The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1936, Page 1

\ THE DAILY AL VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7252. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA, FRIDAY AUGUST 14. 1936. SKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHlNGTON U Wi BEHRENDS BODY T0 BE BROUGHT HERE BY PLANE Judge, Mr_sleullen. Son Awaiting Favorable Weather BULLETIN.—~Guy McNaugh- ton received a radio this after- noon from J. F. Mullen, at Cor- dova, that the plane was to leave there for Juneau at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. The body of B. M. Behrends. who died night before last in Cordova from an attack of pneumonia, probably will be brought here by plane, according to Associated Press advices fraom Cordova today. The Fitzpatrick Air Service is ready to leave with the body of the Juneau financier, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mullen and their son, Ben Mul- len, just as soon as there is a fa- vorable weather report from over the Gulf of Alaska. Howard J. Thompson, U. S. Met- eorologist here, said this afternoon that weather conditions along the| route were favorable with the ex- ception of some cloudiness at Yak- utat, and it was anticipated the plane might hop_for Juneau this afternoon or tomorrow morning. Funeral arrangements are pend- ing the arrival of Judge and Mrs. Mullen here with the body. MASONIC SERVICE TONIGHT A meeting lgrgely devoted to ser- vices in honor of the memory of B. M. Behrends who died at Cor- dova Wednesday evening, will be held tonight by .the Lodge of Per- fection, ‘14th " Degree Scottish Rite, in the Scottish Rite Temple at 7:30 o'clock. Mr. had been a member of all Scottish Rite Bodies. He was instrumental in the organization of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147, and was a Past Master of that lodge. As a young man, Mr. Behrends became a Mason before coming to! Alaska. Previous to the organiza- tion of Mt. Juneay Lodge, he was. | a member of Gastineaux Lodge in. Douglas. In August, 1933 a special M: sonic dinner and meeting was dedi cated in his honor to Mr. Behrends on his 50th anniversary in Mason- ry, and a gavel, significant of his| status as Past Master was pre-i sented to him by local Masons at that time, as a token of his many| years of membership and service in Masonry. All members of the 14th Degree are expected to be in attendance tonight, according to those in charge. ' LOCAL PRIEST TELLS REGARD FOR BEHRENDS | Rev. AP Kashevaroff Met‘ Late Banker on His Ar- rival in Sitka in 1887 The Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, com- menting on the death of B. M. Behrends, said today: “I met Mr. Behrends on his arrival in Sitka in 1887 to enter the employ of the Sitka Trading Company. I was then a teacher and lay-reader for the Russian Orthodox Church. Sev- eral years later I came to Juneau, and renewed my friendship with Mr Behrends when he arrived here. “Mr. Behrends was of inestima- ble help to me in 1917 when the revolution in Russia cut off church finances. I was desperate, having a largé family to support; so I went to Mr. Behrends. He encouraged me, telling me that he knew I could make a place for myself in some other field, and advising me to just forget about the money I owed him. “My relations with Mr. Behrends have always been of most congenial sort. His death shocks me beyond mere words, as I feel sure I have lost the best friend I ever had. In fact, B. M. Behrends seemed more like a relative than just a friend to me.” e, —— Glass bricks are used in an en- gineering shop under construction Behrends for many yearsl BOY iS This is the newest photo of Robert . Robert il nmwing. | Heiress Released | Mrs. Katrina Van Rennsselaer Brad- | ford, 27, was held by Los Angeles | pollce on a technical charge after the body of her husband, John Brad- | | ford, 31, was found in their apart- | ment, bu( she was ordered released | when his death was determined | due .o natural cauges, She said her | husband blackened her eyes a week previously in a fight. (Associated Press Photo) IS BURNED T0 DEATH IN FIRE INB.C. FOREST | Three Othefieported In-| jured in New OQut- burst of Flames CALGARY, Aug. 14—One man was burned to death and three| others were injured in forest fires; raging anew today in southwestern | Alberta and southeastern British | Columbia. LAST CHANCE FOR PROTEST TOMORROW The final meeting of the Board of | Equalization will be held in the| City Hall Council Chambers tomor- | row evening and all taxpayers with| protests over their assesements nre‘ asked to present them at the ses- sion tonight or tomorrow night la\ there will be no further opportun- | ity after that time. There have been few requests (Auocnated Pre | ing about then. STILL GROWIX Wadlow, the boy giant of Alton, He is shown standing 8 feet, 5 inches tall and towering above his | normal-sized family. Already the tallest man known to medical history, Photo; McGrady Conceals Motwes for Interest in Labor F ight WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—There| is some mystery about Assistant Labor Secretary McGrady's