The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 15, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7485. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1937. A EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PLAN COUNCIL IS CHOSEN BY . GOVERNOR TROY Heinztleman Chairman of| 9-Man Group Named to Further Development ADVISORY COMMITTEE | TO AID IN ENTERPRISE Planned Development of Territory’s Resources | Major Objective Members of the Alaska Planning| Council, created by the recent Leg-i islature, were announced today by’ Gov. John W. Troy, and a prelim-| inary meeting was held in the Gov-| erno: office this morning by the members who are in the city to con- | sider the general program. Named to the Council, of which the Governor is ex-officio member,| were: B. F. Heintzleman, Regional For-| ester, Chairman; B. D. Stewart,| Territorial Commissioner of Mines; | Frank Dufresne, Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission; Ike P. Taylor, Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Commission; Edward| W. Griffin, Secretary of Alaska;| John A. Talbot, Mayor of Ketchi-| kan; M. J. Walsh, City Clerk of| Nome; Arthur A. Shonbeck, busi-| ness man and rancher of Anchor-| age; Luther C. Hess, banker and| mining man of Fairbanks. | Advisory Committee i The Governor also named a Gen-| eral Advisory Committee to work with the Planning Council. On this| committee are: Dr. Charles E. Bun- el, President of the University of Alaska; Frank A. Boyle, Terri- torial Auditor; William A. Hesse, Highway Engineer; A. E. Karnes, Commissioner of Education; Oscar G. Olson, Territorial Treasurer, and James S. Truitt, Attorney General. The Council, for which 515.01)0; was appropriated by the Leglsla-' ture, will work in cooperation with| the National Resources Board of which Interior Secretary Harold L.| Ickes is Chairman and Charles w.| Eliot, II, Executive Officer. | Commenting on the program after the meeting this morning, attended by Heintzleman, Stewart, Taylor, Griffin and the Governor, Chair-| man Heintzleman said: Objective | “The primary objective of v.he“ Planning Board is to work for a| planned development of the Terri-| tory’s resources. It is expected to' take the leadership among the Ter- ritorial agencies and the local Fed-| eral agencies in studying the re-| sources and outlining a comprehen- sive program for their use and per- petuation. “It will_ present these plans, through thé>Governor, to the Ter- ritorial Legislature and to the prop-| er Congressional committees and! development heads in Washington, D. C, and it wlil press for the laws, regulations and public funds nes- sary to accomplish the things pro- vided for in the plans. “Alaska development should be viewed as a whole, and not as a| piecemeal matter. If its needs are to be given satisfactory considera- tion, we must go to the Legislature and to Washington with a well- rounded program showing the or- der in which resource development projects and public work projects should be undertaken, and the bear- ing and importance of each project on the development of the Terri- tory as a whole. The program must be well fortified with facts, and presented to the proper autherities by men having specialized know- ledge of our resources and public works needs. Long-Time Undertaking “It is a difficult and long-time undertaking, but the proper de- velopment of the important resoure- es of the Territory is well worth the effort; in addition, most of the States are now using the planning method of attacking their develop- ment problems and of trying to ob- tain public assistance in doing the things that will make their localities better places in which to Mve, and if we hope to share in tihese good things, we cannot do better than adopt the methods they are follow- ing.” - ON FIELD TRIP George A. Dale and Dr. Butler Dale, Associate Supervisors in the| Indian Office, are sailing Tuesday on the Yukon for the Westward to carry on field work in the Anchor- age region. As a result of the recent ruling upholding the Wagner labor act, the | national labor relations board, heretofore a tribunal whose very right | of existence was questioned, became labor’s “supreme court”. The board comprises J. Warren Madden, former dean of West Virginia university law school; E. S. Smith, who is a former newspaper man had extensive labor éxperience, and Donald W..Smith, Phila- delphia lawyer whose first public office was his present post, and has 3JUSTICES OF SUPREME COURT READY TO QUIT Resignations, It Is Said, De- pendent on Withdraw- al of Court Bill WASHINGTON, May 15.