The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XLVIIL, NO, 7273. J “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” UNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1936, e " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT® DIMOND LEADING FIELD TO VICTORY MARTIN BEATING JOHN STEVENSON INWASHINGTON Former Governor Hartley Winning Republican | Nomination SEATTLE, Sept. 9.—Gov. ence D. Martin today steadily drew away his closest opponent, C. Stevenson, in the Slate; 1 Clar- | from John primary contest for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Returns from 804 of the State's 2866 precincts gave Martin 36395 votes to 31,380 cast for Stevenson, | | whose candidacy was sponsored by“nowvconducting a search for the missing plane. the Washington Com monwealth Federation in production for use.| | Otto Case, State Treasurer, who | was supported by the Townsend! grcups, was a poor third with 15,- | 615 votes. Townsend sponsored‘ candidates fared better in some Congressional contests. “ The election was marked by thi apparent eclipse of Rosalie Jones Dill, divorced wife of former U. S. ator Dill. She is trailing far behind the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination in the Fifth Congressional District. i In the Republican gubernatorial race, former Gov. Roland H. Hart-| ley was leading the field with 13,- 518 votes followed by Walter Meier | of Seattle, with 7,350. Other can-| ddates in both parties were trail- didates in both parties were trail-| Both Hartley and Meier were outspoken in criticism of the man- ner in which the news room strike & in the ' Seattle Post-Intelligencer had been conducted. Walkout of the Guild. menibers forced suspen- | sion of the newspaper. | The Commonwealth Federation in | convention neminated Howard Cos- tigan, its Executive Secretary, to make the race for Governor in case Stevenson is defeated. | Warren G. Manguson was far in| the lead for the Democratic nom- | ination to Congress in the First | District, the late Marion Zion- theck’s post. Magnuson had 15,000 votes while his nearest opponent, | Knute J. Knutson, had but 5000. FLYINGBOAT € lsame day he headed mnorth. When |nent Norman R. Walker of Ketchi- Nome Fligrand DIMOND IS GIVEN One Passenger ;EXGELLENT VOTE Reporte LostIN JUNEAU POLL | Hans Mirow and Miss Stan- |H. R. Shepard, Harry Race groom Disappear on | Only Republicans to Trip from South Lead in City | VANCOUVER, B. C, Sept. 9.—| Of the 15505 votes cast in Juneau's !Fear is felt for the safety of Hans|three precincts at yesterday’s gen- Mirow, pioneer Alaska aviator, and eral election, Delegate Anthony J. Miss Eileen Stangroom, daughter| Dimond captured 954 of them, to of the cashier of the Miners and go out in the Territory with a two Merchants’ Bank of Nome, Alaska.|to one lead over his oppenent, Les- They have been unreported since!ter O. Gore. they hopped off from here on Sep-| Running next to Dimond for total tember 2, for Prince George enroute | number of votes here was Highway to Nome. Engineer William A. Hesse with 922 Provincial police authorities are|compared to 497 for his opponent, Roy Storey. While not up to 1932, yesterday's Mirow, who operates the Mimwtvote was well ahead of the 1934 Flying Service out of Nome, lr:f(ihgure in the city and was predom- Seattle with Miss Strangroom on|inately Democratic with one ex- September 2. His plane had been|ception. That exception was H. undergoing repairs in Seattle. |R. Shepard of Juneau, Republican He landed at Sea isiana airport|candidate for the Senate. Shepard to eheck through the Canadian|received 717 votes in his home town Customs authorities. Later on the|to 609 given his Democratic oppo- he failed to arrive at Nome, offic- kan. Jacob