The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1935, Page 1

THE DATLY VOL. XLV., NO. 6893 JUNEAU, ALASKA. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1935. ALASKA HIGHWAY MEASU TWO MONTHS OF CONGRESS OVER; LITTLE ACTION Virtually No Major Legis- lation Qut of Way Thus Far WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Admin- istration leaders stood face to face today with the realization that for the first time since President Rcosevelt took office his controi of Congress was seriously threat- ened. Jolted by the sudden Senate re- volt against the $4,880,000,000 work relief bill, Democratic chieftains stopped to survey the situation. They found Congress nearing the end of its second month of this session with hardly a single piece of major legislation out of the way and not much on the way. Claim Growing Resistance Various theories were advanced relative to the situation. The Chamber of Commerce of the Unit- ed States attributed it to a grow- ing resistance sweeping against pro- posals advanced by the Adminis- tration as well as the determina- tion of an impartant bloc to follow a more deliberate indcpendent} curse. H Democratic leaders, however, said | there was little significance in the | situation; that Congress started late due to the lame duck amend- ment and that first issues pres- ented were more than m'din:u“ny'{ controversial. | Bills Passed | Republicans said the character of their mail indicated a.swing away from the President but Democrats denied there had been any change in the character of their mail. The Democrats said the Administation’s defeats on the World Court and relief issues was due to campaign pledges and the strong personal convictions of those particular questions. Bills passed thus far include in- dependent cffices eppropriation measure; deficiency appropriations; the bill carrying restoration of pay of Government employees; the crop loan 'bill, and the measure prohib-|;. iting shipment of “hot oil” in inter- state commerce. WORK RELIEF UPPERMOST WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Con- gress approached the third month today and practically all the big controversies unsettled. The work relief struggle became a quiet con- test by opponents seeking to apply mass pressures for and against the McCarran prevailing wage amendment. Administration strat- egists awaited for what they hoped would be a tidal wive of telegrams and letters in behalf of the Ad- ministration’s plan-of fifty dollars monthly wages under the proposed work relief setup. e ee——— 2 0LD GERMAN SYSTEMS WILL NEVER RETURN Aggressive Address Made| in Munich by Presi- dent Hitler FREAK WEATHER CONDITIONS HIT LEGISLATURE 'WARNS BAINST | A courtship by mail as pressed by Dr. Ralph 2. McClung of Bir- mingham, Ala, brought a “Yes™ from Virginia Reid (above), 18- year-old screen actress. She hasn't decided the “when and where” of the wedding. (Associated Press Photo) COLONIZATION Points Out Eards of Set- tlement Plan Unless Funds Provided [ line with th2 sentiment o!: orial Chamber of | d last week at| two memorials | in tha Territorial e today, one in the Son-| ai in the House, ad-| dressed (o Secretary of the Inter-| jor Harn'd L. Ickes and Delegate A. J. Dimond, warning 2gainst sending settlers to the Matanuska Valley unless ample funds are provided for caring for them andi paying their return transportation if the colonization plan is not a success. The Senate memoria!, by Roden, goes further and asks a thorough investigation be made first to de- termine if the proposed plan is | parts of the country. | Selfridge Fleld, Mt. Clemens, Mich- COUNTRYSUNDAY Premature Spring Given Sudden Shock — Army Planes Get ‘Studying’ KANSAS CITY, Feb. 25. The blizzard moved into the Midwest this forenoon and has aiready left 13 percons dead and 109 injured. The blizzard is cen- tering over the Great Lakes and hes sent temperatures reel- ing downward. % KANSAS CITY, Fcb, 25—A tor- nado, blizzard, deep snow and blinding dust chased away the West's premature spring Sunday. | A tornado and high winds struck South, Central and Southeast Kan- | sas. Six persons were injured| slightly and 10 buildings were! demolished, five at Independence and five in Wichita suburbs. | A blizzard raged along a trail| from Canada through Montana, ‘Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Ne- basen: | PointiSur The vetoran dirtil Snow fell in some sections and | o k4 ran G dust