The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 9, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIX., NO. 7454. JUNEAU, A LASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PR PRICE TEN CENTS PRICE OF GOLD NOT TO BE REDUCED Canada Moves Against . MOUNTIES ARE - CALLED OUT IN ONTARIO ‘AREA Premier Sa;l—'l_e Will Raise | Army If Necessary to | Prevent CIO in Canada 300 POLICE MASSED FOR ANY EMERGENCY| No Indication of Settlement | in Canadian General Motors Trouble ; Y| OSHAWA, Ontario, April 9. — Mounted police were today ordered to strike duty following reports that | the strike of the Canadian General | Motors Company is spreading to other industries. Premier Mitchell Hepburn, in On- tario, said he would raise an army, if necessary, to prevent the spread of the Committee of Industrial Or- | ganization in Canada. | Pickets Shout Defiance Fresh reinforcement of Union| pickets moved into the lines as the | giant strike closed the General Motors of Canada plant and lead- ers shouted defiance at the rapid concentration of police and special force of red coated Mounted Po-| lice summoned to duty. It is estimated that there are 300 | Mounted Police massed at Toronto ready for any emergency, There was no indication when ne- gotiations might be resumed in an| effort to return 3,700 workers to their jobs. Says Anarchy in U. 8. Premier Hepburn charged the Committee of Industrial Organiza- | Sitdown Strike Is Resented by Outside Group Twenty 'Wo-rE;'s Reported Killed and Many Wounded MEXICO CITY, April 9.—Twenty workmen are reported to have been killed and many wounded as the result of a clash of rival groups at a factory at San Martin, Texme- lucan, The “insiders” were on a sitdown strike for increased wages, and the “outsiders” demanded that negotia- tions be opened in the regular man- ner and work continued until a set- tlement was made. MAJOR STRIKES, AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTED OVER Is Past, ov. Serious (Trrouble According to Murphy DETROIT, Mich., April 9. — The United States'is frée of major auto |strikes for the first time in five Gov. Frank Murphy said serious trouble in the automobile industry is past. Eleven thousand workers of the| Hudson plant are going back to! their jobs as the month-old strike TWO PAROLED CONVICTS ARE BEING HUNTED Slayers of Deputy Sheriff Identified by One Vic- tim from Photos | BULLETIN — Chehalis, April— 9.—A woman resident of Gal- vin, four miles west of here, reported a man came down off the hill late yesterday and stole a rifle and some shells from her ' home. Another man was waiting for him on the hill. The two then disappeared in the woods. Officers searched the vicinity | without results. CHEHALIS, Wash., April 9. — | Pirst degree murder charges have been filed against Walter Seelert {and Claude Ryan, both of Tacoma and both paroled from the state prison, for the shooting of Deputy |Sheriff R. S. Jackson early this |week. The charge has been filed by District Attorney James Sare- ault. Both men are still at large. Deputy Sheriff J. D. Compton who was seriously injured at the |time Jackson lost his life, is ex- | pected to recover. ! A makeshift, 22 caliber pistol | fashioned out of rifle parts, is be- ling held by Sergeant Joe McCauley, state patrolman, as the weapon used in the killing. McCauley said the weapon was found under the seat of the car the bandits had |abandoned along with loot stolen {from the home of Mrs. Emma Car- tier of South Bend. Gemetery Work Js 1o Be Started Mmmgv_ Morning 42 Men Listed for Employ- ment on Juneau Project Under W. Fromholz ‘Work of clearing the new Juneau cemetery site on the Glacier High- way will start Monday, it was an- nounced today by .the U. S. Forest Service, which has charge of the work, and the names of 42 men from the relief rolls who are to go to work Monday morning have been posted on the bulletin board at the Forest Service warehouse. The min- each man a month. A sum of $10,360 from WPA funds has been made available and the work will continue until June 30. The City is co-operating on the pro- ject, providing $1,000 for small tools and furnishing transportation to and from the project. Foreman William Fromholz will |be given direct charge of the work. which includes removing timber, stumps and putting the land in shape for actual cemetery use. There wre 32 acres in the cemetery plot, which is located seven miles out and across the road from the radio tuning station, and as much of it as possible will be cleared in the allotted time and with the funds available, ; e —————— STOCK PRICES A tip received that two men, one wounded, had registered at a West| Port Angeles hotel were the sought-| TALIANS FACE MASS SLAYING . SPANISH FRONT Government Forces Report- ed to Have Trapped 15,000 Insurgents MADRID, April 9.