The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 15, 1937, Page 1

VOL. XLIX., NO. 7459. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ' MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS VOTES SUPPORT, P GABINET STAND Insurgent Effort to Break Government Circle Fails —Storms Halt Attack LONDON, April 15. — Laborite demands for a stronger stand by the Empire concerning the Basque port of Bilbao, blockaded by Spanish Insurgents, were today denied by the House of Commons as that chamber smothered the motion to censure the British Cabinet for its Spanish policy. The opposition had branded the Cabinet’s tactics as “Running up the White Flag.” Vote on the cen- sure proposal was 345 against and 130 in favor. Capt. Robert Anthony Eden,i British Secretary of Foreign Af- fairs, declared, “I'm not greatly moved by charges of cowardice and the white feather which have been! made upon the Government. In| my view, an act of cowardice would | be, if in order to score some cheap success, the Foreign Secretary should run risks of damaging the peace which are not justified by the situation.” gpvem LOYAL LINES HOLD MADRID, April 15—Abrupt sub-| siding of heavy artillery fire has| followed the failure of Insurgent troops to break through the stead- ily encircling Government lines. Government advices declare that three thousand Insurgents have been cut off completely from their sup- plies of food and ammunition. 18,000 New York police. evidence. econ Murderer STRIKE CREATES| §—— SCHISM IN GOV, Strike Fron?IU. S. Rela- tively Quiet—Viscose Corp. Makes Pact (By Associated Press) ‘The labor strike of General Motors of Canada workers at Oshawa, On- tario, has been virtually pushed in- to the background by the schism created in the ProVincial Govern- ment which has led to Premier Mitchell Hepburn's being assailed as a dictator, when he demanded the resignations of two Provincial officials. While Oshawa's Mayor, Alex Hall, demands sympathy strikes by auto- motive workers in the United States, members of the United Automobile Wiorkers Union have adopted a res- olution urging Dominion Govern- ment intervention to settle the strike. U. S. Situation The strike front in the United States has been relatively quiet. At Detroit, Michigan, fifteen un- jon officers and sympathizers lol-‘ lowing the eviction by police and deputies using tear gas, of one hun- dred and twenty sitdown strikers from the Yale and Towne Manu- |facturing Company plant. Quiet of junk as it was Agreement Signed The Viscose Corporation, the Na-| |tion’s largest producers of rayon, |has signed an agreement recognizing {the Textile Workers Organizing Meanwhile, in the North, storms have bogged down the big Insur-, gent offensive in the Bilbao area. NEW DEADLINE SET LONDON, April 15—Fixing a new deadline, the Non-Intervention Sub-| Committee has set midnight, next, Monday, for putting into operation the wide control schemes to halt| the flow of men and arms into DOG ORDINANCE | BE RETAINED Spain. Another sub-committee of the International Committee for Non-Intervention has been ap- pointed to consider plans for the withdrawal of foreign volunteers now engaged in fighting in the Spanish Civil War zone. ‘ READY TO SAIL Speakers as Too Strict— Development Program heash ordinance, made its entry \into the Juneau Chamber of Com-| |final result that the Chamber went ton record endorsing the ordinance d recommending to the new City|ened the be kept on the stat- Friday night at 6 o'clock unless de- and e Council that it i ute books. Rumor has been pre-| mands, | valent that the new Council was|were granted. giving some consideration to going| back to the former ordinance. R. E. Robertson, speaking on the! |subject at the Chamber luncheon | this noon in the Terminal Cafe, said | ;he was in favor of regulating dogs, A {but that he felt the new leash or- Oan}fix ngigiih ?::ny-Axs:; sl:i;)-s dinance was too strict and should of the United States fleet and e Smenosd X il s 474 airplanes will head seaward rieberty each day, perhaps in the from here within 24 hours for a g ! six week’s manouver in a five mu-‘zz';:m‘fr; :Jlle t::cl‘f:::: hg:;"flgézg Some place in mid-Pacific, on “F‘““ Oamlck_ yoloed . & S.lmu"l he high «battle” will be sentiment, declaring that a tied up el T wten wve it ot thal10% WAL ooy oo b ross dog 1nrge wixll] v:ze cemi:":l}¥ on its own‘amd heiio, tavored giving the dogs ittle mo A footing and no theoretical (oroesia :‘,‘u::ls :;x:tltzecvl:”;lho i i it wx:l :’;:l“:flve"‘ b w“il bem:he most‘mm urging the new ordinance be- prad ar games In history. lgore the Councll, stated that the Rear Admiral Walter N. Vemo:x.;new ardinance had rid the streets commander of the Cruisers battle| . (. dog nuisance, especially in force, will make a visit, with the yps gowntown district. entire force, to the Aleutian Is-| .uppis dog question seems to be 13“‘.’5' to permit the officers t0 ;0 Jike the controversy on pro- learn lessons in the navigation of pition when that was in effect,” the difficult’ northern waters. Af-| ommented Harley Turner. “Noth- ter a stopover in Dutch Harbor, the‘j much was gained by talking force will turn south to Join inignoug it 1 think it holds for the the war games of thfi entire fleet.