The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7160. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1936, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ PRICE TEN CENTS FAIRBANKS IS THREATENED BY FLOOD FASCIST ARMY HALF WAY TO ADDIS ABABA Poison Gas Reported in Use on Southern Front by Italians GENEVA, April 28.—Advices re- ceived from Rome makes assertions that the Northern Italian Army is now more than half way on the march from Dessye to Addis Ababa, Ethiopian capital. One minor engagement has been fought by the motorized column with Ethiopian irregulars, the na- tive defenders later retreating to the hills. On the southern front, the city of Sasa Banen is reported prac- tically surrounded by the Fascist army and capture is expected momentarily. Private official advices received here state that poison gas is being used on the southern front and tales of treachery are told by Ethiopian warriors. Despite hardships, the Ethiopians are in good spirits and declare “we are not beaten yet." NAT'L OFFICER EXPECTED FOR LEGION SESSION Vice-Commander Oscar Worthwine Planning on Attending Sept. Meet Oscar Worthwine of Boise, Idaho, National ' Vice-Commander of the American Legion, is expected to attend the Deparument of Alaska Legion Convention here next Sep- tember 2, 3, 4 and 5. This was the word brought to the Alford John Bradford Post last night at its regular Monday night meeting by Department Command- er A. E. Karnes. Karnes has correspondence from Mr. Worthwine stating that he plans on attending. It will be the first time that a national officer | has attended an Alaska Depart- ment Convention. Three new members were init- jated into the Post last night— Charles Simpson, Robert Graham ! and John H. Peterson—all Juneau veterans. The membership drive is adding many new members to the Post and so far the Post team which is competing with the 40 and 8 is far ahead. The losers will have to provide a “feed” for the winners, and some of the Post team are already so enthusiastic they are putting in their orders for pie. r A meeting of the convention com- mittee was called by Department Commander Karnes for Friday night at 8 o'clock in the Dugout. All members of the committee and subcommittees are present, Commander E. M. Polley of: the Post has called for a working detail to clean up the Legion plot in Evergreen Cemefery Sunday. Sev- eral Legionnaires agreed at last night’s meeting to turn out but more are needed. They should re- port at the cemetery at 10 am. Sunday. Ample lunch is promised. e Zioncheck Hunts For Minister; To Wed Texas Girl WASHINGTON, April 28— Representative Marion A. Zion- check, of Washington State, who clashed recently with the Capital City police, took out a marriage license to wed Miss Ruby Louise Nix, aged 21, of Texarkana, Texas, but failed to tind the minister he desired to marry them. Friends believe the couple will have to change plans and go to Elkton, Mary- land, for the ceremony. The License Bureau informed the Washingtonian he must obtain a new license for another min- ister. — - Four series of exhibitions from the German museum of hygiene have been sent to all parts of the Reich. They are called “nation and race, “fighting cancer,” “life and health,” and “blood and race.” Commander | urged to be| Die;in S;ulihi g CiIARLES <. MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERMAN OF CALIFORNIA WRITES THIRTY {Editor and Publisher Mc- Clatchy, of Sacramento, | | Passes Away Monday SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 28.— ICharles K. McClatcly, aged 77, Edi- | tor and Publisher, died here late| yesterday as the result of pneu-| monia. Although the workdays of his life {were spent in a comparatively small | {northern California city, Charles| |Kenny McClatchy—“C. K.” to the| jreaders of his newspapers — made | !his influence felt far beyond the |borders of his State. For “C. K.” was the crusading |type of journalist, independent and i(earless in editorial expression. NO! {matter what the battle, if Mc-‘ |Clatchy believed in the cause, he| {fought for it with wholehearted |determination. | For instance, there were the |trees which lined the streets in |the older part of Sacramento. Mc- Clatchy encouraged the planting of |more trees as the city grew, and battled strenuously every proposal |to remove the old ones. Sacramento owes much of its civic beauty to |these trees and the veteran editor’s defense of