The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALA VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7243, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS jUNEAU ALASKA 'IUESDAY AUGUST 4, 1936, CRISIS LOOMS IN " PRICE TEN CENTS SH ClVlL WAR SOVIET FLIERS | LEAVING SOUTH TOMORORW PM. Expect to TaT&off on Pro- posed Flight Wednes- day at 1 o'Clock SAN PEDRO, Cal., Aug. 4—Rus- sian flier Sigismund Levanevisky and co-pilot Victor I. Levchenko today postponed their take-off on the flight to Moscow, via Alaska, until 1 o'clock, Pacific Coast Stand- ard time, Wednesday afternoon. The fliers said they must make minor adjustments regarding their motor before leaving here for San Francisco and Seattle. From Seattle the fliers will make a hop direct to Juneau ZIONCHECK TO BE CANDIDATE; HE HAS FILED Play-boy of Congress Again Changes His Mind—To Make Statement OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 4AMal‘ ion A. Zioncheck today filed for re- election to the seat in Congress from the First Distriet of the State! of Washington afger the Congres-| sional Playboy announced two days | ago he was retiring from politi on account of the illness of his mother. Zioncheck said hc will make 1 statement later. MAKE SEARCH FOR MISSING, NIGHT FLOOD Colorado T(;N:‘Hil Hard—! Main Street Covered to Depth of One Foot WALSENBERG, Colo., Aug. 4.— Tired volunteers searched for miss- ing persons in Midtown where the Cucharas River flood caused esti- mated damage of half a million dollars last night. Hundreds of houses had to be evacuated. Barricades and guards warned curiosity seekers that the river was subsiding, but the water still covers part of the business district to a depth of one foot. B METLAKATLA KAKE HARBOR PROJECTS ARE TURNED DOWN Harbor improvement projects at Metlakatla and Kake have been turned down by the District Engm- eer's office in Seattle, according to information to the Governor’s of- fice, on grounds that the cost of construction would be out of portion with the benefits resulflng Appeal may be taken if the resi- dents of communities desire. Col. H. J. Wilde, District En- | gineer in Seattle, who recently hcld the small boat harbor hearing here, | | Jenifer Gray, movie player, who stowed away on schooner, the Sartartia, in the | Santa Monica-Honolulu yacht race is shown after she reached Hawaii on the vessel. With her | 1s her husband, Russ Collier, a | member of the Sartartia’s crew. (Anacllted Press Phnto) STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANCE == B AIRCRAFTS { Industrial Specnalhes Also Aid Stubborn Mar- ket Today NEW YORK, Aug. 4. — Led by aircrafts and industrial specialties, the Stock Market fought haltingly jbut an uphill fight today. Some| gains were registered just berore the close, many issues advancing | four points. Today’s late tone was mixed. The turnover was about 1,000,000 |shares. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 4. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 126, American Power and Light 13%, Anaconda 38%, Bethlehem Steel 55%, Calumet and Hecla 11%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss-Wright 7, General Motors 69%, International Harvester 82%, Kennecott 44, United Corporation 8%, Cities Service 4%, Simmons 135, Columbia Gas and Electric 22%, |S. 5. Kresge 27%, U. S. Steel 66, Pound $5.01%. | R DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 165.41, up. 09; rails 53.51, up .26; utilities 3498, down .02. —eo— Unearths Rock ~ Wall, Hopes 1o " Find Lost City also has scheduled further hear- | ings on proposed improvements in the Interior, according to the in-| formation from his office. A hedr- ing at Homer to determine the need for harbor improvements there has been set for August 17. Others in- clude, Bethel, August 15; Seward, ! August 25; Matanuska, August 16. Bethel has a harbor project, Sew- ard hopes for some improvements | on Lowell Creek and Matanuska en the Matanuska river. 1S GETTING BROADCAST OF OLYMPIC GAMES| Mrs. Joseph Kendier, aska Dairy on the is greatly enjoying the short wave broadcasts from Herlin, Germany, covering the Olymplc Games now in progress there. Mrs says the reception Is as good now as during the winter wonths, which she considers exceptionu: The full program is reeelved by her daily from about noon o 4% v eclock p. Juneau time. s of the Al- Glacier mghway. ! Fendler | m.