The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIV., NO. 8106. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” m— JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ROTARY OPENS CONFERENCE TOMORROW U.S. Navy Moves Against 43 SAILORS LANDED; T0 GUARD FLAG Will Proteflmerican In- terests, Internation- al Settlement BRITISH WARSHIPS ALSO LAND PATROL, Bluejacket; aPosiIion to Take Direct Hand, Kulangsu SHANGHAI, May 17—The U. S.| cruiser Marblehead today landed a shore patrol at Kulangsu Interna- tional Settlement in the harbor of Amoy to protect American interests| against any infringement arising out | of Japanese naval occupations in the area. Domei, the Japanese national news agency, said in a dispatch from Amoy that British and American sailors had landed on Kulangsu Island, which is off the Southeast | China port of Amoy. | Forty-three sailors were in the| Marbiehead landing party. The blg‘ m-u»m‘ arrived today, joining the! U. S. destroyer Bulmer and four or five British warships also bohewn\ to be in the harbor of Am consequence of the Japanese inva- sion of the International Settlement which was established by treaty wlth China as international territory. , The landing of the American sail- | ors placed the United States in a| position to take a direct hand in the | Kulangsu crisis. | THEY FOLLOW U. S. LONDON, May 17—The British Admiralty announces that Great | Britain and France have followed the United States in landing Ma- rines in the International Settle- ment at Kulangsu. Forty-two Marines from each na- tion landed with the American Ma- | rines and brought the combined forces to the equality of the Japa- nese. NO CORNED BEEF FROM ARGENTINA FORNAVY OF U.S. Senate Committee Ap- proves of Houst Action in Disapproval Forces John McCann, 37, (right of scaffol above a New York street, rescue him after a 50-foot section of scaffolding broke. workman was plunged to his death in the accident. 1d), clung for his life eight stories while firemen worked from above to Another McCann is hold- ing a brace and a plank has been extended from a window to aid him. KING WILL FIND CANADA CHANGED, B A5 WHEN 'London Brokers Slop Quoting U. §. Securities L stem the export of Britis ital, principally to the United States, London stock brokers have reached an agreement not to quote American securities un- til further notice. The move followed the statement in the House of Commons yesterday by Sir John Simon, Chancellor the Exchequer, cautioning British investors against sending funds abroad. The effect of the agreement of| the brokers will be that they will cease to list American securities on of | UT AS LOYAL WALES SAW IT By HOWARD G. ALLAWAY AP Feature Service Writer i | ki d |RED OR ANY DAMN COLOR YOU LIKE That banner, which welcomed the Canadian mining town in the sum- | mer of 1919, might well be dug out 'Of mothballs for the forthcoming | visit of George VI and Queen Eliza- | | beth. For the King, says a Canadian| newsman who covered the Wales| trip for The As 20 years ago, “will find this year | the institution of which he is the living symbol. | “He will find his Canadian gov- |ernment in Ottawa, like his gov- ernment in Westminster, haggard | W’\SHINGTON May 17. — The | their boards or advise the purchase With anxiety over the implications ! Senate Appropriation Committee has [of American issues in circulars to inherent in world politics.” | B approved of the $773,000,000 Naval Appropriations bill after accepting the House approved provision pro- hibiting the Navy to purchase Ar- gentine canned corned beef. —————— SMITH HERE G. R. Smith, traveling man, 1s stopping at the Baranof Hotel. He arrived here on the Northland yes- terday. —_— | Lou Gehrig Steps Down.. “P1l sit this one out, Joe,” said Lou. And so baseball’s longest con- secutive game streak snapped. Lou Gehrig, 14 years a Yankee, was on the bench and not out on first base. He'll probably be back in the New York lineup at times but most experts figure his days as a Yankee regular are ended. Follow the highlights of Geh- rig’s career in a picture strip on page 5. their clients. London newspapers continue Lo print lists of American stock quo- tations. - NO WORD FROM SWEDISH FLIER CROSSING OCEAN Excellent Wea eather Pre- vails on Other Side of Atlantic STOCKHOLM, May 17.