The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 1, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIX., NO. 7343. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” * JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ARCTIC LEAVES OAKLAND FOR SEATTLE ROOS 21 NEW WORLD REPUBLICS ARE GIVENWARNING President of United States Says All Must Stand Together PREVENT AGGRESSION OF ANY FOREIGN FOE Avert All Conditions to Create Any Internal Differences BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 1.—Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, opened the Inter- American Peace Conference this af- ternoon with the assertion that twenty-one New World Republics could help to avert war in the Old World by making peace among themselves. Shoulder to Shoulder At the same time, the Chief Ex- ecutive of the United States pro- posed the American Republics make | it clear they stand shoulder to shoulder to prevent aggression against any Republic if war should flare abroad and let any such ag- gressor find the “American Hemis- phere ‘whelly prepared to consult to- gether for our mutusel safety and our mutual good.” President Roosevelt traveled six thousand miles to make the speech. How to Prevent War The American Executive urged the “strengthening processes of a EVELT | Juneau Granted | First Charter ‘Fed. S. L. Assn. 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The Federal Home Loan Bank Board announces the granting of the first charter for a Federal Sav- ings and Loan Association to Juneau. The association is to be known as the Federal Sav- ings and Loan Association at Juneau and will serve Juneau, | Sitka, Ketchikan, Petersburg, | and Wrangell. Thomas A. Mor- gan, of Juneau, will be chairman of the Association. i FRANGE PLANS T0 TAKE WAR DEBT UP NOW Possibility of Negotiating Settlement with United States PARIS, Dec. 1.—France has ex- pressed official interest in reopen- ing the war debt question with the United States but representatives’ {have been told she must wait the ireturn of President Roosevelt, |cording to the United States Em- ‘bassy spokesman. | The question was raised briefly |by Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos |yesterday during a conversation ac- | with - William C. Bullitt, United | States Ambassador. Parliamentary circles forecast | France will offer to settle the war {debt for one-eighth of the total due constitutional DemmraFIc Govern-:m date. This would be $536,000,000 ment as the best means o prevent) o ghe gebt, with interest in all over any future war among ourse]\'os"‘:‘our billion dollars. As a second move toward peace, | President Roosevelt urged the Am- erican Republics “to strive even more strongly than in the past to prevent creation of conditions]| which give rise to war.” TALKS TO NEWSMEN BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 1.—Presi- dent Roosevelt declared flatly at a| conference with Argentine newsmen | this afternoon there is no possibil- | ity of the United States entering the League of Nations. Asked whether the Inter-Ameri- can Peace Conference might pro- pose a League of Nations of the Republics of the Western Hemis- phere, President Roosevelt said that was entirely in the hands of the Conference. e BODYGUARD OF PRESIDENT IS STRICKEN, DIES Personal Attendant of Chief Executive Passes Away Suddenly BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 1.—August Gennerich, aged 55, President Roos- evelt’s personal bodyguard, is dead as the result of an attack 'of the heart while dancing last night in a restaurant. A former New York detective, Gennerich has been the personal bodyguard of the President since 1928 and has agcompanied ' the American Chief Executive on all trips. Officials predicted the President might cancel his sightseeing tour of the city but the remainder of his program here has not been altered. Members of the Chamber of De- |puties indicated the offer would not be made in cash but in equal annual installments over a 20 or 25 year period. —— e PILOT BRENNAN DELAYED, SNOW Reports were circulated this morning that Pollack Flying Ser- vice plane, enroute from Fairbanks for Skagway, with eight passeng- ers, had not reported. The Empire this afternoon re- lceived a private dispatch stat- ing the Pollack Airway plans, pi- loted by Lon Brennan was delayed yesterday at Champagne Landing on account of a snow storm. Pas-| sengers were sent to Whitehorse on! a truck last night and are now on a southbound train enroute to Skagway to connect with the Prin- cess Norah. The plane arrived at Whitehorse this morning O. K. Sheldon Simmons this morning, | on being informed of the report, | stood ready to hop to Whitehorse to make a search if it was dgemed necessary. e Matanuska Beef Sold, Fairbanks| FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 1. — The first Matanuska Valley beef was placed on the Fairbanks mar-| kets Monday to help relieve the present situation owing to the mar- itime strike. Beef from herds rais- ed within a few miles of here was also marketed recently and pro- nounced excellent. Pick}mcket Thwarts Plan to Kill Japanese Premier TOKYO, Japan, Dec. L—A plck- pocket unwittingly frustrated a plan to assassinate Premier Koki Hor- ato. The pickpocket stole money from Watanabe drank milk, which ‘pmved to be contaminated, when | he discovered the loss of the bribe money. He became ill and a police- man massaged his stomach and SEATTLE MASS MEETING HEARS HARRY BRIDGES {President of Coast L. L. A. Says Longshoremen Are Anxious to End Strike 1 | SEATTLE, Dec. 1.