The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 6, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7786. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE. TEN CENTS CANNERY WORKERS AGREE T0 37 SCALE hinese Gain More Ground In New Attacks NIPPON FORCES BEATEN BACK IN SHANTUNG AREA Bitter Fighting Rages in Region About Walled City of Priping TENGTU IS REGAINED ; CUTS JAPANESE RAIL Guerilla WaEe Said to Be Demoralizing Rising SHANGHAI, May 6.—The Chinese today claimed to have recaptured | approximately half of the territory in south Sharitung Province won by the Japanese in the three weeks of-| fensive from Lini. | As the undeclared war went into its eleventh month, the two oppos- ing armies battled doggedly about Tanchen and Taierchwang. Among significant developments on several other fronts, the gates of Japanese-occupied Priping were closed today and barred as the city | within spent one of its most anxious | days, with bitter fighting nearby. Japanese planes busily bombed objectives but a few miles west of Priping's walls and persistent re- ports filtered out that Chinese guer- illa-Communist units were ap- proaching the city steadily. Chinese forces counter attacking on the Yangtze River, claimed to! have occupied Tangtu, severing Jap- anese railroad comunications be- tween Wuhu and Nunking. In the same area, a Japanese col- | umn was advancing westward into Anwhei Province against Hofei. This column is reported to have captur- | ed Shibkao after a 15 mile march along the shore of Lake Chao. Another column is reported to| have gained a victory over Chinese units in North Kiangsu Province. | GUERILLAS RAIDING i HANKOW, May 6—With immed- iate menace to the Lunghai Rail-| way system removed by successful | counter thrusts in a dozen seetors, | Chinese guerilla forces were march- ing night and day, striking in un-| expected places, disappearing only to reappear suddenly again and| create havoc in unsuspecting Jap- anese troops, now badly demor- (Continued on ;ase “Three) UTILITIES UP 600D TRADING NY. EXCHANGE Broad Rallying Hoist Given | on “Something Good” | in Washington i NEW YORK, May 6.— A strong buying of utilities gave the stock market today a broad raliying hoist | that put many issues up from frac- tions to around four points. The rallying influence was appar- ently on reports that “something good” was coming out of Washing- ton for the long-beleaguered public service corporations. PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, May 6. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10, American Can| 86%, American Light and Power 52, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel 42%, Commonwealth and| southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5, General Motors 32%, International Harvester 59%, Kennecott 35%, New York Central 13%, Southern Pacific | 124, United States Steel 45%, Citles| Service 9%, Pennsylvania Railroad 17, Pound $4.99. DOW, JONES AVERAGES / 4 YOU GUESSED 1T—a “big apple” reminder of Shenan- doah apple blossom festival April 28, 29 at Winchester, Va. The «irls are Zorpha Seabright, Edna Courtney, Anne Browne. IMPROVEMENT OF BUSINESS, I-Power Treaty To Be Subject of HOUSE ACTION ONWAGE, HOUR BILL LOOMING Wild Scrainbie Takes Place When Petition Filed for Signatures BULLETIN — WASHIN G- TON, May 6.—The House mem- bers have completed the peti- tion to force consideration of the revised wage and hour bill, 218 signatures being affixed within three hours. The petition es the Rules Committee of action on the measure. WASHINGTON, May 6—A mad scramble today followed filing of a petition to force the House to vote hour | on the revised and bill Within half an hour after the pet- ition had been filed by Chairman Norton, of the House Labor Com- mittee, which was shortly after the House convened this morning, House members jostled each other in put- ting their names down on the docu- ment. ‘There must be 218 names on the petition to give the measure a new test in the House. It is claimed that more than en- ough signatures will be pledged to complete the petition. If the peti- tion has the required number of sig- natures the House could consider the bill by May 23, not eariier. - ,oe— BIG MEASURE wage U, s._c_. C. AIM New!iscussinn IS GIVEN ONE Nationwide Campaign Start- ed for Betterment of Present Conditions WASHINGTON, May 6. — The United States Chamber of Com- merce started today on a nationwide campaign to win support to a busi- ness improvement program based on minimum labor regulations and new employer relations with labor. Resolutions asking repeal of the Wagner Act and recovery legislation to provide “free initiative