The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIX., NO. 7467. BRITISH FOODS GIVE HEART TO HUNGRYBASQUES | Three More British Ships on Way to Run Insurgent Blockade of Bilbao MADRID BOMBARDMENT HALTS AFTER 12 DAYS Civil Rule lgt_ored in Be- leaguered Spanish Capital | After Nine Months | LA ROCHELLE. Flunce, April 24. Three more British cargo ships, he Thorphall, Stesso and Thul’fllbll.‘} 1ave left here to attempt to run the | Insurgent blockade into besiegsd{ Jilbao with supplies. SEND FOOD TO FRONT BILBAO, Spain, April 24. — The! anish Basque Government shing food to its hungry defend- with the mounting hope that supplies brought by the British ‘kade will this| ital city’s capitulation to Gen-‘ Mola’s fierce insurgent ofiens-i is runners avert Dolores Harfer, for their wedding in June. children of wealthy CIVIL RULE RESTORED MADRID, April 24.—Civil rule |~ been restored in Spain’s Capital r nine months of martial law. eral Miaja, military dictator, has 1 deprived of his civil powers instructed to devote all his time | {ighting the enemy. 3lack clouds have stopped the; ious twelve-day bombardment of | s city, by the rebel forces. | | i | ELEMENTS KILL N SOUTHLAND, - RUIN PROPERTY " TO DISCUSS SPAIN ROME, Italy, April 24—Officials wve announced that Spain will bv:‘ ie of the subjects about which Hit- | r's right hand General Goering,| nd Premier Mussolini will talk at 1e conference here Monday. { | BENTON, Arkansas, April 4 | Tornadic winds, lightning and hail ARG PLANNING (has left two dead, more than a yre injured and property damage !running into the thousands of dol- Lus in widely separated sections in May Construct Iliamna Road to Link Cook Inlet with Bering Sea ‘lh(‘ South. Herman Zinn, 50, of Benton, a farmer, was killed when a tornado |demolished his house. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 24—/ Road Commission officials yester- day flew over the route of the Il- iamna portage, from Iliamna Bay| to Iliamna Lake, with the view of! constructing, a road to permit trav- el across the southern Alaska Pen- insula to Bristol Bay. A $450,000 bridge includes a part| Far Refused of the program to open the way to Smin travel down Iliamna Lake and the! WASHINGTON, April 24 —Secre- Kvichak River to Bering Sea. Itary Perkins has asked—thus far in The project would greatly shonen‘vmnAfor funds to help provide a the route now necessary for many permanent but not too large ;upp]y days of travel by boat around the of young plumbers and other ap- southern tip of the Alaska Penin-|prentices in the mechanical trades. sula, to go from ports on Cook Inlet! To cope with the shortage of ap- to Bering Sea. prentices caused by employ —_——————— failure to take on young worke: Z in the depression, the labor secre- se"‘ers AI]I]"WB tary wants to take over Packers’ Prices prentice training section of thee Na- tional Youth Administration and make of it a permanent part of the |labor department. Congress, however, has said “no” for the time being. BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 24 —The Salmon Purse Seiners Union of the Pacific has approved the proposal of the packers which calls for a 25 percent increase over thel prices of last year for pinks and| and Hail Sweep Var- ious Sections J. H. Howard, of Gullman, Ala- bama, a farmer, was killed by light- {ning, bringing Alabama’s April storm death toll to a total of 11. e SEEKS TRAINING OF APPRENTICES Secretary of { Labor Perl(ms Makes Request—So ———-———— Frederic March to Visit Wash. ABERDEEN, W"lsh April 24. Frederic March, of the movies, i coming here during the summer for a visit, according to his brother-in- law, George Ripley. ———e —— Seattle Times to ] — e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 24. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 99, American Light and Power 10%, Anaconda 55%, Bethlehem Steel cratic Naticnal Cemmittee, whe has Iar]{v mining s Tornadlc Wmds, ngh!nmg Thirty others were injured here.