The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALA VOL XLVII., NO. 7223. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY MARCH | l7 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS R ACCEPTS BID TO PEACE TALK LABOR HEARING RECESS TAKEN TILL TOMORROW, Attorneys Ch—egking Names! in Amended Complaint Against Payroll Adjournment of the labor hearing on the charges of employment dis- crimination brought by Local 203 International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter workers against the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany was taken this morning until | 10 o'clock tomorrow. { Request for the recess today wes | made by E. A. Eagen, government | attorney, to allow time to make a | check of the A. J. payroll. Late! vesterday, with L. H. Metzgar, Gen- | eral Superintendent of the mine on | the stand, the matter of names in | the amended complaint came upl and similarity of some of the names | caused Eagen and Carl E. Croson, | defense attorney, to agree on check- | ing the payroll together. They| started work at 8 o'clock this morn- ing but when the hearing convened | at 10 o'clock they still had much | checking to do and Trial Examiner Charles W. Hope granted the ad- | journmént until tomorrow morning. Mr. Eagen rested the government case late yesterday, but later when the matter of names in the amend- ed complaint came up, he asked to re-open so that the government's case will be continued tomorrow morning. | With J. J. Connors, Collector of Customs, on the stand late yester- day giving testimony as to the city poll which was taken in connection with the strike, Examiner Hope in- terrogated the Collector as to Pub- lic Resolution No. 44 passed by Congress in June of 1934¢. Under it, the Examiner said, government machinery was set up for calling an election of employees in strike cases. Interviewed after recess, the Examiner said that it would have been necessary for the employees to petition the Labor Board to act in the matter. No such petition was made by employees at that time, it is stated by authorities. That was about the time Dewey Knight, Im- migration agent at Ketchikan, was called in the role of Conciliator. Public Resolution No. 44 was P d in conjunction with the okl National Industrial Recovery since declared unconsmunonal - e DEADLOCK IN SENATE OVER BIG MEASURE Wlll Women Decxde Elecuon? sl | | | | | | | | Company. | { for the benefit of the Old Mexico | Party. i N AP Dem il ‘Mu. C-rna Chapman Catt l y ¥ “Which way is the women’s vote going?” This question, once heard so frequently during years of presidential elections, is seldom voiced today. The reason apparently is because women's interest in politics has waned each year since they obtained suffrage rights in 1920. And past elections have shown that ‘they do not stand together as a Sformidable united force for reform but are inclined to vote as the men of the family do. Nor do the young women who will cast their first presidential vote this year evidence any more interest than their ‘mothers or older sisters. Interviews with representative young women in various sections of the country tend to support the con- clusion that President Roosevelt will be the leading choice for the suffragist vote. But politicians attach much less importance to $hat vote today than 16 years ago when Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt led suffragists to victory. CONTROVERSIAL JAFSIE SILENT BILL IS COMING ON NEW PROBE - BEFORE HOUSE _ OFLINDY CASE 1 d and Drugs Meassire| D, Gondon akilir’ Com- Gomg to Receive | ment on Last Appeal Kicking Around” of Hauptmann By HERBERT PLUMMER NEW YORK, March 17.—Dr. Jobn i Kake CONTEST GIRLS SHOWN HONORS ON TRIP SOUTH Special Movie Show J Gw— en at Craig with Dance Enjoyed at Kake The Better Times Contest girls are continuing their jaunt toward Old Mexico and experiencing snow, rain and sunshine. A radicgram received by The Em- pire from Craig said the Northland arrived there at 4:30 o’clock yester- day afternoon and was scheduled to leave there at midnight for | Wrangell, thence to Ketchikan and south to Seattle. At Craig the seven contest' win- ners were met by Mr. and Mrs. Don MacKinnon, former residents of Juneau. Mr. MacKinnon is the Craig agent for the Standard Oil After dinner the girls went ashore and attended a movie shows which was given exclusively The girls did not_ leave Sitka for until last Sunday evening. The Juneau High School declam- atory contestants entertained aboard the Northland by delivery of their offerings to be given in the Ketchikan contest. When the Northland arrived at| Kake, several of the girls and pas- sengers went ashore and enjoyed a dance in their honor. Petersburg was reached at 5 o'clock Monday morning and Ida Roller was the only one of the con- test girls energetic enough to go re and extend greetings, and visit friends. From Petersburg to Craig lh(-re was a terrible rough sea girls came through the exp-—nu.ac with remarkable fortitude, the r/‘dm;'r'\m asserted. -, wrou, SOVIET ADMITS BIG PRODUCTION PROGRAM FAILS Slcps Taken to Eradicate Hetur"s m]m j Sabolage in Stakhan- | I“cnme Taxes ‘ off NE)Emen[ Show Increase | of 45.6 Per Cent Over | diate steps taken to end the sabot- | {age for which the bureaucracy of | Last Year Reporled the movement is held responsible. by Treasury | MOSCOW, March 17.