The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 22, 1936, Page 1

" THE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XLVIII., NO 7232, jUNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY, JULY ZZ 1936. * * * * * * * * * * * * * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS * * * * * U. S. BATTLESHIPS SPEEDING TO SPAIN * * » * A EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS * * * REPUBLIC IN THR@ES OF CIVIL WAR BIG DANGE IS ARRANGED FOR NAVY SAILORS Mayor Golé;;n and City Officials Sponsaring " Affair Friday Night WOMEN'S CLUB WILL | JOIN IN GAY EVENT Real Alaska Welcome to Be | Extended “Gobs” with | Fair Building Hop Enlisted men of Uncle Sam’s Navy, who are scheduled to arrive| in Juneau tomorrow aboard the cruiser Detroit and three destroyers, | are going to get the welcome sxgnah when they get to town. Through the efforts of Mayot I. Goldstein the Navy boys are go- ing to be entertained this year, and not left to wander around the streets to their own devices as last year. Heartily endorsing The Empire’s suggestion of yesterday, the Mayor ! was busy bright and early this morn- ing and at noon was in position to announce that a big free dance for the enlisted men would be held in the Fair Building starting at 9:30 o'clock Friday night and lasting un- tilla m. Urges Hospitality “We can't let these boys come to, town and ignore them as if we thought they were just a bunch of | drunken sailors,” declared the May- | or., “We always entertain the offi-| cers, and we enjoy doing it. And I for one, want to see the enlisted boys shown a liftle hospitality. We want the Navy in town and we want them to come back again.” | The Mayor met full-hearted re- sponse to his position among the Councilmen and arrangements were immediately made with W. S. Pul-| len, who has charge of the Fair building, to obtain that dance floor for the event, at a nominal price. An orchestra will be obtained and (Continuea on Page Seven) - e 1,000 OFFICERS AND MEN COMING ON NAVAL SHIPS Admiral Woodward Expect- ed to Lead His Division Into Juneau Tomorrow Led by the U. 8. 8. Detroit, flag- ship of Rear Admiral C. H. Wood- ward, Navy vessels are expected to arrive in Juneau tomorrow after- noon. Exact time of arrival had not been received here this after- noon, but the vessels left Ketchi- kan this morning and previous word to Mayor I. Goldsteip from Admiral ‘Woodward’s office stated they would | arrive here on Thursday. While 11 destroyers are in the| Division in command of Admiral| Heads Shrmera Judge Clyde |. Webster of Moslem Temple, Detroit, was elected im: perial potentate of the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at their internftional con: vention in Seattle. (Associated Press Photo) SOLDIERS WILL COME HERE;TO ARRIVE AUG. 2 Mayor Gol(Kein Receives Information from Col. Dusenbury Company F., from Chilkoot Bar- racks, is coming to Juneau on Aug-' ust 2 for a three day stay. This afternoon Mayor I. Gold- stein received the following radio from Col. Ralph Wayne Dusen- bur) On August 2, I desire to send Company F to Juneau for three days. If possible, would like to use Evergreen Bowl for purpose. Base- ball team will accompany com- pany. Request information if Bowl wfll be availiable.” Mayor Goldstein immediately ra- dioed that Evergreen Bowl will be available and that “officials of the Gastineau Channel Baseball League {will be only too glad to arrange games and the people of Juneau will welcome the soldlers Wife Hsld Mate Down; She's Shot, in Lunely Woads _] oseph Perryman Makes Confession to Prose- cuting Attorney _TIFFIN, Ohio, July 22—Prose- OUTBREAK NEAR PT. BARROW OF LONG STANDING Trouble Between Indians and Eskimos Been Going on During Past Year POINT BARROW, Alaska, July| 22.