The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 25, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —_—— i, VOL. LIV., NO. 8113. JUN AU, ALASKA, THURSI)M MAY ’) ‘)3‘) MLMB[ R ASS()CIATI D I’R ‘SS PRICE TEN CENTS 33 TAKEN ALIVE FROM ILL-FATED CRAFT WARSHIPS OF | Oriental C alm Despite Quako ' ARRAIGN 10 JAPAN HALT FRENCH SHIP Second Boarding in Two‘ Days Stirs European Resentment FREEDOM OF SEAS AT END IN CHINA Profest to Be—lodged for Alleged Unjustified Inferruption SHANGHAI, May 25.—Japanese warships are reported today to have stopped and boarded the second European ship within 24 hours, halt- ing the French liner Aramis 17 miles northeast of Hongkong. It was understood Japanese naval officers forced the French vessel to stop, sent men aboard and exam- ined the ship’s papers. French diplomats in China pre- pared to lodge a protest with Japan for what shipowners declared un- justified action. Previously two Japanese destroy- ers halted the British Peninsula Oriental liner Ranpura by firing two shots across the bow. Three Japanese officers and two sailors boarded the Ranpura, demanding they be allowed to examine the ship’s papers. The captain refused and a wireless message sent out which brought two British warcraft to the scene. A party from the destroyer Duchess came aboard and ordered the Japanese off the ship. RECORD FLIGHT REGISTERED BY MEXICAN FLIER Speeds from m Mexico City to New York in 10 Hours, 45 Minutes NEW YORK CITY, May 25. Francisco Sarabia, Mexican Lind- bergh, broke the Mexico City to New York speed record set by the late Amelia Earhart, his flying time, when he arrived here late yester- day, being 10 hours and 45 minutes for the approximate 2,085 miles. The Earhart time was 14 hours and 19 minutes. Sarabia encountered extremely bad weather on the flight, running into several thunder storms and frequently forced to ascend to 16,- 000 feet to get above them. — - CONGRESS, FDR IN ACCORD ON TAX REVISION MorgenthaB;ys Program to Contribute Toward Recovery WASHINGTON, May 25.—Secre- | tary of the Terasury Henry Mor- genthau reported today that Con-| gressional leaders had agreed on a | tax program with the President | which would “definitely” contribute | toward business recovery. He said the tax conference held, at the White House cleared up final | details of the’corporation tax re- vision program. No further confer- ence is expected, he explained. ‘When the House committee calls | him to testify, Morgenthau will make a general statement about tax re-| vision, he said. .———— LEWIS NAMED TO NRMBOARD Despite terrors of the recent disastrous e‘arlhquake in Japan, ” tlus aged woman tpok it with Oriental calmness as she sat in front of the wreckage of her home at Kitauramachi, Japan, after the struc- ture had been virtually leveled In the tremor. SEATTLE C. OF C. GOODWILL PARTY, ATLEAST 160, WILL BE IN JUNEAU ON TUESDAY : | Petrillo (10 WORKERS AND PACKERS REACH PEACE | Agreement Sugned Gives| Federation Recogni- i tion-Closed Shop | SAN FRANCISCO, May 25.—Sign- ing of an agreement between the Alaska Packers’ Association and the Cannery Workers’ Union, CIO, was announced today as the first ship departed for the North. Z. R. Brown, Maritime Federation agent for District No. Two, said the agreement boosted wages of workers about a half million dollars for the season, but A. K. Tichenor, General Manager of the Alaska Packers, said he did not care to comment ‘“until we get the last boat cleared.” Brown said the agreement pro-i vided overtime pay for Sunday work, | the first time such a clause has been | agreed upon. The agreement also included rec- ords for the use of crew members of five other affiliates with the Mari- time Federation, the AFU, Ship- wrights and Joiners, Marine Cooks | and Stewards, Machinists, and Am- erican Communications Association, who all had previously won wage in- creases and other concessions. Brown said some provisions had been made that the Cannery Work- ers’ contract will give official recog- nitino by the Packers to the Ma; | time Federation and that cannery workers will be classed as yearly ems ployees, with negotiations on a| coastwide industry basis. | Also, Brown said a 100 percent closed shop is provided for with the ‘workPrs right to form Shop Com- | mittees on Jjobs, workers selecting | representatives from their own ranks, The wage scale increase, Brown | said, represented roughly, eleven percent over the correct 1937 scale. STock QuoTATIONS ; NEW YORK, May 25, — Closlng: |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | |stock today is 8%, American Can( 89%, American Power and Light 41, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel | {567, Commonwealth and Southern | 1%, Cur Wright 5%, General | Motors 44%, International Harves-/ ter 59%, Kennecott 33, New York Central 15', Northern Pacific 8%, | the | feeling. A radiogram was received to- day by Charles W. Carter, Presi- | dent of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, from Foster L. M Govern stating that ghe seum Theatre here has been se- cured for Capnt. Hugh Barret Dobbs’ entertainment for o'clock next Tuesday afternoon, at which the public is invited, free of charge. This is part of the Goodwill Tour Party’s en- tertainment. Capt. Dobbs has 10 entertainers with him. 5 Up to last Friday, the day before Yukon sailed from Seattle for Alaska, 160 eager Seattleites had made reservations on this Scattle Chamber of Commerce bi ennial Goodwill tour, which will ar- rive at Juneau on the Aleutian on May 30, according to T. Harry Gow- man, Chairman of the tour Com- mittee of thirty business men who have been working on the plans since | last December. A news story received by The Em-~ pire from Foster L. McGovern, A: {sistant General Manager of the Se |attle Chamber of Commerce, jthat from the time the big ship docks at 9 a.m. at Juneau until the party leaves for Seward at 5 p.m., the visitors are looking forward to a | pleasurable round of sightseeing and visits with old friends among Terri-‘ tory officials and business men. The | main event at Juneau, of course,| will be the luncheon at the Baranof | Hotel, but prior to that the visitors | | will hold an informal reception at| | the hotel. own orchestra and entertainers and | ‘The party is bringing its Iexpects to contribute its share of | general entertainment and good | Personnel Large This year’s tour pesonnel is larger | by far than any previous group on a Seattle Chamber of Commerce Alaska tour, and the itinerary is more ex- tensive than any heretofore attempt- | ed. With nothing to sell but friend- ship, cooperation and goodwill, but| | with plenty of that on hand, it is| | hoped the renewed contacts at Ju- | neau will initiate another two years 'of mutual aid and understanding, accordmg to President W. Wa]ter‘ | Williams of the Seattle Chamber. | | Mr. Williams personally is hcndmg the tour. What the Seattle Chamber mem- bers are anxious to get, according to Mr. Williams, is a picture at first | hand of Juneau progress during the | two years that have elapsed sincel the last visit, and details of the| city’s and Territory’s plans and am- bitions for the future, with an Idea‘ where Seattle and the Seattle Cham- | ber of Commerce can fit in, in for-| warding them, to the mutual benem ‘of both. Like past tours, this one| ‘SMMON (RAFI— ON (HARGES, SSlAYINGS Mass Hearmg Today Is Largest in History of Philadelphia Courts THREE MEN AT ONCE ENTER GUILTY PLEAS | Three Women | Deny Com- | plicity in Murders in Now Famous Poison Case PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 25.— In the largest mass arraignment in Philadelphia Court history, three men pleaded guilty today, and seven women and men pleaded innocent to charges of murders of five men in a plot to collect insurance. Pleas of guilty were made by Mor Bolber, former Brooklyn delicatessen keeper, charged the murder of Roman Madiuk, a baker; Samuel Sartiano, charged with the drowning of a cripple by | pushing him from a boat into the | Schulkill River five years ago; Ra- | faele Polsedli, charged with the | poison slaying of Charles F:lvdl(l .Illd Giuseppe di Martino, Those who pleaded innocent are | Mrs. Agnes Madiuk, Mrs. Christina | Cerrone, Mrs. Josephine Rumulado, | avid Brandt, Caesare Valenti, Paul | and Amadao Muscelli. Investigators are continuing lvhcir‘ 'probe in the poisoning cases and | Queen Signs King George VI and Mayor Houde of Montreal loo l’d on while Qu('fn l&lllubt th signed the (.olden Visi- ters’ Book at the Montreal City Hall during the royal pair's visit to Canada’s greatest metropolis. the their second stop on their tour of Canada. estimated 1,000,000 cheering, with | — Montreal School Children Welcome Royalty it is expected that scores of Others !’ will be arrested. Many already un-/{ der arrest are facing charges hut have not been arraigned. MOVING NORTH IN NEW PEACE Sailors, Operaiors Make Seftlement in San Francisco Dispute SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 25.