The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8114. JUNEAU, ALASKA , FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1939. 'MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS SALVAGING OF SUBMARINE IS PLANNED Koyalty Without a Lbuntry BRITAINTO KUHN, BUND FUEHRER, IN LAW'S TOILS U. 5. German Leader Ar-'| rested for Larceny of $14,000 50 YEARS IN JAIL, DEWEY PREDICTION Trailed by Detectives o Pennsylvania Road Lunchroom BULLETIN — NEW YORK, May 26.—Fritz Kuhn pleaded innocent to charges of forgery and grand larceny when ar- raigned this afternoon. i o NEW YORK, May 26.—Protesting “It's all nonsense, charge: ceny of $14,000 in connection with Bund activities. Kuhn was motoring with three companians to Chicago and Mil- waukee and was arrested in a road- side lunchroom in Krumsville, Pa., by detectives who trailed him from New York. He was indicted late yesterday on 12 counts. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey said conviction could re- sult in prison terms totaling 50 years. removal to Greaca CARIBBEAN ARE NOW CHUNGKING BsY 2 YEARS e NIN TARGET I:OR (OUN_(“- AHEAD 130 BOMBS Ambitious Program ls 0u1-3 U. 5. Mefhodist Mission Is lined at Meeting of Among Casualties of ——————— | An ambitious program of work " Pritz Kuhn, Na- Ling Zog of Albania and Queen Geraldine dine at a restaurant in Istan- tional leader of the German Ameri- ul, Turkey, after flicht from their former kingdom, now in the hands of can Bund was jailed early today on taly. Queen Geraldine, whose mother is a former New Yorker, has s of forgery and grand lar- tecovered from the illness whick followed birth of a son and forced U.S.RELATIONS WITH | ' SHOW ARMY { TOSOVIET Red War Cb}nfiiissar Invit- ed fo See London Maneuvers DETAILS OF PACT SENT TO MOSCOW Refortification of Baltic Island Involved in Dickerings (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Great Britain today sent Russia details of her plan for bringing the Soviet Union into the British-French front and invited Marshal Klementi Voroshiloff, Soviet War Commissar, | to attend British Army maneuvers. | Dispatch of the British formula | advanced the projected British- French-Russian assistance accord still another step toward reality The surprise invitation of the Red | Army chief was seen as a move| timed to strengthen the bloc tlirough |a display of friendliness between | London and Moscow. | British officials expected Russia’s| approval of the new proposals on at | least main points. The Russian government news- paper Izvestia announced the Soviet Union would insist upon postpone- ment of examination by the League of Nations of a proposal to refortify Aaland Island, a plan proposed by | two davs later. t2er M COUNTRIES UPSIDE DOWN By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, May 26. The Twentieth Infantry has a jolly lit- tle marching song called “The World Turned Upside Down” which it has caried since the Revolution- | ary War. In a sense that is what has happened to our relations with the Caribbean countries in recent years. They have turned upside down. | The Caribbean nations, those lit- tle Central American and offshore | countries generally referred to as the Banana Belt, occupy a special status with relation to the United States as was shown so well by the Finland and Sweden which involyes .. Russia’s defenses in the Baltic Sea. | e SOVIET UNION WILL INCREASE HER ARMY, NAVY Budget for Next Fiscal Year Is Submitted Last Evening Canada Honor British Mon 0 arc ‘heon | 1 h at Lunc In compliment to the first British monarch to set f oot on American soil, the Government of Canada honcred King lan Minister of Justice Ei Shown at the speaker’s SEATILE STRIKE IS SETTLED: CANS WILL BE MOVED Company and Union Offic- ials Announce Agree- ment on Wages SEATTLE, May 26—Union and company “officials jointly announce the signing of a labor agreement ending the tie-up of the American Can Company wharves here which have kept several thousand workers in the cannery industry idle for two weeks, | The agreement provided for the g George VI and Queen Elizabeth a T recognize this moment as historic. nest LaPoints; King George V I; Members Here Raid - 400 Die CHUNGKING, May 26.