The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1939, Page 1

» THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8027. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FIRST SHIPS LEAVE SEATTLE FOR NORTH Searchers Are Still Unrewarded Beginning Fourth Day of| B Hunt for Missing Plane, | ° Passengers-No Resulls | Six Navy planes and two land| parties were planned today to in- | tensify the search for the missing | Marine Airways plane, which drop- | ped from sight last Sunday after- noon with Lon Cope at the controls and five passengers aboard, E. E. Ek, John Chappell, George Chamberlain, | Earl Clifford, and occording to re- | liable information, Jack Lennon. Until Jate afternoon only one air- plane took off from the ground in Juneau when Shell Simmons in an| AAT Vega made a flight over the| area. | Taking off at 2 o'clock he travers- ed the section until 2:45 when he set | down in front of the hangar here. He covered a section around Oliver’s Inlet and over to the north and south sides of Taku Inlet. Nothing was seen. In the ship with him as observor was G. E. Goudie, Alaska Aeronautics Supervi: The Navy planes weather at Sitka | Two ground parties under J. Wil- liams and M. L. Gray left this morn- ing aboard the gasboats Wanderer and Yakobi. These searchers are to scour the area immediately behind the shore line of the stretch from Oliver’s Inlet to Point Arden. They are expected back late tonight. They are equipped with snowshoes and sk Princess Maria Louis of Bourbon Parma. The wed because of the serious illness of t were held by “Stay In?—Nol” Larger Area Covered Alex Holden, chief pilot of Marine Airways, in his wheel equipped Fair- child, with Don Harwick and Martin Feist, as observers has covered ap- | proximatelyl,100 miles in a vain| hunt for the missing ship. This mile- age was mostly consumed crossing and recrossing an area of approxi- mately 25 square miles with Grand Island as its center. Yesterday Holden traversed beach- es and mountain tops flying at low altitudes over the sectors. A break in cloud formations permitted the first opportunity for a thorough sur- vey of the country. ays of scanning and scouring seas- and beaches, crews aboard the Government vessels Haida and Brant report a complete shoreline scaling of the country and no results. Message reeceived from the Haida this morning stated a ground party | search commenced on the stretch from Point Arden to Station point on the east shore of Glass Peninsula. Activities Summarized Summarizing activities of ye: day, the Haida wired as follow “Anchored at 5 o'clock in the af- ternoon off Oliver’'s Inlet. Haida shore party on beach between Point ster- «Continued on Page Two) L0ST FLIER FINDS SELF, WALKS OUT Roy Schreck, Spokane Weather Pilot, Not In- | PULLED OFF BY jredin Gash | CORSICAN CROWD COEUR D’ ALENE, Idaho, Feb. 15. —Roy Schreck, Spokane weather pilot, missing since early Sunday, walked into Coeur D’ Alene this moerning and announced he had been walking three days and three nights without food Schreck crashed in the heavy tim- ber on a 00 foot ridge near Wolf AJACCIO, French Island of Cor- Lodge, 25 miles east of here sica Feb. 15.—A heavy police guard Shortly after the crash, Schreck has been placed around the Italian took the compass of his plane and | Consulate after a series of demon- started for here, through snow, at strations against Fascist demands Vice President Garner Despite a cold which kept him in his hotel apartment for a day or two, Vice President John N. Garner in- sisted he was well enough to go to | his office although his wife-secre- tary demurred. This is Mr. Garner’s, - latest photof, DEMONSTRATION french Governed Island- ers Show Displeasure at Fascist Italy times over his head. It was so cold ! for a share of France's Colonial Em-| he had to keep moving to prevent pire. freezing. | Windows in the Italian Consulate “I never slept for more than half | were shattered last night when the an hour altogether. It was too cold building was attcked by a band of and the worst of all was not having | ung Ceor: ns” singing Prench an food,” said Schreck. “My stomach | National songs and carrying banners <25 OMMERCE, DEFENSEPLANS, UNITED STATES, BRAZIL T0 BE KNITTED TOGETHER NOW started going mad the second day. I tried to eat snow. It tasted like pine .needles and was not very satisfac- tory. The first fresh water I had was about 3 o'clock yesterday ai- ternoon when I hit a creek in a gully that was partially open.” with slogans. The demonstration