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Foreign Nations Peeved At Soviets
Attempts At Extension Of Coast Agreement Fails
Roosevelt Explains Principle of Applying Taxation
MARITIME COMMISSIONER
ISSUED STATEMENT THEY
FAILED GET AGREEMENT
Attempts at Extension Of
Coast Agr^r^nt
SHIPOW,
Unions'/v anted Changes.
H iring Be Held
Monday
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22, —
Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet
of the Federal Maritime Commis
sion, and its vocal representative,
issued a statement Wednesday
night indicating that the attempts
to bring about a one year truce
between shipowners and mari
time unions, on the basis of the
oLd working agreements, had fail
ed.
The statement said that the ship
owners had agreed to a year’s ex
tension of the old contract, but
unions had asked for certain
changes, after which employers
had requested that the matter “go
along to an investigation of the
entire situation.”
Hamlet announced they would
start the hearings Monday.
Changes asked by the unions
were not immediately made pub
lic, but it is understood they are
the same as demands made pre
viously.
Vicious Traps
Displayed In A
Store in Juneau
Frank Dufrense, Executive Of
ficer of the Alaska Game Com
mission, has recently received 10
huge bear traps from the vicini
ty of Haines and Klukwan.
The traps are steel jawed,
vicious affairs, weighing as much
as 45 pounds each, with teeth of
more than an inch in length.
They are capable of mangling,
crushing and infecting a man s
leg to such an extent that ampu
tation, if not death, would be in
evitable.
Using steel traps having more
than a nine inch spread of jaws
has been prohibited under the
Alaska Game Laws for several
years and it is not believed that
traps of the kind recently receiv
ed by Dufresne are being used to
any great extent.
The Game Commission does
receive reports from time to time
(Continued on Page Three)
Not Accept Peace
1
:!■ /(
" Y'-The Associated Press)
jB^rln^^and vegetable workers
union voted last night to reject
the peace proposal to end the sev
en weeks’ strike of 3200 workers.
A. Eide Writing
Book Wife-Trad
ing In Diomedes
! Wife-trading in the Diomede
Island, not for variety’s sake but
to promote a unique and effective
brand of insurance, will be the
! subject of a book to be printed
in Norway next year.
Author of the original manu
script is Arthur Eide, for many
years a teacher in the Diomodes
who is perhaps as well acquaint
ed with the customs of the Es
kimos on these mid Bering islands
as any white man living.
Eide has translated his scripl
into Norwegian and sent it to Os
lo. where a noted Scandinavian
author, Lars Hansen, and Axel
Kragh, a contemporary will pre
| pare it for publication.
Eide has already published one
! book in English “New Stories
| of Eskimo Land”, which is now
being used in the schools of Al
aska.
The Wife-trading, once so prc
valent in the Diomedes, has jusl
about become obsolete in receni
years, Eide reports. Formerly, s
group of eight families would
sign a contract agreeing to ex
change wives overnight at cei
tain times throughout the yeai
until a complete circuit exchange
I had been made.
They also agreed that if any
wife died, her man could not gc
out and fish or hunt for a year,
but had to stay home and keep
the young ones from starving.
Thus, by exchanging wives, all
members of the tribe became in
ter related and provided food foi
each other and no one suffered
the pangs of starvation. The Dio
mede father found himself in a
position dubiously similar to the
American ice-man.
All this, together with many
other unusual customs and inch
dents, are related in the bool
which will be published in Nor
way next year.—Alaska Press.
Election May Be
Decided By The
Political Bosses
By Byron Price
Chief Bureau, The AP Wash. D. C.
One little publicized aspect of
the Presidential campaign is the
great reliance placed by the Dem
ocratic field marshals on the big
city political machines.
In some respects the situation
is anomolous. In the public
mind the Roosevelt administration
has been identified with idealism
and the brain trust. Its vocal
follow ng is made up largely Or
those interested in “a cause”.
Daily it is indicted by the oppo
sition on a charge of having ele
vated theorists, novices and im
practical zealots to place of high
responsibility.
In the quieter precincts where
the political war plans are made,
however, sit very practical men
indeed. At several of the most
important salients the tower of
long experience and definite det
ermination. It is not entirely in
conceivable however, that the out
come in these particular salients
may spell national defeat or vict
! ory, regardless of the noise and
fury elsewhere.
Will Tammany deliver in New’
York? Will Hague come agross
in New Jersey? Can Guffey
swing Pennsylvania How is Pen
dergast doing in Missouri? Will
Kelly provide the needed major
ity in Illinois?
Very, very eagerly will the
Democratic managers at head
quarters watch for the answers
to these questions when the re
turns begin to trickle in on el
ection nighjt
Could Swing Election
The five states mentioned
above, have among them, 143 el
ectoral votes. Added to the solid
south, they would be more than
sufficient to elect a president. In
all of them, the rural sections nor
mally are Republican; they go
Democratic only when the Dem
ocratic organization rolls up an
overbalancing majority in the cit
ies.
