The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 1, 1938, Page 1

| ROOSEVELT T0 . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ——— ] VOL. LI, NO. 7808. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS * STRONG NOTE IS SENT JAPAN BY U.S. ‘International Highway Bill Is Signed . APPOINT FIVE ON COMMISSION Purpo of_M—e-asure Is to Further Study Project from U. S. to North CANADA IS NOW EXPECTED TO ACT Delegate A. fiimond, Also Author of Measure, Hopeful folv&ioute WASHINGTON, June 1.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the bill clearing the way for resumption of study of the proposed International Highway linking the United States proper with Alaska. The measure authorizes the Pre- sident to appoint a five-man com- mission within 90 days to cooperate with a similar Canadian agency for investigation of the proposed $14.- 000,000 project. The American Commission will include a member of Congress, resi- dent of Alaska and three other citi- zen members to serve two years without pay and at the end of that peiod report their findings to the President. Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond expressed the-hope: that the Commission’s findings will ‘“point the way to early construction of the Highway.” Representative Warren G. Mag- nuson, Democrat of Washington, author of the measure, said the Presidents action gave hope that the “day is not far off” when the U .S. will have a land route to the Terri- T BY FBI AGENTS RELIEF FUNDS IN KIDNAPING ARE DEMANDED Volct Fnd wit Pior BY PRESIDENT Carolina Urges Congress to Give Judge Arthur S. James Judge Arthur S. James, candidate publicans, primary showed. latter supported by John MAN ARRESTED | PRINCETON, Florida, June 1.— Abnndnmng hope for the safe re- turn of kidnaped Jimmy Cash, 500 ngh[ of Way to Spend— men today undertook a hunt in| posses of 15, while Federal agents ing, Lending Measure |aramatically scized one of their Sopeny number emerging from a confer- WASHINGTON, June 1—Presi- ence with the boy's father dent Roosevelt today asked Congress home. to impose “no restrictions” over the| G-men seized M. F.Braxton, bald, Administration’s relief funds of portly carpenter, about 55, who Was three billion dollars contained in the | phystled away from a gathering spending and lending bill. |crowd by a dozen Federal men who In a letter to Senator Alva B.|ghjelded him with their bodies. Adams, of Colorado, Floor Mana-| praxton was speeded to the FBI ger for the measure, President ,erice jn Miami. Officials refused Roosevelt asserted that the unem- ¢, 4iscuss the arr ployment situation has “grown| S worse” since he sent the relief meas- | CLUE FOUND ure to Congress six weeks ago. | “Emergency employment, there-| HUNTINGTON, North Carolini, fore, should come up in Congress June 1.—A wallet containing a pic- and have the right of way instead|ture of a child, said by its finder, at his | Charles Alvin Jones of the Philadelphia Old Guard Re- won the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsyl- vania by a substantial margin over Gifford Pinchot, returns in the The Democratic nomination was won by Churles Alvin Jones of Pittsburgh, who was opposed to Thomas Kennedy, thi L. Lewis and the C. L. O. Maybe Mr. Farley Dul Not Lose Famous Battle of Pa. By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, June 1. And another thing, this James Aloysius Farley isn't chalked up here as being o inept politically as he ap- peared to some in picking one wrong horse in the Pennsylvania primary.| It is true that Jim Farley has thick political hide, bhut his skull | | is quite another thing | Farley said he would like the Democratic voters of Pennsylva- nia to nominate Governor Earle for the Senate and then step into| another party faction and nomi-| nate CIO's Kennedy for governor. It was a last minute notification of | how the national chairman thought | things ought to be, and report here | has it that Farley took the step after many worrying moments of | thinking over what to do It turned out that Barle was | nominated and Kennedy was beat- | en and the hue and cry arose that| Farley had lost the magic touch| by which he had been able to fore- cast that all but Maine and Ver- mont would vote for Roosevelt in 1936. But a report here has it that Far- ley was not devoted to picking win- ners, nor even in supporting an out- and-out labor candidate against one | less out-and-out. Farley is reputed |here to be just average concerned about national policies and if the | party goes a bit conservative or a bit liberal it is mostly all right