The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1938, Page 1

E DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIL, NO. 7797. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SEATTLE-JUNEAU AIR MAIL NEARING * » L d - * » * * * * - * * * * - » * * » » * * Ld » * * WASHINGTON, May 19.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond says President Roosevelt and the Budget Bureau have recommended that Congress authorize $200.000 for airmair service between Seattle and Juneau, Alaska. ; Delegate Dimond said the sum would not represent an increased appropriation but would permit use of funds heretofore unexpended for foreign air mail. The Delegate said he will ask the House Appropriations Subcommittee to approve the item so that the airmail service between Seattle and Juneau can be started dur- ing the fiscal year beginning July 1. ' Wage Issue Stalemates Canning Operations PRIMARY IN OREGON WILL BE HOT EVENT Present Administration [s| Drawn Into Fight Over Governorship IT IS A CASE OF MARTIN VS. HESS| Labor Issuejlso Bobs Up with CIO Chieftain as Political Weapon WASHINGTON, May 19.—Inter- vention of one of President Roose- velt’'s Cabinet officers in Oregon’s Democratic gubernatorial contest paved the way for what many ob- servers believe is a test of the Ad- ministration’s strength in tomor- row's primary in Oregon. The pri- mary in the western state comes just three days after the one in Pennsylvania. The Oregon primary also compli- cates the labor issues, which al- though not 5o clearly drawn as. in Pennsylvania, makes the name of John L. Lewis, CIO chieftain, once more a political weapon, Two Principals The principals in the Democratic | primary campaign are Gov.Charles | H. Martin and Henry Hess, who is opposing Martin for the Chief Ex- ecutiveship. Martin is seeking the Democratic renomination. | The Administration was broughi | into the struggle by Segretary of | Interior Harold L. Ickes who gave| Hess his blessingsiin a letéer stat-| ing that Gov. Martin “at heart was not New Dealer.” { Hess has also drawn the in- ferred support of Senator Norris who telegraphed that he was “dis- appointed” with Martin. Martin Counters Gov. Martin/ countered both| charges, insisting on his loyalty to| President Roosevelt but asserting that he was “no rubber stamp.” | Gov. Martin once alluded to Ma- dame Perkins as “that miserable Secretary of Labor.” B — RAIN AND SNOW SWEEPMONTANA DURING TODAY Hail Storms Kill Crops in Colorado—Air Travel Is at Standstill HELENA, Mont., May 19.—Bliz- zards raging today in the mountains and heavy rains in the lower coun- try have swept the entire state,| breaking communication lines be- tween many cities and halting all air travel. . Heavy snows in the mountain| passes broke down most of the fele- phone and telegraph lines in: Helena and Great Falls. Communications with Butte were interrupted when a heavy snow and rain storm began Tuesday and con-, Largest and most brilliant gathering of royalty tender to the since before the World war assembled at Potsdam, Germany, on the occasion of the wedding of the grandson of former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and the daughter of Duke Cyril, Romanoff pre- Princes Kaiser’s Grandson and Bride Two of Europe's oldest houses were merged when Prince Louis Ferdi- nand, grandson of the former Kaiser Wilhelm, and Grand Duchess Kyra, 28-year-old daughter of Grand Duke Kyrill of Russia, were wed on May 5 at Doorn, Holland, exile home of the ex-German ruler. E.T.STANNARD NEW SCHOOLS SALARY GIVEN ~ TO BE BUILT BOOST IN 1557 IN TERRITORY {Stephen Birch, Also D. C. Board of Education An- Helena registered a 24-hour pre-; T Jackling Received More | nounces Plans — Ses- itation measurement of 1.26| . ! . : iy Money than in 1936 | sionsEnd, Fairbanks In Greeley, Colorado, truck gar-| | den and other early ecrops have| WASHINGTON, May 19. — E. T.| FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 19— suffered heavy damage from two Stannard, President of the Ken- The Alaska Territorial Board of hailstorms. necott Copper Corporation, receivediEducanon has ended sessions here. ————.——— | an aggregate remuneration of $100,-, The Board authorized construc- previous year. | modeled for a school. | 680 last year as compared to $92.-| tion of new school buildings at Ta- e D. C. Jackling, President of the | | 166 mA1936. the Securities Commis- | kotna, Hope and Aleknagak, using | sion discloses. |55 percent of the Territorfal school SEATTLE, May 19—Mrs. Meril yiah Copper Company and other Oldfin, 38, onetime President of the| tt subsidiaries, | | Stephen Birch, Chairman of the money and 45 percent PWA. | same corporation, received $75390, The former hospital building at American Legion Auxiliary 8t An-|$101550 in 137 chorage, Alaska, is dead- here. {510 1n 1036, | last year compared to $75320 the Kasilof will be purchased and re- missioner of Education, | priation. Adalbert, Wilhelm, Medals Out of Mothballs for Sons of Kaiser Four sons of former German ruler Russian throne. Among those pres- JAPAN FLEET " REPORTED IN BRISTOL BAY | Two Informants Give Posi- tive Facts — Is Up to State Department SEATTLE, May 19.