The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1939, Page 1

¥ Ve THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8025. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PLANE IS MISSING WITH FIVE ABOARD Conferring on Alaska Shipping UNION MEN, EXECUTIVES IN SESSION Effort Is Being Made to End Present Dispute by Negotiations BULLETIN — SEATTLE, Feb. 13.—Alaska shipping line executives went into a confer- ence this afternocn with rep- resentatives of the Masters, Mates and Pilets Union in an effort to end the present dis- pute. EARLY REPORT SEATTLE, Feb. 13.—Negotiations in the Alaska ship tie-up are at a standstill. Each side is apparently waiting for the other to seek a conference over the controversy. Capt. Ernest Brinker, Secretary of Liocal No. 90, Masters, Mates and Pilots, said the union has taken no action, waiting for an invitation to be received to meet the steamship company executives who are in- voived. 1 William Semar, Manager of the Northland Transportation Company, said he knew of no arrangements for further diseussion. st ) “We have a contract with the‘ Masters, Mates and Pilots and ex- | peet them to live up to it,” said Semar. ur Norway visit America. They queen are scheduled to be RE(OGNITION 'FRANCO, HINT MAYOR LUCAS ACTS Mayor Harry I. Lucas today sent | the following explanatory radio- gram to the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union at Seattle: “Food and fuel supply here be- coming serious as only sufficient supply on hand to last eight days. Large fire last week destroyed haif of the food supply. Extreme cold weather prevails and shortage of fuel will cause much suffering. Housing facilities very serious ow- ing to shortage furnishing equip- ment. Necessary immediate action release one or two steamers for Al- aska port. Your whole hearted sup- port this action will be greatly ap- preciated.” Chamberlafiys Cabinet and Not Parliament Is to Decide MINORCA ATTACK MUCH REGRETTED Prime Mini@Undergoes Questioning from Laborite (By The Associated Press) Prime Minister Neville Chamber- lain addressing the British House of Commons today hinted early recognition of the Insurgent regime as the Spanish Government but said his Government and not the Com- mons will do the deciding. Meanwhile Insurgent guns and planes carried the civil conflict back | into Central Spain, concentrating at | Madrid, again the seat of Govern- ment. PLANS MADE C(ONGRESS T0 CHANGEWPA Byrnes, Woodrum Propose! New Formulas for Relief Work AR 1 Asked by Laborite Arthur Hen- | derson first for assurance that WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—A high- ! recognition is not contemplated and ly influential group in Congress is|whether the House would be con- hunting a new formula to apply to|sulted, Chamberlain said the rap- the relief problem. Both Democrats | idly changing situation forbade such and Republicans are participating. |assurance. They have several ideas for chang-| “The Government must take re- Jug the present form of the Works ponsibility,” he declared. Progress Administration. Henderson also asked “how it Thus far two definite plans have happened the last six air attacks” been brought out, ome of them by were carried out last week against Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South the then Spanish Government Cavolina and his special committee island of Minorca “by Italian after an investigation of unemploy- | planes” while surrender negotiations ment relief, and the other by Rep.| weer in progress there aboard the Woodrum, Democrat, of Virginia,| British cruiser Devonshire. Cham- Chairman of the House sub-com-| berlain responded by reading a | mittee which handles relief appro- | telegram from the British Consul at | priations. Palma, Mallorca, that Franco’s Bal- The Byrnes plan would couple earic Island air base had author- WPA with the ‘Social Security ized him to say the attack on agency and put both under a new | Minorca as “in disobedience of ord- | Department of Public Works. ers and very much regretted.” BRI 01 5 Woodrum’s measure would triple the appropriation for next year and bring the States back into the ad- mmmmw_— A Philco radio and birdseye msple highboy chest, taken out of the Oc-~ The Bmmh army mm borrowed a | cidental hotel during the Goldstein “super” cook from the London Building fire last Wednesday, are County Council for a year in a missing. The articles were on the campaign to brighten up meals for sidewalk and mysteriously disap- the troops, peared, / R OYAL