The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 14, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7716. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BLOODY BATTLE BEING FOUGHT IN CHINA Northern California Facing New Storm ANOTHER SIEGE OF RAIN, SNOW IS PREDICTED Nearly Score of Deaths Al- ready Reported to Have Been Taken ANXIETY AROUSED OVER ONE SECTION Traffic Communications In- terrupted — 25,000 Acres Inundated SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 14— Northern California, wearied by a prolonged siege of rain, snow and high winds that have caused nearly a score of deaths, looked forward today to more rain and snow. Communications are already dis-" rupted. Rail and highway traffic is halted. Shipping is harassed. Heavy rains in the Upper Sacra- mento River have heightened appre- hension for the Colusa-Sacramento area where the levies are saturated and 25,000 acres of farming land are under water. THIRD GALE IN MONTH SWEEPS BRITISH ISLES Water Rolls Five Miles In- land—Londoners Wade in Floqded Stream LONDON, Feb. 14. — The third destructive gale that has swept the British Isles in one month, mod- crated today but the North Sea waters rolled five miles inland near Horsey on the Norfolk coast inun- dating thousands of acres of land and forcing evacuation of small villages. Hundreds of families in London’s densely-packed Thames side resi- dential section waded through flooded streets as the Thames River overflowed the banks. Hundreds of others were marooned in many buildings. NATION’S GOLD STORE TO FLOW FROM TREASURY Morgenthau Announces New Plan, Releasing Metal to Banks WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Secre- tary of Treasury Morgenthau today announced partial -abandonment of the Treasury's gold sterilization program. The Treasury head announced a new plan under which up to $400,- 000,000 worth of gold which may come into the United States in any vear, will be permitted to flow to the nation’s credit base. The move will relieve the Treas- ury of the trouble and expense of borrowing money to pay for the gold and keep it inactive. The plan will be retroactive of January 1, and approximately $30,- 000,000 in gold acquired by the Treasury since then and not in- cluded in the inactive gold fund, will be deposited in the Federal Reserve System. Immediately $1,223,000,000 in gold, now in ths Treasury'sinactive fund, will become frozen at least tem- porarily. Action on the new plan was undertaken by Morgenthau with the approval of the Federal Re- serve Board, although the new pro- gram was learned not to be a reserve system. Federal officials declined to give opinions as to the effect the policy might have on business credit or related matters. War on Jap Salmon Poachers Ward T. Bowers (left), chief of the bureau of Alaskan fisheries, Com- merce Deparument, and H, B. Friele, general manager of the Nakat Packing Corporation of Seattle, Wash., are pictured in Washington, discussing means of combating Japanese poachers who threaten Amer- ica’s $40,000,000 salmon industry with extinction. Open Conflict Feared with Japan Over F ishing Rights For Salmon on Alaska Coast BRITISH LABOR LEGISLATION IS STUDIED BY.U.S. President May Propose Some Policies for Am- erican Laws This is the first of two articles in which Preston Grover, Wash- | ington columnist for The Daily Alaska Empire, examines Brit- ish labor legislation and policy with an eye on American labor problems. By PRESTON GROVER ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—When the President recommended at a; press conference that it would be; worthwhile for the nation to study the British labor act he empha- sized that he was not sponsoring adoption of a similar system in the United States. It is likely enough that neither labor nor employer, in their present/ state of mind, would sleep quietly at night with such legislation on the books. In the 1927 trade disputes act, | which was enacted in the fury of public resentment at the general strike of 1926, is a section outlawing “sympathy strikes” In America, sympathy strikes—or the threat of them—have been one of labor’s most powerful tools. As a recent sample| it may be recalled that during John' L. Lewis's organizing campaign in | “big steel” it was repeatedly pointed | out that a supporting strike might | be cailed in the “captive” (steel company owned) coal mines in event a steel wage