—The Soviet | government today admitted that | the Stakhanov movement to in-| crease industrial production had | fa to meet its expectations. [ The government ordered | Heavy industry directors and fac- T tory managers were summoned to WASHINGTON, March 17.—In-|2 conference and warned that the come tax collections for the first|Stortcomings must be overcome by sixteen days of March reached a|APril |total of $28,175,803, a gain of 464| Specially listed in the decree were per cent over the correapcndmgl'he Don basin coal mines, steel, pig period last year, the Treasury De-|lron, oil and copper industries, Partmbnt i biince. which figures show reached a peak “"l'op o' the mornin',” smiled Kay ARMS PROGRAM WASHINGTON, March 17.—De- spite the desire of Administration d leaders in Congress to hold legisla- ,tion to a minimum during the present session in order to assure ;an early adjournment, plans are being made to bring out the highly WASHINGTON, March 17.—The controversial Food and Drugs bill Senate was late yesterday dead- in the House. locked over a $20,000,000 appropria- Representative Rayburn of Texas, tion amendment to the War De- Chairman of the House Interstate partment bill to continue work on and Foreign Commerce Committee, the Florida ship canal, and three eXpects his committee to report the WPA projects, the Conchas Dam Dill before adjournment and believes in New Mexico, the Sardis Reser- the House will act on it. Voir in Mississippi, and the Blue-| For something like three years stone Reservoir in West Virginia.|Tevision of the pure food and drug Earlier in the day the Senate 'laws has been hanging fire in Con- approved without question a $603,- |gress. Originally credited with be- 000,000 measure which provided in- |ing the “brain ‘child” of “Brain- creases in the enlisted strength of |truster” Rex Tugwell, the measure| the Army. has been rewritten perhaps a dozen Senator Copeland of New York M |who spsonsored the bill in the Sen- |ate which was passed last session, lure bears his name he is nothing nes e‘more than its “stepfather.” “But a stepfather should love his WASHINGTON, March 17.—The Senate the bill of Delegate Anthony | J. Dimond authorizing a flood con-| flows through the central part of the city of Seward. e ————————— y | times. admitted that although the meas- stepchild,” says Copeland. House has passed and sent to the| trol survey of Lowell Creek which GOES TO SKAGWAY Four Projects ’Has Cause Rift—Army Personnel Is Increased A REAL STEPCHILD If reports drifting from behind terstate and Foreign Commerce Committee are true, the Senator probably won't so much as recognize his “stepchild” when it appears| jon the floor of the House. X Members of the committee, it ap- A. VanMavern, West Coast Groc- pears, have ideas if their own on ery representative, and N. A. Mc-/the subject and are writing their Eachran, representing SChwubacher\own bill. Before they get through Brothers, sailed for Skagway on|the doctor's “stepchild” may emerge the Alaska. in such form that not only will he - ,e——— disclaim paternity but any rela- SHEPARD COMING NORTH tion. at all. Nor will Dr. Tugwell's ideas be Royal Shepard, who has been!incorporated to any great degree south on a business trip, is a north- |in the House bill. Insiders say that bound passenger for Juneau lbonrd the North Sea. (Continued on Page Seven) the closed doors of the House In-| [ F. “Jafsie” Condon, returned from his Panama vacation cruise, today refused to discuss in any fashion | the last minute efforts to save Bru- no Richard Hauptman from death. The aged educator said he ha “no comment” on the case. His return was 23 hours after Lloyd Fisher, Bruno's counsel an- nounced that he would deg. orous examination of “Jafsie”, hop- ing that it would provide a new clue New evidence is the last chance | to save the life of the convicted Linbergh baby murderer, who scheduled to die in the week of March 30. FIRE DESTROYS FR. COUGHLIN'S Edifice Nearby Undam- | aged by Flames | ROYAL OAKS, Mich., March 17. —Fire destroyed Father Coughlin’s | original Shrine of the Little Flower today, while the nearby imposing half-million-dollar shrine, which