The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 12, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — v or—— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LIV., NO. 8128. ARMY ASKS $4,000,000; ALASKA BASE iSA DANZIG-POLE INCIDENT IS WAR THREAT Customs Insp—ector Seized| § for Trying fo Query Storm Troopers JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1939. *No. 1 Woman BRITISH-RUSSIAN & PARLEYS RENEWED Special Envoy Is Flying fo| Moscow in Effortto | Perfect Treaty (By Associated Press) Charges of attempted kidnaping and espionage, filed by the Free City of Danzig against a Polish Customs Inspector, created a new issue today in the Free City, while Great Brit- ain and Russia renewed negotiations for a mutual assistance agreement. Polish Inspector Jan Henryk Lip- inski was arrested Friday night on charges he was trying to obtain military information from German storm troopers visiting Danzig by representing himself as a former German Reserve Officer and trying to persuade them to cross the border into Poland. Reports at Warsaw said Polish Commissioner for Danzig, Marian Chodacki, protested to Free City authorities. New British Pronosal In London, British Foreign Secre- tary Lord Halifax outlined to Ivan Maisky, Russian Ambassador, Bri- | tain’s new formula which is being sent to Moscow in a fresh attempt 10 break the long standing deadlock | on the proposed British-French- Russian mutual assistance pact. William Strang, Foreign Office ex- pert on Central European affairs, who was named special envoy to Moscow for negotiations, left by airplane for the Russian capital. - >o Bargaining . Recognifion Causes Riof Auto Workers Injured in Clash in Flint - All Plants Operating FLINT, Mich., June 12.—One doz- en persons were injured, three ser- jously, in a clash between police and | pickets of the United Auto Workers, | AF.L., as the workers sought a show | down in their inter-union fight for recognition as a bargaining agency for the General Motors employees. Six men were arrested. The en- tire police force was mobilized in anticipation of disorder, | There has been little violence and | all plants began operations this morning despite the strike call. : - WINEPOISONED AT DINNER; 20 OFFICIALS ILL Japanese and Chinese Be-| come Sick at Nanking- | Deep Plot Hinfed TOKYO, June 12. — Japanese authorities are searching Nanking for persons responsible for poisoning wine served at an official dinner in the Japanese Consulate General's office there, causing illness of 20 high Japanese and Chinese officials of the Nanking Reformed Govern- ment. ‘The statement issued by the Jap- anese authorities at Nanking says the incident is a daring attempt of Chinese enemies of the new regime | at a wholesale killing of officialdom. e | D. M. Weston and Edward Bur- | nett of Southboro, Massachusetts,| invented the first milk centrifugal| separator in 1789, Air 1raveler” Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, receives a plaque from Jacqueline Cochran, famous aviatrix, honoring the First Lady as “No. 1 Woman Air Traveler” in behalf of the country’s major air !mes. The ceremony took place at the aviation building in the transportation section of the New York HER GAIN meant aloss to sorae 223 other dazzling beauties cowpeting for the title, Miss San Diego, in that California city. Bui Miss Phyllis Potter, 18, won (he title—see above, for reason;— and she’ll represent city at both fairs. TWO DIVERS "BLOWN" T0 OCEAN'S TOP Accidental Mishaps Occur at Salvaging of Wreck- ed U. S._gl{bmarine ,, PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, | June 12.—Mishaps to two divers when both were accidentally “plown” to the surface, one un-| conscious, slowed the Navy's salvage | work on the sunken submarine Squalus. Both suits suc water. Walter Squires, of Los Angeles, | shot upward after completing a 17. minute job 240 feel below the sur- face of the ocean and was rushed to | the decompression chamber where he remained unconscious for several hours. Ted Weymouth came to the sur-| face with a nearly filled suit of water but the air kept it away from | his head and he was quickly freed | with no bad effects. | filled with J World’s Fair, EDITORS ARE BOUND WEST, FOR ALASKA Leave Seatfle Tomorrow Arriving in Juneau Next Friday HELENA, Montana, June 12.—The special (rains carrying newspaper folk on the Alaska convention ar- rived here early this afternoon on the way to Seattle. Those living east and south of Chi- cago left the Union Station in Chi- cago last Saturday night and those from Iowa, Kansas and southern points left St. Paul and Minneapolis Sunday morning. The Editors are due in Spokane tonight at 0 o'clock and are due in Seattle tomorrow morning at 7:30 o’clock ready to board the steamer Aleutian sailing at 9 o'clock on the Alaska cruise which takes them to Ketchikan, Wrangel, Juneau, arriv- ing at the Alaska Capital City at 7 o'clock next Friday morning. Go Direct to Seward From Juneau the Editors will go direct to Seward, where the trains will take them to Anchorage, Palmer, Matanuska Colony, and Fairbanks, arriving there at 11:30 a.m. next Monday. The party will leave Fair- banks, according to present