The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1935, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL WASHINGTON. D VOL. XLVL, NO. 7071. .. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1935 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS WAR OR PEACE NOW UP TO MUSSOLINI COAST GUARD SEAPLANE FOR ALASKA LOGMS| Capt. Demp_w:lf Sees sibility of One of New Cutters in North Assignment of one of the new 328-foot Coast Guard cutters, now under construction in_ jthe East coast, to Alaskan is a pos- sibility of the next 18 months, it wes indicated here today by Capt. Ralph W. Dempwolf, Commander of the Seattle Division of the Coast QGuard, who, with Mrs. Dempwolf, arrived in Juneau on the North Sea for a brief inspection trip and conference with Gov. John W. Troy and other government officials. Seven of the new cutters, each to carry a seaplane, are being built, Capt. Dempwol{ said, and they probably will be completed in from a year to 18 months. There is need for a vessel of this kind in Alaskan waters, the Captain point- ed out, and effort will be made to | get one. There are only three planes in Coast Guard service on | the west coast now, two in the San Francisco Division, and one at Port Angeles, in Capt. Dempwolf's division, The new vessels will have a speed of 120 knots and oupled with the | services of a seaplane, they would be " especially adapted to work in | the north, where distances are great, he explained. | § Served in Alaska Capt. Dempwolf is well acquaint- ed ‘with gonditions in Alaska, hav- ing served in the Territory for nine years. . He commanded the Bear from 1910 to 1914, was in' charge of the Mojave in 1923 and '24 and the Chelan in 1928 through 1931, In May of 1934 he became Captain in commander of the Se- attle Division, replacing Capt. H. D. Hinkley, who retired. Besides service in Alaska and on the Pacific Coast, Capt. Demp- wolf was on the east coast for years and also on the Great Lakes.| He now has 33 years service to his} credit, having entered as a cadet in 1802. Advantages of Seaplane Pafi, BISHOP URGES PATRIOTISM With war excitement increasing daily in Ethiopia, numerous patri- otic_demonstratio have been held. Here is an archbishop of the Coptic church as he urged the populace to suppért the policies of Emperor Ha lassie. The country's religion centers in the Coptio ohurch. (Associated Press Photo) ASSISTANTS TO REV. HUBBARD ' HoLD-RECORDS Levin, Chisholm] Getty Play Prominent Parts in Explorations Ed R. Levin, Ken Chisholm and George Getty, assistants to Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, the “Glacier Priest,” are trained athletes and sclentists of the highest type. Each of the men who accompany Father Five Coast Guard vessels are now regularly stationed in Alaskan waters, the Division Chief said, the Cyane and Alert at Ketchikan, the Tallapoosa at Juneau, Haida at Cordova and Morris at Seward. This is the latter's first year in the Territory. While the Captain could give no definite assurance at this time, the application will be made to have one of the new cut- ters with seaplane added 'to the service in the North. He explained that there is a great demand for the seaplanes in all divisions of the Coast Guard due to the excel- lent work that has been accom- plished with those already in op- eration. On one occgsion this sum- mer, the Coast Guard seaplane in the Seattle Division was able to go far out in the Straits of Juan de Capt. and Mrs, Dempwolf were guests of Mrs. Fletcher wité ‘of Oapt. Brown of 5 how. h Seattle, this and eveping were to be - the Governor's leave in the MOBILIZATION IS MYSTERIOUS PARIS, Sept.'21.—The National- ist Croix De Feu organization or- dered a mysterious mobilization of its “one million members” at dawn tomorrow, Members were not told why, but were merely instructed to leave their homes at dawn and to carry enough food for one day. At the same time, the Commyn- ists, deadly enemies of the Croix De Feu, wamned their followers to Hubbard on his expeditions to the remote parts of Alaska, has a splen- did record of achievement. Ed Levin and Ken' Chisholm are big men, tall and muscular. Levin tips the scales at 240 pounds and Chisholm weighs well over pounds. Getty is comparatively small and as a result is invariably chosen for jobs such as being let down on a rope into glacier cre- vasses and