The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 26, 1936, Page 1

r l THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7313. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, | 936, ___ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS STRIKE FEAR GROWS IN COAST DISPUTE SPANISH REBS DRAMW CLOSER, CAPITAL CITY Government Defenders Re- ported Defeated, 30 Miles from Madrid PORTUGAL REPLIES TO SOVIET CHARGES Twenty Thousand Russian Volunteers Reported on One Front LONDON, Oct. 26.—According to official advices received here, the Spanish insurgents have blasted a new path in the drive on Madrid, overwhelming a strong force of Government defenders north of Ar- anjuez, important communication center, 30 miles south of the Cap- ital. In Madrid, Government com- manders rushed truckloads of new- ly recruited militia to bolster the sagging line. Portugal Court Charges Advices received here state Por- tugal charges Soviet Russia with responsibility of the bloody civil war in Spain, making reply to Rus- sian charges that Portugdl is send- | ing military aid to the Fascists. | Soviet Volunteers Early forenoon advices report the arrival of 20,000 Russian volunteers to bolster the Catalina defense. | Fly To Madrid It is also reported that two large| airplanes have left Toulouse,! BEAD A DAY SAVES BOY For 26 weeks, 20-months-old Robert Fowler of Washington, D. C., pic- tured here with his mother, Mrs. Tyrus Fowler, has swallowed each day a steel bead which drops down a linen thread through the esoph- agus to the stomach and out through a tube in the abdominal wall. The treatment followed operations throat eating lye, and starvation performed when the lad burned his threatened because of the closing esophagus. At first the beads were a fortieth of an inch In size, but now they measure an inch and a half. The esophagus now approaches normal size. (Associated Press Photo) COLONY AT MATANUSKA Wife of Alaska Fisherman Given Baby in Beer Parlor SEATTLE, Oct. 26.—The police are seeking the mother who gave STOCK PRICES TAKE DECLINE: HEAVY BREAK Many Shares Tumble. from One to Three Dollars During Trading NEW YORK, Oct. 26. — Stocks broke today from $1 to $3, the break especially hitting shares ‘of _steels, motors, lead in the landslide. The slide is attributed to the desire of many traders to shelve commitments, ! pending the outcome of election. Transfers today totalled 1,500, 000 shares. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Oct. 26. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 123%, American Power and . Light 11%, Anaconda 44'%, Bethlehem Steel 68%, Calumet and Hecla 11%, Columbia Gas and Electric 18%, Commonwealth and Southern’ 3%, Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors 70%, International Harvester 89%, Kennecott 55, New York Central 44%, Simmons 44%, Southern Pa- cific 42%, United States Steel 73%, United Corporation 7%, Cities Serv- ice 4%, Pound $4.88%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 172.30, down 3.67; rails 57.31, down 1.29. COPPER TAKES rails and utilities which Forest Fires Rage FINALWEEK OF CAMPAIGN 1 and women were menaced by the holocaust. Yosemite Valley also was surrounded by fires. were reported also in Calaveras, Mendocino, Fresnd and Madera counties. A sudden shift of wind saved three historic Tuolumne County towns, including Sonora, pictured above. trial district of Sonora, in the far-famed Mother Lode mining region. lowing around Standard City, where many miners’ cabins were burned. Simpson Versus Simpson Case On Tomorrow in Historic Sierra Regions Three persons were dead, dozens injured and incalculable damage done by an epidemic of forest and brush fires which raged throughout northern California recently. Dry winds swept flames through Tahoe National Forest, in Placer County, completely destroyed the town of Westville, where 150 men Blazes The airview shows the indus- At upper right, flames are bil- PRESIDENT TO SUDDEN HALT IS CALLED TO INVESTIGATION Maritime Commission Post- ponse Inquiry Until Thurs- day Without Comment NO AGREEMENT, SHIPOWNERS SAY Labor Kipdets Rapett 100 Per Cent of Union * Men for Walkout SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26. —Fear of a waterfront strike on the Pacific Coast grew more ominous this morning when the Maritime Commis- sion’s investigation of the waterfront dispute adjourned until Thursday without ex- planation of the postpone- ment. Gregory Harrison, Attor- ney for the coast committee of shipowners, said the con- tinuance was ordered with “full acceptance” by the ship- owners, who indicated they would reject the compromise offered by the “solid front” laborites Saturday which list- ed four conditions under 2 i .