The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 18, 1936, Page 1

i i \ k 1 l L | [ | i ¥ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE \» VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7224 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EAST HIT BY RAVAGING FLOOD WATERS GERMANY IS IN RHINELAND TO STA CENERAL DEF! WILL BE GIVEN T0 ALL POWERS + Statement, Terse and Di- rect, to Be Made to League’s Council GERMAN SPCKESMAN GIVES OUT INTERVIEW| Nations May Remove Sanc-| tions on Italy to Se- cure Condemnation BULLETIN — London, March 18. — Joachim von Ribbentrop, head of the German delegation to the Locarno discussions, on his arrival here teday, told the Associated Press he would tell the Council of the League of Nations tomor- row that “Germany is in the Rhineland to stay re- gardless of any moves by the League of Nations or Locarno Powers.” The German delegation head also declared that Ger- many has full and incontro- vertible rights supporting recccupation and that he will also tell the Council that the Franco-Soviet pact is a great menace to peace in Europe. TO RENEW SANCTIONS BIG NAZI i, This remarkable radiophoto shows heavy mobile artillery of the German army drawn up in a square in a suburb of Cologne masked by a large slaughterhouse visible in the background. ground Is a 144-milli er gun. The artillery, moved up when Nazi SUPREME COURT Charceal Point "TO DECIDE IN Votes to Annex LABOR DISPUTE {Defense Brings Out Case Special Election Held Yes- ! Will Go to Highest Tri- = terday — Unofficial GUN POINTS TOWARD FRANCE Rhineland ~rea, is camouflaged. (Photo copyright, 1936, by Associated Press) { LONDON, March 18.—An| '} 0 46 Test Validity authoritative source late this afternoon predicted that the| The ultimate decision in the la- | Nati ill re bor controversy between the Alaska g S Wi move | » League of Nations will remo | Juneau mine and Local No. 203, In- all sanctions from Italy in or-|iernational Union of Mine, Mill and der to obtain unanimous con- |Smelter Workers will be reached in demnation of Germany for de- | the Supreme Court, Carl E. Croson, T |attorney for the mine, brought out nouncing the Locarno Treaty. | this morning as the labor hearing resumed in Federal District Court REATENED jroom after a recess yesterday. Lo§gggc§a:zh 18. — French The issue came up after the gov- sources declared today that any |ernment had rested its side of the i’arls government agreeing to the | Case and Mr. Croson_ had called on. British draft of a security proposal [Ol€ Larson to the witness stand as Count Reported \ KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 18 | —Charcoal Point will be annexed to Ketchikan. This is according to an unofficial count of yesterday's returns showing 91 percent of the voters of Ketchikan and 76 percent of the voters of Charcoal Point are in favor of annexation. Charcoal Point has 372 residents i and the annexation gives Ketchikan an estimated population of 4,168 JOHN DIMOND IS RELIEF FUNDS ARE REQUESTED BY PRESIDENT Roosevelt Asks Congress to Make Appropriation for Work |ENTIRE AMOUNT TO | BE HANDLED BY WPA| bl ]l Private Business Asked to| Aid in Absorbing Unemployed | WASHINGTON, M | sident Roosevelt toda gress to appropriate $1,500,000,000 | ifor work relief during the govern- year beginning July 1 In a special message to Congress, the President reviewed the unem- | ployment problem, proposed that the ' new funds go entirely to WPA, and added that the trend of reemploy- ment was upward but that its pre- sent rate of progress was inadequate. “I propose, therefore, to ask pri- vate business to extend its opera- tions so as to absorb an increasing number of unemployed. If the gains are substantial enough, no addition- al appropriation by the next Con- gress for the fiscal year 1937 should be necessary. The ultimate cost of Federal works,” the President added, “is thus determined by private ¢n- terprise.” bt In the left fore- troops suddenly reoccupied the C.E.CROSON gl T0 ADDRESS Frnch Scientist Alaska Juneau Attorney to’ Be Honored Guest— Hope Also to Appear | i HONOLULU, March 18.