The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 5, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS o e e ——— ALL THE TIME” P f,’. ) VOL. LIIL, NO. 8070. JUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1939, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS LUCAS REELECTED MAYOR OF JUNEAU UNIONS GET PEACE PLAN OF CANNERS A Itorney_fo_r Employers Pleads for Cooperation ~First Move Made SEATTLE, April 5—Unions en- gaged in the Alaska salmon indus- | try are considering an offer of the | canned salmon industry to establish | wage and hour working conditions | on the basis of that which prevailed | in 1938 out of Puget Sound ports. The employers’ proposal was sub- | mitted the first time by A. I Ells- | worth, Chairman of the Employers’| Labor Committee, who said no | meetings of unions were scheduled | for today in order that each worker might have time to consider the proposal separately. Atlantic Clipper Off on R()('or:I_F li At a salmon workers' meeting last | & night, sponsored by the Washington | District Council of the Maritime | Federation, union speakers said the | jurisdictional disputes are not re-| sponsible for the delay in obtaining working agreements, and resolutions were made condemning jurisdic-{ tional picketing and protesting m‘ employment of eastern sailors in| the Seattle-Oriental shipping serv~4 ice. Attorney Matt Hill spoke for the employers, saying the packers are helpless to effect agreements as long } as controversies existed among the | unions. i STIMSON IN FAVOR, WAR FOR SAFETY Urges President Be Given Broader Power in Pick- ing Agaressors WASHINGTON, April 5—Henry Stimson, Secretary of State under the Hoover Administration, said to- day he believed America should take sides in any foreign conflict whieh threatened the “safety and, defense” of the United States. Stimson, who lolled back in his chair during much of his cross ex- amination by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, leaned forward intently when Senator Johnson in- sisted he say definitely what this nation should do if friendly na- | aht < PIONEER CITIZEN PASSES Guy McNaughton Dies in “His Sleep at Hospital - Here Last Night Gy McN, wghton, 68, one of Ju- neam's most outstanding pioneers afll citizens, died unexpectedly in his %} 1t 11 o'clock last right in 8h A Hospital, a victim of heart (rouble For 36 years, Guy McNaughton pliyes an important part in the steady growth of Juneau. His pass- ing received with sorrow by the of friends he enjoyed, and al vc the opinion today that “His place in the scheme of Juneau's life will be difficult to n scores i With 38 persons on board, the huge new Pan American Airways flying boat, Atlantic Clipper, teok off from | Port Washington, N. Y., on its maiden flight to Bermuda. With largest number of persons ever to travel in a heavier-than-air craft in oc as they boarded the craft. From Bermuda the clippe: at Hor arrived yesterday at Scuthampten, England, completing the_ last leg its ¢ landed of the rew of 14, the ean service. craft carried the Passengers are shown then Marseille and ntie flight. then Lisbon, transAtla ALBANIATO BE INVADED BY ITALIANS Occupationml‘smfxpeded fo Begin Tonight, Unof- ficial Sources Reveal BELGRADE, April 5.—Informa- tion received from usually reliable ! quarters are to the effect that 1|a1_vj intends to begin occupation of Al- bania sometime tonight. ‘[ Official circles, commenting on | this move, said: “We are not fright- | ened at these developments as we | are on friendly terms with Italy.”| It is asserted that Italy has al-| ready informed Yugoslavia of her) intention to occupy Albania to place the country under Italian protec-' tion. | RS e raine | MAYOR KELLY IS REELECTED, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, 1 | | | |- tions are drawn into war. | It’s Mr: un;l Ure Gui)le Nou; ‘ o , who eloped by automobile from Hollyweod te Kingman, Ariz, are shown at the home of her mother in Hollyweed upon their return from their surprise wedding. recently was divorced by Maria Gable, who cbtained her decree at Las Vegas, Nev. This is their first picture as Mr. and Gable rs. Gable. Death came quietly to “Guy,” as he was known by young and old. Although’ feeling poorly for some time, his death was unexpected when he was taken to the hospi- erday forenoon. He was to sailed south next Saturday for nite stay and rest ughton is survived by his a son, James W. McNaugh- | ton, who has been on the staff for a number of years in B. M. Beh- rends Bank, beside his father, who was Vice President and Cashier at the time of his death, and Mary Jean McNaughton, a daughter, at- tending school al the University of Washington in Seattle, A sister, Mrs, T. G. Woodruff, and a brother, James N, McNaugh- ton, are in Los Angeles. 