The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “4LL THE NEWS LIFE SAVING FORCES TURN TO SOUTHLAND All Eyes Watching “Moth-| of Waters” as Crest | Pours Toward Gulf | | MILLION PERSONS ARE WITHOUT HOMES | Death Toll Vatiously Esti-| mated from Two to Four Hundred CHICAGO, I, Jan. 28—The ti- tanic struggle to tame the “Mother | of Waters” approached a climax to-| day as Federal life saving forces mobliized for action deep In the south in event the Mississippi aga:nb conquers. H Incomplete figures, revised to noon | today, indicated that between 200 and 400 are dead and at least 1,000,- | 000 persons are homeless. Property Damage The Property damage is estimat- ed, to date, at four hundred million dollars as the result of the Nation’s mightiest flood. Stricken Ohio hoped todsy that the worst is over and planned reha- bilitation. The full story of the havoc will not be known perhaps for days. Dead In Trenches | Louisville, Ky., has buried its dead in trenches. The number of lives lost is a conjecture. Mayor Miller said are dead here alone. This state- | ment was made after Health offi- cere admitted 130 bodies have been recovered. | The threat of disease still lingers at Cincinnati where water flowed | into the mains from artesian wells. System Holding Army Engineers announce that the Mississippi’s billion dollar dike system from Cairo to the Gulf has showed no signs of weakness and the hope is expressed that there will be no need for the mass evacuation of those on the lowlands from 50 miles on each side of the Missfssippi | for the distance of 1,000 miles. The War Department has how- ever, advised the Federal Army to be ready for emergency. TIPTONVILLE THREATENED TIPTONVILLE, Tenn. Jan. 28— Levee workers began this afternoon in a desperate battle to save the dike | above this town. A sudden rise of | rushing water, evidentally caused | by rain, threatens the spillway. | RAIN AT LOUISVILLE { LOUISVILLE, Ky. Jan. 28.—Rain began falling here again this after- | noon, causing further apprehension. e ————— RECORD RAINS CAUSE FLOODS IN SHORT TIME| WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—Charles| Clark, Assistant Chief of the Weath- er Bureau here, said rains are caus- ing the present floods, the greatest ever recorded in such a short time over such a large area. Clark said Johnville, Tennessee, had 23% inches for the first 26 days this month, which is equivalent to a downpour of 2,611 tons of wa- ter to the acre. Parts of Kentucky and sections of Tennessee reported more than 20 inches or five or six times more than usual. College Suggested as 1‘ Good Spiritual Field| | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 28.—Col- | lege is a great plan by which | youth may ‘gain & spiritual outlook | upon the world, Dr. John G. Bow- | man, chancellor of the University of | Pittsburgh, says. | Commenting on the aims and| purposes of higher education, Dr. Bowman says that ideals of nobil- ity, of kindness, of tolerance, and of faith are important ends. ! “nehestall, OW ON MISSI MASS FLIGHT | OF SEAPLANES | CANADA RULED | IS UNDERWAY in Air at San Diego for Hawaii FOUR SCORES OF OFFICERS ABOARD| Voyage @ Pacific to Pearl Harbor Expected to Take 20 Hours SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 28.—The greatest mass Naval trans-oceanic flight ever atempted, officially got under way at 8:30 o'clock this morn= ing. Twelve new giant patrol seaplanes went into formation at an altitude of 10,000 feet above Point Loma .Headland and then sped out over | |minutes for the ships to get intoipirc | | old, he's 18 % some difficulty del Rio, world’s smallest midget. Thirteen ‘Wweighs twelve pounts; and seeme“ be he with hisluggage. Meet Plottérs in Attempt to Extort Money from Film LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 28— Indictments charging sonspiracy and mail fraud have been returned by the Federal Grand Jury here against Mrs. Violet Wells Norton, who declares her 13-year-old daugh- |ter is the child of Clark Gable, film |actor. Jack Smith, private investigator, and Frank Kienan, the later de- scribed - as a Winnipeg rooming | BEING CAIRO EVACUATED AS RIVER RISES the Pacific It required one hour and eight formation after the first seaplane left the water. Lieutenant Commander W. H. Me-~ Dade is in command of the fllgm[ and there are four score of officers aboard the twelve seaplanes. After the formation was made and the signal start was given, a radio message announced that the sear! plane sguadron. 