The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 3, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7501. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, German H|T|_EHTAKES What Will He Be Up toNext? Big Question Now PREPAREDNESS MEASURE NOW Intends to Repell Any At- tack Made by Loyal- ist Government DEFIES CCMMITTEE IN DRASTIC ACTION Italian Premier, German War Minister, Make Plans to Attack City, Bilbao BERLIN, June 3.—Authoritative sources report that Chancellor Hit- ler has dispatched German U-boats to the Spanish waters. This is ta- ken as a preparedness measure to defeat any Spanish Government at- tack with an overwhelming force. Chancellor Hitler is reported to be determined to be ready for any eventuality in the present Spanish crisis, no matter what the London Non-Intervention Committee de- cides to answer his demand for ade- quate protection of German war- ships. - The question from many sources as to why such a fleet of German naval craft should be assembled in| Spanish waters, if Germany is “neu- | tral,” has not been answered, and| it is said, will not be. PLAN _NEW.DRIVE ROME, June 3.—Preéfiiler Benito U-Boats Sént to 1937. Spanish Waters The Duke of Windsor has the world guessing as a playboy, again—this time as to the career he'll chose after his marriage today to the woman for whom he rencunced a throne. He’s had experience them, he could e Mussolini and Field Marshal Werner | von Blomberg, German Minister of ‘War, are reported to be coordinat- ing the Italian and German forces| ° in Spain for an intensified drive| under the Insurgent Generalissmo! Francisco Franco against besieged Bilbao, in Northern Spain. GEN. MOLA KILLED PARIS, June 3.—A Berlin dispatch | quoted the official German news | agency as reporting Gen. Mola, Spanish Insurgent Commander on the Bilbao front, has been killed in an airplane accident. TWO SIDES T0' STEEL STRIKE: £00D AND BAD Gov. Davey Looks for Early | Peace—Picket Lines Strengthened WARREN, Ohio, June 3.—Gov. Martin L. Davey sounded an op-: timistic note in the seven-State steel strike with the announce- ment today that he was “hopeful | of an early settlement which will| send 72,000 men back to the steel mills.” | Gov. Davey is here conferring with officials of the two steel com- panies. At the same time the announce- ment was made by Gov. Davey, Phillip Murray, strike leader, sum- moned a strategy council to tight- | en up strike lines. Steve Young, 55, picket, was shot and slightly wounded today in a picket line skirmish. 'Senators, Ambassadors Are Found “Muscling” In On Each Other Now By PRESTON GROVER ! WASHINGTON, June 3. — Too| many Senators want to run the na-| tion’s foreign affairs and too many | Ambassadors want to run its do- mestic affairs. ! Senator Nye of North Dakota and several others became frightfully BEND, Oregon, June 3.—A fishidg wroukht up over the letter Ambas- |party of five men and one woman gaqor Dodd sent from Berlin warn- !met a tragic end near Lapine when ing the nation against a plot of | their automobile crashed into a tree. some unnamed billionaire to put a| Four of the men were killed out- puppet dictator im the White {right. The woman and the other pgyse |men were critically injured and died But at almost the same hour the soon after mlsen to & hospital islate Department and its outlying The \desd , nclude o Fardand Ambassadors were stirred to the |firemen, Garrett Paulson and Joe depths when Senator Nye demand- | Heptp. ‘ed that the State Department im- ————— pose an arms embargo against Ger- FILM STRIKERS |many and Italy, or show the reason [why not. It was his idea that the| Told to Join Certain Ranks | Nazi-Fascist filibustering expedi- tions into Spain constituted a state to Guard Against Repudiation FISHING PARTY OF FIVE KILLED FUNERALS FOR 5 CHICAGO, Ill, June 3.—Fun- erals were held here today for five men killed in the disturbance on Memorial Day in South Chicago. FOOD PLANE PROTEST CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 3.