The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 12, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIV., NO. 6675. ( JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1934. PRICE TEN CENTS 'LONGSHOREMENS’ STRIKE MAY SPREAD * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 'SEATTLE MAYOR MAKES THREAT TO OPEN HARBOR » % JAPANESE GUNS AGAIN TRAINED ON GHINA TOWN Vice - Consul Has Dropped| from Sight in Nanking LOS ANGELES, Cal, June already solved the problems of years to do that. Gee, Bo:ys, But This Is Going to Be Some World—Later On g ) MEETING { ATTACKS NRA, the University of California, addressing the National Association | of Credit Men said: “I predict a workless world. Confrenting us now are problems of dis- tributicn and they will be sclved. Perfection of the radio and mochinery will release mankind from teil eventual 12.—Dr. Frederick Woellner, of We have production. It took us 300,000 New College Head —Kidnaping Feared NIPPON GOVERNMENT ISSUES ULTIMATUM Another Reason Reported, However, to Be. Cause for War-like Move NANKING, June 12—Four Jap- ° warships are converging on ing to emphasize the demand | an investigation into the dis- | [ arance of Eimei Kuramoto, 1ese Vice-Consul. He dropped sight four days ago. The | authorities state they do know his fate. from Chinese 1.0l JAPANESE ULTIMATUM SHANGHAI, June 12—Japan has 2lly informed China it holds r responsible for the disappear- of Vice-Consul Kuramoto and | ) the right to take what tion it considers appropriate. | been informed that it | 'y jous affair and men- | Sino-Japanese relations.” apanese Legation offici. stated the Japanese residents bere at Nanking fear for their safety as 4 Dr. Lee Paul Sieg, dean of the the result of “unpleasant relations University of Pittsburgh, has beet vith the Chinese police at Nan- which constitutes the reason for dispatching Japan- varships to Nanking. e Japanese believe their Vice- Consul has been kidnaped. appointed as the new president o the University of Washington a Seattle. He will take office Aug ust 1. (Associated Press Photo) S NGTED ENGINEER, FISTS WAVED 1oy o110 cOST, BY SENATORS, oo, Heamng o> 1 SOUTH (Carl Ewald Grunsky, Who Bitter Exchanges Are| Attained National Prom- Made Over Tugwell’s inence, Passes Away Nomination SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 12. WASHINGTON, June 12.—Rex- —Carl Ewald Grunsky, aged 179 ford G. Tugwell testified at the years, President of the American Senate Agricultural hearing, which Society of Civil Enginecrs, is dead was punctuated with bitter ex-|here. changes between the Senators here,i Prepared to begin the study of that he believeg firmly in the Con- i medicine in fulfilment of an early stitution and the democratic prin- ambition, Grunsky suddenly became ciples of government. !interested in engineering. Eventual- Tugwell is now Assistant Secre- 'ly he attained high rank in that tary of Agriculture, and was ques- profession on the Pacific Coast and tioned in connection with his nom- in the service of the nation. ination as Under-Secretary of Ag- As City Engineer of S8an Fran- riculture. lcisco from 1900 to 1904, he made Senator Louis Murphy of Towa plans for and supervised construc- remarked that some of Chairman tion of many important public pro- Ellison D. Smith’s observations were | jects which were factorsin the de- “just a speech against the admin- velopment of the city. His ser- istration.” Chairman Smith waved his fist bership on the Isthmian Canal under Murphy’s nose, yelling, “I Commission, consulting engineer of resent that insinuation.” {the United States Reclamation Ser- | vice and adviser to Ethan A. Hitch- |eock, Secretary of the Interior in |the cabinet of President Roose- velt. NOMINATION O. K. WASHINGTON, June 12.—By a vote of 16 to 2 the Senate Agri-| Engineering Wonder culture Committee late this afl_er— His most important work for San noon approved of the nomination wy,neiseo included the construction of Tugwell to be Undcrsecre_mry orlo‘ the city sewage system and the Agriculture. The Senate Will Vot¢ nianning of a water supply from {vices to the nation included mem- | on the nomination tomorrow. —e—#— RELIEF GOSTS T0 MOUNT UP WASHINGTON, June 12—Direct unentplcyment relief will have cost the Government mcre than two bil- lion dollars by August 1. Relief officials predict another billion dollars will be added with- in the next year. The total does not include many millions of doellars spant by AAA for focdstuffs and turned over to “the Federal Surplus ReMef Cor- poration for distribution to the needy and unemployed, |the Tuolumne River through the | gigantic Hetch Hetchy dam. Mr. iGrunsky made the preliminary sur- vey for the dam, which is regarded {as one of the world's engineeding | wonders. | For ten years he had devoted himself to irrigation and drainage | problems in Culifornia, became a | member of the California Rivers rand Harbors Commission and then consulting engineer to the State | Commissioner of