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Sen. Nye Criticizes Defense Policies
JURY FREES 24 DEFENDANTS RIOT TRIAL
SENATOR NYE CLAIMS U.
S. CITIZENS VICTIMS OF
A JAPANESE WAR SCARE
Republican Senator Declares U. S. Is
Setting Pace For Armaments
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle, Dec. 16, —Am
erica, which should set
an example to the world
in the war against war,
instead was setting the
pace for warlike prepara
tions, Senator Gerald P.
Nye, republican of North
Daktota, told a Seattle
audience Sunday', follow
ing his arrival with the
congressional delegation
headed by Vice President
Garner, from the Orient.
Nye left here Monday by
plane for California to de
liver a series of addresses
before returning to Wash
ington to launch an investi
gation into how the United
States became embroiled
in the world war. Most of
the others left by train
Sunday night for the East.
Launches Criticism
“Just now Americans are
victims of a war scare with
Japan”, Nye said, adding
that “America hasn’t faced
more dangerous days since
the world war.”
The plea for national de
fense was characterized by
Nye as becoming too much
of a “market for profit.
“I have no cure for all
of the diseases for which
the war is responsible, but
I can do much to greatly
lessen the danger of our be
ing drawn into another
war—first by enlarging our
neutrality policy—and then
by removing the profit it
self and preparation for it.” i
Government Ownership
Nye advocated govern
ment ownership of the mu
nitions industry, and said
that the sentiment was j
growing stronger in favor
of taxing incomes above
ten thousand dollars, even
as high as 98 percent in
time of war.
.. Townsend Plan Threat .
The returning delegates
were chary in discussing
the coming session of con
gress, or the importance as
(Continued on Page Two)
Re-instatement
Alaska Moneys
Is Being Tried
(By The Associated Press)
Anchorage, Dec. 16, —
Mayor Oscar Gill and the
Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce received tele
grams from Secretary oi
Commerce Daniel C Roper,
saying that he had asked
Postmaster General Farley,
Secretary of War Dern and
Delegate Dimond to confer
with Harry Hopkins, ad
ministrator of the Works
Progress Administration,
to press demands for the
reinstatement of $2,900,000
in allocations for Alaskan
airport improvements.
Delegate Dimond had
been previously informed
that the funds had been
withdrawn.
Reinstatement is sought
on the grounds that the
projects are a benefit to
commerce, the army and
the navy.
Report Survey
Is Returned By
Sect’y* H. Ickes
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 16, —
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes returned the annual
report of the Geological
Survey which stated it had
mapped more than 46,000
square miles in the Terri
tory during the 1935 fiscal
year.
It said that in the Alaska
Bureau’s surveys of miner
al resources including spec
ial mapping, the service
is “indespensible to any en
terprise concerned with
the development of the
Territory.”
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Counter Attacks
Are Prepared By
Premier Baldwin
(By The Associated Press!
Undated. Dec. 16, — A
system of counter attacks
on the critical Anglo-Fren
ch peace plan, is in prepara
tion by the British govern
ment.
Prime Minister Stanley
Baldwin is preparing mat
erial for presentation to the
House of Cnmmr "c
The British cabinet, in
token of the seriousness
with which Britain receiv
ed a storm of criticism, met
today in emergency session.
On the southern front,
Fascist took the defensive,
braced for an attack ex
pected momentarily from
4lv000 Ethiopians -und^
Ras Desta Demtu. Italian
airplane today bombed
Ethiopian forces near Neg
helli, on the southern front.
Students Strike
Opposition To
Japanese Forces
(fiv The Associated Press)
Peiping, Dec. 16, —Defy
ing police clubs and warn
ing volleys of rifle-fire, and
streams from fire hoses,
Chinese student demonstra
tors stormed through the
city in protest against the
Japanese aggression.
A huge mass meeting of
seven thousand demonstra
tors decided to call a na
tion-wide student strike.
Member Society
Family Philly Is
Kidnaped N. Y.
(By The Associated Press)
Nw York, Dec. 16, —Cal
eb J. Milne, fourth mem
ber of the socially promin*
ent Philadelphia family,
disappeared Saturday from
his New York apartment,
and Sunday night was re
ported to have been kid
naped for ransom.
