The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1939, Page 1

l | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” re———— VOL. LIV., NO. 8102. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW STRIKE THREATENS SALMON SEASON - TURKEY WILL AID BRITAIN IN WAR TIME Chamberlain Announces New Agreement Made for Mediterranean POLAND, RUSSIA NEARING HARMONY British-Turkish Pact Will Give Royal Pow- erful Ally (By Associated Press) Great Britain and Turkey have given each other declarations of| their willingness to assist each other in the event of war in the Mediter- ranean Sea arising out of any act of aggression, Premier Chamberlain told the House of Commons today. | agreement will be binding until a definite pact is completed. The announcement came as the British Security Bloc apparenfly gained strength with efforts for‘ harmony between Poland and Sovwl\ T Russia making progress and the| announcement also being made that | juNEAU luMBER it is almost a certainty that the| French Parliament will give its Gov- | Mlll 'lo BEG I N | Operations to Open Next ernment a vote of confidence in res- | pect to French fcreign policy. | Monday After Win- ter Shuidown Turkey would be a valuable ally to| Great Britain in time of war be-| cause of its strategic location in the | eastern Mediterranean, giving Great | Britain's naval forces access to the| Dardanelles. CONFIDENC S VOTED PARIS, May 12—The Chamber of | Deputies has voted confidence in the | foreign policies of Premier Daladier,| Approximately 75 men will go to| 375 to 230. | work Monday morning at the Ju- The vote came after the Premier, |neau Lumber Mills as the 1939 sum- | “in a dramatic speech, insisted that|mer milling season gets under way, France's present strong foreign pol- IRO\' Rutherford, President of the| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 12— The U. S. S. plane carrier Ranger passes the Battery, thirty-four other American warships in their visit to i entertainment program was scheduled for the 12,000 officers and men. 'ANCHORAGE REGION Navy’s Eagles at Roost in New York her deck swarming with fighting planes, as she joined New York City for the World’s Fair. An elaborau | 'EXPLOSION, FIRE Fleet Is LOSS IS PLACED Back On AT FOUR MILLION pau“( Five Grain Elevafors in' Chicago Only Smok- ing Debris Today | ‘Warships Refurn fo West Waters Affer Four | RgES Mon'hs On A"anti( | CHICAGO, I, May 12.—An ex- plosion of n dust, fine particles SAN PEDRO, Cal., May 12.- |of corn, rye and wheat, is cited as -Uncle | the probable cause of the blasts that Sam’s mighty Pacific Fleet has re- started a fire and levelled five grain | turned to the home base here after | elevators here. | maneuvers in the Atlantic for the past four months. Jing debris for The first of the 20 battleships and |lost in the conflagration. |cruisers to arrive were led by Ad- Eighteen firemen, injured (lmlnu | miral Claude Bloch’s flagship Penn- |the blaze, are recovering in ‘s}]vanm which dropped anchor m‘pxtalx the fog shrouded Los Angeles harbor| Most of the estimates place the at 7 o'clock this morning. loss at $4,000,000. PETER AMUNDSON [ndicled DS KECHAN 'Succumbs fo Heart Atfack ; Steps Out 30 Minutes Affer En- | fering Hospifal OLYMPLA, Wash My 12E.Pat Searchers are probing the smok- | traces of eight men | hos- ‘ | Mining operations in this section are | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 12— Kelly, State Director of Labor In- dustries, indicted by the grand jury Peter Amundson, 56, in Alaska 24 KULANGSU IS OCCUPIED BY NIPPON ARMY Foreign Settlemem Is Puh Under Japanese Flag -No Warning Given SEVEN AMERICANS IN NEUTRAL ZONE Weak Reas—on—Given for| Action-Say Shanghai | May Be Next ‘ SHANGHAT, ‘May 12.—Japanese naval forces today occupied the In ternational Settlement at Kulangsu | in thé harbor of Amoy, and the | Japanese spokesman warned that a | similar action might ‘be necessary | resy ing International Settlement areas in Shanghai. Kulangsu is on an island in the | | harbor of Amoy, Fukien Province | & port 600 miles southwest of Shang- {hai which the Japanese occupied | several months ago. The International Settlement of Kulangsu normally has a foreign m,pul,mnn of 250. At present there| ven Americans there. nese charged today that un- identified persons shot and wound- {ed Hung Li-Hui, President of the| | Amoy Chamber of Commerce in the | | erttlement, ©On the grounds that the !nler-‘ national Council failed to take ac- ||\|‘ steps to capture Li-Hui's as- ants, the Japanese moved in without warning to the Council, - eee NEW GUN CLUB T0 BE OPENED | K. 0. Scribner Will Be Guest as Trap Artists Intitiate Traps Grand opening of the new Juneau | Shotgun Club trap range on the Glacier Highway will be held Sun- | day, beginning at 10 o'clock in the | morning, club officials announced | today. | Recently constructed on a rock | fill near the Salmon Creek power | house, this will be the first time official shooting has been held at | the new location. Guest artist will be K. O. Scribner, Remington Arms scatter gun expert who broke 49 clay bizds out of 50 at a practice session a week ago. 