The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1939, Page 1

e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = VOL. LIV., NO. 8095. p——e RECORD SUM ASKED, NEW NAVY SHIPS BATTERIES Seaniss ARE SAILING NORTHTODAY Two Steame—rs“leaving Se-! attle with White Per- sonnel, Supplies LABOR AGREEMENTS MADE, RETROACTIVE AFL Mechanics, Fishermen Seftle Troubles-Work- ers Negofiating | SEATTLE, May 4. — Carrying| nearly 700 fishermen, mechanics, cannery boat crews and other white personnel, also large shipments of | cannery supplies, two ships of Lhc‘ Alaska Steamship Company are posted to sail during this afternoon | or evening for Alaska. | There are no Orientals among those booked on the two steamers. A. 1. Ellsworth, member of the Labor Committee of the Alaska Canned Salmon Industry, said the cannery workers were leaving with the understanding that any labor | agreements reached in negotiations | here will be retroactive. Mechanics and fishermen of the AFL have agreements but no settlement has been reached by the Cannery Work- ers union, he said. | The Dellwood, sailing during the afternoon, will call at Kodiak, Uzinkie, Port Bailey, Uganik Bay, Seldovia, Snug Harbor, Port Gra- ham, Seward and Cordova. | The Mount McKinley sailing soon DEADlo(K Hl! after the Dellwood, will call at Ket- chikan, Cordova, Nellie Juan, Drier Bay, Port San Juan and Seward. I“ pARlEY o“ Over 300,000 Miners Go- Picketing of steamers which started yesterday was called off late ing Into Second Month of Idleness, Strike peninsula joins the mainland. these guns which can be trained "INVASION” in the afternoon. KETCHIKAN SETTLEMENT KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 4.— A settlement of the controversy be tween the Ketchikan Fish Exchange | and International Warehousemen's Union by leaving the wages and | working conditions unchanged announced by John O'Connor, La- | bor - Departosept - Doteiiator, —ap- inson, Chairman of the Bituminous pointed fifth me; th - g o g o ocken Jecat axfxln:-,;lt’;rnu;y S’;cxi’i:(:y o s R s mittee, announced today that con- of Labor Perkins, ;1eree< had failed to reach an agree- NEW YORK, May 4—W. L. Rob- The controversy began the first!ment for a new contract in the soft | tions the United States proposals | JAPAN PROTESTS T0 U. 5. Powerful guns of German and Italian orig tar cn three sides, will give the famous pregnability in event war is declared in E been installed in Algerciras, Ceuta, Spanish Morocco and where the Map shows relative distances from Rock” a real test of its im- ope. Secret batteries have on Gibraltar. OF PACIFIC, ALSO GROWING SEA POWER [ TOKYO, May 4.—The Japanese ! Government,_has. criticized the Am- erican Naval expansion plans and also presented demands to the United States and Great Britain for a larger share of control of the International Settlement at Shang- | hai. This is disclosed in a prepared of- ficial pamphlet by the Japanese Navy Ministry. ‘ The statement in reference to the | American expansion plan declares that the “United States has moved definitely toward invasion of the “Pm:iri[x” and Japan sees a threat {to the Japan-China policy in Am- erica’s growing sea power. | The pamphlet also says the Vin- json bill for increasing the United States Navy has “cast a great shadow over the Pacific,” and men- jconcerning establishing Navy air ,bases on the Wake, Midway and | Johnston Islands. ACTIVITIES OF " CHAMBER LISTED "IN FUNDS DRIVE Dues Collection Begins- Service fo Juneau Underlined Emphasizing the Juneau Cham- |ber of Commerce record of accom- ;plisl\ment in the past year, a com- | mittee headed by Keith Wildes will I visit members next week on the an- lnuul dues collection campaign. Assisting Wildes will be John Keyser, Charles Hawkesworth, Harry | Sperling, Frank Garnick, John |Jones, Jud Whittier, Lou Hudson, |Henry Green and Wilbur Wester. | Outstanding, perhaps, on the list 'of realized undertakings of the Chamber in the past year was con- | | JUNEAU, ALASKA, TH URSDAY, MAY 4, 1939. MEMBER ‘ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS POLE ANSWER FOR GERMANS ChamberlaiililiU-rges Speed on Army Bill as Tense- ness Grows DIPLOMATS BELIEVE WAR DANGER GREAT Italian Pressure To- wards Peace (By Asscciated Press) Premier Neville Chamberlain to- | day urged the House of Commons to | enact immediately the military training bill which will give Great Britain’s army about 800,000 men in the next three years. As Europe’s anxious shifted to developments on the