The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 9, 1938, Page 1

SR DRI, CPIOAD, SRS aea] An R R TR, Wt Woewone. s . . . > . -» . > THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - VOL. LIL, NO. 7788. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1938. 4 A MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CONSENT ELECTION ISSUE WON BY C. 1. 0. Port of Seattle to Be Closed; Vote is Taken First Air Mail from Interior) ALEUTIANS T0 BE Of Alaska Leaves Fairbanks for; Juneau in Most Colorful Setting Elaborate Ceremonies Are Held Sunday| Morning as PAA Plane Takes Off, with 25,000 Letters, Addressed to All Parts of| World; Formalities Occur Under Delight- ful Weather Conditions NORTHERNENDOF WIRELESS CHAIN 10,000-Mile *‘Information” Line Will Stretch to Samoa from Alaska | Giant New Flying Fortress Passes First Tests AS PROTEST ON TACOMA 1SSUE Deadline fo]'”OArder to Be- come Effective Is Not Announced ACTION TAKEN BARGAINING FOR NORTH WORKERS IS LOST BY AFL National Labor Relations Board Makes An- nouncement of Vote FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 9. — The plane on the first flight south- bound over the first link of the Northland’s International air mail service, spanning Alaska and the horse, to Juneau, took off midst col- orful and elaborate ceremonies Sun- day. The Pacific Alaska Airways twin motored Electra, piloted by Capt. Yukon from Fairbanks, via White- jerry Jones ff.d Co-Pilot Walter | month, 'GREYHOUNDS OF SEA | COMING NORTHWARD Radio Stations String Will “Intercept”” Enemy Fleets WASHINGTON, May 9. — The Navy's projected air bases in Al- aska and on Midway Island will be lockout signal stations on a 10,000 mile line of “information” in the Pacific Ocean, informed sources in- dicated. Admiral William D. Leahy dis- closed the Navy has mapped such a line “to obtain information from the enemy in any Pacific conflict The belief is.expressed in Nava! circles that the line as projected | will extend from Kodiak Island to| Dutch Harbor to the Midway, Wake and Canton Islands, thence south to American Samoa. In the event of war these radio stations will be able to report, with the coordinated use of long range | jpresented a startling contrast to taining to.enemy movements with the greatest of expediency, guiding the ‘American fleet to nearest point-of interception. thus the DESTROYERS COMING SAN DIEGO, May 9—Capt. J. H. Newton, Chief of Staff. to Rear Admiral Walter Sexton, announced | today that upon completion of this| fiscal year’s gunnery practice next| Squadron One, of Flotilla | One, battle force destroyers, will| sail for the North Pacific. One division of Flotilla One is to| cruise to Alaska, sailing from San Diego before July. TAX REVISION BILL BOOSTED ALONG, SENATE |Measure Sent to House— e oy S Several Amendments BRITISH JOIN o' Aced Up | Senate today gave final approval oi |Passing its first tests at Dayton, O., army air field | with flying -colors, the huge new bomber, XB-15, XB-15 in flight formation with consort plane its comparatively Plane P{lote(l by Bradford e e e of s s Washburn, Jr., Crashes; Two W AGES.H"URSTU Women Lose Lives at Seattle EATTLE, May 9.—Mrs. Ome Dai- I wife of a SBeattle mountaineer, and Miss Dorothy Mathews, also of Seattle, were killed last Saturday | afternoon when a seaplane piloted by Bradford Washburn, Jr., noted Harvard geographer and explorer, fell into Lake Union | ‘Washburn escaped injury, also| SEVERAL GNIONS ARE CHARGES IMMEDIATELY REPORTED INVOLVED MADE, QUICKLY DENIED Jurisdicional Dispute Said Controversy Apparently veloped in United States. to Also Be Cause for Move SEATTLE, May 9.