The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8041. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HOUSE RUSHES ARMY BILL TO SENATE POPE GIVES PRAYER FOR CALM WORLD Makes Peag_l(eysione of His Policy Same as Pre- decessor Did VATICAN CITY, Ttaly, March"3.— Pope Pius XII, new pontiff of the Catholic Church, today expressed hope for peace and accord among nations during his Pontificate, in a message broadcast to the entire Christian world. The Pope spoke five minutes in Latin and urged all men to devote themselves to “peace, faith, charity, | and love of Jesus Christ.” | The new Pope had earlier set his | fon date as March 12 Said the Pope in his speech: “We | invite everybody to seek peace of conscience, be tranquil in friendship and seek peace among familles un- | tied by the harmonized Holy love of Christ, and finally to peace among nations through mutual brotherly wssistance and friendly collabora- tion in these troublesome and diffi- cult hours. “While so many difficulties seem | to impede the attainment of that | peace, which is the most profound inspiration of our hearts, we raise te the Lord a special prayer for all| those entrusted to the high honor and grave burden of guiding peoples on the road.to prosper and pro- | coro; like his predecessor, the Pope of Peace, Pope Pius XIT made | the search of peace the keystone | of his policy in office. MORE ITALIANS ARE CALLED TO BEGIN TRAINING Milifary Class of 1918 Is Summoned fo Fill Ranksof 1919 ROME, March 3. — Italy today called her less than normal military class of 1918 to the colors for regu- | larg military training to fill out its ranks with part of the 1919 class and those rejected in the calling of earlier classes. The new conscripts bring strength of the Italian army to half a million | men exclusive uf th«, territorials, | | | | | GENERAL WOOD T0 BE ADVISOR OF SEC. HOPKINS Former Army Officer Ac- cepts Appointment for About 4 Months WASHINGTON, March 3.—Sec- retary of Commerce Harry L. Hop- kins has appointed Gen. R. E. Wood, of Chicago, as official advisor on business relations. Gen. Wood is a fromer regular Army officer and is now chairman of the Board of Sears, Roghuck. en. Wood will serve about four months, without title or administra- tive duties, simply being an aide to Secretary Hopkins. Gen. Wood ac- cepted the appointment on condi- tion that it is only tempomry. GANDHI STARTS HUNGER STRIKE IN INDIA STATE Insists Ihatfi;me Be Giv- en Right for Voice in Government | RAJKOT, India, March 3.—Gand- | hi sipped a cup of goat’s milk to- day and then foreswore food in a hunger strike to obtain administra- tive reforms for the inhabitants of this tiny state of Rajkot. Gandhi said he will fast unto death unless the Native Ruler gives the people a voice in the Govern- ment. Twihs-<of Different Ages T ) i S John Anthony John Anthony McDonnell (left), was brother, James Charles, but here he hospital. ! John Anthony arrived five | cians were considering a resort to surgery on Mrs, Milo C. McDonnell James Charles a bi* late in arriving to join his twin afe and sound in a Kansas City lays after James Charles. Physi- when the stork arrived Argentine Trade Rebellion Is Putfing Un Great Test ol Good Nelghborfsm 000 Bill Voled, Fces | outstanding archeologists TAX REVISION SUGGESTED T0 HELP BUSINESS Treasury Deparlmeni Seeks Recommenda- tions from Congress WASHINGTON, March 3.—Chair- men of both the Senate and the House Tax Committees have been | asked by the Treasury Department to submit recommendations revising taxes which “act as a deterrent to business,” as soon as possible after March 15 when income tax’ returns are made. Senator Harrison, of the Senate Finance Committee, and Chairman Doughton, of the House Ways and Means Committee, said the from Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau to members of the two committees declared that the Ad- ministration was in sympathy with e effort possible to encourage business. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRL FOUND SLAIN Strangled by Cord, then Brutally Clubbed Over Head OKLAHOMA CITY Okla. March | 3.