The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SKA EMPIRE I[TALI[AN PLA]NES RIEADY TO AHD REBELS MUSSOLINI HAS SERVED NOTICE, FRENCH NATION France Must Stop Giving Moral Support to Spanish Government AIRMEN EXCHANGE SHOTS, REPORT NOW Insurgent Warship Firing on Land Batteries in Northern Sector LONDON, Aug. 19.—Italy is keep- ing a fleet of 1,500 Fascist airplanes in readiness for any eventuality that may arise on the proposed compromise of the Franco-Italio agreement on Spanish neutrality. Italy may yield over a possible confliet and demand that Socialist’ France stop expressions of public opinion and siding with the pres- ent Spanish Government. Air Fleet Ready A dispatch this afternoon from Rome says Premier Benito Mus- solini has served notice that the Italian Air Fleet will aid the Span- ish rebels if France fails to abstain from intervention in moral support for the Spanish :So¢ldlist regime. Clash Reported Rome reports, rceeived here, state Italian and French airmen have already actually exchanged shots over @ibraltar as part of the Span- ish Civii War. Sowme Fascists credit the report that an Italian bombing plane dam- aged the Spanish - cruiser Jaime Primero which the sailors seized from the Fascist officers. Recognition Jubflant rebels, according to radio | advices from the Burgos head- quarters, declares Italy and Ger- many have joined hands and are| ready to extend full recognition to the rebels on the theory the in- surgents will take Madrid. Rebels are reported to have ad- vanced within 600 yards of Irun| under fire of the Government ar- tillery. Warships Shelling Towns Another report is that the Ad- mirante Cervera and one or two rebels cruisers are shelling Irun and San Sebastion, also Fort Guadalupe for the past two days. It is said the rebel vessels have been hit by the Government land batteries and | a reporf is that one of the craft has been badly damaged. TO BOMBARD PALMA; U. S. GIVEN WARNING WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Span- ish Government authorities, warn- ing of their intention to bombard Palma from the air and sea, told the American Consul there they urged ‘that' all American vessels leave Palma within ten hours. The heavy cruiser Quincy arrived at Palma today and the battleships Oklahoma is reparted enroute thete, The State Department requested the Navy to instruct the Quincy to evacuate Consul Robert Lorig- year and all other’ Americans who can be persuaded to leave the Bele- airc Islands and to broadcast a warning to all American merchant vessels in the vicinity. - e, —— LOS ANGELES | STREET CAR IN MAD RUSH Twenty-seven en Passe ngers Injured—Other Over- mght Accidents LOS ANGELES, Cal Aug. 19— A runaway street car injured 27 passengers during -the night. A triple automobile collision hurt! six persons and two persons were! killed on . other: overnight traffic" mdmulnmmmemmwntheummntmmuMn-] HOW WAR AFFECTS SPAIN Bay of Biscay \~ }. & #TOLEDO L ALAGA o\ muAuALAJAu DRID ¢ o Jacencia e w o ACETE “2 Mediterranean Sea This Assoclated Press map shows how great an area has been affected by Spain’s civil war. The shaded to be controlled by the Fa posted war v Is along Some of the fier: t rebel forc the southern c 'Igmlnu of the struggle was raged for possession of San Sebastian on the northern se: portions represent areas reported The loyalist government to blockade the rebels. board. Week’s News in Review by Richard H. Hippelheuser NEW YORK, as of week ending Aug. 15—By Associated Press)— There was a strong plea for peace in a world preparing for war. It came from the President of the United States. Standing on a forest hillside, on the shores of Lake Chautauqua in New York, the President said: “Peace in the Western World is not all that we seek. “It is our hope that knowledge of the practical application of the good neighbor policy in this hem- isphere will be borne home to our | neighbors across the seas. “We seek to dominate no other nation. We ask no territorial ex- | pansion. ‘We oppose imperialism. We desire reduction in world arm- aments. “We believe in Democracy; we be- lieve in freedom; we believe in peace. We offer to every nation of the world the handclasp of the good neighbor. Let those who wish our friendship look us in the eye and take our hands.” THE EUROPEAN SITUATION The Civil War in Spain still men- aced the peace of Europe. Not only in London, but in the chancellories of other capitals, there was grave concern lest Spain become the Sara- jevo of 1836. The delay of the Hitler government in answering the French proposal for a policy of neutrality among the European powers intensified the situation. Furthermore, there was the appearance of Italian and German military airlanes in the camps of the Fascist rebels in Spain. This increased the anxiety of the Blum government in France. In accepting the French propos- al “in principle,” Fascist Italy ob- jected to the activities of French citizens in organizing financial and military support for the Leftist-Lib- eral government of Manuel Azana in Spain. But France firmly informed