The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1937, Page 1

THE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937. _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIX., NO. 7466. BRIT. DEFY INSURGENTS, RUN BLOCKADE —_—— AUTO WORKERS AT OSHAWA ARE VOTING TODAY Issue Is to End 16-Day Walkout Without Rec- ognition of CIO BULLETIN — Oshawa, April 23. — The General Motors of Canada strikers have voted 2205 to 36 to go back to work Mon- day, thus approving the action of the Union Stewards. Wages are increased and hours short- ened. | OSHAWA, Ontario, April 23—The | 3,700 striking workers of the Gen: eral Motors of Canada are called | upon today to vote on final ratifi- cation of the plan already approved by the Union stewards to end the sixteen dey walkout without di-| rect recognition of the Committee | of Industrial Organization. | Company officials recognize the! union but not the CIO influence. | The workers have been granted in- crease in wages and shorter hours | if they will vote to end the walk- out without CIO recognition. Peggy’s Back Peggy Hopkins Joyce That often-married Peggy Hop- kins Joyce returns to New York from Europe still wearing band- RIOT BREAKS OUT IN STRIKE . BOUND PLANT {Deputies Fire Into Crowd —Fifty Persons Injured —Truce Declared STOCKTON, Cal., April 23. — Fifty persons, including several wo- men, were injured, and five men seriously hurt, when deputies fired directly into a crowd in a violent outbreak at the opening of a strike- bound cannery here today. Benjamin Metcalf, 28, was hit in the face with buckshot and may lose an eye. T. C. Lauritzen, 55, lost the sight of one eye. Shots were fired, and tear gas bombs burst among the shouting crowd as they hurled rocks at pick- ets who attempted to overturn a truck of spinach being taken to the cannery. Fourteen persons were taken to the emergency hospital. Finally pickets were called off by |J. C. Fitzgerald, Labor Council executive, who told them to return | to headquarters, announcing a truce | between the two factions. ———.—.——— 'Gold Rush Days SEATTLE, April 23.—The Seattle Chamber of Commerce already has 130 reservations for the Alaska 1Good Will tour leaving here on | June 5 and returning June 20. This announcement was made at the ' DIVORGE FROM J. BARRYMORE {Fourth Marriage of Movie | Actor Lasted Only Five Months LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 23. — Elaine Barrie, 21, won a divorce to- day from fifty-five year old John Barrymore. The brief trial, in which only Miss Barrie and her mother, Mrs. Edna |Jacobs testified, marked the end of |Barrymore’s fourth marriage union |lasting only a little over five months. Judge Walter Gates in granting |the decree said: “I certainly think i the plaintiff is entitled to a divorce, | which T grant, and better luck next time.” 130 Already Sig Good Will Tour to Alaska DIE TGGETHERs ELAINE GETS LONGSHOREMEN SETTLE STRIKE, & &5 e Neither Barrymore nor his coun- sel were in court. Will Be Revived | ATI_AN":IE cu AST‘ Jand In which her fiance, Vivian Jackson, was killed and she seri- | ously injured when the horse ran Successful Conference Re- sults in Releasing of [ away. Oceanbound Ships ALASKAN WANTS LTI S TYING HER UP al Longshoremen’s Association, an-' nounced this morning a settlement i | has been reached by the longshore- | men against the Cunard, White' ¥ 4 Star, Furuness and Withy steam- Mar[in Shsco, of Wlseman,‘ ship lines. 1 4 - ’I")hc agreement followed a conrer-! Havmg Hard Tlme to i Get Mate Into U.S. ence with the National Independem| Longshoremen’s Union of Canada which has been granted an ILA! SEATTLE, April 23.