The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7178. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUES DAY, MAY 19, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CANNERY LABOR DISPUTE IS SETTLED JUNEAU SMALL BOAT HARBOR GIVEN BOOST National Ri—\_';; and Har- bors Congress Approves Proposed Project ACTION EXPECTED TO AID UNDERTAKING Gathering of Data Complet- ed—Hearing Schedul- ed Here in June | | | | New encouragement for the small boat harbor for Juneau was given | today in a letter to the City Coun- | cil from Fred D. Beneke, Secretary | of the National Rivers and Harbors | Congress, who stated that at the recent session of the Congress in Washington, D. C., the Juneau har-| bor had been put on the list of ap-/ proved projects. | Secretary Beneke said it has been designed as a Class One undertak-| ing which classified it as sound | and needful and that it should have favorable action. ‘While having no official standing, the National Rivers and Harbors Congress has in its membership many Congressmen, army engin- eers, and national leaders interest- ed in such matters and its approval is interpreted here as giving the Ju- neau project substantial support in the proper government sources. Work of compiling data on the small boat harbor, involving the volume of small boat operations over a period of years, has been completed and forwarded to the Army engineers by Allen Shattuck, Chairman of the Chamber of Com- merce small boat harbor committee, which co-operated with the City in assembling the information. | Hearing on the matter is sched- uled for next month here in Ju- neau before Army engineers, ac- cording to previous word from Col. H. J. Wild, Army District Engineer in Seattle. | DIVIDEND RATE OF KENNECOT Twin sisters married twin brothers, both of them marines, in a secret double ceremony at Port Orchard, Wash.,, in 1934, but now the | sisters have filed suits for divorce in Los Angeles, each charging cruelty and non-support. The “double twin” couples in happier days, left to right: Louise May and he Maude and her husband, Roy Alvin Sebring. (Associated Press Photo) HOLZHEIMERS T0 HONEYMOON AT CONVENTION ‘DOUBLE TWIN’ MARRIAG ESFALL _ TW0 ACCIDENTS | IN MANEUVERS, - PACIFIC FLEET Battleships Mississipi and New Mexico Return- ing to Naval Base WASHINGTON, May 19. — The Navy Department announces that turbine troubles have caused de- tachment of the battleships Mis- |sissippi and New Mexico from the | Pacific Fleet maneuvers and they |are returning to the naval base at |San Pedro. | The two battleships are being convoyed by three mine layers. | The cruiser Minneapolis and an unnamed merchant vessel collided during the maneuvers but no lives }| {were lost The Minneen” s was ‘badly damaged necessitat:ng ‘‘ex- |tensive repairs,” the Navy Depart- ment announced. 17 REGEIVE DIPLOMAS AT UNIV. ALASKA Commencement Address Delivered by Dr. Ern- est H. Gruening r husband, Roy Calvin Sebring; Lois | Alaska Girl to ‘ | Give Up Movie | Career and Wed | | | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 19— | Seventeen graduates from the con- tinent’s farthest north University of | Alaska, received their diplomas yes- terday at the first commencement since the institution was raised to the status of University. Dr. Ernest H. Gruening deliver~! 19. won- HOLLYWOOD, Cal., May Paramount Studio executive | dered today whether Terry Wal- | ker ,pretty Alaska girl, formerly of | Petersburg, is still on the contract | list. The executives said she tele- ‘ipeals, knocking both out. Prominent Juneau Couple | phonea from New York and said the commencement address. Gov. NEW GUFFEY COAL CONTROL ACT UNDERWAY| |Hasty Conferences Held—| Relief Fund Drive | Started Anew | WASHINGTON, May 19.