The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLV., NO. 6909. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” RUSSIA MAKES INIE GREAT BRITAI ADVISEDTOBE - MOST CAUTIOUS | JUNEAU ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PACIFIC RESENTED Official Warmng Given To- P day Regrading Ber- _ lin Conferences Any Move to Make Conces- sions Will See Soviet Arming Well MOSCOW, March 14.—No- tice that an increase in de- fensive measures will follow, in Russia if England makes concessions to what the So- aggression have been served in an authorized article in the Government’s newspaper here. It is announced the Soviet army is built to 960,000 men.; Karl Radek, one of the chief mouthpieces of official apinion, signed the 'article and said: i “We can tell Great Britain| that any direct or indirect concession by English diplo- macy to Germany's aggres- gion plans will lead to in- creased defensive measures by the Soviet.” It is understood here that Sir John Simon will go to Berlin soon to talk with President Hitler over, the present situation, concerning| France, Soviet Russia and England.| FRANCE'S VIEWS PARIS, March 14. — Germany's announement she posseses a mili- tary air fleet is view by France as repudiation of the Versailles Treaty and the Government is con- sidering calling the Reich's atten- tion to this ‘aspect of its action. —————— NEW TAXES NOT CONTEMPLATED, DECLARES ROPER New Assurances Are Given to Business by Sec- retary Commerce WASHINGTON, March 14.—New assurances to business that the Ad- m.inistration does not contemplate more taxes at this time and favors a fair profit for industry, were given by Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper today. The assur- ances were announced folowing a memorandum from Secretary Rop- er's Business and Advisory Plan- ning Committee. Secretary Roper said, “new or additional Federal taxes are not contemplated at this time and are not likely to be proposed unless some action of Congress, like the passage of the bonus bill, necessi- tates large additional expenditures over the President’s budget.” —,——— Park Benches In Paris Rendered Riot Proof PARIS, March 14—Even park benches may soon be “disarmed” in the French campaign against street rioting. Old style benches were of wood and cast iron. In political rioting. these are easily broken up and used with deadly effeet on police and members of opposing factions. Paris municipal authorities are considetring the installation of | The .annual - stunt. Washington was nthnad y of the_ by (left’ velt, mother of the President; Mrs. Earhart. (Associated Press-Photo)- Legion-Backed SENDS BULLET INTO HIS HEAD ::: Says Coroner’s Jury— Bound Found, Garage FAIRBANKS, March 14—Thomas W. Hunt, aged 30 years, clerk in the Fairbanks Post Office, was found dead in the garage of his home and death was ascribed by the coroner’s jury as suicide. A rifle bullet had pierced the cen- ter of his forehead. It is said Hunt was despondent over ill-health. He had lived in Fairbanks since 1926 and was a graduate of the high school and University of Alaska. STRIKE TIES UP BIG LINER AT One Hundr;~Men Aboard President Jefferson Walkout Today SEATTLE. M::; 14—The en- son, 100 men, struck today after a dispute over wages and conditions. Longshoremen, who were loading the vessel, also struck in sympathy. Officials of the company pro- fessed ignorance as of the strike. The seamen made public but the Associated Press was informed that one of the chief troubles in the opinion of the strikers, was the breaking of an agreement whereby the company was to hire only sailors from the Union Hall but had actually en- | gaged seven men elsewhere. - -o The total gquantity of coal pro- duced by Alaskan mines in 1933 benches made entirely of steel, so tough they ‘can't “be smashed. was 96,200 tons, valued at $481,000. Thomas W. Hu Hunt, Suicide,' SEATTLE DOCK tire crew of the President Jeffer-| to the cause no demands | FIRST LADY AT PRESS CLUB PARTY _Women’s. National Press Club in %o right) Mrs, Sara. Delano Roose- Frlnklln D. Roosevelt and Amelia i et o e e B Vinson Bill Would Pay $2,357.000,000 to Veterans Immedlatolv INTERIOR MAN By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE WASHINGTON, March 14— If the Vinson bill for immediate pay- ment of the veterans' bonus be enacted, some $2,357,000,000 in