—Arctic coast Eskimos’ imagina- | tions have been fired by the recent | tundra robbery and attack and to-| day they reviewed strange tales of | an Indian tribe dwelling in the un- known far Interior valley. Mixed | with stories of legendary people | were accounts of massacres beneath | | the northern lights and of men | vanishing into desolate wastes. | Robbery and revenge among the; | coast dwellers is blamed on an old feud between Eskimos and Indians| from south of the Baird Mountains. | |The whites blamed the Indians driven from Canada by the Royal| Canadian mounties for at least a| for=——rr—orrmrrror—— part of the recent year's depreda- tions. Whites and Eskimos alike felt apprehension for safety. A few Point Barrow Eskimo families are known to have camped near the| of music, | mountains 300 miles south. Dr. Henry Greist recalled that |six years ago two Eskimos left| =g | Wainwright by dog teams for a| NEW YORK, as of week ending |short trip into the Interior and|july 18, by Associated Press—In the/ |never were seen again. Eight Eski- ‘mos trailed to their camp and found cks convincing them that the| missing men were, victims of an Indian raid and taken prisoners. e — LINDBERGHS midst of the crisis in Europe, there arose this all-dominating question: Has there been a revival of the pre- war allegiance between Germany, Austria, Hungary and Italy? For many months there have been persistent reports of a Nazi-Fascist| bloc extending from Berlin down across Europe to -Rome. Always, maneuvers and dr DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS WINS ELKS’ CHAMPIONSHIP This is the drum and bugle corps of the Elks lodge of Anaheim, Calif., which won first place in ths national contest held at the B. P. O. E. convention at Los Angeles. The corps were judged on the basis (Associated Press Photo) Week’s News in Review by Richard H. Hippelheuser The accord found a quick reply from France’s allies. THE '36 CAMPAIGN All for one, one for all ... . It was a dramatic, climatic mo- ment at the Cleveland Convention of followers of Dr. Francis E. Town- |send and his old-age revolving pen- sion plan movement. With his coat and clerical collar one thing seemed to stand in thel .o oveq his shirt open at the neck, - INGERMANY, ~ FLYING TRIP Lunch wi!hE!:te and City Officials at Colonge | With Austria prociaiming itselt . |a Germanic state, both nations will —Berlin Bound |pursue a comemen foreign policy. | In Rome, the accord was greet- ed in informed circles with the pre- diction of a four-power collabora- tion in all major problems of Eur- BULLETIN — BERLIN, July 22.—Col. Lindbergh and his wife | arrived here late today. ope. linking Italy, Germany, Aus- tria and Hungary. COLOGNE, many, 1} — o i P Al Mussolini’s influence has been Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and MTS.| g ramount in Austria and Hungary | way of «n understanding between| iration streaming down his Hitler and Benito Mussolini 11| beroP s Duce wanted Austria to remain in- dependent from Germany. This barrier has been removed. In an accord announced simultameous- ly in Berlin and Vienna, the Hitler government recognized the indepen-| dence of Austria. face, Father Charles E. Coughlin was finishing his castigation of New Deal and Republican leadership. Only a few minutes before he had turned the convention into a bed- |lam of applause when he called the President, “The Great Betrayer and | Liar.” With delegates standing, cheering, shouting, he put one arm around | the shoulder of Dr. Townsend, the |other around the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, and cried out: “With these two leaders, I stand e | BRISTOL BAY SALMON PACK OVER MILLION (th F lshmg Closing Satur-| day Total Expected to Go | Over 1,560,000 Cases With the Bristol Bay fishing sea- son due to close next Saturday, the salmon pack through last Satur-| day was showing up well, accord- BATTLES BEING FOUGHT, MANY " FRONTS TODAY | Thousand lees Reported to Have Been Taken in Warfare U. S. EMBASSY HIT BY REBEL BULLETS General Bombardments by | Air and from Sea Said | to Be Raging | BULLI’,TIN—“ASH]NG- TON, July 22.—The American Embassy at Madrid advised the State Department at 5 o’clock this afternoon, Spanish Time, that Government forces are re- ported to have captured Toledo and Guadakajara after severe fighting. No details are avail- able. BULLETIN—LISBON, Portu- gal, July 22.