The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 3, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR * VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7133. TWO ALASKANS “ALL THE NEWS LL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1935. “RENNIE, SAREN SAY THEY SAW NORESISTANCE Claim Marchers Could Have| Gone Down Front Street R | ceived this morning by Fostms.s-fnght for such a service not only at “me Of TYOUble :ler Albert Wile in a radiogram|by the Juneau Chamber of Com-i (from A. D. Lawrence, Superin-| merce but by the Ketchikan PRESERVING PEACE ‘!tendent of the Railway Mail Ser-| Chamber of Commerce and civic ’ | vice, with headquarters in Seat-|organizations of other cities in DEFENDANT CLAIMS, " Accused Men Aver They " Had No Part in Violence | During Alleged Riot Denial that there was a union blockade across Front Street near the union hall last June 24, through which a group of men marching down to the Alaska Juneau mine office to register could not pass, was made this morning on the witness stand by Ed Rennie, one of the 24 defendants facing riot charges in Federal district court. Rennie, who said he had spent eight years in the army, testified that his purpose in going out in the street at the time of the trouble was to prevent any violence and preserve the peace if possible, As a matter of fact, the defendant said, he shouted, “Let the bulls marchers came down, explaining un- der cross examination that he meant by that to let the police go on » through and he figured the march- ers would follow them. There really ? wasn’t any time when the marchers couldn't have gone through and on down the street, any way, Rennie asserted in reply to close questioning. i Alias Tom Rivers ¢ The defendant, who admitted he ‘once went by the name of Tom Riv- ers in California “when I was pinch- ed for vagrancy,” said that there were a group of union pickets in the street in front of the union hall when the marchers came down the street. Their purpose was, he ex- plained, to talk the men out of go- 4ng down to register. He denied thas any of them had weapons, to his knowledge, and that there had been any prearranged plans to resist the marchers physically. Rennie said he went to stop a ¢ fight, preserving the peace, he ex- plained, when Police Officer Ken- » neth Junge came along and hit him over the head with a club. He took he club from Junge, he testified, Bnd threw it over the heads of the crowd, because he still was trying to preserve the peace and didn’t think Junge had any business using his club in that fashion. Later, near the sawmill, the defendant explained, he had a little more trouble with ¥ Officer Junge. He said somebody shouted, “He's going to get his gun!” He thought it was a woman's voice but had no idea who said it. At that moment he saw Junge reach toward his hip pocket and as he did so; the officer's handcuffs fell on the street, Fearing that Junge was drawing a gun, Rennie said, he ran over and icked up the handcuffs, because he igured he better take them before somebody else took them and used them for a weapon. He said he re- v refused to give them back to Junge but did turn them over to Chief of Police Roy Hoffman who showed up on the scene about that time. Preserving The Peace Asked by Assistant District Attor- | ney George W. Folta if this was all | in his purpose of preserving the | peace, the defendant asserted that it » was. Later asked by Folta why he had not volunteered to act as a spe- » clal officer on that day, if he was so concerned about the peace, Rennie explained he had not wished to. { The defendant declared that at no time did he hit anybody and | there was no violence at the A. J.( office. He sid he had an argument with Chief Hoffman over the advis- ability of Special Oficer Walter Bea- mer having a club, and the argument ; resulted in his arrest. Rennie said he | . went to the A. B, hall that morntng; peore the marchers started out to try and find out what it was all about. He said he had read the pa- pers pelative to the plans but he (Continued on Fage Two) - | p3 Northland Steamers Get Contract to Carry Mail; Government Is Quickly Loaned $900,000,000 WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. — A "TO INTERVENE Rowe’s Cri NY STREET BLOCKADE RCH ASKED [ Dean Rice Cliallertg;as Bisii&p MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = 3SING, PLANE TRIP