The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. LIIL, NO. 8035. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1939. PRICE TEN ALASKA SHIPPING IS BACK TO NORMAL Recommends Seattle-Juneau 'M Pilo SERVICEIS & . FEASIBLENS * (OM.REPORT % Appropriation of $213,- 000 Sought for Estab- lishment of Line " ALASKA STAR SYSTEM ALSO GIVEN APPROVAL SuperimenM Gives Most Favorably Testimony at Hearing WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. — The House Appropriations Commitee has recommended an appropriation of $213, 000 for a regular weekly air mail service between Seattle and Juneau during the fiscal year of 1940. g The committee said, in a report accompanying the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill, that ex- perimental flights during the past| vear have proved the feasibility of | a permanent route. i The Committee also suggested that | the House appropriate $125.000 to| continue star mail routes in Al- aska. ; ing for three days after beginning was unhurt. To Aid Development “ Published rgcords of the hearings NEw oFF'(IAl on the bill disclosed that the Post Office Department does not expect to break even on the new air mail but feels it will stimulate the de- velopment of the Territory and speed up communication and trans- IS CONSE(RATED portation between Alaska and con-! - tinental United States. 7 ald Created Bishop Co- adjufor for Alaska of the Air Mail Service, told the Committee it cost less to give Alaska a mail service than to build roads. He also said e Seattle-Juneau ! route will be well patronized “by virtue of the fact that there is not| SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 24—More such a good boat service.” than 250 High Catholic dignitaries Star Routes | from all parts of the United States In discussing the recommendation 8nd Canada gathered here today for the appropriation for the Alaska |When the Very Rev. Father Walter ® tistar routes, the committee report;‘]' Fitzgerald was created Bishop says there appeared “some well! v o | this forenoon. It is estimated that nearly 4,000 overflowed the church and spilled into the street. The church held 2,000 persons. Loud speakers were persons outside - the ar, of extending the jurisdiction of the Civil Aeronautics Authority to the| operation of all mail services as Al- | aska conditions are entirely different | from those existing in Continental | United States in that all classes of |2ranged so mail are transported by plane in church could hei ts Returr 1s Unhurt - EXEMPTION IN MINING IN ALASKA {Delegate Seeking F.Iimin-l ation Wage, Hour Act | of Placer Workers 'TWO PROPOSALS | BEING SUGGESTED tForty-fomour Week | Would Work Hardship | in Many Sections | WASHINGTON, Feb, 24.—Alaska | Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said | today the Wage and Hour Admin-| | istration is to devise some means | {to exempt placer miners from the; the Wage and | l | | | | hour provisions of | | Hour Act. Rey Shreck, Spckane, Wash., weather observation pilet, who was miss- - a rcutine flight, is shown with Mrs. Shreck, who is holding the compass the pilot removed from his plane after the crash in the snow-covered nerthern Idaho mountains, and d it to guide him in his 25-mile struggle through deep unow. He | Delegate Dimond said that if the 44 hour week was invoked on all| workers would be unable to make a | decent living because the hours of | employment are shortened. Season Limited Delegate Dimond has offered two | proposals solving the problem, an HUNGARY IS STARTING ON NEW PURGE | ‘.National Socialist Parly Banned-Will Fight Communism BUDAPEST, Hungary, Feb. 24. Coadjutor of Alaska at a three The Hungarian Government today | founded doubt as to the feasibility | DOUr session starting at 10 o'clock took a smash at the leading Na-| |tional Socialist Party and at the same time formally joined Germany, ‘Imly and Japan in accord. against | | international communism. | Al property of the National So-| ¥ before the entire subject can be @ POst in the Catholic Church. Alaska at regular rates of postage | and doubtless it will be some time | edjusted and new rates fixed. It is| possible some additional legislation may be required to deal adequately with the problem presented.” | The official is the first nativ X ¥ son of Washington to hold so high |to public safety, has been confis- cated. Among the dignitaries present | were Bishop J. R. Crimont of