The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 9, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e - . VOL. LIIL, NO. 8046. WALKER LIQUOR BILL GOESTO TAKESRAP | AMERICAN | PROPERTY 1S BOMBED Missions at l(hang Exten- sively Damaged by Japanese Raids OVER 1,500 PERSONS KILLED CR WOUNDED Two Days of Terrific Bom- bardment Reported in Offensive Movement SHANGHAI, March 9.—Authorit- ative neutral for n sources at Ich-| ang. the present goal of the Japan-| ese offensive, report that 1,500 per- | scns have been killed or \',‘m!n.l\‘d‘ there in two days terrific bombard- | ment by squadrons of Japanese planes. These same, sources estimate that 120 bowbs have crashed into the center of the city which lies on the yYangtze River, nearly 2,000 mhiles by water from Shanghai The ancient north wall is almost completely levelled and many ships at the docks and also houses have been destroyed in the air raids AMERICAN PROPERTY REPORTED DAMAGED HANKOW, March 9.—The Epis- copal American Church Mission at Ichang reports that twc missions and three other properties in the city have been severely damaged by the Japanese bombs in devastat- ing aerial attacks on Wednesd Paul Josselyn, American Consul General at Hankow, has lodged a protest with the Japanese Consul. The niéssage from Ichang said only servants were within the mis- sion compounds during the bombing and all were injured. | Seventeen bombs fell on the Am- erican property. The main residence was practically destroyed as well as three other mission buildings. Huge American, flags were flying over the properties at the time, the Ichang message said, while other flags were laid out on the grounds. - NAVY PROGRAM GETS APPROVAL OF HOUSE COM. TEA INTERLUDE soothed the palate of the Emir Feisal, minister of foreign affairs of Sandi Arabia, In London to attend the Arabs-Jews conference on Palestin En d called the meet- CONGRESS MAY TRY 10 SETTLE FARM PROBLEM BYPRAYER, IS OPINION Lost Plane Is Reported To Be Found Craft Disap;e;red Nearly Year Ago with Four Persons Aboard VICTORIA, B. C. March 9.—Pro- vincial Police said they have been By PRESTON GROVER VASHINGTON, March 9. — Tt would be hard to find a time when | there was more evidence of bewilder- ['“““‘ over the agricultural problem | | than just now. Even from the Department of Agriculture, which has pursued its crop control and soil conservation | program unfalteringly, there come | | random intimations that confidence | | in the success of this effort is wavel- | ing. Three months ago the dq)an- ! ment was discussing with some en- | thusiasm a two-price system. The groups to buy their supplies for less and so attaining the uLopxan goal of feeding, clothing and shelter- | |ing everybody well, regardless of their income. he | {aim was to arrange for lower- mcome' JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, M/ ARCH 9, 1939, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS CATUS.IN ~ BOLDTALK Nazi Regim:f)fficial Bit-‘ | ferly Attacks Mon- roe Doclrine PAN-AMERICANISM 15 - ALSO GIVEN SCORING United Stafes Senator Is| Placarded, Called Anti- | German Agitator BERLIN, March 9—Gen liam Faupel today made a bitter at- tack on the United States, that the “Monroe Doctrine i ing but a claim put for ard by wil- | 8 stating | § noth- | the United States for domination of | the Western Hemisphere." Gen. Paupel, Hitler's Amb: to Nationalist Spain in 1937 ing before the German Academs also assailed the Pan-American con- ference at Lima, Peru, by saying; “Three'is but one danger in Latin America and that is the United Stat- es Gen. Paupel urged that Germany pour educators, scientists and lin- guists into Latin America to offset what he charged was United States propaganda there United States Senator Key Pitt- man, Chairman of the Senate For- eign Relations Committee, was also assailed as an anti-German agita- tor, Big placards, appearing Berlin buildings and “on boards devoted to Nazi publicity ma- terial, shows Senator Pittman’s head and shoulders, life size, with a cap- tion: “Mark Hlm Well.” IMPEA(HMENT OF LABOR SEC. STILL PROBED Two Seattle Immigration Officials Summoned fo Washington WASHINGTON, March 9. — The [House Judciiary Committee has de- in some |advised by two unidentifjed men | that wreckage of the Ginger Coote Airways seaplane