The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1937, Page 1

MASS EVACUATION IS NOW PLANNED » A\ ) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” A, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2 VOL. XLIX., NO. 7392. STRIKE PHASES ARE REDUCED TO TWO BIG POINTS Complicated Controversy| Now Simmering Down to Major Issues HARRY LUNDEBERG MAKES STATEMENT| Tentative Accords Believed Near, According to San Francisco Mayor SAN FRANCISCA Cal, Jan. 27.— Complicated issues in the Pacific Coast maritime strike, narrowed to- Crisis in Morocco Causes French to Mobilize _ < General Nogues day to two major issues—handling of cargo of coastwise ships, also wage demands of clerks and checkers af- filiated with ‘the longshoremen. Harry Lundeberg, head of the Seamens’ Union, told those at the conference late yesterday, called by Mayor A. J. Rossi, said that “I be- lieve this thing is pretty close to a settlement.” Mayor Rossi, after listening to re-! New war clouds gathered on the European horizon as France mo- bilized 100,000 troops on the bor- der of Spanish Morocco, demand- ing that Spanish Fascists oust German forces reported to have been landed there. Gen. Albert Nogues is in command of the French Moroccan army. The city of Tangiers, where two German warships are stationed, is one of the principal ports of the treuble ports from both the unions and the ship owners’ representatives, said he agreed that at least tentative accords appeared near. MINISTER IS INVOLVED IN MYSTERY CASE His Girl-Wi—f—c:.s Dead, He Is Wounded—Charges to Be Preferred COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 27— Sheriff Sam Deal is placing guards around a hospital room where the “Rev. Harry' Ashley, aged 43, lay awounded. The Sheriff said he will dnsist that charges be filed against fthe minister if he recovers and ex- Yressed the belief that the minis-| ‘ter’s 17-year-old wife could not have ffired seven shots which killed her yesterday in their parsonage at ‘Ramah. Sheriff Deal said the minister had “recently accusel his girl-wife of in- Aidelity. The minister'’s wounds are wnot explained. HIFE OF RFC 1S EXTENDED; BILL SIGNED Major Lending Agency of Government to Operate Until June 30, 1939 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the bill 'extending the life of the.Recon- struction Finance Corporation, one of the Government’s major lending agencies, to June 30, 1939. The bill also made a similar pro- vision for three allied units, the :Commodity Credit Corpration, Ex- port and Import Bank and Elec- tric Farm Home Authority. Chairman Jesse Jones of the Re- construction Finance Corporation, said a fortnight ago, that the RFC paid out nine billion five hundred million dollars since its creation in 1932 and has been repaid more than four billion five hundred million dollars already. .Singer VAcEidentally gtabbed During Rehearsal by Lawrence | | Tibbett, Diesin N. Y. Hospital | | SENTENCES OF 'FOSHAY,HENLEY * ARE COMMUTED [President Reduces Time to Five Years—Both Eli- gible for Parole | WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — At- | J NEW YORK, Jan. 27— Joseph| )sterzlm, member of the Metropoli- tan Grand Opera Company, died |atmr being superficially wounded by 'a dagger Tuesday while rehearsing |a fighting part with Lawrence Tib-' | bett, singer of heroic opera roles. Sterzini was wounded in the left hand by an accidental thrust of the |dagger. He disregarded the injury |at the time and continued the re- +hearsal but the wound later became | painful and he was taken to a hos- | pital where he died five hours later. | Sterzini, who was 52, had been ill | recently with influenza | Tibbett was cleared of all blame | by the authoritics. zone. INTERIOR MAN SENDS BULLET INTO HIS HEAD |Pioneer of Circle District Is Suicide — Body Is Found in Cabin FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 27— Clarence Wheeler, about 80 years of age, a pioneer of the Circle District, ended his life Monday by shooting himself in the head, a report reach- ing here said. The body was found by John Fras- ca, mining man, in Wheeler’s cabin, close to Miller House, 100 miles north of here. 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS RELIEF FUND BILL QUICKLY PASSES HOUSE Measure Sent to Senate— Goes to Committee for | Early Report l IINGTON, Jan. 27—Senate 2 cue from the Houre i action on approval of the seven hundred and ninet, millicn dollar relief fund appropria tion. instructed the special commit- tee to make a quick study of the measure and make a report. The bill was rushed through the House yesterc Attempts by Representative Taber, | of New York, to cut the fund to five| hundred million dollars and by Rep- resentative Boileu, of Wisconsin, to increase it to one billion and forty million dollars, were both defeated. Senate that it w funds are ONE-TENTH OF AMUUNT TU AlD . by Roosevelt SUFFERERS IN 1 PULP PROPOSAL AGAIN OFFERED INLEGISLATURE