The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 6, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIX., NO. 7451. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM " JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDA ndl ) Y, APRIL 6, 1937. PRICE TEN CENTS SKA SHIP'S SAILING IS CANCELLED SEARCH PARTY REPORTS FIND OF LOST PLANE Scouting Aircraft Locates Mass on Slopes of Mt. Baldy in Arizona SHAPELESS MASS IS SEEN, COVERED SNOW Fire Appears to Have Rag-!I" ed Leaving No Hope 8 Passengers Alive ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico,; April 6—The tangled wreckage of a large airplane, has been gighted | on the slopes of Mount Baldy, 90, miles southwest of Winslow, Ari- zona, The wreckage was sighted by Major D. A. Smith, piloting a search plane. Although there was no identifying object visible, the wreckage being a shapeless mass, searchers held that no doubt the wreck hidden in| the Aspen grove is the huge air- liner that left Burbank Saturday morning for New York with two women and six men aboard. The wreckage is half covered with snow and apparently burned which gave no hopes of the survival of any passengers. A ground party is being organized | to go to the scene and bring out the victims. | Forest trails are covered deep with snow and offer great difficulty in reaching the wreckage. Sitdown Strike Legislation Is Bemre_cungress‘ Senator Robinson Will Con- | demn Strikes in Reso- lution Tomorrow | | | | | | WASHINGTON, April 6.—Sena-| tor Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas,| said today that he would incroduce} a resolution tomorrow condemning, sitdown strikes. Administratiation forces yester-| day voted down by 48 to 36 a simi-| lar amendment attached to the Guf-! fey-Vinson coal bill, but passed the bill. Two other such resolutions are| expected to be introduced. Approv-| al of the President is hnnecessary The coal bill goes back to the‘ House for action on the Senate amendments. The bill is designed to abolish; the coal industry and provides for a National Bituminous Coal Com- mission, an elaborate system of marketing and includes fair trade practice provisions. LIEUT, PIEKOS SENDS BULLET INTO HIS HEAD Coast Guard Officer Com- mits Suicide on Samuel D. Ingham SEATTLE, April 6. — A Coast Guard Board of Inquiry held that Lieut. Stanley Piekos, 31, Kkilled himself last Friday by shooting him- self in the head on board the cut- ter Samuel D. Ingham. Burial will be in Arlingtan Na- tional Cemetery. Make Demand Sitdown Strikes Be Outlawed SPOKANE, Wash,, April 6. —Four hundred citizens last night joined in urging State Congressional dele- gations to approve a resolution out- lawing sitdown strikes. LINE UP IL DUGE Tangled Wrecka g€ PAID ONE CENT INCOME TAX Downing Jewell, young Seattle bartender, struggled with many figures trying to make out his income tax ternal revenue bureau where utes of cl an obl return. Finally he went to the in- iging gentleman, after fifteen min- figuring, informed Jewell he owed the government one cent. Jewell is shown displaying his receipt. (Associated Press Photo) L0SS OF BALKAN FRIENDSHIP MAY | | | Threat on Part of France and England May With- draw Italian Aid LONDON, April 6.— France and England are reported to be ready to bring “last minute” pressure !against Premier Mussolini to halt I!.he possibility of Italian withdraw- al from the agreement to isolate the Spanish war. The two governments, according to informed sources, are declared to be attempting to hold Italy in line with the seven nations’' agree- ment of non-intervention, by a threat to steer the Balkan States away from friendship with Il Duce, a friendship which he is so eager to obtain. In answer to such statements,| the Italian spokesman is said to| have suggested that his country might withdraw its ef™rts to keep the Spanish war spreading. — WANTS STATE TAKE CHARGE CRAFT PROBE Grand Jury Being Chosen| for Investigation m | San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 6. —City officials are urging the} state to assume charge of the po- lice