which disappeared | with four persons aboard last spring Forty Million Dollar Ap- The plan boomeranged. The idea |cided to call R. P. Donham, District of a two-price system was especially | Immigration Director, and R. J. alarming to merchants, who saw‘Norenc Divisional Director of the| themselves competing with low-price | | Immigration office at Seattle, to as- propriation Includes Drydock on Pacific | WASHINGTON March 9——'1'119\ House Naval Affairs Committee has tentatively approved legislation to| authorize $40,000,000 for the cons-| truction prgoram of the Navy in- cluding $16,000,000 for new dry dock facilities on uw Pacific Coast. BANI( PRESIDENI TAKES LIFE AS- SHORTAGE FOUND Embezzlemeni of Cashler Preys on High Official- Shoots Self in Head OAKLAND, Cal,, March 9—A cor- oner’s jury has brought in a ver- diet of suicide in the case of George Thornton, 44-year-old Richmond Bank President, who was found,| “shot through the head. Friends of Thornton said he was agitated and despondent since the arrest of Ernest Emrich, cashier of | the bank, on a charge of embezzling | more than $160,000. ERNIE HARE PASSES AWAY NEW YORK, March 9.—FErnie| Hhre, 56, member of the radio and | stage comedy team of Jones and Hare, died in a hospital here today. 1 Hare became ill about two months | ago and gradually became worse un-| til the end. | Nicholson, | Boyd. rWoi;tAI;;‘— hag been found 13 miles west of Port Alberni. The police said the men declared | they found bones among the wreck- age of the plane behind an old camp on the Franklin river on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Those aboard the plane when it disappeared almost one year ago were Pilot Len Waggen, Mrs, George George Rumsey and H. Cruises ToNorth (Northland Transportation Announces Big Sched- ule for Summer SEATTLE, March 9.—William Se- mar, General Manager of the North- land Transportation Company, re- vealed today that his company will have the most comprehensive sched- ule of sailings ever listed by the line. The schedule indicates there will be 30 sailings to Alaska during the period from May 5 to September 29. Sailings include 22 “Wonder Way Cruises” to Alaska. —— . — OIL UNDER SCHOOL? MT. PLEASANT, Tex. — With a little luck the Talco school may become a wealthy one. A major |oil company is drilling for oil on the school grounds. | Government . stores or something | akin to them. The department | hushed official discussion of it. (Studies now are being pursued on lower-income groups without ap-| pearing to be exactly a two-price system. That plan is still in the hands of departmental committees. COMMITTEES STUMPED land Senate are baffled. A special Senate committee is conducting +| spasmodic hearirgs on the cost-of- production proposal which originat- ed among mid-west farmers’ asso- ciations. Probably there, is more sup- other before Congress, but there is still far to insure passage. Most appalling to both sides are figures Farm Security Administration. now has on hand $750,000,000 worth | of goods, mostiy cotton, which it has accepted as security for farm loans. The Hoover farm board, looked upon by this administration as an hys- terical effort, had only $466,000,000 outstanding in such loans at its peak. Of its outstanding loans, the de- partment has $560,000,000 tied up in | 11,200,000 bales of cotton. These gov- ernment holdings represent virtu- ally a full year’s crop. A major trouble with the system has been that it has pegged the {price for world cotton, allowing foreign production to develop to an extent that U. 8. exports have dropped 45 percent below old time normals. Recently the United States has been seeking an international marketing agreement for wheat and | cotton, with little success. Now there is serious talk of boldly entering a dumping, war unless an international agreement can be reached, | (Continued on Page Five) Agriculture committees in House | port back of this plan than any one | less thon enough support recently compiled by the| The | | figures show that the government | sist in its investigation of charges | against Secretary of Labor Perkins, as to whether she should be im- peached for handling of immigration a plan to permit low-cost delivery to|laws and enforcement, particularly |, . the habitual cr in the case of Harry Bridges, CIO | Chietain on the Pacific Coast. | Several days ago it was said the Committee had compieted the inves (lgation and it was reported would |ask the House not to take any ac- | tion. Summoning of the Seattle Im- migration officials here put a dif- | ferent light on the subject however. i WRECKAGE OF | FOUND; 3 DEAD Two Members of Crew Are Killed-Also Execufive of Broadcast Corp. LACALA CROIX, Quebec, March 9.