The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 17, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE * “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVL, NO. 6990 $371,000 ASKED FOR AIR FIELDS, ALASKA TOWNS 53 Villages, Mmmg Camps to Be Connected by Plane if Granted WORK WILL BE DONE BY ROAD COMMISSION Estimates Call for $7.000 Per Field, Sufficient Only for Rudimentary Type WASHINGTON, June 17. — The State works progress Directors have been called together to get from Harry L. Hopkins, Relief Admin- istrator, information on how the Administration intends to spend its relief money. The works Applications Division announced today the Interior De- partment had asked $371,000 for construction of emergency landing fields in 53 Alaskan villages and mining camps. The application in- cludes through the Alaska Road\ Commission for construction of em- ergency landing fields, grading, draining, surfacing, materials, equip- ment, engineering, supervision and contingent expenses, The application states that safe- ty: demands 53 villeges and mining camps be furnished with landing {iglds. Residents and operators util- ize afr transportation almost ex-| clusively in reaching these localities' and planes are forced to land on beaches, sandbars and in small clearings, The estimates average $7,000 per field, sufficient only to construct fields of the mest rudinflentary type and of minimum dimensions. The sites include Bear Creek, Bettles River, Bremner, Creek, Candle, Chandalar, Chena Springs, Chicken, Chivana, Circle| Springs, Haycock, Homer, Iliamna, Kaltag, Kasilof, Kenai, Kiwalik, Kobuk, Koggiung, Kotzbue, Koyu- kuk Station, Livengood, Lucky Shot, | Marshall, McCarthy, Moses Point, Mumtrak, Council, Cripple. Deer- ing, Dillingham, Eagle, Egegik, For- ty-Mile, Yukon, Canes Creek, Gold Run, Golovin, Ophir, Palmer Creek, Pilgrim Springs, Poorman, 8t. Michael, Sel- dovia, Steel Creek, Telida, Teller, Ugashik, Valdez Creek, Wales, Wa-~ silla and Wiseman. CLARA PHILLIPS 1S FREE; GATES OF PRISON OPEN Hammer Slayer Is Out of Cell After 12 Years Imprisonment TEHACHAPI, Cal, June 17.—The gates of the prison for women are to open today permitting Clara Phillips, notorious hammer slayer! of Mrs, Alberta Meadows, divorcee whom she suspected of intimacy| with her husband,” to go out into; the world after 12 years’ imprison- ment, a free woman again. “All T want is people to leave me alone and give me an even break,” sald Mrs. Phillips. The woman’s husband is in the East. ———————— Movie Houses Decrease LONDON.—A eensus of motion picture theatres in the British Isles reveals their number has been re- ‘duced by 199 since 1930. Cache | Neknek, Ninilchik, : Identical poses, snapped when he took office and this week, show how President Roosevelt is bearing up under strain imposed on "him by the ‘. long battle for recovery and the new 1 of New Deal measures FO.RLIMITS. WORK RELIEF * CONTRIBUTIONS Donations to Remam at 55 Per Cent Which Dele- \ : gates Large Sum | WASHINGTON, June 17.—Faced by unharmonious necessities to speed selection of low cost proj- ects, President Roosevelt is repori- {ed authoritatively today to have| ilimited work relief contributions | on State and municipal PWA pro- jects to 45 per cent, the donation remaining at 55 per cent. It was gsserted in informed quarters this must come from private financing |or possibly from the PWA revolv- ing fund which can be used for {loans only. The President’'s decision which with other policies means that probably two billion dollars of the works program will be carried out by Harry L. Hopkins' progress ad- ministration. The action coincided with the second birthday of the Public Works | Administration and Secretary Har- cld L. Ickes claimed the old PWA program had been “responsible in no small measure” for improved business conditions. He said the (PWA had checked the downward trend of construction activities in 1934. Of the initial $3,300,000,000 ' appropriation $2,525,000,000 has been |spent or remained obligated, Ickes said. NICKONOVICHS ON S | I i Mr. and Mrs. John Nickonovich and Roger Nickonovich returned to Juneau from Sitka on the North Sea. Nickonovich operates an apartment house here. P | — e 3 JOHNSON RETURNS Chet John:on, National Grocery representative, completed a round- trip visit to Sitka when he arrived here on the North Sea. Are You Going to Live for 150 Years? Here’s Soviet Professor Says You Should MOSCOW, June 16.—Prof. Peter Lasareff, member of Soviet Academy of Science, declared the normal life span of human beings sheuld be something over 150 years. He revealed that he had pro- longed the lifes of Daphnia, minute fresh water crustaceans, to four times their usual existence by the use of Roentgen rays. He shortly will head an expedi- tion to the Georgian Soviet Repub- lic in an -effort to discover the causes for the longevity of the in- habitants there. Many Georgians are reported to have lived a cent- ury and a half. Lasareff said he is not ready to gubmit humans to actual oxperi- ments yet. burdens added by rejection of so by Supreme Court. e Says Freedom (,hw/ Essential for Social Security STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal, June 17.