Zeldenrust and A. J. ials there requested the British Nelson, Independents, in the same Columbia police to check with points| race, failed to make much head- along the northern air route which way. Zeldenrust received 74 votes| lies along the Rocky Mountain'in the three Juneau precincts and| trench. Nelson 46. The plane should have reached| Attorney General James S, Truitt, Prince George within three hours Democrat, recorded a substantial from the takeoff from the Sea Is-|YOte In the city, getting 624 votes| land airport. From there Mirow|¥hile Henry Roden, Independent intended to fly to Nome, stopping|Was given 497 and Harry McCain,| UNOFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS—FIRST Dl'VISIéN | Delegate Atty.-Gen. Auditor jouralg © @) a10p (I) uapoy Imay, (@) assol (@) puowrq (1) 4qsSun ) _umoow T @ Juneau No. 1 Juneau No. 2 Juneau No. 3 Salmon Creek Jualpa Sheep Creek Lynn Canal Mendenhall Douglas Hyder Haines ... Stikine ... Chichagof Kimshan .....a....|| Port Alexander ...| Gravina | Ward Cove ...........| Wacker ... Il Saxman .. Il Ketchikan No. 1 | Ketchikan No. 2 Ketchikan No. 3 Skagway Klukwan | Wrangell | Kake | Sitka Petersburg West Petersburg Scow Bay Craig Pennock Island 12 177] 193 99, 192 70 10 12 4 355 | 182} 87|| 13| oo 22| 43 18 10, 4 coccowumNNO - o = 37 6 18 5 14 11| 38 2| 314/ 121 9 & - : aomwooo! 19 2 S = | 245 2 8 86| 7 @ 2 cvorwuroor: il || 91 | 6 6 Engineer ® 2 .E- g 3 Representatives us| (I)_UOSaN. (a S‘!Afl(l‘ an_forog (@ orem! (@ useip (@) suuap| (I)_1eooW| () uosTIM (I) 1Snauapraz (@) uosiapuy C (®) soug (@ eoey ~ (D Ierem (¥) preda () 3uuusy 333 203 o g =3 283 21 11 - L S & L L » A | | 5 COmGwo MmN e as 11 289) 117] 107 83 60 60| 60| 8 98| 99/ 14 1] 1 o 1 ‘o 8 o1 96 115/ 7| 115 1f] 3| 3| | 12 2| 55| 16]| 139 173 160) 23| 179| 17| 137 154 136/ 16/ 68| 1 12) of 15 15 3 18 1 1 2/ 4 2 5}' 14 12} 4 15| 4| 1 8 17 5 15/| 31 50| 42| 22| 61| 92 42 4 6 2| 3.4 3 o 3 1 4 8 2 @ 8 Totals 364)| 2735/15 et | =l |[3145[1554| 80][1520{1149 1944|2330/ 2122 NORTH STAR Republican, 346. Auditor Frank A. at Tel h Creek, B. C., an Finkpk i B i i1/ Bemiborat. Al4ST bt his | Republican opponent Cash Cole, kere but by only a small margin.| banks. The plane should have arrived at Nome last Saturday. It feared it may have been forced down somewhere in the mountains between here and Prince George, possibly having lost its way and run out of gasoline. The vote was: Boyle, 687, and Cole| 614. In the race for the Legislative |seats,” the Juneau precincts gave { the majority to Capt. James V. Da-| Arctii: fi;fiufi Healthy, Levine derson, Harry Race and Joe Green, with Crystal Snow Jenne in fifth |place. Race is a Republican. The tally shows: Davis, 806; Anderson,‘ | 772; Race, 695; Green, 686; Jenne, €29; Wilson, 549; Price, 544; Hen- ! ning, 533; Walker, 217; McCall, 91. 9.—The motorship North Star of | |the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tried|A: Meyers of Seattle for renomina- Makes Frecast y [to buck the Arctic ice but aEnm}tion on the Democratic ticket con- — e fell jammed the floes for the second time. i n| ¥ FnR cfll_anAL navigator, got his motorship Pat-|{r outdistancing his five Demo- terson through the pack early yes-| NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—The pos- | sibility of a vast healthy Arctic region, peopled with missions pf white persons living in comfort, is vis, who was high man, J. P. An-‘Is Forced Back Second VICTOR MEYERS HAS LANDSLIDE INWASHINGTON Lieut. Gov. Making Walk | Away of It in Demo- cratic Contest CAN'T BUCK ARCTIC ICE Time Trying to Leave Point Barrow POINT BARROW, Alaska, Sept. SEATTLE, Sept. 9. — The huge growing total of Lieut. Gov. Victor tinued to amaze Washington State today as the