gov- ernment money would be distribut- ed among world war veterans who reside in virtually every city, town and rural community of the na- | The average payment to velerans who have not borrowed on their sted service (bonus) ceftificates would be 2bout $1,000. Veterans who have obtained loans on their cer- tificates would receive an average of approximately $500. Statisticians of the veterans administration have figured that individual payments would range from a minimum of about $62 to a maximum of $1,592. A large majority of the veterans of the world war have borrowed ;[x'cm the government on their cer- tificates, most of the loans amount- inz to the full 50 perzent allowed under the law enacted in Febru- ary, 1931, over the veto of Presi- dent Hoover. Up to November 30, last, certificates |0 3,529,000 veterans, 3,012,556 of iwhom had cbtamed loans aggre- |gating $1,701,211,251: 1 Bill Backe2 By wvegion | The bill. introduced by Repre- | sentative Fred M. Vinson of Ken- tucky, is the American Legion’s own measure. It specifies that in- terest owed by the veterans on these loans be cancelled and that nterest already paid on the loans be refunded by the government in payment of the bonus. The bonus bill introduced by Representative Wright Patman of Texas deducts from the face value of the certifi- cates the interest on the loans which accrued prior to October 1, 11931, i Compensation for individual vet- erans is computed on the basis of {number of days in service with base credit figured at $1.25 a day for ovarseas duty and $1 a day for heme service. The bonus law im- noses limitations on base credits, 4625 fer overseas and $500 for home service. To the base credit is added 25 percent—a premium for deferred ‘,payrnem of the bonus—and the um of the two constitute gross credit. The maturity, or face value of the certificate is the amount of 20, year endowment insurance which the gross credit can pur- {chase based on a single net pre- i ‘Continued on ?age Four) had been issued’] House Pla:f.;r M tion of Present System - Now Uppermost Late this afternoon the House : passed the general tion bill carrying $2,563,650 and | the measure was sent to “ Senate. Special :ppmm‘ alrcady pasied by the IA(M lature total $239,133. PR Defeat of the di-pensary bill in the Senate this morning | the resultant turn to House Bill 94 providing for modmcaMofl“Hfi the present system of mmflm{ - | quor gave indication this amm@on‘ that the Twelfth Legislature w¢ complete its work today Wi 17 running into an extended overtime session. s Conference committees on ‘@p- propriations, mining tax and fthe mines department bills were ”-j ported to be making progress« ironing out the stumbling blog and word from _the commlflee‘, rooms said the members were hope- | ful of getting together before a ’la:e hour tonight | Senate Divides The dispensary or so-called loon_bill. was defeaied imihe. 5,{ ate where it originated when that' body divided on its passage, four and four. Campbell, Devine, F‘raw-j ley and Walker voted for the meas- | |ure and Brunelle, Roden, Powers and Hess against. Immediately the |vote was taken Senator Walker, moved for consideration of the House bill and the Senators agreed:| Before the vote was taken Sen- | ator Brunelle called attention o!] the members of the Democratic B I ILE LouMle platform which pledged it would not allow return of the saloon.| Senator Frawley, sponsor of the| dizpensary mensure. sa(d hlb onlyl Both Sldes Lined Up for Fray of Importance and Fireworks { | | waste. thought was to sel system and he felt, the L:Ilspemm'yk plan would come closer to it Lhan anything else. Near Compromise While the House this morning| failed to concur in the Senate| amendments to the appropriation | bill, it was reported this afterncon the conference committee was near a solution on a compromise. One of the bones of contention in the measure as it came from the Sen- By HERBERT PLUMMER | WASHINGTON, March 14.