The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 13, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE — “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e, . eermees——— VOL. LIV., NO. 8129. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PICKETING DISPUTE AIRED IN COURT WAR DEPT. MAY SPEND FOR SITKA Breakwater Is Asked for Japonski Island and | Kodiak Dredging ENGINEERS REQUEST $179,000 FOR WORK Would Mean New Harbor} for Historic Baranof | Island City l WASHINGTON, June 13. — Wal"‘ Department engineers have recom- | mended that Congress spend $179,- 000 cn improvements of Sitka and Kodiak harbors in Alaska. For Sitka, it is recommended l.hl\l‘ $109,000 be spent in construction of rubble mound breakwaters between | Japonski Island harbor and the Aleutki Islands to replace the small boat harbor previously recommended for Japonski Island. For Kodiak Harbor, it is recom- mended that $70,000 be spent for a channel to be dug 22 feet deep and 200 feet wide between Kodiak Island and Near Island in the harbor. The Navy Department is to build two air bases, one at Sitka and the other at Kodiak. Landon Says FDR Won't R Runin 1940 Screen newlyweds, track daily for races at Hollywood Park, Inglewood, Cal., PEAL OF ARMS EMBARGO Screen Players at Races Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, attend the where thousands jam the the sport of kings. | murder 'AMBASSADOR ‘GUARDED IN CHINA PLOT | Life of British Envoy afi Shanghai Believed fo Be Endangered | BRITISH-JAPAN APANESE TENSION INCREASES [Troops Move at Tienfsin for Blockade if Four Not Surrendered { | | i % t f ‘ | police guard was placed today on the home of British Ambassador Sir Al'—i i | SHANGHAI, June 13.—A heavy chibald John Clark Kerr after dis-| * Farewell to Freedom = LR Biwe s W. C. ARNOLD 'FIRST WITNESS HERE TODAY ‘Hearing 70}14Res|raining covery of a plot against his life in the midst of increased British-Jap- anese tension. The British would not disclose the | nationality of the plotters but said the information was considered “au- thentic and accurate.” Embassy offices also were guarded. | —_ Meanwhile Japanese troops were NEUT | | Weeping hysterically and waving aboard the German liner, St. Loui. denied entry into Cuba because RALITY LA moved into a position isolating the British and French concessions at Tientsin and were planning a block- | ade unless the British surrender four Chinese accused of slaying an cffio- | ial. | | | PROPOSAL IS MADE SHANGHAI, June 13.—Great Bri- | tain has proposed to Japan the for- mation of a British-Japanese com- mission with a neutral chairman| . and this comnfission is to decide| "« whether four Chinese accused of the | of a Japanese should be handed over to the Japanese author- | ities. The four Chinese are now in| Blll pREpARED British custody at Tientsin, | AREBROUGHTTO FRONTIN REQUEST TO SWITCH BACK L L. N. Phonephoto a final farewell to relatives—and to freedom—a woman refugee is seen s, as the ship sailed from Havana for Germany with 907 Jews who were they lacked legal permits. They had intended entering the United States under the quota. WSOFU.S. [TWO JAPANESE BOATS REPORTED NORTH OF SITK Warden Haley Investi- gates Report of Fishing in Kalinen Bay Reports that Japanese were fish- ing and taking soundings in Kalinen Bay at the north end of Kruzof Island in Salisbury Sound, 25 miles northwest of Sitka, were investi- By PRESTON GROVER SHINGTON, June 13.—The| policy followed by this country | since the end of the World War has reappeared in Secretary Hull's statement after a four-year detour fto the mysterious realms of mandatory neutrality. oo o SOUGHT BY SECRETARY HULL; episode as the result of which the Japanese military authorities threa- | ten to isolate the British and French | The British authorities indicate BY COMM"TEE | This country had an unhappy ex- that this is London’s eleventh-hour | Tentative Outline Is Ready pericnce auring the worid war. gated last night by Bureau of Fish- | eries Warden Don Haley, who flew out to the islands with Pilot Alex cies in Addres in ‘ lATEST MEM Massachusetts : BOSTON, Mass., June 13. — Alf.| Landon, Republican standard bearer | in 1936, today predicted President, Roosevelt would decline to become a candidate for a third term and at| the same time, in a speech prepared | for delivery before the Business and | Professional Women's Club of Mas-| sachusetts, sharply criticized Nr'wi Deal economics and those who urge | the President to run again in 1940. “We are in the sixth year of an extraordinary government spending- to~save policy,” he said, “yet di couragement is chronic and unem- ployment increasing. This is in- deed the Roosevelt depression.” Former Nome Man Is Dead PORTLAND, Ore., June 13.