The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 28, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ViL. LIL, NO. 7832. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUES DAY, JUNE PRICE TEN CENTS 28, 1938, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JAPANESE GUNBOAT SUNK BY CHINESE WIDE INTEREST IN MIDWESTERN SENATE RACES Nye-Langer Contest, North Dakota — Indiana De- cision Being Watched WASHINGTON, June 28.— Two midwestern senatorial contests have aroused interest in the ecapital be- cause of their potential bearing on President Roosevelt’s appeal for a clearcut line in liberal and con- servative battles. One is in North Dakota where Senator Nye, frequently a Roosevelt | supporter, is opposed in the RP-i publican primary by Govenor Lang- ! er. The other is in Indiana where the Republican delegates to the | state convention caucus tonight, be- | fore selecting a senatorial candi- | date tomorrow, musi settle the | question, which is of national inter- | est, whether the convention Wwill take any stand on the independent candidacy of Senator Van Nuys, anti-administration Democrat. The President and his immediate | advisors have taken no public part in the Nye-Langer contest which is outside of their own party, a factor indicating that there might be more than passing concern in the outcome. However, Nye has the endorsement of two ardent New Dealers, Senator Homer T. Bone of Washington and Senator George W. | Norris of Nebraska WPA ROLLS TO BE INCREASED IN SHORT TIME Agency Expected to Add 250,000, Bringing To- tal to Maximum WASHINGTON, June 28. — Au- drey Williams, Deputy WPA Ac ministrator, said the agency expect- | td to add persons to the rolls very soon. This is estimated to bring the rolls to about 3,010,000 approximately the maximum figure recently mentioned by Hopkins. The present enrollment is about 2- 760,000 per: { Arrest Japanese Near Navy Ships San Diego Police Holding| Oriental for Questioning | —Has Candid Camera SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 28. Arrested qn the waterfront near a| score of Naval vessels, Jintero Thu- | chiya, 36, a Japanese, is held for questioning. | The police seized a long range| candid camera and said the films developed showed pictures of naval| vessels but practically of no value for espionage purposes. B.C.FishPatrol Ship R@_s Ashore! VANCOUVER, BC, June 28— The Dominion Fish Patrol boat| Givenchy went aground on an un- charted rock 200 miles north of here| but was refloated at night with Iht’i aid of her sister ship, the Malas-| pina. | The Givenchy Victoria under her own | 3 “ooo— | Gets His Hat Held, | Then Leaps to Death‘ BEARDSTOWN, IIl, June 28—"‘ Instructing the bridge tender to is proceeding power. to «take care of my hat” Julius H.| February on a Federal fugitive war-| Buck, sixty-two, dropped from a rant on Mann Act charges, has sur-; bridge into the Illinons River and| was drowned. | A O SIRLEAE | LAW IN NURSERY VANCOUVER, Wash., June 28.— The surnames of new-born babes at St. Joseph's Hospital read like Seattle to Juneau in violation of | the roster of a law-enforcement| agency. In consecutive days the| stork has left an Officer, a Deputy | and a Marshall. J‘ | publican House Leader and Roose Ickes Returns with Bride Although Secretary Harold L. Ickes married Miss Jane Dahlman of Milwaukee in a secret ceremony men and newsreel men swarmed The secretary and his t would go to his country place n UM, le Surm, T« said he Know How Long Japan Can Keep Up St Assessment Mine * Work Measure Not Signed Yet WASHINGT The White that President not decided whether to sign the bill requirements on 1 g claims " in Alaska and the United Stafes proper. Aides said the President has received hundreds of telegrams asking as to his stand on the waiving of the assessment work. g — SNELL IS T0 RETIRE FROM CONERESS NOW Republican House Leader, from New York, Has Served Since 1915 28.—Ber- York, Re- 'ON, 28.