The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1935, Page 1

v - < “ THE VOL. XLV., NO. 6920. DAILY A “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, HITLER DEMANDS K PAY-AS-YOU-G0. PLAN FORNEXT WAR ADVOCATED Former Industries Board Chairman Would Curb | Big Profit Taking i CLAMP DOWN LID AT START, BARUCH SAYS Tells Munitions Committee Price Fixing Only Sure Regulation WASHINGTON, March 27— A program of “paying as you fight” if the United States enters an- other war was advocated before the Senate Munitions Commitiee to- day by Bernard Baruch, chair- man of the World War Industries Board. The plan would be executed by taxation and price fixing. “Briefly my proposal is that Can- gress, after it declares an emer- gency exists, authorize the Presi- dent to clamp down the ceiling over the whole price structure in effect on or about the date of declaration of war when there is a fair relationship among human activities and their rewards,” Bar- uch said. “I would make it unlaw- ful- thereafter to charge a higher price for service or things. Money, like other things, must be con- trolled and directed and told for what purpose it can be used and _Roaers (lower, right), daughter of e o ooees LEGISLATION FOR ALASKA 1S TAKEN UP Gold Mining Company, the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company and the Attolia -Mining Oompany, producer of tungsten.” — - YOUNGER GENERATION CARRIES ON Father may be famous—his name may glitter in the bright lights along Broadway or his face may provide laughs for millions of movie fans—but daughter isn't doing so badly either. Several daughters of famous fathers and notable mothers of the stage and screen are reach- ing toward stardom of their own right—for example, Carol (above, left) and Dorothy (lower left), daughters of Fred Stone; Ethel Barry- more Colt (above, right), daughter of Ethel Barrymore; and Mary the inimitable Will RESIDENT OF NORTH FOR 35 YEARS 1S DEAD Arthur Hill, Who Mushed Over Valdez Trail, Pass- BARUCH IRKED the World War “three major invest- ments'in which am still interest- Indians May Get Right to Bring Suit — Agricul- ed. These are Alaska Juneau ture Appropriation WASHINGTON, March 16— (Spe- cial Correspondence)—Some prog- ress was made in Alaska legisla- tion during the past week. The “ s Secretary ©f the Interior made a Pm End to Innuendoes favorable report on the bill to au- He Demands as Called thorize the Thlinget and Haida Indians to bring suit in the Court BeforevSenateGroup of Claims, recommending some amendments. The report was ac- WASHINGTON, March 27. — A companied by a very extensive ringing demand has been made by memorandum prepared by Paul Bernard M. Baruch, former Chair- w. Gordon, Director of the Office man of the World War Industries of Education for the Bureau of ;Board, to “put an end to insinua- Ingjan Affairs in Alaska, setting Hons. and innuendoes” about him oyt the rights of the Indians and or “find me guilty of violation of recommending that the bill be trust and confidence imposed upon passed. me during thet period.” However, the Secretary recom- es Away in Interior FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 27. —Arthur G. Hill, aged 59, who liv- ed in Alaska for 38 years, died Sunday as the result of pneumonia. He is survived by his mother and two brothers in the State of Wash- ington. Born in Seattle, his father peing 2 member of the faculty of the University of Washington, Hill stud- ied civil engineering at the Uni- versity. He came to Alaska with his father in the eariy gold rusn days and. traveled over the Valdez trail where his father died. Three of Hill's brothers also nearly suc- cumbed to the hardships of the trail. Arthir Hill was part owner of many claims on Big Eldorade. His PLAN CEREMONY: T0 INAUGURATE PLANE SERVICE iChamber Arranging Pro- | gram for Next Tues- day at Airport 1 Plans for ceremonies mlugur&-’ |ing the Juneau-Whitehorse-Fair-! banks airplane schedule of the Pa-| cific Alaska Airways, which { from Juneau next Tuesday, were discussed and tentatively outlined today at a meeting of the Ju-, neau Chamber of Commerce 'Avia- tion Committee, at the Gastinean Cafe. The ceremonies will be held af | the Pacific Alaska Airways:: | adjacent to ‘Kendler's on G s | Highway, at 2:15 Tuesday ‘ noon, preliminary to the planels departure. ‘ | Welcome Keys for Mayors | The plans discussed today ecall for speeches by Mayor I Geld- stein, and Ralph E. Robertson,’ President of the Juneau Chams |ber of Commerce. The city of Ju- [neau plans to send welcome keys to the mayors of Fairbanks and ‘Whitehorse and bouquets of flowers with appropriate greetings. | The Juneau Chamber will send flowers to the Board of Trade of Whitehorse and the Chamber of Commerce of Fairbanks, with greet- ings relative to the opening of this new service which brings these |cities and the entire interior of Alaska so much closer to Juneau,' Wallis George plans on sending a fresh caught salmon to the inte-| rior city. | Urge Turn Out o Rebert J. MeKanna,chairman 3/, | the aviation committee, said today, t the committee urged all Ju-| neau citizens who can possibly do so to attend the ceremonies at the field. Gov. John W. Troy has been asked by the committee to attend. Those attending today’s commit- tee meeting were, Robert J. Mc- Kanna, Wallis George, M. S. Whit- tier and Robert Bender, - — ISLAND CONTROL IN PACIFIC NOW BEFORE LEAGUE Japan’s Withdrawal Leaves Delicate Question of Sovereignty in Air i GENEVA, March 27— Japan's| EDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1935, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS GERMAN SOLDIERS DRILL AS TREATY REPUDIATED ™ Extenslve maneuvers were held by the German army after Chancellor Hitler had denounced the Ver- sailles troops storming a village. This eral von Blomberg recently. (Asociated Press Photos) -and declared the nation would re-arm. In the upper'photo a tecent air:protection maneuver Is being staged in’ Nuremburg, Bayaria, with-poison gas hein released. ‘Lower: an exclusive photo of exercise was carried out In e presence of Relschswehr Minister Gen. NEW LIBERAL . 'FORTIFICATIONS ! Coast Foreign Trade Shows SKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS LITARY EQUALITY SAYS GERMANY CONTENT WITH o ) - SMALLER NAVY. {Gun for Gun Basis in Army Forces Insisted on by Dictator 'RUSSIAN ATTITUDE ON DISARMAMENT SOUGHT * (Contends Germans Given Unfair Treatment by League Nations BERLIN, March 27~High au- 4/ thority stated today that Presi- dent Adolf Hitler gemands absolute military equality on & gun-for-gun e basis, excepting the navy, other European powers. with The authority said Hitler told, & Sir John Simon, British Foreign Minister, that Giermany is content with a “small percentage of the British navy." Hitler indicates that ‘even though France would reduce its armaments greatly Germany would not follow until certain what Russia would do.” | Among his objections to the | League of Nations was his conten- tion that Germany never was giv- en equal treatment with France and Great Britain and the Ger- mans always drew minor assign- ments while the French and Eng- lish handled vital political matters. | EXTENDS PEACE WAND MOSCOW, March 27~—Invitation | to Great Britain to cooperate with Russia in erecting a barrier against “tendencies toward explosion of | world peace,” was extended :today "by .mm.m.%m,m Radek of the government. paper Izvestia, | “The Soviet Union is ready to cooperate with Great Britain seri- ously without ulterior motives,” |Radek wrote, “If England adopts |any policy other, than such coop- Splendid Gain BLOC FORMED; tastrophe.” - & IN PAGIFIC I8 s ™ ™ ™ = KVALE, LEADER Dean of Farmer-Labor Delegation Organizes Another Group By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, March 27—A 39- year-old Representative from Min- nesota who succeeded to his fath- er's seaf in the House after serv- ing as his private secretary for Years, is a moving factor in the latest liberal bloc to be organized‘ on Capitol Hill. He is John Paul Kvale, “dean” of the Farmer-Labor delegation in 27.~The Pacific Coast foreign trade in January showed a 28 percent gain over the same menth a year ago according to figures released here today. Exports and imports for Jan- uary totaled $39,000,000 com- pared to $30,600,000 in January, | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Mar. 1 M!Afln—u—’s PLEA ;Defense Bases in Aleutians and Guam Advocat- ed by Senator 1934, The exports far exceed the WASHINGTON, March 27.— imports, Construction of strong fortifi- cations in America’s Pacific pos- sessions was advocated today by Senator Willam G, Mec- Adoo. He suggested fortifica- tions in the Aleutians and Guam as soon as Japan’s with- drawal of participation in the GIANT PLANE STARTS WEST | GIBBS BARRED BERLIN, March 27.