The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 7, 1937, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIX.. NO. 7452. ALASKA JUNEAU, . WEDI NESDAY, APRIL 7, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS . CHRYSLER AUTO . STRIKE ENDED BY AGREEMENT | | Settlement Is Reached Re-| garding Recognition of | Bargaining Agency < | ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE BY MURPHY | FLIERS DIE, CRASH IN MIDARR Lindberghs Now Missin Eighty-five Thousand Men| Expected to Return to Work Shortly LANSING, Mich,, April 7. — Gov. | Frank Murphy today announced an greement has been reached in| the Chrysler automotive strike. | The settlement provides for the| recognition by the corporation of | the United Automobile Workers of America as the collective bargain- | ing agency of its members employed by the firm, | The Union, claiming 59,000 of the 67,000 Chysler employees, asked for | the sole bargaining rights and called | the strike on March 8 when this de- | mand was rejected. ‘ The terms also provide that the corporation wili not aid, promote or ! finance any group, or other Union | which might undermine the UAWA. | In return, the union pledged it| would -call no sitdown. strike, nor ' permit its members to engage in| any in any Chrysler plants durinz; the duration of its contract. Negotiations will open April 8 to‘ arrive at a supplementary agree-| ment disposing of issues not treat-| ed in the settlement. The corporation promises to re- open the closed plant soon and re- | employ as rapidly as possible the | employees on the strike. The meun | will return to their usual work with- | out discrimination against them for their participation in the strike. The strike settlement effects 85,- | | i % & FIRST LADY STARTS EASTER EGG ROLL Thousands of children swarmed over the south lawn at the White House for the annual Easter egg roll, with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as hostess. Holding the first lady’s hand Is her grandson, William Don- mer Roosevelt (left), son of Elliott Roosevelt. The traditional party drew a great throng of children despite the sharp March winds. (Associated Press Photo) STOCK PRICES * Miltion Dollar TAKE TUMBLE Fire Takes Life; UVER_RUMORS' 1fl,llllyi_umelass Buying Price of Gold Is to Be Sliced | NEW YORK, April 7. — Stocks lerumbled today from one to five Market Agitated by Reports | Thickly Populated District of Manila Is Swept by Flames MANILA, April 7—A million dol- lar fire has swept over more than ARMY ENGINEERS FAVOR MOORING BASIN IN JUNEAU Recommend Development Douglas Island Bridge Favorable report on the develop- ment of a mooring basin for small of Site Just North of New | g, TWO FLIERS UNREPORTED IN 30 HOURS, HOME BOUND Authorities in Dozen Coun- tries Watching Emergency Fields for Possible Land- ing of Famous Couple LONDON, April 7.—Offici- als of the Lympna Airdrome, where Col. Charles A. Lind-| bergh and his wife usually clear customs when flying to England from the continent, this morning said no word has | been received from the Am-| erican couple during the past| 80 hours. Aviation authorities of a dozen countries are watching | emergency landing fields. The Lindberghs were last reported when they left Zag-| reb, Yugoslavia at 2:32 o’- clock a.m. yesterday. The two fliers are winding up a jaunt of two months that has taken them to.India. ‘Weather is reported as gen- erally bad over the proposed| route the American couple‘ planned to take to England. RIOTINGIS CHARGED T0 Flight SCOUT PLANES ' WITH BOMBS, N COLLISION | Splintering,Grinding Sound, then Flames, Wreck- age Falls Tangled DISASTER OCCURS ON DRILL GROUNDS ‘;Four Officers Meet Death | —Vivid Description { by Witnesses | SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 7. {—Four Naval fliers plunged /to death in the ocean after two fast scout bombing planes, carrying live bombs, collided head-on while en- igaged in maneuvers over the |fleet drill grounds, 40 miles off shore. é | Those carried to death in ithe tangled wreckage were: | Lieutenants Joseph J. | Loughlin, of Long Beach, and {Harry M. Bradley, of San Diego; machinist’s mate John Joseph Carney and Chief Mate Harry F. Brandley. Eight sailors among the Li- European Results of Tuesday’s Election Prect. No.3 Total 104 645 PEOPLE’S TICKET Mayor I. Goldstein Prect. No. 2 138 Prect. No. 1 403 Councilmen Hans Berg ....... A. F. McKinnon Wm. J. Reck ...... 307 420 290 527 690 506 109 145 133 111 125 83 CITIZENS’ TICKET Mayor Thomas Judson 225 829 Councilmen Samuel Feldon G. E. Krause o H. Messerschmidt.. SCHOOL DIRECTOR Grover C. Winn .. 