The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 4, 1938, Page 1

| 1 } e a—— THE DAILY ALASKA_ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE VOL. LI, NO. 7758. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1938, MhMBLR ASSO(.IATLD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS UNIONS TO VOTE ON ALASKA WAGE CUT Fierce OPPOSITION IS BREAKING OUT IN TWO DIRECTIONS CoaAlition of Republicans, Dissenting Democrats Buck Measure ADMINISTRATION NOW EXECUTING STRATEGY Leaders Get Sanction from President to Change Two Proposals WASHINGTON, April 1.—Admin- istration leaders are confident that their timely compromises have staved off possible defeat, but they re- fuse to make further concessions to the House opponents on the fiercely fought Government Reor- ganization bill, At the usual Sunday conference, the Administration leaders won the President’s tacit approval of two amendments hastily advanced when a coalition of Republicans and dis- senting Democrats appeared to be getting the upper hand. To Stand Pat Representative Sam Rayburn, Democratic floor leader, said as far as he knows, the Administration forces are expected to stand pat on two other controversial provis- | ions, substitution of a single Civil Service Administrator and creation of an Auditor General. Time Gained In order to gain time, House lead- ers deferred resumption of the de- bate until tomorrow. Leader Rayburn and other mem- bers of the Reorganization commit- tee outlined to President Roosevelt, two amendments, one to let Con- gress override the President’s reor- lization order by a concurrent resolution, which could be adopted by a simple majority and not to require the President’s signature. The present form requires a two- thirds vote to kill the reorganimunnl order. The second amendment would re- | tain the Bureau of Education in the Interior Department instead of being transferred, as projected, to a De- partment of Welfare. Some oppon- ents declared that the change would set up a system of control on edu- cation. No Opposition “The President expressed no op- position to the revisions,” Rayburn said, Opponents of the bill have also won a new concession, Administra- tion leaders agreeing to an amend- ment exempting the Veterans' Ad- ministration from any merger. It was feared the Veterans’ Adminis- tration might be placed in the De- partment of Public Welfare. Sino-Japanese Riot IS Pulled 0ff on Steamer Chinese Crew Battles with | Japanese Officers— Coast Guard Called SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 4. —Heads were battered and noses bloodied when a dispute over three | sick members flared into a regular Sino-Japanese riot on the freighter Kwang Yuan aboard which Coast Guardsmen were forced to fire guns in parting the Chinese crewmen and Japanese officers. It was several minutes after the| Coast Guardsmen boarded the freighter before order was finally| restored. Screams of infuriated Cninese and | sounds of rioting echoed across the | lower San Francisco Bay area. Chinese Consul General C. C. Huang charged that the sick men were denied medical treatment and were beaten by the ship’s Japanese officers, DEATH Fight Staged On Reorganization Bill ENDED FRIENDSHIP between Duke of Windsor (right) and Harry Lloyd Thomas, whose memorial serv- ices in Paris were attended by the duke and duchess. TRADING JUST DRIFTS TODAY, N.Y.EXCHANGE American T. and T Ralls and Specialties Show- Up Firmly NEW YORK, April 4—With the exception of a burst of strength in American Telephone and Telegraph | and firmness of rails and special- ties, the New York Stock Exchange | drifted in trading today. Transfers were about 700,000 shares. TODAY'S QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 4. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 94, American Can 80%, American Light and Power 4, | Anaconda 24, Bethlehem Steel 43'%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 3%, General Mo- | tors 28%, International Harvester | 56, Kennecott 307%, New York Cen- tral 12!%, Southern Pacific 11 United Sta'.es Steel 40%, Cities Ser- vice 1, Pourld $4.96%, Pennsylvania Railroad 167 | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow,| | Jones averages: industrials 105.38, | rails 21.24, utilities 16.97. | HITLER1S NOW CAMPAIGNING N BIG UNION :Addresses |50 000 Carin- thians—Tells of Fight | Made on Capitalism KLAGENFURT, Austria, April 4. | —Adolph Hitler told a gathering of /180,000 Carinthians that poverty | made him strong. Hitler arrived here to speak in his | campaign previous to Sunday's pleb- iscite on Austria’s union with Ger-| many. Hitler said: “My fight against capitalism lasted 15 years before I came into power. In those 15 years I seldom slept two successive nights |in the same bed. If anybody would ask me where my native soil is, I would answer, everywhere in Ger- my.” I 'Mother of President Is Honored NEW YORK, April 4—The ish Forum has presented Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, | with the 1938 Albert Einstein medal m humanitarianism in appreciation |of a “lifetime service to every com- mun.nl cause in lhv coun NEW FINANCE PROPOSAL 1S MADE BY BLUM French Premicr and Cab- inet Together on Sweep- ing Changes in Nation