— House announces June Roosevelt has waiving assessment work WASHINGTON, June trand H. Snell, of New retire- velt critic, announces his ment from Congress and he wi devote his time to private business. Snell has served in Congress con- tinuously since 1915. FRANK HAYES SURRENDERS IN SEATTLE Salesman Wanted on Mann Act Charge, Juneau Case, Gives Himself Up SEATTLE, June Hayes, 35, salesman, 28. — Frank sought since rendered here. Hayes was indicted with Fannie Weiss, of Juneau, Alaska, who was sentenced on a guilty plea. Hayes is charged with aiding in the transportation of a woman from the Mann Act. R The life of a swan is at least 50 years. al in New York aboard the Ile de France certainly wasnt. Camera- ar Olney, Md,, for a few days. FEDERAL BLDG. ENLARGEMENT PLANNED ANEW PWA Adds Approval to! Extending Main Street | Wing to Structure Plans for enlargement of the Fed- | eral building in Juneau, which has been under consideration for about two years, may be realized as the result of approval given the project | recently by the Public Works Ad-| ministration. | This is revealed in a message to | Gov. John W. Troy from Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. The Delegate | said two proposals had met the approval of PWA under the new public building program. One calls | for $275,000 for rebuilding the old Customs House at Wrangell and in- | cluding in it the Postoffice. The | other is for $310,000 for enlarging | the Federal building here. The Wrangell project is expected to definitely go through this year as| it is understood the Procurement | Division of the Treasury Depart- ment is ready to proceed with that work. According to the plans which have long been considered for the construction, the wing on the Main | Street side of the Federal building | would be extended to Fifth Street, | leveling off from the first floor without basement, giving four stor- ies of additional space. Cramped conditions in the building during the last two or three years, which Ihas increased with new additional loffices, makes the improvement Imuch needed at this time, officials said. ruggle in China - F.D.Rs Labor Group Is Off for Englanfl, Sweden Relationships of Employers and Employees Will Be Studied Abroad WASHINGTON, June 28.—Presi dent Roosevelt’s Labor Commission handed policy. Churches and other is now enroute to London. There [nru;mimnun.«, elsewhere have taken is a group of nine, business, labor, \.\'unilur action, also urging boycotts, education and government official Already the State Depurtment;w study employer-employee rela- | has indicated it would like to see!tions in England and Sweden. | shipments of airplanes to Japan The group, to which no chairman | slacken off. Tt could stop such ship-'was named, will report back to the | ments altpgether under the neu- President, through his labor secre- | trality act, but there are a whole tary, within a few months on how | pocketful of reasons why it has re- labor relations are handled in those | fused to call that measure into two countries. | { force | Letters of instruction to each of | | e o the nine directed them to talk with | SYSTEM ADAPTER FOR WAR |government, industrial and labor| ‘ Japan isn’t rich in natural re- leaders, Mr. Roosevelt commenting | sources, except that of cheap labor, that “Theré is a definite need on'f | but, as one well-informed source an impartial repcrt which will ade- | here pointed out, it has a business|quately portray the real situation.” system well adapted for war—at| Group Personnel ileast in one respect. The “with-| The President named as follows: | holding portion” of a business house| BUSINESS—Gerard Swope, pr {in Japan is enormous in. compari-|dent of the General Electric Com- ! son with that of an American busi- |pany, New York; Charles R. Hook, | ness. The “withholding portion,” as|president of the American Rolling | this source described it, is the por- | Mills Company, Middletown, Ohio; | | tion of the gr income that the |Henry I. Harriman, former presi-| | business house keeps for its own dent of the United States Chamber | l uses in comparison with the amount|of Commerce. |it pays out to its employees and| LABOR—Robert Watt of the in-| | domestic producers. |ternational labor office, Geneva, | | The net result, he explained, is representing the American Federa- | | to provide a heavy accumulation|tion of Labor. | of taxable wealth in a few hands| EDUCATION—Lloyd K. Garrison, | where it can be reached without a|gqean of the University of Wiscon- | complicated taxation system such|gin Jaw school and former chair- ‘:\s is necessary in the United ;nan of the old national labor States. board; Miss Marion Dickerman, | | But Japan, a trading nation, is principal of Todhunter School for | being hit where it hurts most. T0 G5, New York City, where Mrs. | conserve her cash for purchase I poocevelt once taught. manufacture of munitions it has| GOYERNMENT—William