The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 5, 1933, Page 1

ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ) “ALL THE NEWS Jy VOL. XLL, NO. 6306 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SEA R EFUSES APPEALS WIRED | TOWASHINGTON - ON LASOR BILL ‘ Legislature and Commer- cial Organizations Ask Alaska’s Exclusion Appeals to the President and! Co s to relicve Alaska from the burden imposed by the provisions | of the Connery 30-hour a week bill, were telegraphed from yesterday to the National Cap-) om both official and unoffi-| sources. The Territorial Leg-| ; islature telegraphed a msmonal‘ P unanimously by both Houses and approved by the Governor. The Alaska Territorial Chamber of Com- | merce and the local Chamber of | Commerce both joined the lJawmak- ers in their plea for exemption. Unanimously it was declared that | the Act, applied to Alaska, would| leavé industrial and economic ruin | in its wake, closing canneries, mim‘sl lumbering. The appeals were| raphed last night and no re-| sponses had been received today. Legislature Cites Facts It took but a few minutes yes- terday afternoon for both branches of the Legislature to rush through a memorial on the subject. It was in both the Senate and by unanimous votes under suspended rules. Last night it was wired in full to Washington, addressed to the President, Congress and the labor committees of each branch of that body, as follows: Your Memorialist, the Legislature the Territory of Alaska, has rned with consternation that Al- a is included in the provisions of a Bill introduced into the Con- g of the United States, by Rep- resentative--Connery,..known as House Bill No. 2867; and, Your Memorialist respectfully re- presents: That more than ninety-five per cent of all Jaborers in Alaska are| employed in seasonal occupations | and that the average working hours for the year do not exceed four hours per day; That more than twenty-five thou- sand of these laborers are engaged in the fishing industry covering a coastal distance of more than 3,000 miles; that fishing operations in Alaskan waters are, by regulation of the Bureau of Fisheries, arbitrar- y ily limited to a periof less than sixty days for each season which obliges the fishing industry to con- centrate the year's effort within that short period involving the pro- duction of some fifty million dol- lars ($50,000,000.00) worth of fish- ery products; that eighty per cent or more of the revenues of the Territory are derived from the fish- ing industry; that many of the companies have operated at a loss for the past two years and the enactment of the proposed legisla- tion would compel them to discon- tinue operations, and the Territory | of Alaska would be bankrupt and unable to support its schools, de- pendents and indigent persons, and to continue other essential activi- of That more than six thousand laborers are engaged in the placer mining industry -in Alaska, cover- ing an area of 590,000 square miles; this work is also seasonal and la- borers are employed not more than one hundred and twenty days dur- ing the year; most of the mining is carried on by thdividuals or small companies in isolated places who employ' less than ten persons each and it would be impossible for them to continue mining under the pro- posed schedule; That the remaining wage earners, , not exceeding two thousand per- sons are engaged in lode mining and other industrial pursuits throughout this vast Territory, and their employment does not exceed an average of fifty hours per week; That workmen who are engaged in seasonal vocations will be de- prived, under the proposed law, of the employment to make it pos- le for them to sustain themselves and their dependents and will be forced to leave the Territory and seck employment elsewhere; That the extension of the pro- posed enactment to the Territory of Alaska would be ruinous to our industries; our canneries would be compelled to cease operations; most of our mines would be closed, un- employment would be greatly in- creased, and our Territory reduced to a state of bankruptcy and our people to want, Now, Therefore, Your Memorial- RESULTS OF TUESDAY’S ELECTION Prect. No. 1 338 Prect. No. 3 131 Prect. No. 2 134 Progressive Ticket Ma_\'or:. T. B. Judson Total 603 f Councilmen: John E. Green G. E. Krause John B. Bernhofer 563 570 494 123 121 17 Economy Ticket Mayor: I Goldstein Councilmen: George B. Rice Art McKinnen William J. Reck School Director R. E. Robertson Bus Franchis Yes No 162 147 118 104 300 261 324 255 Total Registered 709 a7 Tctal Vote Polled 662 363 “Failed to get required majority by seven votes. GILMORE WINS HOUSE MEMBERS OUT FORMAYOR T0 BE CHAMBER AT KETCHIKAN DINNER