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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7225. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ PRICETEN CENTS FORMER AVY OFFICER UNDER ARREST DIMOND SAYS F.D.R. STRONG ALASKA BACKER President Enthused Over International Highway, Territory Development DECLARES MORE HOME RULE IS STILL NEEDED Initial Steps—T;i(en by Dele- gate—Will Cover Entire Territory This Summer President Franklin D. Roosevelt is a particular friend of Alaska and he is thoroughly convinced the International Highway is one of the greatest projects put forth in the last few years and that it will lead in a large measure to further development of the Territory. This was the message brought to Juneau yesterday by Delegate An- thony J. Dimond, who arrived on the Coast Guard cutter Chelan with the Senatorial party, and left this morning aboard the Yukon for the Westward, bound for Anchorage. | Delegate Dimond said that when | he and Gov. John W. Troy con- ferred with the President recently the Chief Executive expressed warm interest in Alaska and declared himself emphatically in support of | the highway. He gave encourage- ment that progress was being made in the conferences between Secre- | tary of State Cordell Hull and Canadian officials, the Delegate| said, in stressing that the highway is no dream but a probability of the not too distant future. Home Rule Home rule, Mr. Dimond declared, is still the outstanding need of the Territory If it is to take its right-| ful place, and pointed to four of the major things he had succeeded | in getting Congressional approval: for that work toward that end. These include giving control of elections to the Legislature; repeal of the 1912 mining act and sub- stituting legislative control over| placer mining; giving control of the | sale of liquor to the Territory and granting cities in the Territory power to incur limited bonded in- debtedness without Congressional | approval. The latter act was passed | by the Congress which just ad- journed. “These are @ step toward home rule,” the Delegate said. “But we| need a still larger measure of rule at home. I am convinced the con- trol of fish and game should be given to the Territory. We are still overburdened with bureau govern~| ment, without sufficient home| rule.” Glacier Bay | The bill opening Glacier Bay Monument was among the fastest| pieces of legislation put through the last Congress, sald the Dele- gate, who was instrumental in get- ting approval of the action opening the vast mineral area to mimng{ and prospecting. No small part of | the credit should go to Rex Beach, | the former Alaskan and well known author, he declared. | “Beach went before the Senate! committee when it was at the peak of its work in trying to clear the docket,” Dimond said. “I didn't| think he would get much of an| audience, but for a solid hour and | (Continued on .i‘nce Two) BISHOP LAUDS ALASKA'S LACK | OF WRONGDOING Says Territory Has High| Rate of Clean, Up- standingManhood | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 14.— Bishop Peter T. Rowe, Episcopal prelate, who is on his forty-first Alaska visit, said here today: “There is no place I know where there’s so little evil and wrong doing as Alaska, The average of first rate clean manhood is much higher throughout the Territory than Out- side.” The Bishop said that he planned no mere hazardous travels. This summer he will travel by train, au- tomobile, and plans visiting Ne- nana, Fairbanks; Fort' Yukon, Oir- cle City and Eagle. | President Roosevelt. ‘5pects to “those comicals who call DELEGATE Anthony J. Dimond arrived in Juneau aboard the Coast Guard cutter Chelan, making his first trip to his home Territory in nearly two years. 'WHO'S CRAZY' IS SUBJECT OF REP.'S SPEECH Zioncheck Warns Constitu- ents Against Menace of Psychiatrists SEATTLE, July 14—Represen-| tative Marion A. Zioncheck, whose stay in a Maryland hospital for| mental cases prevented his attend- | ing the closing sessions of Congress, warned his constituents here last| night against “the menace of psy- chiatrists.” Speaking on the subject, “Who's| Crazy” before an audience of more | than a thousand at a gathering| sponsored by the People's Forum,} Zioncheck asserted that mental specialists “are really one of the greatest menaces this country has.” Zioncheck assured his hearers that he would run for some’ office, } but said that he hadn’t decided which one. He also took swats at Postmaster General Farley and| Marvin MclIntyre, secretary to| He explained that he left fly spray and mothballs at the White House before leaving Washington because he wanted the President to clean out those flies and keep them out.” ’ Responding to a question from the floor, Zioncheck paid his re- themselves Communists. In this country they would make every- thing rancid and sous.” He added there would be neither Communism nor Socialism under Roosevelt. Anchoragite Suffers from C gl_if . Heat Solomon Island Native Shiv- ers While Others Roast at S. F. Convention ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 14.