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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL L., NO. 7520. JUNEAU ALASKA, FRIDAY JUNE 25, I937 MEMBE‘R'ASSOCIATED PRESS PiiIéE TEN CENTS ‘3-MILE LIMIT MUST GO,SAYSFISH OFFICIAL \ MILLIONS ARE LOST, STRIKE OF STEEL MEN Walkout E;:rs Thirtieth Day — Seven States Sull Involved OHIC GOVERNOR DAVEY TAKES POSITIVE STAND | Attempt Is ‘Made to Bomb | Troop Car—Bridge Dynamited (By Associated Press) i The steel strike entered the 30th day today with 100,000 workers still idle in seven states with a daily loss in wages, profits, etc, of about one million dollars daily. In Youngstown, Ohio, the militia has been ordered to defend the “right to work” as well as strike. Gov. Davey said the strike-locked mills would reopen immediately un- der full protection of the National | Guard. Gov. Davey said: work and enjoy Those who wish to continue the strike are entitled to do so.” Mediation Board Rejected In Cleveland, two steel compan- ies rejected President Roosevelt's| Mediation Board. { The “only hope” for peace is a| proposal calling for a man to man discussion around a conference table | with the CIO leaders. In Johnstown, the Sheriff said he feared a new march of miners “Men want to that privilege. | to reinforce the picket lines as mar-| tial law ended. 2,200 Sea Lions Reported Killed IRAINS CAUSING HIGH WATER IN Mattern ‘Texas Ambassador’ On GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE TO HAVE {Cabinet Ofl;r_s, Congress- ,lng Cabinet officers and Congress- | Istart a series of conferences with| 0ff Vanc. Island| INTERIOR AREA Dominion Fisheries Patrol | Traffic onRErdson‘High Boat Makes Slaught- way Interrupted—Ne- er on Cruise nana Flooded Again NANAIMO, B. C., June 25.—Capt.| FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 25.— A. M. Henderson, of the Dominion |Heavy rains and melting glacial ice Fisheries patrol boat Givencby, has interrupted travel on the Rich- |said his crew killed about 2,200 sea |ardson Highway, caused flood con- lions on a cruise of three weeks off |ditions at Nenana and speeded the the West Coast of Vancouver Is-|Black Rapids glacier, after a vio- land, beyond Cape Scott. lent thunder storm. Nearly two The crew used rifles, replacing |inches of rain has fallen over the the former machine gun. highway section. A total of 2,800 sea lions The Black Rapids glacier moved killed in 1935, a record. 250 feet in 24 hours. Goservers The sea lions prey on fish. said the glacier is now within three- | PR EERsr s, SR 7 fourths of a mile of the Black Rapids roadhouse. D M A Apprehension is felt regarding the | were lakes formed on the glacier. Air-| plane pilots said there are large lakes and if they burst through the ice of the glacier, floods are most probable. The flood waters at Nenana are now within six inches of the spring crest. The water covers half of the town but the business district is, dry. | SCIENTISTS T0 NEW GUINEA IN men Conferring with President ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, June 25. —More than 100 Demoerats, includ- men, embarked this morning iParamount Sends Ten in Russian Flight|OWN SEA PATROL Will Make Oakland-Mos-|Nations Do Not Wait for cow Trip as Lone Star Approval from Either State Emissary Germany, Italy LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 25.—| LONDON, June 25.