The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1936, Page 1

! 1 ‘ \ T VOL. XLVIII., NO 7218 HE DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA. MONDAY, A EMPIRE JULY 6, 1936 MEMBER ASSOCIAT PRICE TEN CENTS D PRESS NAVAL SPY IS CONVIGTED ON FIRST BALLOT Har Guilty of Conspiring to Sell State Secrets BULLETIN, Los Angeles, Cal., July 6.—America’s first peace- time spy, Harry Thomas Thompson, was today sentenced by Federal Judge Leon Yank- wich to 15 years in a Federal Prison. LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 6— Harry Thomas Thompson, former yeoman of the U S. Navy, charged with conspiring to sell secrets of | his country’'s defense to high rank- ing officers of the Imperial Jap- anese Navy, was convicted Friday after a five minutes’ discussion on the first ballot taken by the jury. The maximum sentence -carries twenty years. A Japanese officer who is involved and whose name was given as Lieut.-Commdr. To- shio Mivazaki, is believed to be in Japan. While naval officers awaited news of Thompson's sentence, expected to be rendered today, vessels all along the Pacific coast found cer- tain new bars of restriction had been raised against them because of the case Ever Greater Secrecy Officers said that fleet move- ments in the future will be shroud- Thom_ps—on Is Held! ‘Borah Strikes at Monopolies [Fiery Senatm:alls Planks| in Two Major Parties “Notable Event” FILER, Idaho, July 6.— Senator William E. Borah, enigma of Ameri- can politics, commenting on the fact that platforms of both major parties | declare they will destroy monopoly, remarked Saturday, upon his re- turn from the national capital: | “If this is in fact a settled policy, 1 regard it as the most notable event | since Lincoln struck the shackles from the slaves.” The veteran Republican still gave no indication of his future political | plans but told a cheering Fourth of July crowd of ten thousand that he expects to discuss monopoly and |the nation’s monetary problems as) he sees them “regardless of party lines or commands.” | The fiery Senator asserted conditions as constituting the outstanding governmental evils ,of the day and stated the principal causes of depression as ‘‘monopoly and monopolistic power in posses- sion of twenty-five hundred men in America, and failure of the govern-! ment to take over regulation of money now functioning in private industry. | Blames People “We have power under the con- stitution to destroy monopoly,” in Home Spaechf | conferring with officials regarding | sideration, the newly authorized jarmy air base, survey, and the| proposed International Highway, | tinental United States. | Alaska aviation base. | sted the two! ‘ adians he| said. “We've had it these 360 years.| TROY, DIMOND PUSHPROJECTS FOR TERRITORY Both Ofllcmls Report Fav-| orable Progress for Air Base and Highway WASHINGTON, July 6. — Gov. | John W. Troy, of Alaska, and Al-| aska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond | said they felt encouraged after the two Alaska projects under con-| linking the Territory with con-| Chief of Staff Malin Craig is| said to have assured them that the War Department would conduct a | thorough survey to obtain all the facts necessary to support their re- |quests for appropriations for the Secretary also reported progress of State Cordell Hull in his at- 'tempts to open negotiations with | Canada on the question of joint| action by the two nations in start- | ing highway construction into the| Alaskan interior | Both Gov. Troy and Delegate! Dimond reported that Secretary| Hull had indicated that he favored | the project, but reported that Can- | are proceeding cautiously | chfluiC of lack of funds. | Require One Year | Gov. Troy said that Chief Craig| ed in even greater secrecy than By people have lacked courage to had predicted the Alaskan air base| Japan invokes. | do their duty by insisting that mon- It is anticipated also that the gpolies be eliminated and that pri- movement of visitors about the vate industry surrender its control ships, which in the past was len- of the nation’s money.” ient to the extreme, will be se-| verely curtailed 1 THREATENS IN sxderabk\ to do with making it." e same time the Idaho Sena- mr dul ned to deny or confirm EUR P LAND statements of friends that he will | again seek -election NOT TO BOLT G. O. P BOISE, Idaho, July | Borah who arrived home today an- nounced flatly that “he wont’ bolt | the Republican ticket. I am sup- pmun, the platform zad have beon j from the beginning. I had very con- ! the survey. 