The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” STRONG PROTEST BEING MADE ON TREATY BREACH| Other Powers Planning Step to Meet New German Action THREE NATIONS PLAN CONFERENCE SATURDAY | 01d World Headed for Clash Unless National | ' Security Is Solved | GENEVA, March 20—While Ger- | many exultantly emphasized me rearmament declaration of Presi- dent Ado)f Hitler, and it was also announced that the Reich will en- ter the forthcoming negotiations | with Sir John Simon, British For-| eign Minister, on equal terms, oth- er powers are preparing steps to meet Germany’s new action. French Take Stand | Official advices from Paris say the French Cabinet has decided to make an issue of Germany's Vio- lation of the Versailles Treaty by| raising the question before the League of Nations Council and dis- patching a strong protest to Ber- lin. Tripartite Conference The French Goverhinent alsohas succeeded 'in bringing about ar- rangements for a tripartite confer- | ence of France, Great Britain and Italy on the new European situa- tion, Great Britain and Italy agree- ing to send representatives to Paris for a meeting Saturday. This meet- ing will be preliminary to a meet-| ing of British Foreign Alfairs Min- ister Sir John Simon, enroute to Berlin for a conference with Presi-/ dent Hitler. Fulvio Suvich, Italy's Under Sec- retary of State, will represent Italy at Saturday’s conference. General Viewpoint Official public opinion, gathered from European capitals is there is no immediate danger of war al- though -the Old World is headed eventually for another armageddon unless the problem of national se- curity is solved. French Protest France, according to official ad- vices, has already drafted a strong- ly worded protest informing Ger- many she will refuse to acknowledge in any future negotions the Reich's unilateral action in scrapping the military clauses of the Versailles Treaty. The communication is re- ported here to be much firmer than the note of Great Britain. FRANCE TAKE JU S ST Robert Buzby (center), Fairbanks, Alaska, businéss man, won per- manent possession of the Alaska Sweepstakes cup representing three annual victories in the “northernmost dog derby,” by mushing a team of Siberian dogs 80 miles in less than (right) looks on as he receives the Fairbanks Kennel Club. (Associated Press Photo) Bryan Namesake Aims High; Heads Crime Quiz in Capita HUGH J. WADE CONFERS WITH NRA OFFICIALS Deputy Administrator - for Alaska Is in Wash- ington, D. C. WASHINGTON, March 9.—(Spe- cial Corresponderice)— Hugh J. Wade, deputy administrator of the NRA for the territory of Alaska, accompanied by Mrs. Wade, ar- rived in Washington Monday. Mr. Wade is conferring with his head- NEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935. HUNDREDS HURT, 2ARL RIVER FLoob aRoons AS WILD HARLEM, SR RIOT BREAKS 0UT} New York Negro' District Scene of Pitched Bat- tle with Police | 16-YEAR-OLD BOY IS | " BLAMED FOR TROUBLE Roving Bands Fire Stores,| Break Windows and Loot Contents | NEW YORK, March 20.—Ri raged through Harlem last night bringing injuries to at least a hun- dred besides smashing store win=- [ i dows and looting them of their con- |} . tents. More than a hundred werej booked by police who charged agi- tators with enticing negroes and whites of the area to violence by telling them employees of a stpref’ killed 16-year-old Lino Rivera, who|. was caught taking a pocketknife. In reality the store manager turned the boy loose although he had bit- ten two floorwalkers who caught him. 10 Men Shet Ten men were shot and one stabbed among the injured. Harlem was a bedlam with lm: and screeching sirens*of ‘polic od and fire apparatus. Seven hundred policemen attempted to round up roving bands of negroes who as- saulted white persons or smashed windows and fled at the approach of police, Officers and detectives repeated- ly fired into the air to disperse rioters and on occasion shot to By HERBERT PLUMMER bring down their man. Two stores were set afire. WASHINGTON, March 20—When Not until 2 a.m. could police find { 33-year-old Jennings Randolph of the youth who was the cause of | West Virginia came to the House the trouble to bring him to the 'in the last Congress to represent police station to prove he was still the second district of his state, he glive. boasted of two distincticns— Woman Starts Rumor First, that he was named for When t Yy was taken to the William Jennings Bryan, the