The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 7, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7246. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1936, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIET FLIERS DELAYED, JUNEAU HOP AME_R":ANS IN[Matanuska Colony Is Seen as ‘National Defense” Move by LEAD, OLYMPIC STANDINGS NOW Another - Champion, Negro Flash from California, Is in Limelight FINLAND HAS CHAMP FOR 5,000 METRES United States Drops Hockey Game—Also Fails in Pistol Precision BERLIN, Aug. 7.—Producing an- other champion in Archie Williams, California negro flash and domin- ating in the first half of the gruel- ling decathlon test, America’s tield forces continued to sweep forward on the fifth day of the Olympic Carnival Williams clocked 46.5 seconds and won the 400 metre title from Arthur Gordon, of Great Britain, Another Negro Flash Jimmy Luvalle, another Cali- fornia negro, is giving the United States a tenth gold medal in sev- enteen field events so far decided. ‘The 14 points from the 400 metre win swelled America’s team total to 167 and left no grounds of dis- pute over wins so far as they have generally been record breakers. Finland’s Champ Finland furnished a 5,000 metre champion in Gunnar Hoecker and scored 16 points in that event and displaced Germany from second place with 57% points. Germany was blanked in two finals today and dropped to third position with 54% points, Decathlon Trio The American decathlon trio, Bob Clark, Glenn Morris and Jack Parker, performed sensationally to hold the first three places in the er named as the first half of ten event competition was com- ted. "Argentine has blanked Great Bri- tain 11 to 0 by winning the polo gold medal. A U. S. Fails in Hockey ‘f}l‘he United States dropped the seécond straight hockey game to India 7 to 0. The Americans failed to place st in the precision pistol shoot- ffi_g which was won by Ullman, of Sweden, but the United States ¥encing team defeated Denmark 8 to 1. Brown American 11l -y The Americans might have won tra points in the 400 metre race cept for the sudden withdrawal f Harold Smallwood of Ventura,| alifornia, who was stricken this| orhing and this afternoon under- 7t a successful appendectomy. LANDON T0 GET INVITATION TO DROUGHT CONFAB : " President WAsk Rival Candidate to Gover- nors’ Conference HYDE YPARK, Aug. 7—In an in- formal press conference announce- ment today President Roosevelt dis- closed he would invite Gov. Alf M. Landon, rival Presidenflal candi- date, to a conference of state Gov- ernors on the .drought condition in the Middle West. The conference probably will held early in September, he said. WOOD ARRIVES HERE TO TAKE POST IN BIOLOGICAL SURVEY l ' David Wood, who has leng been * identified with the Biological Sur- | vey, arrived in Juneau aboard the North Star and will be connected |\with Alaska Game Commission and | Biological Survey offices here as unior Administrative Assistant. Wood was accompanied by his fe and two childrex. and today » J | | f ¢ Congressman SEATTLE, Aug. 7.—Congressman Byron R. Harlan hails the Matan- uska Colony as a “National De- fense” move and said he will rec- ommend expansion of the colony's equipment and activities. The Congressman made the state- ment on his arrival here yesterday. Continuing, Congressman Harlan said: “We have got to built up Alaska agriculturally to support a larger population. The Matanus- ka Colony is plainly a National De- fense measure.” The Ohio Democrat arrived here with Frank T. Bell, United States Harlan, Booster Fisheries Commissioner, and oth- esr aboard the Fisheries flagship Brant after a cruise along the Al- askan coast. Congressman Harlan said the measure of success of the Matan- uska's colony’'s activities might be seen in the move by all farmers in| the district, outside of the colony,| to join their co-operative. } “The colony has a long waiting| list of families who want to fill| vacancies. There is also a market in the Alaska Railroad belt which will take six times as much as the | Matanuska Colony can grow,” con- | cluded the Ohio Congressman. SAYS PLIGHT OF CERTAINLY BAD Can't Compete with White Man, Says Member of Senatorial Committee SEATTLE, Aug. 7—United States Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla- homa, member of the Senatorial Investigation Committee which has visited Alaska during the past two months and has now returned here, said, “history is repeating itself