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VOL. 38 No. 101 NOME. ALASKA, SATURDAY MAY 1 1937. Per Copy lOcts
Two Alaska Boat Sailings Cancelled
MAY DAY CELEBRATED THRUOUT WORLD
Mrs. Roosevelt To Speak At Mass Meeting Seattle
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TROUBLE RESULTED
SEATTLE S S YUKON
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. May 1, — All pol
ice car crews and police on beats
were rushed to the waterfront
this morning when the Alaska
Steamship Company complained
that teamsters would not deliver
baggage to two hundred and six
iy passengers aboard the steamer
Yukon.
The teamsters refused to pass
•through a picket line. The team
sters union had pledge support
to the Alaska Cannery Workers
.Union. Longshoremen continued
to handle freight which had al
jeady been delivered.
The Yukon sailed twenty five
minutes late, after passengers
had acted as their own baggage
smashers.
There was no disorder. Police
lemoined on the wraterfront how
ever to watch the arrival of the
S. S. Northwestern.
SEATTLE. May 1—The Alaska
Steamship Company cancelled
nexit week’s sailings of two ships
after a picketing controversy this
afternoon. Cancellations were
*>r the S. S. Northwestern posted
to sail Tuesday, and the Baranof
to sail Wednesday.
SEATTLE, May 1—Alaska S. S.
Company officials said the contro
versy will make loading of the
steamers Northwestern and Bar
anolT next week impossible, ex
plaining was due to pickets at
the pier.
Japanese, I. R. Batatit, director
of the Cannery workers and farm
laborers’ union, said, the problem
is one of jurisdiction; and also
said his union is composed mostly
of Filipinos, the other one mostly
Japs.
SEATTLE, May 1—The steamer
Northwestern of the Alaska S.S.
Co., arrived from the north at
10:45 A.M. Passengers had to re
move their own hand baggage.
Pickets refused to permit taxi
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cabs inside the lines. L. J. Hands
tjie steamship company baggage
agent, said he admonished the
employes not to handle the bag
gage, fearing to stir up trouble.
He also said that only about a
dozen of the passengers of the
steamer Yukon had to move their
own luggage, as most of it was
checked aboard yesterday, before
departure.
Battleships Head
Back For Active
Moves Of Navy
(By The Associated Press)
ABOARD BATTLESHIP PEN
NSLVANIA, May 1, —The storm
swept Aleutians at Bering Sea,
the weather factory of the Paci
fic, were left behind by the in
ctependent detachment of war
ships which dashed southward to
join the U. S. Fleet in major ac
tion in the six weeks war gam
es now under way.
Right into the teeth of a gale,
seven warships which left Puget
Sound nine days ago, steamed
enroute to Dutch Harbor.
Rear Admiral Walter N. Ver
non sadi that ploughing through
the gales and fogs, in the wild
est part of the north Pacific, was
a real test for the navigators.
Great combers swept the decks
and life was generally uncom
fortable.
Admiral Hepburn, commander
of the zeet had sent the detach
ment to far northern waters for
training In which unusual navi
gation was involved.
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Japan’s Parties
Score On Gov’t.
Control Offices
(By The Associated Press!
TOKYO, May 1, —Japan's two
major political parties, both op
posing Premier Senjur Hayashi’s
government registered sweeping
victories in early returns, in the
most orderly election in history.
The voting was light. Not a
angle government candidate was
elected to the house. Whatever
the outcome is, the government
announced it would retain some
power.
Some observers believed pol
itical parties are doomed to ex
tinction if the government does
not find a compromise system
of working with a new parlia
I ment.
, Proletarian candidates made
l striking gains, also the social
! masses party.
| DENVER, May 1—C. I. Fitz
! gerald, general agent here for the
Railway Express, has been ap
pointed superintendent for Wash
ington, Alaska and Yukon, with
headquarters at Seattle.
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I WATCHING THE ‘BIG SHOTS’ IN AUGUSTA NATIONAL
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Jane Cothian, Kathryn Hemphill, and Hatty Be»g. (Associated Pess Photo)
Million Dollar
Alaska Line Suit
Postponed June
fBv The Associated Press)
KETCHIKAN. April 29—The
so-called million dollar criminal
information suit filed by the gov
errunent against the Alaska S. S.
Co., and the Northland Trans
portation Co. for violation of the
toonage tax and license law by
; non-payment, was transferred
| back to June and is to be heard
June 8th, after a jury trial had
been waived.
