The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1935, Page 1

* by mid-November. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 6932 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS WORK RELIEF TO BE PUSHED IMMEDIATELY Existing Government Agencies Will Have Charge of Program WASHINGTON, April 10.—Presi- dent Roosevelt sald the major part of the work relief undertaking will be carried out by the existing gov- ernment agencies and he has hope that the drive will be at the peak ‘The President intends to spend all that is possible or necessary before July 1, 1836. As far as possible, the Adminis- tration will seek to deal directly in making jobs rather than employing the contractual cystem. HIGH SALARIES OF STEEL MEN ARE ATTACKED Stockholders Meeting of Bethlehem Corporation | Is Exciting One g [ NEWARK, N, J., April 10.—High officials of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation whose salaries last year were nearly as much as the corporation’s net.profits. .were at- tacked at the stockholders meet- ing yesterday but the proposal to slash. payments was voted down. Objections were levelled against Charles M. Schwab, Chairman of the Board; Eugene Brace and R. E. McMath, at the thirtieth annual meeting of the stockholders. The move to reduce salaries was futile however. The minority’s resolution was to limit salaries to be paid the trio to 20 percent of the cor- poration’s 1934 profits. This was snowed under when holders of ma- jority shares voted against the res- olution. Opponents of bhig salaries were led by Leopold B. Coshland, of New York, who declared ‘44,000 men get 67 cents an hour by the sweat of their brows while three officers divided $448,000 salary last year.” $ Another stockholder declared that Bchwab's salary last year was $250,- 000. e ROOSEVELT IS | BACK AT HELM INWASHINGTON Expects Prompt Action on Social Security Program —Has Conferences WASHINGTON, April 10.—Pres- ident Roosevelt expressed anew lnst; night to Congressional leaders his| détermination to see a broad So-| cial Security program em.c'.ed‘l promptly. 1 The President's expression came in connection with a late night conference with two House lead- ers, Speaker Byrns and Chflll;mani Doughton of the House Ways and| Means Committee and served to; “spotlight” his return to the Capi-| tal and set in order the legisla-| tive program thrown away precedfl‘ ing and during his southern vaca- tion. ! The President, earlier in the eve- ning, conferred with Senate Lead- er Robinson on the general Capi-| tol Hill situation. | | Charles Bryan Wins Nomination for Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska 7 | LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 10.—-|Arizona will have the “best feed teria. '‘Newl T W. H. rawee.. his bride, the former France seerc’ary, in Lo Angele: Tiajuana, Mexicc. it was news to Beatrice Lillie, famed comedienne, when Doris Draper (above) baoi: stand in Lon- don trial and testified she had been; wife of late Sir Robert Peel for last five years of his life; for Miss Lillie was married to him all that time, Young Russians, Both Sexes, Must Jump from Planes MOSCOW, April 10. — Mil- lions ¢f young Russians, both men and women, must make parachute jumps and also steady airplane motors under an order issued that makes “military technical” training compulsory. The crder is directed to all Kcmsomols members of both sexes between 16 and 24 years of age. —————— PASTURE FEED CONDITIONS IN COLORADO BAD Prospects Are, However, ood in Several of Northern States DENVER, Col, April 10.—Range iand pasture feed conditions in the Great Plains region are “the poor- yweds Are Coming to Alaska on Honeymoon TWO FIRSTSIN' a 4y, Robinson, ¢f Minncapelis, his former ca their return after an elopment to i oust a pubicher of 15 magazines, and They plan to cruise to Alaska during the sum- en their hencymeon. Rival “Wife” IMMIGRATION FRAUDS FOUND - BY WHOLESALE | Government Taking Steps After Discovery of Conspiracy WASHINGTON, April 10.—"“Start- ling revelations” are promised by the Government as it is announc- ed that evidence has been unearth- ed showinz thousands of frauds in the immigration and naturaliza- ticn service from 1823 to 1933. Sleps have also been taken to number of employees and wholesale criminal prosecu- start tions. It is estimated that the bill by illegal entered aliens to a of bribetakers in the service fixers outside will run into millions of dollars. Deportation of 42 aliens, now un- der arrest, for unlawful residence, will be the proceedings to be start- ed at once. ‘Two hundred proceedings to can- cel fraudulent citizenship have also been filed. Charges designed to remove a | number of employes are also to be | filed, it is said. | b paid ring and the e i |0 00 000000000 |® STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW. YORK, April 10.