7 neral arrangeménis are await- ' ing word from McNaughton's daughter in Seattle, who was ad- vised by radiogram of her father's death Born in Nebraska McNaughton was born in Brown- ville, Nebraska, May 15, 1871, and lived there until 1887 when he went to Hastings, Nebraska, where he first entered the banking busi- ness. From the Hastings bank, young McNaughton went to Chicago and to another bank. On the first of November, 1903, promising young banker was joined in marriage to Mary Geog- hegan, who has since been his con- stant companion and helpmate. A few days after the marriage, the McNaughtons left for Alask: and on November 15, 1903, landed in Juneau where he entered the employ of B. M, Behrends as bank cashier. From the time Juneau until his death, McNaugh- ton resided in Juneau as an em- ployee of the B. M. Behrends Bank and took an active part in the life | | i RESULTS OF TUESDAY'S ELECTION PEOPL Mayor TICKET Harry L. Lucas Councilmen: Blake nmett Botelho PROGRESSIVE ¥ Messerschmidt John J. Fargher Geyer Theodore R. Adams Harry Lea FOR SCHOOL DIRECTOR Ralph E. Robertson Russell R. Hermann TELEPHONE FRANCHISE Yes No TOTAL VOTED brun Is President Of France Reelected fflnothet_ Sev- en-year Term-Second Man So Honored, . - VERSAILLES, April 5.—President Albert Lebrun has been reelected President of France for another seven-year term. He is the second man in the history of the French Republic accorded a second term which starts May 10. The Daladier Government pre- vailed upon .the former engineer, now 67, to stand for reelection as a demonstration of National unity in the face of the unsettled Euro- pean situation The balloting was by the Nation- al Assembly and ended at 4:20 o'- clock this afternoon. The ballots were taken to the tabulation room nd the vote revealed that Lebrun polled 487 out of a possible 909. GERM le YOUNG ANS o e s o) CONSCRIPTED BY HITLER DECREE Precinet No. 1 BLAKE AND “ NINNIS NEW ~ COUNCILMEN Mayor Winfisily - Twe Newcomers Receive Heavy Vote MESSERSCHMIDT IS VICTOR BY 12 VOTES Roberfson Is Reelected fo School Board-Fran- chise Approved Harry I. Lucas was re- by a large plurality, ‘two young business men on his People’s Ticket swept into City Councilman positions by almost unprecedented - [totals and Henry Messerschmidt, Councilman, and R. E. Robertson School Director, returned to office in yesterday's City election. Lucas, running for his second term, received 678 votes to 376 for 3. Emil Krause, 356 for Cash Cole and 114 for E. J. Krause. The Mayor carried every precinct by a | substantial margin. Landslide for Newcomers | E. J. “Kelly" Blake, owner of the | Special Delivery transfer basiness, |was elected to the Council on his first essay in City politics, topping |the ticket with 891 votes. Preci No. ! 119 Precinet No. 2 181 86 163 & 'HARRY McCAIN ELECTED MAYOR AT KETCHIKAN W. J. Mulvihill'Is Chosen Again at Skagway for 16‘h Term as Head Elroy Ninnis, Juneau Motors s Manager, like Blake, a member of KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 5.—In |the, Peoples Ticket, received 837 the biggest city election in Ketchi- |Votes. and a place on W {Kan's history, 1607 votes begin cast|The campaign was bis first. | yesterday, Harry McCain was elected | Messerschmidt, only member of | Mayor over Axel Osberg by a vote|the Progressive Citizens Ticket to | of 845 to T47. |win election, goes back to the | R. E. Hardcastle with a vote of Council for two more years by vir- {792, Henry Erwick with 602 and L.|tue of a 12 vote victory over Em- |'P. Sunderland with 568 were elected mett Botelho. Messerschmidt had to the City Council out of a field 570 votes and Botelho 558. Other | of twelve. candidates trailed. Dr. W. E. Peterson was S‘]PCLl‘d\‘ Total Vote 1,534 to the School Board and 8. H. Peter-| Voting, which was slow through |son to the Utilities Board of Con- the morning and early afternoon trol. hours, picked up brisgly toward eve- The so-called Citizens' Ticket ning. The total number of votes placed Hardcastle and Sunderland cast was 1534 as compared to 1.~ on the Council but its candidate for 555 last year. The slight drop was Mayor lost. |something of a surprise in view of Erwick had the support of Mayor- an increase of about 400 this year elect McCain, in the number of registered voters, to the all-time high total of 3,130. MULVIHILL ELECTED | R. E. Robertson, President of the SKAGWAY MAYOR FOR kSCI)OOI Board, went back into of- HIS SIXTEENTH TERM fice for three years. He received 775 | votes, while Russell R. Hermann, SKAGWAY, Alaska, April 5 'his opponent, drew 610. More interest was taken in yester- ~Ordinance No. 246, renewing the day's city election than in years, franchise of the Juneau and Doug- there being seven candidates in the las Telephone , Company for 20 | field for Councilmen. |years, was ratified by a vote of Mayor W. J. Mulvihill succeeds 711 to 171. himself for the sixteenth consecutive | New Council Alignment CHICAGO CTY NEW ASSOCIATE JUSTICE of this gx'owln!z cmnmu‘l\lly. term. Retiring from the Council to In City Council {Eight Years in