The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 23, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7311. TWELVE PAGES JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRI DAY, OCTOBER 23, 1936. * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS (QUAKE SHAKES WEST ALASKA SECTIONS RUSSIA DROPS OUT OF SPANISH PACT NEW THREAT IS SEEN IN SOVIET ARMS ACTION Nation Takes Position She Can Supply Spain Muni- tions If She Wants to CLAIMS GERMANY AND ITALY HELPING REBELS Claims Right to Aid Span- ish Defenders on Same Premise, Statement MOSCOW, Oct. 23.—Russia today announced a virtual withdrawal from the European “hands off Spain” agreement, declaring she could not consider herself bound to a greater extent than other oth- er participants. Official sources said the Soviet Union is not actually bolting the agreement but rather claiming the nation has the same right to supply | the Spanish government with arms Muzzle-Loaders Vie Today in llhiu_Ma_th!es Guns of Early Days Will Be Used in National Shoot at Rising Sun PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, Oct. 23.— The tall muzzle-loading rifles which helped “win the West” are booming again in the Ohio Valley but targets instead of marauding Indians or game for scanty pioneer larders are marks for their heavy lead balls. Training for the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association’s annual matches at Rising Sun, 35 miles from Cincinnati, more than a hun- dred cap-and-ball gun fans have been polishing and priming old weapons which for decades hung silently above mantels or rested in dark closets. The revival of interest in shoot- ing the guns which grandfathers and great-grandfathers of present residents carried into the Ohio Val-, as she says is enjoyed by Germany | ley, said E. M. Farris, Portsmouth, and Italy, also Portugal. |Secretary of the Association, has Whether Russia will actually ship munitions to the Spnish defenders is not made perfectly clear. SURRENDER DEMANDED MADRID, Oct. 23 —Terrified wo-, men and householders raced into the streets of Madrid today as two Fascist planes droned overhead dropping thousands of leaflets threatening bombardment unless the Capital City surrendered. Anti-aircraft guns, mounted on roof tops, unleashed volleys but ap- parently the insurgent planes were not touched by the anti-aircraft shots. The leaflets dropped did not spec- ify any time limit for surrender. FRANC-GERMAN PACT IS SEEN AS “ROCK OF PEACE” French, However, Dubious Move Is Aimed to Crip- ple Alliance with Russia BERLIN, Oct. 23. — Wilhelm- strasse circles hailed the proposed Franco-German understanding as the real European “Rock of Peace,” | although viewed with suspicion, ac-| cording to advices from Paris, by the French as a clever intrigue to| freeze out Russia and break up the| Franco-Soviet military assistance pact. This would thereby pave the way for Germany to attack Rus-;’ sia. High Nazi officials are undaunt- | ed over developments and believe a * new Unifed States of Western Eu- | rope, embodying Germany, Italy, France and Great BsMain, is fore- shadowed. An accord is reported to have been| reached by Count Galeazzo Ciano,| Italian Foreign Minister, and Bar-| ron Konstantin von Neurath, Ger- man Foreign Minister. Gives Reasons Why Cardinals lns[[lag Race General Manager Rickey Declares There Was No Discipline ‘ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 23. — | Branch Rickey, Vice-President and | General Manager of thé St. Louis Cardinals, said lack of discipline cost the Cardinals “the easiest bas2- ball championship won in the Na- tional League in the last ten years.” Rickey said the Cardinals should 3. been so rapid and widespread that late entrants have had trouble lo- cating suitable rifles. “Most of the muzzle-loaders in good condition have been snatched up by the converts to the sport,” Farris said. “Now old time gun- smiths are being called upon to remodel and repair less desirable| arms of the Civil War period for usé in the matches.” The National SITKA GIVEN $12,500 SUM FOR PROJECT PWA Makes Award for Gymnasium and Also Athletic Field A grant of $12,500 to the town of Sitka, on a $27,000 gymnasium and athletic field project which Sitka formally applied for some time ago, has been awarded by PWA, accord- ing to a radiogram received by Gov- ernor John W. Troy this morning from Washington, D. C. In requesting PWA funds for the project the Town -of Sitka agreed to raise 55 per cent of the necessary $27,000 which the project calls for. Information as to the date ot starting the project will not be {available until the town of Sitka is |heard from. .