Ellison | been necessary to restrict imports, opaimers, assistant U.S. labor com- |even of such staples as cotton. And|icioner. Geneva; William H. |as the cotton import is restricted, ny,vis New York attorney, who for- her cotton mills lose the raw ma-|, ..y was a deputy National Re- terial to manufacture one of the covery Administration administra- nation’s most important means of tor; Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, re- | getting more money — finished ;o) girector of the social secur- | goods to be sold abroad. Already ity board, New York. the cycle’s effect is observable in True Picture trade reports. Mr. Roosevelt has emphasized | T that the purpose of this mission is| $5,000,000 A ";Y‘ »d urider circum- not to furnish a background for re- 1 1i it would be a mere weekend lations act but to supply a true pic- | MR ik woulc. be |ture of how two countries with | scuffle. Instead it is rounding out nearly a year (July 7 and the‘?l"r’::'m laws are conducting such | cost has reached an estimated $5,- 000,000 a day, about two times a month ago in Dublin, their ar- over the deck to meet the couple. all, slender and red-headed bride o Wants to .- 'ON GROVER WASHINGTON, June 28. — How can Japan hold cut? The answer to that is sought dili- gently in the United States be- cause the pressure on the U. S. | government to “do something about ! : bombings” is growing in in- tensity. Almost within the shadow of the White House one of the most im- iportant church congregations n {\’V:hlmw(m»_ the Foundry Method- adopted a resolution condemn- ;‘( both the Japanese' bombing of | Canton and the failure of the ad- | ministration to take a more hard- [ | e eee— - In the Chicago fire of 1871 more than 70,000 were made homeless. (Continued on Page Six) |ing that the previous Loui _ Knocks ( )1_11 : . Heavyweight Champion of the World, Joe Louis, last Wednesday night retained his title when he de- feated Max Schmeling, his former conqueror, by a knockcut in “the first round. from the went down for the count of three, up and went down fer the count of one, got up and then went down for the count of eight when the German’s seconds threw in the towel to prevent further massacre. above photo shows Schmeling going down for the last count in the Yankee Stadium in New York City | of blows shet a hard right to Louis which was fellowed by a barrage as 80,000 fans went wild. Optimists Find Reasons to Argue Business Improving; Field Surveyed at Midyear (eagerly for the new orders which | might result from it. The controversy Letween Big Business and the New Deal over the causes of the slump waxed re- currently warm, with each seem- | ingly determined to boot it to the to | | other’s door step. By CLAUDE A. JAGGER Associated Press General Financi Editor NEW YORK, June 28.—Business bedeveiled many a New Yea prophet of a “spring recovery’ 1938, antl turned forecasters hopeful examination of the augur- 3 fes " fob" Maibirin Two Sides To The Question Even though there was no spring| New Deal spokesmen attribuled pickup, the slump which started|the slump to “highly undesirable 10 months ago did level off some- | pract accompanying the rapid what, and that was viewed by many | recovery in 1936 and 1937, including as evidence that the adverse forces| excessive and speculative manu- were subsiding. | facturing for inventory, unwarrant- in Hopes for improvement by au-{ed price boosting, “monopolistic tumn were double-barrelled. They|practices” The administration were based on: | planned an exhaustive study of 1.—Indications that factory pro-|monopoly. duction had been cui well under| Industrialists continued to com- the nation’s rate of permitting the working stocks of unsold goods. 2.—The administration’s plans for consumption, | plain of New Deal controls, insist- off ing that they inhibited business | enterprise, blocked the flow | capital, imposed cost rigidity, kept of of resumption of “pump priming” ex-|business in a state of uncertainty penditures ‘in coming months, re-! Progress toward composing dif- versing the 1937 policy of curtailed | ferences was made on some front spending. | Federal tax laws, on which True, optimists admitted thai many business leaders jumped a. statistics of inventories were a major cause of depression last | sketchy, and not altogether pleas- autumn, were sharply modified ing in many instances, but they| President Roosevelt thought the pointed to