ticism of W hites SEARCH BEING MADE OVER 50 First Dispatch Last N ight: Dispatch of Mail The Northland Transportation | The authorization covers both company has been authorized to| carry mail effective December quick and complete subscription to the government’s request for a $900,000,000 loan to finance the winter relief work is announced by Secretary of Treasury Mor- FORETHIOPIA The Rev. Charles E. Rice, Dean and Indian churches of Alaska, feel » Holy Trinity Cathedral, who has | that they must disagree with thg pent eight years working among |reported statement of Bishop Rowe he Indians of Alaska, and fifteen i relative to the religious interest and rears among the whites, comment- | devotion of the whites and Indians h!” when the . and the first dispatch left Seat-| tle last night en the Northls.nd.! The above information was re-| tle. 2| north and southbound aboard the Northland and North Sea of thej Northland Transportation Com- pany and is the result of the long Southeast Alaska. Abductor Slayer, Victim | Douglas Van Viack, of Tacoma, who abducted his former wife, | | Mildred Hook, and then killed her near Twin Falls, Idaho, is pic- tured above with his victim. He of an officer in the Idaho city. is also charged with the slaying Open Criticism of D:we By Vienna City Official Arouses Austrian Regime CEORGE PEEK STOCK PRICES RECOVER;LEAD TAKEN, RAILS Trading Pace Slow During Most of Session—Profit Taking Spurt NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Led by rails, the Stock Market today en- joyed substantial recovery except for the last half hour. The lrading pace however was comparatively slow for most of the session. Profit taking during the final business of the day did not arouse any exceptional features. Gains today were from fractions to ‘around three points and these predominated to the close which was firm. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 140, American Power and Light 8%, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 48'2, General Motors 55, Interna- tional Harvester 62, Kennecott 28%, Simmons Beds 17%, United Cor- poration 6%, United States Steel 47%, Southern Pacific 24%, Unit- ed Foundries no sale, Pound $4.93. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow,| Jones averages: industrials 14358, rails 40.46, utilities 28.92. By ROBERT F. SCHILDBACH | VIENNA, Dec. 3—Ernst Karl Win-| ter, Vice-Burgomaster of Vienna and fearless commentator on political’ matters, embarrassed the Federal government by writing publicly that “the Italian adventure in. Ethiopia is highly unpopular in Austria.” | This frank expression was so crit- | ical of an authoritary regime which | has allied itself closely with Italy, that police promptly confiscated the genthau, The books were opened yester- day morning and closed last night. SHIELS HERE; Brief Visit in Juneau ‘With Old Friends’ While conditions were normal in| all other grades, the red salmon pack this year was a failure, ac- cording to Archie W.,Shiels, Presi- dent of the Pacific Alaska Fisher- | ied, who arrived on the Princess Norah from the States for “a visit| (with Attorney H. L. Faulkner, John W. Troy and two or three old friends.” The canned salmon mar- ket is not very active, he said. “I try to get up here two or threg times ‘& ‘year," Mr. Stijels said; - in spite of Bishop Rowe's remarks I still have the courage to call my- self an Alaskan.” The new Canadian trade pact will have no effect on the canned sal- mon industry, Mr. Shiels stated, as it does not include any change in duty on that product. The J. Walter Thompson Com- pany has been given the assign- ment to conduct the $250,000 adver- tising campaign endorsed by the canned salmon industry at their convention in Del Monte, Cal, on| November 11, Mr. Shiels said. He expects to sail south on the Prin- cess Norah tonight so that he may attend a meeting of the Advertis- ing Committee which will be held in Seattle next Sunday. LRI i e HAS RESIGNED Special Advisor to Presi- dent on Foreign Trade, Quits -Position WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—George N. Peek, special advisor to the Presi- Copti c Order Arranges eting on Settlement in Cairo GREATER DEFENSES SEEN FOR ENGLAND 1 FISH MARKET (Ve Byt S DISCUSSED, _ President of PAF Making| pital Section CAIRO, Dec. 3.