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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS NCHORAGE FIRE DVEHTURES FOR PEAGE ARE NOW AT STANDSTILL No Hope s-E:;pressed for Early Cessation of Hostilities NEGOTIATIONS ARE AGAIN BROKEN DOWN Sanctions Must Go Into Ef- fect With No Weak- ening, No Delay LONDON, Oct. 26—From authori- tative sources comes the information that a standstill has been reached in efforts to end the Italio-Ethio- pian war and there are no hopes for early cessation of hostilities. At the same time, the British Treasury Department has ordered Great Britain's financial sanctions against Italy and this is to be placed in operation next Tuesday. OFF 'TO MEET ITALIAN INVADERS BALDWIN FIRES FIRST SHOT IN BRIT, CAMPAIGN| Discusses Sanctions and United States in Econ- omic Blockade CHEQUERS, England, Oct. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, firing the first major shot in the gencral election campaign in-a broadcast address last night, said: I would never sanction this couns= try’s going in for a blockade unless .1 ed beforehand of the attitude ot the United States.” Di-cussing the League of Nations'! offorts to halt the Italo- EmlopuM war, and the fact that the United States, Germany and Japan are out- side the League, Baldwin said: ““There are risks to peace in such a move. You may ask, what risks? I reply, risks in the kind of sanctions imposed. If sancticns of the severest Kkind are imposed, that will lead in- | evitably to a blockade, and blockades bring outside the League. Wk HISTORIC TACOMA HOTEL IS SWEPT BY FIRE | { i | | | The Tacoma hotel, a Pacific Northwest landmark, designed by the late Stanford White and built in into the question countries \ virtually destroj thrilling rescue d by a twisted by an early morning fire causing damage of an estimated $400,000. At the by the firemen. A woman c: down an extension rising from a fire la t held by the man above, Right: a general viaw while the fire was at its height. ILIVES OF TWO WOMEN TAKEN IN NOON BLAZE Rooming House in Cook Inlet Metropolis Deslroyed WIFE OF ALASKA R. R. ENGINEER 18 VICTIM {Conflagration Takes Place During Bitter Weather, Wind Blowing ANCHORAGE, Aleske, Oct. 26. —Two wemen were burned to ¢ ath in a rooming house here a! nocn Friday. One of the victims is Mro, Her- ber! Beobe, wife of an Alacka Railroa? engineer. The cther is be'ieved to be Mrs. Ed Holt. The liame: razed the building. The fire occurred on the eve of the Firemen's Masquerade Ball, Ancther fire Thursday night in Informed circles claim that the progress of peace negotiations be- tween Premiers Mussolini and Laval have virtually broken down and there is little hope, unless the Italians come forward with new proposals, that the League will take any fur- ther action on peace overtures. The proposals so far are not acceptable to Ethiopia. NO WEAKENING LONDON, Oct. 26—Government officials this afternoon declared that the League of Nation's plan for sanctions will be carried out “abso- lutely as outlined” and there will be no weakening and no delay. MUSSOLINI MAKES PLEA Well trained and well equipped {Associated Press Photos) through the streets of Addis Ababa enroute to the frontier. Center: Abyssinian troops with mules and supplies on their way to battle. Be- low: Fierce Mohammedan tribesmen from Somaliland who crossed the border to serve Emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa with their rifles. Ethiopian infantry (top) marching ROME, Oct. 26.—Premier Benito Mussolini, in warlike style, delivered his annual message to the Black- shirts as a salute to the fourteen year old Fascism. He called on the 14,000,000 Italian Fascists to “be in the front line of duty and sacrifice, the sole privilege of which you should always be proud.” Premier Mussolini denounced sanctions without naming them, as a “menace and an economic siege of all time history which .wili be branded as an absurd crime destined to increase disorders and misery among nations.” TROOPS ON MOVE ROME, Oct. 26.—The Government LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 26.— announces that native Ethiopian Chairman John J. McSwain and oth- troops are moving forward to occupy er members of the House Committes the Valley of the Fares Mei River. on Military Affairs, today stressed This operation is regarded as fore- theneed for augmented anti-aircraft shadowing the advance on Makale. defense along the west coast. Chair- man McSwain said the most pressin BEEF FOR ARMIES need is for defense of the Pacific RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 26.