The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. )\LlX., NO. 7462. JUNLAU ALASKA MONDA\ APRIL 19, i937 M[:MB[:R ASSOCIATED PRESS CANADIAN AUTO STRIKE MAY BE * SPREAD TO U. S. Walkout o—f—Union Men from General Motors Is Hinted OSHAWA NEGOTIATIONS AGAIN BROKEN DOWN UAWA Prepares to File Charges Against Ford Motor Company OSHAWA, Ontario, April 19. Leaders of the United Automobile Workers of America expect a spread | of the Canadian strike to the Gen- eral Motors in the United States within a few days as Prerhler Mit- chell Hepburn asked for drastic ac- tion to curb the Committee of In-| dustrial Organization invasion into Ontario. Officials of the UAWA expecq walkout orders in the United States| from the General Motors Corpora- tion plants unless 3,700 workers in the General Moters of Canada plant here are returned to work. Hopes Dashed The second collapse of projected negotiations last Saturday after- noon dashed hopes for an immed- iate settlement of the local strike.| Rehabilitation of Alaska Railroad Is Assured Fact Col. Ohlson Tells of New Program — Freight Rates Be Raised ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 19. —Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, said he was defintely assured in Washington that $2,225,000 will be |available for the railroad during the next four years. ‘Work will start during the sum- imer replacing wooden bridges with steel spans and ballasting the road- | bed. The program includes the pur- |chase of a new locomotive, box cars |and other rolling stock and con- struction of a tourist hotel at the {Mount McKinley Park station. | Col. Ohlson said the Congres- |sional Act giving railroadérs an- nual leaves with pay adds $93,000 |to the operating expense of the |railroad and this with other increas- !ing costs necessitates an increase in freight rates. | Col. Ohlson said Washington of- }ricials advised him that the oper- |ating revenues must cover the op- |erating expenses. JOHN L. LEWIS STUFFED INTO " [REV. HUBBARD GOING NORTH T0 KING ISLE To Seek TB?r;ventative in Seal Blubber — Dr. Levin Is Associate SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 19—The Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, the Glacier Priest, announces plans for an expedition to Alaska to seek in seal blubber a tuberculosis pre- ventative. He said he will leave Sé‘l\ttle May 20 for his eleventh ex- pedmon, this time going to King} Island in Bering Sea on a trip to extend one year and a half. “We know the Russians took the white plague to the Eskimo and approximately 97 percent of the lat- lter are afflicted, yet through a profuse use of seal oil they prolong their lives indefinitely. It is our hope to find a specific preventative Iby using 190 tuberculosis afflicted Eskimos in our experiments. Dr.! Victor Levin, nutrition scientist of | Creighton University, at Omaha, will accompany me. He has already isolated vitamine D from seal oil and obviously there are other fats or oils with a beneficial effect on| |lung tissues,” said the priest. The priest said he will translate | the Eskimo language into an Eng- lish-Eskimo dictionary. He will take about 100,000 feet of sound | weep for relatives trapped cutside. debris heflped on 2 victim when a St bomb hit & building. (Awhud P ress Photos) 1. Men find time for cards as bombs burst above. his dazed man reached the shelter but the fate of his family remained in doubt. 4. A soldier surveys For months aid raids have been daily routine i Madrid but the prescnt ccunter offensive may revel the attacking Insurgents. The three pictures at the left were made in improvised shelters in subway stations. 