The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1935, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. XLVIL, NO. 69%. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, EMPIRE MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1935, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS A.J. RESUMES OPERATION TOMORROW 300 ASK FOR WORK BY NOON; LABOR FACTIONS CLASH SELECTING JUR BUSINESS PLAYS IMPORTANT PART IN FILLING BOX Many DoNot Care to Serve Due to Connections— Courtroom Is Crowded FOUR WOMEN, EIGHT MEN TENTATIVE LIST Mine Workers’ Union Heads in Attendance at Court Proceedings The 50 names drawn for jury service in the Niel Heard case were exhausted shortly after court convened this afternoon and it was decided to draw ten more names with summons to be issued ' returnable at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon. O. M. Harri was excused at the afterncon session when he said he did not want to act under the circumstances and Agnes Patterson replaced him in the jury box. She was passed so far by both sides. Defense challenged Willis Nowell and he stepped down, leaving but 11 in the jury box until more names are drawn and the persons summoned. The ten drawn are Tom J. Selby, L. R. Smith, Mrs. T. J. McCaul, Mrs. R. L. Bernard, Mrs. H. C .DeVighne, Fred Pat- rick, James Fullerton, Mrs. Charles G. Warner, Mrs. Charles Sey and Eli Tanner. —_— Before an audience which nearly filled the court room selection of i — Story of . Kidnaping Now Told | MRS. WALEY'S TRIAL IS SET The Girlitt the Case s sy : | 425 MEN MEET IN A, B. HALL “Back to Work” Today’s highlights: Three hundred former em- ployees of the Alaska Juneau e T ) epartment o ustice| PV Agent Reveals All Angles | Taking of Testimony Be- THIS MORNING [March of Miners to A. J.| mine had registered up to noon today at the Employment office. of Tacoma Abduction | | | | TACOMA, Wash., June 24—E. J. ‘Connelly, Department of Justice “Agent from Chicago, who was plac- jed in charge of the Weyerhaeuser kidnap investigation, today revealed |the Government's story of little ‘George’s abduction, “trunk rides” over the state and the arraignment | of the Waleys in the Federal Court. Abduction Well Planned Connelly said Harmon M. Waley and William Dainard, alias William Davis, alias William Mahan, dis- cussed the kidnaping in Salt Lake City last March without any spe- cific victim mentioned. The pair then came to Washing- ton’gfate, Connelly said, where the death of John P. Weyerhaeuser, Sr., pointed them toward the timber family on the theory that the fam- ily would have considerable ready money following the death of its head. They came to Washington shortly after the plot was formed and stayed a while in Hoquiam and in Raymond, then rented an apart- ment in -Seattle, making several trips across the State in the mean- time. Watch Weyerhaeuser Children | Early in May, the plotters devot- ed considerable time to watching the movements of the Weyerhaeuser children and family. On May 24 they seized Ilittle George on the tennis court near the Annie Wright Seminary, bun- dled the boy into an automobile and took him to a pit near Issa- gins July 9—Girl " Not in Court TACOMA, Wash,, June 24.— Mrs. Harmon M. Waley's trial was this morning set for July 5 and taking of testimony will begin July 9, because of im- paneling of the jury and other preliminaries. Mrs. Waley was not in court. IN CHEERLE OLYMPIA, Wash., June 24.—Sad faced and red-eyed from weeping, 19-year-old Mrs. Margaret Waley ! sat in her cheerless cell last Sat- urday night awaiting the decision today of Federal Judge Edward E. Cushman as to when she must face a jury and demand acquittal in kidnaping on conspiring to kidnap | nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser. Three times in three days she sought against efforts of her hus- band, Harmon M. Waley, to admit | guilt and a felon’s brand that| Waley accepted when he pleaded | guilty and received a 45-year sen-| tence. Each time Judge Cu,s'nxnfln‘ refused to accept the guilty plea and finally entered a not guilvy| plea for her. Thurston County jail officials said Saturday night that Mrs. Waley would probably not be taken to Tacoma today because her pre: ence is not required for n»’lgn-: i . Here is the firct official Government photograph of Mrs. garet Waley, aged 19, Weyerhaeuser kidnaping accomplice, Former British Premier Coming ment of the trial date. | i U, S, EMBASSY {To United States LONDON, June 24. The Sunday Dispatch said Lord for- EUGENE CARR NEW MANAGER Employment Office Or- ganized at Session Registrants were told to re- port for work tomorrow morn- ing. More than 425 men filled the | large assembly room of the Arctic | Brotherhood Hall this morning when, at 10 o'clock, quick organlu-“ tion of a march to the Alaska Ju- | neau Gold Mining Company em-i ployment office was made. The | meeting, called by the newly form-i ed Juneau Mine Workers' Associa-| tion, was held on the thirty-third; day of the employee walkout on the mine. | The organization of the march was made despite repeated attempts of Alaska Mine Workers' Union members, who were scattered through the crowd, to, shout down! speakers. N Miners, bystanders, including' many women, and deputy policemen | were