The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 2, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS, ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUBBAYl JULY 2, VOL. XLVL, NO. 7003 MARSHAL PREPAR 1935. TEAR GAS, GUN FIRE IN RIOT Three Thou_s;;d Disgrun- tled Men Stage Battle Today fi_egina ROUNDED UP; PLACED UNDER DEATH ORDERS Canadian C;n;able Beaten to Death — Murder Charges Be Filed REGINA, Sask., July 2— Three| i thousand Relief Camp strikers, who batiled mounted police in a riot during which one municipal officer | | was beaten to death, were subdued| by tear gas and gun fire. A second‘ officer and striker were injured| critically. Five policemen and a score of strikers were hurt before the police quelled the crowd and arrested 27 persons and dispersed others, push- ing them though the streets. The riot started after the police charged a mass meeting of strikers, halted by lack of funds in a march on Ottawa to protest against relief camp conditions. Face Removal Thc strikers frad been removed to the \Dominion camp pending the} return to their homes from another | loéation and were attempting to re- turn when they encountered the po- liee -and began hurling stones and otho missiles. The mounties began swinging their clubs. Again the strikers charged and tear gas was used. The mounties then fired over the heads of the strikers. Hand to hand fighting resulted before extra reserves arrived then a general at- tack, with no quarter, was made. The riot lasted for two hours until the strikers were finally routed and placed in the Dominion Camp, with orders not to move from it under penalty of being shot by mounties now on guard. Beaten to Death Constable Charles Miller was beaten to death and Constable Francis, of the mounties, was in- Jured seriously. One striker, Dan McGee, is reported to be dying and many others are injured. ‘Witnesses said Miller, who was in plain clothes, was seized in the Market Square behind the Police Station and beaten to death with sticks. Of those arrested several will be charged with Miller's murder. —— Flaine Russell, of Gulfport, Miss. chosen as “Miss American of 1936," is bemi feted in New KEY BROTHERS BREAK RECORD, AIR ENDURANCE Spend Nearly in" Air Flying Over Meridian, Miss. MERIDIAN, Mls June 2.—Fred and Al Key brought their plane, Ole Miss, to a safe landing at 6:06 o'clock last night breaking all ex- isting endurance flying records af- ter spending most of a month in the air. They were greeted by ap- plause from 10,000 spectators when they landed. ‘The pair spent 65 minutes in the air. Their record is accepted as of- ficial. Previous official records were 553 hours and 40% minutes set by John and Kenneth Hunter of Chicago in 1930 and the unofficial record of 647 hours and 28'%% minutes set in 1930 by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brien of St. Louis. The Keys surpassed all previous records in their long grind. “I am telling you it isn't any fun, but we are both happy,” Al said on landing. One Month plete setting up the Corporation ac- WARTER OUSTED AS COMMISSARY HEAD IN PALMER Officials Refuse to Divulge Why Juneau Man Is Out at Matanuska PALMER, July 2—Charles War- ter, Commissary Manager, has been dismissed from his post here, it is announced by project officials. Col- onists have charged inefficiency but officials refused to divulge why Warter had been ousted. Several colonists expressed themselves elat- 2d over the action. The arrival of Eugene Carr, ma: representative of Harry opkins, Relief Administrator, per- L. has ‘had a quieting effect on the colo- ists. Agitation has virtually ceased | iand a new spirit of confidence pre- |va Carr has inspected the construc- !tion of houses and found the houses being built on the ground with no; Legion ' foundations. “This is a hell of a way to build houses. They should be built from zhe bottom up and not from Lhe\ top down,"” he remarked. CORPORATION TO CHECK l'PA‘ To make a check-up of 1eponed \to |irregularities at the Mata nuska colomznuon project, K. N. Neill | ditor, was dispatched Lo‘ th‘ p’oject today via the Yukon, | by the Alaska Rural Re’habxmauon‘ |Corporation. Neill also will com- ; i ,counting system at Palmer, it was | | stated. Corporation officials had no state- |ment to make