them. Foe of Prohibition McClatchy likewise was a cham- pion of temperance but a foe of Prohibition, which he always con- {tended violated American traditions. |He pioneered a national movement for a constitutional amendment to iprovide for amendment of the Fed- eral Constitution only by majority vote of the people at the polls, re- gardless of State lines. He advocated public ownership, particularly in the municipal field, and was outstanding in California for his advocacy of rigorous regu- lation of public utilities corpora- tions. His editorials played prom- inent parts in the “political revo- lution” of 1910 in that State, over- throwing what he called “Southern |Pacific railroad domination” of the | State. Against Entering League McClatchy opposed from the start entrance of the United States into the League of Nations. In politics as a whole he was independent, supporting men he believed would best serve the public. He saw no inconsistency in cham- pioning alike the campaigns of William Jennings Bryan and Theo- dore Roosevelt, of United States former Governor Alfred E. Smith. He invariably attended national political conventions, missing only one of them in 34 years. He fav- ored abolition of the electoral col- lege, and election of the 'Presi- dent and Vice-President by direct popular vote. No Alliances Although he numbered as friends men of influence and power, Mc- |Clatchy always refused public of- fice, contending an honest editor must keep aloof from ties which might influence his editorial inde- | pendence. For the same reason refrained from joining any frnterrfi or political organizations. McClatchy was born in Sacra- mento November 1, 1858, and was educated in Sacramento schools and Santa Clara College. His father, James McClatchy, pioneer Cali- fornia journalist, had founded the Sacramento Bee, and on the fath- er's death in 1884 the son succeed- ed to the editorship. With his old- {| trend up to that hour shows a ma- || before 4 o'clock 308 ballots had been ling 50 of 89 ballots cast with 39 ineau on the steamer Alaska today Senator Hiram W. Johnson and| IN PRIMARY: DEMOS LEADING Bourbon Balloting Nearly| Two to Cne Ahead Ex- cept in Third Precinct Despite good weather, voting was light in the primary election toda up to 4 o'clock this afternoon. The jority of Democratic ballots asked | for. In Precinct No. 1 a few minutes cast, 195 Democratic and 113 Re- publican. In No. 2, the total vote was 162 with 115 Democratic and the balance Republican. In No. 3, the Republicans held the top hand, vot- Democratic. | All precincts were far behind the vote cast in the recent city election but it was expected that voting would speed up after 5 o'clock and | this evening before the poils close at 7 o'clock. Nominees were being named | throughout the Territory today with | most of the contests centering in | the Legislature where each Division | is naming four to the House on each | ticket to carry the banner in thei : General Electlon. Lack of interem‘AGHEEMENT nN in the Primary for some of the ma- jor offices was held respsnsible in n | v I s I u N 0 F Interest centered mostly in the| part for the light vote generally. ontest between Frank Boyle and | Joe Hofman for the Democratic | nomination for Auditor and between Cash Cole and C. H. MacSpadden for the G. O. P. toga. bia Representatives Rnss s H E E I.Y | Discuss Fish Treaty NEW WESTMINISTER, B. C., Ap- inl 28.—Fishing representatives from Washington and British Columbia 'have agreed to the recommenda- tion that there should be a fifty- | fifty division of the sockeye salmon | catch between the Province and the |State of Washington. They failed, Manager Reports Success-|nowever, to agree on other sug- ful Trip to Wash— jgested‘amendmmts in the 1930 In». . | ternational Sockeye Salmon Treaty |ng(on, D C | which will be discussed later at a PR meeting in Bellingham, Washing- | ton. The withdrawal of the 1930 treaty might mean that no further treaty ~ |will be passed by Canada, W R. for a brief visit while the steamer |G,y of New Westminister, said. Wwas in port. He has been on a short ~p'y Greene of Seattle, President business trip to Washington, D. C..