The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 8, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NER VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7298. RQ JUNEAU, ALASKA, ALASKA §. $. C0. AEL THE TIME” DAY, OCTOBER 8, 1936, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS et PRICE TEN CENTS ANCELS SCHEDULES PEACE IN EUROPE AGAIN SOVIET UNION ISSUES SHARP THREAT TODAY Gives Ultimatum to Nations Regarding War in Spain LONDOL,, ... e—ureat Britain today turned a swift diplomatic hand to patch the menacing break in the wall of European intervention in Spain stirred by the flat Soviet ultimatum threatening to aid Ma- drid if the Fascist States do not stop helping the insurgents alleg- edly with guns, planes and other war sinews. Capt. Anthony Eden suddenly broke off his holiday at Monaco and is enroute home to personally direct the British policy. Other Warnings In the wake of the Moscow warn- ing came reports frofn other un- named countries that they will ques- tion the alleged breaches in the supposed hands-off policy as re-| gards Spain. Hot Session There is expected to be a torrid session here tomorrow at the meet- ing of the Non-Intervention Com- mittee not only over intervention, but also on the latent threat of open hostility in the Mediterranean supplies at any Spanish govern- Fascist warships are reported guarding several ports of Spain. Ultimai The Moscow ultimatum detailed the alleged shipments of arms, planes and poison gas to the insur- gents and specifically named Ger- many, Italy and Portugal and then added that “if violations are not stopped immediately the Soviet Un- jon will free itself from any obli- gation to any agreement.” London is startled by the reports that hundreds of Russian planes have been loaded for several weeks with hand-picked soldiers and oth- ers with war supplies of unnamed qualities. ———————— should Russian ships seék to hnj BIG INCREASE, |REPORTS NOW HALIBUT GATCH, REPORTED NOW International Fisheries Commission Reveals 1936 Figures SEATTLE, Oct. 8—In announc- Ing the closing date of all halibut fishing westward from Cape Spen- cer, in Southeast Alaska through| Along the Rail Belt various points the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea areas at midnight on November 3, the International Fisheries Com- mission issued a report that Can- adian and American fleets have landed 19,250,609 pounds of fish from the start of the season on March 16 through September 30. This is compared to last.year, for the same period, of 12,926,075 pounds. ———————— Rides Buck Deer To Death; He Just Had To REDLANDS, Cal, Oct. 7.—Tar- zan couldn't have improved upon the exploit of Frank J. Loge, sports- man and local merchant, who rode a buck deer to death. Affidavits are on file in which Loge's hunting companions related the story of how he straddled the wounded animal and clung to it on a wild flight until he killed it with his hunting knife. Loge said he had no intention of riding the buck. “1t was forced upon me,” he said. “I had stepped over the wounded deer to administer the coup de grace and when I suddenly found myself astraddle, with the deer plunging for the brushi, there was nothing tq do but dig my heels in his flanks and hang on. ThelDuring the summer the Warden deer fell dead.in. about 75 feet, was in the Aleutians perhaps, but it felt like 10 miles.” Brown Bear, THREATENED G.A.R Parades—Their Last? |BEACH PREDICTS 'BOOMDAYS FOR | tion Will Be Trebled, Short Time |in Alaska due to the new gold min~ |ing developments, Rex Beach, novs felist predicts. Beach is enroute to New York from Alaska. “There is no question but what B there will be a big boom and if icitement,” said Beaeh. § the population of Alaska will be trebled within a short time because {of the great Northland. BEAT 'EM UP IS SOLUTION | TOSTOPWAR Aggressor and Knock | Pride Out of It [ | Thinning ranks of the “Boys in Blue"”, marching in what may be the | last of the Grand Army of the Republic, are snapped as they dled down Washington's Pennsylvania avenue during their annual | encampment. Oley Nelson of lowa, retiring commander of the G. PARIS, Oct. 8—~Winston Chur- A. R, is shown inset. chill, British statesman, declared here that Europe's greatest need} was for a “tremendous organization | {of nations ready to fall upon an| |aggressor and beat the pride out of | Mood at National Ca pital Is One of Reflection and Mmoo room wous s to) ALASKA GOMING! Expresses Opinion Popula- A LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct, 8. —| B | Boom days of '08 may come again| won't be long. The country is in a3 ferment and there is lots of ex=|' Beach expressed the cpinion that|i of the mining developments in the| southeastern and centtral sectionsj . Flood Damage estimated