great back room @€ store by employes ‘Commoner.” after he had been caught taking And second, that he had com- the knife, one of the employes pleted a course in public speaking slapped his face. A clerk fainted to equip himself better for his du- and a woman rushéd. from the ties as a member of Congress. store, shouting the boy. was being . Buzby ht and a haif hours. of the phy from a represental 1 The youthful and handsome West killed. The report spread, cmwdsJ Virginian, like many other first- soon gathered and the riot started. ‘ermers, went comparatively un- —_——— noticed during his first session. sTncK PHIGES ~ PULLED DOWN He returned to the present Session, however, re-elected by a 15,000 ma- iqrity, determined to make a name for himseif. He aimed high at the start, strik- as the P famili ANY REDUCTION, HALIBUT TARIFF Harold E. Lokken Gives| Straight Talk to Re- ciprocal Trade Com. WASHINGTON, March 20.—Har- old E. Lokken, of the Seattle Hali- but Pishing Vessel Owners Asso- ciation, warned the Reciprocal | Trade Committee, that an influx of Japanese halibut would flood |the United States if the tariff is reduced in the reciprocity trade pact with Canada. Lokken is seeking a Reconstruc- | tion PFinance Corporation loan to ‘ald in stabilizing the halibut mar- | ket. | He said Canadian and American fishermen have formed their own agreements and prorated 47,000,000 / pounds -to be permitted under al international agreement and “‘we oppose a reciprocal trade agreement involving a reduction of the two cent a pound tariff on halibut.” Lokken said ‘ the most favored nation program would permit oth- | | | An Assoclated Press airview of Jackson, Miss., shows many homes in the capital surrounded by water WARNS AfiAlNST?Listerl,, W'uit, and Say Little; | ' . That’s 6.0.P, Leaders’ Plan " Ailment Causes Man to Shrink i |outlook remains almost as indis- OFFICIAL GERMANY SURPRISED BERLIN, March 20—German of- ficials expressed surprise today that (Continued on Page Seven) quarters office With respect to Pro-f{ing out for a berth on the Ways posed changes in the National Re-{anq Means Committee. He failed to covery Act, and will probably re-|optain an assignment on this mw_“ main three weeks before returningferful House group and remained' to Juneau. the only member of the West Vir- zinia delegation without a major BY TOBACCOS ers, especially Japan, to benefit by i # a lowered duty. LOAN REFUSED George Bocklet, 49 (left), former SEATTLE, March 20—The hali-| Chicago commercial artist, whose height has shrunk from five REARMAMENT SCHEME PART OF BIG MOVE Foreigners, for Conference! in Berlin, Will Get an Ear Full BERLIN, March 20.—It is said in official quarters that when the Reich's rearmament system is dis- cussed with foreigners it will be emphasized that Germany's great aim in restoring military power is to place herself in a position to compel a gradual world disarma- ment. ——eeo> Excursion Boat Wrecked; All Aboard Rescued Lecture on Alaska An overflow growd attended lecture of Alashi given in the De- partment of Commerce auditorium Share Sellil?Causes Flur- ry—Early Gains Lost in Late Trading committee membership. i Became Crime Investigator ' ‘Young Mr, Randolph was not t,o: buters here have been advised that | the RFC has refused the request plus halibut to stabilize the mar- t, |seven and a half Inches in seven years to five feet, three inches, for $800,000 to use in freezing sur-|gaj) the symptoms of osteomalicia | | deformis, accordin to Dr. Frank G, last night. George Clark Dickens,|be dismayed, however. He popped administrative assistant of the Na-|up shortly thereafter with a resq- NEW YORK, March 20.—Tobac- ket. The application presented by | Nolan (right), Hollywood, Cal., phy- Lokken has been rejected, he said, siclan, who is making a study of the TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, March, 20.