with | him so long as he can keep the TROUBLE 18 of being deferred,” wrote the Presi-| Charles Price, freight clerk, to re- MOYER FINALLY WINS VERDICT OVER AGCIDENT Judx,e Alcxander Upheld by Supreme Court in Air- plane Decision WASHINGTON, June 1. — The Supreme Court has refused to re- view the,decision of the ninth Cir- cuit Court of Appeals at San Fran- cisco, holding that the term: “part- | icipating in aeronautics” in an in- surance policy does not apply to an airplane pe nger. In 1934, Mannow D. Moyer of Juneau was injured in an accident to a plane operated by the Alaska Southern Airways. He sought dam- ages under an accident policy is- sued by the Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association of Neb- raska. The insurance Asso., defended the action on the ground that Moy- er’s injuries were caused while he was “participating in aeronautics,” and that this fact by terms of the policy exempted the Association of liability The circuit Court ruled the term “participating in aeronautics” was an “artificial phrase; ambiguous in content, it connotes science or art of aerial navigation in which science or art a passenger does not partici- pate any more than a pullman pa: senger participates in railroading. Despite angry threats from Hollywood, New York showmen who aroused a storm of controversy by ral of filrzdom’s highest priced glamor stz 1 in their rebellion against losing money under the present “star system” which gives costly contracts to big names which Kay Francis, ALEXANDER UPHELD First hearing the Moyer case was held in the District Court here be- fore Federal Judge George F. Al- eaxnder with George B. Grigsby representing the plaintiff and H L Faulkner the insurance compa Judge Alexander held for Moyu and the Circuit Court sustained the ruling. Now the Supreme Court has upheld the Alexander ruling by refusing to review the Circuit Court’s decision. As a result, Moyer will col- lect $1,45250 and $500 attorney fees, according to the case record. AIR BASES FOR PRESENT YEAR r.ca . s, e, 1o pins Taken Fromi Elord Shore Construction Pro- to Chicago Home gram for Navy May Also Be Delayed | MIAMI, Fla, June 1—Fred B. Snite, Jr., who has been kept alive in an iron lung since stricken with paralysis in China 26 months ago. WASHINGTORN, June 1 ‘[he | is being taken to Chicago, the |House Appropriations Committee |ily home announces that sentiment is gr Much improvement in the young ing against providing funds this|man’s condition is noted now. He year for construction of a naval|can breath | aircraft carrier and a three million of the iron lung s ETT L E D UN dollar dirigible. T | Committee members also said it‘ lis not likely that any funds will be | UNE BUMBEH fam- given for the Navy's shore cnn- struction program, including major | air bases in Alaska and Midway Is DISABLED . Island. Mates to Be Given Separate| gepresentative Robert L. Bacon, of New York, a member of the Rooms Aboard Ship— Sails Tonight NORTHBOUND Naval Craft Returns to Se- attle for Repairs Accom- panied by Flying Mate House Appropriations Committee, said opposition is also developing on authorizing funds for a Puget SEATTLE, June 1.—Trouble that Sound graving drydock for war- threatened to delay the maiden ships. voyage of the steamer North Coast | to Alaska was settled late yesterday | and work resumed in loading the cargo as the longshoremen refused to go through the picket lines es | SEATTLE, June 1—Two of the six patrol bombers of Squadron | VP-19, flying to the Naval Air Base |at Sitka, Alaska, leaving here yes- terday morning, returned to the Sand Point Naval base last night One bomber had engine trouble and the second bomber was detailed The difficulty was over sleeping quarters assigned the mates. The party in power. About keeping the|company agreed to give each mate a dent. |semble the Cash boy, was picked o .o yoaceful and in power he is‘m(,m' previously assigning two mat- as an escort to the limping ship. ———————— |up on a stairway leading to a Long REDS CHARGED |Island Railroad station. |Everglades, 16 miles from Prince- ton, across railroad tracks.” very much concerned. | Mr. Farley, as he himself indi-| cated, picked Kennedy for public support on one side and Earle on the other because it would help L')‘ heal the breach within the pany in Penngylvania The wallet was tied in twine. The contents, including the card of It could be kept in mind thag a Florida restaurant was turned FEEY John L. Lewis, head man in CIO,| |over to the police who summoned ¢ not especially mad at Earle, who AL AES had sided with him