The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS \OL )\LVIL. NO. 7192. ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY FP.BRUAR\ 10, 1936. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS EMPIRE * PRICE TEN CENTS ITALIANS BOMB SELASSIE’ DESSYE STRUCK BY AIR RAIDS; HAILE ESCAPES Invaders R;s:me Attacks from Sky — Villages Left Deserted DUCE SCORES STAND OF ENGLISH ON WAR| Britons Threatening World Peace by Attitude, Premier Says DESSYE, Ethiopia, Feb. 10.—Em- peror Haile Selassie emerged safely from another Italian bombing of his field headquarters behind the north- | ern front. For 65 minutes planes dropped quantities of incendiary high explo- sive bombs on the town yesterday, as well as on the outlying villages. The ! town was virtually deserted except for members of the Imperial Guard, the populace having been ordered into the country after earlier Fascist bombardments. The Ethiopian government an- nounced that one person was killed and five were wounded in the bomb- i ing. BRITISH STAND BLAMED LONDON, Feb. 10.—The London | Observer in an interview | Sunday quoted Premier Mussolini as saying the British “have turned a coloniai war into what may be a world-wide disaster.” The interview was with Sir Arnold ! Wilson, Member of Parliament. Mus-'| solini regarded the turning out by | the British of Sir Samuel Hoare, co- author of the Hoare-Laval peace pro- posal, as a factor prolonging the war, | Sir Arnold said. Mussolini “looked tired but robust, the interview said, “and stories of | 1s impending decay or demise may be safely ignored, for he will re- | main at the helf until death re- | moves him.” .- ANTI - ITALY OIL EMBARGO IMPROBABLE League Seems Reluctant to Continue—Fears ‘More Unfrlendliness' GENEVA, Feb. 10 —Probability | that the League of Nations will not ! impose an oil embargo upon Italy| is seen in diplomatic discussions in Geneva. The oil embargo has been under study as a supplement to other sanc- | tions. Recent developments in the Med- iterranean area, including Nation- rlist riots in Egypt and Seria, dem- onstrated what the British have | { [ | 1 Deauglas Van Viack (right) | court by Deputy Sheriff Elmer Jones. is pictured as he was taken into | (Associated Press Photo) VERDICT RETURNED IN KIDNAP-MURDER CASE TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Feb. 10.—Douglas Van Vlack, of Tacoma, has wife, Mildred Hook, of Tacoma, 1 been convicted of slaying his former | and the death penalty has been decreed by the | Van Vlack forced his former wife to enter street near her home and then fled with her to Idaho, where he fatally shot two officers, State Patrolman Fontaine Cooper and Deputy: o a car on a Tacoma Sheriff Henry C. Givens, both of whom attempted to interrogate him ‘d | Later the body of his wife was found in a culvert. Van Viack admitted killing the officers but pleaded insanity. He | said he did not remember what happened to his wife. He will be sen-| tenced tomorrow. The defense gave notice of appeal. Boy Scouts OLD TAKU WIND B Seowe HOWLS DOWN IN ™ fomeree JUNEAU SECTION President Roosevelt told the Boy Scouts of America last Saturday night they will learn to respect 4 Above Zero Low Point with Wind Velocity Aver- | aging 25 Miles an Hour the law, gain resourcefulness and the way to health through their Scout training. The President delivered a radio message to the members of the Boy Scouts on tife Twenty-sixth Anniversary of the founding of the orxdniz’\l,inn MRS. LONG IS NOW SENATOR; The widely but unfavorably | known old Taku wind howled down {on Juneau Sunday, last night and | .(oda) sending the mercury down‘ | to a low of four degrees above zero at 7:30 this morning. The average | Iwmd velocity all night and today was 2§ miles an hour, a maximum ! of 27 miles being recorded at 11:48 this morning from east to north- east. After the low peak this morning, the thermometer started climbing, | Event—OQath Given IS SWORN IN |Capacity Gallery Witnesses| feared throughout the Ethiopian | despite the bitter wind, and by 2 by Garner GRIEST CLAIMS ESKIMOS NEAR- Missionary Says Mumps Rampant—Hawkesworth Denies U.S. Refused Aid POINT BARROW, Alaska, Feb, 10. —Dr. Henry W. Griest, Superinten- {here, charges that the Bureau of | Indian Affairs authorities at Juneau have refused to aid starving and cold Eskimos ravaged with mumps. Sev- eral destitute and sick families in from their bodies and frozen, rotte) |raw walrus meat is their only fuod | Griest said. . > School Superintendent Fr‘m{k Daugnerty of Point Barrow wited | Juneau for help and got back a rem |that the Eskimos “should go @it |and kill whale and