—The excursion steamer Laura has been wreck- ed off Utila, but relief boats saved all of the 104 passengers and crew of gwelve. The car- g0 and baggage was lost, tional Resources Board, delivered the educational lecture which was well illustrated by slides in natural color. Mr. Dickens is well known in Alaska and with his accurate knowledge of the territory cleared up many popular misconceptions of | Alaska. New Arrival ‘A new arrival joined the Alaska colony in Washington February 15, when a cub was born to a Keodiak mother bear and a polar bear fath- er in the National Zoo. The little fellow died 'ast week. The body has been preserved by the National Museum as such a cross has never been known before. The fur was a light silver-gray, mixing the snowy coat of the father with the deep brown of the mother. * Elmer Is Guest J. M. Elmer, well known mining engineer of Alaska arrived in Washington Monday, from New York. Pope Bill Favored The Senate committee unani- mously ordered the report of the bill introduced by James P. Pope of ! Idaho, for the relief of unemploy- ginia politics attach an even deep- | (Continued on Page Eight) lution calling for an exhaustive in- co share selling pulled stocks quiet- vestigation of crime conditions in ly and slightly lower today. Small the National Capital. His mem- gains made in other sections of bership on the House District Com- the list were largely lost as to- mittee paved the way for such a bacco issues continued to decline move. from one to three points. The inquiry was voted and Ran-| Today's close was easy, however. dolph moved into action. He was made Chairman and, as such, vir- NEW YORK, March 20—Closing tually bossed the whole show. From quotation of Alaska Juneau stock the very beginning his committee today is 16%, American Can 113%. moved onto the front pages of the American Power and Light 17%, five newspapers in Washington to Anaconda 8%, Armour N 4%, Beth- stay there. Randolph and his col- lehem Steel 23%, Calumet and |leagues were fairly deluged wlthjl-leclq 2%, General Motors 28, In- [publl.euy. | ternational Harvester 36%, Ken- i In one sense the Randolph com- necott 14%, United States Steel {mittee was dealing with a purely 27%, Pound $4.76%, Bremner 55 !local problem, but anything con- bid, 60 asked; Nabesna 68 bid, 80 icerning conditions in the National asked. Capital is news for the rest of the country. Such was true in this . . . ol Train Hits Reindeer Then, too, there are scattered around Washington hundreds ot‘ LULEA, Sweden — A fast tran native West Virginians working for |Plowed into a herd of 300 reindeer the government in various capaci-)near here and killed 25 of the ties. The activity of young Mr. Ran- | animals. dolph didn’t go unnoticed by these people, many of whom are ab- sentee voters. May Head for Senate Fred Nimtz, Ketchikan Those familiar with West Vir-|and trapper, killed three wolves re | ————————— KILLS THREE WOLVES (Continued on Pagée Six) i at the head of George Inlet. “because it ‘will not increase em- ployment and there is no guarantee against the loss of Government funds.” The entire fleet is still idle but reports from Vancouver, B. C., said| British Columbia fishermen in their fleet of 32 vessels will leave Saturday for the halibut banks. ———e - — BOXER CRITICAL | AFTER HIS BOUT SEATTLE, March 20.—Jeck Tebo, | while conscious, is in a critical| condition after a boxing match with Prank Wallulis last night.] Wallulis won the bout by a tech- nical knockout. h PWA — | | Earns Students’ Bread BUDAPEST — Law students of] | Budapest have established a bak-| ihwyu;. { case. Bock! skull expanded while he has lost In height. (Asso- ciated Press Photo) “KEEP RISING Thofisands Are Driven from Homes in Two States in South MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 20 Thirteen thousand are homeless flooded rivers engulfed new terri- tory in Missouri and Arkansas. The rising Yazzo threatens the levees protecting 50,000 acres in Mississippi. — e as ENGINEER INSPECTOR AND AUDITOR'S OFFICES MOVED TO NEW QUARTERS Offices of the Engineer Inspector logger €y in connection with their wel-)and Auditor of the Federal Public - |fere kitehen. The bakery is oper-!Works Administration have been cently as the result of two days|ated entirely by students and its|moved from the third floor of the work in the White River district|modest profits go to needy fledgling Federal and Territorial Building to room 218 on the second floor. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) Within a year Republican aspir- ants for the presidency will be test- ing out their respective strength in many states, but today the party tinct as it was a year ago, If any candidate is setting up| even the beginnings of a campaign organization, he is doing it so silently that. his rivals have been unable to find it out. In Congress the several Republi- can blocs continue to travel their| | several ways, and a unified party| | policy seems about as’ remote as ever, | Republican national headquarters /In Washington is listening and | Waiting, saying little. What it is| concerned about immediately is ‘bmoney to pay its rent and keep 'm skeleton organization together. No one professes to know how long National Chairman Fletcher | will stay in office, and no for- | midable candidate to succeed him ! has appeared on the horizon. | Altogether, it would be difficult . to imagine a situation of greater party uncertainty. Few politicians expect anything exciting to hap- pen for some months to come. The Letter Deluge It appears that the country no longer takes Washington for grant- ed. Letter-writing among the vot- ers is distinctly on the increase. Of course many of the letters del- | uging Congress are devoted to spe- cific issues and obviously are part luf organized campaigns on the part of special groups. It is the other kind, however, which' are causing comment—the kind which obviously are not in- spired, which do not hold up one single issue as all-important but speak generally of the state of the Union and what should be done about it; At no previous time | Administration began” said one Senator recently, ‘“have so many people ‘in my state taken the !im?! to sit down and write out—often in long-hand—their ideas about the basic trend of national affairs.” This began long before both sides more or less appealed to the coun- try in the work-relief deadlock. In the abstract it has represented one of the most notable political sur- prises of 1935. Whatever it may mean, it pre- vents members of Congress from etting that they will be on the spot in 1936. since this Brain Tryst Unhappy Many of the brain-trusters in Washington are growing more and more discouraged as they think rl river left its banks. The dome of the state capitol may be seen in the background. Many | ek were marooned by the flood. AIR BASES ON PACIFIC RUSHED President Weighing Ques- tion of Protest on German Note 'HEARING FRIDAY ON ALASKA PROTECTION ' Administration Desires to Avoid Entangling in European Affairs WASHINGTON, March 20. — While President’ Roosevelt weighed the question of a protest to Ger- many on that nation’s rearmament plans and scrapping of the Ver- sailles Treaty, the House Commit- tees laid plans to push measures for increasing armed strength of the United States both afloat and ashore, Full Strength Carl Vinson announced the Na- committee will attempt to bring before the House, immedi- ately after it acts on the bonus bills, bills to strengthen the Navy and alco provide for new Pacific Coast bases. Efforts will be made to obtain enough officers for the full treaty strength of the Navy and also to train suffielent. fHers to man the expanding air foree. Hearing on Bases Chairman Rogers, of the Military sub-committee on - Aviation, has called hearings for Friday on the bill to set up powerful Army and aviation bases at strategic points in continental United States, Alas- ka and the Panama Canal zonel area. Government Provoked On the question of the Reich's action, some Administration ex~ perts appear to be torn between two ideas. Privately, officials con- ceded it is safe to assume that this Government is provoked by Germany’s action. Diplomatic ad- visers, it is known, feel that grounds for representations to Germany ex- isted. On the other hand, there is said to be a strong desire of the Ad- ministration to avoid anything that might entangle the United States in the European trouble. On Capitol Hill there is known to be a strong sentiment that the United States should keep out of any crisis abroad. ROOSEVELT STATEMENT WASHINGTON, March 20— President Roosevelt emphasized the “good neighbor” policy in com- menting on the European situation. He said he hoped this policy will be extended to Europe as a basis for the peaceful solution of the difficulties there. R g RUSSIA READ FOR INCREASE OF RED ARMY Defensive Forces Could Be Enlarged Ten Times, Says Pravda MOSCOW, March 20.~The Red Army will be “increased ten times™ if necessary for defense in the face of what is termed Germany's prep- aration for war. This is the de- claration made today in the news- paper Pravda, the official organ of the Soviet Government. Al Imitation Air Raid Sprung On Berlin BERLIN, March 20.—Cannon crackers, bombs and smokepots gave Berlin a realistic imita- tion of an enemy air raid last night as Germany's newly ecre- ' ated air fleet staged a spectacu- \Loninuec ‘ol Page Two) lar maneuver. v