The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 1, 1938, Page 1

p—— E | l " » > 5 ' i | ! a l ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7756. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SALMON DISPUTE OVER UNTIL NEXT WEEK BIG FIGHT ON REORGANIZING BILL IS MADE House Mem—b;rs Deluged with Messages to Kill Proposed Measure | ADMINISTRATION PLANS EARLY VOTE Opponents Clsim P roposed Change Would Give Presi- dent Too Great Power WASHINGTON, April 1.—Admin- | istration forces in the House used President Roosevelt's statement that | he did not want to be a dictator as| an added argument today in seek-| ing a vote on the Reorganization | Bill. House leaders announced theyi would push for a final vote on Lhei Bill by nightfall Saturday. | New Deal Democrats pointed out | ‘that the President’s statement | should serve to banish any fears that| the Reorganization Bill was design—‘ ed to give the Chief Executive too| much power. Administration foes,| however, used the President’s state- ment as a weapon and openly threatened to drag debate on into next week. NEW AID BILL Meanwhile, a new bill to aid busi- ness recovery was ready to be called up in the Senate. The measure, prepared by Sen Glass of Virginia, would expand the lending powers of the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation. Glass re-| quested tHat debate be started on the bill before the Senate recesses this evening. The Virginia Senator pointed out that the RFC was the only Government lending agency, ever to show a profit. | In urging support for his bill Glass declared: “This is the simplest bill ever to come up before the U. S Senate.” KILL BILL, IS URGED WASHINGTON, April 1..—A new deluge of telegrams today urged | House members to kill the Govern-| ment’s Reorganization bill but Ad- ministration leaders fought for pas- sage before fhe weekend. One telegraph company is report- ed to have delivered 45,000 telegrams after several denunciations of the bill were made last night over the, radio. + Backers of the Reorganization Bill declare that the messages have re- sulted from an organized propagan-! da campaign. Representative Woodruff, Repub- lican of Michigan, said Congress “has never witnessed such intense lobbying and brazen use of patron- age” in behalf of the legislation. Representative Lemneck, Demo- crat of Ohio, charged that the real purpose of the bill is to perpetuate the Roosevelt regime, perhaps with Harry L. Hopkins, as President. HINT IS GIVEN REPUBLICANS FOR KEYNOTE Sen. Bridges Suggests *‘De- centralization” at Maine | G. O. P. Convention | BANGOR, Me., April l.—-Repuhli-’ can Senator H. S. Bridges, of. New Hampshire, declared that the key-| note of the 1938 Republican party | should be “decentralization” of gov-| ernment. i Senator Bridges spoke before the‘ annual Republican State Conven-| tion. He declared that too much| power is flowing from Congress mwi the hands of the President. He said | that the reorganization bill was| conclusive evidence of this fact. | Senator Bridges also condemned government spending, the unbal-| anced budget, relief policies and other governmental activities. | Senator Bridges predicted that the time had come for the Republican | party to take over the matters which he charged had been “bungled” by the New Deal. | ———-——— STILL IN HOSPITAL | Mexico Ousts Foreign Oil Men 7 X fictured in Mexico City, Justice Alfredo Inarritu (left) of the Mexican Supreme Court, reads the historic decision which resulted in the expro- priation of properties of non-domestic oil companies by the government. Latest reports reveal that nearly a bundred American, British and Dutch oil men are fleeing the Isthmus of Tehuantepec because of threats against their lives. Commander at STOCKS BACK ~ Syomen ON RECOVERY ™ P Chnset "LEDGE TODAY nc[: has announced that Gen. Sir Shares Take Advance After Edmond Ironside has been appoint- ed commander-in-chief at Gibral- Some Hit New Lows for Long Period tar to succeed Gen. Sir Charles Har- «ngton Gen. Tronside will take over com- mand of the Gibraltar base next autumn. He commanded the Allied forces at Archangel during the