Italy it connot pledge its citizens to cease such activity. Under the provision of the French neutrality proposal, the gov- ernments would pledge non-inter- vention into the Spanish Civil war. France was preparing for any eventuality. Turning to Eastern Europe, seeking to strengthen its alliances there, France sent its chief of the General Staff, General Marie Gusaave Gamelin, to War- nw for a conference with General Edward Rydz-Smigley, Inspector General of the Polish Army and the virtual dictator of Poland. Paris, with this move, was put- ting the Franco-Polish pact to its first major test. This military alliance has been in existence for 15 years. But in recent years, there have been frequent indications of a lessening friendship bet ween France and Poland. One' contributing factor to this sistance between France and Soviet Russia. With Poland’s distrust of the Communist nation, this pact disturbed the relations with Paris. Now, with the disturbed state of Eu- rope, France was bending its ef- forts to keep Poland in line. But no matter what the outcome of the Spanish situation, the Amer- ican government has laid down its policy of strict neutrality. In line with the President’s words at Chautauqua, the State Depart- ment said “this government will, of course, scrupulously refrain from any interference whatever in the unfortunate Spanish situation.” Inaddition, the Washington Gov- ernment again warned all Ameri- cans to leave Spain and said those who remained did so at their own risk. OTHER NATIONAL AFFAIRS Before he left Washington on this tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York, the President held a conférence on finances and tax- es with Secret.ary of the Treasury Morgenmlu. Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, and Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee. After the conference, it was an- nounced the Administration would not seek any new taxes in the com- ing session of Congress. In his inspection of areas devas- tated by the spring floods, the President first visited Johnstown, on the Conemaugh. At Johnstown, he discussed the Federal Government's flood control program with “ajor General Ed- win Markham, Chief of Army En- gineers. To speed up construction, the President, after his conference with Pennsylvania officials, allocated $2- 961,000 in relief funds for immed- iate work in the Johnstown-Pitts- burgh area. From Johnstown, the President journey to Cleveland to “take in™ the Great Lakes Exposition; then on to Chautauqua for the address on foreign policy. There followed a tour of flood- control areas in New York and other sections of Pennsylvania be- fore the President went to his Hyde Park home. THE POLITICAL SIDE Republicans generally declared the tax announcement was a political gesture. Typical of this thought was the statement, issued in Wash- ington, of Representative Robert Low Bacon, of New York: “The hurried White House con- ference, and the subsequent an- nouncement that no new taxes will be recommended to Congress at the next session, is & political gesture, pure and simple. “It should be viewed in the light "7 (Continuea on Page Seven) DIMOND, BOYLE TRUITT MAKING CAMPAIGN TRIP} Enthus iasl_ic Audiences | Greet Candidates—Ey- erything Democratic SEWARD, Aug. 19.—Delegate An={ thony J. Dimond, Attorney General James 8. Truitt, and Terflwrinl‘ Auditor Frank A. Boyle, arrived yesterday after a speaking tour that brought out large and enthus-. jastic audiences in Fairbanks, Ne-: nana, Anchorage and Palmer. Members of the group of Demo= cratic candidates said that weath= er permitting they planned to fly to Seldovia and from there to Cor-. dova, winding up the westward cam- paign tour at Valdez. The party, plans on arriving in Juneau abouf August 24. | “Judging from many conversa-' tions and the enthusiastic meetings that greeted us in all places vis=! ited, a solid majority of the voters' realize the many beneftis Alaska has received from the Democratic Administration; that conditions are ciated Press Pholo:) good throughout the country; that Alaska is on the way, that the voters are not taking any chances by switching and it looks hke a b i i e T RECOVERY IS EEREE S R Ry DENGED I 4 DEMOCRATS | ALL NORTHLAND 'POLL BIG VOTE Foster McGovern Makes WYU’PRIMANES’ Statement After Ex- tensive Alaska Trip Robert D. Carey, Republi- can, Easily Renominat- early this morning, Foster L. Mc- Govern, manager of the Alaska De- partment, Seattle Chamber of Com- merce, vigorously described the ed Over Brubaker many evidences of strong recovery and development he saw and stu- CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 19. — died during his extensive trip to Democrats in the State polled a big the Westward and Interior, as a vote according to incomplete re- part of bringing about closer co- While the Yukon was in port,| turns received this morning from yesterday's primaries. The big fight in both parties cen- tered around the Senatorial nom- | inee. The Democratic vote .received operation and increasing helpful un- derstandmg between