6 —Senator be conducted survey would require one year to/ 'complete by the special Board of Army Officers named to carry out It is expected this {board will have wide latitude in| determining how the survey mll‘ “I am impressed,” “by.the sincerity of the War De- | partment in its desire to establish | an Alaska air baw )t | | said Gov. Troy, | SE-AS-KA IS re to office | ‘ho has held fnr JO )ears Nations Are Agllated by Danzig Issue — Nazi Troops Are Moving GENEVA, July 6.—The future of the status of the free City of Dan-| zig assumed renewed importance in Europe today as the League of Na- tions shoved the Italo-Ethiopian problems into the background. The League's Committee did decide how-| ever to remove all Italian sanctions Talented and Beautiful | Thick weather over Prince William on July 15. Eastern Europe is agitated by lhe. statement of Dr. Arthur Karl Greis- | er, Nazi President of the Danzig| Senate, that Danzig wishes to leave| the League, and also an unconfirm- | ed rumor that German troops are Princesses Rumored Bridal Possibilities LONDON, July 6.—King Edward | VIIT may don the Crown of Eng- iland next May with a second cousin now enroute to Danzig. :kneeling at his side. In London Capt. Anthony Eden,; Foreign Secretary, told the House of Commons he has not given up and still awaits an answer from Presi-i dent Hitler concerning Germany's| Two young European prlncesses,! mit for the flight. both talented and beautiful rela- tives of the young king, have been mentioned directly in the British press as favorites to wed the mon- international mbennons |arch. The two are Princess Frederica | Louise, daughter of the Duke of T Brunswick and a granddaughter of the former Kaiser Wilhelm, and SEEK SENATE | Princess Alexandrine Louise, third daughter of Prince Harold of Den- mark and a niece of King Christian. R NOMINATION:VESSEL WITH Governor of Georgia Enters| Democratic Primaries— Advocates Budget Slash McREA, Ga. July 6. — Eugene Talmade, completing his second term as Governor, announces that| he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination as United States Senator. He will oppose Sen- ator Richard Rusell in the Septem- ber 9 primaries. In an interview to the press, Talmadge said: “I want to go to the United States Senate to pro- tect Georgia. In protecting Geor- gia 1 protect every other State in this union.” Gov. Talmadge, a frequent critic of the New Deal, said if he is elected he will work to “cut the Federal annual budget under one 900 ON BOARD HITS ON ISLE {Soviet and Japanese Ships Are Reported to Be Standing By TOKYO, July 6. — The stranded shlp Sima, with 200 aboard, has received aid from another Russian vessel, the Soviet Embassy said. A Japanese patrol boat is also stand- ing by. The Soviet Embassy requested the Japanese government permission for rescue boats to enter the waters and the request was granted al- billion dollars per year for all pur- poses whatsoaver.” “If this were done,” he remarked, “you would not be troubled by so many foreigners tramping over Georgia pretending to work for the Federal Government.” thought the Soviet officials were told the location of the islands was of strategic importance. The Sima was enroute to Kam- shatka Peninsula, Northeastern Si- beria, carrying fishermen and can- nery workers. stop from here to Seattle in the| | small plane Se-As-Ka, powered hv | an automobl]e engine | automobile thus reducing the cost of airplane|Four All-Star Baseball Play- Marshal of the Third Division, fell and broke an arm while visiting T0 ANGHURAGE Plane Altemptlng Nonstop Fll ht to Seward Runs | Into Fog, Bad Weather | HORAGE, Alaska, July 6.—| Sound halted the attempt Sunday f Pilot Russell Owen to fly non-| Difficulties best Owen from th(\ beginning. The Anchorage Times says the Department of Commerce| ™ refused Owen an experimental per-l Owen’s first attempt to take Off\ failed. Owens then drained ten; gallons of gas from the tank and\ then tried but taxied back to the| starting point . The third attempt to take-off was successful. Owen circled the field| for a considerable time, then struck| out for the south but a fog and heavy weather forced him to return. The purpose of the flight is to| demonstrate the feasibility of using engines in airplanes,| construction, and also to demon- strate the feasibility of air mail service to Alaska. Christmas Is Remembered at July 4th Time ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 6. —The first Christmas present, addressed to Ann Bannon, a missionary on $t. Lawrence Is- i land, has been mailed by the Friendly Aid Presbyterian Church and Sunday School. The package will go to Seattle where it will await a boat making the annual trip to Bering Sea points. U. S.'Marshal Todd ° Falls, Breaks Arm in Washington, D. C.