The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 4, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e, VOL. XLIL, NO. 6460. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNES DAY, OCTOBER 4, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GIANTS COP SECOND STRAIGHT, 6 T0 1 il - MEN TRAPPED ’34 Campaign Is Taking Form Democrats Lay Plans On Theory That New Era Has Wiped Out Old Political Lines-G.O.P. Sees Reaction By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) BY FLAMES; 36 BURNED ALIVE Fire Circles Workers on Relief Project in Hol- lywood Hills ESCAPE 1S CUT OFF BY WALLS OF CANYON| Victims Dr;);n Tracks— Bodies Charred Be- yond Recognition BULLETIN—LOS ANGELES, Col, Oct. 4—The dead from the firc in the Canyon now numbers 36 with 20 to 25 more bodies yet to be recovered. One arrest has been made on suspicion in connection with the horrible fire. i HORRIBL YBURNED LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 4— The bodies of 33 men horribly purned, in a brush fire that raged | between the canyon walls of the | Hollywood hills, were brought to the County morgue late yesterday af- terncon and last night. The charred remains were dragged from the seared valley be- tween the Dam and Mineral Can- yons which was devastated by flames believed to have been start- ed by a cigarette. Men Trapped About 150 men were employed and set to work in the park on relief projects and they were| trapped in the circle of flames. A few survivors escaped without | injuries, except burns. | A flest of ambulances, fire com- panies and 3500 other workers rushed to their aid and finally controlled the fire after it had| devastated 1,000 acres of uninhab- ited mountain lands. £ Scores Injured ! The injured were early last ev-! ia bad dream, Groundworwk for the 1934 poli- tical campaign is being laid very quietly in confidential powwows in Washington and elsewhere. The preparations bear vividly the mark of the disjointed times. They give expression to the two distinct schools of thought divid- ing public men today. Administration leaders go on the theory that past political lines have been wiped out, that a new {era has arrived, that the Roosz- velt policies will succeed suffic- iently to consolidate liberal sup- port being the President for years to come. The opposition bases its plans on a belief that the present phase is temporary, that a reaction will set in shortly, that current poli- tical dislocations will vanish like and the old days of straight-out Republican-Demo- cratic warfare will return. There is wide agreement on both sides that whichever side turns out to have guessed wrong about this basic consideration will lose the election of 1934 and the elec- tion of 1936 as well. BANKING ON COALITION Even many politicians do not yet realize the extent to Administration men are banking cratic-insurgent coalition founded in 1932, | There is talk already of making| an Insurgent Republican Mr.' Roosevelt’s running mate in 1936. Secretary Ickes is much mention- ed. Friends of Vice-President Gar- ner are convinced he will do his part to clear the way by an- nouncing in due course that he will not be a candidate for re- nomination. Of course that is a long way off, but a current insight into Mr. Roosevelt's independent state of mind is afforded by his attitude | | Trade Commission. by old-time Democratic Senators, protesting that too much patron- age has gone to Insurgent Re- publicans. When he heard about it, the President called one of the Sen- Jators on the telephone and said in effect: | “I am perfectly willing to re-| ceive a round robin—provided the Senators signing it will march down Pennsylvania Avenue behind a brass band, and present their petition with ‘due ceremony on the ‘White House lawn.” The parade has not taken place. | | i | I WATSON G. O. P. CHAIRMAN The confidence of old-line Re- publicans in a return of political| normaley is evidenced by the fact that many are talking of forfer Senator “Jim” Watson of Indiana| for National Chairman. | | Watson is of the old school, always an intense party man, ex- perienced in rallying temporarily disgruntled elements to stand by the G. O. P. | Watson opposed the first Hoo-! ver nomination to the last ditch, |and although he went along af-| | terward there was much under-| the-surface friction. 