GUESTS Mulvihill Is’Re-elecled at Local Business Men Greet Skagway—Results in | Representatives and Of- Other Alaska Cities ficers Tomorrow KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 5—' Members of the House of Repre- P. J. Gilmore, pioneer merchant, sentatives of the Alaska Legislature | was swept into the mayoralty here will be honor guests, along with in yesterday’s election by a vote Gov. Parks, Auditor Frank A. Boyle of 651 to 391 over J. A. Talbot. and Highway Engineer W. A. Hesse, Harry G. McCain, E. W. Brown of the local Chamber of Commerce and Alfred Howe were =amed w‘at the weekly meeting of the or- the city council. ganization at Bailey's Oafe at noon Harry Lwace, daruggist nere, and tomorrow. with a store in Juneau, was elected| The Senate was the guest of the to the school board over Mrs. H. P. Chamber last week, other guests ‘Hansen. including the Governor, Attorney Mayor-Elect Gilmore stood on a General James S. Truitt, and A. E. GOLDSTEIN WINS IN CLOSE RACE; TICKET CARRIES I. Goldstein Defeats Mayor Judson by 81 Votes— Bus Franchise Beaten In the closest local municipal race in many years, I. Goldstein, promi- nent local business man, was yes- terday elected for Mayor for the ensuing year, defeating Mayor Thomas B. Judson, seeking re-elec- tion for the seventh successive term, by a margin of 81 votes. Mr. Gold- stein’s entire ticket, composed of A. F. McKinnon, W. J. Reck and G. B. Rice, was elected along with him by varying majorities. ‘The proposed franchise to W. H. Bacon to operate bus lines over certain city streets received a pop- ular majority that, however, was not sufficient to carry it. Tt re- quired 55 per cent of the vote cast and received .544 percent. Seven more votes in the affirmative would have changed.the verdict. Elected in Second The second precinet, giving Mr. Goldstein a majority of 96 votes, won for him. Mayor Judson nosed out in the other two. In the third precinet, in which the Mayor re- sides, the vote was 131 for Judson and 130 for Goldstein. It was the first to complete its count, and when the results were made known, it was admitted that the chances for Mayor Judson's re-election were not good. In the first precinct, the largest in the city, from the very first ballot counted the outcome was in doubt. At times the Mayor led and then this was wiped out as the count progressed and Mr. Goldstein moved ahead. The final count there gave the precinct to Mayor .Judson by 14 votes. Second Is Different In the early stages of the sec- ond precinet count, the same neck and neck race developed. In the form as Gilmore’s. Brown and Howe advocated pub- lic ownership of municipal utili- ties. members and the Chamber’s guests, will be featured by a special pro- gram arranged by the Forum Club, composed of Past Presidents of the Chamber. The holdover councilmen are J.| S. Burgun, Henry Erwick and H. P. Hansen. The defeated candidates in the councilmanic campaign are R. E. Hardeastle, Richard Harris, Lem GERMANY WILL R " ORGANIZATION MULVIHILL IS MAYOR H SKAGWAY, Alaska, April 5— . . K The Cltizen's Party eweted the on- American Writer's Book councilmen, C. G. Stadelman, D. L. Stevenson and James ‘Tropes. BERLIN, April 5—A conflict be- Treasurer, Oscar Selmer; City tWeen the Federal Government and Clerk, L. E. Reynoldson and a mem.- the Foreign Press Association, rep- ber of the School Board, A. C, resenting about 235 foreign corre- Blanchard, spondents of more than 20 nations, has arisen over the Government's decision to boycott the Association as long as Edgar Mowrer, of the ELECTION AT ANCHORAGE platform of tax reduction and strict Karnes, Commissioner of Educa- |irst 49 votes tabulated by the elec- regulation of public utilities and tion. tion officials, 25 were counted for looking to a rate reduction. | Tomorrow's meeting, limited to|Judson and 24 for Mr. Goldstein McCain ran on a similar plat- From that point on, the Ilatter made consistent gains, The final count in the precinct gave it to Mr. Goldstein by 96 |votes, which put him out ahead with a net lead of 81 votes. { Mr. Reck was high man on the Economy Ticket, receiving 813 votes. Mr. McKinnon, with 711, was sec- ond high, and Mr. Rice in last place with 653. The high man on the Progressive, or Judson ticket, was G. E. Krause, who received 570 votes, John E. Green, second, with 563 and J. B. Bernhofer with 494 votes. For School Director, R. E. Rob- ertson, unopposed, was given a fine endorsement receiving 782 votes. tire ticket in yesterday's election| (Causes Dissension— The vote on the school bus fran- as follows: { e ’ chise was: For, 604, Against 506 Mayor, W. J. Mulvihill, re-elected; Cabinet’s Stand votes. A switch of seven votes would have reversed the.result. The ordinance failed of passage since it received less than the required percentage of the total vote cast in the election on that issue. - ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 5.