—Italy Coast and 50 completely equipped will be able to buy meat in Brazil, anti-aircraft regiments are needed. presumably for her armies, through Representative Melvin J. Maas. arrangements just completed. The Republican of Minnesota, member of arrangements calls for delivery of the House Naval Affairs Committee, 22,000 tons of frozen beef. in' an interview in Seattle, declared he will insist that Congress take OTHERS AGREE TO SANCTIONS quick action on proper defense 4of GENEVA, Oct. 26. — Argentina, the Coast stating he is “alarmed and Sweden and New Zealand govern- astonished at the complete defense- ANOTHER MOVE, BEING PLANNED, COAST DEFENSE Chairman of House Com- mittee to Demand Anti- Aircraft Regiments | duto Indusuy ‘Breakmg Record |Since 1929 NEW YORK, Oct, 26.—The au- ‘lomobite INAUITY has surred the naticn’s industrial activity to the factest pace at this time of the year in a long period. The production of autemobiles for October has been the largest since 1929. Steel production has alss been heavy. ALASKANS ARE NEGLIGENT IN | BOOKKEEPING But All Are Honest, Says’ Internal Revenue Agent, Completing Collections | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 26.— ARMAMENT RACE Would Abc:lis—h House ' of| | some of the football games played “That is what I had in mind when. Posiuinted: Prosy)ghotos) T said I would never sanction this| «—- —— country's going into a blockade un- less we were assured beforehand of the attitude 0! the United St.abes Wi BRITISH LABOR, PARTY ATTACKS Public Gatherings Now Permitted |In Helena i A HELENA, Montana, Oct. 26.— Public gatherings, the first since the death-dealing quake of eight days ago, are permitted and plans are made for usual church services tomorrow. Theatres are not allowed to reopen however, periding nupec tion. NAVY /Y DAY TO BE OBSERVED, ‘RADIO TALKS World Hook-up Will Dem- onstrate Ease of Com- munication—Alaska Lords, Flays Government for Endangering Peace LONDON, Oct. 26.—Great Britain's Labor Party, in a manifesto contain- | ing a scathing attack on the Na- tional Government, announces that | it will try to abolish the House of Lords if it wins the general election cn November 14. | T.e Labor Party accused the gov- | crnment of starting an arms race, declaring: ““This government is en- dangering the peace of the world and the security of this country.” GRID SCORES | The following are final scores of this afternoon: Wachington ¢; Stanferd 6. Army 14; Yale 6. Frinceton 54; Cornell 0. Colgate 0; Holy Cross 3. Dartmouth 14; Harvard 6. Carnegie Tech 7; Purdue 0. Iowa 19; Illinois 0. Minnesota 21; Northwestern 10. . Notre Dame 13; Navy 0. Wall Street Speculator WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—A spec- | tacular demonstration on the ease | with which the Navy can speed its |orders across the globe will stari the fifteenth observance of Navy Day tomorrow. Henry Roosevelt, Assistant Secre- tary of Navy, will make a radio speech. Admiral Joseph Taussig, As- sistant Chief of Naval Operations, will also talk over the same hookup, "Mae West Film. Pwtures _Being Taken Here; Movie Company May. Also Com ments have informed the League of Nations they will apply the arms embargo against Italy bringing to 33 nations those enforcing sanctions. New Zealand adopted all of the League’s proposed sanctions. DR, TOWNSEND DID NOT TAKE $600 OF FUND Confidence Voted Founder of Old Age Pension by Convention CHICAGO, Tll, Oct. 26.—Dr. F. E. Townsend today stood absolved from anonymous charges he had abstract- ed $600. Robert E. Clements, co-defender, told the delegates attending the Townsend Old Age Pension Conven- tion, that the money was given the founder for expenses on a lecture tour. A vote of confidence was given Dr. Townsend by the delegates. lessness” of the secuan PARTITIUN OF - ETHIOPIA IS SEENIN WA g Navy “Advocate Pre- dicts Another Conflict of World Powers Sl i ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—Willlam Mr. and Mrs. George Comstock, B. Shearer, big navy advocate, pre- pccompanied by Miss Laddie Ky'e Many Alaskans are poor bookkeepers, but all are honest, says Miles Price, who declared he has never found a case of fraud in intome tax returns by any territorial citizen. He said, however, they are sometimes negli- gent in keeping records. Pricz said that ‘the incomes of Western Alaska have improved overt those of a year ago. Business is 20 percent better. Price leaves this week end for| Seattle. ‘ARRIVE FROM TENAKEE; Bi ————ato—— dicted the world is going to see an- arrived from Tenakee last night anltwo days. other big war, He declared Ethi- 6 o'clock on the gasboat Energy, after opia will be