—Heselteen Black, 13-year-old jun- ior high school Student, was strangl- ed by a cord and brutally clubbed. he was found dead in her home by her’mother. The body lay in a pool | of blood with the head battered | and crushed, An examination showed no ex- ternal evidence of rape and the of- ficers are mysli[ied PAA PLANE IN PAA Electrs. arrived from Fair- banks at 3:30 o’clock this after- noon with two passengers aboard from the Interior city, I. K. Mac- Williams and Richard E. Lee. At the controls of the ship were | Joe Crosson and Al Munson. ‘ e e — CROSSON FIES HERE Joe Crosson, General Manager for | Pacific Alaska Airways, arrived in Juneau today-on a PAA plane from | Fairbanks. letter | ifed States fo | By PRES' 0 GRO\I;K | WASHINGTON, March 3. — The| extent to which the United States is willing to go on being the “good neighbor” to the southern republics is put to the test by the Argentine| | trade rebellion. | Although the rebellion broke sud- r|enlv it didn’t take Washington of- fl(‘lsLs entirely by surprise. Argen- tina has had complaints of several years’ standing. Moreover, U. 8. of- | ficials knew that Argentina was un- | der pressure from Germany and | | England togive them a larger share of business. 8 In years past when trade barriers were only moderately high the Unit- ed States traded freely with Argen— tina. In years when Argentina| bought from us more than she sold she in turn sold England a lot of | |A1umtme goods. That’s how she got | the extra cash to pay for the excess | of U. 8. goods. In turn, the U. S.! | bought British goods so England | could pay Argentina. Foreign trade on that basis is a round robin af- fair, which balances out in the end, all things considered. | But after the war first one coun- try, then another, failed to buy| |its quota and so broke down the| |system. One of the tended to break down the Argen- |tine-U. S. part of the system, offi- | !cx: s here believe, was the .so.e-dy | rise since 1922 in U, S. tariffs on | Argentina products such as hides, flaxseed, linseed oil and canned | meats. | HULL AGAINST TWO-WAY PACTS Argentina negotiated special trade agreements with England and Ger- |many. In the Argentine-British | agreement England gets a 20 percent exchange advantage. Germany gets something comparable. Secretary | Hull refuses to have anything to do | with these strictly two-way trade | agreements, So U. S. trade has had | to hurdle a 20 percent advantage in order to compete with England. ‘Nevertheless the U. S. has com- | peted. During 1938, as in instance, | rArgeann brought $76,750,000 of iU 8. goods and paid $16,000,000 | on her debts, a total of $92,750,000. | The United States, however, bought | | only $29,999,999 of Argentina goods. | That made Argentina dig into its pockets for $63,750,000 to send here. Since England and Germany buy | more from Argentina than they sell, they can squeeze concessions. Also, | since. Argentina is buying more from | H.he U. S. than she sells us, she can | squeeze us. She is doing it. A 40 per- | cent cut in U. S. purchases has been ordered, knocking off about $31,000,- 1000 of trade. AUTO DEALERS HURT Stiffest jolt was U. 8. automobiles. | German and British exporters, in- cluding automobile manufacturers, (Continued on Page Seven) things that | s PicketLine RulingMade By Mediafor longshoremen May Pass Through Crowd of Chi- nese Women, Childen ASTORIA, Oregon, March 3. — | samuel Weinstein, Federal Mediator, | today ruled that longshoremen re- | ‘!usmu to pass the picket line of | | Chinese women and children who protested loading of scrap iron| | aboard a Japanese freighte violat- | | ed their contract in so doing { The decision was given in the week | long demonstration against sending | | American junk to Japanese factories | | for transformation into war mater- | ials for the conquest in China. | Harry Bridges met with the local and city officials and said the “men | realize their action is not in strict conformity with their agreement,” | but it is up to them to act indepen- | dently | Despite the mediator’s agreement, | ;a gang of dock workers declined to | pass through the trudging lines of ‘Chmcxe and 21 car loads of iron are! rusting in the rain and the Japan- | ese freighter Norway Maru is idle| : at the anc hur | 2 SENME PASSES BUILDING FUND FOR UN UNIVERSITY House Fight - Liquor Measure Killed | A $70,000 appropriation for new buildings at the University of Alaska | was voted today by the Senate, after | a full morning of discussion featured ‘by testimony of Dr. Charles G. Bun- | nell that the money was sorely need- | | ed at College to take care of an in-| | creased enroliment, } \ Senators voted five to three on the bill, which now is at the mercy of | the House, where a two-thirds vote |is necessary to suspend the rules to receive the measure. The House | this week defeated by a vote of eight to eight a similar bill which would have appropriated $80,000 for the | biennium. | Senators who voted against the bill were Henry Roden, who said | that introduction of such legisla- | tion was a violation of a promise made when the 1937 Legislature vot- led a $195,000 building fund that no| | request for additional building funds | would be asked at this session; Joe Hofman, who said that “the lifile red school house” had been dcprivedJ of needed funds this session and he | could not see why a large amount ould now be voted for the Univer- sity; and LeRroy Sullivan, who said he was of the opinion the bill would | make no headway in the House any- | way. To Complete Building Dr. Bunnell said the Regents nsked for a building fund of $121,000 this | | biennium but that they “would do the best they could” with the $70,000. | ‘The money will be used, he predkt,ed to complete the Eilson Building of which only the first story of the three planned has been finished. The | second story. will be used for class- rooms and the top one for a men; dormitory. So crowded are conditions at the | | ter, 63, archeologis | however, and choosing that as his University, Dr. Bunnell said, that 18 men students are living in the base- | ment of the new women's dormitory. | | Senator Cochran spoke strongly in favor of the bill, saying the .Uni- | | versity is a “monument which for- | | ever will stand as a credit to this | Territory.” Others praising the in-| |measure were Senators Rivers, La-| | Boyteaux, Patterson and Walker. | Senator Hofman, in the course of his remarks in opposition to the bill, | said, “the trouble with this country today is that we have too many| college: boys.” Liquor Bill Killed Other prinicpal business of this morning’s session was consideration of Senator Patterson’s liquor regula- tions bill which came belatedly from the Education Committee and was administered the coup de grace of four to four. After half an hour was spent in reading the bill - through and discussing amendments, a mo- tion for “the previous question” as utilized for the first time this session (Continued on Page Five) | pero. | of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force “Most Perfect” Model Vacations 1n Southland Recently selected by New York artists as the | “most perfect” model, Nina MacDougald of Free- ' DISCOVERER OF KING TUT'S TOMB Nina MacDougald IS DEAD; WASN'T SUPERSTITIOUS LONDON, March who discovered the treasures of King Tut Ankh Amen’s tomb, died today. It was said that he spent half his life in the bowels of the earth His career was a long series of Egyptian excavations and discoveries | whici#*threw new light on Obscure pages of ancient history and made | Carter widely known as one of the of the| twentieth century. | What was regarded as the climax | of his professional life was his dis- covery in 1922 of the tomb of King Tut Ankh Amen. It was during the reign of that youthful Pharoh of Egypt, some writers have recorded, that Moses led the Israelites through the Red Sea, and the finding of his tomb aroused a popular interest throughout the world. Nine-year Search Mr. Carter made his great find after nine years of patient search- ing in the valley of the Tombs of the Kings. His excavations finally brought to light the mummy of the boy king, lying in a nest of three coffins, the innermost of which was of pure gold. There also were discovered hun- dreds of objects entombed with the mummy, the splendor of the whole thing being such as to almost baffle description. Besides priceless jewels and ornaments, the obj: included inseriptions and drawings which have proved of incalculable value in Egyptology. Faced Desert Privations In contrast to the sturdiness with which as an Egyptolist he faced the privations and hardships of the desert, Mr. Carter’s early life was marked by long-continued ill health. Because of this he was obliged to obtain his early education from pri- vate tutors at such times as his con- dition made it possible for him to study. Mr. Carter was born at Swalf- ham, Norfolk, England, in 1873, the younger son of Samuel John Carter, an animal painter. In his youth he developed