The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1938, Page 1

vk v - - > 2 » . T, T Tt e . e R R aRer G ST, (Dl ey, L. . S ve P> THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO.-7789. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1938. UNIONS TO VOTE, CLOSING C.1.0. Pi'ckets Delay Sailing Alaska Vessel LAKINA IS HELD UP THREE HOURS| SEATTLE HARBOR Successful I;r(;zsl Is Made on Sixty Cannery Work- ers Aboard Vessel AFL AFFILIATES WALK OFF CRAFT Part of False Pass Cannery Crew Left on Dock Last Evening SEATTLE, May 10.—The Steamship Company’s freighter Lakina sailed for Alaska three hours | late last night, after 500 CIO Can- | nery Worker’'s Union pickets suc- cessfully protested to the embarka- tion of 60 cannery employees of the P. E. Harris Company. The city cannery workers v\mo to go to the Harris cannery at False | Pass, in the Aleutians. The picket line formed a hour before the scheduled sailing of the Lakina at 5 p.m. by members of the ship's crew, personnel of CIO affiliates. Lonshoremen refused to work the ship after a conference among un- ion representatives. M. M. McKinstry, §\perintendent of Operations for the Alaska Steam- ship Company, disputed the union move when the cannery employees were ordered from the pier. Work was resumed when the workers left the dock and the Ship sailed at 8 pm. without the False Pass cannery crew. Conrad Espe, General Secretary of the CIO Cannery Worker's Un- ion, charged the False Pass crew were AFL merbers. CONFERENCES SLATED SEATTLE, May 10—Arthur Ells- worth, spokesman for the Alaska Salmon industry, said he expected there would be a conference this af- ternoon with the CIO, under stipu- lations of the consengelection agree- ment but “however the packers will meet first and decide just what should be done.” Ellsworth said the industry rep- resentatives have conferred with the AFL representatives hut entered into no negotiations. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 10. —Seattle salmon cannery operators are conferring with the unions in- terested in the Alaska salmon in- dustry in an attempt to adjust the wage dispute which has delayed operations in the Bristol Bay sec- tion. San Francisco operators in the Bristol Bay section did not attend the conference, explaining an im- passe has apparently been reached in the negotiations over the wage scale. e ——————— AMENDMENTS T0 NAVY BILL GET APPROVED WASRINGTON, May 10. — The joint Senate and House Committee announces an agreement on amend- ments to the billion dollar big Navy bill. The House Committee approved of the authorization to build threc battleships of 45,000 tons, subject to the President’s approval. A previ- | ous House clause limited tonnage to 35,000. The provision for twelve million | dollars to build experimental diri- gibles was eliminated. The Senate's clause upping the| Chairman Walsh of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee said the| measure will be submitted to the House immediately for approval and the Senate will get it later this week. He predicted approval by both | are to be provided in parks of Lon- Senate and House. Alabka | half | except licensed | Debate Immediately Begins | the doorstep of |lating with the AFL. | SUP said action will be taken on the {order to safeguard the interest of ! [] | A i ON'3 LEVEL tonnage of two 1t carriers lrom‘ “In this way we can more effect- | 15,000 to 20,000 tons was approved. | ’Board handing down arbitrary de | cisions,” said Lundeberg. Betty Butcher and Fred Pralle in New York Selected as the “most fascinating he” and “most alluring she” among students at University of Kansas, Betty Butcher, 18, and Fred Pralle, 22, were looking forward to a gay time when they arrived in New York, ahove, to spend a week there as guests of the contest sponsors. Postmaster General Farley Invited by Delegate Dimond To th Aluska Thls Summer Farley to visit Alaska this com- mg summer “to see for himself” PRI RS | FILM STUDIO PAINTERS ARE MAKING FIGHT AFL Afflllauon Want Rec- ognition as Bargaining Agency, Movie Colony —Report Urges Leg- islative Action WASHINGTON, May 10. — The Administration’s three billion fifty four million dollar spending and lending bill, to provide jobs for four million one hundred and thirty five thousand persons has been approved by the House Appropriations com- mittee. The report was received by the House shortly before the debate be- gan on the bill. The report declared that the pass- _LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 10. — ing of the measure will furnish Fourteen film studios ~have been . ed in complaints filed with the speedily “direct employment on the Dame : site, and indirect employment away National Labor Relations Board by from the site, for many millions who the Painters’ Union, AFL affilia-| are now unemployed, some destitute tion, demanding the studios recog-| or harassed by spectres that haunt Dize the union as the bargaining| the unfortunate 38€NCY- TWO CAPTAINS T0 LOSE LIVES Sentenced to Death as Re- sult of Collision on Caspian Sea group.” SUP PLANS VOTE ON JOINING AFL Harry Lundeberg Says This Action to Combat Labor Board MOSCOW, M:y 10.