The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. “ALL THE NEWS AL!. THE TIME” S— — VOL. LIIL, NO. 8089. e 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS . PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, WORKING HO Chamberlain Fights Now For Conscription URS BLOCK SALMON PEACE 196,000 IN POOL AT NENANA; ICE IS HOLDING FIRM LABOR TOLD | RICH TO BE TAXED ANEW Says Mu tual Assistance Pacts Force Britain fo Increase Army RUSSIA APPARENTLY NOW BRITISH ALL Rumani a Fails to Join Paris-London Bloc, af Least Temporarily (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Freeze Moving Toward Interior Region | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 27 Ice in the Interior Alaska rivers heaved and cracked yesterday as warmer weather heralded the spring |breakup is expected daily. At Nenana, where a $96,000 prize | awaits the person guessing the exact or nearest time to the breakup, the Tanana River ice is reported hold- ’lng firm and will probably last for another week. An indication that King Winter |is about to tightén his grip on the |Interior was seen in reports to the| U. 8. Weather Bureau here today that temperature at Nome was zero Premier Chamberiain today sought |8t 7 o'clock this morning and two Parliament's approval of his his- above at Bethel last night. toric decision to conscript British Fairbanks reported weather two man power in peacetime as Europe degrees colder Umn‘_\,'esterday‘ with anxiously wondered what Hitler will}ice in the Chena River in front of tell the German Reichstag tomorrow, the town still holding. Nenana's Premier Chamberlain warned his report today was “ice unchanged.” labor oppposition that “a very heal-|Temperature was 25 degrees at 8 thy responsibility would rest on those |o’clock. who might force a general election DOUGLAS OFFERS -e- Chena River Cracks - New‘ LONE PILOT 1S MISSING; |Gold Miner Bob Claypool, Flying Own Plane, Drops from Sight ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 27— Pilots are scanning the mountainous Rainy Pass region between Anchor age and the Kuskokwim in search| for Bob Claypool, gold miner and private flier who has not been re-| ported since he left Anchorage for | McGrath last Sunday. Fellow airmen said Claypool prob- ably landed at some isolated spot because of poor flying conditions. Fliers expre some concern since | it was Claypools first flight through| the Rainy Pass section alone LATIN AMERICANS BACK NORTHERN | { Dunbar, | HIGHWAY, SLOGAN, 'WOMAN'S CLUB CONVENTION DUE HERE NEXT MONTH | Saidie Orr Dunbar- . Other Club Leaders - Members of the Juneau Woman's |Club will be hostesses to the most distinguished group of women ever to visit Alaska, on May 20, when the post-council tour of the Gen- |eral Federation of Women's Clubs, arrives in Juneau for an all-day stay. Headed by Mrs, Saidic President of the Federation, and by virtue of that holder of the highest office within the gift of the women of America, General {the party will comprise between 50 and 75 other distinguished leaders of clubdom. Mrs. John L. White- hurst of Baltimore, Md. and Mrs, Horace B. Richely of Athens, Ga., Vice-President and Recording Sec- retary, respectively, of the General Federation, will also be in the party. Among the department chairmen who will be members of the tour pa will be Mrs. Gustav Ketterer, ‘of Philadelphia, Chairman of legi lation; Mrs. Harvey Wiley Cha man of Ir n Welfare; Mrs. Fred Lufkin, chairman of Press and Pub- |lieity, and Mrs. Frederick Beggs, chairman of International Rela- Four European Fleets Dot Mediterranean Sea HUNT 'S ON Group fo Be Headed by | | SARDINIA | VR sy Orr! a of watchful wailing is being played in the Mediterranean among fleets of Germany, England, The German fleet is scheduled > begin maneuvers near the Balearic Islands, off the eastern Span ast. Italian warships are reported cruising their own waters ready for action, while French and British fleets are stationed at both entrances to the Mediterranean, Malta, Alexandria, | Egypt and Port Said are prolected by British man-o-wars. At Gibraltar, French battleships bolster Brit- | ish vessels guarding the western gateway. It is unde stcod the German fleet will end maneuvers by an- chering in Halian ports. If they fail to return to Wilhcimhaven, it is pointed out, a British North Sea blockade would prove futile under war conditions. ; Lindbergh Talks to Pre: France and Ita ident | ANTIJAPAN * RESOLUTION AFU VOTES - AGREEMENT 5. E. AREA Canners and AFL Reach | Impasse ~ Union Wants Day Off KETCHIKAN PARLEYS STILL PROGRESSING Meeting Nigfiand Day in First City Over Prices and Traps SEATTLE, April 27. — Disagree« ment over working hour schedules have stalemated negotiations be~ tween the American Federation of Labor and the Alaska canned sal- mon industry. AFL negotiators ask the 48-hour week with one day off in seven. The industry asks for agreement on a 54-hour week in their pro- posal. The AFL is negotiating for agree- ments with canneries where the AFL assertedly has a majority. An agreement covering Southeast | Alaska was approved last night by |the Alaska Fishermen’s Union, leav- !ing only Bristol Bay and the Prince | William Sound districts to be nego- |tiated with in respect to the Alaska Fishermen’s Union. William Hecker, Business Agent |for the Union, said the agreement | establishes the wage scale of two {years ago and gives furl WASHINGTON, April 27.