—A radio broadcast | from Seville says Rebel planes | have bombed and sunk three | Spanish government ships and are bombarding Cadiz. FIGHT OFF GIBRALTAR GIBRALTAR, July 22. — Rébel |planes, droning low over the Rock of Gibraltar, bombarded loyal Span- | | ish warships off Algiers and Lalinea ‘late this afternoon and met anti- alrcraft fire Which endangered this city. DEGKS CLEARED FOR ACTION ON BLOODY NATION Over | 500 Americans to Be Evacuated, If It Is Found Necessary |ORDERS ARE ISSUED BY ADM. STANDLEY Oklahoma and Quincy, Powerful Vessels, En- | route, Coastal Waters WASHINGTON, July 22. — The United States Government has di- rected two warships to move immed- itely into Spanish waters to evac- uate this country's 1582 citizens in |bloody Spain, if necessary. This action was decided upon by | Secretary of State Cordell Hull af- |ter a lengthy conference with Ad- |miral William H. Standley, Acting Secretary of the Navy. Immediately, Admiral Standley is- sued orders diverting the two ships bo Spanish waters. Two Powerful Ships ‘The ships are the battleship Okla- homa, now at Cherbourg, France, as a unit of the Midshipmens’ Training squadron, and the U. 8. S. Quincy, | the Navy’s newest 10,000 ton cruis- er. The Quincy cleared decks and is ‘stenmmfl at full speed for Spain with about 800 men aboard. The battléship is armed with 8-inch guns. The Oklahoma has about 1,200 men aboard and is armed with 14- inch guns. Shells screaming through the air British Ships Stand By ing to report to the Bureau of grom tne gnticajrcratt guns on the Fisheries, and there is a chance it|decks, burst high over the Rock, may approach the high mark of | sending thousands gathered to watch British warships are standing by off the Bpanish coast as reports 1934, the last comparable year. July 18 was 1,114,807 cases, pared with 1,679,657 for the same time in 1934 when the total pack reached 1,739,678, an all-time peak. Last year the pack was only 242- 000 cases due to the limited sea- son While it is not anticipated the '34 mark will be reached this week, The total pack this year through, com- | |the display, scurrying in a panic for safety. Splinters of the Rock are reported to have fallen into the water. None of the planes were hit, it is believed. | Pitched Battles LONDON, July 22.—Pitched bat- tles on scattered fronts are punc- | tuating Spain’s bloody Civil War as told of the bloody battle front at |the American Cohsulate in San Se- bastian. | The toll of the rebellion is mount- |ing in Spain, but no Americans have been reported hurt up to this ,morning, but many are unaccounted for. AMERICANS NOT SAFE WASHINGTON, July 22.—Offic~ ials of Barcelopa and Malaga have the pack will stand up to average, and, on the basis of 450,000 cases There was no unification of indem- | packed last week, should be around nity of the Townsendites, of the ;56,000 cases when the season | | Detroit Priest’s National Union for| | four-square.” the Spanish Government sought to advised the American Consular rep- quench the rebellion which, accord-'resentatives they cannot guarantee |ing to reports received here, has al- safety of any Americans or other ready taken over 1,000 lives in the foreigners, Social Justice, and of the “Share-| Lindbergh are here enroute to Ber- lin in a new cabin monoplane.! They Ilunched today with state and city officials. Last week it was stated the Am- erican flier and his wife were to visit Berlin and President Hitler hinted a conference would be held. While in Berlin, the Lindberghs will be guests of the Air Ministry| although they will stay at the Am- | erican Embassy. . LEVANEVISKY IS BEING DELAYED, MOSCOW FLIGHT |have signed an accord with Hitler for months! Chancellor Kurt Schu-| schnigg, beyond doubt, would not|the late Huey P. Long and now led | |by the Rev. Smith. if 11 Duce had not approved it in| They will retain their own or- advance. ganization. But, iny the cdming The German and Itadian dlC'.flt(ll'.