The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 4, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L, NO. 7502. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FDR SAYS U.S. GOLD POLICY WILL STAND { FACTIONS IN |Luth, Parsonage (TEN DIE IN RUSSIA BURY HATCHET NOW Action Against German and Italian Intervention in Spain Promised MOSCOW, June 4—The Komin- tern, Third Communist Internation- ale, has ended its long standing quarrel with the parent body, the Second Socialist Internationale and proposed a united front for “ac- tion against German and Italian intervention in Spain.” The startling move to bury the hatchet and unify the Commun- ists, Socialists and International League of Labor Unions, is a di- rect result of the German bom- bardment of the Spanish City of Almeria. Incidentally, there is an under- ground and well formed opinion, that if Italian warships stop Rus- sian ships enroute to Spain, some- thing is going to happen. - e, TRAGIC DEATH OF INSURGENT GEN. MOURNED Flags at Half Staff Today in Rebel Occupied Spain —Madrid Bombed Hit By Flames Early_flnis A M. Blaze Results from Defect- ive Fireplace—Repairs Begun Immediately Making up for Juneau's recent fireless weeks, the fire boys were called out twice this morning. The first call, at 7:10 o'clock, was from the Lutheran Parsonage, over the Resurrection Lutheran Church at Third and Main Strets, where smouldering flames creep- ing into the walls and under the second floor last night from the ‘deiecnve living room fireplace, this morning burst forth at full pitch to completely gut the living room and somewhat damage the dining room, which is connected by the fireplace to the living room. Smelt Smoke The Rev. and Mrs. John L. Cau- ble first smelled smoke from the flames under the floor at 2 o'clock in the morning, but at that time could not locate the source of the smoke. Prompt and efficient action by {the firemen after they were called ito the scene this morning resulted }in the removing of all the furniture |and personal effects of the Cauble family from the burning apartment without damage. Baby Sleeps On | Nine-months-old John Robert| {Cauble found the fire to be only an ‘interrupmun to his slumbers, and, ‘,after being safely carried to the‘ {Hotel Juneau lobby, promptly ig- |nured the rushing firemen and spec- totors and took up his sleeping lagain where it hadbeen broken into BUS FLAMES ON HIGHWAY Nine Passengers and Driver Trapped in Motor Stage Early Today . REDDING, Cal.,, June 4. — Nine passengers and the driver - were burned to death when a motor stage overturned at Shiloah Springs, 48 miles north of here, about 3 o'clock this morning. All occupants, including the driv-| er, Al Wilson, of Redding, were. trapped in the bus. | | and one child. The identities were not known this forenoon. One witness, F. L. Speck, of the Los Angeles Police department, said the bus was traveling on a straight-| away highway, then suddenly ran' lup a bank and turned over in the middle of the highway and burst into flames. | George Johnson Dies Following Rush Trip Here Pioneer fipector, Fur Rancher Passes at St. | Ann’s Hospital | Sh | Dying just 12 hours after his ar- VITORIA, Spain, June 4. — In-‘) The flames were extinguished by rival here following an emergency surgent Spain is stunned by the 1. pire Department after a battle death of-Gem Mola, 36, in a crash kbt trip of the vessel Hyperien from of a fog-bound plane on the Bis- cayan front where his tactical gen- ius brought the Insurgent armies within sight of #he besieged city of Bilbao. Flags are at half staff today throughout the Insurgent territory and officers wept openly and all public activities were suspended. Insurgent newspapers called the tragic death of Mola an ‘“irre- parable loss” to the cause. MADRID BOMBED of one hour and twenty minutes, Glacier ‘Bay, George A. Johnson, |and this mormning at 10 o'clock trus= Ploneer Alaska prospector and fox tees of the Lutheran Church met rancher, passed away at St. Ann's to decide on action to be taken. nlfloh';“fl‘ly ztn:;nph:!‘ Yeg:efd;!'