The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1935, Page 1

MEMBFR OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ST, fl. J. WALKOUT NRA EXTENSION FOR 215 MONTHS N an REACHED, Tentative Agreement Be- tween Roosevelt, House. and Senate Leaders ALMINISTRATION BASE FOR HOPES Gen. Johnson and William Green Looked to for Aid on Issue BULLETIN —WASHINGTON, May 24. d,hdht Roosevelt snd Senate and House leaders thi: afternoon’ agreed tentative- Iy en 21% mienths extension of NRA giving the agency juris- dicticn cver business and “sub- stantially affecting ‘interstate contmerce, Price fixing will be barfed. | JOHNSON AND GREEN WASHINGTON, May 24. — The, Roosevelt forces eount on Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson and meams Green, President of the Americar Federation of Labor to give a boost to the plan for extension of NRA. Green declared in a New York, City speech there will be a nation-| wide general strike unless Congress extends NRA ‘and passes other leg- islation including the Wagner La-| bor Relations bill. Both Gen, Johnson and Green have been invited to testify before the House Ways and Means Com- mittee next week. Administration leaders hope to get the bill through the House next week. “Green’s - Warning. President Green, in his New york speech, warned that labor’s demands must not be ignored and “f it comes to that point, we will| refuse to work and will momuae our entire economic strength until' we get our rights.” Green called the Wagner bill the | “Magna Charta of Labor.” The assemblage before which Green spoke approved of resolutions demanding the passage of the Black Connery 30-hour week bill. Supports Roosevelt Green voiced full support of, President Roosevelt and at the same time assailed Hoover and called him a “discredited leader.” John L. Lewis, President of the| United Mine Workers, declared “there can be no doubt in the { | the House military subcommittee. tin | court marti {which has given us so many mas- After 37 Years in Army, Col. Williams Dismissed in Alleged Bribe Affdir WASHINGTON, May 24 —After 37 years in Army khaki, including service in two wars, Col. Alexander E. Willlams yesterday was sen- tenced here with a “dismissal from military service in a court martial by brother officers. The Colonel's attorney immedi- ately gave notice of an appeal. Tke officers found Col. Williams “guilty of soliciting and obtaining” $2500 from a representative of an automobile tire and tube concern interested in War Department con- tracts and of “giving false testi- mony by denying the loan” Lefore Chief of the Army Air Corps dur- ing the World War, was convicted of insubordination in December, 1925. Suspended, Gen. Mitchell later resigned. Col. Williams' appeal will be taken before the Statutory Board of Review, consisting of three of ficers in the Judge Advocate eral's department. This Boags opinion will go before Secretar? of! War George H. Dern and . ‘then| President Roosevelt. Col. Williams 'was -acquitted on another charge of accepting $2.000 on which there was nc documentary evidence. The convicted man is now 60 years old. He saw service in Cuba and the Philippines in the Span- ish-American War and in the World War. He has won numerous hell, Assistanc | decorations. GERMAN PLANIS SCORED BY POPE IN PUBLIC TALK Sterilization Program Dis-: astrous to Whole World, Says Holy See The military trial was conducted | ctrict secrecy. It was the first proceeding against a high ranking officer since Brigadier General William Mitce Klllmg Elephant Saved from Death {By Coroner’s Jury LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 24. —Prince, the 7,000 pound bull clephant which gored to death 150-pound keeper Joe Reed, the cther day, was saved from exe- cution by a firing squad by a corgner’s jury which returned a vaidiet of “accidental death.” The jury spared Prince, of the Al G. Barnes Circus, because of the animal's past record, decribed as “geod” by three circus, emnloyees STOCK-MARKET © SEEKING NEW TRADE ANGLES Rails, S!eei;nd Special-! ties Take Lead in y Trading Today | terpieces of sculpture, literature and painting, also will fall into that NEW YORK, May 24—Traders terrible depravation which St, Paul Pegan to seek for new stimulants recognizes,” he said. now that the bonus question is out of the way for the time beingz. Some rails, steels and specialtics (found a following but profit taking | BERLIN, May 24—The German aPpeared in other departments. VATICAN CITY, May 24.