The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7118. “ALL THE NEWS " JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1935. LYNAM, DANIELSO ETHIOPIA SET FOR START OF ITALIAN DRIVE{ Pope Pius Asks Delay of Sanctions as Armies Push Onward PARIS AND LONDON TO REPLY TO ROME! Strong Resistance on Both Fronts Prepared by Selassie GENEVA, Nov. 14—Advances by the Italian forces on both the north and south fronts in Ethiopia are reported in dis- patches received here today. It is said in one clash on the north- ern front both sides report cas- ualties. The Ethiopians are believed to hav | started a strong defensive on both fronts Ttalian advices state there is considerable resistance displayed. PIUS ASKS DELAY ROME, Nov. 14—Pope Pius is re- ported to be striving to postpone the application of the League of Nations’ economic penalties in the interest of world peace. ! | Mr. and Mrs. Edward A, Hughes ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ) TELL OF ASSAULT Edison Widow, Mate Take Trip |SKATING RINK ' IN EVERGREEN - BOWL IS PLAN Chamber of Commerce Committee Makes Re- port, Today's Meet The Chamber of Commerce Skat- ing rink Committee has selected Evergreen Bowl as the best possible location for a public ice rink for resi- ing to a report which was read at the luncheon in the Terminal Cafe to- day by Wellman Holbrook, a member of the committee. 4 Evergreen Bowl is protected from adverse weather conditions and some of the preliminary work necessary for the construction of a skating rink there has already been done. Water for flooding the rink could be secured from ‘the overflow of a small tank adjacent to Gold Oleek Mr. Holbrook said, by the construe- tion of a small pent stock and the use of City fire hose. The City has no equipment for kegping a skating rink clear of snow, Mr'. Holbrook stated, but a tractor is available for that purpose at a rental rate of $5 per day; the tractor may be purchased for §700; or the services of a horse can be secured at the rate of $1 per day plus $1.50 per day for feed. dents of the Juneau district, accord- |. TwoaBt; mbers |B f | Are Killed in Milwaukee Blast A ), EMPLOYEES STARWITNESSES AT RIOT TRIAL Nick Kobak Pointed Out as Man “Who Hit Me Over Head with Club” |STREET DISORDER AGAIN DESCRIBED Harry Datoff Accused by Danielsen on Direct Examination Assertion that no strike vote was ever taken at the time of the Alaska Juneau mine walkout last May was made from the witness stand this afternoon by Ted Danielsen, President of the Ju- neau Mine Workers Association, at the trial of 25 men for riot- ing as an outgrowth of the trou- ble last summer. Danielson’s statement was made in reply to questions by ‘Defense Counsel Irwin Goodman as to whether he knew a strike had been called or was on on June 22 at the time of the street disorder Danielsen said no legal strike was on and no strike vote Thousands of Italians have drop-' ped their usual noonday siesta in favor of a half lunch period through- out the nation. It-is another of Mussolini’'s economy moves, saving Smiles wreathed the faces of Mr. Edward A. Hughes, retired steel man, and his new bride, widow of the late inventor, Thomas A. Edi- son, as the couple left on their honeymoon after a quiet marriage at Chautauqua, N. Y. They plan to live at the Edison estate im West Orange, N. J. had been taken. HITS AT RADICALS “I don't call an action by a mi- nority group of radicals a strike,” declared Danielsen as Goodman The full-time services of one man| would also be required to keep the! rink in good condition, Mr. Holbmd‘, said, and in the event of heavy snow- | fall additional help might be re-| heat and light in offices. Reports from Ethiopia state that’ Italian troops have routed the guer- illa warriors -from many sections and are strengthéning their posses- sion of the newly-conquered terri- tory. NATIONS TO ANSWER PARIS, Nov. 14. — Authoritative quarters here said that Great Britain and France have agreed to answer Italy’s protest against the sanctions. Both of the replies are to be sim- ilar, and will contain the same ex- planation of why the sanctions were applied. SOVIETS ARE MISTREATED BY ITALIANS Government Makes De- mand for Punishment of Guilty Parties MOSCOW, Nov. 14.