The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE . VOL. LIL, NO. 7794. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” < k. “ S MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1938. 10 PACK, CLAIM is Surrounded by Japanese ALASKA OPERATORS L] s Vital Suchow International Highway Looming Big Washington Delegat EXPECT ATTACK HOURLY AS JAPAN 'ENCIRCLES CIT WASHINGTON, May 16. — The Washingion State Congressional delegation is convinced that the day , Is Belief won The measure has the approval of engineers who state that the cost will be close to $14,000,000, of which HIGH TRIBUNAL Two Women Are Killed in Plane Crash in UPHOLDS LABOR. ACT PROVISION 1. Rules Striking Men Are Still'g other functions during his visit. 115 attending the session. catle GEORGE WOOLF “BELIEVES WORK TOSTART 00N |CIO Secretary Declares a [ of the Seattle-Alaska Highway, also|$12,000,000 must be spent in Canada 3 known as the International High- | where approximately 1,000 miles of N N . . TangShan Area‘Falls to Nlp‘ way, is not far removed. | new road must be constructed. The f:.mployees and NOI i } Steam IS Up mn Several pons, Trapplng Thou- “It is making real progress and remainder would be built in needed to Be Fired Cannery Sh|p5 sands Of Chinese winning over the Administration | sections in Alaska. 1 leaders,” said Representative War-, The highway would wind north-' WASHINGTON, May 16. — The | PAOT]NG BEEIGED ren G. Magnuson, author of the|west from the United States and Supreme Court today ruled that | COLUMBIA RIVER FIRM measure authorizing President Roo- Canadian boundary along easy working men who strike as a result 3 BY CHINA;S TROOPS"‘.EW“ to name a commission to grades behind sheltered mountains, of unfair labor practices by their PLANS FOR 38 SEASON i study the proposed 2,256-mile lini|on an all-weather route where snow employer, are entitled to the pro- o L] ATy & lof highway connecting the north would never reach more than three tection of the National Labor Re- Three Hundred Men Wl" + Ten Americans Said to Be and south. | feet. except around Dawson. lations Act S | | Be Shipped to Nushagak in Central Hopeh The decision was given in uphold- f Son : " . oJ7 e ing an order by the NLRB directing | rom JSan [Irancisco Battle Sector Five Million Dollar Peace the Mackay Radio Telephone Com- 1 e 3 pany to reinstate five employees (‘SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 16.-~ SHANGHAI, May 16.—Japanese who has gone on a strike in San jeorge Woolf, Secretary of thea dispatchss Yoday dediabed that the Insur(lnce Pl(lnne(l, ‘4 laSka Francisco, CIO Alaska Cannery Workers Un- Chinese railroad junction city of Justice Roberts delivered the de- il(mt said today there is “every indi- Suchow is completely surrounded By 3. 3. ECKLES cision. He asserted that the strikers| | cation the operators intend to pack by Nipponese troops. [ s lland about 9 miles north of Ju- remained as employees under labor| [i3ti8, Bofco. ; s The dispatches said troops of the| Secretary to Delegate Dimond |neau, which has been reserved as act stipulation that labor is “pro- | Woolf sald A. K. Tichenor, Vice- Rising ‘Sun flag are closing in from WASHINGTON, May 2__(specm\me site for a radio station, for tected against unfair labor prac-| iP‘rv.xldmn (?I the Alaska Packers As- o all sides with thousands of Chin- Correspondence) — Prospects for another tract owned by the Pacific tices and denounced by it." | |Bociation, sald last week that packs ese trapped in the area around the carrying some phases of the pro- |Alaska Airways was approved by No dissenting votes were register- |ing would be undertaken and he )y vital city. |gram for the defense of Alaska,|the President April 25. ed. Justices Cardozo and Reed did i“"’b“l.”-" WOUlL Sonifer - with: Woult Japanese asserted it would be only carefully built up by Delegate A.| After the radio station site had not participate. 