| spend their meney outside of Po- ROCKFALL, Tex., Aug. 4—Geolo- gists to the contrary, R. F. Camp be- lieves the well known rock wall i of this vicinity is man-made mason- ry and is pressing excavation work in hopes of turning up an ancient city. The strange wall, geoligists say, is the work of nature. It surrounds the city underground and gave the name to the town and county. Canup has excavated a portion of the wall 8 feet deep and 100 feet | in length. Clbmet Member: Stay at Home on Vacations WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 4—Pre- mier Skladikowski has requested all Cabinet ministers to spend their vacations inside the country. The Premier does not want his col- leagues to set a bad example to people 'who might be tempted to land during the present summer. ! | Buck Jones' | ‘Am d(lnunfiuanon Lo Imk up hu- ( | slowly improving. Mr. Behrends will i (stay at Cordova for the time being | and | the next southbound steamer, Dr. ¢ Council said President to |Vi it Drought PARK Y., Aug. 4. —| Plesldcm Roosevelt said here to-| day that his forthcoming inspec- lu'n trip to the drought stricken states will “not be political.” The President further said that it would be a “great dis-service of | DIMUNI] MAKES GCAMPAIGN TRIP, KOTZEBUE SOUND HEAVY SALMON B.M.BEHRENDS| MUCH IMPROVED DR.COUNCILSAYS| Physician, Returning Here, Reported Financier Suf- fering from Pleurisy Vega seaplane of the Irving Aifrs ways, who left shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon on anf emergency flight to Cordova with, U. S. Commissioner J. F. Mullen{ and Dr. W. W. Council, to be in} attendance on B. M. Behrends, re-. ported ill in a Cordova hospital] after being taken off the steamer Yukon, returned late this after= noon. Dr. Council returned on the plane with Meyring. He said Mr Behrends, who has been touring the interior with his grandson, Ben Mullen, was suffering from what appeared to be pleurisy and was may come on to Juneau on Meyring and Dr. Council left Cor- dova at 10:50 o'clock this morning, and arrived in Juneau at 3:40 o'-| clock this afternoon. The weather to Cordova yester-| day afternoon was excellent but| returning today was squally, head=- winds, low ceiling and plenty o( uh)tmaps underneath Spanish women teens, to assist in the national emergency. ernment decree. transmitted by telephone wires from New York to San Francisco after | | | | 1 RUN OVERFLOWS STORAGE SPACE’ 'Copper River Box Care Are Converted Into Ware- houses in Cordova CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 4—Piles of canned salmon in the Cordova warehouses are growing until all! available space used and the Copper River and Northwestern! Railway box cars have been pressed into service as temporary store-| houses. The salmon is piled eigh-| is now ! teen cases high on the steamship Discusses Remdeer Bill at Turn-away Political Meetings NOME, Alaska, Aug. 4.—Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, Democratic candidate for re-election next month has returned from Deering, Candle| and Kotzebue and reports turn- away meetings were held O. D. Cochran, Democratic can- didate for the Territorial Senate, accompanied Delegate Dimond on his trip. The Delegate will probably be here for several days as flying weather is bad. > ARMY IS TO WEAR SHORTS MANILA, Aug. 4—Economy is the watchword of the new Philip- pine army which is being set up by Gen. Douglas MarArthur under a limited military budget. Local products are helping the General to save money. For in- stance, American campaign hats, formerly won by Filipino soldiers, cost $4.50 each. New campaign hats, made of coconut fibre, cost 45 cents. When it comes time to outfit the new soldiers next January, Gen. MacArthur plans to put them in khiki shorts instead of long trous- ers. With 40,000 recruits due in 1937, that will save a lot of cloth. TRUITT LEAVING ON CAMPAIGN TRIP Attorney General James S. Truitt is planning to leave on the regular PAA flight to Fairbanks tomorrow for a trip to various ports of the Interior The Judge is taking a vacation from his official duties, the first he has taken since assum- ing office, in the interests of his campaign for re-election. | dock, and more is coming in every hour. The record breaking herring run | in the Kodiak area is taxing ware- \ house space there also. | Today the steamer Curacao add~ ed to the crowded conditions hero by bringing in 12,000 cases of sal- mon and 2000 sacks of herring meal for storage because reduction| plants have used all available stor-| age space. The Yukon was more than 36 | hours Jate leaving Cordova due to demands of packers possible salmon. The freighter Tanana is making a direct run to Prince William Sound to take a full salmon cargn\ south. Sunken Guld tn Be Sought Again LEWES, Ind., Aug. 