—Martin Slis- charter. |co, 47, Wiseman, Alaska, roadhouse| The strike was called yesterday proprietar, is ‘here assembling more and tied up many steamships, prin- affidavits to prove his financial sta- cipally on the Atlantic and the!tys, route to the Bermudas. Several ves-{ He is preparing to fly to Wash-| sels were those booked full with ington where he hopes to finally Coronation passengers. unwind diplomatic red tape which} |keeps his bride in Dalmatia, a port | decided to go back home. The Wise- Ex P END'T"RES to Wiseman!” | “ —_— | I went to the — | ot Jugo-Slavia on the Adriatic. | “The old folks at Split wanted to see me again before they die,” Mr,: Iman folks warned me at a party: :‘Martin, if you come back without 18¢ Back home, within ten minutes |an.er I set my eyes on Pera Kirka,| Ten Per Cent Flat Slash Is 22 wit Ad d b Se |1 decided on her. 'vance: y n- American Consul at Zagreb and’ cuT MA DE !N “Slisco explained, “so last winter I| {fetching a bride, don't come back/ with her pretty little round face,| ator Byrnes WASHINGTON, April 23,—Sena-| tor James F. Byrnes claimed strong support for his proposal to a flat ten percent cut of all 1938 ap- propriations and said he had found “lots of sentiment” favorable toward | it among members of the Senate appropriations committee. Senator Byrnes, long time Ad-| ministration spokesman on fiscal! affairs, estimated his plan would | slice four hundred million dollars| off the 1938 budget. | Roosevelt'’s revised budget esti-| mates would leave a $418,000,000 de- ficit. |that’s where the trouble began. He| |says I got to show proof I can sup-{ rt her. I told him my Alaska standing, and he said, that won't 0; I must bring back references. “Back in the States, I worked 20 days in Washington trying to straighten it all out, then finally came here to get affidavits from wholesale houses and banks. I've sent them to Washington, and they will be sent to that Zagreb consul. Maybe tomorrow I'll go to Wash~ ington again and‘'maybe Pera and 1 will return to Alaska in May. “She wrote me a letter ‘I belong to black soil if I don’t come to you, she said, which means she will die of a broken heart.” at Seattle Event wEALTHY MAN &m€}§§i°§afii e 1S SLAIN; BODY g o FOUND, GARAGE of the $1440000 improved water-| Possible to Have front now called Alaska Way. T . aken Own Life Capt. A. J. Goddard, well-known | Alaskan and Seattle pioneer, will . WALLA WALLA, Wash., April 23. eers have heen asked to appear in —Frank Dooley, 46, a wealthy far- SEATTLE, April 23.—The Alaska gold rush days will be revived some- be in charge of affairs and the pion- | all of the pionener garb muster- mer and member of a pioneer fam- | able. |ily, was found dead yesterday in a b o i |garage on the Marvin Evan’s ranch, . seven miles northeast of here. INvEsT'GATE | Bullets, fired at close range from a .38 calibre revolver had entered Four Other Members of the temple and chest. | Deputy District Attorney E. W. Doukhobor Colony Are Seriously Ill | King said none of them could have been self-inflicted. There are no clues. Dooley had been dead several NELSON, B. C., April 23.—Offi- cers are investigating the myster- ious deaths of two Doukhobors and the serious illness of four others. dicted only 35 to 40 percent increase may have been poisoned. hours when found after failing to iappear at home. He owned a |ranch .at Prescott but farmed the Evans place and had gone there ‘Wednesday night. ————————— Shirley Temple {Is Eight Years Old; {To Give Party HOLLYWOOD, Cal., April 23— Qucen’s Attendant DENTIST, GIRL ned Up for |regular luncheon yesterday which was attended by Mrs. Nell Scott, of Seldovia, and Dan L. Green, of An- chorage, both members of the Al- aska Territorial Legislature which |recently concluded sessions at Ju- |neau SUICIDE PACT Tragedy Revealed by Find- ing Bodies on Isolated Road Near Seattle RENTON, Wash,, April 23.—Dr.