The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1937, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIX., NO. 7412. N KILLED, PRESIDENT T0 TAKE MOVE ON | WAGES, HOURS Will Probalfiecommend Legislation Pending Court Action WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Some Administration advisers believe President Roosevelt will submit rec- ommendations for wage and hour legislation before Congress acts on the proposed court reorganization. It is expected that the court pro- gram will be delayed until public sentiment crystalizes. | Twenty-six House members have | organized a campaign to make ra- dio speeches favoring the gram pro- : e | ON TO MEXICO CONTESTANTS MOUNT DAILY : | Five Addiu;a—l. Names Are Added to List, To- day’s Empire With many nominations a]readyj received, the names of Evelyn Coul-| ter, Leona Flone, Marian Foster, Bess Millard and Astrid Loken have been submitted as candidates| in The Daily Alaska Empire’s Good Will Contest and On To Mexico Tour, bringing the total number now registered as being in the race | instruments from Conflagration— Medicine Destroyed Fire, that broke out early this morning in the basement of the In- dian Bureau Hospital at Point Bar- row, spread rapidly and burned the structure to the ground. This is according to radio advices from Barrow to Dr. J. F. Van Ackeren, Medical Director of the Indian Bu- reau. The dispatch, filed at Barrow at 5 o'clock this morning, stated that the hospital, itself, s a complete loss, but that some of the equip- ment has been saved. There were no casualties, patients in the hospital being safely remov- ed. Medical supplies and surgical were completely de- stroyed. Pending more complete informa- tion as to the extent of the disas- ter, Indian Bureau officials here re giving preliminary consideration to the problem of what is to be done to provide hospital facilities to the community until the building can be re-constructed next summer. SHIPMENTS OF LUMBER REACH LARGEVOLUME \Fifty-four Mflli;n Feet Put to forty active participants. The prize trips these girls are| striving for, to Seattle, Oregon, Cal-| ifornia, and Old Mexico are of the type that money cannot buy. No Ordivary Tour i Ordinary tourists to California and Old Mexico are unable to do many things on their trips that are all arranged for the winners” of these contests, also being run various Alaska towns as well as 50 or more towns in Washington and Oregon. 'The trips are personally conducted by a very efficient rail- road tour manager, with hostesses' along to assist the girls. Special; sleepers are chartered for the en- tire trip and there is a special diner in which all meals are served en- route. There is a special club car, with comfortable chairs and daven- ports, where The Empire winners can gather during the train ride as a special club. Contest Just Starting The contest is yet very young and there is still plenty of oppor- tunity for additional entries. In addition to the at least two round .. Into Water Markets in Two Weeks SEATTLE, Feb. 19.—Shipments of lumber in the Pacific Northwest last week, the second week after the end of the maritime strike, doubled the shipments of the first week. It is estimated that fifty four| million feet of lumber went into| the water markets during the past two weeks. RETAILERS MEETING SEATTLE, Feb. 19.—The Thirty Fourth annual convention of the| Western Retail Lumbermens’ Asso-| ciation opened today for a two! day session. COAL MINERS ARE SEEKING all expenses paid trips from Juneau to Old Mexico and return which are being offered as major prizes, there will be other awards added| from time to time as well as the cash bonus of 10 percent to runner; ups in the contest. Votes To Be Issued Starting Saturday, February 20th, votes will be issued with every sub- scription’ which is paid into The Daily Alaska Empire, either to the contestant, through The Empire's carriers or at the office of The Em-~ pire. Be sure to ask for these votes when paying your subscription and see* that they are deposited to the credit of your favorite candidate. The votes cost you nothing—you simply pay the regular subscription. price to the Daily Alaska Empire and receive your votes which are issued you by the management of .- the Daily Alaska Empire as an ex-; pression of good will and apprecia- WASH STATE tion of your participation in this | | Good Will Contest and On Fo Mex- ico Tour. Ask for your votes when paying your subscription bill and help your favorite make her dream trip to Old Mexico and return come true. mine operators and the miners are jlining up toward the fight for the new wage and hour agreement. weeks away, expiring on March 31, must be changed, the miners say. and $6 a day. 40-hour week and a wage of $5.50 a day. speechmaking stage. NEW CONTRACT Insisting on 30-Hour Week, $6 Day Wage—Oper- ators Give Side NEW ORK, Feb. 19.