The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVI., NO. 6998. JUNEAU, HEARD IS FOUND SENTENCED T0 - PAY $200 l‘ TAX PROGRAM T0 BE PUSHED ALASKA, WEDNESDAY , JUNE 26, 1935, e e e G ‘ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS WALKOUT SITUATION REMAINS QUIET UILTY OF LI PRICE TEN CENTS BEL JUNEAU'S MINE DISPUTE STAYS A BY CONGRESS AT STATUS QUO'%- Four Months’ Prison Term Set Aside by Court Pend- ing Good Behavior JURY HELD UP BY PENALTY QUESTION, One Membe—r_Understood to Have Held Out Because | of Punishment Angle | Found guilty by a jury in U. S.| Commissioner’s Court last night of | criminal libel against Mayor Isadore | Goldstein, Niel L. Heard, editor Ofi the Labor Dispatch and Secretary | of the Alaska Mine Workers' Union, ! was sentenced this afternoon by Commissioner J. ¥. Mullen to pay a fine of $200 and to serve four months in the Federal Jail, the Jail sentence being suspended dur- | ing good behavior. The jury was given the case yes- terday afternoon at 4:30 and re-| turned its verdict of guilty with a| recommendation for leniency short- | ly after 9 olclock last night, having! been out a. little more than. four and one half hours with an hour of that time given to dinner. No, ol Guilt | It was tood today "that! there was no question among the jurors as to' the guilt of tho de- For those who wondered abou a Hollywood contest ma; of judges, was wimt Eve Press Photo) e ke, and so she will appear at the San Diego, Calif., f t the appearance of Eve, results of rove enlightening. Vee Allen, in the opinion -she.didn’t, 4“-.60!:"6 féndant but that one member was hesitant over the penalty that might be invoked, feeling that the | offense did not warrant too stiff; punishment. After discussion it was decided to recommend leniency. Charles E. Harland served a3 fore-, ~ man of the jury. ' H Another jammed court room was iMMENSIT in evidence during the closing hours of the case yesterday afternoon which was given over to addresses | to the jury by Assistant District| Attorney George W. Foita, City| Attorney H. L. Faulkner, assisting | the prosecution, and Senator Hen- | 1y Roden, defense counsel. Even | after the case had gone to the jury | many stayed in the court room to as late as 6 o'clock waiting for me,N' Lester Troast, Here from verdicl, apparently anticipating an| Matanuska, Sags Size of early return. R e T { Plan Involves Problems Prosecutor Folta made an im- Y passioned plea to the jury for con-! Summing up the situation at viction, declaring that the editorial Matanuska, N. Lester Troast, Sup- _'ervising Architect of the Matanuska |Valiey furm project, says that a matter o1 first importance in his mind, is the immensity of the |project znd the problems involved. Considering the size of the under- taking and the personalities in- velved in handling 200 families under difficulties necessarily aris- |ing under pioneer conditions, things at Matanuska are getting along satisfactorily. At least 60 per cent of the farm- ers in the valley are satisfied with lt:cvm:liti ns and understand the delays and difficulties and will make successes of their lives in Alaska. Twenty per cent, passibly |should never have come with the |pioneering farmers and another 20 |per cent, undetermined in their {attitude now, will probably join tieé ranks of the satisfied colonists when difficulties begin to be ironed out, Mr. Troast said. | Back of, the dissatisfaction of !some are promises that were made {by the relief organizations in the Y OF FARM PROJECT TEN LUMBER MILLS OREN AT TAGOMA Troops Are in Control of Situation — Portland Mills to Resume BULLETIN—Washington,June 26—~United States Sepator Homer T. Bone said 2 Lumber Mectiation Board has been named to act in the Pacific Northwert Lumber strike. NO STRIFE IN EVIDENCE Thousands of Country-bred Take Road Back to Farms | | By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTCN, June 26— The road back to the farm is being traveled by thousands seeking an economic storm cellar—no matter if often a shaky one—until the de- pre: n blows over. Figur census indicate an increase of about 10 per cent in the number of farms now compared with 1830 and while the census is far from completed the trend is expected officially to remain relatively unchanged. For instance, returns for 903 counties, of 3,071 in the country, have shown 2 net increase of 135,225 farms— 1,577,181 against 1,441,966 five years ago. Mostly in Seuth This land movement, says an ag- ricultural department official, is largely due to the failure of f#rm |sons and daugnters, and in some instances the oldsters themselves, to find employment in the cities followed by an enforced return to the old home place. The increase in farms, he adds, is mostly in the southern Appalachian region—in parts of Kentucky, Ten- | nessee, the Carolinas, Virginia—and in other areas of small farms near industrial sections. While figures by states are not available, decreas- , he says, are more or less neg- ligible and have little sectional sig- nificance outside part of the cot- ton belt. Even there the decreases jare nominal—in general caused by | production control measures retir- ing acreage. .The problem of finding suitable jlands for industrial refugees he de- ! scribes as serious, in that more than 2,000,000 young people who, under normal conditions, wouldn't have | TACOMA, Wash., June 2§.