The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1936. VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7213. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS ZIONCHECK ESCAPES FROM SANITARIUM F.D.R. WARS ON “ECONOMIC TYRANNY” THRONG CHEERS | AS PRESIDENT ACCEPTS HONOR “Enemy Outsxde Gates| Ready to Beat Down Our | Works,” Roosevelt Says GARNER ALSO GETS GREAT OVATION| Chief Lxecullve Pledges Self to Carry Forward People’s Program PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 29. President Franklin D, Roosevelt ac- cepted his renomination here Sat- urday night with a declaration of war against “economic tyranny” at a giant outdoor mass meeting in Franklin Field. John Nance Garner speaking before him “gladly” ac- cepted his own renomination as Vice | President, Saturday afternoon Gar- | ner was renamed by acclamation at | the closing session of the Demoeratic National Convention, as has been; President Roosevelt in the earl\n morning hours. Never before has a major party named, notified and received nccva tance of its candidates in so shor a time Rain threatened for a time to spoil | the outdoor ceremonies but just be- fore the President drove to Frank- lin Field Stadium, the rain clouds rolled away. The President was formally noti- fid of his nomination by a delega- | tion headed by Senator Joseph T. Robinson and of which Gov. John| W. Troy of Alaska was a member and Vice President Garner by a committee headed by Senator Pat Harrison of which Judge William | Holzheimer of Alaska was a mem- ber. Garner Accepts Garner in a brief acceptance speech said: “I am a soldier. My duty is to follow where my Commander | leads.” The President had difficulty get- ting the cheering throng, enthused by his voice, to restrain from cheers long enough to permit him to fin- ish his speech. In accepting he said: “In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the constitution and in their blindness they forget what the constitution stand for. The flag and the constitution stand for dem- ocracy, not tyranny; for freedom,| not subjection, and against the dic- tatorship by mob rule and the over- privileged alike.” Talks on Economic Situation The President confined his re- marks to general discussion of the issue of economic oppression as con- trasted with New Deal objectives of guarding the people against insecur- ity, “protecting the family and the home" and “establishment of a dem- ocracy of opportunity as an aid to those overtaken by disaster.” ‘But the resolute enemy without our gates is ever ready to beat down our works unless in greater courage we will fight for them,” he declar- ed. “For more than three years we have fought for them. This con- | vention in every word and deed has pledged that the fight must go on. (Continued on Page Seven) e eee— COXEY NOT CANDIDATE " Says He Will| “General” Support Lemke for Presidency MASSILLON, Ohjo, June 29. “General” Jacob Coxey, aged 82 campaigner for municipal bonds, to- | day announced he has withdrawn as the Farmer-Labor Party’s Presiden- tial candidate and said he would| support William Lemke, candidate for that high office, on the Union Party ticket. When asked when he was nom- inted by the Farmer-Labor Party,| Coxey said: “Oh, I have always been Standlml erers of Democra tu' N atwnal Part\ for 1 9 ?6 i G ROOSEVELT GARNER i FAULKNER TEI_LS Cump(ugn of 1936 Is Now Underway; Six Parties in Field wlth Their L()ad(’r.s OF CONVENTION AT CLEVELAND | Attorney Gives Version of What Transpired in Seating Delegates H. L. Faulkner, prominent Ju- neau attorney who was one of the delegates from the Fire Hall Re- publican convention at Douglas to the National Republican Conven- tion but was not seated, gave the following account of the action at | Cleveland: ( “I had expected that contests be- | fore the National Committees of the two great parties would be de- | cided on their merits; but our delegation at Cleveland found that a decision on the merits was a| very rare thing. “The Republican National Com- mittee consists of 102 members. | | They convene several days in ad- vance of the opening of the Na- tional Convention for the purpose of hearing contests. There were ten cases pending. Hearing them on the merits would be much like try- ing ten law suits in court before 102 judges. The members of the committee or most of them come and go, read and talk, and pay little attention to the facts in- volved. Sometimes it seems much like talking to a large group of | diners gathered at numerous tables in a large dining room who are busy eating, and talking among| themselves. “In all the contests, where Na- | tional Committeemen themselves | were involved, and I think this| year that applied to all of them,| the committee voted to recognize that delegation which was on the| side of the National Committee- man. Fought for Re-election “In the Alaska contest, Mr. Ras- muson made a very active fight to| be re-elected National Committee- man, although the great majority of all the delegates at the