The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Y, MARCH 16, JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDA 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS T NAZI LEADERS NAVAL HERO OF ‘6 Liberals Rate H igh As Court Possibilities ISNTF AVORED SPAN. AMERICAN WAR DIES TODAY Rear Admir;mobson Pass- es Away Suddenly at His N. Y. Home NEW YORK, March 16. — Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hob- son, 66 years old, naval hero of the Spanish American War, died sud- denly of a heart attack at his home today. Death occurred as he was leaving for his office, apparently in good health. As a young naval officer on the flagship New York he was in block- ade duty, in the bombardment of Mantanzas and the expedition against San Juan de Puerto Rico early in the Spanish American War. He was held prisoner in a Spanish fortress from June 3 to July 6, 1898. With a crew of seven volunteers it was Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the collier Merrimac in Santiago harbor thereby bottiing up the Spanish fleet to prevent its escape. He resigned from the Navy in 1903 and from 1907 until 1015 was & Supreme Court judgeship (circuit member of Congress from Alabama. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1933 for the sink- ing of the Merrimac, and in 1934 was made a Rear Admiral by Act|... of Congress. He was a prolific writer and made a name for himself as a lecturer of note. PAY INCREASE FOR EMPLOYEES LUMBER MILLS General Strike in Pacific Northwest Believed Not Likely SEATTLE, March 16—An immed- iate general strike in the lumber industry is not likely. This comes from an authoritative | source which said the Puget Sound Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers have voted to submit a peace proposal. It is said the local union work- ers would accept the sawmill op-| erator’s offer of seven and one-half cents hourly pay increase but they will continue to negotiate for their demands of ten cents an hour in- crease. Five Seattle mills are operating under a temporary agreement. They are paying ten cents an hour in- crease, but seven other local mills are closed by the strike. Other mills in the Northwest are operating. MISS EARHART PLANNING HOP ONWEDNESDAY Aviatrix May Be Accom- panied to Honolulu by Clipper Planes OAKLAND, Cal, Mary 16, —Ame- lia Earhart announces she plans to hop tomorrow on hey proposed globe flight, storms out at sea pre- venting her take-off today. It now apjpars she will be ac- companied by two Pan-American clipper planes dn the 2400-mile jump to Honolulu. Third Year Worst In Married Life Proctor Declares SEATTLE, March 16.—Mrs. Ev- angeline Starr, King County Di- vorce Proctor, said the third year is the worst in married life. Mrs. Starr said 65 percent of the divorces occur in the first ten years, but the third years leads all the rest. Mrs. Starr said she believes the reason is that it takes three years to get over the first honeymoon flush. All are lawyers with a flair for It's more than an even bet in ti They are: FERDINAND PECORA (Right) —55, medium height, heavy under- {slung jaw, disarming smile holds $22,500 a year New York City judgeship elsewhere) . . . gained the imuoml eye when he badgered the Morgan moneybags in senate stock imarket investigation two years ago cracked poultry and bucketshop rackets in New York . . . was a Teddy Roosevelt fan but has been a Democrat since 1918 . . . native of Nicosia, Sicily, graduate of lower east side sweatshops, New York law school «nd district attorney’s office |. . . once studied for the ministry 1. .. would sacrifice $2,500 a year if he donned a Supreme Court robe. JOHN G. WINANT (Right) — 48, tall, extremely modest . . . assisted in directing international labor of- fice in Geneva, resigning to start the Rooseveltian social security board on its way . . . quit board early this year to attend to private affairs . . . native of New York City but a resident most of his life of Concord, N. H, from where he went to the governorship on a Re- publican ticket three times . . . his New Hampshire share-the-work program is credited as the egg that hatched NRA’s blue eagle . . . he commanded Eighth Aerial Observa- tion squadron in World war . . . returned to academic shelter after- ward but the political bug soon got him. ROBERT H. JACKSON (Right) —45, likes to be known as a crack- er-jack small town lawyer . . . he’s from Jamestown, N. Y., and is a protege of Treasury Secretary Hens ry Morgenthau . . . became assis- tant attorney general in 1936 . . . prosecuted