—The Emer ency Diverted Cargo Joint Maritime Council voted at noon today to close the Port of Seattle as a protest to the “lockout” and closing of the Port of Tacoma Another issue entering into the closing vote is because of the opera- tors' refusal to pay off crews of ships now in the Port of Seattle and tied tiny consort plane as the two ships coursed above | up by a jurisdictional dispute here, the clouds. It's the largest bombing plane ever de- it is said. The committee met in the hall of the Sailor's Union of the Pacific and after the vote was taken and closing of the port announced, no statement was made as to when the deadline would become effective. Masters, Mates and Pilots, Marine Firemen, Ollers and Wipers, affiliated with the AFL, and long- shore groups were represented at the committee meeting. LEGISLATION ON BE SPEEDED NOW Efforts Petition Before House Immediately | although no deadline has been an- ¥ nounced, means that no ships sched- to Be Made to Get uled to sail from Sead=e will depart, also steamers arriving at Seattle will | be unable to discharge cargoes. The jurisdictional dispute men- tioned is relative to freight discharg- WASHINGTON, May 9.—Chair-|ing In the past, one steamer could James Burrows. Both men fought|man O'Connor, of the House Rules discharge direct onto another but free of the seaplane as it sank and|Committee, proposes that the House the demand is made that the freight were picked up by passing craft. expediate action on the wage and must now first be placed on a wharf The two women were trapped in | hour legislation |and then trucked, by longshoremen the seaplane. The House petition to force action|to the other vessel. The Sailors Un- Washburn is visiting here pre-|on the legislation, under the ex-| ion of the Pacific, it is said, claimed paratory to leaving for Valdez where | isting rules, cannot come up before|this method has been pursued for he plans to climb Mount Stagnes. ‘May 23 but O'Connor has introduced | years, but the Longshoremen pro- Washburn chartered the plane,|a resolution to waive the rules to tested that the freight handling after an hour’s practice, to hop over | permit the petition being called up|should be done by them and cargoes banks time, Sunday, carrying 25,000 §DAYS IN TIME | tween Juneau and Fairbanks Cham- With seven passengers aboard, ing to the significance of the set- here in four hours and 35 minutes. ' anq International Postal Service, Air mail will have saved Sunday air mail letters addressed to the Sunday Fairbanks Letters bers of Commerce and Mayors of Jones and Hall took off at 9 o'clock | ting was Miss Fairbanks, in the The mail lay was post marked be- | pere from Washington, D.C.; Mayor letter writers in Fairbanks approxi- to Be Acted Upon WITH FRENCH, oo s WOOING ITALY | ning of an air mail service that even- | tually would be extended to connect | lall parts of America, Alaska and the | world wide air mail lines. | the compromise tax revision bill and the measure goes to the House. Sponsors contend that the five bil- Jion dollar measure will encourage | business expansion and melt frozen The morning was perfect and | capital when the House adopts the the city and invited his friends, for the flight. INQUEST TO BE HELD SEATTLE, May 9.—Coroner Otto Mittelstadt has empaneled a jury to at any time. Speaker Bankhead said: “The Congress adjourns.” discharged on the docks. The Port of Tacoma was closed | President is very anxious to get the many days ago as the result of the |wage and hour bill passed before|Jurisdictional dispute. It is not known whether the clos- Speaker Bankhead and other Con- ing of the Port of Seattle will ef- States, Canada and all parts of the world, duly marked with a unique design of an airliner flying over a to Reach Seattle in Three, Half DaYS Juneau and Fairbanks. The mail pouch will be placed in the Alaska The first scheduled air mail flown | Museum at Juneau as a permanent yesterday morning from Fairbanks, | person of Miss Dorothy Murphy, ty- carrying 400 pounds of mail sent ing the flowing ribbons from three from Juneau via Fairbanks, 90/|lofty pilons, standing in front of fore being loaded aboard the Al-|yeslie Nerland and President Ro- aska, which will make the run from pert E, Sheldon, of the Fairbanks here to Seattle in 62 hours, if the|chamber of Commerce, and Presi- | mately one week and a day’s time. e many photographs, still and movies, were taken of the historic drama. One Man Jailed Hitler, with Inside Track, ! Ends Rome Visit Tomorrow | By Associated Press | ~ British and French diplomats, ar- | When the conference report is adop- |ted, the bill is then ready for tie | President’s signature. | The tax compromise