The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1936, Page 1

3 | 4 I L] i . THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7148. _ F——— SPLIT OCCURS, UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF C. Mstor InduEWalks Out | —Neither Side Will | Make Comment { WASHINGTON, April 14—The | Automobile Manufacturers Asso- ciation, trade organization of the: motor industry, has resigned from the United States Chamber of Com- merce | Except to confirm the walkout, | neither business group will make | any comment, Informed business circles said the motor manufacturers have not been satisfied with the Chambers’ sup-, port of the Federal bus and truck legislation. WHITE GROUP | ENDS SESSION | IN DOUBLAS | | | | Platform Asks Election of{ Labor Commissioner in Terntory Last of the Republican sessions in Douglas were concluded at 5:30] o'clock yesterday afternoon in I.! 0. O. F. Hall where the delibera- | tions -began last Thursday morn- ing. The group, headed by Terri- torial Chairman Albert White, drew up a platform yesterday, adopted it after but a small amount of discus- sion, named Elton E. Engstrom new Territorial Chairman to succeed Mr. White and adjourned after dispos- ing of routine business. « The group made the following recommendations for Divisional| Committeemen: First Division.| Howard Stabler, Juneau; Second,| Richard Sundquist, Candle; Third, J. Lindley Green, Anchorage; Fourth, no recommendation. H In closing remarks Mr. White reiterated to the delegates that he believed they would get a fair deal at Cleveland and that he was sat- isfied Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, Presidential aspirant, would see that they got it. “Im not trying to tell this dele- gation to go back to Cleveland and | support Borah,” he said, “but I do assure you that I can put the sit- uation before Mr. Borah and we! can be sure of getting a square deal. We can show them in Cleve- land that we are the Republican Party in Alaska. We went under the unit rule in this convention to keep from being crushed, and we'll be able to show them in Cleveland why we did.” Mr. White in a statement today asked the public to “withhold judg- ment. of the regular Republican organization which held its con- vention at Douglas until all the facts are known.” . Henry Benson said today as rep- resentative in Alaska of the Young Republican National Federation that organization will continue to support and cooperate with E. A. Rasmuson as National Committee- man, and Albert White as Terri- torial Chairman. Resolutions were passed thanking the City of Douglas, the Chamber of Commerce, the Oddfellows in whose hall the sessions were held and the chairman for fine co- operation and hospitality. Thanks also was extended The Empire for the fair and unbiased manner: in which it reported the convention. The platform’ follows:. We reaffirm - our allegiance to the principles of the Republican Party, as founded by Abraham Lin- coln, which principles have guided the ship of State through storm and stress, and through which the United States of America as grown to be the greatest nation of the world. We declare our allegiance to the Constitution of the United States as the greatest document ever written by the hand of man for the governing of a people; and we declare our allegiance to the Supreme Court as safeguard against autocracy and dictatorship. We condemn the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, his Brain Trust and New' Dealers as subver- sive to the principles of the Con- stitution tending to the ruin of a democratic form of government; (Continued on Page Seven) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" PRESIDENTIAL CA David A. Lamson, who once was convicted and sentenced to death c¢n a echarge cf slaying his wife Allene at their Stanford campus home met his 5-year-cld daughter Allene for the first time in nearly fhree years when he was freed as charges were dismissed after two succeeding trials in the San Jose, Cal, Superior Court ended in a deadlock. Litile Allene a few minutes shouted, “| neck, as shown here. (A DIPLOMATS OF ETHIOPIA AND ITALY TO MEET Britain and France Un- agreed as to Procedure as League Urges Peace GENEVA, April 14—The League of Nations today attempted through direct negotiations to de- termine the immediate prospect of peace between Italy and Ethiopia. Salvador de Madariaga of Spain, President of the League’s Commit- tee of Thirteen, discussed the pros- pect with the Ethiopian envoy, while Italy’s representative traveled from Rome to attend the conclave. The British sought to make settle- ment