—Despite | excellent weather conditions on thi: side of the Atlantic Ocean, aviator: predicted this morning that Carl Backman, Swedish flier attempting a trans-Atlantic flight from New- foundland, which he left early yes-| terday morning, to Stockholm, would not reach here until during this afternoon. No report of Backman’s progresc is known as his ‘“gasoline tank” plane is not equipped with radio. - — : General property taxes, which 25 years ago produced 51 percent of all state tax revenues, now rank eighth among state tax resources. ut: “Socialist mayors in Winnipeg and Vancouver will don morning clothes and finger their archaic (mayoral chains like tory states- {men of old. Disgruntled political | movements will be silent while some of their leaders, veterans of the Great War, will stand to atten-| | tion in guards of honor, murmu 23 qng ‘Ready! Aye ready!’” Ready for what? Canadians’ enduring Ithe King doesn’t mean, |that their attitude toward the lenvs homeland hasn't changed a| |little since 1919. How Strong Patriotism? THIS IS YOUR TOWN—PAINT IT | ciated Press just | no change in our attitude to . . .| King George Gives Praise i To(anadiansj |Is First Reidm;ng Brilish! Sovereign fo Set Foot on American Soil |GREAT WELCOME IS GIVEN HIS MAJESTY ‘Thousands Greet Ruler and Queen in Ancient City of Quebec May 17.—King George declared today in the first speech | a reigning British Sovereign has | evet made on the American Hemis-| | phere, that on this continent dur-| | ing the past 200 years “through loss and through gain the British Com- | monwealth has been moulded into its present form.” | | The King became the first reign- | ing British Monarch to ever set foot on American soil The King spoke at a luncheon | given by the Dominion Government | of Canada, Prime Minister W. L Mackenzie King presiding. ] | The King uttered his caretully | prepared sentences in a slow but pleasing tone. | The loyalty of the French Cana- | dians as well as their English speak- ing fellow citizens to the British| Crown was stressed in the King's | speech at. the luncheon and also at| the welcoming ceremony. Premier Maurice Duplessis wel- \romorl His Majesty and in his short | address in the Legislative Council | Chambers, emphasized the “entente between the Anglo-Canadian and Franco-Canadian.” The King, in reply, his remarks 'b(‘h\x' written in French, said the mnnn of tolerance “in which two great races dwell side by side in this | Province is an example for the en- | tire world.” | QUEBEC ROYALTY IN CANADA i QUEBEC, May 17.—The Empress of Australia anchored at St. Jean, } 14 miles below here at 10:30 o'clock | Prince of Wales to a strike-bound | jast night and the British King and | sion pact while Sweden, Norway and | Queen spent the night aboard, pro- | ceeding here this morning. Quebec is jammed with thousands | |of loyal subjects and thousands of | othcrs who have come here from the “states”. The liner was greeted by bonfires along the St. Lawrence River and | cheering French Canadians along the banks. Last night the weather forecast |was for a cloudy Wednesday and ma)be showers. D | | A bronze memorial tablet to Will ]Rogers has been placed in the Par- |ish Church of the Transfiguration | (Little Church Around the Corner) |in-New York City. It was donated | by the Lambs, actors’ organization, | of which Rogers was a member, 1,000,000 F u‘("Rum ges Chicago Elevators Flames which began with an explosion in a south side Chicago grain elevator spread to four others and caused an estimated damage of $4,000,000. Ten persons were injured or burned and ten others missing, feared dead, in the worst conflagration Chicago had had since the May 1934 $8,000,000 stock yards This aerial view shows the flames just after they had spread from the first elevator to the building at the left, blaze. Denmark May ROTARY PROGRAM-FIRST DAY Effect Pact With Hitler Will be held at the Baranof, Per- cy's and aboard the Aleutian. RNOON SESSION Theatre, Men Only 2:30 p.m.—Community singing. 2:40 p.m.—Nominations for Dis- trict Governor. 3 p.m.—Address: of Tomorrow” by C. Reeve man, Albany, N. Y., Third Vice- President, Rotary International. 3:45 p.m.—Junior Cello Ensemble THURSDAY, MAY 18 MORNING SESSION Capitol Theatre 10 a.n—Music, Leader, “Tommy” Luke, Portland, 10:30 a.m.