The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. XLIX., NO. 7465. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIR PRICE TEN CENTS DOCK WORKERS TIE UP E SHELLS KEEP DROPPING ON CAPITAL CITY Insurgents Called “Heart- less Hyenas™ in Kill- ing Madridites MADRID, April 22. — Insurgent gun crews began stabbing at the DAFFODIL FESTIVA L QUEEN 'DSHAWA STRIKE [WE ALTHY DIVINE SETTLEMENT IS [CULTIST FACES BELIEVED NEARIMANN ACT TRIAL Company and Workers'|New Messiah’ Tale Brings Representatives Con- Indictments Against ferring with Premier Hunt and Others | TORONTO, Ont, April 22. — Speedy settlement of the Oshawa LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 22.— | John W. Hunt, wealthy white fol-| ASTERN SHIPS Hawks’ New My;tery Plane LONGSHOREMEN AIM STRIKE AT 4 OCEAN LINES Recognition Declared Pur- pose—Many Big Ships Are Threatened NEW YORK, April 22.—A strike of longshoremen from qutlnnd. lower of Father Divine, negro cul-| tist, at present free on a $25,000 | bond, is to be arraigned Monday | on a charge of violating the Mann | Act. A Federal grand jury has re-l turned indictments against Hunt and three unnamed persons for bringing pretty 17-year-old Delight Jewett here from Denver. | Government prosecutors Geclare | Hunt and the girl registered at a| hotel as “Jesus the Christ” and| “Virgin Mary.” | Miss Jewett told the grand jury | that Hunt had sald to her that she, was to bring “a New Messiah” into| the world. She said she believed, Father Divine was God. BRSO S MINING CAMP 1S SNOWED IN ~ ENTER WINTER Woman R;Jl-es Anchor-| Ar | The mystery plane in which Capt. Frank Hawks, premier speed ace, hopes | age “nd R.elates Her to set many new speed records, is shown above the skyscrapers of Mid- Experiences | General Motors strike appeared pro- Twenty-five shells were dropped | bable, as representatives for the into the central section early this - 3 2 i L |company and the 3700 workers morning while bodies of 35 persons. . & 4 jplanned to confer today with Pre- killed yesterday by shell fire, were imler Mitchell Hepburn. being buried. ; Both sides have backed down on Gen. Jose Miaja, Capital Defense | their original demands and the Chief, termed the Insurgents as | company is believed to be agreeing “heartless hyenas.” {to sign a contract with the repre- Two hundred persons have been sentatives of the United Automo- killed since the bombing of Madrid |bile Workers of America but not eleven days ago. . |with the Union. The Committee of | Industrial Organization is with- ‘drawing from negotiations, yielding . to Premier Hepburn. CI0 ORGANIZERS JAILED IN RIOT, MAINE STRIKERS State Policeman Injured as | Mob of Shoe Workers Former Jungau ~ Queled by Tear Gas in Datg Affair Maine, to Hampton Roads, Virginia, against the Cunard, White Star, Furness and Withy lines is in effect today. The strike is called to enforce recognition of the ILA. Montreal is threatened with a tie-up of four ocean liners, two of. which cater to the rich trade be- tween New York and the Bermudas. The liner Queen Mary, carrying J. P. Morgan and other notables to the Coronation in London, was barely able to get away yesterday, Activity at eight plers is at a standstill here. Ships immediately affected in- clude the Cunard’s 20,000 ton Scy- thia, scheduled to sail Friday for Liverpool, and three Furness ships, one of them the Queen of Bermuda due to sail for the West Indies to-~ night. heart of the Capital City today. REPLY TO ATTACK MADRID, April 22.—Replying to Insurgent attacks, the Government this afternoon suddenly turned their mightiest guns upon the Insurgent entrenchments and chcked the rain of shells into the heart of the city. The Insurgents are reported, late today, to have been blasted out of T | the trenches in the suburb of Usera. AREDRIVING | LAST RIVETS, 1S JAILED IN HULA DANGER'S DEATHINL A LEGISLATION ON FARM MEASURES MAY BE DELAYED Econmy Plea Strikes at Program—Fi 'ofiot _E;'Fafl 18, shown here knee deep in daffodils, has Lesn | | Puyallup (Wash.) Valley Daffodil festi- i which carpet the valley in yellow for will be cut for visitors ss Photo) Miss Dorothy Lyons, chosen as queen of the annual val. Thousands of the blossoms, miles and miles at the height of the season, w Miss Lyons is from Sumner, Wash. (Associated Pre town New York City, with the Empire State tower as a fitting back- | ground. Hawks was photographed as he gave New Yorkers their first ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 22.