The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1938, Page 1

< VOL. LL, NO. 7691, HE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” jUNbAU ALASI\A SATURDAY JANUARY |5 I938 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS STANLEY REED PROPOSED FOR U. S, TRIBUNAL Solicitor General’s Name Is Sent to Senate by President KENTUCKY MAN IS GIVEN HONOR Reaction Indicates Favor- able Action Will Be Taken Immediately WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.— President Roosevelt has nom- inated Solicitor General Stan- ley Reed to be Associate Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of the United States succeeding Associate Justice George Sutherland who has resigned and whose resignation is ef- fective next Tuesday. Stanley Reed had been dis- cussed as a possible appointee for a long time even as a suc- cessor to Willis Van Devan- ter, who was succeeded by Hugo L. Black. H The Senate was-somewhat | excited when word spread about that Reed had been nominated. Immediate reac- tion among the Senators is judged however to be fa\'or'»i able and it is indicated that | the Judiciary Committee will consider the nomination promptly. Reed was born in Maysville, Ken- | tucky, December 31, 1884. As Solici- | tor General he has carried the bur- den of arguing many of the New | Deal's biggest cases before the Su- | preme Court. He is known to have | a highly favorable impression among | lawyers. Although a Democrat, Hoover ap- | pointed Reed to the Farm Credit Board as Counsel. Later, Reed was Reconstruction Finance Corporation counsel and was elevated to the Solicitor General’s post early in the Rocsevelt Administration. Democratic Senators praised the selection of Reed but many Repub- licans withheld comment, as usual Senator Burke, one of the Presi- aent’s most outstanding critics of the court enlargement plan and sub- sequent Black appointment, wasone of the first to commend the ap- pointment. | Senator Vandenburg, Republican, | said the appointment was “exi lent in view of the circumstanc Chairman Ashurst, of the Judici- ary Committee, said public hearings | will be held, possibly starting late next week and “we will hear any| coherent citizen at any length he wishes to be heard.” CONDITION OF CARDOZO, SAME WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. — The condition of Associate Justice Ben- jamin N. Cardozo is reported “un- changed” today. He is suffering from a heart ailment and grippe. ->oe e STOCK QUOTATIONS | ————te e NEW YORK, Jan. 15. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's short session is 12, American Can 80, American Light and Power 6%, Anaconda 36%,| Bethlehem Steel 647%, Common- wealth and Southern 17%, Curtiss Wright 54, General Motors 38, In- ternational Harvester 68, Kennecott 42, New York Central 19%, South- ern Pacific 21%, United States Steel 617%, Cities Service 2, Pound $4.99%, Bremner bid 2 asked 4. .- - The Rev. W. M. Lane planted orchards at 13 of his 15 assignments T‘he Morris chair was named after |have survived nine shipwrecks and Willoughby ; before being moved to his present one at Mason, Tex. 14,000 feet. Presulvnt Roo.sowlt Sets L p Comhtwns for Balanccd Bu(lgot This general view of the House of Repiesentatives shows the_lawmakers cf the United States listening to President Roosevelt deliver his annual ge as beth Houses of Congress met in joint session. The President. visible on the rostrum, outlined certain conditions, upon which he said depended a balanced budget. WILKINS BACK FROM SEARCH, ARCTIC REGION [Party Flies Within 400} Miles of North Pole on Moonlight Night FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 15— After cruising within 400 miles of the North Pole, Sir Hubert Wilkins and his three companions returned to Aklavik at 3:35 o'clock this| morning without sighting the six missing Soviet fliers Hollick Kenyon was at the con- trols. The searchers found scattered clouds and zero temperatures at It was a bright moon- light night. >, HAN FU-GHU EXECUTED IS REPORT NOW Order Is Issued by Chiang Kai-Shek—Reason for Death Sentence SHANGHAI, Jan. 15.