The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L, NO. 7521. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIA TED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS STEEL MEN START BACK NENANA AGAIN FLOODED; HALF INUNDATED NOW Residents Moving About in Boats — Airfields at Goodpaster Ruined FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 26.— The townsite of Nenana is about half under water and is expected to reach the peak within a day or so. People are going about in boats Warehouses are dry and little dam- age is reported. The heavy rains ¢nd high water have damaged the Goodpaster land- ing field on Tibbs Creek, in fact the airfield is washed out, according to Pilot Brennan who flew over the field from Forty-Mile. He said the field is ruined and in worse shape than when improvements were star- ted. Some holes, he said, are large enough to bury several planes. Prospectors plan to ask for special funds to make repairs and prepare a new field. On Upper Tanana The situation on the upper Tan- ana is improving, Some cars are beginning to get over the highway, along the area, which was flooded for three days this week. Two pri- vate cars have arrived over the highway from Valdez and the driv- ers reported water up to the hubs for stretches of several miles north of the mile 26 section. Glacier Advancing Arrivals report the Black Rapids glacier is advancing about one foot an hour but there is nothing spec- tacular in the movement. MKINLEY HERE WITH ‘WOMEN AND CHILDREN" Vessel Docks in Juneau from South for Five Hour Stay Today “Women and children first” ap- parently is the motto of the steam- ship Mount McKinley, which dock—' ed at the Alaska Steamship Com- pany dock at 10 a. m. today with 95 passengers, 11 aof them making Juneau their terminal point. Purser J. W. Hickman declared that “many of our passengers con- Rumors of Third Term for FOR Are Again Iie_ing Heard Governor Earle 1s Latest Advocate—Senator Wag- ner Gives His Denial WASHINGTON, June 26.—Dec- laration by Gov. George H. Earle, of Pennsylvania, for re-election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, has created a flurry in third term speculation and divergent views are expressed. Right on top of Gov. Earle's as- sertion, The New York Evening Journel quoted Senator Wagner as saying yesterday that Roosevelt told him he would not seek another term. Unusual arguments tor and against are being heard to which propon- ents add one, saying that war in Eu- rope or another economic crisis would make a change in the na- tional leadership inadvisable. e ee——— MAN HELD AT HOONAH FOR 2 DROWNINGS Search Parties at Glacier Bay Seek Bodies of Children of Suspect i SAYS MADRID IS TO FALL N SHORT TIME Premier Mussolini Makes Prediction—German Warships Moving | ROME, June 26.—A promise that Madrid will fall shortly. also that the European crisis will thereby be ended is published editorially to- day in Premier Benito Mussolini’s newspaper Il1 Popolo d'Italia. Diplomatic sources attribute the authorship of the editorial to the I Duce himself. The editorial said the Spanish |capital will fall as soon as Gen. | Francisco Franco can finish clear- ing out the Basque Provinces along ‘the northern frontier. | GERMAN WARSHIPS BOUND TO CADIZ GIBBRALTAR, June 26.—Seven |German warships steamed west- |ward past here today, retracing the course of last Thursday night. It is believed the little fleet is bound for Cadiz. ————————— NURSES RETURN FROM STUDYING Alice Moran, Eunice Ander- son Are to Be Named to Public Health Spots Miss Alice Moran and Miss Eu- | | | ' | | The possible murder of two chn-‘m‘,e Anderson, - -who - have - been |dren by drowning and an attempted gtygying nursing at the University jmurder of the mother and an In-|of clifornia since last fall, arrived !fant child is being investigated by‘back in Juneau last night aboard ,the United States Marshal’s office tne aleutian and are to be assigned Fhis afternoon. |to Public Health mursing posts in According to a radiogram received Alaska within the next two weeks. this morning by U. 8. Marshal W.