in- tervention in the Bolshevik Revo- NEW YORK, April 1. — Stocks Jution. In 1933 he was made quarter- climbed back on the recovery ledge master general in India. today with gains of one to three T S Y points generally predominating and n I G G s Is N E a few issues much more after hit- ting five years lows yesterday. | Succeeds O'Connor Who Resigned tc Run for The ascent was rather labored ! with the ticker frequently motion- Governor of Cal. less. Transfers shares. A boom on the Paris Bourse and inspired rumors of an Anglo-Italio agreement which lessen the danger of European wars helped to prop | domestic lists on the New York Stock Exchange. Brokers however, said the day’s' wASHINGTON, April 1.—A form- support appeared to have been pro- er Jawyer from Dallas, Texas, Mar- vided by bargain hunters and sha) Diggs, took charge of the Nat- traders who believe the reversal of jona) Bank system today as acting the lengthy down trend is over due comptroller of the Currency. to demands of steels, coppers, motors | and farm implements. Wall Street attributed the steady ,qvent of the New Deal. He has fall heretofore to Washington over spent most of his five years in uncertainties and disappointing bus- washington on special assignment iness news. were around 900,000 Diggs is a lawyer who came to the e Corporation. NE;OS[{)Q;I: QAI;’?:AlTI_ON&mmg‘ Diggs took over after the resigna- ¥ » 5 % tion of J. F. T. O’Connor became n}uolanun of .A-lflbkfl Jun‘eau mx'm' effective today. O'Connor quit to stock today is 9, American Can| .., s Governor of California, It 8%, American Light and Power|y, o.iy o'Gonnor would leave for 3%, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem |y, o\ o000 oo tew dnys. Steel 42%, Commonwealth and o 2 D s ek ——-—————— R. F. C. LOAN BILL Southern 1, Curtiss Wright 32, Gen- eral Motors 27%, International Har- vester 5212, Kennecott 29%, New York Central 11%, Southern Pa- cific 10%, United States Steel 41%, Cities Service 1'%, Pound $4.96%, Pennsylvania Railroad 15%. PASSES SENATE, SENT T0 HOUSE Legislation Provides Aid to Business—Also Pub- lic Projects DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 103,02,‘ rails 19.81, utilities 15.86. COURT GIVES 90 WORKERS $450 TOTAL Cannery Union Must Give Each Man Five Dol- lars, Judge Says SEATTLE, April 1.—A court to- day awarded 90 Filipino and negro cannery workers- judgments of $5 each against the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborer’s Union. Employees charged that the union WASHINGTON, April 1. — The Senate has passed, and sent to the House, the bill to give the Recon- struction Finance Corporation wide and new authority to lend to bust- ness enterprises, also to revive RFC loans to states and subdivisions for public works. " ¥ = . The bill makes available a billion and one half dollars for long time loans. Jesse Jones, RFC Chairman, said the measure will permit of 5 to 10 year loal mercial banks will not undertake. ‘Loans for public construction will be permitted only when self-liquid- | Office of the Comptroller with the | /to the Federal Deposit Insurance FIERCE FIGHT “RAGES THROUGH - CHINESE TOWN Stubborn G;\—'i—lla Warfare Holds Nippon Troops in Check JAPS TRYING FOR GRAND CANAL PUSH Farmer Army of China Is Carrying Battle from House to House SHANGHAI, April commanders along the Pukow railway line today struggled to get reinforcements down to Tai- erchwang, key city to an advance 1.—Japanese over the Grand Canal on the rail- road junction at Suckow. With backs to battered walls, the Chinese are carrying on a desperate defense of the little city on a narrow {guage railroad east of the main | Tientsin-Pukow line. | Reinforcements for the Japanese | were started from the capital at | Thinan, but were reported to have | been stopped by Chinese guerilla at- }(acks along the railroad | After eight days of the fiercest | sort of street fighting, Japanese | troops took advantage of a brief lull | and launched a new attack preced- | ed by tanks and an artillery barrage. Tientsin- | Anti-Fascists Riot in New York’s Times Square Above is a scene snapped as New York police clashed ) in a monster anti-Nazi