graft investigation. The grand jury is being chosen | to sift the charges of graft made by Investigator Edwin N. Atherton| that gamblers and prostitutes pay one million dollars annually for protection. ————————— WAYNOR RETURNS FROM BUSINESS TRIP SOUTH i Charles Waynor, who has been south in connection with business of the Alaska Realty Company which) is opening the Gastineau View Addi- | tion just beyond the Juneau city lim- its, is returning to Juneau on the| Yukon in Juneau tonight. Paris Expo Queen LIGHT VOTEIS BEING CAST IN CITY ELECTION {Only 723 Had Voted Up to 3 P. M. Out of Total Registration of 2,384 | Pointing toward a light vote un- less polling stepped up considerably |during the final hours, a total of {723 persons had cast ballots up to |3 o'clock this afternoon in the city |election for which 2,384 had reg- | istered. | Of a registration of 1,152 in the | first precinct, 384 had voted at 3 | o'clock. The second showed 185 | voted out of 763 registered and the | third had 154 ballots cast out of 469 | registered. | The figures were considerable | short of comparable figures for the |' |same time of day last year. At that time of 1,064 registered in the first, ;precincb, 407 had voted at 3 o'clock, |of 763 registered in the second the vote was 254 and in the third of |the registration of 475, a total of | 153 had voted. While registration was up 82 this year over the total of 2302 of last |year, the largest increase — from 1,064 to 1,152—was in the first pre- |cinct, voting at the Fire hall, and it was in this precinct that the vote | was lightest so far today, although |it was expected to speed up after |working hours. Effort was being made to get the voters out by workers for various |candidates but it was estimated by! city officials that the total vote pro- | bably would not exceed 1,200. The polls will be open until 7 o'~ NEW SKYWAY the U. 8. S. Louisville 400 miles from Honolulu. The cruise: passenger, nearing the freighter. On the deck are passenge! earing li blaze in the hold are visible The Silverlarch made port at Honolulu "PASSENGERS RESCUED FROM BURNING SHIP Eight passengers, four of them women, were rescued from the burning British freighter Silverlarch by launch is shown in this picture, made by a fe preservers. No flames from the safely. (Associated Press Photo) \To Marry A Raskob FLOOD WATER THREATENING IN'S0. STATE {Heavy Rainfall Sends Riv- ers Racing Past High Stages in Alabama NEW " 1S CHARTERED BY LINDBERGH England-India Air Route, Expert Claims, Is De- clared Feasible LONDON, April 6—Col. Charles | A. Lindbergh charted his course to London from Zagreb, Yugoslavia, skirting the great Alpine barrier as the last leg of what is believed to ' |be a survey of a new commercial | ndia. Jacqueline Jacowlew When the Paris exposition opens in May, Mlle. Jacqueline Jacow- lew, stunning Parisian brunet, vill reign as queen of the show. ( P i STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 6. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 1086, American Light and Power | 11%, Anaconda 60, Bethlehem Steel 95, Calumet and Hecla 15%, Com- monwealth and Southern 3!, Cur- tiss Wright 6%, General Motors 61, | International Harvester 103, Ken- necott 59%, New York Central 49'%, Southern Pacific 59%, United States Steel 117, United Corporation 6, Cities Service 4, Republic Steel 43%, Lima Locomotive 72, Cerro de Pasco Men as compared to 20 years when company was under the cl |tion of those processors who shift- 77, American Zinc, Lead and Silver |16, Pure Oil 21'%, Holly Sugar 34, {Interlake Iron 2 DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow,i“BhunB planes as compared to %5|“tax in the strictest sense of the | Jones averages: industrials 182.98, rails 60.08, utilities 31.61. e skyway route between England and Col. Lindbergh and his wife |returned here yesterday. | Although Col. Lindbergh has not |said why he flew thousands of} ‘mxles over commerciaily uncharted | |routes, under most adverse condi- tions, aerial observers declared the flight was conclusive proof the England-India air route was feas- ible under commercial aviation con- ditions. | The flight also indicates Col. Lindbergh evidently believes the lonly source for an airliner is to go |around the Alps, as his course was; {laid on both sides of this formid- |able range. |Twenty Years Ago |United States Entered World War WASHINGTON, April 6—A new |kind of army paraded today, com-| |memorating the 20th anniversary of | ;xirming the decision of bury, N. C. District Court MONTGOMERY, Alzbama, April 6.