—Out Statas which arranged for them to House Committee to Take It Easy While Sen- ate Gets Action WASHINGTON, June 26.—THat the Administration plans to seek| | epactment this week of a tax prp-: gram to raise $340,000,000 more; yearly through inheritance taxes, | gift levies, high taxes on big ‘in-; ! comes and a graduated corporation: tax, is .disclosed by Senator Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee. | Meanwhile, the House Ways and, {Means Committee Democrats re- | jected for the present a personal appeal by Speaker Byrns to extend Nuisance Taxes from thirty to ninety days so that the Senate! might have time to pass the Presi- dent's Wealth Distribution program, | and decided, instead, to do nothing for a couple of days. Government confiscation of up’ to twenty-five percent of the for- tunes of wealthy American heiresses who marry European noblemen is proposed by Representative Gannon of Wisconsin as a legical rt for the National Wealth ibution ' program. g CRITICS MAKE ATTACK 1 WASHING' , June 26.—Con- Aronted by attacks by crifics ‘who demand less Haste, the New Deal stuck to the effort to pass Roose- velt's tax wealth program before Saturday night | Leaders indicated that before sundown tonight a portion of the plan might be placed before the Scnate for debate. The leaders also linz to the decision to attach the prosram to a re-olution extending the half billion dollar nuisance and which are due to ex- * June 30, unless renewed. Al- though many legislators saw little pre t that such an amended res- cultion will b i compiled by the bureau of U ned to chan>e the procedure ANOTHER CHANGE WASHINGTON, June 26.—Senate Limocratic leaders have abandoned their original plan to tack the wealth tax program onto the nuis- ance tax extension resolution and announced the House would orig- inate the new tax legislation. This anncuncement was made late today lafter President Roosevelt announc- ed he is insistent upon action on his program at this session but not necessarily as a part of the nuisance tax. i - BISHOP CRIMONT ON | ANNUAL INSPECTION, The Mcst Rev. J. R. Crimont, £ J., Bishop of Alaska, left Juneau on the Alaska to make a regular annual tour of inspection of mission pests to the Westward and through- out the Interior. From Juneau Bish- op Crimont will go to Cordova and will later go on to Valdez, Seward Matanuska, Holy Cross and a num- ber of remote points in the In- ;Lerior. He will return to Juneau probably some time in September - 'Senate Passes | Substitute Air WESTWARD,INTERIOR ! Scores ‘were injured, Including ‘eight policemen, when 200 striking ers charged the Ballantyns »f<- in Vancouver, B. C. Tear gas and clu longshoremen and 800 sympathiz- bs were used in breaking up the scrap. Strikens are shown ‘iceung from tear gas. (Associated Press Photo) iIllilli,tms to Be Spent for Army, | Navy, Marine Corps HOPKINS' GIVES SENATE REPLY JUSKA h WASHINGTON, June 26— ‘The United States has mapped plany to spend the sum of $807,- 532,583, & amount, the Army and Navy and Ml;lu Corps during the next year, $375,000,000 more than this year. —————— FERA Head Informs' Solons No Serious Illness in | Alaska Project '{GHAMBER GUES rorting to the Senate on the Mala-l 3 nuska Valley colonization pm)ect,! Harry Hopkins, Federal Emergency | Relief Administration director, 'said | here today that there was no iseri-| ous illness there and that adectuate | medical supplies were on handi i construction of homes “is now 'ar-| . riving satisfactorily.” ‘Destroyer Officers to Be Continuing his report, he said,! Honored Guests at ‘Construction activities, as a whole, L l’) S L are approximately three weeks be- | uncheon Jession hind schedule. This is caused by i TR abnormal rainy weather, some de- Juneau’s Chamber of Commerce certain administrative difficulties on (1t meets for luncheon at Bailey's the job. {Cafe. “The materials now are arrivlng’ satisfactorily and action has been,N“y destroyers to Gastineau Chan- taken to correct the adminiscrative Dl is expected to find the officers diffioulties, |of those ships invited as guests of “The very nature of the project,]he Chamber. ne short working season, and' haz-’“’“""M also have been invited to ards of weather make it impossible |3ttend tomorrow's luncheon. In- to give a positive assurance that(cluded are Gov. John W. Troy all the construction: will be com-{Li€ut. Col. Ralph Wayne Dusen- pleted according to schedule. It isPury, and Lieut. (sg) G. H, Imlay possible to give full assurance that|LUi€ut. Col. Busenbury is the com- WASHINGTON, June 26— Re- He said further that materiall for lay in the arrival of materials, and |Will €0 “navy" tomorrow noon when its distance from sources of supply, | However, other government dig- facilities providing safe and rea-|Manding ‘officer of the United sonable comfortable living condi-|SUAtes Army barracks at Chilkoot tions will be completed before win- |Li€ut. Imlay is, at present, in com- ter.” mand of the Coast Guard cutter © | Tallapoosa here. Officers from the U. 8. 