—Captains of two steamers which collided and SAN FRANCISCO, May 10—Sail- | gan in the Caspian Sea, have been ors belonging to the Union of the gentenced to death, charged with | | Pacific, announced today they would ' teryorism. conduct a four weeks secret refer- | endum vote on the question of nml.. —ao— JOBLESS NOW Harry Lundeberg, secretary of the| ively combat the destructive union smashing practices of the Labor WASHINGTON May 10. — P’L‘ officials said unemployment has in-| creased to about the same level as in 1935. The report, issued today, . Bomb-proof shelters and trenches| estimates the jobless at eleven mil- )um two. hundred and. thirty two thousand. —— e NAVAL ATTACK, HARBOR OF AMOY Twelve Warships Shell City with Support of Bombing Planes 5 JAP DIVISIONS SAIL FROM TOKYO | Koo Asks League to Apply Sanctions Against Invaders SHANGHAI, May 10.—The anese navy has launched an exped- ition against the port of Amoy, chief metropolis of the southern part of the coastal province of Juk- len. harbor Foreign dispatches said a Japan- ese naval force had landed after heavy bombardments by 12 warships standing offshore and firing in re- lays with support from over head by a flest of bombing planes. The invaders came to grips at |once with the Chinese garrison at Amoy. Japanese planes dropped leaflets on Culangu Island, Amoy's foreign settlement, urging foreign residents and a foreign vessel to leave the port, and announced the Japanese intention to occupy the city. 1t is estimated by foreign consuls, that there are 36 Americans in the besieged port Meanwhile, inland, three J columns advanced steadily north- ward toward the long sought ob- jective of Lunghai Railway. Five new Japanese divisions were report- ed en route from Japan to reinforce the stalmated Nippon drive in South| Shantung Province CHINA ASKS LEAGUE AID GENEVA, May 10.—Dr. Welling- ton Koo, Chinese delegate to the | League of Nations, asked the League | Council today to apply the provis- ions of the League Covenant in giv- ing China aid against Japan. Dr. Koo cited two resolutions, one made by the League Assembly last October, and one made by the League Council last February, rec- apanese ,ommendmg that League members Government announced give individual aid to China. “With one exception,” Dr. Koo said, none of the League members came to China’s aid. The exception is believed to be Russia. ALASKA COURT CASE MEASURE PASSES SENATE WASHINGTON, May 10. — The Senate has approved of the bill by Senator Burke, Democrat of Neb- raska, extending appellate juris tion to Circuit Court of Appeals to cases from the District Courts of Alaska and the Virgin Islands, Jap- | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SEATTLE PORT Secretary lekes, seated center, with appropriations commitice Armed with data on the new pump- priming pro- | s \ted, left to right, are Representative Buell L gram, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes goes | Snyder of Pennsylvania, Secretary Ickes and Rep- before the house appropriations committee in | resemative Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia. Stand- Washington to urge approval of a $1,000,000,000 | ing are Assistant PWA Administrator Howard PWA loan and grant fund recommended by the aresident in his recovery message. Britain Planning Air Service; New Lealand to Canada, Negotiations Under Way with U. S. Over Own- ership of Islands LONDON, May 10. The British today in the House of Commons that it is considering establishment of an air service across the Pacific. Ocean from Canada to New Zealand. Under-8ecretary of Air, Muirhead, announced that negotiations were now under way with the Dominion of Canada and, also the States, over ownership of P‘uuu. Islands along the BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of dee-‘ ball games played this afternoon | in the two major leagues and re-!| ceived up to 2 pm.: NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 5; Chicago 1 Philadelphia 3; Cincinnati 7. Brooklyn 10; St. Louis 2. AMERICAN LEAGUE LcuLs 6; Wasmm ton 8. certain proposed | St New Fight Is Sturted by - Texas Senator; Sheppard Aims Aid By PRESTON GROVER i WASHINGTON, May 10. — Many members of Congress, educated far from the halls of Harvard and Yale, often have expressed pain and an- noyance (privately) that lawyers from the big schools appear to have the inside track on the nice jobs in the government. Finally quiet Sena- tor Sheppard of Texas is to take it, publicly. He has infroduced a bill—-and is | pressing it—to prevent discrimina- | tion against Washington’s “sun-| down” law schools and other unier‘ schools which wither in the shadow | cast by the towering reputations of | the big ones. for Sundowne So far as we—or Senator Shep- pard—can learn, there is no ac- curate nose count on which college has put the most lawyers in nice government jobs. But there is a prevailing belief that Harvard has done very well, acting through Felix Frankfurter, who e: was | credited with putting handsful of his “hot dogs” in the top brackets | the first step to do something about | of the Federal payroxl | THEY WORK THEIR WAY Senator Sheppard firmly believes that there is rank discrimination against the little schools but con- cedes he is hard put to prove his (Continued on Page Seven) { United * EVANGELIST T0 Gray and Assistant Secretary of the Interior El- Upon F1YE MILLION In the photo, Operated Upon KODIAK 1SLAND Facilities Wlll Provxde for Two Squadrons, 24 Sea- plarre Bombers—Rear Admiral Is Booster WASHINGTON, May 10. House Naval Committee has com- | pleted hearings the proposed $28,000,000 Nacal Shore construction program The program includes a $5,000,000 seaplane base on Kodiak Island, Al- aska Rear Admiral Momrell told the Committee that the proposed Alaska base will have facilities for two squadrons, 24 seaplane bombers. The Rear Admiral declared that the base was of “major importance” the Pacific. Rear Admiral E. on Former Vice President Charles G. Dawes (above), 72, underwent an operation for acute appendicitis in a New York hospital. He and his wife were in New York to attend the wedding of Francis }Vnrrcr ©ershing when he was stricken. B. Fenner, Com- DIE IN CHAIR FOR District, visited the proposed Kodiak'| base te last week, making the flight from the Sitka Naval base, then returning via Cordova and Juneau e Found Guilty of Shooting Estranged Wife and Man Companion LEXINGTON, Ky., May 10— M Ollie Johnson, 48, evangelist, ha been sentenced to die on June 24 in the electric chairm. He wa victed of shooting his estrangec wife and William Rue, when he found the two together. e 0uT sTINsUN BERLIN, May 10.—Adolph Hitler L] came home in triumph today Three passengers went out with Irough jammed streets and high- Shell Simmons in the Alaska Air W&¥s. Transport Stinson this afternoon He was acclaimed by German heils Hans Floe and Nick Jukich flew o “concluding a steel axis from to Hawk Inlet and Wallis Peters was the Baltic to Sicily,” on his six day flown to Hoonah, | visit with Mussolini in Italy. Hells of Acclaim Greet Mr. Hitler On Berlin Return Praised for_C‘(:mpleling Steel Axis to Sicil- ian Shore con- DOLLAR NAVAL — The| strategic | to Naval aviation on| BEING SOUGHT BEFORE BALLOT AllOrganiLall(;s Must Take | Action Before Order Is Effective TWO AFFILIATIONS ALREADY WITHDRAW All Shlppmg to Be Hit, Is Declaration of Busi- ness Agent Gill SEATTLE, May 10.—Unions lined up by the Emergency Diverted Car- go Committee of the Joint Mari- time Council, which voted yesterday to close the Port of Seattle, by call- ing their men off ships, marked time here today. Port operations went ahead as usual despite the fact that five ships are tied up. No union has scheduled the time when to take a vote on the closing port order. All unions involved must take a vote of the membership be- | fore the closure order becomes ef- fective, | Gill's Statement P. B. Gill, Business Agent of the Sailors Union “of the Pacific, said | all shipping will be hit if the clos- ing order is voted by the varfous unions and will effect Alaska ships as did the closing of six months ago. Union members are however work- ing today as usual on Alaska steam- ers. Gill said the unions are waiting fol legal advice before voting . The order for closing the port is the aftermath of closing the port of Tacoma, ten days ago by the Water. front Employers in a jurisdictional dispute between the Sailors Union of the East Coast and the Sailors Union of the Pacific. Two Unions Won't Vote A spok(wm.m ul t,hL' Maaters glno rs, said both organizations wuuld not be parties to vote on clos- ing the Port of Seattle. This leaves |the Marine Firemen, Oilers and Wipe: Longshoremen and Sailors to carty the brunt of the vote on closing the port. Several sources this afternoon in- timated that possibly deep-sea ship- ping might be effected but a doubt was expressed that Alaska steamers would be involved, although this | was just a surmissal. ENGLISH MINE BLAST BRINES DEATHTO T3 Worst Disaster Britain Has Known—May Claim ‘ More Lives | DUCKMANTON, Derbyshire, Eng., mandant of the Thirteenth Nsval |May 10—Seventy-two miners were killed, 49 are known injured, and a number of others are entcmbed hers in the wrecked, workings of the Markham coal mine, following two violent gas explosions. The disaster is one of the great- |est that England has ever known. It occurred as the night shift was preparing to emerge to the surface. | Sobbing women gathered around the pithead as the dead and injured were brought to the surface. One woman found that four members of her family were still in the wark- ings, their fate undetermined. Scores of rescuers, stripped to the walist, fought through the wreckage of fallen mine timbers toward the trapped men. More rescuers, with gas masks accentuating the morbid scene, sealed one section of the pit to prevent gas from seeping through to the trapped workmen. The first blast caused the roof to break through in a number of places and a dull rumbling shook the countryside, followed by flashes of flame and dark, billowing clouds of black, sulphurous dust. The explosion originated in a shale seam, 2,500 feet below the sur- | face.