The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 24, 1939, Page 1

- ' s, < THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE (| “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. LIIL, NO. 8059. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1939, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SALMON FLEET “POLES WON'T [LEGISLATION IS PASSED JOIN ACCORD | EXEMPTING VESSELS, 200 WITHLONDON, GROSS TONNAGE;UP TO FDR European "S'op Hi"er” WASHINGTON, March 24—Leg- |regulations. As finally passed the islation to exempt seagoing vessels bill also specifically provides that B'O( in Impasse as of less than 20 gross registered tons it is not to be construed in repeal- from the International Convention ing or modifying any existing Poland Balks requiring certification of compe- 'statutes applicable to vessels of tency of all watch officers, is now less than 200 gross tonnage. S 3 before President Roosevelt | The exemption will now permit SLOVAK'HUNGARIA“ The legislation was passed un- | halibuters and many large salmon der provision specifically per-! mitting the exemption of such ves- sels from the national laws or vessels to operate as formerly, with only a captain or licensed engineer aboard BATTLES CONTINUE Attacking H*u;éary Bomb- er Shot Down by Slo- vakian Guns (By Associated Press) Jeint British and French efforts | to erect a “stop Hitler” bloc of Eu- ropean nations has apparently been checked by Poland’s refusal to join | Farley D()(li('(!les LAP() % the move ] In Warsaw, the newspaper Ex- press Poranny, considered the mouthpiece of the Foreign' Office, said Poland will join no interna- tional bloc. Political circles regard- ed the announcement as tanta- mount to rejection of the proposed | British-French accord. At Bratislavia, the Slovak De- fense Ministry reported that the Hungarian held town of Sobrance was bombed today and one Hungar- | ian plane was shot down.” Fighting has been reported in‘ eastern Slovakia, and a Slovak | communique said Hungarian forces | are resisting strongly, but retreat | is imminent under heavy air at- | tacks. Numerous casualties are reported | from yesterday's fighting and to- day’s along Slovakia’s uncertain | eastern frontier. | DESPERADO BEATS GUN IN ESCAPE Dedicated to the service of citizens of Los Angeles, a new $7,000,000 postoffice was recently formally opened, with Postmaster General Wartime Cannon Were fo! James A. Farley presiding over the ceremonies. Tep photo shows Be Used on Durand’s ! the lmprfi.\iv‘c new structure. Note salute being fired from small master Farley, Postmistress Mary Briggs of Los Angeles, and Frank _ CODY, Wyo,, March 24—Advanc- | . Beaudreau of the U. S. Treasury Department, in charge of con- ;‘fi] p‘g;‘;;n‘g O;;lce;zyi:dagl fofx:)x::‘ struction of the mew building. Thousands of persons thronged the peace officers, had escaped from | streets to witness the colorful opening ceremonies. his canyon stronghold while war- | time howitzers and trench mortars were being rushed in to blast him out. | Whereabouts of the elusive killer still has the posse puzzled. It was | believed Durand was in a cul-de- | sac and his capture was a matter | of time only. (1. T. HUSCROFT, REPORTS BIG | OLDTIMER, DIES, WAR VICTORY| ~ HEART TROUBLE Japanese Say They Lost 80 IWas Resident of Lituya Men—Killed 1100 Bay for 22 Years-Form- Chinese erly Lived in Treadwell NIPPON ARMY FINALLY SHOT DOWN POWELL, Wyo., March 24.—Late this afternoon, Earl Durand, = 26, mountain man who ate raw meat | and was sought for the slaying of | four persons, was shot and Kkilled as he attempted to hold up and | Morgenthau rob the First National Bank of) Powell. | Sheriff A. B. Snyder. told the| Associated Press that Durand was SHANGHAI March 24—Japanese forces today are reported battling toward Nanchang, unconquered cap- HOONAH, Alaska, March 24, — | (Special to The Empire} — James | Tod Huscroft, 72. died yesterday SHI GRAND NATL. 'MONEY GOES. TOWORKMAN ' Irish Horse, 100 to 8 Shot, ;. Moving Mountain Threa | Romps Home as Ain- free Winner AINTREE, March 24.—Irish bred horses dominated the first Grand' ° National Steeplechase as Workman, | heavily backed at 100 to 8 AI](\\\("ll 3 the way over Aintree’s four unl’.