The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1934, Page 1

| | 1] il Bl Saviotiand THLE DAILY VOL. XLIII.. NO. 6628. ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VIEMBER OF ASSOCIATEDVPRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN MAKES VEILED THREAT 70 U.S. ‘TROTZKY PLOTTED F RENCH REVOLT RIOTS WERE TO START GENERAL ARMED REVOLT er Had Plans for Dictatorship MANIFESTO ISSUED SHOWS BIG SCHEME | Fight in SEts, Sword| Against Sword, Was Crder Sent Out ! PARIS, April 18.—A sensational by Leon Trotzky, exiled former Soviet leader, to use the February riots to set up his own dictator- p in France by a Red Revolu- revealed in his party organ, 13 to the French authorities. The revolution, it is disclosed, was to be staged by “armed work- ¢ and the militia.” Te Measure Swords The workers and militia were urged Trotzky in his manifesto, following the fatal rioting in the streets of Paris on February 6, to measure swords with the armed Government forces. The manifesto said, ities revealed, that between the two forces | is no possible peace but in a fight to the death, in the streets, and| by force will be decided the fu- ture.” ! ¥e Tuaer Guard Trotzky is under guard near Baribizon while burning up the w s in a hunt for a new country to call his home. He probably will | take up his residence in Denmark | or Switzerland. One rumor is that his leaders are trying to clear the way for his return to the United States where he once lived. Expelled from France Trotzky was located in a villa at Barbizon following a police raid. ic said he was trying to establish a Fourth Internationale for a revo- lution. Trotzky has been expelled | from France, where he has been permitted to live for some months, because he has ‘“violated political neutrality.” PROGRAM FOR ADJOURNMENT SHAPING UP President Abasidens. O Bill to Clear Way—Hope- ful on Tax Revision the author- WASHINGTON, April 18.—Pres- ident Roosevelt has definitely cast‘ aside the McLeod bill for payment of depositors of closed banks in shaping up the Administration’s program for early conclusion of Congress. The President is confident of a satisfactory compromise on the tax| revision bill. - e Junior “Gold Rush” | OROVILLE, Gal. — School bays | have turned their attention to constructing portable “rockers” nnd‘, “sluice boxes” to earn spending‘ money by washing gold from creek beds. Working after school, boys of 10 and 12 years have reclaimed | gold enough to start a juvenile stampede. e ———— Home QOwners or Builders Are To Be Benefited WASHINGTON, April 18— Ccincident with the House ap- proval of the agreement with the Senate on the Federal Guarantee two billion Home Loan bonds, it is learned that President Roosevelt is expected to soon recommend the estab- lishment of Federal Mortgage Associatiens to lend individuals wanting te construct or med- ernize their homes. 3 Hoover-Smlth Battle for Pre idency Mrored in Trial of Blshop Cannon UNDER GUARD ~ OF SOLDIERS| Echoes of the 1928 Presidential fight between (right) as he appeared during the campaign, have not entirely died away. Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith, shown For Bishop James Can- non, Jr., and his secrotary must answer charges of conspiring to violate election laws by failing to re- pirt all anti-Smith campaign con(rl!)gllons they reesi=:g, COURT ACTION FOLLOWS AIR MAIL TROUBLE Transport Compames Bring Suit Over Cancella- tion Contracts WASHINGTON, April i8. — A court action to force the Govern- ‘mem to carry out the terms of the air mail contracts which were annulled by Postmaster General James A. Farley, today by the Boeing Air Transport Company, National Air Transport Company, Pacific Air Transport and all subsidiaries of the United Aircraft and Transport, Incorpor- ated. The complaint, according to statements made last night, is to be filed against the Postmaster General alleging he gave no war ing of cancellations which con tuted illegal seizure of property of the transport companies. FILING IS MADE WASHINGTON, April 18—Ap- plication for injunctions to restrain Postmaster General Farley from enforcing his order annuling the air mail contracts has been filed with the Clerk of the Supreme Court of District of Columbia by the United Aircraft and subsidar- ies.” Damages are sought for the can- cellation but no amount is named. “WEAK EFFORT” WASHINGTON, April 18.