The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 0 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Test HERMANNS WILL CARRY CASE TO DISTRICT COURT Pet Nabbed —l;_Dog-Catcher ! While Following Master | Down Street This Noon | RESTRAINING ORDER | AGAINST CITY SOUGHT Police Pow;:;f Officials in| Controversy as Leashed Canines Grab Spotlight Less than 48 hours after the new city dog leash ordinance became ef- fective, it jumped from a mere city controversy to a matter to be decid- ed in the courts. | Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Hermann, whose dog was picked up by Dog- Catcher Joe Anderson shortly be- fore noon today while the dog was following Mr. Hermann down the street, stated that they would make a test case of the ordinance and would seek a restraining order in the Federal District Court to keep the city from enforcing the ordi- nance. They paid a dollar under protest for the dog's release from the pound as preliminary steps in the proposed action. Two Cases | Goodman Jensen, whose dog also was taken to the pound. by the dog- cateher, also paid his dollar under protest and turned his case over to Mrs. Hermann, an attorney, for set- tlemen in the courts. Four dogs have been taken in thus far, according to Chief of Po- lice Roy Hoffman. 8ix stray dogs| whose owners could not be located | have been shot, Mayor I. Goldstein | said. Vigorous protest is being entered by dog owners against the ordinance which requires that dogs be kept up, or, if taken on the street, must be on leash. Question Police Power Police powers of the city officials probably will be in question when| and if the ordinance goes to court, it was indicated today, as officials hurriedly started going through the | city statutes to find just how dog| ordinances had been adopted in the; past. The point had been made that the former ordinance had been adopted at a city election. Records reveal that in the 1931 election a| propesed dog ordinance was placed before the voters and rejected by a vote of 286 to 215. Later the| Council passed a dog ordinance of | its own making, regulating the| control of dogs and other animals in the city. It is that ordinance which was repealed, the records (Con;mued on Page Six) SENATE PLACES BILLS BARRIER ONLEGISLATURE Only Social Security CanBe Considered with Consent of Six Senators | A partial lid was clamped on the! introduction of bills in the 13th ex-| tra-ordinary legislative session, oth- er than those dealing with Social Security, today when the Territor- ial Senate passed a resolution in- troduced by Senator Victor C. Riv- ers of the Fourth Division which provides that no bills, memorials or resolutions be accepted without two- thirds consent of the Senate which means six of the eight members. Only Senator M. E. 8. Brunelle of the Third and Senator N. R. Walker of the First opposed the resolution which means that noth- ing aside from Social Security leg- islation or measures dealing with raising money for that purpose can be acted upon in the special ses-| sion unless at least six members of the Senate agree. The limitation | by the Senate automatically limits the action of the House. Both houses held only short ses- (Continued on Page Eignu, WAGE BOOST Case To Be Ma HOSIERY MODEL SEEKS CITY JOB | | | | il | | | | This blonde hosiery model may become a member of the Miami, Fla., city commission—if the voters, like gentiemen, prefer blondes. She Is Mary Dillard Perrine, comely 22-year-old divorcee, who seeks nomina. tion to the law-governing post. Opposing her are 25 men. (Associated Press Photo) [Game Commission {Issues Warning 1S ANNOUNCED !sued warning today that all ducks Ten Thousand Men Will | | | Migratory bird treaty and shooting BUTTE, Montana, March 23— a patrol has been placed on the The increase in pay benefits more said, and they ask co-operation in workers is $6 a day. thing else besides ducks. them leaves the violator open to| heavy fine and loss of his gun. The Anaconda Copper Company to- road. Several youngsters already’ day announced an increase of 25 have been apprehended. 