The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1936, Page 1

P el e —te——— ngT— _water. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7263. * JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - DIMOND STRESSES AIDS TO TERRITORY FRUSTRATE PLOT TO KILL REBELS SPANISH FRONT Spies Charged with Pre- venting Blowing Up Advancing Army INSURGENTS ARE NEARING MADRID Warning [ssuj by United States Against Ban on Sea Freedom BULLETIN — LONDON, Aug. 21. — Spies among their own militiamen frustrated a plan to blow to bits the advancing rebel army om Irun, according to advices received here this afternoon. One large field had been planted with dynamite but the wires had been cut and no ex- plosion resulted when the “touch” was made In consequence the rebels have filled the Minde Valley. REBELS CHECKED | LONDON, Aug. 27—Early reports received here said the rebel advance on the Bay of Biscay front has been checked. ON TO MADRID LONDON, Aug. 27—The rebels are reported to have opened the road to Madrid, 40 miles north of the Spanish Republic capital by closer domination of the Lozoya Valley through which flows the stream providing Madrid wnh‘ TWO NATIONS DENOUNCED LONDON, Aug. 27—-According to advices this afternoon from Mad- rid, Socialist strongman, Chancel- | lor Indalecio Prieto, denounces| France and Great Brifain for not | aiding and defending the Spanish | Government. | The rebels from their headquart- ers in Burgos, have retorted with | the announcement that France is aiding the Socialist Government. France, according to advices from ! Paris, announces neutrality. | WARNING FROM U. S. | WASHINGTON, Atg. 27. — The United States has sent a warning to Madrid announcing insistence on | the freedom of the seas for Am- erican shipping. The State Department declares Spain has no right to bar mer- chant ship from rebel ports unless | they can apply an effective block- | ade. | — e —— Pope Weakened by Worry Over | Snayi_sh Revolt Pope Plans Protest to World'! Over Sacrileges, De- | struction of War | Says Yes to Ratt - i e Virginia Pine, Chicago heiress and movie actress, is shown as she ar- rived in New York from London with her dog. She announced that after a year she will marry George Raft, screen actor. P.R BRADLEY PAYS VISIT T0 JUNERU . OF G Head of Alaska juneau Re- ports on Activities of Big Mine Here P. R. Bradley, President of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany, paid his annual visit to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce to- day and reported A. J. operations were moving along smoothly under the supervision of General Super- intendent L. H. Metzgar. July and August were exception- ally good months, he said, but are merely offsetting some months which have not been so good. Some ‘,work is being done at Perseverance this year, Mr. Bradley said, and on the whole his business is looking bright. The mine executive commented particularly on the building boom in Juneau since he was here last year. Corey C. Brayton, of the Amer- ican Manganese Steel Company, Oakland, brought an interesting re- port to the Chamber from the Interior where he has been on a business trip. Seven dredges are operating in the Dawson section, he said, and conditions there are good. Progress is being made at the Gen. A. D. McRae properties |on Coal Creke, he found, and there s considerable activity in the Dead- wood Creek area. There is much | vided f | rectly to their rooms at 9:30 o'clock, - |other schools should take their re-£ |interest in the Goodpaster region, VATICAN CITY, Italy, Aug. 27.— 'Mr. Brayton reported, and at Flat (Copyright by Associated Press)— |two dredges and four draglines Prelates here have disclosed that are operating. There is considerably the Pope is so weakened from wor- |activity in both placer gold and ry over the Spanish situation that (platinum in the lower Kuskokwim he can scarcely rise from his|area, he said, with the reported throne at the conclusion of audi- | prospect of two new dredges going ences. ¢ |into that region. It has also been announced that| Nome, Mr. Brayton said, is slow the Pope, assisted by all the Card- but gradually they are taking ad- inals now in Rome, will soon pre- side at an expiatory ceremony at St. Peter's for the killing of priests and fhe destruction of churches in Spain. ‘The Pope will also protest to the entire world against war's sac- rileges. H. S. BAND T0 MEET FRIDAY All members of the High School Band are requested to meet in the ? vantage of the better price of gold and new development is coming. | The steel man was strong in his | praise of aerial transportation and explained how he could cover vast iueu by plane from his Oakland