The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7119. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WITNESSES NAM GOVERNMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN WINS. ELECTION Voters Give Approval of Policy Stand of Pre- mier Baldwin RAMSAY M’DONALD, HIS FATHER, LOSE Capt. Anthony Eden Re- elected, Huge Major- ity—Next Moves LONDON, Nov. 15.—Returns from yesterday's elections showed the Na- tional Government has retained a majority in the House of Commons, although James MacDonald, Lord President of the Council and first leader of the National Government, ! went down to defeat. He was de- feated with his father, Malcolm MacDonald, Colonial Secretary. ‘The voters returned 308 National Government members to the House of Commons. This number consti- tuted a majority in the total of 615 seats. Capt. Anthony Eden, Minister of the League of Nation's affairs, was re-elected by a huge majority. FIGHT FOR SANCTIONS LONDON, Nov. 15.—Authoritative sources said the re-elected- British government will remain firm in the foreign politicies announced before the elections, including sanctions. This is indicated in a statement made by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. HUNT ORDERED FOR FIVE MEN OVERDUE HERE Emil Samuelson was dispatched in his gasboat this morning to search for the Jennie K, due back in Juneau a week ago from Gambier Bay. U. S. Commissioner J. F. Mullen ordered the search for the ship, which has not been heard from since leaving here two weeks ago with a party of hunters. Five men are aboard the: boat, including Gus Fa- deeff, George Matukin and Boris Chernikoff. Samuelson will search the Gambier Bay section and also around Snettisham Cove. No word has been received on the whereabouts - of two other small boats reported missing in Southeast Alaska waters. The Mary B was scheduled to leave Hoonah for Sitka ten days ago and has not yet ar- rived, while an outboard launch bearing Mr. and Mrs. Walter Simp- son vanished after leaving Tele- graph Creek for Juneau via Wran- gell on October 27. e TODAY MARKS END OF DEER SEASON HERE The Southeast Alaska deer season closes today, with sportsmen pro- claiming the 1935 hunting season among the best in years. The sea- son opened last August 20. Plenty of deer have been reported by most regions, particularly the Sit- ka section, which found many hunt- ers in the field. Shooting is said to have been especially good since the first snow brought the animals down from the hills, The bag limit this year was three bucks. ‘Wardens have clamped down on game law violators, and several ar- rests were made during the season for the shooting of fawns and does. Heavy fines were meted out to the offenders, in an effort to stem the increasing depletion of the Sitkan deer. Game Wardens Hosea Sarver and Homer Jewell are now out on patrol of Southeast waters aboard the boat Grizzly Bear. Sarber joined the pa- trol at Petersburg early this week after returning fro ma brief trip to Seattle, and the two men will pursue their inspection cruise for several weeks before returning to Juneau. | Taken to Prison To Escape Death From Mob’s Hands MOULTRIE, Ga., Nov. 15.—John Henry Sloan, negro slayer of a white youth, has been taken by state troopers to the state penitentiary for protection after an angry mob at- tempted to lynch him. Several members of the mob were felled by rifle butts as they rushed the guardsmen escorting the prison- er from the court room. Sloan has been condemned to death. el DEMOLAY B0YS, EAGLE CAGERS, MEET TONIGHT Undefeated Quints, Con- creters, Tallapoosa Also Clash GAMES TONIGHT DeMolay vs. Douglas Eagles. Concreters vs. Tallapoosa. Defending champions of the Ju- neau City Basketball League, the DeMolay boys take to the floor at the high school gym tonight, in their first appearance of the new season, playing the new Douglas Eagles. in the main go, Krause's Con- creters, undefeated, and Tallapoosa, undefeated, tangle, in what should be a real battle. DeMolay-Eagles game starts at 7:30 o'clock and will be radio broadcast. Starting for the young Masons will be Elmer Lindstrom and Bob Davlin, forwards; Kinky Bayers, cen- ter; Bd Garnick and Al Bloomquist, guards. Elmer's kid brother, Buddy, will also see much action, according to Manager Dan Livie. Eagles’ mentor, Dick McCormick, gave no starting lineup, but it is be- lieved Claude Erskine, the .Neimis, Glen Edwards and Douglas Gray will open hostilities. The Livie boys will blossom out with brand new uniforms. The sailors and Concreters mix will launch the same players as were used in winning games last Tuesday night. Both teams are big and rangy, and a thriller is expected by the fans. Jerry Ledbetter, wellknown referee and athlete, will officiate. — e FIVE DREDGES AT FAIRBANKS KEEP WORKING Operations Continue Des- pite 35 Degrees Below Zero FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 15.