—Great Bri- Before taking off for Dallas, Jim-|tain and France have decided to fill mie Mattern said he would under-(the gap in the “hands off Spain” take the Oakland-Moscow trip as|sea patrol by wirthdrawal of Ger- an official air ambassador of the{many and Italy, with their own Lone Star State. warships, it was learned late today. Tomorrow he will confer with| Great Britain and France did not Governor Allred over christening|wait for any approval of Germany the new ship “Texan.” The new|and Italy and the decision to “go $90,000 twin-motored plane will be|strong” came after a tumultous decorated with a map of Texas and |Hoyse of Commons debate in which a picture of a bucking broncho{the Labor opposition strenuously atop clouds. Mattern is a native|protested to the neutrality plan as of San Angelo, Texas. a great “farce” and should be S~ A O {serapped. ‘The labor opposition said right out Joud that Germany and Italy were observing no neutrality, but both natfons were open and above board m violaling neutrality by doing ev- erything they could to foster and CREW TO FILM ALASKA STORY AT KETCHIKAN bolster the Spanish Insurgents against the Spanish defenders. i e e o NORTHWESTERN JUNEAU BOUND Camera Party for Picture SEATTLE, June 25.—A camera (crew of ten which Paramount Stu- dio Seventeen Passengers Are Aboard Booked for President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Jefferson Island. The President is already there. \He spent the night on Oheupeakz FLYING BOAT Dash Across Natien in Big {film “Spawn of the North,” sailed is sending to Ketchikan to This Port /SEATTLE, June 25.—Northwest- today on the Northwestern with two, heaping truckloads of baggage, cam- TERRIFIC HEAT WAVE SPREADS, WEST T0 EAST Degrees Registered —13 Fatalities CHICAGO, Ill, June 25. — The season’s most extensive heat wave moved eastward today on wilting winds after thirteen deaths had been reported, six fatalities here, where the thermometer ciimbed to 97 degrees yesterday, a record tem- perature. The hot air over the western prair- les expanded to envelop a broad belt extending from Texas to the Great Lakes, Rockies to Indiana. Readings over 100 degrees were numerous yesterday over the wide expanse of the western to middle west nation. It was 102 at Reno, Nevada. Springfield, Illinois, had .a tem- perature of 99 degrees with no breeze. - e, — PUGET SOUND | FERRY STRIKE ENDED, REPORT {Gov. Martin Announces| His June 9 Terms Ac- cepted by Operators OLYMPIA, Wash., June 25.—Gov. Temperalure—-:f Over 100 Death Senlence Given Arkansan; Girl On Trial LONOKE, Arkumns of first degree murder and sentenced to death last night for the slnyh\g #|of Victor Gates of Little Rock. Thl! Jjury deliberated 22 minutes on the case. ing an 18 state “crime tour” last| spring. Bernice Felton, 18, sweet- | heart of Brockelhurst, was on trial| today. The death penalty is also de- manded for her. MORRELL SAYS INDIANS ARE Natives ‘[flot Like to Leave Homes and Fam- ilies, Official Finds | The murder was committed dur-' CCC PROBLEMS INTERNATIONAL . . .| COMMISSIONER Lester Brockelhurst was convicted | FEARS INROADS New Protectlon Needed to ‘ Save Fisheries from In- | vasion, Allen Declares 'FISHERMEN WELCOME PROBE, BRISTOL BAY Fear Expressed that Japan- ese. lglanmng Expan- sion of Activities SEATTLE, June 25.—Edward W. Allen, Seattle member of the Ins ternational Fisheries Commission. said today that repudiation of the doctrine of the three-mile limit in Territorial waters might be necess sary to save American fisheries from “foreign encroachment.” He sald WASHINGTON, June 25—As-' sistant Chief Forester Fred Mor- rell said today on his return from Alaska that Indians would be in- cluded in the expanded Civilian {Conservation Corps program, which' is getting underway in the Terri~ tory. The official said he had made a thorough study of conditions in Al- aska with a view of filling the new quota of 600 in the CCC, an in- crease from 328, the threat of invasion did not come only from the Japanese but that the British had made an effort to Iget British ships through the Pan- ama Canal for the purpose of “strip- ping North Pacific halibut banks.” There are two answers to the problem, Allen said. The first, he sald, is a program of international conservation and the second, dban- donment of the three-mile limit rule. “The three-mile limit was estab- lished in a time in our history when “Finding the right