is as yet incomplete, was undamaged. The radio priest estimated the loss at $30000, and agreed that | faulty wiring was the cause. | Nuns aided church attendants in saving the Blessed Sacrament, the Little Flower statuary and most of the vestments. The church was covered by insurance. The radio priest is concerned over the safety of church relics in a small iron safe in the office, among which is a piece of the true cross. He awaits the cooling of the embers to find the safe, d | and rig-| is | FIRST SHRINE Priests’s New $500,000| The receipts boosted the total collections for the year to $36,142,899 or 45.6 per cent more than last year. Virtually all collection districts reported increases. TALKS WITHOUT STOPPING FOR OVER ONE WEEK Slxleen-Year-Old Girl Hos- | pitalized When Unable to Stop Conversing SHREVEPORT, La., March 17— Physicians today attempted to diag- nose the case of Ruby Poole, 16, who has talkegi incessantly for more than a week. The daughter of a worker, she was hospitalized last Wednesday when she developed a talking spell fol- lowing an influenza attack. She seems rational and discussed many subjects intelligently. The doctor said he believed one of the most effective forms of treat- ment consisted . in separating her from her relations with her mother, whom she has seen once since sani- tariumized. — Famous Character Of Carrie Nation Days, Passes Away MEDICINE LODGE, Kansas, | during the last quarter of 1935 when the movemcm was new. Town that Banned ‘Monkey Teaching’ Now Goes Modern DAYTON, Tenn., March 17—The prohibition against teaching evolu- tion, publicized in the Scopes case in 1925, has not otherwise balked “progress” in Dayton. Those who thronged the town for the famous ‘“monkey trial” would hardly recognize it today, with its new skyline, created by demolition of seven old buildimgs and erection of others. The old brick high school, where Thomas Scopes precipitated the ‘battle of intellectuals” by teaching the theory of organic evolution to his sophomore biology students, has given way to a modern structure. Also missing are the Gem City opera house, built in 1886 as one of the first brick buildings in Rhea county, the old button factory the wooden waterhouse livery ble. Work is progressing on the ad- ministration building of the Wil- liam Jennings Bryan university, en- dowed by the Great Commoner who carried his fundamentalist faith to victory in the trial. COL. OHLSON IS ON WAY TO ANCHORAGE Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Man- March 17—Bill Horn, 85 one of|ager of the Alaska Railroad, is a the last of the oldtime southwest|passenger on the Alaska enroute .o stage drivers, who once ejected Car- )| his headquarters in Anchorage from rie Nation from his coach for jerk-|a trip to Washington, D. C., where ing a cigar from his mouth, died|he conferred with Government of- here today. ficials. 1y Sutton, one of Hollywood's, most attractive citizens, as she burst gh a shamrock to greet St. Patrick’s Day. LANDON GIVE Irish Solons Agree St. Patrick Freed Erin of Snakes “A\lll‘\l(-TON March 17.— Three Representatives, natives of “the old sod,” agreed on St. Patrick’s Day that Ireland is the land of many glories. They said that St. Patrick actually did drive the snal out of Erin, but that there is no Irish stew in Ireland, and that corned beef and cabbage is not an Irish dish. The trio were Representatives Michael J. Stack, Democrat, Pennsylvania; William B. Bar- ry, Democrat, New York, and John J. McGrath, Democrat, California. IN PRIMARIES {Borah (,hargeabtandardOll Co. Mixed in Republi- can Politics of State WASHINGTON, March 17.—Sup- porters of Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas City pressed his Presi- dential drive, elated over his as- surance of 21 Oklahoma votes in the Republican National Conven- tion. An intraparty dispute with Sen- ator William E. Borah flared as | Louis Levand, Wichita Beacon pub- lisher, charged Borah with making baseless insinuations against Lan- SPEEDING BRIT. FACTORY WORK .., complaint, | The controversy arose over | Borah’s charge that Standard Ofl was mixing in Oklahoma’s Repub- |lican politics. Unit Rule homa’s six delegates at large immediately denied the By ELMER W. PETERSON LONDON, March 17. — Britain’s projected $1,500,000,000 rearmament program is expected to 'give British industry a shot in the arm that will| l‘::_‘i'";"'l‘)';u‘c’{( ':‘r:‘c‘;’;“‘:;;fmz”;n"'fr were instructed by the State con- steel mill and workshop. | vention vote to work for Landon. To the industrial revival already|SiX district delegates have already under way, through increased pr%_‘bren instructed for the Governor. perity, there will be added the im-| The adoption of the unit rule gives petus of enormous government | the majority full sway. spending. | Speaks at Night Everything is in readiness for the| rpe Republican National Com- program as far as the task of chang- | ypitiee Chairman, Henry P. Fletch-| ing money into guns, war machines, | o announced that his Cleveland | airplanes and ships is concerned. {keynote address on June 9 will be| e ":”igkssfl";:; fiifi'fiqlsfim tho|BVeD 8t Dight to afford the ge:-; talk of rearmament in the air, the|£ra PUPC "‘I‘r:l:a(lils;ia::u::e?: ’::1 centers of industry have been get- iooq. 1o said, ‘in view of the| ting ready. Factories have been put | 5 in order. The demand for tools and 'CTeasing use of radio” AGAIN ON TRAlI.f 912,500 tons, was a record Britain’s airplane industry, al- ready working overtime on nrdz‘rq for the royal air force, is prcp'nmg for an even faster tempo whe; rearament plan becomes fact. A definite speeding up of the mo. Mary Joyce, who left her home | tor industry likewise is anticipated, ‘m. Taku last December enroute to while shipbuilders, with commercial | Fairbanks by dog team, is again orders piling up, look to new con-jon the trail with her dogs. Miss tracts under the naval expansion Joyce arrived at Tanana Crossing program. shortly before the Ice Carnival in Ordinary industrial recovery con-|Fairbanks on March 6, 7 and 8, tinues in Britain, with a shortage and traveled by plane from that of skilled labor reported in some point to Fairbanks, then returned instances, and with iron and steel to Tanana Crossing by plane at production at its highest level since | the conclusion of the carnival. She 1027. National revenue is reported les, Tanana Crossing this morning as increased by more than $100,000- 1 o the last leg of her thousand- 000 over the same time last year. mile overland trip. Mills Work Full Speed B B In Sheffield, steel center, produc- | tion has increased 110 per ecent since 1931, while unemployment has dropped from 57,000 to 29,000. New | blast furnaces are being prepared | Steel production for January, at | Expanded operations and a gen- eral abundance of fish in prac- tically all districts combined to |make the 1934 fishery harvest the largest in the history of the Ter- ritory. (Continted on Pan Three) (OKLAHOMA VOTE Beauty Smiles Greetmg for St. Patrick’s Day NAZ'S Tfl JOIN IN PARLEY ON RHINE PROBLEM Soviet Scores Der Fuehrer’s Actions as Menace to l'.urope {LITVINOFF PLEDGES SUPPORT TO FRANCE Flandin Confers with Ed- ward- VIII on Great Britain’s Stand LONDON, March 17.— President Adolf Hitler to- day accepted the League of Nations Council's bid to discuss the European crisis. Gen. Joachim Von Rib- bentrop will represent Ger- many at the London con- ference. Foreign Commissar Lit- vinoff of the Soviet today attacked Hitler before the Council of the League of Nations as a conspirator against peace. “The whole world knows |that neither the Soviet nor 'France has any claims to Ger- man territory, and that they are not striving to change German frontiers,” Litvinoff said. Treaty Breach Scored “Analyzing Hitler’s propos- als, one must conclude that they not only would represent no compensation for the harm done to the organization of peace by conducting his breach of international treat- ies, but would themselves strike a blow to peace and the League of Nations. “We pledge the Soviet to asso- ciate itself with those Council mem- wers who register in the most de- cisive manner indignation at the breach of international treaty ob- ligations, who condemn it and who support the most effective measure to avert similar infringements in the future.” Confers with King French sources announced that Foreign Minister Flandin, at an audience with King Edward VIII today, would make a “last appeal” to Great Britain to honor its obli- gations under the Locarno Pact. The audience was described official- ly as a “courtesy visit." The French spokesman said thal \ (Continued on Page 7) e STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANGE TRADING TODAY {Foreign News Considered Brighter—Gains Made from | to 3 Points NEW YORK, March 17—Stock |Market prices upped today from one to three points as foreign news seemed brighter. There was late profit taking but | today’s closing tone was firm. Sales totaled 2,300,000 shares today. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, March 17.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 123, American Power and Light 12, Anaconda 35%, Bethlehem Steel §7%, Curtiss-Wright 8%, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 2'%, General Motors 62%, International Harvester 817, Ken- necott 39, United States Steel 66%, Cities Service 5%, Pound $4.97%, Boeing Afrplane 24, United Air- craft 28%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 156.34; rails 4792; utilities 3254.