The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 26, 1935, Page 1

- ple on relief rolls but attributed e . Tb}:fiRMSIQNAL LIBRA~-- " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVL, NO. 707 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1935 ITALY, ETHIOPIA ! EMBER OF ASSOCIATED FRESS INDUSTRY MUST AID WORKERS, General Pick-up in Business Is Not Helping Unem- ployment, Claim HOPKINS’ RIGHT HAND MAN TALKS Increased Efficiency Put- ting Comparative Few on New Jobs WASHINGTON, Sept. 26—Work Administrator Harry L. Hopkins' right hand man, Aubrey Williams, ! said that unless industry “shares increased business with workers” | the unemployment problem will not be “solved by the business pick-up. Williams declared that there has been a ‘business gain, but generally | speaking it put comparatively few people to work, H Increased Efficiency { He attributed this primarily to| increased efficiency, which permits ! employers to produce more goods! with fewer men. | “Unless inaguswry Is willing to adopt a deliberate policy of sharing increased ‘business with workers, there is” not much hope of the waorkers getting anything out of the N\ Coogan, who won screen fame have announced their engagem Jackie Coogan toWed Toby Wing “The Kid” has grown up and is ready to marry Toby Wing. Jackie several years back in the Charlie Chaplin picture of that name, and the youthful blonde sereen actress, ent in Hollywood. = The wedding awaits parental consent. business ' pickup,” Willlams said. SRR Willlams further sajd there had! o ey been a drop in the mumber of peo- | Ve“eil-s w icy - undes ¥which™ roll§~ are beinge ¥ Slfit N)O"‘t‘h “combed of ineligibles.” e ! “As fast as they go from-relief to \ .‘—‘. jobs we get as many iew ones on Noy - Statemenits Issued by relief who have exhausted their sav- oo g b , . Officials or Unions ings," he said. “The problem of unemployment on Situalion is just as serious as it ever was, de- | spite favorable business indices. The | National Industrial Conference SEATTLE, Sept. 26—While the Board says that there is more un- agreement between the steamship employment. now that there was a companies and men employed in year "ago.” the transportatoln business expires 6 Alaska Projects Approved this largely t6 the “hardbolled” pol- definite has developed regarding whether there will be a strike, walkout or what. | Transportation company officials have- no statement to make and mum on the subject. According to advices from San ests for advanced wages. President Gives Sanction to eaussts for advanced wag Non-Federal Works, has already announced suspension ‘of its coastwise service if further Says Dimond Iy demands for increases are made. I s ald the Alaska situation. In event there that six non-federal public works i 4 tie-up, either Gov. John ‘Wi next Monday at midnight, nothing union officials are also keeping! Francjsco, all classes of men em-, ployed on steamships have made The Pacific Steamship Company | | Relapse Suffered By U. S. Senator, ‘lll in Moscow . MOSCOW,. ‘Sept, 26~~United States Senatof Jaimes Hamil- | ton Lewis, of Ilinois, suffered a relapse last night and his con- ‘dition teday gave rive to new apprehention, He is suffering from pneumonia, S e Million Dollars Her Aim Elsie Mumma; Juneau Vis- itor, Tops Women in Insurance Writing | ye ! The only woman ever to qualify for admission to the Million Dollar Round Table, Elsie Mumma, of | New York, who is enroute around | the world, arrived here on the Alas- ka from Skagway. The Million Dollar Round Table PRESIDENT OFF TODAY FOR COAST, Roosevelt L—t:vir;g Tonight| on Vacation—Hopkins and Ickes on Trip WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—Press {ident Roosevelt had his - favorite | tishing equipment pascked for his vacation trip to the Pacific Coast.. The President leaves tonight and| will probably stop at the mndc i | Dam and talk on power. A d Views of the soft coal miners strike is believed to be due for primary consideration sometime to= day. N Works Administrator ' Harry L. Hopkins and Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes will accompany the President on the first stage of the| | President's journey. i | FOUR SPEECHES OUTLINED WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—It was | |announced officially from the White ! | House that President Roosevelt will | | speak four times on his trip across |the country to the Pacific Coast: | first at