The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1939. e LONGSHORE EMPLOVYEES MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU WATERFRONT PEACE REA FRENCH WORK ‘Russian Flyers in New Iork‘ '1939 WAGE | TOWARD PACT SCALEISSTILL B - &1 e | OF 3POWERS - DEADLOCKED S’ = . R GETRAISE Dock Ope?aTors, Steam- Hitler and Mussolini Make No Reply Is Received by § 4 £ : ) L Dock s, I Tours of Border Union to Ultimatum | e ~ ¢ | shipCompanies Sign Lone Defense Issued fo Packers | Agreement ‘TEN-CENT BOOST IN POLISH AND GERMAN - TIME LIMIT IS PLACED | TENSENESS GROWING AT 5 P.M. WEDNESDAY. HOURLY WAGE GIVEN ans | |Office Workers Moor Den- Hungarians and Poles ‘Seine Prices for Southwes! Draw.C|oser, 'Desp'iie v _ S Aoska Are Finally | ali as Conferees Work Nazi Inferference’ § - e ‘ vl Agreed Upon Out Problem ‘ The threatened longshore strike By ASSOCIATED PRESS L France today tried to find a com-| | SEATTLE, May 16—The Canned that has troubled Juneau along with promise that would bring Russia in- | w;“‘]"“’“ “,““"u‘:“-‘ and ”:‘(‘ UTHP-(;‘ other Alaska ports, was averted to- %o the French-British front while | Fishermen’s Union committees hav 3 Hitler and Mussolini inspected Ger- | agreed to ne prices in South- day as an agreement was re?chcd man and Italian fortifications along | western Alaska, increasing the 1938 between workess and STISSRRES the French frontier. [ figures seven percent. " 3 4 o granting dock workers the ten cent French diplomats hoped to bridge The union membership must now | ¥ R : . | an hour increase in wages asked for. conflicting views between Great Bri- ballot on approval of the action - 503 . | This agreement, signed by Juneau tain and Russia by working out a Meanwhile the Alaska Canned Al b ived by President and Mrs. |dock owners, steamship companies Slan thtsbrang 41l JRIRH wonld salmon Industry and the Cannery England will be recelved by g it y plan for strong alliance which woul Workers Union Local No. 7 remains | Roosevelt on their arrival for a visit. The royal 1nnd the local here of the Interna- be acceptable to all three nations Milisigel i e : ; pair will stay at the White House. | tional Longshoremlen and Ware- = s _. | housemen’s Union, assures water- Russia’s stand for reciprocal mili- Ay e ":”f"fl,“"“""" ‘ tary pledges among the three powers recelved G answar ta the 1l LEEREINE oY | front peace until September 30, 1940, : e 1 sona ge | 18 FoRARAa dx alakbls enoghy B pe- [that the minimum seasonal wage A ER P | "Brior to the agreement, longshore= | | men had been receiving 95 cents an Soviet charge d'affairs. 3 TR Tl FI i yingOut | it & comitomiss: Sl the: Byt | must be guaranieed at $250 in South- who feared a hard and fast alliance gust Alales and JEU0IGIERERE | = | hour straight time and $1.40 an hour lABoR BOARDS overtime, They will now receive AR OverOcean | ARENEARING &t | $1.06 and $1.50 an hour respectively, Hope Distorled Fadts, s still closer ties with the Rome-Ber- | Wednesday afternoon, the mini-| Contracts Signed Next Move Charge Before Sen- e ForSweden QUEBEC CITY | s v ate Committee mum wage demand will be raised. | ! | dock operators here, the Alaska Dock and Russia have the opportunity to | | WASHINGTON, May 16 District Council No. 1, Maritime {and Storage Co., Femmer's Dock, face the negotiations at Geneva, —_— R Young Aviator in "“Gas Royal Couple Speeding Up Senate Labor Committee VOL. LIV., NO. 8105. —International Illustrated News Phonephoto Gordienko, Oumanski and Kokkinakl Although they failed to complete their projected Moscow-New York flight when they ran into bad weather and crashed on barren Miscou island, New Brunswick, the two Russian tlyers now are in New York, having been brought to the metropolis by a rescue plane. The fiyers, Major Mikhail Gordienko, left, and Brig. Gen. Vladimii | Kokkinaki, right, are pictured with Constantine Oumanski, center Here is the newly re-decorated president’s waiting room in the union station in Washington, D. C., where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the Company has not complied with ! the court order to pay wage claims to cannery workers for last season. | | city of Juneau wharf, the Juneau | Lumber Mills and the Alaska Juneau | Gold Mining Company. Two steamship companies, the Alaska Steamship Company and the Northland Transportation Company, the unfair list because it is claimed | Dock, the Juneau Cold Storage, the don, it was indicated that Great Federation of the Pacific, has placed Tom Morgan of the Columbia Lum- Switzerland, on Monday when the Tank'" Monocoupe Starts | St. Lawrence River the North Pacific Food Company on ber Company and the Commercial League Council meets, but in Lon- on Hazardous Flight Britain might not wait until then for her next move. Mussolini toured the Piedmont frontier while France was making — The today | increases in border patrols in areas adjacent to districts in which Mus- solini made his tour of defense works. 