The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 22, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7310. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1936, 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS | PRICE TEN CENTS SPANISH INSURGENTS ADVANCE; LOYALISTS RETREAT STAND TAKEN BEHIND WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS Government Forces Now Entrenched Ten Miles Qutside Madrid FASCIST FORCES CAPTURE KEY CITY International Threat Made in London — Germany, and Italy vs. Russia BULLETIN — MADRID, Oct. 22.—The Spanish Government has placed Madrid’s defense in the hands of a new Supreme Chief who has sent the workers army of 100,000 to all fronts around the Capital, announc- ing a shift from the defensive to offensive to prevent Mad- rid’s \invasion. The Government has removed Gen. Jose Asensio from com- mand and named Gen. Sebas- tian Pozas, aged 60, former Minister of Interior. Pozas is regarded as one of the foremost tactical experts in the Army of | the new proletarian reserve. | | | LONDON, Oct. 22.—According to | official advices reaching here, the Spanish insurgents have poked a new spearhead toward Madrid’s for- | tified city limits as diplomats of | politically opposite nations rumbled | fresh threats over Spanish neu- trality. Reports received here indicate the disordered Spanish Government troops have fallen back behind | improvised barbed wire entangle- | ments just ten miles outside of| the capital city, at Mostols. | The disordred retreat took place | after the Fascists moved strong| forces into the captured city of Naval Carnero, key city of Mad-i rid’s vital defenses. | INTERNATIONAL THREATS LONDON, Oct. 22—German and Ttalian representatives of the Non- Intervention Committee, struck to- day at Russia’s sympathetic lean- ings toward the Spanish Govern- ment and intimated their nations would act if the Soviet Union dumped the non-intervention agree- ment. The Russian representatives re- sponded :“We don't care.” ACCEPT FRENCH OFFER LONDON, Oct. 22—According to official reports, Madrid has accept- ed the French offer to evacuate refugees following similar action taken by the British. The British Admiralty has ordered the navy to “stand by.” President Azana, of the Spanish Republic, is now in Barcelona and his wife is in Toulouse. SINK RUSSIAN SHIPS:ORDERS ISSUED TODAY Spanish Insurgents Inform European Nations of Decision SALAMANCA, Spain, Oct. 22— Spanish insurgents are reported to have ordered their warships to sink any Russian ships carrying arms to Spain’s Government troops. The report is not confirmed im- mediately but other information said communications have been sent to all European nations in- forming them of the decision of the Insurgents. BLOWN UP ROUEN, France, Oct. 22.—Twenty one workmen were killed and four injured this afternecon in an ex- plosion at a gquarry’at Cauvicourt. ‘The dynamite charge exploded pre- maturely. 'New Italian Fulvio Suvich, one of Mussolini’s ‘Envoy Here § | taxes right hand men, is shown with his family on their arrival in New York on the Conte di Savoia to take the vost of Italian Ambassador to the United States recently vacated by Antonio Rosso. J.P.MORGAN PASSES AWAY IN H!SPITAL? PRODUCED NOME Wellknown AlaskanTravel-:Bmmer Year Is Predicted| ing Man Dies as Re- sult of Plunge SEATTLE, Oct. 22.—J. P. Mor- gan, aged 76, Alaskan representa- tive for many years for Libby, Mc- Neill and Libby, who fell from a third story window of a downtown apartment house morning died today at the Seattle General Hospital where he was ta- ken after he was found unconscious on the pavement by a truck driver. Mr. Morgan, subject to heart at- tacks, is believed to have arisen! from his bed in the apartment house, gone to a window to raise it for air and to have fallen from the window. His body was not discovered un- til 5:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. The police were notified and he was taken in an ambulance to the hos- pital where he passed away from injuries sustained. It is believed his only surviving relative is a sis- ter, Mrs. Lucy Sheridan, of Chi- cago, who is now on a tour of the world. WAS POPULAR MAN J. P, Morgan was one of the most popular commercial representatives; touring Alaska. A most fastidious dresser, he was considered one of the best groomed men of the trav-; eling fraternity. He perhaps knew more Alaskans, both in the trade and out, and was equally as well known by the Northerners, than many of the other brokers