The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 3, 1936, Page 1

THE VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7191. DAILY ALAS “ALL THE. NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1936, ~ PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS CHINA FORCES FIGHT, JAPAN WATCHES FRENCH NATION IS THREATENED BY BIG STRIKE Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Workers Are Already Off Jobs NEW GOVERNMENT | TO TAKE CHARGE Premier ancfibinet Ready | to Resign—Leon Blum Is Slated as Chief PARIS, June 3.—A strike move- ment embracing 350,000 workers in 300 factories rolled over the nation today as Socialists and Radical So- cialists prepared to take over the Government. Paris is threatened with a short- age of food, milk, water and meat. Strikers “folded arms” as the| walkout spread and the very life- stream of the city supplies, includ- ing ice, was cut off. Workers in the pumping stations also threaten to quit, There are rumors the resignation | of Premier Sarraut and his Cabinet | is being prepared for tonight or to- | morrow when Leon Blum, Socialist leader will take over the Premier- ship following the recent election. War industries are affected and | the industrial regions of Paris and Northern France show promise of being paralyzed before nightfall. Strikers are demanding higher wages, 40-hour week, abolition of | over time and recognition of un- ions. { FRENCH ISSUES SAG PARIS, June 3.—French issues sagged heavily on the Bourse today | and the franc reacted heavily. | Branches of several American Week’s News in Review by Richard H. Hippelheuser NEW YORK, as of week ending May 30.—(By Associated Press) — The American Pioneer was the first vigilante, the first nightrider. | The pioneers banded together as vigilantes to protect themselves from the brigands who preyed on settle- ments, from the outlaw and the horsethief. They established the cusiom. ' But it turned into a pnactice used for other purposes. In many sec- tions of the country, nightriders have spread terror in the darkness, for their own ends. Down throughout the nation's history, they have carried on the practice. The newest of these bands of nightriders, of terrorists, is styled “The Black Legion.” Its officers wear robes of white, with peaked hoods. But the masses of privates wear robes of black, with e skull and bones in white on the hood Like other bands of nightriders, “The Black Legion” operated in the name of “patriotism.” Professedly, its members were pledged to an ex- terminating campaign against Cath- olics, Jews, negroes and radicals. They avowedly sought to create a ;dictatorshlp to gain their ends. It was in Michigan that the exis- tence and purposes of “The Black Legion” came to light. A younhg WPA worker, who refused to be- come a member of the terrorist band, was executed, shot to death. Thirteen persons, all confessedly members of the band, were appre- hended, others were sought. Au- thorities said the Lgion was or- | ganized in at least 15 States, ex- tending from the Middle West into the East. The Michigan authorities sought the aid of the Federal Govern- ment's Department of Justice Ag- firms, including the Richard Hud- nut Perfumery and Matford Auto- mobile Company, related to the Ford Company, have been occupied | by the strikers. 31 Work in the munitions factory at Valenciennes and the shipyards at | Marseilles has been suspended. | TAXMEASURE UNDER DEBATE UPPER HOUSE Senator Lewis Suddenlyi Jars Gathering with Pro- posal to Let It Ride | WASHINGTON, June 3. — After the Senate gave tentative appro- val of higher surtaxes on net in- comes above $6,000, and also dozens of committee amendments to the giant Revenue, Bill, Senator James | Hamilton Lewis took the floor and | formally proposed to postpone the | tax bill until next session. Senator | Lewis said: “I cannot see any im- mediate need for this tax bill now | as we have enough money to pay government expenses for the next six months.” The Senate had temporarily skipped the heart of the measure, a new plan for taxing incorporated industry income with tax boosts es- timated to raise $50,000,000 and | adopted an amendment unponing" an excise processing tax from three | to four and one-half cents a pound | on imported fish and vegetable oils. 2 DREADNAUGHTS ARE DAMAGED IN. SHP MANEUVERS New Mexico and Missis-| sippi Enroute North to Bremerton Navy Yard SAN PEDRO, Cal, June 3.