The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7519. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1937. " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'FOREIGN FISH FLE T IN BRISTOL BAY oviet GERMANY DEFIES GREAT BRITAIN, FLEET MASSED Nazi Warships Concentrat- ing in Force in Span- ish Waters ITALIAN FLEET IS ALSO SKIRMISHING Orders Iss_l—l;i to Strike! Quickly at Any At- | tack by Valencia BULLETIN — Berlin, June 24. —The German official news bu- reau reports that the Spanish | Insurgent cruiser Alirante Cer- | vera has captured the Soviet | freighter Kuban with a heavy cargo of armaments, | BULLETIN — Port Vendres, | France, June 24. — The small Spanish Government freighter Trinidad has been sunk on the | high seas, seven miles off this | port by the Imsurgent cruiser | Baleares according to radio ad- vices. The crew of the Trinidad attempted to escape in lifeboats but were captured and taken aboard the warship. | BERLIN, June 24—Germany has | named Russia and Great Britain as largely—sespousible European crisis growin, Spanish war. Germany has massed a battle fleet in Spanish waters in face of Great Britain’s warning that it would “regard most seriously” any | act of reprisal against the Valencia | Government. | Reports from Gibraltar placed the | German warship concentration at' 15 ships. Italian and German warships have sailed from Tangier tof un- known destinations. The Nazi Government has order-| ed German warships to strike back | immediately and forcibly at any at-| tack from Valencia. ~the-new g out of the| | | | BRITISH LION BEGINS | SWITCHING MEAN TAIL; LONDON, June 24. — Unofficial | sources claim Great Britain is get-| ting very “tired” of Germany's threats and her warlike, if not posi-| tive moves, to provoke trouble over | the Spanish situation. Get Out of “Mess” It is declared, unofficially, that if | Germany and Italy would get out of | the “mess” in Spain there would be no trouble. There is significance movements, it is said. Many of| Great Britain's battleships, and| scores of submarines and torpedo| boats have been given secret orders and are reported to be concentrai-| ing along the coast of Spain. What | special secret orders have been is- | sued have not been made public. ! The English populace is outward- | ly “tired” of Hitler's many protests and threats and the latest charge| that Great Britain and Russia are| responsible for the present Euro- pean crisis has aroused bitter feel- ings against Germany. ITALIAN WARSHIPS ALSO ENTER WATERS - SURROUNDING SPAIN LONDON, June 24—Italian war- ships, according to secret advices, are this afternoon patrolling the coast of Spain, on their own initia- tive but commanders, acting appar- ently in concert with German com- manders, are said to be under or- ders to strike back immediately at any “attack” from the Spanish Government. - TEX'S WIDOW SEEKS DIVORCE CHICAGO, June 24—Mrs. Max- ine Rickard Gill, widow of the late Tex Rickard, charged Thomas Gill, broker, with cruelty in a suit for di- vorce. They were married in Chicago in July, 1936. She was married to Tex Rickard in 1820. Three years after his death in 1932, she was weddéd to Frank Daily of New York: This marital combine was annulled a year later, in fleet | Vessel Captured nts Toda * Another D While the romance of his sister, Ethel, and Franklin D. 2 | holds the nation’s spotlight, Nicholas R. duPont, of the famous muni- with his fiancee, Miss Genevieve Livingston Estes, Fla., Mrs, Young Estes, of that city. The |Roosevelt to Ret “Sphinx of Politics” Avers S FOR HARMONY | ARE PLANNED President, Senators, Repre-| sentatives to Meet— ‘Social Gathering’ WASHINGTON, June 24.—Har- mony conferences between President | Roosevelt and Congressional Demo- | crats will begin tomorrow evening.