in the Ethior{an conflict as the advance guard in a campaign for establishment of a new European security system, while the French remained equally determined to make a settlement of the Rhineland crisis with Germany number one on the list of things which must be done in Europe. Diplomatic sources in Paris said France had reached the point where she must choose between either Italy or Great Britain as her best friend. Meanwhile, Italy moved ahead in Ethiopia, tightening her grip on the whole northern area, while air planes spread terror in the Interior. The Ethiopian government assert- edto the League that Italian forces had poison-gassed thirteen Ethio- pian cities. . VICTORIA NOW ONWAY NORTH SEATTLE, April 14—Steamer Vic- | toria sailed for Southeast Alaska Triangle Route at 9 o'clock this morning with 121 first class passen- gers and 49 steerage passengers. Bookings aboard the Victoria for Juneau include E. F. Conroy, Eva Franklin, H. E. Olds, L. V. Inquist, T. Cole, Rex Hartman and wife, A. T. Cortelyou, W.. F. Freimuth, E. L. Click, E. C. Schleuter, Joyne Lynn and John F. Wolf. ————— The average service station price of gasoline in Italy recently was 80 cents a gallon as compared with 18.8 cents in the United States. did not know her father but after dy,” and flung her arms arcund his ted Press Photo) Communists t Develop 8,000 Ne! Aviators Youth League Secretary | Warns of Anti-Soviet Agreemeni MOSCOW, April 14—A. V. Kos- |areff, Secretary-General of the Communist Youth League, told the organization’s Congress that it must train 8,000 new air pilot this year. Kosareff pictured Soviet Russia as surrounded by enemies and as- serted a secret anti-Soviet agree- ment exists between Germany and {Japan, adding that Poland is also lin very close relation to the agree- ment. — fis s ponobnceesh L STOCK QUOTATIONS L4 00000000000 NEW YORK, April 14.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14, American Can 11217%, American Power and Light 12, Anaconda 38z, Bethlehem Steel 607, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 2'%, General Motors 677%, International Harvest- er 76'%, Kennecott 40'z, United States Steel 69%, Cities Service 4%, | Pound $4.94%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES ! The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: Industrials 158.41, rails 39.03, utilities 32.38: 'KRISTIE SATHER HERE { FROM WASHINGTON Miss Kristie Sather, formerly con- nected with the Bureau of indian | Affairs here, and wellknown to !many Juneau residents, arrived on (the Alaska from Washington, D. C., iwhere she has been employed as | secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs offices for the past three | years. | Miss Sather, who is on her vaca- tion, will be in Juneau for a month | during which time she will be con- ‘nec!ed with the Bureau of Indian | Affairs here. She will then go to Nome where she will visit her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Sather, un- | til September. She plans to return | to Washington, D. C., by Ogtober 1, to resume her duties there. Miss Sather is employed in the Educational Division of the Bureau at Washington, under Paul L. Fick- inger, Assistant Director of Educa- tion (Administrative). HOLZHEIMER IN FINE DEFENSE, OF RODSEVEL Democratic Women Hear U. S. Attorney Flay Liberty League Assailing the American = Liberty { League as “the worst bunch of eut- | throats and pirates that ever scut-, tled a ship of state,” and Al Smith.l one-time presidential candidate, as ! “chief renegade of them all,” U. 8.} night denied charges of Republi= can and Liberty League adherents! that the Democratic Party had, in {any essential points, repudiated its 1932 platform. } Speaking before the Democratic Women of Gastineau Channel, as- sembled in the Northern Light] Presbyterian church under the berli-l porary chairmanship of first vme'-I president Mrs. Vera Kaser, Mr.| | Holzheimer dissected, point by po:nt, | i{ that much-debated platform, and ! pointed out, in each instance, how | President Roosevelt had in all wbys[ kopt the faith insofar as determined | big business opposition had nllow-! ed him to do so. “His own apparent failure has been in the matter of balancing the' budget,” Judge Holzheimer deeclar-: ed. “And for that Roosevelt is to be | honored rather than be blamed. It ! | was a matter of saving money or | | saving human lives, and President | Roosevelt was man enough to choose {the humanitarian and honorable | course.” | “Under One Tent | Scathingly the Judge rebuked big | business for its continuous opps- | sition to Presidential effogts