The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE® VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7260, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU. ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = o FRENCHMEN EXECUTED, SPANISH WAR DIMOND RALLY ON WEDNESDAY AT COLISEUM Big Political Meeting Is to Start at 8 0'Clock Mrs. Krause Says “Remember the date! Wednesday night_at B o'clock sharp the big Dimond Rally will .start at the Coliseum Theatre” Mrs. Emil Krause, President of the Women's Demogratic Club of Gastineau Channel said today. “For nearly four years your Dele- gate to Congress, Anthony J. Di- mond has served you well under a favorable administration which has | done more for Alaska than any| other administration in 20 years,” continued Mrs. Krause. “All the members of the Democratic Wom- en’s Club invite every resident of Gastineau Channel to attend this meeting and hear and meet their Delegate. Judging-from the com- ment heard since the afhouncement | of the Dimond Rally there will be a large turnout and we urge that you come early, as the meeting will start promptly at 8 o'clock, Wednes- | day night.” | Practically all of the program will be devoted to Mr. Dimond's | address, according to Mrs. Krause, DOUGLAS WILL HAVE DIMOND RALLY TUESDAY Eagles’ Hall Has Been En- gaged—Delegate’s In- itial Appearance Juneau's lively sister city, again evincing its well known spirit for “go-get-'em” enterprise has made arrangements, under the direction of Charles Fox, Democratic Divis- ional Committeeman, to have Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond speak in the Eagles' Hall in Douglas to- morrow evening at 8 o'clock, ac- cording to an announcement today from the Douglas Committee in charge. The steamer Alaska, on which Delegate Dimond, Territorial Audi- tor Frank A. Boyle, and Attorney General James S. Truitt are travel- ing is scheduled to arrive in Ju- neau at 6 o'clock tomorrow even- ing, in ample time for the Douglas meeting. Mr. Fox and members of the ar- rangements committee today in- vited all Juneauites, as well as the Douglas peop}g to attend this meet- ing, which launches Delegate Di- mond’s speaking tour in the First Division. Mr. Fox pointed out that the hall with the exception of a brief and | lively introductory program ar-; ranged by club members. | in Douglas was easily accessible either by car or bus over the bridge that Douglas had worked for so For the benefit of those unable!many years, and which was one to attend the meeting the club has|of the first of many substantial made arrangements with Juneau’sprojects in the Territory that have radio station for one hour's ume,;come into being throughout Alaska starting at 8 o'clock, during which during the Democratic Administra- the Coliseum Theatre; l | Ah | oard Alaska Delegate Dimond’s speech will be {ion. broadcast by remote control from ———— ! ¢ : Ll —— } Polfcal TNT PAULKNER IS Believe ‘ Drought Is Ended Drenching Rains Fall Over Area, Breaking Long Dry Spell CHICAGO, 11, Aug. 24—Drench- ing rains dotted much of the drought area last Saturday reliev- ing a long dry spell. Weather Bureau forecasters Sat-| urday night felt that the drought| had finally been broken. YOUTH GIVEN SENTENCE FOR LIFE, MURDER Minister’s Son, Arrested in| Tacoma for Burglary, | Confesses Slaying | SHAWANO, Wisconsin, Aug. 24— LaVerne Marks, 19-year-old son of | a Clintonville minister, was late St- urday sentenced to life imprison-| ment after he pleaded guilty beIoreg Circuit Judge Edgar V. Werner to slaying his boyhood chum, Robert Bernstein, while on a fishing trip. | Young Marks was returned here| last Saturday afternoon from Ta- Washington, where he had| been arrested on robbery charges.| He confessed to the authorities in ‘Tacoma that he had killed his Wis- consin chum before legving home | for the West. He had been sen- tenced at Tacoma to 20 years on| the robbery charge but the Tacoma | coma, authorities released mm into the| custody of the Wisconsin officers on the murder charge. |three, tackle box, donated by Jus |Council, is a neophyte |salmon fishing is unknown, UPSETS FISH CART SUNDAY Juneau Sports Fishing Club Has Highly Successful Salmon Derby Aided by made to order wi the Juneau Sports Fishing first strip fishing derby, held yi terday, brought out about 40 enthus siasts, of whom about 10 were wo- men' and a dozen small boats, About 20 fishermen traveled to the scene of the derby at the upper end of Shelter Island aboard the gasboat Wanderer, chartered by. the club for the event. The big upset of the afternoon came when Mildred Apland, a mere. woman, took the prige for the most, salmon caught by