Public Works. His | achievements during that period |and his success in promoting the I public works of San Francises at- tracted national attention to Mr. ! Grunsky, and in 1904 he was named |by President Roosevelt a member |of the Isthmian Canal Commis- |sion. Secretary Hitchcock appoint- |ed him consulting engineer of the (Continued on Paga Two) LOCAL HALIBUT FISHERMEN ARE FACINGCLOSING Closure ot Area Two in| August Is Predicted— Protest Is Voiced and operate Jarge schooners, with- in two months was indicated here today with the receipt of advices| by local halibuters from Seattle that area number two, comprising| waters of Southeast Alaska to to close down in August. that 90 per cent of the Southeast out of employment then. Their vessels are not large enough to risk| trips to the western banks Wwhich | lie in exposed waters. | Plan Longer Layup DEMOCRATS T0 HERE JUNE 3 Call Is Issued for Territor- ial Committee to As- semble Here Then In an official call issued today, a meeting of the Democratic Ter- ritorial Committee is set for June 30 in this city, it was announced by Gov. John W. Troy, Chairman. Fall's campaign, possible reorgani- zation of the body will also be. con- sidered and acted upon. In the call, tee’ would elect a successor. possible successor. Several members of the Terri- torial Committee are now holding Federal appointive offices, includ- ing one or two from each division The matter of whether it is desir- Cape Spencer, probably will have|eq to fill the Committee with non- office holding personnel is left up This means, it was pointed out,| to the Divisional Committee. These | {it is sOggested in the call, should Alaska halibut fishermen will be|hold meetings in advance of the! Territorial meeting and determine upon the policy to be followed. 1t is the opinion of Gov. Troy that the Territorial body should be composed of men and women A telegram received lately from | e Fishing Vessels Owners Asso- ciation, of Seattle, by local inte: esf j el sing of fishing in the sheltered ;\'.':tors. It predicted that steps {would be taken by the Interna- | tional Fisheries Commission in Au- ! gust, and that area three would be | ,closed in October. The Seattle or-| ganization said it was suggesting| |a 15-day layup for western ves- | | sels after June 15, with a provis iion that all area two vessels, in (tending to fish in western waters |when the local\area closed, should |also take a 15-day layup. Boats not going to the western area would continue to operate as at present, but if later they changed their | plans and do go to the west after | area two closes, they would be re- | quired to make up the curtailment passed before being permitted to |leave for area three. The curtailment plan, |local fishermen, as it has | during the current season has not |ass|soed them in any way. More {intensive operations by the larger | vessels from the south has prevent- ed any saving in the aggregate i catch with-the result that the take ito date this year, although the declared operated " (Continued on Page '’ Seven) K ! By BYRAN PRICE | (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington.) | No substantial basis appears for the report that Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson soon is to leave NRA. | The organization he built is in !the midst of an important transi- tion, and those who believe they know the mind of the President| are convinced the General will stay in the saddle until the wmore per- merent aspects of NRA have been worked out. It would cause no surprisc if an administrator of a somewhat dif- ferent type should succezd Johnson once the transitory peridd is over. That would be months hence. Johnson at first intendzd to get out as soon as the tempo-ury set- un was complete, and the bigger irdustries had been codilied. He fixed January 1, last, akie date for his retirezient got into serious controversy about that time, however, and he pre- ferred not to quit under fire. More recently the story has been passed around that he would step out after the adjournment oi Con- gress, which will about coincide with the first birthday of NRA. That story never was supported either at NRA or the White House, a prob- | NRA | who are not Federal office holders. And he suggests in the call that present office-holding members revealed the imminence of theishould be succeeded by others Who|iyg that NRA rescued the lumber are not. COMPROMISE POSSIBLE IN STEEL STRIKE ¢l Government Intervention Also Shapes Up—One Proposal Rejected PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 12—A possible compromise suggestion by workers at their special convention Thursday and hints of Government intervention appeared as the only bright spots in the strike clouds shrouding the steel industry. Leaders of both factions of the Amalgamated Unions turned thumbs down on the National Labor Board's suggestion for three-man Industrial Relations Board which the operat- lors had accepted. FPrice Hoids rthat. ~Gefi. Hugh