relative to reported | | dizinissal of Charles Warter, former 3 hours and 53 AUemPLng to run to earth at once. | ! itoday that buildings at Matanuska 'callea for foundations. If the hous- i the original plans, he said. Juneau man, from the colony com- missary at Palmer other than m' announce the immediate leaving of | Neill to conduct an investigation | into affairs there. No direct word | was received on why Warter was| let out but Corporation officials said | that they had received word of al- leged irregularities which they were Warter went to the project under appointment from the Corporation. Oalled ForFoundations N. Lester Troast, who drew the; plan. and specifications for the buildings at Matanuska and was on the project until recently when he returned to his duties here with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, said es are being built on mud sills it is because they have deviated from “Plans and specifications call for pile founddtions under all iog cab- NAVY OFFICER IS ORDERED TO ALASKA COLONY Capt. Parsons, of Mare Island, to Investigate Matanuska Project WASHINGTON, July 2— Navy >fficials said Capt. Charles E. Par- sons, Naval Supply Officer, been ordered to Alaska from Mare Island as technical adviter to 8. R. Fuller, Jr, in investigation of the Matanuska project. Capt. Parsons will probably be in Alaska for a month or more. No details are given as to his duties: 8. R. Fully, Jr, New York In- dustrialist, was named last week by Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emerg- ency Relief Administrator, to go Alaska and make an inspection of the Matanuska project. .. WOULD NOT PUT UP HIS HANDS, IS SHOT DOWN Cald Blooded. - Murder 0 N. Y. Attorney Con- fessed in Detroit DETROIT, Mich., July 2.—Prose- cuting Attorney Duncan C. McCrea announces that William Lee Ferris has confessed he shot and killed Howard Carter Dickinson, New Yerk Attorney and relative of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, of the Supreme Court of the United | States, last Thursday. “He would not put up his hands and I let him have it,” McCrea qumea Ferris. Ferris, according to McCrea, said further: “We got $150. We thought {he had a lot of money so we agreed to get him drunk and roll him. but he would not get drunk and we took him to Rouge Park. The girls got out of the automobile and I told him to put 'em up, but he didr’t so I shot him.” The girls, Jean Miller, Loretta and Florence Jackson, were arr ed at a Fort Wayne, Indiana, hotel. Further Cenfessions Dickinson dined and drank with| his killer and paid for the dinner with a check a few hours before he was shot, it is disclosed by McCrea, following further confessions by Ferris and the three girls. In Ferris's admission, McCrea said S ARE QUELLED bor Relation gfllfl! ds Extended, xecutive Orders WASHINGTON, July 2— ;. President Roosevelt has issued Executive Orders ' extending the National Relations . Board until August 1 and continuing indef- initely the National Steel Labor Relations Board, and Textile Labor Relations Board. All .'wculd have expired, today. > OMMITTEE IN HOUSE GIVES HIGHWAY, OKEH Biicka Resd Measure, Stripped of Appropria- tions, Approved ‘has{ " WASHINGTON, July 2. — With the approval of the President, the House Roads Committee ' voted a favorable report here today on the hill for the International Highway to Alaska after striking out the sections authorizing an appropria- tion of $2,000,000 for the project. Both the President and Secretary of Interior Ickes suggested that the monetary features be stricken. As finally approved by the com- e, the bill empowers the Presi- “to" negotiate agréements with Canada for a survey on the loca- tion and construction of the pro- posed highway, but does not pro- project under way. Two millions of dollars would have gone for the construction of the ' Alaska - section of the road. One hundred thousand would have been used for negotiations with Canada. Alaska Delegate Anthony Dimond presented a letter from President Roosevelt in which the Chief Ex- ecutive said, “As the bill now stands, it has my hearty approval. I hope it will be enacted.” Ickes declared a belief that the appropriations might be omitted without destroying the effectiveness of the measure. Should the bill pass the House in its present form, it would then B0 to a conference with the Senate which already has given its ap- proval to appropriations for the project. The indications today were that the Senate would accede to the President’s wishes. —>o—— Seattle Couicil Votes Approval, Alaska Highway PRESIDENT IS TURNED DOWN, BOLTING HOUSE One Empha-t—i;fi Defeat Reg- istered on Utility Hold- ing Company Bill “DEATH SENTENCE” CLAUSE IS WANTED Roosevelt Concentrating Forces on New Attack, Hoping to Finally Win BULLETIN—Washington, July 2.