—Karl Crowley, Solicitor for the Post Of- fice Department, characterized the air mail suits against the Post- master General as a ‘“weak effort of the companies to evade the law which says the government cannc, be sued without lts con- sent.” i MRS. J. J. CONNORS AND FAMILY RETURN NORTH ON STEAMER YUKON TODAY Mrs. J. J. Connors Sr., Mrs, J. J. Connors, Jr., and the latter's daughter Patricia Katherin and in- fant son, James Joseph, third, ar- rived this morning on the steamer ‘Yukon. Mrs. Connors Jr., ing her family in San Jose, Cali- fornia, since late last summer and her son was born there several months ago. She was met in Se- attle by her mother-in-law and they returned north together. is to be instituted . has been visit-, wh nere are By JOSEPH H. SHORT A WASHINGTON, Apnl 18 | flash-back to the bitter South over Alfred E. Smnhs cam- ’palgu for the Presidency more | than five years ago comes in the present trial of Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and his secretary. The Southern Methodist church- man and Miss Ada L. Burroughs |of Richmond, Va, are charged with conspiring to violate election ‘Iaws by failure to report all the | anti-Smith campaign contributions lhey received. The charge developed from a Senate Lobby Committee investiga- tion on which Cannon turned his back. Hat in hand, the gray- haired, defiant veteran of many an anti-liquor fight walked from the committee room as Senators were putting questions to him. Trial Long Blocked Another committee with broader powers took up the inquiry. Its ireport went to the District At- torney and Cannon and Miss Bur- roughs were indicted in October, 1931. Legal thrust and parry has blocked trial on the indictment for more than two years. | The first public charge that Can- non had not reported the full amount received by him in the campaign was made by Represen- | tative Tinkham of Massachusetts in 1930 at a session of the lobby committee. Tinkham told the Sen- atorial body that Cannon had re- vealed in reports to the Clerk of the House only part of a contribu- tion from E. C. Jameson, New York capitalist. Jameson paid in $65.300. Miss Burroughs, as Treas- urer of the anti-Smith committee 'at Richmond, reported disposition of $17300 of Jameson's gifts | Defies Committess ’ Appearing voluntarily the committee a few da later, Cannon refused to testify as to the campaign funds, charging that the committee lacked authority to ask such questions. He also challenged a later com- mittee’s authority in press state- ments ahd did not acceptan invi- tation from Senaor Gerald P . Nye, chairman, to explain from the witness stand some of his fi- nancial transactions during the campaign. As officials of banks in which Cannon kept money in 1928 and | contributors marched to the Nye! witness stand, Cannon asked an in- junction against the committee pro- | before s ceeding. The court let the com- mittee alone. A bulging committee record, ich included direct testimony by Jameson, was given District At-’ torney Lee A. Rover on September 1, 1931. Six weeks later a grand jury returned the indictment. | Cannon, in November, 1931, en-! (Continued on Page Three) 1 two studies of the widely-known STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANCE, CHEERFUL MOOD Preferreds ;; Speciallies‘RuusEVELT Is Have Their Innings— Good News Received NEW YORK, April 18. — The Stock Market was cheerful if not jubilant today and many issues pushed up for gains of one to two or more points. Preferreds and specialties led in | rtu- | the upturn which embraced vi ally all groups. Extreme advances were shaded during the last minutes of trad- ing, but the close was firm. Sales were 1,600,000 shares. Good News Better business and industrial news, together with brighter Wash- ington prospects, helped stock mat- ters, Equities clination grain. around later again showed an in- to overlook the erratic Most of the cereals rallied one cent a bushel but reacted under profit taking. Silver Improves Cotton and silver, also rubber, improved. Crucible Steel preferred, gained around seven points, National Lead | 13 points, Gillette preferred, was up four points. Preferreds Gain Other included Budd Manufacturing, Ra- dio, U. S. Rubber, National De- partment Stores, Mullins Manufac- turing, International Paper and Power. Liggett and Myers Tobacco B was up three points. American To- (Continued on Page Seven) preferreds up one to two| GIRL SLAYER Confessed Mu—rde rer Is Threatened by Mob of Three Thousand IHORRIBLE DETAILS { © TOLD TO SHERIFF Salesman R;Ees Stabbing 16-Year-Old Girl in “Louisiana SHREVEPORT, La. April 18.