The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1936, Page 1

| THE DAILY VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7179. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 20, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS PARTS OF NATION HIT BY 0DD WEATHER LANDON TAKES BIG LEAD OVER BORAH IN N, ). With Half of Vote Counted Kansan Better than 31% to | Ahead NEWARK, N. J., May 20.—Gov. | the idea was abandoned. Week’s News in Review by Richard H. Hippelheuser NEW YORK, as of week ending May 16.—(By 'Associated Press) — Once again on taxes, the President has given way before Congressional opposition. A year ago, it was the proposed inheritance taxes, with heavier rates. With a revolt on Capitol Hill, The ex- Alfred M. Landon’s lead over Sena-|isting methods were retained, with tor William E. Borah jumped to|lighter increases. better than three and a half to one with about ome half of the vote It is much the same today. | The current wave of opposition counted in yesterday's primary in|developed rapidly in the Senate af-| New Jersey. Landon, who had not campaigned here but supported the Republican organization, is assured of the votes of four delegates-at- large to the Cleveland convention, at least 22 of the 28 district dele- gates and possibly might capture two more of the state's 32 votes. The Democrats ratified a slate of 56 delegates and eight delegates- at-iarge to President Roosevelt. LEHMAN NOT | TO RUN AGAIN FOR GOVERNOR Has Served Two Terms—| Wants to Be Relieved from State Cares ALBANY, N. Y. May 20—Gov.| Herbert H. Lehman today announc-| ed that he is not a candidate for| re-election. ¥ The Governor said: “Aftér serv- ing two terms the time has come; when I can ask release from cares; and responsibilities.” ; Democratic leaders wanted Gov.| Lehman to run again to strength- | en Roosevelt in New York state. | | BANDIT CAUGHT Salesman Secured $60 Fol-| lowing Threat—Goes to Prison, 5 Years SEATTLE, May 20—Harold Brown, 32-year-old salesman, who was cap- tured last Monday a few minutes after obtaining $60 when he threat-| ened to blow up the cashier of the! Seaboard branch of the First Na- tional Bank with a bottle of bay rum, has been sentenced by Judge| Brown to five years at McNeil Is- land penitentiary. STUDENT IS SHOT, KILLED Freshman, Mentally Unbal- anced by Hard Study, Turns Slayer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 20.—A Williams College freshman, who President Tyler Dennett said was mentally unbzlanced, shot and killed his classmate in a dormitory, wounded another student and then took his own life. Lewis J. Somers, Jr., killed Robert Heneberry, 19 and William Hartz, 18, was wounded. Hartz said he did not know the cause of the shooting. President Dennett blamed over-study preced- ing final examinations as the cause of Somers’ act. Building Boom Now Underway, Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 20.—A building boom is under way here with more than $233,000 in down- town buildings and homes under way. A City Hall, large hotel addition and apartment house are several of the big constructions. Additional projects costing $70,- 000 are planned. aged 19, ——————— SURGICAL CASE Gerald Hudson of Douglas was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital last evening and underwent an appen- dectomy operation this morning. ) ter the House of Representatives, two weeks ago, passed the Admin- istration’s new tax bill which em- bodied the President’s recommen- dation for a revision in the system of taxing corporations. The House bill repealed the ex- isting corporate income and excess profits taxes and substituted a sin- gle levy on the undistributed prof- its of corporations. From the out- set of the Senate Finance Com- mittee’s consideration of the House bill, the trouble for the Administra- tion started. The leadership of the opposition is Democratic and includes some of the staunchest New Deal sup- porters. Tersely, the situation is this: These Senators do not oppose the philosophy of the new tax bill, the tax on undistributed profits. Like the White House, they feel a share of such profits should be passed on to the stockholders. However, they do oppose the method; they oppose abolishing the existing methods for an untried plan. In the face of this opposition, the! President informed Senator Harri- son, Chairman of the Finance com- mittee, he would accept a modifi- cation of the bill To this end, the committee set forth to find a means of retaining the corporate income and excess profits taxes and still reach the