The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TI) VOL. LIII, NO. 8039. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1939. 1E” LEGISLATORS RUSH | | -COASTGUARD Artists Pick Her [ 7 . GIVEN BOOST, ; | ALASKA AREA .: House Co m'mniflee Ap- - German Spy . proves Addition of 3 ~ Cutter, 15 Airplanes WASHINGTON, March 1. — The House Merchant and Ma- rine Committee has approved of an adi on of three cutters and 15 airplanes for expansion of the Coast Guard and Geo- detic survey facilities in Al- aska. Chairman 8. O. Bland of- fered the bill, which authorizes construction of l-.hrfl' cutters of 2,000 tons displacement with a speed of net less than 20 knets, also planes with a cruis- ing range of 2,000 miles. The bill also authorizes the establishment of a Coast Guard Base Air station on a site to be chocen by the Coast Guard. Another measure approved authorizes expenditure of nearly $1,500,000 for a main swveying ship of 1,500 tons, plus an ary vessel of 125 tene displacement for the Coasl and Geodetic Survey in Al- aska. >ee Ring Jailed, Mexico Cily Brother- in - Law of Berlin Police Head Taken in Eight Arrested MEXICO CITY, March 1.—The Mexican newspapers today linked the hunt for a mysterious unlicensed radio transmitter to an investiga- tion into so-called German espion- age in which the newspapers said , the brother-in-law of the Berlin Chief of Police is detained aniong eight persons taken into custody on Monday. The man is identified in the news- papers as Baron Hans Heinrich Von . Holleufer, related by marriage, to Count Von Helldorf, Berlin police head. The German Legation announced it has intervened through the Mexi- can Foreign Relations Office to ob- tain a stay of deportation proceed- ings against the Baron who came here in 1931 as a refugee from pre- Nazi Germany and remained as a re- presentative of several German firms. Informed sources said those de- tained with the Baron are “mostly Germans.” The detention followed disclosure of an unregistered radio short wave transmitter operating in a suburb of Mexico City. Communications Department of- ficials said they had picked up the strongest signals in the vicinity of the Spanish cemetery on the out- skirts of the city, giving rise to sup- position in some sources that the transmitter is within the cemetery itself. e BROKEN BRAKE PART IS CAUSE OF SIX DEATHS Trolley Car Smashup in Boston Also Injures One Score Persons BOSTON, Mass. March 1. — A broken brake part which “never occurred before” is blamed by the Boston Elevated Company officials as the cause of a trolley car smash= up yesterday which killed six per- sons and injured nearly one score others in the city’s worst street car accident since 1916. The yearly cost of accidents in the United States, including loss of wages, has been estimated by the National Safety council at $3,- B | | Cobina Wright Selected by a committee of ai and writers as the most beautiful girl in m ¥ h, Fla,, is Miss Cobina Wright, New York and Florida socialite. ARCHBISHOP | FOR ALASKA IS INDICTED Charged wmerjury and Conspiracy in Depor- tation Hearing NEW YORK, Marc —The Most Reverend Nicholas John Kedroff, Archbishop of the Russian Ortho- dox Greek Catholic Church of North America and the Aleutian Islands, has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury. The clergyman is charged with perjury and conspiracy to represent falsely that Michael P. Kosolapoff, Russian, was born in Sitka, Alaska. ‘The alleged offense occurred atl poftf. a seven-year prison sentence and $12,000 fine, niaximum. DAII;—Y FlIGH?S T0 BE DOUBLED, N.Y.T0 CHICAGO Two Million Seat Miles to Be Added fo Serv- ice Annually .| NEW YORK, March 1., — The Transcontinental Western Air Lines announces that the number of daily flights between New York and Chi- cago will be doubled at once, adding 2,000,000 seat miles yearly to the airlines capacity. Fourteen daily flights each way will be made. 'REICH-BORDER DEFINED NOW BERLIN, March 1—Changes in Germany's frontier line since the annexation of Austria and the Su- new official Statistical Year Book which has just appeared. The addition of Austria to the Reich made the German-Szech bor- |der the longest: 1,281 miles, com- |pared with 955 before the an- schluss. Likewise, the German - Swiss frontier is now 325 miles long, com- pared with 260 miles before. a deportation hearing for Kosola-| If convicted the clergyman faces | detenland are enumerated in the | SECRECY OF WAR PARLEY UNDER FIRE flundeen Says Nation Would Be Stunned If It Knew Details WASHINGTON, March 1—Sena- Itor Ernest Lundeen, of Minnesota, | today told the Semate thal if American people ever learned what in President Roosevelt's with Senate Mili- | tary Committee several weeks ago, | “the nation would be shocked and | what | the was said conference the stunned by the secrecy of was said there.” Lundeen's statements climaxed the sudden flaring of acrimonious debate as to secrecy that surround- | ed the committee’s investigation of official assistance given the French | Air Min; y in coming here to pur- chase war planes, Debate Touched Off