The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 13, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” O e VOL. LIIL, NO. 8077. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PICKETS CALLED OFF ALASKA LINE SHIPS Greece, Rumania Are Pledged Arms Aid TURKEY WILL BE INCLUDED WITH GREECE Chamberlain and Daladier Announce Promise of | War Support ' RUSSIA MAY JOIN ANII-AGGRESSION‘ Daladier Makes Blunt Ta|k‘ in Saying French Armies Ready LONDON, April 13—Great Brit- ain and France today pledged “all the support in their power” to Greece and Rumania if the inde- pendence of these nations is threat- ened. The action was announced in the House of Commons at an emergen- cy session by Premier Chamberlain and widened the anti-aggression front started by Great Britain and France in a similar pledge to Po- land when Germany absorbed Me- mel. Turkey Included Premier Chamberlain made it clear that the actidn was a sequel to Italy’s Good Friday seizure of Albania, and also made it plain that Turkey is indirectly included in the new guarantees. Chamberlain stated British- French assurances to Greece and Rumania and “especially to Tur- key, whose close relations with the Greek Government are well known.” | More of Russia The Prime Minister also declnred that anti-aggression consultations with Russia are being continued, making the statement when House members shouted, “What about Rus- sia?" . The speech took 34 minutes to deliver and also disclosed new Ital- jan assurances that Italian troops, planes and pilots, will leave Spain | immediately; following the Madrid | victory, and a parade is set ten-| tatively for May 2 in Rome. PARIS WILL FLIGHT PARIS, April 13.—Premier Dala- dier announced today that France | is ready in a military sense for any emergencies with Great Britain in case war is necessary over Greece or Rumania as well as Poland. | Blunt Ttalk | The declaration was made in a bluntly worded statement that came only a few minutes after Premier | Chamberlain announced similar commitments from London. The speech was accepted here as designed to serve two major pur- |- poses, (1) to convince Germany and | Ttaly that any act of further ag- gression will bring serious risk of war, and (2) bolster the determina- tion of those countries which feel themselves menaced and inclined to | resist. e Snowslide Takes Life Of Trapper Dogteam Also Crushed Ac- cording o Report of Air Pilot ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 13—/ Pilot Christensen reports that Frank | Thompson, a trapper,’ was killed, with his dog team, in a snowslide near Cantwell on April 2. Christensen brought the here after a flight to Cantwell with supplies for other trappers. The pilot said he did not learn| whether the body had been recov- ered. B report | Jack Benny Fined $10,000 k Benny (right), radio comedian, leaves Federal Court in New York Ja City after he was fined $10,000 and for smuggling. He is accompanied ar suspended sentence gi lawyers, Carl Newton. by one of h Benny pleaded guilty to charge. PRISON SYSTEMOF U.S. CONDEMNED AS FAILURE SIMPSON TO ERECTNEW BLDG. HERE Work Begins Next Month on Two-story Structure, Second and Seward Dr. Robert Simpson announced today he will begin construction about the middle of next month of an $85,000 building project for a two story reinforced concrete apartment- and-stores building at the corner of Second and Seward. Plans for the building are being! made by H. B. Foss and Company, | Architects. Completion of the structure is ex- pected by the first of the year. The first floor of the new Simp- son Building will provide space for one office and five stores, three of | them designed for small apartments in the rear, while each store will have full basemen.t The second floor will have eight | apartments, all of the same size. These apartments will have a 12 by 17 foot living room, a 7 by 9| foot. bedroom closet, and 8 by 12 foot kitchen and a 6 by 8 foot bathroom. The face of the store fronts will be done in either Vitriolite or Carr- ara, with glass blocks and stainless steel trim accentuating the modern design, Store windows will be deep, | with mahogany backing. Tentative plans are to move the Nugget Shop to the new building. The construction contract is as yet unawarded, but it is believed it will | be let in Juneau. e STOoCK QUOTATIONS || NEW YORK, April lfi,—Closing: quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 7%, American Can 227, Bethlehem Steel 55%, Com- monwealth and Southern 1%, | tiss Wright 5%, General Motors 40, International Harvester 53%, Ken- necott 31%, New York Central 13% |Northern Pacific 8%, United States Steel 46%, Pound $4.68. DOW, JONES AVERAGES as follows: industrials 127.51, rails 2548, utilities 20.31, | o Fo WASHINGTON, April 13. — The | mederal Government, in a painstak- (OLD WAVE HITS OVER WIDE AREA 'Over Dozen States Shiver- ing in Near Zero Tem- peratures Today SNOW FALLS, SEVERAL EXTENDED SECTIONS Brief Blizzards Prevail in Pennsylvania—Fears on Coal Supplies CHICAGO, 111, Apul 13 and freezing weather gave winter aspect to a large section of | the Nation today. | The Weather Bureau reports the| worst of the cold snap is over but s no real balmy weather is in it Extensive damage has been done to budding fruit and also to some grain crops in the agricultural areas. | More than a dozen states are shiv- | jering in freezing temperatures. Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas had the lowest tempera- tures with readings near zero in) n\e coldest spots. now fell in several states, notably | Oluu_ Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont and upstate New York. | Brief Dblizzar swept Ponn.syl\a-i Snow | a mid-! Gathering mementum as she slid Ty v in latest typ J. Hepburn, U. dees, of the miral Arthur Awred as it tasted salt water for the first time, sign now under construction for the Navy, was built at Mare Island Navy ¥ard near Vi embodies the most modern features in design, , are closely guarded by naval secrecy. SN, © | ing survey culminating three years nia in vario ctions. | of intensive inquiry, admits that the The cold weather caused some ap- prisons of the United States stand prehension over coal supplies in | as “sordid reminders of failure,” as view of the suspension of soft coal! | forces in the rehabilitation of crim- mining pending negotiations for new Newest Submarine Launched at Mare Island down the ways, Uncle Sam's newest submarine, the U,S.S. Swordfish, STEAMERS AT SEATTLE ARE TO SAILNOW iM aritime Federaion of } Pacific Stops New Wat- | erfront Trouble \ 'MEDIATOR CONFERS WITH ALL OFFICIALS Alaska Flshermen s Union | Files Complaint Against Salman Industry BULLETIN—TACOMA, April 13.—Because pickets have with- drawn lines at the Alaska Steamship Company’s piers in Seattle, three Alaska shipping companies withdrew their ap- lication for a temporary re- straining order in the Federal Court “pending further action.” Federal Judge E. E. Cushman granted the request. SEEK SETTLEMENT | SEATTLE, April 13.—The Mari- | time Federation of the Pacific with- The Swordfish, one of six submarines of similar de- lejo, Cal. She construction and fighting equipment. Her guns and torpe Miss Louise Shaw Hepburn, niece of Ad- ommandant of th: Twelfth Naval District, christened the Swordfish. A crew of five officers and 50 sailors will man the vessel. MANY JOBLESS drew pickets from the Seattle water~ |front late yesterday as Mediator |George Downer opened conferences | to seek a settlement of the dispute, | the last one which resulted in | picketing of steamers on the Alaska | route. | A. E. Harding, Unlon Secretary, said the pickets were withdrawn “in Cur- | Today's Dow, Jones averages are, mxix The surprise indictment of the na-| tion’s entire penal system, as reflect- ed in the constructive obligations of | federal and state prisons, was con- | tained in a 1,700-page report com- prising the first portion of a gov- ernment compendium on the entire field of released criminals Never before has the government, |or any other agency attempted to | completely survey the realm of re- lease procedure, as practiced by the | prisons of the-land. The present report, only partially | completed, was compiled at the be- | hest of former Attorney General | Homer Cummings, and was pub- |lished under the direction of his successor, Frank Murphy. ‘Protective Pens’ It contained a burning castigation of all prisons, except as “custodial institutions for dangerous criminals,” that, in other terms, “protective pens.” But as builders of character, and | reformers of offenders, the