of enter- prises in promoting employment” were adopted yesterday at the an- nual convention. Federal regulation of wages and hours in industry was opposed in a resolution adopted. George Davis, of Kansas City, grain man, was elected President. The delegates to the convention today adopted resolutions asking for reexamination of all Federal measures for industrial aid “because efforts of the Government to aid business for recovery from the dis- astrous depression have fallen short of their objectives.” BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of base- ball games played in the major leagues this afternoon as received up to 2 o'clock: NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 11; Pittsburgh 7 Cincinnati 10; Brooklyn 3. Boston 9; Chicago 13. Philadelphia 3; St. Louis 4. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 3; Washington 4. St. Louis 3; Boston 7. Cleveland 4; Philadelphia 1. Il Duce, Mussolini Making Plans But France Involved ROME, May 6.—Premier Mussolini is “prepared for a diplomatic cam- paign to break the Franco-Russian| military alliance. 11 Duce and Hitler are understood to be ready to discuss a four power treaty with Great Britain and France, on condition that Paris re- nounces its pact with Moscow. Diplomatic circles point out that Hitler has long regarded the Franco- Russian alliance as a menace. Hit- ler, it is said, has convinced Musso- lini that a union of the French Naval forces with the Soviet's Black Sea fleet would ruin Italy’s chances of becoming Great Britain's equal in the Mediterranean. CHAMBERLAIN'S COVERNMENT IS LOSERATPOLLS Labar Party Candidate EL| ected to House of Com-~ mons from Lichsfield LONDON, May 6—The National Government of British Prime Min- lister Chamberlain has lost another by-election to the Labor Party des- pite the fact that Cabinet Ministers, for the first time in six years, were permitted to make speeches in sup- | port of Government candidates. C. C .Poole, 35, railway clerk, has |been elected to the House of Com- |mons from the Lichstield consitu- ency over G. B. Graddock, Govern- ment candidate. | Poole won by a majority vote of KARNES GOES To MEETiHZ?I;I?e successful Labor candidate EDUCATOR, KETCHIKAN for Ketchikan where he will meet Roy Dimmitt of the Vocational Edu- cation Department of the Office of said: “I was elected because the people have no faith in the foreign e | policy of Government.” A. E. Karnes, Commissioner a(_\ Education, sailed on the North Sea| —e—— — MRS. DELEBECQUE SAILS, NORTH SEA | . | ® charges pending against Harry i‘ I K BOOST ALONG Spending, Lending Bill Ap- proved by Subcommittee —Limitations Made WASHINGTON, May 6. — The House Appropriations Subcommit- tee, after inserting provisions to limit President Roosevelt’s discre- tion in relief spending, has approved of the Administration’s huge spend- |ing and lending bill. Major recom- mendations are for one billion two hundred and fifty million dollars for relief appropriations and one billion dollars for a public works program. Chairman Woodrum said: “The bill as approved provides that ap- propriations will be made direct to agencies involved rather than the existing plan to lump the sum and then make allocations to such ag- encies.” | Chairman Woodrum explained that the effect of this plan, in mak- ing appropriations direct to the ag- (encies which will spend it, will end |the practice of appropriating relief money to the President who in turn distributes it as he sees fit. e — SOMMERS SAILS R. J. Sommers, contractor, left Juneau this morning on the North Sea to spend a few days in Seattle | getting equipment ready for con- | struction work at Kodiak. Sommers Construction Company received contracts to build four 12- room houses near Kodiak for the Kodiak Baptist Children’s Home at a cost of $60,000. Legion Demands Deportation l;hrry Bridges INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 5—A resolution passed today by the Executive Committee of the American Legion, demand- | ed that the Department of La- | ® bor proceed immediately with prosecution of deportation Bridges, CIO head on the Pa- cific Coast. The Committee also went on record in opposition to leg- islation which would make the | Britons Who Seek Planes for Air Ministry United States and Canadian sirplane factories are watching this delegation of air experts who arrived m New York from England for the purpose of investigating the possibility of purchasing planes for the British Air Ministry. Veteran Mariner, Mi Worried About Ja Along Aleutian Isl Alaska’s number one pioneer is Capt. Axel Olson, skipper of the Aleutian Islands trading schooner Ruth C. which