It is worth noting also that
each of the five organizations
named has been doing very well
for itself recently.
In 1935 Tammany made tremen
dous gains in New York City. In
the same year, in Chicago, the
Kellyites carried the city by the
unprecedented majority of 030,
000, and Frank Hague establish
ed a new high for Democratic
pluralities in his urban baili
ROOSEVELT EXPLAINS
HIS PRINCIPLE OF
APPLYING TAX
(By The Associated Press)
WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 22, — President Roose
velt coupled his answer to what is called “Talk about
high taxes under this Administration” with the asser
tion that the nation, as in 1776, must choose this year
“Between democracy in taxation or special privilege
in taxation.”
x. ne rresiaeni spoxe xasi mgni oeiore a exuwueu
auditorium in one of the major speeches of his swing
through the New England states. He talked almost
entirely about taxation, and repeated that new or in
creased taxes were not necessary to balance the budget
and to begin soon a rapid reduction of the national debt.
President Roosevelt said that at the time of the
world war, another Democratic administration had pro
vided enough taxes to pay the entire debt in fifteen
years, levied according to the ability to pay—“But the
succeeding Republican administration didn’t believe in
that principle. There was a reason. They had political
debts to those who sat there with their elbows on the
tables. To pay these political debts they reduced the
taxes to their friends in the higher brackets and left
the nominal debt to be paid by later generations.
“Because they evaded their obligation, the depres
sion of 1929 started with a sixteen billion dollar handi
cap on us, and our children.”
He said the same group would like to get back into
power again. The President argued that the New Deal
“had improved and Americanized taxes” operating the
principle of taxation according to the ability to pay.
He asserted “Here is my principle—“Taxes should
be levied according to the ability to pay, one that is on
ly an American princiDle.”
I
wick in northern Now Jersey.
The Guffey organization in Pen
nsylvania had its latest test in
1934, when it elected both a gov
ernor and a senator in that tra
ditional Republican stronghold.
As late as August 4, 1936. the Pen
dergast machine in Missouri won
one of the most impressive intra
party primary victories in its
history.
All of these five states are hot
ly debated territory in the 1936
election. Probably few Republi
can leaders would dispute that if
all five are pushed into the Dem
ocratic column by the strength
of their five powerful big-city
machines, Mr. Roosevelt certain
ly will be reelected.
Will They Cooperate?
Strangely enough, when the
practical politicians consider this
situation, the question asked of
tenest is not whether the big five
among Democratic machines will
be able to deliver their states and
the presidency, but whether they
wull choose to do so.
Outwardly, all five are for
Roosevelt. But the ways of mach
ine politics sometimes are strange
(Continued on Page Three)
I
Gov. Alf Landon
Must Remain in
Bed Bad Throat
1 —■ ■ —1
(By The Associated Press)
EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 22, —
Gov. Alf M Landon repubican
presidential candidate was order |
ed to remain in bed today by Dr.:
Frank Schuster, due to throat in-1
faction. He will be unable to I
speak from rear platforms today, i
-.. — — ._
Dust Smoke Was
tion of Volcano
fBy The Associated Press!
HILO, Hawaii, Oct. 22, A re
port that Kilaul volcano was er
upting caused a brief excitement
here today but it was soon discov
ered that visitors had mistaken
smoke dust arising from the fire
pit, as evidence of eruption.
Rumblings Heard
Among Nations In
Europe on Soviet
Insurgent Forces Drive Dis
ordered Government
Troops Back
NEUTRALITY DISPUTE
Foreign Nations Become
Peeved Soviet Atti
tude Neutrality
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Oct. 22, — Insur
gents today poked a new spear
head toward Madrid’s fortified
city limits, as diplomats of politi
\ cally opposite nations rumbled
fresh threats over Spanish neu
trality.
Disordered government troops
(led back behind improvised barb
ed wire entanglements just ten
miles outside of the capitol, at
Mostoles, after Fascists had mov
ed strong forces into captured
Navalearnero, the city of Mad
rid’s vital defenses.
In London, German and Ital
ian representatives struck at the
Soviet’s sympathetic leaning to
ward the Spanish government,
and intimated that their nations
would act if the Soviet dumped
the non-intervention agreement.
The Russian representative re
sponded: “We don’t care!”
Madrid accepted the French of
fer to evacuate refugees, follow
ing similar British action.
President Azana t' S >ain is in
Barcelona and his wife is in Toul
OUS-.
Three Cliildren
Hurt at Speech
Pres. Roosevelt
(By The Associated Press)
FALL RIVER, Mass., Oct. 21,
—Three children suffered fractur
ed arms, and scores were tramp
led when a huge crowd greeting
President Roosevelt at South
Park, broke through the ropes,
as the presidential party arrived.
A section of the temporary
grandstand collapsed, injuring
others. Estrilla Pachecho was
hurt when the stand collapsed.
William Ferreira fell from a
park building roof. Eugene Mich
anaski Jr., was pushed, or fell
from a tree. All three were
only twelve years old.
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