The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1939, Page 1

. gres THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL 7HI' TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8043. JUN AU, ALASKA, MONDAY, \R(‘II 6, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —— PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN JUNK CARGO HELD UP, PORTLAND PRESIDENT TAKES HELM. ONRECOVERY In Full Chafg; of Stimulat- ing Business-No New Legislation WASHINGTON, March 6.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, who has taken per- sonal charge of the Administra- tion's campaign to stimulate busi- ness, gave White House callers the impression he is willing that Con- adjourn as soon as it clears up its current slate. Representative Sam Rayburn, Texas, House minority leader, of the chieftains of Congress, at- tending the weekly conference at the White House, said the Presi- dent reiterated he had nothing new to submit to Congress. On that basis, Rayburn predicted a reason- ably early adjournment of Con- gress. Speaker William C. Bankhead said with all recent reassurances of the Administration, business should be justified on going ahead. —e———— GERMANY DOES NOT LIKE TALK BY ROOSEVELT ek Premdeni Is Charged with DR GOEBBELS "D ht Lies” i om;flg - d"';: | SAYS GERMANY BERLIN, March 6. German New: ency, count of President speech in Washington, Saturday, said the Amer dent “turned from mis tions and remarkable interpreta- tions, to downright lies.” The account is carried by DNB News Burcau under a New! LEIPZIG, York dateline and further said: bels scornfuily “president Roosevelt lied when he “carping critics” said religion is persecuted in na- vised against outside tionally governed states so that no “plock the healthy business one may honor God in his own Germany.” The speech was way.” at the opening of the The dispatch also states Ameri- «Germany must live and G .can press freedom is “unlimited iIn many will live,” said Goebbe! . permission to agitate and to insult.” h-rnilr, to the arcity of foodstuffs The Berlin Lokal Anziger ('MmS ,nq ray materials in Germany ettt Rooepvals 25, 3. Don of} | “The German nation has been in- PRIy |adequately treated in the distribu- e ST tion of treasures and goods of this earth but we will live, standing,” concluded Goebbels. FDR ARMY AIDE i IS TO FILL SON'S poog HEDY MAY SECRETARY JOB HAVE T0 WORK: of one | i PLANE SALE o Franceis said to have aroused concern of Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Malin Craig (above) over possible in- terference \vith United States army plane needs. -An official in an ac~ Roosevelt's D. C, last | Advises Against Out- side Interference March 6—Paul Goeb- assailed Nazidom’: at home and ad- attempts with made the Colonel Edwin Wafson fo Become Brigadier Gen- eral for 24 Hours WASHINGTON, March 6. — The ‘White House today announced that Col. Edwin M. Watson, the Presi- | leMarr-Ma&e} Combina- fion Is Cemented in Mexicali Saturday WL LIVE ON: Miacks Crifics al Home- 10| forced Leipzig Fair. ~the Alaska Pacific Association, notwith- | NO HONEYMOON ' BOAT TREATY BILL CHANGE IS DEMANDED IFormer Federefl Man Says| Safety-at-Sea-Hysteria Is Working Hardships SAYS ALASKA STEAM "SEEKING M MONOPO[Y" Subcommlflee Approves Exemption of Vessels Under 100 Tons WASHINGTON, March 6.—Jo- seph Weaver, former Chief of the Government’s Maritime Inspection | forces, today.told a Senate Com- merce Subcommittee that the “hys- teria for safety at sea,” is worki !undue hardship on the West Coast fishing industry. Weaver asked the Subcommittee to approve the bill introduced by Sen- ator Charles L. McNary that will exempt fishing vessels from certain Federal regulations, saying it will relieve large West Coast® fishing companies from the burdens of ing passenger ship require- ments. Opposing the legislation, Ralph Emerson, legislative representative of the CIO Maritime and Fishery unions said: “It takes us back thirty or forty years to the ships |known among fishermen as Hell hips, in which men were crowded llike cattle and