Senator H. Styles sriages of New Hampshire touched off the debate with charges that the confidential | record of testimony before the com- | mittee to its investigation of plane sales told a “different story” from expurgated - testimony later | made public by the committee. i Bridges said confidential copies | he returned to the committee for | safekeeping, were destroyed. This | disclosure was made today when Bridges asked for return of the re-! port as Accusations nulor Tom Connally of Texas| |accused Bridges of having had a| |part in providing news leaks from | the committce, which Bridges de- | nied. | Bridges also assured his lips were | sealed also with reference to the| White House conferenc from which | some Senators are said to have! emerged with the impression that the Administration had committed |itself to aiding European democra- leies in preparation against any| threats of aggression by totalitarian pOWers PRREAE 20 =5 S5t PEACE TALKS, | LABOR GROUPS ~ WILL COME UP ‘Secretary Perkins fo Call. AFL-CIO Negofiators | fo Conference WASHINGTON, March l.-—S(‘CN,'-" I tary {call a meeting of the AFL and CIO | | peace negotiating committee within (a few days. } | The Secretary said she had a few |details regarding the conference ! |bring peace between the two labor | their heavy load of moose meat t0 | . i\, the Supreme Court, town where it was used as evldenoe.‘ |groups but she wants to discuss | them first with President Roose- velt on his return, probably on Sat- |urday. CIO President John L. Lewis yes- terday appointed three negotiators, himself and two Vice-Presidents, Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray. .. 62 CARDINALS ARE READY T0 | VOTE, NEW POPE Enfire College Assembled for Election, First Time in Many Years VATICAN CITY, Italy, March 1.—| | Sixty two Cardinals today met in solemn Conclave to begin the elab- orate process of electing a new Pope. i With. the arrival of Cardinal| O’Connell, from Boston, Massachu- | setts, the entire college is present at the Conclave for the first'time in many years. Actual voting does not start until! tomorrow and will be behind lock- ed doors. Attendants rushed the last pieces of baggage and supplies for Lenten meals into the Conclave quarters, Here are the first hundreds of what fair officials hope will be many million visitors to ‘he Golden Gate exposition on Treasure island in fan Fran- FARM LEGISLATION MUST FIRST BE GIVEN OKEH BY MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — s | PRICE, 7L/ N CENTS _ LASTMINUTE BILLY position’s beauty B cisco bay, California. Photo shows fair visitors entering the Court of Reflections, one of the ex spots. MAYOR KELLY RENOMINATED BY DEMOCRATS NOR“‘I DAKOTA IEAMMA“S | Polls largefiimary Vote FLYING WARDEN SIGHTS TWO MEN KILLING MOOSE Signals fo Partner Who Makes Arrest in Snowshoe Chase ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 1.— Aerial Game Warden Sam White's watchfulness resulted in $200 fines land 30-day jail sentences for Her-| man Bluemke, 43, and Emil Giese, 42, both of whom pleaded guilty to killing moose out of season. White was piloting his own plane of Labor Perkins said she will|when he spotted the men with a| deall moose and signaled Warden Jack O'Connor, who was on fhe ground, and later caught the men after a 15-mile snow shoe chase. O'Connor made the men carry BRSNS L W ‘ Stock QUOTATIONS l SIS SIS | NEW YORK, March 1. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 93%, American Power and Light 6%, Anaconda 30%, Bethlehem Steel 73%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright common 6%, Curtiss Wright A 25%, General Mo- tors 49%, International Harvester 612, Kennecott ‘37%, New York Central 197%, Northern Pacific 124, Southern Pacific 18%, United States Steel 63%, Pound $4.687%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages® industrials 147.15 |rails 32.45, utilities 25.85. SPECIAL MEETING OF (ITY (OUNCIL T0 BE TOMORROW A special meeting of the City Council to clear away accumulated business has been called for tomor- row night at 8 o’clock, Mayor Harry 1. Lucas announced today. e — The official name of Germany is Deutsches” Reich. By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, March 1—Every | | piece of farm legislation that has | :b(:fn enacted in Congress for a| | half dozen years has had first hurdle substitute legislation of s | sort proposed by the famou { of Frazier and Lemke, ar iagmn this year. | There isn’t a team in Congress ! that functions with such a com- pletely unanimous spirit as |two North Dakotans, Senator Fra- lzier and Representative Lemke. }Thezr names are paired =o often on pending legislation that Lemke gets| mail addressed to “Representative Prazier Lemke.” { Their prineipal legislative aim is| |to relieve farm troubles, for both insist that most of the recent ills | of the country ean be traced direct- |1y to faflute to solve the farm prob-| | Together framed the 1934 | Farm Mortgage moratorium act, {which was held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court the following | year Revised and enacted