The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1937, Page 1

THE VOL. XLIX., NO. 7458. DAILY JUN!:AU ALASKA WEDNESDAY APRIL I4 RIVERS RISING1 AS RAIN FALLS | IN TWO VALLEYS | Willamette Has Already| Climbed to 14.9 Feet | Near Salem RGGUE REPORTED FLOWING HEAVILY Slide Across Shasta Route Has Blocked S. P. Rail Traffic PORTLAND, Ore., April Rivers in Western Oregon, fed by ential rains for the past two are menacing the Willamette | .m(l Rogue Valleys with flood wn— ditions. Weather predictions are that the situation will become more danger- ous. | The Willamette River has climbed to 149 feet at Mission Bottom near | Salem. The Rogue River is flowing heavi- ly and has passed the thirteen foot rise. Salmon piers have been washed‘Y away at Grants Pass. | A slide across the Shasta Route | of the Southern Pacific has ued' up traffic below Medford. AnlAN The- fifteen foot dam of - th Mountain States Power eompanv near Lebanon is submerged unden UFF I c'AI-s ARE six feet of water. Much farm property is inundated. }' The maximum velocity of 70 miles | |Premier Hepburn Takes Action in Strike of G. M. of Canada an hour is reported along the Ore- gon Coast with a tide of 9.4 feet at Tillamook. TORONTO, Canada, April 14. — Premier Mitchell Hepburn, of the 'Province of Ontario, today asked 14. —————— FIRST ARREST MADE, SLAYING DEP. SHERIFF Claude Ryan, Paroled Con- vict, Surrenders Quietly to Tacoma Officers |ister David Croll and Attorney Gen- eral Arthur Roebuck with whom he |differed over the Oshawa General |Motors of Canada strike. He \them they must step out to assure {the Provincial Government unity /in the great Canadian ‘“economic TACOMA, Wash, April 14, — crisis.” Eight Tacoma police officers, acting Flag-waving strike pickets parad- on a mysterious telephone call, late |ed in front of the Oshawa plant of vesterday arrested Claude Ryan in' |the General Motors to show an- a ll;ld at Orting. burn they were “not Communists. 4 yan, a patroled convict, has bel‘n The Committee of Industrial Or- ’ charged \u'.h first degree murder' ganization union organizer, HHKh for the slaying of Deputy Sheriff| | Thompson, said union officials R. 8. Jackson, near Chehalis, \Dc'.ron had told him that (-,mm‘.r week ago today. Deputy Seth C i i i OmP- | potors workers in the United States| (;( was injured in the "hm"mg\wculd “sit down again” if the com-| affray, but is recovering. |pany shipped cars from the United | Police entered a beer tavern where | tates England to fill Oshawa, Ryan was at the bar drinking. He‘frdcr: 2 e offered no resistance to his arrest. i Hepburn said he would not con- Ryan said the last he had seen| {fer with either of the Ministers | "f' the other fugitive, Walter Seel-|ponqing the receipt of their request-| ert, was a few days ago “in the’ed ,e“gnauom woods,” but he refused to say where. Sitdown Strikes RMLRUAUERS Can Be Outlawed, ON S.P. LINE | Declares Senator VOTE STRIKE . [Walkout Cllcl for Frida Byrnes Says,Actlon Can Be| ;,g(l?,l: at Z ;Cl:crk Un- }" . Taken by Congress— ’ With flags flying and sirens shrieking, a tanl note as the army gaye a sample of its streng told | * " Nation’s (‘amhl QPes Tank “Defenses (Associated Press Pheto) Blossom Queen for the resignations of Labor Min- | Wenatchee, Wash., which claims to be the “apple capital of the world,” chose Janet Foster, 16-year-old titian haired high school girl, as Apple | Blossom Queen for 1937. She will rule over the annual blossom festi- val to be held in May. (Associated Press Photo) NO-PARTY PLAN SEEN AS SNAG T0 UNGAMERAL {One-House Legislature in Nebraska in Need of Many Changes LINCOLN, Neb.|, April 14.—Opin- ion remains divided on the one- house legislature, Nebraska's new experiment in government, as it nears the end of its first session. Principal criticism of the uni- cameral organization is its non- pdrhsnn feature. A bitter, Gov. R. L. Cochran’s gasoline tax bill brought the party issue to the fore. Critics contended the con- troversy could have been settled quickly had the Governor been k corps rumbles by the nation’s capitol, th in the Army Day parade at Washington, D. C. These are the light tanks which attracted intense interest in the display of military effectiveness. four weeks’ dispute over ! ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” | 1937, SK A MEMBER AssotlATEb PRESS | { f f an ominons WAGE MEASURE T0 BE BOOSTED T0 LEGISLATION Administration Leaders Not‘ to Press Enactment of Court Bill | WASHINGTON, April 14 ! ministration leaders, long in: on the Judiciary Reorganization bi lha\mg precedence over wage and, hour legislation, reconsidered this strategy in the light of the Supreme Court’s Wagner Act decision. Roosevelt’s advisors expect soon to complete a new set of recommen- | dations for minimum wage nnd‘ maximum hour standards. These may be sent to Congress regardless of the Court bill's status and whether the proposals get to the floor ahead of the Judiciary mea- sure appeared to depend on how soon the Senate Judiciary Commit- tee ends its hearings. | NEW YORK, April 14. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 13%, American Can| 106%, American Light and Power | 1177.. Anaconda 59%, Bethlehem Steel 93, Calumet and Hecla 15%,| Commonwealth and Southern 2% 59, International Harvester 107%,| Kennecott 60, New York Central 484, Southern Pacific 58'%, United States Steel 113%, United Corpora- tion 6, Cities Service 4, Republic Steel 43, Lima Locomotive 71%, Cer- ro de Pasco, 75, American, Zinc, Lead and Silver 15%, Pure Oil 217, Holly Sugar 35, Interlake Iron 23%, Pound $4.90%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow Jones averages: industrials 181.94, irails 6031, utilities 31.52. | ——————— | | _ |GREAT BRITAIN | “ling the msur | year. BEING TAUNTED 'FROM 2 SIDES Italians b1y Sea Supremacy Lost—Laborites Let Out Big Roar ROME, rl 14, — Semi-official Fascists are taunting Great Britain with the loss of maritime suprem- acy and inability to protect her| shipping from Spanish Insurgents.| The same semi-officials urg- nts to sink “enemy’ criminately. Hitler and Premier Mugclini are now working on a| barricade of the eastern doors | against Communism for the pur-| pose of fucing Spanish problems with more freedom. vegeels i Presiden LET LOOSE—BOTH BARRE LONDON, April 14—The Brit Government has aroused the op- position of Laborites, which has dencurniced the Cabinet's decision to withhold protection to English mer- | chant vessels entering the besieged Bilbao area. 'I‘l" Laborites denounce the de- “surrender of the rights| Clement Atleb leader of His Ma- Jesty's opposiiion, has launched a debate on the Government's policy | in the House while conservative ..hip owners, likewise angered, have! Jjoiped. with, the Laborites. Atlee charges the Govemment with being partial to Gen an- cisco Franco, adding that “to sup- port Gen. Franco is to encourage Premier Mussolini and his aggres | sion against the greatest maritime country in the world and is ap- _ parently ready to run up the white flag.” - eee —— FED. AGENCIES Roosevelt Says Expendi- tures Must Be Curtail- ed for Short Time WASHINGTON, April 14.—Presi-| dent Roosevelt has instructed heads of Government agencies to curtail expenditures for the remainder of the fiscal year as revenues have not reached the amounts estimated The expenditure cut is necessary o prevent the deficit being greater han the two and one-half billion dollar estimate. Next week the President sends to Congress revised budget estimates. Senator James F. Byrnes, South Carolina, heads prominen{ Demo- cratic Senators in urging a cut in relief spending. Income tax receipts through April Curtiss Wright 6%, General MOlDl‘b |10 totaled a billion and a half dol-|long been the policies of the Ford |lars which is eight hundred million Motor Company. less than estimated for the entire UP NEW FIGHT Seeks Abandonment of Vancouver Barracks— Send Troops to Lewis TACOMA, Wash., April 14AThP lon what action would be taken, lany, if the union presents demands TAGOMA TAKES |of America. MUNOS BELIEVED T0 HAVE FALLEN FROM ROWBOAT | Empty Skiff Found Afloat Short Distance Off Cold Storage Dock CRY, SPLASH HEARD IN HEAVY DARKNESS Investigation n Fails to Show Trace of