The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1934, Page 1

TH “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XLIV.. NO. 6749 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS STEAMER ABLAZE; HUNDREDS PERISH * * * * * * * * * * * * * \l * * * * * * * * *» * *» * * FRIGHTFUL DISASTER O]Ff COAST - - SPELLBINDERS END CAMPAIGN, MAINE VOTES National Issues Have P_re- . dominated During Poli- tical Discussions GOV. BRANN SEEKS TO BE RETURNED, Harold Dubord Is Oppos-| 3 Remarkable Photo New Crater ing Re-election of - | & Senator Hale | PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 8.—! Political spellbinders hurled their final campaign blasts last night and today hoping to swing Mon-| day's eclection, which is called . political weather vane. The Republicans are calling fnr a gale of ballots to swing the vane y ¢ away from the New Deal. | The state, on Monday, will choose 4 a United States Senator, Governor1 and three Congressmen. l | 5 National Issues National issues have predomi- 4 nated in the present campaign. Senator Frederick Hale, Repub-| lican, is seeking reelection as is‘ Representagive Caroll L. Beedy,\ also a Repuhlican. A host !I Republican menkers have appealed for repudiation af' “regimentation of Socialistic schemes and tyranny” of the New | Deal. ‘ . Gov. Louis J. Brann, Democrat, | /! is secking reelection. Harold Du-| / /+ bord, former Mayor of Waterville,! is seeking the Democratic senator- | ship. Alfred Ames, retired lumberman, ° is opposing Brann. il T B Sl MRS. PINCHOT IS CANDIDATE FORGOVERNOR Last Mmute Drive Puts| Woman in Nomination in Pennsylvania HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 8.— Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, wife ! and political teammate of Penn- sylvania’s Governor, twice denied i a seat in Congress, has entered the || campaign as an Independent can- didate for the Governorship. A last minute drive by friends of the Pinchots climaxed when [ messengers' hurried through the rain ' to the Capitol with Mrs. !\ Pinchot’s petitions. race or withdraw before September | | | 17 is a matter of conjecture. 'l ! Gov, Gifford Pinchot announced | | a few days ago he would not be | | a candidate for the Senate. | MAN AND WIFE FOUND,THROATS . CUTEARTO EAR ELDORADO, K&nsfls, Sept. 8.— The bodies of Frank Kelly, aged 5 ’ 25, oil worker, and his wife, aged / 24, were found last night under , a concrete culvert, eight miles west of Augusta, throats cut from ear to ear. The police immediately began questioning Clifford Eelly, whs ir eaid to have been involved in a fight with his brother last Satur- day and considerable feeling is said to have existed between them since | then. Clifford Kelly is already in jail on a charge of drunken driving. " - e,—— SANTIAGO, Chile—A law has been promulgated reducing from 7 and 8 per cent to 6 per cent the interest on loans due to the Bank of Mortgage Oredit, | Alaska Volcano This remarkable clear aerial photo of Roundtop, the recently active volcano in Alaska, near the Valley of the Ten Thousand Smokes, was taken by Jack Lincke, San Francisco aviator, while flying a greup of scientists to Kediak Island, where a base has been established to aid in studies of ice age dala. The crater, in its recent e and ice sheaihed summii The vi rupticn, threw cut vast quantities of ash and pumice from it; snow alley in which R oundtop is located is almost perpetually sheathed in ice and decp smow, affgrding a sharp contrast with the constantly smoking velcang; in whose depths, Whether she will remain in the | scienticis estimate, the temperature exceeds 1000 degrees Fahrenhcit. ~ theay belivve; by -tk -buildingsup of Roundtop’s ¢indur cine te-such withstand fhe internal pressure created by the molten material in th: below the carth’s outer crust. When the top gave way, this new was blewn out of the couthwesi side of Roundtop. Rayburn s Candulacy for ‘ Speakership Has Started Politicians Dlggmg Data By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Sept. 8— Sam Rayburn of Texas hardly had an- nounced his candidacy for the jans were talking about the pohucal ineptitude,” (to use their| | DDNOTDO i | - ITAND THAT | | : I P own expression) of organizing both ; Houses of the next Congress under the rule of two Texans. Texas’ position on Capitol Hill] P hsh I;m b assy Denies | at present is an object of envy. An even half-dozen committee chair- i England S ng Slopped | manships in the House, two in the } U. S. Gun Sale | Senate, to say nothing of the Vice | Presidency, is the Lone Star State's | LONDON, Sept. 8.