The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937. ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS COAST STRIKE REPORTED NEARING END RECLAIMING FLOOD SWEPT OHIO CITIES Worst of Conditions Are Now Believed to Have Passed in Valley MISSISSIPPI SEEMS TO BE UNDER CONTROL Death List Placed at 330 with Over One Million Persons Homeless Victims of Disaster Victims of the great disaster now number one million and thirty five thousand. The death toll is now placed at 330 and property damage over four hundred million dollars. Death List The death list by states follows: Kentucky, 225, Illinois 11, Ohio 14, Indiana 9, Tennessee 10, Missouri 17, Arkansas 25, Mississippi 3, West Virginia 13, Pennsylvania 3. The states where there are the most homeless are Kentucky with 347,000, Ohio with 250,000 and Ten- nessee with 125,000 - FAIRBANKS IS ANXIONS ABOUT TWO PROPOSALS Chamber of Commerce Names Committee to Ascertain Facts WPA WORKERS ! | | | | | CHICAGO, Tl1, Jan. 29.—The Ohio Valley is now assured that the worst is past and residents began reclaim- ing the flood swept cities. The South also found cheer in the predictions that the section will be saved from the full fury of the flood as the Mississippl seems to be controlled although Government forces are prepared for any emer- gency. REPAIR LEVEE Hundreds of WPA workers were rushed to the St. Francis river dikes near Kennett, Mo., to repai: weak ened places as the flooded river tushed southward from the Fisk, Mo., area where it broke through levees In a dozen places. (Associated Press Photo) HIGH LICENSE LIQUOR BILL GETS 45 YEARS NOW IN HOUSE Four Measures Dealing with Audalie Westby Sentenced | Control of Drinking Now Before Legislature 13th Terriicrial Legislature’s fourth liquor bill, commonly known as the high license measure, made its appearance today, being ntro- CHARLES SEELYE IN PENITENTIARY to Three Years in Federal Prison Charles Seelye, former government employee, who pleaded guilty to statutory offenseg against his step- daughter, was sentenced to a total FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 29— duced in the House by H. H. Me-lof 45 years in the Federal Peni- The Fairbanks Chamber of Com- Cutcheon of the Third Division, tentiary by Federal Judge George merce has appointed committess to Who introduced a similar bill two|F. Alexander this afternoon. He communicate with Washington to years ago. It provides for sale.by was given five years on each of ascertain facts in the reported pro- thé drink as well as the package nine counts against him. posals to put Alaskan mineral lands =nd sets up three kinds of licenses; Auydalie Westby, former book- under a leasing system and also put, —Wholesale, retail and manufac- keeper of the Alaska Meat Com- the Second and Fourth Judicial Di- turing. {pany, who pleaded guilly to em- visions under the Forest Conserva-i The wholessle license fee is Iixed‘beuling $4,000 from the Carstens tion Service. iat $1,500 per year. Retail is divided/Packing Company which operated The Chamber of Commerce agreed into three classifications — general {the meat company, was sentenced to that forest fire protection is accept- retail, $1,000 per year; club, $250; three years in a Federal prison. ab}c. but objected to the possible; transfer of road construction from' the Road Commission to the Bu-| reau of Public Roads, under the Forest system, on the grounds it would be much slower and costlier.| e EJECTION OF SIT-DOWNERS 1S REQUESTED Petition Presented to Court| —Men Regarded No Longer as Employees DETROIT, Mich.,, Jan. 29.—A peti- tion seeking a court order for evac- uation of the sitdéwn strikers in two Fisher body plants at Flint re- veals that the General Motors Cor- poration no longer considers the imeasure which require all nurses in the Territory to be registered. and roadhouse, $100. Two classes' of manufacturing licenses are pro-| vided for, brewery, $500, and dis-! tillery, $500. Three other liquor bills already have been introduced, namely: The| Rivers measure making statutory; much the same setup as the Liquor| Board has under its regu]ations:} the Patterson bill calling for Ter-| ritorial stores to be operated by| a liquor administrator to be elected | by the people, and the Anderson| proposal of referring to the voters| the question of whether they want! Territorial liquor stores. { Nurses’ Bill Four other bills were