|of the Purse Seine Vessel Owners' where he was in conference With | agsaciation, expressed opposition to Col. Lawrence Westbrook, head of |the treaty, but was willing to dis- Federal Rehabilitation, and Harry | cygs any changes to the treaty re- L. Hopkins, Relief Administrator. |cently revised. Members of the Policies for the colony were out- | Washington delegation spoke of the lined, M. Sheely said, and funds| benefit to Canada from the elim- regimented for next year's allot-|ination of Washington traps which ment. The funds allotted are suf-|would mean greater runs in the ficient to carry the colony along, | future. Mr. Sheely said, and he reports a successful trip. Mr. Sheely is enroute to Mata- nuska where the colonists have started their spring plowing, said, Ross L Sheely, Manager of the Matanuska Colony, arrived in Ju- Plea Made for TWOMEASURES Pure Food Laws {Republican Senator Makes AIDING ALASKA, ~Decaraion Regord PASSED, SENATE WASHINGTON, April 28—As- sailing what he termed the Ad- ministration’s doctrine of “scar- Important Acts Made Ap- plicable to Northland —Flood Surveys city,” Senator Dickinson, Republican | Americans were “living on food “unm for dogs to eat.” Pleading for enforcement of the {Pure Food Laws, Senator Dickinson WASHINGTON, April 28. — The |referred to President Roosevell’s bach bill to extend to Alaska !he“hm the average American Wwas benefits of the Adams-Purnell Ag-|living on a third class diet because ricultural Experiment Stations Act, | of jack of purchasing power to eat and Capper-Ketcham Act, embrac- | ;yore and better food, ing the cooperative extension work | el i o in agriculture and home economics. | - The Senate has also passed thé | ’ House bills authorizing the Army a ys elg Engineers to make preliminary flood control surveys of the Matanuska 'of Iowa, told the Senate that many Senate has passed the Schwellen- |statement in his Atlanta address | i River and Lowell Creek, both in | “ZZ es flc nrs { Alaska. ———.—————— IMPROVEMEN HOME HICKORY, N. C., April 28—Mr. GROCERY, PROGRESSING |and Mrs. C. Hayworth are parents P, |of an eight-pound baby of 15 Work on the new store room and |months. Doctors admit they are front of the Home Grocemy under |puzzled by the child’s subnormal the supervision of Messrs. Nuna-|weight since apparently it is maker, Boyer and Bowden, con- |healthy. tractors, is progressing rapidly and - ,eee according to John Hermle, of Hermle and Thibodeau, owners.of the Home Grocery, the work should basin in which it stands crowned (Contiaved on Page Three) ) be near completion by the end of this week. trees, planting of which already has begun. Official Calls Made %Washington, British Colum-| | | j Governor and Collector of Custems make official calls aboard the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Shoshone last Saturday. W. Troy, Captain Ralph A. Dempwolf, Commander of the Bering Sea Patrol Force; J. J. Conners, Collector of Customs, and Com- mander G. T. Finlay of the Sheshone, (Daily Alaska Empire Photo) Gov. John i’rospoct S;ems Remote . for Party Sponsorship of Tax-Balanced Budget| ! By BYRON PRIC] | (Chief of Bureau, the Associated | Press, Washington) | The current tax discussion in | Congress demonstrates pointedly how major political issues often be- come hopelessly confused and be- clouded. It is agreed universally that the | government is facing a time of criti- {cal decision with respect to its fi- nances. The budget has been out |of balance for five years, and there is widespread questioning about the hole problem of. national fiscal policy. As a matter of common sense, it jwould seem that in such times the | voters should { tunity, under a democratic form of | government, to express themselves clearly and directly. | Theoretically, it would appear a simple matter to put into the com- ing campaign an issue stated thus should taxes now be increased to qual expenditures, and if so who | {should bear the burden? | work out that way. Not only will any expression of this subject be complicated by a tangle with other issues, but the tax issue itself has hard for anyone to understand it without the aid of a textbook on public finance and a table of loga- rithms. AN EVASIVE TOPIC In the first place, there is no prospect that either of the major parties will say directly in its plat- |ing taxation. If the precedents of former years are followed, the voter who wants a balance struck at once will have | no chance to vote his conhvictions. He will have to choose instead be- tween two party planks of beauti- fully indefinite language, meaning one thing to one person and another thing to another. As to the methods to be pursued ; in any tax increase, the