—The Polish‘fix;‘re in the present administra- Embassy today issued a denial 10 "'n 544 45 this commanding posi- the statements made at the hear- tion in national affairs, the Speak- ing of the United States Special ership, considered by n;any S adn. Senate Committee probing the|, 4 i1y to the Presidency itself, munition industry, that the King|; something to worry all political- of England mmveaed through ‘hellvqninded Polish Ambassador in London, t0|” yet it has happened before—on hinder the sale of guns made bY|an aven larger scale. {an American concern to Poland. | The Polish Embassy statement said never summoned by the King in| |connection with the matter. | As recent as the 67th Congress The British Foreign Office in- | (1921) both Houses of Congress had dicated that the Polish statement |as their presiding officers men from was sufficient to discredit the|the same state. Calyin Coolidge of | story entirely. and Frederick Gillett of Massachus- etts was Speaker of the House. | Coolidge was elected Vice Pres | WASHINGTON, Sept. 8— The|dent to serve from March 4, 1921, Argentine Government presented a|to March 3, 1925 (67th and 68th| ! written protest to the State De-|Congresses). | partment against the remarks at-| When Harding died Coolidge be- tributed to United States Senator|came President on August 3, 1923. | Homer T. Bone, of the State of| Gillett, who had been speaker Washington, in the course of the|since 1919, continued to serve in munitions hearing, which is said|that position during the whole of; |to reflect upon a high Argentina | the 68th Congress, ending in March, | official. 11925, while Coolidge was President. Felipe Espil, Argentina Ambas- Massachusetts, therefore, has set sadur, presented the protest and|@ mark for even Texas to shoot said: “We do not”care what the|at- witnesses say, but do care what Senators themselves say in reflec-| tion on our officials. T have check- ed the stenographic record and found the remarks reflecting on the integrity of Commander Galin- dez, Chief of our Naval Commis- sion in Europe. He is one of the| most honorable and beloved honest men in Argentina.” —elp WRITTEN PROTEST NEW YORK SUPPLIED BOTH | There are, however, only two | instances where Vice jand Speakers from the same state served at the same time. Daniel D. Tompkins of New serve from March 4, 1817, to March 13, 1825. John W. Taylor, also of New York, was elected Speaker on Fossil coral reefs can be found | November 15, 1820, after Henry in the Himalayas which were form- [Clay has resigned. Taylor served ed in the ancient “Tethys sea” of |as Speaker until the end of that 240,000,000 years ago. Congress, the 16th (1821), (International Illus, News Photo.) c,)eakersmp before Washington pol- 5 the Polish Ambassador Waf’iMASSACIlUSETTS SETS MARK/ | Massachusetts was vice president | Presidents| York was elected Vice President to The recent crup # was cafid. a height that it h‘no“h e main fissure, which extends deep cratef, shown in the photograph, TALASKA NW, -FISHERY CODE MEN APPROVED %NRA Gives—Re—cognition to| | Group Composed of | | Seattle Industrialists NEW FLARE-UP IN EUROPE IS LOOMING NOW Italy Objecg_to Japanese Activities in Etho- pian Empire SOLDIERS, MUNITIONS RUSHED TO ABYSSINIA Official Spokesman Sounds Warning About Foot- hold in Europe ROME, Sept. 8.—Japanese pene- tration of Abyssinia is causing con- siderable concern to Italy, stated in well informed quarters, after it became known that troops and munitions have been sent to the Italian colonies in Eastern Af- rica. There is a sense of uneasiness because of the Japanese activity and this has been increased because of the growing militaristic manifes- tations of the Ethopian Empire. Consequently soldiers and supplies have been dispatched to Eritrea, to Somaliland. " The official spokesman said the extension of Japapese trade in fyssinia also. favors Emperor Hal- le Selassie in bestowing . certain privileges on the .Japanese, but a “warning is issued that the Asiatic | people will not be allowed a foot- hold near the doors of Europe.” Use of Armgl-Vlen in Next Tuesday’s Election Is Called Off WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—Yes-| terday NRA recognized the tem- | | porary Executive Committee to ad-‘ minister the Fishery Code in the | Pacific Northwest and Alaska, for | "Lhe preparing and wholesale Di-| vision of the industry. The temporary group is com- | posed of Seattle men and will serve until November 30 unless the pend- ing code for that division is ap- proved earlier. The members of the temporary Executive Committee include H. J.| Timman, of the San Juan Fish- ing and Packing Company, chair-| |man; H. Synnestvedt, of the New | England Fish Company; J. Collins, Sea Products Company; E. J. Whit- man, Haines Oyster Company; Charles Alhadeff, Whiz Products, Inc., and Peter Sellen, of the P. Sellen Company, egg bait manu- facturer. | LS PEPE PSRt @0 000 00000000 STOCK QUOTATIO! e 000 00 |lo o 00 0o | NEW YORK, Sept. 8—Closing {quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| ls(ock today is 17'2, American Can| (97" American Power and Light |47, Anaconda 117%, Armour, com- mon, 6%, Bethlehem Steel 28, |Calumet and Hecla, no sale; Cur- | tiss-Wright 2%, General Motors 28%, International Harvester 252, Kennecott 18%, United States Steel ‘A NEW ORLEANS, La. Sept. 8.