The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENT? ITIME AGREEMEN RODSEVELTIN. PENNSYLVANI, CAMPAIGN TOUR Lays Down Hot Barrage in Two Cities Against Republicans GOVERNOR LANDON IN N. Y. TONIGHT GOP Nominee Has Confer- ence with Al Smith— Makes Statement (By Associated Press) President Franklin D. Roosevelt, bidding for Pennsylvania's 36 elec- toral votes, said at Harrisburg to- day that he knew the American people would not return the power to Republican leaders who “emptied the National market basket, but will go forward with those who suc- | ceeded in filling it once more.” President Roosevelt said the av- erage rise in factory payrolls has been 77 percent. At Wilkesbarre, the President said that a “handful” of employers are spreading pay envelope propaganda against the Social Security Act. Landon in New York Gov. Alfred M. Landon paused today to visit the grave of the late Theodore Roosevelt before his im- portant speech last night in Mad- ison Square Garden in New York City. ‘While President Roosevelt car- ried the exposition of the New Deal policy” in Pernsylvania and other eastern states, Gov. Landon con- ferred last night with Al Smith, Gov. Landon, after the confer- ence, said: “We are going to stick togethér for a long time.” President Roosevelt, following his speeches at Harrisburg and Wilkes- barre will go to Camden and Wil- mington before heading back to| Washington, D. C. President Roosevelt, in Harris- burg, delivered his speech from the Capitol steps to a crowd that was packed, shoulder to shoulder. Gov. George Earle and United States Senator Joseph Guffey accompan- | ied the President on his motor trip through Philadelphia and also the late day’'s program. .- MOLLISON | DELAYED FROM | HOPPING OFF Bad Weather Is Reported Prevailing Over At- lantic Ocean BULLETIN — Harbor Grace, Oct. 29.— Major Mollison took off at 3:30 o'clock this after- noon for London in the face of adverse weather predictions. ! HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland, Oct. 29.—Storms over the Atlantic, reported to London-bound Major James Mollison, British flier, kept him waiting here after yesterday’s flight. from New York. “Not’ 50 § " saild Major Mol- lison, delaying ‘his take-off. Major, Mollison is flying the “Flash,” a low-winged Bellanca monoplane - which is capable ; of cruising 230 miles an hour. ———— *- | STOCK QUOTATIONS o+ — CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 125, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 47%, Bethlehem Steel 72, Calumet and Hecla 11%, Columbia Gas and Electric 20%, Commonwealth and Southern 4%, Curtiss-Wright 6%, General Motors 70%, International Harvester 91%, Kennecott- 57, New York Central 467%, Simmons 46%, Southern Pa- cific 46%, United States Steel 77, United Corporation 8, Cities Service 4%, Pound $489 1/16. DOW, JONES AVERAGES Fortifications Now Bristling on Na_zi Borders Harbors Are Also Being Rebuilt—Picture Tak- ing Is Prohibited BERLIN, Oct. 29.—Bristling lines of concrete fortifications and ar- tillery emplacements are rising around Germany’s borders today. Ten gun bases have been started on rocky Helgoland Island off the Schlewsig coast while speed construction of other forts frontiers. In addition, the Helgoland marine harbor, destroyed by the Allies after the World War, is being re- built. Most of the Helgoland defense bases have been located on top of the rocky insular point where four large emplacements have been built and guns already moved into place. Half a dozen smaller gun positions are under construction in other sections. No Pictures Taken Island tourists are still permit- ted to explore the old part of the town and the outer edges of the rock but defense officials have pro- hibited visitors from making photo- are stationed throughout the zone graphs or sketches. Armed guards and one road leading to the center of the island is blocked to the pub- lic. been constructed and around the island’s largest light- {house are being evacuated to make |way for additional military and na- val construetioin, The work of fortifying thé other borders of the Reich has proceed- ed under strictest secrecy—partic- ularly along the French and Ger- {man frontiers on the west and Czechoslovakian frontier on the southeast. “Pill Box” i | Strongholds defenses have been described in of- {ficial statements as disconnected | “pill box” stronghofds opposite the elaborate concrete and steel for- tifications of the French line. Fort construction has doubled the volume of the German cement in- dustry in the last six months, business surveys show. Coincident with the defense prep- arations, a campaign of public edu- cation against .spies has been in- German citizens are constantly re- minded of the danger of disclosing defense facts to foreigners. Spies Are Numerous Spies, the public is told, are nu- merous and seek consistently infor- (Continued on Page Two) > NEW PROPOSAL PRESENTED IN P-l. TROUBLE A. F. of L. Suggests For- mula for Settlement of Seattle Paper Strike - SEATTLE, Oct. 29.