likelihood of vague party declarations is even greater. The membership of both parties in Congress is split widely. Whatever bill is enacted will be, in- evitably, a patchwork of compro- mises; and it will be the job of the respective platform committees at| the conventions to please as many different schools of thought as pos- sible. The usual result of that process is to leave the subject in a com- plete fog, from which it can be res- cued only if one or the other of the | jprincipal candidates for President | jbrings forward a clearly-defined program of his own. But even about this, complications. ‘here are ROOSEVELT THEORY ATTACKED Mr. Roosevelt, for instance, al- ready is on record for an increased |1OSt of other influences enter into (Continued on. Page Three) e $3,000 BLAZ IN MATANUSKA ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 28— Don L. Erwin reports that a $3,000 La Paz, Bolivia, expects to see the | fire destroyed the Matanuska Col- |worth their face value, and if held, ony warehouse and slightly damag- by more thah a million eucalyptus{ed the United States Military cable year because they bear interest at office which will be quartered in the school house. be given an oppor- | Actually, national decisions seldom | become so complicated that it is| REAR ADMIRAL * CRAVEN IS ON ~ ALASKA TRIP |Commander of 13th Naval| District Arrives Here with Aide ed States Navy, Commanding Of- ficer of the 13th Naval District (in- cluding Alaska), and Commandant of the Pugei Sound Navy Yard at {Bremerton, accompanied by his |aide, Lieut. Comdr. F. P. Old, ar- | from Seattle. Rear Admiral Craven, who stated | that he is the first head of the 13th | | Naval District to visit Alaska, will| sail from Juneau next Thursday aboard the United States Mine| Sweeper Swallow, on a tour of in- spection of Naval reservations and activities in Alaska, including the | |radio compass stations at Soap- | stone Point, Cape Hinchinbrook, Duteh Harbor and St. Paul Island. | Pleasant Duty i “It is a pleasant duty to come up here,” Rear Admiral Craven stal- ed, “and T am looking forward to | the rest of my trip with a great | deal of interest and pleasure. We | | are well and happy and delighted to be here.” | Upon his return from the West- | {ward, Rear Admiral Craven will| again board the Alaska, or possibly | another steamer, at Cordova for the |return trip to the States. He will | |spend approximately a month in | Alaskan waters, he said. | He was met at the gangplank of | the arriving steamer by Lieut.- Comdr. A. D. Bryholt and Lieut Bern Anderson of the Swallow Before his return to the States | Rear Admiral Craven will also pay | ja visit of more than business in- | terest to Sitka, where Mrs. Craven's | mother was born. Baron von Klin kofstom, a captain of the Imperial Russian na Mrs. Craven's grand- | father, was assistant to Governor Baranof at Sitka, D Treasury Plans o Cut Red Tape | - for I@us Vetsi | { By HERBERT PLUMMER | WASHINGTON, April 28. — The | Federal Government in making cash payment of the bonus this | |summer, intends to proceed on the theory that all war veterans are. honest men. t Those in charge of the machin-\ form that it favors an immediate [€'Y Now being set up in the Post | balancing of the budget by increas- |Office Department virtually have decided to omit final formalities such as taking veterans' finger prints. | As explained by one high Gov- | ernment official, every effort will| be made to simplify the procedure. When it is considered that treas- ury officials estimate if the bonus bonds to be issued were laid end to end they would reach from New | York to London and then still go| on almost to Moscow, the tremend- ous amount of routine involved in their ‘handling is easily understood. WANT VETS TO KEEP BONDS There's an element of psycholog: in the decision of the Government to remove as much red tape as possible in the issuance of bonus bonds which may be traded for their bonds as long as possible. If | treasury offieials could figure out | even approximately what would be done with this bonus money a lot of their troubles would be removed. Fiscal experts, however, are up | against something entirely new in trying to make such estimates. Re- lief needs, consumer demand and a the question. It's a vastly different proposition from that presented in Govern- ment offerings to banks and busi- ness men. A fraction of an advance in the interest rate on Government securities will cause almost a stam- pede among those with money to| lend. March offerings, for example. were greatly oversubscribed al- though the interest yield is less than 2% per cent. The bonus bonds always will be | will be worth more after the first (Comlnue;i én f’ag; :r;c) Rear Admiral T. T. Craven, Unit- | |rived today on the steamer Alnska‘ Juneau Visitors o im————— IGE JAMS IN ' CHENA RIVER CAUSE ALARM ~ TOCITIZENS |Stream Is Ten Feet Above | Normal; Waterfront Resi- | dents Move; Guards Posted to Give Alarm FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 28.