The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LII, NO. 7872. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1938, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS s’ ANGLO-JAPANESEFRICTIONARISES, CHINA * WAGE AND HOUR LAW EFFECTIVE ON OCTOBER 25 Major Provisions of New Act Are Outlined in Following Article 44 HOURS MAXIMUM DURING FIRST YEAR New Legislation Has Bear-| ing on Many Alaska Industries The commonly known wage and hour bill, the true name of which | was designated by Congress as the “Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938’ takes effect on October 25. Accord- ing to the bill it takes effect 120 days after its passage and approval. It was approved by the President on June 25 of this year and thus becomes effective 120 days later, or October 25. Many Alaska industries, like those throughout the nation, are concern- ed with its provisions, Here are its provisions, section by section. The first section has already been given; it simply labels the act as the “Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.” Seteion two is the declaration of policy, which, in view of the dif- ference of opinion as to what Con- gress had in mind, is worth quota- tion: Policy Stated “The Congress hereby finds that the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor condjtions detrimental to the main- tenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, ef- ficiency, and general well-being of workers (1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be used to spread and perpetuate such labor condi- tions among the workers of the several states; (2) burdens com- merce and the free flow of goods in commerce; (3) constitutes an unfair method of competition in commerce; (4) leads to labor dis- putes burdening and obstructing commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; and (5) inter- feres with the orderly and fair marketing of goods in ‘commerce. “It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Act, through the ex- ercise by Congress of its power to regulate commerce among the sev- eral States, to correct and as rapid- ly as practicable to eliminate the conditions above referred to in such industries without substantial- ly curtailing ‘'employment or earning power.” Applies to Territory Section three defines the various terms used. Two of the definitions .apply the act to Alaska. First, a State is defined as “any State of the United States or the Districl‘ of Columbia or any Territory or possession of the United States, and, secondly, “Commerce” is de- fined as follows: “Commerce means trade, commerce, transportation, transmission, or commun ication among the several States or from any State to any place outside thereof.” Thus, for purposes of the Act, the Territory of Alaska is the same as a State. Section four sets up in the De- partment of Labor a Wage and Hour Division which shall be under the direction of Administrator, who shall be appointed by the President, with the consent of the Senate, and shall receive a compensation of $10,000 per year. The Administrator shall appoint employees, subject to Civil Service laws, to carry out the provisions of the Act. His headquarters will be in Washington, D, C., and each January he must submit a report to Congress on his nctiv.mes during the preceding year. Industry Committees Section five outlines further the duties of the Administrator. He is delegated to appoint what is known as “industry committees” for eaci industry engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for com- merce. These committees shall be appointed with “due regard to the geographical regions in which the industry is carried on,” and the members of the committees shall Federal Health InsurancefoBe Programmed Now |President May Discuss Pro- posal During Broad- ‘1 cast This Evening WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Feder- | al health insurance may become one of President Roosevelt's proposals | for breadening the Social Security | | program. The President, speaking |on the third anniversary | Social Security Act, has | recommended a study looking| towards enlarging the Social Secur- | ity program in several respects. Chairman Altmeyer, of the Social | Security Board, indicated that the | President may mention the health | | protection system in his radio ad- dress at 9:30 o'clock tonight, East-| ern Standard Time. | —————— i COFFEY,WHITE MISSING FOR tonight of the already ICKES TRAVELS ON ALASKAR.R. FROM INTERIOR Abandons fia: to Travel Out to Cordova Over Richardson Highway KEEP SOME WEALTH IN TERRITORY, IS ADVICE Has Words-j Praise for Delegate Dimond, Who Is Hard Worker for North FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 15.— Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and Mrs. Ickes left here at 6 o'clock Sunday morning, spent Sun- day and Sunday night at McKinley Park and left there at 6 o'clock this morning for Seward where they will take a steamer for the south They abandoned the proposed trip to the coast over the Richardson Highway to Chitina, thence to Cor- dova, on account of steamer sched- ules. MAPS ALASKA PROGRAM Aug. 15.— Douglas Corrigan Gets Triumphant Welcome from Gotham FAIRBANKS, Alaska, | Secretary of Interior Harold L. Icl ckes told local leaders at a con- Portland Fliers Cause Alarm | ference here Saturday that the Ter- * . ritory should develop the natural on Flight, Fairbanks ‘rmourct‘s. other than mining and to South | should plan to keep some of her Harry K. Coffey and W.F. White, Portland fliers, who flew to Point | Barrow, to Kotzebue, Nome and to Fairbanks, left the latter interior city yesterday morning at 6 o'clock | |announcing they might make a I nonstop flight to Vénecouver, B:~C:; or Seattle. | | At 10 o'clock last night, the fliers |had not reported and radio wa:,{ busy requesting information, Through Jerry Jones and Gene | Meyring, PAA fliers, jt was learned | that the fliers gassed up and left Whitehorse for the south yesterday forenoon presumably for Prince| |George. The Canadian lelegruph‘ lines were only working imermil-’ enormous wealth for herself in- stead of shipping it out of the Ter- ritory. The Interior Secretary said the Territory should have better trans- portation facilities and more and better tourist accommodations. Praises Dimond | Secretary Ickes praised —Alaska | Delegate Anthony J. Dimond as a hard worker for the interest of Al- aska and said he was glad to co- operate with him to aid the pro- gress of Alaska. The Secretary and his party wete| guests of the citizens of Fairbanks at a banquet at which entirely all Interior Alaska products were served Saturday night. He was plan-| ning to leave here over the Alaska All the enthusiasm generated by shewer when the young flier was driven up Broadway one of the hot test days of the year to receive the acclaim of a million Manhattanites. He is shown waving to the swarming theusands who cheered his prog BARR RETURNS J‘ Paper Shower Greets Corrigan. WORLD FLIGHT - TO FAIRBANKS | THlN,JlUNGRY" Former Juneau Pilot’s Ten- Place Pilgrim Is Lit- tle Damaged L. F. Barr, former Juneau pilot who was recently forced down on tently Sunday and no further word‘ Railroad, probably to take a Coast the middle fork of the Fortymile was received until this morning when the Associated Press dispatch | to The Empire stated the fliers‘ landed at Hazelton at 5 o‘cIock‘ yesterday afternoon and left at 6:30 | for an unannounced destination. | They landed at Prince George this | morning at 10 o'clock and left an | hour later on a projected direct | flight for home in Portland. R N SR MADMAN SHOT 'DOWN, ATTACK ON POLICEMEN 'Horrified Sabbath Strollers Witness Gun Duel, Memorial Services NEW YORK, . 15—The met- ropolitan police today delved into the obscure phases of a simple case attempting to determine what start- ed Charles San, Filipino, on a cop | hating career, ending in his death |as the climax of a two-gun attack |on 250 policemen at a Central Park memorial service, Thousands of horrified Sabbath strollers saw a madman, about 40, | participate in a brief pitched battle | in which five persons, two of them ,police officers, were wounded. The Filipino muttered: “I'm go- | ing to kill as many cops as pos-| sible,” as he lay dying with at| least 20 police bullet wounds in th% body, the majority of them in the head. . The Filipino opened fire with a shotgun and rifle as the officers assembled for the memorial services. | | LAND OFFICE MEN CONTINUE SOUTH District Engineer George A.Parks returned to Juneau Saturday eve- ning on the Mount McKinley after a visit in the Interior in company with Thomas Havell and J. D. | Wolfson of the General Land Office and sailed early this morning | should be used to build | schools, and other permanent | ity at Washington in Federal mat- | aboard the Alaska, accompanying collect “reasonable” per diem while the Washington men as far south actualiy at work in connection with duties of the act, which apparently 8s_Ketchikan, means expenses as no specific| The party looked over various amount is named. Two-thirds of a areas in the Interior where surveys ~ have been "made and projected (Continued on Page Séven) surveys are to be carried out. Guard ship at Seward enroute to Sitka, Glacier Bay and thence to Seattle. He said the change from plans to go over the Richardson Highway was because of coastal steamers not making his schedule. Conservation In his banquet speech, Secretary Ickes asserted gold and other mines were sure to become