The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 31, 1939, Page 1

6 » B . ot THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” \ OL. LIII, NO. 8014. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1939 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ADMIRALTELLS OF ALASKA NAVAL PLANS ReporiShip | McCarth Is Down in Bering Sea Faint Messa_g‘eA Picked Up in San Jose, Cal., Indi- cates Craft in Danger A mystericus message has been picked up indicating that an air- piane is down in Bering Sea. An iated Press dispatch te The Empire from San, Jose Califernia, late last night said Radic Amateur E. A. Morrill, of station WENRG, near San Jose, reported he had received a faint message frem station K1GTP of the Aleutian Islands, indicat- ing a plane was down in Ber- ing Sea near Amnak, Aleutians. Morrill said the plane was try- ing to signal on a wave length of 75 meters and added the re- ception was bad. Morrill was unable to obtain mere infermation before the message {aded. As far as can be ascertained, no amatent radio operators picked up the signals credited te Merrill and no other informa- tion has come out of the north concerning a missing plane. e MONEY GOES outT 10 1772 UNEMPLOYED First Payments Are Made Under Compensation Act in Terrifory First payments under Alaska’s un- employment compensation act were made this week as checks went out to 1,772 of the Territory’s job- | less. Average payment is $14.65, it was reported by Hugh J. Wade, Ter-| ritorial Director of the Social Se- | curity Board. Such payments are made weekly, with the claimants | calling in person at employment of- | fices throughout the Territory to receive their checks. v’s Charlie McCarthy, a new film flame. an Henest Man.” since rol NEW KIND SIT-DOWN STRIKE ON The 1 C nsa- R e oot Undoubtedly Staged for claims to date. Some are still! Purpose of Jusfice for Underdog By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 awaiting expiration of a two-week “waiting period” before the com- pensable time begins. Only 87 claims are being held up pending | receipt of further information from | employers regarding wages earned.| It is on this information that the amount of compensation is figured. | Jobs Found 100 | workers in Southeast Missouri turns Joseph T. Flakne, Director of the Out to be a new kind of sit-down | Service, | Strike obviously staged to get the| Territorial Employment | said today that registration with country's ear for another story of | his office, required of claimants, | iPjustice to the underdog in the| has resulted in a number of men |deep South. being put to work. | According to Wade, Unemployment Compensation Com- mission’s staff is to be commended for the efficient manner in which they have met their benefit paying probiem. Ordinarily, when a state enters this phase of administrat- ing an unemployment compensation Jaid & case before the public via the law, it takes several weeks for the|pa¢ions front pages without arous- agency to catch up and be able L()\m8 violence. pay benefits where due. It appears, however, that by the end of this .EMPHASIS ON COTTON AGAIN week the Alaska Unemployment| mhat's important for the South, Compensation Commission Will be|anq the nation, because it means | current in receiving and paying modern methods of labor agitation claims. (be they right or wrong) have fin- |ally invaded the deep South’s rural | sections and emphasized again the problem of cotton. H | Briefly, here’s the situation: el'e From the worker’s point of view— . | 1. Pay in the South is lower than | Is Active | any place else in the nation, on the Five steamers today contributed average. Farm sharecroppers aver-| to give Juneau’s waterfront one of age a net cash income of $312 a| its busiest days of the season. | year; tenants, $309; and day Inborers‘ Ships in port were the Cordova, in the cotton fields, $180. Add to Mount McKinley, Baranof, Tongass, | nhnt $200-0dd dollars in annual re-| and Northland. | ceipts represented by home grown | The ships brought some 200 pas-| provisions, and }ou have the total sengers through the city, leaving ’71[ of them here, Uncle Tom. But there is something | branw new in the southeast Missouri | sharecropper episode. For the first time in history a group of southern farm workers has ' > Waterfronl (Contlnueu on Page Three) site McCarthy and his spokesman, Edgar Bergen i The Bruneite Texan—who w on the radio when Universal signed her a ; ces the part as her big chance