The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7276. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1936, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CERTS FIGHTING FORCES OF ITALY INCREASED FASCISTS AND LEFTISTS ARE AT GUN POINTS, Advance on Madrid Re- ported to Have Been Stemmed ATTACK RENEWED ON SAN SEBASTIAN Principal Seaport on Bay of Biscay Said to Be in Chaos BULLETIN—SAN SEBASTI- AN, Sept. 12.—The Government forces have abandoned the city to the Fascists who are now in possession of the entire Spanish Northeastern coastal sector ad- Jjacent to the French frontier. LONDON, Sept. 12. — Spanish Fascist armies and Leftist militia- men today inaugurated the ninth week of the Spanish Civil War with bloody fighting southwest of Mad- rid and chaos prevailing in the| streets of San Sebastian, principal | seaport on the Bay of Biscay. | Advance Stemmed Loyalists are struggling to stem | the advance on the Capital City of the Spanish Republic and it is de- | clared that the positions in the| Talavera de la Reigna sector are| impregnable to the advance of the Fascists. In San Sebastian Refugees from San Sebastian tell | aof street fighting between the | Basque Nationalists and anarchists, | dissenting defenders, while the! Fascist big guns dropped shells in the outskirts of the city. ‘The anarchists want_to burn the | city rather than let the Faseists | have it. Planes Shot Down The rebel headquarters at Burgos | announced by radio broadcast that | ten Government planes have been shot down in central and south- ern Spain. WL RS S DIMOND'S TOTAL CONTINUES TO MOUNT UPWARD 103 Out of 198 Precincts in Territory Give Dele- gate 7,527 Votes With 103 out of 189 precincts in the Territory reporting, élection re- turns from last Tuesday’s general tlection continue to roll up com- manding leads for the Democratic candidates. Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond now has a total of 7,527 votes compared to 2,775 for Lester O. Gore. ‘With but 86 precincts yet to report it 'is not likely that the Delegate will reach his 1932 total vote when he ‘amassed 9,949 votes to 3,820 for Judge James Wickersham, his op- ponent at that time. The vote this year, however, is considerably light- er then four years ago, but the Dele- gate is maintaining the same strong percentage. Returns from the 103 precincts give the following: For |Delrgate — Dimond, 17527; Gore, 2775. Attorney General—McCain, 2,845 Roden, ; Truitt, 4,820. Miss North America Crowned LANDON GOES TOMAINE T0 HELP GOPERS Roosevelt Plans River Trip —Liberals Say: ‘Sup- port Roosevelt’ CHICAGO, 111, Sept. 12. — Gov. | Alfred M. Landon sped across the northeast corner of 'the United States taday headed for a closing Republican rally in the state cam- paign in Maine. He speaks in Portland tonight and on Monday the Maine voters will chose a Unjt- ed States Senator, Governor al Congressman. Roosevelt at Work In Washington, D. C. President Franklin D. Roosevelt worked at his desk in the White House and {planned a cruise down the Potomac | tonight. Liberals For FDR The Liberals, in a convention in !this city started a campaign for | the re-election of Roosevelt. The | Liberals are composed of represen- | tatives of political, labor and agri- | cultural organizations and groups and appeal to all progressive mind- ed voters to support Presgident Roosevelt. Knox Taking Rest Col. Frank Knox is taking a two day re in Yellowstone Park after |accusing “men high in the govern- This picture, taken from the deck of the U. 8. §. Oklahoma, shows a lifebont with a load of American Miss Ollie Heitz of Atlantic City, N. J., is shown as she received the cup emblematic of her election as Miss North America in the beauty pageant ment places* with preaching “de- featism.” WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. — To date the campaign has failed to develop new phrase-makers able to combine two or three or four words in an amalgamous epithet that stands out starkly between news. paper quotation marks. Perhaps the Democrats suifer {less, for they have Secretary Ickes, among others, tried and proved as an expert among experts in mold- ing syllabic bullets for use on the opposition. ground of Spanish war soldier and a newspaper career, was touted by the Republican high command as the man who would put words to- gether in combinations to make Democrats writhe uncomfortably in their Washington offices. KNOX PHRASES MILD Now Colonel Knox has used words and phrases and facts in indict- ment of the New Deal Administra- tion in a manner pleasing to some Republicans who applaud his down- right