|sion of administration policies. The Senate debate over the Court reorganization bill has divided party ranks. It is estimated that 300 Repre- sentatives and sixty Senators will be present, divided into three groups, for discussions which are described as social gatherings, but in fact will be real conferences. PROMINENT MEN FIGURE IN TAX INVESTIGATION, Names of Mellon, DuPont, Raskob Brought Into In- come Invasion Inquiry | WASHINGTON, June 24. — The names of Andrew Mellon, Pierre du Pont and John J. Raskob were en-| tered into the Joint Congtessional" investigation today, and methods by | which the Nation’s wealthiest busi- ness and financial leaders reduce their income taxes were related. | The names of the three were in-| troduced by Guy Helvering, Internal | Revenue Commissioner, who| charged the joint Senate and House inquiry with excitement. ‘The members of the investigating\ committee listened intently as other names, including those of more than half a dozen prominent men, were mentioned. Representatives of the du Ponts studied the testimony, which was given just before the committee re- cessed until next Tuesday. Treasury tax officials informed the committee that 1,300 personal holding company owners, through deductions, perfectly legal under the | present statutes, had made an ag- gregate saving of $2,638,307 in last year’s income tax returns., Additional names included Roy Howard and Robert Scripps, both newspaper publishers. DRl 215 G e ANDREW HERMLE LEAVING Andrew Hermle is returning to the States on the North Sea after visit- |sees nothing but world peace—but Roosevelt, Jr., | daughter of ! eir wedding date has not been set. ire in 40, MANCHESTER - BY - THE - SEA, Mass., June 24.—-An assertion that President -Pranklin ' D. Roosevelt would not be a candidate for a third term has come from Colonel Edward Mandell House, once known as the “maker of Presidents” and ‘the “sphinx of politics.” In an interview—and he rarely grants one—the diminutive, white-| haired Texan, suggested the Presi- dent ‘ayill probably do some writing after he retires.” Asked if he thought the Presi- dent would seek another term, Colo- nel House asserted: “Roosevelt will not be a candidate for a third term.” “President Roosevelt is my friend,” Colonel House said, then steered the interviewer away from any discus- This man, who gained internation- al attention through the war, today peace for the United States, he said, lies in a strong merchant mar- ine and a powerful navy. Colonel House, who was President Woodrow Wilson’s personal envoy during the feverish days of the World War, arrived here last week for his fortieth summer on Massa- | chusetts’s North Shore. Approaching his seventy - ninth birthday and slightly stooped by age, Colonel House—the title is an| honorary one—is still keen and ob-| servant. From his retreat here he watches the movements in international pol-| itics, reviews the past, ponders, and speculates as to the future as it| will affect the nation and the world. In his study, adorned with pic- tures of Wilson and President Fran- klin D. Roosevelt, Colonel House re- | called the situation of the United| States today and pointed to its po- sition in 1917.% ¥ The League of Nations, the cove- nant of which House said he wrote and revised with President Wilson at the T. Jefferson Coolidge estate in Magnolia, still is one of the Colo- nel’s pet subjects. “I believe the solution of many ! of the world’s problems is in the| league,” he said, expressing an opin- ion that the United States would | have been in the league if Wilson had retained his health. ANNUAL HIKE OF CHILKOOT SET EARLY IN JULY Major Green,—Captain Gad: dis Reconnoiter Trail ° for Army Officers of the Chilkoot Barracks today were to complete platting the course for the annual hike of the soldiers, July 1 to 10, in which a composite company selected from Compenies E and F of the Seventh Infantry will participate. Major Kirby Green and Capt. J.l |W. Gaddis, accompanied by Ser- geants Hart and Peasner, It noitered the march in planmn:o:; route for the hike. They went By automobile this afternoon over the proposed trek. Present plans are for the com- posite company to arrive in Juneau July 2 and remain in this city July 3, 4 and 5. On July 6 they will march to Mendenhall Glacier, thence to Point Lena, thence to Eagle River, and from there they will follow the trail to Echo Cove. The approximate marching dis- tance will be 50 miles, the officers announced. Major Green and Cap- tain Gaddis reconnoitered over part of the scheduled hike from'1 to 7 p. p. m. Wednesday. of the scheduled hike from'1 to 7 Bay. They blazed a trall f there to Eagle River where the: were picked up by the launch and sailed to Auk Bay where they re- mained. Major Green and Captain Gaddis| are making their headquarters at the Gastineau Hotel during their sojourn in Juneau. They will re- turn Saturday morning in the launch J-44. FATHER, SON ARE GULTY N KIDNAP CASE Patkers Convicted of Ab-! duction, Phoney Confes- sion, Lindbergh