The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIX., NO. 7330. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS PLANES DROP BOMBS ;PLAZA CROWD SLAIN Scene of Horror Takes Place Following Raid of Fascists BODIES OF INNOCENT HORRIBLY MAIMED Five Shells Explode Among Men, Women, Children Gathered in Open MADRID, Nov. 14. — Insurgent bombers flew over the city today and discharged high explosives into a mass meeting that thronged the Plaza, killing an estimated 53 per- sons and wounding several hun- dred. Five of eight bombs known to have dropped exploded among the throng in the Plaza. Stung into a fury by the raid, Madrid’s defense Commander, Gen. Jose Miaja ordered his forces to “wipe out” the attackers and like- wise use no mercy. Pollowing the explosion of the plane dropped bombs, the Plaza was turned into a scene of horror, bodies of men, women and children maimed beyond recognition. ——————————— SHORTAGE OF BUTTER, EGES AT ANCHORAGE Meat Also Low But One Operator Claims He Can Get Supply ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 14— There is an egg and butter shortage here, two stores being absolutely out and others saying their supply will last only for a few days. Some restaurants and markets are running low on meat while others have a supply for perhaps two weeks. One market operator said he could get all of the meat he needed from A. A. Shonbeck’s herd of cattle im- ported to Matanuska last summer. — e — FOOD SUPPLIES DECREASING IN CORDOVA AREA Some €ommodities Already Out — Others Are Running Low CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 14— A survey of the grocery stores in this city shows eggs, flour and fresh vegtables are all gone. Butter will last for one weel at the rate of two pounds to a cus- tomer. MASS SLAUGHTER STARTS ON M BUSINESS MEN SEEK BREAK DEADLOCK DRID Newest venture of the “tlying missionary”, the Rev Paul Schulte, shown at right with Rev. J. J Sammon, left, is to carry the gospel to hitherto inaccessible regions of Alaska and Canada by his plane, Rev. Schulte is a pioneer in this type of missionary | work and plans to extend his organization so as to reach many re- “St. Lucas” wote corners Vote for Roosevelt Continues Climbing as Returns Compiled U, WASHINGTON, $0. CALIFORNIA CLASH TODAY FINAL SCORE — Washington 12; Southern California 0. SEATTLE, Nov. 14—The Univer- sity of Washington and Southern California are in their annual tilt this afternoon at tne University of Washington Stadium. Last year Washington won by a score of 6 to 2. First Half A Southern California fumble on its own 40-yard line toward the end of the first quarter gave Wash- ington the break that led to its first score. Wascowitz passed to Cain to put the ball on the Cali- fornia -26. Then Jimmy Cain cir- cled the end to the 1l-yard line. No gain at center, then Fritz Was- cowitz lost four years at end, mak- ing it third down and 14 yards to go for Washington as the first quarter ended. On the first play in the second quarter, a double lateral pass play, the ball going from Wascowitz to Cain to Elmer Logg, resulted in the first score of the game, Logg carrying it over. Logg missed the try-for-point and the score was Washington 6 and Southern Cali- | fornia 0. ‘The Trojans kicked off and after an exchange of punts, the Huskies got possession of the ball on the UTAH STRIKE OF MINERS IS NEARING END Wage Increases Proposed Are to Be Accepted by Workers SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. 14—Utah's month old metal mines strike apparently nears the end as Dan Edwards, Secretary of the In- ternational Union, Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, said the miners at the mine at Standard voted 168 to 134 to return to work at a wage | increase of 25 cents a day. { Similar wage increases have been | offered to the miners in the three other rich mining centers at Tooele, Park City and Bingham. - 'WAGE INCREASE | OF FIFTY GENTS BERMANY TAKES ONE MORE STEP IN REPUDIATION Denounces Clause of Ver- sailles Treaty Regard- ing Waterways BERLIN, Nov. 14.