The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7244, SOVIET FLIERS IN 2,000 REBELS FROM MOROCCO LANDED, SPAIN Troop Ships Dodge Loyalist Destroyer and War- ship on Straits GOVERNMENT CLAIMS IT’S WINNING FIGHT Red Cross Estimate 35,000 Killed, 100,000 Wounded GIBRALTAR, Aug. 5. thousand Spanish rebel troops from euta, Morocco, landed on the Spanish mainland tonight after a battle with a Loyalist warship in a fog that blanketed the Gibraltar Strait It is said two Fascist troop ships pulled out from Ceuta and a Loy- alist destroyer steamed to intercept them but lost the ships in the fog. The Loyalist warship fired sev- eral shots at the rebel troop ships and then itself got lost in the fog. The rebel troops landed after the Loyalist ships left or got lost in the fog Two LIBERAL SUCCESSES LONDON, Aug. 5—Reports re- ceived here give information of Lib- eral successes byt these are punc- tuated by reports of Red Cross officials who estimate 35,000 have been killed to date in the most severe political and military up- heaval in Spanish history. Government Wins The Government claims military successes in the Guadarrama mountains and insists it has inflict- ed a decisive defeat on the rebal column near Avila, { The Red Cross estimates the wounded in the present conflict has exceeded 100,000, Many Arrests Made More than 600 Fascists and Mon-| archists have been arrested in Ma- drid, according to reports received from there. It is also said that rebels from | Morocco are wearing swastika armbands, given them by officers of two German warships which are paying “courtesty calls” along the North African Coast. MARTIALLAW DECLARED OVER GREEK NATION Government Takes Quick! Action to Suppress | Communist Plot w ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 5.4Con-! fronted by a reputed Communist plot, the Government has dissolved | the Legislative Chamber and also| proclaimed martial law over the nation. This action was taken after the Leftist Trade Unions called a 24- hour-strike in protest to the new| law fixing minimum wage scales and subjecting workers claims to obligatory arbitration. ONLY SEVEN PICKETS ARE ALLOWED NOW National Gt;d—smen Make Rules for Idaho Strike Area to Obtain Peace PIERCE, Idaho, Aug. 5.—Nation- al Guardsmen in the martial law section here have cut the North Idaho lumber strike pickets to a maximum of seven to prevent the| pickets from stopping cars and have barred the strikers from the lumber camp area in an effort to achieve peace. Martial law was declared here Monday by Gov. C. Ben Ross as the result of the strike caused by de- mands of the men for higher wa- | threats to the peace of Europe. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS IR, JUNEAU BOUND Robert James and guard Discovery of a razor blade concealed in the bedding of his jail cell in Los Angeles was believed to have foiled a suicide attempt on the part of Robert James, convicted of drowning his wife after tortur- He had boasted that he would take his life if convicted. ing her with rattlesnakes. Pt Week’s News in Review by Richiard H. Hippelheuser NEW YORK, as of week ending, August 1—By Associated Press—, The Spanish revolution created new | It intensified the friction between Fa- cist and anti-Facist governments. | While the Leftist government of | Leon Blum in France declared a polcy of neutrality, there was no denying the concern in Paris over | the uprising of Spanish Militarists’ | neighbors of Campobello and East- | and- Fascists. | If the rebellion is successful, with | a resultant dictatorship in Madrid akin to those in Rome and Berlin, democratic France would be sur- rounded on the East, Southeast and Foil Suicide Plans of Slayer ) electric power from the tides in the Bay of Fundy. Work on ‘Quoddy was begun with $7,000,000 set aside by the Presi- dent from WPA funds. A tempor-i ary halt in construction was forced | by the failure of Congress to ap- pripriate additional funds for the project. | After surveying the work so far completed, the President told port: “Quoddy will be completed, I believe in Quoddy and I believe you do, too.” Visiting Eastport, Me., nearby the project site, the President told a | South by the forces of Fascism. BANK REPORTS Prisoners Balked in Demonstration Attempt REFLECT GAIN | IN BUSINESS More than 3—2,-000,000 Tn- .' ‘ crease in Alaska Deposits in Year, Figures Reveal '{* Marked improvement in business conditions in Alaska is reflected inj the report on banks in the ’x‘atrf- tory as compiled by Territorial Treasurer Oscar Olson and flb’ mitted to the Governor's Office, There are 11 Territorial banks in Alaska and their combined depos- its as of June 30, this year. was $7,088,455.24, the Treasurer's report reveals, compared with combined deposits of $7,440,592.48 for the same period ending June 30, last year. The capital of the Territorial banks is placed at $565,000. Of the four National banks in the Territory the combined deposits as of June 30, this year, were™$5, 846,952.399. Surplus and undivided net profits was given at $285,- 691.26. Capital was $275,000. The aggregate figures for all banks in the Territory for the above per- iod as given by Treasurer Olson fol- lows: Capital, $840,000; surplus and un- divided profits, $925561; deposits, $13,787,000. Approximate totals for the year previous shows: g Capital, $890,000; surplus a undivided profits, $834,000; dJdepos=! | its, $11,833,000. SAILOR LOST . 