‘ one-half miles today. | Dorothy Paget's favored Kilstar | the Third and Captain Brig's Mac- | Moffat, a 25 to 1 outsider, split the | vest of the money. l From Eire, Workman, owned by Sir Alexander Maguire, Chairman | of a large Irish manufacturing company, finished three lengths in' front of MacMoffat after taking third last year. Kilstar, a former cavalry offi-| cer's mount purchased for $1,500, | ¥ *‘&"‘Qf A trailed by another 15 lengths | K gy € % Role Eight was fourth and One B Choice fifth Only 11 out of the 37 starters finished the race Landslide caused by heavy rains turns out to be another California “moving mountain” and n threatens to engulf U. 8. ay No. 101, linking AMERICANS SHOULD LEARN ¥ week, at the rate AMERICANS CASH IN | NEW YORK, March 24. — e Irish Hospital Sweepstakes today won $4,183,000 for ticket holders ir the United States, including $150,- Th 000 each to 10 whose tickets had ‘ {drawn Workman, the winning | horse. ; FRENCHMAN; G.IVES.REASONS; By PRESTON GROVER } Suggesting juwewu cots LT Tax Slash “CALIFORNIA" rencin : | Frenchman fresh from a trip back | [to his homeland, and as a result | only two hours removed from ar | President Roosevelt Backs Rotary Takes Palm Stenesf""‘x'i"' o e S A feeling unsafe,” he said, He talked | 'along as he sort of dréamed over the recollection. Proposal fo Cut Old at Mendenhall with Age Levies ‘ . ‘ s z Pretty Girls ' Fhen /ot foss - she | Boglle i 8 SR Channel, you are an hour farther WASHINGTON, March 24--860-| .\ o6y the map California! Step @¥ay, and you feel better, but still | retary of the Treasury Henry Mor-| ... miosidnr not completely safe. Then you genthau, speaking on behalf of uneau has found the publicity [cross the Atlantic, five days, six days away. You would never be- | lieve it, the feeling of getting away from it, having the Atlantic ()r‘,cun] ¥ | huSlllcSS»rc(»l).\“N, .mduy proposed .y, of pretty girls in bathing suits to lift from “American productive .4 qoesn't have to import any snow- enterprise,” the burdens of tax in- .y creases under the Old Age Insur-| vesterday, Rotarians bundled four | between.” |ance system. of the Capital City's comeliest lasses| He blew a blast of cigarette “At the present stage of business into heavy clothing, gave them new smoke upward with the air of a recovery, we might as well ehange | bathing suits, a potted paim, a few|man who has just raced his car the payroll tax schedule to keep th levies lower than they are sched- Mendenhall Glacier. uled for the next three years,”| There in the sun and under Morgenthau told the House Ways tne whsipering palm fronds caressed | BOOSTS SPANISH and Means Committee. | by gentle glacier winds from Men-| gafety is not the only thing he| Specifically, Morgenthau present- | denhall’s sleeping bulk, photograph-|tajked about. He thought it was| ed three alternative proposals to|er Lu Liston took candid shots of {gtrange that schools in the United | fur wraps, and took 1 out 10 |across the railroad track in time to | save everything but the tail light. | cut down the tax rate now planned | Juneau’s bathing beautic _Istates taught more French than |for employers and employees alike| 'Ihe pictures will go (¢ news k‘]l"spamsh. (I don't kmow whether lin the near future. | vices and magazines throughout the|tney go pug that was his impres- { country—and if there isn't too much | sion.) | Southland partiality, the Gay North; He thinks it is a mistake for ':('.‘]m]:“ 3‘1‘::1“7:.7}(71.&” o manner Wi, mericars not to study Spanish in- s of pretty | { girls and pretty bathir suits | stead. Incidently, if you sce these pic-| “It is the main thing that stands | Doris McEach- tures, the girls are | between the people of the United | |amount suificient only to take care| ., “Annapel Hagerup, Edith-Mar-|States and the . South American of old age benefit payments OVer| ... and Marie Potjer {countries,” he said. “There i5 a a period of three to five years, | “Cold?” the girls reply with am- |feeling of affinity among people 1 looks reflecting loyal boosting,|Who speak the same language, - | | “Why, how silly! Why would we be| “When an American comes up! President Roosevelt backed up Mor- genthau's suggestigns and said the {Administration is working towards {a change in the Social Security re- serve provision with a view t6 re- stricting this fund to a protective | itens Main U.S. Highway View of the moving mountain at Gilroy, Cal Canada and Mexico. above, moved more than a mile and a half in a | Anderson, |ital of Kiangsi Province, south of |a¢ Eifin Cove as the result of heart Pankoy. | trouble. The remains were brought It is reported by Nippon inform- i, poonah on the gasboat Elfin 2 ers that 1100 Chinese were killed | by mmje Swanson and Ossee Nolde. land more than 6,000 captured in|pyneral arrangements are pending. the last 24 hours of fighting. | Huscroft had been a resident of Japanese losses are placed at only | jtuya Bay for 22 years and was eighty dead and wounded. e 'SID BARRINGTON AND BROTHER ON WAY INTO DEASE Capt. Sid Barrington, veteran riverman of Alaska, and operating boats on the Stikine River out of Wrangell to Telegraph Creek, is a passenger on the Princess Louise lon his way to mining property in SISIER pASSES the Dease Lake country. R Sowmis sl BOUDS | Wit B s Hs brother, Capt: aei¥ioes 'of Whe deathof his sister, | 12Ty, DATIDEIOn The to0. 