kind of work distence was judged by the maxi- for Indians is going to be a prop- Mum range of any cannon. There- lem,” he said. “They do not like fore, it represented the greatest to leave their homes and families 3Mount of water that could be de- to enter into camps. Therefore, the fended from shore, Also it was be- work must be of a nature so that lleved at the time that there was Officials of the Bethlehem Steel|Bay aboard the yacht Potomac, and era tools, tripods and so forth. lgw, ggijed for Southeast. Alaska have not decided when the phntli will reopen. At Warren, a bridge was dynamit- | ed and an attempt was made to| bomb a car carrying National Guardsmen, Troops uncovered! caches of clubs and iron pipes ‘ NOTED SCREEN | STAR IS DEAD HOLLYWOOD, Cal.,, June 25. — Colin Clive, 37, English stage and | screen actor, who gained fame in both the play and picture, “Jour- ney’s End,” died in a hospital here today as the result of lung and in- testinal ailments MOVIE STAR ON SPREE IS FINED MALIBOU BEACH, Cal,, June 25. —Robert Armstrong, movie acbar,‘ pleaded guilty to drunken driving! and received, from Justice John| Webster, a fine of $150 and thlrty'pflafion for the purchase of rein-l EUREKA, Cal,, June 25. — Three days in jail. The jail sentence, however, was suspended for one year. Armstrong’s driving license was suspended for ninety days. —o— Sougfit Seattle Man Run Down SEATTLE, June 25—Former King| County Road Supervisor Melvin London, sought since March on a bribery indictment was arrested last night on his newly acquired ranch went -ashore this morning. Tomorrow ,and Sunday other }xraups of Demotrat.s will go to the Island retreat to lay their troubles individually and in groups before the President. Four Naval Academy |ships are assigned to carry the Democrats to the island. Proponents and opponents of the Court reorganization plan, arrived Kor embarkation in separate groups. Representative Keeney showed up at the dock with placards and stick- lers to ballyhoo his Billion Dollar lottery bill to “abolish taxes.” REINDEER BILL IS GIVEN BOOST, 'House Committee Approves of Two Million Dollars for Purchase WASHINGTON, June 2. — The| Falling Tree Pins Three in| House Territories Committee has approved of the measure introduced by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- Imond to authorize $2,000,000 appro- deer and distribution among the Eskimo of Alaska. Delegate 'Dimond said an acute problem was precipitated when the |whites gained a virtual monopoly of the reindeer. BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the ‘major leagues and received up to 3 o'- clock: National League Philadelphia 10; Pittsburgh 5. Boston 2; Cincinnati 6. on Outlook Mountain, six miles| Brooklyn 2; Chicago 11. east of Oregon City. American League ——— | Detroit 1; New York 6. #————————¥| Bt Louis 2; Boston 4. | HosPITAL NOTES | — *- —& & Mike Karry was dismissed from | | AT THE HoTELS St. Ann’s Hospital today following surgical care. Gastineau — K. Louring, Seattle; Adelaide Russell Stolfi, whose leg was bro- ken on Wednesday evening, was dis-| missed fromn St. Ann's Hospital to- day. Russell is the son of Lieu- tenant and Mrs. Henry Stolfi. Smith, San Diego; L. L. Lane, San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. C. J. John- {son and child; Mrs. M. Coleman, Fairbanks; M. Glenn Jones, Phoe- nix, Ariz.; Charles Grek, Newark, N, J; training | American Museum of National His- | {for two months field work for the Craf. in" 17 Hours, San Diego to New York NEW YORK, June 25. — Richard| Archbold, research associate for the tory, dropped down on the waters here at 12:5¢ p.m. today with a 17- ton flying boat which he and five| others had flown non-stop from San Diego in 17 hours and 3% ' minutes. There had been only two or three places where they| could have landed enroute. The party is going to New Guinea museum, HUGE REDWOOD