— truce between United States Senator Huey Long and Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley has brought a comparatative peace on the New Orleans battle ground. The rivals for political control of the city agreed not to used armed men at the polls in next Tuesday’s primary unless ordered out by the | Arbitration Committee. Mayor Walmsley has recognized the patrol powers of the Legisla- ture which conferred the power on Long's insistence. The Senator holds 2,000 State militiamen en- camped at the Jackson Barracks and under wharf sheds along the river front and the Mayor has 1,- 500 police maintained in positions within the city. How Street Was_iamed ATLANTA, Ga.—Historians say Peachtree Creek, which flowsdown through Atlanta, and Peachtree Street, the city’s longest thorough- fare, derived their names from a gigantic tree used as a target by {early Cherokee Indians in their zame of throwing rocks. The tribesmen called it the ‘‘Peach- tree’ at at. - e Kirk Prather, candidate for the Democratic nomination for gover- |327%, Pound $5.00%. | CORDOVA, Alaska, Sept. 8— Ravages of the white man’s diseas- es, combined with liquor and the | scarcity of a natural food supply, is fast depopulating the Eskimo race, say Dr. V. E. Levine, and Prof. C. W. Bauer, of Creighton University, Omaha. nor of Kansas, toured the state in an airplane. Declare Esklmos Ravaged . by White Man’s Dlseases, Liquor, Lack Proper Food ‘he two who have spent the sum- mer near Nome, making suscepti- bility tests. They found the natives' suscepti- bility to tuberculosis and other diseases higher than any other place in the world and calculated | the Eskimo’s life span at 20 years. This is the statement made by | The bisthrate is very low. it is Scene of Horror Attends BRIELLE, New Jersey, Sept. 8. ~-A picture of horror followed the burning of the liner Morro Castle as survivors floundered in the, water screaming for help, according | to members of the crew of the fishing boat Paramount, which res- | cued 67 persons. | “It was the most horrible sight I ever saw,” said John Bogan, owner | of the little craft, which plowed | through the water for four hours | taking survivors aboard. “The water seemed full of dead | people,” said the skipper of anoth- | er rescue boat, the Diana which | brought in twelve bodies. Sharks Add to Horror Sharks added to the scene of | horror and increased the terror of | the disaster. One rescue ship skip-| |area where the survivors were struggling in the water. | Capt. Bogan said he saw the| blaze from the ship as he started | out early in the morning on his daily fishing trip. “T turned back to Brielle and no- Burning of Morro Castle; / Survivors Seream for Help Capt. Bogan said that during t! rescue of his men, his father was dragged overbcard and knocked unconscious when his head hit the rail. It was all we could do to res- cue him and bring him back, ow- ing to the heavy swells and rips. Naval Flier Praised Capt. Bogan praised the work of Naval Flier, Commander Thom- as Mullroy, in a National Guard plane, flying low over the water he |and signalling rescue bcats when he found survivors. One fishing boat picked up one | woman and seven men but all died be!ore reaching Brielle. The wom- an clung to her baby as she was hauled abcard one craft, and flung it back into the water when she found it was dead. She died from per counted three sharks in the|exhaustion and cold a few minutes | later. THE MORRO CASTLE NEW YORK, Sept. 8~The Mor- ro Castle was a long, low liner Italy's colony on the Red Sea, also| tified the Coast Guard and then|with rakish lines, with two fun- hurried to the burning liner,” said | nels. She made her maiden voyage Capt. Bogamx “On arrival, I found|to Havana four ysars ago. She struggling persons ‘and bedies. I maintained an average speed of 21 saw three persons clinging to the knots, The liner was 508 feet long body of a drowned relative. The | and was builf in Newport News. TRUGE DECLARED ON BATTLEFIELD AT NEW ORLEANS because they pitched stones| {living had to be ligerally torn from | the dead ribly.” Last September shg went thmugh of gold, has been handed to Pr Fisher, of Yale University, for was announced last night. Holding the increase of gold SOME TEXTILE MILLS MAKE PLANS,REOPEN Chairman of Textile Strike Committee Will Wel- come Test Monday WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—Francis J. Gorman, Chairman of the Tex- tile Strike Committee, took cog- nizance this afternoon of reports that many mills were planning on reopening next week, to make the; following statement: “We welcome a test next Mon- day.” Emerging from the second con- ference with the members of the! President’s Mediation Board, Gor- man said the strike will continue. | Gov. John G. Winant, of New | Hampshire, Chairman of the Me-| diation Board, said: “We ‘are making progress in en- lightening ourselves on the entire situation.” | Two Alaskans in | Russia for Awards, Arctic Rescue Work LENINGRAD, U. 8. S. R, Cept. 8.