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

THE VOL. L., NO. 7494. jUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNLSDAY MAY 26 1937 DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE }EN CENTS NEW PLAN TO CON STRUCT lN T. HIGHWAY NAZI FLAG 1S TORN DOWN IN SAN FRANGISCO Emblem of —d;;many, Used in Bridge Celebration, Is in Shreds MARINE WORKERS MAY VOTE BOYCOTT Formal Opening, with Gen- eral Fiesta, Is Set for Coming Friday SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 26.— The Golden Gate Bridge fiesta, al- ready harrassed by the major hotel strike, is now threatened with a marine labor boycott in protest over the use of decorating in which Nazi- German flags are used. One Nazi flag was ripped down last night by unidentified men. Whether it was an accident, has not been determined. The incident occurred on a downtown corner and whether it will lead to a diplomatic protest has not been immediately determined. Flag in Shreds It is said a group of men, bearing a long pole, fitted with a cutting de- vise, tore the flag from an overhead wire, leaving it in shreds. | The men had left the scene be- fore the police arrived. The Bay City Council, powerful | Maritime Federation, according to officers, will take a vote as to whe-\ ther the organization will withdraw from the celebration. ° | The formal opening is scheduled for Friday. Bridge Facts The celebration of the completion | of the world’s longest suspension | bridze makes a resue of its demen- sions timely. The bridge facts are as follows: Length overall ... ... 5200 feet Length of main spans (Longest in the world by 700 feet) Length of side spans Cost . ...$35,000,000 Decks % ...One Width of roadway (six auto lanes) 80 feet Sidewalks (each !0‘1‘ feet wide) ,,,,,,,, Two Clearance over high water (span center) ... 220 feet Height of deck above water (at center) 5 ..266 feet Height of two bridge towers | (Highest in the world) ..746 feet Annual automobile upuclty % '10000000 Annual v,ruck nnd hu.s capacity 5 6,000000 Length of arch spnn (Fort Poin SR 319 feet Hexght of arch spnn (Fort Point) < 200 feet -———0-0-0—~—- i i | | i BRIT. COLUMBIA MINERS STRIKE Two Properties Are Closed| Down—Ask Higher Pay, Recognition CIO Union VANCOUVER, B. C, May 26— Officials of two British Columbia gold mining companies announce the mine crews have called a strike demanding higher wages and recog- nition of the International Mine, | Mill and Smeltermen’s Union, u!-‘ filiate of the CIO. ‘ One hundred and twenty men at' the Barkersville property of the Island Gold Mining Company are | NEW AMBASS Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, new amb: shown here with Mrs. Dieckhoff just after their arrival in New York from Germany. Dr. Hans ADOR ARRIVES assador to the United States, is Luther is retiring as Germany’s representative at Washington, ilousé 0>k»a.ysfla Dam and BINGER ROGERS IS THREATENED; ARREST IS MADE Messenge—r——Boy Admits Writing Letters to Screen Star for $500 Cash ATLANTA, Ga., May 26.—United States Commissioner E. S. Griffith said -James Max Chitwood, 15, of Dalton, Georgia, a messenger boy, 'is under $500° bond after admitting he wrote two threatening letters to Ginger Rogers, screen star. “I don't know why 1 did it,” the youth said. The letters asked for $500 or “it wfll just be too bad.” — e —— ARMY OFFICERS ARE KILLED AS .~ LIGHTNING HITS Seven Others Are Burned, —Camp Detail Is Paralyzed BUFFALO CREEK, Col, May 26. |—A multiple lightning attack this | forenoon on the rifle range at the |Fort Logan camp, killed two of- | ficers, burned seven others and paralyzed the entire camp detail. The lightning ripped down five pine trees and sped along the elec- trice wires through the rain drenched camp. . e g + 1 STOCK QUOTATIONS L *- NEW YORK, May 26. — Closing out, 240 men are out at the Wells quotation of Alaska Junegu mine workers of the Caribou Gold Quartz Stock today is 12%, Ameriean Can '2% General Motors 56, Internation- nal Harvester 107, Kennecott 58, New 'York Central 45%, Southern Pacific Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, as guest speak- Atchison General fours 110%. er, will broadcast for half an hour| tonight over KINY, starting at 6:30 Mining Company. 498‘2. American Light and Power e |8%, Anaconda 54%, Bethlehem Steel 53%, United States Steel 987%, Cities |Service 3%, Pound $4.94%, Repub- llc Steel 35%, Pure Oil 18%, Holly o'clock. Dr. Hrdlicka hopeswreach‘\ ‘The following are today’s Dow, outlying sections and tell those who Jones averages: industrials 173.70, find relics of early days not to de- rails 57.13, utilities 28.01. 85%, Commonwealth and Southern Sugsr 33, U. S. Treasury 2%s 97.28, stroy them but to send them to DOW, JONES AVERAGES proper officials. He will also ex- Mlll' hom Mfll plain the purpose of his present o h expedition to the Westward. ll Dud m Seat!le Then Wakes Up| By PRESTON GRO\'ER WASHINGTON, May 26.