11 Duce’s tour coincided with Hit- ler’'s inspection of Germany's new western fortifications which Ger- man military experts claimed are “invincible.” FRICTION LOOMS New symptoms of German-Polish {riction appeared today as the Polish press complained of the additional | expulsion of Poles from the German frontier zone. Hungarian-Polish relations, on the contrary, were described by the pro- Government newspaper Kurjer Por- anny as friendly, despite “German efforts to interfere with them.” MATANUSKA MARKETING CASE IS UP Walter Pipfi? Temporar- ily Restrained, Selling Own Produce ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 16.— Judge Simon Hellenthal has tem- porarily restrained Walter Pippel. presperous Matanuska colonist, from marketing his produce except| through the Valley Farmers Coop- erating Association. The Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation requested the restrainer Pippel, who is also the object of |;nond and Mrs. Robert Atwood, of an action seeking his ejection from the valley, is claimed to be in direct >pposition to the association by his private marketing and therefore a competitor. A hearing at Seward on May 31 will determine whether the order will be a permanent order. Pippel will be allowed to plant his crop. but if the .injuriction holds must sell only to the association. > JUNEAU MAN SUED FOR DIVORCE; CASE APPEARS IN RENO | RENO, Nevada, May 16.—Vera H. Spicer has filed suit for divorce against Tobias John Spicer of Ju- au. The couple married in Seattle in June, 1932. Nonsupport and | cruelty is the charge made by Mr: Spicer. | Time, according to word ‘wtary of Labor Perkins has named | | BANGOR, Maine, May 16.—Charles | Backman, young Swedish aviator, piloting a “flying gas tank” mono- coupe, started Newfoundlandward late yesterday where he said he would begin a nonstop flight to Sweden. | Backman carried 160 gallons of | gasoline, sandwiches, coffee. He has no radio. The plane is so small and | crowded with gasoline tanks that the pilot had only an 18-inch seat. The | plane has a 90-horsepower motor | and can cruise at 110 miles an hour. LEAVES ON HOP | ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, May ' 16.—Charles Backman, attempting | a flight from America to Sweden,| left the Botwood Airport at 2:40| o'clock a.m., today, Eastern Standard | received | here. He spent the night at Botwood after reaching there late yesterday from Bangor, Maine. TWO ALASKANS ARENAMED T0 CHILD SESSION | Delegate Dimond, Mrs. Robert Atwood fo Rep- | resent Northland | i Aboard Liner QUEBEC, May 16—The liner Em- | press of Australia, bringing the Bri- tish King and Queen to Quebec for tour in Canada sped along the start of their and the United St the Gaspe coast today well up the St. Lawrence River in bright sun-| shine. The Inier British cruisers and two Canadian destroyers, are expected to reach Father Point late this afternoon | where a pilot will board the vessel| for the last lap of the eleven day | yage from England. The Empress of Australia with the Royal Party is now expected to reach Quebec tomorrow morning two, days behind time. - TROOPS INTO HARLAN Mine Trouble Causes Gov-l ernor Chandler fo | Take Action HARLAN, Ky, May 16. — Six| coal mines have reopened here in defiance of CIO leader John L. Lewis' edict that they must remain idle. and her convoy, two | | i Gov. Albert B. Chandler sent 600 | FOR BASES AT KODIAK, SITKA Construction Plans at Al- aska Stations Are An- nounced in Defail Secretary of Delegate Dimond lIK WASHINGTON, (Special Corres- pondence)—Following fast on the President’s approval on April 25 of the National Defense Act of the | Navy, containing among other items authority for the construction of a naval air base at Kodiak and en-| largement of the one already initiat- ed at Sitka, the Director of the Bu-| reau of the Budget on the same day —04m submitted to the President a sup- | plemental estimate of the appropr | ation required for all of the construc- ooseve s | tion set out in the authorization act | On the following day, April 26, the | President transmitted the estimate | Inviled Norlh on to the House of Representatives KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 16. — | and Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt at rulers are also to visit with his endorsement where it will be used by the Committee