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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” | Nopvaess - ot JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1939. "MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH KING, QUEEN WELCOMED TO U. §. Plckets Prevent Lakina from Discharging Made Homeless (ANNERY FREIGHT ON SHIP No Cargoj;Put Off at Three Plants-Sailors Recognize Line KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 8. — Steamer Lakina, of the Alaska Steamship Company, was prevented from discharging cannery cargo at Waterfall, Craig and Steamboat Bay on Tuesday night and yesterday ow- ing to being picketed by Alaska Sal- | * mon Purse Seiners. . The sailors recognized the picket | line and refused to discharge § freight. | DISCREDITS CRAIG SEIZURE | SEATTLE, June 8—Fred Sven- sson, Libby, McNeill and Libby manager here, discredits the report that the cannery at Craig has been by Jap Bombs | Naval Acac | NEW CRISIS ~IN FAR EAST THREATENED ‘Japanese Admit Relations I Near Break with Britain ADMIRALTY SPOKESMAN GIVES OUT STATEMENT Declares, Ho;ever, that "Calm Atfitude’” Must Be Preserved TOKYO, June .—Rtlflll(bl\h with Great Britain have been aggravat- ed “almost to the breaking point” ! by increasing incidents in China. This is the information given out by the spokesman for the Admiralty but at the same time he declared | my Graduates 578;Commissions 500 occupied by seiners who are report- ed to have taken possession. He says he has no word of it and as far as he knows no one else has. | that a “calm attitude” must be pre-| | served in view of serious Internation- |al repercussions. | Newspapers here charge Great Bri- ! tain with “seemingly endeavoring to | intimidate Japan and adopting a | strong -attitude in the belief the The first of the 578 graduating midshipmen at the U..S, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md,, are shown filing up to Admiral William Leahy to receive their diplom The ceremony was held in the football stadium. Admiral Leahy can be noted under canopy just star.ing the distribution. The graduation class was seated in the center (in white uniforms), while friends an1 rélatives in seats surrounding them, and underclass- men were in a group en far side in stands. Five hundred of the graduates were commissioned ensigns in United States will back her because’ she fears resistance by Kai Shek | .ls weakening before the Japanese | lMllxlary in China.” | | - JAPANESE AIRLINER ATTACKED _ \ {One Reporl-Séys Foreign Warship, Apparently | The Navy s June Week Glrl A. J. PROFITIS HALF WHAT IT WAS YEAR AGO Secrefary Announces May Operating Profit of $102,500 SAN FRANCISCO, June 8.—J. W. | Crosby, Secretary of the Alaska Ju- neau Gold Mining Company, ‘pon.ed today that firm made $102,- | 500 operating profit in May, an in- re- StocK QUOTATIONS L A% | The faces of these Chinese tell the tragic story of hopelessness as they raiders. Neutral observers estimated that five thousand persons, most of OIL TANKER NOT PICKETED |(hen non-combatants, died in the holocaust of terror as the war capital the Standard Oil Company, Suiihs L the tanker Alaska Standard was The tanker was in port uus charged at the Standard Oil Plant freight at the cannery there. Un-| jon purse seiners visiting the craft, | | WOOlWORTH'S Assrsranr Chief Arrives in D emonstrafions Staged ARRIVE HERE fo Juneau by Japanese | son, Assistant Chief of the Alaska Division of the Bureau of Fisheries, Boat in Counfry=Go- |5 . ard taken temporary charge of the Division Office in Seattle. | Thompson said he had no infor- The Woolworth yacht, NOParo.|gqrq gismissal from the Fisheries second largest yacht in America, oo uice days with the Norman Woolworths | here, will go north next week and | and party aboard. | make his headquarters at Juneau | are Mr. and Mrs. John McKee, of | | of New York, and Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Garland is the daughter of | Harry Chandler, publisher of the | 'I'HE'“S MISHAP The party arrived in Ketchikan last night and were to spend the WIll BE juD | head for Juneau. The cruise is & sightseeing and Gir Alfrad Towns Bucknoll | as far as Nome. o | The Noparo is 272 feet long and Named io Be PUb i LONDON, June 8. — Sir Alfred | Towns Bucknoll, Judge of the High head of the public investigation u]'r | to the submarine Thetis disaster. NEW YORK, June 8. — Closing | | Admiralty, denies reports that the quotation of Alaska Juneau mine|gumarine will be left at the bot- | 95, American Power and Light 4%, |t 99 men, trapped when she went Anaconda 25, Bethlehem Steel 57%, | qown and stayed. Curtis Wright 5%, General Moto. | 443, International Harvester 60':,| BASEBAL[ ToDAv | watch their homes burn after the bombing of Chungking by Japanese air Tom Dyer, Jureau Manager for of China was bombed. not picketed while at Craig, as Te- | morning and officers said they dis- | . at Craig but did not discharge any | RELIEVES (hlna Are said pickenng was being enforced YACHT IS T0 Seaffle-Is Coming | Against Foreigners’ | SEATTLE, June 8—Seaton Thomp- Second LargesI Pleasure’ hu arrived here from Washington, | |ng 10 Nome He succeeds Lemuel G. Wingard mation as to the reasons for Win- will arrive in Juneau within a few | Thompson, after spending a week With the wei- known Woolworths | yntil next September. Toronto, Mr. and Hrs. H. Howell, 1 | | Soom anane. o 1as sngees " INVESTIGATOR, | | | Los Angeles Times. | morning fishing near there, then | fishing trip that will take the party | is a 3900-ton craft. Il( Pl'Obel' | Court of Justice, has been named Earl Stanhope, First Lord of the| stock today is 8%, American Can |y, of Liverpool Bay with the bodies Commonwealth and Southern 1%, | Kennecofl. 