The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1938, Page 1

- .t THE DAILY ALA “KA E' VOL. LIi, NO. 7687. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” KENNEDY MAY INTERCEDE IN PRESENT GASE Chairman of Federal Mari- time Commission on Puget Sound LONGSHOREMEN TO MAKE PLEA TO HIM Heavy Mail Coming on Prin- cess Norah — Spencer to Take It West /Alaska shig SEATTLE, Jan ping is still tied up but (& i an undercurrent of opinion Ul L settlement will soon be reached. 11 Neither side, shipowners nor long- shoremen, will make any defini itement however, but i t Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast C!O Chieftain, in San Francisco, said representatives of the coast 1gshoremen are now on their way to Seattle and they are going to attempt to arrange a conference be- tween Joseph Kennedy, Chairman of the Maritime Commission, in Portland today and Seattle tomor-| row, and the ship owners in an ef-| fort to solve the difficulties that| has tied up the Alaskan service. | In the meantime the Railway Md”‘ Service here announces that the! Coast Guard will carry Alaska mails between Juneau, Cordova, Valdez, and Seward, as long ast he tie up' continues. It was stated this afternoon that| the longshoremen and the ship-| owners are not adverse to a confer- ence with Chairman Kennedy of the Federal Maritime Commission. HEAVY MAIL COMING Postmaster Albert Wile received a radiogram this afternoon from Superintendent Lawrence of the Railway Mail Service at Seattle stating that the sailing of the Yu- kon had been cancelled and Alaska mail leaves tonight from Vancouver aboard the Canadian steamer Prin-| cess Norah. Supt. Lawrence said the Coast Guard cutter John C. Spencer, now at the Cordova base, will come to Juneau and pick up mail for the Westward, including Cordova, Val- dez, Seward and also Interior Al- aska. Postmaster Wile will arrange for an assorting room on the Pacific Coast Dock pending transfer of the| Westward and Interior mail to the Spencer. There should be ten days’ mail aboard the Princess Norah for Ju- neau. Encouraging Wire There are prospects that the Se- attle shipping strike may be settled before next week end, according to a wire to J. E. Boyle, of the Union Oil Company from the Seattle of- fices of the company. In response to a wire from Boyle to Seattle concerning shipments, Union Oil officials in Seattle wire, “Prospects appear good for a set- tlement of the strike before next week end.” Another Indication Agent D. B. Femmer, of the Al- aska Transportation, operating the Evelyn Berg, received a radiogram this morning asking if local mer- chants would absorb the charge of taking freight from Seattle to Ta- coma to load aboard a steamer there for Juneau. The attitude of the unions both here and Seattle was ascertained and the Seattle unions replied that the strike only applied to Seattle and not Tacoma and the local longshoremen said they would handle any freight arriving here from any port but Seattle. Femmer expected furthers word from his company late this afternoon re- garding the sailing of the Evelyn Berg from Tacoma if there was suf- ficient Juneau freight to warrant S e DEPUTY WARDEN ARRIVES Deputy Game Warden Jack Ben- son of Seward with Mrs. Benson and 11-months-old daughter arrived in Juneau last night on the Bananof. He will be stationed at Alaska Game Commission headquarters here for the next month or so before return- ing to his station. | Court of the Umted States. l ‘This is the interior of a Sacramento, Cal, printing plant where, an- nounced Secret Service Agent Charles Rich, 100 government “emer- gency drafts” were printed in a widespread counterfeit plot. Five persons were arrested in California. Rich said one, S. D. LaForce, the printer, might have been the innocent dupe of the others. LISTERHILLIS | ANOTHER SWAT NAMED T0 BE FOR PACKERS, U.s. SENATUR, COAST SALMON ‘Representallve of Alabama Soo Line Rallway Wants Is Boosted Into Upper | Lower Rates for Prod- House by Governor ucts of Canada WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Repre- WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—United sentative Lister Hill, supporter of |States Senator Lewis D. Schwellen- the Roosevelt Administration poli- bach, Democrat, of the State of cies, has received appointment as Washington, sai dthe Pacific Coast Alabama’s junior Senator. Salmon industry will suffer if the Hill was named by Gov. Bibb Canadian packers are given lower Graves after the latter's wife re- rates asked by the Soo Line Railway. signed. She was appointed Senator| The lower rates are asked in a when Senator Hugo L. Black was petition that has been handed to the inominated and confirmed to be Interstate Commerce Commission. Associate Justice of the Supreme| Senator Schwellenbach wrote to (the commission that the rate asked |for would permit the shipment of |Canadian products into the United 1b3' American packers on the Pacific | Coast o fg”;‘,{ E ANTI-LYNCHING vian o s, MEASURE STILL " HOLDING FLOOR Out Her Opinion on Subject Filibuster Goes Into Fifth Day Over Long De- bated Bill WASHINGTON Jan. 11.