Al- aska, and Bishop Charles White of | Spokane and Archbishop Howard, | of Portland who delivered the ser-| - NEW WING FOR amendment to the Act to exempt all | placer mining carried on in remote | places where there is an inadequa | supply of workmen, or an amend- | | ment giving the Wage and Hour | | Administration discretionary auth- | :onty to make exemptions when such | iexemplmns are agreed to by both mine operator and miner. | ] Delegate Dimond said in most parts of Alaska, placer miners are;| opposed to a short week both from | {economic and social viewpoints. | 1I!EPR/ESENTMIVES | - PLODDING ALONG, ' COMPENSATION Forty-page Bill Occupying Men of House in Dry Session Today “pull day” expresses activities of the House of Representatives today. That body convened at 11 o'clock‘v this forenoon after a heavy session yesterday and listened to the min- utes of the previous day being read for nearly an hour, whereupon, be- cause of the press of committee| work, the House was recessed until | E‘cialisL Party, banned as a danger Three- 5 Cold Warehouse Consumed at Binghamton, N. Y. Unabls to stem three-alarm $100,000 blaze in bitter cold at Binghamto: The bmlding—an old railroad roundhouse—was use d to store oil, flour, caskets, refrigerators, autos. —effort to thaw water pipes with a blow torch. N. Y., firemen prevent spread. n, Cause IF UNITED STATES NEEDS INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY AS MILITARY ROAD, THEN BUILD IT, SAYS PATTULLO 24. —|any military need for the road al- Premier P. T. Pattullo, of ymu.fih‘though some seem tlorbe Hlfl"";‘“ Columbla, said here that the | :{:; ;::dhlzhway will form a mili- United States requires the Alusknl The Premier said British Colum- Highway through British Columbia | bia would maintain complete con- and the Yukon Territory as a mili- | trol over the highway and added: tary road that is all the more rea-| “But if the United States is ever son why the International Highway | in war, that will test her strength, should be built. | Canada will certainly be in it with Premier Pattullo said neither| her. British Columbia occupies a President Roosevelt nor other Unit- | strategic position and that fact must ed States officials have mentioned | be recognized.” 19MOREBILS | MINE WEALTH GOUNDERWIRE | OF NORTH IS VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb HOUSE SESSION Represenfafives Reach 141 Mark in Presenta- ON_ INCREASE {Too Little Prospecting, However, Stewart Re- BULLWINKEL PLEASED [mon. SEATTLE, Feh. 24.—Robert Bull-‘ Bishop Crimont and Coadjutor winkel, Manager of the Pan Ameri- |Fitzgerald will probably not leave can here, said the company will { for the north until late next month. probably use four-engined flying T T boats which will be based on Lake | Grubstake ‘Washington. He said he was pleasedi by the action of the House Appropri- | ( . arries Day In Senale ation Committee. | The route between Seattle and!| The time-honored grubstake, sym- bol of Alaska credit, won a vote of Juneau has been chartered durmg" confidence from the Territorial Sen- ate this afternoon when members the symmer and fall, last year. | voted seven to one to indefinitely | The service will conneet at Juneau | | postpone a bill which it was-claimed would upset the grubstake idea. with the established air mail to| It no other part of the worid, Sen- Fairbanks. (3 e - » Typog ator Joe Hofman declaimed, can a | total stranger walk into a store and . raphical Error, Says ‘ Tax Collector : : 1 | obtain goods on credit so that he | can go out to make his living. It's not the net gold tax but the| " | Senator Victor C. Rivers, author | , s ti"fhj:::‘ L;h?‘fx m(;‘;enpe‘,’r‘:: | of the bill, said that the days of the Collector in the Treasurer's Omce._g.rubsuke ypre b a“_d_ Stige thid sald. today fn' clearing ip s Nitle |is me»day of high-pressure sales- BB inderandine which had etisn | L Ie D 0K VETPERE IR Cplon & : tion, as an outcome of his recent prep-| e pill, Senate bill No. 47, would aration of a report on taxation. have changed the statute of limi- Through a typographical the k:"epcm, stated that 80 percent soounts) to outlaw suits for collec- of the persons Green contacted in | tion after three years, instead of aft- connection, with tax collection were | ey six as is now provided. opposed to a net tax on gold, Senators voted to allow store- whereas the intention of Mr. Green | keepers to collect on grubstake