The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 2, 1936, Page 1

VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7216. THE DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, ULY+2,:1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SWEPT TO DEATH IN FLOOD WATERS ALASKA TO BE ADDED TO BIG DEFENSE PLAN Air Base Site to Be Located at Fairbanks by Board of Officers DELEGATE DIMOND MAKES STATEMENT Flight of Army Bombers to Alaska Was Part of Scheme WASHINGTON, July 2. — The United States Government is pre- paring to forge another link in the chain of protective air bases. This was indicated yesterday when the War Department named a three man board of officers to select a suitable air base site near Fair- banks. The personnel of the Board of Officers is as follows: Lieutenant Colonel Wilmot - A. Danielson, of the Quartermaster Corps Major Otto G. Trunk, of the Army Air Corps. Major Albro L. Parsons, Medical Corps. Base Authorized The air base is authorized by Con- gress which passed the Wilcox Air Base bill offering the United States Flying Corpse the extreme northern aviation supply depot. Among the first to express satis- faction at the Board's appointment is Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond, The Delegate said: “I am confi- dent it will be shown that Alaska is as important as the Hawaiians in the National Defense scheme.” Was Planned Early The War Department has long con- sidered the feasibility of establish- ing an aviation base in the Nation’s northernmost Territory. Although the High Command did oi the First 6 Months’ Auto Qutput Equals Tota 1’31 Production By DAVID J. WILKIE (Associated Press Staff Writer) DETROIT, Mich., July 2—The motor car industry crossed the mid- year industrial meridian with a six months’ production of approximate- ly 2,500,000 cars and trucks behind it and every indication pointing to an aggregate for the year of close to 4,800,000 units, The 1936 six months’ output 15 al- most exactly the total the automo- bile assembly plants turned out in the entire year of 1931 Executives of the industry, re- viewing activities at the half-way point, see something infinitely more gratifying than the return of con- sumer demand that required the production of so many units in the first six months. They claim a sub- stantial success in ironing out the traditional peaks and valleys in factory activity, which in past years produced a shortage of workers at one period and heavy unemploy- ment at another. | Replacement Market Seen A majority of executives are con- vinced the upturn which took on additional impetus this year will carry on throughout next year, and while no authority among them cares to attempt an appraisal of potentialitles beyond that point, | they count heavily upon the obso- lescence of older models to provide a huge replacement market. | Coupled with the effort to stab- ilize employment in the motor in- dustry was the plan, effectuated | (Continued on Page Three) NIGHT RIDERS IMPLICATED IN SIX FLOGINGS Preacher Heads Gang, Newspaper Asserts— Find List of Victims WILMINGTON, North Carolina, July 2.—The Daily Star-News. to- day said it has ebtained a sworn statement naming a preacher, a merchant and three women as leaders of a hooded band Gov. Troy Makes Call Today at | White House | WASHINGTON, July 2.—Gov- | ernor John W, Troy on leaving | the White House today said that | Alaskans were afraid that their | section will be the theatre for the next war. When asked with whom the next war would be | fought, the Governor smiled as he replied: “Possibly with Siam.” Gov. Troy was accompanied | on his call by Delegate A. J. Dimond and Robert W. Bender; of The Empire. He held sev- eral conferences with War and Navy officials about Alaska's de- fenses. of night riders accused for iluggxng: several Columbus County women % T0 CRUSH ANY COLONY REVOLT riders called themselves vigilantes| | IFidgety Mediterranean and operated with a slegan "To’ Change or Kill.” Provinces Are Causing The gang set out to rid the com- | munity of persons they considered | undesirables, the newspaper further | says. Seven women were listed for lash- ings. Four women and two men have PRESIDENT MAY LOSE MONEY ON GEORGIA FARM Manager of Roosevelt’s Ranch Predicts Crop | Fifth of Normal WARM SPRINGS, Ga., July 2— “Roosevelt stands to lose a lot of | money,” Ottis Moore, Superintend- ent of the President’s Pine Mountain farm, said here today, “because the drought in this