The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1938, Page 1

" w HE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LIL, NO. 7790. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDN ESDAY, MAY 11, 1938, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PKESS PRICE TEN CENTS CI0 CANNERY WORKERS COMING NORTH NIPPON BOMBS CREATE HAVOC OVER SUCHOW Missiles Kills Many Civ- ilians at Chinese Base AMOY IN FLAMES K IN SOUTH CHINA American and British Are Standing by with War- ships and Destroyers BULLETIN — MANILA, May 11.—The light cruiser Marble- head has sailed from here | under ferced draft for Amoy, the South China port attacked by the Japanese ferces, to | evacuate American Nationals if necessary. The Marblehead carries 350 men and 30 cfficers and it is expected the ship will reach Amey by dawn on Friday. SHANGHAI, May 11. — Chinese sources reported today that four thousand houses have been dam-' pregident Roosevelt is shown as he aged and three hundred civilians pgress, in Washington. Dignified killed or wounded in an air attack | President pointed out that “you an by the Japanese on the Suchow base. | A huge Chinese army, defending — the Lunghai Railway, is based at Suchow. It was said that more than three hundred bombs had been dropped on Suchow, leaving many sections burning. Japanese warships and planes3 Be'lefit t continued an intensive bombard- | ment of Amoy, gateway to Fukien Province on the South China coast, = where the United States gunboat | Asheville, and the British destroyer | Diana, stood by, ready to exacuate 36 Americans and an undetermined President Roosevelt Power- number of Britons, if necessary. Fires were reported spreading less to Make Any Set- tlement of Issue rapidly through Amoy, while 30 including 15 American WASHINGTON, May 11. — A are believed safe aboard the United States destroyer statement from the White House today said President Roosevelt is Edsall, ordered from Tsingtao. The cruiser Marblehead has been ordered from Manila to proceed to powerless to settle the controversy | over the sale of helium to Germany, growing out of the refusal of Se: Amoy and stand by in case of | retary of Interior Harold L. Ickes need. Japanese marines are reported to approve of the sale and contract without guarantees against use of occupying sections of the burning city in bitter house to house fight- the gas in foreign military opera- | tions. ing with the Chinese garrison. It is pointed out that the export - e — GGAST LINE of helium to Germany requires the | unanimous consent of six Cabine’ }ofncers composing the National Army's New Fortresses Are | munitions Control Board. Secre- 28 : s tary Ickes is one of the members of Participating in De- |8 5200 fense Program | The announcement was made fol- ™ !lowing a conference between the HARRISBURG, Pa., May 11.—One | President, and high Navy and Army hundred and seventy war planes, | officials. scattered from Maryland to Maine,| Secretary Ickes is probably alone are poised at the zero hour in de-|among the Board members Oppos-, fense of the Atlantic coastline in|iDg the sale of helium without the the Army’s war games, a problem |Proper guarantee that it will not involving the mythical attack of a | be used for military purposes. fleet of enemy bombers. | At the next Board meeting it is Five hundred officers and 2500 expected that a formal decision on men are participating. the sale will be made. The Army’s new flying fortresses it WRITES 12,000 Will Return o BUM CHECKS IN U, 8. If Neded PAST 12 MONTHS ov:peco . Eria oot |said he will end his voluntary exile 1 s v |in England and return to the Unit- He&d l‘:f CElefig? F' sia ed States in event his services are aKes Loniession— Charges Be Filed friends of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh needed during wartime or some | other national emergency. | Poultry Plant Is CHICAGO, 11, May 11.—Assist- ant United States Attorney Richard Austin said that Walter Wood, head of a manufacturing concern, con- H fessed he wrote 12,000 worthless Destrnya !re checks during the last twelve 3 months. | Wood, who is 55, is President of gANTA ROSA, Cal, May 11— the Modern Equipment Company.|ire last night destroyed the $100,- He will be charged with operating 000 plant of the Poultry Producers a confidence game. in Central California. Jolting the D. A. R. and revolutionists.” Foreign envoys present noted his meaning when he mentioned that those same immigrants “threw off the fascist yoke.”