Endorsement of Dimond Indian Bill Asked by Rep. Rogge > next week before the ailable. nice ocean voya Ten Million' Dollars Requir- ed to Help Red Cross mn OnEs WASHINGTON, oun, 27. — The Red Cross announced at noon to- day that $1,222,182 have been re- ceived in the ten million dollar drive for funds for aid of flood suf- ferers. e, Four bills, a memorial and one BRINGING MAIL resolution were tossed into the Ter- i ritorial House of Representatives | hopper this morning dealing with |torney General Homer S. Cum-| /mings announced today that Presi- NATURAL CAUSES |dent Roosevelt has commuted the| NEW YORK, Jan. 27—Assistant sentences of Wilbur Foshay and|District Attorney Slyvester Cosen- |H. H. Henley, of Minneapolis, Minn., tino announced this afternoon that | making them eligible to a parole the autopsy showed Sterzini died Wheeler had lived there for more| It is reported that the Coast a variety of subjects. than 40 years and had followed min- Guard cutter Haida, expected in Leo Rogge of the Fourth Division ing until he became unable recently. port during tonight enroute west- introduced a resolution which would He was troubled with an infection in ward, has mail aboard for Juneau. lend the Legislature's approval to one hand. |No mail was brought north from the Dimond bill now before Con- It is believed burial will be at|Seattle on the North Star. gress providing old age allowances le Leon Trotzky, exiled former Soviet Russian leader, and his wife are pictured as they arrived at Tampico, Mex., on the tanker Ruth after their deportation from Norway for continued political activity. Trotzky, offered a retreat in Mexico, said his health had been improved by a . (Associated Press Photo) General Motors Reprimanded for Refusal to ttend Peace Strike Meeting Joins with Secretary of Labor in Showing Disappointment DECISION IS MOST UNFORTUNATE ONE Corporation Head Explains! His Position Relating to Conference BULLETIN — Washington, Jan. 27.—Secretary of Labor Perkins said this afternoon, that a conference with Lewis and other spokesmen of the Gen- eral Motors “developed a situa- tion which will make a settle- “lmm»diawly. They are serving fif- teen years in Leavenworth Peni- {tentiary for fraududent use of the mails. Attorney General Cummings said hundreds of persons asked that |the sentences of Foshay and Hen- ley be reduced and on recommen- dations President Roosevelt reduc- |ed their sentences to five years, making them eligible to parole now. It is “assumed” Foshay and Hen- ley will apply at once for parole. They started their sentences in April, 1934, after conviction of fraudulent use of the mails in the sale of certain securities. Many Stories, Tragedy, Pathos Being Revealed {Man Suicides When Fails to Hear from Wife — Ten- ant Farmer Is Hero CHICAGO, 111, Jan. 27. — Many stories of tragedy and pathos are being revealed by flood conditions. Flying from Louisville on a spec- ial plane, Mrs. Louise Elrod arrived " lat Bedford to claim the body .of her Canned Saimon Now Moving to Marke_ts in East Fifteen Carloads Roll Out of Seattle—Fifty More Cars to Be Loaded SEATTLE, Jan. 27. — Fifteen freight cars of canned salmon, part of an estimated five million cases tied-up in waterfront terminals since the maritime strike was called October 29, rolled out of Seattle yes- terday for eastern markeis. The shipment will replenish the eastern and southern dealers’ stocks in time for the big Lenten sales also for National Salmon week, Febru- ary 12 to February 20. The fish was released under an agreement between the Pacific Canned Salmon Brokers Association and the longshoremen. Fifty more cars afe lined up for loading at various waterfront ware- houses. - — Mercury Slips Down to Give Juneau Cold Snap Juneau experienced its second coldest night of the month last {night when the mercury dropped “to 17.8 degrees above zero around 3:15 am. At 7 o'clock this morn- ing it was 18.1 in the city while "eports from out the highway gave temperatures ranging from zero to 11 below at Auk Lake. It was 6 above at Petersburg and 18 at Ket- chikan. On January 14 it dropped to 13 above here. | Meteorologist Howard J. Thomp- son reported that fair weather pre- vails generally in the coastal re- gions from the Aleutians to British Columbia. husband, Leroy. He had committed suicide on account of worry as to her safety when unable to com- municate with her. Fred Burk, aged 28, a tenant far- mer, carried his wife and new born baby, a mile through water up to his waist near Sikeston, Missou- ri, to safety. BARR DUE TO ARRIVE WITH 8 FROM ATLIN Pilot L. F. Barr, flying the North DEATH PLOTS - ARE REVEALED - SOVIET TRIAL | MOSCOW, Jan. 27—Ivan Kniaz- ‘eff, former Soviet Southern Railway chief, on trial with confessed plot- Canada Air Express Pilgrim plane, ters, testified that 63 persons were was scheduled to arrive at the killed in “one thousand” train wrecks Juneau airfield from Atlin, B. C., this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with eight passengers. Barr flew five passengers from ' Juneau to Atlin Monday. 