The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 28, 1934, Page 1

- A » e e o e R e SR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIV., NO. 6689. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MAY LIFT BLOCKADE, ALASKA SHIPPING COMMUNIST PLOT CENTERS IN U. S. A. CALIFORNIA 1S FOCAL POINT IN REVOLT ACTION Official Reports Disclose World Wide Movement Now Underway SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 28. ——Official reports disclosed that California has been selected as the focal point by the Communist in a world-wi de revolutionary movement. Reports following Acting Gover- nor Frank E. Merriam’s recent de- claration that the State had ade- quate laws to deal effectively with both violence and incitement as in the recent strikes in the rich Im- perial and San Joaquin agricul- tural sections. Strikes Start Flare 1t is declared by Albert Hogerby, Sccramento, Communist organizer, that the strikes are part of Lhe‘ widespread revolutionary program aimed to overthrow established governments. Both Communist leaders and deral and State agricultural or- iization officials declared that California is particularly vulner- able to the planned revolutionary because of her perish- that require quick Communist Schools While efforts are neing carrled on to combat the spread of Com- munism during the coming harvest season, Communists are conducting schools in Los Angeles, S8an Fran- cisco and Sacramento and teaching hundreds of followers the prin-| ciples of their beliefs. RED CROSS CAN BE COUNTED ON, SCHAFER SAYS Pacific Coast Executive| Praises Local Chapters— Friele Tells of Strike | “If Alaska should be faced with the serious relief situation next winter, yoy can rely upon the Red Cri to do whatever is neces- " the Chamber of Commerce s told today by L. A. Schafer, Maanger of the Pacific Coast Di- vision of the American Red Cross who arrived here yesterday for a brief visit, and is leaving shortly to continue his study of local con- ditions as far north as Fairbanks. He and H. B. Friele, President of the Association of Pacific Fish- eries and Vice-Pesident and Gen- eral Manager of the Nakat Packing Corporation, and Eigel Buschmann, General Superintendent of tha' company, were guests of the local organization at its weekly ‘luncheon meeting today. Praises Alaska Chapters Mr. Schafer praised the record of the Alaska Chapters of the Red Cross since their formation during the World War. Alaska has always responded finely in all branches of | Red Cross activities, he said. It has a very enviable reputation in National Headquarters. “We have come to depend on you and we are very, very, grateful for your fine support,” he said. Mr. Schafer briefly described the Red Coss movement as world-wide with fifty - seven nations having such organizations. In the United States the Red Cross has 3,637 chapters in which in turn have 10,000 branches. In all of the ‘Western part of the United States every county has a chapter. Thus, he said it is the proper organization to handle relief work and distribute supplies since it has a nation wide organization which can take care of almost any situa- tion. The Red Cross, he added, is not now involved very deeply in the relief field which is being tak- en care of by the Federal Emergency and Relief Administrations. “When- ever it is needed, we can always |to the five year cycle which pre- | Roosevelt Trip to Islands in Pacific Going IHELLENTHAL IS to Be Mixture of Rest and Also Fact- Finding| NAMED T0 POST The Presidential party’s tentative plans are to leave Annapclis @ PUERTO RICO ® ST. CROIX. VIRGIN & 1SLANDS cn the U. S. S. Houston (upper right) and head for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (lower right shows road building in the lat- ter) Panama Canal (lcwer left). Heading out into the Pacific the chip cff of which the President plans to do some fishing. A ctcp will be made at Cartagena, Colombia (bcttom center), and thence a trip through the will make the Hawaiien Islands, By SIGRID ARNE where Mrs. WASHNGTON, June 28—Pleas- or Seattle, Wash,, IN 3RD DIVISION S. Hellenthal Is Appointed | Federal Judge by . President Simon Hellenthal, prominent attorney of this city and one of the most active workers in.the . Democratic party in the Ter- | ritery for many years, was to- . day given recess appointment | by President Roosevelt as Unit-: ed States District Judge for the Third - Division. He will succeed Judge Cecil H. Clegg who resigned just two months ago. Mr. Hellenthal will remain here until the receipt of his commis- sion probably in about ten days and then proceed to Valdegz where his headquarters are located. Both Governor Troy and James J. Connors, National Committee- man for Alaska, expressed their gratification at Mr. Hellenthal's ap- pointment. He had been endorsed for the position by the Divisional Committee of the Third Division, the Democratic Territorial Com- mittee and the National Commit- swamps, and subsistence home- teemen for the office. 