settlement prov- ed difficult. Such a threat would be barred under the British act. PR MASS PICKETING BANNED | Again, the British act outlaws| strikes intended to influence the| government. Yet it will be recalled | that in the United States it was a| | threat of a possible coal strike which pried the first Guffey coal control | |act through Congress two years ago, | leaving the Supreme Court the jub‘ of throwing it out. The British act outlaws picketing on the American style. The act permit picketing, of course, but not in such numbers or in such man- | our WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—United States Senator Lewis B. Schwel- lenbach, Democrat of the State of Washington, contends that open conflict might result from the fail- ure of the United States to settle the current dispute with Japan over fishery rights and continued opera- tion of Japanese floating canneries ( in the traditionally American sol- mon fisheries off the Coast of Alas- ka. The Senator said this practice might result in the destruction by fishermen of the vessel from which our fishery resource is de- stroyed. Paramount Problem “The problem of averting this possibility is of paramount import- ance to the Federal Government,” said Senator Schwellenbach. *“I doubt if legislation of the character now pending, which I do not op- pose, will prove ineffective to Jap- anese fishing methods beyond the three mile limit, and ultimately will deplete the fisheries and ruin the industry our taxpayers have spent money for to conserve the salmon. Our fishermen, each year, have sac- rificed immediate profits in order to conserve the salmon. We should not be more willing to submit to the destruction of the salmon than we would be willing to submit to for- eign destruction of any other of our property.” Senator Schwellebach said the| salmon belong to the United States because they are spawned and die in American waters. He contends that more than $400,000 are spent’ yearly for conservation work of fisheries, S e CONSTITUTION FOR RUMANIA MOST DRASTIC Voting Limit Raised to 30 Privilege Denied to. Women, Proposals BUCHAREST, Feb. 14.—The Com- mission planning the new Rumanian constitution to replace the one sus- pended by King Carol, proposes the limit to vote at 30 instead of 25. The commission also suggests that women, previously permitted to (Continued on Page Five) 0. 0. MINTYRE, COLUMNIST, IS DEAD,N.Y, ITY Fan;ous Writer of “New! York Day by Day” Pass- | ed Away Early Today ! NEW YORK, Feb. 14—0. O. M¢- | Intyre, famous columnist, \-vhosey “New York Day By Day"” column has been printed by newspapers throughout the country, died in his| apartment at 2 am. today. He would| have been 54 years of age next Fri- | day. i Born in Plattsburg, Missouri, the son of Henry Bell Mcintyre, he was educated in Bartlett Coliege, Cin- | cinnati, Ohio. He married Maybel'e| Hope, of Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1908., They had no children. | Mclntyre started his newspaper| career at Gallipolis. Later he was a feature writer on the East Liver-! pool, Ohio, Tribune; polit writer and Managing Editor of the Dayton,| Ohio, Herald and then Assistant Managing Editor of the Cincinnati, MclIntyre came to New York and became Associate Editor of Hamp- ton’s Magazine in 1912 and that year started his column which was syndicated to almost 400 newspa- pers. The cause of death is not known immediately. His health had not been good for some time. f His wife was with him when he died and his last words were: “Turn your face towards me so I can see you.” McIntyre wrote his last column, as yet unpublished, Saturday. On Friday he complained of feeling ‘out of sorts.” Charles Driscoll, Editor of Me- Naught's Syndicate, and a long time friend of MecIntyre’s said the >ol- umnist complained only mildly of feeling ill on Sunday. Funeral services will probably be held in Gadliopis, nex{ Thursday. Driscoll said McIntyre’s salary for many years has been $2,500 weekly Probably he left a million dollars, although he suffered losses in '29. SREATESTNAVAL BASE IN WORLD F N INAIEUHATEI]’ SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. — With American officers as the only un- official observers, England inaug- urated the most powerful naval base in the world, thus strengthen- ing her naval strategy in the war- torn Orient. | Officers of three American war-' ships, Trenton, Memphis and Mil- waukee, under