The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1938, Page 2

e ¥ 1 ' FIRST ARRIVALS of 1938 Spring Dresses DAYTIME MODELS — in TAFFETAS and RINTS Specially Priced at $8:50 B. u. BEHRENDS €O, Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” Anti-Monopoly Strategy: What Is Real Meaning ’Conunuvu from Page One) . Tucked away in the Depart- ment of Justice, the Roose- velt administration has the ablest trust-busting lawyer of modern times in Robert B Jacksen, the Jamestown, N. Y., boy who made good in the capital. (Jackson took on Andrew Mel- yvers and won a $700,- ct for the government Board of Tax Appeals. the giant Electric in open court and persuaded the company to sign up under the holding company act.) . - B the downed Bend and Share Company in He The Method The next question is, the administration propese big business? Bold Bob Jackson has fired the opening barrage in the form of monopoly suits or com- plain’s against the Aluminum Com- pany of America, several big mid- western oil companies, the two big telegraph companies and a group of cement manufacturers. ‘The 3ext move is the President’s One of the cagiest White Hous advi: has suggested that President avoid a flat-footed mand for more laws to business. Such a declaration v show little sympathy for sucl nesses as are harassed by bad uimes, and might indicate to some that the President had made up his mind what should be done with big business before he knows what its sins, if any, are. This strategist thinks the first thing to do is to see that the public how already de- regulate d gets a barrage of evidence on the) practices of big business. This should give the public an educa- ticnal course in business methods to pave the way for legislation. If regulating legislation should prove advisable, the ion, and thus would be innoculated against attack after it reached the| statute books. PR The Procedure But how to get the facts before the public? The answer might be another demand by Mr. Roosevelt for a thoroughgoing investigation of | monopolies by Congress, a demand he voiced in a 1937 message to the lawmakers. Greatest asset to such an inves- tigation would be an able prosecu- tor, like pitiless Ferdinand Pecora, who gave Wall Street the blackest eye it ever got from the govern- ament some years ago when he in- vestigated the stock market for a| senate investigating committee. The procedure should be politi- does ! to tame! the| folks | legislation | would be bolstered by public opin-| cally safe. If the investigation, should fail to disclose the collu- on that Jackson thinks there is among powerful industrialists, no harm would be done. Tf regulation | should be indicated as a remed; the Democrats would have an issue that might bring all their faction together again into one big happ family. - - NEW CONTRACT ‘GIVES NAVY 12 SPEED TANKERS Craft Will Be Used in Peace| [ and War—Good Move Is Commended | (Continued from Page One) {the Maritime Commission when |Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy is law arranged to present the plan !directly to the Senate Commerce |Committee. Along with Land, who is not now i1 the Navy, went Cap- |[tain R. E. Ingersoll of the Navy War Plans Division, This is the plan they outlined: The Navy needs oil tankers peedy enough to keep up with the Itleet. The ships also would need certain military features necessary to a Navy busy at sea. | In turn, Standard Oil Company and perhaps some of the other oil |companies, could use some new |tankers. They do not need high- {speed tankers nor expensive military | features. LOOKED LIKE A BARGAIN The plan is for the government to pay the diffi 1ce between the cost lof ording low-speed tankers and the cost of high-speed tankers with |features necessary in event of war. | These extra features added about 1$880,000 a ship to the cost making the proposed new tankers cost $3,- 129,000, Thus, for an outlay of /810,560,000 the Navy could establish |a war reserve of 12 tankers where- {to regulation navy-style tankers cost |from $6,000,000 to $8,500,000 each. {Twelve would cost at least $72,000,~ 1000. The plan sounded good to Chair- man Copeland of the Senate com- mittee but three Republican mem- bers present refused to be com- !mitted. They were Senators Mc- | Nary of Orgon, Vandenberg of Mich-!. igan and Nye of North Dakota. They argued that it was not the commit- |tee's business to pass on such con- | tracts. ’ However, Navy and Martime of- ficials were convinced that they had made a case to the extent that they | went ahead with letting the contract.