— Chicago Daily News, remains as its CONFERENGE ON PILOT UNHURT AS MITKOF CRASHES IN SNOW STORM St on Wings Said to Be Cause of Plane Crack- ' Up on Channel The seaplane Mitkof, with Pilot M. W. Sasseen at the controls. side-slipped into a crack-up in the bay early this afternoon. No pas- sengers were aboard and Pilot Sas- seen was unhurt, suffering only a thorough ducking in the cold wat- ers. According to several who ob- served the accident, the plane was cireling preparatory to landing at the Union Oil Dock, flying relative- ly low over the water, and in banking the plane for a turn, it side-slipped, apparently did not re- act in time to pull out, struck the water on one pontoon and cap- sized. Spectators said the pilot quickly scrambled out of the cabin and climbed on top of the pontoons. Go to Rescue A small boat immediately put out and towed the plane and pilot to shore near the rock dump. Later a crew from the Tallapoosa arrived and aided in placing empty oil drums under the plane to float it preparatory to towing it to shelter. Although neither J. V Hickey, owner of the plane, or the pilot could be reached at press time, those in charge of the salvaging believed that the inability of the ship to pull out of the bank was due to conditions caused by snow on the wings. Ahe Mitkof had just returned fro;x 2 successful trip to Skagway and was going to the Union Oil Dock for gasoline. S10CK MARKET RALLY NIPPED LATE IN DAY Many Issues Take Advance Early But Gains Prac- ticaly All Lost NEW YORK, April 5—A broad rally was nipped today by late selling of rails and the Stock Mar- ket closed irregularly but higher although most of the new changes were small. Today’s turnover was 1,300,000 shares the largest in three weeks. At the peak of the rally many |issues were up from one to three points but selling of Chicago and Northwestern shares and bonds un- settled rails and in late dealings several issues closed lower while more than half of the advance was elsewhere lost. Business Gains The early upturn was stimulated by grains and encouraging mid- week business statistics. Chicago and Northwestern, com- mon, dropped to a price of 1% from 3. Union Pacific, which had been up 2 points, slid down to PRESIDENT’S SON 'LOOKS FOR JOB Elliott Roosevelt (left), second son of the President, is shown at Tucson, Ariz,, with his friend, Ralph Hitchcock, as he began to look over the southwest for a job. (Associated Press Photo) REPEAL SOUGHT ON PENSION ACT IN HOUSE BILL. Would Wipe Out Teachers| Pension System — Give ! Them Age Allowances Repeal of the Teachers' Pension BILL PROPOSES TO GIVE POWER T0 EXECUTIVE Walker Measure Seeks tol Grant Governor Addition- al Power Over Funds A bill to grant to the Governor Act and inclusion of teachers in{of the Territory discretionary power public schools of Alaska in the Old over certain appropriations, a de- Age Allowance system are the aims|parture from present statutory of two bills introduced in the House |provisions, was introduced in the today by Representative Taylor,|Senate yesterday afternoon by Sen- The Municipal election here yester- president. day gave a victory to the follow-| Mowrer's book entitled “Germany ing: |Puts the Clock Back” is regarded For mayor, P. J. McCroskey; as so offensive by the German councilmen, C. M. Eckman, 1. Bayl- Cabinet that Mowrer has been in- es and Ray E. McDonald; school formed no invitation for any func- director, J. T. Cunningham. tion of the Association will be ac- McOroskey, for mayor, had z(lwm majority over Carl E. Martin; Cun-| ‘The Foreign Press Association has ningham had 18 majority over C. declined to accept Mowrer's offer A. Pollard. |to resign as President. The three victorious councilmen | - easily distanced R. H. Nichola and S REPEAL GOES SITKA ELECTION close 4 points under the previous close. Santa Fe and Union Pacific lost early gains and registered losses of more than 1 point. American Telephone and Tele- graph, Case and Consolidated Gas practically lost two point gains. ECONOMIC ILLS IS COMING UP Statesmen from Great Bri- tain and France to " Meet Roosevelt CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, April 5— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14':, American Can WASHINGTON, April 5.—Lead-| 7%, American Power and Light ing statesmen of France and Great |44, Anaconda 7'%, Bethlehem Steel Britain will come here soon and !4 Calumet and Hecla 2%, Fox SITKA, Alaska, April 5.