The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVI, NO. 7006 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS —Cmm—, PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICANS WARNED AS WAR LOOMS WITNESSES PUT FINGER ON MEN IN DISTURBANGE Ted Daniels—e—n_ Tells of Be-| ing Struck Down—Im- plicates Harry Datoff PROCEEDINGS OVER UNTIL 10 MONDAY John McLaughlin Takes| Stand as Another Star Witness for Prosecution Testimony aimed tc incriminate some of the 28 men facing riot charges as a result of the recent labor disturbances was given in U. S. Commissioner’s Court this| morning as the preliminary hearing | of the group went into its second day. The proceedings were ad- journed at moon until 10 o'clock Monday morning. There is indica- tion that the hearing may last well into next week as scores of wit- nesses remain to be called on both sides. Only prosecution witnesses have been heard so far. Ted Danielsen, President of. the pew Juneau Mine Workers' Asso- ciation and one of the leaders in the plan to go back to work, was| the star witness today, revealing a scalp wound which he said was seceived in the encounter the morning of June 24 on lower Front Street. when & group of men marched down toward the mine to registér for employment. Sure Who Hit Him Askéd by Prosecutor George WL Folta who ‘struck him, Danielsen | said he was not sure; that he had ‘been felled to his knees from be- hind while he was fighting with Jack Beavert, one of the defend- ants, and that one or two persons grabbed him as he fell and pointed to Harry Datoff as the man who ‘struck the blow. Danielsen said (Datoff was running off to one side at the time and had something in ‘his hand. - He 'also charged that Beavert said “I'll get you lafer,” after the encounter. Danielsen also identified Nick Kobak. as one of the Selendnm.s he had seen in the“dfsturbance and testified that . Kobak _had a bolt about 18 inches long his hand. He sald he did' not see Kobak wield the bolt as a weapon. o Kicked in Back ' Another principal witness for the prosécution was John McLaughlin, one of the leaders in the new union, who testified that Beavert struck him and somebody kicked him .in the back but he did not know who it was. Danielsen and McLaughlin: were two of the men who went to the hospital as a re- sult of ‘the encounter, Question of . what Beavert was refered to was brought up on cross examination and Jack Beavert, list- ed on the complaint as Warren N. Beavert," arose with a smile and ,sald he 'guesed he was the only Jack Beavert in town so far as he knew. “.Jess , Brown, another witness, identified Kobak as the man he had seen in the trouble with a large bolt in his hand. He said he saw Danielsen go down but did not know just who hit him. Names Giovanetti Tom Bennett festified that he saw Ernest Giovanetti pushing a police officer who had another man by the coat collar but said he did not' know what officer it was. How- ever, he insisted Gilovanetti was pushing ‘the officer in resistance and not diding him in making an arrest as defense counsel attempt- ed to bring out,- . : ‘Other withesses called this morn- ing were J. A. Briggs, Anatole ‘Matkovsky, Nick Mooratoff, Don Parsons and Frank Henderson. Wittiesses _called late yesterday atternoon Were Bverett Nowell, Martin Jorgensen, Lloyd Ritter and ‘W.'W, Beamer. ~The latter proved an emphatic witness and had quite a round with Defense Counsel George Grigsby in the course of cross examination, Beamer said he saw Harry Datoff hit a special of- ficer with something wrapped in paper and pointed to a half dozen of the men as omes he had seen during the encounter. ~Asked by Defense Counsel Grover Winn if he had seen Bua 'Orme, one of the defeindanis, Beamer said he had This Is Good; Pamphlets Warn Of Attack Plans LONDON, July 6.—New re- ports received here from Pei- ping said 2000 bandits at Chang Ting Shein, 25 miles north of here, announced by ramphlets that they will at- tack and expect to capture Pei- ping cither late tocday or to- morrow. e, JOMN ). BERNET DIES SUDDENLY, BRIEF ILLNESS Could Not Make Good at Blacksmithing But Did at Railroading CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 6.