the Seattle ' commercial body and the people of Alaska Conditions Fine “Conditions are fine in Alaska,” Mr. McGovern said “The Terri- from 466 precincts of the State’s tory is taking on an air of per- 676, for the Senatorial nomination, manency. Alaskans are realizing gives H. H. Swartz 8,430; Dr. John that the Territory is in better shape D. Clark 5855, J. Kirk Baldwin than any place on the Outside. They 5,595, Anthony Radalj 2250 and 8re staying here. In Fairbanks I Charles Trenary 1,180 votes. (toured around extensively, visiting Returns from 460 precincts give me creeks and new operations. Con- ditions there are excellent due to Sones Sinstor” 19161 for the Re. the new price of gold. Fairbanks publican nomination against A. ¥, SHOWS every evidence of prosper- Brubaker who received only 7,121 ity; lots of new outfits are work- © ing. votes. I e 8M0K|NG Nuw | there are very good; about $400,000 lhlghway program is underway, in- BERLIN, Aug. 19.—Germans are cluding the new city hall building, smoking more than ever, accord- nearly completed, an addition to the ing to official statistics for the Anchorage hotel, an addition to the fiscal year 1935-36 when '1800000-"!‘"5! National Bank, and many im- 000 cigars and more than 37,000,- provements to stores, as well as a 000,000 cigarettes passed through number of new homes; business is the tobacco exise department. good and the people appear hap- In that period German smokers|py.” spent 9.1 per cent more on to- “The Matanuska Valley project bacco than in the previous year.|at Palmer is going good; lots of The homegrown weed is used more|land being cleared and crops grow- and more as a substitute for the|ing. In the trading post at Palmer foreign product. (Continuea on Page Two) New Mining The caterpillar tractor, and the| powerful mechanical “bull dozer” | {methods of production are stimu- lating, greatly, the placer gold pro- duction. I spent several days in Anchorage and general conditions Re-elect Roosevelt, Urges Minnesota Governor from His Sick Bed in Hospital ROCHESTER, Minn, Aug. 19. vvmun vote solidly for Roosevelt, for Prom his sisk bed in one of the |t split their votes means they are ! merely playing into the hands of hospitals of the Mayo Clinic, Gov. |the Wall Street gang.” Floyd B. Olson, Parmer-Laborite,| Gov. Olson is improving from of Minnesota, urges Liberals to re-/a blood transfusion;. successfully elect President Roosevelt and pre-|made yesterday folowing a bad vent election of the rmuon-.ryxnlxht ln which he'was in: terrible Landon, , { He has been suffering from Gaov. Olson added: “The Liberals'a s / ailment, Plot Overthrow - of Soviet Govt.s [Reign of Terror Was to Be| Instigated—German i Police Involved MOSCOW, Aug. 19.—Sixteen ac- |cused Trotzky conspirators today pleaded guilty to charges of the Soviet government that they plotted to seize power through an organ- ized reign of terror in which Jos- eph Stalin and other heads would have been killed. The prosecutors charged the plot was directly organized by Leon Trotzky and the plotters hoped for | international complications which iwould pave the way for the over: throw of the Soviet Government. The German Gestapo, secret po- lice, is also charged with | participation in the plot. NAVY PROGRAM STARTED; BIDS OPENED TODAY Battleship ; Construction Will Be Left-Up to President | WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Leav- ling to President Roosevelt to de- cide whether two new battleships are going to be constructed, the next fiscal year’s building program with opening bids for six destroy- ers and three submarines. The destroyer bids ranged from |as low as $4,260,000 to.a high of | $6,380,000, The only Pgeific Coast bidder was the Befhlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of S8an Francisco now building two destroyers. were higher than those submitted for the corporation’s Quincy, Mass., plant. Admiral Standley, Acting Secre- {tary of the Navy, said President Roosevelt will decide later whether |the battleships will be built in event Great Britain carries out the announced plans to lay keels for two additional battleships. e o LEAVE ON BARANOF ‘The Baranof sailing for the West- ward at 1 o'clock yesterday after- noon took the following list of pas- sengers from here: Mr. and Mrs. 8. Douglas, H. F. Gallwas, F; L. Fiske, Buzz Femmer, Ted Doogap, A. E. Young, Octavia Wilson, Eu- genia O'Brien, 8. Taylor. . 16 Plead Guilty, direct | Navy High Command started Lhel Its, bids | WILL ALFONSO SEEK RETURN TO THRONE." 1 Alfonso of Spain (extreme left) and his two sons, Jaime of Bourbon (right), and Juan (center) were be- lieved to be debating the question of Alfonso's chances of returning to his lost throne In the midst of the clvil war in Spain, The former monarch called his two sons to a conference at Dellach, Austria. (Asso- A RBITRATION TURNED DOWN PAPER STRIKE Mayor R Suggestion | Rejected by Seattle Post-Intelligencer SEATTLE, Aug. 19.