The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1939. VOL. LIV, NO. 8111. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.>. FDR LABELS | CRITICS AS ‘RADICALS' Avers Balancing of Budget - IsNearly Impossible for Next Year REAFFIRMS SUPPORT OF ADMINISTRATION Says "Di;t;rds” Would| Gamble with Nation's | System on Hunch WASHINGTON, May 23.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt, addressing the Re- tailers’ Natinal Forum last night in his first major speech in five| months, denounced his critics as “yadicals” eager to ‘“gamble” with the safety of the nation. The President bluntly gave notice that he does not sanction any abandonment of Administration principles or objectives and declared that the taxes on undistributed profits and other “so called business deterrents” are repealable only if other business taxes are enacted to replace the revenues which would be lost. Budget Balance? | The President said: “While the conservative attitude of this Admin- istration” hardly contemplates a permanent budget deficit, “balanc- ing the budget, today or even next year is a pretty diffisult, if not im- possible job.” Move Forward Further, the President said: “To- day, with no danger from surplus goods hanging over the market—just because we have tried to keep the consumer’s purchasing power up to production—the nation is in an ex- cellent position to move forward into a period of greater production and greater employment.” Some critics, the President de- clared, “are eager to gamble with the safety of our nation and of our system of private enterprise on nothing more than their personal hunch that if the Government will just keep its hands off the economic system, customers will just happen.” The word “gamble,” was used, the President explained, because “there is nothing in modern experience to support such a hunch.” Flays Diehards The President said such people as would do such a thing are “actually the wildest eyed radicals in our midst, because, despite the examples of proved failures, they want to gamble on their own hunch once more.” Stemming fears of overbalancing budgeting, the President said a “rea- sonable internal debt will not im- poverish our children.” NEW ARCHBISHOP IS INSTALLED AS CHIMES PEAL OUT New Church Official Is Only To the Victor—Congratulations Maury Maverick, former U. S. Congressman from Texas, is shown with 1is wife and daughter after winning San Antonio mayoralty election. Maverick defeated C. K. Quinn, incumbent, who played major part in defeating Maverick for re-election to Congress. MYSTERIOUS (LUB WAITER | | SOUGHT NOW ‘Man Supposedfo Have | Furnished Anti-Semitic | Propaganda Material | WASHINGTON, May 22!—0(“—1 cials of the monie Club of New | York City joined the Dies Commit- | tee agents here in seeking a mys- | | terious club waiter who supposedly | furnished material for anti-semitic propaganda. | Chairman Martin Dies of the Com- | | mittee investigating anti-American | activities, said the club records have | been thrown open and added that | | two agents of the House Committee | hoped to locate the waiter “if there | is a waiter.” Witnesses told the committee week that a man identified only as | George Rice, passed on to Dudley Gilbert, of New York, conversations | which he said he overheard in a club relating to a plot to overthrow | the Government. k | Gilbert testified yesterday that he | had reports which sed him to urge promotion of an organization | which could cope with the situation in event of an actual revolution. CANNERY SHIPS ARE PICKETED, SAN FRANCISCO Two Alaska Companies May Spread, Report SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. May 23 Picketing of Alaska cannery ships begun yesterday by AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific threatened to spread with indications that the| 'Spring Storm Demonshralion Agai nst% Taking 4live KING'S MOTHER BRUISED, MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT Vehicle Overturns After Sweeps Valley ' Are Only Slight iral Arkansas Eshmaied serious injury when the motor car Over $1,000,000 ot | The Queen Mother is authorita- in which she was riding overturned in an accident with a truck in a LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, May 23.] tively reported as “bruised and bad- ly shaken,” but otherwise unhurt. | London suburb. last | As Lewis bowed to White House Pressure John L. Lewis (left), CIO chief, is pictured at New York conference headquarters as he announced his decision to bow to White House pres vidual agreements with mine owners. Lewis had sought a closed shop for the entire industry. Seated, left to right, Lewis, Dr. John R, Steelman, federal conciliator, and James F. Dewey of the United States S Hitting Truck=Injuries | Constantin Qumansky, former charge d’affairs at the Soviet embassy in Washington, is pictured after formal notification he had been named Russian ambassador to the United Nina, and Mrs. Qumansky. At 