33%, New York Central 15%, Northern Pacific 8%, United States Stecl, 405, PINAd. $4.004; The following are the scores of | games played this afternoon in the DOW, JONES AVERAGES |iv o \oior Leagues: The following are today's Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 13849, rails 28.11, utilities 23.80. ——————— National League | Chicago 3; New York 5. Boston 2; Pittsburgh 0. \ Walter Meyers, conductor, who| heads the railroad’s seniority list, recently retired after 50 years of service with the Southern Pacific railroad, American League Boston 8; St. Louis 7. Philadelphia 4; Detroit 8. New York 7; Chicago 2. Washington 5; Cleveland 7. 1Ord | housemen’s Union. '5 HALIBUTERS |ers from the nearby banks arrived | a pound straight; | 000 pounds, 7% and 7 cents a pound. into effect on July 1. | i SHANGHAI, june 8—The Bnuahl British, Fires Shells Consulate General here has madc representations to the Japanese of-| TOKYO, June 8—A foreign war- ficials here concerning the ;afflty ship, “apparently a British cruiser,” ——-————— SELL, SEATTLE SEATTLE, June 8.—Only halibut- of British life and property in anti- fired on a Japanese airliner east ol’l British demonstrations in Japanese Hongkong, a Japanese news agency | p | The report states that the pilot of the airliner said his plane es-| BRIDGES To were fired and several shells ex-| . ploded within 100 yards of the FA(E (HARGE After the first shot, the rcporr ! zigzagging and returned immediate- 'ly to Taihoku Formosa. | IS CONVICTED | ered fo Appear in De- ‘ EVERETT, Wash., June 8—Harry | A H I vealed he has been summoned to| TeS"mony els ; appear June 27 at the United States By PRESTON GROVER Immigration Station on Angel Is-| i land, San Francisco, for a specu;l! | WASHINGTON, June 8. — It is charges filed against him. {same jury which convicted Robert C. hereabouts, both the land and Bridges said two Federal officials | Perry of murder was called back L0-| water-borne variety, that the disas-| where he was addressing the annual | miner’s trial on his plea of not guil- | only a horrible sample of the sort|? of the Pacific and handed him an | Perry was convicted yesterday on|pecome hardened in the next two order to appear. the charge he murdered Jack An-|or three years as rearmament speeds national Longshoremen and Ware- |an alleged holdup. 3 It is not being panicky to foresee The jury, in finding Perry BUIllY.|q¢ there will be airplane crashes, mendation for clemency, made the |, 4,% ang minor mishaps that % .' e ting newly designed and very in- 'Reorgamla"on | tricate machinery into the hands Germany has had a taste of it in B 'd | growing casualties in its air pro- President | s and sold here today as follows: Y | o e WASHINGTON, June 8.—Presi-| squalus, even the official investi- Wwn 6,000 pounds | dent Roosevelt today signed the res-|gation may never bring out a true pounds, Swift No. 2 15,000 pounds,|organization of the Executive brancl | terior of a sister shij A . ! e p of the Squa- both 7% and 7% cents; Loyal 13,-!of the Government. The plans E-’Jlns a while back and then got a| Midshipman Ben Jarvis, commander of the winning company at the United States Naval Academy, is pictured at Annapohs with Frances Moses, 19, of Little Rock, Ark., Sweet Briar College junior, the girl of his choice. Miss Moses presented the colors to Jarvis at annual ceremony, REARMAMENT PLANS MAY MEAN MORE DISASTERS ON WATER AS WELL AS LAND | sewer pipe. occupied areas near Shanghai. reports. 1caped damage although ten shots| planp ‘says the pilot began climbing and | Papers Served ! dell o =7 1 Calls Jury Back fo Hear His| Bridges, West Coast CIO leader, re- | Not Guilt [ire hearing relative to deportation| SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 8.— The|peing jmpressed on fighting folk| | walked into a closed convention hall [day to hear the 68-year-old Alaska |ter to the submarine Squalus is | meeting of the Maritime Federation |ty by reason of insanity. of thing to which the country must Bridges is President of the Inter- |thony, 26, bank watchman, duringyp, and by declining to make a recom- | pip emaghups and all sorts of death penalty mandatory. characterize the business of put- |of less and less experienced hands. Plans Signed | gram Crash news can't be pub- As t happened to the Tacoma 17,000 unds, T% cents to wha appene 0 h 7% and 7 cents; President 18000 |olution that permits plans for re-|picture. We were taken into the in- glimpse of the tremendous com=! | crease from $63300 in April but a | | plexity of a submarine. Even more impressive was the picture of the hopelessness of saving more than a fraction of. the crew when trouble| comes. NO ROOM TO RUN Crew men and officers eannot run from end to end of the ship as if it were an empty section of city It is filled with machin- ery, valves, control wheels, fuel and air pipes, gauges, map tables, tor- pedoes and ladders. Every few feet is a bulkhead divided one section of the ship from another. Through it is a narrow door the size of a man- hole. Men literally squirm from place | to place. When a submarme dives the nor-!