The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 21, 1937, Page 1

THLELE VOL. XLIX., NO. 7464. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNES “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAY. APRIL 21, 1937. \ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AILY ALASKA EMPIRE * PRICE TEN CENTS SEVEN WARSHIPS NOW ALASKA BOUND ACCUSATION IS HURLED OUT IN CANADA STRIKE CIO Organizer Claims Deep Conspiracy to Break Walkout OSHAWA, Ontario, April 21. — Hugh Thompson of the United Au- tomobile Workers of America and CIO organizer, today accused Pre- mier Mitchell Hepburn and the | General Motors of Canada officials | with ‘“‘conspirting to break the strike” of 3,700 workers in the plant here. | The accusation was made after he heard a committee of strikers had gone to Toronto to meet the Premier and Harry Carmichael, General Manager of the General; Motors of Canada. | T0 TAKE TIME T0 ORGANIZE FORD WORKERS Executive Board of UAWA, to Delay Action Un- | til Next Autumn i WASHINGTON, April 21.—Senti- ment in delaying collective bar-| gaining overtures with the Ford| Motor Company until next fall has) developed among the members of the United Automobile Workers of America, | The Executive Board of the UA WA, reliable sources report, believe they should strengchen the union| before tackling .the tirst organiza-| tion among the Ford employees. The ! autumn is declared ‘a propitious| time as the company is then an-| nouncing the new models. ————.———— AIR SERVICE TO CHINA IS | INAUGURATED Clipper Craft Flying from| Alameda Today—Pas- | sengers, Freight ‘ ALAMEDA, Cal, April 21. — The| China Clipper is scheduled to sail during today for China inaugurat- ing transportation of commercial cargoes between the United States| and Asia. Passengers will go only| to Manila and there be transferred, | but departure of the Hawiian Clip- per next week marks the beginning of the direct China passenger ser- vice. ———— PREDICT FROST, SEATILE AREA Rainfall Is Approaching an All-time Record for April SEATTLE, April 21.—Tempera- ture has dropped to a minimum of 28 degrees above zero and the Weather Bureau has issued a frost warning. April rainfall is now 4.51 inches and is nearing an all time record of 533 in 1933, COUNCILS TO LEAVE SEATTLE ON MAY 15 Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Council are expected to leave Seattle for Juneau cn May 15, returning west by that date from a trip East where they are stopping at various points, in- cluding New York City and Wash- ington, D. C. Accompanying them here will be Miss Mary Lee Council, daughter of Dr. Council, who has been with them on the trip East. Miss Council, whose home is in San Francisco, is a former student of the University of California. — There are 20 Hawaiian Islands. Nine are inhabited. ) i[)clcgale's Measure Will “Thrill Seeiors” Pose As Models Join Union AMATEURS GET CALL » While professional models sit tight with their union, San Francisco artists like Irving Sinclair seek substitutes from such charming volunteers as Virginia Beuscher (standing) and Betty Teonard. SAN FRANCISCO, April 21.—Dancei and movie-struck girls who volunteered (& services just for the thrill are saving the day for artists here who suddenly found themselves without regular models. Where are the regular girls? Working out a union constitution. Some people think modeling consists of just standing still and looking pretty but the professionals take a different view of it. They want to make t a skilled profession with apprentices and journeymen and standard rates of pay. “Fve doliars minimum for two hours or less,” is the dictum of Alvin Schmidt, himself a model and head of the new Pre sional Models' guild. POSTAGE RATE, ALASKA ROUTE, IS UP INBILL Princess Elizabeth | Celebrating § Eleventh Birthday | WINDSOR, England, April 21. — Princess Elizabeth, heir presumptive | to the British throne. celebrated her eleventh birthday today, open- ing her presents from the family. One present was from her Uncle | David, whose abdication last De-| |comber brought her nearer the| British throne. Give Certain Authority to Postmaster Gen. |took the hardest |civil w |cay {the Netheriands. | the | ficials of ladded the Dutch legation at Lisbon| | tenth MADRID GIVEN RAIN OF SHELL FOR TEN DAYS| | Insurgents é;:;bard City— Tragedy of Sea Reported —Executions Take Place BULLETIN—Madrid, April 21 —Incessant Insurgent shell fire has rolled up a total of 150 dead within the city. About 250 shells have been poured into the city of one million people LONDON, April 21.