The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 2, 1936, Page 1

¥ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIX:, NO. 7344. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1936, ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ARCTICTO BRING 2846 TONS T0 ALASKA v GREAT PEACE | ASSEMBLY IS NOW UNDERWAY Inter-American Conference Launches Out at In- formal Organization KEYNOTE SPEECH OF ROOSEVELT PRAISED Delegates Admit. that Road to Success Practic- ally Assured BULLETIN—BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 2. — President Roosevelt sailed homebound on the In- dianapolis at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. Thousands cheered the American Chief Executive as he waved goodbye from the bridge of the cruiser as a drenching rain fell, BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 2.—The In- ter-American Peace Conference, spurred by American President| Franklin D. Roosevelt's plea to con- solidate the Western World Demo- cracies against aggression for “our mutual safety and mutual good,” today launched into an informal organization. The delegates of all countries as- serted that President Roosevelt and| Argentinian President Augu stin Justo had “set the assembly firmly ! on the path to success.” Not a single newspaper referred to the cry “Down with Imperial- ism” shouted by Liberio Justo, Leftist, son of the President, dur- ing Roosevelt's speech. e MULLEN NAMED ADMINISTRATOR, BEHRENDS WILL Estate of Late Juneau Mer- chant and Banker Fil- ed in Probate Petition for filing the will of the late B. M. Behrends in probate has been filed in U. 8. Commissioner’s court, naming Judge J. F. Mullen as administrator of the B. M. Beh- rends estate and Mrs. Mullen, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Behrends, as sole heir of the es- tate. No inventory of the property was given. It includes the B. M. Behrends bank, store and various other properties about the com- munity. Judge Mullen said today that H. L. Faulkner had been chosen legal representative of the Administra- tor. Notice to creditors is being pub- | lished today and six months is the | time fixed for presenting claims against the estate. ———ero—— ~ Jimmy Donahue Steps Out Jimmy Donahue, scion of the fabulous Woolworth clan, whose recent venture into theatrical production in London won him international atten- tion, is shown in & Broadway nightclub dancing with pretty Drucilla Strain, of the younger New York social set. Jimmy once said he danced like Fred Astaire, r Thomas All uWet,r Vote Matanuska Colonists Senato Oklahoma, that he is all wet re- FOR SUPPORTING TEXAS FRIEND Vice-President Accused of Interfering in House Af- fairs Over Speaker project is a failure. vote on the proposition as to wheth- cess. | Early in the morning busses and |autos began operating throughout the colony, taking the farmers to the Community Hall where the vot- ing took place at noon. As newsreel cameras clicked, the of Representative John J. O'COon-|yas a success and that they were that Vice-President Garner inter-|o the right on the platform. There fered in House of Representatives were 135 of them. affairs when he endorsed the can-| william C. Bowens, colonist who didacy of Representative Sam Ray- burn of Texas for Speaker of the House for which O’Connor also is 8 (wijth three other dissenters. candidate. | Representative Bingell of Michi- gan charged . that Rayburn “is in partnership with William Randolph Hearst” and that he conducted Gar- ner's campaign in 1932 for the Presidential nomination against Roosevelt. O'Connor had no comment to make and Rayburn said he wel- comed Garner's backing. men who stepped to the left, and said there was little doubt but that |they did so as a joke as all were |prosperous and contented. — e ‘SOUTHERNERS "RETAIN ERIP AS COM. HEADS Likely to Be Few Changes in Dominate Role of Democrats FLOATING NAVY DRYDOCK TO BE BUILT, PACIIC FILIPINOS IN GUN FIGHT:TWO DIEINSTANTL SEATTLE, Dec. 2—Two Filipinos were shot to death and a third is critically wounded, as the result of a gun battle in a south-end restau- rant last night. The dead are A. A. Simon, aged 40, and Virgil Duyanaga, also 40. Desaba Patron, 25, is wounded. Simon was killed instantly and Duyanaga died in an ambulance enroute to a hospital. City Hospital physician, Dr. J. O. Blende, said Patron muttered, en- route to the hospital: “He did the shooting, then Virgil shot me. T have a hiring hall and they are trying to cut in on me.” Bethlehem Corporation Submits Bid But Is Over Estimates WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. — Renr‘ Admiral Norman Smith, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, today said the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, sole bidder on the! huge floating drydock in Hawaii, had exceeded the ten million dol- lars available. Rear Admiral Smith said he would study the estimates submit- ted by the Navy Yards at Bremer- ton and Mare Island. The floating drydock must be built on the Pacific Coast because it is too big to go through the Panama Canal. The proposed dry- dock is 1,016 feet long. ——o———— NAVY AVIATORS DIE IN CRASH SAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec. 2.