cred- was to say that 80 percent cbject- it peyond the three year limit pro- ed to a gross tax on gold, posed ¥ y % €TTOT, | tations on implied contracts (open | FEDERAL BLDG . WINS APPROVAL EHouse Appropriations Committee Places Ju- neau on Building List | Approval of expenditure of $301,- 000 for construction of a new wing in Washington by the House Ap- 1 propriations Committee, according | to advices received by the The Em- | pire. ‘The Commitiee, reporting on more than $146,000,000 worth of construc- tion which has been approved by the Treasury and Postoffice Departments mended for Alaska. of the Federal Bullding here, said | the new addition would be built to {attach to the rear left wing of the present building. The cost of such an addition, which would be five | storfes high to mateh the present structure: has been estimated at slightly more than $300,000, Wile said, | to the Federal and Territorial Build-| |ing in Juneau was announced today | 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. When work picked up again after lunch, House bill 18, the Habitual Criminal bill, was continued in se- | cond reading, as were the appropri- ations bill and the Department of Labor and Mines measure. Next on the calendar was House bill 87, for amendments, repeals, and | general rewrite of a compulsory | Workmean’s Compensation Act, a| measure 40 pages long. ' Representative Karl® Drager, at-| torney of the House, nominated to| that position unofficially and wlth-; out consideration because he is the | sole lawyer of the lower body, balked. He suggested the measure be ad- | vanced to third reading and passed to the Senate, baldly stating “There | are three lawyers in the Senate, who with their friends, enjoy amending | even minor House bills. Let: them take care of this one.” | Representative Walker, charging | | i | | House Committee had worked three Ideult with in the House. Drager withdrew his motion _and | ILegislat-oxs waded deeper into the| | ponderous tome that sets up a num- ber of scaled benefits for injuries and deaths. | At three o'clock; amendment was still proceeding, only seven pages in- to the forty. ) ports to Legislature tion of Legislation ‘Nineteen new House bills were in- The biennial report of B. D. Stew- troduced last night when Represen- art, Territorial Commissioner of tatives reached the deadline for in- Mines, was received by the Legisla- troduction of measures without hav- ture today from the Office of the ! Governor, painting an encouraging picture of Alask's mineral develop- ment, but expressing disturbance at the lack of prospecting for new pro- perty. | Taking a few highlights out of the | report, it is said that within the last two years the number of mechanized mining plants and the number of men -employed in operating them, and the value of the mineral wealth produced, has increased by at least 20 percent. ing to receive a two thirds majority permission of the House for fur- ther introduction. The bills, running a long list of “pet” legislation and constituency desires, includes four that were read by title only. Last minute bills were as follows: House bill 123, Rogge, to appropri- ate $1,29298 to reimburse Murray Hall, former inspector of aeronaut- ics, for the expenses incurred by him and his family in coming to Al- aska in 1934. | House bill 124, Spencer, amending Platinum Production the salary provision of the Unem-| The report also says the decline ployment, Compensation Law to per-| of 40 per cent in copper production for consideration in a future build- | that the Senate had in a previous mit the Chief’s salary of $4200 @ value occasioned by the shut-down ing program, listed the Juneau ad-|session “tabled a similar measure|year to be fixed instead by the Un-|of the Kennecott mines, is nearly dition as the only project ’emm'!