The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7850. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1938. ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS < o e e e PRICE TEN CENTS s CHARGES FILED BRISTOL BAY FISH CASES y COAST SHIPPING IS THREATENED OVERCONTRACTS Unions Want to Renew Agreements—Employ- ers State Their Side ILLEGAL STOPPAGES OF WORK ARE CITED New Guarantees Possible When Issue Comes Up for Settlement SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 20. —Officials of the West Coast Mari- time Employers Association said they are undecided whether to re- new the present contracts which are expiring on September 31. | On Monday the Unions offered to | renew the contracts with the em- ployers, just as they stand, for the purpose of eliminating uncertainty in future labor relations in the ship- ping industry so as to offset fears of shippers The statement issued by the em- ployers raps the unions over un-| authorized “quickie strikes” and work stoppages. “Despite the expressed prohibi- tion of work stoppages in the pres- ent contracts, we have had over 200 illegal stoppages of work since| the contracts were signed,” said Al- mon E. Roth, President of the Wa- terfront Employers Association. Roth suggested that new guaran- tees against stoppages of work be incorporated in the contracts for‘ next year. ——.————— BRITISH PLAN MANEUVERS ON 4-DAY PROGRAM Will Test Ability of Aircraft to Defend Seaboard in Attacks CHATHAM, England, July 20— British naval, aerial and land forces are arrayed for a four-day war game test of the vulnerability of the defenses along 400 miles of the Eastern English and Scottish coast. From these maneuvers, the great- est ever witnessed by the British Isles, military authorities hope to gain valuable information on the ability of aircraft to defend the sea- board against a heavy naval at- tack. — British and French Studying Problem Of Czechoslovakia , | Templeton 12,000 votes. Sudeten of Germans, Back- ed by Hitler, Making Demands, Report (By Associated Press French and British statesmen today studied the Czechoslovakia minority problem as the Naz sup- ported the Sudeten of Germans in the little Republic who are agitat- ing for a 13-point program of au- tonomy as a counter measure to the Government proposed statute. Viscount Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, is said to have taken to Paris a plan offered by Hitler to solve the problem. Meanwhile the two wars in the world, China and Spain continued with bitter fighting but few chang- es in the battle lines. 1900 Stampeder Dies, Interior FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 20.— William Watson, 67, pioneer in the stampede of 1900, died of heart at- tack at Porcupide Springs. Watson was a native of Pitts- burgh, Pa. He was a member of the, Fairbanks Igloo, Pioneers of Al- aska. For Safety in the Air business executive and aviation enthusiast, is pictured been named chairman of the new Civil Aeronautics Authority by President Roosevelt. At right is fl‘homas 0. Hardin, veteran army flier and first pilot of the American Airlines, who was nppomted_by President Roosevelt to the three-man safety board which will function under the Civil Aeronautics Authority. E£dward J. Noble, at the left. He has Senator Reynolds, on Alaska Trip, Wants Canada to Cede Certain Land to United States Fn RTY_S EVEN poses thet. Gireat Beliaia il her NAVY PLANES lm war debt by ceding the corri SEATTLE, July 20. — United States Senator Robert Reynolds, dor of land 100 miles wide between Alaska and the United States. of fishing grounds especially in the| ALEUTIAN ISLES Hu gh es Breaks World Flight Record, Three Days| TO BE SURVEYED; TOBUILD SHIPS [PWA Sets Asid; Money for‘; | Purpose—Old Charts | Are Obsolete | WASHINGTON, July 20. — The‘ | WPA has alloted $1,425,000 for con- | struction of two vessels to chart | the waters of the strategically vlmli | Aleutian Islands, Lee Otis Colbert, | | Director of the Coast and Geodetic | Survey announced today. | The ships, according to Colbert, will make the first survey of the | islands and the only charts now in existence are based on obsolete Rus- sian surveys. | The money will be spent for a 1,500-ton survey ship and a 125-ton auxiliary vessel, Colbert said he expects the sur-| vey will start within one year. The PWA has also alloted $700,000 to the Coast Guard for two 110-foot harbor cutters, assignments not yet announced. HUNDREDS DROP IN T0 WELCOME speedster whipped in under an ovi hours 3 minutes. Richard Stodard in foreground smiling at his to left is Howard Hughes wearing hat. Coming through the door is T. L. Thurlow. Hughes and his four fellow world girdlers landed at Floyd Bennett Field, New Nork City, July 13, ng smashed Wiley Post’s round-the-world flight record by three days. ast sky after circling the globe in § His speed for the elapsed time was approximately 161 miles per hour. Behind him is Ed Lund, immediately behind, slightly fe. The multimiilionaire 1 hours, 16 minutes—or 3 days 19 Photo shows Big Representalion on Hand Senator Reynolds is bound for t [ LEAVE N Alaska to study Alaskan defenses at Reception—Party | and the recent Japanese invasion Sails Westward Four Squadrons Fly Seuth Safely After Maneuvers | Along Alaska Coast SEATTLE, July 20.