exhibiting five, beauties. Juneau's champion fishermen and the prizes they won as indicated by yesterday’s results are: Biggest salmon, Kel Larson, 26% pounds; fish pole donated by Ju- neau Sport Fishing Club. Next biggest salmon, R. R. Brown, 17% pounds; sweater donated By Sabin’s, men’s clothing store. Third biggest salmon, E. E. Clete- land, 16 pounds; fish basket, do- nated by Thomas Hardware. Most salmon, Mildred Apland, five, tackle box, donated by Ju- neau Drug Co. Next most salmon, Peter Melseth, neau Drug Co. Most salmon caught by wom: Mildred Apland, five, reel, dona by Juneau Young Hardware. , Prize winners may obtain = theif wards by celling at the firms dg nating them, Curtis Shattuck, presi- dent of the organization announced today. Miss Apland, sister of Mrs. W. W. in the art of strip fishing, having come to Juneau from North Dakota where about| FOUND ON TRAIL UP SHEEP CREEK Engineer's Equipment, Clothing, Bank Books Dis- covered Under' Stump Was a murder committed near Thane in the winter of 1914 or rly in the spring of 1915, or was there a strange disappearance, or was a cache made of wearing arti- cles, etc., and the man making the cache unable to find it later, and if he made the cache why did he hide away manv very personal articles? This mystery developed yesterday three miles up the trail from Thane on the road to Camp 6. Underneath a stump, buried there for years, were found ice creepers, cap, mittens, bank deposit book, ngineer’s protractor and polygraph, mechanic’s engineering pocketbook, instruments used by an engineer or draftsman. In the pocketbook were clippings from newspapers for several years and the bank deposit was dated 1911 and 1912, when de- posits were made. A celluloid cal- endar was for 1914-1915. The find may made by Mrs. Gus George. The person involved, according to the bank deposit book and also a gold-lettered “pocketbook, was Will- iam S. Arms, Jr. The deposit book showed deposits of over $3,000 made in the Pulmas County Bank at Quincy, California, in 1811 and 1912. Clippings enclosed in the pocket-~ beok were newspaper articles on death of Arms' father, a Mason land wealthy man, at his home at Calistoga, Cal., on March 13, 1913. The ice creepers indicate that they were used in making the climb up the'old trail but why discarded and ‘Buried with the other articles is a mystery. Officers say they ‘'might' have been’ cached to avert Immediately following sentence |six months ago. The young lady was for murder, Marks was taken, early| the most surprised club member Saturday evening, to the state pris-|present when she was declared the Moving South ! Juneau Attorney Says Fair- Republicans and Democrats | banks Outlook Is Ex- on at Waupun. prize winner. suspicion if a crime was commit- ted: As far as known no bones of ia victim have ever been discovered in the vicinity, but neither was the MERE WOMAN [MYSTERY CAGHE Governor of Minnesota Dies in Mayo Clinic; Prominent in State, National Politics ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 24— Floyd B. Olson, Farmer-Labor Gov- ernor of the State of Minnesota and long prominent in State and Na- tional political circles, died Satur- | day night in one of the hospitals | of the Mayo clinic at the age of 4. The Chief Executive suffered from a stomach ailment. Last Tuesday a blood transfusion was made. Saturday afternoon the Gover- nor’s condition took a turn for Lhe! worse and oplates were adminis-| tered to alleviate his increasing| pain. Gov.¢Olson was a strong support-~ er of the Roosevelt Administra- tion. From his sick bed last Wed- nesday he urged the Liberals to re- elect President Roosevelt and pre- vent the eleciion of ‘“reactionary Landon.” Gov. *Olson, in his plea to the Liberals said: “The Liberals must | vote - solidly for Roosevelt, for to split their votes means they are| merly playing into the hands of the Wall Street Gang." | GOVERNOR OLSON HENRY LANDES, TACTICS FOR U WASHINGTON, CAMPAIGNING PASSES AWAY ARE OUTLINED Oldest Member of Faculty, President (6 :r_a_ke Road To- I in Point. of Service, | morrow — No Polit- Dies in Seattle ‘ SEATTLE, Aug. 24—Dean Henry WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—Cli- Landes, aged 68; oldest member oi‘muxeu by Governgr Alfred M. the University of Washington fac-|Landon’s assault on the New Deal ulty, in point of service, died Sun-|in Pennsylvania last Saturday af- day as the result of pneumonia. |ternoon, the week brought a clear- Dean Landes and his wife, Mrs.