| Miss Moran is stopping with Mrs. ;T. Hamoney from G. W. samples,’M“y K. Cauthorne and Miss An- jdeputy U. S. Marshal at Hoonah, & 'gerson with Mr, and Mrs. Harold man, whose name was Dot given, iS Brown quring their stay in Juneau, g;l:n :"a xfgusuts};:'edn;gugzxtm:c)n; A conference to .determine their fwnh o iasibs apcanine e Rt ‘lil::;mg program is to be held Mon: !two children at Glacier Bay. Well known in Juneau, the two His wife and an infant child are'were for several years associated now at Hoonah, with cuts on their on the staff at St, Ann's Hospital. e Lady Jeffrey Are diogram from Samples. i Searching parties are out from Hoonah looking for the bodies of the two children at Glacier Bay. Wlter B. Hellan, Deputy United States Marshal, left by airplane at Russian Airmen Land in Va in an attempt to hop from Mescow to Oakland in a non-stop flight. bukoff as they landed at the Army field in Vancouver, Wash., last Sunday morning. Their fuel supply was very low. ncouver, Washingtc on, After Flight YQUNGSTOWN Forced te land when only some five hours flying distance from their goal, here are the daring Soviet aviators who flew over the North Pole Left to right are Alexander Baliakoff, Valeri Chekaloff and Georgi Bai- e Here Is the Plane F lown Over T(_)p ;f onrl;l, ; Moscow-Vancouver T0 WORK TODAY MILLS OPEN, LARGE FORCE Thousands Swarm En- trances of Plants to Re- port Morning Shift CIO PICKETS GIVE NO INTERFERENCE INalional Guardsmen, Uni- formed Police, Deputy Sheriffs on Scene YOUNGSTOWN Ohio, June 26.— Smoke is belching from the stacks of the reopened Republic Steel Cor- poration and Youngstown Sheet and Tube steel mills today for the first time since the steel strike started four weeks ago. A large shift of men reported and went to work at 7 o'clock this morn~ ing without interference by the CIQ strike pickets. Hundreds of workers swarmed at all of the mill entrances and entered the yards with National Guardsmen and uniformed police and deputy sheriffs patroling around the plants, Flooded With Workers Claims that thelr plants were flooded by workers for the morning shift and the same condition pre= vails for the afternon shift, are made by officials of the two steel concerns here, as the mills hummed with activity. Roy Leventry, District Manager of the Republic Steel, said the “strike is over and the CIO has lost 4,000 and 4,500 men out of the nor- mal foree of 6,000 entered the plants, Protest to be Made In Cincinnati, Regional CIO exe« cutives sald more than 2,000 per- sons are on their way to Columbus to protest to Gov. Davey against the use of National Guards in policing the “back to work movement.” Yesterday Gov. Davey announced that it was the right of men to work and the right ¢f men to strike, but that the men who want to work would be protected. BUDDY - MARY ARE MARRIED sisted of women and their chil- 2:15 o'clock this afternoon to in- dren.” The vessel was scheduled to Vestigate the matter, and to bring leave at 3 p. m. from the mill dock the suspected man to Juneau from INHOLLYWOOD to head for the Westward. She is scheduled to return next Friday southbound. i Coming to Juneau from Seattle were: Mrs. M. E. 8. Brunelle, Mas- ter Brunelle, Dale Druliner, Eva| Hanauer, Miss P. Jersted, Ruby Waldron and Mrs. James Wicker- sham. Coming to Juneau from Ketchi- kan were: N. A, McEachran, Mrs. E. G. Wilcox, Esther Ferson and Mrs. Sarah Morris. The boat made excellent time coming through the narrows, dock- ing here an hour earlier than orig- inally scheduled. Rain was exper- ienced throughout most of the voy- age. Thirty-four round-trippers to Sew- ard aboard ship, but only seven- teen of these were booked to return on the present voyage. The re-| mainder will stay in Seward until the next trip of the Mount McKin- ley. One man, T. Shiraiski willl make the Yukon River Circle Tour.