The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 22, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY sy e 0 a ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6605. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1934. " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ONE THOUSAND REPORTED DEA INFIRE LABOR UNIONS APPEAL TO ROOSEVELT LIGENSING PLAN MAY BE FORCED ON AUTD PLANTS President to Avert Threatened | Motor, Rail Strikes HOPE EXPRESSED BY FEDERAL OFFICIALS| Green Warns Employers— Reiterates Demands for Collective Bargaiming WASHINGTCN, March 22—The merican Federation of Labor, call- ing for Govi ment licensing of the obile industry if conciliation took the case to President It today in renewed efforts a strike. officials showed some- more hope of a satisfactory tic than has been apparent ¢ past several days. None de- nied, however, that the situation is threatening. Rail Dispute Arbitration of the rail wage dis- A pute is still deadlocked by the agreement of labor employers being pushed ahead by Joseph Eastman,! Fede Rd: Co-Ordinator. Ur leaders from Michigan au- tomobile cities sped here to place| their views day and are ready again today, | mzintaining a formal silence. Labor's Warning William Green, President of the A. F. of L, warned in a state- ment that if the 'manufacturers| stand pat against the unions, Labor urge the President to set a edent by invoking the licensing ction of the NRA." He also made to urge the Michigan union to reduce their demands so tral board be created to ss upon complaints of discrim- tion and that by election or otherwise employees be permitted a cut selection for representa- clear tives, and also that employers agree to abide by the result for | collective bargaining. To Probe Charges The Administration let it be to the auto labor union tatives that part of the peace in the industry is pointment of a committee to s on the several hundred charges n discrimination by the ‘The workers have l id their charges against the em- | ployers before NRA Administrator Jolm\m 5 STOCK PRICES GROW FIRMER ON LABOR NEWS Metals, Rails and Motors Advance, Leading Other Issues Upward NEW YORK, March 22—Stocks as hopes were renewed for a speedy seitlement of the auto difficulties. Led by metals, rails and motors, | many leaders rallied one to two more points after early irreg- or ularity. Sales today were about one mil- lion shares, . Today’s close was firm. The curb was stronger and bonds were brighter. United States Smelting was up five points. McIntyre, Depasco, Dome and American Smelting firmed and were up one to two points. Rails were better and up one or more points. General Motors, Nash and Chrys- ler were up one point. Other shares improving were United States Steel, American Tele- phone .and Telegraph, Bethlehem Steel, American Can, Sears, Ward, United Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, Sperry and Schenley. (Continued on Page Two) o Renews Efforts| before the President.| Company officials saw him yester-. layed an improved tone today | industry | VETS' BENEFITS ARE BLOCKED BY HOUSE IN VOTE. |Federal Pay Cut Proposal| Also Opposed — Next Step Up to Senate | \ | o | | | | Far, Far Away from Blizzards WASHINGTON, March 22—The | House tcday refused to join the Senate in voting higher allowances for veterans than the Administra= The vote was 220 to| the House insisted on toration of only a ten per cent of the cut in Federal pay by July opposed to the 15 per cenf ivoted by the Sepate. | | The next step is up to the Sen- ! While their fsu- cny was digging ltself out of the heaviest snowfall in Aoy ECONOMY TIGKET Governor . APPLICANT FOR o evaada :-SEAFI:LE{] r4 3 l\]r 25 Povass0n LIQUOR LICENSE? Mnox Goldslem, W. S. George, H. Messerschmidt | and R. Beistline File | City Treasurer There Flles Application for Liquor Store License Advocate ofilestm‘n Lib- eralism, Dies Follow- ing Long Illness | ot While officials here awaited word !today that President Roosevelt Ml signed the Alaska prohibition re- peal bill, from other parts of the Territory requests were piling up for information on how and when legal liquor could be obtained. And the first formal application for a license to operate a liquor store was received by Auditor Frank A. Boyle. The app@cant is Harold Chan- wick, City Treasurer of Cordova, former member of the City Coun- The Economy Ticket, headed by Mayor I. Goldstein, was filed today in the office of City Clerk. His running mates are: Wallis George, H. Messerschmidt and Ralph H. Beistline. Like Mayor Goldstein, their