The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 19, 1936, Page 1

< THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7282. —— “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRES PRICE TEN CENTS ILA VOTES AGAINST ANY ARBITRATION HUNDREDS BLOWN UP CANNON FIRE POURED INTO OLD FORTRESS Twelve Hundred of Seven- teen Hundred Fascists Are Believed Dead GOVERNMENT AWAITS HOISTING WHITE FLAG Machine Guns Continue to Rattle from Ruins of Alcazar MADRID, Sept. 19.--Spain’s Gov- ! ernment yesterday dumped a dead- ly stream of cannon fire into the broken rocks of Toledo’s Alcazar where attackers said the explosion of two tremendous mines yesterday killed 1200 of the 1700 Fascists and their women and children. But from the blood-smeared ruins, | remnants of the besieged horde suill | manned machine guns making the | Government victory far from com- plete. The attacking militiamen waited in vain for a white flag to be displayed today. ANOTHER CHARGE SEVILLE, Sept. 19.—Fascist Gen- eral Gonzalo Quiepo de Llano ac- cused the Spanish Government forces of killing 800 hostages at| Ronda on the road to the southern seaport of Malaga in a radio speech from here. He said his troops had succeeded in identifying the bodies of five of the 12 alleged victims. He declared they were mowed down by rifles and machine guns before the Fascists occupied the town. FIGHT CONTINUES TOLEDO, Spain, Sept. 19.—With shots of shell, crude oil smoke and bombs, Government militiamen are fighting to rout the surviving Fas- cists from the dungeons of the dynamited Alcazar citadel, fighting their way inch by inch behind a rolling smoke barrage. Militiamen have rushed one after another of the Fascist pill boxes hastily fashioned from jagged de- bris. How many are still alive within the blood-spattered fortress was not known late this afternoon. Those still alive are making a bitter resistance. A stifling smoke pall, made with tins of ignited gasoline, is being hurled at the attackers. REJECT PROPOSALS MADRID, Sept. 19.—The Socialist Communist Government has reject- ed the Syndidalists’ demands for a general conscription and decen- tralized government. The Government’s spokesman said: “There is only one point in our program and that is victory.” The Socialists asserted “those pushing such demands should be regarded as traitors,” and further sald: “We cannot allow a duality of power to exist.” The Syndicalists are not now represented in the Government but none the less are a powerful com- ponent part of the popular front of the Government. The Government arnounced this afternoon that troops are pressing offensives successfully in all sec- tors with numerous victories which are boosting the morale, IS THAT SO? NO! BURGOS, Spain, Sept. 19.—The officials of the Fascist headquarters here deny reports of victories sent out from Madrid and claim their armies are encircling Madrid ready to launch a final attack. PROCLAMATION ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Under authorization from Congress, Presi- dent Roosevelt has set aside Sun- day, September 27, for national observance of Gold Star Mothers' Day. In his proclamation, the Presi- dent quoted from Public Resolution 123, adopted by Congress, a tribute to the Gold Star Mothers who “suffered the supreme sacrifice of motherhood in the loss of their sons and daughters in the World ‘War.” Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, judged the baby show at the Dutchess County Fair, Rhinebeck, N. Y. Joan Burnett, to whom Mrs, Roosevelt awarded first prize, is shown with her mother, Mrs. George and were on a coal barge two miles Burnett, of Poughkeepsie. o i E“F ar West” Bloc Seen On Political Horizon NEW WEATHER BUREAU OPENS, ALASKA REGION Forecasts to Be Given from Atka—Woman Named Chief Official WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Weath- or Bureau officials today announc- ed the establishment of their most western observation station and ‘appointed as weatherman there, a | woman, Mrs. Francis H. McMillen. The station is at Atka Island, one of the group of the Aleutians. She will make daily reports from there. Mrs. McMillan's husband is a teacher on the island for the Fed- eral Bureau of Indian Affairs. The two are the only whites on the is- lands among 103 residents, practi- cally all Eskimos. Mrs. McMillan must share hon- ors with the northernmost weath- erman, also a woman, Mrs. Stanley Morgan, at Point Barrow. Mrs. Morgan has served for several years and is “very competent” said E. B. Calver!, Chief of the Forecasting Service of the United States Weath-! er Bureau. Reports from Atka have been ap- pearing in the Empire's weather bu- reau statistics for about one month. ~ Mrs. Roosevelt Picks ’Em TERRIFIC GALE ' NOW SWEEPING OUT ON OCEAN Thousand Miles of