—The execu- tives of the Seattle Post-Intelli- gencer have rejected Mayor John F. Dore’s suggestion that the Amer- ican Newspaper Guild strike be ar- bitrated, although the Guild ac- cepted the conference suggestion. “I am washing my hands of the business. I do not care now if the ' RECORD YEAR ' TOBE EXCEEDED FIGURES REVEAL Total PackEEnlire Ter- ritory Now Stands at 7,154,837 Cases 7,461,000 PACKED IN LAST BIG YEAR Wingard Ex—pe:ts at Least Another 350,000 Cases to Set New High Mark With a week's fishing yet to re- port in some districts, indication was today that the 1936 Alaska salmon pack will set an all time record, figures compiled at the Bu- reau of Fisheries reveal. The pack through last Saturday for the entire Territory was 7,154,- 837 cases as compared with the to- ltal pack of 7,481,000 cases in 1934, {the last big year. With some dis- tricts closing this week and others remaining open until the 22d and one until August 29 there was evi- (dence today that the pack would at least reach the 1934 pack and it was believed there was ‘a good chance that it might be exceeded. Bristol Bay, which was open last year only to a very small pack, contributed 1,303,808 cases this se- ison and other districts are holding Jup especially well, according to L. G. Wingard;, Alaska Agent, Reports Yet to Come “There 1§ ‘every reason to believe this season will set a new record, in excess of the 1934 pack,” said Mr. |Wingard. “T feel safe, in the face of |figures we now have, in predicting |the 193¢ mark will at least be reached and I believe it will be ex- ceeded. I think we can look for at least 350,000 cases to add to the present totals when all pack re- ports are received. We have half week figures to come yet from Ket- chikan, Western and Eastern dis- tricts. Wrangell is open until the {22d and the West Coast until the 29th. There will be only & few hun- dred additional cases from the Post-Intelligencer never publishes Westward, Chignik, and Kodiak, and I think it would be a good but the reports yet to come from thing for the town if it didn't,” \the Southeast, in my opinion, will said Mayor Dore after recelving the €ive us a new salmon pack figure, | newspaper’s answer. |beating that big year of 1934.” Meanwhile pickets continued to| Much of the success of the fish- surround the building bearing signs INg season, the Agent feels, is due demanding return to duty of two'to the close watch the Bureau has discharged editorial staff Guild| members, DAVE BECK REPLIES SEATTLE, Aug. 19.—Dave Beck. Teamsters and Joint Council Presi- dent, issued a statement this after-! noon through the Seattle Daily Times denying that the Post-In- telligencer and other press state- ments that he is responsible for the Guild strike which closed the Post-Intelligencer. Beck urges that a public com- mission be formed to investigate the strike and publicize the find- ings of his alleged connection v\lth the shut down of the m newspaper's plant. Beck su'ge:ted |the Rev. Dr. Mark Matthews, Rob- tert Stratton McFarlane and Ewing D.;Colvin as members of the com- mission and said that if the man- agement of ‘the Post-Intelligencer declined to accept the sug ton |he would ask for departmental tion ‘of Legion Commander Walter Talbot, of Colfax, Wash. to select a. comrhission. “I had no part whatsoever m calling 'this strike. I was in Cali- fornid three weeks previous to Lhe“ time the strike was called,” statement made by Beck. The Seattle Times, type “spread” on the first page, accused Beck of being instrumental in calling the strike. is the STATEMENT OF P.-I. In last Friday's Seattle Daily Times, received in yesterday’s mail, appeared the following statement by the Post-Intelligencer: Because the Post-Intelligencer some weeks ago discharged two edi- torial employees, one for inefficient and wasteful methods, the other for gross insubordination, Seattle is -agajn witnessing a reign of terror- ism thnt should be an lmpresalve (Conunucd on Page Three) in a black! kept on escapements and fixing reg- |ulations so the fishermen could get ithe best fishing, at the same time |ret.aimng a sufficient escapement to ithe streams to perpetuate the in- dustry in future years. With three days report yet to come, Ketchikan has packed 1,- 087,946. The South and North sides |of Alaska Peninsula combined passed the 1,000000-case mark. Pringe William Sound is over 600,- (Continued on Page Two) - P. R, BRADLEY IS HERE ON ANNUAL VISIT TG A. J. Presndenl of Gold Mining [ Co. Reports Satisfaction with Outlook Outside Shortly after his -rrbvnl on nn- isteamer Alaska today, P. R. Brad- ley, President of the Alaska Ju- neau Gold Mining Company, whose home office is in San Francisco, was busy at his desk in the local offices at the mine. Smiling genially, when inter- viewed, Mr. Bradley expressed i pleasure at again being on Gas- tineau Channel, where he had made his home for a number of years and has a host of friends. The purpose of this annual trip, generally of approximately a month's duration, is to renew direct ‘oontacu with the operation of the Alaska Juneau; and keep in inti- mnte touch ‘with its working, Mr. Bradley, gaid. whunmmmnuuhu-' " (Continued on Page Eight)