— Despite a temperature of 35 degrees below zero, five dredges of the Fair- banks Exploration Company in the Fairbanks area are digging steadily 24 hours a day. The company also has some of its outdoor crews engaged at prepara- tion of equipment for thawing and stripping large placer areas in prep- aration for next spring. ‘The Company engaged 600 men at the height of activity this season. Most seasonal employment is now closed. The company reported dredge opdration satistactory. WOMAN HAS MADE RECORD Aviatrix Flie—s:—Solo Across South Atlantic—Lost, Is Found RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 15—Jean Batten, forced down at Praira Seca, Brazil, while on a flight here, has ar- rived aboard an Army plane, leaving her own damaged plane at Salt Swamp. The New Zealand flier is the first woman to fly alone over the South Atlantic. She landed because of lack of fuel and damaged her plane. The woman was found by three Army searching planes. COAST STRIKE MARINE UNIONS IS CONSIDERED Protest Walkout Against M.F.C. Recent Orders, Wages and Conditions SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 15.— The proposal to take a vote among a protest strike against the Mer- chant Fleet Corporation’s order con- cerning wages and working condi- tions, is being considered by the delegates of the Marine Federation of the Pacific now in convention here. Mervin Rathbone, Secretary of the San Francisco Bay District Council, said the organization is seriously considering the proposal for a coast- wide strike. — e, PUGET SOUND CRIPPLED BY FERRY STRIKE {Bremerton ls Pinched Off from East Shore, General Paralysis Threatened SEATTLE, Nov. 15. — The Puget Sound Ferry boat strike has virtually pinched off Bremerton from the East shore, left other places without wa- ter transportation, and threatened a general paralysis of freight and pas- senger traffic. Te decision of the striking mas- ters, Mates and Pilots’ Association to.drop the full weight of the strike on'the Black Ball Lines and the Pu- get Sound Navigation Company took the ferries Kalakala and Chippewa off the Bremerton-Seattle run. B, D. STEWART Becomes Bride of Juneau Resident GREENWICH, Connecticut, Nov. 15—Benjamin D. Stewart and Dorls A. Scott, of Brooklyn, were married here yesterday by William S. Miske, Justice of the Peace. Miss Gladys W. Breeze, of Brooklyn, witnessed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Tem- ple and Emma Scott. Her first mar- riage ended in a divorce. Mr, Stewart, widower, is a long time resident of Juneau, Alaska. He is Supervising Mining Engineer of the Department of Interior. Prominent Merchant Killed, Auto Accident WALLA WALLA, Wash,, Nov. 15.— Henry A. Saxton, aged 53, Walla Walla merchant, was killed in 4n auto accident near here. His son Don was injured slightly. | the Pacific Coast marine unions for | WEDS IN EAST Doris A. Scott of Brooklyn! MINE SHORT COURSE HELD, NEW LOCATION The second six-weeks’ | short course under the direction of Howard J. Wilcox, in charge of min- ing extension work for the Univer: sity of Alaska, will start next Mon= day in the store building owned by J. Williams at 114 Second Street— between Seward and Main Streets. | was conducted in the A. B. Hall, will end tonight, and registrations for the second course, which will be & duplication of the first course, will be accepted at the evening class period at the A. B. Hall between |7 and 9 pm. tonight. A special course for CCC workers, will be conducted by Wilcox on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons from 1 to 5 p.m. at the new location. - ee- NOTABLES AT " MEMORIAL TO ~ WILL ROGERS iServices Are Held on New | Sound Stage, Dedicat- ed to Humorist Enew record in movie making occurred lon a new studio sound stage here, | dedicated to the late Will Rogers, | when 300 friends of the late humor- |ist, including four United States ‘Sennmrs and two Governors, partici- |pated in memorial services on the}. | home lot of the Twentieth Century film company. 