—Germany to- dily repudiated part 12 of the Ver- | lles treaty and assumed com- fland over all inland waterways, luding the strategically import- t Kiel Canal. Repudiating article 380, of the treaty, under which the canal, linking the North and Baltic Seas were ordered maintain- free and open, Germany said intedly this part of the treaty will not be recognized. In assuming command of her rivers and notifying the signatories of the Treaty of Versailles of such action, Germany stated the nation | repudiates all International Com- mission’s rulings and and will here- after observe no internationaliza- tion clause as regards any of her waterways such as the upper Rhine and upper Danube and Elbe rivers. Today's denunciation follows | Seamevx;igtufl' Vi/ar 7Chest GIVEN T0 3540 {Four Companies in Couer| d’Alene District Ad- | vance Pay Day | ® | | | WALLACE, 1daho, Nov. 14—The | | four big mining companies of the ! Couer d’Alene district, the Bunker Hill, Sullivan, Sunshine and Fed- jeral Hecla companies, today an-| | nounced a wage increase of 50 cents| a day effective November 16. ‘ The new wage scale of three com- | panies will be $5 for common la- borers, $5.25 for muckers, $5.75 for miners, and $6.25 for timbermen. The Sunshine Company’s scale is 50 cents a day above the others. It is estimated that 3,640 workers will be benefitted by approximate- ly $40,000. ! of the world. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—(Copy- right 1936 by Associated Press) — Presidential election returns com- piled by the Associated Press up to| last night, with 8,407 district stilll unreported, show Roosevelt was given a vote of 26,38Q,605 and Lan-| eight months of Germany’s “throw- ing off Versailles shackles,” started | by rearming the Rhineland. Milk Deliveries 7 Hatted by Strike District—Sympathe- | New York’s seamen offer sympathy of a practical sort to their striking Ee'llo'w-workerl on the Pacific Coast. In this picture, taken in New York | City's Cooper Union, sailors “shower down” for the relief of the strikers ‘n the West. i 'Walkout Occurs in Oakland tic Action ‘ OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 14—All milk deliveries here and surround- ing cities was halted today by the Milkers’ Union strike, accompan- ied by a sympathetic action on the part of other union workmen. Alameda County Milk Dealers’ As- REPORTED ENDED Paul 8. St. Cure, attorney for Lhe‘Wayehousemen and Whole- Upton Sin&air, Th?eatened with Death, Has Body Guard MERCHANTS OF SAN FRANCISED APPEAL, PUBLIC Demand Settlement of Mari- time Strike—Two Sides Are Sitting Tight UNIONS CLAIM SHIP OWNERS BLOCK MOVES Employers Fr;pared for Long Siege — Grady Still Working Hard BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Nov. 14—The striking maritime un- ions have settled down for a long siege. This is indicated when a soup kitchen was opened today on the waterfront. It is said the soup kitchen is expect- ed to be able to feed 2,000 union members daily. ! APPEAL TO PUBLIC SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14. — A i public appeal for settlement of the maritime strike has also been issued by the newly formed San Francisco Shipping and Merchants Associa- tion. It is said seventeen firms are already signed up‘md the associa- tion is “growing rapidly in member- ship.” L. N. West, organizer of the as- sociation said: “We do not know who is right or ‘wrong: We ‘only know we- - - are paying the bill. We want a set- tlement. We do not think any party 4 | sAN FrANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 14. T;—Upton Sinclair said President! Roosevelt assigned Los Angeles sec-! | ret service men to protect him be- cause of an assassination threat when he was Democratic nominee for Governor in 1934. ‘| Sinclair, who is here for a Con- gress of western writers, said he had information that he was to have been assassingted within a few minutes after the election returns, were in and had he defeated Gov- ONE STRIKE A SAN FRANCISCO to the present controversy has the right to sit tight and prolong the strike at the expense of the pub- lic.” TO START SOMETHING SAN FRANCISCO, Cak, Nov. 14. —Harry Bridges, leader of the striking longshoremen, said the striking marine workers would take new action against the employers unless the strike is soon settled. Business men, saying the strike sale Grocers Come to ernor Merriam, Republican nom- | C0Sts them $7,000,000 daily, also de- Minor parties w: vote to 43,404,777, Complete returns are available jonly after an offieial canvass by the various states and will increase the vote to probably more than forty-five million, ———————— GRID SCORES The following are final scores of several important games played this afternoon: Notre Dame 20; Army 6. Northwestern 9; Michigan 0. Holy Cross 32; Brown 0. Georgetown 0; Manhattan 13. Syracuse 0; Columbia 17. Villanova 0; Temple 6. Penn State 12; Penn. 19. Duquesne 13; Carnegie Tech 0. Indiana 20; Chicago 7. Navy 20; Harvard 13. Duke 27; North Carolina 7. North Carolina State 6; Catholic University 7. Yale 26; Princeton 23. ———— Seaplane Basin Is Propased on _°t the total don 16,168,619. | The officials explained that the increases are due to the recent in-| creases in the metal prices, espec-, ially lead. | AdmitsGOP | | IsMinority | Group Now! Gov. Landon, Chairma\mi | Hamilton, Meet First | Qr Time Since Landslide ! KANSAS CITY, Nov. 14—Gov.