The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1936, Page 1

THE VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7190, DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS B. C. RIVERS CONTINUE TO FLOOD LAND —_— WAR REPORTED DECLARED, FAR EAS Are Now in Blg Mergor CHINESE PLAN STRONG POLICY TOWARD JAPAN Military Council Is Against| Nippon’s Military ‘; Expansion SHANGHALI, China, June 2.—Gen. Chen Yuan, Chairman of the Hop- eh-Chawar Military Council has de- cided to pursue “a stronger policy” against Japan's military expansion J§ of North China. This was at an| all night conference of the North China Mayor's Council which was organized in December. Officers of the famous 28th Rout Army who made a gallant defense of the Great Wall in 1933 wnspued‘ the move. Japanese are reported to be build- ing more military outposts 20 miles, southwest of Peiping controlling the railroad, and also rushing comple- | tion of barracks at Fengtai. ! Highest Japanese miiitarv oiricers have been callea together at Tien-| tsin as the result of last Friday! night's railroad bombings. WAR RUMOR REPORTED SHANGHALI, June 2. — Japanese sources said the South China gov-| ernment at Canton has declared war against Japan; also against the Chinese National Government “at Nanking. It is said a proclamation has been issued announcing establishment of | Accordlng to reports, the Townsend Old Age Pension Plan and Share the Wealth organizations have united. Above are shown Dr. E. F. Townsend and the Rev. Gerald Smith (left) organizer for the Share the Wealth movement. iDemocrats Await Indication of Glass’ Platform Views WABthGTON, Jum 2—Demo- FINB THUMAS cratic leaders are wondering wheth- er Senator Carter Glass of Virginia will play his accustomed role in an independent government at Can- | ton for the South China provlnces Chinese political sources however denied knowledge of any‘ such movement and branded the| Japanese report as propaganda. It SOLD SECRETS, - TAX PROGRAM shaping the 1936 party platform will absent himself from delib- of the Resolutions Com- or erations mittee Ever since 1896 the Virginian has had a part in writing virtually ev- ery Democratic platform. He has been especially interested in mone- tary and banking planks, but in no wise has he been restricted to those subjects While he has differed with some Administration policies, Glass has emphasized that he will support President Roosevelt. He drafted the “sound money” plank. in the 1932 platform. Since then he has rarely lost an oppor- tunity to intimate his disagreement with monetary policies of the Ad- ministration. His wry observation is said relations between Canton and | Nanking Governments “has never been better and on the verge of a complete unior.” British Budget Tribunal Re- turns Guilty Verdict, Former Official LONDON, June 2—The Budget Tribunal announces it has found J. H. Thomas, resigned Colonial Sec- retary, had disclosed secrets of the British Budget previous to publi- | cation by the House of Commons. The findings stated he used the BULLETIN SHANGHALIL, June 2. — Japanese authorities here announced late this after- neon that the South China Government has declared war against the National Govern- ment demanding the latter crder a national war against Japan. MAYOR DORE MAKES PLAN FOR HARMONY, Will App okt Arkeiration | Board to Prevent | Future Strikes | SEATTLE, June 2—Plans for the appointment of a Capitol, Labor, Consumer and Municipal Arbitra- tion Board to prevent strikes is the announcement made by Mayor John F. Dore as he took office yester- | day succeeding Charles L. Smith who defeated Dore for re-election two years ago just before the coast- wise longshore and shipping strike. Mayor Dore said he will select the Board's personnel with' extreme care in an attempt to bring Se- attle’s industry and business back | to harmony. NORTHLAND HAS 15 PASSENGERS JUNEAU BOUND SEATTLE, June 2. — Motorship Northland sailed for Southeast Al- aska ports at 11:30 o’clock last night with a capacity list of passengers, the following booked for Juneau: Peter Del Missier, Wayne Owen, Mr .and Mrs. Ed Jahoda and son, Miss Clara Robinson, William D. Jones, James Edmiston, N. S. Smythe, Unga Higley, Mrs. I. Sow- erby, Mrs. Russell White, H. E. of garden hose and an empty 15- the Aleutian on a business trip to|which profit by their sale to phi- Smith, W. T. Dull, D. L. Reed. FATHERKILLS information to give certain tax pro- posals to Alfred Bates, advertising |that “if you h‘:VG any gold they'll | agency