—Pope | Pius today delivered an attack on sterilization and the German pro-| gmm of paganism in receiving 400\ , including several ?Intemnuona'i ‘Hospital Cnngress He said he had seen the program of the Congress included the topic of “Eugenics and sterflx- {zation” but that it 5 | | cessarily connected with the scopo of the Congress. “We know Germany but we must realize if the German program of Paganism is extended to and ac- cepted by other nations an in- calculable damage will result to the whole ‘world, and the pagan world, MANY STERILIZED | least. (GOLONISTS “he farmers that * minds of any reascnable ODSEIVEr nfinictry of Justice announced to- | that the real forces which brought|gay 56244 German females had about the movement for only 9% {been sterilized up to December 31. Today’s close was steady. Sales were over one million' | shares. PRESENT Wind Is Knocked O Sails—New Prop bonus. forces are somewhat aged and disorganized by of the Senate vote In ' ed upon their strong both houses for eventual viel The decisive defeat of the man bonus bill, even by the mj ity vote, took the wind out' of bonus movement, temporas New proposals are being ad ed but the bonus leaders wail get their breath before ph inte a new drive, THEIR TRACTS | IN MATANUSKA Drawings f(;r 40 “Acre Farms Held—Newcom- ers Are Well P]eascd PALMER, Alnska May 24— The| drawings for farm lands in the Matanuska Valley began: yesterday with the .colonists lining: up and {filing by Don Irwin, Director of the Project, picking of paper on which were written locations of the tracts out of a hat. The drawing took place with {muci joshing and kidding amid| | hilarity and the farmers expressed | satisfaction at obtaining good farm property in such a manner. Swaps or exchanges of farms won | through the drawing were approved. ‘We want you to be satisfied,” Ir- win said. Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, Vhfi.} present at the drawing and told ‘much hard work lies ahead, but brawn and cour- age will do the task.” The wives and children of the colonists will rejoin their husbands and children tonight, following the arrival of the train from Seward. BUSINESS BAIN !without dealing directly | Washington. AIRPLANES ROAR OVER BERLIN .,’lN B ——1 MIMIC WAR Planes of this type were among those taking partin air maneuvers over Benlin as Germany announced d cannon-cracker bombs gave a realistic imitation of an enemy air its intention to rearm. Smokepots raid In the spectacular attack. (A REFLECTED BY EASTERN CITIES Leaders Set Complete Re-| covery Twelve Months Ahead, Wade Reports | Business is definitely better in| the east and there is a universally better feeling with capital revealing an anxiety to expand, according to Hugh Wade, NRA Compliance Di-t rector for Alaska, who has just| returned from a three month trip to-Washington and a visit to_prin- cipal cities of the East. Mr. Wade, who in the past was Deputy Administrator for NRA, was designated as Compliance Director for the Territory by Sol. A. Rosen- blatt, Compliance and Enforcement | Director, in line with spreading me, authority for administration of the Recovery Act. Under the new set- up, Mr. Wade explained, the head| of each state and Territory will| have increased authority and will be empowered to make adjustments through Leaders Satisfied Business leaders in the East and; Middle West, Wade found, were not only satistied with the progress be-| ing made but were forecasting that in another 12 months business would | be back to normal throughout the country. Sitting in various confer- ences and Senate investigations of NRA, he heard the sentiment of | Fundamentalist months’ extension of NRA have, been primarily concerned with its| destruction, opposed to collective bargaining and industrial Democra- cy.” HOOVER MAKES REPLY PALO ALTO, Cal, May 24. Herbert Hoover in a statement char- acterized the use of the boycott to enforce NRA as “not American and American labor will not long stand for price fixing, limitation of output, stiffling of competition or any other of the monopolistic and fascist practicegginherent in NRA.” 12 SEAPLANES IN FAST TRIP FROM ALASKA Navy Crafl_l:e_ave Sitka in Morning, Reach Seat- tle in Afternoon | SEATTLE, May 24—Twelve Navy