The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 12, 1938, Page 1

2 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” WSS VOL. LII., NO. 7843. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY | 2, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW PROPOSALS Waterfront Employers As- sociation Present Four Point Program SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 12 A 4-point proposal, including recognition of the CIO Internation- al Longshoremens and Warehouse- mens Union as a collective bargain- ing agency in Southern California, San Francisco, Portland and Seat- tle, has been offered to the CIO unionists by the employers organi- zation Union leaders said they would make a reply within a day or two. The union has demanded that the employers reexecute the con- tracts which are now in the name of the AFL International Long- shoremen’s Union to the Inte tional Longshoremens and Wa housemens’ Union. - - LUNDEBERG | NOW PLANNING UNION MERGER SUP Chieft;:Makes Ap- plication for Charter from AFL SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 12. —Harry Lundeberg, Secretary of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, said today that he had applied to William Green for an American Federation of Labor charter giving the Sailors Union of the Pacific jurisdiction over all unlicensed sea- men in the United States and Canada. Lundeberg, who is an arch rival of Harry Bridges and the CIO for dominaton of the West Coast wat- erfront workers, said he will begin organization efforts on the East Coast, Gulf and Great Lakes when the international charter arrives. The charter will includes the East Coast firemen, cooks and stew- ards, also inland boatmen as well as the deck personnel, Lundeberg said. -es HEAVY CRUISER ASTORIA 1S ON WAY TOALASKA Navy Craft Is Making Mys- terious Voyage to Northland SEATTLE, July 12.—The heavy cruiser Astoria is enroute to Alaska on a mission not revealed by navy officials. The Astoria is commanded by Capt. Charles C. Gill and left Brem- erton yesterday. The Astoria may participate an advance base for maneuvers with the Naval Patrol Bombers. Two squadrons are now in Alaska and two other squadrons are waiting at Sandpoint for favorable weather to make a nonstop flight to Sitka as "POUND QUOTATION Hellen (left), firm in England. of Erie, Pa., American type Row Boat Picket;s'w Mrakier Appearance at Ketchikan In Strike CANTON IS AGAIN AIR RAIDED BY JAPANESETODAY Seven Direct Hits Scored —One Hundred Per- sons Known Killed CANTON, July 12 Japanese warplanes bombarded this teeming South China metropolis twice today, | scoring seven direct hits on Wong- sha station and causing an esti- mated 100 deaths and injuries to 200 persons. The raiders heavily strafed the station and part of the residential | district near the Sun Yat Sen Mem- orial. | A new wave of panic broke out| while rescue squads began picking | up the casualties as a result of the| attack. | Improvements for Ghilkm[ Barracks, | BRITAIN VERSUS U. S. chosen most beautiful employe of J. Lyons catering wading surf at swank Atlantic Beach club. " SPANISH PEACE Charges Made that 7,000 Soldiers Placed with Insurgents Recently | ! LONDON, July 12.—The Spanish Government today formally accused | Ttaly and the Spanish Insurgents laying plans circumvent. 26 - nation Non - intervention | with to the Committee’s plans for getting for- eign fighters out of Spain. In a note handed to the British Foreign office, the Barcelona Gov- | ernment, declares that Italy has poured 7,000 soldiers, 334 of themn aviators, into Insurgent forces in Spain since the friendship pact was signed by Great Britain and Italy on April 16 | Italians Down 580 Planes o Span. Defenders Official Statement Issued by Government at Rome ROME, July 12. — The Italian Government announces that Italian aviators have downed 580 aircraft, including two dirigibles, while fight- {ing for the Insurgents in the Span- | {ish Civil War. | — | The statement, issued by the was light on slim Georgina beauty is shapely Kathleen Capps Government, asserts that only 150 KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 12.