|er outline of tactics in the Presi- Bertha K. Landes, former Mayor of |dential campaign, and the tenden- Seattle, returned last Wednesday Cy to jump across party lines was after conducting a travel tour to!also illustrated afresh. After a China. period of seclusion, the Republican Dean Landes caught a cold in|DOminee embarked frankly on a Shanghai which developed into pneumonia and he was ill on most| | political tour designed to let the voters see and hear him, traveling cache until yesterday and hun- from state to state. Volunteers Fall Before Rebel Firi[g Squad France Denies Report Her Planes Bombed Three Spanish Strongholds GERMANY DECLARES EMBARGO ON ARMS British Merchant Ships Ase Stopped by Apology Is Quickly Forthcoming BULLETIN — Madrid, Aug. 24.—Official Government state- ments issued late this afternoon admitted Spanish rebel air~ planes bombarded the Getafe airdrome on the outskirts of Madrid early Sunday but the damage was slight. BULLETIN Hendaye, France, Aug. 24.—A courier has arrived here with seemingly re- liable reports, that Madrid is now expressing fears concern- ing the southern rebel advance on the Spanish Capital and President Manuel Azana has sent truck loads of documents and personal affects to Valen- cia. FRENCHMEN SHOT PAMPLONA, Northern Spain, Aug. 24.—Officers of Spanish rebel |troops here announce the execution of five Frenchmen who were cap- tured with a small force of Loyal- ists ‘@nd haye {ssued d wartiing that others of French nationals, who have joined the present civil war, may expect the same fate when caught. The rebels here also accuse France' of aiding the Spanish Socialist re- gime. The French volunteers were exe- cuted -vhen captured near Ozarun, in a sharp clash and were immedi- ately put to death along with Loy- alists. of the trip. | dreds make the climb over the President Roosevelt also will take| FRENCH PLANES BOMB Steaming in on Juneau from Westward “What are the wild waves say- 4 ing, Sister, the whole day long, That ever amid our playing I hear but their low, lone song?” | ‘When the above ditty was struck off by a man named Carptenter! in 1813, it is certain that he wasn't a southbound passenger crossing the Gulf of Alaska with a cargo of po- tential political T.N.T aboard, but it's an even guess that some pas- sengers aboard the Alaska today are either doing that or listening to two distinct, if perhaps only temporary, viewpoints from the opposing politi- cal factions that are aboard. According to advices received here, Lester O. Gore, Republican candi- date for Delegate to Congress and Harry McCain, Republican candi-| date for Attorney General, are| aboard; likewise Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, Democratic candidate for re-election as Delegate to Con- gress, Frank A. Boyle, candidate for re-election to the office of Terri- torial Auditor, and James S. Truitt, | “(Continued on Page Eight) i tremely Optimistic | H. L. Faulkner, Juneau attorney, | who returned yesterday aboard the Electra from his first trip to In- | terior Alaska during the 33 years he has been a resident of the Ter- ritory, declared today that the ex- perience was “marvelous.” The Juneau man, despite the num- ber of years which he has been as- sociated with Alaskan mining, maintains that he had no idea be- fore taking the trip of the immen- sity and complexity of the placer operations in the Fairbanks area. He was particularly impressed by the great length of time it takes to get a placer area into condition to be dredged. He explained that often four years elapse between initial operations and the start of dredg- ing. Mr. Faulkner reports that Fair- banks has a very optimistic ‘out- look caused by the mining boom it is experiencing. He added that it rained the entire duration of his stay, so that now the water short- age, feared for a time, has been relieved. FREAK STORM STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANCE | DULL SESSION Market Backtracks in Final Hour — List Lacks - Vigor Today ', NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Aftér a| rally on the Stock Exchange today | the market backtracked a bit in the final hour after gains of fractions to more than three points had been recorded. Even though the list lacked vigor, and the session was dull, many advances of more than one point were held at the close. Today's close was steady with transfers totalling 800,000 shares. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 24. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau. mine stock today is 14, American Can 122%, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 38, Bethlehem Steel 62%, Calumet and Hecla 11%, Co- lumbia Gas and Electric 20%, Com- SIKTEEN ARE SENTENGED T0 DIE IN RUSSIA Anti-Government Conspir- ators to Be Shot Within 72 Hours of Conviction MOSCOW, Aug. 24.