| William Holland, dentist of the Ta- coma Cushman Hospital, Indian in- stitution, and Miss Marion Mc- | Gillivrary, of Spokant, Wash., died in a suicide pact in Holland's au- tomobile, off an isolated road be- tween here and Issaquah, early to- |day. This is the announcement {made by Police Chief Vincent |Stewart and deputy coroners who! |found the bodies after being tipped {off that a mysterious tragedy had | developed. Dr. Holland had practiced in |Renton until four months ago when |he became associated with the Ta- BATTLE FLEET | DEPLOYING FOR KTTACK HAWAI Little Division® in Alaskan Waters Studying Navi- gation Problems ABOARD U. S. S. PENNSYL- VANIA, Auril 23. — The United Btates Battle Fleet deployed today coma General Hospital. preparing to attack Hawaii in the| Dr. Holland’s wife is noy in Los most extensive maneuvers in his-|Angeles, friends said. [tory. The girl left a note addrened to An army of 20,000 men, defend- her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Mc- €fs, supplemented by planes, sub- Gillivrary, saying: rines and mine layers, awaited| ‘“Dear folks, I am sorry I had to m warships and more than 400 do this but we were in love.” fighting planes. An empty bottle of poison was Oahu Island is expected to bear found in the car. the brunt of the attack. | The U. S. S. New Mexico, two TRAGEDY IS SHOCK cruisers and four destroyers are in| SPOKANE, Wash, April 23— L ——— One of those honored by being selected to carry the train of Queen Elizabeth at her corona- tion is beautiful Lady Elizabeth Paget, daughter of the Marquia of Anglesey. crews to study unique navigation!cide, Mr. McGillivrary, father of ~ SR problems. This Alaska fleet will the girl, said: SITKA NAVAL days. |Marion last week. She seemed to e be so happy. She mentioned Dr. ————— VIOLET NORTON i | Father Divinels . BE REPAIRED ] . " bilic i | IN GABLE CASE Placed m Ja"y Twenty-seven Men Coming | - - Assault Charge ™+ wouhs Work |Final Phase of Mail Fraud w | BREMERTON, Wash., April 23.— L. A. Court | 3 Yard and PWA employees are leav- | groes ,Sm,ge Demon ing within the next two weeks for LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 23.—| stration in Harlem H in completing repairs to the Japon- |vinced that Clark Gable is the fa- NEW YORK, April 23. — Father ski Island Naval Radio Station. ther of her illegitimate 13-year old Divine, negro who claims to be a Alaska waters today enabling the When informed of the double sui- |rejoin the main body within a few “We had a beautiful letter from Holland. This is an awful shock.”| STATIUN w‘LL "GOES ON STAND ‘ North from Bremerton Allegation Staged in | Milli ! egation Jtaged in ‘Hundreds of M‘llmg Ne— Twenty seven Puget Sound Navy Sitka, Alaska, for four months work Mrs, Violet Wells Norton, still con- Lieut. W. Sthler, Chief of the daughter, returned to the stand to-,God to thousands of fallowers, most- Navy ‘Yard Power and Transporta- |day in the final phase of her mail ly negroes, is in jail today on a tion Section, who will be in charge, fraud conspiracy trial. charge of felonious assault. He is sailed with his wife last Tuesday | Mrs. Norton is charged with hav- accused of beating a white man aboard the steamer Northwestern, ing sought support from Gable, last Monday night who was at- bound for Sitka. asserting he won her, body and soul, tempting to serve a summons on Fifteen men are going north on in England 'in 1922. She has since him at “Heaven Number One.” | the tender Swallow and others are married. | Gable witnesses testified that in of milling negroes outside the jail to Southeast Alaska. )1922 he was working in Oregon where Divine is confined. —————————— logging camps, Divine claims to be omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. B u I I. D I N G IN B U G NATION SHOWS | ) Be Used in ‘Golden 3 BATTAGLIA SUBS Harlem police watched hundreds sailing May 8 on a regular steamer | At one time last month Silsco thought he had straightened the matter out, but new red tape de- veloped. Ketchiim tu_l_iEMarried MOUNT VERNON, Wash., April 3.—A marriage license has been issued here to Wesley Fulk, of Ket- |chikan, Alaska, to Frieda Jacombs, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 23.