The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1937, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” YUMA'’S ‘MARRYING JUSTICE’ QUITS LIVES MENACED, PROPERTY LOSS IS MOUNTING UP Rivers in Mid-Continent Swollen by Rains, Overflow Banks ONE VILLAGE COVERED BY 12 FEET OF WATER Relief Agencies Join in Giv- ing Aid to Refugees- Cities Threatened i | CHICAGO, 111, Jan. 21 The | | flood area in the mid-continent |i§ grew wider as overburdened rivers, swollen anew by rains, sent water| over thousands of acres of farm| lands, and menaced lives and prop- | erty in many communities. ! Unotficial estimates indicate that| at least 20,000 persons have been‘ driven from their homes. | Coast Guard units, the Red Cro: American Legion and Infantry units today joined civil authorities in aid- ing refugees. | Twelve Feet of Water Hazelton, Indana, bore the brunt today of the latest onslaught. The village is inundated to a depth of justice of the Peace Earl A. Freeman of Yuma, Ariz., who has married twelve feet as the White River broke | 25,000 couples in all, including probably more movie colony notables the levee. Two hundred families| than anz othel;ln;:)n, re:yI're': n;on; o"llcehwllh :redcoéntl‘:ucol IDli7.aHer: i he is shown (le wi e last pair he united, oppleman of ;lsgwxllo wk:eg:;,: i{;’u;::;peg axlsiv:ot‘ Hollywood and Dr. Henry Truax Willett of Beverly Hills. (Associated Ohio River Rising Pl The Ohio River rose to heights| exceeding any reached since 1913. Inundation, which has caused mil- lions of dollars of damage, passed the 62.7 foot mark at 8 o'clock this Juneau Figures in Early e Life of Tex Rickard; This was then rising twotenths of a foot then and within nine tenths of a| I S Revealed in 2 Letters foot of the crest of the flood in 1933. Some sixteen hundred !amlhes\ are homeless. Many Homes Inundated Fifty city blocks at Newport, Kentucky and thirty blocks at Day- ton, Kentucky, are submerged. The American Red Cross officials report 2,000 refugees in the flood area at Kennett, Missouri. ——————— PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan. 21.—Tex Rl('kfll’d, who braved Alaska to find | gold and later to become the daunt- less premier of the showman world, | did not want his “Ma” to know he had gone to the Yukon. That intimate facl, and numerous others, is revealed in letters written forty years ago by Rickard in Ju- neau, Alaska, to his boyhood chum, E. S. Matlock, now living here. The letters were written in an almost illegible scrawl, and spelling is poor. When Rickard was 27, he left the | job as town marshal at Henrietta to | follow the gold rush Acquires “Tex" A letter written on December 9, 1895, at Juneau, told how Rickard acquired the name of “Tex.” Name Does Stick The name stuck through life. Matlock recalled that Dink was the nickname for Tex in Henrietta. In the next letter Matlock re-, ceived, dated February 22, Rickard said: “] am going to leave Juneau aboaut April 15. T am going to the Yukon. Don’t tell ma. I told her I would not go. “Well T suppose you boys will soon commence to play bal Don’t let | Wichita Fall beat you.” Matlock said Jack Dempsey had asked for one of the yellowed crumb- ling letters as a keepsake but Mat- lock declined to parb with them. BUDDY, MARY, SOON TO WED ‘Marnage Will Take Place in London, Friends Are Informed Pacific Fleet Commg North —Leaving South on April 19 PAIN SUFFERED‘ | | JLALG | BIRTHDAY BALL Pontiff Declares There Is| No Work to Describe | I_EAD WII_I_ Gu His Anguish Tu FleT LA DY VATICAN CITY, Jan. 21.—Pope Pius XL, weakened by a bad night | of increasing pain, took another turn today for the worse. President’s Wlfc May Dup—‘ The Pope is suffering hxtdtr%%lcuflr -*FW-T!X ELL i . o cir- “Dear old frienc e had a y licate Visits of Last ~|fom pain in bis 1o ft leg where clr*| od trip to this country. It is like Year to All Hotels The Pontiff is bearing the pain{"'(' times. Everybody has money and | with extreme fortitude. |by the way I have got a nick naim. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Led bv‘ Attendants quoted him as saying: | People on the boat kalled me Tex. Mrs. Roosevelt, the national capi-|“The pains are an atrocious dea, Everybody in Juneau calls me Tex. tal ATl e it 1 AT foree thelmfllwn mark. There is perhaps no Ihat’n.um will stay with me as long night of January 30 when the word in the dictionary that can as T sty Here, President’s Birthday Ball will be really describe them.” celebrated here in seven leading ho-| The Pope remained abed as his tels. { condition does not permit of attend- The ball, which will be celebrated |ants to lift him onto a wheeled di- simultaneously in more than 8000 Van. communities throughout the nation,| Former