| ‘WASHINGTON, July 6.—Chester | J. Todd, of Valdez, United States the Unknown Soldiers’ Tomb. G A S T housmuls Gathm to Hvur R:w.svwll (,urm’r Renomumtwn ;nnuusu?sm " WIDENING TO MANY REGIONS Protracted Qe to Extend —No Relief Report- | ed in Slghl ‘CROP CRISIS NOW | < REPORTED, NATION iTemperalur—e-:é reak All | Time High Marks— [ Prayers Offered CHICAGO, 111, today has distress to July 6. — Record increased damage the midwestern and despairing farm- and draught belt, ers pinned hope for a break in the | protracted seige on ‘a weather | change but none is sighted in the immediate future. In fact, instead, the Weather Bureau forecasts a broadening of the high temperature | blanket | Prairies Scarred | Heat continues to sear the prair- |ies from the Rockies to western | Kentucky. The section is the ma- jor segment of the Nation's food | producing acres and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said the | drought should reach its close in | about two more weeks, and this will determine whether the present crop crisis will end as disastrously as the He said | | long dry summer of 1934. Ui fu is yet too early to determine Here is Franklin Field, Philadelphia, filled with 160,000 persons who braved an intermittent drizzle of rain to hear President Roose- velt and Vice-President Garner accept renominations by the Democratic Party in an unprecedented ceremony. This picture was made before the ceremonies began. The canopy from which the speakers addrssed the throng is at the extreme lower left. (Associated Press Photo) Roosevelt, Garner Receive Throng’s Plaudits JESFFERSON IN HOLIDAY TALK : Independencé Day Address of President Calls for “True Freedom” MONTICELLO, Va., Jefferson’s mountain home, Pr dent Franklin D. Roosevelt Sat- urday called on the American na- tion to renew the founding fathers' battle “for true freedom.” In his Independence Day address which rang with praises of Jeffer- son as “a great gentleman, and a great commoner, isfied with things as they were, but concentrated on things as they ought to be,” the President de- clared: “Democracy needs now, as it found then, men the limit of their capacity through | education for ultimate responsibility July 6— Standing on the portico of Thomas who was not sat-| developed to what effect the drought and crop conditions will have on food prices. 1 Records Broken Yesterday all time high marks | were broken at Williston, North Da- kota and Rapid City, South Dakota. with respective readings of 110 and 106 degrees. Yankton, South Da- kota, had 113 degrees Saturday and 112 Sunday. Critical For Corn Corn crops are in a critical con- | dition and the next fortnight will determine whether the 1936 drought will equal the 1934 drought | Prayers were offered in Nebraska yesterday for rain. ‘Wyoming, North Dakota and Mon- tana farmers have been called to work on WPA projects. The Ad- ! m'nistration plans to employ at least 50,000 in building water con- servation dams. RAIN FALLS IN JUNEAU Residents of Juneau and those in this sectic} in general may have some feeling for those in the drought ections for it has been dry here for several weeks, so dry that straw- berries have dried up on the vines, | blueberries are ripening but are smaller than usual on account of the TRAINSHIT = stopped to prevent a collision although going of in emergencies and decisions. heat and no meisture, and raspber- 3 “Individual, community and Rna-| .o are not doing so well on account President Roosevelt is shown as he grasped the hand of Vice-President Garner and raised it in the tional lives,” he said, “are the stutt 5’ ‘k ; t" e prodiid st air in answer to the cheers of the crowd of tens of thousands of persons who thronged Franklin Field, out of which national character is| . “°¢ O Warer o dried up for the most part along the highway and there has been a scarcity of water in many localities in the surrounding country. The dry spell was broken early this morning by rain which has | fallen almost steadily to mid-after- noon. The rain did hold off over . Ph:ladulphna. to hear them accept renomination b) the Democratic Party (Associated Press Photo) made. The preparation of the mind | — e -~ and spirit of our people for such emergencies and decisions is the AND best available insurance for secur- { ity and the development of our D(?m(xl'.llx(! institutions. HUSBAND REST ', nceiee Two Senators Coming to Alaska Almurd C. G. Chelan Sl R W o b S WASHINGTON, July 6—United | the celebration and the Fourth will b R yOffiger's e best weather expressed at this time Democrat of Oklahoma, chairman the Senate Indian Affairs Com- mittee, and United States Senator Henrick Shipstead, Farmer - Labor Helen of North Dakota, have left here for . \ three weeks’ inspection of Indian tion eservations in Alaska C: Delegate Anthony J. Dimond and others will accompany the party ... ., .. - ! len Hayes, which will' leave Seattle on Wed- ' CHICAGO, duly'6.