efforts to smooth out the row in organ- ized labor over industrial vs. craft unionism. Madame Secretary Per- kins' chief trouble shooter—he is acting secretary, incidentally, dur- ing her absence in Europe—pro-| fesses to be just a “friend of all parties to the intra-American Fed- eration of Labor dispute, playing his own hand Administration folk | generally would raise their hands in shocked horror if anybody suggested the conflict in organized labor during| a Presidential campaign was dis- tressing them and prompting Mec- Grady's moves. They could ask, with some show of reason, what “politics™ could be involved since both factions are pro-Roosevelt. Political Significance Hazy As a matter of fact it would take the gifts of a seventh son of a whole family of seventh sons to figure out all the political “ifs” bearing on the Landon-Roosevelt Presidential race that might be involved. It i$ much| easier to ‘project speculation four years ahead and assay thé possible ' repercussions of the Lewis-Green collision on hopes of some labor “eaders for a separate labor party with a complete national ticket of its own, by 1940. There can be little doubt that Major Berry, architect of the labor | non-Partisan League committed to ‘the Roosevelt candidacy, has such visions. He has said the big blow off in American politics was com- The Lewis-led at- tempt right now in industrial un- ion organization of the steel in- | dustry also may have some bearing |~ | on 1940 labor party maneuvering. Major Parties’ Concern ‘That might be of very great con- cern to the major parties next elec- tion. Yet if such a long-distance prospect did alarm either party management, particularly the Dem- | | ocrats, right now, the Lewis-Green rift ought to lessen their concern,| not increase it. Certainly the oust- ing from the A. F. of L. of a dozen unions claiming a third of the to- tal federation membership would not seem to brighten the chances for an independent and united la- bor political front four years hence. And presumably no final test be- tween the labor factions can come | before the Federation's sovereign | voice, its November convention, speaks. That will be after elec- | tion. It is strongly intimated, also, that no real test of the Lewis effort to unionize the steel mills will come before next spring. That is far beyond election day. None of these things offers any apparent “politi- cal” motive for McGrady's goings and comings. e Quadruplets born to a negro couple of Charleston, 8. C., made on the University of Kentucky cam- | for -adjustment so far, City Clerk|a total of 19 children borne by the pus. A W. Henning announced. - mother. ! 4 j (UP, STRIKE CALL ¢ | { ) { 14.—Souvenir SEATTLE DAILY ¢4 INEWSPAPER TIED Guild Members Walk Out on Post-Intelligencer— No Morning Editions SEATTLE, Aug. 14—No morning|’ editions of the Seattle Post-In< telligencer, Hearst publication, ap- peared this morning on account of. the strike. Shortly after midnight: the executive in charge announc- ed there would be no morning edi- tions today and whether attempts will be made to publish Saturday editions has not been decided. The announcement followed the refusal of the employees of the mechanical departments to pass through the picket ‘lines of the strikers. STRIKE IS CALLED SEATTLE, Aug. 14—The Chapter! of the American Newspaper Guild called a strike in the newsrooms of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer yesterday but executives said the publication would not be interrupt- ed. Charles W. Hope, Regional. Di-| rector of the National Labor Rela-! tions Board, who was in Juneau, Alaska, several months nzo,-lpld he was filing a complaint in behaif of the Guild against the Post Im- telligencer and its management, and setting a hearing for September 8. The complaint prepared by Hope charges the management of the Post-Intelligencer with duchnrginc two employees because of Guild! activities and asserted it thereby! interferred with the right of em- ployees to exercise the right to bag- | gain collectively. ONE THOUSAND ARE EXECUTED BY SP. REBELS MW holesale Mussacre Report-|| ed — Warship Sunk— Town Is Bombarded LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 14. More than 1,000 Government mili- tiamen, including 100 women, died in a mass execution at the hands of ‘Spanish rebels at Alemndralejo, a correspondent of the newspaper dlario Noticias reported today. Lisbon has also heard that the city of Badajoz is in flames as the result of incendiary bombs dropped by:rebel planes. It is also reported here that the Spanish Government's cruiser Jaime | Primero has been destroyed during @ .rebel bombardment at Malaga. REBEL AIR ATTACK BAYONNE, France, Aug. 14. — A|fl Joint rebel attack by airplanes and a warship against ‘Santander is re- ported here. ‘The planes dropped six bombs and the cruiser Almirante Ververa jdropped four shells in the city but Iew residents were in]ured SOVIET FLIERS AT NOME EARLY YESTERDAY P.M. Refuel and Attempl to Hop for Siberia But Stall- | Lon’s Sen Divorced Pickets - patrolled - the streets around the newspaper building im- medmtely