The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 4 VOL. LIIL, NO. 8020. JUNEAU, ALASKA,TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'CHARGES ARE HURLED, SHIPPING TIE-UP [ [ J [ 2y B [ J e ] | . ) R RECOGNITION Turn About in States’ Rights | | ] | | | | T ’ ‘Faints at 28,000 Feet- Pinkerton Men Employed F Great Britain Are | th rance, Grea ' Plunges Faster than Alaska Boals f iderina Toki on Alaska boais 1o Considering Taking | Man Flown Before Make Reporfs | SPEED (ALCULATED W Sk i { | | SPANISH GOVERNMENT [ 670 MILES AN HOUR & \PEACE (ONI‘EREN(EVIS MAKING OVERTURES | g | MEETING IN BAY CITY T | ‘ Terrific Swoop Averages ighti telonia ‘ i Mot Fighting Stops in Cate Up as Elev'en Miles Unions in Seattle Ready fo * Area-May Surrender Per Minute Work Pending Seftle- / Other Sections | o : : ‘ i ‘ "Chi ’ ry-old tradition of the south defending states’ right against the Feb. 7.—Un- b N north is upset as Representative John E. Rankin (right), ngocrnt, of '\ SH}“EVEg?cr;:é lljéuf:m;m Trro]y = men' ShIDS COld | SOCIATED PRESS) | Mississippi leads fight in House against efforts of Representative Charles conscious, ; E i - e e of the Bpenish oivit Wae | A- Plumlsy (1eft), Republican, of Vermont to preven the fodorsl uoveree | Keith, of Barksdale Pleld, dived |7 T end of She Soapigh Divd | ment from taking land from states for power dams without consent. |more than three and a half miles SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Feb. 7.— Appsars ‘mmme""'t Britain are con- RAnkin, long an advocate of federal power dams, takes credit for rider in a pursuit plane at a supposed Charges that Alaska shipping lines Fzance and Gireat Brifsin ax ¢ to the federal food control bill permitting use of dams for power-making |speed of better than 11 miles a used Pinkerton operatives to report sidering recognition of Insurgent| o, .o.ee He agserts that the states’ rights issue is raised by power |minute before recovering at 9,000 that ship's officers committed Gen. Francisco Pranco’s regime as sompanjes, which is denied by New England Republicans in a vi?~rous | feet and then landing safely. | “hundreds of contract violations,” 8 legitimata’ Government of-Spain. counter-attack. Keith's oxygen tank failed him | were ‘voiced today by Capt. C. K, g This recognition is an effort to and he fainted, falling into a dive. | | May, West Coast head of the Mas- check the Italian and German in- SR | The speed indicator fixed itself per- | ters, Mates and Pilots Union, at & fluence in Spain, according to diplo- manently at 500 miles an hour. On ! conference for settlement of the rasto ircian | llAR | that basis, officers figured his ulti- present tie-up of the American lines It is also reported that Premier | mate speed at 670 miles an hour, | operating from Seattle to ~Alaska Negrin, of the Spanish Governrtl'\mrl. 'although they said such terrific | ports. Capt. May and other unionisf and his scattered Government of- . are no more than scientific are & ves : that further resistance is futile. | 7 | Keith is none the worse for his | Capt. May insists that the tie-up.is PRI, ot DO | | experience. A dive was taken in the not a strike as the “men were forced Spanish Government President same type of plane in which Test out.” Qe G BOUN Wop SHeil toeal | Pilot H. Lioyd Child, of the Curtiss- | | to at- What's It About ' Collongs, PORGIAING HbY 00 at- | | Wright Airplane Company, went | Jack Bryant, President of the Pa~ et dtxrfecuon}:f BoRmr G- | | hurtling downward at an estimated oific Amiyieas Owners: Asso. i i e kg A, N RS L . f 575 miles an hour recently Streams of refugees and also Span- | NEW YORK, Feb. T.—An outright :,x:eestf(;alg.l i clnion.