—| Mrs. M. J. Jackson, wife of the Seventh Day Adventist Minister here was sweltering from the San Francisco heat, while a Solomon Is- land native chief, also attending the | World Convention of the Seventh| Day Adventist churches, wrapped | himself in his overcoat and shiv-| ered. The local woman returned| home today. | | MRS. M'NAUGHTON AND | DAUGHTER GO SOUTH Mrs. Guy McNaughton and daugh- ter Mary Jean sailed on the Prin- cess Charlotte enroute to Seattle for a vacation. Miss McNaughton is going to a summer camp for girls near Bremerton, while Mrs. Mc- Naughton plans to visit friends and | Paul will be the field agent to carry | | on the organization work under the {elined to comment publicly on the PAUL HERE TO DEFEND SELF IN COURT ACTION Attorney Declares He Will Fight Charges Which Ask Disbarment “I am here to defend in court,” declared William Paul, Juneau at- torney, who arrived yesterday on the Chelan after six and one half months in Washington in connec- tipn wjth getting the Wheeler- Howard Act extended to Alaska. Mr. Paul referred to the charges brought against him in Federal District Court alleging unethical practices and asking his disbarment. He said he would fight the case to the limit and was. assured of plenty of support in so doing. The attorney explained he did not wish to make any further public statement at this time, but that he would be prepared when the case comes up August 6. Extension of the Wheeler Howard act to Alaska, places Alaska im- Senators Here For Information About Indians Chairman %EJ mas Calls Long List of Witnesses for Hearing This Afternoon To seek information on Alaska and her people is the sole purpose of the Senate sub committee on In- dian affairs which arrived yester- day on the Chelan, according to Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklaho- ma, Chairman, who with Senator Hendrik Shipstead of Minnesota and Senator Lynn Frazier of North Dakota make up the sub committee. “The Government is taking an added interest in the Indians and their problems and this committee has come here to see what confronts these Indian citizens and to con- tact those who administer affairs in Alaska,” Senator Thomas said. Arriving here yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, the delegation was taken on a trip out to the glacier and Senators Frazier and Thom- mediately in the position of sharing in the appropriation of $3,500,000 set aside for the work, Mr. Paul said. A total of $350,000 is now available | for use in the Territory when the | necessary organization work is done | to qualify under the act. Can Borrow From U. S. The law allows Indian communi- ties to organize for co-operative op-| eration of industry and various ec-| onomic projects, and then to borrow money from the government to get| their ventures started. It has been unofficially reported here that Mr. Bureau of Indian Affairs. He de- matter today, but it was learned from authoritative sources that Mr. {was due to misinformation emanat- |as to the Democratic Women’s Club picnic. Acting Gov. E. W. Griffin |and other government and Terri- torial officials and representatives of the Chamber of Commerce met them at the dock and conferences were arranged. This morning the party was taken on a visit to the Alaska Juneau mill and at 2 o'clock this afternoon a public hearing was opened in the Senate Chamber of the Federal and Territorial build- ing. Misconception of Alaska Explaining the purposes of their visit at the opening of the hearing, Chairman Thomas said it was re- eretable that there was a miscon- ception of Alaska in many minds in the States. Much of it, he explained; l Paul has received approval for the| ing from the Territory, going on to Flanked by the colonial guards of Monticello, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is pictured as he led the nation’s observance of the Fourth of July in a speech from the portico of Thomas Jefferson’s home. (Associated Press Photo) mn Vote Battiels Seen in East and Also Midwest CANADIAN BOY | confirming that the Presidential EXPOSED HEART crvei” campaign will rise to great inten- By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Staff, The Associated | f 4 ress, Washington) sity in certain special sectors of | the East and Widwest. 