4 All paid tribute to the life and | work of Rogers, Little Shirley, Temple spoke: “I Toved him t00." A . FIGHT STATES ENDORSE AAA "IN CONVENTION e SACRAMENTO, Cal, Nov. 15— | Endorsement of the AAA, with some | | changes, has been recommended to | the National Grange by eight states meeting in convention here. Opposition was registered by Ne- braska, which presented a resolution calling for full production of useful products. Sixty-nine resolutions are before the convention. PLANE CRASH; 2 ARE KILLED MEXICO CITY, Mex., Nov. 15— Two persons were killed and the pi- lot severely injured when an airplane | crashed late yesterday in the Chi- | huahua mountains. The dead are Gilberto Ochowa, sportsman aviator and Manuel | Quiooz, Federal Mining Inspector. The injured pilot is Jorge Law. Guifey Coal ActIs Held to Be Constitutional; Federal Judge Renders Decision, MIDWEST HIT BY COLD WAVE One Death on Highway Al- reaég{ Reported—30 ow, Minnesota CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 15—Snow, sleet and Tain covered the Midwest today and so far caused one high- way death in Kansas. Temperatures ranged from 16 de- grees below zero in Minnesota to as high as the thirties in the South- ern States area. It is snowing hard in Minnesota and the roads are also icy. The severe cold wave descended into northwestern Towa. [ LOUISVILLE, Ky.,, Nov. 15— | (Copyright 1935, by Associated Press) —Federal Judge Elwood Hamilton, in a decision made here, holds the Guf- fey Coal Agt is utional. Judge Hamilton declared Congress | has the power to regulate wages and | prices of any industry which Con- gress may conclude bears on Inter- state Commerce. Federal authority under the Con- stitution’s Interstate Commerce General Welfare clauses, Judge Hamilton held, would sustain legis- lation whenever the states failed or were helpless to act. “The people of the states intended to surrender all rights they had to promote general welfare. That could not be done by, the states acting in- dependently,” Judge Hamilton said. Nineteen coal companies with sales totaling nearly $700,000 a month CLASSES ARE TO BE. | The first six-weeks' course, which (- / HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. 15—A] {rift, Clark Gable, film idol, and his XPECT HARAR T0 FALL NOW T ITALIANS Becond Largest Ethiopian City Is Threatened— Abzi Occupied ROME, Nov. 15.—Ttalian corres- | pongents at the front report the cap- ture of the strategic city of Harar is imminent. Dispatches said Col. | Malletti, leading a force of native soldiers, has advanced in the Valley of the Fafan River and his position today is only about 28 miles from the immediate objective. The defenders of the Harar re- gion are reported retreating in dis- order after a pitched battle yester- day. Harar is the second largest city in Ethiopia, just south of the important railroad connecting Addis Ababa and Djibouti. Gen. DeBono reports Azbi has been occupied after lively fighting in which 65 Ethiopians were killed and many wounded. The fall of Daggas Bur also ap- pears imminent in the face of the' rapidly advancing Italian columns, said to not be resisted. Ttalian airplanes are reported bombing various Ethiopian lines. ROCKEFELLER " ENDS ANNUAL CHURCH GIFT Hereafter He Will Contri- bute-Only to Inter-de- nominational Agencies NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—(Copyright, 1935, by Associated Press)—Forsak- ing the traditional practice of his father, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has terminated his annual monetary gifts to the Northern Baptist Church in the belief that inter-denomina- tionalism 1is the best servitor of the Christian religion. In the future, his gifts will be only to specific agencies of the church. “I have long felt that this denomi- national emphasis is a divisive force in the progress of organized Chris- tion work and an obstacle to the de- velopment of the spirit of the life of Christ among men,” he wrote the| Northern Baptist Convention, in a letter written March 7, but revealed only Thursday night. Rockefeller's previous donations to the general budget of the Baptist church ranged from $250,000 to one million dollars annually. BUILDING CODE COUNCIL TOPIC ‘The proposed building code will probably be one of the main topics of discussion at the City Council meeting at 8 o'clock tonight. The Councilmen are still receiving sug- gestions and additions to the code as drawn up by Councilman G. E. Krause. Civic cooperation on a skating rink is also to be taken up, with Wellman Holbrook, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Committee on the matter, appearing. FILM 100L AND WIFE SEPARATE HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Nov. 15—With his temperament blamed for the second wife, Mrs. Rhea Lucas-Ga- ble, will enter an amicable separa- tion. They aré still good friends and, as they say in movieland, no immediate divorce is contemplated. Sl SHANGHAT, Nov. 15—Informed quarters stated that the U. 8. Treas- ury Department and the ‘Chinese Ministry of Finance are negotiating an agreement providing for Ameri- can cooperation in the enforcement of China’s silver nationalization pro- TRADE TREATY BETWEEN U. S, CANADA SIGNED Important Agreement Con- cluded in Presence of Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Hailed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull as an “outstanding step in the