“':‘ 18 head of mhu:‘mm “ ish Government troops are pouring Federal subsidy for railroads of be- ™o 0. "o wae qeliberate from | g‘;‘:’ g m“ o “‘;" o ’W across the frontier of France fol-| tween one billion dollars and two but Keith’s uuscheduled | , 8a possil fore- ) Jowi ¥ % 22,000 feet, but cast the outcome. He also declined owing 130,000 others who have jam billion dollars is advocated by Harry [ o "0 e r o "8 000 feef, g i o the med, then “crashed” the French | A. Wheeler, president of the Rail-|F'n il o001 oo dunamics officers, | mvmlkmww mmtr oy mm » phRer widlons, way Business Assoclation, in making |\ o', ematical formulas, adding | ! St whhb lh, e Uy s latn Negotiations On | ore as | public that organization’s national .~ O o percentage speed to the g s """W oomp All fighting appears to be finished | legislative program. plane’s fall on & per-thousand ra- | ;'hb’uuyu‘n. AR R A fhe (Chiwiond yeoien: | The fssoclation represents the iy, estimated Keith's longer fall| W oo s et Government, representatives are | views of companies manufacturing ® lted in probably the highest | asking for a raise of $256 a mon tiating with Gen. Fran- | 1 y equipment. It '®SU b | wages, guarantee of 11 months eme reported negotiating wi and selling railway equipm speed ever attained by man in the ! bl t and te co to suwrrender the Government's ! does not officially represent thei - ployment annually separate . part of Spain, which is one fourth, | views of railway managements, A g SR e | hina’s defenders have. turned to a new “road to Mandalay” and to old caravan routes to get war supplies | rooms aboard ships. vibuping (Macho, Valensly. gad | The subeidy-—alid Seiscitr smd his e o through the big eastern and southern ports—over which the Rising Sun flag now flies. Employea spies et ol e et E i ' gk S il ] e wmmh t important of these routes. The one running southward from Chungking, pro- Capt. May declared: “The steame o e i ol peacegsays Emerge"(y X1$ s_7°°ngr6551OMl IPREnA S0, disguisc” KNEE[ T ki ilwrlnn hewn through the mountains to provide access to French Indo-China | 8hip lines employed spies, Pinkerton pledge, no reprisals and that all 000 000 the word subsidy under some such [ 1 visional capital, is 2100 miles long, g t1av eled the road on his recent trip home aud described | MeN, to watch and report on officers, e« foreign troops quit Spain and Spalng Sum Of S'SO, v term as “contingent loans"—is based | and ‘British Burma. U. S. Ambassador Johnson el < e BEls siiisls that peaiton il““""“ officers must now occupy be left free from any foreign dom- | th upon three grounds which were set | it as a magnificent engineering feat. Two other roa masin.: Rrson quarters absolutely filthy, must eat ination. | for NeXf 5 MOfl S forth as urgent necessities: R resistance, Tokyo says “proper steps” will be token. Y in mess rooms with the unlicensed French Pesition o | 1.—National defense. | | g2 rhmn:ll. Also, in operations when ODlplcmauc snu.rce;eem P;ms sald‘ 2.—Public safety. | 1 M:t; :ll;lm 'r“h. the .l.n;h:h. en. Franco has . given . fs- il | 8.—National economics. | i it . Pilots half surances that France will extend| WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—President| R Ob Seventeenth An- ; v for overtime as the deckhands. Dur- y most friendly relations. | Roosevelt told Congress today in a Defense Measure Serves Jeveniee ‘ FOR'"H( A'"ou OF oy wmmpcn':d:vhhnemmz It is also said that & semi-official | she0ia) message that an emergency| go precarious is the national de- : H | are decommissioned, the sailors French Envoy, Senator Berad Has| . ... reief and asked for immed- | fense plcture as to railroads, said| MIVErSary of Election i TI(E (8640 o day maintenance and work visited Burgos and made the fienc*“ ideration of an additional Wheeler, that if war were declared | ' Pa al Thro“e | ISlA"D oF GUAM and the Masters, Mates and Pilots ) attitude clear to Gen. Franco. |iate consideration tomorrow, and unlimited funds were 0 Fap ; receive $4.20. British officials ate today e::;pres- | appropriation of $150,000,000 for the| o de avaflable, “it would take. not | b P L Ja anese A d o ira ' Says usums-,;k; g sed fear that France will look en- | i -| VATICAN C B y, b N LD’ WPA for the next five months. less than two years to put the rail | IT tirely to Italy and Germany to aid | The sum represents the cuts Con- | roads into shape to handle the mili- | Pope Pius observed the 17th an- P d SEATTLE, Feb, 7.