The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8078. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, \PRIL 14,1939 MEMBER ASSOC lf\T] D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS “ECONOMIC WAR” IS DECLARED BY U. §. - LABOR BOARD " AGAINSTANY, ACT (HANGES Dedlares Wagner Measure for Present Should Be Left Alone | - NO ARGUMENTS ARE SUCCESSFULLY MADE Four - volume | Report Is Handed Today fo Com- mmee of Senate National LLI)H Rk'hlmns Board, storm center of a Congressional drive to medify the Wagner Act. re- newed its stand against amending the law In a four-volume report to th Senate Labor Committee, the Na- tional Labor Relations Board terms most of the proposed changes as definitely objectionable and also de- ni it favors the CIO. The Board also criticizes some of the amend- ments proposed by the American Federation of Labor, In conclusion, the report says “The National Labor Relations Board is not persuaded by its ex- perience or by any arguments which have come to its attention that the Wagner Act requires any amend- ments at the present time.” it LONGSHOREMEN T0 ORGANIZE ALASKA PORTS San Franclsm Union Rep- resentative Coming ! to Southeast SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 14. West Coast CIO Longshoremen's delegates closed convention doors to onlookers today as debate began on whether they should recommend reopening of the waterfront con- tract with employers for revision in September. Harry Bridges' renomination for President was deemed certain. ! The convention decided to point organizing efforts e aily toward Hawaii and Ala: and less inten- sively in British Columbia. H Delegates approved sending a full time representative to work in the unorganized ports of Sitka, Peters- burg, Wrangell, Skagway and Peli-| can City. PROGRESS MADE IN NEGOTIATION SALMON TIE-UP. i SEATTLE, April 14. — Two im- portant conferences toward labor agreements in the salmon indu.stry‘ are under way today. Arthur L Ellsworth of the Canned | Salmon Industry announced for the ' first time that “some progress was being made in negotiations.” | Packers met with a coordinating | committee of the Maritime Federa tion and with the Alaska Fisher- men's Union. — e RELIEF FUND BILL SIGNED. WASHINGTON, April 14—Pres- ident Roosevelt has signed thé mea- sure making $100.000,000 immediately available for relief KILLS FRIEND DES IN CHAIR JOLIET, Iil. April 14. — Elwin Wood, 36, a farmer, died this morn- ing in the electric chair for the murder of Abner Nelson, boyhood|Airways. Amundsen’s wife and baby Jones averages: friend and lodge brother, |AMUNDSEN COMING | Vets Prepare for Poppy Sale I J’x i Two disabled ex-service men and part at the Veterans’ Hospital in Foreign Wars prepare for sale of six million poppies during Memorial Day week. Entire proceeds are us dependents. Mrs. Dougherty is chi hospital. JAMES SLATTERY NAMED SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS Governor Horner Appoints ; Close Friend to Suc- ceed Sen. Lewis bP‘(lN(xr‘!bLD IU_ April 14 . Henry Horner today appointed Chalrman James Slattery, 60, of the Illinois Commerce Commission, to succeed the Jate Senator James Hamilton Lewis. Slattery has been a close personal and political friend of Gov. Horn for a quarter of a century. Slatte: will serve as United States Senator until the ”vnvral election next year. PERIL STRAITS GASBOAT GIVEN TOW TO SITKA Keet Is Picked Up Today from Safe Anchorage at False Island The gasboat Keet, which »\md to Juneau yesterday it was disabled at False I&lund on | Peril Straits, was taken in tow to-| day by Bill Grossman, who will leave the 32-foot fishing boat . at Sitka. | Walter K. Williams of Angoon, owner of the Keet, sent its request | by the North Sea. The Estebeth re- | ported last night that the gasboat was safely anchored and arrange- ments had been made for a tow. The Keet, registry number of which is 31C889, lost is pxopellex‘ and was disabled. Williams' original message, ad-\ dressed to the Coast Guard, was Gov sent, | | forwarded to the Cyane at Ketchi- kan. The Commanding Officer there, however, replied that