The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” L VOL. LIV., NO. 8112. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1939. = PRICE TEN CENTS SEVEN SAVED ROM SUNKEN SUBMARINE KING, QUEEN TAKENFOR RIDE, RAIN Royalty onnIS;ade in Win- | nipeg-His Majesty Makes Pledge WINNIPEG, May 24 — King! & George told his Empire and the world today that “no man, thank God, will ever again conceive” the use of force or threat to settle dif- ferences between the “peoples of my Empire and the people of the United States.’ The King spoke on the occasion of Empire Day, a world wide British holiday. The King’s address followad a tour through the Winnipeg streets which was made in a steady rain. The King and Queen rode in an open car. The King sat unsheltered but the Queen held an umbrella over her head. % e T v i { b — 70,000 Aufo Workers Are Brenda Flynn, four, handed Queen del at Quebec as the British royal his approval of the presentation. King and Queen spent the night. Bouquet for the Queen Lieut. Col. Percy Flynn, Commandant of the Citadel, where the BRIT.SHIP HALTED BY BOWSHOTS Vessel Is Sfdpped on High Sea by Two Japanese Destroyers HONGKONG, May 2¢—Two Jap-, se destroyers halted the British eamer Ranpura five miles out at sea by firing twice across the bow. A party of Japanese boarded the steamer and demanded the right to inspect the ship's papers Two British warships were called by radio and officers of the cruisen Duchess, when they arrived at the scene, told the Japanese to “get off” which the latter did British officials said they con- ducted a thorough investigation of the incident before a statement was issued. BRITISH PLACE 32 BLUEJACKETS INPOOTUNG AREA Withdraw Force Affer Pro- z,‘, r,w- Elizabeth a bouquet at the Ci pair arrived. King George smiled The little girl is a daughter of a- Out in Defroit BLUEPETER | Seven Plants Are Closed- WINS DERBY \ Federal Conciliator Is on Scene DETROIT, Mich,, May 24—With more than 70,000 auto workers idle INENGLAND ke L SAMARICH IS ARRESTED FOR FLEEING JURY Held in Seattle for Refurn| | Here-Was Wanted as | | Murder Witness | | | seven plants of the Briggs Manu- $ facturing Co., James F. Dewey, Fed- Down 8001000 0" eral Labor Conciliator, said he hoped 1 | T arrange o conlerencs oty First Three Horses ., The management of the company, which makes the auto bodies and, EPSOM, England, May 24—Blue parts, said it is willing to submit all Peter today won the 155th derby union grievances to the arbitrator. with Fox Cub second and Heliopo- | B a—— lis third. ! Carrying the silken colors of Lord behind to beat 26 other Three-year- OFF 1 (A""ERY olds and to go into the big money. The time was 2 minutes 36 4/5 seconds, well behind the record of | run in Newmarket during the World ! TR War. | H H H .| Heavy betting on the winner is| lme Mamia""ed on An said to have cost the bookmakers | olher Pendmg PreS' close to $5,000,000. i 1ati AMERICAN WINNERS ent NegO"a‘lonS NEW YORK, May 24, — Twelve | Americans held tickets on the Ilr.\ii thé Batlows Tl af e Pacttloand | o0y today and won, §660.200. prize Alaska Salmon Company has cleared money. .l\w .‘}mkl.l(‘uns held uchet.s\ the way for the sailing of two ves- on Bl Feter for & total of $230-| sels to Alaska. £ The SUP also said negotiations will be undertaken immediately with the Red Salmon Company which is preparing two ships for the fishing grounds in the north. Pickets have been withdrawn from | the docks and ships of the Alaska Salmon Company and the steamer | Glacier will sail north Saturday with the Edwin C. Hale following on | Monday, unless something rurtheri breaks loose. | The Red Salmon Company ships| are still picketed while negotmtions[ proceed. Pete Samarzich, who was subpoe- {naed as a witness in the Lepetich murder case and who allegedly fled U. §. SPORTSMEN GAINING GROUN | |rather than appear to testify, was| |arrested today in Seattle and held} H,?‘éfiAKE' England, May-24—lro; the U. 5. Marshal here on a| ?