bill retains |the two years' modified version of undistributed profits tax. D i oot agreement reached at a conference., dent, but belated suitors for the fav- probe the two deaths when Wash-|gicciional leaders held a confer-|fect the Alaska steamers or not. burn’s plane turned turtle in djence Sunday with President Roose- AN AN A 2 landing on Lake Union Saturday af- | yelt on the legislation program and MEDIGUS DEGIDE ternuiBt . |later Bankhead said he did not look Washburn blamed unfamiliarity | ¢o any additional emergency legis- with the seaplane’s new type of PON- | ja4i0n at this session unless some tobns for the tragedy. He said he meagure 5 introduced dealing with landed too flat and the plane nosed | the plight of the railroads of the UPON OPERATION Leaves Issues as Wide Apart as Before SEATTLE, May 9.—The AFL and CIO consent election to settle the Alaska salmon cannery labor con- troversy has apparently left the dispute farther apart than ever to- day. The National Labor Relations Board yesterday certified that the CIO and affiliated Cannery Work- ers and Farm Laborers Union had won the election by 1560 votes ta 1307 for the AFL Cannery Workers Union Almost immediately AFL counsel L. Presley Gill said his group would not be bound by the election, charg- ing that the closing of the polls by | the National Labor Relations Board | prevented 300 to 400 AFL men from unions | voting on last Saturday. | Robert M. Gates, acting Regional NLRB Director, denied the charge ‘and said that not more than 30 to 140 AFL men were prevented from The closing of the Port of Seattle,| Y0tng when the Board closed the olls. CIO union agent, Conrad Espe, said his union will immediately | gotiate with the salmon packers on | the basis of the election returns as | the sole bargaining agency for the cannery employees. SHOWDOWN MEETING SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 9.— Coast salmon cannery operators and union representatives will gather here tomorrow for a showdown meeting in the protracted dispute over wages. | Ray Brown, Secretary of the Dise | trict Council of the Maritime Fed- | eration, said operators from Seat- tle will attend the meeting with San Francisco and Bristol Bay opera- ors. Brown declared that at-a union conference the majority of the mem- bers reaffirmed their refusal to ac- | cept less than last year's wage scale | which is about an average base pay of $85 a month. The union had de- manded a raise of 15 percent but receded in an effort to reach an agreement with the packers. ————— pioneer dog team, bordered with totem poles. Fermal Program Preceding the takeoff, a formal out of Fairbanks, which was brought | souvenir of the formalities of the into Juneau yesterday aboard a PAA historic event. The program was Electra piloted by Jerry Jones and made picturesquely striking as the ‘Walt Hall, should reach Seaftle in| University of Alaska cadets and pounds from Fairbanks to White-|the plane. Atop of each pilon were horse, 300 pounds from Fairbanks| entwined the air mail colors and to Juneau. | Inscriptions “Southeast Alaska.” Stopping over at Whitehorse 25 Official Lineup tides are right. | dent Charles W. Carter of the Ju-| A letter mailed from Fairbanks| pneau Chamber of Commerce. They | vesterday morning at the same time mage brief addresses in which all| the plane left, would have to wait|stressed that this was the begin- | Air Mail Brings Messages to Governor Troy, Mayor Lucas - - gy Hall, left the Fairbanks Municipal AIR MAIL MEETS Airport promptly at 9 o'clock, Fair- y program included the handing of a small souvenir letter mail pouck, carrying greetings exchanged be- three days and fourteen hours from|band, in colorful uniferms, with the time it left Fairbanks yesterday | flags flying, stood at attention as morning. | the band played America. Also add- minutes, another 100 pounds of mail| The group was completed with an was picked up and the big air mail| officia] lineup including John Lam- liner came on into Juneau, &rriving | je)i Director of the United States for a boat at Seward, and would not get' to Seattle until a week from next Thursday. The first air mail from