The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 8, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7243. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PLANS ANNIHILATION OF ETHIOPIANS BORAH WINS WISCONSIN DELEGATES F.D. R, LEADING AS PREFERENCE FOR PRESIDENT Idaho Senator Captures All But Two Delegates in Republican Primary PRESIDENT TWO TO ONE AHEAD IN COMPARISON Veteran GiOfP. Aspirant Upsets Old Guard’s Apple Cart MILWAUKEE, Wis., Senator William E. Borah of Idaho| in his first midwestern test of Presi- April 8. —| WASHINGTON, April 7. — After lan exhaustice study of potential raw materials, Col. John A. Wagner, Quartermaster, Corps of Procure- | ment, reported the United States| is now the only world power which is industrially prepared for a big war. | “This is the only country plenti- | |fully supplied with raw materials, | together with the facilities for their manufacture in vast quantities into the items needed for war purposes,” he said. “A study of the situation shows that we have or can produce during extreme emergency, even | with partial loss of the seas, the |entire list of strategic war mater- {ials.” | The officer said a chart prepared | Declares United States Is Only Country Ready for War; Colonel Wagner Makes Report, Wagner ranks the comparative self-sufficiency of other powers in the following order: Germany, 6.20; France, 5.37; So- viet Russia, 4.95; Great Britain, 4.50; Italy, 1.92; Japan, 1.77. | Urges Stocking Up Listing the raw materials neces- sary to the United States in an| emergency, Col. Wagner urged that | to achieve complete industrial pre- paredness, war stock of manganese and chromium should be built up in advance. He also recommended | small war stocks of tin, iodine, nux, vomica, opium, and quinine be stored to meet the demand until emergency production is adequate. Raw materiais in which the Unit- ed States is self-sufficient include [ mer- JATALBOTIS [Three PreseTCouncilmcn ELECTED MAYOR FOR KETCHIKAN! BY MAJORITY Are Returned—Beck on School Board KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Arpil 8.— J. A. Talbot was elected Mayor 4n yesterday’s election polling 779 votes against 236 votes for C. H. Hanson, Three incumbent councilmen, Hi M. Sawyer, Lem McKay and Henry| Erwick were reelected by a wide ma= jority. Andrew Thompson, resident of newly annexed Charcoal Point, w: elected to the Council for a one yvear term, easily defeating three opponents. MAYOR SWEPT INTO OFFICE McCaffcxty, Beistline and| Harri Chosen to Coun- cil with Goldstein | With a majority of 60 votes over | his two opponents, Mayor I. Gold- stein was swept into office at }e:fl.er- day's city election to begin senmg 'his fourth consecutive term and the beginning of his sixth term as Chief Executive: of the city. The Mayor polled 829 votes, Wallis George, 442, and N. G. Nelson, 327, according to the complete unofficial returns which will be canvassed when the City Council meets at 8 o'clock to- night in the City Hall to declare the RESULT'S OF TUESDAY'S ELECTION People’s Ticket MAYOR L. Goldstein .. COUNCILMEN R. H. Beistline J. J. Connors, Oscar Harri Business Economy Administration MAYOR Wallis S. George COUNCILMEN Frank McCafferty C. 0. Sabin R. J. Sommers No. Jr... Citizens-Economy MAYOR N. G. Nelson . 115 Prect. 24 3712 257 327 dential strength yesterday gained by himself, based on 24 raw mater- control of all but two of the 2¢ Wis- |ials considered essential to prose- | consin delegates to the Republican |cute war, showed the United’ States National Convention in Cleveland {has a relative self-sufficiency of on the basis of incomplete returns. 22.35 out Of the 24. nickel, tungsten, antimony, George Beck was chosen two to cury, platinum, mica, nitrates, silk, |one over Mrs. Adele McBurney for| jute, manila fibre, sisal, wool, cat-|the three year term as a member tle, hides, camphor, shellac, cocoa- o the School Board. nut shells, coffee and sugar. | W. K. Spaulding far outdistanced While several contests were so| close that the Borah margin m:ght] be reduced in the fial counting, his | c H A M B E R w | L L condidates genarally prevailed mcr the state Republican party mgam- zation’s uninstructed slate. From a standpoint of Presxdcntxali preference, Wisconsin voter: day showed President Roosevelt Lo be a two to one choice over Borah in the primary which was purely ad- visory, having no effect on delegnce contest. Roosevelt received 173,000 votes in 1,574 of the state’s 2,918 pre- cincts compared with 90477 votes‘ cast for Borah. | Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, Milwau-| kee