The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 18, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVL, NO. 7095. NAVAL BLOCKADE sfivznuifm FUNCTION TO PREVENT wml President Emphasizes Need for Backing of All Citi- zens, Present Endeavor SAYS VIGILANCE ALWAYS NECESSARY Special Appeal Made in Message to Women's Conference | NEW YORK Oct. 18. — President Roosevelt called last night for public support of the resolute national pol- icy of peace. i “I have pledged myself to do my| part in keeping America free of those' entanglements that mxght move us along the road to war,” the Chief Executive said in a message from the U. S. S. Houston to the fifth annual Forum on Current Problems sponsored by the New York Herald Tribune. He is"aboard the Houston traveling back to Washinston viai the Panama Canal. Seek the Truth “I want to feel at all times that I have the sustaining influence; the healthy, sound and above all thor- oughly American public opinion on the subject, My task and the task’ of all those others who are associated with me in official life can be made easier if the citizenship of the na- tion, particularly the women, seek the truth, and the wise application of the truth.” The Message was read to the wom- en's conference by Mrs. Roosevelt in a broadcast over the NBC network. | It had been planned for the Presi- dent to deliver the message by radio, but the Houston, cruising in Central American waters, lacked adequate facilities. Failure to Reason The President placed foremost | among the “challenging factors” of ! war “failure to reason which permits and wages modern war.” He held its prevention was the prime function of government “when our economic sys- tem fails to sustain the adequate standard of life for its women who face the most poignant privation.” Concluding, the Chief Executive said: “Constant vigilance is neces- sary in a nation like ours to see| that forces that make for discord are discovered and discouraged.” WEAPON ORDINANCE IS BEFORE COUNCIL Final approval of the “concealed weapon” ordinance, which passed its second reading at the October 4 meeting, is expected at the City Council session tonight at the Coun- cil Chambers in the City Hall. Other ordinances, passed in a "Alaska Supplies FAMED RADIO 1ing the last days of the two famous | men was published by th> Associated | Press. Reindeer for Santa Claus Sleighs SEALILE, Uct. 15—1wenty reindcer from the St. Michael district in Alaska, destined to pull Santa Claus sleighs in Wis- contin and Iowa cities, arrived here on the freighter Derblay of the Alaska Steamship Company. The reindecr will be shipped east within a few days. SINGER WILL GIVE RECITAL Harriet Malstrom to Ap-| pear in Concert at the Presbyterian Church | “To Harriet Malstrom—the only epectator of my fall into the Yukon, Wiley Post.” “To Harriet—Will Rogers.” These notes, written in pencil on seraps of lined notebook paper, are prized possessions of the young Se- jattle radio singer who has arrived {in Juneau after an extended concert "tour to the Westward, and interior, in whizh she gave the first public recital ever.to be heard in Mata- nuzka Colony. Miss Malstrom, who is the niece of Harold Malstrom, editor of the Dawson News, met the famous and | ill-fated fliers in their visit to Daw- son, and afterwards spent much time with them in Fairbanks, from where pictures she took of them were after- wards sent to the Associated Press. “Wiley Post fell into the Yukon one day,” she said, referring to the auto- graphed note. “I happened to be with him when it happened and he was awfully embarrassed about it.” A story by Miss Malstrom concern- The well-known radio singer, who will be remembered for her concert over KINY here in June, will presznt a public recital at the Northern Light Presbyterian church on Wednesday evening of nex: week. Miss Malstrom, a recent graduate of the University of Washington, is the daughter of Ryner Malstrom, one of Seattle’s well-known pharma- cists. She has starred in several Re- pertory Playhouse productions, and has been a star soloist on stations KOMO and KGR in Seattle for over A year. She is also president of the auxil- iary of Junior Alaska-Yukon Pio- neers, and is one of five appointed to arrange for the next international reunion of Alaska and Yukon Pio- neers in Seattle next Ahghst. | Of her concert tour, in which shel visited Whitehorse, Skagway, Daw- ton, Fairbahks, Anchorage, and Matanuska, Miss Malstrom found the latter place most interesting. lirst reading, will receive their sec- ond reading tonight. These ne:] An ordinance to protect bona fide| merchants and taxpayers from the unfair competition of itinerant auc- tioneers by regulating auction sales