The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 5, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7295. - JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT? ‘GIANTS WIN EXTRA INNING GAME TODAY REBS, LOYALISTS CLAM VICTORY, MADRIDREGION Conflicting Reports Receiv- ed from Spanish War Front Today LONDON, Ogt. 5.~~Proud but con- fusing claims of a strategic victory from both sides made a question mark of the war in the Madrid sec- tor. i The Spanish Government con- tends its militiamen raced down the main highway southwest of Ma- drid taking Mdkueda Junction and then fought westward to a point near Santa Ollala,” which if true, would have severed the main in- surgent supply line. Counter Claims From the Fascist base at Tala- vera de la Reine, the insurgents stated their southern flanking col- umn has taken Illescas and cut the southern supply line to Madrid at a point 22 miles south of the Spanish Capital, then cut toward Navalcarmero, which is seized would cut off the miliatiamen. Warning Issued The insurgents, by a radio broad- cast, have warned foreign shipping they might shell all the southern and eastern ports from Malaga to Barcelgna without giving any fur- ther notice. | ADVANCE PRESSED BURGOS, Spain, Oct. 5.—Last Saturday night the Fascist North-{ ern Army pressed its advance on Madrid, capturing the .villages in the Grados Mountains west of the Loyalist Capital. The battle line was pushed' forward near the im- portant objective of San Martin de Valdeglesias, 36 miles due west of| the| Capital. On the Guaderma front it was announced the advance had been renewed after the Government for- ces resisted stubbornly. IN SURPRISE ATTACK MOROA, Spain, Oct. 5. — The Government forces, last Saturday night, fought to outflank the Fas-. cist Southern wing closing in on! Madrid from Toledo. Fresh rein- forcements were sent to the front lines from Madrid. They swung TAKE ADVANCE - FAST TRADING Some Old Liners Drift But ! Other Shares Reach New Tops Today NEW YORK, Oct 5—Selected is- ymost of the old line leaders drifted. | A number of new six-year tops were recordeC hour. |shares, the largest~trading since |last April. CLOSING PRICES TODAY ! NEW YORK, Oct. 5. — Closing |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 16%, American Can 123, American Power and Light Regular army troops are shown in the f oreground. <-1t extreme ad- vances were reduced in the final Transfers today totaled 2,000,000 around in a surprise maneuver out;12%, Anaconda 40%, Bethlehem 150 Tons, Being Shiwd'Snuth‘ 'Commodity Has Long| Voyage Ahead to Smel- ter at Singapore |, NOME, Alaska, Oct. 5.—Steamer | | singapore for smelting. | The ore came from Cape Prince of Wales. The ore must make a| equipped to handle it. The tin mines at Cape Prince of Wales have been worked extensive- | 1y for the last couple of years fol- ital levy on property owners who| lowing more extensive developments of the properties. COMMUNISTS s Dl AMERICAN I;EGION STAGES GIGANTIC PARADE Here Is a view of the huge parade staged by the American Legion at its national convention at Cleveland. (Associated Press Photo) STOCK PRICES Alaska Tin Ore, ITALY SHAKEN | BY. FINANGIAL DECREE TODAY Value of l—EReduced— Capital Levy Made— New Taxes Ordered ROME, Oct. 5—Premier Benito sues breasted profit taking current! Derblay is taking out 150 tons of | Mussolini has reduced the value of for substantial gains today but tin ore, an eventual shipment (m-‘me lira 41 per cent in a Sweep?ng | financial decree and which action| has been approved by the Council. ° The new value of the lire is set long trip to Singapore as there at 19 to the United States dollar; are no smelters in the United States 8nd 90 to the English pound, al- | though the lira’s gold content is over maps, campaign leaders today registered at 92.46 to the pound. The Cabinet also approved a cap- are required to subscribe to a loan to an extent of