di- rection of economic sanity,” the new Canadian-American trade treaty was signed today in the presence of Pres- ident Roosevelt and his entire Cab- inet. Prime Minister Mackenzie King, signed for the Dominion of Canada and Secretary Hull for the United States. Details of the pact will not be re- vealed for at least two days and tar- iff reductions and other conces- sions, which it might contain, will probably not become effective before he end of the year. " The traade pact is praised by both governments as cementing the tra- ditional friendship. ‘The agreement was regarded by the State Department officials as the most important in the series of trea- ties negotiated under the Reciprocal Tradé Act. JEWS SHAVED OF CITIZENRY BY REICHSTAG Ruling Provides " Jewish Functionaries of Govern- PAF Declares Dividend on Common Stock BELLINGHAM, Wash,, Nov. 15.—The directors of the Pacific American Fisheries voted a com- mon stock dividend of 25 cents a share on 314,000 shares. The dividend is payable December 16. The total dividend amounts to $78,502. PHILIPPINE COVERNMENT 1S LAUNCHED New Commonwealth In- auguated with Col- orful Ceremonies MANILA, Nov. 15.—Pledged by the President to follow conservative poli- cies, the Philippine Commonwealth was launched today amid colorful ceremonies, bringing self-govern- ment back to the Filipinos after 400 years absence. Manuel Quezon took the oath of office as the first president of the new insular government, surrounded by American notables including Vice- President John Nance Garner, Sec- retary of War George H. Dern, Pres- ident Roosevelt's personal represent- ative, and scores of Senators and Congressmen who came hefe for the inauguration from the United States. Meanwhile, in Washington, Presi- dent Roosevelt had formally pro- claimed the Commonwealth Govern- ment, which will lead to full inde- pendence in ten years. BANKERS SAY ment Be Pensioned T'UUNFI DENGE ls BERLIN, Nov. 15.—All political rights have been taken from Jews in Germany by an official decree, de- | fining closely the citizenship and racial laws promulgated by the Reichstag at the Nurnburg session during the September convention. In the Nazi party Jews cannot be in the Reich, cannot be citizens, and cannot vote or occupy office. The ruling provides that Jewish functionaries of the government will be pensioned. BRIDE-TO-BE 1S SHOT DOWN Confession Made in Trag- edy—"‘Funny Face” Causes Murder 'PORT ANGELES, Wash., Nov. 15. —Prosecutor Joseph E. Johnston has filed a first degree murder charge against Tom Cappas, 45, charged with slaying Mrs. Dora A. Riner, 26, waltress in a restaurant here, last Wednesday night. Johnston said Cappas confessed, saying Mrs. Riner made a “funny face” at him as he entered the res- taurant, and he shot her. Cappas said he knew the woman about a year. 8he was to have been married next Sunday to Walter Dupen, Coast Guarder. “It must have been love. T am sorry, a thousand times sorry,” Cap- pas said. secseesvaecvoos L] AT THE HOTELS . veoeern0ees e Gastineau Mrs. M. V. Manville; H. Erickson, Cnicken Creek; M. Keaton; Carl Hadin, Fairbanks. NOW RESTORED Recommendations Made by Committee at Convention NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 15— The Resolutions Committee of the Am- erican Bankers Association reported the prevailing business sentiment of the United States to be “one of convictibn and that recovery is mak- ing rapid progress.” ‘The committee reported public confidence to be completely restored in banking and recommended retire- ment of the government from busi- ness banking, restriction of bank charters, withdrawal of postal sav- ings competition for deposits, and continued Federal aid to railroads. BAKED BEAN DINNER NEXT MONDAY NIGHT A baked bean dinner, by which the Business and Professional Women'’s Club will celebrate the club’s birth- day, will be held Monday night, at 6:30 o'clock in the Lutheran Church Parlors. Vocational education will be the speech motif of the evening, with the following honor guests as speakers: A. B. Phillips, Sperintendent of Ju- neau Schools, “Vocational Education in Juneau High School”; Mrs. Dolly Krause, President of the Democratic Women's Club, “What Women Are Doing in the World"; Miss Ann Cole- man, Librarian, “Vocational Books in the Library”; Mrs. Rose Davis, Teacher of Government School at Douglas, “Educational Work in Douglag”; Mrs. David’ Waggoner, | wife of Rev. Waggoner e Pres- Alaskan R. H. Miller; Ben Wilson; Mrs. Edna McCallum; Peter Cassidy, An- chorage; Louis Rougle, Valdez; War- Fairbanks; D. Kennedy, Fairbanks; E. Prederick, Fairbanks. Zynda J. J. Wilms, Matanuska. - e - STEIN GOES SOUTH Abe Stein, merchants of Fairbanks, and one of the best oldtime fraders of the Interior, is a passenger south- bound