| glimpse of his ship, Mackesy, CIQ director, on chlrzulzz E. J. Lowe has arrived here - oo ”' RAY 3 i< jrested Powers Hapgood, New Eng- land CIO secretary, and William| BIG BRIDGE Construgtion Work Prac- tically Completed on Golden Gate Project able 'of riotous assault in connéction with i o v mEFarmer Lahm | 'the twenty-nine-day shoe strike in-iF:r: b e el g lof here. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 22. —The machine gun clatter of the rivet hammer will be heard for the last time next Tuesday on the $35,-| 000,000 Golden Gate bridge, Chief Engineer Joseph Strauss said. ! Construction work is virtually completed and the formal upening1K of the bridge will be on May 28. - e | | Peder Pedersen Dies in Seattle SEATTLE, April 22—Peder Ped- ersen, 68, fisherman of Petersburg, Alaska, is dead in a local hospi-| tal. Two sons, Arthur at Petersburg, and Ray at Lake Stevens, Wash, survive. The remains will be shipped north tomorrow for burial. E—— BRITISH SHIPS Witnesses Claim Man Set Fire to Grass Skirt of Portland Girl LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 22— Matthew Donahue, 57, a mechanic, was jailed on suspicion of murder today, and police are continuing their investigation into the fatal burning of May Perdue, 22, Portland Hula dancer. Police said witnesses accused Donahue of applying a lighted match to the girl’s grass skirt while she was dancing in front of a wa- terfront cafe, because she spurned a date with him. Donahue denied all the charges. e — ICE BREAKUP APPEARS LATE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 22— With lowering of temperature and a three-inch snowfall, one of the Young Brice Howard At- tempts to Win Favor of i Wash. St. Col. Girl PULLMAN, Wash.,, April 22. — ington State College Freshman of Fairbanks, Alaska, and former high school student of Juneau, Al- aska, against Rhode Le Cocq, & Senior, five feet ten inches, of Bel- lingham, because she refused him a date to the Junior Prom on May 1, was abruptly broken up by Budd Bankson, of Spokane, a Freshman, whose stature is more than im- | posing. | | Young Howard pitched his tent| on the lawn of the Sorority House| \of Kappa Alpha Theta, saying, “I| will stay here until she gives me' !a date even if it takes all summer.” Bankson arrived at the tent and)| ousted Howard, then squatted in; front of the tent saying, “Howard {is my buddy, but he has neither facial beauty nor physical stature; for the beautiful Miss Le Cocq. It is not fair to her, so I will take |volving 6,400 workers in nineteen | factories in the Lewiston-Auburn| Mrs. Lowe said the deep snow | area. |covered her cabin all winter and it | State Police Lieutenant George |Was necessary several times to shov-| el out the windows for light and! Party Hitched Fowler was knocked unconscious by | a stone yesterday as State and City‘air and cut steps from the front The sitdown strike staged here by Police turned back a thousand strik-|900F up to the top of the snow,| Brice Howard, 5 oot 5 inch Wash- ers at the bridgehead between the °3Ch morning. There were seven; two cities. The mob was dispersed [S!PS and each was a foot high. by stoning, clubbing and tear gas. Thg boys in the bunkhouse one Three hundred rifle-bearing Na- |92y shoveled their way to the tional Guardsmen are patrolli GRDACK." Mis. Rowe e, ‘and cities today. - g S when they had eaten they had to e |snow had fallen.” lls | Mrs. Lowe snowshoed to the train "] Bls lm come here for a visit. ARE PENDING g oot pa Is INGONGRESS " gyling Assay Office Receipts | Fiscal Year Will Be One of |house over the same course as more All Are Far from Enact-| ment with Exception of Neutrality Measure shovel their way back to the bunk-| to @mmunism [Declaration Is Made by | Speaker at DAR Conven- tion in Washington ! WASHINGTON, April 22. — Mrs. Vinton E. Sisson, of Chicago, Na- tional Defense Chairman of the Daughters of the American Revo- |lution, told the DAR convention | delegates here, that the Farmer La- | bor Party is linked with Commun- lists. She declared that members of | this illegal party are not entitled |to constitutional protection and ad- | vised women to stay clear of the or- ganization. KETCHIKAN MAN | i | COURT CHANGE NEARING END Last Testimony to Be Tak- en Tomorrow by Judi- ciary Committee | WASHINGTON, April 22.—Chair- man Henry F. Ashurst announced |teday that the Judiciary Committee {will close the hearings on the Court Bill tomorrow and begin consid- eration of the measure in an exe- cutive session Saturday, FAVOR COMPROMISE WASHINGTON, April 22.