—Oppo- nents of the Roosevelt court bill said three early retirements from the Supreme Court is assured if the President drops the judicial reor- ganization program. The President, who nas returned from his fishing trip on the Gulf £ of México, declined to discuss com- promise, it is said, and directed the Democratic leaders to ‘carry on the battle for the measure. High opposition Senators said the Associate Justices ready to re- tire are Brandeis, Van Devanter and Sutherland. From other sources came the hint that Van Devanter will retire soon regardless of the continuance of the court dispute. He is 78 and the oldest member except Brandeis, who is 80 and senior member in point of service. The Senate Judiciary Committee votes next Monday on the court bill. — e — HEW STRIKES ARE PROPOSED STEEL PLANTS Lewis Organizing Commit- tee Makes Plans for Further Conquests PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 15. — The John L, Lewis Steel Workers Organizing Committee heralded the victory in the Nation’s first major steel strike in 18 years, then sum- moned leaders among the workers in three other big independent companies to a meeting at which will be outlined strikes in the plants. ———— With the influx of immigrants into Palestine during recent years the demand for shaving creams and tooth paste has increased substan- tially. WINDS UP WORK UNTIL IN JUNE Director Sharpe Going to Washington—Miss Mol- ver Named Assistant | The Unemployment Compensation }Ccmmlssion completed its delibera- tions here today and adjourned its session until late in June. Mem- | pers of the commission are leaving | immediately for their homes. E. L. Bartlett of Miller House, Chairman, | took the plane this afternoon for | Fairbanks, Richard Hardcastle ex- | pects to sail on the Alaska for his home in Ketchikan and R. A. | Bragaw is returning to Anchorage lon the Yukon the first of the | week | The commission delegated Di- ‘rector Walter P. Sharpe to go to Washington, D. C., to corelate the Alaska setup with the Federal machinery and he expects to sail |or the south next week. During his absence, the new commission of- | fices in the Shattuck Building will be in charge of Miss Randi Molver, who has been named as assistant | to the Directcr. | Under the tentative program now | drawn up, the first tax period : |under the law will be September 30 when collection will be made for | the first three quarters. After that |taxes will be collected on a gquar- iterly basis. Taxes for 1937 will fall |on employers having eight or more | employees and the rate will be 1.8 | per cent on payroll. Next year i the rate jumps to 2.7 per cent. Director Sharpe announced that Ino additional staff will be em- | ployed until after his return from { Washington. DICK MERRILL ¥ 3 program of Air Corps drills, ment Group stationed at Hamilto Gems From R Kermit Rn'o?sévélt' " QUALIFIES FOR Is On Way North Son of Teddy, Accompan-| New YORK, May 15. — Dick 1ed by Wife Kodlak [Merill, the only man who has > ) {flown the Atlantic ocean four times, | BoundtoHuntBear said today that his experience H gives “me a pretty good chance” ' SEATTLE, May 15. — Kermitjat the prize of the air race to Paris {Roosevelt, son of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by his wife, in August to commemorate Col. sailed today for a bear hunting Charles A. Lindberg's epochal flight to Paris. trip on Kodiak Island. FLIES TO WASHINGTON “Certainly I'm excited about the! WASHINGTON, May _15. - ch‘k trip,” said Roosevelt. “I have hunt- Merrill and Jack Lambie, Atlantic BIG AIR RAGE ” Charges in Maneuvers This unusual photo, taken during recent maneuvers at Muroc Dry Lake, ing plans which had iust released a 100-pound bomb during target nractice. near Riverside, Cal., and from Hamilton Field, Cal, participated in the spectacular bombing as nart of a The nlane showns in phote is from the 11th Squadron of the 7th Bombard- n Field. an Ex-King Here is the latest posed portrait of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, American-born beauty who is betrothed to the Duke of Windsor. She is shown wearing some of the gems presented her by the throne of England. ‘ed in Africa, South America, Tibet|fiers, Srived here by plane shortly mediately to the White House and delivered a coromation letter to President Roosevelt Which had been written in England by Former Am- HEEREEE TR BRITISH LABOR Joalous Woman ~ LEADER PASSES and other places but this is the time any of the Roosevelts have invaded Alaska. We are going to unlimber old Springfield army rifles.” — e FORD GIVIN WORKERS HIS UNION VIEWS Anncuncements Will Be i Circulated to 150,000 | Employees onMonday our DETROIT, Mich, May 15.