—Fifteen thou- sand Insurgents are facing slaugh- ter in a semi-circular trap. Men and war machines are clos- ing around Gen. Francisco Franco's Cordoba Province forces, which, according to Spanish Government militarists are composed largely of Ttalians. On the battlefront outside of Ma- imum wage is 60 cents per hour and 9rid, Government troops wrested mer T. Bone, of Washington State, will' be given 140 hours|8round lost about five months ago, and ot from the besiegers who desperately fought on the defensive. The fight is described as one of the most important battles in re- cent weeks. HALIB FAR OVER LAST SEASON, REPORT +Two and Three Shows “Increase Over 1936 SEATTLE, April 9.—The Inter- ported today that from March 16 through March 31 the following amounts of halibut were landed at UT CATCH March Calcfi Both Area|: national Fisheries Commission re- | Secretary of Sta WASHINGTON, April 9.—Secre-| tary of State Cordell Hull has ud-} vised western Congressmen he does not expect Japan to invade the traditional American fishing grounds off the Alaska coast with- out due consideration of United States interests. The Secretary of State discounts the expressed fears that the Japan- ese, by unrestricted fishing, would destroy the salmon industry that the United States and Canada sought to preserve by the expendit- ure of millions of dollars for con- | servation. The Secretary's views are ex- |pressed in a letter to Senator Ho- hers. | Fishing Permissible | Secretary Hull said the Tokyo |Embassy has advised him that the iJapanese press recently quoted the Minister of Agriculture and For- estry as saying that while Japanese; {fishing outside of the Territorial waters is permissible, the matter is to be seriously considered because lof the International relations be- Believe Japan Is to Invade Salmon Waters, Alaska Coast Spread of Strikes te Does Not tween Japan and the United States Secretary Hull said he had fur- ther reports that an association of Japanese fishing interests “recently issued a pamphlet in which they emphasized the right, from a point of International law, of Japan to participate in the exploitation of salmon in the Eastern Pacific, how- ever the association recommends that the Japanese government give consideration to exercise care to conserve and protect salmon and to give full regard to the interests of |other countries and to maintain harmony among all salmon fishing industries concerned.” i Diet Hearing Secretary Hull said he is not hopeful of obtaining the records of | thie Japanese Diet hearing at which the Japanese Fishing Director I.si quoted as saying his country would | jencourage Japanese nationals to fish for salmon in extraterritorial wa-| ters of Alaska. “The records of the hearings are not published and it is doubtful whether the text can be procurred,” | Secretary Hull said. | Seamen Flown {850 Miles For Operations HONOLULU, H. I, April 9—Two stricken Navy enlisted men under-| went appendectomies ‘Nday after being flown from -Johmston Iskind, 1850 miles southwest of here. | Then men were seaman L. G.! 6&might, of the minesweeper Pelican, and H. A. Poindexter, fireman, third |class, of the minesweeper Swan. FOC STUDYING AVIATION AIDS FOR TERRITORY Proposal for Establishing Two Networks in Alaska Under Consideration NO CHANGE IN PRESENT RATE YELLOW METAL {President Makes Positive Announcement at Press Conference Today RUMORS CIRCULATED BY FOREIGN SOURCES Neither Roosevelt Nor Treasury Department Knows of Any Move WASHINGTON, April 9.— President Roosevelt told the newsmen at a press confer- ence today that feither he nor the Treasury Department knew of any plan to lower the world price of gold. Asked about contentions in financial and other circles that the gold prices were too high, the President said that was very interesting but that he knew of no plan to lower the price. The Chief Execu- ive suggested such reports evidently originated in the foreign press. ALASKA DELEGATE CONCERNED - WASHINGTON, April 9. — Last night Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond expressed coneern over cur- rent rumors that the Government may soon cut the gold price. TAKING JUMP | tion had “brought the United s.m"es‘ended last night. coast ports: “If the Government puts an em- almost into a state of Anarchy.” | Mayor Alex Hall at Oshawa, said ' he would not permit the Canadian | or Ontario governments to send| militia or government troops into| Oshawa. At Montreal, International Long- | shoremen’s Association officers said they would refuse to work any ships of the Shipping Federation of CanJ ada in all but a few ports. 