—Graduates of Stanford left the academic cloisters today with a warning by Herbert Hoover that freedom was the chief escential of social security and that freedom must be zealously guarded. “First of rocial fecurities ic freedom, freedom of men to worchip, think and speak to di- 1ect their energies to develop their own talents and be re- waided fer their effort,” Hoover caid, BIRLS CONFESS T0 BEING SPIES Face Fir;; Squad or Death Under Axe—May Escape Severe Penalty FOOCHOW, China, June 17— Death before the firing squad or under the axc faced fifteen girls as a possible penalty for their activities as Communist spies. The authorities said all confessed to being guilty. . The girls may escape the death sentence, however, with the warn- ing that “sex dnd keauty will not always stay executions in China by axe or firing uqund i GI.IPPEH SHIP IS AT MIDWAY ALAMEDA, Cal, June 17.—The| Pan-American cnpper plane ullght—‘ 1ed at Midway Island at £:40 o'clock last Saturday night completing the 1323 mile flight from Pearl Harbor. The flight took nine hours and thirteen minutes, flying time. The flight marked the first com- mercial air venture west of Hawail although a.flight was made several weeks ago by 43 naval planes. ON RETURN FLIGHT MIDWAY ISLAND, June 17.—The Pan-American clipper ship hopped off today flying oiind for ‘Honolulu enroute to. the mainland. - The fliers are compelled- to rely abso- lutely on instruments for direction, speed and altitude. e MRS. ARMOUR TO KETCHIKAN Mrs. Don Armour, whose husband is the president of the Piggly-Wig- gly Alaska Company, is travelling to Ketchikan on the North Sea, after visiting briefly with friends here, JAPAN PLANS BIG CONQUEST Communists Organ..in Mos- cow Outlines Militar- istic Scheme MOSCOW, June 17.—The news- paper Pravda, organ- of the Com= munist Party, charges Japan with planning to create a new Empire out of Manchoukuo, North China and Inner Mongolia and use it as a base for more extensive con- quests. The Pravda says Japanese mili- tarists have long planned the ac- tion now under way in North China |and further said the program was | divided into three parts: | First—Occupation of Manchuria. | Second—Occupation of North { China and Inner Mongolia. Third—Seizure of Central China. The Prazda said Japan will launch the third stage of the con- quests as soon as recently consoli= dated posmons have been occupied. GHINESE GEN. - MUST GET OUT AS BIG CHIEF 'If China Does Not Remove Him, Japanese Troops | Will Do So 17. — A Rengo i Agency correspondent at Hsinking ireports the High Military Council ‘lhere has decided that Gen. Sung Chey Yuan, Governor of Charar Province, China, must quit his of- 'fice and if the Chinese National | Army and Government does not re- move him the Japanese army will have to do so. The report is interpreted indicat- ing the Japanese Army is deter- mined to add another Chinese Province to its sphere of domina- ticn, dictating what Chinese offi- cials shall administer office and what Chinese troops shall garri- son Chahar Province as well as Hopei Province. TCKYO, June GRAVE VIEW TAKEN LONDON, June 17. — Reliable <ources revealed that Great Britain has acked both the Japanese and JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1935. EATH CLAIMS JOHN H. CANN, ,Wi_del_\’ KnoWAlaska Min- ing Operator and Mer- chant Succumbs John Hartley Cann, former Ju- jneau merchant and more recently incipal owner and operator of Apex El Nido mine at Lisianszi, ied late Saturday afternoon at St. Ann's hospital following a throat Infection. He was widely known [throughout Alaska and operated a furniture store here for many years. [He was in Valdez in the early days. Mr. Cann was member of the Juneau Elks, being initiated into that body on February 3, 1915, and | Elks ritualistic funeral services will| be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow after- noon at the Elks Temple. Dean C. E. Rice will give the eulogy, Mrs. George F. Alexander will sing and Past Exalted Ruler Martin Jorgen-| sen will preside. The body will, be shipped south by the C. W. ‘Carter Mortuary for burial. Honorary pallbearers will be B. M. Behrends, Guy McNaughton, Dr. 'W. W. Council, Willlam A. Holzheimer, Dr. E. H. Kaser, Gov. John W. Troy. Active pallbearers will be former Gov. Geo. A. Parks, H. L. Faulkner, Ray H. Stevens, Harry Lucas, Wal- lis S. George and Simpson Mac- Kinnon. Mr. Cann is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jennie Bruce Cann and a nephew, John Hartley Bowen, both of whom are now in Juneau from their home in Lisianski. e, | Financial Entente Is Discussed ‘Bankers W::qul:.i Bring U. S., England and France Into Full Power BASEL, June 17.