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

i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPH%{_ VOL. LIL, NO. 7784. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1938. Ml MBER ASSO( I/ \H l) P HM PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA CANNERY WORKERS CAST YOTE First Air Mail Dispatch from Juneau Landed in Fairbanks in Break Is Next 4 Hours, 5 Minutes Flying Time Throng of 1,000 Greets PAA Plane; Proces- sion Quickly Formed, Mail Truck Escort- ed to Post Office; Special Program at Noon Today; First Southbqund Mail Leaves Sunday for Juneau FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 4.—A!- aska's first air mail was landed at Weeks Field at Fairbanks yester- day afterrgon at 4:35 o'clock, Fair- | banks time, after a four hour and| five minute flight from Juneau, Capital of Alaska, to the Golden Heart of Alaska, 680 miles of an en- chanted stretch, across glaciers of the Coastal Range, thence over Can- adian Territory, the International Boundary line and down the broad | Tanana Valley. Visiting officials and uniformed pilots stepped from the PAA plane and were welcomed by a throng of 1.000 persons, including Acting May- also Miss . Dorothy Murphy, the “Miss Fairbanks” of 1638. Busses were also filled with welcoming resi- dents. ‘ This noon, the Fairbanks Cham- ber of Commerce, at a special lunch- | eon to signalize the event, gave a | special air mail program in honor of | the epochal event. South Bound Mail The first south bound air mail plane will leave here Sunday and will carry thousands of air mail first flight letters, sent by fans, | many specially printed here for the lpurpose Among the first flight let- | ters to be dispatched will be a num- |Ice Breaks in {Chena; Nenana FAIRBANKS, Alsskn, May 4. — The ice broke in the Chena Slough yesterday forenoon at 10:37 o'clock. Many minor Chena contests were won by scattered winners, There is little change in the Ne- pana ice and the break there is| not expected for several dgys. SITUATION TODAY The Nenana River today is EN- ting pretty soft and some say thn ice is ready to go anytime, accord- | ing to a Signal Corps bulletin from | Nenana this forenoon. Jams are between Nenana and Fairbanks. The water is extremely | low. s0 others think it will hold sev- “ eral days yet. The weather is cold| and it is snowing again. The ice | moved a mile up river but jammed | again. The water has dropped sev- eral inches. | WEATHER REPORT The following report was received by the Juneau office of the United | States Weather Bureau today: “At or W. N. Growden, who extended a | ber for the President, the First Lady | Nenana, the ice is quite solid as| formal welcome in a short appropri- |of the Land, and Postmaster Gen-|yet, but is buckling and the river | ate address; members of the Cham- ber of Commerce, Junior Chamber | of Commerce and other officials, and representatives of numerous connecting interior air lines basing here. Bands played, flags were flying and photographers were everywhere. | Mail Truck Escort Hundreds of cars formed a pro- cession and escorted the mail truck to the Post Office. The cars were rcvupled by cflxcmls residents, and | eral James A. Farley. entire distance from Juneau to Fair- banks, free from snow, except on the mountain ranges, and in spring | conditions with first flowers blos- soming in the valleys and about the city. | The air mail plane stopped minutes at Whitehorse, putting ol! a quantity of mail for Yukon Ter- ritory points and taking on other mail for Fairbanks | State Depa rtment I $ Confronted With Problem in Relief Plans For German, Austrian Refugees Social, Political, Aspects Involved, Also Avoidance of Raising Anti-Semitic Feel- ing in Countries Have Such Condi Which Now Do Not tions 3 NEW YORKERS ARE TO CANOE CLEAR TO NOME ; Artist, Writer and Teacher Are to Paddle 8,000 Miles of Rivers NEW YORK, May z—Two New| Yorkers and a San Diego, Califor- nia, man, have announced plans for | an 8,000 mile canoe journey from New York to ‘Alaska this summer. The men are Robert Fuller, 26, ar- tist of San Diego, Mark Richelin, 30, Lewiston, New York, writer, and Richard Silobodin, New York teach- er, 23. The three said they would leave| New York today, paddle up the Hud- sons River through the Great Lakes, | thence up and down Canadian, rivers, and finally wind up at Nome. Six months will be consumed