The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1936, Page 1

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7289. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1936. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ‘9 KNOWN DEAD IN OREGON FOREST FIRE SHIP OWNERS STANDING PAT, COAST DISPUTE Both Sides in Conference This Morning in San Francisco—No Results TROUBLE SHCOTER M'GRADY IS THERE Negotiations—Employ- ers Disagree SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 23. —Ship owners and the Internation- al Longshoremen Association offic- ials met in an executive session this forenoon with Edward F. Mc- Grady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, in efforts to prevent a coastwise tie-up of shipping on September 30. i Time Extension Discussed An extension of time to October 15, requested by the ILA to com- plete negotiations for modification of the 1934 award was discussed but no agreement was reached. | McGrady declined to say whether any progress had been made. Stand Pat on Sept. 30 i Both sides turned to modification negotiations, while from reliable sources it was learned the em- ployers will probably stand pat on the September 30 deadline after which they will employ workers only from the docks rather than from the disputed hiring halls. Meeting Adjourns ‘The employers are reported to have contended that negotiations, could not be completed even though ' a time limit was extended to 15 days. The meeting adjourned at| the ship owners’ request until later ! this afternoon or evening. { | | | TROUBLE SHOOTER ARRIVES ON SCENE| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 28,? —The Government’s ace trouble shooter stepped into the troubles of the waterfront situation on the Pa-| cific Coast last Saturday afternoon while the ship owners and mari-| time unions still were seeking to avert a threatened tie-up on Octo- | ber 1. The Goveérnment's trouble shooter was Assistant Secretary of Labor E. F. McGrady who arrived during! the afternoon by airplane from Washington, D.C. McGrady was in-| strumental in bringing about a truce in the bloody 1934 maritime strike. He conferred with the Gov- | ernment Labor conciliators, E. P.| Marsh and E. H. Fitzgerald, and as an initial move toward averting a new crisis when the present agree- | ment expires Wednesday with the! International Longshoremens Asso- ciation. | | | 15-Day Extension McGrady proposed a ‘15-day ex- tension of the present agreement to give opportunity for negotiating new contracts. Employers held no assurance that negotiations could be completed within 15 days and intimated for an | extension of the present agreement for 30 days providing the longshore- men would agree that all proposals not settled ' between the employers and the union would be submitted to arbitration. The longshoremen previously re- fused to arbitrate the matter of hir- ing halls. Modern Youth MANTEO, N.C., Sept. 28—The son of Mr. ai Mrs. Rogers is 16 dayy§ old and has seven teeth. Tiils it s The baby ‘had "four” solid uppér teeth at birth. Three others since have appeared in the lower jaw. ————— Czar’s Bandlnuter_ Now on Main Street PERRY, Okla., Sept. 28. — Prof. Leopold Radgowsky, once director of the Russian Czar's imperial band, recently was granted citi- zenship here. Since coming to the United States Radgowsky once was forced to flee to Mexico to avoid being extradited to Russia. i NOME SCHOOL FINISHED The new school building at Nome has been finished, according to a messagé to the office of the Commissioner of Education from Ray Peterman, cohtractor, who said the city of Nome. g iy SRR LA Gasg — New l:yBe, Leader Appears | AMERIGAN IS, - CONVISTED IN GERMAN GOURT S2aman of Kirkland, Near Seattle, Found Guil-, ty of Sedition TRIED TO LAUNCH FRONT GOVERNMENT | | i Senten~ad to Three Years —Comrade Report- ed Executed BERLIN, Sept. 28, — Lawrence Simpscn, of Kirkland, Washington, U 8. A, a seaman, has been con- victed of sedition by a Peoples’ | Court, and sentenced to three years minus fourteen months he has al- ready served while awaiting trial. Kirkland is across Lake Washing- ten from Seattle. Simpson is slightly deaf, but in answering questions while on the | Witness stand told how he and three other Communists tried to launch a Popular Front Government in Germany with three small balloons and a few packages of anti-Fascist propaganda. Simpson said the venture failed because one of the quartet was a police spy. Simpson freely admitted he smug- i I Fishermen are shown trying to free the plane. Merrill Is at the extre o4 (Assoclated Press Photo), WHERE RICHMAN, MERRILL LANDED IN BOG ‘This picture shows the scene where the plane flown by Harry Richman and Dick Merrill on thelr return hop across the Atlantic from London was forced down in a bog near Musgrave Harbor, Newfoundland. me right talking to newspapermen. ARMS, BELIEVED |Shellor Shake FOR SPAIN, ARE | Hands;Warning SEIZEDIN EAST Three Men Under Arrest— | Investigators Are’ Now Busy Criticizes Nanking Government Gi@ to