—An entente be- tween the United States, England and France to stabilize world cur- reneles is discussed by bankers as- sembled for a meeting of the Bank of International Settlements. Financiers are confident such an entente is designed to include Japan eventually and the entente is also believed strong enough to bring stabilization of world monies. Chinese Governments for clarifica- tion of reports that Japan insists upon controlling appointment of new officials in North China. Semi-official sources said this | move by Great Britain indicated a grave view being taken of the Chin- GERMAN NAVY O’NEILL NAMED CHIEF OF NEW NRA DIVISION REGULATED BY - GREAT BRITAIN |Secret Provisions Between Two Countries Are Made Public LONDON, Jun 17. Reliable |authority says Great Britain alone will regulate the actual size of both the British and German nav- ies under the terms of hitherto secret provisions, of their 100 to 35 ratio. The agreement, by this step, al- lows Great Britain to be virtual dictator of the new Nazi navy. It is intimated here that Presi- dent Hitler has said this authority is a bold move toward winning the confidence and ‘support of Great Britain. Son, Wife Graduated PAROWAN, Utah,—Jay W. Moore had an unusual interest in the 1935 graduating exercises of Paro- wan high school. His son and the latter's bride of a week received diplomas in fhe same class. ke el SISTERS ARRIVE Sisters Mary Theila and Sister Mary Alfreda arrived hére from Skagway as passengers on the Alaska. Stop-gap L;g—is_l-alion Is Put Into Effect—Aimed to Maintain Standards WASHINGTON, June 17. stop-gap NRA was formally organ- ized by President Roosevelt Sunday in an executive order naming James O'Neill as Acting Administrator and creating the division of business co- operation aimed to carry on fair business practices and maintaining voluntary standards of competition. Printiss L. Coonley was named director of the Business Co-opera- tion division. Coonley served as division Administrator during the NRA codé rule of industry. O'Nefll is Vice-President of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. The President in outlining the functions of the abbreviated NRA suggested future legislation along NRA lines. George L. Berry, President of the International Pressmen’s Union was named assistanf, to O'Neill as rep- resentative of labor. Berry has served since early NRA days as code administrator. O'Neill has been with NRA half a year as code control officer. President Roosevelt named six members of the Advisory Council with two members each represent- |ing industry, labor and the con- sumers. — e "TO PETERSBURG | N. A. McEachran, agent for the Schwabacher Brothers Company, traveled from Sitka to Petersburg lon the North Sea. bos Thei MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Her No. 2 ls Double for No. ¢ . When Helen Haskin (left), his famous model, and McClelland Barclay (below), noted illustrator, parted, he went to jail rather than pay’ her ali- mony. But her second hus- band, Gregg Toland (top), Hollywood cameraman, is almost a double for Bar- clay as photos show. Hes secret remarriage has just been revealed HEARD CHARGED WITH LIBEL IN JUSTICE COURT Mayor Coldfi Files Com- plaint Claiming Defama- tion of Character Charges of criminal libel were‘ filed in U. 8. Commissioner’s court today against Neil L. Heard, Sec- retary of the Alaska Mine Workers Union and editor of the Alaska Labor Dispatch, the outgrowth of an editorial appearing in tne Dis- patch last week in which accusa- tions were made against Mayor Isa- dore Goldstein. The Mayor swore to the com- plaint on grounds that the article! was intended to injure and defame his character. Heard was arrested this after- noon and arraigned before Commis- sioner J. F. Mullen where his bond was fixed at $500 and he was re- leased on his personal recognizance until tomorrow. ~Senator Roden is his attorney. Specific Complaint The entire editorial which dealt with the city’s calling the special mine workers election is included in the complaint but one of the specm;: paragraphs to which ex- ception is taken i§ underlined and reads: “There seems to be possible sub- stantiation for the ugly rumors now circulating that Izzy will receive twenty-five dollars for every vote cast up to 300 and fifty dollars for every vote after that number.” If convicted, the defendant will be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishment may be fixed K at not less than six months in jail or a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500 or both, Statute The statute dealing with libel and slander reads: “If any person shall wilfully speak, write, or in any other man- ner, publish, or concerning an- other, any defamatory or scandal- ous matter with intent to injure or defame such other person, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof he shall be punished by imprison- ment in the jail for a period of not less tifan siX months, or by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, wwonunued on P.u.e Two) KIDNAPERS ARE - CONSIDERED TO BE VERY LUCKY Womnan 4 Case Reported to Become Mother in About. 