-—Native ' Hawaiians were once residents of I’ arl E. Cros- : A talk by Rugrney. Onil He Re0e: b UL RETORE.. rontloant. Ttk on, representing the Alaska Juneau‘c,p(_ Eric de Bisschop, French mine at the National Labor Rela- scientist recently shipwrecked in tions Board hearing now being con- | H‘;‘;_"“-on Ao s 4 £ is conclusions are at variance | ducted here, will be a feature ovanh the recognized scientific be- | the Chamber of Commerce lunch-lief that the Hawaiians and other eon at the Terminal Cafe tomor- |Polynesian peoples came to the Pa- ! row. Charles W. Hope, Trial Ex-icmc from the opposite direction, aminer of the hearing; E. A. Eagen, | Probably somewhere in southeastern attorney for the National Labor““‘s’f: v | Relations Board, and B. F. Nelson, | dccurding to observations T have | Court Reporter appointed by me{mg e in two and a t:alf years’ voy-' Board, will also attend the lunch- |28 in the Pacific,” says Capt. de — When .‘lorence “Tanya” Cubitt, conducting an aerlal campaign for selection as queen of the nudist left on a plane trip Ea when t plane stopped at San e announced that when s York she would debark exactly as nudists ar colony at the San Diego exposition, reached New upposed to be. But Francisco, she was dressed In street clothes—although she did her best when she posed like this. The reason for all the caution? Strict orders from the air line. ated Press Photo) ELECTION RAGE N. G. Nelso:S;eks Mayor's Post on Citizens- Economy Ticket The first filing of candidacies for the Juneau municipal election, to be held April 7, was made this after- noon at the office of the City Clerk. Entering the city election race as the Citizens-Economy ticket. N. G, y joint Franco-German & defense witness. The attorney ask- envisaging a Jo |ed Larson relative to a conversation be said he had with Al Nygren,| |President of the Union, and Neil| | Heard, then Secretary. E. A. Eagen, gofernment attorney, objected to the line of questioning on grounds it was immaterial to the case and the con- | |versation was held after the strike | was called. Trial Examiner Charles W. Hope said he failed to see the| materiality of it and Croson then ! explained that his main purpose was | to get it into the record because “it | is the record the Supreme Court will | have to go by in deciding on the| | constitutionality of the law.” | Bound By Rules | “When this matter gets into the | courts, I believe the court will hold ; that strikes must be held according to certain rules and according to| law,” Mr. Croson said. “It is my | purpose here to show that the heads | |of this union, Mr. Nygren and Mr.| Heard, so conducted the Union that ' close of the school year and arrive the men were not given a chance to i Juneau in time to leave with the express their opinion. I propose to | show that Mr. Nygren said follow- | |ing the strike vote of October, 1934, | that ‘You fellows beat me this time but I'll fix it so you can't again.’ | I am prepared to show that is why ‘numorny was voted to this commit- | tee of 19 trustees, and that the strike ' | was called in just a few hours after | the demands were turned down.” The attorney declared it was the |purpose of Nygren and Heard to es- | tablish closed shop at the mine, or \smke, and he was prepared to show |it. demilitarized zone policed by the League of Nations would sound its own death knell. They insisted that no government, in the face of the present national- ism after Germany’s Rhineland oc- cupation and before the spring elec- tions, dare subscribe to a plan un- der which a portion of their territory will be policed by foreign representa- tives. The “council of guilt” reject- ed the plan flatly. At the meeting tomorrow Ger- many will probably be branded as a treaty violator by the PFrench. The British emphasized that the report of the draft is speculation, and unconfirmed, and recalled the joint demilitarization proposed by Hitler, whose plans the British have promised they would consider in due course. The aroused French are believed to be ready to demand a showdown.’ They assert that the creation of a no-man’s land along the placid Rhine, where French and Germans have clashed for centuries, is im- possible. A PRASIRSIAS WU FISHERIES BOAT TO CONSTRUCTION SITE The Bureau of Fisheries bo-t Eider left for Pavlof Harbor this morning with a crew of men who will construct a fish ladder. Assist- ant Agent Fred R. Lucas and warden Donald S. Haley were aboard the vessel. Before returning to Juneau the| The Examiner upheld the govern- larceny before U. S. Commissioner | is Slavish, the rookie Catcher Alex vessel will visit the site of another proposed fish ladder Creek, near Wrangell. ., LEAVES HOSPITAL |and Arctic exlorer, on an expedl-' eon. W. C. Arnold of Ketchikan will also be a guest of honor. Several recently returned mem- bers of the Chamber of Commerce will attend the luncheon tomorrow, including Roy ' Rutherford, R. W. Bender, C. B. Arnold and R. R. Brown and they are expected to give their expressions on general business. A telegram from Glen Bartlett regarding the proposed Major Bowes amateur hour Juneau Day broad- cast will be read at the luncheon. COSMOPOLITAN SENATORS HAVE T0 AGCOMPANY FR. HUBBARD Son of Alaska Delegate to, Explore Taku with Glac- ier Priest’s Expedition WASHINGTON, March 18.—John Dimond, 17-year-old son of the Alaska Delegatee, early looks for- ward to accompanying Father Ber- nard R. Hubbard, noted geologist tion to the Taku River district,; north of Juneau. | The youth says he intends to leave Washington, D. C, at the. Bisschop, a member of the French Nelson filed for mayor, and Henry Geographic Society, whose Chinese Meier, Lewis Dyrdahl and Severin Jjunk went to pieces on the island |SWanson for councilmen. {of Molokai, “I find the idea of the| Mr. Nelson is a prominent Ju- { Polynesian race coming from Mal- n€au property owner and proprietor {aysia in historic times impossible.” ©f the Triangle Cleaners. Meier is | He bases his belief on studies of Proprietor of the Peerless Bakery, winds and currents in the South and Dyrdahl owner pr the contract- Pacific which led to his conclusion P8 firm bearing his name. Swan- | that west-to-east migrations could SO is employed on the Alaska Ju- not have been made under then ex- Reau tugboat. isting conditions, Mayor 1. Goldstein announced to- . |day that he intends to file for re- " TOKYO NAVAL CHAS. GHAPLIN PLANE cRASH [N SINGAPORE at Anan| |ment objection that the question was immaterial to the case at hand. | | Strike Called | “It seems to me to be a matter | here of whether or not the company Rev. Hubbard in June. The expedition will explore Taku glacier and the rugged surround- ing area. | . — | TWO SENTENCED IN THEFT CASE S. J. Meade and Elmer Howerter, | pleaded guilty to charges of petty F. Mullen late yesterday, and each received sentences of 60 days in jail THe pair was charged with enter- | ing the Home Grocery Store recent- Mrs. David Perrin and her ten- | bargained with the Union after July | 1y and stealing several bottles of day-old daughter were discharged |5” he said in explaining his m1~‘"q“°"‘ Howerter peceived, g1 addi- today from the Government Hos- pital. (Continuea on Page Two.) tional sentence of 100 days suspend- ed for carrying concealed weapons, AN Al-lEN PAlR;Two Pilots,mee Children; Burn in Resulting Fire | ORLANDb, Fla. March 18—Four- Houses Destroyed teen different nationalities are re- . presented on the Washington bas ball club this spring and two play- | ers are aliens. plane crashed today into the heart Joe Karkaukas, a young pitcher |0f Kurume, on northern Kyushu from Canada, is a Lithuanian, while | Island, killing at least five persons. Roberto Estalella, utility infielder,] TWo pilots are dead and three is a Cuban. children burned in the fire result- Peter Jablonowski Appleton and|ing from the crash, which destroy- Joe Bokina, both hurlers, are Pol-|ed three houses. 1 ish. Pitcher Henry Coppola is Ital-| The crash brought to thirteen ian and Pitcher Frank Peticolas is|the death toll of seven naval plane French. First-Baseman Joe Kuhel | crashes since March 1. R Glacier National Monument is situated on the shores of Prince Willlam Sound and contains ap- proximately 1,820 square miles of glaciers and ice-covered peaks of the first rank, among which are TOKYO, March 18—A Japanese Sabo is a Hungarian, and Coach Earl McNeely is Scotch. Pitcher Jimmy De Shong is French and Dutch. Pitcher Ken Raf- fensberger is Dutch and Manager Bucky Harris is Welch. Pitcher Ed Comedian, Leading Lady to “Hang Around for (Associ- with Ketchikan C.C. THURSDAY Hoids Hawaiians INITIAL FILING PITTSBURGH'S cion . Nafive Americans MADE FOR CITY POWER PLANTS FLOODED OVER {City Faces Darkness and