The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 7, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L, NO. 7504. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1937. * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FASCIST POWERS RECOGNIZE INSURGENTS GOLD PRICE IN LONDON TAKES UPWARD SHOOT Efforts Are Made to Stem Flow of Yellow Metal to United States BROKERS SOOTHED BY TREASURY STATEMENT No Unhealtl:)zredit Condi- tion—No Departure from Agreement LONDON, June 7.—The price of bar gold was today pegged at $34.72 a fine ounce in an effort to stem! the flow of the yellow metal to the United States. The advance was 9.8 cents an ounce and cut the profit of the exporters, although the profit stood about five cents an ounce compared to 14 cents last Saturday. The U. S. Treasury soothed the nerves of London’s bullion stock| brokers with the statement that there is “no indication of any un- healthy credit condition” as the| result of the gold price situation| in England and has no intention| of departing from the tripartite| money agreement, It costs about 23 cents an ounce to ship gold to New York. | —_——— H SUN'S ECLIPSE IS ‘YARDSTICK® hlein (above), of Venice, Calif. s 967 oathing g at that ocean resort. contestants will be “Miee California” during a mardi gras ideal 1937 bathin by which some o IN BEAUTY QUEST has been selected as the She will be the model f:diad in selection of enice in August. |SEATTLE TOUR PARTY IS HERE ON TOMORROW Reception at Steamer Is Planned—Free Dance | AUTOMORBILES RACE ACROSS GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE AS | PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNALS THE FIRST "GO" SI GN i Given in Evening The Seattle Good Will Tour Party of the Chamber of Commerce is due here tomorrow, possibly around 10:30 o'clock in the forenoon, al« though at 3 o'clock this hour was not definite, arriving on the stea- mer Aleutian. | A special welcoming committee of | the Juneau Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club will be on hand to give greetings to the visitors. The cruise on the Aleutian, which |has been especially arranged, will |extend for sixteen days and visits iwill be made to all the cities in | Southeast and Southwest Alaska. {The Seattle visitors will be in Ju~ neau longer than on any previous | trip, the schedule calling for them |to arrive at 10:30 o'clock or later .and departing at 1 o'clock Wednes- (day morning. A luncheon will be |tendered by the Seattle group on {board the Aleutian to the members of the Juneau Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce. In the eve- ning the Seattleites will sponsor at informal dance at the Elks Hall From Juneau the party will go on to Skagway where a side trip has W;r;ck;lge -of Plane Lostf Last December with Five and Yukon Route to Lake Bennett. Arriving at Seward the Aleutian will {remain there approximately 38 | hours, during which time the Seat- tle people will go by special train to visit Anchorage and Matanuska. A special party will be detached ( been arranged on the White Pass| Fire trucks, ambulances and every type of automobile raced across the Golden Gate Bridge when President Roosevelt flashed the first “Go” sign by telegraph from Washington, D. C. At high noon on May 28 the gigantic span was thrown open to vehicular traffic and during the first hour an estimated 500 cars crossed. Honor of being first to cross was given to Mrs. Jean Olsen of San Francisco. Photo shows the first automobiles to cross the Golden Gate Bridge arriving at the San Francisco end of the span. JEAN HARLOW | PASSES AWAY, L. A. HOSPITAL {Platinum Blonde Film Act- PAYS FIRST BRIDGE TOLL ITALY, GERMANY TIGHTEN BONDS, SPANISH REBELS | Renewed ATack Made on Besieged Bilboa— Deadly Struggle RAIDING PLANES BOMBARD LEZAMA {Mussolini Reviews Italian Fleet Off Naples to Im- press Nazi Official LONDON, June 7.—Spanish Ins surgents have resumed their push against the besieged city of Bilbao while Germany and Italy, two Fise Icm powers, recognizéed the Insur- gent Administration and tightened their bonds of friendship with the Insurgents. Reports reaching Hendaye, | France, according to advices receive |ed here, said 63 insurgent planes bombed Lezoma, seven miles south= east of the refugee city. Troops on both sides are ' today locked in a struggle for the import= ant highway junction of Lemona. It is also reported here that Pre- 'mier Benito Mussolini is today on board one of his naval vessels off Naples watching the display of Italy's sea power, with Marshal Werner von Blomberg, Hitler's Min- ister of War. i a sham battle. More than 150 Italian warships with T0 submarines are participating in the sham battle, | Premier Mussolini sought to con- vince the German Minister of War T0 BE UBSERVED' Men, Two Women, F ound'g«_’;;; 0" painbants. ey win re.