The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 1, 1939, Page 8

JAPANESE BOY IS 0BJECT OF POLICE-HUNT Tanaka Llad Disappears— May Be in Fear of "'Pants-Warming”’ Police are Ted secking nine-year-old panese son of Mr. and anaka. owners and operators of the City Cafe, who has been unlocated since, yesterday afternoon. The boy was last reported at the ball game last ween the fourth and Tifth J but he did not return home. Another report had a Japanese boy believed to be the lost young- ster, eating breakfast at a Front Street restaurant, this morning, but at 2 o'clock this afternoon, police still sought the lad An earlier report that the boy had dicappeaerd suddenly on the water- front yesterday afternoon, gave rise % to fears he might have fallen into the harbor, but Tanaka told police he had given his son a “pants- warming” recently for staying out until nearly midnight lieved young Tanaka stayed late last with his playmates and was d to go home When last seen, he was wes nts and a blue zipper e said, asking that anyone hav- clue as to the whereabouts of the missing boy, communicate im- mediately with the Police Depart- ment sight, of the American broadeast nation-wide. of the J Retail Federation The T ' ICKES PROPOSES REORGANIZATION OF LAND OFFICE Regional Setup Would Re- place Present District - SKAGWAY MAY SEND DIAMOND SQUAD BY AR Fiffeen Ball Piayers May Arrive in Big Ship Saturday Possibility that a team of Skagway ball players will journey by air to Juneau on Saturday for two week- €fficlent and economical adminis- end ball games was revealed today tration of more than 750,000,000 by V. W. Mulvihill, Chief of the Fire acres of the Nation's public land is Department, and Secretary-Treas- urged by Secretary of the Interior urer of the Gastineau Channel Base- Harold L. Icks submitting to ball League. Congress proposals for legislation Mulvihill said Louis Selmar, base- authorizing changes in the struc- ba'l enthusiast of Skagway had writ- ture first erected more than 140 ten for information as to financing years ago. possibilities for the trip, but no an-| The proposed measure, in general, swer to Mulvihill's radiogram reply contemplates the establishment of had been received this afternoon. land regions and regional land of- Tt is planned that the Skagway fices in place of the existing sys- group, about fifteen men, will come tem of land districts and district down in the big 19 passenzer Cur- Jand offices. In addition, the bill tiss-Condor of the White Pass Alr- ywou1d require all employees of the ways, and will play one game Sat- yegional land offices to be urday, and one Sunday, before the scheduled Moose-Douglas game. Teams to play the invaders will be chosen later, league officials said, with untested local talent to be given first opportunity to play. - e the General about more zation of Land fice to bring in accordance with civil laws, giving preference in a ment to civil service employe the present district land offices Alaska Effect Slight The effect of the change on Al- aska is expected to be slight FUR Au(“ou Present arrangements whereby the compensation of land office regis- ters is determined, in part, by the : r ceived, also would be abolished ur Page der the bill. Instead, the measure Go|ds[ein' Yurman Prin- provoses that all moneys coliccted . 'de { as m.; and commis qm\‘ mu ))\lt: G |into the Treasury of the Unitec upa I v e{s al bame States. Salaries paid would be in Commission Sale laccordance with the classification |act, T “The present system of land of- TFurs seized by the Alaska Game g0 ",,{,’ Bod dtitriots blished Commission brought $2,201.55 in a almost a century and a half pubhc auction held this afternoon to provide for the entry and dis ‘l;‘ml‘(l'::)" 'l’;”‘o"li.m““ of the Federal .| of the public lands, does not Charles Goldstein purchased $1,. POW afford adequate machinery for 560.70 worth of skins, H. J. Yux'mn‘n effective administration of a policy $T1 and George Pearson $9.85 O conservation of matural resourc- S es,” Secretary Ickes explained. “The Most spirited bidding was on Lot |Probosed bill sceks to remedy this No. 40 beaver skins, for which Situation by authorizing certain Goldstein paid $1,010. |changes in existing laws which will Bl ek qie e RIS N | benefit not only the General Land Today's News Today—Empire, | Office, but the Nation as a whole. = S ol State Lines Disregarded - | r example, under existing law jas it has been construed, land dis- trict boundaries may | State boundaries; in some cases, |two or