The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L, NO. 7495. SEVENTY THOUSAND STEEL JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 27,.1937. _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _PRICE TEN CENTS CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS CRITICISED Beaverbrook Press, Power- ful Organization, Comes Out Against Leaders DUKE’S WEDDING CAUSE OF ATTACK Aunt Bessie Arrives at Monts to Take Charge of Nuptial Plans LONDON, May 27.—The powerful Beaverbrook Press today sharply criticised the Church of England in what it termed the harsh treatment of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield. Rallying to the defense of th> for- mer Monarch, the Daily Express flatly blamed the Church of Eng- land leaders with inspiring a virtual Governmental ostracism of the Duke’s wedding. WALLIS’S AUNT ON SCENE MONTS, France, May 27.—Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman, aunt of Mrs. Wallis Warfield, and known as Aunt Bessie, has arrived and taken over the job of superintending the final preparations of the marriage of her favorite niece to the Duke. Aitendants at the chateau said “Bessie” has rolled up her Ameri- can sleeves and gone to work and “she is boss.” ANOTHER REHEARSAL MONTS, May 27. — In another rehearsal of the marriage ceremony today, both the Duke and Wallis peppered Mayor Mercier, who will perform the ceremony next Thurs- day with questions as to who is to first say “yes.” The Mayor told them the Duke will do it first. The Duke’s wedding date is the anniversary of his father, George V’s, birth. The late mon- arch was born June 8, 1865, and died January 20, 1936. The wedding date also is twenty days . before Edward's forty-third birthday and sixteen days before Mrs. Warfield becomes forty-one. MAY TOUCH UP HAIR MONTS, France, May 27.—Her- man Rogers, spokesman for Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield, denied the announcement by Pierre, Paris coiffeur, that he had been asked to the Chateau next Monday to tint Wallis's hair a dark brown. In Paris, however, Pierre insisted the date still stood but acknowledged publicity might cause cancellation. B — ROGKEFELLER LAID TO REST Body Interred in Grave Be- tween Those of Mother, Wife CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 27. — Brought here by special train from Tarrytown, New York, the remains of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., were interred with the simplest of ser- vices. The body was placed in a grave between the graves of his mother and wife. ESTEBETH TAKES OUT FIVE FROM HERE LAST P. M. Passengers out from here for Sitka and way ports aboard the motorship Estebeth, Capt. J. V. Davis, when she sailed at 6 o'clock last evening on her regular weekly mail run, included: For Hoonah—Dick Moses and R. P. Stewart. For Point Re- treat—Mr. and Mrs. P. Waltonberg, and for Tenakee, Miss Emma C. Logan. LEAVING FOR CRAIG TO SPEND SUMMER Mrs. Donald Haley, wife of the Fisheries warden at Craig, accom- panied by her little daughter and also Mrs. Edna Haley, mother of Donald and Mrs. John E. Pegues, are leaving tonight aboard the North Sea for Craig for the sum- mer. Mrs. Donald Haley has been visiting here for several months, King | FAMCUS SCOTCH COMEDIAN ON VISIT i b ki Sir Harry Lauder, world famed Scotch comedisp and singer, and his niece, Greta Lauder, are pictured as they recently arrived in Los Angeles while on a pleasure trip around the world, Lauder said ihat dimes he saved during his 27 stage tours of the Unl‘él States are fin- ancing his present globe-circling trip. UNITED STATES | THREE SOVIET BATTLE FLEET | PLANES GATHER NEARING COAST AT NORTH POLE WITH VIOLATING WARPRINCIPLES Spanish Government Hands Documents to League of Nations Today LONDON, May 27.—According to radio advices, the Spanish Gov- ernment has accused Italy of the “most scandalous violation” of in- ternational principles since the World War. The charges are made in docu- ments handed to the League of Na~= tions and intended to show that the Fascist state is “truly a belligerent power” in the violation of the League covenant. One document is purported to show secret orders from the Ital- ian War office to the Corps com-= mand of the General Army, and allegedly captured from Italian sol- diers fighting on the side of the Insurgents. It is announced here that the | British plan for an armistice in Spain has been virtually abandoned by the European