passed through the port of Juneau y erday, headed ‘Ior Seattle and a cargo. It was Capt. Olson who was the first man in Alaska to patent land, and he patented that land in Mata- nuska Vall He was the first man to raise cows and pigs in Alaska. He came to Alaska as a lad of 15 years with an unshaven chin, as a sailor on a vessel going to the country around Nome in 1881. He came back time and again. Finaliy SHIPMENTS OF ARMS INCREASE INLAST MONTH China and Japan Purchase Heavily of Aircraft n U. S. WASHINGTON, May 6-Ship- ments of arms from the United Stat- es to China and Japan increased sharply last month. China’s purchases totalled $2527,- 000 consisting mainly of airplanes Japan's purchases totalled $1,889,- 000 also largely for aircraft. i ABA Novice Shows Veterans How to Catch Salmon With experts to bail his hook, John Massey, tobacco salesman, showed the experts how to catch salmon out at Tee Harbor this morning. Visiting here in connection with his business, Massey accompanied Morrison, all veterans of the ang- Ed Sweum, Bob Rupe and Malcom ling sport, for a little strip fishing trip. Never having fished for salmon before, the visitor had Sweum show him just how to put on the bait. The latter was acclaimed by Massey as a great bait-putter-on for the tobac- co salesman proceeded to catch three king salmon, weighing 50, 40, and 82 pounds, respectively, while the Juneau veterans failed to get a nibble. Left to right, they are: | (Reserve) James G. Weir; Commander Caspar John, Capt. Axel Olson, First . Matanuska Farmer, Feels b Cook Inlet Country Next ~ | reap the benefits of the soil he ha The following are today’s Dow,| Education, Washington, D.C, who Jones averages: industrials 117.16,| s on his way nerth to make a study up 3.70; rails 22.90, up 1.33; utilities| of the vocational education ’field 19.90, up 1.33. in Alaska. Mrs. Louie Delebecque salled south | ® on the North Sea for a two week|® visit with a brother and sister-in-|e law in Tacoma. Seesecsscscscccccce United States an asylum for - political and religious refugees ® | Mrs. J. O. Kirkham who ha$ been from other countries. ® | receiving medical care in St. Anp's oo e o000 00 0 0 o o ol Hospital was dismissed today. Sir Commodore Arthur T. Harris; Air Commodore and Squadron Leader Charles E. Horrex. INSURGENTS ARE CAUGHT IN TRAP BOUND TO GOAST Drive Norlheas.l of Teruel Halted-—Valencia Air Raided ner, and Tiller-of-Soil, panese Encroachment and Chain BARCELONA, May 6-—The Span- he brought his own schooner north until the gold fever captured his ish Loyalists report that that the| | soul. Insurgent drive northeast of Ter- But in 1914, he took -his wife and | uel has been halted after bitter n children into the fertile fighting. valley of the Matanuska River. The Loyalists claim the Insurgent | Though a seaman from birth, even |trocps, trying to reach the coast by way of Moralla, were caught in eet things in the deep turf. And|a mountain trap. The Government| so he took in his 24 head of cattie forces closed the entrance to the and his plows and his tools and built. | trap and started a hand to hand | battle. The Insurgents finally fought their way to their own lines after suffering heavy loss | his mariner’s eye -saw promise of Makes Money He made money, and when a sailor makes money, he buys new 4 | boats,.and so Axel Olson went to| B84 weather and rainsoaked roads | sea again and left his children to|&'® preventing troop movements | 4| in most of the sectors of the Aragon| front. turned and nursed. | F 1 Today he has eleven grandchil- Insurgent airplanes are reported | dren in Matanuska, two sons and a to have raided Valencia, blasting the are | mer, paying him three cents a | pound. Over $2,000 from a few acres like that at three cents a pound is daughter, He still owns his patented | €1ty With explosives, until ight pur- ac there, although they suit planes fought off the attack leased to the Government s S e “Anyone who will work will make s a succ at Matanuska!” Captain EA { Olson said last night aboard his - | boat. “You can raise the most won-| | | derful vegetables in the world ther e”| | | One colonist at Palmer raisec 182,600 worth of vegetables on only four or five acres of ground. I bought a ton of stuff from him last sum= | oo toney and shows the sround| Chemicals, . Flames, Artil- 18 oo | lery Indicated—Hitler Shown by Mussolini “The big trouble with the Colony, |is that too much money was spent on fine homes and fine barns—but —— | there’s nothing in them. Some of| ROME, May ‘6.