The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1938, Page 1

v | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LI, NO. 7771. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1938. MLMBER ASSOCIATED H(FSS PRICE TEN CENTS INVADERS PLAN NEW ACTION IN CHINA MAYOR DORE OF SEATTLE PASSES AWAY 7 Brilliant Lawyer, City Chief Executive of Two Tur- bulent Terms, Dies SEATTLE, April 17. Mayor John F. Dore, 56, who gained na- tional recognition, first as one cf the most brilliant criminal lawyers of the Pacific Coast and later as Mayor of Seattle during two tur- bulent terms, died last night. Mayor Dore succumbed to heart trouble complicated by blood pois- oning. Death came less than two months before the expiration of his term as Chief Executive of this city. City Councilmen indicated they will act within the next two weeks and name Arthur B. Langlie, victor in the March election for the May- oralty, to finish Dore's term. Lang- lie's regular term does not start until June 6. Councilman James Scavotto, act- ing as Mayor, issued a proclama- tion making today a day of mourn- ing . Mayor Dore is survived by widow, son and three daughters. John F. Dore was a former news- paperman. VIC MEYERS SLIPS INTO WASH.STATE tuousaNDS OF AUTO WORKERS ARE SENT HOME Trouble Occurs This Morn- ing at Fisher Body Plant his John Rooseve Lieutenant Governor Sud- denly Returns—Ac- tions Are Awaited VANCOUVER, Wash, April 19— Vic Meyers, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Washington, whose whereabouts and intentions have been unknown for days, suddenly appeared here and commandeered a . e State Patrol wagon and lett for the at Flint, Michigan north at 9:15 'oclock this morning The state official was brought FLINT, Mich., April 19.—For the " here from Portland, Orgeon, in an|second time in as many days, the official car. Fisher Body Plant No. 1. assembly Meyers has been urged by the line for the Buick Motor Car plant, left wing supporters to call a spec- is closed. ial session of the State Legislature The closing is the result of the in the absence of Gov. Clarence D.| United Automobile Workers of Am- Martin who is in Washington, D.|erica renewing a collection of dues C., on official business, drives at the company gates. 2 Meyers slipped into this city un-| About 3700 workers of the Fisher recognized except by officers in the | Body Plant and 1500 of the Buick State Patrol Headquarters where he assembly plant, were ordered home DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 116.34, rails 21.35, utilities 17.47. RN Robertson Named ~ To Expo. Council SEATLE, April 19—R. E. Rob- went to get transportation. A store- s the result of the drive, keeper nearby however recogmized| The Buick management said 60')0 him while waiting for the State | additional workers will be laid of Patrol to obtain an auto, none of |if the Fisher Body plant does not which appeared to be at Headquart. | Fesume within two days. ) ¥ ers at the time. Secretary of State nvo::n:/:e; i:‘_iufrlgcll“:eroizf:;;ved but gzl",’;rni’i":fnc:assst’f;:ay“""g | Both units will take a strike vote 2 | tomorrow because of disputes in- | volving seniority rights and adjust- G.VT quKERs ‘ment of grievances. —————— — | sTock QuoTATiONs | s * o NEW YORK April 19. — Closing PLAN Tu sTRlKE quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10, American Can| | 85%2, American Light and Power 4% | Anaconda 287 5, Bethlehem Steel Presndent Quezon ISSUCS 48%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, Genersl Wa""ng' Walkoyls to Motors 32'%, International Harves- Mean Resngnanons ter 61!, New York Central 1214, Southern Pacific 11'%, United States MANILA, April *19.—The threat Steel 46, Cities Service 1%, Penn- that 8,000 employees of the Gov- :\lvania Railroad 16, Pound $5.00%. ernment owned Manila Railway may strike for higher wages and better working conditions, brought a warn- ing from President Manuel Quezon that he will not tolerate a walkout. The President of the Philippines | said he will use the Army, if nec- essary, to operate the trains and further stated that if the workers| strike, the Government will inter- pret the action as a resignation from their jobs. e President Asks for P-A Deleglte Funds etson, pominent Juneau attorney, w10 200 Seward Building, has been nam- WASHINGTON, April 19.