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

J | | { i ‘ i VRN R F e R R S R T Y R A THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7286. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936, RIVER WATERS LET LOOSE ON SPANISH REBS Defenders omdrid Adopt New Tactics on Ad- vancing Forces LONDON, = Sept. 24.—Defenders of Madrid are reported here as try- ing in every way to halt the mani- fold insurgent advances on the Cap- ital City of the Spanish Republic. The defenders have loosened the waters of the Alberche River dam over the town of San Martin de Valdeiglesias. The dam is 35 miles west of the town. The town itself is reported to be intended for a con- vergence for the Fascist forces of the Northern and Southern columns. It is said the flood waters have destroyed much insurgent military equipment. h Government and Fascist 2" hat the Fascist /Mg on Toledo, %" “fortress has been blown" up, and the insurgents are reported a dozen miles from there. ——— ARMED CAM ESTABLISHED IN SHANGHA Je. - : Portion of International Settlement Patrolled by Marines SHANGHALI, Sept. 24.—(Copyright by Associated Press) —Japanese of- ficials, backed. by armed Marines, are patrolling a large area under martial law and curtly rejected Chinese protests against invasion of the Chinese settlement. The entire city has been warned to “keep a cool head.” Strong forces drew tight lines around a large area of the Interna- tional Settlement in “self-defense measures,” resulting from the killing of one Japanese marine and the wounding of two others. Rear Admiral Eijiro Kondo, Com- mander of the Japanese forces in! Shenghai, says: “We are well in control of the situation. We are taking every precaution necessary as a measure to protect Japanese lives and prop- erty.” 1 Temperature Drops Suddenly from 90 to 45 Degrees TRAVERS CITY, Michigan, Sept. 24—The Grand Traverse Peninsula, where a new September heat record was established Wednesday, report- |ed snow flurries today. The thermometer rose to 90 de- grees yesterday and dropped to 45 degrees above zero today. STOCK PRIGES PUSH UPWARD - LATE IN DAY {Foreign Situation, Profit Taking Interfere Some- | what in Trading NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—The Stock Market ran up a,slight temperature 'over the foreign situation today but |felt better later and an assort- {ment of issues came back for net ;gams of fractions to more than two points. Profit taking kept a number of | the leaders well in the background. | The pace was slow after the op- ening but speeded up slightly. | Transfers today totaled 1,150,000 shares. | CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock otday is 17'4, American Can %125, American Light and Power 12%, Anaconda 399 Bethlehem Steel 69'2, Calumet and Hecla 10%, Columbia Gas and Electric 19%, | Commonwealth and Southern 3%, | General Motors 69, International |Harvester 81%, Kennecott 48%, 'Simmons 39%, United States Steel 1%, United Corporation 7%, Cities Service 4, Pound $5.06%. [ DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, ;Jones averages: Industrials 169.13, ‘up .12; 34.14, up .09. .- Krugness Ne Councillor of Oi: OMosrs Uhosen at rails 56.55, up. 25; uulitiesl " DeMolays Here Meeting Following Scot- 3 DEMOGRATS INVESTIGATE FUND PROBES Peculiar Situa.aiion Arises Temporarily in Senate Committee By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. — It wouldn’t take much prompting for the Republicans to bring the charge that the supposedly impartial Sen- ate campaign funds investigating committee is perhaps not wholly im- partial. The charge would be hot- ly denied by the committee Chair- man, Senator Lonergan, Tonnecti- cut Democrat. Square-jawed Lonergan, sitting through much of the summer in his Senate office -because of committee business, declares it was simply happenstance that the first three inquiries ordered were into matters involving , Republicans in States where bittér contests were in pro- tish Rite Banquet | John A, Krugness, Jr., was chosen Master Councillor of the Royal Arch Gunnison Chapter of the Order of DeMolay at a business meeting following the banquet last night in the Scottish Rite Temple at which the Scottish Rite Bodies were hosts. Krugness succeeds Wal- |ter P. Scott, Jr. Other officers’elected were: Harry Lucas, Jr, Senior Councillor; Charles Jenne, Junior Councillor; James Gray, Treasurer, and George Danner, Scribe. Sub-officers will be appointed by Master Councillor Krugness. A specidl meeting has been call- ed for October 1 for installation of the new officers. NAVY UTILITY PLANE CRASHES Machinist’s Mate Is Killed —Pilot Critically Injured .. NORFOLK, Virginia, Sept. 24— ONE HUNDRED FIFTY GUESTS FLEE FLAMES Missoula Hotel Destroyed Early Today — Grid- ders Make Escape MISSOULA, Mont., Sept. 24. —A spectacular fire this morning rout- ed more than 150 guests, including the University of Minnesota foot ball squad, enroute to Seattle tc meet the University of Washingtor on Saturday, from a hotel in the | heart of the business district. | * The hotel was virtually destroyed The fire started slowly and al guests were able to leave the hote Digs Up SZ5,00 ' in Alaska, But He s s::afid inN.y. Miner, Who Found Gold | After Many Perils, Stays in His Hotel Room | NEW YORK, Sept. 24—Not for anything would Waino Kashinen go up to Times Square today. ! "He has $25,000 and more he ! washed out of Alaskan soil in gold; he has never before been to this most wonderful city, and for the {first time in decades he is free for a little while from drudgery in a Ibleak mining: camp. . But none of the streets of New | York for him. He's afraid he would |eet lost. So he is content to stay jalone in a hotel roem on a quiet | Brooklyn street. He doesn’t think {he'll even risk running around the icorner to a small neighborhood movie. Thinks he'll go to bed early tonight and let the city gleam and !fascinate and exhilerate all unseen. It Is a Big Town | Kashinen, rugged, bronzed by the {sun and gray, standing more than six feet tall, dug his big fists deep- tly into his pockets, gazed enthrall- fed out of a window of the Hotel |St. George at the dim and far- Irising towers of the city he wouldn't trust himself in, and said: | “Gosh, big town, isn’t it?" | He had gone from Flat, Alaska, |to Seattle, and from that Wash- jington city he had flown to New- ark Airport. Now he is ready to sail for his hometown in ‘Finland on the steamer Bergensfjord. Started as Seaman Now 51, he was at 17 an able- bodied .seaman. making the peril- |ous rounding of the:Horn in a 'windjammer. Once for two days he |was in a typhoon off the China ,coast, a 125-mile wind tearing ev- erything off the German sailing vessel he was on. He worked on a transport that carried Russian troops in the war between Russia and Japan. He was shipwrecked off the Oregon coast, being among five rescued of a crew of sixteen. He first saw San Francisco two days after the earthquake. After working around railroad, lumber and mining camps he had saved enough to buy a hydraulic gold mine near Flat, Alaska, for $9,000 in 1917. Washed Out $100,000 In about twenty years of pros- pecting he and his hired crew of five washed something like $100,000 in gold out of the mine, working hard, long hours every day, doing a little reading and nothing else | to speak of during his scanty spare time. When all expenses for labor, supplies, equipment were paid, his take in twenty years was about $12,000 and ached to get home $25,000. Then he sold the mine for | Aviation Machinist Mate P. L. Mc-|again to Finland to see sisters and Elloy was killed, and Pilot R. S.jbrothers and friends in the old Mankero was critically injured in[town he left as a boy. a crash this afternoon of a Navy| But he’'s scared of New York City. TO “INVESTIGATE ALL” The committee, ting of three, Democrats and __pro-Roosevelt Progressive and.one stauch Repub- lican, is determined, Lonergan says, to investigate impartially all com- plaints from any “worthwhile” source. Such a source, he says, prompted an inquiry into reports that em-, H ployers in Pennsylvania (a state in "0' afl en the doubtful column politically) were coercing employes to register D and vote Republican. He thought| UKIAH, Cal.,, Sept. 24.—Forestry it would be evidence of punishable|Service officials estimates placed coercion ' for “vote - Republican” | Mendocino County's fire-blackened slips to be inserted into workmen’s areas as 40,000 acres as fighters pay envelopes. That, he said, had|were thrown today against one of been done in Pemnsylvania the remaining uncontrolled fires in (Continued on *age Eight) the Laytonville area, California Area o3 INDICTMENTS IN BANK CASE ERIE, Pa., Sept. 24—The Federal Grand Jury climaxed a long inves- tigation of an alleged million dollar shortage ‘in the Commercial Na- tional Bank of Bradford, Pa., by Indicting eleven persons Eleven thousand depositors were protected Germany Soon to Launch 26,000 Ton Battleship BERLIN, Sept. 24. — Germany’s first 26,000-ton battleship will be aunched October 3 at Wilhelmsha- ven. The new navy ship carries 1ne 11-inch guns and tweive 6-inch nti-aircraft pie PENSION PLAN 1S EXPLAINED BY DELEGATE Anthony J. Dimond Gives Talk at Woman's Club Luncheon