The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1938, Page 8

Labor vs. Business FIRE SWEEPS HAVRE DURING LAST EVENING Quarter of Million Dollars Damage Done in Busi- ness Section HAVRE, Montana, April fire that is e at caused a qu a milli the lars' damage swept thro business section of this wn dur- ing the night and destroyed four large b ings. The fire started from an unex- plained explosion in the rear of one of the buildings. - - MEXICAN OIL SITUATION IS SERIOUS DNE Auibassador Daniels Arrives in Washington for Conference Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, and Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric Company, are pictured in a New York radio studio as they broadcast in an unusual symposium on “government and business cooperation.” Secretary Perkins expressed the views of labor, while Swope spoke for industrialists and business men. SEARCH FOR Thirty Injured MISSINGMAN InCrash, False ORDEREDOFF Fire Alarm Cal ¢ e Speeding Truck Hits Trol- Relatives of New Yorker I T T Fore. Bel'eve Further ley Car This Fore noon, Brooklyn Hunt Useless > WASHINGTON, April 23.-—Jose phus Daniels, American Ambassa to Mexi has arrived here plane to confer with State Depa ment officials relative to Mexican selzure of oil properties Ambassador Danlels came here on sk notite. He refused to make any comment on the situa- tion in Mexico over the oil - BROOKLYN, April 23 ing fire truck. answering { ! h for Andrew this forenoon . C 1 abandoned and five fire were injured ol « Whitfield w scen when he e ay [ e”u[y tcck off from Roosevelt Field in a p fuel. Opinion is divided as to wheth- er Whitfield is in hiding or flew out to sea Whitfield's brother,- John Whit- field, ordered the search abandoned in the I f that further hunt would be useless. Whitfield said he confident th his brother is alive The disappearance resulted when the missing man had an argument with his wife, Is Nnv_(Admilted PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 23 A confession of perjury freed James Mucha today from a possible ceath sentence. The witness who confess- ed to perjury was a 21 year old Negro, Henton Gary. Mucha was charged wit'. killing a woman. Gary testified that he saw Mucha fire the shot that killed the woman. After further questioning JEWS IS BEGUN AUSTRIA LAND Mass Picketing Started to Enforce Boycott on Stores who com- Irishwoman plained that her husband spanked A young Gary told the police: “Maybe I was her “as one would beat an unvuly ~ VIENNA, Apr Hundreds >f drunk. I guess I didn’t even sce the child,” 2 a separation decree in unifcrmed Nazis started mass man.” Dublin on the ground of cruelty picketing today to enforce a boy- & - i cctt on Jewish stores as German officials began a purge of non- Aryan g Austrian Nationals and Gentiles 1 are to be prevented from patron- izing Jewish stores. - : AIR RECORD BROKEN NO LONDON, April 23—H. F. Broad- bent, Australian aviator, has clip- ped 13 hours and 35 minutes from the Australia to England air record which was previc y held by Jean Batten, New Zealand aviatrix Sunbeam SHAVEMASTER - Floor in Juneau—To 4-Piece Band: Harry Krane, Violet Singer, Art and Fenton Dennis. Latést and greatest advance in dry-shavers New ia principle! New in per- formaace! New in the ease and speed with which it gives a good close shave! Built for men who have intended changing to a dry-shaver when the right one came along — men who have used dry-shavers and want a better one. 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Mul- vihill today issued a warning against careless handling of rubbish fires during “spring cleanup.” “Every spring about this tinie, wo get a number of alarms caused by trash fires that have gotten out of hand,” Chief Mulvihill said. “The members of the fire department cannot run around town, watching everybody's backyard bonfire. The only thing we can do is ask that a rubbish fire never go unattended, and that water, adequate to put the blaze out, be handy at all times.” Yesterday's brush fires, coming as a prelude to next week's clean campaign, were put down in sho yeder with wet gunnysacks and hoses, but endangered considerable property for a short time. The first alarm at 4:20 p.m,, a short-lived btush fire behind Dan Poznan’s house at the top of Star Hill, against the flanks of Mount Roberts. The second alarm was rung at 4:55 p.m. for another quickly ex- tinguished brush blaze, between Stxth and Seventh streets on Prank- in behind the Peter Melseth home n Sixth Street and the H. L. Faulk- er residence on Seventh Strec - - Buiter Suhstitute Plan Is Defeated Dairy State Sénalors Get in Their Work — Vet Hospitals Safe WASHINGTON, April 23.-Sen- tors from dai states succeeded n eliminating from thg one thou- and four hundred million dollar independent offices appropria ill an amendment that would ha permitted veterans' hospitals purchase butter substitutes The victory came after a hard fight by Southern senators who sup- ported the amendment as an aid to producers of cottonseed oil, from which some butter substitutes are manufactured The amendment was attached to the veterans’ administration section of Lihe biil by Senator George, Demo- crat, of Geergia. It was rejected oy the House conferees in the joint conference on the measure and Senator Glass reported the disa- greement to the Senate, Senator Duffy, Democrat, of Wis- consin, moved that the Senate con- ur in the House rejection, assert- ing the amendment “would open (the doors to butter substitutes to |ve served veterans hs food.” - Union Wants Free Beer, Also.Parasols NEW YORK, April 23—Free beer, sun umbrellas and raincoats were among the demands of labor which aggrieved - Isaac Penner, contrac- tor. Testifying in an injunction ac- tion against Local 3 of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Electricical Workers, he said workers sent to him by the union demanded the ex- tra equipment. U, S, Mints Coins For Latin Nations PHILADELPHIA, April 23.