The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7148. SIXTEEN PAGES JUNI;AU ALASKA FRIDAY DECEMBER 20, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS ARMED FORCES PROPOSED FOR LEAGUE " J. FREIGHT CONTROVERSY SETTLED “Mass Murder” Principals ]EURflPE FEEI_S MINE CARGO IS UNLOADED AT COMPANY DOCK. Maritime Federation With- draws Support from Striking Union®Group LONGSHOREMEN ARE ORDERED TO HANDLE Local Grou;—)_‘gfuses to Act but Sailors Follow Instructions The Maritime Federation of the Pacific has withdrawn sup- port from the Alaska Juneau gold mine strikers, affective yes- terday, and freight for the Al- aska Juneau was unloaded from the steamer Alaska at the A. J. dock last night, and it is ex- pected to have free flow from now on. This was the information re- ceived by The Empire direct through the Associated Press in Seattle today and confirmed in similar telegrams received by M. J. Wilcox, Alacka Steam- ship agent here. Maritime officials in Seattle told the Associated Press that “on basis of reports from the north the strike is now over and notice has gone north to that effect.” James Engstrom, District Secretary of the Maritime Federation, said he would make an official statement late this afternoon. Support Withdrawn The Executive Committee of the Washington District Council of the Maritime Federation met on Wed- nesday in Seattle and voted unani- mously to withdraw support from the striking miners, according to in- formation to Mr. Wilcox, and the delegates were told to notify their respective unions. On receiving this information, Mr. Wilcox con- tacted George Cox, Secretary of the Longshoremen here, who, the agent said, denied knowledge of such in- formation. In reply to a return telegram by Wilcox on the attitude of the long- shore éxecutive, the steamship ag- ent was told the District Secretary of the Longshoremen had telegraph- ed the union here, the ship’s dele- gate, and in addition instructed the Juneau local as follows: Strike Non-Existent “The Seattle District Council, Maritime Federation, took the fol- lowing action yesterday: That we consider the Juneau strike non-ex- istent and withdraw all support. Also request all district organiza- tions to request their membership to work A. J. cargo unless armed guards are employed. I therefore request that your membership com- ply with the above action.” Mr. Wilcox explained that no armed guards were employed at any time last night at his dock, but that after a conference with the sailors on the Alaska, the sailors decided they would rather unload the freight at the A. J. dock. He said the long- shoremen, in face of the instruc- tions from Seattle, refused to unload the freight at the Pacific Coast dock out of sympathy to the striking miners. Rumors Spiked The action of the Maritime Feder- ation and affiliate unions lays at rest rumors circulated about the city in recent days to the effect that the mine might close down. J. A. ‘Williams, acting Superintendent in the absence of General Superinten- dent L. H Metzgar in the south, announced today that no such action was confemplated. “Ordinarily we would not pay any attention to such reports,” Mr. Wil- liams said, “‘but Mayor Goldstein (Continued on Page Two) e 0000 0o THE WEATHER The weather forecast for Juneau and vicinity, begin- ning at 4 p. m. today is: Rain tonight and Saturday; fresh to strong east and southeast winds. ©® sevcccccce e e 000 009 0000 Grubstake Prospectors and End Alaskan ‘Idleness’, Rex Beach Tells Govt. Officers WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. — Rex Beach today presented a program to revive gold prospecting in Alaska before Federal officials. Lamenting what he termed “Alaska | idleness,” Beach outlined a plan whereby the government will literal- ly grubstake prospectors. Under this plan, army planes, | pilots and photographers would make | aerial pictures of the Territory, | trained geologists would study the | pictures, prospectors would be sent ! into promising areas to take sam- ples and to hunt gold. ; Beach said he was grieved at the lask of prospecting in Alaska. He told Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- ‘ mond: “Alaska is standing still. There should be at least 5,000 men |of opportunity