China Japanese Official Publicly Nearly Thonssad Pupils STUDENTS ON STRIE; TEAR GAS 1S USED | | | | Protest to Transfer | of Instructor THE GANGSTER CHIEF Now S1TS BEHIND A DESIK, Modern racketeering methods have brought about a new type of gang leader who bears little reserablance to the old mob chieftaing such as Al Capone and the late departed Dutch Schultz. Modern !duced into the underworld, complicated organizations developed, and The 1936 model of gang leader operates his racket much in the manner of the average business man, main- 'new tactics put into use tains an office and staff, and has nefarious affairs. Jack “Legs” Diamond or recently business methods have been intro- i i | a systematic way of conducting his FASCIST ARMY TAKES TOLEDO LONDON, Sept. 28.—The Fascist Army of 8000 men is in command of Toledo today according to radio reports received here. The Fascists routed the Government soldiers and freed an unknown number of comrades from the ruins of the lev- elled Alcazar fortress. The Gov- ernment forces are reported to have fled south and east. The Fascists smashed their way into 'Toledo Sunday afternoon. The Madrid Government has or- dered reinforcements for a cold steel charge in the Toledo sector WARSHIPS AT BILBAO LONDON, Sept. 28.—Spanish war- ships are reported to have arrived in the harbor at Bilbao where rebel planes recently bombarded that city. Tumcoat Nature MILBANK, S. D, Sept. 28.—Na- ture, disregarding the calendar, has decreed blossom time in South Dakota. Following months of drought and -|scorching heat, choke-cherry trees are blooming in Myron Cannady's garden here, Jens Sorenson's Whit- ney crabapple tree at Flandreau is blossoming for the second time this season, and flowers arve beginning to bloom in other localities. R - FROM TAKU TRIP “The. gasboat Jazz, Cash Cole, cap tain, returned to Juneau this mor ing from the mouth of Taku River where she has been relaying min- ing machinery, gasoline, oil and groceries to smaller craft of the United Transportation Company, Ltd., for Tulsequah and the White- | water Mining Company.: Cole has the contract for relaying 75 tons which represents the mine's sup- plies for' the winter. Aboard the vessel as passengers were S. Awazoff, who is going to Vancouver, and Bruce Davidson, who came here for medical treat- ment. ———————— IMING ON ALASKA ‘Wa; is a passen- after a visit v w o les the * Icicles on Nome | Federal Building {Now Prevented | PHOENIX, Ariz.,, Sept. 28.—Icicles in Alaska are doing a mean busi- ness, G. G. Pilsbury, CDn.sulting{ Engineer of the Anaconda Copper | Mining Company, said here on his| return from the North. ! Icicles on the Federal Building! |at Nome, Alaska, bothered the gov-| ernment officials as pieces of the icicles were breaking off and im-i gled the propaganda into Germany aboard the steamship Manhattan. ‘The balloons were equipped with a fireworks contraption for releas- Manding officer of the Coast Guard ing handbills from the air. 1Air Station: here, said today that Hellmouth Kionka, aged 31, of the Government is investigating an SBO‘::’ a}:“;;l:e‘x’:‘px::f:wzm‘:!smfi‘nllexed plot to smuggle arms from treason -and executéd. ~Detafls of ¢ United States™to Spain.. his trial and execution have not He made his sfatement aiter CAPE MAY, N. J., Sept. Lieutenant R. L. Burke, 28— com- TOKYO, Sept. 28.—Japan today, CAMPBELL, Ohio, Sept. 28.—Po~ publicly criticised China officially | lice Chief Frank Cunningham dis- for not “making any appreciable charged two tear gas bombs this progress” in settling the demands " for protection for Japanese nation- moIning among & craw’ SRR als in the Nanking Government ter- [Digh school students to disperse a ritory. @ demonstration in front of the Me- China, js-now at the crossroads morial high school. |and must decide- whether to shell The students fled to the lor shake hands with Japan,” is the . hill been made public. ———— ADVENTURERS ARE PADDLING WAY T0 NOME ' Taylor and Pope Are to Hole Up at Chipewyan Until Next Spring McMURRAY, Alberta, Sept 28. — Five months out of New York on a canoe journey to Nome, Alaska, Sheldon P. Taylor and Geofrey W. | Coast Guard officers and Customs Agents had conferred on the seizure of a former submarine chaser at Atlantic City and the arrest of three men with a truckload of arms at Biloxi, Miss. Samuel J. Montgomery, Supervis- ing Customs Agent in southern New Jersey, said the investigators | were seeking to learn the source of the arms. Part of the inquiry in New Jersey was directed toward rounding up witnesses against Willard Campbell of Atlantic City, one of the men' arrested in Mississippi and reputed | owner of the former eagle boat, and against a fourth man who was arrested here. The Manchonoch, the 110-foot; craft, was fully provisioned and| fueled with 700 gallons of gasoline | warning given by Hachiarow Arita, Japanese Foreign Minister. PLACARDS ON TAX ON F0OD consisted of Federal taxes. He said this might possibly be a violation AGAINST LAW WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Attor- ney