Missing Chan- nel Boat Operator Missing from his home since 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Tony Munos, Juneau fisherman and gas- boat owner, is believed to have been drowned about 1 o'clock this morn- ing a short distance off the Cold Storage dock. Men in the vicinity report hearing cries and a splash in the darkness and police investigat- ¢ |ing found Munos' small boat adrift S ———— e et These seven young women from Alaska, four of them on their first trip Outside, arrived in Seattle on April 8 aboard the steamship and went at once fo the root of the n Franklin fi'fl’m see How @ big oity fooks. are: m?m contests Alaskan cities, and have received as prllas free round trips to Mexico. Left to right: Peggy Marsch, Anchorage; Rosa Danner and Geral- dine Bodding, Juneau; Helen Junes and Charlotte Wehner, Fairbanks; Clara Hansen, Juneau, and Mary Alma Mitchell, Anchorage. (Photo wurtesy of Scattle Daily Times, throu:ln Associated Press.) Vlgzlantos ()rgamzod lw Kent CUT EXPENSES - Farmers, Answer First Alarm, = . WARNING FOR Ten Flhpmos Are Drwen Out 14— Fifty- an- KENT, Wash., April eight automobile loads of men swered a vigilante alarm call late FORD MAKES STATEMENT ON UNIONS Says Employees May Join Organizations, But Thinks It Foolish off a Japanese farm they had been accused of occupying for four days in an effort to enforce demands for higher pay and better work- |ing conditions. H. Kayadayama, operator of the farm, called upon the Commercial Club for aid after the Filipinos ar- rived at the farm Saturday and took possession, when he refused to meet their demands. DETROTT, Mich, April 14 The fire alarm sounded. Within ry Ford said his employees are free|, g4 time, ths 58 automobiles [to join anything but he considers|sped to his farm. The would-be they are foolish to join labor un-|sitdown Filipinos were run out of ions. town. 5 Pord sald Bé. s’ ot cokiberned]. MA¥9s R. E. Woodsn, of Kent, 4 issued a statement in which he said, about the Wagner Act ruling, as- “we are all set for any similar trou- serting the Wagner principles have [ble around Kent. We have arrang- ed signals for farmers, and men will assemble when lhv fire alarm siren NEW RULING ON SUN.LIQUOR BAN OLYMPIA, Wasn,, April 14. |Judge D. F. Wright has ruled that the part of the 1909 blue laws, ban- ning beer and wine sales on Sun- day, had been repealed by the 1933 liquor law. The Liquor Board in a receent rul- -Hen- is The auto maker did not comment | if of the United Automobile Workers of the Ford | be- Homer Martin, President UAWA, said a strike in the plants will not be necessary cause of the Wagner decisions, - D MOONEY'S CASE out diately responded and, yesterday and chased 10 Filipinos | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., WASHINGTON, April 14—Con-|—C. V. McLaughlin, Vice-President i ties. gress has the power to outlaw sit- | of the Brotherhood of Lmomomel down strikes, Senator James F. Firemen and Enginemen, announces Byrnes of South Carolina said to- that '8500 Southern Pacific em-! day. This was proven by the re-|ployees will strike at 6 o'clock Pri-| ° % b i | cent Wagner Act dacision by the day night unless a satisfactory sot-121::3,ufx::gdcman;:geih::. ;T(cfr::m;? Supreme Court, he declared. |tlement of their demands are CCEl BN T T ame & s The House Committée has ap- reached before then. = Yy promise ball which won the neces-| proved a Senate resolution con-| McLaughlin said he has notified sary gupport. | demning sitdown strikes; ecompany |the Southern Pacific officials of the Johtu N' Nartop: faeier Cmmess_‘ unions and industrial espionage, |strike un!ess demands are reached. \mm who returned from Washing-| but Senator Byrnes said plans are| Dr. William Leiserson, Federal ton to take his place on the new under way .for strongeér action. Mediator, previously declared that Legislature says he has no fear the “It is undecided whether to amend he doubted if a strike will be called. issue will harm the experiment. the Wagner Act or await possible, The railroad men are seeking £ general amendments,’ he said wage increases. f ds Met i