where young men ! searching for gold.” Beach described Alaska as a land could find employment without throwing someone else out of work. With a little ‘help, he said, Alaska could put an army of men to \\'nrk} in the gold industry, | Accompanied by Delegate Dimond, | Beach visited Gen. Malin Craiz, | Army Chief of Staff, Secretary of | Interior Harold Ickes, and Marvin McIntyre, Presidential Secretary. At] | each place they outlined their plan. | Delegate Dimond said Sccrav,ary’ Ickes was extremely interested. Gen. Crmg said no planes were available | for such work, but Delegate Dimond | suggested obtaining civilian planes | and photographers. GALE RAGING ON GULF OF ALASKATODAY Christmas Si; Victoria Is Unable to Call at Yaku- tat—Tallapoosa Here A gale is raging across the Gulf of Alaska, according to radio mes- sages at 7 o'clock this nmiorning by the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Tal- lapoosa from the Coast Guard cut- ter Haida, between St. Elias and Yakutat. The Haida also reported that rough weather prevented the Christmas ship Victoria from calling at Yakutat, and forced the vessel to steam on toward the Westward. The Coast Guard cutter Morris re- ported strong winds from the east while enroute to her station at Seward from a voyage to Seattle for a general overhaul. The Morris ar- | rived here last Sunday night and sailed for the Westward at 11 o’clock Monday morning. The Tallapoosa, commanded by Lieut. Miles Imlay, arrived here last night from a cruise of four days on halibut patrol. Enroute from Ju- neau to Cape Omaney, the Talla- poosa “swung ship” in Stephens| Passage land adjusted her compass. From Cape Omaney the Tallapoosa proceeded along the coast to Cape Spencer and made several short patrols in Cross Sound. The vessel will remain here until after Christ- mas before making further patrols. ‘This morning a heavy swell in Gastineau Channel pounded small boats against their moorings at the Upper City Float. However, the| barometer, after falling yesterday and until 8 o'clock this morning, re- | maified steady at 10 o'clock and then began to rise, Lieut. Imlay ‘said. EARTH SHOCKS IN CALIFORNIA Dishes Rattle Disturbing| People from Imperial Valley North SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 20. — A | slight earthquake last night rattled | dishes in homes from the Imperial | Valley to San Diego. Reports re- | ceived up to this morning showed no | property damage. | D AT, i NG l PLANNOWTO SALVAGE NRA WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. — ’I'he‘ Administration is reported to be; working out plans for transferring) | small they feel they should accom- | | pany them, are asked to bring these | {dren to come anyway whether they Elks’ Party for Children Monday at Capitol Show| Santa Claus to Pay Annual! Visit to Children of 12 ! and Under at Theatre Elks of Gastineau Channel will be | hosts Monday afternoon at 1:30 in ! the Capitol Theatre at their annual | Christmas party for the youngsters! of 12 years and younger. Due to the huge crowd of youngsters antici-| pated and the limited seating capac- ity of the theatre, the Elks Christ-| mas committee has- decided to set| the age limit at 2 years, and it is| requested that no adults accompany | the children. Mothers are advised a large num-+ ber of Elks will be on hand to care for the youngsters so that no fear, be felt in letting them go alone. Mothers whose youngsters are so, little tots to the theatre at 3 o’clock | and Santa Claus will be on hand at the door to distribute gifts of | candy and holiday goodies to them while the other children are enjoy- ing the show which the Capitol theatre management is courteously putting on for the gala oacasion. | Radio Station KINY also is co-op- | erating with the Elks to make the party a huge success. The children, it is suggested, may | bring canned food to be donated to | the Elks Christmas work among the needy, but Elks invite all the chil- bring a donation or not. It is not, necessary, but will be appreciated. C. D. Beale of the theatre man-! agement is arranging a special show | for the gala occasion and KINY | also is tuned on old Santa Claus and | is sure to have something that will | please. Don't forget the date, Monday at 