jazz band leader count- ied 92,777 votes in returns from 1,- 1347 of the State's 2,866 precincts, back as unfavorable winds Capt. C. D. Petersen, vetera cratic competitors combined. The Republican nominee appar- | | J 1 | I | 20|| 117/1647|2388 377|/2175 2220, 2359(1676/1977 38817532137, 1756 DEMOCRATS ARE WINNING EARLY RETURNS SHOW Boyle, Truitt, Hesse All Apparently Certain of Election It Appears N. R. WALKER BEATING SHEPARD FOR SENATE Green, Davis, Anderson and Harry Race Leading for House in First Division Led by Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, the Democratic | Territorial ticket was sweep- ing through to victory today as returns came in from yes- terday’s general election. In- dications were the legislative seats would follow much the same trend, at least three Democrats appearing certain of seats in the House from the First Division and Senator Norman R. Walker, Demo- crat, apparently certain of election to the Senate. From the very first returns last night it was evident that Democratic NATIONWATCHES 12 st i vax evtent st Legislature Lymslnday Hatry' Race, Andrew Ner- land, Republicans, Have Good Chance Be Elected Early returns trom yesterday's general election point to another Democratic Legislative body for the Territory of Alaska. With two exceptions, Harry Race, Republican, in the First Division, and Andrew Nerland in the Fourth, the Democrats are leading the field in all Divisions, with the exception of the Second from which no re- G;aoifgia Voting Today—! Norris Urged to File in Nebraska ‘ | | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The| nation watched with interest the| returns from five states in yester-' day and today's primaries. | | In Georgia, the balloting today' found Gov. Eugene Talmadge, New Deal critic, opposing Senator Rich- ard Russell, Jr., Roosevelt sup-| porter, for the Democratic Senator- VOTING RETURNS ;fidence in Delegate Dimond WITH IN EREST:and wanted him to continue his work in Congress, and throughout he has been main- | taining a lead.of approximate- | ly two to one over his Repub- lican opponent, Lester 0. Gore of Ketchikan. 57 Precincts Report Returns from 57 precincts in the Territory this afternoon gave Di- mond 5,903 votes compared to 2,340 for Gore. In the First Division Di- mond stood at 3,145 to 1554 for Gore, with 32 of the 53 precincts re- porting. Seven precincts in the Sec- ond gave him 206 and Gore 87; elev- en in the Third, Dimond, 1,760, | pictured by Dr. Victor E. Levine, of terday morning and left for the nomination. Sharing interest e - LES Omaha, Nebraska, who said he'has |examined more than 3,000 Eskimos, lon three trips to the Arcti¢ and IS DISABLED GROWTH BARED [tersnn is a lighter draft ship man!censes under- the Harue}, TegiIR, OCEAN TRIP German Craft Is Forced to' Return to Mothership on Atlantic NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Buffeted| by strong headwinds and cnpplcd\‘ by the engine’s cooling system and! a leak, the German flying boat Aeo- lus returned to the mother ship to- day after failing to complete an| exploratory flight over the Atlantic ocean. The ten-ton airplane that aviators described as too small for a trans- Atlantic passenger service, was in the air ten hours and five minutes. The craft was catapulted by a com- pressed air cylinder from the base ship Schwabenland. World's Bigaest White Oak Tree Is Dying of Age WILLIAMSON, W. Va., Sept. 9.— Old age—700 years of it—is creep- ing up on the Great White Oak of Mingo. State Forester P. N. Griffin fi- |were overweight. ' (found them almost free of high‘NaZi Chlef Says Germany‘the North Star. { blood pressure and overweight. Levine said only a few old Eski- mos were found to have high blood pressure and one woman/ in the| thousands of Eskimos he jobserved to Be Independent of Rest of World URENBBRG, Germany, Sept. 9.