The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 9, 1939, Page 1

4 . 'Japanese Fishing in Bristol Bay, Is Fair Music for the King FDR’S NEW PLAN FOR REORGANIZATION THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ( “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” m—a———— VOL. LIV., NO. 8099. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PfiICE TEN CENTS 2 MOTHER . a4 vt SHIPS ARE OFF COAST Crews of Cannery Tenders| Assert that Gear Is Seen in Water SEWARD, Alaska, May 9. — The Gatew: Naknek corres- pendent reports that cannery tender crews sighted two Jap- anese mother ships and fleet, with fishing gear in the water, cperating off Amak Island in Bristol Bay, off-shere of the Ala‘ka Peninsula and not far from Port Heiden. POPE PIUS TRIES HAND FORPEAC Sending His Re quest fo Governments Through DiplomaticChannels It was disclosed at Vatican City today that the Pope is conveying to the heads of Governments, through diplomatic channels, his “ardent de- sire for peace,” in Europe's prob-| lems and that they be solved by “peaceful means.” It is indicated that the move has struck a responsive chord in Ger- many, more so, the Foreign Office spokesman said, than advances made by Governments, especially the British mediation offers. However, both groups of Euro- pean Powers are trying to line up Nations in their respective blocs. It is also said that Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotoff is making a reply to proposals to join the Brit- ish-French Alliance, —r- COAL STRIKE NEGOTIATORS 10 MEET FDR. Conference Planned Today According to Secrefary of Labor Perkins WASHINGTON, May 9.—Nego- tiators in the present coal mine Claim the Coldstream Gua (center), Members of Captain J. C. Windram British pavilion at the band to U rds’ band, under the leadership of arrive in New York for opening of World’s Fair. This is first visit of the King’s nited States. ¢ PRESENT WAR DEBATE IS MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN SEEN IN THE HEAD“NESIRthIessW;Ra‘re Declared CARL GRAY FOUND DEAD INHIS BED Railroad Executive, Who! Worked Up from Janitor, | Passes Away in Sleep | WASHINGTON, May 9.—Carl R. Gray, 71, Vice Chairman of the Board of the Union Pacific and for- | mer President, was found dead in bed in the Mayflower Hotel this forenoen, having passed away in his sleep. ‘ | The discovery of Gray's death was | made when associates went to his room to awaken him at 10 o'glock this forenoon. Russell Gray, & son, said his fath- er was feeling well when he retired | after dinner last night. Another| son, Carl, Jr., said his father was in Washington on “national trans-| | portation matters” and appeared to ‘be in excellent health. Worked Way Up By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Serv WASHINGTON, May 9.— While/| the headlines give you a blow=-by- blow account of the argument be-/ tween President Roosevelt and the German and Italian dictators, there's something more significant in the debate than the headlines tell, namely: ! That the heads of great powers deem it wise to argue at all rather than shoot first and explain later. The mere fact that an argument is under way is a tribute to public opinion as a world-wide force to be reckoned with. It is ample proof | that no leader can afford to start a war without first .making some | kind of case to prove he is a de- fender of his nation—not a Napo- | leon bent on aggression This is the first instance in the| history of major disputes when the | public got at least a part of the cases for and against war before hostilities opened up. Up until now great crises have been threshed out behind locked loors. If war resulted, then it was time enough| | to_explain to a blindly loyal public what the shooting was all about. NO “HIDDEN BALL” It is true, of course, that the pub- | lic doesn’t see every play even yet. | But the pl it misses because they are made so rapidly or involve such complex diplomacy are minor ones. NAVALAR BASE BILL T0 SENATE House Passes Measure In- | cluding Sums for Pacific Isles WASHINGTON, May 9. — The House in passing the record peace- time naval appropriation bill calling | for $773,000,000 included at the last | minute, $2.941,000 for air bases on | | Midway, Palmyra and Johnston | islands. Wake Island, also included in the bill for an air base, was turned! down. The bill has been sent to the Sen- | ate for action. It contains appro-| priations for air bases at Sitka and | Kodiak, Alaska. ‘ AIR RAIDS " CONTINUED | OVER CHINA | Here are six of the retinue of th ica. In their hands rests the task by Japanese-Bomb- | rer ¢ ers Keep Active THEORISTS SEE SHANGHAI, May 9.