The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 21, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR i/OL. XLVIIL, NO. 7258. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 4 REVOLT NOW REPORTED IN PORTUGAL ONE HALIBUTER - TOBE HELD CONFERENCE ON DROUGHT Roosevelt Invites Landon, Four Other Executives to Meet With Him HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 21— President Franklin D. Roosevelt today sent an invitation to Gov. Alfred M. Landon, of Kansas, and also to the Governors of Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma, to meet him on September 1 at Des Moines for the first of a series of conferences on the drought sit- uation. CONSERVATION IS THROTTLING OUR TERRITORY Rex Beach Again Takes Shot at Laxity for Pro- per Development TORONTO, Aug. 21.—Rex Beach, author, predicted an Alaska gold boom if the United States will fol- low Canada's aerial reconnaisance, photography and geological research work. “In visiting Alaska last spring, I was surprised to find nothing done notwithstanding the extraordinary rich and almost undeveloped min- ing veins there,” said Beach. Beach blamed Alaska's slackness and lack of Government interest| because of the conservation policy that is throttling development, thus making it difficult in obtaining nec- essary capital for development pur- poses. FAIRY TALES AID RUSSIAN CONSPIRATORS *Confessed Counter-Revolu- tionists Disclose Suter- fuges Used in Plot MOSCOW, Aug. 21.—A story of how a copy of the Arabian Nights was used as a secret code between Russia’s amazing anti-Stalin con- | spirators gave a fantastic touch to the trial of 16 confessed plotters Edward Solomonovich recounted | how he acted as llaison-man: be- tween the Moscow Trotzkyites and Leon Trotzky’s son, Syedoff. Previous evidence disclosed that the counter revolutionaries used secret trunk compartments, invis- ible: ink, and other subterfuges in exchanging ' informatiton. INTERIOR MAN - TOBE MARRIED SEATTLE, Aug. 21.—Ben Twitch- ell, aged 29, of Fairbanks, Alaska, and Esther Jacobs, aged 36, of Taylor, Wisconsin, have secured a license here to wed. £+4 | SEATTLE, Aug., 21.—One Ione halibuter arrived here today. The Leviathan came in from the west- "ern banks with 28,000 pounds and sold for 10% and ten cents a pound. - MINER INJURED George Laverty, mine employee, was injured this afternoon and taken to St. Ann's Hospital in an ambulance. The injured man was in the X-ray room at press time, but it is thought that his condi- tion is not serious. ———r In Sheridan Square, Greenwich Village, New York City, a life-size cow, on top”of & dairy store faces a life-size horse on the roof of a bar-restaurant. H 'UTAH BELLE TO WED FILM MAN BETTY WOOD Any remote poscibility that George Scott Barnes, film cam- eraman, and his former wife, Screen Star Joan Blondell, might become reconciled, has gone glimmering. For Barnes and Miss Betty Wood, 21-year- old screen dancer, filed inten- tion to wed in Fresno, Cal., re- cently. Miss Wood is -a native of Salt Lake City. It will be her first matrimonial flight. Their romance blossomed on a film set. RARE PAINTINGS OF OLD SITKA RECEIVED HERE Gov. Troy Makes Formal Presentation to Museum for Admiral Craven Rare paintings of Gia Sitka in the | days of Russian possession today became a part of the valuable dis-‘ play in the Alaska Historical Li- brary and Museum when the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, Librarian and Curator, took delivery through Gov.; John' W. Troy of the remarkable studies loaned to the Museum by Mrs. W. R. Hulbert of Chicago, sis- ter of Admiral T. T. Craven of the U. S. Navy. The paintings arrived here on the recent visit of the U. 8. S. Swallow, having been dispatched by Admiral | ESKIMOS FEAR AMBUSHING BY INDIAN BANGS Reindeer Round-up May Be Retarded in Point Barrow Area POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 21.—Frank Daugherty, Reindeer Su- perintendent in this section of the Northland, fears embarrassment in the reinder round-up because the .| Eskimos fear of being ambushed by Indians who some time ago attacked a boy near the Endicott moun- tains. heard nothing of the prowling In- dians since last winter. WES FERRELL FINED $1,000; IS SUSPENDED Red Sox Pitcher Walks from Diamond During g Yanks’ 3-Run Rally | BULLETIN—New York, Aug. 21.