un- distributed profits. The Administration stood firm, however, and won out on the infla- tionary Frazier-Lemke bill provid-| ing for $3,000,000,000 in farm mort- gage refinancing. The bill was defeated in the House 235 to 142. Without the aid of 62 Republi- cans, the Administration would not | have been able to turn back the in- | flationists. The 142 proponents of the bill in- cluded: Democrats 105, Republicans 27, Progressives 7 and Farmer-La- borites 3. The elimination of the Frazier- Lemke bill contributed little to the problem of clearing the way for ad- journment of Congress. June 6 is the deadline. Senator Robinson, the majority leader, serv- ed notice he would object to any measure tending to delay adjourn- ment beyond this date. | The principal “must” measures —the new tax bill and the relief ap-| propriations—are still far from fi- nal enactment. In addition to these, Robinson listed three other things on the Administration “must” program: the Omnibus Flood Control meas- ure, the Commodity Exchanges Regulatory Act and the ratifica- tion of the recently-negotiated Lon- don Naval Pact. THE '36 CAMPAIGN “If the Republican party will turn its face toward the dawn, if it will liberalize—name a candidate look- ing toward the future—and I am left out, there won't be a single sting in my soul. “However, . . . . I propose to fol- low the issue and no party align- ment will control me for a minute. “Entering the Democratic ranks wouldn’t stop me” . .. . These words came from Senator William E. Borah, in opening his campaign for New Jersey's Presi- dential preferential vote in the Re- publican primary next Tuesday. In carrying on his fight against the so-called “Old Guard” of the party, Borah this week went in Ohio—and he lost. By the use of the uninstructed delegation and the “Favorite Son” candidacies, Borah has frequently charged, the oldline leadership seeks to maintain con- vention control. He renewed this charge in Ohio, where he opposed Robert A. Taft, the “Favorite. Son” and son of the former President. On the basis of unofficial re-| turns, 47 of Ohio’s 52 delegates will go to Cleveland favoring Taft, five pledged to Borah. Governor Alf Landon increases | sition he has steadily maintained T D | his lead weekly over the rest of the candidates. In West Virginia, delegates fa- voring Landon won 15 of the state’s 16 seats. The other one went to Carl G. Bachmann, one of Borah's national campaign managers. The popular vote went to Borah; Landon was not entered in the pref- erential primary, holding to the po- in entering no state primaries. In his series of addresses through- out the winter, former President Herbert Hoover has dwelt princi- pally on detailed eriticism of the New Deal. This week, in Philadelphia, he turned his attention to the Repub- lican platform for 1936. Vigorously, Hoover called for a platform of “Fighting Words," a| platform showing a “determination to restore American liberty and to| revitalize American life.” Rooseveltian policies, the former President said, are forcing the na-; tion “into a collectivist desert.” The Republican party, he said, should pledge itself to “reverse the| whole New Deal planned scarcity into an economy of plenty. “The party would stand for a constantly wider diffusion of prop- erty. We want a nation of proprie- tors, not a state of collectivi o The weeks’ political news was not, | however, all Republ.can. | On a trip through the West, in an! address in North Dakota, Postmast- er General Farley said the nation, next November, “will insist the| President shall have every oppor-| tunity to complete the job.” Farley is well known for his poli- | tical claims. In 1929, the results fulfilled his predictions. For 1936, ] he said Roosevelt would sweep all the states and would be given “the greatest endorsement received by any of our chief executives since the birth of parties in this nation.” FOREIGN AFFAIRS i Week after week, the friction and | turmoil abroad becomes more por- tentious. Italy’s conquest and annexation of Ethiopia leaves the FEuropean and League of Nations crisis more of a| menace. Internal strife in Austria | brought a new dictator. And in the Far East, Japan mobilized more | thousands of troops in North China. | |to Mt. McKinley National Park. With the formal annexation of the | conquered empire of Haile Selassie, | Victor Emanuel II was proclaimed King of Italy and Emperor of Eth- iopia. | The Council of the League conven- ed Monday to consider the con-} quests of Ethiopia. It was clear to all that, for the time being, there| would