the situation | did not seem to warrant the long trip by the cutter. FLORIDA SHIP CANAL PROJECT | have been idle since Ma BOOSTED ALONG ‘WASHINGTON, Aplll 14. — The House Rivers and Harbors Commit- tee has approved of a measure of | Chairman Mansfield to authorize completion of the $200,000,000 Flor—i ida ship canal. - — UP ON NORTHLAND John Amundsen, popular airplane | pilot, boarded the motorship North- land in Seattle this morning to re- turn to Juneau and fly for Marine | will join him later, COAL SHORTAGE RUSSIA MAY SIDE IN ON GRAND PACT Sowe' Ambasador Talks ; with Halifax-Hopes Are High MILITARY PARLEYS MAY BE SCHEDULED Alliance of U. S. 5. R. with| France and Britain Believed Near | LONDON, A])l"ll lQ——Hl. ish ef- forts to bring Russia into a grand alliance against Nazi and Fascist expansion is reliably reported have made good progress after long conference between Secretary Halifax apd Ambas Mrs. Nan L. Dougherty do their a Lyons, N. J, as the Veterans of wdor ed for relief of veterans and their ief of occupational therapy at the is the second development eat Britain's efforts put | sharper teeth in her policy witt France for European collective sec- urity against aggression. First reliable reports said that British pressure for military staff among Polish, Rumanian, : . ek, French and British experts & . i as beginning to show fruit Maisky was scemingly pleased with the British-French guarantee yes- terday to help Rumania maintain independence, and asked Halifax for a conference. After Maisky left, a Britlshspokes man said: “There is no reason te be- lieve that Russia may not join the alliance within [hr‘ next few days EASTERN lINE AIRPORTS ARE to Ttaly’s Royal Heir E ; PICKET BOUND Mechanics Walk Out After Rickenbacker Par- ley Fails NEWARK, N. J A])rll 14.--Strik- {ing mechanics of the Eastern Air | Line, picketed two of the nation’s busiest airports today, but line of- | ficials reported all flights, heavily loaded, were holding schedules des- pite the walkout The strike started at midnight last night. Union heads said 98 per cent of the line’s first two shifts | joined with the strik | Captain Eddie Rickenbacher, pre- ?mn\"mv-r wages had reached an mf"}a?:\"e them what I could, but T Mefropolis May Make Pu chases Abroad or Op- erate Own Mine Prince Victor Emanuel This blue-eyed, golden-haired tot may some day be king of Italy. He is Prince Victor Emanuel son of Crown Prince Umberto, eldest son of the present king, VlLtur Emanuel. wouldn't give them any more,” Rick- | | enbacher .sa\d r_‘ y(lIPPER “MAKES | RECORD FLIGHT, NEW YORK, April 14.—City oi~‘ ficials today pondered the possib- BERMUDA, N. Y. ilities of importing foreign soft coal | or operating a municipal mine as, NEW YORK, April 14—The fly- | negotiators returned to the task of [ing boat Atlantic Clipper flew to seeking to end the 14-day-old mine | New York from Bermuda, with 25 | shutdown In the Appalachian area, |Passengers aboard, in 3 hours and Representatives of the opera-| 53 minutes, a new record for the tors and union appear deadlocked| 779 mile course, according to an in efforts to reach an agreement announcement made by Pan Am- for the 338,000 soft coal miners who | rican Airways FORTUNE FOUND " HIDDEN IN SICK S i Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 14. — Clo.sin;," |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Be BATTLE r stock today is 7%, American Can|q " yeany ‘izl;:fxa‘ ’:1’5'1::;“;” 88, American Power and Light 4%, Hin cash AnA’ aseuritles has bet Anaconda 22%, Bethlehem Steel| oy, concealed in the hospital room 54% Commum\mlth and Southern | of a Toledo, Ohio, woman, who died 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General iy the Battle Creek Sanitarium last | Motors 394, International Harves- | Tyesday, according to officials ter 54, Kennecott 30%, New York | The woman, Mrs. Ethel F. Kauf- Central 13':, Northern Pacific 8 Iman, was the widow of Charles Southern Pacmc 11%, United Sliws‘Kau{mnnv former wholesale liquor Steel 46%, Pound $4.68. ‘degler April e SURVEYOR ON NORAH Tom Dixon, of Dawson, a surveyor. is on