—The sixteen men accused of plotting the over- throw of the Soviet Government| and the killing of Joseph Stalin have been sentenced to be shot. The sentences can be carried out any time within 72 hours after the conviction. The only appeal is to the Presidium of the Central Exe- cutive Committee of the Commun- ist Party. The case against the men, charged with collaboration with Leon Trot- sky, former Bolshevik leader now in exile in Norway, in an anti- government conspiracy went to the Jjudges last night and a quick ver- dict was reached. B $ trail. * No records dating as far back as 1914 or 1915 are in the archives of the U. 8. Marshal'’s office or the United States Commissioner’s office. YOUNG GIRL IS KILLED BY MOTHER Complains of Not Having Nice Things, Murdered, Buried in Brush SEATTLE, Aug. 24.—Deputy Sher- iff O. K. Bodie announces that Mrs. Esther Hilda Clark, aged 33, of Richmond Beach, has confessed to killing her daughter Rose because she “complained too much that she did not have nice things like the other girls have.” The body of the sixteen year old girl, cut, was found buried in the brush 200 yards behind the small home In addition to his widow, a son Kenneth, member of the University | the road again tomorrow but he told | the newsmen he would make no po- her head beaten and throat| of Kansas faculty, and a daughter, Mrs. Violet Peaches, of Seattle, sur- vive. litical speeches before October. 5 The latest instance of a jump |across party lines occurred Satur- |day in Detroit, where United States | Senator James Couzens, Republi- |can, announced he will support Pres- ident Roosevelt for re-election. The Michigan Senator is a candidate for MATANUSKA IS BUTTER; EGGS'RUSSIANS ARE Creamery in Valley Is Op- EXECUTED;NINE "t borwet” | ARE SHOT DOWN ers in Movement Announcement Made from Japanese Army Head- quarters, Manchoukuo —_————— ANCHORAGE, Alagka, Aug. 24— Shipments of butter and eggs from the Matanuska Valley will start within a month, C. C. Beal, manag- | er of the creamery said here. The first shipments will be sent to Anchorage and later extended along the line of the Alaska Rail-| TOKYO, Aug. 24.—Japen's Geen- road. eral Army Headquarters in Iisink- The dairy products will come|ing, Manchoukuo, announced n'ne partly from the Matanuska project alleged Soviet citizens Yave becn and the rest from other settlers €xecuted on the outskirts of Hail- LONDON, Aug. 24. — Despite denials from the French Govern- ment, Spanish Rebel officers at 'Pamplona declare that a fleet of® |15 French planes bombed Naval- ipral and that other French aircraft crossed the Pyrennes on the North- ern border and bombed Oyarzun and Tolosa. The aircraft then re- | turned to France. IRUN BOMBARDED LONDON, Aug. 24.—Reports have been received here that rebel planesg again bombarded Irun today and; severe fighting is raging on other® fronts. TO DECLARE EMBARGO | BERLIN, Aug. 24—Germany has | informed France that the Nazi Gov- ernment will immediately declare |an embargo on arms and airplane |shipments to Spain, despite the Irecent tension over the search of a German ship by Spanish Govern- (ment naval forces and other inei~ dents, | Germany is said to have indicat- cd that there should be no volun- |Lr~m;ng nationals of any country to assist either the Spanish Govern- ment nor the rebels. It is felt here, however, that the French Government is sympathetic Seawestih aha: Southarn. 8% G at Richmond Beach. The mother of |of the Matanuska Valley. |or. The executions took place last With the Madrid Government but Bucks Hide Out | tiss Wright 8%, International Har- the girl, a widow, has been jailed. i AR |Friday. A firing squad did the (Gontinuéa on Page Sevem uc de vester 76%, Kennecott 45%, Sim- D TONSILECTOMY executing. e g On Hunters Over mons 36%, United States Steel 67, Twenty-eight others have been Last Weekend CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 24—A freak windstorm swept through one sec- United Corporation 7%, Cities Serv- ice 4%, Pound $5.03 1/16. MOVING SOUTH MIXER CALLED FOR 8 O’CLOCK TONIGHT AT LEGION DUGOUT Patricia Davis, eight year old| |daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Trevor sentenced to prison terms from five Davis, underwent a tonsilectomy| 0 .twenty years, the same report performed by, Dr. L. Dawes, at St.