making the Territory. He made his Alaska headquarters in Juneau and only left here about two weeks ago for a brief visit before returning north. Mr. Morgan's hands were “knot- ted,” that is both hands bore mute evidence of a ball player and one who “stood behind the plate.” In the early days of the great Ameri- can national game, Mr. Morgan was a catcher and at various times he played on many of the leading teams including the famous Orioles, at that time considered the onifi- cation of baseball. Comes West Mr. Mcrgan, oved 50 years ago, came to the Pacific Coast as the member of a famous battery and introduced baseball in San Fran- cisco. He was catcher of the bat- tery and this was the time when a catcher caught bare-hinded and without a mask. How successfully the game was introduced bears evidence of the great strides of the diamond sport has made since then. Abandoning baseball for a more lucrative profession, Mr. Morgan began represanting various compan- ies and his mode of travel was var- ried, on foot, by ox team, burro and horse in the early days. As transportation facilities advanced, early Tuesday { i | | | THREE MILLION DOLLARS, GOLD, | for 1936—Dredges Still Working | NOME, Alaska, Oct. 22.—All in- ;zlimlmns point to a gold production of the Nome district, Seward Pen- linsula, for.the year 1936, of over $3,000,000. The sum of $2,571,021 was shipped by air express during the summer 'and it is believed at least $500,- 000 has been sent out in the mails 'or individuals have taken the gold | outside personally. With three dredges still working, indicaticns are that the season’s output will exceed the three million dollar point. CANDLE REGION PROSPEROUS ONE ENTIRE SEASON 2 Greatest Mining Activity| Evperienced Since 1901 Gold Rush | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 22— O. F. Weinard, who airplaned here from Nome, reports the Candle re- gion on Seward Peninsula, has had the greatest mining season since the gold rush in 1901. Operations are now closed but the outfits are preparing for an- other active season next year, Wein- ard said. P. A. Robbins, of Chicago, head of the Arctic Exploration Com- pany, the heaviest operators in the Candle district, is still on the ground superintending final operations. he advanced to more responsible positicns and wider territory, and for the past several years, repre- sented the canned goods department of Libby, McNeill and Libby in the Territory of Alaska. Mr. Morgan knew the owners of | the establishments he had business with, down through bookkeepers.{ the buyers and clerks to the deliv-| ery men. He was of a qui€t, un- assuming nature, always cheerful,| but it was hard to draw from him much about himself and only on rare occasions did he, at earnest solicitations, tell of his many and varied experiences in the sports field as well as commercial. — ., — The most important tributary of| the upper Mississippi is the Illinois river with a length of over 500 F.D.R. CRACKS DOWN ON 6.0, TAX METHODS Republican - Administration Reduced Levy in Higher Brackets, He Says LEFT BURDEN TO | LOW INCOME GROUP |Chief Executive Reiterates | No New or Increased | Tax Necessary Now | WORCESTER, Mass, Oct. 22 — | President Roosevelt in an address | here last night coupled an answer to what he called “talk about high under this administration” |with the assertion that the nation, |as in 1776 must choose this year | “between democracy in taxation {and special privilege in taxation.” The President spoke to a crowded |auditorium in his major speech in | his swing through New England. He | talked almost entirely on taxation |and repeated that new or increased | taxes are not necessary to balance |the budget and to begin soon the |rapid reduction .of the national debt, Eased Big Fellows The Chief Execuuve said that at | the time of the World War another | Democratic administration had pro- | vided enough taxes to pay the en- tire debt in 15 years and levied ac- cording to.the ability to pay, “but | succeeding Republican administra- |tions didn’t believe that principle |and there was a reason. They had | political debts to those who sat| |at their elbow. To pay these politi- |cal debts they reduced taxes to their friends in the higher brackets and left the national debt to be |paid by later generations. | “Because they evaded their obli- gation the depression of 1929 start- | ed with a sixteen billion dollar handicap on us and our children. The President said the same group would like to get back in