as the Alaska Indians are unable to compete with the white man. The young Alaska Indians are be- coming Americanized and the sur- vivors may be able to compete with the white man on his own terms, but their present plights are bad” Senator Thomas said nis col- leagues, Senators Lynn Frazier of should be a law providing drastic penalties against anyone selling liquor to Indians in Alaska. North Dakota, and Henrik Ship-| stead of Minnesota, agreed there| STOCK PRICES ALASKA INDIANS| TAKE ADVANCE | ONGOOD NEWS iCl’\eerful Reports from Busi- ness, Industrial Fronts Send Issues Up | | | | } NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Rails put jon steam for an upgrade at to-| | day's stock session and other groups | | followed. Gains of fractions to around| three points continued to flow, principally on cheerful news from the business and industrial front. This news pushed traders ag- gressible to the buying side of Wall Street circles. | Today’s slose was firm. Transfers | were 1,700,000 shares. | CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 13%, American Can 124, American Light and Power Senator Thomas also said the|13'%2, Anaconda 38%, Bethlehem investigators will urge withdrawal Steel 38%, Calumet and Hecla 11%, of protection to wolves in the Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Mount McKinley Park on account|Curtiss-Wright 7%, General Mot- LASH Zioncheck is Re- mitted suicide this evening. Gubser Iie'r;a‘lu- - Start Drive on Arctic Wolves Biological Survey Man For- merly Was Located at Juneau in Game Work To make Juneau his headquar- ters and from here to carry on wolf extermination in the Territory, Harlan Gubser, former predatory animal trapper in Alaska, arrived here on the North Star with his family. Mr. Gubser, who spent some three years in Juneau and Fair- banks, comes now from Idaho where he carried on work for the Biologi~ cal Survey. His first plan here is to confer with the Governor, In- dian office and Alaska Game Com- mission to map out a program for ridding the Territory of wolves, which are reported especially bad along the Arctic Coast where they are killing hundreds-of “reindeer. An old-time trapper, Mr. Gub- ser recalls that the first time he met I. N. Gabrielson, his present chief, who is now head of the bio- logical survey, the latter came to his trapper’s cabin in Idaho and spent a night sleeping on the floor. WILL DREDGE ported to have com- of disastrous depredations. MORE MONEY NEEDED ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—William Zimmerman, Assistant Indian Com- missioner, today expressed hope that Congress will provide addition- al funds for relief of Alaska In- dians as the result of the Senatorial investigation committee’s visit, in commenting upon the statement of Senator Thomas that the Indians are fast losing their fishing and hunting grounds and also unable |ors 69%, International Harvester | 82#%, Kennecott 44%, United States Steel 57%, United Corporation 8%, Cities Service 4%, Pound $5.02%, Bremner asked 13, Simmons 35%, Columbia Gas and Electric 22%, S. 8. Kresge 28%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 168.01, up 230 points; rails 55.27, up .09 ‘Kpoxm; utilities 35.24, up .26 point. ‘|to start expenditure of between be| to compete with the white man. Zimmerman said the Indian of- fice plans to start a rehabilitation program immediately, and ex- plained that Osecar Lipps, special office agent, is enroute to Alaska 3 Generations ~of Romigs Are in Bi_g Reunion Famil-ly Converges from San $250,000 and $500,000 from the ten | million appropriation to be used principally to set up reservations | for Indians and encourage fishing | rancisco, Seattle and Dawson ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. T.— activities. Zimmerman said that at present Reunited for the first time in 16 years, three generations of the fam- doubt for a minute that the In- dians were “unable to compete with the whites,” as Thomas said upon his arrival in Seattle. - e WOODCHOPPER Equipment —FE Reached Interior—Good Clean- up on Coal Creek FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 7— Gen. A_D. McRae, head of a com- pany that recently entered the Al- aska placer gold fields on a large scale of operations, said here the first shipment of equipment has ariived for a new dredge and will be installed on Woodchopper Creek above Circle City. The dredge will be in operation next year. The first cleanup of the McRae Coal Creek dredge, started recent- ly, yielded & fine brick of virgin gold. GREAT BRITAIN, GERMANY MAKE PROTESTS, SPAIN Demand Protection of Na- | tionals Some of Whom Have Been ‘Murdered’ LOYALISTS FORCES | MAKING ASSAULTS Rebel Stronghold Shelled, Set Afire — French Make Charges LONDON, Aug. 7.