—Legislation to regulate Pub- lic Utilities has been passed by vide funds with which to get the! the Hcuse after twice rejecting Pretident Reosevelt's request for the measure to outlaw “un- necessary” helding companies in scven years, The vote was 323 to 81. The measure goes back to the Scnate to uncertain fate. WASHINGTON, July 2.—Presi- dent Roosevelt’s request for legisla- tion to abolish unnecessary utility holding companies by at léast 42, was turned down by tne House lat: yesterday afternoon. The Senate passed the bill with that-provision, That phass ‘of - bill is not considered a straight out test as no roll call vote was taken. Emphatic Defeat Striving to recoup, after an em- phatic defeat he suffered at the hands of the bolting House, the| President today sought to rally his | forces for a new attempt to im- pose the “death sentence” necessary public utility holding companies. The procedure today calls for a roll call vote getting Representa- tives on record. The President ex- pressed hope his plan will win. dent of ultimate victory but others are looklng for another dereat STOCK PRICES CENTER AROUND POWER ISSUES Utilities Grotw Stronger— Other Sections, How- ever, Waver Today on un-| Some of his supporters are confi-| Alyce Goes to CII‘CUS PROMISES ALL - MEN WILL BET - PROTECTION Says If ]all Not Large Enough Other Space for Violators Will Be Found ’imor HEARINGS - SET FOR MORNING {May Have to Be Put Over to Give Further Time to Con sull Witnesses A | i 1 i i Pxepnratmm were being made today by U. 8. Marshal Willlam T. Mahoney to handle any emergency that might arise with the reopen- ing of the Alaska Juneau Mine Friday, he said today. In the event the Federal jail is not large enough |to hold any or all prisoners that might be arrested if the occasion arises, the Marshal is making ar- |rangements for other space and Almost fully recovered from the 'officers with rifles to guard it. operation o correct her upside- |Arrangements have alteady been down stomach, Alyce Jane Me- completed to get an emergency Henry, of Omaha, is shown as |SuPPly of cots if the occasion ‘mr- she watched with wide-eyed rants. amazement the anties of the acrial | “We are hoping it will not e ovtists at the circus in Boston, 'N°C°SSAry to make any arrests,” GOVERNMENT T[] BE RETIRED NOW |men are going back to work l.nd National Bank Notes Also| [the law is going to be enforced, {with law and order absolutely to Be Withdrawn— Statement Alyce Jane McHenry | maintained. Dealing with Uncle Sam “I have told the men that they |are dealing with Uncle Sam now and we cannot stand for any fool- | ishness.” Preliminary hearing for the men arrested in the disturbance a week |ago is set for 10 o'clock tomorrow {morning but there was some indi- cation today that it might have to be postponed to give further time to consult witnesses. Greup Hearing | | WASHINGTON, July 2— The, United States Treasury has shifted $100,000000 in gold profits, its| The men are to be brought up |“working balance,” in preparation!in a group at the hearing and if | for 1edeeming a big block of Gov-|evidence is sufficient they will be Kmnment bonds and withdrawing all|bound over by the Commissioner's nau onal bank notes from circula-|Court which has no power to act “0“ in a felony. The men are charged In all some $600,000,000 in bonds|With rioting and unlawful assembly |and an approximately equivaient|With Weapons which constitutes a amount in bank notes are involved. | felony on convictfon. Officials said that they expected| TWO more warrants were issued several months to pass before an'“’“ay for arrests in connection with |bonds have been presented and all|18st Week's trouble but the men [notes retired {have not yet been apprehended. Although the process amounts to | S€veral others are being sought. {paying off Government obligations MESTR i &5 | with money made by reducing the! dollar’s gold content, the officials PRISON BREAK KIDNAP THREAT |said that no inflation is involved NEW YORK, July 2.