The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 9, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = VOL. LIV., NO. 8126. e JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ' cmun, mre—— PRICE TEN CENTS U.S.CONGRESS RECEIVED BY KING, QUEEN Restrainer Filed SHIP LINES FILE ACTION VS. SEINERS Hearing on Interference fo Be Held af 10 A.M. Tomorrow A restraining order to pro- hibit the Alaska Purse Seiners Union and members from interfering with interstate com- merce of the Alaska Steamship Company, Northland Transpor- tation Company and Alaska Trarsportation Company was sought in District Court here late this afternoon on behalf of the three transportation lines and the Pacific American Ship- owners’ Association. A hearing will be held and decision rendered on the appli- cation for restrainer in Judge George F. Alexander’s Court at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The restrainer was filed with Clerk of Court Robert E. Cough- lin by A. H. Ziegler, R. E. Rob- ertson and H. L. Faulkner, rep- resenting the companies. Not only picketing but “all forms of interference” would be restrained under the order. The union had been picketing steamers at ports throughout South- east Alaska allegedly because they carried supplies for canneries which the Union has demanded elimina- tion of certain fish traps. e — TRAPPED ATOP FLAMING STILL, 3 MEN PERISH Fourth Workman Escapes But Believed to Be Fatally Burned LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 9—Three | of four workmen perished when trapped on the top of two flaming gasoline stills, 100 feet above the ground, at the Aetna Oil Refinery this afternoon. The fourth workman was critically burned. SALMON PRICE UPTOMORROW| Salmon prices are to go,up on| the Juneau Fish Exchange tomor-| row, according to local fish buyers. | The boost will be one cent on large reds, putting the scale at 12 sents for large reds, 7 cents for mediums and 5 cents for whites. JOHN DOOLIN WiLL VISIT MOTHER HERE Leaving Seattle today to spend the summer months with his mother in this city, John Doolin is a northbound passenger on the mo- torship Northland. He has complet- ed his second year at Gonzaga Uni- versity, and has spent the past week visiting with his grandmother in Everett, Wash. StocK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, American Can 96, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 587, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 45%, International Harvester 62, Kennecott 34'%, tral 15%, Northern Pacific 8%, United States Steel 49'z, Pound $4.68°%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 140.09, rails 28.38, utilities 24.05. New York Cen- | Franco Has Hls Day — % |since Hitler ssimo Francisco Franco (hand upraised, on reviewing stand) is shown as he reviewed Spanish infantry in the great victory parade staged in Madrid to signalize the end of the Spanish Civil War. Some 140,000 troops, including 12,000 Italians, passed in review during the celebration, and Franco was awarded the Grand Cross Laurcada, Spain’s highest decoration for valor. | BUBBLING GIRL KIDNAPER 1S UNDER ARREST CALIFORNIA TOWN | | | | | | | | ;Governessfien in Cus- tody with Little Boy- Ransom Demanded SAN HOSE, Cal, June 9.—Miss Graham Gaylor, 19-year-old gover- ness, has been arrested here as 1a ransom kidnapper. She was found in a hotel with Krehe Osborn, 5-year-old San Fran- i cisco boy. Mrs. Mable Osbora reported that a note was found on a kitchen table demanding $1,600 ransom. | | SAN FRANCISCO, June 9. — Young Margaret Polly Weil, former | Nassau, New York, farm girl, was arraigned here this afternoon on a kidnaping charge and held for| $50,000 bail after Judge Hugh Smith | had declared it “unbelievable that a woman of your age and appear- ance should be accused of such a crime.” The girl listened without emotion or the slightest expression as a pub- lic defender entered for her a plea of innocence and had the case con- tinued until June 19. Miss Weil told poiice she wanted the $1,600 ransom money to “pay the mortgage on mother's farm in Nassau.” When arrested in San Jose, the |girl gave the name of Graham Gay- | lord. BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the Major Leagues: National League Pittsburgh 1; Boston 4. Chicago 3; New York 4. American League Boston 