The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE _JUNEAU, ALASKA, SAT CHAS. 6. WARNER BACKS TO DEATH, GAST. CHANNEL Truck Plung—es_Over Bank at Lower City Float —Trapped in Cab FRED BOYNTON ONLY WITNESS TO TRAGEDY Had Just Left Car—Tun- ed in Alarm to Fire Dept. Almost Immediately Backing his light truck directly off the narrow gravel road that leads from the Thane highway along the edge of the Alaska-Juneau rock dump to the shore end of the Lower City Float, into more than fifteen feet of water, Charles G. Warner, for many years a prominent Juneau resident and operator of the Charles G. Warner Machine Shop here, met death by drowning a very few min- utes before 3 o'clock yesterday af- ternoon. Witness of the tragedy was Fred Boynton, whom Mr. Warner had driven from the machine shop to the float, and who had just left the car. It was Mr. Boyn- ton who telephoned in the alarm that called the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department to the scene at Painfully injured by a receni explosi | FINISHES W EXTRAORDINAR LEGISLATL .3 | 1% | Lk B Sine Die Adjournment en at 9:45 Last Nigh | | i Having set up a |Security for the junction with the 3 appropriated $573,000 cution during the biennim extraordinary sessioh of the Territorial ~ Legislature 8 sine die at 9:45 o'clock last and today the lawmakers wi ranging to return fe, by plane and boat duri end. Of the appropriation, |was transterred from the AT ion wnwen occurred when she iried to light a gas heater, Mrs. Clarence fubbard of Los Angeles died shortly after arriving at the hospital. was ill, rose early in the morning to light the heater. blew the walls from the apartment and rocked the neighborhood. Photo shews wreckage cf the blast. Mrs, Hubbard, whose hushand The explosion Her husband alse was iaken Iset aside at the regular § old age assistance. A HeW: priation of $150,000 - this transfer and $20,000 ‘wal putting in operation the new of Public Welfare h { money will be matched by t] eral government, making than a million dollars avail 1soeu1 Security during the years. Revenue-Raising F: : | Needy, indigent, pensions, | ployment and other features {cial Security was adopted . | Territory through acts of 'th Xeg- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Y. APRIL 3, 1937, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT WRECKS BRIDGE When Albert G Steen's automobile struck a 30-foot span on U. 8. Highway 52 near Cincinnatl, the bridge cost $20,000 FIRST SITDOWN t> replace the bridge. More Menldle | [ collapsed and the car fell with it. Steen escaped with minor injuries. County officials estimated It would (Associated Press Photo) LAND SET ASIDE 5 WAR VETERAN'S BODY IS FOUND ON MT. ROBERTS Mike Zizich Leaves Letter Indicating He Planned to Commit Suicide SHOOTS INTO BRAIN WITH .38 REVOLVER Long-time Resident of AL aska Served in Serbian Army of World War Leaving a letter in which he indi« cated that he would take his own life, Mike Zizich, 45, veteran of the Serbian Army and long-time resi- dent of Alaska, killed himself on the Mount Roberts trail yesterday afternoon or last night by sending bullet from a .38 caliber revolver far from the top of the switchback above Gold Street. He had fired the bullet into the right side of his head and the discharged revolver was still clutched in his hand. Examination of the gun revealed, that he had pulled the trigger twice, one shell having failed to discharge. to the hospital in a serious condition. |islature, but the provision 8:05 o'clock. | 2 |to dependent children was nob: It was not until more than anj| hour after the accident occurred, AT FORD PLANT in Detroit as | FOR AIR BASE that the firemen, assisted by mine employees and others, were able to raise the truck sufficiently above the surface of Gastineau Channel to extricate the body of the drowned man. Describes Tragedy Mr. Boynton described the tra- and other gear at the Warner Ma- chine Shop for the installation of gurdies on his boat, the Congo, which is moored at the Lower City Float. Wr. Warner offered to drive him to the float in his Ford V-8 pick-up model truck, and had just done so. While Mr. Warner re- mained in the cab of the truck, Mr. Boynton made three trips to the top of the ramp leading down to the float with the parts, from the truck, which was standing on the gravel road directly opposite the ramp, not on the wooden apron, and was headed away from the high- way, just as Mr. Warner had stopped it. Having taken the last of the parts from the truck body, Mr. Boynton had turned away, but looked back to see Mr. Warner close the cab door, through which Mr. Boynton had passed out, and commence to back along the narrow road toward the highway, instead of turning the car around at the head of the float. Backing Fast “He was backing up quite fast,”| declared Mr. Boynton. Part way down the ramp toward his boat, Mr. Boynton looked back again, just in time to see the truck tottering on the brink just along- side the telephone booth at the head CCC MARKS 4TH | ANNIVERSARY %Open Mouse™ & Held| Tomorrow at Montana | Creek Camp i 1 ‘ President Roosevelt’s first unem- iploymcnt relief measure, the Civ-| ilian Conservation Corps, will cele- brate its fourth anniversary . this| year, and the period March 31 Lo" !Apru 5 is being observed with ap- \propriate ceremonies. The work of the CCC in Alaska | as well as in other portions of the| |United States was being given its| ifull measure of recognition at this| time. On its initial inception four years | ago this movement was launched {as a femporary relief measure to |specifically take care of the unem- |ployment problem for young men | ibetween the ages ol eighteen and |twenty-five years of age. Under |the CCC set-up in fhe States such| administrative work as enrolling,! clothing, feeding, housing, medical: care, recreation and education is; done by the Army, while other| government agencies such as the| {National Park Service of the De- partment of Interior, Soil Erosion ment of Agriculture and State| 5cepted. this matter being loft N B |the Board of Children's Gilardians | L |under the Governor's offl = ik BLOODIEST ONE, _RAGING, SPAIN Irfiportant Battles - Taking Place on Two Fronts— Defenders Leading MADRID, April 3—Two of the most bitter, bloodiest. port battles of Spain’s civil raged today on widely separated fronts. In the northern sector, near Bil- bao, the Government rushed mob- ilization of all available fighting men to repel the big insurgent ad- vance, sending militiamen up a 4,- 6000 foot mountain peak to block one segment of the attack. Far to the south in Cordova Pro- vince, opposing armies are still locked in a furious struggle for possession of the rich mining coun- try of that section, the insurgents putting up a stubborn battle of de- fense. war 15,000 ARE TRAPPED LONDON, April 3. — Fifteen thousand Insurgent soldiers, de- iscribed as mostly Italians, are re- and Forest Service of the DEpBrt-lporwd facing probably the great-| yet most im-| |is handled at present. Y Attempting to raise additi |revenue featured the closing b iof tho session. \House yesterday aftern |when action was started to try |again to raise more money. Senator Victor C. Rivers of the | Pourth offered two measures in |the Senate, one to raise the excise |tax on liquor from 50 cents to a (Continued on Page Seven) S e LOST DIAMONDS 'DUG OUT FROM GARBAGE DUMP —Young Man Is Re- leased by Police | NAPA, Cal, April 3.—From the dug out three diamonds worth $600 'that Mrs, Marie Swinson reported missing a week ago, | Peters took the diamonds to the ‘Chier of Police and received a re- ward of $25. Harry Selby, 18, of Vallejo, who | bills aimed to ricrease. .”“r‘ Scavenger Finds Sparklers; |city dump, scavanger Tom Peters; N SEGOND DAY ansas City Assembly Plant Is Held by |,4(X) KANSAS CITY, April 3—Weld- | r Strike Spreads {One HundJ and Thirty | Thousand Workers Are DETROIT, Mich, April 3.—La- AT FAIRBANKS = ) WASHINGTON, April 3—Presi- led switch gates todsy shut in bor troubles today beset America’s deni Rooseveii today set aside 960 freight car loads of automobiles its second day here. A card playing, gaily shouting |band of men claiming their num- ber to be 1400 Union members backed by the OTO held possession |of the Ford rmbly plant behind striker guarded doors. |rights have been ignored and un- ion men discriminated against in seasonal laying off of workers. Ford officials aid not comment. The Kansas City plant employs Inbouc 2,000 of Ford's 150,000 work- ers. ! There has been no violence. STRIKE TO BE SHORT ONE DETROIT, Michigan, April 3 |A high official of the Ford Motor Company asserted that the trouble !in Kansas City will not last long if the men realize the necessity for “temporary layoffs,” which is the cause of the present strike. “When the sitdown strikes began in the automotive industry, Mr. Ford | Strikers claimed that seniority ihree largest motor car producers. For the first time, since three |wide strike. | Sitdown strikers marched out of. the big Chevrolet assembly plant at Flint. The management agreed 'to discuss their settlement after the paralyzed Chrysler Corporation strike was settled. 'today conferring with Gov. Frank Murphy at Lansing. There are about 130,000 idle acres near Fairbanks as a pros- pective site for the United States |as the first sitdown strike directed|yoqys ago, the automotive industry Army's proposed $10,000,000 air base |at a Henry Ford unit, moved into was threatened with a nation- there. The Executive Order prohibits settlers from entering the area and sald that the land was being “re- served for use of the Department for military purposes.” Army sources, however, describ- ed the site as a possible location for United Automotive workers are a new air base, and said that the| land was withdrawn as a precau- tion against settlers entering the area and possibly interfering with !ler, another close friend of Zizich. After informing police, Miller, Papcevich, Marko Dapcevich and |Dan Dovich started a search. At 6:45 o'clock this morning they in- formed the Marshal's office that {they had found the body and con- |ducted Deputy Marshal Walter Hel- lan to the scene. The men carried /the body down the trail and it is 'now at the C. W. Carter Mortuary, 'pending funeral arrangements, Dapcevich found a letter in his home which Zizich had written and which stated that the man planned to take his life, Deputy Marshal men in Detroit because of this lat- or delaying the final decision to|Hellan sald. est strike. PHANTOM NEW locate a basc there. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said: | There is no question in my mind but what this reservation is made with the idea of finally locating an airport on this site.” He said that while the Budget | § 0 | y Bureau had failed to submit an es- BEING HUNTED Police Turn Investigation in New Direction, Tri- timate to Congress for an initial appropriation for the base, he ex- peated to go before the House Appropriations sub-Committee soon to ask for $2,000,000 to start con- struction. The five sections of land, cov- ered by the President’s order, Di- mond said, are “ndt more than In Country 30 Years Zizich had lived in this country |about 30 years, though he never be- came a citizen. He volunteered {from the United States for service in the Serblan Army, his native land, during the World War and had in his effects an honorable discharge from the Serbian high command to return to this country. He formerly worked at the Hirst-Chichagof and at other mining properties but had not been employed of late. The war veteran has no relatives in this country, officers said, but is reported to have three brothers in the old country. did not step up production but or-| dered production held at existing| levels,” sald the high official. “It| was discovered a few days ago that| the Kansas City plant was running| NEW YORK, April 3—Baffled v lice today were seeking a new 80 cars daily ahead of schedule and (P° " g it was. ordered ‘to. reduce ‘and thm‘phnnmm 'second husband” of Mrs. est mass siaughter of the war,|y _ i dial : |had been held for the past three Parks and Forestry agencies outline| caught in a military trap on ”‘el‘days Tor ‘dnestion: B aaciion At Superyite the wadk being done! gonioha Front. {with the missing sparklers, has been in camps or units of about tWo| " Tne Insurgents are reported|oiensed by the palice 3 hundred men. |caught in the mountains and more Bl i In recognition of the great var-ithan 20 miles north of their prin- iance jin conditions in Alaska from!cipal base of supplies. of the ramp. Dropping his parts, he rushed back up the ramp toward the truck to give what aid he could in getting Mr. Warner out from behind the wheel, and did not see the truck topple down the steep eight miles” from Fairbanks, Matanuska Has No inquest will be held, authori- ties declaring it an unquestioned case of suicide, ple Murder Case bank, as the telephone booth was between him and it, When he next saw the truck, it was semi-floating, upright in the water, with the top of the cab above surface; then, slowly, it settled out of sight beneath the surface, still upright. Watches for Victim Hurrying back down to the float, Mr. Boynton watched for Mr. War- ner to come to the surface and stood ready to aid him from the small boats moored almost directly above where the truck had sunk. When ‘Warner did not come to the surface, Mr. Boynton sent in the alarm from the telephone booth, and continued to watch for Warner to rise, while awaiting the arrival of the Fire De« partment. On arriving at the scene, the fire- men, assisted by boatmen and mine employees, immediately began grap- pling for the truck in the deep water, using a boat anchor as hook. Several times they hooked the truck and strained on the line, only to have parts of the vehicle rip away and their hook break loose. Mean- while a tractor from the Alaska- Juneau Dock, driven by Elmer Lind- strom, and a wrecking car from the Connors Motor Company had been taken to the scene, and nearly half a thousand watchers had collected (Continuea on Page Eignus modified so that here the Forest Service assumes all duties and re- sponsibilities of handling the CCC except the disbursement of funds. The Army paymaster at Chilkoot Barracks, Haines issues all checks for payrolls and equipment and supplies. Waive Age Limit The greatest unemployment problem in Alaska is not confined to the ranks of the young men from eighteen to twenty-five years of age. Here the greatest num- ber of unemployed are of middle age or older and the Forest Ser- vice was authorized to waive the age limit in force in the States. The record of accomplishments of the Alaska branch of the CCC covering a widely diversified list of Jjobs which range from fire fighting on the Kenai Peninsula, winter feeding deer, stream gauging, as- sisting on the Juneau slide, and the Douglas fire to the archeological in- vestigation of the Site of Old Sitka, is one of which the organization can well be proud. Despite the fact that the peak of the unemployment and consequently the heaviest en- rollment coincides with the most adverse period of winter climatic conditions, exactly reversed for the greatest work accomplishment, (Continuea on Page Seven) those in the States, the set-up was| ————————— SEN. WHEELER SAYS DECISION {Supreme Court Aids Op- ponents of Roosevelt | . . Reorganization Plan WASHINGTON, April 3. — Sena- tor Burton K. Wheeler, of Mon- tana, said the reversal of the Su- i{preme Court on the minimum wage legislation for women in the State iof Washington, has strengthened opposition to the Administration bill. “I understand the supporters of the bill now claim 51 votes in the Senate. I believe, however, that Ithe bill would not muster more than 35 votes in the Senate if action on the measure was taken today,” the Senator told reporters. Senator Wheeler further said that the court’s decision also show- ed that more care is needed in drafting legislation. 