— Levine added that Alaska can President Adolf Hitler today pro- support a population of between| Claimed a four year program, em- ten and twenty million. bracing aggressive' colonial de- s | Levine is professor of Biological, Mands. ton University. He expgcts to make | cconomically independent of the another trip to the 'Arctic next|Test of the world. June. p | Publication of the proclamation | disclosed Hitler's signed decrees re- | organizing National economy with la view to increasing German ex-; | ports. i |” The details by which this is to| THURSDAY H]H {be accomplished have not been dis-| |ever, that wages cannot be raised ¥ e | just now. Splendid Display of Exhib-| reARTE B its Revealed—Enter- | paris, sept. 9—~Informed sources | " & !said France, in face of Hitler’s de- tainment Fealures mand for Germany’s lost mlonles.‘; the | Will refus to yield her share in| | Africa under a menace of the grow- ing German Army. ., Senator Norris ———.——— tas a direct effect of the program.' |The Nazi leader explained, ,how- The Southeast Alaska Fair, seventeenth annual event, opens here tomorrow for three days. Exhibits are rapidly being placed and congessionaries are arranging their tempting booths. The agricultural display, also the i MlLITIA Is READY(prec!ncts to Stevenson's | !State Treasurer Otto Case is in The program was prepared SPANISH REBELS Chemistry and Nutrition at Creigh-|With the goal of making Germany Governmenl FOYCES Enter |officials seemed assured of renom- —————— | closed, but Hitler’s prociamation in- Ports reaching here from Madrid |sists that Germany’s standard of declare that Government militia- JAPANESE ls llivlng will became relatively high'men have entered Toledo. Ancazar, | preparatory to making an attack on 17700 Fascist rebels who have |defied an eight weeks' siege in the lancient fortress at that place. {rebels have surrendered, but con- | firmation is lacking. France that the sympathy strike in that country by Leftist workers de- | I manding guns and planes for Spain ihas spread into the Lille textile | ! region, where 30,000 men and wom- | |en have walked out. word that hundreds of fugitives are exhibits in the departments handied gures the 145-foot forest veteran—|by the women, will be larger than the world’s biggest white oak—is about at the end. He took some borings and diagnosed.: charge. The official opening of the South- usual, it is said by the officials in | “There’s nothing wrong with it —I mean in the way of plant dis- ease. It is just dyixgg of old age.” The Great Oak wa$ a sturdy sap- ling in what is now Mingo Coun- east Alaska Fair is tomorrow after- noon when an opportunity will be given all attending to view the various displays and get acquainted with the “come and try” bunch. ty about the time of the Crusades, Again Candidate LINCOLN, Nebraska, Sept. 9. — United States Senator George W.| Norris, veteran Republican Inde- retary of State's office, a petition | pendent, became a candidate for re-jfi Fre"cl‘ A"“ election with the filing in the Sec-| | p eeping the shi betweem""“y is Charles Maybury of Olym-| :::m;ée l;:: l:;‘e ‘shoress lpThe Pat- |Pia, former State Director of Li- | who has 17,535 votees. Gov. Clarence D. Martin is in- creasing his lead over John G. Stevenson with 87,261 votes in 1,586 — e 72,328. | third place_for the Democratic gu- bernatorial nomination with 33,909. The former Gov. Roland H. Hart- !ley of Everett is leading for the Re- |publicap nomination with 31,564 votes, outdistancing Walter Meier !of Seaftle with 14,230, All incumbent Democratic state ination. Unofficial returns indi- cate the Townsendites appear to have nominated candidates in four of the State’s six Congressional dis- tricts. Toledo to Push Siege on Old Fortress LONDON, Sept. 9.