on Ap-| propriations in making up the Navy Department appropriation bill. The detailed outline of construc- today a letter to President Roosevelt | | tion planned and the breakdown of {asking him to visit Alaska when he | are burbling the estimated costs are particularlylcomes to the Pacific Coast during | interesting in that they contain sev- |the summer to visit the Golden | eral hints as to the number of per- Gate International Exposition at| sonnel with which it is expected to|San Francisco. man the establishments in the Ter- - ritory, as well as of the size and | scope of the construction opera ‘NEw BUSINESS | tions proposed by the Navy Depart | WASHINGTON, May 16—Secre-| %o "o here under com- |ment at these bases. The Depart- | 'I' Ax pROGR AM | ment’s recommendations follow: 1 | | Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di-| Anchorage, Alaska, to the “Con- ference of Children in Democracy.” A preliminary conference has been held but the big conference will be at the White House early next year when 500 delegates are expected to | gather. The discussion will be on “con-| crete suggestions for greater secur- ity to children and a larger meas- ure of opportunity to youth as a means of strengthening the Na-| {tional Union. TURNERONJOB | A5 QY LR Harley J. Turner, recently ap-| pointed Juneau City Clerk, was on| |the job at City Hall today. Turner resigned recently as Cashier of the | B. M. Behrends store. As Clerk, he | succeeds Walstein Smith, who re- igned due to ill health, mand of Brig. Gen. Eller Carter and the soldiers are patrolling the sec-| tion, preventing union miners from | picketing. . | The non-union miners went to; work as the United Mine Workers | officials went into a conference. | 1t is announced that the Black| Mountain Coal Corporation has op- | | ened separate negotiations with the | Barracks, miners’ union but other companies | are still conferring with nothing to | | denote what position they will take | Quarters for officers (36) regarding a union shop. | A s received here from Phil-| | adelphia say Lewis charges Gov.| Quarters for married enlist- Chandler with vengeance in send-| ing troops into the Harlan Coal Fields because of opposition of the| CIO in his last election campaign. | — — FOR EVERYONE HELSINKI, May 16.—To assist foreign sportsmen, an Olympic map of Helsinki in five languages has| been prepared for the 1040 Olym-| pic games, } KODIAK ! Dredging, including chan- ‘ To BE WR“TEN $500,000 B\:‘lf(]h[‘fld. grading and fill. . 400,000 i Two seaplane hangars . 2000 Senafe Bloc Makes Threat suo0, Unless President Takes Up Revision Soon Three ramps 145,000 | Parking area for 3 VP squadrons, 80,000 sq. yards mess hall, and bakery for 580 Quarters for officers (12) 450,000 WASHINGTON, May 16. — The | powerful Senate bloc led by Chair-| | man Harrison, Democrat, of Mis- 3 | sissippi, of the Finance Committee, 280,000 | g expressed determination to write L |a new business tax program of its 250,000 oyn unless President Roosevelt ord- | 150,000 ers a thorough revision of the pres-| a | ent levies. | 150000{ ~ senator Harrison, it is learned,| told the President of this intention |at a White House conference last night. The Administration’s final | 580,000 | Quarters for bachelor offi- cers (60) 240,000 ed men (35) Recreational facilities, enlist- ed men Recreational cers Administration building Engine overhaul and aircraft maintenance building Motor test stands (2) Dispensary Radio transmission building, towers, etc. facilities, offi 400,000 350’,000 known until the legislative leaders | hold further conferences with the President. | 80,000 (Continued on Page Three) attitude will probably not be made| p YANKEE HOSPITALITY will reach its finest official flower when the royal couple from Great Britain visit President the White House (above). The at Hvde Park. N V. E WAR TALK! THEN HERE'S SOME DOPE AS GIVEN OUT BY PERSHING By PRE ON GROV WASHHINGTON, May 16. iauer about Here are some things to the last war while we consider whether or when we shall get into another one It all comes from “American Armies and Battlefields in Eurove,” freshly published by the Battle Mayor Harry McCain made public | Monuments Commission headed by | Army men It took ten condensed Gen, John J. Pershing about it. rs to prepare. It is ¢ “Pilgrim’s Progr written on a nail head, but accurate no end. It tells the story of the war in every. ye ing enough for military scholars. We emerged from one “miscel- laneous” chapter with the follow- ing: Total strength of the American Expeditionary Force, November 11, 191 ,981,701 men of all services. Total marines (did they win the