The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 29, 1936, Page 1

"THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7290 " JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1936 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT? PILOT CRACKS UP TEST PLANE HERE REQUESTS TRUCE| FOR SIXTY DAYS, PAC. COAST CASE Maritime Commission Asks Extension of Present Working Contracis NEWLY CREATED BODY NOW TAKING ACTION President Expected to Also Make Move, Possibly Tomorrow This afterneon, D. B. Femmer, agent of the Alaska Transpor- tation Company in Juneau, re- ceived the following radie from R. V. Miller, agent of the com- pany in Seattle: “We have just received werd that deadline has been set back from Wednesday night to Sat- urday night which will permit Zapora to sail Friday night.” This means, undoubtedly, that the proposed strike, unless agreements are made, will not take place now until Saturday night instead of tomorrow night. i WASHINGTON, Sept| 28. — The newly created Maritime Commission | has asked the ship owners and thej longshoremen of the Pacific Coast to “make every effort” to reach an agreement to extend the working| contracts expiring tomorrow and thus avert leNor trouble. ‘ Requests that the contracts be extended by mutual agreement for sixty days, were contained in iden- tical telegrams sent to eight or- ganizations of employers and works ers. | Extension is asked “in order that this Commission may have an op-| portunity to confer with other Gov- ernment Departments concerned and make an investigation in the hope that as an interested party,! it may aid in reaching an amicable settlement.” Labor Department officials esti-, mate that 37,000 maritime workers| will be affected directly if a truce, is not reached and as many as 300,000 affected indirectly. President Roosevelt is expected to confer with the members of the Maritime Commission tomorrow. | SPECIAL MEETING IS { CALLED TO CONSIDER LATEST REQUEST MADE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 29. —Harry Bridges, President of the Pacific Coast International Long- shoremens’ Association, has called a special ILA Executive Board meeting to consider the Maritime Dempsey Makes Political Debuc SMOKE, O [TOP OF WORLD Dérhpsey : B | LYING OVER New Hope of Quench- ing Forest Flames COAST TOWNS ARE REPORTED CUT OFF from Marshfield to Portland PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 29.— |Fog and smoke lay this morning James A. Farley Jack Dempsey }m‘or a great section of Western Making his debut as a politician, Jack Dempsey, for.ner heavyweight |Oregon, extending as far inland as boxing champion, conferred in New York with James A. Farley, na- | this city. tional Democratic chairman, on the pro-Roosevelt program sponsored ther conditions gave new by the sports committee of which Dempsey is president. | hopes of cessation of the fire men- age which has laid sections of the | Oregon coast in waste. LECIONNAIRES | ; FOUND GU!LTY\ at Alcazar |ing with considerable ast reports. Are Freed |to property at the 1 | It is believed here that the dense ! fog has also extended to the Marsh- field gion where telephone lines | were temporarily out of commission v morning, although it was ex- |pected that the circuits would be ; Convi bers of|Gaunt Men and Wom e n repaired shorty. {Jury Convicts Members Reports far into the night told of | jonger, i Come Out—Tell of Hor- la fog approaching Marshfield which rors of 70.Day Siege | would assure calm weather and i3 Iprovide a barrier to further spread TALAVERA DE LA REINA, Of the forest flames which destroy- Gang Killing Charles | Poole Last May 1 DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 29. — \d Bandon, ¢ town s Eleven of the twelve men charged Spain, Sept. 29.—Gaunt I(I!a B{;:‘:“ ‘;?