CRUSHES AUTO, VICTIMS BURN Car — Wreckage Catches Afire ! victims identified tentatively as Judge Irving Baxter, 74; Clinton Baxter, former President of the Los Angeles Board of Health, and the| Commissioners wife, were crushed and burned to death when a huge redwood tree toppled onto their automobile 55 miles south of here last night. The wreckage caught fire, METHODIST MINISTER W. Djernes, Kensington; [the Hotel Juneau. V. C. Spaulding, a surgical patient, Tom Jennings, Skagway; Bill Knox, was dismissed from St. Ann's Hos- pital today. Mrs. Claud Carnegie was admitted for medical care at St. Ann’s Hos- pital today. Virginia Dennis was dismissed from the Government Hospital fo- day following medical care. |Barracks; Mr. W. J. Jones. Alaskan R. Shade, E. P. Smith, Chilkoot and Mrs. William Smith, Daniel Shareline, Excursion Inlet; Charles Hansen, Sand Point. Juneau Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Mason and| son, Ketchikan; Lurline Arnold, Al- bany, Ore, OF SEWARD IS NAMED FOR KETCHIKAN POST The Rev. and Mrs, Roy Mason and son arrived in Juneau aboard the Baranof and will sail next week for Ketchikan where Mr. Mason has been named as head of the Metho- dist Church. The Masons came south from Seward in which city Mr. Mason was formerly the Methodist minis- ter. The Rev. Mason is to speak at the Sunday evening services of the Methodist Church here, and will be introduced by the Rev. O. L. Kendall. During their stay in the Capital City the Masons are stopping at KENNEDY STREET BRIDGE IS OPEN Replaeement:(_;; new Kennedy Street bridge between Fifth and Sixth Streets is now completed and | Kies. “They told me Monday ~about coming up here, so I didnt’ have much time to get ready. Ask Dick Talmadge, the assistant director, what the picture is about. I have- n't read the story,” said Frank Kies, the business manager. “We're going to shoot everything about the salmon run. There is going to be a lot of boats in it. |We're going to photograpn boats, ride on boats and wreck boats,” Talmadge said. Asked how they were going to do this, Talmadge said: “We're going ito run it up to the glacier when tons of ice fall off and hits me boats.” “That reminds me,” declared “I've got to buy a cabm |cruiser. Maybe I'll find one m | Ketchikan,” “We’ll probably be up there qulte a while,” interspersed Talmadge. “I was up for seven weeks last year. I flew up. They were going to shoot ithis in color, but they started too late.” Members of the party lnclude Loyal Griggs, Frank Good, first |cameramen; Barney Wolfe, proper- |ty man; Bob Rhea, Otto Pierce, second cameraman—(the latter is Jjust back from working pictures in! Samoa and is very tanned); and Roy Kreuger and Mitch Crowley. JUNEAU MARKSMEN WIN MATCH WITH NAVY YESTERDAY Outshooting opposing teams aboard the U.S.8. Brooks and the U.S.8. Fox, the Juneau Rifle and| Pistol Club claimed high honors at the shooting match held yesterday | at the Mendenhall range, with Roy Hoffman placing as high score man. ‘The Juneau team score, for the 200 and 500 yard slow and rapid fire match, totaled 846. The U.SS. Brooks totaled 738 for the vessel staff, while the University of Cali-| fornia Naval R.O.T.C. team aboard the Brooks scored 648. The Univer- sity of Washington team aboard the U.S.8. Fox totaled 638. Shooting on the Juneau team| were: Roy Hoffman, Oscar Water- rud, Tex Leonard, Ken Junge and Berg. On the Brooks staff team were Westfall, Hoard, McBride, Smith and Bixler; on the U, C. team were Clark, Russell, Bell, East and Ott; and on the U. of W. team were Grahn, Palmer, Norton and Bamp- ton. ‘at 9 o'clock this morning car- rying 67 first class and 90 steerage assengers, Passengers aboard the Northwest- ern booked for Juneau Ralph Gordon, J. E. Morton, Roy Root, J. F. Wagner, Stuart King, Marie Bruning, Mrs. Cecil Davis and | two children, George Olson and wife, Mrs. V. Lipp, M. Thompson, D. D. Wheeler