section has been the worst in years. We have had no rain on the farm since April 8.” | The farm manager added, “I don't} | know how it will turn out. The way |it looks now we will be lucky to |harvest one-fifth of our crop.” | Pastures for the herd of 125 cattle are brown and“lifeless, the 50 acres |of sun stunted corn is knee high | where they ought to be higher than a man’s head. MINER TRAFPED FOR 20 HOURS 1S * RESCUED ALIVE \Pennsylvania Man Suffered ALASKA VETS GIVEN TIME T0 GET BONDS Postmasters May Hold Bonus Certificates for 90 Days WASHINGTON, July 2—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said the regulation requiring postmasters to return to the Treasury bonus bonds that cannot be delivered with- in 30 days, have been modified for the benefit of Alaska veterans who addresses within that period. Delegate Dimond said the Post Office Department has agreed to order all Alaska postmasters to al- low Alaskan veterans, working on the fishing banks and out of the way places or in distant mining camps ninety days in which to se- cure their bonus bonds. MRS. HEWITT FACES SUICIDE CHARGE NOW Widow Is Fugitive from California in Steril- ization Case i No Serious Injuries | from Entombment s i | SHAMOKIN, Pa., July Z*RFSCU-Q jers today brought Enoch Kuklinski ;le to the surface after he was en- | tombed for twenty hours in a thirty (foot coal hole. Physicians said he suffered no serious injuries. “Air, air, give me air!” the thirty-! | five-year-old miner gasped through the towel over his face as, swathed in blankets like a mummy and strapped to a plank, he was hoisted out by a chain wound on a hand- turned windless. His father, 60, who' JERSEY CITY, N. J, July 2 lare unable to be at their post ffice | | A Recent Bride Latest picture of Mrs. Marion A. Zioncheck, wife of the Wash- ington State Congressman who escaped from a santarium in Mary- land, eluded officers and locked himself up in his office in the Capitol Office Building in Washington, D. C., subsequently leaving, under guard, for his home TWENTY-ONE LIVES LOST, CLOUDBURST ;Torrents of Rain Swells Creeks and Rivers in Texas Section ONE ENTIRE FAMILY REPORTED DROWNED JDaryage to Crops, Property Estimated to Be Ex- ceedingly Large SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 2.— Floods, caused by cloudbursts, and which took 21 lives yesterday, are again threatened when a torrent of rain fell along the Peach Creek region and a fresh rise took place. Reports received here said an entire family of Mexicans has been swept down stream and the nine members have been drowned. Two inches of rain fell early this morning in less than one hour at Gonzales. Twelve persons were swept to death yesterday forenoon when the Guadalupe River went wild fed by swollen streams which suddenly rushed out of their banks on ac- count of a cloudburst. Later in the day nine other in- | habitants near Gonzales and San Marcos lost their lives in the swol- len torrents. Damage to crops and property. is | reported large. «Jire today to face charges of at« Mrs. Marion Cooper Hewitt, so weak that she had to be assisted by two nurses and a policeman, ap- peared before the criminal court Dactors Ready fo Operate on Siamese Twing tempted suicide, and being a Cali- fornia fugituve from justice, Ior<‘ mal arraignment was deferred to Septembere 24. Bail of $3500 on both | charges was supplied, and Mrs.| Hewitt returned to a hospital. | As there will go no Grand Jury Seattle. ZIONCHECK IS BAREHEADED IN - HOT BUTTE SUN CASE PREPARED ON SMALL BOAT HEARING HERE |escaped entrapment because he was meeting during the summer, the | working nearer the shaft when the Judge said that he would sign a | Further Suggestions Should Freak Babies Are Born Last Congressman Buys News- s i not openly acknowledge it, it is gen- been vicitims. ! Much Concern erally understood that the mass flight of heavily laden bombers to Alaska, via Edmonton, a few years agc, was made chiefly to study flight conditions in the north with a view to establishing a base at or near Fairbanks. It is said that the flight showed the advisability of the Alaskan base. SHRINE PARTY 1S DUE HERE NEXT MONDAY Two HundreT Islam Tem- ple Members Leave San Francisco for North SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 2.