The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 17, 1939, Page 1

VOL. LIV., NO. 8133. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE (/) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e e PICKETS WITHDRAW; LAKINA UNLOADS ANGLO- JAP TENSIONIS INCREASING Britisher Arrested in Tient- sin-Release Emphat- ically Denied LONG BLOCKADE IS BEING ANTICIPATED Food Shortage Hits Conces- sions-New Crisis De- velops, Shanghai TIENTSIN. June 17.—Anglo-Japan ese relations are aggravated today by the Japanese arresting G. A. Smith, British explorer, following an argument with a policeman outside of the British-French Cencession. Smith is alleged to have struck the policeman in the face for act- ing “dirty.” The British Consul, acting on an | attempt to obtain Smith’s release, | was informed that he would be giv- | en his freedom in due time and then emphatically stated that the | Japanese planned a long seige of | Teresita_Osta is-concerned. A re Spain, sMe rehearses on the missi REFUGEE PROBLEM !—There’s none so far as fugee from war-torn Nav; ion steps at Santa Barbara, Cal, for a role in Santa Barbara's annual fiesta Aug. 2. I CALIFORNIA SHELL WINS ~ INVARSITY. Huskies Lose Desperate Last Mile Batfle With Bears ' WASHINGTON IS | WINNER, FROSH. |Syracuse Takes Jayve e! ' Run, Ulbrickson Men Inches Behind POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., June 17. —The California Golden Bears Var- | sity crew swept to a new record in the Hudson River shell regatta | today after a gruelling final mile |battle with the challenging Uni- |versity of Washington Huskies. | The Huskies bided their time in| fourth place for the first mile of |the four mile race, while Columbia |challenged and then faded, while| Washington surged past Navy to| put the race up between the Far | |West crews the rest of the route,| |well out in front. Navy, defending champion, fin-!| British Monarch, His Queen, Visit New York While thousands lined the streets, giving a rousing welcome, the King and Queen of Britain spent six hours in New York City. Here the royal procession moves up a West Side express highway with the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan in the background. Some 3,000,000 gave a thundering welcome to the visitors. RESTRAINER HONORED AT WATERFALL Court Or d;r_Served Last Night on Pickets at Nakat Cannery 'SAILORS AGREE T0 HANDLE CAN CARGO 100 Purse Seine Unionists Sail Peacefully to Homes at Craig Served at Waterfall with a copy of the District Court’s order restrain- ing them from picketing ships in interstate commerce, 100 members of | the Alaska Salmon Purse Seiners | Union las tnight left the vicinity |of the Nakat Packing Corporation and left the way clear for unload« ing of the steamship Lakina which {had been tied up at the cannery |dock for eight days. | Before boarding their boats and sailing away to Craig, the union | men told seamen aboard the ship that they were free to unload the IT'LL TAKE MORE THAN HEA _King,r Queen See OTl;n Portra&s art F air the blockade against the two con- | | { cans and cannery supplies which cessions believing it will lead to the solution of the larger issues be- tween the two nations. | Foods in the British and French | concessions are becoming short and | prices are soaring. There is al- ready a most acute shortage of milk. ANOTHER TENSION SHANGHAI, June 17.—The An- glo-Jap tension. tightened -here -to- | day when Japanese and Chinese police unsuccessfully attempted to | seize a closed police station in the British Defense sector adjoining the International Settlement. The British ousted the Japanese from the station a month ago, but | the invaders reappeared unexpect- edly but withdrew after a sharp verbal clash. —_——————— T1ABOARD SUBPHENIX IS REPORT French Undersea Boat Re- mains at Boffom of Sea Unlocated to 71. ‘The communique also said “death” | longshore gang: to those aboard the undersea boat ! is “certain,” and added that the San Fra depth of the ocean is given as fail- ure to locate the submarine after | Roger Laphan, of the Waterfront| two days and ended all hopes. The submarine went into a dive | tension of the Ship's Clerks picket | Thursday morning and failed to re- | line from the American-flawmmni appear, Flags on all French naval units are at half mast and the city is in formal mourning. e, — SAN FRANCISCO PORT TROUBLES LOOMING AGAIN Ships’ Clerks—Picket-Dock Checkers and Long- shoremen ldle BULLETIN—SAN FRANCIS- CO, Cal.,, June 17.