noticed on the corner of Main Street and Third Avenue, near the Hall, as early as 7:30 o'clock this! morning, more than two hours be- fore the session was called. From| that time, until the meeting was called to order, a steady stream of | miners and sympathizers interested ' in both employee sides, poured to-| ward the building. i Danielsen Speaks Finally, at 10 o'clock, Ted Dan- ielsen, a leader of the group which desires to return to work, arose to| speak. He sald, “Well, T guess we're all here to go back to work.” Loud shouts of “No, no!” were heard. A moment later, Danielsen spoke Protection is promised all tho:ze reporting for work tomor- Tow. Seven arrests were made on various charges following fight- ing during parade of those go- ing to register. Cases will be tried in the U. S. Commission- er's Court and not the City police court, Five persons taken to hospital, four with badly cut scalps, three of whom were released after being treated. Two still in hospital, apparently not ser- iously injured. Al Nygren, President of the Alaska Mine Workers Union, sald this afternoon that he had no statement to make relative to the situation this morning in that he was not conversant with it. Nygren was in court all morning at the Niel Heard trial, he said, summoned as a witness, and he had only such infermation as he had heard during the noon recess, Neard also said he was not in position to make a statement, having been in court all morn- ing. Charles Crozier, member of the Union Board of Trustees, said: “No statement of any kind to make.” COMMUNICATION Y IN HEARD LIBEL CASI MINERS MARCH T0 EMPLOYMENT OFFICE TODAY New Juneau Workers As- sociation Organizes Back- to-Work Parade FIVE HURT IN RIOT AS ROUTE BLOCKED Night Sticks Wielded, Tear Bombs Thown Before Road Is Cleared | At noon, official figures released by the employment office of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany showed that 300 men had registered for work today, the thir- ty-third day of the walkout which has been in effect here. All men who have registered were requested to report for work at the usual time and in the usual man- ner tomorrow morning. The registration was done only after five persons, including one woman, had been injured as rival labor factions clashed on Lower Front Street. The fighting, which also resulted in seven men being arrested and held in the City Jail, resulted when a group of approxi- mately 240 men, mostly members of ,the newly formed Juneau Mine | Workers’ Association, marched to- |ward the employment office and {were met on the route by a small~ jer group from the Alaska Mine ‘Workers’ Union, the organization which called the walkout. The battle, in which workers and specially deputized city pclicemen | mixed, resulted in five persons be- | quah where they chained him up, President of the Council, The following signed communica- ing hurt seriously enough to be the jury in the criminal libel action of Mayor Isadore Goldstein against Niel Heard, editor of the Labor Dispatch and Secretary of the Al- aska Mine Workers Union, began this morning and at noon when court adjourned until 2:15 this after- noon, four women and eight men were in the jury with both defense and prosecution still hold- ing one more chall each. The list at noon included Mrs. Floyd G. Betts, Willis E. Nowell, Mrs. Katherine Zynda, R. Sullivan, Charles E. Harland, O. M. Harri, Charles A. Woodward, Mrs. J. W. McKinley, Sam Feldon, Mrs. H. R. Shepard, J. V. Hickey and J. A. Garn. In District Court Room Due to the large number of spec- tators, the proceedings are being held in the District Court room be- fore U. S. Commissioner J. F. Mul- len, with Senator Henry Roden as. counsel for the defendant and George 'W. Folta, Assistant Dis- trict Attorney, assisted by H. L. Faulkner, City Attorney, handling the prosecution for the government. A delegation of union men headed by Al Nygren, President of the Al- aska Mine Workers Union, was in attendance throughout the morn- ing. Nygren and some of the oth- ers are summoned as withesses for Heard. Commissioner Mullen drew the names of 12 prospective jurors and the first to be questioned when the box was filled was Charles ‘Woodward. Mr. Woodward said he didn’t know Heard, was not par- ticularly interested in the strike, didn’t know what the case was about and had an open mind on the matter. He passed muster by both prosecution and defense. Elmer Reed was passed by Prose- cutor Folta but later was excused when he explained to the court that he had been suffering from influen- za and was not well. Younger Connors Excused ‘The first person excused was J. J. Connors, Jr., son of Collector of Customs James J. Connors, who pointed out that due to his father's activities in the strike he did not feel he should serve. George Jor- (Continuea on Connelly said. Dainard, or Mahan as he has be- come known in the newspapers, re- mained on guard over the boy, while Waley went to Tacoma and mailed the ransom note, then to Seattle to purchase food and blan- kets for the boy. 1 On the night of May 25, the boy was moved to another pit, twenty miles south of Issaquah. On May 26, George was taken to Spokane and from there to the Idaho hills, then back again to the house in Spokane which, Waley testified, his wife had rented without knowing what it wa;nm ‘::::tfi;' Seattle May u‘spe:lding auto into the Embassy e garden. :;e Mfez:l;:d w:;‘:; fi:;g:’: i:;m Ambassador Daniels said the in- cident was of no importance at an! :1? ;Bl‘;wr:lll.dway fietvnen Seepe Mexican officials expressed regrets.