1 —— | | FORD MAY BOOST WAGES TO MEET CI0 CHALLENGE Report Motor Magnate Pro- poses $10 Per Day for Men But No Union NEW YORK, April 9.—The New| York Daily News in a special Wash- ington dispatch says Henry Ford might meet the challenge of the| Committee of Industrial Organiza- tion by inaugurating a wage rate of $10 a day and improving working conditions. It also said that Ford would give his men more money than the Un- ion had asked for and would meet representatives of his employees to adjust differences but would not « recognizé any union or even con- sider “closed doors.” Ford could not be reached for comment on his Georgia farm at Whay. EVANGELISTS ARE ARRIVING, NORAH The Rev. T. A. Sandell, District Superintendent of the Northwest District of the Assemblies of God, is arriving on the Princess Norah this afternoon, accompanied by his wife. They are evangelists and singers and while in Juneau will conduct evangelistic services in the Bethel Pentecostal Assembly of God on Main Street, starting next Sun- day morning and continuing every night, except Saturday, for about ten days. ———.—.——— STRONG ON NORAH Capt. William Strong is a pas- senger aboard the Princess Norah from the south where he has been for several months. | ithe following: e Mrs. Roosevelt Declared Social Age@y Herself But First Lady Points to Letter Which Labels Her . SRR~ . ’ America’s First Nuisance WASHINGTON, April 9.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking at dinner last night commemorat- ing the founding of the Federal Childrens’ Bureau 25 years ago, was introduced by Mrs. Larue Brown of Boston, as one of the “best social agencies in herself that the United States has known in many a dec- ade.” “Mrs. Roosevelt responded with “After that intro- duction I want to read you a part of a letter I received today. It went ‘you may think it is useful to poke your nose into so many things. You are really America’s First Nuisance.’” Mrs. Roosevelt did not name the writer. Thirty Students Going, Ketchikan Seventeen of the thirty Music Pestival students who are to jour- ney to Ketchikan have been an- nounced by Directors Ruth Coffin and Byron L. Miller. At least eleven or more musicians will be selected to make the trip with Richard Jackson, George Al- exander, David Reischl, Jack Glasse, Irving Lowell, Anne Morris, Mil- dred Webster, Katherine Torkelson, Sylvia Davis, Keith Petrich, Mary Stewart, Sue Stewart, Phyllis Jenne, Christian Nielsen, John Krugness, Violet Mello, Mary Jean McNaugh- ton. — . MRS. STEVENS RETURNING Mrs. Ray Stevens, wife of the Juneau agent of the Northland Transportation Company, and mem- |ber of the firm of Jones-Stevens | for Ketchikan aboard :the motor-|K. C. Phillips, is a through passen- Shop, is a passenger aboard the North Sea after several weeks in the States. after men blew up when it was found that the men really wanted were Seelert and Ryan as positively identified by pictures shown to Mrs. Cartier. Seelert, sentenced to prison for a five to ten year term for robbery, was paroled last March 18. Ryan was released Sept. 28, 1933 after serving three years of a five to ten year term for manslaughter. ELECTRA COMPLETES FAIRBANKS HOP FROM WHITEHORSE TODAY | Five passengers leaving Juneau | for Interior points on the Fairbanks bound PAA Electra plane, piloted by S. E. Robbins and Walt Hall yesterday were: Mr, and Mrs. T. H. Shaver and Mr. and Mrs. Eric Hard, bound for Ophfir, Alaska; and Blaine Coppinger, for Fair- banks. The Electra is next scheduled to fly to Juneau to connect here with ON GOLD NEWS {Steels and Motors Pare Losses After Selling Flurry, First Hour NEW YORK, April 9. — Stocks did a quick about face march fol- lowing President Roosevelt's state- ment on gold. Steels and motors, which were down fractions of the dollar to $3 in the first hour of the selling out- burst, pared their losses and an assortment of issues managed to cancel declines and work moderate- ly higher toward the noen. GRAIN VALUES UP CHICAGO, IN, April 9. — Ad- vances of grain values quickly foi- lowed the denial of President Roosc- velt that there were any plans to lower the price of gold. Wheat rose the steamer Baranof from the south, |about two cents a bushel from an probably making the hop next Sun- {early low