—The Philadelphia Mint makes pesos for piras and centavos for Honduras and Nicaragua and centisimos for Pana- ma. They totaled 320,350,000 coins ma .They totaled 320,350,000 coins last year. to YOUR CAR the Modern Way | HAVE YOU INSURED THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1938 Homesick Girl Sets Orphanage On Fijg Twice | CLERMONT-FERRAND, France April 23.—Lonesome for the mother, a seven-year-old girl twice sei lire o0 the Providence Orphanage near here in the hope the buildings would be destroyed and she would be sent home. p Two fires within several days looked suspicious to the authorities and they investigated. After lengthy questioning of their charges, a lit- tle girl confessed she started both blazes. Neither fire caused serious dam- age and no action will be taken against the child. LADTESTIFIES TO FATAL STABBING OF HIS MOTHER Father Tak;s S:Iand» —Gives Evidence Attempting to Shield Son CHICAGO, Ill, April 23.—Teddy Danielson, 16, testified at his mur der trial how he stabbed his crip pled mother. The youth said he grabbed a bread knife, when she shook him for playing hookey from school.and plunged it into his mother’s heart The father of the boy testified that Mrs. Danielson frequently lapsed into fits of rage and he believed she was in such a condi- tion when she shook her son se- verely and without proper restraint e Pastor Is Cop EL CENTRO, ‘Cal., April Rev. Mr. Harold E. Doty is the few pa than persua kers of his flock. He can put them one of tors who can use more on on wayward mem- in jail if necessary Mr. Doty wears a police captain’s badee, recently presented by Chiet J. Sterling Oswalt with the sug- gestion to e use of it. - - AR FORTUNE STOLEN FROM CASTLE HOME Thieves Get Half Million Dollars Worth of Paintings LONDON, April 23—Five paint- ings, one of them a Rembrandt val- ued at a quarter of a million dollars, have becn stolen from the seventh century Chilham castle home of Sir Edmund Davis, mining magnate. The thieves passed up a pure gold ‘idul. Two Gainsboroughs, one Rey- nolds and one Van Dyke were also taken by the art burglars. Experts said the group of paint- ing stolen were valued at half a million dollars. e DETROIT BOUND IN STRIKES AS TALKFEST ENDS {Buick Plant and that of ! Chevrolet Company May Close Down DETROIT, Mich., April 23.—Un- ion employees of the Buick and Chevrolet - Motor Companies today voted to strike as negotiations with ! employers came to an end, leaving four Detroit labor situations at a I ROTECT with the Comprehensive “All Risks” Automobile Policy? MHAVE © INs. CO. N & ‘This unique policy protects you against loss of or damage te your car from practicaily ANY cause, including fire and theft. coverage. It can be secured with or without collision It provides much more protection, yet costs only a trifle more than fire and theft insurance alone. SHATTUCK AGENCY PHONE 249 Office—New York Life ' Seven Persons Are Hurt When Train Is Derailm.l and Unien Pacific Challenger train 1 view members were injurei when (he castb Twe passengers and five crew was derailed by a breken rail west of Las Vegas, Nev. This is a ges f {he-wreck standstill. J . H T e Sk voie st ve - Morgan Popular in Home Town ted to the I Y 1 Automobbile orkors U ion 1wch a strike will stop all production com- pietely. In the Chevrolet assembly plant, all work wul be stopped oy off the stream of parts and sug o CAFE BUILDING COLLAPSES:1 KNOWN KILLED Eighty-four Persons Injured —Wreckage May Re- veal Other Victims PHOENIX CITY April 3—Rescue workers a ad- ditional victims in the age of a two story cafe building which col- lapsed yest bringing known death to 21 negroes and injuring 84 other persons It believed bodies of other vic- tims will be found in the wreckag - ARSENAL FIRES STARTINGPROBE LONDON, April 23 e e T e Fired by President Roosevelt in the bitter TVA dispute, Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of the TVA, is immensely popular in his home town, Yellow Springs, O., seat of Antioch college which he headed Dr. Morgan is ‘pictured giving his autograph to one -A searching inquiry has been ordered into two for 15 years. fires whi broke out in the Wool- of the Antioch college students, Lucy Eaton of Dayton, O. Dr. rich Arsenal Munitions plan Morgan indicated he would take no immediate steps to oppose the Both blazes were put cut with lit- president’s action, 7 tle damage. Intelligence officers im- mediately swung into action to i gl o Eabatan ol Common- | Jones averages: ir i 4 % Southern 1%, Curtiss | rails 2207, utilities 18.81 | General Motors 327, - R - STOCK QUOTATIONS | International Harvester 60%, Ken- % necott 35', New York Central 12' HOSTETTER ON YUKON NEW YORK, April 23. — Closing g B e 3 # quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ‘f“ lz,v,.tixx“lcg(:::‘:; D; @ Hostetter, Pederal Bureau siock at today’s short session of the | ‘i,m']'\l g of Tnvestigatior Alaska New York Stock Ex ge is 1 Sl 5 returning to his Juneau headquar- American Can 88, ah Ligl DOW, JONES AVERAGES ters aboard the steamer Yukor and Power 5%, Anaconda 29%, The {ellowing are today's Dow, which left Seattle this morning. Its ‘Grandp-a’s Rules of Tastiness that make our recipe so elegant! 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