The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LII,, NO. 7814. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1938, MEMBER ASSOCIATED Pi ALASKA EMPIRE e e e e PRICE TEN CENTS == -CONGRESS AGREES T0 MINIMUN WAGE MORE SHELLINGS, TWO WAR AREAS, REPORTED TODAY Canton [s Again Raided b Japanese Bombers for 8th Successive Time INSURGENTS ACTIVE Y [ e ' | ALONG SEA FRONTIER British Operated Port At- tacked—Casualties in South China Grow Associated Press) planes swelled the death toll in Canton today by two bembardments while Spanish In- irgents again bombed towns along the Mediterranean Sea, including British operated Port of \Gan- 36 miles from Valencia. On the Chinese front, at 300 new civilian casualties were inflicted on Honan Island. one of Canton's industrial sections, rais- ing the casualties to 8,000, estimat- ed, in the eight days of terrific bombardments in and around Can- ton Thousands of the city’s million population have fled to properties in which Americans are interested. It is known that the American endowed Lingow University and Standard Oil storage tanks have been struck by bombs. Spanish Insurgent bombers dis- abled the British steamer Dedger. destroyed two warehouses and tore up the railroad tracks at Gandia. - UNITED STATES PROTESTING TO CANTON RAIDING American Endowed Univer- sity Hit by Japanese ar anes WASHINGTON, June 8. — The American Government has protest- ed to the Japanese Consul General at Hongkong on the war plane bombings at Canton, China. The protest is sent as the result of the bombing of the American en- dowed Lignom University at Can- ton. (By Japanese war th dia least > - CANNED SALM TROUBLES NO FULLY SOLVED Final Agreement Signed by Unions and Industry for 1938 Season SEATTLE, June 8—John O’Con- nor, Federal Labor Conciliator, said representative unions involved in the Alaska salmon operations, have signed a “final” labor agreement with the canned salmon industry for the 1938 season. The chief provision, contract wages, will be determined before August 15 by a Fact Finding Com- mission, consisting of one represen- of the canned salmon in- . one from the unions and a third member to be appointed by a Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The commission will study the books of the cannery operators to determine the wage scale. O'Connor said fifteen unions signed the contract, fishermen, cannerymen, machini: shipwrights, carpenters, purse sein- | ers and others. FILM STARS ARE MARRIED HOLLY WOOD, Cal, June 8— Frances Langford, radio and screen singer, and Jon Hall, film actor, were married last Saturday at Pres- cott, Arizona. The two made this disclosure here last evening, representing | | FOLLOWING THE H time for eligible Alfred Gwynne S ORSES takes up a good bit of Vanderbilt, one of America’s i i S S ing stable. His richest young men, who also operates a famous raci recently favored companion at Belmont track, Long Island, is Manuela Hudson (above) of San Fr 11}‘iscu, Mrs. Charles S. Howard. Mr. Howard is owner of THEY NEW YORK, June 8. million dollar and Manuela fortune and one of men, Hudson, daugl were Ana Pa ornia, meets at Pimlico and Belmont The ma last winter garet Emerson, mother of Vanderbilt per late Alfred Gwynne of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, is the son of the sinking of the the Lusitania ARE Alfred Gwynne V: ge took place at the ho is a cousin of “Seabiscnit.” MAF heir to a twenty wrf- ierbiit America’s most enthusiastic aiter of a San Francisco attorney, narried here today, culminating a romance begun at the Santa and continued through the race Sand Point estate of Mrs. Mar- The Rev. Vincent McCarthy, formed the ceremony. Vanderbilt Vanderbilt who lost his life in Relief Crisis; What It Means; FOUR FLIERS ARE VICTIMS, TWO CRASHES Instructors and Air Stu- dents Meet Death Over Texas Flying Field SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 8 Four Randolph Field fliers, two of them instructors were killed today in two unexplained crashes within a few minutes of each other over | the main field The victims are Second Lieuten-| ant Nathan H. Coddington, of Los Angeles, Cal, instructor; Second Lieutenant Arthur M. Keepler, of Houston, Texas, instructor; Cadet William H. Coneby, of Washington D.C,, air student, and Second Lieu- tenant Frederick M. Thompson, of Los Angeles. An investigation has been crdered — e USE TRACTOR FOR HEARSE Bodies of Mining Men, Who Died Suddenly, Tak- en to Anchorage | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 8.