The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 22, 1938, Page 1

i { HE DAILY ALA S ALL THE TIME” “ALL THE NEW KA e e fili]flfi\([fil?’][fi[?{Lljl VOL. LI, NO. 7747. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, Mz\RU“l 22, 1938. MUVIBI:R AbeU/\[H) l KI b\ PRICE TEN CENTS SAILINGS OF 6 CANNERY BOATYS DELAYED Japanese, Chinese Locked 1 in Bloody Fight BATTLERAGES Steps Takento Extend Three Mile Lmut 27 Vlllo.s Seaward MORGAN FROM ALONG ENTIRE BATTLEFRONT, GRAND CANAL Prossession of Suchow Is Sought by Invaders—Ter- rific Resistance Made— Bombing Progresses SHANGHAI March 22. Fighting raged today across the Grand Canal which is run- ning with blood and Japanese lines, but vards apart in some plac battled for possession of Su- chow, vital point on the Lung- hai-Tientsin-Pukew railways. Gunfire is audible in Su- chow, 22 miles from the bat- tlefields. the Chinese 50 The Japanese are using heavy artillery along the north shore of the Grand Canal, a regular bombard- ment against the Chinese lines. The Chinese also laid down a barrage. The bombardment is believed preliminary to an assault on the Chinese positions reach- ing from the swamps and lake from Weishan and Likuoyin, north and south of the Tient- sin- l’uklm hne. HONOLULU I PREPARED FOR FLEET ATTACK Twenty-two Thousand Soldiers, Sailors Ready for “Invasion” HONOLULU, H. I, March 22— Over 22,000 soldiers and sailo awaited today with wartime anxiety the appearance of an enemy fleet. They are under simulated condi- tions, including even firearms on Army Post busses and service arms, prepared to defend staunchly the fortified island of Oahu or other more vulnerable land from the ene- my, the Blue Fleet, attacking force, part of the United States Fleet now engaged in maneuvers in the North| Pacific. Already huge Naval planes, pre- sumably from the Blue Fleet, are reported 1,000 miles from Honolulu. Twenty thousand soldiers and sailors are deployed about the Is- land, flanked with artillery and mo- bile equipment. Protestants of Austria Taking Dath of Loyalty Makes Peace with Nazi Re- gime, It is Reported from Vienna VIENNA, March 22. Protestants, unlike the church in Germany, have made peace with the Nazi regime now governing in old Austria. ! Dr. Kauer, President of the Aus- trian Evangelical Church Council, took the oath of allegiance to Hitler and said: “Every German swears voluntarily in the fullest happiness to the oath of loyalty to our beloved Puehrer who has lib- — Austrian 22 BATON ROUGE, La., March 22 Gov. Richard W. Leche has endorsed the act to be submitted to the state lature extending the state’s jur- isdiction 27 miles seaward from the low tide mark Attorney General Gaston Porterie said copies of the bill will be for- legi warded to other coastal states for consideratior Porterie hopes a new jurisdiction- al precedent will be set to aid & Congressional discussion of planes to extend the three mile limit to protect submerged coastal lands for fisheries. Heiress Chm‘ges Mate Beat H er Cha 22, foimer Sa ging her husband with beating collar fortune, recently took shelter after filing a Los Angeles divorce. husband, Rcbert McDonald Bihn, had blackened her eyes and re Francisco socialite and heiress to the manhandled her, her, Mrs. Irene Van Heusen Bihn, Van ileusen with her mother in San Francisco Mrs. Bihn told her mother her one time Hollywood press agent, In answer ic his wife's charges, Bihn declared his wife refused to adjust hersell to his way of living and that her parents sought to reproach him.” Pheto shows Mrs. Vouletti Bihn, 10 months. DIMOND BILLS ARE APPROVED BY HOUSE VOTE Measure Liberalizing Fish- ing Restrictions, Bristol Bay, Goes to Senate WASHINGTON, March 22—The House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill liberalizing restric- tions on commercial fishing with stake or set nets in the Bristol Bay area. It also passed and sent to the Senate a bill by Delegate Anthony | |J. Dimond authorizing Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to withdraw from the public domain in Alaska not to exceed 640 acres) of land for schools, hospitals and other establishments for natives. -, — Treadwell-Yukon Mine Profit Set At Half Million P.R. Bradley Elected Presi- dent—Transportation Restricting SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March .