The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1937, Page 2

END OF THE MONTH Suit CLEARANCE .M. Behrends Co., Inc. | Juneau’s Leading Department Store ) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27, 1937. Sale | ADDED TO OUR $40 $35 SUITS nation. CREE i s .75 Perkins’ Greeting | Madame Secretary Perkins, of | No Alterationé Star’s Suicide Prostrates Wife ant® Ross_Alexander | Mother _comforts Ann Nagel | % Despondent over the suicide of his Ross Alexander, screen star, shot and killed himself at his San Fer- pando, Cal., ranch. His second wife, Ann Nagel, whom he married first wife, Aleta Freile, a year ago several months ago, is shown being comforted by her mother. PROVISION OF SECURITY ACT UPHELD, COURT Tax for Aged Is Declared| Constitutional in One Test Case BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 27.——Fed- eral’ Judge George Sweeny today upheld the constitutionality pro- |vision of the Social Security Act stockholder, to prevent payment of | the tax by the Edison Electric II- lumination Company. The case is the first test of the provision in this district. PR 84t S R JERRY GOSSES BACK Following a business tour through the Interior and Westward sections of Alaska, on which they contacted old friends in many different towns, Mr. and Mrs| G. V. Goss returned to Juneau this morning on the Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa. RECE BUTTER Other Supplies Not Yet Itemized BERT’S CASH GROCERY FREE DELIVERY 211 Seward Street IVED N TODAY’'S BOAT | — EGGS Phone 105 SENATOR HOLT CONTINUES T0 KEEP PEEVISH Vice - President Garner Takes Hand—New Form, | Greeting, Labor Dept. By PRESTON GROVER { WABHINGTON, Jan. 27—It will give you an idea what an effort is seing made to bring Rush Holt back into the Senate majority fold to learn that Vice President Gar- ner himself took a hand — wlthuut‘ any especial success. | Holt and Senator Neely, both or | West Virginia, have been at each | other’s throats so bitterly they didn’t even carry out the ormality by which the incumbent Senator escorts the incoming Sena- | or to the stand to be sworn in. Neely, beginning a new term, start- 2d to walk down the aisle alone, Holt ignoring him utterly. Senator Robinson, majority leader, leaped into the breach to escort Neely to the stand. Senators relate that Garner made a personal call on Holt in an ef- fort to pacify the “baby senator” who has been cutting his teeth on| the WPA administration, Garner | was described as having come from he conference, eyebrows abristle, and simply sputtering with indig- Labor, has undertaken to spread good will and esprit de corps in her Department by suggesting all em- ployes greet each other with a friendly “hello,” or “good morning” as they meet in various offices or along the miles of winding corri- dors. M The idea has brought much spoof- ing among the employes but it re- mained for an elevator girl to put it to real use. She left her elevator to take a rest, ignored a couple of buzzes from the floor below, and then took a friend “express”to an- other floor before answering the now insistent ring. What was her amaze- ment to find she had kept Madame, the Secretary, waiting all this time. Catching her breath quickly, the girl said: i “Good morning, Miss Perkins.” The Perkins frown fluttered, and died. “Good morning,” she respond- ed, left the car at her floor, and nothing more was done about it. “I could have fainted,” the girl said, but didn’t. | DR Tugwell's Bill | Rex Tugwell, who rose to prom- inence early in the Roosevelt ad-| ministration by having his name attached to the food and drug bill, has left the Government but the | bill goes marching on. Senator Cope- land, who won’t have so much flood control business to oc¢upy his Com- merce Committee’s time this ses-l sion, plans to push hard to get the measure through. Last session he| worried it through the Senate but| it died in the House. | Still in the bill, though in re- vised form, is the section most dis- | liked by publishers. It is the sec- | tion which puts upon the publisher part of the responsibility for any | false or misleading statement in ad- vertisements about foods, medicines or cosmetics. How Benator Copeland came to| introduce the bill is told in a story circulating in the Agriculture De- partment, where Tugwell used to be ! Undersecretary. He and Jerome Frank, then AAA chief counsel, | drafted the bill in cooperation with | the Food and Drugs Administration which had been seeking a revision of the food and drug act for a quar- | ter century. They happened to be up on Capitol hill one day and in| casual conversation with Copeland mentioned the measure. “Let me| introduce it,” Copeland said. They | gave it to him and he did. It has |since provided him with three years of arduous committee work. JONES LAW, BONDED INDEBTEDNESS BEFORE CHAMBER TOMORROW A large attendance is expected at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon tomorrow noon in the Terminal Cafe as two matters of importance are expected to be dis- posed of. The Jones law again will be up for discussion and A. H. MecDon- ald, Alaska Steamship Company agent, will