The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7505. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1937. _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ SEATTLE VISITORS GET GALA WELCOME COURT PLAN COMPROMISE LOOMING UP Flat Increase of High Tri- bunal to Eleven Mem- bers Is Suggested WASHINGTON, June 8. — The proposal by Senator Andrews for a flat enlargement of the Supreme Court of the United States to elev- on members has received consid- eration by Senators seeking a com- promise for the Roosevelt judiciary bill. Informed Senators and Admin- istration leaders had encouraged Senator Andrews, possibly with a view toward - accepting his sugges- tion as a substitute for the Presi- dent’s recommendations to add five Justices to the Supreme Court, un-; less those over 70 years of age re- tire. No comment is forthcoming from the White House, however. LANSING IS Win Top Scholastic Honors at Annapolis ] CRIPPLED BY LABOR STRIKE Capital City of Michigan Is Paralyzed as Far as Business Concerned With graduation not far off, the ol Balanc LANSING, Michigan, June 8. — The wheels of industry and trade neared a complete stop today in this Capital city whose economic sys- tem is virtually paralyzed by a city wide “labor solidity” which has as- sumed a: general strike as a pro- test against the arrest of eight pick- ets. There hgve been no casualties| and no additional arrests but the! situation has resulted in a stoppage of business. i A vast demonstration centered’ about the front lawn of the State Capitol Building. Gov. Frank Mur- phy addressed the crowd and said: “We will come out of our differ-| ences all right if we keep our heads| Othel' Unlons A]so clear. I guarantee every man his' civil rights.” PORTLAND, Oregon, June 8— Au outriding detachment of auto The John L. Lewis Committee for workers sought to extend the holi- Industri_al Organizaliqn drove a day to the Michigan State College wedge into the American Federa- at East Lansing where they were tion of Labor strongholds on the hazed and thrown into the river Pacific Coast today and captured by husky collegians. the Inland Boatmen'’s organization PRI 0 G, jand threw open arms to 120,000 10 REPORTED MAKING GAINS PACIFIC COAST Inland Boatmen Join New Labor Organization— { .woodworkers and maritime employ- ees. Jea" Harlnw Had | Supporters of the CIO, including + Harry Bridges, head of the long- cific Coast, claimed a victory for their organization, but officials of o the American Federation of Labor said their members will stay in the AFL, although it is expected a few | individuals will join the other labor 2 et il group. Remains of Dead Actress - Bhhi i AVE g U0 i ol . 4 %) . (ing co ons D Lies Today Clad in White | fuitegs e in Bronze Casket !DEATHS IN u 8 —_— | LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 6—| St blonde and star of the movies, vhoi anw lNcREAsE died yesterday -foremeon, clad in white, lay in a bronse casket today{ as friends and close associates re-| called how she rushed home froml e stulo the other day and ex- Fears 8"3 was I " 'shoremen’s association on the Pa- The body of Jean Harlov, platinum | 1935 OVER 1936, z.}:’"“"dm‘"“"'fi e - would """ WASHINGTON, June 8. — The| Census Bureau reports that the 1936 death rate in the United States was 11.5 per thousand popu- lation, higher than the preceding| iyear when the rate was 10.9. / | Deaths last year totalled 1,474,177, |an increase of 81,425 over the prev- ious year. The Census Bureau reports thnt; the heat wave last July increased respiratory deaths and this prob- ably was responsible for the in- creased fatalities. Drlmke: Pedestrian Latest Road Menace Violet -Denoyer; #askeup attend- ant, said: . “Jean looked at me straightly on the morning she was taken ili- and said to me: ‘do you know, ‘Violet, I've a feeling I am going &way from here and never coming back.’" ‘The film colony is in deep mourn- ing today in Hollywood and only expressions of extrtme sadness are seen ‘and heard. Propeller Drops | | the names of the honor men. Here are the top three, Man No. 1; Emery A. Grantham, Albany, mg Seattle B udget | | Is Foolish, Declares Mayor | FAVORED, IRISH Dore; Gives New Program poer GTATERS aval Academy at Annapolis, Md., announced lit: Jack A. Obermeyer, of New York, Hpnor Man No. 3, and Russell H. Wallace, West Bridge- Pa., Honor Man No. 2 ficials of the United States N: left to rig N. Y., Honor water, DUKE WINDSOR SEATTLE, June 8—Balancing the budget is nonsense, Mayor John F.