The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 20, 1938, Page 8

FISH HEARING, SAN FRANCISCO, IS POSTPONED Labor Jurisfi)nal Dispute of Alaska Cannery Work- ers Put Over to Friday SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.—The National Labor Relations Board said today that the hearing in the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and Com- mittee for Industrial Organization Jurisdictional dispute over Alaska cannery workers has been postponed from tomorrow until Friday. The CIO asked for the hearing Three canning firms here are in- volved and several vessels are tied up awaiting the outcome MATHEWSON HANDLING DISPUTE, SAN FRANCISCO Gov. John W. Troy was in receipt of a message from Secretary of La- bor Frances Perkins tod ing that Joseph Cheney, who acted as Mediator during the Seattle sal- mon dispute, 15 not avails for similar service in the San Fran- ciseo but that Commissioner Walter G. Mathewson of the Labor Depart- ment is now holding joint confer- ences in San Francisco with Alacks canners and union representatives The Labor Department will give all assistance toward a satistactor) settlement, the Secretary said, in replying to the Governor's recent message to the President asking the appointment of Cheney to handle the dispute in San Francisco. CRUSHES HEADS OF 2 GHILDREN, THEN SUICIDES Deranged Father, Separat- ed from Wife, Princi- pal in Tragedy AUBURN, Wagsh, April 20—A father, deranged by separation trom iis wife, killed his two young sons by crushing their heads with a reck und then strangling them, then took his own life by blowing the top of his head off with a shotgun charge. The story was unfolded after the discovery, by lantern light, by a searching party last night, of the bodies of the children. Herbert Barrett, aged 11, and his brother William, aged 7, were slain, Deputy Sheriff O. K. Bodia said, by their father Joseph Barrett, 39, WPA worker, whese body was found nine hours earlier EIGHT NEW MEMBERS JOIN SCOUTING CLASS Eight new members joined the adult scouting class at its meeting in the High School gymnasium last night, bringing the membership to 22, it was reported today. Only two more can be taken by the class, a limit of 24 being set. The Rev. John A. Glasse addressed the class last night on scouting and new members are Alex Bradley,| Elroy Fleck, Tom Hellan, Roy Banta, Tom Bareksten, G. H. Banta, Milton ‘Ward and James J. Berry. The next meeting will be Tuesday at 7 pm, in the high school gym- nasium, MRS. WHITE TO LEAVE MONDAY FOR NEW POST Mrs. Emma White, who has been transferred from the Office of In- dian Affairs in Juneau to the of- fice in Washington, D.C., will sail on the Aleutian next Monday to take up her new post. She will be replaced by Peter F. Walz, from ge Washington, D.C office, who leaves Seattle April 30. Mrs. White recently returned from a three months’ cumulative leave, and received notice of the transfer a week after her return. LARGE ATTENDANCE IS EXPECTED, FATHER-SON BANQUET TOMORROW An attendance of 250 is expected at the Fathers and Sons banquet scheduled for tomorrow evening in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church starting at 6:30, and spon- sored by the District Committee of the Boy Scouts. All fathers and sons are invited, it is stressed, whether they are connected Wwith scouting or not. The Rev. O. L Kendall is in charge of the affair and a special program including a group of mo- tion pictures will be shown. Assist- ing Mr. Kendall are Henry Harmon in charge of the dinner which Mrs. Vena Crone will prépare; John Key ser, ticket sale, and Sherwood Wirt, publicity, HUNDREDS DEAD IN EARTHQUAKE IN CEN. TURKEY Injured M;y Run Into Thousands When Full Reports Received ANKARA, Turkey, April 20. Three hundred persons h. bel killed and 20 villages have be shaken to the ground as the resuli of violent carthquakes