—Lieut. Robert Symes and Chief Radioman George Cole were killed when a plane crashed at sea off nearby La Jolla, naval authorities report. Fragments of the wreckage were found by the cruiser Milwaukee. _The plane was attached to_the WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The grip held by the South for four years on important House and Senate Committee chairmanships seems likely to continue undiminished in the next Congress. To begin with, Vice President Garner of Texas presides over the Senate and Representative Bank- head of Alabama, Speaker last ses- sion, seems likely to succeed. The habit of the South to go Democratic election after election has given tremendous seniority to the lawmakers it sends to Wash- ington. Seniority, within the ma- erns in selection of committee chair- men. At preseng,yBoutherners hold 11 of the 20-odd chairmanships in the Senate and 17 of a slightly larger number in the House. Each new Congress selects its own committees and chairmen, but the old heads retain their places. HOW THEY STACK UP Southerners in several instances head like committees in both Sen- ate and House, thus: Senate Agriculture—Smith, 8. C. Appropriations—Glass, Va. Tax Committees—Harrison, Miss. Mines—Logan, Ky. Public Buildings—Conally, Tex. House Agriculture—Jones, Tex. Appropriations—Buchanan, Tex. (Continued on Page Two) PALMER, Alaska, Dec. 2—The given expression of opposition to the i | Matanuska Colonists, by a vote of marriage, said: |135 to 4, have plainly told United|of the alleged White House expres- | States Senator Elmer Thomas of'sion of views.” (garding his recent statement the gishly today, reflecting what the The colonists yesterday took a er the colony was a failure or a suc-| WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—Friends| faymers who declared the colony | nor of New York have charged|yey pleased and contented, stepped conducted the vote, caused a sensa- | {tion when he stepped to the left] Joe Flanke, agriculture agent for| the colony, said he knew all four; jority party, of geurse, largely gov-! Breakup in [ British Realm Is Hinted LONDON, Dec. 2—An editor- ial in the London Times today hinted as a possible breakup of the British realm, with the Duke and Duchess of York as King and Queen of Scotland. The editorial is interpreted by some as the strongest veiled reference to the King's friend- ship for Mrs. Wallie Simpson, which has yet appeared. The editorial is pegged on a visit of the Duke and Duch- ess to Edinburgh for the St. Andrew’s Day Masonic banquet. B e MADRID GIVEN ANOTHER RAIN, FASCIST BOMBS Upwards of 100 Men, Women, Children Be- | lieved Killed, Raid : KING EDWARD MUST GIVE UP LADY FRIEND Bachelor Monarch, Visited by Prime Minister | Baldwin, Warned CABINET READY TO RESIGN IS REPORT Ruler Must Abandon Inten- tions to Wed Ameri- can Divorcee LONDON, Dec. 2.—Prime Minis- ter Stanley Baldwin has called upon King Edward at Buckingham Palace in what is reported to be a showdown in the constitutional crisis caused by the Monarch's friendship for Mrs. Wallie Simp- son. The Prime Minister is believed to have informed the bachelor King |that the British Cabinet, with the backing of Parliament, is prepared to resign unless Edward surrenders any plan he may have to wed the American born divorcee. HOUSES REDUCED . : o _ INTO SPLINTERS| It is the second time this week| Prime Minister Baldwin has visited | thia Woirig atter datk. |{Commissar Reports that| The spokesman of the American| Acyte FOOd Shortage | Embassy, asked about published re- {ports that the White House had Has DeVEloped “We know mnothing; MADRID, Dec. 2—Sixteen Fas- lelst bombing planes, smashing houses to splinters with shells dropped, killed a known 30, possibly | as high as 100, men, women and children early this morning. The Emergency Red Cross hiead- {4 ‘rters reported close |bombs were dropped. | Two visiting British members of Parliament narrowly escaped flying lshrnpnel. Pablo Yague, Commissar of Food { Supplies, reported to the visitors No More White Bread curdflva # {that an acute food shortage has de- 9y ’ | veloped because of the siege. \ e Flour Shorfage ' France Angling TR [ Only Bakery Hee Tust - for Payment of | The Stock Market dropped slug- | brokers said was the nation's grow-} ing concern over the King’s affair with the pretty American divorcee. e e to fifty| for One Week ' War Obligation CORDOVA, Alaska, Dec. 2 | The only bakery in Cordova an-| | nounced yesterday that it had no To Make Offer to Settle for| | more white flour and only enough 2 whole wheat flour to last one week.