The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 7, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIV., NO. 6748. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1934, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TROOPS CALLED OUT, TEXTILE STRIKE JAPAN PLANS TO BUILD LARGE NAVY NATION MAKES | ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW POLICY Sea Armament Contem- plated to Be Second to None in World LIMITATION PACTS | TO BE KNOCKED OUT Approval omve Is Given! Sanction by Highest Authorities TOKYO, Sept. 7. — Japan| has definitely committed it- celf to a pelicy of being sec-| ond to none in naval arma- ment. The Empire, it is officially | ctated, is determined to re- ncunce the present scheme of raval limitation. | Tears and Blood Shed by Woman; Doctors Puzzled KANSAS CITY, Sépt. 7— Tears and blood shed once a day by Mrs. Eula Santa Maria, aged 28, puzzle physicians. The tear and blood shed is accompanied by severe pains in the head. The tear water and blood flow is about ten cubic centi- meters cach time and:generally occurs at night. Physicians said the tears do not come from the tear duects. The woman said she first wept tears and blood about six months ago. A - e NEW DEAL LIKED AT WESTWARD, MEHERIN SAYS Rain Is Beneficial to Min- ing Companies and Good Season Will Result Tihe naval policy has re-| ceived approval of the 'na-| tion’s highest authorities. The Japanese Cabinet has Conditions at the Westward, in WOMEN USED TO MAKE SALE OF ARMAMENTS iEnglish Firr:\dopts “En-| tertaining” Methods— Warship Is Used WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—Women and American warships figured in fthe sales of armament to a for- jeign nation. These two phases | were revealed in a wide range of testimony gleaned by the Special Senate Munitions committee at the | hearing today. Louis Driggs, American ordnance {maker, was the witness, and a ser- ies of documents and letters went ,into the record. { Among other things, evidence " was submitted saying that Vickers, | Ltd., English ally of the Electric| Boat Company of the United States |used women ‘as entertainers in ef- {forts to promote sales to Turkey. | An American warship stopped at a Turkish port in 1929 to show the Turkisn officials that Driggs made ! nationally known guns. | King Blocks Deal Driggs said, and various letters presented, substantiated his ‘testi- |the Interior and Nome districts mony, that the King of England 'are much improved, and everyone intervened through the Polish Am- |likes the New Deal, according to bassador in London, to hinder the adopted unanimously th €|J. J. Mecherin, who retutned to sale of guns made by the Ameri- statement of the naval pro- gram which Admiral Osumi,4 Minister of Navy, safd incor= porated -recommendations of | high naval officers. ! Premier Okada today took! the naval program to the| palace and it was later re-| ported the plan received im-} perial sanction. 1 | JAMES ELWELL DIES SUDDENLY | AT FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. T—/ James Elwell, aged 79, died sud- denly, as the result of heart trou- ble, while making candy in his| store. Elwell came north in 1894, going ! first to Fortymile, then to the, Klondike. As an early stampeder he mined on Eldorado Creek. Elwell came to Fairbanks in 1903. Survivors are his widow, and two brothers, one in Nenana and the; other in Wisconsin. Elwell was a | member of the Masonic Lodge. | CATHEDRAL WEDDING JOINS DOUGLAS GIRL | AND BUSINESS MAN At a simple church ceremony, Miss Ethel Runquist, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Runquist of Douglas, became the bride of Charles Whyte, son of Alec Whyte of Juneau, last evening. The services were performed at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Ju- neau at 9 o'clock Thursday night, with Dean C. E. Rice officiating. Miss Helen Rudolph attended the bride and George Whyte was his brother’s best man. Only immed- tate relatives of the couple were present. The bride is very popular in Ju- neau and in Douglas, -where she has lived practically all of her life. She was graduated from the Doug- las school in 1929 and following her graduation took a business course in ‘Seattle. For the past| three years she has been in the bookkeeping department of B. M. Behrends Company in Juneau. Mr. Whyte has lived for many years in Juneau and wes educat- ed in the Juneau schools. . He is now resident manager of the Col- isgum Theatre in Douglas. The young couple have taken an apartment in the Smith Building, Douglas. ——————— Dolph Camilli, promising young first baseman of they Phillies, is a Juneau on the Derothy Alexander last night after a trip through the {Secirid, Third. and Fourth Dijvis: ions of the Territory. “There has not been much sun- shine in the North this summer, but the rain has been beneficial to the mining companies and there will be lots of goXi at the end of the season to compensate for the rainy weather,” Mr. Meherin de- clared. Leaving Juneau a az0, Mr. Meherin, who represetns Hills Bro- thers and other companies in Al- aska, travelled from Fairbanks to Nome and return to Fairbanks by plane, and came out over the Richardson Highway to Cordova.