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

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7822. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PKESS e e PRICE TEN CENTS CHINA RIVER SPREADS DEATH, DISASTER ADJOURNMENT FOR CONRESS THIS EVENINE Compromise on Deficiency Bill Is Agreed to by Joint Committee WASHINGTON, June 16. — The joint Senate and House Conference Committee has agreed on the com- promise on the deficiency appro- priatic bill, thus eclearing the way for adjournment of Congress tonight. The group worked out the com- oromise on the two hundred and inety million dollar bill is less than four hours. The Senate completed action on the spending and lending program and later the measure went be to the House for a vote on minor | amendments. A disagreement on the provisions of the deficiency bill involving about ten million dollars was the chief obstacle to adjournment. President. Roosevelt has moved up his time to 7 o'clock tonight for his planned departure to New Eng- land whree he will attend the wedding of his youngest son, John, on Saturday night. CAUSE FOR RA DAY WASHINGTON, June 16. De-! ferring of Congress was delayed from last night until today because the House, by a vote of 244 to 87, over- rode the President’s veto of a bill extending the low interest rates on certain Federal Farm loans. The Senate had already recessed so could not act on the veio until to- day CONGRESS MAY BE CALLED IN EXTRA SESSION Financial Collapse of Num- ber of Railroads Now Threatened WASHINGTON, June 16.—Chair- man John J. O'Connor, of New York, of the House Rules Commit- tee, said Congress may be called into an extra sion soon “if the expected financial collapse of a number of the large railroads of the nation occurs.” O'Connor said failure of Con- gress to enact legislation to aid the rail systems is a matter of deep cone because of the millions of employees involved. — e Mine Assessment Suspension Bill Rushed_yp Again; House Passes Measure— Goes Back to Senate for | Alaska Amendment WASHINGTON, June 16. — The House has passed the bill to suspend for another year the requirement for $100 assessment work to be done on mining claims held by location. The measure went to the Senate for action on the amendment to ex- tend suspension to Alaska claims. Representative Murdock called the bill up unexpectedly. The bill has not received the approval of the House Mining Committee. Last year | the Committee approved suspension | but announced that would be the| last time it would do so. | L2 . BASEBALL TODAY i | The following are baseball scores | of big league games played this afternoon and received up to 1:30 o'clock: i | | * National League Pittsburgh 10; New York 2. | St. Louis 2; Philadelphia 3. | Only games played. | American League New York 5; Chicago 1, | rails 20.05, utilities 18.65. Wins New Honors Bobbie Vaughn In addition to winning the title of “Miss Mississippi” at the state beauty contest this year, pret- ty Bobbie Vaughn has the dis- |gar Hoover, Director of the Fed- | tinction of having led her home town band from Magnolia, Miss., to victory in both the marching and concert finals of the national high school band contest at Louis ville. FISH PROBLEMS WITH JAPANESE BEINE SETTLED Leo Sturgeon Expresses Confidence in Present Arrangements SEATTLE, June 16.—Leo Stur- geon, special representative of the State Department, investigating the Alaska salmon fisheries problem, ex- pressed confidence that an arrange- ment between the United States and Japan will afford adequate protec-|pe unable to make it in time for|pac susgested it is going to make tion to the United States’ prior eco- nomic rights to salmon resources in the off-shore waters of Alaska Sturgeon also expressed hope that| partment already has made ar-|elaborate that statement. the arrangement be given a fair chance when the salmon season in the north gets under full swing so that full regulatory effect may be determined. Sturgeon stated that the State De- partment does not regard the fish- ing problem as settled and will con- tinue to take steps when necessary. — .- — - - | sTock QuoTATIONS | — e NEW YORK, June 16. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 107, American Can 87, American Light and Power 5%, | Anaconda 24, Bethlehem Steel 44%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, | Curtiss Wright 4%, General Motors 29%, International Harvester 52%, Kennecott 290%, New York Central 11%, Southern Pacific 107, United States Steel 42%, Cities Service 8%, Pound $4.97. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 113.97, MEXICAN REBS ARE RUN DOWN MEXICO CITY. June 16.—Advices received by the War Ministry said Federal troops have slain 14 mem- bers of the Vera Cruz outlaw band in two engagements. Only two of ported. the band leaders, escaped, it is re- l - SENTENCEDTO ~ DIEIN CHAIR |Abdu (:lo;lMicCall Hears | Doom Without Flinch Judge Discusses Case MIAMI, Florida, June 16.