| AbOUt One e‘gh[h Of Cordova stores are short of many! Her Debt {other commodities and the few hav-| !ing butter and eggs are sharing| PARIS, Dec. 2. — Formal talks,| them with others. |beginning early next year on| A special effort is being made to| France’s expected offer to senleE !keep families supplied with eggs. }Lhe war debt owing the United" ! S s o o e | States, are forecast by sources close |0 the Government. ! Prance, it is said, will make an loffer to pay $536,000000 or one-| eighth of the total amount due, the payments to be made in install- | ments to extend over 20 or 25“ years. | y } STOCK QUOTATIONS | L ——— . NEW YORK, Dec. 2. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14, American Can ‘119‘% American Power and Light {10%, Anaconda 47%, Bethlehem AMERICAN VIEWPOINT {Steel 72, Calumet and Hecla 13%,| WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. — There Commonwealth and Southern 3!, aré some Legislators sympameuc“ Curtiss Wright 6%, General Mo- |'oward the French proposal to set- |tors 68, International Harvester tle the war debts in the air but 98%, Kennecott 56%, New York|others of Congress said that if Central 42%, Southern Pacific 41" ;.,ideb'nrs planned small payments United States Steel 74%, United With the idea of being allowed to | Corporation 7, Cities Service 3%, bOrrow more money, they are; | Bremner .03. Pound $4.90%. doomed to disappointment. | | Eleven European nations owe DOW, JONES AVERAGES }a-bout twelve billion dollars and | The following are today's Dow, France owes four billion dollars. Jones averages: industrials 180.25, | —— .- down 182; rails 5438, down .25; For the Wife’s Sake utilities 35.36, down .15. | e, GEORGE ROBBINS IS NORAH the staff of Charles R. Miller, State George Robbins, of the Taku River Liquor Administrator. “I want to the Princess Norah. married.” Death Penalty for Germans | Who Hoard Wealth Abroad; | BERLIN, Dec. 2.—The Nazi Gov- ernment promulgated a series of laws yesterday designed to keep German wealth within the Reich and perpetuate Naziism for future age German economy.” ception, into the Hitler Youth spiritually and morally.” generations. interpreted, the law gives the Hit-/ One of the laws decreed death ler's Youth organization a monop-| penaities for Germans who hoard oly on all youth training m.nvimral wealth in foreign lands and "dam-‘n\ulldn of the home school, o SLIDE RAZES POWER HOUSE Two men scrambled to safety, one only slightly hurt and the other unscratched, when a landslide demolished a power house unit of the Puget Sound Power and Light Co. at Electron, Wash. This picture shows the shattered remains of the (Associated expensive machinery and buildings. Press Photo) Vlé&dges Saysr4 Compranies’ Prolonging Present Strike Giant Bomber Roars on Test Trip Over Seattle SEATTLE, Dec. 2.—With her 4,000-horsepower plant roaring a thunderous tune, the YB-17, the first of thirteen huge bembing planes being built by the Boeing plant for the Unit- ed States Army, made the first ' flight of 40 minutes today. The huge plane weighs 16 tons and is literally an aerial battleship. —>——— 9 BATTLESHIPS FOR GIBRALTAR Great Britain Sends Mighty Warships to New Strategic Point MALTA, Dec. 2—Two of Great, Britain’s mightiest battleships, the Hood and Repulse, have left for Gibraltar to “relieve other ships in accordance with a long arranged program.” This was the arnounce- ment made here by the British gov- RTY PACT TRIPA BEING FORMED, EDEN CLAIMS First Authentic Announce-| ment of Alliance An- nounced in London LONDON, Dec. 2—Foreign Sec- retary Anthony Eden told the glum. This was the first indication bear- countries was planned. Murflfiéfifis New Laiws Issued Tuesday — Twelve Families| SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. 2— Clarksville had an uusual by-prod- Movement, to be trained “physically,' uct. Various parents wrote in de- | tattoo marks and the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation located 12 and put them in touch with their | tamilies. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 2.—Harry Bridges, President of the Interna- {tional Longshoremens’ Association |of the Pacific Coast, in an address before the Tacoma longshoremen last night, charged the American- Hawailan, Matson, Dollar and Swayne-Hoyt steamship lines with ,‘the responsibility for continuance of | the maritime strike. Bridges said the strike would be settled but for the demands of the four lines. “It just happens that there are {the four lines that draw the heav- iest subsidies from the Government. They are putting pressure on other companies to prevent any settle- ment. “What we want to do is to get the Federal Government to with- |draw these fat subsidies until they |treat their employees right,” Brid- ges said. Bridges pointed to the wages and {working conditions on the vessels being chartered by the Government to carry foodstuffs to Alaska as an indication of “what the Govern- |ment thinks of our demands.” He said the wages on the chartered boats are higher than those asked by the unions and working condi- tions are better. CHARGE MADE AGAINST 6OV. 1S DISMISSED Smith, of Vermont, Did Neé Conceal Bank Book- keeper’s Theft RUTLAND, Vermont, Dec. 2.