The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1937, Page 1

HE DAILY ALAS VOL. XLIX., NO. 7385. “ALL THE NEW:S ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON IS BUBBLING OVER } IN EXCITEMENT Boisterous Crowds Already Gathering for Big Do- ings Tomorrow RAIN, WITH SNOW, SLEET, PREDICTED . . | Marine, Secret Service Men Cuard Roosevelt at Inauguration | | 4 g WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Bois- terous pre-inaugural crowds have turned the National Capital’s streets into tanbark trails and with flap- ping bunting waving everywhere, there is just a holiday hubbub pre- | vailing previous to the inaugural ceremonies tomorrow. | Although the Weather Bureau forecasts rain, possibly mixed with sleet or snow, there are only beam- ing faces in all parts of the Cap- ital City | Companion portraits of President Roosevelt and Vice-President Gar- ner are everywhere. The city expects to reap &t least| a quarter of a million dollars from the thousands of visitors. i Superintendent of Police Ernest‘ Brown said there will be 3,000 police | on duty and marines and secret | service men will guard the President. | All of the 21,000 covered seats in the parade grand stand have been | sold at prices ranging up to $10. | Presigent Rooseveit had very few engagements today. 1 . F.D.R’s Position Here are three of the leading fig! Vice President John Garner welcol NATION READ S'certeJA fi)ufid Capitol Hill ures in the 75th congress, left to right, Sam Rayburn of Texas, Democratic majority floor leader; William B. Bankhead of Alabama, speaker of the house, and Bert- rand H. Snell of New York, Republican minority floor leader. mes to the capitol one of the new- comers to the senate, Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, grand- leader of the same name. News Enmerem:a ALASKA FISH s & g PROBLEMS ARE : EIVEN HEARING Robinson Barred By PRESTON GROVER ‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—senator | Bell's Report on Japanese Joseph T. Robinson, the Majority i ¥ Leader, gathered around him just ACl.lVlthS Befor'e Ad before the opening session all the| visory Committee news men who usually cover the| Senate. He outlined the business of the session in general terms, WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. — The as | Fisheries Advisory Committee of is the custom of majority leaders, the Department of Commerce, is then swung into a biting criticism |holding today the second day session of the Supreme Court position on of the two-day hearing. wages and hours legislation. | The report of Fisheries Commis- What he said was reported at the|sioner Frank T. Bell, regarding time. He doubted efficacy of wage- Japanese fishing off the coast of hours legislation without a Consti- | Alaska, is before the committee. The tutional Amendment. More on that report states the Japanese fish out- later. What impressed numbers of |side of the three mile limit using Tear Gas Fails " to Move Picket Line at Detroit 3 Mt [One Thousand Men Resist | Attack Made Early i by Police BULLETIN—Detroit, Jan. 19. —Dean Robinson Briggs, per- sonnel director, announced late | this afterncon the strike has! | been settled and the plant will | reopen tomorrow. | DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 19. — A /United Automobile Workers of | America picket line, estimated by | Union officials to number 1,000 ARMS AND MEN WILL CONTINUE | GOING TO SPAIN/. 'Both Sides TurnDown Pro- posals of Non-interven- tion in Civil War |GLOGMY OUTLOOK PREVAILS, LONDON | — Intensity of Strife Appears| | Now Up to Both Italy and Germany i 'w of Cadiz harbor | LONDON, Jan. 19. — Both the{. | Spanish Socialist and Insurgent governmetns have rejected the non-! intervention committee’s prdpoaali [for control of munitions ship-} ments. Both sides in the Spanish Civil | War made a negative response o' the proposals which were drafted: by the International Committee of twenty-seven nations last Deceffi=) ber at the meeting held here. 1 In London, all circles are gloomy and now agree that “everything is up to Italy and Germany, depend- ing on whether they will shut off the flow of volunteers and muni- 2 EPIDEMICS ARE RAMPANT IN NORTHWEST ... {Pnuemonia, Influenza