The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 8, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. XLIX., NO. 7453. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, A PRIL 8, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS LYING TO DYING FATHER, 2 ARE KILLED ALASKA GIRLS REACH SEATTLE MEXICO-BOUND Geraldine Bodding, Clara Hansen and Rose Danner Among Contest Winners SEATTLE, April 8—Seven girls,| winners in newspaper popularity| contests in Alaska, arrived here today aboard the Alaska, and were welcomed by a committee, then ta- ken to the Benjamin Franklin Ho- tel where they are staying. The Alaska girls, who posed for photographs at the hotel, are Miss Charlotte Wehner and Miss Helen| Junis, of Fairbanks; Miss Mary Alma Mitchell and Miss Peggy| Marsh, of Anchorage, and Miss Geraldine Bodding, Miss Clara Han-| son and Miss Rosa Danner of Ju-| neau. After a busy day or two in Seattle the girls will join a group of pop- ularity contest winners from other northwest towns and make the trip| to Mexico_under the personal di-f rection of Don Eck, of the Don Eck; Travel Tours. { LEWIS T0 TRY UNIONIZATION OF FURD PLANTs;iveness of weapons—Ilargely of Ital-|the relative superiority of the anti- | | Henry Pays $7 a Day for| Five-Day Week—Refus- es to Recognize Unions DETROIT, Mich,, April 8.—Unit- Russia and Germany Excel S1AN rnar UKMERS chservers. By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE (AP Feature Service Writer) WASHINGTON, April 8. — The “little world war” in Spain, small-| scale laboratory of modern military technique, has d¢monstrated that: 1. A strong infantry force is Russian planes (above) and German anti-aircraft guns (right) are stealing the shew in Spain’s civil war, according to American army 2 that masses of infantrymen who can “dig in” and hold positions gained with the assistance of tanks, | artillery and airplane fire, consti- tute the “decisive” factor in battle | operations. The intelligence, efficiency and | IFLYING COUPLE LOCATEDTODAY, GERMAN FIELD Go Down N;;Munich for Qverhaul of Plane En- route to England MUNICH, Germany, April 8. - Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his | wife landed near here at an ob- scure emergency field but their whereabouts were not known for many hours later. Anxiety over the whereabouts of the flying couple | had been felt by several nations. Col. Lindbergh superintended an overhaul o. his plane in which they have flown from London tc | India and are now on their re-| turn. They have been on the flight| since February 1. Late this afternoon, Col. Lind-! bergh and his wife came out from | seclusion and went on a sightseeing | still the backbone of an effec- tive fighting organization en- |sian pilots and technicians fight- |ing with the Loyalists has “great: | discipling shown by the young Rus-| trip with an American filc>.d. No announcement has been made gaged in land warfare. | 2. If the Russian pilots and | pursuit planes in the service | of the Madrid government arve | a criterion of all-around So- | viet military strength, then | Stalin has a powerhouse infin- ’ itely superior to the Czaristic hordes of World War days. Bombing Effective These are two major conclusions | American army officers who‘ intensive of have been making an [ study of operations and the effect-| jan, Germany, Russian and French origin—on the Spanish ‘“proving| grounds.” g i These trained observers, who for | military reasons speak only behind | the cloak of anonymity, say thnt“ the fighting in Spain has further| established the importance of the airplane in bombing supply depots | ly impressed” military experts of | this and other countrfies. Some of these pilots, operating | E& speedy pursuit planes which are a modified version of American- made aircraft, are said to have run | German and Italian pilots “dizzy” in several encounters. Tanks Vulnerable Other standard impressions gain- Troops with a small amount of ed by the military shorps are: | military training are a poor match The vulnerability of the tanks— for professional soldiers as dem- German, Italian and Russian—and onstrated by the victories in the early stages of the war of General tank guns. Franco’s insurgents, with their vet- The excellence of the German | eran legionnaires and Moroccan anti-aircyaft artillery which ap- |fighters, over much larger forces to be vastly better