The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1938, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS LABORMOVES T0STOPTRAPCONCESSIO i VOL. LI, NO. 7754. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCAH 30,1938. PRICE TEN CENTS NS Five Are Feared Dead in Navy Plane Crash TRAGEDY HITS BATTLE STILL re MARINE GROUP DURING FLEET RAGINGNORTH TAKES HAND IN SCOUTING GAME CRAND CANAL . FISHING DISPUTE Gen. Pershing’s Son to Wed Thron g Hears Roosevelt Dedicate Civie Squa Two Swim Ashore After Twin-Motored Patrol Bomber Crashes SHIP ENROUTE TO PEARL HARBOR BASE Pilot and Four Others Still Missing Following Rain- storm Accident HONOLULU, March 30 — Five Navy fiiers are missing and are believed dead following the crash of a patrol bomber off Waeanai while seeking to return to the Pearl Harbor b: in a rainstorm after icipating in scouting maneuvers. 1e twin-engined ship struck the sea and partially submerged. G. J. Nilles, radioman, swam ashore. H. E. Bartz also made the shore but was removed to the hospital later unconscious. Missing are Lieut. L. O. Crane, pilot; Aviation Cadet W. S. Lear; Cadet Pilot B. E. Windham; Radio- man V. A. Luciano and Machinist Mate G. S. O'Neill. ——— - HILO LAID IN RUINS DURING RAIDS BY AIR This Is Onlfi‘heorgt.ic.ally, of Course—Tonsilitis Epidemic Rages HONOLULU, H. 1, March 30— Hawaii's second city is theoretically in ruins as the result of aid raids. The aircraft carrier Lexington is actually idle as the result of a tonsilitis epidemic in the Navy war games being carried out in this part of the Pacific Ocean. A surprise attack of 26 invading planes of the Blue Fleet caught Hilo, a city of 20,000, unprotected as the Lexington lay anchored off Waikiki Beach, while more than 500 members of her crew were be- ing treated for tonmsilitis. This forced the Lexington temporarily out of the war games. The cause of the epidemic is not known. Naval Measure Back to House Senate Approves Record Peacetime Appropriation Bill — Amendments | WASHINGTON, March 30.—The Senate has approved and sent back to the House for action on amend- ments, the record peacetime naval appropriation measure for the next! fiscal year. There is $549,000,000 separate from the billion dollar na- val expansion program. SEATTLE MAYOR 1S SERIOUSLY ILL John F. Dore Is in Hospital at Los Angeles with Pneumonia LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 30.— Mayor John F. Dore, of Seattle, is critically ill with pneumonia in a hospital here. Mayor Dore was stricken enroute home from Phoenix, Arizona, where he went to rest following defeat at the recent Seattle election. | Country to Escape Aerial " With his father’s health steadily improving, Francis W. Pershing, son of General (“Blackjack”) John J. Pershing, recently applied for a license to marry Miss Muriel Richards, New York socialite. Young Pershing recently returned to New York after a trip to the bedside of his ailing father at Tucson, Ariz. Photo shows Warren Pershing and Miss Richards, who set the wedding date for April 22. OPENING DATE Alaska Railroad FOR AIR MAIL Facing Year With T0 FAIRBANKS NoAppropriations IS ANNOUNGED . Service Will Start from Ju- chorage Chamber of Commerce Launches Fight for Funds Both Japanese, Chinese Are | Rushing Reinforce- ments to Area DESPERATE EFFORTS " TO CONTROL SECTION Triangle Sector Is Key Posi- tion to Vital Points in Central China SHANGHAI, March 30.—Chinese and Japanese high commands are rushing heavy reinforcements and all available planes, tanks and art- illery into the 100-mile triangle bounded by Yenchow, Suchow and Lini The reinforcements of men and war equipment is for a desperate effort to tilt the decisively seesaw- ing scales of the battle north of the Grand Canal e Japanese have recaptured Tsining and Lincheng, key points on the Tientsin-Pukow railway. Fully 200,000 soldiers are report- ed in the conflict with more arriving hourly. — e, FRANGO TAKES COMMAND NOW OF INSURGENTS General Reported Directing Attack on Key City of Lerida HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, March 30.