Douglas | Convention endorsed Judge Clegg, and some of those who were orig- inally in favor of Mr. Rasmuson, like myself, felt that he had drop- ped out of the contest when he |read the statement to the conven- | tion in which he released all those —{who had promised to support him. |1 refer to the statement which was |made to the Douglas Convention jon April- 11 and published in both | Juneau papers on that date. “After the hearing in our con- |test was complete, the committee went into executive session to con- |sider the case. There were prob-| ably not more than 50 members of {the committee present. Mr. Burns, |the National Committeeman of the a candidate for the Presidency of |State of Washington, who, by the that organization or some other | way, did not open his mouth dur- Party.” (Continued on Page Two) Terr. Museum Visited by Over 100,000 Persons The Rev. A. P. Kashevoroff announced today that the num- ber of persons who have visited the Alaska Historical Library and Museum, since its inception has passed the 100,000 mark. This morning the exact total stood at 100,250, having been swelled greatly in the last few days due to the number of tour- ist steamers in port mMMHMe Starts Geneva on 3-Way Debate By WADE WERNER (Associaated Press Foreign Staff) GENEVA, June 28.—Whether a ‘baule a bargain or a moral boycott |will be chosen by the League as- sembly as a way out of the Italian- Ethiopian tangle when it meets |here June 30 is agitating League headquarters. Die-hard pro-sanctionists quickly {answed: “Battle!” They maintain |that the League must follow the |line indicated by Anthony Eden in his speech to the Assembly in Oc- | tober: “We must therefore persist in the action which our obligations under |the covenant command us to as- sume.” European Peace Emphasized | This line’ of reasoning, however, |is vehemently opposed as “suicidal” by t sanctlons and recognition of Italy’s lcunquest The real point at issue, they argue, is the peace of Europe. Some kind of bargain can and Italy’s collaboration in ‘the mainten- ance of that. peace. | Recent reports from Paris out- lined one such possible bargain as follows: (1) Sanctions to be lifted and Italian annexation of Ethiopia rec-| ognized. (2) Italy to enter into a general| |agree to stabilize naval armaments| :m the Mediterranean. (3) TItaly to participate in a sim- ilar “stabilization” arrangement in things an agreement not to fortify |the little Red Sea island acquired from France in 1935. (4) Similar guarantees for the French interests in the Red Sea i lCommued on Page Beven) o who edvocate the lifting of| must be made which will assure | Mediterranean security pact and | the Red Sea, involving among other | NEW YORK June campaign arrayal is virtually plete. | Followers of Dr. Francis E. Town- |send and his Old Age Revolving | Plan and the forces of “Share the | Wealth,” the movement started by (the late Huey P. Long, now led by |the Rev. Gerald K. Smith, must |still determine their course The last party to hold a conven- tion, was the Communist Party, in New York City on Sunday. The party nominated the leaders and adopted a platform Candidates have now been placed before the people and the political list is as follows: Democrats For President, Franklin D. Roose- velt; for Vice-President, John N Garner. 29.—The 1936 com- Republicans For President, Alfred M. Landon; for Vice-President, Frank Knox Union Party For President, Willlam Lemke; for Vice-President, Thomas Charles O'Brien. Socialist Party For President, Norman Thomas, running for the third time; for Vice-President, George A. Nelson, Wisconsin farmer. Prohibition Party For President, D. Leigh Colbin New York dry leader; for Vice- President, Claude A. Watson, Los Angeles attorney. Communist Party For President, Earl W. Browder, of Kansas; for Vice-President, James W. Ford, Harlem negro, party organizer. Membe?sllip, French Federation of Labor, Doubles, Short Time PARIS, June 29. — Officials of France's General Federation of Labor stated today that the membership has more than | ‘doubled during the last few weeks. The membership is now listed at three million five hun- dred thousand. e e o — RICE IS HOME FROM SKAGWAY TRIP | DEAN ‘ Dean C E. Rice of Trinity Cathe- |Aleutian from a week's stay in | Bkagway. Dean Rice conducted the, | services at St. Saviour’s Church in| | Skagway for the past two Sundays. S eee IS CALLED SOUTH |south on the steamer Alaska today, |by ‘the serious ilines of his father, W. H. Talkington, in Helena, Mon- tana. He expects to 'be gone for about six weeks. Paul Talkington, well known Al-| aska Juneau employee, was called | WHITE IS WELL SATISFIED WITH 6.0.P. CONCLAVE His Delegahon Recogmzed for Former Service, He Reports on Return Well satisfied with the action of the Republican National Convention and prepared to carry on Republi- can organization work in the Ter- ritory, Albert White, delegate to the National convention and former Territorial Chairman, with Mrs White have returned to Juneau af- ter the