and wife, R. H. Graham nnd wife. STRIKE IS OVER, PAPERS PUBLISH PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 25. Giant presses rolled again today as| the striking mail room employees , of three Pittsburgh daily newspa- pers voted to return to work pend- ing negonnuons for more pay. COMMISSIONERS ON WAY TO JUNEAU Definite word was received by Director Walter P. Sharpe of the lUnamploymenL Compensation Com- |mission today that E. L. Bartlett, |Chairman of the Commission, and R. A. Bragaw, Anchorage member, |are aboard the Alaska for Juneau, ]and that R. E. Hardcastle, member of the Commission from Ketchikan, is coming to Juneau on the Mount yMcKtnley for a session of the Com- mission to be held the fore part of the week |GIRL SCOUTS WlLL RETURN TO JUNEAU TOMORROW IN P. M. i Girl Scouts are breaking camp at {noon tomorrow following two weeks of stay at Eagle River. They will be brought here by pri- ‘vate cars tomorrow afternoon. Miss lAllce Palmer, Miss Dorothy Hansen, |Miss Mary Wildes and Miss Doris Freeburger have been assisting with camp activities. WOODWARDS MAKING HOME IN MONTANA Word has been received in Ju- neau from Mr. and Mrs. Warren Woodward that instead of making their home here, as formerly include | planned, they are to live in Mon- tana. Mr. Woodward, former Alaska Juneau mine employee, left for the: south last fall to be married in Min- neapolis. Mr. Woodward is the brother of Mrs. ‘Mercer Thompson (Ruth Woodward), also a former Juneau ELECTRA BOUND NORTH SATURDAY The Pacific m Airways Elec- tra, piloted by Jerry Jones and Bill Knox, is scheduled to leave the Ju- the structure is open to traffic, it was announced today by Mayor Thomas Judson. resident. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are now living in Arizona where he is employed as mining engineer. neau field for Fairbanks Saturday at 1 p. m. The Electra arrived from Fairbanks Thursday afternoon. Clarence D. Martin announced this afternoon that thé Puget Sound Ferryboat operators have accepted his June 9 proposal for a settlement of the present strike, The Governor said he believed the ferry service |will be. resumed by tomerrow morn- ing. { The union accepted the June 9 proposal the next day after offered. The agreement includes wage in- ,creases ranging up to $20 monthly land operators are allowed to raise| the fares but not more than ten| per cent. PILOT SIMMONS OF AAT TAKES 3 FROM HERE Returns fi Ketchikan Where He Remain- ed Overnight Three passengers left Juneau to- day at 2:30 p.m, with Pilot Shel- don Simmons in the Alaska Air Transport Bellanca, as follows: Mrs. M. K. Brewer for Angora, P. R. Puykill for Hawk Inlet, A. L. Florence for Sitka and A. O. Helli for Chichagof. Pilot»mmons returned from Ket- chikan, where he had spent last night following a trip south, with the following passengers: J. E. Pegues, round trip; R. E. Hardcastle and A. C. Arnold from Ketchikan; and A. Van Mavern from Wran- gell. They arrived here at 2:10 p.m. Today at 10 a.m. Pilot L. F. Barr in the company's Stinson flew C. R. Griffen and P. Mautz to Sitka and Gust Manati to Hirst-Chicha- gof. He was scheduled to return this afternoon, Quiz U. S. Agents In Seattle Death SEATTLE, June 25.—Fritz Muel- ler, 61, long time meat market op- erator, died here today of injuries received Sunday in an altercation with a Federal alcohol tax unit agent, who sald he was investigat- ing bootlegging rumors of Mueller’s son, Walter, while the father was delivering a package of meat to ‘a| needy family. The Coroner has ordered an m-! tbgyunmflnuhm" Bonanza Eaten BONANZA, Colo, June 25. Flames left a third of this historic' ings in an abandoned part of the city were destroyed this afternoon. Catalian Coast Reported Bombed MADRID, June 25—The news issued a statement this afternoon that advices have been received re- porting a mysterious warship “be- lieved to be foreign” bombarded the Catalian coast last night. HEINBRAUD FEARED INJURED IN FIRE ON SCOW AT ALGA Upon the failure of Max Hein- braud to arrive in Juneau aboard night, fear is felt by friends in Ju- neau that Mr. Heinbraud may have been injured in the fire which has Polar Star Packing Company scow, operating at Alga Straits, 12 miles from 8itka. Robert Livesay of Juneau boarded and was told of the fire by Purser Bert Gillespie. —————— SMACKED! MOSCOW, June 25.