headquarters in much less time and jnt less cost than using other means |of travel. | G. B. Dodge, of the American |Rubber Manufacturing Company, San Francisco, was another guest and he expressed pleasure at being in the north. He has been traveling in much the same territory as Mr. Brayton. Also a visitor was Charles Walters of Bothell, Wash., head of the Wal- |ters Feed Mills, Inc., who was in- Grade School auditorium at 2:30 troduced. o'clock tomorrow morning (Friday) ifor a special rehearsal. The call S e A man once built a steamboat on s issued this afternoon by Byron|a high rock at New Haven, Conn., iller, band director. “There is to be ready for the second flood. something doing,” said Prof. Mil-|He finally sold his rock and moved er. away. He left the boat behind. /) PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JUNEAU ARE T0 OPEN MONDAY Registration in High School Starts at 9:30— | Other Information The Public Schools of Juneau, af- ter a three months' vacation, will start on the 1936-1937 year next Monday, August 31. at which time it is expected registration will be completed and regular school work begin. A. B. Phillips, Superintendent of Schools, announces that parents who have children for kindergarten should take them to the school at 10 o'clock. The class will be di- later, part of the children attending in the morning and part in the afternoon. All other children should go di- where they will be enrolled. Stu-| dents who are new to the Juneau schools and who have attended port card, transcript of credits, or other evidence to show the grade; they have completed. | High School | High School star§ at 9:30 a. m. and all students are to go dlrectly‘ to the assembly hall where in- structions will be given them re- garding enrolling for classes. All| |students will be in school all day,}, |beginning with the first day. Due to teachers meetings, doors to neither building will not be op- ened until 9:15 unless the weather is bad, in which case rooms will| be provided for students. In no case will the doors be opened be- fore 9:00 a. m. Text Books Text books will again be fur- nished free to all students, each| student paying a $1.50 deposit which| {will be refunded at the end of the school year if books are properly returned. In the high school, break- | age fees of $1 per student will be| charged for chemistry and phys- ics, the same as in the past years. All material consumed by the stu-| dent, except in the lower grades must be purchased by the pupil These articles can be purchased! through any of several local stores and some supplies are handled by| the school. Bookkeeping texts will be fur-| nished bu the sets which are| consumed by the student, must be purchased. Teachers Meeting Teaghers will meet with Supt. Phillips at 8:15 a. m., August 31' in the High School building, the| latter announces. Manual Training will continue under the Smith-Hughes plan and this year Home Economics will also come under the same organiza- tion. As an inovation boys are wel- come to join the Home Economies classes as well as_girls. These classes will be supervised by Miss Morris, vocational education direc- tor, and Supt. A. B. Phillips. A complete change from the old style home economics will be undertaken though it is not certain how much of a change can be accomplished | in one year. An elementary course in sheet metal work and household electrical | work will be put in the manual training course as well as follow- ing somewhat along the same lines as last year. Teachers Assigned Teachers and information con- cerning each are as follows: Batson, Cynthia—Will teach Kin- tergarten; has five years' exper- ience; this will be her third year in Juneau; graduate of Miss Wood's Kindergarten and Primary School, Minncapolis; formerly taugh three years at Stillwater, Minn. Tilden, Eva — Will teach First| Grade; has taught 15% years in Ju-‘ neau; graduate of the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Edinboro, Pa; before coming to Juneau taught n various Pennsylvania schools and in the Seattle schools. Hanson, Dalma—Will teach First Grade; has taught 11 years in Ju- neau; graduate of State Teachers’ College of Valley City, North Da- kota; before coming to Juneau taught in North Dakota. Mabel Monson—Will teach Sec- ond Grade; has had ejght and a half years' experience; six years in Ju- neau; graduate of State Teachers’ College at Winona, Wisconsin; be- fore coming to Juneau taught in Wisconsin. Velma Bloom—Will teach Sec- ond grade; has eleven years ex- perience; three years in Jumeau; graduate of the Kindergarten and (Continued on Page Eight) |demanded the immediate repeal of Harry Richman (right