— The sailing of one ship for Alaska and the scheduling of departures of six other craft apparently cleared the decks today for the 1939 fishing season. The Alaska Packers’ boat Deler- off, with 450 men aboard, crossed the bay and sailed out at 3 o'clock this morning. Officials said the Egolin will leave tomorrow and the Chirikoif prob- ably within a week Pickets were removed also from four 'vessels belonging to other firms and preparations for sailing were resumed. The ships of the Alaska Salmon Packers, American Star and the Madrone, as well as the Red Sal- mon Company’s Elwin Hale and Glacier, are the four scheduled to leave soon. The American Star and the Mz drone will leave within a few day. the Elwin Hale, Monday. These four ships were picketed by | the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific in |a controversy over the number of seamen to be hired, but after nego- | tiations with both firms, the sailor personnel was increased. ———.——— 'UNAMERICAN PROBER WANTS $50,000 MORE Dies fo Ask Increase in Appropriation-500 fo 100 Witnesses WASHINGTON, May 25. — The House Committee on Unamerican Montreal school children, 85,000 strong in one stadium, and 15,000 in H\ol.hrr. pflld tr(hute to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth when the royal tourists visited Canada’s largest city.. This scene, in Fol- Park, shows the school children forming a Red Cross as the King and Queen motor by. son’s singing, Montreals Golden V flag-waving people welcomed 26 BELIEVED 10 BE DEAD UNDER SEAS Further Afl—e_m—pi Is fo Be Made fo Ascertain If Any Still Live HEROIC RESCUE MAKES EPIC IN NAVY HISTORY Another Disaster Narrowly Averted When Rescue Bell Cable Jams BULLE —PORTSMOUTH, N. H., May 25.—A crew of divers, working inside and outside of the nine ton rescue bell are this afternoon grimly signs of life aboard tue sunken An King and Queen to the city, secking for inside to ascertain if any still live in the flooded rooms. PERILOUS RESCUE GOOD WAR MIGHT BE JUST THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY OUR LEGISLATIVE TRICKS By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, May 25 might be worth a good war just to have a chance to ‘try out all the new legislative tricks that are being — -1t S, invented these days. ' the Glacier, probably Saturday, and Latest in the field is the proposal of Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma to conduct a national shake-down for funds to run the war, when it comes. He would make a surve of each person’s wealth and then require him to pay out a certain percent of it to buy Government bonds at low interest. A half dozen generals and econ- omists were hasty to remember that raising money wasn't such a hard job during the last war, what with Liberty bonds selling by the billions, They seemed to think Sena- tor Lee was trying to raise money the hard way. Then take the war profits bills There are several of them. Senator Bone of Washington, one of the once famous Senate munitions In- vestigating Committee of early New Deal days, shaped up* one and rounded up 50 Senate signatures to it—enough to pass it if ever it comes to a vote. It lowers exemp- tions and increases rates to a top o | never could earn money enough to! pay his taxes, The war tax of the Federal Government would almost clean him out. The New York State income tax would take more than he had left. The Veterans of For- eign Wars support that bill. A} slightly modified edition of it bhas| the support of the American Le-| sion, which long has plunked for a draft to reach not only manpower ! but wealth as well. The War Department ‘has bl’,enl against such tax bills from the be- ginning. Just now in the limelight is the proposal of Representative Lud- low of Indiana to amend the con- fitution to provide that no war an be declared without a direct, vote of the people except in case of wctual invasion. Senator La Fol- lette of Wisconsin, whose father endured a heap of abuse for voting against entry into the World War, | is sponsoring it in the Senate. President Roosevelt denounced it as likely to ham-string the Chief Executive in conduct of foreign af- fairs, while Senator Borah said t would take Congress out of the game altogether. WHOA, NAVY! | | I submarine. Divers may work | | ? PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, | May 25.