| 58Y5. VIENNA CITY Those who went out after deer|/tion of Chicago's south side last DOW, JONES AVERAGES Ann’s Hospital this morning. || It is asserted the condemned Rus- over the weekend report the hunt- |Saturday night, uprooting trees| rne following are today's Dow, | Members of Alford John Bradford T | sians. were “remnants of a seoret ing was all right but finding them |tumbling chimneys down a:n; nt:;!ua- Jones averages: industrials 163.78, | okt and« Mixfliary ‘are askbd to : delegation which the SOVIgls sent to i e Crttics wlliaiod e S i B i iDLt et S At meet at the Dugout promptly at 8| Juneauites Make ‘ff]:‘;;:g":‘::h x ;L;leng years . sgo, Ly Appagin o0, U e . o'clock tonight to allow time for dis- Pil - U 18 Al | miles with nary a shot at a buck|day of excessive heat. — 7 grimage Up Rivers district,” seventy miles north o iiaineid o U el s L {Schooner Holmes Makes cussion of the Department conven long. Abundance of does were re- ported but the bucks apparently had gone into hiding high up on the mountains. Among the successful hunters were George W. Folta and G. H. Skinner who got a buck after hik- ing seven miles into the brush at the north end of Admiralty Island. A reminder was sounded by the Alaska Game Commission today that a hunting license is necessary for resident hunters for a fee of one dollar, and you have to have lived in the Territory a year to be a qualified resident. Licenses are available at the game commission and ‘at the Thomas and Juneau- Young hardware’ stores here. MASONIC MEETING SET OVER UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT Due to the late. arrival of the Victoria on which Grand Master Ralph E. Tieje and party are traveling, the communication of Gastineaux and Mt. Juneau Masonic lodges has been postponed until tomorrow evening when Grand Master Tieje will pay his official visit to the lodges at the Masonic Temple, it was announced today by J. W. Leivers. The Victoria is schedvled to arrive at 3:30 tomor- row afternoon. STRATTON, HOUGH ARE TO LEAVE FOR | PETERSBURG SOON| O. H. Stratton, of the firm of Stratton and Beers, engineers, ac- com'pamed by L. E. Hough, Field Engineer for the same firm, will leave on the Alaska for Peters- burg, to inspect the progress being made on the PWA $60,000 project consisting of street, sewer and wat- er improvements. Stratton and Beers represent the City of Peters- burg in the work. Hough, for his firm, has just completed super- vision of the completed PWA City. of Douglas project. Report from Kotzebue —OneBoat Caught POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. tion plans before the mixer, John Newman, mixer chairman, announc- ed today. Dancing and a social evening will [follow the business meeting and 24—The trading schooner C. F. couples have been requested to bring Holmes, reaching Kotzebue, reported high winds and the ice pack not far off. ‘The schooner also reports the Ped- ersen, small trading vessel, in the far eastern waters to Coronation Gulf, is fast in the ice pack and cannot reach Herschel Island. B e e IN FROM HOONAH Mr. and. Mrs. J. Shotter are in from Hoonah and registered at the Alaskan. their own lunch. ———————— NEW DEVELOPMENTS Two new quartz properties are be- ing opened in the Willow Creek dis- trict this year according to Charles Cadwallander of Wasilla on a visit to Anchorage recently. The old Martin and Independence prop- erties are being developed, he re- ported, and Milo Kelly is opening up a quartz property at the head of Willow Creek. | of Hellar, near Arhun River on the Siberian border. D FORWARD BACK Mount Juneau J. W. “Bill"” Leivers has been climb- | ing Mt. Juneau, off and one, for 20 years and contends it is still a long way up. With Mrs. Leivers, Mrs. | Peggy McLeod and Mrs. Edward Kenyon, Leivers scaled the peak yesterday. He reported it just as hot as it looks up there on the star- board side. | been traveling, at Tenakee, and Another party to go up Juneau Forest Examiner Jay Williams is yesterday was headed by Mr. and|continuing in the Islands on trail Mrs. Erling Bugge. | reconnaisance work. All the other trails, Basin Road, | e Mt. Roberts, Sheep Creek and ARE HOMEBOUND Douglas Island, were lined with| Mrs. A. M. Geyer and daughter hikers yesterday, taking advantage' Ruth are returning to Juneau on of the wonderful summer day. | board the North Sea i Charles Forward, Forest Examin- er; returned to Juneau Saturday night’ on the Estebeth after com- pleting work on the east coast of Baranof and Chichagof Islands. He left the Ranger 6, on which he had %Somelhing Is Doing But | Just What Seems to | Be Uncertain | | VIENNA, Aug. 24 — This city |seethed with various reports today, some apparently well established |but just what is transpiring seems | uncertain. Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's |storm troopers have been ordered |on duty and this gives further state of alarm. Two hundred soldiers were early {this afternen rushed to the inner city diatrlct. which contains the. | Government buildings. et SR 1