considerable skill as a painter and for a time showed in- dications toward following his father's’ profession. Chooses Life Work He was attracted to archeology, life work, trained for it under Lord Ambherst of Hackney, Prof. L. Grif- fith, Prof. Flinders Petrie, Prof. Ed- ward Naville and Sir Gaston Mas- After he was 17 years old Mr. Car- | ter lived most of his life at Gurna, | in Luxor, Upper Egypt. He made a practice of returning each year to spend several weeks in London, where he was a member of the| Constitutional and Burlington Fine| Arts Clubs, Tombs Uncovered | Making his first trip to Egypt at| the age of 17, Carter was on the staff Archeological Survey. He assisted Professor Petrie in excavating Tel- el-Amar on behalf of Lord AmhersU in 1892. For the next six years dur- | ing the Deir-el-Bahari campaign he was draughtsman on the staff. Mr. Carter next became general of the Antiguities Department of the Egyptian government. He organized | the antiquity administration for Upper Egypt and installed electric —Howard Car- | (Centinued on Page Seven) ASSOCIATED PRESS HOWARD CARTER DOLLY VARDEN BOUNTY MONEY IS GIVEN BOOST Appropria!fil‘s Now Fig- ured at $4,234,550 by House Committee The Committee of the Whole in the House of Representatives finish- ed its first parley on the Ways and Means Appropriations Bill last night, asking a total appropriation so far, for the biennium, of $4, 234,550, The Treasury’s watch dog, Re- resentative Rogge, Chairman of the ‘Ways and Means Committee, said his estimate of revenue for the coming biennium, however, was “close to $5,000,000.” Most offices failed to get what they asked for in the budget requests, al- though no slashes were made by the House Committee of the Whole in the appropriation bill itself, Biggest boost was given by Repre- sentatives to the section “cleaning of salmon streams,” which refers al- most in intirety to catching of Dolly Varden trout in Bristol Bay sock- eye salmon rivers, where the Dolly Varden preys heavily on salmon spawn and fingerlings. W. C. Arnold, cannery represen- tative, assured Representatives that if they wished to boost the $25,000 normal appropriation for this pur- pose, which is matched by the can- ners, to $50,000, the canners would agree to match that sum also. Close to two million Dolly Varden were taken in Bristol Bay rivers dur- ing the past biennium, according to Bureau of Pisheries records. An- other appropriation boost was given the Alaska Planning Council, which bill recommended be given $10,000, although the Council asked $25,000 in the budget requests. An amend- ment was adopted, raising the sum to $20,000. Representative Walker fought the Planning Council on the grounds “it doesn’t reprgsent a eross section of industry——nboody on it that works with his hands at hard labor—why (Answers on Page Six) port, L. L, enjoys a vacation at Palm Springs, Fla. and gets a winter's sun tan. | son. 7 A HOUSE REFUSES FOUR MEASURES FROM SENATORS Concur, How_e;er, in Four House Bills Returned by Upper House BULLETIN—The House this afterncon decided that Senate bills 40 and 82, voted “not accep- ted” yesterday without reading the bills through, should be ac- cepted. Unanimous consent was asked for acceptance, and Roden's measure to raise the gold tax exemption to $10,000 was accep- ted with Hofman's bill to give the Territory prior liens on mine property for unpaid license tax- s, Four legislative measures came over to the House of Representatives last night, two days late for man- datory acceptance, and either be- cause the House didn’t like the bills, or perhaps their Senatorial source, | none were accepted. First to get the axe was Senate| Joint Memorial 11, by Patterson, asking that Congress repeal laws permitting tolls on Alaska high- ways, specifically on the Richard- Next under the axe was Substi- tute for Senate Bill 40, by Hofman, which would have given the Terri- tory prior liens on mining property | whose taxes have not been paid between December 31 and March 15. Third measure from the Senate to fall, strangely enough, was the bill by Roden, Senate Bill 82, which would raise gold tax exemption to| $20,000. The House still has a bill by Spencer and Rogge, identical to Ro- den’s measure, and should they pass it, the Senate is not expected to give it any better treatment than Sena- tor Roden’s measure in the House. Senate Bill 95, referring