The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 6, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1936. VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7167. ROOSEVELT SWEEPS CALIFOR MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS NIA STATE ITALIAN FLAG OVER - ADDIS ABABA INVADERS NOW COMMAND ETH. CAPITAL CITY Chief Center Is Claimed by Mussolini by Right of Conquest MARSHAL BADOGLIO 1S IN EMPEROR’S PALACE Natives Raise Hands in Fas- cist Salute — Troops Continue to Arrive ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 6. —The Italian flag is today flying over Emperor Haile Sellassie’s pal- ace. Native Ethiopians raised their hands in awkward Fascist salutes. Italy claims Ethiopia's Capital City by right of conguest. Marshal Badoglio, who arrived by special motor car during the night, has installed himself in the Italian Week’s News in Review by |4 NEW YORK, as of week ending !May 2.—(By Associated Press) | The United States and Great Bri- ita'.u have been the mainstays of | naval limitation. In the customary pacific period following a war, they forced through the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, | with its limitation on building and !its 5-5-3 ratio (on Britain, Amer- |ica and Japan, respectively.) | But just as all international ef- | forts for disarmament have failed, |in the resurgence of preparedness, |so has the limitation of navies. Ja- | pan, long irked by the ratio in- equality, was first to denounce the Washington pact; France did like- wise. And the recent London Na- val conference failed to effect a |new agreement. | Over the world, naiions are build- | ing. | To maintain its power on the seas, |its first line of defense, Britain | this week announced its largest ship- | building program since the ‘World | war. The British will build 38 new Richard H. Hippelheuser S e Senator William E. Borah and 1,91( for Colonel Frank Knox. The 33 delegales elected to the Cleveland convention were unpledg- ed. Landon and Hoover also polled scattered “write-in” support in Pennsylvania; but here, the heavy vote went to Borah who, along of all the potential nominees, entered the G. O. P. preferential race. With slightly more than half of the state tallied, Borah had polled 281,700 votes. On the basis of this, the Borah campaign managers claimed at least 20 of the State’s 75 delegates would be for the Ida- hoan. If this turns out to be so, it would be a victory of no small proportions for Borah in his fight against the |“Old Guard” leaders of the East; for Pennsylvania has long been one of its strongholds. ANTHRACITE SHUT-DOWN AVERTED Since mid-February, represen- tatives of anthracite operators and the United Mine Workers have MARKLE 0UT OF POLICE DEPT. Resignations of Two Offic- ers Asked by Mayor to Promote Harmony Assistant Chief of Police William Markle and City Patrolman George Gilbertson have resigned from the Juneau police force, effective im- mediately, it was made public today. Mayor I. Goldstein stated that he had requested the resignations in an effort to promote harmony ir the department. Trouble has exist- ed between the two men more than a year, the Mayor said, with the re- 1‘sult that it has been detrimenta’ | to the Police Department and the {city. It was reported that the dif- ferences reached the stage recently | where one of the men invited the other out in the alley to settle the matter with fisticuffs. “It is very distasteful to me to {have to ask for the resignation of |any one,” the Mayor said, “but we can't have such things going |on. Personally, I have the highest | warships, including two battleships Legation. The advance troops have ended days of rioting by the Ethiopian natives and are standing guard over | the palace, railway station and at all principal centers. The long column of motomedi In Washington, the largest peace- | ter the intervention of Secretary | troops are beginning to arrive. Marshal Badoglio said: “The war is over. There is no enemy.” NAMED CIVIL GOVERNOR ROME, May 6—Guiseppe Bottai, Governor of Rome, has been named Civil Governor of the Ethiopian Capital. The undeclared war has resolved into an unsigned peace; Premier Mussolini started the campaign and pressed his campaign against the world’s opposition. U. S. LEGATION SAFE WASHINGTON, May 6.—Ameri: can Vice Counsul Cramp has noti- fied the State Department that the Italian guard around the American | Legation in Addis Ababa has with- drawn after disarming native Eth- iopians. . The Legation is not damaged. Americans were forced to stave of around 35,000 tons. Naval bases throughout the world will be strengthened. Millions of dollars will be spent for munitions and | fuel supplies. | time naval appropriation in Ameri- ; can history—$531,000,000—was before | the Senate. 