The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS et VOL. LIIL, NO. 8037. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1939. ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS STRIKES OF SITDOWNERS CONDEMNED Great Britain, Fran END OF WAR -~ NEAR:AZANA WILL RESIGN Armistice Set - Britain, France fo Recognize Franco Regime BRITAIN WANTS T0 . Picketing W ins, Dog Stays | 2 | ailment of the heart. He was 51 years ! HIROSO SAITO DIES SUDDENLY IN WASHINGTON Former Japanése Ambas- sador Passes Away, Heart Ailment WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 Saito, former Japanese Ambassador to the United States died unexpect- edly yesterday as the result of an Hiroso of age. Saito retired last fall and subse- quently declined an offer to become Japan’s Foreign Minister, giving ce Recognize Franco HIGH COURT N DECISION RAPS ACTION Employees Have'No Righf fo Seize Any Planfs of Employers NLRB IS HARD HIT BY OPINION HANDED DOWN RELEASE PALESTINE | failing health as the reason. He | Lo | formerly served as Consul in Seattle | e Tribunal Refuses fo Re- TURNING THE TABLES, University of Missouri students picketed a labor picket on the Ambassador Kennedy SRS oL | before oming here a8 Ambassador.| Warns Against Restrict- ing Jew Immigration BULLETIN—PARIS, Feb. 27. —The French Cabinet has vot- cd unanimously for recognition of Gen. Franco as the legal Government of Spain. The French action following swiftly on the heels of British Premier Chamberlain’s an- nouncement in the House of Commens in Londen that Great Britain has accorded the Franco regime unconditional recognition. Both actions, taken in con- cert, have been foreshadowed since last Friday when French Premier ‘Daladier won - support of the Chamber of Deputies on recognition of Franco. (By The Associated Press) The end of the Spanish War ap- peared only a matter of hours to- day. The approach of peace in Spain came as Great Britain made a seemingly momentous decision as to the future of Palestine and a new flareup between Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land brought death to 26 and injuries to 49. Both Britain and France are set to recognize formally General Fran- cisco F co's Nationals, who have become supreme in Spain, as her legal rulers. Circles close to the tottering Re- | publican government said in Paris its Premier Juan Negrin had ac- cepted an armistice tantamount to unconditional surrender of the last one-fourth of Spain still under its control. President Manuel Azana of the Government Spain was in the lit- tle provincial French town of Col-| lon; Par Sous Saleve. He left Spain’s s embassy so a Nationalist Am- dor could occupy it. His res- ignation was believed to be already written. United States Ambassador Joseph Kennedy told the British Govern- ment* drastic restriction of Jewish immigration into Palestine ;/ and abolition of the mandate over the Holy Land would have “disastrous effect on public opinion in the United States.” His assertion followed disclosure of a British scheme, sybmitted only in outline, for a disgussion to end Britain's mandate in Palestine, to restrict Jewish immigration there and to set up a Palestine state with Jews as a minority. — . JEWS TO FIGHT NEW PROPOSAL, GREAT BRITAI National Council in Pales- Sally and Haney Fishner picketing | Because their mother didn’t want to let them keep Queente, & IOX terrier, Sally, 3, and Haney Fishner, 12, picketed in front of.Lhelr Brooklyn home for hours, as shown. Mrs. Fishner was firm in re- fusing to give in until the boy presented her with a formal petition, | bearing 42 signatures, which read: “My dear Mrs. Fishner. Please let this poor bo son, keep his dog.” That did it, Mrs. Fishner g to let Queenie stay. SQUABBLING WITH SENATE IS GREAT LOSS TOKYO, Feb. 27.—The spok man of the Japanese Foreign Office said the death of Hiroso Saito, former Ambassador to the United States, who died suddenly in Wash- ington, is a “great loss to the Na- tion and especially American relatios TWO FLEETS EXPECTED T0 - (LASHTODAY Black, White Forces Start Maneuvers-President Is Now at Scene MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 27.