resulted from articles appearing in Italian news- papers expressing Ital “natural aspirations” against Prance and par- ticular demands that Corsica be llmm!nd over to Ttaly At Delayed Royal Wedding FRENCH WAR Prince Louis Snapshot of the marriage, in Quirinal Palace, Rome, of Princess Maria of Savoy, youngest daughter of the King and Queen of Italy, to Prince s postponed for several da 's sister, Princess Mafalda. ding w he br By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Oswal- do Aranha, who is Brazil'’s Joe Ken- nedy, is on the way to the Unn,edl | States with a portfolio of proposals | for knitting the commerce and de- | fense plans of the Unitéd States and his own country into a pattern Yankee diplomats hope will en- courage other South American ve-| publics to follow suit To say that the United States is awaiting the Brazilian foreign min- ister with open arms is an under- statement. The President invited him and official Washington has given him such a build-up that crit- ical German, newspapers are causti- | cally saying that this country is at-| | tempting to “recover what it lost at | Lima.” Germans claim this country | lost prestige at that conference by | failing to get South American co-| operation for commerce and secur- | ity. The basic problem is that Ger- many has been making better| {progress lately than the Umted; States in trade with Brazl and | certain other American republics. |In the first eight months of 1938‘ sermany sold $50,000,000 of goods | to Brazil. We sold only $48,000,000.! {We bought $64,500,000 of Brazilian | | goods, mostly coffee, and paid cash. | | Germany bought only $42,000,000, | {and paid with blocked marks. Ye! | Germany bought cotton and hides, | | Which we don’t buy, and coffee as| | well. That trade is important to| | Brazil. She needs it as much as ours, “ “FOUR MAJOR PROBLEMS J’ ; A number of problems bearing on | | U. S.-Brazilian relationship have | been mapped out for discussion here. They are: 1.—-BANK CREDITS. Since adop- { tion of its nationalistic constitution |in 1934, Brazil has been steadily freezing out foreign interest in its banking system by compelling for- jeign banks to invest an increasing proportion of capital in Brazil. Bra- zil, however, has extended American business men preferred treatment at the National bank of Brazil. 2-—FOREIGN EXCHANGE. The tight bi-lateral trade between Bra- zi¥ on this side and Germany and Italy on the other side leaves Bra- zil always in difficulty for want of liquid foreign exchange. Without it she becomes more and more sub- ject to German-Italian trade influ- ence. But just how far the U. 8. will want. to go in bailing Brazil out of this situation is a question. 3.—COTTON. Brazilian cotton competes on the world market with American cotton. A cotton stabiliza- tion conference may be called to work out an orderly marketing sys- tem, 4—LOANS. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau hinted that an American loan might be dis- cussed with Aranha. A direct loan would require congressional sanc- tion. Since $400,000,000 of Brazilian bonds, mostly in default, are scat- tered about this country, that is a | touchy subject. However, the U, 8. JI (Continued on Page Three) PLANE ORDER TOTALS 500 U. S. Faclories Do Heavy Business with Mili- fary Mission SIXTY MILLIONS FOR AIR FLEET Douglas, Martin, Curtiss, NAA Companies Get Big Confracts WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—~The French military mission in the Unit- ed States has already purchased 500 new warplanes in addition to those ordered this year, the Embassy an- nounced today, saying the mission had now completed its work. No prices were given but it was understood the total would be well| over $60,000,000. Contracts for mo- tors will total millions more. Plane orders were divided among | the Douglas plant at Los Angeles, | Curtiss at Buffalo, Glenn Martin {and Baltimore and North American | Aviation Corporation. Many Purchases This year the French placed or-| ders for 100 Curtiss Wright pursuit planes at a cost of $5,000,000. Lately a hundred more of the same type were ordered and it was further dis- closed the French purchased 100 Curtiss fighters last January. Two hundred North American Corporation light bombers, 115 twin motored Glenn Martin light bomb- | ers of a type representing improve- ments on the old model and 100 Douglas bombers make total pur- chases to date 615 warplanes. It was the presence of a French observer in an American made plane which crashed