| mal post for most of the officers is in the control room, from which performance of the whole ship can be supervised, That is why all but one of the officers were in the mid- dle and forward part of the ship which happened not to be flooded. The engineer officer, along with the engineer crew, were aft, where (Continuca on Page Four) J | could be destroyed by the decrease from $206,300 rcported_bc- ‘(cre charges in 1938. During the month production in- | creased to 409,450 tons from 389,530 {in April and 389070 in May last year. Gold recovery per ton of 93 cents was the best since January and up ten cents per ton from April but :was far short of the $1.23 per ton |in May ln\t yr»nr " |BRITISH LORD HOLDING HOPE OF NEW PEACE Halifax Says He Believes Aggression Unlikely at Present LONDON, June 8—Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, declared | today the time has passed when the 1 nations tions of independence of Europe: one state. He said it is clear now that any further attempt at aggression will “meet with wide and resolute resis- tance.” Lord Halifax spoke at a Foreign Affairs debate in the House of Lords Meanwhile, Premier Neville Cham- berlain told the House of Commons that the recent attitude of Germany on the colonial question is placing further obstacles in the way of a possible step toward adjustments of that problem. Lord Halifax said: “I do not share the view that war is unavoidable. There are problems in Europe that are only too likely to lead towards war, but I find it very difficult to believe that with cectain prospects of resistance, those who might feel tempted to risk a war would not think it wiser and more profitable to re- solve their difficulties by negotia- tions.” ROYALTY IS GREETED IN WASHINGTON Official Visit of Their Ma- jesties to This Na- tion Is Begun VISITORS, HOSTS CHAT IN FRIENDLY MANNER Hundreds of Thousands View Parade Today in National Capital WASHINGTON, D. C., June 8— A smile and a friendly handshake from President Roosevelt ' and a bombing salute with military honors today welcomed the King of England to the Capital of the Republic, that has grown great from the thirteen one-time original colonies. The faces of the two mtlon;l leaders crinkled in cordial smiles as their hands met as if to symbolize the ties of friendship between the two English speaking peoples who parted ways in 1776, Introductions Becretary -of State Cordell Hull, who accompanied the King and his Queen from Canada, made the in- troductions. Secretary Hull said: “Mr. Pres- ident, I have the honor to present their Brittainic Majesties.” “How are you? I'm glad to see you,” President Roosevelt smiled. The King and Queen then greets ed Mrs. Roosevelt, and Brigadier General E. M. Watson, the Presis dent’s Military Aide. They Chat The Royal Couple and the Pirst Family of the United States chat- ted briefly for a moment before formalities were renewed with the British Monarchs being escorted to their suite. After these formalities, the Pres- ident met members of the Royal entourage and high ranking offic- ials of the American Government were introduced to the King and Queen, Throngs Line Streets One official of the reception group reported that King George replled to President Roosevelt’s greeting: “It is indeed a pleasure for Her Majesty and myself to be here Police headquarters estimate that the throngs gathered on the streets, in buildings and on roof tops to see the British Sovereigns numbered 400,000 in visitors alone. Aerial Salute Overhead, huge Army bombers droned and swift pursuit planes joined in an aerial salute to the British monarehs. ” Thousands waved flags as the pro~ cession formed at the railroad sta- tion and headed toward the White House through unbroken ranks of soldiers, sailors and marines stand- ing stiffly at a salute. King Gives Salute Heading the procession there (Continued on Page Five) SEAN RUSSELL - ! IS RELEASED FROM CUSTODY Self-styled Head Man Out- lawed Irish Army Is Given Freedom WASHINGTON, June 8. — The Department of Labor has ordered the release of Sean Russell, self- styled head man of the outlawed Irish Republican Army who was taken into custody at Detroit while the British King and Queen were across the border in nearby Cana- dian Territary. Some members of Congress threat= ened to boycott the Congress recep- tion to their majesties unless Rus- sell was given his release. Russell will be kept watched dur- ing the visit of the Royal couple in the United States, however,