King Alfonso of Spain ar- is to pay homage to the Chief Exe- |rived at the Vatican today and ex- cutive on his fifty-fifth birthday Pressed hope for the Pope's ulti- and to bring aid to child victims of ‘mate Gy ke AR infantile paralysis. Last year Mrs. Roosevelt made a| tour of all the hotels where the| celebration was being held and con. cluded the evening by cutting a! huge birthday cake at the Shareham‘ BE FOUGHT OFF " Dignitaries to Attend It is expected she will follow the same custom this year pausing Iong‘ AI-AsKA GUAST enough at one of the hotels to listen | in {o the radio address which the | President, probably will brufidcast‘ to the Nation from the White House. Cabinet members and other digni- | taries are already planning to wind | up their night of gaity by attending | one ball at least. - ,e——— SAN PEDRO, Cal, Jan. 21.—One hundred ships and 300 planes com- Charles Goldstein, Juneau fur]pflse a fleet at sea which left here dealer, who flew south to Seamewesterday for a thyee day co-ordi- about two weeks ago with Pilot Alex | |nation exercise in wartime cruising Holden of the Marine Airways, mflnd battle tactics. This exercise returning to Juneau aboard the |is the first of two before the fleet Princess Norah. |leaves on April 19 for a six weeks’ Mr. Goldstein has been in Seattle | war game on the Alaska, Hawail on business, and California triangle, GOLDSTEIN HOMEBOUND HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 21. Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Mary | Pickford are to be married in Lon- don in March. This is the informa- tion received here by friends of Bud- dy and Mary. FISH TRAPS TO AGAIN BECOME ination, Floating, Stand- ing Salmon Catchers | — UNICAMERAL SENATE | PROPOSED BY SMITH McCutcheon Asks Alaska Exclusion Clause Be Re- moved from Jones Act | | { | old favorites and new proposals made their appearance in today’s session of the Territorial House of Representatives before it adjourned | until 4 p. m. tomorrow to allow members to spend the greater part |of tomorrow going tlirough the Al-! |aska Juneau mine. Elimination of fish traps, proposal for a unicameral legislature and the request that the Alaska exclus-/ ion clause be eliminated from the! Merchant Marine Act, or Jones law, all appgared again in the shape of 'memorials to Congress. | Representative J. Leonard Smxtl Preadent Rooseveit Wlth Th ree ! .~ SESSION ISSUE. %Cofley Mexx;()-li;l Asks Elim- f down Pennsylvania avenue. Top hats and tails were worn by President Roose- velt and his three secretaries when this new pic- ture was taken in Washington as the four rode Left to right are 20,000 ARE. HOMELESS IN FL@@D A nt lloonevelt with secretaries, y_and James Roosevelt President Roosevelt, Early and the president’s son, James, who was re- cently attached to the White House staff as gen- eral aide to his father. o ”Cl'etlll‘!"fi iR - Marvin Mclntyre, Stephen of the Second Division lntrodu(‘ed\ Thn £ 1896, | the memorial calling for a chl%lfl“ s | |ture of one house to be known |the Senate. Under this plnpoaa}. 1if it won the approval of Congress, the Territorial Legislature would consist of a Senate of 24 members, five to be elected from each Dms- ion in 1938 to serve with the four| holdover Senators who were elected last fall for four years. Under the plan all Legislature members would be elected for four years and representation would be six from each Division. The proposal was up last session but failed to win the |necessary support. Jones Law Amendment Representative H. H. McCutcheon of the Third is the author this time of a memorial, asking Congress to climinate from the Jones Act the clause “excluding Alaska.” Because of this clause Alaska is unable take advantage of the marine act and have goods shipped to the Ter- ritory from the States via Canadian rail and water lines. The elimination of fish traps, both floating and standing, proposal again made its appearance in the form of a memorial, introduced by Representative Ed Coffey of the Thipd. It cites that resident Alaska fishermen are deprived of a living through the use of traps as it cuts down the number of men needed and also cuts into the volume of (Continuea on Page Two) ,ALASKA'FISH | TRAPS FIGURE - IN NEW MOVE Washlnglon State Legislator | i Wants Elimination— ! Defense Also Up OLYMPIA Wash,, Jan. 21—A move ito prohibit the use of fish traps in the waters of Alaska, similar to the| Washington law, started in the ‘Washington State House today when| Representative Jurie Smith, of Se- attle, introduced a memorial Congress to enact a law modeled af- ter the Washington Act. Representative Smith cited that to to| Mzssmg Mall Carrwr Dolan ' Safe; Returns to Valdez; His '+ Gasboat Is Wrecked in Gale MOST REVEREND M. J. GALLAGHER DIES IN DETROIT Bishop of Dlocese, Superior to Radio Priest Cough- lin, Passes Away DETROIT, Michigan, Jan. 21. — The Most Rev. Michael J. Galla- gher, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Detroit, died in a hospital here last night at the age of 70. Death was the result of throat trouble from which he had been ill for ten days. He was the immediate super- ior of the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, whose activities over the radio and us head of the Naticnal Union for Social Justice, he frequently de- fended. The Bishop however, an- nounced early last fall he favored the reelection of Roosevelt the Rev. Coughlin earlier attacked bitterly in several addresses. “The Building Bishop” The Most. Rev. Gallagher, by di- \recting a remarkable expansion of church activities in his Detroit dio- cese, earned the sobriquet of “the ‘mmdmg Bshop.” | Elevated to the bishopric at Grand | ‘mpms, Mich., in 1916, he was in-| stalled as Bishop of Detroit Oct. 129, 1918. Under his administration |there were established in the dio- | more than: 100 new parishes |and schools and a score of xuhgmus‘ u)mmumtles, 1 Bishop Gallagher was known as; !one of the “twin bishops.” The oth- ; |ers was Bishop Joseph Schrembs, oi 'CILvelnnd The two were mlmalos for years, having risen together In the Grand Rapids diocese. Of greater general interest than |hi5 church record and his friend-| |ships with Bishop Schrembe, how- {ever, was Bishop Gallagher’s sup-| whom y ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 21.— Mrs. W. A. Thomas has received a radio saying her brother, Capt. Wil- liam Dolan, returned to Valdez yes- terday afternoon after losinz his mail boat in 24 feet of water off Culcoss Island, Prince William Sound. The radio was written in the plural but did not say how many were with him. Boat Blown Ashore The radio said Capt. Dolan an- chored in Poe Bay. The wind larose and blew the boat on Culross Point and was wrecked. He and his party were marooned until they hailed a gasboat and returned to Valdez. The radio did not say whether Mrs. Dolan, who left several days y in a gashoat piloted by Capt. Rex Hancock, also returned to Val- dez or whether she was still search- ing. ily over the area, remained storu bound here. Missing Since Jan. 5 Dolan left Valdez on Jan- ) call ‘at a scries of Prince Sound ports with mail. The weather was good at the time. He in old-timer and had been known to take shelter from storms as long as six days at a stretch, then pro- ceed. In the meantime, the coast guard cutter Norris- was making a search and Mrs. Dolan left in a gasboat to follow her husband’s mail route. AR A, BREWERY HEAD DIES SUDDENLY, HEART ATTACK Hemricfi;sses Away in Tacoma—Had In- terests in’Alaska TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 21.—Elmer Capt Pilot Jack Peck, who intended to 2:1{!:?1;/3“0;1 ot m.of T o; n:fhiq[ |port of the Rev. Charles E. Cough-|promrich 46, brewery executive, oast was “impaired withoutljin whose tempestuous career as 2| gieq in a hospital here last night as simultaneous operation of a simi- hndio orator and political publicist! 1o recult of a sudden attack of the lar measl:’r:‘m Al;:ka e stemmed from a tiny parish in|pegpt ense Memor Bishop Gallagher’s diocese. Time af- n of tl Another memorial mf._roduced de-|ter time, when Father Cuughlin'filAll;rlt‘:‘mfl:;;;r?:h.mepzneer hseeslt.tfi clares that “the Pasific Coast i5|yidely-heard utterances on econo-|prewer and a descendant of a long practically unprotected against any mics or politics drew fire from|jine of brewers of Germany. assault” and urges Congress (0 |critics within and without the Cath- l The deceased was President of the appropriate sufficient funds to buxld{u“c Church, Bishop Gallagher went | brewery bearing his name in Seattle, up defenses. to his defense. 1““’-‘ Hemrich Winery here and the The memorial was introduced by| I can stand steadfastly behind surf Cannery at Kukas Bay, Alaska. Representative Joseph Roberts of|this priest,” he said, speaking into] The widow, Nina, seventeen- Seattle, who pointed out that the pather Coughlin's microphone to months-old twin daughters, two Government is considering two large|the Royal Oak priest's radio au- | brothers, Andrew in Seattle and air navy bases in Alaska and should| gience in 1935. “He speaks on behalf | Walter in Tacoma, and mother in appropriate a “large share” of de- of the millions who are denied|Seattle, survive. fense of the millions on the rest of | — Puneral services will be held next the coast, (Continued on Page Five) Monday in Seattle, WEST IS STILL SHACKLED, ICY BONDS, WINTER . Temperatures Are Some Higher But Weather Abnormal BULLETIN—San Diego, Cal. Jan. 21.