“stoqu.m\,“i S,nmnh, fi{ with plotting the Black Legion exe- | from the levelled Alcazar : gl # W plotting ;. g with a loss of nine lives. came out today to tell epic cution of Charles Poole S of wholesale death and “prophet 12 have been convicied: Of the eleven, wll but four were 1’“;12;1& e e e convicted of first degree murder. . | The released prisoners said vir Phasihiry nife men Exa e 1'\L.m.!y all priests in the community, e/ e Ui . {and about 600 others, were slain , held two ot last May FIRE REGION| PROPOSED NOW Weather Con—dilions Give [Line Would Be Operated| Telephone Lines Are Down|Two Lanes Are Propose RELATIVES OF Stalin and Li AIR ROUTE 1S | | from Moscow, via Al- | aska, to Seattle SOVIET OFFICIALS ARE IN CONFERENCE d for Commercial System to Be Inaugurated MOSCOW, Sept. 29. — Two air| routes across the Top of the Wurid‘ from Moscow to Seattle are being! considered at a conference of So-| viet authorities who are planning! a commercial air line between Rus- | sia and the United States. The| flight could be made in four or five days by easy stages, the officials| | | | | | J ; RUSSELL OWEN ESCAPES WITH LIFE IN MISHAP Auto-engine Powered Ship Cround Loops in Dusk Near PAA Runway WHETHER FLIGHT WILL BE RESUMED UNDECIDED Broken Tagneter Shaft Caused Flier to End Non- stop Flight Attempt Here Miraculously escaping with his life, Test Pilot Russell Owen of Spokane, ended his projected non-. | stop flight from Anchorage to Se- attle a few minutes after 6 o'clock last night here when his automo- bile-engine powered plane Se-aska crashed at the edge of the Pacific Alaska Airways runway when he kely Successor? 2 o —Klemenl Voroshiloft said. | The firsi route, although north-! ernly, favored. It is approxi-| mately 7250 miles long including 125 miles of open sea. Via Alaska From Moscow the line would span Siberia, across Bering Strait down the coast via Cape Lawrence to Nome, Whitehorse and to Seattle. | Southern Route " southern route, 1,000 miles | regarded as unsatis tory because of generally unfavor-| able meterological conditions. This| in the event of the latter’s death. step into his office. Stalin is The route would be from Moscow to Navaveyo Bay, then south to Kam-| BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 29.—Admir- {chatka, Siberia, across the Aleu-:al William 8. Sims, World Wm“ tians, Bering Sea to Seattle via time commander of the 'American Seward, Alaska. |Fleet in Eurapean waters died late | Levanevisky's Statement | yesterday as the result of an attack Sigismund Levanevisky, who re-| 0f the heart, at the home ol his cently flew from San Diego to Mos- daughter. He was 77 years old. cow via Alaska and either route! Throughout his career he was an is entirely feasible. outspoken critic of American naval The officials intimated they will methods but usually won eventual stretch the proposed airline next SUPPort of his superiors. He w e doutae e BUILY Of S€¢-\ir, tne reign of the Leftist's terror anAL WUMAN : preceding the fall of Toledo. | Judge Joseph A. Moynihan re-|" ppev (0ld of how within the u_u'ned second degree murder COD-| .o two babies were born and m:m':: :g;j:‘:tl:‘;:; defendants Who | ;s was regarded as an omen of waive: ry trial. . 5 " s _{their deliverance. i | “"‘s:}::"(’l"‘b;’fu‘llfsxfe‘r”‘ Man was| “rhey related how they lived on e i First degrec conviction carries a[>ek bread and borse meat and Mys Fthe] Sorri Receives! life sentence and second degres horrors of the T0-day Meds Wek NCWS Of Death Of Father, | conviction is at the discretion of the assault by ison S, » the Court. o s I | Aunt in Oregon Tragedy The devastating fire which de- | stroyed the old city of Bandon in| PLANE SHASHES FNINCEPLAN . 202 INTO MOUNTAIN OF FRANCE I§ == i Sorri of Juneau, when it was learn- | ed that among the nine victims to| perish in the blaze were the Ju-| of the tragic death of her relatives, | year but no specific date has been!famous as an exponent of gunnery set for opéning the line, but will|Practice. ; be discussl::l at a later conference.