exhausted like the Kennecott and advocated every effort be made to develop Al- aska's agriculture. He declared the country was being drained of its wealth and the mines should be subject to territorial taxes which roads, im- | provements. River in his ten-place Pilgrim plane, is back in Fairpanuxs, “one leg a little game and the waistline re- duced a few inches,” the same happy-go-lucky Mr. Barr. Barr said a rocker box breaking off a cylinder head caused his forced landing, and with power diminishing, he set the big ship down under power on a high and barren hillside where a thin moss covering padded jagged rocks. Damage to the plane amounted to a tail wheel and tail tubing in the fuselage being ripped out, Barr said. Present plans of the resource- ful little pilot are to drop tools and supplies from a plane at the scene of the forced landing, and with two 'rk - BRIT, CAPTAIN TRUSSED UP BY JAP NAVAL MEN Union Jack Is Lowered on Vessel, Nippon Flag Reported Hoisted &4 INVADERS FAIL TO "" MAKE ANY ADVANCES Bitte; Fig—ht—ing Taking Place on Yangtze River —Chinese Entrenched SHANGHAI, Aug. 15. — A new Anglo-Japanese friction arose here as British Naval officers accused the Japanese with discourtesy to the Union Jack and molesting a British tug boat captain by Jap- 3 » British officials have dispatched the British gunboat Scarab to in- vestigate the occurrence near Tung- chow, at the mouth of the Yangtze River. i It is claimed that the British tugboat Victoria, chartered by a Japanese firm, was boarded by Japanese Naval men, the captain was trussed up by rope and the o Dougla: igh % | but otherwise | He praised the Matanuska colon- men hiking in from Joseph’s Vil-| ist farm area and declared the amazing success of the lands there was equal to anything in America. | He said that many other areas, in- cluding interior Alaska, have vast farm areas which can be made pro- ductive and cited the example of western mining states which are converting lands into wealth after mines have become exhausted. The Secretary declared the. University of Alaska through its agricultural department was one of the greatest institutions in the north and de- served generous territorial appropri- ations to aid its work of develop- ment of farm lands. He praised President C. E. Bunnell of the Uni-| versity, General Manager Otto F. Ohlson of the Alaska Railroad and Delegate A. J. Dimond for able and | tireless efforts in Washington. | Fire Patrole Secretary Ickes advocated imme- for protection of interior Alaska for-| ests and said he would use his best | efforts to get sufficient grants at| | the next Congress for that purpose. ‘ STOCK QUO He favored coordination of author-| ters pertaining to Alaska. | Mr. Ickes declared Alaska should | develop her tourist trade, establish| suitable hotels and increase trans-| poration facilities. He cited Europe’s| tourist business as an example and declared Alaska to be America's| most wonderful playground. | Whiskey Selling The Secretary berated those sell- ing “rot gut whiskey to Alaskan In- dians and demoralizing the natives.” He said America had mistreated the Indian on many occasions by ruth- lessly breaking treaties while in Al- aska the natives were being de- (Continued on Page Eight) lage, repair the ship and clear a takeoff field. Barr was forced down August 4 and it was not until four d later that he was sighted by pilot Jimmy Dodson after having seen six search planes go over him and having heard on his radio receiving set the news of what was believed to be his death. Barr was lost on Thursday, found on Sunday night, and on Tuesday morning was dropped food, shoe- pacs, socks and a packboard for his hike to Joseph's Village, twenty miles away, where there is a sand bar landing field. Three days later, Barr reached Joseph's Village after a stiff walk that left him lame in one leg and “plenty hungry.” Flier Frank Pollack picked Barr up at Joseph's Village last PFriday, eight days after the accident, and | diate action to establish fire patrols| took him back to Fairbanks. ( - 4 TATIONS | —— o e e NEW YORK, Aug. 15. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 107, American Can 96, American Light and Power 5, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel 55, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 447%, International Harvester 56, Kennecott 39; New York Central 17%, Southern Pacific 17%, United States Steel 59, Safeway Stores 19'%, Pound $4.87 1/16. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 136.98, rails 27.76, utilities 19.41. Douglas Corrigan never dreamed in a parade like this, but here he up Broadway to receive one of the greatest receptions the city ever New York made no exception in Corrigan's case in her method of welcoming celebrities by overturning thousands of AP Photo. accorded a hero. wastebaskets on his head »Ffdraigfiihfiirlinér' | Down, Nine Killed RIO DE JANIERO, Aug. 15. Nine persons were killed today when an airliner fell into the harbor shortly after leaving on a flight to northern Brazil points Five of the victims were passen- gers and the others were members of the crew. No cause for the crash is known. Heavy fogs had delayed the depar- t to Ireland was unloosed in a tremendous roar of noise and ticker tape vessel's Union Jack lowered and the Japanese flag run up instead. The Scarab is believed in the vicinity investigating now. s.~~AP Photo. JAPANESE STALEMATED YANGTZE RIVER SECTOR SHANGHAI, Aug. 15—A survey |of the Yangtze River front shows |that the Japanese gains have been |almost negligible since the capture of Kiukiang on July 26, despite bitter fighting on both sides of [the river and heavy aerial bom- bardments. The Japanese column which struck out southward from Kiukiang along the Nanchang railroad 20 days ago, has advanced only 12 miles and are now engaged with strongly entrenched Chinese troops in the hills near Shahochen. Several air raids have been made on Hankow and the two other ad- jacent cities in the tri-city area. — e —— FIGHTING WITH BAYONET NOW, SPANISHFRONT Insurgents Reported to Have Routed Loyalists from Stronghold - MAY BE MADE, GERMAN CRAFT Brandenburg Completes| Round Trip. Berlin to N. Y., Return | BERLIN, Aug. 15. — A record| round trip flight of the German airliner Brandenburg may be fol-| lowed soon by a round the world flight. The Brandenburg returned here| yestérday from New York at 12:57 { |o'clock a.m. PST. .The Air Ministry admitted an-| | other long distance flight is planned | but said no “information about it f | will be divulged in advance.” 5 The Brandenburg flew from New York to Berlin in 19 hours and 55 minutes, Senator Gearge HENDAYE, French - Spanish . . { ~ Is Campaigning | . For Reelection | Frontier, Aug. 15.—The Insurgents | today report that the Government \ | . . defenders have been driven, at the Keeps Right At It Despite | point of bayonets, from the Pandos mountains, south of Gandesa, en- { Op po sition from | dangering the Government's foot- ’ Roosevelt | | | hold on the west bank of the Ebro River, The capture by the Insurgents of the mountain range broke the mili- WAYCROSS, Ga., Aug. 15. —| United States Senator Walter F. is|at which they directed a sudden of- fensive begun three weeks ago. Gan- desa is one of the headquarters of |of Georgia’s senatorial race | whether the “people are entitled to ‘r]ect or choose their own servants,” ‘ | in a reelection campaign address. b the Insurgents. % 74 | Senator George sald: “The issue| e 1 e A i | has been raised by no less a person | BIG SEIZURE - | than the President of the United | States. It is an uneven contest. We | | have given the President enormous | | powers. Yes, I have no fears.” | UF UPI“M Is | Senator George said he is a full- | time Georgian and a full-time Dem- MADE 'N EAsT he would be the center of interest is (in circle at bottem) as he rode | S | Mrs. C. M. Archbold, wife of the | District Ranger for the Forest Serv- lice at Ketchikan, is a visitor in uneau, as house guest of Mr. and | Ji |Mrs. R. L. Bernard at théir resi-| LONSLE SAUNIER, France, Aug. |dence on South Main Street. |15. — James Williams, Frenchman, Mrs. Archbold plans to spend billed as the world champion para- |two weeks visiting in this city be-|chutist, was killed in his 3,200-foot fore returning to her home in Ket- fall yesterday when his chute failed chikan, to open over Lons Afrport, Senator George was recently g h single shipm illiett MRS, ARCHBOLD VIS champ Parachma pirkia s o ot The boat, it is said, has been un- | ocrat. This statement was made in| Boat Raided by Customs “outlawed” by President Roosevelt | opium in more than a decade. Jumper Is Kikad der observation of customs agents | reference to the ousting of carpet-| \ baggers after the war and said: “We | | answered that question once when | Federal bayonets stood guard oves | our ballot boxes.” | Rk . Officials — Narcotics ture but weather cleared and the who came out flat-footed for Law-| Valued at $600'00U ship took off. The craft was operat-' rence Camp, one of four candidates| ed by the Condor Syndicate and|for the nomination for Senator onj.n,w AsmNGmN;_mA“:' 18 %8 crashed on an island in the bay. | the Democratic ticket. reamuy . SRGATMDEUL . MUEEE des S | the seizure at a Brooklyn pier of It is said that 1,335 tall tins were found in a boat belonging to Frank | McCann, who was taken to the Cus- {toms House for questioning. The opium is valued at $600,000. for several days. - e There are approximately 3,000, 000 lepers in the world. i