—Forty-seven Navy Patrol Bomber one wing of the Navy's Scouting Force, has returrted here safely after a week of maneuvers on the Alaska coast. Twenty-three planes of Squadrons VP-7 and VP-9 flew to Sitka and return and 24 planes of Squadrons VP-11 and VP-12 flew to Kodiak and return. | count of the strategic position of | Bristol Bay area Senator Reynolds said he believes the Pacifie Coast is better. protect- ed than the Atlantic Coast on nc—i Alaska and Hawaii. Senator Reynolds declared that the International Highway between | the United States and Alaska is im- | After a reception at the Gov- INDICTEDMAN ernor's House yesterday afternoon| - which saw several hundred resi-| i B LI-ET dents of Juneau dropping in to greet the Cabinet officer, Post- master General James A. Farley and party sailed from here yester- day afternoon at 5 o'clock aboard INTO TEMPLE perative. Critics of Senator Reynolds’ plan immediately pointed out that Cana- | da is a separate Commonwealth and | the Aleutian to continue his trip to Seward and thence return on the same vessel to the States. The Aleutian will be back |State Senator of New York, in is not responsible for the war debts |Juneau Monday, but it is expected | of Great Britain and therefore it|that the stopover will be brief, Mr. is not likely that Canada will agree|Farley and party continuing south the corridor referred |aboard her. To the Westward the official was accompanied by Democratic Nation- to cession of to. Charged with Graft, Takes His Life NEW YORK, July 20.—State Sen- ator Julius Berg, 43, Bronx Demo- DIES FROM lDesert. The planes will remain here un- til early next month and then re- 0'CONNELLIS = COME HOME ON RENOMINATED, GOVT. STEAMER MUNTENA RACE Fier Who Landed in Ire- and to Have Free Trans- HELENA, Montana, July 20— portation to U. S. Renomination of Jerry O'Connell, | e Democratic Representative of the| WASHINGTON, July 20. — The Pirst Montana District, is conceded i Maritime Commission plans to bring by Payne Templeton, Helena edu- back Douglas Corrigan, aviator who cator, O'Connell’s closest rival for | ook off for California and landed in Ireland, back to this country on Returns from 252 precincts out | One of the Commission’s ships, prob- 413, give O'Connell 15000 and &bly the Lehigh. His airplane will be crated and placed aboard the ship | with him and free transportation will be furnished. The announcement is made by the nomination. - y ‘ ‘ u s ea | J. Monroe Johnson, Acting Secre-| t ary of Commerce. Johnson declined to talk about penalties against Cor- rigan because of making the flight unlicensed. | | PARIS, July 20.—Completing an I" Pla“a crash the French police have given per-| a subway train. NEWTON SQUARE, Pa., July 20. Natural One, Is investigation which satisfied them that there is nothing suspicious in mission for embalming of the body ‘Pennsylvama h xecutive Insull, former American utilities Hurts Left Slde, Arm - —~Gov. George H. Earle was slightly injured when his private plane, Claim of Police goyern the sudden death of Samuel Insull,| magnate, died several days ago in| . and Leg—Hits Tree which he was piloting, struck a tree | of Ellis College. Gov. Earle said he was unable to land on the Municipal airport because of fog. CAL. DESER . | The Governor said his left side, arm and leg were sore and he would DEATH VALLEY, Cal, July 20. see a doctor. —Dead from thirst, the body of The Governor has been a veteran Herman van Thijn, 38, Los Angeles of half a dozen crashes. mining engineer, has been found J —_—————-— on the hot sands of the Mohavel About 4,400 stars are visible ta the naked eye. |in a forced landing on the campus | crat, shot and killed himself today a short time before District Attor- ney Thomas Dewey's office an- | nounced he had been indicted se- cretly on charges of receiving money to aid in obtaining liquor licenses and arranging concessions at the World’s Fair. The police said Berg killed him- al Committeeman J. A. Hellenthal and Mrs. Hellenthal and Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, who will leave the party there to spend a month |or so in the Interior and Westward before returning to the Southeast. Following a trip to the Glacier | yesterday, Mr. Farley made a visit |to the Federal Building, calling at | the various offices and meeting de- partment heads and employees alike. | right temple in his office after a It is noteworthy that on several 12-hour argument with occasions, the genial official left his| who urged him to tell everything. escorts and wandered into offices,| Berg was a former commander commenting to the first person he |of the Jewish Veterans of the World | happened to see, “I'm Mr. Farley, | War. |employee, who happened to be |express it, ‘the great leveler of | Mr. Farley chatted with listeners | several hundred folks of this com- catch his boat. It was estimated | {how are you?” Dropping formal | K A RS | barriers, the Cabinet officer led one | |greeted before his chief, to aptly | F R E N c H Fu RTY |human relations.” | After the Federal Building vlslt,‘ |over KINY and then went to the| | Governor's House where he met ; munity before having to hurry to that more than 250 persons dropped | PARIS, July 20.