Evening star. [volume], January 11, 1937, Page A-5, Image 5

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Nine Believed Stranded in
Cold Range North of
Las Vegas, Nev.
By the Assocleted Press.
LOS ANGELES, January 11.—
Mercy planes, flying over the moun
tain fastnesses of the Southwest, saved
■cores today from hunger after last
week's storm.
Nine persons, believed stranded In
the Cold Range 150 miles north of
Las Vegas, Nev., were still unreported
today despite an aerial survey of the
region. Lee Prettyman, Nevada-Mary
land mine operator and his pilot found
nothing resembling the automobile in
which he believed his wife and a
party of friends set out for his
C$aim.
Circling low. they attempted to hail
two persons known to have sought
ahelter In a cabin near the Pretty
man mine, but obtained no response.
A large contingent of C. C. C. boys
were equipped to start from Boulder
City, near Boulder Dam, in an attempt
to locate the missing group.
While two Army bombers warmed up
■t March Field, Calif., ready to take off
for the snow-covered area of Horse
Flat Camp in mountains near King
man, Ariz., rescuers announced they
had reached 40 Hualapai Indians
■tranded there virtually without food.
At Independence, Calif., National
Guardsmen cleared an airport runway
of snow and used it as a base in flying
300 pounds of food and other supplies
to 35 miners snowbound in Eureka
Valley of Inyo County since January 1.
Isolated on Greenhorn Mountain by
heavy drifts, four families received food
from the air, dropped by a plane from
Bakersfield, Calif.
Ground crews reached other moun
tain homes in the area. Five sheriff's
deputies trekked on foot from San
Bernardino, Calif., with rations for
eight persons marooned at the Onyx
mine on the east side of Mount San
Bernardino. They were reported with
out food for four days.
COLD EASES GRIP.
Middle Wert Temperature Rises After
ley Plunge.
Br the Associated Press.
Rising temperatures and fair weath
er today brought the Middle West
surcease from its coldest spell of the
Winter, but deep snows still hampered
the Rocky Mountain region and some
East Central States felt the threat of
flood waters.
A force of 16,000 orchardists bat
tling to save California's $100,000,000
citrus crop from destruction by sub
freezing weather were cheered by pre
dictions of higher temperatures.
Damage already done to the orange
and lemon crops was estimated un
officially at 15 per cent.
National Guard flyers dropped food
Btuffs for 35 men marooned at an Inyo
County (Calif.) sulphur mine, but
failed to find nine persons reported
snowbound at a gold mine north of
Las Vegas, Nev. A rescue party
battled drifts to bring food to Indians
at a camp northeast of Kingman, Ariz.
At least 27 deaths were attributed
to the weather in the West. Fifteen
were in California, four in Arizona,
three in Utah and five in Texas.
Streams swollen by heavy rains
went over their banks in the tri-State
area, composed of Western Pennsyl
vania, Eastern Ohio and West Vir
ginia. Lowlands were flooded and
water poured into cellars of business
establishments on the river front.
Johnstown Threatened.
The Stonycrek River at Johnstown.
Pa, came within a foot of flood stage
yesterday, causing renewed anxiety
to the city wrecked by floods last
Spring. A stage of more than 20
feet, with the flood level 25 feet, was
reached In Pittsburgh at the con
fluence of the Allegheny and
Monongahela Rivers.
Northern West Virginia streams
Went over their banks, but no damage
Was reported.
The Ohio River rose along a 600
mile front, nearing 41 feet at Cincin
nati, and expected to reach 45, only
6 feet short of the flood mark. Rains
blocked many Southern Ohio roads.
At Falmouth, Ky, the river rose to
.Within 3 feet of flood stage.
Many Middlewestem cities reported
temperature minimums below zero
yesterday. They included: Moorhead,
Minn, —12; Lacrosse, Wis, —18;
Devils Lake, N. Dak, and Sioux City,
Iowa, —16; Duluth, Minn, and Huron,
6. Dak, —14; Omaha, Neb, —12.
DREDGING OF SOUND
IN CHARLES URGED
Maryland - Virginia Spokesmen
Call Project “Essential to
Commerce.”