—Flood water menaced south- eastern Alabama today while the south counted 12 killed over the week-end by wind and rain storms. Yesterday's rainfall was two to three inches over the central and southern tier of Alabama counties. The rain sent rivers racing past the flood stages and drove dozens of families in the lowlands to move quickly to the highlands. The week-end disasters started Sunday at San Antonio, Texas, when a sudden squall overturned two boats on a lake and six per- sons were drowned. TAX LAW IS UPHELD;CASE FROM N, .- Fourth Fe_d_e—‘ral Circuit1B“||d|“g Takes Court Sustains Decision Bi s un Am“ of Lower Tribunal g I] g Coast in March Appeals today upheld the constitu-| tionality of “Windfall” taxes, af- fie ulken Increase About Ten Times in the case of the White Packing Com-| Usual Amount of pany against the Internal Reverue| Construction Collector. ! (i Judge John Parker upheld the| gaN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 6. court’s dismissal suit brought 10/ _pne pacific Coast building in- The engagement of Miss Dolores Hartor, clerk in an office supplies ind stationery firm at Reno, to Robert Pierre Raskob, son of John . Raskob of New York, former hairman of the Democratic Na- ional committee, was announced to 3eno friends of the couple. Raskob 1as lived in Nevada for some time, fliss Hartor said the wedding will e “some time in June.” (Associated Press Photo) [ RICHMOND, Va., April 6.—The| Fourth Federal Circuit Court of! €10 DEFENDED. 'BY LABOR MEN, - SEATTLE FIGHT | |Several Union Leaders Ap- prove of Attack Made on Dave Beck SEATTLE, April 6. — Three Un- ion leaders defended the Commit- tec of Industrial Organization’s at- tack against Dave Beck, Teamster’s | Union official, who is leading the American Federation of Labor fore- es against CIO attempts to gain control of this city's organized la- bor. James Engstrom, Secretary of the Marine Federation District Council, said the majority of Seattle’s labor- ers favor the CIO, but the teamsters control the votes in the Central Labor Council. Matt Meehan, Coast Secretary of the International Longshoremens’ Association, said Beck’s denuncia- tion of the sitdown strikes supports the United States Chamber cf Com- merce in trying to break down labor movements. That members of other unions are forced to join the Team- sters’ Union is the substance of the charge made by Raymond R. Mar- tinson, spokesman of the Weighers, Warehousemen and Cereal workers. SEN, WHEELER WILL SUPPORT - NEW PROPOSAL Leader Against President’s | Court Plan Is to Back Sen. O'Mahoney WASHINGTON, April 6.—Sena- jtor Burton K. Wheeler, of Mon- | America’s entrance into the World enjoin the collection of an 80 DET|gusiry rolled up s sleeves and tana leader of the fight against War. | In the Army today are 170.000; |when it consisted of but 130,000. | Plans are ready for an industrial| mobilization to insure the eveni flow of munitions supplies. | Today, also, the Army has 1,100] |twenty years ago. —————— MRS. HENNING BACK {cent tax under Title 3, Revenue Ac went to work in earnest in March. The court declared the| Records show that building per- assifica- it jumped about 65 percent over February. This increase is about ten times the usual March rise. of 1936. ed the burden of a processing tax, later clalled unconstitutional, | qen of the largest cities on the without paying it. |coast showed 9,030 permits were is- Parker said the law imposed 4 g eq during March for $13,914,000 ————— bt J. P. HANNON OUT Walks to Live J. P. Hannon, of the staff of |the President’s