The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1937, Page 1

» THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" PRICE TEN CENTS PACIFIC COAST STRIKE IS CALLED OFF MEN RETURNING TO WORK TOMORROW FLOOD CREST NOW SWEEPS T0 SOUTHLAND Water Runszl_cTween Levees on Upper Stretches of Great River DANGER NOT OVER DECLARE ENGINEERS Danger Still Lurks in Every Bend of Walls Along 1,000 Miles CHICAGO, I, Feb. 4—The tide of battle against record flood crest on the Mississippi ran favorably along the upper stretches-today, es- pecially near Cairo, but engineers cautioned the fight is not yet won. The flood crest is believed passing Cairo and Hickman with six inches to spare along the emergency wall. Sand boils iv the heart of Cairo have quieted down. Face Flood Test Hundreds of miles of untested levees are still facing the flood wa-! ters. Flood dangers still lurk in every bend of the 1000 mile sweep of the Mississippi from Cairo to New Orleans. There is no relaxation in the ef- forts among 120,000 pick and shovel laborers working day and night. Some rain was forecast during to- day in several sections. A secondary levee northwest of Tennessee is believed to be the next | danger spot. 20 Drown Twenty persons are now known to have been drowned last Saturday night when a barge carrying refu- gees capsized in Southeastern Mis- souri. Five more bodies have been found. Ten known to have been|—— on the barge are still missing and it is not known whether they were drowned or swam to safety. BATTLE BLAZE SUCCESSFULLY IN FLOOD ZONE Cincinnati Firemen, with| Low Water Supply, Put Up Suff l?p ight CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 4. Firemen, fighting at great odds, late yesterday confined a fire in the flood stricken west end to the Stille- Durhimeyer Furniture factory and one nearby building. Despite inadequate water supply, the firemen saved & lumber yard. Owners of the five-story furniture factory estimated their loss at $250,000. — - —— Beauty Contest Opens, Fairbanks Queen to Be Sele Selected—One | Participant Withdraws ——Sooiio Wed FATRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 4—| The beauty contest to name Miss Fairbanks to the Tee Carnival is now in full swing, the primary con- test being closed leaving ten local beauties in the race. Miss Adriana Black retired from | the race, saying she will be wedded | soon to Arthur Peterson, son of| Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Peterson, o!' Seattle, whose father is Superin- tendent of the Warrack Construc- tion Company in Seattle. Miss Black is the daughter of Capt. and Mrs. George Black. Her father is a steamboat skipper and operator on the Tanana and Yukon River. — > — Gold was first discovered in the Ship Magnate»’s Daughter of Robert Stanley Dollar, president of the Dollar Steamship Co., pretty Diana Dollar was married recently in Piedmont, Cal, io Joseph Hickingbottom, former University of California grid star. | The bride’s father sought speedy termination of the west coast mari- time strike so he could give Diana an ocean trip as a wedding present. Maritime men wired the bride-to-be, urging her to aid them in getting her father to yield to their demands so they could go to sea also— though not on “honeymoons.” Daughter Weds; Starving Have Fortune Hidden Away; Chickens, Cats Kept in Home BUNNELL TELLSV CHAMBER ABOUT U.OF A.PROGRESS {Fairbanks School Swamped with Students~—Many Begging Entrance | Reporting that the University of | Alaska is “swamped” with students and predicting that the enrollment will be doubled when facilities are made available, Dr. Charles E. Bun- nell, President of the University, brought an inferesting message to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce as guest speaker at its weekly lun- cheon today noon in the 'Terminal Cafe. Dr. Bunnell told of the excellent reception and praise the University has won for instituting the five- year curricula in engineering cours- es and its development of practical application along with theoretical instruction. Leading educators in the States had declared that it is a practice every institution of learn- ing would like to do but thus far has not; but the northern university is pointing the way out, he said. Grads Make Records Attention has been called in edu- |cational circles, outside, the Presi- dent said, by the excellent records 'grndum,es of the university are mak- ing when they leave school. Eighty- three