The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LIL, NO. 7792. ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIR JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN SHIPPING TIE-UP IS AVERTED BY TRUCE HOUSE PASSES SPENDING BILL AFTER BATTLE Proponents of Measure Look to See Senate Pas- sage Come Speedily G. 0. P. MODIFICATION | ATTEMPT IS FAILURE 25 Republicans Vote with | Administration — 11. | Democrats Against WASHINGTON, May 13. — Anti-“ Administration Senators last night| . demanded restrictions over Presi-| dent Roosevelt's control of the three | billion dollar relief and public worksi' fund, but the House voted approval | of the measure by a vote of 329 to 70. 4 The vote was called for during a noisy night session. Senator Harry I. Byrd, frequent critic of the Admin- istration, conferred with some of his colleagues on the possibility of earmarking the bulky bill to limit uses to which the money might be put, but Senator A. B, Adams, Chair- man of the Appropriations Sub- Committee, handling the legislation, predicted the measure will reach the Senate floor by the middle of next week without any important changes being made. Democratic leaders are regaining hopes of a njd-June adjournment (right), Delegate to Congress from relief in frent of an electric fan wh him with a towel Heat Too Much for Alaskan As the temperature mounted in Washington, D.C., Anthony J. Dimond Hawaii, who remarked the weather made him homesick, helped fan 'JAPANESE USE PLANES TO AID LUNGHAI PUSH Nippon Forces Closing in | on Vital Rail Line After Bombing Raids ATTACKERS THREATEN | SYSTEM, TWO PLACES |Station Towns of Tangshan and Sinanchen Are Next Objectives SHANGHAI, May 13.—Japanese war planes today loosed tons of explosives on the Central China front in an effort to speed the ad- vance of a dozen Japanese columns boring steadily toward the Lunghai Railway from the north and south. Hardest, hit locale was that about the city of Suhsien, 45 miles south of Suchow, on thé Tientsin-Pukow | Railway, where the Japanese planes made three smashing raids. Farther to the west, Japanese | planes leveled Chinese defenses at | Yungcheng, enabling the troops of the Rising Sun flag to capture that | city and place them in position for |an advance on Tangshan, a rail- way station on the Lunghai route, Alaska, wilted. He finally sought |30 miles north. ile Samuel W. King, Delegate from | ©On the north, the deepest pene- | trating Japanese column was only three miles from the vital Lunghai| rail line and were threatening 10| of Congresg, and expect Senate pas- sage of the bill within a week after it reaches that body. Three different organized at- tempts by Republicans to modify the bill, met with little success. However, 25 Republicans voted for the bill, with 11 Democrats voting against it. As the bill stands, it appropriates $1,250,000,000 for PWA work relief. VACATION PLANS SCHOOL FACULTY | sever that Chinese life-line link at| | Sinanchen, 65 miles east of Suchow. P R Chinese fo Get Munitions from 'Son of Pioneer _ Family Stages 'APPROVED FOR 2 the gigantic review of Ita Premier Mussolini, Hitler, King Victor Emanuel and Queen Elena. .‘S—;)ectacu_lar Resistance of China Result of Two Rival GroupsNowFighting asOne By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, May 13.—When | it became pretty clear that the Jap- |anese army was having no picnic |in North China, I went to one of the few men in the United States who knows his Far East like a book. APPROPRIATIONS A sum of $965,000,000 will be set aside for a new public works pro- gram; $175,000,000 for rehabilitation needs of needy farmers; $70,000,000 for the National Youth Adminis- tration, and $25,000,000 for construc- tion of Federal and other public buildings. ARE ANNOUNGED Holdup af Noon | Courses, Others to Take | Summer Holiday | | In the J-Bird, official Juneau| | High School publication, issued m-i |Several May Take Special Merritt Milg,_t-)f Olympia, Confesses to Robbery Loot Is $860 OLYMPIA, Wash.,, May 13.—Mer- G. Mills, 33, son of one of Olym- ritt pia’s prominent pioneer families, Bri@n, France Two Powers Assure Dr. Koo that Armaments Will Arrive Safely 'ALASKA OFFIGES “What's the meaning of all this Mussolini Displays Italan Armed Mightto H itler %7 o This picture, telephoned from Rome to London, then sent to New York by radio, shows Adolf Hitler at military might during his visit to Benito Mussolini. Left to right (front row) N.LRS8. DIRECTOR REFUSES REVOTE ONBARGAINING :AFL Organizer Says Ships to Be Picketed on Reaching Alaska SEATTLE, May 13.