be present to talk on the question now before the Cham- ber of whether to ask for suspen- sion of the Alaska exclusion claust from the Merchant Marine Act during the strike. Report and possible action on the Dimond bill providing for a two million dollar bond also is scheduled to come up. { which provide a tax for the aged. Judge Sweeny denied the injunc- tion sought by George Davis, a Sports Briefs The Cincinnati Reds have the National league’s shortest manager in Charley Dressen and the tallest coaches in Tom Sheehan and Geo. Kelly. Brooklyn has produced three mid- dleweight boxing champions — the that | FIRST BIG GOLD HOARD PUT IN TR Here are big army trucks backed up to Uncle Sam's new treasure hou: Ing an estimated $200,000,000 from the Philadelphia mint, the first big shipment of gold for the deposi- togy. Subsequent shipments will soon make this spot the world's greatest gold cache. (Associated Press . Photo) GUAR SMEN INVADE STRIKE ZONE A contingent of the first Michigan national guardsmen to enter Flint, Mich., for auto strike patrol duty, is shown here. The guard was ordered out by Gov. Frank Murphy following violence at Flint’s Fisher Body plants. (Associated Press Photo) MINERS TO CONFER WITH MANAGEMENT ON WAGE MATTERS Graham, Ronald Lister, Martin and Charles Bloxham Bill Glaphke and Tom Taylor. Petitions were sign- ed at the meeting, which was said to represent all employees of the mine, and these petitions for a raise in wages will be presented the Superintendent, it was stated. — .- The first published work of James Joyce, the Irish author, was “Cnam- ber Music” which apy ed in 1907, Decision to name a committee to confer with General Superintenden? L. H. Metzgar of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company on wage ad- Jjustments was reached at a meet- ing of the Juneau Mine Workers Association last night, it was re- ported today. A committee of six was expected to meet with Mr. Metzgar at 4 o'clock this afternoon, report from the meeting said. The committee consists of Bob The National Park Service plans a long-range program for developing extensive recreational and educa- tional facilities in the Boulder Dam area. Where Gem Hoard Was Hidden Isaac Schusterman Discovery of a $350.000 hoard of jewels in a Brooklyn safety deposit box cleared up the mystery surrounding the fortune in gems which had been reported stolen by Joseph Rose. 64-year-old eccentric who lives in poverty and on relief yet owns a king's ransom in diamonds. Rose first accused a friend of having stolen the gems but later ad- mitted putting them in the bank vault His father, Isaac Schuster- man. §4. who claims the jewels are his, is pictured showing police original Jack Dempsey, who came into the title in 1884; Dave Rosen- berg and Al McCoy. where the gems had been cached under the porch of his home be- fore his son had taken them to the bank., — P EASURE HOUSE se at Fort Knox, Ky., and unload- CALIFORNIA FISH PLANTS MOVETOSEA Effort Now Being Made to Prevent Practice—Pe- tion Brought Out i | By SAM JACKSON | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Jan. 27.— It's all right for canneries to send boats out to catch fish, but when the cannery itself moves right out to sea—is that fair to the fish? This question is before California in an initiative petition designed to limit and possibly abolish an infant industry consisting of seven float- ing reduction plants that have been! thriving on the immense shoals of sardines off this coast. “Depletion” of the fisheries is the | charge brought by the backers of the i petition against this new high-speed | method of handling fish. | Cuts Expenses | “There is no depletion replies | the Pacific Coast Fisheries institute, representing the floating factories. | “This campaign is financed by the | shore reduction plants, just to pro- | tect their old time monopoly.” | The sardine “merchant marine,” | ,containing seven mother ships and | 1120 purse seiners representing an investment of $5,600,000, dates back | | to experiments in 1926. Stanley Hil- | |ler, a waste-products engineer, got | the idea then of canning and pro- | cessing fish at sea, thus avoiding the costly haul to shore plants. | His floating plant, the Lake Mira- | flores, got into steady operation in | 1930. It was successful and sea- | going factories began to multiply. | Profit Lies In Fish Oil | Operations are conducted by the | mother ship with fish cominually‘ fed by a fleet of seiners. The fish, | much larger than true sardines, | are known in the northwest at pilch- ards. But here they are called Cali- | fornia sardines. More than 100 tons | often are brought up with the single | casting of a net. | Out of each ton received 13'% cases are packed as human food as required by law. The remainder arzs precessed into oil and into fish meal. The latter is the real pay crop of the sardine shoals and it is receiv- ing increasing favor for fattening cattle and poultry and for fertil- izing the soil. Work In Dark Of Moon It is the claim of the operators that their men are the highest paid marine workers in the world. As for the 1,200 fishermen on the