—According to Chinese reports, Gen. Han Fu-| Chu, dominant War Lord and oov-. ernor of Shantung Province, has been executed by orders of Chiang Kai Shek for “derelection of duty.” Gen. Fian Fu-Chu is held respon- sible by the Chinese for tfe collapse jof the resistance to the Japanese in|Was a member. the rich Shangtung Province, the bread basket of China. Chu's army of 150,000 men, is reported to have retired intact before the Japanese, - > * Lafcadio Hearn, best known for his stories of the United States, was born in Greece and died in Japan. R William Morris, English though he did not invent it, poet, i(,‘ongros.sman with Record BUNNET KEEPS 1 C. C. Dickinson, Passes 4lmy UP ATTEMPT TO FORM CABINET Socialists and Communists to Fight Any Govern- ment He Organizes CLINTON, Missouri, Jan Clement C. Dickinson, 88, Dean of |the Nation’s Congressmen, for 20 year§ serving as a Representative | from Missouri, is dead here. Clement Cabell Dickinson, who 'hdd the distinction of being the old- c member of the House of Rep- r sentatives, adhered strictly to the ;lule he laid down for himself when |he first came to Congress in 1910. I have no desire to d nyt out of the ordinary,” he prior to taking the n.un | Dickinson’s in Crmmms 15. PARIS, Jan. 15—Determined So- list opposition early today thwarted the efforts of Georges Bonnet, Radical Socialist and Pre- mier-Designate, to reform France's shatteerd Peoples Front into a gov- aid jus career ;night have hu(!x;‘ vastly dmv;;m hl:‘u oo he not chosen that course. He came | : to Capitol Hill when the whole leg ; Leo Blum, leader of the Su(,lav ists, told Bonnet flatly that his islative history of the country was| about to undergo a revolution. He ran to fill a v sixth district' of Missouri and his election itself caused a furor. He % was hailed by the Democrats as| CLEMENT C.DICKINSON \the forerunner of the end of the| e — | ; . concentration of power | | In the corridors it was said that in thefirst in the Harding landslide of ¥ f Speakership. any Cabinet Bonnet might form 11920 and again in 1928—kept him {will be opposed. b the Communists The issue in his campaign had|fay down in seniority, but he re-| boy n‘;pf:he Sgclahsts Ibeen “Cannonism.” Champ Clark,|garded it sufficient reward that af- | later to become Speaker, had stump-|ter each defeat his seat on the im- ed for him and personally conduct-|portant committee was waiting for| ed him to the well of the House Wihim when he came back {be sworn in | party could not support Bonnet's | conservative solution of the coun- try's grave labor and economic | troubles. Bonnet continued neverthc! whip up a Cabinet to KEEPS RIGHT AT IT PARIS, Jan. 15—Late this after- inoon Georges Bonnet kept up his Prophecy Comes True | Born a native of Virginis Decem- |, yompt (o form a new Cabinet despite grave doubt expressed that A little t ot ldtm_;ber 6, 1849, he went to Missouri in ittle more nan a Z ‘1872 after graduating from Hamp- i 1 Dickinson saw his sponsor succeed | e I he could do it. It is understood he Lo den Sidney College and teaching o yyo for 5 peoples Front coali- Speaker Joseph C(lmm'n and thelgon o™i Virginia and Kentucky il prophecy based upon his election| go'Loc aamitted to the Missouri come true. The wings of the Speak-| bar in 1875, was a county prosecut- |er had been clipped. Taft falled of| mgr :I‘Ltlolnly rl::r‘ three vy({’dr% and/ reelection and the Democrats COD-| sorved two terms in the State Leg-| trolled the Federal Administration. G trs s iinss n Reprewn’.umc But through it all and in later|,,, the other as Senator. years, the calm, portly and genial Missourian remained in the back- ground, still desirous of doing noth- 'ing “out of the ordinary.” ) Two Defeats His chief interest was the Ways| and Means committee of which he Two defeats—the! STOP PAYMENTS MOSCOW, Jan. 15.