The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” oo— = — VOL. LIV., NO. 8103. OAST PUBLISHER ATTACKED, KIDNAPED ROTARIANS ARE COMING T0 JUNEAU First Gro u;“AIready En-| route with Others Leav- ing Sunday Midnight Rotarians are now on the way to Juneauw. | ‘The first group left Anacortes yesterday aboard the tug Uwanta| of the Robinson Fisheries Company for this city. The group contains Rotarians from Anacortes, Sedro-Woolley and Oak Harbor, in the state of Wash-| ington. | This group expects to arrive here | in plenty of time for the opening | of the district convention next/ Thursday. | The main group of Rotarians/ however, leave Seattle tomorrow | midnight aboard the steamer Aleu—~ tian of the Alaska Steamship Com- pany. The Aleutian will arrive at Prince Rupert Tuesday, at Ketchikan Wed- nesday and reach Juneau mnext | Thursday morning at 8 o'clock, ac-| cording to present schedule. | ————————— | NEUTRALITY LEGISLATION INTRODUCED Senator Gill_e;i;'s Proposal | Calls for Complete New Deal WASHINGTON, May 13.—Mem- bers of the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee are inclined to look upon the neutrality problem, the Gillette proposal introduced by the Senator from Iowa, as answer to the puzzling issue. The Gillette proposal complete repeal of the present neu- trality law and would give the Pres- fdent authority to declare war zones in which American shpipers may trade at their own risk. The measure is said to have the approval of the State Department. Introduction of the bill came at a'time when the dispute over neu-| ., logisiation’ was - thiestening | por*. that a strike is threatened Mon- trality to delay an early adjournment of Congress. REAR ADMIRAL BRISTOL PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY | Alaska dock operators as none of WASHINGTON, May 13.—Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, retired, former High Commissioner of the United States to Turkey, died un- expectedly in the Naval Hospital here today at the age of 71. Apparently he had recovered from JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Ring of Steel to Guard Canal | NAVAL,AIR, AND SUBMARINE BASE PLANNED HERE CANAL URGED AS DEFENSE MEASURE PRESIDENT ASKS | $21,062,500 | FOR NEW CANAL DEFENSE i | | With the development of a Caribbean Department of the United States Army under command of Brig.-Gen. Edmund L. Daley, work is being rushed to cemplete a ring of steel around the Caribbean ap- proach to the Panama Canal. Anti-aircraft guns, troops and airfields will be stationed cn strategic keys. Headquarters will be San Juan. President Somaza of Nicaragua is urging a Nicaraguan tanal be built as further defense. Man shows where work is being carried on. The president Canal defense base is at Guantanamo and an inactive base at Key West. Long Make Demandi shoremen FOG DELAYS ROTHSCHILD CANADIAN GOVERNMENT IS RELEASED |5 T START SURVEY FOR BYGERMANY PROPOSED ALASKA ROAD Baron Set free Affer Held } Two Parties Will Take Field Late This Month on Ground 13 Months in Vienna for R Reconnaissance of Eastern Route for Internation- B i al Highway; Crews Will Work from Each End in o ZURICE: sy 15 Dai s Addition to Aerial Inspection Planned This Sum- European banking family has been mer by commiSSiOH released in Vienna by the German| Secret Police after 13 months im-| frisonment, according to reports| received here by his friends. It is said that the Baron, looking aged | and weak, plans suit against the Nazi Government to regain his con- | fiscated fortune. Baron Rothschild was arrested in NOW WANTED, many annexed Austria he was eon-| J sidered a prisoner and was virtually i o ottt i e Government s Informed 60,000 Additional Workers Needed in the Metropole Hotel in Vienna and the Nazis would not release WASHINGTON, May 13.—Gov- ernment experts have reported to him until a full property settlement President Roosevelt that there will was made. be a shortage of aircraft mechanics - SIGN CONIRA(IS in time of war and recommend that | existing facilities for training work- ers to be skilled be expanded to the limit A committee, headed by Oswald Ryan, of the Aeronautics Authority - reports that 60,000 additional work- VICTORIA, B. C, May 13.