—Soft coal The present agreement, which is The miners want a 30-hour week The operators are to insist on a Negotiations are still in the LEGISLATURE DEADLOCKED Fire Sweeps Pt [DISCHARGE BOOK|Alaska Blaciers ' Barrow Hospital, REQUIREMENT 1S Receding Slowly, Burns to Ground ASII]EE]R TIME Benl@sts Sty No Casualli;sj'\‘re Reported| Temporary Order Issued—{It Won't Be in Our Life- Hearing Will Be in Se- attle February 27 SEATTLE, Feb. 19. — Federal Judge Bowen issued a temporary restraining order late . yesterday against Leroy Kuhns, United States Shipping Commissioner, preventing his requiring that sailors have con- tinuous discharge books. Hearing on the order is set for 10 a.m. February 27 to give time to prepare arguments on the order to show. cause why a permanent in- Jjunction should hot be issued. Kuhns, present at the hearing yesterday, said later in a private conversation that he would be glad to abide by the Court’s order. The complaint was signed by Aaron Sapiro, attorney of San Fran- cisco, who arrived here yesterday and Sam L. Levinson, Seattle. Complainants on behalf of them- selves and other seamen were Ro- bert Dombroff, D. Wright, E. K. Axel, S. Fumley, A. Claray, and A. Sanders, representing the Sailors Union, Marine Firemen, Cooks and Stewards. BLOCKAGE IN SOUTH SAN PEDRO, Cal, Feo. 19.—Har- ry Dall, International organjzer for the Teamsters’ Union, forecast this morning, complete paralysis of the Los Angeles harbor after a blockade of two shipping terminals by union truck drivers which has held up loading of the Matson freighter Manoa. “The issue is simply this,” said Dail, “whether San Pedro will be lwhere union rhen work on trucks just as union men work the ship cargoes here and along the coast.” VESSELS MOVE TO SEA PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 19. — Three vessels are outbound today after delaying their scheduled sail- ings until Federal Judge James Fee issued a temporary restraining or- der yesterday compelling Shipping Commissioner Harold Jones to sign on seamen without pessession of continuous service books. The General Pershing put out for the Orient with passengers, mail and a general cargo, and the inter- coastal freighlers Dorothy Cahill and Eastern Glad also left. Jones was ordered to appear Feb- ruary 25 and show cause why the restraining order should not be made permanent. —————— Birls Recruited Along Goast for Immoral Traffic Federal Gra:d—Jury Inves- tigation Reveals As- tonishing Situation LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 19.— Inquiry into the Trans-Pacific white slave traffic situation is said by overnment officials to reveal astonishing information. The Federal Grand Jury here is making an investigation and United States Attorney Pearson M. Hall said it is shown that scores of girls are being recruited through- out the coast states and sent to Hawaii or the Orient for immoral purposes, but they are unaware of this until in the clutches of pro- curers. — . — } STOCK QUOTATIONS | =B NEW YORK, Feb. 19. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 107%, American Power and Light 14%, Anaconda 61%, Bethlehem time, However, When They Disappear ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—Alaska’s great glaciers are shrinking slowly, said government geologists, but probably it will be thousands of| years before they disappear. R. H. Sargent, head of the Alas- ka Geological Survey, said in 40 years, one large glacier has been reduced 1,000 feet in thickness and others are shrinking similarly. S. R. Capps, who was near-the Black Rapids glacier last summer, said it is not likely the entire glac- ier has made a great forward move- ment although™ possible a section near the terminus has broken off and upset an accumulation ofice and vegetation near it. The normal speed of a glacier is' an inch a month and the fastest recorded speed has been a foobt & month. H Thomas Riggs, member of the| International Boundary Comi sion and a former Governor of Al aska, said the glacier which comes to the ocean at Glacier bay, ocean= ward from Juneau, is receding across the Alaska-Canadian boun= dary and may give Canada a new northern seaport. — e .