| The highway is in good shape,| according to Mr. Meherin, and the few washouts along the way have been temporarily repaired by the Road Commission and travel is safe. “With the election only a few days away, interest in politics is active,” Mr. Meherin said, “and an- other Democratic Legislature, I be- lieve, is assured.” Mr. Meherin will remain in Ju- neau for about a month before lleaving again for the Westward. SOVIET DEBT NEGOTIATIONS ARE BLOCKED Roosevelt Refuses Further Loan Until Some Money Owing U. S. Is Paid WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Presi- dent Roosevelt is disclosed as hav- ing refused to grant Russia a long term loan for commercial credits. The loan requested was for $100,- 000,000. As a result of the refusal to grant the loan, the debt and trade negotiations between the United States and Russia collapsed. Russia insisted on the loan but President Roosevelt told the State Department that it was mot desir- able to grant a long term loan be- cause Russia had not paid any of her debt to the United States. - e ® ® 00 0 0 00 0 0 00 . ® . . . . STOCK QUOTATIONS . . . NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Closing quotation today of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 16%, American Can 97, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 11%, Armour B 61%, Bethlehem Steel 28%, Calumet and Hecla 3%, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Gen- eral Motors 28%, International [ShD Gpncern in ‘Poland. ; It Was also brought out that an merican Naval officer drew up {plans with Peru over Leticla, GERMAN PEOPLE ARE GROWING TO BE INDEPENDENT Neither War Nor Boycott Can Starve Nation, Nazi | Convention Told | NURNBERG, Germany, Sept. 7. |—No untoward happenings, such \as a war or boycott, could starve Germany, Walter Daree, Minister of Foods, told the Nazi convention ! Daree said Germany is indepen- |dent of foreign countries for grain. |He also said importation of oil- cake, eggs, meat, fruit, butter, and ‘veget,ables is declining sharply and prices of agricultural products are being fixed to yield a maximum income of the farmer without straining the purchasing power of the people. GED, AKERSON IN'NEW DEAL Oldline Republican Is Pick- ed for Veterans’ Board by Pres. Roosevelt | WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—George Akerson, at one time a secretary of former President Hoover, has been moved into the New Deal. . President Roosevelt was legally compelled to choose a Republican for the bipartisan Board of Veter- ans’ Appeal and the Chief Execu- tive picked one whose Republican- ism is well known. Akerson was an active campaign- er against Roosevelt in 1932. E—— BENEDICT IN TOWN M. F. Benedict, wholesale com- mission broker, returned to Juneau on the Dorothy Alexander and will remain here for several days before proceeding to Seattle. ————— MRS. PETERSON RETURNS Mrs. Walter C, Peterson, wife of Walter O. Peterson, of the Piggly Wiggly staff, returned to Juneau on the Aleutian after a three months visit with friends and rela- tives in Oregon and Washington. e LEAVES HOSPITAL Cliff Mason left St. Ann's Hos- A goncral textile strike on ers, collapocd. treyersy. In the ce United Textile Workers, Girected plins for the walkout. September 1 Personalities that Are Involved in Textile Labor Controversy T At lcft is George A. Sloan, President of the Cotton T extile Institute, who is reprecenting the manufacturers in the con- «r are Francis'J. Gorman (left), Chairman of the Strike Committce, and Thomas F. McMahon, President of the The strik ¢ was endcrsed by William Green (right), President of the Amcrican Federaticn of Labor. Above is the largesi textile mill at Worceste r, Mass.,, which is affected. (Associated Press Photos) AMER, LIBERTY LEAGUE GIVES Critics, Supporters of New Deal WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.