—8ena- ({4 the union. K ngibon | tor Key Pittman introduced a reso- | lution which will empower the| | President, with 10 da notice to| Catch Phrase Adopted at Travel Meet tions. Mrs. T. V. Moore of Miami, chair- Iman of Safety; Miss Vella Winner, | Editor-in-Chief of the Clubwoman,| ‘th(‘ Federation’s official publication, INTRODUCED :Senator Pi'fimn;an Would Give FDR Power to Make Barriers The Prime Minister explained the Government has resorted to cons- HIGHWAY PUPILS cription because of British pledges to help Poland, Greece, and Ruman- ia defend their independence. Premier Chamberlain concluded 3 his speech to Parliament with a i S By 1A pledge to his opposition that, in the .M‘."{‘C(’FI'*"‘; 0 AC" ’_"_’“: 2T | will also be in the party, which will | fexico and latin American COUR-i;,.;de several state presidents and tries are showing a strong interest| ... " o pecing vl lin the proposed British Columbia- f Sge—, “»f A as t;( :‘;l‘uw ;‘mul: | ;Alfl\kJ Highway. promlnnm in club wor hrougho 3 . | That is the statement of Dr.|the country : : George H. Worthington, President Plans are now being worked out | lof the Vancouver Tourist Associa-|bY @& committee of local club mem- bers for the entertainment of the | tion on his return from the Inter- alition appeared to have wWon an| 4 ,yon66a1 from Douglas for chil-| American Travel conference at San|8uests while they are in Juneau. | A J y Mrs. J. P. Wliiams is chairman of | 1 i | Congress, to impose trade resrictions |y ally in Russia, but failed, at least| 4,o0p jiving out of Juneau on the | Francisco. the committee and plans formulatec | against Japan the | temporarily to induce Rumania 10| ooy Highway and at Thane to| The conference adopted a slogan, will include visits to the fer and Banatar R will include visits to glacie Senator Pittman proposed | packers, the Alaska Salmon By enter the bloc with reciprocal pledg- | j¢iony the Douglas School instead { Worthington said, that says, “Cape es on the eve of Hitler's speech in| o iy juneay School was discuss- Horn to Alaska,” and suggested the|other points of interest, an hour cf resolution as a reply to Japan's al- | geiners’ Union, and the Oann radio speeches, and informal enter- |leged violation of the Nine-Power | . : i answer to President Roosevelt’s Plea | o4 jast ni & b . . e | S ght in joint meeting at the jroad be called the International Pa | Worke: for peace. |otfice of R. E. Robertson, President |cific Highway. tainment that will permit local wo- | | Treaty, pledging its signatories “’faccor;az"t:rx‘:::wyén:;eLz:(::mm" va ai ssia bassador | ¢ s P - S isti s P | respec » Territoria Ve | Gore, Ivan Maisky, Russian Ambas: of the Juneau School Board. :1‘\’:: to meet the distinguished visi- | respect the Territorial integrity of packers’ representative, and Eddie event of war, “taxes on the very wealthy, which already are V : : Proposal fo Relieve Crush 1igh, must be further substantially | . e Here Discsted af He also promised anti-profiteering Joim Session measures with severe penalties. Meanwhile, the British-French MORE PROGRESS KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 27— egotiations for an agreement be- {tween Southeast Alaska salmon o | L to London, declared his country| p..cont were Directors Robertson, ' China. . oty “would assist Europe in any Cas€|yyaer p. Scott and Grover C. Winn | The party will make the 11-day | Suikctw Bisiciass duens. e e el of aggression.” ~_lof Juneau, Superintendent A. B. In Paris, however, Rumania IS|ppiins Commissioner of Educa-| reported to have advised Great Bri- | ¢ty ono B Karnes, Douglas | Under the resolution, the Pr v ers’ Union. | dent might exclude any agricultural | : | products or levy any embargoes he| 10 meeting yesterday and last night, a committee from the pack- tour to Skagway and return, visit- | ing enroute all seven of the club | towns of Southeast Alaska. Special | | desires with reference to Japan. tain and France of her opposition | g o 1" Divectors Mrs. Elton Eng- to entering mutual assistance agree-| G0 and Arme Shudshift and ments or pacts