command of Rear Admiral Julius C. Townsend, were the only foreign guests and this fact, according to authoritative cir- cles is considered significant as to the intense precautions taken to prevent espionage at the inaugural ceremonies for the $150,000,000 Gib- raltar of the East. | It took 15 years to build this naval base which controls the Brit- Red Explorers’ Camp Adrift on Arctic Ice This photo, showing Ivan Papanin, leader of the Soviet scientific party that wintered at the North Pole, was made when the party settled down for the long, cold vigil at the top of the world. Today, Papanin and his three companions are adrift on an ice flow which is gradually breaking up, while Russian ice-_brenkers are rushing to their aid. The scientists are keeping in touch with Moscow by means of radio. WINDS BALKING Reios-ic” Gt pLEAD GUILTY TO RESCUE OF FOUR @ =% | ARSON CHARGES, SOVIET CAMPERS | LABOR DISPUTE Icebreaker E:able to Dis- Labor Men éuddénly Ap- patch Planes to Aid pear in Portland Court Imperilled Men —Sentence Later PORTLAND, Ore,, Feb. 14.—Cecile TROMSOE, Norw Feb. 14— High winds sweeping the North Moore, John Newlands and Ernest . Nt Carson, appeared suddenly today be- bal ans of the Soviet ice- rson, appearec \ hed, 2 ; fore Judge Walker, in thee Circuit breaker Traimar to send planes to 219 rescue of the four scientists rifting south from the North Pole on a rapidly breaking up ice floe. «Radio stations and observation posts along the eastern coast of Greenland began special watches after the Soviet Union formally asked for foreign participation in rescue efforts. The latest Moscow reports said | about only 25 miles separated the | tiny ice field of the campers from CAPSIZES, 29 | LOSE LIVES Disaster Results in Bidding‘ Farewell to U. S. S. ‘ Louisville Courl, and pleaded guilty to arson charges growing out of a fire last November at Salem. The fire de- stroyed a picketted box plant and then spread to lumber yards, caus- ing $130,000 damages. They came into court this morn- ing and entered their pleas of guil- ty, waiving a grand jury hearing Sentence will be made later. | The three men were arrested by \the State Police after a round-up in Portland in which more than 50 ‘mln were questioned regarding the {fire growing out of labor disputes. | The police claimed the three men |confessed and this was substantiat- led today when they appeared in court and entered guilty pleas with- out any due pressure being made. SAVVA SMIRNOV FINISHES WORK material when television is per-| fected, according to engineers. | Miss Marlo, who began her acting career at a San Diego, Cal., high school, was picked from a stock company six months ago by a radio talent scout and taken t¢ New York where she is appear: ing in Radio Guild shows. Young Radio Engineer Yearns for Home- land and Wife Savva Smirnov, Russian—several months in charge of radio search from Arctic shores over the wastes to the north, west, and east, where |an ill-fated Soviet airplane disap- peared last sumfmer—a man whose SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 14. | Five persons are known to have been drowned and 24 are unaccount-| ed for after scores of passengers| rushing to the rail of a ferry boat, to witness the departure of the; United States cruiser Louisville,| were thrown into the water us'th: ferry capsized. & .. INSANE MAN ——————— GOING SOUTH Miss C. MacDougall, of Ma ish Empire’s vital link between the T, is a southbound through passen-| east and west. The naval base is heavily forti- fied with 18-inch guns which com- mand a range of a sweeping circle of 50 miles. ger on the steamer Princess Norah. | - Abraum is a red ocher used in cabinet making to give a red coior to unseasoned mahogany. Former Aiaska Pilot is 7 Keeping Up Good Record; Makes Two Mercy Flights YOUNG'S RANCH, Wyoming, Feb. 14—A. A. Bennett piloted an airplane with eight men over the 8,000 to 10,000 foot mountains to this snowbound ranch from where the men will travel on skiis to a coal mine to recover the bodies of five men killed in an explosion. Bennett, who is now living at Ida- _|vote, be deprived of that privilege ho Falls, Idaho, made two flights tween Idaho Falls, Jackson nnd‘l Basilica was a legal code for the| entirely. over the Salt River mountain range ~ Hammer Slayer Escapes name is news in papers all over the | globe—you would expect a man, old, {dark and swarthy, and perhaps a |little inflated with his position, jwould you not? You would expect that, but Smir- nov is not that. He is young. His IS AT LARGE |blue eyes have a steady, frank look from Hospital — May |His hair is unruly brown, recently jcut. He bluses when he has to talk Be Looking for Wife it \about himself. He is 28 years old CHESTER, TIl, Feb. 14.