demonstration at Times Square. The riot s was arrested. Der Fuehrer was | carrying a huge effigy of Hitler, NAVAL PLANE ¢ Austria. Contaminated - NIGHT FLYING Cancer Serum IS ABANDONED | The fresh attack was quickly dis-! | rupted and again turned into more taking place in every street and ev- ! ery building. HOOVER WARNS AGAINST TIES - WITH BRITAIN Implies Fascism Is Rotting! This Country Through Planned Economy NEW YORK, April President Herbert Hoover told a meeting of the Council on| Foreign relations here that the Uni-| ted States should avoid any, alliance | with other democracies such as England and France, against the Fascist powers. Hoover said, however, United States should be Fascism rot this country planned economy. He' said he had found that most European nations were convinced that the United States would be drawn into the néxt great war. | “It is worthy of emphasis,” he said “That FasCism has always begun in a form of planned economy. If| our own so called planned economy is not an infection from the original stream of Fascism, then it is at least a remarkable coincidence. “If the world is to keep peace we | must keep peace with the dictator- ships as well as with other forms of government.” It is said that propponents of a that the 'y lest through - | United States Foreign policy of iso- |lation are in agreement with most | sections of Hoover's speech. ——————— NO PROGRESS " REPORTED IN - LEVINE CASE Kidnapers Do Not Answer Plea Made by Minister NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. April 1 —,-— | Games Around Ha- | waiian [slands | B HONOLULU, T. H., April 1.-=The | Navy has banned night flying near | the Hawaiian Islax \fter the death of eleven navy airmen Jespite the fatalities and loss of two planes, Navy officials said the war games have demonstrated that the air fleet is invaluable. The next phase of the war games extends southward, 1200 miles to the cquator, westward to the Mid- way Islands and northward toward Alaska | The warships will tr the outline of the “defense triangle” protectin | the United Statgs from any attack | from the westward. SEARCH ABANDONED WASHINGTON, April 1. The Navy Department announced today that search had been discontinued for the plane missing with six fliers aboard in the Honolulu maneuvers. The plane dropped from sight dur- ing a rain squall on Wednesday. Search also has been discontinued for the three fliers missing after another plane crashed in the naval maneuvers.‘ The Navy Department reported ‘that one hundred thousand square miles had been searched by ships and planes before the search was given up, NEED TRADE TREATIES WASHINGTON, April 1.—Secret- ary of State Hull said today that the speech delivered last night by former President Hoover emphasiz- es the worth of recognizing trade treaties. Secretary Hull pointed out that The War Of-| street fighting with sally encounters Ban Called on Present War Department Hoover had linked the upset econ-| omic condition of the world to the warlike trend in various parts of the world. Said Hull: “This emphasizes the profound need for the program of economic appeasement now being carried forward by the United Stat- es Government.” Warning Sounded By Brit. Laborite NEW YORK, April 1.—The Brit-| Would take place through rlmmm-ih\"%"“l troops are continuing ish laborite leader, Herbert Morri- son, sounded the warning today that Europe is drifting into war. Morrison arrived in New York on board the U. 8. Liner Washington for an American speaking tour. He s to business which com-| Already to go home from St. had failed to fulfill a promise to Ann’s Hospital yesterday afternoon, obtain employment in canneries of Doug Oliver suffered a slight re-| Alaska after paying employment lapse and will be confined to the fees. In the suit, employees asked | hospital for a short time longer. |a total of $26,000. ating and where RFC finds a reas- onable assurance of repayment. Democrat Leader Barkley said it| will be “necessary to get this bill enacted as soon as possible.” will visit President Roosevelt some time between April 11 and April 16. Said Morrison: “If the Democra- cies of the world