—Manager Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sox this after- noon fined pitcher Wes Ferrell $1,000 and suspended him indef- initely for walking “from the * diamond during the sixth in- ning of the Red Sox-Yankee game, in which the Yanks made | & threetrun rally in which his g hurling opponent, Monte Pear- ‘K son, singled to center. | Ferrell could not be found in the club house after the game. — e ‘General Public ' Is Advised of *Filings by U.S, Tom Brower, now here from a|f§ ranch in that area, reports he has Recovery Has Comc;,' Prosperity| Here; Just Look at Deposits in National Banks of United States — WASHINGTON, Aug. 21— F. T. 0'Connor, Comptroller of Currency, announced that national bank deposits as of June 30, the last bank call date, stood @t twenty-six billion two hundred million dollars. This is an increase of one billion three hundred and forty million dollars over the previous call, which was on March 4. The Treasury Department said the June 30 figures estab- | lishes at all-time record for bank deposits. ! PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SPEAKS | Lloyd, principal | the western division of the Depart- iment of Agriculture, are now at AAA PROGRAM TOAIDALASKA | AGRICULTURE ‘Direc!or Oldroyd of Uni- versity Named to Handle Work in Territory ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The Ag- ricultural Adjustment Administra- tion said today it was confident that all 700 Alaska farm operators would participate in the speclal agricultural conservation program for the Territory and insular pos- sessions. It named Lorin T. Oldroyd, Di- rector of extension work at the University of Alaska, to represent the AAA in developing the 1936 con- servation program by conducting a series of meetings in Territorial agricultural centers to explain the act’s provisions and benefits for co-operating with the farmers. The benefits will not be payable until after December 31, this year. Con- servation practices must be per- formed in the calendar year 1936 to qualify for payment, it was stat- ed. HOLDING SESSION NOW Director Oldroyd and Dr. W. A, agriculturist for Palmer in the Matanuska Colony holding conferences with farm lead- ers in connection with the proposed new work. When here recently, be- fore going to the Westward, Mr. Oldroyd sald it was his understand- ing that about $2,500 would be avail- able this ‘year to start to work and that a fuller program would be in This striking picture of President Roosevelt was made when he made a radio talk directly from his automobile when he visited Johnstown, ©a, on an inspection tour through sections devastated by the dis- astrous floods of last March. (Associated Press Photo) RODEO QUEEN BoatHeld for COMES HERE Buying Alaska { { | | | | | | | "or information to farmers and aiding them in furthering the industry. The Empire from George A. Lingo,| | : | ‘Two notices have been received by | Register of the District Land Of-|«inp- . L fice at Anchorage regarding filings | ‘Miss California” Is Love- by the United States on certain |surveys and withdrawal of the land | to public entry, as follows: Notice is hereby given that the plat of Survey No. 2134, Yakutat Native Cemetery, will be filed in this office October 1, 1936. Only the filing of the plat is taking place and that by reasons of the reservation the land is not sub- Ject to public entry. Notice is hereby given that the \trlplicntion plat of the U. 8. Light- house Reserve at False Point Re- treat, U. S. Survey No. 1716, will be filed in this office October 1, 1936. Only the filing of the plat is tak- Craven to Gov. Troy at the request ing place and that by reason of the of Mrs. Hulbert to be turned over| withdrawals of the lands for light- to the Museum as part of the house reserve the lands are not sub- famed Russian collection in the Ter-! ritorial Library. This morning at| ceremonies in the Governor’s office, the formal presentation was made.