The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7225. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NATIONAL CAPITAL IS ENDANGERED NAZI GERMAN |_]NAN|M—[]IISV[]'|'Ei Where European Crisis Centers 1] IS RETURNED ON Y CONDEMNED HITLER'S MOVE Government Bitterly As- salled as Breaker of Treaties DECISIVE ACTION IS EXPECTED TOMORROW Signatory Powers Reported Already Agreed on Procedure LONDON, March 19.— « The Council of the League of Nations today condemn- ed the German Government under President Adolf Hit- ler as a treaty breaker. The vote was unanimous on beth the question of de- nunciation of the Versailles Treaty and Locarno Treaty. The issue of remilitariz- ing the Rhineland, ordered demilitarized at the end of the Werld War, was equal- ly condemned as the break- ing of the treaties. The unanimous vote was taken soon after Gen. Joachim von Ribbentrop, Special Am- bassador for President Hitler, argued before the treaty signatories, that the German course of action in the Rhine- land was justified, especially after France’s military assist- ance pac t with the Soviet Union. Following the vote , the Council adjourned until to- morrow when the question of what to do next will be de- cided. French Foreign Minister Flandin said France, Belgium, Great Britain and Italy have reached an ageement, in prin- cipal, on procedure. The shaded portion of this Associated Press map shows the tarized under conditions of the Versailles Rhineland zone del Treaty—the area into which Adolf Hitler dispatched troops. left bank comes under treaty provisions. The right bank was to be demilitarized by Germany itself. den area has precipitated a grave crisis. UNEAU TAKES AL HONORS IN - DECLAMATIONS ;High School__S;udenls Win Three First Prizes in i S. E. Alaska Meet KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 19.| | —Juneau took all ‘three first prizes in the Southeast Alaska Declama~- |tion Contests, held last evening in | the Ketchikan High School. | Winners in the oratorical division |were: Tom Stewart, of Juneau,| first; Margaret Anderson, of Pet- ersburg, second; Jack Brounty, of | Ketchikan, third. Humorous division: Patricia Har- |1and, of Juneau, first; Norma Kub~ ley, of Ketchikan, second; Clara Lando, of Petersburg, third. Dramatic: Joe Sterling, of Ju= neau, first; Edith Hardcastle, of Ketchikan, second; Margaret Tve= ten, of Petersburg, third. Subjects of the Juneau speakers | were: Tom Stewart, “The Strange “Ladies | | Joe| | Drama”; Patricia Harland, |Aid at the Local Theatre”; Sterling, “The Tell-tale Heart.” CHAMBER HEARS MANY SPEAKERS OF PROMINENCE Croson Makes Principal Talk—Charles W. Hope, | Eagen Laud Scenery | | “We are living in an age of fchange,” stated Attorney Carl E.| Croson in an address at the Cham-| ber of Commerce luncheon in the | Terminal Cafe today. “We are en- tering into a new age and a new world from the standpoint of the| business man,” he said. i The Military occupation of the forbid- | “The trend of the times has been toward commissions and bureaus,"l ALL QUIET WITH MANVILLES? Out of a welter of broken glass N. Y., home of Tommy Manville, Marcella Edwards Manville, love haps only temporarily. A short Tommy called a policeman to arre ,.The argument ended, however, with the disputants holding hands and the policeman looking relieved. reigned over the battlefield. (Associated Press Photo) Death Toll Mounts in Flood Zone; 200,000 Are - Homeless, Requiring Aid BULLETIN—PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 19.— At least 94 persons are dead and many more missing, believed to have been drowned, and 200,000 are home- less in 11 States. The unverified death toll is well above 100. Deaths, by States, follows: Pennsylvania, 56; West Virginia, 16; Virginia, 4; Vermont, 4; North Carolina, 9. 2; Georgia, setts, 3; New Hampshire, 1, Maryland, 2; New York 2; Massachu- and in Washington, D. C., 2. Unofficial estimates, which are incomplete, place the property came at more The Red Cross officials on aid. 2 MORE STATES | THREATENED BY RISING RIVERS Menacing Waters Move| Into West Virginia | and Also Ohio 'JOHNSTOWN DAM | IS STILL HOLDING Pestilence Feared Along| and chinaware at the New Rochelle, than $150,000,000. said 150,000 are dependent POTOMAG RIVER IS RISING AT ALARMING RATE Walls of Sa_n:igags Hurried- ly Placed Along Banks as Precaution ARMY, NAVY PLANES ARE BEING MOVED Bridge to Virginia Closed —High Crest Expect- with Food Shortage— asbestos heir, and his fourth wife, emerged trum’phant-— nally or per- 1 Pl'OPefl}’ Damage Huge while before this peaceful scene, st Mrs. Manville in a slight dispute. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 19. ~The worst floods in the history This photo was. snapped as peace |{,r the Eastern part of the United Father of Greek Republic Dies; Exiled in France PARIS, March 19.—Elutherio Venizelos, seven times Premier of Greece, died here where he fled after a ten-day revolt fail- ed a year ago. Venizelos was known as the “Father of the Greek Republic.” He was 72 years old. Death was due to la grippe complications. T o R PARTY ARRIVES :Queslion of Moose Hall Virginia and Ohio today. Already the death toll is 71. | DELVE FURTHER Pestilence, food and drinking! water shortages have intensified | the destitution and misery of un-| INTU sTRlKE AT counted thousands who are home-| | | Property damage is already esti- ! mated into the tens of millions of dollars. | Some localities report receding | waters but danger threatens other| sections. | Wellsburg, in West Virginia, is |one community hard hit where nine are reported to have been drowned. There are seven feet of water in| Wheeling's main streefs. less. Committee Authority Thoroughly Aired Authority given a committee chos- | en at a meeting in Moose Hall a few States moved menacingly into West, Politicians Wondering if Corporation Tax Increase Will Be Harmful for FDR STOCK MARKET RECOVERS FROM PREVIOUS LOSS Gains from Fractions to Three Points Report- ed Today NEW YORK, March 19— The Stock Market more than recovered recent losses today with gains of fractions to three points predomi- nating. Although the flood situation is bad, it is improved over yesterday, and this aided in recovery together with a better foreign aspect loom- ing. There was selective buying durirg the session and despite late profit taking, the close today wzs firm. Transfers totalled 2,100,000 shares. ‘Widow of Former Fair- CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, March 19.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 124%, American Power and Light Mr. Croson said. “In the last few years there has been a “tendency| to place government in the hands| of individuals, with resulting var- iables in interpretation of laws.” | BY PLANE FROM Humans Are Fallible The danger of the latter form of days before the Alaska Juneau mine re-opened lasy July 5 after the walk- out and shut-down’ became an issue of considerable moment at the labor | tion against the mine brought by |hearing this morning in which | charges of employment discrimina- | The threatened dam break at Johnstown has been averted tem-| porarily but danger is still acute.| The Connecticut River has brok-! en over the lowlands in many sec-( tions, bridges have been washed | away and towns flooded. | ALASKA FOX FAVORED AT FUR AUGTION Sale in Tacoma Results in Buyers Spending $75,- 000 for Pelts TACOMA, Wash., March 19.—Cape furs were in strong demand at the monthly fur auction held here and buyers paid $75,000 for pelts. Alaska fox pelts were particularly favored. Buyers predicted a further price 5 government, Mr. Croson said, is| By BYRON PRICE that the human mind is fallibe| (Chief of Bureau, The Associated|,nq may be influenced by emotions | Press, Washington.) of the hour, day or period, whereas | Experienced politicians are having | government by rule and fixed, def-| special difficulty determining wheth- | jnjte law is inflexible and ‘“you er Mr. Roosevelt will gain or lose | know when you commit a 'fou]"" politically by his proposal to increase | Mr Croson quoted ohservnnonsi | the tax on corporation incomes. of Abraham Lincoln with regard | To his benefit most of them count ¢, employer-employee relations. The ! |the fact that he has made a sweeDP- | roat president stated, Mr. Croson |ing gesture toward budget-balanc- isaid. that he did not know the| |ing; the fact that he has put for-/g4isterence between an employer and ward an issue involving only & mini-| o5 0yee, as in the cycle of human | [WPB IS i kR ot constitutional | ;eo”yon who start out seeking em- | ‘:gmundx, and "h? fact that hig Elv' ployment become employers of |Tort can be explained by Democratic |, orc My Croson mentioned the ::m:) ity Dt the | william McKinley “full dinner-pail” | | ] | campaign with regard to efforts to!' | That, however, i:s only one side of ‘provlde work for everyone, and| |the argument. His opponents &re i, hoq ypon the “Trust-busting” Lseelng to it that the other side also" activities of the Theodore Roosevelt &ggzzfl;:gewmzhz.fl;fi& iher 1 administration, resulting in the |Sherman Anti-Trust Law, which | “the