sein- ers, they have to work only in the dark of the moon. That is the only time the silvery banks of sardines, feeding on microscopic plankton, be- come visible, The fish meal ordinarily is sacked aboard the mother ships but the new 1 $500,000 S.S. Polarine merely stores |it in the hold, then loads is through | | a suction pipe into box cars, whence | it is distributed in various farm cen- ters. | While the floating factories oper- ate outside the three-mile limit in | international waters, the initiative | petition would curb them by mak- !ing the purse seiners amenable to | revocable permits from the state fish and game department. ‘The State Federation of Labor has entered the fight on the side of the {young industry. A resolution ap- ! proved in convention charges that |to put the floating reduction plants | out of operation merely would leave ‘Ithe waters open for exploitation by | the Japanese. 3 | - MIRACLE | DAYTON, Tex., Jan. 27.——15‘nther| | Divine, New York Harlem negro: |evangelist, has passed at least one | miracle—believes Louis Friedman. He received a letter from a ne- gro maid, a convert to Father| | Divine’s doctrine of “owe no man,” | who confessed taking $7.25 from | the Friedman home 33 years ago. | The money was enclosed. | e e | The Empress Josephine was born' on the island of Martinique, in 1763, 5 ! U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHKR BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Gureau; Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, Leginning at 4 p.m., Jan. 27. Fair and continued cold tonight Thursday; moderate to fresh easterly winds. ; LOCAL DATA i Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ~Weather 3 4 p.m. yest'y 30.45 21 32 NE 14 Clear 4 am. today 30.62 18 32 NE 12 Clear 12 nocn today 3053 21 ' 26 NE 12 Clear | CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS 1 YESTERDAY FODAY LD Highest 4pm. . | Lowestdam. dam. Precip. dam. | | Station temp. temp. temp. temp. velocitv 24hrs. Weather .| Atka . 38 36 | 32 36 14 58 Pt. Cldy Attu = | £cs Anchorage 13 i ¥ . — 0 Barrow 6 6 6 22 20 0 Cloudy Nome 32 30 | 28 32 18 20 Snow Bethel 38 32 2 34 20 0 Cloudy Fairbanks -2 -2 | -6 6 6 02 Clear Dawson -18 28 -3¢ -2 10 0 Cloudy '+ St. Paul 42 40 | 36 36 22 42 Dutch Harbor 44 44 36 38 8 53 Kediak 40 40 28 30 0 0 Cordova 34 34 20 24 8 0 Juneau 22 20 18 18 18 0 Clear Sitka 25 — 15 —_ - 0 Ketchikan .32 26 18 22 4 o Clear Prince Rupert 34 28 18 20 4 0 Clear Edmonton -4 -4 -20 -20 6 .08 Pt. Cldy Seattle 40 40 34 36 4 29 Cloudy Portland 40 40 | 36 36 6 .10 Pt. Cldy San Francisco ..... 50 50 38 38 4 26 Foggy ”l New York 4 36 26 26 12 0 Clear Washington 44 42 28 28 8 0 Clear =t ‘WEATHER CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle, cloudy, temperature 38; Blaine, cloudy, 32; Victoria, clou- dy, 34; Alert' Bay, clear, 32; Bull Harbor, clear, 31; Di 22; Langara, partly cloudy, 26; Ketchikan, clear, Craig, clear, 18; Wrangell, clear, 22; Petersburg, clear, 6; Sitk: clear, 15; Soapstone Point, clear, 29; Juneau, clear, 18; Radioville, clear, 22; Skagway, clear, 9; Cordova, clear, 22; Cape St. Elias, clear, 31; Chitina, clear, ~10; McCarthy, clear, -22; Anchoraze, partly cloudy, 7; Fairbanks, par ly cloudy, -4; Nenana, clear, 10; Ho! Springs, cloudy, zero; Tanana, snowing, 6; Ruby, snowing, 8; Nulato, snowing, 10; Ohagamute, clou- dy, 30; Flat, snowing, 31; Savoonga, partly cloudy, 20. WEATHER SYNOPSIS The storm area noted yesterday morning over the Aleutian Islands has moved rapidly northward and this morning the lowest reported over Alaska was 29.70 inches at Barrow. Another storm area prevailed over the coasts of Washington and Oregon, A moderate storm area also pr vailed over the Pacific Ocean between the Hawaiian and Midway Is- lands. Elsewhere over the field of observation high barometric pressure prevailed, the crest being 31.02 inches at Mayo. This general pressurc distribution has been attended by precipitation over the interior and western portions of Alaska, followed by clearing early this morning at Fairbanks. Fair weather along the coastal region from the. Aleutians southeastward to northern British Columbia. Moderately cold weather continued from the Gulf of Alaska south- J ward to northern British Columbia and eastward to the Macken § Valley, the lowest reported temperature being 44 below at Mayo, Yukec Territory. ™ L Cop Delivers Radio Baby Getting his instructions by radio from a doctor 15 miles away, Patrolmun George Butler of Irvington, N. Y., successfully delivered a baby at tue home of Mrs. Eleanor Moller where he answered an emergency ambulance call. The hero of the dramatic episode is shown above with the mother and baby, John, both of whom are doing nicely. PUT ON YOUR “PARTY FACE” For those February Social events, when fine clothes are in order . . . you'll want a FACE that will do justice to your costume. The Florence Shop offers complete service for festive preparations. Make an appointment today prepare now for THE PRESIDENT'S BALL! Beat February to the party. Florence Shop Specialty, including eyebrow arch, eyelash dye. 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