on the Yukon for the winter. et e — FISH SOLD HERE The gasboat Avona, Capt. Olaf Larsen, sold 8,100 pounds of black cod at 2 cents, and a small quantity challenged the Guffey Coal Act, which has been called the “Little NRA" of the edal industry. grant:; The plan involves American pur- chase of specified amounts of silver, of halibut at the prevailing prices of 7% and 6% cents, to the Alaska Coast Pisheries today. byterian Church, “The First Thanks- giving.” There will be no charge for the dinner, but in' order to provide for | ren M. Woodward, Fairbanks; A. Ott, | the proper number of persons, those planning to attend the asked to commmunicate with Miss Caroline Todd immediately. Teachers of Juneau and Douglas schools will be special guests of the club. RIS e s S, " 5 | THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) | Forecast for Juneau and vi- | cinity, beginning at 4 p.m., No- vember 15: Party cloudy to- | night and Saturday; fresh easterly winds, decreasing | Saturday. | | | | | | | | | *|DENY OFFICIAL STRIKE CALLED - BY UNION MEN WorkersD_eclare They Were Given No Chance to Vote on Walkout COMMITTEE OF 19 BLAMED BY FINLAY Dzaloff, Divyak, Kobak Accused as Having Rock, Club and Bolt Weapons Denidl by government witnesses that any legal strike had been called at the Alaska Juneau mine last summer prior to the street disorder of June 24 and identification by the witnesses of certain defendants as participants in the alleged riot which resulted in charges against the. 25 men now on trial in the Federal dis- trict court featured the prosecution late yesterday and this morning. Jack Finlay, Burt Newman, John McLaughlin, Ted (Danielsen and James Lynam, all members of the Juneau Mine Workers Association and employees of the A. J. have tes- tified thus far that no official strike vote was ever taken. Says No Strike Called Finlay, who sald he was one of the men who formed the column of marchers to the mine office on June 24 from the A. B. Hall and one of those interested in going back to work, declared emphatically under cross examination that no legal strik: had been authorized. “I didn't consider it a strike,” Fin- lay said in reply to query by De- fense Counsel Irwin Goodman. “I don't call the action of a group of 10 men @& strike.” Asked why he had not continued working at the mine after the walk- out of May 22, Finlay said those who wanted to go to work could not be- cause the trails to the mine were be- ing picketed. He explained that he had been forced out of employment simply as a result of action of the committee of 19 of the Alaska Mine Workers Union and did not go on strike himself. Tells of March Finlay related how the men wish- ing to go back to work had formed near the A. B. Hall, marched down Front Street until they were stopped in front of the Alaska Mine Workers Union Hall by a group of men in the street that he described as union men. He identified Ernest Giovan- etti, Bill Taroff, Warren Beavert, Mike Divyak, Lee Johnson, N. R. Correl, Evan Dzaloff, Leonard Ball, Stanley Nygren and Simon Graner as men who had resisted his group from going to register at the A. J. office for employment. He said he saw Giovanetti, Taroff, Beavert, Div- yak, Johnson and Correll down in front of the union hall and Ball, Stanley Nygren and Beavert at the A. J. office pushing those who at- tempted to register off the steps. He identified Graner as a man he had seen in a fight with Ralph Butts. Dzaloff, Finlay said, had a bolt about 18 inches long in his hand when he saw him. Denies Weapons Finlay denied there were weapons of any kind on any of the men that marched from the A. B. Hall, but he said he had seen some special offi- cers with clubs. John McLaughlin told on the stand this morning how he had been as- saulted by Warren Beavert and kick- ed in the back by some other man whom he did not know. He was in- jured so severely, he testified, that it was necessary for him to go to the hospital. The witness related that he had seen Graner, Beavert and George Kozdotf, all defendants, at the A. B. Hall the morning of June 24 before the march to the mine started. Al Nygren, President of the Alaska Mine Workers Union, also was there he sald. McLaughlin explained that he had tried to argue with Ny- gren about letting men into the hall who were not actual mine workers and that Nygren was attempting to get everybody in as effort was being made to turn the tide toward going back to work. Talked With Nygren “I told Nygren we didn't want the so-called unemployed in as the march was for those who had been working at the mipe at the time of the trouble,” McLaughlin said. “He said we had made some exceptions and didn't see why we shouldn’t make any more.” He also told of the march down (Continued on rage Two.)