4; St. Louis 3. Philadelphia 4; Detroit 14. Washington 2; Cleveland 3. [EUROPEAN POT IS NOT SO NOISY RIGHT NOW BUT IS | Elizabeth has given this country an |and third term talk have crowded | two | JUST THE SAME | By PRESTON GROVER | | | | — The| King George and Queen WASHINGTON, June 9, visit of excuse for a period of “watchful waiting” while the air clears in Europe. Domestic affairs, the royal visit,| the European business aside for A! |time, but the inner tension is no; | 1es: perhaps even greater. One in- formed source says the British pro- gram of encirclement may have| been a serious diplomatic blunder that may be remedied only by a backing down on the Polish guar- | antees even if that will work. That view is based on such con- ditions as these: | 1.—During all his expansion pro- |gram Herr Hitler has kept in mind |that he must avold war with Eng- !land. He explained that position in Mein Kampf. Diplomats who have {watched his course minutgly have laccepted that statement in the Hit- {ler book as gilt-edged—until lately. | | | | | 2.—It was generally accepted that | Hitler would limit himself to claims in which there was at least a sha- |dow of equity. That was considered | ithe case in the Saar Basin, geo- ‘;;raphicully a part of Germany, as with the Rhineland withheld by the |Allies after the war. That was the | case with Austria, since they were racially one pople. The same covers ithe Sudetenland. As for Germany's claims on Poland, it is pointed out that most people in Danzig are German, and a German road across the Polish corridor would connect {two segments of the Reich. THEN TROUBLE STARTED | But before the claims against| | Poland could be foreclosd by Ger-| many, England made some cauti-| |ous “steps to stop Hitler” moves in southeast Europe. Almost at once Hitler moved into Moravia and the rest of Czechoslovakia where it was| agreed he had not a tassel of equity | (And | {then England started work in ear- Inest to tie up allies on all sides| against further expansion.) It was the first solid evidence | that Hitler may have changed his tactics. Was he convinced that England would stand in the way! |\right, racially or otherwise. (ZECHTOWN THREATENED ! |Nazi Pol i;Sergeam Is B | Slain - Populace Mum on Perpetrafor ULTIMATUM FACES KLADNO CITIZENRY { | Mass Arrests s Promised If Killer Not Produced by 8 Tonight | PRAGUE, June 9.—Germans re- |ported mass arrests will be carried out if Czechs fail to produce the slayer of a German Police Ser- geant in Kladno by 8 o'clock to- | night. It was said arrests will continue |until the person or persons respon- |sible for the first German fatality absorbed Bohemia and |Moravia into Greater Germany is | found. Kladno is already under strict regulations which may be widened |into martial law if the deadline passes without the ultimatum being heeded. The Mayor, Chief of Police and many others already are in cus- tody. Policeman killed late | | was or Wilhelm Kniest Wednesday night nical school at Kladno, an indus- |trial town 15 miles from Prague. DEADLINE REACHED PRAGUE, June 9.—The German 8 o'clock tonight without the slayer or slayers of the German policeman found. fill its threat of sterner measures against the Czechs in case the killing is not solved, is not announced as | .the. deadline was reached. Mass arrests, the Germans an- pounce, will be carried out. BRITISH NAVAL ATTACK, WASN'T, JAPANESE LEARN | Reporter Flrmg on Airliner; Was Only Cruiser at Target Practice TOKYO, June 9.—A dispatch rrom Taihoku, Formosa, to a newspaper here, said the Japanese Naval au-| was first reported as a British naval | attack on a Japanese airliner, was | | really only target practice. The pilot of the airliner mistook firing blank shells by the British cruiser ‘Kent as an attack on his plane. SMITHS 60 SOUTH Mr. and Mrs, H. E. Smith, daughter Patricia, sailed for Seat- tle on the North Sea. They will be absent from Juncau for a month, during which time {they plan to visit friends and rela~- tives in Wyoming. Smith is with the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company. TWO ATTORNEYS A. H. Ziegler, and W. C. Arnold, Ketchlkan atorneys, flew to Juneau} yesterday evening with Ketchikan pilot Bob Ellis. The two were planning to return to Ketchikan this evening, if pos- | sible, after attending to court busi- (Continuca