Introduced by President Nora B. Thase, Delegate Anthony J. Dimond resterday afternoon addressed 27 nembers of the Juneau Woman's Jlub on the workings of the old 1ge pension provisions of the So- ‘ial Security Act. Delegate Dimond stressed the fact hat the Territorial Legislature should be urged to cooperate with he Federal Government by appro- oriating its share of the amount jecessary to put the pension into ffect. According to the Delegate ‘he government will reimburse any itate or territory one-half of the amount that state or territory ape oropriates up to+$30 a month, and 10thing can be done until the Alas- ka Legislature does its share. The Delegate explained that the Territory is now paying $200,000 for old age pensions and with somewhat nore than $100,000 contributed by he Federal Government, Alaska rould adequately care for all those n need in the Territory. Miss Martha Refsland, associate supervisor of elementary education, Also addressed yesterday's no-host 'uncheon of the Woman’s Club em- hasizing the importance of wid- ening one’s scope of activities. Miss Refsland pointed out the value of cooperation through such organiza- tions as the local woman’s club. Members of the executive com- mittee of the club had charge of the President Chase. DEMONSTRATION HAS AUDIENCE OF 72 PEOPLE Fifteen Women Win Prizes at Vocational Depart- ment Cooking Lecture A lecture on the theory and a of canning fish and meat, using a pressure cooker, occupied the larger portion of the cooking demonstra- tion given by Mrs. Vena Crone under the supervision of the Vo- cational department of the Terri- torial Schools last evening and repeated this afternoon in the par- lors ‘of the Northern .Light Pres-. byterian Church. Besidés the canning recipes for dishes such as curried shrimp and rice mould, baked squash with lit- tle pig sausages, and hot water chocolate cake were prepared be- fore the admiring and sometimes almost disbelieving eyes of the as- sembled women by Mrs. Crone. Prizes were won by fifteen members of the audience last evening, Mrs. A. Hamilton, I. Hendrickson, Mrs. A McKinnon, Mrs. K. McLean, Mrs. Van Williams, Nell McCloskey, Mrs. George Danner, Mrs. Clarence iRandsA Mrs. J. Jensen, Mrs. George | Leveque, Mrs. M, O’'Malley, Mrs. C J. Peterson, Mrs. E. Lindstrom, and Mrs. Jack Popejoy, mother present who-had the youngest baby. Mrs. Crone, who recently return- ed from an extended trip in the States, demonstrated to her au- dience on both occasions a number of new labor -saving devices ob- tained in her travels. Supplies and prizes for the two events were donated by Garnick's Grocery, the Alaska Meat Market, Thomas Hardware and the Juneau Drug Company. Cuts Water Rate JERUSALEM (Palcor)—The mu- nicipal council here has reduced meter. Until the new water sys- tem was started, the rate was 80 by deposit insurance. mills. It was cut to 60 January 1. |COMMISSION luncheon, under the direction —of|bids last December brought an of- |Company for .$11,900,000. But the| " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT? EMPLOYERS STATE WAGES, CONDITIONS ON MARITIME IS APPOINTED President Names Important Organization—Many Problems Faced ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. — Ma- chinery of the Administration is in the making for a long range multimillion dollar ship subsidy program as President Roosevelt appointed three of the new Mari- time Commission’s five members. ‘The appointments made are Hen- ry A. Wiley, retired Navy Rear Ad- miral of Haverford, Pa.; Rear Ad-| miral Harry G. Hamlet, former | Commandant of the Coast Guard,| |. and George Landick, Jr., chief of the Planning Section of the Treas- ury’s Procurement Division. First Big Task The first major task will be the’ formulation of procedure in sub- stituting direct subsidies for the existing mail carrying contracts which must terminate on July 1, 1937. The announcement of the uppomt-‘ ment of the Maritime Commission takes a load off the minds of the Shipping Board Bureau. The reason is that for nearly al year the Bureau, soon going out REIGNS AS FARM QUEEN The farm products around her throne show that blonde A is a farm queen. She was crowned ruler of the Los Angeles county falr at Pomona, Calif. (Associated Pre: ela Ficker Photo) of existence, has withheld imposing a $1,000,000 penalty upon the Unit-| ed States Line company in conne tion with retirement of the Levia-| than, The company is headed by P. A. 8. Franklin, Kermit Roosevelt | and Vincent Astor In return for retiring the Levia- than from service the company was to build a new passenger vessel for the Atlantic trade or pay a fine of a million. The contract for the ship y agreement was to have been let Ast December. Fe - Mercy Operation In Chicago Futile; Baby Succumbs | CHICAGO, Sept. 24.