—The Central Labor Council last night referred to, the committees on the Post In- telligencer news strike settlement a formula proposed by the executive committee of the American Federa- tion of Labor at Washington. The newspaper has accepted the plan and sent the executive committee's proposal to the Guild advisory com- mittee of the Labor Council. The A. F. of L. formula recom- mended the reinstatement of all strikers, the removal of the news- paper from the central labor body’s unfair list and immediate resump- tion of publication pending nego- tiations between the council and the management on wages and working conditions of edit orial workers. H. Richard Seller, President of the Seattle newspaper Guild chapter expressed dissatisfaction with the formula which, he said, offered no guarantees and was no more than the proposal rejected here previous- ly by the Guild. Spokesnien of the local Guild chapter said the A. The following are today's Dow, Jones ‘averages: s Industrials 176.32, rails 5898, utilittes 35:83. of L. executive committee had been “misled by false statements” ‘from the Hearst management. workmen along the western and southeaxstern Barracks for defense forces hgve residents The Rhineland and Black Forest augurated by the Nazi government. mation for the use of foreign gov-, ernments against the Fatherland. The propaganda campaign has even vinced that his company would be DEFENDERS OF MADRID GIVEN DUTSIDE AID Official Report Is that Gov- ernment Has Receiv- ed War Material BULLETIN — Paris, Oct. 29. —Informed Spanish sources said the new Government Army is equipped with Russian tanks and planes gathered in Spain and will attack the rear insur- gent armies in time to save Madrid. LONDON, Oct. 29.—Official ad- vices received this forenoon from Madrid stated the Spanish Govern- ment announced crytically it had “everything necessary for victory.” The phrase is generally interpret- ed here as meaning the defenders of Madrid now had obtained suffi- cient tanks, airplanes and other war material to meet the insurgent be- siegers on even terms. It is also officially announced that seventeen Fascist aircraft have been shot down. ITALIAN SUBMARINES ENTERING STRIFE ZONE PARIS, Oct. 29. — The Spanish Embassy announces it had confiden- tial information that a fleet of Ital- ian submarines are awaiting sailing orders at Gaeta, Italy, to establish a blockade of the Catalonian coast and perhaps attack the Spanisi Government stronghold. Officials of the Spanish Embassy warned that the Civil War in Spain mIgTT break out in international conflict at any moment as the situ- ation is most grave. CAPT, BENSON TO START DREDGING COMING SPRING |Pioneer Has Developed “Maginut"l‘ Um'que Method of Recov- (ample reward for leaving a warm E ering Gold Under Water Planning to return in the spring to start operations, Capt. Jobn ,Benson, accompanied by Mrs. Ben- |son, are passengers south on the | Northwestern. = Benson, an Alaska pioneer, is President of the Alaska Bayshore Dredging Company, which he reported, will start its operations .early in the spring. | The captain, who, with Mrs. Ben-| 'son, has been in Cordova for the | past six weeks, said he had finished | observations of likely gold Jbearing |sands in that section and was con- 1nble to mine profitably there. | He will, return in March, he said, with a ship fitted with the gold re- jcovery apparatus, but will continue |to Nome where he will operate dur- |ing the open months, returning to his locations in Prince William Sound later in the year. i Benson has developed a new and |unique method of gold recovery from under the surface of the wa- |ter. Using powerful suction dredg- es, gold bearing sand (first tested for its content by clamshell exca- | vators carried on the ship), is suck- ed on board and passed through gold recovering machinery, includ- ing newest types of sluice boxes and amalgamation apparatus. The ship, in the words of Capt. Benson, is ac- tually a floating gold mill, with limitless mining locations at its | disposal. \Landon, Hamilton {On Air Tomorrow 'And Saturday Gov. Alf M. Landon, Republican |Presidential nominee, will speak Iover a national radio hookup from Charleston, W. Va, tomorrow be- tween 6 and 6:30, Eastern Standard Time, or 2 p. m., here, according to a message today to Elton Engstrom, Republican Territorial Chairman, from the national committee. Sat- urday night, National Chairman John Hamilton will speak over the NBC blue network from Boston be- tween 9:45 and 10:30, Eastern Stan- dard Time, or &:QE p. m. here. B e NEW YORK, Oct. 29. — Thomas Coachrane, aged 65, partner in the ¥.