Pre- “ vailing—Worst Storm | of Winter Raging coast of Spain, Britain and Franc with Chancellor Hitler's orders to MAIL CARRIER MISSING, HUNT IS ORGANIZED rch Und@y on Prince William Sound for William Dolan ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 19. — Two hoats and an airplane are searching Prince iWlliam Sound for SEATTLE, Jan. 19—Pneumonia wjjliam Dolan who is one week ov- and influenza is rampant over the erque carrying mail in a small gas- ‘Pacn‘ic Northwest and no early re- pout, {lief is in sight as the three weeks' The cutter Morri jcold wave still continues with little search for the missing mail carrier | {moderation in some sections. and Mrs. Dolan has left in another | | Hosptals are reported crowded poat to follow her husband’s mail | |with patients suffering from both royte, | pneumonia and influenza and doc- pilot Jack Peck started Sunday| tors report hundreds of cases in o 5 search and is trying again to-| ories, day, weather permitting. Spokane reports the worst of win- pglan left Valdez on January 5 to ter illnesses since the flue epidemic .q1] at a series of Prince William during the world war. Cases are se- gound ports with mail. It generally| i |vere but deaths are reported few takes a week to cover the route as extreme precautions are taken in wps Dolan left Valdez yesterday the early stages. in a small gasboat accompanied by In Portland, Oregon, there is a 35 capt, Rex Hancock. percent reduction in school at The weather was good at the time ance and 100 teachers are also re- polan left. He is an old-timer and | ported ill. has been known to take shelter from | There are 17 inches of snow at giorms as long as six days at a Spokane and one foot at Pasco. stretch then proceed. ! The winter's worst snow storm is| A radio broadcast urged resi-| now raging and even snowplows aiC dents of the sound area to build| said to be marooned in several sec- fires if they have any information| | tions. of his wherebouts and Pilot Peck, | | sighting them, will fly there and Alarmed by the “undeclared war” between Ger- many and Spanish Basques along the northern to halt an open outbreak of hostilities. e may intervene In line scarch-and-seize warships, flylng rebel-controlled orders. They’re f;‘om Oklah(;hla A EMPIRE EN CENTS CE PRI Y FOR INDUCTION F.D.R Spanish merchant ships in reprisal for the seizure of a Nazi freighter at Bilbao, these two German the swastika, are at anchor in the port of Cadiz, awaiting further R | One of the youngest congressmen in Washington, Lyle H. Boren of Oklahoma. 27. voses for a picture with his attractive wife, ANCHORAGE TO PAY $800 FOR FALL SIDEWALK Woman Secures Verdict, BUCK PASSED N NEXT MOVE . COAST STRIKE Up to ‘Other Side’ to Take ¥ Nazi Wa}ships at Anchor in Sp(;-mvishfi Hhichor 'MAN HUNTlNB " FORCE IS CUT SWALL LIMIT |Officers Still Search Around | Everett Area for Pos- sible Clues (ONE SUSPECT IN | JAIL AT PORTLAND | Suspicious Itinerant in Cali- fornia Freed After Quizzing TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 19.—Offi- cers who have been following the fast fading trails on the ninth day of the hunt for little Charles Matt- son's slayers and kidnapers are being diverted to other fields and other duties. Eight Federals comprise the force now hunting especially in the Everett area. slate Patrol officers have been assigned to certain clues in the case. Word was received from Portland | this afternoon, that Detective Cap- |tain John Keegan announces the {arrest of George Wilson, aged 38, | who fits the description of the kid- naper ‘petfectly.” Wilson is held on an open charge. Wi ‘about” the wealthy “fs including the Mattsons and “al- | though he sounds like a nut a nut idl'l the job.” ONE SUSPECT RELEASED LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 19. — Bowhiskered itinerant Joseph Mit- | chell, one of two men questioned in connection with the Mattson kid- naping, has been released after three | hours quizzing. | Mitchell, a vagrant was held in | the jail at Culver City. He at first refused to answer after being picked up carrying a canvas knapsack, holding a boy’s sweater and also several nowspapers containing ac- counts of the kidnaping. The identity of the other man held for questilning has not been disclosed. Harold Nathan, Chief Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investi- |ration, who has been working on |the Mattson case at Tacoma and |suddenly arrived here by plane, said |he came south on routine business |and not on the Mattson case. AUTO RELEASED EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 19.