- WRONGQDUGTBR Novel row 'boat pickets have made TAKES PUISUN The boatmen pickets rowed in e front of the canneries and others price offered by the canneries for seine caught salmon. | previously| AN RAFAEL, Cal, July 12— signed an agreement to accept the ;e body of -a young doctor, who will sell fish to Metlakatla, Wran-|," 4inov hotel room in nearby gell or other canneries nearby if|Glema. ; Italians have lost their lives in their appearance here in the strike paraded in front of the land en- Young Physician Suicides AFL fishermen who prices, continue fishing. left notes expressing horror at the necessary, if things get to w”mi Dr. Joseph Swindt, 32, the ph: aerial combat. of fishermen, carrying “unfair” trances. 0 M k ver Mistake — Body Eddic Sukow, Secretary of the jncorrect diagnosis he made for a here. All AFL men will gather here| i wio made the ineorrect d Fisl DIAGNOSIS IS of Fishermen The CIO groups have refused the Found After 9 Days AFL group said: “The AFL seiners quing patient, has been found in too, if the call is issued.” had been missing for nine | nosis, days from his home in Chino. He MAKE EVASION 'Japanese Leave, INCOME TAXES N Rifles Needed Pierre S. DuPont, John J SEATTLE, July 12—Capt. J. E. Shields, owner of the codfishing| Raskob Dodged Pa)" schooner Sophie Christenson, who ment of Million sensational Sel which in its three years of life has made Dionne quintuplets, is dated and available that it will vived. _ pied on wired his agents several weeks ago| Senate office for rifles to fight Japanese fisher-| taken over by the Senate Civil Lib-|promptly disclosed that thousands men, if necessary, in Bristol Bay,| erties Committee, which is still a|of telegrams flooding Congress had President Roosevelt, Capt.’ W. For the first time in their many appearances at public affairs, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt intro- duces her husband as speaker before 25,000 mem- bers of the National Education association as- sembled on the site of the 1939 New York’s world's - ‘ OLD GREETS NEW as Caroline S. Woodruff of Castle- ton, Vt., congratulates successor, Dr. Reuben T. Shaw of Northeast high school, Philadelphia, who was chosen president of National Education Association at convention in New York. nate Lobby Committee S May Be Only M emory Soon By PRI 'ON GROVER Burke of Nebraska in a WASHINGTON, July 12 rte lobby committee, ngress. than the being liqui- good opinion not be re- more headlines dom of the press. The committee was cr 1935 at the behest or there is The barn-like office it has occu-| tic to inquire into the the bottom floor of the|against the public utility building is to bejcompany bill. The sort comic opera conclusion to the 75 { During the filibuster eral Senators expressed dismay at the idea of the Senate mixing into matters which might involve In-'u‘ ted Senator Black, now a Supreme Court jus- loby holding committee | Speaker—F. D. R S B. Woodson and Mrs. Roosevelt fair. The president and his naval aide, Capt. Ww. B. Woodson, are shown, left. In his speech, the seo- ond of the day at the fair site, the president spoke for freedom of thought, speech and press, He scored the burning of books by nations. 500,000 ELKS ARE URGED TO PUT UP FIGHT Grand Exalted Ruler Hart Makes Suggestion at Grand Lodge Meet ATLANTIC CITY, July 12. Charles Spencer Harf, Grand Ex- alted Ruler of the Elks, urged 500,- 000 Elks to join a movement to stamp out foreign propaganda. The urging was made at the opening of the National Grand Lodge session opening here. University of ~ Alaska Seeking Gran} for Plant PORTLAND, Oregon, July 12— The Regional Office of PWA an- nounced today an application has been received for a projected rein- forced concrete power plant for the Univedsity of Alaska. The grant asked for is $27,248. The' total cost is $60,500. Something New About Sleeping CHICAGO, July 12.