above) flier, and Dick Merrill hopped in “hight club singer and sportsman the monoplane Lady Peace from the Floyd Bennett Airport at Brooklyn, N. Y. at 8:28 o'clock this morning, Eastern Standard Time, foundland on a preparatory flight, oh a nonstop test flight to New- probably tomorrow afternoon, for Londen, planning to return tc New York City for a Sunday morn- ing breakfast and on next Monday, Merrill is expected to return to his job as senior pilot with the Eastern Airlines from which he is now on a vacation, if their plans do not go awry, according to Associated Press dispatches to The Empire. The two men are pic- tured in front of their big monoplane at Los Angeles, Cal, where the plane was undergoing tests prior to hopping for Brooklyn. Merrill said the ship is “equipped with gadgets enough so the weather won't matter.” LANDON HAS NEW SCHEME | ONTAXATION Also Lays Down Four Prin- ciples for Guiding Government BUFFALO, New York, Aug. 277. —Gov. Alfred M. Landon last night what he terms the “cockeyed” New Deal corporation surplus tax| law. The Republican aspirant for| Presidential honors told an out-| door throng that the Government was *living in a Fools’ Paradise, and in wasteful spending beyond itg' income.” Gov. Landon advocated direct | income taxes on incomes of indi- viduals and corporations for Fed- eral purposes instead of indirect taxes on food, clothing, gasoline, ete. The nominee laid down four principles in guiding Federal fin- ances, as follows : 1—The Government must guard; and preserve its source of income. 2—The Governmeent must make sure it gets a dollars worth for every dollar spent. 3—The Governmeent must not get the habit of spending more than| it receives. 4—The Governtheent must pare for a rainy day. Gov. Landon and his party left on the deluxe camipaign train for Topeka, Kansas, immediately after the speech was delivered. WINGARD CLOSING SEASON IN S. E. L. G. Wingard ieft on the USFS Widgeon Tuesday night for Pet- teersburg and Wrangell. He will spend the remainder of the month between the West Coast of Prince of Wales Island district and the Wrangell district until the close of the upper Clarence Strait district on the 28th and the West Coast district on the 29th. He will then stop at Ketchikan the first of next‘ month for a few days and then| proceed to Seattle aboard the USFS Brant to plan the furloughing of all Bureau crews and the dropping | the temporary employees and the, laying up of the gasoline powered| pre- | HEARST PAPER IS HELD UP ON SEATTLE FRONT Examiners for Bremerton Not Permitted to Be Shipped SEATTLE, Aug. 27—An express shipment of 1,500 copies of the San Francisco Examiner, predated Sun- day, August 30, for Bremerton, ‘Wash., was held up at the Colman dock today by 100 members of vari-| ous waterfront unions. | There was no disorder. | The Bremerton ferry sailed with-, out the consignment of Examiners.| The papers were left on the dock| but are under guard of pickets, it is said. The Examiner is a San Francisco daily published by William Ran- v dolph Hearst, publisher of the Se-| attle Post-Intelligencer which ls‘! now tied up by a strike. 1 B | PRIN. LOUISE ALL SOLD OUT U. S. CABINET MEMBER DIES GEORGE DERN, SECRETARY OF WAR, IS DEAD Cabinet Official, Former Governor of Utah, Not- ed Character, Passes WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. — Sec- retary of War George Dern died at 10:58 o'clock this morning in the Walter Reed Hospital from com- plications resulting from past in- fluenza attacks, at the age of 64. During the night, Secretary Dern was under an oxygen tent in an effort to prolong his life. Friends said death followed a general physical breakdown origin- ating from several attacks of the flu when Governor of Utah, five years ago, from which he never fully recovered. Dr. Fritz Meyer, noted German heart specialist, was called here from Boston at the direction of President Roosevelt for consulta- tion with Army doctors before the| Secretary died. | National Figure George H. Dern, the second Dem- ocrat and the second man not a: Mormon to be Governor of Utah, became a national figure when Pres- ‘Work at Wfl |ident Franklin D. Roosevelt named | | him Secretary of War in March, | 1933, | He had just finished his second irat g 5 z four-year term as Governor and| First hand information on what went to Washington with a x'eputf\-i?:s“}’:fl::gznisn?:::% x:ch(;on;g‘l'lesll:;d tion for accomplishment gained| £ » % through his efforts as one of (he“';::"aorc‘:“ks wasr brought vlo the organizers of the seven states cnn-‘dflyem‘vl Del:gx:t:r.k:th:?::‘?