| _ress Dies Suddenly Late e This Forenoon Y turn to Seattle on the next ship'*’ ALPINE, Utah; Junie 7-~Searchers| s, thhound, the Yukon, coming to| of the value of U. . SEIENTISTS Naval Observers and Others| on Tiny Island in | Mid-Pacific ! WASHINGTON, June 7. — Naval observers and the National Geo- graphic Society astronomers stood | vigil today over delicafg instruments installed on a tiny island in the mid- Pacific for tomorrow's total eclipse FOREST FIRES Danger, for Time Being, | FLAME TODAY, INWASHINGTON have found the wreckage of v.hei airliner that was lost with five men and two women last Decem- ber 14. The plane at the time was en- route from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City and crashed on a moun- tain 40 miles from the destina- tion. The searchers last night made the report of the discovery of the wreckage but the bodies then had| not been recovered from the deep the Coast over the Richardson Highway. Southbound, the Aleutian will be in Juneau from 7 a.m. un- til noon Thursday, June 17. “Our representative business peo- ple come North on these Good Will trips, arranged by our Chamber of Commerce, to express this city’s ap- preciation for the immense trade which emanates from Seattle,” said yThomas M. Pelly, the Chairman of the Seattle Chamber’s Tour Com- mittee in advance notices. “We fully | LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 7. —| |Jean Harlow, 26, platinum blonde | film actress, died at 11:37 o'clock ' |this forenoon in the Good Samari- | tan Hospital. Dr. E. C. Fishbaugh, | (her physician, said she never re- gained consciousness after lapsing into a coma. | | The wellknown actress was strick- en with uremic poisoning and this ispread to her brain, causing it to| {swell. She was placed in an oxygen | itent, two blood transfusions were PRESIDENTIAL " INTERVENTION, STEEL STRIE : Seventy Thousand Workers i Look to Roosevelt to Aid in Settlement (By Associated Press) At least 70,000 men are still idle Is Reported Over in Oregon State of the sun, the longest in 12 cen- | snow. turies. | The instruments and the watchers are on the barren and hitherto un- | Saia - SEATTLE, June 7—Farest fires inhabited Can Ton nd, one of;} i the few dots of land in the Pacific: {are still troublesome in Washington but are giving little concern for the |realize the great importance of Al-| 4 also performed and intravenous so- aska to Seattle and the mutuality y,yons gaministered in an effort | of our interests, as well. Through {, cave her life. | these visits our le become bet-| & o ter acquainted wmpyours and can‘ g vas cau_sed fiom. compli- ) bettes cations of uremic poisoning and | r understand the problems of ies Harlow never rallied after a| NO BODIES FOUND ALPINE, Utah, June 7—A radio telephone message this afternoon from the plane wreckage scene said Mrs. Ethel Olsen, of San Francisco, had the distinction of being the first motorist to pay 50 cents toll for the privilege of driving across the Golden Gate Bridge. This picture shows Mrs, Olsen The scientists are expected to re-| searchers, working in snow and ice, |Alaska. The prime purpose of this .o 1 f last ) port by radio the progress of the present in Oregon where NUMeTous \yove” e far m;‘:, to find any of |tFiP 18 to pay a friendly call on Al-‘::;:z’ velipse she.. suffered . Ins .‘ banding her four bits to Captain Ray Logan of the toll patrol. |, " "0/ Bs 0" Sive works eclipse. blazes raged last Saturday. The|the seven bodies. sk Mrs. Jean Bello, the actress’ = PEyRRE {R%-Jocknd ¢ Rresidensias iy | tion in the widespread strike. At Among Good Willers EA jthe same time John L. Lewis ap- Among the Good Willers who will |be here tomorrow in the party are the following: Thomas M. Pelly, President Low- man & Hanford Co. Darwin Meisnest, Executive Vice- !mother, and William Powell, screen | star, and her constant companion at | ‘soclnl events during the recent | months were at the bedside. They | | were stunned by the sudden death | and left the hospital together. 