—Miller Free- man said this afternoon that the State Department will be asked to investigate the reported presence in Bristol Bay, Alaska, of Japanese vessels. Yesterday the Associated Press re- ceived a report that the mail steam- |er Starr officers reported a Japa- |nese steamer was sighted. Today the Seattle Daily Times re- ceived a radiogram from Capt. Trondsen, of the Starr, that he sighted a 7,000-ton Japanese steamer and four tenders in Bristol Bay. Capt. Trondsen, in his radiogram described the fleet as “apparently crab fishing.” The Japanese Government very recently assured the Government of the United States that no vessels would be dispatched to Bristol Bay | or other Alaskan waters during 1938. - 5BASEBAH. TODAY | 1 The following are scores of base- |ball games played this afternoon /in the two major leagues: | Na#lonal League | Cincinnati 4; Philadephia 5. i Chicago 1; New York 0. St. Louis 4; Brooklyn 8. Pittsburgh 3; Boston 4. American League | Philadelphia 2; Detroit 6. | Boston 0; Chicago 4. Called in seventh on account of rain. | Washington 3; Cleveland 15. ‘Univenily of i Alaska Gets Land Near Petersburg | WASHINGTON, May 19.—Presi- hiring both AFL and CIO cannery-| giving the University of Alaska 37 |fur farm experimental station, FLAMING; FIGHT IS PROGRESSING Large Sections of Strategic City Said to Be Blaz- ing Fiercely HAND TO HAND BATTLE IS NOW TAKING PLACE Japanese Naval Officers Be- lieve Main Munitions Storehouse Blown Up SHANGHAI, May 19.—Large sec- tions of Suchow are reported burn- ing fiercely as the Japanese, claim- ing possession of most of the city, are fighting hand to hand with the Chinese ‘“dare to die” units, | pecially in the southern suburbs Japanese aviators said the strate- gic city, viewed from the air, ap- |pears like one blot of smoke, |creased by jagged flames leaping | through this black smoke, high into the gir. Japanese spokesmen also claims thap Japanese naval planes, bombing from a low altitude, scor- ied a direct hit on what was ap- |parently the main munitions store- {house. The bombs started fire and |explosions sending flames and smoke hundreds of feet into the ent were four sons of the ex-kaiser, left to right, air. Eitel Friederich and | Oscar, whose medals were brought out of moth- balls for the festivities. - eee — DIPLOMACIES MIRED DOWN, PEACE PACTS Italian-French Parryings Stalemated—British Hopes Die By Associated Press Rain today mired the Spanish | Civil War, and the war in turn, | with its ramifications, threatened to | bog down the efforts toward ap- | peasement among the great Europ- | ean powers. France and Italy, on opposite sides of barricades in Spain, to quote Mussolini, were “on the verge of a breakdown in negotiations for a new friendship pact. ! Prembier Deladier made a surpris- |ingly bristly declaration of France's | determination to defend her front- iers against “all attempts at vio- lence.” Italian efforts to rupture France's ties with Soviet Russia, raised new obstacles to an accord. Moreover, British hopes for a new four-power security pact in Europe, were en- dangered by the same train of cir- lcumstuwes which are stalemating Italo-Franco peace moves. AFL 1S PICKETING LIBBY STEAMERS IN SEATTLE PORT Charge Their Union Must Get CIO Permits to Work in Alaska SEATTLE, May 19.—AFL pickets today went on duty at the Ames Terminal wharves in West Seattle %0 dispute with Libby, McNiell and Lib- |by over hiring of Alaska cannery crews. AFL members sald the firm is A. E. Karnes, Territorial Comi- dent Roosevelt has signed the bill men, but is requiring AFL men to| | reported received | that the expenditures for the fis-| acres of land near Petersburg, in|which union recently won the con- » compared to $101,- cal year are well within the appro- the Tongass National Forest, for a sent election and was recognized as have a permit card from the CIO, | the bargaining agency for the crews. REPORT SUCHOW Congressional Action on l Legislation, International 'High wa WASHINGTON, May 19 The Senate has completed Congressional action on legislation laying the groundwork for a cooperative ment with Canada for the cons- truction of the International High- way to Alaska. The bill now goes tc the White House for the signature | | | Rallying after an operation in which her left eye was removed to check the deathly spread of a cancerous disease, baby Helaine Colan of Chicago was believed on the was performed after a jury of ten specialists decided on attempting to save her life at the possible cost of her eyesight, ’N-ew Dfie;zlils Now F eedinigr ~ Baby Rallies After Opéfation y, Is Completed | of President Roosevelt | The measure authorizes the ap- pointment of an Alaskan Interna- tional Highway Commission which would confer with a like Canadian group in an effort to agree on fin- cing and building of the High- way. LABOR UNIONS MUST BE FIRST TOMAKE MOV Rejection of Scale Offered by Operators Halts Negotiations NO CONFERENCES SET DURING DAY One Spokesman at San Francisco Expresses Hopeful Signs BULLETIN—SAN FRANCIS- €O, May 19.