—The to Japanese- | BARANOF HOTEL " S00N OPEN FOR - BUSINESS HERE New Structure Will Offer Ultimate in Aecommo- dations fo Guests Juneaif's dominating business struc- ture. thy Baranof Hotel, will open its doors on March 11 | The new hotel building, upon which construction was commenced l1ast July, takes its place as the leading hostelry in Alaska with the completion of final work within the next ten days. Under the management of Robert Schoettler of Seattle and staffed by a personnel of 40 employees, the | first major engagement between the|hotel will offer residents and tran- - OLD PRESIDENTIAL CUSTOM | By PRESTON GROVER HOUSE Bu(KlES WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Nearly | every President has to have a good ¥ quarrel with the Senate—and just i Dow" To HEAVY about every time he loses, sometimes | | t tragically. Some of the exceptions are more tragic than the others. | President Roosevelt is having! Program of Legislation Is| Two Pages Long-Eight Bills Passed by Noon his quarrel over the appointment! of Floyd H. Roberts of Virginia as Judge of a western district in Vir- ginia. Senators Glass and Byrd of Virginia declared the President had made the appointment to embarrass them politically, so they relied on| the age old Senate tradition of com- lendar two pages |Plaining that it was to them both | Iong, 50 bills in d reading, three | Personally objectionable and obnox- | in third reading, four in first read-|ious. The Senate supported them ing and a Senate substitute for three |€i8ht to one by rejecting Roberts. ‘ House bills, Representatives today went into session with a vengeance in an attempt to ‘“clean the slate” before Wednesday night, deadline in the Senate for acceptance of House | measures, The first measure to get passing | vote this morning, as the House { The scuffle is not ended yet, of course, even though there has been | passed eight measures and tabled another before noon, was House bill a biting exchange of letters. The vacancy still exists. When s.nother; 86, creating a Department of Labor jand Mines. appointment comes down Glass and Byrd will attack it again, if, as| they expect, the appointment again | This bill passed the House 14 to 2 and was sent to the Senate. | House bill 87, companion to the is “personally objectionable” to | labor and mines measure, was given them. {a set back, however, when propon- | ents of the bill were forced to send | it back to House clerks for technical | revision to enable acceptance of the | measure in legality should it pass. House bill 105 was passed, direct- |ing the Territorial Board of Road | Commissioners to expend $6,000 on | the Bunker Hill and Dahl. Creek landing fiel Faced with a c mittee, views the disputes philosoph-i ically. | “A large number of Presidents| —Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Tyler, Lincoln, Johnson, Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson—had their quarrels with the | Senate, but quarrels between the President and the Senate, like the quarrels of the Medes and the Per- sians, admit of neither inquiry nor| explanation.” J WASHINGTON S FURIOUS { Every President, in his second term, says Ashurst, can expect such a battle. 1 “The reasons are many,” he says, | “and would take hours to summar- Washington came to the Senate| House bill 106, asking direction of the road commissioners to spend | | $3.700 on the Deering airfield, was also passed. | House Concurrent Resolution 2, | asking the Alaska Road Commission | ' main bodies of the Black and White Fleets engaged in the continental defense maneuvers, are due to take place in the Atlantic today. A radio dispatch from the cruiser Houston said the naval craft with President Roosevelt aboard joined the principal forces of the Black Fleet, the defending fleet, for the first time yesterday, north of Puerto Rico. MOB FIGHTS RECOGNITION GEN. FRANCO London CrofiAlso Shout "Chamberlain Must Go” in Demonstration LONDON, Feb. 27.—Police guards night Premier Chamberlain com- pleted a speech fo be delivered to- | day recognizing Gen. Franco’s Gov- | ernment as the legal Spanish Gov- ment. Almost 1,000 demonstrators shout- ing “No Recognition for Franco” stormed toward the Prime Minister Downing street residence. |sients of Juneau the ultimate aceommodations and service. Built by the Baranof Hotel Cor- | poration of which two Juneau men, |J. J. Meherin and Wallis George, lare President and Secretary-Treas | urer, the institution was built |largely through finances derived from stock sales to Alaskan resi- dents. in Gala Celebration Plans for an opening celebration of gala proportions are being for- mulated to officially dedicate the |new $550,000 Baranof Hotel Lobby portals to the elaborate seven-story structure will be thrown open for business on Saturday, | March 11. | Guests of the fine |will be treated to accommodations unequalled in Alaska and of a quality equal if not superior to that [found in any hotel in Northwest | United States Prime attraction of the building the large lobby and lounge sec- Finished with a walnut new hostelry \ |is tious. veneer and carpeted with a deep Saxony rug, the main lounge will !alrord guests the last word in | pleasant surroundings. Decoration lof this room is enhanced soft pleasing light. Dining Room The dining room, situated off the main lounge and sepagated from it by heavy velour drapes, is an out- !standing example of modern and |effective decoration. Attached to the walls of this 56 by 28-foot room are five large pan- by an in- | Senator Ashurt of Arizona, chair-|and firemen held anti-Franco dem-‘diroct cove light arrangement, dif-|,ver the refusal of the DAR to let man of the Senate Judiciary Com- |Onstrators from Downing Street last |fusing the entire interior with a| Taxes on ‘Business To Be Cuf Treasury E)aearis Working on Drastic Plan to Aid Industry WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.