1:30; Capitol Theatre. — - e HOLE IS TORN IN LIGHTSHIP BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 20. —The outbound British freighter Seven Seas Spray tore a gaping hole in the side of a Boston lightship, six miles east of the Boston lighthouse, early this morning. The freighter was damaged above the waterline and has returned here or an inspection. ‘The lightship is apparently in no danger of smkmg FARMER KILLS ILL SON, SELF : Statement fia-d-e in ‘Wash the expiring NRA organization to two or three established government hge g b 4 agencies. BEDFORD, La., Dec. 20. — Con- Details have not been determined |vinced that his 16-year-old invalid finally as yet. {son could yever recover, Will Reed, The President explained the plan, /50, a farmer, shot and killed the boy, was only for the balance of NRA's|then ended his own life. life, for the preiod from now until| The boy recently underwent an April. joperation for tumor of the brain. Community Tree Celebration Sunday at 4 P.M. At four o'clock Sunday afternoon all Juneau is invited to gather about the Community Christmas tree for an afternoon of music and pleasure. The tree, furnished by the Ju- neau Women's Club and decorated by the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company, stands in front of the First National Bank, near Tri- angle Place. The program, through special ar- rangement with KINY, will be broadcast, Ross Swift of the radio station serving as master of cere- monies. The program will include music from various church choirs, with special numbers by St. Ann’s School and the High School Glee Club. Mrs, E. Krause will play the piano and Mrs. Genevieve Dan Dugteren will lead in the community sing- ing. The program is directed by Mrs. A. Mackinnon, of the Juneau Wo- | men’s Club. 'BORAH T SEEK NOMINATION ON 6.0.P, TICKET ington Considered Tanta- mount to Announcement WASHINGTON, Dec, 20.—A statement by Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, considered by some tantamount to announce- ment he would seek the Repub- lican Presidential nomination, was given newsmen today in re- sponse to queries. Two Wisconsin Republicans announced, affer a series of con- ferences, that ‘Borah had in- dorsed a proposal to elect a Wis- consin Borah-for-President dele- gation to the 1936 convention. Acked about it, the Senator re- plied: “I told them that whatever they did along that line I would stand with them.” The statement was regarded as putting Borah further into the Presidential race. The Wisconsin men were State Senator Philip E. Nelson and former State Senator Bernhard Gettleman, who were said to have made the trip to Washing- ton at their own volition. DEMANDS LIBERALISM WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Senator William E. Borah today entered the 1936 political contest with a demand for a liberal Republican candidate, which projected the veteran himself as a major Republican Presidential possibility. The Senator pledged his efforts to a convention of liberal | delegates which will write a liberal platform, name a liberal candidate and promised co-operation with lib- eral forces choosing to pledge dele- gates to him. Simultaneously, the Borah move began in Massachusetts as Robert M. Washburn announced plans to place tickets with delegates pledged to the Idahoan at the spring prim- aries in circulation. Borah nominat- |ing petitions in Wisconsin already are planned. The move is in contrast to some Republican convention delega- tions which, it was urged, should be uninstructed. SAILORS STRIKE, SHORTER HOURS PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 20.—Thir- ty-five sailors on the ships Ernest H. Meyer.and Nunami struck for a six- hour day instead of the present eight-hour stretch. ‘The McCormick Steamship Com- pany refused to grant their de- mands. > SAM MORRIS HERE Sam Morris, resident manager at Sitka for the Alaska Coast Fisheries, arrived on the Alaska on a business trip, and returns to Sitka, on the ! Northland, KIDNAP THREAT | NEW ANGLE N DEATH OF STAR Police Dlscover Increased Evidence Thelma Todd Was Murdered HEADWAITER WARNED | AGAINST TESTIFYING, County Grand Jury Rushes| Inquiry Into Holly- | wood Mystery LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 20. — A kidnap warning head waiter at the cafe where Thel- ma Todd, blonde movie actress, at- tended her last party, today injected new mystery into the death puzzle.’ received by the | | as the county grand jury prepared | | evidence which Foreman George W. | Rochester said strongly indicated she was slain, | Alex Hounie, waiter, told police that two men forced his car to the | curb last night and shouted: “You've ‘ had your warning, so take it easy." | Hounie produced a postcard he‘ received through the mails which said: “Head Waiter, Trocadero Cafe, | Los Angeles—Withold testimony or kidnap, trip.” | A’ guard was thrown around Hounie’s home as police pressed their | investigation of the blonde screen star’s death. She was found dead Tuesday night in her automobile | parked in the garage of her beach | home. Although there was blood at | the nose and mouth, there was said | jto be no immediate evidence of foul play. WILKINS 1STO TAKE UP HUNT | Mrs. Peggy Peterson Paulos, in the above picture, with her attorney, Ralph A. Horr, was acquitted and Leo Hall (lower right) shown with his brother Gus Hall, was convicted of first degree murder and recommended the death penalty for the slaying of six persons at Erland’s Point near Bremerton, Wash. The woman con- fessed to assisting Hall in helping tape the eyes of the victims before robbery but fled when the man became murderous. AAGENTS SEARCH | KIDNAP DEN IN MILNE MYSTERY DEMOCRATS OF 4TH DIVISION IN CONVENTION : FnH ELLSWURTH {Solution to Snatch (.nme Territorial Offlcers Endors- Noted Explorer Going to Antarctic to Search | for Missing BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 20. — Sir | Hubert Wilkins. noted explorer, is | ready for a takeoff for the Antarctic | to search for Lincoln Ellsworth and | his pilot, Herbert Pollock Kenyon. Wilkins' plane arrived at Rio Gal- legos yesterday, flown south from the United States by Dick Merrill and William Klenke. Ellsworth and Kenyon hopped off | from the baseship Wyatt Earp on | November 23 for a flight to the Ross | Sea. They have not been reported since then. SEN, SCHALL 1S INJURED; | HIT BY AUTO WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—United States Senator Thomas D. Schall, of Minnesota, is reported in a critical cendition today, according to atéend- ing physicians. Senator Schall was struck by an automobile last night and suffered a fractured skull, compound fracture of his left leg and internal injuries. FORMER CAPONE GANG MAN SHOT CHICAGO, 1., Dec. 20. — The police are today seeking the slayers of Joseph Pepe Genaro, aged 47, once a member of Al Capone's mob. Two men, riding in an automobile, killed Genaro last night with a shot gun as he stood in a tavern near the University of Chicago. The slugs narrowly missed Jessie Warner, a waitress, Expected Soon by | Investigators ‘ DOYLESTOWN, Penn., Dec. 20+~ Special squads of Federal agents today searched a tumbledown farm- | house ten miles from here which was described as the hide-out of the kidnapers of Caleb J. Milne, IV, scion of a wealthy Philadelphia family. He was abducted from his New York City apartment last Sat- urday night. Persistent reports were current to- day that the case will be solved be- fore midnight. The house is the ed—Legislative Slate Is Recommended FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 20. — | The Fourth Divisional Democratic Convention has approved the Fed- eral Adminjstration, extended Gov. John W. Troy a vote of appreciation, endorsed Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond and the following Territorial officers: Auditor Frank A. Boyle, | Attorney General James 8. Truitt, and Highway Engineer W. A. Hesse. The convention also endorsed the " WAR THREATS; ENGLAND ACTS Laval to Keep His Post— France Is Pictured as Sole Peace-maker BRITAIN ENLISTING SUPPORT OF NATIONS ' Italians Inflict New Defeat on Northern Ethio- pian Troops GENEVA, Dec. 20.—At inter- national circles at Geneva today it was proposed the League of Nations Council consider ask- ing contributions of fighting forces from League members to attempt to create a League mili- tary force of land, sea and air units to protect the covenant, making it unnecessary for Great Britain to act alone in the Medi- terrancan. PARIS, Dec. 20.