1If he should| whichbe chosen National Chairman it would mean that the Hooverites lon a continuance of the Demo- had given up hoping for continu- ing control of the party. EYE HUMPHREY CASE Big Republicans are much in- terested in the refusal of William E. Humphrey to resign from the Back in the Cannon days, Humphrey was a Re- publican power in the House. Re- ports are that Mr. Roosevelt wants to replace him with insurgent Philip LoFollette. The case, still trigues politicians volves so directly the Roosevelt patronage policy, as that' policy bears on a Democratic-Insurgent simmering, in- because it in- ening estimated at between 75 and | toward the round robin drawn up coalition. 100 workmen. The men had no opportunity to flee up the brushed locked hill- sides and their danger was in- creased by a strong wind which spread the flames. The dead suffocated and dropped in the path of the fire, eye wit- nesses said, without screaming. Most of the dead are burned be- yond recognition. SUSPICIONS AROUSED; ONE MAN IN CUSTODY| LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 4— The police today took into cus- today Robert Barr, aged 29, un- employed mofion picture projec- tionist, and booked him on sus- picion of arson. Barr was traced through a li- cense number on an automobile which was reported to the police as parked near the scene of the fire. Leaving Scene told the police they leave the auto, enter and set fire to the Seen ‘Witnesses saw a man the canyon brush. When arrested, the police said Barr had several kerosene-soaked yags. H: made no statement. Wind Whips Fire When men entered the canyon to fight the fire there was no wind, but suddenly the wind whipped down the canyon carrying the fire before it. Fighting, Cursing Line The only way out of the can- yon was by a cow path and this soon became a line of fighting, sweltering, cursing, praying mass of humanity. The strong clambered over the weak, death crackling at their heels. Survivors said the flames jumped as much as 100 feet at a time. ———eeo—— F. C/ MANUEL TO BE HOST AT DINNER PARTY TONIGHT In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Gené . Murray and Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Carroll, F. C. Manuel will be host at dinner this evening at Bailey’s Cafe. Mr. and Mrs. Murray and Mr. and Mrs. Carroll arrived in town from a hunting trip in this vicinity on the tender Leonine. REFUSING WRIT NRA CODES ARE T0 BE ENFORCED, LABOR TROUBLES Capital and Labor Must Get Together Over Their Disputes ROOSEVELT TO MAKE ADDRESS, NEW YORK [Chief Executive Is Expect- ed to Discuss Two Im- portant Policies NEW YORK, Oct. 4. — With Administrator Johnson's plea tothe Pennsylvania state miners to re- turn to work, President Roosevelt today, after a talk with his Ad- ministrator, put the spur to en- forcement of his NRA codes with particular emphasis on peace be- tween capital and labor. There is every expectation the President, in his talk before the Catholic Charities tonight, will ex- pound in detail his ideas on the labor issue in the recovery cam- paign as well as on his credit ex- pansion program. To back up the recovery cam- paign to the utmost; the President is standing pat on the right of the employed to deal with the em- ployers through their own repre- sentatives. . MINERS HGLDING OUT WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. — The mass return to work of miners in | the Pennsylvania coal fields has | been delayed by the refusal of in- | surgent miners to report. Pleas of Union leaders and Gov-| ernment officials for a concerted return to the mines were answered { by boos by a crowd of 15,000 min- | ers. { More than 20,000 other miners | have returned to the pits as Ad- | ministrator Johnson expressed im- | patience with the operators for| quibbling and called for an end to mob conditions in the Pittsburgh area. COURT UPHOLDS @ DRY AMENDMENT Judge Alexander Cites Su- preme Court Decision in Deciding Case In a decision atfirming the con- stitutionality of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, Judge George F. Alexander today denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for Cliff Matthews, now serving out a sentence for violating the National Prohibition Act. In suing for Matthews re- lease from custody, J. A. Hellen- thal attacked the validity