—A continua- tion of air raids at numerous points in China appear to bear out the Japanese spokesman’s statement that bombings will be without re- straint wherever Chinese military | personnel or materials are found. The Chinese Provisional Capital at Chungking has been the hardest hit with a reported casualty list | of about 3,500 Attacks by at Foochow, China. TELEGRAPH MEN ACCEPT SALMON ir bombers continued southeastern port in o Accompany King and Queen to America couple. Officials of Scotland Yard, press representatives, and other minor dignitaries preceded the pair to America arranging the thousand and onc details in connection with the good-will tout of Canada and the United States. Top, left to right: Lady Nunburnholme, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen; the Earl of Airlie, amberlain during the royal vi Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen. Bottom, left to the King; The Honorable Piers Legh, since 1936 equerry CAUGHT IN 2-WAY TRAP 14 (HANGES ' PROPOSED IN . LATESTMOVE ‘Bureaus fo Be Abolished, Transferred or Merged- Big Saving Indicated INTERIOR DEPARTMENT ~ GIVEN NEW AUTHORITY | | 1l | | i | f Foreign Services Are fo Be Swifched Over Into One Department WASHINGTON, May 9.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today proposed his second Government reorganization plan to Congress involving fourteen Interdepartmental bureaus, trans- fers and consolidations with an es- timated saving of $1,250,000 annually, The President, in a lengthy mes- sage, declared that the reorganiza- tion plan is the final one to be sub- mitted at the present session. The first plan involved the mer- ger of a score or more independent lending, welfare and public works agencies into three new Federal agencies and becomes effective June 24 because the veto resolution failed irty persons accompanying King George V1 and Queen Elizabeth to-Amer- of keeping the “splendid isolation” demanded by the British for the royal Second Plan The second plan, proposed today, will transfer to the Department of Interior, the Bureau of Fisheries from the Department of Commerce, and Biological Survey from the De- partment of Agriculture. The National Bituminous Coal Commission is abolished and the functions transferred to the De= partment of the Interior. The transfer of the Foreign Ser- vice of the Department of Com- merce and also the Foreign Service of the Agriculture Department to the State Department is also pro- posed as well as the consolidation of the State Department’s own For= eign Service. The Bureau of Lighthouses will be transferred from the Department of Commerce to the Treasury Depart- ment, it: Lady Catherine Seymour, widow of Sir Reginald Seymour, ight: Alan Frederick Lascelles, acting private secretary to to the King; and George F. Steward, press officer HITLE IMORETROUBLE HITLER HAS ARISEN IN FISHING ISSUE " ...|Ousted Union Members | Secure Temporary In- junction on Confracs By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, May 9. views ‘of the situation Herr Hitler now faces persist in Washington, both having some points in com- mon even if differing in detail. One is that Hitler faci ch a to pass in the House, Milifary Training A_qproved House of Commons, Affer Record Session, Appro- priates Needed Sum LONDON, May 9—THe House of Commons has approved of a reso: - CANNERS' PLAN Union Friction Continues | as Packers and Cl0 Confer with NLRB | /SEATTLE, May 9.—It was an-| nounced today that the American| Radio Telegraphists’ Association has accepted the labor agreement for the | Alaska salmon season with wages | higher fhan 1938. The canners and the CIO Can- | nery Workers Union conferred to- | day with National Labor Relations | Board officials re I by the union for coastwide agree- | ments this season. | ness and economic confusion of internal +difficulties | that he can no longer pose:as the| all-knowing-one so successfully un-| less he is able to deliver the coun-| try out of the trouble by ageressive| expansion. He cannot expand fur-| ther without real danger of war, and war would be. his immediate undoing. The other is that such views are prompted at least'in part By wish ful thinking, although it is con-| ceded that Hitler’s internal troubles | practice of fishing in Alaska because’ |are great and that war might read-| ily brinig his downfall | Basic facts supporting both views | are largely the same. One usually well informed source had informa- | tion