seaplanes returned yesterday from the war game maneuvers off the Alaskan Coast. The planes left Sitka at 5:40 o’'clock yesterday morning and arrived at Sand Point Naval Air Station at 2:45 o'clock in the afternoon. Lieut Comdr. Henry P. Stanley, in charge of the squadron, said the start to San Diego, the base, will be tomorrow via Astoria and San Francisco. The aircraft tender U. S. 8. Wright is now enroute south from Sitka. e ———— Jack Hanover, University of Washington letter man in base- ball and “basketball, recently came north to spend the summer at the San Juan cannery at Uganik. HIGHER TREND ———,e | CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, May 24—Closing |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17%, American Can, | 126%, American Power and Light 3%, Anaconda 17%:, Armour N 4%, Bethlehem Steel 37%, Calumet and Hecla 37, Butte Copper and Zinc, no sale; General Motors 31%, In- ternational Harvester 43, Kennecott 20%, United States Steel 34%, | Pound $4.93';, Bremner bid 64, asked 66, Nabesna bid 55, asked 65, Black Pine Silver bid 35 asked 31. ITALY READY OF TRADE FOR WEEK IS NUTED‘ Adverse Wea!her Continues| to Hamper Distribu- tion, Review Says 1 NEW YORK, May 24—A higher trend of trade this week is noted by the Dun-Bradstreet, Inc., review. | Although not - stimulating to a' marked degree because variations are more outstanding, trade de-! velopments are revealed to advan- tage on the upside,” the review says. | The review also stated industrial| activity 'has recovered somewhat from the average of the week pre-| Nation’s Posmon Is Stated ceding but distribution, both retail | and wholesale, continued to be| L0 Thougands Gath- ered in Rome hampered by adverse weather. | ———————— ROME, May 24—Premier Ben- RnosEvELT AND |ito Mussolini told massed thou- |sands of soldiers and civilians to- day who were gathered in observ- Farley Says Veto of Bonus ance of the twentiéth anniversary of Italy’s entrance into the World Bill Will Not Ef- fect Results War, that “Italy is now ready for any trial.” The ceremony included presenting of the battle flags to regiments | which replace the units assigned to !East Africa. shviery Premier Mussolini said: “It is WASHINGTON, May 24.—James better to live one day as a lion A.'Farley, Postmaster General and than 100 days as a lamb. We are Chairman of the Democratic Na-|letting it be known in Italy and tional Committee, said today that abrcad that Italy will consider care- the veto of bonus bill'will not afim]xqu before arriving at any decis- the “ultimate result of the 1936 ion but when that decision is election and Roosevelt and Garner reached, then Italy will go forward’ will head the party ticket. without turning back,” business executives representing vir- {tually all industry, expressed, and | BILL FnH NAvY while some found a degree of dis- | satisfaction with the Recovery Act,| BnusTEn ALUNG all were optimistic that recovery| | | was being achieved. The main point | of contention 'expressed at Con-| e igressional hearings against NRA o . |was price fixing, the Compliance | Senate Munition InV@Shga"Dh’ecmr said. This, it was revealed, | tors Halt Attempt to was due in large part to lack o(' knowledge and study by busmess\ Stall Progress |itself. The differences are being WASHINGTON, May 24— |ironed out, he said, and he feels Senate Munitions investigators have ————— The sure that the Recovery Act will be| ntinued another two years but| abandoned further attempts to halt| with more liberal application and the Naval Appropriations bill and it | more wide spread authority. seems certain that the measure will| Roosevelt Still Popular soon be passed by the Senate. | President Roosevelt still has the| IER Y et | unquestioned support of the entire | ;Lounv.ry it is generally acknowl- |edged, Mr. Wade found. In Towa,| P'LUT nIEs | while driving across the country, he | was talking with a Republican lead- | E er who said: “If the election was| 1 tomorrow Roosevelt would carry Towa with a larger majority thnni {he did two years ago.” While t.herel has been considerable bickering in Owner Balls OUI When the Middle West over the Agr\c\l]- Plane Drops-Escapea "Lural Act, the farmers on the wholel 1 1 are for the President and hopeful | Wllh Stunmng | for the future, he was told by farm- SFATTLE, May 24 Humlr(‘“‘ and business leaders. Brear, pilot, was