—Harry Bridges, President of the International Long- | shoremens’ Association of the Pa- cific Coast, at a mass meeting held here last night, said the longshore- |men are going to enter politics “in |no uncertain manner to continue "ns ever-widening inland march un- jtil every port is oné hundred per-| cent union.” | Bridges also said the “waterfront | associations see the necessity of po- litical action and the longshore-| men now see the necessity. Having a Mayor like you have in Seattle,! we in San Francisco are away be-| | hand, but we are going to try and| |do something about it.” i Mayor John F. Dore addressed the | mass meeting previously and com- plimented the longsoremen in the| {orderly manner in which the pres-‘ ent strike is being conductd. { Bridges said the maritime work- ers are anxious to end the strike. “We are willing to negotiate,” he declared. In a further statement, Bridges said “subsidizes received by the ship owners allow them to run their ships empty without a single pas- senger and not los % ALASKA PELTS FOR AUCTION DECEMBER 9 Skins Are Said to Be Better than Average for Next Sale SEATTLE, Dec. 1.—Ten thousand quality mink pelts, reported to sur- pass anything ever offered here, are announced for a future fur auction on the Fur Exchange to be held December 9. There are also 2500 silver fox ¢kins, much heavier than usual, to be offered at the auction, as well as 150 timber wolf pelts, much paler {than ordinary. The new season is bringing offer- ings of 1,000 Alaska red fox, 10,- 000 Northwestern muskrat, 2,500 Northwestern wolf, 1,000 beaver, | mostly from Alaska; also lots of one hundred each of Alaska cross fox, Alaska lynx, Alaska marten,’' Alaska otter, walverines, blue and white fox. DR, ALBRECHT TAKES REST Matanuska Colony Hospital | Physician to Hunt with Wife { { ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 1.—! Dr. C. Carl Albrecht, of the Mat- anuska Colony Hospital, is going to have a vacation, his first since the| colony started. He has been so busy ushering tiny Colonists into the world that he has been unable to visit Anchorage more than twice. He and his wife are going on a huntign trip. Dr. Howard Romig will relieve him. 28 Oldtimers of Alaska Railroad Are Now Retired ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 1.— Twenty-eight oldtimers of the Al- aska Railroad retired last night under the Retirement Act passed by the last Congress. They will get their pensions as soon as de- posits with the Government are sufficient for the amount to cover the percentage of their. salaries Ko Watanabe who planned to bribe found sticks of dynamite cached|since 1920. a chauffeur so he could get near enough to make @t attack on the in his clothes. Watanabe admitted he tried for three days to kill the Premier, The retirement removes men who helped build the road and who op- erated trains since, T. McIntyre, White House physician, and Col. E. M. Watson. The Hulls Pay a Visit Press Conference on Shipboérd ’ | Senate Committee campaign expenditures revealed to- | paign fund. ecretary of State Cordell Hull and Mrs. Hull are shown on their arrival at Rio de Janeiro on their way to Buenos Aires for the Inter-American Peace Conference; which opens December 1. At the left is Senor Macedo Soares, Secretary of State for Brazil. Republicans Not Dead; 1 They Just Need Leader By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) | ‘While it is only natural that the| floodlights of publicity should cen-| ter nmew on the Democrats, and| make news of their every activity, | no wise students of polities will luse" Du Ponts Heavy | Contributors to i GOP Campaign WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. — The investigating day that three members of the du ing the coming months among the Pont family gave $144,430 to the Re- | Republicans, | publicans last election. ic victory was tre-| Irenee du Pont, chemical man- & ¢ Domoomt 2 . |mendous. Its magnitude graws as| u(acturelx;sl:rsow:lml?smnég}:)ln\::}:_. it is viewed in retrospect, as its ey i implications become plainer. Yet it was not, after all, unanimous. {The opposition was shorn of its prestige and most of its public of- Marjorie Jeitereys, Dale Leake Wed at Anchorage of annihiliation. i ANNCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 1| “nore ghan sixteen millions voted | Marjorie Jeffereys and Dale Leake|gien the Joser, Some of them un-| were married here last night. Mr 3quenlonably were taking only fem- Leake is utility engineer at ”“jporary shelter in the Republican Lucky Shot mine and the newlyweds| party” The number of these, count- will reside at the mine. |ing both the bolting Democrats and| R BTy the various leftist factions which could not accept Mr. Roosevelt, |never will be known exactly al- though it must have been consid- erable. Allowing even six million |as an outside estimate, more than ten millions would be left to be counted as out-and-out Rcpubli- cans, « BEIM | That is, indeed, a respectable CAN T _HAVE MONEY' FOR cua\flm,e DAD 7 'no account can it be reckoned a —————e (Continued on Page Seven) I sight entirely of what happens dur- rTemperature Drops to Be- President Roosevelt is shown with reporters at Port of Spain, Trinidad, during one of the infrequent press conferences