4 Months TACOMA, Wash, June 17—In- terest in the Weyerhaeuser kidnap- ing centered in reports from Olym- pia that Mrs. Harmon M. Waley, now under band as abductors, will become & mother in about four months. The authorities said that “won't make much difference whether she becomes a mother or not as Lhei provides life sen-! Lindbergh law tences regardless.” One G-man said Mrs. Waley and! her husband are lucky “as they will not be tried under the State law which would hang them.” SUNDAY T1F FOOEY NEW YORK, June 17.—The local bureau of ‘the Department of Jus- tice confirmed reports Sunday that two Investigators had been in New ' London, Conn., Saturday night on a tip that Willilam Mahan was reg- istered at a hotel there. The agents said that the tip was a case of mistaken identity. ON MYSTERIOUS FLIGHT SEATTLE, June 17.—Veiling their movements in secrecy, four Depart- ment . of Justice Agents took off from Boeing Field - last Saturday in a chartered planes Unconfirmed reports were the agents were heading for Lewiston, Idaho, to investigate a report that Willlam Mahan had been seen in that vicinity. Chief of Police Eugene Gasser, of (Continued on Page Seven) arrest with her hus-; DEWEY KNIGHT GIVES ANSWER T0 QUESTIONS | A ‘Recent Poll Taken by Workers Will Form Part of Report | o v MINERS’ UNION TO | VOTE, IS SUGGESTION Informal S;s;)n Is Held This Morning in Ever- 1 green Bowl When interviewed today by an Empire reporter, Dewey Knight, Federal Mediator, sent here by the Department of Labor, at the re- quest of the Mine Workers’ Union leaders, answered several questions of prevailing interest. When asked his opinion relative to the city-sponsored election for the mine workers held last Thurs- day, Mr. Knight said: “I do not question the results of the election at all, it will be a part of the ort 1 will necessarily make to the Department of Labor." When asked if the Union would hold an election on the same ques- tion, what effect, in his opinion it /would have the mediator said: “It would determine to what extent the membership o1 .:e Union was supporting the action taken by the Board of Trustees.” Next Mr. Knight was asked if he would like to have the Union hold such a vote, he replied: “It would definitely clarify the situation as 1t now stands.” | Secks Conferences | The mediator jurther said that he wanted to make clear that it was his duty and desire, and he would welcome seeing any individ- uals, groups or committees repre- |senting the workers of the Alaska | Juneau mine. In his position as mediator it is h)s duty, he said, to ascertain all wIaCls and consequently he was will- mg to see anyone that could con- Lr)bute to obtaining a settlement. Approximately seventy miners met informally in Evergreen Bowl {this morning to discuss and formu- late plans tending to lead toward going back to work, a spokesman for the group, told an Empire. re~ porter. It was agreed at today's meeting, along with other plans that a mass meeung would be held later in ;hq, week, at which time more complete action would be taken by the group, It was hoped, the spokesman said, that concrete results would ' 11 from the mass meeting, as all '|uendmg today voted unanimously "for the meeting and . belleved that ‘through this much could be done to break the present deadlock. ' ————— . REV. KASHEVAROFF LEAVES Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff took passage on the Alaska for Sitka. There he will join the Aleutian, ‘remrninz with “that ship, which {has the Seattle Chamber of Com- 1men:e Good Will Tour party aboard, giving lectures on Alaskan history, it | MISS BOURGETTE TRAVELS Miss Violet Bourgette, former Ju- neau instructor and a teacher in the Anchorage school system last year, continued her journey to Se- attle on the Alaska after visiting here with friends last week. — - — — GRIDLEY RETURNS : Ross A. Gridley, Territorial En- gineer-Inspector with_ the Public. Works Administration, returned to: Jureau from Skagway ‘bt the 'Al- aska. S e SWANSON ON TRIP Olaf Swanson, part owner of the Swanson Brothers Grocery, took passage on the North Sea for Seat- tle. He is on a three-week's vaca~ tion and business trip. 4 Ultimatum Issuwl in Street Car Strike; Governor Takes Stand;No F ooling Permitted OMAHA, Nebraska, June 17— Swift arbitration of the street car strike here under threat of mili- tary -punishment for recalcitrant leaders has been decreed by Gov. R. C. Cochran in ultimatums to both the employees and the street car i company representatives. Gov. Cochran specified that those involved accept his six point pro- gram within 11 hours and arbitra- tion be completed by midnight Thursday and “if either party des | clines it must be responsible to the . military autherities.” This was the | wayning given.