—Authorized sources said the Italian Government has promised to investigate and punish the guilty parties responsible for the alleged beating and deten- tion of Soviet citizens in Italy. The Soviet Government made a stropg protest to the alleged out- rage and demanded punishment be administered to the guilty. ORGANIZER OF A. N. B, DIES IN WRANGELL Capt. Chester Worthing- ton, Salvation Army Of- ficer, Passes Away WRANGELL, Alaska, Nov. 14— Captain Chester Worthington, 65, prominent Salvation Army officer, and for the past 31 years progress- ive Indian leader of Southeast A]ns-‘ ka, died Tuesday at his home. He was one of the organizers and a charter member of the Alaska Na- tive Brotherhood. He is survived by his widow and a daughter. ————,——— LEAVES HOSPITAL Mrs. Percy Reynolds, suffering from a broken jaw sustained in an Armistice Day auto accident on the Glacier Highway, left the hospital to- day and returned to her own home in the Empire Apartments for con- valescence. —————— The early Portuguese missions in- to Ethiopia began about the :nd of the iffteenth century. quired. STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANCE FAST TRADING Speedy Session Held To- day — Many Issues Reach New Highs NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—A decidedly bullish stock market today saw prices ! whirled upward with gains of one to | three points. ( The session today was the fastest | in eighteen months. | Steels, rails and specialties were in the forefront in the forward rush. | Numerous new highs for the past | four years or longer were reached during the active trading. | _Profit taking was well absorbed. ; Today’s clase was strong: | { CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Nov. 14. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 144, American Power and Light 8%, | Anaconda 22%, Bethlehem Steel 48, | General Motors 587%, International Harvester 622, Kennecott 28%, Unit- led States Steel 49%, Pound $4.92, Calumet and Hecla 5%, United | Foundries 13/16, United Corporation 1 6%, | | DOW, JONES AVERAGES Today's Dow, Jones averages arc fas follows: industrials 145.88, rails 36.93, utilittes 29.07. e TRAIN THROWN ' OFF TRACK AS Engineer and Fireman Kill- ed—Driver of Auto Is Injured JEWETT, Ohio, Nov. 14—A Penn- sylvania Railroad freight train struck an automobile at a grade crossing early this morning and two men were killed and -one injured. The dead are Engineer J. F. Burke and Fireman Neale Brewer of the tomobile, Edward Prather, was in- Jjured. Eighteen freight cars were derailed as a result of the accident. - eee Lions abound in the low countries of Ethiopia and in Somaliland. Hardy and fierce hyenas are found in all sections of Ethiopia. HITS VEHICLE freight train. The driver of the au-| B. B. Park Out of Plan The baseball park is definitely ouf of the question, Mr. Holhrook. Youth Takes Life in "C(m's Room an accumulation of ice would delay | : 3 #e early spring baseball practice. Ice } KEL.\(.), Wash,, Nov. 14.— The skating on the baseball diamond has coroner is investigating the case |peon trieq at Skagway, he said, and of Arthur Young, aged 16, Who |ihe results were not satisfactory. thot himself in the head after | qne pajr Building was also de- flourishing a pistol in a Junior [c)areq unsatisfactory as the possible High School classroom. location of the ice skating rink. A Police Chief Pritchard said {356 from 17 to 20 feet wide around the shooting was a case of sui- |, platform in the center of the cide, motivated by the youth's in- |y,514ing would be available for ice fatuation for an 1l-yearold girl. | ating Mr. Holbrook said, but it TR would require removal of a part of the platform and would include con- cHARITY sHUw siderable other expense. Mr. Holbrook, who is Assistant Re- ’ gional Forester, stated that CCC | Charges of Indecency Are workers from the Montana Creek Camp are using Forest Service equip- Dismissed—Illustrators Are at Hearing ment to prepare a skating rink at Mendenhall Lake. Favors Bowl A motion proposed by Allen Shat- tuck, was passed declaring that the Chamber is in favor of the City put- ting in an ice skating rink in Ever- green Bowl if it can be done at a reasonable cost. Mr. Shattuck stress- ed the fact that the City has spent very little for playgrounds and other recreational facilities, and stated that he believes the expense of con- i NEW YORK, Nov. 14—Magistrate Aurelio today dismissed the charges of indecency against five models and actresses arrested last Friday night in a raid at an annual charity staged | by prominent illustrators. Magistrate Aurelio held the girls | were merely “actors.” | Many of the nation’s best known illustrators were in the courtroom, |including Rube Goldberg, McClel- !lan Barclay, Ham Fisher and Dean | Cornwell. justified and that the taxpayers would approve