in Centrai Anatolia 1t is feared that when repor received from the section the casualtics w'll be much and the injured may also r the thousands. Quakes wer felt ‘all Tuesday af texnoon and continued until early last evening Aty N L ——— | QTOC‘K QUOTATIONS | S P o NEW YORK. April 20, Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10'4, American Can 83'%, American Light and Power - . Anaconda 28%, Commonwealth and Southern 1';, Curtiss Wright 5, General Motors 32%, International Harvester 59';, Kennecott 33%, New Yerk Central 12%, Southern Pacific United States Steel 46, Cities & ce 1!y, Bremner no bids asked 2, Pennsylvania Railroad 16, Pound $4.98%% DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow. Jones averages: industrials 114.90, rails 21.26, utilities 17.52 - ASAMA ERUPTS VIOLENTLY IN JAPAN REGION Rocks as Large as Water- melons Thrown Out— Forest Flres Started TOKYO, A))l'll 2 Mount Asama, Japan’s largest active voleano, has erupted, throwing out the biggest shower of rocks and ashes in th2 past six years. Rocks as large as watermelons rained on the slopes causing many forest fires and adding to the gen- eral prnl and excitement. e — INDIAN OFFICE TRIO IN FROM FIELD TRIP Charles W. Hawkesworth, Assist- ant Education Director, Don Hag- erty, in charge of Indian reorganiza- tion work, and Miss Myrle Biggins, Clerk, all of the Indian office, re- turned to Juneau on the North Sea after visiting Hydaburg, Klawock, Craig, Kake, Ketchikan and Kas: aan in connection with Indian ser- vice work. Hydaburg has been granted a charter under the new act, Hagerty reported, and first loans will be made to individuals. The other towns are applying for charters. Hawkesworth reported elaborate ceremonies held in Ketchikan Sun- day for the late Chief Johnson. J.V.Jim’DAVIS Democratic Candidate FOR RE-ELECTION TO THE TERRITORIAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FROM THE FIRST DIVISION——— “Upholding the Best Interests” of All Alaskans.” HPrimaries, Tuesday, April 26 MARY WILDES IS BETROTHED T0 MR. WELCH Engagemenmmounced at Tea Given Today by Miss Godfrey, Mrs. Godfrey Announced this afternoon at a Spring tea given by Miss Sybil God- rey and her mother, Mrs. J. B. Godfrey, was the engagement ot Miss Mary Alice Wildes, daughter of Gordon Wildes of Juneau, to John Fred Welch, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fred Welch of Seat- tle. News of the betrothal of the popu- lar Juneau couple was learned as guests arrived at the Godfrey home on Gold Belt Avenue, where little Zelma Gross presented to each ar- rival a daffodil bearing an ann- suncement card. Miss Wil , Mrs. Godfrey, and Miss Godfrey receiv- ed the guests as tr entered Miss Wildes, who has home in Juneau for the past three , attended the Visitation Con- nt in Tacoma and Sull; Col- ege of Bristol, Virginia, as well as Juncau High School. Coming to Al- aska with her father from their former home in Chicago, she has been prominently associated with activities of the younger set and 15 affiliated with the Order of East- ern Star and the Order of Rain- bow Girls. My Welct who is a graduate of the Univer of Washington, maj- ared in pharmacy and is associated with the Harry Race Drug store of Juneau, He is a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity The wedding will be an event of the next few months. A backzround of spring flowers orovided a colorful setting for the tea this afternoon with a large bou- quet of yellow and orchid iris form- ing the cenierpiece for the main table which was covered with a lace cloth, Canales and flowers also formed a setting at the buffet table. Hrs, Tom Hutchings and Mrs. J. G Shepard presided at the tea tables for the first part of the afternoon while Mrs. M .D. Williams and Mrs. Guy MeNaughton poured for the closing heur of the affair. Miss Godfrey and Miss Marguerite Hickey isted in