Non-Intervention {Committee and the massacre will continue unrestricted. DUSTBOWL AREA OF FIVE STATES | DRENCHED, RAIN Heaviest Fall in Five Years Is Reported—Hail and Snow Also Experienced | | ST. LOUIS, May 27—The heav-' |iest rain in five years has drenched 5,000 square miles, the heart of the | dustbow! of five states. Dalbart, Texas, received 2.64 inch- es of rain, sending the crop pros- pects soaring. Snow fell in the Sander Nar- dino mountains, the first May snow- | fall since 1930 and the latest May fall in memory. ' Rain and hail storms were gen-' | Lake Tahoe’s“l)ivo;(:ct;flavein Bhrné Pictured above are the smoldering ruins of the $250,000 Cal-Neva lodge, famous night club and favorite resort of Reno divorcees at Lake Tahoe, destroyed by a fire of undetermined origin. The resort was located on the California-Nevada line with the bar and gambling games on the Nevada side. GANNERYMAN IS BURNED AT HIDDEN INLET Is Airplaned to Ketchikan Hospital—Plant Is En- tirely Destroyed KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 27— Albert Wiberg, about 50, oil house attendant at the Hidden Inlet Can- nery, was badly burned in an ex- plosion which presumably started .3 |the fire at Hidden Inlet yesterday. He was brought to the Ketchikan Hospital after Herb Munter flew there. Wiberg's condition is serious but probably not fatal. Only piling now protrudes from where the cannery stood. The face of the dock is intact. It is reported that Supt. Dennis the | Six Weeks of War Games Most Successful—Seas Have Been Stormy ABOARD BATTLESHIP PENN- ISYLVIA, OFF THE CALIFORNIA |COAST, May 27. — The fighting ships of the United States fleet moved through the final paces of |the six weeks of war games today. Admiral Hepburn, who has put the fleet through the exercises, hag} found the fleet fit for real service. Stormy seas have prevailed dur- ing most of the war games and gave a new and unusual realism \to the annual fleet training prob-| lems. Splitting from the main body, the submarines and destroyers will pro- ceed to San Diego, but the main {battle line of dreadnaughts will pa-! rade through the Golden Gate to- morrow at the bridge c'elehrnuon.‘ FOUR DIE IN CALIFORNIA { Two Transport Ships Miss! Camp on Ice Floe— Report Positions MOSCOW, May 27.—Russia’s for-| ty-two Arctic explorers have mapped their positions and laid, careful plans to unite their three! camps near the North Pole. 1 Two transport ships, with food and supplies, which missed the camp[ on the flight north yesterday, re-: ported safe landing. The plane occupants gave their positions as follows: One plane is 112 miles from the pole and the other 35 miles beyond | the Polar base. 1 Commander Schmidt said: “We| will await developments calmly.” ————e———— MAKES TRIP EAST-WEST, eral through the southern half of Ryan, his wife and children were Kansas. Some damage was caused barely able to escape from the Sup- by the hail to wheat. |erintendent’s house which was also Eldorado, Kansas, reports a rain- totally destroyed. So rapidly did fall of 6.06 inches. 'Lhe flames spread that they were | | | TOO LATE TO REBUILD SEATTLE, May 27.—H. B. Friele, of the Nakat Packing Corporation, says it is too late to rebuild and .operate the Hidden Inlet cannery but may rebuild for fall operation. ‘The Nakat Packing Corporation has canneries at Union Bay and Waterfall. MEXM‘_ unable to save even their clothes. WORKERS ARE TO WALK OUT MEXICO CITY, May 27.—Hope of averting a general strike of 18,000 oil workers has been aband- oned despite an eleventh-hour ap- peal by 17 companies effected to ———————— Vandals Wreck . [] . Fadi guiney - Neilsen's Cabin The walkout of the oil workers is scheduled for tonight. Higher demanded. " il {Show Place of Recent Win- ner Nenana Ice Pool Reports Damage Anaconda Doubles | Regular Dividend ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 27— Oscar Neilsen, winner of the Ne- nana ice guessing contest in 1936, BY TAXICAB Wealthy Woman Comes ‘to Coast for Brother—Re- PLANE [}RASH| NEW YORK, May 27.