1 The body or aos. Tasiess m vEssEL recoyered early Monday morning IN PACIFIC Japanese Seaman Falls Overboard from Star of Lapland Enroute Japan SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 5— A Japanese sailor named Inaba is reported lost from the sailing vessel Star of Lapland, former Al- aska boat, now enroute to Japan to be scrapped. It is reported that the sailor fell from the mast while the vessel was about 30 miles south- west of the San Francisco light- ges and improved working and sanitary conditions. For a time, the Blum govern- ment considered aid for the Liberal Leftist regime of Manual Azana in Spain. Its sympathy for the Loyal- ists was evident. But in the face of a firm and united opposition from French Rightists, Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos said, in the Chamber of Deputies: “France declares she will not mix in the politics of other countries.” Not only in France, but in its ally to the East, Soviet Russia, gov- ernment spokesmen held the belief that at least Italy, if not Germany, was supplying aid to the Spanish rebels. Internally, the Civil War spread with untold thousands of deaths| and widespread destruction. No quarter was asked by either side, and none was given. Madrid, held by the loyal sup- porters of the Azana government, was the objective of the main rev- olutionist campaign. General Em- ilio Mola pushed towards the cap- ital from the north and General Francisco Franco from the south. The loyal troops were augmented by thousands of civilians, recruits from the ranks of the moderate sup- porters of the government and from the radical parties (Socialist, Com- munist and Syndicalists.) THE PRESIDENT'S WEEK With only a jib hoisted, to zive} her steerage, the schooner Sewanna hove to in the Bay of Fundy and| anchored off the Campobello island| home of Mrs. James Roosevelt 1 Her son, the President, ‘was at the wheel. It was the end of his vacation cruise off the Maine and| New Brunswick coast. He greeted his mother with a' full-! grown adornage of side whiskers,! giving him a striking resemblance | to his father. After the whiskers were shaved off, and after a day' of rest and picknicking, he return-' ed to official life. ! First, there came an inspection of the progress of work on the Passamaquoddy project; when com- pléted, this project will generate crowd of townspeople who gathered| ship. The body could not be found. to greet him: “When I come back next year,| I hope Quoddy will be in operation.”| Then came the President's visit to Quebec, the first official visit| ever made by a President to Can- ada. Greeted by Lord Tweedsmuir, the Governor-General, and Premier Mackenzie King, the President re- ferred to the “grave problems that face the world today” and charac- terized the Canadian-American re- lationship as an oufstanding exam- ple of international peace and frendship. “On both sides of the line,” he declared, “we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary, 3,000 miles in length that we are in- clined perhaps to minimize its vast importance; not.on]y to our own continent but also as the example which it sets for the other nations of the world.” Huge crowds gave the President a tumultuous welcome. There followed a private confer- ence with Yord Tweedsmuir and Premier King in which they dis- cussed a cooperative plan of Can- adian-American power development along the St. Lawrence River. THE POLITICAL SIDE The visit of Detroit’'s Bishop Michael Gallagher to the summer residence of Pope Pius, at Castel Gandolfo, was preceded by reports of his Holiness' displeasure with recent remarks and political acti- vities of Father Charles E. Cough- lin. Such reports also said the Bishop and the Holy Father would dis- cuss these political activities, albeit, the Bishop had persistently declar- ed the Pope would not intervene in any such instance. After his audience with the Pope, Bishop Gallagher said: “The Father' Coughlin matter did not come up during the au- dience. That's what I've been try- ing to tell people would happen, but they would not believe me.” (Continued on Page Seven) LEWIS OUSTED FROM A. . OF L. Executive Council Takes Drastic Action in Washington WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. — The American Federation of Labor’s | Executive Council today voted sus- pension of John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers and ten other unions with a member- ship of more than 1,000,000 Lewis was recently cited to ap- pear before the Executive Council for trial for violation of the Fed- eration’s craft policy in making each large industry one big union. Lewis did not appear at any of the hearings, neither did his as- sociates. PALMER IS TO CAST 500 VOTES ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 5— United States Commissioner Wal- ter E. Huntley forecasts that Pal- mer will cast 500 votes at the next Territorial election. The precinct cast 28 votes in the last election. All candidates are soliciting votes from the Colonists. i i Seward Hotel Robbed of Cash Register, $70 SEWARD, Alaska, Aug. 5.