The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE [ e c———— VOL. LI, NO. 8052. “ALL THE I'EWS ALL HE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1939, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HITLER EXTENDS EUROPEAN CONTROL - LABOR PEACE PROBLEM IS UPTOA.F.L President G; een Leaves| Solution fo His Execu- tive Council ONE BIG QUESTION MAY BE FINAL TEST Conferences Postponed Pending Important Meeting | | WASHINGTON, March 16.—Presi- | dent William Green, of the Amer- | ican Federation of Labor, has left in | the hands of his Executive Council | the problem affecting peace nego- tiations with the Congress of In- dustrial Organization. Glamor Girl Hedy, New Mate The AFL's Council of 15 Vice- | Presidents who expelled John L.| Lewis and AFL unions which helped him to found the CIO three years ago, have been summoned to a| special session on March 22. { The 15 Vice-Presidents of the Ex- | ecutive Council will decide whether the “rebels” can be taken back with | the broader jurisdictions they have assumed since the split. The question provides the first test in the labor peace negotiations | and may test the attitude of the| American Federation of Labor to-| ward giving some ground to the CIO in_order to smooth the way toward a settlement of the labor split. The peace meetings have postponed until March 24. WPA ROLLS AR 10 BE HALVED BY JULY, 1940 Col. Harring—k; Says He Is Confident Agency Will | Be Liquidated ‘WASHINGTON, March 16.—Col. W. P. Harrington, Works Progress Administrator, is confident that eventually the WPA will be liqui- | dated, it was revealed today. | The new Administrator was said | by a member of Congress to have revealed this view at a recent secret committee hearing on the bill now pending to @ppropriate an addition- al $150,000,00 for relief work. Col. Harrington, it was reported, told the Committee that he thought the WPA rolls could be reduced by 50 percent by July 1, 1940, and added he didn't consider the huge relief agency permanent in any sense, and that its eventual liqui- dation seemed certain. { | been WHoL | MAKE ROTARIAN CONCLAVE CLiCK May Confe—re?ce Is Com-‘; munity Responsibility, | Chamber Told } Coming of the Rotary. district con- ference in May is a distinction for Juneau and will result in publicity of great value to Alaska, Juneau Chamber of Commerce members were told today by W. J. Moe, mem- ber of the Portland Rotary club. | Moe, fire insurance adjustor who| has been here for a month in con- nection with the Goldstein Building fire, said the Rotary conference is a community proposition and would require the' cooperation of all citi- IN Hedy Lamarr and, inset, Gene Markey Surprising even her closest friends, Hedy Lamarr, Viennese beauty now considered Hollywood's most glamorous actress, and Gene Mar- key, producer and former hushand of Joan Bennett, eloped to Mexi- cali, Mexico, to say “I do.” Miss Lamarr formerly was the wife of an Austrian munitions manufactirar CONSTITUTIONALRIGHTTO PETITION CONGRESS KEEPS HOUSES ABOUT SWAMPED FIRE PROTECTION | FOR INTERIOR OF | ALASKA BOOSTED Request of Ickes for $37, 500 Tentatively Ap- proved by House . By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 16—The Constitution says the right of peti tion shall not be denied, and if there was a right more freely exe cised it has escapeu ‘us. Every day the 1usc few pages of the Congressional Record are packed with petitions from persons and ~ groups and memorials from state | legislatures asking congressional ac- | tion, or inaction, on an amazing | host of subjects. | Kansas legislators feel the Gov- ‘Prnm(‘nt is chiseling on the distri- | bution of revenue from the 10 per- WASHINGTON, March 16.—The cent tax on sporting goods sales. House has tentatively approved of | Only $1,000,000 - is scheduled for the $37,500 appropriation for forest distribution to the states this year fire prevention in the interior of | for wild life restoration, says the Six hundred members of the [ New Route To Orient ~ Via Maska | | | Officials of Coast and Geo- detic Survey Reveal Study of Project | | | | | | SEATTLE, March 16.—The offic-| ials of the Coast and Geodetic Sur- | vey disclose a five-year $25.000,000| project to chart a shorter and safer | | course to Asia through the North | Pacific and facilitate Naval opera- tions in the fog-shrouded Aleutian | Islands. The purpose is to develop a route ! between Continental America and | Asia through Unimak Pass and| westerly along the northern side of | the Aleutians. The proposed new | route will be 100 miles shorter and | less troubled by westerly storms. - NEW CHIEF OF OPERATIONS OF NAVY IS NAMED Rear AdmiraTS!ark to Suc- ceed Admiral Leahy- Towers Goes Up WASHINGTON, March 16.