—That adage about the benefits of turning in early and rising early is better Jastrow, psychlogist. |Jastrom, psychologist. “There is absolutely no virtue in early rising,” Dr. Jastrow writes in i | in s PRICE TEN CENTS HUGHES WINGING WAY TO FAIRBANKS DECLARES ITALY| Firsc Lady Introduces the BLOCKING PLANS, WORLD FLIER NOW AHEAD OF POST'S TIME Last Heard from at Omsk in Central Russia, Head- ing for Yakutsk STOPS MADE AT PARIS, MOSCOW Airman Reports “Every- thing O. K.” as He Flies Over Siberia BULLETIN—OMSK, July 12. —Hughes took off at 2:37 o'clock Pacific Coast Time. He is almost one day ahead of Wiley Post's time. BULLETIN — NEW YORK, JULY 12.—Hughes’ flight repre- sentative said C. Oumanski, So- viet Charge d' Affairs, talked with Omsk officials over an overseas telephone and learned that Hughes planned to take off at daybreak from Omsk for Yakutsk, 2,177 miles from Omsk. (By Associated Press) Howard Hughes, attempting to break the record of Wiley Post in a flight around the world, landed at Omsk, in central Russia, at 10 a.m. today, Pacific Coast Time. He was 42 hours and 40 minutes out of New York. Post’s time to Novo- sibirsk, which is 600 miles further than Omsk, was 69 hours from New York. Hughes was to take aboard 2,000 gallons of gasoline at Omsk and hop for Yakutsk, 2,177 miles furth+ er on, in western Siberia, and thea wing direct to Fairbanks, which is 4,500 miles from Omsk. The round-the-world flier with four companions took off from Paris at 4:24, Pacific Coast time, yester- day morning after making minor repairs to his plane. He landed at | Moscow at midnight last night and |hopped for Omsk an hour and a half later. Last reports from the flier was at |Omsk where he reported “every- thing O. K.” The silver monoplane was said to be operating perfectly. PAA MECHANICS READY AT FAIRBANKS TO GIVE SERVICE, HUGHES' PLANE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 12. — Arrangements to receive Howard Hughes on his globe-circling flight were made here several weeks ago. PAA expert mechanics are ready to service the ship when it arrives. Extra parts for Lockheed planes are available here as the PAA ships fly- ing the mail are Lockheeds. There is now 24 hours of daylight | prevailing in this section and this | is expected to aid the fliers on the northern leg of the flight. Weathet is good and visibility is high. Con« ditions are extremely favorable ta the success of the flight in these latitudes. CRITICS ARE HARD TO FIND; 600D REASONS DENVER, July 12—Gov. Teller Ammons, attempting to obtain a few ideas on how to economize in |“Hygeia,” published by the Amer-| |ican Medical Association. “What | you need and crave is enough sleep to start the day right. If you don't get refreshing sleep—which millions do not—no night is long enough for recovery. | “The best you can do is to get all | the sleep you can in the morning, for you are then in the most re- laxed condition for sleeping — and to make it up during the day by as many naps as you can.” has radioed the weapons are unec-|going concern. The Lobby Commit-|been forged by opponents of the essary now. |tee is boxing and sacking its| utility legislation. Names signed to Capt. Shields' radiogram said: | yoluminous files, and its chief in-|opposing telegrams had been copied “Japanese boats are out of Bering | vestigator, Herbert Blomquist, lone|off gravestones and out of telephone Sea so do not need rifles now.” | survivor of a battalion of investi-|books. It roused its first real criti- S | gators, is likely to be absorbed into| cism when 1t subpoenaed files of P"n uf E"try WASHINGTON, July 12. — War securities. % ) some Government Department. | telegrams from local telegraph of- Technically the committee lives|fices. Subsequently it had a long | Department officials said the De-| The findings of the board reveals partment hopes to secure funds for | that . s [ i [that the two men traded securities | grocK QUOTATIONS | [on and its chairman, Senator Min- | period of inactivity. 