of expenditure of City funds for that purpose. The Chamber’s Committee was in- structed to determine the approxi- Mayor I. Goldstein and the City Council relative to the appropriation of City funds. introduced by Dean C. E. Rice, spoke in favor of the proposed skating rink, and stated that construction of Chinese and Japanese Near Clash, Shanghai; | Thousands Join Exodus SHANGHAT, Nov. 14—Conditions of near-panic prevailed in the Chapei native quarters, as rumors of an im- {pending Japanese attack raced | through the-district. | Thousands of families gathered | their possessions and joined the ex- odus into the foreign controlled area which has been going on ever since the slaying of a Japanese marine took place Saturday. Japanese bluejackets continue to patrol a large area of the Hongkong | section. grounds. “I believe it would be a wonderful thing for the young peo- ple—and the old people, t00,” he said. Pastor H. L. Wood, of the Seventh Day Adventists also spoke in support of the proposed rink. He stated that outdoor exercise is a builder of both character and body, e, After following a winding 500-mile course, the Awash river of Ethiopia fails to reach the coast and is lost about 75 miles from Tajura bay on the Gulf of Aden. ——————— mate cost of construeting the skating | rink in the Bowl, and to confer with | ;e esting the Board of Liguor Con- | &s the Baseball Committee feels that | e . e At least three persons were terrific explosion on Milwaukee’s a week. Force of the blast shatte killed and eleven others injured on the afternoon of November 3 in a south side, the sixth of a series of blasts which terrorized the city for red windows for three blocks, ripped off roofs and threw persons within | a block te the ground. Two men, unidentified, were killed in the garage, apparently as they worked over dynamite. Pictures show the wreckage caused by the explosi International Ilustrated News photo. U. S, ATTORNEY FROM NOME IS VISITING HERE Has Petition Against Sale of Liquor'to Eskimos |‘ and Indians | A very unusual and interesting }documcnb has been entrusted to United States Attorney Hugh O'Neill, i struction of an ice skating rink is of Nome, who arrived on the North- | \western, for delivery to Frank A. Boyle, Secretary of the Territorial | Board of Liquor Control. The docu- inwm is a petition, signed by a large number of Eskimos and persons of mixed blood, in the Nome district, {trol to pass legislation prohibiting the sale of, and providing penalties “for any person to give, barter, or sell J. F. Wallace of Skagway, who was intoxicating liquor to any Eskimo| |or person of mixed blood.” Declaring that “the excessive use ‘of intoxicating liquor by Eskimos an ice skating rink in the ball park | .and persons of mixed blood is high- | at Skagway ruined the baseball {1y demoralizing as a race,” and that “the present excessive use of liquor by our people, young and old of both sexes, not only is extremely danger- (ous, affecting the morals, but is ilmpfllflng health, taking food from |our children, and bringing us face to face with starvation,” the petition requests that the Board of Liquor !cantrol provide a penalty for “any | | Eskimo or person of mixed blood to |solieit, for money or otherwise, in- toxicating liquor.” The term “Eskimo” is interchang- | (Continued on Page Turee) 7 | MRS. THOMPSON PASSES | AWAY, SEATTLE HOSPITAL | Mrs. Helen Thompson, widow of | W. F. Thompson, pioneer newspaper man of the north, passed away last | week in the Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle, after suffering for months | from cancer. Mrs. Thompson only|Anxiety is felt here for the safety recently went south from Fairbanks|of Mr, and Mrs. Walter S8impson who }wcaompanled by her daughter Mar-|left Telegraph Creek on October 27, |ion, now a student in the Roosevelt|in a small boat with an outboard high school at Seattle. Two sons, |motor, enroute to Juneau via Wran- { William and Richard, also survive.” gell. They are in Fairbanks. The Stikine River froze over the Telegrap. WRANGELL, Alaska, Nov. 14— Juneau Bound Couple, from h Creek, Missing / ,day following the Simpson’s depar- ture from Telegraph Creek and there has been no word since concerning the couple. Customs Officer J. L. Chilberg hes requested persons in the vicinity of the old Alaska Packers Cannery to watch for smoke signals. | New Gasoline |Is Described At Institute LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 14. | —A new type of gasoline, costing | five cents a gallon to produce and