5 e iy togey s a matter of hours before the actual J. Dimond during the five years he (been reserved it was found that| The court decision reversed the - : il | Woolt sald the steamer Ejin hay o ssault, on Suchow will begin. Such- has reptesented the Territory in|construction of the necessary an-|opinion of the Ninth Circuit Court| Mrs. Ome Daiber, 27, and Miss Dorothy Matthews, 74, were drowned when a seaplane piloted by Bradford | S.°2M Up at Alameda and two other B becn. the Japaness objective| Congress, came {o the front with tenna towers on it would provide of Appeals refusing to approve of Washburn, Jr., turned turtle while landing in Lake Union in downtown Seattle, Wash. A fourth passen- gy Do Delarot ud Ohivagol], for months, and its capture will give increasing intensity during the past |a flying hazard to operations in|the reinstatement of the five men ger, James Borrows, and Washburn escaped injurics. Rescuers are shown recovering the bodies of the | .y ;:&e{,e"iid{ P dpatuie Japan control of the East-West week in Washington. and out of the Juneau Airport,'on the ground they had severed women. Laat ready to ha ¥hed e acKess Lunghif Railway. “1*A" naval establishment fortie {owned &1 operated by-the Pacif ¢ their employment connection by . L7 .. At e L oS R - RIS LB RE 8y SR E A 3 L k. terms, we will ges, The encirclément was accomplish-| Territory is now centered in what |Alaska Airways. To avoid this the striking iy ] Sevament-quickLy, Wi Wooll. ed, the Japanese said, by closing the is presumed to be a Navy Depart- |airways company purchased the Justice Roberts said the National | TO ¥ Jast remaining gap in the ring of ment construction bill, introduced |tract used for its part of the ex- Labor Relations Board's findings of | enrgamza mn - ‘ OPERATE, ALASKA men west of Suchow, just below the|in the House April 27 by Represen- |change for $3,000 and has agreed discriminations are “supported by | ASTORIA, Ore, May 16—The % Lunghai Railway, near Tangshan. tative Vinson of Georgia, Chairman |that all details connected with the evidence.” . : | Columbia River Packers Association Meanwhile, foreign observers heard of the House Committe on Naval land exchange will be taken care B l Bv’va s | N IN L prepared to open Alaska opera- *® that Paoting, important city in Cen-| Affairs, which would authorize an of without cost to the Government. | ‘ sous-{ollowiuggis Setimant of b tral Hopeh Province, had been sur- appropriation of five million dol- The land provided by the company . . 1‘;" price dispute at San Francisco. * rounded and beseiged by 20000 |lars for a “Naval Air Station, Ko- is said to be more suitable for a HERE IN 1939 BBI" I"dlcated ATLANTA HOTEL e Associston plsns to empiey, Chinese troops, fighting in the sub- | diak Alaska: Aviation facilities, in- radio station than that originally | iy imately 300 workers and will urbs of that city. i cluding bulidings and accessories reserved for such use. K"-LED TH EN —_— | e Sd }frl:aex:psrtixt:: \ifi?‘r‘fukfro::nngi Ten Americans are reported to be and purchase of land.” | VA 3 5 . in Paoting. | A list of construction proposed| ALASKA HARBOR PROJECTS | i Local Club Votes to Make Roosevelt Discusses Meas- Undetermined Number Re- frmgif?fn‘ie.'-'ff“i?.fmi'ifmf:“"'iifi'fi'l“- T AL | 1 and approved by the War Depart- The River and Harbor bill of Bid Adain for Diatr | ith C . 1 1% % the use of the floating pmnmxrs |ment and submitted to the House 1938, containing items authorizing I gain Ior Istrict |/ ure wit ongessiona por!ed Mlssmg—_”“‘"" | Memnon for such purposes. Th{ v WAR MATER'AI. |Committee on Military Affairs this|improvement of Unalaska harbor, | ’ Conference in _]uneau | Leaders, RCPOI‘I teen Are Injured | Memnon leaves here for Alaska week contains Alaska items total- |Sagway harbor, and Valdez harbor, | e bR 5 Sxpln v | waters about May 25 4 e HOBIR, OF Guls auiunianSRL IDR G ghe R o [Father of District Attorney —The Juneau Rotary Club is goinz| WASHINGTON, May 16—Presi-| ATLANTA, May 16—Twenty-five| —— AY BE BUUGHT s oo bsgtye ISR | e S Jrokne e T after the 1939 district conference of dent Roosevelt has discussed with persons were killed, 13 were injured v ) and constn:lcnon of noncommission- ritory have been