed their maps.
 Another radio said there was no disorder when the passengers were ordered into the lifeboats. The pas sengers were allowed to take only bare necessities as they were told they would soon be returned as the moving was precautionary The Alert "mothered" the lifeboats to shore.
 The stewards department passed out hot coffee, sandwiches and pas try while the shore landing" was on.
 Late yesterday afternoon and early last evening the passengers returned aboard the North Sea and the majority spent. the night as calmly as if nothing had happened
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15
MOVES TO SHELTER

The North Sea moved eight miles north to the shelter of Hunter Bay during last night awaiting the ar rival of the Victoria. of the Alaska Steamship Company, which nosed out of Ketchikan through the fog.
 The coast guard cutter Alert, which yesterday afternoon had landed 121 passengers and 40 mem- bers of the crew of the Northland on Dall Island, returned the pas sengers and crew to the North Sea during the night.
 The Victoria, according to early morning advices, is to pick up the 88 passengers for Wrangell, Peters burg, Juneau and other northern Southeast Alaska ports and carry them to their destinations. The Vic- toria will not call again at Ketchi- kan.
 The 34 Ketchikan passengers on the North Sea will continue to their destination either aboard the North Sea or Alert.
 The gasboat Phoenix, of Ketchi- kan, has taken additional pumps from Ketchikan to the North Sea.
 A survey of the North Sea, made this morning, according to a radio from the Alert. showed only nom- inal damage. Last night radio said the pumps on the North Sea were controlling the rapid leak"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15
CLOSED SHOP
 TO BE BASIS
 OF OPERATION
UnitedFishermen of Alaska First Industry to Reach
 Such Agreement

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 15.- The United Fishermen of Alaska have reached an agreement that Al Jones, owner of the Kustatan Pack ing Company and Henry Emard are to operate the local canneries on closed shop basis. It is said to be the first time any Alaska industry has agreed to this. and this is the only fishing section obtaining it.
 It was agreed that fish prices would be 55 cents for kings if hand gear is used, and 50 cents if not; Il and 10 cents respectively for reds with or without hand gear. Fishermen asked a flat 55 cents for kings, II cents for reds, while op- orators offered 50 cents and 10 cents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15
TRANSFER TO BE MADE SOON
 AS FOG LIFTS
Juneau Freight to Be Dis charged at Ketchikan-
 North on First Steamer
PASSENGERS NOW
 BACK ABOARD SHIP
Pumps Aboard Vessel Re- ported Keeping Inflow
 of Water Down

Passengers for Jun eau, aboard the North Sea, are to be transferred to the Vic toria and brought to this des- tinatiOn, arriving here prOba- ply next Sunday afternoon.
 The North Sea will go to Ketchikan and discharge all freight there. Juneau freight will be dispatched on the first steamer leaving north from Ketchikan.
 The North Sea, according to advices this afternoon, will return to Seattle from Ket- chikan.
 At midforenoon today, the Victoria, enrOute to the North Sea at Hunter Bay, Dall Is- land, was fogbound behind Cape Chacon at the southern end of Prince of Wales Is- land.
 Captain Nickerson, of the  North Sea, radioed he will not move from Hunter Bay until the Victoria arrives and the passengers are safely trans ferred. i
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15
HENRY A. RUST, SON OF NOTED
 PIONEER, DIES
Executor of Father s Sev- eral Million Dollar Estate
 Passes Away Wednesday

TACOMA, Wash, May 15.-Fun- eral services were held this after noon for Henry Arthur Rust, 34, son of the late William Rust, pio- neer Northwest financier. Rust died of heart trouble Wednesday night. The Reverend Sidney James gave the funeral sermon this af- ternoon.
 Rust, who was the presiding exe- cutor of his fathers several mill lion dollar estate which included mining interests, the Puget Sound Navigation Company and the Shaf- fer Pulp Company, was interested in the revival of the Chichagof Mining Company in Southeast AL aska. Starting in business early in life the younger Rust had always suffered from heart trouble.
 Rust is survived by his widow, Margaret, and three daughters, Bil- lie, g, Margaret, 2, and Helen, 3.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15
NORTH SEA PASSENGERS ABOARD VIC
Morgenthau's Appearance to Discuss Tax BiU Has
 Caused Comment, Congress

ferent from the rough and tumble debate which prevails in sessions of the ways and means committee.
 Aside from Morgenthaus per- sonal aversion to making appear ances before congressional commit tees he, probably more than any other member of the Presidents official family, must be the most careful as to what he says.
 AS the nations chief finance of ficer, every word he utters, whether it be in a carefully prepared state ment or in response to sudden ques- tions popped at him. are immediate ly. seized upon by financial and other interests sometimes with devastating effect.
 Criticized for Absence
 Morgenthau's failure to appear before the House Committee is ex- plained by insiders in various ways.
 The explanation most generally accepted is that he considered the bill so technical that he thought it best to leave the explanation to bis experts in the Treasury After all, the bill does contain 62,000 words and covers 236 pages.
 There is little doubt, however, why he decided to appear before the Senate Finance Committee He was stung by the criticism leveled at him by opponents of the measure as being among those conspicu- ously absent" from the House hear ings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-15

WASHINGTON, May IS. = The decision of Secretary Morgenthau to appear before the Senate finance Committee and state his views on the pending tax bill, after he had absented himself from Washington while the House Ways and Means committee was con sidering the measure, occasioned no little com ment among politicians in the capi- tai
 Yet to those who know the Treas ury Secretary intimately the situa- ton was easy to understand.
 One of Morgen h a u s secret dreads is having to appear before a congressional committee in an of ficial capacity. Especially is this true as regards the ways and means committee when as controversial a subject as new taxes is involved.
 Charged by the Consultation with the responsibility of originating all legislation affecting revenue, the IS Democrats and seven Republicans who comprise that committee are among the shrewdest and most hardboiled men in congress. A member of the Cabinet or anyone else for that matter, appears before that group at his own risk.
 Senators More Dignified
 In the senate Finance Committee it's bit different. The going is not so rough. There's an atmosphere of dignity there which is far diff