in excess of 3 STOCK PRICES “AGAIN SOARING TOHIGH PEAKS Realizing* Takes Place To- ward Close with Num- $2,000,000 was caused when the North Concho river went on‘a _rampage in central Texas, demolishing scores of fhud\ngs and leaving a trail of debris and desola- Takes HC;IVY Toll in Central Texas : wake. strewed Landon Leading In Digest Poll By Wide Mardy - received, the Literary Digest in its broadcast last night reported its Presidential poll gives Governor Landon 713,451 votes and President Roosevelt 485,392, the balance being divided between other candidates. The Digest poll gives Landon 344 in returns from 40 states. The Di- erous Losses °_ e . . | Churchill asserted that France Waiting; It’s Election Time 851 o | has the finest army and Britain the | | LERO WEATHER | finest navy in the world, and held {that the two nations must unite By BYRON PRICE v;agmnsb aggression. | (Chief of Bureau, The Associated | "“The strength and splendor of} Press, Washington) |the French republic and the Brit- ish empire will not easily be tram- WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—As al- | pled down,” he told a distinguished | audience. ways when a National election im-‘ 5 | pends, the mood of Washington has ‘The British fleet is far stronger Ibecome predominantly one of re-|in relation to any fleet or any flection and waiting. The vast op-|cOmbination of fleets in Europe erations of the government go on,|than it was in 1914 and the French but routine rules from day to dayi""‘y is by far the finest in the INTERIOR AREA DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 8.—Dayton Dean, confessed Black Legion trig- and in Jamu-|german in the Charles Poole mur- ary a new Congress will come Iruh;der on May 12, was today sentenc- | from the polling places, bringing| ed to life imprisonment. | Ice Running in Tanana and campaign are growing louder, not| Mr. Landon wins, it will be his to| e tains around Anchorage but it reg- Yukon Rivers — Snow matter what may be the expectation | reported three inches of snow in write the new program. iTriggerman Dayton Dean istered 52 above in town yesterday. | Steel 75%, Calumet and Hecla 10 gest announcement said that its straw vote figures give the Republi- |can nominee 58.56 per cent of the | total vote cast. The poll gave such large states | NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—The Stock Market clipped off a new five year peak today for the fourth consecu- tive session with sizeable profits e principal thoroug! gelo, above, where ru¥ age of d?\olllhed buildings.” With a millfon and a quarter votes | electoral votes and Roosevelt 129 | lest hit cities was ing flood waters ares with wreck- i One of the 4 - — - ISINDIGATED \Editor Hill, of Babson’s Re- port, Comes Qut with Statement | WELLESLEY, Mass.,, Oct. 8. — Creighton Hill, Editor of Babson's Report, asserted today that “sta- | tistics indicate Roosevelt’s re-elec- during the active trading. Traders as California, Illinols, Indiana,|tion” however found numerous losses at the close throughout the list al- though a late rally of steels aided many leaders to stiffen. There were some demands for a few alcohols; oils and rails were in moderate demand throughout the session but the volume dwindled on realizing. Transfers today were shares. 2,250,000 | CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, Oct. 8. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 15%, American Can| 127%, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 41'%, Bethlehem Columbia Gas and Electric 2 Commonwealth and Southern 4% Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors 70%, International Harvester 88, Kennecott 52, Simmmons 44%,| United States Steel 76%, United Corporation 8, Cities Service 4‘_».‘ Pound $4.89%. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES Today’s Dow, Jones averages are| as follows: industrials 174.93, up .34; rails 58.75, up .34; utilities 35.32. up 17. | | with it whatever it may have learn-| a¢ first Dean told Judge Joseph [od of public sentiment in the eourael Moynihan he had nothing to say| of a searching campaign. * {why sentence should not be passed | Turning of Cover |but when the Judge persisted, the and new strokes of policy are t.lck-‘iw"”d'" eted for postponement. | Tisii Is Also Falling AGE SLAYER nF as to the outcome, the present is| ThAN::?l:'eArffé rx?;ea:::dr;:c:;{ Bfl; reckoned as unfruitful moment for| e D _ 3 launching new enterprises. If Mr.