2 - | cedent and practice. The scientists are ready to photo- | wer temperature and higher hu- graph the eclipse in an effort to| oo . obe iy solve the mysteries of the su"s;midny aided in bringing the fires strange outer fringe of light known |under control. as the corona. The largest fire in the State of The wreckage is splintered and encased in snow and ice. RS EE IR R Famous Dogs RHART HOPS |JAKEWAY FIRM | 2iisrs e i wage and hour legislation but op= OVER ATLANTIC WILL HANDLE e, s o ing” as contrary to American pre= so far covered 3,000 acres, but the Child Labor ARTMRWE Washington is at Grays Harbor and KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 7— Mason County and also in the Bel- lingham Bay section. Twelve professional artists arfived‘ here today aboard the Aleutian to spend six months painting Alaskan! scenes and typical industries un- der the Department of the Interior and which paintings will be hung in school rooms and Federal build- ings. e — RAPID CITY, North Dakota, June 7.—Heavy stock losses, also marooned tourists are reported as snow plow crews tackled snow drifts | today in the drifted Northern Black Hills in an attempt to open high- ways. One crew reported finding seven cars stuck in drifts. Telephone | messages state stock has been lost in various sections. i ! trol. expected to decrease the hazard. TUPPER IS AT Nine Passengers, Also First fighters are getting it under con- Other fires are being fought in The return of higher humidity is ——,,———— E00DNEWS BAY WITH FREIGHT Automobile Landed at New Camp GOODNEWS BAY, Alaska, June Mercury Soars Over 80 to Break Two-Year Record Smashing a two-year record, the mercury in Juneau soared up to 80.3 at 2 o'clock this afternoon to establish the warmest day here since July 26, 1934, It was one-tenth of a degree hotter than the peak of last year which was reached on June 8, a temperature of 80.2 degrees. The warmest recorded here was 87 on June 27, 1916. Forecast of the U. 8. Weather Bu- reau is for continued fair weather with warm temperatures. It was 74 Sunday, the first real summer day of the year, and sun- burns around town today indicates that most folks had taken advan- tage of the occasion, pect for platinum. STEAMERS NOW Robert W. Mackay, 21, died in the Yukon river, passengers to interior . points. 7.—Steamer Tupper arrived here and unloaded 90 tons of freight, nine passengers and also the, first automobile to reach here. The auto is for N. G. Hanson, who has laid the foundation of a new store and cold storage plant. Several drilling outfits also ar- rived here aboard the Tupper and will be used in this area to pros- —————— OPERATE, YUKON FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 7.— taking supplies and Of Alps Are President Washington Athletic Club. A. W. Akers, Jr., manager Zel- lerbach Paper Co. Ralph Allen, Secretary Seattle Brewing and Malting Co. To Be Kille St. Bernard’s, After Killing Little Girl, Sentenced to Death GRENOBLE, France, The famous dogs of Mount S. Ber- nard Monastery have been con- demned to death because ome of them recently killed Marie Ann Bremond, aged 10. Several huge dogs have already Legal action against the Monastery is withheld because it is promised|c, it will stop breeding the dogs tions. June 7.— aska Steamship Co. ‘Watson Barr, Manager ocean Steamship Co. D. L. Beck, Regional Manager Dodge Bros. Corporation. Capt. F. C. Beebe, United States Army. Harry J. Beernink, Manager ‘Washington Cooperative Egg and Poultry Association, John Benedict, Resident Agent Hudson Underwriters’ Agency, Cen- tralia, Washington, Rodney L. Brink, Editor Seattle Inter- L. W. Baker, Traffic Manager Al-! Reductionists | FOR SO. AFRICA ~ SCHENLEY HERE Not o Operat Head Out Over Ocean i i - InB.G. Waters Everything Fine Wiehe Announces Juneau Will Be Headquarters for Local Distributing NATAL, Brazil, June 7.—Amelia| | Theodore C. Wiehe, President of Earhart and her co-pilot Noonan| %No American Floating Plants Contemplate Ac- headed out over the South Atlantic this morning in a light rain, head- the Schenley International Cor- poration, announced last night that the Jakeway Distributing Company, an Alaska corporation, with head- quarters in Juneau would now be the sole distributors for all Schen- ley products, including the various brands made in the United States, and others that the international tion — Denial Made SEATTLE, June 7.—Reports that |American pilchard Yreduction ves-| |sels would operate off the British| ed for Dakar, Senegal, on a 1,900~ mile flight. The world tripper radioed four hours later that everything was going fine. C. E. Cochran, raised at the monastery for genera-|ypome Insuranc:go been killed, Dr. Jean Bremond said.|giqy J. A. Clark, Manager Parrott and Special Agent, Columbia coast next summer are denied by Louis M. Hicks, Executive Secretary Pacific Coast Fisheries }mm,nute. | The denial is made in a letter to |J. E. Michaud, Dominion Fisheries REACHES S80. AFRICA DAKAR, June 7.