“ “These are wonderful, of great | historical value, marvelous pieces or| work and so authentic of those; days,” declared Father Kuhevnroflé as the paintings were opened in the | Governor’s office. ject to entry. -~ TWO NEGROES ARE EXECUTED RALEIGH, Norir Carolina, Aug. liest Queen to Visit Juneau Yet 'ling personality, a complete pic- ture of every man's dream of a girl |of the great outdoors, Miss Bertha Hall, sixteen-year-old brunette miss from Bakersfield, California, stepped off the Aleutian here this afternoon | to be greeted by Mayor 1. Goldstein and Harry G. Watson, representing the City of Juneau and the Gover- nor of Alaska. Miss Hall, golden representative of the Golden State, was selected as the Champion Outdoor Girl of Cal- ifornia, at the 1936 California Ro- deo at Salinas from a group of 140 contestants, winners from every California county, and is perhaps the most attractive envoy to visit Alaska this summer, In Rodeo Outfit outfit with silken cowgirl shirt and There are four paintings in the|2l—John Kinyon, aged 83, Crand-|Miss Hall, after a tour of the city, 1 i | y ldstein, was present at the reunion banquet of jith them came a plate|Ville County rapist, and Willie Lee | escorted by May_or Go. P it and i -Av&u" Gallon, 21, of Forsythe, convicted | taken to the Capitol Building where bearing the inscription: Colors of Sitka painted by a Rus- murderer, both- negroes, died today |she delivered a letter from Gover- sian Naval officer, circa (about) The first. opéned by the Curator was a “south 'view- of Sitka from the Inner Bay.” It shows the old block house and other build ns in the old Russian Capital with Indian canoes in the foreground. The sec- ond is labeled “View Taken from Southwest, Mt. Edgecomb bearing East.” The third is a “view of the Inlet, Town of Sitkd,” and as this| picture was opened, Father Kashe- varoff exclaimed "why, there is the old sawmill right in the foreground.” The fourth painting is “Principal View of Sitka from the West,” showing the trading post, hospital, Lutheran Church and many other buildings. The Curator, who is considered the best posted man in the country on Sitka history, was able. to point. out and explain what eaeh of the buildings in.the variqus dFafRe R 5, _ . (Continuea on Page Two) in the lethal gas chamber at the| Central prison’ | CLINIC EXPERIENCES TONSILECTOMY BOOM The Juneau Medical Clinic an- nounces business booming in the tonsilectomy field. The three doctors |associated with the clinic, W. W. Council, W. M. Whitehead and C. C. Carter, have :emovpd 17 pair of tonsils in the eleven days that the clinic has been opened in its Goldstein building home. This morning tonsilectomies were performed on Carol Karnes, daugh- ter of Commissioner of Education and Mrs. A. E. Karnes, and on Jackie Sorri, son of Mrs. Ethel Sorri. Numerous other minor surgical operations have been performed in the clinic in the. short time since| its Inception. nor Merriam of California to Gov. Troy of Alaska. to the Glacier and other interesting places of Juneau fill her time till the Aleutian sails tonight., An all-expense tour to the Pa- cific Northwest and to Alaska on Golden skin, athletic grace, spark-| cu_d_ lllegally Three-Masted Schooner,| | Golden State, Stopped | | by Coast Guard SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 21! | —The three-masted fishing schoon- | er, Golden State, is being held by the Coast Guard for inquiry into| | the cargo of cod aboard and brought | from Alaska. | | Capt. John Goedeker, of the| | Coast Guard Service here, said that |the vessel was being held while | United States Attorney H. H. Me-| {Pike mvestigates the report that| the schooner purchased 220,000 cod| fish instead of fishing for them |as designated by its papers. e, — effect in another year, The pro- gram has to do with the providing ———— STOCK PRICES ARE HIT HARD BY WAR SCARE Numerous Leaders Drop Today One to More than Six Points NEW YORK, Aug. 21. — The European war scare hit the stock market today and prices of numerous leaders toppled from one to more than six points, Mild support was accorded a few issues in late dealings but the majority of shdres closed weak and around the day's low. Transfers today were 1,500,- 000 shares. [ CLOSING PRICES T AY NEW YORK, Aug. 21. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13'%, American Can 120, American Light and Power 11%, Anaconda 36%, Bethlehem Steel 59%, Calumet and Hecla 11%, ‘Famuus World Columbia Gas and Electric 20, Com- Wearing the characteristic rodeo| neckercoef and four gallon hat, and| proudly displaying the banner that; | proclaims her “Miss California,”| After that, a trip| ~ War Aces Wil ~ Be at Reunion CLEVELAND, Aug. 21. — Many famous World War aces will be | war pilots, here September 20, the opening night of the American Le- ' glon Convention. | Among those who will attend will | be Maj. Jimmie Doolittle, Col. Wil- liam Bishop, noted Canadian ace, Capt. Eddie 'Rickenbacker, Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia, Orville Ander- |son, famed balloonist, Maj. Gen.