S. VJ»ohnsonrM y f Keep NRA Post Until All Transitions Ends| and recent . indications tend more and more to forecast the contrary. | SELF-GOVERNMENT STRESSED A significant hint as to the fu- ture character of NRA was given by Mr. Roosevelt when he ordered that the “service” industries be relieved of trade practice regula- tions under the codes. Other steps in the same direction are in prospect. The new idea is to give industry all along the line | more self-government with respect to such things as production and methods of competition. That does not include any relax- ation of NRA control over relations between industry and labor. The wages and hours clauses of the codes will stand. One possibility is that in its fi- nal form NRA will find its chief function in spreading employment, maintaining wage scales and en- forcing a new capital-labor rela- | tionship—leaving to the Federal | Trade Commission the task of keep- ing competition within legal limits. That conception of the supreme mission of NRA would seem to be |in keeping with the present em- | phasis on legislation to broaden the powers of the NRA Labor | Board, While the main purpose of the meeting is to discuss plans for next the Governor an- nounced that he would resign as,them and the time Roosevelt pro- Chairman of the Committee at|mulgated them. that time, and that the Commit- A. A. Shonbeck, member from the Third Cessation of fishing for all local| poyision and longtime leader in! . halibut fishermen, unless they own EVIEW BOARD ' GODE GHANGES eclares Provisions Alter- ed Before Promulga- tion by President ‘WASHINGTON, June 12. — The ‘ashington Post says that the sec- nd report of the Darrow Recovery view Board assails “the practice f surreptitiously altering” NRA odes as “unfair, unreasonable, ar- itrary and autocratic.” The report said that serious hanges were made in the boot and hoe retail trades codes between he time the industries approved It also said that jeertain practices are casting the {NRA experiment into the hands of an “irresponsible dictatorship.” The board, headed by Clarence | that section, is mentioned as aDarrow, condemned provisions in the lumber | trators. Recommends Removal | The Washington Post says that the report recommended the re- moval of the Executive Secretary of the Lumber Code Authority, the removal of the Western Pine Asso- ciation as code authority in the Western Division, and the transfer of the Assistant Deputy Adminis- | trator for Lumber to other duties. !, The Post said that there were iindications that the Assistant De- | puty Administrator has not suffi- cient training or experience. code and its adminis- THE OTHER SIDE WHAT DROUGHT DOES TO CATTLE | As the government launched its cattle-purchase program in emer gency drought areas of the north central states and southwest, thou- sands of once high-grade cattle, sick from under-nourishment, looked like this gaunt animal as they roamed scorched pastures. The owner of this dairy cow, a farmer in Chippewa county, Wis,, has staked the animal along a roadside where there is some grass, in a desperate effort to save her. (Associated Press Photo) CHICAGO, Ill, June 12—Assert- |industry from a chaotic condition, | {John Tenent, of Longview, Wash., | Chairman of the Lumber Code | Authority, predicted the industry | would retain the code even if NRA | | was abandoned. | ‘ ! RIDICULOUS CHARGES | WASHINGTON, June 12—NRA /[ Administrator Johnson said the new | charges by the Darrow Board are | “ridiculous.” Sidney Fox, Charles | Beahan to Wed Again HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 12.— After several separations, reconcilia- tions and finally, a divorce, Sidney | Fox, film actress, and Charles Bea- han, screen writer, have decided to| agree again. The couple announced they would | take steps to have a divorce decree | granted to Miss Fox last April 19| set aside. The reconciliation came about shortly after Beahan's re- turn from a business trip to New York. “CRACKING DOWN” BARRED It probably will be found that if any codes actually are “pre- scribed” by NRA, over the objec- tions of the industries affected, they will be confined to wages and hours, Of course, there are some excep- tions to this general tendency, where codes already in operation | are shown to promote monopoly and permit unreasonable price-fix- ing, some way out will have to be found. The Darrow report may lead in the end, to several revisions. On the whole, however, General Johnson is not going out looking for new trouble. The plain expla- tion is that the government is con- vinced general senttment will not| support a ‘“cracking down” process that makes Washington absolute arbiter of business relationships. Evidence of that is seen in the fact that the drastic licensing pro- vision never was used, and now is to be permitted to lapse In all its aspects, the present phase of transition is perhaps the most interesting of the many through which this remarkable ag- ency has passed. In spite of