‘ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JAN. 17, 1938. JUDGE CLEGG FOR DELEGATE POST Convention Here Proposes Liquor Referendum— Against Unicameral (Continued from Page One) Bonding the Territory We express our unqualified op- position to any proposal to bond the Territory of Alaska, feeling that inasmuch as the present ad- |ministration has already saddled upon the nation an immense in- debtedness which the taxpayers must pay, of which indebtedness the proportionate share of this Territory is more than twenty mil- lions of dollars, any further bur- den, through bonding or otherwise, is oppressive and unnecessary. Mineral Leases We condemn the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior to the effect that mineral lands of Alaska be withdrawn from entry and disposal and placed under a leasing system similar to that| adopted with regard to coal and oil lands in the Territory. Taxation | We pledge our legislators to vote |for the repeal of the 3 percent gross tax on gold and other prec- lous minerals and to vote for the enactment of @ measure which | ‘will place the burden of taxation on profits derived . from operation. Hospitals | We advocate the establishment of |marine hopitals for the treatment of maritime workers wherever nec- | |essary in the Territory, ana we |further advocate a sufficient num-| !ber of hospitals in the Territory |for the treatment of tuberculosis land other communicable diseases. Liquor We condemn the present liquor | situation in Alaska and propose a sreferendum on the liquor question in the Territory to determine whether the people who are vot- ers in Alaska favor prohibition,! Territorial control and Territorial liquor stores, or the present local .option laws. Workmen’s Compensation Law We advocate a change in the workmen's compensation law of Al- aska whereby silicosis, or miner’s comsumption, be made a com- pensable injury. Community Property | We advocate the passage of a workable community property law. Women'’s Home We advocate the establishment of {a home for pioneer women. | Federal Appointments We advocate the appointment of bona fide Alaskans for all offices | throughout the Territory. Schools We pledge our legislators to sup- |port and develop our public schools |for the benefit of Alaskan children and we oppose the centralization of authority over school districts, | land believe that the Commissioner of Education should be elected by the people. Labor We advocate the passage of a| aw similar to that of the State | of Washington to prohibit the em- ployment of non-residents in the fisheries of Alaska. 1 Mine Inspection We favor the establishment of an adequate mine inspection serv- lice throughout the Territory, and : the clection by the people of the| officials of ‘that’ service. Labor Relations Act | We favor the enactment of a labor relations act in Alaska. BEGEBIEh S SPREAD OF INTEREST INW. C. T. U. WORK REPORTED AT MEET Reporting enthusiastic acceptance | of Women's Christian Temperance Unien principles in Petersburg, Kake, Sitka and Ketchikan, the| Rev. Mrs. C. Wade addressed mem- bers of the local W. C. T. U. at the meeting this afternoon in the City Council chambers. | Mrs. Wade, who recently return- ed from a tour of Southeast Al- aska ports, announced that a chap- ter of the W. C. T. U. has been established at Petersburg and is now effectively at work. In Kake and Sitka, she lectured on tem- perance problems, and in Ketchi- kan two rallies were held and a school discussion presnted. At the Republican convention here, Mrs. Wade was active in working toward a change in liquor conditions and reported enthusiasm in connection with the proposed referendum on the Alaska liquor question. Mrs. J. E. Click, President, open- ed the meeting today and two new members were admitted to the organization. £ S LIRS The TVA is producing super- phosphate fertilizers, two to five times more powerful than those now in general use. Ifor the ships. Some committee mem- bers, while declining to be commit- ted publicly, said it would be hard to make a fuss about getting 12 tankers for use in war at a cost of $10,560,000 when otherwise the cost might be $72,000,000. 6. 