The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1935, Page 1

ONGRESSIONAL LIBRAT ASHINGTON, D. C. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVI., NO. 7046 JUNEAU, ALASKA, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM THURSDAY, AUGU ST 22, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SKA PLANE MISSING, FOUR ABOARD DEMANDS ITALY GET SANCTION FROM LEAGUE Mussolini Government De- clares Enforcement of Action Bring Conflict SITUATION TENSE IN ALL EUROPE Italian Consul Shot at Debre Marcos, Claimed to Be Hunting Accident LONDON, Aug. 22. — Informed sources here today said the Brit- ish Cabinet had decided to give strong support to a general joint application of sanction by the League of Nations, including mili- tary, financial and economic, against an aggressor in the Ethio- pian dispute if such action is necessary. In Italy it was said such action would “mean war.” The action was taken at an em- ergency meeting of the Cabinet called with the fear that Musso- lini’s aspirations for conquest was a threat to the colonial possessions of Britain. * -Meting Prémier -Ramsay MacDon- ald, prior to the Cabinet meeting, said of the Ethiopian crisis: “It is the most serious we have faced since 1914. It is a very grave| situation.” MAY SPEED OPEN BREAK PARIS, Aug. 22—France feared, today that the hasty action of the British Cabinet may heighten Italy's determination for conquest of Ethiopia. While feeling was tense here, Spain is reported to have mini- mized military movements toward the Mediterranean frontier “as a normal precautionary measure.” SHOOTING SIGNIFICANT ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 22—Baron Muzzi Falconi, Italian Consul at Debre Marcos, is in the hospital here with two gunshot wounds in his chest. The Ethiopian Govern- ment announced he was shot while hunting in the wilds and has ord- ered an inquiry to determine the circumstances. It is said the wounded man ‘is in danger of death. The Baron is the son-in-law of Sir Sidney Barton, British Minister to Ethiopia. Emperor Haile Selassie at prayer today promised not to draw the first blood in the event of open conflict between his country and Italy. ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION MELBOURNE, Australia, Ang. 22. —A crowd of 3,000 n#n, women and children, including Italians, held an anti-war demonstration here to- day, singing native songs and cry- ing “shame upon Mussolini.” The children chanted “we want bread not mustard gas.” ———.— ARMED FORCES OF SPAIN TAKE SUDDEN ACTION Infantry, Cavalry, Machine Guns Concentrated at Tarifa TARIFA, August 22—The sleepy Spanish town of Tarifa, strategical- ly located on the Strait of Gibraltar, was excited over the arrival of Spanish infantry, cavalry and ma- chine gun forces. Residents recently reported Ital- ian airplanes overhead. Close observers at Madrid said| that the concentration of warships and soldiers on the Mediterranean frontier 'was probably precautionary. Semi-official sources said that Spain 1s pursuing a policy of neutrality, RITISH MOVE MAY M NATION PAYS RESPECTS T0 ROGERS, POST Observances Take Place from Washington, D.C., to Point Barrow BODIES OF BOTH MEN LIE IN STATE Simple Services Mark Rites at Glendale, Cal., and Oklahoma City WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—This nation said farewell to Will Rog- ers and Wiley Post, killed in the Arctic, near Point Barrow, in plane crash. The observance was noted from the National Capital o Point Barrow Tre rites for both were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon. President Roosevelt had sentatives at both services. RITES FOR ROGERS GLENDALE, Cal., Aug. 22—Hours before the simple, private service for the homespun humorist was held here today in wee Kirk O'Heather repre- Forest Lawn Memorisl park, ‘thou- sands jammed- -the ‘highways, all seeking a final glimpse of the bier of the noted American. Rogers body lay in state in the Park. It is estimated 100,000 filed past the bier. Services were also observed in Claremore, his home town in Okla- homa, and other places all over the nation. SERVICES FOR POST OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 22.