1. “I deeply appreciate the honor ! Roosevelt plans to join the party | stead projects recently visited by{that the President has conferred ure and rest are the avowed PUI-| for 5 trip across the continent|Mrs. Roosevelt are likely to draw|4Pon me, and, also, the fine and pose of the President’s vacation ¥ which * tentatively includes these tour on the U. S. S. Houston. But stops en route — the Bonnevills | the President's attention. In the Virgin Islands repairs are !loyal support that the Democratic party of the Territory gave to me those close to him are guessing h”‘projem, on the Columbia river 30|being made at the marine corps and which made the appointment will not be able to resist a lttle| miles east of Portland, Fort Peck, | unofficial business. | Montana and Gutzon Borglum's The ftrip is scheduled to take Mt. Rushmore sculpture in the | him to most of the nation’s island | Black Hills. possessions and then back across| PWA Active On Island | the continent from the west coast| Like the various states of the by train. It will offer the Presi-|ynion, the island possessions are | dent his first chance to see at|pysy at improvements made possi- | first hand the manner in which | ple by funds from PWA and CWA. | “new deal” measures are WOrking.| There are roads being laid in all | As the itinerary stands, the flag- | three of the possessions to be vis- | ship Houston will steam out of | ited by the President. Channels Annapolis late in June, headed for | are being dredged at ‘Puerto Rico Puerto and the Virgin Islands,|and Hawaii, stopping at Cartagena, Cclombia,! A new quarantine station is go- thence through the Panama canal | ing up in Puerto Rico and one mil- to the Pacific ocean, and on to the | lion dollars has been allocated Hawaiian Island. | there for an extended road pro- Returning the presidential party | gram. Half-a-milllon dollars will will land either at Portland, Ore.,|be spent there to drain malarial station, and on St. Croix Island a new leper colony will be setup with $25,000 of PWA funds. West of Honolulu, in the Ha- waiian slands, lies the Pearl H bor naval base where much repair work and new equipment are un- der way. Those close to Mr. Roosevelt say he plans to make no political use of his trip, but his constant de- mand for figures and facts on the New Deal seems to foreshadow some first hand fact-finding. His party will be a small one,| including some secretaries and hi two sons, Franklin, Jr., and John. Two cruisers, the Willlamson and the Zane, will accompany the Houston. H.B.FRIELEIS Englishmen | - Are Given ERE ENROUTE e TOBSTOLBAY, |t M Smaller Salmon Pack Ex-| German Agents Alleged pected at Westward Says | to Be Disclosed Pac_kmgCompanyHead ‘ LONDON, June 28.—Englishmen | today read with alarm the sensa- p tional disclosures of an alleged aqtlistarten DL Wall iWiieh. J6-operifd)| German experiment at the innocu- 185 Mnccay 1. Foe BE ek N e of Pie yasiithiway transport area, it is expected to be slightly | Fvss below normal this year, accarding;’;fiifi]sa:; Iéz;ndon D parie WY | . The magazine Nineteenth Cen- ‘While the salmon canning sea- vails in that district, H. B. Friele, President and General Manager of 4 | the Nakat Packing Company said | G°¢uments describing the spread- today. Mr. Friele arrived here by|.D8 L harmless bacteria through plane from Waterfall yesterday a.’