—The automobile impounded here after |the body of kidnaped-slain Charles |Mattson was found, has been re- | leased to the owner, Vern Williams, | Tests were made of the | stains found in the back of the car. |A bloody handkerchief discovered on the fender and a lipstick picked |up in the snow, have been retained by the Federal agents. The car was stolen shortly after |the boy's body was thrown into the brushy area where it was found, it is claimed. —l e Action—Deadlock on Wages and Hours the reporters present was that Sen-|certain. types of ocean gear which|an withstood a police tear gas ator Robinson’s words sounded like the Americans, subject to regula-|.iock this morning at the closed a renewed bid for a Supreme Court | | Federal Court—Taxpay- ers Excluded from Jury cutter Morris. ———,———— | ———————— DISPUTED [UG communicate with the coast guard prbiig s bl ey ‘Lions by their own nation, ca““o“Briggs Manufacturing Company's & plant on Meldoum Avenue. | | DISORDER IS BRIEF | DETROIT, Jan..19. — Disorder | flared again briefly in the far flung automotive strike as a “trotting picket line” of union strikers pre- ivented workers from entering the JEriggs Manufacturing plant this | morning. The plant was forced to |shut down. use. “The desirability of a treaty to Age A Barrier {forestall this danger has had ser- But what some of them musi have |ious consideration by the State De- overlooked was that President Roos- partment and the subject has been evelt had thrown up a barrier which | taken up through diplomatic cir- evidently meant that Joe Robinson|cles,” says Commissioner Bell's re- could not become a Supreme Court | port, adding that the “Japanese Justice, long as he reputedly has Government has not been ready to desired such an appointment. |enter into a discussion looking to a Only a few hours before the Rob- | formal agreement.” inson press conferencé, President E. B. McGovern, of Seattle, is Roosevelt had told another group of chairman of the committee. reporters that it was against his PR i Y, S ) policy to appoint men above 60 to the Federal Bench. Senator Rob-‘nIMUND Is UN inson is 64. The question was raised in con- nection with appointment of a Dis- TTEES trict Judge. So positively did the| President outline his 60-year policy, however, that those who had the| 0 Robinson situation in mind throught it would apply equally to any Su-‘AlaSkEl Delegate E‘IeCted by preme Court vacancies the Presi- House to Important ident may have an opportunity to 20 fill in the next four years. POSI!lOnS WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has been elected to the following House Committees: Rivers and Harbors, Merchant Great Influence Seen Incidentally that 60-year pro- nouncement foreordains a New Deal | favor in the Federal courts for many | years to come. During the past four | Marine and Fisheries, Agriculture, ident has ted 5 4 yosts: the. Brewliony p) pouflm_ ‘Pubhc Lands, Territories, Mines (Continued on Page Six) limd Mining, and Indian Affairs. line” which cireled continuously about the main gate numbered about 2,000 men. Tear gas was used to disperse the crowd but no serious !damage resulted. A first aid sta- ‘lion, in a beer garden across the tients. MURPHY IN WASHINGTON H WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. — Gov. | Frank Murphy, of Michigan, has arrived here to confer with Secre- |tary of Labor Lewis, union leaders |and others regarding the strike in the automobile industry. No further !move by either side is contemplated :by either side toward a settlement, Legislation to control soil drift- ing was enacted in Kansas as early as 1913. It is estimated that the “f.l'ottmgi street, took care of only a few pa-, at least there is none set for today. | . Build Room to Provide for Legislature This probably is Alaska’s "lnrgvst"‘ Legislature, it was revealed today by | custodians of the Federal and Ter-| ritorial Building. Legislatures have {come and gone in the former years,| Get American Boom— |but heretofore the Custodian staff |always has been able to scare up a, Escort Is Denied few committee rooms. But they were| OAK HARBOR, Wash., Jan. 19.