—Emperor Haile Belassie made another bid for peace with Italy, authoritative religious sources in Cairo revealed today. It was learned that the Lion of Judah appealed to the supreme au- thority of the Coptic Christian Church for aid. Patriarch Johannes has been asked to intervene with the Italian government to establish - basis for peace conversations with the Pascist minister in Cairo about the middle of the month. HARAR IS EVACUATED ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 3.—The Ethi- opian government today notified the | League of Nations that all Ethiopian troops are leaving Harar, important 3y in-eastern, Abyssig\m, to permit [1ts "use “for hospital purposes ‘anc | prevent air raids. Indications that a decisive battl |may be imminent are seen in re- | ports here that 400,000 Ethiopian sol- diers are massed against the Ital- lians on the northern front. Ras | Zeyyoum and Ras Kassa, the two fleadlng generals of the defenders. have combined their forces for a | general offensive against the invad- jers. KING URGES DEFENSE LONDON, Dec. 3.—The British | Treasury today offered two gigantic |loans, part of which may be used for defense purposes. The obligations total $1,458,000,000. The pews aroused speculation as to how much might be used to strengthen military and naval ac- | tivities. King George warned Parliament: | “The fulfillment of our international |obligations under the League cove- nant, and the no less than adequate safeguarding of the Empire makes it urgently necessary that deficiencies in our defense forces be made good.” ! Authoritative sources in London predict that the oil embargo against Italy will be adopted by the League |of Nations under British 'pressure. ITALIAN “BRAIN TRUST” ROME, Dec. 3.—Premier Musso- little magazine in which Winter had 4en( on' foreign trade, and President lini today created a “Brain Trust” aired his view. Winter was appointed to his post by the late Chancellor Dollfuss, who | banks, has resigned. Peek, who has been at sharp disa- lof two Federal Export and Import| !0 remodel the Italian Diet along | war-time lines, centralizing many of |its departments and adding to the sold him to bring about a reconcilia- ' | hi igreement with Secretary Cordell|speed with which it may act. Un- ‘i:m b;t:llleenmfor::r B:ocl}:li;t wl;':k“l-lull's foreign trade policies, reports |der the new set-up more authority étie:: une wve c';;;" v;heesofi “:; that the current report he will make | than ever is bestowed upon Il Duce PUog S0 4 #1156 {5 the President on the new Can-| ng on Bishop Rowe's statement as juoted yesterday in The Empire in n Associated Press dispatch, today said: “I do not guestion the loyalty »f the Indians; but in behalf of the Jery many earnest, devout and sin- sere Christians all over Alaska I do yrotest against his statement tha’ he ‘whites take everything and give jothing.’ “As at least 75 percent of the mis- ionary appropriations fo;y Alaska, wre and have been spent on the In- iians, and at least 95 percent of the sontributions from Alaskan missions ave come from the whites, Bishop's statement is not borne out )y facts.” Others Disagree The seven members of the Juneau ind Douglas Ministerial Association | whose president is Dean of the Jathedral, and who represent a to- al service of 95 years-in the white the | in Alaska, among the various de- nominational bodies they represent, “The facts are that the Indians re- | reive much and the whites compara- tively little. while the Indians give | but little and the whites give by far | the most; and as to, religious devo- |tlon, there are both Indians and | whites abave reproach, with others in both groups far from what they | should he.” | In New York City, on Sunday, the | Right Reverend Peter Trimble Rowe, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Al- | aska, 4l & service in the Cathedral of 84 John The Devine, said that the | Indians of Alaska crawl to church |Necessary for their religion and The white people are just the same there as everywhere. They make me a little tired. They are ready to take evervthing and give nothing. Alas- kan Indians take their religion seri- MAJOR STONER TO LEAVE HIS SEATILE POST Is Assigned to Command General Staff of the Army School SEATTLE, Dec. 3.