—Conveni: Con- ference, Called to order A. B. Phillips, Conference Chairman, In- vocation Rev. George J. Beck, Ketchikan, Alaska, Welcome to Al- aska: Gov. John W. Troy. Welcome (to Juneau: Rotarian Mayor Harry I. Lucas. Response: Rev. George R. | Turney, Coquille, Ore. | 10:50 a.m —Announcements: Harry |1. Lucas, Conference retary. to-! 11 a.m—Report of District Gov- wny’s | ernor Marshall E. Cornett, Klamath Falls, Ore. 11:20 am—Trumpet solo George Alexand Juneau Finland politely declined Hitler’s | gonool Senic e papled’ by proposal tof parallel accords. mother, Mrs. George F. Alexander Danish sources said their country | 11:30 a.m.—Explanation of pro- | | did not pledge itself to accept such |Posed enactments, J. W. Woodford, i | a pact under any circumstances and Seattle, Wash, 11:40 aJm.- that the pac tiated. t still has to be nego- pigrict Governors, M Two questions. concerning which, nett, District Governor. |drawing for door prize Denmark disclosed it will be es-| 11:50 amn—Adjournment pecially anxious, will be, will Ger-|Mixed Luncheons: many demand a plebiscite in North Schleswig before signing the pact E i s JAPANESE SHIP | ST g SIGHTED IN | SUPPLYING JOBS BRISIOl REGION 10 LOCAL MEN Thomas ore the by Capitol Sweden, Norway and Fin- land Politely Decline- Danes Wary “Rotary, What son, Jean Butts, Patricia Davis, with Constance Davis, accompanist. 3:50 p.n.—Presentation of neers oi Rotary, by Willlam Schuppel, Portland, Ore 4 pm.—“In Memoriam.’ 4:02 p.n.—Adjournment. Pio- BERLIN, May 17.-Denmark C. day cautiously accepted Germa offer to negotiate for a non-aggres- : by High | his | RNOON Program 3 o pm.—Tea at Governor’s Mansion, Mrs. H. I. Lucas, Chair- man; Mrs. Robert Bender, Hostess. 5 to 7 p.m—Dinner on board the steamship Aleutian EVENING 9 to 12 p.m Days of '98” Vaude- ville and floor show entertainment at Elks [LIII CANNERIES Now Presentation of all E. Ladies’ Canada’s sons were just return-| |ing from PFrance then, and empire patriotism still ran high. Noting Canada’s “uncertain imperial ob- | !ligations” today, the Foreign Pol- icy Association (an American re- earch organization) devoied most of a recent bulletin on “Canada In World Affairs” to wondering wwhethex Canada again would fight 'at the drop of a British hat. When Wales (later Edward VIIT, and now the Duke of Windsor) |first visited Canada, more than 55 percent of the 8,000,000 Cana- |dians were of British stock. Today, | Britons and their descendants con- stitute barely half of Canada’s 12,- I000000 population. Canadians of French origin, I (Continued on Page Five) in| | | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, May 17.—All the | | precautions being taken to see that King George VI does not take any chance of being caught in a possible war zone on his visit to America show sharply how things have changed since the good old days when a king was no king at all un- less he fought at the head of his troops. 1t is no reflection on King George that he is kept far from any likely danger zone. He is probably as brave personally as the next man but his subjects never would sub- mit him to the risk of actually com- ing under fire of the enemy. Be- |cause the battleship he first ‘WOULNTTHOSE WARRIOR - KINGS FEEL VERY PECULIAR ~ ONATHRONE INTHIS DAY: : and will Germany dl’fl\dl]d the nn,hl | to prescribe to Denmark how the affairs of the German minority in Plane Pllot Sees Mother- |Employment it Service Gels ship — Same Reported ‘ Calls-Improvement by Cannery Ship | Is Noticed Denmark shall be administered? ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 17 Pilot Roy Holm, of the Woodley Air- way reports that a Japanese mothership has been sighted six miles from Port Moller. - | The pilot said sailors on a cannery planned to ride on over here might | Steamer that has just. arrived in| need o be diverted suddenly to|Bristol Bay from San Francisco, also battle, he comes on a commercial Sighted the ship. craft. If war should be declared, the King probably would not be any- where near it anyway. | ship Crane, of the Bureau of Fish- But English kings used to fight| eries, sails tomorrow enroute to with their troops, King Harold, last | Bristol Bay to make observations of the Anglo-Saxon rulers, person- relative to Japanese fishing in that ally directed his men against