—The bodies of John C. Stadler, Jr, Executive of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Herve St. Martin, veteran northern flier and Oscar Herrein, mechanic, have been found in the wreckage of the airplane in which they were return- ing to Quebec from a weekend holi- day trip. ‘The plane had been missing since last Sunday afternoon and an ex- tensive search has been in progress both by land and air, since early Monday. Ground parties found the wreck- age. Dominion authorities are making an investigation to determine the cause of the crash. — e — ‘The last of the mutineers from the Bounty died in 1829, |the Territory rid of (RASH PLANE = thing about liquor.” hulistin 4 ‘These graphic pictures show the sinking of the American freighter Lillian 18 hours after a collision with the North German Lloyd freighter Wiegand in a dense fog and choppy sea off the New Jersey coast. At top crew members who were once rescued and returned to the vessel in efforts to salvage her, are shown as they pulled away from the sinking ship. Below, the vessel goes down. These pictures are from the New York Daily News.—Copyright Associated Press l"holu\r CRIMINAL BILL TO BECOME LAW WAGES HOURS LAW IS CAUSE HOUSE BATILE Speaker Lyng Threafens| Removals for Second | Time of Session -Republlcan IN TERRITORY War Planes House Concurs in Amend-| ~ Make Raids. ments Made by Senate e 1 Spanish Defense Forces at Madrid Atfack Rebel- o v e e one ot lioUS Communists 1 bill, in- P troduced by Repre: John ; MADRID, M Republican | McCormick, and also passed a Sen- | War planes today bombed te Joint Memorial | rebellions Commun The habitual criminal bill, House | Skirts of the city Bill 18, as concurred in }"Empfi to as th possible for the courts against !.he new Defense C»uucll eat in- an BABMUAE eriminal and, as Rép-|; Al/exits to Madrid afe guatied iciudeq . had resentadive MeCormick said, ' “Get (808 Clen. Miajas, of the Republioan s £ have to tho of you 2 lot of these forces, has summoned the powerful pompers oyt ‘have been |Nationalist Army forces from the pne debate shigpedise here.” 2 ~ |trenches and is ing an assault 4 .. |on the Communist nests. lhe Senate Joint Memorial, |~ Communists are persisting in 8 , passed and amended by "he‘reslsumce to the Defense House, backs up Delegate Anthony | i Madrid i Cqunetl J. Dimond and his measure to| DS T ¢liminate the placer indusiry from provisions of the Wage and Hour | law. An amendment adopted, asking the change for mining operations “located in Te- mote areas wheve the administrator finds that there is not a sufficient supply. of labor available. Unger House Bill coneu in as to Senate amendments, (Continued on Page Seven) e Liquor Versus Corsets Is House Problem fo Four Measures Yesterday aftern: the House ntative c¢h 9. s o Hate orial 9 to de- n makes it to define 1 couple se over a Senate undesirables . that its amendment to Rivers’ m supporting Delegate Dimond's Con- |gressional measure asking exemp- Ition of the placer industry from |provisions of the Wage and Hour COUNTERFET = MONEY MADE, PENITENTIARY Bogus Dimes Turned Out, in Prison Circulated - ; on Quiside |““D.’;;.'.."‘ Beskdpesiitgr oo |actions of the Senate this session —'should prove to anyone the need | Acting Warden Amrine disclosed to- for unicameral legislature.” day that the penitentiary here hn.xl Representative Harvey J. Smith lbwn the source of convict-made also took a swing at the Senate | counterfeit money ecirculated both and charged that “Not one meas- In the, House yesterday, when|inside and outside the prison walls.