\.:(-ampgjgnv the three leaders agreed it was rumored in Rome, may meet to tour the nation together in be- again soon in Venice. But there | half of North Dakota's Representa- was an indication that Il Duce was | tive, Willlam Lemke, who announc- not desirious of entering into an ed his candidacy for the Presidency open alliance with the third Reich on the Union Party ticket, with| at this time. itl\e backing of the Coughlin forces. Not only has the Berlin-Viei nna, The Republicans have rejoiced in accord complicated the lmpendmgithe criticism of the Roosevelt Ad- Locarno conferences too consider ministration by prominent anti-New Hitler's demand for German equal-|Deal Democrats. ity with all European states; bul‘ This week, the Democrats found it has driven a wedge between France opportunity for some rejoicing of and its allies to the East; the little | their own. entente (Rumania, Czechoslovakia| Dr. Murray Nicholas Butler, Pres- and Soviet Russia). (Continued on Page Three) ‘Wishful- Thmhmg Politicians Woodward only three thus far are cutlng Attorney Flynn today . said scheduled to come here with the Joseph Perryman, 42, real estate Detroit, although it is not unlike- Operator, has’confessed to shooting ly that others will steam in and | his wife, Margaret, 53, to death in ‘May Not Hop Off for Ju-‘ neau Before Middle of Next Week, Report+ | E ven B efor e Persist in Tallying Chickens out during the next week or more. It is anticipated the Litchfield, Southard and Chandler will come in here with the flagship, bringing at least 1,000 officers and men to the city for the week end. The| | said: lonely Weods on July 14. Flynn said Perryman claimed he “wanted to be free and run around a little. f t Perryman, according to Flynn, “Yes, I must have killed her LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 22—/ Tests will not be completed for several days on the new specially epuipped plane Sigismund Levane-| visky, noted Soviet pilot, is to fly Eggs Are Laic By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) Long before the nation-wide cam- ships are scheduled to clear for but I cannot understand when further mameuvers in Alaskan wat-| €ven now. She sort of tied me ers next Monday. En‘ertainment Plans | Plans for the entertainment of naval officers arriving in Juneau on the warships include an inform- al tea and reception for Rear Ad- miral Woodward, his staff and of- ficers of the destroyers at the Gov- ernor’s House Friday afternoon, with Acting-Governor E. W. Griffin and Mrs. Robert W. Bender as hosts, in the absence of Governor Troy. Hours have been tentatively set from 4 to 6 o'clock Friday, pending the arrival of Admiral Woodward, ncwrmng to Simpson mzxmnon, (Contmued on Pus Two) e down.” - .. DUFRESNE TO RUBY Frank Dufresne, Executive Of- ficer of the Alaska Game Commis- sion, who is in the Interior on game matters, left Fairbanks to- day for Ruby and Yukon River points, joining Deputy Warden Grenold Collins, who is stationed at Marshall. He probably will re- turn to Juneau during the fore part of Augu.st e A 114-foot brick chimney, built leaning almost as much as the tower \of Pisa, has been standing 14 years near San Diego, Calif. from here to Moscow, via Seattle,| |paign gets well urder way, the Juneau, Fairbanks and Nome. prognosticators are busy informing Levanevisky probably will no!!me public who will win, It is pos- leave before the middle of next|sible to read daily that Chairman week, the Airplane Development Whosis has announced the glorious Corporation said. and over-whelming triumph of his — T candidate, or that Senator Whatsit STEVE BROJAC FLIES HERE FROM TENAKEE; |has conducted a survey and finds | his state safe for the ticket beyond ! HE'S ON VACATION |the peradventure of a doubt. Some political managers even are Steve Brojas, proprietor of the-hnuung out the adding machines Fishermen’s Caafe located in Sitka, and counting with great exactitude arrived yesterday by plane (rom]the chickens from eggs not yet laid. Tenakee where he has spent the| The reasons for this strange per- | past three weeks at the popular | formance are something of a mys- Springs on a vacation. According tery. Perhaps the best explana- to Brojac he is enjoying his trip|tion is that the practice of long- greatly and expects to leave for his|range political forecasting persists home by plane Friday. becanse no one has stopped to con- | sider how foolish most of it appears under present-day conditions. | 5.611; comes to a close, officials believe. The pack by districts in Bristol ithe-Wealth” movement organized by | Bay through July 18 showed: Nushagak — Kings, 2,270; (134,117; pinks, 15,179; chums, 340; cohos, 249; total, 165,155. Naknek-Kvichak — Kings, reds, 826,092; pinks, 54; total, 833,052, | Egegik—Kings, 32; reds, | chums, 685; total, 81248, | Ugashik —Kings, 40; reds, 34,942; chums, 370; total, 35352. Grand total of all districts in Lhe | area with one week left to fish, 1,114,807 cases, .