| Crazy Notiona; Work Out ‘ Sometimes to Be of Real NO DATE SET FOR VOTING, CLOSED PORT FOR SEATTLE Five Ships Idle in Harbor But Cessation of Work Has Not Spread— Alaska Boats Sailing TTLE, May 11. — Five re tied up here as the vth of the Tacoma hot cargo dispute but cessation of work has failed to spread to other ships. No time has been set for the rank and file of maritime unions to vote en the recom- mendation for a general walk- out and closing of the Port of Sezttle which was made by the Emergency Diverted Cargo Committee of the Maritime Council. Late yesterday the Sailors Union announced they will take a vote on walking cut by them- selves because of failure of opiraters to pay off crews of tied up here and in- clved in the controversy. Alaska ships are sailing on advertised schedules pending the vote, if any is taken, re- addressed the D. A. R’s 47th Con- matrons were left gasping as the d I are descended from immigrants garding closing the Port of R SENINRANIRY - ARAY, dyitaeas WA Seattle. FEMMER'S INFORMATION D. B. Femmer, Juneau Agent for the Alaska Transportation Com- pany, received a radiogram this morning from Seattle stating that from the best information available it is indicated no final action will be taken by the sailors’ union to close the port of Seattle until a meeting scheduled to be held Tuesday, May 17. The radiogram states the Chat- ham will sail Friday night, as sched- ons, and that is how it discov- yled “but suggest that anyone an- ered that plastering a cud of chew- ticipating requirements ship on the ing tobacco on a wound would St0D Chatham so they might not be the blood from spurting out. | caught short in se the Tongass We haven't as yet persuaded our i tjed up on her scheduled trip of favorite government bacteriologist nray 20 to test whether a big swig of raw - et whisky is good for snake bite. But when Dr. Lazlo Detre, bacteriolo- vargas su"ashes razilian Revolt 0f Green Shirts gist of the Bureau of Public Health, heard of the chewing tobacco rem- |edy he put his test tubes to work Fascist Group Attempts to Take Government Build- ings in Capital City o All Mankind 'ON GROVER WASHINGTON, May 11. — One of the things this government does in its spare time is to test out cr on it | One of Dr. Detre’s Public Health colleagues from down in the to- bacco belt is responsible for start- ing him on the strange chase. The /man said that when he was hunt- ing as a boy with his father, their Negro servant cut off two of his fingers while chopping wood for a camp fire. Desperately the boy's father tried fo keep the darky from bleeding to death. In some- thing of a panic he slapped on a cud of tobacco. It worked. The bleeding stopped. They took the Negro back to town where a physician roundly RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, May 11.—A Fascist revolt against the totalitarian government of Presi- dent Getuilio Vargas, was quickly crushed today after fighting in scolded everybody for taking such the streets of this capital during risks witM infection. He removed the night. the tobacco and cleaned the wound,| Unsuccessful attempts were made only to start the bleeding again. to seize the government buildings | The Negro didn’t die but neither|jn several hours of mob battle. |did the idea that chewing tobacco| The rebellion was started by the was good for wounds. Integralists, a Green Shirt organi- o . zation outlawed by President Vargas IT'S THE CALCIUM after he grasped authoritarian con- | Dr. Detre found out why. He used | | his own blood in the test. It isn't| Assaults were made on Guana- ‘tm- nicotine. It is some sort of cal- bara Palace and other government |cium in the tobacco which causes|buildings, but only one building was the blood to coagulate, or clot, and|successfully occupied by the revo- |seal up the wound. Dr. Detre jutionaries. A force of the Green | thought it likely that the nicotine, Shirts took over the building occu- mixing in the blood that way, might pied by the Marine Ministry, but |do harm and no good at all. EVi- {he Government Militia surround- | dently Dr. Detre’s southern col-leq them there and forced a quick | league’s father had chewed out all|gyrrender. | the nicotine. | At daybreak today, Chief of Po- | If you are going to become|jice Pilinto Mueller, said the revolt | heroic and cut off a finger just 0| was suppressed. [try this out, at least tollow the| actual fighting lasted three and |approved method. Chewing is mot|, phalf hours, raging through the the best way, although Dr. Detre|peart of the city before the gov- peake Bay fishermen used a cud 10| guation. from fish hook |wounds. Best way (in case you can’t get to a doctor) is to boil some tobacco long enough to stew out the juice and cause the nicotine to evaporate. The “tobacco tea”| |is better than a cud. | The following are scores of base- Milk also is good, said Dr, Detre, ball games played this afternoon in |stop bleeding SNOE LA 2 B | !but “tobacco tea” is 10 times the two major leagues as received és'.mnge;-, up to 2 o'clock: | - % ! National League | HOME-GROWN REMEDIES | Brookiyn 7; Chicago 0. Dr. Detre says it never pays to scoff at country superstitions. Foik | League remedies often have sound, practi-| Cleveland 1; New York 4. {cal value. Nevertheless, we should| Chicago 2; Boston 4. | Louis 9; Philade | (Continued on Page Five) SD:"‘D“ 4,"";;‘“"‘:3:“1 o American trol of Brazil in his coup of 1937. Railway Meetin Senator Burton Wheeler’'s Washington office was the scene of an important meeting between railroad executives and labor leaders but no agreement on wa; W. Clement, president of the Pennsy! Executive Association and Sena . and Quincy Railroad; Senator Harry S. Trueman of Mis; B0P FACTIONS TAKE SWING AT DENOCRATS Republicans Charge Spend- Ing Bill Is Threat to Solvency of Nation WASHINGTON, Muy licans today attacked the 11.—Repub- Adminis- tration’s lending and spending pro- gram as a “threat to national sol- venc, while on the other side of the fence, a Democrat said “it is much better than any previous relic measure.” The Republican attack was cent- ered around the report of the Ap- propriations Committee minority group, written by Representatives Taber and Bacon, of New York, and | Wigglesworth of Massachuselts | The report was distributed to the | press by the Republican National | committee, and referred to current business conditions as the “Roose- velt Depression.” Representative Maverick, in reply- ing to the verbal lambasting from the House floor, said such criticism “doesn't solve any economic ills in the United States.” He charged that the Republicans have no program of their own to offer in lieu of the Administration’s program. e e 'Roosevelt Names IJiret_:mr of NEC | WASHINGTON, May 11.—Lowell | Mellett, former editor of the Wash- nominated u- | ington News, has been by President Roosevelt to be e | tive director of the naticnal emer- | gency council. | He succeeds Eugene Leggett | other former ne aper man an- The emergeney council is devoted | largely to statistical work. It was | originally created by the President | to coordinate the functions of New | Deal agenc: | -oe - SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 11.—Local {said he had learned that Chesa-|oinment gained mastery over the | TAX BILL GOES | - TOWHITE HOUSE | o | WASHINGTON, May 11 Con- gress has sent the five billion three hundred million dollar tax revision | bill to the White House. ‘The House vote was 242 to 89 and | this completed action on the meas- ure designed to ease taxes about | which: 'business complained. The | House action was on appro g the | conference report which compro- mised the differences with the Sen- & ator Wheeler. Standing: Ralph Budd, tion of American Railroads. A. L. AUXILIARY PRESIDENT ILL o & 4 Mrs. Malcolm Douglas of Seat- tle, national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, who was recently gtricken ill while enroute from Honolulu to San Francisco. Upon her arrival at the latter port, friends suid it was Mrs. Douglas’ third illncss since she took over the auxiliary presidency, The aux 'y chief is the wife of Superior fourt Judge Malcolm Douglas of S attle. MEASURE FOR KODIAK PLANE - BASE APPROVED House Naval Committee Takes Quick Action, Proposed Project T WASHINGTON, May 11 The House Navi\ Committee has placed unanimous approval on the measure carrying five million dollars for a Naval seaplane base at Kodiak Is- land, Alaska. The proposed base, will have fa- cilities for two squadrons, 24 sea- | plane bombers, machine shops, etc. souri and J, / {Conference VRel—)ort for Bil- ges was reached. Left to right are, seated: Martin lvania Railroad; George M. Harrison, president of the Railway Labor president of the Chicago, Burlingtom J. Pelley, president of the Associa: EXPANSION BILL FOR NAVY GIVEN HOUSE APPROVAL lion Dollar Program | | | Over One Hurdle | EXVPANSION BILL . WASHINGTON, May 11. — The | House has approved of the Senate | and House conference report on the administration’s billion dollar Naval expansion program, overriding the brief outburst of the minority op- position. The measure will authorize the| construction of 46 warships, 26 aux- | iliary vessels and one experimental airship. Y TWO POWERS ARE BLOCKED, LEAG. COUNCIL gate Tackles Great Britain, France NEVA, May 11.—The Span- ish Government’s delegate has halt- ed the steamroller which Great Britain and France are operating at the current session of the ses-| sion of the League of Nation’s Coun-| cil " | Julio del Vayo, of Barcelona, For-‘ eign Minister of the Spanist ernment, bitterly attacked the two| powers and their bargaining with Ttaly and refused to let the question| of intervention in the Spanish Civil| war to be run through the Council without full consideration. To Be Rewarded Mexico Establishes Fund for Annual Award—NMoth- er Must Be Poor MEXICO CITY, May 11.—This Republic has joined Italy and Ger- many in a campaign for larger families. President Lazaro M. Cardenas announced today the establishment of an annual award of $1,200 for the mother who gives the greatest number of future citizens to the country. It is specified that the recipient must be poor. T ’ \ g Which Failed in Agreement i TWO GRE_WS 10 LEAVE SEATTLE EARLY TONIGHT Men AreBeing Sent to Can- neries at Cordova- Also Anchorage COOK INLET FORCE GOING TO KODIAK Labor Board Expected to Issue Orders to Operat- ors at San Francisco SEATTL May 11.—Two crews of CIO cannery workers sail to- night for Alaska out of Seattle, and ne CIO crew will sail from An- chorage for Kodiak. Conrad Espe, General Secrefary of the CIO Cannery Workers’ Union said the two crews are for Cordova, while the Anchorage crews are for canneries on Kodiak Island. The Anchorage crews, it is said, are com- posed of local Alaskans. Espe said the crews will sail aboard the steamer Mt. McKinley of the Alaska Steamship Company and he declared he does not antici- pate any trouble when the lines of the ship are cast off here at 6 o'- clock this evening. The' National Labor Relations Board is still checking the protest of the AFL union on last week’s consent election which the CIO won. Espe said he expects the pack- ers to notify him during today to abide by the decision of the con- sent election and negotiate only with CIO workers. TO CERTIFY CIO SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 11. —Richard Gladstein, CIO attor- ney, announces that he has re- ceived a telegram from the Nation- al Labor Relations Board saying the CIO would be certified as the sole representative for Alaska sai- mon cannery workers in San Fran- cisco. Gladstein said he thought that as the result of this message he “will immediately demand that the com- panies bargain exclusively with the C10.” Packers previously announced their intention to bargain with all three unions involved, AFL, CIO and Filipino workers until the Board certified to one of them. L — 1‘. STOCK QUOTATIONSJ NEW YORK, May 11. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 9%, American Can 87'%, American Light and Power 6'6, Anaconda 29, Bethlehem Steel 47%, Commonwealth and Southern 17, Curtiss Wright 4%, General Motors 31%, International Harves- ter 59%, Kennecott 35%, New York Central 13%, Southern Pacific 13%, United States Steel 45%, Cities Serv- ice 107, Pound $4.97%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 11852, up 59; rails 2348, up .28; utilities 20.45, up .37. NEW BILL ASKS $950,000 FOR FISHERIES WORK Five-Year Program Propos- ed in Senate for Alaska —Opposition Raised WASHINGTON, May 11.—A bill has been introduced in the Sen- ate and is pending action to author- ize the expenditure of $950,000 for construction in Alaska by the U. 8, Bureau of Fisheries, the program to extend over five years. The measure provides for const- ruction during the 1939 fiscal year of a fishing laboratory at Little Port Walter to cost $25,000, a fishery lab. oratory boat in Southeast Alaska at $20,000; salmon counting weirs, $20,- 000; two sea-going patrol vessels for enforcement $120,000. In 1940 the program would call for a fishery laboratory at Karluk, $35,- 000; sea-going patrol vessel, $60,000; (Continued on Page Two)