The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 5, 1938, Page 1

s Set THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7733. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1938. PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA GREWS % FOR CANNERIES ; b 5 BEING HELD UP Deadlock Between Fisher- men’s Union and Pack- ers Is Reported NO WAGE DEMANDS ARE MADE, HOWEVER Question Is Signing Agree- ment Regarding Bonus to Be Paid in 1938 SEATTLE, March 5—The move- ment of hundreds of men and thou- cands of tons of supplies to the Al- aska salmon areas is at a stand- still today because of a deadlock between the packers end the Al- aska PFishermen’s Union over the 1938 wages. Louis Mostad, Union President, said 500 men should have sailed north February 16 but the Union will not “clear” any fishermen for jobs until an agreement is signed He s inc; d there are no demands for over the average of $110 nthly during the season but the ion insists on a bonus of $4.40 per day for fishermen for every thousand cases packed of reds or pinks. Last year's bonus was $4.40 for reds and $2.20 for pinks. - MINISTER IS SUED, BREACH OF PROMISE Twelve Men Award Ten Thousand Dollar Ver- dict to Jilted Woman STUBENVILLE, Ohio, March 5— A jury of 12 men has awarded Cora Boruham, 43-year-old di- vorcee, the sum of $10,000 in a breach of promise verdict against Harold Zeis, Episcopalian minister. The woman told of an eight-year courtship and then being jilted when the minister married a weal- thy parishioner. Swiet Official se Dfficial Reveals Tokyo's flrienlql Plots Confesses to Giving Japan Information on Rus- sian Conditions MOSCOW, March 5. — Christian Rakovsky, former Russian Ambas- sador to Japan, has confessed send- ing secret reports of Russian in- ternal conditions to the Japanese Secret Service while he was on duty in Tokyo. Rakovsky is on trial with twenty other high officials on conspiracy charges. He admitted that exiled Leon Trotsky sought to provoke a war on Soviet Russia by the Jap- anese and said that the Japanese had been looking for a pretext to attack China in 1934. Rakovsky also admitted working for the British Secret Service since 1924, He admitted his treachery when he was convinced by Soviet officials that a successful Trotskyist plet would lead to Fascism in Rus- sla. It was reported that Trotsky would shoulder some of the re- sponsibility for helping “world ag- gressors bring about their plans.” It was said Rakovsky only began to give his sincere confession after eight months of solitary confine- ment after reconsidering all of his Trotskyist views. “I feared.” he said, “that Fas- cistic potentialities in power would result in the annihilation of cul- ture and civilization. That is what prompted me to confess every- thing.” = - COMING ON ALASKA Mr. and Mrs. George Jorgenson and daughter Gertrude, are passen- gers for Juneau aboard the Alaska. They have been south for several weeks. To Wed Duce Son BRIT, DEFENSE B OVER BILLION Armament Race Will Cost Each Britisher For- ty Dollars Yearly LONDON, March 5-—The total cf the British Defense Budget has been fixed at a record high of one billion, eight hundred and nine million, nine hundred and twenty- five thousand dollars. The armament race will every Briton to pay $40 yearly. BODY, KIDNAPED BOY, REPORTED 70 BE IN LAKE Police Start Draining Small Body of Water as Re- sult of Note cost Gina Ruberti, 18-year-old daughter of a civil engineer of Ronue, is pic- tured above. She is to marry Bruno Mussolini, son of the Italian dicta tor, in the Spring. Rémesemative Held-up, Rohbed In Nat_.canital Three Bandits Take Cash, Checks, Watches from ‘W ROCHELLE, N. Y. March 5—A tense silence settied today vér the home of -old Peter Levine, who disappeared Thursday, February 24 Although the ransom of $30,000 has been raised no contact is re- ported to have been made with the kidnapers. The silence today at the home of the boy's parents, Attorney Mur- ray Levine, was caused as the po- lice began draining a lake. Three elephone messages received. sent them to the lake in Crotona Park Trdidia M where they found o note on the ndiana ivlan ying: “Levine body in mid- ””” dle of lake” Although possibly a WASHINGTON, March 5.—Rep- resentative William T. Schulte, of Indiana, reports that three bandits robbed him of $16 in cash, three checks ing $18 and two watches men in a car stop- ped him as he was parking his car last night. A gocd description of the men was given to the author- ities. AIR RAIDING cruel hoax, the police began drain- ing the liitie body of water MRS, ROOSEVELT T0 GOME WEST 20 for Visit of Six Days with Her Daughter SEATTLE, March 5—Mrs. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt will be here on March 20 for a visit of six days with her daughter, Mrs. John Boet- e tiger. The visit will be during a cross country lecture tour in the Hundreds Reported Killed interest o peace. by Bombers—New Of- T T TR e Lo | ABOR LEADER S SHOT DOWN Body of Business Agent Is Found in Rear Yard HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish | Frontier, March 5. Insurgent bombers have renewed systematic attacks on population centers ac- cording to radio reports received here. More than 100 persons are re-| ported to have been killed in air | raids on Barcelona, Alcaniz and | Valencia. The battlefront is quiet | Of Hls Home but a renewed Insurgent offensive | 4 2 s 5 | EAST ST. LOUIS, Iil, March 5.