Case NEWARK, N. J, June 24. — A Federal Court jury, eight women and four men, last night convicted/ Ellis Parker, aged 65, and his son, Ellis Parker, Jr., of conspiracy in| the abduction of Paul Wendel, former Trenton attorney, but rec- launch at Echo Cove in Berner’s Guests Bring Beauly and U.S. Mediation Vi CHARLES P. TAFT | o g LLOYD K. GARRISON s0 request. Boa;d Named for Steel Disputes Y EDWARD F. McGRADY Announcing the appointment of a three-man board to mediate all current steel disputes, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins recently named Charles P, Taft, Lloyd K. Garrison and Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady to investigate, conduct hearings and act. in committee, as “voluntary arbi- trator.” Madame Perkins said the President had given his approval to her order creating the®board. Board actions, he said, had been delayed because the administration had hoped that conferences called in the scattered steel strikes would lead to settlement. The board can only act as arbitrator if both factions RAINBOW GIRLS, NAVY CAPTURE JUNEAU . OF . Sparkling Comment 4o Enliven Luncheon | Visiting Rainbow girls from the !state of Washington with a bar- irage of beauty and sparkling com- ment captured the Juneau Cham- ber of Commerce members at their weekly luncheon this noon at Per- cy's Cafe, aided and abetted by the moral support of visiting officers from the Navy Destroyers Fox and Brooks, now in the harbor. 8o completely did the representa- tives of Washington state pulchri- tude, as guests of the Chamber, take over the situation that they had the boys with graying locks singing Peter Rabbit with gestures, and marked enthusiasm, before the Navy had an opportunity to get in its oar and add to one of the most lively sessions the Chamber has en- joyed in weeks. With charm and poise Miss Kel- een Haubner, Grand Worthy Ad- visor of the Rainbow girls for Washington, introduced her party of 15 girls and their three chaper~ ones and paid warm compliment to Juneau and the Chamber for the warm hospitality. The girls rep- resent 74 Assemblies and 5,200 mem- bers in the state of Washington, Battle With Henry Ford This CIO By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, June 24—Henry Ford and John L. Lewis are fighting the decisive battle in a campaign that will go down in history as the industrial war of the 20th century. The stake is industrial democracy, and the winner will dictate the trend of a new era, whether he wants to -or mot. If a fight fan were describing the struggle. hie would calldt.a “natural” or “grudge” fight. ‘Why? ; Because Ford developed the sys-' tem of mass production and built his industrial empire on it. | And Lewis developed industrial unionism, a form or organized la- bor that fits mass-production meth- ods like & glove. . One Big Union | Industrial unionism in Lewis' MARTIAL LAW 1S T0 BE LIFTED AT JOHNSTOWN Governor Earle Announces Action — Troops Be Withdrawn Friday HARRISBURG, Pa, June 24, — Gov. Earle annonnced martial law 'nmkenl;n'n e actl*mve %m | morrow morning. A report from Johnstown this af- ternoon said that James Mark, head of the striking steel workers there, stated the union “will resist to the best of our ability” any attempt to open the Cambrai and Bethlehem plants. PLANTS CLOSED CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 24. — Five manufacturers have closed and Miss Haubner assured the {Chamber members their impressions of Alaska would be lasting, so last- The Wendel abduction and phun-‘mz in fact that she hoped another . |party could make the trip next year. ey confession delayed the execution ™y " nroiiea Dodge, Past Grand of Bruno Hauptmann for 72 hours.| yorny advisor of Nevada, the only Hauptmann was executed for the giy outside of Washington with the kidnaping and slaying of the baby‘p‘"yl also spoke briefly. son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. | pjent. Comdr. C. L. Surran, com- v e manding the U.8.8. Fox, and Lieut. cqulcTEn |N W. W. Cone, commander of the VOTING FRAUD Brooks, brought greetings and good wishes from the Navy squadron and; KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 24— Two men and one woman have been spoke warmly of their reception in Alaska. Other officers of the squa- dron present were Lieut. R. R. Far- convicted in vote fraud conspiracy in the Federal Court. This brings the total convictions to 44 since well, Lieut. D. H. Collins, Lieut. W. A. Fly and Lieut. W. A, Graham the Government began the irregu- larities drive. ommended leniency. Sentence may be passed next ‘Wednesday. Amelia Frénares To Hop, Australia BATAVIA, Java, June 24.