—Senator WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. — Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Lady of the Land, told newsmen today, that she saw no reason why a! woman should not be appointed to | the Supreme Court of the United States. COPPER BUYS ['s America Scte? SEND PRICES UP, EXCHANGE Other Metals Are Lifted— PRICE TEN CENTS Comparative Land-Force Manpower standing Army 8 Reserve Reserve ng Strzke New Army on Wheels and Wings Forms U. S. Second Defense Line, iMUNTAM AREA Said Great ¥4 3 itain Db Recovery Is Said to IHElEe 569,000 [UNIT: 250,000 MEN] Be Pronounced i | United b : A biizab i, | ptates NEW YORK, Jan. 11—A burst it: | 70:000 785,000 buying copper and other industrial | NS // metals lifted stock prices again, Daran (, making recovery the most robust| P 262:000 5 000 0L 1 W0 O Gy s Now Tt Ao since autumn | \‘/»’» \’)'\/_ /w\(:\fi NI Commodity markets, levelled out SR 1 f" 1 L | VL a few wi ago, lead today. T Ee — Domestic copper producers re- 58,000 o //\/ 99,9«"/(/‘/(/.,/{(’/0/‘V:.//M ported trade circles were moving el l GGEIGIEIGIE il other metals. Copper reached 11 aly ) ) a pound as the zap belween |§/3| .000 T HGRrmany gs%‘!oo STOCK QUOTATIONS TODAY gmfi YORK. 11. — Closin Russia \ of Alaska Juneau mine .545,000 s 111, American Can erica Ligl and Power 6% \monwealth and Southern| BY ALEXANDER R. GEORGE by e igh comman Wright 5'%, General Mo- AP Feature Servioe ter International Harvester S 70, New X,;’{k (ix“”r‘li & BeiEm (This is the second of three : 21%, United States Steell ,,¢j.1es analyzing America’s . Cities Service, 2, Pound $5.00%, Bremner bid 2 asked 4. defenses) . DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow,! WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Back of {Uncle Sam’s battle fleets is the na- tion’s secondary defense coast ‘]”"?S averages:, industrials 13435, arlaliery and Tortifieations, a small rails 32.25, utilities 21.78. byt Highly mobile ar A A B 5 ut highly mobile army and an in- |creasingly potent air force. | Isolated from potential enemy |countries in Europe and Asia and lon very friendly terms with neigh- iboring Mexico and Qanada, the | United States:has not felt that it |needed a huge peacetime conscript larmy such as places a tremendous financial burden on nearly every other major country. Fisheries Group Out of Buginess On Pacific Coast cl Ic uas | Since this peace-minded nation |has depended primarily on a stal- CIOSCS DOOTS Because of\“‘"t navy to hold off an aggressor, Mrs. Roosevelt expressed the be- lief that appointments to the high- est tribunal in the land should be made “on a basis of person rather than sex.” FORNANCE BRINGS {James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, ‘uma\ continued his steady attack on !the anti-lynching bill, and charged |in the Senate that such a bill would {“arouse ill feeling between sections.” | The filibuster against the bill, going into its fifth day, drew a re-| iteration from Senator Alben W. High Operating Costs | and Poor Fishing SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 11.—‘ The disbanding of the Pacific Coast Fisheries institute is announced by, Louis M. Hicks, former Mnnnger and Executive Secretary. “The Institute is still legally m existence but actually ceased func-| tioning last November and is seek- ing to pay off its obligations before going out of existence entirely,” said Hicks. | Seven ships operated by Institute members have been withdrawn from trade because of high operating costs labor difficulties and a poor sardine season. Farmers Growing Poor According To Sec. Wallace Blames Industrial Recession' On Falling Farm | Prices WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Secre- | tary of Agriculture Wallace today| told a Senate committee tnat the| demands for rural relief are in- creasing steadily and said that nei- ther local nor Federal agencies “are| the means of coping with the sit- | uation.” {the second defense has been a com- paratively weak link in the line of |resistance to possible enemy at- tack. However, there has been a steady strengthening of the army since the waning of international disarma- ment hopes about five years ago. Still small in numbers, it is rated Comparative Airplane Strength rear v MO an i any riod in its peacetinie other tory pe New Planes Built There has been tremendous pro- gress in professional skill, mobility, modernization of weapons and of equipment. Seacoast defenses are being modernized, tanks and mo- torized artillery are high speed, in- fantry with semi-automatic shoul- der rifles are being reorganized in new, streamlined battalions. Most striking advances have been in aircraft. The army now has 1,- 000 new planes, and another 1,000 under order. The 1,000 new planes are rated on a par with those of any power and the new flying fortresses” are said to be the most formidable bombers in the world. The air defense goal is 2,320 modern modern planes, to be attained by June, 1940. Present strength of the regular army is some 12,000 officers and 158,000 enlisted men . The army's idea of an ‘irreducible minimum” defense is 14,600 officers and 165,000 men. ber 192,000, being 210,000. the defense objective Congress has been approprianngr UnitedState sk#fi%‘t Japan e ORI ltaly AR 3,200 ey ORI UNIT: 500 PLAN ES 1Enflmztes on manpower and planes from thlnxlon sources) in efficiency | strengthen the army Militar however, that an ex- $150,000,000 on 1 now to bring comiort to experts say, penditure of about materials as need army defense up Lo curity” stage. Probably the most important de- velopment in the secondary defense since the World War has been the building up of an-Officer's Reserve ' Corps, now 96,000 strong. Carefully worked out defense plans call for a speedy, wartime expansion of the ar- my with these reserve officers pro-| viding a valuable training nucleus for hundreds of thousands of re- cruits. Gas Defense Adequate Our artillery, mostly of the French| 75 type, which is being modernized for high speed towage, ranks welll with other nations. French artillery technique, however, has long been, rated the worlds’ finest. | Il\orthem Rockies and |BIG PLANE HITS IN MOUNTAINOUS Pilot, Co-pilot, Eight Pas- sengers Are Hurled to Death, lhen Burned SEARCHING G PARTY GOLS OUT IN lerrific Blizzard Prevenis Jan. 11 today v new shroud over the hlackened wreckage of a vwest Airlines plane, and d to deaths lat when it crashed in b Uridger Mountains, 14 miles northeast of here. Searchers who reached the scene last night retreated in the face of the blizzard after finding all of the plane occu- pants dead. The = searchers postponed until later today, or until the blizzard abates, the task of bringing out the victims. Nick Mamer, the pilot, had pioneered the route across the had flown one million miles with- lout injuring a passenger. His co-pilot was F. W. West. Both were of Spokane. The passengers,qall victims National Guard troops num-| U. S. anti-aircraft guns are among with the pilot and co-pilot in the best but the supply, army offi-\t} o qicacter, were: 3 : cers say, is not satisfactory. No, particular plans, it is said, have W. E. Borgenheimer, have been made for use of gas as Basin, Montana. a weapon but the army has concen- | Lloyd Levin, trated on gas defense and develop-',.. | . Michigan. ed a satisfactory mask. ‘ 5 11 l Railway artillery and other big! Al H. Croonquist, Billings, of of Detroit, protect threatened areas between fixed coast defenses. Supplement- ing these in swift defense service is the new General Headquarters Air force which by 1940 is slated to reach full strength of 1,000 up-to- the-minute combat planes. | This mighty-sky squadron, un- der a single, centralized command, is prepared for swift, emergency action at any danger point. If New York,| Seattle or other “fromtier” spot| | were menaced by enemy warships or planes, a powerful unit of the GHQ would be immediately con- centrated for their defense. | Protection Measures Intensive motorization, plus ex- cellent highways, has made troop movement to most sectors of the country incredib] fast compared with World War standards. Tanks, anti-aircraft guns as well as the motorized field, artillery, infantry nd machine gun units can be mov- ed rapidly to strategic positions. | Comprehensive defense plans’' provide also for quick mohillmliun‘ of forces to protect munition fac- s ORI