to- |ward a stable national recovery. | “There are some Democrats, just as there are some Republicans, who | really adhere to the principles of ‘ncither party, and are in politics {at all only for the purpose of sec- | uring power,” he said. “If for noth- : ing else, President Roosevelt should | be honored because he forced such | members of both parties to come out {in their true colors under the same | tent. I refer to the American Lib- erty League—a group of persons who were decidedly not for the | 1932 Democratic platform yet who | are now loudest of all in their accu- | sations that Roosevelt did not fulfill | its promises.” { On Taking A Walk ! Of Al Smith, one-time Democratic | candidate for President, now prom- | ineny American Liberty Leaguer | I:md one of Roosevelt's bitterest op- (Continued on Page Three) ROOSEVELT TO Jobs Only to Those Be- tween 18 and 65 BALTIMORE, April 14.—Pledg- | ing new consideration to some arms | of the dead NRA, President Roose- | velt last night put forward a ten-| tative suggestion limiting “active working ages from both ends" by; giving jobs only to those between 18 | and 65. In a ‘speech broadedst nationally | from the Young Democratic Club| of Maryland and meeting the Presi- dent, deelared “Flaming youth has become a flaming question.” The address followed a torchlight parade. 4 To Egtend School Age Concerning other political activ- ities, the Chief Executive said, “You have a right to expect those in au-| thority to do everything in their power to help restore conditions and opportunities. It seems reason- able that industry can contribute in a great measure to increase em- ployment if the hours are reduced and at the same time pay is not low- ered. We in the government will seek to extend the school age in every state in the union to make it easier for boys and girls to stay in school. Addresing himself directly to youth, Roosevelt declared, “The per- iod of social pioneering is only in} its beginning. The total production|Janet Preston’ became 'the *Easter | of industry is about back to its high JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS - DIDATES FIGHTING TORNADO FLATTENS GEORGIA CITY, KILLS 18 Attorney William A. Holzheimer last | A devastating tornado that twisted through Cordele, Ga., left the city largely a scene of heaped debris and widespread suffering. Eighteen persons were killed, and many were homeless as hundreds of homes lay in ruins. This general scene of th plintered wreckage gives a vivid picture of the damage done by the storm. Mour men were killed in a store, whose wreckage may be seen in the center of the picture next to the street. At legst 39 were killed in storms In various southern communities. (Associated Press Photo) NEW HIGH SCHOOL WRECKED BY TERRIFIC STORM The new high school building which ripped through the city. Eighteen were kil uctlom‘::; the saugh brought the total toll to at least 39 lives. (Associated Pres: Japan Stiffens Border at Cordele, Ga by the Cordele stor: Patrol for Manchuokuoi sources today . Although great secrecy continues to surround Japanese activities in western Manchoukuo, near the Rus- TU quK AGE‘accardinc to advices £rom informed | er, { | i | | President Suggests Giving sian border, reports say they are| making ready for concentration of a large body of troops. Many believe the first step in hos- tilities to be imminent. PLOT REVEALED TOKYO, April 14—Officials of the Japanese army today said six I KALGAN, Inner Mongolia, April | Mongo officials had been seized for | ! 14—Modern military equipment, in- | participation in a plot apparemly‘ | cluding landing fields and wireless | instigated by Soviet agents. | FAvuR LIM'T | stations, has been established in| Russian and Japanese patrols | this territory by Japanese agencies, | clashed Saturday at the Ussuri Riv- according to advices from mili-| tary headquarters, which said the | Russians fired the first shot. | No casualities were mentioned. Moscow continues to be silent. STATEMENT FROM MOSCOW MOSCOW, April 14.—The alleg- ed Japanese charge that the Soviet Union is involved in a plot to sep- arate Hsingan Province from Man- choukuo and join it to Outer Mon- golia, is termed a ridiculous fancy,| | according to official sources. RESIGNS FROM WPA POSITION Washington State Adminis- trator Gannon Leaves Job June | TACOMA, Wash.,, April 14. — George H. Gannon announces his WOMAN T0 DIE UPON GALLOWS {British Home Secretary Re-| fuses Clemency in Murder Case | LONDON, April 14—The Home | | Secretary has refused clemency to COPPER PRICE hown here, was practically destroyed by a tornado 'm, and tornadies in several other Photo) T0 BE PUT UP Sales Reported Heavy— Kennecott Company to Increase NEW YORK, April’ 14.