| 3.0 question. Let's declare our-| The flget is due in San Fran-je.ves one way or another and be cisco May 28 to participate in the ;o no with it Golden Gate ' bridge celebration. The vote revealed only two or o three voting against the recom- UNSTRUGTIUN mendation to the Council which ] had been brought in by the Execu- NAVY VESSELS, tive Committee. The Chamber voted to approve WASHINGTON, April 15— The Navy Department reports that 6 of the 58 warships under construction are behind schedules and comple- tion will be delayed from one month to one year longer than the speci- fied contracts. The Navy finished two submar- ines and five destroyers during the past month. Part of Great Squadron to Come to Coast of Al- aska for Maneuvers (Continuea on Png‘é Five) DIES ON TRAIL FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 15— Thomas Lake, 51, is dead as the, {result of heart trouble. He died on/| the trail, a member of a party en- route from Livengood to Lucky body has been brought here by CHAMBER ASKS Strikeon S.P. Leash LavT—Altacked by Postjonement Gives Time| | | weeks, the recently passed city dog- | —Appointment by President Roose-| velt of a Mediation Board has de-| layed at least for 60 days the strike |merce discussions today with the‘,of 8,500 Southern Pacific Railway employees. | President to proclaim an emergency and appoint mediators where a| izral:;: threatens interstate rail- ;here tests at Dayton, Ohio, of a TELEGRAPHERS Four Steamers Already Af- erican declared a general against all vessels owned, by the International now in United States ports. are effected ships will be tied up as they enter port. ure of negotiations between men and officials of the liner, Presi- dent Roosevelt, at a North River Pier here. A seamen’s strike is also under way aboard the ships. the would be impossible to sail. the Panama Pacific liner Califor- nia, docked nearby, began a sit- down strike in sympathy. |thirty co-eds in the Totem Club,|Prisoners were angered because King Creek on a prospecting trip. The| University of Weshington, an ac- George VI, would not reduce sen- tivity honorary, include Vera Reed|tences or grant pardons in honor of Anchorage, Alaska. Committee as (he sole collective bargaining agency for its twenty |thousand workers. The pact also {inn border include strike threats by the thousand CIO affiliated min- lers at Fernie, British Columbia, unless their demands for wage in- Is Delayed for Next @(ty Days Breakup Conditions Being Delayed—Mining Ac- tivity Mounting e L including wage The Railroad Act permits the| [oc ANGELES, Cal. April 15~ The United States Army Air Corps is about to conduct creases and union recognition are ‘met. | | ——o—— | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 15— . Cold prevails in the Interior and for President to Name | the mild thawing has delayed break- {up conditions. | reported to be soft. There has been unprecedented HIGH AlT'TuDE passenger traffic by planes to all |parts of the Interior due to the A : ; | i Sl 3 ties. Union officers previously threat- Tests to Be Made in Sub- D strike would be called | | | stratosphere by New REPU LIcANs i sub-stratos- | i newly designed plane nearing com- pletion here. | wing spread, and a gross weight of : 1 Tog AR e T oY L of State Executive Committee uN sHIPs ARE iplane is the same type as used by to Be Cut to Member- Amelia Earhart on her Honolulu| 3 flight. It is modelled around the | ship of Twelve UUT N STHIKE el e i i 'of | WALLA WALLA, Wash,, April 15 all metal construction. It carries two‘Reorgamzauon 3 e Bapnbitear 750 horsepower " h d Party in this state started yester- b o gines. P supercharged €N- |45y when a committee of twelve, are to be applied to the window- less exterior of the ship to with- stand the terrific pressure of the| normal atmosphere inside the cabin }by Vg i Mediation Board DEMflNSTH ATE | Interior Alaska planes are still By | iis by ding fields are SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 15.| § uA jakts -DutiIANIEE R |awakening of spring mining activi- mcreax&es,l Army Plane Thirty-eight feet long, a 55-foot gk regulation Lockheed fuselage, has| res- Extra layers of durslumin casing including two from each Congres: against the thin, rarefied sub-strat- fected in New York * Harbor NEW YORK, April 15. — The Am- Telegrapher’s Association strike today |to succeed the State Executive com- mittee of seventy-two. This is the plan as announced J. N. Emerson, State Chairman. Emerson said the Republicans need to “accept the changing con- ditions and are to adapt them to |our philosophy.” — e osphere air 30,000 feet above the! earth. The entire cabin will be super- charged with oxygen. | Sub-stratosphere flying wasoneof g the principal experiments conducted ‘ | by Wiley Post before his fatal crash | /, STOCK QUOTATIONS in Alaska with Will Rogers in 1935.