other tasks where bulk is a handicap. Levin Former Fighter Levin, who is field manager on Father Hubbard's expeditions, has been a member of the party for the last five years. He has a spectacular record as a prize ring champion. now classic photographic trip In|oe thoy tyne After some sixty professional fights he retired to please his mother. Levin won a match with Jack Roper; stopped Red Fitzsimmons, stable-mate of Young Stribling, by a knockout in three rounds after! picture, Father Hubbard presented| Red had scored 26 straight knock- outs against leading heavyweights: knocked ‘out Tom Morgan, heavy- weight champion of the Army in two rounds; and took the Navy into camp with ' knockouts over Sailor Bougardus and Sailor Snyder, the heavyweight champion of the navy —the last in four rounds. . In Ring Early His first appearance in the ring, Levin said, was while he was a student in the eighth grade at St. Mary's parochial school in Lead- ville, Colorado. He put on a boxing exhibition with an older brother in the same ring in which Jack Dempsey won many of his early lights. “Juneau reminds me of my home town—Leadville,” Levin said. "It has about the same population, and | Juneau of the pictures that will be|Point Barrow area. | the mines and the background are much the same. While a boy I had dresms of some day exploring in Alaska, but those dreams did not reveal to me that I would be a companion of ‘he ‘<mous Father On Football Team Levin's parents moved to Califor- nia where he attended San Jose High School. He played guard on the only high school team that beat Stanford Freshmen in several years. He was a guard three years on the varsity football squad at 3an Jose State College, which won the Par Western Conference cham- 2lonship all three years. 200 REV. HUBBARD LECTURES ON EXPLORATIONS |Pictures Are Shown Here | First—Is Leaving for | South Monday | ‘A Voyage to the Ice Inferno,” an ! enthralling composite of moving- | pictures taken by the Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, Glacier Priest, in his many explorations in Alaska, was |shown for the first time in Ju- neau in the Uptown Theatre last night, under the auspices of the Catholic Church of the Nativity. The pictures, most of them deal- ing with Father Hubard’s 1934 visit to the Valley of 10,000 Smokes, were animated by a lecture de- livered by him from the stage, in- terpreting the camera scenes and giving a graphic explanation of the scientific data involved in his dis- coveries. Presen: in the audience was R. H. Sargent, Topographical Engineer | with the U. 8. Geological Survey, who first discovered the valley over @ decade ago, and whose published reports caused Father Hubbard's | the valley in 1928, | Large Audience { The attractive little theatre was | 'well-filled when the program be- gan. Previous to the showing of the | to the audience his three hardy as- |sistants—Edgar Levin, A.B., AM., ‘and prospective Ph.D. of geology; | Ken Chisholm, also a geology major, |and George Getty, youngest and lightest of the bulky quartette, and a comparatively new addition. | The dogs, Mageik and ‘Wolf, vet- |erans of the seven-year-ago Val- |ley expedition, and the fwo half- |grown pups, Magook and Margo, which were first broken to harness |on Hubbard's recent Taku glacler‘ trip, -were not taken to the theatre. . |1t was announced, however, that |they would be on show at the | church property for all who wished | to see them over the weekend . First Showing Here It has been Father Hubbard's custom -to make one showing in |used in his following winter's k- !ture tour of the States; and manv (of the audience had followed his | pictures eagerly from his first ap- | pearance here eight years ago, when | he crossed the'ice cap on foot. | “Ghost Forest” { The pictures shown last night showed the climb of Shishaldin, the |discovery of a new crater, and the dreary approach, over quicksand |and through “ghost forests” killed |and preserved by volcanic ash and | sulphuric acid, to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, which already !in 193¢ had dwindled to a mere Jhlndful of steam-vents, making . of | the once much publicized national HOUSE NUMBERS NOW REQUIRED, SAYS COUNGIL City F athers Decide to Enforce Existing Ordinance In addition to passing and au- thorizing the writing of several or- | dinances, the City Council