The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1937, Page 1

I VOL. XLIX. ,NO. 7425. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA COSTS BILL WELL OVER THREE MILLION $400,000 Recommended by Committee for Roads, Trails, Landing Fields | SCHOOL BUS ITEM UNDER QUESTION Slashes Suggested for Re-| quests Made by Uni- versity of Alaska With a recommended boost of from $200,000 to $400,000 for roads, bridges, trails and landing fields, the Ways and Means committee of | the Territorial House, of which Ed | Coffey of the Third is chairman, reported the general appropriations bill into the House this afternoon and that body immediately resolved itself into a committee of the whole | to consider the items. It was ex-| pected to take most of the after- noon. | Under the rules, the appropria-| tions bill should go to the Senate | today, but it was indicated that if | the House could not finish work on it, the Senate probably would ac- cept it under suspension of the rules. In 1931 the bill was late in arriving in the Senate and refused, with the result that appropriations had %o be made on the basis of the 1929 appropriations. As reported from committee, the bill has only a limited number of changes from the recommendation | of the Budget Board which totaled | $3,027,850 for the biennium. Estimated New Revenue The committee estimated that revenue from mines under the new gold tax bill would raise $750,000 for the ensuing biennium, or virtually double the $380,000 of the last two years, and that revenue from liquor, | if the Rivers bill passes, would be| approximately $100,000. In addition to the increase sug- gested for roads, the committee recommended $7,200 additional to the Commissioner of Mines for em- ployment of an additional man. The previous recommendation for this department had been $32,400. A figure of $5,000 was added by the committee to the $164,880 for the| Pioneers'’ Home to be used for| clearing additional burial grounds. Social Security ‘The amount for old age pensions was left at $400,000, dependent chil- dren at $44,000 and allowances to mothers at $66,000, all of which are expected to be worked in under the Social Security set-up. An item of $50,000 was trimmed from relief of destitution, and $100,000 was pro- vided by the committee for the relief of needy and indigent, both items which probably will be ab- sorbed by Social Security. An item™of $10,000 is appropriated for primary election but this pro- bably will be doubled if the Lich- tenberg bill to increase the pay of election judges and clerks is finally passed. The wolf and coyote bounty stands at $80,000 and probably will remain at that figure if the bill which has passed the Senate to cut the bounty from $20 to $15 is ap- proved. (Continued on Page Two) MARK REGUA PASSES AWAY LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 6.— Mark L. Requa, of Santa Barbara, aged 71, long a dominant figure in Republican politics, is dead at St. Vincent Hospital. He had been in the hospital for more than two weeks. Requa first gained national note in the World War days as Director| of the Oil Division and Fuel Ad- ministroattion. His friendship for Herbert Hoover began in 1925 and he was manager of Hoover's cam- paign for the Presidency in Cali-| fornia in 1928. As California Na- tional Committeeman, he directed {on the 52-Page Anderson health and |cense system for public account- Appropri Internati Vittorio Mussolini and bride t Here are Vittorio Mussolini, eldest son of Italy's dictator, and his | bride, the former Orsola Buvoli, church in Rome following a wedding distinguished by its simplicity. “The young couple plan to visit U onal INlustrated Ncws Soundphole as they left St. Peter Joseph's nited States in the near future, Sanitation Code Alaska Senate Anderson éfir Which Al- ready Has Passed House, | Aims to Promote Health The Territorial Senate began work sanitation code which previously has passed the House. The bill calls for a complete set- up in the Territory for the promo- tion of sanitation, providing re- quirements for protection of public water supplies used for drinking purposes and periodic examinations of water used for drinking; re- quires dairies to label their pro- ducts; requires food products es-| tablishments to meet certain sani- tary regulations as to sterilization of utensils; requires certain health nuisances to be abated; provides| general sanitation for industrial camps and canneries and prescribes regulations for barber and beauty shop establishments. The act would be administered | under the Territorial Department of Health. Late yesterday, the Senate passed a list of lesser bills, including the measure to appropriate $3,000 to help the Territorial Chamber of Commerce in its work, $10,500 to complete the vocational education work to the end of the school year when it will be discontinued and to rehabilitate the abandoned Signal Corps lines in the Nulato and Ram- part districts. The Nerland bill setting up a li- ants was temporarily killed through indefinite postponement in the Senate this morning but notice of reconsideration was given and it will come up on the calendar Mon- day for another vote. House Bill 66, amending the| present law in regard to reimburs- ing in cases of indigent persons, was approved. - —— L E———— | STOCK QUOTATIONS | [+ St NEW YORK, Mar. 6. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 147%, American Can 108, American Light and Power 13%, Anaconda 65%, Bethlehem Steel 104%, Calumet and Hecla 17%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors 67%, Internationsl Harvester 108'%, FOES OF COURT - Gonsidered by ' PLAN MASS FOR ATTACK ON IT President’s Call for Action Stirs Opposition to Judi- ciary Reorganization WASHINGTON, March 6.—Sena- torial foes of President Roosevelt’s plan to reorganize the Supreme Court are massing their attack on two fronts as a result of the Pres- ident’s call for immediate action and the approach of cruicial public hearings on this issue. Senator Edward R. Burke, of Ne- braska, told reporters today that there would be “a new alignment of political parties in this country in 1938” if the President carries his point, Foes to the judiciary reorganiza- tion plan have arranged a series of addresses culminating in a mass meeting next Friday in Carnegie Hall, New York City. It is also hinted that they have lined up a prominent “surprise” witness to lead off their side of the case before the . Senate Judiciary Committee. The name of the wit- ness has not been disclosed. President Roosevelt is working on a “fireside chat” which he will broadcast to the nation Tuesday night. Wants Hushand 1o Be Declared Legilly Dead Fairbanks Women Last Heard from Mate, by Let- _ter, June 27, 1929 SEATTLE, Mar. 6—Mrs. Bessie Kappler, of Fairbanks, Alaska, has asked the Federal District Court to declare her husband, Lewis Kappler, mining engineer, legally dead, and also authorize payment to her of a $5,000 war risk insurance policy. Theé petition, filed in her behalf by attorney George Flood, stated she last heard from her husband when he wrote from New York on June 27, 1928, that he was going to Africa to take a mining engineer {ened veranda deck about 3 o'clock the Hoover campaign in the west in 1932 Kennecott 66%, New York Central position. She has heard nothing 51%, Southern Pacific 63, United|from him since. The petition also States Steel 126, United corpora-;s‘*'/?s that his mother, in Fairbanks, tion 67%, Cities Service 4%, Poundreceived similar messages. $4.887%, Republic Steel 40%, Cerro 3 i de Pasco 83, American Zinc, Lead| Anthony Comstock organized ACTOR DROPS FAOM SIGHT ON STEAMER| Asked Whiss Great Britain’ | to Wed Him, then Made Threat, Is Report PLYMOUTH, England, March 6.| —Frank Vosper, 37, British actor | and playright, returning from Hol- lywood, vanished early today from the gay journey’s end champagne party aboard the inbound liner Paris. Vosper and Miss Murriel Oxford, who is “Miss Great Britain” this year, talked together on the ddrk= this morning. She then returned to the party. Scotland Yard officers said one of the passengers reported hearing a man’s voice say: “If you dom't marry me, I'll jump overboard.” Miss Oxford denied any such state- ment was made. . | ACCIDENT IS BELIEF PLYMOUTH, Mar. G.—Peml Wiles, fellow Londoner aboard the, VAN SICKLE DRIVES BIRD liner, said Vosper might have tried to climb down to the next deck from the veranda in order to regain his own stateroom unnoticed and lost his balance. Wiles declared that he was sure Vosper was lost over~ board accidentally, .Wiles further| said Vosper had attended the cham-|" pagne dinner given by Miss Oxford | as an unwilling guest. ARER, SEATTLE Silver g;oons Police Sergeant, 17-Year- Used, Operation | 0ldGirl Wounded—Jeal- At Point Ba_rr_ow | ous Italian Is Arrested | FASHIONABLE |N Protection of Salmon of laska, from Japanese, I's ~Sought by ’Frisco Union CITY ELECTION 1S BUT MONTH AWAY, APRIL § Counail Establishes Same| Voting Places — Mayor | Will Seek Re-election Reminder that the city election is but a month away, April 6, was given at the City Council last night when that body voted to establish the same precincts and voting plac- es as at the previous city election. The Mayor, who is elected annu- ally, three members of the City Council and one school director will be ending their term of office. Councilmen whose terms expire are William Reck, Art McKinnon, G. E. Krause. Holdovers are Ralph Beist- line, Frank McCaffery and Oscar Harri. On the school board, the term of R. E. Robertson expires. While no formal announcements have been forthcoming thus far whether any of the officers will seek re-election, Mayor I. Goldstein has indicated definitely that he will be a candidate to succeed himself. The Mayor is completing his fourth consecutive term and he was Mayor twice previously, in 1925 and 1926. .