The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIX NO. ., NO. 7441, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” jUNEAU ALASKA THURSDAY : SITDOWNER ; MARLH 25 1937 MEMBLR ASSOCIATED PRESS UIT CHRYSLER PLAN’I‘S S0. CALIFORNIA IS SHAKEN BY STRONG SHOCK Tremblor T;is_Morning Is Felt Over Area of 10,- 000 Square Miles BUILDINGS WAVE IN MANY CITIES Torrential fi Falls in Los Angeles — Previous Records Broken LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 25.— A strong earthquake shock shook Southern California over an area of more than 10,000 square miles. The shock started at 8:49 o'clock ! and was a long wave of continu- ously increasing motion. Buildings shook in the downtown section here and at Glendale, Santa Monica and Anaheim. Clocks stopped at Brawley in the Imperial Valley. At San Pedro three shocks are reported and doors and windows rattled and office buildings swayed. On top of the quake, the rainfall — for the season in Los Angeles reach-' ed immense proportions. There has been a regular deluge for the past two days. SNOW STORM RAGING TODAY, MIDDLE WEST Many Communtties Isolated —Highway Traffic Re- ported Paralyzed CHICAGO, Ill, March 25—Com- munication lines are crippled, com- ADMITS SECRET MARRIAGE Dodging limelight, Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, U.S.N., who was a central figure in the sensational manslaughter case In Hawail in 193132, re- luctantly admitted a secret marriage at Bremerton, Wash., Florence K. Storms of Chewelah, to Miss Wash.,, who has been working as a secretary in Seattle. Massie's former wife, Thalie, whose assault by a native Hawaiian led to the celebrated island slaying, divorced him in Reno in 1934, The lieutenant and his bride are shown above. (Asso- ciated Press Photo) SF. WATERFRONT IS TIED UP; MAY BE OVER TODAY Employers’ Assocxatlon Severs Relations with Longshoremen SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 25. —Thirty ships are tied up today | when the Waterfront Employers’ As- sociation severed relations with the ilocal unit of the ILA because of a \labor dispute arising because long-| shoremen had refused to pass sail- munities are isolated and highway |ers through the picket lines around | transportation is paralyzed as the season’s worst snow storm rages over sections of the middle west. The high winds have whipped drifts of snow to a depth of four to eight feet in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Rain, sleet, hail and dust storms of tornadic proportions, also freez- ing temperatures are plaguing a the S. 8. Knoxville City, whose crew of 30 men walked off Tuesday, pro- testing against the employment of | five eastern seamen. Almon Roth, wormer comptroller of Leland Stanford University, new | president of the Waterfront employ- !ers, immediately demanded of Hen- ry Schmidt, ILA head, that the ves- isel's cargo be moved. Marry Chorus |Girls Says “Red {Hot Mama” HOLLYWOOD, Cal., \Sophle Tucker, the |ma” today advised the man looking | !for a wife to marry a chorus girl. | “They make better wives than! the college girl,” said Sophie, and: !she added further: “In addition! to the attributes which they show | |to the best advantage, the chorua gm is economical, she has been used to hard times, she is a good dresser and can cook.” FOUR MILLIO DOLLAR HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO New Structure Wlll Accom-| I modate 1,200 — Lobby (Secretary of the Interior to accept |funds from Alaska which might be March 25‘—vmade available to help finence the “Red Hot Ma- program. | Hospitals iretary of the Interior to construct |and maintain airports and naviga- |tion aids in Alaska. lentirely at the expense of the gov- | coastal ALASKA PUBLIC WORKS BILL IS GIVEN SENATE Schwellenbach Asks $8,- 000,000 for Program to BeCompleled]an 1941 WASHINGTON, March 25.—Sen= ator Lewis B. Schwellenbach, Wash- ington, has proposed an $8,000,000 ' Are Coastal Cities in Danger From Air Raids? public works program for Alaska tof be completed by January 1, 1941, The bill provided that the money would be used under the direction of the President with the following limits to various classes of work: Highways, roads bridges, trains, ferries Airfield facilities Schools University of Alaska $1,500,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 750,000 500,000 Topographic and soil sur- vey Village Improvements Hotels, tourist facilities. Alaska Railroad 250,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 Total $8,000,000 Senator Schwellenbach introduced a separte bill authorizing the Sec- ‘This bill pro- vides that projects might be built ernment but it would permit the INSURGENTS IN SPAIN LOSE IN, MADRIDADVANCE y Govemment Forces onNew Move—Coast Town Re- ported Bombarded LONDON, rch 25—Radio ad- vices recewed herz state the In- surgent Armies in Spain are in al {new role of hesieged as they dug ernment assault far northeast 01\ Madrid. | A sudden sortie on the Catalian town of Castellon De In case war would U. danger du'.rucuva air raids by fln‘ from aircraft carriers seaboard? This spectre has been ly. Such fears as might have been felt by the good eitizens of New York, Boston and fare service. Lieut. Col. A. M. IS AGREED UPUN France and Greal Britain | lin to withstand the Spanish Gov-| Wlll Prevent MUSSOllm Landing Troops, Spain PARIS, March 25.