divided without having 4 having remained snowbound in Fun- word to say. England’s share, he said, ter Bay for seven days. They repori will be security for Lake Tana and a very rough passage. the headwaters of the Blue Nile. Miss Kyle is opening her studio in Italy, Shearer further stated, wil. the Goldstein Building at once. Mrs. get a portion of Ethiopia to unite Comstock expects to leave shortly her African colonies, and France for Seattle to visit her mother. will get greater security for present . pus.easions through the promise of Slide and Hunter mountains are 'Great. Britain’s protection against the only ones to exceed 4,000 feet ele- Germany, vation in the Catskills, internal revenue agent of Seafile.! (.al]eged manipulation of the stock ¢ | | SNOWBOUND SEVEN DAYS | Speel River region. Aboard the vessel SEA OTTER TAKES Summoned Before S. C. NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—The Securi- ties Commission has ordered Michael Mehan, Wall Street speculator, to. appear and show cause why he should | not be expelled from the New York Stock Exchange in connection with |the Bellanca aircraft. e MEN ON lNSPECTlUNI The Alaska Game Commission's boat Sea Otter left at 9 o'clock this morning for Tracy Arm and the were Game Wardens Clarence Rhode and Hosea Sarber, who will make in- spections of the area during the next | | — e JAIL TERM PROFITABLE Ben Bailey, Indian, who was bound over to the federal grand jury for the alleged theft of a small sum of money and some soda crackers from; a Petersburg Cafe, put in his time) profitably while in the jail there. ‘When he was brought to Juneau he had with him many fine totem poles he had made, and which his wife hopes to sell, and by radio telephone with naval commandants in the Philippines and Hawail. Cbde messages from Guam in the Pacific; Guantanamo, Cuba, and the naval radio stations in Alaska will be received and interpreted by Lieut. Commander C. Julian Wheeler, sup- of | ervisor of radio naval traffic. ‘The program will begin at 2:30 to-| | morrow, Eastern Standard Time. e BARRYMORE IS SERIOUSLY ILL Actor Is Reported to Be .Suffering from Nerv- ous Breakdown HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Oct. 26.—~Sup- posedly suffering from a nervous breakdown, John Barrymore is in strict seclusion, his physician said, |and may be forced to enter a hos- pital for rest if his condition is not changed within the next day or two. e was recently divorced Ly his wife, Dolores Costello, May West could not come to Men- | denhall Glacier so Fred Mayer, mo- tion picture photographer, is taking Mendenhall Glacier to Mae West. | Mayer arrived Thursday on the | Alaska from a six-weeks photo- | graphic expedition to Anchorage,| Matanuska, Palmer, Curry, Wasilla, | Knik Glacier, and other roints in| the Alaska Rallroad belt. Several| shots of Mendenhall Glacier were taken by Mayer six weeks ago, while his ship was in port here on the trip| to the Westward. About 30,000 feet of film, back- |grounds for a new movie starring | Mae West, which will be callec “Klondike Lou,” and several edu- cational “shorts,” have been take:, by Mayer. He explained the techniqu: by which the backgrounds will br used in the new picture. The back ground is projected against the back of a ground glass screen and the actors, working in front of the screen are rephotographed. Scenes photo- graphed from the ship carrying Mayer to the Westward, will also bx used in the picture. To Build Old Ship “‘Of course we couldn't use ti ship in the picture,” Mayer said. “I is too modern. The story is about the period from 1890 to 1900. A boat wi! be built in the studio and photo- graphed in front of the moving back - ground on the ground glass screen which will make the boat appear in motion.” Many -of the scenes ln modern motion pictures which are cast in dis- tant locations, are photographed in the same way, Mayer said. Back- grounds are photographed in New York, Europe, or elsewhere and arc taken to the studio, where they arc rephotographed with the character in’ position, saving the producer the cost of transporting a large company | to the location desired. Company May Come A Paramount motion picture com- pany may be sent to Juneau within the near future, Mayer said. “I am pretty sure they are sending a com- pany up here soog,” he stated. Five minutes before the Alask: sailed from Juneau for the States last Thursday, Mayer, who was en- route to Hollywood, received a radio message from the Paramounht Com- pany instructing him to stop oves here if possible, to notify them if it could be managed, and to wait here for further