power again. He argued that the New Deal had “improved and Americanized taxes” by the operation of the prin- | ciple of taxation according to the | ability to pay. | Ability to Pay The President asserted: “Here is my principle. Taxes shall be levied according to the abil- ity to pay. That is the only Ameri- can principle.” ‘Divorce M;l):Sol\;; Britain’s * R70my:711 i;riahgle % may marry one of his present wil on a recent cruise. AIR PILOTS OF ALASKA, BRAZIL One Sweltering, Other Shiv- ering, as They Swap “Trade” Dope CHICAGO, I, Oct. 22—S8. E. AT CONFERENGE i fe’s close friends. SlapsBabySo 1., SENATOR Hard She Goes to _!usnital | Young Father Fined, Sen- tenced to Six Months in Jail for Abuse | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 22. - - Frank Provost, 23 years old, pleaded Robbins sat coatless and sweltering | President Roosevelt said he had ! inherited from the previous admin- istration a tax structure whichim- posed an unfair tax burden on the low income groups and on the aver- | age American by a “long list of taxes on purchases for consumption —hidden taxes.” He declared that when the New Deal took office in 1933, 58 cents out of every dollar of Federal revenue came in hidden taxes as compared with, eliminating liquor taxes, only 38 cents of the Federal tax dollar now. VETERANS OF FUTURE WARS 1S SUSPENDED Activities Are Temporarily Halted But to Be Re- sumed in January PRINCETON, New Jersay, Oct. 22. —Veterans of Puture Wars, through the National Council, has advised all Post Commanders that it has temporarily suspended activities and closed the central office be- cause “our immediaté objectives have been reached.” The organization promised, how- ever, a renewal of activities in Jan- uary when Congress reconvenes with the introduction of unrestrict- ed pension bills for immediate pay- ment of bonus to veterans of wars to come, —eo— in a hotel lobby here complaining how hard it was to warm an air- plane motor with the temperature at 70 degrees below zero. A couple of chairs away, lounged William Paul Youngs, shivering a bit as he told a sympathetic cir- cle of fellow pilots how to keep a power plant cool when it is 130 degrees in the shade. The third international conven- tion of the Air Line Pilots’ Asso- ciation brought the two together from the northern and southern outposts of aviation. Robbins is here from his Pacific Alaska Airways job at Fairbanks, Alaska, and Youngs is here from Brazil, the scene of the Panair- Brazil line of operations. Winter Flying Robbins said the airplane is in- dispensable in the north because “seventy-five per cent of all flying there is done in the winter, from November to May, when heavy snow, ice. and bitter cold block all transportation but dog sled and the dogs can hardly compete with the airplane even in the coldest weath- e Robbins also said the “distance from Fairbanks to Nome is 530 air miles and a plane makes it in five hours while it takes dogs at least 28 days.” Robbins said it often requires an hour or more to warm a motor previous to a proposed winter flight. * Warming Motors “A large canvas, extending to the ground, is placed over the en- tire motor and heat from several blowtorches are circulated under A cedar tree four feet high is growing on the limb of a chinaberry| tree near San Augustine, Texas. the covering to warm it and oil (Continued on Page Three) 3 guilty to slapping his daughter, Vir- ginia, six months old, so hard be- cause she cried, that hospital treat- ment was required. Judge E. P. Woods sentenced him to 180 days in jail and fined him $500. Provost was accused of unjustifi- able punishment to minors. LETTERS SENT OUT IN TRADE TAX ACTION Immediate Response Is Re- ported by Federal Clerk’s Office Approximately 50 letters have been sent out by the Federal Clerk’s {office in connection with the col- lection of Federal business and trade |taxes in Juneau, it was reported at the Clerk’s office today. The let- |ters, prepared by Attorney Frank Foster, who represents the city in the co-operative action, and signed by the Federal Clerk, were dis- )pahchod yesterday and today there was immediate response, according to Deputy Clerk J. W. Leivers, in charge of the office in the absence (of Federal Clerk Robert Coughlin | with the Court in Ketchikan. | There were innumerable tele- | phone calls and personal inquiries, {he reported, from business people ;as to the payment of the taxes, and it is anticipated a considerable | collection will be forthcoming. | Her