WELCOMES will be put to test in United States spring when Princess Martha and Crown Prince Olaf (above) C(OLORS? OFFICERS OF U. 5. ARMY HAVE LAUGH IN COMMONS BRANDEIS T0 RETIRE FROM - HIGH COURT Lefter Sent Roosevelf by 82-Year-0ld Supreme | Court Justice | | SURPRISE ACTION | | THIS AFTERNOON ‘ 0ld Age, Recent liness Assumed Causes for | i Leaving Bench WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Asso- ciate Justice Louls D. Brandeis, 82, | | retired today as a member of the United States Supreme Court in®a | surprise action taken in a letter sent to President Roosevelt. “Pursuant to the act of March 1, | as well as England’s king and guests at the White Honse 1937, T retire this' day from regular | read | the brief letter dated today and signed “cordially, Louis D. Brandeis.” While no reason for the action was uiv(-n in the letter, it was assumed t was prompted by old age coupled | Wilh recent ill health. | Justice Brandeis returned to the bench only last Monday after months of -illness due to grippe. | Reports are widespread he plan- ('"0‘ ER ned to engage in activity on bchal(_ _ One|of the Jewish race. He is the first| Jew ever to serve on the high L!'h‘ bunal. He was appointed June 1, by | Presxdcm Wilson e By l'l{lflbl WASHINGTON, Fep. 13. | need only see the Army on parade about a capital cocktail table to }.naw away the blues about how | women have stolen all the color in dress and driven the men to som- ber black and white. The New York writer, Beebe, complains forlornly lhnU scarcely a man lives today, oxccpt | himself, who dares wear the colors | shirt with a dash of green. Disappears While on in foreigners, although you should | T taches with their red pants and skv Ervin Brown who mysteriously dis-| | But our own army men make even | blocks. Uncle Sam's army officers in their | believing the tide carried Brown‘ blue cap has a broad red band| | Down each trouser leg is a broad ration on the tailed coat is even shipping tieup. of his choice. He says men are slaves Among the common men, Beebe Short Tow | blue tunies splashed with gold are|appeared Friday morning while tow- | Beebe in his brightest mosaics seem| Neither Brown nor either boal,‘ new uniforms. down the channel. | around it, The red is edged with | AT KE'(HI“" band of red braid, like an elevator| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 13.—| fancier. About the cuff of the| The Company had a cargo of meat women, can't escape from solemn y —_— black to powder blues, pinks, or a H 2 Ervin Brown Mysteriously| few others will join him. | Perhaps it is hardly fair to ring ers strutting about at White House | The Coast Guard Cutter Cyane left eceptions. The French military at- this morning to resume search for | —_— | a rowboat from his float to Thomas | LOOK OUT, RAINBOW | Basin, a distance of about five| is concerned. There isn't a woman| The Cyane intends to search the on the reservation who can touch bays and inlets south of Ketchikan, jis in the trimmings. Take a cap- tain of artillery, for instance. His BUI(HER S“op has “tails,” and the trousers are a lighter shade for contrast. operator to our knowledge pays| of the City’s leading butcher shops, | $75 to $150 for his pants. The deco- | closed its doors today because of the one of red, and another of gold. In- half | terlocking loops of gold run neau. Heath, CLOSES DOORS i :ccionavic matair |search for clues on the was killed secrets of the Irish Republican Army. | while enroute from Seattle to Ju-|sur | stat | who, for fear of the raillery of their! is like the fox who lost his tail; | see some of the broad-ribbon wear-!| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 13.— csppcmllv colorful. ing his disabled trolling boat wlth a retiring flower—as far as color has been seen since. | Lark blue prevails but the llalrl — - gold. His dark blue full dress coat| operator wears — but no elevator | The Ketchikan Meat Company, one | [ sleeve is a broad band of gold, then | ‘ aboard the Ruth C which capsized | | | | way to the elbow. The front of the tailed coat also is modeled after the regular for- side and up either gold buttons 1hke the sunburst. | On the shoulders is more gold,| ilwnted quoits that lay the buyer| back $25 to $60, depending upon | the weight. | | Infantry does almost as well, ex- | |cept that the infantry uniform| fasten the white vest. And, beauty of beauties, the lapels are red; not | dull red either, but bright, bright M . WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, — Secre- challenge