— Utilities because of the disappearance of the gave a bullish performance today bank notes. They will be replaced ins” he said. “Any change was {made by the Washington Represen- tative of the FERA after consult- SEATTLE, July 2.—~The Se- attle City Council has unani- moutly approved of the propos- Ferris further said: “We decided to kill Dickinson because dead men tell no tales.” PAA ELECTRA AS SLUGS FLY OUT FROM GUNS One lnmatc—of_*Reformatory Killed and Other Is Be- lieved Fatally Wounded OFF TO INT. The PAA Lockheed Electra left Juneau this afternoon on the sched- uled flight to Fairbanks, Pilots Joe Crosson and Al Monsen. Patty Lou Kooken, Robert J. Gleason, PAA Actigg Superintendent of Commun- | ing with the Colonists who were al- Police questioners reported that lowed to choose the type of founda- tion they wanted.” Mr. Troast explained that the Colonists had been urged to use mud sill foundations in some in- stances but he had advised against it. LUMBER MILLS a complete absence of feeling ear- marked each confession. The girls told McCrea that Dick- inson, before he died, said: “You're damn fools, You kids are making a mistake.” DR. TABER CONFERS WITH GOVERNOR ; ON ed Alaska Highway and voted to wire Washington state congress- men of their action. MORGAN, ON TRIP TO {WESTWARD, MEETS HIS SISTER ABOARD SHIP J. P. Morgan, Alaska's representa- but other sections wavered and the close was somewhat irregular largely by Federal Reserve notes. Bonds to be retired include the IS MADE WITH Another defeat in the House at|Panama Canal loan securities ol Washington of the “death” clause 1916-18, bearing what is known as| aided sentiment for the power group “circulating privilege.” This means and activity was more pronounced. that national banks may dcpom CLOSING PRICES TODAY lhr‘m with the Treasury, all five per NEW YORK, July 2— Closing|cent lawful money as xedempucn quotation of Alaska Juneau mine|funds and issue bank notes to the stock today is 16%, American Can|extent of the face value. 138'%, American Power and Light| Aside from the Canal bonds, ap- POLICE TIPPED | Sixteen-Year-Old Daughter | of Wealthy Man of N. Y. Is Threatened " 4%, Anaconda 14%, Bethlehem proximatel $300,000,000 h 1 —|ications, and W. J. (Jerry) Jones, tive of Libby, McNeill and Libby, e y in other P;NDLETONe.dIngi::; Ju;]z kz{n. el e TR TRIP TO INTERIOR|sales department, is a passenger|Steel 26%, General Motors 32'%, circulating bonds exist. Their lite| NEW YORK, July 2—A kidnap prig iy -Od mjunfiuanoth- Jones, who is a PAA pilot as- i aboard the Yukon bound for Seward | International Harvester 45', Ken- will end a month hence and con-|L'€al against the daughter of a :3 i‘;‘::psm;:ru;? as four prison- |signed "to the Fairbanks - Juneau Snroute o Seward and the Tn- and extreme westward ports, includ- |necott - 17%, United - States Steel sequently national bank notes will | Veaithy Brooklyn manufacturer, has ers tried to escape from the State Reformatory. One prisoner fled through the gun fire to freedom but is believed to be wounded. Another cringed be- schedule, is returning from a six Weeks stay in San Diego. He ar- rived this morning on the Yukon and was kept busy, until the de- parture of the Electra, giving cigars | TACOMA, Wash., July 2.— The second day of pronounced activity {to bring the lumber industry in the the vey, Troy terior, Dr. Stephen Taber, ¢ United States Geological S conferred with Gov. John W while the Yukon was in port For many years Dr. Tabe has ing Nome. He expects to return to Juneau about the middle of next month. Aboard the Yukon, Mr. Morgan met his sister, Mrs. Frank M. Sher- 33%, Pound $4.94%, Bremner bid| disappear completely 48 asked 60, Nabesna bid 64 asked 75, Black Pine Silver bid 23, asked 30. - BURDICK RETURNS FROM KETCHIKAN| jcaused a three weeks' vigil by the |police in a cemetery near South- ampton, Long Island. The girl is 16-year-old Rosamond | Farrell, daughter of the former | i | President of the United States Steel 1 f |to his friends. Pilot Jones is the Pacific