— Soldiers today are guarding a con fessed girl slayer from any at-| tempted renewal of mob violence that swirled for hours around | and inside of Caddo Parish’s mil- lion dollar courthouse The mob numbered three thou- sands persons after it became | known that Fred Lockhart, aged 38 , salesman for artificial but- had confessed to Sheriff T. R. Hughes that he attacked and killed 16-year-old Mae Griffin. Confesses to Sheriff Sheriff Hughes said Lockhart | cohfessed to the slaying of the girl last Thursday after obtaining | her mother’s consent for her to| attend his ill wife ‘The body of the girl was found | near a lake on the outskirts of the city, mutiliated by stab wounds. Attempted Liberties Lockhart, in his confession to the Sheriff, said he took the girl near the lake and told her his wife was out fishing on the lake. They sat down on the ground and he put his arm around her. The girl struck at him. He pulled out a knife and stabbed her in the side. She fainted. He then at- tacked her. The girl never re- gained consciousness. - UNDER ATTACK - BYROOSEVELT P resident'sm Deal, Also NRA Criticised by Re- ! publican Colonel NEW YORK, April 18.—President | Roosevelt's New Deal was denounc- ed as reactionary and unAmerican by his distant cousin, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech at his in- auguration as of thel National Repub! Col. Roosevelt said the Adminis- tration has violated Constitutional liberties to an extraordinary degree and “NRA has adopted an atti- tude of militaristics and Prus- sianism. The New Deal is not even new but is an old deal, older | than time, the deal through which ‘we have been rising through years lof struggle.” AT | MISS ESTHER KASER RETURNS ,’ Miss Esther Kaser returned on the steamer Yukon this morning after spending the .last several | weeks visiting in the south. Miss Kaser has resumed her position in the office of the Territorial Com- | missioner of Health While she| was away she visited relatives in| Seattle and Portland as well as friends in Eugene, Oregon, where ,»he anended school Internatwnal Sourdough Reunion in 1935 to Be Held Aboard Steamer, Alaska Trip LOS ANGELES, Cal, President, April said the International Sourdough Reunion of 18.—~Jack Robarts, International 1935 is expected to be held aboard one of the Alaska Steamship Company’s steamers cruising to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and Seward. From Seward the sourdoughs will go inland to Anchorage. Robarts has received a letter of thanks from President Roosevelt thanking him for the desk set Alaskans sent to the Chief Executive, SHARP NOTE T0 armament Agreements —Useless to Argue PARIS, April 18—France, in gotiations unless she is given something equivalent to a military aliance in the old Entent Cordiale. This was revealed today. The note to Great Britain frank- ly says ‘it is useless” to argue about conditions until the full truth of Chancellor Hitler's re- armament program is determined PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATION T0 BE SOUGHT Half a Billion Dollars Will Be Requested for Next Fiscal Year ‘WASHINGTON, April 18.—Pres- ident Roosevelt and his aides have decided . upon half a billion d lar appropriation for public wi for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The sum of $300,000,000 will be for new projects and the re- mainder for continuing existing projects, .. FRED JENSEN IS IN CITY Fred Jensen, of the sales depart- ment of Liggett and Myers Tobac- co Company of San Francisco, hopped into Juneau and Chcslflrheldt Velvet and is in- ‘Every- ness is good and creasing,” said Jensen body is optimistic wherever I have been, and that is many places, and I have many more to cov We have the goods, the people know it, and they are buying.” NI o, HARRY O'NEILL ACCEPTS . POSITION AT BEHRENDS Harry