terms {expire this year. Mr. George, who |is in Seattle and will not reach | here until next week, bele"raphed‘ his filing. | cil there, and an employee of the In a brief statement to The Em-| Copper River & Northwestern pire accompanying the notice of Railway. | filing, Mayor Goldstein said: “The| program of economy and debt re-| tirement which the present Administration pledged to the voi ers a year ago and was immediate- | |ly put into effect, will be contin-| |ued another year if it is returned| for another term. | “During the past year we have retired $10,000 in outstanding mu- Fee Not Important He made out his own form of application and, leaving the license fee blank, informed the Auditor that he had deposited money in the Cordova bank to cover it what- ever it might be. A telegraphic application was made by L. H. Kubley, Keichikan, for a license. He said he had been nicipal bonds, paid off some $16.- informed that the President had 000 in unfunded debts. If condi-| s approved the bill. This however, tions continue as they are, “?| GOVERNOR BALZAR was incorrect. - Early this after- ‘hope to do as well next year. noon, an Associated Press dispatch All of the candidates are well- ’ CARSON CITY, Nevada, March ¢, qpne pmpire from Seattle, said |known. Mr. Goldstein owns end|22.—Gov. Frederick Bennett Balzar, 1y president had not acted, and operates a fishermen’s supply bus- of Nevada, former miner. railroad ty.¢ it would bulletin as soon as {iness here. Mr. George is Presi- man, state legislator and sheriff, (he b)) was signed. ‘dem of the Juneau Cold Storage died in the Executive Mansion yes- Telegraph For Law | Company. Mr. Messerschmidt is a|terday following a long illness, at my insure it does not exceed its | member of the San Francisco Ba-|the age of 63 years. authority after it is created, the ‘kery Mr. Beisctline is a veteran| Gov. Balzar was an advocate of Board of Liquor Control is to get \cmp.o)e“ of the Alaska Juneau. |what he considered traditional a copy of the act as passed, Gov. T | western liberalism. Du his ad- | ministration, his divorce residence | requirement was reduced from six to three months and later to six weeks., He also signed the bill le- ;gauzing gambling. He was one of the leaders advocating the repeal of prohibition. He was a Repub- Troy yesterday telegraphed. Dele- gate Dimond asking him to tele- graph the full text of the act as soon as the President signs it Members of the Board have cop- ies of the bill as it was introduced. They are using these in their in- formal discussions which were con- St lican. tinued today. . A widow and one married daugh- ———— Chilean Ambassador to U.lter survive. There is a “no smoking” rule at LITTLE BIRL ATTACKED BY TWO TERRIERS Four - Year-Old Child Dies from Wounds—Lacer- ated Head to Foot meetings of the Texas relief com- mission because Gov. Miriam A Ferguson has hay fever. . S., and Daughter Among Injured LIMA Peru, March 22—Three| persons were killed when a Pan- American Airways’ plane crashed| |at the take off. The injured in-| cluded Manuel Trucco, Chilean| Ambassador to the United States and his daughter. Twelve persons were aboard the 'plane at the time of the crash. By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureaw, The Associated | Press, Washington.) i Other day-to-day developments | may steal the headlines, yet lhrw | question still uppermost in the| | minds of the plan-makersat Wash- ington is what to do about unem- | OAKHAM, Mass, March 22—/ ployment. Eunice Dean, aged four years, iS| When they arrived at the scene | dead, the victim of a ferocious at-'a year ago, the Roosevelt econo- | tack by two terriers. The dogs mists put first emphasis on farm Ihave been killed. relief. They saw an increased The little girl was walking home farm purchasing power as the key | ,a!te. a short ride with her father .“’ recovery. They still are strong {who was enroute to his office as a | for that, but a combination of cir- salesman. A little later she was' |cumstances has shifted the real |found unconscious with both ter- center of gravity elsewhere. riers tugging and growling at her When winter closed in, it was lacerated from'seen that after all the average farmer was managing to get along iIdaho Stockman Is in West Alaska; May | Try Sheep Raising SEWARD, Alaska, March 22, J. 8. Dividiss, of Buhl, Idaho, well-known stockman, is looking over the prospects of sheep raising in Alaska. He is making a tour of the Southwest section and is enthused over the reports of cattle- men of the Homer District on Kenai