- AIR RAID ON SPANISH CITY Fifty Bombs Dropped Dur- ing Night by Planes —Many Killed MADRID, March 6.—Many per- sons are believed dead at Aran ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 6.—| The Times correspondent at Point| SEATTLE, March 6.—Police Ser- eration was performed at the tem- ical condition as the result of a bul- porary hospital in the school|let wound in one of his lungs; Miss used to keep an incision open. The|cring from three wounds in the Eskimo who underwent the oper-| 2'm, and Tony Procacio, 50, Italian Point Barrow is short of drugs|as the result of a shooting affray and hospital equipment on accuumlyesterday. ST A Do e | Nielsen answered a call to the ex- | clusive McGilvra Boulevard resi- PR'SUNER FAGES\ Miss McCoy, employed at the {home of Dr. William Cook, fled to a cers, before being overpowered. MURBEH GHAHGE‘ Procacio is quoted as saying he had learned she had accepted at- b . 1 | tentions of other men. Arrested in South Carolina, McCoy, living near Renton, said the s > | assertions were ridiculou: ing in Kelso, Wash. COLUMBIA, 8. C., March 6. ;‘c A SWANSBN Police Chief W. H. Rawlinson quot- U8 Fill Hart as saying he would not fight extradition to Kelso, Washington, very, newspaper editor, June 19, 1925. admitted being in Kelso the day —— | the crime comm| e~ | ol ited, but de-|Former Alaska Partner of also said that he was the man want- ed in the case. John W. Smith is now serving| —LCause Unknown a ninety year sentence in the Wash- | EVERETT, W—nsh.. March 6, — n:mi;h, at the trial, sald that he|cnant was found dead Priday in and Hart were attempting to rob|, parkeq automobile on a little used | Hart, a cook and groom at race-| Dej artwi puty Coroner Carl Hartwig of horse stables during the past feW|geggtle sald the winodws of the| on 8 charge of being drunk and Was | tube from the motor exhaust had . % |been run into the car. Swanson‘ vestigation at Washington advised| y: that his finger prints check With| gyancon was born in Sweden. He! R | tered ‘the grocery business in cm-! s M ER cago. He joined the gold rush toj 0 ESPAHKL {towns and was a partner of Tex ‘R.h:knrd. Barrow reports an emergency op-|geant H .D. Bakenhus is in a crit- building and silver spoons were Della McCoy, 17, a maid, is recov- ation is doing well. gardener, is held without a charge of the recent fire. Bakenhus and Patrolman S. T. |dential district. i inelghbor’s house pursued by Pro- I 2 - Y E A H - 0 I- D cacio. Nielsen said the Italian fired 1seventeen shots, seven at the offi- wanted to slay the girl because he! The girl's mother, Mrs. Josephine Man Is Wanted for Slay- A A R ed a prisoner booked as Frank A. FOUND DEAD IN on a charge of slaying Thomas Do- The police chief said that Hart R suk that e wae the man st Tex Rickard Takes Life ington State prison for the murder.|charjes A. Swanson, aged 60, mer-| Dovery when he was shot. |road morth of Seattle. months, was arrested four days ago auto had been stopped up and a Later the Federal Bureau of In-|\naoubtedly came to his death on those of the hunted man. |came to the United States and en-| Alaska, worked in different gold Swanson returned to Seattle in| u?rm:‘S :‘I‘OlWN,oannt:sel;orGt:éanz;um and opened several grocery weigh 203 carats has been round:s"““' He came to Everett ten by a negro laborer 100 miles in the |Yé8T8 later and entered the grocery jungle. The find started a rush to business and also managed thea- the area, and it is reported an 18|'res here from 1917 to 1934. Two o |sons survive. and Smelting 16%, Lima Locomo-|the New York Society for'the Sup- tive 78%. cent between 1905 and 1935. carat stone was found as well as several smaller stones. l No cause is given for the tragedy. 