—Rear Admiral Harold R. Stark will head the Navy for the next four years during its greatest peacetime expans sion, The 58-year-old Commander of the battle force cruisers has been chosen by President Roosevelt as successor to Admiral Leahy as Chief of Naval Operations. Capt. John Henry Towers, flier for 27 years, has been named as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. s STEAMER LINE, NOME SECTION, 1S ESTABLISHED Company Formed with In- tention of Making Min- imum of 3 Sailings SEATTLE, March 16.—Establish- ment of a regular and permanent service to Alaska by The Consoli- dated Olympic Line is announced by E. C. Bentzen, President of the Olympic Steamship Company, and Northwest head of the consolidated line. Bentzen announces that a mini- mum of three sailings for the season is planned with the first sailing to be by the steamship El Capitan from Puget Sound on May 20 for Bering Sea ports. Further sailings will be provided as required, Bentzen says. Representatives of the new line include S. W. Taggart, long time a resident of Nome. Lighterage service will be handled at Nome, Golovin, Teller, Tin City. Solomon and Bluff by Capt. Heinie Berger of the Berger Distributing Company. RS O W. J. DONNELY DIES SUDDENLY IN KETCHIKAN ;Lighthousekeeper, on Leave from Cape De- cision, Passes Away KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 16 —William James Donnely died early zens of Juneau, not just members of the club, to make it a succes The Chamber of Commerce is pa Alaska. | memorial, while “usually reliable The appropriation has been re-|sources” say the tax is bringing | sources” are right, it should be get- FATHER, DAUGHTER ‘... 1] FIND EACH OTHER .::.c. weese o | mines and others in the silver pro- have lived in Chicago all their .| STOP TAXES—PAY PENSIONS! But they were just getting acquaint- |~ Delaware comes in with a request They have been practically neigh- $1,500,000,000 since it invaded the bors ever since, but he never saw gasoline tax field. Delaware thinks erson’s parents were divorced in jature asks enactment on one of the her infancy, but her mother later Townsend-style old age pension she had never done so before. She|1,0s Angeles petitioned Congress to asked the ccmetery superintendent | appropriate additional money to pay ticipating actively in preparations for the convention, which will bring more than 600 visitors from clubs throughout Washingts British Columbia and p of Idaho. —— ee—— — The normal body temperature of donkeys and horses is the closest of all animals to that of human be- ings. quested by Secretary of Interior, $3,500,000. Kansas says its share Harold L. Ickes. |of one million is only $17,000, ——————————— |while if the “usually reliable i The Governor and Legislature of | Arizona ask Congress to continue {the silver purchasing program, CHICAGO, March 16. — Louis ducing states will fold up without Woiter, 77, and Mrs. Elsie Petersen, Such aid. 45, are father and daughter. Both ed today. that the Government stop taxing Wolter saw his daughter 45 years gasoline and other motor fuels, as- ago as infant in her mother’s arms. serting it has already gobbled up them again until last week. the states should have that tax to 4 themselves. It happened this way: Mrs. Pet-| The one-house Nebraska legis- told her her father was dead. bills. Last week Mrs. Petersen decided to visit her father's grave, although construction industry meeting in where she might find Louis Wol- ter’s grave. “Louis Wolter?” the attendant ex- claimed. “Why, he liyes next door in the German Old People’s Home.” Mrs. Petersen, now herself gray- haired, demanded and got an ex- planation from her mother, Mrs. Hulda Verkler. Then she visited Federal housing employees, where last year’s appropriation had run out. The petition arrived on the very day the Senate passed the bill and sent it to the President — so the | builders can claim a bull's-eye there. | Gary, Indiana, Lodge No. 1117 of | the Steel Workers Organizing Com- 3 - | (Continued on Page-Three) | | | today, after a sudden illness, in his | hotel room. He came here recently from Cape Decision where he was lighthouse keeper. Donnely intended to meet his sister in Seattle within the next two weeks and go to the World’s Fair in New York City. Donnely was on leave from the Lighthouse Service and was to re- tire when the leave expired