The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1936, Page 1

HE DAILY ALAS VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7 19 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” __JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY. MARCH 12, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS A EMPIRE VERDICT RETURNED AGAINST GERMANY FEVER THREATENS - COAST GUARD - HAIDA MAKES MERCY VOYAGE Government Vessel Is En- route to Unga with Physician Aboard 150 RESIDENTS ARE REPORTED IN DANGER| Amateur Radio Operator | Makes Report Regard- ing Epidemic | | { | SEATTLE, March 12. — Coast Guard Cutter Haida is outbound from Seward with a physician on board and is today nearing Unga, on the Aleutian Islands where the entire community of 150 persons, is threatened, it is claimed, with a spread of scarlet fever. \ Three of the residents of Unga are reported ill. The epidem.: was reported by an amateur radio operator to the Coast Guard. The cutter Haida left Seward on Monday according to radio advices received here. The cutter Morris is reported to have floated the cannery tender Amook which was blown ashore at Halibut Cove, Kodiak Island. ALASK A SECTION “She May Be Edward’s Choice 'F| 00DS SWEEP| Leg Weary New Yorkers Grumble and Walk [‘“‘smNmmgg ] Meria Christina, daughter of the former King and Queen of Spain, may become the bride of Edward VIII of England, if inter- naticnal goscip proves true. A hurried trip of ex-King Alfenso from Paris to London started the rumor. ! MANY SEGTIONS, UNITED STATES New E.nglarg Eegion, Also Middle West, Threat- ened by High Water PEOPLE FLEEING Farm Lands Are Inundated —Homes Are Hastily Evacuated | CHICAGO, 11, March 12.—Heavy | rains, melting snow and ice have | sent streams in the east and parts | of the Middle West to flod levels. | Highways are inundated and farm |lands and homes are endangered. | Twenty four hours of precipita- | tion damaged New England sec- | tions. New flooded | The Lehigh, Delaware, Schuylkill, Juanita, Allegheny, Susquehenna, | Housatonic, Passaic, Quarboarg, Connecticut, Chenango and Cohoc= ton rivers are at or near flood levels. At Hillidaysburg, Pa., rescuers saved one family from drowning in the flooded Juanita River where many families have been forced flee for ‘their lives. In various parts of New Jersey and Missouri, floods have driven Hampshire highways are ' TO ESCAPE DEATH l { T0 TREATY AT LONDON MEET Hitler’s Nazi Troops in Rhineland in Viola- tion of Pact |GERMANY GIVES OUT ANOTHER ULTIMAUM {Will Seek Isolation but France Promises Direct, Drastic Action BULLETIN—LONDON, March 12.—A high source disclosed late this after- noon that France had drawn up an ultimatum to other signatories of the Locarno Treaty hinting that ngle-handed action against Germany might be neces- sary if no agreement is reached at the London dis- cussions. PACT RATIFIED BULLETIN — PARIS, March 12.—The Senate has ratified the Franco - Soviet DIMOND FAVORS BIBSON'S BILL FOR NEW DEPT, Alaska Delegate Gives His| Views Regarding pact for mutual assistance by an overwhelming major- ity. people from their homes. Many ac- res are flooded at Williston, N. D. Henry Roy, 31, died in Manches- ter, N. H,, when he fell in the Pis- cataquog River while removing flashhoards at the dam. A family of five is reported miss ing in Glen, N. H., where the For- estry Department reported a house on the bank of the Saco River col- lapsed. Three children and their L H. METZGAR Sick Leave of ON STAND IN Fed.Employees LABU@HEARING* to Bjflestured If plans of James J. Bambrick (inset), president of the buildleg service eleoyges union, materialize, every building in New York will be without elevator or heating service men. As city officials are rushing emergency measures to provide service for the protection of city health during the strike, office workers (left) have taken this stairway bannister method of sliding down from work. Strike pickets are shown in front of a Park Avenue apartment in hoto below. . WAR CLOUDS VIOLATION BULLETIN—LONDON, March 12.