— Dreadnaughts New Mexico and Mis- issippi were damaged in fleet man- euvers off Colombia and have sailed for the Puget Sound Navy Yard for ents in the investigation of the ter- rorist band; they sought to invoke the so-called Lindbergh law. How-| ever, the law applies only to kid- naping crimes wherein the victims were transported across a state line. But the Department of Jus- tice promised what legal coopera- tion it could give, and it sought all available evidence. | NATIONAL AFFAIRS | Capitol Hill, the principal question was: i Can Congress adjourn by June 6? With the Republican convention opening June 9, next Saturday was fixed as the deadline for Congres- sional adjournment; but this was three weeks ago. And the two ma- jor measures, the tax bill and the relief appropriations, must still be enacted. | The Senate Finance committee completed its revision of the new, tax bill; but when it comes out on the Senate floor next week, it will have virtually no resemblance to the measure approved in the House some weeks ago. THE TOWNSEND CASE When Dr. Frances E. Townsend | walked out of the House of Repre- sentatives committee room last week in the midst of an inquiry into his old-age revolving pension plan, he aroused the deep ire of the Con- gressional investigators. € Then, two of his aides refused to testify. The committee was up in arms. This week, the committee mem- bers filed charges of contempt against the aged California physi- cian and his two aides. The com- plete record of the case was certified to a District of Columbia grand jury for consideration { Committee members expressed the hope indictments would be returned against the three mn. | CRAFT VS. INDUSTRIAL In the ranks of organized labor, the topic of the moment is the Cl1.0. This is the Committee for Indus- trial Organization, formed by John L. Lewis, Sidney Hillman and other progressive leaders in the American Federation of Labor. It is the nu- cleus of the drive to organize work- ers on the industrial union basis, as against the Federation's domi- nant policy of organization along craft lines, | With the very inception of C.1O.,' disputes arose . ! William Green, President of the A. F. of L, and the craft union |leaders criticised Lewis, Hillman and the other industrial unionists. | But their criticism went unheeded.| Then they tried ultimatums. And the ultimatums now go unheeded. This week, the executive council issued its latest ultimatum to Lew- turbine repairs and stripped bIA'd- Limited facilities prevented the work here. The two dreadnaughts may be unable to make the summer cruise to Hawaii leaving here June 29. i (Continued on Page Two) o) is and his powerful Workers. The Council demanded that the United Mine Workers, along with eight other of the largest units of the Federation, dissolve the C.1.O. In reply, Lewis said the Mine Workers “most emphatically rel‘uses‘ to accede to either the call or the request of the American Federation | {of Labor to discontinue its con- structive and logical course of ac- tion.” THE '36 CAMPAIGN Borah Admonishes “There was a time when the Re-| publican party was the most aggre: sive, progressive political organiza- tion in the history of party poli- tics. “But the insidious deadening coils of monopolistic and corporate interests drained away its energy, its courage, hindering and embar- rassing every effort within the party to meet the pressing problems of social justice until today it is fighting for its very life.” . .. With these words, Senator Wil- liam E. Borah admonished the Re- publican party to take its stand against “Monopolistic practices” at the Cleveland convention. THE LANDON PLANS John D. M. Hamilton, his youth- ful National will nominate Governor Alf Landon at Cleveland. This was announced by the Gov- ernor, in an informal statement issued at the Kansas Capital. Hamilton is the National Com- mitteeman from Kansas. He left his work in the Washihgton head- quarters of the G.O.P. National Committee to direct the Governor's National ecampaign . The Governor's Tloor leader will be Representative J. W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts. CONSTITUTIONAY. CHANGE For the third time, Norman Thom- as is the Socialist party’'s nominee for President. : The Vice Presidential nominee is a Wisconsin “Dirt Farme George A. Nelson. A former speak- er of the Wisconsin Legislature, he has long been active in Middlewest farm organizations. In its platform, the party called for immediate constitutional change tn end the “usurped power of the Supreme Court to declare social legislation unconstitutional,” and