- reds, 13,- 1,295; chums, 80,531; | SOVIET FLIERS In by-gone times, there probably! was a psychological advantage in claiming everything in sight. On many occasions, too, it probably was possible to get a rather definite line on the result, well in advance. It is a disputed point how far either of these possibilities applies in these days of rapidly changing public opinion and widespread inde- pendent voting. DAMAGE OF OVER-CONFIDENCE Commission vessel, is now at Og- The theory of the extravagant po- litical claim is, of course, that it helps the moraale of party workers, throws fear into the ranks of the enemy and encourages doubters to leap for the bandwagon. But does it? If party workers took the prema- ture claims of their leaders serious (Continued on Page Seven) TELL OF LONG ARCTIC FLIGHT IiRussnans Fly by About 4,700 Miles Over North- ern Siberia MOSCOW, July 22—Soviet fliers, Chekalof and Beidukoff, today that they had flown 7,578 | kilometers, about 4,700 miles, in a nonstop journey from here over the Polar Circle to far Siberia, passing | over Petroprylovsk and Kamchat- | a. - e - NEARING ATTU The Brown Bear, Alaska Game linga Island, nearing Attu, further- most western extremity of the Aleu- tians, according to word to the commission here from Warden Homer Jewell. The vessel has been encountering bad weather with much fog and has been delayed on several occasions, it is reported. IThe patrol’ 4§ on an mspecnonl of fox farms in the Aleutian chain. past five days. | Bullets Hit Embassy The State Department received this word ghortly after Secretary of reported | Bullets peppered the San Sebas- ! . State Hull indicated the possibility ‘::b:um;ner residence of American' of g generally uncertain European ssador Claude G. Bowers as situation might imperil the United |two thousand armed miners from States, leading to re-establishment | Bilboa, loyal to the Leftists, attack-!of n naval squadron in European \ed the rebels who had seized the waters. wn. ’ Officials said the first of two American warships dispatched to Spanish waters to get refugees can- not reach Gibraltar, the destina- ! tion beforz next r‘nday | Paris reports that the United | States Embassy there has tried un- !succc'.sfully to communicate with Bowcrs Communication Cut Communication lines have been lcut by the insurgents, according to |all reports. Disorders however, are said to ha | taken | place throughout Nommrn | catalonia » ~ Cruiser Lets Fire A dispatch from Rabat, French BEEN K'DNAPE“ Morocco, said loyal troops, backed by gun fire from the cruser Ie- Perkeley Polme Searching for Child Missing | pante’s armament, have' scized Al- (Continued on Pa_ze Flvru:” RIS PRI - o i Five Airmen Bale Out of Flaming Plane ‘Pilo.ts Stay Aboard and Ex- tinguish Fire with Four Days BERKELEY, Lul July 22.—Phil- ip Field, buginess college instructor, today asked police to aid in the search for his son, Henry, aged 4. The police report said that the child was taken from a day nursery | by a woman, who said she was the boy’'s mother. Field’s estranged wife, Mrs. Jean Field, is in Ames, Iowa, but the fa- | thér expressed a fear that the child Hand Apparatus had been kidnaped after walting four days and not hearing from DAYTON, Ohio, June 22. — Five | Mrs. Pleld. civilian aircraft engineers stationed At Washington, D. C., the De- at Wright Field leaped to safety partment of Justice had “no com- with parachutes when one of the ment to make.” engines in a twin motor transport ST T plane caught fire over Dunreith, ROBERT PENNINGTON SOUGHT Indiana. | Whereabouts of Robert E. Pen- Pilot Captains J. 8. Griffiths and | nington, a mining man who was re- Frank Irvin stayed with the plane ported to have come to Juneau last after the civilians had leaped, ex-'April, is sopght by his daughter, tinguished the blaze with a hand|Peachie Pennington of 6016 Carlton extinguisher, and then flew back| Way, Hollywood; Cal., aceording to to Wright Pield with the ship un- la letter to !.he City Clerk from the damaged. latter. E & B —