sched- ule at 7 o'clock next Monday night, going to Mount McKinley Park for the night's lodging, then leaving early the next morning on the re- turn trip to Seward. Sounthbound Calls Prom Seward the Aleutian calls at Valdez, Cordova, Sitka and Skag- way and again arriving at Juneau Monday, June 26 at 6 am. for a three hour stay. From Juneau the Aleutian calls at Petersburg, Ketchi- kan, then Metlakatla and from the latter port direct to Seattle arriving there Thursday, June 29. During the cruise the convention will be in session and many talks will be given of vital interest to pub- lishers. On Wednesday, June 28, the day before reaching Seattle, the election of officers will be held and invitations for the next conven- tion will be received. - IS BURNED T0 DEATH IN FIRE, SANFRANCISCO Four-story Building of Japanese-American News Destroyed SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 12— Michi Kigenoma, 21, was burned to death and several others were car- ried or leaped to safety when fire destroyed the four story building of the Japanese-American News. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Eleven fireman were injured fighting the blaze, YSU.S. - DEFENSES BIG ISSUE | President Outlines Distinct! | Policy at West Point ‘ Graduation 'PEACE DESIRES NOT SIGN OF WEAKNESS | Dramatic INlustrations of . Undefended Coun- | w fries Are Vivid | WEST POINT, June 12-—Fledg- who will direct the | future might of America's armies, | {heard President Roosevelt - assert | that while King George's visit em- phasized the two nations are endly, “the desire for peace must | ver be mistaken for weakness” | The President told the graduating| class of the United States Military Academy that “international politi- |cal considerations required still |greater emphasis upon vitalization j()[ our defenses for we have had v;(h"dmu(i(' illustrations of the I.l',«:‘ |of undefended nations.” ling officers, | GRADUATE FROM JU | WEST POIN June 12 |dore N. Hunsbedt, 23, son of Mr B. Hunsbedt of Juneau, is the only | Alaskan graduating from the Uniled |State Military Academy. Born af Raymond, Was he was appointed | o the Academy by Delegate An J. Dimond. Hunsbedt is {147th in the graduating class of 1456 He is trying for the fieid ::u'mh-ry | - >ro — PICKET LINE | - STALLS CARGO " ONNORTH SEA it hony | charge Cannery Freight | at Ketchikan Dock KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 12— | | The steamer North Sea was again unable to unload cargo at the Beegle | Packing Company’s dock last sn-} |urday afternoon as the Alaska Sal- | mon Purse Seiners picket boat kept | | the sailors from unloading. | | The sailors said they had no in-| structions from Seattle headquarters | | to violate the picket line and the cannery cargo is going back to Seat- ine on the North Sea. When Haw These graphic pictures show how S@ibmarine Thetis near Birkenhead, England. lant. Then the hawser snapped and th> disappeared. Pictures cabled from London to New York. German Re Denied permission to land in Cuba, these German Jewish refugees are shown abdard the German liner St. Louis at Havana while futile negotiations to allow them to land were underway. The liner later sailed for Hamburg, Germany, with 907 necessary papel Six Sfafes Storm Hit; Lives Lost J 1 {Property Dt_zm—age Eslimaf-; ed High-Heroic Res- cues Reported | INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, June today began clearing away wreckage | from a weekend wind and rain| storm which caused the death of six | persons and property damage run- ning into the thousands of dollars. | Three persons were killed in In- diana, two in Ohio and one in Wis- | consin. Approximately 50 persons were| rescued from small boats on Lake Erie, near Cleveland. The storm swept across parts of | Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, | Wisconsin and Kentucky. | Houses were unroofed or flattened | |in the high wind, trees were up-| rooted and utility service disrupted | in many communities. CINCINNATI, June 12—Last year Harry Craft of the Reds handled more putouts and more total chances than any other outfielder in the Na- llibnnl league. RAILROAD By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, June 12. — The bloc on the hill pushing for legi: tion to tear apart the financial struc- | ture of railroads and put it together | Prank again will have an inside aide in a high place in the person of Jerome 21.