—Presi- ed to the Advisory Council of the dent Roosevelt sent to Congress to- Pacific. Northwest 1943 Centennial day a recommendation that $15,000 Commiitee it was announced by, be appropriated to send delegates Frank Burns, Exposition President. from the United States to the third Mr. Robertson is one of the two Pan American Conference in Chile next September. The appropriation was urged in a request from the State Department. date. The new Advisory board mem- ber is wellknown in Alaska. John Roosevelt With Fiancee ! This excellent new photo of John Roosevelt, Harvard senior and son of the president, and his fiancee, Anne Clark of Boston, was taken as the young couple left to visit the White House for the week-end. S " HOLD BLOODY FRISCO FIGHT | Score In]ured when Thou- | | sand Longshoremen Crash Pickets | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 19.| —A score were injured in a bloody iwmnrfrom battle yesterday nfter-‘ |noon when 1,000 CIO longshoremen | | formed a flying wedge and crashed |a picket line of the Sailors’ Union lof the Pacific. The sailors of the AFL union had thrown a picket line around thev Shepard Line freighter Sea Thrush. Reinforcements came to the aid | |of pickets in the form of police | nightsticks, restoring order after 10 minutes of brawling. The Sailors’ Union of the Pacific | claims the Shepard Line vloluu-d1 the terms of contract. In Seattle, Harry Bridges, CIO | boss of the Pacific, led longshore- men through more pickets of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, ring- ing the Shepard Line offices and dock last Friday. At that time, Bridges said the Sailors’ Union had been at fault. Twenty-five baseball bats were confiscated in a car belonging to Harry Lundeberg, head of the Sail- |ors' Union of the Pacific, during the San Francisco Bay battle. Lundeberg denied knowledge of the bats being in his car. No ar- rests were made. Police Captain Grover Coats said, “We are too busy preventing mur- der to make any arrests.” A crew of 52 longshoremen, under police protection, began work un- !loading the Sea Thrush after the riot. | | | It and Anne Clark 'No Nenana lce Break-Up This Month, Prediction SAILORS' UNION TAKES CREW OFF PICKETED BOAT Vessel Timl?er_Rush Ruled as Unfair by AFL Union at Tacoma Docks SEATTLE, April 19.—Peter Gill, Business Agent for the Sailor's Union of the Pacific, said the crew of the intercoastal freighter Timber Rush, was taken off the ship yes- terday at Tacoma and brought to a Seattle hotel. “They are under our supervision and we will feed them until arrange- ments are made to ship them to the East Coast, Gill said. The Sailors Union is picketing the Timber Rush, a Shepard Line vessel, on the grounds that the line broke its agreement with the union by hiring men not belonging to the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific when the vessel was on the East Coast. As the ship was being picketed, of-| ficials of the SUP boarded the Tim- ber Rush and took ashore all mem- bers of the crew licensed officers and stewards. KETCHIKAN MAN GETS MAIL ROUTE IN S. E. ALASKA Einar A. Haugen of Ketchikan has been awarded the contract for carrying mail on the Juneau-Port Alexander and way points route which has been covered by the Dart of the Chatham Straits Transporta- tion Company for the last four years, FAIRBANKS, Alaska. April 19. — Freezing temperature Sunday night is declared to have delayed the ice breakup at least four days. Many experts now hold that there is no chance of an April breakujp of the ice at Nenana INACTIVE 60LD FUND ABOLISHED BY TREAS. DEPT. Yellow Metal Reserve to Be | Used to Pay for New Spending Program WASHINGTON, April 19. — The Treasury Department has abolish- ed the “inactive gold fund” created on December 24, 1936, to stem in- flation effects. The “fund” is practically empty already because President Roosevelt last week ordered a billion one hundred and eighty-two million dollars worth of gold in it to be used to help pay the cost of his new spending program and to ex- pand the supply for bank credit to available business. D Queen Sentenced, Gypsy Throne ldle CHICAGO, April ' 19.