—The first apparent move of the Ford Motor Company to oppose ufiion- ization of its 150,000 employees is revealed in announcement cards bearing Henry Ford’s views on la- bor organizations and policies. The announcement will be circulated 'among the workers on Monday. | PREMIER OF - SPAINQUITS Caballero, May, However, Immediately Head New Republic’s Cabinet VALENCIA, May, 15. — Wartime Premier Caballero, who has been di- recting the Spanish Republic’s af- fairs since his flight from Madrid last November, has resigned. It is expected he will head a new cab- inet. Windsor before his abdication from The jewels cousist of a double necklace of | square-cut diamonds and rubies, two diamond bracelets and & gold census was the principal duty of| bracelet with onyx crosses and a square-cut ruby ring. Causes Big Fire AWAY IN LONDON 1 g o) . NARA, Japan, May 15.The ancient Philip Snowden, Dynamic Korakuji Temple was set on fire,| 2 the police claim, by a jealous wo- Cinle' H?““"’ then man who sought revenge against! Pralsed, DlCS Today the Chief Priest fo unrequitted love. He had married a young wo-, LONDON, May 15.—Philip Snow- man, as permitted by his sect. den, 72, former Chancellor of the The fire spread to 122 other build- Exchequer and British labor leader, | ings and the total loss is estimated gieq here today. at $140,000. | ¥ S T SR, | Philip Snowden, aynamic cripple, |was the Moses of the British labor | movement, the firebrand of its AL SMITH oN ! youth, the leavening agent and law- |giver of its more mature years. | Reduced to a mere shell of a TRIP ABRUA |physcal man by an accident suf- |fered when he was only 27 years |old, he battled his way from ob- NEW YORK, May 15.—Al Smith |scurity in Lancashire to hold twice sailed today for Europe aboard the |the post of Chancellor of the Ex- liner Conte di Davoia. It is his first |chequer, one of the highest offices trip abroad. |of the British Empire. . The Smith party includes Mrs. In House of Lords Smith, State Supreme Court Jus-| Pinally forced by his physical ail- tice Edward McGeldrick, and the | ments to give up his strenuous post Right Rev. Fulton Sheen. after the second MacDonald labor The party is going to Rome and|capinet had been overthrown in will be absent for about six weeks.|August, 1931, he put on robes of gy O scarlet and ermine and took a seat WESDAHL COMES IN in the House of Lords as the first Viscount of Ickornshaw. This ac- a peerage added Coming into Juneau for her regu- BATTLE RAGES WHOLE LENGTH BASQUE FRONT Government on Defense as Insurgents Press Against Bilbao VITORIA, Spain, May 15.—The Insurgents are pressing an offensive against Bilbao and there is heavy fighting the whole length of the Basque front. The spokesman of the Basque government reiterated the Govern- ment’s determination to defend the city until death and declared flatly “there is no possibility of media- tion.” Reports from Gen. Mola’s field officers said the Government village of A'Orebieta, a pivotal center in the defense line, is virtually sur- rounded. ——i Sift Ashes on Garbage Dump for $15,000 in Jewels GREAT NECK, N. Y., May 15— Three detectives directed a squad lar week-end stay, the U. 8. Coast and Geodetic Survey tender Wes- dahl, which is charting in Taku In- let this summer, arrived at the Low- er Government Float here this morning. She is commanded by lLleut. H. Arnold Karo. ceptance of strength to the labor represention in the upper house and kept his tal- ents at the disposal of the coalition government which had the big task of steering the British Empire (Ooutlnue}; 7;»; 'lr’age‘ §1x77 sifting the ashes on the ecity gar-| bags dump for $15,000 worth of jewelry that Dennis King,, the actor, said his wife threw away in a hat| |box. King sald the jewelry was not )insured. |admits that he was a bit keyed up Cal, show a giant Army bomb- Bombers from March Field Tallapoosa Has Eventful Jaunt - On 'sial Patrol Weddings and Inquest Con- ducted Aboard Ship —Census Taken Smooth but eventrul was the de- scription brought back by officers and men of the U. 8. Coast Guard Ship Tallapoosa when she arrived back at her Juneau base at the | Government dock late yesterday af- | ternoon, after being out since the morning of April 20, on her annual \seal patrol. Besides charting the course of | the northward migrating seal herd, ‘Lhe cutter called at nearly every | village between Dixon Entrance, where she took over the patrol from and Kodiak ) the Cutter Redwing, Island, where she relinquished it \to the new Cutter Samuel D. Ing- ham and the patrol boats Cyane |and Morris. | Caring for the sick ond taking the cutter and her crew at the |points touched, but the highlight {of the cruise was the double wed- | ding ceremony performed by Lieut. |Comdr. Noble G. Kicketts, com- |mnnder