The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIX., NO. 7422 LIQUOR IN LEGIS LABOR WINS TWO ACTIONS, HOURS, WAGES Union Recogmzed as Bar- gaining Agent, 40-Hour Week, Steel Industry PI’ITSBURGH. PB., March 3.— Organized, labor has won formal recognition as a collective bargain- ing agent for its members from the chicf unit of the giant United States Steel Corporation. The epochal step of the five bil- lion dollar industry is announced by Phillip Murray, Chairman of the Steel Workers Organization Com- mititee. A contract signed by Bcnjamin! P. Fearless, President of the Car- negié-Tllinois Steel Corporation, grants a 40-hour week and $5 min- imum daily pay. GREAT STEP FORWARD CHOSHOCTON, Ohio, March 3.— William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, heiled as a “definite social and ec- cnomic progress’ in the 40-hour week with a $5 a day minimum wage in the steel industry. “It will be accepted with hearty | approval by the working men and | women employed in all lines of | industry 4 Green said. NAVY PROCRAN ANNOUNCED BY BRITISH DEPT. Construclior_l-g Eight Ves- sels of All Sizes to Be Started This Year LONDON, March 3—It is an-| nounced today that the Navy De-| partment will this year start con-l struction of three large battleships, two aircraft carriers, five heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, sixteen destroyers, seven submarines and forty-five smaller vessels. The completion of the program | will add 11,000 officers and men to| the fleet, bringing the total navy, personnel to 112,000. ! HANG MAN, BUT WOMAN SPARED Ilicit Love—A—fl;ir Ends on' Gallows for One of | Principals FORT SASKATCHEWAN, Alber- ta, March 3.—Emanuel Ernest, 34, a farmhand, was hanged early to-, day in the Provincial jail for the murder last October of George Pog- more, Byemore, Alberta farmer. i Mrs. Pogmore, whose sentence was commuted this week to life im- prisonment, sat in the women’s ward in the same jail while Ernest’ was hanged. Testimony “at the trial showed Mrs. Pogmore influenced Errest to| shoot her husband to keep him from learning of her affair with Ernest. She has six children. ——————— — {{ STOCK QUOTATIONS | . 5 NEW YORK, Mar. 3. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 109%, American Light and Power 13%, Anaconda 67, Bethlehem Steel 102'%, Calumet and Hecla 18%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 68%, International Harvester 106, Kennecott 67%, New York Central 48, Southern Pacific 59%, Un!ted< States Steel 123%, United Corpora- | tion 6%, Cities Service 4%, Pound/ $4.89, Republic Steel 38%, Cerro de Pasco 83%, American Zinc, Lead and Smelting 17%, Lima Locomo- tive 79%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 19291, rails 60.52, utilities 34.11. Don’t Go Near the Water! Iris Morey is having a look at a new cellophane coat to be worn over |the last two years. bathing suits by bathmz beauties inadvertently caught in the rain. Pratty Barbara Snyder is shown at the Floridian, Miami Beach, Fla,, in the | lits tax will be subject to careful ceat. prepzu-ed for any me(eornlugical eventuality, Socml Security Act Is Cause of Much Speculation; Many Questwns Arlse, No Answers SEVEN KILLED IN ROCKSLIDE AT POLSON DAM Three Olher Men Are In-| jured in Attempt to Rescue Comrades March 3. and . three POLSON, Montana, Seven men were killed others were seriously injured by a rockslide early today at the Polson dam. The dead are Tony Adams, Henry Coultre, Joe St. Germaine, Sanchez, Jack Anderson Charles Ross. Three were injured when they tried to rescue the men doing mucking work at the river bottom. A rock, loosened by fast melting snow, caused the slide, the authori- ties said. The slide occurred shortly after midnight when the night shift re- ported for wnrk STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANCE TRADING TODAY Averting of Steel Strike Sends Many Issues to New Heights NEW YORK, March 3.—With the steel strike apparently averted, sel- ected stocks again swept forward in today's market and there were many new recovery heights. While oceasional profit selling in- terrupted the session, gains of one to seven points were well distribut- ed. At the close, steels led in the upswing. Rails were heavy and in- dustfials followed in the wake, Transfers on the Stock Exchange today totalled 3,450,000 shares. and Dave! 4 By PKI‘S'I(). (-ROVFR WASHINGTON, March 3.