Sir Aibert put you ip jail” has brought many 2 Senate chuckle. | Bates, member of Parliament. for private gain. THE 1932 MONEY PLANK The Tribunal cicared all others' The 1932 plank states: “We ad- including Leslie Thomas, son of the vocate a sound currency to be pre- accused official. served at all hazards and an inter- Thomas said: “It is a cruel ver- hational monetary conference called dict, but thank God my son is ex- On the invitation of our Govern- onerated.” official, and of siiver and related questions.” As Chairman of the Senate Ap- propriations Committee he led the Irelief bill last session although in- (hcalmg ) {and ESBAPE DEATH jcarry the Government bonds. Will he want to say something M%therd‘g Eh'ldre"MMur'labom that at Philadelphia? ered Earher — Man | Takes Own Life Glass has had a splendid oppor- {tunity to rehearse his platform DAYTON, Ohio June 2—Walter'|j4a55 Since well before the turn Johnson, uged 42, met four of hiS ¢ the century he has been writing seven sons as they returned homeinen into the Virginia State plat- from school, took thera upstairs!go..o the family home, and killed them, Tpe result has been that in Presi- near where he had choked to death qepia) election years the appear- his wife 48 hours earlier. Johnson ,..e of the Virginia State platform then shot himself has been news of special import- Two sons escaped after pleading ;e to Democrats and Republicans for their lives and another failed |alike who have looked to it as an to come home with the others. indication of what the little Vir- Four of the sons were taken up- uinign had on his mind. stairs, choked and then their throats = ppe Virginia convention this year | were slashed by a razor. will be at Norfolk, June 16, a week | The police said Johnson had been'| oo the . national convention. unemployed for a long time. He has said he has not decided F: \what part he would play in the Just Looking Around State convention. Glass is up to re- L g jclection but has no opponent in FINDLAY, O.—A thief who enter- |cither major party. ed Mrs. George Steinmetz’s property - had nothing in particular in mind.| GOES TO KETCHIKAN He picked up three chickens, 75 feet referred to his committee. gallon jar. Ketchikan, VOTING FOR ment to consider the rehabilitation ‘Superintendent of State Po- debate for the $4,880,000,000 work- ! throughout that he was! !concerned about the growing debt Harold G. Hoffman today capped its effect on banks required to his criticism in the Lindbergh kid- The request for another billion | removing Col. and a half this session also was kopf as Superintendent of the New REHEARSES PLATFORM IDEAS | Col. Mark Kimberling, State Prison | leaving for the Republican Nation- Na:ka Air Mall hem in Bill 'House Passes BIG U, S. LOAN 1S QUICK OVER | SUBSCRIBED Morgenlhau Reports Gov- ernment Financing Plan | Is Great Success 9 - i, [ WASHINGTON, June 2.—Speedy | oversubscription was recorded as the Treasury Department books | closed today on its latest cash ob} fering of a billion dollars in notes and bonds. “The financing was a great suc-r cess,” Secretary Morgenthau said. “I am more than pleased. They simply put the cash on the buml head. Money talks louder anything else.” The Secretary would not esti-' mate the amount of over subficrlp tion Books for an additional offering! of $1,050,754,000 for refunding pur-! poses will not open until midnight | tomorrow The total offering is the largest | in peace time history with record low mre:esl The first deficiency bill, car- rying an appropriation of $200,- 000 for foreign air mail to and from points in Alaska for the fiscal year 1937, passed the House of Representatives yes- terday, according to a radio- gram received this morning from Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond, by Curtis Shattuck, retary of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce. This appropriation was de- si‘nefl to establish and operate an air mail line from Juneau to Fairbanks via Whitehorse. Delegate Dimond advises the bill now goes to conference be- tween the House and Senate ‘(ammlllees " SENATE PASSES RELIEF BILL BY LARGE MAJORITY Measure Must Go Back l0§ House for Approval | of Amendments | WASHINGTON, June 2. The ! Senate has passed the two billion | four hundred and twenty-eight mil- | dollar Relief Deficiency Bill | Thherying © appropriations for next | relief program. The vote was 62 to 14. Approval of the bill cleared the SETTLEMENT BIG STRIKE Union Loggers, Sawmill lion | year's ‘RITUAL EXECUTION’ CONFESSED 