The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1935, Page 1

- THE DAILY VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7108. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1935. * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE * PRICE TEN CENTS ITALIAN BLOCKADE VOTED FOR NOV. 18 " SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HIT, " > " RAIN AND WIND " Two Reported Killed in“ . Auto Accidents— 25 Injured SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Nov. Francisco Bay district. ® The dead are Mrs. Gustave Jen- | sen, aged 70, of Oakland, and John | Rosenlund, of San Francisco. Beth were killed in auto accidentsj blamed largely on the storm. The wind caz-ca heavy damage. Trees were uprooted, highways are « blocked and power wires have been ripped apart. - QUAKES CAUSE HELENANS T0 (Price of Shoes: . BRITAIN MUST » Two deaths and injury to at leas 25 others, is the result of a wind and | rain storm which has swept the San ELECTIONS IN |To Take Advance Herald Tribune today said it bha: learned from leading shoe retailers and manufacturers, that the American public shoe cost will next year be raised $100,000,000. This is becauce of the general price increase scheduled for the next month or two, | NEW YORK, Nov. 2. — The i |New York,zntucky and Pennsylvania Voting WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—Political campaigning swept toward a climax |in" several eastern states today in BEWAHE REIGH preparation for the elections Tues- . } |Presldenue1 contest of next year. Struggles to win the New York As- | dominate natiofal interest as stud- s : |ents of itics watched the col | Wmston ChurChl“ Asserls;especmll;'df’or augurs of the R:o‘gf MUSI Rearm Agams[ ivelt rarl::nea at the polls next year. | Republicans were hopeful for suf- German OnSlaUght ilicie:‘. support of v.heri,: candidates | to indicate a swing away. from the LONDON, Nov. 2. — Winston|presigent, who, himself journeyed Churchill challenged the atoenuon;from Washington to Hyde Park to of the British public by predicting a|cagt his baliot Tuesday in his home defeat before a new onslaught “by state of New York. Democrats, on | Germany, and asserting that Gre:u“me other hand, apparently were iBrimn must, rearm quickly if she 15| sonfident and while they expected | {to face the Third Reich's warlike |5 sprinkling of Republican strength | reparations. in the New York assembly election Churchill | declared Germany is| they were not alarmed over the na- | v spending more than $4,000,000,000 on | tiona) trend, ‘y Chief of Police Smith Said v_ 50 Per Cent of Homes Are Vacated . | HELENA, Mont., Nov, 2.—Chief of | Police Roger Smith said more than 50 per cent of the city’s homes have been vacated, many families leaving | the city because of quakes. The reconstruction committee re-| §4 ported the total homeless as 450. 5 k& Only 235 are dependent on outside' | w e n ty-hve Killed and help. Others have found temporary ' abodes. . bemramnes o2 2o < ned GIRL SCOUT PARTY warlike preparations the present year. RSP S A e FEDERAL BOMBS ROUT MEXISAN. REBEL TROOPS during i e A i | FISHING NOW | | Paying Venture Is Report- —Seiners Active MARSHFIELD, Ore., Nov. 2.—Due to the cold weather, pilchard fishing, Ed C | 2 - Labor, sgid here today he planned| Alcohols were resistant and some Woumj aiall’)’ {"e"m“‘f‘ly dee‘r;;;? of “:"’:’“"] value. o immediate intervention in the|chemicals and specialties displayed: 1 2 s proving a ng venture. | il strenth: | Aids Attac Igulf port strite. ngth. i Two purse seiners arrived here and |~ ccording to advices received here| Recent leaders milled about in- MEXICO CITY, Nov. 2—Two Fed- the Hegeta head which brought an 1 % Girl Scout Troop Three will meet era] planes bombed and fired ma- ectimated price of $1,850. for a Halloween costume ‘party inichine guns on rebels near Santa the Northern Light clock tonight. gren, Captain, ? * nette Stewart. | L3 PACIFIC N. W, .~ SHIVERS; CROP LOSSES GROW One Death from Exposure Is Reported in In- land Empire v SEATTLE, No. 2.