—The Navy completed early . | today, the major epic of, the sea in the perilous rescue of 33 men trap- ped since last Tuesday on the ocean's lloor aboard the submarine Squalus, | | and the sunken craft has apparently been left, peopled only by its 26 | dead. The rescue chamber, bearing the last eight men, was finally brought to the surface at 12:30 o'clock this !'morning but only after an escape from a second near tragedy. For nearly four hours, the un- .wlcldy nine ton diving bell hung | suspended 150 feet below the sur- | face as the result of the hoist cable | jamming. The men had already been im- prisoned for more than 36 hours in stale, gas-ridden, but icy cold air, aboard the crippled undersea craft. They were jammed like sardines in the cramped rescue chamber. FURTHER RESCUE WORK PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, May 25.—Although admitting there is only the barest possibility existing that 'there is still life aboard the Squalus, Rear Admiral Cole an- nounced this morning a resumption of rescue work after asserting “we will never say die until all hope is | lost.” In pointing out that little hope remains that any of the 26 men |aboard the trapped ill-fated sub= mersible craft are alive, Rear Ad- miral Cole said the submarine’s temperature has dropped 27 degrees since the craft went down Tuesday. ‘The craft tilted sharply when wa- ter flooded the after part. This information was secured from the survivors aboard the res- mue ship Falcon to which the 33 | were hoisted. Lieutenant Oliver Naquin, Com-+ mander of the Squalus, was the last | of the survivors to enter the rescus | bell from the sunken submarine, He | was one of the eight men trapped for the second time when the rescue bell hung for nearly four hours, 150 feet below the surface, when the hoisting cable jammed. e MINING CLAIM WORK MEASURE MEETS DEATH Assessmenm raforium 10 TEMPORARY jAssessmont Boral by 'HOLY LAND 5 SCENE OF TWO MORE DEATHS| Jewish Fire e Is Blamed by | Arabs for Railway Station Attack HAIFA, Paletsine, May 25.—Two Arabs were killed and three others were wounded here by gunshots fir- ed into an Arab crowd at the Port Easter railway station. Arabs blamed the attack on Jew- ish assailants: BERGDOLL GOES House Committee . | House Mines and Mining Committee States After Nineteen |ioday tabled, and in etrect, kitiea Yea[s of Ex]le | would permit prospectors to suspend ¢ | assessment work on mining claims NEW YORK, May afy| The Senate took a similar action -1 | recently. frce | House Committee members said ¥ their action “kills all such measures, A TURIA | .| Famous Slacker Back in| wasumoron, may 25-mme for this session, legislation which 95— Grover | during the eurrent fiscal year. Bergdoll, notorious World War dra faces a five year jail sen-| The famous “slacker” was turned | i coccion ot least.” over today to military authorities on | Pk around - in | his return to this country after an TO VISIT FATHER some obscure commitiee eorner | exile of 19 years in Germany. | Zaid: would prevent the Navy advancing| Bergdoll was taken ""'“‘d“‘mylnay L;l!f:lg?hud‘m u:h;&:vo(h;‘ll;:. beyond the 180th meridian in .the from the liner Bremen wGovernora‘n““ this 'leekond' o \ dl; Pacific. That would mean it might Island and placed incommunicado summer at Ketchikan V"”“'-' m i /in the disciplinary barracks of Fort fath (Continued on Page Four) 367 a8 an eacaped BHSODT. ather. WASHINGTON, May 25—Presi- dent Roosevelt has nominated for-|United States Steel 47%, Pound is primarily intended t mer Representative David Lews, g4 68%. ! i szalzelenc;anfieguorsafifi‘“‘"mes will soon ask for $50,000 of Maryland, a member of the Na-| | merce in a position to “second the | increase in its $100,000 appropria- tional Railway Mediation Board to| DOW, JONES AVERAGES ! motion” and give what aid it can|tion, Chairman Martin Dies said sicoeed Wiliam Lelserson. recently| following are today’s Dow,| 0% 81 ideas snd projects for the|{oday 0 “we can go Into subyersive appoin e National Labor| benem of Alaska that its citize; nd | activities more thorough! ly.” industrials 13553, CHeens 811 Dies said the committee ought to Relations Board, succeeding Domznd;‘m"es AVOrpges: Wakefield Smith, rails 27.68, utilities 23.44. " (Continued on Page Two) |subpoena 500 to 700 witnesses. of approximately 9 percent of earnings in the upper brackets. Anogher biil roaming COULDN'T BE PAID A wily statistician figured that a resident of New York, where most of the ‘country’s money is made,