Coast Toll Now at 7 MANY PERSONS ARE | REPORTED MISSING Communications Disrupted, | | Preventing Accurate Damage Estimate | | i oy | | NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—One of | {the worst hurricane in American | history swung out to sea early to-| | day, northeast of here, and all ves- | sels, were radioed during the night |to avoid it if possible. | | Despite the violence of the hur- | | ricane which swept over one thou- ‘sand miles of the Atlantic coast- | |line, only seven persons aré kmown | |to have been killed, but 23 are| missing. The death toll was first | estimated at 46 but this was revisea | shortly after dawn today when thir- ty-four men feared to have been | |killed or drowned, from the steam- |ship Long Island in Delaware Bay,| were found to have been rescued |off shore missing. Four of the crew are Death Toll One person was killed inMary- | }land; three in New Jersey and three 1m Pennsylvania. Disrupted commnications prevent an accurate estimate of the prop- | ——— lerty damage although preliminary By BYRON PRICE “reports indicated the loss will run (Chief of Bureau, The Associated into the millions of dollars. Press, Washington) The State of Connecticut appar- |ently escaped damage as the storm Is a “Far West” bloc of States With winds at 100 miles per hour forming in 1936 to take its place circled northeastward to elsewhere. alongside the other grand divisions| The New England coast has been of American politics—the South, Whipped by heavy rains and gales the East, the Midwest, the border, but the damage is reported to be and the West? |small. Some ranking Democratic strat- B gy »gists profess to think so. When‘TYPO UNIUN IN OLSON DEATH A FACTOR The Democratic prognosticators also claim an exception in Wiscon-| son, because of the La Follette in- fluence, and they are counting hea- '/fly cn the Roosevelt farm policies, | | | | | Line Ravaged—Death | - e .plus the home vote-gathering abil- BY c“'NAMAN |ity of Secretary Wallace, to swing i Towa. But in Minnesota, which likewise has been high up on the Democrat- ic claim list, there are complica- tions. The death of Farmer-Labor Governor Olson has forced a re- | assessment of the entire state out- HANK( g depended on U N Olson had been depe: on to wajiro ;’:flcfim:e:::r l:{' :;:e;add the Farmer-Labor vote to the Japanese consular police here, was Democratic vote in an_esot,a. He shot to death by an unidentified | Was trying to do that, right up to Chinese, the Domei ‘News Service the end. His death-bed statement reported. He was shot in the back|for Roosevelt will be widely circu-| of the head while standing inside lated among his followers. | the police box. With his passing, however, the| The Japanese naval forces anchor- Lemke Union party is preparing to| ed here in conjunction with the|move into Minnesota in force. The| consular police have established| — i emergency patrols. Emergency Patrols Have Been Organized by Japanese at Hankow (Continued on Pagé Two) | | and reared them along with two of they talk privately, they rank the| | Far West right behind the Solid| | South as the most hopeful Demo- cratic territory this vear. They include as a minimum Cali- | fornia, Oregon and Washington, | | with 35 electoral votes. Some of| LABUR DISPUTE them add Montana, Idaho, Utah,' Nevada, Arizona and New Mex- |ico, raising the total to 56. R T | The Republicans concede none of| Organization Backs Indus- these states, although there are; : 5 . some nighty pacea o mepasiican| trial Committee Against councils who will go so iar as to| A. F. of L. Crafts agree that Democratic chances are better in this Pacific territory than| OOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., in some other places. Sept. 19.—The International Typo- The reasons for this involve a va-| graphical Union became a potent riety of issues. For one thing, thelally of the Committee on Industrial West Coast has become a haven organization in the committee’s dis- for liberalism of numberous brands, pute with the American Federation more or less setting it apart. Na-}of Labor. turally, too, there is a certain Far Brushing aside the Federation’s Western community of interest on| arguments lain before them Thurs- such subjects as mining and rec- day by William Green, President lamation. - |of the American Federation, The Perhaps a real change is taking| International Typographical Un- place. It always has seemed in—’son. at its eighteenth convention in consistent. to lump together all of!session here, adopted a resolution that vast territory west of the Mis- | pledging “moral and financial sup- sissippi as one political entity, yet port” to the Committee Member- that is the way it has voted in most ship. The officers state the union past elections. . membership is