37, Oumansky is youngest envoy to rep- Y oungest Ambassador in U. S. AFL Seine Line Fishermen’s Union | —Four persons are known to have will also establish picket lines around been killed, scores injured and prop- | additional vessels. | erty damage estimated in excess of 1. B. Padway, AFL counsel, said | $1,000,000 as the result of the passag that 500 men from the latter union | Of & Spring storm down the Arkanse Doctors hurried to the scene and after a brief time the Queen Mother was driven from Putney, West Lon- don suburb, where the accident oc- resent a major foreign would picket, four ships on which|River Valley in Cuntral Arkan sailing preparations were halted yes- terday. Joe Prevost, Assistant Secretary of the Sailors Union, declared that the Alaska Salmon Company and the Red Salmon Canning Company declin€d to negotiate regarding the number of seamen to be hired. protesting the employers’ refusal to hire 56 AFL fishermen would also picket the boats of the Alaska Pack- | | ers Association. Z. R. Brown, Secretary of the Mari- time Federation of the Pacific, de- clared that the Sailors picketing was a jurisdictional raid, claiming that | the Sailors Union of the Pacific was “trying to grab off our jobs for their men.” ALASKA HIGHWAY ROUTE SURVEY IS 50 - Is Licensed } 10 BE MDE NOW Plane Pilot Canadians Are Making | | | | | | | | Padway said that the fishermen | Persons, and southeast of here, has reljef as the Queen Mother emerged. | ed, to Marlborough House, her te yesterday. sidence Eleven prisoners are missing in| The accident occurred as the | the wake of the storm at Cummins Queen Mother was returning from | State Prison farm southeast of here the Royal Horticultural Society’s | where the wind tore down the stock- gardens in Wisley Surrey. ' ade. All the missing prisoners are| A crowd gathered outside the | negroes and they may have fled. |house in which she was taken for | England, a community of 2500 treatment of bruises and cheered at | la suffered property damage, stores and she acknowledged the cheers. She} residences be_ing hit. was not bandaged and was not North of Little Rock there has also yisibly injured. been great damage. In the motor car at the time were EEe e IR also Lady Constance Milnes Gaskell BAllGAME 0" and Lord Claude Hamilton. The (0AL 'LIFE OF ROYAL VISITORS, JUST COMMISS ALSO JIBES MAY PROVETO BE ICKES" HEADACHE 500 ( | | | | wre and relieve the bituminous coal strike crisis by negotiating indi- | Labor Department. NEW PARKING RESTRICTION IS PROPOSED City Council Holds Long Meeting-Meets Score | of Problems ; Parking on Second, Third and | Fourth Streeis between Main and‘ Pranklin wo i be prohibited under | | terms of a proposed ordinance intro- )duced at last night's City Council | | meeting. | ., Ta be acted upon at. the .next meeting of the Council, the ordi- nance would allow vehicles only to load or unload in the new “no park- ing” zone, which Chief of Police Dan Ralston says is necessary due | to present congestion. | A dozen matters of minor import- | | ance but of high nuisance value kept | | Councilmen in session until almost | midnight, | Magazines Russell R. Hermann, proprietor of | [the Juneau Drug Store, asked a 25- jday extension of time in which to __ | remove his magazine racks from the sidewalk, under a threat to demand | | that totem poles and jewelers’ clocks | be ordered removed along with his admitted obstruction. The Council | voted him an extension, with Coun- (cilman Ralph Beistline voting a |hearty “no.” Under an amendment | | proposed by Councilman John Mc~ | Cormick, all other merchants are to | be given another 25 days, or until [June 16, to obstruct the sidewalks ;in defiance of a city ordinance, | Hermann protested that he had | used the sidewalks for display of his | | magazines for ten years and did not; 93— Every | belleve it fair to be ordered to dis- | time President Roosevelt comes out |¢ontinue the display on short notice. | with a new consolidation and re-|His magazine business, he sald, ran organization plan, teeth chatter to $600 a month and he would have from one end of Pnnsylvania Ave- |to have more time to make arrange- States. With him is his davghter, power in Washington. i ON'S 1085 By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, May SLATE TODAY | the Lord was cut on one hand. Oscar Humphrey, the chauffeur, is in| With things “even-Stephen” the Gastineau Channel baseball | loop, the Moose and the Islanders | meet this evening at 6:15 in Fire- men’s Park to see who will go into the stretch. Moose and Erskine is probably slat- ed to toss for the Douglas squad. Last Friday, the Moose and Doug- las played to a scoreless tie in.a near rainstorm. Kimball is likely to pitch for theg | reported suffering from the shock. Queen Mother Mary will be 72 next Friday. COLONEL OHLSON RETURNING HOME Col. Otto F. Ohison, General Man- CHAINOF CALLS King and Queen Now Trav- | eling Faster than Average Movie Star on Circuit