| Admiral Sims will be buried with full naval honrs in Arlington Ceme- tery in Washington, D. C., on Thurs- GOV, LEHMAN ~, : | Accl‘ United State: e, Unaeble, apparently, to abide by the New York Democrats Also | tradition that a naval officer should| execute orders and hold his tongue,| Adopt Strong Party samiral sims was almost constantly | Platform Today Eruptive Character Admiral William Sowden Sims, |who taught the American Navy how to shoot, was for more than 20 years one of the most eruptive, and at the with the naval establishment of !he% in enough hot water to float a, Josef Stalin, dictator of Soviet Russia, is shown, left, with Klement Voroshiloff, war commissar, who, it is reported, would succeed Stalin ever. that Stalin is mortally ill and that Voroshiloff is Admiral Sims, Commander of U. S. Fleet in European | Waters, World War, Dead ' e "t “weiea oo time time perhaps one of the most;‘ constructive figures ever identified was attempting to come in for a | landing. It has been officially denied, how- | Striking the rough ground at the preparing to | east side of the runway, the spec- reported in “excellent health”. jally built plane “washed out” the undercarriage, nosed over, smash- ‘mg the propellor, and flopped on its back. Owen was cramped into |such small space that he was un- able to move to unfasten his safety | belt and was held in the ship with | gasoline pouring over him until at- ‘shlp and removed the pilot from the | wreckage, scratched and bruised but \little the worse for his experience. It was said to be little short of a miracle that the plane did not catch | fire. If it had, Owen probably would | have been cremated before aid could reach him, it was said. Whether the accident wrote finis /to the flight was not certain today. | Owen said: ! Uncertain of Future | "It will be several days before I can decide what to do. Repairing | the plane probably will cost around 1 $500, and as it just about broke me |to get the plane in the air this | time, T may have to store the ship ’her@ and leave it until next year.” | All the money raised for the ven- | ture with the support of the Seattle | Washingtonians had been spent in {the two attempts to make the llhght, the pilot said. Early in the |summer Owen took off from An- |chorage on the flight but that time ! was forced back by bad weather. In case decision is made to resume |the flight, Owen said, he had an lextra propellor at Anchorage which | is the major item needed. | Owen, despite his disappointment sed by the merest hair. “I just over the unbappy ending to his | ASSOCIATED PRESS (DUNDERWIOD) MMS M. S. pa Commission’s request for extension | | for sixty days of the present la- bor contracts. Commerce today moved under Pilot of Varney Airlines, French Senators Oppose Text to Devalue Franc | Two Passengers ; Are Killed “clear port” orders. Proposed by Blum HITTING SNAG neau woman's father and aunt. { lN sNuwsTflRM Mrs. Sorri had her first news | Daniel Koontz, aged 70, snd Mrs. Charles McCullick, 65, through the| columns of The Empire last night.| SYRACUSE, N.Y., Sept. 20. — The guratively speaking, he was badly|of describing his triumph. delegates to the Democratic State Convention renominated Gov. Her- bert H. Lehman by acclamation and adopted a platform pledging the dreadnaught, and several times, fi-|scraped in,” was the Admiral's way flight, was enthuslastic over the scalded; yet the merit behind his| attacks on almost every branch of| j the navy, and the audacity of the methods he employed to launch performance of the little ship. It Leave of Absence took off at Anchorage with a load He found the work more difficult)of 930 pounds, about 400 pounds that he had anticipated, and Ior; T s eral months his position at the| " (Continued on 7Pnge Two) Cargoes were rushed aboard ves-; sels. More than forty ships are crowd-, ing the Los Angeles harbor. | PARIS, Sept .29.—Following a 25- -|{ hour session, the Chamber of Depu- | ties has approved of Premier Leon THOUSANDS OF RATTLESNAKE BUTTE, rado, Sept.. 29.—Aviation offi Democratic Party to “make no com- them, would invariably win for him promise in its fight to achieve a the support of a sympathetic public| more secure humane social order. |OF an understanding chief executive, and thus it was that the much-fear- —_—— STOCK PRICES foot of the class was precarious, but gradually he forged ahead, and in 1880 finished twenty-eight in a| Waterfront officials of San Fran- 2nd ranchers waded across the slush|Blum's plan to devalue the franc cisco said this port will be virtu- covered Southern Colorado hills to- and align it with the pound and ally cleared by the zero hour wim‘[day to recover the mangled bodies!dollar. one large freighter remaining on'0f three persons kilied when their| The move hit the first snag today the calendar for Thursday sailing. 