— Councilmen plan to make a protest to Cleveland’s Mayor against use of the fiying field here for planes taking food to workers in beseiged plants. - e — SUNDAY EDITION OF CHRONICLE DISCONTINUED With the 1ssue of May 30, The Ketchikan Chronicle discontinued its Sunday edition. Principal Sun- day features, including the eight- page comic section, the same as featured by The Empire on Satur- days, will be included in the week- end edition. COUNTRY GENTLEMAN ] Loved seclusion of Fort Bel- vedere, his country place near London, and of his Canadian ranch; is a gar- den fan. [ PLAYBOY ] Fond of dancing and a gay secial life (as Long Island learned during one of his visits to New York). Famous as a “ladies” man.” Snappy dresser. Set many styles (which helped boost British industry). Mixes a good cocktail (he gave the bartenders some new ideas on his Adriatic cruise last summer). Well-healed financially. 2 Delighted in riding to the hounds. 3 Likes golf, mountain climb- ing, swimming, tennis. And he has a passion for keep- ing in condition. country gentleman and empire salesman. Should he wish to return to one of cite these qualifications for the ENROUTEKODIAK, T0 BE MISSING Four Men Belie_ved Aboard —No Report Since Monday's Gale CUTTER TALLAPOOSA FINDS ANOTHER BOAT Barge that Broke Away from Tug Georgia to West, Not Located SEATTLE, June 3.—Coast Guard Cufter Tallapoosa, heacjuarters at Juneau, has wirelessed to Coast Guard headquarters here, that the gasboat Balto, of Anacortes, which s reported to have four men aboard bound from Taku to Kodiak Island, fs ‘missing in Alaska waters since last Monday’s gale. The men are believed to include Lyle Biackwell, Claude McKerr and name of the other man is not known. |also been reported as missing, has < |béen found by the Tallapoosa in EMPIRE SALESMAN 1 Democratic. Credited with understanding problems of common people. 2 Engaging personality. Good mixer — makes friends easily. 3 Knows his “territory” well. (In 14 years after the war he made 10 extended jour- neys to the dominions and countries outside the em- pire, *“selling” the crown and boosting British trade.) of war which justified the United States going into the shuddering se- \clusion that is contemplated in the neutrality act. | In a way that amounted to a re- }quest for an investigation. The Sen- ate and did at once act on it, to |the undying gratitude of .the State | Department. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 3.—, Strike leaders of the Federated SURPRISE Motlon Picture Orafts have been| gengior Nye is a hound for neu- 1”-;“‘“ of T"”‘fi“' and S‘:g:em"umxrs. hence the State Depart- 1p oyefis Exocutive . Comuul ment was wide-eyed with perplexity ijom ‘our ranks or stand repud- at his action, |iated by our international union.” But on the other‘iu'nd the Senate - e e ——— 2 as doi conf Skeletons of more than two dozen :oundoxm v":i t ou‘:“;‘: :}:s warned by the International Al- ...}ty ang. staying out of Europe's| ROPER SOUNDS WARNING NOTE ON DEPRESSION First Government Expre sion Is Made Public, Foreign Buying S~ WASHINGTON, June 3.—Daniel R. Roper, Secretary of Commerce, | warned today against the possi- | bility of depression “resulting from | the abrupt letdown following ex- cessive buying for armament pur- poses.” This is the first official expres- sion in this country of concern over potential effects of foreign rearmament on American business. INTERIOR B.C. HAS STARTED Service Inaugurated from! Prince George Over Long Route | PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, June 3 |—Grant McConachie, President of the United Air Transport, Limited, took off from here with 15 sacks of |mail to inaugurate the first air mail service to interior British Columbia. The service is between Prince deer have been found in a natural o, trap, a deep rocky pit, in nonhemli en Ambassador Dodd cut lw California. 1 (Continued on Page Five) George, Fort St. James, Mansion Creek and Takla Landing. William Sound. The harge which broke loose from ‘the tug Georgia off Cape Hinchin- brook, is still missing. The Talla- pogsa did not state whether any men are aboard the barge. 