—Russia has He became the oldest member of suspended commercial payments to |um House in his tenth term in Cun-‘ltaly. holding that the Italian Navy | gress. {has refused to pay for Soviet oil One of Dickinson’s fondest mrm-;and Soviet ships detained in Italian | ories of his long life was that he!ports The disputed money will }c]d\ptd the hand of Jefferson Da-| however be deposited in a special A account in the State Bank of Rus- (Continued on Pago BiX) |sia to be paid when Italy does the ame, BR-R-R BUT RECORD SET BOSTON, Mas Jan. 15.—Wea Gold Prospeclor in Alasku f Before Klondike Rush, Dies| | —lat the home of his stepdaughter| 75, here. | Survivors are his widow, Florenw'mer Bureau officials here said a stepdaughter, Mrs. Bar-[mdlo balloon has set an altitude prospected for gold in Alaska be- rett Willoughby O’Connor, novelist;|record, going up 82,000 feet. It was fore the Klondike rush, is dead |a sister and #aree brothers, 59 degrees below zero up there, | SAN CARLOS, Cal, Jan .15. ‘cApL Charles L. Willoughby, veteran mariner who claimed to | | ALASKA 6.0.P. OPPOSES CROSS GOLD TAX LAW Republican Convention Here Against Unicameral egislature on to the unicameral ure 2 three proposal and per cent gross gold tax by the platform and committee of the Republican con- to- s voiced resolutions here vention which convened day when the committee, headed by Judge James Wickersham, brought in its report this afternoon. The platform, yet tentative ing the action of the which began going over the at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon, cluded the following: Affirming faith in pend- in- the Supreme Court and condemning the nation-| al and Territorial Democratic ad- | ministrations on grounds of extra- vagance and unfairness; urging full Territorial form of government; Territorial control of fish, game and | opposition to bonding the Ter-; fur; ritory for any purpose. Condemping the proposal withdrawal of mineral lands putting them under a leasing sys-| tem: pledging the Republican can- didates and the party to work for statehood; urging strict enforce- and | ment of the liquor laws and chang- | ing the local option provision to allow a majority of a community to outlaw liquor; advocating the construction of a women’s pioneer home; urging laws to prohibit the employment of non-resident work- men in Alaska; expressing opposi- tion to the “centralization” of school authority. Labor for Unicameral There were several other planks to be considered by the convention Among them were proposals made by Chris Hennings, Chairman of the Juneau Central Labor Commit- tee. He advocated the adoption of a unicameral legislature plan, just opposite to the plank brought in by | He said| the platform committee. labor asked a six-hour law in the mining industry, change in the, PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 15. workmen’s compensation law to Priiiers on the Oregonlnn Joumal make it compulsory; urged a bureau w:-Telegram, all dail 8 of mining inspection and repeal of I tr b the criminal syndicalism law m Marked by the absence of r!‘\(‘lnd § vhicl up'ed l‘ D wit ame affer a final '} eport of tt 1 hical ch sealed the following dele- [ ) u [ all from Juneau unless other- wise noted: | valkoul came at.1 ock th Delegates prior 1o ssuance Frank Foster, E. E. Engsirom, Douglas; Ronald Lister, Cyril Zu- boff, Albert White, L. W. Kilburn, Douglas, Henry Benson, John Hol- | ler, Mrs. C. W. Wade, Margaret E. White, John Barrett, Royal Shep-| ard, Cash Cole, Grover C. Winn,| Howard Stabler, O. L. Kendall James E. Lyman, H. B. LeFevre, M Cyril Zuboff, Mrs. William Wana maker, Albert Brown, Douglas; S. Leath, C. J. Simmons, Thcmas E. Hall, Mrs. Bessie Miller, Wulsam Kunz, Ann M. Robertson, E. E. Robertson, Jack Wilson, James Wickersham, Mildred Hermann, Ed | Garnick, Marvin Johnson, N. C. White, W. C. Dobbins, 8. W. Jekill, Fred Lefton, and D. Maniotis. It convention | planks | for | Cupid’s Entente Barbara Field, dluzhur of Mar- shall Field, is pictured in New York with her ¢room<tc-be Anthony Bliss, | | son of Cornelius Bl before they | were married. The ceremony joined, two of America’s wealthiest and