—This Congressional economy wave is no laughing matter to Government agencies that have to live, as it were, by their wits. TVA Chairman Arthur E. Mor- gan was caught in the backwash and well nigh drowned in his ef- fort to snatch a dam out of the tightening ' fists of - Senators. He finally made it, and when the Senate fully opened its eyes to what it had done ,t found it had appropriated money to begin a dam on the Tennessee River comparable in cost to Boulder dam. The House found out too late. UNWITTING Morgan, 1n a manner he said was unwitting, slipped one over on the House and may have his hands full pacifying some of the mem- bers, but he" has already made his|dicted strikes will occur are at the — Hundreds of telegrams have been | kill for the cash. Not until he appeared before a Senate Appropriations Committee was it clearly brought out that the little item of $2,700,000 he was ask- ing “for in the TVA appropriation bill was really: to start construc- tion of the $112,000,000 Gilberts- ville dam on the Tennessee. Morgan gave the House Appro- priaticns Committee the impres- sion that the money was merely to complete necessary surveys. Now it must be remembered that sur- veys are a casual sort of thing and jdo not commit Congress to actual | building. Morgan knew that, so perhaps he might be excused for not mak- ing it absolutely clear to House committee members that the money he asked was to begin the actual building, as well as to finish sur- veys. Once the job started, Con- gress would have to pay and pay— unless it did a turn-about as in the case of the Florida ship canal. | IT'S THE LAW Senators detected the House's confusion and Morgan conceded the Representatives had “misunder- stood” him. But the committee fin- ally voted him the money ‘and the Eenate followed through, 46 to 29. Senators, who doubted they ever had authorized either the survey or construction, were sown a lit- tle two line item in the TVA bill pased in the 1933 gold rush. It said: “All appropriations necessary to carry out the provisions of this act are hereby authorized.” So Morgan had ‘em. Deaf Girl, Thirteen, ‘ Touring by Postcard | LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 26— [Thirteemyenr-old Joan Geyer, a deaf girl of St. Louis, Mo., is “tak- Jing a trip around the United States |by post card,” she wrote Mayor Frank Shaw. The girl wrote that she was un- able to travel and was requesting {mayors of cities throughout the PLANES REACH SOVIET CAMP AT NORTH POLE| Two Transports Land Sup- plies, Equipment— Third Unreported | MOSCOW, May 26.—Two of three transport planes are reported to have landed near the North Pole with eight tons of food and equip- ment to sustain the lives and facili- tate studies of the four air trail pioneers of the Farthest North Air and Weather base to be maintain- |ed by the Soviet Union. One ship succeeded in flndlrp( the | Soviet Polar air base, a dot on the| immense icefield. The other was forced to land away from the camp, |about 124 miles distant. The third transport plane has! inot been reported as landing, but ino alarm is felt and it is believed it is still hunting for the ice floe | camp. | The first transport reached the| 'cnmp at 6:24 p. m. Tuesday com- pleting a dash from Rudolf Island, a distance of 560 miles, in 7 hours land 24 minutes. The plane was piloted by Vassily Molokoff. | e STRIKES ARE PREDICTED I Lindberghs May - STEE 18 Name New Bahy CIOSLP;L;PLANBS Dwight Morrow Win Recognition of Mo & ; STC . 4Mother. Recovering Rapid- orkers | ly—Expects to 1eave PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 26—A| for Home Soon new widespread strike by CIO's! steel unit appeared imminent at Charles A. Lindbergh may name two Ohio points with spontaneous, /thelr new boy baby Dwight Mot~ Walkouts aitealdy ECRIWAY. lrow Lindbergh, sources close to the CIO won the third successive vic- famijly said. tory within a week by a large vote Mrs Lindbergh is recovering rap- when 3,000 workers of the Sharon iqly and may be able to leave the Steel Company favored the CIO fashionable hospital here within a union. !couple of days and return to her The two plants where it is pre- nhome at Kent. Republic Steel and Youngstown received by the flying couple from Sheet Tube plants. rr\cnds —————— RUGKEFEI.LEH PLANTS ARE CLOSED CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 26— Striking CIO unionists have forced the, closing of seven Ohio plants of the Republic Steel Corporation and hope to shut down more while the leaders called a council of war| to map a drive against other large I, S indopRengt jueel coube e {Standard Oil Activities Homer Downer, President of the | . All-Nation Lodge of steel Workers| Pause for Two Minutes organizing committee, predicted that \ all Republic plants, number'mxl OUt Of Resped about' 50, extending to Alabama and | Minnesota, will be down not later | than tomorrow, Refuse to Sign Committee Chairman Phillip Murray has summoned his lieuten- ants from Youngstown, Ohio, to deal with the Republic and Youngs- town Sheet Tube officials who have refused to sign collective bargain- ing contracts. IN AUTO PLANTS DETROIT, Mich., May 26.