| the Aleutian for her and her moth- Oscar Underwood, chief of the U. er, was Miss Hall's prize, and after|s, Army Air Corps, and Trubee the grand time she has had, Miss Davison, former assistant secretary Hall claims the trip worth winning of war in charge of aeronautics, three contests. | convention headquarters announc- Girl of Ranges | ed. Miss California is a graduate of| Maj. Fred L. Smith, director of Kern County Union High School|aeronautics for Ohio, and Lieut. and really is a girl of the rangps,icol. E. H. Zistel, head of the Ohio having spent all her life on a| National Guard Air Corps, are ranch near Bakersfield. Althoughlhflndllng preparations. not a professional, she is proficient | ———- in all the rodeo sports and is highly SALMON SOLD HERE enthusiastic about this years’ Sal-| Two salmon boats, the Thlinket, inas Rodeo the best ever, shz‘Ctpt. Jimmy Martin, and the Cel- claims. “This year was the Silver |tic, Capt. Henry Moy, delivered Anniversary of the Rodeo and vu"—flps to the Alaska Coast Fisheries today in the only trading on the lo- (Continued on Page Two) ! cal market, monwealth and Southern 3%, Cur- tiss Wright 6%, International Har- vester 70%, Kennecott 44%, Sim- mons 35%, United States Steel 65, United Corporation 7%, Cities Serv- ice 4%, Pound $5.03 3/16. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are Dow, Jones averages for today: industrials 160.80, down 4.79; rails 51.80, down 1.83; utilities 33.50, down 1.04. —————— FORDISAT PT. BARROW POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 21.—J. A. Ford, archeologist of the Smithsonian Institution, who did research work last summer at Cape Prince of Wales, is now here exca- vating the site of his former labors of four years ago. Then he came up the coast in a skin boat and outboard motor, Ford is leaving here aboard the Bureau of Indian Affairs vessel, the North Star. . — CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT The regular meeting of the Juneau City Council will be held tonight at 8 o'clock In the City Hall. Routine matters are scheduled. LATE WAR BULLETINS BULLETIN — Paris, Aug. 21. —The German protest to Mos- cow is described here as threat- ening. The note, it is learned, was dispatched from Berlin to Moscow protesting against what the Nazi regime terms Soviet in- Terference in the Spanish civil war, At the same time President Hitler has called the chief Ger- man officers of the Admiralty to a conference. Seven more Nazi warships have steamed for Spanish waters. BULLETIN—Hendaye, France Aug. 21.~It is reported that ef- forts of foreign diplomats here and in Madrid to mediate in the Spanish war have collapsed. BULLETIN—Rome, Aug. 21 —It is reported tonight that Italy has accepted the neutral- ity accord France has proposed. BULLETIN — Pamplona, Spain, by courier to the French Frontier, Aug. 21.—The big push on Madrid was launched by the rebels of the Northern Army at dawn today. ITALY PREPARES FOR AIR RAIDS: REFUGES READY Overseers Guard Every Building — Sweeping Regulations Decreed ROME, Aug. 21.—Stringent anti- aircraft protection is brought home to the humblest man, woman and child in Italy by sweeping regu- lations providing for the creation of literally hundreds of thousands of special non-paid overseers. The overseer, a member of the Fa- scist party, bears the title “capo- fabricato,” which means head of the building. This may be a fac- tory or, since nine-tenths of the Italians live in apartments, an apartment house. His duties are various and constant. In Peace In time of peace he must see that: Everything Is in readiness for the complete blacking out of the build- ing so that no light inside can be seen from without. The main gas pipe has a valve easily turned off by the janitor. Desposits of dry sand are placed in rooms under the roof so as to put out fire. Easily combustible materials are taken from rooms underneath the roof. A technical expert is