20CCASIONS pbsition but that actual notifica- |S2¥ that his first hearsay impres- tion is being withheld pending the|Sions of the north carried mental outcome of the case against him m‘pncmres of dog teams, bearded min- the District Court. |ers and their gold pans and fish- relatives in the Puget Sound metro- polis. Both plan to return im Sep-|when he fell from a building of the tember. Mr. Paul accompanied the Sen- atorial delegation north at the re-, quest of the Senators. He will stop! off here while they are in the west-| | ward and then will join them again when they return for further hear- | ings in Southeast Alaska. Lauds Packers The attorney lauded the action| | of the Alaska Packers of San Fran-| cisco in paying the expenses of 12‘ Indiang from the Southeast Alaska section this season to Bristol Bay and give them employment. It shows a willingness on the part of the packers, he said, to help the Alaska native. | While in New York, Mr. Paul said“ he formed a syndicate to further a mining project in Glacier Bay Na-| tional Monument and that wimam{ Paul, Jr., was planning to leave im- | mediately to have charge of the work. DR. TOWNSEND DRAFTS PLAN FOR SESSION Convention Starts Tomor- row—Admits He Is Go- ing to Throw Vote Away CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 14.—Dr. Francis E. Townsend proposed a one House Congress with greatly re- duced membership preparatory to the opening of the National Town- send convention here tomorrow. Dr. Townsend predicted his or- ganization will have a “working ma- Jjority” in the House and a “num- ber of Senators favorable' to our cause” in the next Congress. | Dr. Townsend assailed both the' Republican and Democratic par- ties, describing them as Un-Ameri- | can, Un-Democratic and the “time | has come to wipe out partyism,” He would substitute the town hall and neighborhood group meetings. | Dr. Townsend concluded his state- | ment to the newsmen by saying: “I ‘ will never vote for Landon, never vote for Roosevelt. I do not know| who I will vote for, but I would rath- er vote for a Socialist and the Lord | knows I am no Socialist.” Falls from Building Into Water, Drowns | | | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 14— Porter Iverson, aged 21, formerly of Seattle, was drowned yesterday | Paul. | ermen, but that with better infor- mation he had been able to draw a much more enlightening picture. There is reason to believe that Al- aska will get better advertising in the future, he stated. Witnesses While any one may appear before the hearing with information, the Senator today had a list of per- sons who were to be called first to give information. This list was headed by Charles W. Hawkesworth, Assistant to the Director in the In- dian Bureau here, and included A. E. Karnes, Territorial Commissioner of Education; Henry Cropley, Cyril Zuboff, President of the Native Brotherhood; Ed Ridley, Mrs. Hen- ty Cropley, Anna Willard, Bertha Tiber, Superintendent of Nurses for the Indian Bureau; Henrietta Mil- ler, Dr. C. C. Carter; Mrs. Martha Refsland, Associate Supervisor in the Indian Bureau; Charles Flory, Regional Forester; Wellman Hol-i brook, Assistant Regional Forester; | Charles Goldstein and ~ Frances| A large number of others were | present and it was expected would | testify. Other Hearings Two previous hearings have been held on the way north,-one at Ket- chikan and one at Metlakatla. These hearings took up, it was ex-| plained, fisheries, involving the| controversy over seines and traps; employment, schools, hospitaliza- tion, alleged discrimidation in !hei expenditure of relief funds by one| (Continued on Page Eight) B U e AR BASMASKSTO BE ORDERED BY BRITISH GOVT. Special Estimate Submitted| —Factories, School Also Wanted LONDON, July 14.