—Vast throngs in all walks of life paused to pay respects to the memory of the noted flier. Planes carrying mourning ban- ners, droned over the State Capitol where the body of Post lay in state. | Hosts of sorrowing Oklahomans passed by his bier. Many fainted in the orderly crowd. Blossoms were showered from the £ky on the body of Post as the fall- en airman was accorded a tribute in his state. Planes, trailing crepe streamers, circled high above the Capital City. . REGISTER AT 'MUSEUM HAS PRIZED PAGE Three Names, Make .His- tory—Signatures Writ- ten on August 8 On the register of the Alaska Territorial Museum, page 445, under date of August 8, are scrawled three unassuming signatures which | make the page already a prized document in Territorial history: WILL ROGERS WILEY POST JOE CROSSON These three — the two famous dead and the one whose fearless efforts in their behalf has en- deared him to all America—visited the museum together and spent some time talking with Father A. P. Kashevaroff. Especially did Will Rogers engage the latter in con- versation. “I felt as if I had known him all my life,” said Father Kashe- varoff, echoing in his own words the sentiment of all who met Rog- ers while he was in town. “Post and Crosson were silent, talking mostly between themselves, as be- fitted close friends but shortly re- united; but Rogers asked many questions and made many engag- ing comments. He was especially interested in our relief maps. He seemed fascinated by a study of the route he was to follow North- ward.” Silent Period Observed Quver All Alaska Radio For five minutes this fore noon not a dash, not a dot was heard over the ether waves of the radio service of the Signal Corps, United States Army, Washington Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System, from Seattle to Point Barrow and all intermediate points. At 11 o'clock, Juneau time, the keys made their last clicks. For five minutes, operators and cther attaches of radio offices in Alacka, silently thought of the words they had handled over the tragedy of last week in the Arctic wastes. The silcnt period was out of respect to Will Rogers and Wiley Post. CHAMBER FUND " FOR BLUEBERRY TESTS RAISED Executive Board Votes $100—PAA Suspension Order Is Protested Enlargement of the-amount to be! spent in preparing and shipping test allotments for “eéXperimental purposes of local blueberries to can- ineries in the States, and inclusion | in those shipments of another fruit, | red huckleberries, were two import- ant announcements made at the luncheon meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at Bailey’s Cafe today. The plan to interest national packing concerns in Juneau’s blue- berries was fostered by the Cham- | ber on June 4, when the Local In- tdustries Committee, headed by | Charles Naghel, was authorize2 w | prepare shipments for the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Since then, the possibility of the Suss- man and Wormser Company (8. and | W. brands) also being interested, | has been discussed. | At the Executive Board's meet- |ing Tuesday it was decided to raise | the amount needed to pay the costs of the shipments to $100. An indefi- nite sum, not to exceed $50, had ibeen alloted before. It is hoped by |the Chamber that the tests will | prove the practicability of installing |a fruit cannery here, adding another {local industry. Flights Cancelled That news was ranked in inter- est by another jfl(ne;s detasi—the announcement tHat the Pacific Alas- ka Alrways has ceceived orders from its New York office to suspend all seaplane oprations in Southeast Alaska on f.eptember 1. This order, it was expiained, does not effect the Junes-Fairbanks route. However, the Executive Board of the Cham- ber, it was reported, felt that good flying conditions exist here at least until October 1, and have petitioned the New York headquarters of the PAA to rescind the closing order. The Rev. Bernard Hubbard, fam- ed “glacier priest” from Santa Clara University, was the speaker of the iday. In an interesting talk, he re- |viewed his speaking tour of the States last year, explaiding his Aleutian Islands “storm theory,” and gave his reactions to the Matanuska Valley colonization project, which he visited recently - before coming to Juneau to conduct temperature tests of Mendenhall and Taku Gla- cars. *I spent last winter and spring telling the United States about your magnificent Alaska,” he said. “In 237 consecutive days, I gave 258 lectures all over the country—a world's record. More than 268,000 people attended those lectures. Explains Theory “Everywhere I went, I was inter- (viewed