to give the Federal Government au- thority_to acquire and operate basic industries. FOREIGN AFFAIRS Weeks have gone by and, so far, Adolf Hitler has given no reply to United Mine ; campaign manager, 57 SEATS ARE T0 BECONTESTEDAT Those Under Fire at Cleveland CLEVELAND, June. 3—Fifty- |seven contested convention seats, the Republican National Committee | together here to listen to grievanc- les. Six complete delegations are in dispute. These include Alaska, Flor- {ida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and the District of Colum- bia. Also two seats are disputed in Georgia and one each in Illinois, Oklahoma and Tennessee. discrimination against negro dele- gates. Charges of “lily white” sur- rounded the Louisiana and Missis- sippi seats, made by Perry Howard, | Mississippi negro National Commit- | teeman. -~y DICKINSON CONTENDER DES MOINES, June 3.—Senator Lester Dickinson of Iowa, persist- ent New Deal critic who won a de- cisive victory for re-nomination in the Monday primary in Iowa, is a !contender for the Republican nom- ination at Cleveland, party leaders here said today. | Gov. Clyde Herring, consistent New Deal supporter, has been talked hére as a Democratic nominee, but |it is considered doubtful if he will allow his name to appear against that of President Roosevelt. | Senator Dickinson has been con- dered for months as a possibility for the Republican race but his ultra-conservative tendencies have ,caused some of the more liberal to frown at his chances. His victory |yesterday in the primary for re. nomination to the Sehate has boosted his stock noticeably and many leaders here are of the theory he must be considered at Cleveland. DISHAW'S FIRM 'LOW BIDDER ON BASIN ROAD 08 ‘Road Will Be Closed When | Construction Starts About June 15 | The Mendenhall Construction |Company, operated by Alfred Di- |shaw, was low bidder on the Ju- neau-Ebner Camp road construction | i 6.0, P. CONCLAVE] |Alaska’s Three Is Among}, |many disputed for years, has called | From the south there is talk of | RS SRES S This is an interesting candid camera scene on the appearance in a Detroit court of 12 alleged Black Legion members on murder charges in connection with the siaying of Charles Poole. Among them were Dayton Dean (left) and Harvey Davis (next to Cean). (Associated Press Pi BLACK LEGION INEW AIR MAIL | For Alaska Now Indicated WASHINGTON, June 3. The House Agriculture Com- mittee has voted approval of the Senate bill to extend to Alaska benefits of the existing Legislation for agricultural ex- periment and extension work. The bill provides for $7,500 Fed- eral funds for the next fiscal year and gradually increasing { sgrants thereafter. ALASKA FURS ARE LISTED ON - AUCTION SALE [Seattle Exchange An ‘f nounces Monthly Event | to Take Place June 10 SEATTLE, June 3.—The Seattle Fur Exchange announces that at the auction June 10, the regular monthly sale, 29,850 pelts will be put up. Alaska arrivals may number. Included in the sale stands, there are 350 heavy Alaska boost this as it now the questionnaire of British For- when bids were opened today by |!¥nX, and 1,500 silver and red fox eign Secretary Anthony Eden. In this, Eden, in his efforts to settle the tension aroused by the German reoccupation of the demil- itarized Rhineland, sought to learn just what Hitler wants in his de- mands for equality with the other European powers, For a time, there was delay brought on by the Italian occupa- tion of virtually all of Haile Sel- assie’'s empire; there was delay brought on by consideration of ef- forts to lessen the tenseness be- tween Italy and Britain; delay nec- essitated by considering what course of action Britain would now follow at Geneva with respect to contin- uation of sanctions. But, inasmuch as all of these re- main unsettled, and inasmuch as the German situation is as much a part of the European crisis as the Ital- ian, Britain now would like an an- swer. From the Wilhelmstrasse, came no reply. Instead Hitler mobilized his new fleet and reviewed it at Kiel ‘ong the famous naval base of 'ac old Germany. One hundred units of the re- created German navy steamed past Hitler in Kiel Bay — “Vest-pock- et” battleships, submarines, cruis- ers, destroyers and armored speed- boats. It was the first public display of the submarines and speed boats. there In Rome, another dictator staged a review. I1 Duce, reviewing several youth battalions, shouted to the throngs: “Have we marched straight ahead up to this time?” The crowd