8. Zane VANCOUVER BARRACKSE;MI will be invited to the Cham- COMMANDING OFFICER i, "0 o™ o IS JUNEAU VISITOR {E. H. Plerce executive officer and |navigator; Lieut. (jg) G. C. Gill Juneau was visited a few hours |engineer officer; Lieut. (jg) J. W last night by Brig. Gen. and Mrs.| Waterhouse, gunnery officer and K. Parsons of Vancouver Bar-|commissary; Ensign W. M. Dickey racks, Vancouver, Wash. assistant engineer, and communi- General and Mrs. Parsons are,Cation; Lieut. (jg) T. I. Moe, medi- passengers from Vancouver, B. C.|cal officer; Lieut. R. E. Nelson, in n the current round-trip run of |charge California R. O. C. stu- \e Princess Louise. They visited |dents; Ensign H. P. Stewart; En- The visit of two United States DESTROYERS T0 ARRIVE HERE 10 RN {Program for First 6ay of | 48-Hour Visit by Cadets Announced Juneau, tomorrow, plans to wol<1 {come the first representatives of |the United States Navy to visit| | Gastineau Channel this year. The U. 8. S. Zane and the U.| 8. 8. Perry, Navy destroyers, are| scheduled to arrive in the roadstead | |at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning for ‘a two-day stay. The Zane is car- |rying a Reserve Officers Training| | Corps unit from the University of| California, while the Perry is bear- |ing a similar unit from the Univer-| |sity of Washington There will be about 100 cadets | cn the two ships, in addition to the commissioned officers and regular crews of enlisted men. The Zane and the Perry are ex- pected to berth at Government Dock, forward of the Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa The official program. of enter- tainment will begin with a Cham- ber of Commerce delegation, headed by R. E. Robertson and including city and Territorial officials, call- ing on the commands of the two hips in the morning. Other details on tomorrow's pro- gram: At Balley's Cafe, 12 noon—Cham- ber of Commerce luncheon. Gnests (Continued ou Page Seven) - EMPIRE'S RACE T0 BE SHORT | CREW CONTEST Details of Dash Along [No Word Received from A. J. on Date of Re- turn to Work NO REPLY FROM WASHINGTON, D. C. |Registration Continues at | Company Office—Few ‘ Pickets Watch The citvation regarding re- cning of the Alaska Juneau e remained at a status quo this afterncon, no announce- ment being made when the vari- cwi chifte would be notified to retwin tc work and mo word being received from Washing- ten, D. C., regarding the request mad> for Federal troops. This request was made Monday night by Gevernor John W. Troy. Pickets cn Duty The situation at the Alaska Ju- necu Mine employment office this merning was much the same as ve:terday. Six pickets stood in the 1ain at a short distance from the cffice and made no attempt, aside | | | i | {trom ordgrly argument, to interfere Wit lans aparently emoute - (C ~.?fl§! »rnMcxg, or ens’ |ployment, Charles Cragier, member |of the Alaska Mine Workers' Union Board of Trustees, was among the {small group on picket duty during the early morning Between the hours of 9 and 10 am., a considerable number of men, singly and in groups of from two to four, approached the office |on foot, and at short intervals cars and taxicabs stopped at the office. Tonight a dance sponsored by the Alaska Mine Workers' Union will be held at the Moose Hall. 3 MORE ARRESTS WADE IN MONDAY LABOR TROUBLE 23 Men Now in Federal Jail, One Released on Bond—Others Be Taken Three more men were taken into custody by the U. 8. Marshal's of- fice and lodged in the Federal jail last night and today in connection. with the disturbances of Monday . when men went to register for work at the Alaska Juneau i Thel men, arrested on warrmm‘fib; rioting and unlawful assembly, are Ernest Giovanetti, Roman Ellers and Jack Turkovich. The arrests make a total of 23 men held in jail on charges of riot- ing, although 26 arrests have been made. One man, Alex Kordash, charged with threatening two men attempting to register, has been released under $500. Two others, Warren Beavert and Mentur Peter- on have pleaded not guilty to riot- and are in jall under bond, Beavert $800 and Peterson $1,000. However, both men are under an- Waterfront Friday After- other charge of rioting. ers with Lieut. Col. Ralph Wuyne}slgn H R. Shawk. Dusenbury, commanding officer of | ‘With the U. 8. 