prisons have failed utterly, the report charg- | |ed. Declaring openly and officially | what has long been a popular belief, | the report said: “Many men are sent to pnson | only to come out worse social misfits | than when they entered. “Now that these facts are recog- nized, it becomes increasingly ap- parent that the basic principles of | probation ' are sound and that its | use should be widely extended rather than curtailed. Probation Important “Probation must play a large part in any program which aims at the ultimate control of crime.” | In the extension of probation in- |to all parts of the country, after |its emergency in the last century, and what its increased use, “many unfmtun(ur tendencies have ari | en,” stated “Falling short of its full poten- tialities, probation has, in many in- stances;-degenerated into a lax and | purposeless exercise of judicial clem- | ency, which complicates rather Lhan | facilitates the administration of | criminal justice,” it declared. “In many parts of the country pro- bation has grown without sound | 8814, American Power 2%, Anaconda | guidance or definite direction, with ‘resul(ant inadequacies and abuse.” S B B R ‘ MAYOR UNDER WEATHER 1 Maryor Harry L. Lucas was still abed and under a doctor’s care to- day. He is a “flu” victim. e eee - LOCKEN IN TOWN Ed Locken, former Mayor of Pet- ersburg attended today’s Chamber of Commerce luncheon and spoke briefly. ') | | the attorney general’s report claim the Chinese left over dead when they retreated. LYNG TO ATTEND | TRAVEL SESSION FOR TERRITORY \Governor Appomfs Speak- | er Alaska Delegate fo S. F. Meeting kv »a0g i Gov. John W. Troy today appoint- | ed Howard Lyng of Nome as Alaska Dglegate to tie Inter-American Travel Congress which is to be held at San Francisco for a week starting tomorrow. | Lyng, who was Speaker of the House of Representatives at the re- cent session of the Legislature here, notified the Governor from Seattle today that he is taking a plane south in order to attend the meeting. labor contracts. 6 (hinese Ta ~ INVESTIGATION Mercenary Troops Pull Off Mutiny—Kill Heads of ~ APPROPRIATION Sponsored Govl. | Probe of Alaska Fisheries PRBIPING, April 13.—Unofficial | H sapanise repors reacning nere s DY House Commitiee six Chinese officials belonging to the Japanese sponsored Pacification Is Proposed |Commission were killed last Sun-| WASHINGTON, April 13.—Alaska day during a mutiny of Chinese | Delegate Anthony J Dimond has \mercenary troops attached to the introduced a bill authorizing an |Commission at Kaifeng, Honan appropriation of $25,000 for investi- | Provincial Capital city. gation of the Alaska Gen. Hu Yu Kun, Chairman of the House Merchant and Marine the Commission, is among those re- Committee. | |ported slain. The appropriation request —fol- The Commission, it is reported lows & memorial passed by the last tried to win the troops away from |session of the Alaska Legislature Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek. |asking for a complete investigation Another report received here as- of the fisheries on the coast of the serts that a bloody battle has been Northland. | fought near the famous battlefield | ————— { at Taierh Chuang. The Japanese | - HARBORS GROUP - ASKS SUMS FOR | Bremerfon Navy Yard Will Get $3,000,000 for Development WASHINGTOR, April 13. — The House Rivers and Harbors Commit- tee today recommended an au[hox—‘ ization of sixty improvement proj- | | ects costing an estimated $69.000,000. Two Alaska items in the recom- | mendation are, Meyers Chuck, har- bor development, $25,000, and Met- lakatla harbor improvement, $120,- 000. The House also passed a Senate bill today, authorizing construction projects costing $45,000,000 at Naval shore stations. A sum of $3,000,000 will be spent from the appropriation at the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton. (food and | can be peaceable and trade, but that ENGlISH SEE THEIR NAVY ~ AS CORK NEEDED TO KEEP - NAZIGERMANY BOTTLED UP By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 13.