—Helen Haye e T e e o sveeq the screen actress, and her husband iesday aboard the coast guard ... .iont Charles McArthur, vie- AFTER TRIAL Hayes Pians Vaca-| After Alienations: | se [s Dismissed year for many years. It was DURING FOG H3 Emb Is Placed Counterfeiiers “™ %8s whew s PARIS, July 6.—Premier Leon \,‘Hu sul‘ry—hot. On Wheat by France Ten (_hln("se Alll '\t"d ln Blum's Government has pushed the House Used by = Resndence Of (Ul(m"l Wheat Control b'll to passage after ers and Umpire Are : cutter Chelan. ; iy 8 hours continuous debate. Tie Not Injured T fors in a $100000 alienations of Eane Newull B Douss dinupuo K. iifections suit which was dis- st L B b 3 i he Socialists sponsore: he re- CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 6.—Fou missed Friday by the Circuit Court, i ; ; ; b pomages : persons received minor injuri packed up and returned to their PEIPING, July 6.—Ten Chinese form measure which prohibits tem- when the second section of the Bis home in New York. were ‘arrested here today, on coun- POrary admission into France of any Four Railroad’s Missourian ran ir McArthur said that both he and terfeiting charges at the home of foreign wheat for reshipment to Colonal Isaac Newell, United States O'her countries and ually sus- to the first section near his wife were resting after the three- 5 2 vl [ Eaton, southwest of here ti UN WAY NGBTH day trial brought by Carol Frink, Army officer and former military Pends trading "”0“"“"‘ e X g . 's attache, who is vacationing in ol ok iR baduead ware heought Chicago dramati¢ critic, McArthur’s g ¥ R here !'J!"hfl\pltllsj former wife America. The alleged counterfeit- MRS. CARRIGAN ARRIVES ‘ ett, es will sail on July 15 ers were using the officer’s home Mrs. Leroy Carrigan arrived in Juneau Saturday aboard the steam- er Baranof. — e - B. E. Fawcett, trainmaster, said F 4 Miss Ha for a vacation in Europe. .Vlakmg First Voyage to Ju- : neau of Totemland | as a manufacturing base for thou- sands of Hopsie banknotes Police assert that the leader of | the train crew of the first section investigate ~whether some object was dragging under the : k Rabbit Derb i1 ing e Al 3 e D INTL e v deas | Bl G ter PONLIR Cultualy Qungsh 0 Seovl 0 o Lo AT [empty now of American occupants,| With Which to Buy fog was unable to stop in time U SEATTLE, July 6.—On the firs Cactus Katle | Roy Champan Andrews, famous As- firework, Dies th 2 CTuises, he Totemland cruise having left for New Aleutian left for steamer i) \fatic explorer, only about 20 miles an hour Southieast QUINCY, Wash, Four Major League teams and one at 9 oclock this morning with L ot July B0 [ SOK poeily attes hetevmooning} - mosvell Ui, Sty Gios umpire, enroute from St. Louis to first class and 25 steerage passeng- @Uincy’s second angual Jack | there Mary Sugrue, aged 11, of Cam- Boston for the All-Star game be- ers Babblt Desliy Bold on July | SETCT 3 brirge, who swallowed a quarter tween the American and National Owing to reservatiions Fourth, was won this year by STOWAWAY NABBED that was given to her to buy Leagues were on the train but none ken by roundtrippers, th ’:u’lu\‘ Katie, Mvw hva}fll.\' @1- | R e tireworks, died ioday in a hos- were injured. The players Were one passenger aboard the Al distance her only serious rival, | Jack H. Brown was taken {rom pital The authorities there said Goose Goslin,, Lynwood Rowe and for Juneau, Miss Claudin Payne Sage Tick. |U"‘ Yukon here this morning and| the girl developed a serious Charlie Gehringer, of the Detroit i Eali Two other r?hl'lls started “'f‘ Iplaced in the Federal jall on a chest condition during the time Tigers; Rollie Hemsley of the St. Approximately 70,000 radio receiv- well but ras R the wrong di- [charge of vagrancy. He SIOWW‘ that the quarter was lodged in Louis Browns and Umbpire Bill ing sets have been registered in FecHC The starting gun was lp:way on the steamer at Cordova,| her esophagus. The coin later Summers, of the American League ' China during the last two a nt firecracker, according to officials passed into her stomach.