—John J. Bernet, aged 67 years, President of the Chesapeake and Ohio and Pere Marquette Railroads, died sud- JOHN J. BERNET. denly here after a brief illness. He suffered. a breakdown recently. If Bernet had realized his boy- hood ambition he would have been & blacksmith. as was his father. He tried his hand at it until the elder Bernet informed his son, “you'll never be a blacksmith. Go try something else.” Takes Dad’s Advice John heeded his father's advice, turned to railroading and eventual- ly became successively President of three of the great American rail- road systems. In the third of these executive positions, President of the Chesa- peake and Ohio Railroad to which he was chosen in' 1929, Mr. Bernet became the right hand man and chief railroad adviser to the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland in their efforts to merge a number of railroads into one vast system of some 15,000 miles. Known in History ‘With some.40 odd years of rail- rofd experience behind him, Mr. Bernei had become known in the industry as a doctor whose special- ty wes taking a sick raiflroad and making it well and vigorous. It was that record of achievement that caused the Van Sweringens to turn to him when the time came ' to launch their ambitious program of fewer and more effi- cient railroad systems. Born in U, S. Mr. - Bernet was born at Brant, N. Y., near Buffalo, February 9, 1868, and, like most poor boys, had to be content with a public school education. It was a turn of fate that he was born in the United States ‘rather than South America, for his father, an immigrant, had his heart set upon going to the land south of the equator. When he reached his port of embarkation he learned that only ships for the United States sailed from there, so he decided to go along anyway. No Blacksmith When the son was ready to go to work -he went into his father's blacksmith shop, which had been set up at a country cross roads. One day as they worked at the forge, the elder Bernet paused as he allowed his hammer to come to rest on the anvil. Looking at his son, as if with a tinge of regret, he said: “It's no use, John, youll never make a blacksmith. Your close sight isn't good enough to finish your iron properly. Go try some- thing else, you'll never do here.” and that Orme was running and walking about in the vicinity of The boy wandered over to a rail- road switch shanty of the old Lake (OContnued an Page ;rvo) (Continued on Page Sevem) A, ). CONTINUES 'PEACEFUL WORK * WITH 2 SHIFTS Mine Oper;he—s for Second Day After Walkout, Still in Force The men on the early morning shift at the Alaska Juneau mine, who ‘were escorted to work yester- day,morning by United States Mar- shal Wm. T. Mahoney, and depu- ties, and the Juneau City Poiice, were given the same protection this morning. About the same number of pickets {were on duty near the mine this morning. No arrests have been made and no violence reported in connection with the reopening of the -mine, which took place yesterday morning. For the first time since the walk- out was called on May 22, the names of men requested to report| for work were pested in the win-| dow of the mine employment of-| fice this morning. The names of 32| new applicants for work were on the list. Pickets who had established un- official headquarters in a ball mill shell on mine property near the of- fices, were barred from occupancy aof the huge metal casting by a wooden fence erected by company employees. Two shifts are employed and the third shift, the “grave yard,” will be called early next week, mine of- ficials intimated. R ey A ke WAGNER LABOR DISPUTE BILL | | | | | |New Nationai Labor Rela- tions Board Set Up— Other Sections WASHINGTON, July 6.— The | Wagner Labor Dispute Bill, signed by the President late yesterday, in brief contains the following pro- visions: A new National Labor Relations Board of three members is pro- vided for. It makes employer interference with an employee organization in any form as unfair labor practice and orders employers to deal with a labor organization representing their employes. It gives a labor organization chos- en by a majority of employes in a plant the right to speak for all employes. The Labor Board is expected to be appointed within a few weeks. The Board has.the power to carry all decision to the Circuit Court of Appeals. ‘William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor call- ed the bill “labor’s Magna .Charta.” ‘The Wagner bill sets up machin- ery whereby means of arbitration of labor disputes is guaranteed the workers in the matter of working out wages and remains in the prov- ince of the Labor Department. GALLATLY, RADIO ENGINEER, ARRIVES George R. Gallatly, assistant radio engineer with the United States Army Signal Corps, arrived here on the Northwestern from Wrangell. He was met by Charles