-f s was determined that repairs are to o parere be commenced immediap:ely under Pneumonia for several days before the direction of Hans Berg, who his arrival in Juneau, and was un- estimates that repairs will cost very ::ler::cl::(lllyté:m:o:;fia?lne;f)r;nfx: nearly one thousand dollars. = i R |Sweden in 1870, he has lived in the H ) y |Territory for the past 35 years and ' | The fireplace, the source of the wa g partner for some time with[ |blaze, is to be torn out, timbering gigat Anderson of Juneau at the iand wiring replaced. It is expected peardsiee Island fox ranch. Ketchikan Man Shoots At Girl Then_l(ills Self Truck Driver Attempts to Slay High School Pupil Who Turned Him Down KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 4.— Believing that he killed the girl he loved, officers said Peter Guldvik, 27, laundry truck driver, committed suicide at the roadside on the high- jway a few miles south of Ketchikan last night. He left several notes saying he intended to take his own life, some saying he planned to kill The victims include men, women'the girl, a high school sophomore |launch for a canal ride as the guests iwho had sought to stop his n.sso-;o( British Consul Allen Napier. ciation with her. Guldvik shot a rifle at the girl twice at a distance of 75 feet. She fainted, then fell to the ground unhurt and he killed himself. The man also is said to have had financial difficulties. He was a former resident of Seattle and Shelton, Wash., and had lived here six or seven years. The girl is resting at her home today, suffering from shock. e, <“Three Judges of Hell” @a Sought Paris Police Searching for Senders of Bombs Though Mails PARIS, June 4—Bombs exploded in three district post offices \‘;odv,} wounding two postal clerks slightly| and sending the police on the trail of “Three Judges of Hell,” who ter- rorized the city three years ago and were never caught. At that time bombs were placed in packages and mailed. MOTOR PLANTS CLOSING DOWN |that the lower floor church auditor-‘ Funerai services will be announc- ‘Eleven Tho:.;;)d Men Are 'DUKE, DUCHESS |Bird Life Is Found to Exist at North Pole; Scientists Wonder If Land Near There CHEERED, RDE GRAND CANAL {Honeymooners Greeted Royally at Many Stations Enroute to Austria MOSCOW, June 4.—The Soviet expedition of scientists now at the North Pole announced they found bird life existing there. This has )led the members of the party to dis- | VENICE, June 4—The Duke anaf® the possibility that undiscov- ered land exists in the vast Polar sea. | The scientists sighted a guille- met, a black and white seabird, abounding on the North Atlantic | coasts. | The bird flew over the camp yes- | terday. Duchess of Windsor rode down the| |Grand Canal today to cheers of {romantic Venetians. | Stopping off the train here for three hours, on their honeymoon | trip to an Austrian castle, the Dukei and his bride alighted from their special car and entered a motor FILM STRIKE IS SPREADING IN HOLLYWOOD Over 7,000~(;flsmen Are Called Out from Inde- pendent Studios | The Duke seems domesticated al- ready. Many receptions took place at stations along the route here. 'SPARK CAUSES SEATTLE FIRE; DAMAGE HEAVY Connecticut Street Pier Is Swept by Flames—Loss Placed at $170,000 PRI 2=\ Y | | SEATTLE, June 4—A spark fall-| HIOT STARTS ing between cracks in planking is lamed by the City Fire Inspector As vIsITuRs { for the spectacular blaze yester- iday that caused $170,000 damage to ithe Connecticut Street: pier owned | by the Port of Seattle. The spark is believed. to have, feome from a pile puller operating on the front of the dock, although P 1 | e . a cigarette might have been respon. 'Strlkmg Woodsmen, M 1 ” [stble. Workers Repulsed by Nonstrikers HOLLYWOOD, Cal,, June 4—The film strike has spread to 28 inde- pendent companies as 7,050 are re- |the Federated Motion Picture Crafts |dios more than a month ago. | The strike is to obtain union rec- lognition and was ordered extended |force a shutdown with the produc- ers. ‘» Anyway the spark smouldered in!‘ |a crack and then in waste shav- lings for an hour before the fire was | tdiscovered, which was about 4 o'- |clock yesterday afternoon. | NEWBERRY, Mich, June 4—An | Damage Estimated ;unidemlfled man fell dead and sev- | Fire Inspector E. Blaine Rossman eral persons were injured in a riot |said the damage to the dock is at the Newberry Lumber and Chem- $100,000, to privately owned cargo|ical Company plant at dawn to- inside and another $20,000 and to'day in a battle in which fists, clubs, loss of supplies and equipment of and brickbats were used. ported to have been called out hy| | which walked out of the major stu-| [to the independents in an effort to, FLOOD WATERS CAUSING FEARS “CENTRALN. M. Citizens of One Section Are | Warned to Prepare to Evacuate Homes BULLETIN — Carlsbad, June 4.