|of East Stanwood. —Donald Richberg, former NRA — i head, charges that the Southern SOUTH NAKNEK P. M. Pacific Railway is fostering a type of company unionism. The Fed-! Appointment of William B. Re- eral Mediation Board is conducting|8an as postmaster at the newly es- CLAIMS S0, PAC, FOSTERS UNION OF OWN ORDER Donald Richberg Makes Charges—Mediation Board Hearings There has been plenty of trouble with the Doukhohers lately, espec- ially since several schools and a community hall were destroyed by fires. DUO OF ROOFS ALIGHT PUT -FIREMEN TO WORK Two tiny roof blazes called the Juneau Fire Department out for two calls of about ten minutes each this morning. The first call was sounded at 8:35 o'clock this morning from the residence of J. McMichaelson on Willoughby Avenue, below the Sea- view Apartments, The alarm was sent in by Mrs. McMichaelson when! a spark from her chimney ignited the dry shingles of the roof. Dam- ages amounted to little more than a couple of shingles. A spark from a chimney also |idence of Ernie Robinson, at Elev- enth and C Street. Mrs. Robinson called out the fire truck to quench the blaze at 10 o'clock this fore- noon, and the fire was extinguished with but very little more damage than resulted from the earlier fire. e - — Spooners Victims SEMINOLE, Okla. -— Seminole authorities have warned “spooners” than laws against parking without lights on country highways will be 1 lighted the second roof, on the res-! Shirley Temple Is eight years old today but public observance is scheduled for tomorrow when she| entertains 175 children at a studio party. Miss Shirley was the movie num- ber one box office attraction last year. ODD FELLOWS WILL MARK ANNIVERSARY AT NEXT MEETING Members of the local branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows have named Thursday evening, April 29, as the date for the cele- bration of the founding of the Odd Fellows lodge in America. The anniversary, which falls on April 26, is to be observed here on April 29 instead, in order to com- bine activities with the regular meeting night of the local chapter. Regular business marked the meeting of the organization last night, with Gus Gustafson, Noble Grand, presiding. The initiation of James Effler, scheduled for last night, has been postponed. i | —Gold from the famed Mother Lode | country will be made into the golden rivet which will be driven into the |Golden Gate Bridge next Tuesday at the dedication of the new struc- ture, General Chairman Arthur Brown announced today. DEMONSTRATION TO . BE PRESENTED BY MRS. V. CRONE SOON Mrs. Vena L. Crone, who returned this week from a two months’ trip to Southeast Alaska ports, is to give a cooking. demonstration on | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 23.| FUR GVER I_I N IN STEELE TUSSLE Fight Set for Seattle, May 11 — Winnipeg Battler One of Four in Line SEATTLE, April 23.—Frank Bat- |taglia, Winnepeg Italian, will be | Preddie Steele's opponent in the [title bout here May 11, Promoter |Nate Druxman announced this| | morning. Battaglia will replace Ken Overlin, whose shot at the Champ- ion on May 4 was cancelled when BIG INCREASE Construction Is Fifty Per Cent Higher than Same Period, Last Year NEW YORK, April 23.—Resi- dential building throughout the na- tion is 50 percent above last year, laccording to an official report made today. Builders’ . statisticians had pre- dicted that 35 to 40 percent increase in building but authentic reports show a higher increase. Building operations during the first three months of this year to- Thursday -afternoon, April 29, and| o . poco, / 4 | me ill. a repeat demonstration Friday, Ap-| Battaglia, with his manager Ernie ril 30 at 7:30 p. m. g | Gleigel, will arrive here Sunday. The | The demonstrations will be heldgwmem fighter is one of four |in the Northern Light Presbyterian g o "gyoeiers manager, Dave Mil- Church and ire presented Mocer|ler, had agreed that the Titlenolder nm:’ o n‘;m et ¢ the Territorial|SDoUld meet. The other three against) NEW YORK, April 23. — Closing Schnolsp e ol (whom Steele was slated to defend |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine '__._"; g 'his crown were Lou Brouilliard, |stock today is 13'2, American Can ; | Teddy Yarosz, and Allen Mathews.