the income -tax cases against ‘Andrew Mellon . . . au- thored the wisecrack, “It’s Mr. Mel- lon’s creed that $200,000,000 can do no wrong; our defense consists of doubting it” . . . sued Electric Bond and Share for government to force that utility giant to comply with new holding company act . . . doesn’t think so very well of law- yers . . . warns against dictatorship By MORGAN M. BEATTY (Copyright, 1937, AP Feature Service) WASHINGTON, March 16—If fate or congress gives President Roosevelt any Supreme Court appointments, he has six men on tap who Balance Of Budget by In_ bear both New Deal and liberal labels. “human rights.” he capital that at least one of these would get the nod from the White House for a seat if the chance comes. JAMES McCAULEY LANDIS (Left)—37, medium height, sharp features . . . quit the Securities and Exchange commission in January to become dean of Harvard law school ...an expert in labor law and busi- ness regulation . . . technically a Democrat but he doesn’t work hard |at politics . . . born in Tokyo of Presbyterian missionary stock and brought up in Mercersburg acade- my, Princeton and Harvard . shy in public but an accomplished parlor trickster . . . once served as personal clerk for famous Supreme Court liberal, Brandeis . . . his au | revoir to capital: “I'll keep step with DONALD R. RICHBERG (Leit) —>55, neo-bald, pudgy . . . ran the INRA show as legal counsel . . . {won news men’s title “general man- ager of the United States” when Roosevelt made him co-ordinating director of the first term industrial | emergency council . . . graduate of University of Chicago, Harvard and 8 partnership in law firm of Har- old L. Ickes, secretary of interior {. .. a Bull Mooser of violent convic- ‘tions in 1912 and a liberal Republi- lcan ever since . . . born in Knox- |ville, Tenn., but has been a Chica- |goan most of his life . . . he's a nov- |elist, poet, song writer and had thand in Roosevelt’s Supreme Court reform plan. SAMUEL L ROSENMAN (Left) —41, stocky, shy . . . he's a New York City Supreme Court judge and was counsel to Roosevelt when the latter was New York's governor . . . has marked judicial temperament and is one of the few men Roose- velt has dubbed “strong right arm” .. .stays at the White House often and probably evolved much of President’s Supreme Court plan . . bears questioned dist'nction of being: father of “brain trust” idea .-, . not too popular with Tammany hall .. . he’s a movie and stage fan . . . quit golf several years ago . . . talks in riddles to reporters . . . his wife says he'll never get a traf- fic ticket unless for holding up cars behind. 1|8 ! the (Roosevelt) parade and perhaps do a little work if they call on me.” TAX INCREASE | Showd own on IN WASHINGTON come, Profit Tax Raise Has W. St. Endorsement WASHINGTON, March 16—Fed- eral Reserve Board Chairman Mar- riner 8. Eccles' suggestion to in- crease income and profit taxes ta balance the budget met with a cool reception today on Capitol Hill, al- though Wall Street bankers and ec< onomists have endorsed the plan. Representative Allen T. Treadway, Massachusetts, ranking minority leader and Ways and Means com= mittee member said it would be confiscation of the people’s prop= erty to think of balancing the bud- et through higher taxes. Chairman Doughton, of the House Ways and Means committee said that the budget may be balanced without more taxes. DRAGGED DOWN TODEATH; HIS LEAP IS FATAL Army Air Corps Pilot, Jumping in Parachute, Killed Plane Accident GRENVILLE, Alabama, March 16, An Army Air Corps transport plane dragged its parachuted pilot to death over a plowed-field-today af- ter seven passengers jumped safely. Sweeping wagi announced by major units of the simultaneous with the meeting of reases for steel workers were less, president of Carnegie-Illinois Steel corpora- tion, and Philip Murray, representing the John L. Lewls, Committee for Industrial Organization. conference, held in Pittsburgh, came as a to the steel industry and was taken as Ui}idn T Near'in Steel i&hsa? industry almost Benjamin Fair- increases grantes established a 40: the C. L O., now -hour week. virtual recognition of the C. I O. by the United States Steel corporation’s chief operating subsidi- ary, employing 120,000 men. In addition to wage d, many of the steel companies It is expected that claiming 150,000 members in the steel industry, will hold a convention in April and demand a general conference with steel heads. Lieut. Carlisle Phillips, aged 29, of Scott Field, Illinois, was the one killed. | The