—The Water- front Employers have suspend- ed relations with the Shipping Clerks halting all cargo hand- ling in the bay port except lum- ber and bulk gdods. The deadlocked dispute is caused by hiring ten checkers on a monthly instead of hourly basis. The clerks charge dis- crimination. SAN FRANCISCO, June 17—A waterfront deadlock threatened to- ing sun. h | day to tie up the entire port of San underground passage into the Sen- | Francisco | sugar port of Crockett. the in spreading from The ships Suisun Bay, and an- other American-Hawaiian freighter, ' last summer. | the Missourian, berthed in Crockett Democrats a land were tied up while conciliators | offices first SAIGON, June 17. — An official met here in an effort to iron out| communique today raised the num- | difficulties between employers and ber aboard the submarine Phenix | the Ship Clerks Association, involv-| ing ten dock checkers, and five s. The men halted as they left the neisco hiring hall to go to | Crockett, stopped, according to | Employers’ Association, by an ex- terminals. 'BRIDGES GIVEN POSTPONEMENT TODRIVECONGRESSMEN HOME By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, June 17.—1t is no | longer possible to turn the heat on | | Congress in June and July. Both, houses' have air-cooling this year. | That may sound like somelh'mr.;[ trivial, but it isn’t. The heat around | this place would roast a jungie monkey. For years it was taken for granted that Congress would rush| | through its business in early Junec! | to escape the heat. But now a mem- | ber of Congress can come to work |in the cool of the forenoon, remain | in an air cooled region '.hroughoun; | the day and go home in the even- | ing without facing a touch of the; old torrid blast. The Senators have the most| elaborate layout which is possible be-| cause there aren’t so many of them.| The Senator drives to the Capitol | in the morning, into an underground | | garage where an attendant takes| | it over and parks it for him in a reserved spot. OUT OF THE SUN Not again during wie day must| the Senator get out int othe blaz-| He strolls through a cool ate office building, entirely air con- | ditioned this summer for the first| [time. Only part of it was finished | . It isn't true that the ir-conditioned their own | | The Senator may work in his of- | fice or an air-conditioned hearing‘I room until noon when. the Senate | convenes. | | Senators used to sweat, and take | off their coats as their collars wilt- | ed, but not any more. At noon the Senator can take the underground trolley for a noisy two-block ride over to the Capitol. An hour or so of debate may drive him to eat, so he rides down the | Senate’s private elevator to the Sen- | ate restaurant where a dozen negro | waiters know all his whims and | fancies. The menu is varied and | the food moderately good. He can’t |have beer. The members voted |against it. The House permits it in their restaurant, however. ished third, three lengths back of | the Husky boat, followed by Cor-| nell, Syracuse, Wisconsin and Col~| umbia California crossed the line in 18! minutes 12 3-5 seconds, against! Navy's last year mark of 18 min-| utes and 19 seconds. Washington, this* year, was also| under the record, clocking 18 min-/| utes and 14 seconds. HUSKY FROSn WIN POUGHKEEPSIE, June 17—The | University of Washington Fresh-| men fought off a fine bid by un- | derestimated Columbia in the two mile event today to take Washing- | ton’s only victory of the day. Cornell came in third, Syracuse fourth, California fifth, and Wis- | consin sixth. Washington's time, slower than record time, was 9 minutes and 31 seconds, SYRACUSE WINS J-V POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., June 17 With the Husky crew from the University of Washington, home of {rowing champions, a fraction of a length behind, Syracuse won the Jayvee race today. ! California brought up the lead- | ers’ trail in third place. | Washington led to the half way | mark and then dropped to third | behind