Fremont, Nebraska, on {Saturday; then at Boulder Dam, on | Monday; Los Angeles, Tuesday, and San Diego on Wednesday. Subjects of his speeches were withheld, but the Fremont speech will be on subjects of interest to /the farming States. - - EPecl; Tells “ . Chamber of . o . . { |Air Line Chief Hints Ju-, wasminaToN, sept. 2. — The neau - Fairbanks Service Republican Party machine is geared B . ‘for an early start in the next cam- May Be Discontinued | paign, but there is no sign of agree- | ment on a candidate to run against | At the weekly luncheon of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 5 Juneau Chamber of Commerce, held!" plans for an early hard-hitting at noon today in Balley's Cafe,!campaipn have been lald by the Lyman 8. Peck, Vice-President and ' National Executive Committee, |General Manager for the Pacific/ yhose members are now homeward | Alaska Airways, expressed his ap-|pound, cheered by reports of reviv- preciation of the support given his ing Republican sentiment. company by both the Juneau and; Candidacies Territorial chambers, and expressed | ggricially, the committee was not his company's regret at the ne-nop concerned with candidacies, buty cessity of discontinuing southeast- ynogticiglly, they were uppermost in ern Alaska service on September 1, everyone’s mind. rather than continuing it through- = myg question marks were: Herbert out October as has been the custom. gosver and United States Senator Stating that it had been found ywyam E. Borah. Were they can- the seaplane service in Southeast gigates and if so what were their | Alaska could not be made to Pay plangy | with the revenue available from | passengers and express only, Mr. mi p |Peck said hat 1t was “very G- et setused o diocuss his plARS: |cult to understand why the can- g 3 Fletcher's Views there with his attorn ®lanerty, George T, Davls, Moon Candidate Is Lacking for G.O.P. When and How MOONEY HEA Tom ‘Mooney, convicted of the 1616 Preparedness Day tomin as they opened their fight for a writ of® i | Executive Committee Wantsi Close friends of Hoover, present| and Frank P W alsh. (Associited hows MMoonery S RS FIGHT FOR HIS FREEDOM y 0 San k e18 co1p “Alibi Picture” ANCisco,. 18 shown in court Left to right: John F. Press Photo) | sponsored by the Underwriters As- |neries and small towns in Southeast projects, totalling $320,450 in loans and grants for Alaska, were con- tained ‘in the public works program recently approved by President Roosevelt. Projects listed by Dimond, the figures representig® the total of loans and: grants, follow: Valdez, School. Buljding, $37,000; Anchorage, Municipal Building and other ' improvements, $75,750; Cor- dova, municipal improvements, $75,- 55@,’ Petersburg, street improve- ments, $85,000; Territory of Alaska, School Buildings, $41,150. Delpgate Dimond said that a re- vision in the Petersburg loan will probably be made, in view of. the fact ‘that the cify is suthorized to incur indebtedness of only $35,000. DOCTORS 'BARRED PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Sept. 2. — A mother's fears locked medical aid out on the thres- hold while 15-year-gld Margaret Kerston fought her own battle Troy ‘or Otto F. Ohlson, General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, can charter steamers, in the name of the Government, and operate them with full union crews, work- ing for the Government. Alaska Sailings The Alaska or Aleutian is sched- uled to sail for Alaska ports Sat- urday and the Northland Transpor- tatigh Company .annonces the N Sea will sail for Southeast ‘Alaska next Monday evening, the scheduled time. KNIGHT RECEIVES WORD Harlod Knight, Juneau agent of the Notrhland Transportation Com- |pany received radio advices today that the North Sea will sail for Alaska next Monday night. Cash Bonus Is Deman Delegates Shout Approval —Ray Murphy. Elect- ed Commander sociation, is an annual meeting of Linsurance operators. who have writ- ten business in excess of one mil- “dollars. Miss Mumma conducts her own insurance business in New York City. Miss Mumma left New York City July 31 and travelled by rail to Se- attle with stops at Buffalo, Chicago, and Glacire National Park. ‘She sailed from Seattle for Seward on the Yukon during what Captain C. | A, Glasscock is reported to have said was the most:perfect weather on any voyage of the Yukon to, the | Westward in several years. Matanuska 0. K. From Seward Miss Mumma went to