seal and bugn | blubber,” Dr. Griest stated. He pa¥- ticularly blames Charles W. Hawkes- |worth in the Juneau office, who'is | head of Indian affairs in the Terri- iwry. Ry T T NO REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE MADE | [ | Emphatic denial that the Indian | Bureau has refused to aid the Eski- 'mob in the Point Barrow district was | made today by Charles W. Hawkes- | |worth, Chief of Indian Affairs in | | Alaska. He declared that no reguest |1or assistance had been made, but {'hat the Bureau had contacted the ‘muwn in the Barrow community ’\A ith the aim of finding out what was | |needed, if anything. In an explanatory statement Lu- ay Mr. Hawkesworth said: “Changing the living conditions of the Eskimo from igloos to frame {houses has created an acute situa- ‘uo] with regard to fuel. The igloo, ! e pccordmg to practically all who know | |conditions on the Arctic coast, is |the sensible winter home in that it ‘has an opening from a tunnel com- ling through the floor and always |has ventilation from a hole in the |roof. Two blubber stoves keep the homes comfortable at about 70 de- | {grees fahrenheit. It was the former ' |custom for persons living in the igloo to be bare from the waist u])‘ | form of blubber was always available | |from seal, whale and walrus. I Coal, Petroleum Fuel 1 | “Giving up the native igloo for | frame houses and purchasing coal-| the situation. Drift wood is very! irare on the Arctic coast, what little | that is available coming from the \Mackenzle and Yukon rivers. There ils a coal mine at Wainwright ahout‘ 190 miles from Barrow, which has been worked for several years. The natives have mined the coal them- | [wlves and hauled it on their oomiaks | |to Point Barrow. Also the natives in |recent years secured a crude petrol- jeum east of Barrow which they brought to the village for fuel pur- | poses. “The Point Barrow people lnvm— | iably share with those afflicted and | unsuccessful in hunting. It is only | {humane to assume that if families | were without fuel and the native BARROWIN NEED |dent of the Presbyterian hospital’ igloos have no heat except the heat 1 struggle: that continuation of war between white and negro peoples is likely to have against other flags. Such sanctions as have alreadyl been put into effect have failed of their purpose. 0Oil experts say they are not tooy certain the supply of eil could be| shut off, however, and many fear that more sanctions directed against Italy can do nothing but cause more unfriendliness. FLU CLOSES CAL. SCHOOLS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 10.— All schools in Napa, Redwood City and many other communities have been closed as officials sought to check an influenza epidemic in Northern. California. The authorities characterized the flu as mild. One death has been reported, that of Claire Mildred Darlington, 15- year-old Napa high school sopho- more. repercussions | o'clock this afternoon had reached above. The highest tempera-' yesterday was 11 above. addition to the Taku whip- ping around the corners, six and a half inches of snow fell between | Saturday afternoon and Sunday \aflemoon according to U. S, Met- !eorologist Howard J. Thompson, | | making the total now 18 inches on ‘the level. 1 The forecast is for fair weather { with continued cold with moderate to fresh east to north winds. The average temperature for the month to date has been far below normal, according to weather rec- ords over the last 40 years. The average this month is 12.6 sbove_, zero while the normal for Febru-| iary is 285 degrees above, Meteorolo-| |gist Thompson’s records reveal. Ketchikan is reported much| warmer, 32 above being recorded there. Petersburg was 15 and the| | nine ture In 1 thority case. people were unable to furnish it, the WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. — Mrs. school, the hospitdl and Charles Rose McConnell Long, appointed to|Brower, trader and U .S. Commis- serve the unexpired term of her |sioner, would share with the suffer- husband, the late Senator Huey|ing families. P. Long, was sworn.in today as a No Request member of the Senate. “We have had two messages stating The oath was administered by |the condition but no request for as- Vice-President John Nance Garner sistance nor definite recommenda- as a capacm gallen luoked on. tion regarding the action we could take. Telegrams have gone out to- & Shown here with some of her geqs, ountry in Alagia, is making a 1020-milc ‘dog team jour the Taku river from Taku to F. JAPAN-RUSSIAN rbanks, which s ALLIANCE FEAR OF U.S. SENATOR Move Would Be Against‘ Alaska J. Ham Lewis Says | COLDWEATHER in Attack, Japanese Policy WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Japan- ese policy in the Far East was sharply attacked in the Senate by Chairman Key Pittman of the For- | eign Relations Committee and Sen- ator J. Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, who envisioned an alliance between | Japan and Russia for control of| Asia even at the expense of Ameri- | can interests. Senator Pittman called the Japan- to the United States and vigorous- ly assailed the utterances of Jap- ‘ the | anese authorities directed at United States. Senator Lewi Philippines as a great blunder and said the first step in the Ru Japanese move against this countr) would be in Alaska. “We are only 18 miles from Rus- | sia,” Lewis said in referring to the | narrow water barrier between Al- aska and Siberia. He said the com- bination would be designed to cap-| italize on naval strength, the Nip- pon army air forces and the So Senator Pittman spoke of !lcd'lc; openl\ and ruthlr‘sah violated. STENOGRAPHER DIES, PLUNGE SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—Miss Dorothy Hathway, 23, stenographer, fell to her death from the twentieth floor of the L. C. Smith tower, falling to the third floor rear area way. Attorney L. A. Robinson, her em- ployer, said she complained of a sore throat and was not appearing well last week. Her purse and gloves were tonnd ] on the window sill o1 the women’s rest room. TVA DELAYED lcanmx{uod oL Page Seven) WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. — The Supreme Court has deferred until at least next Monday a decision in the important Tennessee Valley Au- Continuing, .- TRAVELING MEN RETURN H. B. Crewson and N. A. Mc- WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. — The United States Chamber of Com- Business Recovery I Says U . S. cold wave seems to prevail from}Eachem, traveling men, returned to that point north. The barometer their Juneau headquarters aboard merce reports an excellent basis has been laid for continued business re- covery. is abnormally high over the In-| terior, reading 31.08 at Dawson where a femperature of 56 beluw zero was recorded. l the Norco from Ketchikan. “The level of business activity con- R. Wakelin, also traveling man,|tinues to rise. So far, in 1936, there arivved on the Norco from Peters-lhas been no recession,” the report burg. says. Firm Basis, C. of C. Report Coincidentally, the Department of Commerce noted retail gains in the week ending Wednesday to be con- siderably higher than during the last year in the most of the 31 cities studied, although activities of pur- chasers were somewhat retarded by bad weather, because of the warmth: Fuel in the!ese proceedings in China a threat | termed the with-| |burning stoves has entirely changed ' grawal of American rule in the | today 2 Nary Joyce, ¢ ye he plans to reach for the March ice |Death Beats | Airplane To Fairbanks FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 10. Charles Fisher, pioneer gold rusher, died in a hospital here before his wife and daughter, Dolly, flown by Pilot Jack Her- man from Ruby, could reach his bedside. R = ABNORMAL, PART OF MID - NATION | South Dakota Ranchers Burn Posts, Hay to Keep Warm—Fuel Rationing CHICAGO, Iil,, Feb. 10.—Tower- | ing snowdrifts and glacial cold erippled much of the mid-continent Returning to hght against the | elements as in the pioneer days,| lated ranchers in South Dakota burned fence posts and hay to keep warm while city residents in the central states were rationed on fuel | against sub-zero weather. The abnormally cold weather, the Weather Bureau afficials said, | will continue in the north central states tomorrow and probably Wed- nesday. NAVAL SESSION GETTING DOWN T0 REAL WORK IAgreement Reached as to Limitations on Warships —Not Battleships LONDON, F;, 10.—The main Technical Committee of the Naval Conference today came to an un- expected agreement on limitations for all types of warships except bat- | be held February 12 and the fumrw tleships. One prominent delegate d(‘ficnbed the outlook for an agreement on the size of battleships as more hopeful. |TOWNSLEY BOOSTING INTERIOR DOG DERBY Ed Townsley, former Juneauite, who has been in Fairbanks for the past year, arrived on the last steamer from the interior city, and is boosting the Fairbanks Dog Derby Sweep- stakes which will be run at Fair- banks on March 7 during the Ice Carnival. He left for Ketchikan on the Norco but will return here on the | Northland. | PALACE -old m 33 of a hunting fad1e in ney through the Arctic winter arnival. (Associcted Press Photo’ BORAH ATTACKS GEN. WESTOVER SUGGESTS PLAN FOR TERRITORY Army Air Corps Chief Be- lieves Priority Should Be Given North Country FINANCES FOR WILCOX BILL NOW UPPERMOST $19,000,000 Project Part of General Pacific Coast Defenses WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.