roared out: “Yes.” “Today,” II Duce continued, “I say to you that we will march just as straight ahead in the, future.” |the Bureau of Public Roads. The company bid $22,279.70 on the job of grading and surfacing the route to the first Gold Creek bridge on Ithe Basin Road. The engineer’s estimate was $22,840.70. Other bids were R. J. Sommers Construction Company, $23,446; Berg Construction .Company, $24410.10; Wright and Stock, $29,736.10; Siems- Spokane Company, $32,398.50. It is anticipated the bids will be approved in about 10 days and work is expected to start about June 15. During the time it will require to do the work, about 120 days, the road will be closed to traffic, it was announced, and op- erators of mining and public utility properties and all residents living within Gold Creek Basin should make advance preparation for the road closing, officials said. B. C. TOWNSEND DIES N SOUTH Prosecuted Alaska Coal Land, Oregon Land Grant Cases SANTA MONICA, Cal, June 3 |Burdette Cavis Townsend, aged 64 special assistant to three United States Attorney Generals, died at his home here yesterday as the result of a heart ailment. Townsend, employed by the De- partment of Justice, prosecuted the Oregon Land Grant and Alaska coal land cases. The widow and daughter Martha survive. Funeral services will be held to- MOrrow. lalso of heavy fur. .o 0 060 e 0 00 e . STOCK QUOTATIONS . s 0000000000 NEW YORK, June 3.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14, American Can 128%, American Power and Light 11%, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem |Steel 51%, Curtiss Wright 6%, Gen- leral Motors 61%, ~International Harvester 85, Kennecott 38%, Unit- ed States Steel 61':, Commonwealth |:md Southern 3, Cities Service 4%, Bremner 18 at 25, Pound $5.02. DOW, JONES AVERAGES Today’s Dow. Jones averaces are as follows: industrials 151.53, rails 46.08, utilities 31.11 Disappearance, Wealthy Man's Son, Cleared Up New York éoy—ls Found in Chicago Earning Living Selling Magazines | CHICAO, I, June 3.—William | Webster Theile, 15-year-old son of | william Theile, New York finan- cier, who disappeared from his lux- urious home on May 3 on his way |to a tennis match, has been found | here in geod health and earning a living selling magazines. “I was fed up with society life and decided to try and make my own way in the world,” said young Theile. “I guess I will now have to go back to breakfasts in bed “.nd chauffeur driven automobiles.”| J KILLER TAKES STAND TODAY FOREIGN RATE Confessed Say:r of Charles Poole Says Victim ‘Taken for Ride’ DETROIT, Mich., June 3.-Day- ton Dean, confessed killer of Ciias. Poole, took the witness stand to- day over the objections of his coun- sel in examination of himself and twelve other Black Legion members held on charges of murder. “A one way ride was arranged for Poole,” Dean testified. Dean testified that Harvey Davis Colonel of the Black Hooded or- ganization, told him it would be the “easiest ana best way tc iTandle Poole.” Evidence was also brought out that Poole’s death was planned, not because of his purported beating of his wife, but because it was “under- stood” he was going to quit the or- der and might make unpleasant disclosures. ELECTRIC STORM ADDS TO TERROR, FLOODEDWATERS Boy Is Killed in B. C.— Rivers Continue to Rise and Overflow Land VANCOUVER, B. C, June 3. Recurrence of electrical storms which preceded a deluge of flood waters, took one life late yesterday Keith Berkeley, aged 15, son of a miner at Colletteville was killed with his dog while taking in a herd of cows. Rivers continue to rise in the mid-coast and southern sections of British Columbia. The situation east of Prince Ru- pert is still acute. The flood waters River have swept horses and railroad tracks. Hazelton, Kispiox and Glenowell are flood bound and communica- tions are cut off. Many families are reported, home- ess The Fraser River is overflowing the dikes covering farms. The Columbia River continues to rise. Crews are trying to save the bridge at Revelstoke by dynamiting the log mmi BIG WELCOME FOR BADOGLIO ROME, June 3.—A wild welcome was today given to the conquerer of Ethiopia Marshal Badoglio. The streets were lined with thousands and he was given great acclaim, of the Skeena away bridges, to) ~ OPERATED AT Dimond Ex;lains Set Up If Proposed Alaska Item Wins Approval WASHINGTON, June 3.