The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 19 3. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT? PLAN FLYING CIVIL 15 NATIONS IN - NEW ACTION ON WAR IN SPAIN Efforts to Be Made to Res- cue Noncombatants from Death BRITISH NAVY GIVEN ORDERS “STAND BY” Anarcny Reported Spread- ing Throughout Repub- lic — Blood Lust - | "Iietroit Au_t_o i’ian?s lgooml i 1 | : i | \ | | | | | | i LONDON, Oct. 21.—Great Britain | and France, together with thir- teen Latin-American nations, to- day moved in diplomatic concert to save thousands of Spanish non- combatants from death in beseiged Madrid. The British Admiralty ordered the | Navy to stand by for a mission of l’lgA START ACTION T0 COLLECT OLD BUSINESS TAXES iFosler Named by City to | Co-operate with Fed- eral Clerk’s Office | Appointment of Attorney Frank | Foster by the city to collect Federal | business and trade taxes’in Juneau | was revealed today in the Federal Clerk’s office which has the hand- ling of federal business taxes, Dep- | uty Clerk J. W. Leivers said he had been informed by the attorney that he was authorized to act for the city. The actual appointment, it was understood, was made at a secret the City Council last Friday night rrom which the public ession of and newspaper reporters were ex- ! -luded. “We are glad to co-operate with BLACK LEGION MEN CONVICTED OF MURDER WAR NONCOMBATANTS TO SAFETY Black Leglon members are pictured as they left the Detrolt courtroom following their conviction of the murder of Charles A. Pool ‘They are: (left to right) John Bannerman (barehead Urban Lipps, Al EXTENSION O - COAST DISPUTE TRUCE SOUGHT | Conferences Conlin‘ue Be- tween All Parties Concerned EAST COAST UNIONS BACK PACIFIC ACTION | iResults of Strike Referen- dum May Be Announc- ed Next Sunday BULLETIN—SAN FRANCIS- CO, Cal, Oct. 21.—A truce for one year is understood to have been submitted by Admiral Har- ry G. Hamlet to those involved in the Paacific Coast Maritime the city which gets all the money bert Stevens, Harvey Davis and Ervin D. with a deputy sheriff (wearing hat) and Thomas Cralg. dispute. mercy to rescue hostages held by | both sides in the present civil war in Spain. It is estimated that there | are 8,000 non-combatants in Madrid alone. | Press For Exchange The fifteen nations pressed both | sides for exchange of noncombat- | ants, women prisoners in particu- lar. | Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Foreign | Minister of Argentine, in Paris this | morning, conferred with Socialist PFremier Leon Blum on the possi- bility of rescuing the endangered by planes, sending gigantic fleets to beseiged Madrid and other Span- ish towns. Anarchy Spreading Refugees arriving at various points tell' of spreading anarchy through- out Spain and the apparent desire of the Fascist to kill all Govern- | ment defenders, regardless of sex and also non-combatants. Moscow declares that the only way to aid the Madrid Government now is to dispatch munitions im- mediately. WIVES OF OFFICIALS ARRIVE IN TOULOUSE PARIS, Oct. 21. — The Havas News Agency reports from Tou- louse that the wives of President Manyel Azana and former Premier Jose' Giral Perira, have arrived from Alicante, Spain. ALLEGED VIOLATIONS BERLIN, Oct. 21.—The German Charge de’Affairs in London, it is announced, has handed to the Non- intervention Committee chairman, a list of alleged arms embargo vio lations by the Soviet Union in as. sisting the Madrid Government. The German note is in reply to the Soviet accusations of German neutrality violations in behalf of the Insurgents. Germany denies the charges categorically as “com- pletely without foundation.” —————— Skeleton Is Found, Shores of Cook Inlet Fate of Adam Herfield, Missing Six Years, Be- lieved Cleared Up ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 21.— United States Commissioner Price said he believes that fragments of a human skeleton found on the shore of Cook Inlet revealed the fate of Adam Herfield, who left An- chorage in an open boat on a hunt- ing trip|six years ago and vanish- ed. i Searclers found articles believed belonging to Herfield near the skel- eton but nothing was found to ex- plain thé nature of his death. e —————— TALLY TO SKAGWAY The Coast Guard cutter Talla- poosa left for Skagway this morn- ing on what was termed a routine trip in connectioh with its duties. Aboard was Assistant Collector of Customs M. 8. Whittier, who goes to make an inspection of the Skag- way port, lems, howe: —_— e e —— | Design and engineering departments of every major automobile