on Page Four) ness, early Thursday in front of a tech- | ultimatum to the Czechs expired at | Just what measure the German | government intends to take to iul—‘ thorities have learned that what| ABOARD NORTH SEA and | FLY T0 JUNEAU Against Fishermen U.S. WOMAN FREED FROM SOVIET JAIL Mrs. Rubens Found Guilty of Entering Russia on False Passport HUSBAND REMAINS UNACCOUNTED FOR Couple Dlsappeared from Moscow Hotel in 1937 | Info Russ Prison MOSCOW, June 9. — Mrs. Ruth| Marie Reubens, American woman | whose long detention in Russia caus- | ed extended diplomatic m'u\ontmn was sentenced to 18 months impris- || onment in court today but told she|, would be free tomorrow beceause she | | has served all but one day of the sentence. H The sentence was passed in Mos- |3 cow City Court on a charge she b entered Russia on a false passport.| Mrs. Reubens disappeared from | a Moscow hotel with her hushand,| known also as Donald Robinson, in December of 1937. A month later | U, S. Embassy officials were per- mitted to see her in prison. Her | hasband’s whereabouts were nevor | Without fanfare, a small det: submarine Sculpin lowered their Portsmouth, N. H., in a simple m 240 feet of water. the sunken sister-submarine, Squalus. refuel, then took up her position again where the Squalus lay in “In Memoriam” men: of silent sailors aboard the flag to half mast in the harbor at emorial tribute to the dead aboard The Sculpin came to port to | established. | Whether Mrs. Reubens would lu turned over to U. S. authorities af-| ter liberation couldn’t be learned. She asked the court for informa- tion about her husband but was re- | fused. | | Eledroculed 'While Sprinkling {Her Lawn Tt | | ORLAND, Cal, June 9. — Mrs. Madelana Jessie, 64, was electrocut- ud here yesterday affernoon when | SECIS TO PROBE Dupo“I SIO(K |she came in contact with an elec- trically charged fence while irri- DIS(REPA“(IES gating Lhe lawn at her home. Inveshgahon n of Transac-, FORMER AlASKAN | tions Launched After | MINER IS FOUND | — e~ — LONDON GIVEN 1944 OLYMPICS Winter Games of 1940/ Will Be Held on Ger- man Slopes LONDON, June 9—The Interna- tional Olympic Games Committee today awarded the 1944 Olympics to London. The winter Olympics of 1944 were awarded to Italy and site of the 1940 winter games was changed from | St. Moritz, Switzerland, to Garmish Partenkirchen, Germany - unnmmced today it had begun an Lethal Gas Chamber Board of Directors. e 'bank watchman, during a holdup. | Jailors took razor blades from his tence be imposed. Company Reporl | GUILTY, SLAYING WASHINGTON, June 9. — The ecurities Exchange Commission cleme"(y |s N0| Re(om ‘mvesugauon of “facts and circum- |stances". invowved In atezed “ais-| mended-He Will Die in |crepancies” reported in transactions | ol Dupont common stock by Pieeul \Dupont Chairman of the compnnys: The discrepancies came to hgm\ SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 9.—Ro- |in corrections of Dupont stock tran- |bert C. Perry, 69, former Alaskan | sactions submitted to the Securi- miner, is doomed by a jury verdict, |ties Exchange Commission by Du-to die in the. lethal gas chamber | pont. \for the slaying of Jack Anthony,| Perry is guarded in his cell by {deputies who fear he might commit suicide. Perry waived the hearing on his plea of insanity. belt and also other objects. Perry will receive official sentence tomorrow as the jury failed to recommend clemency which makes it mandatory that the death sen- Perry will be taken to San Quen- tin prison, e Carl Jensen and Elmer Lindstrom, young Juneau men who recently went trolling for a vacation from PAIR BOUND OVER Fok GR‘"D ]“RY the mine, brought in their third load of salmon in the week today Floyd Cromwell and Bili Heitman | from Marmion Island area, on their were bound over to the Grand Jury |poat the Starlight. under $1,000 bail each today after| They brought 1000 pounds, sell- a preliminary hearing before U. S./ing to Sebastian-Stuart at 12-7-5 Commissioner Felix Gray. cents. The two were charged with lar- Pishing is “spotty” they said, {ceny in a dwelling, in connection|groung Marmion, and with a fresh | with theft of a paper bag of Pota-|),a4 of groceries aboard, they were toes, sack of onions, loaf of bread to pull out this afternoon for Cape and two pork chops from the wa-| i CTBGE Cabih ‘of