California, but in the last half mile, pulled up to fight neck and neck with Syracuse. Navy for fourth, Cornell and Col- umbia were fifth and sixth. | Time for the winners was 13/ minutes, 56 3-5 seconds for the three miles. | 3 SR £ FDR STUDIES NEW PLANS FORLENDING | Indicafes Desire fo Boost © 16:05 last night. had been branded previously as “hot cargo” and kept aboard through un- willingness on the part of the sail- ors to breach the picket line. As the seamen appeared to be undecided as' to what their course | would be, Oliver Olson, leader of the pickets, conferred with them and ad- | vised them to unload the cargo, ac~ | cording to Deputy Marshal Walter Hellan, who served the order, | Seamen Agree | Seamen aboard the Lakina told | him, Hellan said, that they would All pickets had started to make preparations to do so when Mr. Hellan flew away at 16:05 las tnight. All pickets had | previously withdrawn, leaving no, | ASPSU members at Waterfall. | Hellan said he was “certain” the | ship had been unloaded. It was due l’m dock at Craig at 2 o'clock this |mrning and then to proceed to | Steamboat Bay with further can- nery cargo. | Olson volunteered, Hellan said, to notify union members at both Craig and Steamboat Bay to allow the Lakina to discharge the disput- | ed cargo. Though no direct word was re- . |celved from any of the ports to- Riding in the first car, behind the tractor-locomotive in a three-car trackless train, King George and Queen Elizabeth saw huge portraits of themselves as they passed the Lagoon of Nations on their tour of the New York World's Fair. Uniformed and plain-clothes police and Secret Service men flanked the proces- sion. From New York their Majesties motored to Hyde Park for a week-end with President and Mrs, INEWSPAPERMEN COMING NORTH ON DESTROYER Special Shi—;.) Assigned fo Accompany FDR on ReliefBill Is Approved, Emp_llalic.OK: WILL ENLARGE POWER PLANT AT KETCHIKAN Federal Commission| Granfs Permission fo | |day, H. L.“Faulkner, one of the at- | torneys for the steamship lines, said | this afternoon there was no doubt |the cargo was unloaded as if it had not been he would have been | notified. | Deputy Flies Hellan left Juneau at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon with Pilot Alex | Holden. At Ketchikan they picked |up A. H. Ziegler, steamship attor- | ney, wh oflew with them to Water- fall. J. O. Stearns, union attorney, | who was a passenger on the North ‘Cmst and who had been invited to |get off at Petersburg and fly to | Waterfall with the deputy marshal, idecllm’d and proceeded direct to his | home at Ketchikan. ; The plane swooped down on Wa=- | terfall at 4:12 o’clock, taxiing up to | the cannery, one of the largest in | Southeast Alaska. After talking with & (Cont SUICIDE PLANS - ARE NIPPED BY ued on Page Seven) SLAYER OF SIX FIGHTS DEATH Increase Facilifies WASHINGTON, June 17. Limits on Federal Loan Agencies | | | WASHINGTON, June l7,—lAP)i‘ [——The Labor Department announces | {that the opening of a deportation His Alaska Trip MARE ISLAND, Cal, June 17— House Complefes Action| on Measure Affer Ses- COOL RIDE HOME The Senate usually adjourns for REFUGEE JEWS The | BY GUILLOTIN Squirms with Head on Block Waiting for | hearing at San Francisco for Harry | Bridges, West Coast Congress of In- | dustrial Organization director, had | been postponed from June 26 to July 10. The new hearing date was fixed |by James M. Landis, appointed as a special examiner to hear the case, |after Bridges had requested a post- | ponement until July 17. Landis is| |the day at 5 o'clock or earlier.| |Back to his office by trolley, the| | Senator can work a while longer | or go out into the buried garage and take a cooling ride home |through the breezy Rock Creek | | canyon, which is one blessing this| |city shares above all others. * | It is so hot here during summer | ‘WASHINGTON, June 17.