—Amelia Earhart and Co-Pilot Noonan flew from nearby Bandoeng, 250 miles to Sourabaya, enroute to Kupang, here where they are to take off for "Australia. They rested here for three days. — ;DR. FRENCH TOURING Dr. J. R. French, Effie and Robert D. French of Los Angeles visited in Tamor Island, 1200 miles east of | | - has adopted a six-year program of road development. New water sup- ply systems are being installed in' many parts of the country. i inger” Is N “W hite-Winger” Is Now . . . At Work in Capital City “How nice the streets look soearly say about 4 or 5 o'clock, and give in the morning, just like any other |the once over to the thoroughfares metropolitan city.” in the main section of Juneau. “This city looks so clean, especi-| It is true—a “white-winger” sal- ally on the main thoroughfares. lies forth all the way from mid- “Juneau must be an orderly city|night to 1 or 2 o'clock with his little and the streets are kept in such a|two wheel, large container refuse state of cleanliness.” |cart and broom, and goes over the The above remarks are many, Streets clearing up whatever may many times heard in Juneau, especi-| have accumulated during the day ally in the early forenoon, and made | and early evening. by tourists. | No wonder, clean streets, early in But the streets do look in a well the morning, causes comment from | kept condition and no debris, no;vulwn-thg Capital City is always; paper, etc., scattered around. |engaged in a clean-up and keen ing his son, John, owner of the Juneau while passengers on _the ‘" Home CGrocery, for a brief perioa. Prince Robert, ¥ you don't believe it, just )om}flun-llp campaign during the sum- the night hawk crowd or get up— Mer months, view is the organization of workers thejr plants in two Ohio cities, War- by industries instead of callings. He ren and Niles. says automobile. plant workers call The closing of the plants was after themselves automobile workers, the CIO had notified its unions to whether they happen to be boiler abandon plans for a general sym- makers, sheet métal workers, or put- pathy strike which had been pro- ters-in of screws and bolts along the posed as a protest against a court assembly line. {injunction limiting picketing of the This is contrary to the old Amer- Republic Steel plant at Warren, ican Federation of Labor idea which | organized its men by crafts, so that “YOU’RE A LIAR” workers in a mass production in-| WASHINGTON, June 24. — Ac- dustry: were members of many un- cusation was made, and immediate- :ions, and therefore subjected to ly denied, at a Senate Committee inter-union quarrels and divisions. hearing, that Tom Girdler was The industrial union naturally fits asked to resign as head of the Jones mass production methods. Craft Laughlin Steel Corporation for unions do not. ibreach of confidence. “Industrial democracy” i§ a vague The accuser was none other than term whose meaning may have a Senator Guffey, who said it was special significance to each person, “common talk in Pittsburgh.” who uses It. As Lewls sees it, how-| Oirdler, who was in a witness ever, industrial democracy calls for chair undergoing a cross examina- political organization of union men tion, shouted: “That is a lie. Who to complement their induBtrial or- ever told you that was a liar.” ganization so they may bring pres-' T sure on legislators, governors, etc., H H to get what they want. Ireman Ig s Firetruck Fire Also, an industrial democrat will point out that the United States RICHMOND, Ind., June 24-—If |there had been a fire, Marshal has been politically democratic from is birth, but industrially autocratic because those who controlled indus- tries were masters in their own bal- liwicks. . |Charles Daugherty of Centerville Two Ways to Same End would: not have known what to do Thus the struggle between Ford, —because there was a fire. the greatest and perfectly typical' Daugherty took the town’s fire American industrialist, and Lewis, truck to a filling station. As he the modern-day union leader, was started to drive away the truck inevitable. It was as natural as caught fire. was the meeting between Napoleon The marshal picked up an ex- and