192 224 226 795 905 894 276 269 217 763 393 JUDSON ELECTED MAYOR; TICKET ALSO 1S CHOSEN ™57 3, o v Krause, Messerschmidt and | criptions of the accident. They Feldon Successful Coun- [s2id the two scout bombing cllrabric Candidibis planes were loaded with h-ve bombs on the deck of the air- craft carrier Lexington, took him, Thomas B. Judson was elect-| Off in order and went in alti- ed Mayor of Juneau yesterday tude about a mile from the |with 184 votes over Mayor I. Gold-|ship. stein. Judson polled 829 votes, the, (One plane then appeared to 186 469 329 858 2384 1479 Total Registered Total Voted Honeymooners Leave South for Nome on Motorcycle LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 7. — have left by motorcycie on a honey- moon trip to Nome, Alaska, where they said they would “settle down ‘and start life all over again.” The honeymooners are carrying pots, pans, tent and rifle and hope to bag game for their meals en- o W.J. MULVIHILL IS Carrying his entire ticket with| COMMUNISTS AGAIN ELECTED boats on the Juneau side of Gas- issme figure, incidentally, by which gide glip, 000 meri who have been out of °F More "0‘“?5 in one of the Shar‘?' one and one half square miles of work and is a victory for John L, ®St Tetreats in years. Brokers said gnq nickly populated Tondo dis- Lewis. |the inspired selling was On 8C- ot jeqying more than 10,000 per- jcount of rumors the Treasury De- |y pomeless, one dead and eleven partment contemplated slicing "he“injurcd. |buying price of gold in an effort| “mp, epijre Manila Fire Depart- SR ST ‘lo put the brakes on an incipient ment fough!, the blaze for four | boom. 11‘0 | Discrimination Transfers today were around 2, urs. The fire started in a laundry, land the flames, fanned by a swift |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine; | [ | Nflt c .d d STOCK GUGTATIONS o5 A4 |stock today is 14'i, American Can | 107, American Light and Power | Salmon Packers, Unions 11%, Anaconda 56, Bethlehem el 5%, Cal t d Hecla 14%,/ Agree Not to Interfere |Stec! %', Calumet and Hecla 147% . |Commonwealth and Southern 3,| with Employment | Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors 159%, International Harvester 99%. SEATTLE, April 7.—The Alaska|Kennecott 56%, New York Central| Fishermen’s Union, Maritime Fed- 46%, Southern Pacific 57%, United eration, Sailors' Union and the|States Steel 111%, United Corpora—| canned salmon industry issued a|tion 6%, Bremner bid 8 asked 10, joint statement which said “Sev- Republic Steel 41, Lima Locomotive | eral thousand Alaska residentseach 68%, Cerro de Pasco 73'%, American year work in the salmon canning Zinc, Lead and Silver 15%, Pure industry. The dependence of these Oil 19%, Holly Sugar 33%, Inter- people upon the operations of this lake Iron 22%, Pound $4.98. industry is recognized both by the industry and the unions negotiat- DOW, JONES AVERAGE |the Roza |wind, raced over Manila Bay. Many narrow escapes are report- NEW YORK, April 7. — Closing [ed as thousands of persons were attracted to the scene by the hil- |lowing pillar of black smoke. i towr TO UNIONIZE ROZA PROJECT {Hod Carriers Place Pickets Around Works — Tun- nel Workers Involved TACOMA, Wash., April 7. — At- tempts to organize 300 workers of irrigation project were ing now.with the industry. “Both &a» 2~w in agreement that no clause whith might discriminate | against Alaskan residents or in any | way interfere with their employ- ment will be considered in any of | the negotiated agreements.” i No Agreement Otherwise | Today the Cannery Workers’ Un- | ion officials had come to no agree- | ment in negotiations with the la- | bor committee representing the| canned salmon industry. Conrad| Espe, business agent said: | “Unless an agreement is reached before April 10, some other action must be taken.” He revealed that the Pacific Am- | erican Fisheries, Bellingham, had offered to negotiate for a separate | agreement with the union if the | | The following are today's Dow, 'Jones averages: industrials 178.07, rails 58.26, utilities 30.98. MRS. HOLDEN AND SON ARE PASSENGERS FOR JUNEAU ON BARANOF Mrs. Alex Holden and %young son Sandy left Seattle on the Baranof for Juneau, to join Mr. Holden, chiet pilot for the T.’srine Airways, who returned from| Seattle Tuesday as pilot of his callpany’s Bellanca. e e e ABELS MOVE TO DECKER Mr. and Mrs. Don Abel and their son Donald who have been occupy- ing the Alex Holden apartment in the Fossbee while the Holdens have been in Seattle, moved today to |the Decker apartments. — .