1 than 10,000 men and resulted as protecting the waterfowl. They re- the result of the increase in the ported that they found most of the ——e-———— ———————— | | | | whick may be seen out along the Glacier Highway and elsewhere in the Territory are protected by the Benefit by Twenty-five Some shooting by young people out Cent a Day Increase _the highway has been called to the A attention of the Commission and cents a day to laborers in the Butte, Many of the ducks are crippled by Anaconda and Great Falls mines. |promiscuous shooting, the officials price of copper. |shooting pure thoughtlessness and Under the new wage scale, the asked that the target shooters con- minimum wage for underground fine themselves to tin cans, or some- Rules Committee of Cali- KNncKEn 0“"‘ fornia Assembly Gives Favorable Report —r OLYMPIA, Wash., March 23. — Gov. Clarence D. Martin today ve- {—Many rural schools in the East | safety experts began a search for |amid great secrecy. NO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION, SCHOOL BLAST National Guard Officer Makes Informal Report to Gov. Allred MANY BUILDINGS REPORTED CLOSED Safety Lxperts Take Pre«‘ cautions to Prevent Disasters of Kind AUTIN, Texas, March 23. — A National Guard officer who has par= ticipated in the Military Court of Inquiry in the New London school blast, has informed Gov. V. Allred i { i | i ithat the investigation has not un=- {covered anything to warrant crim-’ inal prosecution of any kind. The report was made informally by Capt. Edward Clark, who is also Secretary of State. completed when Spain’s civil war small building in middle foregrou CONFERENCE ON MANY SCHOOLS CLOSED NEW LONDON, Texas, March 23. Texas oil area have been closed as similar gas escaping conditions that killed 455 teachers and school chil- dren here. The precaution of closing the schools was taken after Gordon C. Hawley, Chief Engineer of the State Fire Insurance Department, told the Military Court of Inquiry, he has located a school that is endan- gered by escaping gas. | Legislation has started at the| State Capitol to provide for rigid supervision. NORTH POLE T0 HAVE AIR BASE, NOW INDICATED Opponents to Bill Fail to Agree on Sen. Wheel- er's Amendment 'ocrauc opponents of President ‘P‘runklin D. Roosevelt’s Court bill |said today that there is slight chance of agreement among them {to substitute a constitutiona amendment unless the proposed en- flnrqemem of the Supreme Court is Soviet Secret Move Report-| Senator Joseph ©. O'Mahoney |of the Judiciary committee who Route Over Alaska [not committed to the. Administra |Burton K. Wheeler, Montana, and MOSCOW, March 23. — O. J.iognop opponents to the President's Northern Sea Route, has left hcre.‘B union behind a specific amend- ent. . | Wyoming, one of the few members ed from Moscow on Air tion bill, conferred with Senator Bohoids; o REEeEIE Bt the Sovist Court plan, upon the possibility of Senator Josiah W. Bailey, North It is learned Schmidt will go to|™ Archangel to take charge of the' Polar Air project. It is believed ;2_‘; v;l:l c‘::h;?:rt; ‘2‘;;; g an “"icratlc dissenters would agree quick- Several noted Soviet Avlatol‘s re-‘ly fo &n amendment to take the cently reported there is feasible land at the North Pole to estab-| lish a midway base between Moscow ! and San Francisco for future flights. the Court or interfere with its func- WASHINGTON, March 23.—Dem- | |place of the Judiciary bill ! Senator Bailey said that he wuuld: oppose any amendment such as sug-| gested by Senator Wheeler, which,| |he believes, would “tend to curb| SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 23.— The, Rules Committee has favorably reported to the California Assembly a resolution asking Gov. Merriam to pardon Tom Mooney, convicted ' of the 1916 San Francisco Prepar- edness Day bombing. The Democratic Assembly recent- 1y approved the resolution to grant Mooney a legislative pardon but the Republican Senate defeated it overwhelmingly. Aiaska Is Best Customer in 1936 of Washington Territory Buys More than Half of Products Shipped from Northwest State SEATTLE, March, 23—Washing- ton’s 1936 exports to Adaska and foreign countries totalled $61,990,- 964, or twenty percent more than exports of the previous year. Imports were $37,262526. Alaska was the State's best cus- tomer, buying $35,124,55¢ worth of toed that section of the bill ex- tending a two percent sales tax on |foodstuffs now. exempt. This applies to bread, butter, milk, !fruit, vegetables, cheese, canned