—Japanese air raiders today dropped 120 bombs on this provisional Chinese capital’s Riverside business district, causing about 400 casualties and destroying for the Alaska Planning Council in the next two years, approved by the Council in its meeting which con- cluded here yesterday, was an- nounced today by Executive Secre- tary John E. Pegues. The complete program is as fol- visit here of President Somoza of Nicaragua. i When he hove into town who should be on hand to greet him but President Roosevelt, Vice Pres |ident Garner and the whole upper | bracket of the Government. Troops | MOSCOW, May 26—The Soviet company to hire employees for work Union proposes to spend seven bil- n the warehouse, the Longshore- lion seven hundred million dollars|men's hiring hall for all work cxcept in the next fiscal year on the Army the loading of cans into cars and. Navy according to Finance| The agreement also provides that Commisar Arseni Zvereff. The an-|Wwarehousemen employed by the | lu ncheon at Quebec. It is the first time table, left to rig ht, Cardinal Actress Divorced Villenauve; Premier MacKenzie King, who presided; Queen zabeth, and Lt. G ¢v. of Quebec E. L. Patenaude. During his luncheon speech, the a British king has crossed the At- Mme. LaPointe, wife of 'NEW UNION OF FISHERMEN IS ORGANIZED NOW 'Four Different Groups Join Under One Banner- CI0 Affiliated SEATTLE, May 26—Eugene Dennett, State Executive Secretary of the CIO of Washington State In- dustrial Council, announces a new International Fishermen’s Union, with 15,000 members, has been form- ed here. wvennett said the new union has been created by combining severa named the International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America and affiliated with the CIO. organization are the Alaska Fisher- men’s Union of 5200 members, Unit- v.| unions of fishermen which has been | The unions composing the new| VESSELTO - BE RAISED TO SURFACE Divers Attamr_lg Descend- ing Lines, Removing Impeding Obstacles INDUCTION VALVE WAS CLOSED, CLAIM Cause for Disaster Is Sl Conjecture - No Life Remains Aboard PORTSMOUTH, NU. H, May 26, —Asserting that the cause of the sinking of the submarine Squalus |on Tuesday, and the subsequent loss of 26 lives, is unknown, Capt. |H. R. Greenlee, manager of the | Portsmouth Navy Yard said: “Any- | thing said about an induction valve | being open is merely conjecture.” ‘ It was originally believed that en open induction valve allowed water to pour in while the Squalus was making a fast dive. Alfred G. Prien, 26, Machinists |Mate, asserted the control board lights indicated the valve was | closed. | Meanwhile, divers went down to= day to attach a permanent descend= ing line to the deck gun of the Squalus and clear away antennae jor anything else that might im= pede salvage work. Steel chains, at- !tached to pontoons will probably be {used in bringing the ill-fated craft to the surface. | Late yesterday, divers returned to the rescue ship Falcon and report- ed no apparent life remained aboard the sunken vessel. "TOWNSEND OLD - AGE PLAN NOW i BEFORE HOUSE 'Measure Sent fo Floor with Possibility of Vote Wednesday WASHINGTON, May 26—The | Rules Committee has dispatched the | Townsend Old Age Pension plan to | ed Fishermen’s Union of 5,500 mem- | |bers, Pacific Coast Fishermen’s| ¢ House floor for a vote, probably 3 _ | next Wednesday. Union of 1,800 members and Colum: | Under the procedure, which the 12)3 R:lv:‘x,‘n;frtilunvr Association o!:co ittee approved at the behest 3 4 5 A e _ | the Democratic leaders, the bill can- ‘The new union has received an ap: Inm. be b 8 by, the Miuse ek ! plication for charter from the Cop~ | °". per River and Prince William sound;:":’:tlsbe accepted or rejected as 1t PLANNED, 1939 lows: |lined two miles of Pennsylvania|Douncement was made when he in-|company be paid longshoremer | Avenue from the Union Station plu_‘trnduccd the budget last night to Wages of 95' cents to $1.10 "f' hour za to the White House. That m“_“tho Supreme Soviet Russian Par- | instead of 62! cents an hour. i e e a lot of troops, even when you spread lament. | them out at arms length, as they| NORIHLAND IS were this time. If you line Pennsyl- | many left for national defense. | ju"EAu BOUND ISSUES PLEA; - L {Congress of Nations Sug- gested as Solution fo War Fears 250 buildings. Among structures destroyed W the American Methodist Woman’s Missionary Society center. No foreigners were injured. Chinese reported bringing down at least one Japanese bomber. Land Use Projects Inventories of all lands surveyed under rectangular systen school lands, including deficiency and clas sification; mining claims, including acreage and patents; all other non- mineral surveys, including home- steads, homesits