five percent of their property. Il Duce also ordered new taxes on stock dividends and company profits and prohibited price rises and around the town of Clias del Rey, 30 miles south of Madrid. Insurgent war planes spotted the troop movements and bombed most of the centrated units. SEA SERPENT MYTH AT NOME IS EXPLODED Animal Beli;\a Prehistoric Monster Is Discovered to Be Only Killer Whale NOME, Alaska, Oct. 5—What at first appeared to be a prehistoric animal is nothing more than a killer whale, of a type caught fre-| quently in the vicinity of the Dio- mede Islands. More than 200 people Saturday and Sunday, led by a few who be- lieved the animal to be one of a bygone age, walked three miles up the beach to look at the “sea ser- pent.” Natives and hunters, living nearby said the animal was washed up on. with a big head skull which he the beach two months ‘ago. Mean- while, the Eskimos have_been cut-|the largest human brain of record ting parts of it for human consumption. a0g. teed an Another similar aiimal, excépt a8 yet uncut, washed ashore a few|longed to an Aleut living hundreds salute, then with shouts of defiance, The brain czpacity charged police and fgrced a sudden ¥ duys ago ‘s’ 45 ‘2 killé 13,000 Women Vant to Ved One Man SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,, Oct. 5.— Simuel Frank, aged 42, a mail or- wanted to marry, sight unseen, has pladed guilty in the Federal Court tc a charge of mail fraud. Asked whether he considered him- rl;mmmbeaeplppq t. was once Kicked a_mule the back of hi head at a ol wir time. Steel 72%, Calumet and Hecla 10%, Columbia Gas and Electric 19%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss-Wright 6%, General Motors 70%, International Harvester 85%, Kennecott 517%, Simmons 44, United States Steel 74%, United Corpora- tion 7%, Cities Service 4%, Pound $4.92%. : DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 172.44, up 44; rails 58.20, up .35; utilities 3451, down .30. RECORD HEAD SKULL FOUND ON ALEUTIANS covery as Result of Season’s Work WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—After a summer nosing around the Aleu- tians, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka is home picked up and that once contained qu the western hemisphere. Smith- sonian Institute scientists said. * THe"skull 1§ believed to have be- of years ago. was 2,005 cubic centimeters. The average brain of man bas 1450 cu- bic centimeters and the average wo- man 1300. The Aleut skull is runner-up for‘ world honors to the skull of the Russian poet Turgeniev that con- tained 3,030 cubic centimeters. Dr. Hrdlicka believes the skull owner was probably -one of the @r Lothero whom 13,000 women|brightest men of his day and age and made his mark in the com- munity if he had any opportunity at all. — .- — STRYKER GOES SOUTH .| H, C. Stryker, banker of Fair- banks, who arrived in Juneau on Dr. Hrdlicka Reports Dis-. DEMONSTRATE, | ~ PARIS, LONDON ““Death to Fascism” Is One i War Cry—Biritish Pa- rade Broken Up PARIS, Oct. 5.—Communists to ithe number of 100,000 battled ;v,hrough the streets of Paris Sunday against Rightist demonstraters and| {jammed the Paro des Princes to! the trumpet and war cry of “Death | !to Pascism.” ‘Through the day mobs fought on the streets. i ‘Taxis were overturned, shop win- dows were smashed and paving blocks hurled. 