after a series of inconsequential She thinks she gnl it because she plal;uvd the prolluccr. | Burns, N. ewest F al whose “loves” make radio and screen script, has She is pretty Constance Moore, 19, the lead oppo- You Can't Cheat singing regularly ar ago but hasn't warbled GEORGE BURNS IS GIVEN FINE FOR SMUGGLING Also Is Handed Suspended Sentence of One Year and One Day NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—George radio comedian has been fined $8,000 and given a suspended sentence of one year and one day but placed on probation for one year, by Federal Judge Bondy, following a 3 — The plea of guilty to two indictments | highway encampment of cofton charging smuggling of jewelry into! this country. Assistant United States Attorney Delaney recommended a fine of $15,000 and suspended sentence. Burns pleaded guilty several weeks | ago to the indictinents in which he Tears for the South’s underdog was also named with Albert Chap-| United States has recently made|France and Italy and he the Alaska;have been national phenomena ever | eraux, self-styled Nicaraguan Con"paymen', of $15,472 to the Territory |agreement between those two na- since Harrlett Beecher Stowe threw . sular Agent; Mrs. Elma Lauer, wife | ynder an Act of Congress which |tions until the war is ended. | the North into a crying fit over poor | of State Supreme Court Justice Ed- | provides that 25 percent of National gar Lauer. Both Chapereau and Mrs. Lauer | pleaded guilty. Delaney asked consideration in the | comedian’s case because the latter cooperated with the Government in a wide investigation of smuggling m(o this (-nuntrv Lom abroad. CHAS. STANFORD DIES, ANCHORAGE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 31.—jli h'in (l are"e B oo Gty One PLANE DESTROYED | SAN JOSE, Jan. 31.—One cigarette | I“ BlAlE, BETHEL | proved too costly to Fred Neeman | recently. Neeman, witness in a case being heard by Justice of the Peace 'Charles Stanford, pioneer Alaskan, is dead here. Stanford landed at Nome in 1900/ and has been in many early day ,mining camps AR A 0 R FOS’I‘FR‘b SOUTH Wilson (Bud) Foster, announcer | at station KINY, with Mrs. Foster, (left for Seattle om the swamer\ChesLer ‘W. Moore, lit a cigarette Mount McKinley on his annual va- cation trip. The Fosters expect to be away for two ur three weeks. L JAPAN WILL * |states. KEEP ARMY, CHINA AREA Definite Announcement Is Made Today by Min- ister of War TOKYO, Jan. 31—The first un- qualified admission that Japan in- tends to maintain military forces in China indefinitely, is given in a report made today to the Diet by War Minister, Lieut. Gen. Seis- hiro Itagaka Itageka said the Army will sta- | tion troops over wide areas in| China “for a siderable length of time.” —ee - GALE SWEEPS EASTERN PART, UNITED STATES SIX ¥EARS AGO yestercay Adolf pointéd denbuy s (By Associated Press) perseéuted opponents. Furious winds whipped SNOW ! g rey, u.“mg Nazi achievements. and sleet over the Northeastern| .| _ et section of the Nation while the Great Lakes region tried to shake off the paralysis of the worst bliz-| zard in years, crippling both land | and air traffic. 1" “Fhe snow ‘sterm moved eastward across New York state accompan- | ied by zero temperatures and at the same time the northeast bliz- zard, riding on a 42-mile-an-hour gale, roared into New England MANY POL Mariners report 60-mile-an-hour — winds in Boston Harbor and ships | {cast out anchors rather than haz- | | ard moorings at docks. | A driving snow lashed New York City. In upstate New York, the | snowfall ranges up to 18 inches. | Many roads are blocked by snow |drifts ten feet high. \ At least 29 deaths are attributed | [to the storm in the northern tier | | CHAMBERLAIN i IMPRESSED OVER | HITLER'S VIEWS Tells House—;f Commons There Is Also an Agree- ment with Mussolini LONDON, Jan. 31.