of the Taflapoosa, at Ak- hiok, on Altak Bay, in the southern tip of Kodiak Island. Captain Rick- letts was also forced to exercise his !powers as a United States Com- missioner to hold an inquest at Kanatak. Take Census After making her way from Ju- neau to Dixon Enffrance to contact the Cutter Redwing, the Tallapoosa called at Sitka, and Yakutat, to take census and tend the sick, then make her way to Cordova, where she re- ceived a motor launch from the Cutter Haida. From Cordova she called at Valdez, then continued to {Seward, where she refueled. | From Seward she headed for the Kodiak Island group, under orders to put into all ports in the section. She made calls at the Kodiak Is- {land points of Old Harbor, Port| |Hobron, Kagnayak, Aiaklalik, Lazy Bay, Akhiok, Karluk, Uyak, Dry| Spruce Bay, Afognak, Litnik, and| Nzinski. Many sick were found and | treated in the district. Play Cupid On arriving at Akhiok, one native couple was found poised for the jump into matrimony, while a wid- {ow, with two small children, was {most anxious to re-marry, but had no prospective groom. However, she stated her hard plight, the long hours she had to work to support ‘her children, and her inability to properly care for them, so ably that, with the aid of the Indian Bureau| ischool teacher, a determined search |was conducted for a prospective husband for the distressed lady, and the search bore fruit in time for her | to follow the first young couple into the wedded state. Captain Ricketts HUNDREDS OF PERSONS STILL OUT OF HOMES Civic and Federal Author- ities Act Jointly in Giving Aid COLDER WEATHER IS INDICATED, INTERIOR Property Damage Unesti- mated But Runs Into Large Figures, Report BULLETIN—Fairbanks, Alas- ka, May 15.—Although the flood waters dropped 14 inches yes- terday, they came up four inch- es during the night and remain about that level this forenoon. This morning the water guaged 12 feet and 3 inches. The homeless are still being cared for. Probably late today or to- morrow, those driven from their homes may be able to return, WEATHER BUREAU ADVICES The Juneau Weather Bureau has received advices that the flood waters were 12 feet and 3 inches this morning at Fair- banks, Colder weather is in- dicated in the upper Tanana Valley which may ease the flood situation. Enormous jams in the Tanana continue to divert the flood waters. Flood Waters Rise FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 15.— Flood waters started to rise again at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, an inch an hour, but not as rapidly as of 13 feet 2 inches was reached. The previous high was 12 feet 6 inches above normal. The jittery condition of the pop- ulation on Thursday subsided al- though half totwo-thirds of the people have been driven from their homes to refuge in hotels, public buildings and the dry zones. Covered by Water Over 75 percent of the town was still covered by water at 10 o'clock last night, especially along the river border, where ice has also accumu- lated. The flooded distriet includes |the long residential sweep along First Avenue below Cowles Street. No complaints of absolute desti- tution have been received. The civic authorities are cooperating with the Federal agencies in giving |assistance to the refugees. No Aid Needed Mayor E. B. Collins emphatically |asserted last night that if conditions |get no worse, there will be no re- |quest for outside assistance. The spirit of the residents is: splendid. The San Francisco Red Cross headquarters radioed offers of as- sistance which is not expected to be needed. Damage Estimated Property damage, up to last night, was impossible to be accurately es- timated and no survey has yet been attempted. Leading construction firms esti- mate however the damage to private homes, business houses and city property, including streets, ranges from $100,000 to $200,000 with pos- sibility of as much more to high- (Continued on Page Five) WRECKAGE OF PLANE CRASH MAY BE LOST Air Veterans Give Opinions on Airliner, Which Down- ed Five Months Ago SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 15. The possibility is discussed that the airplane which vanished five months ago with seven persons aboard, may never be found. Air veterans said the wreckage may be buried under five feet of 'snow and in a few weeks the snow will melt, the canyons will be filled with the rushing waters and the debris of the plane may be swept down and scattered for miles, then buried under rock and silt. There are still hundreds of can- didates for the $1,000 reward and when the time came for the wed- searching plans went forward to '-(dohunued on | l?m Sl;:) jorganize a new hunt for the plane.