Plans Pending ‘ ook Demancs W April 14, ‘able to exercise the customary party | Old Strategy | An ancient bit of strategy was| |used, as it was, to settle the prob-| lem finally. The members gath-! GUT Expect to inutes (Continued on Page Four) ~ 'time for the ti AIRLINE IS TO New York Flight SEATTLE, April 14—The United new Governmem Airbase site. | Airlines, on May 10, will inaugur- o’ ate an 18 hour, 45 minute schedule between Seattle and New York. This store, one church and one house. is a half-hour under the present IN STATE COURT Arguments Fornid Against Writ of Habeas Corpus to Be Presented Tacoma Chamber of Commerce is| |advocating the abandonment of | Vancouver Barracks, at Vancouver, scHEDUL Wash., and the transfer of troops stationed there to Fort Lewis, near Tacoma. Officials of the Tacoma Chumber\ LOP 0“ Thll’ly today refused to comment on whelh-\ — on Seattle to lu the action was taken because, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 14. |the Portland and Vancouver Cham-|—Thomas Mooney's attorneys bers of Commerce had been fight-| planned a complete argument to- ing the selection of Tacoma as alday in behalf of Mooney's petition for a writ of habeas corpus before > the State Supreme Court. The! In Needmore Ga., there is one|State will then present arguments | Mooney was convicted of the mated $495,000,000 abroad in 1936.| rip. ]rxrpeded $300,000,000. XDuy bombing. ing, forbids the sale of beer and wine on Sundays, effective next Sunday, and members refused to comment on what effect Judge Wright's decision would have on the ruling. B e Bread Pnce: Take Advance, Some Cities CHICAGO, III,, [ Association, said an Increase in \bread prices in several large cities has been caused by the natural re- aistribution costs. | April 14—W. M. Quinlan, of the American Bakers'| a short distance off the dock with one oar missing, but his gun and some groceries were in the skiff. No trace of the body has been found. Sound Alarm Alarm of the believed mystery drowning was given at 1:30 o'clock this morning by Ole Rystad and C. Risner, who were at the cold Stor- age wharf and hearing the noise the water notified police. uttlu a 1ow boat, went to the scene. They located the Munos skiff in the dark- ness but there was no trace of the owner. From evidence they could piece together it was believed that Munos probably was enroute from his gasboat Queen at the Lower City Float toward his home in the Willoughby avenue village district. His wife sald he had left home about 1 o'clock yesterday and had spoken of having to tow a friend's small boat somewhere on the water- front. What mission he might have been on when death probably over- took him has not been disclosed. Tide Going Out Officers were of the theory that Munos may have stood up in his boat to pick up a piece of driftwood and lost his balance. Capt. Tom Smith of the Yacobi and Capt. Charles Hayes of the Triton heard a cry and splashing in the water Just as did Rystad and Risner on the dock. There seemed to be little question but that it was Munos who was rowing the skiff ‘which was found with the one oar missing, officers reported. Due to the darkness and the fact that the tide wags runnirfz out rapidly at that hour there was lit- tle opportunity of locating the body, they said. Munos had been here for years and was a familiar figure around the waterfront. CREW COMING FOR GANNERY, EXCURSION IN. Fifty WorkerT-lcaving Se- attle Aboard Steam- er Victoria BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 14. —The Astoria and Puget Sound Canning Company of Bellingham will operate the cannery at Ex- cursion Inlet, Alaska A crew of 50 men are scheduled to sail tonight aboard the steamer Victoria. The fishing season in the Excur- sion Inlet area opens on June 20. —————— Japanese Fishing In Alaskan Waters |Taken Up, Two States PORTLAND, Oregon, April 14— Washington apd Oregon Depart- ments of Pisheries have joined in |an effort to obtain Federal assist- ance in curbing salmon fishing in 1916 San Francisco Prtpdltdl\t’sb agtion rising from production and Alaskan waters by encroaching Jap- anese. ”