| Capt. A. Ryning is in charge of the Mount McKinley. Nine passengers boarded the Mount McKinley here for Seward.! ‘They were: Henry Pigg, J. K. Have- | land, Edgar Aznoe, M. Olszewski, Ed Wilson, Jack Park, 8. K. Claunch, Florence Beaver and D. T. Pett. GETS DECISION HONOLULU, H. I, June 26. — “Red” Farmer, 148-pounder, of Bak- ersfield, Cal, outpointed Johnny Disopa, 145-pounder, of San Jose, in an eight round bout here last night. —ee—— Hoonah. - e, Murderer Faints When _Sentenced “Crime Tour” Slayer to Die in Chair—Girl in Case Is Acquitted LONOKE, Arkansas, June 26— Lester Brockelhurst fainted late yesterday afternon when he was sentenced to die in the electric chair on August 27 after a jury deliber- ating 22 minutes, found him guilty of slaying Victor Gates of Little Rock. The jury acquitted Bernice Fel- ton, 18, Brockelhurst’s sweetheart, after deliberating 1 hour and 20 minutes, on the same charge. The murder was committed dur- ing an 18 state “crime tour” last spring. —————— LD TR R UOTATIONS g STOoCK NEW YORK, June 26. — Closing quotation of American Can today is 92%, American Light and Power 8%, Anaconda 51%, Bethlehem Steel 82%, CommonWwealth and Southern 2%, General Motors 50, Interna- tional Harvester 107%, Kennecott 56, New York Central 355, South- ern Pacific 42%, United States Steel 97, Cities Service 2%, Pound $4.93%, Republic Steel 25, Pure Oil 175, Holly Sugar 30%, U. 8. Treasury bonds 2%s 97.18, Atchison General | HARDCASTLE HERE R. E. Hardcastle is registered at the Gastineau from Ketchikan. He is here to attend the meeting next week of the Unemployment Com-|Jones averages: industrials 16849,|meet staged between the groups. pensation Commission. 4s 109%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, rails 51.06, utilities 26.06, Guest_s,_inluneau: Distinguished Scotch| Couple Will Be Here Until July 6 Approving enthusiastically of Ju- neau, but neverthless standing by their firm Scotch preference for Edinburgh, Sir John Jeffrey and Lady Jeffrey arrived in the Capital City last night aboard the Aleu- tian, accompanied by their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. Stuart Jeffrey. 8ir John and Lady Jeffrey are to be in Juneau as guests of the J. Stuart Jeffreys until July 6 when they are to return south aboard the Princess Louise. 8ir John Jeffrey, who retired from active government service last February, is the former undersecretary of state for Scotland. Coming to the United States on' board the S. S. Samaria, the two arrived in New York in April and have spent the past few months visiting in the States. They spent a major part of their time in Cali- fornia and Seattle; and more recent- ly have been vacationing on Van- couver Island with their son and daughter-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Jeffrey, who have been in the south for the past two months, are again established at their residence on Dixon Street. —— - Pick Coasters Tn@_al Big 10 LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 26— Picked squads of athletes from the| Big Ten and the Pacific Coast Con- ference, are clashing here today in the first post-season dual track unheralded' but the cameramen were there. ST. PAUL, Minn,, June 26.—Ex- haustion of meat supplies, perisha- bles and general foodstuffs in re- on account of the truck drivers leaving the wholesale houses. e e— Kidnaped, Stahbed ious condition in a local hospital MAIL CLERK ABOARD NORTHWESTERN DIES Mail Clerk Chambers, aboard the steamer Northwestern, is dead, ac- cording to meagre advices received by Postmaster Albert Wile. The Northwestern is now enroute to Al- aska, having left Seattle yesterday morning. ‘The radiogram to Postmaster Wile said that the death of the mail clerk means that only closed pouches will ‘The dope favors the coasters. be carried on the trip south. | [ i SAN RAFAEL, Cal, June 26. — Kidnapped and slugged, then stab- bed by a robber during his first shift at a service station, attend- ant Donald Raney, 17, 1s in a s/ Pylled Guns when Arrest S1.Paul Stike- BETS ARE OFF Hitting Stores IN TE XAS LAND AUSTIN, Tex., June 26. — The State Legislature has adjourned the anti-gambling special session after prohibiting betting on dog races and tail stores is predicted for Monday|,gokmaking in any form. —————— TWO SLAYERS OF FED, AGENT FOUND GULTY Attempted—Jury De- liberates 4 Hours TOPEKA, Kansas, June .26.