—An-| ton Orsen, 70, who went to Nome,| Alaska in 1900 and became asso- | ciated with Cyrus Noble in the Dia- mond L mining claims, died here Sunday. CHARGED WITH NOME BOAT ARE CAUGHT OUT AT SEA vail - Nomeites Eat Arctic Delicacies BULLI — NOME, Alaska, June 13.—Steamer Columbia is 93 miles from Nome and an- chored in a dense fog, accord- ing t oa radio from the ship re- ceived during the night. The Sutherland is 35 to the rear of the Colum! No news has been r from the other boats. The Mirow Air Service is sending an airplane to assist the Columbia through the ice today. miles ed ‘ NOME; Alaska, June 13.—With warehouses and cold storage plants lowing a long cold winter of seven Solid lce Condifions Pre-| practically empty of food stuffs fol-| 0 TO CONGRESS AP Feature Service Writer f WASHINGTON, June 13. — The | most misunderstood word in the { English language is having a new | fling on page one. That word is— N-E-U-T-R-A-L-I-T-Y- Hull tossed it into the national arena with his latest memo to Congress. He advises repeal of the arms embargo part of our neu- trality laws. Congress is now carrying the sub- ject into public hearings, where ail of | to |shades (and that means oodles shades) of opinion contribute the headline parade. Neutrality as a word is about 600 years old. For 400 of those years, {men and governments have been |trying to make it mean something | Neutrality is a dangerous busi-! Iness. It got the United States into | two disastrous wars—the War of | 1812 and the World War. It is the answer to a campaign |orator's prayer. To him it is a i"Lalk-more‘flnd-say-less” subject, |like taxes. | | (Note: Both major political par- ! ties have publicly laid the ground- | work to put neutrality in their 1940{ platforms. Both have the samsz |general aim—to keep America out tonight on the Princess Charlotte | ports at 11 o'clock. The passengers | of war. Grist for the orators is| HOW that can be done.) | Plenty of Ignorance | Winn. He has been attending Uni- | concessions at Tientsin beginning | tomorrow. The Japanese attitude toward the proposal is not learned but British officials here said they hoped the crisis will be relieved “before it be- | comes increasingly difficult for both sides.” effort to liquidate in the Tientsin | Apdds For nearly three years it tried to for Submission to House WASHINGTON, June 13. The House Tax Committee has complet- |ed a tentative outline of the tax | revision bill and presentation is ex- | pected for House action on the leg- islation next week. 13 PASSENGERS ABOARD DENALI e, ROLAND DENNY, PIONEER, PUGET SOUND, IS DEAD Last of Band of First Sef-| BOOKED, JUNEAU flers Who Founded Se- | o5 on tneTotermiand. oruise aftle, Passes Away | to Southeast Alaska, sailed at 11 SEATTLE, June 13. Rolan | o'clock this forenoon with 106 first | class and 40 steerage passengers. Herschel Denny, 85, the last of the Passengers booked for Juneau band of pioneers who landed in El-| aboard the Denali include Mrs. liott Bay in 1840 to found Seattle, Dusenberry, A. V. Cordavado, O. H. died here after a lingering illness. | Cochran, Gus Carlson, A. Johnson, Denny was an infant, only a few William V. Johnson, Mrs. Pau months old, when his parents ar-|Jones, Jim Spencer, Kathleen Carl- rived here. He was born at what is | son, Helen Beistline, Helen Ricketts, now called Portland, when the pio- | Mrs, T. B. Tucker, Velma Ameling. neering group reached the Oregon Territory and finally came to Puget | Sound. ‘ ABOARD ALEUTIAN SEATTLE, June 13, — With 300 ey e first class and 121 steerage pas- BILL WINN COMING | sengers aboard, the Aleutian sailed William (Bill) Winn returns here | for Southeast and Southwest Alaska | include Editors and their families on the NEA convention tour. Mrs. F. Wright, Jr., and daughter versity of Washington for the past | are passengers for Juneau on the to spend the summer with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. | Holden. | A brisk northwest wind, however, made it impossible to land in the bay. Haley said there were any number of vessels in the bay and| vicinity but he was not able to de-| termine their nationality. | At Sitka later Haley learned from | Deputy U. S. Marshal Henry Bahrt | that fishermen had reported two| Japanese boats were seen in the bay. stay out but pressure from within from without made | When the war ended, administra- tion leaders concluded it was just about impossible to stay out of a war in Europe. The next best