manner. But to Washington ears attuned in recent years to ‘“dead-cats” and “prophets of des- pair,” the colonel’s phrasings scarce- ly pass the middle register on the keyboard. He talks with a deadly seriousness. He rakes the Demo- cratic strongholds with his most solid shot. 3 Those who remémber the ex- at Augusta, Me. Eddie Dowling, stage and screen star, m‘.ld_e the | presentation. Much Talk But No “Phrases” Makes Campaign a Bit Dull Colonel Frank Knox, with a back- | Earle Makes Response | At Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Gov. |George Earle declared that Knox |is “deliberately and maliciously at-‘ |tempting to provoke a financial| panic.” Lemke On Coast | | William Lemke, Presidential can-; jdidate for the Union party, itaeads| | STOCK PRICES refugees taken from Las Arenas, Spain. to the battleship, is being helped aboard by sailors. Heavy seas tossed during the transfer of the refugees from the war In the inset an American woman, seasick from the two-mile trip MUSSOLINI NOW PREPARING TO WAGE CONQUEST Extraordinary Appropria- tions Granted Premier by Cabinet WILL ENLARGE AIR, SEA, LAND ENERGIES International Situation Giv- en as Cause for Warlike Move ROME, Sept. 12. — The Italian Cabinet, under Premier Benito Mus- solini’s watchful eye, today voted extraordinary appropriations for land, sea and air forces “to pro- portion our military preparedness to the necessities of the interna- tional situation.” The Cabinet also approved salary increases averaging eight per cent for 650,000 Government employees and added to the wages of many thousands of Provincial and muni- cipal workers. Unofficial sources state that Italy has ‘“encroaching ideas” since the successful conquest of Ethiopia and the Spanish Fascist march in the present Civil War in Spain. the lifeboats as much as twenty feet zone to safety. Alaskan Flier Killed WAVER TODAY, changes between General H“ghfieu north from l.os_Angelea on- a| Johnson and numerous adversaries, |Paciflc Coast speaking tour after| including Father Coughlin and the |Striking at “International Racket-| late Huey Long, yearn for the rise |€ers and Gangsters,” who he said of a Republican speaker with a 2re manipulating the Nation's cur- | saw-edged tongue. vency. | Father Coughlin, his phrases per- e +haps no less sharp, has in the esti- H !mate of some taken himself off the u ar a r y big circuit by espousal of a third Leaves Markers ~ for Airplanes Iparty candidate. | Red Flags Placed on Ice Field Near Juneau by Glacier Priest THIRD PARTY IGNORED Inquiry at such part of Demo- jcratic headquarters as is left here, develops that there is a definite | policy of ignoring as far as pos-| sible the whole of third party| elements. | President Roosevelt may have (set the standard by his “no com- | ! ment” attitude ‘on the “liar" speech | | by Father Cou b | Degd also is :nt excited talk of | High up in the glacier and ice ‘fi‘i‘;;t:a’slgi:utsog:lgrlht: i:',";g;':;iarea back of the mountains thnt[ |up dummy Union Party organiza- surround Juneau is a flat ice tions to preempt the name. plateau, which, although glaciers Evidently the idea has been droP- and ice with deep crevasses are g;aclro r’:;;:efi;;l:rs;‘: :Lnx:;';:]nearby, is a considerable exapnse ered good. Second, arguments are|Of f1at ice. On it now are red flag advanced that Father Coughlin and ‘markers extending over more than Mr. Lemke, Union Party candidate, |250 yards, placed there this summer may draw as many Republican|yy (ne Rey. Bernara R. Hubbard, votes as Democratic votes from the gng pis party during their extnesive great pool of the electorate where ggientific work in that area, mak- jall are fishing. ing it possible for an airplane to RAIN, WIND DELAYS HOP Richman and Merrill May Take Off Sunday on Auditor—Boyle, 5,660; Cole, 3,748. Highway Engineer—Hesse, 6,467; Storey, 3,140. A total @f 39 precincts out of 51 in the Firs Division gives the fol- lowing for §he Senate and House: Senate- epard, 1677; Walker, 2,504. i House—An@erson, 2269; Davis, 2,231; Green, 2477, Race, 2,225 and Jenne, 2,057. Twelve preciacts out of 20 in the Second Divisioh show O. D. Coch- ran with 623 vptes for the Senate against 333 for Kennedy, and Tolbert Scott, th, Litchenberg and Laiblin have been apparently elected to the 5 Nineteen pi ts of 58 in the Third Division gite 1,624 votes to James H. Patterson for the Senate over 852 for Oscar Gjil. Coffey, Ken- nedy, McCutcheon Nell Scott apparently are elect to the House. ‘Thirty-three out 60 precinets in the Fourth give Vi Rivers, 1,- 029 votes for the te over 853 for Julien Hurley. Green, Nerland