—Major Frank E. Stoner, Executive Officer of the Signal Corps, United States Army, will leave his post here in June to enroll and command the General Staff -of the School of the Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Appoint- ment of his successor is not an- nounced. Major Stoner has not been in- formed if he will return to Seattle where he has been stationed for the past three years. ——————— EIGHT OUT IN PRISON BREAK, ONE IS KILLED Four Others Recaptured After Guard Wounded in Escape—3 Untraced | (Chiei of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) { With 1936 almost here, and the 1 By BYRON PRICE l | local election returns of 1935 avail- | able for analysis, the political strate- | | gists are hauling out their war maps| |and taking up more intensively their| | study of political geography. { | Theoretically, candidates for na- | tional office are supposed to cam-| paign on national issues, addressing | their appeals to the country at large.I | Actually, that seldom happens. { | A look at the election returns for| | past years demonstrates the point, 1clcflr]y. The country votes by sec-| tions, Instead of carrying scattered | states here and there, a candidate for the presidency carries blocs of states, usually on the basis of some | sectional issue. A map on which the, territory of | one party is shown in black and that | of the other party in white never| presents the appearance of a checker board. Instead, great areas are solid- ly one color or the other. So political calculations are based, in the main, not on what individual | states will do, but on what the large | geographical sections will do. Three Political Sections Most calculators recognize three general sections—the East, the West and the South. Some add a fourth, the Midwest, but its limits are hard| to define and usually the Midwestern states are incorporated under the general heading of the West. In the southern group are includ- ed customarily the 12 states of Ala- bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,| Louisiana, Mississippi, North Caro- lina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tex- as, Tennessee and Virginia, i In the eastern group are Connecti- MILE SECTION Pilot and Passenger Disap- pear Between Naknek and Dillingham SIX AIRCRAFT MAKING AN EXTENSIVE HUNT Party Abse—r;;aver Waste- lands of Bristol Bay Sec- tion Since Nov. 24 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 2.— Six airplanes are searching over the flat, frozen, snow-covered region be- tween Naknek and Dillingham, a distance of 50 miles, for two men missing in an airplane for nine days. Estol Call, pilot, and Stanley Hermanson, Anchorage druggist, left Naknek on November 24 for a short flight. They have not been " | reported since. Results of 1935 Elections ‘ Offer Political Strategists ‘Datafor 1936 ‘W ar Maps’ Two planes started out on a search last Saturday and four more planes took up the search yester- day over the wasteland of the Bris- tol Bay district. A trapper reported at Naknek that he heard a plane flying east about a week ago. The two missing men carried sup- plies for" two. weeks, ammunition and blankets. AIR RACER OFF TO FIND LOST POLAR FLIERS Russell Thaw_Plans Take- off in Search of Ellsworth and Kenyon, Friday LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 3.— Russell W. Thaw, air racer, plans a | takeoff Priday in an effort to find Lincoln Ellsworth and Herbert Ken- yon, who took off on a trans-Atlantic flight ten days ago for the Bay of Whales, and are believed lost on the Antarctic continent. Thaw expects to reach Cape Horn in five days, to then make contact with the steamship Wyatt Earp, the Ellsworth Expedition base ship. The pair was last heard from when their radio communication broke as they were flying from the Atlantic to the Pacific side of Antarctica in an effort to map the little-known continent, ICKES WOULD LIMIT TRADE WITH ITALY - L gy g g o el sut his political independence fre- | [ juently has caused uneasiness at the ;:Tln.n Tende Rave wihe Riphiy cm-i vA’NMHBILT Is shancellery. | . | A 5 .| The position of Foreign Trade Ad- Wu?t.:- fihzsz}'l‘”p?:: :’ be?it an::li;‘ tviser will not be refilled as it tech- | 1 } e, ® nically went out of existence with | ' ALBANY, N. Y. Dec. jap between England and Italy, ¥hich shows that despite Stresa, the | :;”t;“;fw‘;‘;r;;:“;:f:cfrgx j rrational element in Italian fascism ' 3.