'he organized. ! Kniazeff also accused a Japanese, |"Mr. X" with planning to infect Russian troop trains with deadly germs, 12 SEAPLANES OF NAVY PLAN RECORD FLIGHT Fleet Awaits Word of Weather Conditions Be- | fore Hopping for Hawaii | SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 27. — Twelve huge Navy seaplanes are| poised here awaiting word of favor-| able weather over the Mid-Pacific, | to start a 2,553 mile nonstop Ihng to Hawaii. 1 ‘This flight is the longest sus- tained flight proposed by a squa-| dron of seaplanes in aviation m:-f tory. | The start is expected to be made during the next 60 hours and is considered as only “routine.” Cordova Girl Is Elected to U. W. Theta Sigma Phi SEATTLE, Jan. 27.—Lorene Smith, of Cordova, Alaska, is among the coeds at the University of Wash- ington elected to membérship, in the Theta Sigma Phi, the women's journalism honorary. The 1936 California almond crop was the smallest since 1929. Emergency Slii};s Scheduled for Return SEATTLE, Jan. 27.—J. R. Ummel, purchasing agent for the Depart- ment of Interior and in charge of the emergency steamers to Alaska, said both the North Star and Gen.| W. C. Gorgas will make return trip: A late report this afternoon is for Indians under Federal repons- (that the approximate arrival time ibility. |of the Haida is 7:30 o'clock tonight. Pulp, often a subject of con- | P e T troversy before the Legislature and — e Congress, got back into the 13th | STOCK QUOTATICNS ‘ legislative picture when Ed Coffey | 4 of the Third offered a memorial urging that Congress pass & meas- NEW YORK, Jan. 21. — Closing yre similar to the old Dill bill quotation of Alaska Juneau mine yhich would place an embargo on ‘.mxik today is 14%, American Can» foreign pulp and pulp wood. Pur- 112%, American Light :nd Power pose of the proposal i§ an effori ‘14’::, Bethlehem Steel 77%, Calumet ¢ 1 omote the pulp industry in and Hecla 17, Commonwealth and ,jaees and, the memorial cites, Southern 3%, Curtiss Wright 7%. yj¢ would aid in solving the un- General Motors 664, Kennecott 58 " 4 ., employment problem by providing New York Central 41%, Southern o "0 "o 44 st Pacific 46%, United States Steel A Two measures were introduced Straight repeal of Section 367 of |the Compiled Laws, enacted in 1917 dealing with water rights on mining Trips to Alaska to Alaska and will sail north again the following week. Ummel said he is having no diffi- 88%, United Corporation 7%, Cities 1 16 by Mrs. Nell Scott of the Third. Segn e Tound M0 116, One would provide for communities outside of the incorporated towns to mle)ozil:vfi:: Sa;Vlégd:g:ISDow' incur bonded indebtedness to carry Jones averages: industrials 183.97, On Ppublic programs and the other up .78; rails 5477, up .53; utilities Tevises portions of the license tax 36.25, up .37. law so that attorneys, chiropractors s PR land others would be required to |pay their license taxes before prac- o ticing their professions. Jun“u ln'lte.‘l | Water-Mining Bill Up Again To Ice Carnival - | J. P. Anderson of the First Di- t3 i vision brought in a bill providing for At Fairbanks |revision of the primary election laws, levying a higher fee for fil- Tl:‘;hmh fhe g::}:“‘:;’s:;;zaz: of candidacies and setting up by R. E. Sheldon, President, Invltes: additional rgqulremem.s, particular- s e, President, S|y with relation to independent can- s to the Ice Carnival and gigates, Dog Derby to be held at Fairbanks in March. The invitation is as follows: “Fairbanks invites your town o claims, is sought in a bill intro- participate in the Ice Carnival and|duced by Andrew Nerland of the Dog Derby, March 11 to March 14. Fourth, The law has not worked out If young lady sent to compete for satisfactorily, Mr. Nerland explain- Miss Alaska here, expenses will be ed, and has a tendency to result in defrayed while in Fairbanks.” |a “hog in the manger” attitude on - the part of some holding water rights. The sectibn which he pro- poses to repeal and which passed the House two years ago only to be defeated in the Senate, rtads: “The locator of any mining claim {who shall include within the boun- daries of such claim both banks of any river, creek or stream, in the absence of any prior location and appropriation of the waters of said ment quite possible if the third party consents.” WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Presi-| dent Roosevelt has joined Secretary of Labor Perkins in reprimanding the General Motors Corporation in refusing to accept the Labor Secre- tary’s invitation to a strike peace conference. President Roosevelt, at a press conference, said he had told “every- body” he was “not only disappointed (n the refusal of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President of the General Motors Corporation, to come down here