be no change in attitude to- ward Italy; nor would there be rec- | ognition of the Italian annexation. Instead, the League definitely rec- | ognized the continued existence of the Empire Haile Selassie aban-| | doned before the sweep of the Ital-‘l ian invaders. At its first session, the Ethiopian delegate occupied his customary position at the Council | table. H Baron Pompeo Aloisi, I Duce’s delegate, stalked out of the Council session, refusing to sit with Wold | Mariam, Haile Selassle's represen- tative. Thus, there was no surprise on Tuesday at the peremptory order from Rome, instructing the Italian delegation to leave Geneva immed- iately. Thus far, II Duce has not followed up this threat; he has not announced Italy would quit the League of Nations. Within an hour after Aloisi and his aides left Geneva the Council| of the League adopted a resolution | | | | | | saying “there is no cause” for aban- doning sanctions. After saying further time was necessary to “consider the situation created by the serious new steps| taken by the Italian government,” the Council postponed its deliber- ation on the Ethiopian conquest un- til June 15. In the midst of this concern, Gua- temala served notice it was with- drawing from the League. Geneva had a new worry—did this presage a widespread departure of smaller nations? The Central American nation, however, said its action was prompt- ed by the heavy cost resulting from membership in the League. In Austria, the rivalry for power between Chancellor Kurt Schusch- nigg and the Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst von Sterhemberg reached its Continued on Page Two) (. OF C. MEETING POSTPONED TO HEAR GRUENING Weekly Luncheon Set Over Until Friday Noon So Director May Attend In the hope of having Dr. Emgst H. Gruening, Director of the Divis- ion of Territories and Island Posses- DR, TOWNSEND BIVES VIEWS Declares Old_Age Plan Will Have 200 Members in Next House WASHINGTON, May 20. — Dr. Francis E. Townsend today pre- dicted that the next Congress will pledged to the old age pension plan sions, Interior Department, as . & guest with Gov. John W. Troy, the Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon meeting has been post- poned until Friday noon, it was an- nounced this afternoon by President Norman Banfield and Secretary Curtis Shattuck of the Chamber. Dr. Gruening and the Governor are now at Fairbanks and are scheduled to leave that city by plane at 2 o'clock tomorrow after- noon for Juneau after having luncheon with the Fairbanks Cham- ber, arriving here tomorrow eve- ning Chamber officials recognized it as probably the only opportunity to hear Dr. Gruening as after a few days here he expects to take a plane to Skagway, Sitka and other points, planning to catch the Yukon south from Ketchikan early next week. A telegram was sent by the Cham- ber officials today to the Director, extending an invitation to meet with the group at noon Friday in the Terminal. Dr. Gruening and Harry Watson, Secretary to the Governor, are fly- ,ing from Fairbanks to Nome and return today. Yesterday Col. Otto F. Ohlson took Dr. Gruening and several members of the party, in- Road Commission and Robert W. Bender of The Empire, for a visit FIVE HUNDRED FISHERMEN T0 COME, VESSEL Steamer North King Sailing for Alaska Sunday with Workers PORTLAND, Ore., May 20 Steamer North King has arrived here to take supplies and 500 work- ers to Alaska for the fishing sea- son and is scheduled to sail at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The workers will include 186 white fishermen, 196 Chinese and Filipino cannery workers, cooks and wait- ers. F. L. Daley, Superintendent of the Pacific American Fisheries an- nounced that live hogs will be taken for butchering later and chickens for the July Fourth dinner. ARCHEOLOGISTS LEAVING EAST FOR NORTHLAND Joint Expedition Coming to Alaska on Four-Year Exploration WASHINGTON, May 20.—A joint expedition of the Smithsonian In- stitution and the National Geo- graphic Society leaves today for Al- aska to seek, and unearth remains of North America’s oldest inhabi- tants. The party is led by Henry B. Collins, Jr., Smithsonian vet- eran, and may spend four years in archeological exploration to the Arctic regions. Members of the expedition will attempt to trace the American his- tory back to the time before Christ when predecessors of the Eskimo inhabited the region . Headquar- ters for the expedition will be at Cape Prince of Wales, Collins said, and added he believed somewhere along the Bering sea coast would be found skeletons, old tools and implements of the mysterious peo- ple before the Eskimos. Collins said the Alaska region is one of the world’s richest fields for archeological investigation cluding Ike P. Taylor of the Alaska | “We will sweep the country west of the Mississippi,” Dr. Townsend told the newsmen. Dr. Townsend testified today be- fore the House Investigating Com- mittee that “in the neighborhood of one million dollars” have been col- | lected since the start of the plan.