The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 15, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7149, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —~ PRICE TEN CENTS DUPONT HELPED FINANCE ANTI- NEW DEAL MEET Raskob Also Prominent in Contributions to Southern Demos ‘ { WASHINGTON, April 15.—Testi-| mony that John J. Raskob and Pier- re S. Dupont helped finance the anti-New Deal cenvention of South- ern Democrats shared attention of the Capital today with a president- izl hint of further efforts in behalf of tw) controverted work relief pro- | Jects. A contribution of $5000 received from the former Chairman of the| trialist friend wes reported to Sen- ate Lobby Investigators by Vance Muse, General Manager of the| Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution, which collaborated inj the convention 5 Muse also told of circulating in D. Roosevelt with two negro escorts. These reporis to the Senate coin-| cided with consideration by the, House as to whether or not that| bod cmployment of counsel to fight the Lobby Committee's court battles. | | New Week’s News in Review by Richard H. Hippelheuser NEW YORK, as of week ending April 11.—(By Associated Press)— ics, so much ridicule, “Brain Trust” of Deal. Since the expression was origin- ated by a political writer in the D ) The commission, the majority ruled, had no right to continue its Seldom has anything in American investigation of Jones after the | | politics evoked so many jibes from | withdrawal of the application; such | as the government commissions have no| the Roosevelt authority to carry on extra-legal | inquiries into the private affairs of individuals. ‘The minority opinion, written by | i { BIG CONFERENCE 'OF ARMY HEADS - BEGINS, LONDON British, Fr-ench and Bel- gium General Staffs ! in Session | LONDON, April 15—A confer- | ence of British, French and Belgian '32 campaign, it has been the spec- \Justice Cardozo, ridiculed the ma- | Army General staffs began here to~ I1al delight of the opposition. It was | JOritY. always gcmmn to bl;?:g a laugh at ' Jones had the right of constitu-|of negotiations for a settlement of }a Republican meeting, or a Liberty tional immunity from an SEC in- | the Italio-Ethiopian war and to de- League gathering. But the Republicans have follow- ed the example of the New Deal. They now have their own “Brain Trust.” It was originated by Henry P. Fletcher, Chairman of the Repub- lican National Committee. Thus far, Fletcher has retained the serv- ices of nine prominent college pro- It wanted to know why quiry “If the immunity rests upon day simultaneously with the start cide measures to insure aid against any unprovoked aggression. l some express provision of the con-| The British Government assured stitution,” the minority said, “the|the public that no new political af- opinion of the court does not point | filiations would arise from the con- us to the article or section.” The minority turned down contention of the majority that Jones’ withdrawal was a “stop- order” against further SEC inquir To assume that, the minority the | ference. } FRANCE BOWS BACK | PARIS, April 15.—Official quar- .| ters said late today that a French agreement to aid the British Fleet if fessors. They will have academic gargued, is to say the “statute and | it is attacked in the Mediterranean the south pictures of Mrs. Franklin |2ssistants and all will be pald out jts sanctions become the sport of of National Committee funds. They form the “research divi- sion” of the National Committee. Theirs is the task of preparing legislation for the use of Repub- lican campaigners The G. O. P. “Brain Truster” No. 11 is Prof. O. G. Saxon, of Yale. He | |will be Chief-of-Staff. Two of his lassociates, Charles J. Bullock and | | IMPEACHMENT DELIBERATIONS | HELD, SENATE Fate of Florida Federal' Judge Now Before Up- | per House, Congress WASHINGTON, April 15—After hearing testimony for eight days| and counsel arguments, the Senate locked the doors and began delib- erations on the impeachment charg- | es against Federal Judge Halsled“ L. Litter of the Southern Distict of Florida Court. i The doors of the Senate will be; opened upon conclusion of the de- liberation. Seven ballots will be taken in the | open session. A two third majority is necessary to impeach. STOCK PRICES | RALLY TODAY; 600D ADVANGE Splendid Economic Picture Painted — Gains General NEW YORK, April 15.