—Great Britain ;and Germany today took a hand in the Spanish Civil War with vigorous protests against treatment lof “their nationals, both by the rebels and Loyalists. near Barcelona is called “murder” by the Berlin Foreign Office, The Nazi Government, according to advices received here from Ber- | lin, has lodged strong protests at | Barcelona with the Leftists against the deaths of the young men. and also sent a protest direct to Mad- |rid. Sigp Shelled Another protest has been made | by the Germans to Madrid over the “unprovoked shelling” of a German steamer at Sevilla by a Spanish destroyer. The | British Foreign Office has addresser firm notes to both rebel commanders and also the Spanish Republic Government that suitable steps ‘will be taken to prevent en- dangering neutrals by either side in the Gibraltar area. /LOYALISTS ADVANCE LONDON, Aug. 7—Official ad- vices recieved here state the Loyal- ist advances in the Guadarrama Mountains, north of Madrid, have| been successful. Assaults on the rebels are continuing with splendid results “as are also assaults in the southern region, NEARING MADRID LONDON, Aug. 7—No confirma- tion has been obtained from the broadcast statement that rebels are | on the outskirts of Madrid but the | report is not believed here to be; true. | STRONGHOLD SHELLED LONDON, Aug. 7.—Shelling of | the rebel stronghold at Algeciras, near the Rock of Gibraltar by a| Spanish Government warship has | been received. The shell fire is re- | ported to have started a blaze in the stronghold. The Spanish gunboat Jaime Pro- mero has also set fire to the in-| surgent gunboat Dato by shell fire. | NAZI SHIPS DISTRIBUTED BERLIN, Aug. 7.—The German Naval Command is said to have distributed Nazi ships in Spanish | waters to protect German na- tionals or evacuate them. NELSON RITES HELD AT CARTER CHAPEL Last rites for John E. Nelson, oldtimer, who died at'St. Ann’s Hospital early this week, were held from the Charles W. Carter Mor- tuary this afternoon at 2 o'clock, there is only one small reservation Alaska on which white’s are for- bidden to settle. He said he did not ily of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Ro- mig assembled Thursday night on the doctor’s ranch near here. The family includes four chil- dren, their wives and six grand- children who converged here from | San Francisco, Seattle and Daw- son for the reunion. Dr. Romig has practiced in the Territory for more than 40 years. He came to Alaska as a medical ! missionary to the Indians and is | now retiring as Chief Surgeon of the Alaska Railroad, a post he has held for 22 years. Dr. Romig is known to the west- AERIAL SURVEY WORKERS HERE ‘Members of Wood Party| Fly to Juneau Aboard Their Own Plane Returning from aerial survey i :::edsadmu g;gem:;i ward as the organiser of the Hus- mountains west of Kulane Lake, the | band’s Union, which was formed in blue four-place l.yoomlng-sti.nwn‘ Seward 17 years ago and spread Reliant seaplane of the Wood Yu- like wild-fire throughout that sec- Rov. Erling K. Olafson officiating. Interment was in Evergreen Ceme- tery. CHARGES ARE MADE PARIS, Aug. 7. — The Leftist French press accuses Germany with aiding the Spanish rebels with air- planes ‘and ammunition, also men. Official France fears a possible collapse of the projected interna- tional neutrality agreement. Evidence of Assistance One French newspaper today, in | bold type, asserted it has informa- | tion that one German ship left Townsendites Leave .. Lemke Tie-Up Vague| By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) The dying echoes of the Town- send convention leave unanswered| it, prepared for such effort? Surely | Hamburg July 31 with 28 bombing many popular questions about this| there was little in the sessions at|Planes and other material for the little-understood movement, and Cleveland to suggest an affirma-|Spanish rebels. about the Union Party with which| the convention leaders flirted at| | the Lemke Union party with which Bxped | tion and the Interior. One of the i TR 0f the o gieon Union demands on the wives, was | biscuits once a day and meals | sexved at regular hours. - e BABY DIES