plant in Detroit are working at top speed and production units are gradually swinging into high gear to turn out millions of 1937 models. Following the custom established last year, new models will be releaged this fall. It is estimated by R. H. Grant, vice presi- dent of General Motors, that the American public can use 35,000,000 motor vehicles before the saturation point is reached. There are now 25,500,000 on the road. Increasing seriousness of traffic prob- |Was $9,180 and this year, $11,391. ver, makes it vital that more adequate highway systems be started, automobile industrialists point out. TIO MILLION DOLLAR FIRE I SAN DIEG0 Business Block in Heart of City Gutted — Extra Precautions Taken | SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct. 21.—Roar- ing unchecked through a business |block in the heart of the city, fire wrought damage that real estaters estimated unofficially at $2,000,000. During the height of the blaze, Fire Chief A. E. Parrish ordered gas and electric service turned off to the menaced area while officials also attempted to relive the fall- ing water pressure by t.appm.g an- other reservoir. The three-story Whitney Depart- ment Store, where the fire started after midnight this morning, isf virtually a total loss although the | walls are still standing. Thirsty Thieves Steal Beer from City Dock Room Apparently thirsty burglars broke into the City Dock last night by pry- ing open the door with a bar and stole 10 cases of beer, it was report- ed by police officlals today. Nine cases of the beer were for the Ter- minal Cafe and one case for the Juneau Ice Cream Parlor. It was consigned to the eity dock and the city is responsible, Mayor I. Gold- stein said. Chief of Police Roy Hoffman start- ed an investigation ‘this morning and later found one case, apparently dropped, near (e Pacific Coast Coal Company. The probe was be- ing continued this afternoon and it was, said that no arrests had been made thus far, -i’ig;Are Pigs; Can’t Be Used Even in Political Advertising MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct. 21. — Pigs cannot be kept in Milwaukee even though used to publicize a Presidential candidate. The law says they cannot and that is suf- ficient. So, accordingly, two porkers dis- political picture. Signs in the store window de- scribed the porkers as “two pigs Roosevelt missed; Save us, Alf.” Passersby soon remarked about the odor and someone notified the| who Health Department officials, looked up the law, and the pigs— they are not in the window any- more. ). C. HARRIS PASSES AWAY Wellknown Alaska Steam- ship Company Employee Dies in Seattle SEATTLE, Oct. 21. Joseph C. |from the business taxes,” said Mr. Leivers. “It is true there are some [who are delinquent in paying their | taxes but it is no greater number than usual.” N It was estimated that there is be- ! tween $5,000 and $6,000 delinquent ) at the present time, he said. } City authorities declined to reveal | |the working agreement with Mr.| Foster, but it was understood the at- | torney was to work on a commission Lbasis. : The Federal business and trade taxes vary from $10 to $500 on busi- ness doing a volume of $100,000 an- {nually. At the end of this fiscal | year, June 30, the collections for the First Division totaled $171,600, two | dollars more than the last fiscal | year when collections reached $171,- |588. Juneau’s collection last year RUOFFS ARE IN SEATTLE |Anchorage Couple Makes Safe Flight from West to South j Some apprehension was felt re- |garding the whereabouts of Pilot |Bert Ruoff and wife who left An- | | | played in a downtown store window |chorage last week on a leisurely [by a volunteer organization sup- flight to Seattle and the Associated | porting Landon, faded from the Press radioed The Empire asking for any information regarding the couple as. they had not been re- ported along the route. | The Ruoffs arrived in Juneau |1ast Sunday noon in their red Bel- lanca seaplane and left for the |south at 2 o'clock. | Late this afternoon, the Asso- |ciated Press radiced that the | Ruoffs had arrived at a Lake 'Umon hangar, safe and sound. PILOT HERMAN IN FAIRBANKS | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Ott. 21.