—Slow but persistent buying of specialties brought rallies to the Stock Mar- ket today and the rallies caused ad- vances of from fractions to two points generally although five or more points gains were scattered. Recovery instances seemed to re- ceive a stimulus from the brighten- ing economic picture. Today's close was firm . CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, April 15.—Closing ouotation of Alaska Juneau mir stock today is 14, American C ¢, 142';, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 39%, Bethlehenr Steel 61%, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 2%, Gen- eral Motors 69%, International Har- vester 87%, Kennecott 40%, United States Steel 70%, Cities Service 5, Pound $4.94%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 159.61, rails 39.68, utilities 32.60. e ———— LEAVES HOSPITAL William Samato, who has been receiving medical treatment at St. Ann’s hospital, was dismissed last night. e, James C. Jackson was discharged from St. Ann’s Hospital today. He has been receiving medical treat- ment there. e ——— T. N. Carver, are emeritus profes- | sors at Harvard | They were on the faculty when| the President was a Harvard stu-| dent. “The division is no: ‘Brain Trust’ n the sense of a small group of personal -advisors named by Presi- dent Roosevelt,” said Chairman Fletcher. “This is a research staff, not a group of politically ambitious | college professors with preconceiv- | ed ideas who look forward to get- knaves.” And, while on the subject of in- vestigations, the Senate Lobby Committee fared much differently should authorize $10,000 for analytical criticism of New Deal in the courts than the SEC. In its inquiry into lobbying, the Senate committee seized numerous | telegrams. One person whose tele- grams were seized, William Ran- dolph Hearst, filed a petition in the District of Columbia courts for an injunction restraining the Sen- ate committee from such seizure or from making use of messages already seized. But Chief Justice Wheat, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, held the court had no jurisdiction over the legislative branch of the government. Counsel for Hearst charged such seizures violated the principle of freedom of the press. To this, Jus- tice Wheat replied: ting on the Federal payroll in the hope they can reform the uni-\ verse.” i Prof. Saxon said his staff would | “put out statistical information. It will not be dyed with propaganda.| We will maintain our integrity and not reach conclusions for purely party purposes.” | “Would you take a walk” Dr.; Saxon was asked, “if any of your| findings were disregarded?” “If anything we put out was per-| verted,” he replied. “Our conclusions,” he said, “will | go to the Chairman, to be given out or not as he sees fit.” At this juncture, Fletcher put in: “If they are not timely, they will not be put out.” In a sense, the Liberty League| antedates the Republicans in adapt- ing the “Brain Trust” idea to their own purposes. Some months ago, the League formed a committee of prominent lawyers to examine New Deal leg- islation. This week, the League made public the committee’s analy- sis of the Supreme Court decision holding the Agricultural Adjust- ment Act unconstitutional. The committee upheld the Su- preme Court majority. The minority opinion in the AAA case, the lawyers' committee said, was “contrary to established con- stitutional law.” The division in the AAA decision was six to three. In the majority were Chief Justice Hughes and As- sociate Justices Roberts, Butler, Van Devanter, Sutherland and Mc- Reynolds! Associate Justices Bran- deis, Stone and Cardozo com- prised the minority. There was this same division this week in the case involving the Securities Exchange Commis- sion. But in the SEC case, the Su- preme Court said it found no ne- cessity of ruling on the constitu- tionality of the legislation regulat- ing the exchanges. The background of the SEC case: J. Edward Jones, a New York dealer in oil royalties, applied to the SEC for the right to issue securities. Before they were put on the market, irregularities were discovered in the application. Jones was summoned to appear before the commission. Instead of doing so0, he went into the Federal courts, testing the legality of the SEC legislation. The Supreme Court was unani- mous in brushing aside the ques- tion of constitutionality. But the majority, holding Jones should have been allowed to with- “Freedom of the press, as term originated, meant the right to criticise the government. No such | question is involved here at all.” The Senate committee, of which Hugo Black is Chairman, gave its attention to the Crusaders. Originally formed to campaign for Prohibition repeal, the Crusad- ers was reorganized in 1932 