0.P. MAY BACK|! ' zooming through the air Reserve Officers Judiciary Group Are to Organize Hearing Called First Meelmg to Form New 'FEDERAL EMPLOYEES | " TO MEET FOR LUNCH | WEDNESDAY NOON For 24 hours, 9 o'clock Sunday | morning to 9 o'clock th Juneau was in a “pocke Dr. J. F. Worley, medical (ll- ,words, this city was cut off from rector of the Bureau of Indian | lhe States through the air. he | Affairs, and Dr. T. J. Pyle, as- Sfgnal Corps, United States Army, Sociate dental officer for the Bu- of Indian Affairs, will be sent no messages and received none Yeau during the ‘pocket” period and at SPeakers at the meeting of the times had a hard struggle to “get” | National Federation of Federal Ketchikan. | Employees Wednesday noon. | Finally, something broke in the| The meeting will be a luncheon | air, and the Signal Corps con-fathering Percy's Cafe, with tacted Seattle and with all oper- Mrs. Sally Shafer, President, pre- ators working on short wave, long Siding. | waves and plain waves, messages, 8 Ay both commercial and press, began | GARDNERS LEAVE and al-| though a bum start, there has been SOUTH ON NORAH a whirlwind finish of back-dated | and Mrs, C. T. Gardner are and present-dated communication. passengers aboard the Princ The reason — anybody who can Norah enroute for a vacation explain the intricacies of radio scveral weeks in Bellingham, Wash and the air currents, will make a/ Mr. Gardner is v president of fortune. {the Juneau Logging Company. He! Incidentally, no radio broadcasts and Mrs. Gardner will visit with | were received in this section. .- her family in Bellingham and plan to return here in March. R { MANY TO ATTEND 1 B.P.W.C.DINNER | SET FOR TONIGHT | i | Island Flight Tonight at 7 o'clock, scores of guests will assemble in the parlors | Five passengers were flown to Is-lor the Methodist Church for the | land points yesterday by Shell Sim-'annual Legislative dinner of the | mons in the Alaska Air Transport Business and Professional Wompnsw |Lockheed, and one passenger was Club, where the (heme Equdl‘ brought in. argth” will be carried out lhmugu Outbound for Sitka were, Capt. S.|the evening. Jackson, C. C. Personeus and Jim; Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne will he Boyle (round trip.) | toastmistre for the occasion, and Jack Short was flown to Hirst and Miss Caroline Todd, pr ident, will Dermott ‘O'Toole to Tenakee. |be the presiding offic Jack Diaz was brought in from| On the Legislative commitice with | Hoonah. Mrs. Jenne as chairman are Mrs, ——aee |{Harriet M. Tiedt and Mrs. Sigrid Walther, who have assisted with ar- Tm slAYERs rangements for the evening - e 4 | MRS. FAULKNER SAILS | I Mrs. H, L. Faulkner sailed aboard i "7 Ithe Princess Norah en route to Van- | couver where she will visit for a SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 17. short time before driving south with | Gov. Frank F. Merriam has grant-IMr and Mrs. Allen Shattuck to Cal-| ed a reprieve until April 15, to John |ifornia. | Brite and Coke T. Brite, brothers, | In California she will visit for convicted Siskiyou County slayers. some time with her daughter, Jean,| | They had been condemned to die 'student at Stanford University. She January 21. expects to return here in March, Phone 249 SHATTUCK AGENCY —for the sound insurance protection your home and business needs. SHATTUCK AGENCY | PHONE 249 | Office—New York Life | B e e e & |MANY DUCKS, GEESE On Stanley Reed |and U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicivity, beginning at 4 p.m., Jan. Rain tonight and Tuesday; moderate fo fresh southeast winds. Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Rain tonight and Tues- moderate to fresh southeast wind: cept ‘strong over Dixon En- WINTERING IN THIS AREA, OFFICIALS SAY The Juneau area, particula ng the Glacier Highway, par- ently is becoming more and more u favorite wintering place for ducks se, according to game of- y out day; 3 — " " trance, Strait atham Strait and Lynn Canal. Chapter Is Called for S i ‘:"x‘v‘;‘l”_ll""f"fl ) L‘yf‘-‘\‘}{_"f“}“ Of1 " Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Strong Tomorrow nght Supreme Court Appont=!mallards and other ducks around g, peast winds from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook, (Lemon Creek and adjacent areas LOCAL DAT, LT mation of the su.| ment Conference to |jinese days, as well as a considerable| A DA 'orma ors:amfmn:m of e br Be O T]’l 5 ] ¥ number of geese. The mild winter, Time Barometer Temp Hum_l ty Wind Velocity Weathet Fpu Cagigo! ST - OO n lhursday |they feel, doubtless has something 4 P.n. yest'y 2020 38 75 8E . 