| | Dore assured the ‘reorganized City ECnuncil with two new members. ‘ to Be Shown—Corona- 'His News Reel of Weddinga BLINDING DUST STORM CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGES Freak Gale Rages for Two- | Hour Period in Cen- tral Washington YAKIMA, Wash,, June 8.—A two- hour onslaught of a hurricane-like wind, cloudburst and blinding dust | storm, left three persons injured | and an unestimated frult and hop! damage, also much other damage.| Another storm spread over a wide section of Central Washington to- Yesterday's storm struck about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and,‘ raged furiously for a two-hour per- fod. Mrs. Edward Hales and son Alfred were taken to a hospital unconscious | after an automobile collided wllh“ another in the blinding dust. | Mrs. Guy Story of Kennewick was injured when a berry shed col-| lapsed in the storm. | TRAGEDY TAKES PLACE, TAVERN | NEAR SEATTLE Woman Sho_og Man, Then' Suicides After Recount- | ing Life Story SEATTLE, June 8.—Shot several times, Osal Stout, 33, was found ead this forenoon in bed in a beer “tavern near Juanita, on the east ;shore of Lake Washington, and Ce-1 |eil Thacker, proprietor of the tav-! [ The Mayor advocated a 5-day‘ | week, $150 a month minimum wage for municipal employees. and an 8- | hour day, three platoon system for 8.—The news reel of the Duke of | firemen. Windsor’s wedding, which will not | “There are big cries for economy. be shown in England, will be ex- |I declare the city government | hibited in every movie theatre in | spends too little instead of too much. |the Irish Free State. This was of- The Federal Government never in- ficially made known here today. tends to pay its debts. It issues| The news reels of King Geodge tion Reels Banned DUBLIN, Irish Free State, June wreck the city by being penny wise hand is virtually banned in the and pound foolish. A balanced bud- Irish Free State. get means taking things from the| o 02 FE T it Roosevelt city. Don't let people s'.ampede‘t you,” declared Mayor Dore, as the, Kerm new Council organized. bonds and renews them. We can the Sixth's Coronation on the other, ern, was found lying on the floor| lin the same room with a bullet’ ,wound in the head. | Deputy Coroner Harlan Calahan! said Thacker told him the woman, 'shot him and herself after recount- ing her life story and then saying:| “You'll never find out what it is| all about.” The officers found a rifle and re-| volver on the floor near the bed. | The woman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stout, fainted when they | jarrived at the tavern to visit their| jdaughter and learned of the trag- edy. H Neighbors said they heard shots! about 6 o'clock this morning. e e Visitors in Juneau Tb(iay, Members of Seattle Tour Party On Good Will Trip THOMAS M. PELLY Chairman, Seattle Chamber’s Tour Committee DARWIN MEIS Member of Alaska Committee, Seattle Chamber of Commerce VISITORS ARE PLEASED WITH ALASKA TOUR Prominent Members of Par- ty Aboard Aleutian SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 8. NORTH POLAR SEA'S DEPTH 1S RECORDED Soviet Scientist Explorers Make Plumbing at Winter Camp MOSCOW, June 8—Four explor- er scientists of the Soviet Union plumbed the North Pole seas from the ice floes at the wintering camp and reported by radio that they found various depths, the greatest being 140,375 feet. At a depth of 659 to about 1,900 feet the water registered slightly more than 33 degrees and at the bottom of the sea the pressure crushed the thermometer. -, — METAL PENCIL CAP REMOVED, YOUTH'S LUNG Twelve-Year-Old Boy Un- dergoes Successful Op- eration in L. A. Gets Kodiak Bear; ! ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 8.— Kermit Roosevelt has wired he has| :shot a bear measuring 10 feet 6 {inches from tip to tail on Kodiak| |and Mrs. Roosevelt bagged a bear imeasuring 9 feet 10 inches. They iare returning here Thursday, ac- icording to the radiogram received. FEGHNER PLANS (GCC FIRE PATROL IN TERRITORY | Program flld Include Construction of System of Emergency Air Fields | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 8— !Robert Fechner, head of the Civilian Conservation Corps, said here to- day that the CCC might launch an |extensive Alaska fire prevention iprogram to establish trained fire |crews in various strategic centers !which would be sent by airplane to fire points. The program would entail the construction of a system lof emergency landing fields, he said. “A reported 3,000 square miles was ravaged