ykmed when his| “Labor conditions are far better plane crashed near Kent this af-|than they were a year ago,” Wade ternoon. Ernest Piercy, owner of|53id, “and throughout the East] the plane/ balled out and was|13bor organizations and industry| stunned in landing. have gotten together and there are| no strikes. Walkouts are confined to the West Coast and in the east they interpret this as a natural Seward Breakwater aftermath and the first labor agi- P Y i l tation began in the east and now roject AP”""“" ’ is winding up on the West Coast. Relief Applications| “Labor leaders in the industrial iy |centers of the East told the au- | thorities in Washington,” said Wade, “that they are cleaning their own ranks of un-American dissenters and as a result they are attaining the ends which they seek.” Referring to the local mine trou- WASHINGTON. May 24.—Projects | proposed in the work relie! appli- cations, and made public, include jthe Seward, Alaska, harbor bre k- water at an estimated cost of $75.- 000, oclated Pri Photo) ¥/ New Moderator 10 f Presbyterians CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 24. —Commisiioners of the General Aciemhly of the Presbyterian Church the United States of America have elected the Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Vance, of De- troit, as Moderator succeeding the Rev. Dr. William Chalmers Convert, of Philadelphia. The election followed a con- troverty over fuhdamentalism. The new Moderator is a Funda- mentalist. aaELUNERE VICTIM OF AIR (GRASHFORMERLY AT SOAPSTONE \ in Navy Plane/Tragedy, Member of Local Elks F. R. Derry, one‘of six Navy men based at Pearl Harbor, T. H., who met their death when a huge pa- trol plane crashed during fleet ma- neuvers in mid-Pacific last Tuesday night, was formerly /radioman at Soapstone Point, Alaska, and a| member of the Juneau lodge, B. P.| . Elks, according to M. H. Sides, Secretary of the local lodge. The Juneau lodge’ was notified of Derry’s 'death in a radio received | from the Secretary of B. P. O. Elks, | Honolulu. Derry was born on March 2, 1898, in Quebec, Canada, and was initiat- ed into the Elks lodge on Septem-| |ber 25, 1930 at Bremerton, Wash- |ington for the Jupeau lodge. He is survived by his widow. The tragedy ocourred on Tuesday night while the ill-fated seaplane bomber 6-P-7, in which Derry was a member of the crew, was circling over 6-P-10, which had been forced to land in & heavy sea. The 6-P-7 had been called out of formation to rescue its ‘sister seaplane and ap- parently crashed while in full flight. SITKA HALIBUT BOAT FIRE IS DEATH CAUSE Gust Tuftla_IE Fisherman, Burns as Augusta Ex- plodes Taking Fuel SITKA, Alaska, May 24 Tuftland, 33, a fisherman, was burn- ed to death here yesterday on the flaming halibut gasboat Augusta which exploded while taking on fuel. Tuft! resided in Petersburg. Capt. tin Enge and Mate Fgil Winter were taken to a hos- pital badly burned. Tuftland was asleep at the time of the explosion. The Happy, a Ketchikan vessel also was loading gas nearb; and narrowly escaped damage Gus? ble Wade said there was no code for the gold Industry as it is & non-competitive industry and the NRA has no authority whatsoever in connection with it, / PUBLIC FEELS | WALKOUT WITH . POWERTROUBLE :Shutdown of A.-]. Electric Plant for Two Hours Called “Mistake” | / For two hours early this morning the general public was affected di- rectly by the walkout of employees of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Comipany when the city's electric light - and power just when the morning nearing a peak. ‘The power shortage ws Caused: when the Trustees of the Alaska |Mine Workers’ Union notified un- Aon employees at the Alaska Juneau power plant not to report for work “load” was ‘thls morning. However, the system | 'F.R. Derry, Wh() LOSK Life | was returned to normalcy about 8:30 far,” Heard said. {o'clock when union officials, calling | the Trustees' action an |nate mistake,” ordered A. J. power plant employees back to work Union officials said later that they had been told Lhnt the Alaska Electric Light and Power | Company system, which supplies the city with electricity, could op- | erate without assistance from the | Alaska Juneau power plant. There- | fore, Al Nygren, union plestdent | said, the Trustees notified workmen' not to report to the mine power plant this morning. Housewives