in the Territory and 27 in the States are all holding positions of responsibility. He also pointed to the national recognition that has been won by the Unversity’s research and extension departments. Touching briefly on functions of |Chambers of Commerce, Dr. Bun- nell referred to the address made by President Comstock, newly elect- ed President of the Seattle Cham- ber of Commerce, when he took over his new post. The educator said he subscribed to the expression of Mr. Comstock that the scope of the Chamber-of Commerce should be to reach out and be of service to the entire community; to be a live and potent force or become function- less. Its new President pointed out to the Seattle Chamber, Dr. Bun- Black Hills region of South Da- kota July 27, 1874, at the site of the town of Custer. nell recalled, that it should have (Continued on Page Eight) Woman Found to | | tion at present. {of coins behind & door. SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 4.—Mrs. Anna Miller, about 80 years of age, was found starving in her squalid threc room house here when she| complained to the police that bur-| glars were attempting to rob her,| although “I have nothing anyone would want,” Two officers shooed a flock of chickens and a pack of cats out of the house and then found $42,000 in cash, much of it in $1,000 bills in a dresser drawer and a bucket Mrs. Miller said: “That is very strange. I did not know about that.” KIDNAPER TRIES T0 ALIBI FROM ABDUCTIONCASE Robert Kenyon Claims All He Did Was to Write Ransom Note KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. 4 — Robert Kenyon, young Ozark farmhand, arrested at Willow Springs and charged with kidnaping and slaying of Dr. J. C. Davis, in- sists the physician was abducted and killed by a mysterious hill coun- try acquaintance he dubbed “Night Hawk.” Kenyon also clung stubbornly to his alibi that “Night Hawk” forced him to write the ransom note and then mail it. “This Night Hawk fellow knew I stole a motor car over in Missouri. He said if I didn’'t write the ransom note, he would turn me over, so 1 done it. The Feds caught me in the Post Office as I was mailing it. That is all I had to do with the business,” said Kenyon who is kept in solitary confinement. | G-Men are little impressed with Kenyon’s story. In Washington, J. Edgar Hoover announced the case was closed and no other suspects are being sought. P RS P The catching and killing of frogs around Nanking, China, is forbid- den by municipa) regulations, based | Division. | D. Jacobson $20 for a wolf pelt and |GOLD, PLATINUM GROSS TAX BILL INLEGISLATURE § Three Per Cent on TRl Over $20,000 Proposed— Nepotism Measure Killed Providing for a three per cent license tax on gross production of gold and platinum mining Operé- tions in excess of $20,000, the second mining tax bill made its appearance m the Territorial Legislature today, Jeng introduced in the Senate by Senator M. E. S. Brunelle of the ! Third Division. A measure hd pre=- viously been introduced in the House calling for a raise in the graduated tax on net incomes from mines. In addition to the tax on gold and platinum gross, the Brunelle bill raises the levy on net incomes of other mining properties as follows: Higher Levies Over $5,000 and not over $10,000, three fourths of one per cent; same as the present law. Over $10,000 and not over $50,000; one and one half per cent; present levy is one and one fourth. Over $50,000 and not over $100,000, one and three fourts; present levy, one and one half. Over $100,000 and not over $150,~ 000, two and a fourth; present levy, one and three fourths. Over $150,000 and not over $250,~ J00, three per cent; two and a fourth: Over $250,000 and. not.gver $500,~ 000, three and three fourths; ent levy, two and three ?o’urt%?v Over $500,000 and not over $750,- | 000, four and a half; no classifica- Over $750,000 and not over $1,000,- 000, five and a fourth; present levy $500,000 to $1,000,000, three and a nalf per cent. Over $1,000,000, six per cent; pres- ent levy, four per cent. Two other bills were introduced in the Senate this morning, both by | Senator Henry Roden of the First| One would pay Charlie the other would appropriate $1,363.51 | to pay for installing a heating plant in the Territory-owned building at Third and Seward. Nepotism Bill Dies ‘The Roden nepotism bill, which would prohibit the employment of relatives by public officials, again fell by the wayside this morning, being defeated in the Senate by a| vote of five to two. A likd\meas- | ure was defeated two years ago. One Senate bill and two Senate | Joint Memorials won approval of the Senators and now go to the| House. They were: 8. B. 10, by Brunelle, leaving it to the eourt| where public sales of real and per- sonal property may be held; 8. J. M. No. 2, by Walker, urging the Ter- ritorial Road Board to continue work on the Craig-Klawock road, and 8. J. M. 3, by Walker, urging the Road Board to continue trail work along Unuk River near Ket- chikan. PR e S Red Cross Fund Goas Over Top, Westward Towns SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. 