1 Fifteen Hundred Arrests More than 1,500 arrests were made | as fighting spread along the streets land within a few blocks of the | park. { The police kept order within the |park and the Communists finally| theld a meeting. The milling crowds were finally idispersed from the park. FISTS ARE RAISED LONDON, Oct. 5—Thousands of |anti-Fascist demonstrators massed | {in London’s East side Sunday and| raised their fists in a Communist cancellation of the parade of the :British Union Fascists. Parade Is Off The police had halted the planned Fascist parade scheduled to march through the heart of the Jewish Quarter after rioting had broken out at a number of places and threatened to spread to a serious mob. Fifty-three arrests were made, scores were treated for minor wound in hospitals and dozens were not so seriously injurded. —————-— GOES HOME Mrs. Joe Campbell, surgical pa- or increases in public service rates. He also made a 65 percent reduc-, ton in custom duties for grains and! cereals. The new orders have shaken the nation in many walks of life. NOEL WIEN TO HEAD NEW NOME AIR LINES 0, Pioneer Northern Air Transport Is Reorganiz- ed by Northern Men NOME, Alaska, Oct. 5.—Reorgan- ization of the Northern Air Trans- port, Inc, pioneer Nome airline, and announcement of a change in name to the Wein Alaska Airlines, Inc., was made on the week-end by the veteran Alaska aviator Noel Wein, President of the newly re- organized company. Directors appointed include A. Polet, of Nome, Secretary; John Lynn, of Fairbanks, Director and Noel Wein, President. Plans call for two planes and two pilots to operate out of Nome with head offices in Fairbanks and also the installation of radio equip- ment in all of the planes of the company. Tommy Given will continue here as Nome representative. DR, TERRELL DIES IN vA.ldied at his home here on Sunday LOUISA, Virginia, Oct. 5. — Dr Granville Terrell, aged 74, for 20 years professor of Greek in the University of Kentucky, died at the home of his sister here. He had been ill with an ailment of the heart for the past six months. S e LEAVES HOSPITAL Leona Jerould, surgical patient, was dismissed” from' St. Ann's Hos- pital today. EMPLOYERS, _UNIONS, ARE CONFERRING Progress Reported in Nego- tiations, Waterfront Agreements SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Oct. 5.— Both the unions and the employers in the negotiations waterfront agreements. F. C. Gregory, employer repre- | sentative, said an agreement can be expected “if both sides contnue displayed so far.” Henry Schmidt and H. P. Melni- kow, spokesman for the Internation- al Longsnoremens’' Association, re- ported a conference with the ship own mentals for the first time since ex-| | piration of the old contracts on| September 30 and that threatened to develop in a complete shipping | tieup. | The employers and employees are negotiating under a <ruce sgreemem‘ which ends October 15 unless the lunions in the meantime pledge| { themselves to submit to arbritation any differences remaining on that date. CAMPAIGNHEADS MAPPING TOURS DURING MONTH i Roosevelt Swings Westward as Far as Denver, | Starting Friday | WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Pouring iplanned to carry messages to more voters. President Roosevelt invited prom- inent supporters, including Frank Murphy, Democratic candidate for | Governor of Michigan, to a parley in Hyde Park today before depart- \ing for Washington tonight from where he expects to leave Friday on a stumping tour as far west as Denver. Gov. Alf M. Landon has arrang- led to participate in the home-com- ing celebration in Topeka, honoring | Harry Colmery, new American Le- | gion Commander, before turning to | final plan-making for an eight-day, | tour through Illinois, Ohio, Michi- igan and Indiana. His major| speeches are scheduled for Chicago! on October 9, Cleveland, Oct. 12, and Detroit, Oct. 13. | Col. Frank Knox is delivering a| series of talks in Massachusetts. At Williston, N. D, last night,| William Lemke, the Union Part; |candidate, said the United States| | might be drawn into future Europ-| {ean war if Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau “permitted a gamble in foreign exchange: Norman Thomas, Socialist candi- date, jold a Spokane audience that under Socialism each worker could earn about $200 per month while Earl W. Browder, Communist can- didate for President, toured New England, calling on “all forces of progressism . to unite to prevent America from going the road of Germany.” J, 1. STRAUS PASSES AWAY Former U. S. Ambassador to France Dies at His Home in New York NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Jesse Isador Straus, aged 64, who recently re- tired as United States Ambassador to France, on account of ill-health, as the result of pneumonia. His widow, two sons and one daughter survive. Straus was succeeded in France by William C. Bullitt, who had been Ambassador to Soviet Russia. 