from Germany that the busi- leaders of the| country | lution appropriating $150,000,000 fm'l Charles Hughes, AFL organizer, hey used _to be the lead-} strike are to meet with President Gray was so determined to be(‘ome‘ Roosevelt today in an effort to settle | a railroad man that in his teens he| differences, Secretary of Labor Per-!took a job as janitor, without pay. kins revealed last night. | From that start he worked up to the John L. Lewis has been invited | Presidency of the Union Pacific sys-| to the conference. He has blamed the Administration, especially the Labor Department, for the present shutdown. The Labor Secretary rapped the operators of the soft coal mines, declaring they failed to attemprt to keep open while. negotiating. Secretary Perkins said the Gov- ernment will present the “one, two, three” plan if settlements are not reached. She failed to explain the meaning, but emphasized that the President will act in a mediator role at today’s conferences. CONFERENCE IS HELD WASHINGTON, May 9.—Soft coal mine operators and miners meet at a conference late this afternoon in the White House and will meet again tomorrow in New York City. President Roosevelt said he asked the operators and the United Mine Workers representatives to agree to a plan by tomorrow night under which mining will be resumed im- mediately. The President told the newsmen that he met with the negotiators and they agreed to continue negotia- tions in New York tomorrow. tem. 1 He was born Sept. 28, 1867 at| | Princeton, His father was Dr. | Oliver Grosby Gray, professor of mathematics at the University of | Arkansas; his mother, Virginia Da- vis Gray, was artistically inclined. But Carl Gray leaned toward other | pursuits. | College officials suggested, when| he completed preparatory school, that he stay out of school a couple of years because he was “six feet tall | and thin as a rail.” He agreed, and got a job at the Fayetteville, Ark., station of the St. Louis and San | | Francisco railroad. That was in March, 1883. | “There was a station agent, a tele- graph operator and a helper at that Frisco station,” Gray said. “Then| | there was me. I helped the helpec. | I cleaned the stoves and spittoons. | My wages were nothing a month andk I paid the telegraph operator five | dollars a month to teach me what | he knew.” | Gray became successively relief | operator, telegraph operator, station agent, chief clerk, commercial agent, trict and division freight agent, In the past, the public has waited months or years to get even a fairly accurate picture of what happened to push men into war. The World War is an apt illustration. Half a generation elapsed before historians got at private papers and. other se- cret documents to piece together exactly what happened from day to| day and hour to hour just before | there are arguments as to who start- | ed that war. But since the World War the pub- lic has become more wary. No lead- | er dares to ignore the public on na-| tional crises. He tries to prepare the public mind for what he's doing. | Maybe he tells the truth; maybe| not—but he does plead his case be- fore shooting. ” Also, in a crisis, nations scramble in public opinion abroad. Phras- | like Germany's “room to liv and the FPranco-British “peace front” crop up. For governments must count not only domestic sup- port, but also world approbation. to es TOTALITARIAN EDGE In this struggle, dictators have a distinct advantage in their own na- tional backyards because they exer- cise control over what their people .Kidhéped(harl Nafion's First Abduction, 65 Yearggo, Idenfified the fateful declarations. Even yettd military training, concluding a 14} hour session at 5:15 o'clock this morning. It was the longest par- liamentary session in two year: said labor hasn’t the power to order such agreements without a hearing | { for unions involved or without hold- | Jing a workers’ election. PHOENIX, Ariz, May 9. — A Maricopa County Superior Court jury, has decided that Gustav Blair, 69, Phoenix carpenter, is really Charlie Ross, the victim of the Na- tion’s first famous kidnaping, 65 Germantown, Penn. decision was given in action to establish his and naming other Ross the identity descendants as defendants on claim they have not recognized him as a member of the family. Lincoln Miller, of Phoenix, testi- fied that his father, who raised Blair, admitted that he was really see, hear and read. If you can con- (Eontin:(:d “on Page Three) (Continued on Page Seven) Charlie Ross, and Blair established ~ this fact of his identity to his own ers, that is—would be glad to dis-| play more courage in combatting | Hitler if they had some assurance | of economic improvement if he were‘ checked | SALINAS, Cal, May 9.