- PAUL RETURNS William Paul, connected with the Mrs. F. Rayner, mother of Bert Bureau of Indian Affairs in Indian E}stad, Juneau insurance man, nr-‘reorganimuon work, returned to rived here from her home in Pet-|juneau on the Yukon after an ex- ersburg aboard the mowl‘flflp‘wnded trip to Washington, D. C., Northland and is visiting with he€Y/in connection with the reorganiza- son, tion program, April 10 deadline was reached with- out settlement. - - MRS, RAYNER HERE s | HERE | | made by the Hod Carriers’ Union, affiliated with the American Fed- eration of Labor. Seventy five pick- ets appeared on the project yester- day. C. R. shinn, superintendent of the Morrison Knudson Company, holding the million and a half dol- lar contract, said a mass meeting will be held tomorrow so William ‘Walker, Union agent, can explain the Union plan to 240 tunnel workers. Delegate Propose;- New Air Mail Service for Alaska WASHINGTON, April 7.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has asked Congress to authorize the Postmas.er General to charge 30 cents a pound for air mail carried to and from and within Alaska. His bill would authorize the Post Office Department to provide for a “dif- ficult or emergency” mail service in Alaska to cost yearly not more than $25,000 and without advertis- ing for bids. tineau Channel just north of the Douglas bridge has been made by the U. 8. Army engineers, accord- ing to a communication from Col Thomas M. Robbins, Division en- gineer at Portland, Ore. The letter said the engineers re- ported unfavorably on proposed | sites in Juneau and Douglas and that the adverse conclusions were | based on the following: “The essentially residential char- acter of Douglas, the impracticabil~ ity of expanding the proposed site at Douglas, and the considerable | expense of removing a large quan- | tity of rock from the proposed site at Juneau.” Tests of the channel in the dis- trict just above the bridge were taken several months ago by Army engineers following the hearing held here last summer by Col. H J. Wild of the Army engineering | corps. > ELECTRA ON ROUND FLIGHT TO INTERIOR BACK TO WHITEHORSE With a full load of ten passen- gers aboard, the PAA Electra plane piloted by Jerry Jones and Walt Hall took off from here this morn- ing a few minutes before 6 o'clock, making a first section flight to Fairbanks. All passengers aboard the plane arrived in Juneau last evening aboard the steamer Yukon. After arriving in Fairbanks, the plane was to hop back to Juneau again immediately, and was ex- pected to arrive here this after- noon at 5 o'clock. But, that was| not to complete the day’s business for the Electra, as the ship was to start out with a second section and return to the Interior as far as Whitehorse today, continuing on to |Tebt Kims Used to-Diiive: it- downers from N. M. State Capitol SANTA FE, New Mexico, April 1. — Gov. Clyde Tingley blamed “Communist Party agitators” for a near riot in which state police were forced to use tear gas to drive sit- down demonstrators from the state Capitol reception room. Two shots of gas were fired at the Governor's order, sending more than 30 men and women, relief petitioners, intentions to remain until the Governor acceded to their demands. Eight were arrested and sent to ‘the county jail. The sitdowners were members of the Spanish Americdn Workers or- to their demands for increased re- lief, expenditures and free food and then asked them to return another day. The demonstrators decided to remain. ERA WORK COMPLETED BY FOREST SERVICE; 68 MEN ARE LAID OFF The U, 8. Forest Service today brought to an end: its Emergency Relief Administration work, funds for that purpose having been ex- hausted. Sixty-eight men have been | on the projefts which were started last December 7 and have consisted of improvements along the Glacier Highway, at Auk Village recreation area, on the Douglas Ski trail and other places. The CCC work by the Forest Serv- ice will be continued on a limited scale, but enrollment is falling off as the men get jobs in private in- dustry, stamping from the state house after | |announcing ganization. The Governor listened | Goldsteln won last year, and the| retiring Mayor got 645. G. A. Krause, Henry Messerschmidt The planes hit with a splin- |tering, grinding crash, like a and Samuel Feldon of the Judson|thunder clap, then a cloud of ticket were elected to the Council. black smoke obscured the Krause was high man with 905 votes, | gcene for a second or two. Messerschmidt was second with 894 Th th 1 and Feldon third with 795. | en the. pighes were, Spam Mayor-elect Judson and his tick- plummeted downward, green SKAGWAYMAYOR Succeeds Himself as Chief | Executive for 14th Con- | secutive Term | SKAGWAY, Alisha, April 7. — The Citizens Party elected the en- tire ticket at yesterday’s municipal election. W. J. Mulvihill succeeds himself as mayor for the fourteenth consecutive term. The following were elected to the city council: James Tropea, H. N. Thornquist and George Benedict. Oscar Selmer was elected Treas- urer, A. L. Powell as Olty Clerk and Dr. C. L. Polley as a member of the Skagway School Board. QUIET KETCHIKAN ELECTION KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 7.