in the steel strikes, even if he was on the other party team. But Lewis was all for| PR ANl R Sl SR | STOCK QUOTATIONS | | Kennedy, which Farley knew. Sol | by giving Kennedy a lift, even late NEW. XORE, June;l. o Closing,m the campaign, Farley helped to quotation of Alsgks Juneau US| c.otne the ifterness which eould | stock today is 10%, American Can|y,ve grown up in CIO ranks if no| 86%, American Light and POWer|yeiy nag come from Washington. g 5, Anaconda 20%, Bethlehem Steel | proooovor the help extended inl paralyze the country in the event 43 Commonwealth and Southern penncvivania would be remembered | of “ary |1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, General|y, gther states where CIO can be The charge was made by a spec- | Motors 28%, International Harvest- | | jal investigating commission after ler 521, Kennecott 20%, New York eight months of study of subversive |central 11%, Southern Pacific 11 activities in Massachusetts. United States Steel 40%, The committee is reported 10| seryice 8%, Pound $4.94%. have declared: “Every indication | has been found that the National DOW, JONES AVERAGES Maritime Union along Atlantic| The following are today’s Dow, IT MAY HELP LATER On an envelope containing the photograph, there was the follow- ing unsigned message: “Boy held by gunmen.” Woman and I escaped Massachusetts Committee Says Communists in | Charge of Union | | BOSTON, Mass, June 1. — A/ charge was made today that the Communist Party aims to control the transport of labor “so it could A disrupted party in Pennsylvanm‘ » | means danger in 1940 and any one| Cities | with half an eye on things in Wash- | ington can discover that Mr. Far-| ley is far more concerned about keeping the party together in 1940 The two will resume the flight north as soon as repairs are made. The other four bombers continued north, 3 HALIBUTERS es to a room. SALMON SHIPS ablished by the Masters, Mates and| | Pilots. The North Coast is now, West Coast of Vancouver Island Is Hunted for Lost scheduled to sail North at 9 o'clock| tonight. | Seaplane, 4 Aboard VANCOUVER, B. C. June 1.— Search for the seaplane of Ginger Coote’s Airways, with a pilot and three passengers aboard, enroute from here to Zeballos and missing F 0M FRISGU since last Friday, is today concen- trated on 100 miles of shoreline on the west coast of Vancouver Island| Four VESSelS Are SChedUled between Barclay Sound and Nootka | to Sail North Today Sound, or Tomorrow SEATTLE, June 1.—Halibut | rivals and sales today are as follows From the western banks—North 39,000 pounds, Mitkoff 40,000 pounds, both selling for 7 1-4 and 6 3-4 cents a pound. From the local banks—Libanon 15,000 pounds, 7 1-8 and 6 cents. MRS. WEBBER AND The search of the area followed receipt of reports that the big yel- low seaplane was twice sighted over that section last Friday after- noon. Twelve planes are in the air today and the pilots give a 50-50 chance that the occupants of the plane will SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, June 1.— The American Star, of the Red Sal- |mon Canning Company, clears to- day for Bristol Bay. The ship was booked to sail yesterday but remain. ed in port while the company ad-' | | justed last minute differences with|>¢ found ative. | the Radio Telegraphist Union. A METHODI LADIE;S'MEET | settlement was reached last night. | ol The company’s ship Glacier is due, , pyginess meeting of the Metho- to leave for the north on Friday. # The Al Pay Py dist Ladies’ Aid was held this af-| aska Packers ton vornoon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Lydia Webber and '\ms Florence Hall returned tc Juneau on the steamer North Sea after a winter spent in California. They will be house guests of Mr. than with what happens to a scat-|Said one of the company'’s ships will Lee Corkle, on South Frank- sail today and another is scheduled x:ssu—m o to clear for the north tomorrow. Coast ports, in Massachusetts, is|jones averages: industrials llo.filt controlled by Communists.” irails 26.60, utilities 18.53. (Continued on Page Six) Showmen Stand Firm on /\rmcl\ Against Stars Kay Francis, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo quickly lose their box office appeal. ment inserted in a movie trade journal by the ex- hibitors protested s Joan Crawford, Mae West, Katharine | Hepburn and Bdward G. Arnold. considered by agents of the stars. NO FUNDS FOR ‘“Imn Lung” Man ‘FUUR ALASKA Now Imnmvmg BILLS SIGNED | for 23 minutes outside | SELL, SEATTLE and Mrs. Robert Keeny for a few | days and will then move into thei | (home on the Glacier Highway. 