—Gen. Francisco Franco has assumed personal com- mand of his Insurgent forces and is reported closing in on Lerida, a key to the Spanish Government's Capital of Barcelona. The main body of the troops is re- ported on the outskirts of Lerida and other units are in an encircling movement of the city which is said to be nearly deserted by civil- neau About April 26— 'ians ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 30. —Acting on reports that the Alaska Railroad is facing a year's opera- tions without an appropriation from Congress, the Chamber of Com- merce has launched a drive to or- ganize Pacific Coast business men in protest to the lack of funds. The Chamber said it had been in- formed by Col. O. F. Ohlson, Gen- eral Manager of the Alaska Rail- road, that he had been refused all requests for aid from Washington. Col. Ohlson said he was making efforts to obtain enough appropria- tions to pay maintenance costs and relief workers. If no appropriations are made this year it will be the first year the railroad has been left to operate on its revenues. | Several layoff orders have been Postmaser General Far- ley Sets Date WASHINGTON, March 30.— Postmaster General James A. Farley has tentatively set the starting date for air mail be- tween Junean and Fairbanks on April 26. The domestic postage will be six cents an ounce. The service will advance the mails to interior Alaska five days. The air mail contract has been awarded to the Pacific Alaska Airways and provides for a weekly round trip service over a period of two years, Congress having authorized the route and provided $68,692 for the service this year and the same amount for 1939. TALIANS ARE BEING URGED, LEAVE CTIES Go to Small Towns and employees have been dismissed. The railroad shops are virtually idle. DIMOND ASKS AID WASHINGTON, March 30.—Al- aska Delegate Anthony J: Dimond is searching for funds to repair the, roadbed of the Alaska Railroad. He said that the Budget Bureau estimates that the road could op- erate efficiently on prospective rev- enue, are “screwy.” | For the first time the Govern-| ment has made ng further provis-| ion for a supplemental appropria- tion for the Alaska Railroad, pend-| ing passage of the Interior Depart-| ment Supply Bill. Last year Congress provided $200,- 000 in addition to revenues received by the road. | Delegate Dimond said it is too early to expect the Alaska Railroad to pay its own way, and said that $2,000,000 could be well used in re- pairing bridges and track. Dele- gate Dimond further said he may| Jask for WPA funds. 1 Attacks, Says Premier ROME, March 30.—Premier Ben- ito Mussolini today urged Italians to move from the cities into the small towns and country to meet the menace of aerial raids. The Premier lauded the country's armament power but added that “still more remains to be done, whatever the cost.” CARDENAS IS FACED WITH NEAR REVOLT Secretary of State Hull De- mands Payment for Oil Fields MEXICO CITY, March 30.—Pres- ident Cardenas was today confront- ed with near revolt by a segment of received and several twenty year~laborcrs and at the same time a vigorous protest from the United States over expropriation of the oil industry. A throng gathered in Gainsville, Ga., {0 hear Pr center of the city devastated by a tornade two ) Pars ago. ident Roosevelt dedicate Roosevelt Square, a new civie At the left is the new courthouse, part of the Federation Demands Trap Rights Be Withdrawn Un- less Operated This Year 'RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT SEATTLE MEETING Charge Made by Engstrom that Industry Does Not Want to Operate SEATTLE, March 30.—The Mari- time Fed ion of the Pacilic Jjumped into the midst of the dis- pute between cannery workers and operators last night when, at a mass meeting here, it adopted a resolu- tion calling up the Bureau of Fish- eries to withdraw trap location eon- cessions which are not operated this season in Alaska. The cannery op- erators have announced they will not operate this year unless the workers agree to take a 10 per cent cut in wages. new city hall is shown at the right. President Roosevelt was speaking from the canopied platform as the | James Engstrom, President of the throng listened to the ceremony. President Listens to Hull Before Departure President Reosevelt listened closely as Secretary of State Cordell Hull (right) spoke to him just before the President departed for Warm Springs, Ga. (left), and Postmaster Generaly Farley Ambassador-at-Large Norman “Lost Generation” Makes Plea Before Congress to WORK IS TO BE REQUIRED |entered the | swarming . i Get Schools for Train ASSESSMENT | million or mg By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 30. A more babies born in year the United States war, now are coming on 21 and the world isn't especially free of war for them yet—but they are not taking it sitting down The youngsters have taken to into Washington to try to badger their Congressmen and 1917, the Congress will probably be called |ittle Likelthood There Will | the whole government into shelling into session in a few weeks to dis- cuss the American protest which asked how Mexico intends to pay the $4,000,000,000 for the industry. Labor leaders in Tampico said that with all operations shut down, labor was better off before. Legality Admitted WASHINGTON, March 30.—Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull today admitted the legality of Mexico’s expropriation of foreign oil com- panies but demanded adequate pay- ment. ————etoe—— HELLANS TO SITKA Deputy U. 8. Marshal Walter G. Hellan and Mrs. Hellan are pas- sengers aboard the Northland for Sitka where Hellan is traveling on official business with the U. S Marshal's office. They will return here shortly. Be Afly SuSp“”.\i()“ Legislation By J. J. ECKLES Secretary to Delegate Dimond WASHING TON, March 21— | (Special Correspondence) —Outlook |for enactment of legislation pro- | viding for the suspension of annual assessment work requirements on mining claims held by location in the United States is definitely un- favorable this year. Despite the fact that laws suspending assess- ment work requirements in the States during 1936 and 1937 did noi apply to Alaska, a number of Al- aska residents continue to make in- quiries as to the possibility of hav- ing a continuance of the moratorium on mining claims in Alaska. There is reason to believe that ok A i B (Continued on Page Two) lout a half billion dollars to hel |the American Youth Cong p them either to go to school or ob- tain vocational training. They have a central body called made up of delegates from about 50 or- | ganizations ranging from the Young Communist League to the Y. W. C. A. and the Methodist Epworth League. UNAWED BY SENATOR Like casual tourists, they gawk at photographers and the costly marble pillars that uphold dignity on Capitol Hill but they look upon Senators as their special meat. What they may lack in mental maturity they ence. The enthusiastic patriotism of Senator Lee, “boy orator” from Ok- lahoma, who presided at the hear- ing on their h billion bill, eould not awe of the witnesses who | (Continued on Page Six) make up in persist- | Also shown on the platform of the Presidential Special are H. Davis. TAXPAYERS T0 BE SAVED FROM ONE ANNOYANCE Not to Be Required to Swear to Returns Be- fore Notary Public WASHINGTON, March 30.—The Senate Finance Committee has de- cided that income tax payers should be saved the annoyance and expense of swearing before a notary public as to honesty in making out their income tax returns. Senator David I. Walsh, Democrat of Massachusetts, said the commit- tee has approved of his suggestion to eliminate this requirement when making out incomg tax statements. - ee— THREE STATES HIT, TORNADOES COLUMBIA, Kansas, March 30.— Tornadoes today struck areas of Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas and several children are known to have been killed, probably several adults. Up to 3 o'clock this afternoon | Maritime Federation, told 3,000 un- |ion members at the mass meeting \that the salmon packers “through | Wall Street bankers desire to keep |out of Alaska this year thus rais- ing the price of salmon they have ]on hand to three times the present price.” LY He said the Federation would act las a unit “in resisting efforts of ‘Wall Street to carry out its plan.” No statement was forthcoming to- day from Conciliator Joseph Chen- | ey, who has been holding conferenc- es with the two affected groups. What progress toward a settlement had been made, if any, was not as- certained. DRUG KILLS SIX PERSONS IN 24 HOURS, REPORT ‘Compound Used as Cancer | Cure Proves Fatal—Two Others Are Critically IIl | cHICAGO, TI. March 30—Dr | Morris Fishbein, spokesman for the | American Medical Association an- | nounces that six persons have died |at Orlando, Florida, during the last 24 hours from the effects of a drug offered as a cancer cure. Two other | persons are critically ill. | The symptoms are similar to those | of lockjaw. Dr. Fishbein said a compound ! known as Ensol is apparently con- | taminated. The compound is manu- | factured in Kingston, Ontario. i The Federal Health Service is | making an investigation, Dr. Fish- | bein stated | ———,——— James Roosevelt Wins in Damage Case for $6,000 NEW YORK, March 30. — The Supreme Court has returned a ver- dict in favor of James Roosevelt in a $6,000 negligence suit brought against him by Police Sergeant William Seubert and his wife. Mrs. Seubert testified she was injured when Roosevelt’s car, driv- en by a chauffeur, struck the Seu- bert car. e AT HOSPITAL J. R. Bishop, passenger aboard the Yukon enroute to Kanatak to visit his daughter, was rushed to St. Ann’s Hospital for medical care yes- | the number of injured was reported| terday afternoon. His conditions is at 50, ! improved today.