Baltimore home [Mrs, Simpson today | e & 0 0 0 T The latest developments in the “royal triangle” involving the beautiful Mrs. “Wally” Warfield Simpson, her husband, Ernest Simpson, and King Edward VIII of Great Britain, is that the woman in the case is to bring suit for divorce, after which—what is to happen—who knows. the Simpsons have “agreed to disagree,” are planning separate living establishments and that Simpson The meteoric social rise of Mrs. “Wally” Simpson is suggested by comparison of her old Baltimore home—where her mother took boarders for n time— and Balmoral castle in Scotland where she went as a guest of the King whom she also accompanied It is known that COUZENS DIES INHOSPITAL Millionaire Passes Awa Suddenly Today Fol- lowing Operation ed States Senator James Couzens, aged 64, independent Michigan Re- publican, strong supporter of the New Deal and recently defeated in the state primaries for renomina- tion, died suddenly this afternoon after undergoing an operation to relieve uremic poisoning. A career that is found more often in a story book than in actual life was that of James Cauzens. It was a career that took him from train butcher and $40-a-month car checker to success in the auto- motive industry and the distinction of being one of the wealthiest men in the United States Senate. Ford Millionaire It frequently was said that Mr. Couzens was one of the several mil- lionaires created by the Ford Mo- tor Company; that he put $2,500 in- 000,000. The statements are not exactly correct. It would be more nearly correct to say that Couzens was one of the creators of the Ford Motor Company, for certainly he put more than his money into the company when he joined hands in 1903 to organize what was destin- ed to become an industrial colossus. Testifying in the greatest income tax suit the government ever insti- tuted—a suit to enforce collection of $30,851,659.52 from Couzens and other former minority stockholders of the Ford Motor Company — an early associate declared: *“It was (due to his efforts that the company became a success. The team work of him and Mr. Ford contributed to make a bigger success than would have been possible had either gone on alone. Mr. Couzens gave the best part of his life to the com- pany.” Another associate said that 50 per "7 (Continued on P;}e Two) (Continued on Page Two) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 22,—Unit-} with Henry Ford and a few others| | | EFFORTS TO GET ONE YEAR TRUCE PROVES FAILURE Announcement Made by Rear Admiral Hamlet for Commission SHIP OWNERS READY TO ACT IN DISPUTE, 0Old Working Agreements Are Rejected by Mari- time Unions BULLETIN—San Francis- co, Cal, Oct. 22—The threat of a coastwise strike again darkened the maritime situa- tion along the Pacific Coast while both sides conferred after Rear Admiral Hamlet’s efforts failed to bring a truce of one year. Members of the unions, rank and file, declared that unless the ship owners accept ‘their conditions, regarded as fundamental, the unions have |no alternative than to strike |at midnight October 28. TRUCE EFFORTS FAIL SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 22.—Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, Federal Maritime Commission’s representative, issued a statement last night, |indicating that attempts to ‘tbring about a one year truce |between the ship owners and |the maritime unions, on the | basis of the old working agree- iments in the Pacific Coast ‘waterfront labor dispute, has |failed. | Rear Admiral Hamlet’s )statement said the ship own- iers agreed to the extension of ;the old contracts but the un- 1ions asked certain changes |after which the Pacific Coast | Employers _ Association re- quested the matter “go along to investigation of the entire situation.” Rear Admiral Hamlet an- nounced he will start hearings next Monday. It is understood that the changes asked by the unions, while not immediately mads public last’ night, were the same as their demands made previously regarding increase of wages, shorter hours and .better working conditions. to the company and took cut $30.- | ———— KILAUEA 18 ACTIVE; 1S SMOKING UP Hawaiian Volcano, Inactive for Two Years, Is Again Erupting HILO, Hawaii, Oct. 22.—Volcano Kilauea is reported to have begun erupting at 6 o'clock this morning. Visitors saw a host of rosy glow columns of smoke arising from the pit. Volcano Kilauea has been inac- tive since 1934. BUT IT ISN'T HILO, Oct. 22—The re| the eruption of the volcano excitement but this