—Cana- SK“_[ED MEN dian Government sources announce that a ground survey of the pro- posed eastern or Rocky Mountain trench route for the Alaska High- way will be started soon. Two survey parties will leave at the end of this month from each end of the proposed route which is alternative to the western route by way of Hazleton and Atlin. | The western route was surveyed roughly some years ago. The eastern route, currently to be surveyed by a ground reconnaisance, will be in addition to the aerial in- spection planned by the Alaska Highway Commission of the Cana- dian section One of the survey parties will go in from Fort St. James, working from the end of the Manson Creek mining road down the Manson to Port Grahame and Sifton The other survey party will go by way of Telegraph Creek, and Mec- Dames Creek, work south from the pproximately Three Hu § Yukon River "GEO.PETNAM& lceMoving | IS VICTIM Out,Dawson QF OUTRAGE Break-up CFamev;_riday Pounced U;—)aWhen Goes Forgnoon'- %"200'" " to Meet Friend Follow- Prize of $3, ' ing Telephone Call DAWSON, Y.T,, May 13—The ice | in the Yukon River in front of Daw- BOUND, GAGGED, |s ALSO BLINDFOLDED | son went out at 11:55 o'clock yes- | terday morning The winners in the ice (.'I)HN‘\I,‘ Taken fo Lonely House for Night-Anti-Hitler Book Is Believed Cause with a money prize of $3,600 went to Helen Thompson, Ed Boyce Charles Stone, of Dawson, and James R. Gaudin of Whitehorse. .o BAKERSFIELD, Cal, May 13. — Bound and gagged, George Palmer | Putnam, 52, husband of the late Amelia Earhart, and Hollywood publisher, was found today in uncompleted house hours after he had been kidnaped from | his home. Nazi Nafion Disturbed at| Tre'nd Of Develqpmen's Putnam was unhurt. He said the i Lafest Alllance 1o e Ao Rt g ""T)\(' Man Who Killed Hitler,” and BERLIN, May 13.—Germany is suggested Putnam would be health- gravely disturbed by the pul;l\shml“‘-r if he ceased printing the book. information that Turkey has be-| Ppublisher Putnam said the kid- come a military ally of Great Bri-|napers were “very decent men and | tain. | didn’t rough me up at all." | an a few calls for | 10-Cent Raise ON ATLANTIC * lers to suppiement the 40,000 current- ly employed in the aviation industry lower post on the Liard River, fol-| urkey holds a vitally strategic| He said he refused thieir demands | ing to get the companies to extend ?Seaflle Ofifi of Union Liner Will B;Ene Day Late Believes No Walkouls ' in Arriving-Now in Will Take Place Iceberg Zone KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 13. NEW YORK, May 13.—Fog for the | Longshoremen here threaten to second day has halted the liner strike at midnight Monday unless Empr of Australia bringing the demands for a 10 cent an hour in- British King and Queen on a visit| crease is met and agreement signed. to the United States and Canada Local steamship companies were according to a radio report received | only informed yesterday of the de- here. mands and said negotiations are The liner is fog bous: in the ice- | being handled in Seattle. berg zone, 250 miles off East Cape| s Race. The liner will now be at least one day late in reaching Quebec and the Royal couple and party will not | ! SEATTLE STATEMENT | SEATTLE May 13.—Dewey Ben- | nett, Secretary of the Longshore- | men’s local said that negotiations land there until Tuesday. to obtain a 10-cent-an-hour wage The schedule through the Domin- increase for Alaska longshoremen ion will be changed to correspond to | has been under way for some time the late arrival. |and is still being carried on and BT - B some progress made. { Commenting on the Ketchikan re- | Armed Squads | I L] | Invade Danzig Warsaw Newspaper De- nounces Any Attempt fo Get Plebiscite WARSAW, May is.—The Wieczor Warszawski, Nationalist daily new paper, charges that some 30,000 Ger- | ! mans have been added .to the popu- lation of the Free City of Danzig in “an invasion of armed squads.” The | newspaper denounces any effort by | | | day midnight unless the demands } are met, he said that he doubts if any strike will be called. Dewey said the main issue is try- the coast agreement to apply to lo- cals in Alaska. Negotiations in Se- attle are so far solely with the Alaska Steamship Company. One steamship company official said the controversy involves solely the lines own or operate their own docks and that union agreements will have to be made with the dock operators first, then the steamship companies will fall in line. LOCAL SITUATION Harold Knight, Manager of the PASSPORT FOR dred Thousand Miners Go fo Work Monday lished _immediately apprenticeship | ghe western route: NEW YORK, May 13.