The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1939, Page 1

i — ———— —————— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” L VOL. LIIIL, NO. 7990. e JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 CONGRESS CONVENES FOR BUSY SESSION DIES GROUP SITES IN ALASKA ARE RECOMMEND BASES BY TAKES SHOT, | LABORDEPT. : H WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. — The UnAmerican Adivily 0 5o apponted to stuay Blame laid to Laxi'y coast defense needs, has recom- .. mended development of Alaska air on Part of Officials = acrenses P \ The report ys° the investigh- EDFORAIR NAVAL BOARD alakka offers the sites for air bases | The Naval Board rejected &he‘ proposal to establish a Naval Air most favored | Bas¢ at Tongue Point, Ore, and| recommended instead enlargement | of the base at Sand Point, Se-, tion shows Sit ASK INVESTIGATION - OF "REDS" IN NLRB Harry Brid&; Case Is in Limelight Again—Case Reopening Urged BULLETIN—WASHINGTON Jan. 3.—Representative Thomas today repeated his intention to intreduce scon, a resolution call- ing for the impeachment of S retary of Labor Perkins, based | on the alleged failure to deport | Harry Bridges. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. — The Dies Committee today placed res- ponsibility on the Department of Labor for a “large part” of tbe subversive and espionage activitits | as well as propagandas in the Uni- ted States. The charge was made in the re- port of the committee to the House after five months of inquiry into unAmerican activities. The committee accuses the De- partment of Labor of failure to €n- force the deportation laws and with “the laxity with which the Depatt- ment deals with afien agitaters.” “This would be all unbelievable if we did not have before us the mest convincing proof,” in a volumingus spy report. ! Charges Made { The report further said: “Dug to limited funds and time, we have been unable to go ito this quesfion as fully as the subject deserves, but, from facts which we have obtailed, we are convinced that a large part of espionage, unAmerican activities and propaganda circulation in the United States can directly be trac- ed to the failure of the Labor De- partment in enforcing the deporta- tion laws of the land.” The committee expressed the be- lief that the National Labor Rela- tions Board should be subjecte@ to a thorough investigation to deter- mine to what extent board mem- bers and employees “approve of Communist views,” expressed by Da- vid Sapoos, NLRB economist. Bridges Case It was also found by the group that the Labor Department should proceed immediately Wwith suspended deporation proceedings against Harry Bridges and similar cases. The Labor Department said “the Supreme Court must decide on, the lJegality of the proceedings befare the case is continued.” “The Bridges case does not have the important bearing jt is accdrd- ed,” the Department officials fufth- | er said. Dies | { | Gov.Lehman | Inaugurafed, Fourth Termi Postmaster General Farley Represents Administra: | tion at Ceremony ~ | ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 3.-—Postmas-; ter General James A. Farley repre- sented the Roosevelt Administrati»n yesterday at the inauguration or] Gov. H. H. Lehman for his fourth | term as the head of New York’s gov- ernment. Farley was greeted with a bust of applause when he entered the &s- sembly chamber of the Capiiol | where the inauguration was held. | Gov. Lehman made his address an| attack on European dictatorships and a plea for the preservation of American Democracy. The goveraor pledged contiftuante of state gv- ernment policies toward providing Cummings, was taken through the .ball team was going to be on the Kodiak and Un- | attle! | | | | | | FREEDOM AND FOOD 1i¥anéad of this Viennese refue gee in England, one of 500 children recently landed at Harwich. | M“,{'fig%“g‘zm Coast Guarders 1aies cianok o Play Tonight Introduced fo Depa”me"'?Alaska Juneau Five Meets| Heads by His Prede- | rause in Curfain | cessor Cummings | Raiser f WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Attorney | ; AR General Frank Murphy, accompan-| For a time today, it looked very ied by his predecessor, Homer S.