—A supplemen- tary Civil Service estimate was asked | of the House of Commons today for an additional four million two hun- | dred and fifty thousand dollars to! buy gas masks. Of this amount the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand | dollars is earmarked for the pur- chase and adaption of two factor- ies producing masks and another sum of twenty-five thousand dol- lars is allotted for a civilian anti- gas school. Seaport Salmon Company, H the screen. The Democrats are & ming that oosevelt will have the solid South, {and the Republicans are taking it for granted that Landon will enjoy his greatest vote-getting power in the West. Doctors Are Considering g, Whether to Perform Operation on Child EDMONTON, Alberta, July 14 It is the stretch from the Missis- Physicians are considering whether | Sippi to the Atlantic seaboard, north to operate on a three day old boy of Mason and Dixon's line, where whose heart is fully exposed and |each side now seems bent on pick- | protrudes from his body. He was ing up enough additional votes to born to Mrs. Fred Hadonek of|tip the balance and assure the Wasel, 92 miles northeast of here, | election of its candidate | and weighed eight pounds. Not that either side is conceding | The birth was normal in all re- anything elsewhere, Certainly the spects except that the heart and Democrats, who not long ago were | heart muscles thump against the counting the west a rather definite| chin. The only covering of the part of their electoral nest-egg, heart, the pericardium outer coat, hardly will give up plans for an ag- | is exposed in an area two inches 8ressive campaign there. Slmllm'ly,; wide and three inches long. the Republicans, aware of the open| Dr. E. W. Svarich, attending phys-, restlessness of some southern Dem- ijcian, said that an artificial chest ocrats under Roosevelt, may be ex- wall may be grated over the heart, pected to try again to break the but the operation may be fatal. south as they d id in 1928 ‘It would mean a tremendous But a theory taking all of these amount of grafting of ribs and out- things into account, and transcend- er skin,” he stated ing them, still points to the East The heart is covered at intervals and Widwest as the scene of the with a solution to keep it moist as Pprincipal shooting. the organ would deteriorate if left exposed. PICTURE REVERSED The mother, who has six other ' This theory, on the Democratié children, is in satisfactory condi- side, is that if Roosevelt were to tion. The father is a farm laborer. lose the South, there would be no N e hope for him anyway. On the Re- H . publican side, the reasoning takes Na Bulldl" the form of a supposition that if Landon can't carry the West, he Behind Schedule might as well quit. So far as the Republicans are con- cerned, this directly reversed the Handicaps Imposed, Other Difficulties Being Experienced assumption of a year ago, when it was not known who the party nom- inee would be. Party planners then were figuring that any Republican who couldn't carry the East rather solidly to begin with had no chance of election and that the West would be the real debated ground. Landon’s nomination, and the rise of his Western group to party| control, changed that. It was one| WASHINGTON, July 14. — The of those extraordinary turnings| Navy Department discloses that de- which make politics so unpredicta- spite efforts to speed up the build- ple. ing program, work on forty-nine of The practice of party organiza- the seventy-nine warships under tions is, in general, to center their construetion, is behind schedule. pressure on those needed areas Delays are due to handicaps im-, where the candidate is supposed not posed, officlals said, by the old to be at his strongest, yet has a NRA requirements, shipyard trou- chance. That area happens to be, bles, shortage of experienced con- for both parties, the East and Mid- struction spcialists and other dif- west; since Roosevelt is regarded ficulties. as surest of his ground in the South The month of June, however, reg- and Landon’s followers believe him istered a notable speeding up of strongest in the West. construction, officials said, on sev- eral warships. - .. MARTIN OUT ON FOUR PIVOTAL STATES The indications today point to four states as special possibilities for that kind of pressure. They are John Martin, guard at the Fed- New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and eral jail, left on the Princess Char- Indiana lotte for Seattle on a vacation trip. Together, these four states have S R T ST | almost half engugh votes to elect Karen Morley never wears a hat, g president , If the entire bloc were VACATION CELEBRATED BY FRENCH NATION Fall of