PARIS, April 4—The French Cab- inet today formally approved Pre- mier Leon Blum's sweeping financial proposals. Financiers interpreted the meas-| ure to include foreign exchange con- trol and revaluation of the france. Parliament’s approval is cohsid-‘ ered highly doubtful. Most important among ex- change in the Bank of France; the requirement that documentary evi- | dence must be produced to show the neces sale y of any purchase or | of foreign currencies before authori- zation is given; revaluation of the gold stock of the Bank of Fl‘nnce at its “actual value.” Experts said the proposals could open the way to a new devaluation of the franc and an “extraordinary bank accounts, stocks and bonds. Barkley Goes fo Mend His Fences WASHINGTON, April 4. — The | Democratc leader of the Senate, Senator Alben W. Barkley of Ken-| tucky, has started for his home to| mend his fences for the coming el- ections. Senator Barkley is one of | the Senators up for reelection this fall. The Governor of Kentucky, | “Happy” Chandler, is making a bid to capture Barkley’s Senate seat. Jew- | Premier | | Blum’s proposais are the centraliza- | tion of all dealings in foreign TWO0 WOMEN MURDERED ON TEXAS DESERT Mother and_vD;Jghler Beat- en, Tortured, Strip- ped and Shot PIECE BITTEN FROM ONE WOMAN’S ARM Fiends Bur;T(nuckles of Girl—Shoot Her in Head BULLETIN—EL PASO, April 4—The State Police received werd that an Army deserter from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, has been arrested at Alamagorda, New Mexico, as a suspect in the slaying of two women. VAN HORN, Texas, April 4. Peace officers today scoured West Texas brush country for killers who tortured, man and her daughter, G. Frome, 46, and Nancy, 23. The muderers beat them over the head with blunt instruments, it is believed, and left the iwo bodies | partially stripped, side by side on the desert. Dr. W. W. Wate, who performed an autopsy on the bodies, reported | each knuckle on the girl’s right hand ' | had been burned by a cigar or cig-' aretie. Four other burns on the back of her hand and marks upon her | baek, indicated that someone had jumped up and down upon her. She was shot through the left temple. A piece of torn flesh was found near the bodies that was believed to have been bitten from Mrs Frome's right forearm. Dr. Wate said he did not believe the elder woman had been crimin- ally attacked, but withheld decision in the daugter’s c: pending fur- ther examinatio; A searching party came upon the women'’s bodies yesterday, three days after their abandoned automobile was found near Balmorhea, on the San Antonio highway, east of Van | Horn. | “HORRIBLE TORTURK EL PASO, Texas, April 4 Th(“ bodies of Mrs. Frome and daughter, | bearing evidences of “horrible tor- tures,” have been brought here. | \ An autopsy revealed that both | women were victims of what must have been horrible torture. One slender clue, a bit of hmr found in the hand of the young wo- man spurred the hunt of those sus- pected of the slaying. | Gov. James V. Allred has offered a reward of $1,000 for information leading to arrests. .- CHAMBERLAIN STANDS PAT, BRIT. POLICY Premier Refuses to Change His Plans—**Soak 'Em” Tactics Are Used LONDON, April 4. Premier Neville Chamberlain today hlunLly to ltax” on capital holdings such as réfused the opposition demands |alter the foreign policy of (ueaL | Britain or even permit a test at a general election. | The House of Commons again be- ‘clme a wordy battleground as | supporters of the Prime Minister's Ipolicy of seeking separate pacts clashed with Labor and Liberal A Ireealor all fight between a |Rightist and Leftist was averted, after stocky Emanuel Shinwell,| Laborite, slapped the face of the | |one-time boxer, Commander Rob- lert Bower, Conservative. Both later | ‘apologwed for the scene. oo — { 1 Most of the hats known as ‘Pan- | amas” are produced not in Panama but in Equador, shot and-clubbed to death § a socially prominent California wo- | Mrs. Weston ¥ “F riendly Enemies” on Display at March Field s o ispl LOCALS BALLOT 3 "THIS EVENING ' *ON PROPOSALS Seattle, Bellingham Organ- izations to Take Ac- tion on 1938 Scale 'MAY INDICATE WHAT MOVE WILL BE MADE WA e ‘| Three Southwestern Can- neries Submit Plan Which Concerns 116 Others SEATTLE, April 4—Seattle and Bellingham locals of the Alaska Fishermen's Union vote tonight on | the wage cut proposal offered on behalf of three salmon canneries op- | erating in Southwestern Alaska. Federal Conciliator Joseph Cheney made the announcement regarding the vote to take place tonight fol- lowing a conference with union and cannery representatives. Arthur 1. Ellsworth, secre the Canned Salmon Industries “We are offering the same cut as before: Ten percent of maonthly wages in all brackets except cap- tains, engineers and certain fore- men; ten percent in percentage of |red salmon and twenty percent of | the percentage in all other grades.” Cheney saild he hoped that if a settlement of the Southwestern Al- aska issue is reached it would af- fect all other sections in which 116 c‘mm'nvs are now tied up A ' i | Like those natural enemies, cats and dogs, who become friflldlv through association, Uncle anti-aircraft gun stands beside a formidable giant Douglas