—France today coastal cities be in allayed, however, by the U. S. army chemical war- mmmmm&mmmmnu NAVALBLOCKADE Four Candidates AGAINST ITALY Have Filed for SELLING HERE foreign bombers stationed off the raised repeated- Philadelphia are possibility, since Prentiss, spokes- to eonm. Mayor, Anchorage Dr. Romig, Jack Wadman [flnter Race — Six Seek Three Places, Council ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 25. —Dr. retired Chief polson gases causes them to cling to the ground and that they could be escaped by merely taking refuge in the upper stories of buildings until the wind and emergency cre more, army authorities question whether invasion by a foreign armada is even within the realm of leaned up. Furth the aircraft ‘carriers would have the coastal defense guns and U. 8. navy with whicy ' HALIBUTERS NOT C. OF C. IS TOL Juneau Losing Much Busi- | ness Because Boats Going South for Higher Prices Puint!fi out that Juneau stands lon evacuations, PLEBISCITE IS TAKEN ON EVACUATION {Vote Announced to Strik- | ers Who Walk Out | DuringSnow Storm 'PICKET LINES ARE TO BE MAINTAINED Company Ofllclal Union Leader in Conference on Negotiations DETROIT, Mich., March 25. —More than 6,000 striking automobile workers marched out from eight Chrysler Cor- poration plants today into a swirling snow storm, but pre- pared to establish picket lines until they obtain exclusive bargaining rights. Negotiations between Wal- iter Chrysler and John J. Le- {wis, in the presence of Gov. Frank Murphy, are being re- sumed this afternoon, The sitdowners began leav- ing the plants just nine hours after a plebiscite had begun this agree- ment being reached early last evening. As the results of the plebiscite, in favor of evacua- ltion. was announced, the sit- downers prepared to leave the various plants. ; B The plebiscite was agreed to by Chrysler and Lewis after a conference with Gov. Murphy, as Chrysler had an- nounced and stuck to his an- nouncement, no settlement of troubles would be discussed until the sitdowners had left the plants, and they were again into full possession of the corporation: Homer Martin, President of the | United Auto Workers of America, went to the varfous plants, collect- ed the votes, and then announced | Ia| | to lose thousands of dollars this the decision. Martin informed the | spring in business from the halibut sitdowners that by agreement, the fishermen taking their fish to Pet-| |Chrysler Corporation would not ate |Plana, 40 miles north of Valencia, rallied to the European allies’ move J. H. Romig, is reported to have left men, lto erect a naval blockade against Surgeon of the Anchorage Hospital, {men and children killed or dying.|the possibility of Italy’s waging war 40 years in Alaska, became a candi- Employers declared that the long-| 0N Seventeenth Floor shoremen's action was in violation wide expanse of the mid-contin- ent. A 22-inch snowfall has deluged the Black Hills territory in‘ South Dakota. Rainfall records of 23 years have been washed off the books in Los Angeles, Cal, as the result of a two- day storm which brought total pre- cipitation for the season to 21.86 inches, the highest since 1914. Late this afternoon it was report- ed that drifts of snow are as high as 10 feet in Minnesota sections. Tornadoes are reported in Ala- bama and Kentucky. Two men have been killed by the gale at Ozark, a. ——a-— SEADROME IN PACIFIC NOW The Australian Bmmeer Makes Proposal for Airplane Aid on Way to Honolulu LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 25. —M. E. Heiser, Auflnlun engineer, of the agreement ending the mari- time strike. Roth immediately called a meeting of 35 members of the Employeers’ Association and sent notification to, Schmidt of the Association’s action. Three thousand stevedores are said to be affected by the tie-up. Schmidt’s office said he had hur- ried to Oakland where the Knox- ville City is moored. F." C. Gregory, manager of the ‘Waterfront Employers’ Board said that the Employers were meeting at 3 p. m. today to discuss the situa- | tion, Later, Schmidt’s office claimed that the picket lines were removed before noon’ today and longshore- men had reported ready for work. — e y Like Their Coach; School Students Strike Failure to Renew Athletic is here trying to interest civic and| Coach’s Contract Causes financial leaders in a $30,000,000 seadrome to be anchored midway between here and Honolulu for use of airplanes. High School Protest 8CIO, Oregon, March 25.