in making the trip, the three said. and will cost only $750. Purpose of the jaunt, according/ to the 1938 voyageurs is “lo beat re- cession and seek adventure.” e BRITISH KING, QUEEN ARE TO VISIT FRANCE Government Discloses Plans for Program During End of June PARIS, May 4—While Adolf Hit- ler is making a triumphal tour at Rome, the French Government dis- dlosed plans of a visit from the British King and Queen at the end of June. The visit and program of the King and Queen will practically duplicate the visit of George the Pifth and Queen Mary when they came to France on the eve of _the World War in 1914, H avest | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, May 4—One of the problems faced by the State Department and public figures extending relief to German and Austrian refugees is to avoid rais- ing an anti-Semitic feeling in those ' | countries which now do not have | From one viewpoint it is strictly |a relief problem, but those han- wdhng it have been confronted at | all times with its social and politi- cal aspects. For instance, it is reported here that many “Aryan” Germans have | been prevented from entering this country in recent years because | they were unable to solve either the complexity of getting out of | Germnny or of getting into the United States. What, then, might be the effect| of having boatloads of Jewish ref- ugees arrive in the United States |and perhaps in South and Central American countries with all inter- ference cleared out of the way? One source interested in the re-| lief movement said it would be no| | kindness to the Jews in the long |run to give them temporary relief |from Germany and Austria only |at the expense of creating new ‘centezs of anti-Semitism in other parts of the world. DIFFICULT AT BOTH ENDS Here is a sample of the diffi- culty both refugee and ordinary | emigrants face. When a citizen of | Germany leaves that country to | take up residence abroad—in other | words to emigrate—he must pay to | Germany a tax of 50 percent of | ‘an he owns. In addition, he can| take out the remainder only in small portions over many months. Much of that is prompted by Germany’s monetary stringencies, | but the net result is a restraint upon emigration. A further re- straint is that most countries, in- cluding the United States, require emigrants to have either enough money of their own to get a start in their new home, or to have rela- tives and friends able and willing to keep them from becoming pub- lic charges. In one way, of course, the prob- lem of the refugee is different from that of the ordinary emigrant. The present crop of refugees, préedomin- antly Jews, no longer feels happy or even sjfe in Austria and Ger- “mmy. They feel they have to get out, restrictions or no restrictions. One of the relief proposals is (Continued on Page Six) The plane yesterday traversed the | in! |is open along the sides. The river has dropped five inches in the past |two days. There is open water| above the town and below the town |at the mouth of the Nenana River. | | Lowest temperature last night was \N degrees.” AT RBUSEVELT MAN HAS EASY TIME IN FLORIDA RAGE Senator Pepper Wms Nom-| ination Handily—Second Indication Demo Trend (By Ascociated Press) Renomination of Senator Claude Pepper in Florida yesterday gave the Roosevelt administration vic- tory in the second 1938 primary test of the President’s popular support. The previous top-heavy Democra- tic vote was recorded in the Alaska primary two weeks ago. Pepper easily defeated four other candidates in the Democratic race. Representative J. Mark Wilcox, who opposed some of the administration | measures and called Pepper the | President’s rubber stamp finished |in second place. In South Dakota Herbert Hitch- cock, 70-year-old Senator, lost a| | three-way contest for the Demo-| cratic nomination to former Gov.| | Tom Berry. J. Chandler. Guerney, | Republican nominee in 1936, was| well ahead of Gov. Leslie Jensen. Barland Bushfield, Republican,and | | Oscar Fosheim, Democrat, are the | South Dakota gubernatorial nom- inees. Frank Dixon led four others for | the nomination for Governor of | Alabama. A runoff primary appeared | necessary because he did not have | a majority. Incumbent House mem- | | bers of Alabama, Florida, South Da- | kota and Indiana are leading on thc | basis of incomplete returns. | Alabama contest which is nnmcz- ing widespread attention, mpre- sentative Joe Starnes is leading former Senator Thomas J. Hetmn who is seeking a comeback. ——”-.