The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS VOL. XLIX., NO. 7431. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDA Y, MARCH 13, 1937. A EMPIRE 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AMELIA READY FOR ROUND-WORLD HOP EXECUTIVE VETO A Best Se ON 3 ITEMS OF APPROPRIATION Governor Disapproves of Crime Bureau, Radio Stations, Ship Subsidy Three items in the appropriation bill passed by the 13th Legislature have been vetoed by Gov. John W. Troy, including one which makes | a law ineffective. That is the Wal-| ker bill setting up a Bureau of Jriminal Investigation and Identi- fication in the Attorney General’s| @ Office. Seven thousand dollars had| - been set aside in the general ap- propriations to carry this law into effect. The Governor failed to approve the appropriation and in transmit- ting the bills to the Secretary of Alaska wrote: “I am convinced that a large part of this work is being carried out now by the Department of Jus- tice. I am further convinced work which is not a duplication of the work of the Department of Justice would not be worth $7,000 to the Territory or the people of the Ter- ritory.” The other two appropriation items which failed to win the Gov- ernor’s signature were $10,000 to subsidize the Ketchikan and An- chorage radio stations and $3,000 as a Subsidy to shipping between St. Michaels and Kotzebue. In vetoing the radio stations approp- riation, the Governor wrote: Margaret Mitchell, author of “I am not in favor of subsidies! & mustache cup for delivery to Herschel Jenki as a matter of principle and the the gridiron dinner of the Georgia P reason for this subsidy under Chap- ter 53 already has been accomplish- ed. The two radio stations that benefit from this subsidy, I am in-| formed, have reached a point ln? i their development where they'can continue to operate without sub- sidy.” In failing to approve $3,000 for the ship subsidy, he said: “Two years ago a similar approp-| riation for the district failed. Since| the first subsidy was granted a com TO AID SHIP AFIRE AT SEA “Gone With the Wind,” is shown presenting ,ed at the removal of 5000 strikers rarelv makes a public appearance, and this is one of the few newspictures | ever t % 0 ol her !mobile employees precipitated the PROMINENT 5 b )| ; | Union .officials have -been. dum~| ller’s Gift CHRYSLER CO. PROCEEDINGS Picket Line at Court House at Injunction Hearing Against Sitdowners —Circuit Court Judge Allan Campbell has deferred until Monday a decision on. the pe- tition of the Chrysler Corpora- tion in ordering sitdowners to evacuate their plants after sev- eral hours of arguments by at- torneys of both sides. DETROIT, Mich, March 13. | United Automobile Workers of America threw a moving picket lineé | entirely about the Wayne County | Building today as Circuit Judge Al- lan Campbell is hearing the Chrys- ler Corporation’s petition for an in- junction evicting 5,000 sitdown strik- \ers out of its plants. More than a thousand men and women jammed the corridors of the | building, seeking a place in the | courtroom that could hold, at most, | fifty people. | Chrysler Motor Corporation’s dis- | jpute with the union, a major sore Ispot in the nation’s strike pitted against the industrial body, ap- proached a showdown today. Sixty thousand idle workers are anolved in the corporation's pro=~ | jected injunction proceedings, aim=| ns, Georgia publisher, at Who held its eight Detroit plants | ress Institute in Athens. The author for a week. |insistence that they be the ex- ——jclusive bargaining agency for auto- 1 imoned to the Circuit Court to show lcause. why the sitdown strikers {should not be ejected. | Governor Frank Murphy, Michi- gan, to whom is given most of the credit for settling the General Mot- | ors strike, said the Chrysler con-| |troversy is serious. The United Automobile Wr)rkers‘% FLEET PRE ARE WATCHED| BULLETIN—Detroit, Mar. 13. . The winter anchorage of Seatt! get their boats ready for the op! Moose Chase Alaskan U p ; Tree; Keep Him There