|ure has gone through this Senate Representative Gordon alu*mpu'd; ‘The Acting Warden reported that that will' help . labor, and now to amend the Walker cocktail bill|at least 900 dimes have been shipped |they're trying to strike vmi.s amend- by inserting a clause that would|out of thé institution. Iment out and kill a National law. permit dispensary licenses for sell- The fake money was discovered, «we have thousands of Mm ing of beer alone, Representative|when prisoners were compelled {0 pegging for some means of liveli- McCutcheon rose to his feet to|surrender their cash. hood! Some of you are acting like face the Fairbanks clothing man WL BT, Republicans—not New Dealists!” in indignation. The Ursuline convent in New House Vote “Mr., Gordon knows fur coats and |Orleans, eérected in 1727, is the old- A vote on the question showed Measure Amended The House had amended the | measure to apply only to operations |remotely located, where labor is not sufficiently plentiful. Representative Karl A. Drager nook a blast at the Senate “for kicking our bills around all they want to, making political footballs |out of our work, and then, just be- leause it's the last minute, demand by Smith was COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 9. PRICE TEN CENTS GOVERNOR IRAGI( DEATH OF SHIP OFF NEW JERSEY COAST RETURN OF i - SALOON DUE IN 90 DAYS Senate Concurs in House Amendmenfs-License $500 to $1,000 LIQUOR WHOLESALE ‘ BILL ALSQ PASSES leglslalure in Throes of | Cleaning Up Work of Session BULLETIN—The Senate late this afternoon reconsidered its vote on the McCutcheon club li- quor bill, passing it by a vote of fize to three. Earlier it had been defeated five to three. The measure allows bona fide clubs to serve hard liguor by the drink under a $200 yearly li- cense, BULLETIN—Senate Bill No. 99, appropriating $70,000 for new building at the University of Alaska, passed the House late this afternoon by a vote of 15 to three. Hard liquor over the bar will be legal reality again in Alaska start- ing about June 10, as the result of final agreement of both houses of the Legislature today on Senate bill No. 10, Senator Norman R. Walker's measure which is referred to either as “the cocktail bill” or “the saloon bill” depending on which side of the long controversy one has been on. The Senate voted five to three this morning to concur in substantial House amendments. The alignment was the same as it had been on the original bill, with only Senators O. D. Cochran, LeRoy Sullivan and Vic« tor C. Rivers voting against. This afternon the bill was bdn‘ enrolled for preunu\uon to the Gov= | ernor. Effective In 80 Days The bill, as it does not carry an | emergency clause, becomes law 90 | days after it is signed. After that date beverage dispen= ! sary licenses will be issued to give | the holder the right to sell or serve on the premises beer, wine and hard - liquors for consumption on the premises only. In the interest of temperance, or {somemlns a clause in the bill pro- hibits sale of more than five gallons of liquor a day to any one person. The premises for which the li= | cense 15 issued must not be connecte ny way with any other place 4 under the liquor act. Licenses 3500 And $1,000 cost of the license, reduced House from the original flat will be $500 in:all towas population is less than 1500 and $1,000 in all places larger than that. Bach applicant for a license must to the District Court that he The by ihe $1500 where’ th s sole owner fo the undertaking -+ and that no othep persons are finans | clally interested either indieetly, He must post & licensee is convicted of violation of the liquor laws. After a license has been lvvow. the holder will not be entitled to apply for another five years. No Only male employees over 21 years old will be allowed to serve liquor. Such bartenders and waiters must also be citizens of the United ' States and “of good moral charact=' The Treasurer is empowered by the bill to make adjustments neces= sary in present beer and wine dis- pensary licenses, by letting the un- expended portion apply as a credit toward the higher license or refund= ing the unused amount if the place goes out of business. liquor bill late by a vote of tlvo to three, ators O. D. Cochran, C. teaux and LeRoy Sullivan ing the minority. The bill was sent back to House for concurrence. It had amended considerably in the prmemdlyhymenl.seofulmln- corsets—but he doesn't know any-|est building in the Mississippi Val- ley. | (Cununum on Page Three) | (cmdnuedmmemu) directly or - request that the House recede from | s penal bond which is forfeit if ‘the * emorial :