The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1938, Page 1

DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE VOL. LL, NO. 7767. ‘BOATS SAIL AS FISH PACT CONCLUDES JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS " Gigantic Recovery Program Is Proposed e 1 SEVENBILLION Star Portrays Easter Season - DOLLAR PLAN IS ANNOUNGED,FDR Measures to Beat Recession Are Presented to Con- gress Today PRESIDENT HITS AT REACTIONARY FORCE Declare lerMust Work Together—What Is Need- ed Now Is “Will” WASHINGTON, April 14.—Presi- dent Rocsevelt today proposed a seven billion dollar Recovery Pro- rram. embracing five billion dollars for Federal spending and lending, wud wwo billion dollars for expan- 1 of bank credit. Setting forth to Congress measures L; which he said the Government | could “help start the upward spir- | al,” by summoning “the unlimited | Nztional will,” and make a vigorous | attack on recession, the President | told the legislators, who recently dealt a stunning blow to the major Administration measures, “that our capacity is limited oniy by our ability to work together, and what | is needed is will, and the time has come to bring that will into action | with every driving force at our command. I am determined to do | my share.” | Coeperation President, Roosevelt declared that the will to cooperate places “on all of us the duty of self-restraint. | There can be no dictatorship by | individual or by group in this na- tion save through a division foster- | ed by hate.” e | Three Groups in Program The President divided his pro- gram into three groups. | The first group involves mainly the addition of appropriations for | the fiscal year beginning July 1. This is for one billion, two hundred fifty million dollars for Works Progress, one hundred and seven- | ty-five million dollars for the Farm Security Administration, fifty, mil- lion dollars for CCC, one billion. | five hundred million dollars avail- able for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for lending to business enterprises. Second Group | The second group contains meas- | ures for three hundred million dol- lars for the immediate expansion of the housing and slum clearance work of the United States Housing Authority; one billion four hundred and fifty miliion dollars for Public | Works loans and grants and an additional one hundred million dol- | lars for public roads, additional | thirty-seven million dollars for flood | lized by beautiful Gail Pat- _movie star, who is posed with one of the lilies which grace the conservatory of her Hollywood home. - J ob Seekers C&using Wor;yfl at Fairbanks; Many Without Food APPROPRIATION BILLS REVEAL MANY SECRETS Amazing Number of Things Government Is Doing Brought to Light By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 14, — You mever really leafn the amazing number of things the gpvernment is doing until you read the report of hearings on , the appropriation bills. The hearings are held in secret in House committee first. and Sen- ate committee next. It is most fun to read the House committee re- ports which are given out after- wards. The members seem to be control and reclamation projects al- | nocsecsed of a sort of childish curi- ready authorized, and an addition- gty ang want to know whether al_twenty-flve million for public | e government pays for the wine buildings. | the diplomats serve at formal ban- Third Group quets and whether a battleship can The third group listed referred (Continued on Page Eight) HOW GONGRESS TAKES PLAN OF REGOVERY MOVE Democrats Sure for Pro- posal, But Republi- cans Are Not WASHINGTON, April 14.—Demo-| crats of Congress said generally that | President Roosevelt’s relief pro- gram will break the backbone of de- pression. Republicans assailed further ef- forts at “pump priming.” House Democratic leader Ray- burn called the President’s’ message ditions confronting the country. House Republican leader Snell re- marked that he did not see “much/| that the resources of this country are almost running dry.’ to hand battle. The committees call the top- ranking generals, cabinet officials, admirals and diplomats as wit- nesses to explain why they should | get all the money they ask for. If Rep. Sam Jones of Squeedunk wants to know if the state depart- ment has any spies he is likely to get an answer, although if his questions become too rambling his fellow committee members will | squelch him. | "Just for sport, thumb through the House