—Unofficial re- KILLED;PROBE NOW IS MADE Two Destroyers Steam Full Speed Toward Trouble Center TOKYO, Japan Sept. 9—Two Jap- anese destroyers today steamed full From Bayonne, France, comes;Speed into the Southern Chinese waters as an official investigation arriving there from San Sebastian. |of the reported killing of one Jap- Diplomats are interceding in the anese at Paikhoi begun. | strife-torn San Sebastian area try-| ing to prevent this city from be- coming a mass of runs. ., —— Some - advices have it that the/ Meantime word reached here from ordered to Paikhoi to protect the Japanese Mission investigating the death of Jungo Nakano, drug store proprietor, who died under myster- |lous circumstances. The destroyer Sanaya is taking !the investigators aboard at Can- turns on legislative seats have yet | ial come in. ‘15 the Charles Norris cnndldncy’ |filing in Georgia, a petition with In the First, Joe Green of Hyder, | James V. Davis of Juneau and J,|42000 names having been circu- P. Anderson of Juneau, all Demo- crats, are well ahead, and the fourth high man is Mr. Race, who is ahead of Crystal Snow Jenne of Juneau, Democrat. In 32 of 53 pre- cinets in this Division, Green has 2,- 359 votes, Davis, 2,220, Anderson, 2175 and Race, 2,137, In the Third, James H. Patterson of Valdez is leading Oscar Gill for the senatorial seat, 1,155 to 701. Pat- terson, who served in the House last session, carried Anchorage where Gill was mayor for many years, Dan Kennedy, Edward D. Cof- fey, Nell Scott and H. H. McCut- lated asking Norris to file. i | In Colorado, Goy. Ed C. Johnson! is leading former Gov. William/ |Sweet two to one for the Demo- |cratic Senatorial seat. Both are | Roosevelt supporters. The Arizona primary saw M. T. Phelps, who was endorsed by the Townsend group, trailing by 1,111 votes in the Democratic race against John Murdock for the State's only; Congressional seat. | Former President Herbert Hoover announced today he would make his first campaign address in the east| on October 9 or 10. William Lemke, | |a veteran Legislator and has served The destroyer Wakatake has been | cheon, all Democrats are leading in | Union party candidate, ,delivering the Third for the House seats. Ken-| Michigan speeches declined to de- nedy has 939 votes, Coffey, 902,/bate with Norman Thomas, Social- Scott, 880 and McCutcheon, who|ist, whom he accused of aiding served last session, 853. J. H. Murray | Roosevelt. is high man in that Division for| Gov. Alf Landon announced he the Republicans with 250 votes. |would speak in Portland, Me., Sat- In the Fourth Victor C. Rivers,|urday night. { Democrat, is leading Julien Hurley,| Ppresident Roosevelt speaks to- Republican, 588 to 469. For the morrow in Charlotte, N. C., a non-| House, the vote in the Fourth thus political address. far svanfu: Leo W. Rogge, Demo- Lieut.-Gov. George Alken is Ver- crat, 605; Victor B. Ross, Democrat, | mongrg Republican nominee for Gov-| 597, Andrew Nerland, Republican,|ernor Seward Mason has won the 577, and Dan L. Greene, Democrat, (gouh Carolina Democratie nom-| 463 4. J. Ghemi, Democrat, Is inlingtion for the late Representative fifth place with 462. Mr. Nerland is John McSwain's seat. i - eee— - A S S R Y STOCK QUOTATIONS | S — T (l NEw LAWYEHS ! CLOSING PRICES TODAY i NEW YORK, Sept. 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine i stock today is 15%, American Can i 126, American Light and Power MANILA, P. I, Sept. 9.