—Crop losses and | works Progress Administration an- food prices increased while the mer- cury tumbled throughout the Pacific Northwest today. * | Reports from Spokane stated the Inland Empire has the first death * ns the result of the cold wave. The body of a man, tentatively identified as R. E. Elliott, of Medical Lake, has been found in a clump of bushes on 'Gov. C. D. Martin’s farm near Che- ney. Elliott died as the result of | exposure. Spokane reported a minimum of 12 degr/es above zero, 8 new autumn- al low. swamped with orders. Wenatchee orchardists estimate the loss to the apple crop, by freez- | ing, at over $1,000,000. The Fraser River Valley in British Columbia, has added $75,000 to the Northwest crop loss. - MAY COMMUTE DEATH PENALTY death sentence be commuted. in a robbery. Plant operators said the catch is Presbyterian| Maria #nd Del Valle, in the State of excellent quality. Church parlors between 7 and 9 o'~ The party is under the direction of Mrs. Milton Lager- and a committee omposed of Mrs. Robert Rice, Miss etty Schoettler, and Miss Jean- lof Jelisco, killing and wounding 28. A fleet of seiners is expected here The cavalry followed the attack, from Seattle shortly. | dispersing the rebels. 3 . e —————— | One Federal soldier was killed and the plaaes badly damaged by rebel ' M { bullets. | JOBS PROVIDED "FOR MILLION T“g‘fjf““’j | ler Reports Here {WPA Drive to End Dole| pe site of the new Federat buitd- | Gets Results, But Short |ing in Ketchikan is already being | vacated in preparation for the start of November Goal | of work on the pretentious structure, WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. — The | according to A. H. Ziegler, attorney and Territorial Representative from the First City. EAST TUESDAY HOLD INTEREST PACIFIC COAST ‘ Dominates Picture | i day which may reverberate into :hei NJ h A R Ns LEA DER | sembly, Kentucky governorship and| BPOrts, awaiting further develop- » the Philadelphia mayoralty elections| ments. year's bitter maritime strike of the nR l !wen coast, Lewis acted on the in- « 1smxctlon of Joseph P. Ryan, Inter- e | {national Longshoremen’s Association i president, in New York. ed OF Oregon Coast ‘[byegnmy:fln undisclosed. iGllI.F CARGO IS HOT, SAYS ILA, BULLETIN—Washington, Nov. | 2~~Joseph P. Ryan, President of | the International Longshore- men’s Association, this forenoon held in abeyance the projected | beycctt on cargoes from gulf sl | Boycott Declared by Lewis! in-Notice to Employers— Authorzed by Ryan l SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 2.—| Pacific Coast waterfronts were de-1. clared closed to cargoes from Gulf of { * Mexico ports, where union dock- workers are on strike, when William L. Lewis, district President of the, { International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation, served formal notice of the boycott upon employers. Lewis said that a letter of instruc- | tion weuld be sent from the distriet office to all ILA locals not to work any ship coming from the Gulf load-~ ed by non-union labor. All ships now loading in coast ports for the Gulf, however, will be allowed to complete their cargoes. In calling the boycott, which em- ployers feared may lead to renewal of disturbances such as led to last| United States soidiers stand STOCK PRICES | MILL ARGUND, BAIEF SESSION Mixed Movéements Rule Trading: with Close The policy which will, be adopted; Uneven e NO IMMEDIATE PLAN WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—Edward ' P. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of NEW YORK, Nov. 2—Mixed price movements ruled the short session of the Stock Exchange today. Teport 185 tons have been taken off ,m gan Francisco, Federal Con- !decisively. jciliator E. P. Marsh planned to con- ‘Today’s close was a bit uneven. ed out, they returned today pending |eq States Steel 46%, Calumet and i the outcome of negotiations between | Hecla 5%, United Foundries 7%, fer with both sides. William J. Lew- | is, District ILA President, said the, CLOSING PRICES TODAY west coast stevedores will not handle] NEW YORK, Nov. 2—Closing gulf cargoes. ‘:quouuon of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 137%, American Can 1144, American Power and Light 7%, LONGSHORE TRUCE | Anaconda 217%, Bethlehem Steel 40, NEW YORK, Nov. 2. — Several General Motors 54%, International hours after 3,000 longshoremen walk- Harvester 57% , Kennecott 28%, Unit- shippers, labor leaders, longshore-gpound $4.917%. men members, coastwise dockers and unions affiliated with the Interna-| pOW, JONES AVERAGGES tional Longshoremen’s Assaciation. | The following are today's Dow, M'I;lheC ooenr;?:xrlzyotxfl:lo:‘ awu effected | jones averages: Industrials 14120; T represen- rajls, 34.87; utilities, 27.78. tatives and the officials of five ship- | i cobb ping companies involved. | Pl ok SO S 0B GEORGE DERN ARRIVES IN —————— LANGTON'S