committee hearings on {the War Departmént appropria- | tions bill, 400-VOLUME HISTORY On page 99 we learn that the army |is compiling a documentary history |of the American expeditionary forc- !es in the World War. It will run to 40,000,000 words, that is about 400 volumes the size of “Gone With the Wind." The Civil War history ran to 70,- PR " 000,000 words, almost two times as as a “masterful portrayal” of con- o0 "y wag finished in 1902, The World War job is about one-fourth finished—in 20 years, (Continued on Page Six) . lick a coast defense gun in hand | . Another 50 pages and vcu learn died last January, directed in his use in priming the pump unless| .y the army makes no allowance Wwill that the residuary of his es- sure there is some water in the well,| ¢, yine paiq by officers when trav- tate be used to establish and oper- eling. The officers get eizht cents ate a chain of free cafeterias for i FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 14—/ The influx of job seekers has caused new Mayor Leslie Nerland to radio Gov. John W. Troy, at Juneau, ask- ing if funds are available for re- lief Mayor Nerland said many of those coming here are now without food. He estimates that 300 are without work., Job seekers are coming here on every train from the coast. Restaurants are unable to extenc further credit. The Fairbanks Chamber of Com- merce has appointed a committee to study the situation and may ask for a CCC camp. Mining camps are gradually start- ing but they are not abscrbing al' of the labor applying for jobs. ———.-—— NEW IDEA TO BE DEVELOPED BY WAR DEPT. Bombers Will Attempt to Drop Food, Forage to Cavalry Troops WASHINGTON, April 14, — The Army is developing a foreign mili- tary idea and will undertake to sup-| ply thirty Cavalry troopers and| their horses from the air in a four- day test beginning today. Secretary Woodring announced | that bombers would drop, by para- chutes, food and forage daily to an isolated cavalry platoon near Bal- morhea, Texas. | The regular - garrison ration will be supplied by the bombers. | Free'céfa'tér—i;s | Provided for in | Will uf_Mercham; | NEW YORK, April 14, — William | Lowenstein, leather merchant, who| the hungry. HULL URGED TO KEEP JAP FISHING 0UT nt Committee Ask Final Agreement with [okyo. on Bering Sea HOSTILITY ‘GREAT AGAINST NiPPONS Afis Patvol to: Keep -For- eign Vessels Under Con- - stant Surveillance SEATTLE, April 14.—Miller Frees man, Chairman of the Joint Coms mittee for Protection of Pacifi¢ Coast Pisheries, has released a .o ter sent to Secretary of State C dell Hull asking c inued negotia+ ticns with Japan regarding the Ber- ing Sea fisheries The letter asks the United States to effect an establishment of juris+ diction for this country over sal: mon and other food fish in Ameriy can waters. “Our Pacific fishing industry,” reads the communication, “will be in serious jeopardy until American jurisdiction is established over the fisheries adjacent to the Pacific Coast as a whole. “We cannot be satisfied with less, the letter said. Patrol Urged The Committee urged establish- ment of a patrol by the Navy and the Coast Guard and other vessels to observe the activities of all North Pacific and Bering Sea foreign fish- ing vessels. The patrol would include persons familiar with fishing gear practices. The letter to Secretary Hull said s g g N ncouver Island Gold WS T The lure of geld has brought a beom (o the west coast of Vancouver is rapidly becoming table constructed wharf at ve balles. miles to tidews panies. Diehards Are Making Desperate | W ARN‘NG GJVEN | “oity.” Arri of prespectors and mining company employees taki gold fieid was disccvered last year, ¢ wake came an according to rep Efferts are being made by British Columbi: cfficials, h Above photc shows arrival ¢ 1 of the S.8. M:guinrna was s part in (b ts, by presy my © n crease in the rush of stake clai Island, where the hamlet of Zeballos f the first ship te meor at ihe newly gnal for a gala cvent with hundreds Kiondike-like telebration. The new n whe packed ore on their backs many 4 engineers for major mining com- vever, to discourage any further in- imers. Attempt to Wreck Reforms that BY PRESIDENT FDR Has Wrou ght, Say WASHINGTON, April 14.