milk and eggs. Gov. Martin, in placing his veto !on the section, said he believed it is| |inadvisable and unnecessary to fur- | ther burden people at this Lime. —_————— GRUITCH DIES VERY SUDDENLY {Passing Recalls Assassina- tion, Incident Lead- ing to World War LONDON, March 23. — Slavko Gruitch, Yugoslovian Minister to England and former Minister to the United States, is dead here as the |result of a sudden attack of the | heart. His wife is the former Mabel Dunlap of Clarksburg, W. Va. Gruitch received and answered |the ultimatum for the Augtria-Hun- garian Government, served on Ser- products from Washington in 1936. bia after the assassination of Arch- Sigismund Levanevisky, one of the aviators, who returned here last year after making a flight from San Francisco, via Alaska. is one of those reporting in favor of a mid- way base. MASS MEETING ABOUT ‘STRIKE' SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 23 high grandfather's {—The Hotel Culinary and Mainten- County Commissioners’ ofiice ceas- ance Workers, also bartenders, have ed ticking recently. tions.” Senator Wheeler’'s amendment would empower Congress to over- ride ‘a Supreme Court decision by a two-thirds vote. Clock gtflops Afler B " Running 76 Years GREENSBURG, Pa., March 23— |After sixty-seven years of uninter- an eight-foot- clock in the rupted movement The mechan- callld a mass meeting to decide ism was removed, and taken to a whether to authorize the joint Exe- jeweler for repair. The clock was cutive Committee to call a strike built in 1825, and has been in the “if necessary.” A general wage in-| Westmoreland County courthouse crease is sought. since 1869. Alaska May< Get Checkhforr $7,200,000;Delegate Asking Congress to Make Transfer WASHINGTON, March 23.—Al-($7.200,000 check paid by the Unit- aska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has asked Congress to direct the Comptroller General to deliver to ed States to Russia for the Terri- Delegate Dimond said the Comp- | troller has the check in his office STIRS JAPAN' broke out. Ji nd. Note the d buildings. (Associated Press Photo) Retired Judge 1Forme r Associate Justice Sets Forth Constitu- i tionality of Move | SAN DIEGO, Cal, March 23.— |John Hessie Clarke, retired Su- {preme Court Justice, told the Nation ‘zlast night that the President’s pro- |posal to increase the number of | Justices of the Suprem Court by an |Act of Congrss was “plainly within 'the powers granted Congres, there- fore was clearly constitutional.” Clarke was Associate Justice in {1916 and resigned from the Supreme !Court in 1922 to devote his time to cultivating public opinion favorable is[to world peace. Clarke made his speech over the | radio. ITALIAN AID TO Carolina, took exception to Sena-| SPANISH BHINGS |tor Wheeler’s opinion that Demo-; * INVESTIGATION Great Britain Presses In- quiry—talians Said to Be Among Defeated Troops LONDON, March 23—Great Bri- {tain today pressed an independent investigation of reported Italian aid to Spanish Insurgents as a direct violation of the ban against inter- |ventfon in the Spanish Civil War. | French and British in close con- |tact with the situation are con- vinced that Mussolini’s unexpected return yesterday from his visit in Libya is connected with the Insur- |gent defeat northwest of Madrid. The Spanish Government charges |that three Italian divisions are in- cluded among the defeated Insur- gent troops. OLDTIMER HELD, ' ‘SLAYING CHARGE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 23. | —""Russian Jack” Marchin, oldtimer {is held on first degree murder charges following a fracas in a ca- bin on the outskirts of the ecity |whcre Milton Hamilton, about 30, a cab driver, was found shot to ! death. | Policeman H. Serralla and Mrs. | Doris Simmons told the coroner’s |_|ury Marchin admitted firing a bul- let in a fight which occurred in Japan was second best customer duke Ferdinand, the event that with $14,000,000. started the World War. Gov. John W. Troy, for deposit in but refuses to release it without the Alaska Museum, at Juneau, the|Congressional authority. Mrs. Simmons’ home. Only skeletons of the clinical hospital buildings In University City, on the outskirts of Madrid, remain after weeks of bombing. Shellfire damage is shown