212 to 73—would authorize the Na- vy Department to build two battle- ships of a 35,000 ton maximum at an estimated cost of $51,000,000 |each. The bill also provides for increasing the Naval man-power. | THE '36 CAMPAIGN | Back in January, around the time of Alfred E. Smith’s address at the | American Liberty League Banquet in Washington, political observers | were studying the possible fields of active opposition to the renomina- tion and re-election of Franklin De- lano Roosevelt. | Not a few mentioned Massachu- iseth: at that time, it seemed an lapproprmt.e place. Former Gov- | ernor Joseph B. Ely, a close friend |and associate of Smith, was per- sought to negotiate a new agree-|regard for the men, but we must ment. The old wage scale was|have harmony and efficiency in prolonged until midnight April 30.! the Police Department.” Several hours before the deadline, { - | Markle has served on ti ice with no agreement in sight, Assist- g U lie department for the last three years | ant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady hurried to New York af- | Frances Perkins | He succeeded in continuing the l‘u]d scale pending further mnegotia- The meastire—passed by the House tions which will continue next week.| fj] the vacancies. | The last minute intervention avert- ied a shutdown in the industry. ° ‘ OTHER FOREIGN AFFAIRS May Day, as the lnternational holiday of workers, was inaugurated half a century ago by Marxists and other Radical revolutionary groups. It is the day when anarchists, syndicalists, communists and social- ists can forget their theoretic dif- ferences and march side by side | singing the “Internationale.” Seldom has an internationale ob- | servance of May Day been as peace- | ful as this year. The demonstra- | tions were as large as in previous years, but were marked by few dis- | orders. Observers will closely watch the | session of the Council of the League | and Gilbertson has been a city of- | ficer two years. Confirmation by the City Coun- | cil has yet to be obtained, the Mayor ;sam. and in the meantime no offfe- | ial appointments will be made to The matter of | temporary men to handle police work has been left o Chief of Po- | lice Roy Hoffman, the Mayor stat- ed. Since Markle and Gilbertson were relieved from duty after their Sun- day shifi, both men having been on night work, C. H. MacSpadden, former Deputy U. S. Marshal here and a Republican candidate for Ter- ritorial Auditor in the recent pri- mary election, has been working on the department in a temporary ca- | bacity two nights, the Chief said. Whether his work would be made permanent could not be ascertained. | Chief Hoffman said no appoint- ments had been made so far. | Former Assistant Chief Markle when asked about the matter today said he had been relieved of duty off a third onslaught late yester-|sistently expressing his opposmon‘of Nations next Monday, waiting to Sunday and he had tendered his day staged by Ethiopian bandits, | to Roosevelt. And Smith has al-| getermine if the foreign policy of resignation. bent on murder and loot, before! ways held a vast popularity in Bos-| the French has .been changed. the Italian forces arrived. WIEN REACHES SEATTLE WITH LOAD, ALASKANS Lands His Plane on Boeing Field After Flight from Nome SEATTLE, May 6—Pilot Noel| Wien landed on the Boeing Field here at 6:30 o'clock last night with his passengers after a leisurely flight from Nome via Fairbanks, ‘Whitehorse, Hazelton and the in- land air line route south. Pilot Wien reported the trip was without incident except the weath- er was heavy much of the way. Passengers on the plane included 0. D. Cochran, Nome lawyer; Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Payne, teachers at Shaktoolik, and their small son James; J. Stokes, Nome mining man; A. C. Mattik, Government reindeer man; Arthur S. Brown, Fairbanks jeweler; Mrs. Dora Chad- wick, Seattle resident; Aviator Chester Brown and Flight Mechan- ic Miller. buy a plane in the States and fly it back to Alaska. Fireman Off Duty Finds He Can’t Escape His Job SPARTANBURG, S. C., May 6.