45T AN Al iTreaxu;); Ends {11 Months | Away in Red | WASHINGTON, June 3. |Treasury ended the first eleven !months of ‘the present fiscal year 1$2,377,000,000 in the red. President | Roosevelt forecast a deficit of sev- |eral hundred thousand dollars more | before the end of the fiscal year {on June 30. STRIKE CALLED AT BELLINGHAM EVENING NEWS {Perkins Paper Fails to Pub- | lish When Four Editorial | Workers Quit Work | 1 i | { i Four editorial workers of the Bel- lingharg Evening News, members of |the Newspaper Guild, went on ‘smke last night and no attempt ‘wns made to publish the paper to- |day. With the aid of other union- |ists, the strikers formed a picket line around the plant. Members of the Typographical Union, reporting for work today, were stopped and did not enter the building. Higher pay and shorter hours ;are demanded. The paper is owned by 8. A. Perkins, Tacoma capital- ist, who also owns the Daily Olym- pian at Olympia, Wash., and is one of the owners of the Alaska Transportation Company which operates the Evelyn Berg. AIRMAILTO AMELIAOFFON ANOTHER LEG BULLETIN — ~aramaribo — Earhart and her copilot Noonan landed here at 12:55 o’clock after a flight of 5 hours and 2 minutes from Caripito, Vene- zuela. MIAMI, Florida, June 3.—Amelia Earhart, according to advices re- ceived by the Pan-American here, took off from Caripito, Venezuela, at 3:48 o'clock this morning bound on a 750-mile flight to Paramaribo, Netherlands Guiana. ———————— @irls’ polo games are now played —Jean Harlow has been stricken| oo o om™boin Jode (hard rock) in California, the season culminat- ing in a tournament at Pebble Beach. Vaden Propst, all of Anacortes. The | The seiner Rio de Oro, which has | shelter behind Seal Island, Prince | BELLINGHAM, Wash., June 3— | |REPORTEASBOAT | Today’s World Renowned Bride Mining Shows Big Inc According to Latest Figures| WARNING T0 LABOR UNIONS 1S GIVEN 0UT Former Secretary of Treas- ury Cautions on Wise Leadership NEW YORK, June 3. — Ogden Mills, former Secretary of the | Treasury, gave a warning that | without wise leadership and or- | ganization on a flexible and volun- tary basis, labor unions “may act |as a brake on prosperity and ex- pansion.” Mills pointed to Italy and Ger- many, two nations where labor “started to flush with power to dominate the State but ended in being the slaves of the State.” 'GIRL, BOY ARE SENTENCED T0 STATE PRISON |Convicted of Murdering Girls’ Mother—Hard Labor Their Fate | JERSEY CITY, N. J., June 3.— | Gladys MacKnight, aged 17, and her |former choir boy sweetheart, Don-| |ald Wightman, 19, were today sen- {tenced to 29 to 30 years at hard labor in the state prison. They were | |convicted of the second degree mur- |der of the girl's mother because |she objected to certain liberties ]they were taking. JEAN HARLOW KEPT T0 HOME BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, June 3. | | | | | | | | | | | with inflammation of gall bladder and is confined to her home under the care of her physician. An American woman, the former Wallis w.hld Slm. who becomes the wife of the Duke of Windsor, who renounced the British in Alaska Last Year Throne to wed the “woman I Love. rease Over’35 | Mines in Alaska produced min-| erals worth $23,594,000 in 1936, as| against $18,312,000 in 1935, accord- ing to an announcement made by the Interior Department todsy‘ through the Geological Survey. The | total value of the mineral output of | the Territory since 1880 is 3122.222.-‘ 000, or one hundred times the price paid to Russia for the entire Ter- ritory at the time of purchase in 1867. The following table shows in sum- | mary form the mineral output of Alaska for 1936 and, for compari- | son, the production of the same minerals in 1935: 1936 1935 $18,433,000 $15,940,000 369,000 206,000 3,720,000 1,249,700 99,500 65,200 573,000 501,600 Gold Silver - Copper Lead Coal Miscel. miner- al products, in~ cluding plati- num metals, tin, ete 398,800 349,500 Total $23,594,000 $18,312,000 In all the computations of value |nervous. DUKE, WALLIS ARE MARRIED, TWO SERVICES Former King of Great Bri- tain Is Wedded to American Woman SAME FRENCH WORD ‘OUI’ SPOKEN BY BOTH Official Witnesses, News- papermen, Faithful Friends Present CHATEAU DE CANDE, MONTS, France, June 3.