—Seventy five hundred resi- | dents made ready to abandon | their homes as a huge crest | rolled down the Pecos River | toward the weakened and leak- ing McMillan Dam, 18 miles to | the north. Two hundred men are trying to strengthen the dam, ALBUQUERQUE, June 4. — Fear |mounted in New. Mexico today as |floods, precipitated by rains, re- Inewed a week long assault across |the central part of the state. | At Carlsbad, the citizens have |been warned to prepare to abandon {the town as the crest of the Pecos |waters entered the lowlands through the weakened and leaking McMillen Reclamation project dam, 13 miles th, i 5 A ter inundating most of depths up to five feet. | The hydro-electric plant went out iat Santa Rosa with damages esti- mated at $20,000. i(:nurt Program | ~ Will Be Passed | b s Roswell the city to IMPETUS GIVEN ALASKA MINING BY STATEMENT President Eases Money Ten- sion with Comment at Press Conference FOREIGN SHIPMENTS CONTINUE TO MOUNT More than Erly Million Sent Into This Country During Recent Week WASHINGTON, June 4.— President Roosevelt today told a press conference that there had been no change in the government’s gold policy. He advised questioners not to worry much about the gold situation. He gave the advice when asketl about renewed re- ports of possible changes in government policy. Prior to the President’s statement, the Department of Commerce announced the flood of gold shipments to this country was $40,945,000 dur- |ing the week ending May 28. | This was up about $11,000,000 from the previous week. The President’s comment at the press conference today will tend to ease up the un- easiness relative to the gold arlpoliey, « it was " believed ‘i many sources, and was inter- preted by.others as giving as- surance there would be no slash in the gold price, at least for the present. Others well informed on the subject pres dicted the Chief Executive’s statement would result in giv- ing further impetus to gold mining throughout the States and Alaska which now is at a MADRID, June 4—Insurgent ar- ium will be ready for services Sun-'eq Jater from the Charles W. Car- tillery bombarded Madrid again 48y morning. ter Mortuary where the body has, early today and killed or wounded} The Rev. Cauble, wife and their peen taken. Mr. Johnson has no| 60 on the downtown streets. |son, who had just completed get- ynown relatives. ‘the Coast Guard, another $50,000.; The riot took place as company | | The pier was leased jointly by employees, who refused to strike,| |the Quaker Steamship Line and repulsed a group of striking woods- |Coast Guard. 'men and lumber mill workers who came here from Munsing. They Thrown Out of Work high peak. Because of Sitdown o ! MARKET STIMULATED Presell Session e L ting established in the apartment; this week after their arrival from ———.—————— DETROIT, Mich., June 4—Offic-| ials of the Chrysler Corporation Coast Guard Aids The Coast Guard cutter Redwmg‘marched on the plant, then the de-! assisted two fire boats, a navy tug fenders resisted and the riot fol- President Indicates Robin- son Right Regarding NEW YORK, June 4. — The Wall Street market found some stimu- lation in unconfirmed rumors that three principal nptions, whose | | ' BASEBALL TnnAY!announced the closing of two P“’n“:and 22 fire engine and truck com- lowed. c 0 M PR“MISE Eme South to take over the post left by the Rev. Erling K. Olafson, have i lemploying 11,000 men because of &|panies in extinguishing the blaze. | ———— Compromise on Bill names were not mentioned, would ! {been temporarily located in one of PHUPUSAL lN lthe Knutson Apartments, on Wil- —_— Union Representatives Meet with Employers in Seattle Today OLYMPIA, Wash,, June 4—Pu- et Sound ferry boat operators, at a conference lasting from 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon to near mid- night last night, accepted Gov. Clarence D. Martin’s compromise proposal to end the tie-up. Union representatives are to pre- sent to the employers in Seattle today the compromise proposal among which raises to be granted to unlicensed personnel of 30 per- cent, which puts the wages at $110 per month. The state will permit the ferries to raise the rates 10 per cent to finance the raise in wages. GABRIELSON IS GOING TO NOME Wil Be co:n: Cashier of Miners, Merchants Bank {loughby Avenue, until