—Strat- egists studylng German efforts to |get at raw materials and food be- (ome more and more aware that gland has not wasted her time m the.sc past 300 years getting her hands om strategic points in the world’s geography. ‘The net result of this is that Germany has either to fight Eng- land at a disadvantage to herself— or head east if she wants to get at supplies. Of course she doesn’t seem to be the way to do things these days. Another thing— Germany can go only so far to the east until she strikes England again. England’s control of key points fisheries by g felt most keenly just now by Ger-| many. A map of Europe shows why. At no point ean Germany get ac- cess to the open sea without Eng- land’s permission, or without over- coming England. It also explains why England con~ ‘tinues to build up her already su- ?don{{nx;t;d" on Pne Five) NEW (OLONY IS DISTANT Warns A gai ain st Seftlers, Coming fo Northland Without Funds WASHINGTON, April 13.—Secre- | (view of efforts to reach a settle- 'ment.” Pickets prevented the sailing yesterday morning of the Alaska Steamship Company’s Baranof, which is now posted to sail tomor- row morning at 9 olock. B Before he learned that the steam- ship companies had asked for a re- straining order in the Federal Court in Tacoma, Mediator Downer had |conferred with the Maritime Fed- eration of the Pacific officials and ARE REPORTED AT ANCHORAG Streets Crowded with Men Who Are Unable fo Find Work - lresentatlvea today. | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 13.—| Charges Are Filed Three hundred travelers, bound for| Meantime the Alaska Fishermen’s towns along the Alaska Railroad, Union announced it has filed a are due to arrive by steamer in complaint with the National Labor Seward today. Relations Board charging that the Anchorage business men express | Alaska Canned Salmon Industry, the hope that passengers for An- forty-two, companies, with unfair chorage are not job seekers as the jahor prnctlces for failure to nego- streets are crowded now with men|giate a settlement of the present who have come north to find work |dispute thus depriving the workers without success. ‘of their season emg]oymc. D DOPERING IN FOR RESTRAINING O] TACOMA, Wash,, Aptfll'.m;- A tempurary order restraining picket« g of the Alaska’ Steamship Com- pany steamers in Seattle because of !a dispute between the Alaska Canned Salmon Industry and Can« ry Workers Union was sought in t.he Federal Court late yesterday by three large companies operating on |the Seattle-Alaska routes. TACOMAMAYOR arranged to meet other union rep-. DIES ON TRAIN KLAMATH FALLS, Ore,, April 13. tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, said today there is little likelihood of large scale immigration into Al- aska, because of a lack of man pow- er and capital. died of a heart attack last night In a formal statement, Secretary as g train, takjng him home from TIckes said the reason for the state- Palm Springs, entered the outskirts ment lay in the numerous inquiries of the city. Mayor Siegle had been recuperat- ing from bronchial pneumonia. (Contlnued on Page Five) —Mayor John Siegle, 53, of Tacoma, | After hearing fhree witnesses and summation of the case by George N 'AHdld eral Judge E. E. Cushman con- tinued the case until today. arcolics Are an_ e | One hundred and twenty-nine de- Monthly, Is Belief Kancv.km Defendants include more ' |than a score of unions, Maritime 0 A Federation of the Pacific, Alaska | [ —— |Federal agents have smashed a | (Continued on Page Three) major mid-western narcotics ring S .. and opened a new front of a far- The spokesman of the Narcotics (AA E"GI"EERS | Bureau estimates that the ring " handles a million dollars worth of | Beveral arrests have been made N |and large quantities of narcotics| According to advices received in |have been go.‘ed Juneau, four engineers of the Civil Aeronautics Authority will leave weeks for Alaska. The engineers will make ptrelim- inary surveys for radio stations to aerial beacon line from Ketchikan to Nome, via Juneau, | Anchorage. lished through a million dollar ap- propriation which it is said is the forerunner of extensive aeronauti- Million Dollars Worth of G borin. sy stormer Feie |fendants are named in the court KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 13.—|__ reaching war ou Kansas City vice. dope monthly in this section. COMI"G "o_km Washington, D. €, within a few the Westward which will form an The radio stations will be estab= cal improvements in Alaska.’ & Cordova and {‘a