—Philip-|12%, Anaconda 39%, Bethlehem pine National Assemblyman Nicolas |Steel 69%, Calumet and Hecla 11%, many sessions in the Legislature. | Jenne of Juneau, Democrat, Rafols, of Cebu, has proposed a bill designed to limit the creation of new attorneys. The measure would suspend all bar examinations for five years, beginning in 1944. |Columbia Gas and Electric 21'%, |Commonwealth and Southern 3%, | General Motors 67%, International |Harvester 179%, Kennecott 47%, | Simmons 392, United States Steel Gore, 450, and in the Fourth seven precincts gave the Delegate 792 and Gore 258. Other Democratic candidates are moving along with substantial mar- gins toward victory, William H. Hesse, Highway Engineer, polling the next big vote to Dimond. In 57 precincts Hesse has 5,014 votes com~ pared to 2,588 for Roy Storey, his Republican opponent. In the Auditor’s race, Frank A. Boyle is gradually pulling away to a good lead over Cash Cole. In 57 precincts Boyle has 4,299 votes to 3,155 for Cole. Truitt Ahead Attorney General Truitt is lead- ing the three-man field for re-elec- tion and in 57 precincts, 32 of them in the First Division, Judge Truitt had 3,724 votes, McCain, 2,391 and Henry Roden, 1,962. In the race for the House in the First Division, returns from 32 of 53 precincts indicate that three Democrats and one Republican stand to be elected. Leading the field is Joe Green of Hyder with 2, 359 votes. Capt. James V. Davis of Juneau is next with 2220 ard J. P. nderson of Juneau third with 2,- 175. Ail three are Democrats. Harry Race, Republican of Ketchikan, is fourth high with 2,137 and behind him in fifth place is Crystal Snow with 1,917, Unreported Precincts Unreported precincts this after- noon at press time were Klawock, Goddard, Hoonah, Tenakee, James- town, Elfin Cove, Baranof, Point Agassiz, Cape Fanshaw, Windham, Funter, Killisnoo, Angoon, Gusta- vus, Yakutat, Chilkat, Loring, Mey- erschuck, Kasaan, Metlakatla, Re- villa, Hydaburg, Tokeen, Shakan and Bell Island. ENGAGED In the evening tomorrow, there bearing 40,000 signatures in his be- | - |71%, United Corporation 7%, Cities 24 according to Griffin’s figures. If it|Will be a concert by the Juneau| had acted like other white oaks|City Band from 8 to 9:30 o'clock. it would have died Too years ago. From 9:45 o'clock to 10:30 o'clock “And now he’s going,” said Grif-|there will be a stage show broad- fin. “There's only PO feet of mer-|cast by Radio Station KINY artists. chantable timber 1‘11 in that old| Dancing to music by Krane's trunk, 145 feet high and nine feet|Orchestra will be enjoyed from through the mlddl’." 10:30 o'clock to midnight. i ; half. .- CHIMNEY FIRE The Fire Department answered an alarm at 5 o'clock yesterday after- | noon for a chimney fire on a house in the rear of the Windsor Apart- ments. Damage was nominal. Fliers Killed =~ .. _ : NEWMARKERS COMING BACK ! Capt. John Newmarker, of the NANCY, France, Sept. 9. — Six|United States Steamboat Inspection The Canadian Secretary of State|Service 4, Pound $5.06%. has received articles of incorpora- | tion for a church called Interna-| DOW, JONES AVERAGES French Army fliers were killed this Service, accompenied by his wife afternoon in a crash of a bomber and son, is a passenger aboard the at the flying field at the village North Sea sailing from Seattle of Boncourt near Leroufille. early this morning. tional Universal Sign of the Equ-| The following are today’s Dow, naternal Triarchy of Truth, Moth-|Jones averages: Industrials 16953, er Tabernacle of Constructive Spir-/down 103; rails 5595, down .14; ituality. utilities 35.04, down .11, THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Sept’ 9.—A holiday romance in Switzer- land is climaxed by the Royal Court announcement that plump, jolly Juliana, heiress to the Netherlands throne, will wed German Prince Bernhard Zu Lippe-Biesterfed. She is 27 and he is 27,