'HALIBUT PRICE without his domestic policy of “put-| Rutherford said operations would “mk after the winter shutdown | 10,000 CHINESE ‘about one million feet of logs. 45,000 SO'dlefS Are Re- ot the company on Kosklusko Island. | SHANGHAT, May 12—A Japanese TE“ DAYS BEHI“D '“ battles in progress since Mny The CUbrountius said io remainwt n days behind schedule because of been trapped between two Japanese | ting France back to work.” |resume again Monday morning with | that fell on the fifth of November | | Extent of the season’s milling is ARE KIllED I“ unpredictable at this time, Ruther- | ford said. Rafts are moored at the| ging operations are being car- communique reported that 10,000 Hupen Province, 200 miles northwest der of the Chinese forces on that| columns, one force moving north icy would have been impossible|mills announced today. T A | the one shift of 75 men going to| last year. MAJOR BATT[ES‘lumber mill basin now, totalling 1ned on at the Cosmos Pass camp | TIONS Chinese have been killed in mn]or of Hankow. front, totalling 45,000 soldiers, have along the Han river and the other ! along the Peiping-Hankow railway, | in a pincer movement. The Japanese predict they will| wipe out one third of the Chinese regulars in Central China before the present maneuver is ended. LIEK ON WAY 1050.DAKOTA, NEW POSITION Superintenfi of Mount! McKinley Leaving North | After Eleven Years ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 12— Harry Liek, Superintendent of Mount McKinley National Park for eleven years, passed through here enroute to South Dakota where he will take a similar position in the Wind Cave National Park. Liek is one of the few men who have ever climbed Mount McKinley. SUCCESSOR COMING SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 12— Frank Been, park naturalist of Se-| quoia National Park, appointed Su- perintendent of Mount McKinley National Park in Alaska, will leave| for his new post the latter part of this month. the late spring, David Strandberg, widely known operator, declares. Strandberg predicted that the| |10st time will be made up quickly | once all of the snow melts in the | hilly sections. |Against Suspensi(; Annual Assessment {Work on Claims WASHINGTON, May 12—The bill to suspend assessment work on un- patented mining claims for the cur- rent fiscal year is disapproved by ! the Senate Mining Committee which has advised the Senate that if min- eral activity continues in the West, Congress should forthwith abandon ut.s practice of exempting holders lof such claims from the require- | ment of the annual assessment work. Legislation has been enacted each year since 1932, when Congress re- cognized the depressed conditions, and suspended assessment work but |the Senate Committee points out that conditions are changed now and the work should be done. —————— Record Farm Bill Passed by Senate WASHINGTON, May 12—The Senate this afternoon passed, 61 to | | | for consideration of more than $338,- ]000‘000 increases. | years, died in a hospital here yes- terday, half an hour after admitted, on larceny charges, today requested that he be relieved from his position. | Gov. Clarence D. Martin has| RISES SLIGHTLY | 14, the all-time record farm bill. The,| measure now goes back to the Houses | following an attack of the heart. Survivors are his wife, three and two daughters, in Ketchikan and vicinity, brother Louis in Ore- gon, brother William and three sis- ters, all of Morris, Il ,i StoCck QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, May 12. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, American Can 87, | American Power and Light 4%, Ana- | conda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 55% Commonwealth and Southern 1° Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors| yocal bank halibuters were Gony 42%, International Harvester 57%.!15000 pounds, 8% and 6% cents; Kennecott 31%. New York Central|oval 17,000 pounds 8% and 6% Northern Pacific 8%, United | cents; Alma 9,000 pounds, 9 and 6 s Steel 47, Pound $4.68. | cents: Flint 15,000 pounds, 8% and |6 cents. JONES AVERAGES | ns | | J. Webster Hoover, Construction En- gineer of the State Highway Depart- ment as Acting Director. '5 HALIBUTERS SELL, SEA"lE SEATTLE, May 12—Only one hal- ibuter from the wesiern banks ar- ved and sold here today, the Su— | perior with 25,000 pounds, selling for 8% and 7Y% cents a pound. DOW, The following are tndnys Dow, Jones averages: industrials "132.16, rails 27.13, utilities 23.17. Today's session was a listless one | with prices unchanged to fraction-| ally lower. The volume of trade was very small, neither pressure or sup- port developing in any group. The apparergt settlemert of the -coal strike passed witliout a ripple. PRICES AT RUPERT At Prince Rupert today 140,000 | pounds of halibut were sold at 7 to| |7.20 and 550 cents. ———————— Leahy Selected \For Governor Of Puerto Rico LTENBERG IN CITY ‘ WASHINGTON, May 12—Presi- FROM POINT RETREAT dent Roosevelt announced today | that he has selected Admiral Leahy, for several days, coming in from the | as Governor of Puerto Rico to suc- Point Retreat Light where he is|ceed Blanton Winship, retired Army statjoned. Major General. granted the request and has named | August Waltenberg is in Juneau | retiring Chief of Naval Operations, 1 Halibut prices took a slight jump | today on the local fish exchange as | the vessels Spencer and Harvester |sold 18,000 pounds. | ‘The. spencer, Capt. Russ Elliott, sold 14,000 at 6.50 and 4.40 cents a pound to Elton Engstrom, while the ’Harvesier, Capt. Fred Pfundt, sold New England, 4,000 pounds at 640 and 4.45, ‘The herring packer Washington, Cnpt. George Dalton, brought in another 200 barrels of herring for | the cold atomge treezers AGREEMENT, COAL STRIKE WASHINGTON, May 12. — The Joint subcommittees negotiating in |the coal strike have agreed, after |a deadlock of eight weeks, for a |new contract between the United Mine Workers of America, CIO af- filiate, and the mine operators cov- ering wage and hour conditions for 346,000 miners in the east. Dr. John Steelman, Labor K De- partment Conciliator, said the con- tract will include a “union shop” clause which John L. Lewis insisted upon in his demands and which caused the deadlock. The operators and miners are to meet later and consider the adop- |tion of the contract. L J | EXPERTS GIVE BRITISH, FRANCE COMBINE EDGE OVER BERLIN, ROME AXIS AP Feature Service Wr WASHINGTON, May 12 tions of powers is the stronger? A composite appraisal of the waging effectiveness, made for The qualified military experts, gives the Franco-British alliance a small margin of superiority over the Rome-Berlin axi Those experts rate the relative France and Italy in five principal categories of military effectivene: army, navy, air ferce, industrial (money and vital materials). Democracis so on in each of the five classifications, and the German-Italian combination, scores 33 4 The experts also rate Russia, Should the huge Soviet nation become power, and her score is 12. How U. S. Experts Rank European Military Machines BRITAIN GERMANY FRANCE ITALY RUSSIA High score is 5, low score 1. definitely aligned with Britain and France, the 11 to 10 lead of the democracies would be bolstered to a 9 to 6 ratio. Britain and the expanded Third Reich of Adolf Hitler tie for first place in all-around military potency, each piling up 18 points, France’s 15 points to Italy's 12 gives the lead to the alliance. Britain gets two firsts, naval power and resources; Germany two firsts, air force and an industrial basis and France one first, the biggest well-trained army and officer corps. Two Factors Cut Russia Despite ¢he Russian army’s tremendous manpower—trained re- serves number an estimated 16,500,000 to France's 5,000,000, Italy's 5,000,000 and Germany’s 2,300,000—it is ranked fourth because of the uncertain caliber of the Soviet officer corps and equipment as well as Russia’s remoteness from a likely European war scene. The experts say that German immediate ability to replace war materials indicates the Reich would be the outstanding powerhouse in the early stages of such a war, perhaps for as long as two years. Britain's great financial power, they predict, would eventually enable her to forge to the lead in munitions and other strategic ma- But it would not begin to turn the tide until the middle or terials. later stages of a prolonged conflict. France could weather the onslaughts of Germany’s aerial might. er and Veteran Military Affairs Observer Which of Europe's two great combina- s Have Giving five points for No. 1 ranking, four points for second and Franco-British Alliance totals 33, Rome- Berlin axis totals 30, R. GEORGE major factors in all-around war- AP Feature Service by three well power of Great Britain, Germany, production and general resources