6 LtRain icers Association o erica wl Rl s % - _lio do with the stay of migration 4 am. today 29.57 42 5 E 9 Lt. Rain take place tomorrow evening (Tue: WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 Delere. Noon today 20.60 40 85 S 8 Lt. Rain day) in Room 119 of the Federal Senate Judiciary Committ has| 5 i | RADIO REPORTS and Territorial Building at 8 called a hearing for Thursday on ! : o'clock, when the reserve officers the nomination of St reed 0] SCORES OF SKIERS | Lowest 4 T?DAY e gather for the first group school |the Supreme Court of the United| [ MAZ. temp. TN SO R . A A 64 s iisaldl ybu SALEER ERMbrtbAey et ; | MAKE TRIP SUNDAY | station 1ast2ihours | temp. temp. velocity 2:brs, Weather Lieut. Abbott, P. A. of Seattle,| Those on the committce are Sen-| UP DOUGLAS TRAIL 4%2 - i 2. B0 R s commanding all reserve officers in gators Marvin Logan, Democrat, from | . Bty 36 44 38 4 s the Territory, has given his official Kentucky, and head of the wn-nn.—f The Douglas Ski Trail and mead-' Nome. i) SRy 6 3 LL,(A‘”. approval of the program and.ex- ee; William Dieterich, Tilinois, Dem- | ows were crowdéd yesterday by Bethel 8 4 ,i 38 06 él‘-m- pressed his kindest personal re- gerat; William E. Borah, Idal lose to a hundred skiers who turn-| Fairbanks 14 8 8 L1 g gards for the success of the Juncau puplican; Frederick Von Nuy: -led out despite threats of rain to take Dawson -10 s b 0 02 Slm\i‘ er, an: t Te McGill, yar skiing over wet, hard-packed | o = ‘o C}X:Lphw i e B owile diana, Democrat : ((-:-/ e :l‘”“xh part in skiing over wet, hard-packed st Paul 8 10 14 20 o1 Snow G a.re’sluLed t Waidne th;; !\Tul:m.s.; I)t;:]xr‘x:;““‘m n.‘ " .«“ k 5 xw,; ]l:um“ung, in the morning Duteh Harbor 32 30 E 8 06 Snow " > | Nebraska, lep: t; and until late afternoon Kodiak 38 32 ] 0 4 charter members of the chapter: igm King, Utah, Democrat Ernic Parsons, former President (;0,4214,\3 36 ;u :: .!x:) 8::3\ Capt. Willlam C. Walther, CA-| Solicitor General Stanley Reed Wasof the Juneau Ski Club, spent Fri-| Junean 1 28 9 23 Rain RES., First Lieutenants Michael nominated for the post on Su- ‘(Iu and Saturday nights at the ski Sitka 46 lw - m J. Lunch, FIN-RES, Milton A. preme Court bench vacated by As- -|cabin, and was joined on Saturday Ketchik o s 49 R Lagregren, ENGR-RES,, Richard H. se iGeors 1 Ketchikan 48 40 42 16 42 Rain il VDEN’I‘ iy .’and E it sociate Justice George Suther ‘.r night by Chuck Notar, Dallas Wey- Prince Rupert 48, 40 42 18 04 Rain ms, -RES., econd yesigned. Consensus is that Reed|and, Fred Axford and Wes Overby. Edmonton 26 -8 -2 4 0 Cloudy Lieutenants Vance M. Blackwell, il be approved without delay [Close to 40 made the trip to the ca- Seattle 4 5 e ENGR-RES., Cortland S. Brook | t | Reatle 48 40 42 4 16 PL.Cldy TNy k%‘heodorc R banxl“ '.“- R < |bin on Su v, linding skiing (-u)\-lpuxxmul 50 40 42 4 31 Cloudy Irwln-nm” P M’urphy U AI_LEN SHATTUCKS |ditions favorable. San Francisco 58 | 50 58 12 36 Cloudy o . g | Coffee was served at the newly New Yor 38 31 36 8 0 Cloudy ?if;hagflféz‘lgénp“;‘;%é‘gi“ LEAVE FOR THREE | .onstructed shelter cabin at the, Washington = | 34 36 4 - Cloudy . g { TH TH |ditch, and scores of skiers gathered sl el Any reserve o”_lcer, former re-| MON STAY SOU {around the cabin during the day WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. TODAY one coming under the classifica- to three months, Mr. and Mr THOUSANDS UF 'I)’((lm])lrtlv (”](m“(xlil 4( "H"I' pie Igllrlv‘ll ‘(.I;md' ["::;:(::'13 rlzfil:il\l ";XI M‘x):lhs ;]bove who desin; Lowamlmu- I/:Il;rl']u S| i;({w;l:]l: hxixinu'dm;llm th | |Prince Rupert, show Ketchikan, cloudy, 42; Craig, cloudy, 45; wi e group as a charter mem- FPrinces OEA enroute to Van-| {Wrangell, cloudy, 42; Petersburg, showers, 4 ining; Hawk ber is invited to attend the meet- L’“““'l““”“; .'I’“’!‘ W)”_l M v"“‘ (:"; {Inlet, cloudy; Sitka, raining, 42; Radioville, raining, Juneau, rain- ing. ,..\“‘( for ‘,‘uf;:iuu‘,’ 'lu,:“"“ | ing, 35; Cape Hinchinbrook, raining, 39; Cape St. Elias, raining, 38: Lieut. Cortland S. _Brooks i ‘.,.‘, Q:)idtdn ‘m““ -J‘ o \”v Cordova, cloudy, 36; McCart cloudy, 10; Chitina, cloudy, 0; Anchor- mxcr;uymzeix;r dlcl:qsengx:‘ar:dmx(x:‘[u e oo’ e 1 e Sl UN NEW SHlPS age, cloudy, 19; Fairbanks cloudy, -14; Nenana, cloudy, -10; Hot ing will conduct a class on ad- Shattuck, now teaching in Ev snowing, 10; Flat, cloudy v‘: gl il Al ministration - military correspond- :‘:\?