— Assistant Fire Chief Ike Miller had | a job drop right at his feet—on his night off. Out for a stroll, a burning ember dropped at his feet and he looked up to discover an awning ablaze. He handled it alone. The last two intend to, | ton. sition in Massachusetts collapsed. to the Philadelphia convention were | elected and 36 of them are defin- minded.” The President’s name was not en- | tered in Massachusetts. It was entered, however, in the | Pennsylvania primary, and he had 1opposmon. Entered against him was Colonel | Henry Breckinridge, the New York lawyer and an Assistant Secretary of War in the early days of the Wilson Administration. Breckinridge harbors no illusions about his candidacy. As he once told the writer: | “Those Democrats who oppose the | present administration must have a means of expressing their opposi- !tion. T intend to give them the means I have.” On the basis of the latest count, | the Roosevelt vote in Pennsylvania }appruxmuted 800,000; that for Col- onel Breckinridge from 40,000 to 50,000. In the '32 election, Roosevelt polled ‘nlmost 1,296,000 votes in Pennsyl- vania. The Republicans claimed |the primary total this week was | indicative of a loss of New Deal. But the Democrats said it was in- dicative of no such a thing; in- | stead, they found cause for elation | |in such a vote in a preferential | primary. The Massachusetts primary like- wise afforded great satisfaction for | the proponents of Governor Alf Landon, of Kansas. None of ‘the possible G. O. P. nom- |inees was entered in the primary. | But in the “write-in" votes a small percentage of those writing, Lan- (don was far ahead of the rest. He polled 76,710 votes as against 7214 for Herbert Hoover, 4,342 for | In Tuesday's primary, 38 delegates | itely pledged to Roosevelt. The oth- | er two were said to be “Roosevelt- | | opportunity to do so in as many | states as I can with the limned] | With II Duce’s armies over-run- | tional sanctions against Fascist Italy—sought by the British—was a | subject of much doubt. | Throughout Italy, in many cities, the Fascisti prematurely celebrated the occupation of Addis Ababa by the invaders. Officials strove in vain to halt the demonstrations of “victory.” | The British concern in the Med- | iterranean area was increased by | the death of King Fuad I, of Egypt. | Fuad was pro-British; he was i placed in power by Britain in the World War days. After Britain re- | linquished its protectorate in 1922, | Fuad became King. He died Tues- I day, at the age of 68. | His son, Crown Prince Farouk, | was proclaimed King. A regency, { named by Fuad shortly before his | death, will govern with the 16-year- | old monarch until he reaches his | majority. The political strife rampant - in Egypt in recent months—with much | of it directed against British dom- ilmtion—wns further complicated by Fuad's death. HEADLINERS | captured Alvin Karpis, “Public | Enemy No. 1.” The notorious gang- | ster was captured in New Orleans by a squad of Federal agents led by J. Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retired Arturo Toscanini, world famous Italian maestro, as the mu- sical director of the New York Philharmonic Symphony, Wednes- day night, he conducted his fare- | well concert in America. e MARCUS AT CORDOVA Corporal Charles Marcus arrived in Cordova recently to take charge of the United States Signal Corps Rose, transferred to Washington. He said that in view | of the difficulties that had arisen he saw nothing to do but step out. But, as true elsewhere, the oppo- | ning Ethiopia, the value of addi- He explained that he and Chief Hoffman were not in accord or po- . lice matters. The former otficer | @dded that he was the only man ;lmm the Police Department who | could cooperate with Federal offi- NAVAL SUPPLY BILL APPROVED WASHINGTON, May 6.—The Sen- ate Appropriations Committee has approved the $531,000,000 Naval Supply Bill essentially as it passed the House, | The bill calls for construction of 33 airplanes, 12 destroyers, six sub- marines and continuance of work on 84 ships of varying type. SENIORS SNEAK FROM SCHOOL HOUSE CARES Senior class students of the Ju- neau Grade School had their an- nual sneak today regardless of the unfavorable weather conditions. About 35 boys and girls boarded the yacht Messenger this morning enroute to Young’s Bay where they will enjoy themselves away from the cares of books and coming exams. T e JUNEAU HALIBUT SALES Halibut sales at Juneau today were: 7,000 pounds purchased by Sebastian Stuart Fish Company from the Ida II, Capt. John Son- derland, at prices of 560 cents and 3.60 cents; and 9,000 pounds bought by New England PFish Com- pany from the Ina J., Capt. Peter cents. 