The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 26, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XLIX., NO. 7468. JUNEAU, ALASKA MONDAY, \PRILVZ(v 1937, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRE.SS PENSION ACT DECISION TO BE MADE SOON Old Age Prowsnons of Fed- eral Legislation to Be Taken Up,High Court UNEMPLOYMENT INS. IS ALSO TO BE REVIEWED Important Verdicts Are Ex- pected to Be Returned —Maybe Next Week | ' WASHINGTON, April 26. — The announcement was made today that | the Supreme Court has agreed to review the test case to determine the constitutionality of the Old Age | Pension provisions of the Federal, Social Security Act. ‘ The Supreme Court postponed a | decision today, at least until next Monday, on the validity of the un- employment insurance provisions of the Federal Act and also supple- mentary legislation passed by var- fous states. Some observers expressed the opinion the tribunal hold up a de- cision on the unemployment insur- ance case until after arguments on the Old Age pension litigation so that both may be decided at the same time. COURT PROGRAM COMPROMISE IS INDICATED Now, Administration Leaders May Agree to Four, | Not Six Justices | | WASHINGTON, April 26—Sen-| ators, declinmg to be quoted, said the Administration spokesmen have| discussed compromising the court| dispute by authorizing four Jus—1 tices instead of six but have turned down suggestions for only’ two ad-| ditional Justices. i An agreement is remote on the| eve of the Senate Judiciary Com-/ mittee’s first executive session. e, 1 | Death Receives | Guests at N. Y. | Cocktail Party Hostess, BeaTtiful Actress, | Bride of One Month, | Found a Suicide NEW YORK, April 26. — Amid| preparations for an elaborate cock- tail party for 35 guests, Mrs. Helen! Mont, beautiful 25-year-old actress, bride of one month, was found dead Saturday evening with a gas tube in her mouth, in her sump- tious Park Avenue Apartment, as the guests arrived. Mrs. Mont was clad only in a slip, silk stockings and slippers. SheK lay on the kitchen floor, tube con- nected with a stove burner. The police listed her death as sm- cide. | FRANK DOOLEY LAID TO REST Wealthy Fa;;::r Is Slain— Officers Admit They Have No Clues WALLA WALLA, Wash., April 26. —Funeral services ate being held here today for Frank A. Dooley, wealthy wheat farmer, who was found shot to death on a nearby farm last Thursday. Officers admitted they do not have any clues as to the identity of the slayer. ., The Irish Free State includes three southern provinces of Ireland — Leinster, Munster and Connaught —and three counties, Cavan, Done- gal and Monaghan of the Province of Ulster. Y {consider the Harrison Black Edu- Forty Thousand _ |coronation on May 12. FROM AR(‘TIC TO DF,SFRT Dr. Henry W. Greist, famous medical missionary who retired re- cently from his post at Point Barrow, Alaska, and his wife found the desert at Tucson, Ariz., in sharp contrast to the Arctic region in which they lived many years. The Greists, shown inspecting a giant cactus, are en route by automobile trailer to their old home at Monticello, Ind. Matanuska Colonists Takmg First Step, Self-Management CONGRESS TO NOW TAKE UP PALMER, Alasku, april 26. — The |Matanuska colonists have taken the hrst step toward self-management,! beginning the organization of a Set- jtlers’ Council which was sugges led by Col. Lawrence Westbrook, in ‘Washington, D. C,, umstam WPA lAdmmmmtm { ; The colony is being divided into |zones, each representing a group of ten to fifteen colonists. From {each zone, a representative is elect- led .to the Council which will meet |with Government officials at reg- ular intervals to discuss end act on suggestions and complaints of the settlers made to the councilmen. Ross Sheely said it is the first step toward turning over the man- agement of the colony to the set- tlers. ARMY FLIER LEANS FROM President’s Plea for Reduc- tion to Get Test Dur- ing This Week WASHINGTON, April 26.—Presi- dent Roosevelt's plea for reduced spending gets its first test this week in the Senate when a motion to cation Aid bill, proposing a maxi- mum of three hundred million dol- lars this year as Federal aid to schools, is to come up. Administrationites want the meas- ure deferred. The Senate adjourned today in memory of Senator Nathan L. Bach- man of Tennessee, who died Sat- urday. | Later in the week, the House will} debate on the four hundred million | PLANE, FALLS dollar War Department appropria-| {Lieutenant Plunges to Death baiis? ‘;"'cuf’t‘e‘flhpe'rlzeefifep“bnm"s[ from Altitude of Four Thousand Feet PILOT POINT, Tex., April 26.