‘('-‘,‘_“1&}"\';)' fl(i“l(‘; z:"'\“‘;i‘“-nfl ] Juneau, Jan. 18. — Sunrise, 8:32 a.m.; sunset, 3:49 pm. ence. s s L T WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 — The| o NERGE v | ‘They plan to spend most of the d ey TRl el s B WEATHER SYNOPSIS itime in Santa Barbara and Pasa- |y, program tentative statisties] The barometric pressure was low this morning over the north Pa- | m‘n'tn. where they will visit Withlojow, will provide work during the cific Ocean, Alaska, western Canada and Washington and Oregon with \ many friends, a number of whom [, oo\ coa1 vear, for 77,000 men. |® center of 2840 inches south of Kodiak Island and a center of 29.40 m formerly lived in Juneau. Naval officers said 85 per cent of InChes off the Oregon coast. The barcmeter was high over most of IN PU KET i the cost of a warship goes for labo Canada. Light snow has fallen at Dawson and Mayo, over the lower AR Kuskokwim, and over the Aleutian Islands, and from Kodiak along mn Pacific Coast to California with yum.undm of the field of observation. TALKEETNA AIRPORT CAPTAIN WARE i AT LEGION TONIGHT His Gun (lr-w Fired l‘”ol g To permit the Alaska Road Com- Shot for America in \ It’'s the big night for the Army mission to use and develop the air- , A and the Past mmanders to strut port at Talkeetna, President Roose- WOI’!(JW&I‘,S[II’!I\' 5\1}) their f at the meeting of Alford velt by executive order has set generaly fair weather over the | - John Bradford Post, American Le- ide several lots in the Talkeetna SAN DIEGO, cal, 17 gion, fonight in the Dugout, the townsite and some land adjoining {Capt. Brute I Ware, of the first of a series of special events from the public domain, according Navy, retired, whose g crew on|planned the Post to copy of the Executive order re- board the transport Mong fired| Homer Nordling is chairman of a ceived here. The land includes the the first shot for America in irge committee arranging the event present airport site, Chief Engineer World War and sunk a German for this evening, which is being kept Ike P. Taylor of the Road Commis- submarine on April 12, 1917, died deep, dark secret, especially irom sion said. The airport there now at the Naval Hos pitaljthe Na men, and all indications has a 2,000-foot runway about 200 ipcint to a gala affalr. feet wide. ALASKA'S SALMON INDUSTRY MOVES INTO THE BIG FIGHT Packers, with higher operating and selling costs, double adver- tising in States to maintain Canned Salmon sales and protect Territory’s prosperity QUESTION: W hat is bebind the slowing down in packers' sales of Canned Salmon since last summer? ANSWER: A ycar ago, wholesalers in the States foresaw higher prices on Alaska’s Canned Salmon and other food products, due to higher wages and pro- duction costs. They bought heavily for future needs. The 1937 pack came into a market already well supplied with Canned Salmon. Result: the Industry has not been able to sell the normal volume from this last summer’s pack. QUESTION: What does this mean to the Salmon Industry and to Alaska? ANSWER: Unless sales are greatly increased, the Industry faces the possibility of entering a new pack season with heavy supplies on hand, and a con- sequently depressed market. Packers may have difficulty in moving their output at reasonable prices . . . and the Industry's capacity to share in supporting the Territory may be restricted. QUESTION: W hat are the salmon packers doing about it? ANSWER: They have doubled their war chest for the battle to increase the use of Canned Salmon among U. S. families. The Industry’s national adver- tising, which has been boosting sales steadily for two years, is being doubled in 1938. It will be the largest campaign in the Industry’s history. With over 143,000,000 salmon selling messages in Sunday newspaper supplements and leading magazines, plus additional daily newspaper, outdoor and radio advestising. Thus a far greater number of American housewives than ever before reached by salmon advertising will be sold on serving Canned Saimon more often. For only by 3tepping up Canned Salmon consumption in this way can the log jam of unsold stocks be broken—and the way be paved for further protecting the future of the Salmon Industry and its | friends here in Alaska. Canned Salmon Industry -y »