—Closing |quctation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17, American Can (118%, American Power and Light |3%, Anaconda 11, Armour N 3%, | Bethlehem Steel 25%, Calumet and lHecla 3, General Motors 20%, In- | ternational Harvester 37!, Kenne- cott 17!, United States Steel 31, Pound $4.84%, Nabesna bid 72, asked 85; Bremner bid 58, asked 63. Theatre Roof Collapses; | Women, Children, Victims CANTON, China, April 10—At |least ten persons were killed and |more than 50 seriously injured in the collapse of the roof of a the- atre here. Many of the victims are women and children. They were rapped by the falling of the roof |25 heavy beams crushed them. The |audience was witnessing a Chinese talking picture. - e DISHAW TO SEATTLE Dave Dishaw, Junzau contractor, est on record,” while California and |is traveling to Seattle on the Vie- He boarded the vessel at Charles W. Bryan, brother of the in years.” This is according to the|Halnes. late Willlam Jennings Bryan, is April report issued by -the United back in the political saddle, having been nominated for Mayor of Lin- coln. Bryan has been Governor of Ne- States Division of Crops. The report said prospects are, A |good in western parts of Washing- | merchant, boarded. the Alaska at e ANCHORAGE MAN TRAVELS G. E. Anderson, an Anchorage ton, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming,|Seward and is travelling on' that New Mexico and Northern Idaho. vessel to Seattle. .. JUNEAU TAKES - DEGLAM FINALS Young SterliTg_,- Ford Both Win at Petersburg— Miss Simpson Third: Juneau took two firsts and third out of the three divisions the annual Southeast Alaska School Declamation Contest last -night at Petersburg. This word was received this morning in a telegram from Evmti, R. Erickson, Juneau facuity advis< or now in Petersburg, to Alex Dun- ham, acting Superintendent of Ju- Weau Schools. 4 ors in the drama division, while Scott Ford garnered similar merit in the oratorical class. Miss Ana- bel Simpson, Juneau's trant, took third place in the hum- or group, which, according to Er-~ ickson's telegram, was the most closely contested competition. Miss Clara Lando of Petersburg won the humor division first prize. A Ketchikan competitor was sec- ond. Erickson’s telegram did not give placings in the drama or oratorical divisions, so it is not known how the three entrants from Douglas, who accompanied the Juneau group to Petersburg, fared. The message stated that ‘“the contestants are all right.” It ex- pressed thanks for the telegraphic good wishes sent from Juneau yes- terday by students. The trio, ac- companied by Erickson, are sched- uled to arrive here Saturday on the Northwestern. SETTLEMENT OF TANKER STRIKE DELAYED AGAIN {Both Sides Disrupt At tempts at Agreements— Appeal to Roosevelt | ity Joe Stirling won the highest hon- |* other en-| the army much opportunity to machine gunners “warming wup.” plow the waves. fcr the national defense on land, sea, and in the air. 00ks to Her New Defenses practice maneuvers such as thcss Figuratively, th- new plans will bump a ho nel’s whole swarms of new airplanes such as those showa above. on Versaille Only Minor ( By ALEXANDER H. UHL PARIS, April 10—The Treaty of| Vetsailles, which Hitler has been| pounding steadily for 15 years, virtually is all gone except for its| territorial and colonial clauses. ; And the average Frenchman is wondering how long these surviv-; ors will last. | Charges that Germany had vio-| lated the treaty in a dozen differ- ent ways had frequently been made | in France and Great Britain, but| it was not until Germany announc- ed creation of a military air force,| that the treaty was openly defied,| for article 198 says: | “The armed forces of Germany SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 10, —Efforts to bring the month-old Pacific Coast tanker strike to a speedy settlement has been dis- rupted by two broadsides fired by the oil companies and maritime unions. One telegram has been sent to President Rocsevelt by representa- tives of 24 maritime unions asking him to take prompt action to end the strike, declaring general in- dustrial tie-up worse than last year is threatening to develop. The oil companies declared that the union charged they refused to meet for collective bargaining which “4is only half the truth but leaves a false impression regarding the situation.” The text of letters sent to the Mediation Board revealed the main issue is the return of the strikers to their former positions. PROPOSED TAX ON MOVIES IS KNOCKED 0UT California Assembly Com- mittee Kills Measure Aimed at Industry SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 10.