Socialist, was re-elected Mayor over Sheriff Joseph J. Shinners, non-partisan. Honored Tomorrow—Re- | turningMembers to Talk The Chamber of Commerce will have as guests at its luncheon to- | morrow the following out-of-town | visitors, the majority of whom are delegates to the Republican Terri- liam E. Borah slate of candidates for | t07ial convention, which opens to- delegates to the Republican national | MOrToW in Douglas; Andrew Ner- convention continued to hold the !and. of Fairbanks, E. A. Rasmuson lead over uninstructed rivals in late | of Skagway, R. N. Scruby of Wran- returns from yesterday’s election, | 6ll, and Jacob Hanseth and Tom On a basis of returns from almost Ellsmore of Petersburg four-fifths of the state, it is esti- | Returning members, who will talk mated Borah forces will capm,erbrie!ly at the luncheon, are A. E. four delegates-at-large and seven- | Schoettler, George Folta, and Judge teen of twenty district delegates. {G F. Alexander. - e | Correspondence regarding the ex- | tension of the Northland Transpor- STUGK PR Ic Es tation Company mail throughout TAKE ADVANCE, the summer months will also be pre- | Many Issues Go Into New ‘senved according to annour\cementl ‘by John Keyser, Acting Secretary,! Highs—Gains Up to 3 or More Points HOLDS LEAD MILWAUKEE, April 8—The Wil- | today. 1 Public Debt o fo Reach Over 34 Million by June This Sum Would Include Total Bonus Payment, Bell Tells House ' WASHINGTON, April 8—Daniel W. Bell, Acting Budget Director, told the House Ways and Means Committee that the public debt will reach $34,500,000,000 by June 30 if the total cost of paying the bonus is included. He emphasized, however, that the Treasury is unable to tell what portion of the bonus -certificate will be presented for payment by that date. Bell appeared before the com- mittee considering the $799,000,000 tax program at the request of Re- publican members. TAL PICINI WILL RETURN APRIL 20 Tal Picini, flashy baseball player with the local American Legion outfit last season, writes from San- ta Rosa, California, that he plans | NEW YORK, April 8—The Stock Market crawled into new high ter- ritory today for the past several days with rallies ranging from frac- tions to three or more points in fast trading. Steels, rubbers, mines, rails and scattered utilities led in the upturn. Profit taking undermined a few issues in the final hour but the close was firm. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, April 8— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 119%, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 38%, Bethlehem Steel 63%, Curtiss Wright 6%, Chi- cago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pa- cific Railroad 2':, General Motors 69%, International Harvester 88%, Kennecott 40%, United States Steel 1%, Cities Service 5, Pound $4.94%, Boeing Airplane 22, United Aircraft 25%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 160.97, rails 49.20, utilities 33.27. | 0. B. Skidmore for member of the Utilities Board of Control. ‘Glacier Prist e it w||| Search for | The Citizen’s Party elected their jentire slate at yesterday’s election | with the exception of L. E. Reynolds |who was defeated by A. L. Powell, MAYOR OF SKAGWAY | election. Elected to the Council were Frank ‘MCCBHGF(\ R. H. Beistline and Os- | car Harri. Beistline, who was seeking re-election, and Harri were on the People’s ticket headed by the Mayor while McCafferty, who was high man in the councilmanic race, was on the Business Economy slate head- ed by Wallis George. | 1605 Voted COUNCILMEN Lewis Dyrdahl Henry Meier Severin. Swanson SCHOOL DIRE! LTOR R. E. Robertson Total Registered Total Voted 12 146 109 1064 82 Prect. No. 3 165 Prect. No. 240 2 Total 829 1 150 103 156 205 168 209 327 297 295 810 2302 1605 241 763 499 475 324 SUSSSSUUSSUSPSSSSD LY | Of the 2,302 registered, 1,605 vot- ~— lers cast ballots in yesterday's elec- an “ s e “ d ites [ tion, a lesser number than a year ago when 1822 of the 1998 regis- \Republlcan Delegales to Be 1Rev Hubbard Announces | ’ SKAGWAY, Alnska. April 8.— ‘Father of Bears’ | ! I | Next Trip to Alaska, Late in June LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 8.