with them, at 1east | o o1a Councilmen Tom Cashen, for the present. e FIRE SUFFERERS IN ALASKA GIVEN SUM FOR LOSSES Federal Government Pays Eight Persons - Bill Is Sent fo White House WASHINGTON, April 27. — Two fires in Alaska in 1937 cost the Fed- eral Government the sum of $4,163. This amount is paid the Office of Indian Affairs and Army officials by the Senate which passed and sent to the White House a bill for their |1a5 took the position that it had no reliet. objection to the Commissioner of | Of the total amount, the sum of | Education and the Douglas Board | $1,737 is ordered paid to Ernest Rob- | arranging with the parents of pupils inette, teacher in the Office of In-|non-resident of Juneau for their| dian Affairs at Kwethluk for person- | attendance at the Douglas School, ; al losses when the teacherage burned | but, until the attendance in the Ju- | there October 28. neau Schools became so large as When fire destroyed the Indian|to not permit accommodations for Service Hospital at Point Barrow, Juneau resident pupils, the Junegu’ it caused these losses, all ordered |board felt it could not deny the facil-| paid: ities of its schools to any child even | Stanley Morgan, Operator in though residing beyond the limits | Gharge of the Bignal Corps Station, |0f - Junest, - excepk. those chilfren | whose residence necessarily placed o y llen | ! i e e A ona Maur. | Iem wihin the jursidiction of the Douglas School Board. er $627, Mildred Keaton $237. June i - Deford $175, Terzu Ungarock $167,| The. suggestion was made that Douglas Has Room | The pupil attendance in the Doug- | las School is considerably below the | capacity of the school. Possibly an- | | other 50 pupils could be accommo- | dated without materially increasing the actual costs of the town of Doug- | las to educate them. | The pupil attendance in the Ju- neau Schools has increased every year for a number of years and is | now approximately 900, the largest | attendance of record. Approximately 150 pupils, attending the Juneau Schools, reside either in Thane or north of town along the Eagle River or Glacier Highway. If the atten- dance continues to increase, neces- sarily within the near future further school accommodations will have to be. provided in Juneau. The Juneau Board, while appre- ciative of the kindly offer of Doug- | o Ella Massoo $89. | Douglas canvass the parents out the | tional session rooms are contemplat- lights at Shibe Park for night base- | United States on March 1,1939, was | e i 2 | highway for their preference in the “(‘d for the Juneau Schools. | ball have sufficient candlepower to| well above that of a year earlier and | | matter. 1 ———————— | illuminate & highway for 459|nearly five per cent above the ten-' It was also brought out that addi-' PHILADELPHIA, April 27—The| wilk prodygtion per cow in the miles. year average. 1 | E. Hackmeister and E. E. Engstrom Decision of Board | - SUCCEED CRAIG, - CHIEF OF STAFF President Roosevelt Also Nominates New Sur- geon General WASHINGTON, April 27.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today nominated Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall-to succeed General Craig as Chief of Staff of the Army. Gen. Craig is slated for retirement on August 31, The President has also nominat- ed Col. James Ceree Magee to suc- ceed Surgeon General Reynolds whose term expires May 31. Col. Magee will have the rank of Major 1General. DE VALERA NOT COMING TO U.S.; TRIP CANCELLED Brifish Conscription Given| as Reason for Remain- ing in lreland DUBLIN, April 27.—Prime Minis- ter Eamon DeValera announced in the Dail today that he has can- celled his trip to the United States on which he was to have started next Saturday. DeValera said the reason for the! cancellation is because of ‘“yester- day’s grave event.” Reference is apparently made to Great Britain's adoption of conscription. - e Alaska authorities nredict gold production this year will exceed $25,- 000,000, “shore leave” has been promised by the Alaska Steamship Company at all club towns, and the visitors will be royally entertained by the clubs in each Mrs. R. R. Hermann, President of the Alaska Federation of Wo- men’s Clubs, will leave Juneau on May 16 to meet the party at Ket- chikan. She will continue with them to Skagway and to Sitka, leaving the boat at that port, as the Mt. McKinley will not visit Juneau southbound from Sitka. A number of other prominent club women of Southeast Alaska are also planning to make part of the trip with the visitors. Detailed plans for the entertain- ment of the party while in Juneau will be announced soon. Chickens Cause Slaying of Four Persons in Texa PARIS, Texas, April 27. — Four persons, including two women, were shot to death near Emerson last night and officers are searching for Marion Mackey, a farmer, whose wife said he threatened to wipe out a neighboring family following quarrel over chickens. - ® 0 0 000 0 000000 HITLER ON RADIO It will probably be about 2 o'clock tomorrow morning, Ju- neau time, when Hitler's reply to President Roosevelt’s peac proposal, will come drifting over the ether from Berlin. Pre- ® viously it was announced that e the time of the speech would be ® about 2 o’clock in the afternoon e but presumably this was in er- ror, . ° . . . . . . ‘e o0 0 00000 0 0 o o!feature of the Social Security Act. nortbwest Washington, a| REPORT CONFIRMED LONDON, April 27.