The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 28, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7496. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1937. MEMBER ASSOC[ATED PRESS PRICETENCENTS NULATO SUBMERGED, HOUSE TOPS SEEN HUNDREDS ARE KILLED IN AIR RAID, VALENCIA Three Hn:d—red Pound Bombs Dropped On City Early Today AMERICANS NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH, REPORT Many Buildings in Ruins— Craft Sunk in Harbor —Crew Dies VALENCIA, Spain, May 28. At least 200 persons have been killed as Insurgent planes unleashed a terrific bombardment early this morning, while the city was asleep. Great damage has been done in various parts of this temporary Spanish Government capital. Many are unaccounted for as up to noon 76 bodies, several of those believed to have escaped death, W removed from ruins of build- ings. Dozens of 300 pound bombs were dropped. The raiding planes are described by competent observers as Italian| Capronis. American Consul Milton Wells was caught in a rain of debris of his building, but escaped uninjured.| ‘ Several Americans, including Nor- Isociation. man Thomas, Soclalist from the| United States, and his wife, were I Michaud said: What, No Ice Cream, Candy On Quints’ Birthday? CALLENDER, Ontario, The quints are three years old t.o- day, but with the exception of half an hour radio broadcast and public ceremony late today, in which an attempt will be made to get them to sing and talk, the day is the same as any other. They have their oatmeal, spinach, bathing and BULI]EN GATE _ BRIDGE OPENS TOMOTORISTS| Naval Planes s Roar Over- * head, Warships Sweep Under Great Span play, but no cake, ice cream, not even candy. A T L R SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 28. —The world’s greatest suspension bridge, spanning the mile wide gap U s FI of the Golden Gate, was today op- ' i ened to thousands of motorists af- ter a preview by 200,000 pedestrians PRuTEsTEn Tn who surged across the structure yes- terday. Skeptics said the suspension N DlAN bridge couldn't be built, but “there she is.” Five hundred naval planes roared overhead at noon and later 42 war- ships of the United States battle fleet, fresh from six weeks of man- euvers, began sweeping under the bridge, in a ten mile procession. Tonight is Naval night. President Roosevelt, in Washing- ton, D. C, pressed the button op- Objections Ralsed to Pro- posed Plans for Float- ing Plants, B. C. VICTORIA, B. C.,, May 28.—The British Columbia Department of ... g the span. Fisheries has telegraphed to the | Gov. Frank A. Merriam cut the Pedorsl ‘Goveriment 8 Ogiaw;l | three chains, gold, silver and cop- protest against the purported plans | per with torches. and then said: of United States interests to oper-\" .mppio brings ‘nearer to' realiza~ ate floating fish reduction plants tion the vision of & great roadway off the Province in offshore waters.| g Alaska, Northern Canada too The protest was sent quickly after southcmmost Houlh . Atnerica” plolests had been received from of the Canadian Manufacturing As- The protest to Fisheries Minis “It is the oplnion housed only a few hundred feet'or this department that the con-| from where three bombs fell and templated action will have the ef- exploded, creating heavy damagcs. fect of throwing the door wide open An English boat, the Cadin, an-|and on a large scale for invasion by the Meal Oil and Salt Fish Section - RAISE HAVOC: chored in the harbor, is reported to have been sunk in the darkness, and seven of the crew killed. Buildings of the Paraguay Consu- | late are wrecked and seven occu- pants killed. The Consul escaped injury, however. TAX EVADERS ARE GOING TO BE PROSECUTED Treasury Departmenh Makes Report—Roosevelt to Demand Legislation BULLETIN WASHINGTON, | May 28.—President Roosevelt this| afternoon said he will ask legislation at this session of Congress to check| what he termed both evasion and avoidance in income taxes, running into millions of dollars by a small group of wealthy persons. He told the newsmen at a press conference he has received a Treasury De- partment report showing glaring evasions. MAPPING LEGAL ACTION WASHINGTON, May 28.