on Nov- ember 1. He joined the service ten i her father. ) I years ago. | | | [ AT THE CROSSROADS OF EUROPE—Here is a view of Chust, provincial capital of Carpatho-Ukraine, autoncmous province at the eastern tip of the dism mbercd Czecheslevakia which has now been swal- lowed up, a pawn in Hitler’s drive to the rich Soviet Ukraine. moving as part of the government's efforts to pres-ve the former state's autonomy. L WALSH REVEALS GUAM MAY GET FUND FOR WORK Naval Base liem fo Which| Japan Objected May | Yet Be Available WASHINGTON, March 16—Sen- ator David I. Walsh, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, today indicated that while the $5,000,000 naval base for Guam will not be restored to the Navai appropriations bill, an equal amount may be made available for a rivers and harbors project on the island. The Senator disclosed this after ng had a White House confer- ence with President Roosevelt. The President, he said, had no objection to the elimination of the $5,000,00 item for harbor develop- ment at Guam, and added: “The President thinks the same item is more appropriate in the River: and Harbors bill and he probably will recommend that be done.” Walsh said he agreed this will take any military aspect off the proposed work on the island which is about 1,200 miles distant from Japan. ——————— HALIBUT MEN WILL CONFER - OVER LAYUPS First Sailinfiales Likely ABOR SECRETARY WORKS HUNCH TO COAX CHIEFS OF UNIONS TO PARLEYS Wewrbree When President Roosevelt called on the AFL and the CIO to heal the breach in labor's ranks, did he act on a sudden inspiration or was his letter part of a carefully laid plan? Sigrid Arne, AP Feature Service writer, has made a painstaking study of what went on behind the scenes. This article is the first detailed account of what happened. By SIGRID ARNE | AP Feature Service Wriler WASHINGTON, March 16.-—Those ‘Dear Bill” and “My Dear John” letters the President issued from Miami were not notes written on the spur of the moment. Behind them lay five months of treking back and forth by the de- termined, black-clad figure of Sec- retary 'of Labor Frances Perkins. She has kept so still about what she was up to that even yet her| trail is vague. | It was early in September she | had a “hunch” the time was ripe for | another attempt to bring CIO’s John Lewis and AFL's William Green together in an effort to reach a labor tfue. Now the meetings have been started. Timing with Babe Ruth The Madame sccretary admits she had the hunch. Past that, she won't- talk. But evidently her timing was right. And in public office a sense of timing is like having three men on bases with Babe Ruth coming up to bat. Madame Perkins' opening gun stirred scarcely an echo. It was her Labor Day speech. What she did then was to take the lid off by talk- ing openly abcut the labor strife. Up to that point, for almost a year, administraion leaders had avoid- ed the subject. Now, just talking about labor unions’ management of their own affairs might have brought a bitter rebuff. And such a rebuff would be sour apples to any administrajon, to Be Seven Days Earlier This Year SEATTLE, March 16—The Fish- | ing Owners Association and the Deep Sea Fishermen's Union are holding a joint meeting today for discussion of the propesal by the 7 1 owners regarding layup of vessels during the coming halibut season, The proposal is that Area Two boats have the same layups as last year, that Area Three boats take ten days additional layup and that all Area Two boats going into Area Three be compelled to take and ad- ditional' layup time up to a limit of ten days, Union leaders said they expect to decide next week on sailing dates, which will probably be March 23 or March 24, instead of April 1, as last year. But Miss Perkins’ Labor Day | speech drew a flood of congratu- |latory mail. And CIO and AFL | headquarters said nothing. { So the lady evidently decided to | press on. She had a date to address the railway brotherhoods at Colum- | bus, Ohio, in October. There, she This GERMA scene shows military trucks NEWSPAPERS OF GREAT BRITAIN URGE WAR FUNDS AllDem an_d~Appropria- tions Be Made for Pre- paredness Plans 16-The LONDON, March Brit- |ish newspapers, in editorial expres- slons today, found in Germany's emergence as an Imperialist Pow: further reason for a vigorous pre- paredness program. All morning and afternoon news- papers urge Parliament to not stint on any appropriations that will be used for protection of England. Prime Minister Chamberlain, |while sticking to a policy of con- ciliation emphasized rearmament for Great Britain. FRENCH FOR COALITION PARIS, March 16.