and elected to the House. Flight to New York LIVERPOOL, England, Sept. 12. —A heavy rain and strong westerly winds caused Harry Ri¢hman and Dick Merrill to postpone their re- turn flight to New York City. Thc takeoff is now tentatively set for dawn Sunday. THEY'RE STILL JUST SAUSAGES COLOGNE, Germany, Sept. 12— Attempts by the “Grand Council of the Federal Guild of Butchers and Sausage Makers” to unify the names throughout the reich, prov- ed a failure. So u “Presskopf” will remain a “Presskopf” throughout southern Germany but the Ber- liner will continue to call it “Suelz- wurst.” ~ INHOLY LAND | This field of flat ice, Father| Seventeen Hundred British |Hubbard said today, was locnt;edI |between the end of Twin Glacier | Soldiers Are On Way to Palestine {Mountain and the mountain re- |ferred ao as both “The Bear Paws” land “Devil Paws,” and during the | study of ice conditions in that area the party set out the flags as markers, should the emergency arise |and some aviator find it necessary to set down in that region. Among the many other scientific — and interesting facts obtained in SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept.| this year's expedition which Father 12—A detachment of 1,700 British Hubbard believes will prove to be | soldiers sailed today aboard the most valuable of his many previous troopship Dorsetshire for Palestine. ones in Alaska, is the fact that in This is possibly the first move to- making a profile map of Twin ward clamping strict martial law Glacier Lake it was found that the on the disorderly Holy Land. bottom of this lake, the surface of ———t——— which is about forty or fifty feet !above sea level, is 600 feet below ZIL PLANS the sea level. Father Hubbard re- |fers to the lake as “The Lake of | Imprisoned Icebergs,” because of E |the many huge ones that float around in the lake after breaking |awxy from the glaciers, with no Esaynnd possible chance of getting out. RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 12—| During the explorations and stud- President Getulio Vargas signed a|jes Father Hubbard found that legislative act providing 800 contos | Taku and Twin Glaciers were of reis (about $48,000) with which |now " aground. the Army Aviation School will buy| The Hubbard party is leaving for training planes built in Brazil with the south Monday on the Yukon. Brazilian materials. Engines may PO S RSN A SN be foreign. RETURNING TO JUNEAU Rt S i S Mrs. William Geddes and little The humming bird’s nest is the|grandson Billy, are passengers most difficult of nests to find. abbdard the Alaska for Junéau. " DULL SESSION Many Leaders Remain Un- changed While Some Take Losses NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—The mar- ket swung in a restricted orbit today at the short sessions as trad- ers found little inspiration for either buying or selling. Some specialties pushed forward but many of the leaders remained virtually un¢hanged and a few were substantially lower at the close. Today’s transfers were only half a million shares. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15, American Can 125%, American Light and Power 12%, Anaconda 40, Bethlehem Steel 70%, Calumet and Hecla 11%, Co- lumbia Gas and Electric 20%, Com- monwealth and Southern 3%, Gen- eral Motors 67%, International Har- vester 78%, Kennecott 47%, Sim- mons 38%, United States Steel 72%, United Corporation 9%, Cities Serv- ice 4%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 168.02, down 57; rails 55.83, utilities 34.95, down .11. SUCCESSION N MANLY ™ MANILA, P. I, Sept: 12.—A meth- od of Presidential succession in the new Philippine Commonwealth Gov- ernment is provided in a bill of- fered in the National Academy. In event the President and Vice- President are not available, due to death or removal, the order of succession would be: Secretary of Interior, Secretary of Finance, Sec- retary of Justice, Secretary of Com- merce and Agriculture, Secretary of Public Works and Communications, Secretary of Public Instructions, and finally the Secretary of Labor. .