— A party of 200 Islam Temple Shrin- ers with their wives and guests are today enroute to Alaska via Seattle and Vancouver, B. C. The party members are aboard a special excur- sion train for Vancouver, where the Canadian Pacific steamer Pincess Norah has been chartered for the special Alaska trip. Returning south the Shriners will arrive in Seattle for the National Shrine convention there starting June 13. The Shrine party is scheduled to arrive in Juneau, next Monday on board the Princess Norah. e, MORGAN NOW MUCH BETTER Financier Must Reduce— - Published Rumors Denied GLENCOVE, N. Y, July 2—J. P. already By CHARLES FOLTZ PARIS, July 1.—France is sitting . . | Timber Cutting Is | tight on her Mediterranean Empire, |ready to move into action at the first tu Be r flt B sta Isign of revolt. by Anchorage C.C. and a growing independence move- {ment in Tunis. The Italio-Ethiopian war, unrest Objection Is Raised to De- | Syria, cradle of unrest since the |days of the Ottoman empire, has |been temporarily quieted by prom- |ises of a constitution and eventual |independence. How long it will re- lin Egypt and anti-Jewish riots in | Palestine have added to France's stroying Beautiful Highway Woodland own burden of nationalist disorders {in Syria. The pan-Arab movement ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 2.— The Chamber of Commerce of An- chorage plans to wire Secretary of | the Interior Ickes protesting against the prospective cutting of timber along the Anchorage - Matanuska highway by commercial sawmills. The Chamber will ask that regula- tions prohibiting cutting within a reasonable distance, be made. Two sawmill firms have obtained | land office permits to remove timber from along the highway but resi- dents of the section as well as An- chorage residents object to having the beautiful woodland ruined and converted into a stump patch. - e MORE LIVESTOCK FOR MATANUSKA Horses, Sheep and Chick- ens Aboard Oduna from Seattle SEATTLE, July 2—Thirty-e‘sht draft horses, 600 sheep and 7,000 chickens weére shipped aboard the Oduna for the Matanuska Colony yesterday. The horses were shipped by A. C. Ruby, Portland dealer, the sheep came from the Coffin Brothers' ranch at Yakima and the chickens main quiet is one of the main wor- {ries of colonial officials in Paris. Pan-Arab Spirit a Threat | The Pan-Arab movement, nour- |ished in the deserts of Arabia under the aegis of Ibu Saud, holds a direct | threat for France in the ambition of Arabian patriots to include Syria jand the Lebanese Republic, both French mandates, in their empire. Colonial officials, their ears tuned ed that nationalist Syrians took an active part in the Arab anti-Jewish campaigns in Palestine by refusing to send supplies to Jewish colonists in the British mandate. Bands of nationalists, including Maronite Christians, Arabs, Leba- nese and Syrians, patroled the roads leading into Palestine and destroyed truckloadas of provisions destined for Jewish makets. Shieks Want Citizenship i In North Africa the “Arab prob- lem” is most delicate in Algeria where high-born Arabs chafe under the ruling that they may not be- |come French citizens because they lpracuce polygamy while the Alger- ian Jews, on whom they look down, |can and do hold ‘the rights and ‘privileges of French citizenship. | Morocco, colonial officials said, has been little effected by the Pan-Arab movement, chiefly because the coun- try ostensibly is an absolute mon- archy with Sultan 8idi Mohammed {as ruler and commander of the Moslem faith. Morroccans pride themselves in the administrative power left in to the rumblings of discontent, not-I gangway roof caved in yesterdav.‘ reached to embrace his son, but the! rescuers hurried the sorf to an am- bulance as a crowd of 400 cheered. The only apparent effects of the' accident on the miner were from shock, hunger and thirst. The coal timber which fell on Kuklinski had pinned him to a pile of crushed coal on the mine floor which cushioned the weight but held him fast. WILKINS SENDS MESSAGE AFTER THOUGHT LOST Roosevelt Orders Coast ;’ Guard Search, Miss- ing Explorer OSLO, Norway, July 2. — The Norwegian liner Stavangerfjord to- day reported to Oslo the receipt of a message from the Wyatt Earp ex- ploration motorship of Sir Hubert Wilkins, which had been unreported for twelve days, giving the position as 1600 miles northeast of New York | and about 550 miles east of Cape| Race, Newfoundland. Previously Wilkin’s wife, who was | represented as ‘completely broken up with worries for the safety of her distinguished husband,” had ap- pealed to President Roosevelt, who ordered a navy coast guard search for the missing