6xpect. to alight Pear] Harbor within 20 hours. Six naval vessels are on duty ajong the ocean course to give any aid; if necessary. JUNEAU C. OF C. Actor Under hiliament;UPPUSES DIMUND BOND M_E_ASUHE; Jones Law Suspension Also Voted Down After Steam- ship Co. Agent Talks By a vote of approximately two s ALL THE TIM AY, JANUARY 28, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS IN COAST STRIKE ABOR ACT OF | ILLEGAL LAW E iTwelve Giant Naval Planes{Parliament kEx::eeded Au- thority in Passing Cer- tain Legislation DECISION RENDERED BY HIGHEST BODY Unemployment Insurance Hours, Minimum Wages Declared Null and Void LONDON, Jan. 28.—Mass legisla- | tion thr 1 which the Canadian; Parliament s empl 1t Jabor and minimum wages, also regulations arketing, has bt_’(’nl uled unconstitutional | The decision was announced today by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. This committee is| the highest judicial body in the Em-: insurance, hours for for The judicial body held that Pm’-ll liament, in enacting the law of 1934, | exceeded its authority. i - HOUSE MEMBERS YAGE PROGRAM. FOR AIR FIELDS iFoquh Division Represen-| tatives Back $2,900,000 Development Plan | I [ Urging Presiden. Roosevelt and! Congress to continue with a pro- gram of airfield development in Al-| aska and particularly to carry for-| |ward the proposal which has been| | recommended calling for an expen-| |diture of $2900000 to that end,| Representatives Victor Ross and | {Dan Green of the Fourth Division | |introduced a memorial in the Ter-| |ritorial House this morning. The | memorial cites the urgent need for Only Men Kept Desperate- ly at Work. Strength- ening Dikes CAIRO, 1Il, Jan. 28—Only men remained today in Cairo and they are bolstering the 60-foot seawall against a four foot rise. Eight thousand persons, mostly women and children and aged, have fled from the town. o — Rehabilitation house proprietor and retired rail-/t, one, the Juneau Chamber of better air transportation facilities road man, have also been indicted| commerce went on record opposing in the Territory as a means of de- | as Mrs. Norton's co-conspirators inghe passage by Congress of the bill veloping mining and other indus-| the plot to extort money from '-he;int,roduced by Alaska Delegate An-. tries, film actor. {thony J. Dimond which would per-' Four other memorials were offered Gable branded Mrs. Norton's stOry | mit the Territory to incur bonded in the House today. George Laib- as false and fantastic. |indebtedness up to $2,000000 for'lin of the Second brought in two, Mrs. Norton alleged that Gableipubm works, the theory of the billlone asking for a road from near| was then known as Frank Bil-|peing that the Federal government Mile 48 on the Nome-Shelton Tram lings, was engaged s tutor to the would match the sum in develop-|to the Iron Creck mining district, | eldest of her then three children in ing transportation facilities with the ' and another urging further naviga- | England. aim of greater development. tion lights in the Kotzebue Sound Investigators said Gable at the| Recommendation that the bill be |area, time was in the Pacific Northwest|opposed was brought in by the Leg-| Green and Ross of the Fourth| jas clerk in a Portland department jglative Committee made up of Allen {urged a road from Tacotna to al |store, hop picker, telephone line- Shattuck, = Walsteon Smith and ! junction of Nixon Fork, a distance of | man and lumberjack. Howard Stabler. Mr. Shatluvk,iabouz 16 miles, to serve the msmngf chairman of the committee in ex- communities of Tacotna, McGrath ! | | | | | | | | FOR BLOOD TEST As Alaskan Department Accepted Two Tro ught to establish un-| § Left ‘departm: Ahe, ““Mirs, Eunice Hahh, act S phies 7 t: Miss Florence Tobin, past President of ho Alaska tve duiiliey resented their organization at the recent Cleveland, Ohio, national convention. Before them are two trophies presented io the Alaska Depariment by national headquarters of the organization for out- standing membership and other activities. ‘Railroad Tower Watchman Averts Disaster at Tacoma when Freight on Wild Dash Tom Mooney Fairly Convicted Is Report Made SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 28.