treated lke cat- tle.” Opposition to Bill Emerson said 15,000 Pacific Coast and Alaska fishermen are opposed to the bill. Weaver complained that fisheries companies operating to Bristol Bay have been forced to spend a half |million or more dollars in meeting |Federal Maritime requirements that brought no good.” Further, Weaver charged that the Alaska Steamship Company has the stringent _regulations, | “because they want to have a com- plete monopoly.” Weaver said he is representing Lib- McNeill and Libby, Red Salmon Company, Columbia River Jha(Mn Asse tion and many other large operators. Exemptions Proposed | by, | Canning At merce Subcommittee approved a bill to exempt all boats of a hun- dred tons or less from regulations under the International Seamen’s Labor Standards treaty which be- |comes effective in October. Senators agreed with witnesses that small fishing boats opetating out of New England and West Coast {ports shouldn’t be covered by the no passengers or freight. ‘The representative of the Alaska {Steamship Company asked that the | and pleasure craft. g WORK WEEK FOR MINERS Three Days-Soft Coal ‘Is Going on Four HARRISBURG, Pa, March 6.— One branch of the Nation’s coal industry has geared its production to a 3-day week while another branch is considering similar action as a possible cure for the economic ills. | Anthracite operators in Pennsyl- vania eastern counties put into ef- | fect today a holiday plan to curb, for a month at least, their output |in a move called necessary to stab- | | ilize the hard coal market. Soft coal producers are consider- ing adoption of a four-day weck, regulations because they handled | exemptions be limited to fishing | IS REDUCED \Hard Coal Operators Cut fo| | | | i i ‘ - EVIDENCE OF NAZI SEA POWER, these war craft gathered in Hambur: harbor when the Reich’s 35,000-ton man o'war. the Bismarck, was launched with Hitler seeing in that ceremony “a good omen for Germnny s (utnm” Bluunk -rrlu u xuns. Madrid To Keep | Fighting Gen. Casadfieizes Gov- ernment and Pledges fo Baitle On March 6--Gen. Casa MADRID, do, Military Commander of Madrid, | ha. ized the power from Premier Neg but bloodless Gen. Casado gave fight to death against Gen. honorable peace in and his Cabinet in coup. a pledge Franco unless is tained. It is believed here Franco is ex- bpam s Dicigion atidPremics? HALIBUTERS a swift | to ob- | pected to resume his offensive im- | mediately. -ee - 'NEGRIN FLEES FROM SPAIN IN FLIGHT BY AR Former Premler Also For- | the same hearing, the Com-' eign Minister, Depos- ed, Escape fo France TOURLOUSE, France, March 6.— Juan Negrin, and Julio Alvarez De- |lvayo, Premfer and Foreign Min- ister of the deposed Spanish Repub- |lican Government, have arrived here by airplane accompnaied by | their secretaries. Previous dispatches from Paris said Negrin and his ministers had been arrested “somewhere in Spain” after the overthrow of the Negrin | Cabinet by a six man National De- | fense Council headed by Gen. Cas- |ada, : | Former Premier Negrin is tired| and worn and refused to comment on his flight. e | 'ANNUAL INCOME TAX RUSH NOW ON AT OFFICE \Deputy Collector Overby to Keep Office Open Until March 15 The final rush of filing income | Bureau of Internal Revenue office |in the Pederal’Building here. Wesley C. Overby, Deputy Coffec tor, arrived from duty in othe: Southeast Alaska cities Sautrda |on the Northland and will keep the | | tax returns for 1938 is now on at the | { | will establish a new government in of the pro-Italian, pro-Gi By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, March 6—The |retirement of Justice Brandeis, | which provides the President an- iolher Supreme Court vacancy to | fill, emphasizes the Roosevelt stamp that has been placed upon the courts | of the country. ; He has made three appointments ito the Supreme Court already, Jus- | tices Black of Alabama, Reed of | Kentucky, and Frankfurter of Mass- achusetts. Two of these really counted ‘heavily in swinging the ! court -in the Roosevelt direction, | ].