—~Mrs. | plans fail to be realized.” e The slaves employed to carry off| 'the bodies of slain gladiators from |, ,mnic sanctions whic! ! Roman arenas wore masks repre- ' ooy M i | senting the Etruscan Charon. J : | s still prevalent. iporation, will probably be offered “Italian fascism, for the sake of a | »olonial adventure behind which the | oréstige of a single person stnnds.] ioes not hesitate to put the peace >f Europe at stake. Says Duce Ignores History “After due consideration of all po- itical, military and economic as- sects, the Italian adventure must be egarded as absurd. Mussolini today, :akes the same attitude toward Ethi- ' spia which England took toward the Transvaal, or France towards Mo- rocco, without, however, remember- | ing that half a century has gone by and that many a thing has happened in the meantime. “It's a dangerous play which ‘Il Duce’ has made and it may end in catastrophe for his regime if his Considering Austria’s situation H from the point of view that the; League of Nations decided on eco- (Continued on Page Two) banks. ‘The corn plant has more than 1,000 possible industrial uses. I'the presidency of the two trade| Georgia - Morgan Vanderbilt was; |denled the right to carry to the New York State Court of Appeals { her legal fight for custody of her | 10-year-old daughter Gloria. Nationwide Strike Ordered for Stevedores Against S. S. Lines in Gulf Port Service SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3.— The nationwide stevedore's strike, or- dered yesterday by President Josepr. | P. Ryan of the International Long- shoremen’s Association, against steamship lines serving Gulf of Mex- ico ports went into effect as sched- uled, but in San Francisco, leaders of the longshoremen disagreed as to how sweeping the ban will be. William J, Lewis, District Presi- strict interpretation of the order snt out by Ryan applied to only two companies refusing to deal with the ILA. ’ Harry Bridges, President of the San Francisco chapter, asserted that the ban should be applied to all ships and lines touching Guilf ports. Bridges said the Katarina Lucken- bach, arriving last night, would not bz worked until the dispute is set- dent of the ILA, declared that a tled. BOSTON, Dec. 3.—One prisoner Cut: Delaware, Maine, Maryland, was killed and four recaptured af- Massachusetts, New Jersey, New ter eight broke from Massachusetts Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, State Prison in the Charlestown dis- Rhode Island and Vermont. Roughly, trict. All the escaped prisoners were north of the Potomac river, working outside the prison wall when they made their escape. Guards were Others, from Ohio to the west coast, overpowered but fired a number of including for the purposes of this shots, which wounded some prison- Classification the border states of ers. ‘West Virginia, Kentucky and Mis- In the western group lie all of the Guard Edward J. Shaughnessy was Sourl. wounded. i These are the three grand divisions ——————— { G. O. P. Problem Simplilied MAD TBAPPER f ‘When the arrangement is reduced to political mathematics, the result chooses Presidents, there are 531 votes. Of this total, the southern ! the western 245. A majority or 266, is EDMONTON, Alta., Dec. 3.—Sgt. required to elect. Mounted Police, is mushing toward nree sections can elect a President civilization with a five-dog team, by jtself, but that any two of them, of Rat River,” wanted for the death, josses, can make up- the requisite November 23, of his partner, Johnny 266, of American politics. is this: in the electoral college, which Is cAPmREfl S. | group has 135, the eastern 151, and F. V. Vernon, of the Canadian 7 js apparent that no one of the bearing John Harms, “mad trapper combining solidly or even with some Anthony, 35, on Singed Dog Island, A further important element is the Saskatchewan, fact that the southern group, with B 6. A S few exceptions, has bee: lid! The Grand Canyon of the Colo- e _.__.n__,m i rado extends about 280 miles. | (Continued on Page Three) this is the territory east of Ohio and | Secretary of Interior Aligns Himself with Govern- ment Policy WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Secre- tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes aligned himself with the Government’s policy of discourag- ing excessive commerce with Italy and Ethiopia. Quoted three weeks ago as urg- ing that the oil industy voluntar- ily set up an embargo on shipments, he told the press he had been misunderstood, and that his refer- ence was to exports of munitions of war, rather than to war mater~ ials. | i i } i i