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Volume 36 Number 144. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Oil Tanker Strike Ended-Crews Work
SMOKED MINE SUBDUES CONVICT MUTINEERS
U.of California Crew Wins Poughkeepsie Varsity Race
EDITOR LABOR PAPER
JUNEAU IS SUED LIBEL
BY MAYOR GOLDSTEIN
Editor Heard “Alaska Labor Dispatch” Is
Arrested Charged With Criminal Lihel
Against Mayor Isadore Goldstein
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU. June 19—Charges of criminal libel were
filed Tuesday in the U. S. Commissioner’s court against Neil
Heard, Secretary of the Alaska Mine Workers Union, and
editor of the Alaska Labor Dispatch, as the outgrowth of
an editorial in which accusations were made against Isadore
Goldstein.
The latter swore out the complaint and Heard was ar
rested and then released on personal recognizance until next
Tuesday, after bond had been fixed at five hundred dollars.
The alleged accusations were the outgrowth of a recent
sponsored city vote of the workers of the Alaska Juneau
Mine. Specific paragraphs were taken from the editorial,
one of which is:
“There seems to be possible substantiation to the ugly
rumors now circulating that ‘Izzy’ will receive twenty-five
dollars for every vote cast up to three hundred, and then
fifty dollars for every vote after that number.”
Waterfront Battle
Vancouver, B. C.
Last Three Hours
Riot in Vancouver, B. C. Is
Charged Communist Act
ivities By the Mayor
(By The Associated Press)
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 19, —
A bloody three-hour riot in which
scores were injured, left the water
front here in a restless condition.
Mayor G. G. McGeer blamed the
battle on communist activities, when
nearly a thousand striking long
shoremen and their women folk and
sympathizers, fought with sticks
and stones against tear gas bombs
and the clubs of the Royal Mounted
and the police, when strikers mar
ched on Ballantyre Pier in defiance
of police rulings. Eight policemen
and nine civilians required hospital
attention after the fracas was over.
14th Steel Worker
On Frisco Bridge
Falls To His Death
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 —
Death again struck the San Fran
cisco-Oakland Bay bridge yesterday.
Because a slight, unexpected jar
threw him off balance, Arthur Lam
oreaux, skilled steel worker, plung-!
ed two hundred feet to his death on
the concrete base of pier E 5, east of
Yerba Buena Island.
Fellow workers, less experienced
than he, saw him fall but were
powerless to aid him. Lamoreaux,
they said, was setting out tracks
I to be used on a traveling crane at
the top of the pier. His hard won
skill failed him in a split second,
when his precarious footing swayed
beneath him. He was the fourteen
th man killed while working on the
bridge and probably officials said,
.he most skillful and highly paid of
all those the bridge has destroyed.
Airplane Activities
Pilot Frank Whaley of the Roust
Airways flew to Teller today for
Teller Alaska Mines with passen
gers Chas. Rnd, E. P. Stolp, Robert
Hornell, Coleman Rice, and Mr. Tj
ernagle.
Another flight was made to Kee
walik today with a cargo of freight
and Father John Sifton as a pass
enger for Hot Springs. The plane
s scheduled for a flight to Teller to
morrow weather permitting.
Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow
Air Service and Mrs. Hans Hansen
who were held over night at Safety
flew into Nome this morning. Fog
prevented the plane from coming in
last night.
This afternoon a trip was made
to Kotzebue. Mrs. Woods and fam
ily and Ross Kinney were passen
gers. Mr. Kinney was a round trip
passenger.
Harry K. Pratt Is i
Confirmed Judge
Fourth Division
—
Fairbanks Attorney is Con- ■
firmed by Senate Judge
For Fourth Division
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 19, —Har
ry K. Pratt of Fairbanks was con
firmed by the senate Tuesday as
U. S. District Judge for the Fourth
Division in Alaska, to succeed E.
Coke Hill, resigned.
Ransom Bills May
Have Been Chem
ically treated First
Possibility Expressed That
Ransom Bills Were Chem
ically Treated Gov’t.
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, June ID, — The poss
ibility that federal agents are seek
ing to trap the remaining Weyer
haeuser kidnapers chemcially treat
ed ransom bills, so that they will
change color after a time, was ex
pressed here Tuesday by Dr. Hen
ry K. Benson, Professor of Chemi
cal Engineering at the University
of Washington.
The Department of Justice agents
refused to comment on this possi
bility, referring all questions regard
ing the two hundred thousand dol
lars ransom to John Hoover, head
of the Department of Investigation
at Washington, D. C.
Benson’s statement followed an
unconfirmable rumor that the paper
had been treated chemically so as
to change to a yellow color after a
lapse of time.
Mae West Is A
Lady Says Martin
Itjen After Visit
Reception From Wife When He
Reaches Skagway Worries Mar
tin Itjen, Enioute Home
Homeward bound from his visit
with Mae West in Hollywood, Mar
tin Itjen passed through Ketchikan
recently on the steamer Princess
Norah, his picturesque “street car”
on the ship’s forward deck.