by forest fires in Alaska last year,” Fechner said, “destroy- ing migratory fowl nests and wild Wie Also Lucky, Enjoying Cruise N | | Thomas M. Pelly, president of |Lowman & Hanford Co., of Seattle |is this year’s chairman of the Alaska | Tour Committee. Mr. Pelly is a veteran of other Se- LEG BONE IS FUUND' SGENE lattle Chamber of Commerce Cruises. | This morning Mr. Pelly told Ju- PLANE cRAsH neau friends that never before had 'a Seattle Cruise Party enjoyed the iperfect weather that has accom- |panied them throughout the trip |this year. Searchers Renew Hunt for Victims of December 15 Air Accident SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 8. —The search shifted radically today for the seven victims of the De- cember 15 crash after the discovery of a leg bone, shoe laces neatly tied, and large fragments of the fuselage. The bone was only a fractured strip, four inches long, but im- mensely significant as it is the first| trace of a human form among the several hundred of pounds of strewn wreckage and airmail. ¥ The discovery was made on a| A. W. Akers, Seattle Manager for | mountain top cliff ledge, 25 miles|the Zellerbach Paper Company, is southeast of here at the edge of the|a tour member in company W"hi giant snow field which the sun only | Harold Zellerbach, president of the touches briefly each day. Zellerbach Paper Company, with Thirty men are digging and scrap- |headquarters in San Francisco. Al- ing in the ice and debris for the aska is not new to the Zellerbach bodies of the victims of the crash. |company, as a number of years ago ——————— he studied Southeastern Alaska in- tensively relative to the possibility 3-Year Tel’m Fur of pulp paper manufacture. Extorfion Threat Darwin M. Meisnest, another {member of the “come back to Al- aska Again Club,” is also Chairman| {of the Seattle Chamber’s potent and lactive Alaska Committee; former Manager of the Associated Students, University of Washington; active in| innumerable civic and state affairs| and for the past several years has! been executive vice-president of the Washington Athletic Club, his ef- forts contributing largely to the suc-' cess the club is now enjoying. Inj addition to these numerous activi-| ties Meisnest found time to make| a world tour last year. | Ralph Allen, secretary of the Se- attle Brewing and Malting Com- pany, makers of Rainier beer and son of George W. Allen, sales mana- ger of the company and well known {grounded. The tail | Renshaw FOSTER L. McGOVERN Manager, Alaska Department, Seattle Chamber of Commerce General Man-’ ager of Wlsh-. ington Coop- erative Egg & Poultry Asso- ciation. E. B. McGOVERN President of McGovern and McGovern, salmaon brokers 4 ANCHORAGE BOYS IN BAD Youths Bound Over to Fed- eral Grand Jury on Vandalism Charges ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 8.— Four youths, from 10 to 14 years of age, have been bound over to the {grand jury on charges of malicious destruction of property in connec-|" tion with yandalism at the Oscar Nielson home,. also a new charge of shooting bullets through the tail of W. E. Dunkle’s airplanc while fin must be rebuilt on account of the damage done by the bullets. A INTERCOASTAL PLANE HERE YESTERDAY P.M. Making the reguiar scheduled In- tercoastal Airways Monday flight here from #&Ketchikan, Pilot Ray landed the red Stinson Reliant seaplane here yesierday af- ternoon at 3:30 o'clock with E. H. Logan, of the American, Can Com- pany, as the only passenger from Ketchikan. Pilot Renshaw then left again, PRICE TEN CENTS GOODWILLERS HAVE GREETING FOR ALASKANS Luncheon Aboard Ship Is Hight Spot of Day with Dance Tonight at Elks’ | TWO CHAMBERS AND ROTARY JOIN EVENT Governor Troy and Mayor Judson Present Guests Key to Juneau, Alaska As bright as the sunshine which flooded down on Juneau and Southeast Alaska today, members of the Seattle Chamber of Com- merce Good Will Tour and their wives arrived in the city this morn« ing aboard the Aleutian for a 13« hour stay on their biennial visit to the Territory before continuing on to the Westward at 1 o'clock to- morrow morning. Bronzed from three days at sea in glorious weather, the visitors walked down the gangplank to be welcomed by a large group of Ju- neau business men and many friends they have made here through busi- iness connections and various trips to the north. With preliminary greetings over, which included short talks over the facilities of radio station KINY, the visitors were takem on trips around the town and the district to