A, Brenadal] N (S & Beavy mun of ik is reported. last April 22, J NEAR CAPE (ROSS FOREST CHIEF SILCOX SNAGS HEFTY TROUT Karta Rive:l;auly High- light of Trip-Now on Way fo Juneau A. Silcox, Chief of the U. 8. Forest Service, caught a 30%-inch fish yes- terday in the Karta River near here. Ketchikan experts were un- able to decide whether the beauty, | which weighed eight and one-half wpounds is a steelhead trout or rain- bow Nevertheless, the trout catch was \the highlight of a three-day trip |in nearby waters in the company | of Regional Forester B, Frank Hein- | | tzleman, | | | launch Forester at noon today for Juneau. Silcox said Alaska has one of the few great timber reserves of the | world, one which would eventually | come mw demdnd 'BOTH PLANES OF MARINE AIRWAYS ARE OUT TODAY | Two trips were made by Marine | ternoon. John Amundsen flew Frank Wright and Ole Johansen to Hoo- nah, bringing back 8am Pekovich, Bill Laikanen, A. E. Mattson from Hawk Inlet and Mrs. Bromley from Hoonah. Alex Holden flew out with W. Jones and Miss Worts, round trip | to Pelican City, Bill Markle to Hirst, and Louis Karsten to Beards- lee Island in Glacier Bay. MISS JOYCE MORRIS ENROUTE TO JUNEAU Miss Joyce Morris, daughter of {Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Morris and months on the Motorship Northland | which safled from Seattle | morning. Miss Morris has just completed her first year as instrumental and vocal music instructor for the Pleas- ant High School at Gresham, Ore- gon, KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 9.—F. Both left by the Forest Service | Alrways before two o'clock this af- | graduate of the Juneau High School, | is returning here for the summer| this | Here RECEPTION HELD UNDER HIGH DOME 'Handshake with Smile Is Given Legislators by British Majesties UNIVERSAL COURTESY DEEPLY APPRECIATED President a—nTMo narch Exchange Greefings af State Dinner WASHINGTON, June 9. Great Britain’s youthful sover- eigns exchanged cordial greetings with American legislators .. ‘ay at a brilliant capitel reception, demonstrating anew the close bond of friendship between the two great English spraking peo- ples, Standing in the huge high- domed Capitol rotunda, the King and Queen had a smile and a royal handshake for four hun- dred odd Senators and Repre- sentatives who crowded the chamber. CONGRESS THANKED After the handshaking was over, | Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the reception committée, said the King thanked Congress in these words: “Her Majesty and I are un- able to express our appreciation of the universal courtesy and friend- ship with which we have been re- ceived.” ‘The monarchs stood less than & | hundred yards from where victor- | fous British troops held a mock leg- | islative session in the House Cham- bers 125 yeats ago, then sacked and burned the Capitol. Senator William E. Borah, 74, of Idaho, Dean of the Senate, was | the first person other than the Re- | ception Committee to meet the kind- | ly couple. Stayed Up Late The King and Queen were up until past midnight, listening to singers and watching folk dancers who performed after the State Din- |ner at which the King and the President joined in solemn pledges of international friendship. Sald President Roosevelt, rising froms his place beside the Queen, whose gleaming coronet of diamonds and rubies reflected from the lights of a huge chandelier: “I am per- suaded that the greatest single con- tribution our two countries are en- | | (Continued on P-ge Seven) Homage Paid At Tomb of Washingfon King Georg:fakes Part in Unprecedented Event | onHis U. §. Visit WASHINGTON, June, 9.—In sol- emn reverence, King George this af- ternoon paid homage at America's foremost shrine, the Tomb of Georgse lWt;.smngton. This was perhaps the most un- precedented event in the historic two day visit of the British Majes- ties. The homage was a simple one. It took place on the grassy slopes of Mount Vernon and symbolized the peaceful ties of friendship be- tween the United States and Great | Britain, While Queen Elizabeth, President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt looked on, King George placed a wreath of lilles, iris and carnations on the marble sarcophogus of the General who 150 years ago drove out the red-coated armies of his ancester, George the Third. { |