The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1938, Page 1

T HE “ALL THE'] DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE EWS ALL THE TIME” /OL. LI, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, GOV. MARTIN ACTS IN CANNERY DISPUTE ROOSEVELT | TURNS EYES | ON EUROPE President WillAMeet with Bullitt Over Affairs Abroad WARM SPRINGS, —President Roosevelt lU(| y turned his attention to foreign affairs witl Europe looming large in his studies his mountain cottage. The President had no immediate comment on Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull's proposal for joint Euro- pean and American action in re- moving political refugees from Ger- many and Austria, but a conference was scheduled between the Presi- dent and William C. Bullitt, Ambas- sador tc France, for the purpose of going o the situation abroad Yesterday, in Washington, Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull led the International effort to get political refugees out of Austria and Ger- { Hull telegraphed nine European Governments asking co- operation to establish a special Com- mittee for this purpose, stating this action was needed to avert “wide- pread human suffering.” TO AID ALL GROUPS WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 25. —President Roosevelt said this af- ternoon that the American propo- Covadonga’s Ex and Fiance S ol Marta Rocafort, former wife of the st Miami, Fla., on her arrival from Havana, ex-Crown Prince of Spain, is shown Cuba, with E. H. Adkins, Jr., University of Miami law student, whom she will marry, sal to give an asylum in America to —— refugees from Germany and Aus- tria also applied to oppressed minor- ities in Russia, Spain, Italy and other countries. Roosevelt added that the plan was designed to help all gmups scokm; escape from troubles in lands, Jews, Catholics and Prutmanu. T'he President said no new legis- lation is needed in line with the domestic policy which goes back to 1789 when the United States as a refuge for politically oppressed was protected from over-entry by the present immigration quotas. Reaction to the proposal found favorable in England France. - e BRISTOL BAY FISHING LAW GETS ACTION Senate Commerce Commut- tee Approves Measures Passed by House WASHINGTON, March 25. — The Senate Commerce Committee has approved of the House bill liberal- izing the fishing laws of Bristol Bay The bill reduces the residence re- quirements of fishermen from five to two years and eliminates the 35- mile radius restriction on stake and set net operations. TVA INQUIRY T0 BE HELD BY TEN MEN Joint Senate-House Com- mittee Will Investigate Power Board Soon WASHINGTON, March 25. — The Senate today adopted a resolution proposed by Senator Alben W. Bark- ley calling for a joint Senate and House investigation of TVA. The resolution included some re- quests advanced by Senaters H. S. Bridges, Republican, of New Hamp- shire, and William H. King, Demo- crat, of Utah, opponents of TVA. A committee of five senators and five representatives is provided for in Barkley's resolution, and $50,000 expenses. The resolution now goes to the House. The inquiry will attempt to deter- mine whether dismissed Chairman Arthur Morgan's charges are true or not and whether or not TVA has been partial to large ecrporations by supplying them cheaper power. Also to be determined is whether or not TVA accounting methods have been honest and if rural elec- was and SEN. COPELAND IS FIGHTING FOR ALASKA SALMON * New Yorker Supports Bil Protecting Fisheries of Northland By J. J. ECKL Secretary to Delegate Dimond WASHINGTON, March 14 (Special Correspondence) Taking up the gage of battle in the Senate for the preservation of the salmon fishery of Alaska, Senator Copeland of New York, on March 7, and again on March 10, spoke at length in defense of the bills introduced in the Senate by Senator Bone of Washington, and introduced in the House by Delegate Dimond of Al- aska, to prohibit the taking of Alaska salmon by Japanese or other foreign nationals in the waters ad- jacent to the coast of Alaska. Supporting the arguments ad- vanced by Delegate Dimond in his testimony recently given before the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, that the sal- mon spawned and hatched in the inland lakes