2. Two women {language film and 200,000 feet of | film of the native life. He expects |to broadcast weather reports to the |Federal weather bureau stations in COURT PROGRAM Insurgent Plot Discovered LETTERS ARE RECEIVED BY TACOMA MAN Slain Boy'st;her Reveals Further Attempts to Cause Trouble G-MEN ARE SHOWN INCRIMINATING NOTES Doctor Gives Out State- ment in First Interview Since Crime TACOMA, Wash,, April 19—Dr, W. W. Mattson, father of the kid- naped and slain Charles Mattson, revealed today that the lives of the members of his family have been threatened. The threats have been received in letters. He believes the letters are the works of cranks to worry Mrs. Mattson. Each threatening letter has been examined by G-Men stationed in Tacoma. . Confident of Capture Dr. Mattson is confident ths slayer of his little son will yet be captured. He is certain that more 'STAMPEDE IS TAKING PLACE, The conference between officials of | the company and the representa-| tives of the workers broke over de-| mands of the company officials that | the States. | The coming expedition will lay {the foundation for another in which the priest will attempt to discover in Madrul,' German Planes CONGRESS ACT CAN PASS WITH only representatives of the strikers discuss agreements and not repre- sentatives of the CIO. CHARGES AGAINST FORD WASHINGTON, April 10.—Homer Martin, President of the United Automobile Workers of America, the CIO organization, announced the union will file charges of “dis- crimination and intimidation” aguinst the Ford Motor Company with the National Labor Relations| Board. The announcement comes from Detroit that plans “are already, drawn for organization of For workers.” Martin declined to forecast or| express his personal opinion as to| ‘United Mine_W;rkers Head | Involved in New Revis- ed Gufley Bill By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April lBVJohn |L. Lewis is rapidly being transferred | into an Act of Congress. That may be carrying an analo- 'gy far. but not too far. Actually |he has been stuffed into the new revised Guffey bill to take the piace of the part carved out by the Su- preme Court. There is no provision in it for labor, or seemingly none. Yet Con- |gress confidently expects that John the advisibility of a series of strikes)1, pewis will see to it that labor in the United States against the|gets its cut out of any improve- General Motors Corporation as the; result of the strike at Oshawa. - e Firebug Routs Girls by Blaze! Slight Damage Is Done to Kappa Alpha Sorority House at U. of W. SEATTLE, April 19. — A firebug/ reached through the window and set fire to a curtain in the Knppa Alpha Sorority house at the Univer- | sity of Washington early yesmday morning, the resulting blaze caus- ing slight damage. The girls, how- ever were routed from their beds into the street. HOLDEN FLYING TO SKAGWAY WITH 3 IN MARINE PLANE With three passengers, Hans Looff, Ray James, M. J. Odom, Pilot Alex Holden flew the yellow and black Bellanca seaplane to Skag- way this afternoon, leaving Juneau at 2:15 o'clock. Pilot Holden ex- pected to return to Juneau about 6 o'clock this evening. Mr. Odom is remaining in Skag- way, but the other two passengers will return to Juneau with the plane. Lloyd Jarman made the hop as flight mechanic, Man’s Life Is Studded With Sevens BRESLAU, Neb., April 19—Wil- liam McCullough finds a lof of ment in the bituminous coal in- dustry brought about thréugh au- thority to regulate prices and pro- {duction. His recent success in get- \ting a pay raise for his miners in- dicates the Lewis part of the Guf- fey-Lewis act will work. {LABOR GETS VOICE |his miners will have a hand in de- |velopments, the bill provides that a labor representative sit on each |of the 23 district boards it creates. The coal industry will provide the other two. These boards will have authority to bring together all the ‘facwrs going into determining the cost of production of coal. Recom- mendations of these boards then are to be given special weight by the federal bituminous coal commis- sion in saying what should be the minimum price of coal at the mine. To the labor spokesman, on each board will fall the job of includ- ing a fair wage for labor in the cost of coal. Back of him will be John L. Lewis and his miners. TIME WILL TELL To finance the act a tax of one cent a ton on coal at the mines is !imposed. This is roughly one-half of one per cent of the usual $2 a ton mine price. If any coal mine owner refuses to abide by the terms of the act and insists on mining as much as he likes and selling at cut rates if he likes, the law provides a 20 per cent penalty tax. There is another provision in the bill designated to protect consum- ers. If the coal mines should at- tempt to take advantage of an emergency shortage of -coal and hike prices upward, the Federal Coal Commission can impose a price ceiling beyond which prices may not climb. Just how nicely the Federal Board can balance production against consumption will be discovered only Just to make certain Lewis and| jthe unknown land between Alaska and the North Pole STATES WANT FEDERAL AID | BE CONTINUED Governors, with Exception of 2, Against Any Re- duction, Relief Funds before going into secret CHICAGO, IIl, April 19.