for Half a Day at a Time, Too BLUES, SILVERS DRAW INCREASE “SEATTLE SALES Buyers Take All But Ten Per Cent of Furs Offer- ed—Sales April 14 le’s hundreds of halibut vessels is a busy place as the hardy fishermen ening of the fishing season. This is a general view of the main portion of the fleet. (Associated Press Photo) Wilbur Morris, amateur pilot, re-| turning from his first solo cross | country flight, tells of visiting Tom | Odale, veteran woodsman living on | Tustumena Lake, Kenai Peninsula. and found Odale had been obliged to build a fenee around. his cabin | to keep. moose ofit. e | Belligerent moose have ,chased Odale up a tree when he has 'gone to get water, sometimes keep- ing him up there as long as half a| day | ©Odale now carries a rifle and Iscares the moose away by firing {bullets in the snow near them. 1 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 13.| often| peting vessel has been serving this! route and air service 1s avuilable| to handle passengers and mail. It| British Motorship Fighting :Mrs. Halemlden. Je.t Blaze Out Upon North has been said that the compensa-| tion allowed to carry mail is not; adequate for the vessel engaged in Pacific Ocean | Hangs Self in Suburban Home—Cause Unknown | It is unfortunate that Chicago, the nation's second largest city SEATTLE, March 13. — The Furi —— - — Exchange, in announcing another| Ishould be plagued with eleven sit- auction for April 14, said that this| AI- ASK A w AGE | down strikes and walkouts national Week’s sale has brought five per-| {cent advances in bids for silver and leaders feel. |blue fox, compared to prices offered that service. I do not believe that the Territory should make up a de-| ficiency if the Post Office Depart-| ment is not paying enough to havi BULLETIN — San Francisco, Mar. 13. — Intercepted radio messages state the passengers have left the Silver Larch and | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 13.] qgo non-strikers were injured in| ' Mrs. Hale Holden, Jr., sports Wo- clashes when an oil-soaked taxicab man, society leader and wife of the burned in clashes between striking of last month. It was further stated that buy took all but ten percent of the ski offered for sale. Seven hundred - SCALE IS T0 | - BEDISCUSSED mail delivered.” are out in lifeboats. Another message states the Vice-President Company, was found dead today in her home in suburban Haverford the Pullman t2xi drivers., A strike for higher wages in the and fifty blue fox pelts at prices| ranging from $17 for Northwestern icomposing room forced the Miami fire is “creeping up again.” 203 LAWS ARE % ’ Daily News to suspend publications, hanging from a noose made from p,¢ publication was resumed when the belt of her dress. jemployees voted against the strike. ranched varieties, to $60 for Alas- kan Arctics. Buyers also snapped up virtually all of the 2,860 silver Negotiations Between Workers, Operators UP TO MARTIN IN WASHINGTON Governor Rolls Up Sleeves Ready to Act on Meas- ures in Eight Days OLYMPIA, Wash., March 13— Gov. Clarence D. Martin today rolled up his sleeves ready to act SAN FRANSCO, Cal, March 13. —A twelve hour race against a fire| at sea has started mortheast of Honolulu as the British mutorship! Silver Larch wirelessed asking for aid to remove the passengers. The message was picked up by radio stations on the coast and al- most immediately Honolulu answer- ed that the Motorship Figian gave notice it was within twelve hours of the distressed ship and speeding to the scene. In calling for aid at 12:48 o'clock this morning, Capt. F. R. Hender- son said fire had been burning in Coroner Winslow Rushong report- | ed it a case of suicide. The woman's husband said she had also appeared to be perfectly| happy and in excellent health. Be- iside her husband, two children sur-, vive, Joan, aged 12 and Hale, aged T years. COAL MEASURE | STOCK QUOTATIONS | within eight days on 203 laws before | NO- 3 hold for several days and was him, passed by the Washington not threatening to get out of