The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” v s m—— VOL. LIV, NO. 8101. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS P ot MILLION DOLLAR FIRE RAGES IN CHICAGO ety Grea t Britain, France, ve World Defiance TWOPOWERS SAY ARMIES READY, WAR 2% France Threafens o Put‘ Another Million Men Under Arms PEACE PROGRESS IS REPORTED TO POPE Brifish fo Loan Rumania Big Sum in United & o] Kingdom Goods (By Associated Press) Great Britain’s Premier Neville amberlain and France's Premier 10ard Daladier, both declared to- their nations’ readiness to ful- fill treaty obligations. As the two national leaders spoke, diplomatic observers in Rome re- ported a lessening of tension in the foreign situation and this became immmediately apparent with an op- tomistic outlook for the future dis closed by the move of the Pope to achieve a peaceful settlement of Eurcpe’s most threatening problems. Warns.of War Premier Chamberlain told women e iembers of the British Conserva- tive party that any attempt to “change the Danzig situation by force so asto endanger lhelndepen-‘jun E u Boa' dence of Poland would inevitably”| tart a general war in which Great Harbor WOrk Britain would be involved. House Committee Makes ed in New Orlean: by Governor They have visited F York for the World's Fair. President’s daughter; Somoza and THOUSANDS Ki ol COASTO “France is Strong” Premier Daladier again took up the slogan, “domination or collabor- ation,” today, and stressed the po- tent strength of France through collaboration at home and abroad. French unity, he declared, is un- shakeable and “solidarity between France and Great Britain is closer | Recommendation for Other Projects Also with both nations more confident of each other than ever before.” Premier Daladier spoke to Parlia- ment as that body reconvened after the Easter recess. Pope Progressing WASHINGTORN, May 11. The Representatives of the Pope, in House Appropriations Committee Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, London, and ' has recommended flood control of Rome, are understood to have ad- the Tanana River and Chena Slough vised the Pontiff that Europe will at Fairbanks, to cost $562,000, Sal- remain peaceful during the next Mmon River to cost $7,000, dredging few weeks. - of the Juneau boat harbor to cost 1t is said there is hope for gradual $162.000, also work on Egegik River to cost $5,000. Reject two Proposals settlement of potentially dangerous problems, including the German- i Polish Corridor question. The War Department has - Ritnadila Loan | formed Congress that a survey of Oliver Stabley, President of the Army Engineers show no necessity British Board of Trade, told the for additional flood protection at House of Commons that Great| SKagway from the Skagway River Britain and Rumania have conclud- (214 the Depariment has also re-| ed a trade agreement under which Jected the request of local interests | Great Britain will advance creqjt|[0F Davigation improvements of| s e redit | G antley Harbor at Teller by con- of about $23400.000 to Rumania in| o otion of a channel from Port Clarence to the mooring basin at Teller. (Lonunued on Page Four) AFL PROPOSING DRASTIC CHANGE | IN LABOR BOARD 5, o npeo' HOME Efforis to Secure Five-Man A Blocking Re- | Resident of Juneau Many e Years - Formerly on | vision Labor Ad Fox Island - WASHINGTON, May 11. — The proposal of the American Federation Cornelius (Neil) Edmunds, 86, for-| OLDTIMER, DIES | President Anastasio Someza, of Nicaragua, and his family are greet- Richard "W. Leche, of Louisiana. ident Roosevelt in Washington, then to New Left to right, Miss Lillian Somoza, the Governor Leche. LLED BY JAPANESE BOMBERS ON F SOUTH CHINA SHANGHAI, May The im- portant South China port of Chuan- chow, 50 miles north of Amoy, was war heavily bombed by Japane: planes on Tuesday and yesterday. Casualties are estimated in the thousands. Fires from bombs spread through- out the city, adding many fatalities. Dispatches from Amoy said many children were drowned in attempt- ing to escape from the air raider: Dispatches received here from Chungking, China's Provisional Capital, said Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek has ordered evacuation of {all inbabitants except able bodied males. Japanese war planes continue to bomb the city. MILLION MEN IN LINE TOKYO, May 11.