— |Completing a flight from Seattle, |Jack Herman, Fairbanks-Nome |flier, arrived here late yesterday | afternoon. ; | I PRESIDENT ON Rooseve (Assoclated Press Photo), It Opens ARE INJURES CAMPAIGN TRIP CampaigninR.1. INCRUSHTO 3 » S _"vGov. Landon Opens Coast | Tour by Making Ad- dressin L. A. (By Associated Press) While President Franklin D. Roos- cvelt was heading last night for the New England States, Gov. Al- {fred M. Landon, (n a speech in Los Angeles, Cal, said the New | Deal “undermining” industrial liberty. Addressing an open air crowd in the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Re- publican nominee said: “If we are to preserve our American form of government, this present Admin- istrztion must be defeated.” Both Traveling While the Republican nominee heads back across the country to- day, President Roosevelt will be making his New England bid for votes. is Davis Attacks New Deal John W. Davis, Democratic can- didate for President in 1924, joined the New Deal attack last night in an address in New York City. Da- vis esserted the Roosevelt Admin- istration “presents the most cal- lous disregard of party principles. platform, promises, personal pledg- es In all of the history of Ameri- can politics.” Davis'did not mention the name of ov. Landon but called “upon Democrats “who still hold the creed of Democratic liberalism, to stand up and speak up.” Ickes Calls Landon In Washington, Secretary of In- terior Ickes said Landon was & “State Socialist last year, advo- cating state owned telephone and natural gas distribution systems.” Secretary Ickes said Landon is now the “champion of private in- itiative,” and has proposed states (Cor;nnuéd on 7Psge ‘Three) Harris, about 70, Alaska Steamship | Company employee for 25 years, died yesterday afternoon following an illness of several months. Heart trouble is given as the cause of his death. Harris was once with the White Pass and Yukon Route where he was associated with the late Roger Pineo. He left the White Pass to become associated with the late Capt. E. E. Caine, then operating vessels in Valdez and also operating a num- ber of salmon canneries in Alaska. Later he joined the Alaska Steam- ship Company as chief clerk in the Operation Department. Harris was an authority on routes, ports of calls and schedules in the northern trade. —_——————— A breeding frog on a farm near| santa Rosa, Calif., measures 30 in- Los KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 21.—| Out just $880, Capt. Heinie Ber- ger, veteran skipper of the motor- ship Discoverer, has decided that |8 pocket is a poor place to keep }money while aboard ship. The money, in bills of $100, $50, 1820 and $5 denominations, was lost | somewhere on the Gulf of Alaska |while the vessel was enroute to Seattle. “I had the money in an envelope |in one of my pockets in the back ches and is 11% inches across the|of my pants with a magazine,” said hips. lcapt. Berger, (—$800—Somewhere on Gulf of Alaska; Capt. Heinie Berger Robbed by Freak Wind in Gale\ “Suddenly the wind was whipped into & gale and the wind just whipped that envelope and the bills were scattered in all directions.” Capt, Berger added that if he had turned the ship around in the gale trying to recover the money “probably I would not have have needed money anymore.” In the Spring of 1932 however, Capt. Berger had better luck for he was one of the three winners of the annual Nenana River Ice Pool, re- E. ST ATES | RegilnenlatiAo—rl_Discu5§ed in s ress in Providence | } PRODVIENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. |21. — President Roosevelt opened |a two days' New Englanid campaign- ing tour here with the declara- | tion that “we will not again allow the people to be regimented by sel-, fish minorities into bankruptcies and breadlines. You have been told of regimentation. I am opposed to the kind of regimentation under which you labored and suffered in the false prosperity days of de- pression under previous Adminis- tration.” The President, asserting the peo- ple “are even more important than machines,” added: “We believe that the material resources of America should serve the human resources .of America.” J. P, Morgan Near Death Following Third flunr Fall Alaskan Is in Critical Con- dition—Tragedy Is De- clared an Accident SEATTLE, Oct. 21.