The diminutive sourdough is re
turning to Skagway for the tourist
season but expects to return to
Hollywood in the fall to play a part
in a movie starring Mae.
“It’s going to be The Flame of
The Yukon”, he explained, “a tale
(Continued on Page Three)
CONVICT MUTINY IS AT
AN END WITH NO ONE
HURT: MINE EMPTIED
Convict Mutineers Driven Out Of Coal
Mine By Smoke From Fire Which They
Started. No Concessions Are Made
(By The Associated Press')
LANSING, Kansas, June 19—A score of officers and
guards, led by Warden Simpson, subdued three hundred and
forty-eight rioting convicts in the inky darkness of a prison
I coal mine, and ended a destructive twenty-one hour mutiny.
Only a half-dozen guards remained below to check the
damage wrought in the convicts’ rage, in their day and
night-long mutiny.
The end was accomplished without an injury either to
guards or convicts. Prison officials announced they would
make no conclusions to the three demands of the rioters.
They demanded:
First, better prepared food; second, the discharge of the
prison physician; and third, immunity for their actions.
Guards and officers used smoke from a fire started by
the convicts themselves as their chief weapon of attack. It
was started in the mule barns and was fed by hay and tim
bers in an effort to drive the armed guards away from the
gun-cage near the base of the airshaft, which would have
given them control of the sub-surface, but the officers re
versed the ventilator fans and turned the smoke upon the
rioters, sending them to all corners of the four miles of cor
ridors in the mine. They gave up soon.
U. of California
Wins The Varsity
Three-filths Sec.
Washingtons W ins
The Freslinian Race
Near Accident Occurs In The
Varsity Race: Washington
Takes Freshman Race
(By The Associated Press)
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 19, The
University of Washington’s power
ful freshman crew won the open
two-mile race, in the thirty-seven
th Poughkeepsie regatta, depulicat
ing last year’s victory, by three
lengths over California in a driving
rain. Navy was third, and another
length behind California. Colum
bia was fourth, and Syracuse last.
Washington took the lead and at
the half mile mark tore the race
wide open. California alone could
keep anything like the pace of the
Huskie frosh, but never threatened.
Navy came up fast to leave Col
umbia behind. The winning time
was ten minutes and twenty-nine
seconds.
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 19, —The
University of California won the^
varsity race, the winner being pick
ed only after a lengthy conference
among officials. This makes the 3rd
straight victory for California.
She beat Cornell by three-fifths of
a second in a hair-raising finish.
The University of Washington fin
ished third, having led much of the
way but wobbled and strayed from
her lane while in the lead and al
most touched another boat’s oar-tips.
The other boat was California
and the near accident occurred at
the two and one-half mile mark.
Navy was fourth, Syracuse 5th,
Pennsylvania 6th and Columbia
last. The winning time was eight
een minutes and fifty seconds.
Pilot of Denali
Denies Charges
Of Negligence
Trial of Pilot of S S Denali
Is Scheduled For Friday
Steamboat Inspectors
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, June 19, — Captain
Peter A. Obert, pilot of the Steam
ship Denali of the Alaska Line
which broke in two after grounding
in British Columbia waters, May
19th, pleaded not guilty to charges
of negligence, before the Board of j
Oil Tanker Strike
Ended Workers
Go Back to Work
Oil Tanker Strike Ended Af
ter Paralyzing Industry
For Past Four Months
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, -The
oil tanker strike, which has har
ried Pacific Coast shipping for four
months, ended yesterday. And with
the end of the strike there ended,
at least for the present, the threat
that the tanker strike might grow
into a general marine strike.
The Marine Federation of the
, Pacific announced the end of the
strike and was directing union mem
bers to return to work if they wish.
The action was taken after a coast
wise strike ballot in which strikers
had voted overwhelmingly to arbi
trate all attempts to force opera
tors of tankers to grant wage in
creases, preferential employment to
union members and other demands.
Chicago Tribune
Correspondent Is
Out Press Bureau
Italian Press Bureau Did Not
Like Attack by American
Writer so he Expelled
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, Italy, June 19, —The It
alian government press bureau to
day expelled David Darrah, Rome
correspondent of the Chicago Tri
bune. Darrah and his wife were
forced to leave immediately. The
reason was given as writing of anti
Italian articles.
It was said Darrah had attacked
the financial structure of the coun
try and the allegiance of the people
to the fascist regime. The press
bureau banned the New York Tim
es from entering Italy owing to an
editorial entitled Baldwin and Mus
solini.
Will Fight Camera
(By The Associated Press)
POMPTON, N. J., June lr —Louis
w'ho fights Camera next Tuesday,
says he will knock the man moun
tain out by the fifth round.
Federal steamboat inspectors, Tues
day.
His trial has been set for Friday
at 10 o’clock. The board contends
Obert did not use sufficient care to
determine the ship’s position prior
to the crash.
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