The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME VOL. XLIX., NO. 7390, JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JAN ARY 25, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS A EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS BELIEVE BREAK NEAR, COAST STRIKE FIRE RAGES AT OHIO FLOO CONGRESS SLOW| TAKING ACTION BAS FLOATING ONWATER SET ABLAZE TWICE Trolley Line Breaks, Elec- tricity Starts Action Sunday, Also Today CONDITIONS BAD FOR CINCINNATI RESIDENTS Water MayERationed—— Turned on Only for 15 or 20 Minutes Daily CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. B! Fix n broke out at 4:15 o'clock this morning in the Mill Creek Val- ley where a million and one half dollars worth of damage was done yesterday when a trolley line broke and fell on gas floating on the sur- face of the flood waters. The fire is estimated by Fire Chief Barrney as three miles long and one mile and a half wide and the damage from the two blazes may reach $2,- 000,000. The mid-morning fire was finally brought under control Cincinnati this morning faced a possibility of having drinkng water turned off for all but two hours a day. The rationing of drinking wa- ter was down to four hours this morning. Worst in History Yesterday's fire and this morn- ing’s blaze were the worst in the history of the city. The Ohio hit a mark of 789 feet, nearly 27 feet past the flood stage and seven feet higher than in ’84. Sixty-five thousand are homeless here. SERIOUS CONDITiON CINCINCINNATI, Jan. 25.—City Manager C. A. Dykstra, at 11 o’clock this forenoon, warned that drinking water might be available for only 15 or 20 minutes a day since the drain for four hours has reduced the supply in the reservoirs. The pumps have been shut off and the supply is about depleted. Dykstra said that it is impera- tive residents use the water only for drinking and cooking. Eight are known to have lost their lives here. Only food stores and drug stores are operating. The local damage, fire and water, is near the seven million dollar . OHIO RIVER IS RISING AS NEW DANGER ARISES Death Tollmzo Mounting —Call for Greater Funds —Martial Law, Maybe CHICAGO, IIl, Jan. 25. — Re- ports this afternoon said the broad Ohio River rose steadily to- day along the full course, heaping added disaster to the flood tor- mented residents in its basin. The death toll, according to un- confirmed reports this afternoon, has reached 68 and other reports put it at 80. More than half a million refu- gees are cold and hungry and dis- ease in some localities add to the misery of the sufferers. Call for Larger Sum The Government and other agencies have rallied to aid the Red Cross and appealed for five million dollars. Louisville, Kentucky, and Cincin- nati, Ohio, are the principal metro- politian targets where 1,100,000 in- habitants are said to be almost at the mercy of the fldod waters. Busi- ness is said to be at a standstill. Martial Law Mayor Neville Miller is this after- hoon considering placing Louisville under martial law. An eighty-foot stage is predicted for Cincinnati. PFire again broke out this afternoon, making three within the past 24 hours. One oil (Continued on Page Eight) | | in Relief, WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has placed five Fed-| eral agencies, on what is descnbed‘ as virtually a wartime basis, to do! all in the Government's power to assist the flood sufferers. The agencies are the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Works Progress Ad- ministration and Civilian Conserva- tion Corps. { i Five Federal Agencies to Cooperate with Red Cross Flood Sufferers Headquarters will be open for 24 hours a day and will cooperate in all | |Fail to Buckj Down and relief efforts with the Red Cross. ‘The announcement is made by Ste- phan J. Early, Presidential Secre- tary, and he further stated the de- partment heads conferred Sunday with the President and will return for two conferences daily until the | situation improvi FLOOD QUOTA FOR JUNEAU GIVEN BOOST Chairman Newmarker Re- ceives Word of In- crease This P. M. Juneau Chapter’s $240 quota for relief of sufferers in the present middle west flood has been doubled according to the following radio- eram received by Chairman John Newmarker this afternoon. “Because relief needs in flooded areas of Ohio and Mississippi val- leys increasing every hour as con- tinued rains send rivers to highes: levels in history and with more than four hundred thoysand persons driven from homes, urge you double your relief fund quota and go as far beyond the doubled figure as possible. We are contributing one million dollars from national funds. Three hundred Red Cross relief workers now in disaster areas giving immediate emergency relief to flood refugees. Three hundred fifty Red Cross nurses in field engaged in battle against feared epidemic. Food, clothing, bedding, medical supplies being rushed by train, truck, and boat. Rescue work continuing ‘at top speed. Please intensify your cam- paign efforts and keep .San Fran- cisco office advised daily of amount raised. Feel confident your people will not fail in this great national emergency. (Signed) Chairman.” o FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ARE FLEEING FLOOD Forty-four AreKnown Dead| Relief Measure Exten- sive, Ten States CARY T. GRAYSON, CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 25.—Forty- four are known dead in nine states as the result of the present disas-| trous floods and fifteen more are reported ‘dead at Frankfort, Ken- tucky, in a reformatory riot. The homeless is conservatively es- timated at 500,000, including 200,000 in the oLuisville, Kentucky area alone. | All lowlands along the Ohio river| are inundated and the river is still rising. Property damage was not estimat- ed up to early this morning. Government observers predict flood conditions are possible for a month and a critical period may begin in the Mississippi Valley when the Ohio’s rcrest reaches there. Relief measures are extensive in ten States and Red Cross nurses and doctors are at work in them. Lawmakers Are Due to Arrive Here At 8:30 Tonight The vessels Brant and Seal, car- rying the legislative party, are| scheduled to arrive here this even- | ing at 8:30, according to a message ! to the Bureau of Fisheries office flagship of the fisheries fleet. | negotiate with the United Automo- {tions in the General Motors strike It's Jiges Dinner for Legislators Gags Promised But No Gag- Rule — Everything “Off Record” but Cabbage | Al trails lead to the Legion Dug- {out this evening for members of the Thirteenth Territorial Legislature land the American Legion. There, starting at 6:30 sharp, the Legisla- |tors will be served corned beef and cabbage as hosts of the Legionnaires |at a Jiggs Dinner, biennially served |for the Territory's lawmakers. Due ito the limited accommodations the dinner has been limited to members lor the Legion and the Legislators. The committee in charge reports that politics is barred and no pre-| pared speeches need be anticipated. Following traditions of the national Gridiron Club, the Legislators are| assured that everything transpiring at the funfest is strictly “off thel record,” no reporters, only Legion-| naires being present. | Mysterious tips havé come from| the program commitiee that tl‘cre,‘ may be a gag or two but gag-rule; will not prevail. Past Department Commander A. E. Karnes will be “head man” as chairman of the pro-| gram committee and Tex Leonard has been crowned thx “cabbage king”| to supervise an able staff of as-| sistants. Service, he reports, will| start promptly at 6:30 with, it is hoped, every Legislator on hand. ! g General Motors Official Defines | Issue_qj Slrika; Willing to Negotiate as Soon as Sit-downers Leave Two Plants DETROIT, Michigan, Jan. 25.— William Knudsen, Executive Vice- President of the General Motors Corporation, defines the issue of| widespread strikes as *property rights or no property rights.” He said the next step “is up to the un- ion.” Knudsen reiterated willingness to [ | I bile Workers of America, as soon as the sit down strikers evacuate the two Fisher Body plants at Flint. President Homer Martin and Gov. Frank Murphy have returned from Washingtonton. Martin said that if the “General Motors will get down to collective bargaining we can set- tle this strike and the men will he back at work within 24 hours.” It is estimated there are 135,000 men out in 23 plants. PERKINS MAY ACT WASHINGTON,, Jan. 25.—Secre- tary of Labor Perkins made it known she intends to invite opposing fac- to negotiate a peace settlement. Those close to the situation said the | invitation would in reality be a de-| mand. | e SCHOOL CONCERT TONIGHT | Juneau schools will give a free con- cert tonight, starting at 8 o'clock The boats are reported to have been delayed by inclement weather. in charge of the concert and the public is invited. ON BIG ISSUES Grapple with Many Major Problems {Waiting for President to Make Recommendations Regarding Subject WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Con- session, showed a dis- ) grapple with ma- jor problems, particularly regarding the wage and hour issue, without more definite recommendations from President Roosevelt. If he worked on them in detail he has not informed the Chieftains. The Republican House members are to meet tonight and chart a minority program. The Senate has not met ten hours in the past three weeks and the House little more. Many commit- tees have not yet held sessions. The Senate is recessing today. Speaker Bankhead said the House will consider the fifty million dollar crop production loan bill and it is _expected President Roosevelt' request for seven hundred and nine- ty million dollars with which to continue relief until June 30 will be taken up tomorrow. Many mem- bers of Congress forecast there will be no final action in wage and hours until the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Wagner Labor Bill. ——t——— STATE PRISON OF KENTUCKY FLOOD SWET ?Reports of Rioting and Kill- ings Come from Wat- er Bound Walls FRANKFORT, Kentucky, Jan. 25. —Reports of rioting among the 2- 900 prisoners and the killing of at least 15, filtered past the flood- bound walls of the state’s largest penitentiary. Confirmation of the trouble with- in the walls is handicapped by & strict censorship. It is known that trouble started last Saturday when flood waters began creeping up on the penal in- stitution. National Guardsmen, on duty at the prison since last Friday, said at least fifteen prisoners were killed but declined use of their namcs “Those shot sank in the water,” the guardsmen said. Gov. A. B. Chandler, following a boat tour, said: “We do not know how many, if any, have been killed We will not know until the water goes dowh.” Flood waters cover four-fifths of the State’s capital city and flows six feet through the prison grounds for the first time since '83. - - eee HOLMS HAVE GIRL BABY Mrs. Ture Holm is the mother of a baby girl born this morning at 2:55 o'clock at St. Ann’s Hos- pital. The baby weighed six pounds, |four ounces, and has been named |Kay Elizabeth. Mr. Holm is em- yesterday afternoon from St. Ann’s ployed at’the A. J. ress, entering the fourth weeck of | - at Dugout Tonight = WAGES AND HOURS ARE BEING SHIFTED ASIDE, { I | Risi how the hydro-electric plant that supplies Ohio, which was swelled by he. RISING WATERS THREATEN LOUISVI[:LE POWER PLANT waters threatened many communities along the Ohio river valley with floods This picture shows Louisville, Ky., with power was cut off by waters from the Employes were forced to ferry to the building in small boats. avy rains (Assoclated Press Photo) Moose Hold Up Alaska Railro Traffic on ad;Complaints Clear Up Mystery of Delays DIES SUDDENLY ON NORTH STAR ’Jesse Moran Passes Away | While Homebound on Vessel from Seattle KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 25. — Jesse T. Moran, a Ketchikan pas-[pilot of the locomotive when the wheel broke and the bus lurched on KETCHIKAN MAN ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 25— | Trainmen on the Alaska Railroad, | when complaints were made against ‘delnys in traffic, said these delays | were caused by moose sauntering |along the tracks in the Broad Pass | section. \ The moose are trapped between the high banks flanking the tracks. One train lost 40 minutes waiting for four moose to escape from the | railroad tracks. Three moose have been accidentally killed this month. | The Game Commission reports |that a cow and a bull leaped from the same bridge on the same day in a panic at the approach of a train and a calf was discovered on the i BUS TOPPLES INTO CANAL; 73 ARE DEAD Front Wheel of Vehicle Breaks—Only Six Aboard Are Reported Saved MIAMI, Florida, Jan. 25.—A motor bus overturned and went into the| canal alongside the Tamiami Trail, 30 miles west of here this murnlng,‘ and a negro porter Robert Single- ton, reported that 23 of the 29 pas- sengers have been trapped and drowned. Singleton said the right front senger on the North Star from Se-|{rain reached Curry. the side, rolled over twice and then attle, died aboard that vessel north- | bound. The first word received here | was a radio message to Ray Moran from Capt. 8. T. L. Whitlam. Friends were at the dock yesterday noon when the North Star arrived and received the remains. His widow was also aboard the North Star. Moran was 50 years old and pioneer of Alaska. He went to Nome in 1904 and came to Ketchikan in 1911. Association. - $2,525 MONTHL ALIMONY SOUGHT BY ELAINE BARRY This'Amount from John Barrymore Is Only Tem- porary, Pending Divorce HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Elaine Barry Barrymore last Sat- urday petitioned the court to allow ‘here $2)525 a month temporary ali- | mony in connection with her divorce Isuit filed against John Barrymore recently. A hearing on the peition is set for ‘today, | e e——— Mrs. Wess Lile was dismissed Hospital. ‘Don’t Go Back to England, Is Warning Given to Wally | CANNES, France, Jan. 25. — MTrs. ‘whue there is no danger of a popular The music departments of the | w.is warfield Simpson has been UPFISing against her, it is feared|pqgeq: advised by Scotland Yard detectives, England. The detectives informed her that cranks might injure her. Mrs. Simpson has received many here this afternoon from the Brant, |in the Grade School Auditorfum. |Who guarded her during the first| ghusive letters from England since Byron Miller and Ruth Coffin are weeks at Cannes, not to return lalcomlnu to Cannes but the detectives | reported that most of them are of "the crank type. — e - Moran was leader of the Seiners’ Jan. 25.—| FEDERAL JUDGE POLLOCKPASSE AWAY INKANSAS Center ot Many Stormy Controversies, He Kept Right on with Opinions KANSAS CITY, Jan. 25.--Judge John C. Pollock, of the Federal Dis- trict Court of Kansas, died early Sunday at his suburban home. He had been unconscious since Mon- day, January 18, suffering from a diabetic condition which was later complicated by an attack of pneu- monia. Survivors include his wi- dow, daughter and sister. | Judge Pollock was for years a center of stormy controversies. Attempts to Impeach Twice there were attempts to im- ipeach him, although nothing came |of them. He was frequently the sub- ! | | { judges would have considered in contempt of court. But Judge Pollock declined to dis- cuss such charges and criticisms ex-| cept to say that he would not ob- Jject to any competent inquiry. When | these did not develop he contented himself with taking the first op-| portunity, in jury charges or stale-; ments, from the bench, to reiterate| the judicial blasts. He was especially outspoken in his resistance to a trend which seemed, in his opinion, to be making a “national police court” out of the district courts. As prohibitory laws came along he said: | “We shall have to build a bigge: penitentiary if this keeps up,” “It is the gravest mistake of our people to think that a law can cor- rect a folly and make the people better. It is more likely to arouse (Continued on Page Six) ject of open criticisms which many % |112%, American Power and Light | |down 1,06; rails 55.25, down .80; util- toppled into the deep canal. Only one corner of the bus re- mains above the water. Singleton broke a glass window and escaped and then helped other survivors to safety, one of them V. H. Rogers of ! ‘Walla Walla, Washington, who stood ' about in a dazed condition calling for his wife who was apparently, rapped in the bus. SOME BODIES RECOVERED 1. 20.—The bodies ¢ women and one | ave been recovered by divers | up 3 ¢ k Lhis afternoon. Officials of the company said 32 passengers were aboard the bus at the time but there is no complete| passenger list. The identified dead include Mrs. Elizabeth Rogers of Walla Walla, Wash. Rogers sits weeping on the bank of the canal, the back of his shirt smeared with blood where he fought his way from a window. He declined entreaties of officers to go to a hospital saying: “My wife is in there. I'm not leaving until they take her out.” e B ’ STOCK QUOTATIONS l 1 of § child (it NEW YORK, Jan. 25. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 14, Anaconda 53%, Bethlehem Steel 78%, Calumet and Hecla 17'%, Com- monwealth and Southern 3%, Cur- tiss Wright 7%, General Motors 66%, International Harvester 109%, Kennecott 58%, New York Central 417%, Soythern Pacific 47%, United States Steel 87%, United Corpora- tion 7%, Cities Service 4%, Pound $4.90 9/16. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 185.62, ities 36.48, down .46. # — o DOLAN GOES HOME Chris Dolan was dismissed today DED CITY FREIGHT BEING ACCEPTED,PORTS ALONG PAGIFIC Ship Owners Meeting with Employers to Discuss Resumption, Work PRESENT TIE-UP MAY END WITHIN ONE WEEK Two Unions Announce Tak- ing Ballots on Negotiat- ed Agreements SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 25.—Representatives of ship owners and employers meet today, supposedly to dis- cuss resumption of normal shipping should the Pacific Coast maritime strike end suddenly. The spokesmen declined to be quoted but it is learned they are hopeful the present tie-up might end within a week. Anticipation is based on ex- pectation that the Interna- tional Longshoremens’ Asso- ciation, now the key union in the settlement, would call for a referendum on the question of terminating the strike which is now in the eighty- eighth day. Freight Accepted All shipping companies are accepting freight subject to strike condition in all coast ports, it is said. A full coast committee of the ship owners also are to meet sometime today with the longshoremen and leaders are also attempting to negotiate a settlement with the checkers and clerks in their strike. E. F. Burke, of the Cooks and Stewards’ Union, said a feeler vote will be taken Thursday on the negotiated agreement. Two Unions Ballot The Marine Engineers Beneficial Association will take a similar ballot today. Harry Lundeberg, head of (Continuea on Page Two) LEGISLATORS PLEASED WITH PIONEER HOME Warm Pra-is—e Heard for Superintendent Hansen and Fine Institution SITKA, Alaska, Jan. 25.—Mem- bers of the Territorial Legislature from Juneau spent Saturday here making a thorough detailed inspec- tion of the Ploneers’ Home, each member meeting and interviewing personal friends from his Division. Their unanimous expression was that the Home is a magnificent institution and a worthy tribute to the Pioneers. They found only mi- ner complaints and the pioneers at the Home were universal in their praise of Superintendent Eiler Han- sen and their home. The only re- quest was for more eggs and “snoose.” The guests were royally entertain- ed in private homes here and at a dance. An enthusiastic mass meet- ing of pioneers was led by Repre- sentative H. H. McCutcheon of the Third Division Saturday evening and addresses were made by Speak- from St. Ann’s Hospital and return- led to his home, er Joe Green and Representatives Leo Rogge and George Laiblin,