than any- of government militia. tha-;x urihey had made long march-’ |es. pears thing of the kind used in the World | 1In discussing the failure of Fran- war. |co’s forces to quickly capture Ma- The importance of motor trans- | drid with its large population of portation in enabling infantry and civilians, the expetrs say he ap- artillery to move swiftly from one parently has refrained from putting -4 uioniole otk HE America‘and in “strafing” enemy ground sector to another and to arrive at all available pressure on the metro- undertook today the unionization of 150,000 employees of the Ford Motor Company despite Henry Ford's statement that his company “will| never recognize the United Automo- | bile Workers or any other union.”| forces. They maintain, however,/ the scene of battle much fresher polis. Claim Situation Is Not Serious;ANNIVERSARY IS John L. Lewis said, “I have nuLBetWOBn Unions doubt but that Mr, Ford will change‘\ his mind the same as have the exe-| cutives of the Chrysler and Gen-! eral Motors.” Ford pays $7 a day and his plants operate five days a week. Henry Ford made a statement to-' day at Ways, Georgia, in which he said that the Ford empire was world-wide, extending to twenty-, eight foreign countries and thirty! cities in the United States. In the Detroit area alone Ford plants em- ploy 87,000 people. John L. Lewis, speaking at a mass| meetig of union membeers in the| Coliseum of the State fair grounds at Detroit, was greeted by a huge| throng that shouted approval of the agreement between the United Automobile Workers Association and Chrysler officials that ended| the strikes in eight plants. AUTO WORKERS IN CANADA G0 OUT ON STRIKE Thirty Thousand Reported on Walkout at Gen- eral Motors Plant OSHAWA, Ontario, April 8. Employees of the General Motors of Canada, Ltd., went out on a gen- eral strike this morning, answering the call issued by the International Union of the United Automobile ‘Workers of America, John L. Lewis, CIO affiliate. The action followed the sudden breakdown of negotiations between the local union and company offi- cials. Union leaders said 37,000 workers Alaska Plant SEIDENVERG 1S CHOSEN MAYOR AGAIN AT NOME City on Record for Muni-| cipal Ownership—Vance Beats Chase, Cordova | NOME, Alaska, April 8—In a quiet election Tuesday, Nome re-el- ected Edward M. Seidenverg Mayor Canning Salmon , Operators of OBSERVED LAST . NIGHT BY CHURCH Fishermen's Union, and Harty Preshyterian Missions Hold- Stuhr, organizer, have authorized ~. 3 the following statement: | ing Meetings Here Today “We are negotiating with l.hez _De]egates Arrive packers in the best spirits and at-| tempting to reach an amicable| 1t was fifty years ago, on July 7, settlement. We believe the pros-|1gg7, that the Presbyterian of Al- SEATTLE, April 8—Louis Mos-| jpects for such an agreement &re|;ck, meeting in Juneau, granted very good. We have already reach- (he petition that led to the formal ed and signed agreements for parts oreanization three days later of the |of Alaska and are still negotiating juneau Native Presbyterian Church. | over Bristol Bay, Southeast Al-| mowever, as told by the Rev. Da- {vid Waggoner at the services last aska and Cook Inlet areas. y | 2 “The Bristol Bay negotiations are|night in honor of the fiftieth anni- being carried on in San Francisco versary of the First Presbyterian because the majority of the pack-|Church of Juneau, missionaries of for their takeoff. | — e | STOCK ISSUES TAKE ADVANGE | ==y TRADING TODAY istorical Gheck, AlsoWarrant, May BeGivey_uAlaska Delegate Introduces Bill for Transfer — Other Actions Taken By J. J. ECKLES (Secretary to Delegate Dimond) ISteels and Coppe‘rs Lead Rally—Losers Yesterday Regain Some Ground NEW YORK, April 8—Steels and | coppers rallied on today's stock market and a number of yesterday’s neg}rgg Jeaders retrieved a pnmon‘ of their losses. | Wall Street is still a bit shaky‘ {however, on rumors of a change in| the Treasury Department’s gold buying price, and although empha- | tically denied in official circles, the subject continued the main topic, wASHINGTON, March 27.