It is called a million dollars
cash suit because if convictions
result, the law provides for a
system of penalties which would
run well into seven figures
Busmen on Strike
(By The Associated Press'
LONDON, May 1, —Twenty
five thousand busmen struck to
day, seriously crippling the trans
portation system, as a possibility
arose that subway and streetcar
wortcers might join the strike,
whcih would paralyze completely
the metropolitan transport net
work, twelve day’s before the
Coronation.
The strikers demand a reduc
tion of working hours and slow
er bus schedules.
Thousands of Londoners wheel
, ed out bicycles and pedalled to
work.
Three Prisoners
Killed, Fourth
Hurt In Break
iBy The Associated Press!
MOUNDS'VILLE, West Virgin
ia, April 30, —The warden’s of
fice reported that three inmates
had been killed and a fourth crit
ically injured, in an attempted
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prison break from the state pen
itentiary.
An attache of the warden's oflL
ce shot thorn as they attempted
to escape in the prison truck.
Deputy warden Capt. Stone
said “four of them hopped on
the truck as it was leaving the
yard. The driver wrecked it near
the outer gate. One of the guards
opened fire with a machin gun
which sounded the general al-j
arm."
The outbreak was quickly sub
dued and all prisoners locked in;
their cells. There are eighteen
hundred men in the prison.
WASHINGTON G.O.P.
ARE REORGANIZING
WALLA WALLA, (P)— Reor
ganization of the sta/te republi
can party was begun recently. A
committee of 12, including two
from each congressional district,
1 is to be appointed to succeed the
state executive committee of 72.
. J. N. Emerson, state chairman,
: said that the republicans need ‘‘to
accept changing conditions and
to adapt them to our philosophy.’
insurgent Ship
Sunk By Airmen
Of Government
f By The Associated lJiess)
BILBAO, April 30, — Govern
ment airmen sunk the insurgent
Spanish battleship Kscana, while
insurgent planes were blasting
B Ibao’s fortifications, attempting
to clear a path for the insurgent
army.
Thirty thousand government
troops at Bilbao are awaiting a
last st-and against the insurgents.
Bilbao, however, was cheered
with the arrival of thirty two
govern merit planes from the
Valencia section, which may put
a stop to the destruction which
insurgent bombers have been
wreaking in Bilbao.
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, May 1. —
In a wheel chair froon which he
is unable to move William McKib
bon, aged 40, an invalid, sat in
a cell in jail here, accused by
detectives of the murder of his
rnotheT Mrs. Margaret McKib
ben, 85 years old.
He was arrested aiter an auto
psy disclosed that his mother,
who had lived with him, had
died in the hospital Thursday of
bruises and intternal injuries.
Her niece had come to her
home April 19th and told of be
ing beaten by her son over an
argument about the payment of
taxes on the home.
May Day Was
Celebrated All
Big Cities World
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, May 1, — Worker;
by the tens of thousands pushed
aside their routine tasks to en
gage in traditional May Day de
monstrations, in scores of the
world's largest cities.
Organizers of Now York's cele
bration called for a demonstra
tion by two hundred and fifty
thousand, the greatest in the his
tory of the city, which mobiliz
ed nineteen thousand policemen
| as a precaution Socialists and
Communists joined in the cele
bration for the first time
Ten thousand marched in Chi
| cagos while extra policemen
were posted on duty
May first took on a national
holiday air in France and Russ
,ia. Head Soviet Joseph Stalin re
viewed Russia's troops at Len~
; in’s tomb, while a thousand air
! planes took part in aerial cele
bration,
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Mrs. Roosevelt
Enjoy Visit In
Seattle 1 Week
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, May 1. —Dropping
the cares of the White House Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, settled
down here for a week's vacation
v/ith her grandchildren and their
mother and stepfather, John
Boettiger, whose home was off
ered the president’s wife as se
clusion where she may visit.
“Sistie Buzzie" had seen the
children since they left the
White House shortly before
Christmas. When she arrived by
plane from San Francisco she
took charge of the children who
clung to her hand most of the
time.
She made clear to reporters
she intended to spend her whole
I time with her family, with no
i interruption to occur, except to
| speak before a mass meeting Wed
nesday night.
FAIRBANKS MAN
DIES ON TRAIL
FAIRBANKS, (AP)—Thomas
\ Lake, 51, died of heart trouble
• on the trail with a party of four
other men enroute from Liven
good to Lucky creek to prospect,
; it was learned here recently
when his body was brought to
Fairbanks by plane for burial.