— g B Fagenn. ok or yoU ped this year. There wasn't George Astel, Whidby Island pu-|engugh yooms. That is, until some- lisher, said he has been informed body had a bright idea { that the Canadian tug Prosperitive oy gne rerritorial building boasts | will return for the disputed 108 poom 313 The building staff just TON TO MOVE, ISREPORT NOW Canadian Tug Returns to | threats of alleged marine strikers yho west end of the third floor or sympathizers, at Coronet Bay. | | The log tow, enroute from Ana-| .iiee0 Som. fcortes to Vancouver, B. C., was anchored at Coronet Bay Waililg ppyps coVE CHURCH | for weather to moderate, and ten BUILDING COMMITTEE men appeared and warned the cap- TO MEET WEDNESDAY | |tain of the tug Prosperitive not to! i, | |continue the tow. A meeting of the puilding commit- | | Prosperitive No. 2 has been stand-|tee for the community church on ing by the tow while the sister tug the Fritz Cove Road will be held went to Similk Bay. | tomorrow night at the home of Mr. Coast Guard head¢=rters al Su-;and Mrs. James Drake. Jerry Banta, attle reports the -patral cutter At-|Virgil Newell, lanta visited the Canadian tug |Drake, Mrs. Meier, and the Rev. but Capt. C. J. Goodwin refused an John A. Glasse comprise the com- escort out of American waters mittee, ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 19.— A Federal Court Grand jury has awarded Mrs. Anna McMahill an $800 verdict against the City of Anchorage for injuries sustained in a fall on a wooden sidewalk. 1t is the first time a resident has sued the city. Taxpayers were excluded from the jury on the grounds they were in- terested parties. - Insanity Is Defense in Charge of Theft tow which has been held Up bY pigokeq off a piece of the hall on| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 19— | Hugo Ueeck claimed insanity as his and entering the Matanuska Gen- eral store and Post Office last Aug- ust. GILKEY ARRAIGNED James Gilkey, arrested in con- nection with the burglary of the | City Float Beer Parlor recently, was this morning arraigned before U. S, Norman Cook, Mrs, Commissioner Felix Gray, charged with alleged larceny in a store. /Federal Jail under $1,000 bail. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 19. —Spokesmen of the International Longshoremens’ Association and al- so the Pacific Coast Employers’ As- sociation, both said this afternoon Ithat it is up to the other side to |make a move if negotiations are to be resumed in efforts to end the (long strike. It is understood that | peace negotiations are again dead- |locked on the question of hours jand wages. [Says Cost of Servants | Holds Down Birthrate - | LONDON, Jan. 18—Miss E. Hough ence of conservative women here, |blamed Britain’s “servant problem” |for the failing birthrate. ‘I believe there are many edu- | | KETCHIKAN IS PRACTICALLY OUT OF MEAT |Liquors, Coal, Wire Net- | ting, Canned Goods Re- ceived on Gorgas KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 19.— The Gen. W. C. Gorgas brought | |and now there is at least one com- defense to the charges of breaking o chelmsford, addressing a confer- considerable quantities of lquor, coal, wire netting and canned goods |while the stores are completely out jof green goods, and perishables | Meat supplies are expected to be ex- |cated women who are refusing to hausted by tomorrow. have families,” she said, “because| Of nearly 400 tons of freight book- they cannot face the possibility of ed for Ketchikan, there were only baving to run a house and bring|ten cases of eggs. up a family entirely single handed.” Ul MM S ? S S One market has some pork left, {another has a limited supply of The Canal Zone is a strip of land /ham and bacon and a third only a |extending five miles on each side dozen of eggs and no meats. Two ) government reservation. Gilkey is now being held in the |of the Panama Canal. It is a U. 8.|other markets have a few miscel= \llaneous items.