The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 9, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CHENEY REPORTS PROGRESS WITH SALMON DISPUTE Arbitration gi‘e!racked for Fact-Finding Group, Mediator Says [ SEATTLE, April 9.—Joseph Chen- | ey, mediator in the salmon fishing | dispute between employees and can- | nery operators, said today that a fact-finding group was making pro- gress in the controversy. “The idea of an arbitration boarc has been abandoned for a fact-| finding,” Cheney said,” “and I am considering calling a Sunday con- ference of the belligerent: Alaska Fishermen unionists voted 61 tc 6 to reject any wage decreas- | es in the dispute, it was announced William Hecker, union agent, said the vote was taken at the request of Mediator Cheney. The cannery operators had asked | the employees to take a 10 percent wage cut this season, due To the low price of salmon, they said. CORDOVA CLAM DIGGERS UNION NAMED IN SUIT Six of Its Ofllcers Arrested| on Charges of Violating Anti-trust Law CORDOVA, April 9.—The Cordova Clam Diggers Union No. 10,208 and six of its members have been named defendants in charges filed in Com. missioner’s court here aceusing the union and its officers of conspiring to violate the Sherman Anti-trust Act The complaint was brought by E ral diggers who contended they purchased Federal clam diggers' enses but were refused a union per- mit so that the canneries reiused to accept their clams, They charged the union closed its books to new members last February 6. The six union members arrested | have been released on their own re- cognizance pending a hearing today. NAVY EXPANSION PROGRAM IS NOW BEING PUSHED Two More Blg Ba!!leshnps to Be Started Before First of Year WASHINGTON, April 9. — The administration is speeding the fleet expansion program and hopes to have six battleships under construc- tion by the end of the year, it was reported. Two of them may be mon- sters of 43 to 45 thousand tons, but no decision has been reached. Assistant Secretary of Navy Edi- son said the Navy expects to start work before December 31 on the first of these two. The House Naval Af- fairs committee has revealed that it is asking funds to start two more. Work already is progressing on the 35,000-ton North Carolina and ‘Washington. SENATE PASSES 5 BILLION DOLLAR TAX MEASURE Amends Bilm Make Fed-| eral Securities Sub- ject to Taxation ‘ WASHINGTON, April 9. — The Senate today approved by a vote of 34 to 33 an amendment to the five billion dollar tax bill to make future issues of Federal securities subject to taxation. The action was | taken shortly before final Dassage | of the bill. The measure would repeal the undistributed profits tax and over- haul other administration tax pro- posals which have been criticized | by business. | FISH WERE RUNNING—but why run?—with these fair anglers at Harvey Wood's fishing school at Long Beach, Cal. FLOATING LEG RAISES TORSO | KILLER SCORE Severed H;Qiof Woman Also Seen Floating n River Nearby CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 9.—A dismembered leg round floating in the Cuyahoga River tod: be- lieved to be that of the eleventh victim in four years of Cleveland's “torso Killer.” Coroner S. R. Gerber said the murderer’s technique was similar to that in ten other unsolved deaths of four women and six men. The first body was found in Sep- tember, 1934, and the others at reg- ular intervals since. Dredgers in the Cuyahoga liver also reported seeing a woman's severed head floating in the river as detectives searched the river's banks with some of the dredging crew to help identify the eleventh victim, Dredgers said they saw the tloat- ing head a short distance from where a part of the dismembered leg was found by WPA workers yes- terday. Coroner Gerber was skilled in anatomy probably demented. CHINESE FORCE JAPANESE BACK, CENTRAL CHINA Dlsorgamzed Nippon Army Faces Annihihation, Is Report killer was said the and SHANGHAI, April 9.—The Chin- ese High Command claims the Jap- anese have been defeated at Taier-| chwang and this had opened the| way for annihilation of the disor- ganized Japanese forces in Central China. The Japanese spokesman denied the reported Chinese success but however admitted that the big push on ihe Lunghai Railway has been delayed by “resistance.” MEDIATION ASKED LONDON, April 9.