the steamer Princes Norah, returning to the Klondike country after a winter Outside. DOW, JONES AVERAGES ‘The following are today's Dow, industrials 126.20, rails 25.08, utilities 2201, to| Foreigh | - ROOM, HOSPITAL e | { Approximately $1,000,000 is being svent by the United States Navy ers that have been “laid-up” ships at the San Diego, Cal immediately after the World War—had been slated for | 000,000 ana being refitted “just in case.” destroyer the scrap are Sailors are torpedo tubes. JOHNBULL HAS DEFENDANT - ROLE IN NEUTRALITY FIGHT " NOWSTAGEDINU.S. SENATE By PRESTON GROVER | T0 SEEK DIVORCE WASHINGTON, April 14.—Mother England soon will be on (rial in the United States Senate. It all hinges about the neutrality act, and how it is to be amended The question is: “Shall the act be amended so this country will help England and her or shall it be amended so nd must stand on her own H | without comfort of American arms?” 1 ’ " The rival positions have been |stated by Senator Pittman, Chair man of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee, and Senator Bor ¢ [ah, its former chairn | Pittman has intrc lution which would country to export arm tion and “gupplies of all “kinds to| any nation able Lo 1 ships to get it. In any European war that would | likely be exclusively England and | France. Germany could not get out to sea without first whipping British navy, which it cannot man concedes that. is the idea n od permit | reso- | this | ammuni- | Pitt- BORAH NOT CONCERNED Borah, on the other hand, insists that while he has no desire to see the British Empire stamped out by | Germany, it is something about which this country should not lose {too many nights’ sleep. England, he isays, is always looking out for it- self and itself only, in spite of any | high sounding speeches to the con- | trary It is a. proposition which goes iright to the bed rock of our foreign pohq While technically this coun- y has alw: preserved an appear- - ume of keeping hands out of other I people’s - foreign business until it began affecting - us, nevertheless | there has been an underlying feel- {ing in manmy quarters, at present ap- parently shared by the State De- partment, that our interests lie with Britain An exposition of that point is' contained in Hx "Iv discreet book by Hugh Wil- ! Mrs. Rita Beery, wife of Wallace | Beery, screen actor, who re- cently returned to Los Angeles, from’ Reno, Nev., but without the divorce that rumor had it the trip was for. Close f said she plans to ask for a de- custody of Carcl Ann, adopted daughter of the couple. Beery | declined to discuss the subject, | but Mrs. Beery said the part- | ing was m be amicable. McELROY QUITS UNDER FIRE OF INVESTIGATION of | the exceed- | base. ap. shown repainting | | son, our Ambassador to Germany City Manager of Kansas Cily Is Out as Wither- ing Probe Starts KANSAS (‘ITY April 14 [F. McElroy has quit 4s City Man- ager, @ post he has held for 13 years under “Boss” Penderga Demo- cratic organization The Administration of fairs under the deceased “‘Boss” now under a withering fire of Fed- eral and State authorities relative to| . frauds and graft drive is that England is a trustworthy et o ally only when her own interest MORE FLU | happen to be favorable to her being Harold Brown, popular employee, trustworthy. Czechoslovakia, relyinz at Pred Henning’s clothing :-tore,‘)m independence upon England joined the ranks of the flu-stric ken abandoned at Munich, Earlier and was home in bed today with a bad cold. | ment. Wilson said his own sent |not like | England was a backed to see Germany and France. He said it sort of mstinctive feeling by the prospect that this (country would have to revise it position in th;» world completely | ¢ lin event of & German victory. af-| is Henry city BORAH'S VIEWS The opposition point of view aired 4 Answers on Page S‘i;v by Senator Borah in a recent speech | 1 lanc now residing in the State Depart- came | crush | described in | winter {today |8 and was last lw Given \mu lvvlh oning 49 1,200-ton destroy- The ships—all built during or The oraft ¢ sodfréfitiahing one ot the Airman’s Bride HEMISPHERE RESISTANCE IS PLEDGED ‘Roosevelf Promises Cer- fain Support fo Americas | GERMANY FURIOUS - AT SPEECH TODAY {Pan - Amen(a Day Mes- sage One of Peace, but Holds Threat WASHINGTON, April 14.