\mce they replaced a pair of jus- tices, VanDevanter and Sutherland, who consistently voted against the| New Deal. Next in importance to the Su- reme Court come the 10 circuit | courts, the channels through which litigation from all parts of the coun- try reach the Supreme Court. There| lare 48 places on the Circuit courts. 'Of these President Roosevelt has filled 23 since he came into office in | 933. He has two vacancies yet to| D. OF D, (,OUR’I' IMPORTANT Of the Cireuit courts, probably the most important is the Circuit court_in. the District of Columbia { Because of its location in Washing- ton it ‘draws a huge bulk of litiga- Reports reaching France indicate that General Francisco Franco (left) Spain with himself as dictator and his brother-in-law, Serrano Suner (right), as premier. Suner is a leader erman Spanish fascists, MANY APPOINTMENTS T0 COURTS MADEBYF.D.R.; 3 MORE ARE COMING UP rence Groner, was sufficietly sat- isfactory to the President that he | elevated him to Chief Justice of the court. There is a vacancy also, which permit one more Rooseveltian to go on. The President’s opportunities for | district court appointments have been appreciably greater than ¢ther Presidents. During a term in of- fice, a President usually names 40| to 50 on the district court. To date the President has appointed 47 and has nine vacancies to fill, Normally he should expect 15 to 20 | 20 more vacancies, since many of | his district court appointments have | represented increases allowed by Congress in the number of district judges to handle the steadily grow- ing amount of business. Conceding that ultimately he will appoint 60 to 65 district court judges, that will mean approximately a third of the present total of about 180. MORE APPOINTMENTS Any insurance analyst wonld tell him that statistically he has a fair prospect of one or perhaps two more Supreme Court appointments, and a half dozen more to the Circuit court, Just how long the Roosevelt ap- pointees will be the dominating in- END SESSION AT KETCHIKAN ‘Majority Vote to Refain 500 CHINESE - FORM PICKET LINE TODAY Longshore Men Refuse fo Break Through- Work Stopped PORTLAND, Oregon, March 6.— Longshoremen, apparently taking the cue from ceremoniously polite Chinese pickets, not only refused to load scrap iron for Japan on the Greek freighter Ann Stathatou but also extended the waterfront ethics to embrace a British grain car- rier. Forty four dock workers halted in deference to 500 apologetic Orientals lined up at Terminal No. 4 to pro- test to loading of American junk which they claimed is destined to melting pots in Japan (o be made into munitions for the conflict in China. Eight men of a gang passed through the line to®load grain on the British Motorship Ardangorm. Although the grain is consigned ta the United Kingdom, the longshore~ men decided that the Chinese picket line included the entire Terminal and the men were ordered back through the line and loading of the motorship stopped Last week, Chinese pickets held up loading of American junk for Japan for nine days at Astoria, Oregon, then the Post Commission announced foading would proceed but no further shipments for the Orient. would be recieved s Last Year's Layup Pe- 1'|od‘s Between Trips Conf with majority | ent voting in | lay- W en trips, whicl th umendment curtailment for trip limits re-| confe minor were e main unch 1 Seattle delcgates who were the | only ones opposing the retention of | | the layup periods, headed south on the Princess Norah this morning. | The Deep Sea Fishermens Union land Pishing Vessel Owners Asso- | clation must ratify the action of the | conference because the delegates re- | fused to approve all of the layup provisions. — e — HERBERT MUNDIN DIES IN CRASH 'English Film Comedian ls Killed in Weekend Aufo Accident HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 6— Herbert Mundin, 40, English film comedian, was killed Saturday night ! | while riding with a friend, P. H| | Waddell. Their car struck another driven | by John M. Grover. Mundin was thrown out of his machine and he was