- STORK DERBY 1S 0 FINISH - OCTOBER 31T / { 1 with Others for Big l War Secretary Joins Red Cross | Harry Woodring Jne of the first to join the 1936 ED DELANEY, WIELY KNOWN | VETERAN, DIES Merchandising Broker and Popular Legionnaire Passes After Operation Edward C. Delaney, 51, widely known Alaska merchandising broker, died at 3:55 this morning in St. Ann’s Hospital following an operation for stomach ulcers. He had been in the hospital since October 11, but ef- |forts to build up his strength had been unavailing and it was fin- aily decided to operate in a final {effort to save his life, as it was {Impossible for him to take suffici- ient food. The operation was per-| formed at 4 o'clock yesterday after- noon and he succumbed this morn- \ing. | Delaney, one of the most popular isalesmen to come to Alaska, had been in poor health for years, virtu- ally since the World War when he was badly wounded. He had under- gone many operations for the re- moval of shrapnel which he had re- | . Mrs. F. W. Boscher roll call of the national Red Cross was the new secretary of war, Harry H. Woodring, shown as he signed up with Mrs. Frederick W. Boscher, wife of Major General Boscher, chief of finance of the U. 8. army., Burns Alive Rather Than tRed-haired Mother in Race Money Prize TORONTO, Oct. 23.—Red haired' Surrender FORT CALQUIRER, France, Oct. 23 —Paul Ughetto, deranged wood- Association’s| Mrs. Pauline Clarke doesn't care shopper, sought for shooting to matches at Rising Sun will be heldéwhether she receives the stork der-ideath of seven persons, was burned from October 23 to 25 inclusive, with by fortune left by Charles' Miller|to death in a farmhouse this after- at least 14 events scheduled for in his ironic will that bequeathed noon when surrounded by police devotees of black powder shooting. brewery stock to prohibitionists and who set fire to the house when Gun cranks from more than a Jockey Club shares to horse race Ughetto ignored orders to surren- dozen states, many from the’ hill country of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Southern Ohio where “Ken- tucky” rifles first became famous for their deadly accurary have en- tered the matches. Events will be fired at ranges of 60 to 220 yards, Farris said, and there will be speclal matches for [ haters. |" “I am a mother because I want-| |ed to be,” said Mrs. Clarke, review- |ing the claims to the prize Miller jallotted for the Toronto mother, {bearing the most children in ',en‘ | years following his death in 1926. [ Mrs. Clarke’s position perhaps is| {the most difficult of all. Five of, ancient flintlock guns, and for cap|her ten children were born in the and ball hand guns. Owners of modern guns who laugh at tales of straight-shooting with muzzle-loading arms might in- spect the marksmanship of Wnlter‘ Grote, Canton, one of the asso- ciation’s many fine shots with the old weapons, Farris said. “Grote has no trouble placing five consecutive shots in a two- inch bulls eye at 100 yards with his Brockway rifle,” he said. | Talking a gun language of their/ own filled with terms popular when pioneer settlers of the Middle West gathered for turkey shoots or to defend their homes and towns against Indian attacks, the associa- tion marksmen will start today in the little Indiana village for their annual matches. Many, Farris sald, traveled great distances to match with other |gun cranks their skill in shooting the old-time rifles. One man from Norway, Franz Rosenberg, has made the trip to America to fire two ty- pical Yankee muzzle-loading rifles against the best American marks- men. On Holiday, Postman Wins Walking Crown SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 23. — Joe O'Farrel, a South Melbourne postman, walks on his days off. He finished five minutes ahead of the field in the 50,000-meter in- terstate walking championship here. O'Farrell says he trains on a fruit diet consisting chiefly of bananas and goes on hiking trips every week- end. | HOLDEN FLIES TO WHITEWATER MINE THIS AFTERNOON Pilot Alex Holden, in the Marine Bellanca, hopped to the Whitewater-Taku mine this after- noon at 1:30 with three passengers: five years since her husband left her. The children, although fath-| erless in the eyes of the law, are' all properly registered. The extra-| legal circumstances of their birth,' however, does Dot decrease their values as proper entries in the