clearly, although the structures were only partially this picture was taken, a shell exploded behind the strewn over the ground and stacked against the COLD WAVE IN FOR'S JUDICIARY ~Gives Support SO, CALIFORNIA PLAN DISAGREES 1o Gourt Plan THREATENING Freak Winter Storm Sends| Blanket of Snow Over Mountain Base Area LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 23. —Sub-freezing cold struck South- ern California's blooming crops as a freak winter storm at the base of the mountain ranges blanketed | snow over the area. Orchardists fired their oil heat- ers to protect the orange, lemon and grapefruit blossoms. | The Federal Fruit and Frost Serv- | ice forecast temperatures as low as| 28 degrees. for tonight in exposed areas and announced that a “defin- ite menace” is in sight. The new growth of snow disrup- ted the training of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ab San Bernadino. The cold air masses followed in the van of yesterday’s snow, sleet, hail, high wind, rain, thunder and lightning. 700 ORDERED BACK TO WORK Fifty-two Garment Cutters Tied Up Eleven Fac- tories for Month SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 23 —=Seven hundred garment workers| have been ordered back to work in eleven factories, ending a month of | strike of 52 cutters. The others re-| fused to pass the picket lines of the | | STOCK'QUOTATIONS | | TOGR MER SN R — ! NEW YORK, March 23. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, Ameriean Can 107, American Light and Power | 12%, Anaconda 62%, Bethlehem | Steel 93, Calumet and Hecla 16, Commonwealth and Southern 3, DIET TOLD TO 60 SLOW OVER MORE PROTESTS Minister of Agriculture Ad- vises Serious Consid- eration Due RELATIONS BETWEEN NATIONS THREATENED Both American and Canad- ian Governments May Take Diplomatic Action TOKYO, March 23. — Min- |ister of Agriculture Camazaki declared today before the Jap- anese Diet that Japanese fish- ing off the Alaska coast, if outside of American Territor- ial waters, is permissible, but that serious consideration must be given to the problem however and the government must go slow, Minister Camazaki said consideration is necessary be- cause of the possible effect on Japanese and American re- Intlonmy, .y L i L The Japanese minister said both the American and Cana- dian”Governments are study- ing the situation because of numerous complaints of their own fishing concerns against Japanese fishing near the Al- askan and Canadian coasts. Camazaki said he has been informed the two nations are prepared to take diplomatic action if it is considered the circumstances warrant The Minister also said he did not want to plunge into anything that might cause' any trouble over fishing rights. —_——————— COMMODITY PRICES ARE TO ADVANCE Farmer May Sell Many Products at l'flfghest Rate in Seven or Eight Years CHICAGO, 111, March 23.— The American farmer has prospects of selling many produtes at the high- est prices in seven or eight yeats. Market prices of wheat, corn, cat- tle, lambs, hogs and butter are to- day at the highest ‘March levels since 1930. Estimates that bumper crops might be produced will not have an effect of undermining the prices. Wheat and corn may be the highest in six years, this permitting {the United States to re-enter the world export trdde under the most favorable conditions since the World War. % - 5 Log Church s - General Motors 617%, International Harvester 1024, Kennecott 61%,| New York Central 51%, Southern| Pacific 60'%, United States Steel| 115, United Corporation 6'%, Cities | Service 4%, Pound $4.88';, Repub- lic Steel 43, Lima Locomotive 70%, Cerro de Pasco 78%, American Zinc, Lead and Smeltine 15%, Pure Oil 20%, Holly Sugar 33%, DOW, JONES AVERAGES (lllfll]l_!!; Palmer ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 23. —The Rev. B. J. Bingle said his ‘plcturesque log church in the Pal- mer Colony was used for the first time on Sunday. Seventy attended the Sunday, morning service and there were 127 children at the Sun- day School. More than 1,000 logs, of uniform Today's Dow, Jones averages are|size were used in the structure, all as follows: industrials 181.87, rails|cut and prepared in the valley by 69.13, utilities 32.31. the colonists. de Ot Dog Ordinance ~ SHELLFIRE SHATTERS HOSPITAL BUILDINGS i