Wellington, or Grant and Lee. tinguisher and put out the blaze. Just as Wellington's victory scrap- | - A ped the map of Europe, and Grant's! juRIsT nF SAN American history, so will Ford, or, | | | . . triumph changed the course of Lewis—one or the other—set the compass for a new industrial era.! Will it be Lewis's industrial de-| mocracy Or Ford’s “friendly, auto-| cracy” with workers as partners? Lewis frankly admits he's the champlon of industrial democracy. [Its chief ingredient, he says, is col- lective bargaining, “wherewith to demand and secure participation for the worker in the increased wealth and increased productive efficiency of modern industrial America.” | Ford has pronounced his credo time and time again by declaring his workers don't need to elect Tep- resentatives to bargain with him, that they already have what Lewis claims they haven’'t got — a fair (Continued on Page Seven) i Judge Gordon Thompson of the ‘Buperlor court of San Diego, Cal, was a Juneau visitor while aboard the Prince Robert Wednesday, but his thrill at seeing Alaskan sights for the first time was somewhat marred by the fact that his wife has been bed-ridden for the past three days with an infected left elbow. The infection came about sudden- ly and without an apparent cause. It was treated in Prince Rupert and was to receive further medical at- tention in Skagway. Judge Thomp- son, who has handled mainly crim- inal cases in the past, will devote his attention to civil matters on his re- turn, he said, % “INVADERS” ARE COUNTED AS SEASON OPENS Some [dentified as Japanese Floating Canneries and Within 3-Mile Limit SITUATION SERIOUS, FISHERMEN CLAIM Declare Typzear Used by Foreign Boats Will De- plete Red Salmon Run LIBBYVILLE, Alaska, June 24.— Two thousand tense American fish- ermen, preparing to shove off to- morrow, foreign fishing boats and floating !canneries in Bristol Bay awaiting the world’s largest red salmon rum, Michael Hatton, formerly of the U. S. Fisheries Bureau, who was sent by private interests to inves- tigate the “invasion,” said he had identified some of the foreign ves- sels as Japanese. Some of these were within the three-mile limit. He said he drew up alongside of one Japanese boat, but he was not wel= comed aboard. Forelgn boats have been increas- ing yearly. With the type gear they are using there will be no salmon ‘these waters in: five or six years,” Hatton said. Increase Yearly Albert Davey, veteran fisherman and trader, in this section for 23 years, sald he had watched foreign boats “increase in numbers for the past nine years., While we have felt no il effects yet the type of fish= ing gear foreign ships are using leaves little chance for the salmon school to get into Bristol Bay and at this rate, five years will find no fishing in these waters.” i Edward Coffey, Secretary of the Alaska Resident Fishermens’ Union and member of the Alaska Terri- torial Legislature, said: “We protest the invasion of for= eign floating canneries. With the type of gear they are using, they We feel they have no right here.” Gear Blamed Hatton further sald that_eff operation of canneries and the Bfi= reau of Fisheries will be of no avail “if this foreign fishing, using the type of gear they are, continues.” * The height of the salmon run us< usually takes place around the first of July. DUKE WINDSOR 0LD ENGLAND Four Thousand Acre Tract Purchased — Rumors He Will Go to It BIRMINGHAM, England, June 24.—An agent for the Duke of Wind~ sor, said the former ruler has pur- chased a 100-year-old estate in Lin- colnshire, leading to reports that the Duke and his bride will go there some time. The quiet estate was the scene of most of the falls of the Duke when he was the Prince of Wales. It was there he had several bad spills when horse back riding. The estate consists of 4,000 acres and is self-supporting. Three villages are within the bor- der of the estate. The manor has 100 bedrooms. THEILE ARRIVES ABOARD RELIANCE FOR SHORT STAY Karl Theile, owner of the Dia- mond K Packing Company of Wran- gell, arrived in Juneau aboard the Reliance, with Captain Harry Coul= ter, at 6 a.m. today and is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. He is to return to Wrangell leav- ing aboard the Reliance at mids night, counted twenty-six large o the open season starting tomorrow. ' cannot help but catch the salmon. « to perpetuate the run through cos BUYS ESTATE,