—Chicago's |g¥psy colony was left without a ruler when “Queen” Mary Bimbo, who operated a fortune teller par- According to lnformnlmn today to |lor was sent to the women’s prison Postmaster Albert Wile from the Postoffice Department. The con- at Dwight for one to ten years. Judge George Fred Rush passed sentence in connection with $165 \lost by Stanley Kozak of Kenosha, !Wis in Mary’s place. Her hus- |band, “King” Tiny Bimbo, also is |1n prison PUPILS FORM PICKET LINES ALBANY, Cal, April 19—""‘8“‘ Leno Rodella, formerly well known hundred formed today to picket the' in Juneau a few years ago for his | Albany High School in shifts. The accordian talent, was a passenger on tract is for four years, July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1942 at $11,487 per year. The points included on the run are Juneau, Taku Harbor, Sumdum, Harbor Island, Windham, Entrance Island, Five Finger Light, Fanshaw, Petersburg, Kake, Turnabout Island, Saginaw Bay, Security Bay, Wash- ington Bay, Pillar Bay, Tebenkof Bay, Port Alexander, Port Conclu- sion, Port Armstrong, Big Port Wal- ter, Port Herbert, Deep Cove, Red Bluff Bay, Baranof, Tyee, Pybus Bay, Bruthers Island Gambxer Bay. men that will represent Alaska; the students are on strike over dismis- the Aleutian for the Westward to- Fouse Foreign Affairs ‘Committee other man will me named at a later sal of Principal Charles Moofe, They | day. demanded that the school board| Rodella is going to Anchorage reinstate Moore to the Principalship, lmm mining employment, to L T CIOANDARL | Commission, TO AHAVEN IN FRANCE, have rushed, being taken by boat to Port-Vendres (above) where refugees’ camp. Bitter fighting accompanies Franco's Eastern Coast Defenses of U.S. Are Declared Adequate; Anti-Plane Guns for Pacific By PRESTON GROVER FRANCE, ITALY wasicron s 10sen ate hearings on the War anm(~ ment appropriation bill indicate the United States army is on the de- T0 SIGN PACT fensive — against getting too much ] money 1 should back away from proffers of fattened budgets is almost more ,than this city of continual emer- gencies can endure. The shock is Negotiations to Reestablish Former Good Relations to Start at Once ROME, April 19. Italy and ¥ France have agreed to begin con- versations immediately to reestab- lish the traditional friendship shat- tered by the Ethiopian war. Ttaly’s readiness to bury the almost killing us. But put your ear down and listen. Senator Copeland: Ought we to have some good modern 16-inch uns to protect New York harbor? General Craig (Chief of Staff): The present seacoast armament in the harbor defenses of Sandy Hook is considered adequate. Copeland: As far as Fort Tilden (on Long Island) is concerned, are hatchet has been expresed to Jules . conditions there satisfactory to Blondel, French Charge d' Affairs, y.,0 by Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo ° 4 Craig: Yes, sir, Ciano. i) It is revealed that Blondel, last ¥ Ll e Saturday, asked Count Ciano if LONDON 18 DIFFERENT Italy was prepared to open nego- In turn, General Craig assured tiations, and an affirmative answer 'Senator Copeland about the harbor was handed to him. defenses of Boston, Portland, Me. The pact to be negotiated be- and Philadelphia. They don’t need tween Italy and France will follow any more money for coast guns |along the lines of the British-Ital- than already is in sight, the gen- eral said. He was more eager about anti- aireraft guns. For complete defense of strategic objectives:within strik- ing distance of a flying enemy, the army should have 408 dnti-aircraft guns costing $40,000 each, Craig said. |ian agreement 13 HALIBUTERS SELL, SEATTLE SEATTLE, April 19.—The follow- ing halibuters arrived today and sold as follows: From the western banks—Paragon 40,000 pounds, Attu 40,000 pounds, both selling for 7 and 6 cents a pound; Daily 20,000 pounds, 7 and 5 cents: From the local banks—Tacoma 18,000 pounds, Diana 14,000 pounds, Mermaid 9,000 pounds. Antler 9,000 pounds, Merit 5,000 pounds, Oceanus 14,000 pounds, Presho 11,000 pounds, Al, Jr, 8000 pounds, Aloha 10,000 pounds ,Zapora 20,000 pounds, sell- there were different. that 34 regiments equipped anti-plane guns could take both U, 8. coasts. be moved about fast enough to meet any enemy threat. Of the 34 regiments needed, the Army has four in the regular service and ten in the National Guard. The other 20 will be shaped in the regular Army on an emergency basis, when the time comes. Craig was villing to go slow, seeming content with the 141 anti- plane guns to be provided in the appropriation bill as it passed the ing at an average price of 8 and 6 House, although he said the re- cents. maining 267 were ‘“essential” for T —— true defense. Before the committee c“miuee ? finished, however, it had doubled 2 the $12,700,000 appropriation for Apmve’ anti-plane guns and equipment so the Army can have 308 as fast as it can build them instead of only AIHC Bill WASHINGTON, April 19. — The THOUGHT FOR TODAY has approved of 4 bill to create an 4 Alaskan International Highway | ACununued ‘on PugL Seven) war-frightened refugees from Barcelona and Valencia, Spain, drive toward Loyalist Barcelona. But, said Copeland, London alone | has 900 guns. Craig said conditions | He explained | with | care of | The guns could | Just so you won't worry so much, | JAPS PREPARE FOR BIG PUSH IN SHANTUNG Reinforcements Fight Way Into Lini Over Hills from Coast FIVE NIPPONESE DIVISIONS LANDED Twenty-six Transports with Munitions Discharging Cargoes of War SHANGHAI, April 19.