—The diploma- | tic editor of the London Daily Sketch said this morning that Japan has taken semi-official stem‘ to get the British government to, mediate for a settlement of the war with China. The newspaper said that the Jap- | |anese approached British diplomats| when it became apparent that China’s resistance is stiffening. ‘The article added that the Chin- ese dictator, Chiang Kai Shek will | refuse to negotiate untill all Jap- anese troops withdraw from Chin-| ese soil. ‘Tripods, Flags All Set On Nenana Ice NENANA, Alasl Tripods and flag for the a ual bres ice. A light snow fall and thick ice has the contest wizard guessing as to when the ice will move. eeeseccssscsse BRIT. PREMIER SAYS WAR NOT LOOMING NOW Chanhesdaid. Tak:' Public, Government Is Not Ex- pecting Any Conflict a. April 9. are all set ak-up of the escoscssse o | Deople, RELIEF FOR REFUGEES T0 BE TAKEN UP President Invites Eight Prominent Men for Wednesdav Confab VVASHIN(vTON A)nll 9.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has telegraphed in- | vitations asking eight prominent men to confer with him Wednes- day on the problem of relief for| German and Austrian refugees. The conference follows acceptance of a | number of countries of the United States proposal to establish an| international committee to facilitate refugee work Those invited to the White Housc; included Raymond Fosdick, of the Rockefeller Foundation; Bernard | Baruch, Henry Morgenthau, S the Archbishop of New Orlea most Rev. Jflln(‘i Rummel ~ PEOPLE AR SCARED, SAYS HERB HUUVER Former Presndent Makes | Statement on Homecom- | ing flom [:urope SAN l"nANle 0, Cal., April 9. Herbert . Hoover said the American rather than business, is cared” at the economic trend. “It is nonsense to say that either big or little business is on a strike,” | said Hoover. “It is not so. Business I'is yearning to sell automcbiles and| new suits. It is the people who are scared.” Hocver spoke on his homecom- ing after an Furopean tour. He re- iterated criticism of planned econ- y CLOSES TOWN ON ACCOUNT, LABOR STRIFE LONDON, April 9.—Prime Min-| ister Neville Chamberlain assured the British public last night that the government is not expecting war in the immediate future. The Premier said there is no alterna- tive to rearmament. However he advised the public to get out of their minds the idea that a war is expected soon. Chamberlain reiterated his re- fusal to promise to help defend countries where Britain has no vital “~*erests. Chamberlain asked patience re- garding the current talks between Great Britain and Italy. He de- |clared that already the talks had \blown away much of the misunder- sl.andlng between the two countries. ————————— BOLT TO ClO, BACK TO AFL i PORTLAND, Oregon, April 9.— | The AFL forces announced today that the mill Workers of Wesi Ore- |gon Lumber Company who bolted |to the CIO, have returned w the | AFL. The AFL claims this is the eighth| {of ten unions which went CIO last summer, to return to the AFL fold. It is said the boycott on the West Oregon Company will be lifted im- mediately. BROWER FLIES FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 9. — Barrow trader, Charles Brower, and | his daughter Sadie, were passengers with Harold Gillam over the Endi-| cott Mountains today for Brower’s | northern home. Brower will be in charge of erec- tion this summer of the Govern- ment Indian hospital at Point Bar- .row, and will supervise prelimin- ary plans for the Post -Rogers Mem- orial expedition. Gillam’s plane is ski<equipped. T0 PT. BARROW Roads Are—éfocked Into Crockett — Officers Armed with Gas CROCKETT, Cal, April 9.--A:d | roads are blocked into Crockett 2: Sheriff John Miller declared a “statle of emergency” existed in this AFL- CIO battleground. The Sheriff permitted only resi- dents or persons with wynumvv- business to enter the town w has been successively invaded uu\ week by strong contingents of the two labor groups from the Bay Cities. One hunred and lifty officers armed with nausea and gas bombs |are ready to check any .rencwal of | | violence growing out of the sirike in the California-Hawaii Sugar Re- { finery. Sheriff Miller has warned vomen and children not to leave their | homes near the plant and also to stay away from possible battle- grounds, FOR PLANNING SUMMER TRIP President, According to Friends, to Leave on Fishing Vacation WASHINGTON, April 9.—Close friends of President Rooscvelt said the Chief Executive is considering a long summer fishing trip and may |go to the Galapogos Islands, Lee- |ward and Windward, in the Carib- bean, of Maderia. The President, it is said, hopes | to get away by mid-July if Congress |adjourns. He expects to return be- |fore the primaries and fall voting.