storms delayed trains in other DI SRS Donan. (Ase The Army's “Arctic Patrol,” from CREW OF igan, studying flying conditions in} 3 s the northern part of the Middle! West, got plenty of studying. Driv-| ing winds forced two of the elever| planes, taking off from Wausau, Wisconsin, tc land at Green Bay. The other planzs made Manitowoc and’land3sd there saf: BEAD SOVIET RUSSIA | WARNSENEMIES | Red Army Mill'on Sh‘ong1 . Prepared Anniversary Statement Says MOSCOW, Ri a, Feb. 25. Russia’s Red army, 17 years old last Saturday and nearly a million stronz, has warned the Soviet's enemies war will find her ready. “Whenever the new thunder of war bursts out the Red Army has what is necessary for victory,” Kle- ment Vi loff, Commissar of Defense, declared. “It will crush MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS jown at the left as he told newspapermen in San Francisco of the destruction of the diriaible Macon oft ficer is without a hat as he came ashore. At the right is an artist’s conception of the huge airship “cracking Photos), CON LANDS IN SAN FRANCISCO any enemy,” the anniversary state- ment said. A martial note likewise was sound- ed by the Soviet official press which réiterated its accusations that Japan and Germany were pre- paring for war against Russia and practicable and that pending such probe no settlers be brought to the Territory. Stress School Costs The House suggestion, introduced by the Education Committee, points out that it would require some $40,000 to erect schools for the children of the colonists and an additional $75,000 for their main- tenance. It is pointed out the Ter- ritory is in no condition to shoulder such a burden; that none of its revenue is derived from property tax® which has been impossible to levy and thus the settlers would be paying nothing toward the con- struction or upkeep of the schools. The colonization plan calls for bringing 200 families to the Mat- MUNICH, Feb. 25. — President Adolf Hitler, in an aggressive ad- dress commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the party's founda- tion, told the old Nazi campaigners that Monarchism and Republican- ism are both dead in Germany. ““I prophesy again,” the President sheuted “that none of the old sys- tem will ever return to Germany. “What we have created in two years is only a forecast of what is coming. We have fulfilled the mis- slon bequeathed to u$ by our dead comrades and will continue.” Pan-American to Have | Division Headquarters at Airport at Alameda OAKLAND, Cal. Feb. 25.—Offic- ials of the Pan-American at the Alameda airport are to organize a divisicn headquarters for the pro: rosed air rouce acrcss the Pacific| Oczan to Shanghai. The test, flight' is scheduled for sprlngA, 1 -3 anuska and it is estimated this would mean about 300 children of tc Previous Failure Stressing the need of thorough defied world Imperialism. Soviet writers also pointed out the army has an organization of 13,000,000 civilians behind it, includ- ing expert marksmen, parachute jumpers, glider pilots, automobile drivers and chemical air defense experts. KIDNAP PLOT 1S ONLY HOAX, AGENTS CLAIM Threatenedfiduclion‘ of Steel Executive Not Taken Seriously study beforc the plan is carried out, the Senate memorial cites that some settlers have heretofore come to Alaska for the purpose of developing farms and have become charges of the Territory and that|pethlehem Steel Company, for afp, a¥. {in the past two years hundreds of|ransom of $25,000. 2 men, attracted here in search of work which industrv. has been un- able to provids, have become de- pendent on the Territory and Fed- eral Government for support. It also is proposed to amend the Senate request, pointing out that rates over the Alaska Railroad for farm and other commodities fto markets be thoroughly examined before final action on colonization is taken. PEEED AP S ‘The Philippine Islands export- ed 5324874 cigars to the Unit- ed otal last September, less than he experis Lo -icu.th {Seplemzcr, 1033, o3t BETHLEHEM, Pa., Feb. 25.