by reporters, asking for weather predictions, based on my | Aleutian TIslands “cradle of the storms’ theory. And I gave them forecasts of season conditions which surprised them at the time, but which have all ¢ome true. I forecast |8 mild winter for New York and the East—and it came. true, de- | fpite adverse pyedictions by moteor |Ologists. I forecast rain for the | (Continued on Page Two) | ! i COMMUNISTS ARE VICTIMS OF CAL MOB Two Men, Headd Shaved, Are Given Coat of Tar, Feathers SANTA ROSA CROWD WARS ON AGITATORS Three Men Given Wayning to Leave Community by 3 P. M. Today . SANTA ROSA, Cal, Aug. 22— Amid wild scenes, including gun fire and tear gas throwing, nearly 300 self-styled vigilantes tarred and! feathered two alleged Communists and beat three others after an all night county raid against alleged agitators among the hop harvest workers. The victims of the raid gave their names as Jack Green and Solemon Nitzburg, who were tarred and feathered, Ed Wolf, George Ford and C. Meyer were beaten and ordered tc leave the country by 3 o'clock this afternoon. Gun fire and tear gas werg brought into play when the crowd descended on the Nitzburg home ol 4 ranch. Crowd Fired Upon The crowd was fired upon from n*, PRESIDENT S Ing unemployment insurance and old a It was a gay scene at the White House as President Roosevelt signed the social sce pensions, Secretary of Labor Perkins and othor officials wit- | nessed the signing. Left to right: Chairman Doughton of the house ways and means committee, E. A, Witte, co-author of the bill; Senator LaFollette (Prog-Wis), Perkins, Senator King (D-Utah), Representative Lewis (D-Md), co-author of the measure and Senator Guf- fey (D-Pa). (Associated Press Photo) f Ry ! osevelt “Inner Cirtéiuefs” Wager that Herbert Hoover Will Be Candidate in 1936 the house, a woman screaming: G, O. P. Split Is Seen as Ex-President Takes Spot- “Shoot to kill,” then the barrage of gun fire and tear gas was laid. Nitzburg came running from the house, gasping. He was seized by the crowd. Then the house was entered and other men occupants were seized. Made to Kiss Flag The crowd forced the sefged men to kiss the American flag during their captivity. The crowd shaved the heads of ered them with tar and feathers. Newsmen on the scene said the men were forced to walk through and jeering amid honking of horns. The woman in the Nitzburg house and several children rushed out but | the crowd left them screaming and' crying by the roadside. The action was started when the crowd gathered at a downtown building where a meeting of un- employed workers had been called. No official action had been taken up to noon today. H-ubln_c; s Birthday His Wife’s Secret AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 22— Clvde Smith, assistant secretary of state, can't reveal his age. His wife, who also works in the state department, was born on the same day in the same year. By revealing his birthday, Smith exposes that of his wife. So Mrs. Smith has “forbidden” her husband to “‘tell.” | | light; His Activities in Public and Private Life' Are Causing Much Discussion | By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) The public and private activities ,0f Mr. Herbert Hoover are causing | more discussion among the politi- |cians than almost any other fea- |Green and Nitzburg, then sho“’-ftun of the national political scene.] | Whether or not it is indicative of their actual expectations, some of those in the inner Roosevelt circle’ | the center of the town ahead of at Washington have been offering |autos whose occupants were yelling even money or better than the for- {mer President will be renominated by the Republicans. 1 Among the Republicans them- selves, a distinct cleavage on this subject grows more apparent con- | stantly. There have been some warm private arguments between those who think Mr, Hoover has the best i possible claim on the nomination, and those who think that for the good of the party he should an- nounce at once that he will not be a candidate, His Chicago statement, challeng- ing: the Democrats to say exactly what they want to do about chang- ing the constitution, has greatly en- livened the argument. It was inter- preted almost universally as the nearest he has come thus far to actually bidding for leadership in 1936. HOOVER A SYMBOL This is interesting for a reason which goes far beyond the personal Last-of Wil Rogers Remarks The last of the remarks by Will Rogers, which were copyrighted, 1935, by the McNaught Syndicate, Inc, of New York City, and pub- lished in hundreds of newspapers, gives the impressions of the humor- ist_as he traveled in the northland. The remarks, taken from the Se- attle Post-Intelligencer, which is one newspaper publishing them, are as follows: FROM AKLAVIK AKLAVIK, N. W. T, Aug. 11.