—A. E. Shaw, special referee of the California State Supreme Court, holds that Tom Mooney was fairly convicted in the Pre- paredness Day bombings. His special findings were made in a report today. COUNTERFEITS AT ANCHORAGE LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28. — Coun- | sel for Mrs. Norton today promised | plaining the recommendation, said!and Ganes Creek, and Representa- that industries of the Territory were|tive Leo Rogge of the Fourth, in- now taxed to the limit and that costs|troduced a resolution on the same |Residents Are Warned to that he will demand a blood test to| “determine if” Clark Gable is the/ in Flood Areas |father of Mrs. Norton’s daughter ,Gwendolyn. The attorney, Joseph | 1 llion Fainer, also said that “in addition | Eshmates Run ,Into Bl“lonl will ask that he appear in person‘\ Dollars — Single Ex- i before her.” 3 L e pense Estimated i 1 !l sTock QuUOTATIONS CHICAGO, Il1, Jan. 28.—Tie cost | & g3 of rehabilitation in the flood sec-| tion is now of paramount interes:.! &, oun. 28. — Closing | Northern Ohio Valley drew esti- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine mates running into the billions of stock today is 14%, American Can dollars. !111, American Light and Power 13%, | Officials said the average cost of Commonwealth and Southern 3%, | cleaning 'and drying out a single Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors flooded home is at least $250. IGB%. International Harvester 105%, | i |Kennecott 57%, New York Central | 141%, Southern Pacific 45%, United 3 |States Steel 91%, United Corpora- | Washington House [tion 74, Cities Service 4%, Pound | Now Wants Defense 54897, Calumet and Hecla 16%. | For Pacific Coa“} DOW, JONES AVERAGE The following are today's Dow, OLYMPIA, Wash.,, Jan. 28—With jones averages: industrials 183.41, ! a right about face, the House of the down .56; rails 5445, down .32; utili- | Washington State Legislature toda'l"ties 35.87, down .38. revived the memorial asking Con- —————— gress to provide for adequate Pacific | Coast Defenses and the memorial was turned over to the Rules Com- Haven, Fla, is studying possible by- mittee for action and for final pas- products of the state’s citrus indus- sage at a later date. A previous try, including oils, wines and syr- -~ ’ | A Federal laboratory af Wmter; of government were rising. He ar- gued that if taxation was increased to pay off the bonded indebtedness it might tend to drive industries from the Territory. He declared himself opposed to the Territory going into debt, particularly, he said, because of the rising cost of gov- ernment. Denies Motion Effort was made to table the mat- ter until next meeting to permit !A. H. McDonald, Alaska Steamship Company agent, more time to talk on the Jones Act matter before the Chamber, but President George W.| Folta ruled the motion to that ef- fect by A. E. Karnes out of order. Arguing for the Dimond bill, James J. Connors declared that there was a great deal of talk by the Cham- ber and others for developing Al- aska and for more home rule but |that nothing much was done about |it except talk until such time as an action pointing toward development, such as he described the Dimond measure, came along and then it was opposed. Mr. Connors pointed out that it was & poor argument for more home rule and for development if the Ter- ritory failed to take some steps to show Congress that it was interest- ed in the matter itself. The first memorial was tabled. ups, for carbonated drinks. (Continuea on Page Seven) subject but providing for an appro- | priation of $30,000 for the%work. Immediate construction of a court house at Anchorage is asked in a | memorial to Congress by Ed Coffey and Dan Kennedy of the Third. Ef- fort was made to get immediate ac- tion on the proposal, but after it was read in full it was decided to |send it to the Municipal Affairs committee first for study. It con- ,‘Lalned a long telegram from offic- ials in Anchorage pointing out that |the present building is reported un- | safe. Three bills we:c tossed in the hop- per. Green and Ross of the Fourth introduced a measure which pro- | hibits ' the throwing of garbage or waste matter on any highway or within 300 feet of any highway.