— in the A‘ap{un sector is imminent. Leo Quick, 37, business agent for Workers Union, was found dead this morning in the rear yard of his home. He apparently had been | parked his car in his garage. i e MIAMI, Florida, March 5.—War | B H E w E R Y Is Admiral won the $50,000 Widener Challenge Cup at Hialeah Park this | DESTHUYED IN victory this season. The winner paid $272 to place and $2.20 to show. | + sl 4| Three Empolyees Are Killed ‘ —Fifteen Others & i the Boilermakers and Laundry waylaid and shot after he had afternoon for the ténth straight | Injured + : ‘f STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 5—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock - at today's short session is 11%, Ameican Can 87%, American NEW YORK, March 5. — The Light and Power 5, Anaconda 32'%, Horton Brewery, upper Manhattan, Bethlehem Steel 57, Commonwealth | Was razed during the night by an| and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright explosion in the boiler room and 41, Geenral Motors 39%, Interna- three employees are listed as dead tional Harvester 65, Kennecott and 15 others injured. 37'%, New York Central 17%, South- Windows for blocks around were ern Pacific 18%, United States Steel | broken by the plast which is blam- 53%, Cities Service 1%, Pound ed to coal dust being ignited by 1$5.00%. a welding machine. \ BUDGET LISTED NEW THREAT IN S0. CALIFORNIA FLOOD TO POINTS SOUTH stroyer just completed, is stcaming on her shakedown cruise. the U.S.S. Somers, 1,850-ton de- BUSINESS AREA OF FRESNO NOW RED FLEET MANEUVERING IN BLACK SEA adds Molotov who said: “War is being prevared against us in west and east. Wil Arsive inSeatdeMarch S| X BOMBERS ‘George Foster Peabody, Who L|QUOR STORE: TO FLY NORTH DURING MONTH Leaving San Diego Today for Seattle—Then Go- ing to Sitka Base SAN DIEGO, Cal, March 5. Rear Admiral Charles kely said six Navy bombers will take off dur- ing today for the Sitka, Alaska base. Lieutenant Commander John Per- ry and 41 officers and men will make the trip. It is planned to stop one week in Seattle before flying north. The flight is a routine transier preparatory to establishing base at Sitka on June 1. UNIV. ALASKA STILL BOOMINE, SAYS BUNNELL President of Farthest North College Arrives by Plane Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, Presiden? of the University of Alaska was an arrival by PAA plane this after- noon from Fairbanks Dr. Bunnell said he would ret to Fairbanks again when the plane goes north next Tuesday “How is the university?” he ask- ed in the lobby of the Gastineau Hotel, where he is a guest, this afternoon. “It's better than ever of course. We haven't enough ac- commodations to take care of all our applicants and there are 217 students registered this semester.” Made Fortune in Banking, then Turned Philanthropist, Is Dead WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 5. — George Foster Peabody, who amassed a fortune in the banking business and then retired from that field to devote his activities to phil- anthropy, public service, educa- tional and religious, work, is dead here at his winter home at the age of 85. His connection with the banking house of Spencer Trask Com- pany dated from his youth when he arrived in New York from Colum- bus, Ga., where he , 1852. Unusual Talent Mr. Peabody showed unusual tal- ent as a banker and climbed rapid- ly to a place of prominence in the financial district of New York. Dur- & years of progress as a banker of public service led to jons with many education- al and other public institution: For many years he w losely identified with the New York State and National organizations of the Demoeratic party. He was tri wer of the. Democratic National Com- mittee in 1904. After the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law he was named by President Wilson as a Di- réctor and Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of New York Interested in Resort ‘Through his long intir with Spencer Trask, who was the [irst President of the S ga Springs ssion, Mr. Peabody became ed in the preservation of the celebrated mineral spriugs at that resort. Upon the h of Mr. Trask he was appointed President of the commission, serving from 1910 to 1915. After his retirement from the commission he was frequently con- sulted by New York state officials with regard to the future develop- ment of Saratoga and w: APPO ed by Governor Smith a member of a committee to study that ques- tion. Interested in Negroes Always interested in educational | matters, the training of the negroes was born July |’ GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY in the South was very near to Mr Peabddy’s heart. He was the first Treasurer of the General Education Board, holding the office ten years Other educational services included director of the Southern Education- al Board, trustee of Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural Inst tute at Hampton, Va., Tuskegee In- stitute, Universily of Georgia, Skid- more College at Saratoga Springs and Colorado College. To all of these he made frequent conations Donated Land Peabody gave to New York large tracts of land on Lake as an addition to the state system, He was instrumental the establishment at Saratoga state Geos par in Springs of the state forest nursery, | the largest in the world, from which millions of seeding trees are distri- buted annually for reforestation purposes In February. 