—Sen~ ator M. M. Logan, one of the first members of the Senate Judiciary | Co‘mmittee to back Roosevelt's court bill, said today he might vote to compromise on the two new Jus- tices. Even without his vote® little doubt remained but that the bill's |opponents could modify it from a | WASHINGTON, April 22, — Con~ gressional leaders agreed today that President Roosevelt’s economy plea imay force postponement of major farm legislation, including farm ten- ancy, and aids to crop insurance on eyery normal granary, because {funds would be unavailable to sup~ |port such plans. Administration officials said bus- iness pace in the next few months should show whether new taxes are |needed. They are hoping speeding (activity will increase the flow of tax revenues and remove the nec- \essity of more taxes. | Business is more than 10 percent above last year, but Secretary of ! Commerce Daniel C. Roper said it /15 still a long way from full pro- ;ducuom | ARMY SERGEANT DIES IN CRASH —————— up the strike myself.” The girl in the case is keeping out of sight. WASHINGTON, April 22—There are ten major bills, besides the ap- propriation measures, now pending most extraordinary late snows on record and similar conditions pre-! vailing throughout the interior, ice. six to a two judge measure if they| |chose. Logan is among the 18 | committee members speaking favor- TOATTEMPT TO ATINTERSEGTION INVOLVED, SUIT Largest in History, BREAK BLOCKADE Vessels Loadj with Food! for Bilbao to Run In- surgent Lines ST. JEAN DE LUZ, Spain, April 22—A defiant fleet of British food ships, under guard of British war- ships as far as the three mile lim- it, is prepared to attempt to smash the Insurgent blockade of Bilbao and take food to the near starving Basque Capital with 400,000 popula- tion. Roosevelt and Wife to Attend Funeral Rites, Late W. Forbes Morgan WASHINGTON, April 22.—Presi- dent and Mrs. Pranklin D. Roosevelt will attend the funeral service to- morrow for W. Forbes Morgan, Treasurer of the Democratic Na- tional Committee during the last campaign, and who died suddenly in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday mid- night. Good Boys Get $1,000 LOS ANGELES, Cal—A pipe and $1,000 to do with as he pleases were the rewards given Allan Gor- don, University of Southern Cali- fornia student, for keeping a prom- breaking experts, who placed dates early, are upset now as it begins to look like a late breakup. To Fly Supplies to Goodnews Bay Men and Machinery Will Also Go by Air, De- clares Culver ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 21. —Walter G. Culver announces he will use airplanes to prospect the Goodnews Bay country this sum- mer. Culver plans to carry men, sup- plies and machinery to remote sections where he will prospect. Pink Panties Purposely Put On Prisoners OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 22.—Four prisoners who attempted to escape from the Granite Re- formatory are being punished. The prisoners are required to late Frank Hoffman as Deputy|are attending burial rites in Arling- wear pink panties daily in the ro- tunda of the reformatory where they are exposed to the ridicule of their fellow prisoners. Warden Fred Hunt said the pun- guages, and nearly 200,000 mass died last year in the islands and ise to his parents not to smoke un- til he was 21 years old. ishment is more successful than meetings held to discuss the docu-|the remains were brought here for whippings. Young Howard is well known in Juneau where he formerly attend- ed the high school. His father was jagent of the old Admiral Line and |is now agent of the Alaska Steam- iship Company at Fairbanks. e — ARMY BOMBER IS DAMAGED, CRASH MARCH FIELD, Cal, April 22— Officials are investigating the crash of an $80,000 Martin army bomber, during maneuvers over Delano yes- terday. |* The two pilots were uninjured iwhen the plane’s motors cut out in taking off. The undercarriage was idamaged. i | | {Smith Endorsed for I U.S. Deputy Marshal, I Anchorage District ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 22.— —The Anchorage Democratic Club has recommended that Harvey |Smith, of Anchorage, succeed the United States Marshal. - eee Soviet Russia’s new constitution has been translatéd into 57 lan- 'ment. in Congress. Swarva Says | The major bills have to do with court reorganization, relief, neutral- /ity, Government reorganization, wage and hour regulations, hous- ing, farm tenancy, crop insurance, pure food and drugs, and anti- lynching. With the exception of the neutral- ity measure the others are far from | enactment, COAL PRICES T0 ADVANGE SEATTLE, April 22. — The Coal| Producers Association said the} .I, STOCK QUOTATIONS Washington state coal prices will| be increased soon by 50 cents a ton because of the rising labor costs. President Quezon Attends Funeral, General’s Mother WASHINGTON, April 22.