killed imtanuy. (COCKTAIL BILL IS AMENDED T0 LOWER LICENSE {Pioneer Home me Addition Is " Knocked Ouf-Bill Laid on Table The Walker Cocktail Bill receiv- | ed its first bath on the House floor ! this afternoon, an amendment re- | ducing license fees provided for in ! the measure was accepted, and the bill was continued in second read- ing to make way for the surprising death of the Pioneers’ Home addi- tion bill. The amendment to the Senate Bill 10 Walker’'s hard drink bar measu ts the loense fee for| LAND MINE 1S SETOFF - Brifish Soldiers Clash with Band of Rebels Near City of Jerusalem JERUSALEM, March 6—British soldiers killed five members of an armed band of rebels near Acre, in a clash that followed an explosion of a land mine under a car filled with Jewish workmen. ALASKA SOLONS TO MEET EVERY YEAR, PROPOSED Delegate Dimond Infro- duces Measure to Con- gress—Changes Date WASHINGTON, March 6—Alaska Delegate A. J. Dimond has asked Congress to authorize the Alaska Legislature to meet every year. An amendment to the measure also changes the date for convening of the Legislature from the second ta the fourth Monday in January. . CHINA SEAPORT OF LUNGKOW IS QUICKLY TANEN Sudden Sefiés of Strikes Made by Japanese Against Guerillas SHANGHAI, March 6.-—Japanese military headquarters report the occupaiion of the important seaport of Lungkow and two nearby inland towns in a series of quick strikes which have tightened their grip on the guerilla north shore of shmuum Province, e rr—— \FORMER ATTORNEY cock e at $300 for towns of 1500 pr or Yess, and $1,000 population or more tion direetly concerned with gov-|fluence in the courts is debatable | ernmental administration. It is a sort He early announced a policy of ap- 0. 8. Sullivan, Deputy Collector. ' of front entrance to the Supreme pointing few judges over 60. Un~ 15 to arrive from Fairbanks the end | Court. At present there are flve!douptedly other Presidents ha | of this week and will be on hand to |members on the court. President for a job « help take care of the rush in the|Roosevelt has appointed four. O last few days before March 15. the former members, D. Law- GENERAL IS DEAD » v ¢ pplicant for sueh| LUDLOW: Ve, March 6 — John bond that| C. Sargent, 78, Attorney @eneral un- | der President. Coolidge. is dead "t & his home here. ASHI office open daily until March 15| SN hs athabed of the Admi the final day for filing returns istration sponsored increase in the Army Air Corps to 6,000 planes. The present law authorizes 2,3 dent's military aide, has been ap- pointed Presidential Seeretary to HOLLYWQOD' el Mah. 6 succeed James Roosevelt, ‘about Movie work today threatened to in- April 1. i;r{‘flm lhie honeg'moonmofb Hedlgi' " arr, cinema eart rob, an ted to the rank of Brigadier Gen- | The two celebrities were married ;nr:l effective March 31. He wfll”" Mexicali on Saturday night, but retire on his own application two}gemb’::;kismm fiwcal:zgu:azi o days later with the higher rank. | °® & pr A popular aide since his start with | the Administration, Watson will be Iwo GAMBI.ERS a Brigadier General only about 24 hours before taking the Secretary’s| job at a salary of about 810,000 ARE (o“vl(TED a year. | Officials said $10,000 a year is: OF CONSPIRA(Y the maximm Watson may receive, | and the White House will supi)]ly whatever is necessary to bring ls‘ e et ne Must Serve Nine Years in ————————— | } Prison — Also Pay BIG INCREASE 59,000 Fine AIR CORPS ls | NEW YORK, March 6.—The Uni- |ted States Circuit Court of Appeals| G'v[“ Boos has affirmed the conviction of Wil-| |liam Graham and James McKay, | | Reno, Nevada, gamblers and confi- also Yo stabilize that part of the! March 6—The|dence men, each sentenced to serve coal industry. nine years in prison and also !med“ ——— s | $9,000. | Natural down used in pillows is the | The two men were convicted a soft undercoating of adult water-| 00 vear ago of mail fraud and cons- \ fowl which is found next to the skin piracy. Jlnuuth the ordinary feathers. age Ymit " in mind €ontinued on Page Three on Page Eigho) |