—Post- master: General James A. Farley Japan's statements that that nation said the present opposition to Presi- is suspending the Bristol Bay fish- dent Roosevelt is a mobilization of ing surveys, is gratifying, but urges “diehards in a last desperate at-| permanent action covering the en-!tempt to wreck the reforms he has tire coast. wrought. There has never been a Hostile Feeling | progressive movement in the story “There is a widespread feeling of of mankind that has not been em- hostility,” wrote the committee, barrassed and obstructed by die- against all Japanese fishing, and hards, holding out against the in- added: “Therefore, to avoid increas- evitable change in time and tide.” ing this frigtion, it is suggested that negotiations be pursued to end it and see that the Japanese adont a def- inite policy of not licensing its na- tionals to engage in any fishery op- erations on the Pacific Continental Shelf. “The recent Japanese vractice of licensing their boats to engage in crab fishing and trawl fishing for groundfish of various types, should be discontinued.” Among the signers of the letter was W. C. Arnold, of Ketchikan. ENTIRE HOARD OF U, S. BOLD DESTERILIZED Announcement Made This Afternoon—Result of Recovery Program BULLETIN —WASHINGTON, April 14. — The Treasury has desterilized the entire hoard of one billion three hundred and ninety-one million dollars worth of inactive gold in acord- ance with President Roosevelt's Recovery Program. Announcement was made during ‘the afternoon after a conference between Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau and Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. The two officials apparently discussed whether to desterilize gold as cash is needed or des- terilze the whole amount at one time. BOLYAN CHILDRE FLY WITH SIMMONS Lawrence and Daci Bolyan, Yugo- Easter with their parents. BRITAIN LEADS WAY IN MAKING WIDE DEFENSES Four Power Lineup Is Near as Stumbling Block to Nazi Nation By Associated Press Great Britain today tinkered with the machinery of diplomacy in war preparedness, apparently in an ef- fort to use French, American and Italian cooperation as a brake on geared-up Germany. Meshed developments in the past 23 hours maneuvering included an announcement by the Italian For- eign Office that the Anglo-Ttalian accord will bring to an end more| than two years of friction between | London and Rome. The new agreement, to be signed Saturday will cement British and | Italian understanding of mutual | | | | interests in the Mediterranean area 1 British War Minister Hore-Bel isha has departed on a serial tour| which will take him on an inspe |tion trip to Britain's lifeline de: fenses at Malta and during which he | will pay a courtesy visit to Premier Benito Mussolini. | Reports from Paris are that Pre-| | mier Neville Chamberlain will soon| take steps to bring France within| | theeframework of the Anglo-Italian | friendship, now that the stabilized ;F‘rench government is giving their | Premier Daladier three and one | half mogths of virtual dictatorial| powers, | | Pursuant to the policy of war pre- | paredness, it was announced in the | | British Parliament by Chamberlain, | |slavian children recently adopted that the Government was inquiring by Mr. and Mrs. George Bolyan, into the possibility of buying planes | flew to Cobol, near Chichagof to- from the United States to hasten | | day with Shell Simmons to spend an invigoration of the British Air J | Force. "arl “MISS ALASKA" VISITS FAIR b % would In the role of “Miss Alaska,” Grace Bailey, 17, who recently arrived in San Francisco via United Air Lines plane, is pie- tured in her native costume, which may start some new ideas for Easter. Miss Bailey’s mis- sion was to reassure Golden Gate International Expesition officials that Alaska would be represented when the Fair opened in 1939, She saw her first seal on Seal Rocks, by the Golden Gate. °Y" ON AGGRESSION fields Bring B. C. Boom AGREEMENT HAS FAVORABLE VOTE OF TWO UNIONS Alaska Fishermen’s Unions at Bellingham and Seat- tle Give Pact Majority BOATS REPORTED TO START NORTH TODAY CIO and AFT]urisdiclion Dispute Is Now Before Labor Relations Board “Fishermen accepted. Several boats leaving tomorrow.” This telegram, received last night by Geov. John W. Troy from Senator Norman R. Walk- er of Ketchikan, representative for the Territory at the salmon industry wage dispute hearings in Seattle, brought to Juneau the first information that an agreement had been reached in the controversy between salmon cannery operators and unions over 1938 wage scales. The wage dispute has held up the salmon industry’s 1938 plans for op- erations to a time dangerously near the limit necessary