estimated to cost of Oa kland IS Rotary. |Congressional leaders the possibility and an undetermined number are ed officers’ quarters at Anchorage, |a total of $233500 by the examin- Found Slain This was decided today at the of reviving the once defeated Gov-| missing in a fire which destroyed $349,050 for hospital, noncommis- |ing engineers. | weekly luncheon of the club in Per- | ernment reorganization bill but the five story Terminal Hotel early |sioned officers’ quarters, magazine | ley's Caf he club bers | there is no indication of a definite this morning. o} | Warehouse, utilities, and theatre at| PROHIBIT ALIENS FISHING | BAKERSFIELD, Cal, May 16— ¢S Cafe when the club WERBER| 00 b0 ) iing reached. The destruction of the hotel re UNIGAMER athd |Gaiieoot Barcks, and $34350 for| The Dimond bill to prevent aliens Mathias H. Warren, 73, wealthy|¥oled umanimously to ask for the|SSCi8h PR RECKR: iy ieq | coras, mutilation of the vietims and . | noncommissioned officers’ quarters|from fishing for commercial pur- |real estate man, father of Earl War- { G e et 8 | the Iklehtod of & evival of the pro-| falling timber and steel Nty e Plans Indicated for Benefit jand radio station at Juneau. Rep-|poses in Alaska waters was re- ren, District Attorney of Oakland, o eon he conter D : identification efforts. < o f A e Na: resentative May of Kentucky, Chair- | ported favorably to the House April Was found slain early today in his (|:;:l for thik }',earobm later it ‘wfl,- Rei)l'ts('l](zli,i\'o Rayburn, House The ruined walls stand a menace ] < i vy o HOL\§E (d::n'mmln'ee t,;n;va;Am &me_ndmenl.s. i A‘ho(r)nfl;if'm-s agreed that robbe .| switched to San Francisco, to con- | majority leader, said “we discus- to traffic and also rescue workers Departments Military Affairs, in discussing the| After considering the bill in ex- s agreed that robbery was Ul Tt g S me time as Rotary |sed reorganization but there was| The police said a high wind will iy construction proposed by-the War lecutive session the House Commit- the motive, International convention. The Ro- no must put on it.” cause them to crumble. D ¥ ASHINGTON, May 16.—Admin- Department in Alaska with Dele- tee on the Terrilories decided to| Warren was probably killed With \,iuns have been piedged support it AU Ao 0. prrsant s vegtstered DeClares One-House System istration backing appears dn pros- (8ate Dimond said that he also fav-redraft the measure to include the a Heavy. 150 Dok, of five California Rotary Governors | in_the hotel at the time. More Responsible to e or authorizing the Army and|ored the construction of the Army |amendments recommended by the | A Walet is missing. A checkbook i, yiey of the Juncau action in per- Flames broke out following an . ;eflvy to" acquire and store up $25,- | Air Corps station to be established |Secretary of Commerce. The amend- has been found on a school play-| .ino the district conference to exposion in the basement kitchen. | Will of People 000,000 worth of minerals that are es- | near Fairbanks. This air base is|ed version was then introduced as ground near the scene of the slay- , .\ .14 in gsan Francisco this year| The hotel was an old structure | et il il dkstime. one of six which was authorized to a new bill by Representative Crowe Ing. 3 !instead of coming here. Clubs of and such construction is no longer| WASHINGTON, May 16.—Dele- The minerals to be acquired and|be established in strategic locations of Indiana, and the favorable re- Two men are being held for inves- | ;s gistrict also have indicated wnM AN HE An permitted under the building code. gate Anthony J. Dimond says he | 4. qtored include aluminum, antimony, |in the United States and Alaska port made on it. ; At that they would be favorable to a More than one dozen persons were believes a unicameral legislature is Chromium, manganese, mica, mckel,\by the Wilcox Air Defense Act,| This measure has been sponsored ! O 5l S | conference here next year | rescued or leaped to safety. the “best thing for Alaska.” He re- % mercury, tin and tungsten. approved in 1935. The only one of by the Delegate to make effective | There are approximately 4,000 Rc-" UNDER ARREST A high wind fanned the flames| cently obtained enactment of a | e o, AN B these on which construction has the intent of a law approved June a an“s a rup tarians in this district, comprising at the height of, the blaze. measure authorizing a Territorial » actually been started is at Tacoma, 14, wot_s, entitled “An Act to pre-| | the Northwest states and Alaska A fireman found one man dead, referendum on the question and in Washington. When hearings were |vent aliens from fishing in the wat- | . | and it is estimated that at least 1,000 {3 37 his body half way across a window |a recent Congressional Record arti- [held on the subject three years ago fers of Alaska.” The purpose of the | r“s ec‘s B" ht to 1,500 will attend the meeting here Leader of One Branch of s |cle he said he had attempted to ;mflig:dv ;lvimon t::p;;t-s rlecotr;‘n-,.«cc a:z g;:enl in x:u :At"ll; woult: ;:; in the event the Juneau club is| o Integralist Par ty Is T }keep the proposal non-partisan. - men e construction of e | pear to clear, court | | successful in landing the confer-| & “I realize the advan E AsT cu AST l7 |Alaska base, which was estimated held “that aliens are permitted to 2 !ence when its m],,»(Emu.uvm at-| Rounded Up Brazil }houus such as Alnskat:lg:vsl ;:;:: ’ l"fu:““ l'ppm““':‘ly mh ’i"mi‘r’:i”?& gssh °?‘p°1’jle,h°"' ;::] w““'““‘;" P lanting Two Weeks Ahead (cna the sessions in June in San : |keenly as any one,” he said, “but I idollars. In a recent speech in W eries.” e now pend- —Dar | Franeisco. WASHINGTON, May 16. The 3 al firmly convinced that under 46 ERS“NS Dl | House, Delegate Dimond urged that |ing is to make a definite prohibi- 9‘ Last Year Dalry | Bob Ellis of Ketchikan and Dr. R.|head of the ;fomen-s bg(.“,,,, of the ‘modem conditions the unicameral, |the Fairbanks station should have tion of fishing for commercial pur- ProductsDemanded |u. winiams of Juneau were guests| Green Shirts, Integralist Party, has {or one-house legislature, possesses facilities to accommodate 1,000 army poses by all aliens, except those | of the club today and R. L. Bernard, | peen arrested in a police round-up igreater advantages and will work Do fighting planes. |aliens who are and _have been en-' ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 16— Vice President and Business Mana- of suspects in last Wednesday's shot jout to benefit more of the Ter- D. | Some opposition is expected in gaged in commercial fishing in Leo Jacobs, General Manager of thl‘igcr of The Empire, was initiated lived Fascist uprising nvER WEEKENDMW’Y'! people than a two-house Ga]e Sweeps Inland.' 1S~ | Congress to both the Military and |Alaska during the three years prior | Matanuska Colony, said the Mata- a new member. Dora Lemos' woman Lieutenant of | system. My judgment is that the rupts Electric Service, |Naval public works programs, al- to approval of the bill, who are nuska crop prospects are bright.| iy the fugitive Integralist Party Chiet " unicameral is perferable in Alaska, though it is not believed that it bona fide residents of the Territory, | Planting this season s two weeks . Plinio Salgado, is among 204 per- CHICAGO, I, May 16—Auto is more efficient and more re- Damages Crops |will be as strong as that expressed |may continue in commercial fishing | ahead of a year ago. A large smp-‘Presment WI" Gu onis added to the 800 aiready juiled. mobile. accldents. on he. Natioms |SPORSIbIE to the Wil of the peaple, |against the Navy expansion pro-|in Alaska waters for three years | ment of seeds has already been dis-J | PRSI N ST e iuuhwé s killed ',“ least, 89 ove Otl hlthere{ore more Democratic.” NEW YORK, May 16—Sweeping gram set up by the President, be- | following its enactment. Under the tributed. ‘ y . . st b s s o ks —————— |, northward along the Atlantic Coast, cause of the more permanent char- |terms of the bill no alien will be The demand for dairy products is | T" s"“ s weddl“ Re ret Passl“ Ne. Yorks with “étormes. Taakingl & T o S weekend storms took @ toll of seven acter of the Works to be established permitted to fish for commercial | increasing and the Co-Op is unable | driving . conditions ' dangerous, . led | sTock QuUOTATIONS lives at sea, curved inland and dis- under the construction program, purposes in the waters of Alaska | %0 supply the market. | witis: 18" dentiia - ood Mlghigax{ weu rupted electrical service and dam- the fact that they are of value only |after the expiration of three years.| A cannery will be operated thisl ol Y o iavar 51| y next with eight. desths 5 aged crops. for defense, and that & larger| The proposed legislation as Summer on vegetables and meats. | =%l m“-v ::‘“y “d“W‘v' A ' Us u B“ é i S N | NEW YORK, May 16. — Closing John Phillips, 58, of Provincetown,|amount of the money so used would |amended in conformity with the| Since the colony started, 120, “:”L thmmU g has "L““‘f “Or“ | quotation of Alaska Juneau mire Mass., a fisherman, reported that|pe paid directly for labor than views of the Department of Com- | babies have been born. 15 an P:e Id-s.ts.w:)u ,‘“f‘l‘:" ["’":‘li‘ —_— .‘awck today is 9%, American Can three other fishermen, including his/would be true in battleship con-|merce does not change existing law | Seftitng of Jonm Rossevelt, nis son,| Terr. Board of Education a"y a“ 3[ a s o7, Americatt Light and Pawer 5%, , son perished when mountainous |struction. Administration approval|which provides that nothing con-|New Pension i 4 e s | Anaconda 27, Bethlehem Steel 46%, seas swamped their two power troll- of both the Navy and Army public tained therein shall prevent any pop’ o [Jume T8 e maver trom| Adopts Resolution— : Commonwealth and Southern 1%, fng boats. Phillips reached shore works construction programs will |person, firm, corporation, or sso- Signed Rt e ey oon| Donohoe Flies to Meet |g s l’ac“"’e Curtiss Wright 4%, General Motor: safely by linging to Ariftwood. |undoubtedly expediate action by [ciation lawfully entitled to fish in | By President [ ey T EREE s Aamachusatts 30. International Harvester 55%, by “Three salvage workers were|Congress. It is reported that the|the waters of Alaska from em-| e | quoted James Roosevelt, John's older| FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 16- | Kennecott 33%, New York Central drowned when the disabled 60-f0ot| War Department is ready to start ploying as laborers any aliens Who| wASHINGTON, May 16—Presic | brother, 45 saying the Polomac The Territorial Board of Bducation| - GLASGOW, May: 16, —' Harrgl 143 Stdthess ueifle 124, Unfied Uheoner Quita was pounded 0| construction on its entire program can now be lawfully employed under | dent, Roosevelt has signed the i | would anchor B e by Nanant.| by AdepMA & PRUHAL of regrot| LAuder, ‘SOOUIAN, oquediky, whime| SRS SRERUIA Cifbes Bervice 10, pleces on the sand on Long Island within thirty days if approved and the existing laws of the United | granting pensions to widows and where the wedding wil take piace— and condolence at the eath at Sc- left thigh was fractured in a fall |FOURd $4.96%. ) Sound. |funds are provided for it. | States, either at stated wages or by | children of World War veterans| and that the President would reach ward of P. C. McMullen, member 125t Saturday, is reported improv- e Five youths were swept overboard o | piecework, or both, in connection | who had 10 percent service connect- | the town directly from the vessel.|of the Board ing. BOW. HMRNAVERAORS from a motorboat in Jamaica Bay,| JUNEAU LAND EXCHANGE | with the canning, salting, or other- | eq with disability at the time of| The message also said the Presi- Th s Donohoe, of Cordova, flew O a5 3T Th 8 and Charles Aninscalco, 21, was| Legislation authorizing the Sec-| ———————————2————| their deaths T'Z.'l.. ‘w..’,..,?y'dem would .:ee;r. no“mmzonrf@ h"em;;zun; s 'oown 0;1:;: : a;]‘:x The Mason and Dixon line was Jon{a: .’glln"lmw ::..'fi:zs . drowned but the others were saved.|retary of War to trade a tract of| (Continued on Page Three) required 20 percent. ¢ 3 ted from an airplane in 1936. | rails 2257, utilities 19.30. ok