interesting s jon in Cleve- land. Mrs. White went to New York on a buying trip for her store, the Bon Marche here, before returning. She was elected to continue as Na- tional Committee woman for her party in the Territory and through- out the convention was given marked recognition, eastern papers featuring her picture among the delegates Serving with Mrs. White in the Territorial Republica norganization now are A. E. Rasmuson, head of the Bank of Alaska, re-elected as National Committeeman; E. E. Eng- strom, Territorial Chairman, suc- ceeding Mr. White; Henry Benson, Secretary of the Territorial Com- mittee, and Howard Stabler, Com- mitteeman from the First Division. Helping Farley Mr. White reported that his dele- gation had little trouble getting seat- no question from the about the ultimate outcome as the National Committee recognized those who had been at active head of the party in the Territory during the last three years. There were a great many contests, he said, but nearly all with the exception of North Car- olina were settled in the same man- ner. “One member of the Credentials Committee from Texas accused Mr Faulkner’s delegation of having been sent down to Cleveland by Farley to make votes for Roosevelt,” laugh- ed Mr. White in reminiscing about the tilt between the two delegations from Alaska. Says Landon Good Choice The nomination of Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas as the Repub- lican candidate, and Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publisher, as his run- ning mate, was a good selection The east, he says, appears to be | Republican while the west is Demo- ldral returned to Juneau on the'Cratic, particularly California. The Republican spokesman said D}nns were already under way to be- [gln Republican organization work |aim of getting strong party support in the fall elections. I B MARRIED | - Santiago M. Cesar, A. J. em- ployee, and Elizabeth James, were married Saturday by U. 8. Com- missioner J. F. Mullen. They will make their home here. ed at Cleveland and that there was| beginning ! |the Federal jail, EARL BROWDER IS NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT James W. Ford, Harlem Negro, for Vice-Presi- dent, Communists NEW YORK, June 29.- zied vote by acclamation, Earl M. Browder of Kansas was nominat- | ed Sunday as the Communist Party’s | candidate for President of the Unit- | ed States, and James W. Ford, Har- | lem negro, was chosen candidate for Vice-President. Twenty thousand spectators pack- ed Madison Square Garden and joined the party’s 701 delegates in creating bedlam which rivaled the demonstrations of the major poli- tical parties. Browder in accepting his nom- ination said that the chief enemies of peace, freedom, and prosperity in this country were “the Republi- can Party and its reactionary al- lies, Hearst, the Liberty League, and Wall Street.” Browder censured tial candidates of political parties. The platform adopted by the Com- munist Party included planks, de- manding jobs for all at a living wage, minimum annual wages, a thirty hour week, larger unemploy- ment and pension benefits, exten- sion of the WPA, abolition of child labor, freeing the farmers from debt, higher income from gift and inheritance taxes, nationalization of banking, curbing the Supreme Court, full rights for negroes, and strength- ening measures for collective se- curity STOCK PRICES HELD DOWN BY HEAVY STEELS Chrysler J;r;;s to New High—Profit Taking Takes Place Today NEW YORK, June 29.—Heaviness of steels put a damper on the stock | market rally today which was in- augurated by Chrysier with a jump to a new six top. Late profit tak-| ing showed in most departments nl» though Chrysler and other sp('cml- ties held to their gains. | Turnover today was 800,000 shares. | -Infren- the all Presiden- the other CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, June 29. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| steck today is 14, American' Can| 131%, American Power and Light! 11%, Anaconda 34, Bethlehem Steeel | 50%, Commonwealth and Southern | 3%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General| Motors 66', International Harves- | ter 87%%, Kennecott 39, United| States Steel 60%, United Corpnrm tion 7'%, Cities Service 4%, Pmmd\ $5.02%. i DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 158.01 rails 47.90, ummes 3238 'DEPUTY MARSHAL, HERE FROM TENAKEE. TELLS OF SKULL FIND G. W. Samples, Deputy U. S Marshal at Tenakee, arrived here on the Estebeth, bringing Emma Mayeda, an Indian woman, to serve four months and a fine of $50 in| following convic- tion for drunkenness The officer reported the top part | of a human skull was brought to| Tenakee last week by two pros- pectors, Ernest Gomoll and Jim Porter, who found it at Taylor Bay. The men found no other bones in.the vicinity, they said,| throughout the Territory with the|and it was believed the skull prob-;bu.sxness in the Westward. ably was nmny years old e DLFRESNE BACK Frank Dufresne, Executive Of- |ficer for the Alaska Game Com- | mission, returned by plane Sunday | from Fairbanks where he went lhE‘ (first of last week for a conference lwuh game officials in the Interior. Ml Bdition G’ OuT AGAIN b i ZIONCHECK BOY SEES HIS MOTHER SLAIN BY HUGE NEGRO Is Written on Dresser, Woman's Room CHICAGO, 111, June 29.