— The War Department Com- mittee on the Wilcox bill had before it today the strong Army Air Corps recommenda- tion calling for the early con- struction of an Army avia- tion base in Alaska. The attitude of the Army | Air Corps was described by “DEGEPTIUN" OF REP. OPPONENTS |‘Come Out Into the Open,’ He Tells Simeon Fess in Ohio Battle WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.— United ‘Stal(’s Senator William E. Borah of Idaho Saturday night challenged the forces against him to “come out into the open” and declare their preferenvo. His challenge was prompted by | objections to him expressed by for- | mer Republican National Commit- | tee chairman, Simeon Fess. Senator Borah also attacked plans jof the Ohio party organiaztion to seek a Favorite Son convention dele- gate in the Buckeye state primaries May 12 as “sham and deception.” | Senator Borah was outspoken re- i igarding the Fess opposition. “What is his secret?” he demanded. “I am | told he is for Mr. Hoover. Very well; | would it then be aiscreditable to him to say so publicly? Let us see wheth- | him, whoever he is for.” Senator Borah went on to ask: “Is |he for the old deal? My opinion is that while people may have objec- New Deal, they are not They | tions to the going back to the Old Deal {al least want a square deal—and the | first evidence of a square deal is to {give them an opportunity to express | first | themselves at lhr folls Spanish ' Election ler the people of Ohio agree with | Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover, Chief of the Army Air Corps, in testimony given during the sub - committee’s hearing on the War Department’s appro- prmtlon bill. . Gen. Westover said: “W hx]«- I do not know what the final conclusions of this committee will be, I know the committee has called upon me to make recommendations. I believe the committee’s recom- mendations will give great weight and also probably will influence early priority for something in Alaska.” The tenor of Maj. Gen. W e s tover’s recommendation was that Alaska had very high priority in the Pacific Coast defense plans. DIMOND BACK OF MOVE The Wilcox bill which authorized Army Air Corps stations in six strategic locations in the United States, including Alaska, was pass- ed during the last previous session of Congress. However, the bill, as approved did not carry an appro- priation, and the appropriation is now before Congress. Letters and communications from Delegate Anthony J. Dimond indi- cate that he is vigorously working for these appropriations and also for the allocation of one of the bases in Alaska. Early in January, |at the request of the Delegate, The Empire mailed to committee mem- (Continued on Page 7) WEST DEFENSE Aims fo Unravel! Political Deadlock | MADRID, Feb. 10— Its political | leaders deadlocked, the young Span- ish republic, not yet five years old, is getting ready for its own ‘“new deal.” General elections, clear the political atmosphere, will \of the republic will hang in the bal- ance. | Launched as a “workers’ " republic in 1931, with socialists forming an important element, Spain two and | a half years later swung to the right. Conservatives have been in the sad- dle ever since. Political Paradox But the rightist government, ac- cused of feeble republicanism by its designed lo’ | | URGED BEFORE .3, CONGRESS Gen. Craig Advises Jncrense of Army — Northwest Held Key Position WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Gen. Malin Craig, Chief of Staff of the | United States Army, told Congress that “evidence of troublous times in the world” should spur the Unit- ed States to build up her defense. Gen. Craig recommended a min- imum of 14,000 officers and 165,000 enlisted men as the regular army, plus a minimum of 210,000 in the National Guard. Major Gen. Paul B. C. Malone, Commandant of the Ninth Corps area, advised that for West Coast Defense it is most important to opponents, has lost power and a | start from the north, with the first change is in sight. The new center government of Manuel Portela, vet- eran minister of the interior and consideration being given Puget Sound and the Columbia River. Congress was reminded, tco, of former governor general of Catalon- | careful studies of Alaska and adja- ia, has one main plank: to hold im- (Continued on Page 7) cent waters now uunderway by the War and Navy Departinents.