The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1935, Page 1

m“fiv !é!_bnn ¥ VOL. XLVL, NO. 7074. ITALO-ETHIOPIAN “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNERU GETS NEXT SESSION AMER, LEGION Department "of AlaskaEnds Convention at Seward— Officers Are Elected _SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 25—The Department of Alaska, American Legion, ended the annual conven- tion here yesterday with the selec- tion of Juneau &s the convention city for next year, and election of officers, both Legion and Auxiliary. Legicn Officers The officers elected for the Le- glon were A. E Karnes, of Juneau, Commander; Sydney Raynor, of Anchorage, First Vice-Commander; Stanley J. Nichols, of Valdez, Sec- ond Vice-Commander; John Wier- enga, of Haines, Sergeant-at-Arms; E. M. Saari, of Cordova, Judge Ad- vocate; Glenn Rogers, of Seward, Historian; C. T. Hatten, of Seward, Chaplain; - Dwight ..Opose, of Cor- dova, Service Officer; John H. Newman and John E. Pegues, of Juneau, Committeemen; John M. Ciark, of Juneau, Finance Officer. & Auxiliary Elects { The Auxiliary elected Mrs. Thes McKanna, of Fairbanks, Depart- t President; Mrs. Mildred Cul- , of Anchorage, First Vice-Com- fhander; Mrs. Ruth Chase, of Ket- chikan, Second Vice-Commander; Mrs. Elizabeth Nordling, of Ju- reau, Secretary-Treasurer; Mrs. Helén Karnes; of Juneau, Chaplal Mrs. Josephine Sheldon, Historian; Mrs. Audrey Thisted, of Oordova, Sergeant-nt-Arms; Miss- Florence Tobin, of Ketehikan; National Ex- ecutive Committeewoman; Mrs. Thea McKanna, 'of Fairbanks, firsc glternate; Mrs. Ethel Tonseth, sec- ohd aliernate; Mrs. Elizabeth Nord- ling, Mrs. Dollie Kauffman, Mrs. Hazel Petrich, Department Execu- tive Committeewomen. Resolution Adopted i Resolutions were adepted at the );cgion convention requesting a change in the Organic Act which arbitrarily establishes legisiative representation- in each Division whereby legislation is controlled by four Senators. Amorig other resolutions adopted were: Asking immediate payment of the bonus; betterments for neglect- ¢d children; furthering colonization program; home for pioneer women; abolishment of a - discriminatory hunting tax' in Southeast Alaska; abolishment of the Richardson Highway toll; advancement of air mail service; encouraging construc- tioh of the International Highway 4nd demand for Alaska control of game fish. J ,Half of the Juneau delegation, ‘who'are stopping & the Seward ho- tel, voted against immediate pay: ment of the bonus. SMITH TALKS - NEW SUBJECT AT CONGRESS Society Must Organize on : Basis of Love—Com- munionism Wanted CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 25.— Al ~Smith, politielan with com- manding prominence among the Catholic laity, at the Seventh Na- tifnal Eucharistic ‘Congress now in session here voiced a vigorous pro- fession of his faith. ‘He proposed that society must”be grganized on a basis of love. “Communionism,”’ he said,. will enable' me to help my brother be- cause I love him. The Communist ¢an't do that because he is taught td hate them. There is nothing the Communist can do for me, but I ean offer my Holy Communion for him, that almighty God may give him. power to understand what is| right.” Sen. Lewis v ImBe oving MOSCOwWwW, . 25— United States Senator James Hamilton Dewis—is -distinctiy® improved but dootors sald he is not yet out of danger. Senator Lewis has a severe QUEEN OF FAIR WEARS HER CROWN Ethel Zicgler reigned over the two weeks Los Angeles county fair at Pomona, Calif. She was queen of the 14th annual county fete. (Asso- siated Press Photo) | Alaska Mine REPUBLICANS fime i, WASHINGTON 555755 gaining consciousness long enough to recognize her father, Planning Campaign to At- tempt to Do Something William A. Castleton, who flew from Nome, where he is 2 mine —Finance Troubles manager, when he learned that WASHINGTON, Sept 25— The his daughter was critically ill fellowing an operation for a Republican National Executive Com- mittee met today to prepare for ruptered appendix, Summconed by telegram, Cas- attling the Democrats in the next Presidential campaign. tletcn flew by regular line to Juneau, where a PAA plane, tlown by Bob ENis, was char- tercd for the ESeattle trip. He was at his daughter’s bed- The meeting marks the beginning gide when she succumbed. of the Republican campaign to beat Franklin ‘D .Rcosevelt. One Republican spokesman said that the committee call evidenced the revival of Republican hopes for G R CCC Camp next year’s election that would not Complete(l have been held if the pessimism of a few, months ago had prevailed. The principal topics for discussion ill be finances and campaign strat- 3. 