word. Additional instruc- | tions have not yet arrived. Several educational features have been secured by Mayer, including a fact story of the Matanuska Colony and several wild life and scenic sub- Jects. “Klondike Lou"”, starring Mae | West, will be finished about the first of the year, Mayer said, and will Pprobably be released about next Apri' or May, )| 1 ’FDSSILS SHOW a hotel kitchen burned intp a wall-dcor and smethered itsslf The blaze was unknown until discovered in the early morning bours. ‘The fire yenulny ocourred during bitter cold weather and with a wind blmvln( MAMMOTH ONGE “ RULED ALASKA STORM LERVES™ | PRINCE RUPERT WITHOUT WATER Torrential fiins Cripple City's Mains, and Par- alyze Railroads Dorsh, Visiting Paleontol- ogist, Finds Remains of Prehistoric Beasts | | were much the same as they are to- | Twenty thousand years ago, the climate and vegetation of Alaska day, according to the findings of| John B. Dorsh, Field Man for the| Frick Laboratories, American Mu- seum of Natural History, New York PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Oct. 26— City, who arrived Wednesday on the This city is without water as the re- PAA Lockheed Electra from Fair- sult of torrential rains which are banks and is a guest at the Gasti- crippling the city’s main emergency neau Hotel, Spruce ,birch, and dia- lines, mond willow trees flourished in Alas-| The washout damaged both mains. ka 20,000 years ago, and herds of The Skeena River rose five feet in saribou and moose roamed the plains twelve hours to reach a maximum >f the Interior then, as now. Wolves hefght of 20 feet. and bears were also in evidence, and!| The Canadian National Railway all of the animals mentioned differed Service is paralyzed by washouts of sery fittle, if any, from present-day the Kaye River, and also along the pecimens, But many of the ancient lower Skeena. Service is not expect- nhabitants of Alaska are no longer, ed to be resumed for several days. resent. | The bridge across the Copper River Bison, the most numerous of all above Terrace, B. C., and a number he animal tribes of that day, have' of small bridges in the district are lisappeared. Bands of horses, once 8150 washed out. olentiful In Alaska; mastadons, BT mammoths, possibly the ancestors of modern elephants, lions very similar to those found in Africa today, and a giant bear, at least twice the size of the existing Kodiak bear, have elli vanished. | All Life Once Extinet | Dorsh has a personal theory that | all animal life became extinet at some time since the period of fossil| remains—estimated at from 20,000 ‘to 100,000 years. “My idea is that, ul the animals in this district were xterminated,” Dorsh said, “and that | he wolves, bears, caribou, and moose migrated back from other districts.’| Graduate of Alaska U Dorsh, who is a graduate of the University of Alaska, has been con- nected with the American Museum of Natural History during the pasc kree years, most of that time being pent in excavating fossil remains n the Interior, and in classifying his pecimens in New York. He came to Alaska from New York last May. ie has seeurcd a total of about 3,000 specimens for the museum, 1bout 1,200 this year. The fossil re- nains were found largely in the frozen ground of dredging and hy- iraulic mining operations at depths of from 10 to 12 feet to 100 feet below the surface. Koosevelt Helps This year Dorsh was assisted in his nvestigations by Archie Rooseveli, Jr., who arrived in Fairbanks for that purpose on July 10, by Walter 3ullivan, who accompanied young Roosevelt, and throughout the en- tire summer by “Red” Dickey, a University of Alaska student. Speci- (Continued on Paze Five) HUGH JOHNSON SKEPTICAL AS T0 RECOVERY ‘Sl 6000000 Jobless When Business Returns to Normal, He Claims WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Hugh Johnson said today that at the pres- ent rate of reemployment there might still be 6,000,000 jobless when busi- ness returns to normal. “You can see at a glance that tne figures of reemployment are not keeping pace with recovery,” he said. 1 don’t deny that employment is in- creasing.” Johnson said one reason why em- ployment was not increasing as fast as business is improving is because of lengthening work hours through departure from code standards. He declared there would be hundreds of additional jobs if the hours were not lengthened. GO FOR PRISON Deputy United States Marshals J. L. McCormick and Chris Christen- sen left on the Northland for Sitka. The two officers will take into cus- tody Thomas Young, named in a bench warrant for larceny in a dwelling, and also an insane man,