The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XLIV., NO. 6711. JUNLAU ALASKA, WEDNESD/\Y JULY 25, 1934 AUSTRIAN CHANCELL@R IS FARLEY TELLS ABOUT CRITICS OF ROOSEVELT Men Shorn of Special Priv- ileges, lllegal Advantages, Doing Much Shouting DECLARES ECONOMIC CRUSADE IS NOW ON Says Strikes Are Evidence of Return to Prosperity —Want Normal Wages PORTLAND, Oregon, July 15— Postmaster General Sames A. Far- ley declared that men shorn of “special privileges and illegal ad- vantages” recent criticisms of the Roosevelt Administration addressing a Demo- | cratic rally here. The Postmaster General said the New I#al is a great economic crusade and “we must no longer permit the strong to exploit the weak.” Hcover Started It Continuing the Pastmaster Gen- eral said: “We will either go for- ward and upward together or be in full retreat before the economic enemy that has infested us from the Hoover period of robust indi- vidualism.” ‘The Postmaster General said.the strikers - in many parts of ~the United States are evidence of the belief by the masses that prosper- ity is returning and in that belief workers are seeking a return t,oi normal wages. Roosevelt, The Man Farley said the exchange of hopelessness for corifidence is due to one man and he is President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He said the Democrdtic Party is responsive to the will of the people and will fulfill virtually every major plat- form plank. - TEN ARE DYING EVERY HOUR IN HEAT SECTIONS Toll at 8 o'Clock This| Morning Stood at Seven Hundred Nineteen 2zCHICAGO, TIl., July 25.—For the first time since heat started its scourge, relief is predicted for the Middle West. While the Bast and Pacific Coast is enjoying = comparative - cool weather, deaths.in the heat sec- tion are piling up at the rate of ten an hour and stood at 719 late last night but mounted to 783 this morning at 8 o’clock. High Missouri Toll In Missouri flone 205 persons have perished. Illinois reports 150 deaths, Ohio 81, Nebraska 55, Towa 50, and In- diana with 13 up to yesterday re- ported 38 this morning. Highest Temperature The highest official temperature reported yesterday was 117 at Vin- ita, Oklahoma. Nobelsville, In- diana, reported 112; Quincy, Tli- nois, 111, its seventh successive day above 108 degrees. Chicago reports 105, two degreu higher than the previous all-time recdrd of 1903. Snowball Fight Tourists near Denver, Colorado, enjoyed a snowball fight as an inch of snow fell on Mount, Evans. A respite is expected . mday as the result of a high pressure area sweeping in from Alaska. - e OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY IN DAWSON HOSPITAL Mr. and Mrs. David W. Ballen- tine, well known pioneers of Daw- son, recently observed their thirty- fourth wedding anniversary in that city. . As Mrs. Ballentine was con- fined to St. Mary's Hospital, the family reunion was held l.hcre. with members of the hospital staff Pparticipating in t.he celebration. are behind much of the! I Democrats' Choice Sherman Minton (above) of New Albany, Ind., public counselior witt the Indiana public service commis sion, was nominated by Indian: democrats to run for the Unitec States senate in opposition to Sena tor Arthur Robinson In the Novem ber election. (Associated Pres! Photo) BOMBERS MAY - MAKE FLIGHT ACROSSBERING iTen Martifirmy Planes at Fairbanks May Go to Siberia FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 25— A possible good will flight across Bering Sea to Siberia, provided ap- proval of the War Department is obtained, is in the offing for the ten United States Army Martin bombers which ‘arrived here at 10:15 o'clock (Fairbanks time) yes- terday forenoon after a short hop from Whitehorse. The officers and men are pre- paring for a three weeks' stay in Alaska, Lieut. Col. Henry H. Arnold, Squadron Leader, said exTensive flights for photographic work and other military surveys will be made here and the flights will be ex- tended to the lower Kuskokwim district, to Nome and over the Seward Peninsula. The date for the hop to Juneau has not been set, the time occu- pled in making photographic flights and military surveys de- pending on weather conditions in the interior. Personnel The men who are flying the |Army Air Corps ten bombers are as follows: The flight is commanded by L. Col. Henry H. Arnold, Commanding Officer at March Field, Riverside, Cal. The planes are divided into three wings with Lt. Col. Arnold commanding one, Maj. Hugh J. Kneer of Fairfield, Ia., the second, and Maj. Ralph Royce, of Hancock, Utah, the third. Other officers on the flight are: Capt. Harold M. McClelland, of Wichita, Kan., communications and meteorological officer; Capt. West- side T. Larson, of Vallejo, Cal., navigation; Capt. John D. Corkille, of Chicago, engineer; First Lts. Charles H. Howard, Ashland, Ore.; Lawrence J. Carr, Chicago; John 8. Griffith, San Antonio; Ralph A. Bnavely, Long Beach, Cal.; Second Lt. L. F. Harman, Boise, Idaho. Maj. Malcolm