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VOL. 38 Nd. 133 NOME. ALASKA, Thursday. JUNE 10, 1937. Per Copy lOcts
INDUSTRIAL SHUT DOWN AFFECTS 500,000
26 Japanese Floating Canneries Now at Bristol Bay
Saganaw, Michigan Feels Paralysis Of
Industrial Shutdowns Due Strike
(By The Associated Press)
FLINT, Michigan, June 10. — Striking consumers
and power company employees, disregarding the an
nouncement of a settlement, and appeals of labor lead
ers shut down all major industries in the Saginaw Vall
ey.
The industrial paralysis became complete when the
General Motors plant at Saginaw’ closed down at noon.
Electric lights were out in Saginaw, Bay City and Flint,
and in several hundred smaller communities. Thirteen
counties wrere without electricity, except hospitals and
public services.
In Flint the fire alarm system was inoperative un
lil storage batteries were connected to the circuit.
Nearly one hundred thousand industrial workers are
die and at least four hundred thousand residents of the
valley are inconvenienced.
The strikers negotiating committee is flying from
Washington, D. C. to transmit terms of the settlement,
which are reported to call for a w’age increase of five
cents an hour. The strikers demanded tw’enty cents an
nour.
Governor Murphy of Michigan declared: “It is mat
ters such as this that exhaust all patience.”
Requests State Department Intervene
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 10. — Senator Schwell
enbach requested today that the U. S. State Department
investigate the claim that Japanese fishermen have act
ually invaded the traditional American-Canadian fish
ing grounds in the North Pacific Ocean.
He visited the State Department after receiving a
telegram from Paul Gerhardt, a delegate of the Alas
ka Fishermen’s Association, and Edward Coffey, mem
ber of the Alaska Legislature, which said:
“Japanese are destroying Bristol Bay red salmon
run now. Twenty six big Japanese boats and also num
erous small vessels are fishing close to shore. Urge that
cargo originating in Japan be boycotted.’’
SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, —The district council
of the Maritime Federation ordered its secretary to send
telegrams of protest to Washington, D. C., against the
presence of Japanese cannery ships off Bristol Bay.
IT’S ‘FARMER BRYAN’ NOW
Three-times governor, once vice-presidential candidate, candidate
for senator, and twice mayor of Lincoln, Neb., Charles W. Bryan
at TO is “calling it quits” so far as politics is concerned. He will
turn to active management of his three farms near Lincoln on
t one of which he raises One draft horses.
Paul W. Gordon
Looks Airplanes
Take Place Dogs
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 10,
—Paul W. Gordon, the Depart
ment of the Interior's supervisor
of Alaskan affairs, looked for
ward t the time when dog teams
would enter oblivion in the Ter
ritory.
The records showed that Alask
an airlines had carried 2,418,616
pounds of mail and freight dur
ing the last year as compared to
118.851 in 1929.
Gordon said the airplanes have
about a 171 to 1 speed advantage
over dogs.
Gordon’s desire for greater use
.f airplanes was backed by Sec
retary of the Interior Harold I.
Ickes. who said the per capita
use of planes among the 60/00
residents of the Territory. is
about 70 tunes that of the Ur<*|
t*u a>t ai .s
Delegate Dimond said that a
preliminary survey showed that
two million nine hundred thous
and doLlars could be spent to good
advantage for a system of airfields
in the Territory.
ALaska's future, as Gordon sees
it depends on getting machinery
into the country and getting the
products out.
—
Hitler To Talk
In East Prussia
About Frontiers
(By Tno Associated Press)
MARIENWERDER, Germany,
June 10,—Adolph Hitler is com
ing to strategic East Prussia June
19th to make an important party
speech from the historic Castle of
Marienburg, seat of Teutonic
knights, it was reported on ap
parently good authority.
The speech, in so far as could
be learned is still contained in
the secrecy that envelopes Hitler’s
plan, although rumors indicated
it would deal with frontier pro
b’ems.
It will be made before the old
est and highest leaders of the
Nazi party.
The disclosure was made by an
indiscreet county party leader.
Vanderbilt T^aunebes Another Defender
Her lUJ-t'oot mast lashed to her deck, the £300,00(1 America s cup contendci.
Harold Vanderbilt, is launched into the Kennebec river, at Bath, Me., after lie.
Iren Works. It Is Vanderbilt’s third aspirant for defense of the cup Van '
are on board the trim craft
Have Chance To
Find If Moon h
IfiPlit I till
(By Tile Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 10
-Scientists will now have a
chance to check up on the eclipse
of the sun, as to whether the
play))>y of the skies, the moon, is
baok on a straight and narrow
path again. Astronomers have
never been able to predict to the
split second just where the Moon
will be, although it is the nearest
of all stellar bodies.
Fifty to 700 years ago, the
Moon was 17 seconds off its pre
dicted course, yesterday it was
expected to 'be only two seconds
wrong. Navail observatory ex
perts who specialize in making
these predictions are not even
sure that this error will be true
for the longest eclipse in 12 cen
tures.
Astronomers travelled to a de
sert in the South Sea islands, to
the land of the Sun worshipping
Incas in Peru, and by boat to the
path where the Moon wipes out
the Sun's light. Their observa
tions there are important, practic
. I
ally, because the Solar system is
our original clock and if it is
wrong then our watches and
clocks may have to be corrected,
too.
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Seattle Engineer Convicted Larceny
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, June 10, — Joseph P. Dodd, a King
County engineer, was convicted today on eleven charg-;
es of perjury, and ten charges of grand larceny, in con-i
nection with allegedly fraudulent expense account.
The jury acquitted him on the eleventh count of
grand larceny on the grounds that no warrant had been
issued for this item.
Dodd’s attorney gave notice that he would ask for
a new trial, and failing in that, he would appeal to the
State Supreme Court.
British Advance Claims South
Polar Regions—Adopt Report
(By The Associate Pr^ssO
LONDON, June 10, —The British advanced their
claims to territorial sovereignty in the Antarctic today,
seeking an eventual domination of the southern polar
wastes, where the United States too has staked out an
icebound domain.
The Antarctic world’s lost continent is believed to
contain a vast hidden wealth in raw materials, includ
ing coal.
The imperial conference today adopted a report
of the little publicized polar committee to inaugurate
the extension of the British Empire to the Pole.
When the American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth
flew across the south polar territory in 1935 he claimed
three hundred and fifty thousand miles in the name of
the United States. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, in
his expedition also advanced claims for the U. S.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 10, —Chairman Jos
eph P. Kennedy of the Maritime Commission jubilantly
said today that the administration’s proposal to build
ninety five new merchant ships, means that the Unit
ed States “is going places’’ on the high seas.
President Roosevelt has asked congress to provide
ten million dollars immediately for the construction of
the new vessels.
PRESIDENT ENDS TRI TSE
I: . i. j;-.h iioin the L. S. S. Poiuiti.
hi 11 day fishing cruise, President itcc . •> i tjreete.I
by Governor Allred (center) and r«n<;ressmau-elect Lyndon John
_ _eon (right). -_„