'SOUTHERN AREA IS THREATENED BY HIGH WATER Government Officials Watch Fraser Rise—Low- lands Covered 'MANY SECTIONS ARE REPORTED ISOLATED Villages Said to Be in Dan- ger—All Roads Covered —Traffic Is Stopped VANCOUVER, B. C, June 2. Government officials today turn- ed an apprehensive eye over the lower British Columbia mainland as fears that the waters of the Fras- er River witd duplicate the North- ern British Columbia floods. A constant guard is kept at the pump- ing stations of the Sumas Prairie Reclamation District in the north- ern part of the Fraser River Valley as flood waters are over the dykes and flooding hundreds of acrés of pasture and garden truck land. Northern British Columbia Rivers are surging over their banks and spreading destruction over two great sections of the Province. All telegraph and telephone com- munications to many centers are cut off and several towns are iso- lated. The Provincial. Polive have been asked to send immediate aid to Salvus, a small flag station near Prince Rupert which is menaced Workers in Oregon way for the Senate to debate on by rising waters the tax bill the last major nbslacl(- to adjournment of Congress PORTLAND, Oregon, June 2—Es-| The bill, as’ passed, goes back to tablishment of an independent hir-| the House but leaders are hoping Casting Ballots ing hall, The mysterious killing of Charles A. Poole, young WPA worker, at Detroit was attributed by police to a “ritual slaying” by members The Skeena river is the highest in 30 years and is spreading. | The Revelstoke district is ex- | periencing the worst flood condi- tions since 1894. the chief compromise in the strike settlement upon which more than 10,000 union loggers and sawmill workers of the lower Col- umbia River section are voting today, would end the strike which began May 4 The agreement also provides for a T': percent wage increase for all minimum 55 per cent an hour train crews who will work only 48 hours a week and all others to work 40 hours a week with time and a half for overtime. Strikes and lockouts are banned during the Ilfe of the agreement. for favorable action on the Senate amendments, of which the most controversial is the Florida Ship Canal and allocation of additional money for its construction. The Senate also added fifty- elgm million dollars for the Western Reclamation program which was previously approved in the Interior Department’s appropriation bill but which the House rejected TROUBLE ARIS) WASHINGTON, June. S 2. — The Senate and House conference com- mittee failed late this afternoon to agree on the Interior Department's of the “Black Legion,” black-robed secret society, as punishment be- cause Poole had allegedly beaten his wife. Police announced four mem- bers of the society had confessed the killing and that seven would be" charged \ ith murder. Above right, the victim. Above left, a policeman in the soclety’s regalia examines seized weapons and ammunition. Below, Mrs, Rebecca Poole, the widow, with her infant daughter who ’ was born a few days before the killing. (Associated Press Photos) In the Southern interior the Fras- er, Thompson and Columbia rivers poured water over the low lying | districts. The Canadian National Railway | tracks are washed out for 300 feet at Usk, 50 miles from Princeton and ———————— | the water is,reparfed still rising. Trmlltwns A re Shattered e ';“:;"zg’,f;m“"w":f asRepublicans Lay Plans for Hard-driving Campaign | Supply Bill, including/ the twenty million dollars for the Grand Coulee dam. It is said the bill will be sent back to the House for another vote and a review, on the floor, will be given m nscerv.aln what parts will be ac- Lmdbergll Case Again Revived by Gov. Hoffman RSP C. H. WCORMACK DIES ON ESTAT CHICAGO, Ill, June 2—Cyrus Hall McCormack, aged 77, former Chairman of the Board of the In- ternational Harvester Company, is dead. He was stricken last Sat- urday by an attack of the heart at his Lake Forest estate. His widow and eldest son were at the bedside. U. 8. CITIZENS BIVEN WARNING Told: to Seek-Safety from Nicaraguan Rebels— Revolt Reported MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 2— | Citizens of the United States here al Convention at Cleveland, said this| N8Ve been warned to seek safety as | state’s delegation will cast 19 votes| rebel troops surrounded the Presi- |for Gov. Alfred M. Landon for the|dential Palace, cutting President nomination for President | Juan Sacasa and his bodyguard off s | from the world. B. Sa S | Boaz Long, United States Minis- mg daves dtamps ter, issued the warning. From a source close to the palace, HOLLYWOQOD—Bing Crosby saves |it 'is said, three or four occupants the stamps from his fan mail,{have been killed and three or four lice Col. Schwartz- kopf Removed TRENTON, N. J., June 2.