The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1936, Page 1

i VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7184. HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASK A, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1936, EMPIR MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ PRICE TEN CENT S LIVES SNUFFED OUT IN FOREST FIRE SAN FRANCISCO WATERFRONT IS SWEPT BY FIRE Oil Spreads Endangering Much Property — Loss Estimated at $300,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 26. —Fire swept the waterfront near the Railroad Terminal today caus- ing a loss estimated at $300,000. More than one million feet of sea- soned lumber was damaged. The loading docks burned and flames of oil covered the water which set fire to creosoted pilings of the railway trestle. Peter ' Anderson, relief watch- man for the Christenson Lumber Politic;li Whispers Promise Mystery Drama at Cleveland By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington.) tentions with respect to the con- vention have been a subject of wide- spread and earnest conjecture. There is the problem of former! Politics is a perplexing business, President Hoover, talked of mys: under any circumstances, but sel- | teriously among his friends as hav- dom does it bring together so many | ing a silent following in many state bewilderments as now are heading | delegations, ready to carry out his for the Republican convention at| wishes, whatever they may turn out Cleveland. If half that is being | to be. whispered comes true, the party’s, There is the extraordinary mys- June show will deserve high rank | tifying string of dark horses, rang- among the mystery dramas of all|ing from one or two who have been time. whispered of nationally for many This can be said without reflect- months as real prospects, to others ing in the least on the claims and | who scarcely have been heard of predictions of any candidate or his| outside their own states and still| Whatever the final out- | others whose friends claim no dele- managers. come, a surprising array of sub-|gates at all. merged elements exist, and only| | the convention can clear the sit-| FEW DELEGATES INSTRUCTED ON HOMES OF BLACK LEGION Regarding Two Re- cent Bombings BULLETIN — DETROIT, May 26. — Attorney General David Crowley announced late this afternoon that grand jury in- vestigations will be made in every county in the State of Michigan where the Black Le- gion can be traced. | DETROIT, Michigan, May 26, — Enlarging the drive against the DRIVE STARTS Evidence Reported Found /o N ow in;l laska i e oL \ BLAZE RAGES OVER SECTION INWILD FURY 4 i 'Hundreds of Fire Fighters on Lines Attempting to Resist Spread FIVE VICTIMS ARE ALREADY REPORTED Two Wardens and Fifteen Men Missing—May Have Escaped Death NEW GRETNA, New Jersey May uation. Company, fell dead during the fire. Fifty pieces of fire apparatus fought the blaze. |cLAIMS AND COUNTER CLAIMS | i There is the candidacy of Gov- | jernor Landon, which he himself | { never has conceded to be a candi- | | date at all, but for which great| strength is claimed among delegates | who publicly are saying nothing. There are many counter-claims of the managers for Colonel Knox, .- — c 0 LGN I S Ts | who predict a sudden emergence of !Knox sentiment among these same | ARE HAPPY non-committal delegates. There is the case of Senator Bor- | lah, whose Supporters see him as| the spokesman of the masses of Re- | Every Family Will Have ' publican voters and whose real in- Finally, there is the encompas- ing fact that, as far as recorded orders from the voters are con- cerned, the convention will be free to end the show any way it likes. Most of the delegates have now| been chosen. Not only is the over- whelming majority uninstructed, | | | but a warm dispute is in progress as to what they really are thinking| about and intending to do. { In most previous convention years it has been possible for disinterest- ed observers to make up a fairly de- pendable table showing the relative standing of the contestants