| MAKE ANOTHER France, to evacuate women and| IPSWITCH, England, Oct. Justice Sir John Anthony Hawke, - ADVANGE ; NOW her baby girl to Mrs. Georgia Ness, which they said a strike would children from the Embassies in Ma- | drid. ! Madrid Isolated | The Facist Government at Bur- gos snnounced Madrid has been completely isolated from the rest of Spain and predicts the fall of the| Spanish Republic “within three or| ten days.” ————— MOTHER DIES NOT KNOWING SON SUIGIDED SEATTLE, Oct. 26.—Mrs. Fran- ces Zioncheck, aged 57, died in a loeal hospital last Saturday with- out knowing her son, the former United States Congressman Marion A. Zioncheck. Puneral services for Mrs. Zion- check will be held tomorrow and the remains will be laid beside those of her son. M¥s. Zioncheck had been ill a long time. Mrs. Zioncheck was born in| Poland and came to the United States 35 years ago. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Anne Nadeau. : ————————— HUNTING AND HEALTH FLIGHTS MADE BY SIMMONS IN TOTEM TwWo| flights, kept Sheldon Sim- mons' in the Alaska Air Transport Bellanca busy yesterdey and to- day. Sunday Simmons flew a party of duck hunters to Sweetheart Flats, leaving at 7 o'clock in the morning and returning at § o'clock in the afternoon. Members of the party were: Percy Reynolds, Holly Trip- lett, Loss Bernard, Leo White and Johnny McLaughlin, This morning at 7:30 Simmons hopped to Kake with a group of Territorial Health officers inclug- ing Ben L. Grimes, Dr. Carswell, Dr. W. W. Council and J. 8. Cul- berson. On the same flight he took Burford Norton to Warm Springs Bay. At Kake, Dr. Rae Carlson was picked up and flown to Peters- burg. Returning to Kake, Simmons picked up the; health officers and returned to Jraeau at 2:30 this af- ternoon. ———e—— FUNERAL FOR MRS. HANSON TODA AT GARTER MORTUARY Funeral services for Mrs. Francis Hanson, who died at the Govern- ment Hospital Qctober 21, were held at the C. W. Carter Mortuary today. Services were performed by the Rev. David Waggoner of the First Presbyterian Church. Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery. Surviving Mrs. Hanson are her| and there is steady progress PROGRESSES [Roots Getting Deeper— New Buildings Under Construction, Etc. PALMER, Alaska, Oct. 26.—The Matanuska Colony is getiing roots deeper into the soil for permanency in building. An office and six staff houses will be completed within a couple of months. Three churches are going up and the corporation laundry will be op- erating soon. A hatchery with a 28,000 egg ca- pacity is expected to be completed by spring. Creamery Opened The creamery was opened last week but there is little cream as yet, but the egg production has increas- ed during the past six months. The colonists have sold all avail- able products raised this year, pur- chasers being those along the rail- road belt.. The produce is being handled through a cooperative ag- ency. New Colonists Four new colonist families arrived Satwrday bringing the total famil- ies to 164. There are now only seven vacant tracts. The recent earthquake broke two water lines, also destroyed consid-| erable liquor in a store in Matan- uska, the nearest thirst dispen- sary, by toppling bottles off the shelves. Several applications for liquor li- censes in Palmer have been re- Jjected. HOGS TO BE IMMUNIZED PALMER, Alaska, Oct. 26‘—Pre-! cautions are being taken against| @ hog disease by Extension Agent Joseph Flanke, who says it has cholera symptoms. M. Snodgrass, old settler, has lost 35 pigs during the last few days. Six hundred pigs in the Matanus-t ka Valley will be immunized. It is believed the situation is now | under control. Associate Justice Stone Ill at Home WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. — Asso- ciate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, of the Supreme Court of the Unit- ed States, is confined at his home father, Frank Hubbard, her step- mother and two half-sisters, all of today and will perhaps remain there for several days on account of an’ intestinal ailment. wife of an Alaska halibuter fish- erman, at a beer parlor here. The mother said she could not support the baby. ——o——— BROWDER NOT ALLOWED TO TALK, TAMPA Band of Men, Leaders Wearing A. L. Caps, Break Up Meeting TAMPA, Florida, Oct. 26.—A band of men, whose leaders wore Ameri- can Legion caps, slugged their way to a flag draped stand in a vacant lot yesterday where Earl Browder, Communist Presidential candidate, was starting to make an address, and broke up the meeting. A dozen persons, including a cou- ple of women, were injured slightly. Browder escaped injury and hur- ried to his hotel to await departure of a train for Detroit, where he is scheduled to speak tomorrow night. ————— FLOODS TAKE OUT BRIDGES, COPPER RIVER Traffic to Cordova Tied Up for Week — More Damage Done CORDOVA, Alasku, Oct. 26.—Un-, usually heavy rains have kept the Copper River and Northwestern railway closed to traffic for more than one week and it appears now that it will be at least another week before trains will get through. A 56-foot truss bridge which was washed out at Mile 50 seven days ago was replaced, then two wooden spans went out again last Priday. There are also many mud and rock | slides between here and Chitina and one long bridge is out north of Chitina. JUDGE MRARY DIES, PORTLAND PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 26.