—Lines ate was the insertion of an item r8T€ drawn on Capitol Hill for a of $100,000 for building schools s,,\lezhhflve battle which pmmx;esi to the Matanuska Valley for children | irank with any during this session of colonists. Another $10,000 item |Of GOngress in importance and fire- also was added to school trans- WOTKS: i e portation allowance for the same ut;ll'll::r ent! rl:.rym::yoi)e ll;:mI;: Exobr; s urpose. ‘Wi v -1 indu a) e « ey S et wos ex | fore it is over, and that complicat- pressed that the federal govern- % ment, which is handling the coloni- |4 financial mechanism known as . the “holding company” thrown in- to the discard. ‘The fight centers around the | Wheeler-Rayburn bill which would eliminate holding companies by /1940, meanwhile subjecting them | to drastic regulation by the securi- ‘nes and Exchange Commission. Have Wide Power Some idea of the vast scope of 'lhm “holding -companies may be had in "the contention of Ray- |burn of Texas, Chairman of the | House Interstate and Foreign Com- e (Continued on Pnge Three’l i 750ntinued on P;E; Three) First Liberty Loan Bonds Are Called WASHINGTON, March 14— | The Treasury has called for payment on June 15 of its en- tire issue of outstanding first Liberty Loan bonds, approxi- mately one billion nine hundred million flolllll One Major Questwn Lies Behind Washmgwh Dispute; Are Times Getting Better?, By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) Reduced to simple language, the current dispute in Washington is over this one point: Are Mr. Roosevelt's recovery pol- idealism” which Mr. Roosevelt reputed to embody. But underneath these rmging words, public men actually are thinking in terms of hard, cold re- | sults, What they really want to| know is whether times are getting is from Honclulu to heip establish a tropical garden. route, which would have its terminals in Alameda, C Midway and China is considered the most difficult so far 2c typhcons are concerned but weather re- ports by wireless are expected to minimize danger. icies making actual gains against the depression, or are they not? It is *true there is plenty of talk of other things. From one side issues an appeal to “moral princis ple:" and “sacred rights” which Mr. Rcosevelt is alleged to have put Un- der foot. On the other side re- lsounds the rallying cry of a “new appreciably better The Roosévelt legislative program | has become entangled in Congress| because a considerable number of | members take the position that the Roosevelt policies have been tried | and found wanting in results, that | whatever . improvement has taken (Continued on Page Three) Two Dots in Paczfu' to (rreet Flwrs MIDWAY, Pacific Ocean, March 14—The distant roar of a power- ful airplane climbing over the sea horizon will be a welcome sound to the two dozen inhabitants of this tiny atoll planted in the mid~ dle of the earth's greatest ocean.* Employed here to keep the Pa- cific cable in working order they already are looking forward to greeting the first great clipper of the Pan-American Airways fleet which is expected to alight here in April on the way from Honolalu to Wake Island and thence to Guam, Manila and China. Sheltered Arca Between Telands Midway is not the name of an island but is the descriptive term for the location of two islands, Sand Island and Eastern Island. The two dots of land were built up by the sands that lodge in the coral atoll surrounding what presumab- ly was once an undersea volcano. ‘The inhabitants live on Sanc Island, and it is in the sheltered area between the two islands that it is proposed the airplanes should alight. ‘With the exception of a few ‘sec- tions of the vast south Pacific, Midway {s as far from a continent in every direction as any spot on the face of the globe. Nearly 4,000 miles of water lie between ‘it and North America; it is more than 4,000 miles to the Asatic mainland and 1,000 miles to Honolulu. Like Tropical Garden Sand Island, the larger of {he two specks, is about one and three- quarters miles long and a little less wide. On it are the buildings put up in 1903 ‘when the island was nothing but a sand waste. All the structures have double windows, so made to keep out sand storms. Now the place is like a tropical garden, with huge trees that grew from seedlings brought from Honolulu in tiny pots. There are many difficulties that aviauon companies. must -conguer in laying a mail and passenger air line across the Pacific in this locality. Not the least of these is |the weather. There have been winds that blew 100 miles an hour at | Midway, and a gentle south breeze that has been known to veer into a 50-mile gale from the north in the course of a few hours. DUSGING TYFHOON SAN FRANCISCO, March Typhoons lie in