Peninsula. Divildiss recently disposed of his Idaho holdings and moved his fam- |body which was 4 ily here, head fo, foot, {al, las far | to incre: {ing hours still further,” said Hugh | A. Wade, Deputy NRA Adminis- | trator for Alaska, in a talk before | the Chamber Administration Still Ponders Ways of Giving Work to Men | neither, and most of the state and| |Two Peace Officers | thought at the treasury and e CANNERS CODE FORWARD STEP, WADE ASSERTS | Analyzes Chah ges for Chamber—Lowers Hours of Work and Raises Pay The salmon canners code, for- warded to Washington for approv- “is a decided step forward and as the coming season is concerned it will add to employ- ment and the purchasing power of those employed, will stabilize the market for the packers and give them an opportunity in the future se wages and lower work- of Commerce today. He drew attention to the chang- es made in the tentative code as @ result of the week's hearings last month in San Francisco. He said he did not expect it would be approvnd exactly as submitted st codes are changed before glvm a final sanction. Was Difficult Task Although he aided in drafting a number of codes in Washington before his assignment to Alaska, all in all, he said, the salmon code xs the most difficult in his exper- ience. It was complicated ser- iously by the widely divergent conditions prevailing in the sev- eral districts of Alaska, and by the fact that the industry is so highly seasonal. It was not possible, he said, to get the industry to agree to every- thing that was desired, in so far as Alaska labor was concerned. No overtime could be obtained for lo- cal labor employed on an hourly | basis. The industry declined to {include the provision, urged by Delegate Dimond, to permit the employment of minors between 14 and 16 years of age at light la- bor for not more than eight hours a day. ‘““We fought for a provision for the protection of independent fish- ermen, but without success,” he sald. As submitted, it carries no such provision. He was satisfied, he said that the fishermen ought to be assured of a minimum price for fish before he started the sea- son, but that could not be obtained. 48-Hour Week For shore employed, except in emergency periods, a 48-hour week is established. This includes per- sons engaged in the preparation of gear prior to the fishing sea- son, and for clearing up the plant after the close of the season. Wage rates remained unchanged, cents per hour where board and lodging are not provided and 25 cents with board and lodging. Overtime for employees engaged principally within a cannery build- 35 ing and regularly receiving less than $70 per month with board and lodging furnished are to be paid overtime at not less than 25 cents per hour after the first 10 hours work in any 24. The minimum rate, paid last season, Mr. Wade said was 15 cents. Thus the increase in that rate is 20 cents. For higher paid labor, he said, a provision was written into the code providing that the same differential between the | (Continued on Page Two) somehow. He might not ha ey, but he had food and sh The unemployed by millions, mon- ter. had local relief agencies were broke. PURCHASING POWER A | PROBLEM Economic theory of Wask vielded to what many recogn: as hard necessity. Hence the CWA. Now the problem is o get rid of | OWA, which was using money a4 rate causing much anxious at 1se- | where. In name, this agency soon | Is to pass; but its abolition does| not abolish the problem it was| created to meet. At the pedk, a few more than| (Continued on Page Seven) S i i R | served. lSLAND SLUMS SHOCK FIRST LADY Conditions in Puerto Rico brought a shock to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as the wife of the President waixed through the slum dis- trict of San Juan and talked with She expressed the hope that a plan worked out and added that Gov. Gen. Blanton Winship, with whom she is shown as she arrived in Puerto Rico, had ordered a cleanup. (Asso- siated Press Photo) TAX ON INCOME ' | OF WORKERS T0O BE GIVEN SLASH Senate Finance Committee! Considering Cutting | Other Levies j WASHINGTON, March 22. More taxes from big estates ‘ml fewer from the income man who works for a living have been vot-| ed by the Senate Finance Com- mittee in an action on a series of amendments prEceding the ap- proval of the new tax bill. | In addition, the committee vot-| ed to abolish levies on soft drinks, clocks and cheap furs, Chairman Harrison estimated the net result in the changes will add fifty million dollars to the an-| nual revenue. PLANE LOST IN - 193 13 FOUND Bodies of Six Passengers, Three Members of Crew, Discovered MENDOZA, Argentina, March 2 —The Pan-American Airways pldnv San Jose, lost in 1932 with six passengers and three members of the crew aboard, has been found in the Argentine Andes, four miles south of Puente Delinca. 