Con- tinent, the questions that are most asked are: What stand will Poland’s Foreign Minister, Col. Joseph Beck, take to- morrow in answering Chancellor Adolf Hitler on the Danzig problem and what is the part of Mussolini in the crisis as it nears? In Berlin, a diplomat with inti- mate knowledge of the German sit- uation, expressed the conviction that if Beck leaves the door open for negotiations, the specter of war, is once more banished from Europe, but if he slams it, Hitler might take almost immediate action against Danzig and the Polish Corridor. Diplomatic quarters in Rome ex- pressed the belief that Premier Mus- solini. is exerting his influence in Warsaw and Berlin towards a peac- able settlement of German-Polish differences. attention | = | g reau of Investigatio | | these threats once in a while and Photo shows the C " Philip and Denni | . Crosby Family agents at the st been requested by FBI men not to d shy family (le ear-old tw ALASKANOPLACEFOR Guarded After ‘s Toluca Lake estate near Los don’t pay much attention to them.” ft to right) Ga ins and Lindsay, 13 menths, on Mrs. - RELIEF CLIENTS, SAYS } INT. SE(RETARY I(KES;Four Attem;f; af Desfruc- “ece i 1 gpgntion. FRENCH PROMISE " POLAND ANEWT0 RENDER WAR AID |Bonnef Reiterates Pledges as Beck Prepares Hitler Answer PARIS, May 4—France today re- Inewed its pledge of support to Po- land on the eve of Polish Foreign Minister Beck’s reply to Hitler and the question of the Polish Corridor. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet |assured Ambassador Jules Lukasei- \wicz that France stands firmly by |its alliance and will maintain all | recent promises to aid Poland if 'her independence is threatened EInju—red by " Live Wire SEATTLE, May 4—George B. | Galletly, Alaska Communications Associate Radio Engineer, was criti- cally injured today when he touched a high tension wire in the Federal Office Building basement, housing the system’s shops. 2 HALIBUTERS | Seek Dfigduls As Chungking ~ Is Air Raided Japanese Claim Loss of Two Bombers-Chin- ese Lose Ten CHUNGKING, May 4.—The use of emergency shelters limited the | casualties in yesterday's Japanese air raids and it is believed that less than 200 were killed or injured. ! A warning was sounded when the | Japanese war bombers were sighted | and hundreds of persons took refuge |in the hillside dugouts. | The war bombers roared across the city dropping shells. ) ! | | | | PLANES SHOT DOWN | SHANGHAI, May 4. — Japanese tNaval Headquarters announce that )w Chinese planes were shot down in the Chungking raid while the | Japanese lost two bombers. ————— || STock QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK, May 4. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 8%, American Can |87%, American Power and Light TON GROVER | WASHINGTON, May 4.—Secre- | ary Ickes is trying to scotch pro-| pesals that Alaska be converted into | mar From time to time the idea bobs | up that vast unpopulated Alaska, | and Ttaly. | with 94,000 square miles of poten-| harbor quantities of fugitives. They could dig for gold, raise carrots and | tomatoes and mind the reindeer when the Eskimos were busy with the seal hunting. Such is the gist | of some of the stories. | | Ickes was very adroit in avoid- {ing any offense to Jews. He point led out that Alaska néeded popu- | lation. It had only 60,000 now, half |of whom are Indians. More could !be used as farmers and as coloniz- \ers, as a national defense develop-| | ment. 1’1'00 MUCH MONEY In listing the requirements, ho ever, Ickes pointed ont that families | moving up there would need finan-| cial aid for several y while Lh(‘,‘«'i got started. It is no place for relief | clients, with bread 18 to 25 cents a' loaf and milk 25 cents a quart, even | |along the railroad line from An-| chorage to Fairbanks l Matan colony, financed by | WPA, I proved a very limited success, with about half its origi-, nal 400 family population already back in the States and only a por- | tion of the remainder really mak-| ing a success of the undertaking. | Alfred M. Landon left with the rep- | . the Government put resentatives of the country’s largest | up all the money they would need protestant church, a warning that| In their c to clear their land and seed it to crops. No such largess could be ex-| pected for newly arrived immi- grants, particularly since relief money. has been denied to aliens. LINDY MOVE BAD? | Kidnap Threat of the year when the Exchange | coal industry. | which the exclusive bargaining INS'RU(T'ON union would agree to a checkoff For the last month, 338,000 miners | L] Secretary of Alaska E. L. | such classes. . e mreasury| €ral of Old Imperial The bill has passed the House and | | Gen. Wilhelm Groener, 71, the last Carey, Jr., Elecled = | years Minister of Defense under the son Carey, Jr., of New York, Pres ner Act, has been elected President | 1 ’400 Homes asked to reduce wages. | The announcement indicated the rights for the industry would be | system under which non-union em- Blll pENDI“G ployees would pay the same dues to have been idle. A bill now before Congress would | (Bob) | If the bill passes, German-Army, Dies is now before the Senate. | | Quartermaster General of the Im- |struction of the Juneau small boat preside'“ u S ( ( post-war republic, died today in the = Ju 1 ©8 ity hospital after an illness of only dent of the Yale and Towne Manu- of the United States Chamber of 1 [] ' Lostin Quake | | ey { union had refused to accept the last given to the United Mine Workers | the labor organization as those paid Officers Would Be Author- - ,————— allow Coast Guard officers to be ! detailed to teach navigation to civ-| ilians, Stephen B. Gibkons, Acting| Bartlett today in response to a| will be glad to consider a request e —— | POTSDAM, Germany, May 4— | perial German Army, and for four WASHINGTON, May 4—W. Gib- 14 days. facturing Company, advocate of an Commerce. (OASI GUARD compromise offered the unions by of America, and under which the | by the union’s members. ized fo Teach Wafer | Secretary of the Treasury, notified | B o ohe Legionure aseims | Last Quarfermaster Gen- for classes in Alaska, Gibbons said. | immediate amendment to the Wag-| TOKYO, May 4—The Government, 'S TRA"SFERREDMW“NS that the earthquake last WASHINGTON, May 4 — Presi-| Monday in the Akiki area in north- dent Roosevelt has nominated Nor-|ern Honsu killed 26, injured 52 but man Armour, now Ambassador to|completely or partly destroyed more Chile, to be Ambassador to Argen- | than 1400 homes. The damage is rsfimated at nearly $300.000, tina. harbor. For years, the Chamber | SEll SEA""".E {pressed for this valuable asset to 7 Ithe commercial life of this commun- | J‘ity. Data was gathered, sent to the| SEATTLE, May 4. — Only two | proper sources on several occasions |halibuters arrived and sold here only to be rejected, necessitating a today for the advance Friday mar- ‘new push toward the goal. During the past year approval was finally obtained and actual work ordered. | The breakwater is completed and jdredging will be undertaken in the |summer. By mid-summer it is ex- |pected Juneau will have a small from this city as its base. ) Air Mail Last year saw the establishment lof regularly scheduled air mail service between Juneau and the Interior, an undertaking in which {7 (Continued op Page Five) boat harbor equipped to handle the | vast small boat fleet which operates | |ket and they were both from the local banks. | The Bernice brought in 18000 pounds and sold for 9 and 8% cents |a pound, and the Al. Jr. sold 10,- 000 pounds for 9% and 8% cents |a pound. | STILL WINNING | | BRAMSHOT, England, May 4. — | A. T. Turquand Young, who is 75 | years old, paired with W. Smithers |to win the Guilford Alliance golf tourney here. : War Department is not 100 percent sure it was a smart move to put Colonel Lindbergh on active duty with the air corps to “make a | of the aviation resea 4%, Anaconda 24, Bethlehem Steel 155 4, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 6%, General | Motors 44%, International Harves- ch fa- lter 58%, Kennecott 32%, New York Surves Central 14%, Northern Pacific 8%, cilities of the United States.” United States Steel 47':2, Pound He has had an exceptional op-| | portunity to study production | $4.68%. | methods employed in Europe, parti- cularly in Germany, where speed-up | airplane building has put that coun- try far ahead of all others in air DOW, JONES AVERAGES | | The following are today's Dow, |Jones averages: industrials 131.86, | strength |rails 26.93, utilities 23.18. | But the Army discovered that he s R . |had certain drawbacks from a ! public opinion standpoint. He dis- | likes any sort of personal publicity, | BROIHERS | for one thing. For another, one of- | ficial pointed out, he has been | ; |criticized adversely, even as he! | NEW YORK, May 4.