last night considered many miscellaneous de- | tails which kept that body in ses- sion for more than threé hours. Details of the ordinances may be found in another article in today's Empire. Most important of the miscellane- ous subjects was the decision of the City Fathers to enforce the present ordinance requiring the numbering | of all buildings in the city. Numbers | will be made available, at cost, to building owners by the city. The cost is not expected to exceed a few pennies for each number. In this same line, it was an- nounced that the Council probably will consider the remarking and labelling of street numbers and names following the completion of the present paving project. Another Burner Battle Of considerable importance last night was the waging of the sec- ond “Battle of the Oil Burners.” Rival oil burner companies battled two weeks ago on the project of installing a crude-oil burner to re- place the present diesel-oil plant in City Hall J. A. Bulger, after much argument, won the bid con- tract. Mayor Isador Goldstein startled councilmen by announcing that Bulger had refused'to’ the performance of the cryde-oll burn- er. He was reported as being willing ! to stand back of his workmanship, Ibut was not confident of the all- year success of the crude-oil me- chanism. Mayor Goldstein said Bul- ger had refused to sign a contract. That left the Councilmen just where they were three months ago, when |it first began to consider the City | Hall heating situation. After last night's meeting the { Council still was in that fix. They jended the session with the decision 1to make certain alterations to the present diesel-oil plant, with the prospect that consideration of the crude-oil burner may be taken up again at a later date. To Investigate Dock Heat Heating of the City Dock ware- house and offices also was consid- erad last night. After the report of | Chairman A. F. McKinnon, of the ‘Wharf Committee, that installation of a central heating plant would cost approximately $2,000, Mayor Goldstein obtained the okeh of the Council to investigate the situation and make a report at the next meeting. He will endeayor to de- termine the best kind of heating system and the cost for installation Authorization to imstall a lami- ! nated flooring in the Fire Hall ap- (Continued on Page Two) COUNCIL OKEHS NEW CONCEALED GUN ORDINANGE [Measure, Passed for First‘ Reading, Is Strength- | ened One i 1f the measure meets twice more' with the success it found last night in its first reading before the City Council in seession at |City Hall, Juneau will have a new :n.nd strengthened ‘“‘concealed weap- |ons” ordinance. | | Designed to prevent what City Police describe as “too-frequent” arrests of persons carrying pistols, Ithe ordinance, provided with new legisiative teeth, was passed un- ahimously. It must be approved twice more before becoming a law. The provisions of the law, drawn up with the recommendation of Chief of Police Roy Hoffman in' mind are as follows: 1. . carrying, a concealed weapon or flourishing | such is to be a misdemeanor; 3, conviction will bring a fine of from $10 to $100 or not more than: days in jail or both; 3. during the trial, the ‘weapon will be con-| fiscated by the City, and if a con- |viction is obtained, the weapon will! ibecome the permanent property of the police department, or may be destroyed. Start Two Others The City Fathers started two other new ordinances on their way last night, ordering the City At- torney to prepare them for first readings at the next session. Qne is an anti-auction racket ordinance. Led by Robert Simpson and Ludwig Nelson, Juneau jewel- ers i protest was lodged with the Council over the so-called “quack” Christmas-time auctions of cheap jewelry by professions from the Outside. Simpson saild that such procedure_is harmful to be public as well as a blow to the legitimate business of local merchants. The ordinance, which will be! drawn, includes the following points 1. all prospective auctions must be registered with the City in ad- vance; 2. auctioneers must have been in business a considerable length of time; 3. there must be an inventory of the stock to be suctioned; 4. no new goods may be brought into the city and auc- tioned. | | TO Tax Games The City Attorney also was au- thorized to draw up an ordinance aimed at a taxation of pin-ball games and similar amusements found in beer parlors and eating places. A tax of $15 a year on pin- ball games and $5 per table in public card rooms will be included in the proposed ordinance. Upon the suggestion of Council- man G. E. Krause, the Councilmen agreed that fhe now separate leg- islation pertaining to plumbing, el- ectricity, oil burners, tanks, chim- neys and marquees be included in the new building code which Coun- ciiman Krause is preparing and on which he is expected to give a full report at the next Council session. ROCKWELL KENT COMING NORTH, BARROW BOUND Author and Artist Leaving Seattle Today Aboard Steamer Yukon SEATTLE, Sept. 21.