— |of conversation. !lSpeclal Correspondence). — Ar- 1 |rangements for transfer of the ori- | | QUOTATIONS TODAY NEW YQRK, April 8. — Closing the purchase of Alaska to the Terri- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine yoria) Historical Library and Muse- stock today is 13%, American Can yum af Juneau were begun through 106, American Light and Power 11%, (he introduction of a bill on March Anaconda 577%, Bethlehem Steel 55 by pelegate Anthony J. Dimond. |91%, Calumet and Hecla 14%, Com- | These two items, representing the | monwealth and Southern 3, Curtiss yctual consideration of $7,200,000 ARMY PLANE FOUND WITH TWO DEAD An army plane, with two army fliers who died In the crash, was found by searchers near Highlands, Calif. The accident occurred dur Ing a storm when the plane was flying from Glendale, Calif., to March Field, Calif. (Associated Press Photo) STRIKE THREAT BY 1,000 COAL MINERS IN B, . Ultimatum Issued Regard- .ing Recognition of U. M. Workers FERNIE, B, C., April 8. — One {thousand coal miners threaten to |strike next Monday at midnight un- ‘l(n\:s granted union recognition, of- |fi { ials of the United Mine Workers d. |ginal warrant and check used for| The ultimatum was delivered when| !negotiations with the Crows Nest |Pass Coal Company deadlocked over the recognition demand. Michel, Fernie and the Coal Creek |colleries will be affected. SEATTLE MAN, WOMAN, DEAD PLANE CRASH Attorney, Piloting Rented Machine, and Sister, Victims in Accident WRECKAGE OF LOST LINER 1S REACHED Bodies of Eight Victims Are to Be Taken Out During Today PASCO, Wash., April 8.—Flying, In an attempt to reach the bedside of their dying father at Viola, Ida- ho, near Moscow, Spencer Gray, 44-year-old attorney and his sister, Mrs. Mary Bunker, 30, both of Se- attle crashed to their deaths near 1ere last night. Gray, a licensed pilot, had rented an all-metal new sports two-seat- er plane in which to make the trip, He was carrying a will for his fa- ther's signature. Motor trouble developed. Witnesses sald Gray circled tho city 20 minutes, apparently getting his bearings. He mistook a cleared field for the airport, and attempting to land, sideslipped into the ground. Gray had flown for several years as a hobby. He leaves a wife and two small children. Mrs. Hunter is survived by her husband, also an attorney. WRECED AIRLINER IS FOUND IN MOUNTAINS McNARY, Arizona, April 8. — Ground searching parties trudged out of the wilds of the mountains . southeast of here last night, after reaching the broken, burned bodies deaths in the crash of a luxurious Douglas airliner last Saturday. The snow-bound bodies will be brought out today, snow storms pro- | hibiting their removal last night. Two bodies were thrown clear cf the wreckage, while the other six were 50 badly burned as to make identification almost impossible. The big, 21-passenger plane was being ferried from Burbank, Cali- fornia to New York when it crash- ed into the mountain head-on. - eee ——— of the eight persons-carried to-their - - | Wright, 6%, General Motors 59%, }lnternalionfll Harvester 99%, Ken- | necott 57%, New York Central 48%%, | | Southern Pacific 57%, United States Steel 113'%, United Corporation 6, Cities Service 4, Bremner bid & asked 10, Republic Steel 417%, Lima | Locomotive 68%, Cerro de Pasco |73%, American Zinc, Lead and Sil- ver 15%, Pure Oil 20%, Holly Sugar | 33%, Interlake Iron 32%, Pound $4.89%. involved in the final transfer of the Territory by Russia to the Umited States, will probably be centers of interest when displayed in the Mu- seum and will add greatly to the already notable collection there, Delegate Dimond said the idea { mer Governor Thomas Riggs sev- eral days ago, and it seemed so ap- propriate and desirable that he felt | he should lose no time in securing| the necessary authority. The bill B0y 6ANGS ape SEATTLE ELK -BEING Rounpep WILL DESERT | 100 FOR ALASKA |Exchange of Alaska Game i for Woodland Park Elk Is Arranged by Jewell {Have Headquarters in Storm Sewer Beneath ers are there. Seattle and Port- {the church had been bringing the who ran against former Councilman|land delegates are represented in/gospel to the Indian villages near Ed Gross. Emerson Bassett, S. W. Taggart and Ed Anderson were elected City Councilmen. Mrs. Effie Baldwin was reelec(,edl to the School Board. She ran against former Democratic legis- lator Garnet Martin. On the question “Are you in fa- vor of municipal ownership,” more than two to one voted in favor. VANCE MAYOR, CORDOVA CORDOVA, Alaska, April 8. — J. G. Vance, heading the Taxpay- ers Ticket, was elected Mayor here at Tuesday’s election and the can- didates on