tories, vital transportation arteries | and water supply systems, as well | as to evacuate civilian populations from combat zones. Tomorrow National Resources the Chief Executive agreed with Baranof enroute to the States for a TWENTY TO TOWN ON REGULAR TRIP Barklflv Democratic leader, that his | lintention is still to hold later Sen-| ate actions until the anti- Ivnchmg‘ T bill is settled one way or the other. The Chilkoot Barracks tender For-| genator Byrnes, taking the floor| Testifying at an unemployment inquiry, Wallace blamed the indus- trial recession on falling farm prices, the increased mechanization as well as drought. them that duplication of transmis- vacation of a few weeks. sion and distribution facilities In Seattle they will visit with Mr. should be avoided. | Grisham’s family, following which The utility executives told the Mrs. Grisham may travel on to Oak- newsmen that most of the confer-|land, California to visit. Mr. Gris- UTILITY HEADS - INCONFERENCE nance arrived in Juneau ye.wlerdaytas the Senate convened, nsserwd'“ agriculture, with 20 enlisted men and Lieuten-|“There has been a steady decline in ant E. M. Rowan on their regularllyn(hmz during the past ten years." trip to the Capital City for sup-| A joint Congressiogal committee plies. |reported that agreeménts had been Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Tagg were|reached on the wheat' provisions of passengers to Juneau whence they the “ever normal” granary program. were to go to Hoonah to make their| The bill will aim to keep wheat sup- home. plies equal to the annual domestic The Fornance will leave on its re-|consumption and exports averages turn trip at 4 o'clock tomorrow during the past ten years, plus al reserve of 15 percent of both. — Dance sandals are being made of interlaced strips of satin ribbon. morning. e New York ranks first of the 48 States in manufacturing. The farm income, he said, will| fall this year from five to ten per- k 'Lent below that of 1937. Relief need is greatest in the| Great Plains region which has bem |suffering from droughts since 1934. It is estimated that between 15- 000 and 20,000 aggicultural laborers fhave been thrown out of work in ATWHITEHOUSE [nlerestmg Session Held, Newsmen Told—Sub- jects Discussed California produces 92 per cent after a conference with President of the nation’s guicksilver, |Roosevelt at the White House, said pleasant and interesting visit.” |MONTE GRISHAMS w Iowa alone this fall, due to me- chanical corn pickers, | WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Private| - ee— power utility executives, today, ence was devoted to this phase al- ham plans to return in about a though they said they also stressed | month, while Mrs. Grisham may re- importance of “investor confidence.” main south a short time longer. John Carpenter, President of the|They are accompanied south by their Texas Power and Yight Company, of | baby, Mary Margaret. Dallas, Texas, said: “We had a very | - e e — MRS. ORDWAY SOUTH 1 Mrs. Laura Ordway, clerk in the Bureau of Public Roads, sailed on SML ON BARANOF:lhe Baranof for a vacation in the | States. Mr. Ordway went south last Mr. and Mrs. Monte Grisham are|week. They expect to be gone a southbound passengers aboard the month or six weeks. guns, which can be moved quickly, Montana, State Traffic Mana- ger of the Northwest A George A. Anderson, 8 tle. Walter Ton, St. Paul, esota. Douglas McKay, clerk of the Hudsons’ Bay Company, |Canadian Committee. Ted Anderson, St. Paul, air- line employee. Sheriff Lovitt I. Westlake es Min- ‘reported the bodies are all badly burned. Three victims were thrown from the fuselage and the others were tossed into the front of the shattered air- liner. C. A. Larson and Glenn White, ranchers, witnesses of the crash, saw the plane burst into flames as it hit the ground in the wild country, which made it difficult for searching parties to reach it. There were no Alaskans on the plane. The plane at the time of the lisaster, was bound for Chi- cago from Seattle. WRECKAGE SMOULDERING BOZEMAN, Mont., Jan. 11. — Wading through deep mountain snow, airline inspectors and Coun- ty officials reached the snow shrouded and still smouldering wreckage of the plane that carried ten persons to their death late yes- terday and they immediately began an investigation. They found both the shattered plane and the charred bodies of the occupants. The plane was still smouldering despite the snow. The bodies have been ordered (Continued on Page Eight)