Business Paralysis as River Rises Steadily | PITTSBURGH, Penn., March 18. | —The city faced darkness and busi- ness paralysis as two major power plants sank under flood waters and a third was endangered. Street cars stopped McNair proclaimed a holiday. The schools arfd colleges closed, as flood waters raced through dozens of buildings downtown. Hundreds were | marooned within. A blast in a private home, cause for which is yet undetermined, in- jured 30 refugees, some seriously. The river reached a record-break- ing stage of 44.1 feet, 19.1 above the flood stage fo I e BILL TO TIE " LOBBYISTS " HANDS READY {Judiciary Committee Ap- proves Plan Requiring Registration, Etc. ‘ Hundreds WASHINGTON, March 18.—The " Three Months { House of ‘Representatives Judiciary e | Committee approved today the bill SINGAPORE, March 18.—Char-| requiring registration of Congres- lie Chaplin has arrived here with| gional lobbyists. The bill also stipu- his leading lady Paulette Goddard.| iates that persons and organizations He announced his intention to|collecting money to use in working “hang about ":is part of the world for or against legislation must file three m_onms, strengthening the | monthly reports with the House belief this time might be spent in| Clerk. honeymooning. | - > - ' Neither Chaplin nor Miss Goddard o would confirm intentions to m:lrr,\"Beer Dnnke‘" Al]owed | here. | 40 Minutes to the Mug Miss Goddard was leading lady| MgEMPHIS, Tenn. March 18—Is | in Chaplin's latest picture “Mod-|40 minutes a reasonable time for! ern Times !quaffmg a mug of beer? T T | City Judge Moore decided it was ? Mt. quaker, the second_mounmm and dismissed a case charging a res- in size in the Mt. McKinley Na-|taurant owner with selling beer af- tional Park, reaches an altitude of ter 1 a. m, | 17000 feet, and Mount Russell,| The case was made at 1:30 o'clock, Linke is German, Cateher Jimmy|Mount Fairweather, Lituya, La Pe-|Which marks the southwest corner| put the two imbibers said they had | Starr is of Jewish descent and rouse, and several others not yet!of the park, rises to an altitude bought the beverage at 10 minutes Pitcher Dick Lanahan is Irish. named. of 11,500 feet. before 1. LIVES SNUFFED OUT: THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS Marooned and Property Damages Reach Millions | JOHNSTOWN SUFFERS FROM ANOTHER BLOW Snow, Rain, Tornadoes Add to- Suffering—Govern- ment Aid Extended BULLETIN — Philadel- phia, March 18.—The dead frem floods in the state of Pennsylvania reached 18 at noon today, bringing total of dead to 34 at that hour in all sections. BULLETIN — Washing- ton, March 18.—The Chief Petty Officer in charge of the Naval Reserve Radio Unit at Johnstown, Pa., re- ported in a broadcast at 2:40 o’clock this afternoon that the “dam is breaking and the town will be wiped' out. Our station is now mov- ing to higher ground.” MISERY IN EAST PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Mar. 18. — Surging floods have spread death, great property damage and misery through- out the east. Seventeen persons are known to have met death and others are missing. Property damage already reported has reached into the millions of dollars. Thousands are homeless and hundreds are marooned. Communications lines are crippled in all directions and and Mayor Lransportation demoralized. Snow, rain and even torna- does are causing added suffer- ing. Johnstown Hit Johnstown, in this state, has suffered the worst flood since 2,235 persons perished in 1889 when a wall of water swept that section. Water from the rampaging Conemaugh river covers the sections from six to ten feet in depth. National guardsmen are on the scene and attempting to rescue those marooned, some from second story windows. Food and medicine is on the way by row boats to several districts. A bursting dam at Rossiter killed four. Western Maryland and Northern Virginia are experi- encing ten feet of water. Cumberland, in Maryland, experienced a flood early last evening and high water con- tinues today. Pittsburgh Flooded The main downtown streets of Pittsburgh are flooded. Several hundred children were marooned late yesterday in schools in various parts of North Carolina. High winds unroofed build- ings near the coast. Snow has fallen to a depth (Continued on Page Turee)