|much as though the Haida basket- department today and introduced high seas when it was scheduled to various heads. |to play basketball tonight at 8:30 The new Attorney General, who o'clock in the High School gym- is now head of the Department of |nasium in the second game of a Justice, was appointed last Sundayldouble bill. by President Roosevelt and the for-| However, the cutter was due to| mer Governor of Michigan took the return to its base late this after- oath yesterday. ~'noon from a mercy trip to Cape Murphy spent considerable time \gpencer, and it is presumed the today in conference with Cummings. |sohedqule will be carried out. T IR | The first game calls for Alaska |Juneau vs. Krause, and the sec- JURY SEI.E“ED I lond game, Haida vs. Henning's. | Both should be bang-up games HEAR S(Ofl (ASE'ana will have a lot of bearing on |just where these squads are going Trial of Sam Scott, charged with |t0 end up when the season tapers | ‘Brilish Official Is Reported contributing to the delinquency of | minor girls, opened in Federal st-; trict Court today before Judgei George F. Alexander with Assistant District Attoney George W. Folta representing the government and George Grigsby the defense. Taking of testimony was started this afternoon after the selection of a jury this morning. Jurors chosen to hear the case are George A. Schumacher, Mrs. Nellie Kirkpat- rick, Thomas W. Bennett, Marie Forward, John Clauson, Minard Mill, Glenn A. Kirkham, Edwin W.| Larson, Mrs. Mary Walmer, Mrs. L. P. Dawes, Archie Radelet, and Thomas J. McCaul. .- | 'Bud’ Bodding Souin To Avia_li_on School| Gerald (Bud) Bodding, son of Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Bodding, left for the south on the steamer Mount McKinley. Mr. Bodding plans to attend avi- ation school at San Diego, Cal, for the next four months, after which he will return to his home in Juneau. i SIS R BEN MULLEN BAC Ben Mullen returned on the Bar- anof after spending the holidays with his mother and sisters in San Francisco. Mrs. Mullen, who went south with Ben before Christmas, will spend another two months visiting in California with her daughters freedom and sectirity for the peojle. lmd friends. off. DALADIR | SAYSWAR POS SIBLE Discount Rate Cut in Bank of France Hints at New Recovery NEW CHINA POLICY PLANNED IN TOKYO Arrested in Spain as "Sgy" (By Associated Press) i France’s touring Premier Daladier won a thundering ovation today in! Tunis as he continued his Mediter- | ranean trip, underscoring French intentions of defending her terri-| tory from Italian aspirations. While Daladier toured, the wars in Spain and China took.on new| complexities. | Daladier, fresh from a triumphal visit to the island of Corsica, assured | the Bey of Tunisia that the French} North Africa protectorate will be| defended, “even if it means war.” | His statements were strong denun- | ciations of Italy’s ambitions voiced |in the Fascist press in the past, months. Discount Rate Lowered In the meantime the Bank of! France has lowered its discount nw‘, from . 2% . percent to two perrent; for the second cut since the rate was raised to three percent during the Czechoslovakian crisis. The action followed the safe passage of the 1939 budget by the Parliament of Paris.| The rate is the lowest in two years | and Daladier’s supporters hailed the | cut as evidence of progress towards | recovery. | A long stride across the map, in| Tokyo, that city’s New Year holiday experienced beneath its outward calm a current of political unrest as so-called Fascist Liberal forces con- tended over policies in China. Cabinet Reorganization It is believed a Japanese Cabinet reorganization is possible, and what- ever the outcome of the struggle in China may be, a new China policy is presaged’ in the appointment of Lieutenant General Otozo Yamada as Commander of the Japanese forc- es in China. | In regards to the new China poli- | cy, it is expected stress will be laid | on consolidation of territorial con- trol within Japanese lines. In Spain, while Insurgent com- manders established forces along a 65-mile front, and the drive against | Barcelona became apparently inten- | sified, Great Britain asked General Franco for confirmation of the re- port that the British Pro-Consul,| Ernest Goleing, has been airested in San Sebastian as a spy. TERRITORIAL ITALIANS HAD A WORD FOR IT dents like these in Rome, shouting for the return to BALANCE BEST IN SIX YEARS Mlaska Had $990,009 in Treasury at End of Busi- ness December 31 The Territory’s bank balance at the end of 1938 stood at its ml:st mark in six years—just ~ a-million dollazs —aceord- ing' to the report of Territorial Treasurer Oscar G. Olson to Gov. John W. Troy today. The bank balance at the end of the year was $990,009.89, more than $200,000 over last year. The substantial increase, the Treas- urer pointed out in his report, is due primarily to two big years of fish pack taxes, additional revenue from liguor and the three percent gross gold tax. Balances for the last six years were given by Treasurer Olson as follows: $381,524.82 in 1933; $516,398.26 in 1934; $743,255.16 in 1935; $536,876.13 in 1936; $717,- ( 192.44 in 1937 and $990,009.89 in | 1938. | ———.e — | | COLONEL LE HONOR GUARD T0 SECRETARY Griffin's Body Aboard Bar-| anof for Seward-Gov- - ~ GAVELS DROP PROMPILY AT 12 0°CLOCK National Defense, Relief, Scores of Other Prob- lems Be Discussed and that word was “colonles,” demanded by stus Italy of Tunis and Corsica, now under France. Tom Mooney May Be Free On Safurday New Gover—n—o—r of Califor- nia Sefs Date for Hear- ing on Petition Mooney, imprisoned for nearly 22 years -for conviction in the bloody San Francisco Preparedness Parade Bombings in 1916, may be free next Saturday. This may be possible through ac- tion of California’s new Governor, Culbert D. Olson, who was inaugu- rated yesterday as the first Demo- cratic Chief Executive of the state in 40 years, Gov. Olson has set Saturday as the date for the hearing of Mooney'’s petition for a pardon. DRI S S e TWODDIE IN CRASH, 2ND HAND PLANE GARDNER, Il, Jan. 3.