| ————————— ON VACATION Chede Paul, clerk in the Bureau| did not show their inclination 07€| ywitp back pay of 27 fired before of Public Roads, is sailing tomor- row on the Alaska for a month’s vn-‘ cation trip to the States. She ex- | pects to spend most of her time in| ‘Bealllr | The family of Charles Machemer is shown settling down for the night in the corridor of the old City Hall building at Reading, Pa. Besides Director Edwin Moore they would evicted from their home. The Mr. and Mrs. Machemer there are ten children. The father told Relief remain in the building until other shelter is provided. They had been Machemers may soon be joined by other families who face eviction. Merrill Gets Harmon Trophy FLIER MAKES | President Roosevelt is shown congratulating Hen after prsuntlng him with the coveted Harmon trophy, annual award of the Ligue International des Aviateurs for the year’s most outstanding hievement in aviation. Merrill got the trophy, which had gone to such fliers as Howard Hughes, Wiley Post ana Col. Lindbergh, for his round- trip flight to Europe with the coronation pictures. Gold from Under s Mining Sea, at Bluff, MERCY TRIP IN BLIZZARD Pilot Pits Skill Against Storm to Rescue Man Stalled in Snow KANSAS CITY, Mo, April |Pilot Jack Boyle pitted his |against a blizzard last night to the life of a hospital patient. The patient, E. P. Green, fell critically ill in Jefferson City. Physicians started for a Kansas City hospital by automobile with Green The car stalled in deep drifts. Word was sent to Kansas City that the patient must be res- cued quickly if his life was to be saved, Pilot Boyle took off in the dan- gerous weather on the errand of mercy. He landed his plane on the snow near the stalled automo- bile and then flew Green through the blizzard to Kansas City. An ambulance met the plane at the air field. Doctor say Green's life may be |saved. 9.— skill save . (Dick) Merrill East of Nome; —— e Excellent Rosults, So Far sllamams Bemg 6ROSS BOOSTS PUBLIC OWNED POWER PLANTS The results of balloting on the question of public owned utilities in Juneau in the recent city election, |according to W. D. Gross, promin- ent Juneau business man, “h proven conclusively that the people of Juneau in the greater inajorivy, want utilities owned and operated by the city.” “It was publicity stated by a foe of publicly owned utilities recently,” Mr. Gross said today, “That this vote showed the people far from in f of owning city utilities. It was <Lum- ed in this statement that the vote of | 789 to 414 proved this. “It is obvious that the figures show instead an overwhelming ma- | question, | jority in favor of the and it is my belief that those lew who voted against the question are for the greater part not property owners.” Mr. Gross also raised question the claim by oppesition that the who did not vote for against public utilities were in fact a2zainst! the proposition. “There is nothing,” Mr. said, “To lead anyone to those who did not vote are favor of public owned utiiities is every bit as logical a supposit to claim that those people are in favor of the city operating its own utilities. By not voting, those people purposefully or forgetfully, Gross not in 1t | way or the other.” On the question of 65 per cent of | the voters favoring or not favor-|pp, public owned utilities, Gross (Continued on Page Six) ing on believe | ’| ment FAIRBANKS, Alaska Joe Sullivan, who said he mined $175,000 in gold from under the sea at Bluff, 60 miles east of Nome, in two months last winter, h: air- planed to Bluff, via Nome, for an- other season’s operations. Sullivan said he has a ¢ ing through the ice testing the ground and hopes to recover goll 800 feet from the shore. He said the “creek channel pay” is sub- merged by land dropping since pre- 3 historic times into the sea and| HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Bor- moved over to its present location der, April 9.—There are conflicting as an extension of Daniels Creek reports from the Spanish war front, |and is not beach gold. especially in the south. e e e Insurgents claim they are near- | ing the Mediterranean and the Loy- j‘LaI]ur Buard alits claim the move is blocked and Rules Against | Reuuhlm Steel April 9. Urged to Stick ToDefenseLines Premier Negrin Asks for Recruits — Conflict- ing Battle Reports w drill- tosa. rom Madeid comes report that Premier Juan Negrin has issued an appeal for recruits. Loyalist planes are also reported flying over Barcelona dropping leaf- lets urging the Loyal Spaniards to stick to their defenses. Orders 5,000 Back to Work, Reinstatement, Back | Pay for Others BARCELONA STREETS DARK BARCELONA, April 9. The streets of Barcelona were dark last night as a result of the capture |of the power plants around Tremp by the Spanish Insurgents. The