—Presi- dent Roosevelt pledged this Nation’s | economic support to any Pan-Ameri- can country whose freedom is threat- ened by “economic pressure” from abroad. Condemning aggression as “ridicu- lous and criminal,” the President extended this government's promise of protection to the Western Hem-~ isphere, already given for military attack and to inroads through busi- ness and commerce. On this annual Pan-American day he gave the Old World a “living message” from the New World of a “will to peace which will have a voice in determining the order of world affairs,” ‘The President spoke at the meet- ing of the Governing Board of the Pan-American Union. Without naming aggressor nations or their dictators, but referring to . | statements made by Hitler and Mus- This picture of Mlle, Swana Beau- caire, French motion picture star, 'he| was made when she visited the United States some time ago. The | | Paris beauty has become the wife of | Clyde Pangborn, famous American | aviator, The wedding took place in the French capital, SMALL HALIBUT BOAT MISSING Vessel Fidalgo Unreported Since Seen in Heavy . Storm KE’!'(?HIKAN. Alaska, Arpil 14— The Coast Guard cutter Alert is searching for the 39-foot which left ‘Anacortes April seen at Alert Bay. Pidalgo became separated vessel Spider, in a storm The Spider waited two days, and when the Fidalgo failed to appear, on to Ketchikan, Jones, skippering the Spider, Fidalgo, The from the Bert ment *before this country enteredisaid his brother and one other man {the World War was that he would | wa. Fidalgo, which he as a small halibuter. The Alert, enroute from Seattle to Ketchikan, reported no trace of the missing craft yesterday. aboard the PRIC ELSEWHERE At Prince Rupert today 125,000 pounds of halibut were sold for 7 to 7.60 and 550 cents. . At Ketchikan the prices were 7 4 cents D WICKSTROM GOES SOUTH W. H. Wickstrom, who has been! on the motorship Dart during the sailed south on the North |Sea to accept a job oh “the Nar- “rows” br idge project near Tacoma. solini, the President stressed ties binding Europe to the Americas. President Roosevelt said the “Am- erican family of Nations may right- fully claim now to speak to the rest of the world. We have an interest wider than that of mere defense of our sea ringed continent. “We know that development of |th(- next generation will go to the [narrowing of oceans separating us and the Old World. Our customs and our actions are necessarily involved Within a scant few years air fleets will cross the oceans as easily as | | today they cross the closed Europ- |ean seas. Economic functioning of the world becomes increasingly a unit and no interruption of it any- where can fail in the future to dis- rupt economic life everywhere.” BERLIN, April 14—German Gov= |ernment officials said President Roosevelt’s address “clearly reveals | him as a master wire puller behind the anti-German encirclement, pol- fey.” | One Nazi official said that re- jaction of the American Presidnet’s |action of the American President's | probably be made. COUNCIL CALLS SPECIAL MEET FOR TONIGHT for Clerk, Magistrate and Treasurer Juneau City Councilmen will hold a special meeting at 8 o'clock to- night to fill three City appointive |offices on which no action was |taken at an earlier session this | week | The offices are City Clerk, Mag~ ; istrate and Treasurer. | All other appointments were |made last Tuesday. New officers take office bomorrow FAIR PRESIDENT DEFIES GERMMIY | NEW YORK, April 14—Grover Whalen, President of the New York, World’s Fair Corporation, said he has received and has quickly defied | the German demand that close the . Czechoslovakia exhibit. ,ee SK]PPEB THROUGH Capt. N. Marion, lower river skipper on the White Pass and Yu~ kon rive rdivision, is a through pas- senger on the Princess Norah, in to prepare mrmeopenmcdu transportation. Appoin!mersio Be Made. s