E. Smith, operator-in-charge of the Juneau station. Gallatly, with headquarters in Seattle, probably will be here on an inspection visit for two or three days. FISH SALES LIMITED TO SMALL PURCHASE Fish sales at the Juneau Cold Storage plant this morning were imited to 700 pounds of king sal- mon off the T-632. This catch was purchased by the Alaska Trollers Co-operative Mar- keting Association at current co-op prices of 8%, 3% and 3% cents per pound. e il PRINCE ROBERT CALLS The luxury liner Prince Robert of the Canadian National Steam- ships called here early this morn- ing from Skagway, but took no Juneau passengers southbound., Three men have been ap| tle the industry’s troubles. Wash,, and Father George | | NO TRACE OF EASELY FOUND, NORTHWATERS Good Condition—But Alaska Pilot Missing NOME, Alaska, July 6.—A 'Plak piloted by Frank Whaley and with mechanic Harry Nelson aboard, has returned here after a fruitless search for pilot Ben Easeley of the Roust Airways, whose wrecked plane was jound near Kotzebue. | Whaley and Nelson believed Ease- ly's plane struck the water while he was flying low in a fog looking for a place to land and that he was probably drowned trying to swim_ashore. The plane was in perfect condi- tion when found but in towing it ashore the tail and fuselage were damaged. The plane will be repair- ed. A search for Easeley's body con- tinues. HOT WEATHER T0 BE DISHED UP IN NATION Prevail Over U. S.— 15_ Known Dead CHICAGO, 1Ill, July 6. — The weatherman is cooking up some more hot dishes for today. His latest menu included plenty of steaming entries yesterday gar- nished with cloudbursts, a wate spout, tornadic winds, exces temperatures, rain, rain and more rain. Many sections of the nation re- ported no immediate relief in sight. Fifteen deaths are attributed di- rectly or indirectly to the weather yesterday. RETURNS TO SEATTLE Mabel Huntoon, after spending several weeks in the Yukon coun- fry and in Juneau, left for home in Seattle on the Northl ive jompson of Portland, Or ‘Mystery Bombing Plane for U.S. Army Is Reported Near | Completion, Seattle Plant Plane Located in Water— All Kinds of Conditions; polnted mediators In the Pacific Northwest lumber strike in an effort to set- to right: Judson W. Shorett, Judge Roscoe R. Smith, both of Seattle, (Associated Press Photos) \ | SEATLE, July 6—It Is believed | the world's most formidable aerial| weapon, a mystery bombing plane | built for the United States Army, 45 nearing completion here behind |locked doors at the Boeing Assem- bly hangar. The giant bomber is expected to be flown about July 10 for the first time and will be ferried to Dayton, Ohio, about the middle of August (Jor further tests. Strict secrecy has surrounded the construction of the plane. It will have a wing spread of 105 feet, powered by four 700 horsepower motors and awill be equipped with machine guns and have a bomb compartment 70 feet long. e THIRD PARTY ACTION TAKEN CHICAGO, July 6. —Recommenda- tions for the formation of a new political party were adopted by an organization committee of a Third Party invitation conference. A second recommendation adopt- ed was that a permanent com- mittee be named to select a date and site for the first National Con- vention of the proposed Third Party. INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, July 6.—Chair- man Wheeler of the Senate Inter- state Commerce Committee will start immediately to collect evidence in a broad investigation of railroad financing. . e e MEDICAL MEN TRAVEL No less than four medical men were aboard the Northwestern when she sailed from Seattle on her cur- rent trip to Southeast Alaska. Dr. |8. P. Russell, Honolulu, T. H., dis- |embarked here. Dr. J. E. Drury, Wenatchee, Wash., is ticketed for |Sitka, while Dr. and Mrs. V. J. |LaRose and Elizabeth Ann LaRose, Bismarck, N. D, and Dr. and Mrs. |Frank Norton, Los Angeles, Cal., |are round-trin passengers. | _———-—— { PROFESSOR ON SHIP Hugh E. Agnew, university pro- | fessor, is enjoying his first round- | trip voyage to Alaska on the North- | western from Seattle. With him are Mrs. Agnew and Miss M. G. Ag- |new. The family home is at Great |Neck, N. Y. while Prof. Agnew |teaches in New York City. BATON ROUGE, La., July 6— Laughing off ineffectual thrusts of his opposition, Senator Huey Long is prepared to skim the ronage cream from his political emies’ milk by legislation on % bill program designed to pu virtual end to local self-gover ment in this state. The program is already on its way toward fina] passage by the extra session of the State Legislature which was hur- riedly called on July 4 and is pro- at a Senator Long Has His State Legislators Eating HisHand;Doing HisBidding P.