4. — Undis- couraged by last year’s failure,| Charles N. Colstad of Providence, R. I, will renew his search this month for ten million dollars in Spanish gold believed to have lain beneath the waters of Delaaware| Bay near here since 1798. | The sunken British sloop, De- Braak, will be the immediate ob- Jject of Colstad’s search, although two other wrecks located last year will also be investigated. The De-| Braak carried a reputed cargo of ten million dollars, seized from the Spanish Galleon Laplante, when she scuttled here during a storm. Attempts to find the fortune have| failed since 1799. | R to take all| | Her | | | Council, Meyring See Many Bears On Cordova Hop Going to Cordova yesterday after- noon in the Irving seaplane, pilot- ed by Gene Meyring, Dr. W. W.| Council counted five bears seen from | the air. On the return trip today,| Dr. Council counted 21 but Meyring | counted only 17. | and with eyes blackened, | rels but declared she knew nothing | was an electrical engineer but was Super-Rirliners {and one half million dollar fleet Oajama Flagger HEIRESS HELD: MATE IS FOUND DEAD IN HOME Mrs. Katrina Bradford, Scion of Prominent Families, Hysterical PASADENA, Cal., Aug. 4—Mrs. Katrina Bradford, the former Ka- trina Van Rennselaer of New York City, who told officers she is the heiress to two fortunes and the grand niece of E. H. Harriman, railroad owner of the past genera- tion, is held in the prison wardf of a hospital here while the police| are investigating the circumstances| leading to the death of her hus-| band, John Bradford, aged 31. Eyes Blackened The heiress, weeping hysterically | is held e on a technical charge of disturbing | the peace She sobbed out her story of w A | heavy drinking and violent quar- yesterday morning she said she found him dead on the floor of the | apartments, which was in shambles.| American Tragcdy Husband screams brought in neighbors and the police were called i Is Electrocuted in Bos- Mrs. Bradford, said her husband . g ton for Drowning Mate Red, white and blue pajamas are reported to have saved Miss Eleanor O’Kane of Philadelphia and her | chums when caught in revolt-torn Madrid, Spain. They fashioned an | American flag to enable them to | safely proceed to the American em- | bassy through the streets. of her mate's death Found Dead On Floor Mrs. Bradford said her husband had been drnking heavily for sev- eral months. When she awoke| employed only occasionally their marriage four years ago. “We went to Honolulu last Feb- ruary where he planned to get work there but didn't,” she said have been living on my money." since | BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 4.—Newell! Sherman, 27, convicted of drown-! ing his wife because of his love for another woman, walked quietly to his death in the electric chair here, The former choir singer and scout; master, whose crime was likened to Theodore Dreiser’s American Trag- edy, was pronounced dead seven| minutes after he was led into the | chamber. Sherman drowned his wife, who was 22 and the mother of two| children, in a lake so that he could | go driving and to roadhouses with | Esther 'vmgm 18. Are fo Be Built Elaborate Program Is An- nounced by President Frye of TWA Woman OQut of j Y, . | KANSAS CITY, Aug. 4.—Presi- Hospltal Right dent Jack Frye announces that the TWA plans construction of a two Back in Agam ANCHORAGE aska, Aug Convalescing from a recent dpper» dectomy, Mrs, Jack Dietz, of Homer, has returned to the hospital here for treatment of a scalp cut suf-| fered when @n automobile turned| turtle. Five of her companions in| the car suffered minor hurts also. .- IN FROM TAKU | L. DeFlorian is in Juneau from| Taku and registered at the Alas-| V kan | of super-airliners. The new craft will carry 23 passengers and have sleeping accommodations and also kitchens. Frye said the Douglas Aircraft is cooperating in drafting plans for| the super-airliners. ———.———— HERE FROM HAINES Elisabeth “and Harriet Sheldon are in Juneau from Haines and reg- istered at the Gastineau Hotel dur- ing their stay here. med with rifles are aiding in the battles to check the advance of insurgent forces near Madrid. The Spanish Government called for every person, including women and children in their | Pensioned and reserve officers went into action by Geov- Photo shows some of the Spanish Amazons on the march. (UNEMPLOYED Captam Mason On gents POSSESSION OF MADRID SOUGHT BY INSURGENTS Rebels Mo?