held in the City of Juneau; an or- dinance licensing public card rooms which will become effective on Jan- uary 1, 1936, and which will require the payment of a license fee of $5 per year with'a‘fhinimum fee of $20; an ordinance licensing pin- ball games and offier amusements found in beer parlors and eating places, the license fee to be $50 a year instead of $15 as proposed when the measure was introduced at a former reading. MORE SOLDIERS ON WAY TO BARRACKS More troops for Chilkoot Barracks were aboard the Yukon, arriving here last night. The following soldiers are enroute to their new station: F. Pictures in Miss Malstrom's pos- session- show the large community center hall in which she presented her program of songs, old melodies and dramatic recitals. “The spirit of the people is won- derful,” she said today. “The hall was -850 crowded that vast groups stood outside -the doors to listen. They were wonderfully kind to me and very appreciative of all the songs I gave.” While in Juneau, Miss Malstrom will also be heard over Stat'~n KINY. COUPLE CLUB WILL MEET ON MONDAY, HALLOWE’EN PARTY The Couple Club. organization of young married couples of the North- ern Light Presbyterian Church, will celebrate Hallowe'en in traditional fashion next Monday evening, when a potluck supper, followed by a Hal- lowe'en costume party, will be held | |3700 miles. |Market derived its princopalsupport | FLYING ARMADA Death Vaue? OUTLINED FOR PACIFIC COAST Navy Cotsiders Flect Pa-| trol with Floating Tenders in Pacific LOS ANGELES, Cal, navy program, contemplating a great armada of flying cruisers, able to cross the Pacific nonstop with a base on the open sea aided only by float- ing tenders, was outlined in the Los| Angeles harbor Friday by Rear Ad- miral Ernest J. King, Chief of Navy Bureau of Aeronautics a!ur‘ a conference with Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, Commander Chief of the U. S. Fleet. Admiral King said the nucleus of this armada for a fleet patrol will! be 60 duplicates of the flying patrol boat Speya which recently flew non- ' stop from Panama to Alameda, a1, Highway and Street Ton-| struction Will Be Two Largest Items inL. A.,3 LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. | Death Valley Scotty, the man of America's most desolate jert, is chugging around the eity (his “gas cayuse,” a huge motor | made especially to haul loads the desert. Oct. 18—A| Scotty said President | recently signed a title to his-easf | & huge building in the center 9{ Congress will be asked in the next session to authorize the construction | of at least two fast tenders for patrol | — wing facilities which are being built| WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—An of- with Pearl Harbor as a focal base| ficial accounting of approved work of the new patrol fleet. relhef projects showed highway and King said the navy will soon es-| street construction will become the tablish two similar long rang patrol!largest single cog in the Govern- squadrons at Sand Point Wash., and ment's job-making machine. Figures Norfolk, Virgina. |show the sum of $855,000,000 has e b-aoetudelorthh'otk. A CHANGE LITTLE QUIET TRADING a works relief appropriation for | usuooa'm figures revealed here| Cheap Molors, Packing,! Farm_Implements Furn- | YELLOW METAI. | RUSHED TO U. S, ish Pnncnpal Support ‘ NEW YORK, Ogt. 18—The Stock Government ¥'s. Siver Buy-i ing Drive Slacks Off | today from low priced motors, pack-, 3 ing and farm implements. Trad- OWIl’lg, War Scare | ing ‘was quiet and late. Leaders| —_— did little more than mark tlme WASHINGTQON, Oct. 18— Eu-| during the entire session. There rope’s crisis has had & queer night-| were a number of soft spots in evi-: marish effect upon the government’s | dence. | silver buying drive. ‘The rush to war Today's close was steady. ! which scared gold from Europe to —_— | the United States is responsible. CLOSING PRICES TODAY Gold «stock, instead of remaining NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Closing fairly stationary so silver could catch quotation of Alaska Juneau mine up, increased enormously as nervous | stock today is 14%, American Cnn} Europe shipped gold here. | 142%, American Power and Light — 1%, Anaconda 21%, Bethlehem Steel 37%, General Motors 48%, Inter- national Harvester 58, Kennecott| 25%, United States Steel 44%, Pound $491%, Calumet and Hecla| 5%, United Foundries 15-16. | Fourth Victim of Salt Lake Gunman Dies in Hospital SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 18. —George Reich is the fourth victim | of a gunman'’s bloody trail made last | | Sunday night. He died during the Inight in a hospital here. Paschal Boyer, facing murder charges, is still held in solitary confinement await- ing a preliminary hearing. — DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 135.20, rails 36.37, utilities 25.70. I JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1935. Desert Cas t‘fi, Celebrating = (desert. /$8,000,000 in his lifetime, including $2,300,000 in building his castle. SEARCH RUINS, | s the hotel will be rebuilt. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LOOMS FOR ITALY RICH DEPOSIT OF CHROMITE IS REVEALED HERE \Plans Going Forward for| | Development of Valuable Property on Baranof tty Leaves is ‘Gas Cayuse’| The mystery man said he thought would come to town to see some fellows he knows by way of a cele- bration. His source of money has always! been a mystery, but he still has| plenty. He says he has spent about Giving impotus to the revivingz | mining industry in Alaska, is the| idisw\rry and plans for uevelopmem' of what is described by mining engi- | neers as a valuable deposit of chrom- | ite at Red Bluff Bay on the east coast of Baranof Island. The find, ymnde about two years ago by Ray {Race and Floyd A. Wellman, well ! kn#/n Southeast Alaska prospectors, ,has been surveyed in-the past !evs‘ months by several mining experts| who have giveh especially favorable | NEW CABINET | FOR AUSTRIA BEING FORMED T Tense Situation Develops' sonn . B. Hawkes, have taken over m Vlenna—Pollce and ;the property under bond and recent- | s ly had several mining engineers look' Mllltary on Patrol |it over. The report was so favorable | that Mr. Hawkes is leaving on the VIENNA, Oct. 18— Chancellor ' North Sea Sunday night for New Kurt Schuschnigg and his Cabinet! York where he will follow up s>veral has resigned and President Miklas contacts already made with large immediately commissioned him to users of chrome with the aim or‘ form a new Government. pushing the development work for- A new list of Cabinet members was\ ward, immediately submitted, the most’ ficant change being the elimina- ster of Bintl Py, 16FMr VIoe-CBAN e e AR Ve cellor from the post of Minister of; /ages around 50 percent énrofne, the | the Interior. estimates varying from 39 to 53 per- Vienna is tense as strong military cent i the different places that | and police forces patrol the streets. samples were taken.’ Chrome is now A B e valued at'$20 a ton for 50 per cent | with a premium paid on ore running higher grade. The big jump in the use of the mlneml, from 30,000 tons to 70,000 !tons in the last five years in the 1 United States, gives encouragement to the projects in view of the figures revealing that only one percent of | the chrome used in America is mined in this country, The bulk comes from New Caledonia, South Africa, Turkey | and Russia, 50 Peroe;:t Chrome FIRE VIGTIM {Historic Tacoma Hotel, De- stroyed by Flames, Is to Be Rebuilt Chromite is extensively used now, (as the result of a new process, in| TACOMA, Wash,, Oct. 18.—Fire-| automobile plating, and in plating men are today searching the smoul- |electric appliances and household dering ruins of the historic hotel for utensils, taking the place of nickel. | | bodies of possible victims. All Guesbs,lt is claimed to be much better for| |and attaches are believed.to thqsuch purposes. as it does not neel. escaped but seven are unaccoum.edi 500 Acres of It for. The hotel was destroyed yesterday ‘A fotal of 47 clatims, :asund B0 morning with a loss estimated at acres, was originally located by Well man and Race, and virtually all of it $500,000. nNo ic said to be chromite bearing. One Macaber & Brii Siokes anguiiy ’englneer, who examined an n.ren' | some 1,500 feet long by 800 feet wide, | ireported that the mineral occurred throughout. | “Apparently ‘there are three bands jor zones in this particular area,” the enmer's report said, where miner- alintlnn of chromite is more intense »thnn elsewhere. This chromite min- ’eraluatlon occurs as stringers, scales and disseminated mineralization. WABHINGTON. Oct. 18.—A d“nylsome of the stringers are of good check .of the financial mmm‘“‘wldm and length and of a grade of between American and Ttalian banks ! 