into an agency opposing “all forces de- | structive to sound, ment.” The Senate committee, free govern- after jshowing the Crusaders had oppos- ed certain New Deal legislation, brought out its principal financial backing has come from business and banking groups. Fred G. Clark, leading spirit in the Crusaders, maintained, however, it was not a lobbying organization for “big business.” “Nobody ever tried to dictate to me,” he declared, “and it wouldn't have done them any good if they had.” THE 36 CAMPAIGN Aside from the G. O. P. “Brain Trust,” Senator William E. Borah dominated the week's political news. The Idaho isolationist, in Tues- | day’s primary, won 21 of Wiscon- sin’s 24 delegates to the Republi- can Convention. Next Tuesday, he goes into the Illinois primary against Colonel Frank Knox, the Chicago publisher. After that comes more contests in the West, some of which should test the strength of Borah as against Kansas' Alf Landon. The Wisconsin primary was Sen- ator Borah's second test of strength against the old line Republican policy of sending uninstructed dele- gations to the convention. The week previous, he lost out to the “Old Guard” in New York State; but the Wisconsin primary dem- onstrated he is a factor to be reckoned with in the Republican Convention. In this campaign, as in others, one of the puzzling quetsions has been this: Will Borah bolt if the nominee is unacceptable to him? He fought with Theodore Roose- velt in 1912; yet he did not go into the “Bull Moose” Party. And other | differences, since then, have not driven him from the party. But in virtually every campaign the ques- tion comes up. This year, the Senator demands a liberal candidate and a liberal platform; he is the bitter fce of araw his application, criticised the Woodward Morrison, who has been at the Government Hospital receiving - medical treatment, was discharged last evening. “inquisitorial” activities of the SEC and likened its action in the Jones case to the “star chamber” methods of England's Stuarts. the old line leadership. To the speculation of what he would do if he loses, he says: “I have no chain about my neck.” (Continued on Page Three) does not hold if England plays a lone hand against Italy. ANOTHER JAPAN COUP REPORTED the | FROMHONGKONG Visits of Warships to Amoy May Start Independence for Fukien Province HONGKONG, April - 15.—~Inform- | ed Chinese sources linked the re- port that seventy Japanese war- ships would visit Amoy about May 5 with the fears that Fukien Pro- vince would declare itself an inde- pendent state These same sources predicted a declaration of independence will be made May 5 to coincide with the ar- rival of the Japanese fleet. It is also said the importation of illicit arms and influx of persons from the Japanese sections has been large lately. One hundred thousand Japanese as reported to have recent- ly arrived in the Fukian Province cities of Amoy, Changchow and Chuanchow. Gen. Chank Fak Wei has sent delegates to Canton to ask for mili- | tary cooperation of the Canton Gov- | ernment if necessary. MINER TRAVELS 3000 MILES T0 ~ REGAIN HEALTH: Beats Way with Snow- shoes to Nearc.t Train ROCHESTER, Mnn.,, April 15— Snowshoes, steamer and train have brought Charles Hagerman, Alas- ka miner, to the Mayo clinic. Undeterred by the fact that the log cabin he shared with four other miners was 300 miles from the near- C., Hagerman and two companions set out in the dead of winter. Seventeen days later, haggard and weary after travel through snow and ice, they reached Hazelton, ions at the railroad. His only concern right now while outside regaining his health is to get back to his placer mine by June. He hopes to take his son back with him from St. Regis, Montana. The estimated trip covered 3000 miles. NURSES’ CARD PARTY NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT A card party will be given by the Gastineau Channel Nurses Associa- sion next Friday night at 8 o'clock at the Parish Hall. Reservations are now being made at a good rate. The proceeds will go to buy an in- cubator and resuscitating unit to be donated to the hospital. PO ) R PROFESSOR ON ALASKA H. M. Henton, professor of mines at the University of Alaska, is a passenger on the Alaska, returning from the states to Fairbanks. 1 est railroad point, at Hazelton, B.