Youth Or- In the event Russia should align itself with France and England, Stimson said emphatically that he would favor America's going to war, with the added proviso thalj this should follow if this country’s | H “safety and defense” is endangered. pUbh(an Opponent Stimson said this country should take the field at once in alliance CHICAGO, Ill, April 5—Mayor with Russia, France and England in Edward Kelly was reelected yes case America’s safety is involved. |terday by a decisive margin and The former Secretary of State Went back to his City Hall desk protested when Senator Robert R. this morning for another four-year Reynolds attempted to establish term while party chieftains studied Great Britain and France as the the election results as to a tip in aggressor nations throughout his- | the comlpg Presidential contest. tory, and said Reynolds was going| Climaxing one of the stronges far afield. Veteran Democratic Lead- er Defeats Youthful Re- mayoralty campaigns in Chicago’ ) Stimson urged the abandonment history, the veteran Democratmb d leader Kelly defeated his youthful e | i theory and aske of /she 1AciGHN ¥ Republican opponent, Dwight Green sident be given greater s g Pr_esi?e »'l . y e by approximately 180,000 votes. power to discriminate between the sor and the victim in case| Unofficial returns give Kelly 820,- e {000 and Green 637,000, however, the Republican vote was the largest polled in Chicago in a decade. SCHWAMM FLIES IN WITH 3 YESTERDAY It was Green’s first bid to an elective office. He formerly was United States District Attorney. - Petersburg Pilot Tony Sct:jw‘x:vmm‘BODY 'S Fou"D arrived in Juneau with his rec aco seaplane yesterday evening, bringing | o" BEA(H NHR three passengers from Ketchikan. | Arrivals were Glenn Goudie, Sup- ervisor of the Alaska Areonautics| Communications System, and WO | peyoits were received in Juneau * other AAC men, Virgil Hansen and | y,4,¢ by radiophone of the finding Bill Djernes. of a “Richard Owen’s” body on the Schwamm returned to Petersbu'¢ ipeach at the south end of Hare this morning, fiying by Way of ygang near Kake Kake. Petersburg Pilot Tony Schwamm TS T TR flew to Kake from Juneau, where MARAUDING LIONS he spent the night, to investigate SWAKOPMUND, South Africa— the death and possibly bring the Driven by starvation, five or siX|pody here. packs of man-eating lions have car-| Men who reported finding Owen’s ried off natives and livestock in ‘hegdecomposed body on the tideline, Namib desert region. raid his gasboat was missing. KAKE, MYSTERY MAN FLIES OUT 10 SHIP WRECK | WITH SUBPLIES Elmer Ray we: flown out to the iscene of the Palcerson wreck near Cape Fairweather .today by Alaska Air Transport Pilot Shell Simmons. | Aboard the plane with Ray were 900 pounds of supplies for the sal- vage crew working on the Patterson cargo, e GOLDSTEIN MOVES FUR DISPLAYS T0 LARGER QUARTERS Charles Goldstein and his new ur buyer, Fred Maurer, recently arrived from Seattle, were checking fur today in new showrooms at the Baranof. Goldstein has moved his office from its location near the hotel entrance to larger quarters in the building, next to Leota’s Sample Shop. With the added space, the furrier will carry on his business there until such time as new quarters are avail- | able in the Goldstein Building to| be built at the old building's site.! ] | { { | ~ OF HIGH COURT IS EITHER WIT OR SAGE, ALL DEPENDS 'ON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 5. — Not in many a year has quite such an extraordina character as Bill| Douglas been placed on the Supreme Court. He has the bearing of a first ser-| geant, the vocabulary of a Boccacio and an apt choice of words that likely will make his written opin- ions choice tidbits for legal epicures. He will regale a stag party with the raciest tales extant in Washing- ton and within and hour be pre- pared to deliver as exacting a piece of legal argument as could be ! wished. When a man has arrived at a goal it is mere trace work to pick up evi- dence he dropped by the way to show where he was going. Such was the case with Douglas. Undoubtedly he has known for several months that the President has been looking him over as a possible court ap- pointee. With the “finger of destiny” pointing at him he has become per- haps more philosophic in his speech- es .than earlier. Thus he has merged humanistic philosophy with corporate doc- trine in several recent talks. In January he spoke before the For Worth, Texas, Clearing House As-| sociation, deploring the inactivity of directors. As a class, he said, lh(‘.