of the Dry Amendment for the reason that it was legislation, or law- making, and that there is no au- thority under the Constitution to adopt ordinary iaws or police reg- ulations as an amendment to the Constitution. Judge Alexander sustained the position of the United States At- torney’s office, argued recently by George W. Folta, that the Federal Supreme Court had already had the same question before it and had ruled against fhe same con- uestion Would-Be Assassin Wounded Austrian Chan- cellor Improves— Celebrates Birthday VIENNA, Austria, Oct. 4—Chan- cellor Engelbert Dollfuss was able today to celebrate his forty-first birthday while the political and mental balance of Rudolf Dertil, one-time Army bugler, who shot the Chancellor, is being investi- gated. Chancellor Dollfuss will return to his office tomorrow from his residence here and resume his work firmly determined %o con- tinue his patriotic mission. Dertil's record shows he is not a Nazi party member, outlawed in Awstria, or affiliated with the ScotTalists. Christian Social Wehrund until he quit the army. He is being ques- tioned as to the motive for the attempted assassination. —————— TROPICAL GALE tentions raised by Mr. Hellenthal. He complimented both Mr. Hel- lenthal and Mr. Folta for their able presentations of the case. Questions Already Raised His memorandum opinion, pre- sented today, said in part: “A perusal of this case con- vinces me that 3Tl the questions sought to be raised on behal the petitioner have been, as the United States Attorney's office sol Two tropical storms are repori-|in carrying the company enter-| h raised and|ed to have moved out of the Car-| prise through many vicissitudes to earnestly argued, bot! adjudicated in these cases, if not directly, at least so inferentially, that it leaves little or no doubt| Hal Trosky, now playing with|est recognition and honor in his as to the Court’s opiion on anythe Cleveland Indians, broke allf field of work: | of those questions. Many of the (Continued on Page Two) NOW REPORTED:; WARNING GIVE MIAMI, Florida, Oect. 4.—Hur- ricane warnings flew throughout If of |the Florida Keys today and ship-|ers, and the outstanding talent ping scurried to cover. ribbean. ———————————— previous home run records “of To- ledo players this season. He belonged to thej ALASKA JUNEAU BOARD PRAISES DEAD FOUNDER | Directors, in Resolutions,! Pay Fine Tnbute to Late F.W.Bradley In resolutions re::enuy adopted by it, the Board of Directors of the Alaska Juncau Gold Mining| Company paid tribute to the ser-| vices rendered to that company by the late Frederick Worthen Brad-| ley, President for so many years, whose death occurred last sum- mer. The Board commented on his “creation of constructive industry, devotion to his supporters and his outstanding talent and breadth of vision. The text of the resolution fol- | RESOLUTIONS | In Acknowledgement of the work of the late Frederick Worthen Bradley By ALASKA JUNEAU GOLD MIN-| ING COMPANY | WHEREAS, FREDERICK WOR-| THEN BRADLEY, for thirty-threc| years Director and President of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining| Company, passed away on thesixth| day of July, 1933; AND WHEREAS, the Directors| of the Alaska Juneau Gold Min-| | ing Company are deeply mindfultually reach the island is unknown. of the skill and success in the| creation of constructive industry the loyal devotion to his support- and breadth of vision displayed a most noteworthy success, all qualities that won for him hizh- AND WHEREAS, we, his fellow (Continued on Page Two) | disorders, {and political troubles as Cubans VIRGINIA VOTES WETBOTHURBAN, RURAL DISTRICTS ‘Margin for Repeal Eigh- teenth Amendment [s About Two to One LIQUOR CONTROL PLAN WINS, GOOD MAJORITY State Is Thirty-second to Recognize Change Sweeping Nation RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 4— The second state to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment, years ago, yesterday become the thirty-sec- ond state to vote for repeal. Both the urban and rufal Vir- ginia sections contributed to a slightly less than 2 to 1 margin held by repeal with approximate- ly three fourths of the precincts reported. The wet tide is the strongest in large centers of population. Advocates of repeal last night stated the Prohibition Law for substitution