—Arthur Wright, Jr., 19, and Prancis Knight, 20, were killed when a second-hand | plane in which they had been flying, crgshed from a height of 500 feet r a takeoff. ‘Wright bought the two passenger (| were Virtually Al 3 LEGISLATOR IN TOWN FOR 14TH SESSION Liquor Confrol, Gold Tax, | Demand for Funds to Be Hgl_Topics With arrival of steamers from the west and south and planes from the Interior, members of Al- aska's 14th Territorial ready for the formal opening of the session next Monday. Repre- sentative Jesse Lander of the Fourth Division is expected to ar- rive from Fairbanks on the next plane. Of the PFirst Division delegation, holdover Senator Norman R. Walk- er of Ketchikan, and Representa- tive A. P. Walker of Craig came in on the Baranof, the rest of the First members being residents of this city. They are Senator Henry Roden, and Representatives James V. Davis, J. P. Anderson and John McCormick. Second Division With one of their members as a candidate for Speaker of House, the Second Division is here with its full representation—Senators O. D. Cochran and Leroy Sullivan of Nome and Representatives Howard Lyng, and Garnet Martin of Nome, Wallace Porter of Haycock and W. J. Dowd of Kotzebue. Representative Lyng is the Sec- ond’s candidate for Speaker and gossip among the lawmakers to- day indicated that he had substan- tial strength from other Divisions. He served in the 1935 as did Rep- resentative Martin, Has Record Representative Porter of the ernor Pays Tribufe { monocoupe two months ago after The reports said Goleing had been involved in what is known as the With officials and friends of long |of dissatisfied Parliament membersi NEW BRITISH POLICY BEING PLANNED NOW Group of Dissatisfied Par- liament Members Form New Group LONDON Jan. 3.—A small group | have opened a new campaign for a | stronger British policy. It is understood that the group plans a secret meeting tomorrow to map out a program. Winston Churchill is understood to be one of the leaders of the group. e Students Are Back at Work After Holidays Juneau Schoois re-opened today, with only the normal number of absences reported. Classes started at 8:45 o'clock this morning at the Juneau Public Schools, and according to Superin- tendent, A. B. Phillips, the next holiday will bj in commemoration of the birthday of George Washing- ton, February 22. missioner at Naknek, who was in Juneau today aboard the Baranof, sons who have been outside with and robbed at a Seattle theatre by a man who took $1.70 from the boy’s missioner Regan said, “the boys are “dirty shirt” spy case. Seattle Isn't Naknek, Boy Learns fo Grief The meaneést thief! ‘W. B. Regan, United States Com- thinks. his boy “had business” with him in Seattle. Tom, one of Regan’s three young | him for the first time, was held up pocket and then struck him. Tom is 11 years old and goes to Bristol Bay with rather a poor impression of the ethics in the States. “Up where we come from,” Com- used to going around with their money held in their hands. In Seat- tle they learned not only that it was not safe to do that but some- times risky even to havesit in their pockets.” The Regans will take a chartered plane from Seward to Naknek. R o MRS. FRAWLEY SOUTH Mrs. James Prawley of Nome, wife of the late Senator Frawley, arrived in Juneau on the PAA plane yes- terday and continued south on the Mount McKinley to spend the winter in California. standing serving as an escort of honor, the body of Edward W. Gflf-’ fin, Secretary of Alaska, was placed aboard the steamer Baranof this morning to be taken to its final resting place beside his wife in Sew- ard. Col. John C. H. Lee, Army Div- isional Engineer from Portland, who is en route to the Westward, will serve as guard of honor to Seward. A large crowd of friends were pre- sent for the funeral services for the distinguished official yesterday af-| ternoon in the Elks hall where thel Elks Lodge, of which he had been‘ a member for 40 years in Butte, Mont., had charge of the last rites here, Past Exalted Ruler John Wal- mer presiding for the lodge and the Rev. John A. Glasse delivering the eulogy. Gov. John W. Troy, returning toi Juneau today on the Baranof, pald the following tribute to the long- time friend: “Alaska mourns not only a high official but a leading citizen and| pioneer. The Territory can ill af- tord the loss of Edward W. Griffin. He was an official of the highest type and ability. He possessed all of the