introduced | in the House this morning as well| as several memorials. Harry Race of the First brought in the nurses’ The Ways and Means Committee offered a bill to pay a refund to the Associated Salmon Packers, Inc., of $135 for overpayment m‘ connection with filing their articles| of incorporation. Ed Oveffey of the Third presented a measure aimed men as employes. Attorney Roy Brownell, filing the peition before Circuit Judge Paul Godola, requests injunctions prohibiting the sit-downers lrom\' continuing in the plants. Anesthesia Harpoon to amend the indigent persons law,] setting the age at 60 and over; instead of 65 and making payments| to men not more than $45 a month and to women not more than $35. More compensation for election judges and clerks in precincts with more than 200 voters is sought in a| BARRETT FACES NEW CHARGE IN DIVORCE ACTION Following the sending to the petit jury a few minutes past 3 o'clock this afternoon, of the case of the United States vs. Harold W. Barrett charged with perjury in a divorce action, Judge George F. Alexander, in the Federal District Court, not only set aside the verdict of divorce formerly given the defendant, on grounds of perjured testimony, but issued a new bench warrant against Barrett, alleging perjury in the case at the bar, and instructed the Dis- trict Attorney to prepare an indict- ment on-the new perjury charge, to be acted upon by the Federal Grand Jury. Judge Alexander exploded still an- other bombshell before the filled courtroom, when he instructed the District Attorney to prepare charges of alleged mispractice in the pursuit of his profession before the District Court against Attorney M. E. Monagle, of Juneau, who was retained by Barrett in the divorcde {bill introduced by John Litchenberg |stion, Is Now P erfected‘or the Second. His measure Pro-| Tne petit jury is expected to re- TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 20.—A! harpoon designed for capturing fish alive by infecting anesthesia was shown here by Count Ilia Tolstoy, a grandson of the Russian writer, Count Leo Tolstroy. Tolstoy said the mechanism was developed $o that large fish may be captured and transported to aqua- riums for study and photography, with a minimum amount of injury to the specimens, i night and $1 an hour aiter midnight vides for payment in such large| precincts of $10 per day up to mid-| providing that the overtime pay-| ment does not exceed $5. Memorials The memorials were mainly for| improvements. ~ Nell Scott of the| Third asks that a bridge be built | over the Karluk River, connecting old Karluk and new Karluk, to ac-| (Continued on Page Three) turn a sealed verdict in the case on trial, sometime after 4:30 o'clock | this afternoon. But, the Court’s in- structions are to be effective regard- less of the verdict in the current ac- tion. e ———— A group of La Grange and Bas- trop (Texas) hunters, using grey- hounds, killed more than 60 jack- rabbits in less than four hours on the prairie north of Eagle Lake. MAKE RECORD ON Over Ocean to Hono- lulu in Fast Time HONOLULU, HI, Jan? 29. — Bat- tling thick weather in the last stag- es of the record breaking flight from San Diego, Cal, to Honolulu, twelve new giant patrol seaplanes of the Navy completed the flight by arriv- ing here at 3:50 o'clock this morn- ing. flight, the squadron dropped -within 2,000 feet of the ocean and 'then climbed 15000 feet to escape ‘“‘very bad weather.” The elapsed tim# of the flight, the by seaplanes, was 21 hours and 48 minues. The squadron arrived here bright moonlight byt spectators were on hand. Honolulu= ans are accustomed to the weekly trans-Pacific flights of clippers, Lieutenant Commander W. H. Me= Dade admitted that the last 300 miles of the flight was in “very bad weather.” FIRE ABOARD " SHIP AT SEA: S0S FLASHED Later, Radfiays Blaze Controlled, Steamer Pyo- ceeding to New York, NEW YORX. Jan he i« tain of the Clyde Malloy liner Shaw- nee sent a radio at 9:50 o'clock this morning that the “fire in the ton in number two hold is out we are proceeding to New Yok Shortly before 7 o’clock this mor: ing an SOS was sent out from Shawnee that fire was raging in the cotton and asked all ships in the vicinity to stand by. Later came worc the fire was being controlled. One Coast Guarder responded to the SOS. Word was sent the fire was under control but as a precau- tionary the Shawnee's captain asked