—Be- The seadromie would take 10,000|tween 60 and 80 of the Scio high men ten years to build. school’s 100 students are striking Heiser proposed a U-shaped raft|in protest of the School Board’s with arms 200 feet long and 400!failure to renew the contract of feet wide, rising 117 feet above tbs|Athletic Coach Cecil Elder. water. BANK CLEARING ARE INCREASING NEW YORK, March 25. — Bank clearings of 22 of the leading cities totalled $6,889,833,000 for the week ending yesterday. This is an in- crease of 28 percent over the same week a year ago, according to a report made public today by Dun,] Bradstreet, Inc. The Board announced late yes- terday that Elder had voluntarily resigned, but he had since with- drawn his resignation at the request of the students 'l'lm-tyhour Week y Be Given to Suflle Employees SEATTLE, March 25.—The City| Council is considering an ordinance giving employes on city projects a 30-hour week and increase in wa- ges, I SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 25. —A four million dollar hotel, the; | highest and largest west of Chicago, |is planned for this city, A. F. Kren- kel said. He is representing east- |ern capitalists. { The structure will be a 21-scory’ hotel accommodating 1,200 guests.| | The first floor will be devoted to| |ships while the lobby will be on the \fifteenth floor where the guests ;wlll get a sweeping view of San |Francisco Bay. DRILL GROUND IN INVESTIGATING TEXAS DISASTER Effort Being Made to De- termine If Gas Seepage Caused Explosion NEW LONDON, Tex, March 25. —Government experts are drilling ground to determine whether gas :seepage contributed to the explos- fon in the New London Consolidated |School last week and which claim- children. The Military Board of Inquiry, investigating the disaster, speeded completion of the report to be hand- ed to Gov. James V., Allred. | Plans ve been completed for the graduating class of thirty, sur- vivors of what was to have been a class of seventy, during June, as scheduled. - e SENATOR’S WIFE IS LUNCHEON HOSTESS | Mrs. John F. Devine, wife of Senator Devine of Nome, was host- ess to a group of friends at lunch- eon at the Gastineau Hotel today. The luncheon table was attractively decorated with spring flowers. |An Insurgent warship bombarded against the Spanish government. I the town. Great Britain pledged coopera- It is also reported that air at-|tion. 2 ,tacks predominated along the north| France fears that Mussolini might |ern Guarlajara and Jamara lines.|scrap the non-intervention agree-| | ment. Germany promised an early reply to the French proposal. Mussolini, because of the recent defeat of Italian troops in Spain, |must either recall Italian forces or MADRID AIR RAIDED MADRID, March 25.—Insurgent| {bombing planes rained explosives on| |the city for five hours, halting the sky attack only when artillery bat- led the lives of 455 teachers and| teries took up the battle and began pouring shells into this beleagures Capital. Madrid officials said there were numerous casualties but “less than expected.” | AMELIA BACK IN HOMELAND; T0 TRY AGAIN Expects to Be Able to Re- sume Proposed World Flight in Month SAN PEDRO, Cal, March 25.— Amelia Earhart returned home to- day aboard the liner Malolo and was greeted affectionately at quar-| antine by her husband. “Just as soon as the ship is ready, ‘ after being repaired as the resulu of the Honolulu crash, I am going to resume the flight. I may have to change the route, for a month’s delay at this time of the year will result in unfavorable atmospheric conditions in the South Seas,” said the aviatrix. She was as usual bare headed and touselheaded. She wore tan slacks and a leather coat. She did not comment on the crash at Honolulu, simply saying it was unavoidable. Accompanying the aviatrix were those aboard the plane on the jump to Honolulu, Paul Mantz, technical adviser; Pred Noonan, pilot, and Capt. Harry Manning, also pilot and navigator, |matists, but the French |Italian blockade if II Duce choos einforce them, according to diplo- plan an the latter course. French and Brit®h have agreed that they must prevent, even by force, the landing of Italian troops| in Spain. R e | sTock QuoTaTioNs | — it NEW YORK, March 25. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 117%, American Light and Power 12%, Anaconda 63%, Bethlehem Steel 95%, Calumet and Hecla 16%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors 63%, International Harvester 10: Kennecott 61%, New York Centra 50%, Southern Pacific 59%, States Steel 117%, United Corpora- tion 6%, Citieg Service 4%, Bremner bld 5 asked 10, Pound $4.88'%, Re- public Steel 44%, Lima Locomotive | 1%, Cerro de Pasco 79', American lmc Lead and Silver 15%, 20%, Holly Sugar 33%. DOW, JONES AVERA! The following are today’s Dow, ! Jones averages: industrials rails 60.79, utilities 32. — e — STERLING TO SEATTLE 184.08, Hawley Sterling, Assistant Chief | Engineer of the Alaska Road Com-| mission, took passage south on the Mount: McKinley for Seattle where he goes in conngction with the us- ual spring equipment buying. expects to be gone three or four weeks, United | Pure Oil| |date for Mayor when friends circu- d a petition for h ‘Wadman, busin also filed, making & seeking the Mayorship. There are six candidates in the field for three posts on the City Couneil. U.S. FLEET T0 MANEUVER OFF ALASKA COAST Warships Are Scheduled to Leave on Secret Move- ments on April 16 man, has al of four of SAN PEDRO, Cal, | Greater }shrunds the annual war games of |the United States fleet scheduled to start next month, March 25— | llated from Naval sources reveals that the scene of the action may be, as designed in Naval diplomatic language, as the Eastern Pacific, that five million square miles of {the oceanic friangle, points which |are Southern California, Aleutian Islands in the Far North, and Ha- waiian Islands to the west. On April 16 the fleet is expected to put to sea from the San Diego |and San Pedro area with all of the realism and secrecy of actual war-time operntluns B John Drinkwater Dies in London LONDOWN, March 25. — John Drinkwater, famed poet and dra-' age of 54. He was apparently in Jgood health yesterday. ersburg and Prince Rupert, Mayor tempt resumption of operations un- secrecy than ever before! Such information as has perco-| Juneau Chamber of Commerce at its luncheon meeting today noon in the Terminal Cafe. The Mayor said that prices in Ju- and three and one burg they were able to get six and four and as a result many of the their fish. The Prince Rupert price is seven and six. The Mayor declared there was no reason for the difference in price, were buying in the two Alaska cities. “It means a loss of thousands of dollars to business in Juneau,” the Mayor said, cause where the fishermen sell is where they buy their supplies and spend their mon- ey. Now it is going to Petersburg and Prince Rupert.” The Chamber referred the mat- ter to the committee on local in- |dustries, headed by Earl Cleveland, for report next meeting. A. B. Phillips announced clean- up week to start April 19 and re- {ported that arrangements for trucks and so forth would be completed later. Support of the Chamber was ask- |ed by the Rotary Club in its efforts to get the 1938 District Convention of Rotary for Juneau. It was esti- |mated that it would bring $30,000 in new money into the city. The legislative committee was au- thorized to write a report and send it to Washington explaining why the chamber was on record against the Dimond bond bill. Vice-President Charles Carter pre- sided in the absence of President George Folm $08 SENT OUT MANILA, March 25-—The Chin- (ese steamer Cheong On is flounder- ing in stormy East China Sea await- He 'matist, died suddenly today at the ing response to her SOS for imme- diate aid. The vessel's rudder is gone. neau were only five and a half| half cents a| pound to fishermen while in Peters- boats are going to that city to sell stating that the same cumpames" candidacy.|I. Goldstein suggested action by the til the strike issues were settled, The six thousand sitdowners have been occupying the plants since [ March 8. PRESIDENT’S HOPES WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 23. —President Roosevelt is described by White House officials as hoping the rule of reason would be fol« lowed in existing labor troubles. The Chief Executive conveyed his thougkt late last night by telephone to Gov. Frank Murphy, of Michi- gan, in congratulating the Michi- gan Executive on the agreement for evacuation of the sitdowners in the eight Detroit plants of the Chry- sler Corporation, in order to facili- tate further conferences in settle- ment of the strike. The President is leaving™ here to- morrow afternoon and is expected to reach Washingon Saturday morning, ‘GAG’ RULE WORD BATTLE CENTERS SENATE'S WORK Attempt to Fanove Rivers” Two-thirds Resolution Fails Five to Three “Gag” rule became a potent cry in the Territorial Legislature today as the Senate got into a tangle on rules as the result of the refusal of President M. E. S. Brunelle of that body to sign the Rivers resolution which prevents the introduction of bills, other than those dealing with Social Security, without the consent of two-thirds, or six members of the Senate, The resolution was passed two days ago, but the President refused to sign the measure on grounds tnat (Continued on Page Eight)