qualifications of a perfect| choice for the position which he | held. In business and private life he was the indispensible type. He; knew the people of Alaska, loved them and was loved by them. He| was a, steadfast champion of the| development of this country. For his | sister in Juneau and his other re- latives the people of Alaska feel a sincere sympathy in their com- mon loss,” |obtaining a private pilot's license, VIOLENT DEATHS IN CELEBRATING REACH TOLL 327 Auto Atcidéni-s Are Re- sponsible for Nearly 200 Fafalities (By Associated Press) The Nation’s violent death toll over the New Year's weekend stands at 327 compared with more than 500 for the Christmas 3-day holiday of a week ago. 3 At least 200 of the 327 fatalities | resulted from automobile collisions. “There were numerous suicides, deaths by dre principally through unsolid ice; homicides, as- phyxiation, falls on icy places and by other causes. FATHER OF TEN KILLED, CAVEIN SEATTLE, Jan. 3.—Victor Mal- garini, 50, father of 10 children, Second holds a distinguished re- cord. He came north in '98 and hasn't been out of the Territory NEW MEMBERS BOTH BRANCHES TAKE OATHS Bankhead Is Re-elected as Speaker - President’s Messagflmorrow WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. — Con- gress, its Republican minority mem- bership heavily bolstered by recent eletcions, assembled today to tackle the National Defense, Relief and scores of other important issues. All issues are debate laden and practically all affect the nation's welfare, Amid holiday atmosphere that the big issues before this Seventy Sixth Congress is rellef. There is expected to be & con- troversy over the amount to be spent and also mover charges of politics on the part of WPA.' There is also expected to be some controversy over He~ - L. Hopkins, newly appointed Se¢ v of Com~ merce in the Presidents Cabinet. National Defense is certain to be a gigantic issue. It is beleved that President Roosevelt is planning strong recoms mendations in his annual message including ~ vast increase in avia- tion strengt . Lisor Measures Labor mrasur * a also to come in for much av mu.n, especially amendments to t. agner Nation- al Labor Reiations sct as pronounc- ed ¢ iggestons have been made by both business inierests and also the American ™ leration of Labor. The (1l Secw:'ty Administra- tion ie cxnected ¢ recormend that the ¢ «ge pension insurance sys- tem be extended. Governmertal reorganization leg- islation, defeated last year in the House, will be revived, possibly in an altered form, Crop Control changes in the Farm since, spending most of those 40 years in the Second Division. He has a dredge operation near Hay- cock and also runs a store there. Representative Dowd has been U,| !¢ Will 8lso submit a plan for the 8. Commissioner at Kotzebue for hard preased. Netiost's onrvien, the last several years. v In the delegation from the Third Division is holdover Senator James Patterson of Valdez and Senator Joe Hofman of Seward, who was Speaker of the House here in the 1935 session. From Third Of the House group, Representa- tive Karl Drager and Harvey Smith are the new members from the Third. Serving with them are H. H. McCutcheon of Anchorage, dean of the House in point of service, and Edward Coffey of Anchorage, who served in the last session. With the exception of Represen- tative Lander, the Fourth Division delegation is now all here. It .in- cludes holdover Senator Victor C. Rivers of Fairbanks, Senator C. H. La Boyteux and Representatives Leo Rogge, who served in the last session, Chester Spencer and Frank S. Gordon. bill, approved last year, are fore- cast by some legislators. The President’s railroad commit- Srock Quorarions NEW YORK, Jan. 3. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 100%, American Light and Power 6%, Anaconda 34%, Bethlehem Steel 6%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors 49%, International Harves- ter 59%, Kennecott 42%, New York Central 21%, Northern Pacific 13%, Safeway Stores 29, Southern Pa- cific 20%, United States Steel 68, Bremner bid 1 asked 2, Pound $4.62%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, . rails 33.78, utilities 22.85. ———————— ROTARY MEETS b Regular weekly meeting of the Rotary Club was held this noon i Percy’s Cafe. W Three guests were present. They Line-ups Between the business of getting settled for the 60-day session— some of them bringing their wives and families—and getting aequaint- ed, the lawmakers had time to talk a little politics and tentative Legislature line. Report was that Division Engineer from Portland, C. M. Rogers, War 3 was suffocated when a coal prospect hole caved in. The body was not| recovered for 14 hours. gineer in charge of Juneau'’s water project, and Dewey lmmlcnuon Inspector, Benator Walker of Kgtchikan could " (Continued on Page Eight) Jones averages: industrials 153.86, were Col. John C. H. Lee, Army