| season were felt in the interior yes- Roosevelt is re-elected, he can act| terday with point.s alon,; the‘Tanana with far greater force and prestige| and Yukon rivers reporting ice run-|aror the election, with a renewed some places. Nor is it the Presidential elec-| % The tSiBml tc‘;z‘t r;';‘:::’g Tx:; tion alone which casts a shwdow} Makfes Sl;:fl Talel:j Be- ampesatures - & » of hesitation over Washington. The| tenc Nulato and two above at Ruby. |gpreme Court will return in an-| Oft ol No ice is reported running as far other few days to its testing of south as Kanakanak. important bulwarks of the New Deal Self Sufficient Germany Started by Newest Candy| . BERLIN, Oct. 8. — “Chocolate| bars,” made out of coal tar, ap-) peared today in Berlin confection- | | The drum-beats of the political | ning. vote of confidence behind him. If There is new snow on the moun- legislative structure, aries. whether there is a change of party and said: | or not, each National election marks, “I am glad it is all over. I hope| the turning of a corner; and Wash- no one else gets in the same jam. ington is slowing down for that cor-| I am glad that the organization has { ner now. 1Tt is listening to the drum | been broken up.” | They looked like sgap, but tasted’ peats and pondering the future. The | | like ' chocolate. idea-men are stuffing their memo- i | | Thees whs po atomp. by proud| omymen, i Ui toee meme-| P ATTY MAKES REPORT | :i;r‘he‘u}; ‘b::dbm‘m“m““"’s toerence or discard may turn out. ON SKJOLD’S DEATH s brown. { 1 always, * | I was the first appearance of coniioms arising. from special saus.| SIEUrd Skjold, nozzleman for the I P, | 4 Alluvial Golds, Inc., on Woodchop- new raw material” since Adolf| ¢ During the current week the! & h te: Hitler, at Nurnberg, announced his pey phoard to promote American sea | PEF Creek, who was killed Septem- four-year plan for a self sufficient commerce has been established for- ber 20 in an accident at the opera- Germany. Imally, and there has been an elab- | toDS, probably met his death when ST [oration of the Administration farm | he was struck by the mozle, at| WARDEN GRAY ARRIVE! 'program. Neither of these “enm'\wrdlng to a report to B. D. - w- Warden Douglas Gray of the however, can be looked upon as art, Commissioner of Mines, ronj ‘Alaska Game Commission returned representing basic departures, ’E, N. Patty, Manager of the o}:(_era to the Juneau office on the steam- Just a Variation | tlons. Skjold was alone at the m'm er Baranof after being on olmmll Not only did the President’s np«.\“" Patty wrote, but indication v\:.: duty in the Cordova area during pointment of the new ship board | that the victim was hit either by the open deer season in that area. result from legislation passed the nozzle itsélf or by the stream months ago, but the purposes of the|9f Water with such force that it —_— |knocked him semi-conscious. (Continuea on Page Seven} aboard the : died later in a Fairbanks hospital.| Chicken Picking 1 Derby Is Promised| feathers are flying, and so are the challenges, and out of the furor |is about to emerge a chicken-pick-| ing derby in Richmond. It started when “Ducky” Earle Williams, negro market employee, picked a chicken in 40 seconds by a reporter’s watch, and claimed the championship. Two others of Williams' race and occupation, John Pleasants and Al- fred Canada defeather fowls in thirteen seconds flat by a stop- watch. Employers of the rivals have consented to a contest, but the date and place have not been set. — VISITING IN KETCHIKAN Mrs. Myrtle D. Wright, the for- mer Mrs. Edward G. Morrissey, was 4 recent, visitor in Ketchikan, then ton, Iowa and Michigan to Landon. ——— TWO OFFIGIALS GET TOGETHER SINO-JAP CASE China’s Dictator, Japanese Ambassador in Con- ference in Nanking NANKING, Oct. 8—China’s Dic- tator, Chiang Kashek, today met Ambassador Shingu Kawaga in a two-hour conversation fraught with importance in the Sino-Jap rela- tions. The Japanese Embassy issued a statement and said Kashek ex- pressed deep regret over the recent killings of Japanese nationals in the International Settlement. Kawaga is represented as having insisted China show good faith in dealing with the incident and also declared he was personally im- pressed with the sincerity of the China Dictator, In many important respécts, chunky defendant cleared his throat| prcHMOND, va, oct. 8—the DUCK HUNTERS OFF TO POINT BY PLANE Charles Goldstein, Jerry Jones and two others left here at 11:30 o'clock this forenoon in the Marine Airways Bellanca seaplane, piloted by Alex Holden, for Strawberry | Point on a duck-hunting trip. The plane and hunters expect to return here at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon. e ELECTRA TO RETURN TO INTERIOR AFTER ARRIVAL OF YUKON The Pacific Alaska Airways Elec- 'tra, which arrived here yesterday {afternoon from Fairbanks, is |awaiting the arrival of the steamer | Yukon from Seattle before leaving lon the return flight to Fairbanks He returned to her home in Bremer- and Whitehorse. The flight will pro- llmhly he Saturday morning. SERIOUS LABOR