—Dele: gate Antheny J: Dimond said to-| day that if the deficiency bill, which contains an item of $200,000 for year around air mail service from Ju- | neau to the Interior, meets the ap- proval of the conference committee | as passed by the Senate the service 'would be operated under foreign air mail classification requiring a | surcharge on top of the regular | domestic rates. The Delegate declined to make a prediction as to the fate of the pro- vision before the confergnce com- | mittees. WOULD START NEXT JUNE It the Senate action is approved by the House committee, it will mean the inauguration of service from Juneau to the Interior via the Whitehorse route to Fairbanks, probably starting next June at the beginning of the 1937 fiscal year. In an effort to get confirmation of the .item in the deficiency bill, telegrams have been sent from here to Congressman James P. Buchan- an, Chairman of the House Approp- | riations committee, pointing out the need of the service and urging fa- vorable consideration. RAINDRENCHES WASHINGTON TO ASSIST FARMERS 'Numb{'r of Small Forest Fires in State Also Extinguished SEATTLE, June 3-—Heavy rain yesterday over the state brought smiles to farmers and forest offic- ials. The weather continued unsettled today and may aid a bumper wheat rop for Eastern Washington grow- 3 | The rain eftinguished a num- ber of small forest fires and was heavy enough to halt concrete pour- ing on the Grand Coulee Dam, lay- ing 2,000 men off temporarily. One and seventh tenths inches of rain fell over the Waterville wheat country and eighty eight hundredths inches here, breaking all early June records. | L eee | Condition of Harry Steel Satisfactory | SEATTLE, June 3.—The condi- SOUTHERN ARMY MOVINE NORTH IN RAPID ACTION Many Cities Are Reported Already Captured Without Opposition TWO GOVERNMENTS AGAINST EACH OTHKR Japan Watches Movements —Official Spokesman Makes Statement SHANGHAI, June 3.—Japanese advices received here late this af- ternoon from Canton stated the South China armies advancing northward have captured many North China cities along the Hu- nan frontier without opposition. The soldiers are moving Wwith lightning rapidity, the Japanese re- port says. The Hunanese forces have apparently withdrawn to the walled town of Lingling, 15 miles ‘nside the province. TROOPS ON MARCH SHANGHAI, June 3—A quarter of a million Canton government troops marched out in three direc- tions today toward the Fukien and Kiangse Provinces. A Japanese news agency report- ed the purpose of the advance re- mains obscure. The agency said the troops moved toward a concentration point and | several crack divisions of Northern China forces are on the march Japanese sources said the Can- ton Gevernment has declared war on the Nanking government. | Chinese quarters deny the report- ed march and claim the Japanese | are trying to detract attention on the Japanese smuggling of rein- | forcements to Japanese garrisons in | North China ready for a gigantic | defense. JAPAN UNDECIDED TOKYO, Japan, June 3. — The Japanese nation is “watching anx- | lously the serious situation” creat- ed by the hostilities between the | Nanking and Canton Chinese gov- | ernments,” the official spokesman said here today. | The Spokesman also said Japan |is unable to decide whether it is | necessary for Japan to act to pro- tect her interests in South China. — e e — DEFICIENCY BILL NOW IN CONFERENCE | Outlook for Early Adjourn- ment of Congress Now Appears Brighter WASHINGTON, June 3.—Con- \gress today improved the adjourn- | ment outlook when the House Dem- locrats and Republicans reached an 'agreement which sped the huge Re- |lief Deficiency Bill at a conference to reconcile differences with the ! Senate. | An agreement was made, it is |said, that directed that the con- ferees would have authority to ac- cept any and all of the Senate amendments except the ten mil- lion dollars conditional expenditure |authorized for the Florida Ship |canal and the $300,000,000 fund |given the PWA. Chairman Buchanan, Democrat, |said he will bring these back sep- axrate -to_the house for a vote. SELASSIE NOW - INSAFE HAVEN |[Former Emperor of Ethio- { pia Is Under Guard 1 in England tion of Harry G. Steel, publisher| of the Cordova, Alaska Daily Times,| SOUTHAMPTON, June 3.--For- taken to the Virginia Mason Hos- | mer Emperor Haile Selassie, of Eth- pital on May 27, victim of pneu-|iopia, arrived here today aboard a monia, is described as satisfac- | passenger liner from Gibraltar. tory . Steel came south on a recent| There was no official greeting and | steamer accompanied by a nurse. |he is closely guarded.