der- by. There is no other Toronto moth- er, except Mrs. Lily Kenny, who, claims twelve born, two has more| babies than Mrs, Clarke, in the last ten years. Should Mrs. Kenny fail to prove| her claim, Mrs, Clatke stands an' equal chance with two other moth-| ers of ten and with a third who' expects her tenth baby before Oc- tober 31, the zero hour. Mrs. Clarke is only 24 and talks candidly. When her husband left her, she fell in love with another man and began life with him and) expected to marry him as soon as she was free, but her husband will { not divorce her. More babies came to Mrs. Clarke and one now wonders what Miller, | who could spend half a million on a joke for a ghost t0 chuckle over, would say to that. S reee ILA IS BACKIN " COAST UNION, WAGE DISPUTE President Ryan Sends Word to San Francisco— der. s HERE YOU ARE! ELECTION BETS BEING PLAGED Lots of Figuring but Little Real Money, Says Literary Digest The current issue of the Literary Digest comments on the election bet- ting. With the World's Series past, American bettors are fingering wal- | lets for the Presidential elechon,} says the Digest. “Some honest-| to-goodness figuring but little real| money has appeared,” the Digest; continues. “Although commission- | ers throughout the country report increased activity which may break into four figure dollars any day.” “Patient bettor entrepreneurs wish| some one would ‘put up or shut up’ for the Landon forces,” the maga- zine continues, “but Republican money is being cagey; why cover anything at 1 to 1 they ask, when, in a few weeks, odds may be forced up to 3 to 1 and everyone can go on a spree.” The Digest reports the following odds in its October 17 issue: Wash- ington, D. C, 9 to 5 on Roosevelt, small bets; New York, Wall Street 12 to 5, Roosevelt; Jack Doyle 8 to 5 on Roosevelt; Robert Greene, 9 to 5 offered, 11 to 5 asked, Roose- velt; London brokers 2 to 1 Roose- velt; Los Angeles 2 to 1, Roosevelt; San Francisco, 2 to 1 and 11 to 5, Roosevelt; Detroit 8 to 5 Roosevelt; St. Louis 1 to 3 against Roosevelt, 2 to 1 against Landon; Chicago 9 to 5. (Landon money waiting for 3 to 1), Seattle 2 to 1 and 9 to 5, Rumors Quieted SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 23— The International Longshoremens’ Association is supporting the Pacific Coast longshoremen, said word re- ceived here today fromi Joseph A. Ryan, International President, with headquarters in New York City. This word quieted rumors that the Duncan McLeod, Vergne Hoke and|[ILA would not support the Coast! Alfred Humphrey, Holden will make|ILA because it refused to settle the return flight to Jyneau this'with the operators unless granted afternoon. demands of other maritime unions, Roosevelt. Juneau no betting recorded, or odds established but it is said some Democratic money looking for bets. It is pointed out that Wall Street odds started at even money in Jan- uary, climbed to 6 to 5, and 7% to 5 on Roosevelt in June, then mount- ed to 8 to 5. The morning after the| radio speeches by Knox, Roosevelt and Al Smith, the odds shot up to 12 to 5, with Republican money, ac- (Continued on Page Six) IMAINE VOTERS THREATENED, IS Chairman Lonegran Tells of Results of Inves- tigation WASHINGTON, Oct. | ed States Senator Augustine Loner- |gan, Chairman of the Special Sen- |ate Campaign Expenditures Com- mittee, said its agents in Maine re- !pon. that “thousands of voters were 23.—Unit- REPORT, PROBERS | ceived in first line engagements dur- |ing the war. This last spring he was |in the Lettermen General Hospital in San Francisco for eight weeks while surgeons removed a piece of shrapnel from near his heart. He still carried another piece so near his heart it could not be removed. Enviable War Record Delaney had an enviable war ser- vice record. Born'in France, he came to this country only to be orphaned |at the age of eight years and had to make his own way in the world since. He became a naturalized citi- zen and had gone to French Moroc- |co just before the war as a carto- grapher for a mapping company. As France entered the war, he joined the French Foreign Legion and jserved in Algiers, being many times | wounded. When America entered the conflict, Delaney transfered to the American forces and served for the duration of the war with the 5Americnn troops, taking part in sev- |eral of the major engagements. Back in this country after the war, the veteran engaged in various threatened with disqualification as commerical pursuits and for the last voters because of their status