“’“h"“t even reading it, after a/employment Compensation Commis-| compensated for by the spectacular sion. {increase in value of platinum metals Postmaster Albert Wile, custodlaniweeks oh it,” urgéd the measure be| House bill 125, Lyng, to compen- | produced. sate H. C. Longley for services mf Coal tonnage increased 11 per the death and burial of John Landcent during the biennium over any at Shelton, Alaska, and appropriate | previous production year. $75. There has been a gratifying in- House bill 126, Lyng, to compen-|crease in the number of lode proper- sate Lea Stevens for serVices in con-|ties on which mining equipment has nection with instaliation of a radlo;been installed and on which new «Jontinued on Fage Two) (Continued on Pfie Seven) AMERICAN MADE ' CHINESE FORCES Japanese Pilofs, Follow- ing Raid, Aerial Battle, Make Their Reports SHANGHAI, Feb. 24—Japanese reports, compiled after a check of pilots who took part in the raid and aerial battle at Lanchow yes- terday, indicate that American-made planes now make up a considerable part of the Chinese air forces. The pilots reported that Seversky single-seated fighting planes made their first appearance in defense of Lanchow, Kansu provisional capital, and strategic point on the Soulet Russia-China supply route. Japanese pilots also assert that Curtiss Hawks, Soviet-built planes, also took part in the aerial defense |and opposed them in dog fights. The pilots claim they spotted Douglas bombers on the air field. The Japanese authorities claim they bombed more than 50 Chinese planes, shot down or destroyed on the air field, but make no state- ment regarding their own losses. EMPLOYMENT OF RESIDENTS IRKS OUTSIDE UNIONS Hof Profests fo Canne}y Bill Received from Seattle Unions Telegrams of provest against Sen- ator Henry Roden's Senate bill No. 67, which would require that at least half of the persons employed in each fish cannery in Alaska would have to be resident citizens, were received today from four Seattle unions. Appalling “in behalf of 8,000 fish- ermen nad alien workers” was Unit- ed Fishermen’s Union of the Pacific, while the Washington District Coun- cil No. 1 of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific wired that the bill is a “flagrant discriminatory move against organized labor.” Cannery Workers and Farm Lab- orers Union Local No. 7 protested that the act “will only bring turmoil and f#reat economic loss to industry and labor.” Indignantly, Alaska Fishermen’s Union wired that “our understand- ing is that Alaska is still part of the { “| United States.” Air Mail Route AGREEMENTS 'REACHED IN SHIP CASES Mefal Trade Council An- nounces Seftlement of Differences ALASKA STEAMSHIP ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE Cordova Sailing Tomor- row Morning, Yukon Tomorrow Evening SEATTLE, Feb. 24, — The Metal Trades Council announces a settlement of all differences with the Alaska Steamship Com- pany, leaving the ships of that line free to resume service. Alaska Steamship Company officials announce the Cordova will sail for Southeast and Southwest Alasks ports at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning and the Yukon will sail tomorrow night at 7 o’clock over the same immediately in the Alaska Steamship Company’s West Se~ attle yards. This with other agreements reached previously has appar- entiy settled all the Alaska ship- ping disputes. Yesterday, four Seattle-Alaska steamship companies announced signing a supplementary agree- ment with the Masters, Mates and Pilots, adjusting all griev- ances which grew out of the recent walkout of licensed of- ficers. BAY DISTRICT 1S TIED UP BY SHIP TROUBLES Semi-Paralysis in Marine Circles af San Fran- csco, Oakland SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24.—Bay shipping today has been thrown into a state of semi-paralysis due to a labor dispute between water- front employers and dock checkers loading and unloading most of the ships in San Praneisco and Oak- land. Picket lines appeared along the waterfront and a series of confer- ences have been called between em= ployer and labor groups to plot ous the next move. ‘The exact extent of the tieup and possible consequences awaited the outcome of meetings of both eme ployers and labor groups. It was agreed that the dispute is locale ized and that it will not spread to other ports. y The paralysis began at 8 o'clock this morning when the employers’ edict refused employment to check- ers until the union withdrew picket lines at the Encinal Terminal at Oakland. The two groups reached a’ stalemate argument over how to settle the differences over which of the two contracts to enforce. COUPLE END LIVES INDOUBLE HANGING ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 24.—A suicide pact by hanging was uncovered by police recently. Police breaking into the apartment of Paul O, Bennett, twenty-nine, street car motorman, found both Bennett and his wife dead from hanging. Police believe Bennett hanged his wife and then himself. No motive was known. ! R