court plan, said he |will vote for Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney’s proposal that consti- tutional amendments require a two thirds majority of the Supreme |Court to invalidate the statutes. Administration supporters {not giving any encouragement a compromise, however. Opposition expects to present testimony all of this week and prob- jably next week before the public are to TRUITT TO KETCHIKAN the House of the Territorial Leg-|hearing of the Senate Judiciary Attorney General James S. Tru- itt saiied for Ketchikan aboard the Alaska to handle two cases for the Territory before the FPederal District court which is sitting here. He expects to be gone about 10 days, | Following the winter, spent with| BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—In 1930 69- |her parents in Snohomish, Wash- year-old George A. Wade started | ington, Mrs. Fred Henning, with her |“walking to live' He says that since small daughter Ann Louise, re-|then—when he was on the verge of turned to Juneau aboard the steam- |2 breakdown—he has walked 19,992 er Mount McKinley. miles. |islature, and formerly operator of |the radio broadcasting station at Anchorage, sailed for the Statles aboard the steamer Alaska. Mr. Hannon plans to remain south for some time, | Committee, | It is expected the sup- porters of the President will take the stand briefly before the Com- mittee goes into executive session to consider the court reorganiza- tion bill, of Airliner Is Sighted NORTHWESTERN NOT COMING ON SCHEDULED TRIP Sailing Is ‘Called Off on Account of Labor Difficulties UNIONS, CANNERIES FAIL, ON AGREEMENT Baranof Will Leave Tomor- row Calling at Many Northern Ports SEATTLE, April 6. — Failure o the union cannery workers and cans nery employers in the Alaska sal- mon industry to reach an agree= ment and release northbound car- goes and workers, the Alaska Steamship Company officials can~ elled the scheduled sailing of the teamer Northwestern which was to leave today for inauguration of the Southeast Alaska route. Steamer Baranof is leaving to- morrow morning on schedule, how« ever, calling at all regular ports in Southeast and Southwest Alaska, according to officials. Several days ago the Traffic De- vartment officials of the Alaska Steamship company said that if present labor diffic)ties were not djusted between the unions and Alaska cannery operators, steamer «ailings would be changed o meet conditions. The present schedule of cannery crews moving north |is about 600 men behind the same period last year and also thousands of tons of freight. AGENT WILCOX RECEIVES WORD, STEAMER CHANGES Agent M. J. Wilcox, Juneau Age: |of the Alaska Steamship Compai, |received a radiogram this forenoon lu nnouncing cancellation of the | Northwestern’s sailing owing to dif- |ferences unsettled between unions |and Alaska cannery operators. | The radiogram stated the Bar« anof will sail from Seattle tomor- row morning, calling at Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Wrangell, Petersburg, {Junenu. Haines, Skagway, Sitka, |Cordova and Seward. The Baranof | will not return to Southeast Alaska ports but will go to Seattle direct |from Seward. | The steamer Yukon, due this eve- ning going to the westward, will call at all ports on the southbound {er including Haines and Skag- |way, according to advices received by Agent Wilcox. SHIP 1S SENT DOWN, SHELLED BY INSURGENTS Panama Vessel, Under Charter of British Firm, Has Been Sunk SANTANDER, Spain; April 6.— The mineral boat Andra of Panama, reported chartered by a British shipping firm, is said to have been sunk by the Spanish Insurgent cruiser Almiranta Cervera (welve miles east of Bilbao on the Bay of | Biscay. 1 Government reports said the In- surgent’s ships have launched a heavy bombardment against the Basque coast as part of the drive against Bilbao. PIRATES MAKE “ ATTACK ON SHIP SHANGHAI, April 6.—A British battleship is rushing to the ai@ of the steamer Pei, aground near Whampoa, China, after an appeal for aid against Pirates. The Pei is a Chinese steatner of ,000 tons.