—As pre- lude to a new grand offensive in South Shantung Province, 60,000 Japanese reinforcements arrived to- day on the Yi River, four miles from Lini. The reinforcing troops fought their way overland despite the con- stant harassing of Chinese guerilla bands, marching from the Shan- tung port of Tsingtao, 130 miles away. Another Japanese column was re- ported sweeping to the southwest of Lini. Chinese sources said five fresh Japanese divisions have arrived in Shantung Province from Japan and Formosa while 26 transports are unloading munnions FOR RECOVERY UNITED STATES PROGRAM GETS FLEET LEAVING BOOSTED TODAY- PEARL HARBUH House Starts on One Phase Plan — Senate Acts “ On Another Proposal | they are transferred to a snecial War Maneuvers Resumed— Ships to Proceed to California Coast WASHINGTON, April 19. — The | House, accepting one of President Roosevelt’s recovery suggestions, to- day decided tentatively to more than HONOLULU, April 19. The United States Floet has starteq | 90uble the one hundred million dol- moving out of Pearl Harbor, Naval lor, Iighpny vnppl'upl‘mnon, penty Base, for war maneuvers, to de- |18 the Agriculture Department’s termine the vulnerability of Cali- SUPPIY Bill : fornia for any enemy attack, A few minutes earlier, the Senate completed final Congressional ace tion on another phase of the pump | priming plan by approving the fifly million dollar increase in the appro- | priation for ccc camps. | Opposition appeared however to | another phase of the program. Sen- |ator Carter Glass charged the Ad- | ministration’s propused revival of the Public Works program duplicat- \es the program possible under the authority recently given the Recon- struction Finance Corporation. ., PLANNING COUNCIL STUDIES GRAPHS ON ALASKA REVENUES | At a meeting of the Alaska Plan- WASHINGTON, April 19—Sen- ning Council held yesterday after- ator Gerald P. Nye today condemned noon in the Federal Building to ac- the one billion, one hundred and gaint members of the Council from fifty six million dollar Naval Ex- out-of-town and members of the pansion program as a “challenge” to, Advisory Board with the program other nations to increase their ship- | being carried out, graphs were pre- building, sented depicting various activities Senator Nye was interrupted by undertaken. The charts showed the | Senator David I. Walsh, Chairman various tax revenues, pointing out of the Senate Naval Committee,| the return from salmon over the when the North Dakota man made years, the Territorial expenditures, the general attack on the expansion public welfare, education, and other program on the theory that “we general subjects. are basing our plans on rumor and Present for the meeting which gossip as to what the Japanese Was concluded late yesterday were might be doing, to make profit for Gov. John W. Troy, Chairman Ike large shipbuilding activities and P. Taylor, B. F. Heintzleman, E. those who ,are trying to convince W. Griffin, Luther C. Hess, and W. us other nations are doing certain C. Arnold of the Bqard, Secretary |things to induee us to undertake John E. Pegues and the following |large programs.” from the Advisory Board: Frank Senator Walsh, who had outlined A- Boyle, A. E. Karnes, George A. the Navy Expansion program, res- Parks. James V. Davis, Harry G. ponded: Watson, Howard J. Thompson and “Every Government, and certain C- M. Hirst. official staffs” of foreign countries BASEB—A.-[.* supply us with information regard- ing extensive foreign activities in naval building. The following are results of base- ball games played in the two major leagues this afterncon, scores re- - >ee - MRS. ROBERTSON HONORED ceived up to press time: National League In honor of her birthday, friends of Mrs. R. E. Robertson gathered Chicago 8; Cincinnati 7. American League this noon at a no-host luncheon at New York 5; Boston 3. the Gastineau Cafe Philadelphia 2; Washington 9, The armada of 140 ships and 500 planes will be split into two fleets. NYE ATTACKS NAVAL PLANS; ~ CALLED DOWN Two Senators Lock Horns Over Big Program Ad- | vanced by Govt. | — e MRS. NINN RETURNS Mrs. Elroy Ninnis and son re- turned to their Juneau home aboard | the Aleutian -after visiting in the | south for several months.