—The Coordinating Committee of eleven unions in the Alaska salmon industry is- sued a statement this afternoon charging that negotiations of the packers to affect working conditions were “half hearted"; that responsibility rests with the packers and not the work- ers if the industry is to be abandoned this season as the unions have taken every pos- 'step for amicable settle- ments, SEATLE, May 19. — Stalemated once again on the question of wages, |salmon canning operations in Al- aska this year now depend on the future action of the unions involved. Arthur I. Ellsworth, Executive Secretary of the Canned Salmon Industry said this morning that the “situation is now squarely be- fore the Unions. They have reject- | ed our offer. It is now up to them |to propose something whereby we " Helalne Colan with nurse * road to recovery. The operation . Professors Back Again to Colleges, or Business Marts !‘ By PRESTON GROVER | | WASHINGTON, May 19. — By ‘ counting noses you can discover that the New Deal is feeding professors 1buck into the colleges and into the marts of business about as fast as it is drawing them out. | You could go into flights of fancy about how the New Deal influence |was being spread among the col- | leges if you did not recall that | eral professors left without any idea | ' whatever of spreading the doc- trines of the New Deal. Some I liking it; others slammed the door {as they went out. | OUTWARD BOUND Exhibit No. 1 in most tabulations is Rex Tugwell, who came from Co- lumbia as a professor of economics |and urged farmers and labor (o “surge” for this and that. He bound- |ed from headline to headline until |he retired from the Resettlement Administration to go into the mo- lasses business. Raymond Moley came from Co- lumbia to become a front-line “brain truster” but grew critical in time and retired to the pub ing business and further teaching | at Columbia, . Prof. George Warren, head of |the Department of Agricultural | Economics at Cornell was an early | Presidential adviser on gold mat- | {of the ters, although he never left his post at Cornell. Now he is retiring as head of the department and is being succeeded by William I. Myers. Myers, one time professor of farm finance at Cornell, came to, the Government early in the New Deal and recent has headed the Farm Security Adminfstration. When at school he kept 5,000 chickens industriously laying by treating them to scientific food and ultra-violet rays. James M. Landis, law instructor| at Harvard almost in his boyhood, | coursed through the Federal Trade | Commission and the Chairmanship of the Securities and Exchange Commission before returning to| Harvard as dean of law. | Lloyd K. Garrison, member of the first National Labor Relations board, now teaches law at Wiscon- | sin university. | John Dickinson, onee Assistant Secretary of Commerce and later ssistant Attorney General in charge anti-trust division, now is dean of law at the University of Pennsylvania. Earlier he had taught| law at Pennsylvania and elsewhere. | Fred D. Pagg, Jr., bounded from| a law chair at Northwestern uni-| versity, through the chairmanship | of the Bureau of Aeronautics and back to top job in the Northwest- (Continued on Page Seven) | sociation, :the second day’s negotiations with |the Alaska Packers Association on can operate.” | Wage cuts ranging as high as 20 | percent were rejected by the un- ions. & | No conferences have been set for | today. SAN FRANCISCO SITUATION SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 19.— Randolph Meriwither, Secretary of the Marine Engineers Beneficial As. this morning went into the wage scale for this season and made the comment that the pros- pects for a settlement were “sort of favorable.” Meriwither said all eleven unions involved are seeking agreeable con- tracts for the season and probably will reach agreement before it is necessary to cancel the season. Tonight th CIO Alaska Cannery Union, consisting of 3,500 members the largest group involved here, will vote on whether to accept a wage cut of 7 percent under the 1937 scale, ——l FISHING BOAT IVANHOE NOW DRIFTING, SEA Ketchikan Vessel Breaks Down Five Days Ago— 3 of Crew Brings Word BULLETIN — VICTORIA, B. C., May 19.~The Redwing picked up the Ivanhoe at 11:50 o'clock this forencon and later picked up three men who made their way to Hewquiat. VICTORIA, B. C., May 19.—Three men, part of the crew of eight from the fishing vessel Ivanhoe, of Ket- chikan, Alaska, arrived at Hew- quiat today in a small row boat and asked for assistance of a tow to take the craft to Neah Bay. Wireless reports received here said the men stated the Ivanhoe broke down five days ago and has been drifting since then.