4. — The Red Cross relief fund contribution at Kanakanak and Dillingham is $227 better than one dollar per cap- ita.r Seward is nearing a goal of five :‘lmea the original quota set of 70. The broken tuselage of the Ill-fated red and white monop! e request of Mrs. Post, short!, Alaska, Mrs. Post tried unsuccessfully to reach Barrow by plane last summer but was forced Kkilled in 1935 was destroyed at "REMAINS OF POST-ROGERS PLANE DESTROYED weather. (Assoclated Press Photo) e In which Will Rogers and Wi'ey Post we after this picture was taken n r Barrow, k by bad MATTSON CASE SUSPECT HANGS SELF IN CELL John F. Johnson Takes Life in Auburn Jail — Body Found This Morning present levy,| | AUBURN, Wash., ¥en. », — John !. Johnson, aged 40, held since las! y in connection with the Mat- #hn kidnaping and slaying case, was !ound strangled to deam in his city Jail cell. Police Chief Ed Norris found the body at 8:15 o'clock this morning, lying on the cell floor, a belt at-| tached to the cot around his neck.! Other prisnoers in the bullpen nearby heard no struggling or no outcries during the night. Jailer Charles Ludwig said he {talked with Johnson at 11 o'clock] last night and Johnson then appear-| ed despondent. Johnson was arrested in the hobo| jungles here last Friday when other' transients complained he acted, queerly and they thought he knew something of the kidnaping of the Mattson boy. Johnson denied any knuwledge ol the crime when he printed. Chief Norris said he believed Johnson was just mentally ill. had more than $100 in his pockels when arrested. Johnson had lived for years in Tacoma where he sal- vaged articles trom the garbage dumps. — CHAIN STORE TAXBILL IS UP mwmnum Proposal Agam Introduced by Representative from Yakima OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 4. — The| chain store tax bill has appeared| again in the State Legislature, be- ing introduced by Represemsuve Emerick of Yakima. He proposes a scale from $1 on| one store to $500 on each of twenty | or more in a chain. The measure would also license all stores doing business in the state. Gov. Martin vetoed a graduated tax on chain stores passed at the past session. Firslt—Cf_t;—mpulsory State Healh Insu Started, British Columbia VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 4—The| Provincial Health Commission an-| nounces hopes to eliminate the “shopping around” to get medical ald. TR Under North America’s first com- on farmers’ belief that the animals are beneficial to crops. pulsory state health insurance plan, | effective March 1, it is contemplat- rance to Be ed that 100,000 British Columbians |who earn less than $1,800 annually, fund to pay doctors, specialists and | consultants. A commission will administer the! fund. ROYAL HONEYMOONERS ON SKlIS OFFICIAL ORDER IS ISSUED THIS AFTERNOON, 2:45 Joint Strike Committee at San Francisco Calls for Cessation WORKERS REPORT ON JOBS § A. M. FRIDAY Delay in Mak Announce- ment Causeg by Min- or Troubles BULLETIN — San Fran- cisco, Cal,, Feb. 4.—The 98- day Pacific Coast maritime strike was officially called off at 2:45 o’clock this afternoon by the Joint Strike Commit- tee and the men have been or- dered to return to work at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning. ~ S AN FRANCISCO., Feb. 4.