The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE «4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVI.. NO 6969. _}UNEAU. ALASKA, 'I}NRSDAY, MAY 23, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE&S PRICE TEN CFNTS BRITAIN PLANS IHIUGE AIR FORCE GAIN ENACTMENT OF 1 MEASURE GETS BLOCKED TODAY NAVY PATROL IN ALASKA SKIES Upper House of Congress | Refuses to Overide Presndent s Action NEW LEGIS SLATION A Y PLANNED | Riders to Pendxng Bills, Other Moves to Aid Vets, Proposed WASHINGTON, May 23.—The Unit~d States Senate today blocked enactment of the Pat- man benus bill by refuting to pa’: the legisiation over the Pres ldmtln veto by a vote of 54 to 40. Eleven Republicans joined with 41 Demecrats and the lone Farmer Laborite and lone Pro- gresiive to override the Presi- dent’s veto, which was sustained by 28 Democrats and 12 Re- publicans, The vole wus thus fay short to override the veto. NEW LEGISLATION The Senate and House opened m\ way for a new drive when a bill| was introduced in the House to pay the bonus by Public Works funds and the bonus forces are ready to offer in the Senate a bill as a rider to the pending naval ap- propriation measure. President Roosevelt was having e meeting of the Allotment Board when the vote came but made no; comment. | Conflicting Claims ¥ FOR DOUBLING PRESENT SIZE 'Home Defenses to Be . An official photograph by the U. 8. Navy of one of the patrol winge of Rear Admiral Alfred W. Johnson In the Alaskan area, with Mt. Fllrwu"ur, In the background. (From Assoclated Press) s Sflfi!fl REVIV ' IS GIVEN BOOST AT G.-G. MEET | Younger Boy Movement Gets Promise of Help from Chamber Head Juneau's Boy Scout revival was The Senate had listened to wide- given a boost at the Chamber of ly conflicting claims ranging from Commerce weekly luncheon meet- the assertion that the Patman leg- ing today at Bailey's Cafe when islation might “lead to ruin,” and Acting President Frank A. Boyle another that it might be “good invited Scout leaders to confer with business” to pay off the obligation. the Chamber’s Executive Board next 8 Rider Proposal {'week relative to financial support. Senator Clark's proposal to add the bonus rider to the naval appro- priations bill requires a two thirds vote. He hoped, he said, to pick up a few votes by providing optional methods of paying the bonus. Commander James A. VanZandt,, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, characterized the action on the bill as & “cruel blow” to veterans, but; forecast “ultimate viotory at this cession and the fight will be re-| doubled with vigor.” | CLOSED SHOP IS ATTACKED BY INDUSTRY F ol | Iron and Steel Institute’ Stands Squarely for Open Shop NEW YORK, May 23—Leaders of the steel industry launched a concérted: attack today on the closed shop Tabor activity and the Wag-| ner Labor Relations Bill at the; annual “meéting of the Iron and/ Steel Institute. “We stand squarely for the open, shop,” declared Eugene G. Gruce President of the Iron and Steel In- stitute in his keynote address. He‘ called the Wagner Disputes vicious. | ——————— EAGLE WELCOMES FIRST i WHITE CHILD IN YEARS A baby girl, born to Mr. and Mrs. | Al Stout, April 8, was the first! white child born in Eagle in ten! or twelve years, according to news letter from Eagle to the Daw- son News. GERSTMAN 'LEAVES 5 H. A. Gerstman, Horluck's rep-| resentative, left on the Yukon for Seward. i Boyle, who presided in the ab- sence of President R. E; Robertson, who is in the States, ‘gave his in- vitation after several Scouters had told of ambitious summer plans for | the organization. Robert Simpson, head of the lo- cal younger boy movement, told Chamber members that the Scout- jing picture for the summer “looks good” and -then introduced H. L. Redlingshafer. - The latter, after speaking briefly on the need for good’ leaders, introduced Wayne Young and the Rev. O. L. Ken- dall. Camp Value Told ‘Young; appointed director of the coming ‘camip, said that the’ session would last from June'3 to 14. He told .of the value in; citizenship training: that the camp offers. The Rev: Kendall, who has been identi- fied with Scout actiyities for many years: before he came to Juneau recently, also described the advan- tages of the program. Then Acting President Boyle in- vited Scouters ‘t0 appear at next Tuesday's Board meeting and indi- cated that, as usual, the Chamber probably would’ lend