motor went dead 2,000 feet‘ ™ in the air. Lieut. Phillips told his| M lIs L {passengers to jump. They Jumped‘ a" s (" one by one and he also jumped, but| his paraehute caught in the ship's tail and he was dragged down to death. Three Women Die When Auto, Street Car Hi TACOMA, Wash, March 16. — of 4 have been apart since they went Three women were killed and three : the Whngp;nuse, 'Roosevelts Are | Separated on ‘ i32nd Anniversary | WASHINGTON, Mar. 16—Presi- | dent Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt | will observe their thirty-second wed- |ding anniversary tomorrow. | The President is vacationing at | Warm Springs, Ga,, and Mrs. Roose- | velt is speaking in Shawnee, Okla., {on a leeture tour. jwere injured in a collision between Martin, all of Tacoma. [ot the car, received a fractured pel-; McCoy, operator of the street car, Rumanian Pubiic Not In-| the auto driver either failed to stop a street car and an automobile.| |The dead are Mrs. Bernice Browns,‘quEN MARIE vis and chest injuries. The automobile was struck amid-| held for investigation, has been re-‘ f ed f H P {leased on his personal recognizance. | ormed of Her I'res ent Illness at the intersection or failed to see the car. i |Mrs. Joseph Faultz, Mrs. Mary Mrs. E. P. Flelds, aged 60, driver | Is IMPR“VING' | ships at a crossing arterial. James| Investigators said they helleved; B — BUCHAREST, March 16.—Dow- |ager Queen Marie, seriously il as a| {result of gastric hemorrhage, is re- | ported slightly improved today. Fu“Nn nEAn [ 1‘ Her son, King Carol and the sec- [] ond young Crown Prince Mihel are| im Marie's bedside. MURBEH cAsE‘dO not know the Dowager Queen is |ill because the press and radio are| Y inot permitted to publish the news | Don Meadows, 32, lumber worker,| ik was found dead last night besnde‘BIs cmT sT The majority of the Rumanians RAYMOND, Wash., March 16— of her condition. RIKE | a road ten miles northeast of here,| shot through -the heart. A rifle was found lying atop the body. | Deputy Sheriff Al Huttreh said| that it was not likely that Medows could have shot himself. er rre SEATTLE, March 16—The Seat-| tle Chamber of Commerce announc- SEATTLE, March 16—Dr. Ralph'es a settlement of the five months W. Dial, Seattle sanipractor, has|old strike at the Loose-Wiles Na- been jailed, charged with man-tional Biscuit Company plants. slaughter in connection with an il-| The terms are not disclosed but | legal operation on Mrs. Peggy Ny-|the Conciliator said the settlement| berg, 26, who died last July. is not a victory for either side. ‘The charge was not brought be- | ———-w fore because of difficulty in ob-| Three times as many men as wo- | taining evidence. | men ‘séek guidance from the “save- Dr. Dial is also charged with|a-life league,” a New York organi- |Terms Reported Reache in Five Months Old Conflict -Congressm;n Send Out SOS; | NOW _SETTLEU?, |port dock today seeking to prevent rgest in History! WASHINGTON, March 16—Con- | men have replaced the movie| us the postman’s best cus-| tomer In the 39 days since President Roosevelt submitted his court reor- anization program, the Congres- sional mail has been the largest in history. All Congressmen are getting mail at a Shirley Temple pace. Many Congressmen have flashed out the SOS for extra clerks to| handle the mail accumulating. NEW NATION IN CHINA 1S FORMED NOW Government of Mongokuo Is Reported to Have Been Organized PEIPING, Marcn 16, — Uncon- firmed reports from the north reaching here claim a new nation, similar to Manchoukuo has been carved out of Chinese Territory and proclaimed independent. Missionaries report Mongol hordes of Northern China have christened the new state in Northern Chahar Province as Mongokuo. They snid; the territory embraced by Mongo- | kuo is roughly the size of Hoi and is bounded on the west by Suiyuun: Province, on the north by Outer| Mongolia, on the east by Jehol and/ on the south by the Great Wall. | A capital city has been set up at| Chapser. It is said that Prince Teh Wang,| Mongol, has set up the Govern- nent and it has been chartered un-| der Japanese influence. "He has nu-| merous advisors attached to his re- gime. Picketing Against “Co-Op” Fishermen| HOQUIAM, Wash,, March 16.