| Dr. Townsend said he hoped to| have at least one candidate in each | of the country's 435 Congression-| al districts and two in some dis-| tricts. He said he has chhancédi views with Gerald Smith, organ-| of wealth movement. EX-FILM STAR 1S INVOLVED IN MYSTERY CASE |4~Year~01c1—rWurder Is| | Brought Up in Financial | | Trial, Mary Miles Minter LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 20— !Two non-committal officers who | |investigated the mysterious slaying | y 1of William Desmond Taylor, movie | {director, in his apartment 14 years | ago, are close observers of the financial trial involving Mary Miles Minter, ex-film star. Capt. Jesse Winn and Lloyd Yarrow on the District Attorney's staff, said they “were just looking around.” The Taylor case was mentioned in the opening statements of the attorneys representing Mrs. Char- lotte Shelby, Miss Minter's moth- er. Miss Shelby is suing a broker- age concern for the recovery of $200,000 earned by Miss Minter. Her counsel declared in his opening statement that Leslie Henry, former brokerage agent, sued Taylor in a case charging him with threatening silence on the part of Mrs. Shelby about the theft of bonds. Endear- ing letters which Miss Minter wrote to Taylor were disclosed at the trial. B Anchorage Man Sells Business to Hij Helper Henry Pope Disposes of Sheet Metal Works— Takes Job as Helper ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 20.— Henry Pope, for 20 years owner and manager of the Pioneer Sheet Metal Works, has sold his business to his helper, Ray Wolfe and taken the job as helper. Pope said he wanted to rest and enjoy life with no business respon- sibilities. Pope said he will go south with the geese next fall and return with the ducks next spring. Pope gave Wolfe, who went to work for him in 1928, an automo- bile and truck. — .. - Former Premier of Greece Passes Away ATHENS, May 20—Former Pre- mier Panayoti Tsaldaris is dead here at the age of 68. He held posts in various Greek ministries and was forced to resign the Pre- miership last fall when the Royal- ists seized the government after a bloodless coup. DAVENPORT FAMILY IS VISITING IN CHICAGO| The family of V. A. (Dave) Dav-| enport, Gastineau Hotel manager, who are enjoying a trip to the States, have arrived in Chicago and are “enjoying everything but the heat.” This is according to a letter received by Mr. Davenport. have at least 200 House members izer of the late Huey Long's share| | i Here are some of the little rascals who grew up to be big rascals and kill deer and other wild life in Alaska. Above, three wolf pups taken by James Wad- man near Fairbanks. Center, a black wolf taken by Ralph Reicchl of Juneau in a snare near Thane. Below, Sam White, Game Warden at Fairbanks, with another arm full of pups taken by Wadman at Birch Hill, within four miles of Fair- banks. In the last two years, wolves have increased rapidly in the Territory, according to reports to the Alaska Game Commis- sion. The most recent report | from Charles D. Brower, trader 2nd U. S. Commissiofier at Point Barrow, was that the welves were killing reindeer at the rate of 100 a day in that district. * They Kill the Reindeer ey Wide 0pe;z Caltrfipai‘g;t‘ Béings DUST STORMS DOING GREAT DAMAGE, SOUTH Wide Section of Colorado and Other States Reported LAMAR, Colorado, May 20.—An- other bad dust storm, lasting well into the night, reduced visibility to less than one block. The storm was general over a wide section. STORM IN UTAH SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 20.—A dust storm has hit this sec- tion and business men counted the loss resulting into the thousands of dollars. CIRCUS IS HIT BURLEY, Idaho, May 20.—A dust storm struck this section today and Tom Mix, here with his circus, was hit and his shoulder bruised by a plank which was tossed about by the gale. Damage to his circus alone is estimated at several thousand dollars, ,—,- FREAK WEATHER HITS NEW YORK |SECTIONS TODAY :Waterspou! Whirls Across Two Cities—Snow Falls, Temperature Drops ALBANY, N. Y. May 20.