financial aid. Also fedtured, and souridly ap- ‘plaudpd’ was Dr! W. Carson Ryan, |Jr., Qe Q( Qeaflh‘ f the Burefii of Indian Atfalrs, “who ar- meu from Washington, D. C., earl- week=In & brief, but infer- esu * dpeéch;hé told members how Federal authorities were seeking data to aid in preparation of a |budget which, in the future, would aid the Territory in the education of Indians. No Survey Now “I am not here to make a survey,” Dr. Ryan said. “I am checking the | advisability of such a survey, and, {if the study is found to be needed, [T will endeavor to find out Just | what sort of survey shall be made.” Charles W. Hawkesworth, assist- ant to the director of education in |the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in- (Continued on Page Two) Pacific Coast Foreign Trade I ncmasmg SAN rnuclsco, Cal., May 23.—The Pacitic. Coast foreign trade crossed the one hundred million dollar mark this year and is now running 15 percent ahead of last ye-r WAGNER LABOR MEASURE NOW UNDER ATTAC President Sibley of United States C. of C., Statement WASHINGTON, May 23 —Attack- ing the Wagner Labor Relations bill, President Harper Sibley, of the United States Chamber of Com-' merce, said it goes beyond the law- ful- powers of Government a breeds “industrial strife. It pro- motes, not allays industrial con- flicts.” President Sibley further satd “neither the management nor work- ers could have any assurance of stability in mutual relations” under the Wagner bill. SOME STOCKS PUSH UPWARD Other Issues Are Hit by Profit Taking — Ap- pearance F Ragged NEW YORK, May 2 —Scattered epetibities ton&nued mmush ahead but/ pofit taking in a“number of izsues gave the list somewhat of a ragged” appeasance. Today's close was a liftle irregu- lar. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, May 23— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17%, American Can 126%, American Power and Light 3%, Anaconda 177%, Armour N 4%, Bethlehem Steel 27!, Calumet and Hecla 4%, Butte Copper and Zinc 2%, General Motors 32, Internation- al Harvester 44, Kennecott 207%, United States Steel 34%, $492%, Bremner bid 64 asked 67, , Black Pine Silver bid PROGRAM CALLS Trebled at Once, Air | oy | Ministry Announces ! | ; LABOR’S CURTAILMENT SCHEME DEFEATED Pan!y with France lnd" | Germany Avowed Policy, T Spokesman Declares LONDON, May 23.—(Copyright ‘1935 by the Associated Press)— | | Great Britain, traditional mistreu]\ | of the seas, has warned Burope she 'nuuld let no neighboring power gain mastery of’ the air and an-| i nounced simultaneously that both houses of Parliament were making plans to double Britain's air forces and treble the first line of home defense forces. All possible speed toward the goal« of 1500 homegdefense planes by the end of Masch “has beer et "by Lord Londopderry, Secretary of| Afr, according to the anneunced| program. The House of Lords government| rode roughshod over the Labor par-| ty amendment to reduce the huge air expansion expenditure by a vote | of 340 to 52. It was disclosed that' the air ministry already has per- fected a scheme to more than dou- !ble poduction of the new types of planes. A government spokesman declared Britain's policy was to keep air parity with France and Germany TINY PILGRIM FOR MATANUSKA homes- in. the M clated Press Photo) a valley of Alaek: eymoon-adventure for the parents, married just 10 months, ilan Spencer of lh'rmm families going to new The trip also will Tear Gas Used On Striking Men In Belgium BRUSSELS, May 23— The police used tear gas to drive hundreds of strikers from the thafts as 12,000 coal miners struck for higher pay with 100,- 000 more likely to join the walk- SMALLER PACK THIS SEASON, SAYS WINGARD {to the STATEMENT MADE BY SUPT. L. H. METZGAR| When mlnrvlewed today relative 10 the ceasing of all operations of ‘he Alaska Juneau Gold Mine, in Juneau, General Superintendent L. H. Metzgar sald that the shutdown resulted from picketing which kept all workers from entering the prop- erty. No official advance notice of the picketing or calling of the walk- out by members of Alaska Mine Workers Union Committee, or rep-| resentatives was given to the com-' pany, Mr. Metzgar said. D STATEMENT MADE BY | SECRETARY OF UNION Neil Heard, secretary of the Al- aska Mine Workers' Unlon, made the following statement late last night in the presence of Al Nygren,| union president “We have been considering