— The Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, | known as the “Glacier Priest,” [ | said | he will return to Alaska late in June | to search for the “mighty father of all bears,” the Eskimo term for the | unidentified prehistoric beasts which ‘ once roamed the Alaskan wilds. He | said he questioned the secretive tribesmen for years in an effort to | obtain information of their legends of the mammoth animals which he believes were the product of another | age. tered voted. Councilman-elect McCafferty poll- €d a total of 736 voies. Beistline was |second with 727 and Oscar Harri third with 692. Independent, for City Clerk. W. J. Mulvihill was elected May: or to succeed himself for the thir- teenth term. Councilmen elected are J. M. Kel- lar, Arnold Gutfeldt, H. G. Ask. While N. G. Nelson, heading the Oscar Selmer was elected City Citizens’ Economy Ticket, defeated Treasurer and Mrs. F. H. Haskin to | G€orge in two precincts, the second the School Board. and third, by a small margin, his | ticket as a whole ran close together LIGHT VOTE CAST AT and George outdistanced him in the first precinct. ELECTION AT HAINES| mye'ney Gouncil will be sworn HAINES, Atasta, April 8—Only|in next Monday night at 8 o'clock 84 votes were cast here in yester- | when the old Council meets in spe- | day’s election as there was no op- | cial session to close up the business position. Blanche Horner was el-|of the year and swear in the new ected to the School Board for the| members. three year term and P. B. Allen for Well Pleased one year. o Councilmen_elected were James| Mayor Goldstein expressed him- Graham, Richard Knotts, l;,md‘self today as highly gratified with Broulliette, Mrs. Steven Sheldon,|!h® Vote of confidence given him | John Swets, John Wierenga and | nd in a statement said: ~ Denounce Probe ~as“Slander” Leaders Will Seek to Attack Constilutionality of Con- gressional Investigation BALTIMORE, April 8.—Directors of the Townsend Plan reorganized the national movement yesterday, and, at the same time, challenged the present Coffgressional investiga- tion of its affairs as being “unwar- ranted and unconstitutional.” The directers aiso Issued a State- ment charging Robert Earl Clem- DEMOCRATS G0 Mrs. A. H. Kingsbury. | PETER KOSTROMETINOFF “Of course I am highly gratified ents, resigned National Secretary, | with the result and wish to thank 8nd George Highly, Los Angeles | my friends for their wonderful sup- | leader, with plotting to wrest con- \port The vote showed overwhelm- trol of the organization by threats. G.0.P.LEADERS MEET AT 5 P. M. ON COMMITTEES| First Division Caucus at 8 0'Clock Tonight — Ses- sions Open Tomorrow Admittedly ready to point with pride to their party proposals and to view with alarm the activities of government under the Demo- cratic Administration, Republicans of Alaska will gather in the I O. 0. P. Hall in Douglas tomorrow to start their three-day delibera- | tions. With National Committeeman E. A. Rasmuson and Territorial Chair- man Albert White on the g'mund to direct procedure, the sessions | MUSSOLINI TO FIGHT TO END, CABINET TOLD Will Wage Warfare Until Selassie’s Military Wiped Out CAPTURE OF ADDIS ABABA, HARAR' NEXT Threat Announced While League Committee of 13 Meets ROME, April 8—Premier Benita Mussolini, at an extraordinary Cabi- net Session today, said Italy will fight for “total annihilation of tha Ethiopian military formation.” On the heels of this announcement |came advices from Gura, the Eri- trean Headquarters of the Northern Italian Army, that a sky patrol of Italian airmen is already forming plans for a triumphant Fascist entry into Adids Ababa. The Air Forces are arranging to have 200 machines fly over the Ethi- opian Capital on the occasion. It is also freely predicted that Dessye will fall within the week and Harar perhaps at the same time. { | ( I { | LEAGUE COMMITTEE IN SESSION TODAY GENEVA, apru 8.—The League of Nations’ Committee of Thirteen has appointed a subcommittee of jurists to investigate charges that Italy 1s using poison gas in Ethiopia. At the same time the Committee of Thir- teen empowered its President,, Sal- vador de Madariage of Spain, to try and learn Mussolini’s terms for making peace. Capt. Anthony Eden, British For- eign Secretary, gave the Commit- tee a specific list of alleged occasions on which the Italian troops have used poison gas. The French delegates came for- ward with the publication of their plan to maintain peace in Europe with the establishment of perma- nent military forces to guard against violation of the frontiers. { } INHUDDLE ON - TAX PROGRAM Members of House Ways and Means Committee Draft Final Form WASHINGTON, April 8. — The House Ways and Means Commit- tee Democrats assembled behind closed doors today to consider the final form of the tax program. Chairman Doughton, Democrat of IS RE-ELECTED AT SITKA|ing public support of the policies of | SITKA, Alaska, April 8. — The|the