—Radio. ad~ vices received here say that Madrid battering of the yesterday on the tenth day of successive heavy Insurgent shelling At least 200 shells fell in the eity before 10 o'clock a. m. Most of [them were small but they left trag- {ie | tion. accounts of death and destruc- A report that Dutch officials on board the Dutch steamer Andra, were executed before the Insurgents sank the vessel in the Bay of Bis- y, April 6, stirred resentment in An Amsterdam Der Telegraff, printed report, though not officially confirmed, in which it was stated Insurgents found three Spanish gov- ernment officials on the ship who newspaper, | bought munitions aboard. They were executed “along with all Dutch of- the Andr: The paper said the crew was freed and sent home. Spanish Government troops have struck toward the Teruel Zaragoza road in Eastern Spain after driv- ing Insurgents, panic-stricken, from the town of Celandes. The Grand Atlantic Hotel, one COLLECTNE BARGAINING HELD SACRED Perkins’ Conference Fore- shadows Restrictions ! onUnions, However | WASHINGTON, April 21. — In- {formed persons said today Secre- General Franco's Insurgents, in lary Perkins' labor and capital con- their own capital, Salamanca, began' & cnce in the Capital - yesterday organizing a proposed authorization, foreghiadowed a business campaign state, proclaiming Franco as heas I ELECTRA OUT TO INTERIOR WITH LOAD TUESDAY to impose restrictions on Unions and give employers protections un- der the Wagner Labor Act. | Secretary of Commerce Daniel C Roper’s Businesss Advisory Council asked the President to increase La- bor’s legal responsibilities. | Administration chieftains said After awaiting the arrival of her Congressional consideration may b passenger, {half ounce * * * /' By J. J. ECKL (Secretary to Delegate Dimond) WASHINGTON, April 10—Special Correspondence) —A hill was intro- duced in the House on April 6 by the Delegate, at the request of the Post Office Department, which would authorize “That the Post- master General, in his discretion, may fix the postage for the mails carried, or any part thereof, by air- craft to, from or within Alaska, at irates not exceeding in any case 30 cents per ounce or 15 cents per Such authority was suggested in the report of the Copeland “Safety in Air Committee” and has also been brought up at other times by members of Congress while meas- ures for extending the service of mail by air in Alaska were under consideration. The argument some- times made in behalf of such au- thority is approximately — “Why should the people of Alaska have an air mail service at ordinary rates of postage when in the United States we have to pay a special air mail PRESIDENT IS Tentative Arrangements GOING FISHING |Jerry Jones and Co-Pilot Walt! {Hall put the Pacific Alaska Air Electra plane into the air from |here about 4 o'clock yes y af- ternoon, for the flight to the Inter- ior as far as Whitehorse, from where they were to complete their Fairbanks hop early this morning. Passengers leaving Juneau for | Fairbanks aboard the Elecira were, besides Mr. Korba, A. Kelly, Mr. Are Announced at W. H. Today WASHINGTON, Aprii 2i—Ten-| tative arrangements for President| Roosevelt’s visit to the Gulf of Mex-| ico on a fishing trip were announced | at the White House today. The plans | call for the arrival of the President | at New Orleans on April 29 where| he will embark on the Coast Guard | yacht Potomac to fish for tarpon| off the Texas coast. He will be gone about two weeks. HAMILTON IS and Mrs. R. N. Alderson, P. T. Mc- billard, N. Lester Troast. CANNERY HEADS COME NORTH ON |Connell, Hans W. Looff, Irving McK | WASHINGTON |Reed, T. A. Martin, Miss Vivian Ro- recent survey shows Hungary | Jack A. Korba, delayed until wage and hour legis- off the motorship Northland, Pilot jation ha: s been discussed. Yesterday's conference with Sec- S retary Perkins did not acgomplish much except reveal that both side agreed to regard collective bargain- ing contracts as sacred. - Large Sums Being Spent for Armies, Navies of World April 21 A is the only one of 24 nations, main- taining sizable armies and navies, and spending a smaller percentage of their national income on up- keep for them than America America this year will spend 13 BOARD VICTORIA percent, or 5953000000 Japan spends the most, 51 per- Among the cannerymen coming cent of her national income going north aboard the steamer Mr. Sutter is superintendent of the Fidalgo Island Packing Company plant at Pillar Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Sutter were wed in a surprise mar- riage in Juneau last summer. Victoria to armament, France 27'%: jon the current voyage from Seattle 21 8/10, Italy 30% | Britain 4, Russia, 19, Po- |were Mr. and Mrs. Vance Sutter. land 42 and Mexico 37 per cent. HULA DANCER ‘Atlantic Cirtirdl'lotel hésll'dy-;cd'By Fire % ¥ of the oldest in Atlantie City, was completely destroyed in a re- cent fire. Above is a general view of the blaze at its height. (Associated Press Photo) INCREASE OF RELIEF FUNDS cure More Money to Be Blocked WASHINGTON, April 21.