—The Ger- | man Ministry of the Interior today | declined to admit Sir Phillip Gibbs, |English writer, to Germany. He was apparently barred because he |Incurred Nazi disfavor by anti- ‘anl ‘publications, E. D, SHEFFIELD GRANDLARGENY Mr. Baruch has been called to testify before the Senate Muni- tions Committee regarding his pro- posal to fix a “ceiling” beyond mended two amendments which mother, Mrs. Janot Hill, lives at were unacceptable to the Delnglte:nellevue, across Lake Washing- or to the Alaska Native Brother- tor from Seattle. hood. One amendment would limit| Tt resignation from the League of Na- | the House and responsible for that tions which takes effect at mid- | recently formed group of some 35 night, raised the question of doubt | Representatives jokingly described today as to who ultimately con-|ipy standpatters as “The Mave- i \ ;&?fi;ffiufir Desemmber 31, | Public Official for 30 Years Pan-American'Clipper Craft | - (& 3 Is Sentenced to Begins Blazing U. S.-. | i vt Prison Term - ¥ should do everything possible Ormnt Rome | to assure protection of Ameri- PASCO, Wash.,, March 27.—E. D, which prices could not go in war } Nonw, Valdez Bills EARLY STAR INDREDGING T0 BE MADE Men Flown from Anchor- age to Bear Creek, Near Bethel ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 27. —In preparation for an early start in gold dredging, three planes have left here taking men to Bear Creek, near Bethel, where they are' to be employed by the New York-Al- aska Gold Dredging Company. The company has one dredge on the river ready to start and anoth- er in Seattle will be brought north on the first voyage of the Tupper. trols the Pacific islands seized | from Germany and turned over to| |Japan by league mandate. Tokyo | has expected to ‘retain control un-| |der supervision of the league’s | mandate and commission but the delicate question of sovereignty [over them, however, has raised the |issue on which Geneva experts ‘disagree. Some say the Allied powers were vested with sovereignty and others contend the League is entitled to {determine what nations should control. 0 | 1t is generally conceded the Unit- ed States could claim the right of hearing on the question of disposal of the islands. { | - Receive Sea ] iConnnued on Page Three) Anchorc;gé Wd;' Veteran to ricks.” (They have been so dubbed be- cause Representative Maverick of Texas is one of their number.) Young Kvale, a tall, handsome Scandinavian, serving his fourth term in Congress, has been chaf- ing for a long time at the way things "are being done on Capitol Hill. A devoted follower of Fiorello LaGuardia, now Mayor of New York, when he was a member of the House, Kvale prides himself on his independence. , . LaGuardia “Heir” Aside from a short while, follow- {ing the capture of control of the Burial; Dies " After Wife’s Heroic Trip |~ ean interests” he said. “Our MIAMI, Fla, March 27.—Off-to fhy blaze @ new commercial air’ route fortiicatiens are Yery WOAR. linking the United States and the| Orient, a giant Pan-American clip- per plane left at 6:15 o'clock this morning on a 3,000 mile flight to 8an Diego. The 19-ton flying boat recently completed a nonstop flight of 2,500 miles to the Virgin Islands and re- EEER BT AND MAY ACT DAN TAYLOR . = moow mmex IS ARRESTED e uirs 31 IN SEATTLE Democratic leaders at Washing- tom no longer speak of the Huey Long situation as a joke. Valdez Man Is Held on Charge of Killing Sea Otter to Westward state of mind will permit. It has been years since such open expres- SENATE VEXED * BY HUEY LONG ‘They no longer expect to ridicule the voluble Louisiana Senator into silence, ‘to Jlaugh him off and frustrate him by refusing to get ex- cited about him, | Instead they are speaking of him |as serioysly as their exasperated Sheffield, former Deputy Treasurer of Franklin County and ‘a public official for nearly 30 yeass, has pleaded guilty in ghe or Court to grand larceny and has been sentenced from three to fifteen years in the Stafe Penl . tentiary by Judge Matt L. Driscoll. | A shortage of approximately $9,000 | was found in the Treasurer's office in January when the new Treas- | urer was installed. | MRS. ELIZABETH S. KEY JOINS U. S, FOREST SERVICE STAFF Mrs. Elizabeth 8. Key thas been |added to the permanent staff of the United States-Forest 'Service in the office of H. L. Redlngshafer, | Regional = Fiscal’ ‘Agent, as as- . | sistant - elerk-typist. She' is taking the place left yacant by Miss Ro- | berta Fraser, whose marriage to | Leonard Johnson took ‘place sev- eral weeks ago. - e s 000000 | The Secretary of the lntersor;?loNEElt MINER AND ’ ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 27. which set in following an appen- ; time. |the claims to those which might' be brought “under the Russian s treaty of cession on Mar¢h 30, ixm, (15 Stat. 539) or any subse- : 1quent act of Congress or Execu-| : . Itive Order” This might prevent jrecovery if the rights of the na-| ) tives were not expressly rnognlzedl 'in the treaty and they had nol part in the making of the treaty.