@fmm North and South to Command- ing Heights Near City GERMAN WARSHIPS ARE 'REPORTED OFF CEUTA Moroccan Troops Ferried Across Gibraltar Straits to Aid Fascists LONDON, Aug. 4—The crisis in | the Spanish insurgent fight for | possession of Madrid appears ap- proaching and at least two Euro- | pean capitals have experienced new | pangs of anxiety over maintenance |of European peace. From Tangier, in the North Af- rican inférnational zone, comes a |report that two German warships are anchored off Ceuta, Spanish Morocco. This report is credited to General Francisco Franco, revo- lution generalissimo. Both London and Paris are apprehensive as the result of the report. Rebel Offensive | The long awaited rebel offensive |against Madrid has apparently op- ened with a march from both the Inorth and south against the Span- |1sh Republic’s capital. The barren Guadaranmas Heights is the goal of the rebels and the insurgents are attacking repeatedly to force their way to the plateau from the south, according to reports from \neutral air observers. The Spanish Government insist- ‘ed that bodies of rebels, strewn on [the battlefields attested to its abil- This sound photo was bculg radioed from London. AIRMAILIS ASSURED FOR ALASKA SOON GOV TI’O) Enroule Home,‘ New Attack Announced | A rebel announcement said Mor- Talks to Newsmen occan troops have ferried across in Seattle the Straits of Gibraltar and are P |already marching on the Capital SEATTLE, Aug. 4—Gov. John W.|City. The new forces are reported Troy, enroute to his home in Ju-|/to have joined hands with the neau, Alaska, told interviewers here north Fascists and some quarters that Alaskan airmail will be an expect the climax will be reached actuality within a year or so. (by tomorrow or Thursday, perhaps Gov. Troy said the air mail ap- at Dancharia. propriation was voted down during| Frontier Closed the past session of Congress be- The Spanish frontier is closed cause it was in the Deficiency Bill, apparently as a step in preparation “but we have been assured it will|for a final drive. be voted on favorably at the next The insurgents expressed con- session of Congress. Presidentfidence that S8an Sebastian, on the Roosevelt favors the appropriation| Bay of Biscay, will soon fall. for air mail and it is included in It is reported here that insurgent the budget.” ‘lerrnory is being bombed by “for- ‘Ean planes with foreign bombs" According to a radiogram from in the hands of the Loyaus'.s Governor Troy received last mgm‘ and radio telephone conversation| with members of his family and of-| LANnoN A w 0 L fice gtaff he will leave for JunPau‘ on the Aleutian Friday, accom- S el panied by Mrs. Troy. In the paxty, are two friends, Genevieve Pu‘ston‘ and Astrid Niemoth. The Seattle Press Club is |.,1vmg a dinner for the Governor tomor-| row night, at which he will give a talk on the progress and develop- ment of Alaska 3 3 Interior Secretary Points to Inconsistencies of Re- publican Nominee WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Secre- | tary of Im‘erior Harold L. Ickes in | a radio address last night said the “d sy parallel” between past and present statement ind that “Candidate Landcn has ne AWOL from the war against poverty and want snd exploitation of the weak n which he enlisted in 1933." Ickes said that three years ago when presiding at an oil confer- tnce, Gov. Landon declared for the “iron hand of a dictator” un- less industry solved the problem in 90 days, but Landcn, in his re- cent acceptance speech, declared against governmental regulation of industry. Secretary Ickes also criticized the Republican platform and said the Kansan had been adopted by Wil- liam Randolph Hearst, the pub- lisher. While Landon took an ad- vanced position on civil service in his message to the G.O.P. conven- tion, the “spoils system has pre- vailed in Kansas under Gov. Lan- don,” the Secretary said. e Sk FROM CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. Percy Whiteside, of Tulare, California, are registered at the Gastineau during their stay in Juneau WILL PICKET LEGISLATURE Illinois Is Newest State to Have Demands Present- ed by Relief Role Army | SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 4.— Three hundred men and -women, most of them from Chicago, arrived here today and announced their intention to “camp on the doorstep of the Legislature until our relief demands are sallsfled' Signal Gums Trip ANCHORAGE Alaska Aug. 4—| Capt. Dale Mason, of the Signal| Cnrps United States Army, is °”| on a 1500 mile trip through the Interior. He will visit remote sta- tions and will go down the Yukon| in a river boat from Nenana to Holy Cross. — e - Hawali has a million acres of for- est, more than half of it govern- ment owned.