— Rockwell| Kent, author and artist, arrived) here by plane late yesterday from the soath and sails today aboard the steamer Yukon enroute to the Kent, whose human-interest pic- tures once enlivened the covers of the Saturday Evening Post, Colliers and the once-flourishing Capper’s Weekly, and whose modernistic art aroused much controversy and spec- ulation in the pre-depression area, is also the author of several books dealing with pictorial subjects. His ROGERS DENIES IMPLICATION IN SINGER'S DEATH Son of Multi-Millionaire - Gives Testimony Be- Tury fore Inquest ‘WEST CHESTER, Pa., Sept. 21.— Henry Rogers, son of the late Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Standard ©il multimillionaire, firmly denied at the coroner’s inquest that he had any part in the killing of Evelyn Hoey, torch singer of Broad- way. ! Rogers told the inquest jury that farmhouse because “she was un- Iatest book, released late last fall snd which became an instantaneous success, dealt with a trip he and a friend took by boat to the “Land of the Midnight Sun,” approached through Greenland waters. e ‘Rogers said she was always mocdy she was drinking. She had fried to leap from a window . York hotel, he said, but ‘her back when all but an 44§ z § i i Ann Riesterer, nurse, travelled from Ketchikan to Sitka on the North Sea. She will be employed (Contirned w. Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) Jin the Pioneers' Home there. oA e acknowledged between fie ‘were intimate had wanted to break this off. ¥ she shot herself to death in hie| ! The wi and Pr e A manyel s O | Rulers of ltaly at War Games | ar vers in‘Nor' hern [taly brought King Victor Emmanuel mMuollni wccflm for one of their rareiduo public appear: still the kin ph | the world recognizes Frals TOURISTS IN EUROPE LANDS COMING HOME Americans, However, Not Rushing Like During Days of 1914 LONBON, Sept. 21. —American tourists in Europe scanned the ever-darkening war dispatches from Geneva, Rome, ‘apd ‘Addis Ababa, but the war scareé headlines that| .1¢ there's been any change, it Is « sent them secampering home in droves in the pre-war days of 1914 were absent. Americans - refurning home are created a crisis in the situation ini finding first and second class ac- commodations on Italian liners fill- ed, and ‘many have been forced to return home on ships of other lines. As a result of the controlled press in Rome, however, there is little public evidence of alarm. Most English travellers planning to- visit Italy heve either cancelled their trips or are going with misgiv- ings. From Vienna came reports that forebodings of war are increasing throughout southeastern Europe, but the atmosphere is one of help- less indifference. ———e———— GOES BACK TO PRIVATE LIF Chairman Ke:edy, Secur- ities Commission, Quits —Praised by FDR WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Vow- ing to return to the “quiet and peaceful little life,’ Chairman Jo. seph P. Kennedy, of the Securitie: Commission, has resigned his post. Kennedy denied that he was go- ing to take any other Government He received a message from Pres- ident Roosevelt praising him for his services. It was agreed when Kenendy took the office it would be only for the organization period His lucceuar‘ has not been named. . STRATTON RETURNS SENATOR POPE BELIEVES WAR | | | | | Gives Opinion After Inde- pendent Survey. of Ethiopian Situation PARIS, Sept. 21—United States {Senator James P. Pope, of Idaho, |after an independent survey of the | Ethioplan situation, said: |even more certain that there will be, war. Concentration of the Bflt-’ ish. fleet - the Mediterranean has which anything can happen.” ; The Senator will sail today for the United States, after’ ‘several weeks of talks with European | statesmen and a visit to Geneva, | Senator Pope continued: “The Ethiopian controversy seems to me to have roots largely in economic maladjustment. Much more could | have been accomplished by the na-| |tions of the world if they had/ ‘rccognhed the Italian economic sit- |uation several years ago,” and he uation several years ago, and at- | tempted .to remedy it through some |sort of peaceful cooperation. | “However, at the present time, ‘zhe situation has culminated into an acute threat of war and the League of Nations may not be ‘suc- ces:ful in attempting to avert it.” | senator Pope concluded with: |“One benefit coming out of the jcrisis is regimentation of world | opinion against unprovoked aggres- |sive warfare, swhich will inevitably iresult in future actions designed to |promote a system of law and or- |der in the world. Enlivened public |interest in international relations ‘cannot fail to bring about bene- |ficial results, regardless of what { happens in the Mediterranean.” VANZANDT I8 AGAIN CHIEF OF f - FW. VETERANS NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 21.— | Commander James E. VanZandt SURE TO COME - PREMIER TURNS DOWN PROPOSAL | MADE BY LEAGUE Peaceful Solution Appar- ently Gone But Last Say with Cabinet MEETING SCHI FOR NEXT Y Eu ropea;—()—flicials Look for Conflict to Start During October GENEVA, Sept. 21.—Prob- ably the last peaceful solution of the Italo-Ethiopian dispute has apparently been snuffed out. Premier Bemito Musso- lini has rejected the League of Nations’ suggestion for a | settlement. | Before the Italian decision 'was announced, of ficials throughout Europe predicted, _barring a sudden reversal of the Italian policy, that hos- tilities would break out in (Eut Africa during the first fornight of October. | i war does break out, European diplomats now at- tending the sessions of ihe League of Nations fear a gen- _eral European strife will re- CABINET TO MEET L, ROME, Sept. 21.—It was definitely announced this afternoon that a meeting of 1 N Itis (unofficially announced that {by that time the five-power 'committee’s proposal for & :solution may be modified to |permit Ttaly to reconsider them. | There is a possibility a dif- ferent kind of an answer might be given to the peace- |seeking world. The latter possibility” is, however, not given any ofl'icinl stamp. called for next Tuesday. ATTACKS GREAT BRITAIN ROME, Sept. 21. — The Itallan press, continuing its attack on Great Britain, declared that the ,British Empire had already “adopt- 'ed sanctions against Italy,” adding that the beginning of Itallan mili~ (tary operations in Ethiopia might leasily mean the beginning of hos- itilitles with Great Britan. G. B. MARCHES ON LONDON, Sept. 21—Great Bri- itain, frankly pessimistic that I {Duce will have a chinge of heart jon his announced program ot |“marching straight ahead,” con- tined her own “marching ahead" with warshijps into the Mediter- [ranean. The report that Britain and Spain have come to a sécret understand- ing was taken as evidence that the British Empire is preparing for possible conflict by every means. These impressions are strength- ened by movements of Spanish troops to points of strategic im~ portance along Spain’s Mediterran~ ean coastline. No Ships Withdrawn Britain made it clear that no iship will be withdrawn from the | Mediterranean until the East Afri- can dispute is well on its way to |settlement. Authoritative sources frankly de- scribed the concentration of war- ships in the Mediterranean as “defensive.” Hitherto movements on the Mediterranean have been de- scribed as “previousl, tionary.” SANCTIONS LOOM GENEVA,; Sept. 21. — European capitals fear that the blunt ™No™ from Premier Benito Mussolini to the recommendations of the League the firm of Stratton and Beers, en- of Foreign Wars. ‘The convention |tions. that .the rela-|gineers, returned to Juneau from|went an record pledged to a cam- himself and Miss|Beattle on the North Sea. He ac-|paign for world peace. United States and denied that{companied his wife south, where ncutrali she will remain during the winter. ty and payment of the bonus, FRENCH ACTION ! PARIS, Sept. 21—France, while Italian Cabinet will be a leg were out of the| O H. Stratton, senior member of | has been re-slected by the Veterans|of Nations would call forth sames