townsites, trade and manufacturing sites, Federal No MORE ROUGH STUFF reserves, etc. | Because of the Panama Canal, the Preparatory study on Kenai Pen-|ynited States simply must keep insula: This project is completed. |the Caribbean belt contented, or at | Soil and economic field survey|jeast quiet. Time was when it was of Matanuska Valley and Susitna|done by sending troops down among River flats: This survey was initi-|them. But not any more. For ated by the Alaska Planning Coun- |geore of years or more the U. S. fcil, is being sponsored by the Na-|has been winning the Latin Ameri- tional Resources Board and will b‘-‘fcans over to a sort of hemispherical American Legion Auxiliar ; g executed by the Soil Conservauon!cmpemuvg_ It is a big departure > FLANDERS FIELD POPPY REPLICAS SOLD SATURDA SEATTLE, May 26.—The North-| |land sailed for Souhteast Alaska ports at 1 o'clock this afternoon with a capacity passenger list including the following for Juneau O. A. Maline, A. Maline, W. L. Wallace, Mike Scinski, Vie Sjolseth, | Cyrus Madsen, Mack Mor Fortier, Miss L. Vickerson, Mrs. Leon Johnson, Mrs. P. G. Kearney, Miss Carol Landis Bcreen Actress Carol Landis is divorced from Irving Wheeler writer, in Hollywood. Wheeler, THIS AFTERNOON CHICAGO, Ill, May 26—Dr. Charles Mayo, died this afternoon i | service, proba eade r. WI" Be Ol! Job Dur- | Rookte, T‘IJ)eObAlgzthln(L:m:yCmnfih ing Enfire Day cil has promised every possible co- | Tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock| operation. Tax Study Continued the Poppy sale will .begm and CON- ' tax; relation of mining taxes to tinue into the evening. . |net income; relation of fishery taxes Members of the American Legion ¢4 net income; taxes on banks; taxes Auxiliary will canvass the town, sell- | on business and professions; profits ing the small red paper poppies that | tax on sale of property. are replicas of the flowers in Flan- | Public Assistance ders Field. | Adult Welfare: Relief of destitu- Between 15 and 20 women Will tion (Territorial Department of sell the flowers throughout the city. Public Welfare); Alaska Pioneers’ All money received will be returned Home (Board of Trustees, Alaska to the disabled veterans. Pioneers’ Homie); old age assistance The Auxiliary members spent a (Territorial Department of Public full day at the dugout yesterday | Welfare). making wreaths and sprays and to- Child Welfare: Allowances to day the wreaths are being delivered mothers (Office of the Governor): to the business men for display in | aid to dependent children (Chilé their windows. Welfare Division, Territorial De- | partment of Public Welfare); crip- pled children (Crippled Children Minister in Alaska | Division, Territorial Department of . | Health); probable number not pro- Named (om- (halfman | vided for in each of the three clas- sifications; estimated cost to the CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 26.—Dr. | Territory of unlimited cooperation | Sam Higginbotham, newly elected | with Federal Government; legisla- Presbyterian Moderator, has named | tion required. the Rev. Willlam McAdoo, of An-| Unemployment Compensatio chorage, Alaska, as Chairman of the | Benefits earned; benefit payments; Committee on Leave of Absence. |effect on relief of destitution. ——————— | Public Employment Service: Num- Nearly 6,000,000 United States|— farms have poultry flocks. Possibility of a general property | (Continued on Page Two) | | from old time. Why, there was a time right in Nicaragua when the United States didn't like the president. His name was Zelaya. He was pro-British and threw all the trade concessions to | British business interests. We want- |ed some of them. And how did we get them? When the inevitable rev- olution of those days started, we | threw our influence behind it—and lout went Zelaya. That happened under President | Taft, but it wasn't exclusively a | Republican trick. President Wilson | did it with Huerta in Mexico, and for the same reasons basically. One reason was that he was throwing all the oil concessions to the Brit- | ish. Diplomacy and business went along together. Disturbances in the Banana Belt always invited | foreign interference, and because S| of the need of keeping the Panama Canal far from the reach of alien hands the United States had to preserve stable government. Peace also was necessary for Ameri- can business interests. Diplomatic pressure and even troops were used in Nicaragua, Haiti and San Domingo to keep the peace and protect business. In return, U. 8. banks cooperated by making loans which helped to buy out foreign in- (Continued ;;‘Pnze Two) | VATICAN CITY, May 26.