— |A tractor was pressed into service |as a hearse to bring the bodies of |two men to this city from a near- by mining section where they sud- denly died. Chris Hammerschmidt, 69, one of |the original discoverers of the |Cache Creek mining district died | {from a heart attack while on the creek. A. A. Solfe, 59, fell dead | | while working at a hydraulic noozle | lin the Talkeetna region. Their| | bodies were brought here by the| rmcun', | thre Explanation Given by Beatty N M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, June 8. The Federal Government is spending $250,000,000 a month to create jobs for the unemployed Since 1933, Uncle Sam has put well over 10 billions into relief, and an- other 10 into credit and other phases of recover. The states, counties and cities also have chipped in about and-a-half billions for the destitute. And yet, in the pinch of the latest depression in the Middle West, Chi- cago marchers are yelling for food. Women riot for relief money m Cleveland. What has By MORGAN happened? Isn't the | government spending enough? Why should reliefers find their checks cut down or shut off? It all traces back to the fact that | each unit of government in the na- tion—Federal, state, county and city—has built its own chine to help take care of the un: employed. Like Tops: these ma- chines “just growed.” Nobody cut out a master pattern so they all would fit together. No one unit of government spends money for re- lief in direct ratio to any other unit. And it so happens that some re- lief machines run better than others. tators Are ‘Out’ Under our state-federal system of government, no other operation has vet been found agreeable. If all the relief machines were hooked up to pull together, one single directing head would have to throw all the switches, That would add up to a relief dictator, and the American public doesn't like dictators. So, we have many different pieces of relief machinery. The most flexible of them alleis the Federal machinery, operating, for the most part, through the Works Progress Administration (WP A). It should be flexible. The whole machine is directed from Wash- ington, and operates in nearly every | one of the 3,100 counties in the Unit- ed States. Its flexibility, so far, has been limited only by the amount of money Congress work relief. WPA can speed up relief here, (Continued on Page Ei;f;t) relief ma- | appropriates for l Party of 125 Enjoying| Sights Out Highway To- | day-—Be Back Friday | Headed by W. S. Rosecrans, Presi- | dent P. Thayer, Fielc | Secretary and Manager of the tour, the Angeles and Charles Los amber of Com- merce party, 125 strong, arrived here this afternoon shortly before 3 o'- clock aboard the Prince Robert and a delega- tign from the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, by President Charles W. Carter, Mayor Harry T.| H. L. Faulkner, immediately trip other | after being welcomed by headed were | to| Lucas taken Mendenhall points of interest out the Highway. The party will remain here until midnight and on a Glacier and when they will continte | aboard the Robert, re-| here Friday AgWay turning morning and remaining until 4 o'clock in the af- ternoon. At noon Friday a iuncheon with the Juneau Chamber members | is planned aboard ship. Several hundred Juneauites were at the dock when the tobert came in, many hopeful of seeking Ann Dvorak, and, ording to the tour manager, no r tion whatsoever. The Californians expressed them- selves as having a pleasant trip and in the party were quite a number who have made the annual pilgrim- | age to Alaska. They were enthused over the Territory and looked for- ward, they said, to the all day stay here Frid; In the party are: Miss Viola G. Adams, Mrs Allan, Harry Alschuler. Lemuel C. Bailey, Mrs. Lemuel C Bailey, Mrs. Stuart D. Barker, Mrs. | Emily J. Barton, Charles P. Bayer, Donald Bayer, Bruce Blackburn Mrs. Bruce Blackburn, Miss Eliza- beth Blackburn, Miss Armon Boy jian, B. B. Brewer, Mrs. B. B. Brew- er, H. A, Bronson, Mrs. H. A. Bron- son, Mrs. Harriett B. Brown, Miss Berneice Bryan, C. M. Bushnell. George G. Cantwell, Mrs. George | G. Cantwell, Mrs. John E. Coffin David Cohn, Mrs. David Cohn, Mrs A. H. Cuenod, Guy L. Cuzner, Mr: Guy L. Cuzner. Mrs. Katheryn T. Davis, Mr Bernice S. Deane, Miss Ann Dvorak. Mrs. H. D. Eastman, Miss Dorothy Eckhard, Miss Hilma Edwards, Mrs, Emma G. Elliott. Mrs. Kitty Fox, French Edward T. Gadden, Mrs. C. Lew- is Gaulden, Miss Janet Gaulden, Eu- gene Giacomino, Mrs. Eugene Gia- comino, Mrs. Karl Goodman, Miss Gertrude A. Goodman, W. A. Good- win, Mrs. W. A. Goodwin, Miss An- nabel Grant, Miss Caroline