con- State Legislature which adjourned [trol- yesterday. U, 8. Navy cruiser Louisville is Gov. Martin has already passed also steaming toward the scene and up 51 laws. scheduled to reach here this af- Among the most important laws | ternoon. still before the Governor are the| The Silver Larch is of 5,122 tons, following: Amendment to the re-|Das eight passengers and erew of 40 tail sales act to include a tax on aboard. She recently sailed from | foodstuffs, increase in the state gas|San Pedro bound for the Orient. tax, bill prohibiting slot machines, Passengers aboard include three authorizing Sunday sale of beer and | Yomen. Mrs. W. W. Weller, Mrs. wine, and small loan bills, fixing the | H- A- Weller and Mrs. K. Grenfell, rate of interest af 12 percent. on a world tour. SHORT OF CASH largest yet. ANDREW FOSS IS PASSED BY LOWER HOUSE Amendments Are Pushed Aside Decisively—Bill to Regulate Industry WASHINGTON, March 13.—The House has passed legislation design- ed to provide for the Federal regu- lation of the giant soft coal indus- try. Striking down every amendment offered, the House pushed a revised Guffey-Vinson coal control bill through without a record vote. Closely paralleling the original Guffey Act, invalidated by the Su- a Government Commission to fix o {preme Court, the bill would create PAssEs AwAY SEATTLE, March 13.—A special committee of the City Council saidiboth minimum and maximum toal the city faces the most acute fi- TACOMA, Wasts, Mareh 18.—An-|;o00101 gipyation in- history. drew Foss, 82, founder of the Foss| et geficit will reach $2,800,000 Launch and Tug Company, the|p, gne eng of the year, it is said largest in the Pacific Northwest, e e ) died today, ten days after his wife's death. He was born in Fossen, Nor- way. Three sons and two daughters| survive. Former President N. Y. Junior League —————— Dies, Bullet Wound The lower Rio Grande Valley pro- duced 70,000 bales of cotton in 1936.]| NEW YORK, March 13—Mrs. Ruth More than 18,000,000 persons con- Delafield, 38, former President of; tribute to health insurance and old|the Junior League of New York, age pension projects in England,lis dead as the result of a self-in- { DR, THOMPSON DIES IN EAST SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., March 13. | —Dr. Elihu Thompson, 83, inventor of electric arc welding and con- temporary of the late Edison, died Income from workers and employ-|flicted bullet wound. No reason ers is $260,000,000 annually. is given for her act. T il oo AN B i it at his home here today. He has peen {1l since January. Four chemical plants in Charles- 'ton, West Virgiia, announced 10 {rom $16, for blacks, percent wage increases. Numerous other firms have an- nounced pay increases, including !the Gulf Ofl Corporation and Lock- heed Aircraft Corporation. - NEW YORK, Mar. 13. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15, American Can 111%, American Light and Power 127%, Anaconda 67, Bethlehem Steel 100%, Calumet and Hecla 17%, Com- monwealth and Southern 3, Curtiss | Wright 7%, General Motors 65%, ! International Harvester 107'%, Ken- necott 66%, New York Central 51 Southern Pacific 62%, United States Steel 122%, United Corporation 6'%, Cities Service 4!, Pound $4.88 9/16 Republic Steel 45%, American Zinc Lead and Smelting 18%, Cerro ds Pasco 81%, Pure Ofl 21%, St. Jo- seph Lead 64%. ! DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow,| Jones averages: industrials 190.62 rails 62.05, utilities 32.87. PRESIDENT ON HIS VACATION WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 13.