—Early this forenoon mari- time workers were ordered to “stand by” for return to work order when the long tieup ends officially and at that time there was a possibility-the or- der might be issued late to- day. Early this afternoon the Joint Strike Committee an- nounced an overwhelming un- ion membership had voted for approval of agréements to end the record breaking walkout but tabled temporarily the motion for a call for return to work tomorrow pending a report on the status of strikes /involving affiliated unions. Princess Jullana of Holland anda Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, |The strikes of shipyard work- newlyweds, are shown skilng at the Polish winter resorts at Krynica during their honeymoon. . AUTO STRIKERS T0 BE EJECTED FROM 2 PLANTS 'Machinery of Law to Be | Brought Into Action Es- | pecially at Flint, Mich. FLINT, Michigan, Feb. 4—The General Motors Corporation is pre- pared to set the machinery of the law in motion to eject strikers from two plants they continued to occupy |in defiance of the court injunction to leave them. Chief of Police James Wills an- nounced he is resuming enlistment |of several hundred “reserve police.” | Roy Brownell, attorney for the General Motors Corporation, an- |nounces a writ of attachment re- quiring ejection of strikers is being mled | Chief Wills said the enlistment of police reserves does mnot constitute |a violation of the non-violence truce reached at midnight between the city authorities and the United Auto | Workers of America. DETROIT, Feb. 4—Gov. Frank Murphy has again called for a con- ference of representatives from both sides. The conference will be held during the afternoon. - e — | Approves Examination of Skagway River for Purpose Flood Control WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. — The |House Flood Control Flood Com- | will pay two percent of their weekly |mitte has approved the bill authoriz- salaries, the employers one percent| to their insurable payroll into a ing the Army Engineers to make a preliminary examination of the \Skagwny River, at Skagway, Alaska, with a view of controlling the floods. The bill is sponsored by Alaska Dele- igate Anthony J. Dimond. ( oclated Press Photo) RAILROADS IN CANADA FACING WALKOUT Now Strike Ballots to Be Sub- mitted—Restoration of Wage Cut Demanded MONTREAL, Feb. 4—Canadian Railway Union leaders have made plans to submit strike ballots to 117,000 members of 18 railway un- ions in a dispute with the employ- ers over restoration of the ten per- cent wage cut. The leaders said that if the strike is authorized by the workers it means a protest to the Mediation Board’s recommendavions to Tre- store only seven percent of the wage cut and also would tie up both the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National systems. —————— LINDBERGH IS OBSERVING HIS 35TH BIRTHDAY Flier and Wife Expect to Hop Late Today for Flight to Tripoli ROME, Feb. 4—Cel. Charles A. Lindbergh is spending his thirty- fifth birthday here. He and his wife are planning a flight today to Trip- oli Balbo, Italy’s first ranking airman. They expect to visit Ttalo. ers, bargemen and ship scalers complicated the situation. The committee asked for a report from the leaders of the involved un- fons &nd all went intd 8 conference. Voting showed the ?mrmo fire- men had rejected tentative agree- ments proposed by the negotiators but the balloting favored arbitrat- ing differences of the Cooks and Stewards' Union, which hmd only a partial agreement. Orders for ILA John Hogan, chief dispatcher here for the ILA hiring hall, sgaid he had orders for 160 gangs of 16 men each to move the great accumulation of cargo. Fred Kelly, Secretary of the Mari- time Federation, announced all bal- lots have been received except scat- tered return from the Pacific Northwest, The Tug Boatmens' strike here still remained unadjusted but mari- time men said they were only nec- w;arywdockchehtlhivolnd not move them. out. ; AWAIT SUMMONS TO ; BETURN TO OLP JOBS SAN C18CO, Cal;, Feb. 44— Nearly 40,000 Pacific Oout Mari- time strikers are considering their record breaking walkout and awaits ed “back to work” summons., i The Joint Strike Committee ex- pected to meet 4t noon and during the afternoon issue a call although early this morfing hothing was definite. Ballots are piling up here: md it is believed the vote taken by the seven unions is for return to work and arbitration of pending issues to be accomplished later. Early Reports Reports indicated that the Mar- ine Firemen may not ratify their tentative agreement with the off- shore operators but such actien will not prolong the strike as the fire- men have agreed to arbitrate the disputed issues. All other agreements seem to have been accepted by big margins, in some ports almost unanimously. Action Results Activity aboard many of the 239 strikebound vessels along the coast is noticeable. Emergency crews checked boilers long cold and cargo (Contznuid on Pue’ Esghl)