—The Treadwell Yukon Corpora- tion Limited, reorganized Januar; 1, has reported Yukon mine propert- ies in top condition but lack of transportation facilities has restrict- ed movement of concentrates. This year’s profit is forecast as about a half million dollars. Directors elected at the annual meeting include P. R. Bradley, Pre- |sident; L. W. Wiernecke, C. A. Mor- ris;, F. A. Hammerschmidt, Stanley erated all Austrians, irrespective of |Easton, C. D. O'Sullivan and James religious beliefs, from an unbear-|Bradley. able yoke."” Hammerschmidt is the Secretary-Treasurer. . WASHINGTON, March 22 icule, ~ondemn and Bihn with her daughter, Sandra Alaska Railroad Workers May Get Boost, Pay Checks Delegate A;(vsv for $160,- 000 Additional Funds for Pro]ected Raise —Alas- ka Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has asked the Senate Appropriations Committee to provide $160,000 addi- tion to the Interior Department’s Supply Bill to meet the projected 10 percent increase of employees on the Alaska Railroad. Commission on Trade IS Given New Authority WASHINGTON, March 22.—Pres- ident Roosevelt has signed legisla- tion giving the Trade Commission control of sales and advertising food, drugs and cosmetics devices also permits the Commission to in- tervene to protect the consumer against unfair deceptive acts of Commerce. — e ———— | STOCK QUOTATIONS - NEW YORK, March 22, — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 81, American Light and Power 4%, Anaconda 29%. Bethlehem Steel 50%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, General Motors 317%, Internationgl Harves- ter 60%, Kennecott 342, New York Central 12%, Southern Pacific 12, United States Steel 49%, Cities Ser- vice 1%, Pound $4.96%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, FOR REMOVES POWER BOARD President Roosevelt Fires Chairman as Dead- line Passes WASHINGTON, March 22 ident Roosevelt this afternoon made good his promise to remove TVA Chairman Arthur E. Morgan, who yesterday -defied the President’s power or authority to do such. Promoted to fill Arthur Morgan’s shoes is Dircctor Harccurt E. Mor- gan, whose chairmanship will be- come effective tomorrow It was said a message will be read to Congress tomorrow transmitting the entire record of three White House hearings at which Arthur Morgan defied President Roosevelt's request for submission of evidence of charges against other directors of TVA with the contention that Roosevelt lacked the legal authority to remove him President Roosevelt said the mes- sage to be read to Congress tomor- row will contain an opinion by At- torney General Cummings. The President further said he had decid. ed not to fill the vacancy on the three man TVA Board and denied emphatically reports that he was opposed to an ln\’(.s(lgrllmn of TVA NOT RESIGN WILL YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio, March 22 —Arthur E. Morgan this morn- ing ignored President Roosevell's demand that he show cause by 2:30 this afternoon why he should not be removed as Chairman of TVA As the deadline passed, Morgan said, “No action on my part is neces- sary at the present moment.” Morgan declined to say what steps he would take in the event of his re- moval He came here to obtain old records on the controversy and goes icago tomorrow ) REPUBLICANS FOR COVERNOR IN CALIFORNIA George Hatfield Tosses in Fedora Against Pres- ent Governor ) SACRAMENTO, Cal.,, March 22— California’s gubernatorial campaign today became a two-way contest on the Republican side with the an- nouncement by Lieut. Gov. George