— The bogeyman of the movies of California, the footage tax of one half cent on all film from which the industry flinched as a spectre of ruin, has been banished. The California Assembly Revenue Committee killed the Laughlin bill carrying the tax proposal. Personalities entered into the de- bate before the committee, Assem- blyman Voight, of Los Angeles, as- serting that “we can well afford to get along without Louis Mayer, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer head, and T hope Mayer is a man of his word and does move out of California.” e About 100,000 acres of mosquito- breeding areas have been drained recently in North Carolina in the State Health Board's campaign o wipe. out malaria. must not include any military or naval air force.” Then came the bombshell of Hit- ler's announcement that henceforth Germany would refuse to consider herself bound by the military clauses of the treaty. That announcement, with restor- ation of conscription as the basis of the German army, added a start- ling chapter to the barely 15- year history of a treaty that took a year and a half to produce. Some Sections Died Early ‘There are some clauses that never were enforced; there are others that have been slowly but steadily disregarded and there are still oth- ers that Germany wants abolished. Article 227 called for trial of the former Emperor William by five Jjudges to be named by the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan. Holland, however, re- fused to extradite him and the clause lapsed. Article 228 demanded the trial of a number of high German officials, including the former Crown Prince and Marshal Von Hindenburg, for atrocities and other alleged war crimes, but Germany never sur- rehdered them. ‘The section of the treaty dealing with Germany’s frontiers and col- onies still holds its original force. The .Saar, last of the plebiscite areas, has gone back to Germany as a result of the vote of January 13. Hitler has virtually given up claims for Alsace-Lorraine, while the thorny Polish corridor problem seems moribund because of the German-Polish friendship develop- ed since by signature of a ten-year accord in 1934. “Anschluss” Hope Survives Insistence on the independence of Austria is a vital part of the trea- ty. But Germany has not abandon- ed hope despite the joint Franco- F;e;cll i’u;“beaiiz Watélz” 8 Peace Pact; Clauses Survive | VERSAILLES TREATY PARIS, April 10.—Here's the | status of the principal provis- ions of the treaty of Versaille: (1) The League of Nations | —Still functioning. | (2) Punishment of the Kaiser —Never enforced. | Territory and Colonies— | Saar returned to Germany whose frontiers remain | otherwise as shortened by treaty stipulations. Ger- many still seeks restora- tion of former colonies and union with Austria. Disarmament — Germany refuses further obedience to army and air clause treaty. Navy still within limits; Rhineland still de- militarized. Reparations—No payments | since 1931, | Economic provision—Most- | ly carried out. | Guarantees enforcing trea- | ty—All lapsed or abandon- ed. (3) “@) (5) () | | . . AIR RAID DREAD LEAVES BRITISH WAR TALK SHY By GAYLE TALBOT LONDON, April 10.—Hitler An- nounces Conseription. Eden Visits Moscow. . . . MacDonald Says England Must Arm. Just headlines in American pap- ers, but more than that in London, which knew the high hum of the Zeppelins. Crowds of men and women with worried, expectant faces line Down- ing Street to see the Cabinet enter the home of the Prime Minister. War talk brings no answering gleam of high resolve on the fuce of a Londoner. He had his full taste of war from 1914 to '18. “If you had ever spent a night in an underground shelter with ‘bombs bursting in air, you would know how we feel,” said one of them. Hard to Cenvince Statesmen say there is no imme- New gun cjuipment and new en! Recent developments in Europe find the Uaited States already on its way to a new order ments will give | ing a group of st, knocking out at th> right che And cn the scas, modern battlc hipe will UNITED STATES ARMS PROCRAM | BEING SPEEDED European Troubles Start Action—Big Increases Are Planned BULLETIN— WASHINGTON, April 10.—President Roosevelt has signed the War Department | appropriation bill with the pro- | vision increasing the enlisted ¢trength if necessary to bring the Army to peace time eirength. The measure carries | appropriations of approximate- ly $400,000,000 for use during the fiscal year beginning next July 1, the biggest peace time allotment. | l | | | By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON, April 10.