these | demands for four months. We can see nothing radical or out-of-the- way about them. The decision to call a strike was passed by the! Trustees in a brief meeting. The' | vote was unanimous. ! “Although we have established a; 24-hour picket organization, we do not want any violence. We have .warned our men that there must| 'be no violence. “But. we dre commifted to the, stxike now, and are in IWm' a fight nish.! *.The 19 trustees, fo whom the un- ion voted power to call the strike, include: Charles Crozier, Charles Lesher, &8ig Graner, Huber, Joe Perpich, Chris Hen- Imngaz Chris Berg, Rex Hermann, Jack Wilson, E. A. Belarde, Al Ny- gren. Frank Campbell, Tony Larson, Dave Carlson, W. Rasmussen, Leon- ard Hayden John A. Martin, and —— eee Tony Covich, Chris! OPEN RECRUITING OFFICE LONDON, May 23-—The Air Min- istry has opened an enlarged re- cruiting station for the Royal Air Force in a down-town section as out. A Cabinet crisis is threatened as the result of the strike and the King may cancel his in- tended trip to Stockholm. Sev- eral Socialist Ministers are re- Around Four Million Cases Antici gated—New Her- | ing Plants at Kodiak Around four million cases, GOI.UNISTS IN _ MATANUSKA TO Paund Great’ Britain pushed the program to meet Germany's challenge with a three-fold expansion of her home defense air strength. R L A NAVY AVIATORS ON MERCY TRIP, DIE IN PAGIFIC Six Fliers Are Kllled When Huge Bomber Drops in Sea on Maneuvers ABOARD BATTLESHIP PENN- SYLVANIA IN MID-PACIFIC, May 23.—8ix Navy fllers, on a mercy flight, were killed when a huge pa- trol plane crashed during fleet maneuvers last Tuesday night, the commanding officers revealed today. The six fliers formed the crew of the seaplane 6-P-7. They went to their deaths with- out knowledge of what happened, the officers said after the shattered Temains of the craft were picked up. Those who met their deaths had been _stationed at Honolulu. The tragedy brought the fatali- ties from the unprecedented ma- neuvers to eight, all but one of whom died in airplane crashes. The 6-P-7 was pulled out of a flight formation by a call of a nearby surface craft to rescue a sister seaplane, the 6-P-10 which was forced to land in a heavy sea. While 6-P-7 was circling over 6- P-10, the huge bomber crashed apparently in full flight, MOTOR TROUBLE WASHINGTON, May 23.—Navy officials belleve the crash was caus- ,ed by motor trouble. ported considering resigning from the Cabinet in sympathy with the strikers, especially since tear gas is being used in the trouble. ARMED OFFICERS NOW STATIONED AT OREGON MILL Crowd of Slnkers Gather-| in One Section to grevenl Operations FOREST GROVE, Orégon, May 23.—With Sawed-off shotguns in their hands and riot equipment| stacked close by, speclal Deputies guarded the Stimson Sawmill south of here as an evergrowing crowd of striking lumber workers gathered for the avowed purpose of halting all operations. Four hundred strikers are on| the grounds and others are coming. Two men are reported to have been 'beaten by pickets who tried to keep them from entering the mill for work. Députy Sheriff C. V. McMonagle and a Portland newspaper photog- rapher, whose camera was smashed, | were man-handled by one group | of strikers. Ernest Schmidt, mill- vorker, was dragged from an auto) and beaten. SITUATION IS GRAVE PORTLAND, Oregon, May 23.—| The crisis is so grave in the lumber stitke situation that the National| Guard is to be instructed to “stand | smallest fish pack in several yura, is anticipated for Alaska this sea- son by L. G. Wingard, Alaska Agent for the Biireau of Fisheries, who ar- rived in Juneau last night aboard the Fisheries boat Merganser from Wrangell. Mr. Wingard came nonh from Seattle on the Yukon, .wppmg off at Wrangell. Closing of Bristol Bay and limited pack at Seldovia and Cordova, will tend to cut'the total pack down this year from the more than seven ‘million cases put up last season, the largest on record, the fisheries ex- ecutive explained. Three New Herring Plants ‘Three new herring reduction plants are to be operated at Kodiak this season, Wingard said, and cur- tailment of the fishing season there has been recommended. Already 16 days has been cut off and the type of gear may be limited, he said. Lee Wakefield of the Apex Fish Com- pany, Olaf Floe, brother of Hans Floe, widely known packer, and George Hogg will operate the Ko- diak plants, If there are any operations at Cordova this season they will be on a limited basis, l.ccord!ng to \Mn- (uommuu Two) ALASKA FURS ARE DEMANDED All Types Are Cleancd Up at Auction Sale in Tacoma TACOMA, Wash. May 23— A strong demand for all types of furs cleaned up 98 percent of all offer- ed at the fur auction sale here by” for emergency. Three hundred pickets are lined up against 60 special deputies. Eigh-! teen State policemen have been’ Mostly Alaska furs were of good quality and prices advanced over the sales of previous months and much stronger than the May sale a called out so far to protect workers.