—Before the terrified eyes of her seven-year- old son, in bed beside her, Mrs Florence Thompson Castle, aged 26, comely divorcee, an entertainer, was choked to death by a huge negro who invaded her room in a small hotel here. On the mirror of the dresser the killer scrawled, with the victim's lipsticl “Black Legion. Game. Skull, Crossbones Beneath the writing was a crude- | ly drawn ckull and crossbones After questioning the woman's son the police said they believed the slayer either assaulted or attempted to assault the victim after slugging her. Before leaving the room ,the killer looted’ the woman's purse and scat- tered the contents on the fire ape of the fifth floor of the thirteen- story hotel Slayer Talks to Boy James Castle, the little son of the woman, said the invader conversed with him while beating his mother to death. The boy said after the killer fled | down the fire escape, he went back to sleep, not realizing his mother had been killed. When he was un- able to arouse her after awaken- ing, he called the manager of the | hotel Boy's Story The boy said T woke up and saw a man sitting over mama, hit- nn;,- her with something. He kept on hitting her by the side of the ear and eye. I knew he was hurting her. Then he put his thumbs on her neck and left them there. I asked the man what he was do- ing and he said: ‘T am a good doc- tor’ When he left he said good- bye to me D OREGONIAN LIKES ALASKA SUNSHINE W. F. Staley of Portland, Ore., Assistant to the Solicitor, U. S Forest Service, returned to Juneau on the Alaska after attending to He ex- pects to be here a week or so before going south. The passage across the gulf was exceptionally nice this time, Mr. Staley said, the water being as quiet as a lake The Oregonian is seeping up this fine Alaska sunshine, for the well | known Oregon mist has been fall- | \mg in large quantities in Portland. CONGRESSMAN MAKES DASH FOR FREEDOM Too Fleet for Pursuing At- taches of Maryland Sanitarium LEAPS SEVEN, HALF FOOT WIRE FENCE Evades State Police— Whereabouts Unknown Early This Morning BULLETIN — WASHINGTON, — Congressman Zion- S his office in the Cap- ito! Building, guarded by Ken- neth Romney, House Sergeant- at-Arms. Tomney said he has conferred with Zioncheck in an effort to persuade him to go home to Seattle. “I am going to protect him and get him to go back home,” s: Romney. “Furthemore, the police will have to lick my 150 men to arrest Zioncheck." TOWSON, Maryland, June 29, — Congressman Marion A. Zioncheck, of the State of Washington, baffled pursuers today in a weird game of hide and seek beginning with his scape from a private sanitarium lere yesterday. For twenty-four 1ours he has not been seen. Zioncheck leaped a wire fence of he santarium grounds and ducked nto the surrounding woods and his whereabouts has remained a mys- ery early today Baltimore County police and san- itarium attaches said they have not received definite information con- cerning Zioncheck's whereabouts. General Alarm A general alarm was broadcast Ly the State Police and although patrolmen were given detailed de- riptions of Zioncheck, no trace s een found Zioncheck was wearing blue pants, wi shirt and tennis shoes when he - caped by leaping from a porch n th - ereveise yard at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital to the vindow ledge and from there over a even and one half foot wire fence. Is Speed Artist Guards were unable to match their peed with Zioncheck Dr. Arthur E. Pattrel, the sani- arium’s specialist on mental disor- (Continued on Page Two) e SWIM EVENT IS SCHEDULED FOR JULY 4TH First Affair of Kind Will Be Held on Gastineau Channel The first Gastineau Channel swim- ming championship will be held the afternoon of the Fourth of Jly, ac- cording to an official announce- ment today by J. E. Pegues, head of the Fourth of July American Legion committee Extensive plans are now underway, sponsored by the Checker Cab Com- pany, Emmitt Thompson, proprietor, who will donsite the prizes for the varibus aquatic events Chuck Dominy, widely-known Pa- cific Coast diving champion, will referee the matches and see to it that entrants adhere strictly to the Amateur Athetic Union regulations. Scene of Event The tide flat side of the govern- ment dock will be the scene of the sports, Mr. Pegues said, and all young men and women entering must pass a doctor’s examination. The contests will be open to both boys and girls, from ten years to senior age, and will include various swimming races, free style and breast stroke, and diving events. Through the efforts of Mr. Dom~ iny, who gained the whole-hearted support of the Legion committtee, and the Checker Cab. Company, a (Continued on Page Five)