—The | Vatican News Service said today that Papal dpilomats have suggested to Europe's principal foreign offices peaceful solutions to Europe’s diffi- | culties. | It was suggested solutions might |be found either through a ‘“general | meeting of interested powers,” or through a series of bilateral talks. The news service said “The Holy See has limited itself to using nor- |mal diplomatic channels and has | invited interested governments to | consider in a pacific spirit the pres- | ent serious international moment Jand seek with peaceful intentions a solution to the grave questions which currently hang over Europe.” FOURTH OF JULY CRUISER IS T0 BE DISPLAYED HERE Sale of tickets on an 18 foot, eight horsepower Reinell cruiser which is to be awarded July 4 by the Ameri- |can Legion Post here will begin this weekend. The cruiser, mounted on a trailer. will be taxied around the streets of Juneau between now and the Fourth i Johanna Clement, , Mrs, Edward Poole and children, Miss Vera Zhilt- zova, E. Zhiltzova, Carl Berge, — e BIDS CALLED ON CLEANING | FED. BUILDING Washing of 17,721 Square, Yards of Walls and | Ceilings Planned Cleaning of 7,267 square yards of ceiling and 10454 square yards of wall at the Pederal Building here are provided in a conrtact on which a bid call was posted today, by George Gullefsen, Assistant Custodian. The bids are to be opened June 3 at 10 o'clock in the morning at the Custodian’s office. Prospective bid- ders will be conducted through the building at 6:30 o'clock next Wed- nesday evening. The Custodian is to approve the cleaning material to be used. | ‘The contract calls for furnishing labor, material and equipment for cleaning all the ceilings and walls in’ i to promote interest in the event. }the bulding. who once sued Bushy Berkeley, director, for $250,000 over her af- fections, did not contest the di- “avea, DISCUSSING LEGISLATION OVER TAXES { President Sa? Everything | Moving Along Well But Is Not Specific WASHINGTON, May 26.—Presi- dent Roosevelt remarked that tax discussions were getting along very well when asked today to comment on congressional efforts to speed limited revision of corporate levi The President did not reply gi- rectly when asked whether the pro- Jjected tax legislatibn would be con- fined to the so-called nuisance cor- poration taxes or whether it would yoa! alon WD personal income taxes, at 5:55 o'clock in a local hospital. One of the well-known physicians and surgeons of the famous Mayo | Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he came here a week ago. — e - BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played in the two Major Leagues this afternoon: National League Pittsburgh 14; Chicago 5. Cincinnati 7; St. Louis n League Washington 2; Beston 4 ‘Philadelphia 0; New York 1. Chicago 2; Cleveland 1. ., HARDCASTLE IS (OMMISSIONER AT KETCHIKAN | Richard E. Hardcastle has been appointed by Judge George P. Alex- ander to serve temporarily as United | States Commissioner at Ketchikan, |it was announced today. Hardcastle's term is for three |months, commencing May 15. He will take the place of Commissioner |E. C. Austin who is on vacation in Association Holds Election and Vofes Funds for “War” Members of the Tuberculosis As- sociation of Alaska met last night and voted to continue financial sup- port to tuberculin testing and early case finding clinics in the fight against the disease. Officers for the ensuing year were chosen, Harry G. Watson, re-elected President, Mrs. Willlam Paul, re- elected Vice President, James Mc- | Naughton, elected Treasurer to fill the vacancy created by the passing of his late father, Guy McNaughton, and the Rev. G. Edward Knight was re-elected Secretary. The sum of $3,000 was voted for continuance of financial support to the fight against tuberculosis in Ale aska, including the salary of Dr. J. C. Haldeman, tuberculosis clinician, Under new plans of broadening the activity of the organization, it was decided that each town commit= tee throughout Alaska would be asked to appoint a representative to serve on the Board of Directors. Dr.. W. W. Council, Territorial Commissioner of Health, recently re= turned from Washington, D. C. con= ferences, dealt briefly on the great the States. importance of tuberculosis control in an address before the group,