for preparations for the coming season. The peace proposal which the “Fishermen accepted,” accord- ing to ‘Senator Walker's “tele gram, is based on the sugges- tion of Mediator Joseph Cheney, and provides that the workmen go to work this season on the | basis of 1936 wage scale; that if a fact finding commission determines that packers are financially able to pay more, |No Interference, Outside of Western Hemisphere, to Be Permitted they will pay up to a ten per cent increase over 1937. Regarding the Cheney proposal, | Arthur 1. Ellsworth, Salmon In- dustry spokesman, said: “The in- dustry has decided to accept the fact finding board’s decision. We AMERICAN REPUBLICS TO REMAIN AT PEACE recognize the importance of the industry to Alaska and the North- Fact Is Established that west and have made substantial concessions.” Rule of Justice, Law Supplants Force WASHINGTON, April 14.—Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt today declared that the American Nations not permit peace on the Western Hemisphere to “be endang- # ered from aggression coming from the outside.” Speaking on Pan-American Day, } at noon today, to the Governing { Board of the Pan-American Un- ion, the President serted in a few words, observance of the his- toric Monroe Doctrine, without naming it, and placed it as the In- ter-American basis. The speech was broadcast to all American Republics. Asserting that three hundred mil- lion citizens on the Western Hemi- sphere have the same material for controversy which exis President Roosevelt said: To Maintain Peace “Yet we have undertaken con- tractual obligations to solve these normal human differences by main. taining peace. That peace we are firmly,resolved to maintain. “It shall not be endangered by controversies within our family. We will not permit it to be endangered from agression coming from the outside of our hemisphere.” The President said that twenty one American Republics present proudly to the world a demonstra- tion of the rule that justice and law can be substituted for the rule of force. | The President laid down a briet § ' program for “our deal of Democratic | liberty, our instrument of honor and | friendship and our method has in- creased the understanding of our basis of confidence.” The President was introduced by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. j The President's speech was re- |ceived in Juneau this morning, starting at 8 o'clock, over KINY through the courtesy of KINY, the local Democratic Party and The | Empire. The speech was broadcast by NBC and the reception in Jun- ieau was excellent, s elsewhere, Meeting in Seattle with packers and union representatives in an attempt to solve the wage dispute have been Federal Mediator Joseph Cheney, U. S. Commissioner of Fish- eries Frank T. Bell, Federal Labor Conciliator Ernest P. Marsh, Saul Haas, Collector of Customs at Se- attle, and Senator Walker, who has been representing the Territory of Alaska at the hearings. | PACKERS, UNIONS RATIFY SEATTLE, April 14 — Salmon packers and two unions of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific announced today the ratification of the Alaska fishing dispute settle- ! ment proposed by Mediator Joseph | Cheney. | Packers approval of the wage |agreement is subject to similar ae< tion by all five maritime unions involved. Unions ratifying the agreement last night were the American Radio Telegraphers and the Seattle and Bellingham locals of the Alaska Fishermen'’s Union Receives Substantial Majority | A spokesman for the unions said that the peace proposal carried by substantial majorities at last night's voting. . The proposal, based upon Med- iator Joseph Cheney's plan for agreement between the operators and the unions, provides that the men will work on the basis of the best offer of the packers until.such time as a fact finding commission determines if packers are financial- ly able to pay more. Provision is made in the proposal that if the commission’s findings are favorable to the fishermen, the canners will pay up to ten per cent increase over 1937. The men will go to work on the 1936 scale, which is ten to twenty per cent under 1937. CI10 Claims Membership Victory | Conrad Espe, of CIO Cannery | Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local No. 7, said the cannery work- |ers chose his union in the mem- bership check completed yesterday by a vote of 2,101 to 1,189, | He said that the packers agreed | (Continued on Page Two) 1