se rited to be present for the affair were Mrs. Lar Henrickson, Mr: Keith Wildes, Mrs. N. Lester Troast Mrs. Fred Axford. Mrs. J. Wilson Foster, Mrs, M. E. Monagle, Mrs, Walter P. Scott, Mrs.. Ray G. Day 's. C. L. Tubbs, Mrs. W. D. Gross, s. Gordon Ferguson, Mrs. Stella Young, Mrs. Gertrude Naylor, Mrs, George F. Freeburger, Mrs. Florine Housel, Mrs. Horace Adams, Mrs. Ike Taylor, Miss Mary Jean Mc- naughton, Miss Jean Gallagher, Miss Mary Louise Kelsey, Miss Louise Kemper, Miss Edythe Young, Miss Mary Jeannette Whittier, Miss Gladys Brewis, Miss Elaine Housel, Miss Jane Alexander, Miss Jean Taylor, Miss Elaine Hawkins, and Miss Louise Murrish. INDIAN SINGER DIES TODAY AT GOVT. HOSPITAL Noted Chief Eagle Horse Succumbs After Sev- eral Weeks' Illness Charles Cutter, famed on the singing stage as “Chief Eagle Horse,” under which title he made appear- ances in many places throughout the world, died this morning at the Government Hospital of a chronic illness which had kept him in the| hospital since January. Cutter, 60 years old, was the son of Charles Cutter, Sr., pioneer Ju- neau carpenter who made the first dog sleds that went into the Klon-| dike. “Chief Eagle Horse,” left Juneau in 1900, went to Chemawa Indian School in Oregon, whence he began his rise to fame®as a vocalist. He is survived by his wife Martha, living in Petersburg, whom he met while singing in Paris. He is also survived by relatives in Klawock. Funeral plans will be announced shortly. BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of big league games played this afternoon as received up to 2:30 o'clock: National League Philadelphia 6; Brooklyn 5. Chicago 10; Cincinnati 4. American League Washington 3; Philadelphia 0. CHAMBER LUNCH TOMORROW NOON The regular weekly luncheon of | the Juneau Chamber of Commerce will be held tomorrow noon at Pe\'q‘h Cafe. Beveral speakers have | been invited and business of im- lmrunce is scheduled, - made her| SRR —— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 193 IMRS. WRIGHT BACK FISHERIES PATROL | VESSELS ON WAY | NORTH FOR YEAR First of the Bureau of Fisheries summer patrol fleet are on their way north, according to Fish War-| den William B. Berry of Yakutat, | who with Mrs. Berry passed through' here yesterday on the Aleutian for his summer station. The Auklet which will again be stationed at Craig, the Kittiwake for Ketchikan and the Eider for the Westwara | already are on the way to Alaska. he reported. SITKA GROWS WITH SUMMER DRAWING NEAR Mayor Wor 0 man Praises Town as City of Growth and Promise Charles Wortman, Mayor of Sii- L. G. Wingard, Alaska Agent. and | ka, and business man of that city, his summer staff from the Seattle interviewed this morning at Sitka, office, are expected to leave Seal- predicted a busy summer for the tle May 20 for their summer head- Baranof Island metropolis. quarters at Juneau. “We seem pretty quiet, now,” said E. H. Dahlgren, of the biological | Wortman, “but more fish are com- research laboratory of the Fishe |ing in gll the time. We're growi Bur eau in Seattle, who has been at | slowly—but we are growing. It ap- Sitka for the last five weeks, left pears as though there will be more for the south today, flying to Ket-| trollers operating out of Sitka this chikan with Pilot Bob Ellis. summer than in several years past.” R HUUNAH FEELS | of much growth. Four new residenc- s are’ in the process of construc- tion, and a I e frame warehouse ANflTHER sHAKE and office is being erected for newly organized branch of the Co- lumbia Lumber Company of Juneai on the site of the old Mills sawmill & At Japanski Island, where over a Developing Baseball Team with Threat to Wallop Juneau Teams Naval Air Station, six twin-engined bombers on the ramp after return- ing from 23 days of patrol man vers off Kodiak, give the air travel or an impression of Sitka’s promise as a growing