|J. P. Morgan banking firm and Malcontents in Demo Ranks Are Taken for Ride Senator Clark | Pays His Re- spects to Smith, Hoov- er and Others ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Sena- tor Bennett Clark, Democrat, Mis- souri, said of Alfred E. Smith, Herbert Hoover and other advo- cates of Governor Alf M. Landon for President, that “none of these malcontent allies of the DuPonts and Morgans can now find words to say worse things about Mr. Roos- evelt than they have repeatedly in the past said about each other.” In a statement issued by the Democratic National Committee, Clark. said: “One of the most refreshing bits of comedy connected with the pres- ent campaign is the spectacle of Al Smith and Herbert Hoover, Jim Reed (former Democratic Senator from Missouri) and Bainbridge Colby (former Democratic Secre- tary of State) standing united with arms entwined, actuated by noth- ing in common save chagrin, and disappointment of personal ambi- tions, hatred of a successful rival and a conviction on the part of each that no policy could be hon- est which he did not enunciate, and no Administration could be patriot- ic of which he was not the head?" QUEER SUBJECT T0 BE DECIDED CHICAGO POLLS Question of Daylight Sav- ing Time to Be Settled Election Day CHICAGO, Oct. 29.—Chicagoans will decide on November 3, if an extra hour of afternoon daylight is ed before sunup during the win- ter months. If they decide it isn't, the local timepieces will be adjusted to bring the sun up, in effect, an hour ear-| lier, Voters making their choices for National, State and County offices in the General Election, will find these three questions also on the ballot. Shall Chicago Standard Time throughout the year? (The city has been on East- ern Standard time since March 1). Shall Chicago have Central Stan- dard Time throughout the year? Shall Chicago have Central Stan- dard Time, with daylight saving time from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September? The Chicago Federation of La- bor, whose work day generally starts while the office worker is still sipping his orange juice, is cham- pioning the fight for return to Cen- tral Standard Time—with the ex- tra hour of daylight at the start of the day. In the opposing camp are the late sleepers who want the sun they never see rise anyway to set an hour later in the afternoon. In the middle are the majority of bread earning Chicagoans, who are obliged to turn out before sun up only during the winter months. 6 HALIBUTERS SELL, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Oct. 29.—8ix halibuters arrived here today from the west- ern banks as follows: Eclipse with 44,000 pounds, Vansee 43,000 pounds, Pioneer 30,000 pounds, Lituya 20,- 000 pounds, Venture 34,000 pounds and Addington 26,000 pounds. The price averaged 10% and 10 cents a pound. The Blanco came in from the lo- cal banks with 11,000 pounds of sable and sold for 4% cents a pound WILLIAMS BACK Forest Examiner J. P. Williams re- turned to Juneau on the Zapora have' Eastern CAMPAIGN TOUR STORK DERBY CLAUSE WILL 60 T0 COURT Legal Action Will Prevent Individual Moves by Claimants TORONTO, Oct. 29.—Executors of the Charles Millar will, with the half a million ‘Mother’s clause,” an- nounced today that they will go into court on November 6 to determine if the clause is valid and what mother or mothers will be designat- | ed beneficiaries if the clause is valid and who gets the money. Counsel Andrew Hunter said this legal ac- tion will obviate the necessity of in- dividual action by the claimants. | Earlier today Mrs. John Nable re- tcrted a man tried to intimidate her )y saying: “Get out of the Millar ‘contest.” MORE TROUBLE AHEAD TORONTO, Oct. 29.—A distant kinsfolk of Charles Miller has made a formal demand to have the $500,- 000 baby clause of his will declared | null and void declaring it is “scan- dalous and contrary to public de- cency and morality.“ The kinsfolk is Miller Alexander, a butcher of Arabella. Miss Janey Allan, who was secre-| itary to the late millionaire for the Jlast seven years of his life, said she knew Miller was working on a new will several months before his/ death. ROBINSON ON Praises Administration and| Pays Respects to Al- fred E. Smith CANTON, Ohio, Oct. 29.—Sena- tor Joe Robinson of Arkansas, Sen- ate Democratic leader, declared that! the Roosevelt Administration “has kept the faith” and said that “if the business men of America wait for the balancing of the budget by Gov. Alfred M. Landon, they will wait for the morning of the res- urrection.” “The budget cannot be balanced; if we have to continue these extra- ordinary expenses,” Robinson said before a rally of the Stark Coun- ty Democratic Club. “If we had continued to do nothing like the Hoover Administration, we could have balanced the budget long be- fore this.” Deriding the deviation of former Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York from Democratic ranks, Rob- inson said: “Al Smith has taken a walk but he is mistaken in his gait. He really has the blind staggers.” WARRACK LOW BIDDER, SITK A P, 0 BULLDING WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — J. B. ‘Warrack, of Seattle and Juneau, has By DR. ALES HRDLICKA (Curator of Physical Anthropology Smithsonian Institution) WASHINGTON, Oct. 29— An- swers to the old questions of how and from where the Western Hem- |isphere became populated by the Indians who met early explorers from the Old Warld are gradually being formulated through the ex- tensive research explorations