—Heed- ing President Roosevell's economy plea, Democratic leaders are resist- . ing efforts of-two groups of Repre- sentatives to hoost next year’s re- lief funds above the recommended billion and one-half dollars. Representative Maury Maverick of Texas invited 20 colleagues to a discussion, considering increasing the amount by nine hundred million dollars. Representative Gerald J. Boileau of Wisconsin sald the House’s lib- eral bloc wants a three billion ap- propriation. Miss Renee Mattman, a research worker in Radio City, New York, will sail for Brussels next week to marry Robert Rothschild, kin of the famous banking family and member of the Belgian diplomatic service, Twenty-six years old, blue-eyed and blonde, Miss Mattman was formerly a resident of Pittsburgh, Pa. 200 STUDENTS Speaker Bankhead indicated lead- ers were ready to block all extra appropriations for WPA. He added the jobless could not be kept below four million even with prosperity. | SN " |Male Hula |Dancers Balk at Grass Skirts | — ARE STRIKING' HONOLULU—He may eliminate {a wiggle or two, due to natural in- 5 " flexibility, but the male hula danc- Will Not Return to Classes|er has taken his place as Hawaii's U t'l P s ') l ‘swing” life. ntil Frincipa And the next men’s free for all Rehired |will be the citywide amateur hula |finals May 7 at Waikiki Beach. BATTLE GROUND, Wash., April Policemen, l)_ivguards and foot- 21— The school directors here’-are|08ll players Wwill compete in the firm in tefusal to rehire Principal|uBique dance tournament for the A. C. Zellar while 200 of 235 stu-{Plaudits of a crowd to whom the dents voted ‘they would mot return{huls invariably is" popular egter- | tainment to their classes until the board ' . members change their minds. Par- Depending more upon fo'rcfe than ents are supporting the students|*Oman the popular male hula in their strike. dancer usually s structurally solid. / One, weighing 235 pounds, is noted | particularly for his interpretation |of a bucking horse. PR AR Also going to Pillar Bay aboard! ice?” The answer to this question with respect to established star rate for that class of postal sm‘v-E suEn BY w|FE [] i | ’ routes is that mail on those routes | may be carried by air more cheaply | | than by any other means of trans-i portation, and on these routes there ! NORRe Y | is no thought of charging addition- Mate of Chairman of GOP‘ al postage. But for new routes which | . are already served by boat, mfln! CO mmittee Makes or highway, Congress insists that if | Charges, Topeka [ the service is given by plane, a sur- char_ge be made, or that t})e new, TOPEKA, Kansas, April 21.—Mrs.| service be not set up. The air mail g, Hamilton, wife of John Ham- | service now authorized in the pend-jjton, Chairman of the Republican| ing Post Office appropriation bill, National Committee, has filed a| between Juneau and Fairbanks via syjt for divorce and asks custody of | Whitehorse and Tanacross, and be- her son and daughter. tween Tanacross and Cordova, Val-{ Mrs. Hamilton charges “gross ne-| dez, Seward, and Anchorage, Was giect of duty, abandonment and ex-| agreed to by the Committees of treme cruelty.” Congress upon the understanding; The couple married in 1915. that a reasonable surcharge would} John Hamilton, 45, became chair- be made on mail carried over those man of .the GOP committee after routes. former Gov. Alfred Landon was Delegate Dimond said that “En- nominated in June last year. actment of this bill will greatly aid in extending mail service by air in! NO COMMENT Alaska because, first, Congresslonal} WASHINGTON, April 21.—When appropriations will go further in informed of proceedings started by that the air mail postage charged his wife, John Hamilton declined will pay in part for the cost of main- no comment. taining the air deliveries; and sec- —rr— ond, the requirements for a nomin-; i | | | Buddihism is the prevailing relig- ion in the Kingdom of Siam. (Continued on Page Three) the Victoria were Mr. and Mis. A.! |Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph| Rogers. Mr. Anderson is foreman of the cannery there and Mr. Rog- |ers is bookkeeper. C. S. Syre, superintendent of the Astoria and Puget Sound cannery at Excursion Inlet, was a passenger| from Seattle to that port as were 0. C. Adams and Don Laviolette, | bookkeeper and his assistant respec- tively. All left the steamer before she arrived in Juneau northbound DR. VAN ACKEREN DUE NEXT TUESDAY Dr. J. F. Van Ackeren, who has been in Washington, D. C. for the past month on official business, is due to return here next Tuesday where he will resume duties as medical director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dr. Van Ackeren attended a con- ference in Washington, D. C., from April 6 to 17 assembling state and territorial health directors for dis- cussion of health problems in con- nection with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He left Washington, D. C. on