—Unions hera in rehabilitation of Spain unless re-| The SuT represe : tary requirements of 1918.” | niversay of his election to the papal | Fortress Will Weaken | nave ottered to return to work, pend- cognition comes goonr by Great Bri- |gress made in the Presiaunt’s request| ™ T e "o o an e | epone by kneeling in a long prayer | ; e 3 ing negotiations, but company of- tain and France. Great Britain is|for $875,000,000 to carry on the WPA | that operating economies by the in his private chapel. | By PRESTON GROVER U- S. Defenses ficlals insist that the San Francisco reported ready to take the step pro- from February through -lum!‘-j that| rallroads during depression years | iM 0“'“ 13, e negotiations must be carried on first 5 vided Gen. Pranco agrees to suspend | The White House announce had brought many lines,” especially | 'l WABHINGTON, . T = Mindator and they al;'n said the “ships are hostilities immediately. | the President signed the $725,000,000 MED | quires 29 separate cards to catalog| TOKYO, Feb. 7.—Naval cold anyway.” ————— | bill last Saturday. Fhis bill was pas- | —— ‘Fafll" 1‘, the writings of Felix Frankfurter | Admiral Mitsumasa told the Japan- ——————— | sed last week. (Continued on Page Five) | t l H | in the Congressional Library. ese Diet today that the fortification | . ‘The President in his message today | Baby H GI' The 1ist emphasizs how often the |0f the American Island of Guam in | I ' said that with only $725,000,000 av- | ARl | President’s latest Supreme Court ap- | the South Pacific would weaken the | ro Ion {nunble, the WPA must either reduce ASSASSI“ GETS BY RED (Ross GRAND ISLAND, Nebfaska, |pointee has written on the Supreme |United States defense in the Pa- (e sbeity °“b:g‘;;" i S | Feb. 7. — Louis Holmes, Hall | Court and the constitution as well clfie. =~~~ iR (U RETonS - 0F { | H Attorney, how repeatedly he has thrown| Admiral MRS, ARE lASHED 08 & week by week reduoton Two;'TRA"onS 'Super-Bomber with 3,300 e vt haa wh- I Saide his professorial cloak to bat- |Japanese Navy attaches no import- or a e which by June 30 will drop the em-| P d of S I. o to a baby boy. The | tle in court for special causes. ance to the reports that the for- | | ployment, at present 3,000,000, to a ARE SHO"‘ Dowu ounds upplies m‘:",,' and baby are both fine. | Tne writings suggest another|tification of the island is to be ac- (& | tigure well below 1,500,000 R h Sa t- Hol also revealed that the | thing—the harmony of the views|complished as it is considered that B F5 e TR ki Sl eacnes Janiiago g 14-year- |of Frankfurter and that of the “to erect a fortress at & spot so far e b |9 Srie {from the country is bound to weak- o i Five Polifical Deaths in| sar old boy. | rpe {itimtionn, Sl Ghaiaj i the countcy e b WIlD Blll IS e S IAGOi:hue, F;b' 7.—United The authorities contemplate and Brandeis, whose tradition the|en country . ;i ' 4 States super-bomber B-15 has ar- tion. \ new appointee is expected to carry L ARTOOIANED TR X i Three DGYS Takes |rived here with 3300 pounds of | ™WaToMo i i boyare | on | UE (HAP“N WASHINGTON, Peb. 7—A bill lantic and the Pacific Coast while | (l | Pl Shanahai {medical supplies sent here by the| .4 revesled. | And what is the Holmes-Bran- has been introduced in Congress akic and GBS0 Dogtt il f ace, Jhanghat American Red Cross to aid victims deis-Cardozo_ tradition? protecting the bald eagle, the na- ;:s L-?ro ht new health and rescue | TAKE" BY Al"'o of southern Chile’s disastrous earth- It can be defined as the course Io MAKE (oMEDY tional symbol since 1783. e ) | SHANGHAI, Feb. 7.