wmost socially prominent families. PRINTERS IN WALKOUT; N0 PAPERS TODAY Portland thout Dailies for First Time in City’s History f the early afternoon editions and |the early Sunday morning edn.ions | The strike hits from the compos- ‘mg room, stereotype rooms, press rooms, mailing rooms, business of- |fices, city carriers and hundreds of | rural carriers, besides reporters, cor- respondents and telegraphers. - e——— . LUNDEBERG 1S - CHOSEN AGAIN, - BIG MAJORIT was announced that E. A. Rasmus- | on, National Committeeman, w: represented by proxy held by Al- bert White. While awaiting report of the plat- | form committee, the convention | named a National Advisory Com-f mittee with Howard Stabler as| chairman and including Judge Wickersham and Henry Benson. It| also voted to delegate the Central| committee and three members to be appointed to see that a full ticket is in the field by the time the fil- ings close February 1. The convention was scheduled to |continue in session this evening, | completing its platform and pro- | bably suggesting or endorsing can- |didates for various offices. ! Kilburn Chairman L. W. Kilburn, Mayor of Doug- ! las, was elected permanent chairman ‘CIO Candidates Defeated in Election Sailors Un- ion of Pacific | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 15.— Harry Lundeberg, who kept the Sailors Union of the Pacific from |affiliating with either the AFL or |CIO, has been reelected Secretary- | Treasurer, the highest office, in a coast referendum Lundeberg received 2,486 votes and his one opponent, Harry Mayer, only | |received 453. Mayer was supported by the ers. | Pete Gill beat Edward Fisher for| |Seattle agent. The balloting committee said none of the candidates running on| I | i omination is Made to Highest Court FREIGHTER IS HAD | D TO I\UI\ w‘u BLOCK Greek Steamer (a Help — Another Go Down in Terrific Gale i VICTORIA, B. \—Wreckage 15 the west coast of Vancouver Is- found on ‘glan(l indicates that the | freighter Haida, which left | Seattle October 24, may have Egone down enroute to Hong | Kong. The Haida had a crew of 27 {men aboard and all may have | perished. | A lifebuoy and a splintered loar, marked *“Haida” were found by the lighthouse keep- ler at Carmanah Light, 60 /miles northwest of here. | The Haida was loaded with 5,000 tons of sulphur and it lis believed the vessel was to have tried to run the Japan- ]ese blockade. The Haida changed registry from Chin- ese to British before sailing. CALL FOR HELP NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—The Greek steamer Aspucia has sent out a call for help. Two men have been lost overboard during the prevailing gale and the vessel is leaking badly 1,000 miles east of Cape [lal 1= off the Carolina coast The Aspasia saileil harlke South Cavolir Enelind i m nce, ’lhe Aspasia is outsi he Coast Guard terrltory. | ' SHIP FOUNDERS LONDON, Jan. 15. — One small cargo boat has foun- ‘dered with the probable loss lof her skipper, and a second ‘boat is missing after an 80- \mile per hour gale which has lswept and is continuing along h the English and Irish channel The British cargo boat Fer- managh grounded and sank loff Pembrokeshire and her |crew of seven and one passen- |ger were rescued but the Cap- (tain is missing. | A ship believed to be the Teasel is missing off Lyme |Regis with five crewmen. The |ship sent up rocket flares be- fore dawn this morning. R 5 TR & RUSSIA TO NOW BUILDWARSHIPS ; BIG NAVY PLANS [ MOSCOW, Mur. 15.—Soviet Pre- | mier Molotoff announced today that |of the convention at its opening a CIO affiliation platform were Russia plans to build “bigger war- sion this morning without a dis- enting vote, the of the Central commitiee being adopted in full. Henry Benson was (Continued on Page Two) recommendations | elected. ———— -~ | Hawaii was an lndependent repub- lic for four years, from July 4, 1894, to July 7, 1898, ships as part of a bigger navy.” Molotoff said factories are now being erected to enable the Gov- ernment to reinforce the fleet with larger units,