|ity for legislation to tighten his 3| is one placing all non-elective state Out of tected by state militiamen. Senator Long radiated good cheer as he directed his obedient major- | zrip on the state’s politics. | Standing out among the 26 bills 'and municipal officers under a | State Civil Service Commission which is controlled by Long's Ad- ministration. Still another bill will cinch sena- tors in hiring and firing privileges over the state’s school teachers. WILEY POST TO COME NORTH IN SPECIAL PLANE | To Make Aerial Survey Be- tween Alaska and Si- | beria—Test Flights LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 6.—| Mechanics have nearly completed work on a new Lockheed Orion plane in which Wiley Post will| make an aerial survey between Al- aska and Siberia for a commercial airline, the name of which Post did not disclose. i While Post is reticent about his; plans, -is is_ learned - from other sources that probably he will make Nome his western base. Pontoons will probably be stalled at Seattle. Negotiations are understood to be underway for permission to lly‘ across Siberia. The first test of the plane will be made within a few days. The plane is loW wing, single mo- tored, equipped with a constant speed variable pitch propeller, and; with a fixed type of landing gear. \ Post said he would not attempt another trans-state stratosphere flight in the Winnie Mae, but was interested in making such an at- tempt in another plane. He failed in four attempts this year. PERMISSION GRANTED NEW YORK, July 6.—The Soviet Embassy has granted permission to Wiley Post, his wife and Fay Gil- lis Wells to make their projected' flight from Los Angeles along the Great Circle Route and across Si- beria. ‘The flight has been postponed until the latter part of this month when new maps of the Siberian route will arrive from Russia. From Alaska the route crosses| Whelon Bay to Nagaevo, Irkutsk, Sveralovok and Moscow, thence| bac kto New York via Iceland and Greenland. Mrs. Wells is the wife of Linton | Wells, aviator and writer, who held | the round-the-world record - about | ten years ago when he traveled by plane, ship and auto. } ——————— 18 PASSENGERS ABOARD ALASKA FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, July 6. Steamer Alaska sailed for Alaska ports at 9 o'clock this morning with 220 first class and 101 steerage pas- sengers. The following passengers are booked for Juneau: Cot Hayes and wife, W. A. Traut, A. C. McBean, Dr. F. J. Grungen, A. M. Marchand, Mrs. C. M. Kabis, A. Patton, A. E. Steero, Gene Meyring and wife, Mrs. Murray Stuart, Agnes Perling, O. J. John- son, wife and child, S. Callaghan, John Doalin, MISSING YAKIMA, Wash, July 6-No clue has been found as to the whereabouts of Mrs. Thomas Vic- torson and son Henry who left a Fourth picnic party on the shore of Clear Lake to go for a walk and have not been seen since. in- |night. LUMBER MILLS ITALY DECIDES |UNITED STATES UPON STRUGGLE | IN EAST AFRICA “Government and People” Will Not Turn Back Now Says Il Duce PREMIER, FROM CANNON | TELLS OF HIS POLICIES Mussolini Makes Stirring| Address to Depart- ing Blackshirts PG | SALERNO, Italy, July 6.—Premier Benito Mussolini, mounted on a| cannon here today,. told 12000 Blackshirts ready to depart for Eaat' Africa that “We have decided upon a struggle in which we, as a Gov- ernment and people, will not turn| back. This decision i irretriovable.” | I, Duce told the Blackshirts tha the eyes of Italy are upon them and exhorted them to do duty. Is Making Histery | “Italy is today rewriting a heroic| age in her history,” said Mussolini. All Italy is behind her sons who| are leaving or whom have left for| Fast Africa. Every Italian prefers a life of heroism to a life of use- lessn. . The last phrase produced a tre- mendous ovation. The Italian Premier went on to say Italy was protagonist of a great pege in her history and “all| the world must recognize the worth | of the Fascist spirit.” Struck By Lightning Enroute here from Rome, the wirelesz antenna of the.Duce’s. sea-. plane, was struck by lightning but none of the occupants of the plane were injured. It was a blinding flash that| struck the antenna. The radio oper- ator fainted but quickly recovered. The storm through which the plane fought its way was a continuation of the terrific electrical outburst which struck Rome during the 25! MAKE PLANS TO REOPEN MONDAY General Resuming of Oper- ations Indicated in Pacific Northwest SEATTLE, July 6—A swing to- ward general reopening of lumber operations appeared in progress with next Monday set for the day of the big drive to open more mills in the Pacific Northwest. Managements of four Seattle mills are getting their plants in readi- ness to reopeén Monday. Minor picket troubles are report- ed. From all points come reports of plans for further expansion of the lumber industry, breaking the back of the strike. TEAR GAS USED LONGVIEW, Wash., July 6.