—More than one million Japanese soldiers are now | fighting in Central China the Mili- | tary spokesman said today in the | first official statement in nearly two vears, regarding the size of the con- | tinental force. g TS N TODAY'S SESSION, - STOCK EXCHANGE, IS INACTIVE ONE NEW YORK, May 11.—The stock market ended an inactive session today with prices practically un- changed from yesterday's closing levels. The close was near top levels for the day. Westinghouse was a strong spot | \ ! ‘“Ell EDMUNDS land Eastman Kodak was another | WASHINQ'IVON;, May 11—Presi- | y |Iealurv among the highe: price‘dem Roosevelt criticized, by impli- brackets. The bond market moved in a nar- range, rates were down frac- tions to more than a point and the lower grade rails closed unchanged |to fractions lower. The foreign section was neglect- ed, closing with small losses. The curb list followed the stock exchange paper. Trading was firm and quiet after early weakness. Bethlehem steel was off an eighth, Chrysler up one-half, General Mo- tors unchanged, Anaconda off an !—Nicaraguan President on Visit ‘FAI.SEHOOD, SAYS ICKES T0 CHARGES Gi | & Inferior Se?r;ary Replies| fo Statements of Cal. Representative WASHINGTON, May 11.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. termed as “an unqualified hood” the assertions that | tempted to influence Congressmen by threatening towithhold or promising to grant money for public cts. Tckes defended himself by replying to statements made on the floor of the House by Represen- tative A. J. Elliott, Democrat of California, who charged that the Inferior Secretary promised projects in his d in return for legisla- tion to create the John Muir Kings von as a National Pa n Cali- | fornia D EMPLOYERS SHUT PORTLAND PORT, LONGSHORE TIF 'Over Score of Ships ldle as' | NLRB Ruling Meets Refusal PORTLAND, Ore., May 11.—This city’s waterfront is crowded with {more than twenty ships today as loading operations were suspended at 8 o'clock this morning as a re- sult of CIO longshoremen refusing (to load lumber aboard the freighter William Luckenbach. The closure was ordered by the Waterfront Employers' Association |despite the last minute efforts of two Government agents to prevent a break between the employers and | the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union 11,500 men out of work. | Employers refused arbitration, d claring they didn’t think the dock- | men would live up to any settle- |ment anyway. The dispute originated last week when the CIO Maritime Office Un- |ion picketed the docks when the Luckenbach line failed to coemply with the NLRB ruling to reinstate three members with back pay. D s CRITICISM " BYFDRIN | ~ RADIO TALK | cation, the treatment of artists in |some foreign countries when he as- | serted that American artists ex- | press themselves with a “complete freedom from the strictures of a ‘dead artistic tradition or political ‘Jdeology.' ‘The implication was made in a | radio address last night in con- nection with the dedication of the ‘new building, the Museum of Mod- ern Art in New York City. SMALL LA > NDING f Labor t the Nati 1 Labor 'y i v e eig S5 r of Labor to scrap the Nationa T merly of Juneau, died Monday at the eighth, Santa Fe up a quarter pomv..i oF HAI.IBUI IS Relations Board and substitute 2 pioneers’ Home at Sitka, according new five-man agency shapes up as (, word received today at the Gov- one of the biggest obstacles to any | emor's office. agreement on revising the Wagner ap old timer in this district, Ed- Labor Act, 1t is said. | mund formerly worked on a fox| The proposal is described by Will- | 1sland in Glacier Bay. Later he iam Green, President of the AFL, as| moved to Juneau and lived on Wil- one of the six fundamental amend- |goughby Avenue. | ments and he admits that the AFL | pfanemsdrd, S o) | leaders, have given no thought of a | TELESCOPE TRAILER | compromise in their conferences with { the Labor Board. ! At the same time Green conceded that the three present Board mem- bers might balk at accepting any plan that in effect would remove them from office, REGINA, Saskatchewan.