—Treas- ury Department officials disclosed this forenoon they are mapping le- gal action against scores of large|. taxpayers who are alleged to have evaded income tax payments. In| some cases civil proceedings will be; undertaken and in others there will be fraud prosecutions, as recom- mended by the Department of Jus- tice. Actions will be based on findings contained in a special Treashry sur- vey ordered by Secretary Morgen- thau. This was done after March tax collections fell 17 percent un- der estimates. RICH MAN ILL ABOARD YACHT Coast Guarc?rRushing Aid to George F. Baker, Jr., Out on Pacific ABOARD CUTTER TANEY, May 28.—Transformed into a floating hospital, this Coast Guard vessel is ploughing through rough Pacific seas to rescue one of the world’s richest men from death from per- itonitis. George F. Baker, Jr., 59, chair- man of the First National Bank of| New York City, lay seriously ill aboard his yacht Viking, 300 miles |waters now protected by Interna-| |the United States. | |to Europeans and Japanese in the sal- mon and halibut industries in the: !Soviet Scnenllsls Unable to! tional treaty between Canada and: Communicate with “The Canadian Manufacturers’| Association branch has protested | Short Sets George Alexander, Assistant Commissioner of Fisheries of Brit-| MOSCOW, May 28.—Queer be- ish Columbia saying that it is view-|havior of radio waves are puzzling ed with grave concern the plans oiINonh Pole explorers. |the United States interests to place| Dr. Schmidt's party of scientists, floating plants in operation off the now camped on the ice floe 12% British Columbia shores. Even if mfles from the pole, have found the vessels are stationed off the that short wave transmission is vir- 'coast of Washington State it would tually impossible because of “unex- follow that seine boats would make plalned disturbances.” their catches in the waters contlg-; The Soviet camp is unable to re- |uous to British Columbia.” ceive reports from Pilot Mazuruk, 2 > EAES™ expemwe and up-to-date equip- ‘ment is bemg used. still 256 or 35 miles away. The mosfi] ARE T0 SURVEY GOODNEWS BAY MINING REGION Fitzgerald and Mertie Are| on Way to Section in Westward Alaska WASHINGTON, May 28.—Gerald Fitzgerald, surveyor, and 'J. B."Mer- cal Survey, have left here to study and map the Goodnews Bay region in Alaska, giving special attention to the platinum and gold dlscover- fes said to have started a boom | which has swollen the population of 16, six years ago, to an unesti- mated number now. Territorial reports ascribe the first digoveries in that area to an Eskimo named Walter Smith who announced he had found “white gold.” This was on the south end of a moum.ain in 1926. FORD OFFICIALS REPLY ON RIOTS Four Veteran cliihbers Are Coming North in Attempt to Shop Early, Order Also For Two Days Housewives are reminded that Monday is a holiday and shopping for Sunday and Mon- day must be done tomorrow as all food stores will be closed on Memorial Day. The housewives are asked to get their orders in early. Many of those employed in stores are planning on an early get-away on fishing or pleasure trips and desire to finish up their filling orders and delivery as early as possible. e e 000000000 0CC HEAD HERE ON INSPECTION, ALASKA WORK Fechner, F;d—Morrell At- rive This Afternoon Aboard Forester Robert Fechner, head of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Fred Morrell, in charge of that work for the U. S. Forest Service, |arrived in Juneau this afternoon aboard the flagship Forester of |the Forest Service fleet after a lvlsit to CCC projects in South- xeast Alaska with Assistant Region- ;fll Forester Wellman Holbrook. The CCC chief is accompanied ,‘by Mrs. Fechner and his secre- | tary, Mrs. C. B. Holbrook. | afterneon the party was inspect- |ing CCC and Forest Service activ- ity in the Juneau vicinity with Regional Forester B. F. Heintzle- |man as their guide. MEXICAN OIL - WORKERS QuIT 9000800000t sne MEXICO CITY, May 28.—Cheer- ing workers nailed red and black lsmxe flags to the doors of offices, |refineries and storage plants of the !four hundred million dollar oil in- duslry, launching a walkout at mid- which has paralyzed gasoline and uu powered transportation. Seventeen companies and 18,000 This | cale Mount Lucania BOSTON, Mass., May 28.