——- BASSET MURDER ADMITTED; WAS KILLED IN 192 Mother of Ea-r—l Decasto Mayer Confesses to Old Slaying in Seattle SEATTLE, May 4—Warden J. M. McCalley, of the Washington State Penitentiary today told the Seat-| tle Times in a telephone interview that Mrs. Mary Ellen Smith, 73| has confessed she and her son, Earl De Casto Mayer, killed James Eu-| gene Basset, naval officer, 10 years‘ ago. Mayer is serving a life term as| 2 habitual criminal. Mrs. Smith is due to be released next week from prison after serving eight years on| a grand larceny charge. They were imprisoned in con- nection with possession of Basset's car, but were never charged with murder because Basset's body was l never found. CHINESE MAKE | that the weary and outnumbered | mate is unreliable. Ex pl 0sioi Are Killed in !'. rn[u' U iners BIG ADVANGES ON ALL FRONTS Nippons Lose Twelve Miles to Vigorous Offen- sive Thrusts WEARY JAPS LOSE | THOUSANDS OF MEN New Turn —ix;—Baltle Tide May Mean End to Lunghai Threat SHANGHAI, May 4. - Chinese forces have imperilled the Japan=- ese along the entire fighting front in southern Shantung Province. In a crushing offensive, the Chin ese are reported to have smashed a wide gap in the Japanese lines in the central part of the front and are said to have ripped another big opening on the left flank of the Japanese troops. The Chinese claimed a gain of 12 miles northeast of Taierchwang,| and Chinme compandia sting il MWET ARY SSUES UP, 3 NATIONS IStabilization Being Discuss- ed by U. S., Great Wage, Hour Hour Bl R Gy an e 3 May Be Forced To House Floor Petition for Consideration to Be Presented for Signatures | Here is & gencral view of the Keen Mountain mine 0f (he Red Ja [ whego officials fexred more than 40 miners were killd in a ferrif st i Geversd shortly after the blast. The explosion was be oal Company neax bhodies of were re dust Windsors Visit French Resort Japanese army has lost 34,000 men in the last few days, but the esti- Foreign observers said the Japs are in a precarious position along a jagged front, and if the Chinese rffensive continues, the invading Nippon forces might be pushed back to end their threat on the Lung- hai Railway | | BULLETIN—PARIS, May 4.— | Premier Deladier announced late today that the devaluaticn and stabilization of the franc is in full accord with the Govern- ment of the United States and Great Britain, The Premier said be will announce, the new fig- ure tomorrow and added that the new rate is needed because ¢f unfavorable foreign trade balance, increasing unemploy- m t and E danger. WASHINGTON, May 4—Speaker @ 04 War fameer William B. Bankhead today pre-| pags, May 4—Government of- dicted that a majority of the House| fiia15 saiq conversations have been members will sign a petition to force ¢irteq petween the United States, floor consideration of the Adminis- Great Britain and France propos- foptiony’ wage and Humepid. ing an amendment to their accord Chairman Mary T. Norton, Demo- | or Gctober, 1936, for monetary sta- crat of New Jersey, of the House pi1ization, | Labor Committee, said she will file French bankers said they be- |a petition Friday. She Nid she be- | jcveq the conversations are designed lieved that 218 members of the|y, facilitate a readjustment of the | House, a majmxty will sign the peti- | ya1e of the lmn( ESCAPES CHAIR, ELEVENTH HOUR Supporters of the wage and hour fCase of Mrs. ks, Hako it Be bill claim the aid of William Green, | | President of the American Federa- | Carried to Supreme Court of U. S. | tion of Labor, John L. Lewis, of the| | CIO and other leaders for reviving | the measure which the commmee, previously refused to give right- COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 4. | legal maneuver has spared at least \unul fall the life of Anna Marie| Hahn, convicted poison slayer, and| of-way. 'rhxs about 24 hours before her scheduled electrocution. Duke and Duchess of Windsor Here is the Duke and Duchess of Windsor as the famous couple ap- peared at Cap D’'Antibes, French resort, where they spent a holiday from social activities at their recently acquired chateau. WITH ILDUGE? FISHERY BILL ALASKA AIR OVER COLONIES BVENSETBACK PILOTS GET CECEEREET N COMMITTEE - RECOONITION Pope Decries R Raising of lowed Mrs, Hahn's counsel maup"fli Leglslallon for Plol(‘(‘lm Will Have OI’I*"“““’“ for Swastika Cross Over HOIy Rome to the Supreme Court of the United Al k I (J t B(‘ - be 4 States. askan Industry be- Appointment in Air ing Retarded Corps Reserve Motor Accident ,ROME, May 4.