of liquor control plan, is ahead about 2 to 1. The drys conceded defeat short- ly after the returns began com- ing in last night. I - Pred Chenault, Chairman of tie Board of Tempcrance of the Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the South said the situation as it is devel- oping nationally is deplorable. He said further that the liquor traf- ficker was one of the arch criminals of all' time and no nation is safe from the ravages until it is oulawed. SEVENTY -MILE GALE CRIMPS HAVANA STRIFE Moratorium Is Forced by Weather — Bomb Plot Against U.S. Embassy HAVANA, Cuba, Oct. 4—A sev- enty-mile gale swept Havana to-| day enforced a moratorium on shootings, commerce, were compelled to remain indoors. Only a few shots were heard. Communication lines have been broken and trees have been up- rooted. Heavy seas and heavy winds are forecast for late today. Soldiers deployed about the United States Embassy following rumors of a plot to bomb the place. The dead in Monday's fighting is now placed at 54. Seventeen officers in the Na- tional Hotel were killed and 20 were wounded. Officers imprison- ed total 368. TRICKERY CHARGED HAVANA, Cuba, Oct. 4. — The Spokesman for the officers who surrendered Monday at the Na- tional Hotel after a long siege, charged they were tricked into flying the white flag when in- formed the American marines would land unless they surren- dered. MARINES LEAVE WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—A bat- talion of Marines are bound for the battleship Wyoming after fare- well shouts of “See You in Cuba” from their comrades behind. ‘Whether 517 Leathernecks who left Quantico last night will ac- Officials here said it is a prac- tice cruise. Sl MONTE SNOW ARRIVES TO VISIT FAMILY AND FRIENDS Arriving on the Northwestern from Seattle, Monte Snow, former member of the editorial staff of The Empire and more recently of the Seattle Times, is visiting with | friends and relatives His stay here is indefinite. here. I _HAL SCHUMACHER He pitched the entire game for the Giants teday. Speed and control are his asscts. He is rated second to Hubbell in shutouts. BOX SCORE AB R 8 Senators Myer, 2b Goslin, rf. Manush, 1f Cronin, ss | Schulte, cf. Kuhel, 1b, | Bluege, 3b. | Sewell, ¢ Crowder, p *Thomas, p. +McColl, p. i{Rice SHarris £Bolton ©ococococowoGmwmO OPocococococOooOoocO O oorocor~ocococo~Nnol Totals *—Replaced Crowder ning. ! {—Replacéd Thomas in seventh in- ning. t—Batted inning. §—Batted for Bluege ning. £—Batted ning. Giants Moore, If Critz, 2b. Terry, 1b. Ott, rf. Davis, cf. “Peel, cf. Jackson, 3b. Mancuso, c. Ryan, ss. A Schumacher, p. +0’Doul in sixth in- for Thomas in seventh in ninth in- for Sewell in ninth in- AB CONMNWO mwWm - ocnvwmBmOOOO®WO cocococococccocool Totals i—Batted for Davis in sixth inning. Replaced Davis in seventh in- Batted Out I ALVIN CROWDER=——= The Ace of the Senators’ pitching staff was taken out in the sixth inning today after the Giants had got to him. 25,000 CASES LIQUOR FOUND NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—Customs | officers this afternoon seized 25,- 000 cases of liquor valued at one million dollars on an abandoned freighter anchored n the Hudson River. The freighter is of Eng- | lish registry. Naziism Poses Quandry for Europe’s Preachers irnised in Central Europe by Na- zism were illustrated by two news items in one day's papers: Father Thoma, parish priest of Schomach, Germany, was arrested for speaking ill of the Nazis. Father Pirchbegger of Cruz, Aus- | tria, was arrested for speaking | well of the Nazis. ¢ |one, BERLIN, Jct. 4—The problems| ning. SUMMARY—Earned runs: Sena- "tors 1, Giants 6; two-base hit: Terr; home run: Goslin; double plays: | Glants 1, Jackson to Ryan to Ter- Iry; base on balls: off Crowder 3, (off Schumacher 6, wild pitches: | Schumacher 1; struck out: by ;Crowder 3, by Schumacher 2; left ;on bases: Senators 7, Giants 6; | sacrifice hits: Jackson 1; runs bat- |ted in: Goslin 1, O'Doul 2, Jackson {1, Mancuso 1, Schumacher 1, | Moore 1. Umpire: Moriarity, American, at |the plate; Pfirman, National, at | first; Ormsby, American, at second; | Moran, National, at third base. I Time of game: 2 hours and nine { minutes. TODAY'S GAME - PLAY BY PLAY FIRST INNING WASHINGTON—Myer up. Bal {one, high and inside; strike one, called; ball two, low and