—Snow and sub-fréezing weather returned to parts of New York State today. The freak weather sent a water- spout whirling across Hudson and § | Troy. Snow fell at Owlshed and Ma- lone. The thermometer registered 26 above at Saranac Lake. Farmers are again worried con- cerning crops which were also hit by freak weather last week. POET'S WIDOW Many Issues On All_Fronts. WRITES ASKING BIG DIRIGIBLE MAKES SECOND FLIGHTTO .S, German Zep Grounded Early This Morning—To | Start Return Tonight LAKEHURST, New Jersey, May 20.—The dirigible von Hindenburg pajon in the East, but would con-| By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) “As convention-time approaches, it becomes increasingly clear that the coming conflict will be no “narrow” campaign—either in the geographica! sense or with respect to the range of the discussion Often the earlier months of elec- tion year see some main battle- | ground selected, and the issues sorted over so that one or two come sharply to the fore. This time the process has been reversed. | A year ago it appeared that the Democrats were preparing to make no more than a perfunctory cam- LOAN ON FARM Mrs. EugenTField Calls on Friends for $3,000 ST. LOUIS, May 20.—The 80-year old widow of Eugene Field, poet and author of “Little Boy Blue” has called on friends and admirers of her husband to loan her $3,000 to save her Wisconsin farm from foreclosure through a letter her son, Eugene Fieldgthe second, wrote to Jesse Henry here, foremost col- was grounded at 6:03 o'clock thiS gentrate on an effort to find ailector of Field's writings. morning, completing the second commercial westward crossing of the Atlantic from Germany. The dirigible was delayed by headwinds and rain and was 78 hours and 27 minutes making the flight, 17 hours slower than on the original trip. Only a few hundred persons were at the field and watched the grounding. The officers announced this morning they plan to start on the return flight tonight. FOREST FIRES "~ ONCOOK INLET | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 20— |Billows of smoke are over Cook| |Inlet as the first forest fire of the season burns north of here. The fire came within half a mile of several houses. A second but smaller forest fire is visible at the foot of the Chug- |ach Mountains, east of here. >-ee IN TOWN RONNING J. A. Ronning arrived this morn- ing from Excursion Inlet aboard his gasboat, the Agnes R., for a short business visit. Mr. Ronning is in- terested in fox ranching and min- Jing at Excursion Inlet. | winning combination in West and South. In consequence, the Repub- \licans were expected to regard the East as safe, and go West. Now it appears that both East and West, and perhaps parts of the South, (will be in the zone of active strug- Similarly, many politiclans have forecast a straight-out conserva- tive-liberal contest, with the Re- publicans keeping well over to the political right, and the Democrats swinging definitely to the left. Now !some of the more experienced doubt \seriously whether any such thing ,will develop. | DEMOCRATS INVADE EAST | One of the chief geographical surprises has been the increasing |volume of Democratic claims in the |vastly important Eastern States of :New York and Pennsylvania. Outwardly, these claims cite the large aggregate majority rolled up last fall by Democratic candidates for the New York Assembly, and the marked increase of Democratic |registration in parts of Penn- sylvania which formerly were solid- ly Republican. Under the surface, the Democratic talk is based also on the fact that carefully-organized Democratic shock troops already are actively mobilizing as far East as Massa- chusetts. The Republicans dispute that any of this territory is doubt- | (Continued on Page Three) Henry said: “The letter was the first intimation that Mrs. Field was even living and I supposed her dead many years ago.” She is ill at her home at Heaford Junction and her son, who also is there, is unable to help. FERRY TIE-UP " AVERTED NOW ;Arbilralion_[;;ard of Gov. | Martin Prevents Walk- | out of Workers | SEATTLE, May 20—Judge Tim- |othy Paul, member. of Gov. Mar- | tin’s Ferryboat Arbitration Board, announced today that any immed- iate tie-up of the Seattle-Bremer- ton ferries has been averted through an agreement reached be- tween the Ferryboatmens' Union and the Puget Sound Navigation Company. The long hours, resulting from the establishment of the summer schedules, which caused the dis- pute, will be discussed. e LEAVES HOSPITAL Barbara Jaegel, who was suffer- ng from pneumonia at St. Ann's Hospital, is going home today.