promising to increase the poten- | tial national gasoline resources | 25 percent, was today described | before the American Petroleum Institute. The gasoline is made from | waste gases of pil refineries and | JOSEPH DARCY MEETS DEATH Surface Man Employed on Dredge Drowns When Bank Caves In FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 14— natural gas. The gases are con- verted into a liquid gasoline by a | c"eimi"‘“ process of polymeri- | ;50000 Darcy, 40, surface man on a |7 s, | dredge at Chatanika, fell in the |He sank immediately under slush | ice. His body was recovered 13 hours Kathleen, 16, in Seattle, and rela- NEw YURK GITYI'AV&S in Olympia, Wash. The re- i day. Slice of $500,000,000 P hoee dredge pond when the bank caved | later by grappling. | mains were brought to Fairbanks for | Understood Ordered | | | i | SNOW FLURRIES IN JUNEAU STOP TODAY Only one-half inch of snow has fallen in Juneau since 3 p.m. yester- day, which ended a 24-bour fall of 131 inghes, accerding to Weather- { man Howard J. Thompson. The snow fall ended early this morning. No now is expected tomorrow, with the forecast for partly cloudy weath- | er with continued cold. The mercury I. Y | nit slightly lower levals today touch- | L ing 22 at one time during the past | in while he was on the gang plank. “ Darcy is survived by two young y 1cmxdren in Fairbanks, a daughter, burial. The aceident occurred Tues- by President | | NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—According | to advices received here, President Roosevelt has given ingormal orders i for a cut in the 1937 Federal budget of $500,000,000 under the newly re- |vised 1936 estimates. | — - 1 a 24 hours. | PAssEs AwAY{ The westward and interior were | nit by severe cold snaps, with Anch- orage reporting one degree below zero and Fairbanks 22 degrees be- low. Resident of Alaska Since| '98 Dies at Valdez of Pneumonia | > CAPT. LATHROP IN SOUTH Capt. A. E. Lathrop, who recently ! VALDEZ, Alaska, Nov. 14—Wil- passed through Juneau, is a guest at liam M. Conley, formerly of Daw- the New Washington Hotel in Se- son and Skagway, and for the past attle. In interviews in the.Queen 30 years in Valdez, proprietor of the City he stated that conditions in |Golden North Hotel, is dead here|the Northland are good and the gold {as the result of pneumonia. He had | price is aiding in a comeback of busi- been a resident of Alaska since 1898. | ness. \ AT CHATANIKA attempted to Graw from him that a strike was really on. The court crdered the remark stricken and ordered counsel to go {0 some. . other line of examination. Ten- sion spread throughout the court rcom as the Judge twice threat- ened to clear the court if further disorder ensued. Another bitter exchange be- tween Goodman and Danielsen brought firm denial from the wit~ ness that he had made a state- ment appearing in a Seattle newspaper that he had led an attack on the picket line and “we came off winners.” BLAMES PICKETING Reiterating that he did not be- lieve there was a legal strike on and denying any knowledge of a reputed 10 to one vote for a strike, as Goodman contended, Danielson said, in reply to a question of why the mine had shut down that he believed it was because men were picketing the tralls ana keeping - men who wanted to go to work from doing 0, ‘The Court sustained government objection ‘to the line of questioning and Danielsen was allowed to step down, and Fred Rabb, photographer, was called to identify certain pic- tures heé had taken of the alleged riot scene. Crloss examination of Danielsen was the most iieated part of the trial thus far as the defense attempt- ed time and time again to impeach testimony of the witness while try- ing to indicate thta Danielsen had more than a personal interest in go- ing back to work. It is the contention of the defense that the Danielsen group was formed to break what it contends was an authorized strike. MORNING SESSION After ruling by the court that gen- eral events leading up to the street disorder on Lower Front Street last June 24 in connection with the mine walkout would not be admitted in nuea on Page Two.) FLEE TN NIGHT CLOTHES FROM HOSPITAL FIRE Twenty Thousand Dollars Damage Estimated in Blaze, lowa City IOWA CITY, Nov. 14.—Officials estimated that $20,000 damage was caused last night by a fire which threatened the Mercy Hospital hous- ing 70 patients. J The flames forced more than 100 nurses and other employees of the hospital 'to flee in their night clothes. ' Several patients are suffering from the shock. 1