or attack exists” LINCOLN SHRINE DRAWS THOUSANDS Abra day—a~d died almost three quarters of a century ago—but shrines to his memory still are vi thousands of Americans annually. three memorials in his home state, Tlinois, say attendance has multiplied several iimes annual since the shrines were opened. made it casier for more and more tourists to visit number rose steadily. There was the sites, the a drcp ‘uring the depression years but attendance figures were high in 1938 at these historic sites: enfrance. Custodian H. W. Fay tendance before 1901 seldom exceeded 30,000, then to 1928, when a record of 141,000 was rose steadily established Renovation ARE GIVEN um Lincoln was born 130 years ago yester- LINCOLN'S TOMB at Springfield, Iil. of Limcoln by Gutzon Borglum stands at the south work caused two-year dmp but last year 128,000 visited the tomb. d by Custodians at As good roads This head NEW SALEM shown here, is six years. says annual at- J 1 Couj | were born here. village of New Salem, IlI, and Ann Rutledge, says that in 1933, the {irst year, about 25,000 per- sons came to New Salem; in 1938, about 250,000. LINCOLN'S HOME at Springfield. He. lived here before his election as President, and his four sons Miss Virginia Brown, custodian, says attendance has grown in the past 15 years from about 82,000 to 117,319 last year. | STATE PARK, Rutledge Tavern, a feature of the recently restored where Lincoln lived ple here are posing as young Abe Custodian Willlam C. Young . CYANE SEARCHES DEMOCRATIC NATIONS CHALLENGE |PASSENGERS ON MISSING PLANE LIVE IN JUNEAU IN ADDRESS BY HITLER [Four Men on Unfound Air- IRIS HEATH IS | FOUND SLAIN IN MAYFAIR "Black Bufferfly” Might Have Divulged Sabo- fage Secrefs -Beautiful Iris as the “Black found slain LONDON, Feb. 13 22, known has been launched a theory she sabotage Scotland Yard has for betraying - One in every six automobiles on United States farms is 10 years old or over, according to a government y in selected counties of 40 READY T0 FIGHT FOR INTERESTS the Sec- lacks the reds and has to be satis- | ‘fled with contrasting blues, touched {up wuh white and gold. BEHOLD—THE CAVALRY | But the cavalry! Ah ... Where the artilleryman sports red, the cavalry- (Continued on Page Seven) “ary of State Cordell Hull warned |retary said, “it is the sacred duty of | a Government worthy of the name/ the world today the American people |\ ™ ointain adequate defensive will reply with “determined defense | fqrces. ’nnd resistance” to any challenge to| Secretary Hull called for observ- | their “most vital and cherished in- [ance of international law as the| terests.” “So long as such possibility of |among nations.” “primary basis of civilized relations| _ By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—When | Adolf Hitler read the riot act to | the United States in the Reichstag the other day, he was challenging the democratic nations to a long- term struggle for supremacy in the field of world trade. At least observers here of the |world economic scene view il that way. They take the view that the Ger- man leader has labelled Uncle Sam his Economic Enemy No. 1. They don’t think he did it because this nation is actually his greatest trade rival, but because the Hull agree- ments accenting trade equality offer obstacles to the German idea of trade treaties made to serve the needs of State instead of individ- uals. | At the same time the richest, and | therefore the strongest advocate of democracy, offered to Hitler a ‘strnng contast to illustrate his re- cital of the case of the totalitarian “have -nots” vs. the democratic | “have” nations, In a casual sort of way the trade struggle has been- developing ever ‘slncc the World War. The first sigr of its coming was the ascent of |Lenin's and Stalin’s communism, dnauguratmg. as it did, economic | theories previously untested by any iunpormnt world power. | After Lenin and Stalin, Musso« {lint burst upon the Italian scene, limiting private capitalism, and set- ting up the so-called corporate | State. After Mussolini came Hitler |and State socialism. | THE STATE'S THE THING | These phenomena of government are variously understood and as established these systems succeed- | ed by their own boast, because they (molded the individual to the will |of the all-powerful State. Meanwhile, beginning in 1928, the depression sapped the vitality of the | democracies, and Japan joined '.he (Continued on Page Six) variously defined. The men who/ aaft Are from Here-An- chorage Home of Other Aboard the missing Marine Air- ways Fairchild plane are four men from Juneau and one Anchorage resident. Lon Cope, pilot of the plane, is a veteran Alaska flier. He came to the Territory around 1924 as a mechanic for the Anchorage Air Transport Company at Anchorage and contin- uved with that firm, of which he was one of the organizers, until 1926 when they sold out to Alaska Air- ways. Continuing with Alaska Alr- ways as a mechanic.