'DEMAND MADE FOR RESTORING AMER. PROPERTY \Immediate Steps Requested to Be Taken in Offic- | ‘ ial Communication | | INTERFERENCE OF RIGHTS MENTIONED Slale Department Says Owners Even Denied Right to Visit | WASHINGTON, June 1. — The United States has demanded that | Japan take immediate steps to “re- store American properties in China” | to their rightful owners. ‘ A strong note has been present- ed by American Ambassador Grew | to Japanese Foreign Minister Ugaki. | The note tells the Japanese that | their “infringement of and inter- | ference of American rights in China |are giving the Government of the | United States increasing concern.” The note points out that while | Japanese civilians are permitted to | to do business in areas from which the smo-.!npanese conflict moved on, | American business men and mis- sionaries are denied permission, not |only to resume their former resi- dences but are not even permitted to visit their hqldings. The State Department estimates \that over 300 Americans have been i | | | An advertise- aries paid Dietrich, Garbo, Court action was | waiting in Shanghai for many BY RUUSEVELT months to get permission to re- turn to their properties in the \Yangtze Valley. including Nanking. RESISTANGE OF CHINESE FORCE STALLS ENEMY '°‘Advance onKey Railway Bonding for Public Ulility Districts Improvements Is Now Law Here WASHINGTON, June 1. — Four bills affecting Alaska, including the| bill designed to permit public utility districts in the Territory to issue| bonds to pay for improvements, be-| came law today when President Roosevelt affixed his signature them. Prr\u.h-nf, Roosevelt also signed Poinls Blocked — Air another bill to establish a new chedule of taxation for electric| Force Make Attacks light plants to replace the existing| rate of $300 a year for all plants pro-| SHANGHAT, June 1.—The Japan- ducing electricity for sale. ese claim that superior air power is Other bills signed, extend mining slowly breaking the Chinese de- rights to all lands in shoal water fenses along the Lunghai Railway are: between low and high tide but stubborn resistance has balked marks on the Alaskan coast, those| the invader's efforts to take Laifeng portions of land having been here-| and Chengchow, key rail points. It tofore eliminated from mining pri-|is also planned to make an attack vilege. |on Hankow. Another bill signed, authorizes the! Chinese sources said that Gen. Secretary of the Interior to with-| Doihara’s Division, which has been draw at his discretion, tracts of surrounded for several days, “is be- land not more than 640 acres each, ing cut into mere remnants,” des- from public domain, for schools,|pite Japanese reinforcements rush- hospitals, and other purpos in| ed to rescue the force. a(lmml.st(‘rmg to aflah’s of Indians —_—————— ed as municipal projects by coopera- e BIG OFFENSIVE tive societies and eleemosynary in-| stitutions, will pay a flat rate Of $10 a year. Other rates on other plants wxll range from $10 a year for plants| doing business less than $4,000 a| year, to $500 for plants having an | annual business of $100,000 or more. | Undl“l‘ the new s:‘he(lulo of power | plant taxation, those plants operat-| The Utility Districts Bill will per- mit improvement districts to issue | a total of bonds not more than 10 percent of the aggregate value of! the property subject to taxation by the district, provided the bond is- sue is approved by at least 65 per- cent of the district’s voters. PRI Sl LA L AR PR , BASEBALL TODAY l The following are scores of base- | ball games played this afternoon in the two major leagues and received MISS HALL RETURN " e S NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 1; Pittsburgh 4. Brooklin 1; Cincinnati 4. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 8; New York 4. St. Louis 3; Boston 6. Franco Makes Move on Valencia—Loyalists Claim Successful Air Raid HENDAYE, June 1. — Insurgent Gen. Franco has opened the biggest offensive of the Spanish war, ‘The Insurgent commander today began movements in the mountains east of Tereul to attack that section in a drive on Valencia. The Insurgents are continuing large scalwe bombing operations on the entire eastern front. | The Spanish Government an- inuum:es a successful bombing raid on the Insurgent air base at Mal- lorca and claim that three Insurgent | vessels in the harbor were set afire |and two airports blasted. | Gen Franco's push on Tereul is reported generally moving forward in face of desperate Loyalist resis- Cleveland 5; Philadelphia 9. | Chicago 4; Washington 5. ‘mnce.