the vessel to “keep a sharp lookout on 600 meters and will broadcast if we need you later.” The Shawnee at the time the SOS was sent out was 60 miles out at sea from Cape Henry, Virginia, bound from Jacksonville to New York and due here at 11 o'clock to- night. ‘The Shawnee has 180 passengers aboard and a cargo of fruit, vege- tables and cotton. LATE ADVICES NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—The Shaw- nee is beating her way slowly to New York according to radio advices late this afternoon. Heavy weather is slowing the steamer’s speed from 17 to 10 knots an hour. Capt. E. A. Chelton radioed “Fire not out but under control SEALS HidvINe NORTH, REPOR Migration Is Six Weeks to Two Months Earlier than Usual SEATTLE, Jan. 29. — Coast Guardsmen are puzzled over re- ports received from the cutters Red- wing and Atlanta that herds of| from 100 to 200 fur seals have been| seen off Cape Flattery moving north. This movement is from six weeks to two months early and the reason for the early migration is not known. Too Good Looking, ‘ Wife Divorces Irresistible Man LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20—"1 am 80 good looking the women won't leave me alone,” John Lewis Ma-| son wrote his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Mason, she charged in court where she won a divorce decree. Mrs. Mason said her husband ad- mitted associating with other wo- men but that he had told her: “They just won't let me alone.” ‘We are delayed by stress of weath-! NAVYSEAPLANES | Ole Man River Goes o — n the Rampage Agahi Twelve Navy Giants Rear During the last 300 miles of the: first mass flight ever undertaken | i} only about 150 through levees in many se of the fln FLOOD i i Without waiting for the usual Spring rains the Mivsis siecinni River has MAKES HIGHWAY DEAT swollen to flood stage and broken wn watching'the steady rise ways. H TRAP Swollen by unseasonal rains the east fork of the White River near Seymour, Ind., ripped out a bridge as shown here. U. 8. Forest Supervisor Ray Dug of Johnstown, 1nd., was drowned when his auto plunged into the river as he sought to avold crevices in the bridge. (Assoclated Press Photo) Mooney Loses One Round for QUEEN SYLVIA Freedom; Has Not Proved that COMING HERE. Perjury, Frameup Convicted FAILS TO FORM JAPAN CABINET 'New Mandate to Be Issued | However to General ° ‘ Ugaki, as Civilian | TOKYO, Jan. 29.—After more | than five days of desperate attempts | to form a cabinet over the objections of the Army Extremists, Gen. Kaz- | ushife Ugaki informed Emperor Hir- ohito today he had failed. | Authoritative sources however said |it is understood the Emperor will | give Ugaki a new mandate to form |a government, this time as a civil- lian, This step, it is believed, is based on Ugaki’s announced decis- {ion to sever all past and present iconnecflon with the Japanese army, including his rank as General. He is now a retired officer. Reports on “Japanese Invasion” SALEM, Ore., Jan. 29.—Warn- ing of a “Japanese invasion” of the North American fishing in- dustry, came today in a report presented to Gov. Charles H. Martin by the State Fish Com- mission. ‘Pointing out the activity of Japanese fishermen in the Bris- tol Bay section of Alaska, the re- port concluded: “It is evident the purpose of Japanese fishing companjes is to encroach on other salmon areas of the Paci- fic as. well.” SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Jan. 29.— Thomas J. Mooney has lost the first ENROUTE SOUTH INFIVEDAYS round of his new battle for freedom and vindication when State Su- preme Court Referee A. E. Shaw held he had not proved the charge of perjury and frameup in his con- |viction twenty years ago in the Preparedness Day combing. Chief Justice Willlam H. Waste said the court will soon set a date |for legal arguments on the report and the court will subsequently ren- der a formal decision after when a new case will probably be taken to the Supreme Court of the Unit- ed States in the event the final rul- ing here is adverse. Mooney still has two chances for freedom, one through the current| proceedings and the other through a movement recently begun in the State Assembly for a “legislative pardon.” Mooney has rtepeatedly rejected suggestions about a parole. ——pr POSTMASTER | It Sylvia Schmidt to Represent; Fairbanks Ice Carnival in Northwest FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 