15 Cabir:_lncluded in Group Constructed as JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER at Creek Men Lashed to Death in Brit. Storm Trawler Battered on Chff —Crew Believed to Be Lost LONDON, Sept. 25— A fierce storm in the North Sea -pounded the trawler Skedgess to pieces on Speeton Cliff. All hope is abandoned for the craft's crew of 11, Coast Guardsmen tried in vain to rescue the men from the trawler with rocket lines. They finally got a line aboard from the high cliff but there were no signs of life aboard the trawler then, Billings to Testify Now for Mooney Two Men Meet in SanFran- cisco Jail and ¢ Headquarters for Men The Mendenhall CCC Camp, Will- iam Fromholz, Foreman, has been moved to the new CCC camp at Montana Creek, it is announced by Charles G. Burdick, Administrative| Assistant with the Forest Service. The - camp, located at the end of the Montana Creek spur road has| just been completed with CCC labor, | Burdick said, and consists of 15 cabins, built for portability, and 10 by 20 feet in size. There is kitchen, mess hall, seven bunk houses accommodating six men each, a recreation room, wash room and shower, drying room, cook’s quarters, foremen’s offices and quarters. ‘The camp is lighted by its own electric power plant, and auto- matic pump providing water pres- sure for showers,® kitchen needs and so on. The cabins are built in a square with one side of the square open. It is planned to ac- commodate 40 men, 32 being sta- tioned there at the present time. The CCC workers are finishing the Mendenhall Lake truck trail concrete powder magazine for dyn- amite, then work will start on the broken granite skaters’ cabin at Mendenhall rifle range. Reconstruc- tion of the footbridge across Men- denhall River at the outlet of 25, 1935. MEMBER Ol PRICE TEN CENTS F ASSOCIATED PRESS [TUATION IS TENSE LAURA INGALLS ROCKWELL | AFTER MATE 'FOR DECORA Artist and Author Here for Government—Leaves for Interior Rockwell Kent, well-known. artist and author who made the world| Greenland-conscious, arrived in Ju- neau on the Yukon and left this morning on the PAA Electra bound for Fairbanks, Nome, and if possible, Point Barrow. He will refurn to Juneau in time to catch the next Alaska south . i gt Interviewed shortly after his & rival at the Gastineau e | | evening, Kent said he was in the Territory in search of material for | a large mural decoration hé is to, make in Washington, D. C. 1 { the auspices of the Gov ol “It is not my privilege to state | what the painting will be," he said. | “That statement will be feleased, later by the government. But my work on this mural will take lle[ from here to Porto Rico—and there, iz nothing nicer than travelling for | material. It gives you such an ex- Laura Ingalls standing on ihe | Seventy-oné Homes ‘Under Construction—Col- ony Activities cuse to enjoy yourself." Recently In Greenland, Press Photo Kent returned only recently from — Greenland, where, with his 14-year- old boy Gordon, he had lived two Houses Are years among the natives, ltudy'::‘ their lives and habits and gl R f d f them permanent record ‘on canvas. | oore or Also while in Greenland, he kept | ta regular ‘weather charts for the M k iPm-AmBrh-q Alrways. Sl a’ nus ang " “I love Greenland,” he said, ufi[ . |if it were possible, I should return {there to live. I lived in a little| wooden box of a house, banked over | with turf to keep it warm, and my {14-year-old son, who is now at| {school in the East, ran loose with| pALMER, Alaska, Sept. 25.—One the Eskimos and became an expertimundred and one houses are now| seal hunter, kyaker and dog driver.!epjciosed under roofs in the Mat-! | There is nothing more wonderful anuska Valley Farm Colonization | | than ‘northern life.” Project. Seventy-one are under; | Out. of this life in Greenland construction. The last, that of jcame two books: N by E (a record Lloyd Bell of Minnesota, wasi |of his first voyage to Greenland in'started 'Tuesday. | | & small boat), and Salamina, a new| Quarters for the supervising staff | bock shortly to be released by will be constructed, if time per- Doubleday Doran. “It's about a beautiful Eskimo will wait until spring. A bakery! girl,” he said. “It's really a very is under construction, Fourteen nice story. I had lots of fun doing barns have been completed. {it. It will be out, I think, about Oc-| Excavation for the school and! | tober 15, and although I have had community hall is one-half* com-| | five books published now, I'm still pleted, with the rest expected to| |as excited as a kid about it.” |to be done in 60 days. Mennwhlle: Fox Island Story thome study classes are well under| One of Mr. Kent’s books which, way. has been of particular interest bo; ‘When the community hall is com- Alaskans was = “Wilderness,” the pleted, movies will be shown. The chronicle, in sketches and words, Projection machine is already here. of a winter spent on Fox Island,| Sixty-five wells have been com- off Seward, 17 years ago. |pleted, six are being drilled and 101 Another book, Voyaging, chroni- are to be started. Trouble is re- BREAKS A —— & wing of her plane, | York, on a record-breaking