|100, American Light and Power 11, Ti'\la principality of Lwcmezsle'iznw IAnnmnda 55%, Bethlehem Steel |on the upper Rhine between Switz- b 89%, Calumet and Hecla 14%, Com- fifi;:d e Agra. st L Duke of Windsor monwealth and Southern 2%, Cur- T n en Island. Its g tiss Wright 6%, General Motors | ? |is 65 square miles. Wants Published 58%, International Harvester 106% Book Withdrawn|xennecott 57%, New York Central taled a quarter of a million dollars. - e =t I i STOCK QUOTATIONS ! United States Senator ‘ Threatened with Death P, Wi, wid ve m de s 487, Southern Pacific 58%, United LONDON, April 23.—Attorney A.|States Steel 111, United Corpora- [ r G. Allen, representative of the|tion 5%, Cities Service 3%, Pound Republic Steel 407, Pure Holly Sugar 33%. of the widely selling book “Coro- DOW, JONES AVERAGES hearings secking to avoid a strike | tablished post office of South Nak-[rigidly enforced from now on. WASHINGTON, April 23.—Guards from an unidentified would-be as-|hation Commentary” because of of 8500 members of two Raillroad Brotherhoods and Richberg made his charges at one of the sessions. [ nek, Alaska, was announced by the The officers said the order was continue to patrol the Senate gal- Post Office Department on April 8. issued in- an effort to cut down leries to protect Senator Harry S. traffic accidents. |Truman, Democrat of Missouri assin. The unknown person, in a let-|chapters dealing with the reign and| The following are today’s Dow, [tzr, has threatened to take the life abdication of former King Edward,|Jones averages: industrials 17854, |of the Missourian, criticising him. rails 60.24, utilities 3017, REBEL THREAT GIVEN ANSWER BY WARSHIPS Call to Hal—t-;r Be Sunk Quickly Brings Navy Ships on Rush FOOD SUPPLIES ARE LANDED, BILBAO PORT Three Vess;E Under Es- cort to 3-Mile Limit, Evade Gauntlet BILBAO, Spain, April 23.— Three British food ships, the MacGregor, Hamsterley and Stanbrook, broke through the Insurgent blockade on the Bay of Biscay, ran the gauntlet of Insurgent fire, and landed desperately needed supplies at this Basque capital. The battleship Hood, larg- est of the British battle fleet, escorted the ships on the high seas, Observers said the supplies will enable the Loyalist troops to stiffen the resistance against the Insurgent at- |tempts to capture Bilbao. Many residents have been without food for many days. British naval ships and Loyalist shore batteries pro- tect the ships. The skipper of the Ham- sterley said his arrival had been halted by the Insurgent cruiser Almirante Cervera which sent a shot across his ibows then radioed the terse message: “We shall sink you if you don’t halt.” The skipper quickly radioed the battleship Hood, the world’s largest warship, and the Hood and a flotilla of de- stroyers immediately steam- ed to the rescue and escorted (the Hamsterley and the two !other food supply ships to the three mile limit. Arrival of the supply ships |{in the harbor of Bilbao was | quickly followed by six Insur- gent air raids and Govern- ment and Insurgent pilots en- gaged in battles over the Basque capital. SEEK TO PURGE AFL OF LEADERS, G10 MOVEMENT Green Summons High Com- mand to Cincinnati for Final Action WASHINGTON, April 23.—Presi- dent Willlam Green, of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, has sum- moned the Federation’s High Com- mand to meet in Cincinnati on May 18 to “marshal forces of labor of America” in removing the last chance for recognition of John L. Lewis and his Committee of In- dustrial Organization. It is planned to purge all Amer- ican Federation of Labor units of |CIO leaders. Many supporters of Lewis now remain on the AFL sus- pended lists, COLONIST DIES; WIDOW IS 20 PALMER, Alaska, April 23.—Mar-~ tin Novak, 24, colonist, died yes- terday morning as the result of an attack of the heart. He is survived by his widow, aged 20. The couple was married exactly a year to a day before his death,