—Amelia Ear- .han landed at St. Louis, Senegal, | |after a flight of 1900 miles from organization imports. Previously five different Seattle jobbers rep- resented the Schenley products inj Alaska, Mr. Wiehe said. The announcement was made last 'YOUNG FLIER DIES, CRASH WENATCHEE, Wash., June 7.— Robert W. Mackey, 21, died in the|GTocery Co- Kenneth Connelly, Vice-President F. B. Connelly & Co. Richard J. Cook, Attorney. W A. Cooley, District Agent, Merchant Calculating Machine Co. Bert Ehle, proprietor Porter Apartments. Edward Flohr, Secretary Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works. James Frank, Secretary National J. C. Gillespie, Credit Manager, Natal, Brazil GIRL SCOUTS night at dinner in Percy’s banquet room, at which Mr. Wiehe was host. “The capitalization of the Jake- |way Distributing Company has been increased to $50,000, and is now the largest organization of its kind in Alaska,” said Mr. Wiehe. “The new officers of the company, all Alas- MEET TUESDAY | Minister at Ottawa. Hicks said the reductionists are| to seek a conservation treaty with| |Canada. BASEBALL TODAY In Washington the Senate Judi- clary Sub-Committee approved the Vandenberg constitutional amend- ment to prohibit persons under 16 |instead of 18 being employed. Marchers Protest In Lansing, Michigan, & gem= eral holiday was declared as several thousand persons marched behind UAW banners and blocked the square swrounding Michigan's Capital, as a protest to the arrest of eight pickets charged with mo- lesting and disturbing laborers en- gaged in peaceful pursuits. At Providence, Rhode Island, gar- bage collectors and incinerator maintenance employees went on a | strike for shorter hours and more | pay. Ford to Appear In Detroit, attorneys for Edsel Ford said he will appear voluntar- ily upon his return to the city be- “one man” investigating the recent fight be- tween Ford employees and the UAW organizers which took place at the gates of the Ford Motor Company. fore the grand jury End Ford Strike In Richmond, Cal, the striking CIO union members voted 5 to 1 to accept the proposal of their Alice G. Palmer, who Will be in|gen: j w. Gucker, Vice-President, Scores of games played this af-! § pas charge of the annual outing of the ;4 Dy’ Russell, Secretary. hospital here half an hour after his plane crashed from a height of 165 feet following a takeoff. y Russell Parkhall, who taught Mac- Kay to fly last fall, said the young flier tried to elimb too fast and turn at the same time after the takeoff. ——————— Butter prices during the summer months are expected to average the highest for the season in the past tion of 1936, ‘Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. ternoon in the two major leagues as received up to 3 o'clock, are as |Juneau Girl Scouts, arrived in Ju-| neau this morning and immediately | Juneau Headquarters leaders to end the 12-day tle-up of the Ford assembly plant. Late this afternoon it was an- six years with the possible excep-|__. John Gourley, Gourley Co. George W. Hamilton, Sales Man- ager, Tourtilotte-Bradley, Inc. P. Willis Holden, Realtor. George Black, Manager Sears, Roebuck and Co. B. W. Hoon, Advertising Depart- ment, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Harold Hovland, partner Stan- dard X-Ray Sales Co. (Continued on Page Eight) President John follows: i The new company will use Ju- called a meeting for tomOrrow|yea, g5 a distributing point for the morning at 10 o'clock at the home pepritory, Mr. Wiehe stated, and of Mrs. W. W. Council in thelzgequate stocks will be maintained Goldstein Building. All Girl Scouts pepe Large shipments for the Ter- who intend to go to the Eagle RIVr pjtory will come direct from the camp next Saturday are reuested gehenley distilleries and warehous- National League Pittsburgh 2; New York 5. Cincinnati 4; Brooklyn 5. ' The only games scheduled. American League New York 3; Detroit 4 b ¢ i i ted Washington 5; Cleveland 17. |CMP next Saturday are requestedeg to the Territory. | i O 4 | The officers of the re-organized Miss Palmer, who was in charge company, Elmer Jakeway, J. W. Spruce has been considered KiNg{of the camp las! r p t year, and of American pulpwoods for m-urly]lormer Junean teacher, a hundred years, | introduction, 15 AlGucker and Dan Russell, all spok needs no . psn «(:unv.muéd «;n l;;x; Elght) e nounced in Washington that the Grievance Committee of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee has sent a message to President Roose- velt, asking to aid in a peaceful settlement of the steel strike. .- ANDERSON TO HAINES George Anderson, Juneau piano dealer and tuner, sailed from here | for Haines Saturday evening aboard the steamer Northwestern.