—Death last night brought an end to the baby| mercy operation in Chicago. The| {infant son of ‘Mr. and Mrs. Julian | Tafel passed away 24 hours after | being operated upon for malforma- tion of the intestinal tract. For five days, the father had held | |stubbornly to the contention that| |it was useless to operate and that cedure. The Government was to|it Would be mereiful to let the child | lend much of the:money for the die. The mother wanted the opera-; ship, so claimed a voice in determ- | ton in the hope of saving her baby.| ining its cost and style. A call for | Finally, the father relented and the, | operation was performed Wednes-| day night. The baby died last night. | B e AMER. LEGION ELECTS TOPEKA | COMMISSION MUST DECIDE ‘There were hitches in the pro- fer from only one firm, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock| | Shipping Board found neither the| price nor the design acceptable | Further extensions were given from time to time up to the end of this September. The argument | was that the Board wanted a new American ship in the merchant ma- | rine, and did not want to impose a | fine that might return the whole| GUILD STRIKE GETS SUPPORT LABOR GOUNGIL Central Organization Pledges Aid—New Angle in Case Is Reported SEATTLE, Sept. 24 —The Central Labor Council last night renewed a pledge to support the newsroom members of the American Newspa- per Guild in the strike on Hearst's Post-Intelligencer. This was done after a report of progress in the ‘smke was made by Guild Chapter delegates. Claude O'Reilly told the members of the Central Labor Council that it “was in duty bound to support the Guild strike until the last.” Col. Henry Sanborn, of Califor- nia, figured prominently in reports to the Council by delegates of var- TERMS BIVEN PACIFIC $OAST SHORESIDERS Price toBe Paid for Straight Time, Also Overtime, Is Stated HIRING OF MEN TO BE DONE AT PIERS Threatened Conflict May Cause Intervention of Commission | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 24. —The Pacific Coast Waterfront Em~ ployers last night announced the conditions under which the long- shoremen will be employed when the 1934 strike award agreement expires on September 30. The terms are: Wages of $1 an hour straight time and $1.50 overtime. Eight hours, between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. will constitute a day's work except Saturdays when straight time will be between 8 a. m. and noon. Sundays will be recognized as a holiday and counted as overtime. Hiring at Piers All hiring will be direé¢t at the piers until such times as hiring halls can be established by agreement Preference will be given men enrolled now at hiring halls. The control of hiring halls was a chief issue in the strike two years ago. Under the present working con- ditions, overtime starts after six hours with straight time pay—e5 cents an hour Bridges’ Statement Pacific Coast International Long- shoremen’s Association, in Omaha last night, enroute by plane back to the Pacitic Coast, said the action of the shippers “makes a lockout of 18,000 longshoremen imminent. Shipping interests along the Pacif- ic Coast are determined to smash the Longshoremen's Union.” Besides a wage increase, hiring hall supervision, the longshoremen also demand separate agreements with the individual steamship com- panies. EXPECT INTERVENION SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept, 24 —Waterfront observers predicted here that the new Maritime Com- line to the Government which once owned it. Equally the Bureau did not want, MAN AS CHIEF jous martime unions. P. J. Fox, mission named in Washington, D. | delegate representing the Seattle C. today by President Roosevelt, Sailor's Union, told the Council| will intervene to prevent the threat~ demonstration of the practical side| Harry W. Colmery Unani-| to arouse partisan criticism that it mously Chosen to Be was withholding a million dollar fine from a company, some of whose Natl' Commander E members were close friends of the e i ! Administration CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 24.