FATE NOW RESTS WITH FEDERAL JURY nounced today that its drive to end the dole had transferred 1,543,186 persons from the relief rolls to jobs up to October 26, more than a mil- lion short of the goal hoped for by November 1. Ziegler, who is in Juneau on court i business, reports that the American | Legion has abandoned its cabin on | the new Federal building’s property, | and that it is hoped that work will i begin before January 1. It has not , Seattle has a temperature of 26 , degrees above zero and zesidents have the shivers. Coal dealers are IFATHERS AND SONS | yet ‘been definitely decided whether | the structure will be two or three | stories, and estimates for each type DINE NOVEMBER 7! are set at $275,000 and $300.700 re- | pectively. Arrangements have now been com- | Kewh““*:,m ::3;{:; & verydgo;:d . | year, according er, and ghe Histed (1= She Wilics Mid SR | bustness outlook there is excellent. quet of the Boy Scouts to be heldi in the Moose Hall at 5:30 p.m. next’ s e s s P Thursday. Tickets for the mm!Tfl qu H AL will be sold priyately, and also at| They arrived in Shanghai today. i ¥ OLYMPIA, Wash,, Nov. 2—Gov.| Clarence D. Martin has taken under| advisement the request from rela- tives of Carl Patterson that his Patterson has been sentenced to L hang on November 22 for the slaying of William Simpson, Yakima grocer, | Smith establishment in Douglas. Wellman Holbrook will address the | diners on scout activities in Juneau, and H. L. Faulkner will also make | & short talk on the organization. The | Scouts will demonstrate their work to the fathers after the banquet. | - Curtis Shattuck and Charles W. | Hawkesworth are In charge of ar- | ranging the event. GOOD SKATING ON | MENDENHALL LAKE Good skating on the ice of Men- denhall Lake is reported by several Juneau sports enthusiasts who have made the trip out the highway on recent days. The ice is said to be quite thick, with the weather aver- of the city. Yord the Juneau Drug Company, Butler- | £ Mauro Drug Store and the Guy| s OLD MYSTERY | Seattle, Nov. 2.—Leo Hall, charged | with murder in the mass slayings at | Erland’s Point, near Bremerton, in | March, 1934, faces a grilling in what the Seattle authorifies termed new ues in the 1933 mystery slaying of | Robert R. Elliott, taxicab driver. El- | liott was found shot to death in his | cab. {Heir Born to the ‘ Crooning Downeys | NEW YORK, Nov, 2—A son was | born today to Mrs. Morton Downey, | wife of the well-known radio singer. | Mrs. Downey is the former Bar- bara Bennett, actress, daughter of stance and Joan. P PHILIPPINES Secretary of War to Repre- sent Roosevelt at Inauguration MANILLA, Nov. 2.—Secretary of War George H. Dern arrived at 8:45 o'clock this morning to represent President Roosevelt at the inaugura- tion of the Philippine Government November 15. Vice-President John Nance Gar- ner and party are enroute here. at 11 am. today, and ordered to| QUACKENBUSH BURIED |}ing o senied veriict it they should | MONDAY BY J. M. W. A. Funeral services for Eugene Quack- enbush, 28, A. J. employee who was kilied when he fell down an oreway {on the afternoon shift last Wednes- day, will be held Monday in the C. W. Carter Mortuary at 1 p.m. Quackenbush is survived by a brother, Ernest, in Pequot, Minn., who in a telegram to the Carter Mortuary authorized burial in Ever- green Cemettery. The Juneau Mine Workers Asso- ciation, of which Quackenbush was a member, will take charge of the fun- eral, securing & minister and assign- ing pall bearers. - HAS INJURED EYE H. A, Trumbo entered St. Ann's aging about ten degrees below that! Richard Bennett, and sister to Con-_Hollel for treatment for an in- jured eye. . Sealed Verdict Ordered if Decision Reached Be- fore Monday The petit. jury in Federal Judge George F. Alexander’s courtroom was today weighing the case against Clarence Langton, Petersburg resi- dent accused of assault with a dan- gerous weapon. Langton, who was defended by Mrs. R. R. Hermann, is accused of firing upon George Thacker of Pet- ersburg with a shotgun last October 7. Fhe jurors were given the case reach a decision before court opens at 10 a.m. Monday. Four divorces were granted by Judge Alexander at this morning’s session. They were: Ruth Doyle from John ‘Doyle, Florence Fawcett from Frank PFawcett, Maurice Ericksen from Mary Ericksen, Rachel B. Des- mond from Livingston Desmond. The next criminal case to come before the Federal petit jury is that of Mike and Calvin Wawon and Peter Davis, Indians, accused of robbing a Superior Packing Company barge near Tenakee last summer. - e — GRIDLEY ILL Ross Gridley, PWA engineer, was absent from his desk today with a slight 1llness. Gridley returned to Juneau yesterday after an extended' inspeetion tour of the westward and interlor, : " PRESIDENT’S SHIP PASSES THROUGH PANAMA CANAL at attention as the cruiser Housto! vacation cruise, passes through the Panama Canal. (Associated Press Photo) Communist Is Held at Presidio; Charges May Lead, Deportation SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 2.