— |Lieut. Robert Fisher, 26, was killed pla;t Saturday afternon when he \plunged from a plane six miles from | here. Lieut. D. R. Ellis, Reserve Offi- cer with PFisher, managed to land |the plane later from rear seat con- | trols. I Major B. S. Thomason, Hensley |Field, Dallas, commandant, said | Fisher apparently leaned too far from the cockpit of the plane to look lat something on the ground, 4000 |feet below, and fell, being struck by Ithe planes til a:vembly. e Radio May Supplant ‘Moccasin Telegraph’ Are on Strike Over Half Hour London Busmen Want | Shorter Day—Truce Is Being Negotiated LONDON, April 26.—The Labor Ministry’s Conciliation Department| is scheduled for conferences with representatives of Transport Unions| in the hopes to get 40,000 busmen to| agree to a truce until after the| WINDOWROCK, Ariz., April 26. The busmen want a seven and|—"Tie box that talks too loud” (In- one-half hour mstedd of eight hours. jdian for radio) soon may replace the “moccasin telegraph” as a means of communication between isolated Seek Naturahzahon loutpos!.\ of the huge Navajo res- After Lifetime in U. S. crvation. { Superintendent E. R. Fryer has BROWNSVILLE, Tex., April 26— 'submitted plans for a 150-watt After a combined residence of 127/transmitter at the central Indian 'years in Texas, two former citi- agency and three smaller stations zens of Mexico have applied for at distant points. final naturalization papers here. There is a telephone system be- They are Eusebio Gomez, 76, of tween the main points of the res- San Benito, who has lived in the ervation, but Indian couriers still State 75 years, coming from Mier, are used in remote corners. Mexico, in 1862, and Enrique Er-| — ., — nesto Trevino, born in Ma'.amm‘os’ Fertile soils produce a stronger in 1875, and a resident of Browns-'and more uniform cotton fiber than ville 52 years. do badly eroded soils. RAIN IS AGAIN SENDING RIVERS TO FLOOD STAGE Snow, Also Dust Storms Reported in Various Sections of Nation CHICAGO, Ill, April 26—Rain, floods, snow and dust storms dot- ted the nation’s weather map over the week-end and continues in some sections today. Incessant rain sent the Alle- ghany and Mounongahella rivers up at Pittsburgh, the Potomac River and Wills Creek soaring to flood stages. Northwestern Iowa dug out of a spring snow storm. The eastern part of South Da- kota was struck by the worst snow storm ever experienced in spring time. Aberdeen reports six inches of snow. A dust storm near Pierre rival- ed those of three years ago. More rain is predicted Pittsburgh area. in the LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 26.— Nerthwest gales, with a velocity of 60 miles per hour, blew down a thousand telephone poles in the Omaha region last Saturday night and ripped 75 feet of cornice from the Omaha City Library roof. Large plate glass windows were !blown in here. Highways were blocked with snow at Fargo and vicinity, and south- western Minnesota was swept by | gales. Most of the sections of the | Northwest were soaking from heavy rains and mushy snow. | CONDITIONS GROW WORSE CHICAGO, II., April 26.—Reports | this afternoon state flood conditions are prevailing in Western Pennsyl- |vania, in Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland and parts of Virginia. Lowland residents at Johnstown nnd Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, have fled from their homes. Business has been suspended: at Johnstown. Street car service has been su: pended at Cumberland, Maryland, |also business on account of the high water. 'ARMY DEFENSES REPULSE FLEET, Forty-eight Hours of Mock Warfare Ended—Rest Is to Be Taken HONOLULU, H I., April 26. The United States’ battle fleet! moved into Pearl Harbor and Hilo Lahaina Roads after 48 hours of most extensive and intensive army and navy exercises in mock war- fare in the Hawaiian area. Admiral Hepburn, commander of the fleet, lauded the island defense forces, saying he believed they had {repulsed the fleet’s efforts to land troops on Oahu Island. Forty thousand men and officers resuming their ‘parts in the fleet| maneuvers, which will consist of six weeks of major sea action. e | sTock QuotaTions | NEW YORK, April 26—Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 98%, American Light and Power 10, Anaconda 52%, Calumet and Hecla 13%, Commonwealth and Southern 2%, Curtiss Wright 6%, Harvester 104, Kennecott 