--Trea- sury experts, formulating drastic re- visions in corporation tangible evidence that businessmen | are cooperating with the Administra- a program for changes designed to make taxes slightly smaller and substantially simpler. The plan will however not be made public for at least a month, | Treasury experts state. FIRST LADY CAUSES STIR Announces Resignation from "Some” Organiza- taxes, give tion officials in WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — Mrs.. Franklin D. Roosevelt caused a stir | today when she announced that she has resigned from an organization whose politicies she could not agree | with but she refused to confirm or | deny whether the organization in- vBlved was the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was asked whether the resig- | nation had anything to do with the concurrent Washington controversy Constitution Hall here to be used | for a concert by Marian Anderson, | negro singer, and the answer evad- |ing the question. FAST ACTION ON “Chamberlain Must Go” was also eled mirrors, A ceiling of glass from | ARMV EXPANSION shouted as the demonstrators parad- ed from Trafalgar Square to Down- ing Street, where they halted. WALK FOR EXERCISE, NEW CONGRESS TOLD WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Dr. G. |which are suspended three chrom- |ium trenches containing neon !ub-’ ing, provide a daylight lighting effect in the salon. The floor is of inlaid linoleum with a striking pattern of the North Star and the Big Dipper arranged |in a circle field of blue in the very center. For fraternal affairs and other funetions this room will be used for dancing. BILL PREDICTED | Senafe Expeded fo Give | Speedy Approval of . Defense Program | campus at Columbia, Mo. The “KU” and “Jayhawk” refer to Kansas university, traditional rivals of | Missouri school. Organized labor sought to unionize the building service employes. LIQUORBILL REMAINS IN COMMITTEE Senator’s M;e fo Bring Wholesale Measure Out Defeated Efforts to have three important bills dealing with liquor control dis- charged from the Committee on Ed- ucation, Public Health and Morals failed today in the Senate. Included among the “buried” measures is Representative Harv- ey Smith’s House bill No. 9, setting up a Territorial wholesaling system. The bill was referred to in Senate argument today by Senator James Patterson as “the key to all liquor bills which have been brought be- fore this Legislature.” The Senate divided four to four on Senator Joe Hofman's motion to bring the 8mith bill out of com- mittee. Those voting to keep it safely under cover, at least for the time being, were Senators O. D. Cochran, C. H. LaBoyteaux, Victor C. Rivers and Norman R. Walker. Other Bills Held Up Benator Patterson’s motion to dis lodge his own Senate bills Nos. 65 and 89, dealing with liquor regula- tions, met the same fate, being kept in committee by the same combina- tion of votes. Senator Cochran, Chairman of the committee in which the bills repose, said that the committee has been too busy with other matters to give proper consideration to the liquor measures. When Senator Patterson spoke at length in favor of the House Terri- torial wholesaling bill, for which he put up a much more vigorous fight than for his own measures, Senator Cochran sought to silence him by rising to a point of order that the Valdez solon should confine his re- marks to the motion to discharge the bill from committee. Senate President Walker overruled the Cochran protest. Wholesale Bill Championed The wholesaling bill would bring to the Territory “hundreds of thou- sands of dollars in revenue,” Pat- terson claimed, and would take out of the hands of those now controll- ing the liquor traffic in Alaska the powers which have led to what Pat- terson termed abuses under the pre- sent system, “A good deal of the liquor legisla- tion being introduced is nothing but camouflage” to cover up faults in the present setup, Patterson declar- ed. Patterson’s bills deal with control of licenses and regulations as to the furnishing of liquor dispensaries, ete. No. 65 provides for a system of Territorial stores | view Case of Men Con- | viced, Sentenced WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — The Supreme Court of the United States