— Harry Bell, 74-year-old Regina inventor,| | has a new invention patented. It is a telescope streamlined trailer whose top can be raised or lowered in less than a minute, NORTH STAR AT N. Y. Central unchanged, Edison off & point, AT&T. up five-eighths, Douglas Aircraft off one-third and United Aircraft off three-eighths SEWARD; SAILS WEST TONIGHT The Office of Indian Affairs ves- sel North Star is leaving Seward to- night for the far Westward, accord- ing to word received at the Juneau office today. ‘ MADE IN JUNEAU One small load of halibut was sold in Juneau today and another was on the board waiting to sell. | The Mabel, Capt. Ole Jackson, | sold 3,500 pounds to Sebastian Stu- art at 6.35 and 4.30 a pound, while the Fane, Capt. Ole Johanson, with 2000 pounds, had not sold this afternoon. | .. A little more than a fifth of the gainfully employed in the United States are farm workers, that throws | | PILLARS OF gression, Poland, recently included in a British-French guarantee of ing no chances, and with Nazidom eyeing Danzig and the Polish Corridor, | are the order of the day. Here are anti-aircraft guns seen at recent maneuvers. Fireman Drowns in Blaze BUSINESS T0 BE GIVEN AID " FOR EXPANSION |Deterrents fo Be Removed from Tax Laws, Is Mor- | genthau’s Aim | 1 ‘WASHINGTON, May 11.—Secre- tary of Treasury Morgenthau as- serted today that the Treasury in- tends to ask Congress to remove business deterrents from the tax laws. One asked whether President Roosevelt had virtually forbidden Secretary Morgenthau to | | present a tax revision program to | Congress and the Secretary replied: “This is ridiculous. We are living | under a democracy, thank God.” Although declining to discuss any | details of his tax views, Secretary | Morgenthau said specifically he stood | by the press conference statement | of a few months ago that he hoped | Congress would clear the tax laws uri bueiness deterrents and thus en- courage business to take normal in- | vestment risks. newsman pAYROlfiIH{K ’ ing. Trapped in the base, OF COAST GUARD | CRAFT ARRESTED |Officer of CFeTan Accused| of Taking Nearly $30,- 000 from His Ship WASHINGTON, May 11. - Coast | By PRESTON GROVER Guard Headquarters announce today | wASHINGTON, May 11. We that Pay Clerk Joseph A. Hams.!dm-,_ pretend to know everything— Warrant Officer attached to lh(-:w(.” not quite—and when affairs Coast Guard cutter Chelan in the |y Europe begin to get out of hand International Iceberg Patrol, has|ye rush to certain wise men here- New | ahouts to compare notes. And our been arrested in Moncton, | Brunswick, on charges of taking|gagest wise men helped us to the nearly $30,000 from his ship. | startling conclusion that affairs in Harris was arrested by the Canad- | Burope are too muddled for war ian police at the request of the of-| There was a time a few weeks | ticials of the Coast Guard cutter|pack when the business was sim- | Chelan. | pler. It appeared to be shaping into | Most of the money has been re-!a conflict of the democracies against i covered, officials here announce. | the dictatorships. i an nations, more especially Ger- RUSSIA M A KE | many, were fighting for the freedom | | of Germanic peoples from the yoke * PROPOSAL OVER i e i ~ SECURTY PACT But more recently both issues were clouded. England and France began dickering for the assistance lof Russia, a country which is not H H regarded a leading democracy. Four Nafions Mentioned izl | : GERN GRABS \ for Mutual Assistance- | i Gorine, mstead simpiy of | i | setting about welding Germanic | British Plan Atfacked | proic: couciner. Suddemy exiencea | il | her apron to cover a very MOSCOW, May 11.—The Soviet covey of Czechs and Sloyaks. Government's newspaper Izvestia| Hitler points to a strange histori- voices the opinion that Great Bri-|cal parallel which he may have in- tain, France, Russia and Poland, or|tended should have a bearing on at least the first three nations,|the present situation. should form a “united front for| In September of 1918, while the mutual assistance.” German lines were slowly backing The conviction is expressed in an | Up under the eager pounding of the| editorial today in the newspaper and | American and Allied armies, Field incidentally the British security pro- | Marshal von Ludendorf abruptly be- posals are attacked as one-sided and | ¢8Me panicky, Germany, he urged offering no security to Russia. | must ask for an armistice, l President Wilson had advanced Even in theaters and restaur-|a suggested “peace without vic- ants, Japanese keep on their hats|tory” based on 14 points. Luden- and overcoats, dorf insisted that