-‘the underground ventilating s ternoon and expects to take the! tems by secret agents to determine plane from here to the Nakat Pack- | the Dpercentage of germs which | ing Company cannery at Kvlchak‘m“m be introduced among under- River in the Bristol Bay area to- Emund_ channels, | morrow morning. If the facts are not true, they ! Local Employees |are very well invented, said the In the Kvichak River cannery 32| Editor of the magazine, Wickman local fishermen and cannery work- | Steed. : | ers are employed this year though | The widely-read magazine claim- there seemed to be a shortage of ed the documents came from re- | local fishermen at Bristol Bay this |SPonsible persons in Germany and season, Mr. Friele said. “In the ORe of them revealed that “very | three canneries operated by the | 8004 resulta:" had come from a Nakat Packing Company in so“m_{dozen tests in Paris. | east Alaska, Hidden Inlet, Water- | S eeoe — fall and Union Bay, nearly 200 Tnm “De l G” at native and local people are em- Ten Dollars Daily| ployed this season. This includes | MELBOURNE, June 18. — Ten seiners and cannery workers and | is eonsiderably more than were em- | dollars a day covers the entire| ployed last season. There seem to be few unemployed in Ketchi- Ehhab | cost of traveling on a luxurious S and we bad dif-| girian train which, takes, ity ficulty in obtain ; wam:hy;'nen there ]&;‘ng":;gmm t;:‘_’ | bisiness men fo view the resources clared. of” the country. “ | The service includes a post of- At the registration office in| . 4 Ketchikan about 1100 people were | '.&: & liquor bar, radio, moving | pictures, a library, & train shop, a registered this spring and of these P 1 e all of the outside workers have | Pecial daily news choL 610w (Continued vn Page Eight) ers, five course meals and the ser- (Continued on Page Eight) vices of a secretary, GEN. JOHNSON MAKES ANSWER, SECOND REPORT Attacks Darrow Review Board on Ground of Insufficient Study WASHINGTON, June 28—Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, NRA Adminis- trator, in replying to the Darrow Review Board’s second criticism of the NRA, declares that the board is not performing its func- tury Review printed alleged secret |tions, but is coining political m: ‘ixed salmon s|cases picked up at various points teral. He said that the Boar second report is typical of the un- truthfulness end worthlessness of its two reports. False Material Gen. Johnson denied the critic- isms contained in the reports ana said: “The Board is using its high office, not to perform function of showing us our errc by giving us the truth or in any way protecting the little fellow. but solely to manufacture false material for any politician who may be demagogue enough to use this kind of political coin as hon- est money.” Basis Of Complaint » He further said that the Re view Board had heard a few ma contents and believed their state- ments on questions which several its possible,” Mr. Hellenthal said. He | has practiced law as a member of the firm of Hellenthal and Hellenthal in this city for the past | twenty-five years. He has held a ! membership in the Divisional ¢om- | mittee here for many years and |has been its chairman for several | years. | ——————— S, S, ALEUTIAN HERE 3 HOURS; IS SOUTHBOUND | | The steamer Aleutian, Capt. H. {Andersen, commander, and Joe {Large, purser, arrived in Juneau at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon from the Westward with 19 passengers for this port, and what Mr. Large |termed the largest shipment of |canned red salmon ever carried out of Alaska for Seattle, Passengers leaving the ship here were Harry Townsend, R. W. Fer- rell, R, A. Sweet, B. R. Aikers from |Cordova; G. Swanson from Valdez; Lilian Rouse, F. L. Johnson, Daniel |James, R. J. Sommers, Miss J. O'Donnell, B. D. Stewart, Cedric M. Davis, M. D. Williams, Clyde |Balyou, J. P. Morgan and Paul H. |Abbott from Seward; and Miss Mina Olsen and Mr. and Mrs, L. |G. McCarty, round trippers. The largest shipment of canned consisted of 75,000 to the Westward. No Vancouver Stop The Aleutian is scheduled to leave for Seattle about 5 o'clock this ' afternoon, and according to the officers it is doubtful if the ship will stop at Vancouver as did the Alaska. Purser Large said that he thought he would have been notified by this time if such plans were in the air, as new crew papers would have to be made out before reaching Vancouver for the customs. Outgoing passengers are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Flsher, Miss Mary Kosala, Miss Ethel Mae Kolasa, Margaret Lory, Bertie M. Stevens and M. R. Goodman for Seattle; Jack Hoynes,*John F. Chamberlain, Ed Moore and J. V. Anderson for great Federal Boards have been studying: for months, stating that the ratio of complaint on codes was only only six out of every 25.