recently at Los An- 1,500 on “Hunger Strike” T , in lifornia. of! This instead of entering the mess hall at noon time. raticn of corned beef hash for that day. shot” was taken in the prison yard when roll was being called. Tt — Protesting against the prison menu, 1,500 inmates re cently staged a “hunger strike” at San Quentin prison The men refused to enter the mess hall for lunch, although otherwise they were orderly, the prison stated. Population of the peni tentiary is 5250, many of whom may be seen in photo. at San Quentin Prison/ was in this yard the strikers stayed The meal was spaghetti and meat instead of the regular Kodiak, Sitka AreApproved - As Air Bases House Naval Committee Passes on Appropria- . fions for Alaska WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 — | The House Naval Committee has rejected by a vote of 14 to 5 a move to eliminate the Pa- geles that touched off the uproar {about the Administration’s foreign‘ | policy and disclosed that Adminis-| tration officials lent hearty assis-| tance to France in her effort to in- | crease lagging air strength by pur- | chases from private American fac- tories. SPEEDY HAWKS TOO BUFFALO, Feb. 15—Two hundred planes which France announced she purchased from the Curtiss factory | were revealed today as Hawk T5A pursuit ships, the same craft in which Test Pilot Lloyd Child at- tained a speed of 575 miles an hour during a free power dive this month. - Siege of Madrid Is Under Way Heavy Arfillery Is Shelling Central Quarfers, Span- ish Capifal City PERPIGNAN, France, Feb. 15.— According to advices received here, the siege of Madrid has started. The Insurgents, with heavy art- illery. are shelling the Spanish Gov- ernment’s Capital City daily. Last night the Insurgent guns bombarded the central quarters of the city, and according to Spanish Government advices, this is the third consecutive time this shelling has occurred since Premier Negrin has installed his Cabinet here. INSURGENTS NOT YET RECOGNIZED BY GREAT BRITAI LONDON, PFeb, 15. — Premier Chamberlain told the House of Com- mons today that recognition of the cific Island of Guam for Naval aviation, The bill as approved author- | izes $68,000,000 for new expand- ed aviation bases including | Kediak, Alaska, the sum of $8,- | 775,000 and for Sitka, Alaska, ‘, the sum of $2,900,000. ———.—————— i | guard station, and it has—as Mr. \ NEW TYPE LIFEBOAT shown in above model was de- signed by James D. Farlow (right) of the Ocean City, Md., coast Farlow points out to Thomas T. Moore—a snecial towing gear and other safety features. JAPANESE s - PLAN NEW ™ yeaine over OFFENSIVE WOLFBOUMTES e A ‘Special Order of Business Foreigners Are Warned o, for 2 o"Clock Tomor- Evacuate China Sum- row Affernoon mer Resort i St | A committee-of-the-whole hearing SHANGHAI,-Fcb 15.—The Jap- on the wolf and coyote bounty bill ’ancw spokesman said both Ameri- | Will be held by the Senate at 2 o'clock |can and British officials will go to|tomorrow afternoon, it was decided Kuling, a summer resort near the at today’s session | ( | Yangtze river port of Kiukiang, next| The measure which will be diseus- Sunday and arrange for evacuation sed is House bill No. 1, by Represen- | of any foreigners there who want tative Harvey Smith, setting a $30 to leave before that locality is threat- | bounty on wolves and $20 on coyotes ened by the Japanese offensive to and requiring that the trapper turn start early next week the skin in to the Territory when N R - claiming the bounty. " RULED OUT AS _|FROZEN HERRING CANDY BROKERS | BEING IMPORTED, EU. S. Circuit Court Affirms| LANDS KHCHIKA"J Order of Federal Trade |Canadian Lands Another | Commission on Deals | 30 Tons, Making Tofal | | sas gdRman cuL. vob. 15| of 96 Tons | | Punch boards arewTuled out as candy | salesmen by the United States Cir-| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb, 15.