—Swift moves are underway to write a new Guffey Coal Control Act and also| to continue legislation on the huge jrelief fund drive as the aftermath of the two court decisions returned yesterday, one by the Supreme jCourt and the other by the Dis- jtrict of Columbia Court of Ap-| 1 | 1‘ | Hasty conferences were held las“ inight and authoritative sources to- |day said representatives of the Na- 1li0nai Bituminous Coal Commis- | sion, Justice Department and op- | \erators backing the act, and union | lleaders are now working to draft | a new bill. ‘ ! Attorney General Cummings said | cnly a small part of the relief act | was declared unconstitutional, those | |clauses relating to suburban and | housing projects under the Reset- | | tlement Administration MILLS CLOSING Mrs. Anna Sage (center), the Dillinger to his death at the hands he deck of the liner Harding 'WITH LOGS CUT 5 OFF BY STRIKE Bt it Highest Honors, Univ. ,Of Alaska Graduates Twenty-five Camps Tied-up S, Al by Walkout of Six Thousand Men PORTLAND, Oregon, FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 19. —The story of Hilja Reinikka, of Douglas, one of the seven- teen graduates of the Univer- sity of Alaska, is a most in- teresting on | [ [ | May 19— ‘WOMAN IN RED’ DEPORTED orted by the government. (Associated Press Photo) 2 s s i 2) married and Marking 36th Anniversary |5 b Provably get e | It is not known here whom she| | intends to marry. | e HRDLICKA WILL "CONTINUE HIS on Philadelphia Trip It will be more than just a con- vention trip for District Attorney Willlam A. Holzheimer and “Mrs. Holzheimer when they leave here June 8 for the National Democratic Convention at Philadelphia to be held June 23 Mrs. Holzheimer, who is Demo- cratic Naticnal Committeewoman, land the Judge, who is a convention | delegate, will be observing their 36th COPPER GOES UP Directors Order Thirty wedding anpniversary on June 17, the day they entrain from Seaftle for Philadelphia. It is to be the long- deferred honeymoon trip they didn't have time or money to take 33 INVESTIGATION Curator and Four Other Scientists on Yukon Bound Westward John W. Troy was among the many The supply of saw logs diminished, distinguished Alaskans attending the lumber mills are shutting down. | exercises. | Strikes for higher wages in 25 The graduates are: logging camps kept 6,000 loggers Richard Tate of Cordova; Albert idle. 1 Dorsh, of Berg, Montana; Howard| Detectives searched for evidence | Esteke, of Newcastle, Indiana; Don</of a “malicious destruction” acci-| ald Fowler of Nenana, Alaska; Glen dent which caused the 16-ton Franklin of Forest Grove, Oregon; head-rig of the Southeast Lumber | Hilja Reinikka of Douglas, Alaska; Company to fly to pieces yesterday | Louis A. Smith, of Granite Falls, imperilling the lives of several Washington; Doolie Vaubrin Chase, workmen. The plant is the only| of Fairhaven, New York; Joseph non-union mill in the city. | TR e Walsh and Aben Shallitt, both of No word of progress of a Seme-‘wEIN PLANE Winifred MacDonald, Leonard ferring with both sides. | Thompson, Edwin Stevens, all of | Two hundred and seventy-five Fairbanks, Alaska. Eunion building mechanics and la- | Nome, Alaska; George Henton, ment is forthcoming. C. H. Gram, Reino Hutalla, Helen Reinke gtate Lumber Commissioner, is con- Miss Reinikka majored in secretarial training and grad- uated Magna Cum Laude, highest scholastic honors, and also highest grade averages of any graduate in the history of the institution. This was more remarkable in view of the fact Miss Reinikka has been an ac- tive participant in school acti- vities and worked her way through the University. NOME BOUND | UNION MEN AND ALASKAPACKERS GET TOGETHER Settlement Ealls for Union- 1zation of All Com- pany’s Canneries 'WAGES $65 PER MONTH WITH OVERTIME BONUS One Fishingflat Sails To- day, Others to Follow Next Two Days | | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 19, | —A. K. Tichenor, Vice President of the Alaska Packers, announced at noon today, following a closed con- | ference with cannery workers and Union representatives, that a set- | tlement had been reached on all points in the labor dispute and that | the fishing boat De La Rof, which | has been held up pending settle- ment ,would sail in an hour for the north. The agreement, a joint announce- ment said, includes recognition of Alaska cannery workers by the Un- ion; complete unionization of the company’s canneries; wages of $65 “woman in red” who decoyed John |3 month with bonus for overtime; of federal agents in Chicago, shown | 1,15visions for hiring workers through as she left for her native Rumania. |, }ng hall instead of contract. The company, which insisted it could not discharge non-union work- ers who had been with them for | years, won the right to retain certain | foremen at old posts. According to the settlement, the Unions also have the