—Frank- lin Pierce McCall was today sen- tenced to die in the electric chair for the kidnaping of James Bailey Cash, Jr. Judge H defendant McCall shook his head. The Judge said the Governor will | fix the date for the execution. | Judge Atkinson made no com- ment in court regarding the kid- {naping but privately said: “This s the most cold-blooded thing I |ever heard of. There is no miti- | 2ating circumstances in this case.” McCall heard his doom without flinching. His face was impassive and he looked straight ahead. - FBI DIRECTOR, ASSISTANT IN AUTO ACCIDENT |Both Men Slightly Injured Returning to Office from New York F if Atkinson asked the he had anything to | WASHINGTON, June 16—J. Ed- |eral Bureau of Investigation, and Cylde Tolson, Assistant Director, were slightly bruised in an auto- mobile accident last night. The two men had arrived by air from New York and were driv- ing to the FBI office when an oil truck hit the rear of their car and the impact drove their car into another vehicle. —ee NAVY CRUISER LOUISVILLE HERE JULY § Chief of Naval Operations | Reports Unable to | Reach Here for 4th | The Navy cruiser Louisville will arrive in Juneau on July 6 but will the Fourth of July celebration, ac- cording to word from Delegate An- | thony J. Dimond. The Navy De- lrangemem to have ships at Sitka, Seward and Cordova over the Fourth, the Delegate said he had been informed by the chief of naval operations in Washington, but it is so close to the holiday now that it will be impossible to get a war- ship here in time for the celebra- | appreciation of the invitation from lAl!’om‘l John Bradford Post to par- | ticipate in the celebration here, and it is expected that the Navy will be represented with personnel from the naval base at Sitka. | . Delegate Dimond will be here for the holiday, delivering the Inde- pendence Day address as pars of the community program. Rivers, Harbors, Flood Control Funds Alloted US. Army Engineers Make Statement on Expendi- tures for 12 Months WASHINGTON, June 16. — Army Engineers have alloted $120,000.000 of War Department funds for ex- penditure during the next twelve months for rivers and harbors work and flood control. Included in the approval are Ket- chikan, $8,000; Wrangell. Narrows, $25,000; Nome, $50,000, all for main- tenance, and flood control for Lowell Creek, Seward, Alaska, $197,000. e | | work, they had to duck for cover as Jaj western residential section of the city. DISARMAMENT ~ Res FOR WORLD IS NOW PLANNED British Prime Minister Inti- mates U. S. to Make Proposals plane: Associated ress Photo. LONDON, 16. — Premier Chamberlain today told the mem- bers of the House of Comnmons that | the United States Government in-| | timated that nation was preparing | to make definite proposals to obtain | world disarmament. | Asked by Arthur Henderson, La- bor member of the House of Com- | mons, if Great Britain is willing to | “join the United States in making | definite proposals with the view of/ securing a halt in the arms race,” ! Chamberlain replied: “The United States Government June | the attempt.” The Prime Minister refused to MISTAKEN IDEA | WASHINGTON, June 16. — The State Department announces there has been no communication passed | between the United States and| These workers dared death from the skies as they mopped up debris after Japanese air wheeled overhead, dropping their death cargoes. This man doesn’t need any help as he lies dead in the wreckage of sf skies by Japanese airmen who then machine-gunned survivers. Thi in the United States, was taken when the series of ail mote than 8,000 in less than two weeks of incessant bombing.—Assos ids on Canton, Chi raids started. MORNING AR RAID KILLS 3 ATBARGELONA BARCELONA, June 16. Three persons were killed and 10 wounded in two Insurgent air raids on the outskirts of Barcelona early this |G of | world disarmament. Officials ex- | pressed belief that Premier Cham- \ber]ain's statement was based on | the recent speech of Secretary of | State Cordell Hull in Nashville say- | ing the United States was prepared |to join other nations in an effort | to reduce armaments. $10,000 FIRE - ATKETCHIKAN s morning, ckhand Seriously Burned in Explosion on Can- i $250,000 Damages | KETCHIKA)P,I, Alaska, June 16,——‘ A8ked hy I.a“ger Larry Reischmann, 29, deckhand of | South Bend, Wash., was seriously | burned yesterday in a $10,000 ex-| CHICAGO, June 16—Gov. Wil- plosion, followed by a fire aboard llam Langer of North Dakota filed the cannery tender William T. Muir suit today against Ken Magazine while moored at the wire factory and asked $250,000 damages for dock. an article which he contended in- Fire Chief Stanley Adams be- jured and damaged him in his lieves the blast was caused by gaso- standing as a lawyer, a citizen and line vapor in the forward part of @ public official. | the 90-foot tender. Langer contended the article Reischmann was standing in a Wwhich described him as a “master | companion way when the blast oc- demagogue” would harm him in his curred. His clothes were torn off. campaign for the Senate seat held The ship’s sides were blown one by Senator Gerald Nye of North foot away from the deck. ' Dakota. De: | ‘ \ | \ [ Tax Question Is President, Sen. Harrison at Variance On Just What to Do By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, June 16. — From an examination of the speeches of | Senator Pat Harrison and President Roosevelt it is fairly evident they| are not exceedingly