— The American Liberty League, in a statement last night, answered the {New Deal critics with the declara- tion that “human rights and prop- erty rights are inseparable.” The statement did not refer to the President’s view that it over- |looked “thy neighbor.” The statement issued by the League, in substance, said Congress would not delegate its authority to bureaucrats and bureaus should not be allowed to make rulings having the force of law and civil justice should be administered by the courts. States and individual rights under the Constitution should be respected and Congress should retain its responsibility in spending the public’s money: EARTHOUAKE IN ALGIERS TAKES LIVES OF FIVE Score Reported Injured in Severe Tremor—Ter- ror Reigns, Region ALGIERS, Sept. 7—Five persons have been killed and 20 injured in the town of Orleansville. sent French colonists and natives fleeing into the streets. Many more persons are be- lieved to have been injured in small towns between here and Or- leansville. The latier town has a population of 900. Two Engineers Die in Train Collision WINFIELD, Kas., Sept. 7.—Two men were killed and several in- jured, two critically, in a collision of a Santa Fe westbound passen- ger train and a locomotive. Sherman Leighty, engineer of the passenger train, father of Mrs. Martin Johnson, wife of the noted explorer, died beneath the cab of brother of Frankie phell, the|Harvester 25%, Kennecott 18%,|pital this morning after receiving|his overturned locomotive. J. I. boxer who was killed in a ring encounter with Max Baer. United States Steel 3 $4.99%, Bremner bid .25. 133, Poundltreatment for an injured foot since|Hanson, engineer of the pusher September locomotir ve, died of scalds. OUT STATEMENT | Attempts to Make Reply to a violent earthquake that rocked! The tremblor shook houses and Fire Goddess Gives"Message ‘To'Hawaiians" HILO, T. H, Sept. 7.—The spec- ! tacular eruption of Kilauea is &he“ signal that the Hawaiians’ Fire Goddess Pele is picased with them, according to local belief. The white 'and green sulphur fumes rising high above the Halemaumau fire | pit carried the message, the natives declare. The earthquake, preceding the |eruption, split a 600-foot crack in the walls of the fire pit. The flow of lava has stopped. | SENATOR LONG THREATENED BY BUSINESS MAN Will Be Shot Down Like Any Other “Mad Dog” If Son Is Harmed BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 7. ~Alfred Stamannt, business man, said this afternoon that he has wired Senator Huey Long that he will personally kill him as he would any other “mad dog” if any harm befell his son, a member of the Na- tional Guard, as the result of the primary election mobiliza- FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER; T0. PAY BY DEATH COPPERSTOWN, N. Y., Sept. 7. ,—Eva Coo was convicted by a jury‘ last night of the insurance murder of Harry Wright and sentenced to ‘die in the electric chair at Sing 8Sing the week of October 15. A few minutes later, her former friend, “Martha Clift, who turned state’s witness, was permitted to plead guilty to a second degree murder charge, and was sentenced |to 20 years. | Aluminum Plants Are Reopening After One Month, Workers’ Strike PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 7.—The Aluminum Company of America reopened their plants today after a | month-long strike of 8,700 workers. Officials said a week will elapse before the maintenance men will be able to prepare the machinery to Inlllme capacity operations. COLBY MAKING ATTEMPT, SPLIT VOTE !N_M AINE Urges Election of Inde- pendents to Next Con- gress in His Attack PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 7— Declaring that the Roosevelt Ad- ministration winces at the Party name of Democrat, Bainbridge Col- by last night asserted that the “overturning of our institutions, in- cluding the Constitution, is the| avowed goal of President Roose- velt'’s immediate advisors.” Speaking before the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, the former Democratic Secretary of State said: Submission, not freedom is to be the future badge of the United States. Oollective farming and state operation of factories, gradually the entire Soviet concept of regiment- ed life is to be set up on our soil.” Colby urged the voters to. elect an independent Congress. Maine votes next Monday. —_———————— DISORDERS IN PHOENIX ;GUARD NOW DRILLING Agitators Attempt to Fo- ment Strike Among Men on Relief Rolls PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 7.