‘i!icut Bp{z::; Ofdgzie'::w}é'hgg:' charge of traveling in interstate | y i merce to avoid testifying. Yates, defending title holder, in the | g stifying ¥ 5 Samarzich will be returned to Ju- third round of the British Amateur neau to face prosecution under a Golf Championship, five and three. - " s g | warrant issued February 20. He was Ellsworth Vines, playing his first |y, neq as a material witness in the international tournament, n]OVEd‘LepCllCh case. Sam Lepetich sub- into his third round, of tennis with |_ 5 : i i sequently pleaded guilty and is a four and three victory over E. N. now at McNeil's Island. BASEBALLTODAY | REV. HUBBARD COMING NORTH {troller Souvenir foundered in Dixon | fest Is Made by Jap- anese Officials BERGDOll IS DUE SHANGHAI, May 24.—Thirty Bri-‘L BACK TOMORROW will Arriveflew York bn Steamer-Turned Over fo Authorities WASHINGTON, May 24—Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War draft dodger, will arrive in New York tomorrow, his attorney, Harry Wein- berger informed the Senate Military Affairs Committee today. Weinberger said Bergdoll is a pas- senger aboard the steamer Bremen and will be surrendered at once (o' military officials. Bergdoll's mother, sister, wife and two children appeared before the Senate Committee at the hearing on legislation that recently passed in the House, to keep the draft dodger from returning to this country. Ar- rival tomorrow will come before the legislation is completed. e COAST GUARD BILL PASSES HOUSE TODAY Alaska Airbase Plan Goes tish bluejackets, set ashore yesterday | in Pootung to protect the British | owned cotton, were withdrawn this; morning after the landing of a Jap- | anese marine detachment The Japanese made a protest to the British Consulate, stating the British had no right to land the troops in Japanese occupied territory and demanded withdrawal. - THREE - POWER AGREEMENT IS REPORTED NEAR Great Brifain, France, Rus- sia Continue Discuss- ing Alliance (By Associated Press | Prime Minister Neville Chamber- | lain told the House of Commons | this afternoon that Great Britain | is advancing new proposals to Rus- | sia and bringing her into the Brit- | ish-French front. | The Prime Minister said “I have every reason to hope that an agree- | ment will be reached soon, prob- ably by the time Parliament rccun-‘y venes on June 5 after the Whitsun recess.” | The Prime Minister’s statement | came after a two-hour Cabinet| meeting in which Viscount Halifax | fo Senate Again— Amendments reported conversations at Geneva — with Soviet Ambassador Maisky on WASHINGTON, May 24. — The |Russia’s demands concerning the | House today passed and returned British-French mutual assistance to the Senate with amendment, the | pact. bill that authorizes a $14,000000 Observers believe that Halifax expansion program for the U. S.|recommended to the Cabinet a plan Coast Guard. which would consider an attack on A portion of the money, $2733.- [any of the three powe; Great | 000, will be spent for a Coast Guard |Britain, France or Russia, as an at- | airbase in Alaska. tack on all. | CNGTOBOAT MOTHERQUEENIS | DURING 1 NIGHT INJURED IN EYE, MOTOR ACCIDENT KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 24— After clinging to an overturned | LONDON, May 24.—Mother Queen | Mary suffered an injury to one eye skiff which they took to when thz| when her motor car was overturned yesterday in bumping a truck. Entrance. Carl Holm and Joseph | Grishaber, both of Tacoma, Wash., | were rescued yesterday afternoon | by H. T. Doran, skipper of the The Mother Queen spent a rest- troller Mary Ellen, and brought to|less night, doctors said, but added Ketchikan last night. The craft, a|that her general condition was sat- isfactory. 