1921, Mr. Peabody married Mrs. Katrina Trask, widow (Continued on Page Three) BRITANNIA RULED THESE WAVES when British destroyers were off coast of Spain seeking pirate “subs.” color to tense maval situation recognized by Soviet Prem’er We must have a powerful fleet.” | Council Favors Placing of IN DANGER LINE Levees of Herndon Canal Indicated ai Break- ing Point SUBURBS ARE ALREADY UNDER RISING WATERS Los Angeles District Toll of Death Mounting—Prop- erty Loss Also Grows BULLETIN—LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 5—Reports of a new low pressure area forming off the Pacific Coast this after- noon threw a shadow over the devastated Southern California flood section. The Weather Bureau reported “we may get by Sunday without rain but be- yond that our forecasts do not go." By Associated Press A new threat arose today in the southern California flood situa- tion. Flood waters threaten to inun- date the business section of Fresno as the levee holding Herndon Canal is weakening. Fourteen square miles of cutlying suburbs are now under water. The known dead in what is call- ed the Los Angeles floor area to- talled 104 this morning with 77 of the recovered bodies identified. There are 128 persons still miss- ing. It is believed the dead toli will be much higher when the flood re- cession permits of an extended silt clearance. None of the identified dead are Alaskans, it is officialliy announced. The damage to public property, highways and buildings is now esti- mated at $50,000,000. Private losses will probably never be known but these lo: were likely to equal the public lcss. WIFE OF GOVERNOR OF ALASKA IS SAFE LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 5.— Mrs. John W. Troy, wife of Al- aska's Governor, is safe in San Gabriel Canyon but she was forced to flee with 24 others when raging waters wiped out 100 cabins. Mrs. Ethel Cummings, County Probation Officer, said she had a short wave communication from Mrs. Troy, who with Mrs. Shirley Morgan, of Los Angeles, was stay- |ing at the Cummings’ cabin. - e | CLOSING HOUR VOTE DELAYED City Owned Power on Election Ballots awaiting action on the liquor store| cussion last night at the meeting| Fohaks of the City Council, when Council- man Henry Messerschmidt stated oIl seasfon Mountainous Area Messerschmidt is to present an | Ao ordinance extending the closing| FRESNO, Cal, March 5—Aerial hour of liquor stores to 3 a.m,, de-|Searchers expect that clearing_ | stated act failed to do. In refer- | persons aboard. ence to the existing ordinance re-| The big craft disappeared last quiring earlier closing, however, he| Tuesday night enroute from San voiced question of validity. There Francisco to Albuquerque, New all different Searchers have covered the Bass Question on Ballots Lake section, 45 miles northeast of Preceding lengthy discussion by here where 30 mountaineers r2- W. D. Gross, the City Council voted poted hearing a plane and two ownership of light and power. ing made by air and ground. “There is nothing binding in includ- e ing such a question on the ballot City Attorney Frank Foster stated YUUTH KILLS course, the people may vote in the | sufficient vote of the taxpayers, not voters at large, at a special election closing hour question, found the bombastics of W.'D. Gross a substi- | Air, Ground Hunt Intensi- that the closing-hour ordinance will| fied as Weather Clears not be ready until the next Coun-| igned to meet the legal require- Weather will aid in the hunt for ments which the previous 3 a.m. the lost TWA skyliner with nine three copies of the present or-|Mexico, somewhere in the moun- nance, he stated, and they are|tainous Sierre Nevada country. to place on the city election ballot said they saw it plainly. in April the question of municipal! The search for the skyliner is be- “for'a vote in such instar merely registers the public opinion. Of to make action binding.” The Council heard the report of City Engineer Milton Lagergren on the estimated cost of building a power plant in Juneau, which em-| CHICAGO, I, March 3—Theo- phasized the significant fact that dore Danielsen, Jr., 16, has con- an annual deficit of $22,000 might fessed to slaying his crippled moth- be expected from opera The eF With a bread knife. The boy' says v —— he killed his mother because she (Continued on Page Two) shook him for playing hookey. [