—Gov- |nap and murder investigation by Norman Schwartz- Jersey State Police which he organ- ized and has led for the past 15 years. Gov. Hoffman sent the name of Warden, once Sehwartzkopf's depu- ty, to the Senate for confirmation as superintendent. WILL CAST 17 VOTES, LANDON 2 HARTFORD,. Conn., June State Chairman Henry Roraback, Attorney Henry Roden left aboard | sends them to Chinese missions | wounded. President Sacasa is still holding latelists, | out "quite calm.” Idown The water is in the main street. | Two indian viliages are reported ADDRESS MADE By BYRON PRICE nominee immediately after the ' | Cleveland convention. ! | in danger of being inundated. Roads in all directions are flood- | Considering all of stances, such a plan have had one origin. It unques- tionably arose from a widespread conviction among Republican strate- gists that the party's best hope of | winning lay in a vigorous, sustain- ed attack, started as early as! | possible Press, Washington) Prospects of a lively, hard-driving campaign are further confirmed by the plan of various Republican lead- | ers to “notify” their Presidential | the circum- could only President Rooseveit Given| Loud Applause at Pointed Remarks WASHINGTON, June 2—Thou-| sands of gaily dressed farm womeu‘ In politics, notning 1s more dead- heard President Roosevelt assertily than anti-climax. Once formally | last night that he wi seek better |under way, a campaign needs to be | substitutes when new lhmqs fail,” | kept moving with > mentum right up to election day.| Every, stale was represented at|p,, o) yrggition of a notification | the giaht conference of the A“‘“”“ceremony around mid-August rested ciated Country Women of the on a belief in both parties that any | World. |campaign which started too soon The women clapped the loudest|Would lag, leaving candidates and voters weary of it before the finish. when the President said the pros-| ., pemocrats broke away from perity of city dwellers depended that tradition four years ago. Now upon the increase of tne rural pur-|the Republican chieftains are pro- chasing power. increased mo- | (Chief of Bureau, The Associated the | H Al Prince George, houses are par= tially submerged. The Columbia river early this morning was rising at the rate of an inch an hour. Isolation faces Northern British Columbia for days. The situation east of Smithers is not known as communication lines are down. ATTEMPTING TO INCITE MUTINY Communistic therature Is | Circulated Among British Soldiers JERUSALEM, June 2.—Pamphlets inciting the British troops to mut- |iny have been discovered after six |more persons are dead as a result of the Arab-Jewish disorders over | the week-end raising the fatality toll of the past seven weeks to near [70. Of this number 27 were Jew= ish victims. The “mutiny” literature was print- ed in English and signed by the Central Committee for the Pal- posing that their party do - eee - same, indicating they hope to keep their heavy artillery going full biast |from June to November. NEW YORK, June 2.—Three ban- dits early this afternoon stole $50,- 000 in a daring daylight holdup of a bank messenger's car occupied by Theodore Frank, assistant Manager of the National Safety Bank and Arthur Tricer The bandit’s car drew along side| of the bank car and the robbers/ took the money at the points of re-| | volvers. No shots were fired. PLAN ADDS SIMPLICITY Whatever the political wisdom of such a course, it certainly can be said that an immediate notifi- cation tends to simplify campaign procedure The old system involved a good many fictions, and resulted in many anomolies. From June to August a nominee was left official- ly, although not actually, on the loose. He was the designated lead- er of his party, yet he had not been invested with leadership. (Continued on Page Five) Everybody knew that such a can- | *stine Communist Party.” | ARMED REVOLT CALLED JERUSALEM, June 2.—A call for an armed revolt has been issued in numerous Arabian cities. The call is attached to a proclamation with the slogan “Beat the Drums of Re- volt The call and proclamation has been posted calling on Arab youths to uprise against the Jews. D DR. LOFTUS RETURNS Dr. J. B. Loftus, Territorial Vet~ erinarian arrived from Petersburg on the Yukon.