—Fifteen of gystems in all aircraft manufactur-| the twenty-one bituminous eoal as- jng plants and to encourage pablic sociations have signed (he¢ union|ygsgtional trade schools to assist shop contract with John L. Lewis, the aircraft companies and aid of the Urited Mine Workers of youths showing aptitude for mechan- FARLEY MAKING. | PORTLAND PORT POLITICAL TRIP Arbiter Waylg Morse Call- to work on Monday thus averting a national coal shortage. ed Info Action by Longshoremen It is said that approximately 300,- 000 miners will report for work on Monday. | - .- — ddresses as Chairman of the Dem- PORTLAND, Oregon, May 13.— ocratic National Committee. At the request of longshoremen, the Farley cheerfully predicted that | Pacific Coast Waterfront Contract the Democrats will elect a President | Arbiter Wayne L. Morse has opened KUHN HELD UP BY STATE DEPI. lagain in 1940. ! hearings on the controversy which | While in Indianapolis, Farley con- closed this port Thursday by the Adtivities Of I-?aderOIGer'in-rred with Dick Weller, private| Employers Association after CIO man-American Bund [secretary to Gov. Townsend. It islongshoremen refused fo load :72? Under Investigation believed that the conference might | freighter William Luckenbach have concerned the possibility of cause the order to reinstate three |the Democratic Presidential candi- |discharged workers was ignored. WASHINGTON, May 13.—Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German-Ameri- can Bund, is said to have been block- dacy of a former Governor of In-| ed temporarily in his effort to ob- lowing it to Sifton Pass. The route is regarded by some engineers as more favorable from are needed to execute the Army, Navy \and Air Corps expansion | HEARING STARTS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 13.— I ! Postmaster General James A. Far-| ley paid a brief visit here enroute | to the Pacific Coast for a series of | diana, Paul McNutt, now ngh‘lhe warring sides together failed Commissioner of the Philippine Is- land sthe arbiter was called to open Iands. hearings on the controversy. tain a passport from the State De-| In Columbus, Ohio, where Farley & e anp addressed the Regional Conference BASEBAH. TODAY An authoritative source discloses|of Democratic women, he gave a| that passports for Kuhn and two as- warning not to underestimate, the | sociates are held up pending an in- |resources of their political opposi-| Scores of baseball games played vestigation into the affairs of the|tion. this afternoon are as follow; Bund in New York. Probers are Farley declared, that the Repub- National League working on the case, it is asserted. |lican Party is backed by the na-| Brooklyn 3 Boston 5 — ., — tion’s wealthiest individuals. Chicago 6; Pittsburgh 2. Four-H club enroliment in the| Farley’s trip will cover eleven| St. Louis 1; Cincinnati 2. United States included 1,286,029 |states and is being made to get American League first-hand information from a poli-| Cleveland 5; Chicago 2. Ryan asked that there be estab-| g consgruction poipt of view than | Efforts made yesterday to bring| position in the Mediterranean, and | Great Britain has been negotiating with her for weeks. | Germany had hoped to keep Tur- {key out of the Brilish camp. She |sent her veteran diplomat, Von| Papen, to Ankara some time ago 1o | farestall the possibility of a Turk- |ish-British alliance. Von Papen has met with ocmplete failure. | Prime Minister Chamberlain an- nounced yesterday that in case of | aggression which would lead to a| war ‘in the Mediterranean, Britain | and Turkey would lend each other all possible aid. Negotiations are still going on for a far-reaching agreement. This will | specify the exact conditions under | which aid will be given and prob- ably will embrace such countries as | Egypt and Palestine. France also