44 BLAZE CAUSES 52,000 DAMAGE Two Alarms Sounded Late Yesterday Afternoon— Good Work of Firemen A fire at the Coliseum Apart- ments, causing damages estimated 9y Pire Chief V. W. Mulvihill at $2,000, was extinguished last even- ng by the Juneau Fire Depart- ment. Two alarms were sounded, he first at 5:40 pm, and the sec- ond immediately after the arrival »f Fire Chief Mulvihill at the scene of the fire. Immediate re- jponse to both alarms, and rapid, ! sfficient work on the part of the members of the Fire Department, soon brought the flames under control, and the fire was entirely sxtinguished at 7 o'clock, little nore than an hour after the first alarm. Starts in Ash Can The fire, whicn started in an| ash can in the rear hallway on the third, or top floor of the building, was discovered by Postmaster Al- bert Wile, who occupies a nearby | apartment, and who quickly tele- phoned an alarm. The flames charred the walls of the hallway and burned through the ceiling into the attic above. Gaining volume in the attic the flames burst through the roof of the building, and burned through the attic floor at another point above a bedroom in an apartment occupied by Henry Sully. At one| point in the hallway a hole was burned through the outside wall of the building. Damage to apartments and furn-| ishings in the building were large- ly from smoke and water, Chief Mulvihill said. Some damage was caused to the rear of the stage at the Coliseum Theatre, almost en- tirely from water, which did not interfere with the regular motion picture shows last night. The building was insured with companies represented by Gould and Gould, Allen Shattuck and Stanley Grummett, Hundreds watched the Fire De- partment boys at their work, Lines of hose were laid from all | directions, one from lower Front| Street over the roofs of the ad-| Jjoining buildings. -—— REPUBLICANS ~ WILL CONFER | ON BIG BILL Are Called I:t:Session To- night on Deficiency Appropriation WASHINGTON, May 6. — The House Republicans were this morn- ing summoned to a conference to- night to discuss the Party’s posi- tion on the Deficiency Appropria- !'tion bill carrying new relief funds. The bill reaches the floor of the House tomorrow. | President Roosevelt has turned down suggestions of some House! members for earmarking $400,000,- 000 of the requested appropriation for PWA projects instead of turn- ing the entire fund over to Admin- istrator H. L. Hopkins. — .- — e 06000000 00 0 . STOCK QUOTATIONS . e0 e ®ecv e, NEW YORK, May 6. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 126%, American Power and Light 10%, Anaconda 34%, Bethlehem Steel 51%, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, no sale; Commonwealth and Southern 2%, General Motors 64%, International Harvester 82%, Kennecott 36%, United States Steel 58%, Cities Service 4%, Pound $4.95%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, [,'ILBERTS[]N ANfi eflL|SE“M APT. | * Zioncheck Weds Sl;ddenlv 6. 0. P. SPLIT; DELEGATES ARE ~ UNINSTRUCTED | Landon Slate Loses in State Primary—McGroarty, ' Sinclair Far Behind FOUR OTHER STATES ENDORSE PRESIDENT F. D. R. Far Outdistances ! Entire Field Even in | Face of EPIC Forces i SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 8.— | The California primary election | yesterday gave the Republican Na= | |tional Convention votes to an in- Only a few days after his spectacular clashes with District of Colum- bla police and courts on speeding charges, Rep. Marion Zioncheck of Washington married Miss Rubye Louise Nix, 21, of Texarkana, Tex, in a surprise ceremony at Annapolis, Md. They are shown here at Zion- check’s apartment after the wedding. (Associated Press Photo) | dcit j apanese-A mericafi Amity Will Be Fostered by New Foreign Minister Arito | i TOKYO, May 6-—Japan “in her | solicitation for peace in East Asia | cannot remain indifferent,” to large | Soviet troop concentrations in the |Far East, Hachiro Arito, new For- |eign Minister, told the House of Peers today. Japanese Soviet relations he ad- uN HUNEYMunN ded, “cannot be said to be alto- | gether felicitious. The fact that Ithe Soviet Government maintains Declares Speedlng Procllv_%excessive armamants on remote o 9 {outposts in the Far East, how- ities Overrated—Ready |ever, stressed Tokyo's desire for to Pay, However TIONCHECK IN |normal peaceful relations, with the | Soviet.” MIAMI BEACH, May 6. —R(\pre»! Arito declared he would devote sentative Marion A.,Zioncheck, of his “best efforts to the further- Washington State, here on his hon-|ance of Japanese-American amity eymoon, said his speeding has been |and understanding.” overrated. He said he wants to obey| Only a paragraph of the For- |{the laws and will pay penalties eign Minister's speech was devoted whenever he unintentionally vio-{to American relations. This state- lates them. He has offered $100 ment was: “In the Japanese-Am- to any Miami policeman who finds erican friendship lies the very key him speeding. He said he hopes to maintenance of peace in the his friends do not put the police up Pacific. It is most fortunate that to arrest him. |not only are the economic rela- ————— | i HIH {plimentary but that they