step then, was to try to prevent war in Europe. | The first effort to that end was the League of Nations. Because of | politics and inept management, lt! failed of rat ation in the Senate. But Republican forces which brought about the defeat of that | particular instrument did not aban- | don the idea, In the Republican | platform of 1920 was a proposal for an “agreement among the na-| tions to preserve the peace of the | world” through “impartial courts” with power to call an international conference when war threatened. Haley said the bureau would make a thorough investigation of the re- arrives here, probably next week, While at Sitka, Haley authenticat- ed seal skins taken by natives, e ALLIS CHALMERS PLANT IS SCENE OF RIOT FIGHTS | | Naval Conference Harding's election was quickly | followed by a call for a naval limi- tations conference. Out of the conference grew the | (nine power pact and the four |power pact, both designed to curb |the war spirit in oriental rivalries. Essentially the pledge was to re- | Workers and Police spect the administrative and ter- Battle ritorial integrity of China. As a| side issue, Japan and the United | 2 4 _ | MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 13. — States agreed not to fortify oully-|piging in which at least 13 persons ing island possessions, Hawall €X~ | were injured, flared in suburban cepted. | West Allis today as office workers Naval limitations and disarma-|gaphroached the Allis - Chalmers ment conventions of 1927 and 1930 | Manufacturing Company plant, the were only partially successful in'jargest industrial concern in Wis- | i Returning to Juneau last night,| port as soon as a Fisheries vessel| Thirteen Go fo Hospital as| Order Application Drags Slowly Background of the dispute which led to application by steamship lines | for a restraning order aganst Alaska | Salmon Purse Seiners Union pickets | was being sketched in District Court ‘here this afternoon by W. C. Ar- | nold, attorney for the Canned Sal~ |mon Industry and who also repre- sented the Northland Transporta= tion Company during the picketing of the vessel North Sea at Ketchi- |kan a week ago Sunday. Arnold was the first witness called by Attorney A. F, Ziegler, who with H. L. Faulkner and R. E. Robertson |represents the Pacific American | Shipowners Associaton, the Alaska Steamship Company, the Northland | Transportation Company and the Alaska Transportation Company, the firms which are seeking to have Judge George F. Alexander issue a |temporary restraining order aganst |the ASPSU, its officers and 50 John Does to prevent them from interfering with interstate shipment of cargoes. Cross-Examined Arnold was still on the stand at 3:45 o'clock this afternoon, being cross-examined by Union Attorney |Joe Stearns after completing direct testimony. At the pace the hearing was go- |ing, it appeared the case would take all afternoon and possibly have to be_ continued tomorrow. Arnold described in detail, under | Ziegler's questioning, the events |which led up to pcketing of ships at Ketchkan, Waterfall and Craig (Continued on Page Two) - e EDITORS ON WAY NORTH ONALEUTIAN Two Hundred and Thirly- six Are Aboard Steam- | er for 22-day Tour . SEATTLE, June 13.—Two hun- |dred and thirty six newspaper Edi- tors and their families left on the |steamer Aleutian at 9 o'clock this 1murning fo rthe Fifty Fourth Na- |tional Editorial Association to be |held on the Alaska trip. One hundred and eighty six dele- |gates arrived here at 7 o'clock this | morning for the Fifty Fourth Na- train from Chicago. The tour will be for 22 days and the party will go as far as Fair- banks. The Editors will reach Juneau af 7 o'clock Friday morning and re- | main until 7 oclock in the evening. | Heading the NEA is President Will H. Conrad, of Medford, Wis« consin, Those on Tour Among those on the NEA conven- tion tour to Alaska are the follow- ing according to reservation made: California Fred M. Rolens, Review, South Pasadena. Fred M. Rolens. | winter. | Aleutian. and one half months without any| FIRING SHOTS, | steamer, Nomeites are eating fish, | |bringing about an agreement to|consin, | Despite all the danger and talk, Louis Meyer, Leader, Oakdale. BRIT. ROYALT |seal liver, walrus meat and other Australian Will Be Tried arctic dclicacies white ~ patiently | awaiting the arrival of steamers. for Recent Incident | Four steamers are stin ice bouna in London Radio for Airplane LONDON, June 13. — Ledwedge o steamers Columbia and Suth- Vincent Lawlor, eccentric middle- | o141 radioed the local agent of the aged steel v_.'orker, has been ordered | Alaska Steamship Company to get held for trial on charges of firing|,n airplane to assist in making a shots near the Duchess of Kent and flight and obtaining ice conditions into the house of the Princess|from the air to aid the Captains of Royal recently. No one was in-|ipe phoats now lying at anchor in jured. | d to- {miles distant as reported up | Monday forenoon. Prosecutors at the hearing before a magistate accused Lawlor of rid- ing about on a bicycle with a sawed- off rifle near the residence of the British royal family and twice pull- ing the trigger. Lawlor is an Australian. He con- tended he had “no intention of causing any harm” but his motive yremains a mystery. an open lead which is close ward Nome. | " The position of the two steamers yesterday morning was 48 miles off | the south mouth of the Yukon River. Pilot Takes to Air | Pilot Jack Jefford, flying a wheel | plane of the Mirow Air Service left Nome Sunday night at 6 o’clock and | neutrality surrounded by a fog {of plain and fancy ignorance to daunt the courage of a Spartan. Leastways the famous American |enroute to Nome, the nearest 116 |gu(hority on neutrality—Philip C.| Jessup of Columbia University — |says ignorance in the history of neutrality is the cause of many of our international difficul In a neutrality quiz, he hazards the guess that 300 educators and other {master minds would turn in 300 | Wrong answers. ! International trade and its profits |are the flies in the neutrality oint- ment. No less a great American than Jefferson was all for young | |America making profit out of the other fellow's war. Of the Russo- | Turkish war in 1822, he said, “The life of the feeder is better {than the fighter. ‘Continxxe;}»x) Page Seven) ) (Continuea on Page Four) 229 PRISON COAL MINERS MUTINY: MAKE DEMAND FOR SILK UNDERWEAR, FREEDOM RS, BULLETIN—LANSING, June LANSING, Kansas, June 13— 13. — The mutiny in the coal |Warden M. F. Armrine has ordered | | {limit warships of lighter categories| Eight policemen and special dep-| {not touched in the 1922 naval con- | uty sheriffs were beaten and stoned. ference Their injuries were serious enough Under the Kellogg treaty, the|to require hospital treatment. |so-called Pact of Paris, a high-| Five pickets were also taken to| spirited effort to “outlaw war” was | hospitals, some suffering from made at the invitation of the Unit- | cracked heads and others from tear | ed States, trying again to prevent |gas ! | wars into which we might be drawn. | The #United Auto Workers, CIO,| | 'In 1934 began the Nye committee |called their members ont on strike| |investigation which disclosed the | Yesterday after they had been on |part played by munitions makers| holiday” for 18 days in an attempt | land bankers in inching this coun- |0 force signing of a new labor con-| try into the World War. The evi- | Fact: |dences convinced many that by| stern legislation we could avoid the | - e e —— ROTARIANS EAT Mrs. Louis Meyer. Dr. R. S. Sabine, Review, South Pasadena. Mrs. R. 8. Sabine. Mrs. Helen M. Stevens, Vista. Dan L. Beebe, Mercury-Register, Oroville. Mrs. Dan L, Beebe. Dan L. Beebe, Jr. Mrs. Bertha Phelps, Sausalito. Mrs. D. C. Kennedy, Compton, Connecticut Howard W. Palmer, Press, Green- wich. Walter Grannan, Connecticut . We'll milk | the cow while the Russians hold mine ended late today. The |more than 20 guards, armed with| mutineers sent word through | machine guns and tear gas, into the | Robert Murray, Superintendent, Kansas Penitentiary mine to break Us into the war. who with 12 guards has been held | up a mutiny of 229 prisoners who ! & —_—'h' a by the prisoners in the 750-foot | refused to mine coal because denied | Sentiment Change i i coal mine, The convicts are |silk underwear, bedtime snacks, ex-| SO by 1935 the sentiment Wwas now coming up in the mine |tra food and greater freedom. that Europe's wars couldn’t be pre- cage, but Murray is at the bot- The guards were ordered into the vented and the best way to stay tom waiting for the last con- mine after 22 voluntarily -came w[ S vy D et vl W vict to leave the mine’s bottom. the surface and made reports, (Continued on Page Three) mistakes which in 1914-17 propelledi | Signalizing the advent of sum- mer, a dutch lunch made its ap- pearance on the Rotarian luncheon board at ‘today's meeting at Percy's Cafe. Members of the club enjoyed assorted cold meats, potato salad, olives, rye bread, beer, apple pie and cheese, Western News, Canaan. District of Columbia Wm. L. Daley. Mrs. Wm. L. Daley. Georgia A. 8. Hardy, News, Gainesville. Mrs. A. S. Hardy. (6811!1’!16;&"911 Page Sevew ¥