—British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain today answered Adolf Hitler with the as- surance that Great Britain wants |the friendship of Germany and| | further declared that Premier Ben- | ito Mussolini had promised him to | Eleven deaths are reported in the Chicago area. Five persons are| dead in Indiana and three in Mich- igan. One death is reported in vwmomm three in New York and | four in Ohio. | 'TERRITORY -GETS $15,412 FOREST “stand loyally” behind the British- SERVI(E pRoFII |Italian agreement. The British-Italian agreement | | 1, s provides among other things, Lhn‘ 1 H maintenance of a status quo in the 'Share in Forest Receipts|medierranean where ties parts of 1 | the French Colonial Empire which Amounts fo Slightly Barrier Raised More 'han 1937 Premier Chamberlain also told the House of Commons that his | tzleman of the Forest Service an- | the fact that the Spanish Civil nounces that the Treasurer of the|War was the chief barrier between saw no the Italians recently laid claim. Regional Forester B, Frank Hein- | January visit to Rome brought oul! Premier Chamberlain also said | Forest receipts shall be paid an-|Mussolini told him that Italy had nually to the States and Territories |nothing to ask of Spain after the in which the National Forests are Spanish conflict is ended. located. These funds are expendable | Yesterday, Chancellor Hitler, in by the Territory for roads and|his anniversary speech in Berlin schools. ’yeslerday, praised both Chamber- | This amount for the fiscal year||ain and Mussolini for averting war jending une 30, 1938, compares with py the signing of the Munich pact | $15,073 for the Fiscal Year 1937. and also stating that Germany de- | | An additional 10 percent of all sired the friendship of Great Natlonal Forest receipts for cons-| pritain, ! trution and maintenance are made On European Pace available to the Alaska branch of| premier Chamberlain also claimed | the Forest Service for trail construc- | eady suecess in his dl)pP.J‘LnlL‘hL | tion within the National Forests. j' i ] Y | (Continued on Page Eight) i ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 31. —AK plane owned by Ray Peterson, pri- vate operator, has been destroyed ‘m the court room. Justice Moore .y fire at Bethel. Oil became ignited PR IAIARE, Mystery Plane Call Comes O IT WAS A BIG DAY FOR BOTH OF THEM German;s's fuchrer and America’s President have little in common except $hat each heads a powerful Nation, Nevertheless each had a good reason for celcbrating yesterday, German chancellor by President Von Hin- Since then he has restored German mili- tary power, built a greater Germany, risked war, His anniversary is a time UNPOPULAR OR NOT, REED PROVES THAT HE KNOWS ‘prmf‘:‘y c:nvm"d him of contempt | {;om g warming pot as Peterson was an . e hios $5, preparing for a flight to Anchorage. o e— Hitler was ap- has become one January 30. FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO yesterday Franklin D. Roosevelt was born. As President of the U. 8. he of democracy’s outstanding spokes- men against policies of the Fascist states. His anni- versary is the rallying date for campaigners against infantile pnrulysla. ITICAL ANGLES By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—When Senator Clyde M. Reed of Kansas announced a few days back that he expected to be the most UNpopular member of Congress in almost no time at all it seemed high time to investigate. Members of Congress, especially Senators, who say that sort of thing usually have something up their sleeve or else have dropped a screw. It developed that Senator Reed had not dropped a screw. Freshmen Sen- ators almost never attract much at- tention but Reed plastered himself, including pictures with cutlines, in many a newspaper. In no time at all the thing which Senator Reed expected began to happen. (He has been in politics before.) The fan mail began to pour in. It is just as well to tell you that Senator Reed said he likely would be unpopular because he was going to be the “complete independent,” even though a Republican minority member. Republicans hoping to show strength with help of Independent Democrats, first must keep their ranks in order. PROTESTS POURED IN Dozens of irate Republicans wrote in to complain that the party was just now in a position to make a name for itself after six years of mortifying inactivity—and up comes a fiedgling Senator who says he won’t be loyal to the party. Reed insists many “fans” com- mended him. “Don’t let them boss you around,” was the interpreta- tion he used. Reed has had his battles in Kan- sas before. He was elected Governor in 1928 amid forecasts that a strong | Republican leadership in the legis- { 1ature would ride over him. It didn’t, but the fight that developed out of that situation started two men on | their career. Republican leaders tried to de- feat Reed when time for re-nomi-| nation came around (as he tells it) and the split in the party per- mitted the almost unheard of election of a Democratic governor. The new governor was Harry Woodring, and because he was n‘ victorious Democratic