—Bur- 3VICTIMS OF -BOAT DISASTER STILL MISSING Funeral Services for Ms. Lawless to Be Held at Barracks Thursday (Special to Empire) CHILKOOT BARRACKS, Alaska, Aug. 5.—Efforts of both shore and water searching parties to recover the bodies of three of the five vietims of last Sunday's boating disaster have been fruitless up to this morning. The bodies of . Master . Sergeant Oliver A. Lawless, of the Medical Department, his son Dean Lawless, and Sergeant Paul M. McWain are still missing, following an extensive search, - was and the body of Mrs. Harry P. Stone, wife of Pirst Sergeant Stone, Seventh Infantry, was found Mon- day noon. The disaster occurred late Sun- day when a row boat, in which | the party ‘was enjoying an outing, capsized in Chilkoot Inlet. The boat was also found late Sunday by searching parties sent out when the five failed to return to the Barracks. Mrs. ‘Lawless is to be buried in the Post Cemetery on Thursday afternoon. The remains of Mrs. Stone will be shipped south Sat- urday for burial in Spokane, Wash. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Additional information regarding Sunday's tragedy was received this afternoon from Chilkoot Barracks, as follows: The picnic party left Chilkoot| Barracks shortly after one o'clock Sunday afternoon in a twelve-foot boat powered by an out-board mo- tor with the Tayasankai Inlet, some six miles from the post, as their e Deadly rifle fire cut down three convicts in the court of the Oregon State Penitentiary at Salem late last Friday when nearly a hundred unarmed convicts started a riot over a Circuit Court de- cison_denying them good:time. behavior allpwances in reduction of senteneces. weTTa 78 A Top—Left: Thomas J. Baughn, 50, Bend murderer and lifer with three killings on his record, was shot and killed. Center: Joseph Duprey, serving two years for burglar, shot through the hand. Right: James G. Hamilton, serving life for murder, shot through the chest, not expected to live. Lower—Left: Warden James W. Lewis, in charge of the prison. Right: Guard H. H. Corey, whose rifle stopped the initial rush of the convicts, (International Ilustrated News.) DIMOND MAKES STOCK PRICES PUBLIC ADDRESS GIVEN AID BY TO NOME PEOPLE ~ SPEGIALTIES destination. Master Sergeant Oliver A. Lawliss, his wife, and their son, fifteen years | old; Mrs. Harry Stone, wife of First Sergeant Stone of Company | E, Seventh Infantry, and Sergeant Paul M. McWain, Quartermaster made up the party. There was also a dog belnnging; to the Lawliss family in the boat.| Sergeant Stone became uneasy about 10 o'clock when the group had not returned. A search was initiated which resulted in the find- ing of the boat with its bow only out of water. The out-board weighted down the other end of the boat. The drifting boat was located about midchannel some five miles distant from the post with no sign of any of its occupants. An organized search was start- ed early Monday morning with details ching the shores and boats the nearby waters. About'7 o'elock Monday morning Mrs. Lawliss' body was recovered from ‘tHe®Water' between the pos: and whefe the boat was found. Her arm was hooked through a life preserver which is believed to have been the only one in the boat.| A wrist watch worn by Mrs. Law- liss had stopped at 2:20. Shortly before noon the body of Mrs. Stone was found on the beach near where the boat was found. The body of the dog, a hat belonging to Sergeant McWain, and a wind breaker believed to have belonged to young Lawliss were later locat- ed. Additional searching ior the bod- les of the three men has so far been futile. | The Lawliss family came !roml Reviews His Congressional Record — Gives Ad- vice to Legislature NOME, Alaska, Aug. 5.—Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, in a public ad- dress here, vigorously proclaimed his intention of working for a fish trap bill. “I am still strongly in favor of self-control of the Alaska fisheries | as ever and I believe the fish traps are seriously detrimental to the best interests of the people,” declared the Delegate. The Delegate suggested that one of the first things the next Terri- torial Legislature should do would be to take up the placing of Al- aska within the National Security Act scope. The delegate recited his record in obtaining increased roads, air- ports, a large army base and Pres- idential approval of the Interna- tional Highway. Girl Who Killed Uncle to Go Free INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 5—Betty Raye Cole, fourteen, who admitted to Sheriff Otto Ray she stabbed to death her uncle, Andrew J. Farran, will not haye to stand trial. Coroner William