4 — |ton of Indiana, he will re-| some work at Chilkoot Barracks if back and forth and took losses drsieimciile it the contemplated building program |indicated on tax reports and euded is approved. |lup with the same securities but NEW YORK, July 12. — Closing new the effort early next wsslnn\LOOKS LIKE FADEOUT quotation of Alaska Juneau mine to get the money which he lost |nE “I think everybody in the Senate the closing filibuster of the session|assumed that the committee was state government, discovered instead something about psychology. He sent letters to all state em- ployees, asking them to offer sug- gestions for improving their de- partments and to criticize anything that appeared to be wrong. The answers were few and the governor soon learned why. The employees were afraid their bosses would see the letters. % WASHINGTON, July 12. — The , Changes Will Be Made‘Bom'd of Tax Appeals has found when Funds Are Avail- |that Pierre S. DuPont and John J. Raskob attempted to evade more able, Is Report than one million dollars in income - -ee jtaxes by paper transactions in WASHINGTON, July 12. — The i Treasury Department has desig- 1 9 nated For Yukon as an airport en- try for civil aircraft and merchan- - dise from outside the United States. | The designation is effective for one says Department officials said there is no thought of aban- The War with deductable losses. Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%. 2 s T s o gt .| Lobby Committee boiler up in_the organization bill came up for con- Is Given Approval s Ive" rnva | % e | Senate after a disclosure that Sena-| sideration, it was suddenly dis- m] :g::;esv::n?:a?. fii?flegzfil:g;; P:,Z“_ lor_Mlnum was contemplating pro-|covered by somebody that the com- Pl cific 16%, United States Steel 59, POSINg an “objective study” of the| mittee had some money left. . . WASHINGTON, July 12.—Secre-| njtjoq Service 9%, Pound $492 5 7' nation’s newspapers. Repeatedly he| “If they intend to conduct an in- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickeshas| Norihern Pacific 'uu, : | has charged newspapers with pub-|vestigation which shall constitute approved 24 municipal power pro-| o | lishing untruths, and he introduced | more or less of an American Ogpu jects costing $13,155,834. 4 a bill which would make it a crime over the policies of American E The approval includes street DOW/J0NNS AVERAGES %rur a paper to publish a statement newspapers, I am not willing to vote co;r‘:e 15“2;‘:1"‘";“‘;"0{;’::;‘:1 tmf gm:od;g:zm n‘cw for prisoners. lighting at Ketchikan, costing $4,-| The following are today’s Dow,|it knew to be untrue for an appropriation; and if they Lii”ieother golf coat in summer, |ghro ’h m“: r"""' ‘B‘.M 200, also electric system improve-|Jones averages: industrials 137.49,| Minton’s request for $12500 was ~ and flying suit in winter. : d uEh the' (gus . o ments costing $1,890; | rails 27.32, utilities 21.68. |filibustered to death by Senator| ' ays. $ - >-oo | stock today is 10, American Can| " 5 ——— - ———— H G | year beginning with last July 6. | doning the Post in Alaska and im- H H 99%, American Light and Power JUst ended. | extinet,” sald Senator Clark of Mis- o ow tO et P provements will be undertaken as etc I a" r“leu 6% Avamwds sy Bateher| | souri, one of the bitterest critics of British Women soon as funds are available. . | steel 59% ‘o 2 | PRESS PROBE OPPOSED the contemplated press inquiry. pme I Ol ey, POIBIOENONGL And Opposition to continuation of the| “Recently, however, when the re- Fllen May n a', i | — BASEBALL TODAY | The following are scores of major league games played this afternoon as received up to 2 o'clock: National League New York 5; Brooklyn 13. Pittsburgh 14; Chicago 6. American League St. Leuis 3, 5; New York 7, 10. Chicago 8; Philadelphia 6. - COST OF FOOD TAKES ADVANCE WASHINGTON, July 12. — Food costs increased oneand three-tenths percent during the month ending| June 14. This is aecording to a re-| Defend London GALLUP, N. M, July 12—-An LONDON, July 12.—A corps of |jtinerant, passing through Gallup, women aviators for emergency use|yisited the sheriff's office and ask- in wartime is being organized by eq to sleep in the jail over the Ursula Waldron, London society | week-end and “rest up a bit.” The girl. sheriff told him there were no ac- H port issued by the Bureau of Labor statistics today. J (Continued on Page Eight)