all competition, NRA still holds the centér of the Washington stage. |8 | | In many midwest fields, corn is literally being * urned up” by the prolonged drought. Theodore Jensen, farmer near Elgin, IIl., who says his corn usually is a foot high by the first of June, points to corn which was scarcely three inches high at that date, as a sample of the drought's damage. (Associated Press Photo) ATTEMPT LIFE OF EMIL FEY VIENNA, June 12—Train wreck- ers again attempted to kill Emil Fey, Minister of Public Security, by derailing a mainline express train. The train was flagged be- fore hitting the loose rail, ——————— Plane Drops Into Lake; 5 Men Drown JUNIN, Argentina, June Four North Americans and one Chilean were killed in a plane which crashed in a lake yesterday. Six others clung to the plane's wings fer four hours to keep from drowning. One of the survivors is Carlos Alessandri, nephew of the President of Chile. SR . s o/ Patrolman, Two Gunmen All Die in Pistol Duel MIAMI, Okla., June 12. — Jack Dunaway, merchant patrolman, and two unidentified gunmen, were shot to death in a pistol duel early this morning following an attempt, it is believed, of Dunaway jto question them, 12— FARMERS ARE T0 BE MOVED | | WASHINGTON, June 12. — Five | thousand South Dakota farm fam- ilies, drought victims, are to be {moved to better land within the | State as on the Government's | major step ard meeting the | gigantic relicf program - - SEAPLANE BARANOF MAKES SITKA TRIP THIS AFT-ERNOON At 10:15 o'clock this morning, the seaplane Baranof, of the Alaska Southern Airways, piloted by Gene| Meyring, Lloyd Jarman, mechanic, left for Sitka and way points with passengers. It is late this afternoon. Those making the trip are, C. F. Lane, for Hawk Inlet, Lee, for Tenakee and N. Lester Troast and C.-Molver for Sitka. o Sl Bitten by Black Spider, Doctor Slowly Improving BOISE, Idaho, June 12.—Dr. Wil- liam Erkenbeck, bitten by a black widow spider three weeks ago, is slowly recovering consciousness. He 'has also suffered partial -paralysis. due to return| Jack J.| TRADE UNIONS ARE ASKED TO JON WALKOUT Belief Expressed that Strife Will Spread to At- lantic Coast MAYOR OF SEATTLE ISSUES ULTIMATUM Thousands of Tons of Freight, Hundreds of Pas- sengers, Alaska Bound SAN F R A N CISCO, Cal, June 12. — The Longshore- men’s Strike Committee has issued a call to all trade unions here to join the mari- time strike. Officials of the Internation- al Longshoremen’s Associa- tion expressed the belief that if the trade unions did join the strike, the walkout would spread to the Atlantic Coast. Joseph H. Ryan, President of the International Long- shoremen’s Association said any attempt to open the Se- attle harbor by force to gen- eral shipping, Alaska being exempt, wo uld undoubtedly cause a nationwide strike. Seattle Mayor to Act President Ryan made the state- ment following receipt of an Asso< ciated Press dispatch stating that Seattle’s Mayor, Charles L. Smith, said that if the port was not open 1 o'clock next Thursday after- noon he “would take definite action to open the harbor. Mayor Smith has demanded the ship operators and longshore leaders elect three men each to appear at his office at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to effect a strike settlement. CLUBS ARE USED SAN PEDRO, Cal, June 12.—The police used clubs and gas here to disperse 600 men who marched on the police station demanding that “police brutality must cease.” This meant the officers must stop club- bing strike demonstrators. POLIC CLUBS TAKEN PORTLAND, Oregon, June 12— Twenty men raided a planing mill here today and appropriated clubs being made for the city police to use in the longshoremen's strike. SHOTS ARE FIRED . SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 12. —Shots were fired and the police used clubs in waterfront disturb- ances here and at Oakland this afternoon as renewed threats to fight to a finish added tenseness to the situation. ALASKA SHIPPING MOVES SEATTLE, June 12—Eleven ships released for Alaska this week will carry 33,000 tons of freight and 1,812 © passengers, the steamship company officials gstimated. The Yukon, sailing this after- neon, will have 400 passengers and 4,000 tons of freight. The Alaska, also sailing this afternoon, wiil have 400 passengers and 3,000 tons of freight. The Victoria sailing tomorrow will have 350 passengers and 2,000 tons of freight. The Lakina will have 175 pas- |sengers and 2,500 tons of freight. The Derblay will have 15 pas- | sengers and 4,000 tons of freight. | The Oduna will not have pas- engers but will be loaded with 4,- 000 tons of freight. The Aleutian, sailing next Sat- urday morning, will have 450 pas- sengers and 3,500 tons of freight. The Denali will have 5,000 tons of freight. . The A. J. Baldwin will have 12 passengers and 2500 tons of freight. | The William Tupper will have 10 passengers and 1,500 tons of freight. The Evelyn Berg will have no passengers but will hgve 1,000 tons of freight aboard,