—Agitation here appears for coalition in the Gov- ernment of all parties in order to present a strong front against Ger- many. e N PLANE DOWN ON OCEAN Secret Nonstop Flight from Berlin to South Amer- ica Ends at Sea NATAL, BRAZIL, March 16—A German plane piloted by Captain Dierl was reported to have made a forced landing on the Atlantic to-\ day while attempting a secret non- stop flight from Berlin to South America. A radio dispatch picked up by’ Navy radios said the crew of the plane had been rescued by the Ger- man steamer Monte Pracoal. The plane left Berlin yesterday and crossed the Cape Verde Islands today at 4:30 a.n. EST. The forced landing was made about 126 miles off the coast of Brazil. - NORMAN FREEMAN OF L F. C. VISITS publicly offered a plan for a peace conference; a board to be composed of five CIO-ers, five AFL-ers, and three outsiders. FISHERMEN HERE Norman Freeman, junior sclentist To anyone who understood labor of the International Fisheries Com- afairs, that proposal looked as naive mission has been spending the last as a letter from Senta Claus. Labor few days in Juneau on officlal busi- unions prefer to settle their differ- ness, contacting halibut fishermen ences without outside help. So both and preparing statistical data on CIO and AFL hopped on that Octo- North Pacific fisheries. ber suggestion. But there was this| Planning to return south tonight much to it: they both had agreed on the motorship Northland, Pree- on something—that they didn’t like man will go to the conference of Pa- that peace plan. cific Coast Biolozists at Lumm! By this time Washington was [sland, near Bellingham, holding thick with rumors. Amateur states- forth March 23-24-25 e | While in Juneau, Freeman has " (Continued on Page Six) ]becn a guest at the Baranof Hotel. CLECH STATES BLOTTED FROM EUROPE'S MAP Germany and Hun gary | Absorb Slovakia and. - Carpatho-Ukraine EUROPE WONDERS AS 10 NEXT EXPANSION ‘Bohemia, Moravia May Be Next to Fall Under German Yoke (By Associated Press) | The two new - states—Carpatho- | Ukraine and Slovakia—left from the |wreckage of Czechoslovakia, faded |today frem the map of Europe. * ' | Hungary has annexed Carpatho-" Ukraine, and Germany took Slo« vakia under her protectorate. | As Hitler laid down the German law, Bohemia, Moravia and the re- |mainder of Europe wondered anxi- ;ously where the next expansion ot |the Reich would be felt—and evl- |dently only one man—Hitler—knew |the answer. | And that German dictator is in Prague awaiting a propitious mo- ment to appear before 7,000,000 new German subjects over whom he has - flsld a protective hand. | Decree Issued 1 However, in a decree broadcast |by Foreign Minister Von Ribben~ | wop, chartered the future of the ancieni lands of Moravia and Bohemia as that of “autono- mous prolectorale” within a greater Cermany. While Hungarian (roops were liung the border of Poland, after :hing across Carpatho-Ukralne, ian Premiér Count Teleky prociaimed to a ‘wildly cheering parliament in Budapest “Carpatho= | Ukraine has peeome & vt of Hun= gary.” Hur e (GREAT BRITAIN - SEEKING FACTS- - ONNAZIMOVES Ambassador 10 Berlin May Be Ordered to Return fo London Now | LONDON, March 16. — Prime |Minister Chamberlain told the |House of Commons this afterfioon |that Great Britain is considering . |calling home Sir Neville Hender~ son, Ambassador to Berlin, to re- port on Germany’s new nd'@ eastward. Y The Prime Minister, when poffit- edly asked whether the British | Government “contémplates protest- |ing to Qermany against inv: | Czechoslovakia,” declined to any reply. | Sir John Simon, o | Exchequer, indicated that stepsswill be taken to keep from GCernia: |the gold held by the Czechoslovak- |ian National Bank in London. Are On Waich %) Home Undersecretary Geoffrey Lloyd declared that all Nazi organ~ izations in Great Britain are being “watched most closely.” The House of Commons has been requested to approve Naval esti~ mates of $768,000,00 for the next fiscal year, a record for peacetime. Commons was told that Great Bfft- ain’s navy is her first line of de- fense and could “confidently accept direct challenge of battle by, 8ny probable combination of foes.” MAJOR BENTON PASSES AWAY Man Serving with General Custer in Indian Wars Dies-in Yonkers YONKERS, N. Y., March 16— |Major Charles A. Benton, 91, who rode as Honor Guard in President Lincoln’s ' funeral cortege and also served with Gen. Custer in the In= dian Wars, is dead here. 4 o 5 s ok