level. Corn climbed about day. two and one half cents. Moderate The Electra stopped last night|reactions followed. at Whitehorse, and went on frum there this morning, arriving at Fairbanks at 10 o'clock. STANDARD TANKER TODAY’S QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 104%, American Power and Light 11, Anaconda 56 3%, Bethlehem Steel 90%, Calumet and Hecla 15, ARRIVES AT OIL DOCK YESTERDAY Commonwealth and Southern 2%, Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors Commanded by Capt. Dick An-|59%; International Harvester 104, derson, the Standard Oil Company|Kennecott 57%, New York Central tanker, Alaska Standard, arrived in|47%, Southern Pacific 57%, United Gastineau Channel yesterday after-|States Steel 112%, United Corpora- noon at about 2:30 o'clock and be-|tion 6, Cities Service 3%, Bremner gan discharging oil and gasoline at|bid 8 asked 10, Republic Steel 41%, the Standard Oil Dock on the Thane|Lima Locomotive 70%, Cerro de Road. The tanker was scheduled|Pasco 74!%, American Zinc, Lead to put out for Skagway from herefand Silver 15%, Pure Oil 20%, Holly at noon today. Sugar 34, Interlake Iron 23, Pound The Alaska Standard is making|$4.89 5/16. an early season run to stations and canneries in Southeast Alaska, and DOW, JONES AVERAGES will return south from Skagway.| The following are today’s Dow, After completion of her present|jones averages: industrials 178.95, cruise, the tanker will load up again|rajls 58.60, utilities 31.16. for her regular summer jaunt to canneries and herring plants, as well as stations, that will take her| TRANSFERRED COAST out to the Aleutian Islands. GUARD OFFICER GOES RS Yo 45 RS THROUGH HERE TODAY GOES TO KETCHIKAN Gene Routsala, formerly con-| Transferred from his post as exe- nected with the staff of the Cali-|cutive officer on the U.8.C.G. ship fornia Grocery here, left Juneau|Haida, stationed at Cordova, Lieut. —————— ship Northland. Mr, Routsala does|ger from Cordova to Seattle aboard From Area No. 2—United Statés fleet, 1242245 pounds; Canadian fleet, 897,856 pounds; total, 2,140,- 101. From Area No. 3—U. 8. fleet, 1,- 306,059 pounds; Canadian fleet, 67,- 992 pounds; total, 1,374,051 Figures for the same period las! vear showed a total for both fleets from Area No. 2 of 1,268,532 pounds and from Area 3, 775,989 pounds. HUSKY EIGHTS HEAD FOR CAL MEET SATURDAY Washington Varsity Makes Fast Time in Final Home Trial, Beating Jayvees | | SEATTLE, April 9.—Three Uni- versity of Washington crews leave tomorrow to meet the oarsmen of the University of California in their annual dual regatta, held this year on Oakland Estuary, April 17. The Husky Varsity defeated the Junior-Varsity in the final time trial on their home water yester- day, covering the three-mile Lake Washington course in fifteen min- utes and fifty-five seconds to fin- ish three lengths in front of the second boat. The Husky Varsity and Jayvees are heavy favorites to beat the Golden Bears, but the California Frosh are doped to win. A fourth Husky crew, the Wash- ington lightweights, are also sched- uled to leave for the South. The hundred and fifty pounders are slated for a race over the mile and five - sixteenths Henley course against the varsity boat of Sacra- mento Junior College. The Light- weights’ race will be rowed on the Sacramento River, on April 16. Winter Wheat Crop Is Large WASHINGTON, April 9. — The Department of Agriculture estimate this year's production of winter wheat, as indicated by April 1 con- ditions at 656,019,000 bushels as hot plan to return to Juneau for the steamer Mount McKinley in pert some time. here southbound this afternoon. compared to 519,013,000 bushels last year. COURT PROGRAM HEARINGS MAY END NEXT WEEK \Senate Judiciary Commit-! tee Makes Plans for Secret Sessions WASHINGTON, April 9.—Weary| members of the Senate Judiciary| Committee said today that hearings on the Roosevelt court reorganiza- tion measure will end in about another week when the Committee goes into a secret session for work on numerous proposals designed to fortify and supplant the program. Uncommitted Senators, it is said, hold the balance of power on the Committee, also in the Senate. ——————— AAT MECHANIC RETURNS Returning from a vacation in the States of slightly more than a month, Gordon Graham, shop sup- erintendent for the Alaska Air Transport here, left Seattle this morning aboard the steamer North Sea, enroute back to his post at Juneau. e e —— e POOLES COMING BACK Mr. and Mrs. William Poole, for- | pany, are passengers aboard the North Sea for Juneau. RPN BEN LEAMING