- W'n:e Grading Urged BERKELEY, Cal—Pointing out that there is no way of grading wines at present except the per- sonal opinion of the taster, Dr. W. V. Cruess of the University of California advocates a rigid set of standards similar to that ap- plying to the canning industry. down .08; THE Steve Mills (above), Alaskan flier who once made a daring, mid- winter “mercy” flight of 600 miles, and five passengers from Anchor age were killed in a crash on the Kenal insula. (Associated Press Fhoto) THO PRIMARY VICTORIES HAS GUESSING New Deal Senators Win| sily Over Anti-New Deal Opponents WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. — The‘ overwhelming primary victories of Senator Pat Harrison in Mis:slss)ppli and Senator Jimmy Byrnes in South Carolina were not dismissed | lightly in Washington by those hunting for indications of drifts in political sentiment. . | Both Senator were ardent, wheel- horse style New Deal supporters. In South Carolina Byrnes had two| anti-New Deal opponents but his| vote was 221,000 against the 32,500 aggregate of both the others. In Mississippi, Senator Harrison’s | record was largely the issue. But| this New Deal supporter, in nearly complete returns, won 127,700 votes to 64,600 for former Governor Sen- nett Conner and 2,455 for a third candidate. This came in the face of alarm stories that Harrison was about counted out, It m | ™ (Continued on Page Thre) MASS MURDER SLAYER PAYS ON GALLOWS Leo Hall, 34, Goes to Death | with Wide Grin on His Face 1 WALLA WALLA, Wash., Sept. 12.' —Leo Bernard Hall, 34, once a! seminary student, paid with his! life on the gallows in the State penitentiary here for the murder of Eugene A. Chenevert, one of six‘ persons killed in the Erland’s Point massacre near Bremerton, March | 28, 1934, * The trap of the gallows was sprung at eleven o'clock last night and Hall was pronounced dead six- { teen minutes later. Hall went to his death with a wry smile on his face, the smile widening to a grin a moment be- fore the executioner drew the black hood over his face. Other victims of the mass murder were Mrs. Chenevert, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Flieder, Magnus Jordan and Fred Balcom. LUFTHANSA IS Third German Flying Boat Is Now Nearing Am- erican Shores NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—The Ger- man flying boat Lufthan-a hoppzd from Grassy Bay, Bermuda, at 8:44 o'clock this morning and is ex- pected to reach New York City this afternoon. Three other flying boats, built by the Mark Awolus for the Ger- man International Air Line have al- ready arrived here via the Azores and Bermuda. FOUND SHOT HAINES, Alaska, Sept. 12. (Special to. The Empire) — Abe Gammell, fishing partner. of John Storm, brooding over the latter’s | death recently, was found shot yes- |terday afternoon and he died at 4:15 o'clock. A Coroner's Jury is holding an inquest but no verdict had been reached late this fore- noon. BB There is a popular superstition in |eating of peas on New Year's will |bring fortune during the year. BOUNDTON. Y, “GERMANY CAN WHP RUSSIA, * HITLER SHOUTS “We'd Be Prosperous If We Had Their Lands,” Says Nazi Chief NURNBERG, Germany, Sept. 12. President Adolf Hitler, with hun- dreds of Nazi war plahes roaring an aggressive tempo overhead, to- day declared Germany will be over- whelmingly prosperous “if we had” the rich agricultural lands and ore- laden mountains of Soviet Russia. Speaking at a mass meeting, af- ter he had told thousands of wor- shipful boys and girls that Ger- many would triumph over Russia, Hitler shouted: “If the hour ever comes when there is war, and we had the Ural mountains, if we | possessed Biberia, if he had the Uk- raine, Germany would be swim- ;mma in surplus prosperity.” DELEGATE S “INCITY FOR BRIEF VISIT Dimond Again Expresses Thanks to Voters— Plans Announced Delegate Anthony J. Dimond ar- ! rived in Juneau this morning on the [North Sea to be with his son who was painfully burned Thursday night. Mr. Dimond said that he would |be in Juncau for several days, but had plinnad as an extensive trip | through various parts of the inter- or, as tinie would parmit, studying the needs of the various communi= Ues and mninz districts, in rela- tion, partiouiarly to road building programs, and also further investi- gation as to routes of the proposed International Highway. Cordova, Valdez, the Bremner | country, Moose Pass, upper and | lower Yukon country and other dis- | tricts are on the Delegates’ itiner- ary at the present time. | During a brief interview today, | the Delegate again expressed his ap- preciation for the splendid vote re- ‘cexved by him in the recent elec- | tion, and wished to again thank the people of this community for their splendid support. ‘While in Juneau Delegate Dimond is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. . e NEWMARKERS RETURN Mr. and Mrs. J. Newmarker and Jack Newmarker arrived home on the North Sea after a vacation in the States. They visited Mr. New- marker’s home in the East. Chief ust be remembered that in |Some sections of the south that|Engineer Newmarker is local im- spector of Boilers of the Steamboat Inspection Service.