The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1935, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935. VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7111. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS STATE ELECTIONS SHIFTLESSER OFFICES . . PLANES SEARCH " INFAIRBANKS, DAWSON AREA Jack Herman, Passengers Lost in Same District Hines Disappeared DOWN; BAD WEATHER Plane Is B:li:ved Forced Down and Unable to Takeoff in Snow BULLETIN — FAIRBANKS, Nov. 6.—A snow storm baffled the searchers for the missing Herman plane and three planes are kept grounded here. Pilot Ross hopes for a break in the weather and is ready to take off at the first opportunity. Pilots Lavery and Lerdahl are also waiting at the airport. It is said ancther piane is ready to take off from Dawson. Belief still ‘5 KLONDIKERS, PILOT MISSING IN NORTH OH, FOR THE LIFE OF A SAILOR RESCUE FLIERS FORCED) In her spare moments between pictures in Hollywood pretty Joan Blondell takes an interest in ship models. Here she i perched atop a canoe looking over an early type sailing vessel before launching it on LEAGUE WARNS GERMANY OVER SALES ACTION Mussolini Said to Be Bar- gaining with England, Lessening Tension ITALIAN OFFENSIVE RENEWED IN NORTH Il Duce Soldiers Reported Killed in Encounter Near Makale GENEVA, Nov. 6.—The League’ of Nations tonight issued a communi- que stating the committee of 18 had informed the German government that it had discovered certain pefr- sons purchasing goods in Germany with the probable intention of re- selling them in Italy and Ethiopla The German government proposes to issue a decree rendering such speculation impossible, it was stated. DUCE BARGAINING LONDON, Nov. 6. —Mussolini, un- Big Belt Mountain’s “Growing Pains” Seen as Cause of Quakes in Montana EASTERN VOTE RAISES HOPES OF REPUBLICANS G.0.P. Regains Control of New York State As- sembly by 14 'DEMOCRATS RETAIN 2 CONGRESS SEATS | Political Leaders Looking | Toward Kentucky Where Result Not Yet Known LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 6.~ A. B. Chandler, Democrat who campaigned for Governor in sup- port of the Roosevelt program, led his Kepublican opponent, Judge King Swope, 2,000 votes as the first returns from yes- terday's election came in today. NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Tasting the Fidh a i persisted the plane, pilob and | oo un TAcsociated Press Phato) | meetness o ¥ e passengers are safe at some iso- | easy over the vast British fleet in the lated point. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 6. — Three planes, searching for Pilot Jack Herman and his missing five passengers, ‘Teturned” 1o Pairbanks last night, forced back by heavy weather, low clouds and failing snow, ! conditions which threatened to form ice on the wings of the planes. The planes were piloted by Vic- tor Ross, Bill Lavery and Herman Lerdahl. The three fliers searched 100 miles out from Fairbanks, Ross and La-| very over the Chena River head- waters and Lerdahl over the Circle- Eagle route. Later they joined and: | NEW YORK, Nov. 6—Prices on| searched the country on the return flight. No trace of the missing plane was found. Weather permitting, the fliers were to take the air this forenoon, with extra heavy food supplies to drop if the missing plane was found and a landing could not be made. The route to be covered was the Fair- banks-Chicken airway. MISSING SINCE SATURDAY FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 6. — Pilot Jack Herman left Dawson last Saturday for Fairbanks, and up to early this morning had not been re- ported. Dawsen customs officials reported late yesterday that the passengers on the flight leaving there were Peter Funk, Oscar Adamy, Okay Ogren, W. James and George Town- send, all Klondikers. It is. believed here Pilot Herman was forced down by thick weather and was probably unable to take off on account of snow and slush. The plane is lost in the same ter- ritory as the Arthur Hines’ ship with three passengers, Mr. and Mrs. John Lonz and Alton Nordale. This dis- appearance was after Hines left Daw- eon for Fairbanks last August 19. MAYOR CHARGES “RED” PLOT TO PROLONG STRIKE Six Men Arrested in Seat- tle Mill' Difficulties— Charged Communism SEATTLE, Nov. 6 —Mayor Charles E. Smith directed efforts to break up a reported Communist plot to pro- long the flour mill strike and pro- voke a general sympaghetic uprising. Six men have been arrested fol- lowing the raid. The mayor said he had informa- tion that $5,000 had been brought here for use of Communists in the