—Signatories to the Locarno treaty decided late this afternoon that the CHAMBER HEARS Sailors’ Union Measure WASHINGTON, March 12 | Discrimination Charge Be- ing Heard Before Trial Examiner Hope Only Roosevelt's Signature Need to End Last Part parents are believed buried in the wreckage. Fifteen idle Hudson River ex- cursion boats, tugs and barges were torn from the docks at Kingston, VARIED REPORTS ~ AsksRefurnof ~ RAISE HAVOC, Rhineland reoccupation “constitutes a clear viola- tion of Articles 42 and 43 of of Economy Act **y the Versailles treaty and Locarno pact.” Speaking in favor of United States | Senator Ernest W. Gibson's bill to | create a Department of Territories | N. Y., and swept away toward the WASHINGTON, March 12.—Only | ice-lecked Hudson River. AT MEET TODAY Taken Charter STOCK PRICES Before a court room filled with and Insular Possessions, Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said: Aleska | ecmployees and former employees of | President Roosevelt's signature | the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining is needed to make effective more lib- “If any private corporation car- i Company, the hearing on the com- | eral vacations and sick leave ailow- ried on its business in the same | plaint made against the company|ances for Federal employees. loose fashion in which the Gov- by Local 203 of International Un-| Reductions in sick and annual ernment administers the political | ion of Mine, Mill and Smelter Work- ) leave were instituted as part of the and economic affairs of the Terri- tories and insular possessions, that corporation would be headed for insolvency.” ers, the old Alaska Mine Workers | Union, opened here today before | Charles W. Hope, trial examiner for Economy Act. Presidential approval of the new leave and allowances would wipe ' the National Labor Relations Board.! out the last of the Economy Act,! Senator Gibson's bill would cre- | The hearing is being held in the salaries and pension reductions al- ate the new department headed b; a cabinet member. Citing the Di vision of Territories and Island Possessions created in the Depart- ment of the Interior with Ernest H. Gruening as Director, Senator | Gibson said he felt this to be an excellent start toward the goal, but that Gruening, with a staff of only 21, was unable to represent or to develop the destinies of 2,000,000 people in 600,000 5square miles of territory. HAUPTMANN'S HOPE OF LIF FADING FAST Governor Hoffman Denies Reprieve on Last Day for Action TRENTON, N. J., March 12.—! Dzaloff, Governor Harold G. Hoffman an- nounced on the last day on which he can legally reprieve Bruno Richard Hauptmann that he has no inten- tion at the present time of again staying the execution of the con- victed kidnaper and slayer of the Lindbergh baby. Hauptmann's death is scheduled for the week of March 30. Bruno's counsel clung to the hope that there is still a fighting chance for life, if Governor Hoffman ques- tions “Jafsie” Condon, now enroute to the United States from Panama. e ILL IN HOSPITAL Mrs. Mae Clark is undergoing medical treatment in St. Ann’s hos- pital. Federal district court room with E.| A. Eagen representing the govern-| ment and Carl E. Croson of Bayley & Croson, Seattle law firm, repre- senting the Alaska-Juneau. It is charged by the union that certain of its members have been | | discriminated against in giving em- | ployment after the mine opened up following the walkout of last sum- | mer. It further alleges that the | company caused the formation of the Juneau Mine Workers Associa- tion and contributed to its sup- port. Complainants The original complaint lists the following as those who had been allegedly discriminated against: Al Nygren, President of the Union; Charles Crozier, W. A. Rasmussen, | | Chris Henning, Alex Hodoff, Harry Datoff, N. R. Correll, Rex Her- man, Nick Kobak, Simon Graner, Warren Beavert, Frank Agoff, Gust Zetieff, Sam Elstead, Walter Ot.s and Roman Ellers and others. In reply to demand by the com- pany to know who the “and oth- ers” were, the list was amended to include Matthew Sumara, Evan Ernest Giovanetti, Alex Boroff, Melvin Carlson, Jack Dempsey, Alex Kupoff, Mike Juras, Leonard Ball, Ed Rennie, Jack Howell, Ed Engeberg, Alex Daroff, Bennie Larson, Alvik G. Gillis, John Bukers, Frank Bakator, John Ned- | kow, Jack Turkovich, Bill Taroff, George Kodzoff, Cliff Matthews, | Abel Anderson, Alex Misoff, Leon- ard Hartsock, Alrey Mullins, Sam Scott, G. R. Isaak, Jack Romber, Mentur Peterson and Ivan Diboff.