The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 4, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS VOL. XLVIII., NO. 71 92, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA, T’HURSD/\Y JUNE 4, 1936. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NAT. LEGISLATION BLOCKED BY DEATH CHAMBER OPENS DRIVE AGAINST SPEEDERS HERE Many Recent Accidents Prompts Action in Co- operation, City Council Directing a campaign toward | speeders and the use of cutouts on| motor vehicles, the Juneau Chamber | of Commerce at its luncheon today | decided to turn the matter over toi the Civic Affairs Committee with instructions to confer with the City | Council relative to anticipated ac-| tion. It was brought ouv that fast and |, careless driving on the streets of the city and out the Glacier High- way endangers life and limb and| some sort of check should be made. | Within the city limits, it was poimfl[ ed out that there are certain reg- ulations now which might be in- voked to stop the praetice, espcr"allx in connection with the use of cut-| outs. Serious Crashes Attention was called particularly to motoreycles operating with cut- outs open, “which can be heard for| four blocks,” and it was the concen- | sus of opinion that a curb should be | placed on improper driving which| has resulted in a large number of accidents here recently, some of them serious. Report of the Executive Commit- tee, which was adopted by the Chamber, revealed that Mitchell Daniloff, Juneau High School boy, had been awarded special honorable mention by the National Fire Pro- tection Association for his Fire Pre- vention poster. Students from all over the nation took part in the eontest. . The committee also endorsed the' resolution of the Ketchikan Cham- ber of Commerce asking for instal- lation of aids to air navigation in the Territory at the earliest oppor- tunity. Poor Mail Service R. E. Robertson called attention to poor mail service, pointing out that it is a week between boats, south, and urged that it be called to] the attention of the Postoffice De-! partment. “It is worse now than| in the middle of the winter,” he| declared. Secretary Curtis Shattuck repol(-‘ ed the Chamber was keeping al month’s check on the mail service and at the end of that time would submit the entire matter to Dele-| gate Anthony J. Dimond to take| up with the Postoffice Department, in Washington. Robert W. Bender, Chairman of the Greeters Committee, told of plans to welcome visitors coming u» the city, laying special emphasis| on the special tour party, the first of which is due to arrive here Tues- | day from Los Angeles. He urged that all Chamber members make | it a point to greet the visitors, and ! asked that those finding among| the visitors persons in the same line | of business make an effort to see that they are properly taken care of. i .- FRASER RIVER KEEPS RISING; WORKERS LOSE Dikes Thre;gl to Break| —Other Communities Are Threatened VANCOUVER, B. C, June 4— Scores of volunteer workers with hands blistered from hours of in- cessant labor, fought an almost certain losing battle today against Fraser river flood waters. An at- tempt is being made to save dikes and guard the rich farm lands of| the Southeastern Province. The dikes at Hammersley Prairie, 60 miles up-river, and Chilliwack farther up, are giving way. Farmers moved their livestock and other belongings they can out of the area. The guage at Mission registered 22.34 feet, a rise of 8 in- ches over night. A rise of another 3 or 4 inches will take out the dike at Hammersley and inundate 1,200 acres. The Columbia river is rising slight- ly with the trail reading at 37.7 feet. At Skeena and other towns in the northern part of the province, the waters are receding. REPUBLICAN LEADERS LAY CONVENTION PLANS ‘;(‘!ONTEST FIGHT BROWS WARMER IN CLEVELAND Theodore Huntley (left), publicity director for the Republican national committee, Chairman Henry ?. Fletcher (center) and Arthur Curtis, acting general counsel for the committee, are pictured as they conferred at Washington on plans SARRAUT QUITS AS PREMIER OF FRENCH NATION Resignations of Entire Cab- inet Presented—So- cialists in Power PARIS, June 4—French Premier | Sarraut ane,the members of his coalition Minet resigned today to permit.the "Socialists to_.assume the | government of this strike ridden country | As Premier Sarraut made the “funeral march” across the street to the Elysee Palace to tender the resignations to President Lebrun, it was announced that a strike of about 400,000 workers has stifled in- dustry which is near paralysis. The strike movement has been suddenly met by refusals of the leaders of the retail industries to conduct any further negotiations | with the strikers until the strike: s | evacuate more than 100 factories which they have occupied Strikers are demanding higher wages, a 40-hour week, abolition of | overtime and recognition of un:uu, BLUM IS PREMIER Leon Blum, following acceptancy of the resignation of the Sarraut | Government, became Premier of | France. He is the first Socialist Premier of France. Wild rumors of the strike tion flooded Paris all during the day because all newspaper employ- | ees are also on a walkout. Ther will be no afternoon papers of ot description as the power is off. The result of the election in the Chamber of Deputies showed Ed- ouard Herriot will be President. He received 378 votes. His nearest op- ponent r(‘cm\'Ld 150 votes. AIMEE AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT; THREAT MADE Man Wanmlo,OOO or He'll Make Public Pic- tures of Her in Nude situa- SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 4.