— Blocked by an ice jam, the Chena River has risen ten feet above normal, forcing residents near the river front to move elsewhere. Another jam two miles above here has caused alarm over the possibility of a sudden break which will cause a flood. Mayor E. B. Collins has ordered guards posted and the siren is | held ready to warn citizens of pos- sible flood dangers. | The discovery that the ice break- up marker on the Chena River was carried out by surface ice before |the winter ice broke, has caused the Ice Carnival Committee to de- ‘L‘lde to refund all money. The Nenana River was last night six and one-half feet above the normal and the ice in the Nenana |threatens to break anytime. DISAPPEARANCE . OF MRS, DRAPER 1S MYSTERIOUS JPolice Unable to Find Ex- Seattle Times Writer— Believed Suicide | NEW YORK, April 28—Disap- "7 | pearance on April 19 of Mrs. Hazel LT. COMDR. F. P. OLD | | Archibald Draper, ex-Seattle Times | writer, is a clouded mystery after STflcK PRIGES }fuilure to connect her with reports H of a woman who leaped overboard | from the liner Georgic at sea. | land, with mo report of a drowning, jand the name Draper was not on 3 | the passenger list. Mrs. Draper is the wife of Eben | 8. Draper, ex-Massachusetts State s % | Senator, and the sister of Norman Selective Recoveries Ta ke:A. Archibald, Seattle author. She Place—Recent Lead- |left Katonah, New York, sanitarium . and was traced to a New York ho- ers Slip Back 1lel where police found a note in | which she threatened to stow away NEW YORK, April 28.—Selective |on the Georgic, and commit suicide recoveries of fractions to two points | before the liner arrived in Cobh. S & Police said they had information or more took place on the Stock that & woman leaped overboard mid= Market today although many night, April 20, but steamer offic~ cent leaders were in retreat in|jals made no such report. easy trading o Scattered rails and specialties | steels, moters and coppers were P ———— ADMIRAL T. T. CRAVEN re=- slow to rally. Today's close was irregular. CLOSING PRIC TODAY NEW YORK, April 28—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can SN 23, American Power and Light 97.,| John Weller Suicides After Anaconda 34, Bethlehem Stee l Wounding His 50'%, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul| and Pacific Railroad 1%, General| Colleague Motors 63%, International Harvest- er 787, Kennecott 35%, United| LINCOLN, Neb. April 28.—Prof. cash. States Steel 60', Cities Service!John P. Weller, Foreign Language Everything possible is being done 4%, Bremner bid 17 asked 23', Instructor at the University of Ne- to persuade the veterans to retain po,.q $4.93% | braska, shot and killed himself af- | ter wounding Prof. Harry Kurz, head " v s of the Romance Language Depart- POW, JONES" SYRRAGES ment. Kurz was shot in the wrist The following are today’s Dow,|by Weller, while in the corridor Jones, averages: Industrials, 146.75; | of a University hall rails, 43.48; utilities, 29.58 | Weller who fled when surround- |in the hospital. R 2 o R o led by police near Nebraska Hall HEP"BI—IGANS Tu lon the campus, fired a bullet from | Kurz said his life had been threat- | ed by Weller who last Saturday had "been given notice of dismissal from |a revolver into his chest and died \lhe University faculty. Caucus of House Membe"S.FINGE‘RFfiNT- Concede Opposition | s 1 Vamn ! WASHINGTON, April 28. — The TRANSIENTS House Republicans at a caucus last night, determined to concentrate | T on opposition to the $803,000,000 tax| HUTCHINSON, Kas., April 28— bill in a virtual, pass vote against|Transients who apply for & night's passage without organized effort for |lodging at the city jail are rare any amendment. They conceded |since the police adopted the policy opposition however, would be in vain [of fingerprinting all “guests” .