—The Department of Justice agents today discount the alleged plot to kidnap Eugene G. Grace, President of the The agents claim the ‘‘purported spnspiracy “is a lot of wind." ——————— CAPT. J. M. CLARK MAKES OFFICIAL BUSINESS TIlBi Capt. J. M. Clark, of the United States Steamboat Inspection Serv- ice, left his Juneau headquarters on the Victoria for a trip to Ket- chikan on official business, —— e TO FAIRBANKS Mr.tle Berry. who apcrates a aflor shop in Fairbanks, s re- vrning to that city via Seward from Seattle on the Northwestern. WOMEN PIONEER HOME PROPOSAL l AGAIN OFFERED Roden Would Appropriate‘ $|.5,000 for Undertak- ing by Senate Bill A second proposal to provide a thome for pioneer women in the | Territory similar to the Pioneers’ , Home at Sitka made its appearance in the Legislature, being intro- duced in the Senate by Henry Ro- den. The bill appropriates $15,000 for creation of such a home and would name a Board of Trustees of the Governor, Highway Engineer and Treasurer o carry out the act. i A gimilar meacure, previously intro- duced in the House by H. H. Mc- Cutcheon, was laid aside by that Two other bills were brought in 7y Roden today,asking an approp- riation of $15000 for the installa- | tion of a system of radio telephones +in the Pirst Division and the other would appropriate $5,000 for con- ‘strucnon of an airplane field at | Sitka. Still Alive By the mnarrow margin of one vote, the Green memorial asking }Conzress to’ give consideration to the Tewnsend Old Age Pension plan gained at least temporary life in tha Senate. The body voted 5 to 3 against tebling, it as suzze b Senator Powers, Secnator Frawley (Continuea on Page Two. e~ This boatload of sailors were among the 81 survivors of the Macon’s crew after the dirigible sank off the California coast. They are shown about to land at 8an Francisco after being picked up at sea after their craft went down. (Associated Press Photos) Dionne Parents Seek;;g to - Share Fortune of Famous Quintuplets Daughters WINDSOR. Ontario, Feb. 25.— The parents of the Dionne quin- tuplets have retained an attorney |in an attempt to get parental con- trol of their five famous daughters and share {n the fortune being piled up for the babies. It is estimated the fortune will total $100,000 by the time the girls are a year old, but they cannot draw from it until they become 18. Their five guardians, including Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the attending physician, were appointed by the government. The parents contend they were compelled to sign away their rights of parental control on the threat that they would be re- fused relief funds and thus were forced to go on the stage to support their other five children. They | also assert they were treated very brusquely when they visited the hospital bullt near Callandar es- pecially for the quintuplets, - OPPOSED “PROXY PAPA” SCUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 25.— ‘We have 10 children,” Mrs. Dionne aid here recently “‘and we do not favor having five of them million- | aires while their brothers and sis- ters are brought up in comparative poverty, * Papa Dionne declared fhe other five children had seen their little iters but twice and that behind 1ass while other people can get Alo the hospital at any time. “On one ogcasion,” Mrs. Dionne related, “I wanted the little shirts for the quintuplets had outgrown and one of the nurses ordered me out of the hpspital, threatening to strike me with ‘a flashlight. Dionne said he had enough of being a “proxy papa” to his daugh- ters and he and Mama Dionne are going to see about taking the gov- ernment out/ of their home life. “We don't M the way the govern- ment is splititng’ up our family,’ he said. DENIES THREAT GRAV! 38T, Ontario, Feb. 25 —W. H. Alderson, Red: Cross exe- cutive and ief guardian of the Dionne quinfuplets, denied here that the parents had been treated brusquely when they visited the babies in the private hospital as claimed by the parents. Alderson said he thought it would be un- wise to take the Dionne quintup- lets from the government appointed guardianship before its expiration July 19, 1936, and believed it should be continued after that date. As to the parents obtaining any of the money held in trust for the babies, he said that the matter was for | the courts ta decide. Premier Mitchell F, Hepburn of Ontario indicated his opposition to any prop@sal of the parents to receive a share of the money. i . o, Congressional Delay “Most nfortunate”™ Admin- istrator Says WASHINGTON, Reb. 25.—Secre- tary Harold L. Ickes, Relief Ad- ministrator, sald Congressional de- lay in passing the work rellef bill fwas “most unfortunate.)’ His reply was: to, questions asked at a press conference shortly after Senator Huey Long started a move to pro- vide two and one half billions for highway construction in the con- troversial measure which the Sen- ate returned to its appropriations commitiee. “I am convinced we need the work bill to take the unemployed off the dole and give them jobs,” Ickes said. Long initiated his move by send- ‘ng telegrams to highway commit- slons in each state urging them to endorse his plan for highway con- ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS INTERNATIONAL ROAD BILL HAS PASSED SENATE; GOES TO HOUSE {McNary's Proposal for Op- ening of Negotiations with Canada and for Sur- vey Is Approved WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.— The Senate has passed and sent to the House the Me- | Nary Bill to authorize nego- { tiations with Canada for the construction of the Interna- tional Highway to Alaska. The measure also- author- izes an appropriation of $100,- 1000 for negotiation plans and,‘ 1§2,000,000 for construetion, The negotiation plans cover ju survey. ,es B, M. BEARENDS RETURNS FROM BUSINESS TRIP |Combines Banking Affairs with Buying Trip for S!ore—ConditionsGood After an absence of about five weeks on husine:s in the south, B, M. Behrends, Fresident of the B. M. Behrends Bank and B. M. Beh- rends, Incorporated, returned to his home here on the steamer North- western, While he was in the south, Mr. Behrends combined banking busi- ness with his semi-annual buying trip for general merchandise and ready-to~wear clothes for his mer- cantile store. He spent a week each in Seattle and S8an Francisco and was in Chicago for about two weeks. In the latter city he selected a com- plete stock of new spring merchan- dise from wholesalers of Chicago, New York and other Eastern points. Better Grades Purchased ‘There is & decided trend this year towards the purchase of better grades of merchandise on the part of peo- ple throughout the country and it struction as an unemployment re-|is interesting to note that many of lief measure. On the first anni-|the better of the Eastern retail es- versary of his share-wealth move- | tablishments purchase the majority ment Long said “it is the biggest|[of their higher quality of formal year-old baby the world has ever seen.” He estimated the present membership in the share-wealth so- cieties as between fivé and six mil- lions. 15,000 ARMED MEN ARE OFF T0 WAR FRONT {Italy Moving Soldiers in Large Groups to Af- rican.Coast ROME, Peb. 25—Ten thousand soldiers moved aboard a fleet of even ships last Satur day night bound for Africa and the theatre of the Italio-Ethiopia dispute. Five thousand went aboard ships Sunday, bound for the same trouble |'spot. | Obseryers estimate that about 35, 000 Italian soldiers will be on the African ghores by the end of this week. House Democrats Perfecting Secret Organization Now WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — The creation of a secrét organization of 100 Democratic members in an at- tempt to consolidate “dissatisfied” groups into a cohesive voting unit is under way in the House. The exact plan of egy is no exactly mopped cut as ¥ the movemen: i5 silil in a forma |tive state. and dinner gowns from wholesale houses of San Prancisco l'nd'ts Anggles. “'This is an entirely Bew-te- velopment in the mercantile 31~ ness, as in former years, the East- ern wholesalers practically ‘mon- opolized the markets, Mr. Behrends sald. ‘The majority of the ready-to-wear suits, coats and dresses, which Mr,. Behrends purchases for his fitm here, are bought from the same wholesalers that supply the ready- to-wear for Marshal Field's retail store in Chicago. Through this arrangement he is afforded a much larger selection of attractive and up-to-date styles than would be possible otherwise. Styles Prettier Than Eyer That styles are prettier this spring than ever before is the opinion ex- pressed by Mr. Behrends. Suits are particularly good in both light- (Continued ou Page Two) B Chief Executive Takes.,“Night Off” On Harvard. Visit CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 25. —President Rocosevelt “took a night off” last Saturday night tc enjoy himself as a proud parent. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., his ton was initiated into the exclusive Fly Club at Harvard. The Fly Club is one of the cldest of Harvard's clubs and admits only ten members yearly. Last Saturday night's visit of the Precident ‘wa:z his first to Haivard since the rcunicn of hiz clacs in 1929, He lkit Besten chortly afler midnight Sa wrday to spend the we k-cnd at his Hyde Park