the path of trans- (Continued on Page Two) | [—Jiponece ncwspapers, DE]F ENSE THREAT NEWSPAPERS OF JAPAN PROTEST PLANE SERVICE | Declares Move Is Actually for Military Purposes of United States DEFENSES GO TO KINGDOM’S GATES Concealed l;:);v—er Is Shown —Screaming Head- lines 'Appear TOKYO, Japan, March 14. ac- | cording te articles printed to- ldey, interpret the prepara- tions in the United States for | Pacific air services, as a men- { The two dozen inhabitants of Midway, two tiny islands in the Pacific, already are looking for- ward to greeting the seaplane expected to establish a transpacific mail trail this spring. ings shown here on Sand Island, Midway, were put up in 1903 when the place was ncthing but a sand But the inhabitants, whese job is to keep the Pacific cable in working order, brought trees 'he map shcws a proposed transpacific air L, and Canton, China. The stretch between The build- SEATTLE BANK IS ROBBED BY LONE BANDIT Giler Thisafaed:: Flainds Over About $2,000 Instead of $5,000 SEATTLE, March 14~Threat- ening Jack Derwent, teller in the |dinki First Avenue Branch of the Peds ple’s Bank and’ Trust Cempany, with an automatic under his coat, and handing him a note reading: ‘Don't be a fool, T'll shoot quick, j0 look natural and pay me $5,000.” a holdup man escaped with about $2,000 in cash. Leaving the bank, the lone rob- ser walked three blocks north and purchased a’trench coat, cap and ‘ed goggles in a clothing store, pay- ing for the articles with a $100 Jill. He left the store before re- seiving his change. The police’believe the man is the | same one who held up another teller last December by the same nethod -and got $500. e e S Publication of Incom® Figures May Be Repealed! WASHINGTON, Mavrch 14.—The Senate Binance Committce has ap- proved House resolution to re- peal the pink slip provision publication of income tax figures. OPPOSITION BOBS UP WASHINGTON, March 14.—-The tax guestion, with the belated issue of division of wealth, bobbed up in the Senate to block the way of the House resolution to repea! the pink slip income tax publicity law Twe proposals for raising taxes on the rich are already pending in for| ace te Japan's security. Typical screaming head- lines in the newspapers today lare: “American Air I'orce Shakes Finger Under Japan’s Nose.” | ‘“America, Under Guise of I Commercial Enterprise Is Es- tablishing Military Airports lin the Pacific.” “America Military Extend- :ing Defenses to Gates of |Japan.” “America’s Concealed Mili- tary Power in Pacific.” Newspapers generally said “the project of the air serv- ice across the Pacific should be regarded as military prep- arations in the guise of civil- {ian enterprise. “Commercially and indus- trially there is no justifica- tion for extension of the Am- erican airways to the Pacific {islands.” AIRPLANE CHAIN NEW. YORK, March 14—Across the Pacific will soon be flung a chain “of airplane operation bases ng the United States to the Far East by the Pan-American Air- ways: | The Navy Department has grante ed permission for the PansAmert can Alrways to use two tiny Pacifas islands as bases. CHAMBER SLAPS 30-HOUR WORK INVOTE TODAY Business Leaders of City Unanimous in Vetoing Idea Before Congress | Without a single negative vote, Juneau'’s Chamber of Commerce went on record today as opposing the adoption of a ‘S0-hour week, now being considered by the Unit- jed States Congress. This action, taken under a suspension of the rules, was recorded at the weekly luncheon meeting of the organiza- (tion at Bailey’s Cafe this noon. President R. E. Robertson initiat- ed the feature of today's meeling when he asked Secretary Curtis Shattuck to read a memorial to Congress, prepared by the United States Chamber, on the subject of the “Shorter Week Program.” | The petmon as read by Mr. 14+ | the Senate as riders to the l"‘k(bnauuck showed plainly that the slip resolution and more are on|potiona) Chamber was opposed to the way. They are being pushed|.gaqutory limitations on hours of by members who say income should! be distributed more (V("I]\ \ - eee Mrs. John B. Wadman, wife of| an interior decorator in Anchorage, | i3 a passenger on the Yukon for! Beward. ! vantageous t0 employees and (o the general public,” Vote Is Unanimous meu after the rules had been " (Continued on Page Three) 3 work as uneconomical and disad- «