right to pro- test against any person charged with having had prior “labor racket- eering” records. All Agreed Announcement of the settlement | was corroborated by George Woolf, President of the ship scalers and Union representat?ve of the Mari- time Federation of the Pacific; Fred West, of San Francisco Labor Coun- cil, and Joe Monzo, of the Alaska Cannery Workers Union. While the conference was on, the militant Martitime Federation isenedq an ultimatum that if non-union men were not removed thal scauica The tactical policy of the Demo- might also be withdrawn from the i cratic high command obviously is| boats. | to refrain, for the present, from ex-' Tichenor said the Bering would sail ploding any bombshells :lomormw and the Cherikof the next | Mr. Roosevelt's recent speeches 937 On the De La Rof which i |before party rallies in Baltimore| “cheduled to get away this after. |and New York surprised many lis- | teners, who had expected him to | open the campaign with some spec~ | tacular pronouncement | Most of the administration spell-| NEW DEALERS WITHHOLD FIRE FOR CAMPAICN For Present, Political Lead- ers Exploding No Bombshells By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) noon are 104 Filipinos and 40 China- men, all said to be Union members or to have been admitted to mem- bership before sailing time. | Non-Union Parade Several hundred non-union can- Cents a Common binders temporarily have i from speechmaking retired | nery workers paraded in the Civic jycars ago when they were married entirely, and Center today with their spokesman in Salt Lake City, Mrs. Holzheimer | Strikes of 325 union auto me- Two Pilots, Eight Passeng- Share NEW YORK, May 19.—Directors of Kennecott Copper today ordered an increase in the dividend rate to 30 cents on common shares. The previous 25 cent rate has been lifted a third since dividend payments were resumed June 5, 1934, with a 15-cent declaration November 1935. The rate was raised to 20 cents three months ago. Twenty-five directors of a Utah| Copper subsidiary, more than 98 per cent Kennecott owned, ordered | a 65-cent dividend three months| ago and a 50-cent payment six months ago. Capital distribution of | $1.50 per share was ordered. Divi-| dends are payable June 30 to stock- | holders on record May 29. ( Zioncheck Is Again Making Foui Himself Discourtesy Shown Aboard German Ship—Drinks Soup from Plate ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands,, May 19.—United States Congress- man Marion A. Zioncheck, of Wash- ington, U.S.A., was again in a merry mood, while dancing on the Ger- man cruiser Karlsruhe, he shouted: “We may be broke, but ain't we happy.” While officers and guests were standing at attention while the band was playing national anthems, Zioncheck strolled away, smoking a cigar, just to show he could do it. Diners at the Blue Beard Castle, a hotel, said Zioncheck drank soup out of his plate and also showered several dancing couples with cham- pagne. commented. Going direct to the Convention city, the prominent Juneau couple will take care of their official du- ties there, Mrs. Holzheimer being required to arrive a day early to sit with the National Committee, and then will begin a lesurely trip which will take them to Washing- ton, New York City, Wilkes Barre, Pa., Mrs. Holzheimer’s birthplace; Ann Arbor, Mich., where the Judge complete his law school; Salt Lake Cify, to visit Mrs. Holzheimer’s sister; and then to Coronado, Cal, to visit their daughter, Mrs. Sam- uel Gregory, wife of Lieut. Comdr. Gregory, navigating officer on the U. S. S. Bushnell After the visit in California, they will return to Juneau, planning to | be gone in all about two months. — - CERTIFIGATES FOR VETERANS BEING PRINTED New Baby Bonds Will Be Distributed Starting on June 15 WASHINGTON, "May 19.