Six-month-old Roberta James, | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John | R James, who underwent a major Geographical Society, arrived here at noon today, piloted by John D. Kay, an associate scientist with the party, and with several other mem- bers of the expedition aboard. The expedition is in charge of Walter A. Wood, Jr. of New York and has as members Mrs. Wood, Mr. as busy looking for a place to ive. _ The new gamg' executive comes aom Lincoln, Neb., and is said to especially well informed on game | matters. | ) ‘Wood’s _brother, Harrison Wood, Roger Drury, Walter Phillips and Mrs., Henry PField, Mr, W. A. Wood, Jr. conducted a similar party in the region last summer, doing founda. tion work for;this year's expedition. operation at the Government Hos- pital yesterday morning, died at the hospital yesterday afternoon at 5:45, o'clock. Cleveland. | The questions do not involve at| requisite is unified, organized, prop-| erly directed campaign effort. Is the Townsend movement, on | s0 mueh has been done to identify tive answer. HARMONY NEEDED MOST In spite of the conversion of its Execution of four young Nazis 5T MINERS “Miss California” Candidates l are among those entered In a contest at Venice, Calif., ‘August 9 to select “Miss California.” The winner will get an airplane ride to Atlaptio City and the national bathing beauty competition. (Associated Press Photo) H (ilibuter, Adrift frt;m Alaska Since June 29, Picked Up Off Washington Coast; Men Safe | WESTPORT, Wash., Aug. 7— | Adrift since June 29 when a crank shaft was broken in Unimak Pass, Alaska, the halibuter Baldy was | rescued late yesterday afternoon 15 | miles off shore by the Coast Guard Life Saving crew. Capt. - Berton Czoina, of San Francisco, and his crew of two men, LOSE LIVES, MINE BLAST Bodies of 32 Victims Re- covered—Search for Remaining 25 | | | | | BARNSLEEW, York, England, Aug. 7—Rescue crews today réturn- ed to the grim task of searching for the bodies of 25 miners who have| apparently died in a coal mine ex-! plosion and officially are listed as had six gallons of water and one weeks' rations left. H. J. Persson, Commander of the| Westport Life Saving Station, said the thrge fishermen were in good spirits and showed little effects from their mishap. Persson estimates the halibuter drifted 2,000 miles. The drifter was sighted Wednes- day by the coastal steamer Ya- quina but the guarders were un- able to locate it until late yester- day. | missing, MRS, POST IS The @aptain’s companion on the drifter ate Carl Spindler and Har- vey Hoyt, the three being residents of Say Francisco. " "The’ halibuter sdiled from San Francisep with a cargo belonging to the Alaska Commercia] Company of sthat city and it was elghteen! d”x after departure that the crankshaft was broken. e MANCHOUKUAN FORCES LOSE Attacks by Gen. Li’s Troops| on Chinese Garrisons Are Repulsed PEIPING, China, Aug. 7.~Ttoops, commanded by Manchoukuan/ Gen-| eral Li Shou Han are reported| to. have been repulsed after attack- ing garrisons near Taoling in West Suiyuan Province. The attacking : troops lost 200{ dead .and about the same number wounded. | Gen. Li's forces made three sep-| arate attacks on the garrisons and then Suiyuan troops were rushed to the frontier and repulsed the in- vaders with terrific losses. JUDGE VINAL The bodtes of 32 workers have al- | ready been brought out of the work- ings. Frantic, grief-stricken relatives of ‘the dead, hover around, the mouth of the pit and sorrowfully claim the victims - &s they are brought out. ' : IN GOLD CAMP Is Meeting Friends Who Were So Kind to Her Late Husband FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 7.— Mrs. Wiley Post arrived here Wed- nesday-aftérnoon in the PAA plane piloted by Joe Crosson, accompan- ied by Mrs. Crosson. Mrs. Post sald she is here to meet friends of her late husband who were so kind to him in his last days, Mrs. Post is the guest. of the Crossons ‘at the Hiyu .gold mine in which Crosson has an interest. | | | | ALFONSO BERLIN BOUND BERLIN, Aug. T—Former King | Alfonso is listed to arrive herei | tomorrow to confer with President BAD WEATHER REPORTED OFF COAST OF B. C. Takeoff for—[%'rlh Is Now Set for Eight 0’Clock Tomorrow Morning FAST TIME IS MADE ALAMEDA TO SEATTLE Average Sp_e.tg Maintained of 170 Miles an Hour on Coast Flight SEATTLE, Aug. T.