as na- I I“"s ea e \tions, always respecting each |other’s postiion and aims, should |collaborate more than for insuring tu Kee Ja a" u“ |peace in the Pacific. ! ]‘ “I shall devote my best efforts {to furtherance of Japanese-Am- . Adva“cln March \!erxcan amity and understanding,” {Hachiro Arito said | WOMAN DIES, " MYSTERY CASE TOKYO, May 6. —Eiichi Baba, Minister of Finance, told the House | of Representatives today that Ja- | pan’s “soaring advance” makes any decrease in the National expendi-| tures impossible and “calls forth increases in new appropriation: | Finance Minister Baba said it may be necessary to issue bounds for $228,000000 to meet the year's def- Minister of Finance Makes His Demands to Rep- resentatives Either Falls or Leaps from Cannery Tender in Alaskan Waters KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 6.— Mrs. T. J. Carlson, aged 42, wife jof a cannery cook at Union Bay, |was drowned when she’ fell or leaped overboard from a cannery |craft enroute to Union Bay from | Ketchikan, it has been reported |to United States Commissoner E. C CHAMBER MEETS TOMORROW NOON; SPECIAL GUESTS | austin. | Mrs. Carlson was a recent arrival R. H. Sargent, Topographical En-|from Seattle and had spent a week gineer, Alaska Geological Survey, here in a hospital suffering from a who arrived yesterday on the nervous breakdown before her de- Yukon to continue topographical | parture for Union Bay. The drown- mapping of Chichagof Island, will ing occurred about 35 miles north be a guest at the Chamber of of Ketchikan. Commerce luncheon at the Term-| e inal Cafe at noon tomorrow. lhsl Rites ‘0]’ Capt The members of the Territorial | _ o Board of Education, all of whom | Simpson on Friday jare at present in Juneau, will also | attend the luncheon as guests of | SEATTLE, May 6—Funeral ser- the Juneau Chamber of Commerce. |vices for Capt. Jack Simpson, vet- BRI e 9 e PPt eran pilot of the Alaska Steamship office. He succeeds Sergeant I. R. Hammer, at prices of 5% and 3.65 |Jones averages: Industrials, 149.71; rails, 44.78;" utilities, 29.70, Stephen Collins Foster, author of | Company who died recently at “My Old Kentucky Home,” was bom}wrangeu, Alaska, will be held here' in Pittsburgh, Pa. Friday s of the two countries com-| structed delegation and the Demo- cratic support to President Roose-* velt. The Republican slate, pledged to |Gov. Alfred M Landon of Kansas, {lost, but supporters declared he |would be in the running for the 44 convention votes. | The Roosevelt slate, carrying 44 {Democratic votes, swamped the tickets headed by Upton Sinclair, advocating production for use |plank, and Congressman John 8. | McGroarty, author of the Townsend bill. i Seventy per cent of the votes gave Landon 199,894; uninstructed, 275,887; Roosevelt, 614,257, McGro= arty, 44,846; Sinclair, 75,074, { LANDON BEATS BORAH | PIERRE, So. Dak., May 6.—Gov. {Landon of Kansas held a slight lead over Senator William E. Borah |of Idaho for the eight Republican |delegates to the national conven- \tion from this State. President | Roosevelt had no opposition on the Democratic ticket. | BANKHEAD WINS | MONTGOMERY, Ala, May 6.— Senator Bankliead and his brother, | William, Democratic leader of the {House, both received majorities in |the primary election here yester- |day. | President Roosevelt won the | State’s 22 votes for the Presidential nomination without opposition. | [ MISSOURI FOR F. D. R. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 6. | —President Roosevelt received this State’s 30 pledges for the Demo- cratic nomination for President in yesterday's primary. ENDORSE LANDON | NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 6.—The !Repubhcan_s in Tennessee endorsed Gov. Landon of Kansas for the Republican nomination and pledged |the four delegates-at-large to him in the primary. WILL ATTEMPT T0 GET CAPONE OUT OF PRISON Loophole 1s Discovered in Federal Law—Attor- neys Are to Act CHICAGO, Ill, May 6—It was disclosed today that an attempt to free “Scarface” Al Capone, Chicago gang leader, now imprisoned at Al- catraz, California, through a newly discovered lophole of a Federal law, will be launched by Chicago attor- neys. The attorneys may apply for a writ of habeas corpus in the Fed- eral Court at San Francisco. Capone is serving eleven years for evasion of income tax. e Tube-Fed Baby Girl ‘Graduates’ to Bottle MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 6.—Jac- quelin Jean Benson, who weighed only 12 ounces at birth about three months ago, has graduated to the bottle feeding class. Until recently all her meals had been injected by means of a stom- ach tube. Jacquelin now weighs three pounds and seven ounces.