—Fed- eral Judge H. McNary, aged 69, brother of United States Senator AT TEN CENTS Metal Reaches Highest! Price Since March 1931 —Reasons Given NEW YORK, Cct. 26. — Major copper producing companies today boosted the price of domestic cop-. per one quarter of a cent to ten cents a pound. This is the highest pricé since March, 1931. The raise in price indicated the quickening demand for the metal as the result of a fast building pace and the recent speeding up in the armament’s race in Europe. More New Deal Laws to Come Up, Hi_gh Court WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. — Two cases involving the constitution- ality of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, were added today by the Su- preme Court to the list of New Deal litigation awaiting a final decision. This is the brief announcement made, by the highest Tribunal in the United States. The Supreme Court will now pass on challenges of legislation by the Associated Press of Washington, Virginia and Maryland, and the Coach Company. In acting on ap- proximately thirty appeals the Court refused to speed up final ruling on the petition of Illinois Com- munists to compel that State’s of- ficials to place the names of their candidates for President and Vice- President on the November 3 bal- lot. The Associated Press case involves the discharge of Morris Watson, as- sertededly for cause. Watson con-| tended the cause was for Newspaper Guild activity. MISSIONARY GROUP MAKES PLANS FOR NOVEMBER MEETING Plans for the November meeting of the Women's Interdenomina- tional Missionary Society were made at a meeting of society mem- bers Saturday night. On the November program, Mrs. O. Carmichael will talk on mis- sionary work in the Southern Mountains, where she spent several years in missionary services. Mrs. O. L. Kendall will be devotional leader. At the meeting last night were Mrs. Gertrude Lackey, president; . IS BUSY ONE {Roosevelt and Landon Will Deliver Their Last Addresses WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—While! | President Franklin D. Roosevelt| :penned speeches Saturday for the| |final campaign drive, Gov. Al!redg M. Landon moved toward his clos- |ing eastern trip with a halt at In- dianapolis to discuss the program ifor world peace and criticize the ’Adminismmon’h 1oreign policy. The | ‘chubhcan nominee told a Hoosier |audience that President Roosevelt had attempted to put the United| States in the forefront of sanction-| ist powers against Italy and “his |action made it probable that if war; ihad come, we would have been in-| (volved.” | President Busy In the quiet study of the White House, President Roosevelt spent| Saturday dictating rough drafts of | his major political addresses for| delivery in Pennsylvania and New York during the closing days of the campaign. The President will resume his| travels tomorrow when he leaves for New York to make an address in| |connection with the Statue of Lib- erty ceremonies. | Alfred E. Smith made his fourth | {address against the New Deal in| | Pittsburgh. Lemke Campaigns | At Sioux City, Representative | William Lemke, Union Party candi- date for the Presidency, asserted that the Agriculture Department officials are “still a mad orgy, de-“ stroying and restricting production | of the essentials of life.” | | |Navy Planes Roar : QOut Over Pacific, Secret Maneuvers HONOLULU, H. I, Oct. 26.—Forty seaplanes of the Unitpd States Navy, carrying 110 officers and men, roared out this afternoon to the westward beginning an extensive secret maneuvers over a large area of the mid-Pacific. — e ZYNDA RETURNS HOME 8. Zynda, proprietor of the Hotel Zynda, who has been in Seattle | for several weeks, returned to Ju- neau aboard the North Sea. ——— FOR PIONEERS' HOME John Wilcox, Jack Lindsley and A. 8. Kemp, left aboard the North Sea for Sitka where they will enter the Pioneers’ Home. —_—————— RETURN HOME D. Penton and wife, visiting in| Juneau for the past week, left on late today, set the hearing in the' Assizes divorce suits and the list is headed by the notation: “Simpson. !Chief Executive Entering vs. Simpson at 2:15 o'clock tomor- row.” The svelte, dark-eyed friend of King Edward, walted auxiously in seclusion and crowds stood expect- antly outside the court. ‘DICTATORSHIP’ DENOUNGED BY 6.0.P. LEADER Landon Char—ges New Deal Leading Toward Misery, Poverty, Helplessness ABOARD LANDON TRAIN EN- ROUTE TO PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.—Gov. Alf M. Landon said to- day that the “overwhelming issue” of this campaign is whether the American people “want dictator- ship,” contending “this foreign pat- tern is becoming clearer.” The Governor has been treated for a bad cold and sore throat by Dr. L. F. Spake, who said his con- dition was much improved. BALTIMORE, Oct. 26.