| This would affect the Juneau City | garbage dump on the Thane road| which is right at the side of the! highway. Rogge of the Fourth of-| fered a bill which would amend| the old age allowance law to make| maximum payments to both men| and women $45 per month. The| pres-ent law now limits it to $35 for men and $45 for women. A Similar bill to one whi much controversy last sest (Continued on Page Seven) Watch for Metal Dol- lars, Also Halves ANCHORAGE, ka, Jan. 28— EDistrict Attorney J. W. Kehoe la counterfeit metal dollar, also a| |half dollar, has been picked up here : {He warned residents to be on the |alert for counterfeit coins. . —— — FORTUNE IN BY OFFICERS One Hundred Thousand Dollars Worth Located on Ship’s Anchor Chain VANCOUVER, BC. Jan. 2. IThe authorities are holding about $100,000 worth of narcotics dragged | h caused | from the Fraser River on the anchor | House Ways and Means Committee n r n wnsl introduced by H. H. McCutcheon orl chain of the Japanese ship Gyokou Maru. The authorities expressed hopes of finding the importer. little | " DOPE FOUND TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 28.—A rall- |rcud tower watchman, hearing the screetching whistle of a 40-car Great Northern freight train speeding at 60 miles an hour through the city when the air breaks on the last 28 cars failed, switched the train onto a long siding. | Trainmen quickly went over the tops of the cars and applied the (hand brakes, thus stopping them. | The train, in the wild dash, roared |over six grade crossings, includ- ing the city’s main thoroughfare. Only by the watchfulness of the tower watchman was perhaps a ma- Jjor disaster averted. 24 BLUE FOXES ARE AIRPLANED TO AN"HOTAGE Kodiak Farmer Flies Ani- mals to Exhibit at Fur Rendezvous ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 228 — nt 1e blue fox were airplaned here from Kodiak yesterday to be an »xhibit at the Fur Rendezvous op- ning on February 14. A. W. Ben- tt sent the foxes.here with Pilot neth Neese. nnett plans to build a minia- fur farm here, demonstrating ew type of self ning fox pen| h he claims will permit house-| olders to raise fox as a sideline. | Pilot Nees aid the foxes clawed| and barked when being loaded on! board the plane, but quieted down as oon as they took the air and seemed | to enjoy the flight - e - Committee of House Approves FDR Authority WASHINGTON, Jan, 28. — The| has given approval of the bill to extend for three years the Presi- SIPPI B e ] PROPOSAL MEN RETURN UNDER - 1934 AWARD IS TURNED DOWN That Is Inference Given Fol- lowing Unsuccessful Meeting Today in San Francisco SUGGESTION MADE BY HARRY BRIDGES, PRESIDENT OF LL.A Disputes Would Be Submit- ted to Relations Board . Committee Meantime —THhen to Judge g S AN /FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 28.—The Maritime situa- tion is thrown into another deadlock. . Union adviser H. P. Melni- kow made this announcement after a meeting of the long- shore leaders and s make progress on the jurdis- dictional dispute and the “sit- uation is completely dead- lock. I cannot see why the ship owners failed to accept a rea- sonable offer that the men re- turn to work under the 1934 award pending settlement of disputes.” Proposai Observers expressed the belief that Melnikow referred to the proposal made by Harry Bridges, President of the Coast ILA that the men re- turn to work and place their disputes in the hands of a joint Labor Relations Com- mittee such as was set up un- der the 1934 award. Bridges said: “We have gone as far as we can. This is a reasonable proposition.” Up To Sloss Under the terms of the 1934 award, if the committee failed to reach a settlement of the disputes, then the issues would be laid before Judge M. C. Sloss, arbitrator who aided in settling the 1934 strike. Only 2 Issues Such a labor committee wag set up under the 1934 agree ment. Should the proposal be accepted, two questions still remain unsettled, the check- er’s demands and the wages and hours for the ILA. . ———e SNOW BLOCKING SEATTLE; HARD FIGHT IS MADE Plows, Other Equipment, 800 Men Can't Keep Traffic Moving SEATTLE, Jan. 28.—Snow plows and thirty pieces of other snow fighting equipment together with 800 men are today fighting one of the worst traffic emergencies in the | city’s history. Assistant Street Superintendent George Forsythe said that “half an dent’s authority to negotiate reci- procal trade agreements. hour after we work on on street, new snow covers it.” hipowners |