—Soviet fliers Levanevisky and Levchenko, who arrived here from Alameda, Cal., at 4:50 o'clock yesterday afternoon averaging 170 miles an hour on the flight and planned to take off for Juneau at 8 o'clock this morning, postponed the planned hop on ac- count of bad weather along the Northern British Columbia Coast iLght rain was falling in Alert Bay B. C, area and visibility was re- ! ported as being only about one | mile. The fliers explained, through an interpreter, N. A. Sokoloff, Vice- President of the Amtorg Trading Company, that the high speed of their pontoon equipped plane and the narrow channel might make it difficult to turn around or come down if the weather along the nor- thern British Columbia coast was worse by the time they reached there. TO HOP TOMORROW According to reports received at the Juneau Signal Corps, the fliers plan to hop from Seattle at 9 o'~ clock tomorrow morning -for Ju- neau, weather permitting. o o o STORES BEING SENTTOARCTIC FROM SEATTLE Governor's Office Prepares for Emergency Need Among Eskimos An effort to contact the Coast to be in the vicinity of Kotzebue was being made by the Governor’s office today with the thought that stores aboard the Cutter might be rushed to the area east of Point Barrow in the event it develops that there is more urgent need for food along the Arctic Coast where some reports say the Indians and Eskimos are in dire straits. Acting Gov. E, W. Griffin also has ordered 35 tons of supplies through Government Purchasing Agent J. R. Unmel in Seattle to be dispatched at once for the North so that they may be placed aboard the North Star at Seward and ta- ken on into the Arctic. It was at first planned to put the supplies aboard the Yukon leaving tomor- row from Seattle but officials to- day also were considering the plan to placing them aboard the Derblay for direct passage to Nome, there to contact the North Star. No further report on conditions along the Coast from Barrow to Barter Island has been received here, authorities reported, and it is generally accepted here that natural resources are now available to the 500 inhabitants of the coastal area. Harlan Gubser, who arrived here with his family aboard the North Star, is to make his headquarters in Juneau and after conference with the Governor, Indian Bureau officials and the Biological Survey is expected to go to the Arctic to start a campaign on the wolves which are reported to be killing the reindeer, thus eliminating one of the natives’ main food supplies: The Alaska Game Commission is sending Warden Grenold Collins, who is stationed at Marshall, all along the Arctic Coast a little later in the season and be probably will spend the entire winter in the re- all the enthusiasm or the sincerity revered leader, Dr. Townsend him-| of the Townsend devotees, whose| self, the convention split over ui camp meeting outpouring of emo-| proposal to endorse Lemke and end-| tion was backed by a goodly con-| ed up by endofsing nobody. | tribution of hard cash when the| More than that, it was able only hat was passed among the delega- by postponing a decision to avert tions. an open break over internal or- But enthusiasm and sincerity do | ganization. The money tossed into not swing elections unaided; not| the hat was not, in fact, for cam- does . cash .- unless. it is wisely ex-} paign work, but to pay the expenses Adolf Hitler regarding the present war front situation. 1 REBELS ARE JAILED LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 7.—Re- ports have been received here that 1,800 rebels have been rounded up! in a barbed wire entrenched prison | camp at - Sastago, 37 miles from The body is at the Charles W.| pended. - From s the . viewpoint of | of & cowst-battle within the Town-| Zaragoza, which place is under at- Carter Mortuary. (Continued on Page Two) b practical politics, the one nbmluml tack by the Spanish Loyalists. gion to determine what the Game Commission and Biological Survey can do to alleviate the reported trouble. Executive Officer Frank Dufresne said. It js possible that Mr. Gubser may accompany him, at least on some of his journey. IS IMPROVED ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 7.— Judge W. A. Vinal, aged 70, for- merly of the Third Division Judic- ial bench, has returned to his home Reports t0 the Commission from at Seldovia by airplane. He is now| its various wardens and representa- recovering from injuries sustained|tives in the mnorth, Mr. Dufresne in a fall from a liadder on July|said, indicate an especially bad fourth. (Continued en Page Eight)