—Mem- bers of the Auto Workers Union are preparing to distribute cam-| paign literature at the Ford Motor Company gates. TARRYTOWN, N. Y,. May 26— Brief funeral services, marked by quiet complicity, were held here today for John D. Rockefeller, Sr., |at the mansion on the Pocantico Hills estate. ‘The body rested in a | flower banked bier in the main [hall near the great window over- looking the Hudson. The Rockefeller family, headed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and close friends and a few long time dining room on either side of the hall, Burial will take place beside his wife, Laura, in Lakeview Cemetery |at Cleveland, Ohio. STRIKE CALLED ’ N RICHMOND, Cal, May 26——A‘ SEIPECT SHOWN, HERE For two minutes, at 11 o'clock LONDON, May 26.—Col. and Mrs. | RITES HELD employees were in the library ory ——e— v A hound owned by Georgia Wash- ington, Fort Valley, Ga., never has been able to use its hind legs. It balances onits front feet, tail high in the air, and trails rabbits. L 'Unlled States to send her their SEATTLE, May 26.—Bertholomew | photographs and autographed post- Buckley, 55, miner in the Chandlar|cards. Mayor Shaw complied and district, Alaska, for the past 17 years, sent her a pictorial magazine show- is dead here as the result of heart ing scenes in and around Los An- disease, Igeles. strike has been called at the Ford | assembly plant here. It is said| discrimination has been shown to those who are attempting to form a union. ARE DRIVEN AWAY DETROIT, Mich., May 26—Unit- ed Auto Workers of America organ- izers were beaten and driven away | this afternoon as they attempted to distribute literature at the gates of the Ford Motor plant. The attack is attributed to resent- ment of some of the workers' re- marks ichard Pmnkcnswin, the UAW organization campaig was knocked down a dozen times, his face cut and bruised and coat torn off. Walter Ruether, President of thg West side local, was struck several times as were two other organizers. e — Argentina is to have a govern- ment-controlled wireless communi- |cations company. 4« directing this forencon, Standard Oil ac- tivities paused in Juneau out of respect to John D. Rockefeller. Every place in the world, where 8. O. activities take place, paused for two minutes and tankers at sea also observed the two-minute re- spect, One Strike Ends LONDON, May 26—A settiement of the strike of 25,000 bus drivers and conductors which tied up 5,000 n, busses since May 1, has been an- nounced, the terms not being re- vealed. The men wanted shorter hours and more pay. SKAGWAY TEACHER HERE Miss Mary Lou Sunderland, school teacher ftom Skagway, arrived in Juneau yesterday aboard the North- western, and is visiting here with friends. “Perfect Artist’s Model” Chosen in L A. R FRENCH PLANE BROUGHT DOWN, REBEL BULLETS Pilot .and P rs Re- ported Wounclge Land Near Bilbao BILBAO, Spain, May 26.—Ma- chine gun bullets of an Insurgent fleet of war /planes downed the French “Air Pyreness” transport near the besleged Basque capital. French Pilot Jean Gally, former French Army fliers, and Spanish passengers were wounded. The plane was badly damaged | both by bullets and from force of the pancake landing on the sandy | soil near Soelana. The wounded pilot and one of the four passengers were brought to Bilbao by auto. All of the passengers were Span- iards. Widows of the plane are re- ported perforated by a dozen ma- chine gun bullets. The Insurgent squadron compris- ed German made planes. BB 'British Officials Going to Attend Nuke’s Wedding |Official Spokesman An- nounces Best Man at Ceremony at Monts MONTS, France, May 26. — Six- teen wedding guests, several of them holding British official positions, are announced for attendance at the wedding ceremony of the Duke of Windsor anll Mrs, Wallis War- field. The guests will include H. Lloyd | Thomas, First Secretary of the Brit- ish Embassy at Paris; Sir Walter Monckton, Attorney General; Lady Walford Selby, wife of the British Minister in Vienna; and Major E. B. Metcalfe, who will attend with Lady Alexandra Metcalfe. The Major will be the Duke’s best man. The spokesman for the Duke and Mrs. Warfield did not comment on the fact that only sixteen of thirty invited accepted. BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played in the two major leagues this afternoon: National League Philadelphia 6; Chicago 1. New York 6; Cincinnati 3. American League Detroit 0; New York 7. Cleveland 8; Philadelphia 6. St. Louis 9; Boston 11. She