— Accused of attempting to convert soldiers quartered at the Presidio to Communism, Isaac Finkelstein is held by immigration officers for pos- sible deportation to his native Po- land. Finkelstein was discharged from the army in 1925. RESULTS OF° GRID GAMES The following are final scores of football games played this afternoon and reported by the Associated Press up to press time: Mississippi 13; Army 7. Notre Dame 18; Ohio State 13. Dugquesne 7; Carnegie Tech 0. Brown 0; Harvard 33. Navy 0; Princeton 26. Dartmouth 14; Yale 6. Columbia 7; Cornell 7. Pitt 0; Fordham 0. Penn State 3; Syracuse 7. Pennsylvania 6; Michigan 16. . CAL.-UCLA GAME California got off to an early start in their game with UCLA at West- wood this afternoon, chalking up a 7 to 2 lead by the middle of the sec- ond quarter. Fowler of California let in the first score in the initial quarter for the Bruins when he caught a punt be- hind his own goal line and was smeared before getting out of the danger zone. Score 2-0. The Los Angeles boys outdrove the Golden Bears during most of the rest of the first half, but lost their lead on a blocked kick in the second i | 1 — earing President Roosevelt on his NAMES OF MEN 'INDICTED BY JURY RELEASED 33 Specifically Charged with Rioting During | | s . Mine Trouble ' i § | The 33 secret indictments return-{ ed by the Federal grand jury on October 25 were made public to- day by the District Court. The, | indictments, all arising from the, 5 COUNTRIES BACK PLAN TO APPLY FORCE Key Produ;;“l,.ist Enlarg- ed to Include Coal, Iron, Steel, Oil CANADA LEADS MOVE TO STIFFEN EMBARGO Report Mussolini Will Di- rect Reprisal Sanctions Against France GENEVA, Nov. 2,—With pressure from four directions converged on Mussolini. under the auspices of tho League of Nations, November 18 was definitely named today as the date for beginning the economic blockade against Italy. Fifty-two countries formally voted to impose the econom- ic sanctions. A ceparate proposal against ship- ping key products also was voted by the big meeting without opposi- tion, Key products cover all goods League experts believe could be con- verted for use in war against Italy. Canada Leads Move Canada led the move supported by other important countries to put more teeth into the blockade, and including coal, iron, steel and oil on the lizt of key products forbidden as export to Italy, At the League session, Sir Samuci Hoare, British representative, warned Baron Aloist of Italy, that the anti- Britieh campaigh eonducred by Traly. must cease. It was reliably reported that Ethi- opia was sending an appeal to the League for {inancial assistance. Report Italian Retreat The Ethiopian government stated street rioting of last June 24, speci | Ethioplan guerilla tactics was fore- fically charge the men with viola- ing an Italian retreat in the North- tion of Section 4904 of the Compiled west near the Mussa Alli border in assembly while armed with danger- ous: weapons. The accused men are: | | Matthew Sumara, Ed Engberg, | | Harry Datoff, Nick Kobak, Evan) | Dzaloff, Alex Daroff, George Kod-| | zof1, Tvan Diboff, Frank Agoff, Bill| “Tamxr. Mike Divyak, Gus Zetieff,| Simon Graner, Ed Rennie, C. W.| | Farland, Mentur Peterson, Abel An- ! derson, Ernest Giovanetti, Lee John- | ison, Jack Romer, Stanley Nygren, | Warren Beavert, Clff Matthews,| |Benny Larsen, N. R. Correll, Ro-| | man Ellers, Marion Warner, E. A. Vilarde, Leonard Ball, Sven Saren, John Eikovie, Alfred Nielson and | Bill Lisean. " 20 Bound Over Twenty of the men named in the | indictments were hound over to the {grand jury by the lower court, and I'were released either on bond or per- | | sonal recognizance. Several of the ’remammg 13 have since been taken |into custody, and have either post- jed bail or have been remanded to | the federal jail in lieu of bond. | It is believed that four or five Laws of Alaska, concerning