8irplane smashed into a hilltop|however in the Senate when the This is the Santa Rosa which the during a blinding September snow-|Radical Socialists rejected the text Grace Line sent here for passeng- | Storm. 1and instrucued_ a committee to draw ers. Loading has been rushed ang| The bodies are believed to be|2 Mew text minus the clause sn(lns she may sail for New York by to-|those of C. H. Chidlaw, of El Paw.ithe Premier a free hand to fight morrow night. pilot of the Varney Airlines; Ben|Price rises. ——ee—— T. Elkins, of San Francisco, a stock-| Shast 5 ‘holder in the Varney Airlines, andf | nis bride of three months, the for-! {mer Margaret Heywood. ENDED, SEATILE iy gurchens BY AUTD. DS National Labor Relations Board ex-, ARE 0N STR!KE aminer has adjourned the Ameri- can Newspaper Guild and Post-In- telligencer hearing after both sides| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sopt rested. —Several cases of fish were p: Smith reserved ruling on the|frem a truck at the Fishe Hearst interests renewed motion|this afternoon. Offici: that they be dismissed as respond-|Wholesale company blamed p in the fish butchers striks. fish butchers were offered ents. hours ‘and increased wages Llwyel: Arrives After . lthe wholesale fish dealers associa- Client Draws $50 Fine tion but tuned down the demand for union recognition and a closed | RICHMOND, Va. Sept. 29.—An|Shop. | attorney dashed into court just in time to hear his client drawing down a $50 fine for possessing a slot machine. Judge Folkes ecommented. “Too bad, but your client didnt really,200 square miles in the Santa paying fines. need a lawyer. When a policeman Clara Valley sank 3% puts five cents into a machine and {20 years ending in 1932, Prof. C.|tax. In Stockholm more than 7,000 draws out 20 nickels there's not|E. much to argue about.” i# Throne Fatally Injur- ed m Accident VIENNA, Austraia, Sept. 29. — Prince Alfonso Carlos, of Bourbon, the who cnce attempted unsuccessfully by an auto last night. The Prince was 85 years old. Swedel; is Easy STOOCKHOLM, Sept: ‘\glectful Swedish taxpayers who fail |to declare all their income are giv- Valley Area Sinks They merely file a has announced. | year. retender to Spanish up to noon today. ts to seize the Spanish throne, died! Th here this morning aiter being struck | Holy Land for months against Jew- on Tax Dodgers i:n immigration. 29—Ne-1 PALO ALTO, Cal—An area of!en a chance to make good without | feet, in the [second blank and pay the added!p. Willoughby has proposed a city of Stanford University|such formulae have been filed this|iory within two blocks of Main ACRES COVERED, FLOOD WATERS Two Rivers in Central Texas . Overflow — Property, | Crop Damage Large WACO, Tex., Sept. 20—Thousands or more acres have been inundated in Central Texas as the Brazos and Little Rivers continued to overflow and destroy millions of dollars werth of crops and property. No loss of life has been reported B —— MARTIAL LAW ~ FORPALESTINE | LONDON, Sept. 20—Great Britain |has clamped a strict martial law {on Palenstine to end the terrorism [which the Arabs have waged in the Main Street Oratory Barred by Ordinance ADA, Okla,, Sept. 29.—Mayor J. ordinance barring campoaign ora- Street. G.0.P. NOMINATES ALBANY, N.Y. Septr 29. — The state convention of the Republicans of this state nominated Supreme Court Justic William F. Bleakley of Yonkers in the first ballot as the Party’s candidate for Governor. ——————— | 18 PASSENGERS ON NORTHLAND FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, Sept. 20. — Motorship {Northland sailed for Southeast Al- aska ports at 10:30 o'clock this forenoon with 55 passengers aboard |und a full cargo of freight. Passengers for Juneau on the Northland include Mr. and Mrs Charles E. Hooker, Mrs. E. L. Gru- ber, V. Leonoff, Miss Clara Cramer Miss Anna Calin, Mr. and Mrs 8. Keesling, Mrs. May Jernberg Virgil Mount, Bob Kimball, O. H Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Rals- ‘on, Margaret Burkhart, Charles