on the Seéven or eight years had covered relief rolls and many voters failed |Alaska for commercial houses in the to appear to register their vote be- States. Among them were Carter, cause they had been told they would | Rice and Company, paper house, be challenged.” {Puget Sound News, Conklin Pen Senator Lonergan said investiga- Company and Sunset McKee Sales- tors may have more developments P00k Company. He also represented as the probe continues. the J. B. Burford Company of Ju- i neau throughout the Territory. Wife Former Juneau Girl cuHDUVA HIT Mrs. Delaney, who lives in San BY HIGH WIND; j $.3. MAN HURT jeral months of each year in the sy | Territory. Francisco, was the former Janet ' Johnson of Juneau, who was con- |nected with the U. 8. Forest Serv- |ice office here in 1934 and early '1935 prior to the couple’s marriage. The couple made their home in the | California city though “Ed,” as he \was known to hundreds, spent sev- First Officer of Steamer, Delaney was & member of the Val- |dez Post of the American Legion Noflubestern Knock- |ana at the 1ast Department - con. nconscious | vention here in Juneau represented |that Post and was elected alternate | National Executive Committeeman CORDOVA, Alaska, Oct. 23. First Officer Albert Meyer, of the steamer Northwestern, was painfully but not seriously injured Thursday when a strong wind picked up a gangplank on which he was walk- ing and turned it completely over, hurling him against the guard rail and knocking him unconscious in which condition he remained for more than one hour. The wind, accompanied by a regu- lar downpour of rain, reached a ve- locity of 36 miles per hour. While the wind was hitting it up at Cordova there was a downpour for fair yesterday. The rain fell to the measured depth, according to weather bureau figures, of 8.76 inches during the 24-hour period with 556 inches splashing down from 4 a. m. yesterday to 4 p. m. in the afternoon. This is the heavi- est rainfall in October ever record- {ed. There have been heavier rain {falls, for instance one in August, |1927, which was 1044 inches, sort |of a flood. —————— State Buys Red Tape OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The State of Oklahoma is buying 4,500 feet of red tape. It will be used, however, in the art department of the Oklahoma College for Women at.Chicgasha, * from Alaska. He had long been an active member of the Legion and {had scores of friends not only in ithe Legion but throughout the north, The body is at the C. W. Carter |Mortuary pending word from his widow as to funeral arrangements. WORLD SERIES PLAYERS GET THEIR CHECKS Losers Share Is Record— Same as Total Re- ceipts for Classic NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—The New York Giant's world series cut is $4, 655 for each player, a record for a losers share. The Yankees will each get $6,430. The total receipts of the series was $1,304,399, a new record. Thirty-six Yankee players and thirty-two Giants received their checks today. Hog Ailment, So Far, Is Confined to0 ne Ranch Twenty Deaths of Hogs, in Matanuska, Were Not on Colony Farm FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 23.— Hog cholera is prevalent at Matan- uska said a report received here to- day by Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, pres- ident of the University of Alaska, from L. T. Oldroyd, extension ser-, vice director at the Matanuska col- ony at Palmer. Dr. Jules B. Loftus, Territorial veterinarian, will leave for the scene with serum from Juneau. LOFTUS GIVEN ORDERS Dr. Loftus will leave Juneau on the first available transportation to Matanuska, either on the PAA Electra, scheduled to leave here to- morrow, or the Sikorsky amphibian, due through Juneau on its way from Seattle to Anchorage within a few days. If he takes the PAA plane, he will lgave Fairbanks immediate- ly by the Alaska Railroad for Mat-' anuska. “It is difficult to diagnose the ail- ment which the hogs died until I get there” Dr. Loftus said. “The symptoms reported indicate that they might have died from any one of four or five infectious diseases of hogs. “So far, twenty hogs are reported to have died on the M. D. Snodgrass farm. Snodgrass is not a colonist, but an oldtimer in that country, formerly director of the Experiment Station at Fairbanks but now a farmer in the Matanuska Valley.” “The infection should run a course of about ten days or two weeks, and then peter out,” Dr. Loftus said, and added that the epidemic should be nothing to be alarmed about. Ross