DC- gun and bombing flect were recentl United States Fl OImmlin o from Alaska to Lqualor Defen.se Triangle NEWEST UNITS - OF WAR DEPT. MAKE FLIGHTS Giant Bomber and Speedy Substratosphere Craft Go to Washington NEW YORK, April 4—Two of the army’s newest units, the mental bomber XB-15, America’s largest fighting plane, and the XC- 35, the speedy sub-stratosphere war-| craft, flew to Washington today after participating in an aerial dis- play, a prelude for the celebration of Army Day Wednesday. The two planes were brought here from Dayton, Ohio, and cruised over New York, then continued the flight to Washington. | Maj. Gen, Oscar Westover, Chief of the Air Corps, is in command of the XB-15 MAN FROZEN INBLIZZARD IN MONTANA Second Victim of Storm| Located Not Far from Farmhouse experi- Russians were found. JOPLIN, Mont., April 4. — The frozen body of Ralph Fremo, 48.| the second victim of the blizzard in Montana, was found early today, three miles from his farmhouse from which he disappeared last Tuesdny.J 1]"‘ econd annual Ordnance AMENDMENTS T0 LABOR AC - NOW PROPOSED HONOLULU‘ T. H,, April 4—The| | vast area of the Pavi(lc' ocean, ex- 1 chanl tending from Alaska to the equa- tor and westward 1,300 miles, today became the area for the war games of the United States Fleet. The fleet went into action early today, resuming the annual six weeks maneuvers. For the next month the warcraft will work out problems over the defense triangle extending from Al- aska to the equator and protecting! the United States mainland from attack from the west. Secrecy surrounds all plans. Don't Aid China, Japanese Telling -Soviet Union Now Protest Is Lodged in Mos- cow—Threat Hint Ex- pressed in Warning am's 2 bombing plane used by the army. ly on display at March Field, Cal, during the Department field day. 'BRIDGES OPENS LWU SESSION; + PROPOSES FIGHT \Makes Attack on Shipown- ers and Copeland Mer- arine Bill ABERDEEN, Wash. April 4.—De- claring that the Pacific Coast has already had two samples of meth- ods of shipowners, Seattle and the more recent San Pedro “lockouts,” Harry Bridges, President of the In- SUN VALLEY, Idaho, April 4. __!ternational L?ngshormens and Warehousemens’ Union, opened the The United States| piry 11,wy convention here. Department of Commerce Advisory| Bridges said that maritime labor Council today heard demands for faced one of its greatest problems amendments to the Labor Relations in the Copeland Merchant Marine Act, | Bill and “we are forced at this con- The Advisory Council members, in | vention to plan to counteract the the first meeting in the west, con- bill in every possiblle way. The ferred with Idaho business leaders, agreement with the shipowners ex- the session being held behind closed | pires next September 30 but the op- doors. erators are already cutting wages It is understood the amendments and speeding up installation of are in the interest of recovery, re- machinery, cutting in some places employment, peace and general pro-|50 percent of the men and putting gress. them out of jol The Advisory Council was named | Bridges said his deportation hear- to hold hearings and then advise the ing on April 25 is on “frame-up and Government on what business thinks | false charges and supposed evi- should be dler’ to h\]p the nation | dence secured by stool pigeons.” Delegates at today’s convention | rigistered from coast ports, Alaska | to San Pedro. Between 150 and 200 delegu!e~ are expected to be regis- AUTO ACCIDENTS CAUSE DEATH OF MANY IN STATES Eighty-four 1s Toll of Lives Taken in Nation Over Week-End CHICAGO, Ill, April 4.-—Auto- mobile accidents killed at least 84 eet Now Advisory Council Gets Sug- gestions During Hear- ing in Idaho members of the BATTLESHIPS, 45,000 TONS, ARE PLANNED Admiral Makes Request— Says It Is Answer of U. S. to All Nations MOSCOW, April 4.—Japan today protested to Russia against military assistance being given China by the Soviet Union. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan’s Am- | bassador, warned Foreign Commis- | sar Litvinoff, that Russia will have | to assume the responsibility of con- | sequences if such aid to China *is continued. Japan based her protest on the| shooting down of a Soviet plane near | Nanking in’ which the bodies of two | Another bomber was shot down| v ~ | near Wuhu last month and two Rus-| WASHINGTON, April 4 *Adm"ffl sians were killed and one captured | Léahy today asked the Senate Nav- The captured man was identified|d Affairs Committee to authorize | as Mikhael Donin who is quoted as | |increase in capital ship tonnage in | telling the Japanese that he left|the billion dollar Naval Expansion Leningrad in October with more | Bill so that it would be permitted persons in the nation during the than 10 Soviet fliers, went to Han-|'0 construct three 45,000 tons bat-| weekend. kow via Chinese Turkestan. | tieships Oklahom led with 12 deaths. S5 Admiral Leahy said this is the| Other leading states were Ala- bama, California and Pennsylvania with five each, Massachusetts and Illinois, four each. There were 900,000 more private '®Ply to any nation regarding the automobiles on the roads of Brit-|United States proposal to go over ain in 1937 than in 1928, the London Naval Treaty.