Fairbanks, arriving by plane Sunday, brouxht: congratulatory messages from of-| ficials at Fairbanks and Whitehorse | to Gov. John W. Troy and Mayor Harry 1. Lucas of Juneau. Sounding a progressive tone for further developments for the Ter- ritory, Robert E. Sheldon, President of the Fairbanks Chamber of Com- merce, in his communication to the And Two Women; - Mann fil Cases |Secretary of Alaska Purse { - Seiners Union Arrest- 1 ed in Seattle |or of Italy, spent the week end woo- | |ng her from Africa. ,SLIGHT IGKES The British and French advances 1came to Rome while Hitler enjoyed | a lively inside track there as he| As GUEST FUR started to wind up his Italian visit | which has brought new pledges of |mutual Fascist affection. Viscount Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, and Georges Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, joined a heavily when he hit the water. ‘Washburn was supposed to have sailed Sunday. on the Aleutian for| Valdez to head an expedition but| his departure will be delayed zfl,i | least one week on account of the | i inquest. Pogt Slays Wife Nation. e e D MOTHER'S DAY PROGRAMHELD | ‘SOLDIER HELD; A UL couRT ARTAL mor on Eye Be Re- | moved by Knife SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 9.— Staff Sergeant Samuel Edgeman, of |the 30th United States Infantry, |is being held for court martial by BULLETIN — CHICAGO,May |army authorities at the Presidio. | hundred diplomats at Geneva in the 9—The left eye of the baby Arrested as fugitives from Mann Act | of Nation's Council. | charges, Grace Travers and Jose-| The Council was virtually assur- phine Hill posted $5000 and $2500 | eqd of success in patching up the 1935 bail respectively and were released |quarrel at Geneva, in which its pre- here Saturday. | decessors had attempted to halt the The two women will have t ap- | Jtalian conquest of Ethiopia by pear in Seattle during the last|economic pressure from 32 nations. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 9— first session of 1938 for the League Germans Show Spite in Af- fair to Be Given for Dr. H. Eckener WASHINGTON, May §.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, who is holding up the sale of helium to “We want to acknowledge receipt|iw, count Mann Act complaint is | of your letter which reached us by |\ M. Dunlap, alias Heflin Heflin, the first official flight of air mail| g \was jailed in Seattle, where between Juneau and Fairbanks and| he went from Ketchikan as Sec- exp! our appreciation of the el-| retary of the Alaska Salmon Purse fort you put forth in support of this| geiners Union to negotiate with sal- xmm;Germnny, has been omitted from Rome to Florence, bearing fresh as-| the list of guests invited to attend surances of Italian-German friend- the dinner given by the officials of ship, which a high Facist intimated the German Embassy tonight in included a promise from Mussolini| honor of Dr. Hugo Eckener, German to let Hitler have a free hand in|dirigible expert. Czechoslovakia. . | The sale of helium gas for diri- valuable service. “By the return trip of these air mail carriers we are sending ‘you this message of appreciation and good will and regret that you were unable to be with us during time be- tween flights. “But the development of this country will not permit us to sit down and point to this or any other accomplishment, or to dwell unduly thereon. We have many other pro- jects before us which need our at- tention such as the connecting link in the mail service from Juneau to Seattle; the Interhational Highway; (Continued on Page Three) Nazi leader Hitler ends his visit to Italy tomorrow, and elaborate welcoming preparations are being made in Germany. | mon packers for the season's opera- tions. Dunlap and Josephine Hill were reportedly married last November in Ketchikan by United States Com- missioner Austin, under the names‘,c”“ a“'s her of Martin Heffling, fisherman, and| Katheryn Josephine Munscom, ho- tel owner. ¥ Commissioner Austin issued the warrant for the arrest of Grace Tra- vers and Josephine Hill Saturday. Grace Travers is charged with in- ducing Ruby Sylling to come to Ket- chikan from Seattle, transporting her between those two cities, and lwnsplrmxtovlnhte the Mann Act. Mrs, Lillian Coogan Bernstein wept send her a Mother’s Day greeting. Weep§;_ No Card gibles is held up because of failure |of the Nazi Nation to agree that it shall ngt be used for military pur- | poses. 