O'Neill has acceptetl a po- sition in the grocery depariment of B. M. Behrends' Company, Inc, it. was announced this morning. iately started his pep-up campaign| for GREAT BRITAIN Threatens to Scrap Dis- a b {note to Great Britain, threatens to § scrap all current disarmament ne- § ks| | immed- | | Get New Deal from Court {Tn accordance with decision handed down by the State Supreme Court {at Raleigh, N. C., which upset a family agreement, Zachary Smith ! Reynolds, infant son of Libby Holman, former torch singer, and the late Smith Reynolds, may inherit the bulk of at $25,000,000. Here is one of the few photographs made of Miss Holman and her son. his father’s fortune, estimated FRANCE SENDS e Mrs, Carmll Elting Donner, widow | of JO‘inh Donner, of Buffalo, N. Y., | whose engagement to Lord Tenny- son (below), grandson of the cele- brated Bri recently. Mrs. of Howard l:lun;z, Chicago manu- facturer, PLANE CRASHES DURING STORM; 4 PERSONS DIE LEWISVILLE, Texas, April 18.— { Harry Fov Pilot, Jack Poole,| | Lilllan Rose and Mrs. Jewell Mor- | gan, all of Dallas, Texas, were killed here this afternoon in plane crash during a storm. R CONDITION OF CLAUD HELGESEN CRITICAL | IS WORD RECEIVED/ Claude P'vu.(-wn who has been receiving medical (reatment in a sanitarium near Portland, Oregon . for over a year, is in a critical condition according to word receiv- ed here by Mrs. Helgesen this morning The radiogram arrived just be- fore the steamer Northwestern sailed for the south this morning, and the sailing was delayed for a short time in order that Mrs, Helgesen might take passage south on it poet, was announced | Donner is a daughter | 81 | Bontrager 'NIPPON NATION | RESENTING AID ~ GIVEN TO CHINA ;Considers Action As Detri- i mental to Peace in Asia ‘WILL USE FORCE TO BLOCK MOVES ro reign Office Statesman i Bristling Again with War Talk | TOKYO, Japan, April 18. |—The Foreign Office spokes- man said today that Japan will act positively, if neces- sary, in application of her policy of respensibility for | peace in Asia. \ The spekesman said that if | fo sreign efforts to disturb the | peace in Asia are backed | forcefully, Japan may be com- pelled to resort to force. | The spokesman further said Japan objected to efforts of | other nations, including the United States, to help the {Chinese air and military furtes and said technical or military aid to China almost inevitably becomes military or political GOV, TROY WILL FREE WRANGELL - JAIL PRISONER |Liberates Ralph Bontrager Pending Action on Par- don Recommendation An order temporarily setting free Ralph Bontrager, prisoner in the Wrangell Federal jail was signed yesterday by Gov. John W. Troy and Bontrager will remain at liberty pending a decision of President Roosevelt on a petition for a par= don, the Governor announced. He has been confined at Wrangell for |several months. As soon as the Governor's order | Was received by him, United States Marshal W. T. Mahoney telegraph- ed to Wrangell an order for Bont- rager’s release. A petition for his pardon, signed |by United States Commissioner " |John W. Stedman, before whom he |was ftried and convicted, Deputy United States Marshal H. D, Camp- | bell, arresting officer, and most of the residents of Wrangell, was for- warded to Gov. Troy sometime ago. He submitted the matter to Sec- retary Ickes of the Interior De- partment for a ruling on his power to pardon or reprieve, A telegram received by him today from the Department informed the Governor he had authority to free Bontrager pending Presidential action on the | recommended pardon, and that the jquestion of the Governor's power to pardon in misdemeanor cases as being submitted to the Ate iney General for an opinion. was convicted of an |attack on his wife last Winter. He |Was given a jail sentence and a heavy fine. He has served out the ‘}lll term and, lacking funds, is |now serving out the fine, Mrs., Buum;,un personally asked Gov. ‘Aruy to intercede for his release, >o o {Real Liquor Arrives in i |Juneau : L One hundred and fifty cases of wines, whiskies and assort- ed beverages arrived on the steamer Yukon this morning consigned to Juneau % in anticipation of May 1, when the sale of liquor in this city will be legal for the first time since January 1, 1918,