150 percent. Some chromite. occurs is being made by Treasury Depart-| everywhere in the area. The zone ad- ment agents. It is understood the ob- | jacent to a canyon on the west limit Ject is to obtain information con-igr the area shows the most intense cerning any possible munitions sales, mlnerfiliuthm " in either country, in violatior. of the Good Transportation Facilities embargo. i Giving further encouragement to SRR s AR e ] lthe hope of the Juneau men to carry MRS. . BLANTON OPERATED ‘on development is the fact that nat- UPON, SEATTLE HOSPITAL { yra] transportation facilities are af- | forded in that the property is on deep water where large ships can go in and out. Mining conditions are said to be especially favorable. Mining would be carried out the same as hard rock gold mining, the ore being crushed and run through 1 Mrs.'Wm. P. Blanton, wife of Dr. Blanton, underwent a minor opera- tion this morning in the Swedish Hospital in Seattle, according to advices received here by Dr. Blan- ton, who also reports that Mrs. Blanton had a successful and enjoy- NORLITEMEN BOY SCOUTS MEETING| e The Boy Scout Troop formed under‘ MAIL PILOT IN the sponsorship of the Norlitemen the Northern Light Pn:byzermn. Church, met last evening in the church parlors for a business ses- sion, which was followed with the playing of group games. ‘MASON, Omo. Oct. 18—0. K. The following scouts passed tests Bevins, of Fort Thomas, Ky., form- admitting them to the rank of ten- er air mail pilot, crashed to death derfoot: J. Truitt, Bobhy Scott, Jack near here while flying in a heavy Glasse. ‘ log —————— Residents near the scene said the JACK CARMEL SOUGHT | plane struck an antenna tower of Anyone knowing the whereabouts | the Crosley Radio Corporation and of Jack Carmel, of Tenakee, who is| smashed to earth about 600 feet reported to be in Juneau, is asked away. to communicate with Mrs. Jack Car- mel, Tenakee, immediately. | Sl A | MINSTREL SHOW POSTPONED a mill with a water process, as the chrome is heavier than the other substances in the ore. ADULT STUDY CLASS able trip south. - — MRS. KNIGHT ‘ARRIVES HERE TO JOIN HUSBAND Carmel left Tenakee three weexs' ago, -assertédly bound for Juneau, where an operation on his hand, which was to be removed because, of blood poisoning, was intended. In- Due to conflicting dates, and the 'imze number of other entertain- | ments already scheduled for the en- suing week, the Burlesque Minstrel Mrs. Dewey L. Knight, wife of the Divisional Director of the Immigra- tion and Naturalization Service, ar- rived from Ketchikan on the Alaska The first fall meeting of the Adult TO RESUME SUNDAY Col. Kumpe Radios Congratulations to Gov. Troy, Alaska Day In recognition of Alaska Day, Col. G. E. Kumpe, Officer in Charge of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, Washington-Alaska Mili- tary and Telegraph System, Se- attle, radioed Gov. John W. Troy a congratulatory mescagzs this morning. Consistently, over a pe- riod of many years dating from the days when he was in Alaska as a young officer, Col. Kumps has been an cnthusiastic sup- porter of Alaska and active in many constructive ways for the Tervitory’s progress, Col. Kumpe's me: “ Governor Troy, “June: ., Alaska. “C-ngratulations te you and youe staff cn thic Sixiy-Eighth aniversary of the acquisition of the Territory of Alaska by the United States. May itc com- mercial and industrial life con- tinue to grow and ycu may be aswred (hat the Signal Corps mis jisn will be a continuance of the very best service possible to you and the citizens of this great territory. (Signed) e WARFARE IN EAST AFRICA age follows: MPE.” Statesmen, Geneva, Work- ing Racket, Declares General Butler NEWTON S8QUARE; Pa., Oct. 18— General Smedley D. Butler called the | Ethiopian warfare ‘‘sideshow ma-' {neuvers compared to the statesmen’s racket in Geneva." He declared the League's sanctions to be dangerous. “If it were not for the sanctions program, only two nations would be involved—Great Britain and Italy. Instead, more than 50 nations will be DRASTIC. MOVE - ' CONTEMPLATED AGAINST ITALY Declaralion_l;y_League Will Mean War Musso- lini’s Assertion 'ECONOMIC SANCTIONS " CONSIDERED T0O SLOW ‘Peace Talk Rumors Come from Rome—Two Na- tions Nearing Split I | { GENEVA, Oct. 18.—~The possi- bility ¢f a naval blockade against Ito'y, which Premier Benito Muc-olini has said would be tantemount te a declaration of war, ic being verionsly considered infcrmally in League of Nations circles. ome delegates saw in the ccono:mic sanctions, weapons too and perhaps ineffective to accomplich punishment. It is conceded that a naval bleckade is a dangerous possi- bility. Signs of a growing disagree- ment between Great Britain and France are evident. French Premier Laval is repre- rhow of naval strength in the Mediterranean Sea. PEACE TALK REPORTED ROME, Oct. 18—Well informed | sources disclosed here late this after- {noon- that peace talks with Premier Mussolini are directed toward ending | the conflict in East Africa. These peace talks are now under way, unofficial sources claim, be- tween Premiers Mussoiini and Laval and conversations have taken place with the Ambassadors of Great Britain, France and Ttaly. It is also said that progress has reached the grea‘est importance. drawn in. The United States can't| keep out if Europe works up a gen- | eral war and if martial propaganda | ir fed our people.” i IS DEATH PENALTY GIVEN SLAYER AccompliceEly 18 Years Old, Is Sentenced to Life Imprisonment TELLURIDE, Cal, upon Otis McDaniel, aged 30 years, for the slaying of Sheriff W. W.