| ‘T AI ANK ‘The bill was brought up for hear-] ,ing before the House Committee on o RO o {Indian Affairs and the Delegate 112 +made a statement in support of William Forbes ?assesvme bill but objected to the amend-| Resu‘t Ml Dlsease ‘were before the Committee for S hearing on that day, the Thlingit’ FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 27. gnq Haida bill was referred to"a —William Forbes, aged 50 years,'syh-committee. The Chairman of was found dead in his cabin Sun-'the sub-commiitee, Representative day. He was fully clothed and the! avers, assured the Delegate that| body was lying across a bed. Death tne pill will be considered and acted | is ascribed to hear disease. upon by the subcommittee prompt- | Forbes was. born in Edinburgh 1y | and served with the British forces, in the World War. He came to; Fairbanks in 1919 as an expert ac-/' ccuntant and had been em ed for many years by the mfb':’minm gave a favorable ’;el)o‘rt ';o the ASSOCIATES OPTION s | House Committee on Territories on| A PE Arpecsin Cam' pm' .y |the Nome bill to authorize the eity | RLATINUM TROFENES |of Nome to issue bonds for not to| p.. tranberg, pioneer Alaska WATN: JUSO% BERINE te:u:,eed $100,000 for public imprOVE-‘pzacermo:e:a;r.rgmsp son, Harold, A. 8. Day, who with his son op- Ments. and associates of Anchorage, have erates the North Pacific Sea Foods| Valdez, having voted in favor of taken under option 17 claims on cannery at Fort Liscum, brought the issuance of bonds for the con- Clara and Platinum creeks, two of back quipment for the canning of struction of a new school house, the Lest known creeks in the Good shrimps when he returned from a the Delegate introduced a 'bill'News platinum area, according to recent says the Val-|therefor, the same having been ap- the Anchorage Times. Pay says there is proved as to form, by the legal'! The scnior Strandberg is on his ready market outside for Alaska| —————— .. lway East to look over drag-line 3 .l s E (Continued on Page Sevet) equipment for the property. | —In compliance with his last wish, |Ernest Ross will be buried at sea, somewhere in Alaska waters, prob- ably in the Cook Inlet area near Ross’ death here yesterday was 2 sad climax fo a heroic attempt ‘m the part of his wife, Ethel, t0 ave his life. She had driven a dog ‘eam in’ an all-day struggle over Jhe rough Susitna Valley trail to: ‘ush her husband to the Anchorage Hospital. However, he died from peritonitis/| dectomy. The Jack Henry Post of the American Legion here, will provide a detail of officers to form a rifle squad. A bugler will play “Taps” in accord with the military hon- ors given the former member of a machife-gun detachment in the Twelfth United -States infantry in the World War. The sea burial is being delayed because of a late spring cold spell which has found ice floes still in Cdok Inlet. SEATTLE, March. 27—Vigorously |sions of hatred have been heard on|® Vdenying that he ever saw a 5ed the Senate floor. {® REGISTER! otter, Dan Taylor, aged 52 years,| Tne Senate is boastful of its tra- ® is held in jail here in lieu of $1- gition of giving every senator his|® To vote at the city elec- 500 bond follewing his arrest for sy and its managers have come ® ton on April 2 you must the alleged killing of one of the| gther slowly to their present view | ® Tegister. The qualifications animals near Valdez in violation of ahout Long. They have come to it, ® are—resident of the Terri- the Alaska Game Laws. | however, no less surely. If any- tory for one year and the Taylor was arrested on a tele-|(hing can be done about Huey, it|® c¢ity for six months. 1f you \graphic warrant from Valdez. He i he done. have not registered yet, do | detlared he will fight his removal “Not a Menace” |® "so ‘now, at the City ‘ldl Jto Alaska, Tt is not so_much that the Party oh | "I never saw a sea otter in My chjeriains regard him as a reai' ® {lfe. I do not -know what a sea . \otter is,” Taylor proiested. REGISTER! * REGISTER! REGISTER!' Poenvocscnscnscne (Continued on Page Two) © 0 000 00 s 0 WU PLEADS GUILTY, 1