and streams of the Territory are the property of the United States, and that the United States has the legal right to de- clare jurisdiction over the waters of the Bering Sea east of the boundary between the U. S. S. R. and Alaska, which are less than 100 fathoms deep, for the protec- tion of these salmon, Senator Cope- land emphasized the American property-right in the salmon as supported by the legal doctrine of the animus revertendi or intention of returning. State’s Rights Explaining this doctrine as main- taining the state’s right or owne: ership in wild animals or birds which . stray across the state’s boundary, but retain the intent or instinct to return to their original location, the Senator from New York fortified the legality of his argument with quotations from a translation of Gaius' Elements of Roman Law and from Blackstone’s Commentaries. Following the identification of his case in the fundamentals of civil and common law, the Senator said: “So we find the authorities and the great masters of the law preaching the doctrine which Mr. Dimond and others interested with | him are seeking to apply to the salmon to demonstrate the Amer- ican ownership of these salmon, because they have animus rever- | Applying this doctrine to| the Alaska salmon, the Senator | tendi.” continued, “Now we come to the salmon. With respect to the sal- mon of Alaska, the animus rever- tendi is unguestioned and undoubt- F DY STICK-CANDY (pepper- mint) inspired beach costume worn so effectively by Kathleen Williams of New York on vaca- tlon at Coral buch Bermu«h JAPAN PLANS LITTLE COUP WITH MEXICO Will Purchase Fuel Oil for Right to Improve Coast Harbors TOKYO, March 25.-—Japan is pre- paring, through private companies, to offer Mexico an oil contract to purchase nearly half a million bar- rels of crude oil annually. The contract will provide also for technical assistance in construction of pipelines and improvements of ‘harbms of Mexico on the Pacific Coast. BOB BURNS T0 BECOME FATHE HOLLYWOOD Cnlv March 25— | | Bob Burns, bazooka playing humor: | ist and actor, is about to become n; tricity users have been forced t0 ed. These animals of the sea, underiffllhfl Mrs. Burns has been ad-! purchase unnecessary appliances in order to get TVA power. | (Continued on Page Three) mitted to the maternity wnrd in a !local hospital. INSURGENTS IN SPAIN MAKING SWIFT ADVANGE Troops, Supponcd by Cav-| alry, Moving on Loyal- ist Stlongholr]s HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, March 25.—Swift moving In- surgent columns, Aragon front from the west and southwest, report they have reached America’s Bid for Dmglble Supremacy WIRES PERKINS advancing on the | a point three miles from the stra- | tegic Government Bujaraloz and Navarrese. The troops, supported by cavalry, drove down the Zaragoza-Lerida Highway during the nig™t ANTI-NAZIS START RIOT AND FIGHTS German- Amm ican Bund Group M(‘elmg Is Blokon PHILADELPHIA, Pa. —An Anti-Nazi mob stormed what police March last night described s a meeting of the German-American | Bund The enraged crowd turned the gathering into a riot during which | mcre than a score were injured ir the fight that raged until riot squads arrived Later, sporadic fist fighting broke out_in the streets as the anti-Nazi committee paraded with signs read- ing “Down with Hitler and his Un- ited States Followers!” JAP TROOPS NURSING 59 BABY WAIES Guerilla Warfare Is Stil Harassing Japan- est Lines SHANGHAI, March of 2. | FOR MEDIATOR IN CONTROVERSY Washington State Execu- tive Points to Tremendous Loss Which May Result SAYS N. W. AS WELL | AS ALASKA AFFECTED Move Made bv Union to Get Support of Maritime Fed- eration of Pacific BULLETI -—-\\ ASHING- TON, March 25. — Secretary of Labor Perkins has named Joseph Cheney, attorney of A model of the new lighter-than-air craft soon to be built in America is shown in Washington, D. C., by Garrett W. Peck (left) is in charge of construction, The ship embodies principles of design to give hitherto two officers of the Inter-ocean Dirigible Corporation. and Clifford W. Jones (right) is the designer. unknown safety in the air, A tube running the length of the ship, movable . Mrs. Coolidge at the Theatre i § a fashionables who attended the opening of the Cole Porter :’:s‘?c‘fl