Bastile Anniversary, Recent Election Vic- tory, Observed PARIS, July 14—Two Red parades were held here today as France celebrated the anniversary of the fall of the Bastile. Five hundred thousand marchers celebrated not only the revolution which over- threw the monarchy but also the Peoples’ Front victory in the elec- tions six weeks ago. Mobile guards broke up a series of clashes in civilian processions. Masses of red flags with the Communist sickle and hammer em- blem in the center and tricolor in one corner, waved above the marchers’ heads. Many of the marchers were clad in red. Revo- lutionary songs were given by the marchers, Similar demonstrations took place in other cities in France. The Nationalists, inspired by a woman in white, fought the police ALLEGED TO HAVE GIVEN SECRETS OUT John H. Farnsworth Taken Into Custody in Wash- ington, D. C. HAS BEEN UNDER VIGIL OF TWO DEPARTMENTS Japanese Officer Implicat- ed—His Arrest s Also Hinted WASHINGTON, July 14.— Secretly arrested, after a long vigil by Naval officers and Department of Justice agents, John H. Farnsworth, former Navy Lieutenant Commander, is charged with sending a confidential naval publication to a Japanese Navy agent. Farnsworth was discharged from the Navy nine years ago on charges of conduct prejudicial to the Navy. He has been watched for several years, mostly in Washington, !l). C., and St. Louis. The Japanese officer al- leged to have received the | publication is not named but {it is intimated his name is iknown to the authorities and lan early arrest is hinted. The arrest of Farnsworth is the second made recently. In Los Angeles, Cal., several ‘weeks ago, Harry Thompson, 30, former yeoman in the Navy, was indicted, tried, con- {victed and found guilty and {quickly sentenced to 15 years in a Federal prison for selling secrets of his country’s de- | fenses. He was the first of peace-time spies arrested. —————— BIG SHRINE ~ PARADE HELD in a forbidden demlonstration late | this afternoon on the fashionable Champs Elysees while the Socialist Premier, Leon Blum warned a gath- ering on the other side of the city against the “danger of impatience and hasty action.” Clashes became riotous with numerous injuries sustained by the demonstrators. A girl was arrested for waving a tri-colored flag from an auto and started roars of “France for the French” from the sidewalks. A man, whose chest was covered with medals, waved a tri-color flag from a taxi and led 3,000 Na- tionalists in singing the Marseil- laise and then raising their arms in fascist salutes .. MISSION AGENT T0 START FOR WEST OUTPOST Francis G. "Prange Has Re- * turned from Annual Trip Outside ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 14.— Francis G. Prange, buying agent for all the Alaska Catholic Mis- sions will start by airplane in a few days for Holy Cross Mission in Western Alaska. He recently return- ed from his annual visit to the States. .- AT PETERSBURG NEIL IS P. L. Neil, United States Postal Inspector, is a recent arrival in Petersburg, having arrived there on the steamer Yukon. Mr. Neil is re- turning North after a trip to Se- attle relative to the new Federal except when she is required to, on (Continued on Page Three) building which is to be erected in Sitka shortly. IN SEATTLE Quarter of a Million Per- sons Witness 5,000 March—42 Bands SEATTLE, July 14—A throng, Shrine headquarters estimated te be a quarter of a million persons, jammed downtown streets today to witness the biggest parade spec- tacle since the Knights Templars marched here in 1925. Nearly 5.000 uniformed Nobles of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine paraded over a 31- block course with 42 bands in the great parade. i L R MINING ENGINEERS ARE VISITING HERE R. T, Walker and Woodville J. Walker of Salt Lake City, Utah, mining; enginers, arrived on the Yukon. The Walker brothers rep-, ent the United States Smelting and Refining Company, and it is said that they will probably in- spect various mining properties in “Ixe Berners Bay district. They are registered at the Gastineau Hotel, |Karpis Pleads 7 {Guilty in 'Kidnap Case ST. PAUL, Minn,, July 4.— Alvin Karpis, dethroned gang- | land king, pleaded guilty to- | day as a conspirator in the | $100,000 ransom and kidnaping of William Hamm, Jr., St. Paul | brewer, as the case was called for trial in the Federal Court. Federal Judge M. M. Joyce deferred sentence until con- clusion of the trial of other conspirators, l