|year ago, DRAW TRACTS Seven Temporary Camps to Be Opened — Com- i mupity Garden Planned PALMER, Alaska, May- 23.—The Matanuska colonists will today make their draws for locations of their 40-acre tracts. After the drawings here the tent ,city is to be broken up except for the Minnesotans who have land near the townsite. Others will be moved to seven temporary camps near their farm tracts. One hundred and forty horses and cattle were shipped from Seattle yesterday and will be here within o few days. By fall each family will have one cow and what milk is not used will be sent to a creamery. No farming is planned for this season except a 75-acre community garden to raise vegetables as an addition t0 the project’s commis- sary roodm.ufls JUNEAU GIRL GIVEN HONOR SEATTLE, May 23.—Marian Fos- ter, of Juneau, Alaska, has been| elected treasurer of the Junior class of the University of Washington. Miss Foster is the daughter Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Foster - MAN SOUGHT The local chapter of the Ameri- can Red Cross is desirous of obtain- ing information relative to the whereabouts of George W. Herbert, whose last known address in 1932 was Juneau, i of | GREAT MINING PROPERTY WORK HALTED TODAY Between E@ and Nine Hundred Men Affected by Union Order SHIFTS CALLED OUT AT 11 LAST NIGHT PI(‘kf‘lS Malntamed Also olice Force — City | Quiet, No Disorders For the first time in the ’hnaur) of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, work- (ers in the mine and mill were fon a walkout today. Affecting between 800 and 900 men, a verbal mouth-to- 'mouth walkout order was is- 'sued shortly after 7 o’clock last night by 19 Trustees of the Alaska Mine Workers’ Union. The order became ef- |fective. w hen shift changes took place at 11 o'clock last ‘mght The walkout order was is- sued after L. H. Metzgar, {Superintendent of the Alaska Juneau, in a formal state- ment read to the Trustees yesterday afternoon, refused all nine of the proposals which the union had given him last week for considera- tion. The proposals included a request for collective bargain- ing, a $1.15 wage raise for all employees per day, a 48-hour week, complete hospitalization for employees and families, and favoring residents in the hiring of employees who have been in Alaska for not less than one year. City Quiet All ‘districts of the &ity' were quiet today, as quiet as they were last night when the walkout went into effect. There wefe more peo- ple on the streets than usual, but they mostly confined their activi- ties to talking in. little groups. A 24-hour picket organization was an- nounced from union -headquarters last night and is in effect. No violence or'disortdér has been reported today. Unjon Trustees, in calling the action, ordered their men to refrain from violence, even at the picket lines. A 12-man union police committee also was appointed, Chris Hennings, a trus- ‘tee. sald today. Hennings, speak- ing for, Al Nygren, President, and Neil Heard, Secretary, both of whom had retired for sleep this morning after being upall night, explajned that the police. commit- tee. had been appointed in co- cperation with city, officials. " N Extra Police ! Police Chief Hoffman said that lunion_officials had conferred with {city apthorities about the com- mittee. | “The miners’ committee, of course, has no official authority,” | Chief Hoffman said. “It was ap- pointed to take care of the miners’ own situation. If matters should Iget out of its control, then the city poiicemen will have to step in. However, there has been no trouble, and I have not put on extra patrolmen.” Only watchmen and mine and mill foremen are permitted to pass picket lines unchallenged. Watch- men have been given written passes signed by Heard. The foremen, } \\,anuuum un Pflge Eghy