45-foot boat built two years ago, is owned by Alfred Chrey, of Tacoma. pOLA’“DmES gl IN NET GAMES| The sinking of the Souvenir is a| mystery as there are no rocks in the vicinity. - e — DOUBE TROUBLE WILLISTON, South Africa (AP) 2 —Trouble came in a double dose to| WARSAW, May — Henner British K ing an # e § King George VI of Eng and Queen Elizabeth di of Canada and the United States. MacKenzie King and Minister of be Que Prem Maurice Duplessis (reading addre: address in the Quebec Legislative Canadian and Franco-Canadian.” REPUBLIC STEEL SUES CI0 UNION, STRIKE OUTCOME Damages of $7,500,000 Asked in Action Against John L. Lewis, Ef Al CLEVELAND, Ohio. May 24 —Re- public Steel Corporation, principal target of the CIO in its 37-ds against “Little Steel,” has back in a seven and a half million dollar damage suit. Republic, the Nation's third larg est steel producer, has filed Federal Court action aimed at John L. Lewis and Philip Murray, Vice- President of the CIO, and other of- ficers of the Union, its constituent Steel Workers Organizing Commit- tee and the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Tron, Steel and Tin Worker: Also named as defendants are ap- proximately 700 Ohioans identified as “individual strikers and union officers.” The company, headed by Tom Girdler, charged the defendants conspired to force complete or par- tial elosing of plants in Ohio, Penn- sylvania, Illinois, Maryland, New York and elsewhere. B TROUBLE AT HOME “ to put across the Florida ship canal d Queen d, the first British monarch to set foot on American soil, is shown as he mbarked from the Jiner Empress of Australia at Quebec to begin their tour met at the gangplank by The King and Queen were f Justice Honorable Ernest LaPointe. MacKenzie and LaPointe. ler 58), Council chamber. The in the Parliament. FLORIDA SENATOR SHOWS HIS SHIP ( | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, May 24-—Sena- | tor Pepper of Florida has treated his colleagues to one of the highest pressured, vote-gathering campaigns | in current memory with his effort Five million dollars worth of |canal was dug with WPA funds and Pepper wants approximately $200,000,000 more to cut a gulley across the isthmus deep and wide enough for battleships to use. Before the debate began he had | pictographs strung about the Sen- ate chamber, one designed to dem- | onstrate that the Florida ship canal | would carry cargo equal to the com- | bined » going through the three | major world canals, Suez, Panama and Kiel He has buttonholed every ator on the floor. Economy S tors lumped him and other appro- priation hunters into a group they {called the “spending guild” and | {tried to popularize the term as imeans of heading off such outlays | {as that for the Florida canal. | | Regardless of Pepper's opti- ! mism, you couldn’t round up much | {of & wager that the canal would | iget the money. Step Ashore at Quebe Welcomes King and Queen welcomed King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Canada with an Duplessi emphasized ing and Queen occupied thrones " HIGH PRESSURE GETTING RESCUEBELL - SENT AGAIN TOSUBTOMB ;First Such Work Done af | Great Depth Effected in Fast Time ¥ 23 OF 59 IN (REW 1 BELIEVED LIVING | Officer Brought Up to Aid Work-All Saved in Good Health BULLETIN—PORTSMOUTH, Mass, May 24.—Fifteen men have been brought up and sev- enteen are known to be still alive. The rescue bell made the second trip. e ol g | PORTSMOUTH, N.H, May 24— Seven men, entombed more than 29 hours in the submerged and crippled submarine Squalus, were pulled to | safety today when a rescue chamber was raised through 240 feet of water. Immediately, preparations were made for another descent in an ef- l!nrc to save as many as possible of | the other 52 men still trapped below. | Of the seven saved, one was an officer, Lieut. J. C. Nichols, of Chi- | cago, another was a civilian em- |ployee of the Navy Department, | while the other five were enlisted | men, . I Fair Condition | Al seven appeared in fair con- | dition after their harrowing, exper- jence and a great cheer arose from the rescue ship Falcon as the drip- ping rescue bell arose from the sea and landed gently on the Falcon decks. All the rescued men were able to step out of the bell