-he was with the firm when it sold out to Pacific In- ternational in 1930. Around 1933 Pan American Air- way, through a subsitiary company bought out the Pacific International and Cope then a pilot, who had been with the firm in that capacity since 1931, was transferred to Browns- ville, Texas, with PAA. Last May he returned to Juneau with his wife and two children where he now lives. Since returning to this city he has been with the Marine Airways. Cope is 39 years old. Chappell Here 3 Years John Chappell came: to Juneau three years ago from Toledo, Ohio, where he had been connected with the State Mutual Life Insurance |P Company of that city. burmg the first year of his residence in Juneau he was associated with H. R. Shep~ ard, insurance firm of this city. Instrumental in forming Alaska's first local owned insurance company Mr. Chappell is actively concerned |with the establishment of the Al- aska General Insurance Company !of Juneau. Offices for this firm were destroyed in the Goldstein Building fire last week. Mr. Chappell and his wife reside in the Spickett apart- ments. |15 54 years old. ! Earl Clifford, representing Sher- ! win-williams, Dunham, Carrington, | Hayden Hardware of San Francisco, California, came here originally from the State of Washington con- Inected with Marshall Wells Hard- They have no children, He| g Tie-up Today Pilot Cope, Four Others Down Sunday |Plane Flying from Keichi kan to Juneau Myster- iously Disappears |LAST HEARD FROM OVER GRAND ISLAND AT 2:15 Coast Guarfifler Haida, Other Craft, Planes Making Search BULLETIN—There is a pos- sibility there were five pas- sengers aboard Lon Cope's ed there Sunday and if he took aboard any passengers. The fol- lowing answer was received from Sarah E. Pritchett, of the Wran- gell Sentinel: “No record here of name Wi Lon Cope, flying a Marine Air- ways Fairchild plane with four pas- sengers aboard for Juneau from Ketchikan, is missing somewhere in the vicinity of Grand Island, 18 miles south of Juneau. Cope, who left Ketchikan at 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon bound for Juneau, was last heard at 2:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, by A. B. (Cot’ Hayes of Marine Alrways, over their station KANH in Juneau, The message reported “passing Grand Island.” Five minutes later calls to Cope’s plane radio, KHBDK, met empty silence. When last heard from he was 10 minutes out of Juneau. Immediately thereafter, when no word was received the United States Coast Guard cutter Hal was informed and sounded the @ call siren at 2:30 o'clock. At 3:28 oclock the craft cleared the dogk here and commenced the search. Passengers Aboard Passengers reported aboard the plane bound for Juneau from Ket= chikan are: E. E. Ek of Juneau. Johh Chappell of Juneau. Earl Clifford of Juneau. George Chamberlain of An- chorage. The lost plane was on a flight from Ketchikan to Juneau, picking up a schedule which was temporar- ily suspended by weather conditions at the former city. Cope had laid at the Ketchikan hangar over Sat- was held here by unfavorable weas ther. Five boats and one airplane are rendering assistance in an attempt to locate the missing party. No sue= cess has been reported as yet. ' land party with skiis left Juneau to investigate rumors of an air- plane motor heard over South Douglas Island yesterday afternoon. Cope was covering a flight tra- versed by heavy winds from Pete ersburg to Juneau. Calling at five- minute intervals from Sunset Ise land, Midway Island, Twin Points, up Stephens passage he reported wind conditions and adverse flying weather. These reports came imnje- diately previous to his final mese sage. * When Cot Hayes, operating the radio here was unable to raise Cope's plane five minutes after his |last call, contact was made with Alex Holden, Chief Pilot for Marine Alrways who was at that time in the air on a flight from Juneau to Tulsequah. Holden instructed Hayes to try again and when this met with no success, Hayes was in- (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Eight) urday on a trip from Juneau. He