—Anaconda directors have doubled the regular dividend on common stock, declar- ing a distribution of 50 cents a| reports vandals have wrecked the interior of his cabin on the out- skirts of this city. eilsen estimates his damages Ship Stalls 700 Feet Up in turns Same Service share payable June 28 to stock on at $700. Nothing was stolen, but record of June 27. | furniture was smashed and a valu- Previous quarterly payments of aple European porcelain was brok- Is it True, Rudy? | | —— f whispers circulating in Miami, ay they are, brunette Valeren ’oodward (above) is the next Mrs. 1dy Vallee. Gossip has it that she ~ New York to join the crooner FERRY SYSTEM FROM SEATTLE urday Unless Demands Are Reached SEATTLE, May 27—An ultima- Union that service will be halted! Saturday morning unless wage and working demands are met by to- morrow night, are being studied by the Seattle ferry boat operators on 7la., are as true as the whisperers | FACES TIE-UP Workers to Walkout Sat-| tum from the Inland Boatmens'| 'ALBERT NILES IS FOUND AT ~ POINT RETREAT Fioneer Wamlim of Boat Mishap and Fire—Wand- ered in Woods 10 Days Victim of a boat wreck and fire, Albert M. Niles, 65, Alaska pioneer, from Point Retreat aboard the Ya- kobi and today after a rest and a few meals was deeling himself again, | |Niles is the man reported from | Point Retreat as possibly the miss-! ing trapper S. P. “Bud” May. No! trace of May has been found. Niles, who came north in '97, went | through the gold rush, made a for- | |tune or two and later practiced law |in Los Angeles, had come north in | February and gone to Tenakee Hot | | Springs for a while. Later he de- 1cided to do a little prospecting in | the Freshwater Bay region and then went to Hawk Inlet and Funter Bay in a small boat equipped with an outboard. Between Funter Bay and Cordwood Creek, the prospector’s motor broke down but he finally made the beach and made camp {about a hundred yards from where {he put his boat on the beach. He had gotten all his supplies safely ashore and gone back to the boat when a spark from a camp fire lighted his mattress and before he could extinguish the flames his en- Itire equipment, clothing and sup- Iplies, had been destroyed, leaving him with only his rifle and the clothes he had on. { Niles then started out to make Point Retreat and spent between 10 days and two weeks in the open, living on game and fish, before he| arrived at the light station Mon- day. | The pioneer declares reports of |his being a “wild man” are errone- ous. The only thing he was wild about was the loss of his boat and equipment, he pointed out. Niles reports he saw no trace of |the missing “Bud” May and ven- tured the opinion the man was dead, especially if he has been out in the open since last winter. AT MBI FINLAYS WILL MOVE TO PETRICH CABIN; | was brought into Juneau yesterday | Air, Bursts Into Flames BELLINGHAM, Wash., May 27. and Explodes ‘—Katherine Bruen, wealthy Brew- SANTA MARIA, Cal, May 27.— ster, N. ¥, resident, has arrived A chartered plane, faltering on a here, making a second cross coun- takeoff, carried four to death in a ty taxi trip- within six months. fiery crash in an alfalfa field near She intends to take her . brother the airport here last night. The James back home with her. bodies were burned beyond recog-| The taxi driver, Sl Phesco, nition but airport officials announce declined to say what the tax was the victims are Mrs. C. W. Whitney costing but did state a flat rate and Mrs. D. B. Fauntleroy, both had been agreed on by his office in iot Carmel; Harry Emma, Los An- the East. geles oil operator, and Rod Keen- | T an, pilot, of Burbank. | Pilot Keenan, a few hours ear- lier, had finished flying an eloping! couple to Las Vegas, New Mexico. | ¥ Eye witnesses said the plane! SEATTLE, May 27—The police stalled adout 100 feet in the air, arrested five for investigation after burst into flames and exploded when 'raiding an apartment in which of- it hit the ground. {ficers said they found oplum ————————— smoking equipment. In Alaska there is only one per-| ——t——— son to every square mile while lnl Submarine ofl wells, drilled in the 25 cents have been made, but last| December there was one extra of 25 cents. — e — { ol AR | sTock QuoraTions | NEW YORK, May 27. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12%, American Can 99, American Light and Power 8%, Anaconda 55, Commonwealth and Southern 2%, Bethlehem Steel 85%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 567%, International Harves- ter 108%, Kennecott 58%, New York Central 45, Southern Pacific 53%, United States Steel 99'%, Cities Ser- vice 3%, Pound $4.94%, Republic Steel 34%, Pure Oil 187%, Holly Su- gar 33%, U. 8. Treasury 2%s 97.29, Atchison General fours 110%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Puerto Rico there are 520 per square ocean floor from piers above, are mile. .operated near Carpenteria, Calif. ) Jones averages: industrials 174.19, (rails 56.76, utilities 28.03. en. An oil painting was also slashed. Neilsen has spent several years in furnishing his Anchorage show place. ——.