he is giving on board the cruiser Indianapolis, local press are asking questions of Mr. Roosevelt, who is on his way to open the Inter-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, December 1. President Roosevelt Goes F ishing In one of the motor launches of the cruiser Indianapolis, President Rocsevelt (arrow) goes fishing off Port of Spain, Trindad. The President is on his way to open the Inter-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, December 1. With him in the boat are Capt. OHLSON PUSHING PLANS TOBEGIN ALASKA SERVICE Space to Be Allotted on Vessel According to Needs of Communities STRIKE SPREADING ON EAST COAST AND GULF | i | [ | | { | | | Up Hawaiian Problem Similar to North The Alaska *Puckers Association | vessel Arctic sailed from Oakland |today for Seattle where she will load emergency supplies for Alas- B | kan ports, and it.is expected she & will be loaded and get away from l"\l | Seattle by next Monday. Mean- - {while Col. Otto F. Ohlson in Seat- tle was rushing plans to get the ships going and acquire others. The Boxer, he anticipated, will be ready to sail either Saturday or Sunday, |going direct to Sitka and then to Juneau. Here in Juneau Gov. John W. Troy was gathering information from all cities of the Territory to determine about what amount .of space each would require on the Arctic and it will be forwarded to Col. Ohlson in Seattle in time so that loading can be carried forward ‘immediately on- arrival of the ves- sel in Seattle from Oakland, a trip |which is expected to take her three | days. | Ross | | s HAWAIIAN PROBLEM | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal; Dec. 1.— |{With plans underway for supplying Alaskans, the Arctic leaving Oak- |land today for Seattle to load, the Hawailan food problem became the most pressing as the maritime strike tightened its nation-wide :rip today. Assistant Labor Secretary Ed- ward F. McGrady conferred with Somuel King, Hawaili Delegate to Congress, over possible means of ransporting supplies. It was re- ported that the Coast Guard cutter William Duane may take a cargo of medicine and milk when she sails |from here Wednesday for Honolulu. At New York two more seagoing unfdns of eastern branches—radio telegraphists and the marine fire- men, oflers, water tenders and wip- ers—voted to walk out in Eastern and Gulf ports. Showing the effects of the strike here, arriving vessels in November numbered 192 with a cargo of 661,- 413 tons compared with 535 ships and 380425 tons in October. In November 178 ships salled against 410 in October. Tankers, not affect- Representatives of the COLD WEATHER SWEEPS EAST, NORTH STATES low Freezing—Ship- ping Hampered NEW YORK, Dec. 1. — A cold wave is sweeping the East, tying up fresh water shipping and causing| general suffering. east of the Rockies. freezing temperatures are reported with 28 degrees registered at Pul-| |cafes have closed during the past | fices, but both numerically and| Temperatures have dropped ining run to buy up stocks of grocer-| spiritually, the losses fell far short the northern Half of the country jes as townsmen feel the Govern-J. aska, New York. One hundred parges are caught| in Erie Canal by formation of ice| and 73 vessels are in danger of‘ being frozen-in on Lake Superior. Progress is impeded by ice form- | ing. { RO 00 L A Lo B AUXILIARY INITIATES Five new members were initiated one month. at a meeting of the Anchorage| Delia Wallace, Elizabeth French, Beaudin Coble and Carlotta Druer,l Castor Oil to Be Used On Drunks in Spokane 5 American Legion Auxiliary recent- . | | nucleus for a political party. On, . ten days in jail for a second offense | harmful but he admitted he would | ly. They were: Mrs. Edith Urban, | of grunkenness or an oversize dose| prefer jail. Women offenders. of castor oil. i ed by the strike, and small coast ships comprise the chief move- ments. THREE SEWARD ==~~~ ™" GAFES GLUSEDE Lg.ocx ouo1AT|oNii S NEW YORK, Dec. 1. -— Glosing Doors Locked Because of iquotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 14%, American Can Shortage of Food Supplies e /122, American Power and Light 11%, |Anaconda 48%, Bethlehem Steel 1713, Calumet and Hecla 13%, Com- vealth and Southern 3%, Cur- Wright 6%, General Motors 68 International Harvester 99, Kennecott 57'%, New York Cemtral week on account of lack of suppizs 43%, Southern Pacific 41%, United owing to the maritime |States Steel 747, United Corpora- Townsmen and merchan’s are| !l0n 7%, Citles Service 3%, Bremner not alarmed at the decreasing sup.—.h‘d 408 Poui ‘1. ply of foodstuffs. There has been| SEWARD, Alaska, Dec. 1—Three i DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, ones averages: industrials 182.07, jment. will bring relief when most!down 1.16; rails 55.03, down .38; util- Everywhere in the section below |needed. ities 35.51, down .24. SPOKANE, Wash,, Dec. l—l,egal|dech:led to take the castor oil. machinery is prepared for the ad-| City officials are planning legis- ministration of castor oil to any|lation removing city labilty should | person brought into the Police Court | the effects of the castor ofl be ser- - on a charge of drunkeness twice in'ious. 5 The police Surgeon said half a Justice Frank Yuse has decreed pint of castor oil would be un- also have a choice whether to to jail or take the o, » Threg of the first four offenders| ER Government Now ' Taking. 'fl(\;v OPENS PEACE CONFERENCE