nearly 80,000. Earlier this month the American Federation of Labor’s Executive Committee suspended ten unions, affiliated with the Committee mem- bership, including the United Mine Workers, whose President, John L. Lewis, is the Committee's leader. The Lewis group wants to organize all workmen in any given |industry, in one, union instead of by crafts, which plan is favored by President Green. The International Typographical Unon, in the vote yesterday, held the American Fed- eration of Labor Executive Com- mittee exceeded. its authority in suspending the industrial orgam-I zation group. President Lewis, of the United Mine Workers, ard his supporters are aiming especially for the or- ganization of the steel workers ——-—— Dog Raises Fox Cubs GREENWOOD, 8. C.—A Green- wood pointer suckled three fox cubs ABOUT F. D. R NOW NIPPED White Hous_e Issues Sharp Statement Regarding Planned Plot NOTORIGUS OWNER OF NEWSPAPER IS CITED Positive Denial Made Against Insinuations in Proposed Move WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—In a rply worded statement, the White House today said it had‘ learned of a “planned attempt, led | by a nctorious newspaper owner” to give the impression President Franklin D. Roosevelt “passivel; cepts support of alien organizations hostile to the American form of | Government.” The statement was issued by Stephen Early, the President’s sec- retary. | Early directly denied this. | The name of the newspaper owner was not named in the White House statement. The President has returned from Cambridge, Mass., to his wife's bed- side. Mrs. Roosevelt is ill with the grippe. The President yesterday was the chief speaker at Harvard on thal Uitiversity’s 300(h birthday. ——,—— Democrats Take Major Portion, Ahslfltee Vote Dimond Gets 71 of 103 Ballots Cast, Other Of- fices in Proportion Democrats took handily the ma- Jjority of the 193 absentee ballots counted yesterday afternoon by the ‘anvassing Board consisting of Judge H. B. LeFevre, Mrs. Florine Housel and Ed Andrews. There were 108 ballots in all but three were thrown out for irregularities Delegate Anthony J. Dimond headed the list, getting 71 votes compared to 28 for his Republican opponent, Lester O. Gore, while George B. Grigsby got two. Results of the balance of the tick- et show: Attorney General — McCain, 31; Roden, 23; Truitt, 47. Auditor — Boyle, 60; Cole, 34; Smith, 6. Highway Engineer — Hesse, 66; Storey 29. ’ Senator—Nelson 1; Shepard, 27; Walker, 62; Zeidenrust, 7. Representatives — Anderson, 51; Davis, 59; Green, 58; Henning, 33; Snow, 45; McCall, 8; Price, 29; Race, 41; Walker, 16, and Wilson, 33. The returns from the absentee vote made no change in the success- ful candidates as there are no con- tests sufficienfly close. AR RACER 1S KILLED;PLANE IN COLLISION Tom Qmp;fl Black Dies When Machine Crashes Into Another | LIVERPOOL, England,’ Sept. 19. —Tom Campbell Black, who with C. W. A. Scott won the England to Australia air race several years ago, Spake Airdrome. Black’s plane collided with a Roy- BY BLASTS G-men lh{ed a real-life drama to tried to collect $30,000 in ransom Freed of Kidhaper’s Tbreaf nounced that young Butler confessed to sending kidnap threats to Mise Eleanor Young (left) and Miss Lucy Saunders (right) over the signa: ture “Phantom XXX.” | ANNOUNCE VOTE, PACIFIC COAST LONGSHOREMEN Shoreside \Xfirke rs Have Made Demands—to i Stick by Them INCREASED WAGES IS ONE BIG ISSUE New York Stevedores Win Their Fight—Locals ; Take Heart SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—Dewey Ben= nett, Secretary of the International Longshoremens’ Association’s local, announced this afternoon the West | Coast Longshoremen, from Mex~ |ico to Canada, have voted 96 per- cent against arbitration of their | working agreement dispute with the | employers. All votes except those from Port- |land and Stockton, which do not | make any appreciable difference, have been received. Bennett expressed pleasure at the vote and also said his colleagues { were heartened by New York dis- catch William J. Butler, 18, as he ‘p}atches stating the New York shore- money in Queens, L, I. Agents an. side workers won a year's working | agreement including the requested | wage increase, although they refused the proposed 40 hour week. T | | CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneai mine stock today is 16, American Can 126'4, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 40%, Bethlehem Steel 71%, Calumet and Hecla 11%, Columbia Gas and Electric 20%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss-Wright 7, General Motors 68%, International Harvester 79%, Kennecott 492, Simons 38%, Unit- ed States Steel 72'2, United Cor- poration 7%, Cities Service 37%. STOCK PRICES | ‘West Coast longshoremen are now | recelving 