2 LR A DISMISSED FROM HOSPITAL Teivo Rae of Flat who under- went & mejor operation at the(violation ticket charging he parked { IN WORLD SERIES to show the cooperation they have| had gotten down to funda-! SOVIET CLAIMS | PAC, SEA COAST " MONTE PEARSON Who made his first appear- ance in a baseball classic on Sunday and made good. LOU GEHRIG Who hit his second home run of the present series in the | game on Sunday. | | \: i CARL HUBBELL Who met his first defeat on the mound in the game on Sunday when he was nicked for eight hits and four runs. | IMPREGN ABLE Communist Party Paper Makes Warning State- ment to Japan MOSCOW, Oct. 5—The Soviet openly hoasted today that her Pa- cific shoreline is impregnable. This was at the conclusion of the Vladi- vostok naval air maneuvers, which gave that sector the most realistic taste of war since the Reds drove out the Whites in 1920. “There can be no doubt that any military force which might attempt to land on the Soviet seacoast, no matter how well prepared they might be, would be hurled into the sea,” said Pravia, Communist Par- ty organ, in a statement regarded as a warning to Japan. Sea games followed the simulated air attacks on Vladivostok, with the populace scurrying to gas cham- bers while the ground batteries bocmed, to fight off the “invading” planes - e Arrested for Parking His Ox Cart CHARLOTTE, N. C, Oct. 5. — Grover Whittington got a traffic BOX SCORE GIANTS Moore, If. Bartell, ss. Terry, 1b. ott, rf. Ripple, cf. Mancuso, ¢. Whitehaed, 2b. Jackson, 3b. Schumacher, p. 8 EeanoOnNOR cocormromnT o o s S g o wEb o oO~oOoO~O oM Totals | YANKS | Crosetti, ss. | Rolfe, 3b. Di Maggio, cf. | Gehrig, 1b. | Dickey, c. Selkirk, rf. Powell, 1f. Lazzeri, 2b. Ruffing, p. *Malone, p. tJohnson iSeeds Totals 36 4103017 1 *—Substituted for Ruffing in Tth. t—Batted for Ruffing in 6th. i—Ran for Dickey in 9th. THE SUMMARY Sacrifice hits: Bartell, Mancuso; two-base hits: Moore 2, Bartell, Mancuso, Di Maggio; home run: Selkirk; runs batted in: Bartell, Terry, Ripple, Whitehead; double plays: Giants 3 (Schumacher, Ter- ry, Mancuso), (Bartell, Whitehead, Terry), (Schumacher, Mancuso, | Whitehead), Yanks (Crosetti, Laz- zeri, Gehrig); hits off: Ruffing 7 in 6 innings, Malone 1 in 4 innings; at bat against: Ruffing 25, Malone 11; struck out by: Schumacher 10, Ruffing 7, Malone 1; walked by: Schumacher 5, Ruffing 1, Malone 1; earned runs: off Schumacher 1, Ruffing 3, Malone 1; wild pitch: Schumacher; charge defeat to Ma- tlone; left on bases: Giants 5, Yanks 9. JFIRST INNING GIANTS—Moore doubled to left. Bartell doubled to right, scoring Moore. Terry fanned. Ott ground- ed out, Crosetti to Gehrig, sending |Bartell to third. Ripple singled to left, scoring Bartell. Mancuso |singled to right, seconding Ripple to third. Whitehead singled to (right, scoring Ripple and sending Mancuso to second. Jackson flied PLAY BY PLAY TIE IS BROKEN, TENTH INNING, BY BILL TERRY Manager's Long Fly Puts Deciding Run Across in FiftT Game HURLER SCHUMACHER OFTEN IN TROUBLE Sixth Game Goes Back to Polo Grounds Tomor- row Afternoon SHORT SCORE R H E Giants .5 8 3 Yankees ... 