210 2 Katherine Leamirg, in Cape May‘fly from Carcross or Whitehorse Gourt, House. NJ.. - {into Boulder Creek area of Dease 4 : |Lake to prepare for dragline opera- shot twice, but not until he had claimed his fifth victim since last/ Thursday when he shot’ down two| officers who attempted to capture him after his escape from the Cody jail, and also shot and killed two possemen Wednesday in the moun- tain country near here. Snyder said Durand entered the bank in the holdup attempt and was trying to take all the avail- able money at the teller’s desk. Attacked as he raked up the money, Durand shot and killed Johnny Gawghrop, bank employee, but as he attempted to flee from | the bank he was shot twice by Bob Nelson, bank cashier. — e - BEN LEAMING'S e SIX CONVICTS ELECTROCUTED FOR KILLING 1 White Prisoners Die Quick- ly for Slaying of Cap- fain of Guard COLUMBIA, 8. C, March 24 — Six white convicts were executed at the State Penitentiary early this morning for the slaying of J. Olin Sanders, Prison Guard Captain, in an attempted escape in 1937. The executions, all in the electric chair, took just 48 minutes, | | 1 > [ Leaming does not know how long & d th he will gote and i hi phm‘uons on rich placer groun ey for returning are indefinite, ;:ncquired last year. |also a former resident of Treadwell.‘ | ! |ing up.” He shrugged his shoulders |at this point to symbolize freez- | HousE GRoup }UmLevd States and South Amertcn.; | las wide as the ocean,” he said, with | Blll lATE TODAY outspread arms to signify the im- WASHINGTON, March 24—The | House Judiciary Committee today | agreed unanimously that no grounds pERKINS (ASE ! wearing bathing suits if it were who speaks only English they sense | cold?” {the Anglo-Saxon. There is a freez- IS SQUASHED, ccuate ADDI i 4 SENAIE APPROVES ing up—and did so very well, | “There is a gap between the| mense distance. “Even between the United States and Mexico it is v arch 2 "he | wide, er than you would be- for 1 achmi B | WASHINGTON, march 24—The|wide, wider i:r m':pzm 0‘;"2 aev'; be(;r; i:‘:::i}s.q ate. Appropriations Committee 'lieve. I meet them here. (He waved | * ik ! today approved the $513,000,000 Army | his hand to sweep in all the Latin~ Frances E. Perkins. | i 1pply Bill, speaking embassies.) He has access ltldwas expected the committee = . measure provides some mon-|to them. would report such to the House| . for the Administrations vast new, late today. armaments program Mrs. Perkins was called to wski p_oir._‘.._ — ction. 1n_ the case.of 10 icader| WHITES RETURN AFTER “And it is mostly language thm‘,“ |makes the difference. It is hard to| | understand that you have so many |unemployed here when South | America needs so many people The earth mass, pictured of a foot every hour. Hull Pleads For Joining _0f Nations WASHINGTON, March 24.—8Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull, return- ing this morning from his Florida vacation, told newsmen at a press conference, that recent European developments “are of a nature to serfously threaten the peace of the world. Secretary Hull said: “These new evidences of international lawless- ness make it all the more clear that never before has the support of all nations for law and order and sound economic relations been more urgently needed than it is at pre- sent.” ROY JACKSON GETS DEGREE Receives Position with In- ternational Fisheries Commission Roy Jackson, well known young Juneau man, graduate of local schools, received his diploma a week ago from the University of Wash- ington where he studied in the Pish- eries School, according to word re- ceived by his mother, Mrs. W. H. Jackson received his degree in “ichthyology,” which has something or other to do with fish, and the day after graduation, Roy went to work for the International Fisheries com- mission. For the next several weeks, Jack- son will be doing work at the Seattle laboratory in halibut studies, and during the summer will go to Brit~ ish Columbia