—The Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield, American, were married at noon- time today in the serenity of this mossy chateau of Touraine, cul- minating an internatonal romance, said to be the greatest the world has ever had. The same lone French word “oui” for “yes” was sald by each as the Duke and Wallis became man and wife, if not King and Queen. Two Ceremonies The French civil ceremony was conducted by the roly poly mayor, Dr. Charles Mercler; of Monts, who is also country physician, before official witnesses and newspaper- -in the salon. A few brief steps “{into the Louis Sixteenth Room, & few faithful friends witnessed the second ceremony, In which the Duke and Wallls were married by the Anglican Service, before an im- provised altar. The latter service was made possible by the last min- ute offer of the Poor Man's Vicar of Darlington, England, the Rev. R. Anderson Jardine, despite the Bishop's disdain. Simple, But Smart The wedding was simple but smart. The double service lasted five min- utes. The new Duchess was apparently She was gowned in a “Wallis blue” dress. e Edward beamed, his eyes sparkled from time to time and he smiled broadly. The Duke gave his bride a beau- tiful diamond diadem to wear on her brow. TEMPEST RAISED LONDON, June 3—The act of the Rev. Jardine in marrying the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield, in defiance of his super- iors, has raised a tempest in the Anglican Church and the question now is whether he may leave his parish and become the Duke's pri~ vate chaplain. JUST ANOTHER DAY LONDON, June 3.—The wedding of Wallis was just another day at the average selling prices for the| year have been used rather thanithe office of Ernest Aldrich Simp- the prices actually received by the|son, her second husband. He lunch- producers. Furthermore, the quan-|ed in one of London's famous chop tities mentioned in this statement|houses with an old friend. At relate to production and not to|tables nearby, people were reading sales, shipments, or some other per- ' the latest editions of the London haps equally significant basis by!pewspapers, filled with pictures of which the industry might be gaged.|the couple. This did not disturb Prosperous Year | his noonday meal. As is evident from the foregoing table, the mining industry of the . . Territory enjoyed A prosperous Tiniest Qll!llt year, for the value of the output of Has More Teeth practically every mineral showed a' # notable increase. As a result, the, Than Sisters value of the mineral production from Alaska in 1936 was larger| CALLENDAR, Ontario, June 3.— than for any other year since 1918. Marie, the littlest of the Dionnes, Prices for the various commodities|said to her third quintuplet birth- were in general higher than in the day cake last week: preceding year, but the great In-| < have more teeth than my sis- crease shown was due in the m“‘“‘tem; all the better to eat you with, to the much' greater quantity (‘(‘my dear.” output from the Alaska mines. Al-) Marie has been the weakest of though on the whole operating con-line five little girls since they were ditions were favorable, there born on May 28, 1934. She even nothing in the records of the past|paq an crpentlm; to Temove ‘& tu- season that would indicate m"’*mor from her thigh. But now, sta- this great production was a mere}l‘u“cs announced b'y Dr. Alnx; Roy temporary spurt that would soon!p.... chowed she had eighteen subside. All indications point to |, .. one more than Cecile and and the conglusion that production at o more e Yeonine Beotle” and this rate can be maintained OF | A nnette. ? e even bettered in suctl:r:mx years. | She ‘lw has put on a pound in From Two es | The output of gold from Amka?:::uls“:t T:".;zfih:m:m':bz |the heftiest of the quintuplets. She weighs thirty-one and one-half pounds. and placer mines. In 1936 this out- " (Continued on Page Three.) s