—Four veéteran mountain climbers disclos- ed they would use aerial photogra- phy to guide them this summer to Mount Lucania, 17,150-foot peak in the southwest corner of the Yu- kan Territory. Led by Bradford Washburn,, approach revealed by derial photo- graphy that he took two years ago when using an airplane. They ex- pect by this route to reach the base ‘eamp 30 miles east of the Canadian- Alaskan boundary. The expedition will attempt to §cesle the southern cliffs which turned back the American Geo- graphical Society expedition two years ago. It is expected camp will be es- tablished by June 11. Other members of the party will| be Russell Dow, of Woodsville, New Jersey; Robert Beats, of Philadel- phia, and Norman Bright, of Sun- nydale, California. The guide will be Robert Reeves of Valdez, Ala:kn OPPOSITION T0 WAGE, HOUR BILL Senator Klng Describes Measures as Being Worse than NRA is the first Senator to voice out- Lq:hc opposition to the new wage d hour bilt. He described it worse than NRA as it “goes too far and infringes on the rights of states and commits absolute power Governmental bureaus to determine |wages and hours.” Most of the Senators are waiting to see what figures will be written into the bill before committing themselves. HOSPITAL FOR POINT BARROW WASH'INGTON, May 28. — The of | Qambridge, they will follow the new | sy | WASHINGTON, May 28—Unit-| ed States Senator Willlam H. King, | to| BALDWIN OUT, - GHAMBERLAIN NOW PREMIER Switch in an's Govern- ment Is Smooth—For- mer Chief Honored LONDON, May 28-—Great Bri- tain has smoothly switched Gov- ernments and Stanley Baldwin the “Saviour of Monarchy,” has left the Prime Ministry to return to his ‘Invm'ite avocation of raising pigs. | The 69-year-old statesman has 'handed over one of the world's big- |gest jobs to Conservative Arthur Ne- ville Chamberlain, his right hand man, who is one year his junior. The principal changes in the Government, aside from the change in Prime Ministers, include Sir {John Simon, until now Home Sec- |retary, to fill the vacancy caused {by Chamberlain’s elevation from | Chancellor of the Exchequer. Tonight the King conferred on |Stanley Baldwin the highest dis- Itinction within the gift of the |Crown, Knighthood of the Garter. \The King received the new Govern- \mf‘nl which is still a coalition ad- | ministration, in a special audience. e King County - Engineer s Under Arrest i Taken in Custody in West- ! ern Washington— ’ Faces Perjury | SEATTLE, May 28—County En- |gineer Joseph Dodd, who was ar- rested yesterday at Yakima, denied he was attempting to evade a bench warrant out for him after he left |town, saying he did not know it had |been issued. | The Prosecuting Attorney's office said his previous $2,000 bond was unsatisfflcwry as his wife, one of !the signers to be, had not signed it. Dodd is to go on trial June 7 on ‘22 perjury and larcency counts ac- {cusing him of falsifying his expense accounts. House has approved the $100,000 L. was arrested in a Yakima Ho- appropriation for construction and| e -yhere he had registered under equipment of a hospital at Point|ihe name of J. Paul. He was iden- Barrow, replacing the one burned.iirinq by a former Seattle man last year. | there. B —————— tie, junior geologist of the Geologi-| workers are effected. ——————— —— DETROIT, Michigan, May 28.— | Officers of the Ford Motor Com- Tu EXTEND ccc wpany said the riots at the gates of |the plant last Wednesday were \ “staged in order to cover up failure wAa; it of the United Autobobile Workers SennteS!:’nr:]G;g‘lle Mciifezgees h’:?z of America to organize Ford work- agreed on a compromise proposal ers.” |to extend the Ct |" The officers attribute the disorder | it i o in which 18 -unionists were hurt, to unionists, unidentified. Father of Hoot Gibson Dies in Cal. Hospital LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 28— — e Nuw {Hiram J. Gibson, 73, father of Hoot GOMMISS|UNED Gibson, film cowboy, has passed ;away mif)f)spital atiAcadero. Delegate Introduces Bill Giving Ketchikan Title to Certain Land ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 28.—| |Hugh Brewster, Aeronautics In- |spector for Alaska, has been com- missioned a Captain in the Marine| Gaddis Transferred WASHINGTON, May 28—Army orders issued include transfer of Capt. John W. Gaddis, of the Sev- enth Infantry, now stationed at Chilkoot Barracks, to. Fort Doug- las, Utah. ONE HUNDRED DIE IN SLIDE MEXICO CITY, May 28.—Hur- riedly reinforced, an army of rescue workers is digging at millions of tons of rock and mud in an effort |to reach more than 100 dead, bur- Corps, aviation reserves. WASHINGTON May 28.—Alaska | ied under the avalanche which |Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has| crashed down on the mining town |introduced a bill authorizing the of Tealpujuana when a dam of a 'Albert Murray “Andy” Divorced y | CH!CAGO I, May 28—Mrs. Marie Correll, 32, was today grant- ed a divorce from Charles C. Cor-| rell, who is Andy of Amos and| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 28— Andy, radio team. She charged ',wo;Albert W. Murray, 46, prominent instances of cruelty, one a slap in|mine operator on Cache Creek, the face on Christmas Eve. They north of here, died Tuesday night have been married 10 years, but|at the camp as the result of heart have had no children. |trouble. The body was airplaned |here after one of the camp men DORIS M'EAG‘RAN walked 45 miles to teléphone for a TO STUDY DANCING plane. IN SEATTLE SCHOOLU. S Is to Parhclpate in San anmco World Fair WASHINGmN, May 28. — The Senate has passed and sent to the House the bill authorizing an ap- propriation of $1,500,000 for partici- Miss Doris McEachran, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. A. McEachran, left aboard the North Sea for Se- attle last evening. She will visit with relatives, and plans to study southwest of Honolulu and this cutter is enroute to it. dancing at the Ruth Doherty School | pation in the San Prancisco World of Dance for the next three months. Fair, ~ Dies Suddenly Interior Department Secretary to Igive Ketchikan title to property de- scribed as a courthouse reserve in Block 13 for school purposes. S eee COWLING RETURNING E. J. Cowling, head of the Gas- passage from Seattle for Juneau this morning aboard the motorship Northland. slga St DAUGHTER BORN TO LISTONS LAST NIGHT Congratulations are being extend- ed today to Mr. and Mrs. Lu Liston upon the birth of a daughter, Alice Gail, yesterday evening at 8:30 o'~ clock at St. Ann’s Hospital. The child weighs six pounds and one and one-half ounces, and was named Alice Gail for two grand- mothers. Mrs. Liston is the former Miss Edna Riendeau. Mr. Liston is a local commercial artist tineau Construction Company, took | mining company collnpsed SEATTLE JUDGE DIES SUDDENLY | SEATTLE, May 28. — Superior |Court Judge Roscoe Smith, 53, died in a hospital last night as the re- sult of heart trouble following a severe attack of asthma in the court chambers yesterday after- noon. He was appointed Judge five years ago. He came to Seattle 11 years ago from Nebraska.. ———.—— IKE CROPLEY BACK Ike Cropley, son of Jake Cropley, | Juneau piledriver man, returned to Juneau from Sitka aboard the stea- mer North Sea. WINDSOR GIVEN CASH,PRESENTS Duke Suppl_i—g'with Money Six ‘DaKs Before Ap- proaching Marriage MONTS, France, May 28. — Per- sons close to the Chateau de Cande report the Duke of Windsor, six days before his marriage to Mrs. Wallis Warfield, has been newly supplied with cash. Sir Walter Monckton, Windsor’s legal advisor, is reported to have brought the cash as well as wedding present. He arrived by plane from London yesterday. Associates also disclosed the cou- ple may visit the United States, es- pecially the former scenes of the bride-to-be’s early life, on their second honeymoon. IT WILL BE “YOUR GRACE” LONDON, May 28—King George has formally forbade Mrs. Warfield to use the title of Her Royal High- ness when she becomes the bride of his brother, the Duke of Wind- sor, but she may be addressed as “Your Grace.” e Bing Crosby to Receive Degree at Gonzaga Univ. BSPOKANE, Wash., May 28.—Bing Crosby, film star and radio artist, is to become a Doctor of Music. He will get a degree from Gonzaga University where he graduated. The crooner’s alma mater an- nounced the award of an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree is for contribution to American enter- jtainment by radio and screen. Fed. Intervention May Be Sought in Steel Walkout Seventy Thousand Workers Still Idle—Gov. Davey May Take Steps YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 28.— Federal intervention is believed by authoritative sources to be the only chance for a quick break in the five state steel strike involving 70,000 workers who are still idle. It is said there is some hope that Gov. Martin L. Davey might set a stage for peace negotiations in the steel workers demands for sign- ed contracts with the CIO. Pickets paced their posts before the mills in TIllinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York, according to advices received here. Jack Baughan, WPA worker, was shot and wounded in Warren, Ohio, when a negro fired into a group of pickets. 