the walkout was declared | TEN THOUSAND WITNESS NEGRO. DIE, SCAFFOLD Souvenir Hunters Stage; Scene at Spectacle— " | Sheriff Not There | OWENSBORO, Kentucky, Aug. hunters ripped = the hangman’s hood from the face of Rainey Bethea immediately after the negro, aged 20, was hanged here today before a crowd estimat-| ed at 10,000 persons, following oan—i \vlcuon of assault upon a white wo- mecmd the flight would be con-| man, aged 70. Bethea still ‘breathed when many/| persons rushed the four-foot wire, |enclosure about the scaffold and| scrambled for fragments as me- mentos of the spectacle. Mrs. Florence Thompson, Sher- iff. who directed the hanging prep-) arations, left to Arthur Hass, for-| mer Louisville policeman, the dl:l—} ties of throwing the trigger which| dropped the negro to his death. Mrs. Thompson did not appear pub- Hcl)’ joff from Lake Harding, 50 miles: # |from Fairbanks at 11:27 o'clock gd on Sandbar BULLETIN — NOME, Alaska, Aug. 14.—The Soviet plane was pulled off the sandbar at Safe- ty Lagoon at 3:30 o'clock this morning and the fliers waited for the fog to lift for the take- off to Ublen, Siberia. | NOME, Alaska, Aug. 14.—Soviet fliers Sigismund Levanevisky and Hector I." Levchenko, who hopped yesterday forenon, arrived here at! 2:37 o'clock, Nome time, yester-| day afternoon. The fliers alighted on Safety La-| goon, 20 miles east of here. Shortly after arrival, the plane was serviced and refuel and a start was made for Siberia. | The plane stalled on a sandbar in Safety Lagoon, runnning' aground. h A motorboat was unable to free| the plane, making it necessary to| await high tide when it was ex- | tinued early this morning. { —————— i LEAVES ON LOUISE Miss M." Busby, waitress at the Gastineau, left this morning for| Mrs. Dorothy Chaney (above) was the south aboard the Princess| granted a divorce from Creighton Louise. Chaney, son of the late Lon Chaney_ R | famous film actor, in Los Angeles. She also won the custody of their MINING MEN LEAVE | two children, Lon, 6 and Ronald, 7. The Congdoin party, composed of mining men from Duluth, Min-| nesota, who own the White Water | et e st DISGOVER PLOT Dr. Gruenmg Turns Cupid, Tells Fair Sex, Mates, to Cometo.Northland WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. — The Division of Territories and Island Possessions describes Alaska as a| land of opportunity for members | of the fair sex, who, pgrchance,‘ might be looking for mere hus-| bands. Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening, Di- rector of the Division of the In- terior Department, who made a trip to Alaska during the summer extending over several weeks, cov-| ering the Territory mostly by planes, in a report on the ratio of | white men to white women, said: “There still are two and one half times as many white men as women | in the Territory .of Alaska. { “This figure is nothing as com-| pared to conditions at the turnief| the century when thousands of men joined the gold rush and mv-ldl the Territory when the rntm was nine to one. i southward on the Prlncesfi Louise. Looking for nouncemen lASlxleen Already Arrested MOSCOW, Aug. 14.—Discovery of “Nevada, nd to Alaska, h: a plot directly attributed to exiled 86G0] aska, has a ratio of 1402 males per hundreq|€on Trotzky and directed against | females. |the Soviet regime leaders is an- “In direct opposition, the Dis- nounced by the Soviet Government, trict of Columbia has 90 males| gixteen arrests have been per hundred females. “The Alaska population of 59,278 is less than one inhabitant to ten square miles. “The United States, as a whole, has a density of 400 persons per ten square miles. “Rhode Island is the most thick-| The salmon p.mk in Cook Inlet ly populated state in the Union|has reached 311,349 cases, 'i"i:! 6,443 persons to ten ‘quare | jast Saturday, according to figures mi < t th heries. This “Approximately one half of the ‘a e Bureau of Fisheries. is Alaska population are whites, two|COmPpares with a total pack last thirds going there from the States|season of 224,389 czses. and the remainder from other na-| The pack in the Cook Inlet area tions. The other half consists of |through last Saturday follows: Bskimos ‘or Indians — Thlingets,| Reds, 186,493 kings, 19.560; pinks, Haidas, " ‘Shimpsians, * Athabascans |50,228; chums, 23594; cohos, 31474; and Aleuts,” total, 311,349, “No state.has a comparable ra- | tio, so far COOK INLET PACK through made ' question ! benefitting by a MRS. BOK BACKS ROOSEVELT Several prominent Democrats, led by Al Smith, have bolted President Roosevelt In this year's campaign, but Mrs. Curtis Bok (left), member of the noted Philadelphia publishing family, turned things about. Registered as a Republican and a voter for Herbert Hoover in 1932, she announced she would campaign for Roosevelt this year. pictured at New York Democratic headquarters conferring with Mary W. Dewson, in charge of Democratic women's activities. Press Photo) She is (Assoclated . Trade Churts Are Wmnmg Favor as Election Index By BYRON. PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washingtoh) | Many politiclans are almost