— Gov. Charles M. Smith, 68 year old President of the Rutland Mar- ble Savings Bank, won freedom late yesterday from the charge of con- | cealing a bookkeeper's alleged theft |from the bank. | Judge John S. Buttles dismissed | AUSTIN, Texas—'If mo job 15 House of Commons today that Eng-|the charge against the grey-haired open, please send back these recom- |land was negotiating a new defens- | Governor, along with those against | PASSENGER FOR SOUTH mendations,” wrote an applicant to' ive ‘alliance with France and Bel-)the other officials. John J. Cocklin, former book- | keeper, was convicted eight days ago Trading Company, is southbound on show my wife what a fine man she | ing out French reports that a m_}(or embezzling $124,000 from the | il party treaty between the three |bank over a nine year period and the charges were made that Gov. Smith and other officials of the bank kept this from the public. | Television Hailed as Boon to Artists PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2—Tele- ision as a “great consumer of |art” and a partial solution to the problem of unemployment was pic- Another law incorporated every Attempts to identify a tattooed | tured by one of its pioneers, David German boy or girl, without ex- woman found murdered near garnoff, President of the Radio | Corporation of America. “It will constantly demand more Literally | scribing missing daughters bearing | and better writers, musicians, actors ‘nnd scenic designers,” Mr. Sarnoff declared in an address at Franklin Institute. “Television will call for a whole new generation of artists.” JUNEAULISTED FOR 938 TONS IN EMERGENCY Wyatt Kingman Named as Agent Here with Oper- ations at City Dock INDICATIONS VESSEL WILL SAIL MONDAY Boxer Leaves First to Bring Supplies to Sitka Juneau BULLETIN—Seattle, Dec. 2. —Steamer Arctic is due here to- night from San Francisco and it is expected cargo will be taken aboard for Alaska as soon as possible, Emergency supplies totaling 2,844 tons, including 938 tons for Juneau and 16 for Douglas, will be placed aboard the Alaska Packers’ Asso- ciation vessel Arctic for Alaska when she arrives in Seattle, if re- quests made by various communi- ties of the Territory through the Governor’s Office are granted, it was revealed. The Arctic carries 5,650 tons deadweight. ‘The compilation was reached af- ter Gov. John W. Troy had asked every city from Ketchikan to Fair- banks and the Westward to give es- timates of the supplies needed im- mediately so that he could forward the information to Col. Otto F. Ohl- son, Monager of The Alaska Rail- road, who is in Seattle directing the operations of government-char- tered ships to the Territory with emergency supplies during the mar- itime’ strike, Included in the shipment in ad- dition to food will be 300 tons of coal for Juneau, caskets for Ju- neau and Sitka and equipment to repair the power plant at Sitka. May Leave Monday Col. Ohlson’s messages to the Governor indicated the vessel would be loaded in time to sail from Se- attle next Monday. She will make stops at Ketchikan, Wrangell and Petersburg with supplies. The pres- ent plan calls for the smaller ves- sel Boxer to get away from Seattle this week end with limited supplies, going direct to Sitka and then com- ing to Juneau before proceeding to the Westward. ( Wyatt Kingman has been named agent in Juneau for the government operated vessels which will dock at the City Dock. Other agents for freight and passenger reservations in the Territory have been named by Col. Ohlson as follows: Ketchikan, Heckman Dock Com- pany; Wrangell, McCormack Dock Company; Petersburg, Citize ns’ Dock; Cordova, Copper River and Northwestern Railway; Valdez, Val- dez Dock Company. M'GRADY IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, Dec. 2.—Leaders of both sides in the present maritime controversy are prepared to confer with Edward F. McGrady, Assist- ant Secretary of Labor, who left San Francisco by plane and is due here tonight. Before leaving the Bay City, McGrady announced he would not return south before Fri- day, if then. Meanwhile the Government went ahead with plans to start loading the motorship Boxer on Friday, with Alaska supplies. The motor- ship is at Boughton, on Lake Wash- ington, today for hull inspection. BRIDGES MAKES DEMANDS SEATTLE, Dec. 2.—Harry Bridges, President of the ILA on the Pacific Coast, demanded today in an open letter to Joseph Ryan, of New York, National ILA President, that he order the Atlantic and Gulf long- shoremen to refuse to handle cargo of ship owners against whom the Pacific Coast strike is centered. According to advices received here, the United States Federal Maritime Commission, in reply to an appeal of New York shipping firms, said the “government is striv- ing to effect an early settlement” in the maritime dispute. TROUBLE AT SAN DIEGO SAN PEDRO, Cal.,, Dec. 2.—While the San Pedro Great Harbor Asso- ciation aceused both the maritime 3 R strikers and employers with joint guilt in the “stoppage of public bus- iness,” two British ships have beem denied services of union longshore- men becd the vessels were ag~ (Contnued on Page Eight) AET: