The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938. VOL. LIL, NO. 7795. BIG E—— — — R—— “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS OPERATORS AND WORKERS STILL CONFER, SEATTLE Officials Discussing Condi- tions for Agreement, Alaska Canneries NEGOTIATIONS ARE PROGRESSING, SOUTH Masters, Mates, Pilots Vote to Accept Wage Cut— Other Sessions Are On BULLETIN—SEATTLE, May 17.—1. R. Tabatit, President of Local No. 7, Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, said this afternoon negotiations with the salmon packers are still geing on. He had no further comment to make. SEATTLE, May 17.—Officials Df! the Canned Salmon Industry re-| sumed conferences today with CTIO cannery workers on a labor agree- ment in Alaska canneries. It is said here that cannery work- ers of the Puget Sound district have | agreed to go to Bristol bay sections this season if opportunity is pro- vided. Packers agree that the pack will only be about 66 percent of nox*rm:ll owing to the late operations. IN SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 17.— One more step in negotiations to get the salmon fleet under way to Alaska is reported. The Masters, Mates and Pilots Union has voted to accept a 7 per- cent feduction below the 1937 scale” Committees of other unions are scheduled to confer today with opv( erators in an effort to iron out working conditions. Negotiations between the Alaska | Packers and machinists have not vet been completed. TO DELIGHT OF DUTC daughter of Crown. Princess Juliai H people, Beatrix, the infant na thrives, as proved by this photo of pair taken by the royal father, Bernhard. E.T. STOTESBURY STRICKEN WHILE DRIVING TO HOME Inte rnahonally Known Banker Dies Suddenly— Distinguished Career hree Convicts Under Sentence 0f Death, Escape 'Unlock Outer Door of Prison with Key Made from Spoon T COLUMBIA, qC May 17.—Three READY TO PUSH IN ON SUCHOW Invaders R;;med to Have Encircled City with Chinese Defenders A | BRITISH SHAKEUP | IN AR MlNlSTRY% ITwo Resignations of High | Officials Reported— News, Spanish Front (By Associated Press) | While the Japanese armies are| encircling Suchow in the campaign | | to smash the Chinese resistance in ‘Cemral China, world attention has | shifted to the drastic shakeup in the British Air Ministry in an ef- fort to keep Great Britain up to the, pace with Germany in aerial rearmament, | Viscount Swinton’s resignation as Air Secretary because of the Parlia- | mentary clamor that the air pro- |gram lagged under his leadership, was followed by the appointment of | Sir Kingsley Wood to the post. | Second Resignation Lord Weir, unofficial adviser to the Government on aircraft pm- duction since 1935, also resigned. The resignations are regarded as foreshadowing more vigorous me: | ures to speed up warplane manufa ture so as to supply Great Britain with 3,500 first line planes by 1940, | Japanese Advance | In Central China, the Japanese | ‘Bre reported advancing within fiv-| ing range -of Suchow. The official | Japanese spokesman asserts that| | the Nippon forces have encircled Su-| chow and the Chinese defenders. On Spanish Front Dispatches received in the United | States from the Spanish Civil War ‘lrunt. tell of the Insurgents cap-| |turing the mountain village of Al-| ‘(‘ala de la Selva, opening the route to Mora de Rubielos for an lmmo-\ | | i | f George Woolf, CIO Business' PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 17— Agent of the Cannery Workers Un-|The career of Edward T. Stotes- ion, said his group is standing by, bury, international banker, philan- awaiting termination of negolla<‘choplsc lover of art and horses, tions between the operators and has been ended by death. He was other unions, especially the machin-|gg years old. ists. : | Stotesbury was stricken in his Henry Hook, Machinists' agent, automobile while returning to his reported progress. suburban home on Chestnut Hill PRS0, 7 ot last night from the midcity office senal’e Retuses of the Reading Railroad Company To Boost B. P. R, Appropriation 1 |was Chairman. | Stotesbury always wanted to be | |the head of something. | He said so one night while talk- ing to students at the University & of Pennsylvania. At that time he also advised: “Don’t be afraid of work!” Ambition—Energy smfi}}:INg{Sg& ur’vmy 1.~ The| These two forces—ambition and | % o8 accept a House | oneroy _ were the motive power amendment to the Alaska Federal road funds bill which would have fixed the amount at half a million and left it at $400,000 annually. The | which made Mr. Stotesbury an |eminent financier, a philanthropist, ‘a patron of art and a leading | sportsman. of six convicts under sentence of diate objective offensive against !ht‘ EASTERN WAR GAMES will test U. S. army’s giant XFM-1, multi-seated pusher-propelior- driven “Airacuda” (above) with aerial cannon at front. It carries crew of five. Congressmen Are Afraid Of State Taxmg Powers AERONAUTIC AGENCIES TO +BE GOMBINED | By PRESTON GROVER ; WASHINGTON, May Whether through panic or principle, Congress has always fought shy| of making its own salaries subject | |to state taxes. And the members| are now throwing bonquets at that | ‘pan of the President’s plan to end | exemptions | Within the last few days the! House again rejected a proposal to permit the District of Columbia to tax congressional and other fed- eral salaries. They know there is no question about a District of Co- | lumbia income tax on Federal sala-| Overlapping Bureaus Merg- ed in One, if Meas- ure Enacted WASHINGTON, May 17. — The House had approved an additional | $100,000 but on recommendation of | Senator Hayden of Arizona the Sen- | ate lopped it off. The funds are| those used by the Bureaw of Public| Roads in the Territory Through them he rose from a clerkship to head of the Philadel- phia banking house of Drexel and Company, and to a membership in ithe firm of J. P. Morgan and Com- |pany of New York, and accumulat- |ed a fortune, after having started work at $16.66 a month. Mr. Stotesbury's influence as a inancier began to be felt about |1900 when his name became more And leus It U |and more often mentioned in con- | nection with the small group of |men who wielded power in the OSKALOOSA, Ia., May 17--Dio-|financial world. It is known that genes would do well to call here|in the midst of the panic of 1907, | in his search for an honest man. | the late J. Pierpont Morgan sought A prospective purchaser at an ad- Mr. Stotesbury out to confer with ministrator’s sale of a dead man’s him. property found $1,500 in a fruit jar| Attracts Attention | on the premises. He turned the| The: financier attracted wide at-| money over to the administrator and | tention in 1909 through his work | walked away in the excitement wnh-‘ln helping to finance the great in- out even giving his name. |ternational Chinese loan, and he made several trips abroad in the '"dia" sit n interest of this project. -Uown | Mr. Stotesbury was connected wlm a great number of corpora- | CASS LAKE, Minn., May 17.—An! ominous quiet hung over the Chip- as chairman of the board, ldlrecwr or trustee. These included pewa Agency after a crowd of In- dians temporarily ended their sit- ,the Philadelphia and Reading Rail- rond Company, the Central Rail- | down strike” to prevent the removal | of the agency to Duluth. mnd of New Jersey, and the Lehigh Railroad. The Chippewas were prepared to YCit campaign of 1904 and in the | fight with the white man's weapons | "2/t ¢STPAlgn of 1006, He was one —picket lines, legal orders and tele- | © nkers nto confer- grams. Messages flew between here °°° of the party when President and Indian Commission headquart- T3¢ Was forming his wfl:t.P ers in Washington, but Commis- Stotesbury was one hil- Sioner John Collier said the order 24ePhia’s outstanding citizens in | to move the agency would stand. J (Continued on Page Two) l { Active in Politics was treasurer of the Republican | | National Committee in the Roose- death for killing Olin Sanders, Cap- tain of the Penitentiary Guards, in a frustrated jail break last De- cember, jail here today. The trio, George Wingard, 22; Herbert Moorman, 41, and Clayton Crans, 28, were missing at the morn- | ing checkup. Jailers said they opened the outer | |of whose Executive Committee he | = 0 o jail with a key made| from a spoon, after breaking the} locks on their cell doors. .- - L RS L 'y | sTock QuoTaTioNns | — % NEW YORK, May 17. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 10, American Can| 86'¢, American Light and Power %, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel , Commonwealth and Southern , Curtiss Wright 5, General Mo- 30, International Harvester| Kennecott 33%, 55%, Central 13, Southern Pacific 12%, United States Steel 44%, Cities Ser- | John W. Troy and Shell Simmons, vice 10, Pound $4.96. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 116.36, rails 22.54, uul ies 19.50. U DEGREE T0 BE CONFERRED ONROOSEVELT ATHENS, Georgia, May 17. — Dr. Harmon Caldwell, President of the University of Georgia, announces that the University will confer the degree of Doctor of Laws on Presi- | dent Roosevelt in August. BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of base- | ball games played this afternoon in Formerly active in politics, he the two major leagues: National League St. Louis 2; Brooklyn 1. Cincinnati 13; Philadelphia 1. Chicago 5; New York 6. Pittsburgh 0; Boston 1. American League Philadelphia 1; Cleveland 5. Only game scheduled to be played | | today, escaped from the county port cities of Casterlon and Val- | encia. \Senale has approved of the meas- ‘uxe to set up a new Federal agency Civil Aeronautics authority to regu]ate civil transport aviation | which will replace four agencies now overlapping Senator Patrick A. McCarran, of Nevada, author of the bill, said the| Post Office Department is control- ling the air mail, |of Commerce Bureau, the regula- | tions for transports, the Interstate Commerce Commission is regulating | ‘ralex and the Weather Bureau is supplying flight data. All of these | will be supplanted by the new agency | which provides for a board of five | members to handle all phases of civil aviation, also a five man Air Safety | Control Board to promote ,er re- | search. E.R.ERICKSON HUGH BREWSTER HERE TO SURVEY FIELDS IN S. E Inspector Also Confers with Officials on Radio Sta- tion Installations ) l Hugh Brewster, Aeronautics In- spector for Alaska, arrived in Ju- |neau with Pilot Alex Holden last | night from Cordova and will be here| | several days on inspection work., | While in the Southeast he will make the Department| |ries being constitutional, because | Congress itself fixes the amount of the District tax. “If you are going to have our |salaries taxed by the states,” says ‘Reprpsnntau\r- Short of Missouri, “you are going to have Missouri | taxing us perhaps 20 percent, Towa 10 percent and Maine none.” But Representative Celler of New York worries about another !phase. “The Supreme Court,” he| | says, “has found that the power to tax is the power to destroy, and if the Federal government were em- powered to tax willy-nilly the se- ‘«.urmcs of ' states and municipali- | ties it would have power to destroy them.” On that subject, however, | late 'Justice Holmes said: “The power to tax is not the | power to destroy while this court sits.” the | BOYS WILL BE BOYS New York| a survey of fields for municipal air- | | ports in Juneau and Ketchikan and | today was in conference with Gov.{ | members of the Alaska Aexonnulicm |and Communications Commission, | relative particularly to the new radio| | station installations to be made at | Anchorage and Fairbanks. The Inspector also is interested |in getting further CCC assistance | for development of air fields in the | Territory and expects to confer | with Forest Service officials in re- |gard to establishing more camps. | He pointed out that the CCC has done | effective work in airport develop- |ment in Anchorage and on ths Kenai Peninsula. Brewster flew down from An- chorage to Cordova in his new ship, a deluxe Stinson, Wasp motored, plane especially built for the Bu- reau of Air Commerce for Arctic flying. The Inspector made a re- | cent visit to Arctic fields and found | the new plane lived up to its repu- tation as a “sweet job” in the Arctic, or, he added, anywhere else. Sea Otters Returning, Old Haunts SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, May 17.— | Dr. Edmund Heller, Zoo Director, | said that as many as 300 sea otters |have been observed off Monterey | Peninsula. | The animals have long believed to | have been extinct but have lately been observed returning to their old haunts, s This town is full of high school | seniors from a dozen states here- abouts. Bus loads of them come in for a sort of graduation frolic clad | in sweaters and high school letters. ‘They travel in mob formation and eat in the same way, sometimes tak- |ing over a whole dining room in isome of the smaller hotels. One crowd started off dinner in a local Everett R. Erickson, of the U”i"hatel with a scheool yell. We yelled VISITING HERE, Former Facully Member, | Juneau High, Now with U. A., Arrives by Plane versity of Alaska, arrived in Ju-| neau yesterday aboard the PAA| Electra. He was head of the English | department in the Juneau High School previous to his position as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alaska. “Seems good to be bacl his many- friends the city. Leaving on the steamer Aleutian tomorrow, Prof. Erickson will jour- ney to New York City where he will attend the National Educational Committee meeting, of which he is a member. On July 1, Prof. Erickson will sail abroad for a visit to the West Dutch Indies, Venezuela, British Dutch Guiana, Trinidad, Madeira, England, Belgium, Germany, Den- mark, and his journey homeward being via Canada. Prof. Erickson will return to Fair- banks next fall to resume his duties at the university. e President Signs Bill Benefitting Ketchikan WASHINGTON, May 17, — Presi-| dent Roosevelt has signed the bill] giving the city of Ketchikan, Alas- ka, the old courthouse property in Capital tated | Prof. Erickson today, as he greeted, | too. Darn it, why not? The group medical association which started here in the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation has spread to 35 government agen g its membership totals 2,800. group has its own. clinic with seven physicians, but because of opposi- tion of the local medical socief group members must hire an out- side physician before they can enter local hospitals for surgical treatment. The group has both friends and enemies in Congress and there is prospect for a first-line flareup about it. The CREDIT WHERE DUE Columbia Broadcasting System has flooded Washington with a handsome colored document on how it reported the German absorption of Austria. Ater complimenting Eu- ropean networks for assisting, and commending advertisers for giving up time on the air to permit the news broadcasts, Columbia con- cludes with a brief three lines say- ing: “All the news - flashes came through the offices of the Press- Radio Bureau, directly from the typewriters of Associated Press, United Press and International News (Continued on Page Three) - Air Mail Week | | TRAINS CRASH IN SUBWAY OF LONDON LINES Passenger Coaches Splint- ered in Darkness—Ac- cidenit Worst, History LONDON, May 17. — At least seven persons were killed and scores injured in a rear-end crash between two crowded subway trains this| morning in the underground tun- nel under the Victoria Embank- ment. The wreck is one of the worst in the history of London’s subways. Scores of victims were trapped in | the wreckage after an eastbound train smashed into the rear of an- other train between busy Temple and Charing Cross stations. Forty firemen extricate coaches. Passengers told of the jarring im- | pact. The crash was followed by blind- ing showers of sparks in the pitch dark tunnel. Screaming women, biood spat- tered victims, jostled eacn other in the darkness in a mad flight to es- cape !hrough spunmsd windows. FISH TO BE BOUGHT NOW Federal Surplus Commodi- ties Corporation Gets $378,000 WASHINGTON, May 17. — The H#use has approved of the expen- diture of $378,000 to purchase fish by the Federal Surplus Commodi- ties Corporation. The Senate has previously approved of the expen- diture. passengers from Observance Held ST. JOSEPH, Missouri, May 17.— The departure of a Hanford Air Lines plane late last night from Rosecrans Field with a mail pouch from the modern express rider, carrying greetings to the Mayor of Sacramento, officially climaxed the pony express celebration here in observance of National Ailr Mail week. Daylight Bandits Get $10,000 Loot SAN PRANCIBCO. Cal, May 17. —Three bandits, with silk stockings covering their faces, obtained loot estimated at $10,000 in a daylight ‘holdup of the Midtown Club, i and policemen | worked two and one-half hours to| four PLANE DISAPPEARS; NINE ABOARD "TJAPAN ARMIES CRAFT DROPS OUT OF SIGHT ON WAY EAST |New $80, 000 Ship Missing in Sierra Madre Moun- tains in California FATE SHROUDED IN FOG OVER DISTRICT Forest Ran;,-ccc En- rolees, Fliers Making Search, Lost Liner LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 17— Fog locks over the Sierra Madre mountain peaks and holds the secret of the fate of nine persons within 50 miles of the Union Air Terminal from which they set out late yes- terday in a new $80,000 Lockheed transport plane to be delivered in St. Paul, Minnesota. A ground party of CCC enrollees and also a party of Forest Rangers from Victor, Mount Gleason, set out at dawn today and with two Nat- ional Guard planes, are seeking to penetrate the mist that blankets the rugged mountain range over which the plane, consigned to the Northwest Air Line, was last report- ed. Those aboard the plane are as fol- lows: Sydney Willey, test pilot, in charge of the flight. Fred Whitemore, of St. Paul, Northwest Air Lines Vice-President, copilot. Henry Salisbury, Northwest Air Lines official, his wife and two children. Carl Squire, 3¢ and wife. He is Lockheed sales manager. Liola Totty, 24, of Glendale, Lock- heed office stenographer. Willey's route was over the Sierra Madre, a “short cut.” Commercial lines skirt the edge of the range, flying northwest of Saugus, then turning east up Mint Canyon. ————— MINING MEN FLY UP TAKU WITH HOLDEN Edward C. Congdon, of Duluth, Minnesota, who is financially inter- ested in the Polaris-Taku Mine, ar- rived in Juneau on the Princess Louise last night and flew to the mine this morning with Alex Holden. Accompanying Congdon is his consulting engineer Tharold F. Field, of Palm Beach, Florida. The two men will remain for a | few days inspecting the operations of the mine before returning south. e SIMMONS HOPS WITH 2 TODAY Shell Simmons took . out Erwin Johnson to Hawk Inlet this after- noon, and Fred Person to Hirst. Yesterday evening he came in with George Bowens, John Shumak- er, both from Cobol, anG George Martin and Pete Yabukanen from Chichagof, and Melvin Carlson from Hirst. HOLDEN GOES UP TO MINE Alex Holden returned from a trip to Cordova yesterday “bringing in Ray Crawford and Hugh Brewster. Today, Holden was making four flights to the Polaris-Taku mine with 12 passengers, freight and mail. ELECTRA TAKES SEVEN IN TODAY flc to Fair- bflm MIY with Jerry Jones and Walt Hall in the PAA Electra. Passengers were Oome Clark, Mrs. James Frawley, E. L. Brannon, R. E. Havenstrite, J. H. Paddock, D. S. Nickolich and E: Zapek. |