—Gov- ernment agencies are working at top speed to deliver thirty-eight million adjusted service baby bonds beginning June 15. Huge stacks of neatly printed certificates bearing the portrait of Andrew Jackson, soldier and Presi- dent, are being shuttled along the complicated route to printing press- es and mailing room. Two million ex-soldiers will re- ceive one or more of the fifty dif- ferent bonds, Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau said, The early inhabitanis of North America came from Asia, accord- ing to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Curator of the Division of Phyhical An- thropology, United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, who, accompanied by a party of four scientists, is a passenger aboard the Yukon enroute to the Westward to continue investigations begun in 1926. “When we started we had scien- tific deductions on the American Indian tribes and the natives of Russia,” Dr. Hrdlicka said. “The whole evidence of the study of the American people shows that they must have come from Asia. What we needed was material evidence, what they brought with them in the way of culture, their clothing, even their diseases. Medical infor- mation is an important part of the work, many constitutional diseases leave marks on the bones. “We have found far more than we ever hoped for, but not yet enough. The more we learn, the more there is to learn. Instead of !becoming simplified by knowledge, it becomes more complicated by opening up additional fields.” I Trek by Gruops | The immigration from Asia ex- iended, perhaps, over several thou- sand years, Dr. Hrdlicka said. The inhospitable nature of the territory involved indicates that the migra- tion was not a single large group, but numerous small bands of peo- 'ple who multiplied in America, giving rise to the American peo- ple “These people must have left material remains,” he said, “and we are trying to locate their habi- |tations, villages.” The Dr .Hrdlicka party will leave the Yukon at Cordova, from which point the members will be taken aboard the United States Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa to prev- {ious “digging” on Kodiak Island, where they will remain until June 21. From Kodiak Island the party (Continued on Page Seven) | | LH W T S R | borers are returning to work on| {the Montgomery-Ward plant. Tu Aln cHlNA |chanics and 400 men at the East- i rn and Western Lumber Company To STAB“-IZE e | — e HER CURRENCY PATCO MAKES | | United S!at_es Takes Firsls Twu FI.'GHTS Steps — Statement [ . At 4:30 a. m. today the Alaska| to World Nahons 1 Air Transport seaplane Patco, pilot- | jed by Sheldon Simmons, left Ju- | neau for Lituya Bay with two pas-| sengers, C. J. Dumbolton and B. M. Evander, returning at 7:30 o'clock | | with three passengers from Hawk | Inlet, Bill Flory, Jack Snyder and Jack Brady. | Shortly after 10 o'clock the plane flew to Chichagof with Louis Hesen, ! Francis Chapodos and Jim Hender- | son. On the return flight Joe Movi- milich was a passenger from Hawk Inlet to Juneau. O. A. Lawless flew to Haines aboard the Patco yesterday after-| noon. ¥ WASHINGTON, May 19.—Tacitly inviting the nations of the world to enter a “frank exchange of view: on money matters, the United States moved to help China stabilize her currency. Secretary of Treasury Morgen- thau announced a condition agree- ment with China whereby the Treasury will make “substantial” sil- ver purchases. This followed con- ferences lasting for several weeks. It is also agreed to provide China with a dollar exchange for curren- cy stabilization. Canton-Chinese currencies broke sharply on the exchange market e R - and a “monetary panic” rollowod,flVE HALIBUTERS H the incomplete information on lhel SELL AT SE ATTLE‘ agreement. SEATTLE, May 19.—Halibuters arriving today, catches and sales, are as follows: i From the Western banks—Alten | O R 39,000 pounds, 8% and 7% cents. | PARIS, May 19—Former Pre- ‘prom the local banks—Flint 15- | mier Herriot said the publication|ggg pounds, Ethel 15000 poun: of “information” that the “Way I8 poth selling for 8% and 7% cents; open” for a settlement of the War|gylyia 7,000 pounds, 8% and 7% debt to the United States is a “mis- fcents; Dawn 5,000 pounds, 9 and understanding.” This arose over the |71, cents, new trade treaty between the Unit- e ot b ed States and France, Herriot said. HELLENTHALS RETURN SMITH GOE> HOME J. A. Hellenthal, local attorney, George Smith who received severe |and Mrs. Hellenthal arrived today injuries to his left hand a few daysjon the Yukon from Seattle. Mr. ago when he was working with the {Hellenthal has been in San Fran- band saw in the wood shop of the|eisco in connection with the W. D. Juneau High School has been dis-|Gross-Electrical Research Products missed from St. Ann’s Hospital. case. Not