- GREAT BRITAIN NOW PREPARING FOR NEXT WAR &0 = 37550 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS EDUCATION BILL BIVEN SECOND KNOCKOUTDROP Measure lofi Elect Commis- sioner Definitely Dead After Brief Revival Not satisfied with technically knocking out the elective Educa- tion Commissioner bill yesterGay by tabling it, the Territorial House this morning rescued the badly cuffed old measure off the table Just. long enough for some of the members to offer it words of en- couragement before booting it def- Initely into the discard. Final rites over the measure re- vealed nine opposed and seven for, the majority of nine being suf- ficlent to climinate the bill for the rest of this sessioin. The vote on the proposal, which would change the position of Com- jmissioner of Education from an ap- pointive one to elective, follows: Nays: Anderson, Coffey, Dan reen, Kennedy, Lichtenberg, Ner- land, Race, Nell Scott and Tol- bert Scott Yeas Davis, oheon, Rogge, Ross, Speaker Joe Green. Veteran Explains Position The bill was brought up again this morning for a definite vote at the request of Mr. Nerland of the Fourth Division, who said that he had talked to several of the mem- bers since the action of yesterday and he acquired the impression that some of them thought there was a sort of gag rule in’ connection with the measure. The veteran Legis- lator declared he. wanted every bill to have a fair ‘hearing and there- fore he was asking that it be brougit from the table. He won Laiblin, McCut- Smith and #iw once famed House- Bill 41, now [Munitions and War Equip-| ment Factories Run- | ning in Full Gear [ LONDON, Feb. 19.—Great Bri- {tain’s munitions war equipment {factories are thrown into high gear ito produce shells, guns and aircraft, fearing the next war. Observers in the House of Com- |mons are impressed by the way |Government leaders mention the| “next war” instead of “possibility | jof war.” | This “next war” was brought up during the past several days in the| bitter debate over the seven billion| five hundred rhillion dollar rear-| mament program. ! — - i Strikers Battle deceased, came again to a vote with the above reported result. At ome time, Mr. Nerland said, he had| favored such a bill but that now he| was convinced it would hamper the | work of the Board of Education which he was convinced was suc-| cessful. (Continued on Page Twe) S e, Education Board Requests Scheol Bus Elimination cation in Territory — | Recommending to the Territorial Legislature of cessation of voca-| |tiomal training in Alaskan Schools| | | Depu_ty_ Sheriffs Pulleys, Bottles and Acid |during the next biennium, because |the benefits derived are not pru-‘ iportional to the cost, the Territor-| |1al Board of Education this week | Hurled in Retaliation for | iconcluded its ten day session in| Uuncsu, a summary of which has Tear Gas Bomb Raid !been made in the Board’s report| WAUKEGAN, Il, Feb. 19. —/ Strikers hurled pulleys, bottles and |'° the Legislature. | acid out of the windows of the two| Other recommendations includ- plants of the Fan Steel Metallur-|¢d I the report are: That the gical Corporation this afternoon ir:| BO8Td be relieved of the hecessity| retaliation for attempts of 125 depu-|Of furnishing transportation to pu-| ty sheriffs to evict them. ipils who reside a distance from| The deputies tried to batter down established schools thereby reduc- the doors, which had been nailed, |ing the budget estimate for the with battering rams then, IJnsuL--%BDfll’d by $65,000 for the biennium; | cessful to gain entrance, used tear| That the appropriation for thel gas bombs, and this was also un-|Board of Education be further re-| successful. duced $5,000 for the biennium 1937- Six men were slightly injured 1939, and a deputy sheriff and a police-| And that some provision be made | man were burned by acid. | for levying taxes in unincorporated About 300 are employed in (he| school districts where there are factory trouble. Sheriff L. A. Dowl- sufficient residents and sufficient ing set out to enforce a court order|Property to bear at least a part of issued yesterday to remove the men the cost of the schools. from the plants. | Expenses Less } The sheriff was told by the com- | The Board estimated that even pany officials to go the limit. |in the face of increasing school en- This is the first instance in Lhnérollment and the increased cost of country since such strikes startedliving, which reflects itself in high- er salaries and higher general ex-| Steel 92%, Calumet and Hecla 7%, |that an order was issued for forcible Commonwealth and Southern 3%,[ousting. The men are demanding ) WOMEN HELD mf FATAL SHOOTING EVERETT, Wash,, Feb. 19.—Mrs. Harry Fain, aged 43, and Mrs. Char- lotte Orford, both of Index, have been booked without a charge while Deputy Sheriffs investigated the fatal shooting of Harry Fain who was a watchman at an abandoned CCC camp. One Thousefi Bills Await Action — Nothing Has Been Done So Far OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 19.—More than 1,000 bills await the action of the State Legislature with no im- portannt legislation enacted so far. The sixty day session ends in less than three weeks. The Senate is deadlocked with the House, split into right and left| Jones averages: industrials 189.37,°| Prince te to Seattle il George enrout al Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors 66%, International Harvester 103, Kennecott 65, New York Central 45%, Southern Pacific 50%, United States Steel 113, United Corporation 14%, Bities Service 4%, Republic Steel 36%, Cerro de Pasco 74, Lima Locomotive 74%, American; Zinc, Lead and Smelting 16%, Bremner bid 3 asked 4, Pound $4.89 5/16. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, rails 5859, utilitles 35.04. recognition of their union. Brown Flier to Interior; Gropstis Is Off for South WHITEHORSE, Y. T., Feb. 19— Chet Brown left here at 9:45 o'clock this morning for Fairbanks, enroute to Nome or Anchorage, from Seat- tle. Pilot Charles Gropstis left here at 8:40 o'clock this morning for with Livingston Wernecke. bl penses, and taking into considera- tion the deficiency appropriation of $59,000 acted upon by the pres- ent Legislature, that the cost of schools in the next biennium will be $65,000 less than during the present biennium, if its recommen- dations are followed. In connection with the recom- mendaiion that transportation be climinated, the Board suggested that amendment be made to the present regulation requiring that special schools must be establish- (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Eight) DRGANIC ACT CHANGE ASKED ONDIVORCE LAW Senate Memorial Urges Legislative Power to Pre- scribe Residence Time Rolling aiong at a rapid clip, the Territorial Senate this morning swept through its calendar, passing five mifor measures apfd tossed three new memorials and a bill into the hopper before it adjourned shortly before noon until 11 o'clock in the morning. Among the memorials introduced was one offered by Senators Roden and Cochran, petitioning Congress ‘o amend the Organic Act so that the Legislature would have author- ity to prescribe the length of resi- dence in the Territory before get- ting a divorce. Under the Organic Act two years’ residence in the Ter- ritory is required before filing for a divorce, Other new proposals were: S. B. 46, by Senator Rivers, ask- ing appropriation of $15,000 for construction of an addition to the school at Nenana, 8. J. M. 11, by Senator Rivers, asking that the Health Commis- sioner provide emergency medical supplies to be placed under the supervision of the city council of Nenana. S. J. M. 10, by Senator Rivers, asking the road board for a road from Nenana to the Bonnifield min- ing district. Bills passed by the Senate today include: 8. B. 39, by Cochran and Roden, providing that “it shall be the duty of the United States Marshals and Deputies in the Territory to en- force all criminal laws enacted by the Legislature not inconsistent with the present diities of their res- pective offices.” 8. B. 38, by Cochran, revising the statute relative to duration of mort- gage liens. 8. B. 37, by Cochran, extending to 60 days the time in which a con- ditional sales contract must be filed. S. B. 36, by Rivers and Cochran, amending the statute relating to trials in actions of an equitable nature. These Senate bills now go to the House for action. The Coffey memorial, asking Con- gress to set up legislation which would further the pulp industry in Alaska as a means of developing the Territory and providing em- ployment, was passed with amend- ment and must go back to the House for concurrence or rejection. - DIMOND SEEKS MORE LANDING FIELDS, ALASKA Navigation Between North- land, Continental U. S. Is Also Waanted WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond 'has asked Congress to authorize the Secretary of Interior to construct and maintain airfields, airports and navigation aids in Alaska. Congress, under Delegate Di- mond’s bill, would authorize ap- propriations from time to time to promote air navigation in Alaska and between the continental Unit- ed States 8nd the Territory. The Secretary of State is to be authorized to negotiate agreements with Canada for the construction and maintenance of such emergen- cy facilities in the Dominion nec- lessary to theestablishment of an airway between continental United States and Alaska. Petition Aiding Alaska Against Japan Fishing Filed with U. S. Senate WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. — The Senate Foreign Relations Commit- tee has received from the State of Washington the petition asking for a treaty with Japan protecting the Alaska salmon industry. The pe- tition was filed in the Senate by Senator Homer T. Bone. Salmon for Breakfast, Luncheon And Also Dinner KANAB, Utah, Feb. 19.—"If any- one ever tries to feed me salmon again, I'll shot 'em,” observed Carl Cox, former National Park ranger, as he and his wife arrived here after being rescued from their snow- bound ranch, 18 miles south of Ja- cobs Like, Arizona, on the edge of the Grand Canyon, where they were marooned for eight weeks in their small cabin. “All we had to eat when the trac- tor arrived, was canned salmon and popeorn,” said Cox. Mrs. Cox is an expectant mother. Fourteen feet of snow is regis- tered in the region where Cox lives, the greatest on record, he said. No Bids on Navy Vessels Due fo Walsh_-flaaly Act Lack of Interest on Part of Steel Industry May Force Govt. to Intervene WASHINTGON, Feb. 19.