—Peter| Kostrometinoff was elected mayor | here yesterday with E. W. Harris,| George A. Collette and Neill Ander- | FOUR TO ONE sit with President Roosevelt and |FIMS 1, General Motors 12, Inter- talk over economic ills of the world, | ational Harvester 22-~x.'Kennncou unless arrangements now being|l0. North American 16%, Packard made in Europe by Norman Davis, |MOtors 1%, United States Steel son being chosen for the city coun- | cil. R. W. DeArmond was elected | co s to the school board. State Convention Will Be e | Unanimous for Chang- PETERSBURG, Alaska, April 5. ing Dry Law —With a registration of 303 Peters- | -y burg went to the polls yesterday, MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 5—The and cast 286 votes. 'results of yesterday’s election shows For mayor, Edward Locken re- & 4 to 1 vote in favor of wiping out ceived 169 votes against' Ear] Ohmi. the Prohibition amendment in this er who polled 59. |state and consequently the conven- ‘Three councilmen were elected in :tion to be held in three weeks will close voting as follows: Robert Al- Vote for repeal unanimously. len 139, Charlie Greenaa 138, James .5, e 7 B. Wheeler 117 and Erick Ness 116. DAYS MOVE The other candidates were be-| Mr. and Mrs. Ray G. Day, who low 100. £ |have been occupying the Wicker- ist, the Legislature of the Terri- tory of Alaska in the eleventh reg- (Continued on Page Two) Dr. Rude was elected to the!sham residence for several months, special Ambassador, fall through Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon- ald of Great Britain, plans to come to Washington ,during the Easter recess of the House of Commons. Davis has been informed that the French Government will send representatives to the Washing- ton parley which is expected to in- clude only three nations and as a result it is believed the ground- work will be laid for the success of the coming World Econom Conference in London during the summer. —_————— Two brothers have left Dover, England, on a tour of Europe and Jhave moved to the Dan Russell house on Calhoun avenue. (Cuntinuea on Page Two) North Africa in a 30-year old car bought for 8s 6d.—less than $2 128%. | —_——————— | AGQUIT PASTOR, ASSAULT CHARGE MUNCIE, Indiana, April 5—Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, suspended Methodist Epicopal Church pastor, has been acquitted in the Circuit Court on a charge of attempting to. assault Miss Helen Huffman, 18-year-old Sunday School teacher during an automobile ride. The church suspended him for a \year for imprudent ministerial con- duct, Cordova. Two other measures were | introduced, one by Representalive| Nerland, Fairbanks, relative to ad- ministration of small estates, and| the other by Representative Mc- Cutcheon, a private relief measure. Bill No. 37, by Taylor, provides for the outright repeal of Chapter 83 of the Session Laws of Alaska, 1929, which created the Teachers' Peision system. The companion measure, No. 36, by the same member, seeks to ex- tend the Old Age Allowance law to the same profession. It provides that persons 55 years old or over, engaged in teaching continuously| for 25 years, 15 of which must have been continuously in the Public Schools of Alaska, are eligible for| such allowances. Bill No. 38, by Mr. Nerland, seeks to substitute posting of notices,} instead of publication, of admin- istration of small estates not ex-| ceeding $1,000 in value. Mr. McCutcheon’s bill asks for an appropriation of $1,050 for Peter Knudsen for expenses incurred in searching for Erick Jansen and Ar- thur Anderson who were ship- wrecked bétween Dillingham and Bethel. After debating for an hour minor amendments to a bill proposing other amendments to the motor ve- hicle licensing act, and defeating all of the proposed changes, the House recommitted the measure to the Committee on Roads and High- was for further study. Senate Bill “No. 18, repealing the Prospectors’ Aid Act, and Senate Bill No. 28, to amend sections 763 and 764 of the Compiled Taws of | Alaska, relative to fences along| railroad rights of ways, were read: for the second time and advanced' to third reading for tomorrow. H Aol 1 19737 BANKS ARE REOPENED WASHINGTON, April 5—Secre- tary of Treasury Woodin, urging the further return of hoarded money to the banks, declared that the rebuilding of the banking struc- ture of the United States resulted i \ ator Walker, Ketchikan. The measure is practically iden- tical with a Virginia law which was passed a few years ago to aid Gov. Harry F. Byrd in his great work | of putting the financial affairs of the State on a sound and business- like basis. The measure provides that “all appropriations now or hereafter made, except for the following pur- poses, for maintenance, operation