———— Jews Made to Pay for Holidays by Germans BERLIN, May 27—Jewish-owned shops, closing on Jewish holidays, must pay their employees in full, by a decision of the German labor front. The labor front said the ruling had become necessary because of frequent complaints of employees of Jewish firms who were not paid when establishments were closed on Jewish holidays. Jewish holidays are not legal holidays, the decision went on. If Jewish firms decide to close their shops on their holidays no pay de- ductions would be permissible. Puget Sound and Lake Washing- ton, COFFEYS TAKE HOME 0 | Service out of Tacoma and oth-! N0 oo Mo Jack Pislay, whe ler Sound cities will not be arrect-;h“e purchased the J. T. Petrich |ed, the union spoxesman said. |cabin at Point Louisa, are to move The spokesman said that if the to the cabin this week-end and strike is called, not even a skeleton will make their home there for the service will be maintained between summer. here and’Bremerton. Previously it| Dr. and Mrs. Robert Coffey will had been announced a servide would move into the residence on Seventh be given for navy yard workers, 18"1'92! now occupied by the Fin- MEN QUIT 3 INDEPENDENT COMPANIES ARE TIED-UP TODAY Drive Made on Five Billion Dollar Industry for Unionization PLANTS EFFECTIVELY CLOSED BY WALKOUTS Operations Crippled inFive States—No Disorders Reported, Yet "YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 27.—The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, cli- maxing John L. Lewis’s year old drive for a union in the five billion dollar steel indus- try, geared strike machinery today against three of the leading independent produc- ers and this has thrown near- ly 70,000 men out of work. There are 32,000 millwork- ers out in the Idea-Mahoning Valley district, 23,000 out in the Chicago area, 8,000 at Canton and 7,000 in the Cleve- land sector as the militant or- ganization came to grips with the Republic Steel, Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Companies. The demands are for union werkers has so far been or- derly. Operations have been crip- pled in five states. Fires have been banked in great furnaces which have been operating for several weeks at the highest produc- tion since ’29. The CIO committee claims |a 100 percent tie-up of plants. Five hundred extra police- men are mobilized in South Chicago and are held in read- iness for any trouble. ORGANIZERS OF UAWA ASSAILED AT FORD PLANT Employees Object to Slighting Remarks— Riot Ensues DETROIT, Michigan, May 27— Officials of the United Automobile Workers of America say they intend to prosecute those responsible for beating up two union ,organizers and sixteen others at the gate of the Ford Motor Company’'s plant here yesterday afternoon. The trouble broke out when the organizers started distributing hand bills about joining the UAWA un- ion and then several made slighting remarks about the Ford employees. About 200 engaged in the fight before the police broke it up. Eskimo-made Pipe Curio Presented To Museum Here An unusual pipe curio has been presented to the Territorial Library and Museum by Herman Stanwick, Chief Engineer of the Indian Bu- . . {lays. The Coffeys have been mak- v A ‘lf:,:nr:::'l;ufwmv in the Assembly Bermuda Clipper 'z, pii Futing Off, Survey Trip _Beet Coptin s Dead SEATTLE, May 27. Funeral services are being arranged for Ar- NEW YORK, May 27.—The Ber- Hamilton thur O'Reilly, 32, former Alaska fishing boat captain, lately a resi- dent of Bellingham, Wash., who died at the Marine Hospital here. He had been ill for three years. jmuda Clipper left for |Harbor at 8:14 o'clock this morning on another survey flight prepara- tory to a regular service. reau vessel North Star. The smoking pipe, which reveals the art culture of the Eskimos on St. Lawrence Island, was made by an Eskimo named Apaata, accord- ing to information to Curator A. P. Kashevaroff. About 12 inches long, the bowl is made of wood with wal- rus plug, the stem of wood, inlaid with ivory, and of metal. Just what melal has not yet been ascertained; an analysis is now being conducted by B. D. Stewart, Commissioner of Mines. Apaata is a resident of Gam- bell on St. Lawrence Island.