29. — Miss Sylvia Schmidt, Fairbanks’s first Carnival Queen, has been ap- pointed representative to the Pa- cific Northwest by the Carnival As- sociation. Miss Schmidt expects to leave by plane today for Juneau to catch a steamer there for Seattle and work in the interest of the Carnival to be held March 11, 12, 13 and 14. A contest is now underway here to select a Fairbanks contestant for the 1937 Carnival. R e S — ] | sTock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 29, — Closing quotation of Alaska (neau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 108%, American Light and Power 14%, Anaconda 53, Bethlehem Steel 81%, Calumet and Hecla 17, Com- monwealth and Southern 3%, Cur- tiss Wright 7%, General Motors 68%, Kennecott 58, New York Central 42, LquH HUUSE Southern Pacific 46%, United States |Bteel 94'%, United Corporation 7%, 9 SR | Citles Service 4%, Pound $4.89%. Would Place Officials Under! —— Classified Civil Service DOW, JONES AVERAGES —Goes to Senate The following are today's Dow, ! Jones averages: industrials 184.74, WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. — Th House has passed the bill to place up 1.33; rails 54.77, up .32; utilities - 35.71, down .16. all Postmasters under the classified Civil Service. The bill now goes w‘ ——————— Sunday Liquor Ban . . . Qv aeg Asked in California Sponsors of the bill said the meas-i SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. 29. — ure is designed to make permanent,; Compulsory closing of bars and li- with modification, the order issued quor stores Sunday and between by President Roosevelt last July that midnight and 6 a.m. week days is the order stood only at the will of demanded in a bill introduced in the Chief Executive and any suc- the house by Assembyman Frank D. cessor could change it, Laughlin, Democrat, of Los Angeles. OFFICIALS OF 2 UNIONS GIVE OUT STATEMENT Claim Rapid Series of Ne- gotiations Bringing Good Results BRIDGES, LUNDEBERG APPEAR SPOKESMEN Entire Question Must, How- ever, Be Submitted to Referendum Vote SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 29.—The end of the long Pacific Coast maritime strike is reported by marine leaders to be in sight. | Harry Bridges, President of the Pacific Coast ILA, and Harry Lundeberg, of the Sea- mens’ Union, informed Mayor A. J. Rossi that a rapid series of negotiations had brought |the long tieup near the end. Bridges said: “There is a | growing sentiment in the rank ‘and file for a settlement and 'nothing can change that sen- timent for a settlement this time.” All But 2 Unions Bridges reported that only two of seven unions involved, the American Radio Tele- graphists Association and the had not reached agreements. He said the differences be- tween the two unions and the employers must be arrived at before the union membership could be called to vote ending the strike. Leaders of the two unions "however declared they would |go back to work and then ar- Ibitrate the issues. There is still a dispute of issues includ- ing working hours for cooks and increased pay for radio operators. Lundeberg also reported tc¢ Mayor Rossi that the sailors (Continued on Page Eight) SPOKESMAN OF VESSEL OWNERS MAKES REPORT Discusses Reported Agree- ment with Mayor of San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 20. —T. G. Plant, representing the ship owners, said the Coast Committee of Ship Owners would divide into groups for immediate conferences with the two unions who have not yet reached an accord. Mayor A. J. Rossi, of San Fran- cisco, asked Plant if he would ar- bitrate points. Plant said: “It must be remem- bered that tentative agreements represent maximum concessions reached by adjustments and com- promises and if we arbitrate, every point must be reconsidered by the Arbitration Board.” Meeting Late Today Mayor Rossi suggested a session this afternoon be attended by Bay area mayors and officials and called for such a session for 5 o'clock. This was agreed upon. Bridges had pointed out that such a meeting might not be necessary if agreements were reached” and the only reason for coming back would be in case another deadlock devel- oped and in such eventuality he suggested * that both sides submit the remaining unsettled points to arbitration.” Another Protest Both Bridges and Lundeberg sug- gested that the mayors communi- cate the proceedings to Washington