—Phil- ippines’ President Manuel Quezon and the entire Insular delegation SEATTLE, April 22, — Assayer {George Swarva said the reopening of the Alaska gold fields and new diggings will make the fiscal year of 1937 one of the busiest in his- tory. Swarva said that approximately fourteen and one quarter million dollars of Alaska gold have been as- sayed by his office<since the start of the fiscal year, last July 1. The total of gold from the North- west and Alaska so far is about nineteen million- dollars, compared {to eighteen million eight hundred thousand for the entire fiscal year of 1936. e NEW YORK, April 22. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 101, American Light and Power 11%, Anaconda 57%, Bethlehem Steel 92%, Calumet and Hecla 14%,Com- monwealth and Southern 2%, Cur- tiss Wright 6%, General Motors 60, International Harvester 106%, Ken- necott 58'%, New York Central 50, Southern Pacific 59%, United States Steel 114%, United Corporation 5%, Cities Service 4, Pound $4.94%, Re- public Steel 42%, Pure Oil 21%, Holly Sugar 33%. ) ton cemetery today for Mrs. Mac- Arthur, mother of Major General Douglas MacArthur, Field Marshal of the New Philippine Army. She DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 181.70, irails 60.95, utilities 30.53. interment, Two ]udgm;; Are Asked —One for $1,485, An- other for $5,413 SEATTLE, April 22.—The Frank- lin PFire Insurance Company of Philadelphia and the Westchester Fire Insurance Company of New York has filed complaints in Fed- eral Court against James Sayle: total of nearly $6,900, alleging that ifor his fishing boat Eskimo, which collided August 31 with the can- nery tender North Star. They charge that he has since failed to prose- cute the owners of the North Star. In their efforts to collect liability, the Philadelphia company asked judgment of $1,485 and the New York firm seeks $5,413. WUEAATINY 0 e R A ALARM BRINGS LOTS OF FIREMEN BUT NO FIRE LAST EVENING Looking for a fire that wasn't a fire was the plight of the Juneau Volunteer Firemen last evening after being called to Seventh and Gold Streets by an alarm tele- phoned in at 7:20 o'clock. After searching diligently for a blaze until 7:45 o'clock, the smoke- eaters admitted themselves minus a fire and returned to their own fire- sides, Ketchikan, charging breach of con-| tract. The companies are asking a! amount was paid him as damages (ably for the two-Justice plan. Senator Hiram W. Johnson pre- sented Senate petitions against the bill signed by 10,000 persohs, saying that brought the number of such protests to 75,000, Dean L. J. Tepoel, of Creighton Law School, Omaha, was one speaker against the bill's hearing. 'FORMER MOUNTIE VACATIONING IN t Enjoying a short vacation in Ju- |neau now is E. J. Beatd, who, until \he resigned this month, had been |stationed at Whitehorse, Y. T, as la member of the Royal Canadian {Northwest Mounted Police, | Mr. Beard arrived in Juneau last Sunday aboard the PAA Electra |plane from Whitehorse. He plans |to return to the Yukon Territovy af- {ter a few more days in Juneau. ;Beyoxld intending to go back in- |side, Mr. Beard has no further !plans at present. ! Mr. Beard reported that, except |for one murder case, and the chase ;of a lunatic, the Yukon enjoyed a fairly quiet winter. Things are |picking up fast now though, he de- clared, the shipyards at Whitehorse jrunning at faster pace than for |several seasons, A heavier than lusual run of inbound miners and !prospectors through Whitehorse so far points to a very active summer, ,in his opinion. Mr. Beard is stopping in Juneau at the Gastineau Hotel. JUNEAU BRIEFLY iWas Riding Motorcycle in Advance of Fort Lewis Bound Truck Column PENDLETON, Ore., Aprij 22. — Sgt. William Nettles, 30, at Salt Lake City with the 38th Infantry Regiment, was killed at a highway intersection near here today when the motorcycle, on which he was riding in advance of a column of Army trucks, collided with an automobile driven by Bert Jerald, of Pendleton. 2 Army detachments from all over the Pacific Northwest Area are con- veiging on Fort Lewis, Washing- ton, for annual spring maneuvers, 100 FISHERMEN DIE, TYPHOON TOKYO, April 22.—More than 100 fishermen were drowned and 170 others are missing as the result of the worst typhoon around Sagha- lien Island since 1930. e NEILL TO WESTWARD The launch Chugach, Capt, Earl Jacobsen, of the U. S. Forest Serv- morning for Cordova from where she will operate during the sum= mer. Aboard was G. N. Neill, PWA auditor, who goes to Cordova and Valdez in connection with the duties of his office. ice, sailed for the Westward this.