By the Associated Press.
Representatives of two States ap
pealed to the Board of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors today to approve
dredging of entrances to Neale Sound
In Charles County, Md., on grounds
such development is “absolutely essen
tial to commerce.”
Representatives Stephen W. Gam
brill. Democrat, of Laurel, Md., and
O. S. Bland, Democrat, of Newport
News, Va., urged the dredging from
Wicomico River and the Potomac
River into the "upper and lower en
trances of the sound.”
The District Federal engineer rec
ommended the Wicomico dredging at
• cost of $3,600 and also the Potomac
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at $13,000. but* the division engineer !
disapproved the proposed work from
the Potomac into the sound.
Gambrill told the board 75 fishing
boats and 50 pleasure craft operate in
the sound and asserted the proposed
dredging would afford an excellent!
harbor of refuge during storms. Bland
asserted the improvement would result
in "a big saving to Colonial Beach,
Va., fishermen."
A delegation from Charles County.
Md., headed by Rudolph A. Carrico.
member of the Maryland House of
Delegates, also urged the board to
act favorably on the project as a
whole. Delegate Kent R. Mulliken of
Prince Georges County, Md., also in
dorsed the work.
The board took the appeal under
advisement.
SUMMONS STAFF
P
300 Faculty Members of
Wisconsin to Hold Con
ference Today.
B<- the Assoclateo Press.
MADISON, Wis., January 11.—
Thrust into the presidency of the
University of Wisconsin as a "pinch
hitter,” George Clarke Sellery, be
spectacled, white-haired dean of the
College of Letters and Science, called
300 faculty members into confer
ence today. He planned to ask them
for support during his temporary
regime as successor to Dr. Glenn
Frank, dismissed by the Board of
Regents.
He acknowledged the appointment
as a "surprise,” but immediately
moved for restoration of peace on a
strife-torn campus. He emphasized
he doesn’t want to be president per
manently, and will retain his dean-’
ship.
Frank Plans Statement.
Dr. Frank worked today on a state
ment setting forth whether he would
accept the regents’ action as final.
Legislators prepared for a session
Wednesday at which three Senators
have promised to bring the question
before their colleagues. Investiga
tion of the ouster proceedings and the
method of selecting university regents
were probable proposals.
In both Senate and Assembly a
coalition of Democrats and Republic
ans would outnumber the Progressive
party, whose appointees control the
Board of Regents.
Although gruff and outspoken in
official actions, and dubbed "The Old
Tory” by students, Dean Sellery has
a ready smile and sometimes a humor
ous story for Informal occasions.
Appointed Dean in 1919.
He was appointed to the deanshlp in
1919, shortly after he and two other
faculty members circulated a petition
asking the United States Senate to
expel the late Robert M. La Follette,
sr., for his attitude toward this coun
try’s entry into the World War.
Sellery was born in Kincardine,
Ontario, January 21,1872; received his
bachelor of arts degree from the
University of Toronto in 1897, and
came to Wisconsin directly from the
University of Chicago, where he was
granted his Ph. D. in 1901. He has
taught history courses continuously
and is the author of several widely
used text books.
He has three daughters and two
sona.
Legislature May Get Case.
Frank's partisans looked today to
the convening of the State Legisla
ture Wednesday for the next rever
berations over his dismissal.
An investigation of the Prank case
and of the method of selecting uni
versity regents stood out u I distinct
possibility In view of the conflicting
opinions concerning charges of po
litical control of university affairs.
State Senators Joseph Clancy, Ra
cine, and Harry D. Bolens, Port
Washington, both Democrats, an
nounced they would have something
to say about the case on the Senate
floor soon after the session begins.