as! deeply interested in business charts| these days as in polls and political| War maps. Even in ordinary times, economic trends have their undeniable rela- | tionship to politics, seven years of upset and uncer- tainty, any material business change | is bound to bring the politically- minded instantly to the alert. About the facts of the present case there is little dispute. Not only have various recognized busi- ness indices shown a decided up swing recently, but optimism about : BE ELECTED IN the immediate future is wndespread In other words, business and tics In general sees at least a pos- sibility that the election will be| held this year in the midst 0( something resembling a busmsss boom. What will be the result political- ly? Many things are involved in the answer. For in this respect, as in almost every other, 1936 pre- sents peculiarities of its own HELD TRUE IN PAST The general rule in past years has been that prosperity, in what- ever measure it abounds, helps the party in power. | The Republicans made a great deal of that in the McKinley days, and in the Coolidge days. Every- where among political philosophers, {“the full dinner pail” has been rec-| ognized as one of the most effective political emblems ever devised i The theory is that when times are good or getting better, the vot-, er hesitates to make a change; that he listens willingly to admo- nitions about changing horses in the middle of the stream, and is not impressed by arguments that Gove rnmenl Makes An 'someone else could do a better job at Washington 1 TWO SIDES TO ARGUMENT | That is the theory and the ex- perience of the past, and many of the supporters of President Roose- velt rely heavily on its applicabil- ity this year. In effect, they be- lieve their strongest practical |ground is to reiterate on every pos- sible occasion Mr. Roosevelt’s own to the voters of 1934: “Are you, individually, better off ‘!oday than you were before the ‘Advent of the New Deal?” No one denied at the time, and BEATS LAST YEAR no one has denied since, that ths‘ jcampaign strategy was a powerful influence in the overwhelming Democratic victories of two years| ago. As usual, however, there are two sides to the argument. Those who doubt whether the old rule will {work out so well in 1936 note the following exceptions: In most past instances, the party “prosperity” After nearly| PRICE TEN CENTS ‘ROWlNG CLASSIC HUSKIES SPURT ' IN OLYMPICS TO - NOSEQUTITALY {Seattle Crew Comes Up | from Behind to Cross Line First \VICTORY IS WON - BY JUST 1 LENGTH |Slow Time Made Because of Weather, Water Con- ditions—Cagers Win GRUNAU, Germany, Aug. 14.— Coming from behind in the last 500 meters, the University of Wash- ington Huskies today won the Olympic eight-oared rowing cham- pionship after Italy maintained the |lead from the start to the 1,500 | meter mark. ‘The Huskies came through with |a brilliant spurt to win the title and keep unbroken the American domination in eight-oared compe- tation. The Huskies won by a length from Italy, the 1932 runner-up to Cali- fornia; Germany was third, Great | Britain was fourth, Hungary fifth and the Swiss sixth | -Washington’s time was six min- |utes and 254 seconds, far behind the course and Olympic record of 6:00.8 which the Huskies set in Wed- | nesday's trials when they flashed a sensational spurt and overhauled the Britons in the last few strokes and won by a scant half length. | Water and weather conditiohs |were bad today, however. |UNITED STATES CAGERS ARE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS BERLIN, Aug. 14—The United States won the first Olympic bas- | ketball championship today, de- ‘fenung Canada 19 to 8. The win- ners led at half time by a score of 15 to 4. | The Americans went into the fi- nals yesterday when they defeated the Mexicans by a score of 25 to DEMOCRATS TO - THIS DIVISION 'J. P. Andcrson Returns from Campaign Trip in S, E. Alaska | J. P. Anderson, Juneau Florist jand Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives in the Territorial Legislature, has returned to Juneau after a combined busi- ness and campaign trip which took him to Southeast Alaska cities in- cluding Ketchikan, and an airplane trip to Craig, and return. “In all places I visited I found Delegate Dimond very popular and fecls sure that he will be elected by a big majority, and I feel that the entire Democratic ticket will be elected,” Mr Anderson said. During the trip, Mr. Anderson made three radio addresses, on which he has received enthusiastic comment rrom voters, he mld ARMY PLANE AFIRE, THEN COMES DOWN Three Mer;l)-e;s of Crew Die — Fourth Jumps to Safety in Parachute NEW KENT COURTHOUSE, V)rglml. Aug. 14.—A United States Army, plane caught fire while fly- ing and crashed near here last | night killing three of the crew of | four. | The fourth man, Private M. D. Flynn, aged 20, jumped to safety in a parachute. | 'The bodies of the three men were burned beyond recognition, one be- issue | ing throwm 240 feet from the wreck- has had the support of buuness |age. (Continued on Page Seven) The cause of the fire has not Iheen determined.