Hatfield that he is a candidate in opposition to Gov. Frank F. Mer- riam. SENATORS GIRD FOR NAVY BILL Borah, Lafollette and Preparing for Vigor- ous Fight WASHINGTON, March 22—Sen- ate critics planned today to fight the Naval Bill to the last ditch after that measure passed the House yes- 4 terday. Senators Borah and Lafollette are leading the opposition. Lafollette called the program preposterous. “We seem suddenly to have dis- covered that the broad Atlantic which I always thought was an as- set from a defensive standpoint, now seems to be a liability, which is silly,” said Lafollette. Senator Nye, Republican from North Dakota, said the bill was war- like and “the most insane program that could be pursued.’ - HEBERT TO Klfl‘LHlKAN Jones averages industrials 117.11,| Lyle Hebert, local broker, left for ' rails 22.62, utilities 17.56. t Ketchikan aboard the Yukon, Uregon F armers [ » Hops for Fertilizer b much less ihan the ¢ Faced with sclling their crop at ori using tons of surplus hops to fertilize fields and orchards. 576 bales of hops being scattered over a field. It the grower would have brought him about $13.000, but instead he rec hop growers—who invested most of th 3= ihreatened with bankruptey. Trade Pact Between United States and Great Britain To Give Aid to Both Nalmn.s st of pr had recel ived enly eserve in bigger \VASH!N(_: TON, March ? or factor impelling the Ulult(( States and C at Britain to get recent years each has shut the other out of a fat share in its home trade. Each has followed an isolation- ist policy, the United States pusl ing up its tariff walls steadily until they reached abruptly an all- time high in 1929 under the Smoot- Army Engineers Make Rec- ()mmenddtlo1fC0\t l‘~ Hawley incL 'I'h(,“ Ij'l?li»-d Klnuu.m‘l (the British Isles, exclusive of the timated at $565,000 dominions), which once had sold ‘ handsomely to the United States, buying largely in return, began WASHINGTON, March 22.—Army aying jts own protective steps Engineers have recommended to which all the dominions shared in- Congress a flood control project terest. on the Tanana River and Chena In 1932 at Ottowa, the British ough, at Fairbanks, Alaska, esti- empire, including the islands, pos- mated to cost $565,000. sessions and dominions, went into he project proposed is a rock conference and came out with an and earth dike across and also relocation of hena Slough a portion of agreement to help each in the matter of buying the other and sell- the Richardson Highway ing of goods, and let the rest of Fairbanks intere will be re- the world do the best it could quired to provide the necessary land ikied easements, right of way and assume ' s GREEMENT CHANGED responsibility for damages due to THE PICTURE construetion of the project and also o Now the 60,000,000 residents of agree to maintain the dike G R B 1N Rys have bought principally food and raw products, payi for them with manufactured products, and capital services The immediate effect of that 1932 Ottawa agreement was to give the shipping JAMES ROGERS T0 BE MARRIED deminions an increasing share of the profitable food and material D market of the “tight little isles. LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 22. In return, they began taking a —James Blake Rogers, 22, son 0f Jarger share of British manufac- the late Will Rogers, has filed tures. Both reacted against U. S notice of intention to wed Marguer- trade. Other factors also influenced itta Astrea Kemmler, 20, daughter the shift, but the empire agree- of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kemmler, pment played a big hand of Los Angeles. The wedding dat¢ Two brief tables show in part has been set for next Saturday hat happened. In 1929 the United S o — ates supplied the British Isles with 192 per cent of their grain AP and flour. By 1936 it supplied only ‘ 2 per cent. Here is how it ran: 1929 1936 Grain and flour ... 