—Robert Gates, UNION ACCEPTS PROPOSAL MADE BY EMPLOYERS Port of Tacoma Opened at 8 o'Clock This Morning —No Shipping There | TENSION RELIEVED IN SEATTLE HARBOR Respite in Conflict Taken to Permit of Confer- ences Being Held SEATTLE, May -The Water= front Employers Association re- opened the Port of Tacoma at 8 o'~ clock this morning, with no ships in port, after the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific accepted a ten day truce to end what would have been virtually a tieup of all American shipping in the port of Seattle. The deadline for opening the Port of Tacoma was set for 5 o'clock yes- terday afternoon and if the port was not opened at that time, the tieup at Seattle would result, af- fecting Alaska steamers, Oriental ships and the American Mail Line. Eighteen ships in the Seattle har bor would have been tied up. Truce for Conferences The truce, proposed late yester- day afternoon, was offered by the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employ- ers Association, in order to have | conferences with the East coast | which might seek permanently | settle the question of whether tho | independent Sailors' Union of the Pacific or the CIO National Mari- | ime Union would furnish crews fo the Shepard Steamship Line ves- sels. The question of who would handle %) Chinese resistance?” I asked, ex- pecting a tolerant smile and a long-winded, high-sounding dis- cussion , of military setrategy and economics, | |Governor's Department and Road Commission Get Word of Allotments | “Why,” said he, “it's as simple as pouring water out of a boot. John W. Troy| Anybody who has carefully studied Ernest Gruen-|the war in the Far East expected | Message to Gov | last night from Dr. acting Regional Director of the Na- the cargo of the freighter Timber tional Labor Relations Board here, Rush started the tieup at Tacoma. refused an AFL request today to re- The Timber Rush moved from Ta- open the collective bargaining el-| coma to Elliott Bay and is today an- | ection in the Alaska salmon canning | chored in the stream. A sister ship, | wage dispute. the Sage Brush, is due sometime Gates formally certified to the today at Portland result of last week’s voting which Tension gave CIO a victory over AFL, and| As the deadline hour approached, announced that the AFL protest|there was a great tension on the Se- was “without substantial merit,” attle waterfront. Managements of The Americdn Federation of Lab- several Alaska lines d ed loading or contended that balloting in the| {reiht on steamers, pending the election had been halted while sev- outcome of the threat. Freight was eral hundred AFL men were still :g“"i:’"& {2 Srvins pasnt received waiting to vote. | e docks so that in case of compromise for arbitration it coul day as the final edition of the pres-|j.¢ confessed to a daring noon| GENEVA, May 13.—Chinese sour-|;,, pyjrector of the Division of Ter-| the Japanese to get tangled up {ent school period, one of the Many. poiqyp of the Thurston County Sav- | ©es today said China has obtained| jirjes and Island Possessions in| pretty soon. They tripped over their interesting articles are the plans of |00 ang Loan Company. assurances from League Powers of n. Interior Department, said that|sword, as it were, a little earlier | the High and Grade school laculty‘ Detective Captain Ray Hays an- | armaments credits, principally from | the Interior Department bill whicn |than necessary.” members for the summer vacation.