E. Greg- ory. | W. E. Harman, Mrs. W. E. Har- man, Mrs. Dora Dodge Harpur, Mrs Morris Harris, Miss Betty Hari Mrs. William C. Hazzard, E. W Henger, Mrs. E. W. Henger, Miss Virginia Henger, Miss Jane Henger, Miss Elma V. Hill, Mrs. Caroline A Hocking, Miss Elizabeth J. Howard, Miss Louise E. Hummel. Mrs. Jane Kermit, Clarence F. | Kiech, Mrs. Clarence F. Kiech, Miss | Gladys Kirkpatrick, Ralph Klein, | Miss Elfriede H. Klug, C. E. Knapp, Mrs. C. E. Knapp. W. La Monte, E. A. Lane, Mrs. E. A. Lane, Miss Gertrude Leland, Miss Dora Levy, Miss Frances Levy. | Miss Goldie Markowitz, Mrs. H. |M. Markowitz, J. E. Marshall, Mrs. J. E. Marshall, Mrs. Perle Wheeler | Martin, Mrs. R. W. McConnell, Henry McGonigle, Mrs. Henry Me- Gonigle, Mrs. Peter F. McManus, |Miss Eleanor McMillan, Mrs. John S. McMillan, Miss Aimee R. Means. Charles R. Minore, Miss Mary Mor- rison, Miss Stella Morsey, Mrs. Har- riett L. Morton, Ray A. Myers, Mrs. |Ray A. Myers. Mrs. H. B. Nelles, Nestell, Mrs. Nestell. Mrs. Minnie Odemar, Mrs. C. R. Offutt. S. M. Pinkiert, Mrs. S. M. Pink- iert, Abner Podrat, Mrs. Abner |Podrat, J. A. Powers, Mrs. J. A. Powers, L. S. Precourst, Mrs. L. S |Precourst, Mrs. Clara M. Pringle, |Mrs. Frances Pyle. Charles H. Randall, Mrs. Charles |H. Randall, Mrs. M. F. Rice, Mrs. ;V. B. Riden, Miss Kathryn Ronan, Miss Nellie G. Ronan, W. S. Rose- crans, Mrs. W. S. Rosecrans, Ken- |neth R. Rublee, Mrs. J. W. Russell. Maude Miss Caroline Raymond J. (Continued on Page Two) i On the night of May 28, 5-year-old James Bailey Cash, | Within 48 heurs, the father of the little boy re of headlights, on the highway to the kidnapers, and expected the return of The abductors failed to keep their word. the child. iving instruction regarding the se g to where one of three note Flerida. irom his auto, under g the lad immediately. scour the countryside for the deor of a v y negro’s shack. CALIFORNIANS " First Pictures of l(i::;:pi::;: Case in Florida JOINT GRUUP ENTHUSED OVER ALASKA VISIT ¥ e These farmers and former s rch. Below, two column picture contai by the kidnapers. Mexico Shows Another Flaw In Neutrality Act of U. S. $90,000 FUND IS ASKED FOR KIDNAPER HUNT President Roosevelt Makes Special Request of Con- gress in Florida Case WASHINGTON, June 8—Presi- dent Roosevelt, has asked Congress to provide $50,000 for running down the kidnapers of five-year-old James Bailey Cash, Jr, missing from his home in Princeton, F since May 28. The President su d that amount be inserted in the deficiency bill used to finance activitics of the FBI agents who are now se trace of the bills in the $10.000 ran- the som which was paid for the lad’s re-| lease and return to hi - parents, | STOCK QUOTATIONS Pl o e | o NEW YORK, June 8. Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10, American Can 867., American Light and Power 5. Anaconda 24, Bethlehem Steel 447%, Curtiss Wright 4%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, General Motors 28%, International Har 2 Kennecott 28%, New York Centra 11'2, Southern Pacific 11, United States Steel 42, Cities Service 8% Pound $4.95%. DOW, JONES AVERAGE The following are today's Jones averages: industrials rails 2048, utilities 18.81. ster Dow, 113 eking | And that, By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, news of possible Mexico dribbling United States, the attention State Department and the foreign relations committee i to a section of the neutrality that has a capacity to gum up op- eration of the neighbor policy. In 1928 President Coolidgs to Havana with all the pomp fanfare that could be atlached Mr. Coolidge (and he wouldn’t al- low much). There, a solemn cove- nant was drawn up among the American republics by which all agreed that if a revolution should break out in any one, the others would refuse to ship arms to the rebels. Arms would be shipped only to the government forces. Mexico signed it. So did the United States and most others The idea was fo preserve peace and discourage any one nation from precipitating or aiding a revolution in any of the others. THERE IS THE RUB But last spring, in its hasty ef forts to legislate ap embargo against arms shipments to Spain enacted a neutrality m e viding that in event of civil war in some foreign country the United States would refuse tc ship arms there. Much discretion s allowed the President to determine whether the civil war is dangerous to the peace and security of th: United States. He is obligated to impose the embargo only if the shipment of arms threatens to in- volve the United States in the fray or to endanger its peace and secur- ity