—The 40-hour |in during the course of the after-|week, slogan that carried the Peo- | noon. ple’s Front into power and Socialist | - — | Leon Blum into the premier’s office | & + |in 1936, is giving way to the needs of France’s national defense. | l STOCK QUOTATIONS J | Eighty per cent of industry was frlonal SRRty e |estimated to be on the 40-hour NEW YORK, July 20. — Closing | week last fall. Now it is about 50 |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |per cent and falling fast. lstock today is 10%, American Cnnj More than six months ago Blum 100, American Light and Power 6%, |warned his followers: “If you want Anaconda 35%, Bethlehem Steel|to keep your 40-hour week, then 60%, Czmmonwealth and Southern you must restore production.” Now 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General|Leon Jouhaux, French labor czar, | Motors 41%, International Harvest- 'has declared: “It will be difficult er 65%, Kennecott 41%, New Yorklfor us to keep our 40-hour week Central 20%, Southern Pacific 20, | unless other countries also cut United States Steel 63%, Cmas‘,wm‘kmg time.” Service 10, Pound $4.92%, Safeway| The two champions of the short- Stores 20. er working week admited, like most other French leaders, that French- DOW, JONES AVERAGES inlen must step up their industrial The following are today's Dow, output if the nation is to keep her |Jones averages: industrials 14184, defenses on a level with Germany rails 29.60, utilities 22.55, ’und Italy, where the 60-hour week is practiced in industries laboring for the armed forces. Premier Edouard Daladier, while }al'flrminl his “respect” for the ;slmrter working week, modified the WARSAW —Poland has some of |'igid 40-hour week into a 2,000 the fastest streamlined trains on |hour year. Time lost in strikes and the continent, They travel at the Shutdowns can be make up under lraw of 93 miles per hour. this system, Fast Travel, Poland | self by firing a .32 bullet into his| his wiie| JAMES FA RLEY‘H ]\l)i)O(lZY Starts New War, | Japan Must Get Some Creditf ARE SWEEPING By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, July 20. — From European centers comes increasing | ! inside evidence that the war dan-| | ger so potent only a few weeks ago| is rapidly diminishing. i There are several reasons given by close observers. Important among these are the effect of British arming and the impact of her lat est diplomatic gestures to cauter-| ize the Spanish sore and to break down the Italo-German axis. An-| other is the calming effect on Ger- many of plucky Czechoslovakia's | mobilization. Less measureable in exact term: but nonetheless important, is the horrible experience of Japan in at- tempting a quickie conquest of China. One observer with access to unimpeachable sources said the ex- perience of Japan had an appalling effect on the ambitious schemes of aggressive nations. It was just a year ago that Japan, | one of the best armed nations in| the world, engaged with more or| less helpless, sprawling China in a| conflict which all. but a few ex-| perts expected would last no more than six weeks. Yet it is still going, | and opinion here is that Japan| would be only too glad if something now would intervene to save her face and her present conquests be- | fore she cracks. | | OVERNIGHT CONQU ? | Japan's experience has demon- strated to such interested countries |as Germany and Italy, our inform- ants report, that the modern day | high-speed “spark-plug army” can- not bring overnight conquest. In spite of the airplane, the fast tank and gasoline infantry, a war can be prolonged to waste away nations | deficient in the important sinews| of modern war—raw materials and money. The view isn’t unanimous that danger is distant. It is reported that one American minister to a Euro- pean country insists that the big tinder box awaits only the most casual spark to set it going. But exactly an opposite report comes from another minister and his atti- o tude is more generally accepted here. There are two other factors credited with acting as brakes on warlike gestures. One is the belief that, despite any agreements that might be reached beforehand, the next war will see civilian popula- tions in cities bombed until their | tongues hang out. A second is that every point of danger of war is so widely discussed both by the popu- lace and by the diplomats. IT'S DIFFERENT THERE With respect to bombing of cities, Americans might keep in mind that Europe is surprisingly compact and | that war between Prance and Ger- many would be akin, for bombing purposes, to a war between New York and Boston—an hour’s flight apart. Prom the German border to Paris is only 200 miles, the same as New' L IConunued on Page va;) “ | district to assist residents to escape |about 65 percent of the Nation's FOREST FIRES VANC. ISLAND Thirty Tholus;cl Acres in Flames Fanned by 20- Mile an Hour Wind CAMPBELL RIVER, B. C, July 20.