1 Dr. Eckener, last Saturday, said | that if helium gas was not secured |from the United States, dirigible | flights will be abandoned. | STEWART TO KETCHIKAN | B. D. Stewart, Territorial Com- missioner of Mines, sailed on the make a checkup on spring mining Jackie Coogan, had neglected to|assistance -through the assay of-|It is reported that cannery will op-| rogriseih ; | 3 fice. - And Tv_l_nichildren TAMPA, Florida, May 9.—Paul F. Bunge, 52, poet, suspected of killing his wife and two little daughters, according to police, was arrested t0- day after he had wounded himself with a pocket knife | Chief of .Detectives W. D. Bush said Bunge had made a detailed con- fession to the crime. | ‘The bodies of Mrs. Bunge and two | children were found in their apart- ment last Monday after an elder daughter, Ingeborn, telephoned po- |lice from Pittsburgh, saying she had Ireceived a Jetter indicating her |parents had entered into a suicide lplk('t over destituted circumstances. in-:unm FISH HAWK COMES FROM TYE The cannery tender F’i:.h'H‘Q\wkl lay at the Cold Storage dock today | after eoming in from Tyee for sup-{ LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 9.— Alaska for Ketchikan where he will| plies. | The Pish Hawk is tender for the erale as usual this season. BY ELKS LODGE Many Attend Affair Yester-| day Afternoon—Rit- ual Conducted Attended by a large group of mothers, fathers, and children, the annual Mothers' Day program spon- sored by the Elks Lodge was an event of yesterday afternoon in Elks Hall where ritualistic services were| conducted under the leadership of was removed this afterndon after an operation lasting only 15 minutes, CHICAGO, Ill, May 9--A coun- cil of medical specialists has decid- ed that an immediate operation It was disclosed that Edgeman is charged with taking confidential papers from the regimental office files Col. Irving Phillipson, Regiment Commander, said Edgeman had tak- en the papers home to work on them there, and said also there was no should be performed on baby Hel-!|suspicion of esplonage. aine Colan, whose parents faced the - dilemma of letting her live in at least partial blindness, or die even-| tually from a cancerous tumor. The decision was announced by “* Attorney Samuel Hoffman, spokes- STOCK QUOTATIONS Wb Xl ofbdl o e : {man for the family, after medical C. H. MacSpadden, Exalted Ruler. Mrs. Walter B. Heisel gave two solo selections, “Mother Machree” | and “Songs My Mother Taught Me. | Accompanist was Mrs. Carol Beery Davis, both for the solo selections and during the ritual. | Flowers were presented to those in attendance. e McDERMOTT RETURNS Frank McDermott, general mana- ger of the Juneau Lumber Mills, re- | turned to Juneau yesterday by plane’ experts met in secret conference with the infant’s father, Dr. Her- man Colan, 30, a dentist. Hoffman said the council recom- | mended that an operation be per- |formed on the child’s left eye to arrest a glioma that threatens there. | Brain and X-ray specialists gather- ed to relieve the parents of the res- | ponsibility of deciding the wisest {course for their child. | R e YURMAN SAILS SOUTH H. J. Yurman of the Yurman Fur yesterday because she said her son,|activities in the district and offer | Sebastian-Stuart cannery at Tyee. from Fairbanks after a two weeks' Shop left for the south on the Al- business trip to cities in the Rail-|aska last night on a two week’s busi- ness trip. NEW YORK, May 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10, American Oan 88':, American Light and Power 57, Anaconda 29'z, Bethlehem Steel 49, Commonwealth and Southern 1 Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 32%, International Harves- ter 607, Kennecott 36%, New York Central 14, Southern Pacific 13%, United States Steel 46%, Cities Ser- vice 10%, Pound $4.97%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 119.43, 14