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Alaska Students
Organize (dub
U of Washington
(Ry The Associated Press)
Seattle, Dec. 16, —Alas
ka students at the Univer
s'ty of Washington organ
ized a club today, electing
Robert Henning of Juneau
its first president, Frank
Reed of Anchorage vice
president, and Marian Fost
er of Juneau secretary
treasurer. There are twenty
charter members. A name
for the club is to be chosen
later, it was announced.
Japanese Parity
Demand Snarls
- JXaval Agreement
(Bv The Associated Press)
London, Doc. 16, —Vis
count Monsell, first Lord
of the Admiralty summar
ized the naval conference
situation to Premier Bald
win, while the delegates
sought to unravel the snarl
resulting the Japanese eq
uality demands.
Informed sources expect
ed negotiators to attempt
to dispose of or side-track
the parity issue soon, in
order to permit the confer
ence to proceed with the
discussion of limitations on
submarines, tonnage, type
of warships, and arma
ments.
A secret session of just
the chiefs of the American,
British, Japanese, French,
and Italian delegations, is
slated for late today.
Football Scores
(By The Associated Press)
Los Angeles, Dec. 16, —
Pittsburgh defeated South
ern California at football
Sunday, before a crowd of
thirty-five thousand fans.
San Francisco, Dec. 16,
—UCLA upset the dope on
football Sunday when it de
feated the St. Marys Gaels
by a score of 13 to 7 in the
final collegiate game of the
season here, before a scant
crowd of 8,500.
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TWENTY-FOUR DEFENDANTS
IN RIOT TRIAL IN AT JUNEAU
FREED BY JURY SATURDAY
Defense Attorney Says Verdict Is \
\ ietorv For \\ orkh;‘r Class
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News-Letter
OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND
Delegate from Alaska
(By J. J. ECKLES)
Nov. 16, 1935
Some uncertainty as to
the likelihood of immediate
construction of the Ketch
■ ikan Federal Building has
occurred because the low
est construction bid is con
siderable in excess of the
amount of funds available
for actual construction.
The gross amount of money
available for the project is
$400,000 this being the
$300,000 set aside by the
Emergency Act of 1934
plus an additional $ 100,
000 that was included in
the Emergency Act of 19
35.
Proposed allotments and
reservations for amounts
believed necessary for the
seawall, furniture and of
fice equipment, jail equip
ment, lighting fixtures, fin
ishing worn, superintend
ence and other similar costs
amount to $185,731 which,
when added to $278,582—
the amount of the low bid
—makes tiie estimated cost
$64,313 in excess of the
$400,000 available. As it
appears unlikely that addi
tional funds can be secured
to increase the existing al
lotment for the building,
Delegate Dimond has been
cooperating with officials
of the Treasury Depart
ment in their efforts to el
iminate sufficient items of
cost to bring the construc
tion within the amount
available. Some progress
has been made along this
line and it appears probab
le that adjustments can be
made to meet the cost limit
without sacrificing any im
medately necessary featur
es in the building. The
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(Me The Associated Press)
Juneau, Dec. 1(5, — Foll
owing the acquittal Satur
day of twenty-four defen
dants, charged with rioting
in the Alaska Juneau mine
strike last June, defense at
torney Irwin Goodman said
“The International Labor
Defense, which I represent,
regards this as a tremen
dous victory for the work
ing class.”
District Attorney Wil
liam Holzheimer said: “I
feel the verdict clears the
lease of riot but that was a
matter for the jury to de
cide. This office will con
tinue to vigorously prose
cute any further cases of
rioting which might arise.”
There are eight indict
ments remaining against
men who have not been
apprehended.
Japanese Include
Railroad Staiion
In Military Coup
(By The Associated Press)
Kagan, Chahar province,
Chin;. Dec. 16. —A swift
military coup gave the Jap
anese virtual con',ml over
he terminals of the im
portant railroad running
through Kalgan to the sea.
Soldiers marched into
Calgan and threw a wall
)f machine guns, and bay
onets around the railroad
station.
A- fewr hours earlier sol
diers in the Japanese-sup
ported station of East Hopei
province, went into action
for the first time and rout
ed nationalist forces, seiz
ing the seaport terminus of
the railway at Tangku.
All gates to Kalgan were
closed, as residents feared
an extension of hostilities to
thi strategic city.
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