95 cents an hour for i straight time and $1.40 for overtime !under the 1934 award. They are | now asking for what the New York Takes Walk at TAKE ANOTHER 600D ADVANCE Some Shares Reach New Highs — Trading Ac- | tive for Saturday NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—The buy- | ing batteries were unlimbered at| the brief session today on the New York Stock Exchange and advances | of fractions to more than one point were registered. The advances covered a wide | range of issues. Rails, steels, motor, utility and merchandising specialty issues led in the upward trend and some shares posted new highs for the past year or longer. The sesston was one of the most active for a Saturday for more than one month. Transfers totaled 800,000 shares. 4 | stevedores obtained, $1 an hour for 'g s u"" i straight work and $1.50 overtime. ¥ Other Disagreements [ [ The coast longshoremen are also Ea m m’“m at odds with the Waterfront Em- ployers' Association of the West | coast cities on other factors in the 2 ! working agreement expiring Se; Seaman of Discoverer Is temper 30. i Found Dead at FOO[ 4 Bennett declines to enlarge on his , report as to the result of the ILA Of Alaskan Cllfi referendum and said results will ' be transmitted formally to San DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, Sept. Francisco where representatives of 19.—Robert F. Stryker, aged 28, the Waterfront Employers Associa- of Seattle, seaman on the Coast and :L"h" s L!qngshore:nens' :m'mb':d er martime conferees have been Geodetic Surcey ship Discoverer, consulting and deadlocked over pro- was found dead at the foot of & posed modifications. clitf Friday morning. ! Both sides have issued statements Btryker was attached to the shore tnat they do not desire any tie-up party at Dora Harbor, Unimak Is- of steamers on the Pacific Coast. land. He went for a walk last Thursday night and had either fal- REGRETS EXPRESSED len over a cliff or had been caught gan FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 19. in a landslide. The cliff was about —Regret that the ILA rejected the balf a mile trom the shore camp. “approved American way of settling i hre e labor disputes,” was expressed here & this afternoon by Thomas Plant, “I representing the Pacific Coast ship owners in negotiations with mari- u h t t'me unions. Musicians of Channel Re- quested to Meet Next Monday Night IN B. C. PORTS VANCOUVER, B. C, Sept. 19. — The ennouncement of refusal of arbtration in the coast shoreline sit- uation will have little effect on the waterfront hege, officials of the Shipp'ny Faderation of British Col- umbla said. It was also announced that no vote has been taken here as agreements do not terminate un- til November 1. ———— Formation of a Community Or- Z chestra, or rather the revival ol JAPANESE wlN tk2e orchestra of last son, w.ll take place next Monday night at a DOW, JONES AVERAGES Jones averages: Industrials 16893, up 1.17; rails 56.36, up .68; utilities 3450, up .39. The following are today's Dow,| meeting starting at 8 o'clock in the Grade School Auditorium. The call for the meeting is is- |sued by Mrs. G. E. Krause who | was one of the officers of the Com- | | munity Orchestra last season. Mu- FENGTAI RAIL was killed this forenoon at the| sicians of not only Juneau but all — .- — | AI.A LusT | channel points are requested (o |attend the meeting. There will be E. D. Ennigar Missing Since| Sept. gain Swamp Near Anchorage need not be taken to the meeting. e SHOTGUN CLUB WILL SHOOT TOMORROW Members of the Juneau Shotgun Club will have another chance to- morrow to get in trim for the duck ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 19— season as a shoot of the club is an- Ruth Ennigar has arrived here nounced for 10 o'clock in the morn- from Nenana to participate in the ing at the club grounds. Quails, search for her father, E. D. Enni-|doubles, singles, handicap, anything gar. 1 you want goes tomorrow, according Einnigar has been lost in the|to club officers and all members are her puppies. for a takeoff. al Air Force machine while taxiing s {&-p(emlwr 6. jamp south of Anchorage since asked to be on hand to take part |in the festivities. no rehearsal, therefore instruments! ROAD JUNCTION 1 Troops Line Up, Mount Ma- chine Guns as Terms Are Reached PEIPING, China, Sept. 19.—Jap- anese military authorities won complete control of Fenghai, dom- inating point for all the North China rail lines as Chinese troops . evacuated their own barracks. Before the settlement, Chinese and Japanest troops lined in military positions facing, other Japanese troops surrounded the barracks | while Chinese soldiers mounted ma- chine guns on the roof of the build~ ing in preparation for a possible at- | tack. The clash was averted when terms were reached.