| Dunlop, and his brother Herbert, aged 18, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the same crime. The jury deliberated since early yesterday. ‘The two brothers already face life | terms for the starvation slaying of James Westfall, aged rancher. MASS SLAYER IS SHOT DOWN 18— The| IASI, "Rumania, Oct. bloody career of Vasile Tc mania’s ‘mass murderer, has ended in his death when he succumbted to bullet wounds inflicted by the polic when he was s cape from custody. He had conf: clue, Ru- {to the slaying of 20 persons. RS One Student Killed Another Is Injured Oct. 18—The! death penalty has been imposed | Show, to be given by the women of last night. Knight arrived on the Study Class of the Northern Light In Automobile Crash)| quiries addressed® to Juneau physi-|the Trinity Episcopal Choir, has been W. Askins, J. H. Askins, P E. Bailey, | in the Church Parlors. J. A. Branigan, J. D. Custard, D. O.| The supper will begin at 6:30 Davis, N C Hale, A M. Harris, F. W.| o'clock. Everyone who attends is Lawson, C. Lear, H. V. Osahale, G. O. asked to dress in something “odd Quaintance, E. Ring, E. M. Rowan, and suitable.” The Committee-in- W. L. Rydhom, J. R. 8wigart and M.| Charge, which promises an inter- Vinich. The group was asseémbled at|esting” entertdinment; is as follows: Fort Lawton from all parts of the|Mrs. John Hogan, Mrs. Byron Miller, United States. and Mrs. John A. Glasse. J cians reveal the fact that he has not reported for medical care in this city. Carmel mc Tenakee in a gas- boat. — e PORTLAND MAN HERE J.T.Murphy of Portland, iS'a guest ot the Gastineau Hotel. He arrived on the Alaska. | indefinitely postponed, according to | statement by Dean C. E. Rice. The | for next Wednesday evening. - e — CHERRAN AT GASTINEAU Leslie Cherran, Seattle, arrived on the Alaska and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. | show had previously been scheduled: Yukon from a trip to the Interior, and expects to be in Juneau about a week. NORTH LIGHT BRINGS FISH The packer boat North Light, Capt. | Nels Lundin, delivered 2,500° pounds! lot salmon today to the Sebastian Stewart Fish Company at Gold Stor- | age Dock. Presbyterian Church will be held Sunday morning at 10 o'clock in the church. All adults who are interested in a discussion of modern economic and political problems or in Bible| study are invited to attend. The class will be under the direction of Rev. John A. Glasse and will meet each Sunday morning for, an hour’s dis- SEATTLE, Oct strom, of Olympia, Ellensburg Nor- mal Scheol student, was killed, her schoolmate; Isabel Frazier, of Olym- pia, was injured, and John Britfon, cannery field man has been jailed as the result of an automobile crash cussion before services. ‘ast night near Cle Elum. 18.—Clara Lin-| LAVAL INSISTENT GENEVA, Oct. 18.—Premier Laval continues to strive for maintenance ' ‘of peace in the Mediterranean and | peace in East Africa. Last night Premier Laval asked Great Britain to renounce formally any blockade or individual sanctions that might lead to war. ‘Great Britain however turned this down sharply and demands that France answer “yes” or “no” to the question whether she will support Great Britain in event of Mediter- ranean Sea hostilities. Wire Entanglements Advices from Rome state barbed wire entanglements have entered the picture in Ethiopia and these en- tanglements are stretched along the frontier of Italy's colony Libya. Advices from Moscow state the |Soviet Union has already Initiated penalties against Italy. Officials here believe that 24 hours Ewul tell whether sanctions would be- come effective or fail. Advices received from Addis Ababa |say Emperor Haile Selassie has ane | nounced e has abandoned a passive | attitude and orderc? iroops into the field to repel the invaders. - MADAME ORLOFF RETURNS Madame Helene Orloff, who left Juneau on October 7 in her gas- boat T-526, piloted by Tom Arin- strong, for a trip to Tenakee, re- turned late last evening. Miss Laddie Kyle, artist, who was Madame Orloff’s guest, decided to re- |main in Tenakee. The boat was pi- loted on the return trip by Otto | | GOING TO SEWARD L. E. Falkenhagen, Sales Manager for Marshall-Wells Hardware Com- pany, Portland, and A. H. Clifford, local representative of the same firm, |are passengers to Seward on the Alaska. e THE WEATHER Showers, possibly mixed with snow flurries tonight and Sat- urday; cooler tonight; moder~ ate southeast winds.