temporary capital had some elec- tricity from emergency steam plants. The street cars ran as usual. Except for the dark streets the city appeared almost normal. Meanwhile the Insurgent armies continued their drive toward the French f{rontier, Airplanes bombed the railroad line between Barcelona and France. Another column struck toward the town of Vinaroz, 28 miles south of Tortosa. The Insurgents made sub- stantial gains. The object of the drive was to get in position for a flank attack on the Loyalist army defending Tortosa. WASHINGTON, April 9—The National Labor Relations Board has decided the Republic Steel Corpor- ation violated the Wagner Labor Act on eight counts during and be- fore the hl’)ud) little steel,” strike last sh | rd ordered the reinstate- 000 strikers in the dispute with pay Starting from yesterday; |breakup of employee representaticn plans in five plants; reinstatement strike and pay to empldyees of Canton tin plate mill ang the on works for pay lost during hutdown from May 14 to 19, year { the the | the | last - FOR PRESIDENT - INSIX YEARS Aclmn Clalmed as Direct Repudiation of Chief Ex- ecutive’s Policies MEASURE SENT BACK | BY VOTE 204 TO 196 Wild .Disorder Reigns as | Result of Vote Is An- | nounced, House Floor WASHINGTON, April 9.—Frank- lin D. Roosevelt suffered the worst defeat of his six years as President last night when the House gave the Administration a terrific beating by voting 204 to 196 to send the Re- organization Bill back to the Com- mittee. The House action is said to be a direct repudiation of the Presi- dent. Democratic leaders admitted that | the vote killed the bill and one lead- er said the action is interpreted as | a vote of lack of confidence in the | President. | It was the third Roosevelt setback |at this session of Congress. The first was when the House recom- mitied the Wage and Hour Bill and the second was when the House refused (o place a special surtax on | family owned corperations. Plead to Uphold President The vote was taken after both Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader Rayburn declared flatly that | defcat of the bill would mean repu- | diation of Mr. Roosevelt and bot! | men pleaded to uphold the Presi. dent. Rebellious Democrats teamed with the Republicans, Progressives, and Farm Laborites to pass the recom- mital motion. The House floor was a scene of wild tumult immediately after the vote was announced. The packed galleries broke into an uproar of cheers, booes and wild stamping. Twice within the last 11 days, the President personally took the field on behalf of the bili. He condemned what he branded as an organized telegram lobby to defeat the Re- organization measure. Later he made his famous midnight “No Diec- tator” statement to allay fears ex- pressed by opponents of the meas- ure, in a frantic effort to avert dis- aster, ‘The House leadership conceded amendment after amendment to placate the embattled opposition with compromises. Try to Reconsider After the fatal vote, House lead- ers pleaded for a vote to recon- sider. Speaker Bankhead listened hopefully but a thundering chorus of “no’s” rang through the House chamber. Observers admitted that one of the major factors in scuttling the meas- ure was the deluge of telegrams. | Senator Harry F. Byrd, Democrat |of Virginia, said: “The defeat is |an amazing exhibition of power of an aroused public sentiment versps the most terrific pressure on mem- bers of Congress from the Admin- istration.” Representative Arthur P. Lam- | neck, Democrat of Ohio, said: “The President said the Senate could not be purchased. I say the House can- not be purchased.” terrific battles are in progress for| possession of Barcelona and Tor-| “MAGNIFICENT REVOLT" | NEW YORK, April 9.—Dewitt M. Emery, President of the National Small Business Mens‘ Association, said: “The magnificent revolt of Congress should mark the turn of the depression tide.” Emery said the little business men disapproved of the reorgani- zation bill from the start. LANDON'S VIEWS TOPEKA, Kas., April 9.—Alfred M. Landon said that Congressional sidetracking of the Reorganization Bill is in keeping with real Demo- cracy and should encourage busi- ness. MAY HASTEN ADJOURNMENT WASHINGTON, April 9.—Admin- istration leaders said the defeat of the Reorganization Bill might hasten adjournment of Congress. Senator Carl A. Hatch, of New Mexico, said the vote might retard Administration reform efforts gens erally. Senator James F. Byrnes, of South Carolina, conferred at length today with President Roosevelt, but no hint of forthcoming plans to re- (Continued on Page Seven)