his ticket for the 'City Council were also elected. They are John Rosswog, Frank Kruger and Calvin Hazelet. The Taxpayers Ticket defeated the Independent Liberal Ticket which had Dr. W. H. Chase for Mayor, and Ray Martin, Ben Osborne and C. C. Carlson for Councilmen. V. J. Swanberg was not opposed {negotiations. No veaaiock “There has been at no time any deadlock between the Fishermen’s Union and the salmon packers of Alaska. The delay in negotiations are similar, one side wanting to go into a caucus, as all negotiations mean give and take. There is| {Juneau for ten years before that. The history of the founding of the | First Presbyterian Church in Ju- neau, as told by the Rev. Mr. Wag- |goner last night, follows: “Alaska was purchased from Rus- sia in 1867. Ten years later the | Presbyterian Church began work in Wrangell, when Dr. Sheldon Jack- nothing serious in the present sit-|son brought Mrs. Amanda R. Mc- uation.” No Threats Intended Conrad Espe, business agent for the Cannery Workers Association, said: “My statement April 10 as a deadline, is misinter-| preted. No threats are intended. If agreements cannot be reached one way or another, some sort of negotiations can be tried. It is not customary for our men to ship north before May 1 anyway. our! Farland and established her as mis- sionary in that field. This begin- ning of Presbyterian work in Al- aska was August 10, 1877. In Aug- regarding | ust, 1878, the Rev. S. Hall Young arrived in Wrangell and for fifty years was connected with the mis- sions of Alaska. “This mission, whose fiftieth anni- versary we are celebrating tonight, is historically connected with Ju- neau. In the congregation of this activities are not responsible for the|church is the woman who gave the tying up of the steamer North- western.” As an example of amicable nego-| tions, Mostad pointed out the joint; nuggets to Joe Juneau which incit- ed his interest in the Gold Creek area. It was Auk Joe, her husband, who led Joe Juneau and Dick Har- ris into Silver Boy Basin and show- DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 178.18, rails 5850, utilities 31.01. ——.e— ATTEMPTS T0 AVERT STRIKE ON'S. P. ROAD Chairman of National Rail- way Mediation Board Wants Conference |which would arrange for the trans- | fer authorizes and directs the Comp- troller General of the United State to deliver the warrant and ch to the Governor of Alaska for trans- fer into the custody and retention | by the Museum. SITKA LAND TRANSFER Delegate Dimond has introduced a bill in the House to authorize the Territory of Alaska ‘to transfer a small tract of land to the Sitka Cold Storage Company, which had been mistakenly included in the tract granted to the Territory by the Act giving abandoned public buildings and grounds at Sitka to the Terri- tory for the Pioneers’ Home. The land in question is less than one- half acre in area, but is part of that which has been possessed and occupied by the cold storage for over 23 years and is needed for title use by the company. The bill was introduced in line with the prayer of House Joint Memorial No. 2 of the Alaska Territorial Legislature. SAN FRANCISCO, April 8.—Dr. W. E. Leiserson, Chairman of the National Railway Mediation Board, arrived here today to conduct con- ferences in an attempt to avert a threatened strike of between 8,000 and 9,000 Southern Pacific Railroad employees. are out. Picket lines have been es-|for City Clerk, neither was M. P. statement signed Tuesday by the; tablished. Roark for City Treasurer. H 1 KLAWOCK VOTES WET Daflodnl 'FflhVIl l' KLAWOCK, Alaska, April 8.—Roy Opening Tomorrow ; Peratrovich was elected Mayor Flowers Abundant TACOMA, Wash, April 8. — A hundred million daffodils are wav- ing over thousands of acres in the Puyallup valley for the annual three-day daffodil festival which opens tOMOITow. The golden crop is estimated to be worth $5,000,000, or more than half the total of the daffodil crop of the whole nation, Tuesday and the Councilmen for the two-year term chosen are John Peratrovich, Edward Peratrovich and Alfred Widmark. The vote was the largest in the history of the city and was a good contest. On the question of liquor option, the town voted wet. EASY AT FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 8.