Northwest back to normal|peen studying the effect of cold|idan, of Chicago, Tll, making the —_— ' :;3:;*; re;:;::wry wall and was| 4 father of & one.month-old|fOUnG tear gas bombs being hurled atiee mdg freezing on roads,| Yukon River Circle tour by way of Charles G. Burdick, Admmh(rn-i‘o;p(: "‘“": iy o 8 1 daugmer by State Police at Aberdeen to dis-|working in conjunction with the|Seward, Anchorage, and Fairbanks, tive Assistant in the Forest Service, elephone call said: “If you do perse 400 sawmill’ pickets, but with University of South Carolina returning via Dawson, Whitehorse |returned to Juneau on the Yukon| not leave $25,000 in the cemetery FATHER OF MRS. TYE” LOURING IS crews increasing there and 8| while in the Territory, Dr. Taber|and Skagway. |atfer a weeks inspection of CCC‘“' e, SO0 b get | Rassmond} e | Longview. will make an exhaustive scientiiic| Mrs. Sheridan expects to pass {work in the Ketchikan area, look HELLAN IS HERE, OFF FOR WESTWARD The situation at Portland iS|study of cold and frozen ground|through Juneau on the Victoria en- ing over camp locations and mak- { scarcely unchanged. conditions in relation to both high-|Toult to her Chicago home via ing plans for the summer beail)hbl T. J. Ryan, father of Mrs. Hellan,| “Tye” Louring, Alaska represen-| Tacoma mills are operating. ways and mining operations Southern California, about August R TH Is PU wwork wif> of Deputy U. S. Marshal Hel-|tative of the Pacific Bottling Sup- SRSy i 160 TG While here he told Gov. Troy|l. She is accompanied on the tour The Forest Service is building a lan, arrived on the Yukon from his|ply Company, Alaska distributors that Dr. Philip S, Smith, well|by Mesdames Gordon, Hess, Daniels, | mile and a haif of trail from the| ABERDEEN, Wash., July 2—Sam- home in Easton, Wash., and will re- | for the Calvert-Maryland Distilling aisd known to many Alaskans through|Of Chicago, and Miss T. Shelton of| SEATTLE, July 2. Steamer | Dead of Manzanita Lake to the|uel Benn, Aberdeen’s founder, to- main here during the summer. Mr.|Co., Inc. and the Schenly Distrib- his long association with the C Madison, Wis. Northwestern sailed for Southeast|Manzanita Falls, said to‘be the|day celebrated his 108rd birthday. Ryan brought his Plymouth car|utors, Inc, featuring “Mark of logical Survey will be in Alaska T ——— Alaska ports at 9 o'clock this morn- highest falls in Southeast Alaska,|He is Ip good health and spirit. with him and will auto in this sec- |Merit” products, left on the Yu- WASHINGTON, July 2.—Presi-|the latter part.of this month PICTURES FOR TIME ing with 153 first class and 181 Burdick reported, and one or pos- e ——-—— e tion of the Northland ! - .- { GOES TO SEATTLE | Mrs. Anna Seavers has resigned her position at the Bon Marche and has left for Seattle. She i5 a' passenger on the Aleutian. | kon for the westward and inter- jor and expects to return to Juneau in about three weeks. Mrs. Louring, who spent several meonths in Juneau during the win- ter and spring, is now vacationing i California for the summer. dent Roosevelt has arranged with the skeletonized NRA and Federal Trade Commission to carry on with industry, the voluntary code agree- ments supplanting the code struc- ture outlawed by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. i e COHN TRAVE; Julius Cohn a merchant in LS Angeles, “Cal,, for 45 years round-trip passenger on the Yukon frem Seattle, with the Los Anceles Cnamber of Commerce party S al Motion pictures for the “March of Time,” newsreel feature spon- sored by Time Magazine, are being taken of Alaska by Ken Hawks, New York cameraman, who is a round-trip passenger from Seattle steerage passengers aboard |8 bly two shelter cabins on the The following passengers on the !lake. Cabins alsc are being erected Northwestern are booked for Ju-|On Wilson Lake. Both lakes, east neau: Mrs, R. P. Nelson, Gertrude 0f Ketchikan, are especially popu- Naylor, D. A, Gerty and wife, Don-|lar among fishermen this season on the Yukon. ald Gerty, 8. A. Berg, Ogla Kletz-|and many fishing parties are fly- lms' Miss C. Whelan. ling in and getting good catches. MRS. ALEC KASALICA IS SERIOUSLY ILL Mrs. Alec Kasalica, who has been in St. Ann’s Hospital for some | time, is in a very serious condition tactording to her husband.