gather at 1 o'- clock aboard the Aleutian for a joint luncheon of the Seattle Chamber, Juneau Chamber and Ju- neau Rotary Club, presided over by Darwin Meistest, Chairman of the |Alaska Committee of the Seattle Chamber. seeing was again in order and at ’0:30 tonight the Seattle visitors will [be host at a dance to be given in the Elks' Hall, lasting until the i boat salls at 1 o'clock in the morn- | Welcoming the visitors to Alaska |at the luncheon was Gov. John W. Troy, who assured them the latch istring was out, for “we in Alaska 'look to you people from Seattle as our own people.” “We want you to have a good |time,” said thc Governor, “and if |you see anything up here you want, :so ahead and take it. We know it will be in good hands.” Other welcoming talks were made by C. D. Beale, President of Juneau Rotary; Mayor Thomas Judson, who extended a special greeting on be- half of the city, and Charles W. Carter, Vice-President of the Ju- neau Chamber. Pelly Greets Alaskans All that glitters is not gold e: in Alaska, said Thomas M. Pelly, Chairman of the Alaska Tour Com-= mittee and President of Lowman and Hanford Company, Seattle. “Up here,” he said, “there is a glitter in the eye and in the ore.” E. B. McGovern, President of Meé~ Govern and McGovern, salmon brokers, brought greetings from Secretary Daniel C. Rgper of the Department of Commerce to the Governor and all Alaskans and from the canned salmon industry which, he pointed out, is the leading in- dustry in Alaska. Carrying out the theme of Seat- tle’s appreciation of Alaska trade, (Continued on Page Two) MAYOR EXTENDS GREETINGS T0O SEATTLE PARTY La(chvstring_—ls_()u!. Says Juneau Head, and Come Back Again On behalf of the City of Juneau, it is a real pleasure for me to ex- tend greetings and welcome to the members of the 1937 Good Will ‘Tour of the Seattle Chamber of i OTTAWA, June 8.—Arthur Mat- to many Alaskans, is enjoying the Commerce. off Fl_yi_ng Plane NEW YORK, June 8.—Ernest C. Marquis, airplane pilot, said he sus- pected something was wrong with the propellor of his plane before | immediately, on a charter flight to o {Haines and return, with Mr. Lo- Miss Verda Bras, the lady that[§2% STTIVING hack here about 5 of meets all Alaskans stopping at meragain right awn’y 40 Tetiim. 40 at- New Washington Hotel, and has| —The drunken pedestrian is becom-| LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 8—life, besides timber. It is part of ing as great a probleem as the drun- \Twelve-year-old Andrew J. Blake- the CCC work to protect and pre- ken driver, according to the safety [ley, Jr., is “resting comfortably” af-|serve natural resources. I hope department of the California State|ter undergoing an operation for the to be able to map a program to that Automobile Association. removal of a metal pencil cap fromjend,” It is gratifying to the people of the Capital City of Alaska to be host to you as representatives of the city of Seattle, our good neiyhbor for so many years. It is our hope thews, twenty-year-old store clerk,|tour this year. heard his extortion letter crime compared to the Mattson kidnap- murder as Judge F. L. Smiley sen- he tock off from Jamaica Airport. His “suspicions were confirmed,” he said, when he got up in the air and the propellor dropped off. He since 1929 drivers who had been drinking prior to accidents increas- ed four times while the number of Association officials say that one of his lungs. The boy swallowed the cap last Thursday. The attending physician said no | The official to- day for Palmer. - e — Carbon bisulphide and calcium left Anchorage landed beside an undertaking es-|injured drunken pedestrians in- |complications arc expected from [cyanide have been found effective tahlishment. ereased five times. the operation, in eradicating red harvester ants tenced him to three years in prison for demanding money by threats. #Canada is no place for emula- tion of the Mattson kidnap-murder type of crime,” declared the judge in passing sentence. ) them register at her Alaska Travel| & Traffic Agency is renewing old!| acquaintances and taking many notes and answers to the questions i (Continued on Page Two) chikan, with Harry R. Lawton, Columbia Brewing Company man- ager, as passenger. You will always find the latch- Mr. Logan remained in Juneau,|string of Juneau out for you. May staying here at the Gastineau Ho-|your stay here be both plezsant and tel, jenjoyable.~Thomas Judson Mayor. that these good will visits will con- tinue throughout the years to come.