war?) 32,385, Combat strength at the 1e Armistice: Infantry and machine gunners 646,000 Artillery 278,500 Medical corps 152,300 Air service 34,800 time of 2 FIRST VICTIMS First soldiers Killed by enemy Lt. William T. Fitzsimmons Privates Rudolph Rubino Jr. C. Tugo and Leslie G. Woo of U. S. base hospital. They their lives at 10:55 p.m., September 4, 1917, when Germans bombed a British hospital where they were on duty. Pirst soldiers killed in action Corp. James B. Gresham and Pri- vates Thomas F. Enright and Merle Hay, all 16th Infantry, killed when German troops raided Ameri- 1st and Oscar all (Continuca on Page F‘oul;I 2 heard a charge by H. L. Faulkner, lattorney of Juneau, Alaska, repre- senting the. Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, that Charles Hope, National Labor Relation Board’s trial miner facts” in a strike case involving the company. Mr. Faulkner appeared before the committee at the invitation of ! Senator Edward R. Burke, propon- lent of the Labor Act. Attorney Faulkner asse: labor conditions were made instead of improved by the and strikes increased. | “It seems to me that what we Ineed is a Working Man’s Labor Re- lation Act in place of a Union Or- ganizers' Act, that we now have,” he remarked. rted that worse law > oo YOCHOW | RECAPTURED BY CHINESE City Is Taken Affer Bitter Fight-Japanese Drive | on Changsha Due i | | day English but technically exact- | | CHUNGKING, May 16.—The Chi- | nese military authorities report that |after a bitter fight the Chinese | have recaptured Yochow, in north- | eastern Hunan Province, and 100 miles southwest of Hankow and 80 miles north of Changsha, Hunan | capital city. With water rising in Tungting Lake, which empties into the Yangtze at Yochow, small Japanese | vessels have become more active | recently, causing the Chinese to fear that the drive on Changsha is | to be resumed. - A et e STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, May 16 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine all | stock today is 8, American Can 86'%, | lost | American Power and Light 4%, An-| aconda 23'4, Bethlehem Steel 53%, Commonwealth . and Southern 1%, | Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 41%, International Harvester 55%, Kennecott, 30%, New York Central 14, Northern Pacific 8, United States Steel 45'4, Pound $4.68. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 12986, rails 2243, utilities 26.27, “distorted | also signed the agreement. Mayor Harry I. Lucas was given power to sign for the city at & spe- ‘cial meeting of the City Council in | the Council Chambers last night. Harold Knight, Manager of the ‘A]Bska Dock and Storage Company, was chairman of the employers’ ne- gotiating committee, while Frank | Gilehrist represented the longshore- | men., | Humor In Situation Humor was lent to the situation this morning when' the Denali arriv- ed in the harbor at 7:30 o'clock and |was forced to drop anchor with no |dock workers present to moor the | vessél, all being “in a huddle” with employers, An hour later, the office forces of | the Alaska Dock and Storage Com- |pany and the Alaska Steamship Company turned out to take moor- ing lines and run up the gangplank. Rumor that the longshoremen were striking while the Denali was in port were unfounded, Gilchrisk | said, adding that “what cargo there | was” was handled as usual. NO FREIGHT IS HANDLED KETCHIKAN, May 16. — Long- | shoremen here, acting on instruc- tions from the Seattle ILWU pre- pared to go out at midnight last |night and decided they would not handle cargo for the southbound |steamer Yukon arriving at 7:30 o'~ |clock Tuesday morning. However, the longshoremen did say they |would handle the ship's lines, mail |and baggage but would establish a |picket line if the Alaska Steamship ‘Company attempted to load or un- |load cargo. The longshoremen voted |to accept the steamship company's | proposal for ten cents an hour in- |crease, the agreement to extend to September, 1940, instead of Sep- tember this year. However, the Se- attle instructions called for a strike |until all other Alaska longshore lo- cals agree to such an extension, When the Yukon arrived this morning the longshoremen handled |the lines and tied the ship up to the dock and unloaded mail and |baggage but refused to handle any |cargo. The steamer arrived at 7:30 o'- clock and sailed south at 10:15 o'« clock withofit taking aboard any |{freight. Several fish buyers had hoped |that fresh fish would be taken aboard but were disappointed. e — - HELL BE BACK ! ROME, Italy, May 16. — Renato Gardini, who used to wrestle in America, is an atheltic instructor working for Il Duce,