—Val entine Phillip McAuliffe, aged 42,! toothless cripple, remained in jail today as investigators checked deep- er the story of his mailing extor- tion notes to Aimee Semple Mc- Pherson. McAuliffe demanded $10,000 on threat of “making public” photo- graphs he said he made of her in| the nude in Los Angeles Mrs. McPherson, flanked by a pair of husky bodyguards, said: “Unquestionably the man is a crank. I certainly have no pictures that I would not be perfectly will- ing to have published.” -ee COMING TO JUNEAU Peter Del Missier is a passenger | aboard the Northland enroute to Juneau to visit his brother Carl, who | is employed in the grocery depart- ment of the United Food Company. The visitor expects to spend the summer here. | They | watched closely for any “kick back”| | ocratic anyway. for the Republican national convention at Cleveland June 9. ciated Press Photo) (Asso- HOLDS FRI fiNCH POWER PHILADELPHIA IS READY FOR BIG SESSION Pennsvlvama s Metr opolls Prepared to Entertain Democrats PHILADELPHIA, June 4.—This city's extended without stint to the hostgs of Americans the | South, West and East preparing to invade Penns the Democ! the 1. 3 resource at command of the All Philadelphia Citizens’ Commit- tee on Arrangements headed by Al- bert M. Greenfield will be utilized ' to make pleasant and profitable the | stay of official and unofficial con- | vention visitors. Guides will be available to escor visitors to the historic American shrines and the ancient thorough- fares through which gaily marched the scarlet-coated grenadiers of Sir | William Howe, through which goose ! stepped the stiff-backed Hessians | of Knyphausen and in which shuf- fled the indomitable but tatter-de- h’\ll"n hosts of the Continently Ar- from a’s metropolis for ational Convention week of June Leon Blum, Sociali’, became Premier of France today follow- ing resignation of the Sarraut Government. NEW TARIFF T0 AID NEW ENGLANDERS :: Curb Against ]apanebe Cot-! ton Goods Will Help American Industry Near Valley Forge Only fifteen miles from Philadel-! phia is Valley Forge, where in the bitter winter of 1777-1778 the rag- ged, unconguerable veterans of Washington left foot-prints of blood {upon the snow and where in the darkest hours of the Colonies fight for liberty the great General used to kneel in prayer on the ground f the wind-swept wastes. alley Forge, the little commun- ity on display in the Nation’s his-| tory in bold, bright, everlasting let- ters, the Mecca to which the great ma of convention visitors will make pilgrimage, will be made eas- June 4 Trade followers see in the new tariff against Japanese cotton goods a means of delivering to New England | millers a cargo of business they complained they had lost through the reciprocal treaty with France The curb on Japan and the agri ment with France, however, was not exactly a case of robbing Peter |y aooeqgiple by the All Philadelphia to pay Paul. The Japanese cloth & b " against which the tariff was di-| | rected consisted mainly of “shirt-| Indepenaence Hall " used in underwear, handker- Only a short walk {rom the ho- shiefs and similar articles. New Eng- | 'els where the State delegations land millers producing such cotton | 0 the convention will be housed rn goods expressed jubilation at the Independence Hall, where the Dec-| tariff. . | laration of Independence was signed It was the lace makers who com- ' and where the Constitution of the plained about the French treaty.| United States was promulgated protested it, lowercd sharply | Fere reposes the Liberty Bell, prob- the tariff on types of lace which ! ably the most venerated relic of the American mills had supplied for StTuggle for independenc. | 25 years. Among the group of ancient build-| 5 ings situated in Independenc Square is Congress Hall, where sat| the first Congress of the United States and where were enacted nw first laws of the Nation. In this| old structure Washinslon was WASHINGTON, WATCH SOUTHERN REACTION Departmental officials who noted | that Japan is the largest foreign| purchaser of American raw cotton | % that might disturb Southern roLLon‘ J growers. Critical political minds sought, to| interpret the new tariff proclama-! tion as an effort to mollify New! England millers who have protest- ed the Administration’s cotton price boosting. Southern States, they argued, are rather solidly Dem- | <Cominued on Page Three) Glrl Baby Born NEW BERN, North Carolina, June gy 4—George Isaac Hughes, 96 year A GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT |old Confederate veteran who amaz- The United States also had a|€d the medical world when he be- “gentleman’s agreement” with Ja- Came a father of a boy baby 17 pan about cotton shipments in the| months ago, is all smiles again to- Philippines, but there the situation 48y, this time it is a girl may not be so readily dealt with,| ~10oks like we might s o i M D | pretty big family after al (Continued on Page Six) ‘uug)u-:,, ‘I have been saying a aid il raise : traditional hospitality will be} North, & Onc Florida Delc;,ahon Is « Seated—Alaska Dispute Yet to Be Aired ¥ CLEVELAND, June 4.