— (Continuea on Page Seven) Fishermen’s Union, Alaska Packers ed them the place where he had Officials of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Brother- BRISTOL BAY FISHING The Delegate has introduced a bill found the nuggets. Land in Juneau in 1880 “It was in the summer of 1880 that the Presbyterian Church had |its first contact with the site that {was to become the City of Juneau. Nenana Ice Pool {The Rev. S. Hall Young and John Muir were making an exploration Winner to Build, _ |trip through this section and the Homef Anc‘lomge‘.slexander Archipalego, Dr. Young |to discover the Native villages and ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 8.—|prospect them for the purpose of Oscar Neilsen, winner of last year's egtablishing missions, and John Nenana ice pool, announces he plars|yyir to investigate the region for to build a $5,000 home here this natyra] phenomena, and especially summer and also plans to win "hel,the glaciers. They reached Gas- pool again, | (Continued on Page Three.) Association and Maritime Federa- tion to offset rumors that a final settlement, after negotiations, would | discriminate against Alaskans. in the House, which, if enacted, will provide “That in the area embrac- ing Bristol Bay and the arms and tributaries thereof, no person shall at any time fish for or take salmon with a stake net or set net, for com- mercial purposes, unless such per- son shall have theretofore resided for the period of at least five years within a radius of thirty miles of the place where such net is staked or set.” Enactment of this bill will be of definite value to many of the older residents of the region who are physically unable to undertake fish- (Continued on Page Seven) hood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen said that votes of union members already give authority to call a strike. Balloting ends Satur- day. The men want higher pay and better working conditions. Flown to Hospital, Then Operated Upon 'ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 8.— (Mrs. Dudley Clark was airplaned here from Bear Creek and immedi- ately underwent an emergency op- eration, She is doing well. | Tucson Streets TUCSON, Arizona, April 8, — Aroused by the activities of a gang of boys who call themselves the “Black Legion,” and branded their members with an ice pick, the Pima County Coordinating Council has demanded the Tucson City Council enact an ordinance censoring cer- |tain movies Police Chief Wollard said he has ;expum-u three gangs of boys, rang- |ing in age from nine to fifteen years, who have levied a toll of petty thieving on merchants and house- wives and who operated from their headquarters in a storm sewer be- neath the city streets. The boys said they got their “inspiration” from certain movies, “JUST T0O BAD, WE ARE SORRY” Spanish Insurgents Explain Bombing of British Destroyer LONDON, April 8. — Insurgent Spanish authorities at Balearic, Is- land of Malorca, admitted to offi- cers of British warships that “it is conceivable we made an untortun- ate mistake” in two aerial bombings Tuesday on HMS Gallant, a British !destroyer off the Spanish eastern coast. The Gallant was not hit. Informed sources here would not say whether Great Britain is satisfied with the explanation, SEATTLE, April 8.—The Alaska {Sportsmen’s Association, through |Homer Jewell, resident warden here |for the Alaska Game Commission, |reached an agreement with the Se~ attle Park Board by which the sur- plus elk in the Woodland Park zoa will be traded for a variety of Al- askan animals and birds. Mr. Jewell told the Park Board, {“I have found that you haven% many of our specimens. If we may have your surplus elk, our sports- men have agreed to send you Kodiak igrizzly bear, red foxes, martens, wolverines, ete.” Dr. Gus Knudson, zoo director, said the city has several surplus elk. Warden Jewell recalled that the Seattle Park Board gave Alaska several elk in 1926 which were plac- ed on Afognak Island and now have multiplied to a herd of a hundred. - e 60LD MINERS - GIVEN BOOST | ALLEGHENY, Cal., April 8—~Twa hundred gold miners in this district have been given raises in pay rang- ing from 75 cents daily for lower bracket men, to 25 cents for those in the upper brackets. Present wages range from $5.75 to $6.50 per day. e —————— Former King Edward of England held four different titles during epochal 1936: Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII, Prince Edward of Windsor and Duke of Windsor.