| This afternon still a longer list of | 120 names were added to the list in | Examiner Hope had stated that hei would like to have a list of the names of the strikers himself. " (Continued on Page T) ready having been restored. WOULD CHOOSE ALEUTIANS FOR PRISON COLONY Delegate Dimond Scores Plan to Make Pioneers of Safe Crackers WASHIKNGTON, March 12.—Rep- resentative Edward A. Kenney, Democrat of New Jersey, today in- troduced a bill to send convicted ‘ederal prisoners to island colon- ies, thus saving the government meney by making pioneers of them. Congressman Kenney recommend- ed the Aleutian Islands Kahoolawe and Niihau in the Hawiians and San Clements off the California coast. “I prefer the Aleutians,” he said. “The mercury is never below 12 de- grees below zero nor higher than 79 and averages 39." Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond protested immediately against making pioneers out of prisoners. - e KEYSER TO SING John Keyser will be guest soloist at tomorrow’s weekly “Know Alaska Better” radio broadcast of the Ju- neau Woman's Club, which this week features the subject “Alaska native Alaska songs which have been translated and musically ar- ranged by Carol Beery Davis. The latter will accompany him on the piano. | . - BYRD REVIVES PLAN FOR NEW BUREAU SETUP E By BYRON PRICE | (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) Without any of the customary ostentation and ballyhoo, a Senate Committee is undertaking modestly an investigation which, unlike most (Senate inquiries may have a pro- |found effect on the future opera- tion of the Federal Government. The committee is charged with making a “full and complete study” 'of the vast tangle of departments, | bureaus, boards, commissions and |other agencies embraced in the |governmental structure. A report is to be presented a year hence. The interest which thoughtful of- |ficials find in this effort does not larise from anything novel about | the idea itself, for it is a very old idea indeed. The new thing about it is the widespread belief that | something really may be done about | Government reorganization, after a long record of failures involving Iboth political parties. In large part this expectation of | results is traceable to the fact that {the guiding spirit of the present effort is Senator Byrd of Virginia, | whose earnestness of purpose is evi- dent and whose background of ex- perience makes him an authority. | ISSUE TOSSED ABOUT For years public men have pro- fessed to agree almost unanimously \that the governmental machine at Washington should be simplified and coordinated. Yet the issue has been tossed about endlessly in a mentary effort, and final non-per- formance. Fish Trap Hansin g, Boat Harbor, City Band, Fire- crackers, Discussed C. T. Gardner, Vice-President cf the Juneau Lumber Mills, who re cently retyned from a trip to the States, delivered a detailed report of the hearing in Washington, D. C. regarding pending leg tion de- signed to abolish fish traps in Alaska, at the Chamber of C merce luncheon in the Terminal Cafe today. Dr. Robert Simpson, proprictor of the Nugget Shop, another returning member of the Chamber of Com- merce, who also spoke at the lunc eon, told of his recent trip to the States. Dr. Simpson, who traveled from Seattle to California by automobile in company with Dr. and Mrs. Council, stated that Dr. Council insisted ‘upon starting out on the trip at the early hour of four o'clock in the morning. “But I got even with him,” Dr. Simpson said, “I called him up at 3 o'clock and asked him what time it was.” Rose Bowl Game Dr. Simpson, who left Juneau shortly before Christmas, described the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena in detail. On the return .trip, Dr. Simpson said, he encountered Well- man Holbrook, Assistant Regional Forester of the Forest Service, in Seattle, and together they con- ducted an unofficial survey of the industries of the Pacific Northwest, including some of the better-known roadhouses. While in the States Dr. Simpson visited the late Ex- | Governor Scott C. Bone, and form |Juneauite Dr. H. C. DeVighne California. Boat Harbor Allen Shattuck, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Small Boat Harbor Committee, reported that the City Council, at their last regu- the Bill of Particulars after Trial; Native Arts” Mr. Keyser will sing|whirlpool of wordy promises. frag-|lar meeting, approved the original |plans, which were drawn last sum- mer by the City Engineer, for a On February 13, 1923, Presidem] small boat harbor to be located be-| (Continued on Y’a-ge Five) (Continued on page 7) 1.S.U. Considers Reinstate- ment in Session of Ex- ecutive Committee .