will rule over the Los Angeles Artists and Models Club’s annual ball tenders for the title, Betty O’Brien, Evelyn Bard, Helen Blizard, Esther Ann Walker, Ruth Glazier, Miss Nnrton, Elinor Prentiss, M:rnrel Bacon, Aline Kulke. Patti P-ltenon, Rae Deane and Nadine Dale. |Helen Torkelson, Beauty of face and figure recently won for Marjorie Norton (center) the title of “perfect artist’s model.” Left to right are other con- Senate Appruvas Reappointmen of J. J, cunnnr Serve Second Collector of Customs Tcrm as [saiy, |STATE DIREGTOR FORWASHINGTON HAS PROPOSAL Suggests lh;_Canada Fi- nance Building by Levy- ing Reasonable Sum ALTERNATE SCHEME AFFECTS WAR DEBT Immediate Eial Survey Urged — Says U. S. Should Go Ahead WASHINGTON, May 26.—Lacye Murrow, Washington State Di- rector of Highways, proposes that Canada levy a reasonable sum to finance construction of the Canad- jan portion of the International Highway to Alaska via the Fraser River Valley. Murrow is here attending a con= ference of Bureau of Public Roads officials. Murrow said he is convinced that with a reasonable gas tax, the In- ternational Highway will pay for itself within “seven or eight years.” The estimated cost of the 1,180 miles of road is $14,000,000. ) As an alternate plan, Murrow proposed that the Department of State suggest to the Canadian Government it assume the Domin- jon’s share of the road, about $10,~ 000,000, and in return the United States will cancel that much from the British war debt. i Murrow urges an immediate aers lal survey of the Alaskan which ground p-m‘- have already dollars 1t is spending in construc- tion in the Central Americas in an effort to link the United States James J. Connors, of Juneau, has|and the annu Canal. been confirmed by the U. S. Senate for reappointment as Collector of Customs for Alaska, nmordlng t.o a dispatch to The Empi from Washington, D. C, vin. t.he Associated Press. Collector Con- nors was nominated for reappoint- ment by President Roosevelt. The confirmation is the .second given by the Senate recently Alaska appointive officials, Gov | John W. Troy's reappointment hav- Prmc.pa] Bunldm ing been confirmed a week ago. - e e ——— BLOWN.TO BITS IN EXPLOSION Three Boy—sLose Their Lives when Dynamite Storage Goes Up SCOTTDALE, Pa, May 26— ‘Three boys were blown to bits in a dynamite explosion this forenoon when a warehouse, where the ex- plosive was stored, was demolished. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. ENSIGN E. CARLSON GUEST OF HONOR AT PARTY LAST NIGHT Honoring Ensign E. V. Carlson, former officer aboard the U.8.C.G. cutter Tallapoosa and now an offi- cer on the cutter Northland, a party was held last eveming at Percy's Cafe, assembling several Coast Guard officers and friends. Present for the affair were the| officers of the cutter Northland, in port here yesterday, and Mr. and Mrs, Howard Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Stevenson, Miss Ruth Lun- dell, Miss Louise Kemper, Miss Miss Etta Mae Kolasa, Mrs. Jerry Waite, Miss Eli- sabeth Kaser, Miss Marian Foster, Lieut. Garry Collins, Ensign J. B. Richey and others. e Crown Princess Of The Netherlands Expects Stork CANNERY FIRE, HIDDEN INLET, IS REPORTED ed Destroyed f —$150,000 KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 26.— Unofficial reports received here the principal buildings of the Hid den Inlet Cannery of the Ni _( Packing Company have been ' stroyed by fire with a loss of bably $150,000. One man, unidentified, is report- ed to have been injured. Pilot Herb Munter and also Pilot Robert Ellis have flown to the scene. About 50 men are said to have been at the cannery preparing it for the season’s operations. ‘Word came here by the tender Pe- trel and the report is that the main cannery building warehouse, ofl house and dock have been destroyed. Extensive improvements have just been completed at the cannery. BB IC FIRE RAGES AT U. S. NAVY YARD VALLEJO, Cal, May 26—Flames consumed the paint storage build- ing containing hundreds of gallons of gasoline and oil and threatened 10,000 gallons of alcohol in a near< by storage in the Mare Island Navy Yard. Two men were injured fight- ing the flames. Twin Within a Twin, Removed By Operation PORTLAND, Ore., May 26—Doc- tors attending the 13-months-old girl held hopes today for her recov- ery after they had removed a “twin” from her abdomen. The fe- tus was five inches long and had a partially formed skull, spine, em- bryonic leg bones and was con- Report- F Ire i LONDON, May 26.—The London|tained in a small sac as a regular Daily Mail reports that it is under-!fetus at normal birth. The fetus stood that Crown Princess Juliana|was not Mving in the sense as em- of The Netherlands, is expecting|bryos live, but existing as a para- the birth of a cflild about the end |sitic growth. One twin developed in- of this year. side the other.