—The next Europ- the colonists are making a go of it, ean war, if one comes, will be largely and a lot of them will. They can’t a struggle of chemicals, flames and miss if they work,” said Capt. Ol- artillery, if Mussolini’s lineup of son. armed forces in honor of Adolph But even more promising than Hitler, is an indication. Matanugka, in Capt. Olson’s opinion, [ Mussolini showed his guest all of is the Cook Inlet country around these today Homer. Chemical regiments sent a shud- “That ground along the eastern defr into the mass of spectators as shore of Cook Inlet is the greatest soldiers , looking lige beings from country in Alaska,” he d. “Some another planet, wearing gas masks, day, Homer will be a great grazing gave an impressive parade and brief country. There is not a better place demonstration. anywhere T know for raising cattle Machine guns were sent into dis- “It, would surprise you to see the play with well manned forces and gradual growth of that area ch anti-aircpaft Buns were brought summer I carry in about $60.000 into play in front of the reviewing Jwonh of merchandise and freight stand where Hitler stood with the |to the homesteaders along thal ftalian King, members of the Roy shore. Family and Marshals of Italy, in “It’s the sort of progress that is|viadeitrionfi, through which Ceasers going on there, that will push Al- regions once marched. | aska ahead. What you take out of - the soil in farming, you can put! pPORESTER DUE TOMORROW back. In mining, you cannot.” The Forest Service vessel Forester | Japanese Peril sailed from Ketchikan yesterday for | Each fall, Capt. Olson takes & Juneau and is expected here to- | half hundred Aleut trappers to the morrow after a stopover at Peters- little isiands of the Aleutian chain, burg. Aboard are Helen Smith Cass where the men trap foxes. He knows and Regional Eiscal Agent Ray those islands as few men do. He! Ward who have been in Ketchikan tells some startling things about and Petersburg on fiscal matters for (Continued on Page Seven) ' the department. PARTY SAN FRANGISCO SALMON UNION IN CONCESSION Members Vote to Recede from Previous Demand for Wage Increase FINAL PROGRAM TO BE PRESENTED NOW Operations in Fourteen Can- neries on Bristol SAN FRANCISCO, Cal The Alaska inery Wo announced today that it had reced- ed from the wage increase dema in an effort to reach an agreement with the packers, especially in the Bristol Bay section of Als George Wold, President and Busi ness Manager of the Union, said the union members voted last night to accept the 1937 wage scale “in order that no stigma may be at- tached to us” in blocking any wage agreement. Wold added that the union ex- pects to be able to “get other bene- fits of improved working conditions” as the result of the concession Wold stated he estimated about 1,700 men would be employed in the 14 Alaskan canneries. , Representatives of all unions in- volved will meet tomorrow to draft a final program for submission to the packers in the dispute which has been on for two months. The workers sought wage in- creases of about 15 percent over the 1937 monthly average base pay of $85. ALASKA MAY GET MORE MONEY FOR PUBLIC ROADS 'House Tentatively Approves Amendment to Jump Sum to Half Million WASHINGTON, May 6. — The House of Representatives has tenta- tively approved an amendment to the Federal Aid Road Act increasing Alaska's share of Federal funds from $400,000 to half a million. May 6.— Union b This is the act under which money comes to the Bureau of Public Roads for expenditure on roads and trails in the Territory under its jurisdic- tion. If the tentative plan announe- ed today in Washington is ultimat- ely approved by Congress it will mean approximately $150,000 more for BPR roads in Alaska during the next fiscal year than formerly. ‘GIVEN FOR ROBT. COUGHLINS BY DAVID WOODS Complimenting Mr. and Mrs. Rob. ert Coughlin (Verle Bartlett) whose wedding was 4 recent event in Ket- chikan, Mr. and Mrs. David Wood were hosts at a small dinner party given at their home in the Seatter Tract last evening. Guests of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Lance Hendrickson, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Leivers, and the Coughlins. Bridge followed later with Mr. and Mrs. Hendrickson placing high, and Mr. and Mrs. Leiv- ers, second. The guest prize was a wedding present for the bride and bridegroom, who are making their home in the MacKinnon Apart- ments. Pink roses and white tulips car- ried out the color scheme for the oczasion, RS LS LR FLAKNE GOES SOUTH Territorial Employment Director Joseph T. Flakne, sailed for Seat- tle on the steamer North Sea. Flakne will attend a meeting of State Employment Directors in the Puget Sound metropolis and ex- pects to return after a few days in the South.