4 10 1 COMPOSITE SCORE (Five Games) NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Bill Terry’s long outfield fly that scored Joe Moore from third“in the extra in- ning of the firth game to give the Giants and Hal Schumacher a dramatic trouble-strewn 5 to 4 vic- tory today in the world series, also prolonged the battle of Manhattan. The Yankees lead in games 3 to 2 as the scene shifts tomorrow to the Polo Grounds from the Yankee Stadium, The Giants got three runs in the first inning by doubles by Moore and Bartell, and singles by Ripple, Mancuso and Whitehead. Selkirk Makes Homer Selkirk’s homer in the second out to Di Maggio. ining gave the Yanks their first Three runs, five hits, no errors, two left on bases. YANKEES Crosetti fanned. Rolfe flied out to Ripple. DI Mag- glo grounded out, Jackson to Ter- Ty. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left on base. SECOND INNING GIANTS—Schumacher flied out to Di Maggio. Moore popped out to Rolfe. Bartell fanned. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left on base. YANKEES — Gehrig singled to right and raced to third when the ball got away from Ott. It was an error for Ott. Dickey rolled out, Schumacher to Terry and a fast throw to the plate nabbed Gehrig for a double play. Selkirk smash- ed out a homer to the right field stands. Powell flied out to Ripple. Oneé run, two hits, one error, none left on base. THIRD INNING GIANTS — Terry grounded out, to Powell. Ripple fanned. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left on base. YANKEES—Lazzeri walked. Ruf- fing walked. Lazzerl and Ruffing advanced on a wild pitch. Lazzer! scored when Bartell threw low to first on Crosetti’s bounder. Ruffing remained on second and -Crosetti was safe on the error. Rolfe bunted in front of the plate and beat it out for a hit, filling the bases. Di Maggio fanned. Gehrig fanned. Dickey flied out to Ott. One run, one hit, one error, three left on bases. FOURTH INNING GIANTS — Mancuso doubled to left. Whitehead grounded to Ruf- fing and Mancuso was caught off second on a quick throw to Croset- ti. Whitehead was safe on first. Jackson popped out to Crosetti. Schumacher fanned. left on base. Schumacher to Jackson. Ruffing grounded into a double play, Bar- tell to Whitehead to Terry. Shore hospital in Anchorage was|his ox-drawn cart on the left side dismissed recently. i 5 of a downtown Charlotte stireet. left on base. (Continued on Page Two) Crosetti to Gehrig. Ott flied out i run. In the Yanks' third inning, Laz- zeri scored on Bartell's infield er- ror. The Yanks then filled the sacks but Schumacher tightened and fanned DI Maggio, Gehrig and got Dickey on a-fly. ot ff More Diffieulty - - Schumacher was again_in culty in the fourth, walking Sel and Powell but: Selkirk was f at third and Ruffing hit into double play to end that. . ' cuso sacrificed and Crosetti fum- bled Whitehead's hopper, permit- ting Ott to score. Infield Wobbles A wobbly infield gave the Yanks two runs, Selkirk singled, Jackson {threw wild on Powell's roller, the ball going over Terry’s head, allow- ing Selkirk to score, Powell going | ‘o third. Lazzeri singled (o center, icoring Powell. { Ninth Inning Threat The Yanks threatened in the ninth when relief hurler Malone opened with a single but cculd not get around. Moore's double, Bartell's sacrifice and Terry's fly to Di Maggio brought in the winning run. | Dickey launched out for the Yanks in the last of the tenth vith a scratch infie'd hit but could make no seore. e —— - NENANA FIRE LOSS $50,000 NENANA, Alaska, Oct. 5—Own- ers of the places of business de- stroyed late Friday afternoon, esti- mate their Josses at about $50,000 with little Insurance. Fire started in the Grillls Poolroom and burn- | No runs, one hit, no errors, one|®d W. P. Rodfikeit's Cafe, vacant New York block, Heury Rappolt YANKEES — Selkirk walked. | Bakery, W. A. Coghill's General Powell walked. Lazzeri bunted and |Store, Alexander Fowler's General Selkirk was forced out at third,|Store and James Hagan property. — e — TAKES VACATION H. R. h, of the Cordova Pig- No runs, no hits, no errors, one | 31¥-Wiggly is aboard the Yukon en- route to the States for a vacation, His wife fitecéded him down sev- eral weeks ago. Ott singled, Ripple walked," Man-: