The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS VOL. XLIX., NO. 7391. * JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS WARNING OF WILL DISCUSS DEADLOCK IN COAST STRIKE , Workers' and Employers Representatives Are to Meet Today CONFERENCE CALLED BY MAYOR A. J. ROSSI Plan to Submit Arbitration to President’s Board May Be Proposed SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 26— Mayor A. J. Rossi announced at noon that representatives of both workers and employers have agreed to meet in his office late today and explain what is holding up a settlement of the Pacific Coast maritime strike. Mayor Rossi said the spokesmen have promised to outline their con- tentions at the meeting, which will be attended by California mayors, and if the situation appears to have reached an impasse, the group prob- ably will ask that both submit the deadlock to an arbitration board to be named by President Roosevelt. At least two striking unions are taking “feeler votes” on offers of the ship owners, | | | | KENTS GETS HIS ‘HEAD CHART’ BLACKMAILERS TRY T0 FRAME SCREEN ACTOR Federal Con;l;;nl Issued at Los Angeles Against One Woman and Two Men CLARK GABLE I§ INTENDED VICTIM Investigaliofiows Star in Northwest When Suppos- ed to Be in England LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26—A Ped- eral complaint has been issued against Mrs. Violet Wells-Norton, of Winnipeg; Jack L. Smith, local pri- vate detective, and Frank James Kienan, Winnipeg rooming house proprietor, charging they conspired to obtain money from Clark Gable on the claim the screen star is the father of the woman’s thirteen= year-old daughter. “I never heard of Mrs. Nortom. This woman apparently is suffering from some kind of a delusion but X am sick and tired of being pestered by her,” Gable said. The complaint was filed by United States Attorney Pierson Hall. Federal officials said Mrs. Norton set forth in letters that she met Gable in Long Shorewood, Billerick- Essex, England, 13 years ago, and that he was then known as Frank THEY’RE THE BACKBONE OF THE These three labor leaders forming the chiet strategy group in the au tured as they held a council of war at Washington in the campaign to into industrial unions. Left to right: John Brophy, C. I. O. orgamizer United Automobile Workers, and John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization. (Associated Press Photo) BIG PLANT IS DESTROYED AS = Levee System AUTO STRIKE tomobile workers’ strike are plc: organize mass production worke: ; Homer Martin, president ot the CONGRESS GETS SHARP DEMAND “SUPER FLOOD™ IS GIVEN OHIO POURING FLOOD WATERS INTO NEW AREA Next Calamity Forecast as Taking Place in Mis- sissippi Valley DEVASTATION PATH REPORTED SPREADING Panic, Pestilence, Famine, Fire Keep Menacing Many Cities Today CHICAGO, Jan, 26. — Ominous warning of a “super flood” in the vast Missippi Valley, today added to the fury of the rampaging Ohio riv- er as that great body continued & wide path of devasiation on the Middle Western states. The danger is now in the lower Mississippi area where 600,000 were made homeless in '27. This developed as the Ohie began pouring into the Vississippi River at Cairo, Illinois. Lieut. Col. Eugene Reybold, Dis- irict Chief of the United States rmy, at Memphis, gave the warn- az and predicted general stages along the river of some ten feet be- yond the records of '13 and '27, com= panion disasters. Panic, famine, pestilence and fire constantly menaced cities and towns in eleven states in the flood area | Billings. She claimed she engaged him as tutor to the eldest of her |then three children. Gable said he was never in Eng- land. Federal officers said investigation showed that at the time it is |claimed Gable was in Engand, he holding more than one third of the nation’s population. FLOOD RAGES s Thrown Open FROMROOSEVELT Legislators Told’ité *“Step On” Relief Measure Now Being Debated POLIGE GLASH ! London got a juicy morsel for gossip when the Duke of Kent visited | a phrenologist to have his head “read” in a 15-minute consultation. | WITH PICKETS; Accompanied by Mrs. William Allen, the Duke is shown as he left | carrying his “head chart” in his hand. He was told he had a “very nicely balanced head.” (Associated Press Photo) AT CINCINNATI CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 26.—The situation here is more serious than Explosions in Varnish Fav- Test of Flood Prevention tory at Louisville Measure Being Made— Headway Dynamited .. FIVE ARE HURT General Motors’ Strike Spreads to Coast—Ne- gotiations Stalled BULLETIN — Washington, Jan. 26. — Secretary of Labor Perkins said the General Mo- tors Corporation has “failed in its public duty” in refusing to accept her invitation to attend a strike peace conference. DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 26.—Police and pickets clashed again today in the three weeks' General Motors strike. Five persons were hurt as union PIONEERS' HOM WINS APPROVA OF LEGISLATORS Lawmakers Have Only Words of Praise for Fine Institution at Sitka Unanimous |for the Alaska Pioneers’ Home and |its management came from Terri- 45. expression of praise \Brief Summary | | Of Results, [ Present Flood [ ! (By Associated Press) The following is 2 brief summary of flood conditions as reported early | this morning, including the probable | toll of death: | Homeless at least 550,000 | Dead at least 132 in eleven states as follows: | Kentucky, 44, including estimate of |twelve in reformatory riot in which one official said the toll might reach | | Tennessee 23. J | Arkansas 18. [ Ohio 13. was in the Pacific-Northwest work- * ing variously as a Portland Depart- ment store clerk, hop picket, tele- phone lineman and lumberjack. Mrs. Norton has been arraigned on extortion charges before United States Commissioner David Head and her bail set at $2,500. Asked if she could raise that amount, Mrs. North replied: “I have got only $3 between me and starvation.” She was remanded to the county jail. Counsel asked that Mrs. Norton be permitted to tell her story to the grand jury tomorrow. Gable’s first wife, Josephine Dil- lon, came to his defense by saying the whole story was very silly. R A men sought to prevent office work- | ers from entering the Cadillac plant, including one woman. Three persons were hurt in a torial Legislators today after their return last night from a week end inspection trip to the institution at Tl |Sitka. The pioneers in the Home similar clash at Anderson, Ind. are happy and contented; they like S."n“ Bpsensts West .. _{Superintendent . Eiler Hansen, and According to advices, the strike gnere gre virtually no complaints extended from coast to coast today |y the general sentiment voiced by e, SLAYER OF FOUR ‘ GOES TO DEATH Illinois 3. Mississippi 1. Pennsylvania 1. South Carolina 1 | Cause Blaze | LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 26. — The | CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 26.—~Guards- | big plant of the Louisville Varnish men near Cairo today dynamited | Company blazed today and was the Birds Point-New Madrid nood—} practically destroyed with a loss of |way levee, sending water into the several hundred thousand dollars. |great twenty-one million dollar sys- Two negroes were dronwed trying tem of dikes and levees built along to escape from the flames which a 300-mile front after the disaster | followed a dozen explosions. of '21. | The flood stage here this after-| rrnis is the first test of the giant noon is 56.9 feet with a previous high | flood prevention medasure. | record of 46.7 feet. Gr B S L It is estimated that 230,000 citi- GNAL Rps SIGNAL CORPS It is expected that by tonight there wil be no electricity and the city will be in darkness. All food is being removed from stores and warehouses in the flood- ed areas. Drinking water service is limited. o v e v FL Q0D VIGTIMS CANADIANSTO zens are homeless. Funds Raised by Alaska Red Cross to Be Sent Free to Seattle |ty million dollar relief request to | yesterday and is gro L * Drinking W'D‘W WASHINGTON, Jan. '26.~Presi- (luted and the Health Department dent Roosevelt today sent out 4 linsists on boiling the water. crisp command . to legislators de-| The fresh water ration has been bating the seven hundred and nine- |cut to one hour daily, “step on it The President sent word that Lo{,‘;g&:i;’” {-(gu IB‘;I :l::l.“u.— the fund, originally intended ’°Y‘Troope moved into this city this the care of work relief, will be ap- 1momlns to complete evacuation of propriated to the flood suflerers,| more than two thirds of the city’s Works Progress Administrator 330000 inhabitants. Hopkins, from reports he has Te-| The city is under military rule, ceived, estimates that at least 657, 'clamped down by Gov. Chandler, 000 will be homeless by tomorrow who acted despite the fact he said or Thursday. he did not have such authority un= |der the state constutution. IS UP TO HOUSE WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Speak- or Bankhead told the ne' en early TROOPS ON PATROL CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—According to this afternoon that he is holding the House in session today until ic| passes the seven hundred and ninety million dollar relief deficiency bill | counted upon as ficod relief funds. The Speaker said an agreement | to limit debate will be sought and | advices recetved here this afternoon, martial law has been ordered in eastern Arkansas and troops patroll~ ed weakened levees on both sides of the river, acting in conjunction with troops from Tennessee. Red Cross officials have a report for the first time. At Oakland, Cal, Chevrolet and Fisher Body plants were affected. Frank Slaby, local union head, claimed that half of 3,000 employees in the two Oakland plants are out but managers dis- puted this by saying reductions are due to illness of those employed. May Re-open Plants General Motors officials have completed plans, they announce, for the return of 40,000 of its more than 125,000 idle employees. They pnnounced ten plants in Michigan and Indiana will reopen tomorrow. Negotiations Stalled Government efforts to negotiate the strike are reported stalled again today by refusal of President Sloan, of the General Motors Corporation, to confer with union leaders “while its men hold our plants unlawfully.” This is in reference to the sit-down strikers. LEGISLATORS ARE LUNCHEON GUESTS, GOVERNOR’S HOME Guests of Gov. John W. Troy at luncheon today in the Governor’s house were members of the Legis- lature: Senators M. E. 8. Brunelle, Norman R. Walker, Victor C. Rivers; the lawmakers. The following are some of the expressions: Harry Race, Firsy Division — “T made a thorough investigation. talked to most of the men and I did not hear one complaint. The in- stitution is a model home and run properly. And I want to say that we had par excellent service on the Brant. Mr. Wingard and his staff did everything to make our trip pleasant.” Leo Rogge, Fourth Division — “We had wonderful service on the Seal making the trip and I want person- ally to thank Mr. Dufresne of the Game Commission and his men for a delightful trip. We were just treated royally. That goes for Sitka and the Pioneers’ Home, too. The Home is a fine place. They are won- derful buildings. The men in the Home are very well satisfied as a whole. T found everything satisfac- tory and in tip-top shape. I was greatly impressed with the fine re- ception given us by the men at the Saturday session we had with them. Speaker Green represented the First Division, Mr. Laiblin, the Second, Mr. Coffey, the Third, myself, the Fourth and Mr. McCutcheon pre- sided. It was a most satisfactory meeting, as was the entire trip.” John Lichtenberg, Second Divis- Representatives Edward Coffey, Dan [ion—"I talked to the men at the Kennedy, James V. Davis, John|Home from Nome and the Second Lichtenberg, and Leo Rogge. Division and found them all satis- Others attending the luncheon|fled. They had no complaints, and were J. J. Connors, James S. Truitt, | everything appeared to me to be in Anthony E. Karnes, Wm. T. Mahon- ey, M. E. Monagle and Robert Bender. Mussolini’s Son to Wed on Feb. 6 ROME, Jan. 26—Vittorio Musso- lini, the premier's oldest son, is good conditio: | George Laiblin, Second Division —“We found everybody contented. T heard only a few complaints and they were of a minor nature as might be expected. On the whole everything was in fine shape.” Joe Green, First Division — “The men are contented. Conditions ap- peared to be satisfactory on the whole.” rushing his plans to wed Signorina Carla Buvoli of Milani on February 6. The couple expect to go to New York and Hollywood on their hon- eymoon. H. H. McCutcheon, Third Division appear entirely contended. (Continuea on Page Two) I saw —"“The men have everything and’ Property damage, more than $300,- | 000,000. | PLANE CRASH PILOT GIVEN HiGH PRAISE Did Everything Possible to| Avert Accident, Says Jury at L. A. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 26—-A coroner’s jury, by a vote of eight to one, decided that the deaths of five persons in the plane crash near Newhall on January 12, was acci- dental. The jury held that Pilot W. W.| Lewis “did everything in his power” to avoid the crash. - S L e | 8TOCK QUOTATIONS | e s a6 NEW YORK, Jan, 26. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 142, American Can 112%, American Power and Light Anaconda 52%, Steel 767, Calumet and Hecla 16%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors 65%, International Harvester 105, Kennecott 58'%, New York Central 407%, Southern Pacific 46%, United States Steel 85%, United Corpora- tion 7%, Cities Service 4%, Pound $4.90 13/16. 13%, Bethlehem DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 183.19, INGAS CHAMBER Former Convict Pays with Own Life for Killings in $40 Hold-up CARSON CITY, Nevada, Jan. 26 —Luther Jones, aged 32, former convict of Indiana and Montana, who murdered four men near Elko in a $40 hold-up last October, paid with his life in the gas chamber here today. One minute and a half after pel- lets were dropped into a bucket. Jones slumped unconscious and death was soon announced. Among the forty witnesses were W. 8. Dressler, brother-in-law of Otto Heitman, aged 42, Douglas County Commissioner, one of the victims of the hold-up. Anchorage Has No Forms for Social Security Act ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 26. Forms for issuing account numbers under the Social Security program have not been received here and nothing has been done to enlist em- ployes under the act. Those who are ready to dig down in their jeans to aid the flood suf- ferers in the Mid-West, need have Ino fear that the shipping strike wili CONTRIBUTE TO FLOOD RELIEF ;. National Commander, Col.!contributions to the spots where they ‘every effort” will be made to ob-|from Charleston, Indiana, reporting tain passage of the deficiency bill [more than 2,000 flood victims there before nightfall. !bmng housed in churches and in - i —sits |schools. . One of “Three PUMPING STATION FAILS EVANSVILLE, Indiana, Jan. 26.— 5 .. |are needed. Biggar, Makes Announce | Gov. John W. Troy announced this ment at Toronto \morning that he is in receipt of a |wireless message outlining the ar- TORONTO, Jan. 26—Col. J. L. rangements that have been made for Biggar, National Commander of the the transfer of funds raised by Alas- Canadian Red Cross Society, an-|kan Red Cross chapters to the head- nounces the society will receive con- quarters from where they will be dis- tributions from Canadians wishing ‘bursed in the fight to relieve those to aid the flood stricken citizens Who have suffered as a result of the of the United States. |flood ravages. The contributions will be turned Through the courtesy of the U. 8. over to the American Red Cross, Army Signal Corps, funds may be Col. Biggar said. transferred free of charge by tele- - — - graphic money order to Seattle, eith~ er direct from the individual Red Peg Lex Freezes Cross representatives in Alaska from | Mlll, 71, to Ground the points where they are raised, or may be consolidated in some cen- POPLAR BLUFF, Ma., Jan. 26— tral point in the Territory and then J. W. Stanley’s peg leg was blamed sent on to Seattle. for the seventy-one-year-old man’s; From Seattle the funds may be critical condition from exposure. sent to their destination, either by The peg froze in the mud while air mail, or by money order transfer Stanley stumped along a country over regular commercial wires on road. He was trapped three hours. payment of the regular tolls. M illions‘/Wilibd»nce So~ that Thousands May Walk WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.— “Mil- lions will dance that thousand may ~ First Liberian The pumping station in this city, |with a population of 102,000, failed |this afternoon. There are, however, twenty million gallons in storage, enough to last for one week with frugal use. Military rule was obs served here this afternoon. R's” Modified Jan. 26.—One of the will undergo modifica- tion soon in the first and second | grades of the public school here. ’I‘he} CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—A scout pl cnventional longhand method of returning here this after after vriting will give way to printing °r'rlyinrv over various . flood. sdd the letters of the alphabet. School,mpmj’md that only ou m‘m officials said the “kinaesthetic,” of| wife iry A l'"‘ mp' muscle sense method, improves the| > ocalities. spelling. Pupils will trace letters in| 5 — printed form until they get the l‘)‘,zEz‘gnfiAgfe:flI%s feel” of them e 5 Take Weoa et T omu“ . Fairbanks. The bride has been mak- PASSENGERS TOKETCHIKAN “three R’ ROOF TOPS SHOWING at Standard, where the newlyweds will make their home. REFUBEES LOSE | i “It immediately brings to mind | “he condition of the little children walk.” {who will benefit from the affair. That is the official Washington| “We believe it exemplifies, better slogan again this year for the Presi- than any other one phrase, the ob- dent’s birthday ball on January 30, |jective of the event. We will not proceeds from which will go towards |have millions dancing here, but a national fund for the care of chil- | there will be literally millions danc- dren afflicted with infantile paraly- |ing throughout the country and for sis. Commissioner George E. Allen, | these dancing millions there will be |real thousands of little ones who chairman of the local committee|will get a chance to recover from down 243; rails 54.24, down 1.09; utilities 35.38, down .60. who selected the popular slogan last | the grim ravages of infantile paral- year, said: ysis.” \privileges for Liberians in Japan.|day night at 8 o'clock. circ[es Glohe, . MONROVIA, Liberia, Jan. 26— Gabriel L. Dennis, secretary of the| treasury of Liberia, has just be- come the first Liberian ever to trav- el around the world. On his 50,000 mile tour he gath- ered economic information which he will attempt to apply to his coun- try, and he completed at trade| agreement with Japan which grant-| ed the Japanese liberal rights in Liberia in return for unspecified; | Connections Will Be Made| There with Special Steamer for South Canadian steamer Princess Ade- {laide is making a special trip to Ketchikan on Friday to relieve the | passenger congestion there, The AAT | will make several flights from Ju- |neau to take passengers south from here to make connections with the steamer. The Princess Adelaide is scheduled to arrive at Ketchikan Friday morn- ing and sails south from there Fri- | THEIR LIVES AS BARGE CAPSIZES Fourteen Reported Drown- ed at Paducah, Ken- tucky, This Morning PADUCAH, Kentucky, Jan. 26.— Fourteen persons were drowned this tnorning when a barge, loaded with refugees, capsized in the muddy flood waters of the city streets. This is the announcement made by Red Cross officials.