This year the rival managers are mz\kmg‘ (Continued on Fage Two) | | | annsaimilas Still Defiant; Do Not Appear: Garden—All 'Ground | Soon Be Cleared ‘ PALMER, Alaska, May 26—Ross | Sheely, Manager of the Matanus-; ka Colony, said today that plsntlng‘ and plowing is progressing rapidly and satisfactorily. I All ground will be cleared June 15 and crops will be harvested lat,e; in the year, i gty Sheely said the morale of the 9 S colonists is high. They are doing Two Leaders of Plan Fafl good work and are happy over the! to Obey Subpoenas prospects ahead. Every family will f L have a large garden. i or Hearmg Frost delayed stump pulling 1w —_— | some parts but it is not planned vo ~WASHINGTON, May 26. — Dr.| use stump lands this season. (Francis E. Townsend's defiant at- . - \titude toward the House Investigat- FURD BUMPANY !ing Committee’s hearing on Town- | | Wunder, of New York. Both men ! {failed to appear when Chairman | 9 Bell opened today’s hearing. | | Chairman Bell noted for the rec- ord that both men were under sub- SIX ARE DEAD, PLANE CRASH, CANADA WILDS Mining Men and Others Are Killed in Accident— Investigation AMOS, Quebec, May 26.—A Can- adian passenger plane crash Sun- day, in which six persons died, is being investigated by officials. The crash occurred half a mile from Chibougamau Lake, 100 miles northeast of this mining town and 250 miles northwest of Quebec. Pilot Gath Edward, in a searching plane, found the wreckage. to have been returning to Rouyn, | Black Legion in Wayne County, the | 26.—A forest fire which has already 'send Clubs, was today emulated Balance Sheet for 1935 Is ’by two of his leaders, John Kiefer, (of Chicago, and the Rev. Clinton Placed on File in Massachusetts | poena to appear. He told newsmen |? mining center 50 miles from here | that the hearing today was behind after an inspection tour of mining | closed doors, also that there had!Properties. | been “no change in the situation”| W- H. Clarke, General Airways regarding Dr. Townsend. | pilot, veteran flier aviation pioneer e T Ao |in the Province; Mechanic George Millhan and Leo Springer, head of | | the Ceres Exploration Ltd., and three prospectors, names unknown, were authorities have raided five homes in the downriver section and found what they claimed to be evidence of’ two recent bombings. Twelve men stood mute whenear- raigned late yesterday on charges of murder and kidnaping. Innocent pleas were entered: PROTEST 0 ST OVER DEMOCONCLAVE IN WASHINGTON Right Wingers Consider Calling Another Session to Repudiate ‘Radicals’ # SEATTLE, May 26—The Kln‘; Couvaty Democratic Chairman, Jos- | | eph Whetstone, sald today thia he| {is contemplating calling anothey, right wing party convention to re’| | pudiate the “radical” steps taken| lat the Aberdeen convention. | In Spokane Attorney Charles Gil- | lespie said a meeting would be call- | ed in Spokane of conservative Dem- | ocrats. | Other conservative Democrats] over the State are protesting the action of the Aberdeen convention| last week. NOMINATED FOR SOC. PRESIDENT George Nelson, "Dirt Farm- taken five lives has broken out again in new fury. Hundreds of weary fire fighters thought they had finally conquer- ed the blaze when Fire Warden Alfred Morey, at Mount Holly, re- | ported the blaze going fast again | this forenoon. The fire started at Chatworth | Saturday and roared Southeast- | ward. %/’ | One party of CCC fighters was | trapped but managed to escape. | Four bodies were found early this morning near Stafford Forge. A | tifth victim died in a hospital here !as a result of burns. Eight men have been taken to the hospital with severe burns. | The fire has already swept 80 | square miles of scrub pine. Two victims have been identified as Stanley Carr, aged 33 of Ware- -— |ton, a truck driver, and Ira Morey, of West Creek, a brother of Fire Warden Morey. At midafternoon it is believed the |‘(ire fighters are getting the blaze | under control. Two district fire wardens and 15 men are missing but it is believed they are probably safe. | Late