stand together, they can prevent the realization of the dictatorships ambitions.” —————— MRS. COOPER RETURNING Mrs. J. C. Cooper, wife of the Cer- —An unbroken silence was the only result today of Murray Levine’s lat- est appeal to the kidnapers of his 12-year-old son, Peter. Levine and a Larchmont, N.Y. | clergyman, Francis Coffin, named by the kidnapers as an intermedi- ary, broadcast their appeal last night on a nationwide radio hookup. Minister Coffin, Rector of St. | John’s Episcopal Church, pleaded | with the kidnapers to make another | attempt to contact him, but at noon today there had heen no response. ) ing north aboard the North Sea mother in Los Angeles, i In Govt, Hands Started Making Proper Tests ‘ BULLETIN--ORLANDO, Fla., April 1 © more persons have died after injection of cancer treatment serum. Two others are and pro- state are seriously i county cecding. Federal, vestigations WASHINGTON, April 1.—Virtu- ally all of the contaminated cancer | serum which is blamed for the death of seven persons is in the hands of | the Federal Food and Drug Admin- istration. The s mercially as “Ensol”—is said to have contained a foreign element which brought about lockjaw. | Vials of the serum arrived at the| Food and Drug Headquarters and| department biologists began imme- der, April 1. — Rebel headquarters diate tests to determine the nature | declared of the contamination. All doctors in key defense city of Lerida will be the United States who had received |in the hands of the Insurgents by shipments of the drug were notified | tonight by telegram to stop using the drug and to send their supply to Wash-| Yagues' main attacking force had ington. A food and drug inspector who was | headway | sent to Kingston, Ont., where the ance of the Loyalist defenders. | serum is manufactured, reported his department that th: to with 5,000 members of the Young Communist League arted when one of the league members, denounced for his “bloodless” conquest KEY DEFENSE Biologists Have Insurgents Claim Capture s the first|said to be hanging on desperately | CONFERENCES T0 BE RESUMED * NEXT MONDAY Reported Gathering Furth- er Data when Negotia- tions Start Again COLUMBIA RIVER MAY ABANDON ALASKA Crew BeingEd Off from Cannery Steamer Mem- on at Astoria, Oregon | SEATTLE, April 1.—Negotiations in the Alaska salmon controvery were at a standstill today but are expected to be resumed Monday of | next week after the gathering of | further statistical data on the op- erations of canneries for which the | conferences have been temporarily halted. Arthur Ellsworth, spokesman for the operators, said he saw no pro- bability of progress before next week. Federal Conciliator Joseph Cheney said yesterday that he saw hope | for settlement and the delay in | the negotiations was caused by the | desire of the operators to assemble more data. CITY LERIDA IS ATTACKED suav cosenss | ALASKA OPERATIONS | ASTORIA, Ore., April 1.—The Co- lumbia River Packers Association | announced today that it would not | pack fish in Alaskan waters this year unless a price settlement is | reached with the unions. The an- | mouncement said. -the. . Association | wouid lay off crews preparing the Will Be Made Before Night Fall BULLETIN' — BARCELONA, April L—Spanish Loyalist De- | .,nnery steamer Memon for use in fenders at Lerida sent back ur- | Alaska. gent calls for reinforcements | and supplies today as they clung | PICKET FISH COMPANY g b S| OFFICE IN KETCHIKAN et g ! | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 1.— PR Bk | sympathizers of the Pacific Coast Government of! | | Fishermen’s Union bearing banners, | picketed the San Juan Fishing | Company office here today in con- nection with a controversy origin- ating in Grays Harbor, Wash., last December over the asserted charge that the company was buying crabs below the minimum agreed price. George Bambrick, union business agent, said there was no strike in Ketchikan but that similar picket- ing to what is being done here is expected in thg Northwest United States ports, | Jack Maloca, San Juan buyer, | said he did not know why the Ket- chikan office was selected for