governor in a non-Democratic state he took on considerable stature and was chosen in 1933 as Assistant Secre- tary of War. Now he is Secretary. Woodring lasted only one term | as govemor, as had Reed, v.hen “(Continued on Page Five) E. L. BARTLETT, . NEW SECRETARY, Arrives on Baranof from Seattle - Already at Work L. “Bob” Bartlett, new Secret- ary of Alaska, arrived in Juneau this morning aboard the Baranof from Seattle and was at work today in his office in the Federal bullding. Bartlett, whose home was at Miller House, was appointed by President Roosevelt recently to succeed the |late Edward W. Griffin. “My object will be to prove a | worthy successor to Mr. Griffin and | to carry on his work for the Terri- tory,” Bartlett said. His first task at which he was busy today, is to check over printed copies of the session laws, the bills enacted by the Legislature, to be cer- tain they are free from mechanical errors. Mrs. Bartlett and their daughter will come from Seattle in several weeks. At present Mr. Bartlett is staying at the Gastineau Hotel. THIRD 5-YEAR PLAN STARTED SOVIET UNION Ins!ructions_G};en Produc- fion Must Surpass that ~ of Other Lands MOSCOW, Jan. 31.—Vyacheslaff Molotoff, Chairman of the Council of the Peoples Commissars, today outlined the third 5-year plan, de-| {claring that the Soviet Union must | | “overtake and surj pass the economic !sphere the most deevioped capital~ istic countries in Europe as well as the United States.” Molotoff said the plan started last year carrying the Soviet Union into a “transition from Socialism to | Communism” was marked by con- | tinued emphasis on industry manu- facturing for defense and also in- creasing production of consumer goods. — e — 140 MILLION TREES The Forest Service reports that 1140 million trees were planted on the National Forests in Continental | United States last year, The plant- ing was done chiefly on old burns | that were not restocking from sur- ™ ) rounding timber. ut From North KODIAK WILL ‘BEPRIMARY - BASE, NORTH :Over Eightmion Dollars Is Estimated as Cost of Westward Port . SITKA STATION ALSO INCLUDED IN PROGRAM [Projects Would Be Desijn- | ed for Heavy Tempor- ary Overloads WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — The House Naval Affairs Committee, in considering the $65,000,000 Naval air base program, today received details from Admiral Cook regard- ing proposed improvements to bases in Alaska. Admiral Cook submitted the fol« lowing details of the Alaska pros gram: At Kodiak “Kodiak, because of its vital im- portance as a point of defense for the entire Alaska area, and be+ cause its location is nearest to a continental air station, should be . developed with most features of a TAKES UP TASK 55 oo e maintain and serve other Alaska bases should be provided. Complete overhaul shops are not con it ed, but facllities for engine ul and plane repairs will be necessary to meet any average exigency. Secondary Base “The base will be a secondary alr base, to be accomplished by cutting down the number of patrol plane squadrons from three to two. “Emergency fecllities will have to be installed for a temporary over- load of a third squadron, however All land plane facilities will be de- lerred, as the base has only pro- vislon for one seaplane hangar. and accommodations. “All related items coincident with construction of the base are cor- respondingly reduced by means of these measures and the present estimated cost of construction is $8,741,000, a considerable reduction from the original $10,762,000 esti~ mated. Sitka Base With reference to the Sitka base, Admiral Cook said, “The position of Sitka, geographically, enables it to serve as an important intermedi- ate station between Seattle and (Continued on Page Five) — et —— FRENCH RUSH TROOPS INTO REFUGE AREA Exposure, Hunger Taking Toll of Fleeing Loyalists as Franco Gains PERPIGNAN, France, Jan. 31. — Additional motorized French troops have arrived at the French-Span- ish frontier, followed by the report that they are only the vanguard of large forces being sent to police this refugee crowded area under strict military control. Deaths from exposure and hun- ger are said to be taking a heavy toll of thousands of refugees. Midafternoon dispatches from Barcelona said Gen. Franco’s forces are gaining momentum against the Government’s new defense lines, with the return of more favorable weather, and that the town, of Vich, 30 miles north of Barcelona, is under Insurgent guns. \