E. Arbuckle re- turned a verdict of justifiable homicide, and ¥Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer said he would file no charges. The girl's story was that Farran, intoxicated, seized her by the throat and in struggling, she stabbed him with a 10-cent paring knife. JOINS e - MARSHAL'S STAFF Mrs. Henrletta Elliot, formerly with the Bureau of Fisheries, has joined the staff of U. S. Marshal eglars, during the night, stole thel niinois - Sergeant Lawliss had only| William T. Mahoney as stenogra- cash register from the lobby of the Seward Hotel. The cash register contained $70. a Tew years to serve before retire- (Continued on Page Tight) pher, Snow, replacing Miss Georgianna who left recently for the i States. Early Selling of Motors and Aircrafts Bounces Back for Gains NEW YORK, Aug. 5—~The Stock Market today cast off the influence of early selling in motors and air- crafts and crept up from lows with the aid of a good demand for specialties. ‘The late tone was irregular. Transactions today were 1,200,000 shares, CLOSING PRICES TODAY NSW YORK, Aug. 5. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 125%, American Light and Power 13, Anaconda 37%, Bethlehem Steel 54%, Calumet and Hecla 11, Com- monwealth and Southern 3%, Cur- tiss-Wright 7%, General Motors 67%, International Harvester 82, Kennecott 43%, United States Steel 64%, United Corporation 8, Cities Service 4%, Pound $5.01%, Sim- mons 34%, Columbia Gas and Elvc-’ tric 7%, 8. 8. Kresge 27 DOW, JOr AVERAGES The following are toda Dow. Jones averages: Industrials 165.06, down .35; rails 53.46, down .05; util- ities 35.03, up .05. e — Man Says Marriage Forced, Files Suit SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 5.— Archie Nault filed suit here to an- nul his marriage in 1908 to Minnie Nault at Crystal Falls, Mich. Nault charged that his wife forced him to marry her over his protest, that he went through the ceremony to avoid jail, and that he has not lived with her. & SRR In Ann street, downtown New York City, a bronze plaque com- memorates the writing of “The Ra- ven” by Edgar Allan Poe where the old Daily Mirror once stood. ’P(JLAnf]iJsHT 'STARTS TODAY " FORNORTHLAND Two Pilots Take Off on Proposed Trip Over Alaska to Moscow PLANE ESPECIALLY " BUILT FOR BIG TRIP 'Special Pontoons Manufact- ured—Latest Devices Are Aboard Craft SAN PEDRO, Cal., Aug. 5.—Pilot )Stglsmund Levanevisky and co-pilot Vietor I. Levchenko, Soviet fliers, hopped off at 11:30 o'clock this | forenoon enroute to Moscow via !Alaska. The first scheduled stop is |on San Prancisco Bay where they | expect to refuel then hop to Se= attle. | Proposed Route | From Seattle the proposed route |lies over Alaska, with stops at | Juneau, Fairbanks and Nome, then |across the Bering Strait to Siberia. | After leaving Wrangell Island they {will turn inland somewhere along the Siberian-Arctic coast and head | for Moscow. Plane Given Test special plane, constructed under the instructions of the two fliers, was given a test yesterday |and the powerful single motored Vuitee monoplane performed ad- | mirably. The New Type Pontoons The plane is equipped with a |new type of pontoons that can be disconnected in fifteen minutes, & feat almost impossible with pon- |toons on present planes. | The pontoons will be used until the two fliers reach Siberia where they will attach retractable land- ing wheels, shipped ahead weeks ago. . Specially Designed The blue and red ship, designed and built at Downey, near Los An- | geles, by Gerard Vultee, one of the |world’s leading aircraft designers, lunder a Boviet cemmission, is |equipped with the very latest de- | vices adapted to flying in the polar |regions, including a de-icing ap- |paratus for wings and the three- bladed propellor. The plane bears the insignia U. S. 8. R.-H. 208. CALMLY SAYS _SHE DROWNED "~ HER BOY BABY {Mother Holds 18-Month- | Old Son Under Water | inWashingMachine NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Aug. 5. —Mrs. 8Susie Stephenson, aged 26, | has admitted she drowned her in- |fant son in a washimg machine, | according to District Attorney Ray- mond Klowles. | Knowles said the young mother | admitted she held her 18-months | old son, David Eugene Stephenson, | under the water in the washing | machine for several minutes. She | displayed no emotion and could | give no reason for her act. Knowles said he would have an alienist determine her condition. - e | HOPKINS EMISSARY ON ALASKA BOUND FOR MATANUSKA | To make a special report to Har- |ry L. Hopkins, WPA chieftain, on |the Matanuska project, John A. Kingsberry is a passenger on the | Alaska to the Westward. While the steamer was in port last night, the emissary of Mr. Hopkins conferred with Acting Gov. E. W. Griffin and other officials here. He is | making a first hand report to Mr. Hopkins on the progress of the | colony. e e AIRMAN LEAVES Mr. and Mrs. Murray Stewart left this morning on the Electra for Fairbanks where they will re- side, Mr. Stewart is employed by the PAA and was formerly sta- tioned in Juneau.