—The newest |5 peen commended, for a share umpire in the National League 15|jn the Munich crisis. Rightly or | William Campbell, brother of Um-|_ pire Harry Campbell, (Continued on Page Five) o e 8 i Threatened by a kidnap note Crooner Bing Crosby's family was recently put under guard by Federal Bu- Angeles. Explaining that he has 1ss the subject Bing disclaimed great concern saying, “We get He added “I'm still carrying a gun.” osby, Mrs. Crosby, former Dixie Lee of film fame; Crosby's lap. 4 BOMB OUTRAGES CONTINUING IN BRITISH CITIES tion Follows Sentenc- ing of Two Men LONDON, May 4.—A wave of lowed the sentencing yesterday of two Irish Republican Army mem- b An attempt was made last night to London. Hundreds of theatregoers rushed from two amusement places in Liv- erpool last night after tear gas bombs exploded under seats. A bomb shattered part of a house in Birmingham and Shortly after explosions wrecked four shop fronts in Coventry. LANDON HAS WARNING ON NEUTRALITY Declares Economic Quar- anfines Means U. S. Boys | in European Cockpits KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 4.— “economic quarantines and economic assistance” will mean “the sending of American boys into cockpits in Europe to fight.” While Landon, “crossed party lines to support my President,” in inter- national peace conference moves, the | '36 Republican Presidential nominee said Roosevelt has “abandoned neu- trality for the United States.” FATHER KASHEVAROFF IS SERIOUSLY IL The Rev. A. P. Kashevarofl was taken seriously ill early last evening and rushed to St. Ann’s Hospital for medical care. His condition is reported improved today, but he is being allowed no visitors. Dr. W. M. Whitehead is the at- tending physician, L Thomas Maxwell, of Seattle, reg- istered at the Gastineau Hotel, came north on a recent boat to become Superintendent of the sawmill oper- ations of the Juneau Lumber Mm.lsm tonight, i 1 ™ i WOULDBUILD GIANT CRAFT FOR DEFENSE Two 45,000-on Batile Boats Included in Program HOUSE WILL RUSH MEASURE THROUGH |Recommendation Would include Construction of | 23 New Warships WASHINGTON, May 4--Uncle Sam’s mounting defense bill receiv- ed another boost today when the House Appropriations Committee ecommended an appropriation for | | the Navy of $770,473,000. The big sum includes funds to start construction of 23 new war- | ships and 500 planes. Coincident with the recommenda- tion, House leaders said they were making arrangements to bring the | measure up for debate immediately. } However, they said that final ac- tion will be deferred until Monday, | The bill carries almost $143,000,000 |more than the Navy's current ap- | propriation. | The Navy's new building program | which will bring the number of new ships under comstruction to 144, | calls for two 45,000 ton battleships, which will be the United States fleet's biggest floating fighters; two , eight destroyers, eight sub- two seaplane tenders and one repair ship, By 1040, if the measure is passed, the Navy will have a total of 340 TAX SYSTEM a | a home for refugee Jews from Ger-| pombing incidents in four cities fol- | (HA“GES ARE tial farm and pasture land, could plow up the Hammerstein bridge in| To BE MADE Slash ‘Une—m_ployment | Compensation, Liberal- | ize SSA Benefits | WASHINGTON, May 4. — The House Ways and Means Committee has voted to slash the unemploy- ment compensation tax by many millions of dollars and liberalize benefits under the Social Security Act, also decided that old age pen= sions, under a contributory system should start next year instead of 11942 and the Federal Government should pay half instead of one-third of the cost of State aid to dependent | children, | Chairman Doughton, of the com- i mittee, said the change will cut em- ployers’ tax bill $60,000,000 a year | and mean a seven to fifteen per cent | reduction in the tax paid by the | average corporation. | METEOROLOGIST GOING OUT ON TRIP TO ATKA Douglas fo Visit Small Sta- tions~Thompson Due Tomorrow | H. W. Douglas, Assistant Meteor- | ologist of the U. 8. Weather Bureau here, is leaving on the Office of In- dian Affairs vessel North Star this |evening to visit weather observing stations at Kodiak, Dutch Harbor, | Atka and several smaller points. |He will make the round trip with | the North Star, returning to Juneau in about three weeks. | Meteorologist H. J. Thompson, {who has been on an inspection trip |in the Interior for the past two | months, is arriving home tomorrow on the Baranof from Cordova. ‘Douglxs, though he has been sta- tioned here for many years, will be making his first trip “west of Ju- neau” when he leaves on the North