C. Grow, Phila- delphia, is acting as flight surgeon and Capt. Ray A. Dunn, Long Beach, Cal, flight adjutant. £ The enlisted men on the flight are: Master Sgt. Walter B. Berg and Technical Sgt. Artie L. Revert, Chanute Field, Illinois; Technical Sgts. Gustav Sonneburg, Anton F. @111, Henry V. Puzenski and R. C. Hayes, March Field; Technical Sgt. Adalph Cattarrius, Staff Sgts. Roy White, Plato R. Miller and Marlin Eddy, and Sgts. L. H. McQuiston and Edward W. Cushing, and Corp. Arthur R. Loftus, Langley Field, Virginia; Corp. Vance E, Murr, Bolling Field, Washington, D. C. ——eee Los Angeles school districts will spend nearly $11,000,000 this year rehabilitating _buildings damaged by earthqueke. DOLLFUSS IS REPORTED TO BE CAPTIVE Chancellcr and Entire Cab- inet Said to Be Held Prisoners by Nazis BULLETIN — LONDON, July 25.—The Austrian Lega- tion late this afternoon con- firmed the death of Chancel- lor Dollfuss and also an- nounced that Dr. Kurt Schuf- chnigg is forming a new gov- ernment. VIENNA, July 25.—Chancel- lor Dollfuss and his entire Cab- inet are reported to have been captured by Austrian Nazis and are held prisoners in the Fed- cral Chancellory cn the Ball- hauseplatz. “Dollfuss s Dead” The Austrian Nazi captured Dollfuss in his office in Vienna in a long expected “putsch,” and at the end of four hours of mad ex- citement, civilians at the chancel- tory cried “Dollfuss is dead!” ‘Telephone ' service with London and Paris is cut off, and the Aus- tro-German . frontier closed, but'a telephone report t0™ Berlin from Vienna said that Dollfuss, Emil Fey and several other government | officials are still locked up and suarded at the chancellory. In London, Austrian embassy MEMBE.R OF 'Assocmw PRFSS PRICE TEN CENTS Tear Gas Bombs Repel Chargo of Seattle Strike Rioters front. | Press Phots) Mounted officers are shown herding strikers away from & Seattle, Wash., pier during one of the disurbances which have marked the walkout of maritime unions on the Pacific Coast, The Seattle clash came after several weeks of peaceful picketing at the water- Nine vessels were being loaded by longshoremen when a mob of an estimated 1200 rushed a guard of 300 police. (Associated FOR NAVY VISIT reports said that Dollfuss is dead, as did Praha reports, which said| that the authority for the report was the Austrian _minister to' Czechoslovakia. Military circles said that Italy has 75,000 soldiers near the Aus-| trian border. Raid Chancellory soners. Reports are that Dollfuss, was shot and seriously wounded in the struggle, dying shortly after.! Other government officials, ap- parently headed by Prince Ernst Von Starhemberg, Vice-Chancellor, with the apparent approval President Miklas, issued an ulti- matum to putsch leaders, warning them either to release Dollfuss and abandon the chancellf;, or the loyal ISZimwehr would ‘attack. Telephone communication with the outside world was broken off shortly after the ultimatum, of which the deadline was around 11 am., Eastern Standard time. At least six men were killed. London reports said that 10 died in street fighting in Vienna and other Austrian points. GRAVE CONCERN PARIS, July 25.—Official circles express grave concern over the Austrian Nazi putsch. France is pledged to support Aus- trian independence. Fears are expressed that a Nazi revolution in that country might lead to international complications. — e —— - NO WORD FROM ADMIRAL BYRD Blizzards Raging in An- tarctic Prevent Tractor Party from Going on LITTLE AMERICA, July 25. Word is anxiously awaited from the tractor party of five struggling back to the main base here from searching for Rear Admiral Rich- ard E. Byrd who is isolated in the advance base. ‘The tractor group abargloh¢i the attempt to reach Byrd’s base be- cause the trail flags have been obliterated by the extreme bliz- zards which are raging. There has been no word from Byrd since last Priday. —_———————— The needle fish, a deep-sea deni- zen, has its jaws elongaged into needle-like points. of | ON NEXT FRIDAY tive attire for the United States {Navy submarines’ visit is in evi- |dence- today as bright red, white and blue bunting is being arched | 'across the main traffic arteries| by City of Juneau employees. “The street decorations placed by ithe City of Juneau, through or- |ders of Mayor I. Goldstein, are giving the city a cheerful and patriotic holiday appearance and this fine work is very much appre- | clated by the Fleet Entertainment | Committee,” Winn Goddard, chair- |man of the committee commented today. “We hope that by tomorrow ev- ery merchant will give his store {front a dash of patriotism by putting up flags ~ and bunting. Welcome Navy, window cards will be distributed free to all mer- chants Friday. We also urge that homes display the flag and also |that automobiles and taxis spruce up with a bit of patriotic decora- tion.” No word as to the definite ar- rival time of the ships on Friday, had been received up to