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today said that the Government would be compelled to act soon to obtain steel needed for the construction of naval vessels. The steel industry has failed to bid on a large part of the orders placed by the Navy. Naval officers attribute the fail- ure of industrial concerns to bid on ships for the Navy to the op- eration of the Walsh-Healy Act which sets up wage and hour stan- dards for government contractors. - e DEER STARVING NEAR CORDOVA CORDOVA, Alaska, Feb. 19. — Herman Draft, trapper, reported here today that twenty-six deer are facing starvation at Strawberry Point near here. One deer is already dead. Deep snow has driven the animals to the beach. Hunters have wired the Alaska Game Commission headquarters at Juneau to find out what the deer will eat, as they have refused al-| falfa hay. | | No report has peen received as vet regarding deor at Strawberry Point by the Alaska Game Comi- mission, Commissioner Frank Du- fresne said this afternoon. Deer were stocked on islands in Prince William Sound in 1916, and this is the first year they have re- quired any feeding, the Game Com- missioner said. There are between SHELL BURSTS ON U. S. CRAFT WHILE AT SEA Thirty Pour:cTEharge Goes Off in Breech of Star- board Gun TERRIBLE ACCIDENT, CAPTAIN’S REPORT Victims Are Marines Sent to Maneuvers from Eastern Section SAN PEDRO, Cal, Feb. 19—The death toll as the result of the gun explosion aboard the old U, 8. 8. Wyoming yesterday, reached seven today with the death of Sidney Emsley, Marine private, aboard the Naval hospital ship Relief. Emsley, whose home was in Atlantic City, was among eleven injured. A Naval Board is being formed to investigate the explosion which occurred on the demilitarized Wy- oming when with sister ships, bar- rages were being laid down in the war games off the coast to cover a landing party on the beach at Sa Clemente Island. # Shell Explodes A 30-pound charge of a 5-inch shell exploded in the breech of a starboard gun. Capt. C. N. Hinckman, comman- der of the Wyoming, in a radiogram, said: “It was a terrible accident.” The dead are the regular Marine personnel of the fleet's Marine 'force and brought out from Quan= tico, Va., to engage in the fleet man— euvers, . List of Dead The dead, all Marine John Bauer of Cincinnati; Albert Enos, of Cambrifige, Mass.; Joseph Bozynski, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Rich- ard Frye, of Johnstown, Pa.; Clin~ ton Walker, of Boykin, N.C.; and Emsley. AIR BATTLE IS FOUGHT TODAY, SPANISH FRONT Insurgents Claim to Have Shot Down Planes of Government LISBON, Spain, Feb. 19.—Spanish Insurgents claim they have shot down eleven Spanish Government planes on the Madrid front in one 1,000 and 1,200 deer on Prince Wil- of the most viclous air battles of liam Sound islands now, and a few on the mailand. | Mr. Dufresne, who said he would dispatch a game warden to Straw- berry Point from Seward, if the situation demanded it, said, that| while deer would not eat hay, they would eat alfalfa meal when mixed with hemlock twigs. . A game warden recently returned from the Strawberry Point district, where there was a complaint that, wolves were killing the deer. On investigation it developed that the wolves were mostly dogs, and as a vesult of the investigation twelve dogs were killed. ALA MIXER IS THIS EVENING, Members of the American Legion | Auxiliary are the invited guests of Alford John Bradford Post No. 4, this evening at the Dugout for a good old American Legion mixer, dancing, refreshments and enter- tainment to be furnished by the Post for all Legion and Auxiliary members. A good time is promised by the committee composed of Jack EI- liott, George Skinner, Vic Man- ville, and Tex Leonard. The pro- gram starts at 9:30 o'clock and will last until everyone is satisfied and willing to go home not later than the next day. R SRS R John Sherman, brother of Gen- eral W. L. Sherman, was the au- thor of the Sherman silver pur- the present civil war, Insurgent planes are also reports ed to have raided the Spanish gov- ernment airdrome at Tardients and destroyed three additional aircraft. NINE SHIPYARDS. REMAIN CLOSED Nine Craft Members Will Not Pass Machinsts’ Picket Lines SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 19. —Nine shipyards remain closed here as members of the nine crafts refused to pass the picket line maintained by the machinists. The machinists are demanding higher pay. ROADS BLOCKED BY HEAVY SNOW Traffic in Northern Idaho, Western Parts of Two States Paralyzed SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 19. — Snow is threatening to maroon those in homes in Northern Idaho and also paralyze operations in the mining districts. Travel has been stopped on all but the main raikroads and high- chase act and the Sherman anti- trust law. ways in eastern Washington and Oregon, S —