c:oeme:s;', “You Never Know,” at a Boston theatre, was Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, widow of the former President. She is pictured with Frank Mansfield in the lobby of the playhouse. Japan-| ese soldiers have encountered diffi-| culties other than roving bands of Chinese guerillas. Latest difficulty, according to Jap- anese dispatches, is a baby problem that has turned Japanese soldiers into nursemaids. It i reported that the Nippon | soldiers found 59 abandoned Chin-| ese babies in a nursery on the Tsungning Road at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Japanese said they were feeding the waifs llnllf‘flHAuv)\u the mechanisms milk, China’s Red farmer army of 500,- 000 tillers of the soil are still for- saking China's “Good Earth” to con- duct a strike-and-run guerilla campaign against bewildered Jap- anese troops. In North and Central China where Nippon troops have penetrated deep- | ly at the expense of long and -1 guarded communication lines, the roving farmer bands with impro- vised, stolen and captured weapons are constantly severing the vital communication links. Japanese sources have admitted that “the farmers are our most dif- ficult enemy at presem. ) NAVAL BATTLE LOOMING NOW AROUND HAWAI Warships of Defense Fleet Leave for Sea to In- tercept Enemy HONOLULU, T.H., March 25. Warships aiding in the defense of Hawaii steamed oceanward today in an effort to intercept the enemy | fleet maneuvering for a surprise attack on the Hawaiian Islands in war game operations. The radio is silent. Naval planes are patrolling the | ocean in an attempt to detect the | approach of the enemy fleet. | days, but the picture is the same— National Ca Inlul Saturatvll With Discussions Qver War, International Relationships R 12 noon — Senator Pittman of Nevada, chairman of the foreign relations committee, demands that $600,000,000 be added the bil- lion dollar naval program. A bil- lion, he says, isn't enough, what with so much trouble piling up across both waters. 12:30 p.m.—President Roosevelt lays claim to two pill-box islands 1,200 miles south of Hawaii. Noth- ing much grows on them, not even fresh water, and mighty little use can be made of them except in trans-Pacific flying. In case of war, it is pointed out, they might be useful as landing fiedds for land or sea planes. 1 pm. — Lunch. Two covering the Treasury Department debate over their pie and cheesc sandwich whether Japan can fin- ance her armies long enough to sponge up the Chinese mess. And| if the U. 8. went to war with J pan, would England step in at once to help out? Or would it perhaps stand on the sidelines for two years, as we did in the World war. | 2 p.m.—Foes of the present war profits bill declare it does not teke com- the profits out of war but converts mittee hears . Martin, ail §i i 1 A any war-time President into a dic- Goubling e aie data in the navei| 0T Wib sheolite pover over sl program, He contends that $106-|!ndustrial, miitary 23 el 000,000 is not enough. It ought to} ‘" ; ; be doubled. Even while Martin, 3 pm—The maritime commis testifies, Lester P. Barlow, wartime |Sion awards (‘rmvracvfis for (xclg‘hlm.si inventor of hombs, bustles impa- 0 @ small Florida shipyard with a tiently about the committee room.| two-fold purpose: He says he bas a secret design 1 desires to show up the big for mines whiclt can be showered Yards, whose bids were a million from the air upon an enemy navy, dollars a ship more than the com-| filling the water so full of death-|mission deemed reasonable lodes that clusters of ba ttle craft 2. Equally important, the com- will be sunk trying to work their mission hoped the contract would way .to safe water. He protests he ©S ablish a useful shipyard in the is not given a fair hearing, that South Atlantic suitable for “nation- the Navy department is trying to|al defense purposes—i.e., emer- smother his ideas. gency naval building and repair. By PRESTON GROV WASHINGTON, March 25~—This town is so super-saturated with talk and dangers of war that the subject worms into every discussion. It is a rare day when a White House pre conference closes without some reference to warfare or the intricacies of international relationships growing out of cur- rent wars or scares of wars Take a sample day. In a spot or two it is a eomposite of two or more to of the wide variety of war-toned business afoot. 