By WILLIAM McGAFFIN nue to the other, but when he or-|ments for taking the display inside ‘Lhe store. Hermann said he would have to discontinue between 140 and 150 different kinds of magazines. He disclosed that he had been placed under arrest within 24 hours after | he had been notified to ‘clear the sidewalks. Daylight Saving Councilmen discussed daylight saving at some length, though an dered abolishment of the National Coal Commission in his second plan the titters outdid the teeth-chatter- ing. The Coal Comnussion has been a comedy of Administration errors since it was invented four years ago. The Supreme Court abolished it once in the Carter coal case but it was recreated under a new act. ager of the Alaska Railroad, de-| |clined to comment today on the | possible change of the Alaska Rail- | road routing from Seward to Portage |Bay and thence to Anchorage, but LONDON, May 23—The King and Queen of England, now in Canada and also to tour parts of the United States, will travel faster and make NEW YORK, May 23.—The Most| Rev. Prancis Joseph Spellman, 50,| a former grocery boy, was today in-| stalled Archbishop of New York as the chimes pealed out from the two | spires on St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The new Archbishop, who is a licensed airplane pilot, succeeds the late Cardinal Hayes. StoCK QUOTATIONS || NEW YORK, May 23. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8!%, American Can| 87%, American Power and Light| 4%, Anaconda 23'%, Bethlehem Steel | 537%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 6, General Mo- tors 43%, International Harvester | 58%, Kennecott 31'¢, New York HGHT FLOWN PRINCE GEORGE, B. C,, May 23. To FAIRBANKS —F. C. Green, Surveyor General of British Columbia, and H. E. Whyte, ‘ Assistant Topographical Surveyor,| Eight passengers flew to Fair- is here arranging for construction banks this afternoon in a PAA Elec- | of two boats to be used in a recon- | tra piloted by Al Monsen and naisance survey of the proposed Al-|Gene Meyring. | aska Highway route. They were R. A, Sweet, A. Olson, b Sl AT Mrs. Thomas Marcom, Glenn Car- Plans for New Boafs | for Reconnaissance | 1 A | rington, J. Doyle, Karl Theile, Mrs. | R | H. Patterson and baby, and Harry Race. | - >-ee - TED LAMBERT | SYDNEY. May 23—With his dog | HEADI“G HOME FDarkie,” and his packhorse| “Charles,” Tan Westbrook has start- implied that an investigation would be made of the matter this summer. Col. Ohlson said with regards to the project: “The less said the bet- ter. Talking about it is like waving | a red flag. If it's feasible, we'll do it. That’s all.” As for travel expectations summer, Col. Ohlson said he believed travel to Alaska this year will “sur- pass” all other years, and expressed | satisfaction that the McKinley Park | Hotel is completed with its accom- modations for 180 guests, and plans now in consideration for another hotel at the 90-mile long McKinley Park highway's end. Ohlson is passing through today for Anchorage on the steamer Yukon after several weeks in Washing- ton, D. C. pid S A e 4 | more wearying public appearances | than a movie star in a circuit. Being !born to the purple is no snap. Among the most trying features are the countless public engage- ments you must keep—partly be- | cause it’s customary, partly because, | like Hollywood stars, you need the | publicity, this In Your Sleep You walk until youre ready to drop, unveiling memorials, laying | cornerstones, opening new buildings until you must see them in your sleep. You're only a figurehead. You | can’t even write your own speech. | But you've got to deliver it—in per- | | son—even though you have a speech | impediment that makes falking in| | publie a torture. | | Above all, you must always smile, | Central 14, Northern Pacific 8%, ed on his horse “Robert” to tour| United States Steel 45%, Pound $4.68%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow,| Jones averages: industrials 131.77,| rails 26.90, utilities 22.82. Australia. He estimates the 10,000-mile jour- ney will take him three years to complete. ————— Great Britain controls 13,000,000 square miles of the earth. | I Ted Lambert, well known Interior artist, is a Yukon passenger through Juneau today, on his way back to Fairbanks. Lambert has been in Seattle for several weeks on vacation and as- signment work, DEBORAH PENTZ 1S i | always come through with an in- And almost at once some of the expected petition asking for adoption fanciest stories of patronage rows of a new time system was not pres- ever heard in Washington began ented at the meeting. Councilmen leaking out. ‘ngreed that Juneau should probably The strange part of it was that|PWn its clocks ahead an hour perm- anybody who wanted to verify anently, so as to be on the same them could do so. The side that|time standard as Seattle and Ket- was getting licked on patronage chikan. The problem was to be dis- was clways willing to fell of the cussed further