537, New York Central 45%, Southern Pa- cific 53%, United States Steel 105%, United Corporation 5%, Cities Serv- ice 3%, Pound $493'%, Republic Steel 38%, Pure Oil I Holly Sugar 32%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: rails 57.62, utilities 29.08. ——,———— BACK FROM KETCHIKAN Returning from a brief trip to Ketchikan, Claude Hirst, son of Claude M. Hirst, Director of Edu- cation in Alaska for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, arrived back at his home here Saturday evening aboard the steamer Baranof. ' ( iant Bombor Rollcd Oui for Imtml Tost about 140 feet; crew of undisclosed size. workmen about it. LEGISLATURE OF ONE HOUSE FORNORTHLAND !Dele gate_l;l—t_roduces Bill Proposing Referen- dum in 1938 ‘WASHINGTOCN, April 26.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has introduced a bill proposing that Alaskans be permitted to decide at Ithe . September, 1938 election, whethey, the Territory shall have a {one ibuse legislature instead of a House and Senate as at present. Delegate Dimond said: “I believe ‘m a one house Legislature, but also Ibelieve the people should be per-| mitted to say through a referendum |what they Lhmk abuut it.” GOP REVIVED:; T0 BROADGAST Chairman Hamilton [s lo‘ Make Air Talks— Economy Issue WASHINGTON, April 26. — The decision of Republican Chairman “Venus" on Beach The XB- 15, mlgh“es of the wfld's bomblnz plllleu. was rolled out of the Boeing Aircraft Com- assembly plant at Seattle recently for its initial ground test. four twin engines of at least 1,000 horsepower; and contains living quarters for a An idea of the bulk of the plane may be gained by comparison with the The plane has a swing span of CONGRESSIONAL PARTY HAS BIG TIMEINSTORM M(‘mbc ers Tossed About— Some Injured in Week- end Cruise | | i WASHINGTON, April 26, — A | Congressional party returning from |a tour of the Virginia Peninsula, | docked safely today, though some- | what Dbelatedly, after riding out | what mariners said was one of the ‘worst. spring storms in Chesapeake ;Bay history. | Some members are reported w | have suffered miuor injuries an others were ill as the ship, Dls- i trict of Columbia, 2,100 tons, car« |rying Vice-President Garner and nearly a hundred Senators and | Representatives, battled the storm. Vice-President Garner, who had gone through the storm and was |less disturbed than most, was one |of the first ashore after the vessel | docked. Capt. Eddie Eaton said a 65‘mll/e 'an hour wind drove 30-foot waves {over the prow of the vessel. One | {wave swung her far over on her side, wrecked the dining salon in- PRICE TEN CENTS 'NOON WALKOUT 'OF 25,000 MEN OFF, 48 HOURS Emergency Board Naied by Roosevelt to Pre- vent Strike, N. ¥. {3,700 CANADIANS GO BACK TO JOBS ‘Sixteen-dayg;ike in Osh- awa Ended — Higher Wages, Shorter Hours NEW YORK, April 26.—President Roosevelt today acted tc halt the threatened walkout of 25,000 rail- road and shipping employes of Met- ropolitan New York as thousands jof auto workers in the United States and Canada returned to their jobs, |ending strikes. The President named an Emerg= { ency Board of three to try for a set- | tlement of the dispute between the | Brotherhood of Railway and Steam- |ship clerks. The strike of clerks was 1set to start at noon today but was |postponed for 48 hours. The Broth- |erhood is demanding a raise in (wages of 25 cents an hour. At Oshawa, Toronto, 3700 men and | women workers, with pay raised and | hours shortened, returned to the ! plants of the General Motors of Can~ ada. This ended a sixteen day strike. Auto assembly workers at Rich- mond, Cal, in the Ford plant, are scheduled to return late today or tomorrow. A sitdown strike has closed the Parke, Davis, pharmady firm as the employees demanded higher wages and union recognition. Twenty-one - hundred workerx are slMownm. DAM WORKERS . MAKE DEMAND, - WAGE ADVANCE Eleven Hitdrad Men Re- | main Idle’ Today on | California Project v‘tcrlor where about 85 persons were | dining at the time. A dozen of | PARKER DAM, Cal, April 26— | the Congressmen were thrown from Eleven hundred men remained idle | vheir seats, among spilling dishes today on the Parker Dam project H. |. MANEUVERS are resting for four days before‘ General Motors 557%, International | industrials 17197, | John Hamilton to break his politi- cal silence, forecasts a change in that party's policy of letting the Democrats argue national issues among themselves. | saturday, Hamilton will deliver the |first of