—Premier Laval today decided he would not resign, after holding conferences with Presi- dent Lebrun and Rightist members of the cabinet: Laval said: “There may be an epidemic of resignations, but I do not feel affected.” The French press pictured France as the last big power of the League of Nations holding out against the peril of a general European war. LEAGUE MEMBERS MOBILIZED LONDON, Dec. 20.—High British sources revealed today that the gov- ernment is recognizing the imminent danger of war, following the failure of the peace plan. A bold drive has een launched to mobilize other members of the League to meet pos- sible Italian attacks. Talks are already underway with a number of principal powers in an attempt to gain an ironclad assur- ance that these nations are ready to bear their part of the burden in case of a sudden and unexpected at- tack. DEFENDERS MEET REVERSES ASMARA, Eritrea, Dec. 20.—TItaly’s northern army has defeated an Ethi- opian force south of Abbi Addi, 25 miles west of Makale. Considerable losses were inflicted on the defenders. HUGE BUDGET APPROVED PARIS, Dec. 20. — France's 1936 Budget has been approved by the Chamber of Deputies. The Budget totaled forty billion four hundred and thirty-one million key spot in a coast to coast hunt following for the Legislature: Joseph francs. The Budget was in addition for the youth’s abductors. E. Crosson, for Senator; Tom La- to the six billion franc extraordinary Milne told the agents that four more, Louis A. Smith, Leo Rogge, appropriation adopted last week for | men lured him into an automobile, blindfolded him and held him cap- tive for four days. He was found beside a Dan Green, for Representatives. Twenty-one delegates were elected to the Territorial Convention to meet road near here yester- gt Seward on January 18. Six of the | 'arms and munitions. MUSSOLINI (ALLS COUNCIL ROME, Dec. 20.—While war league day, trussed and with his eyes and elected are mombers of the divisional circles at Geneva hailed the break- mouth sealed with tape. He was | recovering in a hospital today, but was able to talk only a little about’ the mystery. Previously Federal and New York police were at odds over whether the lad was kidnaped or merely missing. Federal agents claim no ransom' was p'nd | NAVAL MEETING TAKES H(lI.IDAY committee. MATANUSKA TO HAVE CHANGE ‘Reset tlement /\dmunslxa- tion Expected to As- sume Contro Word that the Matanuska Valley down of the peace plan with enthu- |slasm and saw in the rejection a heartening demonstration of |strength of public opinlon, Premier Mussolini called the Pascist Grand Council into session tonight to frame a reply to the peace plan. On the actual battleground the spirited fighting of the last three days was halted as 2,000 Askari war- riors celebrated victory with dances. In the fierce hand to hand fighting the Ethiopians lost more than 600 and the Pascist dead was numbered | at nearly 300, S eee | ARC MAN BOUND SOUTH | Henry Keil, instrument man for \Colnny will probably be taken over the Alaska Road Commission on Mc- LONDON, Dec 20.—The Naval by the U. S. Resettlement Admin- ' Kinley Park projects, was a south- Conference’s final pre-holiday ses-, istration after January first Was | bound passenger on the Alaska last sion ended without action on the British proposals for a new treaty. received today by Gov. John W. Troy in a telegram from Harry L. night. Keil will spend a vacation {with his family in Seattle. Delegates leaving Clarence House, Hopkins, Federal Relief Administra- | ‘ RN scene of the conference, said they expected the proposals to be exam- ined again Jahuary 6. tor. No word has been received con-| cerning whatever changes may be | made in the colony’s administrative | set-up under the new organization, Triplet Calves Sold | which is headed by Rexford G. Tug- —_— well. Matanuska is now under the FORT WORTH, Tex, Carl direction of the Rural Rehabilita- Lassater recently sold triplet white tion Corporation. Durham yearlings at the Fort' Hopkins also informed Governor Worth stockyards. They averaged Troy that he has approved a grant 828 pounds and topped the market of $150,000 for the project, which at $9.25 a hundred-weight. iIs the final grant for this purpose.