—To the Editor of the Post-Intelligencer: Gel your map out and look this up. | The mouth of the Mackenzie River, right on the Arctic Ocean. Esqui-| mos are thicker than rich men at a “save the constitution” convention. | This is sent from one of the most northerly posts of the Northwest Mounted Police, a great body off men, like the G Men. the Arctic Circle. What, no night? It's all day up here. FROM FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 13.—To the Editor of the Post-Intelligencer: This Alaska is a great country if they can just keep from being tak- en over by the U. 8. They got a great future. This is the greatest aviation-minded city of its size in the world. There is only thirty thousand white people in Alaska and there is seventy commercial planes operating every day in winter on skiis. Edmonton, Canada, is simi- lar for their country, they run clear to the Arctic. Both countries have developed marvelous pilots. What they need now is a mail line from Seattle up here. There may be some doubt about the Louisiana We are headed for famcu; Her-| schel Island fn the Arctic. Old) Wiley had to duck his head to keep purchase being a mistake, but when Seward in '68 bought Alaska for (Continued on Page Three) from bumping it as we flew under} fortunes of Mr, Hoover or any other | individual. ! That the Republicans will take ithe conservative side of the road | next year—that is, that they will be more conservative than the Demo- icmts-—ncw is taken for granted The prime question is the question of degree; just how far should the swing to conservatism go? There are those who believe it would be suicidal to go too far; that the days when the country will fol- {low the policies of the Old Guard are gone forever. On the other side are those who believe compromise | ‘and half-way measures would get nowhere; that the party should |stand completely by the principles {which kept it in power for so long ,and become once more ' thoroughly ;conservative, { This is where Mr. Hoover comes ‘Imo the picture. Rightly or wrongly, ‘he is spoken of as typifying the ‘rufly conservative viewpoint. So jwhether he is a candidate or not, 'he remains a symbol. | Senitor Nye, who belongs to the ;nberal wing of the party, illustrat- ed this tendency when he remarked {that “no matter how dissatisfied the country might be with the New jDeal. it hardly would go bhack to ; the old deal of the Hoover days. EVIDENCE OF ACTIVITY So far as a possible candidacy is | concerned, there is no evidence Mr. (Continued on Page ’I:nree) ROAD WORK IN MATANUSKA TO ' BE CARRIED ON | i ARC ‘Gets $225,000 for i Construction, Surfac- | ing from PWA WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Allot- lmH\t of $225,000 to the Alaska Road | Commission for the construction |and surfacing of roads in the Mat- |anuska Valley Colony was an- | nounced by PWA. The sum of $125,000 is reserved ; for surfacing ten miles of roads now under .construction in the valley; | the remainder is to be used in the jcompletwn of the Matanuska-An- chorage highway, for which about 1$446,000° has ‘already been allocated. Senator Lonergan ANWAR FAIRBANKS SHIP ity bill provid- | (D-Conn). Secretary SECURITY ACT (and BELIEVED DOWN WESTOFDAWSON Craft CarrygA‘ G. Nor- dale, M., Mrs. Lonz, Last Seen Over Chicken Ck. FLIERS COMBING NORTH COUNTRY |}Bad Weather May Have Forced Pilot Down at Isolated Place The rugged mountainous country (between Dawson, Y. T, and Fair- | banks, Alaska, is today being comb- led by planes searching for the ship {earrying Pilot Arthur F, Hines, Mr. Mrs. John Lonz, Fairbanks buginessman and wife, married only a month ago, and Alton G. Nor- dale, Clerk of the United States District Court for the Fourth Di- vision and a member of the last two Alaska Territorial Legislatures. The plane has not been reported since taking off from Dawson for Fairbanks last Monday afternoon. Over Chicken Creek The plane was last reported over T0 NORTHLAND Take Action Regard- ing Pensions { i | i [ i WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—(Spec- ial Correspondence) — Commonly known as the Social Security Act,) H. R. 7260, a bill to establish a system of Federal old-age benefits| to make provision for aged persons, ,dependent and crippled children, | maternal and child welfare, and unemployment insurance, passed both houses of Congress August 9| in its final amended form as re-| ported out of conference and was/ later approved by the President.! What Act Does The Social Security Act does not provide outright Federal pensions to aged persons but it is planned | to provide financial cooperation {with the various States that have| pension laws meeting the require- ments of the act. To,benefit from | the plan the State laws/must pro- | vide for old-age assistance on ‘the following lines: It must, provide that the plan shall be State-wide in its application, provide financial participation by the State, be ad- ministered by a single State agency, provide for granting to any indi- vidual whose claim for old-age as- sistance .is denied, an opportunity | for a fair hearing before such| State agency, and must provide| that the State agency will make such reports as the Social Security Board shall require. The State plan must not exclude any resident 011‘ ithe State who has resided therein |tive years during the nine years, immediately preceding the appli- cation for old-age assistance and has resided therein continuously for one year immediately preceding | the application. l Requirements in Alaska | | The existing,laws relating to pen-| Isions ip Alaska, do not meet. the |above requirements to make the| Territory eligible to participate in the henefits of the act, however, ithe act provides “That in order to assist the aged of the several States who have no State system of old-age pensions until an op- portunity is afforded the several| States to provide for a State plan,| including financial participation by | Ithe States, and notwithstanding| |any other provision of this title, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to each State for each quarter; {until not later than July 1, 1937, to be used exclusively as old-age assistance, in lieu of the amount payable under the provisions ef ;clfinkc (1) of this subsection, an amount suficient to afford old-age (Continued on Page Turee) the Chicken Creek country. It is believed that Pilot Hines set down deliberately through some mishap ‘or aceount of weather, Searching planes are equipped both for landing on water as well as land, Today's search is in charge of and directed by Murray Hall, De- partment of Commerce, Aeronautics Branch, Inspector of Alaska, who is flying his own Stinson plane. Many in Search Other fliers engaged search are: Harold Gillam, Cordova aviator, operator of an independent service line; Percy Hubbard, independent flier, partner of Hines; Al Mon~ son, PAA pilot, S. Christenson and H. S. Lynn. M. W. Saseen and Vern Brook- walter have been on the search for the past two days with the others. in the Ireny of Fate Mrs. A. Nordale and two chil- dren, the family of one of the pas- sengers aboard the missing plane, traveled by plane from Juneau to Fairbanks Tuesday afternvon, while the search was in progress. Mrs. Nordale, who arrived on the Alaska shortly before the Juneau plane took off for Fairbanks, did not know that the Arthur Hines plane, |taking her husband fo Fairbartks from Dawson, was missing, until her arrival in Fairbanks. By an irony of fate the plane carrying Mrs. Nordale flew over at least a part of the route Hines' plane should have traversed. AVIATORS DI, PITIFUL CASE TULSA, Okla., Aug. 22—Flight In- strucgor' Ward Crawford , §nd. ‘his student, ¥Fred Hill, are dend?;‘m""fl_ ently: bechuse they didn't know which. pne ‘was doing the flying,” A. W Meadows, Departmeny of merée inspeetor said. R Meadogs. said he found . Hill's lands frozen to the controls, which wete_distovered to be still i worke ing order. Opening Prices Of Salmon Is Announced SEATTLE, Aug. 22—H. G. Seabern, Skinner and Eddy Sales Manager, announced the follewing official opening prices on salmon: Pound tall reds, $2.35; half pound flat reds, $1.65; pound tall cohoes, $1.75; pound tall pinks, $L10; half-pound Hat pinks, 80 cents; pound tall chum, $1; all F.O.B. Seattle, Septem- ber and October shipments. . Libby, McNeill and Libby piicés were not yet announced.