Fisher Flour Mill strike. —e————— ‘The body of Poland’s Marshal Jo- sef Piludski was buried in the ca- thedral attached to the royal castle of Cracow. STOCK PRICES 60 UPWARD-IN. FAST_TRADING in Year—New Highs * Are Attained {the Stock Exchange swept upward today in the heaviest buying move- ment witnessed in more than one | year. New highs since 1931 were scored by numerous issues. Industrials were the favorites to- day and led in the booming advance. points. Ralils found a following and utili- i ties were somewhat firmer. { | CLOSING PRICES TODAY I” NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Closing quo- {tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 143} American Power and Light 8%, Ana conda 21%, Bethlehem Steel 43%% General Motors 58'%, International Harvester 58, Kennecott 27%, United States Steel 48, Pound $4.92%, Cal- umet and Hecla 5%, United Foun- dries 13-16. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 14291, rails 35.60, utilities 28.16. B — SAN PEDRO ILA VOTES BAN ON GULF CARGOES Unanimous Vote Concurs with Recommendation, Pacific Coast Board SAN PEDRO, Cal., Nov. 6. — By unanimous vote, the San Pedro Lo- cal International Longshoremen's Association decided lo concuf with recommendations of the Pacific Coast District Executive Board unloading cargoes loaded in Gulf ports. - eee LAST RITES FOR KASKO The last rites for James Kasko, 56, Indian, were held at the Salva- tion Army Hall this afternoon at 2 p. m. Adjutant George Tanner of- ficiated and interment was in Ever- green Cemetery. James Kasko died aboard his gas boat Airplane while enroute to the Government Hospital for medical treatment. » Buying Movement Heaviest| | Gains were made from one to flvei iMrs. Dimond iIs Successfully WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—Alas- ka Delegate A. J. Dimond has netified his office here that Mrs. Dimend successfully withstood an cperation in a New York hos- pital for an amdominal tumor. Unless complications ensue, she will recover rapidly, the re- pert said. Mrs. Dimond was taken to New York last week. | | | MRS. L. KUBLEY, " OF KETCHIKAN, PASSES AWAY {Wife of Pioneer Merchant Dies as Result of Pneumonia | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 6. — Mrs. Lawrence Kubley, wife of a Ketchikan pioneer merchant, is dead here as the result of pneumonia af- ter a brief illness. Mrs. Kubley had been a resident of Ketchikan for over 20 years. She is survived by her husband, son Wal- ter and daughter Norma, all in Ketchikan, and a daughter Gertrude, | attending the University of Wash- yington; two brothers and two sis- | ters. Mrs. Kubley was born in Denver, | Colorado. ASKS THATU.S. MAINTAIN DUTY ONB. C. MILLS |Lumber Industry in /Can- ada Cited as Menace to Washington State OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 6. — Gov. Clarence D. Martin has appealed to | President Roosevelt against reduc- ing the duty on British Columbia lumber in the coming Canadian rec- iprocity conference. | Gov. Martin cited as a menace to | Washington State industry the com- | petition of Canadian mills and said reduction of the present duty would |further close the mills, bringing | about a great pressure to reduce wa- | ges. ., — | PATCO ON FLIGHT Bill Flory was a passenger to Hawk Inlet today aboard the ‘Alaska Air ‘Transport Patco flown by Sheldon Simmons. Mediterranean, has bargained for re- duction with England and definite progress has been made, informed circles said today, toward allaying the tense situation ‘between Italy and Great Britain. 11 Duce may withdraw the bulk of his troops fromLibya if Britain will reduce her fleet. Premier Laval of France, still seek- ing means of settling the Ethiopian | dispute on a basis satisfactory to both the League and Ethiopia, conferred with British and Italian Ambassadors today at Geneva. RENEW OFFENSIVE ASMARA, Ehitrea, Nov. 6.