—Cred- Secretary Morgenthau with| although for ,| ‘lmnwmg a spotlight, {just a moment on one of the un- |derlying big problems incident to np(-r'm(m of the Social Security Act. Within 17 years, he said, “vari- lous laws, such as social security sinking fund, and so forth, will absorb about $30,000,000,000 worth |of public de Don't be misled into thinking the | social security money wiii be used to retire the government debt. That isn’t the law. His statement sim- ply means that in about 17 vonra the social security act, together | with sinking fund “and so forth” will pile money into the treasury, | and the treasury will invest it, just! like an insurance company pect of such a sum massing in the hands of government (and some es- timate it may nearly double that) many questions arise that get in the hair of practical politicians as; well as in the hair of economists. Questions What if there came along a first line war, or a number one national emergency, or a lot of pesky little emergencies How well would the government withstand the tempta- tion to dip into the pot, take it all in the name of national emergency of national exiegency? of national exigiency? Suppose a depression came along and the middle-agéd and near-pen- sion-aged folk decided they needed the money right away instead of vaiting? And the inflationists in- sisted that the pension savings un- der social security ought to be pumped into business to perk up business? And columns of elderly and near elderly marched on Wash- ington demanding pre-payment of “the old age bonus?” But if no big fund is built up in which employes have a definite con- crete stake which they can call theirs by right, then what assur- ance is there that some Congress might not decide to abolish social security or reduce it greatly? Al- ready there is afoot a program backed by many business men urg- ing that the social security pay- ments be met on & pay-as-you-go basis by raising enough taxes each y(al to pay the needs rather than “(Continued “on Page Six) But in connection with the pros-| " | pital today. “ALL THE NEWS ALl. THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY, MARCH s HISTORY MADE BY LEGISLATURE IN WASHINGTON Appropriation “Bill Before Governor—Not a Per- iod Even Changed THURSDAY NIGHT IN10.0.F HALL Democrats and Friends Are to Gather Around at Annual Affair OLYMPIA, Wash, Mar. 3.—The ind friends will gather one hundred and twenty five mil- lion dollar appropriation bill is be- fore Gov. Clarence D. Martin after the House approved it last night without changing even a perlod. Chief Clerk Raymond Holcom, said this is the first time in the his- tory of the state legislature such a | bill went to the Governor without a conference committee to adjust | differences between the two Houses. Eighteech House Left Wingers ipullcd a sitdown strike, refusing to vote on the bill, It | Representative George Greig, of | Yakima, commented: “It ought to] be in Hell.” He tried vainly to in- crease the Social Security appro- priations from forty to sixty mil- lion dollars tom Ha) the tmitt fesi eelabro Spe taining, tee. t seven o'clock to partake in charge promises will be a and thoroughly enjoyable icn ches will be short and enter- according to the commit- stons of the Territory will be enied with speeches by Pres- 2K of the House Joe Green, Senator O. D. Cochran, Sen- akor Victor C. Rivers, National Com- jmitteemen J. A Hellenthal, and Mrs. £ H. Kaser, president of the Bemocratic Women's Club. ing with the men’s com- tor the affair, representatives Democratic ‘Womel Club committee are Mrs. Florene Mrs. E. H. Kaser, and Mrs. use. R TAX SCHEDULE : ~ TO BE CHANGED ;. - Mrs, George F. Alexander, [Returns Ale to Be Suutm-' ! ized by Officials of Treasury Dept. Krause are in charge of the affair. | A large number | AR been sold, and a strong turnout of | WASHINGTON, March 3.—Treas- ury officials said they will analyze; last year's income tax returns to; |guage the far-reaching changes in| |the tax structure enacted during!ar tory Dinner somorrow night at the Odd Fellows' Hall. Al Raynor is in charge of prep- jon and serving of the food. -se Controversial undistributed prof-|___ . .4 WA 'Mrs. Roosevelt |Invited to Visit | Territory scumny SAN FRANCISCO - GETS AIR BASE IIs Strategic Locallon Chief | 1‘ of Naval Operations Announces The Legislature |appraved a resolution to invite Pres ident Roosevelt to visit Alaska, Rep- | resentative Nell Scott of the Third Division and first woman ever elect- ed to the Alaska Legislature, this afternoon presented a resolution on behalf of the women of Alaska, in |the House also extending an invi- tation to Mrs. Roosevelt. The House promptly accepted the | WASHINGTON, March 3.