— Two National Guard companies to- day began a special drill as the aftermath of the savage battle be- tween police and picketeers in front of (the Federal Emergency Relief Headquarters. Twenty persons were injured dur- | ing the melee in which pick han- dles, iron pipe and rocks were used as weapons by 200 agitators, against the police armed with clubs. Officers jafled 27 including a woman and a boy. Gov. B. B. Moeur ordered the Attorney General to “assist” in prosecuting the agitators when Couniy Attorney Jennings refused the executive's request to file fel- ony charges. No’ complaints were filed. v ‘The authorities said -the picke- ON WAY T0 COAST FROM INTERIOR Post Office Official, with Others, Flies to Siberia for Conference FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. T.— Harllee Branch, Executive Assist- ant to the Postmaster General, Robert Thach, Lyman Peck and Robert Gleason, the latter three P. A. A, officials, arrived yester- day from Nome via Ruby by a plane piloted by Joe Crosson. The party visited Uelen, Siberia, but was prevented from flying to Ana- dir because of weather conditions. Soviet officials weleomed the visi- tors at Uelen, Thach and Peck discussed with the Russians the possibilities of a connection between the aerial serv- ive of Alaska and Siberia, thence to other European countries. Branch, Thach and Peck are now enroute to Seward by rail and will take the steamer Aleutian for Se- attle. DIMOND HELD UP AT NOME NOME, Alaska, Sept. 7.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond is held here by bad weather after planning to fly to Fairbanks fol- lowing a public address in the in- terests of the Democratic Party. B il o Rain E:lis Period in Western Washington SEATTLE, Sept. 7—Rain fell in Western Washington today ending a -day dry period. Continued showers are forecast. - eee M’CORMICK RETURNS HERE WITH PRISONER Les' Myers, arrested recently at Seward on a fugitive warrant from here, was brought back to Juneau vesterday by John MecCormick, Deputy United States Marshal. Myers is charged with violating the internal revenue laws. It is alleged he possessed and trans- ported intoxicating liquors last May. RSP ETRE 65,000 Harvest Hops PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 7.—An SOLDIERS GO INTO ACTION IN PENNSYLVANIA Several Persons Are Injur- ed in Clash Near Lancas- ter — Plants Closed EFFORTS TO MEDIATE PRODUCE NO RESULTS Situation Unchanged, Says Gorman—Roosevelt’s Board Continues WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.— Chairman Francis J. Gor- man, of the Textile Strike Committee, after a conference with President Roosevelt’s Mediation Board, announced this afternoon that the strike situation was not changed. He said the Strike Committee will return here from New York for another conference temorrow. ® Independent surveys. place the number of textile workers at 375,000. k Secretary of Labor Per- kins, after a conference with . the members of the Media- - tion Board, expressed confid- ence the Board will be able to arrange a settlement. The Board consists of Gov. John G. Winant, of New Hamp- shire, Marion Smith, Atlanta attorney, and Raymond V. Ingersoll, President of the Borough of Brooklyn. Troops in Action In Pennsylvania, State Troopers were called into action when five persons were -injured in Lancaster County. Several mills there were forced to shut down. Chairman Gorman issued orders this afternoon calling for the con- centration of all “weak spots” in the textile area declaring: “We shall not budge an inch in our position. The strike must end in a victory for the textile workers.” WEEKLY EDITOR ASSASSINATED BYTWOGUNMEN MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.,, Sept. 7. —Howard Guilford, of Minneapo- Uis, former Editor of a number of weekly newspapers published at various times in the Twin Cities, was shot to death last night by two men in an atuomobile. The automobile pulled abreast of Guilford’s coupe and the men dis- charged a shotgun into Guilford's head. The gunmen halted calmly, view- ed the effectiveness of their work, then drove on. Guilford’s weeklies frequently mixed in political affairs. An attempt to kill Guilford in 1927 failed. NATIONAL AUXILIARY OFFICER IS TO ATTEND KETCHIKAN CONCLAVE Elizabeth I. Drendell, National Vice President of the American Legion Auxiliary, for the Western Division, will attend the annual convention of the Department of Alaska Auxiliary in Ketchikan, Sep- tember 20-22, according to an an- nouncement made today. She will be the first National of- ficer of the Auxiliary to attend an Alaska Legion and Auxiliary Convention and a great reception is planned for her. Mrs. Drendell will 16 for Ketchikan. teers were. attempting to agitate estimate of 65000 harvest hands a strike among the men on relief| were needed to handle Oregon's payrolls for greater disbursements. | 23.000-acre - erop of hops.. e Farmers near Estill, perimenting in the recently harvested leave Seattle on September o