—State secsion. Governors presented a solid front against any reduction in Federal relief expenditures as a means of placing a greater burden for rehet on the various states. cording to an Assoclated Press poll | Gov. Richard C. McMullen, Dem- | I ru uc |0" ocrat of Delaware, and Gov. George | D. Aiken, Republican of Vermont,' are the only two state executives| FINDLAY, O—Oil men in the| favoring states assume the relief Northwestern Ohio field, one of the | burden. |world's oldest producing centers, re- ’pon that since earthquakes shook VNOMINATIONS |this region several weeks ago, the ‘vulumv of petroleum from many WASHINGTON, Apl'fl 19.—Presi- | | Opposmon sl Wan® Only Two Instead of Six New Justices WASHINGTON, April 19.——L(‘ad- ers of the Senate opposition to the pass if the President accepts two instead of six new Associate Jus- tices for the Supreme Court. | The Senate Judiciary Committee continue for a week or ten days executive | Earthuuake Cuts SLIGHT CHANGE - \court bill said the measure would | for Rebels GOLD TEETH GIVEN AIMEE Congregation of Angelus Temple Aid Pastor in Slander Suit April 19.— LOS ANGELES, Cal, resumed hearings today, agreeing to| {The congregation of Angelus Tem- Insurgents. ple gave gol dteeth, wedding rings, ‘md cash to aid their pastor, Aimee {McPherson, in the $180,000 slander |suit filed against her by her former Zcu<paswr, Rheba Crawford. e Urge Keeping Japanese 60 iMiles Off Coast WENAI‘(,HFE Wu:h April 19. ! The Washington State Sportsme; Council which has been in session here, urged that Japanese floating; canneries be prevented from oper-!{ They ating within 60 miles of the coast) of Alaska or British Columbia. e Montross, Va., a town of 166 per- acns. has 23 widows. txpper wells has declined. said the earth movement evidently Yinterfered with lower rock stratas,| but expressed helief the decline| 'might not be permanent. dent Roosevelt today nominated An-' thony Drexel Biddle Jr., of Penn-! sylvania as new Ambassador to Po- land, succeeding John Cudahy of ‘Wisconsin. No new post has been announced for Cudahy. Florence Jaffray Harriman, widow | of J. Borden Harriman, was nomin- ated as minister to Norway, suc- ceeding Biddle and Robert Caldwell, Texas, was nominated minister to Bolivia. Other nominations were: Henry Grady, Tariff Commissioner and Raymond Patton, Ohio, Director of the Coast Geodetic Survey. Mrs. Harriman is the second wo- man named to a diplomatic post. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, the other, was Minister to Denmark from 1932 to 1935. Directed Verdict of Acquittal Given in Bombing Tragedy DENVER, Colo., April ls,—Edward‘ O'Hara, one of four men chargedl with - conspiracy in the murder of Leo Barnes, self-styled gambler, was WASHINGTON, April 19.—A gold mine in Alaska has turned up one of the most complete prehistoric collections of remains in the world. Dr. Ralph W. Chaney, of the University of California and Re- search Association of Carnegie In- stitution, reports that hundreds of skulls, tusks, bones,” hide and hair| of a mammoth bison, horse, cari- bou, muskox, lion and other ani- mals have been taken from a mine near Fairbanks. If it had not been for the gold mining operations, the bone digging would have been impractical. The work was carried on by the Fair-| banks Exploration Company and consisted of washing away thou- sands of tons of frozen soil with giant streams of water to get at the gold bearing strata. acquitted last night in a directed verdict in which the Judge said Picture of Past Life With the company’s cooperation, 'Alaska Gold M ine Yzelds Rare