their parson- age shall have been repaired. Much of their furniture was this morning !moved into the residence and busi- iness building of George Anderson, fnearby. = The building was completely cov- ered by insurance, held by the Luth- eran Brotherhood National Offices {at Chicago. The second fire this morning, which called the firemen out at 18:20 o'clock, was a very small chim- |ney blaze at Guy Smith's Drug Store on South Franklin Street. It was extinguished within about |twenty minutes, without damage. Nazi Executes Jewish Gitizen, | llniled_ States Four Pleas for Cl;:emency Denied—Hirsch Killed by Guillotine BERLIN, June 4. — Helmuth Hirsch, 21, Jewish citizen of the United States, who has never been in America, was executed by the mechanical guillotine at dawn today for the alleged treasonable plot, —Is Aboard Victoria under the explosivés law, presum- SEATTLE, June 4.—Bound for Nome on the steamer Victoria is Harry G. Gabrielson who succeeds the late J. S. Stangroom as cashier of the Miners and Merchants bank there. Gabrielson organized and headed the Nome Lighterage and Com- mercial Company at Nome which was taken over by the Lomens in 1931. He has been in the public ac- counting business at Redwood City, California, for the past several years. ably planned to kill Chancellor Hit- ler. Hirsch achieved American citi- zenship through his grandfather. American Ambassador William Dodd appealed to the Nazi govern- ment four times for clemency, but without avail. — e The C. C. C. boys have strung nearly 50,000 miles of telephone wires, cleared 50,000 miles of fire breaks, and ‘constructed 75,000 miles, of truck trails and minor roads. |played this afternoon in the major |leagues and received up to 3 o'-/ rclock: National League Chicago 6; New York 5, innings. Pittsburgh 1; Boston 9. ! Cincinnati 9; Philadelphia 8. St. Louis 14; Brooklyn 4. American League Boston at Chicago, postponed onj account of rain. Philadelphia 6; St. Louis 7, ten ’lnntngs. Washington 3; Detroit 10. CRAZED SLAYER RUNNING AMUCK Calmly Votes to Kill Twen- ty-four Persons—1 | Already Dead MANILA, June 4 — The police today pursued a jealous grief stricken and c¥azed tribesman blamed for the slaying of eleven of twenty-four persons he voted to kill. In all, eighteen have died as the result of the frenzy of Klinga Bole. Bole first ran amuck nlna days ago in belief that his wife had been unfaithful. He killed his wife and five other victims, the latter relatives of his wife, were first. Yesterday Bole killed three children and slaughtered two men and a woman as they worked in a rice field. e, Program Bears Fruit MIDVILLE, Fla. — The program to encourage farmers to raise more eleven livestock is bearing results here. A| George Dooley of Cordova, broth-| solid shipload of hogs, the largest|er of Miss Roberta Dooley of Ju- Advancement of Teaching had re- shipment in this section’s history,|neau, recently received a new out-|sources of $26,794,272 on June 30, recently moyed from Midville, lis and has sent 3,000 men home be-! |sitdown strike occasioned when | The following are scores of games two union men refused to Work continuously played on a huge gas-| alongside of two non-unionists. A short time later, the De Soto | Division, working 1,500 men, closed because of a shortage of parts. The Packard Motor Corporation reported curtailing production cause of lack of materials. PUCCINELLI PAID HIGHER IN MINORS BALTIMORE, Md., June 4. — Geare Puccinelli, former Cardinal outfielder, may have taken a wal- loping on the prestige end of it by playing with Baltimore this season. But he is receiving more money | with the minor league club this year than he did with the Phila- delphia.Athletics in 1936. —_—to—— In Them Days Army Men “Was Men” FORT RILEY, Kas., June 4—The old army was built along robust lines, as witness these excerpts from an order promulgated at this fron- tier army post in 1842: “Members of this command will,| when shooting buffaloes on the pa-| rade ground be careful not to fire| in the direction of the commanding | officer's quarters. “The troop officer having the best | For over an hour streams were |oline tank outside the dock to keep| sparks from setting it afire. ' Ammaunition Ezxplodes 1 Ammunition, stored on the dock,| |exploded, sending bullets and boxes high into the air. | Four firemen were injured during| the fighting to quench the flames.