past year’s administration and | municipal election was held here|clearly indicated a desire for the,agam denied “rumors” he planned to yesterday with the following re-|continuation of the present system of sults: city management. I have reason to | Peter Kostrometinoff was re-el- | believe that much of my support at ected mayor with 184 votes. Arthur|the polls came from citizens who Silverman, with 120, ran a poor sec- | took this method of expressing their ond and Harris and Hanlon tailed lapproval of the stand taken by the with 61 and 53 respectively. | Mayor and the City Council during New councilmen for the two year | the strike troubles last summer. term are Tom Tilson, Jr., with 228| Asset To_City votes, Frank Oja with 226 and Har-| “In Frank McCafferty and Oscar ry Hagen with 210. ‘H‘ml the city gains two new coun- John Hollywood was re-elected a cilmen of the highest standing and member of the School Board for the | they will be a fine asset to the new three year term with 190 votes administration. They take the places against Jack Calvin with 174 votes.|of Councilmen George and Messer- The total number of votes cast|schmidt, who have given many years North Carolina, indicated some modifications will be made in the plan which some business men in- cluding spokesmen for the United States Chamber of Commerce ,argu- ed until morning should be made. Republican members of the com- mittee were not Rpresent. RANGER 9 HELD UP AT CAPE FANSHAW BY BAD WEATHER The Ranger 9, Forest Service ves- sel which is taking a tow to Wran- gell, is safe at Cape Fanshaw and is at anchor there awaiting good weather. This was the report brought back to Juneau by Regional Forester C. H. Flory and his assis- tant Wellman Holbrook when they returned from a flight wlh Shel- don Simmons this morning to locate the vessel. Due to no word from the boat and fearing she may have en- was 128. HERBERT BROWN CHOSEN FOR MAYOR AT ANCHORAGE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 8.— | Herbert Brown was elected Mayor yesterday over Carl Martin by a vote of 435 to 225. Councilmen elected are A. B. Johnson, Paul A. Marsch and L D. Roach. Six hundred and seventy-four vot- ers went through light snow to cast | ballots. | J. T. Cunningham, unopposed for the Echool Board, was given a com- plimentary vote of 451. ELECTION AT KLAWOCK KLAWOCK, Alaska, April 8.—At the municipal election here yes- terday, Ray Peratrovich was re-el- ected Mayor. Councilmen elected were John Dexter, Lloyd Simpson and Frank Karl. * TWO PROPOSALS ARE VOTED ON AT SEWARD | of splendid service to the city and | tivities will be greatly missed. Destroyers to Come to Alaska During Summer SAN PEDRO, Cal, April 8— Admiral J. M. Reeves disclosed today that a battle force of de- stroyers will cruise to Alaska, via Puget Sound, during the coming summer. The movement is simi- lar to that of last summer. to return to Juneau about April 20. Picini has been playing semi-pro ball in that part of California, and says that he is in the pink of con- dition. He is said to be lined up with the Moose team this season. —————— FOUND INSANE Ivar Olson of Cordova was re- cently found insane and committed to Morningside Sanitarium for the treatment. countered difficulties in bad weath- er, the Forest men made aerial search. She was located at the cape, awaiting better weather to pro- ceed, - e ESTABLISHES OFFICE Warner J. Paulson has established his summer headquarters for the Central Alaska District of the Am- erican Can Company in the La- throp building at Cordova. SEWARD, Alaska, April 8—Sew- ard went to the polls yesterday and cast 241 votes. D. C. Brownell was elected Mayor, T. H. Jones, C. P. Gilliland and Theo Osbo to thed Council, and C. E. Orlander to the School Board. Proposition No. 1 to limit dogs running at large was passed and " (Continued on Page Twe) whose presence in official civic ac- “Juneau faces a prosperous year, and it should be the purpose of all citizens to work together for the up- building of the community on a safe, sane and progressive basis. The fi- nances of the city are in excellent shape now but I am confident they will be greatly improved during the coming year by practicing real econ- omy.” LONGSHOREMAN HANGS HIMSELF {Declares Somebody I'rying to “Get Him"—Broth- er in Ketchikan SAN PEDRO, Cal., April 8—Gun- | nar Wilson, aged 41, longshoreman, was found dead hanging by the neck from a wire suspended from a water pipe in the basement of a house here. Wilson left a note saying he feared someone was trying to “get him.” Wilson leaves a brother Axel