—J. P. Mor- gan, Alaska representative of Lib- by, McNeill and Libby, who fell from a third story window of a downtown apartment early yesterday morning, still lives though his condition is critical, and there is little hope that he will survive. He is at the Seattle General Hospital. Police, who investigated the trag- edy, declare his fall to be accident- al. Morgan, who is 76 years old, was found by a truck driver at 5:35 | Tuesday morning, after a fall that would ordinarily have proved fatal to a much younger man. The driver notified the police and Morgan was rushed to the hospital. There were no witnesses to the plunge. S e - SNOW FALLING AT ANCHORAGE { Yukon River Is Reported ! Running with Ice Near Nulato The first snow of winter fell here yesterday. ceiving a little more than $20,- 000, ice running in the Jnear Nulato. i \ ] | Three Children Are in Odd Accidents FALL RIVER, Mass., Oct. 21. —Three children suffered frac- tured arms and scores were trampled this afternoon when a huge crowd greeting President Roosevelt at South Park, broke | through the ropes as the Presi- dential party arrived. This was followed by the collapse also of a section of a temporary grarnd stand in which many were in- jured. One girl, Estrella Pachecho, was hurt in the stand collapse; William Ferriera fell from a park building roof and Eugene Michinaski, Jr., was either pushed or fell from a tree. All of the youngsters were 12 years of age. 2 OLDTIMERS OF INTERIOR ONLASTTRAIL James Nichols Dies at Olnes, Joseph Ro- maker at Circle FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 2 Death struck twice in the ranks of the oldtimers in this sectien when James Nichols, aged 70, old-time resident of the nearby min'ng town of Olnes, passed away after a long illness. Joseph Romaker died vesterday at Circle where he and his wife operated a roadhouse for the past 18 years. Nichols leaves no known surviv- ors. Romaker is survived by his wi- dow, at Circle, and an adopted son, Joe Bassett, now residing in Se- attle. PSS A e DUCK HUNTERS LEAVE FOR SUMDUM AT NOON Sailing in Skipper Bert Caro’s good ship Umpquah, five doughty |duck hunters put out Trom Juneau this noon for Sumdum, to bag the | elusive waterfowl. Members of the { hunting party, which expects to return next Friday evening, are: {Bert Caro, Bob Brown, Bill wil- [ { | liott e ask, WELGOME FOR Many Trampled Upon— It is said the Unions have demanded six concessions as their peace terms, some saying | the concessions are virtually the same as their demands. Representatives of ship owners refuse to make any comment. One representative however, did state that an indefinite truce might continue under certain conditions, one requiring that the Maritime Commission give assurance it would enforce the provisions of the 1934 award. | | | | | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 21. |—An indefinite extension of the labor truce in the Pacific Coast | waterfront dispute appears to be |the immediate aim of the Federal | representatives. This is indicated :in conferences with both the rep- |resentatives of the ship owners and | the various labor unions involved. | Continue Conference | Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, |of the Maritime Commission, and |also Edward F. McGready, Assis- |tant Secretary of Labor, are con- | ferring with representatives of those |involved in the dispute, both work- |ing along lines to extend the truce |beyond . the now established dead- |line of October 28 at midnight. | Admiral Hamlet declares his | Commission desires to go thorough- ly into all disputes so that a most satisfactory agreement may be reached. Eastern Leader Arrives | Joseph Curran, leader of the cast |coast rank and file of the Seamen, jarrived here last night from New | York. He said he came here to as- |sure the Pacific Coast unions that the east coast organizations and |also those of the Gulf will support the Pacific Coast union in what- ever action s taken. Referendum . Vote It is announced here today by la- bor leaders that the results of the referendum, regarding whether to strike at midnight, October 28, will probably be made public Sunday. - COLLECTIONS N FIRST QUARTER SMASHRECORDS Internal Revenue Bureau Makes Report — In- | crease 20 Per Cent WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—The In- ternal Revenue Bureau today re- ported that total collections for the first quarter of the fiscal year climbed one hundred and sixty- four million dollars over the same period last year. The increase is almost 20 percent and pushed the aggregate collection to one billion, ten million dollars, | compared to eight hundred and for- ty-five million four hundred and ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 21.— cox, Tony Craviolini and Jack El- seventy-one thousand dollars for |the corresponding period last year. | The Treasury Department offic- | The weather bureau here reports| Huckaback is a coarse type of lm-{mls said this is the first time since Yukon river|en cloth figured similarly to dam-| 1928 that the first quarter collec- tions exceeded one billion dollars,