—Half a dozen Midwestern States Frank, newly chosen chairman of | Pheside the Securities and Exchange Com- mission, Reforms in financing advocated by Senator Wgheeler of Montan: and other members of Congress have been documented with philosophic speeches and SEC opinions by Frank. Frank looks like a Spanish don —dark, oval-faced; and he plays with words with the facility of a toreador flicking a bull. He was a high priced attorney in New York before he joined the New Deal in 1933 and during a two year recess between New Deal jobs he became the high-priced attorney again Washington, currently at odds over $23 a week salaries for WPA white collar hands, had a whale of a good | time over a dispute between Frank |rates of intej and the Interstate Commerce Com- mission as to whether he should be paid $10 an hour or $13 an hour as counsel for two years in reorgahiza- tion of the Missouri Pacific Railroad lA;, attorneys’ pay goes in the upper ' r Snapped, 98 Men Doomed to Die fugees Turned Back from Havana LEGISLATION BLOC IN CONGRESS HAS WIZARD TO ADVISE THEM sttt s, FAIRBANKS * " AR FIELD - ESSENTIAL | ImmediatewA;propriafion ' Sought So Work Can Begin at Once MILITARY CHIEFS EMPHASIZE NEED National Defense Requires Interior Air Base, Says Staff Officers WASHINGTON, June 12—Plans for an eight million dollar air depot adjoining the Government arsenal at Ogden, Utah, and a four million | dollar air base at Fairbanks, Alaska, | were laid before Congress today | withm requests for immediate ap- | propriations of funds to begin conl struction. . Details of the two projects, major units in the War Department’s air | defense expansion program, were disclosed with publication of House Committee hearings on supplement- | al appropriations for the year be- | ginning July 1. | Essential, Says Air Chief ‘i General H. H. Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Corps, said contruction {of an inland base in Alaska is es- | sential to national defense. | All witnesses before the committee { emphasized the importance of the |""General Malin Crafg, Chief of | staff, said it was a “necessary ex- | tension of the defenses of contin- | ental United States.” ‘[ Combat Unit Planned He said the Army proposed to es- tablish a combat unit at the field | for defensive purposes. Arnold emphasized the base’s im- portance for training army pilots in all-weather flying and to carry on | experiments with subzero opera- tions. He also said the base would backstop coast defense: —— e — 'ASKS CONGRESS FOR MORE CASH FOR WAR DEPT. sum of $292,000,000 for Planes, Garrison, Efc., Is Requested WASHINGTON, June 12. — The House Appropriations Committee to- day asked Congress for an added $292,000,000 to be added to next year's $508,000,00 War Department Appropriation bill to build more Army planes and expand the Pan- ama Canal Zone garrison, also to provide “education orders” for the purchase of war materials. 6 INMATES OF REFORMATORY MAKE ESCAPE {Hold Warden as Hosfage for Short Time—Fin- ally Captured BUENA VISTA, Colorado, June 12—Four of six Colorado Reform- e |atory inmates, who escaped yester- the salvage boat Vigilant almost saved the lives of 98 men aboard the Top vi cled by hawser | | refugees still aboard, after 29 were allowed ashore because they had, the ‘ KING, QUEENEND FOUR-DAY VISIT | INUNITED STATES eer at Hyde Park- !bmukom it was fairly low, but wlmt‘ Regular Pi(ni( [ i skl | a contrast. | | A Top-Flighter | ABOARD THE ROYAL PILOT The fdct is that in these parts| TRAIN, June 12.—Relaxed after a is considered one of the|vyisit at Hyde Park, King George and really top flight figures In govern- ' gueen Elizabeth returned to their | ment, although he is not one of x { fit Roosevelf’s” mner circle,| Dominion of Canada foday from | His ideas are so challenging that in | Whence they will sail to England next |spite of his calm presentation of | Thursday night. |them he is frequently tilting with| he British rulers, who in three | people both outside and inside the weeks in Canada and four days in |98y and for a time held Warden W. | New Deal. |the United States have been seen|H. Johnson hostage, were sur- He wrote ook called “Save by probably five million people in|rouunded and captured shortly af- | America First” which dealt broadly |each country, came to the end of |ter daylight today in the rugged With forelgn trade policy as well as | their journey still smiling and they jmountain country 20 miles east of domestic affairs. Scholarly review- | are now more at ease. here. ers spend columns of space arguing | | The four were cold and hungry Apparently they enjoyed them- with his ideas while scarcely p““”"wlve{:pmme thoroughly {luring m(.!and were huddled around a camp ing for a paragraph of explanation |informal week-end visit with Presi- | {ire- of what was in the book. Tt is that|dent Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt| Two others are still at large. way with Frank |at Hyde Park than at any time of| |~ — e But his ideas on rail reform are | their tour of more than 7,000 uules.»Mlss'on Bomblng Protested by U. S. just now being pushed along in| They lunched from picnic plates| PEIPING, China, June 12.—The Congre: He and those associated | Sunday, sampled American hot dogs, | with him in the idea argue that|drank beer and rode in an old auto {bonds with prior claims and fixed | with the President, driving th‘uugh‘ t things which | beautiful Hudson Valley and at- | railroads should replace with com-|tended a country church. United States has protested to the {mon stock as fast as possible. When | >oo Japanese Embassy against the |a railroad gets in financial trouble,| More mule colts were foaled in|bombing on May 24 of the Amer- it can be immediately thrown inté|the United States in 1938 than any|ican Southern Baptist Mission at | year since 1928, the bureau of agri- | Lalyang in Northern Shangtung Pro- cultural economics reports. vince by Japanese PLBJIBB a (Continued on Page Three)