without help and walk about the deck, drawing their first free air since the Squalus was | trapped on the ocean floor by an | open induction valve during a dive at 8:40 o'clock yesterday morning. Those Rescued Besides Lieut. Nichols, the six | others saved were, Roland Blanch=- ard, fireman, of Harshey, Michigan; | Harold Prebble, civilian employee of ‘Lhe Navy Department in Washing~ ton, D.C.; William Isaac, cook from Washington, D.C.; Theodore Jacobs, | signalman from Staten Island, New }York: Gerald McLees, electrician’s mate of Richmond, Kansas; Charles Yuhas, machinist’s mate of New Salem, Pennsylvania. Even as the rescue bell went down | the second time, Navy officers figur- he entente between Anglo- o4 the toll of dead aboard the sub especially prepared for them | will range between thirty and thirty- | six men, 3 | One high officer said authorities | are sure that only 23 of the original crew rae alive and accounted for. Historic Rescue Today’s rescue of the first seven | men was the first actual rescue in history at such a depth at 240 feet. The bell rescue was accomplished in the almost record speed of less than five hours after the diver first | touched the sunken craft. Naval officers said the reason for | bringing up an officer in the first {load of rescued, in contradiction to | the old rule of the sea that officers | save themselves only after enlisted lations Committee hearing on neu-| trality legislation, | men are safe, was because the res- Reynolds is anything tiring mouse. During the hearings he sits right at the elbow of the UL BN L witness, his rosy suits and rosier face all agleam. He is the junior | has to wait until the last to ask| questions. That bothers him not a | Dead; Was i r | He tremendously enthusiastic about, keeping America isolated, especially from England, and when New York Represenfative in National House Passes Away he starts firing questions they can | be heard along two blocks of Sen-| ate corridors, It is getting so the| crowds don’t really pay much at-| tention until Reynolds gets going He tired early of witnesses who didn't answer questions the way he | WASHINGTON, May 24.—Repre- agreement |sentative Bert Lord, Republican of “T'll @ you a series of questions,” | New York, Thirty-fourth District, said Reynolds, “and then I'll answer |died during the night in the Naval them myself.” Which he did, and Hospital here after an illness of one Colby barely got in a word. week from heart ailment. Lord was stricken while attending rime Minister Left to right: the King, Queen, but a re- «Continued on Page Two) is wanted them to, Lately he has adopted his own system. He worked it on Bainbridge Colby, former Sec- retary of State, although it hap- pened they were preity much in A WEARIN' OF THE GREEN The following are results of games played in the two major leagues SEATTLE, May 24—The Rev. B. R. Hubbard will leave here next |the World’s Fair in New York and this afternoon: be- entered the hospital here upon his National League Henkle, of Germany, defeated Adam| NEW YORK, May 25. — Maybe REYNOLDS STEALS SHOW !a farm boy here. Stung by a scor- It seems there are other jobs Brooklyn 3; Pittsburgh 6. American League Cleveland 6; Boston 2. Detroit 6; New York 1, l Monday aboard the Itasca, planning to study dances and music of the Eskimo along the Noatak and Kodiak rivers, pion at his father’s farm, his foot was placed in petrol, which caught fire. His condition was reported serious, + Baworowski yesterday, to give Ger- many the deciding match in the European zone contest for the Davis Cup over Poland, playing on home grounds helps a team. But in 43 of the 83 shutouts| Senator Reynolds of North Caro- | in the National league last season, lina has about taken over the show | the home team took the beating. |business in the Senate Foreign Re-| sides policemen’s , developing Irishmen. They are coming to for return. the Lord was 69 and was serving his (Continued on Page Four) - |L0id ferm in the House,