4,000 MARINES HOLDING CITY OF SAN PEDRO Workers Etesl Police Slaying of Longshore- man in Public Riot SAN PEDRO, Cal, May 28.—An angry army of 4,000 marine work- ‘ers, enraged over what they call the “unjustified slaying” of Nor- an ‘Gregg, longshoreman, by Po- liceman William Redding in an altercation yesterday, took over the city today. The situation stood tense with the men defying, for a time, the extra police detalls sent to halt them. Virtually every business house on the waterfront area was closed and the street car service was interrupted. Police state that Officer Red- ding shot in self-defense. Gold Mine Sold For Ten Million Goes to Oil Men—First Payment Is Made RENO, Nevada, May 28—J. K. Wadley and Sherman Hunt, weal- thy Texas oil men, have been ‘grnmed a lease and option to pur- ichase the famous George Austin | Jumbo gold mine. The price is snld to be ten million dollars. Austin sald the lease and option covers a period of 35 years and he hag received the first payment of $250,000. Lady BTrber at Nome During Stampede Days, Dies, Anchorage Hosp. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 28.— Bessie Carston, 54, formerly of Nome Fairbanks and Seward, is dead here after a long illness. She operated a barber shop at Nome during the stampede days. —— Crushed by Tree, Dies in Hospital ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 28.— Adolph Wendland, 60, is dead in the hospital here as the result of head injuries sustained when he was pinned beneath a tree he felled at Talkeetna. He was rushed here on a special gas car of the Alaska Railroad Wednesday night, but died from injuries. No survivors are known. Injumction Legislation Planned by Sen. Norris WASHINGTON, May 28. — Inti- mates of Senator Norris predict he will soon propose legislation to re- strict injunctions against Federal financing of publicly owned power plants. i {Famous Jumbo Property’ TRADING POST UNDER FLOOD WATERS, YUKON Passengers ‘Aboard PAA Plane Report Scene of Desnlahon NO LIFE IS SEEN FROM HIGH IN AIR May Have Escaped by Taking to Row Boats AIRBANKS, Alaska. May 28.—Passengers aboard a Pa- cific Alaska Airways plane from Nome, said the flood- waters of the lower Yukon tops of Nulato, a trading post. of the Koyukuk Valley. Although no direct com- munication with Nulato has dents here believe the 200 per- sons there probably escaped craft. . Pilots of the PAA plane, as well as the passengers, report the river in the vicinity of Nu- lands. NATION MARKS AVIATION DAY FOR FIRST TIME Celebrations Held at Major Airports - in Tribute to’ Advances Made, Flying - WASHINGTON, May 28. — For :the first time in history, America was observing National Aviation Day as a tribute to the advances made in this mode of fast transportation since the Wright Brothers first fle' at Kittyhawk. Sponsored by aviation groups, so= cleties and s_lsoclnuons whose pur- | pose is the ‘advancement of avias itlon, Congress recently passed the | Shanley resolution which sets aside May 28 as Natlonal Aviation Day. Celebrations with aerial programs flelds of the. nation today and speakers pointed out the advances that have been made bringing about |a network of airlines which virtus ally girdle the globe, e, Grace Bradley Is to Wed Bill Boyd LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 28— Grace Bradley, actress, and Bill Boyd, western actor, announce -their engagement. The date of their marriage is indefinite. This is the first marriage for Miss Bradley, but the second for Boyd whose first wife was Dorothy Sebastian, actress, FIFTH SLIDE VICTIM FOUND SEWARD, Alaska, May 28.—The body of John Dyete, of Port Madi- |son, Wash,, killed in the Lynx Creek slide, has been found, according to a report received here. One more body remains to be recovered. Six men lost their lives. . The Weather Forecast for Juneau and vi- cinity, beginning at 4 p.m., May 28. Partly cloudy to cloudy, pos- sibly occasional light showers, tonighf and Saturday; light to moderate southerly winds, i i | Believed Zmes idents: have covered all but the house- been held for two days, resis ' in row boats or other small lato resembled a huge lake. {spreading over the entire low were held at many of the majoy