—Reinstate- Union of the International Sea- CHICAGO, March ment of the Sailors’ Pacific in the men’s Organization was considered @ when the Executive Committee op- ened its session here. Victor A. Olander, retiring Secre- tary-Treasurer, said the union had petitioned for reinstatement of the charter, revoked during the con- vention in January because the un- ion allegedly refused to obey the International’s by-laws. BIG FLAGPOLE CRUSHES MAN 200-foot Pole Falls on Busy Downtown Street in Peoria, Ill. PEORIA, Ill, March 12—One man was crushed to death and two were injured when high winds crashed a 200-foot steel flagpole weighing one ton on a downtown street cor- ner. The pole is believed to have been weakened by ice during the Febru- ary zero wave. - RECOVERY NOTED IN WOUND- CASE OF LEONA JEROLD Continued improvement the recovery of Leona Jerold from bullet wounds inflicted last Satur- day evening by John R. Silva, shortly before he committed suicide, was reported today by Mrs. Jerold's physician, Dr. W, M. Whitehead e e ENTERS ST. ANN'S Nell Patterson was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital today for medical i treatment. 5 in ‘Succession of Selling Waves Takes Place on Market NEW YORK, March 12.—Shad- ows cast by threatened war clouds caused successive waves of selling | nd market values were depressed‘ fro mone to five points. Today’s close was weak. Sales totalled about shares. 3,000,000 CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, March 1 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 123, American Power and Light 9%, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel 4, Curtiss-Wright 8%, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 2'4, General Motors 60, In- ternational Harvester 767, Kenne- cott 362, United States Steel 61%, Cities rvice 47, Boeing Airplane 24'4, United Aircraft 29%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 153.12, rails 47.06, utilities 31.41. - eee WORLD WIDE AIR SERVICE NOW LINKED Imperial Airways Announc- es Service from Hong- kong to Penang HONGKONG, March 12—Imper- ial Airways announces air mail ser- vice will start this month between Hongkong and Penang, a British Isle off the West Coast of the Ma- lay Peninsula, thus completing the round-the-world service now oper- ating or planned, except 40 miles from Hongkong to Macao, Portu- guese island colony south of China. GERMAN STATEMENT BERLIN, March 12.—The German Government issued a statement to- day declaring that if any attempt is made to demand of Germany that she renounce any of her sov- eerign rights, President Hitler's peace offers must be considered withdrawn. The statement with the following: “Germany would rather choose honorable isolation than live as a nation discriminated against in the community of others.” Behind the statement lies the undertone that Germany is pre- pared to fight for what she be- lieves are her rights and will resist any invasion of the now remilitar- ized Rhineland zone, following de- nouncing and repudiation of the Locarno treaty. FRANCE IS STILL FIRM; G. B. MAY BACK NATION issued concludes LONDON, March 12.—The spokes- man for the French nation, now in London, announced that France is not moved by the threat to seek isolation, and will insist abso- lutely on removal of the German troops from the Rhineland. Great Britain is today host to delegates attending the difficult in- quest over the remains of the Lo- carno treaty. h It is reported, unofficially, that apparently Great Britain has swung toward France'’s demand for with- drawal of the Nazi troops in the Rhineland. Delegates from Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy gathered here today to decide whether to accept Hitler's offers for new treat- les or to seek the conditions laid down by France. French Foreign Minister Flandin insisted that there be no talk re- garding new treaties with a nation having a busy army in a zone de- militarized by an old treaty. POTENTIAL ARMY FORCES PARIS, March 12.—France figures on a potential paper army of at (Continued on Page Twc)