—An Assassin | quake which took more tian 20,000 | pursued by, the majority of the 4 | The bill provides for & fine of $500 7 £ shot and killed two officials of the | lives. ElE court since its historic reversal of H ith and six months imprisonment for 50,::; gifii’zfioéiifi?am; | Japanese sponsored Reformed Gov-' —— - its course in 1937. But it includes W|" Have Dual RO'O, Wlfh ,anyone convicted of hunting, trap- % . ic | ernments bringing to five the num- 'lklo 0“ J AU“‘I’ at least one other thing. It includes . pol e o i, 44 some crati ot tne Wasingion Const Winner of Indianapolis grmenisrnetne (o 1 e v | OTARIAN GREETERS & tained avpotion o she-sovsse| Mustache, in Produc- feine o ¢ — i P i01]C. | the past three days. Do I“E of the court under which the “due fan '’ f v cr;'r;;eh;::‘;l;sg‘zxgl:t::ofl:'Oh“’1 Classu m '932' SerIOUS Chow Chi Tang, Counsellor of "he\ Io " B (OATS Three passengers cleared from Ju- process” and “liberty of contract” "on The Dlda'or * Valley Flood has affected 10000 Iy Hurt in Accident |new Governments Ministry of Fin- therrs neau aboard the 14 place PAA El- clauses in the constitution have —_ Asks Sum for families in five states ; |ance and his private secretary were| Juneau Rotarians will 80 8bout coivy a¢ 10 o'clock this moming oF been so interpreted a6 to shottes| HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Peb. 7.1t is | 4 The Kentucky State Health De- |shot and killed while they were rid-| their duties as hosts to the district| puirbanks, Riding behind pilots Bert property and contract - rights far | revealed at the United Artists’ studio hwmm partment has ushed typhoid vao- ing through the streets of the Inter-| canference here fn May dressed in |1 on gnd Al Munson were W. A. beyond Intentions of the constitu-tht Charlie Chaplain, with his sb. i s | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 7.— | national Settlement. blue coats to distinguish them from Chipperfield, Al Nauling and J. Rel- tion as seen by the three justices. |breviated mustache, will play a dual | cine to thousands of stricken per- 8, ; ppe # | “ , Planes sons in counties in the eastern Ken- William “Wild Bill” Cummings, 1932] The gunman, without detection, | citizens in general. land. | role in his new picture, “The Dic- tucky mountains, | winner of the Indianapolis Spoed- | pinned a note on the body of Chow| The Rotary Club voted at its res-' oL L0 |CURBENT WORKS POPULAR |tator.” Ev < oy SN e way 500-mile automobile classic, was | Chi Tang, saying “You Traitor. ular weekly luncheon today for the| A siafe of experts representing & Most read by laymen and lawyers| Chaplain said the present political ASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Presi- i The 1038 United States rice cyop seriously Injured foday when his| Meanwhile, Chinese guerlllas con-| blue coats in perference to red blaz- | yorig-known gasoline company, have alike are his current works in which | situation, &8 0N earns dictatars |dent Roosevels today asked Con- automobile plunged through a guard | tinue to harass Japanese troops onlers as had been proposed by some roowed the search for oil in var- he discusses the interpretations of makes an excellent vehicle for a 8ress for an additional $6,723,000 was estimated at 58,890,000 bushels, | rail and overturned. widely separated fronts. members. the largest ever harvested. ious parts of New Zealand. j (Continued on Page Seven) comedy, for airplane experimental research.