more district land offices {must now be maintained in adjoin- ing States, when one conveniently The " FRIDAY MEANS Fried Filet of Sole for Luncheon at the | BARANOF | L _4 vlaced would be sufficient i MILLWOOD DRY KINDLING and SPRUCE BLOCK Fireplace Wood' Get It—While It Lasts!? PHONE 358 E. E. SOMERS DELIVERY not overlap llIIIIIIIIIIIli"illllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIlllI|IIlIIIHIIIHIIII|IIIIIIHI|IIIMIIIIII | President Speaks at Forum Defending his fiscal policy and serving notice on Amet i that neither balancing of the budget nor reduction in taxes is in President Roosevelt makes an address before the Louis Kirstein and President Roosevelt on American business first forum in Washington. The speech was t is shown with the chairman n, of Massachusetts. KING, QUEEN STOPPING IN JASPER PARK JASPER, Alberta, June 1.—The British King and Queen stopped in the Jasper Park at noon today as the Blue-silver Royal train carries them from the coast, enroute to ‘Washington, D.C., to see new scenes in Northern Alberta and Saskat- chewan. proposed bill autnorizes the estab- lishment of land regions without regard to State lines. ‘Another distinct advantage from the standpoint of efficiency and economy would arise from the civil service provisions of the proposed legislation. With its enactment, it would be possible to buiid up a per- anent personnel force trained in and management and possessing a 11l understanding of the many preblems involved. No Appropriation Boost Involving merely the transfer of funds allotted to the district land offices to the proposed new region- al land office set-up, the legislation loes not call for any increased ap- propriations to carry its provisions into effect. Originally created in 1812 as a bureau in the Treasury to handle disposal of the public lands, the General Land Office today serve 15 the official real estate agent of the Government in the surveying, mapping and conservation of natu- ral resources on the public domain in the United States and Alaska. - Today’s News Today—Empire. THE DAILY ALASKA ENM2’IRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1939. AFL APPEALSHEAT WAVE | WEST COAST ABATINGON WHARFORDER EAST (OAST ‘Fight of Longshoremen Is:Rain Dispel?New Drought| Carried fo Supreme | Threat-High Temper- | Court | afures Reported | i WASHINGTON, June 1. — The (By ASS0C ED PRESS) American Federation of Labor has Cloudy skies along the Atlantic| appealed to the Supreme Court in seaboard had brought relief from a move to set aside a National Labor | the season’s widespread heat wave Board ofder tertifying a Congress | While rain dispeligd the threat of a i WRANGELL MAY BE GIVEN NEW - VESSEL BASIN %Commiflee Approves Dredge and Breakwat- “er Plan, $189,000 WASHINGTON June 1 The Senate Commerce Subcommittee to- day voted to include Wrangell, Al- aska, harbor project in the Rivers and Harbors authorization bill ‘The plans call for an inner basin in . tideflat area east of Shake's Island connecting the channel from the existing mooring basin, with a constant depth of ten feet. of Industrial Organization's union as collective bargaining representa- ‘| tve for” longshore workers on the West, Coast. The Federation appealed from the District Court of Appeals, which | dismissed an appeal from the board's decision on the ground the order was not a final one. Formerly in Control | ‘The Labor Board on June 21, 1938, | certified the International Long- shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (C. I. O.) as the West Coast | workers' exclusive bargaining agent. ' drought in other?sections. | |, The hottest weather of the year| is reported in several cities including | Baltimore, with @ temperature of 94, | |New York City 92, Newark 96, De- I troit 90 and Chicago 88 | The hottest spot is Phoenix, Ari- zona, with a temperature of 102 de- grees. Heat deaths accompanied the rise | of the mercury, several fatal pros-| -— - - \BORDER FIGHTS Tom Pendergast, Jr.; Tom, Sr., and Jim Pendergast After pleading guilty to evading income taxes on $443,500, 66-year- old Tom Pendergast, political boss in Kansas City, Mo., hears a sentence of 15 months in federal prison meted out to him. Pender- gast is shown, center, with his son, Tom, Jr., left, and a nephew, Jim Pendergast, right. Construction of a togk mound | breakwater 320 feet long to a reef { north of Shake's Island is also in the project plans that will cost an estimated $189,000. Of an annual total of nearly 1,- 500,000 deaths in the United States, about 30 