Anchorage, Matanuska, Curry, M¢Kinley National Park and Fair- | banks, “I think the Matanuska | Colonists are going to do some- thing worth while,” she said. “They have a big problem but most of the discontented people have been weeded out now.” | From Nenana to Dawson, Miss| Mumma_ travelled aboard the river | Steamer Yukon, and from Dawson | lbo Skagway by the river steamer| Klondike and the White Pass and | Yukon Railroad. There were several | llncms of snow all along the Yukon, | she said. | Alaska should not be given air Henry D. Fletcher, Chairman of | mail service under Star Route Con- the Republicah National Committee, tracts similar to the mail service denied that the committee consid- niow in effect in the Interior.” ered any candidacies. Explains Setup The New York Times said that “Quite a number of the canner- ggover's friends “definitely inform- fes in the vicinity of Juneau and e¢q menibers of the committee that Ketchikan have been paying us he was nbt a candidate.” small monthly fees to make stops Reports ‘issued by the committee jon our flights around the islands,” members said: “No doubt the tide Teported Mr. Peck. “We receive hias turned definitely. We are go- | 25 cents a pound for carrying mail ing to keep it turning.” | under emergency authorization, but 3"3&"&??&7".1{” Jfie"fifl‘wild F l 3 ow \ on Flights " from North, i Testifying In the state supreme court hearing at 8an Francisco on his\ abuyl'::% " s writ application, Tom Mooney (kneéling) points out to Referee A.". Shaw the figure of himself in one of his “alibl photo- graphs.”. He said it showed him and his wife on a building roof watch. ing the 1916 8an Francisco Preparedness Day par: more than a mile from the scens of the bombing outrage of which he was convicted, 2 Bodies Are Found Bear Lake Nurse and Coast Guardsman tors in our planes had reached the Ducks ‘and Geese, Fleeing| 300<hour limit about September 1 and it would have been necessary, South ‘as First Threat of Winter Hits to make motor changes in all our, planes had the service been con-! tinyed.” He said that under exist-! ing conditions the company “could not see & way clear to continue the a mail contract is not awarded| WINNIPEG, Sept. 26—Ducks and| soon, was also suggested by Mr. geese are vfbemg south from .the Peck, who added that “there is no Winter's first real threat. place in the United States which| Western Canada is blanketed with offers such great time-saving pos.Im which reaches from north- also be discontinued, in the event! Dawson Entertainment | ‘Ir Dawson Miss Mumma was en- | tertained by Mrs. George Black,| heavy Jlosses it hlg incurred and to combat the dropoff in business at thgs season of the year.” f The' possibility that , service be- | sibilities in the transportation of ' Western Alberta to northeastern mail and passengers as the line be- | Manitoba. iween Juneau and Fairbanks.” Mo Sipgiated the. SORIIEY. 10 a depth of four and five inches. Drown Near Seward— Inquest Today SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 26—The body of Miss Prances Royster, of Albemarle, North' Carolina, dieti- cian at the Seward Hospital, was recovered yesterday from Bear Lake, The body of her outing compan- fon, Carl F. Greenbrook, Coast Guard seaman, was found Tues- day. Both drowned on September ~i_Replying . to Query i of F.D.R. l o | | Ministers Respond to Ré-i l quests for, "Counsel and Advice” | 'WASHINGTON, Scpt. 2.—Dis-| | patches from widely scattered sec- | tions indicated clergymen are of- fering varied and sometimes criti-| cal suggestions in response to the/ | President’s request for their “coun- | | sel and advice.” One pastor of San Francisco sug- ested the President ‘‘remain true to the Constitution.” PRICE TEN CENTS RNED BY LEAGUE NO WAR TO BEGIN PRIOR DECEMBER 4 Ultimatum Issued—If Vio- lated Aggressive Nation to Be Punished ITALIAN DELEGATES WALK FROM SESSION Action Taken in Tense Ex- citement—No Promise Comes from Premier GENEVA, Sept. 26. — The Council of the League of Na- ticns today gave notice to Italy and Ethiopia that they canmot stari war until December 4 without violating the League covenant. If either nation starts aggres- sive hostilities before then, the nation will be deemed to have committed an act of war againet all members of the Leaguc, thercby automatically calling for punishment by other ations. The action was taken in ia- tense excitement, after the Ital- ian delegates walked from the building. Other