—The Qlunill Republican Committee day continued its work over fested delegations. The Louisiana flght on the .“lily white” probiem gas given first consideration today. ‘ Late yesterday it was decided to ; #at the Florida delegation headed John Harris of Long Beach he opposing delegation was hes by Leonard Lewis of Jackson- negro, who said he would rry the fight to the convention loor, which all rejected delegates ill have the right to do if they ish. {® Just when the Alaska contest ould come up had not been de- ed. Two delegations are here from the north Territory, are head- d by H. L. Faulkner, |6 NATIONAL DEFENSE PLAN IS EFFECTIVE resident blgns Navy Sup- P ¥ ply Bill—Signature on War Dept. Bill WASHINGTON, June 4. — More oan -onié billion dollars for na- Na- to- both of Juneau tional defense for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was made avail- able today with the signing by President Roosevelt of the five hun- dred and twenty-six million dollar Navy Supply Bill President Roosevelt has already signed the War Department meas- ure. e MASKA GIRL, SEATTLE MAN, WED, INTERIOR Miss Scheffler Becomes, Bride of R R. Harrop— | Off on Honeymoon FATRBANKS, Alaska, June 4 Mary Elizabeth Scheffler and Rob- ert Russell Harrop were married here yesterday and left on the train, for Seward enroute to Seattle on a honeymoon trip. The bride was born in Cordova and graduated from the University | She 1s the| of Alaska this year | daughter of pioneer Alaskans, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scheffler. Her father is a member of the News- Miner mechanical staff, The groom is a graduate of the } University of Washington and in-| structor in the school business ad- ministration of the University of Alaska. He is the son of Mr. and | Mrs. W. L. Harrop of Seattle s New Superintendent, Fairbanks Schools, Enroute to Seattle! FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 4—W. S. Bloom, recently from Nome, new- | | ly appointed Superintendent of the Fairbanks Schools, his wife and| small son, flew to Matanuska to sce | the colony there and will continue south to Seattle where he will take | post graduate work, returning here | in September to Couple Father I~ 96; Mother Is 28| along I wlll live to be 110." The mother, Libby Hill Hughes is 28, The couple married two and one half years ago. The baby has been named Mary Gertrude and weighs six and one half pounds. The paternity of the Hughes’' son was authenticated by the Journal of the American Medical Associa- tion. con- | Albert White and the other| Speaker of House Byrns ' Dies Suddenly Last Night as Result of Heart Attack JOSEPH WELLINGTON BYR WASHINGTON, June Joseph Wellington Byrns died from followed by a.cerebral hemorrhage. 4—Speaker of the House of an attack of the Death was wholly unexpected. He Representatives heart last night | SUDDEN PASSING OF SPEAKER HAS HALTED SOLONS Rang‘, Leader of House ‘ Democrats, J. W.Byrns, Dies Early Today 'LEADERS OF ALL PARTIES ARE SAD |Heart Alkack Followed by Shoke. Fatal to Tenn. Statesman WASHINGTON, June 4.-—Leaders >f all political parties expressed | grief over the death of House Speak- | er Joseph W. Byrns which came at 112:15 o'clock this morning in his room in the Mayflower Hotel. The death of the tall rangy pil- | lar of the Democratic Party during the turbulent hours of hard fight- ing between the New Deal and the New Deal foes came as a shock to | all members of Congress and hun- dreds of others in all walks of life. Legislative Situation ; The passing of the Speaker | plunged the legislative situation | further into uncertainty. Friends believe hard work in- duced the heart attack and subse- | quent hemorrhage: | It is also believed that the session will now last longer, perhaps far into next week. Speaker Byrns was apparently in ;Lood health at midafternoon yes= |terday when the House adjourned ,e'\rly out of respect to Congressman A. Piatt Andrew of Massachusetts, who died at his home in Gloucester. First Attack Speaker Byrns suffered his first | attack of heart trouble at 5:30 o'- was active almost to the last in the tremendous task of trying to clean | ¢lock yesterday afternoon accord- up legislation for adjournment of Congress at the coming week-end Friends believe the strain was partly” responsible Joseph W. Byr prominent Democrats. the lower House of the elected to that State's , who was 66 years of age, He was a lawyer Tennessee Legislature Senate in 1900 first Congress and had served continuously since then. was one of Tennessee's ' by profession. He served in for three terms, was, to the Sixty- He was elected and was elected Speaker of the present Seventy-fourth Congress. Relief Is Supreme Issue as Noisy Party Wrangles DAWES HURT IN PLANE ACCIDENT ‘\ IN YANKEE COVE| The Juneau Flying Club Klflnm‘ Skylard seaplane suffered minor | damages, including a broken pon- | toon strut and injuries to one wing, | and Dr. L. P. Dawes suffered slight injuries when he attempted to take | off in rough water at Yankee Cove! this afternoon. Dr. Dawes received a cut from his gl es on his nose, which were broken, and minor bruis- Dr. Dawes left Juneau this morn- |ing for Yankee Cove intending to | return within a short time. At a e hour this afternoon the Alas- | ka Air Transport seaplane Patco | went out to look for him, and found | the disabled machine. - | “End Sudden Death” Contest Seattle and Portland, Announced | | | SEATTLE, June 4.