an armistice be- = . THE POLISH CORRIDOR are solid against any threat of German ag- One fireman was killed and at least twen | four-alarm fire which swept a Brooklyn, | The dead man, John Lyons, was first man ! ment by smoke and flame, tan feat of water, Forty pieces of apparatus were called to the scene. SITUATION IS DECLARED ' TOOMIXED UP FORREAL | WARTOBE STARTED NOW On the other hand, the totalitari- | large ~ " WIDE AREA ' ENVELOPED ~ BYFLAMES |Explosion in—gouih Side Elevator Causes Heat- ed Conflagration \EIGHT OR MORE MEN | ARE BELIEVED KILLED protection, nevertheless is tak- | armament and maneuvers ‘Firemen, OFer-s Are Hur" Rushed fo Hospifals in Nearby Section CHICAGO, I, May 11.—An explosion and fire levelled & mammoth South Side elevator this afternoon and firemen fear that eight or more men have been killed. The flames spread to four neighboring elevators and en- veloped a quarter square mile in searing heat. Fire Marshal Michael Corri- gan said it is the largest fire in Chicago since the $8,000,000 conflagration in the stock yards five years ago. Five firemen and four other men, two seriously hurt, are in hospitals. A preliminary estimate places the loss of the grain properties well above the million dollar mark. Robert Thomas, a witness, said there was a sudden explo- sion and then flames were hurled “about 300 feet into the air.” The cause of the blast has not been determined but fire- men surmise it may have been a dust explosion. It is estimated that 50 men were in the main elevator and a check reveals that many . are missing, the others escaping. Late this afternoon it was be- lived the fire is under control. -- - AFL REACHES AGREEMENTIN SALMON ISSUE (IO Refuses fo Sign with (3ib5ng ty overcome by smoke in this N. Y., five-and-ten-cent store. | to enter the burning build- | he was drowned in | asked, with the 14 points as the| Indi'vidual Pa(kers_ | basis of discussion | | But civil authorities felt that wlthi | a last ditch stand they might nego- | New Proposals tiate better terms, They wanted Loi | SEATTLE, May 11. — Chatles | move more slowly, to avoid the ap- £ » | pearance ,of panic. But Ludcndorf‘“u“:‘e‘;' Organizer, "“‘L“ ‘fi}i"m'"'flf and Hindenburg overrode their re-| "henec 4 SELACHEN I"‘Vldum}f oo Homnte 9 | unions signing with the individual | Ludendorf explained that ]‘°1I)ackers for the season. 'f""‘id to gges fEosa [h"_ m-uotm;‘\ Hughes said the wages are consid= | tions wit )} his varmim intact. One of | erably better than the 1938 scale. {his” statt officers, Colonel Heye,|” 016 cannery unions have adopted urged that the negotiations be drawn | 5 poriey of signing no more indi- out, saying: vidual agreements and will insist | “I want to save the army, so that|that the industry extend a “wide” | we can use it as a means of pressure ! contract hereafter. The CIO will during the peace negotiations.” | transmit a new agreement proposal i | to the industry late today, it is said. | OUTWITTED | s e o o o But in one of the most astute dip- '« lomatic triumphs of his career, DEPA 'I' President Wilson maneuvered the | German authorities into complete | I"IER'OR HJ“D surrender before an armistice was| granted. It was that situation to| which Hitler pointed in his speech | when he said he never would allow his representatives to enter a con- ference without strong military | WASHINGTON, May 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the bill appropriating $172,000,000 to the In- | terior Department, expenses for the | year starting July 1. The appropria- | tion carries $23,000,000 for continua- backing. He has it now. The shoe was on tion of work on the Grand Coulee | Dam, 2 the other foot at Munich. It would be a completely novel situation, but it is conceivable that |back in his noggin Der Fuehrer sees a possibility of a peace treaty | before a war instead of after one, as is the usual custom RO oo, g It is unlikely he would agree to sit down in mass with the 31 na- NOME: MEROBANE tions President Roosevelt men- tioned in his message. The stagger-| ing complexities of such a confer- PNt flew to Fairbanks with PAA ence would bewilder even Mr. Hit-|!°98Y and was to fly from there to |ler. But he suggested the possibility|NOme. He has been Outside on a business trip and returned on the Alaska this morning, John Lichtenberg, Nome mer- (Continuea on Page Four)