—A Federal Court jury has convicted Robert J. Suhay and Glen Apple- gate for the murder of Federal Ag- ent Wimberly E. Baker in a gun battle in the Topeka post office on April 16. Baker attempted to ar- rest the two men on a charge of robbing a bank in New York and was shot down. The jury deliberated four hours. Sentence will be pronounced next Tuesday. Cool Winds, Rain - Aiding Dust Bowl GUYMAN, Okla., June 26.—Cool | winds, bringing rain, swept the Tri- state dust bowl last night and this morning, temperatures dropping 30 degrees. Dust storms are reported but the rain temporarily suppressed (them although zero visibility on account of the dust is reported from |several sections. Rain and sleet is reported in the Pikes Peak area. e SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, June 26.| Deathbed mumblings of Frank Reeder 51, lawyer and WPA in- |structor, who was found early this | |morning impaled on a bed post,| gave the officers an inkling of his| being tortured. The incident has| | precipitated a widespread police in-| | vestigation. | COLORADO SPRINGS, June 26 ~—Half an inch of snow has already fallen at the top of Pikes Peak and {the fall continues this afternoon. The thermometer registers 30 de- grees. | This is the huge single-motored monoplane in which the three Russians flew from Moscow, over the North Pole to Vancouver, Wash. This picture was taken a few minutes after the fliers landed at the United States Military Post, 580 miles short of their goal. The plane is to be dismantled and shipped back to Moscow. flight, with recordings, have been sent to Washington for confirmation regarding time, altitudes, etc. The landing was Instruments concerned with the CAFE OWNERS STAGE STRIKE PARIS, June 26.—The Associa- tion of Hotel Rgstaurant and Cafe Proprietors have set July 3 for a shutdown as a protest against the present 40-hour week. Kiyuchevskoi Erupts Again MOSCOW, June 26—The great Klyucheyskoi Volcano of Kamchat- ka Peninsula is reported to have be- come violently active again. Child Marriage Given Approval MADISONVILLE, Tenn, June 26. | —Chancellor A. T. Stewart told Ho- mer Peel, 32, that he could keep his bride, Geneva, 12. Chancellor Stewart said he is un- utterably opposed “to such marri- ages” but explained the annulment of the marriage would turn the girl-bride out of “house and home with no place to go.” Romance of Rogers and Movie Queen Solemnized Honeymoon Plans HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 26.— Buddy Rogers, who was a barefoot boy of 11 in Olathe, Kansas, when Mary Pickford, then 22, was a movie star making $4,000 a week, is to be married to “America’s Sweetheart” today at 3 p. m.,, in a private guard- ed ceremony beneath the giant oak tree in the garden of Louis Ligh- ton’s home. The ceremony will be simple with jonly a small group of relatives and close friends in attendance, The {Rev. James Hamilton Lash, pastor of the Hollywood Congregational Church, will officiate. Rogers, 23, and his bride, 44, whose romance has flickered into public |attention since Mary Pickord and |her former husbana, Douglas Fair- |banks, were separated, will sail to- Jnlght on a wedding trip in Honolulu, | - | GEHRIG LEADS SLUGGERS IN AMER. LEACUE Joe Medwick Has Big Stride Ahead of Swat- ters in National NEW YORK, June 26.—Lou Geh- rig is leading the American League sluggers with an average of .392, Walker of Detroit is .358 and Geh- ringer, also of Detroit, is .358. In the National League Joe Med~ wick, of St. Louis, leads with 416, P. Waner of Pittsburgh is next with .364; Vaughan of Pittsburgh .363 and Jurges of Chicago .354.