Mayon, Henry Patterson, George Stewart. Fort to Be Restored EUREKA, Cal—Guided by an old photo, local patriotic societies plan to’ restore Fort Humboldt, historic army post. General U. S. Grant, then a. captain, was stationed there in the 50's, E old ed iconoclast marked up victory af-| ter victory over those who suffered most from the vitrolic nature of his bombardments. Nothing Precocious There was, nothing precocious about the Admiral’s talent for the| sea. He had no seafaring antece- dents on either side, and displayed no interest for the navy as a boy. | | class of 56. | Having convinced himself that he| could omplish what he set out to do, Sims immediately lost interest in the navy, and secured a leave of obsence for the purpose of visiti Paris. He remained in Fi: or | more than a year, seeking to perfect| himself in the language, wkich he! had become interested in the Academy. He spent his tim: ire- ¢ S He often recounted the clreum-|jy out of touch with the navy, and| stances under which he entered the| Naval Academy to show that the| beginning of his notable carcer was nothing more than the merest whim, There had for several years been' difficulty in securing candidates for Annapolis, and when the Congr man in Sim'’s district, back in 1875, hegan looking for a likely boy to nominate for the training school, nly three responded, one being Sim’s older brother. Competitive examinations were held, but the suc- cessful candidate failed to pass the| physical tests, and Sim'’s brother) was ruled out because he was too| Just Scraped | It was then that the future Ad-, |miral decided to try his luck, but |ing failed to get through the paper| {work and | | At the end of a year, however, he| lelected to try again, but when the | Superintendent of Annapolis heard| l/,: this, he requested the Congress-| | man not to appoint a boy who had| fallen so far short of the require-| ments only a year before. “There must available,” he wrote. ing the request, the Congre&sman' put young Sims up again, and hed | was denied admittance. be more promising candidates‘o Without Tieed- | ., never went near the Ame bassy or mingled in offic 5 The service record of Admiral Sims shows that he was assigned to the U. 8. 8. Philadelphia upon his return to the United States, and that he was naval attache at Paris and Petrograd from 1897 to 190 cca Em- ‘|that he had charge of secret ser- vice work in Spain, Russia and Italy during the Spanish-American war, and that all these duties were performed well. He was 42 years old at that time, and had not risen above the grade of Lieutenant. Critical Reports WAVERING IN SLOW TRADE European Currency Situa- ten Causes Many Traders to Rest NEW YNRK, Son'. 29. -~ The Slock Marce! picked its way care- fuily today and mo:t of the urad- ing was directed to highly selective issues as the sute of the Zuro- pean currenecy situation is said to have kept scme traders ca taz side lines. General activily was small today. Transfers totalled 1,350,000 shares. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 9. — Closing relatively It was while stationed in China|quotation of Alaska Juneau mine to the Navy Department at Wash- ington. The introduction was made in the form of lengthy reports, most of which were insubordinately ical of naval equipment and na-, val administration. Most Ameri- cans at that time thought the Unit- ed States sea-arm was hardly sec- ond to the best, but Sims, a minor official stationed beyond the borders of the. country, began to tell them that the American navy was a joke. British ‘ship, he said, could asily dispose of four or five Amer- (Continued on Pa‘ge Seven) |that Sims really introduced himself!stock today is 17, American Can 125, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 39, Bethlehem Steel 68%, Calumet and Hecla 10%, Co- lumbia Gas and Electric 19%, Com- monwealth and Southern 3%, Gen- eral Motors 69, International Har- vester 83%, Kennecott 48, Simmons 40%, United States Steel 70%, Unit- ed Corporation 7%, Cities Service 3%, Pound $4.95%. z DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 168.46, down 33; rails 56.33, up OT; utili- ties 34.24, up .08.