this afternoon it is stated | that over 1,500 acres have been swept by the fires and 750 men are now engaged in battling the flames. Many of the men have been on the | firing line for 48 hours and are ex- hausted. MRS, BONFILS | Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening, ctor of the Division of Territeries and Insular Possessions, and Gov. John W. Troy reute from & ard to Anchorage on their recent trip through the Territory. Col. O. F. Ohlson’s inspection car, equipped with flanged wheels for travel on the railroad was used by the party cver parts of the Alaska Railroad. One of the Alaska Railroad locomotives background. Note the brooms just forward of the front wheels. These are intended to sweep bits of metal from the track as the car is equipped with pneumatic tiressy however, on the trip from McKinley Park to Fairbanks the rabbits along the track were so mumercus that a number were swept from the track and saved from the wheels by the brooms, which assumed a rabbit-life saving service as well as punc- ture preventers | | | Kidnap Cliarges Brought by Man - - Who Loses Wife Hitchhiker from Seattle, Bound to Eugene, Victim of Trick | McMINNVILLE, Ore., May 26— Warrants tharging kidnaping have | #63 been sworn out on complaint of | Bert Combs, of Seattle, against| Lo | Harvey Harpole, of Yamhill, Ore- - PASSES AWAY | gon, and “John Doe"” after the dis- | appearance of Mrs. Combs, Sergeant Ralph Grenfell, of the Oregon State Police, said Combs told him that he and his wife were | hitch-hiking from Seattle to Eu- | gene last Saturday. Two men near |a lift and they accepted also the Oregon City offered- to give them || | AT HER HOME Body of 72-Year-Old News- paper Woman Is to Lie in State i | BOSTON, Mass. May 26. — The Hl DI GAYFURD 3 privately owned Ford Motor Com- vIsITs HEHE pany made an indicated profit of three million five hundred and sixty thousand dollars in 1935. Official of Big Advertising Agency Round Trip- per on Aleutian | A balance sheet filed with the| Massachusetts tax authorities show- ed Massachusetts is alone among the states in compelling a filing of | such a statement which affords only public indication of profits of the Detroit company. the victims of the crash. e VR ALFRED LOMEN IS IN JUNEAU Alfred J. Lomen arrived on the The Canadian Ford Company also records public stock. The Detroit Company is held entirely by Ford, his wife and son, Edsel B. Ford. FIRST 1936 FISH | PACK REPORT IN The first 1936 fish pack report has been received by the Juneau | office of the Bureau of Fisheries from the Copper River district near | Cordova. Five companies which' have been operating in that area for two weeks had packed 6,580 cases of reds and 74 cases of kings up to May 24, the report shows. The season opened in the Copper River district the first of May. Canneries operating there are Glacier Seas Foods Company, New England Fish Company, Pioneer Canneries, Inc., Pioneer Sea Foods | Company and the Shepard Point Packing Company. ——————— POLET NOME BOUND Al A. Polet, Nome merchant and secretary of the Nome Chamber of Commerce, arrived today on the Aleutian and left for Fairbanks enroute to Nome aboard the PAA Lockheed Electra. Mr. Polet is re- turning from a vacation and busi- ness trip of about three months in the States. 1 Herbert D._ Cayford, Vice-Presi- |Aleutian and left Juneau later this dent of Beaumont and Hohman, afternoon aboard the second PAA Inc., one of the nation’s largest|Lockheed Electra transport plane advertising agencies, whose omce‘f"’ Fairbanks, enroute to Nome. is located in San Francisco, is a Mr. Lomen, who is returning to round tripper on the liner Aleu-|NOme after a winter in Seattle, tian, and he called on business Stated that his family, including acquaintances and friends here |his wife, his two brothers, Carl while the steamer was in pon‘and Ralph Lomen, and their wives, today. |will laeve the States later to spend Mr. Cayford, who stated that San the summer in Nome. J Prancisco is enjoying real prosper- | “I believe from