flight from Los Angeles. She spanned the co utes and five seconds to break thc record for women fliers set by Amelia Earh. Is She Bride? Horace Mansfield, 21, of Providence, R. L, says he has been married to | , ; !mits, before winter; otherwise they! Vesta Jey-n Isherwood, 15, of Nan- | It is also said both parties have tucket, Mass., since last June, when/ her mother stole her away on wed-| ding night, Vesta says wedding’ never took place, so matter is now in. suthorities’ hands. BAR WOMEN FROM OFFIGE MELIA EARHART’S RECOR just after she arrived at F.oyd beone i @ D RAIN NEAR ' END;FIGHT MAY START Ethiopia' Closes’ Commerce at One Point to Eritrea Area WARRIORS REPORTED TO BE CONCENTRATING {Italy and League of Nations ar Apart on Recent Charges Made GENEVA, Sept. 25.—With the end of the rainy season close at hand, ithe Bthiopian situation grew tense 'on the border between the Black Empire and the Italian colonfes. Rome advices sald that Ethiopia ! had clesed to commerce fts frontier ! with Exitrea. All able-bodied war- |riors in Selassie’s northern prov- inces are concentrated in a mass movement and have advanced to- ward the Eritrean front. Italy Charges : he League of Nations made pub- lic charges by Italy that the League jeccmmittee failed to take into con- sideration the Italian allegation against Ethiopia. ! Oflficials in Rome adopted a pol- ~ ey of patience. Government spokes- CONTROVERSY 1S UPTOONE MAN immediate revival of tension with Great Britain or any other League Longshoremen and Ship- owners Present Argu- members over the Hthiopian im- passe, since the cabinet commuyni- ments to Arbiter Sloss que indicated Ttaly's willingness elve the League, & chance, 4 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 25. ~For three hours, M. C. Sloss, Fed- | ARE MILES APART GENEVA, Sept. 25—Publication eral Arbiter, heard arguments from representatives of the shipowners of Italy’s observations, which in- clude a charge ‘that the League of Nations falled to take into consid- (eration Rome's case against Ethi- and longshoremen and then took the controversy under advisement. | It is indicated the decision will be made within a week. rort, fNew ntinent in 13 hours, 34 min- art Putnam. (Assoclated opia, provoked new pessimism In the Ethiopian conflict, One delegate sald that Italy and the League of Nations were miles apart. The impression prevails generally that the Italian memorandum breathes determination to take pose session of Ethiopia by military oe- agreed to abide with the declslon rusk by the pateas o bt Sloss makes on refusal of the long- ,15h1em cannot be settled by means shoremen to handle certain cargoes. ;e ype League covenant.” Stocks Rise | But Trading i Turns Dul REQUEST ON LEAGUE ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 25.—Em- | peror Halle Selassie requested the | League of Nations to dispatch im- | partial observers to Ethiopia to in- vestigate present and future alle- gations of aggression and provoca- tive acts, and fix the responsibility in such cases, | ' A‘Mo.des!. Day Highs Shaded cles a trip around Cape Horn and Patagonia. His great success of last year, Rockwellkentiana, is a col- lection of his best picture bound in- to a volume. Mr, Kent began his career as an | architect, only gradually venturing into the more artistic flelds. He works in any medium demanded: ofls, dry point, black and whites, lithographs, etchings, water-colors— “anything they want and that fits in with the subject.” He i5 equally non-partisan in his liking for modes of expression. {ported in getting good water for ithe Civic Center well, but the other wells are good. About ' 50 transient laborers are {expected to remain over the win- s ¢ The weather is turning colder iand tents are getting uncomfort- able. = There is some thin ice in the mornings, but as yet no snow. House-warming parties are now the most popular social activity. No Break in 1 now and the next job will be a) “Some things I can say better with pictures and some with words,” he said. “I use whichever seems most effective to get across what I want to say, and I use them both quite indiscriminately.” Only American Studies . Questioned concerning his artistic (education, Mr. Kent was emphatic. “I've never studied anywhere but in America, I never wanted to study anywhere but in America; I don't think any American artist should ever study from a BEuropean master, and I think American peo- ple should like American art better ithan any other kind, even if it isn't.” ) He explained that, however bad American art may be at times, it is the expression of our people, and Deadlock in Coal Strike No Settlement Reached! Over Wages or Hours of Employment 25.