But if the civil war gets bad, he has to stop shipments of arms to both sides, rebels or government 50 authorities on for- June in into the of the as revolution comes Senate called act “good went and to Congre ure pro- a seriou (Continued (;; l;u"ge Two) . was adbducted from his home in Princeton, tossed a package conts ng $10,000 ransom money The top picture shows posses organizing to ¢ men are shown at a schoolhouse, is Robert Smith, neighbor of Cash, ing instructions for the ransom payment were slipped under The one column picture is the little Cash bey, stolen from his bed BOEING CLIPPER MAKES TEST HOP ON PUGET SOUND Seventy-two Passenger Ship Successfully Takes Off and Lands SEATTLE, June 8—The Boeing Atlantic Clipper, senger flying hotel, groomed for the Trans-Atlantic service, last night soared into a smokey twilight sky for a successful test flight. The big ship, with a wingspread of 152 feet, made a 38-minute test hop as jaunt Pilot Edmund Allen lifted it from choppy and wind whipped waves of Puget Sound, flew almost to Everett, then back to land on the smoother surface of Lake Washington. Mechanics swarmed over the plane at the beach dock and al- most immediately, Pilot Allen and two assistants made a huried night flight to San Francisco to fly a Pan-American Martin-made clipper hip to learn PAA operation tech- nique Allen commented on the test flight of the Boeing aircraft by aying, “She feels fine.” Almost at the same hour of the Boeing plane test, Pilot Carl Cove, 1t Sarta Monica, California, test hopped a Douglas-built 42-passen- land plane and said, “It is everything we had expected.” e Block Sand Hill SUBLETTE, Kas., June 8—Coun- | ty officials think they finally have stopped Haskell county’s travel- ing sand hill that threatened to| block a road. They “anchored” the! hill by planting cane all around it.| The cane, they hope, will hold mu‘ winds that blow the sand. l - DECIDES FOR 40-CENT HOUR T\\'t‘nly-five Cents Will Be Lowest Pay with No Exceptions PLAN TO BE COMPLETE IN SEVEN YEARS’ TIME Gradual Increase in Wages to Be Job for Sev- eral Boards WASHINGTON, June 8—A joint Congressional committee today com- promised on wage and hour legisla- tion The committee agreed to the im- position of a universal wage of 40 cents an hour in all interstate indus= tries by the end of seven years, ex- cept where such a wage will cause unemployment The compromise was adopted with the approval of 12 of the 14 con- ferees: It was approved that mini- mum wage should be 25 cents an hour with no exceptions this first vear, and 30 cents an hour the fol- lowing year. After the advance to 30 cents an hour, boards appointed by a Cen- tral Administrator will be em- powered to examine conditions in individual industries. The boards will be made up of representatives of employers, em- ployees, and the public, and will be charged with the duty of increas- ing the minimum to at least 40 cents an hour, as rapidly as pos- sible. At the end of seven years, all wages in interstate industry will go to the 40 cents an hour Tevel, ex- cept where the boards find such ac- tion will substantially curtail em- ployment in the industry. e HUNDRED- TON LOCOMOTIVE COMING NORTH New Special Equipment Be- ing Shipped for White Pass Route SEATTLE, June 8. — A 100-ton Baldwin locomotive built expressly for the White Pass and Yukon Route has arrived here from the east coast and is to be shipped to Skag- way, Alaska, on the Tanana sailing tomorrow as part of the unusual cargo aboard that freighter des- tined for Yukon River ports. A 32-ton wheel lathe for the White Pass and Yukon Shops at Skagway is also part of the cargo aboard the Tanana as well as a 200~ ton pontoon gold dredge, property of Walter Johnson, San Francisco mining man, who plans extensive operations this season. C. J. Rogers, Vice-President of the White ,Pass and Yukon Route, said the locomotive is a new departure for the company and if it provides performances as expected, others will be ordered. ., Senate Approves Alaska Timber Act WASHINGTON, June 8. — The Senate has passed and sent to the President a bill to permit the free use of timber on public lands in Alaska by churcehs, hospitals and charitable institutions for firewood and domestic purposes, D ¢ SR RS L sl e , BASEBALL TODAY [ Wl S8 i noead 15 The following are scores of base- ball games played this afternoon in the two major leagues and received up to 1:30 o'clock: National League Chicago 2; New York 4. Boston 1; Pittsburgh 4. American League Chicago 11; New York 10. Detroit 5; Philadelphia 1. Cleveland 6; Boston 7. — o