city Down the beach, Sitka, at Halibut Point bundred Navy men are based at th Hoonah residents reported that another earthquake of minor proportions was felt in that Icy Straits city yesterday, following fre- today four miles from the mors Monday, which are believed to| Setvice is erecting .a shelter have caused a landslide that shover and shaping a r cational ar a native dwelling from its founda- AMid tall spruce that line a sandy tions »each cut by a small stream “Red"” Gr CCC foreman at Hoo- We're pretty proud of cur lic- nah, suggests that Hoomah has le city” snid Mayor Wortman baseball team developing, that wil ~Were coming along - come over to Juneau and bring tem blors of sorts to Gastineau Chan- nel. “We've got a squad here that car take anything you've got over there! Gray said. JOF DIMACEIC TAKES $25.000 NEW YORK, April 20.—Joe Maggio, holdout outfielder of Sally Shafer f0 Leave on Monday Forest Serviécr()ffi(‘ial Is to Make Ten-week Trip to States Mrs. Sally Shafer, president of the Juneau branch of the National Federation of Federal Employees and head of the drafting depari- ment of the Forest Service office here, leaves on the Aleutian Mondas for a ten week trip south Mrs, Shafer will travel to Wash- ington, D.C., where she will be on detail with the Washington office of the Forest Service for two weeks, While in the East she will travel with Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Pratt, for- merly of Juneau, to New England on a two weeks' trip, and also make Di- New York Yankees, has accepted ll'c 1038 325,000 salary offered for the season, according to offieial nouncement made this -afternocn The outfielder asked for $40,000 which was l\'rl‘rd down rlatl_\'. CARD PARTY OF TRINITY GUILD TO BE TONIGHT This evening scores of Gastineau other side trips. Channel residents are to attend the On her return, Mrs. Shafer wil card party of the Trinity Guild visit her sister in Salt Lake Cit which will be held in the parish hall and will arrive in Juneau toward beginning at 8 p.m. he first of July Contract bridge and pinochle are >oe - to be played during the evening. |“Alaska” ‘)}' Lester D. Henderson When you’re out for pleasure . ..and tie up to Chester- fields. ..you find a cigarette that has refreshing mildness ...a taste that smokers like ...a more pleasing aroma. Mild ripe tobaccos—home- grown and aromatic Turkish —and pure cigarette paper— the best ingredients a ciga- rette can have . . . that’s why Chesterfields give you more pleasure. KR VRO RS PrwComwia s s From the air, Sitka shows evidence | Che Enroliment at Juneau Schools FROM VACATION IN PUGET SOUND CITIES After a month’s vacation in Puge sSound cities, Mrs. Josephine su\: H Wright, Secretary in the Federal So- I s ew Ig cial Security office here, returnec to Juneau on the Aleutian yester- day, accompanied by her father, C.| jyneau Public Schools have reach. zm 15}10::1? P:c\;[);cla:tts:fteli‘: ;‘:0 ;{2 |ed a new high in attendance, sur- g passing the former record of 832 {:i?"’ to spend a month or six weeks | syygents totaled in June 1935 by Py b o i the present record of 833, recorded aiiies. Wright vislted frlends o e | with conclusion of the past six R s R A *~| week period, ending April 16 lingham and attended several large| "y o g gh Sch there are at social aifairs in Seattle, among thewa | (1 tH¢ et the installation ceremonies of the| 5, Lo e, | Grade School, ents, bring- Daughters of the Nile and a fcrma.