%?;;:; ference on the Boulder Dam con-| . . e troversy and also as one who had ;‘l:m":]“ Cnn;"(:‘ luncheoi in'the Ter< | worked himself up from a place as| ™04 , 3 bookkeeper for a mining compnny‘[waTy]‘"D:;;w:t‘;ldufi;"ufi':sir‘;: t:z to a place £l . | 3 | I techfig-m;:;?he was | Members, i pottiting ‘ot that aer- known as joint inventor with The-;::l t::n;z;’:x‘t;t:i;nn m“)‘:t l(fl(;mfled“?t odore P. Holt of the Holt-Dern ore £ M el roaster and also as aiding in the de- ;i;°adtdtv?l°t’mef‘i STEORTANS ;2P lvelopment of & vacuum slime m"a-'hong x:ufiar“-m i‘l‘" v;r’ntlyf-(f‘we ’E”' ftion process, evolved by George B A5 X OO LN | Moore. Derh was credited with Partment, he said, is vitally inter- putting both these appliances on a ested in putting over an air mail commercial basis. program for Alaska and he gave Was Athletic | assurance that the next session of Born in Dodge County, Nebraska, OOP8ress would appropriate the September 8, 1872, the son of John Necessary money for such a project. and Eli¥beth” D' “Dérn, he gmd-,Th", program will mean air mail uated from Fremont Normal Col-!S€Tvice to the principal points in lege when only 16, then worked in Southeast as well as Southwest Al- freight and lumber yards to earn fls!(a and the }n@erlor, he stated. | money with” which'to attend the| “There is a limit to the approp- University of Nebraska in 1893 and 'ations which can be made for 1894. There he played guard and ‘D€ Territory,” the Delegeate said, |captained the football team which ~Put the air mail is coming about won one of the early champion- just as is the International High- ships of the Missouri Valley. Those W&Y- These things are not vision- being the days of push and pull 2V dreams. They are forthcoming football, brawn was one of the chief | 4€velopments of the near future.” requisites for gridiron performance Gold Price Boon .._qf,,...__'__._ p —1 The increase in the price of gold (Continued on Page Five) has been one of the greatest boons to the Northwest States as well as - — the Territory, Mr. Dimond said. | Not only in Alaska, where every one |is cognizant of it, but in many of the western States mining men are taking a new lease on life as a re- sult of the new gold price, and developing properties which hereto- ON 600D NEWS |ritory, the Delegate said he found | Alaska more prosprous than he had Iséen it in years, and that there ic [Recovery Wave Sweeps GEORGE H. DERN DELEGATE TELLS JUNEAU C. OF C. OF ENDEAVORS > ngton Out- lined—Gore, Rasmuson Appear on Program foreé have been idle From his travels about the Ter- {a great boom in traffic, freight, —Frac- and tourists. | StOCkS Upward Touching briefly on relief, M: Dimond said he was glad to have tions to 10 Points — been able to do the work necessary | NEW YORK, Aug. 27—A recov- Canadian steamer Princess Lou- |ery wave swept market prices up ise, due in port tomorrow morning|today from fractions to more than | at 5:30 o'clock and sailing south at|five points and a couple of issues’ 8 o'clock, is all sold out of passen-|yere up around 10 points. ger accommodations. | The advance was stimulated by Agent V. W. Mulvihill ANNOUNCES | penorglly favorable business and the following passengers will leave |4 trial news. Juneau aboard thé Princess LOU-| gieels rajls, motors and special-| ise: Mrs. W, P. Hautala, Miss E.| { | ties 3 tar performers to- Haiter, Miss' G. Gudbranson, Mrs. ooy "o iy e Gudbranson, 8. Davidson, Mrs. S. Davidson, Miss S. Cunningham, Mrs. C. 8. Poe, H. J. Stewart, Mrs. W. E. Wakeham, Mrs. L. M. Daniel-| son, Miss Alice Lowe, Miss Ann But- | ler, M. F. Thompson, H. E. Berger, E Iémlio",’l" o l?_l"“;;kfy'\:zmg?;l‘ CLOSING PRICES TODAY Poling, Bob Westby, M. Fawcett, .| NEW YORK, Aug. 27. — Closing Deson, V. Leonoff, K. Hanula, C. Guotation of Alaska Juneau mine Gallagher, stock today is 14%4, American Can T ey RS 122, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 38%, Bethlehem NEW PLANE HOIST Steel 67, Calumet and Hecla 11%, lN womm OR.DER Columbia Gas and Electric 21%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss Wright 6%, International| After being hoisted to the upper|Harvester 79, Kennecott 47, Sim- hangar yesterday afternoon, and fit- \mons 37%, United States Steel ted with new hoisting slings, the|g9',, United Corporation 7'%, Cities Late profit taking was absorbed in a majority of the cases without any difficulty whatsoever. Today's close was strong. Transfers totaled 1,250,000 shares. | tixes, vessels of the fleet. The diesel-| AAT Bellanca was today lowered Service 4, Pound $5.03 in Washington last winier to get Federal moneys to relieve the sit- uation here, but that it appeared more and more evideni tnat the Territory would have to & more of the burden of r well as public works. It is ou he explained, that