| where Hagerman left his compan- | | the liner Talamanca. The girls | itinerary would be Hollywood. Nonstop Flight, Seattle, to Demonstrate Air omes Visit LRSI X induction into wouldn’t rest until Alaska to Mail Service Most Feasible DIMOND SEES FAIR CHANCE FOR AIR MAIL Delegate Wires at Least Part of $250,000 Re- quested to Be Granted Further indication that Alaska stands a fair chance of getting add- |itional air mail service is contain- fed in a letter just received by the ! Executive Secretary of the Terri- | torial Chamber of Commerce from Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. | | “There 1s a fair chance that we {can get at least part of the increas- yed appropriation for air mail ser- vice,” Dek‘ace Dimond writes. “A great many Senators and Represen- { tatives favor all of the amount re- | quested so I feel that a compromise iCharlesHagerman.A]askan,‘""“Y be reached whereby at least| | part of the service may be given.” Just under $250,000 was requested to privde the Territory with the {additional air mail service. GRACE LINE IN | ' DISPUTE WITH HARRY BRIDGES |Officials of Company Re- fuse to Hire Union Longshoremen SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 15. —Officials of the Grace Line, which broke relations with the local unit of the International Longshore- men’s Association in a recent labor dispute, today refused to hire five gangs of workers who appeared to load the liner Santa Rosa It was said the men comprised the same crews which yesterday re- fused to pass picket lines to handle cargo aboard the ship, which had been declared unfair Harry Bridges, militant longshore leader, imediately ordered the men back to the hall. Twelve checkers, members of the Ship Clerk’s Association, then re- fused to work. —— . MRS. NOWELL RETURNING Mrs. Everett Nowell and children Jare passengers aboard the North Sea for their Juneau home. SEATTLE, April 15—Tom Drum- mey, Chairman of the Alaska-Seat- tle Air Committee of the Washing- | tenians, Incorpated, said a non- stop flight from Alaska to Seattle | will be made within two months The plane to be used is equipped | with an automible engine and if it is successful,” the world ought to be assured of an air mail service be- tween Seattle and Alaska,” said Drummey. Drumr said the flight will probably start at Anchorage and follow the coast. He said a veteran pilot, whese name is withheld, will make the nonstop flight STl e L LL DIG FOR MEN BURIED N - MINE G0 HOURS {Experienced Hatrd Rock Miners Rushed by "Air- plane to Assist Rescue MOOSE RIVER, N. S., April 15— No indications of life from the three men buried for more than sixty hours after a landslide caught them under ground in the Moose River mines was evident today, as J. P. Messervey, Provincial mine Tnspec- tor, announced that experienced hard rock miners will be brought by airplane to assist in the rescue. The three men, two of them, Dr D. E. Robertson and Herman R. Mc- Gill, mine owners, and other, Alfred Scadding, a timekeeper, all of Tor- onto, are imprisoned 141 feet below the surface. Miners are attempting to open up a disused shaft to rescue them. 1500 Hand Is Held by Beginner At Pinochle Mark up one more 1500 pinochle among local card players. It was a case of beginner’s luck, others said when Miss Ebba Erick- son, playing at the home of Mr and Mrs. Frank Olson, the other evening, found 1500 in her hand | Things hadn’'t been going so well |for Miss Erickson, but Pete Os- | well, with whom she was playing, | encouraged her with hope of a 1500 ihand. Just three hands later the high score appeared, and the excite- ment which followed broke up the game. Other guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ol- son were William Kellman, Gun- nar Ohman and Ragnar Forsberg. s California oy Mariano Gomez, President-elect of Cuba, has taken a leaf from the American executives, and is making a goodwill tour of the other Americas befors leader and his wife and three daughters as they ap; office. Photo shows the Cuban ed on their arrival in Los Angeles harbor aboard dad had promised that the first item on their PAA TO OPEN NEW SCHEDULE HERE MAY 1 |Reduced Rates, Passengers! and Air Express, An- | nounced by Company ! Effective May firsy and continu- ing until October 31st the Pacific Alaska Airways, Inc., plans to .p-| erate one round trip a week between | Juneau and Fairbanks via White- (horse, and one round trip a week Ibel\\'m-n Fairbanks and Nome via | Ruby and Flat, these schedules to l'ao handled by the new twin-motor | i Lockheed Electras, according to of- | ficial announcement today. New Schedule The northbound trip of the Ju-| neau-Fairbanks schedule will leave | Juneau at 2 p.m. every Tuesday, ar- | riving at Fairbanks at 6 pm. The]| southbound schedule will leave Fairbanks at 9 am. every Sunday, arriving at Juneau at 3 pm. The northbound trip