car- ried on by the Smithsonian Insti- tution in Alaska since 1926. These studies, which have ex- tended over most of the western coasts from Point Barrow to Kodiak Island and over the principal is- lands of the Bering Sea, have con- vinced most serious students that this continent was populated by migrants from Northeastern Asia. This deduction is based on the facts that man could not have orig- inated in the New World, and hence must have come from the Old; that IS ROOSEVELT | T0 STAY BOSS IF RE-ELECTED? Pros and C(;s— Are Consid- ered—It All Depends on Majority WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. — If President Roosevelt is re-elected, he will face a prospect of having to work with a Senate containing probably 40 or more Democratic Senators who will not be up for re- election before 1940. There may be more, likely not less. In addition, there probably will be 14 or more Republican Senators in like situation. The import of this is: If President Roosevelt in the past has exercised a whip-hand over Senators depend- ent upon administration support for Recent Developments in Alaska Discoveries Are Related by Dr. Hrdlicka the American abori gines are | throughout of one fundamental | race, the nearest relatives of which | exist to this day over the wide parts |of northern and eastern Asia; and | that the only practicable route for | man in such a cultural stage as he | must have been in at the time of his |first coming te America was that | between northeastern Asia and Al- aska. | Painstaking and difficult work of | the past summer and previous years | has unearthed many old villages and |a rich accumulation of artifacts | left behind by these early settlers. These indicate that settlements were established in Alaska and on islands of the Bering Sea many years ago, but due to the swift geo- logic changes which have and are underway in that section of the world it has been impossible to trace any human remains back before " (Continued on Page Seven) OLD “GIANTS” MISSING FROM 1936 CAMPAIGN By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) The pdet who pondered so yearn- ingly the whereabouts of the snows of yesteryear would find in this campaign strong inspiration for his plaintive muse. Where are the political giants of other times? What of those names known to fame which so lately adorned the headlines daily, and nightly rode the ether waves? Where are they hidden away? Some few of the great figures of the campaign might be recognizable, it is true, to the returning native, after a short visit to Mars. The voice of President Roosevelt would | ring familiarly. But through long weeks of cam- (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Twc) GLASS SIKORSKY ARRIVES HERE AT NOON TODAY Plane Will—‘.H—ope for An- chorage Tomorrow Morn- ing, Weather Permitting Flying their Sikorsky amphibian plane, on the return flight from Seattle to Anchorage, Pilot Don Glass and Co-Pilotr Gordon Mac- Kenzie arrived here shortly past noon today, landing at the PAA Airport. The plane came here from Ket- chikan this morning, and will re- main overnight, going on to An- " | chorage tomorrow morning, weath- er permitting. submitted the low bid of $154,888 for construction of the new Post Office building at Sitka, Alaska. Other bids are: MacDonald Con- struction Co., of St. Louis, $161,714; A. 8. Hansen Company, Seattle 071412, DEER HUNTER - LOST, RESCUED SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 29. —Lloyd Rawson, aged 21, deer hun- ter, was rescued this afternoon from 8 narrow ledge 1,000 feet above the floor of a canyon, where he had lain for ten hours, as bobcats prowled in the brush nearby. Raw- son sustained a broken leg in the fall. SR e o e d SUCCESSFUL TEST Another successful test was made last night by the Forest Service by after conducting timber cruise on the West Coast of Prince of Wal Island. ——————— radiophone with the Portland For- est Service office, it was reported to- day by Regional Forester C. H. Flory. Aboard the Forester, Mr. Flory went among the chief representatives of| The citrus experiment station at|d0Wn the channel with Capt. B. M. the Morgan copper industry, died|Ri here today. : iverside, .Calif., contains 386 var- leties of citrus fruits, and made the contact with the Portland statlon. Glass hopped from Seattle last Sunday and after being held down at Port Townsend, on account of fog, continued on to Alert Bay Tuesday. After stopping at Bella Bella yesterday, the plane arrived in Ketchikan last night. Fog pre-| vailed over much of the route. | Glass expects to leave Anchorage| again next Sunday for Seattle with a pay load of passengers. Is Under Arrest in Political Case DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 29. — Albert Penn, manufacturer, has been arrested on a complaint signed | by President J. C. Lewis, of the Iowa Federation of Labor, on a charge of violating the Jowa election laws in distributing, in pay envelopes, notices tending to “create a senti- ment against President Roosevelt. Penn said he understood he was arrested because notice criticising the Social Security Law damaged Roosevelt’s political chances. 