today condemned the action of em- ployees who seize their employers’ plant in a sitdown strike. The decision was read by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes who upheld the right of the Fansteel Metalurgical Corporation to dis- charge employees who seized two key buildings in 1837 in a sitdown strike. N. L. R. B. HIT This is the third major decision delivered against the National Lab- ‘or Relations Board but the first im- portant defeat given the Board since the enactment of the Wagner Labor law in 1935. The Board had ordered the sitdowners to be reinstated but today's decision lets the case rest optional with the company. Chief Justice Hughes, in the deci- sion, asserted that “employees have a right to strike but they have no license to commit acts of violence or seize plants of employers.” No Legal Rights The decision characterizes the seizure and retention of property as “high handed proceedings without the shadow of a legal right.” The court also refused to review the contempt of court conviction of 39 Fansteel employees. They were charged with violating the court’s injunction restraining them from continuing a sitdown strike and were given varying sentences. Assoclate Justices Reed and Black dissented in part in the decision in the Fansteel decision. Associate Jus- tice Stone concurred in part but As- soclate Justice Frankfurter did not participate. AFL REQUEST IN CIO CASE THROWNOUT Longshoremen, as Bér- gaining Agency on West Coast, Not Reviewable WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to- day dismissed the request of the American Federation of Labor to review the National Labor Relation Board's decision giving the CIO Longshoremen exclusive bargaining privileges on the West Coast, The Court held that it lacked jur- isdfction and also contended that under the Labor Act, the Board's certification to the CIO’s Interna- tional Longshoremen and Ware- housemen’s Union as the bargaining agency is not reviewahle unless the case is before the court on the ques- tion of enforcement. tine to Oppose Change n HO’Y l'and | to furnish sleeping accommodations|to defend an appointment and un- 'W. Calver, the genial capitol physi- | Coffee Shop z | for camp employees, more comfort- derwent such rigorous ‘qucsnonlng‘cian. prescribed recently for the A coffee shop serving food at _ HAIFA, Palestine, Feb. 21—Arabs| 1 " an canvas cots, was also|that he left in high Virginia anger, | health of the new Congress. popular prices and seating 68 peo- joytully received the news that the| o oq and swore he never would visit the| “If I could get them to spend half ple, is accessable through the front British Government favors the -+ pouce Joint Memorial 34, askingPlacc again. {an hour a day walking, T'd cut the lopby or by an outside entrance Club Liquor *Bill Out One liquor measure which came out of committee today was Repre- sentative H. H. McCutcheon’s subs- | titute for House bill No. 6, providing WASHINGTON, Peb. 27.—Admin- istration leaders forecast a quick| Senate approval of the Army Ex- pension bill, expressing their belief VETERAN ACTOR tablishment, of a, Holy Land State| o Givi - Aeronautics Authority to| with the Jews, holding a minority status. The Jewish National Council of Palestine asserted it will oppose un. yielding the British Plan to practi- cally abandon Palestine. | establish a branch of aviation school | |at the | junction with the existing nation | wide plan, passed unanimously. (Answers on Page Six) Perhaps most tragic was the battle | between President Garfield and the and Platt, Gartield won the battle, | says Senator Ashurst, but lost his (Continued on Page Five) death rate in two,” he said. | Nine holes of golf would do the University of Alaska in con-1 two New York Senators, Conkling!trick just as well, Dr. Calver added, but not eighteen holes. That would be too much for men who are mid- dle-aged or older ard who aren’t used to such exercise. on Second Street. This contains |a horseshoe counter of walnut and | booth fixtures of the same material. | Situated to provide both dining room and coffee shop, the large (Connnhed“o:x A};Qg'e Three) on expectations that a general de- bate on foreign policies will be av- erted. Democratic leader Barkley said the measure, which carries a bulk of the President’s National = Defense program, will be passed by midweek. for the issuance of club cocktail lic- enses. The Education Committee re- ported the bill without recommenda- tion, with two members signing a dissenting opinion urging that the | (Continuea on Page T}z;;eh % DIES, HOLLYW0OD NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb, 27.—Robert P. Glecker, 52, veteran character actor of stage and screen, died yesterday at his home here as the result of uremic poisoning.