riotous Eritrea The Ethiopian military headquarters was understood to have laid plans to rush troops into the |central sector to stem any Italian advance on the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad. i Italian news reports recelved here said bodies of Ethiopians were abah- doning the zone of military opera= tions near Djibouti and others were refusing to go to the' front, ITALY TO RETALIATE ROME, Nov. 2—Italy will direst the same sanctions in reprisal against France as she directed against Great Britain, notwithstanding the Italo- French friendship. Authoritative Fascist sources saifl today that Italy did not have the same bitterness toward the French she feels toward the British but that “Britain voted sanctions and France must take the consequences.” REACTION IN AUSTRALIA CANBERRA, Australia, Nov. 2.— An Australian - cabinet crisis has arose over the question of application of the League of Nations sanctions, | period. Larry Lutz blocked the punt| ", " qerendants are now outside | Frime Minister James Lyons an- for Berkeley, and his teammate Stockton grabbed the ball and raced 20 yards for a touchdown. Sparks converted the try for point. A slippery field is making it any- body’s game all the way through. OTHER SCORES At the end of the half the score was Washington 7; Montana 7; and Gonzaga 0; Washington State 0. TRADER ON WAY TO WESTWARD POINTS The gashoat Ruth C., Capt. Axel Olson, arrived at the upper City Float at 8 o'clock this morning from Seattle. Capt. Olson is enroute to Seward, Anchorage, and Southwest Alaska, with a cargo of 65 tons of genera] grocery merchandise for trading. The Ruth C. will sail for the Westward tomorrow morning. Capt. Olson reported that while on a trading expedition last June, he delivered necessary supplies to relieve a food shortage among the natives at Nelson Island. Capt. Olson is accompanied by his wife and his son, Lawrence Olson, who is engineer of the Ruth C. The crew also includes Dave Paine, Mate, and Harry Norton. —— e IN ST. ANN’S John Brunner is in 8t. Ann's Hos- nital for medical treatment. lof the Territory. | Charges The indictments accuse the men of “Unlawfully and riotously as- sembling in a public place, to-wit, i Lower Front Street, with common intent to use force and violence against James Lynam, Ted Daniel- | son, Jess Payne, John McLaughlin, Albert Norman, James Briggs, Jack | Finlay and such others as en- deavored to proceed along Lower Front Street to register for em- ployment at the Alaska Juneau Gold Minirig Company’s employment of- fice.” | Witnesses | Witnesses examined by the grand Jury in conmection with:the riot were as follows: James Briggs, Lloyd Bayers, W. W. Beamer, Wal- ter Butts, Al Bucher, Robert Burns, Jack Brown, Bog Corey, Ted D.m»! ielsen, Jack Finlay, George Gilbert-| son, H. C. Godfrey, Lloyd Green, Wayne Graham, Guy Graham, N. C. Bantield, George Hall, Roy Hoff- man, Harold Hargrave, Ed Herrin, Kenneth Junge, Martin Jorgensen, Hollis Jones, Ronald Wiley, Al Lundstrom, James Lynam, W. J. | Markle, W. T. Mahoney, John Mc- | Loughlin, Nick Moaratoff, A. Mat- | kovsky, Bob Dailey, Maleolm Mc- | Callum, William Norton, Evere:t Nowell, Harry Naiefenoff, William | Niederhauser, Jess Payne, Don Par- | sons, Julius Popoff, E. E. Robert- | son, Lloyd Ritter, Mrs. Frank Gar- i ‘Continued on Page Eiguui nounced today he had asked William Morris Hughes, Vice-President of th: Execyjive Council, to resign becauss of apparent opposition to the gov- ernment’s policy of supporting sanc- tions. EXPECT ANOTHER BOMBSHELL PARIS, Nov. 2—Naval circles here today confirmed reports that Ttaly will demand neutralization of the Strait of Gibraltar at the Londen Naval Conference December 2. The action is seen as a master stroke on the part of Mussolini to force Britain to declare her intentions in the Med- iterranean and is expected by naval °Xperts to throw a bombshell into the conference. Mother of Ketchikan Man Believed Suicide BREMERTON, Wash., Nov. 2.— Sherif! Blankenship of Kitsa County. 7aid he is convinced that the denh' by poison of Mrs. Hilda Mantyla, a widow, is suicide. Her son, Arthur, of Ketchikan, is beneficiary of a $500 insurance policy. - ol % CONTRACTOR CUSTARD HERE M. M. Custard, Wrang:l! Contrac- ‘or, arrived on the Alaska and is a zuest at the Gastineau Hotel. He is head of the firm of Custard, Mead- ows and Oja, recently awarded a contract for construgtion of a st-p Wrangell: His firm’s bid was 89,728,