| the mp-| | | | “ALL THE NI',W CRIPPLED FORD| § ASSEMBLYPLANT Sitdowners to Return to Work Monday with Ad- justment Appearing WALKOUT LOOMS FOR FISHER BODY PLANT Oakland Unit May Be Clos-| ed Over Discharge of Union Organizer Ca | RICHMOND, With a quick adjustment of diffl- culties seeming certain, six hun-! dred striking United Automobile | Workers vacated Henry Ford's huge! | assembly plant here today, and | qumpnn_\ guards immediately begun! | | April 24, Stroiling through a Reno, Nev., park, Robert Pierre Raskob and pretty Reno office clerk, are pictured as they The prospective groom is one of the twelve John J. Raskeb, former chairman of the Demo- discussed Mlans interests ‘'n Nevada. SEEKING PEACE IN GAL, STRIKE; GOVERNOR ACTS Cdnner Labm Replesen— tatives Are Meehm_, with Good Results | STOCKTON, C: April 24—The center of the cannery strike moved from the field, scene of yesterday's rioting where 50 clubbed and gassed, bloody were shot, peace meetings in the ftice of Gov. Frank F. Merriam, | miles away The conference with canners and labor representatives, headed by {the Governor, broke up early in the day and all indicaticns pointed to a tentative agreement as the fac- num, issued a joint statement de-, (‘lmmg they were “not far from a| |satisfactory solution.” ! 1 Me.m“h:l» doctors battled to save ife of John Drake, 22, whose lefl eye was destroyed by a shotgun blast, and a man named Monroe, whose legs were mangled by - charge of buckshot. Both are in critical l())\dlmm DUKE'S PROTEST MIDING SALE OF 0BJECTED BOOK . Edition Sellmg Like “Hot, Cakes,” London Deal- ers . Report persons to Sacramento 30 a | LONDON, April 24—The Duke | Windsor's threatened legal acuon ;)Lstmday against the publishers of the book “Coronation Commentar: |caused it to “sell like hotcakes.” Booksellers filled their windows| with copies and were hard-pressed to fill further demands of custom- |ers for copies. Publishers discussed with the| Duke’s attorneys for 48 hours and roac hed the final ultimatum to mlhdmw it. 1 | i | | TRUCE - STAVES OFF WALKOUT - [ {downers left the vicinity after theird ibrief occupation of the premises. | PFrank Sla president of the |UAWA local, said the men would ;mtum to work at the erippled plant | ‘MnndA pending adjustment, The strike was called in protest | of alleged discrimination against| |a dozen men, whom Slaby later| stated had been only “transferred to | |another department during a rush Ito complete an order for two thous | xancl !ruck\ for the Japanese gov-‘ president of the sure of getting an understanding with the Ford Company,” but add- ‘ed, however, that there might be a |strike called at the Fisher body plant, at Oakland, because of the Frn nk Slaby, discharge of Fred Whobery, alleg- Predicts N enang Ice. Bréak to Occur Forenoon Mavy 11 IS NOW BEFURE edly for union activities. Union officials said that twelve hundred men had answered the cell !which™ halted all dctivity at ‘the Ford assembly plant. Plant Man- ager C. A. Bullwinkle did not com- !ment on the situation - Sitdowners Are Baffled | theather‘ Freshmen Seeking Date! with Girl Fold Up Tent and Steal Away PULLMAN, Wash., April 24 Rain, snow, hail, stubborness and “the girl” all conspired to end the Washington State College two-man sitdown strike for love, as the ele- ments played tridks in attempting to dampen the ardor of their af- fections for Robert Le Cocq, Bel- |lingham, who remained adarant. Brice Howard, of Fairbanks, Al- aska, original sitdowner and Budd Bankson, Spokane, both frosh, de- cided “the strike wouldn't do any-| one any good anyhow,” so struck their tent and “stole off into the mght Lu decide the matter by | | | The losex gets one dance with Rhoeda at the Junior Prom while the winner geLs—nof.hmg LOWLY ONION MAY BE HELP LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 24— "1 The lowly cnion may prove import- ant in combatting diseases such as pneumonia. leprosy, diphtheria and tuberculosis, according to two Uni- versity of Southern California scientists. Dr. Carl C. Lindegren and Dr.| Richard E. Vollrath have just suc- ceeded in isclating the chemicals responsible for the vapors in garlic and onions. They are now conducL-' ing experiments on laboratory ani-| mals in an effort to discover the effect these chemicals have on| germs causing some of the more dread diseases. | The results of their experiments prove whether or not there is! 887, Calumet and Hecla 14%, Gom- monweelth and Southern 2%, Cur- tiss Wright 6}, General Motors 58'%, International Harvester 106, Kennecott 567%, New York Central 48%, Southern Pacific 57'2, United States Steel 110%, United Corpora- tion 5%, Cities Service 37, Pound $4.93 1/16, Republic Steel 40%, Pure il 21, Holly Sugar 33. Have Speed Presses| SEATTLE, April 24—The Seattle Daily Times announces. installation | of a new $250,000 double octuple battery high speed anti-friction press which will turn out 1,000 papers a minute against the present capacity of 40,000 an hour, nny scientific basis to the theory| NEW YORK, April 24.