corporations” will not prompt- | |ly pass the tax along to the rank | land file of individgal income tax | {payers, who also afe voters. They | increase in the spring. Mr. Croson said he considers a suc- cess. Smaller Units Urged Many of the men in charge of NOME, DEERING Merchants, Enroute to States, Favor Manufac- | ture of Goods in North Mr. and Mrs. A. Polet and S. W. Taggart of Nome, and Boris Magi of Deering, arrived here at 4:30| o'clock yesterday afternoon aboard the 10-place Pilgrim transport plane flown by Pilot L. F. Barr of White- horse. Mr. Polet, who is proprietor of a general merchandise firm in Nome, president of the Nome Harbor and Lighterage Company, Secretary of 4he Board of the Northern Air Trans- port, and secretary-treasurer of the Nome Chamber of Commerce, is en- route to the States on his annual buying trip. He has with him a beau- tifully constructed ship model carved from ivory by King Island natives, which will be placed on exhibition somewhere in Juneau | neys when Trikl Examiner Charles | | W. Hope endeavored to determine | | | Local 203, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers are being threshed out. i Robert A Kannviden, who was on | the committee, was on the witness | stand and had been questioned by both defense and government attor- | Binghampton is one of the large (Continued on Page Three) | PITTSBURGH from Kannviden just what author- ity the committee had. 3 Factions at Meeting The witness explained the meeting | WATER TnDAY in Moose Hall was made up of Union | i men, non-union men and members | ~. et il |City Isolated from Outside of the Juneau Mine Workers As- sociation. The committee was named Worl d‘_candles Used | | for Lighting | from the floor and instructed to call on L. H. Metzgar, General Superin- tendent of the mine, and find out if he would not delay opening of the PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 19.— mine a few days to give more time in | This city is inundated and isolated | which to endeavor to reach a settle- |today on account of the flood wat- | ment. It was also to confer with the |ers. | ed by Nightfall | WASHINGTON, March 19.—The Potomac River is threatening the National Capital of the United States today. Officials believed that the river will rise 20 feet above normal by nightfall. Relief workers started hurriedly early this morning piling up huge walls of sandbags along the water- front to protect the foundations of the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial and nearby Fed- eral structures one quarter of a mile from the White House. The famous Japanese cherry trees are in thé path of the waters of the Potomac. Planes Moved Army and Navy planes were mov- ed from Bolling Field and the Naval Station early this morning. The bridge connecting the Capital City with Virginia has been closed. Water pipes on the bridge are num- erous and should the bridge go out, many Virginia towns will be with- out water. Rail travel in all directions is | uncertain. PRESIDENT POSTPONES FLORIDA FISHING TRIP WASHINGTON, March 19.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has postponed his fishing trip to Florida for at least 24 hours to watch developments of the flood situation not only here but elsewhere in the Eastern States. The President planned to leave for the South today on a pleasure and fishing trip. FLOOD RELIEF PROCLAMATION Trustees of the Union and determ- | ine if it were possible to reach an | agreement. Kannviden said Mr. Metzgar re- | Candles were used last night for | lighting purposes as all power sta- i {Roosevelt Asks U. S. Citi MRS, HOWELL PASSES AWAY banks Mining Man, Dies in Seattle SEATTLE, March 19.—Mrs. Leah i | point out that most of “the corpora- tions” are comparatively small con- | cerns, some of them merely incor- porated local firms back in the home town. They attack the plan as a |blow at thrift, and a damper on in- dustrial expansion just when things are picking up. | There is, consequently, no gen- |era] agreement among the politici- ans as to the net result, nationally, n terms of votes. Largest Ivory Ship large industrial units have not been mpe gnin model, which is recog- quick enough to recognize the 64 g the largest miniature vessel |change in economic tonditions af-|ever constructed of ivory, was made |fecting working men, Mr. Croson ny Romeo Atangana and Peter Ku- said, ‘but added that it is possible pap poth natives of King Island. business may again go back 10 Two winters and three summers smaller units. were required to complete the I Mr. Croson