8, Perry Chilkoot Barracks. General Par-|following officers who wil ons is in command of the Van- tomorrow: Lieut. Comdr been on farms now are “backed up” on them. Too, he adds, another wor-| risome factor is that at least 200, ) 000 new farms are needed annually Genats has passed a substitute a under current conditions whereas mail bill eliminating the 20 percent only around 100,000 are being re- increase proposed in the Hous leased or retired. Much breaking up ' measure and limiting air line offi- and scaling down of tracts is re- cals' salaries to $17,500. sulting. - - Meanwhile, a long-time forecast s meler et v Big Fleet Coming North to Alaskan W atérs in Summer ward evidences of strife were few today a3 ten lumber mills and wood | working plants oporated with par- tial crews. More than 600 men are employed, mill managers said. National Guardsmen still con-| trolled the city here today. | More men are expected to re- turn to work tomorrow. noon, Told Today | None of the other 23 nave vet been arralgned and several more w. m Detalls of The Empire Trophy Warrants are yet to be served by 2 actica vers o leted the Marshal’s office, expected to ¥ | Fechteler, q ’ Race practically were completed ouver Barracks. SNy, Licut. W. today. The race, for which a oring the total arrests from Mon- | sl {A. Graham, cer and Alm_) wuh_General Parsons on tms‘nuvl b executive offi e . and | hbie «Alaakan - eide probaply | 4ay's trouble to 30. All the prisoners vacation trip is Lieut. J. K. Bush,lw gator; Lieut. (jg) J. H. Carring I be given as A pim this| were being fingerprinted today and nis aide-de-camp. :T."wtl‘lfllizineernofr:::: F‘e(‘}‘,.‘,”},} newspaper, will call into rowing|their histories taken. Several, it SiEgm 3.V, Smith commienn L. action two United States Navy de- developed, are ot citizens of this |C. D. Emory, in charee Wasnineror, |°(foVe! Whaleboat crews and an-|country while some of the others IR, O. T. . studente, Lyoot & p OUher from Juneau's Coast Guard|have only their first papers. Some e T Bl ey “,‘a BryL. cutter Tallapoosa in @ race sched- |Protested vigorously the fingerprint- hart L ™" luled to start at 2:30 o'clock Friday|ing, it was reported 1 ; afternoon. Some of the men will be charged When plans of welcome for the with felonies and others with mis- are tk quest come North. Some, told that they Mail Measure were to have ccncrele basements, electric lights and cooking appli- ances in their homes, are disap- pointed to find that these luxuries will not be a part of their farm| equipment. Celcnis's Make Demands Delay in the construction of farmers’ homes is due in part, Mr. Troast said, to the demands of| i'hc farmers themselves. Original {plans for construction called for |log cabins, and the settiers ware WASHINGTON, June 26 by ACTION IN PORTLAND PORTLAND, Oregon, June 26— Mill cperators plan to resume op- erations tomorrow as protection has been promised workers by the Gov. sharp progressive increase in the; number of people on farms from now on until 1860, even assuming| - e to take an active part in the clear- {ing of the land and the building of the houses with the assistance iof the transient workers on the job. |The settlers have demanded that |the logs be sawed on three sides, land with the limited equipment, ernor. ' FIGHTING AT LONGVIEW LONGVIEW, Wash., June 26— Pighting ensued here today when tmion men visited the meeting of the Longbell Lumber Company em- ployees, (Continued on Page Two) little or no net migration from the | city to the county for the fuutre., LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 26 The board, on that hypothesis, has ' Coincident with the announcement figured that the farm population,|that submarines will leave San Di- put at 30,000,000 in 1930, has jump-|ego on Friday as the fleet vanguard ed now to around 33,000,000 will be |to Puget Sound, Admiral Henry V 35,000,000 by 1940, 40,000,000 by 1950 |Butler said the base force of the and 45,000,000 by 1960, patrol wing will base at Sand point i ' ! MOVE TO ATLIN at Sesttle, for summer training, Moving to Atlin, B.C., Rev. and maneuveting on Puget Sound, Alas- Mrs. R. P. Graham were passeng n waters and to the Aleutian on the Louise to Skagway from t reterning south in September. Vancouver, B. C. The Rev. Graham The yers and cruisers will formerly had an Episcopal church head neFth’ on Saturday and the in Massett, B. C. The couple are battle fores on Monday accompanied by six children. 4 ) visit here tomorrow of the U. 8. 8.| Zane and U. S. S. Perry were| discussed last week by the Cham-| ber of Commerce committee in} charge of the pregram, The Em-| pire offered to sponsor the cal)r;[ " “anunuec on Page Twor i demeanors, it was stated by the District Attorney's office. Those carrying clubs or anything that is interpreted by law as a dangerous weapon will face a felony count of ing which. provides, on comnyle- (Continued on Page Two)