—Gov. Lan- don opened his Atlantic seaboard drive here, picturing “fundamental New Deal policies leading step by step toward misery, poverty and hopelessness out of which dictator- ships arise.” The Governor made his address during a half hour stop here enroute to Philadelphia where he speaks tonight. IN PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 26. — Gov. Landon arrived here in a |drizzling rain. Several war veter- |ans, who said they knew him when |in the army, pushed through the po- Ilice lines at the station to shake his | hands. Gov. Landon pulled his Le- |gion Service cap out of his pocket, iput it on and the crowd cheered. | Crowds pressed to the center of the |street as he drove to Independence Hall and then to the hotel. |Japanese Warships | Pass in Review as Emperor Looks On KOBE, Japan, Oct. 26.—Emperor Hirohito reviewed 107 warships participating in naval maneuvers ion Sunday. | vessels were prevented from land- ing here and several were forced to | proceed to Yokohama. — e, Allan Jones and his wife, Irene | Hervey, are trading their yacht for Charles L. McNary, is dead here|Mrs. Carmichael, Mrs. Marie Os-|the North Sea for their home in|a speedboat and a cabin at a near- at his family home, wald and Mrs. Ralph Waggoner. Sitka, l“ by mountain resort, | Because of the maneuvers, foreign | SWING IN EAST ! This Week in New York i { and Pennsylvania WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Aside from a speech to negro students and educators, President Roosevelt de- |voted most of today to preparing |for his final campaign swing into !the East’'s most populous districts. | His speech today was non-politi- cal, dedicating the Chemistry build- iing at Howard University. The President will leave for the north by special train tomorrow night on a speaking tour which will take him into New York, Pennsyl- vania, New Jersey and Delaware. The eve of election the President will broadcast his final appeal in a 15-minute talk Monday night either from his Hyde Park home or Pough- keepsie, six miles away. STORK NEAR | MRS. BAGNA, IN TORONTO Claimant of Half Million Dol- lar Prize Money May Lose Out TORONTO, Oci. 26.—Mrs. Grace Bagna, who is claiming nine babies already in the Miller Stork Derby, is in bed today expecting the tenth baby. It is learned that two of her chil- dren have not been registered, dim- inishing her chances in the share of half a milion dollars’ prize money. “I will go to the Premier him- self,” ‘said Mrs. Bagna regarding forfeiture of her claims to the prize money. “I can't understand it. They assured me the births were recorded,” J, GUSTAFSON Long Time Employee of | Alaska Road Commis- [ sion Is Suicide | PAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 26— John Gustafson, aged 50, employed | for a long time by the Alaska Road Commission, was found dead Satur- day in a hotel room. Authorities | pronounced Gustafson a suicide by poison. Gustafson is survived by a widow erett, Wash, TAKES POISON be eliminated. Labor leaders said a ballot of the membership on the ref- erendum question of whether the Unions’ joint negotiations committee should be given au- thority to call a strike after Wednesday was being counted today. Harry Lundeberg, Sec-. retary of the Sailors Union said “they are about 100 per cent in favor of striking.” Later Admiral H. G. Hamlet, Commission representative, saild the postponement of the Commission’s investigation was to allow attorneys of each side to continue meetings to adjust their differences. Attor- neys, however, declared no meet- ings were scheduled. adviser, sald: “Evidently the Marie time Commission is not interested {m & tieup in the shipping industry lon'the Pacific Coast.” Ransom Money Pagser Says He I8 Guilty Man Denies He Is Implicated in | Weyerhaeuser Kid- ! naping, However | SEATTLE, Oct. 26.—Edward Fliss, aged 30, a waiter, pleaded guilty to- |day to the Federal charge of at- tempting to pass $265 of the Weyer~ haeuser $200,000 ransom money here last February. | Fliss, who arrived here by train from San Francisco where he was arrested last week, pleaded inno- |cent of the charge of accessory af- ter the fact in the kidnaping, The charge carries a penalty of life im= prisonment. Fliss joked with the newspaper- men when arraigned before Unit- |ed States Commissioner Elliott at |8 o'clock this morning in the brief court session. When asked to make his plea, Fliss said: “I will make a plea of guilty on passing ransom money, but I can't see myself as an acces- sory after the fact.” The cases will be considered by the grand jury in Tocoma on No- vember 10. — - e Capt. John M. Clark and Chief John Newmarker, steamboat ine spectors, returned to their Juneau and seven year old daughter in Ev-|office on the steamer Alaska after ! an inspection trip to Ketchikan, 'H. G. Melnikow, International Longshoremen'’s Association 'labor |