—A 48-hour|aqvanyed by the ancient Egyptians |truce was agreed upon at 11:45 0'-|yhich held that garlic and onions| |clock this forenoon, 15 minutes be- possessed chemical properties. fore 25,000 members of the Brother-{ B hood of Railway and Sv.eaxnsmp‘ The uld fashnoned grain sprout- Clerks and freight handlers and ers to produce fresh green feed for| station employees in the metropoli- poultry and other livestock during tan area threatened to walk out!the winter are still being used ex- |for higher wages and better hous:. tensively in the United States. S HI THE TIME” \PRIL 24, 1937 te patrol the plant as, shouting and | {honking automobile horns, the sit-{ Can the phenomenally growing Automobile Work- ers’ Union of America organize Henry Ford despite his determined stand to have An answer to this rital question may be !orthcoming in the near ru- Ford has stated he ‘“never wili recognize' the union, but John L. Lewln head of the C. L O, no dealings with the union? ture. Son, Naturalized American, Faces Headsman Axe BERLIN, /\prll 24.—Helmuth Hirsch, young German, son of a naturalized American, told the United States Consular author- ities, who saw him in prison, that he thought he had no hope of escaping the headsman axe for an alleged act in volving an attempt on the life of Chancel- los Hitler. Hirsch has been sentenced to die. SEN. BACHMAN PASSES AWAY Successor to Cordell Hull, from Tennessee, Dies in Washington WASHINGTON, April 24—Unit- ed States Senator Nathan L. Bach- man, 53, of Tennes: appointed to his office in 1933 to succeed Cordell Hull when lat- er was appointed Secretary ol State, is dead here, have expired in 1943 - APPROPRIATION e, who the SLASH PROPOSAL GAINS SUPPORT Efforts AlsoT;Be Made to| Cut President’s Re- lief Prot_,lam WAbHIN(xTUN April 24.—Pro- posals to slash all Federal appro- | priations 10 per cent and also slice to half a billion dollars esident Roosevelt’s relief estimates, gained fresh support of the Senate Ap- propriations Committee A majority oi the commitieemen .snld they would accept such fixed |ten foreign countries, 'horizontal cut if it proves the only way of balancing the Budgct. Sen- iator McKellar said he has prepared| | legislation posal. to carry out the pro- was | v His term would | STRIKERS LEAVE Can Umon Conquer Ford Indusmal Empxre” has been equally emphatic in his declaration that the last of the automobile industry's “big three” will be “conguered”. Indications are that the union will start its drive to organize Ford by unionizing “feeder” plants and gradually work toward the huge River Rouge plant empl ying nearly 100,000 men., the employes of AVLHORAGE Aln~kfl April 24— Oscar Neilsen, amateur astronomer and professional blacksmith on the Alaska Railroad, who won the Ne- nana ice pool last year, announced today that the ice would break May 11 at 11:01 a. m, Neilsen said he figured the plan- et Mercury had great bearing on the ice date, but just to be safe, Neilsen’s partner, Blondie Miller,| co-winner last year with Neilsen,| < covered all minutes from 11:01 a.|SWrvey of the closely divided Senate m. to 11:01 p. m. Neilsen said he|Judiciary committee disclosed ad- believed things worked in cycles, _|Ministration supporters must com- While outside recently, enfoying|Promise in order to win preliminary {his last year's winnings, Neilsen approval of the Court Reorganiza- |conferred ~ with scientists, hence |tion bill. ithey are all watching with interesy| Nine Senators, half the commit- [to see the results of his calcula-|U6€'S Mmembership, said they would | tions. |vote against the measure as it ‘ iR e & |stands, although not all would be quoled by name. Others were non- M“der" cfled i(omm\twl Chairman Henry F. | Ashurst and one or two other ad- | vocates are ready to vote against Survey Shows |seven weeks' hearings yesterday, {goes into secret sessions next Tues- iday to begin voting on the bill or URBANA, the University of Illinois probed |into the ¢ acteristics and pn- its various mmpmmisos R vate lives of freshmen, this is what , was leEdled 136 per cent, of the women have blue | ’ \eyes and brown r. Brown eyes UNDER ARHEST rank second. Only six per cent of the co-eds are blonde. | Watsonville, California, Boy Must Face Charges, Sixty-four women smoked their| {first cigarette between the ages of Federal Court 10 and 15 years; eight men smoked theirs before they were 10. More men than women said | they slept at least ten consecutive| hours a night. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 24. |—Spencer Kirkland, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Kirkland, of Wat- {sonville, has been ordered before a Federal Commissioner for hearing lon a charge of attempted extortion | under the Lindbergh Law. The charge is in connection with leiters written to Dr. Harry Watters ,of Watsonville. Musm Festwal Opens, Ketchikan SEN. COMMITTEE Hearings Are Ended—Se- cret Sessions Are to Begin Next Tuesday WASHINGTON, April 24.—4 new IH., Aplll ..4-—thn and | | o~ { 19 STATES T0 CHANGE TIME 2 AM. SUNDAY |Parts of Canada to /\lso Adopt Daylight Sav- ing Tomorrow NEW YORK April 24—Daylight | |saving time starts tomorrow in 19! states and parts of Canada, also] KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 24.— The change Nearly 50 students and teachers 2 o'colck Sunday of Juneau and Petersburg joined 65 |Ketchikan students last evening in they will presenting the Southeast Alaska Festival. Another program is being given tonight. ,Lake place at morning Railroads announced |not change from their established)Music | schedule time however. _COURT PROGRAM IMRS. NORTON CONVICTED OF MAIL FRAUDS Fails to Prove Clark Gable Father of Her Illegiti- mate Daughter JURY DELIBERATES ONLY SHORT TIME Woman Now Faces Sen- tence of Five Years in Prison—FightingMad LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 2¢. — Convicted of fraudulent use of the mails and facing a five year prison sentence, Mrs. Violet Wells Norton nevertheless persisted in her as- sertion that Clark Gable is the father of her illegitimate 13-year- old daughter, Gwendolyn. “She hasn't the slightest doubt of it and what happened in the court room hasn't shaken her belief in the least,” her attorney said. Mrs. Norton is accused of mis- use of the mails and conspiracy. She claimed to have known Gable in England in 1923 as Frank Bill- ings. She wrote Gable, Mae West and other Hollywood actresses, tell- ing them this story and demanding that Gable support her child. A jury of middle-aged business men deliberated one hour and forty-five minutes, finding her guilty. From the studio Gable said: *“I was an only witness in the case and had nothing to do with the details. It is unfortunate she has to come to grief in this manner.” SEEKS PROBATION LOS ANGELES, April 24.—Attor- ney Morris Lavine sald today . he would petitfon for the probation of Mrs, Norton, “so that she can leave the country to return to her Cana- dian home, however, she is in a bel- ligerant mood and wants to fight the conviction.” He said she should have changed her story after seeing Gable in court as she admitted to- day she was honestly mistaken in thinking he was Frank Billings. Frank Smith, investigator and co= defendent, was exonerated of con- spiracy in the case and was freed yesterday. e —— INVADING FLEET GAINS FOOTHOLD, HAWANIAN ISLES Honolulu Residents Take Navy Maneuvers Serious- ly—Watch for Attack HONOLULU, H. I, April 24 — Taking the war games of the Unit- ed States Battle Fleet seriously, residents of this city gazed skyward today, awaiting the swarms of planes expeoted to attack the Is- land of Oahu, with its prizes, the Pearl Harbor Naval Base and the City of Honolulu. The attack was expected today from the Island of Hawaii, cap- tured yesterday by the “enemy,” to give the invading forces possession of its land airbases of great stra- tegic importance. The City of Hilo, with its twenty thousand population, located two hundred miles from here, was the- oretically reduced to shambles by the warship attack, e HONORS FOR MRS. QUEZON DETROIT, Michrgan, April 24.— Mrs. Manuel Quezon, wife of the President of the Philippine Islands, will recveive an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Marygrove College when she and her husband visits here tomorrow as the guests of Gov. Frank Murphy. The Gov- ernor is a former United States' High Commissioner of the Philip- pines. - e —— MISS TIBER RETURNS Miss Bertha Tiber, Supervisor of Nurses for the Indian Office in Al- aska, returned to her Juneau head- quarters last night by plane from Ketchikan after a trip to Southeasc Alaska points in connection with the )duties of her office.