‘f[ don’t know much about the corpor- | | (Continued on Page Two) He served on the City Council and | on the School Board, played base- | ball with local teams and was one of the town’s best bowlers | In recent years he became an ar- dent hunter and fisherman. He had one of the finest gun collections in Alaska, and each year went on his hunting trips with an enthusi- asm that approached religion. He was a member of the Juneau Shotgun Club and shortly before his death, played an important part in formulating plans for the club’s new shooting house and traps on the Glacier Highway. Easy-going, a wonderful Jistener for other folks' troubles, McNaugh- | ton had friends beyond count, but | nis closest friend outside of his | family was Mort Truesdell, the gun- mith, For fifteen years, downtown Ju- neauites have been saying, “You can set your watch by Guy and| Mort, going ‘to lunch,” for hardly | a day was missed that Mort could | not get up from his work, put on| his coat and look up to see Guy| coming in the door at 11:30 o'clock. “I never knew a finer man,”| Truesdell said today. “He was a wonderful sportsman in business| and in the field. There was nothing bitter in his entire makeup and he had no enemies. Man was never created better.” Tributes Gov. John W. Troy paid the lul-’ lowing tribute: “Guy McNaughton | will be very much missed. He was | one of the outstanding citizens of Juneau, A member of the School Board for many years, he was civic- minded, progressive and enterpris- ing. He was a man of the highest (Continued on Page Eight) | Elkhart, passing over ganization Order for Boys and Girls BERLIN, April 5—Adolf Hitler today issued a decree making it compulsory for all German boys and girls from 10 to 18 years, to belong to the Hitler Youth Organi- zation which gives training to Nazi precepts and pre-military instruc- tion. German hoys will henceforth be obliged to serve eight years in the Youth Organization, six months in the labor service and two years in the army. The girls will receive various training, domestic, field, nursing, and manufacturing apprenticeships. Relief Fund Is Approved |By Sub-Com. WASHINGTON, April 5. — The Senate Appropriations Sub-Com- mittee has voted unanimously to recommend a $100,000,000 relief ap- propriation, the sum voted by the House. President $150,000,000. Roosevelt asked for B ST Bt LATTERN GETS RIDE ELKHART, Ind.—A car inspector, looking over a fast New York Cen- tral passenger train at Toledo, O left a lighted lantern on the steps of a coach. . The lantern rode the 133 miles to five grade crossings, with out turning over or lexlingulsmng itself, Councilmen elected are George ‘Benedu;z, M. R. Goding and Ethel Johnson. T. Reynoldson was elected City Treasurer, A. L. Powell was chosen for City Clerk and Mrs. F. H, Haskin for School Director. MAYOR BROWN RE-ELECTED AT ANCHORAGE, THIRD TERM ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 5.— Maintaining a steady 4 to 1 lead over Harvey Smith, so-called Labor candidate, Mayor E. H. Brown was re-elected in yesterday’s city elec- tion after an all:time ercord vote. Swept into office with Brown are M. A. Andresen and Harry Hill, both incumbent Councilmen, and D. | E. Hewitt, candidate on the People's Ticket. This is Mayor Brown’s third term. CORDOVA GOVERNMENT OF CITY IS RETURNED | CORDOVA, Alaska, April 5.—Con- tinuing what is largely claimed as | the most efficient City Government |in years, Cordova yesterday returned V. G. Vance as Mayor, C. C. Hazelet, |Frank Kruer and John Rosswog, Councilmen for two-year term; V. J. Swanberg for Town Clerk; M. P. Roark for Treasurer, and Walter E. Downing for School Board Di- rector for a three-year term. FAIRBANKS GOVERNMENT CONTINUES ANOTHER YEAR | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 5.— As a result of Tuesday's election, | the entire City Government of Fairbanks continues the same as | last year. Mayor Leslie Nerland and !, (Continued on Page Elxhi) make way for Blake and Ninnis are isa.m Feldon, who did not seek re- ‘elecuon. and G. Emil Krause, who {lost in his attempt to gain the Mayor's chair. The new City Council, which meets for the first time Friday eve-~ ning, comprises John MeCormick, | Ralph Beistline, Oscar Harri, Blake, Ninnis and Messerschmidt. Outcome of all the contests ex- cept the Messerschmidt-Botelho one for City Councilman was evident soon after counting of ballots start- ed. The tally was completed in the Second precinct at 9 o'clock, in the Third at 9:30 and in the First, which has more voters than the other two combined, at about 1:30 o'clock this morning. | The vote is to be canvassed to- | morrow evening by the old City | Council, which will meet for the last time for that purpose. Lost Pioneer Found; 11,000 Miles Away Edward M. Gulbertson, elderly pioneer, was the object of a frantic | manhunt here yesterday. 4 Culbertson was supposed to arrive Sunday on the steamer Yukon from the Westward to go to the Pioneers’ | Home at Sitka. When he did not report to H. R. VanderLeest, Trustee of the home, aid o fthe authorities here was sought to trace him down. The search was fruitless. Then came a message from the Alaska Steamship Company at Sew- ard, saying Gulbertson had missed the boat there and was coming on llhe Baranof which leaves today.