| | UNDER GUARD Bomb Thrown Into Yard in Mexico City — Sev- | eral Windows Shattered | — i MEXICO, F. D, June 24—Rein- forced police are guarding the! United States Embassy today as the | authorities investigated a bombing that shattered several windows of the building. l { The bomb was thrown from a Dainard returned to Spokane and with the Waleys took the boy back Mussolini Turns Down Explanation of |British Agent (Continued on Page Two) ——o— MORE ALASKA EXPENDITURES | ROME, une 24.—Italian cir- cles said Premier Benito Mus- solini has turned a deaf ear to Capt. Anthony Eden’s ex- planation of the Anglo-German naval accord. No results are predicted from the conference. mer Premier Ramsay MacDon- ald, will leave shortly on an important mission to the Unit- ed States to “discuss with President Roosevelt war debts, AT MATANUSKA Report Indicates Represen- tative of Hopkins to again, “All right, nuyt:e we don't ion “To the Editor,” is printed all want to go to work.’ {for the information of all Juneau More Shouts |citizens, as well as those engaged {in th ine troversy: He was met again by more shouts, 11"0 !l;]ee r:::‘w:m v apparently {rom anti-union men, 01,‘ Saturday and Sunday there was “No, we want to work.” sent to St. Ann's Hospital. Two were given first ald treatment and released while, at a late hour this | afternoon, the other three -Lill were recelving treatment at the hos- pital. Scalp wounds predominated KINGFISH JUMPS INTO FIGHT ON TAX-RICH PLAN *“No Enemies to the Lelt” Says Huey as He Launch- es Into Senate ‘Speech WASHINGTON, June 24—Bor- rowing a text from the French revolution Senator Huey P. Long Jjumped into the fresH fight to force immediate tax on the rich legisla tion whether or not the President desired action this session. Replace D. Irwin SEATTLE, June 24.—Federal re- lief headquarters here said Eu- gene Carr, personal representative of Harry L. Hopkins, relief Ad- ministator, flew here from Wash- ington and left Saturday on the "Ala'ukn ‘“to take charge” of the |Matanuska project. TO FURNISH REPORT | WASHINGTON, June 24—As the |Senate prepared to look into food land health conditions in the Mat- Then, as he attempted to speak a third time, Al Nygren, president of the Alaska Mine Workers' Union, jumped on a chair at the rear of the crowd and shouted, “Fellows, I Jjust want to tell you that there is a crowd of 200 Union men and women outside who can't get into the Hall because officers say the building can’'t hold so many peo- ple. T just want to tell you this before you decide to do anything.” He was received by loud shouts of applause and much hand-clap- ping when he finished. |anuska project, aides of Harry L. | Hopkins indicated he would furnish | promptly a report requested by the Senate after telegrams from the | Colonists were read asserting no houses mor roads were built and |nearly all settlers were ill and epi- |demic was feared because of lack f medical supplies. Relief Adminis- |of Men Appointed idistributed about the city & mimeo-'among the injuries. graphed sheet, which bore the title| Mateh Blarte “Today’s Strike News. The sheet| Ap0. o meeting in the Arctic for bulletin was not signed, and the, pyotherhood Hall this morning, the :1;“:1‘» Lo(i the author has not been'y...ch of the Juneau Mine workers® sclosed. Assoclation was begun. Walking in Ordinarily it is not consldered‘ ranks of four, the men moved east- good form to attempt to answer ward on Third Avenue, turning anonymous communications, and it south on PFranklin Street. When it is not my purpose to enter into any passed Triangle Place, the parade controversy, or to engage in a de- was at its maximum strength and |bate with an invisible, unnamed order. There 240 men were counted opponent. However, in the lnteresb"among the marchers, flanked on of law and order at this time it ejther side by small squads of depu- may not be amiss to consider some';y policemen. Probably another two of the statements contained in the or three hundred persons watched {bulletin which may merit at least the men file by from vantage points A fourth time, Danielsen started passing notice on account of their' to talk. This time he was success-|false and misleading character. ful, and he began naming men to) The author of the bulletin rerers“ take charge of certain portions of to the resolution of the City Coun-| the march. He appointed mostly cil passed last Friday night for the former university men who had had purpose of maintaining order, pre- Reserve Officers’ Training Corps serving the peace, and protecting work in college. He then explained the lives, safety and well being of “No enemies to the left” was the irator Hopkins declined to com-|that the march would be made in the inhabitants of the city, and topic Long chose for his talk from the Senate floor on the President's Conunued on Page TW0) RECOMMENDED House Passes Second De-' fiiciency Bills with Northland Items WASHINGTON, June 24— The House has passed the second de- By ANDRUE BERDING ficiency bill which includes $58,- ROME, June 24—The menace of 000,000 for public buildings outside war between Italy and Ethiopia has of the District of Columbia. The profoundly influenced the political bill now goes to the Senate. gituation in Europe. Expenditures recommended in- If Italy goes ahead with the clude for Alaska the following struggle, as there is every indication items: that she will, the present European Anchorage postoffice and customs lineup may change considerably. house, $475,000. | Some of the effects of the prob- | Ketchikan postoffice and cus- able conflict already felt are: |toms house, $100,000. { l.