— | Yesterday's city election was the quietest one in years, only 471 bal- lots being cast. J. A. Talbot was unopposed for Mayor and E. B. Houghtaling was unopposed for the et carried both the Second and and yellow flames shooting Third precincts and Krause and ot from the sides. Messerscomidt carried the First.| . . Goldstein had a small lead in the| Lieut. Bradley had been in First but not sufficient to over-/the Navy for more than 19 ; | come the substantial lead that Jud-|years and only had a few mora son had built up in the other two 2 weeks to go before retirement. precincts. Badly beaten in two pre-| cingts, Art McKinnon was high| TrEr e jman in the First with 420 votes. He {finished fourth in the total tally. Many Stayed Home ers stayed at home or, at least, Tu"fl" TRAILS failed to get to the polls, Of a total |registration of 2,384, only 1,479 cast Tu s K Y l- I N EH ‘ago when a vote of 1,580 was cast. Grover C. Winn, unopposed for| his seventh consecutive term on the| {School Board, drew a complimen-|Attempts to Be Made to Recover Bodies of Returns revealed that many vot- ballots. This was less than a year tary vote of 858. School Board. ‘The present Council will meet to- Clifford Johnson, Harry G. Mc- 'night at & o'clock in the City Coun- Cain and Andrew Thompson were cil Chambers to canvass the vote elected to the City Council from a and Monday night will hold a spec- field of four. ial meeting to induct the new May- Eight Crash Victims McNARY, Arizona, April 7. — |Handicapped by a sudden spring The only real contest was for one or and Councilmen into office. The | thaw which has swollen streams and membership on the Utilities Board latter officials are then required to|battling snow drifts from three to of Control and H. P. Hansen, in- advertise for positions and on the|ten feet, a posse of peace officers, cumbent, lost to Harry Smith by a following Friday night, April 16, mountain men and lumberjacks are margin of 18 votes. \will announce their appointments. | traveling slowly in the fastnesses of |Chief of Police, City Clerk, Cilylthe White Mountains toward the WORTMAN SITKA'S MAYOR ‘-,Englneer and other lesser positions|blackened ruins of a Douglas sky- SITKA, Alaska, April 7.—Charles are subject to the action of the|liner which crashed last Saturday Wortman was elected mayor at the new Council. after taking off from Burbank, Cal., city election yesterday, defeating Judson Served Six Years enroute to New York City. Arthur Silverman by a vote of 328! The air was filled with rumors| The searchers hope to recover the to 91. {today as to predictions on new ap-|bodies of the six men and two Charles Peterson, Neill Anderson pointments but no statements were|Women who were aboard the plane. and Thomas Tilson were elected to forthcoming from any of the ncwly-: Major D. A. Smith is flying a the City Council, , elected officials. | plane over head to guide the search- Fairbanks from there tomorrow. Passengers out from Juneau on the first section flight this morn- ing were: R. Bulwinkel, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Olson, E. Shermer, Tony Lindstrom, Mr. and Mrs, Gus Uo- tila, Mrs. H. Keturi, Inez Olson, Mrs. Cora Blondeau. > Only 20 counties in the United States are without commercial elec- tric service, - MILLS THROUGH Returning to his home in Sitka, after a business trip to the States of about a month, W. P. Mills was a passenger through Juneau to Sit- ka from the South yesterday aboard the motorship Northland. Mr. Mills is proprietor of the Sitka Cold Stor- age and Power Plant and an out- standing business man of the city. Jack Conway was elected mem- ber of the School Board. ELECTION AT HAINES HAINES, Alaska, April 7.—John Erbland was elected to the School Board in the voting here yesterday. The city councilmen chosen are Carl Bjornstad, Joseph Chisel, Stephen Sheldon, Sr., Erik Oslund, Mayor-Elect Judson will be re- |ers to the spot where the wreckage |has been located. ., MRS. ARMOUR HERE Coming to Juneau aboard the motorship Northland from Ketchi- kan was Mrs. Don Armour, wife of the well-known Southeast Alaska | business man, former owner of the Piggly Wiggly company here. Mrs. turning te a position he filled for \¢ix years ending in 1933 when he 'was defeated by Mayor Goldstein.| Councilman Krause is being re-| turned te the Council as is Mes- serschmidt who did not run last year, but had been on the Council previously. In a statement today Mayor- & 7;Conumied on Pu; EWnu (Continued on Page Two) Armour is visiting with friends tn 4 Juneau.