again, the {act s on the way back for a new they | BACK OF IMPORTANT BILLS This session both have introduced cost-of-production” farm bill | which originated in the wheat and |eorn belt. A dozen other members {also have introduced the bill. Ad- | ministration leaders say it hasn't a ghost of a chance to pass, but | Prazier and Lemke say it will. Fra- zier is holding hearings on it. Under the bill's provisions, the| | Secretary of Agriculture would de- termine a fair price to the farmer for about 50 crops, taking into con- sideration the labor and manage- | {ment of the farmer and his family, his investment, and other factors. | Then dealers, all of whom would | be strictly licensed, would be pro- hibited from paying less than this| | "cost-of-production” price. { These two men have played along together since college days when |they were football buddies. Frazer | | is the executive type, For three years | | he was captain of the football wam,; ia bulky eenter, Lemke, now a facile- |minded attorney, ,was a fly-weight guard. He became captain when | Frazier was graduated. Their favor-| ite play was for Lemke to back out| of the line, take the ball, duck| around Frazier’s shielding posterior, and hit the line on the other side of | center, In 1916 Frazier was elected gover- | nor, and re-elected twice. “He was the best governor North Dakota ever f (Continued on Page Three) Ever Recorded in His- fory of_ Chicago CHICACGO, Mayor Edwird by the poweriu ganization, 3 largest primary Chicago’s history ination. Viarch 1 backed or 1t Kelly Bemaocratic poiled the 1om cleciion v in to win r Kelly dei d State Thoma Courtney, who enlered the contest with a reputation of being a tremendous vote puller. Moyor Kelly rolled up more than 50 percent of all voics in both primaries. Dwight H. Green, former Uni- ted States Attorney, who gained fame as prosecutor in the “Scar- face” Al Capone and other gan- gster cases, has been nominat- ed Mayor by the Republicans over former Mayor William Hale “‘Big Bill” Thompson, by better than three to one, e HOUSE BODY OKEHS BIG PLANE BIL $5,000,000 for War Dept, Approved by Appro- priatigfls_ Com. WASHINGTON, March 1, — The House Appropriations Committee has approved of the $499,000,000 appropriation for the War Depart- ment. Included in the appropriation is the first funds to carry out the President’s proposed expansion of the Army Air Corps, the purchase of 784 additional planes. Most of the new planes will be of the combat type. There will also be single-engined pursuit ships and attack bombers of a new type. ‘There wil also be primary train- ing planes, ' planes, cast photography |basic training ships for National Guards and combat type of ships for organized reserves. e, The weekly attendance at Ameri- can motion picture theatres is esti- mated at 90,000,000 BILL TAXING BANKS GETS SENATE 0. K. Solons Spend Midnight in Llabor-14 Measures Go toiHouse They set the clock back in the Senate last night and worked until 12:20 o’'clock this morning (midnight, Senate Standard Time) to clean up the calendar and get all Senate bills which Senators hope will pass this session over to the House. Score for the day: 11 bills, two memorials and one resolution pass- ed; 16 bills and one memorial de- feated, either by outright vote, in- definite postponement or refusal to suspend the rules to advance a mea- sure from second reading to final passage. Yesterday was the last day either house will receive bills from the other, without the consent of two- thirds of the members to which the House receiving the bill is entitled, so Senate bills which did not go over to the House last night are dead, un- less so voted by the House. Bank Tax Passes Of the bills which did go over, as a result of yesterday's labors, only | one, Senate bill No. 55, by Senator | Victor C. Rivers of Fairbanks, is of much consequence. The others are minor appropriation bills and mea- | sures dealing with legal technicalit- | les. The Rivers bill, amended several times in the course of its journey through the Senate, provides as fin- ally enacted that every bank, nation- al banking - building and loan association and mutual savings bank must pay a license tax of one land one-half percent of the true | cash value of capital stock at the end of each year. Another section of the bill fixes a license tax for the construction | business, setting fee of $20 per year | for resident concerns and $500 for outsiders who do business in the Terrilory. The Rivers to one, with only ran voting nay No Permit System 1y after a two-c for life was itor © ate bill No. 88 which wor tablished 2 permit sale. The bill advances cond reading yeste ;um only five of the volgs on a motior rules to advance it to fin | A vote of two-thirds is nece suspend the rule T | against suspending the and | thus to kill the bill, were ators C. H, LaBoyteaux, James Patterson and Norman R. Walker. Senator Cochran’s refusal, as Chairman of the Education Commit- tee, to report out several other lig- uor bills was responsible in large measure for defeat of his own mea- sure, Senators retaliated