4 PUBLICITY PLAN TURNED DOWN BY JUNEAU C. OF C. Expense Not Warranted Is Verdict of Committee Re- port Adopted by Group The plan to revive the Alaska Bureau of Publicity was turned! down by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce today when it adopted a report of the special committee made up of Allen Shattuck, H. L.| Faulkner and A. B. Phillips which‘ said, “We see no reason for asking (for the establishment of a publicity | bureau at this time.” M. 8. Whittier, Executive Secre- tary of the Territorial Chamber of | Commerce which started a referen- | dum of member chambers on the; matter, pointed out the value of| publicity and advertising as shcwn| in Hawaii and by varicus organi- zations in the States and urged that ' if the Chamber determined to turn the Bureau down it should consider further support for the Territoral! Chamber to carry on the work it now doing. No action was taken o the latter suggestion, a few voting | for the committee's report and the| balance of the small attendance not voting at all. In its four-page report, the com- mittee said it felt the expense of a bureau would be too great for the value received and argued that it| is the “tendency of the govern-| ments—national, state and local—| to spend eyer-increasing amount of money without, in most cases, due| regard for the sources of revenue or the effect upon those sources of inmreased expenditures.” The re- port continued: “There is a limit beyond which no government can safely go in the matter of taxation without threatening the continued successful operation of those in- dustries and properties which bear the major portion of the cost. “The situation now confronts us in this Territory of having imposed (Continued en Page Eight) ADVANGE STRIKE DEADLINE UNTIL 9 THIS EVENING Then If Walkout Called Will Effect Only Four Com- panies, Report Says COASTWISE OWNERS 'GRANT PAY INCREASE No Tie-up —E;pecled Ac- cording to Official State- ments After Conference BULLETIN — San Francisco, Oct. 29.—The Maritime Com- mission postponed its fact-find- ing session today until Monday to permit negotiations to pro- ceed in the waterfront dispute. “So long as there is hope of both sides getting together we do not wish to delay negotia- tions,” Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet of the Commission said. Representatives from both sides offered no objection to the postponement and Assistant La- bor Secretary Edward McGrady moved immediately to arrange hurried meetings. HOPES OF PEACE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 29.— Dramatic postponement early today of the threatened strike of 37,000 coast maritime workers brought hope of peace to the troubled wat- erfronts of the Pacific Coast when negotiations were unexpectedy re- sumed. The negotiations between the seagoing unions and one of three groups of steamship companies ex- tended through the night and brought such success, it was re- ported, that a walkout was post- poned until midnight tonight by the joint negotiating committee. The Maritime Federation Com- mittee sald it was informing all district councils of the postpone~ ment and said ‘“negotiations are progressing ‘favorably, but unless a satisfactory arrangement is reach- ed by 9 o'clock tonight, the strike will take effect at midnight to- night.” Operations Continue Today Operations continued today at all major coast ports and Federal Cone ciliator E, H. Fitzgerald predicted there “probably will hot be any strike at all” It was reported the tentative agreements were reached between these groups for pay increases by coastwise operators, a different group than the deep sea lines. What effect the agreements be- tween the coastwise operators and their employees will have on the threatened. strike was not immed- iately apparent. Effect Four Lines If a strike is called tonight, union leaders said that it was pos- sible it would take effect only against four major West Coast companies, the Dollar Line, Mat- |son, American-Hawalian and the Swayne Hoyt Line. o Such action, observers said, would keep the walkout from spreading to the Atlantic Coast. Yesterday a thousand left wing seamen in New York voted to join if a striké is called on the Pacific Coast. COPPER FRICE S GOING UP Foreign Buyers Paying 10 and One-Quarter Cents Pound for Export NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—Foreign buyers are. reported to be paying 10% cents a pound for copper on the export market. Domestic copper is quoted today at 10 cents a pound.” Scotch, Alright WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—True to their reputation, Scotch scientists cabled a one-word message to be read at ceremonies here in which a bust of Lord Melvin, British scien- tist, was presented to the Smith- sonian institution. “Felicitations,” it said. English scientists sent a cable 1500 words. Lord Melvin's greatest work was accomplished in his 50 years at the - University of Glasgow, Scotland, % of