General Cummings warns| against the displaying of placards | in stores indicating that a part of the prices posted on commodities wneezing and coughing. Classes were suspended last Fri- {day when all but 100 of 1,000 stu- denst refused to enier the building iprotesting the transfer of Mich- ael Graeham, popular instructor, |from the high to the grade school. DEMOCRATS ARE SITTING PRETTY ASSERTS FARLEY People Are Behind Party— Never More Reason { TOWNS BURNED T0 GROUND BY CONFLAGRATION Many Persons Unaccounted For—Marshfield, North Bend Threatened MILLIONS OF FEET OF TIMBER DESTROYED Thousands ;V;king in Ef- fort to Stem Terrible Forest Inferno One of the worst forest fires tc hit the West in years is sweeping through the Douglas fir region of southern Oregon, east and south of Coos Bay. Nine people are known dead and many others are not ac- counted for, The cities of Bandon and Gold Beach are burned to the ground, with thousands home- less and other small lumber towns are believed destroyed but there is no definite report as communication systems are destroyed. Millions of feet of the finest timber remaining in the United States is feeding the terrible conflagration which at last re- ports is threatening the coast cities of Marshfield and North Bend with a population of around 10,000 persons. Soldiers have been called from Fort Lewis, Wash., to aid in battling the flames. BULLETIN — BANDON, Ore- gon, Sept. 28.—~Two unidentified bodies were found in the ruins here, raising the toll of fire dead to nine. COO0S BAY CITIES IN REAL DANGER MARSHFIELD, Oregon, Sept. 28. —The fire embattled coasts of southern Oregon and northern Cali- fornia today smoked like a battle- field while thousands are fighting to save towns and homes from de- struction, 2 Thousands worked all through the night and day to prevent a repe- tition of the Bandon disaster, the forest conflagration burning that city tc the ground Sunday. At other points, especially at Myrtle Point, citizens worked to build firewalls to save their towns and prevent a fate similar to that at Bandon, perilled pedestrians. | Pope, are padding down the Atha- Pilsbury designed a copper tubingibasca river on the last lap of their to run inside of the eavestroughtravels before winter closes the around the building and the de-'northland navigation. vice was thermosttically controlled| The young adventurers reached 50 as to become hot only at tem-|here, 280 miles northeast of Ed- perature at which ice formed, thus|monton late last Friday. They left preventing formation of ice. |New York April 25, crossed the ———.——— Canadian border at Montreal, made their way east and north via the Great Lakes and rivers. 1 ] ) At Chipewyan, at the west end of Lake Athabaska, they will spend the winter and next spring they will Direct Relief, Roads, Public Works, Conservation In- continue down the Slave River, across Slave Lake to the Mackenzie cluded in Expenditures WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. — The River and thus down to Aklavik and from there they will cross Rat River portage to the Porcupine river National Emergency Council today announced expenditures in Alaska under the emergency relief act of then on into the Yukon River to Nome. 1935 amounted to $3,930,994 through |Jun: 30, 1936, leaving an unexpend- on Maritime Commission led balance of $778,837. : fui; il Of funds allotted to the Terri- ry, expenditures included, direct Will Serve Temporarily in ef, $2,720,560; highways, roads ir- e R Place of Rear Admir: lings, $23.185; conservation work, al Hamlett $585,812; electricity, water and sew- s ler systems, $8500; mscellaneous| HYYDE PARK, N Y, Sept. 28— projects, $988; administrative ex-|President Roosevelthaé appointed | pense, $49,103. Rear Admiral Montgomery M. Tay- 779 lor a member of the new Maritime Commission, to serve temporarily in the place of Rear Admiral Har- ry G. Hamlett. The announcement said Hamlett does not retire until early next month and under the law “he would lose all benefits of his long service in the Coast Guard,” if he took the place. Included in the expenditures are the Matanuska project, road work {through the Alaska Road Commis- |sion, work of the Forest Service, Bureau of Fisheries and Alaska Rail- road, it was pdinted out bere by officials. e | RECK ABOARD ALASKA - John Reck, of the First National HESSE ON ALASKA Bank, is aboard the Alaska home-| W. A. Hesse, Territorial Engineer, Ibmlnd after a business and pleas-|is a passenger for Juneau aboard the ure trip south. Alaska. when seized, Lieutenant Burke said. Two men aboard the craft were released because there was no evi- of Federal statutes. At a press conference, the Attor-| ney General said he had received for Confidence dence against them, Burke said. | Neither Burke nor Montgomery | said what evidence they had to| indicate that the confiscated arms shipment was destined for Spain.