the freight ship- ity again, is making the trip merelykmm_ls being sent to Nome, that to get better acquainted with Al- ‘segnon will show substantial growth aska and its people. Beaumont md‘cms season,” Mr. Lomen said, “and Hohman handle the Alaska Steam- | We all feel sure of a very bright ship Company advertising mro'ugh-‘f“‘“" extending over at least tht out the world, He was accompanied | D€Xt ten years.” to Juneau by Dean Sherman, also| A new school building and a new with the Beaumont company, md\‘Coun._House, to be built this sum- Mrs. Sherman, nee Lillian Alex- Me€r in Nome, will complete the ander of Juneau, who will visit Puilding program for that city, Mr. with Judge George F. Alexander!“’men said, and the fire will be and family. | forgotten. CRANE STOPS HERE | ON WAY WESTWARD ‘The Bureau of Fisheries vessel| Crane arrived in Juneau at 6:30| last evening from Seattle and de- by the U. 8. Customs authorities parted five hours later for Alaska for failing to report in at Fair- Peninsula where she will be sta-|banks on his recent trip from the tioned this season. Lin Jorgenson |States with a new Stinson, it was is Captain and Ben Burford, form- | made public here today. erly of the Teal, Chief Engineer.| Mirow hopped into Fairbanks The vessel will operate in the from Whitehorse and landed at the Alaska Peninsula district under the |Fairbanks field, but failed to report direction of Capt. Ray L. Cole and to the Customs before taking off Warden Steel Cubertson, who have for Nome where he operates the charge of that patrol this summer.|Mirow Air Service, o |AVIATOR FINED FOR SKIPPING CUSTOMS Penalty of $500 has been assessed against Hans Mirow, Nome aviator, er,” Vice-President Candidate CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 26. —, | For the third time, Norman Thom- | as has been nominated Socialist| candidate for President. George Nelson, “dirt farmer” of Polk County, Wisconsin, has been| nominated for Vice President at the convention held here. Thomas is a New York attorney| | dency in 1928 and again in 1932 PATCO MAKES MANY FLIGHTS Two flights were made this morn- ing by the Alaska Air Transport seaplane Patco, and two more trips are scheduled for this afternoon. At 5:30 o'clock this morning the plane flew to Haines, returning at 7:30 o'clock with two pas- sengers, Hawley Sterling, Assistant Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, and F. A. Burgy, rep- resentative for the Chamberlin Weather Strip Company. At 8:30 am. the plane flew (0 Sitka with Norman Banfield as a roundtrip passenger, and J. C. Mas- sey, and brought back N. A. Mc- Eachran. Upon returning from Sitka the Patco was scheduled to fly to Hawk Inlet this afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pekovich and Bill Flory. Another flight will be made this afternoon with Everett Nowell and Joe Morrison to Wrangell and Mrs. Louis Whitten to Petersburg. - HOLLYWOOD — ZaSu Pitts has been in the movies for 19 years. She first appeared before the cam- era in Mary Pickford’s “The Little Princess,” in 1917, invitation to spend the night at Harpole’s home. Within six miles of their des- tination, Combs asked to get out and inspect a tire. -While out of the car the men drove away with his wife and they never arrived at the Harpole home. SITKA MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO SHIPPING SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 26 e~ —Mrs. Winifred Sweet Bonfils, 72, President Charles E. Bunnell welcoming Dr. Gruening and Gov. |who has been connected with the Troy (o the 14th annual commencement exercises of the University | Hearst papers for 37 years and is of Alaska, May 18, in front of new library and gymnasium building, 'known for her writings as Annie cn the University of Alaska campus near Fairbanks. | Laurie Winnifred Black, died at her PANLOCKHEEDS 3FISHERMEN = and was nominated for the Presi-| yor Rossi, with the consent of M the relatives, directed that the body |lie in state at the City Hall at 2 m. today until civic services at | as