in-| area. vading William the Conqueror in | B 1066. An arrow put out his eye. ‘Mn§ HALEY JOINS “Harold defended himself to the| HUSBAND IN JUNEAU itmost, but he was sorely wound-| Mrs. Don Haley and child arrived '«d in his eve by the arrow, and| on the Princess Louise to join Mr suffered gl‘lfl‘uu* pain from the Haley, in the office of the Bureau o o —— | of Fisheries here. The family is ‘Conunu*d on Pakc Four) registered at the Gastineau Hotel. workmen to ready plants for ; season are beginning to come in to the Employment Service here, Joseph T. Flakne, Dir- id today. ber of men have been placed jobs in the past week through the Service. Today a call came all the way from Anchorage for a cannery engineer and will be filled with a man registered at the Juneau office An improvement employment situation was com Territorial ector, A nul in cannery COMING TO INV SEATTLE, May 17.—The motor- in the general noticed of unemployed who are in search of jobs is gradually decreasing. - TRAVELER HERE L. 8. Coffin, sales representative, arrived in Juneau on the North- Jand and is stopping at the Gas- tineau. Vanne- | Shirley Davis, Dorothea Hendrick- calls from outlying canneries for| the | by Flakne, who said the active file | 200 Arriving ~ On Aleufian InMorning \Washingfon, Oregon, Ida- ho and British Columbia Men, Women Coming 'ARRIVAL DEUYED UNTIl 10 0°CLOCK Ihree Day Session Here s Largest Ever Held in Territory Upwards of 200 Rotarians, the largest convention group ever to |come to Alaska, will arrive in Ju- neau aboard the Aleutian at 10 |o'clock tomorrow morning to open |the 25th annual conference of Ro- tary District No. 101. Today the Rotarians were wel- |comed to Alaska by the Ketchikan club members of which are join- (ing the party to swell the Juneau |conference roster. Visiting Rotarians {come from clubs in Washington, | Oregon, Western Idaho and British | Columbia. Originally scheduled for 8 o'clock, the Aleutian will not reach Juneau |until 10, Horace Adams, General | Freight and Passenger Agent of the Alaska Steamship Company and Transportation Chairman for the ;Conlcrcncc, was advised this after- noon. Welcome at Dock Juneau Rotarians and Rotary {Anns will greet the conference dele- s at the dock in the morning. The pier will be roped off andonly members of the organization al- lowed at shipside. | The Juneau High School band |will be on hand to greet the visi- tors, After the welcome, which will be |under the direction of Howard | Stabler, the delegates will proceed immediately to the Capitol Theatre |for the formal opening of confer~ |ence sessions. | Three-Day Meeting The conference lasts three days, during which the Rotarians wiil sleep and eat aboard the boat. The Aleutian leaves southbound at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, A. B. Phillips, Conference Chair- man, will call the Capitol Theatre session to order. A welcome to Al- |aska will be delivered by Gov. John W. Troy and a welcome to Juneau |by Harry I. Lucas, Juneau’s Ro- tarian Mayor. After luncheons at the Baranof Hotel, Percy's Cafe and aboard the | Aleutian, Rotarians will meet again {in afternoon session at the Capitol |at 2:30 o'clock. Pioneers of Rotary, ‘Lhuse who have been in the or- | ganization for 25 years or more, will be presented. Address in Afternoon Principal address of the day, “Ro- |tary, What of Tomorrow,” wiil be delivered at the afternoon session by C. Reeve Vanneman of Albany, |N. Y., Third Vice President of Ro- |tary International. On the distaff side, women at- tending the conference will be en- tertained from 3 to 5 e'clock in the afternoon at a tea at the Gover- nor’s Mansion. Mrs. H. I. Lucas will be Chairman of the affair and Mrs. Robert Bender, the Gover- nor's daughter, Hostess. ; Days of '98 | After dinner aboard the Aleutian, delegates will return uptown at 9 oclock for a rollicking “Days of '98” entertainment at the FElks Hall. Arranged by Juneau Rotary Anns, the merriment will continue until midnight in true Alaska | dancehall style. The Juneau Conference Commit- tee issued an explanation today to | Junepuites who are not members |of tie Rotary Club that because of Ethe lack of space, the home town crowd is asked to stay away from conference affairs, except the daily sessions at the Theatre, where the (Conunued on Page Two)