Senator John Cashman, a Progres
sive, one of Frank’s supporters in
the two-day ouster hearing before the
Board of Regents that resulted in the
educator’s recent dismissal, likewise
indicated that he would take up the
case before the legislators.
The Senate line-up has 9 Demo
crats, 8 Republicans and 16 Progres
sives. A coalition of Democrats and
Republicans would produce a majority
that could vote for an investigation
of the case. In the Assembly there
are 31 Democrats, 21 Republicans and
47 Progressives, so a coalition of the
old parties in that chamber also could
produce a majority that could bring
about a probe.
POPE SUFFERS NEW
ATTACK IN NIGHT
Passes Dangerous Hours After
Effects of Sedative Wear
Off.
By the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, January 11.—
Pope Pius XI, it was learned today,
passed several dangerous hours early
this morning after the effects of a
sedative, administered to ease his
pain, had worn off.
Persons close to the holy father
disclosed he had an attack of acute
suffering coupled with another of
what are described as periods of ex
treme depression.
A flurry of excited anxiety hung
over the Vatican as the Pope's doc
tors were hurriedly called.
Dr. Aminta Milan!, the chief physi
cian, remained at the bedside for two
and a half hours, then reported there
was no immediate danger.
Pope Pius began the sixth week of
his bed - ridden illness somew'hat
cheered by the partial alleviation
of pains in his legs and a continued
capacity for work.
Though doctors said it would be
February 1 before he could use his
new wheel chair, Vatican attendants
said the Pontiff was hopeful it would
be sooner,
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JOSEPHINE BURKE
TAKEN BY DEATH
Veteran D. C. Teacher Dies
at 70 After Illness of
Three Weeks.
Miss Josephine Burke, 70, the first
principal of the John Eaton School
and one of the most widely known
teachers in the District, died Saturday
at her residence, 1870 Wyoming ave
nue, after an illness of three weeks.
Funeral services are scheduled for 1
p.m. tomorrow at Gawler's funeral
home, with burial to follow In Oak
Hill Cemetery.
Miss Burke was appointed principal
of the John Eaton School, located in
one of the city’s most important com
munities, In 1911. Prior to that time,
she had taught for 14 years in various
other Washington schools and was
eighth grade teacher and principal of
the Berret School at the time of her
Baton School assignment.
Eaton School Overcrowded.
During the World War, the Eaton
School became very overcrowded,
school officials said today, and neces
sitated unusual executive ability to
handle the situation. Portables were
erected and later a new school was
built. She W’as retired in 1927.
Miss Burke W’as appointed a teacher
in July, 1886, at the Thomson School.
In the same year, she was transferred
to the Force School. She taught at
the Dennison School in 1888, the Har
rison School In 1894, the Berret
School in 1906, the Force School
again In 1908 and was made principal
of the Berret School ip 1909.
School officials said she was one of
the mc*t popular teachers of the city,
and high praise was given heT always
by residents of Cleveland Park, In
which the Eaton School la located.
As a tribute to her, the American
flag will be flown at half staff on
the Eaton School tomorrow.
Miss Burke moved to this city
with her parents while a young child.
8he attended public schools here,
graduating from the old Washington
High School. She finished her nor*
mal school training in 1887.
Miss Burke is survived by a brother,
William B. Burke, and two sisters.
Mrs. Annie B. Towers and Mrs. Frans
H. Ridgeway, all of Washington.
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‘SPRING’S’ VISIT ENDED
WITH COLDER FORECAST
Its preview of Spring over Wash
ington prepared today for more rain
and colder weather.
The forecaster predicted slightly
lower temperatures for today, cloudy
weather tonight, and probably occa
sional rain tomorrow. The minimum
temperature tonight probably will be
about 34.
After climbing to the 76-degre«
mark Saturday—only one degree below
the all-time January ‘‘high’’ and a new
record for January 9—the mercury
dropped to 60 by midnight Saturday.
Then it continued to fall steadily until
it reached 39 last midnight.
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