pick- eting, supplies would be s front tonight. Dispatches from Madrid re- ported that the Loyalist offen- sive on the Guadalajara Front nerthwest of the old capital was continuing against strong Insur- gent resistance. HENDAYE, French-Spanish Bor- today that the Loyalist The rebel spokesman said Gen, reached the city and was making despite the stiff resist-| ——et——— MAYOR JUDSON The Loyalists in the city were occasion where the drug brought| and to be risking life in the hope about any deaths. He said it had|that reinforcements would be sent DIES HERE flF been distributed for the past two|to help stop the Insurgent drive. | years without any adverse reac- he Insurgents continued their tions. |steady pressure against the Loyal- | : i e e list lines on both wings of the| | Aragon front and pushed farther | BELL PHONE COMPANY WILL i REDUGE RATES = FCC Comn;issioner Tells| Congress Costs Have . | Been Too High | WASHINGTON, April 1. Walker, Federal |eastward. At the northern end of | |the line, just below the French Death Claims Prominent | frontier, | of Communications | Capital the Insurgents were east Boltana. On the southern end | of the line the drive continued to- ward the seaport of Tortosa in the | southernmost Province of Cata~| Citizenat 7: 50 o’Clock Last Evening Mayor Thomas B. Judson of Ju- | neau, 55 years old, died at 7:50 o'~ clock last night in St. Ann’s Hos- DOMINATING POSITIONS | pital. ARE REPORTEL SEIZED Seriously ill for the past four | months and confined to the Hospi- ZARAGOZA, April l—Insurgent|tal since March 21, after a trip Commanders announce they havelsouth for medical care in January, seized positions dominating Lerida Mayor Judson succumbed to heart Paul A.|and occupation of the Provincial|trouble. His illness had caused his in Northeastern Spain| withdrawal from the city mayorality Commissioner, today informed Con-|aWwaits only a clean-up of the Segre race on March 23 and ended years gress that the Bell Telephone Com- | River Valley pany would reduce its rates 25 per- cent. | Walker said the rate | tion of “unneces arily high costs.” It is said the costs resulted from | citadel. certagin policies in manufacturing, reduction | the hillsides about Lerida, of cutstanding service to Juneau Battling with tanks and machine | and Alaska. guns through the olive groves on| gerving Juneau as mayor for the the In- past year, also from 1926 to 1932, and an acting on the City Council from encircling movement on the historic 11923 to 1925, Mayor Judson also | servéd the Territory as a member of This is expected to be the last|the House of Representatives in 1923. engineering, depreciation and book-| Major barrier to Barcelona on the| He had made his home in Juneau keeping, for which the American | Mediterranean Coast which is now and vicinity for 35 years, and ex- Telegraph Company had been re- | €xpected to fall shortly sponsible. SONS OF NORWAY | cept when holding the position of - - - SEEKS UNCLE Anne Canning of 33 Gouier Street, | St. Johns, New Foundland, is seek- MEET TOMORROW in¢ her uncle, Richard Canning, The Sons of Norway meet at 8 who operated a fishing boat in Al-|employed at the Treadwell mill. He o'clock tomorrow with O. Swanson aska four years ago when last | mayor, was engaged as a mining | engineer., | In Alaska in 1903 | Mayor Judson came to Alaska in {1903 and from then until 1917 was and his family then went south, in charge for the evening which is| heard of, according to her commun- | returning here a few years later to be marked by cards, refreshments | i¢ation to R. H. Stevens, Secretary | when he was employed by the Al- tified Public Accountant, is return- and dancing Pinochle and whist will be played, after having been called south a‘and prizes will be awarded. Mem- few weeks ago by the death of her|bers and invited friends will be pres- ent for the affair of the Juneau Chamber of Com- “askm.!unuu'm!ne and later by lo- cal mining camps. Born in Brant, N.Y., on April 10, 1882, Mayor Judson would have (Continued on Page Six) merce. Any one having information of Canning’s whereabouts should | communicate with the niece or w!th Mr. Stevens here in Juneau.