—Italian General Field Headquarters here an- nounced today the offensive on the northern front would be renewed all along the line at dawn tomorrow. An Ethiopian communique said an Italian scouting patrol sought to en- ter Macale last night but was driven back by Ethiopian troops. Ten Ital- ians and two Ethiopians were killed. | Four Italians were taken prisoners. An Italian communique said sub- mission of tribal chieftains in Nor- thern Ethiopia continued. —————— PROJECT BIDS ‘IN KETCHIKAN T0 BE REFUSED Treasury Dept. Holds All Too High for Amount of Money Set Aside WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. — The Treasury Department officials said today that the bids for the Ketchi- | kan Postoffice and Federal Building will be rejected on the ground tha they were too high for the amount | of money set aside for construction’ purposes. The low bid, $278,582, was submit- ted. by the Warrack Gonstruction Corppany, Seattle, The sum of $64,- 000 of the above amount will be| made available for a portion of the| project. Plans will be revised and bids will be called for again in the' spring. Of $300,000 originally approved for this building by Congress, $100,000 was carried in the deficiency bill of last season which could be used for construction. The sum of $214,000 was set aside for the building alone. ‘The money approved by Congress was to include construction, furnish- ing and all other expenses involved in preparing it for occupancy. e LEAVES ST. ANN'S William Meyers left St. Ann's Hospital today. He has been receiv- ing medical treatment. ———e—————— LEAVES HOSPITAL Hazel Jameson, little Indian girl from Ketchikan, was discharged from St. Ann’s today in an improved condition. t ¢l By HOWARD W. BLAKE! E { (Asvociated Press Science Editor) NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Hel pro- longed earthquakes arve aimost cer- tainly the growing pains of the Biz Belt mountains, a ranze of (e Rock- ies, about 10 miles east of the city. ‘The last time they moved a listle in their many millicn year rise was in 1925. Then there was a quake, south of Helena, about twice as bad as this year’s. ‘The 1925 quake did not kill anyone, because its worst shakes hit open country. It cracked vast masses of |rocks off the mountains and binckeld | the Northern Pacific railroad for a |long time, Grewth Fairly Certain | It called attention to what is going on under the Big Belt mountains {Son of British Royalty Is Married Today, LONDON, Nov. 6.—1ne Duke of Gloucester, soldier, son of the King and Queen cf England, and | Lady Alice Montagu - Douglas | Scott, 33-year-old Sceot aristo- crat, ‘were married in a quiel ceremony at Buckingham Palace today. S P INQUIRY MADE " OF MUNITIONS GOING ABROAD Investigators of Senate Committee Plan to Plug ‘Loopholes WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Inves- tigators working with the members of the Senate committee investigat- ing munitions, today embarked on an effort to plug what they regard as loopholes in the nation’s neutrality poliey. The investigators want Congress to close the Ametican money market and credit facilities to anyone seek- ing to finance the purchase of war materials by belligerent countries. Pacific Coast Dairy Industry Now Facing Best Outlook, Years SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov, 6.— PF. H. Campbell, of the Federal Bu- reau of Agricultural Economics, said today the Pacific Coast dairy pro- ducts: industry is facing the best outlook in several years, What “growing pains” in a mountain range may do tc homes in nearby cities is demonstrated by the | wrecked Helena, Ment., residence in the lower part of the flem Above is a topographical map of Big Belt | assembly elections in New York state yesterduy, Republican leaders today said they saw a turn in the tide for Mountain area. The broken line running ww‘u‘ from Three Forks to White Sulphur Springs shows the 1925 fault line, The arrows in the cruss-section show how pressure Jihe mpuntain up, causing their “vew growth.” N % from some source may be pushing 1936 while Democrats sharply dis- hing . | Suted the potn. ’nd fixed delinitely one fault line. Thy mological maps and geologi- cal studies of this 1925 quake and its fau't line leave some doubt whether the preent shock comes from a deep round slip on the identical fault line, or whether there are still nnknown fault lines that might sllpi und = Big Eelt to account for the | He'ena sha | Th elt mountains run north- | vest and southeast about 70 miles. | That they are growing slowly as most | of the cther Rockies has been fairly certain amonz geologists. In fact mountiin growth in this region is so ! established that the area is in- d in a long-time triangulation cet up by the U. 8. Coast and Geo- detic curvey to determine how much the mountains move around in a cen- | tury’s time. gained | the New York State Assembly, elect- Fault Line Marked ‘ed mayors in Philadelphia and Cleve~ The fault line of the 1925 quake land, increased their majority in the lies about 60 miles north of Helena. New Jersey Assembly and regained It extends from near Three Forks to control of the New Jersey Senate. close to White Sulphur Springs. It Retain Seats crosses directly underneath the sou-} The