explorer. CHARLES GARFIE VERY ILL IN SEATTLE Charles Garfield, former Assistant Collector of Customs here and wide- ly known in the Territory, is criti~ cally ill in Seattle, according to word. brought here today by Michael De- derer, of the Seattle Fur Exchange. Mr. Dederer, who was a guest of the Chamber of Commerce at its weekly luncheon, said Mr. Garfield was in very serious condition the last word he received. postponement order every ten days until Fall. ‘The California charge against the wealthy widow accuses her of con- spiring to have a sterilization op- Night in Everett, Mass. daughter from having children and living and the other dead, born thus sharing in the fortune left by last night to Mr, and Mrs. Diego her father. ¥ | Fiorenzo of Everett, Massachusetts. An overdose of sedative brought; Dr. John B. Vermaglia, who de- the suicide charge against Mrs. livered the babies, said that the Hewitt, | papers to Read What | They Say About Him b MEDFORD, Mass, July 2—Sur-| BUTTE, Mont., July 2—Congress- eration performed on her daughter,'geons here prepared today to sep- man Marion A. Zioncheck paced the Ann Cooper Hewitt, to prevent her arate a pair of Slamese twins, one iailroad platform here bareheaded sun during the assured “hetter physical and mental condition than despite the torrid stopover of his train, reporters that he was He in cver before.” The Washington Congressman TENN.COMPANY IS FIRED ON BY {larger weighing seven pounds, died| |tive hours after birth, the smaller|purchased some newspapers while one weighing five pounds is alive. here “to see what they say about | Be Made to Faulkner, Shattuck Reports The small boat harbor hearing before Col. H. J. Wild, scheduled for about July 10 here, will be held in the Federal Court room in the Fed- eral aud Territorial Building, it was announced today by Allen Shat- tuck, Chairman of the small boat harbor committee, at the weekly meeting of the Chamber of Com- | merce. | Mr. S8hattuck reported H. L. Faulk- The success of the operation de- pends on whether the bone tissue | connecting the Infants by the backs |of their heads holds intercommun- \ner, City 'Attorney, was preparing |a complete case to be presented at the hearing and asked that all those with infq ition or suggestions rel- me,” He said he was traveling alone in an upper berth because he couldn’t get a lower. He is on his | | STRIKING MEN Subsidiary Miners Pro- test Wage Plan BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 2.— Snipers in ambush along the mountsides overlooking the Ten- nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com- pany limeworks here poured a vol- ley of from fifty to seventy-five shets at the plants and fan house of the company which is a subsidi- ary of the United States Steel Cor- poration. The red ore workers have been on strike for more than a month protesting the inauguration of the tonnage wage plan. CLARK, NEWMARKER RETURNING MONDAY Captains John M. Clark and John Newmarker, United States Steam- boat Inspectors, who have been to the westward, will return to their Juneau headquarters aboard the Yukon due next Monday. This is according to advices received at the Juneau Customs office. Neglected Island \U. S. Steel Corporation! way to his Seattle home. EARTHOUAKE SELASSIE ASKS FOR BIG LOAN REGISTERED FOR B Epicenter Believed to Be in Aleutians, Accord- ing to Moscow Recognize Annexation, Force of Arms GENEVA, July 2—Ha'le Selassie today asked the League of Nations to approve of the fifty million do!- lar loan to finance Ethiop.a’s defense MOSCOW, July 2.—An earthquake, believed to be of disastrous propor- tions, with the epicenter probably near the Aleutians, was registered A TS at the Moscow Seismological Insti-|©f her “integrity. tute at 10:17 o'clock, U. S, Eastern| The deposed Emperor cf © h Standard time, yesterday morning.|31s0 presented the draft of a lution under which tl No reports had been received up|¥ould pledgv.\ to "’rrffl" T to late this afternoon fronr points |"14ng any' L(:Trnu“ul 2 1o to westward Alaska concerning the|achieved by force of ain reported disturbances. A b oh Old Fashioned Hayrile ik i 11 Anchorage Hotels i~ May Make Come-Back MILWAUKEE‘.‘;VT.