inside; {ball three, low and wide; ball four, low and wide; Myer walked. Gos- i“" up. Pitcher tries for Myer at | first; ball one, low and wide; ball two, high and inside; strike one, called; pitcher tries for Myer at first; out, short to first; Myer go- ling to* second. Manush up. Ball low and wide; out, flied to Cronin up. Strike one, call- side out, 1 i | | center. jed; strike two, fanned; strike three, fanned. No runs, no hits, no errors, one {left on base. | NEW YORK — Moore up. Foul back, strike one; foul back, strike two; ball one, low and wide; foul |back; foul in left field stands; out, strike three, fanned. Critz up. Out, grounded to first who made the out unassisted. Terry up. Ball one, low iand wide; side out, pop fly to short left center. No runs, no hits, no errors, none 1left on base. SECOND INNING WASHINGTON—Schulte up. Ball lone, high and wide; ball two, low |and inside; strike one, called; foul |along - third, base line, strike two; |out, pitched to first. Kuhel up. {out, pop fly to short left field, the ishcr!.\lup making the put out Bluege up. Strike one, called; strike two, fanned; ball one, low and wide; ball two, high and inside; ball three, low and wide; foul back; ball four, high and inside; Bluege | walked. Sewell up. Ball one, low |and inside; side out, flied to left in short left center. No runs, no hits, no errors, one |left on base. NEW YORK—Ott up. Ball one | low and wide;' ball two, low anc “'xdv: foul back, strike one; ball ithree, high and wide; ball four, inside; Ott walked. Davis up. Fou |in the upper right field stands |strike one; singles 'to sho:t center; (Continued on Page Five) NATIONALS WIN FROM SENATORS IN SIXTH INNING Hal Schumacher Holds Am- erican League Champs to Five Hits Today AL CROWDER DRIVEN OFF MOUND IN SIXTH Washington’s Lone Score Is Made in Third When Goslin Hits Homer SHORT SCORE Senators . E [ Giants ... 0 COMPOSITE SCORE (Two Games) R H E Senators .3 10 3 Giants . 10 20 2 The Giants have won two straight games. SCORE BY INNINGS SENATORS Runs Hits Ervors: GIANTS Runs . Hits Errors THIRD GAME The third game will be play- ed tomorrow in Washington at Griffith’s Stadium. POLO GROUNDS, N. Y., Oct. 4. —With a blazing six-run rally in the sixth inning that netted them six runs, the Giants today took the second straight game in the World Series, defeating the Washington Senators, 6 to 1. O'Doul, pinch hitting for Davis, touched off the explosion with a pinch single when the bases were full, scoring the first two Giant runs. Hal Schumacher held the Am- erican League champions to five hits, including a homer by Goose Goslin in the third with none on w};lich gave the Senators their lone tally. Pitchers’ Battle Promis Manager Cronin picked Crowder, veteran of many cam- paigns and leading hurler of the Senators, to start today's game. For five innings he hurled unbeatable ball, holding the Giants to two singles and no runs. It looked like one of the hardest pitchers’ battles in World Series history was in'the making as Schmacher was going 2qually as well. He, also, had yield- ed but two hits. One of them, however, was Goslin's third frame circuit drive. The second was a single by Crowder, made in the fifth frame after two were out. Crowder retired the side in order in the first. In the second, he walked Oftt, first up and Davis singled. The next three were easy duts, Ott never getting farther than third base. Critz walked in the third but died on first. With one away in the forth, Blondy Ryan singled but he was picked off by 1 double when Schumacher ground- »d to Cronin at short. Then Explosion Comes By virtue of Goslin's homerun n the third, Washington was lead- ng at the opening of the sixth. Joe Moore cracked a single to left .0 open that stanza. He was forced it second by Critz’s grounder to Kubel at first. Critz reached first safely. Manager Terry smacked a louble to deep left, Critz going to hird After Crowder purposely passed Mel' Ott, Lefty O'Doul was sent n to bat for Davis. With the Jases loaded, he smacked a single o left center, scoring Critz and lerry, putting the Giants in the ead, 2 to 1. Jackson singled to core Ott, putting O'Doul on third. Mancuso, on a squeeze play, laid down a bunt that he beat out while J>'Deul scored, and Jackson went 0 second. Ryan was retired on (Continued on Page Five) Alvin