—Superior Judge H. G. Jorgensen has granted the AFL Seine and Line Fishermen's Union a temporary order, return- able May 17, restraining the Alaska Fishermen’s Union and packers | from negotiating or contracting for| | the season until the status of 54 lexpelled Alaska Unioners is decided. The complainants claimed they i joined the CIO Union when it be- came the bargaining agent and they are now being denied their 20-year of the expulsion. The injunction names the Alaska Salmon Canning Company, Alaska Packers, Red Salmon Packing and Libby, McNeill and Libby, also 13 CIO Unionists who it is claimed brought the charges resulting in the ousting of ‘the 54 fishermen. —_— e - Bishops Switched By Methodisls in New Union Movement NDS TIED { A departmental executive with a| wealth of resources for information | about Germany agreed that business| KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 9. and economic figures there disap-|The Methodist Church Uniting proved of Hitler’s course, but were| conference has named nine men powerless to act. |as a “Supreme Court” of the new inety-nine percent of these|church to serve until a general con- people disagree with 80 percent of |ference in April what he is doing,” he said. But he | Bishops. insisted. there was no opportunity Among the Bishops moved are for action v Bishop Tutus Lowe, from Portland, ; 2 ¢ : Those who hold that Hitler has|Ore., to Indianapolis, Indiana, and satisfaction by family traits. |real danger to fear from a war, re-|Bishop Wallace Brown from Chat- _The carpenter seeks only recogni-| cajleq that at one time there was|tanooga, Tenn. to Portland tion and is not asking for any share |, rea) division in the Reich “be- | —— e —— regarding the claims of Blair in Ne- | yoiale of his followers by marry- | Woman and owner of the Hope vgas. 4 |ing a woman out of his station in diamond. led to the assignment The man’s claims are entirely jife. Them he retired, and Hitler|°f special detective detail unfounded and we’intend to lgnore’m“med army leadership enough | b0¢ The threats have been the action,” Walter Ross, spokesman |received in letters, both by the for the Ross family said. lyoung woman and her mother, a (Continued on Page Seven) 1940, and” moved | The Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department will be merged or transferred to the Interior De=- partment’s Division of Territories and Island Possessions which ad- ministers to Alaska, Hawali, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands and will now be given supervision over the Philippines. The National Emergency Council will be abolished. Other changes are minor ones. JUNEAUITES T0 DRESS UP FOR "DAYS OF '98" |Costume Affair Is Planned for Enterfainment of : Rofarians A “Days of '98” atmosphere will prevail in costumes as well as in en- | tertainment the night of May 18 | when some 300 Rotarians will be | guests of Juneau at a celebration at |the Elks hall. Rotary Anns will wear crinolines of the nineties, while Rotarians at the party will be togged out in the garb of gold rush gamblers and pros« pectors. In a revised conference program |announced today, the scheduled | vaudeville entertainment at the Col~ of the estate’s money, admitting that | {ween Hitler and the old line arm iseum Theatre has been cancelled, this has since been barred by time.|jeaders then headed by Werner K and visiting Rotarians will be at The defendants did not answer| yon Blomberg as Field Marshal D"Ap THREAT liberty to de a little private sight- :i:: ';‘:t -amxlp«'?:?:: no comment of | unq Minister of War. Tt was & truly | o seeing around Juneau from the close Y- decialon. serious division because Blomberg K5 <dnan | Of the business session at 4 o'clock RIDICULOUS' |had the undoubted loyalty of mehh:?“m' YORIC May 9. — Kidnap iy the atternoon until the “Days of PHILADELPHIA, Pa. May 9. — 100000 men in the regular army. |qo o0t @68 nst Evalyn McLean, | .ggn program begins at about 10 Members of the Ross family here! “mpe division reputedly still per-|Saugnier of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh-|gpglock, sald, the “whole thing is ridiculous” gcts although Blomberg shook the|Mclean, of Washington, wealthy Secretary on Boat Andy Patterson of the Portland club is acting as Executive Secre- tary on the Aleutian on the way north, so Rotarians will be organized (Continued on Page g