to work with salmon. | -eo YELLOW META BE SHIPPED TO UNITED STATES England Is 5en>ding Large Amount of Gold Across Briages, whose sepovtaion wae cc. | VISITIN SOUTH STATES Bridges, whose deportation was de- matided by the American Legion AR {and other groups fighting for “blue| Albert White and Mrs. White ar- ticketing” of certain “undesirables.” E}/Eiein Juneau :board bll)lu: Prlm',tv.:b And we are reminded at this — . e — g .. They have been in €| noint th Lati Sixteen years ago, 96 per cent|States on business and pleasure and |bor, fhat. badins: S g8 da0- | | e v o guage Yankees never will master. of the residents of Turkey were ill-|spent some time in California, visit-|cay ¢ shrug language iterate. Now, less than 40 per cent|ing the Golden Gate International) s are, | Exposition, !who know how to do things—~l | mechanics, farmers.” EECH WITHOUT WORDS { (Continued on Page Pour; i Sea; for Safekeeping LONDON, March 24—It is esti- mated that $100,000,000 in gold will be shipped to the United States during the weekend for safe keeping because of the European political tension. Some quarters estimate that the week's total will be double the amount, PS PICKETED TODAY UNION MEN IN ACTION IN BAY REGION Move Starfed fo Get Em- ployers fo Begin Mak- ing Negotiations SITUATION AT SEATTLE IS SAID TO BE SERIOUS Jurisdictional Dispute, Ty- ing Up Three Tenders, . Likely fo Spread SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. March 24 —Picket lines were today thrown around all ships of the Alaska fish- ing industry that are at docks in the San Francisco Bay area. Maritime Federation of the Pac- ific officials said the union charges he cmployers are stalline over re- ewal of contracts for ‘he 1737 7 M~ ing season and the picket lines is an effort for a “showdown” on con- tract negotiations. No loading of supplies will be permitted. A picket line has also been placed around the Matson Line docks by the Maritime Federations of the Pacific, leaders claiming that the action is a protest against the living quarters of the members of the crew called the “Black Holes of Calcut- LINES SWARMING SAN FRANCISCO, March 24 — Picket lines swarmed this afternoon on waterfront plers in San Fran- cisco and also Alameda in an ef- fort to force the Matson Navigation Company to improve living quarters on three liners, and also to speed negotiations for the Alaska fishing season, Secretary Z. R. Brown, of the Dis- trict Council of the Maritime Fed- eration of the Pacific, said all docks of the Alaska fishing fleet will be picketed. “The move s taken because of past actions by the packers delaying wage negotiations until the vessels are loaded and ready to sail to Al- aska and then a last minute storm- ing of the unions into signing agree= ments,” sald Brown. Brown further said no cargo will be placed aboard any of the ves- sels until negotiations are completed. The companies Involved are the Alaska Packers, Red Salmon Can- ning and Alaska Salmon Company. SITUATION AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, March 24. — Alaska's Canned Salmon Industry, employing 25,000 men and spending $25,000,000 for labor and materials, supplies and transportation service is today in “extremely serious” jeopardy be- cause of the labor jurisdictional war, A. 1. Ellsworth, representative of the Alaska ;anned Salmon Industry said. Ellsworth added that the packers value the annual pack at $40,000,000 and the industry pays 70 percent of the taxes collected by the Ter- ritory of Alaska. Further Controversies Although only three cannery tend- ers are held up now in Seattle by pickets in the AFL and CIO dispute, this is but a forerunner of more controversy expected among the un= ions. " Ellsworth said: “The Industry has been told each succeeding expedi- tion to the salmon flelds will face | exactly the same trouble in the AFL and CIO war. for control of workers. This is just as serious as a civil war.” Ellsworth said that except for one { agreement with Alaska Fishermens’ Union no contracts have been signed by the unions involved in the sal- mon canning industry, OTTAWA OFFICIAL MAKES ROUND TRIP Capt. Joseph Heenan, official from Ottawa with the Department of Trade and Commerce, is a round trip passenger on the steam= er Princess Louise, taking a first hand look at the Alaskan end of Canadian operations. . While in Juneau, Heenan was taken through the new Baranof Hotel. ————— A three-legged foxhound runs with the pack at Southport, N. C. and is never far behind when the fox is cornered,