10:30 a.m. — President Roosevelt is asked at his press conference whether he still is convinced the battleship is essential to the first line of defense. He concedes there room for argument but points out that the skilled military minds of all countries are focused on the issue—and all of them go ahead with battleship building. That, he says, is what he has recommended in his “pillion dollar” navy pro- gram. 11:00—House naval affairs reporters | is the craft, which is built around its engines. ’ | Treasury | December 31 | required to pay despite the Fanny Weiss case, | Yakima, Washington, as me- diator in the salmon wage dispute between packers and unions, and E. P. Marsh, of Seattle, Labor Conciliator, to assist. at the ends, aids in maneuvering LITHUANIAN CABINET HAS STEPPED OUT Rcsignalion ()Hicially An- nounced Amid Extreme OLYMPIA, Wash., March 5.—Gov. Clarence D. Martin wired Labor Secretary ances E. Perkins asking her tu designate a mediator in the lllll()n-(dl\l](’l" ()[l(’l'dtl)l' con- troversy which is holding up hing operations in Alaska. “The deadlock threatens to paralyze the entire industry Bitterness m Natisg with a trcmendnus'lnss to Al- 2 i aska. and the entire North- KAUNAS, March 25—~The resig-' west,” the Gevernor said in nation of the Lithuanian Cabinet his message. “More than 25 amid widespread bitterness over the R L 000 men involved and imme- apitulation to Poland is . 1 offi diate action is needed.” Lithuanian Government under fire as the result of Polish ultimatum de- ations between the two normalized - SAM LEPETICH IS INDICTED FOR WIFE'S MURDER Gmn(l Jury at Ketchikan Brings in Information Against Juneau Man nation’s ¢ announcec he been the warl manding r nations be lly has — ASKS MARITIME SUPPORT BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 25.—The Bellingham local of the Alaska Iisher- men’s Union has voted to en- list the support of the Mari- time Federation of the Pacific and government agencies in an attempt to settle the wage dispute which is paralyzing the Alaska salmon canning in- dustry. A Union spokesman said a “strike of the Maritime union members would be the last re- sort in the labor deadlock.” He claimed that every effort would be made first to reach a hu'ndl\' .\ettlemunt NO WAR NEAR, KENNEDY SAYS FROM LONDON Ambassador Declares Eur- CTCHIKAN, Alaska, March 25 Grand Jury here has indic ed Samuel Lepetich of Juneau for first degree murder of his wife at their Juneau home two months ago. Lepetich is now in jail in Ju- neai and arraignment has been de- ferred, Otficials here said today that Lep- etich would not be taken to Ketchi- kan for trial but would be tried a% the next term of the Distriet Court in Juneau | ope Will Not Fight This ALASKA GIVEN REFUND UNDER . Yoot JOBLESS PLAN Ambassador to Great Britain, Jo- seph P. Kennedy, today counselled Americans at home to put “worries $110,479 Reverts to Terri- tory from Employers Com- pensaion Tax of 1936 of general war in Europe in the offing,” out of their heads. VV'\SHII\G']ON March 25. — The announced today that Ambassador Kennedy listened to Prime Minister Neville Chamber- lain’s declaration of foreign policy in the House of Commons and then went to an American dinner where $110,479 had been refunded Alaska as unemployment compensation tax collected from employers prior to 1936. Employers were k of Ter- he declared there was little chance in his mind for-a major European war “I feel safe in predicting,” Kennedy, “That no European war will occur for the remainder of 1938, at least.” —————— LI I R N I Y BOWER COMING, ENROUTE BARROW said ritorial law at that time Congress provided that 90 per- cent of the taxes collected revert tol States which subsequently passed | laws to cooperate with the Federal plan SEATTLE, Wash., March 25. —Charles Brower sails for Al- aska tomorrow. He has toured the States since last October. Brower said he plans to spend at least another year at his long established trading post ® at Point Barrow. l.ooooa--ooco - - WINN RETURNING Among passengers returning to| Juneau aboard the Princess Loui.sc: is Grover Winn, following legal busi- ness in Seattle in connection with . . . . . . . . . . .