19.2 2 Pork 188 1.6 Hams 821 50 Raisins 381 24 Tobacco 98 79.1 Wood and timber.. 162 10.1 Raw cotton 50 382 The British colonies increased TOKYO, March 22—The Minis- yn.i share of shipments to the try of GRemcRee and, Industry 15 g4, s in this manner: giving American trade preferred 1929 1936 treatmepERt Al auttioriaed Bd- | oy and flour L9140 581 portation of 34,000,000 board feet i of lumber from the United States. | (Continued on Page Two) L This photo, ed the a ton for fertilizer. creps with the return of in s are shows oduc egon hop farm taken at Wheatland, Ore., year’s top price, ihe A few ) legal beer hops ars ago are now 3 KIDNAPERS PAY PENALTY ON GALLOWS Spring Breaks for One But He Is Carried Back —Last Wonds MOUNDVILI W.V., March 22 Three men today paid the pen- for idnaping Arvil Adkins, 25; John Travis, and Arnette A. Booth, 46, were v the kidnaping of Dr Prohibitionist, who was held caplive for 11 days last No- vember and died after he escaped, from exposure. Adkins fell nine feet from the when the spring broke while ds were adjusting the straps carried back on a stretcher 1en hanged after telling the spectators: “I wish to see you all in Heaven I am going to glory, Goodbye.” - JAPAN GIVEN BILL BY U.S. FOR BOMBING Immedia te Seltlement of Panay, Tankers Dam- ages l:xpected WASHINGTON, March 22.—The State Department has announced that Ambassador Grew has present- ed to Japan a bill on the deaths injuries and damages caused by the Japanese bombing of the gunboat Panay and three last December. The amount of the closed 1t is indicated that million dollars will be paid in quick settlement, in view of Japan's will- ingness to pay indemnities. - TAYLOR GOES SOUTH TO GET EQUIPMENT C ngineer Tke P. Taylor the Alaska Road Commission sailed on the Yukon for Seattle where he goes to make purchase of equip- ment for carrying on road work during the summer season. He ex- pects to be gone American tankers bill is undis- more than a of WAGE DISPUTES HAVE CANCELLED SHIP SCHEDULES ALASKA SECTION Four Large C;;'go Carriers and Two PAF Vessels Held at Docks Pend- ing Negotiations EATTLE, March 22.—0f- ials of the Alaska Steam- ship Company announced to- day that sailings of four ships to Alaska with crews and can- nery supplies have been de- layed because of the dispute between the Fishermen's Union and the cannery opera- tors in the western Alaska district. The ships scheduled to sail but delayed by the dispute are the Latouche, Cordova, Oduna and Derblay, all large cargo carrier: The Pacific American Fish- eries ships North King and Mary D are also delayed. Wage negotiations are re- ported at a standstill. The cannery workers are resisting a 10 percent cut under last yvear's pay and the operators assert that they will face a deficit if the wages are not cut. oo '37 SALMON PACK THIRD LARGEST IN NORTHLAND Total Last Season Reached 6,669,665 Cases— Pinks Lead WASHING TON, March 22— Frank T. Bell, Commissioner of Fisheries, today reported the 1937 Alaska salmon pack at 6669665 cases, the third largest in histo b pack indicated that Alask fisheries are in a highly productive phase of development, Bell said. Five varieties of salmon were rep- resented in the pack as follows: he Cohos, 137,317 cases; chums. 730- 832; pinks, 3,625,397; kings, 69,- 468, x'(‘d%‘ 2,106,666 cases. -ee — - ARMY PURSUIT PLANES PUT IT OVER BOMBERS Flying Fortresses Theo- retically Destroyed in Mimic Warfare TAMPA, Florida, March 22—Fif- teen tiny Army pursuit planes, based here, caught seven flying fortresses out of Orlando trying to bomb Tam- pa in mime warfare. The little peashooters intercepted the huge invaders at a comparative- ly low altitude, 15 miles northwest of the city and theoretically des- troyed them with an imaginary loss of $2,500,000 und 40 men. PRESIDENT T0 TAKE VACATION WASHINGTON, March 22.—Pres- ident Roosevelt leaves tonight on a special train for Warm Springs, Georgia. He will remain there for about three weeks. ten days.