—The traffic contest “End Sudden Death,” be- | tween Seattle and Portland, was in- dicated today. Seattle | March 1 to May 31. For the same period, Portland had nine deaths. Seattle, during the period, had 3383 traffic accidents and Port- d 4,043, .o Governor of Louisiana Says He'll Be Real Boss BANTON ROUGE, La., June 4— ‘Backseat drivers” will be taboo in Governor Richard W. Leche's ad- ministration, Leche says. “There will be no backseat driv- ers or powers behind the throne in my administration,” commented Leche. “I expect to be Governor of this State 365 days a year for the full four-year term.” has had 22 deaths from ' Prece(lo 1 936 Convention By BYROUN PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) There is at least a hint of proph- | ecy in the fact that the relief issue | plays so prominent part in the fi- | I nal noisy prelude to.the National| political conventions. The new tax bill may be disturb- | | ing in some industrial quarters. The | cam- | farm issue may dominate the | paign in certain states. Various | groups of citizens have shown spec- ial concern about the constitution. But when all is said and done, the universal issue is relief. On the side of the Democrats, no other issue has produced such out- spoken disagreement in the party ranks in Congress. No other has| resulted in such open public dispute | among officials of the Administra-| tion. Among the Republicans, too, there ~ are differences of view which it may be difficult to overcome completely. | Some of the most influential, how-| | ever, are talking of launching the Republican campaign on the key- note of a radically-revised relief program, letting all other issues take secondary place for the moment. Relief is something every voter knows about. That is the kind of issue which inevitably pushes llb\!f to the top. MINERS FORGET GUFFEY ACT Recently a visitor to a coal min-| ing section brought back word Washington that the miners and their families were not talking about the Guffey Act, nor about wages and hours or homestead projects, but about relief. What about all of these charges of politics in the relief set-up, they asked, and would some other meth- od of handling the problem be bet- ter? If anyone doubts that relief has become a burning local question everywhere, he will find the proof in the columns of the daily news- papers of virtually every state in| the union The care with whlcll the RL‘pub (Continued on age ¢ Three) |ing to an announcement of Dr. | George Calver, the Congressional | physician. He said a stroke at 11 to'clock and a hemorrhage occurred \later. An attack of influenza of several | years ago, left Speaker Byrns with a bad heart . The widow and two brothers, W. J. Byrns, of Washington, and John Byrns of Cincinnati, were at the bedside. His Last Bet The majority leader, about a { month ago, predicted that Congress I‘\muld adjourn during the first week n June and he made a bet of a 25- cent cigar with Minority Leader Snell to that effect. “He wanted to bet a suit of clothes,” said Snell today, “but T told him I could not buy a suit of clothes for anybody. I wish I had | though.” President Roosevelt announced he will attend the funeral in the Capi- | tol tomorrow and accompany the llunvml train to attend the burial | services in Tennessee. FUNERAL HOUR WASHINGTON, June 4—A Spec« ial House Committee announces that | a State Funeral will be held tomor-~ row afternoon in the Capitol . Joseph W. Byrns Jr.,, the only son of the deceased Speaker, ar- ’mvd this forenoon by plane from Nashville. IS GREAT LOSS NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 4.- | State of Tennessee b ~“The s lost a great " (Continued on d on Page Eight) e WASHINGTON U JUNIOR PLAGED ~ UNDER ARREST ‘Threal to Kill Is Charge | Being Made — Dyna- mite Plot Bared 1 | | v SEATTLE, June 4—Ruth Me- |ten, aged 36, University of Wash- |ington junior, has been jailed on a charge she telephoned a dyna- mite threat last Monday to Edwin Stevens, University Registrar. Barely four feet tall, Miss Naugh~ | ten w rested by deputies in her hotel apartment last night after she put up a hard fight. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John Schermer is filing a complaint charging her with a threat to kill, |1t is said the woman is apparently Purfrrmg from a delusion regarding a faculty plot to prevent her from )hecoming # teacher