| Agents in the south had indicated | a hbelief the arms were bound to; Latin America. TANK EXPLODES:; MAN IS KILLED, 15 OTHERS INJURED Accident Happens at Serv- “quite a number of protests from various parts of the country that some merchants have been putting up placards indicating a part of their prices was due to Federal taxation.” Political Purposes The protests, Cummings said, in- dicated that the placards had been distributed for political purposes. They also said that the placards might tend to restrict the sale of farm products. “I sincerely hope,” Cummings said, “that partisan zeal will not lead anyone to violate the Federal statutes. It would be eémbarrassing all around and the Justice De- partment does not want to be drawn into any partisan incident.” 5 After investigating the protests ice Station—Blast Is which he said were received prin- cipally from Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, Cummings said he had learn- Followed by Fire jed that Section 1123 of the Fed- FLINT, Michigan, Sept. 28.—One|era] statutes might possibly be ap- man was killed and fifteen were in-|pjicable to posting of placards such jured when a gasoline tank explod-'a35 those described in the tele- ed at a service station here. |grams. Hospital attendants said some of| Fine and . Jail the injured may die. | That law, he said, prescribes & The explosion demolished the tire ) 000 fine, & year in jail, or both | company’s offices and damaged!for anyone found guilty of making| nearby buildings any written or oral statements Fire followed the blast. Firemen iy connection with the sale of any attempted to prevent the spread of grticles when the statements are flames to surrounding praperty. Jintended to lead persons fo believe have been in the practice of post- ily'’s fourth annual reunion near posted by “common consent.” land moving picture theatres which Gfeller family attended the fam- cases but that such prices were SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 28. — Chairman James A Farley, of the Democratic National Committee, to- day told the delegates at the state convention here that there never was a time in the history of the Democratic party when there is “more reason for confidence.” Chairman Farley further said: “We have won the confidgnce of the people because our principles are their principles, our ideals are their ideals, and our enemies are their enemies.” Chairman Farley said the com-, ing election is a “great referendum on questions of a great public pol- icy.” R A reverse wind, it is said, will threaten several more towns in the path of the flames. The smoke starts about 10 miles east of Myrtle Point, southeast of Marshfield and in this city one cannot seeé more than a block and as the disastrous conflagration draws nearer scattered fires some- times flash a red glow into the skies 50 to 100 feet in length. Through the smoke pall it is im- possible to tell night from day un- less one has a watch. Automobiles are unable to travel more than 10 miles an hour. There is fire everywhere along the gullies beside the roads in this district which threatens millions of acres all told. Any sharp change Working Husbands Not Obligated to Do Any House Work LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28.—Super- for Court Judge Kurtz Kauffman has ruled that working .husbands, who have caapble wives, are not obligated to do housework when they come at night. The ruling was made in granting a divorce to Phillip Joseph Weber, Jr., a baker, from Mrs, Grace Lois Weber. Both sued for divorce, ] i I | cused of being abusive whereas 1€ housework and that he was com- pelled to do it after a hard day's work in his shop. - ee—— eecceccvccsvcoe OWEN IN AIR ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 28.—Russell Owen took off at 9:15 o'clock this morn- ing on a nonstop flight at- tempt to Seattle in his auto engine powered plane. It is T |that any part of an article's prxce’ H |consists of a Federal tax. am'y [ee s | Asked if the law could not be ‘mwked against gasoline companies in Full BI ln “ n"m‘mg the amount of Federal tax| lincluded in the cost of gasoline or JUNCTION CITY, Kas., Sept. 28, theatre tickets, Cummings said that —Three hundred members of the might possibly apply in such here this summer, The family tree.‘ “1 have done nothing on this containing 1,068 names, traces the matter,” the Attorney General said, family from. Peter Gfeller, who ug.‘“and I don't want to have to do ted in Alida, Kas, in 1875. |anything.” believed here he may call at ® Juneau to re-gas. . charging cruelty. Weber was ac-| charged his wife failed to do the, (Continued on Page Three) THOUSANDS IN TEXAS SECTION . AREHOMELESS ‘Rains Cause Rivers to Rise —Some Towns Are Without Gas WACO, Tex, Sept. 28.—Thousands are homeless today in Central Texas and at least four are known dead with damage mounting into the millions of dollars as Litter River rolled at a record breaking flood 'smse. The Brazos River has started re- ceding here as 2,500 homeless sought emergency relief. Seventeen towns below here are Rains are general over the North Central and Southwest Texas again