at the next meeting. injusticss heaped upon them. | A request by Mrs. Charles Sabin There was the matter of ink,for construction of a wooden side- wells, Of the seven members of the Walk to her home on West Seventh commission, three for a long time |Street was granted. were in the “minority camp.” One| Judge George F. Alexander com- day an employee of one of the mi-|plained that the city has built a nority commissioners strolled into retaining wall on his property in the office of a majority commis- connection with improvement of a sioner. Resting upon the majority road serving the Alexander and commissioner’s desk was a combi- | Percy Reynolds homes and asked ndtion fountain-pen and ink stand|that the city either move the wall set that was a marvel to behold. It out to the street line or pay for the was a $12 model and really a splen- | corner of his lot occupied by the did work of art and utility. iwu]l, The Street Committee is to | investigate. MINORITL S THINGS UP f Grading of a road on Star Hill But only the majority members | was protested by J. E. Click, who had these splendiferous ink and,said his home at Sixth and East pen sets. The minority members Streets would be flooded by water | had just a bottle of ink. They went coming down the hill if the street is L BACK FROM OUTSIDE Miss Deborah Pentz, Director o Maternal and Child Welfare of the | Territorial Department of Health returned on the Yukon today after a vacation in the States. telligent remark after they finish|to the newspapers about it. Justice xplaining whatever it is youre in-| was done. specting. | But that was not all. Tribhl ‘The present King's father, Geol'z(-] jealousies deyeloped. One of the V, made no secret of his boredom! minority members found that his ]Con?ihued L’)n”lga’g'e F:ve) T t (Continued 70;17 Page Three) | filled as planned | Sidewalk Trouble 1 William J. Markle notified the | city by letter he would not pay part of the cost of building a concrete SUBMARINE DOWN OFF EAST COAS FIFTY - ONE TRAPPED IN SEA PLUNGE Without Closing One. Vital Valve RESCUE VESSELS ARE NOW RUSHING TO SCENE Majority of Men Aboard " Are Believed Safe, So Far, Officials Say BULLETIN—PORTSMOUTH, May 23.—Coast Guard and Navy Craft are floating abeve the sunken submarine and are pre- paring to send a diver down to effect fescue. Condition of the trapped men is not known because the tele- phone communications estab- lished three hours after the sub- marine sank have been cut off. PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, May 23.—United States submarine Squalus, with a crew of 51 officers ‘und men is “trapped” in 240 feet of water about five miles off Narrow, on the Newhampshire Coast. The undersea craft went into a deep sea nose dive without closing one of her vital sea valves. Approximately five hours after the accident, high authorities of the Navy, who are here, expressed the opinion the majority of the men aboard are safe, so far, and with good luck, all will be saved. “The Squalus,” said one Navy of- fiecr, “is a new craft and is equipped with all of the latest safety devices and should be able to hold out for approximately 24 hours.” Crew's Quarters Flooded The only part of the submarine | flooded is the crew’s quarters in the after part of the craft and aft of the engine room. Two rescue ships rushed to the scene and Navy officials said the line of attack will be to try and send a diver down from a surface ship |and close the induction valve whieh was left open. If this could be done, they said, the ship might be raised. ‘Two Navy boats and two Coast Guard ships’ were immediately sent to the scene which is off White Island, about five miles southeast of the Isles Shoals. {Pretty Good Chances” The office of the Commandant of the Navy Yard, said: “We think the men aboard have a pretty good chance. We don’t know just how much water got in but the ship is | capable of being shut off in four or five water-tight compartments and it is possible, with the oxygen tanks on board, to keep them going for one week.” CITY SPENDS, EARNS MORE DURING YEAR 1939 Fiscal Year Audit Is Submitted fo Council by J. C. Cooper Operating expenses of the City of Juneau are increasing in_ about the same ratio as income, James C. Cooper, C.P.A,, observes in his City audit for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1939, which was submit- ted last night to the City Council. ‘The City collected $256,249.48 and spent $202,222.91 in the 1939 fiscal | year as compared to income of $213,- 54068 and expenditures of $193,- 279.90 in 1938. Excess of income was $20,260.78 in 1938 and $54,02657 in the year just closed. Cooper stated his belief, however, if the City continues to operate on a budget and control its expendi- tures during the coming” year, pro- vision can be made for retirement of a considerable amount of bonds. Due to expenditure of more than $23,000 on permanent improvements (Continued on Page Eig| LConnnuéd on Puke Eight) )