is negotiating with | Turkey and hopes to have a simi- | |lar alliance in the near future. | German spokesmen made no ef-| | fort to conceal their sentiments| against the Turks who fought with | | Germany during the World War. | !Said one Berlin official: “No good {can come of this FIRST NATIONAL BANK INCREASES STAFF; NEW MAN \‘ Current press of business at the First National Bank here has re-| |sulted in the addition of another | |employee, it was announced today. Harold Palmer, formerly associ- ated with the Pacific National Bank | |and the People’s National Bank and | Trust Company in Seattle, became | { | | to reveal the name of the anti- Hitler book's author. Putnam recalled warnings he had received, apparently from his as- sailants, via telephones. He had also received a bullet riddled copy of the disputed _book, and two letters threatening his life, ‘which he re- ported to police within the past month. i On one occasion, Putnam fired two shots at a man who was climb- ing a tree near his bedroom win- dow. Late yesterday he received a tele- phone call to meet a friend and when he went to his garage to get his car, two men jumped upon him, tied him up and blindfolded him. “They walked me to this house,” Putnam said, “and then taped my thands and legs tightly. They then left me. I worked all night to get loose. At daybreak I_managed to work the gag loose Qnd call for help.” Police had issued a statewide tele~ type message that Putnam was missing when his Secretary report- ed his employer did not come home during the night. Police expressed the belief that the kidnapers were members of a | California branch of the German- American Bund. 6 HALIBUTERS SELL, SEATTLE SEATTLE, May 13—Only hali- buters from the local banks arrived and sold here today as fpllows: President 17,000 pounds, Preshd 16,000 pounds, Bertha 10,000 pounds, all selling for 9 and 6 cents a poun associated with the First National Ideal 14,000 pounds, 9% and 6 cents an operation but his heart just gave Germany to resort to a plebiscite |boys and girls in 74,584 clubs in | J up beating. (Continued on Page Eight) there. MOTHERS OF TH € GERALDINE, pretty young queen of Albania, was in flight before Italian invaders only two days after her firstborn, Crown prince Skander, arrived April 5. King Zog found refuge for his family in Greece and considered a trip to America, E YEA ) FARIDA, 17-year-old queen of Egypt, became a mother last November 17. A $15,000 pink- and-blue layette awaited Baby Princess Ferial. The child can't succeed to Farouk’s throne, how- ever; the title passes in the male line, KIRA'S firstborn was named Wilhelm — after great-grandpa, the former ' German Kkaiser, in the custom of first line Hohen- zollern heirs. Wilhelm arrived February 9 at Potsdam. Father is Prince Louis Ferdinand; mother is ex-Russian princess. R: "SINCE LAST MOTHER'S DAY, ONE YEAR AGO TOMORROW, THESE WOMEN HAVE MAD 1938, a new high record. tical standpoint. Detroit 3; St. Louis 5. E MRS. BADGETT gave Texas its second set of quadruplets — all girls—last Pebruary 1, and added a sixth set of quads to U. 8. popu- lation. The 36-year-old Galves- ton mother already has been given college scholarships for her daughters, THE ROOSEVELTS increased by two — both boys — in the past twelve-month. They were Numbers 8 and 9 of Presidential grand- children, and were born on opposite goas'.s, Left, the President’s daughter, Mrs. John Boettiger, wife of ‘the Seattle publisher, whose son, John Roosevelt Boettiger, arrived on March 30. Right, the lad who carried the President’s name, shown Wwith his mother, the former Ethel du Pont. Pranklin D, III, son of Franklin Jr., was born July 19, 1938, at Philadelphia. here a few days ago. Spray 17,000 pounds, 8% and 6 cents. NEWS BY HAVING CHILDREN . . . . . EMMA), actress - wife of Field Marshal Goering—Hitler's hefty head man—became a mother on June 2, 1938. Arrival of the daughter, Edda, was announced in extra editions of newspapers. Herr Hitler was godfather at the NAGAKO, Empress of Japan, gave birth to her seventh child on March 2 at Tokyo. She is 36. Emperior Hirohito picked out the name of Princess Noble Precious—rather long in Japa- nese, but that was shortened to “Suga.” christening.