COMING Ben Leaming, for years steward at the Elks Club, who has been on! an extensive visit south and east, is returning to Juneau, passenger aboard the North Sea. e - . AT THE HOTELS Gastineau 1. Johnson, Atlin, B. C.; Eric Ma- theson, Atlin; Ole Olsen, Atlin; Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Merced, Point Re- treat; Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Stuart, Fairbanks; L. L. Trimble, Seattle. Alaskan W. C. McDonald, Skagway; Jack Saarela, Juneau; R. Drimottes, Ju- neau; Frank Good, Cordova; Pete Fournie, Sitka; John Shaughnessy, Sitka; William Turner, Sitka. Juneau Anna Belle Dennard, Sitka; J. E. merly of the Royal Blue Cab Com-! WASHINGTON, April 9. — Pro- posed establishment of two radio chains in Alaska to aid navigation in the Territory with two-way plane stations and wireless for weather reports is being studied by the Federal Communications Commission, with a view of early action, Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said today. Under the plan, two networks were to be established, one in Southeast Alaska and another in would be able to keep constant contact « with planes operatifig in these areas. A law was passed by the Alaska Legislature at its re- cent session which will requife planes carrylng passengers to in- stall two-way radio equipment. Mavie Colonists Lose Valuables HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April 9. — Claudette Colbert, well-known mo- tion picture actress, while on a {phopping tour yesterday, lost a $375 diamond ring. Mary Miles Minter, who accom- panied her and was a popular ac- tress a few years ago, but who has since retired from the screen, lost a $2,000 jeweled watch and a $125 hand mirror and $125 purse. Ketchikan Man Is " Licensed to Wed TACOMA, Wash, April 9. — A marriage license has been issued here to Robert A. Watson, of Ket- chikan, Alaska, and Lucietta Wheel- - |er, of Tacoma. MULLENS RETURNING J. F. Mullen and Mrs. Mullen are returning to Juneau on the Prin- cess Norah after an absence of sev- eral months in the States. — e VACATIONING SOUTH Mrs. L. Sibley, operator of the Juneau restaurant, is among those sailing south from Juneau aboard the motorship Northland. Mrs. Sib- ley is on a vacation trip to the States. brmuanny o o aseone ) BACK TO KETCHIKAN Mrs. Jack Britton, wife of the operator of radio station KGBU at Ketchikan, returned to her home Boyle, Seattle; Pete Zamarzich, Ju- neau. city aboard the motorship North- land following a visit in Juneau. the Westward and Interior which| |bargo on foreign ' shipments, it |would not be so bad, but at any |rate it is likely to tear to pieces |our newly built Alaska economy,” |said the Delegate. “I believe it will |result in deflation, but I cannot believe the Government is consid- ering such a step.” Delegate Dimond said the in- crease in the price of gold in 1935 to $35 an ounce “brought prosperity to the great mineral regions of the west and Alaska. It is my under- standing that under the restric- tions of the Reserve Act, the Presi~ dent can reduce the price of gold |only to $34.47 from the present price of $35, but even this reduction should not be attempted, and I believe it will not be.” PANICKY CROWDS JOHANNESBURG, Union of South Africa, April 9.—Panicky crowds thronged the stock exchange here as gold shares tumbled in some cases as much as 45 points as the result of the fears the United States would lower the price of gold. The slump however in some shares is attributed to the over-bought po- sition of the market, which led bro- kers to sell out weak clients. ACTION IN FRANCE PARIS, April 9.—The Bank of France, for the second successive day, raised the gold buying price, boosting the figure from 24397 frarcs per kilogram to 24.867 francs. The latter rate is equivalent to 22.- 24 francs to the dollar. FRANC TAKES SAG PARIS, France, April 9. — The franc was allowed to sag in value to- day, with the possibility reported in financial circles that it may be al- lowed to go as low as 22.96 francs to the dollar as agreed upon in the tri-partite monetary agreement. The financial commission, charged with guarding the franc rate, after a conference with Finance Minis- ter Auriol, issued a statement say- ing its weakness was due to “Inten- fions attributed to Roosevelt to modify his gold policy by certain revaluation of the dollar.” A The statement also called at- tention to the fact that such re- norts had been denied. Other prin- ~ipal sources said the decline was made with the intention of attract- ng tourists to Prance this summer,