to assess- ment work on mining claims, the| law requiring $100 worth of work | on each claim per annum, also met death for its addition of the phrase “as required by the laws of the United States.” Purpose of Senator River's intro- duction of the measure is said to be to make it mandatory that Al- aska assessment work requirements be suspended should Congress enact such moratorium for the States. House members decided Senator River’s bill failed to accomplish any~ thing so turned it down. However, the House did concur in Senate amendments to House Joint Memorial 31, asking Congress to close Southeast Alaska to herring fishing except for food and bait; House Joint Memorial 28, asking for Federal sponsorship of an Al- aska Fisheries Commission to work jointly with the Bureau of Pish- eries in planning fish conservation; House Bill 57, requiring the Super- intendent of Public Works (Terri- turial Highway Engineer) to supply plans and specifieations for all Ter- ritorial school projects and public works in excess of $1,000; House Bill 84, appropriating $4,000 for hospi- talization of indigents at Seward and Nome hospitals. - et —— CHARMAN ON NORAH Fred Charman, former local agent of {7 Northland Transportation l Company, who resigned and went south, is a passenger aboard the Princess Norah for Juneau. MEASURE IS ACTED UPON QUICK TIME Approprialal—for Nearly Five Hundred Million Dollars Is Passed UNANIMOUS CONSENT, NOT ONE AMENDMENT Provision Is Made for Ex- pansion Air Corps, New Equipment, Defenses WASHINGTON, March 3. — The House, with unprecedented and unanimous speed, has pass- ed and sent to the Senate the $499,000,000 Army Appropriation BilL The bill carries funds to start the proposed expansion of the Army Air Corps. There was no record of the vote and there was not even a single amendment to the bill offered. The measure carries funds to give the Army additional modern equipment, including anti-air- craft guns, semi-automatic rifles as well as strengthening the Na- tion’s sea coast defenses, — e MINIMUM SALARY BILL, TEACHERS, ~ PASSES SENATE Changed Since Left House —Reduction of Bank Inferest Voted Minimum salaries for teachers of $1,800 in the First Division, $1,980 in the Third and $2,100 in the Sec~ ond and Fourth are established in |a bill which passed the Senate une animously last night. Both houses have now passed teacher salary bills, the House meas- ure differing considerably, however, from that adopted last night by the Senate. No provision is made in the Senate bill for the raise of $45 per year called for in the House bill. Six measures were passed and six defeated in late sessions yesterday in the Senate. Bank Interest Speaker Howard Lyng's bill res ' ducing the bank interest maximum from ten percent to eight percent passed six to two. Passed sevem to one after being opposed by Senator LeRoy Sullivan was a bill by Repre« sentative Carl Drager, directing that $15,000 from Third Division road money is to be used for equipping and operating the Griffin Memorial Hospital at Kodiak. A memorial by Representative Leo Rogge supporting a Pederal wildlife program which would re= quire matching with Territorial funds was voted down six to two, but the Senate passed memorials asking Congress to stabilize the price of halibut and to give the Territory a larger share in self-government, . Tariff Qu Three Democrats teamed with the Legislature’s sole Republican in sup= port of a memorial asking that the tariff on herring, salmon and other fish be raised, but free-trading Sen= ators stuck together and killed the measure by a vote of four to four, Armistice Day won't become & school holiday, rural owners of ap= | pliances which interfere with radio | reception will not be fined, elections to establish no-fence districts for stock, including “goats of either sex” will not be held and employers will not be prohibited from having their workers labor beyond the range of human voice from other workers; all because the Senate killed House bills designed to ace complish those myriad things. Mining Claims Re-referred to the Judiciary Coms mittee for a good going-over was House Bill No. 62, by Leo Rogge, which Senator C. H. LaBoyteaux assured the Senate was intended to keep any man from locating more thmaomgox mining claims in any one calendar month. The words ing of the bill was held by Senatora tohslooon!umumdh“