a late hour this afternoon. CHICHAGOF HERE THIS MORNING ON CHARTER FLIGHT On a charter flight from Sitka, the seaplane Chichagof, Pilot Bob Ellis of the Alaska Southern Air- ways, arrived in Juneau this morn- ing at 6 o'clock and with Henry Roden, Juneau attorney, left at 8 o'clock to return to Sitka where| there is a «trollers’ meeting in| progress. The Chichagof left its Ketchikan base for Sitka yesterday under| charter to trollers from the First| City, and will return there some- time today, according to A. B. Hayes, company manager. ———————— WORK PROGRESSING ‘Work on the new Peterson store and Apartment ' building across | from the Juneau Cold Storage is' rapidly progressing under the di-| rection of the Morris Construction ‘Company, contractors. The first touch of Juneau’s fes- | |earns & good living—eating. | Job is to go around tasting lunches, :'en and dinners in a certain chain of restaurants. 'Red, White and Blue Bunt-| ing Streamers Wav- | ing Over Streets Nazis smashed into the chancel-; lory and took the officials pri- patrol wagon. Dines 18 Times Each Day to Earn His Livelihood LONDON, July 25.—Meal time is work time for Tom Peabody. He His Frequently he nas an eighteen- ,meal day. A fifteen-meal day is his usual average. English . restaurants have their secret service agents. Peabody OITY UEGOHATES Police Open Roundup of Agttators inS. F. Area San Francisco police, backed by the mZitia on the waterfrent, began rai;;l‘ radical hnd;u:flen during the general strike and arrested many asserfed’ Lower—A scene while they were being booked. Top—Loading some of them into a (Associated Press Photo) spends his spare time eating rival | meals, Sometimes Peabody is compelled to go through a whole menu. He starts his day's eating by tasting port at ten in the morning. Then he samples a spoonful of jam from several jars. Peabody then has to $eat dabs of butter and drink end- less cups of tea and coffee. | When he visits rival restaurants he has to go through the whole set lunch just to ‘see what they give for the money. Peabody is a slim man and the |only exercise he gets is getting in and out of his auto.” When he is| not eating he h battling against | dyspepsia. B | rivers. HUNDREDS DIE FLOOD WATERS WARSAW, July 25.—The Jewish Telegraph Agency reports that 300 persons perished today in new floods of the Vistula and San Two hundred and fifty are known to have been drowned in floods late last week. Continued Irain has swollen the rivers in 'Southern Poland. KILLED LONGSHOREMEN GIVE MAJORITY TOEND STRIFE Official Co—nrrma!ion Is Lacking, However, on Coast-wide Ballot ONE REPORT IS 3 TO 1 TO ARBITRATE {|All Votes Said to Have Been Counted with Ex- ception Tacoma, Seattle BULLETIN—SAN FRAN- CISCO, July 25.—~The Media- tion Board announced late this afternoon Pacific Coast longshoremen had voted over- whelmingly for arbitration. SAN F R A N C ISCO, Cal, July 25. — Reliable sources said the Pacific Coast long- shoremen. are voting 3 to 1 in favor of arbitration in the present strike. Meanwhile activities along various waterfronts have been speeded up fast and some harbors are returning to nor- mal operations. This afternoon the general belief is that arbitration will result from the balloting. Advices received from Se- attle are that steamship lines are scrambling to recapture the lost freight and passenger business, Seven ships are being work- ed at Portland and it is be- lieved 30 others will be work- ed by the week-end. OVERWHELMING MAJORITY SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 25. —The San Francisco Examiner says that by an overwhelming majority, the Pacific Coast longshoremen have voted to accede to arbitra- tion in their dispute with the em- ployers by the National Longshore- men’'s Board. The newspaper said it learned from reliable authority that af- firmative ballots were cast in all major cities but Seattle and Ta- coma and the vote from those two cities have not yet been counted. ISLANDER HULK HIGH AND DRY THIS MORNING Success Ca;:?ears of Ef- fort to Salvage Ship Sunk 34 Years At low tide this morning, the famous old Islander, Canadian Pacific steamer wrecked in Stevens Passage at the end of Douglas Island August 1, 1901, sat high and dry on the beach of Admiralty Island, when an Empire reporter and Fred K. Ordway, Juneau pho- tographer, visited u*e scene of op- eration. Workmen employed by the sal- vaging company walked all about . the hull, and photographers took pictures of the old vessel as it rested between the two big schoon- ers used to raise her, from close range. The high tide of Priday this week, which will reach 18 feet is expected to be the last which can | possifly lift the three ships off the sand. Gold To Be Gleaned From now on, the big job will be the saving of the gold which is said to have been aboard the steamer when she sank. Many estimates have been -Ah as to the amount actually carried by the ship, which went down vflfi (Continued on Page Three)