| Alfred M. Landon, defeated Repub-| lican Presidential nominee, pledged | !the party to a program of active| work in the between campaign per- | |lods, asserting that the “country| {needs an active militant minority.” The Kansas Governor promised that the campaign “will not be abandoned.” { The titular head of the Republl-l‘ |can Party came here for a confer-! ence with John D. Hamilton, Re-| publican National Chairman. Each left for their respective homes after the conference. It was the first meeting of the two since the Demo- | cratic landslide. | e -— sociation, said twenty distributors are affected. | Police Chief B. A. Wallman said | deliveries will be continued to hos- An Agreement SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 14.— p“l:ilzl.(ets are guarding most of the The Warehousemen and the whole- plshia (sale grovers are believed to havé settled their differences late last night, ending in fact the strike which has tied up $25,000,000 worth |of groceries in the Bay district. The Warehousemen, affiliated with the longshoremen, struck on ‘their own account at the beginning of the present maritime strike. The partial agreement reached late last night calls for an increase from 62'% cents to 70 cents an hour, preference of employment to union men, eight hour day, 40 hour week, time and one-half for overtime and a vacation of one week, with pay, each year. The new agreement is effective POLICE SEARCH FOR FIEND WHO ATTACKED GIRL Five-Year-Old Child Re-| pulses Advances—Her Throat Is Cut ‘ CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 14—Squads of policemen today pressed a city- wide search for the ruthless at- tacker who left Antonette Tiritilli, aged 5 years, with throat cut and bleeding to death ia a school yard where she resisted advances. A hasty transfusion of her moth- er's blood proved futile and the little girl died last night. Before dying, the little girl sobbed: “He offered to get me candy. He pulled me behind the school and swore at me. He took out a knife| I 0k e adroes the nef:k 8 Coast Guard cutter Morris, storm The mother, Anna Tiritille, found |,y 1 the Toy Strait area for the the girl behind the school building| oo ; o o oSl s Gnron for herlpas several days, left Port Althorp in December, 1937. Tt is said that about 500 of the 1,500 on a strike voted 10 to 1 in favor of the settlement oXer but the cold storage and general milling plant workers however, voted against a truce which would return them to their jobs pending further arbitration of demands. >> CUTTER MORRIS IS NOW OUT ON GULF immediately and will be terminated | inee. Sinclair said he was to have been shot down in a radio studio by a wealthy California business man who had already made his will. Sinclair said he privately wrote the facts to President Roosevelt and a secret service guard was ordered. DEADLOCK IN P-1 WALKOUT |Fourth Month of Strike on Seattle Newspaper Entered Today SEATTLE, Nov. 14—The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newsroom strike entered the fourth month today and no immediate end of the walkout is sighted. The striking members of the American Newspaper Guild and th2 management remains deadlosard. o The National Labor Relations Board hearing in Washin:to D. C, is to be resumed next Friday. DIGEST HEDGES ' ON POLL RECORD {manded quick action. Bridges said the unions would “do something” unless the deadlocked peace negotiations are resumed within three or four days. For Long Hold-out ! It is said the ship owners are pre- |pared to hold out for two or three months and Bridges replied that “when it becomes necessary to make | the move contemplated, we will call 1on the east and gulf coast workers |to help.” Assistant Labor Secretary Edward F. McGrady continues to work un- |tiringly to bring about resumption |of negotiations. Not Discouraged | McGrady is not discouraged. The \Government'’s “trouble shooter” said he will redraft the unions’ hir- PRODUCTION OF LUMBER TAKES DROP Industry Re;o:ts Low Ebb on Account of Mari- time Strike SEATTLE, Nov. 14—The lumber ; Milk will last another two weeks. early this morning and reported to) i broduction has dropped 34 percent Potatoes are nearly all gone, and meat will be out by the first of the week. Canned goods on the shelves will last about one month. B NORMAN STORM “DIES, SEATILE SEATTLE, Nov. 14. — Norman Storm, aged 44, commercial man- ager of radio station KOL, is dead here after an operation for an ab- domina! atiment. Storm was formerly engaged at various times on the Seattle Daily Times . and Seattle Post-Intelligen- cer. California 49-yard line, and with | Cruver, Cain and Wascowitz doing the lugging, they moved it right up the field to the Trojan eight. There, the Men of Troy tossed Washington back three yards to the eleven, but a pass from Was- | cowitz to Peters, Husky end, was' good, for the second Washington touchdown. Again, the try-for- point was missed. Just before the end of the first half, the Trojans cut loose with several long passes, two of which from Shindler the quarter to Stan- ley at end, clicked, working the ball from the Trojan 33 to the Wash- ington 38; Third Quarter In the third quarter, with' Shind- ler doing the heavy work, the Southern Californians threatened (Continued on Page Eight) Midw_a! Island {Recommendation Is Made by Chief of Army Engineers WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. — Con- struction of a seaplane basin on Midway Island, 1500 miles west of Honolulu, is recommended by Ma- child upon failure to return home. ‘The mother stopped a truck, placed the child aboard and raced the girl to a hospital for treatment. 2 HALIBUTERS | SELL, SEATTLE i ’ STOCK QUOTATIONS | — % NEW YORK, Nov. 14—Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 124%, American Power and Light 10%s, Anaconda 49, Bethlehem Steel 0%, Calumet and Hecla 13%, Co- lumbia Gas and Electric 17%, Com- monwealth and Southern 3%, Cur- tiss-Wright 6%, General Motors 73%, International Harvester 98%, Kennecott 56%, New York Central SEATTLE, Nov. 14.—Two halibut- the Weather Bureau at 9 o'clock this forenoon she was south of Li- tuya Bay in a rough sea. The Mor- ris left Juneau last Monday after- noon enroute to the westward ports with mail. R MEMBERS OF BOARD OF CHILDREN'S GUARDIANS RECEIVE APPOINTMENT Mrs. Ida M. Springer, of Nome, has been appointed a member of jor General Edward Markham,|43%, Simmons 46%, Southern Pa- Chief of the Army Engineers. cific 41%, United States Steel 74%, The cost is estimated at half a|United Corporation 6%, Cities Serv- millien dollars. ice 3%, Pound $4.89%. The basin would be 1200 feet SEICA square and eight feet deep protect- DOW, JONES AVERAGES ed by a suitable breakwater with| The following are today’s Dow, the Board of Children’s Guardians for the Second Division by Cww. John W. Troy. Mrs. Springer re- ers arrived today from the western banks, the Yakutat with 40,000 pounds and the Leviathian with 17.- 000 pounds. Both sold for 10% and 10:cents a pound. Eclipse, Antler, Evolution, |vis are in from the local banks places Mrs. Thomas D. Jensen, who ha removed from the Second Di- on. Mrs. Luther C. Hess, member of NEW YORK, Nov. 14—The Lit- erary Digest, whose 16-year-old rec- ord of accurately foreshadowing election results was wrecked by the | Roosevelt landslide, answers ques- tionnaires on its straw vote meth- ods ih an article published today with another question, “so what?" “s0 what?" The Digest answers “so we were wrong although we did everything we know to assure ourselves of be- ing right.” As to whether it will change its methods in future election years the Digest says, “Wwe will cross that bridge when we come to it.” - .- Ann Sheridan, from Dallas, Texas, a channel of the same depth. The|jones averages: industrials, 181.44,/With sable and all boats are now!the Board of Children’s Guardians|Would have been a school teacher, basin would also serve as a harbor'down - .80; rails 5602, down .41, accounted for including the Fore- for the Fourth Division, has been|if she had not won a beauty con- for small craft, utilities 33.93, down .08, most, due here Monday. reappointed by Governor Troy. test and a film contract, {In the Oregon and Washington , mills because of the maritime strike, : Shipments are down 36 percent and the West Coast Lumbermens’ Association expects a further drop' The lumber business is now at the ,lowest ebb since the lumber strike ‘in July last year. Myst of the lost business is going to Canada and the Southern States. A The West Coast Lumbermens’ As~ sociation, in a statement, said: “None of the losses can be made up this year. A major portion of the industry is located on water- yfronts and plants are shut down or drastically curtailed.” Last week's production was the lowest since the lumber strike of = last year. " The 48-hour truce in which fair cargo could be moved ended at 8 o'clock yesterday morning.