—Presi-| dent Roosevelt said today he is/ studying a new industrial lending program embracing self liquldnunf.;i projects which will operate within | the budget and add nothing to the | public debt. | President Roosevelt said he is| that important peace negotiations;szudymg the question of mcreghmgilake& outlets, construction of wing Destroyer Winslow left here yester- day for Bremerton. The destroyer |has been assigned to carry new: papermen to Alaska should Pre |dent. Roosevelt carry out his plan to make a trip to Juneau The cruiser Houston, now on Puget Sound, has been assigned to the Federal Power Commission has| granted the application by Kclr-ln-l kan, Alaska, for permission to en-| 3 large its hydroelectric project. WASHINGTON, June 17. A Changes will iacluds 104 foot in- | weary House ended a 14-hour session 7 |early today after putting an em- creases in the height of the dams|phatic OK on the bill providing one | at the lower Ketchikan and Fawn |billion, seven hundred and thirty- | five million dollars for relief of the |take President Roosevelt on | year starting July 1 but abolishing | Northland trip. .sion of 14 Hours | | Over 200 Aboard German Ship Planned fo Take Their Lives ANTWERP, June 17. — Refugee German Jews, returning from a Knife fo Fall —_— | dean of the Harvard law school. VERSAILLES, France, June 16— Whether Bridges shall be deported Eugene Deidmann, 31, was guillot- | to his native Australia hinges upon ined teday for the murder of Jean | the Labor Department’s efforts to | prove he is a member of the Com- DeKoven, Brooklyn dancer, and five | n others. ! munist Party and that membership Weidmann's bragging he would | is ground for deportation. face death calmly faltered and he A Labor Department postpone- ment of the Bridges' case last year rebelled. became the subject of debate in once were transferred out of m:;pxesent limitations on various Fed-|and auxiliary dams to raise the city so the delegates might be cool |eral lending agencies with a view | g | | | water surface in the reservoir, and jand collected ‘instead of hot and|to probably raising these limits. 2 4 | cantankerous. That’s why the Rus-| As for labor friction, Roosevelt | “AlaTgement of the flowage land|spending and substituting a three| | 50-Japanese war of 1905 was settled | said he is planning no new step to|area and.spillways. I member bipartisan board for WPA Ionomow A M !by the Treaty of Portsmouth, New |bring the rival CIO and AFL labor| The Interior, Agriculture and | Administrator. i 1 e S Hampshire. Theodore Roosevelt ask- | groups together. Commerce Departments have agreed| The bill also transferred $125,000,- ‘T RIFlE RA"GE leaped overboard in Havana harbor. | ¥ | Afterward more than 200 formed a | suicide pact but were prevented from fruitless voyage to Cuba, revealed | they had to form an anti-suicide | committee to prevent mass l¢apings into the sea. Of the 907 refugees, only ane slew himself. He slashed his wrists and such WPA projects as theatrical .- productions, restricting work reneupn‘("(i SHoo'I' ed them to come to Washington and| However, the President expressed 1000 of the.one billion, four hundred | |make peace, but they came in June|hope they will settle their differ-| VLR Allemstions whigh, il u!fect]‘md seventy million dollars request- | some lands in the Tongass National | With his head on the block it took all of the strength of the 70-year- old “uncle” Leopold Desfourneaux and his assistant t ounbend Weid- mann’s knees and force him down again, Congress and of a resolution by Rep- resentative Thomas, New Jersey, to impeach Secretary of Labor Perkins. The resolution was defeated in com- mittee, jand that was no time to make peace in Washington. If they had had air conditioning they might have | stayed here and Portsmouth would (Continued on page Six) | ences in the long run. President Roosevelt told reporters he knew nothing about recent de- velopments that indicated little hope ~ | for labor peace, except what he had lread in the newspapers. ed by President Roosevelt from the A practice shoot for Juneau Rifle R D | WPA to PWA. | Club members will be held tomor- Eighty-two of eve 100" Detoris >-ee — | row at the rifle range. Transpor- P é’, yoass of n?; pack Laid to| There are 18 national social fra- | tation will be ru"rmshed w fl‘ll w.hu have defective eyesight ternities for men and 18 for women | aT¢ at the Federal Bullding at 8:30 ] * at Tulane University [ 0'clock in the morning | carrying out their agreements. Many of the 970 refugees will now be assigned to Belgium and others to The Netherlands, England and France,