by blocking the Cochran bill. Only two bills deal~ ing with liquor legislation got through the Senate all session. One was Senator Walker’s bill allowing sale of hard liquor by the drink. The other was Senator LaBoyteaux’s bill prohibiting sale of liquor to natives, which passed yesterday morning. Flood Control From the list of bills passed yes- terday, one other stands out as of considerable importance. It is Sen- ate bill No. 56, by Rivers, declaring a policy of cooperation with the Fed- eral Government in flood control and river and harbor projects. A sharply~ challenged section of the bill assum- es for the Territory liability for all damages arising out of the construc- tion of such projects. ‘Two measures were withdrawn yes- terday by Senator Henry Roden. They were Senate bill No. 80, dealing with the license fees of insurance agents, and Senate joint memorial No. 12, asking an increase in pay for employees of hte custodian ser- vice in Pederal buildings. A memorial by Rivers asking an in- crease in pay for postoffice employees was passed after the Fairbanks Sen- ator pleaded with members of the Judiciary Committee to reconsider their “do not pass” recommendation which Rivers said was decided upon “at about 11 o'clock one Sunday morning, when the Senators were probably feeling a bit dyspeptic.” Love's Labor Lost Last hour of the weary Senate's time last night was spent in reading and amending a lengthy bill by Sen- ator LeRoy Sullivan to revamp the Territory’s statutes dealing with de- (Continued on Page Three) bill passed Senator O, D. Coch+« Finally yE W liguor through se- but could Senate's eight spend the puskage to voting se | - and kindred HOUSE BEATS (LOCK AFTER HOT SESSION Stormy Night Meefing [s Hard on Gavel-Senate Sent Sea of Bills Lusty lunged Representatives in the House, racing the clock last night to get under the Senate ac- ceptance deadline, gave a jammed gallery its biggest show of the ses= sion, and gave Sueaker Howard Lyng a sour outlook on the world and a sore gavel arm before mid- night closed the session and by- gones became bygones. X Legislators shouted at each other, “impugned” each other’s motives, and threw charges of “grandstand- ing,” while Speaker Lyng persist- ently wielded his gavel, at one time offering “to get hard boiled,” and another time threatening to have an “impugning” member removed | from the House. Record In the period of time between 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon until midnight, the House passed 19 meas~ ures and killed three to bring the day's total of bills handled to 29, in addition to nearly forty bills dealt with yesterday, setting some sort of record. Speaker Lyng took up the gavel at 7:30 last night with defiance, after experiencing supper time pres- sure from those wiio would have defeated two controversial measures in the afternoon, in which Lyng cast the deciding votes. The two measures were, House and House Bill 95, by Lander, was killed and if passed both houses, would have repe:ied criminal syn- dicalism laws of the Territory. Contabulary | Representative Davis’s constab- iuhry measures carries an appro- I priation of $30,000 to create the office of Chief of Constabulary, who appoint 13 Territorial Constables, Duties of the law body cover a wide range of license tax collection, liquor law enforcement, traffic law en- |enforcement on Territorial Roads, inspections of and mensures The measure passed, 9 to 7, The criminal syndicalism repeal measure offered by Lander, was de- | feated by a tie vote, laborites insist- |ing the law, enacted in 1917, during |the war, is outdated, unusued, and | of no use, and opponents of the bill | nsisting the law should be kept on the books in case of need. The law, which labor has long fought, defines criminal syndicalism |as “The doctrine which advcatese |crime, sabogage, violence, or other |unuawful methods of terrorism as | a means of accomplishing industrial |or political reform or which advo- |cates the overthrow, by force or viclence of the government of the | United States or the Territory of | Alaska.” The law also says “or other un- lawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing ¢ or political reform. Representative Davis, the measure, brought down coals fire from ex-service man Represen= tative Smith of the labor block when he asked, “Are We Americans?” . Smith ex| insult at any question as to his patriotism, and said “six members of this House in favor of the bill are ex-service men.” The vote was 8 to 8. Voting for the bill were, Coffey, Dowd, Darger, Lander, McCormick, « Smith, Spencer, Walker. Voting against it were, Anderson, Davis, Gordon, Martin, McCutcheon, Por= ter, Rogge, Lyng. Coming back from supper, Rep= (Continued on Page Eight) Ethel Elvin fo Be Juneau Queen At lce Camival Miss Ethel Elvmn, yormer member of The Empire's repartorial staff, and now in Fairbanks, has been re- quested by the Committee of the Ju- neau Chamber of Commerce to re- present Juneau as Queen at the Ice Carnival at Falrtbauks on March 9, 10, 11 and 12. h As the time is too short to chodse sug= |