—Prime Min- ister Neville Chamberlain has con- firmed the report that the King |and Queen will travel to Canada and ers met with delegates from vari- ous union locals and made proposals and counter proposals. Prices and trap eliminations were discussed, but no tentative agree- ment was drawn up. Parleys continue today. BIG REL| RELIEF FUND SOUGHT, COMING YEAR President R;(fi;esls Appro- priafion in Special Mes- sage fo Congress WASHINGTON, April 27.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has asked Congress for a relief appropriation of one billion, four hundred and forty sev- en million dollars for the twelve months beginning next July 1. The request is made in a special message given Congress today. The President says that substan- tial gains are being made in the drive to reduce unemployment. The President said the future for relief recommended for the next year represents a reduction of one third below the approximately two billion two hundred and fifty mil- lion dollars appropriated for the current year, SRR T MINERS KILLED, GAS EXPLOSIONS - | Senator Pittman said the resolu- | ‘uuu will give President Roosevelt | ta powerful argument in xllepunx' | | to dissuade Japan from alleged dis- | . 4 s e criminations against American citi- Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was preceded by a White House policeman | #€ns in China as he left the Executive Mansion after conferring with President | * -—— Roosevelt for 25 minutes. The flying Colonel, who has been called ‘NEw (HINE to active duty with the Army Air Corps, had to wait 35 minutes jn an ante room before the President. Later he refused to reveal the nature of their conversation. The policeman is Paul W. Proctor. OFFENSIVE IS i o s g ! Brifish Kina. Q Aret . FORECAST NOW rifish King, Queen Arefo g . {Japanese Landing Addi- Come fo North America on | tional Troopsfor North H . . = China Front Action | Board C.P.R. Passenger Ship ... vz — s Japanese troops are being landed in e — | the vicinity of Tientsin in consider- LONDON, April 27.—An authori- {able numbers for use on various {tative source states that it is almusc‘BAr".E FlEEI { North China fronts against irregu- certain that King George and Queen | \“”f", e S L B Elizabeth will cross to North Am- ceived here. a next month on a passenger | Independent sources also state liner o that the battle cruiser Re- | that one Division of 20,000 Japanese pulse, originally assigned for lheir}Sh. R t . ' P . ":Ulm“vil m:":fd ;nd Ithe reuont i e. may be ki t home because . lgiven that the Japanese expect a unel A e R b Ips, Keiurning 10 Faci-|7...¢ oninese oftensive sometime in The Canadian Pacitic ner ®m-| fiC, Pass Through Canal ™= _ ., press of Australia, built at Stettin . Gegastny, before tkis World War, Is | During Today TWO KIDNAPE reported the choice for . the Y5 o’ |touf o Canada 8nd the Uniied| cpreromar, iganal Zone, April ; ¥ 27.—The United States Battle Fleet, bound from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific, anchored off the coast late i yesterday afternoon. Abductors of Farmer's The ships of the fleet will begin| 4 proceeding through tne panama| Wife Face Long Term west coast. press, of Australia instead of the Re- | puo o0 percent of the B n Federal P”son pulse which' will be kept in Euro- | . ‘T (0 FEETH 31«1 “] ”‘.“]‘ 2% e pean waters because of the present || i allowed shore leave| YUBA CITY, Cal, April 27. — [ tension. |late yesterday afternoon and last| Long prison terms are faced by Ro- { e night. bert and Ollen Grimes, itinerant WP G2 e Tt fruit pickers, who have been found | participate in the old age pension | manganese, a war mineral, exist in ransom, Mrs. Norma Meeks, a Rio Oso farmer’s wife last September. | Canal today on their way to the the United States aboard the Em- | About 21,000 workers in Alaska: Targe undeveloped deposits of guilty of kidnaping and holding for YUBRI, Japan,” April 27. — A double gas explosion in the and Issikari coal mines killed at least 60 and injured 26. The police of Hokkaido Island said that 150 miners are missing how- ever. b f. 59