—Adolf Hitler be- gan his week as a guest of Italy by paying homage to the nation’s King and Unknown Soldier. While his visit to the soldier’s tomb was inferentially criticized by the Deacon, Hitler laid a wreath on the memorial stone and then| went to Capitoline Hill to salute the monument to fallen Fascists. J Hitler and Mussolini talked pri-| By J. J. ECKLES Secretary to Delegate Dimond WASHINGTON, April 18.—(Spec- ial Correspondenc: 'he House j Committee on Merchant Marine and ¢, facilitate the appointment of Fisheries has not taken any definite qualified commercial air pilots in action on H. R. 8344, the bill intro- Ajiska to the Army Air Corps Re- duced by the Delegate for the pro- serve were completed last week when Deaths Causing Nation Concern [vately twice. Spokesmen said they tection of the salmon fisheri sheric Commanding General of th discussed each other’s colonies. Alaska from the invasion of inth Corps A,:\ r‘x“.fl(g:(, :,, SJ: . Gueelatig. Fone Pijs. was | Premdenl TC rms Toll as Japanese, and possibly, in the fu- prancisco, California, who has juris- quoted by the Vatican newspaper ture, of nlhel foreign lL\lmm c o1 p g s oaying 4 was *u ot iy oa: | ADpalling Problem o th Mb car.| oton s dhe exsmiations for |the insignia of another cross that | of Present T]me ly in February, but the printing of gerve of applics ,,',. from H..\k{ not the cross of Christ” was S the record of the hearings was de- . “,.,,,,‘,I,,Id e el o {holsted in Rome yesterday on Holy| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 4. layed in order to afford opportunity sapy examinations n Alaska. By J. J. ECKLES Secretary to Delegate Dimond WASHINGTON, April 18.—(Spec- Correspondence) —Arrangements Cross Day. | —Increased death toll from motor to secure additional testimony that y...o H. Woodring, Secretary of When Hitler arrived yesterday, accidents is termed one of the ap- Was expected to be offered. As 500% yar advised Delegate A. J. Di- ithe city was blanketed with the palling problems of our time by as the printing of the hearings was ,““;, that he was authorizing the swastika of the Nazis, and cheering President Roosevelt in a message completed, the Delegate asked for o . thousands acclaimed the German read last night at the convention consideration of the bill at an ex- (c:.?l‘:-‘::l::‘;:" l::,:;:le:,: ';f:“f:i”:; man of the hour. | dinner of the American Red Cross. |ecutive session of the Commitice oeficors composed of one ox;lm of i ’ gt e {with a view of having the bill re- tno Rogular Army, any branch, one Japanese plan to harness Nortl Only one-ninth of the mass of an/ i B e vy China rivers for electrical power.| iceberg appears above water. (Conunued on Pase Seven) ‘ E&m‘t’lnue{i‘ on Paée ‘Two) I RIVAL GROUPS TAKING BALLOT ON BARGAINING Results Will Hf; Canvassed by National Labof Re- lations Board DISTURBANCES TAKE PLACE IN SEATTLE Police Squads Are on Extra Patrols at Fil H held without Fili a pected to vote here today and to- ow and 500 are expecwd to vote in c'pat n; in any way he Natioral Labor Relatio 1 will canvass the vote and then ounce whether the AFL or CIO will be the bargaining agency. Both oups claim a majority member- hip. e APA ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO WORKERS Must /\ccept |936 Wage Scale or 1938 Fishing Season Probably Ofi N FRANCISCO, Cal Ala May 4— Packers Association in- 4 cancellation of the 1938 fish- m- season unless the CIO, Alaska ers Union No. 5, con- ement with the pack- y t Saturday. :¢ Woolf, President of the aid he has received a let- ker ng the tempt to the 1937 1936 wage ale was as Wo vd e the ridiculous. e e House to Dehate Lending,Spending Bill on Tugsday TON, May 4. — The agreed to start debate wesday on the Administra- I lending and spending bill. I will be sought about two ater, according to plans at the sent time. BASFRALL TODAY The following are scores of base- ball games played this afternoon in the two major leagues and re- ceived up to 1:30 o'clock: National League Brooklyn 5; Pittsburgh 9. St. Louis 2; New York 3. Detroit 4; Boston: 1. g Chicago 4; Philadelphia 1.