| Most aviation authorities today believe the future of commercial av- iation lies at altitudes well above 25,000 feet, Mercantile Marine Four ships and thirteen operators 8 immediately. Other i NEW YORK, April 15. — Closing The strike was called after fail- the mine stock is 13% .~ American Can 105%, American Light and Power 111%, Anaconda 58 Bethlehem Steel 91%, Calumet and Hecla 15%, Commonwealth and Southern 3 Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motol 59%, International Harvester 107%, Kennecott 59%, New York Central 48%, Southern, Pacific 57%, United States Steel 112%, United Corpora- tion 6%, Cities Service 4, Republic Steel 42%, Lima Locomotive T71%, Cerro de Pasco 75, American Zinc, Lead and Silver 157, Pure Oil 21%, Holly Sugar 34%, Interlake Iron 23%, Pound $4.90 13/16. -reo—— MUTINY BLOCKED LONDON, April 15. — Dissatis- fied convicts of Dartmoor Prison, England’s famed “granite jug’ were reported today to have been balk- ed in a plot for a Coronation Day Mutiny on May 12. Officials, however, denied the ex- istence of such a plot. An unconfirmed report said the All passengers left the ship when management . announced it Three hundred crew members of e PLEDGED SEATTLE, April 15.—Pledges of DOW, JONES AVERAG The following are toda Jones averages: industrials 181.19, rails 60.18, utilities 31.38. of that day. Oscar F. Nylander and his daughter, Ina, were instantl, struck by a fast passenger train on gravely hurt. A son, Vernon, Efiltibati;)fi of Oyste;siin Alaska Approved; Benefits Latest suspect in the Gedeon triple slaying, Robert Tetii 3b, Senlptie - |vwas restoflad Ay of thb strikers| to Fisherme" Nflt Fal?or(lblfl and divinity student, was recently the object of intensified search by lwsre women. A mental patient for three years in a New | York hospital and a former boarder in the home of the slain Mrs. Gedeon, Irwin has been definitely established as present in the murder flat, according to police,. who declined to reveal the mature of their IS PREVAILING sional districts, will be appointed| quotation today of Alaska Juneau| killed when thei J. J. ECKLES (Secretary to Delegate Dimond) WASHINGTON, April 3.—(Spec- ial Correspondence)—Favorable re- port was made by the Department {of Commerce on March 26 on the lture in Alaska, The bill was introduced by Dele- gate Dimond to encourage and pro- tect the cultivation of oysters in the Territory for commercial pur- | poses. Through an amendment to {the Act for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska it would make provision “That the Secretary of Commerce, in his discretion, and upon such terms and conditions as he may deem fair and reasonable, {is hereby authorized to lease bot- (toms in Alaska Territorial waters Ifor bona fide oyster cultivation for | commercial purposes.” The text of the report made by !the Commissioner of Fisheries, and |concurred in by Assistant Secretary | of Commerce, Ernest G. Draper, and passed without objection by the Bu- | reau of the Budget is as follows: | Text of Report | “The bill HR. 1561, introduced by Delegate Dimond on January 5, (1837, upon which a report has been iroquesbed. is identical in language | with H.R. 12871, introduced by Dele- | | gate Dimond in the Seventy-fourth Congress. This bill would authorize the Secretary of Commerce to lease bottoms in the territorial waters of Alaska for bona-fide oyster culti- vation for commercial purposes. Under existing fishery laws the granting of such exclusive fishery right is expressly prohibited. “Oysters were first introduced in Alaskan waters in 1831, when about 40 bushels from Puget Sound were planted in the vicinity of Ketchi- jkan. Since that time about 1,700,000 seed oysters have been planted in this region, and additional plantings have been made in the Prince Wil- liam Sound area. These oysters are reported to have made a healthy growth in all instances, and a lim- ited number have been marketed. “The expansion of this potential industry in Alaska beyond its pres- ent successful experimental stage depends upor this modification of existing law to permit the oyster { | |growers to gain title to their crop. “No additional appropriation of {funds would be recessary if this proposed legislation should be enacted into law. “It is recommended that this bill be reported favorably.” (Signed) FRANK T. BELL, Commissioner.” The Delegate has requested Hon. S. O. Bland, Chairman of the |House Committee on Merchant Marine and Pisheries, to arrange for hearings on the bill as soon as possible. ROADS AND TRAILS ° The item making provision for forest roads and trails in the De- partment of Agriculture appropria- tion bill for the 1938 fiscal year was taken up by the subcommittee of ,{the House Committee on Appropria- tions this week. The part provid- (Continued on Page Three) ONTARIOMOTORS| This Was a Brand New Car in Which Two Died icago’s south side. Nylander's wife 4s in hospital, escaped without serious injury. Ibill for protection of “oyster cul- b i e o e ¥ lNTERIflR AREA | Other troubles across the Canad- | r new car was reduced to this mass (COURT PROGRAM 2 MEN KILLED ON ALASKA BOUND BOAT SHIP CAUGHT IN GALE, DECK LOAD IS LOST Piling for Fish Traps Swept Overboard — Sailors Caught in Slide CARGO BOOMS ARE ALSO GONE, REPORT Winches Are’ Damaged— Craft Now Returning to Home Port BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 15.—Two sailors were killed and two injured aboard the Alaska bound Pacific Am- erican Fisheries steamer Mary D., in a storm north of Cape Flattery, according to a radio received from Capt. Emil Jackson, to the company’s of- fice here. caught by the shifting cargo. The dead men are: Peter Johnson, of Bellingham, and John V. Moore, of Seattle. The injured men are Theo-' LEGISLATION IS .7 e e | |Recent Wa;ner Act Decis- ion Not Diminishing Zeal, President WASHINGTON, April 15. — The, Administration spokesman made it | clear today that President Roose-s velt is campaigning his court bill| with as much determination as be- fore the Wagner Act decision of the Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee meets Saturday to discuss when to! end the hearings on the bill. | Carefully timed statements and speeches from three Cabinet offi-' cers, Wallace, Cummings and Far- ley, emphasized that the Wagner Act decisions have not interrupted | efforts to secure passage of the Court réorganization measure. : Secretary of Agriculture lellace,{ after lunching with President| Roosevelt yesterday, said at a press | conference that from the farmers’; viewpoint, the Supreme Court's de- cision “made enactment of the ju- diclary reform more imperative | than ever.” PUSHED BY FIR SLAYER FOUND 70 BE INSANE AT KETCHIKAN ‘Meeker Not Responsible for Killing His l[’xa)rtner, | Joseph Faden 5 KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 15— Arthur Meeker, 55, former Seattle municipal street railway employee, accused of slaying his partner, Jo- seph Faden, 62, was found insane by a jury of six men in the Commis- sioner’s Court. W. C. Stump, Assistant District Attorney, said murder charges will not be prosecuted because of Meek- er's insanity, but they will not be dropped. Meeker will probably be taken south to the asylum at Morningside, Oregon, tomorrow. Meeker confessed killing Faden with a shot gun March 31, after tell- and Oscar Johnson, of Seat- tle. The message said the en- tire deckload carried forward and aft was carried away dur- ing the heavy gale while the vessel was hove to. Cargo booms are gone and consider- able damage has been done to the winches. According to a later radio, the Mary D., is now bound back to Bellingham with the dead and injured and for repairs. The vessel left Bellingham last Monday night with a heavy cargo for Alaska can- neries, including piles for fish traps. 4 MEN BATTLE 'WITH FLOES OF ICE, COOK INLET Hard Trip taperienced in Taking Body of Man to Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aprid 15.— Ole Johansson, Oscar Vogel and J. H. Tomen fought Cook Inlet ice floes in a small dory for 15 hours to bring the body of Erick Frisk, 45, from his Point Possession cabin. The men were compelled to climb aboard the floes with ropes and pull their small boat along for much of the way here. Once the men were carried 15 miles off their course into the treacherous Turn- again Arm, famous for the tidal bore. Frisk was found dead last Sat- urday with a bullet in his head. Of- ficials here sald they have not de- termined about an inquest pending an examination. WANT DUNKLE APPOINTED TO ALASKA BOARD ing him, “you're going on a long|Aviators at Anchorage Cir- Jjourney.” The slaying aboard the two men’s gas boat Fro- lic at Craig. occurred | e - B.C. ELECTION DATE IS GIVEN VICTORIA, B. C., April 15— Premier Pattullo today announced| the dissolution of the British Col- umbia Parliament and fixed June 1 as the date for the general election and May 11 as nominalion day. ' ! culating Petition to Send to Governor ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 15.— At a meeting of aviators here, the airmen voted to recommend the appointment of W. E. Dunkle, as Third Division representative in the newly created Territorial Aeronau- tics Board. Petitions for Dunkle’s appoint- ment are being circulated and will be forwarded to Gov. John W. Troy at Juneau. Dunkle is a prominent mine op- erator, .private pilot and majority stockholder of the Star Airways. The men were