an Edge the British-French entente 30. the one big “outside” European production geared to a war-time superiority in air strength and in WALKOUT AT (AN WHARF IN SEATTLE ‘Warehousemen Called Out-Longshoremen Re- fuse to Handle Cargo INCREASE DEMANDED AS TO WAGES BY HOUR Negogialiofiarried On for 35 Days Are Re- ported Failure SEATTLE, May 12. — The much delayed Alaska salmon season has encountered an- other cbstacle by a strike that has tied up shipments of cans to the north. Local 1-9 ILWU picketed the American Can Company's dock and called 15 warehousemen out on a strike. The steamship Lakina was to. have loaded the cans at dock yesterday afternoon bu the longshoremen would handle the cargo. J. Stevens, ILWU busi agent, said the strike was call after collapse of 35 days of ne-’ gotiations for wage increases from 62); cents an hour to 85 cents _an hour. FDR COMMITS SELF AS FOR TAX REPEALS |Asks Subsliiu—ie Be Sought for Levy on Undistrib- uted Profits WASHINGTON, May 12—Presi- dent Roosevelt today said he is in favor of repeal of the undistributed profits tax, provided some other method can be found to prevent what he called legal tax evasion, The President emphasized again his contention that in case of any corporation levies being repealed That 1s assuming Britain and STRANGE YANKEE IS BACK IN WASHINGTON FROM HIS POSTIN WORLD OUTSKIRTS By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, May 12. — Now and then the backsweep of the West- ern Pacific tide brings to Washing- ton one of those strange Yankees who live on the outskirts of the world, and so it was we met Theo Rogers. He seems to know almost every- one who in 40 years has crossed the Pacific to Manila. He went over to the Philippines in 1899, carrying a Krag to civilize our little brown brothers. Most of the others came back. But Theo stayed and went into the newspaper business and made it pay handsome dividends in pesos as well as excitement. He hit Wash- ington to celebrate his 40th anni- versary in the islands, and Wash- ington felt the impact. At once he detested dial telephones. “Forty years of national enlight- enment have gone on while I've| been in the Philippines,” he said, | “and yet I have to come back here and ring my own telephone num- | bers.” e, | PARTNERSHIP IN VACATIONS |down their noses at “society report- | train for a formal call. Theo and McCullough Dick run the Manila Pree Press and they | make enough money to stay on va- cation by turns. One roams the| | granted it would be miles long. Be~ world for a few months or a year, while the other runs the paper—| then it’s turn about. Theo is sandy haired, sandy com- plexioned, and sandy of speech | He had a part in the Spanish| Civil War—as a visitor—and later wrote a book about it. He was in| Barcelona in 1936 when raiders threatened the home of one of his friends. He talked the invaders into leaving the place alone and got his name on front pages. { From here Theo goes to Europe.| Probably he will go on around to| Manila in a few months if a war doesn’t interfere. THE BRITISH ARE COMING! Assignments to cover the visit of the King and Queen of England are at a premium among Washing- ton newspapermen, in spite of the disposition of most of them to look ing.” They expect it will be mostly that, chat about what the Queen wears and whether the King’s sword trips him as he leaves the Incidentally, if all the applica- tions for space on the train were sides perhaps 150 to 200 news- there will have to be found a sys- tem of substituting taxes to bring in the same amount of revenue to the Treasury, Further, President Roosevelt said lie would submit results of tax studies to Congressional committees, but said these studies are not ne- cessarily to be in the form of recom- | mendations. Those who have been clamoring frur removal of deterrents to business in the tax structure have failed to point out how the revenues that may be lost will be raised, the Presi« dent said. APPROVAL GIVEN ROOSEVELT PLAN, REORGANIZATION WASHINGTON, May 12. — The Senate has approved of President Roosevelt’s second government reor- |ganization plan and it will become éffective in 60 days. The Senate approved the plan by a voice vote by turning down the resolution to reject the plan TWO SCHOONERS SINK AS BOATS COLLIDE IN FOG YARMOUTH, N. 8., May 12.-All 48 men aboard the foundered New England fishing schooners Isabell Parker and Edith Rose have been accounted for, with one man dead. The two vessels collided in a dense fog yesterday morning and sunk shortly after, Frank Nickersen, a fisherman on (Conunued on Pne’ i'rve} the Edith Rose, apparently died of la heart attack after the collision,