pretty definite indica- | new measure let the big fellows, off tions that merchants’ shelves w too easily, but permitted it to be- not burgeoning as they had b come law without his signature, Also, the resumption of pump|and called for fresh revision in priming brought no uniform cho-|1939. Reforms In Stock Exchange The New York Stock Exchang with SEC Chairman Douglas’ warn- | ing to “clean up or else” ringing n (Continued on Page Three) rus of applause, skeptics complain- experience with it failed to bring lasting re- covery. Nevertheless, regardless of its possible effects upon debt and taxes latter on, businessmen waited | Schemling in Fir ' Round DARE T0 DIE FLIER HURLS PLANE DOWN Pilot l)eliberalély Plunges Bomb-Laden Ship to Deck of Vessel ECHO OF SHOT AROUND WORLD HEARD TODAY Twenty-fourth Anniversary Finds Two Conflicts— In China, Europe BULLETIN SHANGHAL June 28.—Foreign circles here have received authentic advices that a ‘“dare to die” Chinese flier has sunk a Japanese gun- boat in the Yangtze River near Nanking. The Chinese flicr deliberate- ly plunged his huining bomb laden plane to the gunboat's deck. It is said that over half of the Japanese crew was killed by the resulting explosion. WARS ON ANNIVERSARY NEW YORK, June 28.—The twenty-fourth anniversary of the shot that started the World War, | found the Chinese and Japanese | stalemated in the Oriental conflict and saw Europe filled with tension as the result of the Spanish civil conflict. Archcduke Franz Ferdinhnd, of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated | June 28, 1914 at Sarajevo and out of that shot grew the World War. Today, in the British House of | Commons, the Duchess of Atholl gave what she said were details con~ | cerning Spanish Tnsurgent guns threatening Gibraltar. She said she | would ask Prime Minister Cham- berlain tomorrow what he plans | to do about them. | The Insurgent raiders have bom- barded Barcelona just one day after the Spanish Government accepted Great Britain’s plan for a neutral commission to investigate the bombings of Spanish cities. e BRITISH PLAN ON BOMBINGS . HASHIT SNAG Schmelin, 4 . |United States, Sweden Re- The | fyse to Be Parties to Investigation At the bell, champion. | 1 PARIS, June 28.—A source close to the French Foreign Office said the British sponsored plan to send a neutral commission to Spain ta investigate bombings of civilian cen~ ters has struck a snag. | The snag is the refusal of Swed- KEEPS DATE WITH DEATH e o blaye}' Of DeP”‘Y S.herlff"(}ovex'nment has refused. Reprieved Once, Final- | Franch IolocuhE (€ Ead ot i . | seeking ge e Netherlands to ly Goes to Chair take Sweden’s place but after a —_ ;serles of conferences, it is reported MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., June 2&ino decision was reached. Robert Shaw, 27, saved from In- RS o e diana’s electric chair four nights| ago by a reprieve, kept his second u l Ica a date with. death early today when | he was executed for the slaying of | HTH " deputy sheritt, illiams Is - LAusIng vommen 3154;’37 Es‘ate Deputy WPA Administrator il ‘\ Tells Workers Alliance TACOMA, Wash,, June 28. — An inventory showing the late Everett| How__t‘o Vote C. Griggs, Tacoma lumberman, left| WASHINGTON, Juue 28. — The an estate of $154737 is on file in | Senate Campaign Investigating superior court here. g Committee has censured as “unfor- Mr. Griggs, for years president| tunate” the speech made yesterday of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber | by Aubrey Williams, Deputy WPA Company, died early this year. | Administrator, to the Workers Al- g Pt g |liance on how they should vote, WARDEN CRACKS UP | williams said :i0 political impli- ON KALTAG RIVER B cations were intended in his re- o marks to the WPA workers but While landing on a river bar at Chairman Sheppard, of the Senate Kaltag yesterday after a hop from |Investigating Committee, has asked for a stenographic transcript of the Nulato, Wildlife Agent Sam White of Fairbanks, the Alaska Game 8ddress. £ Commission’s only flying warden, _Williams, it is said, advised the damaged his plane when the ship Workers Alliance to keep their nosed over, but he was not hurt, “friend” in power. To the newspapermen, Williams according to word to the Commis- sion office here. Details of the ac- cident were not immediately avail- able. said: “What I said and what I am reported as saying, are two entirely different things.”