canned salmon Al Shanbeck has| Both of the PAA Lockheed Electrs | been fined $100 and sentenced to| transport planes left Juneau for 60 days in jail by U. S. Commis- | Fairbanks this afternoon. The first sioner Henry L. Bahrt of Sitka, Electra piloted by W. J. Jones, with according to information to Frank Robert J. Gleason, PAA Superin- Dufresne, Acting Executive Offi-| tendent of Communications as | cer of the Alaska Game Commis-|dio operator, left the local airpo: sion. | at 3 o'clock with the following pas The meat was first traced to Port-| sengers: Lee Mattieson, Denise land by game commission authori- Coyle, Mrs. T. E. Hoffman, Bettie ties and seized there, being return-| Maude Hoffman, Patty Bee Hoff- ed to Sitka for evidence with the|man, and Willlam Hesse. | apprehension of Shanbeck. It has| The second Electra, flown by Pi- now been turned over to the Pion-|lots Al Monsen and William Knox eer's Home. DEER MEAT OUTSIDE Pleading guilty to shipping deer | meat out of the Territory labeled e 4 oclock with three passengers & | Alfred J. Lomen and A. Polet en- Workers on Strike route to Nome, and W. J. Barrows ill Callfomla Flelds PAA Division Engineer. | - | LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 26— | Deputy Sheriffs are patrolling the | county vegetable fields to forestall| wrs W further gun fights between strikers| juneau on the Aleutian from a and workers. |seven months' trip to the States Flying squadrons of pickeis have |The traveler has been visiting rela- already suffered three minor shoot- |tives in the Middle West and Cali- ing casualties. fornia. Strikers in the Dominguez celery fields are encountering resistance | 'from the non-striking laborers who | are reported arming. | - eee G. F. Talmadge, retired claim The manufacture of cadium, used agent for the Alaska Steamship |for pigment and in fireworks and Company, and Mrs. Talmadge are |ammunition has begun in the Bar-|roundtrip passengers aboard the tlesville, Okla. mine district. Aleutian, MRS. KIMBALL RETURNS B. Kimball arrived in -~ TALMADGE ON ALEUTIAN ra- ARE MISSING |Overturned Boat Is Found { on Cook Inlet—No Trace | Found of Occupants ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 26.—- An and small boats are scouring the shores of Cook Inlet near Big River today for the bod- ies of three fishermen believed to have been drowned Otto Thompson and two uniden- airplane | | and their overturned boat was found | but no trace of the three men. The | incident was reported when a can- | | nery tender docked nere yesterday ‘Quintuplets to Celebrate Second Birthday Thursday CALLENDER. Outario, May .. Although the parents of the Dionne quintuplets still decline to accept jythe home built from the childrens’ earpings, an eight room house will be erected shortly for the hospital staff caring for the youngsters. This is the announcement made by Dr. Alan Dafoe. The quints’ sec- ond birthday will be next Thurs- day. noon tomorrow. Mrs. Bonfils has been in news- paper work for 46 years. Her hus- band, Charles Bonfils, brother of the publisher, Fred Bonfils, of Den- ver, and her daughter, Mrs. Winni- fred Barker, survive. —— e—— o STOCK QUOTATIONS . ® 0 e 000000000 | NEW YORK, May 26—Closing ‘quotation of Alaska Juneau mine lslock today is 13'2, American Can |129%, American Light and Power |11%, Anaconda 34, Bethlehem Steel 52%, Curtiss-Wright 6%, General | was scheduled to leave Juneau at| tified men went fishing last week Motors 63'%, International Harvest- er 86', Kennecott 38%, United States Steel 60, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Cities Service 4%, Bremner 18 at 25, Pound $4.98. DOW, JON AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 152.26; rails, 46.21; utilities, 31.65. SNETTISHAM MINING FIRM INCORPORATES Articles of incorporation have been filed with Territorial Auditor |Frank A. Boyle by the Crystal Gold Mining, Inc, of Snettisham. Incorporators are S. A. Wilson of Juneau and Lynn Burleson and James Toby, both of Morton, Wash. Capital stock is listed at $115,000.