—Clyde Armisted and William Lavery, Fairbanks, Al- aska, aviation mechanics, awarded the Order of Lenin for assisting in the rescue of Prof. Otto Schmidt and his party of over 100 from the Arctic ice floes in Bering Sea, earlier in the year, have arrived here. | They will proceed to Moscow next week where President Kalinin will_confer the decora- tions. The two Alaskans are having | their . expenses paid to and l from Russia, 1 | zations, | States Petition Hande(l Roosovolt Asking Increase, Gold Price NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—A petition, signed by farm leaders and business men, urging the immediate increase in the price esident Roosevelt by Dr. Irving a committee of the natiom, it will increase the prices farmers and other basic producers receive for their commodities, while causing only a small increase in the cost of living, the petition | sought for a gold price rise from $35 to $41.43 an ounce, the maximum anthorllcd by the recent Congress, INTIMIDATION IN SAAR MUST COME TOEND Solemn Warning Is Given at League of Nation's Council Today GENEVA, Sept. 8.—Intimidation of the population of the Saar Val- ley, in connection with the forth- coming plebiscite, must cease, Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of | France, warned in a solemn address before the League of Nations’ coun- cil. Barthou said “regrettable inci- dents occurred in the Saar yester- day, and also the day before.” The Foreign Minister gave no details and he did not mention the name of German or Nazi organi- but his hearers interpret- ed his remarks as referring to Nazi elements in the Saar. The plebiscite is for the purpose of declaring whether the Saar shall remain under the League's no\vrnment or join with Germany. o [Two Brotllen in Race, Same Office KANSAS CITY, Sept. 8.—S. W Van Scoyoec, treasurer of Oakland township, Clay county, Kansas, ran for re-election on the Republi- can ticket, opposed by M. P. Van Scoyoc, Democrat, his brother. The latter won. Planes WManufacturea in U. S., 748 at Midyear WASHINGTON, Sept. 8— Air- planes manufactured in the United during the first half of 1934 numbered 748, of which 374 were for domestic use, 264 for mili- tary delivery, and 110 for export, TOURIST SHIP CATCHES AFIRE DURING STORM Passengers Are Caught in Berths — Many Are Burned to Death FLAMES ENVELOPE SHIP IN FAST TIME Unable to Eer Lifeboats Except on One Side— Boats to Rescue SPRING LAKE, New Jer- sey, Sept. 8.—Fire, the terror of the sea, swept the pas- senger liner Morro Castle in the storm shrouded darkness of today’s dawn, eight miles off the shore of Asbury Park. Five hours after more than 300 of the 558 passengers and crew were unaccounted for. The first frantic SOS “Mor- ro Castle afire off Scotlai Light” was picked up at 3:; BvieHe : flames envelope the vess that many of the 318 pas- sengers, enroute home to New York after a seven-day ex- cursion to Havana, were un- doubtedly burned in their berths. 2 The ship was soon aflame from stem to stern. Bodies were soon visible off the beach as Sandy Hook surf boats and @oast Guard crews pushed through the heavy seas to search for sur- vivors. The blaze started aparently in the library, some of the surviving members of the crew said on reach- ing shore, then spread and soon the great tanks of fuel oil began burning and the 11,000-ton liner was a pillar of fire, the flames visible along the Jersey coast. Flames Sweep Ship Dr. Charles Cochrane, of Brook- lyn, came shore in a boat with a few survivors and gave a graphic desription of the scene that greet his eyes. “The front part of the ship was suddenly all in flames,” said Dr. Cochrane. “I do not believe any passengers who got caught in the hold or cabin at any point on the ship beyond the library had a chance of es- caping.” Stunned by Disaster Shipping along the Atlantic Coast was stunned by the import of the Morro Castle’s broken SSS. Al- though the liner was in the heart of the greatest shipping region in the world, not a ship was near- by as the Coast Cuards and police attempted to battle in heart-break- ing failure to force their launches through the surf. Lower Lifebvats Those members of the crew es- caping were from below decks and they managed to lower only a few lifeboats from only one side of the flaming liner and this is pitiful evidence of the failure of many of those aboard to reach safety in lifeboats. One lifeboat landed on the beach through the terrific surf with barely enough of a crew to man it, and with far below the 170 persons capacity. Captain Is Dead The Morro Castle left Havana last Wednesday night. The Com- mander, Capt. Wilmot, died as the result of a heart attack, leaving the vessel in command of the Chief Officer, Willlam Warms, when she caught fire. Rescue Ships Arrive The first rescue' ship to reach the scene was the Monarch, bound for Bermuda, erack Furness liner, and she picked up 65 persons. The (wontinued on Page Two) k this m iy