—Destructive flames threatened new settlements today as giant for- est fires spread through 30,000 acres of Vancouver Island timber before |a 20-mile northwest wind. The Forest Office reports fire is coming unpleasantly close to the Camp Bellton settlement which is | directly in the path of the fast mov- ing flames. Flames in other sectors are mov- ing swiftly, especially toward the Comax Landing camp and three other lumber camps where from thirty to sixty million feet of bucked | timber is stored. Elks Falls is also threatened. ‘The resort at Firbes Landing ap- peared spared from destruction. This place was threatened yester- day but the wind veered just in time after one building had caught afire and burned. Canadian destroyers St. Lawrence and Frader are standing by in Dun- can Bay ready to proceed to any from the flames. Even this town is considered a possible threat from flames of the forest. CHARGES MADE, MOVIE FIRMS, CONSPIRATORS Federal Suit_fied for Dis- solution Alleged II- legal Combine NEW YORK, July 20.—The Gov- ernment has filed a complaint in| the Federal District Court, under| the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, de-| manding dissolution of the alleged | illegal combinations in restraint of | trade in the motion picture indus-| try. The complaint lists eight major companies, 25 subsidiaries and 132 individuals. Included in the individuals are Mary Pickford, Doug Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin. Attorney General Cummings charges the companies with virtu- ally monopolizing the industry and charges the defendants control| moving pictures “from selection ofy the story to the final showing in the threater.” Paramount, Loews, Irving Trust Company, as referee in bankrupt- cy; RKO, Warner Bros, Twentieth | Century-Fox, Columbia, Universal and United Artists are named. TRUITT, KEHOE BRING ACTION AGAINST ALIENS Criminal Complaints Made Against More than 100 Fishermen, Is Report STEPS TAKEN UNDER TERRITORIAL LAW More Charge?fire Expect- ed to Be Filed, Accord- ing to Word Here A special radiogram to The Empire says Attorney General James S. Truitt and United States Attorney J. W. Kehoe, of the Third Division, have fil- ed criminal complaints against more than 100 Bristol Bay fish- ermen whom they accuse of violating the Alaska law forbid- ding salmon fishing by any but Alaskans and United States citizens. Truitt and Kehoe hurried to Bristol Bay on receipt of Tax Collector Joe Green's report that many aliens were found tishing. - The cases are the first ever filed under the Alaska law. It is understood in Juneau that more criminal complaints are to be filed. —,——— BELL REPORTS BRISTOL BAY RUN CONTINUES Bower Estimates Possible Two Million Case Pack —Officials Go South The big red salmon run is con- tinuing in the Eristol Bay fishing districts with the exception of Ege- gik River and the pack may go to two million cases or better. This was the report brought back to Juneau by the Frank T. Bell party which arrived Jast evening aboard the Coast Giuard cutter Ing- ham and sailed this afternoon for Seattle. “It is the greatest run in his- tory, by far,” said Commissioner Bell. “One could almost walk on. fish when we were there and I have a wire today saying that the run is still on in unprecedented numbers.” “I've been going to Bristol Bay since 1910,” said Ward T. Bower, chief of the Division of Alaska Fisheries in Washington, who joined the Bell party in the Westward, “and the most phenomenal thing I've ever seen. It isn’t at all im- possible that the pack will go to two million cases or better by the time the season closes next Mon- day.” The Commissioner said the Brant which struck a reef near Kodiak last week was not badly damaged, but will be out of service for a time while repairs are made to the bow, She is now being towed to Sitka by the Naval Mine Sweeper Teal where it is planned to make repairs. All the members of the Bell party were transferred to the Ingham at Kodiak and arrived here with the vessel going south with the excep- tion of Dr. Ernest Gruening, Direc- tor of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions in the In- terior Department, and his son, Peter, who left the Ingham at Sew- ard to visit the Interior. Congress- man Millard Caldwell of Florida and State Senator John McColl of Cali~ fornia are continuing south with the balance of the party. Mr. Bower also went south on the Ingham. Commenting on his visit to the Westward districts, the Commis- sioner reported he found sentiment in the fishing districts solidly back of Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. “Over there they all appreciate what Tony has done for the Terri~ tory and Alaskans and is still doing,” he said. “Everybody I con- tacted said they were satisfied they couldn’t have a better representa- tive in Congress. The strong posi- tion he has taken in behalf of the fishing industry and the fishermen makes him a mighty popular man in the Westward. They know he's working 24 hours » day for Alaska and Alaskans.”