—| Shipbuilders now have submitted With a rising shout and a parade more bids, the lowest, with certain|©f standards of every Legion dele- qualifications, about $13,000,000. The 8ation present, the American Le- decision on whether to accept or 8ion delegates today unanimously reject will fall upon the new Mari- ¢lected Harry D. Colmery, of To- g | peka, National Commander, by ac- clamation. | The convention delegates also |adopted a resolution demanding ;thnt the United States steer a course of strict neutrality in in- ternational affairs. } Pollowing the election and dis- |posal of other matters, the con- vention adjourned to meet in New York City next year. B (Continued on Psie Three) - il Sells Tear Gas in Lflur Strif Manufacturer Says He Be-| lieveisnl;e Sisc il::;rov- 2 MPANESE s VESSELS HIT! Freighters Collide Off Yo-| kohama Coast—Both WASHINGTON,- Sept. 24—A. S Ailes, Vice-President of the Lake Erie Chemical Comipany, tear gas manufacturers, told the Senate in- vestigators today that he believed he was “improving society” when | he sold 7,500 tubes of gas to an-| that Col Sanborn had arrived in Seattle “fresh from the lettuce strike in Salinas, California, to or- ganize a vigilantes committee to| force re-opening of Post-Intelligencer.” Denies Driving Charge; Car “Just Rolled” Back CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept 24— A woman defendant, charged with being drunk and driving an auto- mobile backward, put up this de- fense: “For one thing I can’t drive a car; for another, I never touched anything stronger than a soda pop . .. and besides, the car just roll- the Seattle ed down the hill on its own voli- | | tion.” Eighty-five “Cousins” HONOLULU—Eighty-five persons met there recently for the roll call of a unique organization, the Cous- ins’ Club. It is composed of de- scendants of the first 12 New Eng- |land missionaries who Christianized ‘Hawull. | ened shutdown of Pacific Coast shipping on October 1. The observers state the Maritime Commission has powers for admin- istering government subsidies to the Merchant Marine which in¢lude cer- tain control over minimum wages and maximum hours of seamen. —_——t e SLAVERY IS ~ NOW CHARGED |Unnamed Defendant Indict- | ed by Arkansas Feder- al Grand Jury | LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Sept 24 —The Federal Grand Jury in- vestigatng alleged peocnage in East Arkansas has rcturned on indiet- ment against an un.med deiendant charging violation of the anti-slay- ery statutes of the United States. United States District Attorney Fred Isgrig announced that the in-. dictment charges are “aiding and abetting in holding a man in slav- ery.” thracite coal operators for use in| driving bootleg miners off their | property. | The _ operators paid $17,000 for| Badly Damaged oriest. | Lost: Two Bridg SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 24.| et —Collision of two Japanese treigm-" ers off the coast of Yokohama is JAPAN IS FEATURED MASSILLON, O.—City officials, seeking to replace a small bridge the water rate to 40 mills a cubic |de the gas but it has not been used reported to the Chamber of Com-| vet, Alles said. . merce’s Marine Exchange. Alles also told the committee, The message said the Yuyo Maru | members he kept agents in various and Arizona Maru, owned by the| parts of the country to keep him| Mitsui Bishki Company, collided posted on strike developments and yesterday and heavy damage result- | hg’wubmm TR |ed to both vessels. The Arizona | was p] e rec- ywas beached in a sinking ;r:: from Herrick Foote, Saleman. —-“.——wndmon letter was written to Ailes and o said: “T wish a helluva strike to| Lawsuit Lasts 14 Years get underway. I am in a position to Yo MARIETTA, Ga—A 14-year le- gal battle was climaxed when a jury do & lot of business if the trouble 'velops.” ? The committee is investigating al- | made permanent J. E. Mozley's m-! leged civil liberties and violations|junction restraining the city from in labor disputes. molesting trees in front of his home. | which had been washed out, re- called two bridges abandoned some years ago in another part of town. They decided to move one over for the replacement, but when they went to look, both had disappeared. e, Voting Honor Claimed BROWNSVILLE, Cal. — C. C. Beever claims the distinction of having voted in the same precinct at every election for the past 60 years. He is now 86 years old and says whiskey cost $16 a bottle when he first came to California. AT GATHERING HERE The International Council of Wo-, men held its first missionary meet- ing yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Alfred Zenger, President, presiding. Mrs. David Waggoner was chair- man of the program committee which prepared a series of talks on Japan. Mrs. Zenger, Mrs. H Stone- ~ house, Mrs. Anna Snow, and Mrs. O. Carmichael spoke on various phases of life in Japan. A short devotional meeting was lead by Mrs. Carmiachael, and af- | ter the program refreshments were served