found their eleou'icll !ranges, toasters, oil burners and other appliances working, if at all, | with greatly decreased emcxency The elevators in the St. Ann's Hos- pital and the Federal and Terri-| torial Bullding would not work dur- ing the two-hour low voltage per- iod. Mayor Goldstein said that upon hearing of the condition he explain- | ed the situation to Nygren, and the union official “promptly took steps to get the power plant men back at work,” which was done at about 9 o'cleck this mormng PRESIDENT'S VOICE TO BE HEARD 1 MILE Roosevelt l;Use Amplifier Developed by Unit- ed States Navy WASHINGTON, May 24. secretly developed Navy radio am- plifier capable of conveying a per- son’s talking volce for more than one mile, will be made available for | use of the President in addressing huge cpen air crowds, The details are carefully mdd«'n‘ but the Navy device was worked out for use in directing uxrplane! landings aboard aircraft carriers and for quick conveyance of mes- sags to craft not equipped wm:j radio apparatus. It has been in use| for several months, - .- PIONEER DIES Edward Hill Mack, 67 years old, pioneer resident of Fairbanks where he was active in affairs of the Masonic lodge, died in the Interior \ jeity May 2, of ailments mudcuu to paralysis. He had lived in Fair-| {banks since 1906, | | |ers’ {their picket lines. inumber I night's union mass meeting in the system weakened PICKETS SET AT MASS MEET OF MINE UNION More Than 350 Men At- tend Session in Hall Thursday Night SHOCK SQUADRON FOR UNION NAMED | Dispute Enters Second Day with Situation Still Peaceful Overnight developments, as the aska Juneau Gold Mining Com- v's employee walkout entered its second day, centered -around preparations by Alaska Mine Work- Union officlals to strengihen Conservative estimates placed the of men attending last headquarters on Lower Front Street mere than 350. Room was not vailable in the hall for all the men, and many stood m the street outside the entrance door. Another {meeting has been cailed for 17 |e'clock tonight. At last night's meeting, a perm- anent picket organization was ef- fected. Pickets will work on a three-shift basis — day, afternoon and “graveyard'—at eight places, union leaders said. Pickets will patral at the camp, the long trail back of the Bergmann Hotel, the Moose Hall trail, the short trail near Gastineau Avenue, the Home Boarding House trail, the two tram- ways, and at the dock. Shock Group Ready In addition, Neil Heard, Seero- “taby; ‘explamed that a “shock squad- ron” will be maintained for .m- mediate call on intensive picket ‘duty in case an organized attempt is made to break the walkout. “Things have been peaceful so “We will not use but are determined to win force, “unfortu- | this fight.” (wonunued on Page Two) R R e COLLECTIONS FOR UNION ARE - UNAUTHORIZED 'Employee Leaders Declare Movement Not Approv- ed—Promise Return . With union officials denying that |the movement was made with their approvnl cr authorization and that mey ‘would see that all the money was returned,” two sympathizers with the Alaska Mine Workers' Un=- jon collected donations from mer- ichants and business houses yester- day afternoon. Cash or promise of trade dona= ticns were requested by the pair, whose names were withheld by the union. A canvass of the downtown area today showed that most of the firms .approached ga some con- tribution. Most of thase were for cash and ranged from $5 to $15. Deny Authorization In discussing the contributions, Al Nygren, president of the union, said: “This movement was started and | carried on without the knowledge or approval of the Trustees.” Neil Heard, secretary of the un= ion, said: Return Premised ‘All the money collected will be returned today to the persons who gave donations. The union enters ed the present walkout with suffi- cient funds to carry on its fight. We |are not asking financial supporz Vi > BIDS OPENED ON GARAGE, BUT NO ANNOUNCEMENT YET While bids on the proposed con= structien of a garage building at Willoughby Avenue and Main Street were opened yesterday, no announce= ment on contract awards will be made until Monday. This statement was made today by Frank McCafferty, who, with Los Bernard, is contemplating the erection of a such a structure. If built, it would house the Juneau Motors Company, now Jlocated on the Juneau Commercial Dock.