150 bombs. Free State Minister to the Vati- Juez after a night of #error in which insurgent planes, mlnklng re- peated visits, dropped more than The Spanish Government forces continue to hold the city, however. Widow. of Wealthy Man Marries Today NEW YORK, March 6. — Mrs. Nicholas Brady, widow of the multi- millionaire utilities financier and: William MacCaulay, were marred here today. The groom is the Irish 'DOGS TO VICTORY ation Is Asked | Lloyd Van Sickle, of Ashton, Idaho, is shown here racing his Chesapeake bird dogs to his second suc- cessive annual victory in the American dog derby at Ashton. His time for the 16-mile course was one hour, nine minutes and ten seconds. (Associated Press Photo) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 6. —The local unit of the Alaska Fish- from Washington to protect the Alaska salmon resources from the Alaska salmon rescources from the asserted threat of Japanese en- croachment. The union passed the resolution unanimously. It asks Congress and the Presi- dent to take steps necessary to pre- vent depletion of the supply of sal- mon, built up over a period of years, either by foreign fishermen or by American fishermen working in co- operation with foreign canners, The resolution said the Japanese Government has appropriated mon- ey for a scientific investigation of the possibilities of commgrcial op- erations outside the three mile lim- it. This it was said, would nullify American conservation laws and might destroy the salmon run and reduce employment of American fishermen and cannery workers. LABOR LEADERS CONTEND FOR STEEL GONTROL Company Unions Have Joined Battle—Propose Enrollment of 55,000 WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The end of the week has seen momentous developments in the field of in- dustrial unionization and the quick- ening of the struggle for control of labor in the steel industry. Leaders of the so-called com- pany unions joined the battle whose major contending forces have here- tofore been the AFL and organizer Lewis’ CIO. \ At Pittsburgh, leaders of corpor- ations and employee representatives have drafted plans combining the CIO intentions to enroll in the na- tion 55,000 steel workers. President William Green, al- though opposed to Lewis, declined to attack the CIO through support of the Carnegie Illinois Steél Com- pany group. ‘There will be a meeting in Wash- ington Tuesday at Lewis' call be- cause of further unionization cam- paigns of several industries, includ- ing the large textile industry. New York City Wins Traffic Safety Award CHICAGO, Ill, March 6. — The National Safety Council announces it has voted New York City the grand prize as winner of the an- nual traffic safety contest. can. In State awards, Idaho has been awarded first prize in Class C. DOLLAR LINER, 'TANKER HIT IN FOGGY WEATHER Vessels Collle:During Noon Hour—Dramatic Res- cue Quickly Made |THIRTY OF CREW ABOARD COOLIDGE (One Radio Tells of Acci- dent, Second Tells of Heroic Act Made ! SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 6.—The outbound Oriental Iiner President Coolidge and the oil tan- ker Frank H. Buck collided with a terrific impact in a fog near the Golden Gate Bridge and within a few minutes the captain of the Dollar Liner radioed he had rese cued the entire crew of the tanker, The message, given out at 1:08 o'clock this afternoon said: “All crew of the Frank H. Buck saved, now aboard the President Coolidge.” About 30 men were aboard the tanker whic¢h is reported sinking. Radio messages said the dramatic in a few seconds after the crash. The first message said: “Rammed an unknown tanker off Fort Point at 12:45 o'clock this af- ternoon.” Then followed the message the crew was rescued and aboard the liner. The President Coolidge left the dock here at 12:25 in a dense fog, with 600 passengers and crew of 300 aboard. —————— PICKET LINES ARE RUN; SHIP BEING WORKED Canadian Union Members Discharging American Vessel at Vancouver loading of the American owned West Ira started this forenoon when members of the Canadian Water~ front Unions marched through the ILA picket lines to work the ves- sel. The crew, after refusing to pro- vide steam for the unloading oper- ations for two days, cooperated with the pickets and then withdrew and went back to their jobs. Agents for the boat said messages had been received from the Sea- mens’ Union heads in Seattle and San Frarcisco advising them to provide steam. The Canadiay, unions have no affiliations with the U. 8. ILA. Police on duty feared trouble but the Canadians went through the picket lines quickly and not a word was spoken from either side. - ————— Geisha Girls Win Demands Afi_el Sitdown Three Hundred Entertain- ers to Be Permitted to Form Guild OSAKA, Japan, March 6.—Three hundred gaily clad geisha girl en- tertainers in cafes ended an eight- day sitdown strike today when they won their demands. The girls spent most of the time in the Buddist Mountain Temple while on their sitdown strike to win recognition of their right to form a Geisha Guild. VANCOUVER, B. C,, Mar. 6—Un~ .