urged thought and markably correct model of the form- | consideration by business men With er United States Coast Guard cut- |regard to the ible change from | ter Bear, now the Bear of Oakland, |government by rules of law t0|used by Admiral Byrd in his antact- ceived the committee and said that |outside world is by airplanes. was the kind of a committee he had | Mayor McNair issued orders early been wanting to meet. He told them, |this morning against profiteering, the witness said, that had they come after grocery prices soared. a week earlier he might have been| Row boats are plying the streets able to delay but that it was too late {and are being used in various sec- at that time as he had all ready |tions to rescue citizens who are ma- planned to reopen and that there‘rooned_ were men ready to go to work. Kann- The property damage already done viden said the Superintendent ex- in this city was estimated at twerty- plained he had postponed opening |five million dollars up to the morn- | tions were out of commission. The only communication with the . o zens to Raise Three Ml lion Dollars, Red Cross WASHINGTON, March 19.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, in an official procla- mation today, has asked United States citizens to raise three million dollars for Red Cross work in the flooded areas of the East. SAN FRANCISCO, March 19.— 117%, Anaconda 36, Bethlehem Steel 56%, Curtiss-Wright 8%, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 2%, General Motors 64, International Harvester 87%, Ken- necott 38%, United States Steel 73%, Cities Service 5%, Pound $497%, Beeing Airplane 24%, Unit- ¢, ed Aircraft 27%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, hotel room, stricken with an attack |pears to be approaching a dead end. : Industrials, 157.40; of the heart as she was. talking - s 5 Jones aver: rails, 47.88; htilities, 32.11. Lawson Howell, aged 55, widow of the late Sylvester Howell, Fairbanks | 1n one pojitical sense, Mr. Roose- mining man and manager of his el has struck out in a new direc- | properties, is dead here. She went!gjon B . to Fairbanks 12 years ago. Surviv-\ por three years he has been fos- | ing relatives include a sister, Mrs.!tering a succession of what are com- | Camille Hummey, of Vancouver, B. monly called “social” readjustments. Nearly all of these projects have en- Funeral arrangements have not countered constitutional challenges, yet been made. |and talk of removing the barriers Mrs. Howell died suddenly in her py constit u tional amendment ap- importance of | preparation for changing existing business methods to meet that condition. Hope Lauds Scenery Charles W. Hope, Trial Examiner at the hearing now being conducted | by the National Labor Relations| New Kind of Issue |government by some human agency |tic expeditions. |and stressed the “The New Deal” Its length from bowsprit to stern is 32 inches, from keel to top of the mast, 21 inches, and its beam is 6 inches. The name inscribed on the model ivory boat is “¥ie New Deal.” Natives of Diomede Island have long been accorded the honor of con- two or three times at the request of ivanuus groups and that he could not |delay further. | Called on Trustees The committee then called on the trustees and tried to get together, the witness said,"but was unable to make any progress. At this point the Trial Examiner asked Kannviden if the committee felt it had the right to Board, - remarked that he expects struction of the finest and largest | bargain collectively with Mr. Metz- to tell all of his friends, upon his model vessels from ivory, but the|gar, and the witness replied that it return to the States, that if they with her sister. ! (Continued on Page T) (Continued on Page Two) completion of “The New Deal” es- (Continued on~ ;Argei Five) represented all the employees’ (Continuea on Page Two.) ing. Alaska’s quota in the Red Cross flood MORE DEATHS FEARED | 'o.°f funds will be $1.800. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 19.—| Reports that 20 have been drowned | Cutrate Baths in the suburban sections, Etna and Sharpsburg, were made this after-| TOKYO—Barbers and bathhouse noon. As it now is, the flood toll| keepers cut their rates in half is the largest in Pittsburgh's his- when the Japanese navy put into tory and may %op 35. | Tokyo Bay recently at the conclu- Army Engineers are stationed sion of two and a half months of along the Allegehany River, it \s;mnneuvers in the northwest Pa- said, supervising work against the cific. Some 40,000 bluejackets flood waters. Iswarmed ashore.