Negotiating for Payment, French Debt ers Left Seattle Yes- terday for North EATTLe, May co-pilot Johnson Ross, with p: ngers, took off yester- and eight at Nome on Thursday Stops are scheduled for Prince George, Hazelton, Whitehorse and Fairbanks. Co-pilot Ross said the “next step in aviation development for Alaska is a regular service between Seattle and Alaska and the present jaunt might be called a survey trip Passengers aboard the Wein plane are as follows: John Long, H. Alexander, Roberts, mining men; Dr. Fred Rex of Nome; William Cameron, | purchasing agent for the Hammon Goldfields; Arthur Brown, jeweler of Fairbanks; Verda Bras and C. D. Cummings. ABANDON CITY MANAGER PLAN ANN ARBOR, Mich, May 19.— Five cities, one town and one vil- lage in the United States aband- oned the “city manager” plan of government from 1931 to 1935, while 48 voted to continue it, according to a survey made by the University of Michigan. D BROKERS ARRIVE Several Alaska representatives of firms in the States arrived from Southeast Alaska ports aboard the Yukon, including: M. Baker, Na- tional Cash Register Company; N. A. McEachern, Schwabacher Broth- ers; Earl Thatcher, Hunt and Mot- 19.—Noel Wein | the publicity output from national party headquarters is noticeably smaller than formerly. Even the much-advertised ad- 'dress of Secretary Roper before the Chamber of Commerce of the | United States, expected by some | newed industrial regulation by the government, turned out to be largely a treatise advising business how it might help itself On the industrial question, Sec- retary Perkins gave political cir- cles a tip when she told a Chicago interviewer that Washington pro- posed to wait until the first of next year before deciding whether to propose anything new with respect to unemployment and relief. | Some politicians believe the Pres- ident may speak out gnore vigor- | ously on some issues in his accep- tance speech after the Philadelphia convention, but meantime compar- ative political quiet seems in store on the Potomac. | AN OLD PRACTICE While all of this may appear odd for an administration which has produced so many political sur- prises, it is quite in accord with the orthodox practices of former campaign years, Whenever a President is running for re-electicn, the normal is for the opposition to shoot off moit of the pre-convention fire- works. The party in power usually knows who its nominee will be; what its platform will say, who will run the campaign. The party out of pow- er usually is divided, squabbling over all of these questions. The ins therefore prefer to remain quiet, letting the country concentrate its attention on the troubles of the outs. That is what the President’s managers are doing now. The loud- Ynocencio Lopez, who said he had been employed in Alaska 25 years, He told the State Labor Commis- sion they wanted to go to work. Ew Colman, Secretary of the Can- nery Workers Union, informed ‘Charles Dreyson, Commission Sec~ | day for Alask\ expecting to arrive gy embody at least a hint of re- Fetary, that the men had been giv- en an opportunity to join the Union |some months ago and had refused. ——— - YOUNG MAN FOUND DEAD ~ ONHIGHWAY ‘Brother Held During In- | vestigation—Wedding Is Postponed TACOMA, Wash.,, May 19.—Clar- ence Yuckert, aged 21, is held in jail as the authorities pressed an investigation into the death of Yuckert’s brother Arthur, aged: 24, whose body was found by a passing motorist early yesterday on the highway, with powder burns around a bullet wound in the head. Officers said they found a par- tially used box of cartridges in their home and the cartridges resembled one which killed Arthur. Clarence was to have been married yesterday. The two brothers lived together and ill-feeling, the offi- cers said, developed over the plan. Detective William Turner said Clarence telephoned the police ear- ly yesterday there had been a bur- glary in the house and “I think my | brother has been taken for a ride.” .- GOING TO CANNERY tet, from Ketchikan; Oscar R. Hart, er the debate becomes among the| Charles A. Tecklenburg, cannery merchandise broker; and H. B. Madland, Carrington, Jones, from Petersburg. | Republicans, the more the Demo- | (Continwed on Page Four) | operator at Blue Fox Bay, is a passenger for Seward aboard the | Yukon,