—Tear gas was used to disperse an antago- nistic crowd of lumber strikers and sympathizers near the Weyerhaeus- er plant today. No one was in- Jjured. —_——— LEIF ERICSON DAY OCTOBER § President Roosevelt approved omn June 19 the joint resolution to pro- claim October 9 of each year as Leif Ericson Day and calling upon officials of the Government to dis- play the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that date and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appro- priate ceremonies. e MRS. SMITH HERE Mys. James Smith, wohse hus- band is an employee of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, arrived in Juneau from Seattle on KEEPING HANDS OFF INEUROPE Turns Down Plea of Ethio- pia to Invoke Peace Pact in Crisis ROOSEVELT AND HULL IN BRIEF CONFERENCE Note Quic—fi; Dispatched to Emperor Haile Selassia at Addis Abada BULLETIN — Addis Abada, July 6.-—~The American Lega- ticn officials have ordered all Americans to leave Ethiopia. Diplematic circles took the ae- tion to mean that the United Statcs cxpeets there may be im- mediate developments between Ettiopia and Ktaly, WASHINGTON, July 6~ The United States, In effect, last night rejected the plea of Ethiopia that his country invoke the Kellogg- Briand peace pact in an effort to ettle the Italo-Ethiopian dispute. Following a conference between Pretident Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull, The State Department sent a quick reply to Haile Selassia, Emperor of Ethi- cpia, through the American charge d'affaires at Addis Abada. The note made it clear this coun- try will take no immediate, if any part in the Afro-European tangle. The note said this government is gratified the League of Nations has given attention to, the coniuoversy. and added - the 'United States 1s ioath to believe that either Ethiop- ia or Italy will seek to settle the dispute by other than pacific means. The note made no mention, how- ever, of any possible action by this country. SAFETY WORKIN MINES WILL BE RESUMED SOON B. D. Stewart, Back from Washington, Reports Prospects Bright After two months in Washington where he worked in behalf of Alas- ka in co-operation with Delegate Anthony J, Dimond, B. D. Stewart, Territorial Commissioner of Mines for Alaska, has returned to Juneau after resigning all his connections with the federal government. For many years Mr, Stewart represent- ed the Federal Bureau of Mines in the Territory. He was appointed Commissioner of Mines for the Territory after the department was created by the last Legislature and now he will devote all his time to Territorial mining problems in full co-operation with the Federal Bu- reau of Mines. Commissioner Stewart reports that mine safety work which was discontinued in 1933 is to he re- sumed shortly and as soon as ar- rangements are completed a Fed- eral Bureau man will be dispatched here to carry on the work in co- operation with the Commissiener’s office. The work, Mr. Stewart ex- plained, is especially essential in Alaska due to the many mining properties located in isolated and out of the way places where trans- portation and communication are limited, Shaped Projects While in Washington the Com- missioner worked with Delegate Di- mond in shaping tentative projects to be carried out in the Territory in the cvent work relief money is al- lotted for the purpose.. Mining leg- islation was gone into carefully with the aim of having Alaska included in any legislation that might win apmoval. Thére may be some relief money allotted to Alaska through the federal ‘mining bureau to car- ry. on mineral investigation and survey work, the Commissioner said, but if "it is° granted the amount probably will be small Definite arrangements were made to co-operate with the Geological Survey in conducting a coal survey and gathering data for future de- the Northland. She had been south for medical treatment. velopment. Also Mr. Stewart, due (Conuaued vn Page Eaghi)