but I regarded it as very unfortunate decision on his part.” Previously, The Labor Secretary | had told the newsmen the General Motor Corporation “had failed in its public duty” and had made a “great mistake,” and had disregarded the moral challenge resulting fvom the | strike. SBecretary of Labor Perkins had asked Sloan and John L. Lewis, the alissimo, to meet here and work out an ap- proach to peace negotiations. President Sloan, of the General Motors Corporation, refused to come, saying he could not see his way clear to negotiate while striking United Automobile Workers of America still were in possession of General Mo- tors plants ds sit-down strikers. ARE CALLED BACK DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 27—Forty thousand General Motors employees have been called back to work on a part time basis which started without incident in ten plants in Michigan and Indiana. About 20~ 000 filed into the plants for what- ever work can be provided by the company, officials said, until the strikes in seventeen key plants are settled. S eee - ALLAN HOOVER NOW ENGAGED LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 27. — culty in obtaining union men to load and operate the ships. Ummel also said he was shopping river, creek or stream, shall be [Allan Henry Hoover, son of Her- entitled as against all subsequent|Pert Hoover, is engaged to marry locators of the waters of such stream | Miss Margaret Coberly, of Los An- to the use of all of the waters of |%€les, according to announcement to Alaska. They are expected to ar-;around for a cold storage ship with rive here during the first week in|which to send fresh vegetables to February from their present voyages | Alaska. M 7 —.imade here today. No date has been (Continued on Page Eight) set yet for the wedding. PRICE TEN CENTS RESIDENTS OF LOWLANDS TO BE MOVED OUT Army High Command Pre- pares for Action, Lower Mississippi Valley EXPECT FLOOD TO BE MOST SEVERE Area 100 Miles Wide, 1, 000 Miles Long to Be Af- fected by New Action WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — The | Army High Command, anticipating a much more serious flood along the Mississippi than on the Ohio | River, is prepared to evacuate all persons living on the lowlands within 50 miles of either side over the 1,000-mile stretch from Cairo, Illinols, to New Orleans. Thirty-five thousand motor trucks have already been mobolized for use in conjunction with railroad flat cars. Secretary of War Harry H Woodring said the mass evacuation, if necessary, will be ready to act by 6 o'clock Friday night, “but we hope we do not have to use the arrangements but we are prepared.” Secretary Woodring said he haa before him the Army Engineers' report of the new levees on the lower Mississippl River, hitherto untested. The levees are capable of handling only two million four hundred. thousand cubic feet of water a second while the Ohio River is expected to dump a mini- mum of three million cubic feet. A ‘“super flood” is- predicted by Lieut. Col. Eugene Reybold, District Chlef of Army Engineers, possibly within four or five days. | [Heports recelved here state thou- sands are stranded in the Mis- sissippi Basin and hunger and pes- tilence is writing a black picture of human misery. Influenza at Paducah, Kentucky, has reached epidemic proportions and pneumonia is increasing. 750,000 ARE HOMELESS IN FLODD AREAS Death Toll Has Reached 14]1—Regular Soldiers Move in Louisville CHICAGO, 1, Jan. 27.—Flood disaster tabulations made early this morning by the Associated Press |place the known dead at 141, esti- mated homeless at 750,000 persons and total damage three hundred million dollars. Kentucky places her victims at 53 with 300,000 homeless. The Health Commissioner at Louisville |estimates that probably 200 will die as the result of disease attributable to the flood. Regular soldiers moved in to act with the police at Louisville and an airplane brought in medical supplies. Three serious fires burned out overnight. In Ohio The State of Ohio places the dead there at 13 with an esti- mated homeless of 103,000. The Ohio |River has stopped rising at Cin- cinnat! and is holding close to an 80-foot level. Firemen were forced to use much of the emergency supply of water to extinguish a fire in an apartment house. Elec- tricity and water supplies function intermittently. In Ilinois There are six known dead in Illinois with 50,000 homeless. Relief workers aided one third of the 13,000 residents of Cairo. The Ohio fell six inches in the Cairo locality after a record peak of 586 feet. It is predicted the river might rise again to 60 or 61 feet. The bulwarks reach a 60~ foot level. Death Toll The toll by States is as follows: Kentucky 53, Arkansas 22, Mis- souri 14, Ohio 13, West Virginia 10, Indiana 9, Tennesse 9, Illinois 6, Pennsylvania 3, South Carolina 1, Mississippi 1. Hundrds Are Missing In addition to the death toll, hundreds are missing. \