- 000, figured on the basis of t board’s statements. B — All but four inches of a 14-i gopher snake had been swallowed by a large toad when E. J. Mc- Intyre, principal of Oakdale Schoo! at Hanford, Cal, arrived on scene and rescued it, Ketchikan; and A. L. Bear for Wrangell. . ANN ARBOR, Mich, Two Brothers Off on Flight Across Atlantic BROOKLYN, N. Y., June 28— The Adamowicz brothers, Ben- jamin and Joseph, silent part- ners in business and flying, took off at 5:45 c'clock this morning, Eastern Standard time, on a flight to Warsaw, Pcland, their ancestral home. ALASKAN TOWNS TOTAL §242,400 PWA Allots Juneau $103,- 000, Sitka $87,900 and Wrangell $51,500 Allotments totaling $242,400 were made yesterday by the Public Works Admniistration” at Wash- ington, D. C, for projects at Ju- neau, Sitka and Wrangell, it was announced today by Governor John W. Troy, who as Territorial rep- resentative of the PWA approved the applications which were sub- mitted late last year and - which have been held in aheyance by Washington authorities since that time due to the exhaustion of PWA funds. The allotments made were: Ju- neau $103,000, Sitka $87900, and Wangerll $51,500. All of them have been formally approved by Presis dent Roosevelt. No Action Here The sum alloted for Juneau is fn the shape of a combined loan and grant, the latter being thirty per cent of the total. While Con- gress early last spring passed an Act authorizing this city to issue bonds upon which the PWA loan would be based no action has been taken in that regard. Mayor I. Goldstein announced today that he had wired Delegate Dimond asking for the conditions attached by the PWA to the loan. As soon as these are definitely known it is probable that a special election will be called to submit the bond issue to local taxpayers for their approval. At_the regular municipal election last April this question was given an overwhelming approval by the voters. But later the City Council was advised by H. L. Faulkner, City Attorney, that another ele¢- tion would be necessary in order to comply with the requirements of the Congressional authorization act. The money, which is required to be expended without delay, is for certain municipal improvements in- cluding a new bridge on Calhoun Avenue across Gold Creek, paving of certain streets down town and out Calhoun Avenue, reconstruction of Gastineau Avenue and possibly the erection of & city incinerator to replace the present garbage dump. The Sitka allotment of $87,900 is an outright grant to the Terri- tory as a contribution for the con- struction of the new Pioneers’ Home on which work is now pro- gressing. The Teritory has already set up $225,000 for this work, the general contract for which is held by the Warrack Construction Com- pany. In the absence of W. A. Hesse, Chairman of the Pioneers’ Home Commission, no official statement was issued by other members of the board as to the probable effect of this new sum on the plans for the building. It was unofficially said, however, that probably it would permit completion of the auditor- ium, which it had been planned to leave unfinished, certain land- scaping, reconstruction of the pres- ent hospital so that it can be utilized as a home for the Super- intendent and quarters for nurses and installation of a power plant for the institution. Until the terms of the grant are received from the PWA, it was added, no definite plans for utilization of the fund will be made. The Wrangell aiiotraent of $51,- 500 covers three projects in that community and is another loan and grant allocation. One of the projects calls for the expenditure of $6,500 on the sewer system. A loan and grant of $13,000 was made for the construction of a retaining wall. For installation of a water supply system the sum of $32,000 was alloted, ALLOTMENTSFOR! GERMANY IS NOW FAGING GREAT CRISIS Country Reported Seéthing Over Allegiance to One of Two Groups DECISION IS UP TO CHANCELLOR HITLER Nazi's Radical Policies Re- sponsible for Trouble in Nation BERLIN, June 28. — (Copyright of The Associated Press, 1934.)