is scheduled to con- | nect with the arrival of the north- bound trip of the Alaska Steamship Company boat which leaves Seattle every Saturday morning and ar-| rives at Juneau Tuesday morning. | The southbound trip is scheduled to connect with the southbound sailing of the Alaska Steamship boat which leaves Juneau at 9 a.m. Monday, | arriving at Seattle Thursday morn- | ing. The one-way fare between Juneau and Fairbanks will be $100 or $180 for the round trip. One-way fare between Fairbanks and Juneau was $105 last summer. Fairbanks-Nome Route A new schedule is to be provided between Fairbanks and Nome by combining the Kuskokwim and.the Seward Peninsula trips into one schedule. The Fairbanks-Nome schedule will be flown via Ruby and Flat thereby providing a much | needed schedule service between Flat and Nome. This service will! permit the air traveler who wishes to go to Nome and Flat to do so without returning to Fairbanks. West-Bound Flights The westhbound trip to Nome will leave Fairbanks every Wednesday at B a.m., arriving at Nome at 12:30 the same time, leaving Nome at 1:30 p.m. and arriving at Fairbanks jat 8 pm. The plane will lay over for 20 minutes at Ruby and one- half hour at Flat in both directions. The one-way fare from Fairbanks to Nome will be $100 or $180 for the round trip. The one-way fare be- tween Fairbanks and Nome was $108 last summer. The schedule between Juneau and Fairbanks will make it possible to make the round trip from Seattle to Fairbanks at a cost of approx- ‘only candidate. pm. The return trip will be made | KNOX LEADS BORAH, ILLINOIS PRIMARY | | | | ELECTION GIVES RODSEVELT WIDE MARGINOVERALL President U;;posed Runs Three to One Ahead of Republican Candidates | PUBLISHER SWEEPS OWN COOK COUNTY Indications He, Will Garty Home State with Ease Over Idaho Aspirant CHICAGO, Ill, April 15—CoL Frank Knox, Chicago publisher, to- day lengthened his lead over United States Senator William E. Borah of Idaho in the first man to man test of Republican Presidential aspir- ants. With more than half of the Il- linois precincts reported in yester- day’s primary, Knok had increased his margin over Borah to 67,000 vote: Returns from 4,108 of the state’s 7426 precincts gave Knox 253779 against 187,138 for Borah. Col. Knox gained a big margin in Cook county, in. which Chicago is located and where he publishes the | Chicago Tribune. There 2,781 pre- sincts of 3,676 in the county gave Knox 167,582 to 90222 for Borah, indicating that the Democrats out- voted the Republicans two to one. In the only Cook County precinet where comparison was available, President Roosevelt outpolled Borah |and Knox combined by a three to one margin. LANDON GETS COMPLIMENT- ARY VOTES LINCOLN, Neb., April 15.—Write- in votes for Gov. Alfred Landon, who was not entered as a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, attained appreciable proportions today as returns from yesterd: primary election came in slowly In 820 of 2,025 precincts, Landon received 5382 of the total votes cast for Senator Borah who was the Col. Frank Knox rceived 99 write-in votes and for- mer President Herbert Hoover 97. President Roosevelt Polled 46,209 votes. All 14 Nebraska delegates are un- instructed to the Celeveland cone vention. BOMB USED BY PROFESSOR IN AUTO SUIGIDE Wife Also Victim of Explo- sion—Two Other Occu- pants Are Uninjured LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 15.—A handwritten note, phrased in Bib- lical language, was disclosed by de- tectives investigating the puzzling bomb explosion which killed Dr. Willlam D. Moriarity, 59, Univer- sity of Southern California, and his wife Dorothy Police said Moriarity, former Uni- versity of Washington professor, | apparently set off the bomb with suicidal intent in an automobile with his wife and two other per- sons. The other two were uninjured. Financial worries are believed to be the motive. >ee BOAT OPERATOR DIES W. W. Noyes, veteran Alaskan boat man and operator of the Noyes Boat Company at Ketchikan, died ireu:ml:,' in Seattle. Quintuplets Are Born to Gypsy; 2 Boys, 3 Girls BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 15.—Reports have been received here that quintuplets have been born to a gypsy on a farm near Hodos Bjor, District of Tran- sylvania. The newspaper receiving the report vouched for the circum- stances and said two boys and ¥ three girls were born to Mrs. Maria Ljnguaru, aged 25, shortly after she went to work in the | imately only $20.00 more than by (Continued on Page Six) field. No doctor was available and the husband assisted in the delivery.