and construction of public schools, public asylums or public homes, for pensions, for support or relief of indigents, for payment of salaries of territorial officials and employ- {ees, or for payment of necessary, administrative expenses of territor~ ial offices, are hereby declared to be maximum, conditional and propor- tionate appropriations and, to the extent of the respective amounts for which such appropriations are made, shall be payable in full if necessary and then only in the |event the aggregate revenues to be {collected and available during each fiscal year of the biennium for :Which such appropriations may be \made are estimated by the Gover- {nor to be sufficient to pay all ap- ipropriations in full; otherwise, all such appropriations out of the gen- \eral fund, other than those herein- |before excepted, shall be deemed “:o be payable in such proportion, after first providing for payment f‘in full of those appropriations here- !inbefore excepted herefrom, astheir Itotal sum bears to the remaining total amount of the general fund revenue estimated by the Governor to be available in each of said fis- cal years.” The Governor is also given au- thority to examine and survey the progress of collection of revenues (Continued on Page Two.) French Net Solons Nip Cochet’s Movie Career PARIS, April 5. — Henri Cochet can appear in the movies as brig- and, boxer or ball boy, but he can- not as tennis player—if he wants to remain an amateur. The French star was about to appear in a film when the French T0 YIELD UP 71 VICTIMS OF AKRON AIR AND WATER CRAFT SEARCH ALONG COAST Extensive Hunt Continues for Bodies of Airship Disaster ONE FOUND THIRTY MILES OUT ON OCEAN Hope Practicplly Aband- oned—Investigation I to Be Started NEW YORK, April 5.— Search for 71 lost officers and men aboard the United States Navy dirigible Akron, which crashed early yester- day morning off Barnegat Lightship, off the coast of New Jersey, went forward swiftly and thoroughly today but hope any of the missing survive is gone. Sullen seas, whipped by thunder storms when the ship crashed, have quieted, making the task of search- ing ships less difficult. The Coast Guard boats, one of which recovered the body of Lieu- tenant Commander Harold Mac- Lellan, have bccn ordered to ex- tend the search southward but patrol closer to the shore. Top of Head Seen The body of MacLellan is the only one found as the search was renewed. The body was 30 miles off shore, a considerable distance from the spot where the Akron crashed. Only the top of the head was seen as the Coast Guard boat passed nearby, arms outstretched and rigid as though they had clung to a timber. Considerable debris and bits of fabric were noted on the waters where the body was found. Survivors Recovering The three survivors are making fast recovery from the shock of submersion, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The general belief of navy men is that the Akron was caught in the vortex of a terrific thunder storm and swept into the sea by down drafts. Search Continues Seven Navy amphibians roared aloft from Philadelphia early this morning to continue the search for boies. They were to be joined by land and press planes to search from Barnegat, N. J, to Cape Charles, Virginia. The planes were also to go far out to sea but hope for success is at a low ebb. How- ever, a small plane of the New York Police Department saved five men aboard the Blimp J-3 which went down yesterday when search- ing for Akron survivors. Investigating Board Assistant Navy Secretary Roose~ velt spent some time at Lakehurst and announced a Navy Board will (Continued on Page Two) - et BLIMP CARRIES CREW OF EIGHT DOWN ON COAST Craft Searching for Akron Survivors Wrecked on Atlantic NEW YORK, April 5—Two of the members of the crew of the Blimp J-3, which was carried down in the surf late yesterday after- noon, were killed but their bodies were later recovered. Six other members of the crew were rescued and they are recover= ing in the Naval Air Station Hos- pital. The J-3 was making a search for survivors of the wrecked diri- gible Akron when a hasty landing was being attempted following the carrying away of a port engine from the riggings which made the craft helpless. The bodies of Lieutenant Com- mander David E. Cummings, of Lawn Tennis Federation wagged its Prescott, Arkansas, and Chief Ma- chinist’s Mate Pasqualle Battio, finger at him and said, “No! If you | who died in the crash, are being prepared for burial but the fun- do, you'll be another Tilden.” in t}2 reopening of 12,737 banks at the end of March. Cochet has bowed to the guard-[erals have been delayed pending 1\3:15 of his amateur status. . wishes of relatives.-