— Chancellor Adolf Hitler is at the crossroads, as Germany seethed, while he debated over the choice of his next move. The Chancellor came back to Berlin after several days of quiet reflection at his mountain home. Growing Outbursts The reflection came as the r sult of growing outbursts againdt the radical nazi policies and two groups began powerful efforts to have him take one of the two sides. It is a struggle for the capture of the soul of Hitler, said one Cabinct Minister. Two Groups Busy On one hand there is the rad- dcal young ring of the impetuous revolutionary type led by Joseph ‘Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda. On the othér hand is Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, philosopher and Direc- tor of the third Reich whose books on religion are prescribed by the Vatican. Positions Stated The radical group insists that the Nazi revolution has just begun jand no loyal Germangcan be satis- ifled until the Nazis are exclusive- ‘ly in control of every phase of !Oermnn life and endeavor, includ- |ing religion. The other group is conservative and seeks a social state in which Private initiative and property is recognized. SHELTER BELT OF TREES NOW BEING PLANNED Program Which Would Re- quire 10 to 12 Years, Laid Before F. D. R. ‘WASHINGTON, June 28—Presi- dent Roosevelt is considering the proposal to plant a shelter belt of trees one hundred miles wide stretching from Canada to the Texas Panhandle This program which would re- quire ten to twelve years to com- plete, aims to minimize drought, help and prevent winds from strip- ping farmlands of choice soil. The plan is announced by the American Tree Association. F. A. Silcox, Chief Forester of the United States Forest Service acknowledged today that the plan is under consideration by the Pre- sident and he may make a de- cision regarding it before leaving next Saturday on his trip to Ha- wail. | >oo — BOMB OUTRAGE BREAKS FORTH VIENNA, June 28.—Widespread bombing outrages have broken out in Austria, one of which it is said possibly have been directed against Louis Barthou, French Minister, i { | | Dorbm&t’; Conii:c;ted Plans Is Bought for $800 SEATTLE, June 28.—Alan Blum, of the Northwest Air Service, bought at public auction for $860 Frank Dorbrandt’s plane confis- cated for violation of the customs laws, RELEASING OF ALASKA SHIPS PLANNED NOW Chairman of Mediation Board on Way to Seattle to Get Agreement PROBLEM WILL BE SETTLED IS CLAIM Both Sides Appear at Con- ference in San Francisco —Bombs at Portland An effort will be made to lift the blockade on Alaska shipping according to Asso- ciated Press dispatches to The Empire from San Fran- cisco. Assistant Secretary of La- bor Edward F. McGrady, an- nounced in San Francisco last night that the acute problem of the renewed blockade of Alaska shipping at Seattle will be settled immediately and separately. He said Charles’ Reynolds, Chairman of the Federal Mediation Board was to leave for Seat- tle immediately to investigate the conflicting claims in the longshore blockade and settle the agreement. In San Francisco, President Roosevelt’s Mediation Board mem- bers said the Industrial Associa- tion had agreed to postpone for one day its efforts to open the port by force, if necessary, while representatives of the employers . and labor meet to develop good- will. This afternoon Associated Press dispatches said the strike situation is unchanged, that mediation ef- forts are continuing and Reynolds is enroute to Seattle on the Alaska issue. In Portland, gas bombs were thrown into the doorway of the I. L. A. hall and gas bombs hurled at four groups of waterfront pickets from a sedan carrying five pas- sengers. CODE AUTHORITY FIXES MINIMUM SALMON PRICES Minimum Compensation for Fishermen in Alaska Announced for 1934 Minimum prices for all varietie§ of salmon have been adopted by the code authorities of the canned salmon industries and approved by the NRA for the 1934 fishing sea< son in Alaska, it was made known today by Hugh J. Wade, Deputy NRA Administrator for Alaska, who returned here last night by air- plane after having spent the past two weeks in Seattle. Thes code authority in making known these prices informed mem- bers of the industry emphatically that the schedule adopted is “min= imum compensation and not maxi- mum compensation.” No packer can pay less than the rates fixed in the several districts, and under Section Two, Article 5 of the Code employees have the right to bar- gain collectively in order to arrive at what is considered to be fair compensation. Increase Is Varied All of the prices agreed upom, Mr. Wade said, represents sub- stantial increases over the prices paid in 1933. Prices on pink fish range from one and one quarter cent in Bristol Bay to as high as six cents in the southern end of - the division. Chums range between two and jseven cents. Cohoes vary between seven and one half .fl Red salmon range fifteen cents. -— (wonunued on Page Two) o