—Soft | WASHINGTON, Sept. coal miners and operators remain- ed deadlocked today in the wage and hour negotiations. ‘Workers continued the widespread strike. There is no indication of an immediate break. H e e IN OKLAHOM official and Incomplete Returns Show State Keeps Position Un OKLAHOMA, Sept. 25—Un- official incomplete returns on the special election held here indicated that the State will retain’' its unique position of being the only State in the Union where no woman can be . Governor or occupy any of the seven next important elective offices. Wonien voters say that they will immediately begin a new campaign, 1Typhoon-Kills Scores; Many Now Missing One Steamer Believed Lost —Fishing Craft Fail - to Return TOKYO, Sept. 25—The typhoon in Final Hour as Mar- ket Interest Lags NEW YORK, Sept. ! shaded in the final hour when trade itself turned dull. | Today's close was steady to firm. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 15%, American Can 25.~Rising | | tendencies predominated for stocks, | today but modest day highs were‘i ‘Ducks Are Dangerous to Hunters Game Commissioner Earl Ohmer of Petersburg Has " to Shoot for Protection Ducks are not very plentiful around Juneau and the reason f 1142, American Power and Light 6%, Probably is that they have all gone | Anaconda 21, Bethlehem Steel 38, down Petersburg way, one gathers | General Motors 45%, International from the report of Earl Ohmer, | Harvester 56%, Kennecott 25%, member of the Alaska Game Com- | United States Steel 45%, Pound mMission from Petersburg. | $493%, Schenley Distilleries 38, | Speaking of ducks, says Ohmer, | United Foundry 7%. in a letter to Lance Hendrickson | i X in the Commission office here, you | DOW, JONES AVERAGES |haven't seen anything yet. Around The following are today's Dow- Point Agassiz they are so thick Jones averages: Industrials 13152, /Dunters have to shoot for protec- rails 35,45, utilities 25.35. tlon, he says. The Commissioner:re- ey &Y |counts that as the season opened, BRENNAN MAK]NG the and his three boys, Bob, Dave land Jim, decided to get a few INSPECTION TR[P4°“"“' When they ‘got to the spot ot 'selected in the Point Agassiz dis- itrict they found so many ducks flying around they each got the bag limit in less than a half hour. “We just had to shoot for pro- tection,” he write. “I got a scheme i, M. Brennan, Manager of the P. E. Harris and Company, arrived‘ in Juneau on the Yukon, and will go out from here for an inspec-| that the personality of America ON PWA BUSINESS !which whirled freakishly and de- tion of his company’s business be- | for next time, though, so it will be casé of pneumonia. Embrace e Mendenhall Lake also is planned. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 25.| The new camp which is only —Willlam K. Billings is prepared|apout a mile from the old CCC to testify in behalf of Tom Mooney.|camp on the Mendenhall mioraine They met in a tearful embrace nas a difference in temperature of in jail for the first time in 19135 much as 15 degrees, Burdick years after Billings was brought)said the new camp being much here from prison to aid Mooney|warmer as it is located in the in his fight for freedom through|imper. habeas corpus move. Pt Billings is expected to help| In eight of the last ten years, Mooney to prove he was convicted | Alabama’s football captains have through perjured testimony. been linemen. i in the end, be projected only through American talent uncolored| N- T .Beers of the firm of Strat- by European influence. "If the !0 and Beers, City Engineer at result isn’t pleasant, then at least|20u8las, sailed for Haines on the it makes us conscious of our crudity | Yukon. He will visit Haines and as a nation and the thing to do i3, PKeEWay on PWA business. to. develop ourselves—in our own way and under our own guidance.”| ¢ SNELL OFF FOR SEWARD He said, however, that in his opinion American art is now en- tirely upon its feet. (Continued on Page Five) Harold Snell, General Freight and Passenger Agent for the Alaska | Rallroad at Chicago, sailed Seward aboard the Yukon. structively across' Japan yesterday, killed at least 48 persons. About 100 are missing. The 'steamer Tonegawa Maru, with a ‘erew of thirteen and nine- teen passengers aboard, is missing. Several ports report that many fishing craft are missing. - — DUGDALE GOES HOME United States Commissioner W. for |H. Dugdale sailed for his home at|pital this morning. She returned Yakutat o ‘*he Yukon. fore returning to his Seattle home on the Alaska. {a little more sport. I'm going to 2 Gk take a single shot 22 pistol, file MARIE JEAN GLASSE |off the sights and then shoot ducks IS OPERATED UPON |/¢ft handed from the hip. If T get {too many that way, I'll try & trout rig.” 2 L. o Still standing on the outskirts, of Brunswick, Ga., is the historic' oak nder which Sidney Lanier st when he wrofe his famous poem, “The Marshes of Qlynn.” i Little Marie Jean Glasse, daugh- iter of Rev. and Mrs, Jéhn Glasse of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, underwent an operation {for tonsilectomy at St. Ann's Hos- home late in the afternoon,