\ July ‘The Crowded, Tourists; | old fashioned hayrack is com'ng g Ohlson Asking Aid ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 2—All town this summer to make hotels here are filled with tourists for popularity along wilth the and Col. Otto F. Ohlson, manager mobile and speedboat. of the Alaska Railroad, has about City boys and girls in Milwaukee 60 tourists on his hands and is look- are going to have the opporiunity pla L 0- ing for accommodations for them to enjoy the thrills that were dad's when they arrive tomorrow. He has and mother’s back in their courting asked provate families to rent out days. rooms overnight or otherwise the |Also Ask League Not to “ ative to'Jthé ;small boat proposal present 'their suggestions to Mr. Faulkner so that a complete and full case could be presented the District engineer. He asked that differences over location be set aside for the time being in the major thought of getting approval for a small boat project. He said that aired differ- |ences at this time might throw the ire scheme into jeopardy. Capacity Business Tom Gardner of the Juneau Lum- ber Mills, who has been in the West Coast district on logging operations for his company, met with the Cham- ber d reported his business was operating at capacity and that can- neries already had placed orders ahead for next season. He declared he lumber business was the best in yea ing to the recent fire near he reporled it did no actual e biming mosdy in slash- ves but that it threatened for a time and burned for some 15 days af'er the Forest Service got it un- der contrel Guests Other guests of the Chamber to- day were Michael Dederer of the Seatlle' Fur *Exchange, the Rev. Ar- thur M. Knudsen of Longviéw, Wash, President of the Pacific Synod of the Lutheran Church; Tom Dyer, new Standard Oil agent here and W. F. Stanley, assistant to the Soli- citor, U. S. Forest Service. H. L. Faulkner, who recently re- turned from the Republican con- vention in Cleveland, postponed his remarks until next week to allow from Bellingham. Arrangements have been made at LS R RIOT; 15 DIE LOW, Poland, July 2—Fifteen were killed here and many wounded their hands and only recently ex- ercised it by bringing about the re- moval of the resident general, Henri Ponsot, who had the misfortune to hold his post during the depression years. Morgan's physicians today mapped a weight reducing program for the internationally known financier who was yesterday brought on a stretch- er from his New York offices to his estate here. Morgan is convalescing from his attack of neuritis which made walk- ing painful. — time for other speakers. It was one of the lagest turnouts the Chamber has had in weeks. Ac- tual count showed 52 in attendance, and compliment was passed C. D. Beale, Chairman of the attendance committee. ————— The ospreys or fish hawks build northbound train will be compelled Brown Deer Park for hayrack par- to run direct to Curry to the rail-|ties over the winding five-miles of road hotel. road in the park. Farmers living Scores of tourists are taking stop- |nearby will supply the racks, hay overs here in order to visit the/and horses and will do the driving. Matanuska colony, | S eee TR KOKKO FLIES TO HOONAH BARR FLIES FROM ATLIN | Walter Kokko, Continental Can The North Canada Air Express|Company representative, was a pas- - Rediscovered Now BACK FROM YACHT TRIP Miss Harriet Lawrence and Miss| RECIFE, Brazil, July 2.—Forgot- Ellen Remmsnyder of Haines, who|ten since first explored by an un- left here last week aboard the yacht|named American 30 years ago, the Lindsley for a trip to Glacier Bay,|Isle of Santo Aleixo, a mile long flew back here yesterday from|and half as wide, was visited recent- Hoonah, ly by Alfred Von Bukowski, amateur Miss. Lawrence plans to leave for|geologist, who said a volcanic erup- “Destours” Agitate Tunis Marcel Peyrouton, who succeeded Ponsot in Morocco, had been the Friends and doctors minimized the affliction and denied published re- ports that he suffered coronary thrombosis two weeks tago. in peasant rioting when the large estate owners imported poverty stricken. farm workers to aid with the harvesting. resident general in Tunis where his main job was keeping an eye on (Continued on Page Thr-e) Haines on the Northwestern on Sat-|tion at the bottom of the Atlantic Pilgrim plane piloted by L. F. Barr, senger to Hoonah today aboard the \urday. main in Juneau for about a week. Miss Remmsnyder will re-|centuries ago thrust it up 54 miles southeast ‘of here. arrived from Atlin today with one |Irving Airways Lockheed Vega sea- | passenger, A, Clay. plane, piloted by Gene Meyring. a huge nest which they inhabit year after year, adding to it and repairing it from time to time.