are caused by leprosy. The federation and two unions| affiliated with it, the International Longshoremen’s Association and the Pacific Coast District International KFAR KEYBOOK trations being reported. this BEAUTY | Longshoremen'’s Association, told the court in their “had for many years prior to the board's decision represented thou- sands of longshore employees on the Pacific Coast and had maintained many locals in all of the West Coast ports.” Lost Funds Cited The action of the board. they said “unlawfully deprived thousands of| employees of their status as col- lective bargaining agents and un- lawfully deprived” the federation unions of their right to represent’ longshore employees. The federation and its unions further told the court that as a re- sult of the board’s action its mem- bership had been destroyed, lgcals disrupted and that investments of many thousands of dollars had been lost. CHINESE FIGHT ARTILLERY DUEL WITH JAPANES Nippon Naval Vessels Withdraw Affer 24-hofir Assault at Foochow FOOCHOW, June 1.—A foreéd of Japanese Naval vessels have with- drawn toward the sea after’a 24 hour artillery duel with Chinese coastal batteries at the mouth of the | Min River. ‘The Japanese were attempting to run the gauntlet to approach Foo- chow. - BASEBALL TODAY Scores of games played this after- | noon in the two major leagues are | as follows: . | National Leagu | St. Louis 1; New York 0. | Cincinnati 5; Boston 4, thirteen 1 innings. American League New York 8; Cleveland 3. as you like it! petition that they | CAPT. LATHROP FAR EAST AREA ADMIRED HERE .~ .- - Seven Hun.dred Mongols New Fairbanks Radio Sta-, Reporfed Killed by Man- tion to Be Opened | choukuoan Troops September 15 TOKYO, June 1. — A Jflpan?.\e news agency has reported receipt of an undated dispatch which states moticnal matter as has been seen in | " ohti . in continuation of border fighting Alaska for a long time is the KPAR | | é vester) anchoukuo. Keybook which arrived on a num- ‘“T’EZ ";Z‘;C“‘ ";‘m s datenaiic ber-afJunean dedks s wesk from Manchoukuoan troops captured five the Midnight Sun Broadcasting r Russians and twelve Company of Capt. A. E. Lathrop of xzr}:iols. Ton FB&bflnz‘(m' book, d d by T. R R 5 ST e Keybook, designed by T. R. 4 2 & = 1 B Rt Belgian regulations require that Lambert and illustrated by drawings car. be equipped With a Tuby-colored of Eustace P. Ziegler, announces o ange stop light | the opening of Capt. Lathrop's radio| i1 18mp and an orange stop 76 station KFAR at Fairbanks on Sep tember 15. | tractive book, which includes photo- graphs, graphs, drawings and in- |formation about the Interior and ‘Alaska in general, was supervised by Miss Miriam Dickey, who also | wrote most of the copy for the Key- book. Miss Dickey, Capt. Lathrop’s' Secretary, was in Juneau briefly 1 Tuseday on the westbound Alaska. At the opening of the new station, Willis E. Nowell, famous violinist who lived in Juneau for many years fand who was Alaska Steamship Company agent here, will play on his Stradivarius. Nowell now lives at Edmunds, Washington. - e — Firemen Nearly Raze 0ld Occidental Firemen, having their monthly practice run, turned their hoses on the old Occidental Hotel last eve- ning, testing pressure at the corner of Front and Main ! It was fun—just like a real fire— until a section of cornice on the roof of the old structure plunged to the street, narrowly missing practicing firemen. the PR S5 1t takes five angora goats to pro- vide enough mohair for the average | automobile sedan. Cabaret Dancing again Saturday Nite in the BARANOF 2FLOOR Cover SHOWS 11:45 and 1.15 PHONE 800 for reservations GOLD ROOM dancing from 10 till 2 a, m. Charge $2.00 couple HATS As pretty a piece of printed Pro- ;. 799 mongols have been killed | 4 at the top of the mode for . this season— can be your BEAUTIFUL HAIR MAKES YOU MORE GLAMOROUS perfectly gonditioned hair, softly curled in a fresh, youthful hair style, is only one beauty service we render———at so little cost. WE ARE OPEN EVENINGS 115 Second St. Telephone 723 The ROYAL Beauty Salon ANN EARLY BARR—OWNER-Operator e o S Channel Apparel Shop! now offers another novel S=Cent Sale! of DRESSES BUY ONE DRESS at the price marked and select another dress from the same price group FOR ONLY 5 CENTJ ADDITIONAL—— 3 Dress Groups All New Spring and Summer Models “ Gromp I ........S14.7¢ GrowpIl ........ 99§ Growp III ....... 49§ NEW 1939 SPRING and Summer Coats o $13.95 This Sale will last Several Days — at the Channel Apparel Shop in the Decker Bldyg. -