— lcuit Court, Canadian vessel Chief Seegay 1s dis- | ‘ By the decision, the Circuit Court | charging 30 tons of frozen herring | affirms the Federal Trade Commis- | imported by the cold storage plant. | sion’s order enjoining five Washing- | This makes a total of 96 tons impor- ted to date. Insurgents as the legal Government | ton state candy manufacturing firms | in Spain is “still under considera- | tion”. The Cabinet is reported to have | agreed in principle and such aclion‘ will be taken at the appropriate moment, from using the punch board as sales-| The Seegay brought a total of 33| manship. [tons of frozen bait on each of the The court ruled the “method is|two previous trips. obviously a lottery, a gambling de-| The imported bait is required be- vice, the blanks are many and the|cause of a scarcity of herring in lo- lucky numbers few.” cal waters, I LIQUOR BILL JOKER STIRS SENATE WAR Cockfail Bill Cleavage Is Evident Again as New Measule Argued Echoes of the Senate fight over the cocktail bill reverberated through that house again this morn- ing as the hard liquor wing chal- leneged an alleged joker in another bill which might void Senator Nor- man R. Walker’s measure allowing sale of hard liquor by the drink. The bill under discussion was Senate Bill No. 32, by §enator O, D. Cochran, member of the embat- tled anti-cocktail forces. The bill's purpose is to close liquor stores on election days until after the polls close, but several Senators professed seeing in it a clause which would cancel the action taken on Senate Bill No. 10. That clause, part of the present statute and quoted in Senator Coch- | ran’s bill as preamble to the new matter dealing with election day closing, reads as follows: “Nor shall such licensee permit the drinking of hard or distilled | liquors by any person upon the premises covered by his license.” Four to Four Senator C. H. LaBoyteaux’s mo- tion to recommit the bill, then in third reading, to committee for specific amendment of striking the offending clause, was lost when Senators voted four to four on it. Those voting against the motion were Senators Cochran, Victor C. Rivers, Henry Roden and LeRoy Sullivan, When Senator Roden indicated a (Continued on Page Eight) NORTHLAND IS LEAVING, FULL LOAD Tongass Is_T;king Cargo Aboard, Scheduled to Sail During Night TROUBLE HOLDING UP ALASKA S. S. VESSELS Mefal Trades Council Have Pickefs at Wharf- Lockout Claimed BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Feb. 15.—~The Northland is scheduled to leave about 3 o'clock this af- ternoon. Aboard will be 741 sacks of first class mail for Ketchikan Wrangell, Petersburg and Ju- neau, SEATTLE, Feb. 15. — The first fresh food shippéd from Seettle to Alaska in 18 days, with fhe excep- tion of cargoes on a few smali boats, one of which sank on the way north, is posted to leave here today. The Northland, of the Northland Transportation Company, to be load« ed to capacity, prinicpally with fresh products, is scheduled to sail for Juneau and way ports at 1 o'clock this afternoon although it may be later as shipments were received on the dock up to the noon hour. The Tongass is ‘loading and is scheduled to get away during to- night. . Meanwhile the officials of the Metal Trades Council met with the Alaska - Steamship Company repre- sentatives in attempts to straighten out the difficultiesn of that line. Metal Trades Council pickets are at the dock of the Alaska Steamship Company and members of uniofts employed on the steamers of that Company refuse to go through the lines, The Metal Trades Council is de- manding full pay from the time the West Seattle yards of the Alaska Steamship Company were cjosed as the result of the walkout of tfie Mas+ ters, Mates and Pilots, to date, claim- ing the closing of the yards was & “lockout.” The North Coast of the Northland Transportation Company is sched- uled to sail Priday morning at 10 o'clock. PREMIER IMREDI RESIGNS Parliamen!fipposed fo Jew Program-He Lafer Says He Is a Jew BUDAPEST, Feb. 15. — Premier Bela Imredi has resigned because of opposition of Parliament to his sweeping proposals regulating Jews. After his resignation, Imredi start- led party members by announcing he has discovered that he himself is partly Jewish. Imredi had attempted to persuade his colleagues of the National Unity Party to adopt his anti-Jewish pro« gram which envisaged laws curtaile ing the political rights of the Jews and barring them from certain types of work. 0 Imredi declared that one of his great grandparents was born a Jewa Stock QUoTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 15. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 9%, American Can 93, American Power and Light 3%, An- aconda 28%, Bethlehem Steel 68%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright common 7, Curtiss Wright A 26%, General Motors 48, International Harvester 59, Kenne- cott 36%, New York Central 18%, Northerh Pacific 11%, Southern Pa~ cific 16%, United States Steel 59%, Pound $4.68%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES ‘The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 144.60, rails 20.93, utilities 24.85.