L. Sheeley, manager of the Matanuska project, has wired Se- attle for 600 doses of serum to be taken north by Pilot Don Glass when he returns to Anchorage on his Sikorsky plane, now in Seattle, according to Dr. Loftus. To aid him in his diagnosis of the hog ailment, Dr. Loftus has asked that some of the hogs that have died be kept in cold storage until his arrival at Matanuska. Dr. W. W. Council, Territorial Health Commissioner, replied to the telegram received yesterday from Walter E. Huntly of Palmer with the information that the Deputy Health Commissioner there would have no power to quarantine pos- sibly infected hogs, and informed him that Dr. Loftus, as a represen- tative of the Bureau of Animal In- dustry, who would arrive there soon, would have power to quarantine or kill animals infected, should it be necessary. NAB SUSPECT IN WEYERHAEUSER KIDNAP PROBE liam Mahan Taken by G- Men in San Francisco WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—J. Ed- gar Hoover, head of the Department of Justice enforcement unit, an- nounced today the G-men had ar- rested Edward Flish, who Hoover described as the former assoclate of Willlam Mahan, Weyerheuser kid- naper. Flish was captured in San Fran- cisco and will be removed to Ta- coma, Wash., shortly where he is wanted for questioning in connec- tion with location of part of the unrecovered ransom money paid to the kidnapers of George Weyer- haeuser’ last spring, Hoover said. Flish, the G-men chief said, ad- mitted he accompanied Mahan throughout the West while Mahan ANCHORAGE IS ROCKED DURING EARLY EVENING People Rush Into Streets— Theatre Emptied— Buildings Sway SEWARD ALSO FEELS MOVEMENT OF EARTH Lights Swing Wildly at Fairbanks — Disturb- ances Continuing ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 23.— An earthquake described by old- timers as the worst in many years shook the city at 8:25 o'clock last night. The movement, east to west, last- ed for several seconds. Many persons ran from down- town stores and stood on the streets and watched the buildings rock. Little damage is reported. A large window in the office of the Anchor- Associate of Convicted Wil-! age Daily Times was broken and plaster was chipped in many build- ings and houses. The most serious quake damage appeared to be the Odd Fellows Hall, a2 three story concrete building which is occupied on the ground floor by the Anchorage Times. ‘Three ‘other ‘down town windows were cracked and several bottles of liquor were lost by one liquor store through breakage, the bottles being shaken from the shelves. The Enipress theatre was crowded and about half of those in the audi- ence walked out orderly, no pushing and no screaming when the qulle was at its height. When the earth movement was over, the patrons of the theatre returned for the finish of the movie show. Lesser tremors were felt through- out the night with especially notice- able ones at 10:20 and 10:45 with two others this morning, at 5:27 and 6:25 o'clock.- LIGHTS SWING, FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 23. — An earthquake was felt here for 45 seconds starting at 8:30 o'clock last night. Lights swung wildly, dishes rattled on the shelves and some were jogged off and smashed on floors. No serious damage is reported. CORDOVA RATTLES CORDOVA, Alaska, Oct. 23. There were a series of earth shocks felt here during the night but no distinctive damage is reported. SEVERE AT SEWARD SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 23.—This section was shaken at various times beginning at 8:25 o'clock last eve- | 1ing, throughout the night with the last recorded one being at 6:30 o'- ‘lock this morning. Some of the hocks were extremely heavy. Pacific Coast of South America Has Earthquake Severe Movement Is Re- ported Occuring Early This Morning | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—A se- |vere earthquake on the Pacific side |of South America, early this morn- ing, is reported by the Georgetown University Observatory. The disturbance took place 3,300 | miles southwest of here and started at 1:33 o'clock this morning with & maximum intensity at 2 o'clock. Movements ceased at 4 o'clock. ONE HALIBUTER SELLS, SEATTLE was a fugitive from justice after| sfixnu Oct. 23. — Only one the kidnaping. He also admitted, halibuter arrived today Hoover asserted, assisting in ex- changing portions of the ‘“hot” ransom money for good money. western banks. The Radio came in . with 4,500 pounds and sold for 11%. and 10%. There were no other sales.