| —In the isolated wooded surround-| ings familiar to him for almost a decade, President Roosevelt this morning started the second day of his vacation which included a swim and another tour of the countryside behind the wheel of an open car. B g A survey showed that men most likely to have toxic goiter are edi- tors, musicians, artists and others of the intellectual type. «: States variety, to $21 for Ala I blankets. " in less demand, fox skins that were offered, at bids Up Next Week to $260 for helilon “petter quality full silvers.” | SEATTLE, March 13. — Conrad Other pelts went at bids un-| Espe, business agent of the local changed since last month. All but|18257, Cannery Workers and Farm-| forty-five of four hundred and fifty €rs Laborers Union, announced that beaver skins offered were sold at negotiations between the union and $4, for the small Northwe: n operators of the major fish canner- an les in Alaska, will be opened with- jin a few days in an effort to settle Prices at which other offerings,|the wage es before the opening sold were: 24,750 of the canning season next month.| muskrats, from $1.10 to $1.80; 1 Espe says he wants an under- 000 ermine, 60 cents to $150; 10 stending on wage scales and con- 150 mink at $11 to $30¢ 3,600 red ditions of employment for 3,000 fox, $10 to $20; $3,600 wolves, $10 to men and women employed in the Alaska canneries, He also announc- | $13; 1,550 marten, $16 to 850 white fox at from $14 to §: jed the opening of organizational Otter sold from $16 to $23 for|drives at all canning centers in the 625 skins; six hundred badger went|Puget Sound area seeking agree- at from $4 to $17; 575 cross fox at|ments with scores of canning con-| from $25 to $60; 350 lynx, $24 to $52; | cerns here, and Tacoma, Everett and 200 timber wolves at from $10|and other cities. ot S EAGENISON WAY, HAWAI Feeding Shortage ! Faced by Stockman| To Make Probe of Labor! Conditions, on Charges PORTLAND, Oregon, March 13.| of Longshoremen The Department of Agriculture T ports that Oregon stockmen face| a serious spring feeding shortage| after a severe winter. Heavy losses| of sheep because of closed ranzes! is reported. i | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March E. J. Eagen, of Scaftle, Re- | glonal attorney for the National La-| |bor Relations Board, is on his way (to Honolulu to make what repre-| |sentative of longshoremen call the| NEW YORK, March 13.—A baby “first real probe of labor conditions! girl, weighing only 15' ounces, | in the Hawiian islands that we have born two and onehalf months pre- ever had.” maturely to Mrs. Max Post on} He will investigate complaints Thursday, died in an incubator at|that longshoremen are being dis- 5:30 o'clock this morning. Four|criminated against. doctors tried to save the infant's Meanwhile Joseph Curran, east life. The baby was so small shecoast maritime workers leader, con- could be held in the palm of a hand. ferred with maritime union heads —————— lheads here on Jjurisdictional mat- A manufacturers census shows an|ters. He said, “gertain ships were average of 162,139 wage earnnrs|flzned up under east coast agree-| were employed in Missouri in 1935 lmems and we feel they should car-| Wages fotaled $159,459,550. ry east coast seamen.’ Weighing Only 1514 Ounces 1 | | ARES FOR HALIBIJ'I; SEASON TAKE-OFF SET FOR TOMORROW OR ON MONDAY Woman Flier Will Traverse Most of 27,000-Mile Route Alone WILL HAVE NAVIGATOR AS FAR AS AUSTRALIA Hubby Says ‘She Wants to’ and ‘Isn't that Perfect- ly Good Reason’ OAKLAND, Cal, Mar. 13. — To- morrow or Monday, Amelia Ear< hart, intrepid queen of the airways, will take off from here on a pro« jected flight around the world, fol- lowing a course near the equator. Her silvery eight-ton plane, equipped with twin motors and every modern device for direction FIRST HEAT OF DOG DERBY RUN AT FAIRBANKS Buzby, Kohrines, Allen Win First, Second and Third Places — 13 Entries FAIRBANKS, Alaika, Murch 13, —Bob Buzby, of Falrbanks, Berg- man Kokrines of Kokrines and Johnny Allen of Ruby won the first, second and third prizes in yester- day’s initial heat of the annual three day dog derby. Buzby’s time was 1 hour 12 min- utes and 45 seconds. Kokrines' time was 1 hour 13 min- utes and 17 seconds. Allen’s time 1 hour 14 minutes and 46 seconds. Time made by the others follows: Harold Myers, 1:28:18; Mike Ag- baba, 1:28:37; Mary Hansen, 1:41:- 47; Hack Thomas, 1:45:40; Ed Mayo 1:18:13; Joe Doleshal, 1:30:19; Jeff Studdert, 1:46:32; Robert Hanson 