1 All of the bodies are well pre- Two of the bodies are headless. > Are Killed ;Airplane | Goes Into Nose Dive SOUTH BEND, Wasn., March 22. —Charles Strauhal, Deputy Sheriff of Pacific County, and Gus Schultz, Town Marshal of Long Beach, were killed when Strauhal's plane nose- dived and burned. The bodies of the two men were badly burned. Straunhal was attempting to land when the accident occurred, the plane going into a side slip, then noge diving. HEAVY TOLL OF LIFE IS TAKEN IN FIRE TODAY Port City of Hakodate Is Swept by Flames, Fanned by Wind 'ElGHTY PER CENT OF BUILDINGS IN RUINS Thousands Are Homeless —Relief Being Rushed to Stricken People TOKYO, M'"(‘h 22.—At least cne thousand persons are fear- ed (o have died in a fire today which is reperted tc have de- streyed most of Hakcdate, a port city of 200,000 population. The blaze is said to have started during a windsterm and the flames spread with rapidity. A Rengo News Agency dis- patch said 80 per cent of the city has been reduced to ashes. The city was comparatively new and composed largely of weoden buildings. Relief is being sent to the thousands cf homeless. D ADMINISTRATION IS DEFENDED IN PRESENT GOURSE Covernm of Federal Re- | serve Bank Makes Re- | ply to Critics the povertystricken peopls there. to end the slum menace could be Rm’r Truck in Way; Collision Occurs; 1 Dead TACOMA, W March Mre. Glen J. Fisher, aged years, was thrown through the windshield and killed when an automobile driven by her hus- band collided with a beer truck. Fisher and his young daugh- ter were not injured. > e - ag— | 12 | NEW YORK, March 22—Eugene |R. Black, Governor of the Federal | Reserve Board defended the course {the Roosevelt Administration has |taken in a speech here last night, ‘sflymg that “during the abnormal \penod the National must, do the abnormal thing to get the country |started out of depression.” ‘ Black characterized his address as an answer to former Secretary |of Treasury Ogden L. Mills, who EDITORSHIP, { Credit Not Affected Black analyzed in detail the re- (M not realize on its credit for the lmxmg BICaCh on AH’ :need of the peopie.” preceded him at a dinner given by |the Academy of Political Science. sults of the Roosevelt policies say- ing: “American credit has contin- ued unimpaired and unaffected” by S el the Government's relief spending pzu'xam, and added: “The Gov- Resignation Presented Fol- ernment’ would be calloused if it Mail Contracts | The Governor of Federal Re- ‘~zr\‘c Board said there is “no fear NEW YORK, March 22. — The of the Government taking over the |schism over the air mail contro-'banks of the country” and added with Publisher F. A. Tiche- that the strength of individual ef- of the New Outlook, prompt- forts will not be lessened because ed former Gov. Alfred E. Smith's “in the exercise of his rights he resignation as Editor. {must regard the rights of others.” Smith has been silent while| Mills' Plan Tichenor has been a vigorous critic| Mills in his address called for of the Government's cancellation of | reorganization of the Federal Re- | serve Board, a prompt return of | International Gold Standard and to" return to the old form of banking and balancing of the budget. the air mail contracts. D 3 RUSSIANS IN FAIRBANKS, i RECORD TIME gy e GANGSTER SHOT |Body of N—c:lo—‘rious Killer Found This Morning in Gutter Earlier in the evening, Prof. G. | F. Warren, of Cornell University, ,an economist, urged the United “do better” that restore monetary system. Rescue Party Bound for Arctic Off for Nome Sometime Today FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Mar Pilot Joe Crosson arrived b night from Whitehos three Russians who plan to rescue 80 persons marooned on the ice| CHICAGO, Ill, March 22.—Fred floe in Bering Sea. Geetz, aged 37, college educated The party plans to fly to Nome gangster and brains of as deadly a sometime today. | group of desperadoes as the police The Russians arrived at Skagway |ever hunted, was found in a gutter aboard the steamer Alaska Wed- | this morning, shot to death in nesday morning, boarded a tra:n|Cicero. for Whitehorse and were flown| Goetz had been hunted for some from there to here, making a of the nation's most sensational record time for the distance. land cold blooded crimes,