|nounced that Mills, son of a former |Great Britain and France. | was passed by Congress Monday| As simple as that, eh? And it is. Although Supt. A. B. Phillips'| ojympia Mayor, said financial trou-| It Was said the Chinese nation|cgrried the following appropriations| Here, he said, are the reasons why plans are indefinte, he will leave for | o5 jed him to the robbery. | has been given credits to purchase| for the 1939 fiscal year starting in|the Japanese lost the battle of AIR MAIL WILL BE STUDIED BY Seattle on June 6, where he will| Hays said $860 was taken at the arms and also given assurance of July: | Taierchwang — and further -« the FARLEY ON VISIT Postmaster General Plan- ning Extensive Trip Over Territory Air mail in Alaska and possibilities of its connection between the Ter- ritory and the States are matters Postmaster General James A. Farley will have in mind when he comes to visit Alaska this summer, according to a message from Delegate Anthony J. Dimond to Gov. John W. Troy. The Postmaster General is plan- ning an extensive trip, the Delegate said, and probably will be accom- panied by his daughter, Betty. The Delegate’s meéssage said: “Postmaster General Farley in- formed me today that in compliance with my repeated invitatiors he plans on visiting Alaska this sum- mer, sailing from ‘Seattle, July 16, and will, if possible, travel over the Richardson Highway to Fair- banks and return over the Alaska Railroad to Seward, but he is not vet certain that time will permit him to go to Interior Alaska. “His visit has special reference to improvement of air mail and other mail service between the Stat- es and Alaska and within Alaska. He probably will be accompanied by his daughter, Betty, and at least one member of the Department staff.” The Governor, in replying, ex- pressed pleasure at the prospect of Mr. Farley's visit, and urged the Delegate to accompany him. | spend some time. cipal A. S. Dunham for a portion |of the coming vacation. Mr. Dun- |ham intends to go as far east as | Chicago, where he will review edu- | cational films with the view of | bringing some back to Juneau High | School for the coming term. There is a possibility of Mr. Dunham’s re- |turning to Juneau as early as Aug- | ust. Many Travel South Miss Edna Harpole plans to motor | to San Francisco with her father, | where she will visit her sister and | |also attend summer school at the |San Francisco State College. The | remainder of the summer vacation will be spent in Colfax, Washing- ton, which is her home town. On May 30, Mis Avis Erickson, English and dramatics instructor in |Juneau High School, will become |the bride of John J. Keyser. The | bride-elect and the benedict plan |to leave on May 31 for a trip to | Minneapolis, Minnesota, the home |of Miss Erickson, where they will spend some time. From there, they intend to travel east, and then re- turn to Juneau, where they will make their home. Will Attend School Attending the summer session of The Eastern Washington School of Education in Cheney, Washington, will occupy Miss Dorothy Whittaker for the first few weeks of her vaca- tion, after which she will visit her home in Portland, Oregon. Miss Pauline Monroe, librarian ad- |visor, and English instructor, will point of a gun from Hazel Ealmer, in the institution during the noon holdup. BOMBS AGAIN SHATTER PART OF BARCELONA Second Air Raid in Nineteen Hours Brings Death Out of Blue Skies BARCELONA, May 13.—This city was again bombed heavily today by Insurgent planes which dropped an estimated number of 30 or 40 high explosive missiles on the southern part of the city. It was the second bombing of this Capital City of the Government Spain in 19 hours. Yesterday morning a heavy bomb- ing shattered the central husiness, The committee acted after Secre-| district of Barcelona. Five tri-motored planes made yes- terday’s raid, but the number of planes making an early morning attack today could not be deter- mined. Observers on the outskirts of nor- thern Barcelona could see . great clouds of black smoke rising as the |aid in getting those arms into the The Middle West will claim Prin-| assistant Treasurer, who was alone | Wartorn area. | Dr. Wellington Koo, China’s suave | delegate to the League Council, said ‘he had obtained the agreement be- | hind the scenes. | Details of the negotiations are | not announced. Arrangements con- | cerning the safe delivery of the armaments are said to be secret. Dr. Koo is understood to have | rejected earlier offers of credits, and insisted on receiving in addition |to the credits, assurances from the Powers concerned, that the muni- |tions would reach Chinese territory | safely, through Hong Kong, or | French Indo-China. NO LIFTING OF ARMS EMBARGO WASHINGTON, May 13. — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted 17 to 1 to table the Nye resolution t6 lift the embargo on shipment of arms from the United | States to the Spanish Government. tary of State Cordell Hull opposed the action of lifting the ban. He said reconsideration of the present neu- trality legislation should be de- layed until the effects of the law are viewed in its broader aspects “rather than rewrite it piecemeal in “ relation to a particular situation.” |spend her vacation.in Portland, Ore- | gon, her home, where she will at-| |tend the extension course at the| bombs struck and the white puffs| of anti-aircraft shells exploding | the air about the attacking planes, Mexican Net Aces For salaries of Governor and Sec-, reasons why they can't take North reary, $15,600; contingent expenses, China like the Japanese beetle took | $25,600, which includes $10,790 for New Jersey. plumbing, wiring and general re- pairs to the Governor's House; ex-| L penses of Legislature, $46,000; pub- lic schools, $75,000. | The bill also provided $535,000 to| be made available immediately for construetion of roads and ftrails by the Alaska Road Commission and very provinces where the hot $160,000 for the ARC from the Al- fighting is now going on. aska fund. The first item of $535.000! That means Nationalist and Com- is the same as last year, Chief En-'munist China are at last united in gineer Ike P. Taylor said, and the a common front against a common | Alaska fund allotment, which is de- enemy. It took a Japanese invasion | pendent on revenues, is up $30,000| to get Chiang and his old enemies | from the previous year. together, but they are together. The Figures are not yet available on| evidence is overwhelming amounts for the Public Survey of-| First, Chiang executed able, but fice or the Office of Indian Affairs.’ double-dealing General Han Fu- The former is expected to run|Chu, the governor of Shantung pro- around $55,000, District Cadastral vince, who had failed to resist the | Engineer George W. Parks said. The | Japanese. | Indian Office had asked for $790,-| Then, Chiang ordered his other | 000 for its department of education, generals to snap into hit-and-run | but Director C. M. Hirst said he had guerrilla warfare against the Japs, | no definite word yet on what amount | the principal idea behind that being was granted. harassment of the invaders, and R Tl cutting of their communication ——#% lines. P ——eeee | sTock QuoTAaTions 4 Finally, *- Nationalist China’s leader, Chiang Kai-shek, definitely has ended his 10-year feud with the Communist war lords who rule the provinces of North Central China — the “dictator,” but is more accurate as “leader.” It is “Tsung-Tsai,” an honor, conferred upon him by his Nationalist Kuomintang party. NEW YORK, May 13. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 87%, American Light and Power| 5%, Anaconda 28'%, Bethlehem Steel 47%, Commonwealth and Sou- | thern 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, Gen- eral Motors 30%, International Har- | vester 56%, Kennecott 33%, New| | York Central 13%, Southern Pacif-| ic 13%,, United States Steel 447%, Cities Service 10%, Pound $4.97% | 2. The alliance of the Chinese Nationalists and Communists coaxed out of Soviet Russia a continuing stream of war ma- terials for the Chinese armies, via the caravan routes from Mongolia to Sian, in the heart of North Central China. Chiang won a new title| which can be translated to mean | Gates said that there were nob|pe joaded with dispatch and dels several hundred AFL votes prevent. sailings as little as possible ed from being polled .and that the number which might have voted had the polls stayed open longer, would | not have phased the final tally. FEMMER RECEIVES WORD D. B. Femmer, agent of the Al- aska Transportation Company, this Alternative Proposed i .| morning received a radiogram, dated An alternative for the AFL, Clates) ¢ ‘gopisio ‘lnst night, stating that said “is that the canning industry ¢ .~ . 2 he “Employers have offered the might be induced to permit mem-| o, o ten_day truce during which bers of both organizations to work both Tacoma and Seattle will be in Alaska during the 1938 season.”| oo, “pliCl NG BEUE B O Gates further sald: “This proposal| ypion pocepting which will permit must be solved, if it is to be solved, Chatham to resume loading Fri- by representatives of the interested | oo pon & FERRE 080 TR EEE partles, 88 s 1 ot & duestion] schedule. Ten days however is in- ;{';Eev"’er‘b"n q‘;uzld’cie ::::;:‘;d sufficient time to permit Chatham . ¥ to load concentrates or Puget Sound that certification of the election does Aclas o o Euks) Soondl | not imply that only members of the CIO may be employed.” perishables safel, ROPTT L0 - . " are rnoiszs rone BRIGTAN Gabinet SEATTLE, May 13.—L. Presley Gill, AFL Attorney, said today: H H “Three days ago, I sat in long con- es'g"s "] Budv ference with Robert Gates. He ag-! reed then to reoper the election. Now he is making a reversal of pol- BRUSSELS, May 13—The Bel- icy. He is not on the up and up with gian Cabinet, headed by Premier us. He was to announce the reopen- Paul Janson, has gned after ing of the election, and now he com- | being in office five and one half es out with a statement that he will months. not take such action.” The resignation of the Cabinet Gates said he would not comment s due to differences over the Gov- at this time. ernment’s tax proposals designed Conrad Espe, CIO Secretary, sald to balance the budget. The crisis two CIO crews will sail north tomor- has been (hreatening for some time row to cannery jobs, one of the crews and came Lo a head when the Catho- to work in Anchorage. lic members of the Cabinet refused Speaks for Alaska to participate further with the Gov- Charles Hughes, special AFL or- ernment. ganizer, said any ship attempting to sail from Seattle would be picketed, - D and added: “They may never gef NAVAL AvIATlnN off their ships when they get to Alaska. not i University of Oregon. BASEBALLTODAY 2.5 o~ & The following are scores of base- tle Moe, language instructor, will ball games played in the two major|jeave for her home in Seattle, Wash. leagues this afternoon as received | ington. As yet, Miss Moe has no up to 1:30 o'clock: | definite plans for the summer vaca- NATIONAL LEAGUE | tion. Pittsburgh 4; Chicago 1. | Upon being interviewed as to how AMERICAN LEAGUE he intended to spend the summer, St. Louis 5; Detroit 7. Henry Harmon states: “Well, I'll Chicago 7; Cleveland 6. tell you, I'm going to see what's Washington 0; Boston 10. on the other side of the mountain, Philadelphia 8; New York 6. (Continued on Page Six) powdering a blue sky. Thirty are believed killed and 55 wounded. Yesterday’s toll of dead has risen to 43, with the injured numbering several score. e —— MOOSE MEET A Moose meeting is scheduled for tonight at 8 o'clock at the Moose Hall. Refreshments are to be served, and all members are urged to at- tend. Until Chiang gave evidence that The Territory does DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow,| Jones averages: industrials 11187, down 6.88; rails 23.15 down .33;| utilities 19.93, down .31. —_———— Are Honeymooning MEXICO CITY, May 13.—Maria Tapia, most beautiful tennis player in Mexico and five times feminine | singles champion, and Angel Rol- The Forest Service vessel Forester | |dan, Mexican Davis Cup competi- sailed for Angoon and Hoonah this| | tor, are honeymooning. | morning with District Ranger W. A.| ) They were married after a ro-| Chipperfield and Joe Werner of the | mance that began on the tennis|Forest Service aboard. They will be in| | courts, where Miss Tapio con-| the field about a week on checkup of | | sistently defeated Roldan. CCC and other activity. { L he was battling the Japanese to a finish—evidence which has been lacking heretofore—Russian assis- tance was withheld from the Chin- ese Nationalists. But when evidence of sincerity was produced, Russia apparently decided to go ahead with a long-term plan to harass a natur- al enemy, Japan. The easiest way to harass Japan, for the time being, is to send war supplies to the Chin- (Continued on Page Two) want CIO ships arriving in the north and those ships will be pwkclcdI there.” Hughes reiterated a threat to place i salmon canners on the AFL unfair WASHINGTON, May 13. — The list and call a nation wide labor Senate has passed and sent to the boycott of cannery products handled White House the Administration’s by CIO workers. billion dollar Naval Aviation bill. —— - - Funds to carry out the program There now are 243,700 collective Must be appropriated later. farms in Russia, with 18,500,000 The measure authorizes construc- households, or 93 per cent of all tion of 46 new fighting ships, 26 aux- peasants in the country. lliaries and 930 planes. |