SITUATION IS REASON GIVEN | Reported Tanana “Mutiny” | at Kodiak Figures in Gen- eral Action on Coast NORTHLAND COMPANY’S NORTH SEA IS TO SAIL Plant Says Continuance. of | Operations to Alaska “Utterly Impossible™ SEATTLE, Oct. 8—Agents in the Alaska Steamship Company’s ticket | office here today informed pros- | pective passengers that scheduled sailings of the Oduna and North- western have been cancelled and {no other sailing dates of steamers |have been set. Company officials here declined to make any extended comments, but one high official said the can- cellations were due to the “serious labor situation.” Tanana Still Tied-up The Alaska Steamship Company’s |freighter Tanana is still tied-up at Dry Spruce Bay, Kodiak Island, Al- |aska, by the refusal of the firemen | to work. | ‘The Coast Guard. patrol boat Morris is now enroute to the scene | Sailings Cancelled | The Oduna was scheduled to sail October 12 and the Northwestern ‘on October 13. | Officials of the Alaska Steamship | Company, Northland Transporta- [tion- Company and Santa Ana | Steamship Company, are to confer llate today. [ Situation Serious | “The situation is growing very |serious,” sald Willlam Semar, Sec- retary-Treasurer, of the Northland | Transportation Company. “We have {cancelled none of our sailings | With us we do not figure a steamer |has sailed until the ship actually Hill further said that “only a spec-/leaves the dock. Our North Sea is tacular burst of speed by the Re- | half loaded for Southeast Alaska publicans can prevent a Roosevelt ports and will sail with passengers victory. This upset course is pos- sible, but not probable.” Hill made his statement follow-| ing the annual National Business the Babson Statistical Institute. e FLIER DOWN ON ATLANTIC BUT IS SAFE Kurt Bjorkvall Rescued by Trawler Off Northern Point of Ireland Forced down on the Atlantic on an attempted direct flight from New York to Stockholm, Kurt Bjorkvall was rescued last night by the trawler Imbrin off the west- ernmost point of Ireland. The message from the captain of the trawler said the flier was safe and that he intended to take him and the plane to this place today. The flier was about 2,375 miles from New York and about 1,000 miles from Stockholm, his goal. The Swedish airman took off from New York City Tuesday morn- ing at 7:25 o'clock but intended to refuel at St. Johns, Newfound- {land, but just kept on out over the ocean. His plane is a red and green Bellanca. At the time he left the Floyd Bennett Flying Field, the flier had 742 gallons of gaso- line aboard. | MRS. GRANER IS DEAD Mrs. Louise Graner, who was ad- mitted to the Government Hospital here October 5, died of pneumonia there yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Graner, who was about 36 years old, resided in Hoonah. The body has been removed to the C. W. Carter Mortuary. VALENTIA, Ireland, Oct. 8.— | {tonight at 9 o'clock as far as we know this afternoon.” Erwin Fallon, of the Santa Ana | Steamship. Company, said his com- y Conference under. the auspices of pany planned no more sailings as 'me season 1§ over. TO LAY UP STEAMERS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 8.— Alaska ship operators will lay up | their steamers as rapidly as they reach Sedttle unless the Tanana fdlspute is seitled at once, Thomas |G. Plant, representing the Pacific Coast Employers’ Association, today advised the Maritime Commission |in Washington, D. C. Plant said: “The action of the | union has made continuance of op- >rations to Alaska utterly impos- sible.” Union Side James Engstrom, Union Agent at Seattle, has informed William Fischer, of Portland, President of he Maritime Federation of the Pa- nific, that he is attempting to place the Marine Unions in an unfavor- «ble pusition by publication of the news the crew of the steamer Tan- wma will not work the ship.” Can’ellation Confirmed T. B. Wilson, Vice President and ieneral Maiuger of the -Alaska Steamship Company, ‘who ' 1§ here, has confirmed cancelldtion eof the scheduled sailings of the OQdnra and Northwestern from Seattle $n Alaska por.s. “These sailings will be resumed when we have a practical assurance they can be maintained without constant strikes and tying up of ves- sels by crews,” said Wilson. | | FISCHER'S VIEWS | PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 8 — Wil- |liam Pischer, President of the Mari- time Federation of the Pacific, charged the tie-up of the Alaska steamers as the first move by the | employers for a coast wide lockout. “It looks like the beginning of the lockout. We have been expecting |mmet.hln¢ like this all along,” said Pischer. ANOTHER VIEW SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Oct.8.— One spokesman of the Pacific Coast g AR o BRSO B (Continued on Page Two)