four radio addresses in suc- ve weeks. Republicans are heeding Hamil- - ton's advice against making the court reorganization a partisan issue s I L vER BUYINR June Lang Is she the “modern Venus"? So say some. She s June Lang, ris- ing young screen actress who shows you the latest in beach at~ tire for coming season. and are confining their speech- making to economy issu _— . SOVIET PLAN IS SUCCESSFUL Second 5- Year Program | Being Finishead Ahead of Time, Is Report |Government Not to Stop ! Purchasing, Anyway, | Not Just at Present | By PRESTON GROVER INGTON, Apri] —Some - MOSCOW, April 26—The Gov- ’b:“;fl gy l}:; s ernment,_announces that the second |0dy high up the line let slip 5-year plan is scheduled to end at & word or two about plans for get- the close of this year. The plan'ting the government out of the and is completed far ahead of sched- {ule. The announcement contradicts| statements of newspapers that many branches of the industry are far be- hind -whedule \acuon upon Capitoi Hill was so ab- ‘luDL as to indicate it would not be he court fight is over. For a long time it has been !known that Secretary Morgenthau {of the Treasury and Governor Ec- ‘clcs oI the Federal Reserve have continuation of the silver buymg program, which was start- e¢d three years ago upon the de- jm :md of belligerent Western Con- BIG CONFERENCE IS ON SCHEDULE ;Number TWO Nazi ls Going‘} Bul whecher the recent very pri- S ’vale talk of scuttling the program to Meet Premier Mus- |came from them cannot be said. solini of Italy | Certainly several of their under- lings denied quickly enough that | they knew anythi about it. NABLER: Taly, Apcil 26— Gen,| DY KReW auvinpg: soou Hermann Wilhelm Goehring, Ger- GOAL ;nanys number two Nazi, has left| gy 0. congressmen advocated the or home to discuss the Spanish and:puruhdac plan on several grounds. | also Danubian situations with Pre- ymier Benito Mussolini. AConunued on Pnae Seven) KEPT IN ACTION has fulfilled all purposes, it is Sflld‘sl]ver buying business. But the re-' {smart to do much about it until and overturned tables. ' VULNERABLE TO 'ENEMY ATTACKS {Highest Ra;l;;gAirOfiicer in Navy Talks Out | to Committee ‘WASHINGTON, April 26. — The Navy's highest ranking air officer told the House Naval Affairs com- |mittee the entire Pacific Cast was |“vulnerable” to attack by air, and |added that once the attack was un- rd’erway, it probably could not be stopped. | Rear Admiral Cook, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, testified he! had been asked by Representative Warren Magnuson, of Seattle, what part of the coast would be likely to be attacked first, “California or the Northwest.” “I don’t suppose anyone can an- swer that question, but it's a toss- up,” Cook said. Hearings are being held to in- clude Benton Field in a transfer to the Navy by the Army, and au- thorizing the Navy to include it in its new air station at Alameda and /8an Francisco Bay. {Gold Rivet to Be Driven on Frisco Bridge | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 26. |—The last rivet, a gold one, worth 1$450, will be driven in the Golden| Gate bridge by Edward Stanley, {who drove the first rivet. The cere- \mony of the opening of the bridge I will be broadcast. jPAGIFID COAST while union officials negotiated with |the employers. | The workers demand a $1 daily iwage increase and union recogni- | tion. The contractors have offered & 50 cent daily wage increase. ——————— 0LD GEORGIA LAW DECLARED ILLEGAL ONE Supreme Court Renders Five to Four Decision, Insurrection Case WASHINGTON, April 26—~ The Supreme Court today declared un- constitutional the 1871 Georgia Law prohibiting insurrection against the state, under which Ancel Cherndon, Cincinnati negro Communist organ- izer, was sentenced from 18 to 20 years in prison, Associate Justice Roberts delivered the five to four decision holding the “law violates the guarantees of lib~ erty embodied in the Fourteenth | | | Amendment.” Associate Justice Van Devanter delivered the dissenting opinion and he was joined by Associate Justices McReynolds, Sutherland and Butles. University Provides Writers’ Laboratory KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 26— ‘The University of Tennessee has set up a laboratory for writers to | which students, either graduates cr undergraduates, may work out problems in English composition. Students receive no lectures, as- signments or books at the labora- tory, but spend their time writing papers assigned in other classes. 2