—One lead- {ing copper producer will take final steps to establish a domestic cop- per market on a firm 9': cents a pound basis. Copper sales are extremely heavy There is one rumor that mining will be increased, among them the | Frazier-Lemke Bill Invades Nal. Pulitics’ Co-author of Measure Threatens to Carry It, Political Campaign WASHINGTON, April 14—A plan resignation as State PWA Adminis- | Mrs. Dorothy Waddingham, aged i, carry the fight over the Frazier- trator effective June 1. He defended | 34, nurse and a mother of five|yemye Farm Debt Refinancing bill | el 509, upie sentence to be ;i the political campaigns in 20/Six persons have died here as the WPA in principle but regretted the shortage of funds and conse- quent laying off of men. Fairbanks Woman Married on Easter FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 14— bride of Rollin Livesly, formerly hanged on Taurscay. ! The woman was convicted on Feb- | ruary 27 for the killing of a patient | at a nursing home. Il Wor an Rushed to Anchorage Hospital ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 14— Mrs. Adam Simons, of Willow | points before the depression, but,of Seattle. She is the daughter Creek, is resting easily after an| only eight per cent as many per- of George Preston, of Fairbanks. emergency operation. She was rush-i sons are engaged in its operation " The newlyweds will reside here. led here by plane. or 30 States has been announced by Representative Lemke, Republi- can, North Dakota, co-author of the measure. Representative Lemke predicted introduction of the bill into the campaign could cause Congressional casualties in Illinois, Ohio, Penn- sylvania, and New York City. A petition to force the bill from the committee on to the House floor fell half a dozen signatures short of the required 218. ILLINOIS IS BATTLEGROUND FOR POLITICS |State Primary Is Being | Held Today—Bitter ? Fight Waged |BORAH IS CONTESTING WITH COLONEL KNOX iRoosevell and Idaho Man | Have It Their Own ‘ Way in Nebraska CHICAGO, Ill, April 14.—Illinois today became the battleground of two contenders for the Republican Presidential nomination. United States Senator Willlam E. Borah, of Idaho, and Col. Frank Knox, of Chicago, are the conten- ders in today's primaries. President Roosevelt is unopposed | on the Democratic side. Admit Fight Supporters of both Borah and Knox early today admitted the fight was on and it was also admitted bit- ter contests are being waged over | state offices. | Some observors estimate that 2.- 400,000 votes will be cast in the state today. In Nebraska In Nebraska, President Roosevelt and Senator Borah are not opposed in the respective Democratic and Republican primaries. The Republi- can dlegates, however, will not be | instructed. Prohibition Party | The Prohibition Party officials announced here today that a plat- | torm will be adopted on May 6 at a convention to be held at Niagara Falls D. Leith Colvin, of New York, is considered as a possible presidential nominee and keynoter. VIOLENCE BREAKS OUT OMBCAGO, 111, April 14.—Violence accompanied by a record turnout of voters occurred in this city to- | day. The voting opened with a salute of police bullets as four election | workers were reported abducted. i Complaints of mistreatment of political workers came chiefly from | supporters of Gov. Henry Horner, | battling the Chicago Democratic nomination of renomination against Dr. Herman N. Bundesen. One wholesale arrest was made by | Police Capt. Patrick Collins who seized 21 men. He charged all are known convicts doing election and ipatrol work for Horner. | e e 12THVICTI LINER CRASH, PASSES AWAY |Only Man to Escape Instant Death at Time, Dies in Hospital UNIONTOWN, Pa., April 14— | The crash of the airliner a week |ago has claimed the twelfth vic- |{tim, C. G. Challinor, the only man to escape instant death at the Itime of the crash, died last night |after two operations for amputa- |tion of part of his left leg. | s EPIDEMIC IS TAKING LIVES spitalme Reported Crowded in Miss- ouri City IHo SPRINGFIELD, Mo, April 14— {result of pneumonia in what physi- |cians termed the worst epidemic iof influenza and pneumonia since 1917. Hospitals are crowded Wil | patients. ] — Henry Cariker and Walter Walk- er, residents of Nome, were recently arrested and lodged in the Federal Jail at Nome on a warrant charg- ing them with stealing reindeer which were the property of the Nome Douglas Reindeer Association and the United States Government.