called when- ever changes are to be made in the building, so that the changes may correspond with anti-aircraft pro- tection needs. Determine the number of dwel- lers who would voluntarily leave the city in case of war and go to hill towns and other places away from attackable centers. Decide in advance the best ref- uge in the house for all tenants. Mobilization Dutics The moment mobilizalicn is de- creed the “capo-fabricato” must Paint out the too-loud colors of terraces and roofs. Renders sky-| lights and other reflecting surface opaque. Put buckets filled with water upper-story rooms. Buy a special alarm which wil' notify all the tenants of the immi- nence of an air raid. Buy appartus to purify and re- generate the air in the building’s refuge. See that the tenants have strips of cloth soaked in grease ready to close windows and doors hermeti- cally. Have excessive weights on top floors removed. Big chandeliers i LITTLE NATION IS BELIEVED IN THROES OF WAR England Gives Warning to Spain Regarding Halt- ing Steamers TAKE AIM, THEN FIRE ARE BRITONS ORDERS Mussolini Renews Threats Over Neutrality— Statement PARIS, Aug. 21.—A revolt has broken out in Lisbon according to unconfirmed_reports received here. Other European capitals also re= ceived similar information. The French report followed quickly on adviges that a French newspaper correspondent had been arrested in Lisbon. The French government immediately sent a protest to the Portugal government and then wires “went dead.” It is not known for certain whether the alleged revolters have cut commun- ication lines or whether the lines have been cut by bombs dropped by Fascist rebel planes on Henrani vil- lage where one child is reported to have been wounded. LONDON HAS REPORT LONDON, Aug. 21.—Rumors have been received here of a revolt in Portugal but no confirmation has been received. Lisbon had failed, up to early this afternoon, to send any report, denial or confirmation. “FIRE” ORDERS GIVEN LONDON; Aug. Zi—Stern orders to keep Spain's civil war within bounds have beeh flashed to bridges of warships of both Great Britain and Germany. England adopted a policy simi- lar to the Reich’'s and has warned Madrid that all British warships will fire warning shots “then aim” if fired upon by Spanish vessels, either goyernment or rebel. Germany yesterday ordered com- manders of that nation's navy craft to answer “force with force” after a report was received a German merchant ship had been fired upon, stopped and then searched for con=- traband of war by a Loyalist Spans ish warship. ITALY WARLIKE ROME, Aug. 21.—I1 Duce is ready with half a million troops and 1,500 planes to help the Spanish rebels or resist any other nation from giving support to the Spanish gov-~ ernment, The Itallan Premier has directed all envoys to learn the foreign re- action to abandonment of neutral- ity negotiations. Mussolini is outspoken in his dec- laration that he will not accept any agreement which does not provide for moral as well as practical neu- trality and he has emphatically stated he will not permit a strong Socialist State to emerge from the Spanish war's aftermath, FIGHTING PROGRESSES TODAY ON THREE FRONTS LONDON, Aug. 21.—According te fficiai advices, fighting in the panish civil war is raging today n three fronts, in the Guadar- near Madrid, in (Continued UNITED STATES KEEPING OUT OF SPANISH REVOLT tion to Mediate in Present Strife WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. — The must be taken down. Statues on the front of buildings must be ta- ken away. When Raid Comes When the air raid starts, the ca- pofabricato must: See that the refuge is ready. Make sure that the alarm has been heard by all. Be certain the tenants, before leaving their apartments, have turn- ed off gas and electricity. (Continued oxrl-‘;nge Three) United States has rejected the Ur- uguayan proposal to participate in attempts to mediate in the Span- ish Revolution with the statement the United States did not feel war- ranted in departing from its es- tablished policy of non-interference in the affairs of other nations. The Uruguayan Government, in a note to the State Department of August 17, suggested that Amer- ican countries offer their services in mediation of the Spanish diffi- culties, . PRICE TEN CENTS Rejects Uruguayan Sugges-' 9