—Josef Stalin immedidtely kissed heavily bearded Dr. Otto Schmitd full on the lips today as Soviet Arctic explorer and eight others arrived back from the North Pole. left at the wp of the earth base. - — DR. CHEIFETZ BACK FROM SITKA TRIP Dr. Sonia Cheifetz, acting mater- Away hy Flames' mining camp in ruins when build-' agency of the Spanish Government, the North Sea as scheduled last; caused heavy damage aboard the' the North Sea to meet Heinbraud | Four companions were | quest and also questioning of Agent nal and child bealth director, has E. T. Kelly, accused of striking returned from a visit to Sitka in Mueller, and Agent Leohard Regan. | connection with the Territorial su- e | pervision of midwives. | While in Sitka, Dr. Cheifetz TONSILEOTOMY saw, in consultation with the local Demaris Davis, daughter of Capt. doctor, several crippled children and Mrs. James V. Davis, under- | who applied to the Territorial Crip- went a tonsilectomy at the J“nea“lpled Children’s division for treat- Medical and Surgical Clinic today.|ment. Mmhhfl.%mh has been devised to shoot 70 miles and it has been proven that the fisheries can be exhausted, so both reasons are obsolete,” Allen said. SOUNDS WARNING LIBBYVILLE, Alaska, June 25.— While Alaska's 2,000 fishermen pre- pared to put out into Bristol Bay —|today for the season’s catch and two dozen canneries were busy with last minute preparations, fishermen here welcomed the Government in- vestigation of Japanese activity in these waters. N. V. Kochergan, who says he is a former governor of Kamchatka province in Siberia, was in position there to watch the Japanese and also for the last 10 years he has observed the Bristol Bay situation, he said. “I look with some apprehension upon the Japanese offshore opera- Itions here because I saw them take advantage of Russia’s revelu- tionary strife to gain contrel of Si- iberian fishing,” Kochergan said, “They started with supposedly harmless crab fishing, extending it to installation of red salmon gear since signing the Russo-Japanese agreement in 1907. Japanese fish- ermen have never observed regula- tions well and since signing the agreement they have developed the so-called deep sea fishing on a |large scale, resulting in depletion of \the Siberian fisheries. It is simi- lar to operations in this area and (it alarms me.” Fliers coming in here report seeing (floats of the type used on Japan- ese gill nets when flying over the vicinity of Japanese boats. | Observers here say the seriousness lof the situation is not realize@ even by Alaskans. 'LOCAL DAIRY MADE | BY-PRODUCT IS NOW ON SALE IN JUNEAU One of the first of the new dairy ‘by-products made possiblg by its |modern plant is now being offered |to Juneau consumers, by the Ju- ineau Dairies, Inc. Cottage cheese, ‘mnde fresh and locally, has been introduced in Juneau this week by the firm, through retail outlets. Fresh cottage cheese from one of the finest dairy plants in the west is available now at nearly all local food stores, and will be offered continuously through the summer season, at least, dairy officials an- nounce, ——————— PATIENT SAILS SOUTH Mrs. A. G. Zimmerman, who ar- rived in Juneau aboard the PAA Electra yesterday from Fairbanks, |and was taken shortly after to St. |Ann's Hospital for medical care, was dismissed from the hospital this morning and sailed for the south on the Baranof. —

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