Democrats retained two New thern portion of the Big Belt range. York City seats in Congress, ran up The 1925 quake shook the terri- a record majority in the balloting tory south of the fault rather than in the stronghold of Hudson Coun- northward in Helena’s direction. On ty, New Jersey, won overwhelming seismopraphs it - registered nearly approval for Democratic New York twice as strong as this year's earth- Governor Lehman'’s state relief bond quake. |issue, and today looked toward Ken- The new quakes may be a move- tucky in the hope of counting the ment of the lands north of the fault Democratic gubernatorial nominee adjusting their foundations to equal- a winner. The Kentucky result may ize the slips to the southward in not be known for several days. 1925. At least the continued tremors ~ The Republicans elected 82 mem- this year about Helena seem to bal- bers to the New York Assembly of ance the count of 1925 to the south- its 150 members, changing the Dem- ward. In that year 67 miles were |ocratic margin of four into a Repub- recorded. | lican majority of 14. INDUSTRY AND LABOR CALLED IN CONFERENCE | jeveral Thousand Expect- ed to Attend Session on December 9 WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—A call for New York City Democratic Edward W. Curley, Democrat, de- feated Victor Santini for Congress in the 32d-district with 23,000 ma« Jority. Willlam B. Barry, Democrat, | with a majority of 100,000, defeated U. S. SHIPPERS DEEMED EUUAL |Joseph M. Conroy, Republican, for . the second district seat. | In Pennsylvania's lone state-wide vote, Judge Jesse Cunningham, Re- | g:bllcan,tder!enbedmaohert L. Myers, { Democrat, for -t State 8 2! Schell Says 100 Idle Ves- uhlicas, sels Could Be Service- jCoun,; 8. Dawes Wilson, Republican, 3 : b Harold H. Burton, Republican, able in National Crisis was named mayor of Cleveland, and Myron 8. Bassamen, Republican, des | feated Columbus’ Democratic mayor, {was elected mayor at Philadelphia. WASHINGTON, Nov, 6.—The Unit- 1 glant conference of industry and ed States will be in a position to abor to consider the question as to | refit and push into service 100 ves- whether the nation needs NRA, was $els now idle should a national em- ssued foday by Industrial Coopera- ergency create. shipping shortage, Adon Coordinator Berry. The con-|<ald 8. D. Shell, Secretary of the erence of several thousand business | U. S. Shipping Board. |Henry W. Worley. Socialists Show Strngth Many cities elected Republican | mayors yesterday but returns show |also triumphs for the Democrats and | Socialists. Republicans won in Phil- |adelphia, Cleveland, Columbus, De- nen and labor leaders will meet here | m Decembr 9. The Merchant Fleet Corporation, | troit and many smaller cities' in | which has just been classified, has New York and Ohio. 1270 ships of 2278000 deadweight| The Democrats returned to power | tons, under its eontrol, Schell said no emergency is anti- ot MERGER jnINs cipated, but that 100 ships built fdurmg the World War could be dry- ;dockcd and quickly fitted out for ) jcargo duty. Ships that it wouldn't 1 | pay to recondition could be used as Ibarges to transfer cargo under tow. Schell said 50 vessels are now ca- SEATTLE, Nov. 6.—A merger be-|pable of operation of which 39 are tween the Spokane Eastern Trust actually in operation. Company and the First National| Bank of Seattle linked two of the| State's largest financial institutions| bringing new banking ties between eastern and westexrn Washington. COLD WEATHER s BOOSTS PRICE EXPECTED ON ALASKA‘ SEATTLE, Nov,, 6. — Pruit and | vegetable prices mountel over the Bernard M. Stone, Editor and| Pacific Northwest as the 8-day cold Manager of the Fairbanks Daily *P€ll SloWly gave way to more mod- News - Miner, accompanied by his | erate '“T’em b % 8 wife, is expected to pass through| Mrs, D, T. Kinard of Ninaty Six, Juneau, southbound on the s!enmerls, C., recently received her wedding Alaska, on an extended visit in the|ring, found in a field, after it had States. been missing for 35 years. in Hartford and New Haven. A Socialist was re-elected in Bridge- (Continued on Page Three) . e IS { ROSSI TRIUMPH BREAKS RECORD FOR PLURALITY |San Franciscan Mayor Re- ~ tains Office with 37,000 Margin Over A. Uhl SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 6— Mayor Angelo Rossi is credited with having broken all previous plurality records in San Francisco'y mayoral races-as,a result of a smashing vic- tory in a non-partisan election. He was 37,000 votes ahead of his near- est rival, Supervisor Adolph Uhl