in Ketchikan. Dr. F. E. Townsend, co-founder with Clements of the movement, resign as National President, and asserted he intended “to stay in the 'movement untfl it is successful.” | Directors announced that Baxter | Rankine, of the Washington head- | quarters, had been appointed Treas- urer, and Harrison Hiles, also of | Washington, business manager. In an assault upon the Congres- sional probe, directors instructed Sheridan Downey and Gomer Smith, Townsend movement lead- ers, to bring “such legal action as they deem necessary to bring the Congressional investigation to an end or test the legal rights of the Townsend organization with refer- | ence to the same.” The resolution conaemned the probe as “not carried on in good faith for legislative purposes but conducted for the purpose of scan- dalizing by individuals who are at- tempting to giscredit the movement by slandering some of the people in it.” WARRACK CO. STARTS WORK ON CONTRACTS Two carloads of cement and steel and a half a million feet of lumber will leave Seattle on the Freighter Dellwood on Auril 15, to be used by the Warrack Construction Com- pany in Valdez and Cordova, accor- ding to J. B. Warrack, president of the company, who arrived here re- cently from a trip to the States. Work on the Cordova Municipal | Building, a $35,000 project, will be- gin on April 25, Mr. Warrack said, and construction of the new Val- dez school building will start on May 15. The Warrack company al- so has a contract to remodel the old school house in Cordova at a cost of $5000, Mr. Warrack reported. Both the Cordova Municipal Building and the Valdez school building, said Mr. Warrack, will be erected from plans drawn by Har- old Foss, Juneau architect. | J will open at 10 o'clock in the morn- ing with the reading of the official call by Chairman White and a re- port of his duties in office durmg the last three years. Appolmmenl. of committees, slates for which ar being completed at a central com- mittee meeting at 5 o'clock Lms afternoon in Douglas, will be of- ficially made and work of the con- vention generally gotten under way. Keynote Tomorrow Night The highlight of the gathering | is scheduled for 8 o'clock tomorrow | B. LeFevre, | night when Judge H. pioneer Juneau attorney and life- long Republican, will deliver the keynote address, sounding the clar- jon call of his party and pointing to the things the convention and platform committee is policies for the campaign year. Elton E. Engstrom, President of the Juneau-Douglas Young Men's Republican Club, is slated to serve as temporary chairman and his appointment may become perma- nent as the convention effects its permanent organization. Following the meeting of the Central Committe at.5 o'clock this afternoon, delegates from. the First Division have been called to caucus at 8 this evening. Banquet Feature A large number of entertain- !mem features are plenned for the delegates during their three-day stay and members of the Young Men’s Republican Club, who, with the Douglas Chamber of Commerce, are arranging the events, promise a lively program, the feature of which will be the banquet at 6:30 oclock Saturday night in the Dreamland at Douglas. Tickets for this affair are available from mem- bers of the Club and the Central Committee. The complete nsc of delegates here for the convention include: First Division Ronald Lister, Howard Simmons, Mel Leath, Ed Garnick, Cyril Zu- (Continued on Page Two) likely to| | consider favorably in drafting their HASTY BURIALS TAKE PLAGE FOR STORM VICTIMS Streams Rlsmg Adding Fresh Menace to Life and Property r | GAINESVILLE, Georgla, April 8, —Almost four hundred storm dead !in Gainesville and Tupelo, Mississip- pi, went into hastily dug graves in groups. Hasty burials were also made in other sections for sanitary reasons. Sluggishly rising streams have sent yellow floods over hundreds of thousands of acres of land and brought a fresh menace to life and property. The total dead from the storm and flood this week now stands at 426 with the latest count at Tup- elo showing 195 dead and at Gaines- ville 185. HEARST LOSES COURT BATTLE WASHINGTON, April 8.—William Randolph Hearst today lost in the District of Columbia Supreme Court his efforts to secure preliminary in- junctions to restrain the Senate Lobby Committee and Federal Com- munications Committee from ex- amining or using his private tele- grams. - e — DEERSLAYER FINED John E. Smith, who was arrested for killing a deer out of season at Pybus Bay, pleaded guilty in the U. S. Commissioner’s Court today, and was fined $200.