delegates are left in the dark as {0 the meaning of this new gesture by the Ial- ians, Before leaving, they walked to the bar, ordered drinks, and drank a toast. In Rome the act was said to be “without significance.” ROME, Sept. 26—An official an- nouncement heré said: “Italy will listen to what the League of Na< tions may say, but without prom- ising to wait until after the boggy paths to Addis Ababa become dry enough to support its army.” SANCTIONS COMING GENEVA, Sept. 26—French of- ficials say that sanctions against Italy could not be avoided if Italy's forces attack Ethiopia. England's delegate to the.League of Nations, Anthony E. Eden, teld |the League Council that Great Bri- |tain was “steadfastly determined to abide by its policy.” i | Other spokesmen supported his stand. Plenty of i Gold Yet in Alaska Speaker at Mining Congress Urges Back to R Pioneer Days CHICAGO, 111, Sept. 26:~There’s plenty of gold to be dug out of Alaska and California, visitors te the American Mining Congress here declared. s “The guy who said that pioneer days are gone forever didn’t know what he was talking about. What we need is real ploneers who want to make a fortune for themselves and their children. For them Alas: ka, wealtiest possession under the American flag, is beckoning. There’s |gold in Alaska, plenty of it, that has never been prospected for,” said Edward L. Sweeney,! veteran; Den- | ver mining engineer. ,W. Val,de Camp, Galifornia mine operator, /putsing in {a.bid for his state, urged that prospectors go there. i Flames Rage at Bridge ST. LOUIS, Mo, Sept. 26.—Shout- wife of the captain of the river! Foreign ' Mail Route ing approval, the American Legion steamer Yukon, and visited what renewed its demands for immediate she describes as “the greatest gold pointed out that the Ju-| tween Juneau and Fairbanks will | Tt is reported that at Fort Mur- ash payment of the bonus. They elected Ray Murphy, Ida Grove, Iowa, as Commander. The bonus demand was unani- mous, They scorned the vetoed be ' necessary. Both the woman and her danghier.are sald to have a |before the convention. fear of hospitals after the death The - Auxiliary ‘elected’ Mrs. ‘Mel- of Mrs, Kerston's mother ifol- |ville Muckelstone, of Chicago, as camp on the Yukon—Camp Hol-| brook,” at Sixty Mile. ! Miss Mumma expects to sail south bound on the Yukon next week for | Seattle. From Seaftle she will go! Patman bill, and Patman himself t; San Francisco, the Hawaiian Is- | was booed when he urged his bill 1ands, the Philippine Islands, Japan, | Alaska this year, it would be pos-| Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Singa- pore. She expects to go through | (Continued on Page Five) " neau-Fairbanks route would be ne- |7a¥, Where the Signal Corps Radio cessarily 4 Foreign Mail Route, in- | Station is located, the masts were asmuch as the line passes through;“m by the lashing wind and Yukon Territory, making a stop at! the telegraph wires collapsed under Whitehorse. “Although there have D€ Weight of the soft, sticky snow. been no appropriations made for| 7 atures over Manitoba to- Star Route or Domestic Air Mail in|d8Y ranged from 28 to 31 degrees above zero. s VAN SORNPAES, The_ Seminole Indian- tribe was| |formed in the eighteenth tentury| ‘by splitting away from the Creek. | sible; if the Post: Office saw fit to ido 80, to use funds for the eszab-l (Continued on Page Eighu An inquest is being held today. ———————— HELLENTHAL IN FAIRBANKS Judge Simon Hellenthal, of the United States District Court for the Third Division with headquar- ters in Valdez, is holding court in Fairbanks. He is adjudicating cases in which Judge Harry E. Pratt, * {jurist for the Fourth Division, does not. fee! qualified to act inasmuch as-before his appointment to the bench hi¢ was attorney in them. A Chicago Rabbl said the Presi- dent's request was practical as well as a good political move. Dr. David Steele, of Philadelphia, accused the President of “playing politics on a low plane with which | you haye made us all familiar.” eee A bantam hen drove a quall hen off her nest near Kinstan, N. C., land is now mothering five baby “quafl. Oregon Vil—l:—g: Faces De- struction—Fire Fin- ' ally Controlled BRIDGE, Oregon, Sept. 26.—Four |of seven buildings in the down town ’parz of this village of 300 petsons were; destroyed- by fire:which ‘for several haurs threateried tb wipe out the entire town and ‘spread to' the rich adjoining stands of timber,