the Federal gov ernment can not go on forever mak- ing appropriations, and the Terr: tory eventually will have to shoul me a {der some of the financial load “Of ,course, no one wants to pay he said, “and I am not on to suggest increase in taxes to the point of driving out industry, but we might be better off if we spent some of the million dollars we have in the Territorial Treasury. The Delegate brought encourag- ing news to Juneau in the report that he belleved the small boat har- bor will be worked out next year in conjunection with other like pro- posals for the Territory. Gore Speaks Lester O. Gore, the Republican nominee for Delegate, also was a Chamber speaker, and spoke on outstanding development going on SOCIAL BENEFIT FROM SECURITY PLAN OUTLINED PWA Money Has Been Great Boon to Alaska, Delegate Tells Audience IMPORTANCE OF NEXT LEGISLATURE TOLD “All-Alaska” Delegate Ex- plains Other Measures Which Helped Alaskans “Is it not true that if we wish to estimate a woman, or a man, the first thing we ask is ‘what has she done?” or ‘what has he done?’ “If we wish to form a just con- ception of what we may look for in the future with respect to a man or a woman or an Adminis- tration we instinctly look back with out mind's eye to see what they have done.” Thus did Delegate Anthony J. Dimond tersely, with no prelimin- ary flourish, begin his address last night in the Coliseum Theatre to an audience of more than 600 resi- dents of this community, gathered to hear him under the leadership of the Women's Democratic Club of Gastineau Channel, of which Mrs. Emil Krause is President. Before naming many of the spec- ific benefits that Alaska had dge rived from the Democratic Admin- istration, Delegate Dimond pointed out that much had been done by the National Administratin for Al- aska, and that as citizens of the United States, Alaskans were fully entitled to the rights and privileges and the immunities guaranteed to all citizens under the Constitution. Real Friend in Washington “Under this Administration par- ticularly, it has seemed to me on many occasions that we have in the National Government a power- ful friend in Washington, just as much concerned with our affairs and with out woes when misfortune overtakes us as that Administration is concerned with the people of New York, or California,or Maine, or Georgia,” the Delegate con- tinued As an example of the real con- cern the Administration has for Alaska in all matters, Mr. Dimond cited at length the quick action the Federal Government gave to Nome when fire swept the town and left people homeless, and many destitute. All the benefits received by the people of Nome could and will come in similar emergencies to any community in Alaska. “That is a thing, in my judg- ment, which has been unknewn in. . Federal Government before,” the: Delegate said. : Listing among the number of general acts that have passed the last two Congresses that gave large benefits to Alaska tbe Delegate mention: The act providing. Federal nsurance on bank deposits; the Public Works Administration, which 1as done s0 much for substantial improvements throughout Alaska; he Sccial Security Act which in he Delegate’s opinion is of vagt (Continued on Page Two) CANDIDATES CAMPAIGNING BY AIRPLANE iDimond, Tr;IBoyle, Dav- is and Anderson Off on S. E. Alaska Tour Leaving on a week's campaign tour of Southeast Alaska points, Anthony J. Dimond, Delegate to Congress from Alaska, accompanied by Frank A. Boyle, Territorial Au- ditor, James S. Truitt, Territorial Attorney-General, Capt. Jim V. Davis and J. P. Anderson, hopped from Juneau this afternoon at 2:40 o'clock in the new Bellanca sea- plane of the Marine Airways of Ju- neau, piloted by Alex Holden. Their immediate destination for this evening is Haines and Skag- in the Third Divisions, particular- powered vessels will be kept in com- | back into the water from the dock,| ly in a mining and agricultural mission to patrol Alaska waters dur- ing the Fall season after which in the first tryout of the new lift} DOW, JONES AVERAGES recently built, in connection with The following are today’s Dow, way. He said that further devel-|candidates for —t the winter months. one or two of them will be de- tailed in Alaska waters throughout their new hangar and workshop in the old Juneau Motor Company| « |location. Jones averages: industrials 166.77, up 3.45; rails 53.81, up 1.36, utilities|__ 34.16, up 1.36; (Continued on Page Eight) way. Dimond, Boyle and Truitt are reelection on the the Territorial Legislature on the same ticket, e B »] opment means that more roads|Democratic ticket and Davis and ..i¢ must be built to serve the vast|Anderson are candidates for 3