—| The Pacific Coast Fishermen’s Un-| jon is to start picketing the West- “cooperative” fishermen from sup-| plying the fish dealers, | el 1 IN HOSPITAL PATROL AROUND SPAIN STARTS; HELP IS CUT OFF Two Dutcfldmirals to Have Charge of Both | Sea, Land Forces LONDON, March 16—J. 8. C. Oli- | ver, retired Dutch Admiral, came to London today to direct the four power naval patrol to cut off mili- tary aid for Spain’s embattled le-| gions. His former superior, Admiral | M. H. Van Dulm, came to be Chair- man of the Board*of Nine to admin- ister both land and sea patrols to| isolate the Spanisn war. COMPROMISE | LOOMING NOW, COURT REFORM Administration Reported to Have Made Suggestion of Amendment BOERING HURLS WILD WARNING IN BERLIN TALK | ““Attempts at Murcer” Ea phasized by General in Sensational Address ROOSEVELT ASKED BY GOEBBELS, INTERVENE “Woe to HTHTWhO Dares Play With Fire” Shout- ed Agitated Police Head BERLIN, Mar. 16.—General Her- mann Goering, Germany’s No. 2 man, made a sensational unexplain- ed reference in a radio speech here today to “those who believe as & last resort to overcome Germany through murder and cowardly at- tempts at murder.” In some quarters the phrases were interpreted as a startling intima- tion of possible attempts on the lives of leading personalities in the | Nazi regime which had come to the | government’s attention. General Goering was epeaking at the commemoration of the second |anniversary of Germany's regained arms equality. In his sensational Goering said: “Woe to him who dares play with fire. If this warning does not suf- fice there may be many, or -all those of the same opinion who will be blazingly burned by this fire” This was interpreted to mean that the Nazi leaders were prepared to ideal harshly with those who might be trying to overcome the regime., Page one demands that President Roosevelt “intervene, energetically” - ‘ngaln.st the “Nazi insults” at a New | York mass meeting appeared in.the first edition of Propaganda Minis- ter Goebbels' paper here today, but in later editions it was entirely de= leted. It appeared that official in- structions had been sent to ignore the second attack made by Mayor LaGuardia in New York against the Nazi set-up at a meeting last night. statement, Income Taxes Are Swamping Tacoma Office Largest Avalanche in Yes- terday Reported by Int. Rev. Collector TACOMA, Wash., March 16.—Of- ficials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue office for Washington and Alaska continued to dig today from under the largest avalanche of in« come tax returns in several years. The deadline was last night and thousands of income tax returns are expected to arrive today or to- morrow since many are believed to have been placed in the mail last night. Thor Hendricksen, Acting Inter- nal Revenue Collector, is unable to estimate the total number of re< turns received so far. e A s S & STOCK QUOTATIONS WASHINGTON, March 16—Unit- ed States Senator Joseph T. Robin- son, of Arkansas, Democratic lead= er, has produced the first compro- mise suggestion emanating from the Administration side on the turbu- lent Supreme Court reorganization bill debate. After predicting the passage of the Roosevelt measure before the session ends, he held out the possi- bility that a constitutional amend- ment may be proposed to the states, the nature of which is still unde- termined. While he did not discuss the pos- sible contents of the amendment, some Administration leaders favor- ed the Norris amendment offered, to limit Federal Judges to terms, including those of the Supreme Court. The spokesman for the National Farm organization reported pow- erful forces from both sides of the court controversy are making a mighty effort to win farm support. ety In recent years, Virginia has sup- Mrs. Hanna Erickson was admit- ‘;phed from 30 to 50 per cent of the when “free government becomes t0o ’wpm {ted to'St. Ann's Hospital yesterday for medical attention. practicing medicine without a h-}wwm formed to discourage people cense. /from suicide. apple crop exported from this coun- try, NEW YORK, Mar. 16, — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 109%, American Light and Power 12%, Anaconda 66%, Bethlehem Steel 100%, Calumet and Hecla 17%, Comgnonwealth and Southern 3%, General Motors 65%, Interna- tional Harvester 106%, Kennecott 65%, New York Central 52%, South~ ern Pacifjc 637%, United States Steel 120%, United Corporation 6%, Cities Service 4%, Pound $4.88%, Republic Steel 44%, Cerro de Pasco 81%, Li- ma Locomotive 75, American Zine, Lead and Smelting 17, Pure Oil 21%, St. Josephs Lead 60. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 189.95, rails 63.06, utilities 32.84. . MARRIAGE BOUND Enroute to join her fiance, Miss Ethel Isakson passed through Ju- neau today bound for Sitka from Se~ attle. She will be married soon after her arrival at Sitka.