April 19. BURNED;ERASS SKIRT IS FIRED | Lt {One Man Under Arrest Be- lieved to Have Ap- plied Match | SAN PEDRO, Cal, April 21. — |Mae Perdue, 22, hula dancer, was critically burned when her grass skirt caught fire while performing in front of a waterfront cafe last night. The police jailed Mathew Dona- hue, 57, a miechanic, on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon while they are investigating whether he touched a match to her skirt. e FACES ASSAULT CHARGE Facing charges of criminal as- sault; James F. Rogers, 19-year-old soldier for Company F at Chilkoot Barracks, was brought to Federal jall in Juneau last night on the Vietoria by Deputy Marshal William Markle. Rogers has been bound over to the grand jury for the alleged crime involving a minor girl. W, F. MORGAN Undaunted by the fact most hulas |inclyde interpretations of rain and !moonbeams, especially designed for sylph-like maidens, male dancers undertake all popular numbers. If |their “rainstorms’ turn into “thun- PASSES AWAY Sudden Death Takes For- fii, ficacea. mer Treasurer Demo- | Male dancers balk, however, - w wearing grass skirts: cratic Committee \ BASEBALL TODAY at COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 21. W. Forbes Morgan, 57, World War veteran: and victor of Wall Street| financial skirmishes, died suddenly| Raln is interfering with second at midnight as the ult of heart .. - ) . (day games in the Major baseball lrguhle vm the State «Capitol mm»\lmgues tofay dcetrditie toi the fal- e Hie b of the Dem. | loWing Assocated Press report: Morgan was treasurer of the DEIM= | na4jon,) st Louls-Cincinnati ocratic National Committee dunnu‘m_",‘m"m Ry the recent campaign and resigned National — Philadelphia - Boston, to become President of the Distilled | il o i3 Ino game, Spirits Institute. ! National — New York-Brooklyn .- |game off on account of rain. MacDOUGALL HERE i American—Boston at Philadelphia e postponed, rain. D. J. MacDougall, operator of "1 American—Cleveland-Detroit, store at the Polaris-Taku Mine, re- game, heavy rain. turned to Juneau this week after &, American—Washington-New York trip south of a little more than a'no game, rain. month. He will complete his return! National — Pittsburgh - Chicago, journey to his establishment up the 'game postponed, rain. Taku River after a few more days| American—Chicago 10; St. Louis in Juneau. no ® 15 LITTLE FLEET MAY STOP OVER VARIOUSTOWNS ENROUTE WEST One Battleship, Two Cruis- ers and Four Destroyers Leave Port Angeles for Aleutians PORT ANGELES, Wash., April 21.—Seven warships of the United States Navy as- sembled here yesterday and left this afternoon for the Aleutian Islands to take part in the Navy war games. While nothing definite was announced, the ship may visit Alaska cities while proceeding along the Alaska coast to the Aleutians. The ships in the Alaska bound fleet are the battleship New Mexico, cruisers Cincin- nati and Concord and destroy- ers Dewey, Hull, MeDonough and Worden. Rear Admiral Walter Ver- nou is in command of the little fleet and he is aboard the cruiser Concord. —————————— ALASKA SALMON PROFIT SHOWS SHARP INCREASE Returns Gai;‘fiore than 50 Per Cent in 1936 Over Previous Year SAN FRANCISCO, April 21. — The Alaska Pacific Salmon Corpor- ation reported a net profit increase of more than 50 per cent last year, according to figures released here today. Profit for 1936 was given at $320,000, compared with $201,000 the previous year. After all charges, in- cluding dividends on Class A stock had been paid, there remained earnings of $242 a share on 121,000 shares of common stock compared with $1.35 a share in 1935. The company’s pack was 820,000 cases, a new record which contri- buted to the new high mark set by the salmon industry last year when 10,834,750 cases were packed. G. W. Skinner, Prgsident of :‘xz Company, said the outlook year was for a smaller pack and higher costs but possibly enough advance market to offset the ine creased costs. ——t———sy RUDY VALLEE 1S CONVICTED, POLICE COURT Assaulted Newspaper Pho- tographer Taking Pic- ture in New York BOSTON, April 21.—Rudy Vallee, today was convicted on charges of assault and battery despite denials that he struck Benedict Fitzgerald, a newspaper photographer. Harry Paul, publicity man with Vallee at the time, was fined $50. He appealed to Judge Daniel Gillen to let Valleee off by placing the charge “on file.” Fitzgerald said Vallee struck him and broke his camera when he took a picture of Vallee and Paul emerg- ing from a theatre with Evelyn Gresham, New York show girl, ‘The Judge said his ruling would not give Vallee a police record. —ee — MRS. HILLMAN SAILS Mrs. C. Kirk Hillman and son, Alyne, are on board the Yukon enroute to Seward. Mrs. Hillman's husband is the president of the C. Kirk Hillman Company, a Pacific Northwest mining equipment and machinery company.