—Irritation of England and These sums are in addition to France toward Ttaly for preparing $200,000 previously appropriated for to embark on a serious African ven- Nome, Sitka and Wrangell. 'lume. ‘Weakening of the united front St i RSB N r Now Seen as N ew European Line-ups Are Italo-Ethiopian War Me Result of the nace uilt up at Stresa. 2—Necessity of England ar France maintaining their armi ments at an increased efl due to Ttaly's division of her for 3—A further discrediting of ! League of Nations over its inabil to solve the dispute. 4—Perhaps the most important Italy is looking toward Germany with the friendliest feeling she ha felt for many a long month The last point is significant (Continued on Page Two) ar |ment on the report that Eugene | Carr, Rural Rehabilitation official, had been sent to Palmer to take ! charge. | - | After reading telegrams and let ters, Senator Vandenberg said “it is not a pleasant picture to con- | template and the least we can do |is ask for reports to determine what |the facts are. Our hope is the re- |quest of information will inspire ‘ 1dded efforts to amend the diffi- | culties if they exist.” | Blaming most of the complaints |on failure of lumber shipments to (arrive, Colonel Lawrence Westbrook, nead of the Rural Rehabilitation Division, said that despite the dif- ficulties the settlers were still much better off than before. READY TO TESTIFY PALMER, June 24.—Receipt of word here that the Senate had call- ed for reports on the status of the Matanuska project found Patrick Hemmer and Mrs. 1. M. Sandvik, ) (Continued on Page Sevem) squad formation, the men walking he states that such action of the four abreast. Council was unauthorized, unlawful There was no other business and treasonable. transacted at the meeting, the The eleventh subdivision of sec- men immediately filing out of the tion 2383 of the Compiled Laws of hall to form into ranks. 1933, provides that the Council That a large number of Union'shall have and exercise the power men had been in attendance at “to prohibit disorderly conduct, or the meeting was evidenced' when a conduct endangering the public count of the marchers was made. peace, public health and public ‘While 425 men were counted in the safety.” Hall, not more than 250 men were The seventeenth subdivision of marching in the parade when it the same section provides that “The got under way. |Council shall have and exercise Union President Nygren, when such power by ordinance, resolution asked if he had ordered Union men ¢r otherwise as may be necessary to, to attend the meeting in an at- protect and preserve the li the | tempt to block its purpose, said, health, the safe “No. The Union had a meeting ing of the people of the city.” just before this Arctic Brotherhood It seems clear then that the City Hall session was held. We just dis- Council is not only given the right persed with no orders.” jand power to maintain peace and However, not only was Nygren al order and protect all of its inhabi- the Arctic Brotherhood Hall, but tants; but it is made the duty of Niel Heard, seeretary of the Union, the Council to do so by the plain and several other leaders of the and unambiguous language of the nion were noticed either in the statute. This statute has been the Hall or outside with the large —— crowd that lined the streets. 1 " (Continued on Page Two) 5 AR N e and the well be-| | L] on the sidewalks. About 50 men were deputized for police duty. Although occasional remarks were shouted from the bystanders, there was no trouble experienced until the marchers reached the Alaska Mine Workers’ Union Hall on Lower Front Street opposite the Juneau Cold Storage plant. Here, blocking the thoroughfare, was a group of Union men and sympathizers, esti- mated to include not more than 75 men. The paraders stopped In front of this human wedge. Policemen immediately came to the center of the crowd and one, George Gilbertson, jumped on the running-board of a nearby auto- mobile to speak to the Union men. Gilbertson did his best to urge the Union men to disperse, saying, at one time, “Fellows, there are Am- erican citizens back here who want to register. Let them through.” Women Urge Miners For several minutes the opposing factions moved against each other, the Union men being spurred on by shouts of encouragement from women sympathizers on the edge of the crowd and perched on tops of nearby buildings. There were no blows struck. Then a fire truck from the Volunteer Fire Depart- ment arrived and a hose quickly was coupled to a hydrant. it SRAMR BT S £ (Continued on Page Three)