Prehistoric Remains, Making Picture of Early Life in N. A. \ mammoths, such as found preserv-| ed in Siberia, have yet been un- covered,” but with extensive mining cperations now -in progress, Alaska is certain to give a signifant chap-| ter of the past life of the far north, to be uncovered.” Mammoth Skulls Dr. Chaney said that at one point on Cleary Creek, near Fairbanks, skulls of two mammoths were un-| covered. One skull was four feet long and carried tusks five and a| half feet long and which are seven inches in diameter at the joint, joining the skull. The skull of an extinct speciees of bison had horns with a spread of' three and one half feet or a foot| wider than the modern bison. Before Ice Age Scientists say mammoth musk oxen and bison lived in parts of North America during and lmmcd- |co has | forces have “intensified” mine lay- | Are Shot Down MADRID, April 19. — Several 'men, whem the Madrid Defense |Junta asserts are monks, who have been financed by religious argam-[ zations in Italy, have been arrested| and accused of participating in an| Insurgent plot to turn the city over | to Gen. Francisco Franco. The Air Ministry at Valencia an- nounces that four Insurgent Hvin-; kle German planes have bven‘ downed by Government airmen on | he Ternel front and this coincided with allegations received that 36 planes have left Honover for It is said the planes are being flown over France during| the night time at high altitudes. The German civil pilots are receiv- ing 1,000 marks ($400) plane delivered to the Insurgents. for each! ! GOODNEWS BAY Tént City Springs Up;— Grub Is Short — Much Prospecting Indicated BETHEL, Alaska, April 19, Stampeders and prospectors are moving into Goodnews Bay by plane and a tent city is springing up. | Food is short. There are no po-! tatoes, flour sugar and beans, and the |no place for more men unless they arriving on the scene,” bring their own tents and supplies. The supply boat does not arrive until the middle of May and ev-| lerything is at a standstill until then. All predictions are based on the POISON GAS REPORTED LONDON, April 19. — Britis h‘ Foreign Secretary Eden told the| House of Commons today that the | Government is investigating reports ;nm poison gas is being used in the 5| Civil War in Spain by the Insur- 'genl forces. He said the poison gas has been shipped from Hanover,| Germany, to Spain. The British Foreign Secremry made the statement only a few hours before the scheduled launch- ing by 27 nations Non-Intervention | Committee of the International Pn-t trol of Spain. Mines Being Laid The Foreign Secretary also dis- closed that Insurgent General Fran- | 1 | | notified London that his| ing at certain Bay of Biscay points. | Runs Blockade It is also anncunced that the| British freighter Thorpe Hall suc- cessfully ran the “blockade” and has arrived at Port Musel, Ovideo Pro- vince, under the protection of three British destroyers. BESIEGING BILBAO LONDON, April 19. — Insurgent | | besiegers of Bilbao drew new lines today in a renewal of an offensive | after warning the Basques that 500 | armleny pleces have been lined up| ito shell Bilbao unless the Capital! surrenders. | Bilbao is reported near starvation | (as supplies have been cut off for| several weeks by the Insurgents. The Basques announce however that the advance of the forces under Gen. Mola has been halted. {Sits on Box of Dynamite, Blows Himself to Bits SHOOTS AT WIFE [brandishing a revolver original strike last fall Wwhich | north of Goodnews Bay in the Wat- | {amoose and Arolic districts. Re- sults reported so far look like the development and extensive prospect- | ;2 ing will take place. One concern ‘has a $40,000 prospecting program | lon the strength of last year's re-| sults, THINKS STEPSON INTERLOPER AND Retired Army Officer Held for Murder Attempt— Wife Critically Injured BULLETIN — Santa Cruz, April 19.—Mrs. Boggs is dead as the result of the bullet wounds and Boggs will now be charged with murder, according to District Attorney Knight, SANTA CRUZ, Cal, April 19.