—Snow fell here today for the first time since Janu- ary 12, 1882, SEATTLE, Jan. 21.—Winter kept the west shackled in icy bonds to- day. Temperatures are, however, |generally higher than for the past two days, but it is still abnormal. It is 52 below at Eik City in the heart of rugged Central Idaho. Salt Loke resisterd 11 below zero today, the coldest in 49 years and ere is also 21 inches of snow, an time record. Nampa, Idaho, reports a tempera- ure of 23 degrees below zero; Og- den, Utah, 21 degrees below; San Francisco 30 above, only one degree above the all-time January record which was recorded in 1898. It is slightlyy warmer in the Pa- ific Northwest, but Spokane, in the eastern part of the state has a temperature of ten degrees below zero. Baker, Oregon, reports 22 degrees below zero. Seattle today has a temperature of 24 degrees above zero. Smudging continues in Southern California orchards. It is 36 degrees above at Los An- geles. —,———— —_ STOCK QUOTATIONS | ——t NEW YORK, Jan. 21. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 113%, American Light and Power 15%, Bethlehem Steel 78%, Calu- met and Hecla 17%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, General Motors 67'%, International Harvester 109%, Kennecott 60%, New York Central 43, Southern Pacific 50, U. 8. Steel 88%, United Corporation 7%, Cities Bervice 47%, Pound $4.90%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 186.87, up .91; rails 5656, up .12; utilities 37.06, up .35. — e NOWELL CQMING HOME Everett Nowell, Alaska representa- tive for Blake, Moffit and Towne, and for Ballou and Wright, is a pas- senger returning to his home in Ju- neau aboard the Princess Norah, after being in Seattle for the past few weeks on business and for a vacation, REAS 'MAYOR TALBOT CITES EFFECT ON TERRITORY First City Official in Sam Francisco Points Out Alaska Only Victim | INDUSTRY IN NORTH THRO'I'I'LED, HE SAYS Due to Dependcnce on Wat- er Transportation, Fish ermen Seriously Hit BULLETIN—Seattle, Jan. 21. —The Northwest Strike Com- mittee announced today that about two and one half million pounds of frozen fish in Alaska ports have been released for shipment to Prince Rupert, thence east by rail. Approval of several ships to carry the fish was given. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 21.— J. A. Talbot, Mayor of Ketchikan, Alaska, declared in an interview here, that the industrial paralysis that has been precipitated by the West Coast Martitime strike, has throttled Alaska and that uhless immediate steps are taken, a large number of the Territory's 60,000 inhibitants will be destitute. “The people of Alaska are not starving to present time, but emm ?&. nothing in the future to bring them any hope. Nine tenths of the Alaska cities are working people and until the strike began, they faced a bright industrial year,” said Mayor Talbot. Strike Is Crime “The Alaskans do not know what the strike is about. They are not greatly interested in the statements of either labor or capital, but they feel that it is a crime that both sides will not arbitrate and settle their differences. “Thousands of telegrams and let~ ters have been sent to the President demanding, in the name of civiliza- tior, arbitration be forced upon ship owners and ship workers. “As a result of this stupid shilly shallying, mines must soon be clos- ed down for lack of material. Cold Storage Situation “Our cold storages at Ketchikan, wrangell, Juneau and Sitka are fill- ed with frozen fish which should be moved to market at once. Hundreds of thousands of cases of canned salmon are in the terminals (Continued on Page Eight) —— ARE TO MAKE DEMANDS FOR INTERVENTION Mayor Rossi Calls Meeting for Tomorrow to Take Definite Action SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 21. —Mayor A. J. Rossi today asked Gov. Prank F. Merriam and offic- ials of the Bay cities to meet here tomorrow and formulate a demand for Government intervention of the Pacific Coast maritime strike now in the eighty-fourth day of the tie- up. by A meeting of Cooks and Stewards with the Off Shore operators has been called for a discussion in an attempt to reach a tentative agree- ment. Federal conciliators Marsh and Pitzgerald have wired a report on the status of the strike to Secretary of Labor Perkins and said “pro- gress of the controversy has been marked by almost an utter absence of violence and the public has shown a fine spirit of cooperation of self- restraint under most trying circum- stances.” . Five men are held to answer to charges in the Municipal court, preferred by P. A. Lackley, member of the Bargemen’s Union, rival of Harry Bridges’ union, that they beat him up.