—Security |’ . A | Hospital officials expressed fear to- |27 4005 not look over 35, - o vtf\al' P?m Biarrison, e;caped.mgmd of not very well to do par- criminally insane patient, might try| Hiv tuibd - taoaht Russiat to find and kifl his former wife. | g s . {for a living. Savva moved to Mos- s old, grad- from Afton, Wyoming, and landed, Harrison is the hammer slayer of | ~ Y with the worke:; on 5 ndg cleared four persons in Chicago in 1932, He S0 When he was }2> S on Yillbe's' ranah. attempted to Include his wife m“‘l““’d from. p""”fl‘ HEh has A%e Bennett flew Alaska Airways that time before he was appre- ill‘:"l[!h)gnmod technical college. He transports 5, as- hended |5 X4, for ‘omm;l:e;; F;tbi:n:b",e:;r: Harrison escaped with Peter Flor-| _D‘fr‘n" ”‘f“] d”y“':"" . bis - bt in establishing landing areas in high €k another inmate. Both are des-::‘"‘”; nd 8 half of callsgs, he warked mountain regions for the United cribed as criminally insane of the his chosen field, radio, in the States Service, During se-| WOrst type & | radio plant.‘ building many things jin the radio field. At night he > | >es vere winters he flies the mail be-| !went to evening classes for more (Continued on Page Two) Pinedale, Wyoming. Byzantine empire published in ea’Ll MAKE KTTENPT T0 ANNHILATE CHIANG'S FORCE Encounter in Progress on Fertile Valley in Cen- tral Part PEACE LOOMING IN EUROPEAN SITUATION Germ anyfiy Get Back Lost Colonies—Chan- cellors’ Conference (By Associated Press) Major international differences in Europe and the Orient appeared to- day to be moving to a state of ‘nearer settlement,” bloodlessly on one hand, but bloody on the other hand, in one of the world’s greatest battles. The “nearer settlement” of Eu- ropean affairs resulted partially when Chancellors discussed pros- pects of general European appease- ment in which Italy may gain Brit- ish recognition as the result of the Ethiopian conquest; Germany may regain the colonies lost in the world war; and the German-Austrian ten- sion may be lessened. The agreement looking toward satisfaction of Germany's long shouted demands for sources of raw ‘materials under her own flag, is suggested as the “big surprise” to come in a Reichstag speech next Sunday. As the result of the Chancellors of Germany and Austria’s dra ic meeting last Saturday the German- Austrian tension has been relaxed and there is a more hopeful ap- proach to peace in Europe Great Britain and France on one hand, and Italy and Germany on the other hand, seemed almost in accord on European situations On the other side of the world, on the Central China battlefields where Mongol horsemen under Gen- ghis Khan, 708 s ago, struck terror, the conquering Japanese ar- mies seems closing the only exit from Chiang Kai Shek’s life-line corridor and the Nippon hordes are bent on annihiliating his 400000 men, the cream of China's defense forces which might result in fore- ing China to sue for peace. U. S MARINES STOP JAPANESE SEARCH WORK Encroachment on American Sector Is Quickly Brought to Halt SHANGHAI, Feb. 14—A patrol of 12 United States Marines curned back two Japanesc riding motor- cylists on the Bubblingwell Road. The Japanese were well armed. The Marines acted on the grounds the Japanese had no right to inter- fere in the American defense sector. The incident occurred after Ja- panese patrols during the past three days, sauntering along the Bubb- lingwell Road, are alleged to have searched some Chinese. When informed the Japanese were encroaching on the American sector, the Marines were sent out on patrol and stopped the practice. e DR. JOSEPH ARONSON TO SHOW PICTURES AT NORLITE DINNER Dr. Joseph Aronson is to be pre- sented at the Norlitemen dinner to- morrow evening showing motion pictures of Alaskan scenes and vari- ous Indian scenes taken in the States. Ty ‘The dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. and lasts until 8 pm, with Frank Garnick as chairman. Mrs. Vena L. Crone is in charge of preparation of the meal, and the Rev. John A, Glasse will preside. Reservations for the dinner are due tonight.