“m S Bt o a4, F ; affair given by the order of Amar-| o 11¢ Tl o ponding period of last ycar, 222 dents were enrolled in the H anth. School, and 594 in the Grade School, | totaling 816. LumberCompary Pullic Health Will Open Soon; Nurse for N Fairhanks Area "UISE 10r Nome Visits Junean N. Nussbaumer Flies in to ot B(‘gln Bl]il(lil]g Mrs. Ida J. S])ll‘llgm Territorial TI S Public Health Nurse for Noms h1s Dpring rived in Juneau on the Aleuti 2 C e 1 ar g for her destina-' 999 e left today by plane N, Nussbajsimer, well-knosin South- tion. Mrs. Sprenger was formerly cast Alaska lumber and cannery cmployed as a nurse in Nome by the man, flew in to Fe today oOffice of Indian Affairs " {5 open 2 lumber business in that' Under the auspices of the Terri- city, to be called the Fairbanks torjal Department of Health, sh Lumber and Supply Co. has just completed a course in pub “We wiil spend about 000 in jic health nursing at the Ur there this summer,” Nussbaumer ity of Oregén and will now assume said. “We will import iumber from the duties of a publim health nurs: Ketchikan and will use some local in Nom lumber from the country about - o Fairbanks.” Eldon Daly, President of the Ket- chikan Spruce and Lumber Mills s also president .of the newly organized Fairbanks firm The company will build as possible” on ground purchased recently, near the Alaska Road Commission. warehouses and s,um ges on Garden Island s tr: will be . built Railroad Mediation Board Measure Approved . By Com, of Senate Proposal for Compulsory PRECINCT NO. TWO Arbitration, However, VOTERS TO BALLOT, Is Knocked Out 141 FRONT STREET WASHINGTON, Aprli 20, — The Senate Marine Committee has re- ed the bill establishing a Media- as soon from the Ala ka N Voters in Nu. precinet in Juneau will cast their ballots at 141 Front tion Board maritime labor dis- Tuesday at the primary putes but turned down the pro- { today posal of the Maritime Commission The add- for L'umpul‘«)"" urbxtmlion old Juneau qum is the store building and now is used by AFL unions. The former voting place for No. has been torn down to m the new Gress Twentieth Cer theatre. HOPS HERE Pilot Bob Ellis flew up from Ket- b Alda Y S B e MRS. HERMANN BACK chikan yesterday with A. Hanson, Mrs. Mildred Hermann returned and flew back to the First City to- to Juneau on the steamer North Sea day with Judge W. C. Arnold, and after a month in Ketchikan attend- Ed Dahlgren for Ketchikan, and Er- ing the Federal court session there. ma Parr for Kake Weekly Radio Highlights GRACE MOORE ANDREKOSTELANETZ PAUL WHITEMAN DEEMS TAYLOR PAUL DOUGLAS stertielc ...you’ll find MORE PLEASURE in Chesterfield’s milder better taste Copyright 1938, LicokTT & Myaas Tosacco Co, £ e Barkley Says New Deal Gave Alaska Millions Total Will Reach $15,319.- 735 by End of Pres- ent Fiscal Year } WASHINGTON, April 20.—Maj- ority leader Alden Barkley in a Jefferson Day address here said Al- 1k had received $15319,735 under tle New Deal fiscal program ending with the end of the fiscal year June 30, tlis year. Including grants and loans ins- ed, Barkley classified the amounts : Agricultural Adjustment ration, $1257; Emergency"* Administration, $4,081,555; Conservation Corps, $2,437,- scial Sect $199,384; Pub- stration, $4,935,440; Administration, of Emergency s for 1935, 192 public build- Reconstruction ance Corporation $877,500; Home Cwners Loan Corporation, $25973; 4 PWA, loans insured, FHA. 1, Title Two, $649,- Re.ief — eeo HOLDEN MAKES ISLAND JAUNT Alex H('.(hn toa H‘r‘ Marine Alr- ways Bellanca out to the island , taking D. Hoffman to picking up Nancy Jon aughter Sally Jones at Chichago: 3itka. On return to Juneau, Holden mad a trip with the Bellanca to the Po- laris-Taku mine. HERRING TAKEN, - AUK BAY POUND his morning at 4 o'ciock, Martin filled his herring pound at t Bay as the main body of th wning hordes entered the end of It is reported that Holst made a » haul and that “thousands s are in the pound.” MRS. BEALE IS BACK FROM TRIP After a visit of over three months in the States, Mrs. Charles D. Beale rived in Juneau abcard the Aleu- yesterday, having spent severai eeks visiting with her mother and sister in Beverly Hills, Cal Mrs. Beale also visited with Mr and Mrs. B. F. Shearer in Seattie and spent a part of her time in Portland and San Trancisco. 4