1:36:22. \ Mary Joyce Slow Mary Taku Joyce, noted long dis- tance musher from Juneau, was the slowest, her time being two hours and five minutes flat. Henry Paeg- ean, cheechaco driver of New York City, had a misfortunate incident. His team bolted and the wild wolf dogs ran away. Four Dog Fights Four mushers brought in crippled dogs on their sleds, owing to dog fights on the trail. One dog came back with a bloody head. The mush- ers with crippled dogs were Mike Agbaba, Mart Hansen, Hach Thom- as and Mary Joyce. Miss Joyce will be the first out today. She was the last to cross the outmark yesterday. How They Feed 'em Mary Hansen says she feeds her dogs fish, meat scraps and moose milk. Julian A, Hurley's team, noted Nome veteran dog racing owner, says his team driven by Robert Hanson, is too young this year, but is thoroughly pedigreed with the standards of the American Kennel Club and look out next year. He feeds his dogs dried salmon and meat tallow, sometimes fresh meats. Trail is Excellent The trail was excellent yesterday but the weather was too hot, the temperature at noon being 27 above The sky was clear and the bright| and | sunshine caused the drivers dogs to suffer from snow reflections. A great crowd thronged the Che- na River bridge to watch the starts and finish. Officials Former Federal District Judge Cecil H. Clegg, officiated in the dog derby and he was assisted by Leon- ard Seppala, internationally fa- mous winner of many trophies and gruelling races at Nome, Lake Pla- cid, New Hampshire and other courses, and Jack Warwick at the starting line. Prettiest of Getaways Roy Lund, veteran Alaska dog racer and winner of many cups in such races, also marathon and bicy- cle trophies in the gold rush days (Continued on Page Four) finding, navigation, speed and en- durance and of 55-foot wing spread, was being conditioned today for the take-off. The Oakland Tribune said that N. J. Noonan, former Pan-American Airways pilot, will act as her navi- gator between Oakland, Hawail and Howland Island and that Capt. Harry Manning will navigate then to Darwin, Australia. From there, the rest of the way around the world, the woman flier will travel alone. Her husband, George Palmer Put- nam, said that his wife was going to fly around the equator because showed not & vestige of nervousness as she discussed the big adventure of a 27,000-mile flight on which she will blaze a trail as sole pilot most of the way. Dressed in flying ap- parel, she said clothes would be the least of her worries and she has de- clined all invitations to receptions, social functions and the like along the way. She makes no estimate of when she will complete the trip. B Pittman Wants to Make Court Move Permanent Senator WofiEnlarge Su- preme Bench Whether Justies Retire or Not WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—8Sena- tor Key Pittman, Judiciary commit- tee member supporting the Presi~ dent’s plan to reorganize the judi- ciary system, today proposed that the increase in the size of the Su- preme Court be unconditional ané permanent. The Pittman proposal which was the first from an Ad- ministration leader for a change in the bill, would enlarge the tribunal to 15 members even if Justices over 70 retire. The Senator said if his amend- ment is approved he would also offer a constitutional amendment to pre~ vent the court from being enlarged beyond 15 members. The committee is in week-end re- cess. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana will open opposition testi- mony Monday. PICKETING OF - APS NOW OFF | SEATTLE, March 13—Picketing lof the Alaska Pacific Salmon Com- pany’s Lake Union terminal halted while negotiations regarding man- ning of the Alaska bound vessels progresses between the Alaska Fish- ermen’s Union and the packers. Northern Califersia Is Drenched by Rain SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 13. —Rain continued to besiege North- ern California as a new storm moved in ffom the Pacific. Continued rain is forecast for the next 24 hours.