| — e SHIP WRECKED; i 9 * MANY DROWN | lof North Carolina State College, RS |died in the electric chair shortly e D b % after midnight in the state* peni- Sailing Ship Piles on Rocks tentiary for siaying a former Dai- During Storm—Crew, |las detective, John Roberts. g Passengers Die TWO SLAYERS DIE N CHAR Electrocuted for Killing Officer HUNTSVILLE, Texas, June 4 .— Augustus Beard, former football star Wissie Ellison, negro, was elec- trocuted later for slitting his wife's throat. VAN EATON IS COMING NORTH MANILA, June 4—Word of a shipwreck, in which 39 persons were |drowned, was brought here by the| !mnstet of a sailing ship from Ab-| |lug. | The captain reported twelve sail- ors and 27 passengers on the sailing |boat Rosario were drowned in a |storm, when the ship went on the |rocks. All the victims were Orien- | tals or Filipinos. Former Football Player Is, G-MAN FILLED ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, ON ALEUTIAN Alaska Tour, But Will Rejoin Them Missed Parents, Brother on! WASHINGTON, June 4.—Presi- dent Roosevelt said there will be no question but that the court reor- ganization bill will be passed at the present session of Congress. The President made the state- ment this afternoon at a press con-t ference. | The President indicated however that the Administration might ac- cept a compromise proposal, wken he said that Senator Joseph T. Rob- inson made a correct statement last night when he said steps were ta- ken providing for certain amend- !ments to be offered to the bill when it comes up on the floor of the /Senate and he may make one him- Iself. The President parried a direct question on the subject, however. ————— JACK GILBERT JOINS SHIELS {Bormes' Alasks Salmion Of- ficial Becomes Vice- Pres. of P. A. F. BELLINGHAM, June 4-—J. N. |Gilbert of Seattle, formerly con- inected with the Alaska Pacific Sal- announce over the week-end, their | willingness to purchase gold in any amount at around $35 an ounce, PLANS CURBING OF VANDALISM AT ANCHORAGE Mayor Romig Proposés Civic Organization for | Children’s Recreation ° ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 4.— Mayor J. H. Romig has proposed the appointment of a social wel- fare committee, composed of civil organizations, as a special City Council advisory group, to set up a program for recreation of chil- dren and prevent their engaging in such mischief as the recent vandal- ism on Oscar Neilson’s cabin on the outskirts of the city. Bullets have also been fired through dir- planes. AMELINOFF, ANOTHER LAP {moz Company, has been appointed |trained remount for this year will June 4.—Gay Osborne, 24, ex-con- killed | be awarded one barrel of rye whis- key. “Student officers will discontinue the practice of roping and riding buffaloes.” The order also called attention to regulations providing that all officers wear beards. —,o— - NEW SPEEDBOAT board speedboat from the Soulh |vict of Oklahoma, admitted today |in the United States Commission- ler's Court that he shot G-Man Truitt Rowe, at Gallup, three days |ago. | Osborne pleaded not guilty to the |charge of first degree murder and |said the shot was fired in a struggle |over a weapon. | i A The Carnegie Foundation for the R o 4 !Vice President in charge of opera- SEA’ , June 3—George Van' 4 ifle Atmark 2 Eaton, 21, of Sloux City, Towa, who Yioms oz the Pacifle onyy: Pl missed the steamer last Saturday ries, it was announced here by when his parents and brother sailed Archie Shiels, President of P.AF. for Alaska, has arrived here. Hel The new official expects to leave h“"’(h'h‘k"dv"w; fh“m’;& A;iw;'m, soon for Alaska to supervise work oung Van Eaton sal e in- terpreted one of his parent’s mes- there during the fishing season, Mr. sages to him to mean they were to Shiels said. leave for the North June 29 and . not May 29. Mr. Gilbert is widely known in Van Eaton sails tomorrow on the Alaska and has been in the salmon Aleutian to rejoin parents and canning industry for years, coming 1936, brother. annually to Alaskan waters. PARAMARIBO, Dutch Guina, June 4—Amerlia Earhart took off this morning on another lap on her world flight and headed for Natal at the easternmost tip of Brazil. The weather is reported clear over the entire route. REPORTED LANDING FORT ALEZA, Brazil, June 4.— Amelia Earhart has landed at this northeast Brazil port after a 1,300 mile flight. She landed 300 miles short of her previously announced goal, at Natal,