— Allan Boggs, 53, wealthy retired larmy officer, formerly of Detroit, is charged with attempted murder here following the shooting and |eritically wounding of his 37-year- old wife, Mrs. Cally Boggs. Deputy Sheriff Orrie Dunlap, who captured Boggs, declared that Boggs had rushed into his wife’s room Observing his twelve-year-old stepson, Danny, in one of the twin beds, Boggs thought he was “another man,” and shot his wife. a week and the kidnaper escaped with his son by going down the blurr taw-m' Puget Sound. the mock very s “and the doctor plunged into his )l‘lo- tice with renewed vigor trying to forget. Gives Statement “If the officers had been able to isolate the peninsula where my home is situated within a few min- utes after the kidnaping, they might have saved lmh Charley, but what can you do with four prowler cars, that criminals know, said Dr. “Tacoma’s police force is Mattson. (the most under-manned on the coast. This is why this town has been the site of two major kidnap- ings.” The statements were the first given in an interview since Charles’ |showed values up to $3 per yard in body was found near Everett, nude BEING USED IN SPAIN Platinum in the gold bearing area and bruised, on January 11. pis 5. Sy — | STOCK QUOTATIONS “NEW YORK, April 19. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 105, American Light and Power 11%, Aanaconda 57%, Bethlehem Steel 90'%, Calumet and Hecla 4%, Commonwealth and Southern 2%, General Motors 59%, International Harvester 106%, Kennecott 58%, New York Central 49%, Southern Pacific 58%, United States Steel 111%, United Corporation 5%, Cities Service 4, Pound $4.92%, Republic Steel 41%, Lima Locomotive 68, Cerro de Pasco 72%, American Zine, Lead and Silver 15%, Pure Oil 21%, Holly Sugar 34%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 180.82, rails 60.52, utilities 31.07. Drivers Asked Not To Park on Front During Construction Chief of Police Dan Ralston to- day announced that it had become necessary to prohibit parking of automobiles on Front Street, be- tween Seward and Franklin, while the water main construction is go- ing on. The Chief asks cooperation of drivers in observing the new regulations. Parking for loading and unloading at various business houses will be permitted but others are asked not to park in the re- stricted area in order to facilitate the construction. work and incident- ally for fire protection should an alarm be sounded in the vicinity. - e sevens in his life. there was insufficlent evidence|the American Museum of Natural iately before the ice age of geologic| Chick Has Spare Legs WILLARD B HERE His 77th birthday fell on March 27, 1937, the seventh day of the week. He lives in School District 77, which includes Breslau, a name of seven letters, inhabited by seven families in seven houses, Thrown in for good measure is the fact that “William” has seven letters. by experiencee. o ORDWAY TO SEATTLE Fred Ordway, Juneau photo- grapher, sailed on the Alaska to- day for Seattle on a brief business trip, expecting to return on an early boat. trial. ) against O'Hara. History and the University of Al- O'Hara was killed and his wife |aska have preserved all animal re- injured last December when 2 bomb, |mains found and “providing one of attached to the starter of his car,|the most complete pictures of the exploded as he started the engine.|life of past which have yet covered Three other men are still to stand |the world.” No complete carcasses or ancient time of from 500,000 to 1,000,000, years ago. Dr. Frank Roberts, of the Smith- sonian Institution, said bones of these animals have been found which have been scorched in cook- ing by early men. CENTRALIA, Wash., April 19— A coroner’s jury held that John Garbe, 46, of Toledo, a farmer, blew himself to bits on March 31 by exploding a box of dynamite be- neath himself. Only fragments of/ iGarbe's clothing have beén found. LAMESA, Tex., — When a tray of newly-hatched chickens was taken off an incubator here recently one of the chicks appeared all ready to go places. It had four legs instead of the usual two. Coming to Juneau on a brief business call, the Libby, MocNeill and Libby cannery tender Willard B arrived here this afternoon and is moored at the Juneau Lumber Mills dock. She is to return to Taku Harbor tomorrow,