—The United States, erecting the largest | peace-time military establishment |in its history, moved toward a | stronger national defense before | the breakdown of the Washington | naval treaty and Germany’s repudi- | tion of the Versailles pact. This country, considered compara- | tively secure against invasion, be- cause of its isolation, set out on a | course of building up the Army and | Navy, estimated to cost in the near future more than three quarters of |a billion dollars, principally upon | the administration view that ex- |1sting facilities had weakened below | the safety line. | Appropriation bills with which | Congress now is working, under | President Roosevelt's budget, rec- | ommendations for a total of $792,- 1000,000 for Army and Navy, were | based upon that theory rather than ‘upcn the European treaty develop- | ments. The German renunciation of the Versailles document, however,| | though not bringing this country |into the European embroilment in, the opinion of obseryers, may in- fluence speedy action upon the| American program, | Big Air Force Increase Broad developments immediately foreshadowed, aside from the long- time program of shaping a bigger Army and Navy, in addition to big increases and improvements in arm- | aments, munitions and equipment, | |include these: ; Stepping up of Army Air forces from about 1,200 planes at present | |to around 1800. Increasing naval | aircraft by 500, or to approximately 1,500. | A greatly enlarged and improved coastal defense organization, par- | \ | | | British-Italian stand against “an-|diate danger of war, but they can't|ticularly on the Pacific coast ang schluss.” convince the Londoner. {in Pacific possessions and terri- Germany’s old colonies are in the! “They said the same thing in|tories—Hawaii, Alaska, Canal Zone | hands of the victor nations, none|1914. The only difference is lhat‘and Samoa. This latter step would| of whom has shown any inclination to give them up. we weren't worried then.” Even the radio has conspired to 000,000 through a $23,- the $380,000,000 be accomplished item in Militarization of the Rhinelandjenhance nervousness. The British Army measure already approved in is the next step that the French Broadcasting Corporation, accus- | substance by both Senate and the fear. They claim that already there|tomed in the past to airing only House: a $38,000,000 separate ap- are strategic railways and air-ithe most puerlle of news items|propriation proposed for building (Continued on Page Five) (Canm;ued on P;ge Five) PRICE TEN CENTS 0 STATES OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS STRUCK INMANY AREAS Pall Suddenly Comes Down Forcing Business to Be Suspepded 36 LOADED TRUCKS HALTED ONE REGION {Murder Trij Delayed— Visibility Reduced to Twenty-five Yards KANSAS CITY, April 10—~The dust scourge centered today Kanscs and Oklahoma. In e places the dust storms were pre- |ceded by rain or snow and then |came the pall but in all cases the dust triumphed. £ Between Guymen, Oklahoma, and :B.’II‘:Q City, Kansas, thirty-six load- ed trucks were caught in the dust storm and forced to halt as the blinding, choking clouds swept the panhandle. Corrine Weeden, aged 9, and her brother Leland, aged 10, were lost all night in a dust storm and fcund unharmed this morning. They tied themselves together. A murder trial at Tribune, Kans sas, has been halted for the dura- tion of the storm. Visibility is. reduced to 25 yards in practically all stricken places. The Department of Commerce reported the wheat crop in west- ern Keansas shows no sign of life. AR RN FLOOD DANGER IN CALIFORNiA STILL SERIOUS Sacramento Valley May Again Experience Ex- tremely Eleigh Water SACRAMENTO, Cal, April 10.— The menace of one California flood is gone but the weather bureau has warned those in the Sacramento Valley of a new storm that will probably create an extremely dan- gerous situation. By The Sacramento River has reced- ed more than two feet below the flood stage but observers said it might rise again slightly as the crest from the upper valley passed at one time within a few inches of the flood stage which at the’ peak, over the week-end, broke recent records and claimed 21 lives. HEADS LOPPED OFF IN GERMAN PRISON GROUND One Jew, 0——n;Ayran Are Executed by Medieval " Battleaxe BERLIN, April 10.~The same medieval battle-axe that. fell on the necks of two noblewomen six weeks ago, has lopped off the heads of two men accused of a “erime committed of political hat- og.” Hally Epstein, aged 28, a Jew, and Hans Zeigler, aged 34, Aryan, went to the block on Ploetzensee Prison’s gloomy courtyard for' the slaying of Horst Wessel, martyred bard of Nazism. . Once more the 67-year-old ex- ecutioner donned his top hat, kid gloves and tail coat to pertorn lne task. ? Wessel was shot to death on January 1, 1930 as the outcome of an altercation with his landlady over rent. Six Communists were sentenced with terms up to six years for the crime. Wessel wrote the song. Epstein is said to be the first Jew beheaded in Germany’s his tory. official - 174 |7 (Continued on Page Three) BURGY ON YUKON o Gus Burgy. liquor salesmian, are rived on the Yukon from Seattle. = Nazi -