far apart on tax | principles, but they are a long way from harmony on what to do right now to meet the recession-depres- sion. Speaking before 13 high school| seniors at Arthurdale, W. Va. the President said the new tax bill was designed in many respects to hit the little fellow and his little corporation about as hard as it hit the big fellow. He insisted this was not fair, and that it was an aban-| donment of American principle to back away from taxing people in proportion to ability to pay. The question is, did Senator Har- rison catch the President a bit off | s was once part of Saikwan, uer Is Not Needeli in This Canton Debris iricken Canton, picture, one of the first to arrive The toll of death and injured was ated Press Photo. | stocks and perhaps real estate. He KIDNAPER IS Workers Dare DeiplhA -from Skies to Mop Up Debris After Air Raids ’M Ie HTY—STREAM BEING SWOLLE, DOWNPOUR, RAIN Waters Have Spread Out from 10 to 20 Miles Wide, 90 Miles Long ARMIES, LOCKED IN COMBAT, ARE FLEEING {Two Thousand Villages Are Now Reported Inundat- ed in Honan Province | SHANGHAI June 16—The Yel- |low River, fed by a steady down- | pour of rain, unrolled like a ribbon | today and spread out death and disaster. The flooded river is from 10 to 20 miles wide and 90 miles long across the flat plains of Honan Province. Chinese and = Japanese armies locked in combat on the Peiping- Hankow front, fled before the tor- rents, Advices from Hankow, Provision- al Chinese capital, said the relent- less flood surging southeastward from the torn dikes, has pentrat- | ed beyond Fukow, 70 miles south of Kaifeng, on the Lunghai railway. Two thousand villages, with an aggregate population of 500,000, are flooded for a distancg of 90 miles south of the Yellow River. CLAPP STRESSES JOINT INTERESTS TACOMA,ALASKA Air Mail, Tourist Industry | MeanMuch to Territory 1 and Northwest Bringing greetings from the Ta- coma Chamber of Commerce of which he is a prominent member, Norton Clapp of the Alaska Trans- portation Company and Tacoma financier who is here aboard his yacht, the Carmelita, was a guest of the Juneau Chamber at its luncheon today noon at Percy's Cafe. Tacoma and Juneau are working | for projects which will be of mu- tual benefit to Alaska and the Northwest, Mr. Clapp pointed out. Among them he listed air mail, {lower telegraphic rates and the tourist industry. All mean much to the Puget Sound cities as well as the Territory, he said. He referred particularly to the tourist industry which has grown to such propor- tions in Washington that the state has set aside $300,000 to further promote the indusiry. “We expect to get the money back in gasoline tax receipts through the additional number of automobile tourists which will visit the state,” he said, “The ‘tourist business to our way |of thinking is one of the greaf industries of the Northwest and | naturally it is to Alaska,” he added. “We hope to make the Northwest and Alaska the tourist mecca of the world instead of Europe and abroad as has been the case in the past. We feel that if we all work toward that end we can do it. If | we can get them to the Northwest, |a great many of them are certain |to come to Alaska. These are the |sort of things which bind the Northwest and Alaska closer and They had not only to do their the bombed from the Not Settled; makes a profit of $5,000 on the deal. That is income and he must pay 15 percent tax under the bill. Now along comes a big fellow and sells|closer together.” in a big way and makes a half-| L, J. Goldman, Field Naturalist million dollar killing. But, says the|for the Biological Survey, gave the President, instead of taxing him|Chamber a brief outline of what is a high percentage of such earnings, being done to conserve and build | the new tax measure says that all yp migratory bird life in the Unite he has to pay is the same as the eq States, Canada and Mexico, little fellow, or 15 percent. |Since the treaty between the three Not so, says Harrison next dflylcountrim on the migratory bird in the Senate. The big boy not OHIYipmblems. the steady decline in has to pay the 15 percent but his|nymper of birds has been halted, half million profit reaches high into|pe said, and now a definite start the upper bracket where the in- na¢ peen made toward an increase. come and surtax take off big h“nks-‘aepopulaung the vast northern Evidently they still agree that the ,.qine grounds is now one of the bigger the income the bigger me‘mm, goals and when this is ac- share which should go to the 80V~ | complished through establishment ernment. S But when President Roosevelt in zu;&u:;—mr:?z? “mn;:: base with that one, particularly |effect appealed to Congress and the since Mr. Roosevelt sought to illus- | American people to override the tax trate it with the capital ‘gains tax? Dill next year Harrison came right back with the suggestion that he should have liked the President to HOW IT WORKS | Under the new tax bill, says the| President, a little fellow sells some | (Continued on Page Three) ter shooting will be enjoyed all along the flyways from Alaska south, he brought out. | Vast possibilities for the devel- opment of Alaska were stressed by f (Continued on Page Two) A