15 600D THING REDWINGS TAKE NATIONAL LOOP HOCKEY THRONE Detroit Sextette on Top for Second Time in Row— -In Stanley Cup Series NEW YORK, April 3. — Defeat- ing the Montreal Canadians, 2 to 1, the Detroit Redwings won their second straight National Hockey League title last night. Detroit will meet the winner of the battle between the New York Rangers and the Montreal Mar- oons, in the ice series for the Stanley Cup, emblematic of the World's Championship. ———————— M. D. WILLIAMS RETURNS M. D. Williams, district engineer for the U. 8. Bureau of Public Roads, returned to Juneau yester- day afternoon aboard the steamer North Sea, from Sitka. Mr. Wil- liams was a. roundtrip passenger from Juneau to Sitka aboard the steamer, making the voyage on bus- iness for his office. necessitated the laying off of be- tween 200 and 300 men temporar- ily. Apparently the men laid off thought they were being picked on.” FORD OUT OF REACH WAYS, Georgia, April 3. — Henry Ford, who recently advised working men to “stay out of unions,” is not available for comment. He is at his Georgia plantation. SLIPS, DROWNS SEATTLE, April 3.—Mrs. Hazel E. Willard, 35 stumbled from a slippery dock and was drowned in Puget Sound last evening Her husband, Don Willard, dived into the dark waters and vainly tried to rescue her. - Texas Family Locates On Interior Homestead FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 3. — Carol Phillips, wife and two chil- dren have arrived here from Sla- ton, Lubbock County, Texas, and se- lected a 148-acre homestead, which is less than four miles from here (near the University of Alaska. Mary Gedeon, in a search for clues lof the triple Easter morning mur- |der of Mrs. Gedeon, her artist’s |strangled, and a roomer in their | epartment, who was stabbed to | death. | Joseph Gedeon, husband of Mary, slightly built upholsterer, was re- {leased under a $1,000 bond and de-' |tectives turned their efforts in a new direction. “Wea have received several reports that Mrs. Gedeon, within the past two years had introduced a man to several of her friends as her new husband. We are now seeking him" Detective Lieutenant Walter Hard- ing said here today. IMISSOURI TAKES BAIT | HERE TODAY; SALMON | OUT ON NORTH SEA | Taking bait and ice today at the! Juneau Cold Storage, was the hal- ibuter Missouri, Capt. Ole Jackson, |in preparation for leaving tomor- row on her second trip of the sea- |son to the hallbut banks. | The Alaska Coast PFisheries yus-| terday afternon shipped to Seattle aboard the steamer North Sea 100 boxes of frozen red king salmon,) containing 10,000 pounds. \ | Incubator Baby ,/model daughter Veronica, who were Infant Appears to Be Thriv- ing in Box, Heated by Light Bulbs PALMER, Alaska, April 3. Tiny Joyee Allen, Matanuska’s first incubator baby, is thriving in a unique incubator consisting of a box heated by electric light bulbs. Joyee is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sexton Allen and weighed but four pounds at birth on March 23. With the ground thawing but still too frozen for spring plowing, the colonists are rushing to com- pete Churches before planting time ar- rives. They are nearing comple- tion and Easter services were held in the Lutheran Church on Eas- ter, The Rev. Merrill Sulzman, Catho- lic parish priest, is at present mak- ing a tom of the United States, showing motion pictures of the colony and its activities. Four staff residences have been completed recently, the Adminis- tration building is under construc- tion and carpenters have fin- ished the cannery, although the equipment is not yet installed. the Catholic and Lutheran PRODUCTION OF LUMBER 1S UP Northwest Mills Reported Reaching Premaritime Strike Output SEATTLE, April 3. — Northwest lumber production reached pre- maritime strike figures for the first time last week. The production to- talled one hundred and seventeen million feet. e Specul:t'or Pays Large Amount in Back Taxes NEW YORK, April 3.—Jesse Liv- ermore, Wall Street speculator, has just paid more than $800,000 in back taxes to the Federal and New York State government, his attorney, Samuel Gilman, announced here to- day. ————— STOCK GOES THROUGH R. H. Btock, of the road con- tracting firm of Wright and Stock, was a through passenger in port here yesterday afternoon aboard the steamer North Sea from Sitka to Petersburg.