—Ad- | resolution without question of the !miral W. D. Leahy, Chief of N‘,meo-mlrds permission and after it Operations, said San Francisco is|Was read, Representative James V. he most strategic location for a|Davis of the First, seconded by Rep- |Pacific Coast air base. The devel- opment plans call for $4,000,000 ¢ spension of the rules, which was for the first year plus $10,000,000, | quickly approved and the proposal {for the following two years. |placed on final passage. There was i Sl T mm. a dissenting vote when the res- | Joe Green promptly signed the mea- sure and sent it on its way to the ‘ Tn SIT LONGW‘L similar uunn | slTDuwNEBS lolution came up for vote. Speaker |Senate where it was expected to Settlement of Trouble in| { Spokane WPA Head- : quarters Remote | | SPOKANE, Wash., March 3 The settlement of the sitdown strike lat the WPA headquarters here ap- |pears remote, Don Abel, State Ad-! ministrator of WPA, said there is| ino chance to increase the quota for ithis section. 'HIRST ON WAY HERE " FROM WASHINGTON Accordlng to advices received by| {the Bureau of Indian Affairs,| |Claude M. Hirst, Director of Edu-! cation for the Bureau in the Terri- tory, is due to return to his Ju- neau headguarters aboard the steamer Alaska, sailing from Seat- tle next Saturday morning. Mr. Hirst has been engaged in various duties at Washington, D. IC., during the past several weeks,| Including attending the Superin- «'Had Fallen Through [ce— Dogs Broke Loose and ReachedRoadhouse FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 3.— United States Commissioner Hzmy |Greep, Circle Hot Springs, tele- graphed today that Peter Bloom, trapper, was found with a rabbit eck. The snare was fastened to Bloom’s dog-pulled toboggan and he was slowly freezing to death after break- ing through the ice crossing a creek. - Commissioner Greep said that |apparently Bloom had fastened the of which the snare was made, around his neck, so as to #id the dogs in leans, and the Organization-Educa- (loore and reached Central road- tion Convention. | house. e e i i et e <t RETURNS TO SKAGWAY ‘ ‘Walter Fitzgibbons, from the Skag- way Mission, was dismissed from| St. Ann's Hospital and left on the ! Victoria for Skagway. He was ac-| companied by the Rev. Edgar Gal-| lant. 'House Passes | Appropriation, ’Frisco Fair The House, by a vote of 13 to 3, gyl DAPCEVICH GOES HOME |viding for an appropriation of $50,~ Paul Dapcevich, 10,a medical case, |000 for an Alaska exhibit at the was dismissed from St. Ann’s Hos- ‘1030 Bxposition to be held in San Francisco. 1937. rbw night at the Odd Fellows | ry Dinner, which the com- the Senate M. E. S. an»‘ of tickets have| Dermocrats is expected for the Vie-| resentative Harry Race, moved for| NEAR FREEZING |snare wire pulled tightly around his | icose ends of the number eight wire, | getting him out of the creek. When | Itendents Convention at New Or-|he started up the dogs, they broke, this afternoon passed the bill pro-, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Hawafi Greets a Dollar Bride | Mrs. | Crystal Snow Jenne, and Mrs. Emil| Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hickinbotham are shown on their arrival in Honolulu | on their honeymoon. The bride is the former Diana Dollar, heiress to the Dollar shipping millions. Court Plan and DEAIlLlch MAY NRA. Are Related BE BROKEN BY s Suggestmn 40-HOUR WEEK ! ‘Ought’ to Be Enacted by Congress President Says May Now Help Out in Shipbuilding WASHINGTON, March Some| WASHINGTON, March Navy | Administration supporters have officials said adoption of the 40- |viewed the President’s expressed |hour week by the major steel com- |desire for new wage and hour leg-'Panies would break the deadlock| 'x~1.m(m as closely related to his ef-[in shipbuilding provided manufac- fc to reorganize the Su])rrmclu“ of machinery followed the Court which frivalidated the NRA,iSame course, President Roosevelt said at a press| Navy officials sald the 40-hour conference today. week would bring the steel com- He hoped that such labor stand-|panies under the Walsh-Healy Act ards as were included in the NRA [Which requires government con- would ho set up at this session of [tracts be filled by firms under such labor provisions. Naval shipbuilding threatened unless other follow the steel companies, Navy officials furI)lN‘ stated. Child 1s anm Heinous Crime; 3 3 Tt plans industries the Wage and hour legislation, he declared, belonged to the “ought” J ification of legislation to be en- Congress. He then asked ard that term. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, | Michigan, denouncing the Court, re- organization, said “No matter what | |its purpose, no matter how nobly .mul".x(od it was, its effect would ‘m the control of the Court with the Judges reflecting the Presidential point of view." Vandénberg’s colleague, Senator Brown, Democrat, of Michigan, said that while he was in sympathy with | Roosevelt, he didn't “think the R ek | Court reorganization is nece.ssary » Four-Year-Old Girl in New York Dies Following As- | DRERORATE (e - e Magnussen, murder and rape of Joan Morvan, I()ur year old child, as police re- c(msu‘uclv:d the crime. George Morvan, 24, father of the child who died Monday afternoon, |and Mrs. Norma Gatto, with whom he was living, are booked on charg- es of felonous assault and improp- er guardianship. Magnussen is a brother of Mrs. Gatto. Assistant vestigating the case said that Mag- nussen admitted criminal assault PRI upon the child Sunday afternoon. The crime was committed at the home of Magnussen's parents. wPA quKERS | Magnussen’s bail was set today at { '|' Elsmo,ooo. the highest in the history Observance of One Hun- dredth Anniversary Starts Tomorrow CHICAGO, Ill., March 3. — The iseven months’ jubilee opens tomor- row. This is the celebration of Chi- cago's One Hundredth Anniversary. The celebration will include a flower festival, aviation tournament, | farm week and Carnival of the |Great Lakes. of Queen's County. A charge of assault with intent-to kill is set for Morvan and Mrs. Gatto who are held on the same amount of bail. | SHELTON, Wash, March 3. —| e o o e o Workers on four of Mason County’s| Police Officers Howard Moore six WPA projects went on a strike and James Messer of Lawrence, this morning. The men demand an Kas., bagged a large coyote recently increase in wages from $40 to $65 that had strayed into the city from monthly. the countryside. having mmm_\;Wagc and Hour Legislation | {Action of S(eel Companies; are | Three Are Held 26, is charged with the| District Attorneys in-! ATIVE SPOTLIGHT ADE \VICTORY DINNER| LIQUOR BOARD CONTROL PLAN UP IN SENATE [Rivers Bill to Make Present Regulations Statutory Gaining Favor DISTRICT JUDGE MAY PASS ON LICENSES { Amendments Being Made in Effort to Remove Cause, Complaints BULLETIN—The Senate this afternoon passed the Rivers liquor measure. b The liquor issue became the dome inate subject in the Territorial Leg~- islature today as the Senate began consideration of the Rivers’ bill which would make statutory the present regulations under the Board of Ligquor Control and retain the present system with probable mi- nor changes. There was indication that the McCutcheon high license or saloon {bill which has passed the House was likely to meet with difficulties in the Senate and it appeared that the Rivers measure probably would be given preference in that body. Remove Complaint Cause Amendments were being consid- “lered by the Senators in an effort to take out what are considered - {some of the objectionable features {of the present regulations. M these was the matter of pfldnu ‘on licenses. It proposed that the ap- and the endorsement of his city |council. The final approval then being left to the District Court Judge. This feature is almed to re- move the complaint that licenses are being granted over protest. It {was brought out in the discussion ;nml the Liquor Board now is obliged ‘tn grant a license if the application 'has been approved by the eity coun- |cil, and that ecity councils usually |comprised of business men, are hes- {itant to turn down applications un- {less there is outstanding protest. !By leaving the final approval to the District Court, some of the Sen- ators saw opportunity to remove lcause of complaint on that score. | A measure lowering the wolf and |coyote bounty to $15 was approved |by the Senate and sent to the |House. The last Legislature raised |the bounty to $20. Previous to that (Continued on Page Eight) DIMOND BONDED ' DEBT MEASURE BEFORE HOUSE {Both Branches Attempting to Pass Own Bills as | Today Final Date BULLETIN—The House this afternoon passed the Dimond Bond bill by a vote of 12 to 4. With the recommendation of the transportation, commerce and nav- igation committee that it do pass, House Joint Memorial No. 62, which would urge the passage by Congress of the Dimond bonded indebtedness bill, was passed in second reading |by the Territorial House this morn- ing and was advanced on the cal- jendar to come up for final action |late this afternoon. A similar resolution was turned down earlier in the session by the Serate, primarily on grounds of a question of what the money was |to be used for, but the House mem- orial, introduced by Ross and Dan Green, sets up specific percentages for the expenditure of the money. It provides that if the Territory is authorized to issue bonds up to two million dollars 30 per cent of the money would go to airport and air- way development, 40 per cent for roads and trails and 30 per cent for public institutions such as hos- pitals and similar institutions. Both houses were working on long calendars today in an effort to move as many of their own bills as pos- (Continued on Page Elght) Dlicant - for. license must ‘have five' i references from reputable citizens '